The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 606 - Tyson Fury, Taylor Lewan And Will Compton Of Bussin' With The Boys LIVE IN STUDIO, Bruce Arians, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 1, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about everything happening around the NFL as things start to heat up in Indianapolis with the Combine, plus news that Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are currently negotiating a short term contract, Amari Cooper's future with the Cowboys, and much more. Joining the program to chat about his upcoming Heavyweight title fight, his future plans, and his career as a whole is the WBC and The Ring World Heavyweight Champion, the undefeated behemoth, The Gypsy King, Tyson Fury (23:02-38:21). Next, joining the progrum in studio is the duo from Bussin' With The Boys, 3x Pro Bowl Tackle for the Tennessee Titans, Taylor Lewan, and 9 year NFL veteran, the boy himself, Will Compton to chat about their podcast, Taylor's season coming off an ACL injury, what's next for Bussin' With The Boys, and much more (38:23-1:16:15, 1:17:03-1:29:27). Lastly, 3x Super Bowl Champion, 2x AP NFL Coach of the Year, current Head Coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Bruce Arians joins the show to chat about where the Bucs go from here, what Tom Brady does to an entire building, life after Tom Brady, the challenge of building a new team next year, what he's looking for at the combine, and more (1:29:29-1:41:37). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show and listen on Sirius XM Channel 82 Mad Dog Radio. We appreciate the hell out of all you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. It is Tyson Fury, the boys, B.A. on Tuesday, March 1st. Rabbit, rabbit, let's go! Can't thank you enough for joining us at youtube.com forward slash the Pat McAfee show. What an electrifying Tuesday we have for you. And although a couple of days ago, the internet decided to tell me that Aaron Rodgers was coming on this show to make his decision today. I did not know that then. I still don't believe that is the case now. I'm sorry to disappoint, but Tyson Fury will be joining us

in about 22 minutes. Then the hosts of Bustin' with the Boys, The Boys, straight out of Nashville in Indianapolis, Will Compton, Taylor LeJuan will be live in studio for the entire second hour. A.J. Hawk will obviously be there. And Bruce Arians joins us in the third hour. A lot to talk about with Bruce.

Sorry, Bruce. What? What do you mean? He's Super Bowl winning head coach. I'm a serious scumbag. This is the bottom of the hill. Yeah, there's a lot that he has to figure out, though. I mean, there is only like four or five people that aren't unrestricted free agents

or retired in their entire starting roster. After one year, they win a Super Bowl. They get all 22 starters back and sign A.B., sign A.B. So they get 23, basically, of their starters back, including pun and kicker as well. So you can add that onto the list. They go on a run. It doesn't pan out. They lose early.

See you later. Tom retires. Holly Marbury retires. Then, boom, you start going through their entire. They did salary cap gymnastics, get all these players in here to ring chase. They want to ring. Now they're on the other side of it. They're going to have to rebuild.

Bruce Arians, older guy. Yeah. Successful guy. Right. Resume is packed to the gills. Hall of Famer. No big deal. no big deal ba you will be remembered forever he's sticking around rebuild this thing i'm excited to see what his brain does what his thoughts are and what the future is for the tampa bay buccaneers and i'll let you know tampa bay had a hell of a run sure they did lightning won a couple years in a row for stanley

cup that's hockey talk then they have obviously a Super Bowl. Tom Brady's down there. Everything's going good. St. Jetersburg is down there. They went to a World Series. Everything is going well. Now it appears as if they're going to have to rebuild all that. I'm not saying the Lightning aren't going to go on a run because Jon Hamm told us that everybody loves a big team. Those are some big boys still.

They were cheating on the salary cap and nobody else talked about that. But the Lightning, if you're not cheating, you're not trying. But now the Buccaneers seem to be at square zero. Who's the quarterback? Blaine Gabbert? Sure. Sounds like it.

He's been getting complimented. Kyle Trask probably needs another year of development, is what the early reports were out of the conversation. Not that he's bad, but he could take another year of learning. He's already learned from Tom Brady. Maybe he'll pick up another year of experience with Blaine Gabbert, who everybody loves, who's ever been teammates with him, and the guy can ball.

Yeah. Guy can sling it. He was in Jacksonville, which is where he got judged from. Jacksonville. That's right. But also, if you're going from Tom Brady to Blaine Gabbert, that's probably going to be a position where your fans are going to say, what the fuck is going on?

We're going to try to find that out for you with B.A. in the third hour. All the boys are here. You've already heard them chime in with some toxicity at Boston Conner, at Ty Schmidt. Wearing the Vegas Golden Knights cap on, Paul. Yeah, I have to do it. You know, the boys, I mean, stoners hurt. They got cement in their skates right now. They've lost several games in a row.

They're dead now. But Jackie Aces is getting very comfortable in the slot. He scored several goals already. His back looks unbelievable. We're feeling good right now with where the Golden Knights are at. It's way too early in the conversation for us to be on Hockey Talk already. I don't want to dive into it, but it is a nice hat. Thank you. Hockey stinks, except for that. It's Hockey Talk

Wednesday nights. Oh, yeah. And Pittsburgh Penguin Hockey. And Detroit Red Wings Hockey. We're talking about it in Foxy. I'm not doing this this early. We're only six minutes into this show. The Red Wings fucking stink. They gave up a touchdown in a field goal on Sunday.

That's more than a Lions score all season. That's amazing. That is more than Goff was able to score in a certain amount of games. How about you guys pulling your goalie in the first period? Is that what happened? 10 goals is a lot of goals. We were down 7-2. Those boys fight. The Pittsburgh Penguins, if I'm not mistaken,

lost 6-1. No fight in that team. No, no, we won the next game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on. Shut up. More than a little bit about hockey, okay? Stevie Iseman's got a bunch of quitters on that team. Iseman's actually the one that cheats the salary cap for the Lightning.

We took him. Cups are coming our way. Go eat octopus, bro. Yeah, right. Go eat octopus, by the way. I actually hate the fact that you're throwing those octopi around like that. It's the greatest tradition in hockey. Stick to squid. That one's great. Those are extraterrestrials. I hate the fact that you're throwing those octopi around like that for so long. It's the greatest tradition.

Stick to squid. That's how it's great. Those are extraterrestrials. Have you ever seen any fucking octopi documentary? You scumbag asshole. I have octopus, but they're better when they're on the ice. That means you guys are having success. You guys don't have a lot of that, so don't you worry about it.

Zito's back there. Nick's back there. At Tone Diggs, one half of the hammer. Dad! Cowboys is here. At Tone, I saw you having hat talk with uh yeah a hat guy a little long outside you feel like you're representing well in that convo you felt like you were sophisticated enough to kind of have a good conversation

with a man who knows a lot about caps and shit yeah i think so i mean the hat world is a very accepting and appreciating world um so it was a great hat talk hey uh watch your the bottom of your desk to kovas sent us a message. About doing business. I'm talking about your boner at the bottom of the thing. Takovas did hit us up. Excuse me, what? Yeah, exactly. You didn't even hear me the first time. Takovas did hit us up about potential

business. There's some other boot companies. You mentioned this and like I had a flashback of Brock approaching my podium. The bearded butcher sticker is going to be on your computer forever. I got very nervous for a second. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, but your penis

probably hit the bottom because we're probably going to have to Too small for that. All right. Well, average man would hit the bottom there because you

are kind of hiked up pretty high on that thing. But the Gov's might get into the game. That's good news. Wow. Sweet.

Oh, look at us. That'd be awesome. Get some boots. Real life cowboys, you know? Hell yeah. We're all getting shit kickers.

I don't know. They're not shit kickers, dude. I don't know if anybody's working. These are going out boots. Oh, dancing boots. These are show boots, dude. This is Kurt Warner and Brenda at that bar in Iowa.

Hell yeah. Doing their entire thing, kids. Kurt Warner saw our breakdown of American Underdog. Thank you. I don't know if you appreciated what I said, but I just, hey, I've never seen a movie in that genre of movie before. Call me whatever shallow, okay, you can do that. Ignorant, you can call me that.

There's a lot, stupid, dumb. You can call me a lot of things. I just have never actually sat through a movie that was in that genre of things. Which is like Hallmark, Love, Super Feel Good. Because to get to the feel good ending,

I believe in that I learned very young. I think maybe the first time I saw somebody else watch it, I'm like, oh my God, everybody's miserable in here. And then, oh, we're happy at the end. It's a good feel good story. You're going on that ride. I've never signed up for the ride, believe it or not. I've gotten off the ship pretty quick.

Soon as I'm like, oh my God, this guy's life is, I don't want, I got enough shit, dude. All right, so I can do my own thing. That Kurt Warner movie was, it made me feel a lot of feelings. Right? Yeah. I mean, a lot. Yeah.

Heartwarming. And you're better for it. Films are subjective, you know? Hey, you didn't shit on it. You didn't say that you hated it. It's just, hey, it's not your cup of tea. It's not exactly what you expected. That's not a big deal.

That's not what I expected. I thought we're going to a football movie. And then he said, well, most football movies aren't really about football. Well. I get it. I get it. That's not a big deal. That's not what I expected. I thought we were going to a football movie, and then he said, well, most football movies aren't really about football. Well. I guess. That's not true. I mean, remember the Titans was very football-y, but it was about a lot of life, too.

Right. Kind of mixed together. Kurt's movie is a lot of life. Yeah. With a little bit of football mixed in. By the way, utmost respect for Kurt Warner. Obviously. Absolutely.

And I would say you should watch that movie, but you should know what you're getting into before you get into that movie that's fair Packers for life can't forget that that's the greatest line in movie history well they gave him an opportunity

when nobody else did dude that's right he was undrafted it was Z-Man's birthday fucking ass do you get why the car's green you're such a bad guy dude do you get why the car's green

Packers do you get it you woke up and wanted to be an asshole what are you talking about I said that movie would have been unbelievable if they cut half the dialogue and it was maybe an hour long.

See, Kurt was maybe talking to him. I don't need to talk to you. Or maybe that scumbag Foxy. I just said the movie's good. The documentary will be much better. Foxy didn't say anything publicly. You're thinking what Foxy was saying off-air. I thought he did.

Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. All right, let's move on. Let's go over there. He didn't say anything bad about the movie. Now, listen, Foxy didn't say anything bad about the movie, but publicly he was much more reserved than about what he was saying.

I'm not saying he didn't say he loved it off-air, but he was very much looking forward to the story of that being documented as a documentary, which I think is the genre we're in. Once again, again foxy and i we've seen little to none of the movies that anybody references in any conversations so that is something that has to be remembered at all times when foxy and i talk about movies with that being said i feel very good about any documentary conversation i motherfuckers want to have genius pretty cool cootie needs to relax a little bit i think but genius is absolutely amazing i don't know if anybody's seen that i'm into that if they do a kurt warner style that

type of thing boom we're all the way in waiting for it yep let's we'll sell it on here i heard the whole thing genius is only about his retainer all right come on how are you so shallow you know with that big of a ball cap on your head how how are you that shallow? All I said was, that's all I heard. Like the internet told me. It's pretty awesome. It's pretty cool. And I think, I remember seeing a documentary. Biggie had a guy that literally was following him, shooting everything he had.

These guys know. And somehow, some way, that footage was never, this dude never sold the footage for like 30, 20 years, I guess, at this point. 30 years, at this point had all the, a lot of answers and a lot of behind the scenes stuff. I forget what it was called. I forget what platform, maybe it was Netflix. It was on Netflix. Yeah.

Yeah. So that was unbelievable to me. I'm like, holy shit. This dude was with like literally with big, like at many, many moments. And I guess this is something that happens in the rap world because this guy Cootie who started channel zero productions, a shout out channel zero, baby. many, many moments. And I guess this is something that happens in the rap world because this guy, Cootie, who started Channel Zero Productions. Hey, shout out, Channel Zero. Shout out, Channel Zero, baby.

He started Channel Zero in Pittsburgh. Yeah, I was right. I know, FaZe Clan, dude. Get out of here. You put me in almost a fucking gang war. I swear, I swear I saw something. By the way, you shouldn't be throwing that. That's not it.

I don't think we should be throwing that. I don't know, I had a couple people tweet me like, hey, that's like my neighborhood song or whatever, man. Probably. You signed us up for a fucking war. Anyways, this guy Cootie started Channel Zero Productions in Chicago when Kanye was up and coming. And when he was like 17, 18, 19 or whatever. So this guy was trying to put him on local access television basically in Chicago with this one channel that they basically just bought out the time.

Is what I think Channel Zero Produ was inevitably good business so Kanye was I think was always very thankful for this guy giving him an opportunity but Kanye was Kanye I did not know Kanye loved music as much as he loved music like I didn't know like Kanye is like a Vici style he's like an Avicii style like not that he wasn't a music genius I'm not saying I didn't think Kanye wasn't a music genius but like his entire life basically revolved around music for a long time. Now, he's gotten into fashion and designing. I think that was the coolest thing that I enjoyed. Him walking around the Rockefeller offices,

that behind-the-scenes footage of him playing Jesus Walks and other songs, and them basically laughing him out of the building. I think that documentary, why I love that documentary so much, is it exposes middle management so much. Middle management, the people that are supposed to find people to take to the people that are actually making decisions, that are actually doing things, that are actually driving the ship, that are actually doing stuff. These people down here, middle management, everybody has to deal with them. They're the ones who have to pick and choose who gets to get to that conversation for a long time.

Nowadays, you can kind of go right around them. Shout out to the internet. Yeah, shout long time. Nowadays, you can kind of go right around them. Shout out to the internet. Yeah, shout out to the internet. You can kind of go right around them. But a lot of these middle management people basically just kind of like almost shoot. And Kanye's got the bangers in his backpack. Like right here,

he's got them. And they're like, no, get out of here or whatever. It's like, all right, well. And then he fucking comes full circle. I can see why him and Jay-Z maybe aren't the tightest, by the way. Yeah. He was under his umbrella for a while, and they didn't use him. I always thought that they were like bestest of friends, though. Because watch the throne, by the way.

Incredible. Yeah. It was, I think, my rookie year training camp when that came out. So what's that, 2009, I think? 2009, maybe? Yeah. That sounds right. Yeah.

Yeah, rookie training camp that came out. And it was just, it literally got me through training camp that entire out. So what's that? 2009, I think? 2009, maybe? Yeah, I think. That sounds right. Yeah. Yeah. Rookie training camp that came out. And it was just, it literally got me through training camp that entire hour. It was unbelievable. But I think from an outside looking in, not as a Yeezy stan or as a Jay-Z stan or anything like that,

just outside looking in, thought they were just the bestest of friends and everything like that. You watch that documentary, it's like, oh, I can see how Kanye could potentially have some pent up, oh, this guy's a fucking asshole. Yeah, absolutely.

But interesting. A very interesting documentary. A lot of business was done. I enjoyed it. I think everybody should watch it. And we also think that Kurt Warner should have a documentary.

Yeah, make a doc, Kurt. For the dummies like me and Foxy to not have to feel things. Also, people who don't love Hallmark movies. Every now and then, you just want to hear the goddamn story

from the horse's mouth. That's not a problem. Such a meh. Yeah, I know. I can't believe this guy. I can't believe. Kurt's story is unbelievable. He is the American underdog

but I want to hear from the American underdog, not some actor. Not some. This guy. That guy did a great job portraying Kurt. He did.

I think. I don't know. At the end they had a picture of him standing next to each other. He looked damn near identical. Yeah, he did. You know, the way he was slinging

the pigskin, obviously. Oh, my God. Don't even. Top tier. This dude did a pump fake and this is what he did. Rich Gannon. So he sold it.

So he sold a Rich Gannon pump fake. No, no, no. This is the worst pump fake I've ever seen. I'm sorry, I got it. You showed me a pretty good pump fake. There's a lot of pump fakes, right?

There's the hand off the ball pump fake. I bet. Some people think that's the case. There's the foot, right? People, the way they move their feet. This guy just so happened to be a method actor, a fucking Rich Gannon and Kurt Warner. That's right. And he's going full.

It was so bad. Down and then out. It was a touchdown. Yeah, it was still a touchdown, but it was possibly the worst pump fake ever. Catch by the way. Yeah. In the NFL? Yes. Yeah, that was sweet a touchdown, but it was possibly the worst punt. Catch, by the way. In the NFL? Yeah, that was sweet. So you like that, but not the other.

Who threw that ball? Kurt. I don't know if Kurt was on set that night. Was Kurt on set last night? I just assumed he was the football technical advisor, so he probably was on set. I enjoyed the football. There you go. Whatever the case, shout out to Kurt Warren. Great story, dude.

Thank you, Kurt. Thank you, Kurt. Thank you, Kurt. Speaking of great stories, Aaron Rodgers is allegedly in the middle of a negotiation with the Green Bay Packers on a short-term deal. If he decides to go back to Green Bay, that'll be the deal. So it's a short-term deal. So that might make you wonder on what the number will be, because we all assume it'll be a long-term deal

so they can just kick the can down the road. And once again, we have no idea if he's getting paid $50 million. It's just the narrative that he's commanding and demanding $50 million a year for the Green Bay Packers who probably have to do a lot of reorganizing of the team for them to kind of get moving to where Aaron would want to go, which we all think is he wants to win Super Bowls. Yes. That's kind of what everybody is thinking. He wants to win Super Bowls. Yes. That's kind of what everybody is thinking.

He wants to win Super Bowls. Now, business has to happen, and he is not a doofus, so he understands that he does provide value and worth, not only on the field, but off the field, so money will happen. So maybe he will get $50 million inevitably. I don't think so with a short-term deal with how their contract or their salary cap

is currently constructed, but with that being said, salary cap means nothing in the world that we're currently in. Yes. So Ian Rappaport stopped by the office yesterday. Yep. Good guy. And he is, isn't he? Yeah.

Well, he wasn't boozing. So that's the first time. Yeah. He had a very, very lightened coffee. Could have been J-Mo in it, actually. Probably a little bit. Yeah. So he might have been.

At least Kahlua. Yeah. He might have been boozing. Yeah. Probably Kahlua with the coffee. Good morning Irish coffee, I think. Right? That'sa. Yeah, probably Kahlua with the coffee. Good morning Irish coffee I think, right? That's right.

Yeah, he said he was getting fucked up last night. Phil's dad. Phil's dad. CFO Phil's dad. We were intoxicated at his house one night and they were

I don't think they were supposed to know that we were there doing that. They weren't supposed to be home. They came home early. CFO Phil's dad gave me

a coffee with some scotch in it. He was like, hey, good morning. He said, have a coffee with me or whatever, you know. And I'm like, alright. And I, yeah. No, not good.

Somebody drank all my scotch last night is what he said. He was not. It was amazing. It was an amazing give and take. Anyway, scotch and coffee, not great. I mean, I did not enjoy it at that particular time. I might have grown into it now that I'm above the age of, what, I don't know, 18 or adult at this point.

But yeah, he might have had a little clue in there. I'm not 100% sure. Seemed to be on his wits, though, because he had just got to town. He was going to have a meeting where he was going to go try to learn some shit. And then he was going to be on TV. And then he was doing his whole thing. At night is when he was going to start saying, hey, tequila. He was going to start doing it around town here, which is what the combine is.

The thought, though, that Rappaport told us, hey, I have some news. And I'm like, well, Rappaport, we don't want any of that fuckery news that you gave us last time. Remember? Because he was on our show, and then he cut off. He was paying attention to something else. Oh, I've got to go break news. And it was, oh, the guy from Abysmal State just signed the Who Gives a Fuck contract for two years. You know?

I was like, we don't care. Thanks, Rapp. Ian, like, don't be thanks Ian like don't be you know what i mean there's no reason for that let's set expectations properly so yesterday he said to us well i'm working on something i got something i think i think i got some news or whatever and we literally all just like it is on the show everybody just in real life is like oh shut up you don't know anything yeah you guys have been on vacation because they haven't broken any news in some time eric burkhart broke that news about ky have been on vacation because they haven't broken any news in some time.

Eric Burkhart broke that news about Kyler Murray. The insiders haven't broken news in some time. And then he texted me this morning and said, hey, the Packers and Aaron negotiating is what I was going to tell you guys, but you all told me not to tell you, which I would like to let everybody know. As soon as he said, I have some actual news. Do you want to know what I said? No. No, can't do it.

Will it be broken before the show tomorrow? He said, let me find out. I was like, if it's not going to be for sure broken before the show starts, do not tell me because as soon as I come in here, that's home. Bitch is coming right out into this microphone down this wire, cross the room into Zito's board. And then that thing's getting sent out everywhere. That's right. Satellites. That's the way it works. Satellites happening. It's gone. So don't tell me. Starlink. Hey, shout out. Shout out.

Shout out. Shout out, Elon. Shout out. Hey, I don't want to get too far off base here, but I saw the little home thing. Yeah. So people would just buy that, I assume. That'll be the business model. You just buy that.

It goes to your house, and then that thing just shoots. Is that the router or the modem? Yeah, but it's a little bit bigger. Well, it might be the whole country's, I guess, at at that point I don't know what a standard modem would be but yeah, you buy like this little box It didn't seem to be that big now and I know how much they were sending there But is that what his is going to be and it's just going to be what five 5g all the time listen probably I assume so It's dangerous more than that Oh like 10g wide

11g Baker's dozen That'd be crazy if you got the 13g that'd be wild. 11G? Wide. Baker's Dozen? Wide. That'd be crazy if you got up to 13G. That'd be wild. Yeah, a lot of Gs. That'd be a lot of Gs, man. That'd be super duper fast.

That's it? No, that wasn't what I saw. That looks like a dick. I just Googled it. That's direct TV. Google Ukrainian Starlink home or something like that. It was this little box. They look like computer towers.

Yeah, it was like a little box almost that I saw. Because I immediately thought it was somebody who has issues with the internet all the time right every day everywhere i everywhere i sleep it seems like i have bad internet if i can just get one of these little things put in a backpack then i got elon starlink thing just shooting me everywhere you go that's right might die very young from that whole thing right sc scramble your brains. But at least, hey, I'm going to be able to connect and upload pretty quick. Yeah, you're worth it. Yeah. That's it?

I think so, yeah. I don't know how big that is. There's a ladder to the left. I think that's just the box of what Zito showed the first time. Because if you look at the box, it looks like. Oh, yeah. It does have that. Oh, so that's like one, two, three, four.

That's what you said. Just like those little like satellite dishes, basically. Yeah. Oh, so they are dishes. Oh, so it's like one, two, three, four. That's what you said. Just like those little like satellite dishes, basically. Yeah. Oh, so they are dishes. Oh, so it's just a dish. We also haven't talked about it at Super Bowl. They were pumping 5G right next to our stage. It was that thing that looked like a coffee machine.

Is that what my head's hurting? It was Radiation City over there. We did a pretty good service. It was a pretty good service. I have a six finger coming out. Hey, I hope you're you're okay as your employer i would like you to know that i did not know that was going to happen the police officer at one point was like we should probably check that for radiation i guess he checked it it was like that's pretty off the radar hey listen big shout out to all the cops out there thank you for your service good cops by the way there's

obviously out there good cops hate the bad cops that's just the way it goes there's always going to be bad cops that we have to remember that this is the world in society and we can't let you know that happen you know can't let that tear anything apart that those la police yeah i think a lot of them listen to the show we appreciate that have a good one uh we appreciate you a lot for that um they are a bunch of cyborgs yeah they are hey i don't know what type of water they got cooking over there at the LAPD. There was some fucking monsters. The guy we were with late at night as a fan of the show.

He was yoked. You got literal avatars with badges over there. Yeah. And I don't know what they got helicopters and cars chasing all these L.A. police chases for. Get these sons of bitches some track shoes. These dudes are monsters that were patrolling that radio row. Very impressed. I'm going to be honest.

Because you run into, you know, like hindsight looking back. My arresting officer. 3,000% chance I could have beat him in a foot race. Okay. Not that I would have, especially at that time. I was very cold. True. But, you know, you would assume that there's some young kids that are maybe out and about, a little boozed up.

I mean, this has obviously happened. And somebody's like, hey. And then you look, and it's like, you know, Blart, Paul Blart. You're going to go. Okay? You're going to potentially think about it at some point. I think all those police officers, they've never had a potential fleer, I don't think. No. If they've

shown up, I think any drunk stooge has not thought to themselves, oh, I can beat this. You got it, dude. We're talking. Yeah, all yoked and tatted, cool-ass tats, like a guy you see walking, it's like, okay, just fucking don't even look this guy in the eyes, because if he thinks

I might be doing something wrong, he might knock my head off. Yeah, you don't want that at all. No. The dogs, they had to. Oh, I don't know if they were smelling COVID, maybe, but they were. They were sniffing. They were sniffing. Pretty good sniffers on that thing.

Oh, yeah. Big boys. It's tough to sniff something that's not around anymore. Tony. Tony. Tony. Tony. They're not around anymore.

I think we're going to live with it forever, dude. That's what I've been told. Yeah, cheer forever. Just numbers. And this was the hey conversation. Hey, we did beat it, though. It sounds like we beat it. Yeah, Sean said it.

Lowest number since the start. I feel like. Much more pressing issues there's a lot of whoa whoa whoa don't even get into that don't even get into that don't even get into that please don't even get into that we don't need to but a lot of mandates going down yeah a lot of mandates going down congratulations we don't need to be you know obvious no yeah so we don't know so i said with the voice 10 20 years from now when it's never talked about again and we don't know any answers we'll probably you now when it's never talked about again and we don't know any answers, we'll probably

wonder what exactly all happened through all of it. But what we do know, lost a lot of great people. We'll miss them all. But hey, if we're sitting here, feels like we fucking survived. Here we go. Thank you, Haji. You never make this

man sit around for anything. Defending the WBC and the Ring heavyweight championships of the world on April 24th against Dillian White, who didn't show up to the press conference today. Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest heavyweight walking, the Gypsy King, Tyson Fury. Yeah! What's up, big man?

I was thinking, what the fuck is going on here with these boys? One man's playing golf in his underpants. The other man's having a smoke in a cigar. I was like, what the fuck? Hey, welcome to the show, man. I'm sorry we had to keep you waiting there. We're in the middle of a commercial break

on the radio portion of the show. We are honored to have you, man. What happened today? Why'd this dude not show up at the press conference? You're the global sensation. You are the global star. People are paying attention because the Gypsy King's a part of this.

Then this dude doesn't show up at the press conference. What's this all about? And should I know more about this than I do right now? One word. Pussy! You think that's what it is? This guy's a little bitch. He's going to get knocked out,

and he knows it, and he doesn't want to see me face-to-face because he's a bit afraid of me getting in his mind all his mind games bullshit that they like to play these days um i'm an old school throwdown fighter i like to get close and personal we saw you with uh deontay wilder i think that's when you were really introduced to the american audience at a broader scale i honestly believe that just outside of the boxing world because i was maybe one of them the first time I saw you box hey the first time I'm not a big boxing guy I don't know first time I saw you box against our guy the American

hey the Alabama Hammer whatever like all right we got two heavyweights two great fighters how this was being billed I'm like I'm going with the American because I'm a dumb American I turned on that fight I saw you and you're moving and then picking him up. I was like, I fucking love this guy. And then you cut the promo. You sang, I think. You're like the most interesting human on earth. I hope you know that you have a lot of fans and you only continue to do so.

And now that I've learned a little bit more about you, I think it was on the Gary Neville show, you talked about time and everything about how it's such an interesting thing. You can't think about yesterday. You have to be in the current moment. At what point do you think you got into that? Are you in your prime right now, you think? And how long do you think that continues to happen? I'm definitely in my prime right now.

I'm a big believer in living in the moment. Time is of the essence. Time is the only thing we really do have. Moments in it. So it's how we spend our moments in time um in my spare time i'm going to start playing golf in the underpants hey it's a good time it's a good time you don't have to be that good either it's a distraction but whenever you talk about your fighting abilities and obviously we've heard your dad your dad's electrifying on the microphone and you know, the gypsy lineage is like a tough lineage, I believe, if I'm not mistaken.

But you're like the greatest of them all. At what point do you think you know you're going to be an incredible fighter? And, like, when do you know you're in your zone? Like, when do you know, like, all right, this is the best I can be and this is the best I'm going to be? I think I knew I was going to be an awesome fighter, heavyweight champion of the world, when I was coming out of the womb. I was born for this. And growing up, I was just doing more and more boxing,

more and more fighting, and then I turned professional, and I definitely knew I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world. There was never a disbelief, ever. It was always the ultimate confidence. It was going to be heavyweight champion of the world or nothing. And I had a lot of hard fights along the way and i'm still having hard fights today how long can it continue for who knows but i'm having a hell of a ride well we're lucky to be a part of it and to witness it and to

be alive at the same time as it's happening and if you you're focusing on boxing when you're a kid that's hard right i mean i was a i was a punter in the nfl easiest job in the nfl okay but i got to watch a lot of people the amount of work you got to put in to be a football player for the physicality and your body and the beating i couldn't even imagine what it is in actual hand-to-hand combat through your entire life your training and how the hours had to be fucking just miserable huh i mean how do you keep like such an upbeat personality through it all oh it's horrible i i train twice a day five days days a week, once on a Saturday. I've been doing that for the last 20 years or more.

It's been a crazy roller coaster of hard work. I don't even know I'm still in one piece. I've had a million operations. I've had a million broken bones and damage done to me. Cuts, bruised, battered to fuck. But I'm still here. I'm still fighting away. And I'm still knocking motherfuckers out.

And that's how I roll. Hey, still love it? Yeah? Love every day? Love the process? Love everything about it? I'm coming towards the end of my career now. I've not got a lot left in me.

But the old dog has still got a couple of fights left in him. And what do we do? We fucking drink alcohol, get fucked up, and punch people's faces. I love everything about that people say to me what are you going to do when you retire this year i'm like that's easy fucking get fucked up every single day i think of all the hard work that i don't have to do okay so let's talk about that people are talking about you retiring very soon is Is that a very common conversation? Yes, I'm 34 this year.

I've been in boxing 14 years as a professional. I've been boxing over 20 years. I've got a lot of wear and tear on me. I'm the undefeated two-time heavyweight champion of the world. Special elite members only club. There's only ever been one person before me

retire unbeaten and he goes by the name of Rocky Marciano and I'll be the second one. Okay. It's like a connoisseur of elite level club, elite boxers only.

Hell yeah. Two in the history of mankind. Golly. Hey, that's a hell of a fucking goal that you're going to be able to achieve. That's a legacy.

And when you were talking to Neville, you were talking about time. You said you don't watch any fights back. You have to have conversations while you're getting shit-faced about your legacy and about everything. You have to,

amongst your friends and family. You have to. Do you think about that? Or you can't? Are you at the point now where you can think about that? You know, the legacy to to me i'm not too concerned about the legacy when i'm getting fucked up i'm getting fucked up i'm not thinking about work the last thing i want to talk about is my work what do you do hey what do you do tyson whenever you're getting after it what are

you drinking where are you at what music i'm drinking i'm drinking everything and anything and i do not know when to go home there is is no home time, especially if I'm in Las Vegas. Hey, I'd put a self-ban on myself on that city for similar reasons, I think, is what you are speaking of. You still get after it to this day, even in the middle of fight camps and everything, or is that whenever you're done? No, no. While I'm in fight camps, I'm alcohol-free.

But I have been known to go out on nights and get absolutely smashed in fight camps i'm alcohol free um but i have been known to go out on nights and get absolutely smashed in um fight week so yeah so what are you so clever but i've always won so it doesn't really matter hey tyson there's not a lot of people are going to tell you what the fuck to do dude like i don't know at what age you found that out but there's not a lot of people on earth that can tell you what to do which has to feel pretty good what is your fight camp regimen you said you're going two days for five days and then you got one on saturday and you've been doing that for however what is your do you eat something because you're a massive hey you are a fucking massive human being i mean i assume you have to eat everything's calculated

you have the nutritionist and everything like yeah yeah i got um i got one of the world's best nutritionist george lockhart he. He does all my nutritional stuff. He does everything for me, like that sort of stuff. But I put most of my success down to masturbation seven times a day. You got this guy. You can really pop. Got to keep that blood pumping, baby. That's amazing.

Is that why you think you throw such bombs because what you've been accused you've been accused of having what shit in your gloves and stuff like that right yeah it's a lot what's that all about that's because you're and the only thing the only thing i've been loading is testosterone from all the wanking over the years i saw that in uh what was that show what was that there was that show uh myth myth busters did it with a boxer actually because the old myth was uh if you women weak in legs yeah yeah beforehand then they did on myth busters like no actually you get more testosterone immediately afterwards makes you stronger you've been you've been doping testosterone

with your right hand up going to town on yourself right hands on left hands depending on what i feel like. At this point, is there anything you can get better at in the ring? Or do you think you know your fighting style? You know what you're perfect at? You know, I like to just go in there and have a brawl. Have a good fight with the opponent. Whoever it is, whatever it is.

Go in there and do your best. That's all we can do in life. A lot of people put pressure on themselves thinking, I wish I could do this, I wish I could do that. But me, I'm happy with being a big, fat, bald-headed guy who knocks people out. Like, people say to me, oh, you're out of shape, you're fat, you're this, you're that. But I'm the only one who's still undefeated after 13 years. 32 fights in a row, unbeaten. From a big, fat guy, 277 pounds, bald-headed.

Come on. Yeah, but I think that's why you're loved in America so much I think when we were introduced to you you know whenever we

were introduced to you through the Deontay Wilder fight we're like oh my god this is the greatest boxer

of all time he's a heavyweight he throws bombs he talks shit he sings and

if we were six foot how tall are you six foot nine if we were six foot nine we tall are you? Six foot nine. If we were six foot nine, we would hope that we'd be built like that and we would beat the fuck out of people. Like, I think you were one of the most relatable people

even though you're an anomaly, honestly. And I think your entire story about how you got into the game and then, you know, you went through some stuff mentally and then now you've come back and we've all kind of got introduced to you. I think it's really fucking awesome. i honestly believe you should think about that sometimes

when you're blacked out drinking whatever singing whatever every once in a while yeah sounds good you know it's uh i've never ever hid anything from people i i had alcohol problems drug problems mental health problems weight issues i've had i've had all the problems in my life. And you know what? I'm still here batting, telling the story. I'm still fighting. You look good, man. And by the way, this interim champ not showing up at the press conference. What are we doing?

That's bad. Not a good idea. Hey, that's bad content too. I think if I'm him and I'm his agent or manager, I would want him to be around Tyson Fury at all times. Yes. If there's an opportunity to be on the Fury at all times. Yes. Right? Like, if there's an opportunity to be on the same stage, hey, let's go ahead and get you

there. But I guess you think, you're saying that he doesn't want you getting in the head space. Is that something that is real in the combat sport, you think? Like, when those stare downs happen. Is something actually happening there? Or is that just... I think it's a lot of bullshit, all that stuff. The mind games and whatever else. But a lot of these fighters I read's a lot of bullshit, all that stuff, the mind games and whatever else.

But a lot of these fighters I read into a lot. I'm not one of them who really care about it all. Like, I single-handedly held this press conference on my own today here in London. A room full of press. It really makes no difference if they turn up or not because they don't really get a lot of time to speak. Because I do all the talking. If you can tell already, I'm an excellent talker yeah you are you should do more wind me up and let me go yeah you should do more talking by the way but do you think when those

stare downs happen because they've been happening since the history of combat sports yeah and there's some people like conor mcgregor takes it very serious whenever he's you know he does he has his entire routine i don't know if it's for show or not do you think there is a physical advantage to those types of interactions and stuff like that for you? I think so, yeah. I think if he can get in a fighter's mind, he thinks about it when he goes home, and it affects his training. And all he can think about at night is you. All he can think about when he wakes up in the morning is you. And then you're living in his mind rent-free.

Did you ever have anybody that did that to you when you were coming up? Never. I never believe in all that stuff i eat hamburgers and drink beers before fights you're the absolute best ty go ahead tyson you've beaten every you know world-class heavyweight that they've put in front of you you're clearly the best heavyweight in the world at is there are you at the point in your career now where it's like ah fuck it i don't have anything else to prove or do you still have that same chip on your shoulder because all these people you know they they say all this shit about you whether it's you know you're out of shape or whatever the case may be like do you still have that chip on your shoulder when you're going into fights or not really yeah i feel i feel like i've got a lot to prove in this next fight um this

could be my last fight uh we don't know. Whoa, is that public? Is that public? No, that's their exclusive for you guys. Oh, hell yeah. Well, first of all, thank you for everything you've done for sports and thank you for that

little drop there. But go ahead, back to what you were saying. I'm sorry. No, I've totally fucking forgot what I was going to say. No, you're saying you have a lot to prove in this,

you think, because it could be your last. I still feel like I've got a lot to prove in this fight. I want to go out as the undefeated world heavyweight champion. And I'll be happy. I'm focused on making a Hollywood movie after the fight on my life of Tyson Fury. I've got a lot of stuff I want to do. So boxing is a small part of it.

But I've got to finish. I've got to finish what I started all those years ago. I'm enjoying that elite level club that I was talking about earlier. So whenever you whenever you start thinking about retirement, I retired early. You wouldn't know that my position was irrelevant, but I retired early after making a Pro Bowl. It was like my best year I had. I retired early, but mentally I was ready to move on. Whenever you think about retirement, especially after all that you've accomplished in boxing and also in the WWE, you're a big time star. You're great in the WWE. I was very lucky to be a fan to watch

you over there. You're making a movie. How long have you been thinking about the next thing? Is this always been something or at what point? No, I was always concentrating on boxing for a long period of time. But like i say i'm getting towards the end you know when you get towards the end of your career you know when you get too long in the two-footer game um i've achieved everything i made a hell of a lot of money i'm financially secure i don't need to do this um but now it's about having enjoyment in my life looking after my kids and my wife spending time with the guys traveling around the world um just doing the normal stuff that i've missed out on for the last 20 years.

It sounds like this is your last fight, man. Listen, there's probably going to be a lot of money available to you to come back and box somebody at some point. I mean, that's the way the world works like that. Yeah, it does. So although you're thinking about going and taking time, I'm assuming the fight game will always be something that'll be tempting you to get back. But, man, what a fucking run for a 34-year-old.

Hell yeah. Huh? What a run. Thank you, guys. One of the most exciting, great shows I've been on all day. And I must have done 250 interviews. And this was the best. Well, hey, we appreciate that, man.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning, 7 a.m. on Ticketmaster for the April 23rd blockbuster, potentially the last time we see the greatest heavyweight going Tyson, the Gypsy King Fury against that bum, Joey Boyd. Hell yeah. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Live and in studio We have been blessed by

The Boys The hosts of the Bustin' with the Boys podcast Absolute legends and icons Ladies and gentlemen Taylor LeJuan and Will Compton Thank you ElectroStatic to be here Thank you for having us on

We did it We done it People say we wouldn't get here They say it would never happen. But look at us. Look at us. Look at us. We got Pat on the bus.

Pat's on the bus. Now we're on the Pats. Got handshakes. It's a beautiful deal. You got handshakes. We got cowboy hats. We got mugs. What?

What? It's kind of a different deal. One word at a time. What? What? We got handshakes. What? Cowboy hats.

What? Monarchs. What? More monarchs. What? Khaki collared pants. What? Cowboy hats. What? Monarchs. What? More monarchs. What? Khaki-collared pants. What? Oh, it's a nice deal.

I got to catch up. I got to catch the vibe here. You're busy, dude. Your full-time gig is playing the football, but I hope Bustin' with the Boys becomes that at some point because you two are electrifying. Joining us from an attic in Ohio, a Super Bowl champion, a college football national champion, a college football national champion,

a Ryder Cup champion, and COVID survivor. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! Hey, listen, I got to keep up quick.

Yes, A.J. I'm in the back. I'm like, hey, so what's the deal? They're like, oh, you'll be fine. Just up quick. Yes, AJ! I'm in the back. I'm like, hey, so what's the deal? They're like, oh, you'll be fine. Just go to the thing. And now I'm here. I look like a damn fool, right? Everyone's going, AJ Hawk!

What? AJ, what? And I'm like, ah! You're a smart guy. I'm screaming. Yeah, but you're catching up. You're catching up. You're catching up.

You're a smart guy. I know. I'll pick it up. I'll pick it up. I'll pick it up. AJ, great to see you, man. Obviously, is he still? Yeah, there he is. Hey, great to see you, man. Obviously, is he still? Yeah, there he is.

Hey, I'm here. Hey, great to see you, AJ. Hey, AJ. What's up, man? What are you guys doing in Indy? You know what? We were going to fly, but Will hates masks, so we decided to take a little drive up here and jump up.

I'll talk to Diggs. Diggs is with you. Yeah. I'm on the numbers. Yeah, we got to stay out of it. We got to stay out of that deal. Listen, for a 25 minute flight Is what it would have had to have been

From Nashville To Indianapolis There's not a non-stop There's not a non-stop So we're looking at a 6 hour deal 6 hour deal You're going to Dallas You're going to Atlanta

You're all the way back to Detroit And then you hit Indianapolis Yeah people wonder why I fly private so much Everybody's like Oh it's because you're bougie It's like well also Because this particular airport

Has zero direct flights anyway. You're going to have to go to hub cities. Thank you for driving up. Obviously, I hope you both didn't bring COVID into this. Yeah, Jesus. Triple boost. Triple boost.

We're all good. We're all good. We got it all set up here, huh? Yeah, I've been already hit with it, so I'm good. I got the, you know, the stuff that makes you. Antibodies.

Yeah, me as well. Antimantium. I got antimantium in my body. Whoa. That's a big word.odies. Yeah, me as well. Animantium. I got animantium in my body. Whoa. That's a big word. I'll have to Google that later. That's nice. Is that like unobtainium?

It's in Wolverine's body. Oh, yes. Like a trinocrone? Jesus. All right, AJ. All right, AJ. Let's get to a conversation here. I'll start with you, Taylor.

And I preface this outside. People, you guys are your mics are on back there the by the way I love that they're doing math right now hey they're figuring out how to make sure we get

the incredibly handsome gentleman from Bussin' with the Boys on the shot AJ's become Steve Jobs with the the black turtleneck this is nice

he's wearing he does look fantastic and the light is radiating you slap a 10 on that thing it's a 10 what is it now what is it I give it anating. You slap a 10 on that thing, it's a 10. What is it now? I give it an 8.5. That's still solid.

That's an Ohio 11. Strong jawline. Got the big girthy neck. He's probably got something going on downstairs. He's AJ Hawk. Something to call home about. You know what I'm saying? He's got six kids.

Got it. Boys? You got boys? One girl and three boys, actually. Holy shit. Axel's cute. To get the boys You gotta have a Bit of a deal Going on down below

That's why I got two girls So That's how it works for us Let's talk about Your deal downstairs Yes You wanna talk about it No no no

My deal It was voted most Huggable in high school It's great Mouth hugs only It was Great That's awesome

Happy that happened Congrats to you Thank you Everybody's all about A good award You know And a good recognition Let's talk about

Your season here And obviously Busting with the boys Is so fucking good And the reason why I'm such a big fan of it Is because I was doing Podcasts when I was playing

Average You guys doing podcasts While you're still playing Playoff really Shout out Fucking getting the team To a round People forget But you guys are doing it While you're still playing playoff really shout out fucking getting the team to the ground people forget but you guys are doing it while you're still playing

and making a good podcast still whenever you're you know you're a pretty prominent name and you're doing shit off the field if you have any slip you are going to get attacked for it for game over yes so for instance week one oh my god no but you. You come back from an ACL tear, which is not fun at all. In a very, you know, you have to be in a position where you have to do hand-to-hand combat with one of the best in the game, Chandler Jones, week one. I assume it got real loud for you there. Like, I assume people were very loud for you. Like, oh, this guy's focusing on a fucking podcast.

That's right. Talking. Oh, he's so funny. He fucking can't block a goddamn quarterback. He's on a podcast and he is blocking. Yeah. The whole thing is blocking. Yeah. The whole thing. Yes.

Yeah, after the first quarter, I'd say not even after the first quarter, about halfway through the first quarter, I was just thinking, get me out of here. I got to fake a cramp or something. I got to get the hell home and quick. First quarter, I hit a little play-action pass on him, saw it coming from a mile away, bank around the edge, done. Next, literally two series later, I take a pass at him, I'm like, mile away bank around the edge done next literally two series later i take a pass at it i'm like oh i got a good angle and then he does this he's got these long

erratic arms where he's kind of coming at you in all sorts of ways and i'm like oh i'm in a great position and then all of a sudden he's here and i'm like oh we're done so he definitely took out the boy tannahill a little bit and it's tough when you're helping out your boy and say hey it won't happen again but then it happened twice in the game and so he yeah listen he got five sacks well yeah there it is i was i was hoping you'd say no i didn't give up five sacks i gave up two sacks and i was hoping i gave up two sacks he had five sacks in the game but that i actually played worse than five sacks i had a multiple hits multiple pressures i was getting walked back it's like when you see the the five-star athlete in high school

going against the 165-pound white offensive lineman. A lot of highlights. It was tough, dude. It was a tough deal. I actually came out of the game to get an IV. I actually was cramping. And when they came back in, the announcer, who's a great guy, but made a fatal mistake by saying,

Taylor LeJuan's back in the game, which is not the time to do that. The fans decided we're not okay with him. Oh, the MC. And you're talking about the PA. And I'm sitting there. I look over at my left guard and I go, well, we're just here now, aren't we? Eight years in this place and we're just getting dommed by the boys. So it was a bit of a deal.

It got better as it went. Obviously not my best year. But man, Chandler, stud. Very good at football. Very good football player. You're talking about the PA. You're talking about the PA in-house, not the announcer on the television. You're talking about in-house.

You got booed by the entire place. Announced it, and the whole place started booing. Pro bowler. No. Superstar. He let that out. Pillar of the Titans. Yeah.

A man who is very recognizable with this program, Taylor LeJuan, back in at left tackle. Oh, fuck this! It's the microphone! He's so fucking funny! No, but it was probably pretty loud, I assume, right? Yeah, it was a tough gig. And the worst part was that the Arizona Cardinals actually took to the social media and decided to put a picture of Chandler Jones up there and said, Bussin' with the Boys.

Oh! The farther you get away from it, the funnier it is. took to the social media and decided to put a picture of Chandler Jones up there and said, bussing with the boys. Oh. The farther you get away from it, the funnier it is. That was an excellent chirp by the Arizona Colts. That's good. My home state team. Yeah, that's going to hurt.

True. You know what I'm saying? Like your Pats this year. That's got to be a tough little deal, right? That's good Twitter. That's good Twitter. You got to bury the Pats any chance you get.

Definitely let that shoot. And before AJ has a question, Will, I want to ask you, you're doing this podcast, Bussing with the Boys. Great podcast, great YouTube're doing this podcast bust with the boys great podcast great youtube thanks for having me on by the way thank you for having me thanks for coming bro no it was honor foxy and i absolutely loved it normally when i fly to those uh smackdown shows i go in i do the show and then i leave i don't see anything flew in a little bit earlier to fucking stop by it was awesome i enjoyed the hell out of it thank you for having me great. Great show. Good program you got too.

The people around you guys. Thank you. Got a good squad. Subscribe. Rate five stars. Ring the bell. This one right here, I think. No, no.

This one right here, right now. No, this one right here. Oh, yeah, right there. Subscribe. You should subscribe to the Bustle with the Boys podcast, but it is, you guys are unbelievable

and the YouTube. You guys are great. It's growing. The business is growing growing you are getting picked up by teams then you're off teams and you're back on teams and you're off teams and i think you and i chatted about this how no coaches that don't know you are going to roll the dice on getting this podcaster in the building especially at the position that you're at teamer guy linebacker guy getting a chance to go back in with the podcast did it change anything with your teammates or coaches or anything like that with the success of your podcast

while still playing? I would say this year, no. All the boys were hype about it. You know what I mean? Like, Basachi is in there saying, like, hey, Will, he coached me on a punt set or something. He's like, put that on your fucking radio show. He's like, you're Johnny Carson bullshit.

You say my name again on your podcast, you're going to have to start paying me money. Everyone's laughing Like people enjoyed The podcast Like I was telling you About the Man I'm forgetting his name

The coach that you knew In India Burbs Yeah Burbs He was all about it But you walk into the building And you kind of feel A little weird walking in

Because you know You have bus with the boys And you don't want to seem Like you're trying to Like clown around When everybody takes You know Or get inside information

Or bury anybody Correct yes Yeah there's a lot there's a lot you have to balance by the way yes and basachi's like hey are you going to do any episodes i was like i mean we have a few in the library but once we get to the back end like if i'm still around we'll have to do something to you know be sponsors and stuff like that but yeah it's weird but all the boys welcome with open arms and like i said like i knew the team i know a lot of the roster. And knowing the coaching staff and Coach Passaccia ahead of time is very helpful.

That's an interesting thing going forward for you too, Taylor. I mean, I know you're a big, I mean, this guy. Oh, yeah. Left tackle. Big time. Hey, he's got the house

on the big side of town. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The further in that town you get, the bigger the house gets. Really? He's fucking at the end of the road. End of the block.

Yeah. Next to Aaron's. All the way at the end of the coldest city. Yeah, him and... Timberlake. him and Vrabes are right next to each other. Yeah, go ahead, AJ. It's beautiful. You and Blake. Hey, for Will, Will,

Bissacha getting hired in Green Bay to be the special teams guy is like the most celebrated special teams hire of all time, I feel like, when it comes to coaching. Second question, real quick. Your shoes, the Monarchs, what's the deal? Are we ironic? Are we ironic? Are we serious? Did they start ironic and now you're serious?

That's a great question, and I think the last thing you said there is kind of how it happened. It was a little more like ironic at first, and I think I just bought them. I bought them for a fit last year to go to the Titans game. It was like the last game of the year. Maybe we were going to play the Ravens, and I had this starter jacket on,

and I wanted shoes to go with it. I had these, I had these pit vipers on, I had a starter jacket, and so I wanted to roll with the Monarchs, and then from there,

the way everybody had fun on social media, I was like, yeah, I'm just going to wear these things. Taylor's like, hey, you kind of look dumb and shit,

which kind of makes me think like. It wasn't phrased like that, but it was just a bit. Right, yeah, Taylor chirped me, so I felt like I had to. It wasn't phrased like that, but it was just a bit. Right, yeah, he got the statement, Taylor chirped me, so I felt like I had to

dig my heels in the ground, like, you know, I'm going to embrace this a little bit. And now that's the rest of your life. Yeah, then now it's the rest. And,

hey, by the way, AJ, it's baby month. We're expecting this month, so I'm in full. Congratulations. Congrats.

Congratulations, that is awesome. And AJ knows about, you know, you've done numerous AJ Hawk chants on on this thing when we were chatting on bus and i don't know if he listened or watched you know aj's busy 100 kids yeah aj this guy's a big fan of yours so maybe not fucking bury him in your first question you said what do i love doing uh what's that what do i love doing with aj aj hawk now do what you were just doing there like that yeah we're doing it again say say what everything you were saying in between those i got it we're doing it here we are it's happening we've done it all right look at that it's so what we've done it what yes alright look at that

it's so easy to catch on what a fun show what a fun show this is really nice you having a good time I'm having a great time I actually have a question you obviously have

the nice big desk but I want to know what the thing is here with the totem pole why is your desk so much higher versus over here and I'm not trying to

cause anything that might be going on so it's cameras it's all for the cameras every camera angle I also have an inferiority complex over here and I'm not trying to cause anything that might be going on so it's cameras it's all for the cameras every camera angle basically I also have an inferiority complex

tough words three syllables that's a hard deal I get it all the time three weeks after the season this mouth doesn't work very good I think it's a lot

more syllables than three that's a lot but also a general studies major right so here we are Michigan man go blue Tom Brady let's talk about a little But also a general studies major, right? So here we are. Michigan, all right.

Michigan, man. Go blue. Tom Brady. Let's talk about a little. He retired. You know him? You friends with him? I met him.

I shook his hand. I was suspended when we were practicing against them. And we had a nice little one-on-one conversation. And I was in the dumps. I didn't know what to think about it. And I was like, hey, Tom, when you had the whole deflate gate thing, I didn't say it to him at the time. But I was like, hey, when, when you had the whole deflate gate thing, I didn't say it to him at the time, but I was like, hey, when you got suspended, what did you do? And he goes, yeah, man, I didn't know what to think of it.

So me and my wife and the kids just went to Spain for a couple of weeks. I was like, oh, my God. What a legend. Different worlds we're living in. I'm terrified of coming back not in shape. And this dude's hitting Spain for a little bit. A little salsa dancing, whatever they do over there, right? I had a good time.

It was beautiful. He probably wanted to escape probably, but he's able to do that because he doesn't have to do hand-to-hand combat with people. You have to do that. When you think about next year, next season, Titans are in a good spot. Good spot. Depending upon who, we get a quarterback too. True.

Who's we? Well, Indianapolis Colts, obviously. Oh, yeah. You know what? Great team. Actually, your boy on there, the little bobblehead, Robert Mathis. I was having a hell of a year in 2016. No sacks, giving up a week eight.

I hit it in there. Robert Mathis is sitting across from me. Smaller individual. Hell of a spin move on him. And I get a chip. They're saying, hey, we're going to throw you one in the beginning of the game. Give it to you. First third down of the game.

He gets chipped. I'm like, oh, we're money in the bank. Put my hands out there. Never touched him. Big spin move sorry marcus so that was a bit of a deal but uh yeah by the way best office i'm in the league too hold on by the way he knew that you gave up zero sacks going into that game he had i would assume yeah robert robert had all the check well never gave it up huh here we go let's go ahead and do

this the colts are good the afc south though big question mark right i mean houston just got a new coach in lovey smith jacksonville is jacksonville but they got doug peterson doug peterson's they've been able to win will they be able to pull it off who the fuck knows the colts and the titans though seem to be every single year going at it right yeah it seems like the colts have really been the team that's for the last forever has been the team that's why we're talking so much shit because it was houston it was houston the colts and. And now the Houston's kind of taking a dip, which will come back up eventually. Right. Got to play both sides of the fences. I'm not trying to get in trouble.

No bulletin board material. Smart friends on that ass. Now you got Titans and the Colts going. But the Colts seem like a great franchise. They got great coaches, a dominant offense line, a great defense, an absolute psychopath at linebacker. I think overall, you guys are looking at a solid 4.5. You guys are going to be a good team.

Thank you. Out of five, I'm assuming you're saying, and that is the maniac. That's his actual name. I don't think that's his government name, but I believe that's what they call him. You should think about changing it if he wants to commit to the bit because he is an absolute monster on the field. But whenever you think about the position you guys are in with Derrick Henry and Tannehill and everything you guys got cooking down there,

you were able to win with like 90 guys on that roster yeah what is the culture in there and why do you think you guys win whenever there's just you guys had no reason being the number one seed this year i think everybody outside the building would say that inside the building you're not going to say that but with all the adversity and shit that was going on with that team why do you think that building has become what it has become i agree with everything you said except for the fact that when we were playing we did have 91 guys and we were the number one AFC and the AFC. We literally said, we have no business.

I wouldn't see the AFC. This is wild boys. I can't believe we made it through that. When Derek went down against your beloved team, everyone was kind of looking at each other. Like, how are we going to like define ourselves now? What are we going to turn into?

And then a slew of guys start coming in. AJ gets hurt a couple of times. Julio's hurt a couple of times. And I slew of guys start coming in. AJ gets hurt a couple times. Julio's hurt a couple times. And I'm looking at the Pats game. We're playing the Pats. And the starting lineup, there's four drafted guys in the whole starting lineup.

And it's like, hey boys, let's just keep grinding through it and see what happens. I think the coaching, the leadership of the coaching, and here I am on the knees right now for Braves. I hate doing it.

Because we all know who Braves is. He's a great guy. Yeah. Yeah, he's a fantastic guy. I hate complimenting him. He's a guy. We all know who he is. But he loves it.

But Braves is definitely the dude that put us in that position. Every single week during his team meetings, he definitely stuffs it down us to make sure that we know the ins and outs of the team we're going against. And a team he's always very complimentary of is the Indianapolis Colts.

So hold on, though. He seems like big meathead. I've heard stories from some Ohio people. And Ohio people are Ohio people. Yeah, they're different. We all know that. An Ohio dude is an Ohio dude. We all know that.

AJ is a perfect depiction of one, as is Vrabel. Everybody thinks he's a meathead. Rocks for brings. That's what everybody thinks about all Ohio people, right? He is a cerebral football IQ through the roof, it feels like. He's able to – it seems like he's a part of everything. He'll talk to the specialists. He'll be over there with the defense.

He'll be over there with the offense. Do you think he doesn't get anywhere near the amount of credit for football IQ and strategy and shit? I think it'll come. I mean, the way – Coach of the Year right now says a lot about him, but I think as it goes, people are really going to realize the brain has – They always say he's tough. He's a tough guy.

He's a tough guy. He really is, and he's got the best sidekick in the world. His name is Stretch. He's like his secretary slash watches all the film and he puts this tape together called Friday Tape and we all sit there

and Frabel just does this little comedy bit. It's 15 minutes of Zanies. That's a hot 15. Oh, dude. Hot 15. Just crushing the boys. This fucking guy.

Oh, we're going to play against this guy? All right, here's what you got to do against him and he just lays it down for you and how it works when you play Josh Allen. When we played Josh Allen, he was talking, I'm not going to play against this guy. All right, here's what you got to do against him. And he just lays it down for you and how it works. When you play Josh Allen, when we played Josh Allen, he was talking, I'm not going to say,

because if I start saying what he said about him. No, if I start saying what he said, I said, then I'm going to have this on the OTA's meeting and he's going to pause this and I'm going to get absolutely abused. Will knows exactly what I'm talking about there. Well, this is what me and Will were just talking about, actually. Him going into building and not giving away too much while he's playing. Exactly.

But I think Vrabel is definitely a meathead, definitely gets after it, definitely a psychopath, but he's got the IQ to go with it. The brains are still there. Go ahead, AJ. I mean, that's pretty – it's a hell of a combo. I think a lot of people would love to have – I think because he's such a meathead and because he is so tough, people overlook how smart he is sometimes.

But speaking of that, Taylor, we were watching all throughout the year and as your season was going, you guys had some awesome celebrations in the locker room where you and Braves are giving it to each other. Forearms, punches, just meeting out all over the place. Did that escalate? Meeting out all over the place. Yeah, meeting out.

Those are never planned. Obviously, if Rabel comes in, he wants to be calm. Cool collect guy was in there. Win with grace, lose with grace type of attitude. But when you win a big one or two, you got to give him a little shove. And that's all it takes. The wick on that guy is like this. It's like a dangerous firework. You give him a little shove, then he comes in.

I've been punched in the face by Rabel by accident, I'm assuming, about a dozen times since he's been my coach. And every single one is welcome. I have a tendency to sleep sometimes. So I'm happy he was a light on my jaw. Hey, Will. We're at Combine Week here in Indianapolis. I don't want to pivot away from it, but it's a real thing.

You, I don't remember, undrafted, drafted late? Undrafted, baby. Non-Combine. Grinder. I didn't go to Combine either, by the way. I wasn't invited either. They invited like 30 punters there, and they all stunk, by the way.

But you got drafted. Yeah, pretty cool. Yeah, it you got drafted. Yeah, pretty cool. Yeah, it is pretty cool. Yeah, pretty cool. Doesn't normally – The king of the subtle flex. Yeah, the king of the subtle flex. Yeah, maybe the best 222 of all time.

It was late. It was late. It was late in the game, but Bill Polian – and I wasn't even really a punter when he drafted me. He thought I could figure it out. Whatever the case, my draft story is very fascinating and dumb and dumb but for you whenever you think about like this combine week what is something that they can't find out this combine that makes somebody a great player like why do we give a fuck if somebody has great film about how fast because you'll see somebody from

this combine that has terrible film terrible tape move way up and then all of a sudden it's like oh this guy's a bust it's like well maybe he's not a bust maybe he this guy wasn't as good at football as we all thought he was and then he did some good shit at this all that what do you think it takes to like make a good player in the NFL and a good team because you feel I feel like you're a team guy glue guy how come that is never really taken into account you think when building a team and the great teams do I guess yeah I mean that's a that's a great question I feel like coaches and scouts and everybody gets caught up in the fantasy football world of combine numbers, highlights. Everybody gets to make all these different things now for these guys.

But, bro, as far as what makes a good player and a good teammate and stuff like that, I mean, I don't know. Isn't energy like 100% of it almost? If you bring good energy every day, I feel like people are going to gravitate to you and like you. Yeah, you can bring good energy, though, and not be good at football. Well, we're assuming you're good at it. There's probably more of those guys than not. There's a lot of those. Energy's tough.

Energy's tough. It's a tough deal to have. Maybe making it in the NFL is a little bit more difficult. But what I'm saying is, like, why do you think some players, like, make it and some people don't, even if all the goddamn, all of the accolades are shifted in the wrong direction like you're probably not supposed to be in the NFL for as long as you're supposed to be there's zero chance they were saying that about you when you're coming

out that's why you won undrafted why do you think some guys make it and some guys don't what do you think is the x factor I think there is a little bit of luck involved but outside of that like the like the intangible stuff that everybody talks about, I feel like for me personally, you have to have like an obsession with being in the film room. Like for me, I was on the fourth on every depth chart every day. So I got maybe two or three reps of practice in OTAs. Can't fuck those up. In training camp, I started that way. And you're right, like you can't fuck those up.

And I would game plan, I would go in after practice and game plan our offense because I knew in my head they were only going to install so much each and every day. So if they're running a stretch one day, they might have a boot off at the next day. So I need to like trying to get those tendencies and taken from what Coach Polini and those guys taught me in Nebraska. I would just kind of be game planning our offense every day on film. And then like once you're out there and they see like a kid calling out, Hey, alert play action because X is nasty. This motion is happening. Alert the stretch here. And you're being loud and understand the checks going on. They could be like, Hey, this kid kind of knows what he's talking about. And in training camp, Kenan Robinson was a draft pick the year before. And so he had, you

know, some hype coming with him. Like, you know, he's going to bounce back from this pec injury. Day one of training camp, I was, again, I four he was the one he tears his pec again so i move up to the threes and then an undrafted cat who was ahead of me on the depth chart my same year rookie with me he ends up tearing his hamstring so i got to work with the twos so i'm getting a lot of reps and when those moments come like that that's when you've got to be prepared for your moment, be prepared for your opportunity. So I feel like that's kind of how it happened. Isn't it crazy, though, that people think you're probably just some dumbass

who brings a lot of energy, who just plays football? But there's like the Edger and James story at Hall of Fame night, where he was like, I'd go out with all the guys, I would drink cranberry juice, I would drive them home, then I'd go work out. People don't think about, hey, there's a reason why people are in the NFL, even though Taylor's an absolute, you know, beauty here. But he's probably a pretty cerebral individual when it comes to the football. I think the IQ of, the football IQ of the NFL is not appreciated or talked about enough,

I don't think, personally, in the entire grand scheme of things. No, yeah, I mean, I'd agree with you. And you got to know what you're good at, too. Like, I knew, like, what people thought of me. Like, coaches, like, limited ceiling, athleticically got all the bullshit that they talked hard worker though hey first one in last one yeah launch barrel guy what coach's son what no but uh but yeah man like you're playing from the neck up aj i'm sure is familiar with this obviously he was a high draft pick but he seems like a very bro he ran a. He ran a 4-4 this fucking guy.

Jesus. Right, but... Did you ever play against him, Taylor? I don't believe I did. AJ, when did you retire? I was done, I believe, in, I don't know, 15, 16? I believe.

We did a preseason game against them. How'd you do? I wasn't starting, so it was perfect. I don't know. I didn't have to deal with him. Clay Matthews gave me the business

on a field goal unit, though, and that was tough. You almost blocked... Hey, Clay Matthews almost blocked a punt On a field goal unit though And that was tough He almost blocked Hey Clay Matthews almost blocked A punt on me in the Pro Bowl Son of a bitch Yes In the Pro Bowl

Nobody's trying Yeah This fucking guy He's maximum effort He's hey Yeah Hey those guys The maximum effort guys

In the Pro Bowl Can suck it though I'm not trying to bring bad energy But don't do that You know what I'm saying I'm not trying to be that guy I'm trying to have fun with the boys But Pro Bowl

And you're going to be a Gordie Gohard? Get out of here. Hey, they want that MVP. JJ, what? They want that MVP. Yeah, they want that MVP. What's that? It's like a little Genesis.

I don't even know what makes that. Hey, Genesis. Chrysler. His great, great ordeal. Yeah. Halftime show. Great deal. I appreciate that answer out of you, though.

Yeah, here's fucking Clay. He touched my shin. Missed the ball. How mad were you? Pissed. Say a word? Yeah, I ate breakfast with him before the game yeah that's first time meeting him i thought we had great a couple of those yeah you know he's pretty quiet guy i thought we had a pretty good interaction sure and as soon as the game that's first punt first i was like oh i'm in a pro bowl ain't nobody trying i could just sit back here and fucking just bombs away and then all of a sudden i get the ball and I see him like in my periphery

and I'm like what the fuck seems like he's getting real close and then I had to quick that thing out and he touches my shin yeah I do a full immediate

what the fuck and then he's like laughing and jogging away AJ's told me that he probably was just so excited to tell the story

that he blocked a punt AJ probably told him that it would be funny yeah like that's a funny thing to think about but me and you are on the same page no doubt chill the fuck don't go hard another thing you talked about was uh getting that pun off fast kind of like how the football IQ isn't brought up enough in football I think punters it's more of an art arts game being around Brett Kern very good

the best punter in the NFL yes I think being around Brett Kern and watching the way he does it and how don't do that well if it, it's a much bigger deal than you. So, like, if I, well, why is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know. I was trying to bug out you there.

I was trying to get you going. No, but Brett, I think Brett is, like, if I, I don't think you can do best because situational, like, you guys are in a, that's a bad stadium

to punt in, actually. It's pretty windy down there. Is it really? Yeah, that open end. Every time I played against you guys, it was terrible weather. We were talking about that beforehand. There was a storm that went in there.

So him able to do that, I think, is a big deal. He's a robot, and he is so fucking good. So I think he is in the top two, but I don't want to make a— Who's the other ones in the top two? I don't know. I was literally just running— So make him top three, so that way you have a little more— No, no, no.

I'm not talking about top two. What makes you the best, though, Pat? There's different things. Can you pin him out of bounds? Can you bomb it? Yeah, so there's so many different styles. Tressway's a bomber. He just sits back there and he hits big balls.

And it is awesome. He's incredibly athletic. Brett Kern's like, he will snipe the sidelines. He'll snipe it. He's the best player on our team. Him and Mort. I'm not joking. Vrabel has referred to Brett Kern as the best player on our team.

To Derek's face. His Madden rating is probably highest in the entire. He's a robot. That guy's a fucking robot. Jake Bailey. Yeah. He's unbelievable as well. He's unbelievable.

He actually is. That's on New England Bios. He's actually unbelievable. Jack Fox actually is the best player on the line. Jack Fox is very... Yeah, there's so many. But then there's a bunch of shit. And you don't find out you have the shit, I think, until Brett Kern is done or whatever.

You know what I mean? Like Rigoberto Sanchez, who came in after me here, he's fucking really, really good. Selfish reasons hoping, hey, hope this guy stinks. But the guy they traded for and signed to come in after me, kind of said a little something at his press conference. He never saw me do anything or whatever. I was like, oh, I'm definitely better than you. So actually, I worked with Rigo a little bit, but he didn't need it.

He was a fucking grinder worker. He's incredible. But there's some guys that shouldn't be in the NFL that are just in the NFL. You know, lucky situations situations like you're saying. Lack of numbers? Yeah, like, hey, we just need a guy. Not enough soccer players retired yet? Something like that?

It's not that easy, asshole. Go ahead. I'm curious. What's both of you guys' relationship with Tannehill like? Because it seems like he's had a career resurgence there, and he got paid. He's taking you guys to the playoffs. But every single time there's, like, a new quarterback available, they're always saying, like, hey, the titans can upgrade a quarterback you know that

could really get him over the hump like it's he doesn't really seem like a rah-rah guy or anything like that like what's he like in the locker room he's quiet he's a leader he's a guy that gets to the point and uh works his ass off too i think when it comes to the media saying if the titans can upgrade at this it's like at the end of the day what are we trying to do in the media we're trying to get clicks hey come do come do this. Come watch this. Hey, this guy said this about Tannehill not being good enough. So let's get Aaron Rogers,

that whole type of thing. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. People have, people have mentioned that not going to happen. He bought land. Uh huh.

Raw land. Raw land. We learned from this guy, the home plate face over there. He told us it was raw land in Nashville. True. It's a fun, beautiful place to live.

It's outstanding. But I think when it comes to Tannehill guys love respect and definitely have Tannehill's back all the way through

how about when he almost blew his shit out doing that finger roll the Buffalo game right he's a freak athlete Tannehill freak athlete wide receiver in college

oh yeah forget about that because he went to Miami to be quarterback they actually paid him he wasn't probably anywhere near his peak just a first round pick like top 15 pick

right over 16 or something like that great ass stud off the field ping pong great like anything like that do you guys have any of that corn i don't know he strikes me he strikes me as a guy that is probably good at everything but they don't have a ping pong table there no you we don't you we don't yeah me yeah you guys have one where i don't know what are we doing here yes i'm talking about the titans facility there's no ping pong there's no ping one? Where? I don't know. What are we doing here? Yes. I'm talking about the Titans facility. There's no ping pong table? There's no ping pong table. You said they don't have that there.

I've been at a place that had cornhole boards and ping pong table. Same. Why do you think Vrabel doesn't have it, Will? I haven't won a Super Bowl yet. He doesn't like to have a whole lot of fun. Vrabel's definition of fun is listening to his jokes. Got some solid jokes. That's true.

And you banter in between meetings. Yeah. You're not going to have a ping pong table right here. Come on! Fingers, my boy. Three knuckles deep in there. How different is it with me as a non-player variable versus being a player variable? I will say, when Will made a second stint with the Titans,

there was a bit of a deal where he'd come in and every meeting he would greet Will with, what did our media market guy do today. Let's talk about what he did on Twitter. Taylor would come in from, like he would just be rehabbing and everybody's like,

Taylor, you gotta come in and listen to Vrabel like get on Will for doing social media. Murder him. And then they leave the area and Vrabel's sending Will texts

about how we have to go to Aspen next year to go skiing or something like that. I was like, it's a mind fuck. It's a mind fuck, bro. I feel like we've dropped

a lot of F-bombs on this show and I don't know how many we're allowed to have, but definitely a mind fuck. Then he gave me an air fryer for my wedding, and I'm like, does this guy mess with me? Are we trying to get a... He's never fucked, man. He's filling you out, dude.

I was in a group chat with him and Vrabes one night. Oh, yeah. It was awesome. He started burying Will in the middle of it. Will's his safety net of just destroying, because he knows Will will come back. He's like an abused dog he doesn't know anything else

he said oh Will call Taylor that's what he said in the middle of the group chat he goes oh time to cry for Taylor it was one text I was like

Graves is a sadist the other day when he was remember we were in the group chat after the cake eating night and he was like hey

Vrabel goes Will give me the, give me the four team keys in 30 seconds and I'll sign you for year 10. He sent us a screenshot.

I'm eating breakfast so I'm not, I wasn't getting in time so he already sent screenshot number one and then screenshot number two saying time's up. I'm like,

oh, sorry I'm not eating. He's like, what are you eating, Taylor's ass? We just had a great night last time. That was a tough text

To come look at After putting my child down Bro this guy Would have had a fucking Contract though You missed it Imagine Imagine that was the one

That he said Ah never mind How long before At practice you guys Were like whoa Coach of the year Fucking jagging him off About that

Oh we were killing him At the Preds game on Saturday At Nissan Stadium Yeah cause he had that cake That said Coach of the year Oh you're a big dog now. He loves it. No, they bought the cake for him.

He's not buying that cake. No, I don't know about that. Vrabel's definitely the guy who's going to have a picture of himself up there and it's going to say C-O-T-Y 2021.

Hey, he's earned it. Hey, Vrabes. Hey, Vrabes. He's earned it. Number one seed. 91 players. You said it. 91 players.

Let's talk about the environment of the place where you fingered his mouth sure Preds game you've become like a pseudo mascot

for them isn't that weird yeah the Penguins are much better than the Preds but I love what you have brought to that

that place has been awesome let the man speak Will hey welcome to hockey Nashville we're the fucking

daddies okay I hate to break it to you I know that'll come no I love what Nashville has become you need to change

that tone quick no it's real though Because whenever they Had that run There was country musicians Singing drunk Off key National anthems

Outstanding There was entire parties On Broadway I mean the whole city Showed up for the Preds Especially when they Went on the run And that whole thing

Has become incredible It's become a great Hockey town Have you always been A hockey fan And how did that Whole relationship start Yeah I grew up

As a hockey fan A little bit My brother played And actually was drafted for juniors. For us, a big hockey family. And then when I was at Michigan. Just got a clap on out there, what? Yeah. So we'd go out there.

When I was at Michigan, too, I'd hang out with the hockey boys all the time, play poop dollar, drink with the boys. I'd do a whole bunch of fun stuff. That's a drinking house. That is a fun, fun game. So when I get to the preds basically the way the whole beer chugging thing started me kind of like putting myself in their culture they wanted marcus mariota to be kind of the guy that when they're wave the towel one day

and you know anybody who knows marcus knows guy does not care at all about being the center he's coming to the colts maybe go ahead yeah it sounds like everybody's coming to the colts well maybe Colts, maybe. Go ahead. Stealers. It sounds like everybody's coming to the Colts. Well, maybe. I think it's awesome.

It's the off-season, man. So Marcus didn't want to do it, so they're like, all right, we'll get the O-line. You know, your boy is all about being the center of attention, so I'm stoked. I tell the boys, hey, we're going to get catfished, and we're going to chug beers, blah, blah, blah. And they're like, I don't know if we should do it or not. A bunch of guys didn't want to make a big deal of the whole thing.

I was like, boys, this is our opportunity. This is our chance. I've made the most of this. This is a big deal of the whole thing it's like boys this is our opportunity this is our chance i think the most of us this is a big deal for us so i get one catfish they don't want to do it they're a little nervous and i feel like i'm selling out the boys right now but i'm really not and they put a luge and we do the beer chug off the luge and that was kind of kind of the rest of it after that everybody's all in by the way immediately upon any doubt from the boys was probably hey we're offensive linemen. Let's not do too much. Yeah, I don't believe in that.

Well, I respect them because I was a punter. See? And it kind of rubs people the wrong way. You see people that maybe are punters from the past or offensive linemen from the past, and they're like, hey, buddy, you should be kind of just standing in line. Not a standing line guy. Can't do it. Can't do it.

Won't be a part of it. Why? Why do you have to stand in line? I think it's the old thing with offensive linemen. It's one of those deals where you have to be like, okay, yeah, I 100% agree.

That's all I'm saying. It's kind of like fit into your own box, be seen, not heard type of mentality and then I just didn't want to do that. Tried to do it at Michigan,

miserable. Tried to do it my first year at the Titans, miserable. So I thought, I'll just be myself and things have worked out pretty okay. Yeah, pretty good. You show up as uh Dukes of Hazzard uh boss

do you hear from Peter about the catfish drinking out of it no I didn't hear about who catches those catfish uh I don't not I'm not sure you ever gone fist in a fish no I've never fisted a fish I've I've thought about it've wanted to, but I don't know really the process. And then have you heard of snapping turtles? Obviously you've heard of them. Yeah, they're in the same holes. They're in the same hole or maybe like a neighbor hole.

Well, you don't know which hole is which hole. It's like one's an oval. That's the snapper boy and then the actual circle. But listen, I'm not great at shapes. You can't see it in lake water either. Yeah, I'm not a shapes guy. I don't know how that stuff works,

geometry or whatever it was. I start fisting a hole and I get a finger bit off it's just not a fun game to me i've gone in there you gotta make sure there's no snapping turtles in the lake you're going i did it in uh how do you make sure do you just rake out the lake or what do you do well the kid that was like 17 i was with that was chewing i don't know he had half a tin in his mouth yeah he did have a vrabel yeah he had a vrabel in, top and bottom in. He assured me that there was no snapping turtles. So I knew it.

I went in there. Did he have all his fingers? Yeah. I didn't even check, to be honest. It was a quick thing. It was a quick thing. We got on the lake, and he knew where the big hole was. So there's catfish.

I guess there's holes in every lake or wherever it is. And the reason why they attack your hand is because they think you're another catfish trying to get the hole. So you're trying to move up and move into their house. So the big hole is always going to have a big catfish in it because if a little catfish comes in there, he's going to get bullied out of there inevitably anyways. So they knew exactly where the big hole was. Hey, this is where you're going to go. We went down there.

I couldn't see shit because it was a lake. So I was bent over like this for probably 45 minutes in this fucking lake, down punching the side of a lake underwater mouth mouth the breathing areas were underwater yeah yeah under there and then i go in there finally and i had a glove on did not matter because that son of a bitch was all the way up to here and they just have like sandpaper in their mouths dragged out you go through to fit you fist the fish then you find the gill you lock it up and then you you're fighting that thing out of its hole. No shit. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Big motherfucker, but that's who you're drinking off. You're disrespecting like a dinosaur. Yeah, those

things are pretty ridiculous, but yeah, if PETA comes knocking, I'll probably just ignore their call, so it's all good. Preds stink this year, or are you guys good? No, I think at one point we were doing pretty awesome. Yeah, they blow it out. I don't know. We just played the best team in the entire league, the Lightning. Golden Knights? You and Peck are boozing, pal. You and Peck are boozin', pal.

It's the Bruins. You and Peck are boozin'. Peck is outstanding. Guy's an absolute legend. Nashville legend. Very good. Roman Yossi out there. Ryan Johansson.

You got Phillip Forsberg. The boys are primed. And here's the deal. It doesn't matter in hockey. Yeah, you guys are trading him, though. He's gone. He's out of town. He's shopping your best player when you guys do it.

He's worth a lot of money. Yeah, you guys trying to win or not? A lot of money. Come to the Pens, dude. I've never had anything against the Pens, but now I do, so don't. I don't care. We're around forever. We've got the greatest two players of all time.

Yeah, what is it? Malik and Crosby? Let's do this. Let's get to a break. Are you kidding me? What? Malik? Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby. Suck it sideways. And then you're right.

Number four. Number five. Four of all time. Bobby Orr. And Kenny Malkin. Wow. Yeah, Bobby Orr, I think I would agree with that. That's Boston, though.

That's Boston. Was he? Oh, yeah. We're back on the other side with more with the Bustin' with the Boys podcast. Taylor and Will. I'm sure Vrabes is going to love this show. I don't know. He's going to love it, dude.

We'll definitely see. We got to give him some clips. Yeah, yeah. You got to send it. Don't worry. I got him. Yeah, yeah.

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are the best we got going. Well, there has to be some pre-votes or something. There's a website that'll sell buses because there's a certain year, like from 89 to 2001, all those buses are no longer in commission. So those buses you can buy for like 2,000 bucks.

I mean, you live in the big side of town. I spent it all on the big side of town. I mean, I don't know about the buses that they like. I spent it on the big side of town. Oh, yeah, you're right. I'm a guy.

Then you spend 500 grand to revamp it though, I'm guessing. Yeah, probably. The big house or the bus or both? The bus.

I'd say the house too, the old money in Nashville. Oh, yeah. You probably had to redo that. It was in the build? Oh, a couple mil.

Did you build that place? We built it. Did you even see my place? I just expected it because you came with that big fucking hat. I just assumed, oh, this guy likes to spend the money that he has. No. Well, no.

No, in proper ways. The house probably more of an investment guy, but I'm a big they're going to print more tomorrow type of guy. You know what I'm saying? Well, yeah. In a stock market, Bitcoin? Stock market. I like to dive into a little commercial real estate.

Ooh. Excuse me. Hey, a lot of those, what are those things called? The claw thing that comes down. A lot of cranes in Nashville. Have been for the last like seven, eight years. Just cranes everywhere in Nashville. Good time to be in commercial real estate in Nashville.

Yeah, no, I'm not in commercial real estate in Nashville, so that's a tough deal. But yeah, I'm sure if you were in it, Also good in Omaha. Yeah, you bet. Any other? Omaha. That'd be a tough little deal Yeah, you bet. Any other? Omaha. That'd be a tough little deal.

We did open up a bar in Arizona. Yeah. Thank you. Called Rebel Ranch. So it's a nice little deal. It's definitely Cave Creek, Arizona. Small town. Only place in the world you can find a horse, a truck, and a Ferrari parked in the same spot.

Wow. Interesting spot. That sounds like quite a range. Right up your alley over there with that nice little Stetson you got in your head there. You're talking about the Hammer. God. Cowboy, you missed that. We've done that a few times.

You caught on to the what? You caught on to the A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk.

He loves it. He loves it. He loves it. He loves it. It's outstanding. He's always so calm. Stop. Stop. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Ask us He loves it. He loves it. He's always so calm. Stop. Stop. Stop. Absolutely.

Obviously, this is what everybody assumes you're both going to do when you retire. I'll start with you. You already have a bar and you're doing commercial real estate. Any other business ventures? What do you see yourself doing when you retire? This? Hanging out? Having a good time? Business, man? What do you think? I love bussing with the boys right now. Are you trying to get back into the game, by the way? Hey.

What did you say? Wait, Ollie. He's hot. Do some CBD. Yeah, Hickory. That'd be a hell of a business to get into, though. That's CBD business. That's a solid deal.

I know a guy. I DM'd you about it, and you said, oh, you got the hookup? I said, yeah, I got the hookup's a solid deal. I know a guy. Do you? I DM'd you about it. And you said, oh, you got the hookup? I said, yeah, I got the hookup. And I guess what I got? Nothing. Oh, I didn't answer you back. It's all right.

It's all right. Oh, we're trying. Here you go. Ow, wait. That was you. I never really look in the DMs. Legitimately. I know a lot of people say that.

I legitimately don't because I don't want any, if I don't answer anybody, it's not like I have to. But when the whole thing went down with the deal and a lot of people were messaging me, I literally tried to message everybody back. And I consider you an incredibly hilarious person and a person I would like to interact with. So I think I saw maybe that I answered you, but I never go into that department. So I apologize for potentially hitting some CBD and forgetting that you even made that offer until this exact moment right here. But when you think about retirement, you're nowhere near retirement, right? We still got another five, six years.

No, you never know, man. I feel like I'm in the problem of my life. I'm in the best shape of my life. Yeah, baby. Here we go. So any GMs and coaches that watch this show, because I know they do, playoff Willie will be available. Yeah, okay.

Absolutely. But as far as retirement, like, you know, bust with the boys, invest. Oh, you're a Bitcoin guy, aren't you? I'm not a Bitcoin guy. Matter of fact, though. NFTs? No, not yet. Oh.

Not yet. But I did hear from a very close friend of mine that I trust that he's playing the long game and going heavy into the Bitcoin world. Gary Vee? Saquon Barkley? No. Don Brady. It might be. Seth Roethlisberger

it might be the boy are you saying big name Derek Cox I'm guessing does he have any tie to any of these people in your mind

no I just thought maybe I'd hit eventually the boy under center for Minnesota Ryan Reynolds oh Ryan Reynolds

the actor Ryan Reynolds is into it yeah Canadian Kirk Cousins yeah Bradbury you know Kirk Cousins

well he's very smart right isn't he he's like his yes he's extremely smart Michigan State guy Ryan Reynolds is into it. Yeah, Canadian. Kirk Cousins. Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, Bradbury. You know Kirk Cousins? Well, he's very smart, right? Isn't he? He's like his. Yes, he's extremely smart. Michigan State guy. If I die, I die. That's right.

Yeah, he is. He's an all-time cool. Oh, so you do love him. He talks to me now. But yeah, we were in Washington together. Oh. What type of team is he? He's big on crypto, you're saying? So Kirk and I, we were thinking about getting into Bitcoin back in like 2017.

Oh, no, you missed it. You missed it. Same thing happened to me. We missed it. We were watching the documentaries. We were like traveling games and kind of talking about what we just learned throughout the week and shit like that. But we never got into it. And he hit me back.

We were messaging yesterday. And he was like, you know, I think I just listened to a very credible person that say you need to get into Bitcoin and you need to hold it for the long run. Hey, by the way, Kirk, good businessman. Great businessman. Hey, great businessman. So much so, a lot of Vikings fans are pissed off about it right now, how good of a businessman he actually is. He is phenomenal. He would sit there when they were franchise tagging him all those years.

The Washington Commanders, the commies. We are commanders. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. You'll get it, dude. God, there's so many things. We did not create that. All right, fair enough. But Kirk was talking about how he wanted to help change the way contracts were done in the NFL

for specifically, obviously, the quarterback position, but for players to kind of follow along his blueprint of getting to the market, which is a big risk in itself, but doing the fully guaranteed contracts. And by the way, I thought he was going to because I'm like, oh, this is intelligent. This is what we need. It might not be the big number that we had seen in the past or expected in the NFLPA once or whatever, but guaranteed money in pocket is better than any incentive-based contract, whenever you're talking about from an athlete's perspective.

With that being said now, Taylor, I'd like to ask you about this. Okay. This salary cap gymnastics that's going on in the NFL right now, it's bananas. Everybody's doing it. Hey, we'll sign a 10-year deal with six voidable years and a big signing bonus, and next year your salary cap hit will be $2 million,

but in the whole thing we'll give you $100 million somehow or $200 million. The way they're starting to do that, do you recognize that in the locker room? Do you see like, oh, if we – because you guys went and got Julio. Yeah. You paid Derrick Henry, kept Tannehill. Your team is making moves trying to like, hey, let's go ahead and do this thing. Do you guys know that?

Do you recognize that? And as a person that's been around the NFL for a long time, do you think this is good for players? I think it is. I think more money do you think this is good for players? I think it is. I think more money in the pockets is always good for players. The more money, the better. I think so.

I think the salary cap is like a way for the NFL to save face maybe because if it came to the salary cap, if you're getting paid $15 million and you're getting paid $20 million and they say, hey, we're $5 million over the cap, hey, we'll give you $19 million signing bonus right now, lower your cap down quite a bit and then you make minimum this year then it's no longer an issue does nothing to the cap other than lower it so you make the marks you're supposed to well it kicks it spreads it over the entirety of the contract that's why people do 10 years with like six voidable years but the signing bonus is over the entire 10 years it's a fucking it's the 10 year thing i don't understand because there's a lot of things i know patrick mahomes yeah signed half a billion dollar deal and that

thing's like a 10 10 piece right yeah the only person i know that other than him that did that was the left tackle for the cowboys and now it seemed like a bit of a tight predicament because he's such a good player for such a long time for instance tasem hill tasem hill signed for four years 160 million two years of that is voidable it has a low of 16 million per year a high of 40 million per year wild so high of $40 million per year. Wild. So the salary cap hit is somehow $1 million. That's outstanding.

It's unbelievable how they're able to do it. But that changes the NFL, I think. Yeah, is he going to see that money is my question because I know in hockey, they kind of do a similar thing even though there's no real salary cap, but they have these long 10-year, $100-this-million contracts.

Got it. So what's real? What isn't? Yeah, exactly. Because I think that's the issue with football players that they need to be educated in is when you're going to sign a contract, it's not about the big number.

It's five years, this much, million dollars. It's like, hey, what are your first three years? What is the guarantee in it? And then how much is guaranteed at signing? That's all you really need to know. And so I think what Kirk Cousins is trying to do is amazing, but we need more quarterbacks to do that for it to funnel down. There's quarterbacks, then you're off this line.

Hey, they should have their own. Whoa, whoa, whoa. The top players need to do that. No, I think it has to be quarterbacks. The top players and physicians. It's got to be quarterbacks. If I'm the best linebacker in the league. Who's saying you're not?

Exactly. A lot of people did, but they didn't deserve it. Right. But if I'm the highest paid linebacker in the league. Which who's saying you're not? Exactly. True. A lot of people did, but you didn't deserve it. Right. But if I'm like the highest paid linebacker in the league, I would feel like a responsibility set example if that's what I'm wanting to do. Yeah. Yeah, like for you, for instance, your next deal.

Fucking let's make a guarantee. For the good of everybody. Yeah, I guess so. Sure, I mean, I'll die on the sword. Hey, we're wrapping up this hour with the boys, man. This has been amazing. Yeah. It's been outstanding. I, you know, should have done on the sword. Hey, we're wrapping up this hour with the boys, man. This has been amazing. Yeah. It's been outstanding.

I, you know, should have done the whole show together. Should have. It's weird. Somebody texted you the day yesterday. Hey, how funny is that? That's crazy. Hey, we're meeting after the pod we did with Mike Allstott, which was awesome. He's like, hey, why are we doing the whole show?

I was like, I don't know. I go, you're on the same group chat. Ask him. He goes, all right. Pulls it out. Then you're like, yeah, see you tomorrow at 1. I think I said hilarious. Yeah.

Da, da, da. See you at 1 or whatever. It's because when you texted me, like, hey, is there any chance? Because I asked you. I'm like, hey, I need to get you guys to Indianapolis, right? And then we kept in touch. And then you threw out a date. Like, hey, this is a date that could work for us.

I'm like, awesome. Let's do it. And then I completely forgot about fucking then you threw out a date like, hey, this is a date that could work for us. I'm like, awesome, let's do it. And then I completely forgot about like fucking combine week and everything that's going on, the amount of people that we probably already had booked and Tyson Fury's coming on it.

So I apologize, but I would like to let you guys know anytime you want to come back, we'll shut down the fucking entire show for you guys. You guys deserve it. This has been awesome.

Hey, the boys have been known to step on toes, so we will absolutely take you up on that. Probably a few more times than you'd like. Hey, don't worry about it. You've got to be that way, right?

No question. Which one are we trying to get? We're all just trying to go this way. That's it. It's a weird way to do that. All trying to go this way. There it is. Well, I don't think you had good self-awareness.

Hey, that was that erratic long arm that came from you. That Chandler Jones. Got him. No, I don't. Sorry, Tannehill. Hey, who is just the biggest, fastest, most agile guys or the guys that are hardest to block? I don't know. That's actually a good question because there's guys that are super fast

and quick, but they're not very powerful. The guys that have a little bit of both are the most you have to worry about because you can be a little more nimble on the quick guys, and the big guys can be a little more heavy-footed. Chandler Jones is a good example of having both of those things. You were going to ask me something? No, I'm good. You guys going to meet with a bunch of GMs and head coaches like Schrager was?

No, we drove back tonight, man. Hey, we're dipping back to Nashville. You talked to All-Star back in Nashville, right? Yeah. Okay, when's that come out? I want to see that. That'll be – Tomorrow's Ryan Whitney.

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A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! A.J. Hawk! AJ Hawk! AJ Hawk! AJ Hawk! AJ Hawk! Joining us now is a coach, a Super Bowl winning head coach of the NFL. Super Bowl winning assistant coach in the NFL. A man who's been around the game forever, has changed the game, influenced the game, and now the current head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, ladies and gentlemen, the

quarterback whisperer, Bruce Arians. Yeah! What's up, dude? What's up, brother? How are you, man? I didn't get a chance to hear your press conference, but I got to read through it. You're making a lot of waves right now. You're the quarterback whisperer. Let's dive right into it. Allegedly, this draft class

doesn't have as many quarterbacks and the veteran free agents now are potential trade targets. Are you in any of that? What is your mindset? Obviously, everybody wants to ask you about Tom. We'll get to that. But with your team right now, what are you looking for? And do you view this draft class as a down year for quarterbacks whenever you potentially need one? Yeah, I think for what we like to do, it's a very slim class, a lot of good athletes. There's one pro-style guy that could fit, but we drafted a kid last year in the second round who I love, and he's a big, strong guy that kind of plays quarterback the way we like to play it. So yeah, this draft class isn't like it was a few years ago.

But other than that, you know, you've got to do your due diligence, brother. To get a vet this year, you've got to trade. So you've got to have a partner. You can't just say, give me a damn guy, you know. They've got to want something. Right now they want a lot. Hey, Coach, people like to make a lot of noise about hand size when it comes to quarterbacks.

I know they were saying today we get to see Kenny Pickett's hand size. Is it something that you care about as much as they make it a big deal? No, not especially where he played. I mean, he played in Pittsburgh. It was cold. The snow was raining. And he wears two gloves for a reason. And Kurt Warner did it.

I mean, that's nothing for me man that's that guy can sling it hey you've been around so many quarterbacks obviously now at this point you've hit them all basically that are on the mount rushmore of the modern football era but when you think about peyton and now you got a chance to work with tom what do you think makes those guys like what made tom obviously the goat and now six, seven times Super Bowl champion? What do you think made Tom, after getting a chance to see him in person versus maybe perspective from outside with your deep knowledge of quarterbacking? Yeah, preparation and just flat competitive spirit.

You know, refuse to lose. You were with Peyton. You saw how he prepared, man. And you saw him in the huddle. You saw him on the sideline. We're not losing this fucking game. All right? Tom's the same way.

All right? We're winning. I don't give a shit what you got to do. We're winning. And I'm going to take you there. And guys follow. I mean, they follow. Because he is super prepared, and he's super highly competitive.

How important is that, that quarterback position? I feel like that doesn't get talked about enough. Like, you've got to be an alpha, I think. Don't you, B.A.? There's no doubt. There's no doubt. There's no doubt. I haven't met one yet. Say, oh, I'm sorry.

You know? But, no, dude, you've got to be an alpha. And you've got to run the show. You've got to run the locker room. Because if you don't, somebody's running over you. Yeah. Did Tom's retirement take you by surprise a little you know i i had it in my back of my mind that he that he could but every every week

i'd say how you feeling physically he was great you know he's playing lights out so i thought for sure he'd play again but in the back of my mind i knew there was a chance and then you know when i talked to him long term uh on the decision, you understand why. Now there's quotes obviously coming out that you would welcome Tom Brady back whenever. And I think a lot of coaches would. And then they said, would you agree to let him go somewhere else? In that question, I didn't get to hear the entire thing. But were they saying in the short-term, long-term, or in your eyes,

the same exact thing doesn't matter? Like if in five years when he's 50, if he wants to come back and play, like do you think that's, you know, because you'll probably still be fucking coaching by then. But is that what did you mean by that quote? And do you think there is a chance he comes back? If he comes back, I don't think so because of the reasons he retired. But if he does, he's going to be playing for us.

Hey, you've got a lot. Hey, that roster now, Bruce, last year I followed along on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Instagram, and they took a screenshot because Mike Greenberg down there and the GM and you guys were able to cook and bring everybody back. All 22 starters are back. Now this season, looking ahead, you guys got like four starters, I think. There's a long road. Are you, like, what is your mindset for that?

Because everybody just assumed that if that was going to be the case, that B.A. would not want to stick around. Like, are you enjoying this entire mindset that your roster is basically going to be, it's going to be very new next year, right? Is that kind of the thought here? You know, I love this part of it. I love building a team, putting a new challenge together. That's the big fun of it.

Obviously, it's going to help a lot more fun when you've got Peyton or Tom. But I like the guys we have, and hopefully we'll get back the core guys. We're not going to get them all back this year, but we're going to get the core back because they all love it. And we know how to take care of veteran guys. We'll get them ready to play on Sunday. So those guys know it. And so, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Hey, that's big for recruiting.

I mean, there's allegedly a place, you know, that wouldn't pay their coaches, the bonus checks for the playoffs, and there's other places that, you know, there's some desirable places that vets know, like, hey, if we go there, they'll take care of us, they understand what the role is. When you're putting together that stable, that farm of goats, basically, I mean, you had Indomitian Sioux down there. You had Tom down there. You brought in, obviously, all the weapons, and you had your crew there still. Does that change your mentality at all?

Were you excited for that? Did you have to handle it any differently than you had in the past? What was that transition like? Yeah, I was disappointed that Todd and Byron didn't get head coaching jobs. I really was. I thought they both deserved it. The selfish part of me is they're back, so I don't have to coach as hard. But the players, man, the players in the league know we're going to take care of them. If you're a veteran player, you're going to get to the game on Sunday healthy and ready to roll. And so that part's been easy.

Sunshine and no taxes, brother. It's easy to recruit. The five-star players, role players, you are one of the best speakers I've ever heard. There was an erroneous report that came out, and I think it has been proven false. And by the way, AQ, you know, is my guy. If he's leaking information to other people and not me, I'm going to fucking cut him out of my goddamn circle as well there. But his name was linked to it, which is bullshit, I think, just in general.

But that entire report about, you know, there maybe being some friction between you and Tom and then what you said today about if he comes back, he's playing for you guys. Is there anything that people from outside looking in should think all that or is it all bullshit basically just standard bullshit standard bullshit I mean I'm still I'm still pissed that AQ got stuck in that because he had nothing to do with that me too and uh I know where Rich is coming from i mean he just made up some shit it clicks brother yeah well it's a wild world and we're in it and we try not to be like that but everything that people say on this show does cause some ripple effects so we appreciate you stopping by especially on this day and we

know the you know there's there's pending litigation i believe between you and antonio brown or antonio brown and the Buccaneers in that whole situation. As a player, were you surprised with how fucking good he was whenever he came back after that thing on the field? Let's not talk about everything off the field. On the field, though, as a football player, were you surprised that Antonio Brown was still playing at the level that he was playing when he came to the Buccaneers

after a year away and everything like that? Not at all. Not at all. Knowing Antonio, nobody works any harder than him. He's always in great shape. Skill set's unbelievable. He's one of those guys that doesn't age. Whenever you, at the beginning, said I don't want to bring Antonio Brown into this team.

Been there, done that. He comes. You guys have great success and he becomes a focal point of your team. Is that something you have to consciously think about as you continue to roll through that whole thing or are you just so invested in the moment whatever makes our team win this weekend let's win this weekend yeah it's all about winning brother and uh you know what's best for our team uh he was a great fit because mike was hurt chris was hurt ab came in they got healthy we were lights out. This year, everybody got hurt again. He got hurt.

So it was just one of those things. I was sad the way it happened, but it happened. You think there's a chance later in life everybody comes back full circle? I hope so. I hope so too, by the way. Just looking outside in, you guys created magic together. Go ahead, Tom. Bruce, is there a chance in five years that you're inducting Ben and Tom into the Hall of Fame

same year? Man, I hope so. That would be one hell of a party. When you talk about Ben and his legacy and him retiring, and obviously you and him were tight, but that lap at Pittsburgh, I think everybody has seen it after that Monday night football game, or I think it was Monday night whenever he just did a lap

afterwards. What was it like coaching Ben? And when you saw him retire, was that a surprise to you? Because we all didn't know. We just assumed Ben's going to come back, sling the rock another year. He's going to do his whole thing. Was that a surprise to you,

like the Tom one was potentially? No, it really wasn't. I had a tear in my eye watching that lap, man. Because we had some great times. He's like a son to me. You know, we still have houses down to the lake. we still play golf and uh our families are really tight i hate i missed his 40th birthday party the other night but my grandson's third trumped it how's the achilles it's struggling brother it's walking around in you right now that i got about 15 of it left

and uh i can hit a golf ball that's all it matters is it left or right right okay so yeah you can't the left would have been a problem i think right yeah yeah hey you still drowning clubs if they deserve it yeah they get a taste of the water every now and then brother this club the first time i saw him play he was on another fairway he was right next to it and uh beautiful swing obviously it was beautiful swing and saw him play, he was on another fairway. He was right next to it. And beautiful swing, obviously. Beautiful swing. And then something, I think he got on green but not close enough.

And he literally just turned right to the nearest lake and just drowned it and then just walked away like there was nothing. And I think we caught up to you like a couple holes later. I was with AQ. And I was like, hey, I just got to ask. I saw you just casually just fucking see you later. That club didn't deserve to hit a ball again. That's what you said. Something like that.

It was fucking unbelievable. It's got to be the arrow. It can't be the Indian. Yeah, absolutely. Blame somebody else. Go ahead, Ty. Coach, you talk about doing due diligence, and obviously you're here at the Combine.

Is there, like, how losing Brady, how much of a percentage, I mean, I don't even know if you could put it on it, but, like, how much does that affect your preparation going into this season? Is it kind of, it's trickled down and it's everything that you have to kind of readjust compared to last year when you knew he was coming back? Oh, yeah, totally, totally. And, you know, with Ali Marpet retiring this week, both those guys were huge, all pro players.

And you can't replace the player, but you can do your best to get the next best option. And that's what we're trying to do now. Hey, I know you're a shit talker, like known shit talker. Whenever you have these meetings with these guys at the Combine, do you take more from those meetings? And how do you conduct them with guys to find out if they're going to be a good fit in your culture or not? Yeah, you know, the shock questions questions they kind of limit what you can ask anymore and uh i kind of sit back in the corner and let everybody else do the thing and then

if i if i know a guy's bullshitting me i'll try to i'll try to hit him with a brick all right well good luck with that we appreciate you stopping by good luck to your achilles good luck to all the clubs in your bag and good luck rebuilding that. We appreciate you stopping by. Good luck to your Achilles. Good luck to all the clubs in your bag. And good luck rebuilding that team down there in Tampa Bay, boss. Thanks, brother. Always you. Hey, appreciate you, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Super Bowl champion head coach of the NFL, Bruce Herring.

We're back tomorrow. See you later, AJ. All right, we'll see you guys. All right, see you, AJ. I've been rambling here. Let's get the fuck out of here. Let's get the hammer down. Cheers. See you tomorrow. See you later, AJ. All right. We'll see you guys. All right. See you, AJ. I've been rambling here. Let's get the fuck out of here. Let's get the hammer down. Cheers.

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