The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 618 - 3:16 Day, Baker Mayfield Done In Cleveland? New League Year Begins + More Free Agency Drama, TJ Lang, Mike Rupp, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 16, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about Baker Mayfield's recent post indicating that he might be done in Cleveland, the latest on Deshaun Watson including his meeting today with the Falcons, if the Colts are waiting to see who Deshaun Watson goes and take one of those QB's in a trade, teams having to get under the cap for the start of the new league year, other moves being made in free agency, 3:16 Day WHAAAAAADDDDD, the NCAA tournament games, and more. Joining the program is a 2x Pro Bowler, Super Bowl Champion, a stalwart on the Green Bay Packers offensive line for a long time, TJ Lang. Pat and TJ chat about players in the league now versus when they played, why Aaron Rodgers gets so much hate, how difficult it is replacing multiple lineman on an offensive line, if the Red Wings will ever be good again, why it's so special playing offensive line, and more (28:28-57:57). Later, Stanley Cup Champion, NHL Network Analyst, co-host of That's Hockey Talk and friend of the progrum, Mike Rupp joins the show. Pat, Rupper, and AJ chat about what we need to be paying attention to in the NHL will the trade deadline looming, if Pittsburgh is going to win the Stanley Cup, if the Golden Knights are dead, who the Coach of the Year is, the top five players of all-time, and more (1:29:14-1:59:42). 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. What? It's 316 day. What? It's New League Year day. This show begins now. Yeah! We're talking about obviously it's 316 day.

Shout out to Stone Cold Steve Austin. Oh hell yeah! What? A lot of beers being drank obviously just because a lot of people are alcoholics. But also, in a shout out to Stone Cold Steve Austin, go ahead and self-cheers yourself. Chug a couple of those because we are in a beautiful time. A sport began last night in a play-in game at the University of Dayton.

A sport in which we all gamble on and know fucking nothing about. Hell yeah. But it is electrifying. Indiana gamble on in no fucking nothing about. Hell yeah. But it is electrifying. Indiana moves on. Texas Southern moves on in an upset in the hammer down world that none of us could have seen coming. Tonight, two more games. The actual tournament begins tomorrow.

Today, 4 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Pacific, 10 a.m. Hawaii time. Every team in the NFL has to have their salary cap in proper order. So look for some players to get cut today. Look for some plays to get new deals today. Look for new negotiations. There's still top free agents available out there. Baker Mayfield wants to come to the Colts. What?

Said a guy we never heard of, but fucking everybody's running with it. So shout out to that guy, Tony Pauline. Tony Pauline. KFootball Network is reporting that Baker Mayfield wants to come to the Indianapolis Colts. This comes one day after he wrote in his notes section, a thank you to Cleveland. I gave you my all, Cleveland, and probably moving on from Cleveland, which is fascinating because everybody's talking about the Deshaun Watson situation in Houston. Cleveland

met with Deshaun yesterday. They said the meeting went well from inside sources. Does that mean Deshaun's going to Cleveland? Baker's coming to Indy? And what is Houston getting in return? Who knows? Today, Deshaun Watson meets with the Atlanta Falcons. The Atlanta Falcons, I guess, are ready to have a full pitch deck presentation for why Atlanta is the right place for him to wave his no trade clause and go back home. This comes after Deshaun Watson allegedly reached out to the Atlanta Falcons and said, hey, how about you guys? Everybody else in the NFC South wants me. Why not you guys?

That would mean what? Matt Ryan comes to the Colts then? This is what's being linked in there. The Colts are kind of just in limbo waiting on Deshaun Watson to make a decision. And also in limbo because I don't think they want to spend any of their fucking money. Nope. There's a lot that can happen today. We will chat about it all.

Hopefully we'll have your phone calls as well on the 5-Hour Energy phone line. 1-833-4-MACIFI. Cannot wait to chat with you. Remember, when you get on the air, don't say anything fucking stupid. I mean, we say stupid stuff all the time. You get it, though. We are a welcoming place, a happy place,

a celebratory place. Join our phone lines. Make the show better. Can't wait to chat with you. Also today, T.J. Lang will be joining us. T.J. Lang. T.J. Lang. How about it? Former.J. Lang. T.J. Lang. Formerly of the Packers and the Lions,

I believe. A Detroit native. Loves the Red Wings, so he's obviously a doofus when it comes to hockey talk. Can't wait to chat with him about that. He uninvited me to a Red Wings game this season on Twitter. I was invited, then uninvited. Can't wait to chat with him.

He's an electric factory and hilarious. And he's been in the free agency process. I can't, then uninvited. Can't wait to chat with him. He's an electric factory and hilarious, and he's been in the free agency process. I can't wait to get his kind of, you know, vision on how this is all going because there's still a lot of big names left on the board. Will those names wait until after the draft is signed because they don't know what teams are going to do whenever it comes to 18-year-old, I'm sorry, 21-year-olds, 22-year-olds getting drafted to their team? do they want to sign somewhere where they're potentially going to have competition or not a good roster? And how will the Colts sign anybody?

And I know this is all coming back to the Colts. We don't have a fucking quarterback. So nobody's going to want to sign. I mean, Chandler Jones is still out there. Stephon Gilmore is still out there. Armstead is still out there. I mean, there is massive names, and there's only more getting added to it. Austin Hooper is about to get released from the Cleveland Browns.

He's a great tight end. Odell Beckham Jr. is still out there. Bobby Wagner, Vaughn Miller, Tyron Matthew, who's at Disneyland in L.A. right now. What does that mean? He's still out there. There's still a lot of players that can make a lot of teams much better. The Colts hopefully will get active active and hopefully the team that you're rooting for will do the same

damn thing. What a time to be alive. Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. Today is 316 Day at Ty Schmidt at Boston Connor, the Toxic Table. It's a great day to be alive, isn't it Ty? It is an absolutely great day to be alive. Like I said, very excited for this year's March Madness. Hawks

are flying very high right now. Until they're not, though. Until they're not. But this team, they do feel different. But that's beside the point. We'll deal with that tomorrow. Packers, 6.9 over the cap right now. So kind of interested to see what they do today to kind of shore up that and everything.

But Rodgers coming back. Devontae is going to get handled. St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow. I mean, it's a great time to be alive. Life is good. Devontae might going to get handled. St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow. I mean, it's a great time to be alive. Life is good. Devontae might not get handled, by the way. That sounds like something you're maybe just kind of breezing over. July.

Just like that creek that flooded in your backyard that you had to shovel out this morning. It feels like you're just kind of overlooking these things. The Devontae thing is a very real thing. Oh, yeah. Because he's not playing on the franchise tag, he said. What ripple effects does that have? Is there going to be a team that says, okay, sign it. We'll pick up the franchise tag.

Go ahead and trade us over there. Will they want to work out a long-term deal? How will they be able to do it while they still try to manipulate the salary cap? And Spotrack is a great website. I don't think I know that. Is the guy's name Spotrack? Mr. Track? It makes sense.

Spot, yeah. Spot. Track. Spotrack. Because it would be. Spoh, his last name. Track. Spot Track? Because it'd be like, Sport Contract would make sense for Spoh Track, but I didn't know if his name also was in tune with that. Yeah, no, I just assumed his last name was Spoh Track as well.

Yeah, like a singer whose name is Melody. Bingo. Like, I didn't know if this was actually Mr. Spoh Track's calling. Spaw-trick. Yeah, maybe his name is Spaw-trick. Whatever, he tweeted, you know, the salary cap isn't fake, but it's mighty fluid. I would like to correct Mr. Spottrick, who has definitely dedicated his entire life to contracts. The salary cap is fake.

Very much so. It is not real. Teams can do whatever the fuck they want. The Saints were able to free up $80 million. I think there was $71 million over the cap just a few weeks ago. They were able to free up $80 million in cap space over the last few weeks without cutting anybody. So they just literally redid all the contracts, signing bonuses,

kicked the can down the road. Now Dennis Allen with a new team is able to become proper by 4 p.m. Eastern time because there's a lot of penalties that come, draft picks. There's other fines that get weighed in if you don't have your salary cap in order by the new league year that starts at 4 o'clock. So congrats to the Saints for being able to do that. But also when you start looking around at other teams who have a lot of money and they also have a lot of guys locked in long term, like the Colts, for instance. And this is all coming back to the Colts. They have $54 million.

They could have $90 million if they wanted to. DeForest Buckner's locked in long term. Darius Leonard's locked in long term. Kenny Moore's locked in long term. Ryan Kelly's locked in long term. I would assume if you restructured those four contracts, you could free up another $20 to $30 million. Probably.

They could literally do whatever the fuck they wanted, but it's not just them. Look at all these teams over here that have any money. There's an ability to re-sign and re-do all the contracts to make any type of money that you want. So all of those free agents that are out there are available to be had by every team in the NFL if they really wanted to. And that's the modern world that we're living in.

Speaking of, the New England Patriots are just getting rid of players. A lot of them. Hey, you want to go play with Tom Brady? Fuck you, Shaq Mason. Get out of here. Get rid of the guards. See ya. We're going down to Georgia's Pro Day. We'll replace all of you. We got a young quarterback. We're in the Buffalo Bills division.

We don't care about anybody. J.C. Jackson, Ball Hawk, people are calling him the new Revis Island. Get the fuck out of here, dude. Stephon Gilmore, oh, you want to make money? You want to get paid for what you do better than everybody? Get the fuck out of here. Kyle Van Nooy, get the fuck out of here.

What's going on in New England? Is this a rebuild over there? What is going on up there? I don't think it's a rebuild. I saw Bill Belichick and Matthew Patricia standing side by side. Patricia, the future GM. Bill Belichick, the current GM and head coach. What are they thinking?

Are they going younger, cheaper, faster? What do you think they've got going on? Always trying to get younger and cheaper. And all we've heard this entire time since the combine is, hey, this is a very deep O-line, D-line draft. You're probably going to be able to get guys in the third round who can come in right away and make an impact shack mason stinks to lose there's still uh some rumors around that the patriots are looking to acquire la l collins i believe from the cowboys little expensive but also if it's going to take you know that fifth round pick from tampa bay swap that for a tackle what need. You need good tackles in this league.

You know that more than anybody. Yeah, especially Mac Jones. Especially Mac Jones. Although he did have a second pro day where he was a little bit nimble and he did the gritty and everything. Yeah, sure. He will eat some helmets if he's just chilling in that pocket. Because guess what? Just like Kurt Warner at Northern Iowa, he sits in that pocket.

That's right. That's right. I mean, Randy Gregory, if you remember from Dallas, when we played Dallas, Randy Gregory took Mac Jones' head off coming around the corner. He actually ended up fumbling. But you know what he did? He popped right back up. He went right back out on that field.

He didn't miss one goddamn snap. I'm not that worried about the O-line. Why don't you guys trade away Mac Jones? Well, that wouldn't make any sense. To the Colts. JC Jackson. Oh, to the Colts. Here we go.

That would be sweet. Give us Mac Jones. Give us Mac Jones. Okay, for what? You got a first-round pick this year. Well, something like that. That was great. Maybe a first-round pick this year.

That was great. Maybe a second round. How about our first-round pick, too, the one that you give up whenever you say if a guy plays good, you assume it's going to be late. Yeah. You can't even make the playoffs. No, it was a tough decision. So it's actually a pretty good draft pick.

Yeah, unbelievable. I believe the Eagles are picking that 15 because that was the spot you guys were at. I think they're back-to-back, actually. Oh, my God. Back-to-back-to-back. What are we doing? Yeah. I mean, hey, that's football.

You still got so much money left. You still can sign guys. Armstead probably off the board now. But, hey. Why? Oh, because if Deshaun goes to New Orleans. He's not going to New Orleans. He is not going to New Orleans.

Why not? Because I feel like, Deshaun, this is me on 316 Day. What? Saying, Deshaun's going to Atlanta. I think so, too. Deshaun reached out to Atlanta. It's his home where he's from. Atlanta is like putting together an entire pitch deck.

Now, is this because it was said by the other Panthers and the Saints that the Falcons aren't actually interested? That was the smear campaign that was happening. The Falcons aren't actually interested. They're just getting in here to try to run up the numbers so that we get fucked because we're in a division. Which, by the way, good chess play by Artie Smith, whose dad is a Marine.

So that'd be good, you know, next level play by Artie Smith and them. But all the things we're hearing, you know, Deshaun Watson was a ball boy as a child for the Atlanta Falcons. The Blank family loves Deshaun Watson. They're actually going full steam ahead and trying to get Deshaun back to Atlanta, especially because in that division, the Atlanta Falcons have kind of been overlooked for the last few years. They got that new butthole stadium that they're going to continue to try to fill up for a long time. Deshaun's electrifying with what that team was able to accomplish last year with $40 million to Matt Ryan, first-year coach, first-year coordinators, first-year everything.

I mean, maybe they're thinking we're one player away from actually making a dent in the NFC South, and Deshaun Watson's a hell of a fucking ball player. So I think Atlanta's going all in. Now, does Deshaun go to New Orleans? I don't know why he would over Atlanta. What do you think? Mike Thomas, Kamara, Ramchick, another really good O-line. I actually think

he's going to go to Cleveland. I don't think he's going to go to the Saints, the Panthers. That meeting went well on Tuesday. That's right. They have an unbelievable running game. They have a great O-line, even though they lost J.C. Tretter with Patonio. Amari Cooper is over there now and Joku. They just released Austin Hooper to clear. Eight more million in

cap space. They could bring in Chandler Jones on the defensive side to make up for the Jadeveon Clowney miss. Andrew Barry could really. There's teams right now and Browns are one of them and I assume there's others that we are forgetting about and we apologize. But there's teams right now who have money and the capability to upgrade their team and win in March I know you can't win a Lombardi in March I know that but you can win a headline here in March

and automatically improve your team vastly just by a couple deals being made feels like a lot of players though now are you know kind of like let me see a lot more um information i think in the players minds before they go and decide to go somewhere what's this place like is this going to end my career what is the team like what's the quarterback like how about primetime games will they let me be me what's the workload going to be like every single i think all those things that maybe weren't thought about in the past by players whenever they were just offered contracts like yep give me that give me that and the contracts by the way were always the fake number contracts not the real contract which i believe we're in the middle of a turning of the tide of how revolution almost are being

reported is that is that happening hopefully i don't think so because jc jackson was still reported much different than what his contract actually is Oh yeah for certain Exactly So you know Eventually though Why does that happen I could roll beef with some of that shit

Extenuating circumstances apparently Everybody has to see it though You know we can't be the only ones I don't know Because you see the headline on the bottom of You know, it can't be the only ones. I don't know. Because you see the headline on the bottom of a screen. It's like, oh, okay, I'm just going to take that as gospel. That's what this contract is right there. Yeah, but I think every contract, they should report as what it's actually going to be.

Not like, hey, if you cure cancer, you get another 15 million. You score 10 touchdowns and cure COVID, alpha, beta, data. That's right. Which is on its way to potentially. You cure that, you get another $15 million as well. It's just I feel like we're in a much different era where people know more stuff. Players know more stuff, control more of their future, especially those OGs, Odell, Stephon, Chandler Jones, Armstead, Wagner, Hicks.

I mean, those are all very experienced., Hicks I mean those are all very experienced Tyron Matthews, those are all very experienced very accomplished players who have seen other vets in recent years pick and choose their place and go have a lot of success maybe not make as much money but knowing that money could come in other ways as well in the modern

world that we're in with the modern gold rush on the internet, I feel like we're in a different era. So you've got to be a team that is attractive for players. It's almost turning into like college recruiting. Like, hey, our team has this, this, this, and this. And I believe the first this is our team has Russell Wilson. Our team has Aaron Rodgers.

Our team has Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford. Those guys, Patrick Mahomes, obviously. Those are the guys that are leading off your recruiting pitch, I think. So if you're a team that doesn't have a quarterback, Colts, Browns, because it sounds like they are on the outs, those two. I don't know if it's going to be beef or anything, but it sounds like Baker's done and Cleveland's done with Baker, and he wants to come to the Colts.

All right, come on over. Just don't check out a hand on the ball with John and Taylor. And also stay healthy. I know it's not your decision to do that, but we would like that. We don't have a fucking quarterback. But I think this is what it's become now, and that's why we're seeing guys maybe wait. I assume it's not teams waiting to offer Stephon Gilmore or Tyron Matthew

or any of these guys. I assume it's the players deciding. Yeah, you talk about guys having more information. Tom Diggs, by the way, won't have a hammer. Don! Guys have more information, and Diggs, by the way, won't have the hammer. Don! Guys have more information and guys talk to guys, right? So you would think that Deshaun

probably talked to Odell and Jarvis about Cleveland and, you know, now that BRM put out that statement, who knows what's going to go on there. But would Deshaun go to Cleveland based on, you know, things that happened with Odell

and Jarvis? BRM. BRM. He did put Baker, Reagan, Mayfield. Yeah, super serious. go to Cleveland based on things that happened with Odell and Jarvis. B-R-N. He did put Baker, Reagan, Mayfield. Super serious. You know when the middle name is in there, super serious. Or he killed a president. It's one or the other. Either super serious or murdered a president. Because there's always the middle name

of the, what is this called? John Wilkes-Barre. Well, I know. The people that killed presidents. It would be assassin. is the middle name of the uh what are this called john wilkes yeah well i know yeah i know the people that kill presidents would be assassin yeah do they do that so i'm confused with another person is that why they do that for killers i think it's just for like i would assume it's the headline like john wilkes booth this son of a bitch like i i think it is i think it sounds stronger than john booth yeah john booth killed l. Well, Lincoln must have been the weakest guy of all time.

John Booth. John Booth. No, it was John Wilkes Booth. Sounds like an outlaw. Yeah, it does. Yeah, by the way, I think he was. Oh, yeah, big time. He actually was big time.

Broke his leg. He did. That fucking hotel or hospital they had our president. That was not okay. The bed was the size of this desk. Mickey Mouse. Maybe. Fucked up. or hospital they had our president that was that was not okay that was the size of this desk and i was just a child when i seen it sixth grade field trip to washington dc but they were this is where this is the actual bed that lincoln laid in all kids were like whoa and i'm like fucking small fucking bed for a president what type of bullshit well he was seven three in the average height back then was 5'3. Ah, so you're

saying that was for children. Yeah, it was just a bad situation. Was it a house? I thought it was a house. I think it was one of those... Safe house? Yeah, I think it was. I think there was a nurse or a doctor there. I think there was some sort of nurse or doctor.

If your president's a big son of a bitch, then you make him a custom bed. You don't just have this. But I guess they didn't expect it that night at the theater. Yeah, they weren't expecting him to, you know. They didn't even have anybody opening the door.

They didn't even have anybody watching the door. Unbelievable. Think about that. At some point, there's this president just roaming around, not even anybody watching.

I believe it was. He was on a piss break, though. The guy went pee? Bad bladder. Can't have it. People don't talk about that enough. Secret service started. Speaking of not talking about something enough,

I was going to go the entire show without mentioning how Zito looks, but it would be. I'd be doing everybody a disservice. What have you thought about? Stone Cold Z looks awesome. Hell yeah. What? Can you stand up on that chair maybe so we can get the full?

Somebody hold that chair down. What? What? What? What? What? Somebody hold that chair down. What? What? What? What? What? I feel like Otis. What?

Zito watched a little Young Rock last night. What? Had a little terramana. What? Some moose juice. What? And then put on his stone cold boots. What?

That's 316 day. What? Young Rock last night, banger of an episode. Really? That's what I'm hearing. Always. Banger of an episode. At? That's what I'm hearing. Always. Banger of an episode because it doesn't sound like it.

At one point, he was fishing, gardening, mechanicing, and I think sewing. I'm not sure. I believe that. Over and on the basis. It was unbelievable. It was a great episode. He's just a common man. Season two is going to be awesome.

Yeah. That largemouth bass he did get was. 50 pounder. I mean, he was holding that thing. 50 pound bass. Oh, yeah. In his backyard. In his backyard.

Excuse me. They did not... This is Z. That was high weight. You can never tell. I saw a 600-pounder on the internet this morning, so that's possible. Bass? It was a fish.

Okay. It's like a tuna. It's like a whale. It was in a river. I'll find it. Are you a good fisherman, Tom? I stink. We were the only two that... Well, you ended up catching one. I was the only one that didn't catch anything. I'll find it. Are you a good fisherman, Tom? I stink. We were the only two that, well, you ended up catching one.

I was the only one that didn't catch anything. I didn't catch one either. Oh, fishing's the best. But I fished for an extra hour and a half after everybody else stopped. I tried putting my head in the lake to find one. That was awesome, by the way. Get rid of that hangover a little bit. No, I've never fished in my life, actually.

Yeah, me neither. We grew up like crick boys. My dad loves it, and I just never got into it. You're a light guy now, though. So you're going to be fishing all summer. No, they said E. coli in my lake is too strong. I shouldn't even touch the water. I'm telling you, I got a fucking alert.

I told you that lake was rotten. What's that all about? It's a good lake. Tim got snorkeling stuff to go in that lake. I said, Tim, I just got an alert not to touch the water. He said, it don't mean nothing to me. He's going to be drinking that shit. Also, that's a heavy trafficked lake to be snorkeling in.

Tim ain't worried about nothing. His little ass is going to be swimming around, snorkeling, inhaling the E. coli. Yeah, I don't know. And a boat's coming. A little bit of E. coli is good for you. Not a lot of it, though. Tim's going to drink it down. Soak it up.

They got a boat. They got a boat. Tim and Sal got a fucking boat. They took me out on that lake all day, every day. Here it comes. Mitt knows a little bit more about the water than us, I guess. Mitt, what's going on? In high school, I swam in that lake a lot.

I know for a fact there's a lot of fish. It's stocked with fish. You can legally not eat those fish because they are poisonous. That's a dirty way. Poisonous. Dude, you've been eating fucking fish out of the Allegheny and Moan for years. I have not.

I am not a fish eater, especially river fish. But I think I'm going to stay just on my property. Catch and release. Catch and release. Yeah, for sure. You've got to catch them first. True. My big thing is when I fish, they're just all released anyway. We'll get your big net. property catch and release catch and release yeah for sure but you gotta catch that first true my big thing is when i fish they're just all released anyway we'll get your big net yeah well that's why

i used to catch baseballs with when i go into the stands caught barry bond's home run ball right down the third baseline oh yeah walked out of it with one of those big old fishing nets how you doing keep it moving let's get back to some football i'm the fucking worst fisherman of all time is all we're trying to say. The Rock is not, though. One cast he brought in. One cast? Last night, yes. Wow. What? It's just incredible what he can do. They didn't show his cast,

though. I wish they would have shown, like, one of his casts, because I bet that big son of a bitch would have been all the way across the lake. Yeah. That's literally all I do when I fish. It's just like, alright, are we casting? Try to get this thing as far as possible. There's a tree.

I'll find it. Yeah, well, not only tree. I have electrical wires. Sure. I mean, I've caught my fair share of all those things. Other people. Yeah, I've hooked myself, too. That's terrible.

Yeah, that's tough. The rock caught a big fish last night. How about Dewey beat up that guy last night? Man, well, that was, I don't want to know spoilers, but that was just. Dewey's beating ass? Hell yeah. Well, of course, but the fantasy Dewey at the moment. Baby Dewey.

What he wanted to do. It's a fucking good episode. Just get, you hear me? Just watch it. I will. I will. And then I watched Texas Southern beat the shit out of Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. Had a rather handsome bet on Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. Had a rather handsome bet on Texas A&M, Corpus Christi,

because that's what you do nowadays. These are the times where you bet blindly on children playing a sport you don't understand. Hell yeah. And the teams that are supposed to win rarely do, and the teams that are supposed to lose will somehow figure out a way to shoot like fucking Steph Curry. That's the madness of March. It's not anarchy.

It's college basketball, says Rothstein, who was on CBS last night doing a great interview. But Gumpy has been primed for this moment, primed for these days, watching shitty college basketball all year. Were you surprised last night that your Texas A&M CC boys just laid a fucking egg? Didn't score a basket for six minutes. It's tough to win a game when you don't score for six straight minutes. And also, the over still hits somehow. College basketball is the dumbest.

But I can't wait to continue to gamble on it. Gumpy, are you going to be cold this March Madness? That's all I need to know. First game, you had a lock. I was like, who likes it? Dumpy? Who doesn't like it? Tone.

Tone doesn't know shit. Dumpy does know. I'm going heavy on the Corpus Christi, boys. And all of a sudden, there was a glass thing over the basket. Even at the free throw line, air ball and free throws. They're missing layups. Nine free throws. What happened to these boys, Dumpy?

That one hurt my heart. Corpus Christi has been very good to us all season long. Unfortunately, went cold at the wrong time, my friend. Wow, you look amazing. Great pitch back there. Who else do we like, Gump? Who do we like tonight? I like Rutgers tonight.

There is a guy tonight. You need to know about. His name is Peter Kiss. Oh, yes! He's from Bryant. He's the nation's leading scorer. And he is a very, very polarizing dude. What's he? Throw elbows? Throw bows?

Y'all the refs? Remember what's his name from Ole Miss? Marshall Henderson. Marshall Henderson. He's got that type of vibe. Oh, really? We're pulling up from the logo and talking shit? Oh, yeah. Talking shit to the fans. And talking shit to Peter Kiss. Is there an over-under for him on this? I don't know if they have that for college

kids or not. I believe they do, though, because that was one of the boosts last night was for Trace Jackson. Peter Kiss, total points, 25.5. Yeah. That's what he averages a game, so. And it's even money right now. 100 plus 100. You like him? I mean, the guy...

I like him. Oh, yeah. I'm taking that. Dump, how do we feel? I am unfortunately on Wright State money line. But me and Diggs have gone head to head

in every game it feels like in the tournament so far. He is 2-0. I am 0-2. Diggs is hot. I am cold. And you like Peter Kiskis. Right he is 2-0, I am 0-2. Diggs is hot, I am cold. You like Peter Kiskes.

Before last night I was very cold and Gumpy was hot as fuck. I don't need to hear that. You don't need him to win though. I wasn't talking about Pete either from a gambling angle. I'm just saying this guy is going to electric watch. Brian is going all the way.

Shouts Peter Kiskes. Quick 2,000 on this guy. Let's go. Let's go. Get up, Peter Kiss. Go talk your shit, Peter Kiss. Come on, Pete. Hey, now's the time, Peter Kiss. Nobody knew you existed until tonight.

And guess what? They're in for a show. Hell yeah. Drop fucking 30 tonight, Peter Kiss. Hell yeah. Make it 40. Why not do Kyrie? Put 60 on these boys tonight, Peter Kiss.

He's a baller. He's been suspended a couple times for just like taunting and shit like that. So he's, I mean, he's. How's his academics and all that stuff? Because that's what Ole Miss guy, right? He got kicked out of him for a couple of different situations. Oh, yeah. He was about that life on and off the court.

Bingo. What about Peter Kiss? Is he just a shit-talking, super competitive, uber competitive guy like Doug Flutie was in a canadian football yes bingo i learned that last night dewey johnson really made some waves when he showed up in the cfl really he predicted 18 and 0 training camp as uh he brought that miami swagger and who's he playing for stampeters yeah he's playing for the san gary they just won the uh great cup d Doug Flutie was 4'4 in the... Yeah, he was. Just dunk on him real quick.

And Jeff Garcia. Stampeders had a run of great quarterbacks. Doug Flutie, Jeff Garcia, Elvis Gerbach, Dave Dickinson. I mean, the Stampeders ran the CFL for a long time. What about Travolski? Did he play for them? Travolski was a blue bomber, my friend. Of course.

They missed him. Still won the Grey Cup, though, that guy. Yeah. Where's he at? Why isn Did he play for them? Travolski was a blue bomber, my friend. Of course. They miss him. Still won a great cup, though, that guy. Yeah. Where's he at? Why isn't he a Colt? Fucking get Travolski. He's a goddamn Miami Dolphin, baby. Oh, that team stinks.

They don't even know who their quarterback is down there. They're paying people more money to be backups to Tua, and then they're saying they like Tua. What's going on in Miami? It's the Teddy Two Gloves tax. You got to pay to get him in the building. All right, let's talk about some moves that were made yesterday in quarterback. Tyrod Taylor signs with the Giants two years, $11 million to $15 million.

Allegedly, he is to be a high-end backup, but I think everybody on the internet is like, hey, Dabes, which is what he likes to be called. He doesn't like to be called coach. Dabes, which is Brian Dable, who's the new head coach of the new york giants he said in a women's football conference uh that he does not like to be called coach he likes to be called daves okay because he's one of the boys aaron rogers actually chatted about that how in high school and college you say coach coach coach and then whenever you're in the nfl it's like hey matt

we need to do this because you're kind of co-workers. Dave says, Daniel Jones is a starter, I think, that Tyrod Taylor's the backup. But everybody around the internet's like, don't let fucking Tyrod Taylor heat up. Don't let him get cooking. Who knows what they're going to do with Saquon Barkley? Allegedly, he's on the trade block. He's owed some money, and he has been injured.

He's still a very highly sought-after running back, I'd assume, at this point. I'd assume a lot of people in the NFL would still want him. But who knows what that team's going to look like. He's getting paid a little bit less money than Trubisky, who's at Pittsburgh, even though he's on starter. And then who'd you guys sign down there in Miami that's getting paid more than Mitchell Trubisky

to be the backup to Tua? Teddy Two Gloves. Teddy Bridgewater is now down in Miami. The Indianapolis Colts still don't have a quarterback. Cleveland Browns appear to not have a quarterback. And we have no idea what Deshaun Watson is going to do. Joining us now is a man from Detroit.

Oh, hell yeah. Played for the Packers. Played for the Lions. Likes the Red Wings. Speaks to their glory days fondly. Ladies and gentlemen, the hilarious internet human and real life human TJ Lang. What's up, dude?

Why you got to bring up hockey, man? Well, first of all, because that's Hockey Talks on the night, 8 o'clock, youtube.com forward slash that's Hockey Talk. With that being said, the Red Wings are dead, Teej. I don't want to get into it because it's the first day of the new league here in the NFL. You agree. I agree. Red Wings fucking stink, right? It's a rebuild, all Right? It's a rebuild.

Alright? It's a rebuild. They've shown some promise. Right? A couple young rookies. Foxy will tell you. Look, I just can't wait for Pittsburgh to fucking move to Boston or Providence, wherever the hell they're going to end up going. Just get them out of Pittsburgh, please. That is not how this works. That's not how this works.

You don't just start saying what everybody's saying about the Red Wings, about any other team, okay? The Penguins are Pittsburgh squad. It is hockey time. All right, that's what Pittsburgh is. Oh, my God. You guys can't even come up with your own slogan. Hockey Town is Detroit, Michigan.

No, we fucking stole yours, dude. We came in. Hockey Town is Detroit, Michigan. No, we came in yours, dude. We came in. We don't need to have this argument on the fucking show. Hockey Town is Detroit, Michigan. No. We came in and we said, what's your slogan? That's cute. You haven't won in 30 years. Give it to us.

All right. That's what we did. That's what the Pens do. Now, with that being said, I am hearing it's near the end for Sid and Gino and Latane. And we are potentially staring down the doom days that Detroit has experienced for the last 30 fucking years. Oh, no. Five since the Pens beat them in the Cup, actually.

Yeah, you guys have won one recently, and a lot of people in Detroit are letting me know that. I don't think everybody in Detroit gets our hockey talk either, by the way, DJ. Hey, that 08 Cup was super special, man, winning up there in Pittsburgh. That banner looks really nice hanging from the Raptors. Yeah, you're welcome for fucking HOSA, pal, too. I mean, we gave you HOSA to win that entire thing.

I am so sick of it. Happy St. Paddy's Day Eve, by the way, man. Big day tomorrow. It is a big day. We can do a little boozing. You still drink a little bit? What's your life like now? You're a retired man. What's life like on a day-to-day? Yeah, I booze a little more than I probably should. Yeah.

Kids, you know, kids sports. That's about it, man. Trying to keep in touch with everything that's going on. But, yeah, I got to probably calm down a little bit with the booze. See you. I need to get on your regimen, man. Some vitamins. Look at those pipes, bro.

Hey, Teej, thank you. I've been working over here no it's keto it won't last past wrestlemania i gotta get in shape though i was in uh plumping season for like four or five years you know and then once you just kind of cut it off you'll be yoked as well just a month or so of keto yeah i'm about five or six years in the plumping season so hopefully the end's coming up soon yeah you're an offensive lineman though. You had to be big body. Had to be big body. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about the NFL.

New league year happening. Their package still have to do like $6.9 million of salary cap gymnastics to get under the cap by 4 p.m. Eastern. Just what do you think about free agency as a whole? Do you think nowadays players are picking and choosing more than they used to? Because there's a lot of massive names that have not signed anyway do you think that's because of teams do you think

that's because of players how do you think this free agency period is either the same or different from years past dj i think you still have the same like kind of two waves right uh the first wave being obviously starting monday uh with the tam. I mean, deals are pretty much done at 12.01, you know, a minute after that opens. You see a lot of younger players go around then. I think, you know, that's what the combine's for. I mean, all these agents are gathering information. They're trying to figure out the market. They're trying to figure out which teams are going to be in play for their guys.

A lot of deals are pretty much set kind of, you know, after that period. And then you have right now where we're kind of sitting at, you know, some of the veteran guys are still out there. You know, Bobby Wagner, Von Miller, Chandler Jones, a lot of really good players that don't necessarily have to rush to go try to get the best contract they may want or may get. They have a choice of kind of sitting back, seeing how the chips fall with other free agent type guys.

And, you know, ultimately, I think it's just it's a different, you know, kind of expectation and want for those two players. You get the young players that, you know, see 50, 60, 70 million dollar contracts, just want to jump on it right away. And then you see these older players that, you know, money, I'm sure, is still a big part of a lot of their decisions. But they get a chance to kind of sit back and address, you know, money I'm sure is still a big part of a lot of their decisions, but they get a chance to kind of sit back and address, you know, which teams have made a big impact in free agency,

which teams do they think they can be a part of moving forward and compete for a championship. I think that's ultimately what it comes down to with a lot of these older guys because, you know, eight-, nine-year veterans, you know, you don't really see those guys just trying to sign those big money contracts i mean a lot of those players want to go to a team where they can compete on and hopefully in their career on a high note so uh that was just i mean we're kind of getting at the end of that first wave of free agency everything right now kind of seems like it's slowing down a little bit yeah um most of that is just because those guys a lot of these

guys don't need to rush. I mean, shit, if I could go back, you know, when I was a free agent, I probably would have waited until training camp, about week two, week three of training camp. Hey, how nice was that lockout? Hey, Teej, how nice was that lockout? That lockout year whenever there was no. Oh, it was glorious.

Oh, dude, everybody just came back to training camp, like 20, 30 pounds overweight. All right. Oh, man. Let's get in the shit. And we were coming off of the Super Bowl win, too, in 2010 over there at Green Bay. So that was a hellacious summer, man. That was a lot of fun.

You're telling me I was in the substance of abuse program, and that got put on hold for a hundred and however many days that was. So I want, you know, I was like, I'm going to go so hard that whenever I get back, whenever this thing starts and I start getting piss tested eight times a month again, I'm not going to want to do anything. I did not expect it to be that long, Teej. I did not expect it to go that long, but I kept that promise to myself.

How long did you play in the NFL? I made it 10 years. That's a long time in the NFL, especially at offensive line. Hey, congrats. Hey, done good. You've done good. But I think Aaron always talks about that group, that offensive line group, and you've talked about it before on here. What do you think it is about that Packers team and Aaron Rodgers more specifically that they're always going to be good? Like everybody knows that the Packers are always going to be good as long as Aaron Rodgers is there.

Early exit this past year, two NFC championships before that. Everybody's wondering when they're going to take that big step. What do you think it is about the Aaron Rodgers-led Packers that they're always in contention? Is it just because he's a good quarterback, and is that all anybody's looking for? I mean, 95% of it is probably because it's Aaron Rodgers. I mean, you've got to share every single game,

every single season that I was there for eight years. I mean, you go into every single game expecting to win, you know, and you know you have a shot in every single season to get to the Super Bowl. That's just how good Aaron is. But also I think, look, in Green Bay, there's a different level of expectation. As soon as you come through the door, you know, 10 wins isn't the expectation. A division title isn't the expectation. Making the playoffs isn't the expectation. The expectation is to win a Super Bowl. And being a young player, that kind of hits you right off the bat, man. I mean, it's

like, shit, we're in here now. This is big-time football. You know, there's no more good effort, good job. We've got to win some games. But when you see you have Aaron Rodgers like that, it's so contagious to the rest of the group. Just elevates everybody else's game, right? Because you don't want to be the one guy that lets down the team. You don't want to be that one guy that lets down your position group from, you know, getting over the hump, winning a game, whatever it might be.

But, yeah, I think, I mean, look, 95% of it is Aaron Rodgers. He's just a special freaking dude. Teej, I mentioned that with Tom Brady when he was a free agent. I was like, hey, listen, as somebody that got to watch when Peyton was in the building, as soon as a guy like Tom Brady shows up in your building, nobody wants to fuck up. That's not just like offensive line, punter, kicker.

That's like laundry folks, equipment managers, athletic trainers. Like everybody's heightened. I'm not saying the Packers haven't been like that forever, but there's just levels to this shit. And I don't think that is talked about nearly enough. No, it's not. And it honestly, I mean, I don't know how you win without it being that way. I don't know how you at least don't win championships without it being that way.

And that's, for me, what's been so hard with Aaron Rodgers and why I think he ultimately decided to go back to Green Bay. Look, man, he's got to win another freaking Super Bowl, man. I mean, with how much talent he has, with how much talent they have on the team. And you look at some of the squads that we had, 2014 being a ridiculously talented team, lost an NFC Championship game. You look at what happened the last three years. I mean, two more lost an NFC Championship game.

Last year, I thought they were the most talented team in the whole NFL. They just had a bad day against San Francisco at the wrong time. But, look, you have guys like that. It just changes the complexity of the wrong time. But look, you have guys like that. It just changes the complexity of the entire building. I mean, and not that it's adding, you know, unnecessary stress or anything like that or unnecessary pressure where it does need to be. But it really allows you to focus on one thing. And that's just being great. And that's winning freaking championships. Now, I know they haven't been able to do that over in Green Bay since 2010,

which has been a travesty, but I would be shocked if Aaron Rodgers leaves Green Bay without another title. I mean, that's just – I think that's got to be his ultimate motivation. I think for the other players on that team, they understand that too. Dave Bocciari, phenomenal player. You know, he came into 2014 or 13. We had a really good couple years, and he's never been there. But he understands how important it is not only for him to get to that Super Bowl and win one, but how important it is for Aaron to get to the Super Bowl

and win one, for how much he's done for not only that organization, but everybody that's ever played with him, man. I think it's just he's got to win one, and I think they will. I really hope they do at least because for him, nobody deserves it more than him, man, for what he's given to that organization for 17, 18 years now, man. He's got to win one. Tej, you're great on the internet streets, but all the people are going to attack you for complimenting Aaron like this.

But whenever you start referencing like, oh, yeah, by the way. Yeah, exactly. That's how I feel, too. It's like, oh, so I'm just supposed to sit here and let these doofuses just say whatever the fuck they want, like they have been for the last 15 years on this guy and not stick up for him. But it feels like the narrative outside of his teammates and outside of Green Bay is so much different than what it is with his actual teammates. Now, granted, Greg Jennings, I don't know what happened between those two. I'm not going to ask. I assume something happened.

Let's hope they put their swords down. And I don't think Aaron's saying anything about Greg, by the way. I think it's just a one-way street there. Who knows? How come you think it's so hard for some people to get past the initial thought that he's just the biggest piece of shit of all time, Aaron Rodgers? Why do you think it is like that? There's still people on the internet that act like that.

You're going to get attacked by them today for saying, nobody deserves a Super Bowl more than they are. What does that even mean, this guy? Like, literally, there's people that, like, hate him, hate him. I don't know why. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, I don't think. I don't get it either. I mean, is there a difference between, you know,

personal hate and professional hate? I mean, obviously, I could see other teams and, you know, media writers professional hate i mean obviously i could see other teams and you know media writers from maybe chicago or minnesota you know there's already that example a couple months ago the whole mvp voting but um i don't i think a lot of the hate he gets is more professional hate and look that just comes with the territory i mean tom brady gets a lot of that too aaron rogers probably gets a little bit more and i I know this past season, he got his fair share with everything that went on with the, you know, COVID and whatnot. But look, I think everywhere you go, I mean, look, he's been there, what, 18 years now? Not every single person that's been in that locker room that leaves that locker

room is going to come out of there with glowing reviews or, hey, this guy was my favorite or whatnot. You can't make everybody happy, especially if you're in that position as Aaron Rodgers. I mean, but you always have a couple of bad apples. You mentioned Greg Jennings. There's been a couple other guys along the way that seem to kind of go out of their way to, you know, be negative whenever they can. I don't understand it.

I don't ever know what really happened with a lot of those situations. To me, it just looks like a lot of bitterness that just kind of piled up and, you know, you give guys a platform and sometimes they stick their foot in their mouth. But with Aaron Rodgers, look, I think he just, he is who he is. And that's, for me, that's what I like most about him. I mean, you know exactly what you're going to get from him every single day. You know, he's going to be a consistent human being. If he disagrees with you or you disagree with him, you hash it out like men. There's no feuds. There's no kind of being a yes man, just whatever Aaron Rodgers.

Yeah, let's just agree with him. We've had our share of disagreements, but ultimately I think that's how respect grows in a locker room. And that's every locker room I've ever been in with him in the eight years I was there. I mean, was it all, you know, roses and rainbows and happy? No, not all the time. But you hash it out like men and you hash it out as friends. And that's something that, look, I think might be rare nowadays because it's just a different breed of players.

A lot of these kids coming out of college now, you know, the criticism, right, doesn't really sit well with a lot of these guys. They don't like being called out anymore like they used to. And that's why I think you've seen a little bit of an evolution with coaching. I mean, look, Nick Saban and Bill Belichick are two of the more notorious kind of, you know, a-hole type coaches. Those guys are grandfathered in. They've won a lot of championships.

If you're going to come out as a coach that hasn't done anything and try to be, you know, a-hole type coach you've got, those guys are grandfathered in. They've won a lot of championships. If you're going to come out as a coach that hasn't done anything and try to be, you know, Mr. Asshole on the first day and a prick to all your players, that doesn't resonate anymore. It doesn't resonate. And you've seen it a lot in recent years with, you know, coaches that have come in and, I mean, not to throw anybody the bus, but Joe Judge kind of seems like that's how it was in New York. I mean, Matt Patricia certainly, a little bit of that in Detroit as well.

It just doesn't resonate with these players anymore. But as long as you have a leader and a veteran guy like Aaron Rodgers that's able to smooth everything out professionally and handle everything in a just respectful manner, I mean, that goes a long way in the locker room. And that just sets a tone for how players are supposed to act down the road. I watched Adam Thielen. He has a podcast. And Kirk Cousins was on there. And they were talking about this one sideline clip where Kirk Cousins was, like, telling Adam, like,

you got to fuck in. Like, you got to go. And Kirk was talking about how Thielen told him earlier in the game, hey, instead of running that at 7, I'm going to run that at like 13 or whatever. And Kirk described like, yeah, okay, well, you're going to have to hurry the fuck up because Khalil Mack is trying to get me. And he then went on to say like, that's why Adam Thielen's good, though. We can have that disagreement on the sideline.

He's emotionally intelligent, I believe is how Kirk described it, enough for us to get into it on the sideline and then move on. It feels like those days are past. It's a whole new generation. And not that everybody in the past loved being criticized by their coaches. I mean, there were some days where I was getting chewed out or I didn't love it. I was like, all right, I don't fucking love this.

But then once you get better and you get over the hurdle, there's like a sense of like, hey, fuck you. You know what I mean? Like that is – it's a different world now. It's wildly different, TJ. The boys have some questions for you, man. What's up fellas. No, what were you going to say? You were gonna say something good there.

Oh, no, I was just going to say that. It's, it's just, uh, it's a different era and people respond differently to, uh, you know, hard coaching criticism. I mean, look, we came into the league same time, oh nine. And, um, I mean, it's okay to be pissed off about that, but you got to use it as some sort of motivation and i think there's just too many players now that instead of doing that they just kind of hamper themselves get down to the dumps and hey i want to get traded hey i want to go here i don't want to play for this guy anymore it's like this nfl football man

high pressure stressful job there's a lot of dudes out there that are competing for one spot on that team and um it's just i just feel like it's just a bit of a different different era of kids coming out of college these days hey we sound like old dudes in the front yard yelling but it's real because the transfer portal is also lending into this right guys don't like the way they're either the opportunity or how they're getting coached it's like well i'm out of here i'm going somewhere else and then there's like 2,000 kids in the portal, and then there's only 130 teams, and some of these kids are just sitting there. It's a different era, I understand, but also we've got to find some grit in here a little bit too

because real life is going to call on that at some point. Go ahead, Ty. Teej, the Packers have to replace a bunch of guys on their O-line this year, and we've seen a lot of O-line movement already in free agency. And I don't know if you ever really had to deal with it where you have a bunch of new guys coming in like that, but how difficult is that when you have three new guys coming in on the offensive line in the offseason?

And has there ever been a situation where you know, oh, this guy's going to stink and this just isn't going to work out with what we have going on here? Yeah, I mean, it's tough to replace a high number like that. Obviously, you look at Green Bay, they lost – well, they released Billy Turner, Lucas Patrick, who was a starter for them on and off, who developed into a pretty good player, just signed with Chicago. Look, the good part about Green Bay is that Elton Jenkins should be back next year. I

know he tore his ACL kind of later in the midseason last year. He should be back. He's a really good player. But you're always looking for chemistry on the offensive line. You're always looking for continuity. And when you can replace one guy, remember 2014, we lost our center. We brought in Corey Lindsley. He was a fifth-round draft pick, and he was our day-one starter. But what helped him and what helped all of us was that it was one guy, right? The four other guys on the offensive line have been playing together for a couple years. We had the chemistry.

So when you have one guy in there, it's easier. When you have two or three guys, it depends. Young guys are probably easier to fit in because they don't know anything different. I mean, you can kind of bring them in and build them a whole new system. And, and with the words and with the chemistry and everything you're trying to build, when you bring in older players, it's a little bit more challenging, I think, because everybody's got their own set of words. Hey, I call this block this, you guys call it this, I want to call it this. And it's like,'t like i remember when jeff saturday came over to uh green bay and jeff is freaking awesome man one of my favorite teammates but jeff basically came in and he's like look this is how i've been doing it for 15 years this is what i'm gonna do and all of us had to adjust we're like okay i mean multiple time all pro but um you know it's easier if it's one guy. But I know I'm talking a little bit long here. No, this is good.

Nobody talks about this shit. The quicker you can build the chemistry on the offensive line and start to trust each other, I mean, obviously the better you're going to be. And with Green Bay, the good part about them is they've always had those one or two veteran guys that lead that offensive line room that allows those rookies to not only step in with the level of comfort that they're going to have these veteran guys to lead that offensive line room that allows those rookies to not only step in with the level of comfort that they're going to have these veteran guys to lean on but the expectation in that room has always been high it was high when I got there in 09 I know it's still

high to this day and so that for a young offensive lineman I think what they've done in that Green Bay Packer offensive line room for a lot of years now is one of the best spots to go into. TJ, I've been a part of, like, I think three or four offensive line chemistry building trips to bars during training camps. I think that those nights are awesome. I honestly believe that. And I've always said, you know, a team comes together much better around a keg than they do kale. But nowadays, with the modern, I don't know if there's,

you know, like that chemistry being built, and I think offensive linemen are always going to be a gritty bunch and a tough bunch. But going back to being a much different world now, I do wonder how you build up that chemistry, you know, the camaraderie, because that's always the most important part of every offensive line that I've ever seen

ever operate at a high level. It's like, I need to be thinking what you're thinking. You need to be thinking what I'm thinking. And we're going out here and we're fighting, by the way. It's a different group than everybody else in the NFL, I think, that offensive line group. Oh, yeah. It's extremely unique. I mean, you have five guys that, look, your only stats that you get are negative, right?

Oh, he let up two hits. Oh, he let up two sacks. You know, oh, he you get are negative, right? Oh, he let up two hits. Oh, he let up two sacks. Oh, he had two holding calls, right? You never really see the positive part of being an offensive lineman. And look, I think that's part of our DNA. You have to be built that way. You have to be built in the fashion where you don't need somebody kissing your ass. You don't need people to say, oh, look at the left guard.

What a phenomenal job. You don't need that. You do it selflessly so everybody else can get their accolades and their attention that they need. But it's a unique group. I mean, we don't really talk too much in public about what goes on at O-line dinners and whatnot, but those are some of the, honestly, the best times of my career were getting out of the building spending time with the offensive lineman I mean Aaron Rodgers and the quarterbacks always used

to come out because it was just so damn fun it's so fun when you could just go out as boys and as brothers and just chill and sit there and honestly it feels like you know we all remember being in college and having that tight-knit group of college buddies. And that's how it feels in the NFL when it comes to offensive linemen too. It just feels like you're right back in that zone of, I'm going to take care of this dude. I know he's going to do everything to take care of my back. And you just have that bond, man, and it's special.

And what's special too is that, you know, I talk to guys being, you know, doing some sideline work with the Lions now. I see some older NFL guys around stadiums. And you talk to those guys, and it's like you just fit right in, man. When they say it's like a fraternity and it's like a brotherhood, it really is. Just because it's such a unique position to play. And it's such a unique mindset for a lot of these guys where you don't feel like you're some superstar NFL player, right? You're an offensive lineman. You go out there, you do the dirty work, you do the grunt

work, you do the gritty work, you go home, you have some beers and do it all again next week. You don't get all the attention other guys do, but you know what? I think most of us love it that way, man. And it's definitely a special group of people. I've been taking advantage of it, some of those offensive line things. They're like, hey, you want to come out tonight? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's got a table at whatever. You want to stop by?

Absolutely, I'll come through. And then that first beer is a big cheers, and then we go ahead and house it, and then somebody's like, you want another one? Yeah, sure, I'll take another one. Then all of a sudden it's like 2, 3 a.m., then somebody's like, you want another one? Yeah, sure. I'll take another one. Then all of a sudden, it's like 2, 3 a.m. And it's like, man, this dude's 325 pounds.

I am not. What was I doing here? But that type of respect and chemistry, you know, you can't earn that in the locker room. That has to happen elsewhere.

Hopefully that's still happening, especially with COVID going on. Not, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Especially with the... Yeah, yeah. Possibly. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Especially with the – Possibly. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Actually, fucking we beat that song. Yeah! Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, TJ, you mentioned the Lions. What's the vibe like in Detroit? Is everyone all in on MCDC, or do you think there might be some dark days ahead, especially if the Packers might win a Super Bowl?

And maybe leave it. Go to San Antonio. Oh, yeah, San Antonio. I believe it. Yeah, no, man, I think there's a lot of optimism, to be honest with you. Now, what I don't know is, you know, they've been pretty quiet in free agency. They've signed a lot of their own free agents back. They've signed DJ Chark, but a one-year deal,

which could be a win-win for both guys, the player of the team. I don't know how much their plans changed after Aaron Rodgers decided to come back, because not only with the Lions, but with Chicago and Minnesota, you haven't really seen any of those teams really do a whole bunch

in free agency. I think that's because with Aaron Rodgers coming back and what Green Bay is trying to do by going all in again and winning, they just know they're probably still going to be a year or two away from competing for that division title.

But I'll tell you what, man, I've never seen so much excitement around a, you know, two-win football team as I have here. I mean, because people just, and honestly what it is, is people love Dan Campbell. I mean, he is so open.

He's so honest. He's so transparent. And a lot of people kind of rag on him because he has so many of these silly catchphrases and biting kneecaps and bringing real-life fucking lions to practice. I mean, people kind of hit on him for that a little bit. But I'll tell you what, man. I think a lot of people

are, for the first time in a long time in Detroit, kind of believing in the plan. I think the expectations are realistic from the fan base knowing that they're probably not going to win the NFC North this year. It might take another couple years. I think you've seen that kind of reflected in what they've

been doing free agency by not making any huge splashes, but Foxy will tell you, man, people are fucking fired up for Lions football. People are fired up. I'll tell you what, man, people are fired up. People are fired up. And it sounds like what you're saying, what I've been saying this whole time, is we're going 10-7 and winning a playoff game next year.

What do you think about that? There's no chance. I mean, yeah, with the seventh team in now, like. Okay. Look at that. Teej works for a twin in a playoff game. I mean, yeah, with the seventh team in now, like. Okay. All right, TJ. Look at that. TJ. Here's the thing. As Lions fans, I mean, you can't look at Cincinnati, you know,

you can't look at them as an example of a team that went from worst to first because, look, they have Joe fucking Burrow, right? Lions don't have that. But what you can look at is some of these other teams that were in the seventh seed, you know, in the last couple years. And you're like, I don't think the Lions are that far off. Now, they've obviously got a lot of work to do in the draft coming up and hopefully address some defensive issues that they've got. But, no, man, I'm telling you, I would not be surprised if that is a – I'm not going to predict them to win a playoff game, Foxy.

But I wouldn't be surprised if they're kind of a sleeper team this year that can win more games. I mean, listen, MCDC playing this year or not? Who? Motor City Dan Campbell. Is MCDC playing or coaching next year? Well, I think he's coaching.

They got no chance. They put MCDC on the field. Maybe we get to the playoffs. That's right. And I can't wait until he subs himself in there at some point. That means that we're big MCDC fans around here. Last question. Oh, he's the man, dude.

The man. Teej, last question. You're coming from town. Teej, speaking of disagreements, building camaraderie, what's your fucking problem with the Steelers? Yeah, what is that all about? What's your problem, dude? What is your problem? You hate Italians? You don't likeers? Yeah, what is that all about? What's your problem, dude? What is your problem?

You hate Italians? You don't like Italians? Oh, jeez. Look, Pittsburgh people are some of the most sensitive people around there. You can't say anything, like, open and honest without them getting so fucking offended by Not about seven, dude. Not about seven. I mean, tone, like, you really think Ben Roethlisberger was, like, good last year?

I don't know what to tell you, man. I know he's your freaking hero and all that, but good Lord, buddy. How do you feel about them signing Mitchell Trubisky? What do you think about – hey, hold on. So Mitchell Trubisky, Tyrod Taylor, Teddy Bridgewater, now Baker's allegedly on the move. Matt Ryan's going to be on the move. How do you feel about these last chance quarterbacks almost?

Their careers, these are probably their last stops. Do you think any of them have success or do you think this is just kind of like another chapter look i think honestly i think trubisky is a dude and i knew i'd love to give him shit when he was playing in chicago that's just what we do in detroit you give chicago team shit anytime you can um respect i i kind of like mitch i mean i don't think he's going to be you know some crazy uh you know pro bowl type player but is he going to be a drop-off from ben roethlisberger the last couple years i don't think so i mean ben could barely throw a freaking 20 yard out you know like i'm just being honest with you guys so i think i think mitch and you look at mitch man i mean he you know he took the bears really kind of bad program there for a couple years.

He still found a way to take them to a couple playoff appearances. So I wouldn't be surprised if he shocks some people. Now, here's the interesting question. Is Baker, what's kind of his career trajectory right now? Because honestly, I made this comparison this morning just thinking about it. Is he kind of on the same trajectory as a mitchell trubisky is he kind of at the point of the end of his rookie you know contract where it's like okay he does some good things but he's not really consistent

i don't know if he's a guy we can build off a franchise guys he's gonna have that same kind of trajectory i don't know because depending on what you read or believe it sounds like if cleveland whether they get deshaun watson or believe, it sounds like if Cleveland, whether they get Deshaun Watson or not, kind of sounds like they're prepared to move on from Baker anyway. But I don't know, man. Your Colts down there, they need a quarterback too.

Thanks for stopping by. Can't wait to chat with you again. Colts will figure it out. Colts will figure it out. You know who won't? The Red Wings. Ladies and gentlemen, TJ Lane! Thank you, TJ! Thank you. All Red Wings. Ladies and gentlemen, TJ Lane. Thank you, TJ. Thank you. All right, TJ. See you later, TJ.

All right, TJ. See you later, TJ. All right, see you, dude. See you. Hey, it's been fun talking to you, TJ. All right, see you, TJ. Thank you so much, TJ. Bye.

New league year begins in about three hours. Actually, two hours and 57 minutes. Okay, here we go. Can't wait. Big math show. Can't wait to see who does what. Will more players be cut? Carl Nassib released from the Las Vegas Raiders today.

We assume that's a salary cap move. There will probably be more as teams try to kind of piece the puzzle together of their programs by four o'clock the commanders just released landon collins okay landon collins is now on the market wow austin hooper released from the bronze he'll be on the market carl nasib obviously johnny hecker is going to be released from the rams he'll be on the market the salary cap casualty day has arrived as the minutes tick closer. They click too. Well, they click, clack, and

tick closer to the league year beginning. I think we should keep our eyes out to see more vets on their way out. Ty Schmidt is here. Boston Conner's here. Tone Diggs, one half of the Hammer. Dime Cowboys is here. The other half of the Cowboys is in the backdress spectacularly.

He is currently 0-2 in March Madness, but he's looking to get hot tonight in two more play-in games. Yeah, we hit in the NIT, though. We're still not terrible. We're bad. We're not terrible. West Virginia didn't even get invited

to the NIT, right? No. CBI. CBI. What is that? The D2 NIT. Jeez fucking Louise. There's some good teams in the NIT this year, though.

Texas A&M is very good. Oregon is still very good. How about Santa Barbara? Santa Clara? Yeah, them. That's Rothstein's squad. They're the favorites. Are you in there still?

Oh, yeah. So West Virginia couldn't even get invited to the not-in tournament. No. No, no, no. Not good enough. That CVI is... That's a poopy tournament. They should not be hanging their hats on making it.

We're going to win it. Don't you worry about it. Nick's here. Foxy's here. And Stone Cold ZD is here. Great work, Z. The armpits look fantastic, as does the vest. Joining us from a mountain in the middle of nowhere with a new AI camera that will track his movements.

Ladies and gentlemen, Super Bowl champion, COVID survivor, all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, A.J. Hall. You look much better today. Really? You went to work last night. You were pissed off about being in 360p or 720 or whatever do you look amazing today aj i have not changed anything with my setup but yeah i'm glad i'm glad i'm connected glad to be here in thai i have not heard of that second rate tournament that you called a poopy tournament so i want to check that out this year well i'm not going to check it out

and the team that i cheer for when they're on tv is in it so i don't think you should be taking any time out of your family vacation in the mountains to be watching any poopy basketball. Right. Because there's a good basketball tournament that started yesterday. Did you get to see any of those games? Will you watch March Madness? Are you guys too busy skiing, snowboarding, fighting bears, feeding deer? Yeah, all of the above.

But no, we're headed out of town tomorrow. I'll be headed back to Ohio on Thursday, and I'll check out a good amount of it. What has happened so far in the tournament, though? I don't even know. Indiana beat Wyoming and Texas. Are these playing games or are these real games? This is Dayton.

Last night, two. Tonight, two. The first four are happening yesterday and today. Indiana's in. Texas Southern is officially in. Tonight, the two teams that will play is Bryant and Wright State. And there's a guy named Peter Kiss on this Bryant squad who we need to score 26 points.

I don't give a fuck what happens in that game. This dude needs to score 26. And then the other game is Rutgers. Rutgers and Notre Dame. And let's go Rutgers. We obviously love Rutgers. Yeah, here we go, Rutgers. Notre Dame.

We obviously love Rutgers. I don't we go, Rutgers. Notre Dame. We obviously love Rutgers. I don't know. I didn't know Notre Dame. I thought they were going to play. Right before St. Patrick's Day. Was that Notre Dame, like, CC? Like, Texas A&M CC? No, no, no.

The Irish. That's actual Notre Dame? That's Notre Dame. Yeah. Day before St. Patrick's Day as well. Hey, you made some news lately. Yeah, yeah. I got that.

Quite a bit. What did he do? What happened? He did three things. He, you made some news. Yeah, I got that. What happened? Three things. He gave three things. Three things for us to get back on the road to success in my mind. One, I love Donald Trump more than anything in the world. Two, Donald Trump

has done nothing but do what he believes will make our country number one again. And three. I need a fresh pair of Depends because I just pooped my pants. Okay. Those are pieces of death. Are those first two things real? Yeah. That's what he said.

I don't know. I didn't listen to the speech. I was going to say, I didn't read too much in there. He got a medal right in front of him. He lost. Dude, we saw. What was the first one again, Coach? Go ahead.

I love Donald Trump more than anything other than Notre Dame football. Two. Donald Trump has done nothing but what he believes will take us back to, number one, the best country in the world. And three. I need a fresh pair of Depends. I had applesauce for lunch. Ooh.

Ooh. Messy poop. It depends. I had applesauce for lunch. Messy poop. Is applesauce a squirt creator? Oh, yeah. Straight through. I didn't know that. Comes out the same way it went in. Oh, that's awesome.

Hits the button. All right. Shouts to Coach Lou Holtz, man. Especially for Lou. I'll tell you what. Notre Dame the night before St. Patrick's is very, very interesting to think about. I don't know. That kid from Bryant's is stuck. That Kiss kid, I remember watching him.

But he plays Wright State. Wright State's about 15 minutes from where I grew up. I used to play tournament games in the Nutter Center, their home court. So watch out for the Raiders. The Wright State Raiders? They're the favorites. I don't care if they win. I just need that Peter Kiss ass kicking, trash talking,

bucket making machine to fucking put up 26 tonight. I just learned of this guy's existence. I guess he is a savage on the court. Doesn't he average 25 like the most out of anyone at D1? Yeah, so 25.5 over under at plus 100. Feels like a pretty good bet on Fandel, but, I mean, you tell me. I hope he's hot. I hope it's not like an off night.

You know, that's the problem with the tournament. If you're a scrub team and you have a hot night and you're hitting threes, you can win. If you're a great team, you could lose to anybody if you're just not making anything. Who's Ohio State playing? They've got a pretty big ball game. They're sixth seed.

You guys act like they weren't going to make the tournament. They're fucked. Loyola, Chicago. They got the nut. They got an old bag. They got old Grandma Jean again or something. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You better hope we don't go off the first round again, AJ, like last year.

Sister Jean, OH. She's still around? Oh, my gosh. How dare you? I mean, like, is she still with the squad? Is this her team she was with originally? Yeah, she's doing this. Sister Jean looking only how I could look.

Uh-huh. Woo! Yeah, she made like a Ric Flair return. What are you even talking about? She's going to be in PPG Panserino. She beat COVID. She's 120 years old. She serves the Lord and Loyola.

And she's a good luck charm. Now, they don't have that big Polish bastard like they did last year, which Jeff Goodman said is a problem. So I think Ohio State might actually win. But if you continue to step on all the traditions of the Ohio State, karma is going to kick them in the ass in favor of Sister Jean.

So let's give one for the boys. O-H. I-O. I'll give it to you, man. Yeah! Woo! Woo! Here we go.

Here we go. Hey, fuck off, Sister Jean. All right. All right, I'm on the Bucs. This is a good decision by you. This was a good decision. That's what the Bucs are going to do. Because, hey, it's, Sister Jean. All right, I'm on the Bucs. This is a good decision by you. This was a good decision. That's what the Bucs are going to do. Because, hey, it's all about winning.

We need to win. And if there are some words thrown in Grandma Jean's direction, it's okay. It's all part of the sport. It's all competitive. Are those guys from Ohio that are playing for Ohio State, or are they recruited out of state? There's a mix of both. I mean, there's definitely Ohio guys, but there's a lot of guys from all over.

The Ohio guys will look Sister Jean right in her face and say, God, is it real, bitch? Not today. That's what Ohio people will do. Sorry, sweetheart. Ohio people will do that. I'm not saying I did that. I'm just quoting an Ohio person who had the opportunity to talk to Sister Jean

face-to-face. I'm just saying that is something that an Ohio person would do. Age, I got good news for you. They are playing in Pittsburgh. I got a couple of Paisans with no future I could tell to go down there and harass her all game long. Not just a couple, by the way. There's a lot of Paisans we know with no future that we

can send down there to chit-chat with pinky rings on, you know what I mean? I appreciate it, Diggs. Well, if they can hang up their sticks from their street hockey game, right? I would assume those guys do the same thing. Yeah, they would go straight from the game. They'd probably wear their helmets still. While she's up in her ivory tower making moves with no repercussions.

Sister Jean is a fucking gem of a human. Wait, is she still a national treasure? Are we still talking about her all the time? Yes. AJ, wake up. I'm going to have to tune in. Well, it's Ohio State. I'd hope you would. Yeah, geez. When's the game? have to tune in. Well, it's Ohio State. I'd hope you would.

Yeah, geez. When's the game? Oh, this guy. You don't even know. Friday. Thank you. Thank you, actually. I didn't know that either.

I think it's the first game on Friday. Oh. I think it's Pick'Em as well. Hey, by the way, enter our bracket, Bonanza. You have until tomorrow at noon, I believe, right? Mm-hmm. Tomorrow at noon. The PMS Bonanza 2.0, you can search for on the app thing that they have.

Yep. The official March Madness Capital One Bracket Challenge app. You search PMS Bonanza 2.0. You can find it. You can scan this QR code or we tweeted out the link. We have 18,000 people in there already before the brackets have even been set. I assume tomorrow morning a lot of people are going to get in. One whole Bitcoin to the winner. We have 18,000 people in there already before the brackets have even been set. I assume tomorrow morning a lot of people are going to get in.

One whole Bitcoin to the winner. Lunch with Mitt and an autographed Baby Duke to those who come in second place. Third place, an autographed Baby Duke by the boys. And if you come in last, dead last, there will only be one outright loser. So if multiple people come in dead last, we will randomly select the outright loser. You get to job shadow Tone Diggs for a day. Yeah! That a baby! A lot of people are going to be tanking their brackets in hopes to win that.

Remember, only one outright loser will get to see Tone Diggs and how he operates throughout an entire Friday. That'll be a lot of disappointment when you get here. Well, do they get to show up to your house in the morning and rollerblade with you to work? 6 a.m. Can't wait. I might try to lose. Well, I mean, we could do for AJ.

If you come in 50th, you get to have dinner with AJ Hawk. In Ohio at the Chop House. Yes. It's being rebranded. You know that. It's being rebranded. To the AJ Hawk Chop House? I don't think I'm going to have any part of it. Hawk House? Yes. It's being rebranded. You know that. It's being rebranded. Did AJ Hawkshaw pass? I don't think I'm going to have any part of it.

Hawkshaw? Is the logo, like, your fingers making a P and an H just naturally? So it's like C-H-O and then AJ's fingers. It's like P-H-O-U-S-E. Is that what it is? I mean, if that would bring people in the door to eat the food and make money, maybe we'll do it. C-H-O-P-H-O-U-S-E there.

I mean, let's go. Is it the A.J. Hawk Chop House? No, it is not. But I think you guys even brought it up on the show. It's being rebranded, right? They're renaming it. I don't know what it's going to be, though. Urban's been through enough.

Now he loses his chop house, his dance house. That's brutal. What's that all about? Come on. Let the guy live. Finger gun capital of the world. dance house. That's brutal. What's that all about? Come on. Let the guy live. Finger gun capital of the world. Come on. What's he up to?

What's that? What's Urban up to? You know what he's doing. He's on a boat. Well, it is spring break, so. Maybe he is on a boat. Yeah. He's definitely down.

Smoking dope. Smoking dope. He's down at Lottie Dottie for spring break. Well, he needs to stay out of the elbow room. Yeah. He's down there at Lottie Dottie. And if he goes, just stay off the dance floor. Yeah.

Just dance floor. Well, easier said than done. Hands in pockets. AJ, what's the if he goes, just stay off the dance floor. Yeah, dance floor. That's what I told you. Easier said than done. Hands in pockets. AJ, what's the deal? Why did he go to the dance floor? Is that guy just a mover and a groover, huh? I mean, didn't he say that was his one big mistake?

Shouldn't have gone to the dance floor. They're trying to get him on the dance floor, and you know you're not a dancer. I told the guys, should have just had the steak, and then should have just went home. I shouldn't have gone to the dance floor. That's what I told the guys. What did the guys say?

Next question. Next question. Let's revisit that dance floor, because you weren't actually on the dance floor. You were actually sitting on a stool next to the dance floor. I'm not answering any more questions. An alternate video just came out, and there was more than one finger gun.

Do you remember that? Like I said, should have went to the dance floor. Should have went to the dance floor. Everybody knows when Urban Meyer hits the dance floor, finger guns become AK-47s. You know what I mean? That's right.

Yeah. I guess it's just called the Meyer Chophouse, though. No, just Chophouse 614. So they dropped Urban Meyer's name and still a Chophouse. Is that how many wins

he has at Ohio State? I don't think he's got that many. He was only there, what, seven years? So a total of seven. No, though. Maybe total wins.

In his entire history. 614 is an area code. Oh, that's a stupid area code. Oh. Oh, what are the next seven digits of your number, AJ? I don't have it. I don't have a 614 area code. I got my phone back in Green Bay.

What is it? 920. That's my area code. 920. 4. 555. Oh, come on. Don't do that Hollywood shit. Yeah, come on.

Don't do that. Does anybody have a 555 number? Maybe. That's why Hollywood does it. It's annoying, too. It's hard for me to take a movie serious immediately upon hearing 555, too. You could have got a little bit more creative. Like, 123 is better than you doing 555.

Let's talk about some stuff. Baker Mayfield said goodbye to Cleveland in a long note screenshot. Everybody's saying it's not an official goodbye, but it sure felt like Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns are kind of done. Obviously, the Browns met with Deshaun Watson just yesterday. An inside source alleges that it was a good meeting between the Browns and Deshaun Watson. That team obviously stacked, packed to the gills.

They got some money. They are releasing Austin Hooper to free up some more cap space. Is that for Deshaun Watson? Is that for another move that they have to make on the D-line like Chandler Jones? Baker Mayfield seems to be moving on. Sorry, Baker Reagan Mayfield seems to be moving on. In Pro Football Network's Tony Pauline is reporting that Baker wants to go to the Colts. How do you feel about this, AJ, and what are your thoughts on it all?

Well, the only way Baker leaves Cleveland, right, is if they ship him out because they're bringing Deshaun Watson in, correct? Bingo. So, I mean, there's no guarantee they get Deshaun Watson. We know that. There's multiple teams going for him. So, is this, for Baker, is the damage already done with the organization? He sounds pretty hurt or sad by whatever's going on.

That's why he puts this out when I'm sure the team doesn't enjoy the fact that he put this out. Let's read this message here. Let's read this message from Baker Reagan Mayfield, BRM. What do you think that is? Why do you put your full name? Just to let people know I am a fucking professional. Cleveland, he says in bold title of the note, is Cleveland comma. The past four years have been nothing short of truly life-changing

since I heard my name called on draft day to go to Cleveland. This is not a message with hidden meaning. All right? This is strictly to thank the city of Cleveland for embracing my family and me. We have made many memories and shared growing in this process through all the ups and downs. i have no clue what happens next which is the meaning behind the silence i have had during the duration of this process i can only control what i can which is trusting in god's plan god's plan god's plan throughout this process i have given this franchise everything i have

that is something i've always done at every stage and at every level. And that will not change wherever I take my next snap. Whatever happens, I just want to say thank you to the fans who truly embrace who I am and the mentality that aligns so well with this city's hardworking people. Cleveland will always be a part of Emily and my story. And we will always be thankful for the impact it has had and will have in our lives. Sincerely, Baker, Reagan, Mayfield. Wow.

Sounds like Baker knows something that the public doesn't. Like maybe the Browns are definitely moving on, whether they get Deshaun Watson or not. This is certainly an interesting note section that you would put out if you were to go back to said team. But anything can get handled with good football. So maybe Baker, Reagan, Mayfield goes back to Cleveland because it feels like Deshaun's going to Atlanta today,

and Atlanta has reached out to him with an entire pitch deck. He's reached out to Atlanta. It's his home. And the Colts feel like they're just sitting in limbo. Wherever Deshaun goes, we're picking up the contract or the quarterback from that place. That's what's being reported. Who knows what's real and what isn't, though, AJ?

So, I mean, there has to be a good chance that Baker Mayfield is back in Cleveland, right? Because even if they don't get Deshaun, how are they still – they already picked up Baker's option. How would they move on for him? Who comes in? What do you do? Make a trade for Matt Ryan straight up? Or Mariota's still out there.

Jamie. Jameis Winston's still out there. But you already picked up his fifth-year option, though. Yeah, but some other team can, too. But I would assume if you get Deshaun, they would say, okay, cool, we'd love to have Deshaun. But if not, we'll stay with Baker. That's what I would think they would be doing.

Yeah, but if they trade away his fifth-year option, they get Mariota at like $4 million, $5 million a year, and they think he's an upgrade. By the way, I am not saying this. I'm just saying you've got to think for Andrew Barry. Why would Baker put that message out if he didn't hear that he was probably going to be on the move next season? It feels like that is – right?

Am I misreading that? Yeah. No, you're not misreading it. It definitely sounds like he feels like I won't be at Cleveland anymore. But do you think Cleveland feels that way? Cleveland may have told him, hey, I want to be up front with you I want to be honest we're going to go after we're going to explore bringing Deshaun Watson in here I don't want you to be offended whatever we're going to do what's best for the team and then left it at that and then Baker takes it as I'm gone

some report came out and said that they have been transparent with Baker that they are going to look at all top tier quarterbacks that are potentially available. Maybe more has come from that, and I forget who reported that. So let's assume they're maybe looking in on Russell Wilson then too, right? Which Baker probably heard. They're in on Deshaun. Obviously, publicly, we've heard that. So if you're Baker, you're like, I don't want to fucking go back to this team. Is it Baker maybe saying, like, hey, I appreciate what you guys have done,

but at this point, why would I want to go back to this team? And maybe that's the difference between professional football and college and high school football. I'm not 100% sure. That's kind of how a friend of the program, Dano Orslovsky, was spinning it this morning. Like, no matter if they don't get Deshaun or whatever, there's no way that Baker can go back to that team

and not feel, like, disrespected and stuff like that and can't even play under that circumstance? Guy played with broken, humorous, and torn thing. Come on. Guy was in a sling all year. They had him thrown 60 times trying to make him look bad. Set him up for failure. For the shoot.

So, wait, no. Is Dana Orszewski saying because, not because of the letter Baker put out, but because it's been public that Cleveland's trying to court Deshaun Watson to town that there's no way Baker can come back and be the guy now just because of the letter Baker put out, but because it's been public that Cleveland's trying to court Deshaun Watson to town, that there's no way Baker can come back and be the guy now just because of that. Listen, Dan says a lot of stuff. Seems like that. Okay, but he might be talking from where he thinks Baker's at right now. Hey, Baker absolutely has, he 100% should feel that way a little bit.

They should sting. It should hurt a little bit that they may be going after deshaun watson but if you take a step back all right what's the best for me i gotta i gotta be ready when it's my time to go wherever that may be and not just instantly turn off cleveland because what if cleveland wants to move on from you send you somewhere to be a backup like you want to do that so the interesting thing here is and this is a much different level but the colts when a new regime came in, they told me they were going to bring in four guys that knew how to directional punt,

and you need to figure it out or we're going to cut you. This is a contract here for me, by the way. You need to figure it out and go elsewhere. And I immediately thought, fuck these dudes. But also for my job, okay, I better figure out how to fucking do directional punting, and when these dudes show up, I need to dunk on these dudes. That happened throughout your entire career at a lot of positions. I assume this happened to you as well.

The fact that it's the quarterback position, it's a little bit different, I guess, especially because the conversation about Baker's future contract stipulations have been in conversation, and last year was obviously drama-filled. Maybe Baker just wants a fresh start, but also with what you're saying, it's like, hey, this is what the NFL is. This is how it's always going to be. You can still prove that you're going to be the guy for Cleveland long-term by coming out and balling next year. That's what you're saying? Absolutely, and like I said, it's not easy. It can't be easy for Baker sitting there

knowing what he played through and the pain that he played through and what he's done, that the team is out there searching for this other guy, searching for Deshaun Watson. But once you get over that, once you let that anger settle down a little bit, it's like you. Use it as your motivation. Like, all right, I don't care. If these guys don't believe me, cool.

I'm going to kill everybody out here. They're all going to see who I am, and everyone's going to forget that they even went after Deshaun Watson. Bingo. And then you can actually hit some of these every single time to your own team. That happens a lot. Yeah, believe me. A lot of the best things that happen are because you are really mad at your coaches or different people in the organization,

and it feels very good to do things when that's the case. One million percent, by the way. And Baker seems to have that mentality, that chip on his shoulder. He's tough as nails. He took one of the hardest shots I've ever seen in college. He tried to run away, and that cop just blasted him. Oh, yeah. That honestly is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen.

And also the cop, great angle. Oh, yeah. Former Sooner, probably. Great coverage. He's lucky Baker's head didn't hit that ledge, and he would be dead. Like, Baker, he can absorb a hit, man. Yeah, we saw a guy talk a bell this morning, get picked up and dumped on his head, and he was out immediately upon the head hitting the ground.

So at that state of mind, I think it only takes a little bit, too, for you to potentially be night-night. Baker's able to survive that hit and a lot more. He's a tough son of a bitch, that guy. On 316 day, too, I couldn't imagine Baker Mayfield coming to Indianapolis Coltsts how pumped that would be. Do you think at this point now because there are a couple teams that

haven't done anything quarterback wise and are kind of on the outside looking in like will this increase his worth if he were to be traded? Or is the book kind of already out on him? I don't know if the Colts would necessarily be like okay well it didn't work with Carson West. I'll give you our first round.

That's the other part of it. He sure as hell isn't going Like, I don't know if the Colts would necessarily be like, okay, well, it didn't work with Carson. I'll give you our first round. Yeah, throw those around. That's the other part of it is, I mean, he sure as hell isn't going for a first round pick, you'd think. Well, I mean. Where is the closest Cheesecake Factory? Okay. All right. You're a terrible person. What happened?

We'll move on. I love Cheesecake Factory. I don't know what happened. Me too, by the way. Fucking love it. AJ. AJ ordered it every single night at the house. Spent $5,000 on Cheesecake. Thank you't know what happened me too by the way fucking love it AJ AJ ordered it every single night at the house

spent $5,000 on cheesecake thank you for that thank you AJ AJ did that strictly because he eats a terrible meal that is just

the blandest chicken of all time and I need plain ass rice but he also wants to fit in and order for everybody else and Cheesecake Factory

has those options exactly so that's why AJ goes right am I accurate yeah no because they have the biggest menu I say it all the time it's the greatest restaurant in the history of of the earth I don't know what you guys are talking about what happened but the menu is gigantic so I could order for a house full of 20 people and everyone seemed to be somewhat happy with what I ordered it's a good move because you do eat like a robot like

a machine you can still fit in and say guys guys, I'll order food. Because normally with the people who eat like you do, there's only a couple places and it's all that terrible trash. I don't have taste buds food. Exactly. Cheesecake Factory has it all for you. It was perfect. Watching you work the Cheesecake Factory menu was so good. I think I ordered four times for the house in that week.

In four days. It was bum, bum, bum, bum. Every night. You were a hero. You were a fucking hero. There's mini corn dogs. Oh, my God. Egg rolls.

Oh, yeah. Fried Oreos. Hey, I had to search. I remember I told Sam, I'm like, let me get cheesecake back here. What do you guys like? And you're like, mini corn dogs. Love mini corn dogs. And I spent 20 minutes scrolling the menu, and I was like, oh, it's on the kids' menu.

My bad. Like, I had to find your meal on the kids' menu. It wasn't my meal. Okay? I was just asking for it to be a part of it. It was a snack for everybody. Jeez Louise. Anyways, I forget what we were going to say about Baker.

Deshawn's gone. Open a Cheesecake Factory or something? All right. We're getting away from that. Gumpy's on too in March Madness. We have to remember that anything coming out of that head with that great shirt on and those

incredible glasses, potentially coming from an upset man. His soul is a little bit down right now. He will turn that whole thing around. But Baker Mayfield coming to the Colts. You like that more than Jimmy G? So here's the thing. No way. Jimmy G's

fucking come on, Jimmy. Yeah. Come on, Jimmy. And the San Francisco 49ers were able to clear some more cap space by turning George Kittle's contract into signing bonus and Eric Armstead. Eric Armstead's salary into a signing bonus,

they saved like 18 million or something. Which once again, salary cap isn't real. It's not fucking real. Anybody that tells you it is, is making an excuse on why they're not doing something to make the team better. So you just need to know that I'm happy we can be the spotlight for that entire initiative.

But if you look at what the Colts have done, and I don't want to be this guy, but I'm going to be this guy. We love our money in-house. We love our draft picks. We have no first-round pick this year because we paid Carson Wentz $30 million. He's no longer on the team this year. The year before that, we paid Phillip Rivers $25 million and Jacoby Bursette $20 million. Then you go back even further to the Andrew Luck whenever he returned we have spent like 120 million dollars on quarterbacks in the last four years none of them are still on the team and we lose our first round pick it's kind of

completely counterproductive to the entire narrative of what happens but i feel like the colts are going to swing big on a quarterback whether it's matt ryan baker mayfield or anybody else i feel like that is still to happen in the next few days but it always depending upon deshaun watson and that is what we just sit around and wait for here in indianapolis i guess so is there any for many of the you know the so-called experts the insiders is there any time table on what could happen with Deshaun and when something might happen? So the Houston Texans just tweeted a photo of Casario on the phone. He looked very cool. Yeah, he did.

He looked very, very, very cool. And allegedly reports have said any team that wants to sit down and talk with Deshaun, they had to present a trade offer to the Houston Texans first. So anybody that is meeting with Deshaun, they had to present a trade offer to the Houston Texans first. So anybody that is meeting with Deshaun Watson has already been approved for what they have offered up to the Texans for Deshaun Watson. For instance, Cleveland met with him yesterday. They had to present a trade option to the Houston Texans. Houston Texans say, that'll do.

Go to the next room. Have a meeting with Deshaun Watson. The Falcons had to do the same thing. Panthers and Saints had to do the next room. Have a meeting with Deshaun Watson. The Falcons had to do the same thing. Panthers and Saints had to do the same thing. So Casario, I believe, has confirmed all the teams that have met with Deshaun Watson. This photo was tweeted by the Texans. It said Casario just sent us this photo. Didn't tell us what it meant, but he's cooking or something like that.

So maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Who knows how this will all plan out. But I assume they're trying to get Deshaun Watson's contract off their books sooner than later. Yes, they absolutely would like to get his contract off the books. Who is going to be the Houston Texans quarterback then? Dougie Davis Mills. Come on.

I mean, the Atlanta thing intrigues me to see if Matt Ryan would slide on over to Houston if they did that. Everybody's saying wherever Deshaun goes, their quarterback's coming to the Colts. It's a three-team. Honestly, Baker to Indianapolis makes some sense to me. It really does. Frank Reich said to James Palmer yesterday, allegedly. I think it was James Palmer.

Was it James Palmer that had to report? He reported it, yeah. Frank Reich told him that he wants a quarterback that is available for OTAs and offseason, everything like that. So does that mean Matt Ryan is who he's looking for? Because Baker's still coming out of that surgery, right? I mean, he's still got his entire thing going on. Yeah, non-throwing shoulder though, right?

Yeah, Jimmy G just had shoulder surgery, so he's not available. So all eyes seem to go to, if you take that statement for fact, seems like Matt He's a player. Matt Ryan's a hell of a player. He's once an MVP. He's been to a Super Bowl. He's been to a Super Bowl, yeah.

What's going on with Blake? Matt Ryan didn't want to do that. The good thing is, Matt's not going to scramble around town. He's going to sit in the pocket and let that thing fly. The good thing is, hey, Matt's not going to scramble all around town. He's going to sit in the pocket and let that thing fly. Yeah, and the good news is he doesn't have to throw it

because he won't have a deep threat. Mo Ali Cox. Mo Ali Cox just got re-signed. He's a big body. He used to play basketball. Fucking hit him for five, seven yards.

Hand the ball off to Jonathan Taylor. Let's keep this thing moving. Bring Kenny Moore over to offense. Have him play like Cordero Patterson on both sides. Hand it off to him.

A little scat back. Naeem Hines is still around. Put him at the slot. Matt Ryan can make all of those throws. As can Jimmy G. As could Baker Mayfield. Or maybe bring in Hooper, too. A little Atlanta reunion between Hooper and Matt Mayfield.

Cordero Patterson, too. Cordero, bring him in. Bring in Gilly Locke on the defensive side of the ball. Chandler Jones on the D-line. Oh my God. The Colts are all of a sudden winning

the fucking Super Bowl. They're plus 2,800. Better get on that now because that thing's going down to plus

200 probably. After all the moves that Chris Ballard's going to make today. We're back in four minutes. What the fuck

is going on? Why don't we sign somebody? We don't have a quarterback. You were saying it before. We don't have a quarterback. You were saying it before. They need to get a quarterback before a guy's going to come to the team

and be like, yeah, I'm all in on Indianapolis, even though Sam Ellinger is the quarterback right now. Jacksonville Jaguars have made a lot of moves. The Jets have made a lot of moves. The Giants have made a lot of moves. The Cardinals, obviously, in the ballgame. Dolphins. Dolphins.

Seattle, they got in the ballgame. Dolphins. Dolphins. Seattle. They got rid of their quarterback. Yeah. They're allegedly not into the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes at all, even though that was supposed to be hot on the internet two weeks ago. Is that something with the owner of the front office that isn't allowing them to draft him or what? I'm not sure.

I have no idea. But that was something where everybody's like, oh, they're getting all these picks for Russell Wilson so they can bundle that, send him to Houston, get Deshaun Watson in there. Allegedly, they're getting all these picks for Russell Wilson so they can bundle that, send them to Houston, get to Sean Watson in there. Allegedly, they haven't been in the conversation at all. All right, we're back in about four minutes with some phone calls on the 5RNG phone line. Cannot wait to chat with these people, AJ.

Hey, I'm excited to see if they have similar views to you, like with the Colts, with whatever their team is. I don't know how people truly feel about these quarterbacks. Hey, real quick, before we get to it, how was the mountain safari yesterday? You see any bears? Oh, we saw like a 5,000 elk roaming around and some bison and all kind of stuff. We were out in this wagon being pulled by horses and freezing cold, sleeting rain, but it was sweet. Oregon Trail.

What the hell, dude? Hey, skiing, yeah, we got to get equipment that fits better. And never skied before, and my knees were in pain. But, yeah, skiing, yeah. We got to get equipment that fits better. And never skied before. My knees are in pain. But yeah, it was fun. We'll do that. Oh, then we're in the back of a wagon being pulled by horses in the middle of sleet and rain. Yeah, but it was fun.

Sounds awesome. This is the greatest spring break of all time. Yeah. Hey, no joke. This morning, we went to a Hot Springs. They had like five different Hot Springs you get in. And we just got back. And during it, my wife and I were like, this is the best trip we've had with the kids.

We have actually activities that seem to go somewhat well. Although it doesn't sound like it when it's presented to you, this is actually kind of, we're operating close to our peak level right now compared to what we have in the past. Axel pooped in that hot spring, any of them? Shockingly Axel did not poop, but axel is a big reason why we didn't ski all afternoon that dude freaked out after 10 minutes and it was a situation oh no i love that guy joining us now is a man who i'd love to have a couple beers with it does appear as if he survived his trip to vegas which was happening last week which is great news because we didn't know how

that was going to go hockey icon stanley cup Stanley Cup champion, co-host of That's Hockey Talk, which is on tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern at youtube.com forward slash That's Hockey Talk. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Ruppert. Michael Ruppert! What's up? What's up, fellas? What's wrong? What's up, man? You in a handball league?

I got the... I saw CFO Phil rocking the jersey online today and I'm like, I got one of those bitches, so I put it on. We got the tournament starting right now. I'm not dressed like Stone Cold, but come on, man. Thank you, Rapper. Thank you,. Hey, thank you, Rupert.

Thank you, Rupert. Thank you, Rupert. Hey, I was in, you said it, I was in Vegas last week, and, you know, maybe picked up a new style. I don't know. How was it? How was Vegas at this point? Because, you know, the Vegas scene was dead there for a bit.

Yeah. Obviously. You wouldn't even know it was Vegas. Are they all the way back? Is Vegas all the way back? Is Vegas all the way back? How was your trip out there? Did you win gambling? And did your liver say, all right, enough, let's get the fuck out of this hellhole?

No, no, everything was great, man. I mean, you know what's funny is we talked about this before. It's like prior Golden Knights, right? Like they were in the finals. Geez, what year was that? That was 18 against the Caps, right? I'd never been to Vegas prior to that. But since that team's gotten there, whether it's going there for NHL Network

or then just going a few times on personal, it's like I've been to Vegas a ton. Actually been good pretty much, I feel like. I mean, I didn't go through that nasty stretch right at the beginning of COVID, but it was awesome, man. It was good. Everything was – people were out and about and jumping around, and it was fun. It was a good time.

The weather was cold, though, man. It was not very warm, but I had a great time. But it's just like any other – everybody's always told me, and I feel it every time I go out there. It's like after about three days, four days, you're like, all right, dude, I'm good. So I got out of there and got back to work. So it was good though, man. I loved it. Great. 72 hour time, you know, great, great. 72, 48. I mean, depending upon how hard you go, good to get in, see everybody. That's why the people that work there and are in the like VIP and work in the clubs and everything. There has been a couple of people I've seen there like

over a scan of like four years where I'm there for 48 hours trying to kill myself. And then I'm going home and they got another dude who's coming in there trying to kill himself for the next 48 hours. And they're there for four years or whatever. It's like your stamina is fucking unbelievable. What they're able to shout to the Vegas VIP. Thank you.

Thank you. No. And I, I went to, you know, I was out there for those few days. And then I was, we were originally planning on coming back to New Jersey. And one of my old teammates, Miko Coy, who had his jersey retirement in Minnesota, first wild player to ever get his jersey retired. So I'm like, I'm not going to miss that, right?

So we kind of rebooked the flight and that that hour that one hour we all fucking hate in the spring right there on saturday that we that we get uh so i went to a concert's concert got out at like 12 30 kind of mingle around whatever it's like two o'clock i'm like i should go back and pack i got an early flight i go back to the hotel room, start packing my stuff. I got to wake up, call at 4. This is 2 o'clock. And all of a sudden, 2 o'clock comes, and the motherfucker jumps to 3. And I'm like, what?

Oh, my God. I'm like, are you kidding me right now? So I did, like, no sleep right before the Minnesota Jersey ceremony. And that was a little bit of a bender after that, too. So it's good to be back and getting a little bit of a normal flow again. Hey congrats Rupert! Got a sweatband on a jersey. You still got it dude!

You still got it! You hockey guys know how to throw it down. Let's talk a little hockey and I know AJ has questions as well. Ohio guys anytime you see that type of energy it's it's very real. Tonight on That's Hockey Talk what are we talking about? Do we have any guests?

And when are the Pens winning the Stanley Cup? This year, next year, or both? Well, hey, there's one team right now. AJ knows them real well. Colorado Avalanche. Last couple days, dude. These guys have gotten better and better. I don't know.

I know trade deadlines. Trade deadline is Monday. Is it Monday? Five days, so Monday. The best team in the league has been the only team making trades right now, and they're getting better. So actually, our guest tonight, I'm still waiting to get confirmation on how that goes, especially during the season.

They're getting kind of down to that stretch drive. I was actually thinking about it might be fun to get Jack Johnson on. And maybe he could fly some stories. But I requested Nazem Khadri. So we're still waiting to hear back if they could swing that. They're out west. They got a little bit of a travel going on.

So we'll see, man. But we're hoping for that. But yeah, that team has gotten better. This trade deadline is going to be nuts. There's some heavy hitters in the Eastern Conference that are going to be swinging for the fucking fences. That's right. And, you know, a lot of teams think they really got a shot.

And I'll say this, though, Pat, and I know you say that about Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh does have a shot. They have a need that I don't know if they're going to. You know, that's the tough part, right, with the salary cap. And you got – it's so tight. All these teams are so tight that they're waiting. They've had some conversations in place for weeks, maybe even a month or two, but they have to wait till certain part of the schedule passes because they don't want to grab on some more salary. Like, you know what I mean? Like every day that passes gives them a little tick lower from the salary cap ceiling.

And they have to wait to the deadline. Some teams might get fleeced here and lose out on a guy they really want. It'll be interesting, man. It's going to be a fun few days leading up to it. That's happening in the NFL. As Ruppert was speaking right there, news has broken in the NFL. Chandler Jones

officially with the Raiders. Wow! I thought he was coming to the Colts. We don't have a quarterback. It's hard to recruit people. They also have Ngokwe and Max Crosby. Oh my, Josh McDaniels going all in. How many minutes? 17? 17 million a year for Chandler Jones to join that Raiders squad

that Josh McDaniels is trying to make. And we've had a lot of Raiders calls the last couple days. Get excited. Sounds like the team's going to be great. Let's get back to the NHL. Jack Johnson and the Avalanche stink. AJ, your question. Well, Rupert said it.

You know, the Avs are obviously doing well. But, Rupert, you were mentioning your Vegas situation, how that went down. Obviously, you didn't complain about it. You can make it work, and you just go. You can go both ends of the candle, as they say. Are guys now in the league, are they any different than when you first got in the league like are they are there guys that can still go like that both ends of the candle as you say uh you know what and it's kind of funny because like even when i came in you know my first year was 2003 and um it was kind of getting to the end of that old school stage, right?

You know, I mean, I remember distinctively. And, you know, I've had stories with a lot of guys that the way it used to be was, you know what? You went out with the boys every night on the road. And you had your beers. And this is what it was. This is like part of the process of learning how to be a pro. And some of these guys, when I broke in, it was this is like part of the process of learning how to be a pro and some of these guys so when i when i broke in it wasn't always like that but there's a lot of old school guys that maybe started you know in the early 80s or you know like they're starting in mid 80s or late 80s and uh these guys would go out throw down their beers they go to bed you know they they'd slug them pretty good go to bed at a reasonable hour and then these guys would be

you know practice at 10 30 in the morning on the road. These guys get in there at seven and they just go and they go on the bike and they just go for for a steady, you know, sweat, sweat it out. And it was incredible. And these guys played at a high level. And I don't know, it's like I feel like at that point, it's not, you know, listen, it's so different now, I'm sure, not all sports. Right. But it's it's I mean, it's not you know listen it's it's so different now i'm sure not all sports right but it's it's i mean it's 365 now i mean you're training you're everything is revolving around getting your body healed rested ready to go but you know i also think back in the day it was it taught you how to be a professional because you know what hey go out and do your thing but those

guys held each other accountable when it came to the rink the next day. And you're not coming in. If you're playing and if those guys are playing guilty, you better fucking perform or someone's going to slam you up against the wall and let you know. You know what I'm saying? So it was something. Yeah, no, it's different now, man. I even found in my career you legitimately have probably three nights during the entire season where it's

like the team lets it go. You know what I mean? You got your rookie dinner. You're going to have like a West Coast trip if you're an East Coast team where you're going to have a certain days and fall. And the good coaches out there and the good GMs, they schedule it for that, right? We're going to have a Florida trip and we're going to have, you know, we're going to give you guys three days.

Instead of coming back home for a night, we're going to give you three days down there. Here's the credit card. Like, let it loose a little bit. So, you know, it still happens, but it's like few and far between, that's for sure. Okay, so let's talk about the NHL's new TV deals. They leave NBC. Now they're on Turner and on ESPN. But Turner is the NBA and now college basketball.

And ESPN puts them on ESPN plus how come I'm not seeing Sidney Crosby every single night how come every single game isn't on national television do you think that happens as we get closer to the playoffs and these other sports just kind of have to die off what do you and do you think the NHL is happy with the move to Turner and ESPN I think that it's um I think the opportunities that are going to, that are existing and, and, and in front of the NHL, yes, they are excited. It's a process though. I think that these two networks are still going to be building out things over the next little time, seeing what works, seeing what doesn't work. You know, I, I think that, yeah, there, there's certainly an element of it, and we've talked about it before on here. Like, you know, the NHL season, even when you're a player, you don't have a lot of –

you try to stay away from NFL Sunday on the schedule, right? You try to schedule accordingly. And to be honest with you, in some spots, like in Pittsburgh or in Columbus or in some – you know, down in Texas, you stay away from Friday nights. You're not going to play games on Friday nights. You're not going to play games on Friday nights. You're not going to get the tickets. You're not going to get the revenue from it because you've got high school football. So, you know, it's something that hockey's always navigated through the fall part,

and then really after Christmas and into the NFL playoffs and post, it starts picking up, and that's really the best time of the year. I mean, I find that in the playoffs in probably April or so, there's no better sport to watch than hockey, and you get the playoffs going. So, yeah, you know what? It's going to be more and more familiar as far as Sid and the Penguins. Once playoffs start, they're going to get a lot of games on national TV.

I think that's when you're going to start seeing ESPN put it more on the big network. And then you're going to have them on ABC. Turner's going to start doing some more stuff. They're going to have Wayne at more events. I mean, they're going to start pulling out all the stops. Yeah, they're going to start pulling out all the stops down the stretch here. So I think it's good, and I think it's going to be good. It's just, hey, it's going to be an adjustment because they're

trying to adjust and go into this streaming world out there, right? Not everybody has crossed over to the dark side yet to streaming, so it's going to take a little bit of time. Wayno, top three player of all time. That's right. That guy. Bobby Orr. Bobby Orr.

Shut up. Bobby Orr. Shut up. Massive drop-off6". Bobby Orr. Shut up. Mario Lemieux. Massive drop-off. Then Wayne. No. Sidney Crosby. Mario Lemieux.

Stoner. Wayno. Wayno. Bobby Orr. Stoner maybe down there in the top ten. Listen, I don't need to hear this whenever they weren't wearing helmets. Who's playing what? Oh, Bobby.

They were wearing helmets. Sidney Crosby back in the, would have scored 4,000 goals. You remember those goalies were wearing what? Batteries on their thing. They had no helmets on, so they weren't putting their face in front of anything. There was goons protecting Wayno and Mary. Sid's got to fight for

him fucking self out there, because the rest of the team won't. And he still beat Sid's number one, Mary O'Meara's number two, then Wayno's number three. Stoner's four. If we're putting Ueno in three, Stoner's got to be. Yeah, you're up. Yeah, right.

Ruffer, speaking of Stoner and the Golden Knights, I mean, what the fuck's going on? I'm starting to lose my patience. Are we going to get some goaltending help? I mean, are they going to get a guy who's not going to let up, you know, eight, nine goals every single fucking night? Is Stoner ever coming back? Can they get the cement out of his skates?

And Jackie Aces, I feel like I was sold a false bill of goods. I mean, what the hell is going on? Yeah, man, that's a loaded one. Here's situations for the fans that don't know. So this Vegas Golden Knights team, right, they came in the league year one, expansion, Stanley Cup finals, Never happened before in any sport. And these fans there, and you know, man, you know, Ty,

you guys don't know losing yet. They haven't lost. I mean, they haven't won a Stanley Cup, but this team's been an elite team from day one. They're going through some shit now. And what they did, they've been making huge, bold moves in all their years so far.

And it's almost been like they're making these moves dealing with the consequences later. So they make those massive moves. You know, they trade for Jack Eichel before his surgery. So they know that they're not going to have him for a while. They did the same stuff here when they had $12 million in goaltending with Marc-Andre Fleury and Robin Leonard. They always make these big moves, and there's salary cap issues for the team, and they just deal with it later.

So that point being, they can't really fucking do anything right now. You guys stink, man. You're dead. They are so capped out, even if they were. First of all, they're struggling really bad right now because they're banged up. They've got a lot of important pieces out. They're starting goaltenders out. Stoner's one that really concerns me because this guy's the heartbeat of this team, the captain.

He's been banged up all year. I don't know if he's going to be healthy. His best days are already behind him. Yikes. He's done. Yikes. This guy's done. So this team is almost like –

They're almost like – Would you dare? They're almost kind of dying a slow death right now, and they can't do anything about it. Wow. Like, hold on. I'm not saying they're going to – Hey, I'm not saying they're going to die.

They're just struggling right now. Like, hold on. I'm not saying they're going to die. They're just struggling right now. But the point is they can't get any relief. They're not going to be able to do anything substantial at the trade deadline. No one's coming in the door. So it's got to be within that group. So this is why I look to Jack Yates. I look to Jack Eichel. And I'm like, all right, man.

You've had now 15, 16 games. And I've always thought in the way of if you're playing in the lab, I know we had neck surgery, man. I'm not trying to discount that or what that is. I have no idea what you've got to go through. But once you start playing again and once you start getting games under your belt, you're back. There's no more excuses.

When you're in the lineup, you're there and you're healthy. And so now we're getting to the point. I think it's time for Jack Eichel to take over and get some wins for this team. He's played enough games now. He's played like 15 games. But I don't know, man. If they don't change it here soon, they might in a week or so,

they might be out of it. Oh! Oh, that'd be a real shame. Oh, that'd be a real shame. Let's have another team that's out of it. Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, well, actually, I'm glad you said that, Pat, because right now the hottest team in the league,

rapper will agree, is the Boston Bruins. And, you know, I love the Knights and the Penguins, but let's talk about a team who's been there since the birth of the NHL, the Boston Bruins. Reps, are we going to go out and get Flyer or Patty Kane or someone who's going to take us over that hump to get us to the Stanley Cup final? Flowers coming home. Flowers coming home.

The one guy that we're hearing rumors on, and we're hearing rumors from Boston, out of Boston, I should say, for everybody. They're one of those teams that, hey, I'll be frank. I'll be totally frank to you. Marauder. Fucking hate Boston. Hate us because we're the best, Russ. Sorry.

Maybe that's it. I've always had this thing for Boston teams. And whatever. It's whatever. It's because I'm a Cleveland fan. We don't want to shit. And, you know, these guys are better than us. So, anyways.

So, I'll say this, though. That team has been really fun to watch because they're always in the mix every year for free agency, for trade deadline. Like these guys go all in for their fans. And you've got to respect that. And they do in all the sports. So they're a great fan base. Their teams are great.

I just hate them. And this Bruins team, though, the one guy that I'm hearing, if they can land him, it'll be huge. Tomas Hurdle. Big, big centerman out of San Jose. San Jose, he's a pending UFA. San Jose really wants to sign him. I don't know if they're going to be able

to because they've got a lot of bad contracts. He's going to demand a lot. So this would be a rental player for the Bruins. And they've actually looked really good since they broke up that top line. And then they now have David Pasternak on line, too, with Taylor Hall and Eric Holla.

But Eric Holla, he's a very good, useful utility player. He's not a second-line center. If they can get Tomas Hurdle, this team can make a little bit of noise. I mean, it's going to be tough. That Eastern Conference, man, they're loaded. I told you, the three teams that are swinging

for the fences are the Florida Panthers,thers carolina hurricanes and that sneaky one the new york rangers have 30 million dollars in cap space no team in the league is close to that so they're rumored with patty kane they can afford any player in the league and they've got the prospects to pull off a trade so if they think they're there now and they want to go for it i think this could change everything. And that's where it comes into play to affect, you know, Nick, you, you know, Pat, Phil, the Penguins probably going to play the Rangers in the first round.

Having all the cap space means nothing. Okay. If I've learned anything over the last couple of days, having cap space means nothing. Okay? That's true. That's a fair point. Thank you.

That's a fair point. With that being said, everybody's saying, and this might be just me outside looking in and seeing it, but everybody's saying that that Boston barn is now the easiest place to play because the Boston Bruins fans have kind of quit on the team. Tell them, Ruff. And they kind of lost their entire passion for the squad because they got to rap Marshawn, licking people's faces. Tell them the home record.

They're saying the barn is bad. Boston fans have quit on the Bruins. Is that real? That barn's terrible now? The barn is terrible to go in on the road. Boom! Oh! Toughest barn in the league is what Rupert just said.

That's Pittsburgh. Just think about it this way. Oh, toughest part in the league is what Robert just said. You know what? Just think about it this way. And, you know, I say this tongue-in-cheek because, Connor, I love you. It's like having fucking 18,000 Connors in that fucking room. Exactly. Exactly. You've got these guys.

You've got these guys. You wonder why Brad Marchand is licking faces. These guys are licking the glass. They're spilling beers on each other. It's a disaster down there. Don't put them out. It's a good fan base. I'll give them that. That's how the Patriots stadium is as well.

Oh, yeah. And they have reasons to be arrogant. So it's just like not only are they great at being loud and arrogant and obnoxious, they also have like 20 years of success behind it for those Patriots games. You can't say anything about it, right? Yeah, you just got to sit there and be like, you fucking rat scumbag. You're right, I guess. You've done nothing on the field, but you guys are probably going to beat us by 50 today.

And I would like to not hear from you ever again. Go ahead, Frankie boy. Roper, Ovechkin just passed your boy, Yomar Yager, for third all-time on the NHL goal scoring list. He's at 767 goals right now. Pretty impressive. I think he's 40-some away from that old bag of bones, Gordie Howell, for second all-time. How quickly will he get that?

Will he touch Waino's record? And how happy are you that he passed Yags? I'm happy he passed Yags because I want Ovi to be the all-time greatest scorer in the game. I'm a big fan of just goals in general, and I still think Ovi is the greatest goal scorer of all time, even right now. Wayne has that record for a reason. It's Wayne Gretzky, man. But we've all talked about it before.

This is how absurd Wayne Gretzky was as a player. What's the number? What's Wayne's goal total? You got that? 894. So 894. If you took away those 894 goals and you just went on assists, Wayne Gretzky is the all-time points leader in NHL history.

Jesus. Like, that's insane, right? So we're talking about the all-time points leader in NHL history. That's insane, right? So we're talking about the all-time goal leader. If you took away all of his goals, he'd still have the most points total because of all the assists he's had. So Wayne, did he score goals? Clearly, 894 times. Wayne said Mario's a better shooter.

He said that. You know what? Everybody I've ever talked to that when it compares to Wayne – sorry, Mario was a better goal scorer. Mario was – you know, Mario had this one-on-one factor that I don't know what to compare it to in another sport. But it's like he had that domination, that element that just – you couldn't do anything.

You guys would be draped all over him. Wayne was more of a cerebral guy where he's moving – he just knew took inventory all over the ice you knew where everybody was on both teams he's gonna find the open guy that's how he got all those assists but you know i want to see obie do it i think it's great i mean when you have some of those records that are up forever and people are going to say they're never going to get touched isn't it cool to be as a fan even if you're not a fan just to see that shit happening, we're seeing it happen here in real life. So someday, you know, back in, I don't know anybody that watched some of these great records back in the, you know, the 60s and the 70s that are standing.

You know, we could be like to our kids and grandkids, like, holy shit, I saw that crazy son of a bitch scoring goals until he was 40. And he was unbelievable. Scored goals every year. So I want him to keep going. He will, I think he will pass Wayne Gret every year. So I want him to keep going. I think he will pass Wayne Gretzky. He just signed that deal for, what, five more years.

I think he'll do it in four or five years. How about when Ovi is just drifting down the left side of the ice backwards with his stick up like this, and it's like if this puck comes anywhere near him, it is going to be absolutely nuked. It's just like you see him skating free on the left side, anywhere near him, it is going to be absolutely nuke. Top check. It's just like you see him skating free on the left side, puts the stick up basically, and everybody in the arena is like, a rocket is about to come. And his stick, that thing bangs in half as he's like fucking.

It's unbelievable to watch Ovi go to work. Should have been a penguin. Should have been a penguin, but obviously instead he was capital. And I hated him for a long time but then once he won the the lombardi of hockey and he was just chugging out of that stanley for like 10 straight days i was like i fucking love did that change did that change you know i i always wondered this because like obie was disliked by a lot of people and there was something though and i always had to play against them and i didn't i didn't like him playing against them and but when he won i don't know it's like i just as a player and we all chase it he he finally got it right and now people can close their mouths about

his greatness you know everyone's like oh well he's not going to be this he's not going to be i mean they still do it you know but this guy is great and and he got it, but I want to know, like when you guys are watching, everybody saw it, it was on, it was all over the place. He's member in the fountains, he's doing snow angels in the, in the fountain in DC. Like the guy was hammer drunk for like two straight weeks and everything's documented on, on a social media. And I think people saw like, he's just a, he's just a big kid that wanted to win. Now everybody's like, you know, I'm glad people came around and started liking him.

I loved him after seeing drunk Ovi watch, you know, because, yeah, he was in the fountain, and then he was on a late-night show. Gone. Hammered drunk on TV. It was like, that is why hockey is awesome and different than everybody else. Now, who was that Drew Bennett? Stenson? What was his name?

The kid from Georgia? Oh, Stenson Bennett. Yeah, him, Drew Bennett Stenson. On Good name the kid from Georgia Stenson Bennett good morning America I love that type of stuff you are not letting the media obligations get in the way of your celebration and for me that's like I love that like not bowing down to anybody

Ovi I enjoyed it go ahead AJ well you're going back I think when I saw Ovi swimming in the fountain with 6 inches of water and he's still trying to performt, I think when I saw Ovi swimming in the fountain with six inches of water and he's still trying to perform a decent stroke was when I became a full-go fan of his. I always was, though, but that was one of my favorites. But I wanted to go to the coaches right now.

Who's the best coach in the NHL right now? Sully. Say it, Rupert, say it. You know who it is. Say it, man. Sully. Son of a bitch in Boston. I hate that.

You know what? I'm going to let you in on something. I'm sure you've got to deal with it all the time. Probably ten times more than me, AJ. These fucking guys, the peer pressure they give you for this type of shit, and you start hearing, Sully, Sully, Sully. No, because you know what? It is Sully, and I don't want to say it now.

Hell yeah. That's what I'm saying. Hey, we know hockey, dude. I'm a hockey aficionado. No, I know. I know, but, like, hey, listen, it's that's hockey talk. It's not that's Penguins talk. Oh.

I have to get bones, dude. Penguins is hockey. Better for hockey when it is. But with that being said, like, I'm sitting here like, all right, man, he is. I mean, I really do believe Mike Sullivan right now. I mean, there's some really good ones. Atta baby, Sullivan. Sorry. Bones. What they've good ones. What they've dealt with

this year. I think that that's Gumpy. You're looking good, buddy. Not as good as you. You should see you right now. Have you seen you right now? You are awesome. I mean, Gumpy's certainly awesome. He looks good. That's smooth. It's a smooth look, buddy.

He's heading to Vegas. This team was banged up. good. That's smooth. It's a smooth look, buddy. So he's this team was banged up. They've lost a lot of man games, a lot of important pieces. But here we are right now and everybody's saying don't sleep on the Penguins. This team can, before this season

and I'm telling you, across the board, they were very, very average at best in what everybody thought they'd be. I didn't know if they were going to make the playoffs, and I covered the team. You know what I mean?

So if you're covering the team and you're saying that, then there's a lot of things that you have question marks about. This team, and I think having those big guys out, having Gino out, having Sid out, you're not a better team with those guys out clearly. But what it does is they were missed so many, so much star power that Brian rust out. Jake Gensel was out.

It makes you, you got it. You got to sink or swim. And I think Sully's like, Hey, what are we going to do here? I mean, we got a lot of role player guys here right now.

The fuck are you guys going to do about it? You know what I mean? And the guys responded. And so they, they, they had this foundation in that first half of the season that it was different they were playing a different way and they had this foundation that gave them a chance to win every night so when those guys come back and they find your way to go don't change because superman just walked in the room we still got to do the same thing and they have and i find that he is he has been the most underappreciated coach in the NHL probably. Ever.

And I'm not talking about when they won those back-to-back cups. That was in 16, 17. Probably 18, 19, 20, 21. He's been the most underrated coach in the league. He deserves more attention. I hate saying that because you guys are all Penguins. We know hockey. When he was with the Baby Pens, too, he was fucking unbelievable.

I mean, he's come up through the Penguins system. He's been great all along, you know what I mean? When he was in Altoona or whatever, it was just unbelievable. What did you just say? Former Bruins coach. You guys didn't appreciate him. We'll take him. Yeah, sorry.

A hockey trade just happened, I guess. The Florida Panthers are trading Frank Vatron, though, to the New York Rangers for a fourth-round pick this this year official trade call hasn't happened you literally just talked about the florida panthers being active and the new york rangers having all their cap space are they getting rid of frankie v to open up for somebody else down there in florida or is this the rangers trying to just make some moves it's a nice name isn't it frankie v um yeah it's a depth it's a depth move i mean frankie vittr Frankie Vetrano, he can bounce around your lineup. He's speedy.

He's not very big, but he makes things happen out there. So this isn't a huge deal for the Rangers, more of a depth move. But this is interesting to me because I think the Florida Panthers don't have as much cap space. So maybe they're trying to free some stuff up. I really think this Panthers team is going to try to do something huge. So maybe this is the start of just freeing up a little more cash and figuring things out, but stay tuned.

I don't think the Rangers are done either. I mean, that's a very subtle move. You know what? That's the big thing too. The big moves come trade deadline time. They don't always pan out to be great. The great moves are those subtle ones, right? It's the no-name guy you get for a fourth-round pick that ends up scoring,

you know, six goals in the playoffs. And it sets your team over the top. But, yeah, stay tuned. I think this is going to start heating up. Okay, well, stay tuned. We'll watch tonight. That's Hockey Talk, 8 p.m. Eastern at youtube.com forward slash that'shockeytalk.

Thanks for showing up in the middle of your basketball run to chat with us about hockey and life. We appreciate the hell out of you, Ruppert. Hey, thanks, guys. Good talking to you. We'll talk later. Stanley Cup champion, Las Vegas survivor, Mike Ruppert. Yeah, Ruppert!

Quickly here before we get to a break, the Colts have made a move. That's right. After Chandler Jones signs with the Raiders, the Colts have traded for Yannick Ngakwe. Wow. Defense alignment. The Colts are doing stuff.

Allegedly, this has been in the works for the last 24 hours. The Raiders were just waiting until they could get another D lineman. They bring in Chandler Jones. The Colts get pass rusher Yannick Ngakwe, former pro bowler, absolute stud, sending cornerback Rakia Sin out of town. Does that mean we're adding another DB to the mix? Is Chris Ballard deciding to make some moves here on day two,

day three of the free agency period? League year begins in an hour and 14 minutes. Let's assume more moves are going to happen. Shout out to the Colts. There we go. Is this Chris Maddog Russo. Who got the bag? Somebody in the NFL just got paid. Adam Schefter

is reporting. Jets are giving quarterback Joe Flacco quick feet. Footstep Flacco. A one year, three and a half million dollar deal plus incentives per source. He was on the Jets last year, right? Yes. He came in in lieu of somebody who was an insurance salesman the week before then,

and they played. Mike White. Joe Flacco has had such an interesting kind of career. Obviously gets paid $100 million by the Ravens after winning a Super Bowl, goes to the Broncos, becomes a quarterback, and speaks up for his locker room for the first time publicly. They say, you're hurt. Get the fuck out of here.

He's at the Jets bouncing around, backing up Zach Wilson. The Jets have, obviously, an entire new culture they're trying to build. Keep Joe Flacco, the old grizzled veteran, around. Good for Joe Flacco. Good for the Jets. And C.J. Uzama goes to the Jets, leaving the Bengals. Look at the Jets kind of dabbling a little bit, keeping their team intact. Yeah, they have a bunch of draft picks too, don't they?

Yes. They do. Oh, yeah. They have multiple first-rounders? Yes. Do they? I know the Giants, the Jets also have two? Yeah.

Philly has three, I think. Four in the first 36, I believe. Wow. And he didn't go – no, 58. 38 or 58? Four in the first 58 picks, I think, is what it was whenever Bob Sala decided not to go to the combine. I think that was the number.

I'm not 100% sure. But, yeah, they can make some moves here. They can really do it. And they keep Joe Flacco around, I assume, just to have a good backup on your team. You see the Giants do that with Tyrod Taylor. The Dolphins did that with Teddy Bridgewater. Mitchell Trubisky has Mason Rudolph, obviously,

backing him up in Pittsburgh. Having a good backup is always a good plan, especially if you have some money to do it and draft picks to do it. I don't know if this makes the Jets a contender, but I'm sure they're pumped about it. And good for Flacco still fucking slinging that thing around. Well, good for the Jets.

Oh! Got a sign, but somebody's getting the bag. Somebody else got signed. The Raiders are giving pass rusher. Oh, we already knew this, but Chandler Jones' deal is now three years worth $51 million per. No, $51 million altogether. Okay.

As of now, that's top of the pass rush market and free agency. This is via Rap Report. What's the actual money? Yeah. Ian? Rap Sheet. Well, that $51 million is the total. What is the actual money earned Yeah. Ian? Rap sheet. Well, that 51 million is the total. What is the actual money earned, rap report?

I'm going to text him right now. Hey, what's the money earned? It says dot, dot, dot at the end of it. Is that his next tweet? As opposed to, you know, the overall big number if he cures COVID. If he cures COVID. Good point. Oh, he just texted me.

Damn it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. Yeah, everybody, $150 million earned in the first three years of that contract for him. But congrats to Chandler Jones. Yeah.

A couple of years now he's been trying to get paid. Remember last offseason, once they brought in J.J. Watt, there was allegedly some contract dispute between owner of Cardinals and Chandler Jones. He comes out, has five sacks in the first week, and then just continues to do what he's done for like the last 10 years, which is just dominate. Good for the Raiders saying,

hey, this is going to be a pillar guy that we got out here. I'm happy for Chandler getting his money. We don't know what it actually is, but the overall contract is worth 51 million. Colts had that money, right? Oh, yeah. We don't have a quarterback, though. But he and Max Crosby, though, coming off opposite edges. That's huge.

Yeah, that is big. Nightmare fuel. If you get a lead, too. They're going to try to play with a lead, right, I guess? Because they can run the ball with Josh Jacobs. Man, that's scary. The games and stunts you can run with those guys, too. They're so athletic and they play so hard.

That's a scary thing about blocking both those guys. I put them both on the same side every once in a while. Oh, let that guard and tackle figure it out. Who are you going to chip? How are you going to chip? How are you going to sort this? And then, by the way, somebody probably sneaks back door there because all the attention going to the right or to the left you're right hey that's good defensive strategy i'm sure josh

mcdaniel's do that think about the division uh bosa and khalil mac and then you got those two at the raiders and then you got chubb and gregory at denver they're trying to get to patrick hobbs yeah this is just like whenever um Mario was drafted by the Texans over Reggie Bush. Because Casserly? Yeah, Charlie Casserly. Charlie Casserly said,

I'm trying to tackle Peyton fucking Manning. I'm not trying to run the ball. I am trying to tackle Manning. He inevitably got fired because of that decision at the Texans because he took Mario Williams over Reggie Bush, and it was something like, how are you doing this? How are you doing this? He came out and he was like, I understand what you guys are trying to do.

I'm trying to beat the fucking Colts, and we've got to tackle Peyton Manning. The division matchups shape how teams are built for sure. That's why this AFC West with Russ in there and Patrick in there and Herbert in there, you're going to see a lot of action over there. I'm pretty excited for the AFC West. And if you're a fan in the AFC West, look forward to great football. And if you're an NFL fan with no ties to any of them, you're even more pumped because we don't have to sweat it out

on who's going to make it out of the fucking AFC West. Your point about shaping the team is based on the division. The Patriots are going so much smaller at linebacker because Josh Allen basically runs, you know, running around everywhere. Catch up. Yeah, and we got killed against the Bills because their slot, Isaiah McKenzie, was just so much faster than our linebacker. So what you were just saying,

that's exactly what Bill's doing right now with our entire basically secondary side from JCJ. So maybe that's why we're not getting a quarterback, you know, because the Titans, they just run around the football. The Jags are the Jags. And Texans. Texans are the Texans. So maybe we're just saying we don't need a quarterback.

Well, you were saying, though, Pat, earlier, you were saying it's very, like, you need to have a good backup quarterback. It's always very smart and safe. But what if you not only don't have a backup, you don't have a starter? What does that mean? Oh, yeah. Well, I don't know. It means it's hard to get free agents, I'd assume, unless you

trade for people. Get a great defense. Hey, what if you get Matthew? If it's not Gilmore, throw Tyron Matthew back there. He's at Disneyland right now. Some people are saying it's Kennywood. Tyron Matthews or Kennywood? Did he stop by Potato Patch?

Judging by the picture, I can't tell. I mean, I don't know how many palm trees Kennywood's got this time of year. Oh, no, they dress it up. Halloween, they dress it up. Spring, they dress it up. There's a lot of people saying it could be Kennywood. That's what I've seen on the internet. For those that don't know, Kennywood is an amusement park in Pittsburgh.

It's the greatest amusement park in the tri-state area. Thank you. Maybe even the world. Maybe. Yeah, that looks like Pittsburgh. Yeah, that's the pit. Is that the Thunderbolt back there? Yeah, I think so.

That's the longest wooden roller coaster that's still operable at Kennywood right there in the back. Wow. That sun, too, that's actually a dome they built because there's no sun in Pittsburgh right now. Still no sun over there. Oh, fuck. Should we just sit around for the next 56 minutes to see what happens here, or should we get the fuck off the air? Are the Packers still the only team above the... There was a tweet I just saw from Spotrack

that he thinks everyone's under now. What's his name? Mr. Bobby Spotrack. Dave Spotrack? I just said he's an Italian guy actually. Spotrackini. Had to change it. Probably because the Irish were bothering him too much.

God damn right. Hey listen, Luigi Spottracchini This guy He knows the details of contracts Better than anybody He's got fazolinis right next to him Chicken parm nuggets He would never

And then he's just going through the His name's actually Michael Giannitti As Zito's telling me Michael Giannitti's brother Michael Giannitti, as Zito's telling me. Is he Giannitti's brother? No, Michael. Michael Giannitti, not Giannitti. Not Giannitti. I thought maybe he was a rocker.

Yeah, those guys. He probably is. Hey, what's going on with your outfit? Goompy, what's happening? Is this a day I don't know about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What's special?

Are you just wanting to look sweet today, or what is it? Try and look sweet every day, AJ. Thanks, AJ. Welcome to the program. You do. I know. Goop always looks good, but I'm just wondering, today it seems like he's stepping up a notch. Yeah, I do really like this shirt, if we're being honest. It's pretty sweet. What is that, Tropic Bros?

What a company. They sponsor the pod, so you know they're a ridiculous company, just from top to bottom. If they get into bed with the pods. Got nothing but respect for the Tropic Bro shirt that Gumpy is falling in love with here. Shout out to Tropic Bro. Shout out. They did hate my read one time.

They did. And they said, hey, read the fucking sheet of paper, pal. Hey, they sent a State Farm response to the ad. Hey, tell the bugler boys to shut the up look at your shirts dude well that's kind of what the pod did say back right and tropic rose is like all right fair enough so good relationship tropic bro yeah i respect it great shirts there that's like an athletic fit too like he can work out in that and he'll breathe right right? It feels good. Golf? It's good golf, sir. Yeah. Alright. Shout out to them. You look good today too,

AJ. Nah. I wasn't looking for that. I just want to tell you you look good. Oh, you're fishing for compliments. Not like this. Hi, AJ. This is a hoodie I wear four out of five days a week even though you've never seen me wear it. This jacket I wear it every single day. What are you talking about, dude?

This is my ski costume. This is my everyday costume even though I'm out in the wear it. This jacket I wear it every single day. What are you talking about, dude? This is my ski costume. This is my everyday costume, even though I'm out in the fucking mountains in the West, dude. That's what you said to us the other day, dressed like a fucking asshole. Like, hey, why are you dressed like that? What? This is how I dress every day.

What are we even talking about? We see you every day. His face was all red from skiing. His hair was all windblown. Couldn't stand up because he was in a half squat on the bunny hill. Oh, man, what a day. What a day. You're the best. Clark Harris re-signs

with the Cincinnati Bengals. Wow. And a baby Clark. Long snapper. Been there for a long time. Incredible flow that he has. Incredible flow with a Bengals long snapper. I'm a big fan of his. Big fan of him as a person and as a long snapper. I don't know what they're doing with Huber. I don know if huber's a free agent but they bring back you know a very constant consistent

great for them over there he and evan mcpherson uh were being talked about for watching the halftime show you know everybody was making it a big deal you know on the internet evan mcpherson so savage he stayed out there to watch it it was like i think evan was probably going back out there to warm up. And then he was told, you're not allowed on the field. So he said, all right, I'm not walking four miles back to the locker room. I'll just wait for this thing to end. And then we didn't talk about it, by the way,

because I knew that the angle of a kicker just watching the halftime show as opposed to being with his team is not a good one. Allegedly, there's some Bengals coaches that are upset about it because he didn't go in the locker room. It's like, I don't think that's the case that happened. I think the internet's kind of blowing this into a different proportion. I remember watching the Who, and I was bombing balls over their backs, but I don't think Dr. Dre was letting anybody kick any balls behind him at the time.

Clark's a legend, though. Another long snapper also got signed, I believe. Chargers are signing pro- Another long snapper also got signed, I believe. Chargers are signing pro bowl long snapper Josh Harris away from the Falcons on a four-year $5.6 million deal with $1.92 million guaranteed. Let's go! Congrats to

Josh! Happy for you, pal. Over a million bucks a year to long snap. It is not a easy job. It is a very difficult job. Tom Pelissero reporting that news. It's all literally minute inches on whether or not a long snapper is

great or just good. Whether they make it in the NFL or they don't. How are your laces? How's your placement on punts? Can you block and can you cover? You have to be able to do three out of those four very good. Some things can let up for other things,

but once you start fucking up in a couple different categories, you're out of there quick. This dude's getting paid over a million a year. I'm pumped for this. Hell yeah.

Now that is Brandon Staley saying, you know, we did kick field goals once we got Dustin Hopkins in a much better special teams crew. So that's him focusing

a little bit in something he might have seen as a weakness or trying to get better. That's him focusing a little bit in something he might have seen as a weakness or trying to get better. Congrats to him signing there. 51 minutes until all the rosters have to be set. Salary cap friendly. We'll keep

an eye on that. Hammerdown will be in about 20 minutes at 3.30 I'd assume at youtube.com forward slash hammerdown. Hockey Talks tonight 8 p.m. Eastern. Youtube.com forward slash that's hockey talk. You guys are having some guy I never heard of on. Yeah, Codry. He was really good on 24-7 HBO

when the Leafs played some money outdoor game about eight, seven years ago. Yeah, now he's on Colorado. He's one of the top point getters in the league. Great player. Ever played for the Pens? Nope. Can't afford him. His dad's Pens? Nope. Can't afford them.

His dad's electric, though. Can't afford them. Oh, no. Jesus. Neither can you, you scumbag. Well, that's good. We're going after her. I'm not selling a team.

Okay? I already did. Speaking of, thanks to TJ Lane coming on and talking football. His hockey talk is stupid. Okay? Just like you, Foxy. I disagree. Notice how we didn't even let you ask a question. Yeah.

It's like, hey, can we get a minor hockey league question from Evan Fox? We ran out of time for that, so we apologize for that. TJ was great on this show. I love that dude. TJ's awesome. Yeah, he gets it. Why don't we do more with TJ What happened

What is that all about I don't know Why not I honestly don't know I was thinking that this morning He was attacking all of us online Oh yeah Oh yeah

He did bury Pittsburgh Yeah he did No he did not bury Pittsburgh He said He buried seven Which is very And he called you guys sensitive And he said yeah

He does it all the time Alright That's what he did A lot of projecting from Detroit right now Wow Alright It's a grittier city What are you guys sensitive. And he does it all the time. All right. That's what he did. A lot of projecting from Detroit right now. Wow. All right. It's a grittier city. What are you guys doing?

Scaring at a mirror while you're talking? Oh. Is that what you're saying? Build a fucking country, dude. Yeah, you're welcome. Oh, we're the core capital. It's like, what metal are you using? You're welcome.

Exactly. You fucking came from our womb. Yeah. How many cars do you have out there? We are your daddy and your mommy and the only reason you exist. What? The Bucs have restructured Shaq Barrett's contract to create some cap space for the team. Per Drew Rosenhaus reporting, Ian Rappaport.

Shaq Barrett, obviously incredible off the edge and absolute stud. Tom Brady has hit the phones recruiting all the free agents back to Tampa Bay, allegedly. Jensen has come back. Shaq Barrett's redoing his thing. There is more to come is what is circulating around the NFL. Tom Brady has hit the phones and said, hey, let's run this thing back. We can't end it the way we did last time. There's a lot of unrestricted free agents that they're going to have to make moves on.

But somehow Mike Greenberg, their salary cap guru, will somehow be able to make it work. Just like doing what he just did with Shaq Barrett, AJ. Yeah, so is everyone assuming that Gronk is coming back as well to the Bucs? We would assume, yeah. Probably what that space is for and for net. And then they've got a bunch more too, right? Still got Godwin. Still got Evans.

You bring back Gronk. You got Jensen. He's got to come back now. No, they just signed Russell Gage actually from the Falcons. Yeah, because the Falcons lost him, which everybody's talking about maybe why Deshaun won't want to go to Atlanta. He's a very good

third wide receiver. They got Shaq Mason from New England. They got Jensen back. They still got, what's his face, a tackle who's up there. Worfs is there. Cam Brate just reworked his contract to stay for two years too. The Bucs are all the way back. What's OJ...

Hard? I almost said OJ Mayo. OJ Hard. I don't know. Is he still on the deal? I saw something earlier in the week that said it's very likely

that he's going to be gone. Remember, whenever this whole thing started, OJ was like, well, I'm a pretty good player. Then he's found a great spot. He was good on our show. Thank you for those free agents that are still

available up. Obviously, some of them might be different, but this is who we're keeping our eyes on for the next fucking 24 hours until our next show. There's a lot of great players still out there. Armstead, I don't know why he isn't a Colt already. I have no idea what the fuck's going on. Maybe he's just chilling until training camp?

That makes sense. He's probably looking for the max as well. Trent Brown too. Why isn't he a fucking Indianapolis Colt? I'm not sure. They were talking about a lot of the Patriots move saving cap to re-sign him and he's talked about wanting to stay in New England. Yeah, so J.C. Jackson and Tom Brady.

Brady said no. Odell Beckham Jr. Come on over to Indianapolis. You love LA. We don't have a quarterback yet. Exactly. There's a lot of great players out there, AJ. We'll keep our eyes on all of them, won't we? Yeah, I'm excited. I'm going to see where the honey badger goes, man.

I think he will be a big asset. Honey badger. Wagner, too. Vaughn Miller, too. He was supposed to go back to Denver or back to L.A. There was a report today. I think it was from RAP that it's not done yet, but the Rams seem to be the

favorite right now. Something along those lines. All right. Well, make sure you join our bracket bonanza. We'll be back tomorrow talking more bullshit. Hammered Down starts in about 16 minutes. The new league year begins in 46 minutes. Can't wait to see what happens. We appreciate

you all. AJ, enjoy that vacation. Enjoy it. Will do. Big thanks to Ruppert what a legend what was he wearing that headband for he's got the bug oh for basketball I thought he was playing deck hockey could have been

Pittsburgh sport by the way deck hockey we're the best at it in the world that's true it's not a professional sport. No one cares about deck. Sorry. Lace up the skates. Boston's actually

very good at it too. Yeah, but see, you wouldn't catch me dead bragging about it because it's not a real sport. Yeah, except if you talk

about lacrosse. I never talk about lacrosse. Yeah, you yuppies talk about your sailing and your lacrosse. I ain't talking about the Boston Canes. I won't talk about deck hockey and. Yeah, you yuppies talk about your sailing and your lacrosse. I ain't talking about lacrosse. We'll talk about hockey and actual hockey.

That's all sports. I will make you some of the best at it. No, you're also good. He said we're also the best at that. This show is fucking worse. Join our bonanza tonight. We like Pete Kiss. Boom.

26 points. Couple thousand on it. Let's go, guys. What? Can we get that boosted? Somebody send a text. Send a text. Send a text.

Send a text. FanDuel. FanDuel. We'll text him. They're not watching. They got stuff going on. We will text him, though. Let him know.

Happy 316 day. Go ahead and honor the guy. Self-cheers yourself. Enjoy yourself. Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. We will have a St. Patrick's Day celebration on this show right here. See you then. Bye. Thank you. សូវាប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប្រូវតែរបស់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់បានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបានបាូវាប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់ប់� Thank you. សូវាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្វាប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់បានប់� I'm out.