The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 631 - WrestleMania 38 Full Recap/Reaction, NFL Update With Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: April 4, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about his insane weekend at WrestleMania 38 culminating with a victory over Austin Theory, a match with Vince McMahon, and beer bashing and getting stunnered by Stone Cold Steve Austin, what the experience was like, how the weekend was as a whole, and how surreal the entire experience was. Joining the program to chat about everything that has been happening in the NFL while Pat's been inside the WrestleMania bubble, and what kind of things we need to be watching out for including Dan Snyder allegedly withholding ticket revenue from the league, if other receivers might be on the move, the big moves made by the Dolphins and Patriots this weekend and more is NFL Network Senior Insider and friend of the progrum, Ian Rapoport (27:40-44:48). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show and listen on Sirius XM Channel 82, Mad Dog Radio. We appreciate the hell out of all you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello beautiful people. It is... Yesterday was fucking awesome. Monday, April 4th, 2022. This show begins now. Can't thank you enough for watching at youtube.com forward slash the Pat McAfee show. I got a little, you know, bruised up, banged up. I'm incredibly hungover right now. And that plane left Dallas

a lot later than I thought it was going to this morning you know there was different plans and then obviously things happened

last night was a dream come true last night I had the time of my life last night I should have been undefeated at Wrestlemania

and then I got you know set up I got bamboozled. There's no way that was a sanction, man. No, no, no. So I'm still undefeated at WrestleMania. Yeah, thank you.

Undefeated at WrestleMania. And then also, you know, I had 10, 11, 15, 20, 25, 15, 20, 25,

maybe 30 beers less. So, absolutely thankful for everybody and everything. Austin Theory, you know, he's a good kid. He's on his way.

I was very fortunate to be in there. And there was some cool stuff that took place at WrestleMania. And shout out to everybody on the internet that gave me a lot of love last night. I can't thank you enough. I was trying to go through it on the plane, but I was getting a little dizzy because of the amount of people. Yeah, sure. I mean, there was Scott.

A lot of tweets. Yeah, well, everybody was so fucking nice. And I had 152 text messages as well. I will try to get back to everybody. I promise that. But thank you all so much. Last night was a fucking dream, and you all were the best. With that being said, the Toxic Table is here.

At Ty Schmidt. At Boston Connor. How's the gabagool, cuz? How are you doing on the shirt? On the top rope over there when you did that. I think it was, what, right before you did the Swanton? You gave one of these? Yeah, yeah.

That was hilarious. There's so many good moments in that match. I gave a couple of Roethlisbergers. Oh, yeah. A couple of Aaron Rodgers. That was sweet. Yeah. You know, and like, what am I supposed to do here?

You know, I started thinking that when I walked out from that entrance. And I was standing there. Fucking Cowboys cheerleaders were out there. Didn't know that was happening. That's awesome. So then I go out and I'm like, by the way, thank you,

Jack white, man. Shout out to the white stripes. Kind of letting that one play. You know, I guess that's not an easy task for, so shout to WWE also making that happen. But I walked out there.

As soon as I walked out there, I like looked around. I'm like, Oh, Lee. Fuck. What? but I walked out there as soon as I walked out there I like looked around I'm like holy fuck yeah what because in your mind I've done that right like in my mind I've done my wrestling entrance in my head I've come through the curtain in my head like literally I said it yesterday probably 10 million times there was a time in my life where every time I walked through a door I acted as if I was walking into an arena full of people or whatever.

So you think about this entire moment forever and ever, and then as you're walking out there, it's like, well, what the fuck am I supposed to do with my hands? I didn't think enough. I don't think I thought enough about all this whenever I was arbitrarily doing. Yeah, that was sweet, man. That was so fucking cool.

It was unreal. Tell you what, the sparkle too was a nice touch. Oh, yeah. Hey, man. That was so fucking cool. It was unreal. Tell you what, the sparkle, too, was a nice touch. Oh, yeah. Hey, Miss Terry, I appreciate the hell out of you. She was the one that did all of Undertaker's stuff. And I literally met her day one because she has an entire, like, I don't know what it's called. Wardrobe? Collection?

It's like an open up and it's like a closet, but it's like in a. It's like a mobile closet, right? Yeah, but it's like big one. Yeah. It's like a big one. It's like an open up and it's like a closet, but it's like in a... It's like a mobile closet, right? Yeah, but it's like big one. It's like a big one. It's on wheels. And she was in... It was in the Thunderdome. I walked in and she had like five or six of the Undertaker's row and then like nature...

Ric Flair's stuff was in there and all this stuff. I'm like, damn, like this is a hell of a collection. And she's like, just some of the stuff, you know, I've done. She's been there for like 20, 30 years or whatever. So like I started like, hey, fucking okay, look at you. And like the first time I fist bumped her, she fucking tried to break my hand. So this lady hit my hand. I'm like, damn.

I'm like, all right, nice to meet you or whatever. So then the next week, our conversation, I'm like, hi, Miss Terry. Very nice to see you. Hope all is well. Fist bump again. Boom, she's throwing like a heavy right. I'm oh she works like stiff like this is insane what's going on so our relationship built because her trying to bust my hands every single time she gave me a fist bump and we always chatted about how talented she is like in her work and everything she's done

like the the the seamstress crew the uh costume making, I don't even fucking know what it is. I think I had one of those classes in college. I have no idea what that department of humans is. The things they create have been a part of WWE for so long. And they're all such incredibly cool people and hardworking people. So, like, me and Miss Terry have always talked, like, about all the cool stuff she made. I'm like, hey, maybe one day, you know? Like, maybe one day I'll get my shit made by you.

And she's like, oh, I would love that or whatever. So then WrestleMania weekend, I had not thought about what I'm wearing. Yeah. I had not thought about what I was wearing at all. I'm just going to walk out there in black pants and a goddamn tank top. Like, what are we even talking about? And then I started looking around at everybody else. Like, when I got there, when I arrived on Saturday,

Logan Paul was in one of the coolest. So sweet. Coolest things I've ever seen in my life. And I like thought to myself, like, man, I'm putting on a goddamn tank top and black paint. And I saw somebody else had like a full, like almost a parade float around them. And they're like, yeah, it's WrestleMania. I'm like, it is.

So I walk into Mysterio. I'm like, hey, I need to WrestleMania-fy. She's like, I got you. And she glued that shit on every, like-fy. Yeah. She's like, I got you. And she glued that shit on by hand. Damn. Yeah, like almost damn near 24 hours beforehand. And we had a pretty cool moment. Like, hey, I appreciate you or whatever.

So like WrestleMania, not just like the match, which was awesome. Getting stunned. Hilarious. So funny. Hilarious. Unbelievable. Hilarious, dude. Unbelievable.

I did not know that was happening. I did. dude. Unbelievable. I did not know that was happening. I did. That whole thing. I had no idea that was happening. I was chugging a couple beers together. Hey, kid. I'm going to go this way. You go that way.

It was awesome. And I had beer in my eyes and my ears. You know how I have a hole in my... Boom! Oh, man. He killed me. What are you talking about? He hit my face off that man's shoulder um but like it was so stupid it was it was so so dumb and i am uh i'm so thankful and that second match didn't happen no no commission never was

his problem yeah i don't know literally i mean. I think he just wanted to show off. Well, I told him, too. Yeah, I think so, too. By the way, I had a black tank top on. Yeah, yeah. Kind of interesting there. He has no business looking like that. He's a 76er.

I kind of told him that, too. There's still 86-year-old bones underneath our shirt. I'm so elated and excited for you to get the win over Austin. And then all that bullshit happens, and I see Vince start taking his shirt off. I'm like, oh, no, this is not good. That man is still jacked. You should have heard the stadium whenever he was thinking about it. Yeah.

Whenever he had that jacket on and he started attempting taking it off, man, there was like a buzz raising in there. And I was like, is this my? So people need to know, the wrestling business people understand what the wrestling business is but there's things that happen out there on a very regular occasion that are not like you know hey this is not how this is supposed to go and you just are like there's people around they're like uh hey yeah this is happening now basically you know you know and i'm just like what uh all right i sat up on the ropes you know i sat there for a second and i looked

around and i saw a 76 year old vince mcbann taking his shirt off i'm like is this a movie right now like this has to be a simulation and then obviously austin theory attacks me yeah right vince abuses his power and that ref what the fuck was he yeah that was horseshit take control what was that ref even doing i have no idea what he was doing but yeah it was all very very dumb you know at tone digs uh one half of the hammer done cowboys the odds were i was favored on a lot of the uh the offshore accounts or whatever that's awesome news to hear like i'm very thankful that i was favored on a lot of the offshore accounts or whatever. That's awesome news to hear.

I'm very thankful that I was favored. And I saw other famous people tweeting that they put a bunch of money on you to win. I mean, come on. We knew. I mean, that guy is the most insufferable prick around. Of all time. Of all time. Listen, he's young.

He's handsome. He's very good in there sure he can talk very well his hair pretty sound stupendous very very good hair but listen randy orton said it last week he's a boy i'm a man that's right there's just a little different level of that whole thing with that being said his cockiness got to him man yeah he wasn't parading around i mean i like came back to my senses almost when I was up there. I'm like, God damn. Oh, I'm on somebody's shoulders right now.

I need to get the fuck off of here. Joining us now from an attic in Ohio, a man who sent a very nice text message to me before the match and after the match. Ladies and gentlemen, college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, COVID survivor, A.J. Hawk. Yeah! What's up, Steve Jobs Hawk? What's. Hawk. Yeah! What's up, Steve Jobs Hawk?

What's going on, dude? What's up, man? I know you always say that when I wear this deal, but yeah, how do you feel today? This one's a little sore. Where did that come from when you hit him right in the face? No, no, his shoulder tat. He was standing outside the ropes like an idiot. Such a con.

And I'm sure there was a much more athletic way to go about doing whatever happened there. But I just sprinted full speed and shouldered him. And that rope was right. It slingshotted me. I did not prepare for the aftermath. Boom. And then wham, I was down. And there was another moment where I was, I went much further than I thought I was going to be.

I was like, oh my god, I'm almost out of the ring right now. There was a couple times in there where I thought I was in bad shape, but I feel good AJ. I feel great. Really, and I don't want to undersell this, really hung over right now. You know what I mean? From what you had inside the ring

that we saw on camera and then what was there a thing afterwards? Well, you know, there might have been a lot afterwards. Some inside there, obviously. Right. And that beer did taste delicious, although I was down and out. Yeah. That beer, I'm happy they caught that. Oh, yeah.

Because I was literally just trying to take that entire thing down. In my head, I'm like, can i put this whole thing down right now and it started like obviously coming out of my mouth filming because that's a tough way to drink there yeah that fucker disappeared though oh yeah i mean i got rid of that thing it was that was awesome did anyone uh predict that stone cold was coming out night two as well so i listen i was sitting there just befuddled by everything that was going on in my life right there you know and i'm not you know i'm not good enough in that business for everything that happened there was a lot of trust that was placed upon me i think oh yeah hindsight that should not have been i don't think that should not have been because i'm in there and i'm like

goddamn like i should have been given a heads up like how many times have I done three times I've done this three times like should I have not have been given like hindsight looking back on it I was like man what the they were really really confident in me figuring some stuff out I guess but it was uh it was cool AJ I mean it was awesome it was awesome like I I watched I didn't know when you were going on so we started watching watching. It was actually – I appreciate them throwing Otis in there. That helped my kids through a little bit. They were waiting to see you. So Otis pops out.

They were juiced, man. They were so pumped to watch him. Otis is awesome. Herbie texted me during it. I'm sure he's texted you a few times. Herbie was texting me and blown away by your performance. Yeah, it was awesome. I didn't know what to expect.

I never do going into these things watching them. I had no idea what you were doing. I know I joked about Vince coming and blasting you in the back of the head, which hey, look what happened. I knew when I saw Vince when Vince comes walking down the old ramp he comes strutting down there. I was like, here we go.

And then we all know Vince sit down by the commentator's table. You think Vince is going to sit there and let his dude get beat up by you? We knew Vince was coming in. All right, you did. Okay. And when I saw that he was getting introduced, you know, before all of us and he was going out to the ring, you know,

there was quite a – A.J. Hawk's been saying this. A.J. Hawk's been saying this. I loved Vince. Oh, yeah. Dude. Everything about him inside the ring, the whole stunner with Stone Cold, how they figured that one out. Like, it was all awesome.

Yeah. I mean, he was going to eat. What is he talking about, dude? I mean, you've got to react on the fly. Sometimes things don't go exactly as planned. Bro, he got kicked so hard. I mean, everybody's – That's what I'm saying.

I'm saying Stone Cold was still able to execute. By the way, I don't know how Vince got up from that kick. Everybody talks about the stunner. You should feel the kick. The kick before it. Boom! Right to the guts. Vince McMahon, 76 years old, just got through a match

with me that was not sanctioned. I'm still undefeated. That was just like a brawl, a street brawl. doesn't count well and i got my kids bamboozled off the thing right the whole ordeal over there buddy also i know i joke about it whenever i talk about um adam cole you guys get mad at me when i say he's a good dude that i get it i understand austin theory i understand what he's doing that dude he is very good at what his what he is doing understand Austin Theory. I understand what he's doing. That dude, he is very good at what he is doing and how he is investigating.

Son of a bitch. I'm saying he's a great foil. He's a great foil to you. He plays that role great. I feel like it takes a special person to get up there and try to get everybody to hate him and everyone to boo him. Yeah, it's not easy. He's not trying, by the way. I know. I'm just saying his

personality is great for that, for wrestling. We were talking a little bit earlier. He's incredibly handsome. Okay? He's very athletic. Sure. Seems to talk very well. There's people that have been lied to him that say, this guy's got a great personality.

He's working like four or five nights a week at this point. With that being said, he was too goddamn cocky. You know? He's young. He had to be served a little ha-ha. You know what I mean? Like, hey, wakey, wakey, cuz. This is the wwe there's commentators sitting over there that'll beat you if you want to he was parading around with me on his show i was out of it okay he could have

had me there that's his finisher he was about to drop on me and then all of a sudden boom i'm back to my senses oh there's 80 000 people here yeah oh Yeah. Oh, my God. What's going on? You know what I mean? That's how I get to win. But those are little things he's going to pick up on his journey to hopefully becoming a better person. Like whenever Vince introed him, though, he said, Future, WWE Universal Champion Austin. That's a huge deal.

Okay, so when Drew McIntyre first came, he called him like the chosen one. Like basically when Drew McIntyre first came over, he said, this is like the chosen one. I forget the exact word that she used when he introed him. And Drew McIntyre obviously didn't know that was coming at the time. But everybody that's a WWE fan sees Vince say that and they're like, okay, so Vince fucking likes this guy. Like,

this is the guy. Now, it didn't work out for Drew that time and then Drew had to come back or whatever, but whenever he intro'd Austin like that, like, I bet you Austin was standing in the back

and all of Austin's friends were like, goddamn. Yeah. Okay, here we go. So, I'm very happy for Austin Theory's journeys going forward,

but I'm happy, you know, also to be a part of the journey of smacking him around. Hey, fucking enough with your bullshit wait until you hear cole and byron claude especially more specifically cole cole was cole was on one yeah he he told me beforehand that this is one of the first matches in a long time he was like super excited for he was i don't think he sat down he was on an emotional roller coaster the whole time he was like super excited for. I don't think he sat down. He was on an emotional rollercoaster the whole time. He was on the verge of tears at

one point and then I think he was orgasmic towards the end. Wow, that's awesome. I don't know. Pin him, Pat! Pin him! So I was sitting outside you know, after I got my ribs brutalized. I was coughing up, you know, I didn't know if blood was coming. From the football? The punt? Yeah. That was an added

touch. So was that the football that you blasted into the atmosphere on your entrance? No, so there was four. The ball situation, believe it or not, was a whole thing. It was a whole deal. What do you mean? The ball was a whole deal. Yeah, because there was. Because the ball is the program.

The ball is the program. I tried to explain that to a couple people. Like, hey, the ball, the ball, the ball, the ball. I tried to explain that to a couple people. Like, hey, the ball, the ball, the ball, the ball. I tried to explain that, you know? I tried to have that conversation. But obviously there was a couple different balls over there, and then were the balls good enough to make it on WrestleMania? I don't know.

You know, it was awesome. That whole thing was amazing. Had you not caught that ball in the ribs, it might have hit the jumbotron. Easily. Well, that's what I was trying to say to people. I've been saying for a long time the punt is the most dangerous play in football. Okay, they're currently at the NFL trying to change the rules of the punt to make it safer.

And here I am on the other side of it. That thing cracked. That probably shattered some ribs in there. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it i don't doubt it yeah just remembered good from pittsburgh by way of india that was so awesome because that was just a nice little like inside kind of thing but it was perfect yeah it was as soon as i heard it by the way from pittsburgh pennsylvania i, man, I hope the motherfucking Yinzers are pretty pumped up about this.

By way of Indianapolis, Indiana. Samantha Irvin, the announcer. She's got pipes, man. I guess she can fucking really sing. She's very good at singing. I saw her videos. Yes? Yeah.

On her IG, she has videos of her singing. Very good. She goes, too, when she's yelling. She's very impressive. But yeah, man, the whole night was videos of her singing. Very good. She goes, too, like when she's yelling, ah, she's very impressive. But yeah, man, the whole night was cool, dude. It was cool. I mean, there might have been some Maker's Mark. When was the last time you drank Maker's Mark?

It's been a little while. Me, too. My body. Were you putting those in the beer bong with the beers? What? What? He was so awesome. He was giggling. Were you putting those in the beer bong with the beers? Why? He was so awesome. He was giggling.

He's running around doing like the airplane. He's just laughing the whole time. Time of his life, dude. There was a time, you know, maybe over the weekend on Saturday where, you know, Steve had the KO show that then turned into a match, which none of us knew was going to happen. His last match ever. I was shocked, yeah, that that turned into a match. Hey, all of us.

I believe all of us were. Because they were saying that confrontation's going to come, so I just assumed it would be like some sort of fight or whatever. I didn't know what was going to happen there. But he was, you know, working on coming out or whatever. And, you know, we're in a different era now of the WWE than we were then. So I got to watch, like, this dude's entrance with an empty stadium or whatever, you know. He goes right to that top row, fucking both fingers.

Yeah. Straight up in the air, right? Straight up in the air, both fingers like it's the old, ah, you know, he's doing his whole thing. And then I see, like, three, like, producers run over and over, like, can't do that like can't do that can't do that so he goes in the next one he goes he does it again i can't do that he was like all right so he just put his fist up or whatever so then as i was watching him i was wondering like

there's no way he keeps that middle finger down like in the heat the middle finger from steve austin's coming at some point and then last night he had a couple where he fucking stepped up oh yeah the hand went off he was mouth and fuck, too. You had the hot mic picked him up saying, give me another fucking beer. The camera zoomed in every time. Just cuffed the finger. Yeah, that's an actual practice. Yeah, they're trying to do that.

You can't flick people off, really? I don't know. I just think like the WWE is they they understand that a lot of kids, I think like back in the day, they didn't 100% know how many kids were watching because like, you know, they knew the demo. But then I think like there was a whole transition and a change into this PG era.

And I think it's because like grandkids were starting to be born and like kids are starting to be born. Cause little kids like you were going to school and flicking off your teachers. That's what it was. I wasn't a big middle finger guy. My brother, big middle finger guy. I was more of a –

I got suspended for that. Yeah, I was a big – yes, exactly. And I think they heard all those stories, and they're like, well, we can't be doing this. We can't be this. So I think that was the change. And then, obviously, the business goes in an incredible way, and it just kind of stuck with it. But there's a couple of us you know like uh and by us i should not be saying that but it's hard for me not if i'm in the

middle of a fight with somebody not to be like hey fuck you yeah how about that it is hard not to do that and once again that's probably because every week i watch the guy walk out you know like that but i think that makes me like i i think that makes you yeah whatever the case did it but yeah steve threw those middle fingers up a couple oh yeah it was awesome to see while i was standing there i'm like i'm like in a video game right now like and he's circling the ring in the four-wheeler like that was one of my favorite parts fucking moving dude that wasn't like uh like hey this guy has been on this before like this guy's coming down the ramp i was nervous for him coming down the ramp, man.

I'm like, this dude is rolling. How about when he parks it and he stands up on top of it? How many times? He's still riding that weekly, I'd assume. Oh, yeah. I'd assume he's riding that thing weekly. It was fucking cool, man. What's going on?

Did the set change from when you said Stone Cold was up there in an empty arena? Did it change, or did you guys get a warning that if you run your face into the set change from when you said Stone Cold was up there in an empty arena? Did it change, or did you guys get a warning that if you run your face into the set that you would start bleeding? So I did get told. My God. Man, AJ Styles, hope your face is okay. I thought it was a prop. When I saw him come out, I was like, what?

Do they have fake blood taped to his face? Did they show him running into it? No, no. There was a couple crowd videos that got it yeah but no no no vizito just said we can run the video they know we don't need to do that the aj like so you didn't we didn't see it on peacock but there was a couple crowd videos that you can see on the internet but out of nowhere he's just bleeding walking down the so i was walking i was walking to gorilla which is obviously the last stop before you go out.

And like four different producers were like, when you go out there, the bottom of the entrance is like a star. Like, make sure you get to the middle because it is short on the side there. And I was like, okay, yeah. They're like, well, AJ literally just ran his face in the side of the door. He's bleeding right now. I was like, what? I was like, AJ Styles is bleeding right now? MASH hasn't started started yeah he's bleeding so yeah we need you not do that too okay thank you so much and i was like you got it then the next producer came hey when you go out there

there's a there's a slant make sure you get all the way to the middle i'm like oh yeah why is that like now i'm like gas yeah well aj styles just ran his face into it so we need that not to happen okay thank you so much you saved my life so then i'm walking four more steps another producer hey on your entrance i don't know if you've heard or not i'm like i yep got it face thing yeah yeah yeah get to the middle yeah get to the middle got it got it his credit he no sold it he took oh yeah like champ and then it was awkward though because i wish you were calling the match because no one mentioned it yeah yeah you gotta talk about that oh speaking of good god talk about that the what the jackass yeah we we man that my we man was that was one of the top five most oppressive

things i've ever seen we man he was standing there for a little bit Yeah I mean that wasn't a quick Pick him up Put him down No That was Shades of Hulk Hogan Like walking around Yeah

Dude Wee Man ate that table a few weeks ago At Four Seasons Now he's picking people up Is he the most Is he Per capita The strongest

Pound for pound Size for size Yeah Of all time, AJ? He might be that guy. He might be. I mean, I was very excited when old Pontius, my old party boy, comes in. Yeah. Commentary with him. He's so goofy.

Well, before he even took his pants off. By the way, did not know Pontius was going to be there. There was a couple of new members of the jackass crew that I didn't know. Jasper. Nah. His dad. It's not, excuse me.

Don't say that. We don't know if that's his dad. No, I watched the movie this week. That is his dad? Yeah. That's a father son combo? I believe so. Yeah.

Okay. Why wasn't I told? Like that should have been something. I feel like that should have been something I was told, but I didn't know like the younger crew or whatever. And, uh, and then Cole goes, uh, there like that should have been something I was told. But I didn't know, like, the younger crew or whatever. And then Cole goes, some other things might happen too or whatever. You feel pretty good about it? I'm like, yeah, I watched Jackass a lot back in the day.

Like, I feel pretty good about it. And then I see fucking Pawnee show his face. And I think I immediately said, I've seen more parts of this guy's body. And then he started stripping. I'm like, this is it. This is this guy's body then and then he started stripping i'm like here this is it this is exactly this is this guy's move party boy is gonna put his penis in with a snake if he can and then his bro he had a denim thong that was a denim printed thong yeah i thought it was a great addition so good the hand oh my god i had no idea it was coming because yeah you were like you could

see you're looking the other way i I was in Knoxville with a goddamn... He had this thing on, taser, and he's walking. I'm like, this is so outrageous. And all of a sudden I hear, and I look to my left, and there is what? A fucking seven-foot hand. I was like, how did this show up? How have I not seen this?

And who built that? Exactly. The mousetrap. The mousetrap was off. The leg? What'd you say about the mousetrap? Just the leg with the boot? Knoxville knowing the mechanics to operate a mousetrap in any situation is unbelievable.

He pulls that. Yeah, he's been around a mousetrap. If anybody on earth knows a mousetrap, Johnny also knows a mousetrap. Bro, he pulls that thing. It doesn't go. And you see him immediately go, nope, still doing it. Put his head in the middle of the mousetrap. Turn that thing. What a night and you see him immediately go nope still doing it put his head in the middle of the mouth turn that thing what a night man it was cool you putting the headset on oh yeah middle of the match too he shot booker t he did a tna one time uh oh booker t's kicking

everybody's ass he had like a microphone as he was stomping on people that was fun zeke was right there he was loving it hey him and micah fun. Zeke was right there. He was loving it. Hey, him and Micah. I met them both. They were cool dudes. They were, yeah. After I went up onto the rope or whatever to celebrate, and Micah and Zeke were like flexing.

I'm like, hey, I appreciate you guys. Really very nice. They are specimens. Oh, yeah. Well, that's what he tweeted after the show. He was like, Pat played defense in the NFL. Yeah, people forget. Yeah.

People forget. Punter is a defensive position, AJ. You know, that's why this show, this is a good defensive football conversation on this show. Ain't that right, AJ? Yeah, it's all one side of here. That's all we have to have Aaron on to get some offensive talk, because me and you, we're all defense. Did you say offensive or offensive? A little bit of both, maybe. To some people in different countries and different walks of life

and political conversations. Man to my left, you're right. A.J. Hawk, Super Bowl champion, COVID survivor. Whoa. Hell yeah. Yeah. I mean, we don't talk about that enough, but A.J., I appreciate you battling through that so we get a chance to hear your

wonderful brain on display every single goddamn day here. Talk to the tables here at Ty Schmidt at Boston Connor. Tone Diggs is one half of the Hammer. Todd Cowboys. How'd you guys do betting-wise? Were we good? Yeah, we had Kansas and Carolina. How about it? Wow. I mean, are we just spoiling everything?

Joining us now is a man who will hopefully keep us updated on what has happened in the NFL world over the last few days as I was experiencing the most stoop-handous WrestleMania of all time. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapoport. Rapshi, what up, dude? Sorry we're late there, pal. What's going on, man? Oh, thank you. I got a frantic text from my brother.

I know you did all this, so I don't want to go into it again. I got a frantic text from my brother. Pat's match is coming up. So I flipped on Peacock. I watched it. It was thoroughly entertaining. I had a good tweet ready. And then the thing just never stopped.

You won, and then you lost, and then you got your ass kicked, and then you drank. It was like literally the perfect day. I thought it was awesome. Oh, thank you, Ian. I saw your ass kicked and then you drank it was like literally the perfect day i thought it was awesome oh thank you ian i saw your tweet i appreciate it thank you for love thanks for watching i assume you watch every wrestling thing so the fact yeah yeah no you're a great um announcer right no yeah this guy all right thank you i appreciate you tuning in man you're the best thank you for your love as I would like to say to everybody else that sent out great words and nice words,

I appreciate you all so, so much. What have I missed? Has anything happened over the last couple of days? I've kind of been in Jerry world, literally just under a bubble. This is a real question. Has something big happened? Because when I said, what happened? Connor looked and was like, yes, something happened. You just gave a pretty big look.

What happened in the NFL world the last couple of days? There were a couple things, actually. So, first of all, Xavier Howard got a new contract, a two-year, $50 million extension to kind of make him whole and kind of figure out this. Good for Xavier. That's huge because that was a big conversation last offseason, wasn't it? I mean, it's been a conversation for, I think, the last two offseasons.

And his agent, David Kanter, has worked like crazy to try to figure this out. He had three years left on his deal, but he didn't like the last deal he signed. So he's been, I think, unhappy for like years. And it's a hard one because teams don't want to redo deals with three years left. Sort of unprecedented that the Dolphins did it, but he is a great player. So if you're a great player, sometimes you get great things. This was an awesome, awesome one for me.

Hey, this is continuing to be, I don't want to say a PR push by the Dolphins, but this is like a big time, like, hey, we're different than the organization that you've been hearing about. At Bubba Gumpina, a big Dolphins fan. You were pumped to see this happen because X is a hell of a player, right? Everything was going perfect until, I mean...

The next batch of news here? Yeah. What else happened? Oh, yeah. Well, so funny you ask. Devontae Parker, who is a very talented receiver, a starting receiver on most teams, probably not Miami since they just traded for Tyree Killen or kind of redoing things. They traded him

to the Patriots. To the Patriots. Who's paying? Are the Dolphins paying for another player to play for the New England Patriots again? No, they get a third rounder in the future and they give up Parker and a five. So the value is basically a little less

than a fifth round pick. I'm sorry, a little more than a fifth round pick. So for the Dolphins, it's good value. It's just, you know, he's going to be playing for the Patriots. And what everyone assumes is that the Patriots are going to get this player who has been frustrated in the last couple of years and he's going to be awesome. And then he's going to do it against the dolphins and will that happen like you know probably yeah probably so we signed andre johnson who is one of the coolest dudes of all time i think he just opened like a lounge or a bar in houston i hope it does great because he's a good guy but we did not use it is cool why don't you stop by get all boozed up maybe you'll love sources maybe definitely might yeah maybe you and david canter you know who's not a source of yours at all you just drop me this guy's worth really hard well i mean andre though we didn't have him as much as

as like a focal point in our offense and not it made no sense to any of us on why we weren't we played houston he had two touchdowns like a hundred and i mean that is just something that's going to happen and mac jones gets a weapon now you've got to be super excited oh yeah i am absolutely juice the patriots are going back to the super bowl all the way all right aj go ahead pal sorry about it and i know uh brian dable for the the giants they opened up their off-season program today i believe and what other teams opened up their off-season program and also going back to the giants like what are they going to do? What do they look like this year?

What is success for the Giants? All right, so first of all, the teams who are opening their offseason program, you've got the Dolphins. Teams with new coaches. So it's the Dolphins, the Giants. Hold on, I wrote it down. You'd think I would know this off the top of my head, but you'd be wrong. Palisaro would.

Palisaro. He's on vacation now. He's hanging out with wrong. Palisaro would. Palisaro. He's on vacation now. He's hanging out with his family. Life is good for Palisaro. Gee, gee, gee. That's not a plug. Back in the factory? That's not a plug.

Bears and Saints are the other ones. Which, you know, if you're – the Giants one is interesting because Daniel Jones has professed himself healthy, which is good. He'll be healthy for week one. And then the talk of the fifth-year option came up, and it's like a fascinating choice because my guess is they don't pick it up. I don't know this, but my guess is they don't pick it up because they don't want to handcuff themselves just in case,

like the Panthers did with Sam Darnold. But if they don't pick it up and Daniel Jones plays well, then he probably gets the franchise tag, which actually would be really good money for him and a little more than the Giants want to pay. So it's like a risk-reward conversation going on now. But to answer your other question, what would success look like? To me, like six or seven wins and him looking like a starter is a great season for the Giants. Go ahead, Connor.

Yeah, Rabshie, what's going on with A.J. Brown and D.K. Metcalf? It feels like there's some smoke there. Is there going to be any fire, and are those guys going to be on a new team, perhaps? There is some smoke there. I mean, teams are calling. I know that. I haven't got the sense either organization has done anything to say that they would

trade either A.J. Brown or D.K. Metcalf. Obviously, teams are calling. What I think happens now, guys, is you get great players who are not under contract, and everyone thinks they're available. Like, that's just where we are in the NFL. So, like, three years ago, nobody would ever call about DK Metcalf. You'd say, why would you ever trade one of your best players?

Now all these GMs are like, oh, he's not under contract? Cool. Maybe I could trade for him, just like what happened with Tyreek Hill. So I think they want to get a deal done. I think they end up doing it. But until they do, teams are going to keep calling the Seahawks and the Titans as well. So back in the day, I feel like,

and I don't want to blame you guys, reporters, again. But I... But you will. Yes. Right. Not everybody. Some. Some, some, some, some.

Back in the day, if a player was disgruntled at his team, he was painted as being, like, uncoachable. This guy hates this. This guy hates that. And other teams would almost, like, be like, well, we don't want that in our building. And other fan bases would be like, yeah, we don't want that player to join us.

Now it feels like there's quite a term, like, oh, maybe it just doesn't work at this place, and it'll work with us because we will treat him much better than maybe the last place that has really been a shift i think in the narrative painting right in most gms i think are starting to open their minds a little bit more like just because it didn't work there doesn't mean it won't work here which i think is great for the player great for the game and also good for all parties involved because some shit just doesn't work you know what i mean This is like the biggest threat of all the things that we've seen in the last like three or four years.

This is the biggest to me is guys basically are saying, I'm not thrilled with where I'm going to go and I want to go someplace else and nobody holds it against them. We are in an unprecedented age of athlete power. Even Devontae Parker, smaller deal, but even Devontae Parker wanted to go to the Patriots, made clear he wanted to go to the Patriots, and ended up... Really? Hell yeah.

He hated Miami that much? They were going to trade him anyway, but he was like, if I'm going to get traded, this is where I want to go. The Dolphins were able to get a good deal that made sense for them. And they did it. But you're right. Nobody holds

it against them. You just say, I feel like Jalen Ramsey kind of started this with the Jaguars. People are like, you know what? You're not happy there? We can make you happy and we'll get a great player. It's worked out. I think Jalen hasn't really worked out for Jacksonville. I bet you there's a lot of Sundays and Mondays and Thursdays

watching Jalen Ramsey be a freak on the field and everybody in Jacksonville that is a Jaguar fan to put the clown costumes on were like, yeah, that guy was on our fucking team, went to Florida State, and for some reason we treat him like a fucking asshole and we're gone. Now he's gone or whatever. I think it's exposing a lot of programs, Ian. I is going to continue too i think this is only going to continue and

it's great for players i know fans especially old school fans are like they're saying how the game goes remember sonny game is a fucking business you have to remember that this is a business at all times the team's treated that way they'll cut the most popular player on the team if he's not at his best or performing up to whatever his contract's saying. It is a business, and I'm happy that the players are starting to treat it that way. But also, we need some good continuity in places. Chemistry can't be built overnight. So I'm excited to see how the NFL kind of unfolds in this entire thing.

Go ahead, Ty. Rapshie, what exactly is going on with the Commanders? Is it alleged that they were withholding 40% of ticket revenue? Yeah, and is this actual they're dead yeah is this the last domino like is dan snyder going to be forced to sell the team now what happened whoa okay this is bad i don't know this to be a fact and nobody does it's an investigation but let's just say so here's what happened the so congress is interviewing the commanders i think we talked about it Friday. And they are keeping going, right? So they start investigating something and then wherever the evidence takes them, they go.

And it is reported by Front Office Sports. AJ Perez, a really good reporter, has uncovered, according to him, that they have withheld some of the ticket profits that should be shared with all the other owners. Oh, they're dead. They're dead. It's not good. And remember, as Goodell clarified during the Super Bowl press conference, the other owners can actually band together and vote an owner out. If the other owners find out for sure, 100% sure,

that Dan Snyder withheld profits from them, that would be very bad. Hey, listen. You can withhold profits from the government. Okay? We're all doing it. We got boats over here in Switzerland and everything. Not us. I'm talking about the other owners.

Yeah, cool. Yeah, I'm talking about the others. The people that are up at that level, by the way, have the greatest accountants and lawyers that can figure out every loophole and get through it. greatest accountants and lawyers that can figure out every loophole and get through it right and then the people you know that aren't as smart but in that area we put the taxes are a whole thing and i know people love them all right people love and like i understand that there's an entire hey you got to pay your fair share and all that but god damn i'd rather control which direction that money goes than the government that's a whole different conversation. But the United States,

and Goodell over there said, you can lie to them. You ain't fucking lying to us about it. No, no. This is a money thing. We are a money business. This is a business. You're lying to us about it.

Yeah, we've heard about the exposés, okay? We've heard about the entire building, but you're lying to us about the motherfucking money that we're making? No, no, no. Get your fucking ass out of here, and the guy that has a spaceship, Bezos, get your ass in here. That can't happen, right?

Because people were calling for that last year when all the exposés were coming. Do they pick the next owner? Is there any thought of who all would be in the buying game? Because the Broncos are up. Right. Feels like the Commanders are going to be up. Is there any thought of who's going to get in there? Because I just think that Bezos is going to say $10 billion,

and I'm putting a dome over this entire area, and we're going to play every single week. I do not get the sense that he wants to be an owner. I'm not saying he's never going to be. I'm just saying he hasn't been involved. He hasn't shown any indication that he wants to be an owner. He wants to be involved with the NFL. Amazon has a significant,

significant place in the NFL, of course, with Thursday Night Football. And we'll see what else they do. But certainly a really, really good partner now. I think he's happy there. But to answer your question, this happened with the Panthers before David Tepper took over. Everyone sort of thought it was going to be sold. Remember there was this Jerry Richardson scandal with Sports Illustrated and all sorts of not good stuff. He made the decision to sell with some prodding a little bit and it was up for, you know, up for sale truly. Like he didn't get to pick who, who bought the team.

It was basically done the regular way. So if that was the case with the commanders, then it will be basically up for sale and the value will be astronomical. But yeah, I mean, look, all the things that Dan Snyder did, allegedly, there's been some not good stuff. Not giving money to your partners, knowingly,

would be very bad. Bad business. Toxic business. Can't do business. And man, it seems like it's just one thing after another over there. At some point, the Shield has to say, I'm trying to protect the Shield. This one particular program seems to be bringing a lot of shit

into us that we don't need, including the goddamn Congress. It's been a lot. It has been like nothing we've seen in quite a while, at least. It's been a lot. But the modern world, I mean, there's so much shit all the time. Can we watch it on C-SPAN anywhere, Ian?

No, until they have here. C-SPAN is so boring. I've tried to watch. It's like, oh, my God. You don't like the way America runs, dude? Wrestling is way more exciting. I thought that was good. Wrestling is way better than C-SPAN.

Hey, I know you watch all the time wrestling. I know you watch wrestling all the time. Mark? When Macho Man lost to Hulk Hogan in WrestleMania V, I cried. So I am a wrestling fan. Hell yeah. Let's get into C-SPAN, too. Maybe be an adult.

Go ahead, Tony. Ian, speaking of owners being pissed at other owners, Jimmy Haslam, owner of the Cleveland Browns, just came out and said the first 10 years of his tenure as an owner, he had no idea what he was doing. He's only been an owner for 10 years, so he has no idea what he's doing. But also, the owners are pissed at him for giving Deshaun Watson $230 million guaranteed.

So down at the NFL owners' meetings and stuff like that, were other owners putting bees in his hotel room and slashing tires and stuff? That would have been really mean. I'm glad they didn't do that. Look, none of these owners drive themselves at these meetings, so if they slashed tires, it would just be another car that would come in

with another driver, so I don't know. That wouldn't be a very good punishment. This is how you know the meetings are ending, by the way, when all the SUVs pull up with all the drivers. Anyway. Anybody show up in one of those? Hey, do any of them have bomb-proof cars, these billionaires? Or is it all basically the same limo-type looking?

They're basically all the same. It's all just navigators, I guess. I don't know. One of those humongous cars with drivers. Anyway. So, I saw the thing about Haslam saying he didn't know what he was doing. I get it. Being an owner

is hard. And I think mostly, because all you're supposed to really do is hire a great person and let them work. And I think for Haslam, just extrapolating from his own comments, that's probably been a little difficult, is letting them do the football stuff. And they're in a really good place as an organization now.

And look, they have a very good quarterback, right? If Deshaun Watson, which we'll see what happens, discipline-wise from the NFL, he is really good. Other owners are, I'm sure, not thrilled about the contract, but it is what it is. Like, the Vikings gave Kirk Cousins a fully guaranteed contract. You do what's best for your team. If other owners are upset, sorry, but you do what's best for your team.

It's really up to the next guys to see whether or not this sets a precedent. Whichever quarterback comes up next, whether it's Derek Carr or Lamar Jackson or whoever, or Kyler Murray, does the team say, you know what? That was a fully guaranteed deal. We're going know what? That was a fully guaranteed deal. We're going to now have to do a fully guaranteed deal. And once that happens, the precedent's set, and then we're off and running. Kirk Cousins tried to set that precedent a couple years ago,

and nobody would follow suit. Now maybe this entire thing starts. And I think that's why the Ravens are so pissed. You motherfucker. In our one-per-club meeting, we clearly state we ain't doing this. We are not giving guaranteed contracts, especially to the biggest position with the most money. Everybody in?

Yeah, deal. And then Haslam goes, well, my team has stunk for a long time. I will do that exactly. But Snyder's lying about his money, so I can do whatever I want. Allegedly. Allegedly, you're right. We appreciate you so much. Good luck on TV.

Can't wait to talk to you again. Ladies and gentlemen, senior NFL insider Ian Rappaport. Thank you, buddy. Thanks, guys. All right, can't wait to talk to you again ladies and gentlemen senior NFL insider Ian Rappaport thank you buddy thanks guys alright we gotta get to a break here as our this hour

wraps up there it is you know what I mean we'll be back on the other side chit chatting more about last night got some bruises hell yeah got some cuts

you know came out undefeated at Wrestlemania Aside from that That one thing That was unofficial Unsanctioned Got some bruises

Got some cuts Got some nicks Got a story I would tell For the rest of my life AJ Hawk to my left You're right Tom Diggs is here At Boston

Connor's here Ty Schmidt's here All the boys in the back And there's a little bit of pizza That just showed up Hell yeah Hey You have your Dwayne Dwayne The Rock Johnson Cheat day Cheat meal Yeah It's here. All the boys in the back. And there's a little bit of pizza that just showed up. Hell yeah. Hey.

You have your Dwayne the Rock Johnson cheat day, cheat meal? Yeah. You know, the cheat week. Yeah. I put the S in the parentheses of cheat meal when I was describing this, basically. Nice. And I'm not the only one. I was talking to a lot of the wrestlers in the back. And they're like, after WrestleMania, oh, yeah, we all.

Yeah, get after it. We all go. Not everybody. There's people that are super fit all the time, and it's just their life and everything like that. But a lot of the people I was talking to were like, yeah, tonight's binge and tomorrow's binge is going to be epic or whatever. I'm like, oh, so I'm not the only one. Okay. Because I didn't know if I could speak openly and publicly about that with them because they're like super in shape people or whatever.

I'm like, I'm probably eating at least two, three pizzas tomorrow. I got some lava cakes out there right now. I know that at some point there's going to be a P.F. Chang stop here. There's going to be a couple of sandwiches, I would have guessed. Yeah, I'm doing it. Chocolate chip cookie. Oh, I had one last night. Oh, so good.

From Subway? How'd your wind feel? How was your cardio? What's From Subway? How'd your win feel? How was your cardio? What's that, pal? How was your cardio throughout the match? It was a long program. There was a couple times, you know, where I thought. Can you catch your breath at all?

I always wonder. I know at times when big things are happening and guys are on the ground rising in pain, obviously. Does that ever give you enough time to somewhat recover if you're down there for 30 seconds? No, you're in pain. You're trying to get your back back into place. That's what it looks like.

That's what I'm saying. I'm curious. I'm asking somebody that's been in the heart of it. Well, not nearly as much as everybody else. But, yeah, there were some moments in there where I was, oh. There was a couple moments in there where there was a lot of that. Walking out, though, and people talk about that a lot. Because I wrestled in the Thunderdome era,

where there was no fans, basically. There was like 10, 15 people. And all anybody said was like, you got to do this in front of people. Like, you got to do this in front of people. I'm like, well, there's 15 people out there. You got to do this in front of people. You have no idea.

As soon as you get out there, dude, it's hard to really feel anything, if that makes any sense. There was definitely times where I was winded. I'm like, I am so tired, but like. It's all adrenaline, yeah. Yes. Yeah, that was insane.

That was the most. It's a long walk, too. Like that's what WrestleMania, the weird thing, the cool thing, your walk from what you call gorilla to the ring, it looks like it's 100 yards. Like how long is that? So it's roughly probably 50 yards because the that's the coolest part about wrestlemania is how big the stage like how it just it just seems huge because the ring has to go in the middle of the football

field right because that's where everything is based off which is tiny and like how did that look in that gigantic stadium that ring had to look so tiny no no it bro this is it well it's been happening for so long you know but jerry world is matt it was so cool dude it was so cool i just get booed by that lady fuck that she's doing it okay okay okay i thought i thought they tried taking a little too much of the show you do forget that when you're watching it though from the camera angle and then like you go on twitter and you see one of the videos from the top deck it's like holy shit there are fucking 800 000 people in here like it is there are so it's just

it's insane that first night saturday i was sitting there and you know the pyro goes off to start wrestlemania and michael cole cuts a promo about wrestlemania that's about to happen and i'm watching it all and then i look up in the raft there's people two miles away from me it looked like up in the right and it was, it was a very surreal, it was a very surreal Saturday night. I was like, look at taking it all in. It was my first WrestleMania.

I was a part of, right. I was a part of a kickoff show where I almost got fired. Cause I was wearing Taylor Ducks. Shout out to Michael Cole, but like the watching it, taking it all in and then having that thought like, Oh,

tomorrow I'm like in here, in here. It was like a, it was a pretty cool, it was fucking sweet, man. Trips kicking off your night was awesome. Yeah.

Yeah. Seeing him was awesome, by the way. He was very close to death, I guess, when I was hearing. Really? I didn't hear that from him. This is just from the reports that we had read and heard last week after Stephen A.'s appearance or whatever. I guess there were some real moments where I didn't ask him

because that's like super negative. I just told him, hey, great to see you alive. Every time I saw told Nate great to see you alive is what I every time I saw him great to see you alive man you're fucking best he gave me a little speech before I went out like uh he's a great guy yeah yeah it was very cool he's the one who brought me an NXT you know and everything like that he gave me the uh the opportunity to fight scumbag Adam Cole who you like and everything like that so that was I said he was a nice guy I didn't say I like him. What's the difference? Kind of synonymous. A couple times. A couple times. Just like Austin Theory, I don't like him.

I don't know him, but I think I respect what he did in your program. Okay. Different. I respect his work. They're both terrible guys. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, Austin might have learned from last night.

Actually, he was parading around. Remember? Yeah, he didn't learn shit. He was parading around. You guys are going to be a tag team duo eventually. Well, he's going to be future universal champion. I mean, Vince said that out of his mouth at WrestleMania, at his event, which is the biggest of the year.

Like, I bet that was an awesome moment for Austin. Oh, yeah. Hearing that. Hearing that. Just being like, holy shit. Okay. That's his first time at WrestleMania, right? He did one no-fanzo. So that was like your first, holy shit, okay. That's his first time at WrestleMania, right? He did one no-fans-o, so that was like his first WrestleMania thing.

And Randy told us that when I was talking to him last week. Randy Orton was like, hey, this is his first real WrestleMania too, so he's going to be nervous as well, and he's looking forward to it. At night we'll both remember forever, but we won't be friends still. He's not that immature, arrogant prick. I saw on the IG, and I thought he had a great program. How was Logan Paul? Hey, so he looked great.

Yeah. He performed well. He did very. He's incredibly athletic. Very much. And he gets it. I think he kind of got it. I got to chat with him for probably 15 seconds.

I think that's it. Oh, okay. Just that bit. Yeah. We exchanged numbers. Ticket Stooge linked us on numbers. Shout out to SeatGeek, by the way, for that setup at 18th East. Shout out.

He linked us up, so we got to chat. And I don't know how people feel about Logan Paul. I assume he garners a lot of heat, especially last night at WrestleMania. He was a bad guy guy he played it perfectly but i'm a big fan of what the paul brothers have done in the business category and i'm a big fan of logan going and doing fucking everything they do box floyd mayweather yeah bingo okay box floyd mayweather he's in there like he is a game they were weren't wasn't he and his brother on jeff bezos's yacht like a a week ago? Yeah. Because those motherfuckers are going to be billionaires. And people, you can think whatever you want.

Logan is what? One of the most attractive dudes on Earth, too. He's got a fucking eight-pack. And then they just have trailblazed something for shows like ours and people like us to continue. Not that they were the first people on the internet. I'm not saying that. But they're fucking close.

They shut down Vine. I mean, the Paul brothers shut down Vine and almost created everything else. It's nothing but respect for old Logan Paul. The Miz, though. Yeah, turn it on. What is that about? He's from Ohio. True.

You're right. Turn on another Ohioan. What's that all about? I don't know. He had an awesome commercial. Who? The Miz. I doubt it know. He had an awesome commercial. Who? The Miz. I doubt it.

What was it about? He was like an action figure fighting Drew McIntyre. It was pretty sweet. Did he win or no? Yeah, he put him like 10 feet into the ring. Really? Yeah. Nobody does that to Drew McIntyre.

Well, the thing about the Miz is, how about that sword, by the way? Oh, my God. He sliced through the top two ropes. Damn near cut Madcap Moss' arm off. Dude, he threw a chair at the fucking commentator's table on Friday night. That thing was turning north. Like, he threw it like this, and that thing was spinning up. And I seen it.

Cole did not. That was right at Cole. He didn't even move. As soon as I saw that chair fly, I literally was like, no. And that thing was turning up. That hit the desk so hard and went down. And Cole was like just happened i'm like cole you you almost ate a fucking chair wake up is that why after the match he came over and was like fucking high-fiving you guys or uh i don't know actually i'm not that was sweet it was pretty sweet cole needs to raise his awareness level

because on friday night uh when austin came out and did that scumbag move knocking you down too cole was didn't didn't even see it, didn't stick up for you whatsoever. Well, Cole also has to do with me kicking him. You know, like that thing started out as me. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, it's like Austin. It started out as that. It has become me fucking with Cole, basically, the entire time,

while having a blast because the song's so good. Teasing piece to Boogs, by the way. I'm thinking of 8. Sorry to cut you off. Is Boogs going to come out in a wheelchair like when Dave Grohl broke his leg and finished his concert? That'd be sick. Do you remember when he was on that throne? Oh, yeah.

He was on that damn throne. Something to think about. All right, let's get to the 5RNG phone line. 1-833-4-MAC-A-F-E. I can't see any of the names, and sometimes the program does that on this particular computer. So I'll just say hello to line one. And what's your name?

It's no disrespect. I literally can't see shit on this screen other than I can pick it up. Line one, what's going on? The 5RNG phone line. Oh, it just popped up. Justin, what's going on, pal? Hey, phone line. Oh, it just popped up. Justin, what's going on, pal? Hey, Pat, how you doing? Keep it moving, Justin.

Dude, I just want to say, from the time you entered that arena to the time you were laying on your back drinking beer, you fucking crushed it last night. Oh, thank you, Justin. How does it feel to be part of one of the best WrestleManias of all time?

Wow, Justin. I appreciate that. That means a lot. Yeah, it's cool, man. I mean, I'm really hungover today. I don't think I've gotten into the emotional hangover part yet where you're like, you know, all sentimental. That's probably coming here in like an hour or so. But yeah, man, it was awesome.

I was very, very thankful for that. I mean, it was awesome i was very very thankful for that um i mean one second to last to think about i mean yeah that's late in the show you know when did you know like how when did you know when you were going that changes that thing moved i figured that i figured it changes like oh okay we're gonna throw these this this match here this okay so it changes right up to the moment nah they have to lock it in at some point, but I heard three to four. I mean, if you know, I would imagine you have to have a large chunk of time carved out. If you know Stone Cold's coming back out, he's going to drink 700 more beers and stun a couple more people. By the way, nobody knew that was happening.

Yeah, I mean, that's awesome. Yeah, I think nobody had a clue. I think whenever I walk backstage. Where does he hide though? He's there though. Do these guys hide somewhere? No, because it's WrestleMania. So you see everybody's there.

Okay, what about like Chris Pontius? Was he in the back? So I didn't see Chris Pontius in the back, but afterwards I did see him. But that's why I was surprised when I saw him pop out. I'm like, oh fuck, Chris Pontius. I was like so pumped about that. But when you're walking in the halls of wrestlemania it's like literally the entire attitude era is there you know and it's if you're working and you have to because stadiums are long walks getting from point a to point b is a lot of like oh my god i'm a big

fan how are you doing like literally going out of your way to talk to people. Booker T is one dude who has been so cool to me for so long at all times. And every time I see him, he looks so fucking fresh. Does Booker T not look like the freshest dude of all time? And he's always so fucking nice. So nice, so nice, so nice. Everyone's nice there. But it is.

There's a lot of this going on. Oh, very nice to meet you. I saw Booker T on the pre-show. I turned it on to see earlier. and Leonard Floyd came on from the Rams, and they were going back and forth. Booker T was, yeah, he seems like a fun guy. I've heard some stories about Booker T like, you know, if somebody, you know, is doing some things that maybe everybody is kind of over.

Like, I guess Booker T was one of the guys that would go up and say, hey, you're going to change this or whatever. And then if he had to fight somebody, like, it was like, yeah, Booker T would of the guys that would go up and say hey you're going to change this or whatever and then if he had to fight somebody like it was like yeah Booker T would be the guy that would send in Booker T would freak athlete freak athlete just like if you know there's a lot of like

codes back like in the wrestling business there's a lot of things right there's a lot of things especially back in the day used to be more so. And from what I've heard from rippled down stories that have kind of got to me or whatever, they're like, oh, yeah, if somebody needs Boker D, what's this guy that would go in there and be like, you're going to change. Yeah, straighten him out.

You're not going to act like it. He's the fucking guy. He's always so nice. His wife obviously went into the Hall of Fame. Taker? Undertaker? Oh, him coming off. Dude, he was so nice to me as well. Like, he was so,'s always so nice. His wife obviously went into the Hall of Fame. Taker? Undertaker? Incoming out. Dude, he was so nice to me as well.

Like, he was so, so, so nice to me. His speech with the fucking, I told him, I said, as soon as I saw this shit, I was like, okay, here we go. We're in for one. And I was like, that was great. He goes, yeah, I got lost out there, basically. He said, in a moment or whatever, I think. I was like, your speech is going to be talked about forever, dude.

Like, you should know that. It was a fantasy this week. Steiners. Man. I saw Scott Steiner, and he stopped his golf cart or whatever, and I was like, sir, very nice to meet you or whatever. And we had the Hall of Fame kickoff show. I almost said noted mathematician Scott Steiner goes into that

because he has a promo that's on the internet where it's a triple threat match so technically there's a 33.3% chance but I'm the genetic freak so you add 10% to that so I'm like 43% and he does this whole promo and it's like one of the most famous promos of all time because everybody else that's standing there next to him

has no idea what's going on and then he kind of just walks out it's like a magical moment first i mean him he's still yoked up yoked that arena barking for him oh it was awesome come on that had me going oh rick and scott you didn't see them probably huh you were too young for the steiner brothers yeah they were fucking hilarious and awesome they used to fuck see i i remember him as big pop pump because it was a little later in his career That's like I'm that age

Where I remember him as that Yeah And then the He used to wear that chain Yeah the chain mail Yeah What was it Big Voodoo Daddy

No what did he call himself Um Ah whatever Booty What He was a big booty guy Oh He's a mathman

So he's like That's what That's what like wrestlemania is though all the uh like legends of the past there was like we were walking through and i saw like jbl booker kurt angle it was like literally as i was walking by then there was like uh trish stratus lita like the entire crew was like hi very nice to meet you very nice to meet you how's it going and then there's like wrestlers who are on the roster that maybe haven't like either made their debut or waiting for their debut it's like oh my god good to see you again how you do like that is literally what you do the entire time while you're walking like 200 yards because

everybody's so fucking cool and i'm like i gotta go commentate a match here but i mean what am i am i not gonna say hello to this person right now like i feel like i have to and if i don't say hello i think i'm a bad guy but this particular wrestlemania everybody knew who i was which was fucking really cool you know like and i asked like almost everybody for some advice before my match too because i think that's just a smart thing to do but like edge triple h taker i mean maria menounos it was good to see her and i did uh watch along i think uh oh yeah yeah yeah i think we did that but everybody asked everybody for like advice and everybody was very open with their all their advice which i'm very thankful coach uh drew gulak oh yeah wow know, who got me prepared for Adam Cole, which nobody was supposed to know because he was kind of an Adam Cole guy,

but he flew up here and he taught me a bit. Rip Rodgers made it on WrestleMania. Oh, yeah. Shout out Rip. I was, like, really excited. What kind of advice did you get? Breathing. You know, like, the whole breathing thing.

There was a couple things that was going to happen in the match that I wasn't – I was, like, not necessarily comfortable with doing. Like, I don't know if I had enough confidence to like, I don't think I can pull that off is what I, Kofi Kingston was very nice for this time. Xavier Woods, Riddle, the Usos. Like I'm going through my head right now of all the people that I was like asking, like, Hey, is there anything I should think about in this particular

point? And everybody was just so open with their, and I was very, a lot of it helped immensely. You know what I mean? Like that was a very cool thing.'s got yeah it has to be yeah just talking to those guys right before it has to be awesome but matt riddle credit to that dude too i remember matt riddle as an mma guy but man what an awesome what he's in the right spot i feel like he he's he and randy orton together they're fun yes sweet listen both of them. Both of them. Both of them. Riddle, though. Hey.

He's great. I fucking love Riddle. He's awesome. I knew him from NXT. We're around the same time, and we chatted, but we didn't, like, you know, like we're always, like, super positive with each other. I think, you know, kindred spirits, potentially, in a lot of different ways. And the last, yesterday, I got a chance to really hang out with him. He is fucking electrifying.

His facial expressions were so funny for that whole entire. If he wants to get into this business too, he could just like that. His hair. Yeah. Riddle's the best, dude. All right, let's go to the phones. Austin Theory, terrible guy. The worst.

Stack of shit. Terrible guy. Very incredibly attractive. Very much so. Absolute bum. Very incredibly attractive. Very much so. Absolute bum. Very athletic. Where's he from? Oh, A-Town, Atlanta.

A-Town down, he does the whole thing. What's that? I mean, Mitt was going to make a TikTok about it last week. No, you don't want to be on the wrong side of a Mitt TikTok. Not at all. Oh, my God. Apparently, him saying that he's from Atlanta, him saying he's from atlanta i guess he's from a suburb like way outside of atlanta and mitt wasn't happy about it yeah but it's

listen man i thank you for putting on for the greater atlanta area you know but i i believe i saw you know aj styles was there he's big ge big Georgia Bulldog fan. He's a Georgia guy. I believe I saw that Austin Theory and AJ chatting. So I think there is a – I got a question for you. Yeah, buddy. How was that Broken Skull American Lager? Because I went out to try and find some afterwards,

and it was sold out. It was delicious. Yeah, it was delicious. It was very good tasting. It looked delicious. Vince liked it too. Yeah. Well, yeah, Vince had a couple of good sips.

He did. Liked it. And he actually pointed at Steve. Yeah. it, too. Yeah. Well, yeah, Vince had a couple of good sips. He did. Liked it. And he actually pointed it to Steve. Yeah. I enjoyed that. Yeah. Excuse me. I've seen this done before.

It tasted very, very good. Believe it or not, I didn't get a lot in my mouth when I was out there in the ring. Yeah, sure. But when I was laying next to the table after just getting my head brutally bounced, yeah, I was drinking that one. I was trying to drink that one as much as I possibly could, yeah. He went through 40 beers on Saturday night. Who was throwing them?

Were there multiple people throwing? All right, so Nick, I don't know if he's the same guy that's thrown it for a long time. I think he's the same guy. This dude's a super good guy. He's part of building all the sets. he's the same guy that's started for a long time. I think he's the same guy. This dude's a super good guy. He's part of building all the sets. Like, he's the guy. And that crew that gets in there, re-canvases the ring during a commercial break,

builds everything up during the day and everything. They're in there. They're out of there picking everything up, moving it to another city, building it. It's the same crew. Like, there's a similar crew of like 10 people, I think. And then they hire locally for everything else and they're on the road good dudes man hey those are those it has to be i cannot imagine the production value that they have like it's

unbelievable i just wonder if the stone do you know stone cold's coming out because the dude comes with a train of yetis because he has to have 900 beers on that funny you say that actually because on saturday as i was walking out because we were done commentating and the ko show was about to happen a massive cooler came by it's like this it's a big it was huge huge huge cooler they were kind of wheeling it in i was like how many beers are in there there were like three cases i was like is that gonna be enough they were like uh we hope we are and then one guy was like you want one i was like no no i don't want you going to be enough? They were like, we hope. We hope. And then one guy was like, you want one? I was like, no, no.

I don't want you guys to be one beer short or whatever. I'll go back there. I was like, thank you. We walked by. He might have went through that, though. Yeah. Night one for sure. So many beers.

Let's go to the phones. Five RNG phone lines. Let's go to Bryson, Louisiana. What's going on down the bayou, Donner? Not much, Pat. How are we doing? How is it being a Wrestlemania fucking W? How

did that feel? Thank you, Bryce. It felt good. I don't know how else to describe it. Thank you for the call, Bryce. Thank you for the nice words. It seemed like you were delivering them in a very positive fashion. It felt like you were on my side. I appreciate that. I'm like, this fucking guy. This guy. Yeah, you. I'm like, this fucking guy. This guy. Yeah, you. I'm talking about you, AJ.

Absolute worst. Come on now. I'm actually pumping you up more because, as they say in the biz, I'm putting over your opponent. As they say. That was a fucking good guy. You don't understand the game, obviously. I'll teach you. Okay, well, thank you.

And you did what? Shoot for shoot. Hey, for shoot, you have been saying for a long time, obviously. I'll teach you. Okay, well, thank you. And you did what? Shoot for shoot. Hey, for shoot. You have been saying it for a long time. Vince is going to pop you in the head. Vince is going to pop you in the head. You kept saying that. He threw me, what, halfway across the ring into the turnbuckle?

Yeah. Think of the power of that guy. I mean, it was like he shot put in me, like, you know, that big cowboy that represents America in in that uh yeah red hair of course he's competing against himself yeah he's only gonna get vince had this you know he's on that pitch shark lifting a thousand yeah when he threw me in that turnbuckle the explosion coming out of those hips i mean he fucking you know he did exactly what you're gonna say like hey watch it for the old man he's gonna go he's gonna. Yeah. Like I said, also, old buddy Austin Theory, when he took the old stunner,

that one really affected him. I was impressed. Yeah. What a sell. You don't know what it's like until your face is just eating that shoulder. A lot of power, a lot of force. You as well, you were great. No, no, no.

I was watching Austin on the commentary table, and when he got stunned, I seen his body over the top rope looking outside I'm like holy hell that dude fucking flew right there I was worried you were dead I was like oh his brain just shut off so I was unconscious obviously

I'm glad he didn't knock all your teeth out too the teeth also an issue but like you know I could have choked on a beer that was in my mouth. True. I'm full of it. I'm very, very thankful that my body just naturally was like, get out. We're out.

You should wear a mouthpiece next time. Down the wrong pipe. What if I fucking drowned? Listen, probably, I mean, we're going to learn as we go here. You know what i mean maybe your mouthpiece may put some pads on you know while that bruises is still there you should go to a tattoo shop and just get that bruise tattooed on hey like like people get signatures yeah yeah

it's my mania bruce bro when i went to hit him with that shoulder i did not think about oh there's a rope there that is tied i got slingshotted off that thing did not expect about, oh, there's a rope there that is tied. I got slingshotted off that thing. Did not expect that. I mean, those ropes, unless you've been in one of these rings, you just assume, oh, hey, you just fucking bounce right off these things. They are hard as shit. Hard.

So much tension. I was talking to, I forget which OG it was, some OG, and they were like, you know, I'm seeing Edge in the best shape of his life. I'm seeing people get back in a good shape. And everybody misses it and loves what they're doing. And he said, I went to a ring and I ran the ropes or whatever. It felt good in the time. I woke up. I had three bruises on my back.

My ribs were like just running the ropes just hurts like a month, let alone. Yeah. Ropes almost killed Bobby Lashley yesterday. Jesus. Dive? No, he got thrown in the corner and then his head snapped back and almost hit off. It did. It did, yeah. Not the turnbuckle, behind the turnbuckle.

Like the ring post. I didn't see it. I was in transition. Where Johnny Knoxville's fireworks came out of, his head hit off. It was bad news. Bobby Lashley. He won, though. I seen him win.

Ridiculous. He fought that big dude, that giant. Omos. Omos. Omos. That dude bounced off the ropes one time, and I thought the whole ring was coming down. He's so big. Dude, most people that are that tall are super skinny.

He's dense. I met him down there. Was he down there when you were going? Yeah, I met him. He's built like a big shot. Gigantic. He's dense. Oh, yeah. I met him down there. Was he down there when you were going? Yeah, I met him. He's built like a big shot. Gigantic. He's gigantic. I think he, like, he's a basketball player, very athletic, very,

but he's going to be, you know, if you're seven foot whatever he is. His voice. He's built at 400 pounds. Yeah, he has. I mean, he's, like, thick. He's not, like pounds. Yeah, he has. I mean, he's like thick. Yeah. He's not like awkwardly built. He's like proportionately built for how big he is.

For sure the biggest guy I've ever seen in my life. Ever. 1,000%. Real life, biggest human. Just the whole. His hands. He's so nice. Gumpy was saying he'll be universal champ in probably a year, maybe two. Yeah.

Easy. He's a rocket ship. Yeah. You're not just that big, that athletic, and just in that business. I don't think, I mean, I'm a fan. I don't know shit, but it feels like that's probably a rocket ship

that is on the way up, if we had to guess. Yeah. I saw him doing his hair and his beard in the bathroom before he went out there. I was like, you look good, man. He's like, you know, you know. He's a cool guy, man. Like, really cool.

Terrible. He's an asshole, obviously. He has to be. He has to be an asshole to get to the top. I mean, that's what you got to do. That's why AJ here is on top of the world. That's right. Absolute freak.

Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Mike in Denver. What's going on, Mike? How you doing? Keep moving. That was a good start. Boys, boys boys boys that was uh that was an electric performance last night by you pat uh star of the program for sure no i'm just wondering this isn't this isn't my question but uh do you get some kind of performance bonus

for that beer count like yeah dana does that. Performance of the night. Best stunner of the night, Austin Theory. Yeah. So the business of that match had to be handled. You know, like when Vince offered me the match, if you listen back to that interview, at one point I say, we're going to figure out the business of that, but yes, I will definitely do that.

And that was a cool convo. That was a very cool... The business was a fun part. I enjoy business do that. And that was a cool convo. That was a very cool. The business was a fun part. I enjoy business though. Like I enjoy the whole like combat, like combat pay for troops. It's kind of like what you're getting there. When you get a commentary thing,

I'm not, I'm not equating this to being a soldier, but I'm saying they get combat pay. If they go out and they, they fight, you do a tour, you get a boost, obviously incentive base. If we go to war, you get more

money. There you go. Performance. I mean, there's a lot of different things you could have. Yeah, plenty. There's a business very similar that does it. The NFL, maybe? Is that what you're talking about? The UFC. Well, the UFC, the NFL. I mean, there's a lot. Well, hey, good. I'm glad

I bring a different perspective to you guys. Hey, we support the troops around here, too. Do not let anybody think it's anything like that. All right. Let's go to the phones again on the 5RNG phone line. No, I want to talk about something. DK Metcalf's on the move, huh? Feels like it, yeah.

The Jets with the 10th pick is what everyone seems to be looking to. And Zach Wilson, we think he is a guy or we don't think he's a guy, AJ? What do you think? Do you think he's going to be a guy? If I had to pick right now, I'd say he's going to be a guy. Me too. It feels like they're acting like he's a guy too. Like that's the – I feel like the coaching staff, the front office,

it feels like New York is acting like, hey, this is going to be a guy. We don't know. I mean, Jets stink. So there's really – you know, it's a tough conversation to dive into because if your team isn't good, are you ever going to be considered a good quarterback? Probably not. Like, that's just kind of how it goes.

So you've got to hope that the entire program turns around. But it feels like they're treating Zach Wilson like he's a guy, AJ. Like, honestly, if he gets a number one like DK or something like that, that's only going to benefit that. But they're making that move because they like Zach, if that's the case. You know, AJ? They're not going to waste that. No question, yeah. We're saying, hey, this is our

guy. We drafted him. We have ultimate trust in him. We want to give him every opportunity to have success. So yeah, why not bring in as much talent as you can? Because we know, hey, it's tough to win the league. So Zach Wilson coming in as a young kid, they need to somehow build his confidence, I think, and have

a good start to the season, the first half of the season, and then kind of ride that momentum to where people – just get people to take you serious, I think. That's what it's going to take. Who was mentioning last year that Bob Sala was hired because of his energy and because of how upbeat he is. And then as soon as he's the head coach of the Jets, just like, man, this sucks. Guy lost 30 pounds during the season.

Golly, this stinks. stinks yeah he's not eating again yeah he can't yeah his entire aura was what like why everybody loved him why he's getting all these interviews and then you go to a place that has just you know been battled with suck for so long and it just drains them i'm assuming he's like hey we're gonna do a lot to get my life is miserable now i hate football all of a sudden i love football just a year ago we need to fucking get this thing going i hope they do and if they get dk and like to garrett's point they're giving they're at least giving zach wilson a chance because they have dk uh they drafted elijah moore who was a really good rookie last year and then they signed cory davis to big

money last year as well so they they have weapons and they're giving him a chance like when you take him with number two overall the least you can do is're giving him a chance. When you take him at number two overall, the least you can do is actually give him a chance. Yeah, and he was linked with the Jets too because him and Elijah Moore were teammates at Ole Miss. And then if Zach Wilson is a guy, the AFC East all of a sudden is ridiculous because all four of them are young.

Well, also, I mean the Dolphins are once again just loading up. Yeah. Hatreds. Why did that happen? I have no clue. How does that happen? the Dolphins are once again just loading up the Patriots. Why did that happen? I have no clue. How does that happen? They didn't care at all about Devontae, it seems. They don't think he's a guy? What is it?

That's what I would imagine. And Devontae wanting to go there, are they just trying to do right by Devontae? Is that what we're taking? Or would you say, they don't care. They'll trade you away. They're not worried. You're going to play him twice. Normally, within the division, you don't care. They'll trade you away. They're not worried. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking because you're going to play them twice. Normally within the division, you don't see a lot of it. Brandon Bean talked to us about how he has done business

with Bill Belichick in the past. Obviously, he's the general manager of the Bills. That's the same division. Those are the two titans of the AFC East. And he said, I've done business with Bill. It's always good or whatever. And there's always bottom half of rosters and stuff like that

where in the division will happen. And teams will sign a guy who's on another team the week they're playing them, hoping to get information out of that person. There's all those games being played. But them just trading Devontae Parker within the division, knowing that the Patriots need weapons too. They've got two great tight ends, right? You've still got two tight ends.

Now they've got a one, the running back, and Mac Jones coming into another year. That just doesn't feel like an intelligent move. Gumpy, why did that happen? It feels like, do you guys just want to get rid of Devontae? Is that what was going on? He's only ever been healthy for one full year. That's the only issue with him.

He is unbelievable when he's healthy. The one year when Fitzpatrick was playing he had like 1800 yards and nine touchdowns but other than that he just hasn't been able to stay on the field and also that season that company's talking about there's a bunch of clips going around when uh Stefan Gilmore won the defensive player of the year Devante Parker had like eight catches 190 yards he'll go up and get a ball. Yeah, I'm seeing him like posterize people, right? Like that's his thing.

He'll go up over top of people. That's how Fitzy would just fucking toss it up to him. Yeah, he has the most contested catches since like 2019. And also now with adding Devontae, it makes a lot more sense with Bill not having a fullback on the roster because they're just going to spread it out and let him absolutely spin the pigs. We don't have coordinators. I don't like titles. That's what Bill Belichick said. I don't like titles. That's what Bill Belichick said.

I don't like titles because then I've got to pay people accordingly. Everybody's a fucking GA. Everybody's an assistant around here. Give him green balls. He doesn't have to give them a title. He's going to have to make sure those green balls are being checked by the books, especially after what's going on with the commanders. That's wild.

They were lying to the rest of the NFL about their revenue. How does that even make sense? Because you think the NFL, the other owners owners would know how much money they're making by their ticket sales is that the two different books they were keeping to for the other nfl owners they were trying to fuck over or are they talking like full irs stuff like i don't think i fully understand what's going on yeah i don't understand it at all but i would imagine if you're keeping two different books or you're trying to hide revenue from the rest of the league so you don't have to share it,

then you're also hiding it from the IRS, correct? I don't know. Maybe that's the two different books. Can you do it without hiding it from the league? How does that work? Maybe they have the real book for the government. Like, hey, we have to pay our taxes. We are in this.

We have to do it here. But for the NFL, we didn't fucking make 45% of the money we made for the rest of the NFL. Why? They're going to get a piece of our marketing, our deal. but for the nfl we didn't fucking make 45 of the money we made for the rest of the nfl what why oh they're gonna get a piece of our marketing our deal what you think the detroit lions deserve a little bit of our money out there is that what they're thinking that'll get your ass run out of a business real quick if you're not paying the people well like you said too like the nfl didn't notice that 40 of the ticket revenue that they're expecting from the commanders wasn't coming in. Like,

I don't understand that part. You'd think like, there's no way this would be able to happen for an entire season. Like they'd figure it out and be like, Hey, what the fuck's going on here? Yeah. But maybe they're pitching the story.

Like all these exposés are killing our ticketing. Like, you know, the other NFL is like, ah, they're struggling over there in Washington. Yeah. Supposedly the NFL and the NFLPA audit this every year,

so it would be very difficult to hide. No, but if you're running two books. Yeah, if you're clever enough at it, I'm sure there's a way. Yeah. If you're ballsy enough to try to rip off the other owners, yeah. Yeah, your business partners. They're going to take this extra cash and maybe fix the poop pipes. Well, I think that's what leads you to the next thing.

They're ripping off their business partners that they made billions of dollars. They wouldn't rip off their fans, right? No, of course not. No. Turns out. Of course not. They wouldn't do that, right? That's not something that an owner who would be hiding money from his business partners would do.

So this falls on, but does this fall on Dan Snyder's wife? Because she took over day-to-day operations. She is the one per club meeting attendee this year. Or was this happening before she did that? It seemed like it was, yeah. Dan Snyder's name was exclusively linked to this. There wasn't a whole lot of mention of his wife in it. Well, I think that's kind of become the thing,

right? That Dan Snyder, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy. And it's like, oh, Dan's out now. His wife's doing it. Yeah, true. So thank you for saving our guy, bad guy. And it's like, Oh, Dan's out now. His wife doing it. Yeah, true. So thank you for saving our organization, our program. With that being said,

um, you guys need to get the fuck out of our town. Like, that's crazy to me. Does anybody stand up for Dan Snyder? Like, is there anyone that defends him? I think there's an insider to you. I think you'll watch the way they paint a tweet versus how everybody else paints a tweet.

That's how I try to pay attention. I'm like, oh, this person is getting their info directly from this person. I'll pay attention now. Yes, I think you should. We'll be back in four minutes. We're going to do some more phone calls, chit-chat about everything going on. When's the national championship? Tonight. 9-20 tonight. Yeah, perfect. Probably not going to see it.

Yeah, the Raw after WrestleMania is massive. Yeah. If any of the people that I Saw last night are performing tonight Fucking Raise the respect level Where is it where's Raw Dallas I think

Oh cool I'm not sure is it Yeah it is Smackdown Hall of Fame NXT WrestleMania Saturday, WrestleMania Sunday, then Raw after WrestleMania. That is so much money to those local economies. Yes.

Like, jeez. It's not just WWE. Every other wrestling program in promotion, they have all their events, same weekend, same city, in the convention center or in other venues around town. When WrestleMania comes to a city, it captivates the entire city. It is awesome to be a part of. Test 2 Baby and Bill Ding do a match over the weekend. So Office Championship Wrestling did not have a...

God damn. That's what I'm thinking about for next year. OCW needs to... Oh, LA. We're not going to LA. Yeah, there's so much LA. Oh, right. Yeah, there's so much poop. Yeah, maybe we have poop from the street match.

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Just as a thank you to everybody. As I was watching that clip, and I haven't seen, like other than me pouring beer in my mouth and the stunner, I haven't really watched it back. So I haven't heard Michael Cole's commentary. I love that man.

I can't wait to listen to that. I appreciate him. But the fans are in that stadium. Like, thank you. You know, they were, I mean, it's almost, it felt like they were like, hey, this is, let's do this for this. Like, let's give Pat a moment. Like, I'm very, very thankful for the WWE Universe yesterday in there.

They were so loud, man. Yeah. During the match, like the, oh. It was stupid. It was so stupid. Break it out. By the way, shout out to the White Stripes. And I was going to say Jack directly, but I think it's him.

I think there's only two people in there. But shout out to them. Shout out to them for letting me use that. I know that's not a normal thing. Thank you to everybody. Thank you to A.J. Hawk joining us live from his attic in Ohio. A.J., let's run through some other big news that Connor put on this piece of paper. League executives believe DK Metcalf can be had.

We already talked about that. Look at us being a sports show. Jalen Hurts is trying to recruit AJ Brown to Philly. That's happening right now? AJ Brown from? Tennessee. Tennessee, yeah, the Titans. Why would he be gone?

Yeah, he's been similar to some of the players that have kind of been moved around. He's been tweeting stuff. That makes it seem like he is. This is on Instagram here, obviously? Yeah, these are, yes. And then there was a story about Jalen Hurst trying to recruit him to Bama, and obviously he ended up going to Ole Miss, but they stayed friends, and they're, like, close.

Really? I thought A.J. Brown was a massive piece of the whole puzzle down there. He is. He is a huge piece. And he wants out? Is this the everybody wants money, everybody wants a new deal type situation we're in right now? Yeah, because he also is in the last year of his rookie deal,

and he doesn't have a fifth-year option, just like D.K. Metcalf and McLaurin and Debo and all of them. So they're saying, hey, you guys are, if you're not going to give me an extendo, send me somewhere that will, and let me get off these books. A.J., how do you feel about that? And what do you think Vrabes feels about this? I don't know. I mean, if you're not willing to sign them to an extension then do you i guess you would want to get something out of them wouldn't you if you're

going to trade them away i think that's kind of the but you want to have them for another year though too that's another thing yeah that's the pitch i think agents of mad players are trying to get like hey you're not gonna you get a fourth round or third rounder from this guy you're not gonna get anything in a year you're gonna have to pay him he'll hey, you're not going to get a fourth rounder, third rounder from this guy. You're not going to get anything in a year. You're going to have to pay him. He'll be happy. You'll be happy. That's the pitch they're saying, right? I mean, I guess.

But the team's like, yeah, our team's better with fucking A.J. Brown on the football field, though. So I don't understand completely. With the Tyreek Hill and Devontae Adams deal, I think that's both of those deals. Like, these guys are going to warrant $30 million a year now because of that. Like, with the salary cap going up even more next year,

like, they're going to be asking for a lot of that. With the salary cap going up even more next year, they're going to be asking for a lot of money. Hey, that's awesome that there is no – you are whatever they will pay you. If somebody will pay you $230 million guaranteed, you should be proud of that and keep it moving. And if you're somebody in that position who maybe you know your team's not going to do that, but you look around and you're like, oh, they're desperate. those people would do it yeah i guess it's hard not to start looking

like that aj at every single position is other than punter honestly no bunners i'm gonna go over here they're gonna pay me well probably not and a lot of these guys too like i mean not that it's all about the money but they're going from situations where it's like oh you'd think he would want to sit i mean both tennessee we're number one seed in the AFC. Exactly. And then Devontae and Tyreek Hill, like both of those guys are going to arguably worse teams. But that's just not the case anymore. Gumpy's head just popped up. What was that all about, Paul?

What do you mean worse? Well, I mean, you know, Chiefs, pretty solid. Finns haven't gone to the playoffs in a long time. Times are changing, my friend. No, you guys just sent a guy up to New England again. They better win a lot of games in Miami this year. Devontae better have a terrible year. Hey, we're used to stinking.

I mean, it's not that big of a deal. But you have a lot of hope now. This is the Browns. A lot of hope. This is like the Browns, AJ. Yeah. Super Bowl. Remember a couple years ago, they won the Super Bowl.

Last offseason. Yeah. They're going to the Super Bowl this past season. They're going to the Super Bowl, and then they did not make playoffs. The pressure is on, Paul, down in Miami. Nah, we're good. We'll be fine. Big mics at the helm.

Pressure is on. He's on. Welcome to Miami, where they send us. How's he doing? He's resigned, dude. Well, he quit. He's getting buried. The Academy?

Yeah. So he voted for himself to win that? I don't understand. Probably. Sounds like something he would do. Is it like the Guild or something? That was interesting when I saw that as well. Yeah, they're like, he has retired from the Academy.

And now all anybody says is like, I'd like to thank the Academy. So Will Smith is a part of the academy and he won the biggest gave himself the best one yeah the best possible trophy and also by the way one of the people vote are voting on all this also walks up on his day is my show smacks kind of my yeah yeah a couple projects are getting pulled from them from netflix and really tv yep oh from the other academies no no like stuff they were going to do on will smith i A couple projects are getting pulled from them from Netflix and Apple TV. Yep. Oh, from the other academies? No, no, no. Like stuff they were going to do on Will Smith.

I think there's – Biotechs, honestly. Yeah, there it is. And they said – Time heals all the pull. Yeah, this will be like that period when Chike – was that his name who did the Kanye thing? Yeah, Cootie and – Cootie and Chike.

This will be the period. The documentary just got better. Yeah. We'll delay this thing four or five years or whatever. Because I guess they're not giving their story until they do a Red Table Talk. That's right. She made that stipulation. Really?

Well, I think. Yeah. I do believe she did. Yeah. That's what I was told. But also, business-wise, they own it all. If they're going to talk about the situation, they get to own it all. But also,

that's a bad scene over there, dude. That is a bad scene. All parties. He'll make it back. He'll eventually make it back. If he would have walked up there and slapped Beyonce or Lizzo, he wouldn't make it back from that. But Chris Rock, I think they'll let him back in. Lizzo's got a new show out

on Amazon. I saw a's what I'm saying. I saw a preview of her doing a show. That's why you just brought her up. I was saying any other people that would be at the Academy Awards possibly. I was thinking Grammys. Yeah. It would still be there. I mean, Lizzo came out of nowhere there.

Kind of came out of left field. She was showing her cheeks at that Lakers game. Oh, yeah. Big time. Like Pontius. Yeah, ask these chaps. That was the last time I seen her, right? Well, yeah, because some guy was like,

hey, my fucking five-year-old's right here. Okay, put your goddamn butt cheeks away. And she kind of toned it down thereafter. Yeah, that was the fall of the Lakers. She has a show coming out as well. Yeah, what's it called? Sweet or something? Cheeks.

Cheeks? Is it really? Same time as Zito and Diggs. Let's go to YouTube frames. Hey, good as you don't digs. That's good. That's good of you two brains. That's good for you guys. That's a good voice. Let's go to the phones. Tyler in Buffalo, New York.

Tyler, thank you for paying for the new stadium for the Bills. We appreciate you doing that. It's going to be glorious. How you doing, pal? Hey, what's good, fellas? What's good, fellas? How you doing? Hey, keep it moving.

Oh, you know, I'm kind of trying to take that Diggs approach. You know, I'm going to drive by it every day. Be proud of that. I own it. There you go. Yeah. He did it for Heinz. Heinz, you say.

Oh, a piece of me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what Tyler was saying. He was actually giving you a copy. Yeah, we're doing it for Highmark, I think, now. I don't know. New Era.

Who knows anymore. We've got Highmark Stadium. I don't even know what Highmark is. Well, listen, there's the Sears and Willis Tower. I mean, this is just a world that we're in. Highmark's health insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield. Zito just dropped into my ear there while you were talking there, Tyler, so I apologize.

I didn't hear exactly what you were saying. What is the name of the show that Lizzo has? I believe by what I searched, Watch Out for the Big Girls. Okay. I don't know how many R's. There is two out for the big girls. Okay. I don't know how many R's. There is two R's. No, no you. Okay.

Watch out for the big girls. Can't wait to watch that. Shout out to Lizzo. Shout out. Shout out to AJ with the Lizzo shout out. I mean, that came out of way left field. We talk about her and Bill Gates all the time on here. No, we don't.

Way to go. Way to go. Check it off. This guy's having his WrestleMania moment. No, we don't. Way to go. Way to go. Check it off. This guy's having his WrestleMania moment. Yes, he is. He's a Super Bowl dude. You should be proud of yourself. Anybody else you want to drop in there?

No, that's it right now. Hey, man, Epstein was with us. What other female should I have said that Will Smith wouldn't have come back from if he would have assaulted them? I mean, literally any actor. Natalie Portman. Meryl Streep. There you go. Thank you. Meryl Streep. Rosie O'D if he would have assaulted them. I mean, literally any actor. Natalie Portman. Meryl Streep. There you go.

Thank you. Meryl Streep. Rosie O'Donnell. Any of them. Oh, I don't care. Speak of the road. Here we go. He might have gotten away with Rosie, to be honest.

Probably would have got a standing O. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We ain't talking about that. But I do enjoy the fact that your brain. I would like to know what the picture of Rosie O'Donnell showed up in his brain before he said it. A League of Their Own. A League of Their Own.

When you were walking down the ramp last night, for some reason, when you mentioned WrestleMania moment, I giggled to myself when I was watching. I was like, can you imagine D-Butt and Nick and AJ walking down this ramp with Pat? It happened at NXT. I wish it would have happened. D-Butt, by the way, thanks for all the love on the internet, man. He's a good guy.

What a wild night. Alright, sorry about that, Tyler. Go ahead. Anybody else you'd like to get in here on this April 4th? Now, maybe Tyler has a few suggestions. Tyler who? I don't know. Is Tyler on the phone? Good call back. Yeah, I'm still here. Go ahead, Tyler. Tyler, we don't need. Is Tyler on the phone? Good call back. Yeah, I'm still here.

Tyler, we don't need any other toxic humans to be dropped in here. What do you think about the Bills? Do you like the new stadium? Do you like the idea? They're in town for another 30 years at least, right? That's good news. Yeah, I mean, it's good to know we keep them. I mean, it's a tough pill to swallow, but at least the NFL got a little bit of money out of them too to help build it.

So, I mean, team effort. Hey, you know the thing is— Hopefully the Super Bowl pays for itself. Good chat. Thanks for not getting too toxic there. They're not getting a Super Bowl. No. No way.

Can't. No. I think they might. No. Oh, no, no. It's hours. February is no way. It's not a dome?

No. No. Open air. I mean, they took the chance in New York, though. They just got lucky that they didn't have terrible cold weather when they were there. And Indianapolis also, I mean, granted, you could shut the roof at any moment, but the weather was incredible. What'd you say?

Remember when they had the New York Super Bowl? I was there. I went to it. I forgot all about it. Oh, yeah, and everybody's in Times Square, but the stadium's 45 minutes away. It was actually pretty nice out there. Yeah, the weather was beautiful. Didn't Denver and Seattle, they were playing when Peyton got killed?

That was New York. Yeah, that was New York. First snap over his head, right? Yep. For safety. Because of the weather. Let's go. It's so cold.

Plus 20,000. It was like 50. But in New York in February, it could have been. First play, plus 20,000. First score, safety, plus 20,000. Yeah, the books were dead after the first play of the game. There was no way they could come back. Oh, yes.

Congrats to us. What are we betting on tonight? Who do we like? This show's wrapping up. Yeah. I'm going Kansas. Come on. Okay.

Okay. My neck's starting to hurt. Yeah, ice bath. Get it. Put it on. What is it, Ty? What did he hurt? T1, T2.

Worried about it last night again. Oh, it's all starting to hurt right now. Okay. We're in that nice little area there, the brain, the mind. Everything's great. Everything's cool, hungover. And then now it's all just kind of wearing off like yeah oh no where's that tour doll dude you think they just hand those out somewhere can i go to like cvs and go i need a shot toward all right probably called gmrs does wwe have like a training room like an nfl training

oh yeah they have a medical staff it's awesome like you walk in and get a tour doll there's a dude named uh i don't i don't know if that's how it works. I have not. I actually told them, I'm going to try to stay out of here as much as possible, you know, because I just, great people over there. Larry, my guy Larry, he's a West Virginia grad. He's been around a long time. Had a couple drinks with him last night.

Wow. Right. He's a suit, like super executive, you know. But he's been there so long, he's moved up. Nice. But he wears a polo. He doesn't wear a suit. But I was introduced to him as uh well he's a executive of blah blah blah and uh so i said what's up suit or whatever he goes well like he had his immediate reaction

was like not happy so yeah but he went to west virginia he's incredibly everybody over there so cool yeah but that larry's been really nice dude they're all awesome he's been very very nice to me and we got to drink a little bit last night together why my life man maker's mark maker's mark's good yeah it tastes smooth delicious i went through uh for a tour to through their distilleries great so i i tried to learn a little bit about this while i was pretty boozed up so i guess bourbon county correct if it comes from there it's a bourbon anything else cannot be said that and they're only allowed to use the barrels that create it once if you use a barrel to create the whiskey more than once it's just a whiskey not a bourbon anymore so it seems like it is not

you know resourceful so all bourbon is whiskey but not all whiskey is bourbon bingo wow you gotta classify is maker's mark a bourbon yes it's a bourbon so that's why it tastes so good though because it's like the the way they do it it's from that county that barrel the whole process it's like a p they tell you it's close to louisville but it's more like an hour drive from louisville so if you ever want to go on that little tour just make sure you know that oh the bourbon trail is a lot further away than they say. Yeah. Okay. But when you get there, it is worth it. So when you go there on a party bus without a bathroom, just know.

Oh. AJ, are you a whiskey guy, bourbon guy? Yeah, I never used to be. I was a vodka guy back in the day. And then now, yeah. I don't know the difference. But yeah, I like whiskey, bourbon, either one. It's such a cool, like, I feel like it's an entire thing.

I just put it on uh on the rocks just with some ice yeah i was going straight out of the bottle but what are you playing some balls played swings last week make a bubble you making a bubble you passing around like in a circle yeah yeah buddy sweet it caught up to me too i mean i ate quick i did not expect it you know i've been ketoing for so long so there's not a lot of uh there's not a lot of basement in it yeah did you eat the day of your match um yeah i had some oh that's a whole nother thing i don't really want to get into it you poop your pants no no the food is a massive conversation piece at this point was it too healthy you were

always mad you could it was always healthy it was yeah too healthy? You were always mad. It was always healthy. It was, yeah, too healthy. You know what they say about healthy food. It tastes like trash. What? What? What? It was like I was back in the day

whenever I would just put like hot sauce on everything. I used to put everything on a bun and then I would just load it with cachotte sauce and everything tasted like bread, ketchup, and hot sauce. So no matter what the food was in there it does not matter it's going to taste good similar type operation there in the catering situation because that thing was loaded up with hot sauce on top of there all right so this is just uh this could have been a piece of paper basically i was just eating it

with how much hot sauce was on it yeah that's the whole conversation that i am that's way over my head i'm not getting into that whole thing. That's a whole story, AJ. Really? Are people like you are upset that they have turned it too healthy now? I am not upset. I am not. Hey, listen, you got to do whatever you got to do.

But people are wondering, like, kind of tastes like poop. Poop. Can't have it. People are there all day. All day. Yeah. All day All day Two, three meals

People are eating over there Even for mania? Well I figured it'd be I didn't go over there as much I didn't go over there as much So I'm not gonna judge On that entire thing

Very busy this week Very, very busy, man I didn't stop, dude I didn't stop As soon as I got there Did not stop Just straight through Yeah, I mean

Your dude perfect thing Feels like it was a month ago Yeah That felt like a month ago yeah that felt like a month the uh you drained him first shot though exactly yeah it was quick pretty sweet because immediately after that you know i got i got a training session in too you know at the stadium so that went late into the night as well so after watching tyler from dude perfect do something awesome and celebrate with ko, who I got to see again. They came to Mania last night.

So after celebrating with them, I had to go immediately into a training session to get ready. And that thing was a good hour, hour and a half, two hours. So that was... And then we do the show. And then we go right into SmackDown. And then bang, right into... Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame, yes.

Then Saturday, I try to sleep in a little bit. Obviously can't. I'm calling WrestleMania tonight. Go over there all day. Then bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Then the plane's a little bit later than it's supposed to be. So I'm going to pass out at some point, and I'm going to probably crash off this incredible high

that I've been living and experiencing. And I just want to say thank you to everybody. I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have no idea what the future holds in that business. I have no idea what the future holds, obviously, in anything.

But last night is something I will think about forever. And it wouldn't have been possible without all of you, including you, Toxic AJ, including you, Toxic Table, the boys. I'm so grateful, so thankful. I'm going to get out of here. I'm going to go nap. Okay?

Kind of mailed it in today. I do apologize. Two-hour show. You were so busy yesterday. You earned it last night. Well, the liver right now is howling. I'm shaking. You should get an IV tonight.

Ooh. Somehow. I don't know where or how. I don't know if Indy does that. Oh, yeah. Oh, they do. Go on Yelp. Look it up on Yelp. I have to go to a place. I don't know if Indy does that. Oh, yeah. I know some cities. Oh, they do. Go on Yelp. Look it up on Yelp.

I have to go to a place? I believe they do mobile. Man, I hate needles, but that would be something. It is very quick. It refreshes you. Yeah. Sounds like. I do it once a week.

Sounds like. You really say. You got an IV every week? Yeah, but his is full of chocolate milk. You didn't deserve that. Jesus. to think about. You had an IV every week? Yeah, but his is full of chocolate milk. Oh, I see. You didn't deserve that. Jesus. Hammered Down

will be in 26 minutes, I assume, 3.30? Chocolate milk is good. We'll set it for 3.15. We'll probably start at 3.20. 3.20,

Hammered Down at youtube.com forward slash Hammered Down. Zito's going to go drink and shoot himself up with some chocolate milk. That's quick, baby.

That's right. Yoo-hoo. Is that the other you who is good alright I appreciate you all big giveaway tomorrow big guest tomorrow big conversation tomorrow and hopefully my liver will be okay thank you all so so much you are the best people on earth we'll see you manana

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