The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 663 - Feel Good Friday with Kirk Herbstreit, Ian Rapoport, and AJ Hawk

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk and the boys show are safe and back in the studio after yesterday's fire & power outage. In the first hour, Kirk Herbstreit joins to show to discuss the ELECTRIC slate of TNF games he will be calling on Amazon Prime(0:26.54-0:57.35), Pat's journey from high school soccer to the NFL, and more. In the second hour, AJ joins the boys to break dahn the NFL Schedules and all of the NFL social media team's Schedule Release videos, with the Chargers' legendary anime movie roasting their opponents taking the cake. Later, NFL Insider and friend of the progrum, Ian Rapaport joins the show from a golf trip to talk through the schedule releases (1:40.58-2:00.27), latest rumors like if Sean Payton could be headed to the Panthers, whether he will ever work again, and much more. 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 you all. Have a great weekend, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Friday the 13th. And this sports show begins right now. Can't thank you enough for joining us on this glorious Friday the 13th. Hope your life is fantastic. Hope this week has been, you know, majestic. Hope you're going into the weekend with a great attitude because this weekend is going to be the greatest weekend of all time.

Now, granted, there's no NFL football, but we do know what NFL football is coming. Just 18 Sundays from this Sunday. Now, granted, there's no NFL football, but we do know what NFL football is coming just 18 Sundays from this Sunday. Shout out to Rachel Bonetta's new song, 18 Sundays. Absolute banger. Did the math for us. There's no at Boston

Connor here at the Toxic Table, but there is an at Bubba Gumpino, at Ty Schmidt, at Tone Diggs is here as well. All the boys in the back. Connor is at a bachelor party. That's right. Legend.

Have a good one out there. Enjoy it. Get him straight. Do us proud. Do us proud. Let's have a great, let's have a great feel good Friday.

Hell yeah. Let's have Kirk Herbstreit on. Ooh. Yep, Kirk Herbstreit will join us 1235 Eastern Standard Time about 31 minutes from now, chit-chatting about the Thursday Night Football schedule

in which he'll be calling for Prime. Ooh. Hey, they got their new logo, new detail. Amazon is out there doing it. This is their first season being the exclusive home to Thursday Night Football. They've had it for a few years in the past as a simulcast. Now it's the exclusive home. They got some good games.

Oh, yeah, not bad. Now the issue with Thursday Night Football games, projecting them out now, is in December and November when injuries happen and there is a lot of injuries that happen in the NFL to every single team. It's just a part of the, some teams might not matter that we think are going to matter. And some teams that we think are going to be duds might be

absolute wagons by the time their game on Thursday Night comes. Can't flex out of it. So these games are set in stone, which is the only issue that Thursday night football has kind of had in the past, but it feels like the NFL said, Hey, Amazon, we know you are investing big in the NFL. We know the investment could get bigger in the future because you got a guy flying in space.

You got a guy, you got a whole, you got a lot of money over there. So we're going to try to at least pep this up, spice this up a little bit. Thursday football schedule looks great. Can't wait to chat with Kirk Herbstreit about it. Ian Rappaport will join us in the third hour. What's he doing? Good question. Schedule released last night.

Didn't see him in any of the videos. No. Didn't hear him breaking any of the news. No. There was no leaks in the schedule from old Ian Rappaport. Haven't heard any trade or any contract or free agency news out of him. You know why? Why is that?

He's on a golf trip. Geez. Oh, wow. Takes more vacays than A.J. Hawk. He does, doesn't he? It's crazy. We'll talk to him in the 2 o'clock hour. By the way, he's probably smart.

All these old guys in the sports world. We talked about this last year, I believe, at this exact time. Yep. I think we actually all say, hey, Siri, remind us next year, this time, that there's a reason all the veterans of the sports media world just take off weeks at a time. Right. Just disappear.

Mm-hmm. Concord was in Italy. Yeah. Italy? Yeah. Middle of the way. I mean, there's nothing. He missed nothing.

No, he didn't. Other than the scheduled release that was on his phone, he missed absolutely nothing. Greeny has been doing the NBA, hasn't been on get-up for anything. He's missed nothing. Nothing. He missed nothing. No, he didn't. Other than the scheduled release that was on his phone, he missed absolutely nothing. Greeny has been doing the NBA. He hasn't been on Get Up for Early. He's missed nothing. Nothing. Ian Rappaport's what? Been at the Harry Potter Museum.

Yep. The Pez Dispenser shop, Creep Shop. Now he's on a golf trip. He has missed nothing. Nothing. Other than scheduled releases. You could have gotten your friend. It was better probably than the TV dishes because so many social media teams are on crazy.

We got to remember this for next year. Yeah, we do. So like from after the draft until, the week after July 4th? Oh. Training camp. Training camp. Okay. Oh, okay.

No, yeah, you're talking. There is time. Now, the interesting thing is there are little, you know, at least little blips in the news world that happen during these dry, dead weeks of non-NFL time while the NBA and the NHL are absolute kings right now, and the MLB is happening, that, you know, compound to the story later. But as we're going through this period of time, I think we just need to enjoy life and understand that maybe some things

aren't going to be happening at the rate that we would like them to happen for this particular show, because this has been the most electrifying offseason in the history of the NFL. Yeah. particular show because this has been the most electrifying offseason in the history of the NFL. Yeah. To be to add to that, the schedule release that every NFL content team does has become a competition. They will not say it publicly that it has become a competition, but it has clearly become a competition. Everybody has the same amount of time with the schedule. Everybody has the same announced date. Everybody has the same opportunity to create incredible content.

And after watching most of the schedule releases from last night, I think we would all like to crown the Los Angeles Chargers social media content team as the best content team in the NFL. Hell yeah. Pound for pound. Pound for pound. Yeah. Pond for pond. Pond for pond. Yeah. Clip for clip.

Yeah. They do it. They get it. They understand it. Just a few years ago, if a team did what the Chargers did last night, they took it to bulletin board material. They'll get their job.

Now it's just good chomping of internetting. I mean, honestly, what they did was unbelievable. We'll break that down at some point today, probably in the second hour when A.J. Hawk joins us because his toxicity would be great. But the schedule release was, I mean, honestly, what they did was unbelievable. We'll break that down at some point today, probably in the second hour when A.J. Hawk joins us because his toxicity would be great. But the schedule release was, I mean, it was nothing other than judging the media teams of each team. Chargers won.

I think the Panthers. Great one. That was a trip down nostalgia lane. I think if you're 29, 28 to probably forever, like 50, it was just a trip down nostalgia lane of what life was actually like from a point of view of a kid back in the day. I mean, it was awesome. That was a good – not as good as the Chargers. No, no, no, no. Chargers buried everybody.

It was by far away. Everyone knew it was the top dog. Yeah, Chargers absolutely did it. The Panthers was awesome. I saw Dallas Cowboys had Stephen A in there. Good promo. Good video. way everyone knew it was the top dog chargers absolutely did the panthers was awesome i saw dallas cowboys had steven a in there uh good promo good video him and jerry jones i thought it was good lions had the um the uh detroit urban survival guy pretty good if you do listen to him you will get shot in the face yes no because you block the arm and then you hit the arm and then take him to

the ground take him to the ground yeah and then you hit the arm. Take him to the ground. Take him to the ground. And then you do that takedown where it's a no look backwards to the neck. To die. 99. And if a Viking's trying to block you, you grab arm and you grab shoulder and down to the ground you go. He's got it all figured out. This guy is the Detroit Steven Seagal. Yeah, exactly. Very much so.

By the way, don't want to fuck with you. Absolutely not. there are some losers of the schedule release for instance Steelers what do you mean Steelers just posted a picture nailed it in here it is yeah keep it simple that's how we were here about ball okay yeah we're bomb ball oh who are we playing oh there it is right there thank you how about competing though yeah you know how about just competing we compete on the field okay yeah well hopefully you're competing in all aspects of your life. Steelers just mailed it in.

They don't give us enough time to create anything. Ain't nobody going to do nothing. The Chargers had a full anime fucking movie, basically. Which, I wonder how long it took them to do that. Because it really did look like the amount of work they put in. Like, they would have had to gotten this. I mean, I guess they could have edited it in time for the the games but it seems like they put a lot of work and time into that shout out to the anime uh producer andrew cordova okay he andrew cordova i believe he

watches the show he used to work at nfl films now he's feature producer editor for the la chargers um and then he says fraud anime producer i don't think you're a fraud pal no yeah it was pretty good it made me much more uh you know attractive i think than most people would put me as an anime the arms you know a little bit more definition i don't think i know enough about anime though i don't this is bill's world right bill yeah a lot of people tweeted me that bill was bopping baloney to the anime that came out from the charges he blacklight the bill's anime room jesus christ well that's i didn't know that was even a thing i didn't know it was a thing i put this tweet out i put the tweet out about this video and i didn't know what it was people were sending me pictures of this before i saw the video so i obviously know that

anime exists i don't want to say that that doesn't happen but i've never got into it i think i was a generation before anime really became a thing here in america or whatever i watch it what an electrifying thing i mean just high energy yeah magical robots just shit popping off if you're prone to seizures you should not watch it yeah there's a lot of movement there's a lot of stuff going on in there but then everybody like not everybody but i got 15 responses that was like, Bill's beating his baloney in this video. Yeah? Is that because Bill loves anime because he likes anime

or because he's actually bopping to anime, which is what a lot of people were kind of alluding to in their tweets? I believe it's twofold. I think he loves anime, but there's a good chance he was also greasing his bowl to that video. More specifically, hentai. Bill, is this something you've said publicly? Why did everybody just act like this was a certainty while they were tweeting me and sending me messages like,

yeah, Bill's going to ruin himself to this video. Is this something you talk about openly? On the pod, it's been mentioned a couple times, I do watch some anime programs. So I have been known to be associated. Sock films? No, no, no, no, no. Nice, respectable. Actually, I do really like the hentai a bit there.

Is that what he said? Nice, respectable. Word for word. That's what he said. One more time? One more time? Actually, I do really like the hentai a little bit there. Hentai. Get it right if you're going to say it. Then you say he's word for word and you don't even pronounce the fucking word right. I mean, that is tough to, you know, legitimize that.

But, Bill, I just want to let you know you didn't deserve it. Thank you. I appreciate that. I like the fact, though, that we have a hentai and an anime expert in the room. Half of that statement's correct. It was a good video, though, right, Bill?

It was a great video, yeah. Okay, so Bill gets it. His eyes light up. So Bill gets it. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. That'd make me Bill. Stopping Bill. Bill doesn't deserve that.

No, not at all. Good guy. But the people on the internet did that, and I have to understand it. But the anime, that artist had to draw, what, every little piece. Can we just run it real quick? Let's just run a piece of it for people that haven't seen it yet. Just run a little bit of it, and we won't go through the whole thing because aj hawk should be here because i assume aj hasn't seen it yet so each individual scene though is filled with like 50 amazing

things yeah just little nuggets that are just burying people mina kimes takes a ricochet go ahead and run it foxy just real quick we had to change the music because we didn't have the rights to the music. So what could they... They knew the stadium, obviously. That's what they're hunting. That's the AFC West. Herbo. There's their guy. That's their other guy.

That's their other guy. Look how fucking nice this is. Yeah. So good. How long did this take? They did all 32 or like 31 other teams. Well, they knew who their opponents were. Yeah.

All right, we can stop. Let's not get too into it. Well, week four. They knew who their opponents were. That one really got me. Which one? Week two. I was like, okay, we're in for a ride here.

This is awesome. Have you seen this yet? Yeah, yeah. But I'm just saying at that point, it was like, okay, they're really going for this. They went all in. Yeah, it's incredible. They're going to take this guy months to draw, right? I assume so. I don't know anything about animation, but the way I think it's done, I think it would take

him forever. I like the fact that they're like, yeah, like, hey, listen, let's go all in and let's murder this, okay? There's expectations around here. Everybody knows the Chargers are the best uniformed and the best content team out there. I would like to hear the speech in front of the room about the fucking schedule release.

It's our only opportunity to literally compete against every other team. Steelers are just going to take a fucking picture. Steelers are going to take a picture. You know what the Bengals are going to do? Exactly what the Bengals would. You would expect them to do. Right.

Bunch of clip arts. Just kind of move that thing together like paper. Whatever the fuck it is you know that colts geez pretty good hey maddie ice sculptor they actually had two i respect it the ice sculptor the ice art had a family friend that was a nice sculptor growing up so i understand the passion and everything he is maddie ice it was pretty good it was a good introduction to maddie ice in there he was dressed like the guy from that one movie. Christmas movie.

Christmas Vacation. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What's old buddy's name in that movie? Clark Griswold. Yeah, the guy the shitter's full. Yeah, Uncle Eddie. Yeah, Uncle Eddie.

He was kind of dressed like Uncle Eddie. Yeah, with the flaps. Yeah, the flaps and the robe and everything. I enjoyed that. I mean, they went that way. Sure. Somebody went with a full anime. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, that is a difficult comparison, but they went all in. I appreciate that. I mean, they went that way. Somebody went with a full anime. You know what I mean?

That is a difficult comparison, but they went all in. I appreciate it. Let's dive into the schedule release. Week one. Hey, got some good time matchups here. Now, I don't know if we have Dirty's graphic in there yet, but the first week of the NFL football season, their first goal. Champions obviously hosting, bringing in a team that was cheated out of going longer.

That could have been the champions if they really had the opportunity, if the rules weren't so stupid. That's going to be gigantic. A lot of divisional rivals in the first week. You've got the Steelers taking on the fucking Bengals week one. Here we go. We're going to find out. Colts taking on the Texans, of course.

How you doing? Keep it moving. I believe the Packers and Vikings at 4 o'clock game, I believe. It's a lot of divisional matchups early to kind of kick off, you know, hey, let's get a little sparring going. Normally, divisional matchups, I think teams are like a little bit later because they matter more. So week one, you're nowhere near the team.

You're going to be week six, week seven. So opening week, there's a lot of divisional matchups, I think, that are going to matter down the road. But there's also a lot of great games hey patriots dolphins let's go same as last year week one always run it back in miami ernie adams he did a video for the patriots he said it's gonna be hot you know it's gonna be hot down there did you watch that video yeah it was pretty good it's pretty good i watched the entire thing i didn't i didn't make it the whole way but what do you think average watch time of that patriots video was 15 seconds no 30 i'd say 30 30 40 45 what did that old bag of bones have to say just like this guy created football okay so he basically created modern football like it's gonna be cold there i but to be clear after watching the ernie

adams video of the New England Patriots, I thought to myself, this is the guy that's the mastermind behind everything in football. And he's saying, oh, you know, it's going to be tough four quarters there with Baltimore. Let's go to the next game. And let's go to the next game. And he was saying, like, basically the most basic stuff. And I'm like, this is the guy that fucking killed everybody in the NFL for 20 years. This is the guy that has the ability to memorize signals

and know exactly what's coming and break down entire offense. I'm like, there must be two different people. I think Ernie's a great thespian because I think in that video he acted like maybe a stooge, maybe a little bit like a stooge. There had to be something deeper, though. Everything he said was just super low-key. But I like the fact that they put Ernie Adams in there. Yeah.

Like, I like the fact that that was an idea, that they could create something. Do we have the first week graphic from Dardy? And do we have it? Yes! Let's get into this thing even more. Is that the Ernie Adams video you were listening to? Do we have it? I can't.

I got to take this down, though. This Gertie graphic. Take this down. Let's get the Ernie Adams thing. Because there's no way this is the guy that ran the NFL for 20 years. You know what I mean? There's no way that this is the guy that Bill Belichick was like, me and this guy are going to take over

football. Feels like he was hosting Reading Rainbow, maybe. Honestly. Yeah. Was he talking to... Maybe that's how he views every person that isn't in the NFL. True. Oh, he's fucking – Here we have the 2022 New England Patriots schedule. Of course, every player and every coach has a lot of anticipation about this. Here we have it. That's a lie.

Week one at Miami. So right away, you know it's going to be hot. Coming back with week two, September 18th at Pittsburgh. Leading up to another AFC North game September 25th against the Ravens so you know this is gonna be 60 minutes of hard football number four going up to Lambeau Field three minutes in October so even in Green Bay it probably won't be frozen tundra and it's just you just feel the tradition when you walk in the Lambeau Field.

Week five, we got the Lions at 1 o'clock. Again, two back-to-back NFC North teams. We only play once every four years. Week six, going back to Cleveland. Football Sunday in Cleveland is always an exciting time. Everybody's out in brown and orange. I'm sure they'll be ready to go. Week seven.

This guy dominated the NFL. 20 years smaller than everybody. Samplifies everything. Against the Bears. Week eight, another big game. Division game on the road. Those are always the critical ones. At the Jets, we've had spirited

rivalry with the Jets over the years. Coming next week, week nine, we're home against the Colts. Three minutes. He does the whole schedule like that. I mean, I certainly don't think they did him any favors with the way they were cutting it and zooming in on his face. I mean, it kind of sets him up to look like a senile bag of bones.

I think it might have been a bit of a troll, like him saying a spirited rivalry with the Jets and they zoomed in on his face. Feels like there is a little. You watched that whole thing? Whole thing. Oh, yeah. Because I thought to myself, there has to his face. Feels like there is a little. You watched that whole thing? Whole thing. Oh, yeah. Because I thought to myself, there has to be something.

Has to be a payoff. I guess there's, at the end, pink stripes or something like that. I don't think I understood what that meant either. Because the tweet says, I don't think he knows what pink stripes means or something like that. And at the bottom, it says pink stripes. We must have, yeah. Yeah, pink stripes.

That was part of their tweet. So that must be something that we're missing. We must have... Yeah. Yeah. Pink stripes. Huh. Hmm. That was part of their tweet. So that must be something that we're missing. But yeah. Whole schedule. Same exact thing you saw there. No payoff at the end.

I was very disappointed. All business, I guess. I was very bummed. I'm like, Ernie Adams, I thought at the end would potentially get in there and be like... So we're facing four teams that are in a 3-4 and a 4-3. I thought that was what was going to happen, but instead it felt like the entire time he's like, we're not giving away fucking anything to anybody.

Bill Belichick, if I say, well, normally the way we play the Jets, especially with that young quarterback, he's going to be dead. That's what I was hoping for almost, but I guess I should just expect a lot less out of the Patriots to do absolutely nothing. By the way, that was better. That video better than a lot of other people's videos.

Yeah. Put Ernie Adams on fucking camera. It's going to be magic. You know what I mean? You mentioned it. Players don't give a shit about this at all, right? That's how he started with a lie. The Seahawks did the thing where they pranked.

I think it was like Quandre Diggs or something like that. They had him with like four consecutive road games after London with no buy or something like that. And he was like pissed about it. But guys aren't looking at this at all, right? No, I mean, guys know who they're going to play. There's a couple games on every schedule that you like to look at. For instance, we knew we were playing the Bills. So I'd like to know when we're going to Buffalo.

You know, is this going to be in December when there's a blizzard like it was my rookie year and there was a $1 million escalator in my contract on the line and it was an actual. It'll still be loud, still be crazy, but nowhere near the nightmare that Buffalo could be. Then if you're playing in Denver, for me, for instance, I'm playing in Denver. When's this going to be? Is it going to be early when it's warm so I not only get thin air plus a warm ball or is it going to be a little bit colder? So there's like some things you can look at. I think what those guys

were alluding to was something we had the Hall of Fame game, Thanksgiving game, Christmas Eve game. That was my last season I think of the NFL. So we were in training camp eight days before everybody else. So we were in training camp longer.

Played on Thanksgiving. Played on Christmas Eve and I think we had New Year's Day as well or something like that. camp uh eight days before everybody else so we're in training camp longer played on thanksgiving played on christmas eve and i think we had new year's uh day as well or something like that it was like oh this was the worst schedule in the history of and i think we went to london that year i think we went to london that year as well so i think it was a an entire like oh this is the worst possible schedule you could get uh but no excuses no explanations just fucking go play football so will players be pumped then that the entire league is playing on Christmas Day and New Year's Day this year? Well, see, those do happen to fall in a certain amount of days away from each other. So if one's on Sunday, the next one's going to be on Sunday probably.

But I think they know that Sunday's going to happen. And since everybody has to deal with it, it's not that big of a deal. But whenever it's just like three games and there's six teams you have to deal with and everybody else is not that big of a deal. But whenever it's just like three, four, like three games, and there's six teams you have to deal with and everybody else is at home watching, I don't know. I didn't mind it, by the way. It does make things difficult family-wise. So, like, younger players don't care, I don't think.

Younger players are like, who gives a fuck? But the families, the older guys who have like four kids, three kids that have been around a long time, full families in town, and they're doing the holiday and they've got to miss the day. It's just work around, you know, but in football season, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, like I wasn't home for Thanksgiving or Christmas for, I don't know, fucking 15 years or whatever. I mean, as soon as you get into college, you just kind of go ahead and do it. It's just part of football season.

But there are some days that you'd rather not play on. Thanksgiving is certainly one of them because it's a Thursday game, and, you know, that's a great holiday to fucking... Oh, yeah. Just gorge yourself. Oh, yeah. But you do get the long weekend afterwards, but you're celebrating Thanksgiving

after everybody's kind of sick of it, because after everybody eats everything by Friday, they're... But yeah, those are some of the nuisances that could come in the schedule that I think guys would definitely look at. It seems like this year, too, more so than... And maybe it's like this every year,

but it seems like all the really good teams who people do want to see have the most primetime games, and not to take just an unnecessary shot at the Lions, but no one wants to watch the Lions on primetime. They don't have any primetime games this year. And another one, for the 11th straight year, the Jacksonville Jaguars are not on Monday Night Football. So there you have it. 11 straight years, no Monday Night Football. And think about some of the shitty fucking games we've seen on Monday Night Football. So there you have it. 11 straight years, no Monday Night Football.

And think about some of the shitty fucking games we've seen on Monday Night Football. The Jags were good for a couple of years. The ESPN folks, the ABC Disney folks, whoever it is, had to have told the schedule makers, here's a couple of our requests. We'd like this team at least a couple of times, we'd like this team a couple of times.

Leave Duval and Duval. Yeah, not having them. They don't move the needle. We are not having the Jacksonville Jaguars. 11 years straight, no Monday night football game. Not to get to experience that, have a good time, have that entire energy. Because when you're on Monday night football,

it's like a mini Super Bowl every single week. The amount of promotion your team gets throughout the day, the interviews, the behind the scenes, the sit-downs, the breakdowns of the good players. Now, granted, you can get exposed on Monday Night Football, get your ass kicked and buzzed on. That's not great either because it's in front of everybody. But the entire lead-up to it all day Monday is just like basically promoting your team,

your program, your fan base. To not have that is hilarious. That is absolutely – to have zero primetime games, zero opportunity of anybody spending more than the kickoff allotted time period which a kickoff show which probably a minute and a half to talk about your team you were just not a part of the conversation at all and that's that's a shame for the lines they got hard knocks though they do they do and as long as we always play on thanksgiving that's primetime to me yeah Yeah, it is. Personally, as a fan, like, I love 1 o'clock games. I think that's the best as a fan. And, like, our –

I couldn't disagree more, and I know Tone is in on this. Yeah, I love the 1 o'clock. Get it out of the way. And then, like, I think the 4 o'clock stinks. Get it out of the way. You're the lions. Yeah. What do we even –

Yeah, get the misery out of the way. The season's out of the way. Like, what, week seven? Oh, come on. Week eight. What do we even – I think it's the best time to watch a game one o'clock sunday okay but you're missing all the other yeah see that's why 425 is the best 425 is the perfect

three games i love when the packers play at 425 you can watch the entire morning slate i think 425 is the worst 815 is the worst nah anytime anywhere play ball. Come on. If they want to play at 9 a.m. on a parking lot, I'll watch it. Wednesday afternoon, fire it up, boys. I think the fascinating thing for me is a lot of the players, a lot of the older players that I spoke to, they like the 1 o'clock games so they can get home, have a night, watch the – I like the 4 o'clock games personally because I'm a sleeper. I'm not a morning person necessarily.

So those 1 o'clock games, you've got to get over there at like 9 a.m. You're over there at like 9, 10 a.m. Probably not sleeping well the night before because you've got a goddamn game the next day. It's just like it was one of those, I don't have any batteries in my ears so if you're saying something to me, I don't know. I like the 4 o'clock games the best as a fan and

as a player personally. Big stage if you're playing. There's a lot of people watching. And you can at least watch the abundance of games that happen at 1 o'clock. Personally, as a fan, I like the 1 o'clocks because I'm an idiot and an asshole. So there's just all throughout the day, every hour that I'm awake, the anxiety in my body just keeps getting worse and worse. So if your game's at 1 o'clock, you can just get there and get to the game and fucking enjoy the game

without having to deal with eight hours of anxiety. But, you know, if you get to the 425, that's great, because then you've got all day you can watch the 1 o'clock. 8.15 is the worst because you've got to watch the game. 4 o'clock is the best spot for tailgating too, right? Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, I enjoy a 9 a.m. fucking ice cold beer though

in the parking lot if you're tailgating. I know what you're saying, like St. Patrick's Day a little bit every on a Sunday, but 4 o'clock is probably the best for all parties. Oh, yeah. Saturday night, you have a night, you kind of wake up a little bit later, go down there. If you're down there at 10 or 11, I mean, it's lunchtime, sun's out pretty good, might not be as cold as it is, but you still have a good four hours. Five hours till kickoff.

And then after the game, you can still get home in enough time to get home on Monday. So all aspects of the four o'clock game are the best. We think other than Foxy who says, give me the non-prime time. Nobody's watching my team. How about as a player? Yeah, four o'clock was the one that I went through. But a lot of the older players like the one o'clock

because they can get home and watch the game. Do the players like night games at all? Yeah, I think everybody likes primetime. To add to the Lions, too. Well, maybe not everybody, I guess. That's like a social experiment. Like Tom's bedtime is at 8. Remember, he wasn't winning on primetime for like four years.

Oh, yeah, he had to shift that. J.J. Watts, he was in bed at 9 o'clock every night. And we played him every Thursday night football game that we had down in Houston. He just fucking had four touchdowns. I'm like, this is way past your bedtime, dude. What are you even doing out here? Primetime games are the best, though, for sure. Speaking of primetime, there's a man who's going to be covering the NFL in primetime

all season long for Amazon. Their first game is starting week two, Thursday night football. You will be able to hear his incredibly intelligent, quick wit, and handsome voice in the NFL for the first time. Here we go. Full time in his entire career. We've been begging him to join the men's league for some time now. He's finally doing it.

Thank God is what all of us NFL fans are saying. Ladies and gentlemen, Amazon Thursday Night Football color commentator, Kirk Herbstreit. Yay! What's up, man? You're beauty. You know what I hear? The word on the street is that the players really love that short week,

8-15 Thursday night game on Amazon. That's what I'm hearing. You know, it's always split. I feel like it's split because some guys, like the big guys, I think they hate everything. You know, the big guys hate everything, though. Like, offensive linemen are going to hate everything regardless of when they're playing.

There's always going to be something. Because they're in incredible pain. They do hand-to-hand combat every single day. And towards the end of the season, guys aren't back to, like, walking normally until Wednesday. And then the end of the season, guys aren't back to walking normally until Wednesday, and then they have a game on Thursday, but they know that long weekend's on the backside of it. So I think people are kind of split.

Honestly, for the fans, tell them what a Thursday night game is like for the players, for not just the big guys. But the game ends Sunday. Let's say it's a 1 o'clock game. It ends at 4 o'clock. You have your family, friends. Just walk us through from Sunday evening to Thursday what it's like for a player. Okay, young Pat McAfee, game over, 4 o'clock or whatever,

we'll play to 1 o'clock. I'm probably heading downtown to one of these restaurants with my family, having a couple cocktails, then maybe going to another restaurant that's closer to my house, going to bed, probably hammering a pretty heavy door on Sunday Night Football, if I had to guess, then going to bed, waking up Monday afternoon, go through the film, Tuesday off day, Wednesday we're in, Thursday we're in, Friday we're in, Saturday walkthrough, Sunday game.

For Thursday Night Football, Sunday you go home, maybe tie one on for about an hour if guys have a problem and need to let loose a little bit. Most people go in home, though. Monday, all of a sudden, isn't in the afternoon. It's like in the morning, we need to go through some stuff. Walk through, though. All walkthroughs with only the people that are available. Tuesday, walk through with only the people that are available.

If you're hurt, you're in the rehab, in the meeting room. Wednesday, travel day. Thursday, game. I mean, there's not a lot i mean there's like not a lot of practice there's not a lot of prep i think you're gonna see that with like the game plans i think for thursday night football it's gonna be very relatable and they're just trying to get guys to thursday almost you know what i mean herbie because i because i'm thinking if you work backwards if thursday's technically now sunday for you as a player because i know coaches they're

all about trying to keep things and players all about trying to keep it consistent as far as your you know what your repetitions of your your week it's got to be a virus to your computer so if sunday if thursday is now sunday monday is what thursday yeah and you miss wednesday which is installed there i mean it must just be trim all the fat off, streamline, and go out there and execute. By the way, better on Thursday night because it's easy, it's simple. It's like, hey, we just need to do our best stuff. Let's keep it moving.

You see defenses. I don't know if you see many exotics coming or anything like that. You're seeing a lot of – I think that is why Thursday is fascinating for me to hear you call because you have great football insight whenever you're calling the college games, when you've called the NFL games. And I think you're going to be able to even break it down even more for Thursday games, especially with how stripped down the game plan is just strictly because how short it is.

Follow-up, have you already started prepping for all this, looking into teams? Because the schedule came out, hey, you got some good games. Oh, yeah. Hey, Thursday football's got some good games. Have you started prepping? What this, looking into teams? Because the schedule came out. Hey, you got some good games. Oh, yeah. Hey, Thursday football's got some good games. Have you started prepping? What is the process here? Yeah, I, you know, Chris Collinsworth has that PFF in Cincinnati, and that's where I am right now.

And so I'm just in the process. I'm waiting until the schedule came out. We got ahead of it because week one we knew Chargers chiefs, which how about that, Herbert and Mahomes and Kansas City, to get it kicked off on Thursday night starting week two. So I knew about that once I've already been over there visiting with them and kind of going over. I'm just trying to lay a foundation.

Like if you said Ohio State, Alabama, Tennessee, USC, I mean I could give you kind of a foundation of who they are, what their DNA is, without really looking at anything. And that's what I'm going to try to build here in May and June and July, is just kind of build that foundation up. Now that I know the teams that I'm doing, I'm just going to work from that Chargers-Chiefs game all the way down and do one a week so I can really dive in and understand and study the coordinators and understand the scheme. They're a heavy man team. These guys love the quick game. Whatever it is, just try to really understand it so when I get to week one or week

three or week five, I'll have a folder or foundation of what I want to get into and then kind of stay up with it as the season goes on but you're right i mean our schedule everybody's wondering what kind of schedule would would amazon get year one clearly roger goodell and the nfl have made this a big initiative i mean right out of the gate and look at look at these games yeah i mean just as soon as you get into like colts bronco is going to be massive. I mean, that is absolutely massive. Even Steelers-Browns. Huge!

I mean, I grew up in the AFC Central. I mean, remember the heyday of the Steelers and the Browns and the Bengals and everybody just hating each other and the Ravens. And so Steelers-Browns, and with both those teams, kind of a new era for both of them. Both of them want to get off to a good start, so I'm fired up about that. Tua with Tyree Kill coming over and Jalen Waddell against Joe Burrow. Indianapolis, your squad, and Denver.

I mean, those four games right there. Great. Can't ask for much more. Well, then let's go. I mean, let's not just skip over the Bears-Washington. And the Saints-Cardinals are going to be good as well. But look, you got Lamar and Tom Brady on Friday. I mean, that is electric.

Now, granted, Kirk, the thing about Thursday Night Football is, and I've heard this, Tennessee and Green Bay. Wait till he watches the Davis Bills. Fucking Bills. I'm calling a game. I'm calling a game with Braves on the road at

Lambeau in November. Yeah. Yeah. I'm calling a game with Braves on the road at Lambeau. Yes. In November. Yeah. Let's get the snow coming down. Yeah. There we go. Live a little bit. I mean, but if you if you look at these, they're all project. Not all. There's a couple of doozies in there, but you're going to have that. But some of these teams that we think might be shit, they might be great teams. That's why the issue is with scheduling Thursday. And I think we heard this from Fox or maybe NFL Network. I forget who was talking about it. But with Thursday, you can't flex the games.

So Sunday night football, you can flex the game. Monday, they can't flex the game. So projecting out what teams are going to be most healthy, what teams are going to be good two months, three months into the season, is damn near impossible. But it feels like they got it right, Kirk. It feels like you guys got some bangers. All 14 teams that were in the postseason last year are on this schedule,

which is great. Both number one seeds playing each other with the Titans going to Green Bay, the game we talked about. If you went down, because I did it, I went down and I listed every quarterback of every team that we have i mean it's basically every quarterback that you've heard of and that you would consider a pro bowl caliber candidate we have on this package so you got quarterbacks you've got teams that were in the playoffs all last year um you got some great uh venues you got some divisional rivalries so

yeah man when i saw it because I didn't know what to expect, because I've watched a lot of Thursday night football like you over the years, and there haven't been a ton of great games. So I just didn't know if it would be like that or not. And, man, I was fired up, to say the least. And I mentioned those first four games. There's a pretty good stretch there, November 17th, week 11, the Titans-Packers.

Then you go Buffalo-New England. Then you got Raiders-Rams. 49ers at the Seahawks. I mean, that's a pretty good run. Jags and Jets. Oh, yeah. You know what? Because we're crazy.

It's a chance to see two young quarterbacks and a lot of first-time players. Yeah, you would love that, by the way, because you get the chance to see Zach and Trevor, hopefully. Hopefully. That would love that by the way, cause you get the chance to see Zach and Trevor. Hopefully, hopefully that's very late into the season. Hopefully there. And then wrapping it up.

And once again, with raves at home in Nashville with the Cowboys, Jerry's team coming to town. I mean, it, it, it seems like it's a home run for the Thursday night football folks. How's your relationship with Al Michaels? You guys been eating meat together.

You guys. I've hung out with him now two or three times. We did some stuff in LA and then I had to go to New York last week. and meet together? You guys gelling together? I've hung out with him now two or three times. We did some stuff in L.A. and then I had to go to New York last week. I had dinner with, or lunch with his wife, Linda, my wife, Allison,

one of my sons, Jake, who's coming over to hang out with you guys. Hey, baby, Jake. Hey, baby, Jake. And we just hung out, had a chance just to get to know him.

I'm big on that. I don't know how you feel when you go into a new deal. I lovenesday night dinner i would just want to make a staple and just hang out and get to know him and hopefully uh he'll he'll get to know me and i i feel like when you do that it really allows you like you guys have on this show just to have natural chemistry i've told you guys that before but when you do that i mean have you worked with have you ever worked with people in tv i know these are your boys but have you ever worked with people where you just didn't really know them and and you're kind of feeling your way out on air as opposed to

making that effort socially like at a dinner tough yeah that's i feel like that should be a part of the whole thing you know that that should be a part of the whole process is like hey you two shouldn't be strangers to each other have you talked to him about the vegetables or anything like that have you talked yeah that's been a big topic yeah he uh he as you know he'll have nothing anything that's green is not getting anywhere close to his plate you guys golf together have you golfed yet i heard he's a great golfer. No, not yet. Not yet. I've been watching you with the net.

I don't know if I want to golf with you. You might be too advanced for me already. Well, Justin Thomas said it ain't worth shit. I saw. I saw. Yeah. That's so rude that he did that. So here's what I do.

I set par at 100. So if I shoot a 98, I shot a 200. That's the way I play golf. Hey, that's a much better way to enjoy it. I play with people that keep score every single round. I don't know how you do that. I don't know how you do that. I want music in the cart, and you can burp and blow in my backswing

because I like noise. I like energy. Yeah. Let's have a good time. What are we doing here? Let's have fun. Bye. Yeah, and if you get a couple birdies through the day,

it's like, yeah, I got two birdies. I'd pick up on the other 14 holes. But, like, yeah, there's people that keep score and keep track and play by, like, the PGA rules every single time. And they are not good golfers. I don't know how they continue to go out there. It's like, hey, who has eight hours at a time to do this? Bruce?

Bruce. In Tahoe, do you have to play the ball down like you like if you're behind a tree you gotta like hey that's the last boy i believe is what they're gonna say to me yeah he has to wear pants bro i gotta wear fucking oh my god i gotta walk and i gotta walk and i gotta walk walk and wear pants i'm fucking tiger woods dude what do we even i mean it's the pga rules herbie i can't fuck it can't roll it nothing i'm dead wait wait wait wait wait you can't even wear like your your capri jeans or anything like that i mean what's that guy's name uh rest in peace uh have to go on knickers

the high socks are the problem though because these calves in the hair i would have to want knickers oh yeah you have to one day the high socks are the problem though because these calves in the hair i would have to shave the legs that would get very painful but maybe it'd make me a good golfer whatever herbie let's get back to fucking football what do you what do you shoot honestly you're not you with me in the hundred range no no no no maybe not not par either like it's i don't i don't either. I don't keep track. I can play. This is the issue. Tahoe will be the first time that I'm playing 18 holes straight through. Years, probably.

And then the next day, another 18, another day. I can play good golf. Clyde Christensen, quarterback coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he was kind of the one that wanted to force me into golf. He thought I could be a good golfer. There would be little side bets going on in my golf game. Once I got to hole 13-14, he knew I was dead. So he's pressing,

double down, bang, bang, bang, and we end up me down a bunch by the end of it. So I think that's going to be an issue for me. Because I don't know what I am. I have no idea what my handicap is because I can't get out and play 18 holes. And if I'm playing, I'm not keeping score. If it gets lost,

I'm dropping one right here. I don't have 10 minutes to even look for this. Should I count it, though? Because if I was to look for it, I don't know. So I'll find out in Tahoe, Herbie. I'll find out. You get mentally fatigued like me. So I play nine, and then I want a cup of chili and a sandwich or something.

I've had enough after nine. That's normally my plan. Hey, you really like that chili, that stuff from? Yeah. Oh, the Cincinnati chili? Oh, Skyline? No. It's okay. No, not really.

Not big. Okay, good. So whenever you guys, do you guys have a game in Cincy? I don't even know if you're in Cincy. Don't do that. Like, I hate that that's the only thing that Cincy's known for, it feels like, every single time. Yeah. It's on TV.

We have Dolphins-Bangles. It's like our third game. I probably won't be doing that one. You guys should probably feature the Cincinnati Reds. They're getting hot. They are? They are getting hot. They're playing better than last week. Well, they're hot because they're playing

your Pirates. They're not my Pirates. They're Cone's Pirates. Well, they're not because they're playing your Pirates. Whoa, whoa, whoa. They're not my Pirates. They're Cone's Pirates. Check the standings. Exhorting. Hey, Herbie, big-time Cincinnati Reds fan, how about the owner cutting a promo? What are you going to do about it?

You going to be a fan of another team? You're not. Shut up. And then he loses 20 straight games. What happens? You're a diehard Reds fan, right? That was called karma. Opening day, they had split with the Braves, the defending world champs,

two and two. Come back home, and it's a big deal in Cincy, the home opening day. And he got interviewed. Hey, the fans are a little bit frustrated with you getting rid of all these good players. He's like, like you said, what are you going to do? What other options do you have? And he said, if I'm a smart businessman,

I'd take this franchise to another market. You're talking about one of the most historical professional sports franchises of all time. He's like, we're just going to leave. Then he backpedaled out of that, and they haven't, I think they've won three games. If they weren't playing the Pirates, they've won, I think, two games. All right.

Listen, the Pirates owner won't even come out and say it. At least your guy said it. You know, your guy, like, I think they're at least warranted. Like, yeah, we're just here to collect money, dude, and there's nothing you can do about it. The Pirates are operating in the same fashion. Football one, baseball two for you? Well, growing up, I grew up near the Big Red Machine.

So it was depending on the year, you know, the time of the year. If it was baseball season, I was all about baseball. Did you have a hose? You had a hose, huh? You had a pretty good arm? Yeah. Baseball, I was probably better in baseball than football. Baseball, I love to hit.

Everyone says that. I like to hit. Lefty. Oh. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Were you a pitcher?

No. I threw right, but my dad taught me to hit lefty. Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Were you a pitcher? No, I threw right. But my dad taught me to, to hit lefty. So I'd have my pole hand as my dominant hand. And I don't know. I just always loved to hit. I played third base and shortstop. And you what in, in football, you guys ran like 80% of the time, right? You were just freak athlete shaking.

Yeah. Ask AJ. We were, we were triple option. Wishbone, Air Force. Yeah. Four, six We were a triple option. Wishbone, Air Force. Yeah. 4'6 guy, pulling it, pitching. Hey, 4'6 isn't bad. 4'6 is pretty good.

Is that hand time or laser time? Back then, I think it was hand time. Okay, maybe 4'5. Yeah, who knows? It might have been a 4'5. It might have been a 4'4. It might have been a 4'8. What were you?

You look like a 4'5, 4'6 guy. Never got timed. What. Never got timed. What? Never got timed. Actually, never got timed. Did you play any other positions in high school besides soccer? Really? They didn't put you at running back or safety or something? With your mentality?

A lot of hindsight looking back at how I should have been handled at Plum High School. You should have been killing people. We all School. You know what I mean? You should have been killing people. We all agree. Listen, we do believe that this is potentially a, you know, a letdown. What was your height and weight your junior and senior year? I think I was about the same size as I am now.

Six foot, maybe 215, 220. And you didn't play linebacker or safety? Bro, you should have seen me at soccer. That's called wasted talent. Yeah, you don't seen me at soccer. That's called waste of talent. Yeah, you don't say. You should have seen my fucking arm, too. I mean, I could throw a ball forever. No, I'd have you killing people at safety and linebacker.

Oh, thanks. You want me at CT? I appreciate that. Not quarterback. Not the $100 million contract. We're going to get you a $20 million contract. You're right. No, no, no.

It's just a mentality that you would have brought to the defense. Thank you. Yeah, I grew up in Pittsburgh, so we played football. I played a lot of pickup football with everybody. But I was – I don't want to turn this into a – what was I? I was a very good soccer player. So, like, everybody thought I was going to make it in soccer. So I think the football people were like, we can't fuck up.

Yeah, not a lot of people make it out of our high school to go on to things. I was getting very early looks, so I think that was the whole thing. Hindsight, though, I should have fucking had pads on. I mean, that is – Yeah. They would have stuck you at D-tackle or something. You think? That's not true.

Wreak some havoc on some – Kirby, he would have been one or two biggest guy on the team. Yeah. Our all-time leading sack, haver, bags i think he and i are by the way western pa is some serious high school football yeah i know yeah i know should have been in there well glory days i mean i know you obviously did great things what happened to your soccer career did it just when you when football got serious it just kind of faded? No. I literally had to decide one or the other when I was a senior in high school. And the actual conversation between myself, my dad, and my mom was,

I would like to be rich in America, not in Europe. Because at that time, the only place you could really get rich while playing soccer was in Europe. I think Beckham had come over and got like a few hundred million or whatever for the MLS. But they weren't really paying a lot of people. So, like, I would have had to go to Europe, and I didn't want to do it. So I chose to kick footballs, and that was an actual conversation that took place. Had one offer, Kent State, the Golden Flashes, offered me to kick. And then I went to a kicking camp a month before signing day,

banged a home, a 65-yard field goal, had an offer from West Virginia the next day. Okay, this is what we're doing. We're going to go do this. And almost derailed it about 10 different times, fucking up, being terrible, not being focused. But it worked, so I'm pretty happy about it. Still think about the open-ended soccer career every once in a while, though.

You know, like, wish I could have put a little bit of a bow in it because it abruptly stopped. I mean, it stopped very quickly, but it all worked out. And now we're going to win the soccer Lombardi. Hell yeah. America's going to win the soccer Lombardi. I see you got the hat on. I mean, we're going to fucking do it.

So that's where I'm at. Yeah. Are you a big soccer fan? No. Can't watch it. Come on. Never could. Actually, it was probably a downfall of my game as I never watched how anybody else played.

Like, I probably, I probably would have learned from people if I would have watched it. Football fan. I grew up at Tim McAfee's house. Big football fan. I don't think he knew how we got into soccer or this entire thing. But let's get back to you. Fuck, Herbie. Enough.

Jesus. Ty, your question for Herbie? Herbie, not to change gears, but with Doug. No, let's change gears. Please. From the NFL to the NCAA, it looks like they're starting to try to maybe put some guidelines on the NIL deal. Do you think that teams like USC, who actually made a big impact this offseason,

are any of these guys actually in jeopardy of not being able to play next year? And how do you think this kind of changes the uh the whole impact of like boosters recruiting guys i i think it's still to be determined right i think we're all still sitting back wondering okay we finally heard from the ncaa but since they they met in dc with the supreme court and and they not only voted against them, they basically told them don't ever come back. They seem to have retreated, right, and just let everything happen. And now they come out with a statement. So I don't know how much teeth, does this thing have much teeth, you know, as far as the ruling that they've recently come out with? And is anybody going to even respond to them? Is anybody going to fear that they have enforcement?

Is this just lip service or is something going to happen? I think all of us have reached a point where we agree that, you know, the players obviously should be freed up to do whatever they can with NIL. I think that there's another step to this. You know, with the TV networks, I've never really said this publicly, but with the TV networks giving a lot of money to college athletics, I think it's inevitable that eventually the players are going to have, whether it's a union or somebody's going to represent them, and they're going to say that, hey, why not? Why not allow us to have a share of the television money? I think, you know, everybody's talking about the players are entitled and that kind of thing to be able to have NIL.

That's at this point a given. I'm thinking more about if you're really looking at the players and saying, hey, what's in it for them? If I were a player, wouldn't you be talking about taking that next step? So I think it's inevitable, the path that we're heading down. But with all that being said, you need some rules. I mean, the NFL has rules, the free agency. There are rules that you have to abide by. Right now in college athletics, there are no rules. And so I think that needs to be curtailed and under control.

But I do think the players right now have a ton of momentum. The TV rights in pie is something that's been talked about by college athletes and football players and basketball players for like 10, 15 years, almost like 20 years. Once these TV deals started being billions and billions of dollars and we saw coaches' salaries going up and up and up and every buildings were being purchased and built and everything it was like holy hell everybody around the athletes ago and they started to become a conversation like players deserve a piece the players deserve a piece

but the ability to create a union when it's such so much turnover herbie i think that's going to be the interesting thing right because guys are graduating out, I think that's going to be the interesting thing, right? Because guys are graduating out of that. So who's going to be the person that everybody's going to trust enough to maintain the union and represent them? There's so much that goes into it. Hopefully now with a little bit more money involved and business involved, they'll be able to figure it out. But that could change the game mightily, right?

Don't you think, Herbie? Yeah, and I've been one that's never really been on that side of that argument. I just recently, I mean, these last six, seven months, just trying to digest all this because it's been like a fire hose. Everything's happening at once. So I find myself a lot of times just thinking about what are the answers? Because right now what's happening, this isn't the answer. You know, it's great to see some of these players that are making money,

but there's no control. When you're poaching, let's just say great to see some of these players that are making money, but there's no control when you're poaching. Let's just say Ball State or Pitt or Southern Miss or whoever, because they have an All-American freshman receiver and big bad whoever goes in and says, oh, we need a receiver. We'll take him. We need an offensive line. That that's not what this is about. So I don't like that. But I do like the idea that that, you know, Jackson Smith and Jigba, who had a huge Rose Bowl or C.J. Stroud or Bryce Young, these established stars in the game can can take advantage of that. That's wonderful. But enticements going to a high school recruit and saying, hey, we'll give you eight million dollars if you sign a three year deal. That's not, I think, healthy for the game, because then you get a lot of outside sources coming in and corrupting a good thing. So I'm all for it. But I think there needs to be some rules to it.

But I do think the next step is what you just said, because before I was never really in the argument. And now that we're going down this path, why not open up, you know, what goes into the entire pile? And this is a billion-dollar industry. And it's only, to me, it's a matter of time until the players are going to start to say, hey, we want our share. We're the ones out on the field doing this. The coaches are making $8 or $10 million a year. You know, it's time for us to get our share.

I just think it's inevitable we're going to go there. Harvey, people are going to hate it. They're going to be so mad. And I have no idea what the guardrails can be. You know, like whoever figures out how to properly word what the guardrails are, I'll be so impressed. So impressed. Because how do you put the words?

I don't know how you do it. Because if they're not just offering open money to people, they could say, hey, guys on our team get four appearances at these places for $25,000 every single year. That's what you'll get immediately upon signing here. So there's ways to sly that in there. I don't know how you – I don't know. I don't know how you control it.

Me neither. Pat, I just know that when I hear coaches say, we're sometimes worried about doing the handshake after the game, because assistant coaches going up to our players saying, hey man, they'll go up to a backup who they maybe recruited, and he's not playing, and they'll talk to him like, hey man, I'll hit you up. I'll hit you up. Next thing you

know, two or three weeks later, the guy's in the portal. I don't like that. I'll hit you up. You know, next thing you know, two or three weeks later, a guy's in the portal. I don't like that. You know, I don't think that's good for the game personally. Man, because, you know, some people need, and this is the whole transfer portal conversation, like if you don't have those struggles or speed bumps in your life, you know, like what are you going to become afterwards?

But if you're able to make life-changing money too, how do you? It's a wild time. But I don you're able to make life-changing money too, how do you? It's a wild time. But I don't know if it's life-changing money. I think it sounds good, but when you really get out there, there are a handful of guys that are making some good money. But I worry about these guys chasing short-term money to potentially wreck their futures. Long-term, yeah.

I never played it down in the NFL, and I went through hell and back in my college career. Didn't love my first, my assistant coach that had my position coach didn't love my coordinators till my last year. And, you know, I would be a prime example of a guy that would have left, you know, five-star guy that's not happy as his first or second year, he just leaves. And I endure not that pat me on the back, but what I learned through that, holy shit, I mean, is a game changer for me as a dad, as a husband,

as an employee. I mean, I really went and learned about what I was capable of digging in and accomplishing. And then my senior year, I was able to play and be a captain. And I don't know if I would have had those same feelings about myself and what I learned about going through that adversity. I knew you went through a ton of stuff yourself. Yeah, that's what I was about to say. I think being challenged is really a healthy thing to go through as an 18, 19, 20, 21, 22-year-old guy. Helps you figure out life a little bit.

Yeah, I think I needed what happened to me. By the way, thank you for telling us about that. I needed what happened to me for the rest. You know what I mean? Like, I got a bunch of death threats. I fucked up, had a bad game. Dude, I remember your career very vividly. I remember that night.

I don't, until I started hanging out with you a little bit, I didn't know, I figured, I i mean you imagine being you today with social media and you i mean you guys are going to the national championship you're playing fit i mean it's no problem rivalry game my ass we're gonna beat them we're going and then that happens you imagine that kicker today oh you would have dealt with that's what i i send messages to guys that are getting just absolutely like yeah i hate it yeah i i send guys messages like hey this is a terrible time in your life i've been there thought about disappearing i even looked at like transferring to i think to fucking hawaii i was like how do i get as far away from here as possible and if it was as easy as it is is it feels like it is today like i wouldn't have been able to me walking back on that field first week,

senior year with that crowd that a lot of them booed me out of there and flip me off literally on my way out and potentially told me to go kill myself and things like that. That moment of like getting over that, that type of fear, it hardened me, you know, like I got hardened. I needed it for the rest of my life. I think. And you know, I don't know how everybody. It's helped you. It's helped you to become who you are today. I think so. Yeah. I needed it for the rest of my life, I think. And, you know, I don't know how everybody. It's helped you. It's helped you to become who you are today. I think so. Yeah, I needed it forever.

And you're like, you know, like F you mentality of like, I will dominate your ass. You cross me. Your ass is going down. I think you may have already had it, but I think it went to a whole. It accelerated to a different level by going through that. I think so too. And it sounds like you had the same type of thing, man. That's awesome. Look what we just did here.

We had a full moment there, you and me. That's what it's all about, brother. I can't wait to see you on Thursday Football. Can't wait to see you in the NFL. I know the Prime thing, you're probably going to catch a lot of heat on that. What's the catch there? They don't like the app? It's just new it's just new so people hate everything it's new but after you know like three weeks i assume everybody's just gonna it's gonna be the here's a

quick thing because i i didn't really understand it myself and then you know anymore everybody has these tvs with these apps and so i i watched a country music show that was live like an award show about a month ago just just because I wanted to see. Lay in a bed, went to Prime. Real simple. Went to Apple TV, Prime Video. I clicked because it was a live show. So I wanted to see if I had to dig for it or what.

First thing there. Yeah. So it was two buttons. Boom to Prime Video. There's the country show, whatever. Boom to that. And it was on. So it's almost simpler than turning on cable TV.

So it's not that bad. No, obviously, Kirk. I mean, you're speaking with reason and logic and things like that. That is not what happens on Twitter. No, no, no. Yeah, yeah. So like three weeks, four weeks in after it's just become the new routine, everybody's going to be like, oh, my God, we love this.

But anytime there's change, people have a little drawback. I can't wait for this particular change because you guys are going to kill it. Thank you for joining us. Can't wait to see you in person soon, hopefully. Yes, sir. Let's do it. I look forward to hooking up soon. All right.

Thanks to you and all the boys there for bringing in Jake. I know he's looking forward to hanging out with you guys this summer. Hey, it should be fun. Let's hopefully teach him some stuff. He's definitely smarter than us. Yeah, definitely. Whatever this summer. Hey, it should be fun. Let's hopefully teach him some stuff. He's probably smarter. He's definitely smarter than us. Yeah. Whatever the case. Hey, we'll fucking.

Hey, he'll come out of here a good worker. Harden him up, bitch. He'll come out of here a good worker. Houses. Ladies and gentlemen, Kirk Herbstreit. Thank you, buddy. Let's get to a two-minute break. That computer's still off from yesterday.

I should have turned it on. That's on me. Also, huge shout-out to the firefighters of the Indianapolis Fire Department. Thank you for all your incredible work yesterday. Obviously we lost power, but that's nothing in comparison to what those maniacs were sprinting towards

on that roof last night after a fire hydrant's cap fell off. Shout out Zito. Turns out that was like a generator blowing up. Yeah. Transformer. Yeah. Who would have thought?

We all did. But that was some scary shit. I mean, honestly, that was some interesting. If I remember that password, I'm going to be so fucking pumped. It's still loading goddamn dell dude you're getting it though oh yeah we're not microsoft recommends an upgrade no get me out of here out. It only will let me get it. Decline. Skip. Thank you. This thing stinks.

Why do we use this thing? Oh, because it can house more than this thing. No way. There's no way. Steve, get it together. Anyways, we're back. I'm going to piss my pants. I hope you're happy, Del.

I hope. Hell yeah. Is that you or me're happy, Del. I hope. Hell yeah. Is that you or me? Ah, fuck. Fuck you. All right, we're back in 50 seconds. Take it away for a moment like that. Welcome back to this Feel Good Friday sports show.

Just had Kirk Herbstreit on after the NFL schedule was released, the Thursday night schedule was released. Yeah. Man, I just need this. Good work. It's good hustle. Ran right into this table. I took a couple bumps out there.

Happy to be back. The Toxic Table is here with a new member, maybe the most toxic person in the office. No, no, no. At Todd Schmitz next to at Bubba Gumpino. What's that about? Your neck looks amazing. Thank you, sir.

That is an incredible assortment of change. Your beard looks fantastic. It's been great having you in here today. Thank you, sir. That is an incredible assortment of change. Your beard looks fantastic. It's been great having you in here today. Thank you, sir. All is well. I don't know about the FanDuel Superboost tonight, but other than that, everything is fine. Go on, Gump. They've chosen to go against the Guinos and Texas Hockey for the Superboost.

What do you mean? They have Superboost Rangers in Calgary to win tonight. We just had this fucking guy in the office. One day later. Do you not have a good time? One day later. What's this all about? What's that about?

I thought we treated it well. Now, to be clear, the Pens are without Sidney Crosby, so the Rangers probably could bet to win, even though I bet Penguin's money line is hard as I possibly could. True fan. Now, Calgary, I don't know what this is all about. Calgary's a bit of a wagon right now as well. Is the game in Texas?

Texas hockey, tough barn. We're in Texas. Yeah, but up there in Canada, the guy with the Fu Manchu that sang the national anthems, if he's in the building, I got Calgary. But if he's not in the building, you guys are in trouble. Let's hope not. No, you guys are good. I mean, I'm just saying.

I think we'll get it to seven. Back in Calgary, it could be tough, but we'll get there. How many game sevens are there in hockey right now? Currently, there are three game sevens in Calgary. It could be tough, but we'll get there. How many game sevens are there in hockey? Currently there are three game sevens in hockey on Saturday. After tonight, there could be what? Four more, no, three more game sevens on Sunday too.

Yeah. The NHL is going to be grinning like the butchers die. We have six game sevens this weekend. Are you kidding me? The electricity will be too high. I don't know if I'll be able to handle it. I think I'm going to try to get a golf round in, but how will I if there's game sevens from front to

back Saturday, Sunday? This is amazing for the NHL. Well, Tampa and Toronto last night ended in overtime, and so did Edmonton and the Kings. Both games were absolute bangers. The NHL is doing it right now. If you're not a fan of the NHL, I think you should watch the playoffs. Tonight, this is our practice

squad. Smackdown tonight. Well, yeah. Smackdown's on at eight. Tonight, you know, it's not, this is our practice squad. Smackdown tonight. Well, yeah, Smackdown's on at 8. The Pens are playing, but this is a, we're taking a little preseason game here in the middle, resting some players, not having the best player in the history of hockey playing. How long's he out for fucking Nick? Do we have any update on Sidney Crosby?

How come they just describe it as upper body injury? He's got a fucking concussion. There's no update. The reason they designate injuries like that is because the NHL, a lot of times it's scumbag league and players will target injuries. Although everyone on the planet knows Sid most likely has a concussion. He skated this morning before practice. That's a positive sign.

Did he have dangles? Did he have a stick? No, no one knew about it until after it happened. So no one, there was no video of it how come Sid or Mayor haven't called Russ Wilson to get some fucking concussion water that's a good question

I thought they had actually converted the ice in Pittsburgh to the concussion water ice what was that two years ago three years ago I don't know but it's Russell Wilson had a water that cured concussion syndrome. Yep. High pH water.

Diggs, did you drink it? How are you feeling? You still blame CT for everything. I have not drank it. I like to live with my debilities. Russell Wilson and Peyton Manning did the... What did you say? Did you say disabilities?

Tony hasn't known what day it is all week, actually. I don't know if he's told you that. Yeah, the guy got, like, literally nine concussions in his football career. That is, we shouldn't, why are you guys laughing? I would like to let them know the chuckles of these men in the microphone do not reflect that of their employer, who's also the employer of the potential CTE candidate. This guy's chuckling, too.

He knows his brain's just bouncing against his cranium in there. Joining us now is a man whose brain never bounced off the cranium because the cranium was too damn thick. First round draft pick for the Green Bay Packers, college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup champion, COVID survivor, General Bob Carpenter's friend, A.J. Ha. How do you do, A.J.?

A.J., how's it going, pal? Good. I didn't know about Diggs' concussion history. Is that true? Yeah, bad. He blamed CT. Literally, what? What kind of helmet did you wear, Diggs?

Oh, I had the Rydell with the triple T face mask. Same one you wore. We could probably bring it down. You wore a Revolution, I bet. No, no. No, no. No, not a lot of Revolutions at Plum High School. I had the old school heavy one.

Yeah. Good. Well, I saw Diggs in that one clip. Like I told you, Diggs is very explosive. He shot his hips. He looks good. My issue is my first concussion was one where you were knocked out on the field, so then every other one after that, it doesn't take much.

Yeah, it's almost like breaking the seal on the concussion. Like Chuck Liddell. Remember, Chuck never got knocked out. He got knocked out once. He was never the same. Glass jaw. Yeah, well, that's also as they get older, right, guys get older, they become a little bit bigger button, I think.

Pooped his pants. That's like AJ. What? What's that? He pooped his pants. He got knocked out by Rashad Evans. He pooped his pants. Really?

What the fuck's a Chuck Liddell? Has that been confirmed, though, by Chuck? The Iceman? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So, in the ring, he pooped his pants? Yeah.

Rashad Evans. Diggs, that ever happen to you? Did you poop your pants? I never pooped my pants. I never the ring, he pooped his pants? Yeah, Rashad Evans. Did you poop your pants? I never lost control of my poopies. Speaking of poopies, I do not believe poopies will be. It's an unfortunate event. I do not believe poopies will be on this show, AJ. What's happening? He's too busy?

They want us to send a blind bid to have him on the show, an appearance fee. Leave that to me. Are you going to guess what he would accept have him on the show, an appearance fee. I'll do it. I got it. Leave that to me. Okay. Are you going to guess what he would accept? Wait, it's like an appearance fee to come on the show? Does it matter if we say like, hey, 15 minutes, 20 minutes? Does that change?

No, it's an appearance fee, and they would never give away their rates either. So they're asking us to just set a rate. Can I do it? I mean, listen, I respect poopies a lot. Yeah? I love poopies a lot. It's going to be tough for me to just go into a blind bid when we're dealing with a manager,

and we don't even know if this guy actually represents poopies or not. And is this the same guy that represented poopies when he made negative dollars on Jackass? Like, that's a question I have for baby poopies, but I don't think we'll ever get to poopies. Did we not send him an Isley's chip-chopped ham sandwich, and that wasn't enough? Yeah.

I thought he just wanted, like, a foot-long side. We did get him two foot-longs, but that wasn't enough. I thought he just wanted a footlong side. We did get him two footlongs but that didn't seal the deal. Did you tell him they were from a sandwich artist? The guy also basically said, what will you be having him do? So it sounded short of jumping off a 40 story building. He was kind

of in to do anything. So let's think of what Poopy should do. He's coming on for a performance and a period, not just like an interview. Yeah, and I think we're probably going to have to fly him out. So we will be paying poopies for his service. Just didn't like the whole blind bid thing

that they asked us to do. It's like, I don't want to disrespect poopies. I know he's in a bad spot. If we say $25, is that... If I say $5,000, what will... i'm not doing this i'm not playing these games you've made him no money i guess manager guy so just tell us how much this is a very smart negotiation though this they don't want to war dogs themselves

no i understand if you were uh like at that level i think cool but if you're poopies i've never really heard of that i've never really heard of putting a blind bid like that me neither yeah it's kind of crazy me neither that's, it was kind of crazy. Me neither. That's why I was kind of interested. They're changing the game. Good for poopies and mismanagers, changing the game. Listen, but the thing is, I would probably overpay whatever they say. You know what I mean?

Absolutely. I think whatever you would send over, they'd be very, very happy with whatever your blind bid was. That's kind of my thing. Tell us what you think it's worth or whatever, and then I'm probably going to pay triple anyways because it's like I'm very appreciative of what you just did, and we make too much money around here. So we appreciate your service in this entire thing. It's going to help us out.

But we should brainstorm a little bit and put together what we have poopies do. He and Connor should do some stuff together for sure. Well, maybe we just give him like $1,000 to cut off his forearm with a machete or something like that. Pay for the medical cost post as well. Two grand at least. Yeah, okay, two grand.

It sounds like he might be game for it. Like clean off? You cut it clean off? No, just from like the forearm down. Oh, yeah, like slicing. The embodied pythons, holy grail. Ty was doing this emailing with the guy. So you can kind of sense a little where Ty lies in the whole situation.

It was a whole song and dance. It was. I thought it was a pretty clear cut. Just like, hey, can poopies come on Thursday afternoon? Not so much. It was a full. Poopies is figuring it out, though. He's only been an international superstar for a year or so,

so he's just trying to feel his way through it. Listen, we're lucky if we get poopies on. We will pay for a stunt from poopies. Has any show done five or six minutes straight on poopies and what he's been up to? I don't know. Will people start paying poopies for stunts, though? And how mad are people that haven't seen the new movie?

Wow. They have no idea who we're talking about. That is a shame. It's a new jackass. I haven't seen it. I have no idea who it is, but I enjoy this combo a lot. His name's Poopies. No idea.

And he got his hand almost bitten off by a shark during Shark Week. I mean, that's the beginning of it. If you just watch him throughout the entire movie, both as somebody else is doing a stunt and he's doing a stunt, you learn a lot about poopies quickly. I don't know if poopies is all there, but I'm excited for poopies to come and do a stunt one time. I got five on it.

You'll put five bucks in? Yes, sir. Sounds like it's worth it. Okay, 500 from Foxy, 500 from Diggs. Whoa. That's 1,000 at least poopies. No, no, $5. Dumpy will put up one chain.

Tie. If we can cut Poopy's arm off, I don't want to cut somebody's arm off. I'll give two. I'll give two chains for a poor arm. I do not want those. I'll raise mine to $10 if we can cut his arm off. I do not.

You guys are disgusting. I'm sure if he sees this, he'll come home. Poopies, we're not cutting off your fucking arm. What if he just peels the skin off? Like Schwarzenegger in T2. Alright. The NFL had its schedule released yesterday, Jay Hawk. I don't know what Poopies

thoughts were, but I would maybe like to hear your thoughts on the Los Angeles Chargers social media video. Did you watch this yet? No, I saw you comment on it. I didn't watch it with sound or anything. I just saw a quick little clip.

Listen, Cowboys had Stephen A cut a promo. Stephen A Smith cut a promo, like a heel promo. Jerry Jones then got involved in editing the video and making it sound like Stephen A complimented Cowboys. Pretty good video. Anytime you get Stephen A cutting a promo, going to be a good video. The Carolina Panthers, have you seen this one, AJ? Our age, you will love it.

I haven't seen that. No, I know you said something. I've just seen people comment, but I haven't watched. So it's basically like a trip through our childhood. Yeah. Literally a trip through our childhood. Well, how is that tied back to Carolina? Like, what is it?

Well, it doesn't – I don't think it matters. It's just a creative way. Yeah, through all the nostalgic stuff they were showing the games off. Yeah, Week 7 was tough to see, actually. It was like down here. It was like a little Blue's Clues type situation in the nostalgia trip back to 1999. Yeah, probably 1998, 1999 is how it felt. They had Buy 2K in there, which was pretty clever as well.

Pretty well written. I thought the Panthers was very good. Chargers won, though. I mean, the Chargers, they made an anime film, so you're going to say, how's this tied back to Los Angeles and football? It doesn't. But wait until you see what they did with every single scene, AJ. And this is basically the biggest

news of the schedule release. Yeah, we know who's playing first. We know who's playing last. We know how many primetime games. A lot of teams have five primetime games. There are some teams that have four. There's one team that has no primetime games. That's the Detroit Lions. You know, seeing when divisional games are a little earlier, it feels like there's a lot of divisional games week one.

So that's a little different, I think, than normally. I might be wrong. But now it's just judging how the teams roll out their schedule, and we all know it. And all the social media and content teams know it as well. So they look forward to this, AJ. They put some real... One month is what the update was

for how long the Chargers and Andrew Kordova, the anime editor for the Chargers did. AJ, this is the Los Angeles Chargers schedule release. AJ, you know a lot about anime? Nope. This guy was on staff already, though?

Yes. Used to work for NFL Films. Now he's just full-time content. For this team, not the NFL. Just for the team, yeah. Jeez. That's Herbert. That's Guy Hunter, too.

That's Guy Hunter, too. And there's Coach Daly. Hell yeah. Look at him fucking ready. First week. Judges, Raiders. Nothing really in there. They respected their division. Yeah. Later though. They buried their Raiders. Yeah. Antonio

Brown. Oh, pause. Look at this. That is not in there. Yes. This was it. I want to know this from Diggs, seeing Diggs' profile. Bro, this is Diggs' new profile photo because this is so fucking epic. No, I was just going to say how terrible this video was until I saw this. Listen, we were all doing the same thing. All the videos, you watch the first, like, 15 seconds.

You're like, no way this is it the entire time. Some videos, yes, this is it the entire time. It's like, you can't do that. There was a putting one, I think. Very repetitive. It's tough. You can't do that for fucking 17 times. I mean, that is... But they gave it a go. Yeah, first

few were cool. Which I agree. They gave it a go. The Detroit Lions, I enjoyed it, but it was long. Ernie Adams, enjoyed it, but it was long. 17 games is a lot of games. So the first couple games here with the Chargers, I was almost embarrassed for them. But remember, I was sent to this video

because somebody took a screenshot of me working a quarterback carousel, which you're going to see here later. So I was like, what the fuck? They just put a lot of time in there? And then boom, week three. They bring the fucking heat. Live from a chop house in England. Sitting on the dance floor, which we shouldn't have went to the dance floor. Shouldn't have went to the dance floor. Never go to the dance floor. Shouldn England, sitting on the dance floor, which we shouldn't have

went to the dance floor. Shouldn't have went to the dance floor. Never go to the dance floor. Shouldn't have went to the dance floor. Is this not awesome that the Chargers did this, AJ? Same outfit. I mean, okay, so I saw Diggs last night on Twitter or whatever. I saw his new profile pic, and I go, okay, I don't know who put this together.

It never crossed my mind that it would have been an NFL team that did it on their scheduled release video. We're just getting started. That is why. Oh, this is beautiful why beautiful yes it is great internetting in the fact came up with it do they even are there some people don't even know exactly what this is so they said the entire content team is uh who we were supposed to give a shout out to I believe shout out to the entire content team the anime but yes this is just to be once I saw this I said wait I paused the videos wait a minute is this what I think it is and then as we continue to go let's go ahead and roll through here here's the Texans boom pause this is the

bronze this is the bronze yeah week five redacted on advice of our lawyers are you kidding me what were they gonna do so this is really their their content team the chargers put this out yes oh i love these guys me too all the people the whole team involved great show me too wait we are just getting started what does this mean well there's a lot of things you could mean i'm not 100 sure but the fact that even all of us thought oh and made it very hard to think topical everything's very topical with what's been going on over the last year all right let's keep it going good internetting there jason the browns watch let ross cook here's r Ross All right Week seven

Oh, pause Oh, no Now go back Okay, Legion of Boom If you're able to zoom in Legion of Boom is right there Mina Kimes Saying something's on in the back

All hopes and dreams Yep The left one there The goal line Not running the ball with Marshawn's on the left there I mean, they did it, AJ Does it say 2001 Seattle Mariners back there? Yes one there the goal line uh not not running the ball with marshall's on the left there i mean they did it aj let's say 2001 seattle mariners back there yes took a shot at the whole city well it's awesome they really they really sat in the writers room for a while and nailed this one down bro this is week seven we still have more to go let's

keep going through here bye week, we can't chill. Everybody's in. Everybody's in now. Joshua Tree. Elena. Boom. Pause. Look at this.

Apple House with no dub, right? They should have maybe just put it the L House. Now, if we're going, they put out the A, F, F, and E. 28% off three waffles or more. Low-hanging fruit. Still went there, though. Still plays. Still went there, though.e. 28% off three waffles or more. Low-hanging fruit still went there, though. Still plays. Still went there, though.

Unbelievable. Are they starting something now to where we're going to see these big Twitter beefs between the content teams of each organization? So I actually mentioned this. A couple years ago, I think this would have been seen as beef. Now on the Internet, it's like, hey, that's good Internet. I don't know about the Jags one. Don't you think there might be a few people upset about that?

Who? In Jacksonville? They all hate Urban. Maybe at Fox Sports. Just you and a few others, AJ. Yeah, just the Chophouse regulars. Yep. This one I did see some Falcons fans say, oh, fuck off. Like low-hanging fruit.

Even if you're mad they took a shot at your team, you have to respect the effort. Like, hey, these guys, they're all in on this video. Absolutely. Week 9, we're halfway through the season. Who else is going to get buried through here from the Chargers? Let's go to Week 10. Nothing really.

Nothing really. Go for it. Yeah, obviously. Pause. Now they got ESPN and NFL Network reporting something here. I don't know what it is. I don't remember this part. It doesn't report.

It just goes away. Oh, see, this is something that they could have. Is this when the trade deadline is maybe? Oh, smart. Oh, could be. Okay. See, there's levels to this shit. Took them a month to do it.

Let's go to the next one. JC. Oh, here we go. Pause. Look at this. This is the Cardinals. You see what Kyler Murray's doing? Clearly K-1 there.

Play. Pause. Delete all posts. Dude, is that not awesome? Man, these guys have been taking notes over the last year or so. I'm sure this has been in the – they've been thinking about this for a long time. Fucking right. Maybe.

Allegedly they only had a month. I guess they knew all the opponents. They knew all the opponents. They just didn't know in the way and how it was going to go so they could have prepared for it a little bit more than you know some other teams chose not to do so at all yeah i respect the dolphins not doing anything after what happened the other day you know are they just mailing it in on the social media team they gotta be gun shy don't you think they put anything out now no it's just they should look out for their guy especially if their guy's been their franchise quarterback going forward.

Okay, but going back to that quick, though, the majority of people that watch that clip probably think it's a beautiful pass and catch. That's not true. Not on the internet, dude. Yeah, I mean, okay. And that was posted on the internet. Majority of people on the internet, oh, Tua can't keep up with Tyreek Hill. That's literally how it went.

I know. There was actually a lower third on one of these sports talk shows. Is Tua going to be a problem for Tyreek Hill since he can't throw it over or whatever? Like, that was a full conversation. So the Miami Dolphins social media team did that. We were just asking them to learn from it. Hey, can't have it. Can't be adding fuel to the fire on these internet streets because you will get got.

Speaking of getting got, I mean, charge is gone, everybody. Let's go to the next one here. We're on week 12. Week 13, we're back with the Raiders. Pause. That's AB's helmets. You see a little Chucky doll tossed in a dumpster bag. You know what I mean?

AB's discarded helmets. Yes. I mean, it is awesome. Let's keep it rolling. Okay. Ryan and Dolphin. Let's keep it rolling. Okay. Ryan and Dolphin. Could have took a shot. They did not.

Bolt up. The AJ was here. Here it is. Here it is. These sons of bitches. Colts quarterback carousel. I'm asking for tips. Fucking leave them in there.

That's a power switch. And then, obviously, they just roll through all of the quarterbacks that we've taken from other teams over the last four years. The bolo tie. Awesome. On Phillip rivers there. And then Jacoby's the last one. And then,

you know, chargers versus Rams. I don't think I understood what that one meant. Burning the draft picks, I believe. Apparently, the Cleveland one, too, if you translate the Japanese or Chinese, whatever that is, it says Cleveland is boring.

I don't know. I don't know the symbols. Clearly. What a bad guy. do you mean I mean characters That would have worked characters is what is it does japanese no idea feels like I believe it's japanese anime is usually japanese Feels like it's japanese. I've been in japan. So There you go. Is that not awesome, though, AJ?

I mean, everything about it. And then even putting you in there, like, these people, they get it. They understand what's going on out there. They completely understand the Internet. Let's get to a break, and we'll scour the Internet for what we should talk about on the other side. This Feel Good Friday is going to be glorious. Some phone calls on the 5 Energy phone line. 1-833-4-MACIFI.

Congrats to the Chargers content team. Unreal. The Jags won. Just touche on the Jags. What creativity. Bravo. Bravo. Exact costume.

Exact. They took, they actually just took his photo into some whatever app and then turned him into an anime and put a jaguar head on top of it. I also loved how several teams did that. Everyone was like, yeah, we can shit on Urban. Who cares? Other teams did too. Detroit did. Yeah.

Did they? Oh, yeah. The Urban, yeah. Urban survival. Wow, that's awesome. Did you know Detroit has a Steven Seagal? I did not. Pretty good. Right here, this guy on the left. He's awesome. Did you know Detroit has a Steven Seagal? I did not. Pretty good.

Right here, this guy on the left. He's awesome. Detroit Urban Survival Training is the building he runs. And he went through their entire schedule teaching us good hand-to-hand combat and urban survival. Okay. This was part of the Lions. This was the Lions. This was the Lions' scheduled release.

Run that. Can we run the video a little bit? Good for him. He's jacked. He has arms. That's his building. This is an actual building? Yeah.

Dust. Pretty great. Detroit, I'm about to run it. Right now, we're going to share with you intelligent options the Detroit Lions will be using to increase win ability throughout the 2022 season. All right, going to need it. Have you seen this?

Oh yeah. The best way to deal with the threat is to eliminate it before it becomes a threat. If you ever need to strip a football from a founding father, here's what you do. Step one, push the elbow forward. Step step two pull the wrist in step three take it to the house that's right a.j learn something if a norseman tries to block you step one this is the mother wrist step two step three sack the quarterback see that aj it's easy oh this one didn't take as much time as this year This one didn't take as much time as the other one. That was a shot.

Boom. Hey, you know what though? They're trying. In order to stop someone from grabbing you, here's what you can do. When they reach out, you're gonna go here to the wrist. Bang. And then here to the elbow. Boom.

This is all Steven Seagal stuff. Keep going. Yeah, he's Steven Seagal of Detroit. Is that a good thing? Yes, look at this. We're watching this. Bye week early, by the way. Oh, he's meditating? Yeah, theyroit is that a good thing yes look at this we're watching this spy week early by the way oh he's meditating yeah they got week six by week breaks over we take down is that you just like this those are my best case in your pants

snake in my boot they're playing cowboys the key to defeating a bipedal dolphin is this. Number one, remove the fish you've been keeping in your pocket. See that? Number two, use it to divert their attention. Number three, implement a take down. Well, that's a guy that's distracted by fish. We're only on week eight? Well, yeah.

Yes. All right, we're good, we're good, we're good. Did you see the Packers? No. Oh, boy. We're only on week two Is that one? The first four weeks were pretty cool I was fucked, you're not wearing a knee brace

in that video He was able to putt pretty hard So that's good news for his health I think going into the season next year Dude, this is a competition amongst these social media teams I'd like to try them, but yeah, of course They all can't be home runs, but even Detroit and into the season next year. Dude, this is a competition amongst these social media teams. I'd like that they're trying, though.

Yeah, of course. Hey, they all can't be home runs, but even Detroit. I'd like that they're trying. It's not the dust guy, whatever he runs. It's not his fault. I mean. You should watch his videos, though. I wouldn't watch the.

I would never watch the whole schedule release video ever of all of that, but it was good. Here's the Packers. This is Packers. Week one and 17 Vikings. You betcha. of all of that, but it was good. Here's the Packers. Week 1 and 17 Vikings. Week 2 and 13. Like you're playing Topgolf? It's Golden Tee, dude.

You missed it. Yeah, Topgolf, yeah. Golden Tee? Kids don't know what Golden Tee even is. Nah, I did, though. I had a Golden Tee in my house there for a bit. That was a big flex. That I had one? No, when people would have it, if someone had a Golden Tee, house there for a bit. Kids don't know what a golden tea is? That was a big flex. That I had one? No, when people would have it.

If someone had a golden tea, I'm like, oh, this dude is the president. This dude doesn't have a family, is what you're thinking when you walk into that house. Oh, a divorced dad or doesn't have a family. Golden tea in the living room. Yeah, and then it's this one. Yeah, it's this the whole time. Did you get it? Yeah, yeah. I mean, and then it's this one. Yeah, it's this the whole time. AJ gets it. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, super boring, but they tried. Yeah, but you buried the lion just a little bit. Is this it? We're only on week nine? Yeah, AJ doesn't get it. The Packers are week three. I don't get it because, you know, the schedule release situation is already something that I struggle with.

No, go to Ernie. Go to Ernie. This guy created football. Ernie Adams. Wait, the Patrinie Adams even they took part yeah well they kind of mailed it in but yeah they did take part and this one will to Gumpy's Point get you fired up because Ernie Adams the man who created football alongside Bill Bell this dude you're about to listen to AJ that's a big moment 20 years of dominance in the NFL 2022 in

the England Patriots schedule of course every player and every coach has a lot of anticipation in the NFL. See that, AJ? It's perfect. Yep, that is true. Is he chewing on something, or is that how he talks? Or there's original. Motorsports. Yep, that is true. Is he chewing on something, or is that how he talks? You know this is going to be 60 minutes of hard football. Number four, going up to Lambeau Field. I love the navy blue gold buttons, like your sophomore in high school with homecoming.

Even in Green Bay, it probably won't be frozen. That's the uniform. They had to have told him, like, talk like you talk to three adults. We got the Lions at 1 o'clock. Again, two back-to-back NFC North teams. We only play once every four years. Week 6, coming back to Cleveland. Football Sunday in Cleveland is always an exciting time.

Everybody's out in brown and orange. Sounds like fucking Bob Ross. Brown and orange. Week 7. I mean, at least he gets to the point, though. The Patriots fan knew before anyone else who they played. Monday night against the Bears. He did this for 17 games.

Another big game. Division game on the road. Those are always the critical ones. I think he wanted to do this. At the Jets. Sounds like it. Yeah. Spirited rivalry with the Jets over the years.

He didn't want to do it. Look at the zoom in and out. We're at home against the Colts. Week 10. Bye week. As far as I'm concerned, this is about perfect placement of the bye before you go in that's what he did

I was like super excited to see his face Connor sent in to the group text he's not here today he's at a bachelor party hope you're having a good time

he sent in to the group Ernie killed it or whatever I'm like fucking Ernie Adams here we go here's this character that we've heard about

who's supposed to be this football czar basically he's doing a scheduled release. I can't wait to hear it. So I watched that entire thing. I thought at the end he was going to start piecing things together. Look, we got 3-4, 4-3, cover two team.

We got this. I thought he was going to do that. It was what you just saw the entire time. And everybody has a good season. He walks out. I'm like, that guy beat everybody's ass for 20 years of football, that guy. And he's just. He's not giving you any of his secrets.

You think Bill's going to let him sit there and talk about anything, any detail of these teams and what they're going to do? Well, I know, but I was just kind of hoping. You know, my expectations and hopes when I heard Ernie Adams was speaking was that maybe I could learn from him. I didn't learn a fucking thing. You could have said... I could have... Connor could have done what he did on there.

Maybe next year, Ernie does like he is the dust guy, and people come at him and he shows how disarmed they are. It was a send-off for Ernie. It was last year. What if he's only the scheduled release host for the Patriots for the next 10 years? Good gig.

That's how we keep him around. All right, Ernie, you did so good last year. Let's do it again. Bring it back. All right, so we're playing in New England first, beginning of the season. Going to be hot still. Second week, we're playing.

Like, I mean, did they tell him not to say anything? Like, hey, we just need you to. They probably said, like, hey, just say, like, a quick little one-liner about each game once you announce, like, what the game is. Give us a little tidbit that maybe you know that we don't. Ernie, I was trying to learn football from that thing. I watched the whole fucking thing. Three minutes, the whole thing.

I'm like, got to be something in here I can learn from Ernie. Gotta be something. He's gonna give something. Did not. Whole time. Did nothing. Had no idea what it was. But,

fucking thank you, Ernie. Thank you, Ernie. I'm glad we're all doing it. I'm glad everybody feels, now I'm sure people feel like, hey, we have to do something next year for the schedule release. It's been a couple years.

It's been a couple years now. We're stepping it up though now. Yeah, it feels like more teams are investing in their content teams, I think, which is becoming more of a couple years. It's been a couple years now. They're stepping it up though now. Yeah, it feels like more teams are investing in their content teams, I think, which is becoming more of a social presence. So I think as we see that grow and blossom, we'll see these types of things continue to grow. Like I would assume free agency or a trade announcement from some of these teams

is going to be epic during the season now that they have like – that guy was working at the NFL Films before. Now he's working just for content for the Chargers. like the ideas that these people are probably going to have to announce things are going to be big i think it's good for the internet i think it's good for everybody but some teams need to go back to the drawing board also the chargers like with this they're going to be taking shots at teams they play when they beat them all year and like the you know wrap up videos on sunday or whatever like they'll actually be a t like a fun follow the entire football season which is smart internet by the way you're a brand you're that's the face by the way of the team to a large portion of your audience that will

not see any of your games that are just on the internet they only know the chargers as their twitter handle like chargers whoever they're promoting whoever they're posting whatever stories they're telling that is all anybody knows just like back in the day how ESPN used to pick and choose what stories to tell, now each individual team has the ability to do that to a large portion of fans. I think back in the day it was not taken serious. And I'm only saying that because I'd say to the Colts, hey, the Twitter handle, you guys should invest in that. I think you guys should, because a lot of people are big Colts fans because of how good

the team was for a long time from outside. They don't get the local news. They have no idea what's going on. The only way they keep up with the Colts is through the Colts social media. And they had a good team early. I think they've invested in it more. Schedule release. Took a shot.

Couple shots. Not their best work, but they were very good through the year. I think teams are starting to recognize that it's a good business decision to get in on social media, and I like that a lot. Did the Bengals put anything out? Yeah. Clip art. What you'd expect.

Yeah. Here's a general. I would imagine their social media team is still in the process of growing. Yeah. I assume that they still have dial-up internet. So it's hard to upload a good video when you have only one month. Because that anime video that the Chargers did, if they tried to upload that with the internet we used to have to use,

they'd need a three- to four-month run to get on there. The Bengals are working on their universe. Hey, they broke ground. It is, right? Look at you. Got to take out of the internet budget to put into the indoor facility budget. So I need you guys just to do the most basic schedule reveal. They still put forth effort, though.

They still put forth effort. But the Bengals building an indoor facility, maybe they're investing in the social media team going forward. Look at the Bengals becoming a 2020 team. Here we go. A professional program. Here we go. Not bad.

Hey, here we go. Sensei. What do you say? Sensei. Hey, remember the LA East talking about Scott Longchilli? Now you've got a goddamn team. 2022 team here we go a professional program here we go not bad hey here we go since then what do you say since then remember the L.E. used to talk about Scott Longchilly now you got a

goddamn team and the Bengals hey oh guy Joey Burrow loves the place what do you say since then here we go

Cincinnati Reds the owner said what are you gonna do be a fan of another team fuck off I don't think so it's okay because the Bengals

are about to be good for a long time hell yeah got an indoor team it's like they're a real professional program now that's right yeah because there's a high school long time. Hell yeah. Got an indoor team. It's like they're a real professional program now. That's right.

Yeah, because there's a high school in Canada that played football. They had an indoor practice facility. The Bengals didn't have it until just now. They're a four-season team. They made Super Bowl without it. Were they going to be with it? They had to go in between lacrosse and field hockey at the University of Cincinnati's indoor facility two weeks before the fucking Super Bowl.

Why'd they lose the Super Bowl? Probably because they couldn't get on the fucking field? Now you got an indoor practice center. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

Let's get to a break. They should clip that on the end of their next highlight film they play. That's right. We should get their social team

some internet too. Yeah. Can we get 100 up, 100 down for the fucking social team? We'll get up right now for you.

Jeez, they got residential internet in there because it's about a fourth of the price. Get these guys fiber. Come on. For Christ's sake. No, you don't deserve that. You guys are building an indoor facility. You're doing your thing. Cincinnati Bengals don't deserve to be made fun of like that anymore for being a dump of a franchise. With that being said, the Detroit Lions

have better odds to win the NFC North than the Chicago Bears. That's fucking... We'll talk about that With that being said, the Detroit Lions have better odds to win the NFC North than the Chicago Bears. We'll talk about that and more on the other side. We'll have a couple of episodes of T4 for the NHL, which we've got a bunch of Game 7s potentially coming up this weekend, and also on the NBA. We'll be back in four minutes. This is the Pat McAfee Show.

Feel good Friday the 13th. Spooky, AJ. You scared?ooky, AJ. You scared? Oh, jeez. If you're scared, motherfucker, go to church, dude. How dumb is it that hotels don't have a 13th floor? So dumb. Cruise ships don't either.

Yeah. So dumb. You want to roll the dice, dude? Does anywhere have a 13th floor? Yes. I mean, if I build a building, there's going to be, which I'm not, there'll be a 13th floor button in the elevator. Absolutely. Whether the floor is there or not. Listen, everybody with a brain knows they're on the 13th floor. Okay. You can't just go 12 to 14. We know. We actually just think you had an auto-correct error when you do that.

That's a good point. How about people being that superstitious, by the way? Yeah. Billions and billions of dollars being built in these buildings. They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't test me. Let's not. No 13th floor. Fucking idiots. Don't dance with me in a break.

Well, that being said, I'm not going to any 13th floors. No, no, no, no. Not a chance. Why roll the dice? Yeah, I'm not in it. See you in four minutes. Hey, welcome back to that show. Hour three on this beautiful feel good friday the 13th of may 2022 shall begin immediately following this beat drop from a guy named twine there was

here we go to my left your right aj hawk the toxic table instead of boston connor it's the ever toxic app bubba gumpino rocking incredible chains with a great beard. Great to see you, Dolphins fam. Hey, Finn's up. Hell yeah. Finn's up. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

Hey, Dolph fam. Hell yeah. At Ty Schmidt is here, obviously, Yankee and Packer fan. Great to see you. John Wayne Gacy from Iowa, born and raised in Iowa, learned everything he did. Nope. Does play in Illinois. See, you're never going to get rid of that.

Nope, nope. He did murder a lot of people in Illinois. He did. Because Waterloo let him go. Yeah, Waterloo let him out. Anamosa. Anamosa. Well, that's He did murder a lot of people in Illinois. He did. Because Waterloo let him go. Yeah, Waterloo let him out. Anamosa. Anamosa. Well, that's a state pen, but he was arrested for what he did in Waterloo, Iowa, where he

started his entire criminal record. Man of the year. Man of the year. Don't forget that. Developed there. He was man of the year in jail, actually. He wasn't at Waterloo. Thank you.

Man of the year in jail. Because he built a beautiful golf course at Anamosa. In the jail, he built a nine-hole golf course. What did he use to fertilize that? Well, that's what we're saying, and that's what Waterloo is potentially to blame for. At-Town Diggs is here, but Des Play and Illinois is where he really got terrible. At-Town Diggs is here as well.

I want to talk about how many teams, the teams that have national games, because a lot of teams have five primetime games. This is huge. The Bengals, congrats to them getting an indoor facility. Five primetime games after going to the Super Bowl. Joey Burrow, Jamar Chase, must-see TV. Also, Teddy Karras, the center for the Bengals, must-see TV fresh out of Indy. Chargers, Eagles, Niners, Pats, Cowboys, Rams, Bucs, Broncos, Bills, Chiefs, Steelers, Packers.

I think the only team that we'd say, what? The Eagles, right? Yeah. The Eagles and the Bengals, this would be a, oh, my God, why are they getting five primetime games? But the Steelers could also fall into that, I guess, as well at this point. I assume the Steelers is strictly because of the market and how many fans they have, so they'll get eyes on that.

I assume Philly is the same reason. The Eagles are strictly because they're NFC East, I think, and that's where the Cowboys are home, and the Cowboys are getting a lot of primetime games, national televised games. Let's go to the four, the Titans, the Colts, the Raiders, and the Cardinals. That's not bad. Here we go.

That's not bad. The Bears have three. The Ravens have three. The Saints have three. Browns have two. Washington has two. Dolphins have two. Seattle has two. The Vikings have two. The Ravens have three. The Saints have three. Browns have two. Washington has two. Dolphins have two. Seattle has two.

The Vikings have two. And the Texans have two. The Jags have, or Texans have one. Jags have one. Panthers have one. Giants have one. Falcons have one. And the Jets have one, which lead me to a text that I got from Michael Cole.

He goes, Jets have one national game? Fuck these idiots. And he said, these guys are all assholes. And he said, that's why I like baseball. Quote me on your show. So I think a lot of fans that only have like one primetime national game or zero for the Lions, not that the Lions have a lot of national fans that are outside of the market or whatever, but some fans are only going to get to see their team one time, literally all year,

because of the way the whole thing's set up. Unless they get Sunday ticket and they can watch every single one of them. I feel like this used to mean more, still means something though, I guess, AJ Hawk. It definitely still means something because it, we do, it's crazy how many more people I guess do see those primetime games when people make a play, but doesn't with the Lions, I would assume they're playing on Thanksgiving day. That's not considered primetime games when people make a play. But with the Lions, I would assume they're playing on Thanksgiving Day. That's not considered primetime. Wouldn't they be the only game on? So primetime, I think, is night, I believe. After 5 o'clock.

But they have a national game, I guess, which is – and Thanksgiving has more eyes than some primetime games. That's the only one I care about. I love that game. Yeah, because we're being handed that game because you've kind of forced the NFL's hand. We will take it. Has there ever been a thought of taking that game away?

From the Lions? Just the NFL in general. Maybe give it to the Dolphins? Or just a different team? Maybe give it to the Colts? This show cannot get loud about this. No, we should give it. Why are the Lions on Thanksgiving here?

Who are they playing this to hand out? Because isn't Thanksgiving like a celebration? Why are we celebrating America's sport? I think I'm wrong here. I was told my whole life it's because of the relationship with the Fords. But I don't think that's right anymore. Yeah. I saw a lot of Genesis commercials.

What was that, last year? Yeah. Two years ago? I saw some sweet halftime performances by Genesis. And don't the Cowboys have a big relationship with Ford as well? Was that Monday Night Football, what you just said? Pre-recorded. Those pre-recorded they go to.

Yeah, those were awesome there for a bit. Speaking of, the Jacksonville Jaguars have not been on Monday Night Football for 11 consecutive years. Thank you, Trevor Lawrence. No, they're still not. Still not. Oh, I thought you said that. No, they're still not.

This marks the 11th straight year where Duval will not have a presence at all on Monday Night Football. Field Yates, who works for ESPN, who Monday Night Football has had for a long time, says, a quirky streak. Quirky. Quirky streak continues. 2022 marks the 11th straight season that the Jaguars will not play on Monday Night Football. Fascinating.

It's almost like, you know, this is a design and on purpose, but if the Jacksonville Jaguars with Doug Peterson and Trevor Lawrence turn it around, which they could, let's assume they'll get more primetime games just like all these other teams that have next to no primetime games surprising team put that back up there i think there's a couple surprising ones um keep with the yep i think the washington commanders because everybody talks about how big their fan base is doesn't everybody always talk about how big their fan base is big fan but uh the carolina pan, I think that's kind of expected because they're in turnover. But you would think Tepper would be swinging harder a little bit for more primetime games with how much money he said he's going to invest into the league.

Seahawks, another one. Browns, another. There's some big fan bases, I think, that are not getting as many primetime games as other teams. And then you look at, like, I don't want to say it, but I'm going to say it. Sorry, Zeke. The Bears are getting three primetime games who gives a fuck do you remember how boring and terrible they were to watch as a football team last year in a full turnover with the coaching staff and who knows what's going to happen i saw their schedule release not bad a lot of talent a lot of trick shots or whatever but i that feels a little surprising to me even though chicago is

the third largest city in america but i think they they also benefit from like you know they're probably going to play the packers on either sunday night or monday night or something like that and then they have thursday but don't you think some of these teams too like it's not technically a primetime game but if you get that america's game of the week slot with either you know whoever uh fox's number one crew and or Romo and Nance. That's kind of a tradeoff almost, isn't it? I think so. With Sunday Ticket, you can watch anything, I guess.

I guess it's not affordable for everybody, but we're going to see a lot of great football games. Let's hear what's going on behind the scenes from a man who is not working today. Harry Potter, Pez the Spencer. Now he's on a golf trip. He was skiing a couple weeks ago. Can't wait for this guy to get back into NFL football so we can have

some news. But maybe he's got some that have been cooking on the golf course. Ladies and gentlemen, senior NFL insider for the NFL, the NFL Network, host of the weekly wrap-up with Rap Sheet and Friends. Us being the friends, he being Rap Sheet. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapoport. This guy.

This guy. Ian, I mean, are you ever going to work? I worked three days this week. I don't know. I'm taking a little bit of break. I'm on a golf trip in Keohokalna with my boys, my high school buddies. We are playing a big match. We won the first 18, which is kind of nice. South Carolina.

A lot of nice courses. Playing the ocean course tomorrow. is kind of nice. South Carolina. A lot of nice courses. Playing the Ocean Course tomorrow. A lot of good stuff going on. You are in the, I believe, and I want to give away Connor's location. You are on the same island as Boston Connor right now. Hope you two run into each other. Hope you two run into each other. Are we hanging?

Wow. I don't know if he's going to. I mean, you think he's going to hit me up? They're definitely goffing. I don't know if he's going to. I mean, you think he's going to hit me up? They're definitely goffing. I don't know if they're playing the ocean course. Yeah, I don't know if they're playing on Rappaport's course. I'm not 100% sure the Boston Conner crew is in there. But anyways, you see him.

Make sure he's safe. What am I talking about? Yeah, it'll be interesting to see just based on our friendship. Like, does he hit me up? Is he like, hey, bro, let's hang out. Maybe hit some balls. That's what I'm kind of curious about. Where are we in our friendships?

Well, maybe he'll force you to follow him publicly. Like someone who will remain nameless did? No. That was an awesome moment. I'm a big fan, actually. I think he's very talented. But you looked uncomfortable. You handled it very well.

The best thing, if... No, I appreciate it. The best thing is that if you watch the video closely, you can hear my wife go, oh, you know, blank, because she realizes that I've been busted for not following this dude. Yeah, it's not...

No, listen. He's talented. He deserves a follow-up, but that is an uncomfortable conversation to be had on camera. And I respect the hell out of it. Huh? Who? Jay Moore.

Oh, okay. Just trying to, for the fans that don't know, I just want them to know. Get in on the show. We all saw it. Yeah. We all saw it. We're happy because these are two forces on the internet that we both follow. We all follow.

Finally coming together in one awkward moment on a red carpet. I mean, it was perfect for everybody, I thought. But I seen you. You handled it well. You're a professional. But you appear to be a bit sober. Was the Kentucky Derby a booze bag event for you or not? Because we got some videos behind the scenes of you housing whiskey,

but it didn't appear that was the case publicly. I mean, look, I had a couple drinks, I would say. At that point, early in the day, I had not, so I was very sober on the red carpet. After the red carpet, did I have a couple drinks? Maybe. Did we down a tequila shot in our suite with the Nelk brothers or whatever the name?

Nelk boys. Geez, name is. Nelk Boys. Geez, have some respect, please. My guys? No, they're my new friends. Did you follow them? My new friends. On Instagram, not on Twitter. You guys do similar stuff.

Yeah, you and the Nelk Boys. By the way, the Nelk Boys have, you know, crushed it and wrapped up. Let's get to you before you start, you know, hacking the hell out of that Kiowa Island course. Is there anything going on in the NFL that we need to know about other than social media teams and content teams crushing last night and embarrassing other content teams and media teams from around the NFL? Other than me and Shepter being an anime in the Chargers schedule release video,

you mean? That was definitely the highlight, I would say. Have you seen that? I was a fucking anime in it. I was an anime in it as well. You hear me? I didn't see you. Were you in that video? Yeah, I didn't have to split half the screen either. I mean, I was a fool. You know what I mean?

Is that you? Alright, shut up, Ian. Ian, let's get into the news. Alright, is there anything going on? What's going on now is, I mean, there's a lot of rookies. Oh, he has the backpack. Is that a backpack? Is that a backpack?

What do you got in there? Like some goodies? Golf bag. I got back. No, no. Golf bag is here. Here's my guys getting ready. Hey, let's go, boys.

Let's go, boys. Who's got the rope for back there? He's got the Bud Lights, dude. You guys are rolling out. I got the golf bag over there. Who's got the roller Lights, dude. You guys are rolling out getting stretched out? Who's got the roller? The roller's not for me. Do I look like someone who'd have a roller?

First thing AJ saw, who the fuck is rolling? Who's rolling out? No, no, no. That's my friend Hacker. He's got some back work to do. Hey, Hacker can really hack. Hey, baby Hacker. Hey, baby Hacker. Hey, baby Hacker. They're clapping for you now, Hacker.

Great golf name. Tell them. Great golf name. What's the other guy's name? Does everybody have golf nicknames? Hacker, Slicer. No, that's his actual name. Oh.

No, no. It's not like, you know, pull hook and Hacker. Hacker is his actual name. All right. Well, awesome. I don't have one. It's not like, you know, Pull Hook and Hacker. No. Like, Hacker is his actual name. All right, well, so I wish we were there. It would be a lot of fun, but we work, okay? What are we doing in the NFL? Is there anything going on in the NFL right now behind the scenes that you know about? So there's some rookie signings, which is not exciting.

I mean, Trevor Penning signed today. Hey! Here we go. We know what team he plays for. Here we go. You're signed today. We know the team he plays for. Here we go. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. Derek Stingley, the Texans' number three overall pick, he signed.

That a baby! You know, it's more like housekeeping, I would say, than anything else. And then for like, there's still, it's unbelievable. I was looking at it the other day. And then for like, there's still, it's unbelievable. I was looking at it the other day. So many veteran free agents who are still out there. Like Jarvis Landry, does he end up signing with the Ravens?

Or, you know, whoever, the Saints. And there's so many of those. And it's late, but that's kind of what's going on now. Okay. Whenever you talk about those rookie contracts, are they all guaranteed? It feels like everybody's contract is guaranteed. Was that the new CBA? And is that something that is just new? And I didn't realize before because good for all of them well every year it's basically a fight from these agents to

get as many fully guaranteed as you can right so for a lot of years it was like if you were the 21st pick you'd be fully guaranteed if in the 22nd pick you wouldn't be but now like i i think if i remember correctly the 32nd pick was lewis scene uh is also fully guaranteed you have the whole first round fully guaranteed which like you know everyone we all sort of joke about how these rookie contracts negotiate themselves and there's nothing to do like agents have actually done a good job like all these first rounders now are fully guaranteed which is something certainly something i think it's good money for them aj got uh how many he get 120 million something like that he's number five overall he bought all of green bay and columbus and he opened the chop house that urban would inevitably fail it i actually looked

up aj's career earnings yesterday and uh i was and it came up in conversation with my crew. It was impressive. Nice job. Why are you guys talking about AJ? This is awesome. What was it? Why are we talking about him? Or what was his career earnings?

Both. C. All of the above. We were talking about him because I was mentioning we were at a bar last night. And he came up to me and said, yeah, I mean, it was our third bar we went to. Anyway, I recognize you from the Pat McAfee show. That's what some of my fans come up and say now. They recognize me from the show and my friends we're talking about.

And then one of them was like, who's the other guy? And it was like, that's AJ Hawk. And he was like, oh, how about that? So anyway. And then we looked up your career earnings. Good. Really good. I mean, I think it was, yeah.

I don't want to speak to man's salary on air, but yeah, man's doing well. Was it over 100? Was it under 100? Not even close. Everything's relative, Ian. This is stupid. Ian, are you ever off the clock? I know these guys joke about you and your booze and all the time, whatever.

Are you ever off the clock, though? I would assume you're going back and forth with coaches, GMs, scouts, agents mainly, a lot of your sources. Yeah, I mean, even now, like, you know, I'm on the strip now, but, like, two rookie signings on the first 18 holes. And one of the weird things, but it's sort of like my life, is, like, people text me no matter what. So, like, schedule schedules getting released yesterday.

So cool. The amount of texts I got about like, why are we playing this many primetime games or why is this team and are like, check out our team's social. I'm telling you, it was like the social media Superbowl, uh, an endless amount of texts about the schedule yesterday,

which like, you know, NFL does an amazing job of making that a thing. But no, the answer is never quite off the clock because when your people text you, you got to get back and sort of continue the conversation, you know? Yeah, and now that I know that's a backpack, is that one of those coolers you squeeze a 30-pack in there?

Those are the best. Smart idea, by the way, because unless there's somebody driving around on that course, you ain't going to get another beer for two, three hours. Yeah. Found that on Steve's course. That was tough. I would say there's a good cart delivery,

beer delivery situation on this course. So here's what we're doing. We're playing a very serious nine holes. Those will be our 27th of the day. And then the last nine of the day will be alternate shot, and then we can start drinking. This guy's playing 36. Are you trying to make the tour, dude?

You and Hacker out there? The way I played today, I will probably not make the tour. My partner picked me up. I'm trying to play in Tahoe like you, Pat. I can't believe I was invited, honestly. I'm only playing in the net until I get out there. I've heard that's not a good idea by a very good golfer.

And we don't want to hold you up before your 72nd hole here at Kiwa Island while everybody else is working. Whenever you say it's the Social Media Super Bowl last night, it feels like it's been that for the last couple years. Does the NFL let everybody know that? As more people are investing in their content team and their digital media and their social media, has this just naturally become something?

Or does the NFL say, hey, let's soup up the schedule release because it's pretty monotonous, pretty boring, nobody actually cares. A couple things to look for, when's the bye week, when's the divisional games, like there's some things, but let's make this a thing. Is that officially announced or do you think that's kind of the initiative

of the digital media teams? Well, I think there's two things going on. I was not surprised, but I was actually legitimately interested in how the NFL handled the schedule this year. Because reporters want to break everything, right? So it's always a race to see who can get what games. Every day this week, the NFL leaked a game. They announced it on the Today Show.

So they basically said, instead of you guys leaking we're just gonna leak and they dropped a little schedule news every day and it actually built up like interest into something that is not always very interesting frankly uh and then the social media teams like once and there's a couple like really funny proactive ones like panthers chargers a couple of those and then everyone saw you know when you see the reaction you get and it's like we better step up our stuff too and teams legitimately invest in these positions now and it only helps them because they show the personality of the players they show how creative they are and it's just kind of fun yeah it's good for business it's a chess move as opposed to a checkers move you know know, it's like, hey, if we get people invested in our players, in our brand, it will inevitably help with the overall success of our program.

And I think the Chargers know in L.A., like, they got to win, but also they need to become something that people enjoy. I love them. I absolutely love what the Chargers have done. And, like, it's kind of, like, we'll see what happens on the field, but it feels like their moment a little bit you know like they got a great young quarterback they got great uniforms they got a coach that everybody you know last year was okay i think some steps forward but a coach that everyone

likes and thinks is going to be really good good young team i mean like khalil mac jc jackson i mean they really went for it this offseason. It feels like this will be the Chargers' kind of time and moment. So I think the social media team is trying to capitalize on that. Well, hey, they won the schedule release. Yeah. Big time. They won the schedule release by far.

Carolina Panthers, I think, number two in my eyes. Carolina Panthers, number two. A little nostalgia. You know, a nice trip back in time there and what it was like back in the day before the Internet was on every single phone in everybody's pocket. It was nice. It was. It was nice.

The Cowboys, not bad. Stephen A. and Jerry thought that was good. Stephen A. is always going to cut a good promo. The Lions, not too shabby. The Packers did a thing. Yeah, Golden Tee. It was a good attempt. Pretty redundant.

It was a good attempt. The Colts had Matty Ice as an ice sculptor. That was pretty good. The Broncos, Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson. Huh? Russell Wilson, Peyton Manning, not bad. I think that was good. Didn't see that one.

I'll have to catch up with him. I have to say I've been busy. This guy fucking stinks. Ty has a question for you. Is that okay, Ian? What's up? Good, Ty. Geez.

Oh, yeah. All the time. All the time. I got 72 holes to play every next 12 hours rap sheet from people that you talked to were people kind of surprised at how strong the thursday night football slate is or was that kind of to be expected with how much money amazon's putting up yeah that's a good question i i think it was to be expected we sort of noticed that too. There's going to be a lot of energy, I would say, into making Thursday really good. It's ramped up the last couple of years. It used to be like people would sort of joke about how bad the Thursday games were,

and then they got really, really good, and I think nobody jokes anymore. This just takes it to another level. Amazon is putting a lot of money into it. It's going to be really good. Having a game on basically streaming only will be important that it all works. So they needed good games. I was struck by how good it was too.

I think Thursday's going to be awesome. Are you doing anything with Amazon? I, as of now, am not. Oh. Hey, I have no idea. I've always been a fan of their delivery service

and their streaming service. If something happens in the future, I have no idea, but I like Amazon a lot. Are you? Congratulations. I made a rap sheet. No, no, no. I made a rap sheet. Congratulations. but you know I like Amazon a lot congratulations we had earlier Amazon are you me yeah

there was reports about that I saw some of those reports monster FedEx truck pulled up behind me as we're talking about Amazon FedEx coming in they're saying maybe we'll get some games or whatever I'm not oh I don't know if I want to I don't know what I want to give away

what I don't want to give away right now no you should definitely give it away. Actually, what you should do is you should, when we're done, text me and then I'll tweet it to you. Oh, fuck off. Gumpy, you have any questions for me? No, that's a good plan. No, that's what you do on this show.

You always say breaking news for off the show. So if I was going to break news, I think the smart business would be at least to tell you to do it on here. I don't know why I would do it off smart business would be at least to tell you to do it on here i don't know why i would do it off that that'd be a bad idea yeah that's interesting situation though that is one of the most interesting situations i've ever been in to be honest is it real is it not i don't know go ahead dumpy yeah rap sheet seen as you work for nfl network who is replacing

k adams on good morning football uh that was pretty moving today, I have to say. I love Kay. She will be missed. I'm curious to see where she lands. I have texted her repeatedly, and she has not. Which is a little offensive, but, you know. Probably booze dope. Oh, they're celebrating.

Celebrating. Yeah, celebrating. No, he hates booze dope. I don't know. I know it is. We're looking at a couple options. I know it sounds like some very good ones. I don't want to get in trouble by talking publicly about who they are.

Come on! Text Pat, and then he'll text it. He'll tweet it. All right. When I find out who's going to be the host, I will text you, and you can tweet it from the search. All right. And I'll tweet out the wrong financials, too, and then we can get into a full source-off situation. I mean, yes.

I think that's fine. I appreciated that you're talking about wrong financials. Like, Brady's salary was leaked on his future Fox thing, and Fox came out and said, the $37.5 million number is wrong. We're not going to tell you why or how or any issues. What does that mean? What does that mean, Ian? No idea.

I think it means that he's making a bunch of money as an ambassador, too, along with being an analyst, and that's kind of like part of it. Oh, that's a bundle package. Yeah. So other analysts can't say, I get $37 half mil yeah they're saying that so yeah so all the other pundits and stuff at fox sports are like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa we're not that's not what we're paying an analyst right yeah i i actually and like you know sportscaster salaries are going crazy which is great let's go um but i do think the comp is kind of like nobody wants to be like, all right, if you want to re-up Romo, you've got to give him 40.

Like nobody, none of the networks want to do that. Just, you know, 15 or 16. That's awesome. Well, last question for me, speaking of money. It is alleged that Tepper's eyeing Sean Payton for the Carolina Panthers head coaching gig. Tepper, the wealthiest owner in the NFL, He is spending money, however, to get the team. You're going to make us better?

Oh, I find out you're not going to make us better? I will get rid of you. I do not care how much guaranteed I got to pay you. We're in, we're out, we're moving. We're going to get a winner here in the Queen City. Is that real? Is that not real? Is that Sean Payton's people leaking that?

How do you think that has come about? So I was curious about the same thing. Made some calls on it. I haven't found any validity to it not saying it's wrong i just haven't confirmed it it seems really far-fetched because if you're the saints like you know payton's under contract so when he coaches next and i think he will think he will coach next year someone's going to have to give up a draft pick or more to the saints so like why would they ever let the panthers do that like i don't even such like a non-starter for me you know like you're going to want him out of the division maybe out of the conference something

where you can't see him twice a year and make it you know he's a very good coach so i would imagine whichever team like he's so anyway i i do not foresee that yes in your guy joe person uh just tweeted that the uh panthers eyeing sean payton report matt rule said david tepper called him to tell him the story was coming out and that there was nothing to it all right i all right i mean that's that's good that he said that probably makes rule feel maybe a little bit better but i just hope whole thing doesn't make any sense. All right, you're losing service. You don't know nothing.

All right, we'll move on. Ian, enjoy Kiowa Island. Enjoy the golf. If you see Boston Connor, maybe you guys should share a water together. Because I think he's on the Rappaport mindset for the weekend. You're always on it. Let's go ahead and have a water. I hope we meet together.

All right. Ian Rappaport. Yeah, Rappaport. What a human. it let's go ahead and have a water i hope we need to work together all right ian rath yeah what a human sounds like a fun trip what a job i'll say i don't want to play 36 holes but some people that love golf they do that oh yeah i've been invited back to back days of that hey i wake up like at 6 a.m play 36 go drive an hour play 36 somewhere else 36 somewhere else. I'm like, geez, I don't think I have that. I've been invited to one of those trips when I was younger. I left night one. I said, I'm not doing this for another two days. I'm so sorry. I'm very thankful and grateful for the opportunity to be here.

This is not my speed. I'll see you guys on the other side of this marathon. There you're walking. Because normally that involves walking some holes as well in that whole thing to really get the golf experience. And hopefully I'll get the golf bug one day that I want to do that. But, like, a trip to Scotland, I guess, is awesome. You're playing, like, four or five courses right back to back to back to back to back to back to back.

Yeah, no matter where you go, though, 36 is so many. I can do 18 in the morning and then a fun nine later, and I'm good. That 36 is unnecessary. That's because you're a mushroom, man. You're a fun guy. I guess. Yeah, fun run, fun nine, fun guy. I mean, that's Evan Fox.

That's Evan Fox. Hell yeah. I think I'm going to be hitting the course tomorrow. I'm going to be on course tomorrow. First time taking a swing from the net to the course. Excited to see if it worked. Oh, it definitely is going to work. So, Woodhead just got through one round of qualifying for the U.S. Open.

I mean, so you're basically there. No, not. No. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a qualifying for the U.S. Open. I mean, so you're basically there. No, not – no. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a 30-year project. That's right. You're talking about Woodhead being ready right now. Once again, I have a lot of respect for Danny Woodhead. I'm assuming he didn't grow up on a golf course.

I might be wrong. I don't know. He's out there with these golfers. Waxing the goddamn course with them, AJ. Yeah, he's doing great. He still has a few more rounds to get to the U.S. Open, but, AJ. He's doing great. He still has a few more rounds to get to the U.S. Open, but yeah, he's awesome. Romo's been trying to get in the Open for the last couple years.

Well, Romo's got a lot of stuff going on. Yeah. His game hasn't gotten any better, has it? Who, Romo's? Yeah. Has it? I don't know. I don't see him.

Has it gotten better? I assume it's gotten better, yeah. And when you have six whiskey sours before the turn, it's tough to really stay on your game. Hard to get better. That's why you create a little adversity. See three balls. Yeah, there you go.

You don't want to get too good too quick. You don't want to peak too early like you were talking about. I mean, that is something that Tony Romo thinks about every single day when he gets on that golf course. It's a good Friday. What are we doing here? Yeah, why are we burying Romo, dude? He's a horse's ass.

I could care less. Wow. I don't like Tony Romo. Why do you say that? What's that all about? Well, you know, I don't like Tony Romo. Why do you say that? What's that all about? Well, you know, I said something about him being shitty on one of the games this past year, and he was all boozed up during the game, and he liked the tweet, kind of just saying, like, hey, you know, you son of a bitch, I see you.

Oh, did he really? Oh, yeah. I didn't know that happened. So I actually gained a little respect for him when he did that, but then he was so goddamn bad the next week, too. I was like, all right, well, Tony. Did we cover this while it was happening live? I believe so. Wait, wait.

He liked the tweet of you burying him? Yeah. Oh, so he's got a chip on his shoulder even in the booth. This guy, wait till I call this a perfect Super Bowl. This fucking guy doubted me. This guy doubted me. I didn't know this happened. You know, hopefully, you know,

unleashing a little bit of the fire that's still within him. So you've been blocked by Tony Romo or liked by Tony Romo, and who blocked you? Billy Horschel. Billy Horschel. If I remember correctly, there was like 30. You are a menace on Twitter. No, I'm not.

Do you hear me? An absolute menace. I thought the toxicity was something that flowed out of this guy's soul. It does. That guy, Boston Conner. I didn't know it was running through your Twitter fingers like this. You are a problem on these streets. No, I'm still trying to figure out why Billy Horschel blocked me. I don't know it was running through your Twitter fingers like this. You are a problem on these streets. No, I'm still trying to figure out why Billy Horschel blocked me.

I don't understand it. Well, it sounds like Tony Romo knows why. He didn't block me, though. He just said, hey, I see you. Did you like that? I'm sure he could check your timeline. I believe so. Maybe not.

Who knows? Actually, maybe not. I think he might have been searching his name because I noticed. I went to his likes. He had, like, several. I wonder if Tony's like, let me get a sense on how people feel about me. Let me go ahead and search Tony. Oh, no.

Tony Rowe, no. Tony Rowe, no. The last time I searched, everybody liked me. What the fuck happened? What took place? It was an interesting ride. I think Tony Rowe is coming back next year as best yet. Don't you think, AJ?

Yeah, he's going to be. I think he's going to be okay. I think so, too. Or he's not, and the tide will continue to turn. There'll be more like tweets. I'm going to get out of here. I've got to get to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Here we go.

Congrats, man. Have fun. Hey, can't wait to get to the home of the Baby Pens. It's going to be exciting out there. Call a smack. Done. It's going to be a good show tonight, AJ. I believe any surprise guests that we need to know about?

Is Ezekiel there? Oh, that'd be awesome. I don't know. Butch? Fingers crossed. We found him. Yeah. Thank God.

We found that son. Tomasino? His name's Chompa. What's your problem, dude? What about Theory? Theory's on Raw. Theory's on Raw. Okay.

Just worry about Butch. Follow what Butch is doing, AJ. Well, I don't know Theory's on Raw. Theory's on Raw. Just worry about Butch. Follow what Butch is doing, AJ. I don't know what's going on. This is something that does happen. Butch is jacked up goopy, right? No, that's Chompa. No, that's Chompa. My bad.

Everyone's the same. Everyone's running together now. What's your problem? That's not the case at all. I compare Butch and Chompa, dude. The Ezekiel and Elias situation has thrown me all off because I know Ezekiel, or no, Elias, right? The younger brother of Ezekiel. Is that correct? No, it's Ezekiel and Elias situation has thrown me all off because I know Ezekiel or no Elias, right? The younger brother of Ezekiel Younger brother put my brain to pretzel trying to figure all this out and keep the program straight in my head

Hi trying to get some clarity. Hi. I'm Ezekiel. I'm Elias his younger brother. Yeah, there we go. It's me Ezekiel It's not a highest Elias is way cooler. Oh, my God. What? What? Ezekiel's the man. Ezekiel's the man.

Another like tweet by Tony Romo. Frank Morata just did some research. It's from Coach JB. Romo sounds like a high school announcer. Liked by Romo. I'm scrolling through his likes. He does appear to, if you insult Tony or give him a good chirp, he does appear to go through a lot.

January 16th, he liked about 1,000 tweets that were just fucking torching him. Are you serious? He must have had his worst game. He must have had a bad game. Oh, no, Joe. I like to think that he was like, oh, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. He got me pretty good.

I think so, too. Oh, he liked it. He actually enjoyed it. Majority about his hair. Because your like is like a commercial for your Twitter. Because when people go to your Twitter, the only thing they're going to see is your tweets. And then they'll be able to see media. And then they'll see what you like on Twitter.

Let me learn a little bit about you. So it's almost like a commercial, the like tweets. And Tony's like, fucking everything that roasts me, please put it in here. We have found Ty's tweet amongst the other Tony. Can't wait to listen to it for the next three minutes. Oh, no. Can we find his Billy Horschel tweet, too? Yeah.

That would be nice. Yeah. That's a good gift. I'm out of here. That's an incredible tweet. Probably threatened Billy Horschel, and then he deleted it. That definitely did not threaten Billy Horschel. I think I said he maybe looked like a jackass because of what he was wearing,

and his pace of play was incredibly slow. Which, big time shots in the golf community. Big time shots in the golf community. I'm going to get out of here. Do a giveaway when I get out of here, will you? Because the people deserve it after this week of bullshit we have put on here.

Stewards of the game. We are not. It's become a problem. All these people are taking vacations because they know they don't want to fucking step into a mic every day and talk about nothing. And we just step in the batter's box. I don't know if we need to step into every fucking batter's box anymore. Going forward, we'll do a lot of hindsight, scouting, self, everything.

Reporting this weekend. We will think about how we do a show better next week. Maybe not. We are the only doofuses going every day. What's going on back there? They found the tie of Billy Hodes. Oh, no. I didn't know we found it.

Did we really? It's good. Run it. It's pulling up right now. I actually don't remember. Tie four or five whiskeys deep. It's pulling up right now. I actually don't remember. Tie four or five whiskeys deep. What are the odds Billy Horschel shitting down his leg and choking down a stretch today?

Riggs, you got anything? One, zero activity. Before I worked here. Zero pop. Yeah, I had to know. know riggs you're always around golf fucking tell me what billy hall is gonna do today to fuck it up yeah jesus that's five years that's not that bad well yeah i mean i want him to maybe weigh in on it too he would have said like hey i'm actually fucking striping my irons right now

my favorite golfer yeah did riggs didn't answer you no probably not quote tweet from riggs then the deck oh there's got to be plenty more out there for ty just like that what are the odds billy horse was gonna how about him saying i don't even remember this five years ago. I would imagine, Ty, you haven't gone after Bubba Watson at all? No, he's a lefty, dude. Can't do that. Okay.

He was also on those things that float. Yeah, the hovercraft. Pretty sweet. He was on the show. Yeah, friend of the program. Yeah, this is before. Yeah, right. This is back a little loose cannon, Ty.

Yeah. Still are, by the way. I didn't know you used to tweet like that, too. Let's get back in the game. Let's start tweeting more. Let's go, Ty. Let's get back in the game, Ty. Let's get some more likes from Romo. More blocks from golfers.

Alright, I'm out of here. I'll see you guys on the other side of the weekend. Have a great weekend. Have the best weekend in your life. Do a giveaway, boys. I appreciate you all. AJ, great week, man. You're the best. Great week by you. Good luck tonight. Should be fun. Big thanks to Rap Sheet for joining us from the golf course while he's still sober before

his 72nd hole. Kirk Herbstreit, can't thank him enough for joining us. Congrats to him on doing Thursday Night Football with Amazon. And boys, you had a great week. You all were the best. See you guys on Monday. The boys will take it home from here with a big giveaway on the other side. Cheers.