The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 669 - Insider Monday With Ian Rapoport, Shams Charania, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: May 23, 2022

On today’s show Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys talk about the OTA situation in the NFL, Peter King’s Power Rankings, Justin Thomas’ PGA championship victory, the NBA Playoffs, and more. Joining the progrum in the first hour is NFL insider and host of the Weekly Wrap Up with RapSheet & Friends, Ian Rapoport, to chat about OTAs in the NFL along with the Deebo Samuel situation, the future location of the combine in the coming years, Nick Foles officially becoming a Colt, reports about Clowney turning down major money deals, and more in the NFL world (14:53-45:31). Later in hour two, NBA insider for Stadium and The Athletic, Source Off Chompion, Shams Charania joins the progrum, to discuss his absurd work hours and screen time, the NBA playoffs, the Juwan Howard to the Lakers situation, and more (1:06:26-1:25:30). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show and listen on Sirius XM Channel 82, Mad Dog Radio. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello beautiful people. It is, whoa, Insider Monday, May 23rd, 2022. This sports show shall begin right now. Can't thank you enough for joining us here on this glorious Monday. I hope the weather and life is fantastic wherever you are. I hope your weekend was beautiful and majestic and I hope you got a chance to enjoy whatever the hell you enjoy doing in your spare time. What I got to do is watch a shit ton of sports and relax and chill a little bit. We'll talk about it all with the boys as we have Ian

Rappaport joining us in about 12 minutes. Obviously, Jadeveon Clowney signs back with the bronze. 12 million? 11 million? 12 million? 11 million? One or the other. I don't remember what it was12 million, $11 million. Right in between. One or the other. I don't remember what it was.

Turn down offers, I guess, in between $14 million to $15 million a year for multiple years elsewhere. Who was that? Would like to know that from Ian Rappaport. To go back to Cleveland, had nine sacks last year. Not bad. Quietly played 14 games, was healthy. He's back in Cleveland, a game wrecker who doesn't always necessarily show up on the stat sheet.

And maybe some people say, is every single play his best play? But obviously the Cleveland Browns say our team was better with this guy on it. They pay him over $10 million to join them back on a one-year deal. Good for Clowney, good for the Browns. We'll talk to Rappaport about that

and anything else going on in the NFL world. Then Sean Schwanio. Here we go. In a second hour, senior NBA insider for the Athletic and Stadium. Is Jimmy Butler hurt? Oh, no. What's going on? Hey, NBA finals, everybody okay?

What's going on with the Lakers' head coaching job? Schwan said, nah, I don't want it. I'd rather go back to Michigan so I can slap other college coaches. And he said he didn't want the job. JJ Redick on ESPN this morning said, Lakers not that good of a job, really. What? And LeBron James on that team.

And I know he want to razzie, okay? Because Space Jam, LeBron James, whatever, was not as good as the original. But still a pretty good story. Not bad. Not bad. Nice. Whatever the case is,

they're saying that's a bad team to go coach. They can't find a fucking coach. Winning time just wrapped up. Everybody's watching. You would think you'd want to get into that franchise, that program, that organization. Who knows what the hell's going on. Hopefully Shams will be able to tell us. A.J. Hawk will join us.

His toxicity should be flowing after a long weekend over there in Ohio. Saw his son and Bobby Carpenter's son on the same soccer team. I assume they won. I assume that team is a little bit more son on the same soccer team. I assume they won. I assume that team is a little bit more physical than the other squads. We'll talk to AJ about life and everything going on in his world. Aaron Rodgers made an appearance on TNT last night chit-chatting about the match that is coming up. He and Tom Brady were in a side-by-side next to Charles Barkley, Kenny DeJet Smith, EJ, and Shaq chit-chatting about their match coming up.

Shaq and Shaq couldn't get-chatting about their match coming up. Shaq and Chuck couldn't get past the fact that they are infatuated with how good-looking Tom Brady is, and I can't blame them. I mean, I assume that a lot of babies, whenever they're born into the world, they're shown a picture of Tom Brady and say, hey, this is what you should fucking be trying to be half like. Best American football player of all time,

incredibly handsome, all the money in the world, and he's a good golfer, I guess, is what everybody says. So I understand that. Aaron looks to be in an incredible mood. Hadn't heard from Aaron in a while. I have not. The world has not. Tan looks good.

Hair is flowing. Chuck told him to get a fucking haircut. Love that. Chuck can say that, obviously. Aaron seems to be incredibly confident about his golf game, and he says he doesn't need to practice. Whoa. So what does AJ know about all that shit?

Is that a lie? Is that the truth? What's going on around the Aaron Rodgers saga? The people are talking about him not being at OTAs. He's not the only one. Tyler Murray, also not at OTAs in Arizona, and many other vets around the NFL not showing up at OTAs as much as they had in the past,

because I think everybody at this point is starting to realize this ain't fucking really worth a damn i mean it's great to be back around each other and build some camaraderie and if you have a new coach a new program a new scheme a new bunch of new guys maybe it's good to get in here before training camp although you're going to be around each other for 15 16 hours a day for like three four weeks straight you're going to learn a lot about people quickly in training camp maybe it's good to get scheme back but as we go on here it feels like veteran players are, you know, starting to stay away from the mandatory, the voluntary shit,

as opposed to in the past when they used to get publicly shamed into having to show up. Now, there's a lot of people on the internet that are like, it makes sense for him not to go. Just played football a couple months ago. Are they in shape or are they not in shape? I think the COVID thing really changed a lot of people because there was no OTA mandatory because nobody was supposed to be around each other

because it was killing people. Yeah, that's right. And your grandparents and everybody around you so stay away from each other. So then they didn't really start working until they got near training camp and everybody said, we're playing fucking great football.

It's going to be tough to go back to the old way. We shall see, but it's always going to be a conversation whenever people like Aaron, whenever people like Kyler don't go to these voluntary workouts. Will they be there for the mandatory ones? We shall see. Other than that, Justin Thomas is an absolute dog.

Dog. Down seven going into a Sunday of a major, and he fucking goes on a tear. Goes six under in his last 13 holes, counting the overtime holes, the extra aggregate scoring three holes this guy on the show two weeks ago says all eyes are on the next major all eyes are on pga championship i'm trying to figure out the right rhythm for me the reason why he played in the tournament two weeks ago was because in years past he had not played in the tournaments before majors and felt as if his best golf wasn't on Sunday and Saturday.

Turns out he was not great first couple days. Then 67-67, then fucking birdie, birdie par whenever he needed in overtime. This dude's a dog, just won $2.7 million, his second major. Congratulations. Hell yeah. Now, with how poorly he and Rory Look to be performing Going into Sunday And nobody at the top of the chart Really

With any resume There was a lot of takes coming out About how these dudes don't go out to kill their instinct ESPN actually wrote a fucking Kevin Van Valkenburg KVV Hey listen when KVV Starts talking about, you know, the mentality of golfers,

it's hard not to take Kevin Van Valkenburg's word for it. That's right. And we knew that the fucking Valkenburg, the Van Valkenburg. Oh, yeah. He's been the authority on golf a long time. A long time. He wrote, literally on saturday rory and justin were supposed to thrive in moments like this but they keep missing chances in big moments and it's become clear

they didn't inherit the vicious predator mentality of their mentor tiger a bit of conjecture that is starting to harden into fact whoa kvv and then down seven justin thomas would go in the fucking wind literally the next day saying kvv s my d pal what a fucking run for justin it was awesome to watch it was a great day to watch golf because he got very active very quickly mead i going to remember yesterday for the rest of his life. Maybe callous him up a little bit. He did do the interview. Seemed to get past it mentally and said, it's hard to imagine what the pressure of a major is like in your entire body.

And then on the 18th tee box, he just said, I'm going to go for this thing. And his whole body said, no, you're not. And then boom, JT comes in and strikes. He'll remember it forever. Hopefully he'll go on to win in the future. But congrats to JT and Will Zalatorre for putting on an absolute show. Now we turn to the boys, the toxic table,

that Ty Schmidt at Boston, Connor. Connor, how many days to NFL football? 107. Here we go, boys. We're right there. Do you not think, Ty, that Aaron Rodgers needs to be practicing great now with all of his teammates or he's going to

forget how to play football and they're going to stink Ty Schmidt? That is a conversation happening around the sports world right now. Well, I don't think he's thrown a pass before he showed up in Green Bay the last two seasons. He's won two MVPs, so I think he's doing something just fine. But we did kind of do the same thing. It was the Kentucky Derby photo

came out and everyone was like, Jesus, he looks small. He's losing weight. Is he going to retire? And then we saw him at the match. His calves were looking monstrous, and it's like, oh, okay, this guy is actually in tip-top shape. So that's kind of been the thing now for at least last year. I think it will be the barometer this year.

We'll see how he looks at the match. I'm sure he'll be looking great, and we kind of assess where we're at when he needs to get back on the field from there. So, you know, Aaron and AJ have inside jokes that they do on the show. Okay, and I'm the third person on screen. They're doing their little inside jokes. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Good one.

They do a lot of that. Oh, yeah. You know? But I try to remember them. I believe one of their inside jokes, and I don't know how, because it's A.J. Hawk that said it. Sure. Aaron doesn't throw a football, I don't think, all offseason. I think that's like something that they were talking about

because there were some people posted on Instagram they were throwing routes or running routes with somebody, and it was like highlight reel, and I think I overreacted to the highlight reel. And then A.J. like mocked Aaron and was like, hey, where's your highlight reel or whatever. And then I think A.J. like slid in there like, yeah, tell them you don't throw a ball until training camp.

So whenever we saw him playing against those high schoolers in that seven-on-seven, I think he was even mentioned again like, oh, he's throwing a football. I think he does take a long time away. And he said his arm has felt better than it's ever felt the last two years as he's won MVP going into training camp. Because the way OTAs are set up is you ramp into OTAs. You go all the way up to the mandatory mini camp at the end of it. It's like a three day mini camp at the end of your voluntary OTAs. And there's phase one, phase two, full go.

Then there's mandatory. And you ramp up like this. Everything's going like walk through, not even on the field. No balls allowed, not even allowed to be together. So like, OK, allowed to be together with balls, but only allowed this amount of time. Then it's full go, here we go, running routes, one-on-ones and everything. And then there's a month break with nothing.

Yeah. Nice. Then training camp is like right back in there and it's like day one. So Aaron talked about how with the schedule of just ramping all the way up into training camp, into the season, his body responded much better than the OTAs ramping all the way up into training camp into the season his body responded much better than the OTAs ramping all the way up and then down for a month and then all the way back up because you're basically extending the season another month

and a half longer than it has to be it's kind of how he viewed it and talked about it with his his arm let's assume a lot of guys are feeling that way about their ankles their knees the routes that they're running. The old school people are going to hate this, but I think it's only a matter of time before it's basically just rookies, undrafted free agents, and people that are new that are going to these or people that live in the city and the vets that are the pillar of the culture stuff, but I think there's going to be more and more people missing these

voluntary workouts than there ever has been in the past. I assume. And who cares? Yeah. If they stink, they're going to lose their job. Right. So go to OTAs if you think it's going to make you better. But if they're good, who cares what's going on in the OTAs and the voluntary?

And I feel like past generations, maybe clubs and coaches and stuff, used this meeting time here in May, June, just to make sure that guys hadn't put 40 pounds on since the season was over like just to hold them accountable to stay in shape all year long but like these the generation now like you've said it a bunch of times they use the the working out like basically as content and they worry about their bodies so much now that you don't need to check it in them every two months to make sure that they aren't letting themselves go and shit like that yeah because i mean i showed up at those off-season workouts like you know 260 yeah have a good time yeah i was having a great time what are you gonna do okay i need to be here i need a little structure all right for the next couple weeks

also i mean how many times can you just fly to a random city get boozed up and then come back home and fly to another city get boozed up so it's nice that there's actually something to do. I get to go to the facility. I get to see some of my friends. I get to chit-chat. And there's a little bit of structure. So for me, I enjoyed it. But for some of these guys, now granted,

I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. If I was from San Diego or anywhere that has warm, perfect weather during the offseason, you could see that guys would be like, hey, Green Bay's awesome. But also, there's really talented guys out here. The ocean's here. Florida. My home's here.

Yeah, Florida guys. Yeah. See, that's the interesting thing because I assume Kyler's there full time. So him not going to the voluntary stuff and he's in town is worthy of a conversation like, how are they? Maybe he's just training with his people though. Maybe also he's putting,

nope, I'm not part of FaZe Clan. Yeah, we're out. Matt Hasselbeck's part of FaZe Clan. Yeah. I love Matt Hasselbeck, so I will support FaZe Clan. Okay. Matt Hasselbeck's part of FaZe Clan.

Corbett. That video I saw, I can't, it was tough for me to take it serious. Uh-huh. What was it? What was it? Bill, what was that video I saw of Fa't It was tough for me To take it serious What was it What was it Bill What was that video

I saw of FaZe Clan It was my first time It was when Hasselbeck Was on FaZe Clan NFL introductions They posted on their Instagram Oh

It was hard Yeah It was hard After seeing that I was like Okay Maybe I do Open up my eyes

To another team Yeah You know On on the internet. On the eSports. But they did take our guy Hasselbeck on the squad, so maybe I should like them even more. Well, we'll see. I mean, I wouldn't close the book on your fandom just yet.

You know, someone might come calling. I'm starting to get into, hey. Was it the flag football game? Yeah. That video is tough for me to take. Is there another eGaming team we even know about? Huntsman. Wake up.

Who's the Optics squad? Yeah, Scum. Scum is a team? No, with a P on the end. Scum. I was about to say, if Scum's just walking around my name's Scum. I got mad respect for old buddy's fucking confidence. I was about to say, if Scum's just walking around, my name's Scum. I got mad

respect for old buddy's fucking confidence. I had a friend play in the NFL. Guy went to Pitt. My name's Greasy. Hey, my name's Greasy. I feel like I know exactly what to expect.

And by the way, Greasy, legend of a human being. Great football player. Hilarious conversation. Pretty good drinker. I love Greasy. know exactly what to expect yeah and by the way greasy legend of a human being a great football player hilarious conversation pretty good drinker oh i love greasy uh-huh but i think i loved him immediately upon hearing the fact he calls himself crazy and introduces himself as crazy it's like okay this guy has come to full understanding who he is what people expect and he's owning it that's why if old buddy's calling himself scum he's like yeah that's what i am yeah and he's owning it. That's why if old buddy's calling himself scum, he's like, yeah, that's what I am. And he's fucking better than everybody else at the game. I can't help but respect him.

Get on that guy. Be a dog. That FaZe Clan video was tough, though. Oh, yeah. Both sides. But I don't think we were supposed to be the, we weren't the demographic. No, no, no, no.

Joining us now is probably the demographic. A man almost went on the IR because he boozes so much. He drinks in public. He drinks at home. He drinks at home. He drinks around his wife and his wife almost took out his fucking teeth

as he was boozing and throwing the beer back. Joining us, senior NFL insider for the NFL and NFL.com. Host of the weekly wrap-up with Rap Sheet and Friends.

Us being the friends. He being Rap Sheet. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapoport. Get in here, Rap Sheet! How's that tooth going, Paul? You still got the Novocaine shot in the mouth? No Novocaine, but they did kind of like fill it a little bit.

So it was just, it wasn't crooked, but it was a little piece missing. So they had to go in, no Novocaine, just kind of like fix it up, add it a little bit to the tooth and said this could last two days or two years. If it lasts, cool. If not, we're going to have to shave off a part of your tooth and make them even. But, yeah, my lovely wife really with the MVP move on Thursday, breaking my tooth. Well, shout out to your wife, man. And shout out to your tooth.

By the way, surviving more than two days, clearly. So, the low expectation of return there. End expectation. Who knows? We're happy you're okay.

Is this a sign, though, maybe? Stop boozing? No. Payback for the driveway? No. No,

I mean, I would say, no, look, I think this is a sign that my wife should not elbow me in the mouth when I'm taking a sip

of a Modelo. I don't like a Volvo. Why? Why? Why? Ice cold Modelo. And the crazy thing is, like, it was so, you know, I don't want to speak too much of my lovely wife, who is no doubt not listening. Sometimes she sometimes she does listen, but not I'm sure not today.

She she elbowed me and was like you're right yeah okay and that was it and never one time said to me like hey your tooth is kind of there's part of it missing and maybe on the floor or like we just went and i was i was fine i went to the bathroom like like lee did you see this she goes oh it looks you can't even tell and that was it that's awesome nobody said anything until when I woke up the next morning. I'm like, yeah, we're going to have to get this fixed. Well, I think the amazing thing is this is like when somebody gets hurt outside of the NFL practice facility, like you want to,

you have to power through until you get to the facility. Then you got hurt on the first rep there. Your wife was hoping something else would happen with your face. And then she, well, it turns out you shouldn't have ran into the wall when you were all boozed up. You spread your tooth. So I respect that move from the wife. And by the way, good on you, too, just buying into the booze back then. Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean? Just buying all the way in. Your liver is one of the most impressive that our human species has, I think, at this point. Yeah, I mean, I would agree with that. But look, you've got to be up front with who you are. And I am someone who, the things I like are very simple. I like golf. What?

I like my family. What? Not necessarily in that order. I like to have a drink or two. Five or three. Eight, ten. Five. There's a tooth.

What? They run into a wall. I think that's really it. I mean, I've heard other things. I just can't think of them. Pez. Harry Potter.

Yeah. Peloton. I do like to Peloton sometimes. What about your job, dude? Oh, yeah. My job? No, I like that, too. You're terrible, Carson.

We're happy that you... Hey, thank you for you know being who you are that's right you just tweeted um that debo samuel has not uh attended the 49ers otas which is voluntary at this point not a surprise as the situation remains unsettled kyler murray also being reported as somebody that didn't show up at the voluntary OTAs. Back in the day, the voluntary OTAs felt like they were mandatory because you'd be publicly shamed if you didn't go. Now it feels like more vets are opting out of going and using their own personal workout people. But now whenever there's a contract situation happening, it is worthy of a

convo. Do you think Debo and the Niners are in good terms and they're going to figure it out? And do you think Kyler and Arizona are in good terms and are going to figure it out? Or should we read into this much more than really all that matters? All right, let's start with the Kyler thing. They're both pretty interesting, but let's start with the Kyler thing. I think they are fine. I think they are on the same page. I think they are moving forward together. He's going to be there. He's going to be the Cardinals quarterback this year. He's going to play probably great. And I would imagine they're going to probably do what they've done the last three years,

which is take a little bit of a step forward and be a little bit of a better team than they were last year when they were also, especially for the beginning part of the season, very good. They just aren't there yet when it comes to a contract. And I think this summer is probably a better uh timetable as far as when it might get done so he's obviously not going to show up anyone with a contract unsettled is not going to put himself in harm's way he has to go to mandatory though right that neither he has to go to minicamp at the end of this whole thing he'll be at mandatory i'm sure i think i shouldn't say i'm sure i think think. How much he'll do, I don't know.

Again, like, I'm sure what players have done, and you're right, like this used to be a bigger deal. Now, I mean, I don't think anybody really cares that much, except if it's not being there for a reason. I'm not sure how much he'll actually do during minicamp, but my guess is he would probably not like to get fined, so I assume he'll be there. I'm not saying you, but do you think it used to be a bigger deal

because all media outlets used to shame every single player if they didn't go to OTS? Yes. Yes. No, I mean. This guy hates the team, hates the city, getting paid this amount of money, won't come to this. Yeah, but it's voluntary.

Doesn't matter. This person's going. Like, that used to be the coverage of it matter this person's go like that used to be the coverage of it all like literally used to be the coverage of it yeah and and i mean it was definitely some of our fault and i'm i mean it's not like i'm blameless i'm sure i've done it talk about how like you know a player really needs the reps in the spring like okay no they don't no no some players used to think yeah yeah. What's that? Some players need that shit, I think. I don't want to tape it off as no players need to be at OTAs,

but I think some guys have earned the right to be like, I'm actually going to stay at home and train with my person. Is there a new offense? No. Is there a new football? No. Is there a new field? No.

All right, so you guys have to manage those. I think some people can do that, not everybody, though. And what were you about to say about teams and coaches? No, and I think coaches used to think this was a much bigger deal, too, because we all grew up and sort of were trained on the mindset of, like, everything the team wants you to do, you do. You show up all the time. You practice as hard as you can all the time.

And if you're not, then you're as hard as you can all the time and if you're not then you're not doing everything you can for the team and then something kind of happened in the last five years we all realized athletes not only have a voice which they do but also are humans you have joey bosa who is a baller who likes to train by himself and then be awesome. Like, okay. Train by yourself. Or like your quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. He doesn't like to do a lot during OTAs. He doesn't like to throw a ton during the spring. Whatever. We'll probably

be fine in September. Well, Matt Ryan, currently, technically kind of my quarterback, but this show's quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. He said that whenever the um covid changed the otas he said his arm felt better than it had ever felt before because the the natural build of otas is like this and then you get like a month off and then you're right back in the training

camp again so he felt as if the build when covid got rid of otas and they had the extended training camp and it was a full ramp up period period, he said his arm felt better. And I think a lot of people echoed his sentiments that were kind of OGs with their knees or hips. They're like, this is much better than the full, hey, we're going to go full go and then probably get boozed up for like two weeks, and then we're going to try to get back in and then do it. So who knows?

All right, let's move to Debo, though. Debo, he's not going because contract situation. Are they in good terms? Are they going to figure that out? Because it sounds like Kittle chatted with Debo last week. They didn't talk business or anything, but they have a great relationship. Kittle complimented him immensely. Sounds like you all think that the Niners are going

to get it figured out with him on their time. Is that still how you feel or what's going to happen with Debo? And what is what is Torrey Dondy thinking about it all now at this point? Well, I would say I think they can get it settled. I don't believe it is settled right now. And there's a lot of work that has to be done. Like this is when a player asks for a trade, basically says he does not want to be there

and has nothing to do with the contract. Because remember, he basically told them, don't offer me a contract. I'm not going to take it. I want to be traded. There is some work that has to get done. Kyle Shanahan is very charismatic and also very good at making sure football players are good at their jobs, right? He's a great play designer, and he has helped devo samuel become like the dynamic weapon he has been so i think they could get it worked out but they are not

there yet and it has more to do with just contract like i think the fact that the 49ers drafted a running back in the mid rounds i believe third round if i remember correctly um was actually valuable and important because then he doesn't have to be used as a running back as much as maybe he was last year that is probably an important part of this along with other things like contract and whatever else he wouldn't mind being a running back if they would just pay him for it as well right i don't think so i think it's more career longevity like and you know running backs it hurts you get injured all the time you have short careers like you see the contracts of running backs like it's different

you're as a receiver those guys are getting paid like nothing we've ever seen and you can play into your 30s as a receiver fascinating so i just assumed that if they would pay him for you know top dollar wide receiver with a bonus running back thing on top of that for however many snaps, that he would be cool with it. But I guess he's thinking like eight, ten years into the future, he'd like to continue to just be able to do his thing like we're seeing Devontae be able to do and others. All right.

Fascinating. Hope it all gets worked out, by the way. Will he be at mandatory? He would be at minicamp then, or you're thinking? That one I do not know. You know, you can do a couple different ways. You can do the hold in. You can do the hamstring pull, the back, the migraines.

Or you can make a bigger statement and say, I'm not going to show up. Find me. And then, you know, usually if you get a contract, they kind of erase the fines. And that is a possibility. you get a contract, they kind of erase the fines. And that is a possibility. If he's there for minicamp, then there's probably a good chance the team will pull him aside and try to talk to him and try to work this out in person. So I think if he's there, this could go a long way to fixing this.

But I don't know for sure if he's going to be there. All right. We appreciate that. Before the boys have their questions, we may or may not have a source okay that's telling us that a combine vote is in the coming days you know this is a big deal for indianapolis is that something you're hearing or knowing is there any important combine votes taking place over the next let's say 48 hours about where the combine will be housed in the future? I would say, so I'm in Atlanta right now.

I'm in the Delta Sky Club awkwardly hiding behind the wall talking to you guys. First class. People are walking by going to the bathroom over there. It's kind of weird, but it's fine. It's not the weirdest place I've sat and done this. Generally, league business is settled at league meetings. There's going to be a couple things that are going to come out of this. There's actually a really cool program the league's doing to help diverse minority coaches and GMs get hired, but that's a whole different thing.

It wouldn't make sense for the timing if a combine vote was taken, let's say tomorrow sometime. I'll be on the lookout for that. And I thought, you know, so I think the combine is going to be in Indy next year. And I thought going into this whole thing, Oh, it's just going to be in Dallas or it's just going to be in L.A. I'm not so sure anybody wants it as bad as Indy does. And Indy does a really good job.

So I don't know. I could see it back in Indy for a little bit. We'll see what happens during the vote, but I could see that happening. Well, you know, it's perfect. It really is. Wonderful city. City's perfect for it. It's literally built for it. You know, it's perfect. It really is. Wonderful city. City's perfect for it. It's literally built for it.

You know, everything's connected. All the hotels are ready and hospitable because there's something that happens here every single year where like 200,000 people travel from outside the city to come enjoy something. And then all the bars and restaurants are just like, come on in. Coaches and players already have their coaches no, coaches and GMs and owners, they already know where to go. The routine. Rap, everywhere you go, they're like, all right, let's get a couple more bottles.

Yeah, that's right. Boozebags coming through. Minimal bums. Keep it – That's true. There's a lot less bums in Tennessee from what I heard. That's right. And I don't know if they're – that's a while of time yeah by the way they found the clause i guess they figured out

public camping not happening in this city any or this state anymore that's wild yeah that's a wild move by tennessee that's happening did you hear this and how come that stadium is such a dump are they going to change that stadium down there in Nashville? I think that would be another thing, actually, that could have some news. We'll see if we have some news on that. I think it will be probably tomorrow. Generally, stadium news also gets handled here. I saw that they want a lot of public money. There's been a lot of discussion about how much NFL teams have gotten public money.

The bills were sort of the latest. about how much NFL teams have gotten public money. The bills were sort of the latest, but I think a lot of times cities feel like they sort of have to. But yeah, I think we'll get a little bit of news on that. Well, I believe the NFL brings a lot of value to every single city. That should be something that is talked about, and I believe that is actual business where you can see the actual numbers.

But I can see how some people who maybe aren't sports people who are in a position of power somewhere wouldn't mind grandstanding on how much money are we giving said billionaire who owns a team to run company. And that's obviously always going to be a fine balance. But the NFL brings value to your city. Let's never ever forget it. Let's never ever forget it. Go ahead, Ty Schmidt. Rap Sheet, how long did it take for this whole clowny going back to the

Browns deal to happen? And also, who were the other teams who reportedly offered him more money and a longer contract? Do you know? I know at least one. I will not mention it. Why not? I know, but it took forever. I mean, literally forever. I will not mention it. Why not?

I know. But it took forever. I mean, literally forever. I got word Wednesday afternoon that this deal was about done. It was like, but hang on. Some things got to get finalized. And Clowney, you know, he's a great player. He's a very good player. He is his own man. He signs one-year deals, it seems, every year.

Here we go. What about a Colts news? What? My buddy Mike Garofalo is reporting that Foles is done to the Colts. one-year deals it seems every year oh here we go what about a colts news what whoa my buddy mike garofalo is reporting that foals is done to the colts you learn from matt ryan and you know something happens to matt ryan not that matt ryan has ever been injury prone in his entire life but if big richard nick foals and frank reich can dial up that magic they had in philadelphia that would be fantastic a lot of people were talking about getting big richard

here in indianapolis a year ago when big richard was cutting promos at press conferences when he was qb3 and he was saying hey you put me back with frank reich you know what i did super bowl philly philly how's everybody doing eat Eat shit, basically. Now he's in Indy alongside Navy SEAL and astronaut, Jim Irsay's words, Matt Ryan. So let's go, Indy. That's great news. Hey, thank you, Gary, for all of this information. How much is he paying him?

How much are we paying him? How much? So he's got four guaranteed already from the Bears, I believe. Thank you, Chicago. So unless they're going to pay him more, my guess is it's probably just a low deal for this year and let the Bears pay off the check. But that's what I would –

First glance would be let the Bears pay all of it and just low deal. Thanks, Poles. Appreciate you, Poles. No, no, no. That's a Ryan Pace situation. We're placing blame on the previous receiver. Oh, you got good in, huh, with Poles? Sounds like it.

You and Poles are pretty tight. That's what it sounds like. He's a bright young GM. This is kind of what Florio did whenever AQ's roommate from 15 years ago said something must be an aq shipley now everything that comes from you we're like oh polls yeah polls directly with ian rap this is great news hey good for the nfl hey i like the polls hitch's wagon to you though i think you're a good wagon to get going with you

know is that kind of a thing i would say if he has done that it would be a great thing especially for me um and i would say i would recommend all young gms or old gms do the same it's beneficial again mostly for me how's that yeah definitely for you certainly for you but also for them at this point you're already established so this career is going to happen how How does that work out? Because we know some insiders have better relationships at some places, and when we hear somebody report something, we're like, oh, they've been accurate in the past. Are you just building these relationships since they're young assistant coaches and scouts, and that's why you come to Indy and just buy everybody booze, and then when your horse gets a general manager job, you're like, yeah yeah is that kind of how the insider game goes um yeah yeah i would say that's i mean like

some of what i do so then you guys are reporting that you're people there you go some of what i do is a little bit of like talent scouting right like you try to identify who are the good young coaches who are the good young gms who's going to be successful and and sometimes it's just people like who do i want to meet like who's good and who are so i like one of them just this one kind of stands out probably five years ago i flew to minnesota to talk to kevin stefanski who's a quarterback's coach and it was just during training camp, and he had blasted at every regime, and apparently he was a really good guy and a good coach, and every regime had kept him.

And I'm like, all right, something is obviously good with this guy where everybody keeps him when usually everyone just gets fired. We chatted on the field. He's a nice guy. We talked. We kind of stayed in touch. And I'm not saying he's head coach of the browns because of that conversation never know um but like that's kind of what you try to do is

like here are the people who are gonna really make an impact you try to meet them on the way up and look if they some stevansky doesn't but some do some then maybe they toss you a story here and there like i'm not gonna turn it down. That would be rude, you know? Yeah, because who would you be, you know, to let some other person maybe get the story that was presented to you first?

You'd be a fucking loser and a clown. You wouldn't want to do that. I don't want that. No, so that's why all the booths. He's losing with everybody. You're out here. What's that?

Well, man. Is that working? Home Alone, you know, with the video, you filthy animal, you're on the way to town, smooching everybody. That's basically what Ian Rapport's doing. He's smooching everybody. Who's going to get into a position of power?

By the way, Ian, we appreciate all your smooching. Yeah. Good smooching, pal. You know, there's big issues out of the town that you used to cover directly at Boston Corner. Your question for Rappaport. Yeah, Rapshie, we got 107 days till NFL football, so no one's going to know who the OC is for another 110 days on opening Sunday. Aside from that, do you think Mac Jones will have a little bit more say in the offense?

And is there a chance Bill Belichick just says, fuck it, I'm calling the offense? Is there a chance Bill Belichick just says, fuck it, I'm calling the offense? Is there a chance? I would say, will he 100% call every offensive play as if he's the coordinator? I'm not so sure it would be like that. But the thing that's amazing with Belichick, I mean, there's a lot of things. So everyone's talking about who's going to be the – and I don't think there will be an OC in title.

I would assume there's not going to be. But there will be someone who's sort of charged with saying the play calls to the quarterback. Is that Joe Judge because he's sort of going to work with some quarterbacks? Is that Patricia? Is it someone else? Is it Nick Caley, the tight ends coach? I don't 100% know. The fact that Joe Judge is working with quarterbacks probably puts him in a fine position to be the guy literally saying it.

But Belichick at various times has taken a much more heavy hand in whatever needs it. Some years, young defensive coordinator, he kind of oversees that. Sometimes, you know, like Josh McDaniels is a young quarterbacks coach. Belichick, okay, takes a heavy hand in the offense. Belichick will be very, very involved, making sure that it's all run as it should. So, like, you know, people will be like, oh, what are the that it's all run as it should. People will be like, what are the Patriots going to do? Are they going to be okay?

They're going to be okay. They're always okay, and they'll always be fine. Dan Orlovsky said it's a bad idea. Rebuttal? Who am I to argue with Dan Orlovsky, who I really like, by the way? I think it's... We do this every year, where the Patriots

do something and everyone's like, can you believe that they don't have numbers on the back of their jerseys or they don't have coaches with titles

or they took this defensive back from Rutgers in the first round. Literally everything and they're always pretty good or maybe really good.

Yeah, but Rutgers, I mean, not the proper school to use there, right? You should have said like Northern Southwestern Idaho University. I mean, or they took a guard named Cole Strange that most people hadn't heard of. Well, we learned about him quickly from his senior bowl. He's fucking sick. He's so good at being named and looking jacked.

Having a cool face mask. Cool face mask with the single bar. Did he have a cool face mask? Yeah. Can't block. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's what everybody's saying. You would think, though,

Bill Belichick would understand a good offensive lineman and a bad offensive lineman and why he would draft him. But the senior bowl clips that we're seeing, that guy cannot put his body in between another person's body and a he would draft it. But the senior bowl clips that we're seeing, that guy cannot put his body in between another person's body and a quarterback.

Speed bump. Which I think is a big part of blocking, but I got faith in Bill Belichick. I got nothing but faith in Bill Belichick. I hope Matt Jones takes another step. I believe Tom E. Curran will be chatting with Matt Jones today after practice. I'm pretty sure. So we'll get more out of this

entire saga, or we'll get nothing because another great trade of Bill Belichick is telling everybody what they can say and what they can't say publicly because we ain't giving nobody fucking nothing. Go ahead, Tony Diggs. Yeah, Ian, this is Kevin Colbert's last week on the job. Thank you, Kevin. Hey, hell of a run.

Thank you, Kevin. So can we expect an announcement this week from the Steelers who the next GM is going to be? Have you been talent scouting in that organization, kind of trying to predict who that GM is going to be? Anyone you think it's going to be? I would say there is a chance we get something this week. The timing makes sense.

And the Steelers always seem to do everything proper, I guess, is maybe not the right word, but kind of as it should be. So Colbert finishes up. They have a successor. He's very involved in who the successor is going to be. Although I think it sounds like Mike Tomlin is going to be, like, not final say because that's ownership, but Tomlin has also been extremely involved in who he's going to work hand in hand with. They have several, had several second interviews over the last six candidates over the last couple of weeks. In-house, Brandon Hunt and Omar Khan are the two. You know, Omar Khan has kind of been the one people thought would be the heir apparent.

But usually the Steelers have a scout at the top. So it'll be interesting to see if they go kind of against what they've always done. One thing we probably know is that whoever has the job is going to have it for a very long time because they have stability like I would say most teams would. I don't know if that's true. You hear me? Which one?

The stability thing. They had stability because everybody they've hired has been a home run, but like the Colts have had stability at the quarterback position for like 25 years. And then, boom! New one, new one, new one, new one, new one. I think you're one bad hire away from not having stability anymore. Except Tomlin's there.

He's had some teams where I look at him and I'm like, I cannot believe this team is 9-7. Why is this guy burying Duck Hodges? You think Duck Hodges isn't a good football player? He's a champion duck caller. Can you name what team Duck Hodges was just on? I believe it was a USF. The Red Blacks!

Jesus. Oh, my God. Fucking Ottawa. Ottawa Red Blacks. Going on. Jesus. CFL, Rapsy. Fucking Ottawa. Ottawa Red Blacks. Going after the Grey Cup. How? Because we work every day. We champion the sport.

Yeah, we're stewards. We're champions of stewarding football. Big up. That is what we are. And while you're out there golfing and boozing and losing your teeth, we're out here cutting our teeth. Yeah. Learning everything we can about the sport.

And quack, quack, playoff quarterback Duck Hodges is chasing a great cup of fur with the boys and launching a podcast, I believe, right now. Red Hawks? What is the team? And he has officially retired from football. No, regret. And by the way,

we would like to officially celebrate his career. Thank you, Doug. Now, he did not deserve the shot that you just took at him. Not at all. Whenever you're talking about it. What? No, I did not take a shot at him. That was our exact record, I think, whenever Doug was on the team.

Yeah, it was. You were talking exactly about Doug Hodges whenever you spoke there. Seems fair. You weren't talk about Ben no way is he coming back Ben Roethlisberger's Ben Roethlisberger coming back oh see I know all this burgers no see I did see the thing about him having did you see this the report that he had bad blood with the Steelers yeah well that was Jerry Dulac yeah he was responding to boner garage six Jerry Dulac yeah Jerry Dulac go ahead and dumped some gas and was just like,

come on, come on, come on. Come on, come on, come on. Let me get this thing going. And then he went on with the super genius, Mark Madden, and said, ain't no bad blood. Literally 12 hours after you wrote it. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that's, you know, Jerry Dulac having a Jerry Dulac day. Any other news about to come out of the NFL that we need to know about? And are you working currently down there at the league meetings? Yes. I'll be working. I think a lot of the – I'm not getting paged. When I was in – yeah, we get the point. When I was in Vegas, my name got paged on the loudspeaker.

It was truly a great moment. Who, Vic did? Yeah. And then did he? Did you guys see him, like, fucking shake? No, that actually is what I expected, because I thought he would be, like, jogging through the airport, except when he jogs, it's faster than most people jog,

but I did not see him. No, I think what a lot of the focus will be on is the NFL Accelerator Program for young coaches and GM candidates of color, minorities, to come to Atlanta. I'll be working at a league meeting to meet the owners, get in a room, familiarize themselves with some of these decision makers, and hopefully do a better job as a league of hiring really talented people who happen to be minorities. So that's kind of the focus I would say in the next couple of days.

Okay, that's awesome news. Sounds like that's going to be great for the NFL as a whole and the future of the NFL. Speaking of the future of the NFL, is Dan Snyder getting voted out? And is this because Papa John came out and said that Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones wanted him to go run Roger Goodell out of the NFL and Roger Goodell said, oh, is that right, Dan? I've been protecting you.

Let's do a vote. And then they said if 24 owners vote to pass this, then they can kind of move on. Is that happening at that meeting? And will Dan Snyder give a full presentation on why they shouldn't kick him out of the fucking club? Or how does that go? I don't think it will be a presentation here, but I'm sure

that this issue will be discussed. And you know, like a lot of times what happens at these meetings is they have the agenda, which is discussed in the room. And then they have the good stuff, which is discussed in the hallways, kind of outside the meeting and like privileged sessions with these owners. I mean, I saw the report. I, I have no reason to think it's not credible. So I would imagine this is going to be a topic. And Roger Goodell has a press conference generally at these league meetings. I am sure he will be asked about it. You know, and I don't think it has to do with the Papa John's guy.

But the allegations, you know, against Dan Snyder were in the emails. I emails, it was all pretty serious. The league was not happy. It does take 24 votes. I don't believe we've seen that yet, but theoretically it could happen. But yeah, I'm sure this will be one of the topics that is discussed down here. So everybody have their head down and then they'll do a thumbs up thing? Like yay or nay? Or how do they?

I mean, I would think it would be. Is it? Oh, yeah. The tribe has spoken and you're fucking hot? How does it work? Maybe there's like a, you hold up a placard like you're in a, like you're bidding in an auction.

I don't know. Maybe you stand up like in Congress and you say yay or nay. It's unprecedented. I don't know. Maybe you stand up like in Congress and you say yay or nay. It's unprecedented. That'd be awesome. Jim Hersey just got done buying Kurt Cobain's Teen Spirit guitar. He's like, I have nothing but good vibes until this. Fuck them. I vote yeah. See ya.

Is it yes or no? Are we no for him supposed to be here or yes to get him the fuck out of here? Because I'm with both of those. Then they sit back down. That would be pretty... this is a multi-billion dollar decision i assume dan snyder if we know anything about dan snyder he's not going to go down quiet no he's a cockroach he cannot die he will survive uh we appreciate you uh for taking the time in the middle of your yuppie club down there flying first class as you deserve it and for reporting everything going on around the NFL. We appreciate you, Ian.

All right. I appreciate you guys, and thank you for your concern about my personal well-being. Well, just put the bottle down. Come on, God. Not during the weekdays. You know what I mean? Maybe don't lose a tooth while boozing.

Put you on IR. Again, totally my wife's fault, but thank you. Don't tell her I said that. Well, you just said it. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Ruff. Joining us now

is a man who, you know, doesn't look like he's moving in mud whenever he's moving. Because although he has zero cartilage in either of his knees,

he could still run a 4.5 if he had to. I know the fan craze football league has T.O. in it and Michael Vick was in it, then Michael Vick disputed those claims and everything like that. But the guy that joins us every single day

for the second and third hour of this show could definitely go play in the fine-controlled football league if he wanted to. His head is still the same size, still the same depth, still the same hardness. Ladies and gentlemen, the thickest bones in the history of bones, the greatest jawline

in all of sport, college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup champion, COVID survivor, Aaron James Hawk. What's up, dude? Hey, happy Victoria Day, guys, especially you, Goomp. Well, Goomp didn't know what happened. Thank you, AJ. I appreciate that. I like your, he has such great patriotism. Thank you, AJ. I appreciate that. I like your... Goomp, he has such

great patriotism towards his home country, so I appreciate that. Now, Goomp, did you know it was Victoria Day before Rob from Victoria called us to tell us about your hometown's holiday thing? Yeah, it's a long weekend for all the lads back home. Oh, okay. Celebrate it during the weekend, not during the day. It's like St. Patrick's Day. There you go.

Well, happy Victoria Day. Happy Victoria Day. I saw that your son played with Bobby Carpenter's son in There you go. Well, happy Victoria Day. Happy Victoria Day. I saw that your son played with Bobby Carpenter's son in a soccer tournament. Did you guys win that thing? And are you guys just, you know, is that like the Smash Brothers out there on the field? Yeah, he's played on Bobby's youngest son's

team all year. Yeah, they won yesterday. Their season concluded. They got a little medal, so they were juiced. So did they win the season standings with a win being three, a tie being one, a loss being zero? Is that what they won? They're pretty young, and it's just like their little school league, so I don't know if it goes that in-depth. But I believe, I don't know, they may have won every game. They may have lost one game, I think.

Okay, so they won the league standings, though. If there are league standings maybe they did so what the fuck did you just say did they have a tournament yesterday or no this is no not really no it's just that everything was like the conclusion yesterday so it's technically a tournament i guess but their season ended okay so league standings after the entire season your kids won you know who didn't? Liverpool. Liverpool. Thank you for helping me get there, AJ. Three times.

Jesus Christ. I should have known. I should have known that's where you're going because it's such a soccer program. I should have known you're going to Liverpool. Well, literally, you said it happened, and then I said, okay, this is actually a great thing. Is this what it is? No, don't corner me. I don't know. I don't know where you're going.

How am I supposed to know where you're going with this soccer thing? I was just asking you a question about what you had said. That's all I was trying to do, AJ. Okay. I apologize for being as threatening with my questions that you had to become super defensive. I'm saying there's no website. There's no one checking the standings for these five-

and six-year-olds playing soccer. But is that how they won? Is that what they won, though? Is it a fake win? Does everybody get a medal in this league? No, no, no. They got a medal. I don't think the other team did.

Okay. So they won their league standings. Yeah. Geez. One would just be chill. Congrats to them. I heard something crazy. What happened to Liverpool?

Yeah, okay. Thank you, AJ. This is a big-time soccer program. Soccer program. Yeah, that's it. So that was bananas, watching what was going on with Aston Villa, Man City, fucking Liverpool, and that Wolf squad or whoever the hell they were playing, with the crowd getting some fake news in the middle of it.

So Liverpool was going to win their third trophy of the season thus far with a fourth available this upcoming weekend i believe for the what are they playing for this weekend champions league so this weekend is the champions the championship of the champions league whoa this is the fourth tournament of the month that they're playing two months it feels like yeah but this past weekend was the entire season standings like the league standing standings. So it was not a tournament that could be decided. It was a playing against everybody getting points. And there was little to no chance Liverpool was going to be able to win this like two weeks ago.

The thought was that Man City started fucking up, fucking up, fucking up. And it came down to the final day, which I guess is probably a dream for the Premier League. Was that how it always is at the end of it? Because that was fucking electrifying, Gumpy, watching that on Saturday morning. I think Liverpool's lost three games in two seasons and haven't been able to win the league.

So Man City's just dominant? Man City is so good, dude. Damn. And it was like Villa was up 2-0. I think if Liverpool would have scored when Villa was up 2-0, I think that would have put more pressure on City. But once City scored one, I mean, there's no stopping them.

75 minutes into this thing, AJ, Liverpool needed Man City to lose. They're down two zip to Aston Villa right there. 75 minutes into a 90-minute game or 95, 96-minute game, whatever it is. Then they come marching back in five minutes, scored three goals. The entire soul from Liverpool gone, even though they score a goal. Because Liverpool need a Man City to lose. Liverpool needed a tie or win. They would end up winning the league.

It was awesome. They were kind of flashing back and forth. The Liverpool fans were getting information as the game was going on, like either on a Jumbotron or whatever, and would celebrate out of nowhere. And it was like, oh, Aston Villager scored again. It was great for soccer. Honestly, it was an incredible soccer morning there with nothing else on TV, AJ.

Well, the thing that I saw, and I don't know which team this would have been, was something that you tweeted about the dude scoring the goal when he faked 37 times and then did the little reach-around kick. What the hell was that? Yeah, that was awesome. I don't know what league that was in. They were certainly not speaking our language, but seven step.

That's not, that wasn't from what you're talking about. No, no, this is different. The soccer had a big weekend. Listen to this. The soccer had a big weekend. That's Balotelli. Who's a, I believe just one of the biggest showmen in the history of soccer. He'll do his thing.

Seven step overs. How you doing? Boom. And then a Rabona behind the leg kick to score a goal maybe the filthiest thing i've ever seen even to attempt that now follow up all that defender's gonna do is just lay down or just poke the ball out of the way but he's on his heels scared to death what a what a what an absolute beauty huh what? What league is that, Gumpy? Where is he playing? I think he's in Division 2 or 3 in France.

I'm not sure. That's kind of his thing, by the way. He does that all the time. How many soccer teams are there just in Europe alone? Six billion? Okay, AJ, is there more wheels, doors, or soccer teams in Europe? Dude, I have no idea. I started getting, what was the tournament last week that was being played since 1862?

And it was the most important one, and I'd never heard of it before. I literally thought to myself, AJ's right. This is fucking uncalled for. The FA Cup. Yeah, there it is. That one came out later. How is anyone supposed to keep up, though? If you, let's say you want to get into soccer and be a big soccer fan,

how in the world do you keep up with anything? Well, you've just got to be all invested in one team. There's 37 leagues, over 1,000 clubs. Shout out Zito. Just did the Googling there, I believe. But they all play for different teams depending on what time of the year it is, too. No, that's a national team. Okay, how many teams has Ronaldo been on the last 18 months?

Well, he was on. Was he on Barthelomew? No, he never went on Barthelomew. That's because Methy was on Barthelomew. He was on Ventus for years, and then he was on Man U. He transferred. Yeah, and he started on Man U. Don't, don't, like, don't.

Gump, your tone is terrible. You know that. We're just asking questions. Dude. What, players get traded in sports too, AJ? No, in soccer. They go on loan in soccer. They don't get traded. Wow. Wow. We're just asking questions. Players get traded in sports too, AJ. Not in soccer. They go on loan in soccer. They don't get traded. Wow. Wow. AJ, you've been following

the soccer, haven't you? Did you see what Ibrahimović did? He went to Serie A, wins the title, drinks from the cup, and says, fucking bonjour, gracias, ciao. Mbappé also got broken off this week. Mbappé was supposed bonjour, gracias, ciao. Or whatever the fuck it is. I miss that. Mbop also got broken off this week. Mbop was supposed to go to Barcelona

and all of a sudden said, nah, I'm staying at PSG with Methi around here. He lost 700,000 followers on Instagram when he stayed with PSG. How many? 700,000. They were real. Just quick before we dive into NFL news,

how do we get these fucking bots out of my comments on Instagram? What are they doing? What are they doing? They just quote emojis? Getting wet and juicy? Yeah. Oh, what do they say?

It's big wet butts come to life. I thought those were real. I click on those every time. No, I understand. You do that. I'm sure people do, but they're always like, why does everybody run to my story or to the bathroom but then there's people i've invested with jane for the

last and then they're giving away 5 000 i had to delete 23 comments this weekend when i posted something i'm like fuck it i'm not posting on this goddamn platform anymore i'll just go into fucking stories is how do, what is going on? Why does that happen? There's got to be some kind of program you can buy, right? To scrub all those bots? I would think. Hopefully.

I have no idea. I have no clue. No, because Zuck wants those bots to invade your page. He's not like Elon trying to get rid of all these fake accounts. He's saying, hey, flood the comments. Go ahead. He can say, look at the activity. This is how many users we have that are active, which is why Elon was like 5%, 20%.

That's quite a different fucking platform I just bought. Yeah, I'd say. Hey, is that going to happen now? It sucks. Sucks bots. So that. Yeah. Sucks.

But the bots aren't all Zuck suck bots, though. No. A lot of them. Majority. No. Really? On my shit, it's like. Wait, what?

Okay, hold on. What are the zuck suck bots trying to get you to do i guess you click on their uh i don't know everybody every one of the suck ones say basically come look at my story the other ones are the investor and this person made me this amount of money and i'm paying this amount of money to people like i get more of those than the suck ones the the z The suck bots are probably like three to four to five of them or whatever. Then there's like 10 of the investing with Jane. And she made me all this money.

And then there's a Bitcoin genius in there. Yeah. There's a giveaway. So you have more of a nuanced investing following than a suck off following. Well, I don't know if that's good or bad, but I would like to get rid of fucking all of them. Yeah. The suck bots, they get a lot of likes on their comments too so they're right up there immediately yeah 75 likes the post just went up how the fuck get the fuck out of here

people have you know their comments turned on just to see what the suck bots are doing no every once in a while one asshole follower of mine will respond to one of the bots like fuck off I feel bad how are they how are these bots in your comments how are they hurting you do this all people see I literally just put the video up less than four people love to look at comments though and read all your comments all right what you this guy you know I'm just saying like that's overrated like if that's what you're doing that's overrated you want to leave what you're doing that's overrated if you want to leave a comment cool you don't have to scroll through every single one comment sections are normally how

i believe instagram decides what's worth it and what's not worth it yet we're actually we're hoping for more commenters in everybody's instagram i believe absolutely but i am done with the the bots in mind i might have to take a break from Instagram. Wow. Getting off IG. Bro, I post something, and then at 25 minutes, I got to fuck get her off, get this fucking investor off. I don't care.

And then there's people coming in underneath other people's comments like, hey, you won my giveaway. And then I'm like, fuck, this one's scamming the people now. It's a nightmare experience on there. Does the talk have bots? talk as in tick oh fuck i would imagine i don't know if you're leaving ig where you go i'll just write back to twitter yeah right back to twitter which

i guess there's a bunch of suck a lot of socks on Is Elon going to buy it? Is it going to go through? I don't know. Everybody's bearing Elon for backing up, not wanting to spend that money, but if I thought I was getting, you know, 100% of a company for whatever,

and it was only like 80% or 75% of the company, I would assume I was like a repricing structure. Is that what's going on? I have no idea. I've not kept... That's what he said, right?

Didn't he put it on pause when he realized how many fake accounts are on there? Yep i need him to get over instagram because i fucking can't post anymore without all these goddamn bots let's move on um 18 minutes though an hour or two we still got it not bad let's go not bad tell the sub bots to come over to mine i'd love to see him no you do not you do not it is so annoying it is the worst some of the comments there some of them are witty you know do they respond what do you respond to the suck box will they come back to you no they are they are boom stick and move boom stick and move who's

running it one super bot is running all these bots? I assume there's a data center somewhere. Yeah, Suckbot AI. It's a terrible experience in there. Could be the AIs. Could be Bill. I spend more time deleting Billy McComas' Suckbots on my thing than actually post-bopping

shit. Yeah, it's the worst. Bill, stop bopping your shit to my comments. Come on, Bill. And if that is you, Bill, stop it. Yeah, reel it in. Suck stop bopping your shit to my comments come on dude and if that is you bill stop it yeah reel it in suck bots do it to connor yeah please all right let's move on anyways they need to fix that um i'm so mad about it right now. 24 fucking comments in a minute. Can't have it. And then the hidden comments, even more.

Oh, I can't imagine. But they're helping your account, though, technically. No, they're not. They're making it look worse. Comments are good. Interaction is good for your account. Yeah, but the first comment you see every time is the suck bots. It's not as if you have to scroll for it.

Connor, it sounds like if Connor wants those suck bots, I would imagine there's millions and millions of other people that want them as well. No, there isn't anybody that wants these suck bots other than fucking Connor. He just said it out loud. His phone heard him. It's going to happen.

Here we go. I guess this is what the future is. Welcome to the modern world. Suck bots all over the place. Fuck. It's the internet. I was in the Oculus this weekend. Which is dead, over the place. Fuck. It's the internet. I was in the Oculus this weekend. Which is dead, by the way.

I heard the Oculus is dead. Who released their own? Is it Apple's coming out with their own? I heard Oculus is done. What? What? No. I think Apple was releasing one.

Yeah, PlayStation is. You hear how happy he was to say that, too? Like, he was fucking. No, competition is great. It raises all of our levels. True. Hell sharpens iron just as man sharpens man they say in practice and everything if thrill of the fight is going to be offered on that other one i'll jump on that other one as well absolutely if it's going to be just as good as the one on oculus or better i'll get in there and if i if I can fight some other person on there

and they figure that out, that'll be great. If they bring back Fight Night, you ever fight back in the day? I don't. It was like the biggest boxing game when we were kids. I don't know. Mike Tyson punch out whenever I was a kid. Oh, yeah, before that.

But after, like a newer version. Fight Night? Yeah, incredible. One of the best games of all time. I don't want to do this. Moment of silence for Migos. If we're talking Fight Night. Oh, Incredible. One of the best games of all time. I don't want to do this. Moment of silence for Migos. If we're talking Fight Night. Oh, yeah.

They're dead. Yeah. More aim and everything. Well, they're still talking. Unk. One of them, that's Dayton Cardi B, unfollowed the other two. Oh, no. Offset.

And then the other two put out a banger, I guess. And the other one's not happy about it. They had a good run. They did. Honestly, changed the game. Now they're done, AJ guess. And the other one's not happy about it. They had a good run, honestly. Honestly, changed the game. Now they're done. AJ, stop following each other on Instagram. It's fucking over. Are the bots on them both or not? I don't know. Well, they're all going to go solo now, right?

No. Unk and Neff. And Quavo's on his own? No. He's Unk now. And then Takeoff, I think, is... Is with him. Yeah, the Prince or something. Three is tough, man.

Any group of three. Whether it's kids hanging out, adults, it's tough because usually two will split away. Yeah, because two probably have more interest than the other one, and then boom, it's over. See you later. They were amigos. No, they were just amigos.

There was no A. There was no A. Now Offset's all alone. But they were friends. They were friends, and, they were just amigos. There was no A. There was no A. Now Offset's all alone. But they were friends. They were friends, and they made great music together, and we should smile because it happened, not be upset because it's over. Amen. Thank you, amigos.

Thank you, amigos. We'll miss you. Here we are. Here we rock. Hard Knocks, in season. Last year made its debut with the Indianapolis Colts. And being announced 23 minutes ago, the Arizona Cardinals will now be the next home for Hard Knocks in season.

A lot of great storylines over there. Obviously, Cliff Kingsbury, cool dude. Steve Kime, GM, seems to be a cool dude. They bring in Hollywood Brown. They got D-Hop, A.J. Green. What's the Kyler Murray situation going to be? TBD, J.J. Watts over there. A walking, talking,

motivational speech happening over there. Buda Bakers of Stud. This is amazing. It'll also showcase the fifth largest city in America, one of the greatest cities on Earth, Phoenix and Scottsdale area, which I am excited about. It's a home run for NFL, right?

It's a team that's going to have shit to play for at that time, too. Hopefully they make the playoffs as opposed to the hard knocks curse that has happened with every single team they've done, including the in-season one of the Colts last year that lost to Clowntown and didn't make the playoffs. So the original hard knocks will be the Detroit Lions, right? Evie's Lions.

They'll take them up through training camp to the season. And when the season starts week one, are we going to be following the Cardinals already? November. Remember, it's like week six or something. I don't remember. November. What if something happens and at this point in the season,

they've only won three games or something? Well, that's kind of what happened with the Colts. The Colts were like one and five or something to start the season. Then the Colts turned it around. And then the Colts inevitably lose in the end in heartbreaking fashion. And we talked to NFL Films' Keith Cosrow, who was the overseer of Hard Knocks in-season Indianapolis Colts. I assume he's going to do the same for the Cardinals.

They were going to follow the Colts however far they go. So I assume that's the same deal with the Cardinals here. They'll follow them however far they go. That team, for the last few years, has had so much upside, so much hype. Last year, the D-hop injury fucking affected everything. This year, it's Kyler Murray's contract going to get figured out. If it does, what do they do now with Hollywood Brown in the building as well? That team has a lot of storylines.

I'm excited for this. I'm actually looking forward to this. November, so far away, but very excited about this decision. Yeah, for sure. And you mentioned it. Like Cliff Kingsbury, I'm really excited to just see him week in, week out. Nothing against Frank Wright, but he is just kind of so vanilla that it's like, I mean, you know. What's your fudging problem?

Yeah, bingo. Exactly. don't you be stinking slandering frank reich right now you hear me i'm not slandering him as a head coach i'm just saying i do not want to fucking watch him on a week-to-week basis in like an entertaining behind-the-scenes fashion i'd rather watch a guy like cliff kingsbury because i think he might bring a little bit more juice than frank reich did i wonder if they're going to have a full jib cam at Cliff Kingsbury's house with that shot from the draft. Have to.

With him just walking around. Maybe he draws on that glass like a beautiful mind. He's like connecting pieces over there. Is that what Cliff Kingsbury does behind the scenes? TBD, I guess, A.J. Hawk. I guess tune in in November and see if that's what happens. I can't wait to see what MCDC and the boys are like in training camp. That should be fun.

The Malloy practices with the Colts, too, so they'll be in time for a little bit. Oh. Hey, first day of pads with the Lions. Sorry to cut you off. First day of pads with the Lions on hard knocks. That will be an episode to see. How about first day of one-on-ones with the Colts? Ooh.

Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, it's going to be a massacre for a little bit before they have to back them up Yes there's going to be a conversation I wonder if we'll have Frank Reich And MCDC have like a meeting On Hard Knocks like tell the boys Enough okay we're not

The whistle stuff you know Because I mean if you're trying to institute A gnaw off a kneecap Style culture And you got Aiden Hutchinson in there and Anu, everything, and you're on hard knocks, and you're practicing against another team, a lot of high hopes, kind of nasty. I mean, Quentin Nelson, Ryan Kelly and the boys, I mean, they are,

hey, that's going to be a show. Pen-A Sewell, also a dog. He was going after Aaron Donald during the game last year. And Ngakwe's now here, a vet. Oh, here we go, during the game last year. And in Gawkways, now here open. Oh, here we go, huh? Let's go, Hard Knocks! The Cardinals, too. Everyone remembers Nuke with the Texans when

him and, I think it was D'Angelo Hall went up against each other. I'm you! Yeah, those are... Get your fucking hands off of me! He's the best. I am you, he said. He'll probably be back right for it, too. Oh, love it. Hopefully. Alright, let's transition out of the NFL and Hard Knocks being awesome again.

And let's talk about the association. Big weekend for the association, obviously. We got basketball happening, the Eastern Conference Finals and the Western Conference Finals. Who will go on to be the champion? Who's injured? Who's hurt? And why does nobody want to coach the Lakers? To tell us all

those answers and more, ladies and gentlemen, senior NBA insider for the stadium and the athletic, a man who had a New York Post article written about his hectic schedule, Shams Rahmanian. Pat, I'm glad I got the memo. Black on black on black. I like it. I like it. Well, you've been on the show 50 times This is how we dress every time I just got the memo this time Alright alright I'm happy we gave you a heads up I know you're very busy

I read it in the New York Post They said something about Your screen time being between And that's just looking At your screen They have those analytics And stats 17 to 19 hours a day

And then whenever it's Hectic time Up over 20 So you literally Don't sleep Can't sleep And are just staring at your phones at all times? I mean, listen, I think, Pat, I don't know what your screen time is. I feel like most people are anywhere 12, 13, 14, 15.

I don't think mine is that extreme. But it was good to see once that story came out that everyone was so concerned about my screen time and wanted to set me on dates and all that. So I'm open to inquiries, for sure. Married to the game. Married to the game. Focused on the scoops. I can respect it.

You got to start wearing those blue glasses, though. Yeah. Worried about your eyes. Be careful. Sean. I don't think you'll see me with glasses ever. I'm going to be rocking my contact lenses. Too handsome, he said.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sean. Okay. All right, let's dive into big news. I know AJ has a couple questions for you as well. The Lakers, Jawan Howard allegedly turned down any interest from Los Angeles to become their coach.

Is that because he wanted to smack other coaches in college? He has more to do at Michigan? Or does nobody want that job? JJ Redick said this morning on espn not a good job allegedly that's what he said i don't know that's what the internet was saying i didn't see the entire clip lebron james is still on that team nobody wants to coach it is that real or is that just a narrative that's being painted right now by everybody outside of it

no i mean i think the lakers are going through a process and and uh you know juwan howard he's coaching michigan he hasn't been a part of this process. They have three finalists. Darvin Hamm, Kenny Atkinson, Terry Stotts. I would expect all three guys to get in-person interviews in Los Angeles within the next week or so. At that point, they'll

start to narrow a decision. Who starts? Darvin Hamm, Bucs assistant was part of that championship staff last year with Mike Budenholzer. Terry Stotts nine year coach in Portland went to the playoffs eight different times

Stotts! As well as Kenny Atkinson former Brooklyn Nets coach was with the Clippers last year and this year he's with the Golden State Warriors who are bound to go to the NBA Finals. So those are the three finalists. Juwan Howard was never a finalist.

He's staying at Michigan. That was never really in question. So, Pat, I can't speak to that report, but what I would say is these three guys are the finalists. These three are the guys that will go to Los Angeles for the final round of interviews. I do think there is significant interest in the Lakers job, but again, it all comes down to fit. It all comes down to how does each coach see this roster? Who's going to be the right fit? And I

reported this on Friday. Increasingly, I'm starting to hear that they want a guy that can go in there and command a presence in the locker room, hold players accountable, and be really a face and a guy that players will listen to, have accountability, have a strict policy. And more and more people I speak to, that is Darvin Hamm. Those characteristics, that bodes well for Darvin Hamm's candidacy. We'll see how this next week or two plays out with those three guys going to Los Angeles for in-person meetings. But Doc Rivers, from everything I've been told, I've seen things here and there about his future with Philadelphia. He will, by all accounts, be back with the 76ers

and will be their head coach. So there's nothing there between him and the Lakers that I've heard. Maybe the Lakers should get Jerry West. He used to be a real fun guy. I saw it on winning time. Go ahead, AJ. Shams, are there any other former players in the league that are assistants right now that may become head coaches very soon?

I know Jason Kidd, Steve Kerr, great players in their own right, having success as coaches. Are there guys in the pipeline? Well, I think, honestly, the first guy that comes to mind, I was just at the NBA Draft Combine, AJ, this past week, and the one guy that I was hearing a lot about was Chris Quinn. He was an assistant in Miami, a guy that played in the league, played on that championship Miami team with Shaq and with D. Wade.

And so he has a lot of the characteristics that would let you believe that he can be a high-level coach in the NBA. But I think as far as former players, Darvin Ham, of course, top of mind. Charles Lee, he played as well on a professional level. He's a guy that will get a chance at some point here as well to be a head coach. He had rave reviews with the Lakers and Hornets.

Adrian Griffin, former player, he was also a candidate for the Lakers job. I could see him getting a look eventually as well. Okay, good luck to all of them. Hope they become head coaches. Shout out to AJ having super basketball knowledge too. Way to go, Hawk. I love that.

That was an alarm for something, or is that your ringtone for a text? Because that's wild. I've never heard somebody do that. No, no, that was an alarm. What are we doing? Shave? New shave of the face? It was an alarm to drink water. So, you know. Okay.

I'm trying to stay hydrated right now, guys. Come on. Do you forget? Sometimes I do forget to drink water, yes. Do you have one of these? Do you have one of these? I just got one of these. Don't let us mess you up.

Chug that sucker. It sounds like you need one of these. It says like seven. Let's go. Don't let us get in the way of your water routine, dude. Hey, you need to get one of these. It says like, good morning. This is where you should be.

You know, hydrate yourself. Remember your goals shams is that what it says when the alarm comes off no there's unfortunately no no i'm not getting that inspirational but you know what pat i might need one of those jugs so if you can i'll send you my address you just you just send me one of those you know you can use this one you can just i would never use this so i'll send it to you somebody gifted it to me because you know i'm super healthy but i'm not healthy enough i don't have alarms to tell me to fucking stay hydrated shams you are are you a robot you're a machine you're a machine i mean listen they say they say i'm a cyborg i

don't believe that i think i'm a good dude i think i'm you know head down what time you wake up in the morning shams is it same thing day? Are you a super routine guy? I try to be. Sometimes I sleep in, you know, to 7, 7.15. Unfortunately, today was a 6.30 day, but, you know, it can vary from time to time. Are we in the middle of— Usually I try to stay in that 6.30, 6.45 range, though. Alarm or no alarm?

Got to be alarm. I can't wake up without an alarm. I'll be sleeping until 11 without an alarm. Oh, no. Shams is all lost. You know, the body clock. Can't do it. It's got to be an alarm. I can't wake up without an alarm. I'll be sleeping until 11 without an alarm. Oh, no. It's all off. You know, the body clock. Can't do it.

What's the news right now? Jimmy Butler's hurt. Is he going to play? Are the Dallas Mavericks never going to be able to win actual meaningful games because Luka can put up fucking 40 and then they're still going to lose? Mark Cuban, Lil Wayne, friends again. What's the big story you think right now around the NBA? So let's get right to the injuries, right? So this Miami Boston series, this series has a bunch of players in, in, on the injury report. So let's start with Miami. Tyler Hero is out. Jimmy Butler missed the second half of game four, but I'm told he is expected to

play. He was dealing with swelling from what I told, in the last 24 to 48 hours. And that swelling has since subsided. He was getting around-the-clock treatment going into game three. And honestly, from what I was told, there was concern that he might miss game three. But he ends up playing game three, then has to sit the second half. All signs point to him playing tonight. On the Boston side, Robert Williams with that knee injury, he had that torn meniscus.

He ended up getting surgery. He ended up coming back out of nowhere. Game three of that Celtics series, he is listed questionable tonight. Marcus Smart had an ugly ankle sprain in game three. He's listed questionable as well. Sources tell me both players will be game time decisions. Of course, the hope is that they both play. But I expect both of those guys to go down to the wire right before game time

as far as if they're going to play. So that's the injury report for those two guys. As far as the Golden State-Dallas series, it's not looking good for Dallas right now. I think it was a great run. It was a great effort. I think we saw Jason Kidd's comments last night. It was kind of conceding defeat a little bit. He said, you know, we're only going to get better.

We're only going to learn. This is just the beginning for us. We're going to be a lot better moving forward in the next few years. So 3-0, it's never been done in the history of the NBA, so Dallas is in a tough spot. Okay, let's dive back into the Celtics-Miami. Tyler Eero, how did he get hurt? I just found out he's got a butterfly tattooed on his shin.

You know how tough you have to be to get a fucking tattoo on your shin? I'd assume he'd be able to battle through a lot of things. What happened to Tyler? So he had a groin strain in game three, and he's going to miss tonight's game. But he said that his goal is to play in game five back in Miami. You know, Miami already split this home, this road matchup against Boston. So maybe they're looking at a game like tonight as really a toss-up. Really, they're playing with house money.

If they win without Tyler Hero, cool. If not, they get their sixth man of the year back in the lineup for game five. Your question for Sean? Yeah, Sean, the Warriors are just going to sit around and hang out and kind of shoot the shit for two weeks while they wait for the Celtics and Heat series to finish or like what's their process now that they're just basically sweeping the Mavericks yeah well listen they'll play game four tomorrow we'll see if they sweep or not if they sweep they don't play again until next Thursday so yeah they'll be sitting for a while

and they'll be able to get rejuvenated get healthy all those guys with wear and tear but you know one player that we got to keep an eye on, is he going to play again this postseason? Andre Iguodala. We haven't seen him really for weeks now, and he's been dealing with a neck issue. He's a guy that was a big part of their championship run, their dynasty over the last, you know, decade or so. He has not played.

I'm told the hope is that he's going to be able to progress to try to make a return in the finals. We'll see if that comes. Iguodala, all-star in Philly, right? Then kind of says, ah, fuck it. I don't want to be an all-star anymore. I'll be seventh, eighth man on the bench for Golden State. Then he became like a pivotal piece of that whole

Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson run, right? Yeah, locked down LeBron, won finals MVP. Is he a Hall of Famer, Iguodala? Listen, honestly, I think it's 50-50. I think there's a good chance he is. You know, he's won three championships. You know, he's going to have a chance for sure.

Finals MVP? Yeah, is basketball like baseball where every team has to have a representative? Because I think Andre was like a shoo-in for the All-Star game whenever he was at Philly, wasn't he? There's none of that. But, I mean, all these players that we think wouldn't make the All-Star, wouldn't make Hall of Fame, they all end up making it in basketball. So, you know, you have Chris Weber.

He just made it. We'll see Chauncey Billups. There's a bunch of guys. Next year should be Dwayne Wade and a few other big name guys, but I do think eventually Andre Goddard will get in. That a baby.

Congrats. Hope he comes back. That guy awesome to watch because he looks like he's 75 years old and then he goes out there and dominates like, oh, I forgot this guy was a player. Go ahead, Ty. Sean, I'm taking all of that into account. The Heat and the Celtics are a fun story and everything,

but is anyone beating the Warriors in seven? Is there really even any reason to continue the playoffs? Great question. I mean, listen, I also came on this show and I said Phoenix had a good chance. Although months ago we did hype up Golden State on this show. I want to say january ish we did kind of say golden state was looking like the favorite and then draymond green got hurt and then we only know four teams exist like we only know four teams exist on this

particular show you know so i i i do think though that whoever comes out of the west which obviously looks like the warriors i'm sure they're going to be favorited, but I do think we can't count out Miami. We can't count out Boston. On paper, you have to think Boston, talent-wise, will give Golden State the biggest challenge because Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, Al Horford, they've got so much talent on Boston. I know this is a Boston-friendly show as well as it's a Zion Williamson-friendly show. I'm just choking your guys' ego a little bit. I think Boston has a lot of talent,

but Miami's just gritty. Either way, I do think Golden State will be the favorite, but we've seen this playoffs. It's not about who's favorite. I'm happy to hear that people think this show is a pro ball. You're welcome. Hell yeah. Let's go. Come on, Celtics. You mentioned something

else there before. A question from Tone Diggs, and we let you go. We know how busy you are. Zion Williamson, you mentioned him. He said he's hungry to come back and be better than he's ever been, and everybody else is going to be basically eating their words and what they've been saying. I don't know if that was a real quote or not,

if the Internet just kind of did its thing. What are you hearing out of the Zion camp? And when do we get to see him play basketball at a high level on national television every night again? Man, I think that'll come next season. He's going to be back next season. He will be back next season. Let's talk it into existence, okay?

But, no, for real, though, I do think he'll play next season. The big thing for him this offseason is going to be his extension situation. What will the extension possibly look like with New Orleans? I think that's going to be the top of mind question. We're going to be talking about going into July. Do they give him a full max? Do they try to give him a max that's similar to Joel Embiid's first max extension a few years ago? That will be the ultimate question in New Orleans this offseason. What do you do with Zion Williamson and his max? But from everything I've heard zion williamson feels good i know he felt

like he was healthy enough to play at the end of the season new orleans of course they all agreed to hold him out uh before the playoffs began he didn't play in the playoffs uh but i think it was a good decision for both sides now he can use use the entire summer, get his body right, be 120-45% to be able to play next season. I don't know if you guys saw it. There were some videos of him at Duke. He was putting down some crazy dunks. We definitely got to look into that one.

Yeah, I agree. The Woods seem to be able to maintain his spring there at Duke. At the Pelicans practice court, I think it was given in like a trampoline. It's great to hear about Zion coming back next year. Let's say he turns down the max. Can he turn down the max?

I mean, listen, I don't think he turns down a full max contract, but if they play around with it, if they don't give him an actual max, if there's incentives, if it's like Joel Embiid's max contract from from a few years ago which allowed some protection for the team could he for sure he does have one year left on his deal though so both sides could eventually just decide to play it off into next season let the season go and then have him as a restricted free agent kind of like how phoenix uh handled the deandre ayton situation and do they have franchise tags in the nba would he be able to go elsewhere what's the restricted free agent mean another team can match or has to pay more what does that mean so essentially they can give him a qualifying tender uh that would make him a

restricted free agent that's next season it's it's it's a pretty lucrative one-year contract players don't typically take that though especially players like you know players like zion these max contract kind of guys they don't take that one year tender so yeah in some way that is a franchise tag it's rarely ever taken from from max players it's really just a tool for for teams to allow players to be restricted free agents let's get zion back out there go ahead tom shams what the hell are the mavs doing on the bench i saw they were fined a hundred hundred thousand dollars not enough are they just wearing the same color as Warriors and pretending to be on a court?

What's going on here? Shout out Theo Pinson. That guy is just a ball of energy from everything I've heard in Dallas. The leadership that he provides on the bench, and he's obviously the ringleader for this bench unit, for these guys to all be standing up all game, a couple feet away from the court. But I think, let's give Mark Cuban credit credit i don't think he cares about these fines i mean there's probably gonna be a fine that comes across the ticker today or tomorrow that they got fined

for last game like those guys as long as they cheer each other on and they're good teammates i don't think they care about the fines in dallas so um to me i like i think it's fun i think it's fun for the game for these guys to be a feet away from the court. And Theo Pinson is loving it, wearing the same color as the Golden State Warriors. I like when the bench is rowdy. What's the NBA worried about? That these nine-foot-tall guys are standing and blocking the first five rows of people paying a ton of money?

I think what the worry is is that the players are so close to the court that there could be injury, right? So if a guy goes tumbling down there. Oh, they're serving beers and tripping. Yeah, that's right. We saw Steph Curry. We saw Steph Curry last night. He tripped over the vendor's foot or his body.

And so there's always that fear that if these guys are so close to the court, could there be a guy that gets tripped or a guy that gets hurt running into a guy that's on the bench that close to the court you know could there be you know a guy that gets tripped or a guy that gets hurt uh you know getting running into a guy that's on the bench that close to the game so i think that's really the chief concern is safety uh but at the end of the day i think dallas is like we want to share guys on we just care about camaraderie and i think that's the focus i love it bring the juice you gotta do what you gotta do uh i've gotten the opportunity to sit in a couple very nice seats at an nba game i've always been very surprised with how close I am. Like somebody who's with an inbound pass, and I can literally, I could just punch them right in the spleen if I wanted to.

You know, like the NBA does provide that type of intimacy almost with the crowd. I could see how maybe they're starting to worry about it, but that's an all-year thing, isn't it? Why is it just being highlighted now, you think? Dallas has been just being highlighted now you think Dallas has been doing it all year that bench has been doing it all year and I think uh there was you know there's some conversations behind the scenes late in the season and again when the playoffs start um you know all eyes you know everything gets heightened so I think the fact that this is all happening in the playoffs all eyes are on the Mavericks all eyes are on their bench.

But honestly, you saw the ref tell Theo Pinson, put on a new shirt. I think he was just joking last night when the ref told Theo Pinson, you probably want to change your white shirt. I think it's honestly fun. I think it's fun for the game. But again, the league has more safety concerns for all this, especially come playoff time. Well, thank you to the league for caring more than anybody else. Oh, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, senior NBA insider for the Athletic and Stadium, the league for caring more than anybody else. Oh, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen,

senior NBA insider for the Athletic and Stadium, the man that never sleeps, always on his phone, has to remind himself with an alarm to actually drink water because how much he's trying to dig up scoops.

Ladies and gentlemen, Sean Shirani. Thank you. Speaking of money being paid, the Washington Commanders have put aside or have paid $100 million

for a new piece of land in Virginia. Is that where they're taking their stadium? money being paid. The Washington Commanders have put aside or have paid $100 million for a new piece of land in Virginia. Is that where they're taking their stadium? Their current stadium's trash in D.C. Poop pipes bursting all over people. Walls falling on top of players. Is that why they're not looking to upgrade

that thing? Are they moving out of the District of Columbia into Virginia? And are Commanders fans losing their mind on the internet right now? Yes! The Virginia Commanders in a couple years, AJ! Well, if they paid $100 million for a piece of land,

obviously you have to assume, yes, this is going to be a stadium, right? You would assume. That's a lot of money. Are they going to be able, though, with how their team is, are they going to be able to get those big tax money that all these not all of them, but a lot of owners use to they going to be able, though, with how their team is, are they going to be able to get those big tax money that all these, not all of them, but a lot of owners use to help build these stadiums? Well, especially in that area with the amount of politics. I assume that's why D.C. wasn't a possibility,

because maybe Virginia gave some sort of tax break, or maybe they have some conversation in Virginia to build a new stadium. It has to be. Before they buy that $100 million piece of land, don't you think they have to have conversations like, hey, we're going to do this. They have to make sure they work out some of the details. And the town better hold up its end of the bargain

or they'll be like the Carolina Panthers who said, fuck you. We will stop this right now. We don't care if they already had walls or broken ground. We put up our end. You have not put yours up. So guess what? We're looking for a new town.

I don't think the commander's doing that. commander is putting 100 million dollars that's quite an investment especially whenever you don't know who the owner is going to be in coming years with a vote potentially happening with snyder on his way out at the league meetings need 24 votes to start that conversation has never happened before now news is being leaked that there's going to take votes to maybe push dan snyder out who's the new owner where are they playing football at well are they going to be the commanders forever if a new owner comes in aj so many question marks around one of the most storied franchises and programs in the nfl's history but okay if they are going to be forced to sell the team this

definitely drives your value up because if you're an owner all owners want new stadiums you could say i'm going to buy this team i get to basically build this stadium from scratch brand new stadium that's a huge revenue booster for you as the team so i would imagine it would drive the price tag up i assume that having land in virginia is good not bad for the next owner that's what you're saying uh having a plan having a plan for a brand new stadium because who as an owner who wants to come in and take over that stadium where the railings are falling and turds are falling on people yeah you don't want turds falling in the stadium that you're buying so i guess new property is good remember this happened

in chicago here too was it 30 million dollars in land uh like an hour away from chicago in arlington yeah nope is this one happening in Arlington, Virginia? Is Arlington just taking over the whole NFL? Is it going to be the Arlington Bears or the Arlington Commanders? Or the Arlington Cowboys, right? Is this where Bezos jumps in? Zito said there's some pictures of what could potentially be being. Oh, nice.

I like when the internet says this could possibly happen. I believe that's the plot of land that they bought, so they just put a stadium over it. You're going to want a casino probably there, hotels, entire Patriot place like up in New England. Restaurants. Such a good idea to be able to do that. If you can do that, just buy up the entire area, create your own village or town and make everybody that comes to it spend every dollar with you and nobody else.

No poop pipes. Everybody that comes to it spend every dollar with you and nobody else. No poop pipes? In this drawing or whatever computer image here, is that a baseball field I see through that roof? No. Is that dirt? It looks like a home plate and dirt.

I think that's the poop pipes. Oh, there we go. I think that's all the poop pipes. Across the town is where the poop is. Too many poop pipes. There's never too many. I think that's the problem with FedEx Field. Are they trying to get this built before the next World Cup, too? They have to.

Oh, wow. Bring back the troughs in the bathroom. How long did it take to build SoFi? They could probably do that, couldn't they, before the next World Cup? What was it, $8 billion? How much did it cost? $6 billion? When's the World Cup coming?

Four years after this upcoming. Okay. You could build a stadium in four years, right? Definitely. 2026. So it says the commanders like the site because of how it can be developed. According to a source, their plans include a 60,000-seat dome stadium, so it can be used throughout the year,

as well as the team's practice facility and amphitheater, seating 15,000 to 20,000, high-end retail shops, bars and restaurants. Welcome to Commander Town. Yeah. Welcome to. That's why the team's worth so much more money because, like you said, Patriot Place, everybody's trying to build that where, hey, it's a one-stop shop.

You come here to the game, you're going to stay in places we own. Our hotels we own, all the merch. They just make all the money. That's the plan. What about local business? Aren't you guys for local business? Yeah, our local businesses. Remember that stat of how much money the Patriots and the Cowboys make for every home game?

Like $72 million for Jerry Willis. What about the Packers? How much money the Packers make off of local real estate? It's absurd. Get a retractable dome, though. Why build a straight dome? Why wouldn't everything be retractable now? Tell them about the roof.

I haven't read about the roof yet. Have you read about the roof? The roof would be translucent, and the stadium's facade could change colors. It could be white during the day and burgundy at night. So this is just like SoFi,

where they're running shit on top of the thing. Yeah. Well, they better fucking close the Commander's one, though, because that whole entire deal with the thunderstorms last year was absurd. There had to be a reason that they decided to do that, tax purposes or descript purposes,

why they didn't make it a connected stadium arena dome thing. Makes no sense. I wonder why it was. Had to be something. It wouldn't be the money, because they're already like $ 4 billion over when they made it this ESPN article says the team would like to return to DC

but it's on federal land so a lot of government hurdles to get through to build something does anything ever happen over there what do you mean does just like anything happen I honestly and I'm 35 years old now I'm a fucking old man I get it and I should start paying attention to it.

But like, I've never heard like a celebration, right? There's no like, hey, we did it. It's always you motherfuckers are going to kill everybody. On both sides. You mean in D.C.? Yeah. Capitol Hill. Yeah, because if one side's celebrating, the other side's killing them.

I don't think I ever hear the celebrating, though. Ever. Yeah, me neither, actually. You're right. Do they ever take the tractor another round? I don't think so. And just fucking smell the roses? They should. There's always another fight to make the world a better place. That's right. And that's why I appreciate everybody that goes over there.

Seems like the only time they do put their swords away is at the Congressional Baseball Game. I was going to say, they're happy with that. It's been happening since 1776. Yeah. Every single year. Did you know that? 1492, they thought of it. 1776, they're happy then. It's been happening since 1776. Yeah. Every single year. Did you know that? 1492, they thought of it. 1776, they implemented it.

And then now they're still playing it, and Gonzo's the only one under the age of 30. Yeah. John Adams used to fucking throw heat, and they were like, yeah, we need to keep this going. When was baseball invented? Fucking before America. Yeah. You sure about that? Yeah. 1730.

Probably in the 1500s. Mm-hmm. 1600s? 1869. Wow, fucking slow. It makes sense. It took them a while to put the rules together because how complicated the game is. They didn't have a name for it back then, right?

They said, hey, let's go do the boring thing that passes time that we don't have to talk to anybody else about anything real for a while. Stickball. How many innings should we make this thing? One, two? Nah, fucking not. Not yet. I don't want to go home. Just like golf.

Make this thing 100 holes. I don't want to go home. 1909 was the first congressional baseball game. Wow. Javier Molina pitching in that one Just like you did Against the fucking Buccos yesterday Did you see that Close

Close Fucking At least we won yard On that motherfucker Hell yeah Yeah Well he's thrown 63

So I'd hope so Pirates lost 18-0 In a baseball game The same sport We were speaking about Right now Where the congressional

People go play And it's miserably boring And it's like, how is this something? Well, it's actually good camaraderie, you know, come together,

really pass some shit. Okay, cool. Baseball normally rather boring. One team running up 18 runs on the other one. Very unexpected. But when you hear it happens, you go like,

Oh, who'd they do it against? Oh, obviously the fucking Pittsburgh pirates. Yep. So the team nutting, you prick, you know what I mean? Is it, obviously, the fucking Pittsburgh Pirates. Sell the team, Nutting, you prick. You know what I mean, AJ? So do the Pirates

take offense when Javier Molina at age 39 gets inserted to pitch for the first time in his Major League career? They were asking him to sign the fucking baseball. It's like when Old Cuzzy just did this a couple months ago, also on there. Albert Pujols. Pujols pitched, I guess, a couple months ago when they were upbert pools pools pitched i guess a couple months ago

when they were up like 15 runs or something on somebody somebody got a hit and they were like well you sign that and send it over it's like all right let's fucking maybe just quit next time javier steps on the mound and you're pittsburgh pirates just throw in the white flag thing and then get back in the dugout go underneath the, and never show up at a baseball field again. Yeah, I mean, when you got guys laughing on the mound after they give up like a 500-foot homer, that's when you should be very embarrassed. I mean, he's basically out there underhanding pitches.

They're saying maybe Zambelli fireworks, too. And then they lose 18 zip. Well, and then you see when those balls land in the – I mean, you say it a lot, and it's not hyperbole. There might have been 50 people at that game. This is not going to surprise you. The Pirates are dead last in the MLB in run differential. They lost 18-0.

That's going to hurt for a long time. It's like having nine turnovers in one game. They got a better record than eight teams in the MLB, though, okay? And the Cards just did that last week to the Giants when Pujols pitched, okay? It's not just the Pirates. I would love to go to thatB, though, okay? And the Cards just did that last week to the Giants when Pujols pitched, okay? It's not just the Pirates. I would love to go to that game, though. Wouldn't you like to go to a baseball game where 18 runs are scored? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. That's what you're praying

for, but it never fucking happens. Unless you're playing the Pittsburgh Pirates. It's not a fun game for the Pirates, though, for a home game. How come baseball peers aren't mad about that one? Where you're throwing in a non-pitcher It's an embarrassment to the game

Nah dude, you can't burn an arm You can't burn a bullpen arm, you're up 18 runs Is there a chance If I'm at that game I can sweet talk my way into putting on a costume And going and pitching for the team? Maybe, yeah, 100% People need to start doing that

In the stands, get in the uniform and go. This is random fan from section 113 pitching against the fucking Pittsburgh Pirates right now. It's actually a pretty good gimmick. Well, the Pirates will likely be in this position a lot this season. Exactly. Maybe somebody else will implement that rule, AJ. How are the Reds doing?

You guys still stink? I haven't really checked in on them. The Reds, we're usually like a late season team where we decide to turn it on. They're at 12 and 28. Yeah, they're terrible. You guys suck. Weren't they like 1 and 15 at one point? 2 and 11.

What are we? 16 and 24. That's not bad. Cubs are also 16 and 24. AJ stopped following when Brennerman got canned. Let's go to the fence. By the way, I was a falling when Brennerman got canned. Let's go to the fence. By the way, I was a big Marty Brennerman guy. Pirates are better than...

Pirates are better than Tigers. Just add them to it. Wow. I can't believe Tigers are still in the majors. I didn't know they were still a team. We're supposed to be a dark horse team this year. I guess we still stink. That's what they say to cities like Detroit. To keep hope. Hey Lions supposed to be a dark horse team this year. I guess we still stink. Well, that's what they say to cities like Detroit. Detroit sports keep hope. Hey, Lions, Peter King,

dark horse. Yeah, dark horse. Detroit sports have been three years away for the last ten years. So, right now it feels like we're still going to stink. Three years away. Let's go to the phones. Five Energy phone line. Fucking buckas are so bad agent. So

fucking bad. One of the million soccer leagues out there Isn't there one where if you suck You get bumped down to like the minors You get bumped up Something happened a team almost got relegated last week I saw a guy crying his fucking face off Everton

Dude was crying in stance because they didn't get Relegated That's so much money too Like to stay in the Premier League, they get so much money. Like, when a team comes up to the Premier League, like, saves their club for years. Congrats to everything. Is it like a one-year trial, or how does it work? If you're bottom three, you go back down.

Like, Norwich comes up every year. Next year, they go back down. Done it five times in a row. Who plays for them? Just, like, up-and-coming people? Norwich? Yeah. The Canaries? Nobody good. up every year next year they go back down done it five times in a row who plays for them just like up and coming people norwich yeah the canaries nobody good no but i'm saying is it like the locals play on this team and then they potentially end up in the fucking premier league yeah like teams will come up from like div five like they'll come all the way up division five jesus so that's

like you me zito foxy fielding the team? Yeah. Getting hot? They're getting the FA Cup. They test for marijuana at the PGA? They test for coke, I believe. I don't know about weed. Thank you. AJ. Good to know. I believe some golfers have been busted for coke.

Yeah, I know. I agree. I do believe. They probably do test for all street drugs there. I don't know. I was thinking in my head Like Would that help or hurt In the moment Yesterday

As I was watching Mito In my head I was thinking Like this dude Must smoke so much Are you saying For you or somebody else Well just anybody

In general But if I was To get into the PGA Would I be allowed To be high as fuck Out there I don't know Maybe we can get

The commissioner on And would that be Better or worse For me I think It would be much better much much much much much much much much much much better yeah i know they stopped them they can't take uh those beta blockers whatever those do something that's like heart rate down i know that yeah like performers take them like musicians and people i've heard oh so that's like uh anxiety nerve's a nerve thing. I don't know what it's technically for, but it calms their nerves, I guess. So it's like when snipers

and the archery folks at the Olympics are trying to control their heart rate, there's something that can do that for you? I get whatever beta blockers mean, whatever it does. I think I heard Jennifer Aniston mention it in one thing she was doing. Jen? Like actors, musicians that are like composers.

I've heard them talk about it. Is this Xanax? No, I think it's different. I don't know exactly. I just, that's all I know about it, really. Guys take it to their nerves or people take it. Xan really turns people into zombies. Oh, yeah.

Does it put you to sleep? Some people, I guess, can operate on it, but they're sleepwalking. I think all the people that I know that have gotten into zans that aren't prescribed it no people are prescribed it obviously and it's scary either way though either even if people prescribed i feel like it's scary how cavalier people are about scary scary scary scary i've only done that's what kills the uh celebrities they usually drink on that stuff right yep is it zans i don't know if it's a benzo whatever benzos are here dr drew talking about people drink on benzos yeah because you drink with his anti-bar you're done right zombie

yeah mixing stuff that's where it really gets you stay away from the bills yeah yeah yeah yeah it's got a fire energy phone let's go to braden nashville what's going on, Brayden? How's it going down there? Brayden's dead. Dude. Come on. Hey, what's up, Pat and the boys? Hey, Brayden, how you doing, man? Hey, just wanted to talk about Deshaun and what you guys think about the Browns and if you've heard anything about what his suspension is going to be looking like

maybe this year or next. Thank you, Brayden. I guess the conversation was that there was no deadline for when the NFL would enforce its suspension of Deshaun Watson. Roger Goodell basically said, we just want to get as much information as possible, as much information as possible. And there was no suspension looming, allegedly, just like a month and a half ago, I believe, was the conversation. Now, league meetings are happening right now. There's other stuff cooking here in the dead of the offseason. OTA is happening.

And now it's being reported, and there's a little bit of smoke, that a Deshaun Watson suspension will probably be coming up here in the next few weeks. I don't know if it's bullshit. I don't know what's real. Deshaun's down in the Bahamas with 23 other Cleveland Browns kind of getting used to the lay of the land and learning about each other. I believe the Browns are just going off of whatever they can do

and just kind of acting as if. But allegedly, with the HBO Real Sports coming out, right, where two of the accusers are being interviewed and everything, this is only going to continue to grow. I don't know what the hell the NFL is going to do, but allegedly there's a chance that the suspension is announced much earlier than we could have ever imagined. Well, yeah, I would imagine they want to announce it during the summertime.

And if this is this HBO real sports thing, which comes out tomorrow, I believe, where two of the accusers speak, is that going to, are they worried that's going to, I don't know, create a bunch of buzz around this where people are going to say, hey, Rod, you got to do something? Good transition. Buzz B, the lawyer for the accusers, he came out and made a quote about how it was no easy interview with the HBO real time. There was no prepared questions in there. He respected the due diligence thatbo did in the middle of it

he got questioned as well he put down his uh resume of how many other people he has represented in this type of situation so i have no clue what's going to happen how it's going to happen but it feels like there's a lot to still be figured out in the browns putting 230 million dollars guaranteed into a contract with deshaun they had to have had some sort of inkling about something. Trevor Bauer has come out and said that the precedent, or somebody said about Trevor Bauer how the precedent has been set. Basically, he's two years suspension now. That is a different sport, different league, different situation than what Deshaun's in.

But everybody is just kind of projecting their thoughts right now. I don't know if there's any concrete information anywhere, AJ. Wait, is Trevor Bauer saying that Deshaun should be suspended that long or he will be? I have no clue how it came about. I honestly, I didn't look into it enough. I should have. And where is Trevor Bauer out with his whole situation?

He's got a two-year suspension. He's starting now or starting like time served? I have no clue. He's not playing this entire season, yeah. Jesus. I'm trying to remember how he phrased it, and I don't want to mispronounce it, so I'm not mispronounced, but mislabeled.

Pretty delicate situation, if you think about that. I mean, there's a chance this suspension comes down maybe this Friday before a holiday weekend. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, we're off Monday, everybody. Memorial Day, right? Yeah, we are off Monday. Memorial Day right Yeah we are off Monday

We got F1 Monaco on Sunday Hell yeah Let's go That's the Super Bowl F1 It is Been waiting months for this I am I'm pumped

I started watching Live to Drive or whatever Sure Good Very good I watched first episode A lot of accents I tried to keep up with it all

I think I'm going to have to Dive into it a little bit more Okay You won't I will No we have Monaco into it a little bit more. You won't. I will. No, we have Monica on Sunday. I haven't watched it. I don't...

Monica on Sunday. I hear it's going great, but just watching you describe the first episode, I knew within three words, you're not going to continue. Monica's on Sunday. Yeah, we got Monica on Sunday. Voice over yourself.

Barcelona was... Exotic location. I tried to watch it. It was late. It was late. It was late. It was after I came home from SmackDown. I'm like, oh.

You'll do it again. You'll try to do it again. Monaco's this Sunday, though. Yeah, that's what, well, that's why. It's the only race on this Sunday. Yeah, this Sunday, 9 a.m. Monaco, F1. So I knew that was coming. So last Friday night after I got home from SmackDown, quick trip from Grand Rapids, whose

crowd was, hey, Grand Rapids, Michigan crowd was top tier. They were loud. Top tier. Very loud. Very energetic. There was kids crying at the end. I mean, they were very invested. You know, Heartbreaker, what happened to Riddle?

And what happened to Randy Orton? RK, bro, Heartbreaker, tag team unification loss. And obviously the kids at Grand Rapids didn't enjoy it too much. Who beat them? Fucking the bloodline. Come bloodline who do you think that's that shouldn't be surprising should it bingo it's not that's why those kids crying what do you what did you think yeah wake up kid clown the unified tag team champions of the world shot the road dog jesse james badass billy gunn but instead it's the bloodline usos

god damn they have all the unified championships the heavyweight unified heavyweight championship rev and reince unified tag team champions the usos friday night smackdown zone bloodline hell yeah unbelievable i get home from grand rapids though after baby cried watching a kid cried watching usos do their thing and i'm like, you know what? Monaco next Sunday, 9 a.m., this is their Super Bowl. Darius Butler's been talking about this. I'm going to watch it. I fell asleep quickly. I think the accents did it to me,

but it does seem like it would be a good series. You told us last Wednesday, you're like, hey, I really like what I'm seeing. I have Max Verstappen's car so far. I can't wait for Monaco. We knew that you're... Yeah, Monaco is on Sunday. Max Verstappen's got all the great engineers can't wait for Monaco. So we knew that you're... Yeah, Monaco is on Sunday. Max Verstappen's got all the great engineers, too. Oh, yeah.

There is another race. I don't want to... Like, we can't skip over this. The Coke 600 is also Sunday. So it's Monaco and Coke 600, and that's it. Here we go! Holy shit. We got a big race day on Sunday.

We got any NBA, NHL games scheduled for Sunday as well? Probably the Celtics. The series might be over. When Verstappen gets in the Red Bull 13 car, I mean, there's no stopping him. Well, that's the thing about

the Verstappen Red Bull 13. Yeah. That helmet goes on, the engine turns on, and that's fucking game, race, set, match

for everybody else in the fucking stupid cars. That's right. That's Monaco, baby. Lewis Hamilton's driving better than he's ever driven. Yeah, he has. You know that, AJ?

His car just let him down. I'm pretty deep into this F1. Yeah. How deep? I think it would be cool to go down to the thing in Miami. That'd be fun to see how bizarre the whole situation is.

Other than that, I think I'm all right. Barcelona. How about Monaco or Barcelona? I'd go to Monaco. Yeah. If someone wants to... You want How about Monaco or Barcelona? I'd go to Monaco. You want to take me to Monaco? I'll go. Monaco country? Yes. Very, very nice too from what I see.

Did you say yes to it's a country? Yeah. Monaco's a country. No, it's a city in France. No. Is it? Is it like a District of Columbia type thing where it operates as its own country? It kind of does, I feel like. Like the Vatican? Yeah, sure, like Vatican City. The Vatican has the Pope and God rule over that whole fucking place.

Don't you ever question it. It's their own country. What do you mean? Yeah. Is it a country, too? Monaco or Rome? Vatican's considered its own area. Monaco with Nice?

Nice is definitely a part of France. Nice is really nice, right? Yes. Isn't Monaco where those guys park all their mega yachts and stuff? I think Monaco is country. Not now. Yeah, I swear Monaco is country. Tony?

It's by Marseille, right? Let me look. Tony, you're the only one already. You have a computer. Yeah, I'm reading. Monaco is on Sunday, Tony. We need to know. Just Google Monaco.

Is it a country or not? Is it a city or a country? Could be moving it to every other Just Google Monaco. Is it a country or not? Is it a city or a country? Could be moving it to every other year, Monaco. The Principality of Monaco is a sovereign city-state and micro-state of the French Riviera. So it's like District of Guadalcanal. God damn, I feel good. Wow. It's located on the French Riviera.

Hey, that's Monaco. That's Monaco, baby. Can't wait for Sunday. Second smallest sovereign state in the world after Vatican City. Wow. Oh, see. Oh, so like the Vatican's in Italy and Monaco's in France, but

they're not technically? One god is the money, the other god is Jesus Christ. There it is. Alright. We're out of here. We're back tomorrow. Ain't that right, AJ Hawk? That is right. I can't wait. Maybe I'll go watch that first episode of that F1 show. Watch more than I do.

Make the show better. You watched about two minutes. We've got succession right now. Is that coming back, by the way? Yeah, this year. End of this year. Allegedly. I'm trying to save the last two episodes. Keep old buddy alive.

Who? The son that seems to struggle at times. Alright. Come on, AJ. Let's do one last phone call and get not keeping calkin but he needs to stay alive too yeah is he four foot five yeah he's a little guy yes yes romulus oh yeah for sure okay my thoughts are maybe a little taller no not much dude some of those scenes where he's just kind of peacocking around i'm like imagine seeing this thing in real life what would you what would you if he was that character in real life yeah walking into a meeting acting the way he acted at the size that he is that would be

awesome he's listed at five six on the internet well how tall is his dad in the show listed brian cox he's not that tall six two'2". Yeah. Logan Roy. Handling biz. He's a giant when he's walking into those meetings. Titan. Oh, how about that shareholders meeting day? Oh, yeah. So many good things. Brian Cox is listed at 5'9".

Okay. Without shoes on? Who? 5'9", Brian Cox. I think he said Brian Gosling.ling i think gosling is like six two yeah he is is he how about conan o'brien selling his podcast network for 130 or 150 million dollars a series except not bad selling is he still going to do it he's just gonna go strictly serious i don't know if he sold his library for 150 million dollars and also future shows was just his show or is there other shows on the network?

It's a podcast network, so I don't know. I'm not 100% sure, but I do know $150 million was spent by SiriusXM to obtain it. Congratulations, Conan O'Brien. Hey, baby Conan. Hey, baby Conan. Oh, yeah. What does that mean? I've heard some of his.

I don't know. What's it called? What is it called? I don't know, but I've heard some of his interviews on there the conan show coco i like team coco's youtube i like conan o'brien seemed to be innovative ahead of his time obviously whenever he took the deal to go to tbs he lost a lot of viewers but he kept his you know cult-like following in which he had a lot of people that followed along great snl writer has done a great job hosting his shows. Now he's making $150 million after retiring from TV with SiriusXM.

I'm happy for old Coco. Yeah, it's unreal. I also didn't know SiriusXM was just shelling out $150 million for podcasts. They acquired Team Coco, and I assume that's a YouTube as well. Ah, okay. Good for them, $150 million. Yeah, Team Coco staff will join SiriusXM as well. Congratulations. So you've got to get serious if you want to hear his podcast moving forward, right? Good for them 150 mil Team Coco Staff Will join Sirius XM as well Congratulations Alright

So you gotta get serious If you wanna hear His podcast moving forward Right Probably the app Sirius XM app And then His actual show

Needs a friend Cone O'Brien Needs a friend Will be on that as well And that's his interview show I wonder I believe so yes I watched Letterman

Letterman has a couple more My next guest Needs no introduction I watched Will Smith I haven't watched that one yet Was it good? Was it after? Did Will smack him?

It was before Will smackage Released afterwards There is An editorial move made By Letterman To add something To the episode

Okay Okay Pretty comical That's great show Who else? Ryan Reynolds. I didn't see that one. I watched Kevin Durant.

We love Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant said, I'm motherfucking high right now. What are you talking about? Whenever they talked about marijuana. Loved Kevin Durant. Liked Kevin Durant before this interview. Boom. Love him even more.

Big time Kevin Durant fan after watching his My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. He was awesome in there. I'll have to check that out. Letterman's a good interviewer. Good conversation. Good conversation. KD is the best. KD is awesome.

Yeah, he's a weapon. Did you watch that? No, I haven't yet. I'm pumped. You're going to think it even more. Yeah, I didn't know Letterman was coming out with more episodes. Yeah, five.

I think they just released five or six more episodes. Mm-hmm. Pumped. Yeah, pretty good. KD. Bill Eilish is one of them. Bill's on there?

Bill Eilish is the first one i did not watch it i skipped it went straight to the kevin durant one and then i think the will smith one just rolled right in next i was like oh well smith here we go i'll join this and he told the whole story about how fresh prince of bel-air was founded which just happened at a party one night basically which is awesome pretty good stuff damn did he come up with it uh no somebody else whose life it actually was. What? Was like hosting a party or something.

That's interesting. And there was everybody that needed to be there. And it was originally from another town where that guy was from, the idea. They changed it to Philly because that's where Will Smith was from. Will needed 10 minutes. They gave him 10 minutes, and he basically went out and auditioned for everybody at this party. And they greenlit it the next day. prince of bella jesus crushed pretty awesome that is wild i thought that was will's life well kind of well kind of is i think well kind of was

who was the person that pitched the idea i forget who it was good conversation no jazzy jeff it wasn't burke kreischer he talked about how he and jazzy jeff used to be um a lot of jazzy jeff conversation he and jazzy jeff he won a grammy in his first year of rap and his parents told him he didn't want to be a rapper or something like that told him he only had one year and he and jazzy jeff uh won the grammy and they weren't at the grammy they were at some like boycott of the grammys award because rap wasn't being represented properly or whatever then they were announced for winning the grammy and he said it kind of felt like an asshole not being there but winning a grammy and the whole thing is there's some

lovable will smith moments in there there were some moments there where you watch you go okay kind of an asshole or whatever but very very successful. Had a zipper shirt on, and the thing had a big... Oh, no. Like, when he sat down, there was a big... I hate that. Penis. Like, penis thing type with the... Yeah, the chest. It was hard not to pay attention to for 15, 20 minutes of the conversation.

Did it wrinkle, or did it, like, cinch? Did he cinch a string, or was it just... No, it just was... It was a zipper the entire way down. So it just was sticking out of his sternum. Someone's got to have his back there. Well, they ended up, at the end of it, they just cropped it out. And they were just showing from here up, which was very nice because it wasn't very distracting.

Five of them was probably deathly afraid to tell him for fear of him smacking them in the mouth. You punched him. Well. Or Jada made him wear it that way. Everyone's got to think you have a fucking penis. Or Jada made him wear it that way. Yeah, Jada. Everyone's got to thank you for a fucking penis coming out of your chest.

Leave it like that. Don't fucking touch it. That's what we want. Two penises better than one penis. That's great. It's actually probably part of the plan.

Hey, if they're worried about the penis growing out of your chest, they're not worried about what you're saying. Nope. White Tiger said he went over to

Taj Mahal. He's okay. He's better now. I believe him. Forgiven. White Tiger. What a moment in this show's history. Every conversation with Bill Burr, I have no idea how it's going to go.

Every single time. Yeah, he's awesome. That's why it's fun. Yeah, it's almost like I've seen him take some of those convos the other way. Just deciding, nope, I'm not doing it. And then for us, I feel like I'm sticking with it for a good 5 10 10 15 minutes with bill i will continue because i have the utmost respect for his brain and his comedy and everything he's accomplished some other people though if they were to do you know the first 10 minutes of feeling out

like hey let me remind you you don't hate us here that's what it feels like we're doing with bill for the first 10 minutes or whatever. Everybody else, all right, done with this conversation. Bill Burr, though, can't fuck it. Bill is the best white tiger.

What a disrespectful fucking thing. No, you name the next one. It's going to be good, too. Oh, yeah. He's got a lot to talk about. Yeah, he's busy as hell, too, it sounds like.

He's editing a movie all the way into what? His world tour that he's doing, Slight Return? Epis for Family's still going, right? I don't think so.

I think they have the final season. Yeah. The last one was the final one, I believe. It's not AJ. Stupid. That was dumb.

I thought it was. But that one did crush. He's awesome. Yeah. I'm a big, legit fan of Bill Burr. I don't know if he is of ours or not,

but we'll find out in the next conversation. He has fun. You can tell he has fun on here. I got a lot of people judging my interview style with Bill Burr. A lot of his fans come after me. A lot of people tweet me. You got a lot of compliments in there. Next time, let AJ handle the conversation with Bill Burr instead of you.

Stop. All right. I appreciate that. Thank you. I'm trying my best. When's Bill's new special come out? June 6th. Yeah, soon.

Next week? Next Sunday? Bill Burr presents Angry Neighbors. No. What is it? Friends? Something along those lines. Halfway back?

No. Slight Return is his tour. Mad Friends or something? June 6th is his special Everybody who has a computer in front of them Could probably search that Friends Who Kill? Yeah

There it is Friends Who Kill That'd be ZD Go for it ZD That'd be ZD What if that thing's changed to White Tiger by the time it comes out? It might be. Let's go to Dante in Baltimore.

What's going on, Dante? Hello. Hello, guys. What's going on? Hey, life is good, Dante. How are you? Oh, man. Awesome, man.

By the way, you're one of the best announcers since Jerry Lawler, man. I'll say that from the best, man. Thank you guys for what y'all do for the show. Oh, I appreciate that. That means a lot. What's going on, man? I just was calling in. I saw the power rankings, man.

I love the fact that, you know, Indy is my favorite number 21, but I really didn't think that the power rankings should have been what they were. They might be postseason, early, preseason, but that don't seem like it's going to be because a lot of great trades and a lot of great movements have happened since the draft. So I'm just getting your views on it. What do you think about your top 12?

What would be your top 12? I'm on your side, Dante. I think it's a bunch of bullshit what they did with the Colts. And maybe I'll have to dive into the power rankings world will be your top 12. I'm on your side, Dante. I think it's a bunch of bullshit what they did with the Colts. Yep. And maybe I'll have to dive into the power rankings world if everybody's just throwing random teams at random numbers.

Can't have it. Create your scale or your point system. Yeah. And I'll lead off with self-handicapping. I'm not good at this. I did have the Bucs, but...

I did have the Bucs last year. 2020, yeah. Yeah, the Chiefs. We had Bucs first, Chiefs, yeah. Yeah, and I like the Rams. Stafford went. Yeah. The Broncos at 14.

Russell Wilson. Peter King just went right into Russell Wilson's face. Raiders above. Spit right in Russell Wilson's face. Monkeypox out there. COVID out there still. Can't have it. Just spit right in Russell Wilson's face.

And in Matt Ryan's face. Brown below the Patriots. Dude, the Lions are ahead of the Colts, Cardinals, Steelers. Bears. After that, there ain't no chance the Lions are better than the Colts, Cardinals, Steelers. Maybe the Steelers. I mean, who knows? Football giants.

Football giants, yeah. They beat the Cardinals. The number two most winning franchise in the last 20 years. The Cardinals don't have a quarterback either, right? Kyler's not even at OTA. That's right. That's right. Colt McCoy.

I believe we'll be chatting with maybe the Cardinals general manager here in the next few days. Here we go. A little bit of clarity on that situation. Do you think it's possible that MCDC brushed shoulders with Pete King and was like, Hey, if I'm not 20 or higher, I'm going to beat the fucking shit out of you, Peter. Do you think Peter walked out of a meeting with him and was like, hey, if I'm not 20 or higher, I'm going to beat the fucking shit out of you, Peter. You think Peter walked out of a meeting with him and was like, top 20 team? Probably.

You think that's what Peter did? Remember, it wrote down on a little thing like Kevin Costner on draft day. Detroit Lions top 20 no matter what. Fucking 14 up. Put it in his pocket. Don't fucking forget it. It'll knock your fucking teeth out, man. Man.

Try that in pen or pencil, man. Don't need an eraser, man. That's probably what he did. That's why you guys are 20. I hope you're fucking happy. Yeah. I am happy. I love that MCDC.

Frank Reich should do that. Well, he's worried about stinking things. That's right. That are really detrimental to the team. Get the boys ready for next year. I guess we talked Or orlovsky but those who just substitute other f words for the f word we all know you know that's tough god knows i always say god knows which is who they're doing it for right i don't think god cares if you say

fuck no call me crazy call me crazy you want the cath. You went to Catholic school. I did. And really, it was always, hey, God damn is the, you stay away from God damn. God don't give a fuck about fuck. He had a potty mouth himself. Who, God? Yeah. Did he?

Created the word. Does he? Or she. I don't understand why he or she or whoever created my mouth the way it is. If they created everything in their vision. Are we not disrespecting their vision if I don't speak how I'm supposed to speak? That's the devil tempting you.

That's the devil tempting you. Well, the devil went down to Georgia. He's looking for soul to steal. He's in the back. He's laying around. He's willing to make a deal. Hey, my name. My, you might be in the name I'll make that bet you know, you're gonna miss this ever been

I'm riding around, running around I'm definitely gonna have the right time Check it out, pick it out, though You know what I mean, AJ? It's a good song, man. No time, no. How about Johnny keeping his soul? Yeah.

Fucking good fiddling. Yeah. Which is also known as the violin. Mm-hmm. A little different. Same. A little twangy. Same.

Oh. Interchangeable, I believe. Sounds like a banjo guitar situation. I think they just tried to make a violin cooler and call it a fiddle. And it was. Are you sure? Yeah. No, I'm not 100% sure.

It just looks like a violin every time they fucking play it. Yep. Fucking howl at the moon when the fiddlers hop on top of the piano. Game changer. Every time

they hop up on that fucking table or on the piano and just like fucking give it to me. You are 100% correct, by the way. Bam, bam, bam. Get on there.

Who's here for the devil? Who's on the devil? Same thing, right? Yeah. Basically, it's an informal way of referring, basically calling a violin. It's basically a film. Yeah, it's a more country way. Yeah.

Talk about violin. Hell yeah. Well, and if you're going to play in Texas, you got to play a field in the Bay. They leave you dogs out and not for Louisiana. That's a weird line. What? Another good song from Alabama. Yeah.

Goddamn right. Play the hits. Play the hits. Came on this morning. Oh, yeah. Listen to that song 500 times this weekend. There's no way. Because you listened to that song 900 times last week.

It continued into the weekend? Oh, yeah. Just on your phone, just randomly? Oh, yeah. I was working in the yard on Sunday, cutting the grass, getting the yard ready. Maybe 400 times for myself on repeat on loop. We just love beating the hell out of things yep and this is just up at the plate right now it's fucking may 23rd yeah that's right

there'll be another one all right we're out of here up some season is happening oh yeah what does that mean aj i i'm trying to figure that out too Me three Me four And Evie said You guys love to beat the hell out of things What else do you guys do? What is that?

Come on bro Well Bill beats his Yeah Yeah Bopping Bill No the internet Suck bots Yeah suck bots

Which I mean If you're out there, fucking come over to my page. We're not real. It's a fake account. One time. Someone at least

create a burner suck, suck bot account. I know. That's what sucks. It's like, hey, some people want you in their comments. And that's me.

Yeah, there's that one middle-aged woman that really likes you. Yeah, Judith. Rocket. Oh, my God. I forgot about Judith. Yeah. Judith started talking about how long Connor lasts in a sack and stuff. Who is Judith?

That's my girl. Judith looks like she's about, I don't know, 25 years old or so. Is she a robot? 2,500 years old, maybe. Whoa. She's going to be heartbroken here. I love her, so she knows that. old or so? Is she a robot? 2,500 years old, maybe. She's going to be heartbroken here. I love her, so she knows that. This is how we go back and forth.

Judith loves her some Connor. She's in his comments. She's a real person? Yeah, she's a missile. Oh, nice. Congrats, Connor. Thank you. I appreciate that. If there are other suckbots out there, too, follow Judith's lead. Judith is not a suckbot. I don't know. I appreciate that if there are other suck bots out there too follow Judas lead Judas is not a suck bot I don't know

Judas might kill the other suck bots if they come after you she seems to love you oh feud Judas is a real deal yeah suck off

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