The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 704 - All 32 Teams Have Reported To NFL Training Camps, Jason McCourty, Atlanta Braves SS Dansby Swanson, Dana White, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: July 26, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about Aaron Rodgers showing up to Packers training camp dressed like Cameron Poe from Con Air and winning the day, the feelings of players going back to work today, and more on Kyler Murray's contract extension with the Cardinals that requires him to study film outside of the facility for at least 4 hours a week. Joining the progrum is Super Bowl Champion, 12 year NFL veteran, and new co-host of Good Morning Football, Jason McCourty, to chat about how he got the GMFB gig, his thoughts on Kyler Murray and his contract and the film addendum, what he thinks separates the good teams from the bad teams, and more (18:12-36:17). Later, World Series Champion, All-Star, friend of the progrum and Shortstop for the Atlanta Braves, Dansby Swanson joins the show to chat about the 2nd half of the baseball season and how he stays locked in, his All-Star experience, cheating in baseball, why he loves the game, and more (1:05:11-1:39:50). Later, President of the UFC, Dana White joins the show to chat about this weekend's UFC 277 tilt, why he's always at odds with some people in the MMA media, what he does for fun/if he has anything planned for his birthday, some marquee fights that he's looking forward in the future, why he loves the Keto diet, and more (1:39:52-1:59:13). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show, and listen on Sirius XM Channel 82, Mad Dog Radio. We appreciate the hell out of all you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. It is holy hell. Every team is in training camp Tuesday, July 26, 2022. This sports show begins now. Let's ride. Let's ride into a glorious time to be alive. All 32 NFL teams are arriving at training camp. That means football is right around the corner. I actually woke up this morning. It was a little bit chillier in Indianapolis, Indiana. We had been going through a heat wave like everybody else, 100 degrees, 99 degrees, 98 degrees. Then this morning, the same day that 28 more teams go to training camp,

the rest of the NFL has checked in to the NFL season. On that same day, it was a little chilling. I said, wait a minute. This feels like football weather and god damn it, it is. We have made it. All the teams are checking in. The season is on the precipice of taking over

all of our lives. Congrats to everybody for surviving. The offseason. Next week there's a game, I guess, and then obviously everything after that gets rolling. The NFL is rocking. Now, when training camp comes around, there's a game, I guess, and then obviously everything after that gets rolling. The NFL is rocking. Now, when training camp comes around, there's only a couple things to think about on day one. You start thinking about all the hard times you just went through with all the terrible sports that you had to act like you were interested in.

You remember when I was watching baseball there for 20, 30 minutes? I remember when we were watching NBA playoffs and Boston Celtics team, those were just absolute dog shit. when we were watching NBA playoffs and Boston Celtics team, those were just absolute dog shit, made a run. Ultimately, in the end, got dunked on by Nat King, Steph Curry. I remember we were doing that.

You remember? We were all in on that. Oh, yeah. We cared. We genuinely cared. No, we didn't. We just cared in the moment because football wasn't around.

Probably a little bit more transparency for me there than basketball fans would want to hear, but I have to be honest to God truth. We have made it to football season then you start thinking yourself well is there any football happening today not really no i mean there's nothing really that's going to come out we'll see some pictures of guys in uniforms how do they look how do they not look did they look like they spent the off season like

i did my first couple off seasons or did they spend the off season like tom brady does his entire life of working out and being in the best shape you could possibly be in? Then you start thinking to yourself, oh, nothing's really going to come out from training camp maybe for the next couple of days other than quotes, no real football stuff. And then you think to yourself, oh, what is day one all about? It's about the arrivals.

It is. Who's going to cement their legacy as being one of the greatest arrivals to training camp in NFL history. It has been happening around the NFL for a long time. Guys check into work because that's what it is. And, you know, incredible and metaphorical fashions and beautiful fashions. And, you know, you go back into history, you got Vince Williams of the Pittsburgh Steelers showing up like Stone Cold Steve Austin.

What? He said, look, I'm over at the Cary War Pass on the season. I got this wrist on. What? He said, I'm over the can of War Pass on the season. I got this rest on. What? I got these boots on. What? I got these jorts on. What?

I'm holding the title because at the end of this goddamn teaser, we're going to be holding one that looks a lot like a Lombardi. What? That was awesome. I got an opportunity to be teammates with a guy who,

I think he got handed down to him from Edger and James to Reggie Wayne. One time showed up in a construction vehicle with a hard head on, said it's time to go to work. Another time, IndyCar. He arrived in an IndyCar, which was, I thought, the only photo we had of Reggie. We had another one. That's awesome.

That's good news. That's on me. Reggie in the IndyCar was fantastic. A little bit of a drizzle. Oh, really? Yeah. So there was a little bit of a buzz in the air because some people knew how he was going to run. I don't know.

Reggie and I obviously did not speak much whenever we were Colts teammates. Sure. I think he's a good guy. I've learned a lot about him post then. But during, we had zero relationship. Only teammate in the history of any sport, by the way, that I've ever not had a relationship with. He just wasn't about my shit, I don't think. Which, by the way that i've ever not had a relationship with he just wasn't about my shit i don't think which by the way respect neither am i most of the time but there was quite a buzz about the indycar arrival and there's a little bit of a rain then he showed

up he was like hey we need to get off to a hot start or something oh nice there's always some sort of awesome message and anything reggie did the entire team followed because he's og and he's a hall of famer and he's great at football but whenever he would do that it did feel like it was a you know a light switch like all right now now the fun's up now it's the season now we go today somebody showed up and it is going to go down as one of the great arrivals in the history of the NFL and I hate that we always seem to be doing this. It does seem like that, doesn't it? I do hate that it always

seems to be us that have to do this. Because for a long time, this person was talked about as being the biggest piece of shit walking. And then all of a sudden, some people have had

conversations with him and have met him and actually asked him questions about who the fuck he is as a human saying, you know, actually, good guy.

And also, best football thrower in all time. Currently, the back-to-back MVP, actually, good guy. Yeah, he's a good guy. And also, best football thrower of all time. Currently the back-to-back MVP, a guy that we get called a lot of things on the internet for talking positively about him after all the years of people just shitting on him without even knowing who he is. So we obviously are a part of the problem here and making him maybe a likable guy because maybe he is a likable guy

as opposed to what everybody was told for a long time. But when this motherfucker shows up like Nick Cage from Con Air, you can't help but just be incredible. Look at this fucking guy! Wow. Top notch. Have you ever seen somebody more confident or comfortable walking into fucking training camp as a back-to-back MVP? Maybe that'd be some pressure. You know, lost your

number one guy, you're back-to-back MVP of the weight of the world, you just signed a new deal that Ian Rappaport actually changed the way he covers contracts to report because that's how big of a fucking to the world. You just signed a new deal that Ian Rappaport actually changed the way he covers contracts to report because that's how big of a fucking deal it was. And then you got a new tattoo. Yeah.

True. You got a lot of chatter about you. Everything you do causes news. You take a poop, people go, what? Holy shit. He shows up as fucking

Nick Cage of Connor. What's that guy's name? Cameron Poe. Boom. Badass movie. My dad and I watched it in the most piece of shit theater in Erie, Pennsylvania. Because Tim Mack, when it came out, it was at a soccer tournament, I think, up there.

Tim Mack had to lay eyes on it early. Might have been like three bucks to get in and watch it at the soccer tournament. Fell in love, obviously, with Nicolas Cage that day. But what a story. What a story. What is he saying? What old Conner is saying right there, you think? At Ty Schmidt, one of the owners of the Green Bay Packers.

What do you think the message is being conveyed? When he put that backpack down, by the way, is that the baggage of the offseason? Is he putting that down and saying, hey, listen, we're not taking anything that happened this offseason into the regular season? Is that everybody else's opinions and thoughts that he's laying down in the backpack in front of the Range Rover? Or did he just maybe say, oh, I got to finish this shot, don't need to bet?

I mean, nonetheless, why? Do you think this was the choice? And how awesome is that, that that's your fucking quarterback? Yeah, pretty fucking awesome. And like you said, too, I mean, he's yoked. You know, I feel like a lot of times- Traps!

Yeah, we talk about like, you know, you see pictures in the off-season, it's like, oh, Jesus, what has he been doing? You know, he's on vacation. He looks a little frail. He looks a little skinny. He looks absolutely fucking huge, yoked, ready to go, probably going to win a third MVP. Look at those traps. Holy shit.

For those that are wondering, what they're wearing there is baiters. That's right. I wear tank top. Those are baiters. Exactly. Two very different fashion choices and styles. But both do, if you have traps or arms or anything, you know, cover up the bot. Don't need to do any many abs.

But if you get the arms and the show muscles ready, you know, the tank top or the beater will work for you. Dude looks fucking... He does. And his legs, by the way. We saw him at the match. His legs are fucking... We saw him over there At Tahoe You know when

Drama Says that one guy Walks by about his calves Yeah That's good When he walks by And he says Those are fake

I know those are fake Yep That's almost what it's like With that fucking guy I don't know if he just Is doing like Like raises Leg raises

All the time All the time. All the time. But he looks and appears to be in great shape. Yeah. Appears to be very comfortable and confident. Yep.

And he just had a rival that people talk about probably forever. That's right. And I think if you look a little bit deeper, you know, Con Air,

the movie, Cameron Poe, Nick Cage has a chance. He can get off Con Air. He can, you know, they land at an airstrip. here we go.

He can get off there. He can leave. Okay. He's basically at an airstrip. Oh, here we go. He can get off there. He can leave. Okay? He's basically good, but he says, hey, I got a buddy on the plane. All right? I can't fucking, I can't just let a man go. I got to save him. A lot of people saying, hey, he's going to retire.

Devontae's gone. He's still got a lot of good friends in that locker room. He's got unfinished business. He's not just going to walk off into the sunset and retire. He's proven a lot. Freedom could walk towards. He could. Wow. He could walk towards wow walk towards freedom who's Cyrus the virus well at ton digs asking hard questions Cyrus the virus I mean I guess you got to say it could be the Rams it could be the nine years it could be the nine definitely could be the niners but but

yeah he has unfinished business he he's got to walk back on that plane, and he's got to get to the Vegas Strip, which this year, Scottsdale, Arizona. Here we go. Wow. I texted him and let him know that I thought that was one of the most hysterical arrivals I've ever seen. That was awesome. Pretty solid yes was the response. Nice. So I think he feels good about it, too.

He should. You know, when he started growing that hair, it was for Halloween, right? John Wick.? John Wick. Did John Wick. Obviously, everybody talked about it, not because of how much he did look like John Wick. No. There was some other part of him. Halloween itself, right?

Close contact. So then he just kept growing. It was like, oh, there's probably another reason. And then as he started thinking about training camp, he was like, I knew I kept this for a reason. Yes. This is perfect. Fucking Connor thinking about training camp, he was like, I knew I kept this for a reason. Yes. This is perfect. Fucking Conor walking into training camp. Think about the boys seeing him walk in.

Juiced up. Everybody head back laughing so hard. Boys, how we doing? New tattoo. Let's talk about it. Yeah. Check it out. Let's get into this whole thing.

That's training camp arrivals are, I think, the final step before like, all right, here we go. Now we're going to get some shit. We did get some shit. Bill Belichick was speaking at training camp. And Boston Conner, I know you're all jacked up about this. It sounds like he and Mack know each other very well. As if they've been hanging out every single day since the season ended, you know, working on concepts, maybe, you know, deciphering defenses, not just New England's, but also what every other team in the division in the league and the conference do so yeah i feel pretty good about what bill belichick was saying today about mac jones we have a video of bill belichick chit-chatting

about mac jones and it sounds like how bill belichick normally speaks about the opponent right so there was always a time it feels like each week when the Patriots are playing somebody and Bill cuts a promo for a player on another team bingo but in doing so he's also letting that person know like hey you ain't doing shit this week like he's actually letting everybody know like hey this person I have immense respect for and everybody around the NFL knows if that's how Bill feels like the coverage is gonna shape exactly how this is going to go. And he always talks about, he'll get into long snappers every once in a while.

He'll get into punting and special teams. He'll talk about individual players, former players of the Patriots. He'll cut a promo during the press, during the week of the game. That is, you know, I think players that hear it are fucking very pumped that they potentially,

they just got a promo from Bill. He did this about a guy on his team. Interesting. His quarterback, and I think that is why eyebrows have been raised all around the Revolution region. Here's Bill Belichick from training camp via NBC Sports Boston talking about Mac Jones. As you install a, quote, streamlined offense, how much input does Mac Jones have on what this new offense will look like as you build it and wrap it around it? Yeah, well, certainly he'll have input.

I think Mac's done a great job. He's worked extremely hard. He's got a tremendous work ethic in all areas. I think there's a dramatic improvement. His physical work and conditioning, working on his mechanics, working on his footwork, working on his understanding of our offense, of opponent defenses, of situations, all those things. He did a great job last year, but he's starting from a much, much higher point this year

than where he started last year. His offseason work has been significant, and I think everyone recognizes how well he prepares and how much further along he

was than he was a year ago. That's a fucking hell of a promo, right? Unbelievable. That sounds exactly like how of a promo, right? Yeah, unbelievable. That sounds exactly like how he speaks about people on other teams. And it sounded like at the beginning he was almost going to say nothing. He was like, yeah, Mac has input. And then it was almost like, you know, his heart grew three sizes that day. A little bit.

In the middle of it, he was like, actually, Mac does deserve that. Yeah. Mac, you know, I think people should know that this guy who ran a four six with a very comfortable workout routine it seemed like which a lot of quarterbacks have by the way has lost weight maybe he's fucking running four five very possible but him understanding the concepts and being at a much higher level which everybody talks about his brain being a big one coming into the nfl Bill fucking Belichick also said, who's calling plays? He said, I'm the head coach. I'm in charge of everything. And didn't say anything else.

Fuck it. This is what you've been saying since Dan Orlovsky said he was very worried about Mac Jones having a different person in his ear, especially not being Josh McTaylor. What's your number one worry going into the season? Dan Orlovsky was asked. My number one, and we love Dan. Of course. Everybody knows we love Dan. Of course.

Everybody knows we love Dan. A lot of respect. Dan lets that mouth say some ridiculous shit every once in a while, though, that he actually believes. So we have to do that. The thing in that morning when he was asked, the thing he was most worried about was Mac Jones with a new person in his ear because McDaniels left.

Yep. And all you and basically all Patriots fans said, is Bill Belichick still there? I don't give a fuck, basically. Yes. Now it sounds like, were Bill and Matt just like this all offseason? What does that mean for everybody else? And what does this mean for the offense that's taking place in New England

with a former special teams coach and a fired head coach from the Giants now working with the offense and everything else? And Matt Patricia, defense coordinator, working with the offense. And Bill, who's a defensive guy working with the offense. What does this mean, you think? And are you pumped about it all oh i'm very pumped i placed a pretty large wager on mac jones when mvp this morning just because after that after watching that yeah and i think when you look at like what bill has said and us not having a fullback anymore

us drafting a offensive lineman and then a wide receiver with our first two picks like the team is just going to be in Max's hands. We're not going to be like the, what did we run the ball 60 times during one game last year? His wins were terrible. Yeah, exactly. The win was terrible, but it seems like either way, we're going to put the ball in Max's hands, see what he can do. I'm juiced about it.

I think Bill's saying, you know, obviously I'm the head coach, so I'll just leave it at that. He's not worried about it, so why would I be? And then I always go back to what Brady said in Man in the Arena about how like he'll hear that a guy's really good but who's going to show him how to be great and he had Bill Belichick show him how to be great and it sounds like you know Bill's kind of already started that process process with Mac Jones kind of showing him you know what he needs to do to become like a top guy Mac never left town right never left town yeah no bull no bull never left town, right? Never left town. No bull?

No bull. Never left town. He's working with the training staff the entire offseason. He's probably in with Bill in that because we have so much of do your job film. Yes. On Bill Belichick's office where Tom comes in and sits down. They do that whole thing. That was Mack's offseason.

Yeah, that's exactly what I think. I think that's why Bill said that because I honestly don't remember the last time, not even during training camp, but that he even just said or had glowing reviews for someone on the Patriots ever. So I think that kind of also plays into the part that he has in my town. Oh, Cam. He talked up Cam. Remember he talked up Cam and said nobody leads like Cam leads. Yeah. During the season, though. I don't think there's ever been a time. I thought it was at the beginning of the season. He talked up Cam. He's talking up Mac.

What? Sounds like he's trying to make his ex-wife a little jealous. Oh, Tony! Feels like Tom's still renting space in Bill's head, and he's just trying to justify what he did to Tom. No, so he's saying Mac seems to be smarter than any previous quarterback I ever worked with. Mac seems to be smarter than any previous quarterback I ever worked with Mac seems to have a much higher football work ethic Than anybody I've ever worked with before

You think Tom's listening to that press conference and going That motherfucker You think that's what Tom's I'm sure word's going to make its way back Hey, did Bill ever compliment you? Ever? Hey, did you Did you ever have any input in the offense?

Second year of Mac Jones. Yeah, I know we do. Second year is getting input in the offense. Publicly, by the way. Publicly, yeah. Mac will have input, which is awesome to think about because you should if you're the quarterback. But putting that on a second-year guy means the amount of trust you have in his respect, his leadership,

and the respect that people have for him in the locker room, how much you think he can handle, what do you think he can do. Them reshaping that entire roster, basically, and going in with Mac Jones and changing how they do things. Yeah. You're excited, huh? Oh, I'm very. Buffalo Bill is still right down the road.

That's right. Right down the road. The Buffalo Bills are right down the road. Super Bowl favorites, MVP favorites. And, I mean, the other thing too is everyone's talking about the Dolphins. It's not as if the Dolphins didn't have a bad offseason.

They've made so many goddamn moves that the Patriots have kind of fallen off a little bit, especially with McDaniels leaving. So we'll see what happens. What was that name

Bill used to use for Tommy? He'd say, Johnny Foxborough. Johnny Foxborough. Not Tommy Foxborough. Every time I brought that up, I had some fucking asshole prick. It's Johnny Foxborough. All right,borough. Every time I brought that up, I had some fucking asshole prick. It's

Johnny Foxborough. I'm like, alright, same thing. You get it. You understand what he was saying. He was saying that anybody could do what you just did that lives around. We had Eagle Creek All-Americans that would show up at practice. It was like Friday All-Pros. You know what I mean?

The people that try super hard in practice, although they are talented at football, when types of the people that try super hard in practice that, you know, although they are talented in football when compared to other people that play pickup football, when it comes to NFL guys and you're, you know, a guy that's on a practice squad,

but it's week 16, week 15, and you're going harder than everybody else. There's a lot of, Johnny fucking Foxborough here. Yeah. Oh, he was this guy.

Like there's a lot of that thrown around there, which I believe if that was being said about Tom Brady, I could see how Tom and the family potentially take offense. Joining us now,

a man who's been a Super Bowl champion and has seen the lows of the NFL in winning and losing. More specifically with the Browns

rolling for it. Can't hold him in toughs. It's not his fault because that motherfucker's a champion. Not only is he a champion and will be forever remembered that way, now he'll be known as a man

who's a host of an Emmy award-winning show. Ladies and gentlemen, new host of Good Morning Football, Jason McCourty. Yeah! Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Yes, did you?

Yes! This sounds good. Hey, you look good. You sound good. Hell yeah. There you go. Appreciate it. Hey, I love that i love that west

virginia jersey in the background the one college team i was never able to beat so uh i love that you're displaying it and i'm kind of reminded of those college days if it means anything that's the only it's never here i just put it up because of that you know what i mean i just put it up you know this trophy too i don't know if you ever won one of those. I won one. No, I'm joking. You've accomplished so much. I'm appreciative of the fact that you recognize West Virginia's greatness because more people need to do so.

Let's win some fucking games, West Virginia, though. All right. Anyways, let's move along here. Whenever you got the gig for Good Morning Football, you had to be pumped. This is a huge show watched by so many people. You immediately out of retirement right in there did you know you're going to get into tv did you know that role was going to be there for you and how have you enjoyed your first couple days man the first two days

have been great man this was just a a great way for me to kind of transition out of the league but not uh when the season ended last year i was going through a liz frank injury i had surgery in november so wasn't sure I was really going to play. Went out to L.A. and did the NFL broadcast boot camp, and opportunities started popping up from that. And honestly, I didn't think that Good Morning Football would be an opportunity that would be interested in me, but when it came, I was able to go out there and do an audition at the end of June,

and we were able to work out a deal, and I'm fired up to be there, learning from Peter and Kyle and me and Jamie, the rookies on the show. So it's been a blast so far. Yeah, we've been watching a lot of great energy, a lot of like, hey, let's get to know these people that are now new hosts type of segments. Do you walk in there every morning with like 45, 60 different segments to pitch every single day, or how's that all work? No,

you got, you got to start with the slow burn. You know, I'm still the rookie. Those guys, Kyle and Peter come in, their clothes already picked out for them. They're placed on their chair.

For me, I'm walking in with a bag, holding my sneakers, bringing my own stuff into work to put on. So there's levels. Hard hat. Hard hat. With a slow burn. I'm still,

I'm the rookie in the game. You're going to do a great job. I can't wait to continue to see what your show grows into. I talked about it there. You were part of that Browns team that won zero games. Then you go on to become a champion. You've played in a couple different franchises. You've gotten to see why teams work, why teams don't work.

What do you think is the biggest separator between the shit organizations and the ones that go, you think is the through your experiences your nfl time what do you think is the separate because i feel like there's a lot of people that as soon as training camp starts here every fan base thinks their team has a chance but every human that has like uh you know pretty good visual on how all the teams operate like there's probably like 12 teams that can maybe go and get there what do you think is the separator there, Jason? Without a doubt, as simple as it sounds, it's having people moving in the right direction. I think when it comes to the NFL and professional football,

there's always a ton, probably a lot of times too much of ego going around the room. So I think the one thing I learned being in New England, you don't have to always have the best player out of position, the best coach out of position. But if everybody within the organization is moving to the same beat and to the same sound, it actually gives you a legit chance. Like you just mentioned, when we were 0-16 in Cleveland, we had players. I mean, I won a Super Bowl after that. Emmanuel Ogba went to Kansas City.

He won a championship. Duke Johnson was in Houston, a star running back on the Texans team who was in the playoffs. So there was a lot of talent in that room and in that locker room that went on to continue to play in the National Football League. But everybody wasn't always on the same page. And I think that was evident. And I spent eight years in Tennessee. We never made it to the playoffs. There's always so many other factors that take away from a team's ability to go out there on Sunday and win games. So something as simple as just people being on the same page and not worrying about ego, who's getting the credit or whose idea it is, goes a long way in winning a football game on Sunday.

It's already hard enough to win, especially with the injury rate of being like 100% and if it's a key guy, but if then you got people going in different directions, you got no shot. I'm intrigued to see see the turnover of franchises when it just continues to lose, lose, lose, lose. New head coach, new GM, lose, lose, lose. It's like, is the building cursed? How does that whole thing operate? Or do some places get lucky? Like, for instance, New England getting Bill Belichick.

What, he retired from or he quit the jet shop after getting fired from Cleveland, I think? No. Yeah, he started in Cleveland. Fired from Cleveland, quits the Jets job on a napkin, goes to New England, obviously builds into what it becomes. He's been known as just being this hard ass, right? Accountable, very accountable, militant almost type because he grew up in the Navy.

And it's the Patriot way. The Patriot way is we're going to be smarter than everybody. We're going to know everything. He was never really super nice to his players publicly. He just came out and cut a promo for Mac Jones yesterday at training camp about how much tougher he is. He seems to be in better shape. He didn't leave.

He knows the game inside out. What defenses are going to do more. Have you seen him evolve, you think? And is this a necessary thing with the modern locker room for Bill Belichick to do so? It's funny you say that because for me as a guy, like I got there, he wasn't a militant guy. He wasn't super angry all the time. But that's the funny thing is you always get former guys coming back. And one thing they will always say is, man, Bill is a lot nicer now than he was back in the day.

And I think that's just evolving with players. Even, Pat, you can know when we first came in the league and the way players are dealt with now compared to us, it's totally different. I mean, Kyler Murray just got a clause in his contract forcing him to watch film. Like, it's just, it's not the same age of players. So I definitely think he has evolved over time

and he's trying to do and say the necessary things to create a team that can go out there and win and compete. And they do, it seems like. And everybody in New England that's a Patriot fan, for good reason, whatever he says, they're like, all right, he'll figure it out. Bill Belichick will figure it out. Honestly, greatest GM in history, greatest head coach in history, same fucking guy.

I don't know if anybody will ever be able to do that again. Let's talk about that clause that you just chit-chatted about. It took over the Internet yesterday, and we don't know who leaked this information we don't know who thought this was a good thing to leak the team wouldn't want to leak this because the team just gave 160 million dollars to a guy that they had to put in a contract clause that says hey you'll do a pretty basic part of your job as being an nfl quarterback there's no way the player wanted that out or the agent wanted that out because it automatically leads to like a guy isn't even watching film by himself. Whenever you hear these countless stories about the amount of time that quarterbacks have taken in film study

and preparation and everything like that. What was your initial thought of this? I thought it was fake. And then my follow-up was nobody would want this information out there, how to get out there. That was my first inkling from the entire thing, Jason. Yeah, for sure. It creates a huge distraction. Now, Kyler Murray, as a starter training camp rolls around here, he has to answer questions about it. But not only him, all of his teammates now have to answer questions

about his film-watching habits. Did you know? How do you feel about it moving forward? What's the message from the organization my thing on it too is that for other players you're going to look at a guy and we play with a ton of guys some guys feel as though they have to watch hours and hours of films guys feel like they have to work out seven days a week to be able to play in the nfl some guys feel like yo i can roll out of bed and I've been blessed with that much talent that I can just go play.

Hell, give Kyler Murray some credit because for three seasons, he's played well and he's earned a $230 million contract without watching a ton of films. Without knowing what the fuck's going on. The guy is immensely talented, and the Cardinals know he's not watching film, and they still gave him this money so i think guys in the locker room their opinion isn't going to change if he wasn't watching

film guys know that they weren't probably surprised by this i think the thing they have to figure out now if i'm a veteran on that team hell if you don't want to watch film and it's gotten you paid who am i to tell you to watch film but we need to figure out how to finish these seasons better so as it gets down to the nitty-gritty i may have to pull you in the film session myself and say, hey, let's go over this. Let's go over that. They have some veterans on that offensive line that can kind of help push it in a direction.

But, man, if you told me I can make that type of money and I can go home and not worry about putting on some film, I'd sign up for it. Yeah, I think so. The last three years, they're two and four down the stretch, 2-3, 2-3 down the stretch. And it's like, well, there's also, I believe, a Call of Duty game that drops. Oh, yeah. Call of Duty game that drops that the internet has pointed out. The date in which that game drops and then his performance immediately following.

So it's like maybe he's caught up sniping or whatever. But towards the end of the season, everybody else gets smarter. The defense coordinators get smarter. Yeah, you would hope your team gets smarter. It's your best football. Hey, we're trying to play our best football late, trying to be the smartest football team we can be late. And he seems like just going out there, I'll figure it out.

And whenever push comes to shove in a massive game, you'll never be able to win like that. Like that is just at the quarterback position, you have to have, I think, somebody that is prepared for everything if you want to win a Super Bowl. I think you can win games. Obviously, they have. But I think this clause will hopefully make Kyler a fucking guy.

You know, like, this might force Kyler to become a guy, and I'm excited. I think everybody will be pumped to see it, Jason. Without a doubt. And I saw Michael Vick said, looking back on his career, he said he used to get those little DVDs and just throw them in the back of the car. And he said, hey, I would have watched more film and kind of prepared a little bit more. I think I would have got a chance to win a Super Bowl. And maybe that was a Cardinals kind of ploy. If this thing becomes public, maybe it puts more pressure on

Kyler because, hey, when things go good this season, everybody in the media is going to be saying, hey, Kyler must have went above that four-hour quota this week. When things don't go well, it's going to be like, hey, he probably just had the iPad running while he was watching TV, the newest show coming out, or he was playing a little bit Call of Duty. So it's going to be an ongoing saga all season. So I can't wait for the odds. The week after the Call of Duty, whatever game is the week after a Call of Duty drop, just the odds on the

Cardinals winning. Plus 10,000 Cardinals to win here. Collars spent the last 70 hours clocked in. Yeah, here's the tweet. And obviously this is not a reputable source. We have no idea who this person is.

They just made this graphic. And 2019, 2020, and 2021 is when the annual Call of Duty games released. The performance just goes straight down. Look, it's just getting better, better, better. But that also might come up with, you know, the end of the season, people get hurt. You never know. Coincidences. Coincidences. Coincidences.

Exactly. Exactly. Well said. Thank you. Tony, your question for Jason? Jason, Tyreek Hills made a bunch of noise, news, I should say, saying that he went to Miami because Tua is the most accurate quarterback in the NFL. You were there last year.

Do you agree with that? What are your thoughts on Tua, and what does he have to do to get over the hump? Yeah, man, I'm a big Tua fan. I mean, obviously, if I was getting paid as much money as Tyreek Hill is by an organization, I would be saying Tua is the most accurate quarterback in the NFL, too. I'm not going to down him that just yet. But at the same time, I think it's a great situation in miami going on

right now i think for two his career since he got to miami it's always been about another guy when he first got there it was him it was fitzpatrick who's who's the quarterback to lead them two ends up getting a helm pass to him later on in the season but a lot of people were wondering hey could we have done better with fitzpatrick then you fast forward to last year and it's just like all right it's to his team Fitzpatrick's gone and then all you hear about the rumblings are hey Deshaun Watson hey ownership wants him trade deadline comes around hey Miami's back in play are they going to trade for Deshaun Watson so I think it's some positive vibes going on around that building in South Florida where Tyreek Hill is pubbing to everybody's talking good and I think it's helping him possibly move

in the right direction. There's not as much negativity going on right now down there in South Florida. It has to help, right? Just a little optimism, a little confidence boost has to help everybody. For sure, for sure. I mean, it's probably gotten to the point where Tua may be like, all right, man, I'm tired. We got it live.

Let's let it simmer now. Let's not go overboard. It's like you're in that new girlfriend phase where it's just infatuation. Everybody's loving on each other. It's compliments through the ass. It's just a good feeling right now. Yeah, absolutely. That's what the people in Boston are saying about Bill and Mac.

They're trying to shove us in time. Your question for Jason McCourty, Boston Connor? Yeah, Jason, I don't think it was like this the entire time, but I believe in the last two years in New England there was no D.C. Is it weird being on a team where there aren't, like, distinguished coordinators? And also while you were there, although Josh McDaniels was there, was Bill Belichick involved in the offense whatsoever?

Yeah, I think it's not really confusing as long as you know who's standing in front of you the meeting in the meeting room and who's the one communicating with you i think it can become confusing where it's just like hey if there's one day one guy's talking the next day another guy's talking to you or if there's a question about scheme hey if a team does x y and z what's our response going to be a guy has to know who he's taking that question to. I think as far as titles go, now that I'm a member of the media, it gives us something to talk about.

You were like the media. You know that. Emmy winner. That's like you are media media now. I didn't win the Emmy. They won it before I got there. You got hired after they won it though i got there you got hired after they won it though they said what's the standard of course fucking jason mccourty the pressure's on

to try to win another one see then we want another one then i may just retire uh from the media and say like hey i'm a super bowl champ and an emmy award-winning tv personality so okay we'll see what happens but uh for those guys i think it's more about just continue to move forward and know what's going on. And then with Josh, from, from my standpoint, I don't know what goes on in the coaches meetings and everything,

but Josh ran the offense. And I think Bill's always been more of a defensive coach, but Bill's a guy that can coach all three up in the meeting rooms. And sometimes we'd be in there for an hour and a team meeting and build with coach, the special teams, the defense and the offense calling people out. the meeting rooms and sometimes we'd be in there for an hour and a team meeting and bill would coach the special teams the defense and the offense calling people out one of the most impressive things i've seen because i never had but you know most of those team meetings with the head coach are 10 minutes you hit the schedule you had the thought process for the day and then you break

into your meetings bill would go phase by phase and would go in but I'm a big fan of Josh McDaniels. His ability to find and mismatch and exploit it and get his playmakers the ball in their hands has been impressive throughout his entire career. Hey, he's the GM, the lead counsel, and now the head coach of all of them. How does he have time? You think he's one of those time travelers able to slow down time? You think he's able to do it? How does he have enough time to do all these jobs that literally nobody else in the history of the business

has been able to do at a high level and probably nobody will ever be able to do again? It's very time-consuming, all this shit, isn't it? Yeah, man. He's a special dude. I think it was documented on one of the football lives or something. He'd be on the treadmill getting his morning workout in. Back in the day before we had iPads and all of these things to watch film. It was just pictures. And he, but they said he'd have

a huge binder and he would just flip through the pictures. And as you're flipping through the pictures to play kind of goes out, it's all the X's and O's and arrows and all of that. So what it is, it's time management. It's finding ways to multitask. So bill would be able to go in there, hit the treadmill, be able to get a great workout in, a good sweat, but at the same time, he's studying the game. So I think over the years, he's found that unique balance of being able to multitask

and always, there you go. He's sleeping and doing a press conference. No big deal. How about that? No big deal. That's pretty impressive. He's a dog. Let me catch a nap and do a press conference same damn time. And I'm going to run this back next week and the week after. He is an absolute dog.

I mean, it's going to go down into folklore history. I don't know how he finds time to get out on that boat or feed Nike treats. No kidding. Nike feeds himself now. Bill taught him how to pour his own bowl. Just like Mac Jones calls his own place now. Exactly. Same exact premise. Same type of situation go ahead time jason is there any part of you that feels like

you didn't even get to enjoy your retirement because you have to wake up like three in the morning to commute to new york or is it one of those things where like you see these guys reporting for camp and they're living in dorms and it's like what i'm doing now is a hell of a lot easier than what i would be doing definitely the the latter. So for me, I only played seven games last year, so I've been chilling the entire season, going to the games, sitting up in one of the suites, watching the guys play, hanging out, forcing and bossing my kids to do things for me.

So now it's nice. I think my wife was just like, you've been in the house too much. Let's go out. The early morning wake-ups are tough, but I was working out with my brother over this past month leading up to camp. And it was a very nice feeling knowing he was getting ready to report, run the conditioning test, and doing all those fun things.

And I'm just waking up, going to work for four hours, and then coming home and being able to jump on a FaceTime with you guys. Well, we're lucky you did as such. We can't wait to watch you continue to grow on Good Morning Football. Enjoy retirement. Good luck on the next Emmy you continue to grow on Good Morning Football. Enjoy retirement. Good luck on the next Emmy, right? Yeah. For that show.

And we appreciate your time immensely, Jason. Thank you. Appreciate you guys for having me. Good luck out there. Ladies and gentlemen, Jason McCourty. Hey, Jason. He's going to win, Emmy. Definitely.

I was watching some segments today. Yeah, show hasn't even skipped a beat. The show's all the way back Yeah They're on the street doing skits They were Eric's 7th Street They're cutting promos

You know what I noticed I'm not there and doing it What? Jamie's down on the street Come on What the hell are you talking about? Yeah of course he's on the street Not sure I ever saw

Not sure I ever saw Kay down on the street. Oh, my God. He's right. Yeah, but this is a get to know the person skit. Like they're trying to introduce. That's why they're actually doing these things is to introduce Jamie. Right. Kay was already on the show.

What are we even talking about? The get to know you skit was just a panel of them four, actually, by where you guys used to do your show. No, that was Meeting of the Minds. Yeah, Meeting of the Minds was about learning. This was a trivia relay race contest. She played softball. If you have someone who plays, it's like, hey, let's get Jamie down here.

She said she always has a hot hand, by the way. And she had a wet jumper. Wet jumper. Let's showcase. I mean, she hit a fucking moonbeam after spinning. She did. She did. Hey, if you've got a hot bat, showcase it.

Shrags kind of embarrassed himself. He did. No offense, Shrags. You embarrassed yourself. Shrags damn near took a header off the curb. Twice. He spun around twice.

Did you guys do Louisville chugger? Of course, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I assume everybody did. You know, put a whip ball back. All right. Do the whole thing. Chug, then spin.

Do the whole thing. Spin however many seconds it took to chug. Hit the beer can. Hit the beer can. Don't go again. Missed beer can. Gotta go again. Do the whole thing. Spin however many seconds it took. Chug. Hit the beer can. Hit the beer can. Don't go again. Missed beer can. Got to go again.

Right. It's tough. Great time. Very difficult. Yeah. Fun game. But I remember, not me, obviously. I would never do that.

I chose not to drink. Yeah, smart. Of course. Everybody else did. College athlete. I remember looking at other people. Exactly. Committed.

I remember watching other people do like 13, 14 spins. Yeah. Very boozed up. And then make people do like 13, 14 spins. Yeah. Very boozed up. And then make contact with a beer can while falling. Yeah. Shrakes did three spins this morning. Almost busted his face. What happened?

I don't know. I have no idea. I'm not a big spin guy either, though. When I get the spins, I'm doing the, you know, find your ground. Stop right. But three spins doesn't seem like enough to disorient you. No, not at all. Unless Shrakes had 15 beers on his way into work this morning, which is possible.

And that's what I'm saying. I remember vividly, and it was a pretty sketchy situation that I probably would have been responsible for, but it was the front yard of my house. I wasn't the only one who lived there, but it seemed like when anything bad happened, it was Pat McAfee's house. They came calling. I mean, I took blame for a lot of stuff, but a lot of stuff was good, so I'm happy to be a part of it.

Front yard, Louisville chugger. Boom. Make contact. Tumbled downhill. Ooh, not good. Pretty steep. Yeah, not good. With street underneath it. Yeah, and it was like, make contact, though. So, first thought is like, oh, hope, didn't crack open skull or break neck. Pretty important person to the city's happiness here.

I just had that happen to them. And then once human got up, it was like, bro, you hit that thing. That was fucking laser into the gap. Dude, you hit that. Like, congratulations. I was so happy for him. But, I mean, I couldn't even fathom Schrags. Imagine Schrags having a Louisville chug.

No, he can't do it. Well, I don't know. Does he chug? It could be like a two-second chug if he's slacking out. It has to be. Well, it's tough to drink out of those wiffle ball guts. It's a tiny little thing. You need the hole.

But also, yeah, you definitely need the gas can open at the top thing. But if it's more than three seconds, he's dead. He's dead. Because that was three spins, and it was like, Shranks, geez, nice shoes. Nice shoes. Shranks had some nice shoes. I saw him scuffing his shoes while he was doing it. I'm like, oh, oh, oh.

Peter. Take it easy there, Peter. Teams having fun, though. Yeah, having fun. They're building the chemistry. They're building it. Just like all these teams are checking in at training camp. That's right.

We talked about it a little bit there with Jason McCourty because of how alarmed he was about how the modern locker room is vastly different than what it used to be. of how alarmed he was about how the modern locker room is vastly different than what it used to be this this four hour of independent study clause yikes that the arizona cardinals put into kyler murray's contract trended all night last night for good reason oh yeah because i believe everybody's expectations of an nfl quarterback is like what peyton and tom and aaron and drew and these guys are at the top of the game who spend just countless hours trying to learn everything they can about the team they're playing and the team that they're playing for

and the sport that they play professionally. It's almost like you're just expected to do so from a fan's eyes. Like, that just comes with the job. Like, hey, you're a quarterback in the NFL. If you want to be worth a fuck, like, you're going to have to watch film. I think a lot of people just assumed that happened. Without a doubt. I think people, because they hear these stories of all the great quarterbacks being like

well film i had to watch film film film it's almost like just synonymous with greatness in the nfl is film study so so much so that when gronk said on uh monday night manning or whatever that he didn't watch film tom just watched watched film for him. It became a big backlash because everybody just expects that everybody watches film. It's your fucking job. What do you do all day, every day? You get to play football for a lot of money. It's just kind of synonymous with it. I, too, thought that was the case as well, strictly because when I was in the NFL,

I was very fucking lucky to watch a human robot play quarterback in the NFL for the first couple years, three years. Peyton Manning is what? Him and Tom are just known to be the most prepared guys, the most successful guys, cerebral guys. Like, hey, these guys are going to know the game inside and out. I remember having a conversation with him. And this wasn't, you know, after this Kyler Murray information came out. This was like years ago. But I had to rack my mind for it I like I remember because I think it was at his house or yeah I think it was at his

house and there was like a movie theater off of like his bedroom and like living room I think what I I'm pretty sure I might be misremembering this but I remember asking like oh this is a pretty interesting spot to have this and it was like oh yeah I like to watch film in here obviously he has the full setup for him it's a full thing has his remote and then he's able to just kind of do it so he doesn't have to stay at the facility until 2 a.m 3 a.m he can go do this shit at home and then i heard stories from like clyde christiansen who's quarterback coach now for the buccaneers was for peyton manning for a long time and andrew luck he's like the amount of calls i get like 3 a.m in the morning 2 30 a.m and i better have a fucking answer i think clyde even had to move like a computer or something into his bedroom

so that when peyton found something on film and asked him a question about it and if he had seen it or prepared for it he could go through it it's like the amount of hours in preparation in film study just kind of was synonymous with peyton manning and i think these other guys that are up there so whenever the internet and i think i remember asked him I think I remember asking him like how much film do you watch how much film do you my position I mean okay I can watch return a couple times you like a high ball he doesn't like a high ball guess what we're doing we're hitting this fucking high he doesn't like a line drive ball okay guess what we're doing we're hitting a little bit of a line drive ball this guy is a nightmare try to keep it away from him like that's the whole thing

but i remember like getting into a convo with him like how much you watch and he dove into like you gotta watch gotta watch every game the other team has played every stamp they've played every practice clip from your week of practice every game you guys have played that plays against a similar defense that they're playing every single third down situation broke up into their red zone every first down operation he's hey i think he went through it all and i i think i like prod him a little bit and he was like i don't know probably 20 hours of film yeah a week geez on his own that's not me yeah and he said he couldn't even put a number like it would be impossible because he's even Saturday into Sunday morning. There's just like, how can I get more information?

The more information I have, the better I'll be equipped to beat that defense. And then you hear Tom talk about his preparation. He was even on Monday Night Manning last year. And I think he was playing Seattle the next week. And Seattle was either on Monday Night Football. And there was a moment where Tom got lost. I think he forgot he was even on a fucking show because it was past his bedtime anyway,

especially for a Monday night. He started watching the film real quick. The defense had a sky shot on the defense, and you see him almost get intoxicated with the film real quick, and then he snaps out of it, and then he's back into the conversation. I've just always heard

that the greats are all film junkies. Can you become a film junkie, I guess, is what we're going to find out with this whole thing but everybody was alarmed and perturbed and my second follow-up was or my second thought was who leaked this yeah no there's nobody that wants this information out there and ian rapford said you know he already he already does four hours independent society they just wanted to commit to it long term it's like, well, this has never happened in the history of football, this clause to do four hours. And if they just wanted to hammer it home, why didn't they put 10 hours? Yeah.

You know, like what? 20. And with the way iPads are, the modern iPads, like you know exactly how much everybody watches. And to Jason McCourty's point, like, if that's what Kyler's been able to accomplish with not having a fucking clue what's going on and not being able to look for things himself,

then maybe he doesn't know how to watch films. Maybe they should get him a guy to sit with him and break down film with him so that he can see it as an advantage as opposed to more work. Maybe he'll get excited to break down a defense that he's about to slaughter on a Sunday as opposed to sniping somebody out of a helicopter

on Call of Duty. Maybe this is something that they can do. So this clause in the end, hopefully, will take Kyler to that next level. But fucking alarming, I think, for everybody, including Cardinals fans who are like, wait, you publicly said we want the biggest contract of all time, kind of held the organization hostage. Oh, yeah. Kind of like publicly said, hey, your team stunk without us. And they had to have known because the iPads tell exactly. And then they're like, all right, hey, here's a meet in the middle. If you can commit more than just what you do here in a day, like every other quarterback that has ever won a Super Bowl basically,

we will do this deal. He committed to it. They committed to it. We'll see how it pans out in four years. Well, and I think to your point too, though, it's like if you're insanely talented, like he is like physically gifted, athletically gifted, you can go 11 and 6. You can go 10 and 7. You can absolutely do that. But four hours is the bare minimum. It's like, hey, we want you to do the bare minimum of your job. Hey, it stinks too,

by the way. For sure. It stinks. There's only a couple people that have your job, though. But you look at guys like Peyton and Tom and Aaron who have talked about it. You can absolutely gain stuff from watching film and watching a bunch of film and being prepared. And it's like, at a certain point, you probably have to do that when you get late into the playoffs, when those teams know exactly what you're trying to do.

And you can't just rely on, I can throw a bomb here or I can fucking pick up the first down with my feet. Like eventually you're going to have to kind of outsmart it. Two and four, two and three, two and three down the stretch. Let's see what happens next year.

What does J.J. Watt think of this? So that's what I'm wondering, like how many of the teammates heard about this? Jason McCourty talks about what are the ramifications across the locker room? Like did everybody know that this guy? Because you could easily see how some people would be like, you disrespectful. Yeah. I commit my entire life to this.

Some of those older guys like hey we came out here because how good you were you i get three hours of pt three times a week just so i can do practice in a game it's no fun my body hurts like fucking hell but we're in this together as a team i thought we were doing this so i i am that's why i think neither team neither side wanted this information out i don't know i don't think any neither side wanted this information out. I don't think. No. I don't think either side wanted this out or whatever.

Well, they talk about it too. It just kind of highlights the immaturity, like when you have to put in there, like, he's watching film. He's not watching film and playing video games. Or it's like, are you fucking kidding me? This guy's making $160 million. He's a quarterback in the NFL. It's crazy.

But he's really fucking good. He's a quarterback in the nfl like it's crazy but he's really fucking good yes absolutely think about him just i'll show up i'll go through the meetings all right what if i don't get it right on the test on saturday you're not you're gonna start me i'm a ball and then um if this doesn't, I'll go play professional baseball and probably fucking get paid there. And then I'm also going to be a professional Call of Duty player, which is another gig that just pays well. Kyler Murray is just maybe the most chill dude of all time that just bounces around being great at shit

that you're not supposed to be great at. I hope this clause takes him to the fucking moon. It would be incredible. His size, the amount of information that he could potentially gain from his own, like, Oh, I've realized that when I have this set up that maybe a coach can't see,

uh, how do we get to this point? Well, this guy likes to do this and then we could do this. How about when this guy's hands, you know, the wide of his knuckles or the red of his knuckles, you know,

everybody remembers that from remember the Titans, but there is so much information that you can just continue to store and gain through film study that I've heard about. I mean, honestly, I wouldn't fucking have a clue

how to watch a film like a quarterback. I would have no idea. So they should probably get somebody to be like, hey, Kyle, these are things you should potentially

be looking for. You know what I mean? I'm intrigued to hear his teammates' thoughts on it all. Was Colt the backup? Is'm intrigued to hear his teammates' thoughts on it all. Was Colt the backup? Is Colt McCoy the backup? Yeah, he was.

He's been in the league a long time. He's been a backup for a long time. And he's been a good backup for a long time. I assume he's, if the coaching staff asked or if Kyler asked, he would teach Kyler how to watch film. I would hope. Yeah, but how long? It could be defaulted.

His contract could be defaulted. Yeah. A hundred-some million dollars gone if he does it. I read the fucking thing. It's the bottom one. Default. You could be found in default. That's like the whole contract could basically go.

Which means it's a serious issue because you wouldn't put that in there if it wasn't. Yes. How long is it going to take for it to actually register with him? I assume Mahomes was watching film the first couple years and he said last year like i'm just now figuring out how to like decipher defenses in the game so like even if he's watching four hours of film a week like is he gonna get it all of a sudden that like oh this is gonna transition perfectly in the game and do the if he does five hours one week you do three hours the next week is that that count? Is there carryover? Is there discounts? Roll over minutes. Yeah. Bye week doesn't have to.

It's in there. Okay. Monday after the season begins to when the season is over, like the way it's worded is hilarious. And he always does it. Yeah.

Good. All right. Doubtful. Imagine if they put that in there for Joey Burrow's thing. I think Joey's big time film guy from everything I've heard. Or Mac Jones in there. Yeah.

How disrespected would they feel? I think it'd just be like that. Mac Jones would feel so fucking disrespected. I think if you put that in Peyton's or Tom's, and be like, hey, by the way, need four hours of independent film studies. Get the fuck. I'll do however much I want to fuck it.

Yeah. They'd be like, all right, fine. Make it 40. Yeah. No, I don't think they say make it 40. I think they say, hey, why don't you fucking watch film for when I ask you a question? Like, that's, you know what I mean? Yeah. So them saying, like, he already does this.

And so, well, then Kyler should be fucking offended then. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Like, ah, wild. Because that team is awesome. That team is in one of the nicest cities on planet Earth. That city has an owner that's going all in. They got studs on that team is awesome. That team is in one of the nicest cities on planet Earth. That city has an owner that's going all in. They've got studs on that team.

They're hosting the Super Bowl next year. I don't like hearing this about Kyle. But, hey, Kyle's going to grow, and that's why clauses happen. Let's ride. Let's ride an hour or two with a man from Ohio that shall be introduced immediately following. The toxic table gets their praise at Ty Schmidt at Boston Corner. You guys look good. No bull.

Hey, thank you. You look good. No bull. No, no. No bull on your side. There's no bull ever here. No, there's no bull in this room, I don't think. Oh, in the whole room?

Yeah. A lot of bull, though. We've gotten some things wrong, but not anymore. You know why? Because the offseason is behind us. Yeah. The NFL is right around the corner. I believe there's a game next week.

All 32 teams have checked in to try to win a Lombardi at Tone Diggs. Hammer, diamond, cowboy. This should be a holiday almost. I feel like we are celebrating this as such and it should be a holiday for the entire country that's had to wade through sports that we don't really care about

but had to gamble on how to get through. I woke up, you know, and I didn't have to snooze today. I said, whoa, we're reporting today. I even started to diet today because if Steelers go to training camp, I'm going to training camp. But not only did you and I and everyone know that this is a big day, but fucking Mother Nature knew it was a big day. You talked about it earlier.

Woke up and there was a little fucking football. There was a little chill in the air. Nice fucking brisket. So it's not going to be 110 like the middle of summer today? You can smell it. You can smell football was in the air. It's fucking hot and muggy every day. We may have gotten a little respite this morning.

When we leave tonight, it's going to be uncomfortable. Check the five day, my friend. Bro, we're football weather. I hope so. We're in football weather. I hope so. We are in football weather. What? I hope so. It's like a high 78 this week.

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What? The basketball one. Has that always been there Hey, happy Tuesday to you. Everybody's in training camp. Why do you have that trophy in the background the whole time? What? The basketball one. Has that always been there? I earned it. Fair enough. Okay. I went to a tournament in the offseason a couple weeks ago and I earned that thing. You should have seen the jumper got wet. That was actually the size of the basketball

that I was shooting. TBT? It wasn't TBT. Best Virginia's going to win that one, though. Best Virginia's going to win TBT. Nonetheless, it's there just to remind you that I was shooting. TBT? It wasn't TBT. Best Virginia's going to win that one though, by the way. Best Virginia's going to win TBT. Nonetheless, it's there just to remind you that I and the boys have just accrued a lot of titles in our time

and although yours are fake, ours are real. Let's move into a real conversation. Your training camp begins. How pumped were you to see Aaron show up in a way that he did, huh? A little Con Air tribute? Maybe a deeper story about being able to get off the plane into freedom or go back on and save a pal. That's right.

Is that what he's doing? Hey, I could have gone into freedom. I could have been traveling the world, reading books, getting tattoos in Hungary, doing all that. But I'm coming back again because I got a lot of family in that plane. I got a lot of family in Green Bay and I want to lot of family in Green Bay, and I want to go win. And this means, hey, Aaron's confident. He's going to be three-time MVP, back-to-back-to-back,

make it a five-time MVP, I guess. And they're going to win the Super Bowl. Is that what you got from his arrival today, dressed up fantastically? Well, I don't know what it's representing exactly. I didn't think about, like, you know about Nicholas Cage's character, Cameron Poe, was at a very high moral standing. He always was trying to help people out and do the right thing. So maybe there's a little more than we think.

I mean, the tucked-in beater, he looks good. We saw him out in Tahoe with his hair like that. I'm like, man, you are Nick Cage right now. So I think this is going to not only help Aaron's career, I'm hoping this gives Nick Cage a big bump too. Well, not just Nick Cage getting a bump, and congrats to him. Just like Scott Stapp got a little bit of a bump. Sure.

Aaron mentioned him saving the day. But you mentioned the beater. That is a beater, by the way. It's a tank top. Now it makes sense? I see the difference, yes. Okay, cool. I'm happy we can all do that.

All right. Let's go. Tank top is loose. Boom. Yeah, T-top is here for good times, good vibes. You need to wear the spaghetti strap, though, like the bodybuilders. Oh, in the back? Although a tight one.

I actually got one of the rocks from Dick's, and it has like a tight little thing. It just comes into the middle, into the back, though, and it kind of pulls. It's not really comfortable as a T-top. But if i was you know right moving iron yeah if i was out there building a bod which speaking of aaron's traps look ridiculous put that photo back up mick from his from his instagram you see these traps what's he been doing shrunken new tattoos well he's ready to go aj yeah they haven't even talking about his big off-season trap workouts that like's going to be what puts him over the top, what, year 20, wherever he is now?

Traps and calves. Aaron Rodgers ready to go. Ready to sling the rocks, sling the pigskin. We got to see him throw a couple footballs out of American Century. Seems to be throwing darts. Look for one of those net videos to drop very soon. That's when we'll know training camp is in full bloom. AJ, I want to get your thoughts on uh the kyler murray

four hour of independent film study clause uh for an nfl quarterback that just got 160 million dollars guaranteed i think if we go back to the beginning of this where eric burkhart who is kyler's agent kind of publicly negotiated with the cardinals putting them you know in checkmate almost like kind of hold him hostage like like, hey, are you bad people? Your team was bad before him. Are you going to pay him fair value publicly just a couple days before they had to speak at the Combine? It was great business leverage, great business negotiation.

Inevitably got Kyler Murray paid. But this clause being added in there, the Cardinals, during that open tweet from Eric Burkhardt, and then that press conference, they could have, right, they could have very easily been like, we think Kyler's a great, great player. But with modern technology, we know exactly how much time he is investing in our program, in our team, in our championships, as soon as he leaves the building. And we're here to tell you,

zero hours of film is watched alone by Kyler Murray. Go ahead and look up how many hours of film are being watched by any quarterback that has ever had actual success in the NFL. In a world in which everybody has a high football IQ and the highest of football IQs have actual success, Kyler Murray, for whatever the blueprint that has been laid in front of him, chooses not to take it because of how damn good he is.

We will pay him accordingly. What if they did that? They could have. They could have very easily did that to answer old Burkhart's thing. They did not. Now, Cliff's been on the show. Steve's been on the show. Kyler's also been on the show steve's been on the show kyler's also been on the show i'm a big

cardinals fan but if i'm in that locker room hearing about that clause yesterday on the internet i'm like what the fuck what what is what is going on here because i think people just assume that an nfl quarterback especially one that's as good as kyler is and has the chance to be as great as kyler can be you just assume they're watching everything they could possibly do to become a better player don't you? Yeah, obviously the fact that it's in there, that even it was brought up, which I assume the team came to Kyler's agent and said, hey, we want this addendum in there.

And also it being an addendum and not being like an incentive. Like, hey, if he doesn't do this, he's going to miss out on his $500,000 workout bonus, something like that. That would have been a big deal to me too. But now you're trying to say, hey, good luck ever coming back at him and saying, hey, you didn't. Actually, yeah, we did our research. We tapped into your iPad's camera, and your film was running,

but you were playing video games. They're going to come back at him and try to void the whole contract on something like that? So what Conor should do if he does really just not want to watch film. Just have a guy to go fast forward and rewind for you. Yeah, just have somebody else watch the actual film and just have that be their job while you do your thing, and then it'll appear in the program.

You know what? Honestly, it could knock out many things. Maybe Kyler just does not who he is. He's not going to sit down and watch that. Have somebody he really likes and trusts watch the stuff and then kind of put it into Cliff's notes for him and and tell him hey here's the big things need to look for yeah because that's what the coaches are doing whenever you're in meetings and what everybody what this is they're doing for 20 hours at the facility hopefully they have some good stuff for

you when you show up wednesday morning boom that is what the nfl coaches do what this is about is when he's outside the building the extra work you, you know, adding in a little bit more. But be a pro, that's what's crazy, though. Be a pro. That's all it means. When coaches say, hey, be a pro, and it doesn't, like, you can't equate hours of film study to success on the field. You can't say, oh, hey, look at this.

Peyton Manning, he had 75 hours this week, and they won the game. The next week, he only had 40 hours, and they lost. Is it a coincidence? I don't think so. Like, that's what a terrible coach would tell you. That's not how it works. I concur, but I think it's all about just investing. It's not even about the film to me.

It's not even about the four hours and all of it. It's just the fact that it's in there, and they had to do it, and they felt that this is the guy to lead the franchise, which he is. I mean, the guy's generational talent, what he can do is awesome. So I guess this is a good thing for Cardinals fans because they're saying, hey hey maybe kyler will wake up a little bit and access a whole new facet to his game hey you sure you guys see how good kyler's been you all bought these season tickets and got all the jerseys we know yeah we know this motherfucker has no idea what the other teams do

he has no clue he's just out there this is just this is literally pickup ball that kyler's playing in the nfl uh we added this addendum that can cost him $100-some million guaranteed, by the way. And they do have the technology to be able to track how much you're watching. I think if you're just playing straight through, if there's any pauses, I think that is all. I think it's very easily found. Who has to waste time to check on Kyler's hours every week?

I'm sure somebody is, dude. $100-some million? $100-some million? Okay, let's say through the. I'm sure somebody is, dude. A hundred and some million dollars? A hundred and some million dollars? Okay, let's say through the first eight weeks of the season, they go 8-0 and Kyler is lighting it up, and he doesn't. They can check, hey, this dude left his iPad in his locker every single night. Now what do you do? Well, that's not been the issue.

The beginning of the seasons have never been the issue. It's actually the end of the season when everybody else seems to get smarter, and he does not. I think, like, not every position there's film junkies. Like, not every person is a film junkie at every position. That's just not reality. It's not real. There's a lot of gamers.

There's a lot of feel. There's a lot of guys that want to know less. I'd actually rather not think about anything, just give me less. But at the quarterback position, just if they – and Ian Rappaport followed up today and he said that – he said, you know, Kyler already does this. They just wanted to make sure, you know, it's in writing. It is weird.

And whoever leaked this information, by the way, was wrong. You know, if it was the team that leaked it, not a good move. If it was Kyler and his agent that leaked it, not a good move. Nobody wanted this information out. It got out because I guess all information gets out these days. So even though they were able to hold in the trade of Hollywood Brown for like three weeks. The contracts get uploaded, though. Don't they put everybody's contract on the NFLPA website, I think, and everyone can go through it?

Oh, do they? Is that real? I assume that's where – like Ian is the one that broke the news, though, right, about it? I believe I've seen tweets from Foyer or something like that. I'll wait for the contract to come out and I'll read through it and then it and then i'll see or whatever oh so this is going to get out regardless yeah it feels like that thoughts i thought it might be so they definitely knew that then going into the negotiation has there ever been anything like this ever done in a contract no allegedly i don't know who just tweeted it but they've covered the game for however long and they reached out to like 30 coaches and whatever execs and nobody has said that they've ever heard of this before so that leads me to this point like

if ian ratport said that he's already doing that kyler should have felt disrespected then right like he should have been like hey fuck you imagine if they go to um imagine if they were to go to like tom or peyton or any of these other guys like hey also never been done before uh at least four hours of men outside the uh facility you're watching film hey fuck you how about that like that would be their response i think right i'm not i'm not i'm not like what are you am i a fifth grader that's what they'd say like what are you talking about i'm an adult professional athlete yeah how much film are you fucking watching? How about that?

Maybe they did. Was this like something that they were willing, the hill that they're willing to die on? Were the Cardinals saying, hey, you better sign this addendum? Was it the last thing holding up the contract? I would assume they'd say, hey, if you want us to pay you like a fucking guy, you're going to have to at least somewhat act like a fucking guy. I get it. I get them doing it.

I get them wanting to do it or wanting him to be more engaged or more involved or whatever especially the end of the season whatever is going on there but i don't think you have to put it in the contract i think you can have some conversations throughout the contract throughout the process we need to make sure we need to know he's invested with us dude you know how these billionaires operate yeah i mean i just think it's a hundred million dollars plus guaranteed money and they're okay but you're telling me all all right, you think, so they think, hey, good news is if Kyler watches at least four hours of film on his own every week, we'll be fine.

We'll be great. We won't have any issues. Yeah, we'll go to the Super Bowl, they think. Okay, my bad. That gives them a chance, I guess. I get them. I understand them wanting to do this. I just, I don't, I think, like, didn't McCourty say, like,

we're going to talk about it all year. Aren't people going to go, oh, I guess Kyler must have got some, maybe six hours this week. As a Kyler Murray fan, I'm excited to see him, like, you know, potentially know what the fuck's going on. You know, I'm pretty excited for that. Like, if this guy, you know, like, I'm pretty pumped to watch what Kyler becomes here.

Now, granted, D-Hop gets hurt end of the last year. That's a tough way to finish the season. First two years, he's young. But the way the seasons have gone at the end, in the games that matter the most, with the most amount of eyes on him, as somebody that watches every game Kyler plays because how much I'm a fucking fan, I think he will show himself to be a much better quarterback

if he is forced to watch four hours of extra film every single week. Osmosis will hopefully make him a better, knowledgeable quarterback so they can go on a win because Phoenix is an awesome city. They deserve it. Joining us now from a completely different sport, friend of the program, World Series champion, all-star, huh? Just got out of the all-star game.

Absolute stud for the Atlanta Braves. Ladies and gentlemen, Danesby Swanson. Hey, Danesby!ide. Hey, Dansby! Bro. Hey, everybody. You have such good hair. You hear that all the time. You look like one of those influencers

either on YouTube or TikTok who's like super handsome with the hair that's able to just do that. That's what you look like right now, Dansby. Well, I thought about wearing a hat, but I figured you'd want to see the hair, so I just left the hat off. Hey, let that flow, you you know flow anytime you can how is the season right now you guys are you

miserably tired already at what point do professional baseball players say oh this season is so fucking long are you in that right now i assume because what all-star break just happened and there's another 80 some games right yeah right? Oh, yeah. Yep, yep. So that's at least – is this a time that's a mental fatigue time for everybody or do you just get past it as you grow older? It's a combo of both, right? Like July, especially being in Atlanta, July is super hot. So it's hot.

You never know how many rainstorms you're going to have, how many rain delays. So July and August can kind of be somewhat like the dog days. But we always say, like, the Braves, we thrive on adversity. Like, this is what we love. This is what we do. And we just – we feel like we keep getting better, you know, as we go. That's just kind of – the more you do it, the more you just continue to grow, like, in strength as you go.

And that's kind of the mode that we're getting in. Let's go. What was the – what was your all-star experience like? Was it what you expected? All right. So I had the craziest schedule out of everybody. Shohei? Yeah.

Crazier than Shohei? So you got to listen to the schedule. I don't know Shohei's schedule. So Sunday we were in D.C. All the guys that were in the game, the Braves chartered a flight from D.C. to L.A. And Mallory, my fiancee, plays for the U.S. Women's National Team. And they had their CONCACAF championship down. We won! We won! Celebration! Penalty, I believe, Alex

Morgan. So, I got special permission, basically, to be able to miss the first day of All-Star stuff on Monday, which was when their championship game was. So, I flew from D.C. back

home to Atlanta. Hopped on a flight Monday morning from Atlanta to go down to Monterey, Mexico. So I go down to Monterey, spend the whole day down there, get to spend some time with her, watch her game. We woke up the next morning at like 3.30 in the morning. We got like three hours of sleep. Got on a flight from Monterey to LA. So flew out to LA, landed in LA around seven 30 and then had to start getting ready for the day.

So like we had red carpet stuff. I don't know how she did it. Like, cause I didn't play, I didn't run, you know, 10 miles the night before I was just a spectator. So yeah,

I told her, I always tell her, I'm like, if I played soccer, I'd run on the field then run right back off like that that would be the extent of my uh playing career yeah well baseball complete opposite of the soccer right you need to be explosive quickly a lot of standing though right yeah a lot of standing uh she gives me a hard time every time but so then we went to la did

the whole thing in la she had a like a little gatorade shoot she was doing the next morning out there so we stayed did that and then flew back home to atlanta that evening so i had four flights in four days it was uh worth every penny it was mayhem but it was like something that i will cherish because i never get to watch her really play for the national team because we have the same season and we don't you know we don't get to watch her really play for the national team because we have the same season. And we don't get time off because we play so much. So being able to go watch her do her thing in a big stage like that was pretty awesome.

That's awesome. So you got a chance to have a hell of a four days with a champion and an all-star experience. Wow. Wow. Hey, let's go. Here we go. What did you live in?

Now you're on a little bit of a hangover, obviously celebrating the CONCACAF championship, obviously celebrating the all-star game. Do you guys like the all-star game or hate the all-star game in baseball? Because each sport is kind of viewed differently. Do you guys enjoy the pageantry in the setup? That home run derby looks like a terrible idea. As a fan, I like it.

But that has to be so fucking exhausting for those guys do you enjoy the whole experience or think you could do different or what i i mean i think that there's definitely some adjustments that could be made uh just because i mean the season like i said the season's so long that you cherish like those days to be able to kind of like get some rest and recovery uh and obviously like it's an days to be able to kind of like get some rest and recovery. And obviously like, it's an honor to be able to be, you know, looked as an all-star in the whole thing.

But we always kind of say like, if they gave even just like an extra day, you know, for guys to be able to, you know, be able to get like two or three days to be able to relax. That'd be great. But I will say my favorite part about it was getting to know like guys that

you play against, because there's some guys that on some other team, you're like, man, I don't know if I like that guy. And then you get in the locker room with them and you're like, this dude's awesome. He's super funny. You know, he's a great dude to have around. And you'd never have that chance otherwise. So good camaraderie schedules, a little fuckery. Maybe let us take a nap. Let's move on. Right, right, right. Yeah, I like that.

Where are you at right now? Philly. Okay, how long are you there for? When's the next time you're in your bed? This is actually a short road trip. This is just three days. So I'll be back tomorrow night. So then you're in home for a homestand

and then you're on the road again? Yeah. Yeah, it's basically like the easiest way to look at it is like home for a week, away for a week. Oh, you're like a nurse, right? Sure. A certain amount of days off for a certain amount of days. Yeah, firefighter, two on, two off,

or whatever the whole deal is. Is there some places that are the worst, like hotels? Are you always in nice hotels and everything like that? Always in nice hotels. The one in Philly might be the nicest, honestly. Oh, no way. Yeah. You're living good. You're living good. Yeah, it's nice hotels. The one in Philly might be the nicest, honestly. Oh, no way. You're living good. You're living good.

It's nice here. It's nice. Yeah, go ahead, AJ. Do you have to get different hotels because certain studs want to have, like, the main suite? So, like, this guy's got to go in this hotel suite. You take the presidential suite down the road? No. I honestly don't care about being in a suite.

Like, just give me a king bed. Let me save a little bit of my extra money. You know, let me just get my sleep and be able to get ready for the day. Because, shoot, we're at the field for, you know, our buses at pretty much 2.30 every day going to the field. We play at 7. So we're at the field all day. So it's not, you know, you're not spending much time in your room.

What is that, BP? BP, then some, do you practice during the days before the games? And is there ever a practice you've had where you're like, oh, I'm fucked tonight? Does that happen? No. So what's funny about that is if you have a bad BP, you're guaranteed to go off in the game. That's just how it works. Like if you have a good BP, you might as well mail it in that night because things aren't going good.

What is the difference between good night and bad night? Not seeing the ball? Just something's not clicking? Like if you have a good BP, you might as well mail it in that night. Because things aren't going good. What is the difference between good night and bad night? Not seeing the ball? Just something's not clicking? What do you think it is between like – because what? It's a failing sport. You're going to fail so much. How come like some days you're on, some days you're off, you think, in baseball?

Sometimes you see a guy good. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you hit the pitches you're supposed to. Sometimes you foul him off like round ball round bat hard game sometimes sometimes sometimes people they just like are dotting pitches on you and there's nothing you can do like it just sometimes people are really good sometimes people aren't and you just try and obviously take advantage of each one that you get that's what we always say. Like when we get a – like if you like break your bat

and get a base hit on it, which you shouldn't, but you do, I always ask guys, I'm like, you take that? You take that hit right there? And they're like, hey, 200 more of them, baby. Like I'll take every single one of them that I can get. Oh, so that's like a bank. That's like a bank in basketball. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It went in. They don't ask. Hey, that's like a field goal hey a field goal hitting off the upright that fucker's in who cares yeah it's three points did i get yeah did did we get three points or did we not you know what i mean everybody needs shit yeah vinitary was the best vinitary did not give a fuck how it went through if it

went through we are on to the next one there are some guys did my job yeah there are some guys though that are like oh man i didn't hit that thing perfectly end over end and they like beat themselves up for a make and it's like i you must be terrible to live with you know like i couldn't even i couldn't even imagine that uh ty your question dansby uh with the news of kyler murray signing his new contract and like not watching you know film or having to watch at least four hours outside of the facility. We were talking before the show today, and I feel like guys have always watched film in the MLB, but more recently you'll see after a guy's at bat,

he'll come into the dugout and go right to the iPad and look at the pitch. How much actual film are you watching on guys during the week? Is that a big part of the game now that you're seeing so many different pitchers and you have all these at bats that are recorded like how much actual film study goes into like an average week here we go four hours four hours four hours no no no that's way too much uh it's it's a different game because we play every day right like we don't get a week a week of prep um to where you know and obviously being a huge sports fan, like you feel like quarterbacks are a that's not a bad setup. Quarterbacks, you know, they got to know the ins and outs of everybody and what everybody's supposed to be doing for me.

Like, especially once you start facing the same guys a ton, you don't necessarily need to watch video on what they do. And I'm a big believer in like if i do what i do best then that's going to give me the best chance to succeed so when i when i watch video i basically look at if i'm getting started on time because if i get started late and you can't hit anything anyways so like do i get started on time and is like the timing of how my swing works like is it is it in good rhythm and if it's not then like those are like my two things of how i look at you know film and adjustments and the other thing too that i like doing uh because obviously like you said we have ipads and stuff

on the bench i like to just see where the pitches were like if i thought a pitch was a certain place and you go and look at it and it's not there, you're like, oh, Lord. Like, I better lock it in a little bit because I thought that was, you know, low or outside and it's, you know, right on the plate. So, that kind of just gives me a little bit of feedback. You jogging back onto the field, jumping over the chalk or whatever, going to the – hey, that's on me. That was a strike.

Yeah, I've always been honest with umpires. Like, if I get onto him without a pitch, and if I'm wrong, I go tell him. Because it ain't going to do anybody, you know, any good if I go up there and I'm saying, you know, hey, man, like, you were wrong. And that's just – that's not building a good relationship with that guy. And if it was a strike, like, he needs to know for our pitchers too, right, that he was right. So he should call it when we're pitching.

Hey, hey, robot refs, robot umps, definitely needed for baseball, terrible for baseball. Terrible. Come on! Awful. Come on! What's the biggest issue? Well, number one, so there's different, like,

the box that is put on the screen is just not right in my opinion. Oh, I see it every time. It's always right. When I look at it, it's always right. But the other thing is so the box that they put on the screen isn't the same box that like the umpires look at after the game and how they get scored. So it's like there's a lot of moving pieces. And if you were to ask, the definition of what a strike is hasn't changed

since the beginning of time. So until there's a clear definition on what a strike actually is, I feel like you can't make it some type of robotic, like, oh, well, it hit the line, so technically it's a strike. And then the other thing too is they completely... And now what it is? is i mean i don't fucking even know baseball and that we're trying to completely completely devalues like the ability that catchers have you know like catchers there's such an added

value to guys that can frame or they can we call it like presenting like can they present the pitch to an umpire to, like, get the best view possible? It's not necessarily about making it look like a strike. It's about giving the umpire the best view possible to be able to see if it was a ball or a strike. Does your union come to you, or is there any talk about that? Like, do they try to float that out there? Do they want to replace the umps with robots or whatever? I don't know if it's gotten necessarily to that point i know it's definitely something that i feel like mlb wants to do probably because

it just makes the game more you know less human error more analytically but i'm just i'm off on i'm off that like this is a human game man like this is the most human game that there is like sports sports is like the true reality tv and baseball is like any given night anybody can beat anybody whether it's the best team in the league or the worst team in the league anybody can beat anybody just because there's so many variables that go into it and as soon as you start getting rid of those variables i feel like you start losing like the nature of what our game was created to do in the first place wow hey that was a deep speech right there. Hey, if you want to play that back some other time, you can.

We will. Hey, we'll run that as a commercial. We'll remind people that those words came out in the fashion in which they did out of your mouth, pal. That was a really cool speech because that's like the nuance of baseball that is always talked about by the baseball people that I am not one of. I did not grow up in baseball. So like Ty, for instance, big baseball guy. So anytime we bring up something about it, it's always like, yeah,

but baseball is this, this, and this. Which leads me to this. Is everybody still trying to cheat at all times, every single at-bat? Is that happening? Because, what, the spider attack thing was gone. Then the juiced baseballs are now gone. Stealing signs. Stealing signs.

The garbage cans. Then the cameras in the back. now gone. Stealing signs. Stealing signs. The garbage cans. Then the cameras in the back. Is that just a part of baseball? Just like, hey, if you can get an edge and they're not looking at it or looking for it, that's on the other team, not on you. Is that just a part of baseball? You think it was the reaction by us outside of baseball to the shit that happened with the Astros justified or not, you think, in the realm of baseball chatter?

Man, talk about a deep question uh hey hey we haven't won an Emmy yet but we're shoveling for it we're digging deep uh the easy answer is I feel like in sports in general right like there's so much money that goes into it there's a lot of folks willing to do things to get the upper hand because of how much money is involved in the game that we play now i think they've done a lot of good things to like clean up uh like i said some of the sign stealing or things that uh can kind of like jeopardize like quote unquote the integrity of the game um i think i think to, when things are done that give you a, an unfair advantage that like someone else doesn't get, uh, you know, whether it's knowing every pitch that's coming, like those things are pretty extreme to me.

Um, cause if you guys know, Hey, if you know what pitch is coming in the majors, if you're, you're probably can, if you know what pitch is coming, that's a massive advantage, right? That is a huge deal. Yeah. That's a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like, but like, you know, pitchers that tip pitches, right? Like they do something when they're going to throw a curve ball, like you can see in there, whether it's their body language or like they come set and their glove is like high up on a curve ball and lower on a fastball. Like that's on them as a professional, right? Yes. It's just like a quarterback that uses the same cadence over and over again.

That's on them as a pro. They're giving the other team tidbits because they keep using the same cadence, whereas if they're able to switch it up, you've got to be a pro in terms of how to eliminate giving the other team an advantage. That's on you. You fucking love your sport, huh?

Yeah? I do. I love all sports man i'm a sports junkie well you want to watch nfl film for like 17 weeks four hours a week break down what you're seeing let kyler if i knew what how if i knew what i was looking at yeah well i don't either i don't think anybody there's not a lot of people that can help kyler but we all know he has to do it he has to, tell them your question. Another deep one here, but it's hypothetical. Say you were

maybe a free agent and another team offered you a big contract and then there was a rumor that your team, the Braves, offered you a contract, but your agent didn't tell you about that contract. Allegedly. Because the media's getting sued for that.

What would your thoughts be wow that is a deep one uh oof put me on the spot big time you can tell me I think

I think I think at the end of the day the entire story was was a little blown out of proportion got it

got it it did by the way because look this idiot and cowboy hat just first thought was this is what I would like to ask was a little blown out of proportion. Got it. Got it. It did, by the way, because look, this idiot and cowboy hat, just first thought was this is what I would like to ask you. I mean, that is the thing about baseball, though, as an outsider. It feels like it doesn't crack into the world at this stage. No offense. You're a fucking – you should be on every camera that they could potentially put you on. You should be mic'd up for every inning you play.

Not only because you're incredibly handsome and an all-star, but your fucking hair. Put a visor on this fucking guy. Maybe that'll grow the sport, but anytime it cracks into the rest of the sports world, it's normally when something terrible happens. A lot of drama. Baseball seems to bring a lot

of drama. Is that because of the season? Is that because of how much money in business? How old school business is in some places? Why do you think that that because of the season is that because just how much money in business how how old school business is in some places why do you think that is the case you think for your sport well i think i think whenever the whenever stories do come out it is always like the negative repercussions of things that happen and to be honest to me i feel like that's just like news media in general these days right like every story yeah every story that you get is negative and it's like being conditioned to look at to blow the negative things you know up and not reward for doing good behavior you know it's like if your parents only ever got onto you for doing the

wrong thing instead of like reinforcing like what it is that you should be doing more often that's just i feel like that's just how i mean are we getting are we getting deep today are you a doctor do you have we getting deep today Are you a doctor Do you have a PhD dude Are you a doctor of philosophy College dropout technically Me too dude me you Steve Jobs Kanye West

Oh you went to Vandy It's no West Virginia It's definitely not the Harvard of West Virginia That's certainly the case A lot of thinking time when you're on the road? Is that why – is there a lot of deep thinkers in the baseball world? Man, I'll tell you one thing. So, the best thing that we've done this year is they set up, like,

this breakfast room for us, basically, that's open from, like, 8 to 12. And a lot of us go down around, like, 11 o'clock, and we just eat and sit and talk ball like just sit and talk whether it's stories whether it's the the previous game whether it's like bouncing things off each other ideas different ways to pitch different ways to approach at bats like just different things like there's so much knowledge being floated around all the time uh it's awesome to be able to soak in because you obviously want to pass down those lessons and things like that to younger players, whether it's rookies,

whether it's kids that just got drafted. I've never been one to be the old school guy of like, well, why would I help you? You're taking my job. I'm always looking at it in terms of like, if I help you and you help us and we win, That's literally all I care about like I just want to win So if what I can say to you is gonna help us win then I'm gonna tell you Go ahead AJ. What's the coolest thing about playing for the Braves right now for you?

We're nasty, dude We're so good and and there's such a you know pat you know this like when you show up to the field like you have a firm belief that you're going to win that game each and every day no matter who you're playing like that's an awesome feeling yeah sorry about that and i and i couldn't imagine what it was like to do the opposite and like the other thing that i love about our group is like we have a team full of guys that just want to win. It's not just sprinkled in.

The vast, vast majority, if not everyone, wants to win each night. So when everyone's on that same page, you can't beat that because we can work. We can get down to business. We can also enjoy ourselves. It's just a lot of fun, man. What did you guys have? You had a margarita machine last year. Is that what that was?

What'd you guys? No, we had an ice cream machine. We had an ice cream machine. I thought you guys were basically. And my, like, one request after I won my arbitration case this year was that we get margarita machines. So whenever we go on the road, like travel day, they basically have these margarita

machines set up for us so all right now we gotta hey well now we gotta go deep you got an arbitration case what was it about how does it work in your sport in our sport you go to like um you have to appeal then there's like a little baby trial and then something is kind of way uh way down the ruling is what was yours yours for business or something you did on the field? You took a bat and hit somebody with it, got suspended? No, it's all about your contract. So this is my last year, obviously, before free agency. And this is my third year arbitration.

Yo, let's go, cuz. You're about to be fucking like rich, rich. Hey, not that you're not already. You're staying in very nice hotels in Philadelphia. I get it. But you're about to,'re staying in very nice hotels in philadelphia i get it but you're about hey let's go dude good for you yeah thank you deserve it thank you you fucking deserve it i'll keep it going so how arbitration works is there's basically a deadline for you agreeing with your team on what your salary would be for the upcoming season and if

you can't agree on what that contract is going to look like, you go to arbitration. So the team files a number and the player files a number. $100,000, the team says. We'd like to pay them $100,000. That's what they have. Does it have to be reasonable or it can be anything? It can be anything.

Now, I mean, I've seen people go to arbitration over, you know, a million dollars. I've seen people go to arbitration over, you know, a million dollars. I've seen people go to arbitration over $100,000. So it's really just risk reward, like what it is that you feel, you know, you're trying to set yourself up with. And like for me this year, I went to arbitration. The gap was $800,000. And we basically were just arguing why i was worth a certain number and the team was trying to argue why i was worth another number which is super funny because

you get arbitration it's three arbiters who know nothing about baseball they're just like labor they're labor arbiters and your agency presents a case and then the team presents their case and when i tell you that they blast you dude like you come out of that meeting and it's it's almost comical because they're trying to prove that like you're the worst baseball player yeah it's pawn stars hey it's pawn stars it's pawn stars and you're on the counter and rick's like hey sorry it's gonna sit on the shelf ain't nobody like this guy i mean we got nothing from him sorry about it we are 100% right they're wrong and then it goes to ruling I assume

it's disgusting everybody talks about like being an adult and being professional it's tough during those negotiations when you hear some things that are said and it's like oh motherfucker I don't want to do a thing for you ever be an adult be professional I'm trying I'm trying

it's just business don't take it personal. Sounds like a lot of personal shit was being said right there. Yeah, exactly. This is also my livelihood, though, too. So basically the arbiters, they get together and they each put out the ruling. And they don't pick a number in terms of like, let's say somebody filed for $2 million and the team filed for $1 million. They pick.

So they don't say, okay, you're worth $1.4 million. There's no wiggle. Right. They just say either the team wins or the player wins. So you either get what you filed at or you get what they filed at. And you said, I want this money. I want a margarita machine. And the arbiters were like, this guy seems like he's one of us money i want margarita machine and the arbiters were like this guy seems

like uh he's one of us he wants yeah yeah yeah yeah he's a work he's a working class guy hey congratulations you sat through that whole thing or just agency yeah it's like five hours oh hearing terrible things about yourself you have to. You have to sit through it. So I was in, we do it over Zoom now, but I was basically in a suit and tie at the house. Shorts? Just sweatpants. Yes, Mark, in arbitration for margarita machine at the house on a Zoom.

Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, Dansby, since you're in Philadelphia, I got to ask, are you mentally preparing yourself for terrible questions in the clubhouse after like Nick Castellanos, or are you just kind of used to it at this point? Thankfully, the Atlanta folks and our beat reporters and writers and our media folks are easy to work with, thankfully. Obviously, I've heard of stories of it being a little bit differently in other places, but as far as everything that I know,

it's pretty smooth sailing for us. What is overall relationship, players, media, and baseball? Pretty good? Yeah. Yeah, it's not bad. I mean, they come in the locker room before the game, but usually around like 3.45, 4 o'clock, and they're in there for about 30 minutes and

then they come in after the game so it's i mean it's not bad it's really not i never even thought of it so i heard just condescending yeah did you hear those boos it's a stupid question why what do you you were there do you think i heard it am i deaf what do i make you laugh like i enjoyed that answer out of him by the way and I am always on the side of players doing that. But those media folks get so pissed off. Like, that guy was so mad that that was his response. You know what I mean? Yeah, I know.

People, I just feel like everyone can always handle things better. And then people just start trying to, like, build their own case as to why they were right instead of just, like, looking at it, like, from this perspective of, like, maybe could have answered it better, could ask a better question like let's just all be a little bit better at our jobs and we'll move on no obviously you don't do drugs but you do seem like a guy who has uh you know thought about some things from a higher altitude feels not that you would i mean it's natural some people have it naturally i do do not. I have to sail the clouds to get there. But you are an incredibly deep-thinking human being, dude. You obviously know that.

You think that's why you're good at baseball? You're kind of calm all the time? Are you always chill? Are you an excitable guy? Do you lose your mind any time? No, I'm pretty chill most of the time. Very competitive. So, like, in-game, I'm very, very competitive.

Like, I hate losing. So that can get to me. Dude, it's funny you mention that. Because when I was watching Mal down in Mexico last Monday, Alex Morgan's husband was sitting right behind me. And we were chatting a little bit and like you know in soccer like there's a build-up and then someone shoots something on goal and like they just miss and everyone you know like freaks out and I'm just like sitting there like this like just like kind of like stone cold just looking and he just taps me he's like dude I'm gonna need a little

bit more like emotion out of you I just started laughing I'm like man if you were to do that in baseball you would be worn out in the first month. They're going to miss eight of these ten shots. I mean, what are we even? You've got to stay even, Keough, but that's just kind of how I've learned to watch games and play games, but obviously

I've never been one to suppress emotion in a game. It's important that you can let emotion out. You've just got to be able to get back to a center ground you know like you can't just only live off emotion which football is different it's different like it's a emotional sport baseball dude it's i mean you go oh for 10 and you're all in your head thinking about everything like you're gonna drive yourself up a wall yeah i was punter kicker

and i was too stupid to overthink everything but there are some guys that are like super smart and they're like things are going bad and they were right and then it just only got worse i was just like yeah it'll go good at some point and that kind of that kind of got me all the averages yeah yeah i'll have to get back at some point here uh we're talking to dansby swanson obviously incredible all-star Atlanta Brave shortstop that's a lot of action right fucking shortstop you do a lot yeah I do a lot

how come you got a weaker arm than O'Neal Cruz how come this guy because I don't have a cruise missile attached to my right arm why don't you find one dude why don't you find one I'm from Pittsburgh Pirates have stunk forever if you'd like to sign with them and make them a winner that'd be great well we would have to give you the ppg building and some other shit because

the ownership is not going to give you the amount of money you're worth that's just neither here nor there it's uh our life he shows up though this fucking guy six seven running like a four two in a hundred mile an hour but i don't even think about that. That's measured every year. How fast you you're getting that over to measure everything these days, dude, I'm telling you, it's all about like numbers and analytics now, instead of like, for me, how I've always played it is if I can catch the ball, throw it to where it needs to get to when it needs to get there. That's all that matters.

No, that doesn't make sense, dude. That doesn't make sense. Right. Like I remember, I remember when I was in college, we were doing the whole scouting process. You talk to the scouts from different teams. And one team asked me, they're like, do you have a good arm? I said, yeah, I do. And they go, why don't you ever use it?

And I asked him a question back. I said, are they out at first? And he looked at me kind of like, not dumbfounded, but kind of like perturbed that I went past that. And he goes, well, yeah. And I said, so what does it matter? If they're out, that's all that matters, right? Like I said, when I need to put something on it or need to show my arm, I will.

But until that play comes about, then I'm good. Hey, that guy kept an eye on all those plays though. Let me see if this fucking guy doesn't get one over there. Oh, I mean, Hey,

look at, look at like, uh, I mean, there are quarterbacks in the NFL. They don't have like tremendous arms. I mean, okay.

Could you talk about like, can I? Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good? Yeah. Yeah.

I'm an athlete, dog. Come on now. How many threes? How many threes in high school? 100 and what? 63 or something like that? How many threes? Yeah, I could shoot it too now. Come on now.

165 threes in high school. Golf swing's struggling a little bit right now. Oh, you stink at golf. That must be a real shame. This guy isn't even a good athlete. I can putt but everything else is little but you know like i'm saying like obviously i'm a huge matt ryan fan go colts now let's go dude come to a game come to a game need you just be very calm and sweet away from

everybody else so your energy doesn't affect anybody else i'll be excited but you know what i mean but that but that's the one thing like i never fully got about. He was on strength. I'm like, yeah, but the guy throws darts, dude. He puts it on the money. Very catchable pass. I feel like that's an underrated part of how quarterbacks throw and everything. And it's on the money when it's supposed to be there. What else do you need? He's going to win Super Bowl this year.

Shaquille Leonard on defense. For his sake, I hope he does. I'm a huge Matt Ryan fan Are you coming to a game dude? I know you get like what Four off days in your entire year I'm getting married this off season So I don't know how much down time I'm going to have You're Mal

I think I heard the name Mal Yeah Mal She's more athletic than you are You guys just going to create some We've argued about that, but I still say that I am the better athlete. Now, if we were to get

on the treadmill, I'm getting body bagged. I'll be dead. Soccer players are running forever. I mean, that's just a last question here. We can't thank you enough for joining us, dude. Baseball should be putting you everywhere. Instead, they're going to an arbitration telling them how bad of a fucking baseball player. Come on, baseball.

It's unbelievable. Don't like it at all. Go ahead, Ty. It's the truth. Dansby, as we get closer to the trade deadline, I know you've been traded before, and I don't think it was a deadline deal. I'm pretty sure it was before the season. But do any guys, can you tell that their assholes are maybe a little bit more puckered

when you hear all these names that are potentially on the block? A lot of guys are going to get moved. Is that evident when you look around? It's like, oh, shit, this guy is thinking that he might get traded, and he might. Well, most guys that are getting traded are usually not on good teams. So from my viewpoint, they're kind of pumped. If I keep playing well, then I get traded to a team that's good and i can

win like that that's a good feeling so guys on our team not concerned about it because we got a good team and you know our team's set for the most part but you know guys on other teams are you know excited for like a somewhat like a new chapter to be in a place where they can potentially go win i'm in a place now where I'm a baseball fan. I need your fucking Jersey in here. I'm going to buy one. Are you? No,

I'm not. I'm awake till I can never know. Never know. Just text me the address and I'll send you, I'll send you some. Don't worry. That's very nice. You Philadelphia's got a little UPS or whatever.

You say nothing from the road there. That's very nice. You, I appreciate you. I got this at a Yankee game? Yeah. Got this Yankee game. No big deal.

Wow. I don't know if you ever heard of them, the fucking Yankees. Real baseball. Zito just clarified, this is actually a Braves ball. Oh. Hey, we appreciate the Braves for this ball.

Okay. Congrats on the, what was his name? The guy, he worked for the Braves He was playing the Yankees though? No So he was like

The equipment manager Or something like that He sent us that ball He was a big fan of the show Hey shout out to that guy I don't know who he is He's got a mullet I think I think because he has a mullet

Over there He works for the Braves I'm sure there's a big team In the back I appreciate the hell out of you man Go get a nap Go get a BP Can't wait to watch

The rest of the season Excited to watch you Get rich rich dude You deserve it Ladies and gentlemen Atlanta Braves All-Star World Series champion, Don's Biscotti. Thank you very much.

Thank you, man. Thank you. He is now a man who is always at 120 degrees. His life is spinning at a full clip at all times. This weekend, he will be celebrating the 30th season of The Ultimate Fighter coming to a conclusion in a masterful main event of Peña vs.

Nunez 2. He is also obviously the founder of Fuck It Friday, the president of the UFC, has deals everywhere, and every time he joins us, we can't thank him enough. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Dana White. What's up, dude? What's up, dude?

What's up, buddy? Hey, before we get to this weekend, 30 fucking seasons. Hey. Wow. Hey, nothing lasts 30 seasons anymore. Look at you. You're a fucking entertainment mogul. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah, no, it's crazy to think about that, actually. The first one seems like yesterday. And, you know know obviously very instrumental in growing the sport the brand and yeah I love the ultimate fighter hell yeah 30 years and and my contender series starts tonight at five o'clock on ESPN plus two look at you hey look at you look at you like your own studio production guy UFC is making fucking... What's that? I think we're on six, seven season.

We're on season six or seven of the Contender Series. It's like 37 seasons of entertainment that you have put... I mean, let's go, dude! Let's fucking get this guy an Emmy! Let's get him a Lifetime Achievement Award! Speaking of Lifetime Achievement Award,

hey, your birthday's on Thursday. Happy birthday, dude. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. No problem. Anything special for the birthdays now? No, no.

I try to ignore my birthdays these days to pretend it's not really happening. How come? So you can just keep working and not be a distraction? I'm about to be 53. Who the fuck wants to be 53? Not me.

Better than the alternative. I mean, you keep doing the fucking Fridays. I mean, what do you do? keep doing the fucking Fridays. I mean, you keep doing the fucking Fridays and I ain't going to live to 63. What do you think about, you know, the future?

Because everybody knows you're rich, rich, right? Oh, yeah. Hey, we know you're rich, rich. You deserve it, by the way. You worked your ass off for it. You fucking had a plan. You executed it.

You kept working. You remained yourself, right? No sellout. You're about to be fucking 53. Do you think about the future or are you so much in the moment at all times that you just kind of go from one thing to the next yeah no i'm i'm totally into this one thing that i that i have done and i think you saw it this summer you know my kids are like my daughter's about to be 16 in august my boys are

20 and 21 you know i've been spending lots of time with them as much as I can, you know, because they're in school and college. So I'm trying to get away with them as much as I've been able to. But other than that, no, man, I love what I do. We're just cranking along here. Since going through the pandemic, I mean, we're killing it. We're about to head into Dallas this weekend for our 21st straight sellout. We keep breaking every record that we have. We keep breaking fight night records, fight night records out of the country.

And the list goes on and on. And I love that shit. So I'm having a blast. You're in your prime right now. You're right there in your prime. You kind of got enough figured out about the business. You know what works, know what doesn't work. And your fans are so loyal and

passionate like in london over there this past weekend getting a chance to watch obviously meatball and patty and the main event didn't you know injuries are going to happen i guess in the sport that type of stuff but that arena over in london in this you're talking about texas fifth time since pandemic pandemic you've been in texas 23 sellouts like hey you fucking did it man that that is not easy to do at all what do you think about your fans and what do you think was the thing that really got you guys over the hump to become this massive global brand do you think about that yeah no it's true I I love our fans our fans are crazy uh you know they're they're very engaging um they're very

passionate they flip out about every little thing that's done or get crazy excited about every little thing that's done but i said it and i'll say it again if you've never been to an event in london england you have to check it out anywhere in england doesn't have to be just london anywhere in england ireland the fans over there are awesome i mean it's such a unique cool experience. Dave Portnoy was over there from Barstool. He was literally texting me the whole fight going, holy shit, this is insane. This is one of the greatest sporting events I've ever been to,

and he loved it. Yeah, it was also, I mean, he had the wig on, and I believe Patty choked out Cuzzy right in front of him in the mon the mono monocle monocle and then the celebration like you have this ability and when I went to that one in Vegas after money in the bank I mean I walked in Mason Crosby was there Sean White was there Miles Teller was there Chris Pratt was there Shaq was there. Obviously, Steve and the full center, the Noteboys were all there. I was very fortunate to be there. It's just like it's become a thing, you know, and your events are fucking electrifying. What do you expect from this weekend? You know, my balls is hot. It's

fighting. You can't wait to watch him get back in there. But how do you continue to top yourself, you think? Yeah, we've been to Dallas. I mean we've been to texas five times like you said but this is the first time we've been back to dallas since the pandemic so i expect you know the same electricity i expect it to be incredible so i'm excited and dallas is a fun city oh hey good times you ever go over to fort worth over there i've never been to fort worth okay so they got these fucking cows that just walk right down the middle of the street. They got these Texas Longhorns, Dana. They just walk right down the middle of the fucking street. And then some guy right out of the 1910s or maybe 1400s with his

long-ass mustache, handlebar mustache, is on a horse behind it, middle of the day. You're just walking down the street. Oh, this is Texas. Kind of what you end up saying. Oh, this is Texas right here. I would recommend stopping by, Dana. That's so cool. Yeah. Love it. Do you do anything for fun? How far is Fort Worth from there?

45 minutes. I think everything's like 30, 45 minutes. The drive from Dallas? Yeah. I think it's like Dallas, Arlington, then like Fort Worth is over here. That's why it's like the whole fucking thing. Yeah, airport's in the middle. Yeah.

I'll definitely check it out then. Absolutely. I'm glad you told me that. Bro, I was on top of a fucking bull at one point down there. I didn't know or had no idea I'm of a fucking bull at one point down there. Out of nowhere, had no idea I'm on a fucking bull in the middle of Texas. And it didn't have the 100 inches from tip to tip like the record breaker did, but still

a pretty good bull. What do you do for fun, Dana? Eat crazy foods on Fridays? Yeah, that's about it. Yeah. I play blackjack, man. That's what I do. I either hang out with my kids or play blackjack. If I'm not doing... If I'm not working, I'm doing one of those two things. You only allowed to play at one place too, right? What was it, MGM?

No, no, no. I can play at, first of all, a place you should play is Caesars. Don't do that before. That's what you said. I can play at Bellagio. I can play at Venetian and Mandalay Bay. So you do that plus one, minus one thing just right in your head? Have you always been able to do that, or you just get good cards?

I don't know what it is. It's just sort of a feel for the game. But the biggest thing, the biggest strategy that I have is, well, don't sit around and just keep playing. I mean, that's the biggest mistake people make if you walk into a casino and and you have a hundred bucks and you win a fucking hundred bucks leave yeah nobody does that though everybody goes to vegas and you know they got this amount that they're willing to lose is it 2,500 is it 5,000 you go in there with your buddies you're all

drinking everybody's playing you know and they're not playing the right way and they lose 2,500 is at 5,000. You go in there with your buddies, you're all drinking, everybody's playing, you know, and they're not playing the right way, and they lose 2,500, 5 grand, whatever their number is, and they're okay with that. I'm not okay with that. I'm going there to win. Vegas, how'd you get into this? Have you always been a gambler? I know, you're a boxing trainer or something

way back in the day, right? I don't think I know the exact story here. You grew up in Vegas, went over to the Northeast and come back to Vegas. what is that the proper path well we well we came we we moved to uh nevada from massachusetts when in like 1978 or 79 um i was in fifth grade and we moved to vegas my mom was a nurse and they were paying nurses more in vegas than anywhere else in the country so that's why we moved here And yeah, once we got here and started getting around casinos, I became obsessed with it. Yeah. And once you get into the fight game, same thing, whenever you're just a kid in Vegas, like boxing just became a thing. Promotions became a thing. Tyson, a big part of that, I

assume. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously all the stuff that would go on here as far as boxing when I was a kid, but I, I all my career in boxing in boston yeah there's a guy named peter welsh from south boston massachusetts and i came up under him how'd you so you went from nevada back to boston got into boxing and then we'll go back to nevada again yeah exactly because like nick kahn right he's vegas kid and and he is now co-CEO of the WWE congrats to him and obviously he went in there but I chatted with him about

you you know he was like yeah he's like a Vegas guy Dana older than me a little bit older than me made it like Dana was like an inspiration to him it's like that was like cool to hear from him it was so fucking impressive at what he does he's like yeah Vegas guy made it before me, did the whole thing. So I think that Vegas community real tight, right?

Even though there's just a bunch of blacked out white folks coming in and out every weekend. It's true. You know, back when I first moved here, there was like less than 250,000 people that lived in Las Vegas. So yeah, it was a very tight knit community. What do you think about all the big name fights that are being teased on the internet, and ultimately it's your job to make them happen or not? Do you have to take what they say or what they don't say, or are you strictly gut feel on your own end?

No, I mean, we listen a lot to the fans and what the fans want to see. I mean, Mayweather-McGregor was a fan-built fight. You know, that thing took on a life of its own, and I got to a point where I was like, all right, I got to make this thing happen. People want to see it. My job is to put on fights that people want to see. Steve Jobs said, though,

people don't know what they want until you show them. You know, there's always a bunch of different things. Like Nate Diaz tweeting about wanting another fight. Did that affect him getting another fight that I think we are all fucking pumped for in that whole thing? Was that a part of it or no? Well, Nate Diaz tweeting that he wants to fight Francis Ngannou

doesn't do it for me, no. You know, yeah. You see the fighters, you know, asking for all kinds of crazy shit. So, you know... Is that us? They want, and then you got to do what makes sense, too. asking for all kinds of crazy shit. So, you know. Is that us? Day one, and then you got to do what makes sense, too.

Okay. We have one question for you here from a guy from Boston. Boston Conner, your question for Dana. Yeah, Dana, are you worried now that your gift of $250,000 got out to the Noke Boys, that that's kind of like your floor when it comes to birthday gifts? My birthday was in May, dude. My birthday was in May. May 2nd.

May 2nd. You know what? I'm glad you asked me that question. Let me set this record straight. First of all, all these people on the internet, go fuck yourself. I don't give a fuck I want to spend my money. Mind your own fucking business, number one. Number two, you know, if you look what kyle and the milk boys have done

as far as howlerhead and a lot of other things that they've done those kids have never asked me for anything ever never asked me for anything and they couldn't be better people kyle has done so many things for me and believe me the 250 000 that i gave him for his birthday does not cover the amount of things that that kid has done for me that's awesome so uh don't count other people's money and mind your own fucking business yeah somehow you became an asshole when really it was one of the nicest friends gifts i've ever seen in my entire life yeah yeah somehow this piece of shit just gifted a friend to his 250,000. It's like, whoa, I think that's

isn't that a nice gesture? Well, what they act like, and a lot of this is driven by the scumbag MMA media. So what happens is they act like there's this massive safe here at the UFC offices

that says fighter pay on it. And I go in there and I just grab whatever I want out of the fighter pay. Now you fucking pieces of shit. This is money that I actually have made over an entire career. And I will spend it however the fuck I want. Hey. Hell yeah. Hey.

That felt good to get that off your chest there. I'm so glad you asked me that question. How about it, Connor? Here we go. Hey, happy we good to get that off your chest there. I'm so glad you asked me that question. Howdy, baby Connor. Here we go. Hey, happy we did it too. We are also big fans of the entrepreneurialism of that whole crew over there. You know, like mad respect. Obviously, Hallerhead, big sponsor of UFC fights, so I assume there is money in there.

Happy Dad, also a big thing over there with the Shoeys. I mean, the amount of business you all have done together. And the fact that you, I mean, I don't want to say this, but two different generations of business is happening, but I think real respect real in that whole thing and I got nothing but love for that. And the fact that you give $250,000 to people, I think it should have been a compliment.

Instead, obviously, it gets taken back. You and the MMA media always hated each other? Always? Or... Listen to me. You can go back to New York when I was just in new york listen to the questions that these people ask me tune in tune in saturday night at the press conference and listen to the questions that these people ask me it's like one of the guys like hey you know i just fucking ripped some guy for asking me a stupid question right then the other guy says uh you're

probably gonna get aggravated with me uh i'm fucking from ABC Sports over radio but you know it's my job this I have to ask these questions so he asked me about Jake Paul right yeah so so let me get this straight your job is to ask me questions about a guy who isn't in my company and doesn't even fight in this sport. How the fuck does that even make sense? He wouldn't be doing his job, Dana. He wouldn't be able to sleep at night if he didn't ask you that, Dana.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, there's always a lot of grandstanding, it feels like, around the world right now. And you're at the top of the totem pole, especially in the MMA world. You would think they would appreciate you, though, because you're putting on fights like every fuckingem pole especially in the mma world you would think they would appreciate you though because you're putting on fights like every fucking weekend at this point right there's no way this they all get to work they all get to work they all have jobs they all

whatever the sport's never been like that though right dana i mean what you're doing right now unprecedented right and maybe i don't know the small niche mma community as much as i probably should and i feel bad for that but you guys putting on fights like every single weekend is not normal in the combat sports world, I don't think, or not at all, not even close. First of all, no promoter in the history of the world has done what we have done, you know? And, uh, and when you talk about fighter pay, we're the only promoter in the history of the world ever that pays people more than what they're actually contracted to make. And that's every single fighter on the roster makes more than they were contracted to make. Fighter pay has gone up and all this.

I don't even want to get into this shit. But that's really the root of it all. Right. They hold that over your head every time a conversation starts about anything. It's not that they hold it over my head. What drives them crazy is they don't know. They don't like the fact that they don't know. They want to know fucking everything.

Like in all these other sports, you know, you find out. I mean, we're already hearing what's going on with the negotiations with the Boston Celtics and possibly Durant and all this other. I don't tell these fucking people anything. You know what they know? What I tell them. I tell them nothing because I can't stand them and I don't trust them. Yeah. Well, hey, I think a lot of people would point to a lot of situations that happened throughout

your run here as president and say, hey, Dana makes a lot of sense for why he feels that way. your run here as president and say, hey, Dana makes a lot of sense for why he feels that way. Do you think, though, that you'll get to a point where the bonuses, like those get thrown in always, right? They're like, fight bonus goes to this, fight bonus goes to this, fight bonus goes to this. I assume that was something you created to say thank you to your fighters that go in there and do something. And how did those come about? And how many more have been added, do you think, over the years? Yeah, 100%. And to incentivize people to go out and perform, right? They're all there for one reason and one reason only, to achieve greatness, but to make money. And, you know, we try to incentivize them to perform.

Hey, you look like you lost a little weight. You back you up? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been hitting it hard and i've been ketoing hey i keto too how fucking awesome is it it is awesome i listen keto is the greatest diet of all time if you even want to call it a diet i mean it really is a way of eating and now these days they make keto bread they make keto potato chips they make keto everything i'm gonna blow your mind here

I'm going to blow your mind These Quest peanut butter cups Are you a sweet tooth guy? You go to sweet tooth? Oh god I'm the worst Oh yeah I seen fucking Friday Will you go grab one of those Quest peanut butter I'm going to show you mine too

Yeah yeah thank you No go out in the fridge My fridge Hey this thing right here Dana These little peanut butter cups Taste exactly like Reese's One net carb Two of them full size

I'm telling you Fucking unbelievable This is a game changer I'll probably be able to keto forever Literally looks just like a Reese's. Tastes just like a Reese's. I'm in. I'll buy them today. Yeah, yeah.

Listen, I don't want to say anything. We got 15 boxes of them outside. It is a game changer for me. I'll eat one net carb, dude. A lot of protein in there. It satisfies the sweet tooth. Then I get some steak, some chicken, some bacon. It is awesome.

What is that? These slate protein shakes? Yeah, let me write it down. It is awesome. What is that? These slate protein shakes. Yeah, let me write it down. They're excellent. They're unbelievable. And yeah, zero sugar, 20 grams of protein, 110 calories, and they make them in three different flavors, dark chocolate, mocha, and they're lactose-free too.

Oh. You know what I'm going to do? What? I'm going to send you guys over a couple cases of this. I'll send you some of this. I'll send you some of this. Hey, I'll send you some of this. Deal.

Deal. We'll do a trade here. Oh, yeah. Hey, look at us negotiating. Look at this deal we just made here. This is what it's like. We just told everybody what we're doing though. Now, so a lot of people are going to know your business.

That's a little bit of a fuck. Have you tried the nacho chips yet? They're like Doritos. I have not. What are they? I'm going to send you those, too. I'm going to send you a whole keto holy shit box. I'll do the same. I'll send what I got back, too. We'll do a full thing here. Look at us getting

healthy. Look at us getting healthy. Let's go, dude. Have an incredible weekend. Congrats on 30 seasons of The Ultimate Fighter. Obviously coming to a finale this Saturday. Cannot wait to watch. The Contender Series has six seasons. You're absolutely crushing it. Can't wait to see what you do

next. Happy birthday. Thank you, brother. And the Contender Series starts tonight on ESPN+. Let's go! We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of UFC. Great gift. Later, brother. And the Contender Series starts tonight on ESPN+. Let's go. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of UFC. Great gift giver. Later, boys. Hey, great gift giver.

Oh, yeah. Dana White. Thank you. See you later. Well done. Perfect. Well done. That is real.

He's not a Hall of Famer. He's not that job. He's not that job. He's not that Hall of Famer He's not that job You know I did The guy who What did he call me He called me Kit Sports That was going to be a new thing on my story

He called me You're such a fucking loser or something like that And then I like I had time to check out his twitter and i said is this the first time this person's ever said this to anybody like he's been delivered this line a lot not by me i'm not that type of person but people have said this to this guy a lot just by looking at his at his bio right yeah sure this guy looked like the loser of losers so him quote tweeting it saying it with a matter of fact, like, I laughed

so hard. I think I was on a plane as I was looking. I was crying laughing so hard, like so proud of this guy. You know what I mean? But then I was like, let's actually, let's visualize this tweet. So then I take his photo with the little quote box and put it next to it. It got even funnier. Like I was crying laughing at

myself because of this guy. So I'd like to thank him. But all these people that say this stuff about laughing at myself because of this guy so i'd like to thank him but all these people that say this stuff about people like and this guy played for fucking 11 years in the nfl multiple times super bowl he's friends with everybody very successful and he's fucking bad football player what a loser this guy is fucking not gonna be a hall of famer and then you look at this person it's like you're the biggest sack of shit i think i've ever seen on the internet why do you feel comfortable saying anything about anybody that's had any success? And it's because all the bad things have been said to them,

so we should feel bad for them. We shouldn't laugh at them. Sure. It is funny with a guy like Danny Amendola, though, because he is like a 5'8", 5'9", white guy like most of those people are. It's like, hey, this guy actually, he isn't supposed to go in the NFL. He isn't supposed to play 10, 11 years, but he did because he is an exceptional athlete. This guy is, you're more relatable to this guy

than you are to any guy in the NFL that you don't bury. This guy made it from the- He is you. He is you, and he made it in there 10 years, multiple times Super Bowl champion. He's a fucking loser. It's like, I don't know if that's the case. And also, there was one evening in New Mexico.

That's right. When me and Danny Amendola sent it up in Old Mexico. It was a good time. Danny Amendola had a good time. I believe that's a legend. I don't even know if the New Mexico border is the area that you want to go over either. I'll tell you what, there's a lot of things that are happening that particular evening. Hindsight, clear eyes, don't necessarily want to do.

Sure. I mean, I got on a biker gang guy's bike, motorcycle. 3 a.m. right out of the bar. mean, I got on a biker gang guy's bike. Motorcycle. 3A up. Right out of the bar. Oh, I got one of these. Major no-no. What the fuck are you doing? Whoa.

Whoa. Nice bike. Nice bike. What are we doing? Get the fuck off my bike. All right. You got it. Chase.

Danny going, he didn't mean, I mean, what did you think was going to happen? He's telling me, it's a nice bike. I'm going to boost up. It's a nice bike. I just wanted to see it. I thought we were at like a petting zoo. We are not. Sorry, sir.

We'll get out of here. Thank you, Danny. Let's get out of here. That guy's pretty fucking rude there. You know what I mean? That guy's pretty rude. So I appreciate Danny not getting me. I mean, I was just trying to compliment the guy.

Yeah, sure. Trying to test it out a little. It's a fucking nice bike. I mean, I was just trying to compliment the guy. Sure. Trying to test it out. It's fucking nice. But you should have asked him to put his cut on, too. He already had it. Give me that. They were sitting. Oh, you're talking about me.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to sit on your bike. Fucking let me put it on. Try it on. It had the big. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

It had the monkey. Has yours been. I know you decided to take a break, but has it been calling you? Yeah. A couple of days days it did. But the roads here in Indiana are too bad. Can't do it. So bad.

It's like a scratch off whether or not you're going to make it. You know? Because if you just so happen to hit one of these potholes, now's not the time for me to be doing that. No. We appreciate that. Yeah, no problem. I was a little reckless before. I used to get wide open on that thing.

I loved it. That was my favorite hobby. You could ride to the new office, right? Yeah, pretty good streets there. Do circles in the parking lot. I did that the first time I rode a bike because I didn't know how to stop it. So I didn't want to stall. So I just did a full circle.

Pulling into the gas station at a red light. Green. It turns green. I don't need to stall. I don't need to be doing that. Probably shouldn't have been riding either At that point I had no idea what I was doing Just hop on it first time you see it

It's like riding a bike Let's cover some things that we talked about today Shall we? Veteran players checked in the camp Love that I didn't see any other Arrivals Justin Tucker

They had a 3 second video of him walking in. Wait, he's just dressed up professionally? Nope. Yeah, just normal. Just walking in. Daniel Jones was pretty sweet. He was wearing like a $699, $799 shirt from Old Navy. See that?

Relatable. Third and fourth grade. He probably wore it on the first day of school. He looked awesome. Reggie Wayne? Maybe picture day. Maybe. You're right.

The t-shirt he had was picture day or first day of school day oh i'd say first day of school because you really want to pop yeah first day is a big day yeah set the tone for what this year's that's right a good shirt and then photo day is like oh this is we're gonna look back on what this year was that's right so he was trying to set the tone exactly back on going back on. Reggie Wayne arrived in a scooter, I believe, after years and years of making legendary and memorable training camp arrivals with metaphors and meanings behind them. This time he just hopped on a bird, showed up. This is Coach Wayne.

That's right. Coach Wayne in the wide receiver room. He's going to get the most out of the boys. He's going to have to because Michael Strahan, one of the wide receivers, he's already hurt and he's out. Really? Jesus Christ. In a position that a lot of us have questioned publicly for the Indianapolis Colts,

the wide receiver room, one of the guys who we all thought could potentially be a star, if you're not from Indianapolis, you do not know who this guy is. He has been a training camp darling the last two years. And then he gets in some games and fucking he's a guy. Yeah. He can stretch the field. He's big body. Seems to be a great diamond in the rough type find for Chris Ballard.

Just for one reason or not, can't stay on the field. Starts the training camp off the field, which is not great news. Coach Wayne will get the most out of the boys. Alec Pierce will get more reps, the rookie out of Cincinnati. Obviously, Pittman Jr. will be able to do his thing. I'm excited for the Colts to get started. I'm excited to see what type of coach Coach Wayne is because the videos and the mic'd up seem like he's going to be a

fucking good one. Yeah, and also, I feel like Matt Ryan, more than some quarterbacks, uses their tight end so much, and Mo'Ally Cox is an absolute dog. Mo'Ally Cox, and then I guess there's... Another guy? Ogletree, maybe? Is that a tight end from... Alec Ogletree was a linebacker. Nah, that may not

be Ogletree. No, it probably might be. I think they got two rookie tight ends, too. Really? Sources in the building have told me. Big motherfuckers. Nice. A.K.A. these big dudes. These tight ends that they got.

Andrew Ogletree. Ogletree. He's a tight end? He's a rookie. Where's he from? Youngstown State. Here we go. Let's go Penguins.

He's a big... I guess he's a big body. Yeah, I guess this guy's a big body and obviously tough. And there's some other tight end too. So there's a lot of confidence in the tight end room for the Indianapolis Colts, which is big for Matt Ryan, but we need a wide out. Pierce will do his thing. Pittman will do his thing.

Jonathan Taylor's still there. You know, we're good. We're good. Colts are good. Colts are good. Question. You think these new school dudes, we've only seen Aaron really with like a themed show up today,

and he's an old school dude. You think the new school dudes would be into it, but it feels like it's falling off. Yeah, well, you got to put it in the contracts you watch film. Yeah. You know, so. Bingo. It's just a new day.

Nobody wants to motivate the boys in a dramatic fashion when showing up at the training camp. Nobody wants to break the boys in a dramatic fashion when showing up at training camp. Nobody wants to break the monotony and the scare and the fear that people have going in training camp. This is new school versus old school. AB would have showed up in something sweet. I miss him already. AB's about to be the biggest artist in the world.

I just read his caption. Do your dance, AB. Do your dance. Play that shit. Play that shit. Play that shit. Play that shit. Play that shit. Play that shit. Play that shit. Play that shit. Get his dance. Hey, I haven't seen an NFL guy perform a rolling loud ever.

True. No. So I'm fucking pumped for it. First. Some people are burying it. I didn't think it was that bad. No. No, no, no. It was electric.

Pretty good performance. Legit? Yeah. Is that 10 times better than we thought Antonio Brown's potential performance is going to be, right? Definitely better than the one that we saw where he was up in a tower and there was 20, 25 people just not even looking. And they were throwing money, yeah. He played the wrong song, but it was good.

Well, he played a bunch of songs. He played, I just got back from the end. Antonio Brown seems to be very focused on his rap career. His captain said he wants to be one of the biggest artists in the world or biggest artist in the world, and I believe he will attempt to do as such. I believe he's with Yeezy still?

Yeah, isn't he still the president of the Donda Sports? And he makes bangers. I mean, what are we even talking about? He's out there doing his thing at Rolling Loud. I still miss him. You know, week 10, week 11, Mike Tallman gives a call. What are we even talking about? AB's out there doing his thing at Rolling Loud. Still miss him. You know, week 10, week 11, Mike Tallman gives a call. Hey, AB, we need you.

I don't know if it's going to be. Yeah. You heard Tallman say it. AB ain't coming back. What are you talking about? Tallman said it. Oh, maybe Tom Brady then. Week 11, week 12. Maybe Tom Brady.

And what if Ben Rothenberger comes back to the Steelers and he calls AB? There's no reason to be sad. Yeah. That was a wild time to be alive. Oh, my God. AB's in the back of Danny Boy Hustle Hardest in Yukon. Tell him, Cheech. Fuck him.

He was stuck in New York. Cutting cameos. Yeah. Cutting cameos while the game's still happening. It's going to be my new business. I'm going to do this. Goes right to the studio. Shuts down the internet for like two weeks.

Was he in that Instagram video with like Kanye, Madonna, Floyd Mayweather? It was like the most awkward. He was just wearing fingerless gloves in there. That was wild. Antonio Brown took over the world there for a while. Now he's only going to keep going. I know you're sad about being Ben Roethlisberger,

but it might not be over for Ben, which we don't know, right? Universally, including Big Ben, I think everyone knew, hey, this is it for me. No, what did Ben say, though? Ben said he could fucking still swing it. Ben is going to hold that over the NFL for the next five, six years. He won that golf tournament. In classic Ben fashion, 0% surprise,

and would have been disappointed if he didn't say that right before training camp. True, very true. That's very, very true. Ben still got it. Just like I would put out a video of me kicking a ball, right? Exactly. Just throw the ball a little bit. Why not?

By the way, there's only a couple of those videos I have saved on my phone. I'm probably not making any new ones. So keep an eye out for a reused kicking video from me just to start the part a little bit. Ben could also be looking at the Browns and say, hey, Deshaun might not play. I might fucking come back playing Cleveland and fucking avenge Pittsburgh.

Play for my home state. And avenge these guys for fucking kicking me out of town. Why not? They didn't kick him out. Ben Rothberger for the Cleveland Browns. Can you imagine? Big Brown storybook ending. What's this?

Is this the video from Antonio Brown? Is he just really dug deep for this one? Go ahead, Zito. Good find, pal. I know you're sad about Ben Rothenberger retiring, but it's not over for Ben yet. I know everyone's wondering, isethlisberger retiring, but it's not over for Ben yet. I know everyone's wondering, is this his last game in Pittsburgh tonight?

And would it end like this? But it may not end like this. I know Ben, he's a competitor. He loved to play football. One of the greatest quarterback all time. And I just don't see him hanging it up. So, Patrick, you and all other Steelers fans who are looking to think Big Ben is playing his last game in Hounsfield, I wouldn't tilt my hat on that yet.

I wouldn't bet on that yet because Big Ben has a lot of football yet left. And he didn't say that his career was over. He didn't say that it was his last game in Hounsfield. So we can't speculate and recollate upon him not playing anymore. So let's be positive. Let's cheer him on. Let's wish for one of his best games tonight. Let's go.

And let's keep business booming. Hey, let's go. You're playing yourself, though, if you think Big Ben Roethlisberger is playing for any other organization. No, Antonio said that about Antonio. He didn't say that about Ben Roethlisberger but that was right before you school right yeah because didn't that come out right i forgot about that right around that time what you school in he was dming with that lady i forgot all about that come on it was right before that. Come on.

I don't remember that. We did a full show on how you could sneak someone up to your room. Oh, yeah. Through the... Uh-huh. This show's the worst.

Let's go to the phones. Let's get the fuck out of here. Let's go to Rick and... San Antonio. Rick and San Antonio, home of the San Antonio XFL team. What do you want to talk about, Rick, on the 5RNG phone line? Go to 5RNG.com.

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hey we're doing keep it good keep it going good it's good thank you Rick appreciate you hey I wanted to unfortunately AJ Hawk is off online right now but I wanted to unfortunately AJ Hawk is off the line right now but I wanted to get his thoughts

and then also I can get Ty Schmidt's thoughts as well on what it was like when Brett Favre returned to

Lambeau as a Minnesota Viking the energy obviously AJ's not here he can't talk about it

but Ty can I figure as a lifetime fan seeing his childhood hero return what that was all like

hey Rick I'm gonna need you to hang up on yourself there but I can do it as a lifetime fan seeing his childhood hero return, what that was all like. Hey, Rick, I'm going to need you to hang up on yourself there, but I can do it now. Did you guys puke when old Brett was a Minnesota Viking making throws across his body and everything like that? Or was the goodbye from Brett a pretty, you know, sulky situation, salty situation, because he'd been holding Aaron back and how it all ended. Yeah, there's just the constant will they, won't they.

It's like one week Favre doesn't want to play anymore, and then the next week it's like, well, you know, I might actually come back. I'm kind of missing this. But, yeah, once Rodgers got in there and you actually saw him play, it was like, all right, fuck it, we'll just do this. And granted, the Vikings, they went to the NFC Championship that first year with Favre and beat the Packers. Yeah, and beat the Packers twice, I think.

So that kind of sucked, but in the end, it was, yeah, kill the head and the body will die. Yeah, kill the head, yeah. Right, but yeah, they didn't win the Super Bowl, so it was like, all right, well. Yeah, but it's kind of crazy how you guys just piss on a grave of Brett Farv. Even Patriots fans are like, happy Tom's doing well, right? Well, some.

That is a very fine line. He didn't go to their biggest rival, though. Tom didn't turn around and go play for the Jets or the Bills or something like that. He went to Miami and was a part owner. He stayed in the fucking division and went to the Vikings. So he tried to go to Miami and become a part owner in the division. Flores said, I'm not taking that fucking meeting on your yacht to the owner. But Tom does that.

You guys hate him forever? If he goes to Miami. I mean, look, I'm someone who does not like Tom Brady until he retires, obviously. But you already did. You liked him for a couple days. Was that like eight, ten days? Yeah, I think it was just about eight to ten days. I actually had to take down the newspapers of him.

Don't you have a Tampa Tom Brady jersey? I don't. I should order one, though, maybe when he retires. You don't have one? No. So what's the deal with you guys just not having any respect for these guys who have brought you so much happiness through your life? You with Brett Favre.

I love Favre. And you. All those fucking parades every other year you were going to through your childhood. You don't even give a damn. Spit. Get out of here, Tom. We don't like you. Well, it's a team game.

There's 22 people usually, and that's not even including special teams. The Patriots have brought me a lot of happiness. Sure. Tom was the leader. But Bill Belichick is my captain. He was the guy steering the ship. And he's the guy that is still steering the ship. So yeah, there were some people that jumped ship, perhaps,

under that pirate Bodo's motherfuckers on Tampa Bay. We talk about Bill Belichick and Tom Brady hating ourselves. When are we going to talk about B.A. and Tom Brady, huh? What? Guess what? Guess what? Guess what? One guy retired. One guy kept going.

Hell yeah. One guy came back. One guy got fired. And who the hell was that, huh? Why did he retire? Sure. He stepped away. He's giving press conferences at the Combine about rebuilding the team.

And then all of a sudden, the quarterback, the leader, the guy that made Tampa Bay a real franchise comes back. You're wrong. Okay, I'm just saying. You're wrong. If this was Brady and Belichick, we'd be talking about this every goddamn day. But it's B.A. and Brady.

Bruce is still in the building. Bruce is still in the building. Oh, is he in the building? That's what they're saying. He's a consultant. He's around. Yeah, for sure. When Tom lets him be.

I'm sure he's around all the time. Don't you jump in on this wearing your salmon. It's real. This is box throwback colors, okay? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. We don't need you hopping on this whole train. We know.

He was rebuilding the team because he didn't want to hand over a bad team to his boys. Oh, yeah. He's very honorable. And then when Tom Brady came back, he said, all right, you guys can take this team. Yeah, no point for me to even be here because it's not even my offense and I don't call plays anymore. So we'll just, you know, let Tom do it. Quarterback hates my guts. That's not what happened.

Well, that feels like exactly what happened, actually. Well, it's pretty good. I don't think it's a good defense. It's unbelievable you just deflected one all the way around the ship to bring that up. Look, I think it's unbelievable that he was able to go to somewhere else, pick the team with the best wide receiver core, bring one of the greatest tight ends out of all time back to the team.

You see the defense on that game too? Yeah, one of the best defenses. I mean, they went 7-9, and their quarterback threw 30 picks, and then Brady came in. Unbelievable. I think it is more impressive that B.A. lasted with Brady for two whole years because I don't think many coaches could meet his competition levels. And I think that's why when you look back at the Patriots dynasty,

it will always be couldn't have happened unless you have both. Yeah, we're not talking about that. We're talking about you guys being not thankful at all for it. Like that little sign fucking kid. That little sign kid that was just, is he saying thank you to Tom Brady every single night whenever he says his prayers? That kid's a fucking sellout.

What? What's wrong with that kid? What is your deal? I assume just looking at that kid, I assume he jump-shipped to Tampa Bay. Oh, no! Son of a kid! Where we ended up in this conversation,

I didn't even know how it started because we just dove right into Tampa and talk. Let's go to the folks. Let's go to Ryan in Chicago. Ryan, new dome on the field. Here we go. What do you want to talk about? Hello, Pat, boys.

How are you doing? Keep moving. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you. I want to talk about last week you guys were talking about the Champions League. No, not the Champions League. My bad. The NFL going to Europe and how it's going to Germany and London this season

for a couple games. And now last season, Champions League, they actually talked about coming to the U.S. for a final. Holy shit. But both parties were a little bit shaky because of the fan bases on uh them thinking it was not right with the fan i want to get like your opinion on it okay thank you ryan how did that happen can we pull that up can we can we pull that up this thing landed there's a little hole in this thing yeah landed right in the middle of it.

Obviously, I did that on purpose. Unbelievable. Yeah, that needs to... Can we... Is there a replay we can throw it back to? Yeah, I can pull it up. I mean, that's absurd. There's only one ball that fits in this thing, right? So, like...

Yeah, what are the odds here? It's got to land flush. Yeah, that's lethal shooter with the nail rim. Yeah. You tell me. Couldn't even hear a word that guy was saying. Nope. The answer to whatever he was saying was, who cares?

I hate you. Why? I was listening. I missed you doing that. Yeah, because I was trying to figure out what he was saying. Man, that was pretty good. That was unbelievable. Oh, we have replays. Yeah, me too, because I was trying to figure out what he was saying. Man, that was pretty good. That was unbelievable. Oh, we have replays.

Yeah, here we go. We actually saw it happen. This is Ryan from Chicago's question. Pretty good balance. Pretty good juggle. I start getting a little bored. The ADD starts kicking in. I'm going to go high with this thing.

I'm going to go a little bit higher. I'm going to start bashing. Yep. Boom. Boom. In the bucket. It was unbelievable. I was very, very excited for that, yeah.

I'll never do it again. I think that's the show. Good way to end it. I think that's the show. Ryan, thank you for your question. I think he was talking about fans, soccer fans or NFL fans, and then mixing. I think everybody loves Good Hooligan,

but there's different cities that appreciate it, different cities that don't. I think everybody loves Good Hooligan, but there's different cities that appreciate it, different cities that don't. I think everybody in Europe is wild. I think only some cities in America are wild. It's just two different condition fan bases. So I don't think that's even a conversation for why people would not do business in places. He was asking,

you know how we said that there could be a Super Bowl in England? Yeah, he was saying there's rumors that the Champions League final could be in the U.S. Never. But would that work? Well, we need a team. Once they start letting the MLS in the Champions League. Minnesota United, they just beat Everton 4-0.

Tell you what, Toronto FC's got a couple of Italian kids in the MLS that are just absolutely dominated. Listen, Al-Ardini doesn't have a chance because think about Methi going to Miami FC. Right. Enter Miami. That Miami FC squad is going to be

a team. Yeah. You think they're going to do the Champions League without Methi? Wrong list. You think they're gonna do that Without Methi In the league You got multiple lisps You're crazy

Bro we are The worst sports show Of all time You hear me Ryan He plotted that call Oh yeah Thought it out

He's done more research Than we've ever done On the topic And we can't even Give him a good answer Whatever the case Stop being a bunch of fucking pussycat soft ass bitches over there yeah it's the world's game let enter miami fc in

the champions yeah but chelsea got to experience it christian pulisic was the only one who scored a goal yeah the american was the only one who scored a goal you're welcome the american scored a goal for you it's different over here where the way we play soccer. And you all are going to experience that in Qatar when we fucking win the soccer Lombardia. Hell yeah.

We won the concave this year. Our women and our men. Okay, so what's that mean? Yeah, put us in the Europes, dude. Put us in the Europes. I understand we're not in the Europe as a geographical description, but if you really want the Europe's to matter,

why don't you let the Concaves, the champions, come fucking run a little pain train on all of you. Speaking of the Europe's, I thought it was a little funny. The English women are in the semifinals for the Europe's today. Have you heard Gump say that? I haven't. I haven't. Because I actually called him.

It's coming home. It's coming home. Does he not care about the women? By the way, we've been watching Europe's, he's coming home. He's coming home. Does he not care about the women? Yeah. By the way, we've been watching Europe's women's soccer. That's pretty good. I don't know how our American women win. Honestly, we beat all of them.

Yeah. And there's like a 35-yard rocket from the German. Yeah, laser. Laser. Yeah. It is. That's a sport that I think there isn't. You know, it's fucking very entertaining.

Very, very entertaining. If I know anything about gum. All right. Let's talk about Chicago. Let's talk about Mayor Lightfoot, who is obviously a fan favorite around Chicago for all of the decisions that she has made throughout her entire...

Boo that lady! Well, it does feel like all parties are saying the same thing about Mayor Lightfoot for one reason or another. Her most recent venture into oh, nobody likes my ideas is she painted Soldier Field with a

SoFi-like stadium roof over top of it. And although the SoFi stadium is kind of game-changing because it's not actually a dome because there's separation between the ceiling, the roof, and the stadium itself, thus why there was a delay

when there was lightning in the area. Everybody asks, well, how is there a lightning delay when it's a dome? They're like, well, actually, they just put the roof over top of it kind of like a shade in the stadium as itself. Mayor Lightfoot presented the same type of thing. Would add suites in there, would add a glass roof to Soldier Field,

and also a side for wind to come in. Mayor Lightfoot actually put out a stadium that could potentially be a magnifying glass on the roof for sun and then a wind tunnel through the side in Chicago which is it. And it looks cool. We can add a bunch of suites. That might be the most miserable place to play football at

in the history of football. Because it's like you're in a tanning bed in which they have a fan on. It's going to be hot as fuck with that glass roof obviously coming through there. And if they're able to keep the temperature warm, the sun will radiate through. Everybody's been inside of a fucking car where the sun comes through the sunroof. And then

the wind tunnel off the side there of Chicago, very windy. That would be a nightmare. But might get a Super Bowl there. If you add a renovation of a couple hundred million dollars to the stadium, will the NFL go ahead and say that's enough to warrant a Super Bowl in the city? I believe it's a $2 billion addition to the stadium.

So it could build a new one. Instead, just add this onto it. Maybe keep Soldier Field in Chicago, as opposed to what the Bears are planning on doing, which moves the Bears to Arlington down the road. Just paying $86 million, and then the other $3 billion after that. How do you feel about Soldier Field having a roof? Me?

Love it. If they could shut that window strictly from a punter-kicker mindset. But on the flip side, that doesn't feel like that would do much better for anything. A glass ceiling is very fascinating. Yeah. Because snow is sitting on that.

Everybody inside is just assuming it's coming through. Was that Minnesota? Yeah, it happened at the metrodome yeah oh my god we'd assume the architects and engineers would be able to figure out for that roof not to crack or give but when the sun is cracking down on that thing and that glass is just cooking it even more it's foolish it would be so hot oh my god so she she did propose this but the team uh still said that they are focused on the Arlington Heights project. And the NFL wants them to move to Arlington Heights, too. Hey, Mayor Lightfoot, real cute design here.

What is this from? Chip and Joanna Gaines. Their 3D graphic of HGTV. We actually just got $86 million worth of land where we can build. Are you putting a casino on that as well? And hotels and a plaza for all the shopping on there? Or are you just putting a roof on and some more suites? Oh, okay.

We're going to go to fucking Arlington then where we can build up Chicago Bear Land where we get all the money, basically. More suites. More suites. More stores. More restaurants. More hotels. More casinos where every dollar flows into the NFL as

opposed to whatever you're thinking up there on the Gold Coast. Also, I believe the name is now the Chicago Dome if they do this and it's no longer Soldier Field. You think people are going to love that? Chicago Dome. In that first picture, boom, right at the top. Chicago Dome. Add Soldier Field. No, you can't add that though. It's not Soldier Field

anymore then. Soldier Field will be in the Chicago Dome. Right. And people will just start referring to hey we're playing the chicago dome this weekend to be clear i am big dome fan yeah but can't have dome be magnifying glass for sun can't have wind tunnel off one side foolish which makes it a miserable place has to make it uh you know better suited for kicking balls that's all i'm thinking about about. So what I do on this too, so that one graphic here, it actually says there's three options. One is fully closed. Option two was that one that was partly open.

And then option three, I didn't read it, but it's right there. Pull that picture back up. You can't close the window though because there's people in suites right here. So that was just option two. So they would just rebuild both end zones and then it would go up like that. And then option one to fully close it okay nice so the window would be on the outside of these suites that we're seeing right here uh there would be no window there so this is option two rendering is that how lucas oil is

yeah it's got a window that you can shut though this can shut or can't shut so i don't know what you're saying so like this photo is just option two of what her what she brought up so like that would be through with the end zones. They would build up, and then that's how you get that structure to hold the dome. And that's why it's open. Okay. Option one is to fully redo the whole dome so it's fully enclosed. Put me in option one, Mayor Lightfoot.

I don't know if she's taking votes. Is she taking votes? Is Mayor Lightfoot listening to anything we're saying? I think option four is get the fuck out of the city and move to Arlington. She's not putting that option. No, she's not. They added, they're like, D! Number three is just to modify it so soccer can play there.

Soccer can play there after they leave to Arlington. I mean, when you look at a stadium like the fucking one in Vegas, I forget, the Allegiant Stadium, that one is so nice. Why wouldn't you want that for your own city and with all those other amenities that you just said? SoFi. Yes.

Allegiant. Akershire. No, I didn't. Jerry World. I don't think Akershire. I don't think Steelers. I don't know if Rooney owns any of those bars around here. I know Jerome Bettis does.

JB36. JB36 Grill is worth it. Did it close? Is it still open? Yeah. Close, yeah. What? Yeah, JB 36 accidentally closed.

Wait, the buses? Unfortunately did not survive. What happened? Oh, the wheels on the bus went. Riding, riding, riding, riding. Until they didn't. Everybody was going over the rivers. They weren't going to Jerome Bettis' Bar and Grill.

Say, hey, if I'm going to lose a quick 50 bucks, I'm at least going to gamble it as opposed to eat these provolones. They added a lot of restaurants in that area. And fortunately, JB36's food, I think it was all right. It was bad food. Bossy.

Nobody told Jerome this, but it was not good. Was he the head chef? Well, his name's on the fucking thing. Bill Belichick said, I'm the head coach, so I handle it all. They did have a cool feature where it was one-way glass, two-way glass. From the bathroom. Yeah, when you're taking a piss at the urinal, you can see it out in the restaurant. That's awesome.

They couldn't see you. They couldn't see your penis. That's kind of weird now. The glass was above where your penis would be, too. True. They didn't test the glass like all the way down to the oh if you pee upside down well then you shouldn't be in public any any weirdos probably maybe make their way into the air fight i guess into the bathroom yeah you think they're any

bathroom in public bopping looking through the window probably tough to bop and wear the way they had that set up but yeah weirdos make their way to the bathroom if it was a stall situation maybe but it was urinals maybe putting just like your butt cheeks up

against the two way window oh no I can see it be tough it's a little elevated I think the way Diggs painted the picture for dramatic effect and comedic effect

vastly different than what it is it's chest up up there so I don't know how you're going to get your cheeks up to be honest

unless you're standing Yeah, yeah, I mean stand on your buddy's back Okay Let's go to one last phone call here. We should have moment silence I guess for JB Thursday drum bus drum better script I Want to a couple times I got sick from the food every time I went to a couple times I got sick from the food Every time

Oh good lord But the vibes were high And the piss was fun What? Cause you didn't have to Leave the party in the bar Whenever you were paying You could still see him

From afar That food was Pretty shit though But who cares You're supporting the bus And Bussy supported A lot of good times That you had

Remember when he was Playing running back At 280 What? Skirting around what scoring touchdowns every single time they touched the goal line except for that one time where that was we're gonna make a tackle save the season but then he won a super bonus hometown in detroit that's because the wheels on the bus went right around

on the bus went right around the wheels on the bus went round and round in the sound around the bus was good on your bus thank you boss thank you here's a picture of the one-way mir urinal there oh obviously we can see that. Yeah. It just looks like an open bar. Yeah. Open bar area. Probably the TV's not good enough. That's on us. Oh, you can't see the urinal there?

I mean, kind of, but wait. Oh, yeah. It's a little darker. Yeah, with the lights. Yeah, it's tough to see, but everybody at home saw. You saw that? Uh-huh.

That's what it was right there. So that's a mirror? One-way mirror. You can see through. They can't see you. They used to have that at Rudy's Subs and Pizza 286. Really? How can I help you?

Yeah, one-way mirror to the back. It's kind of like an interrogation room. Boom. Larry Hall. Boom. You caught up? You watch episode four? Yes.

What do you think this is? I ain't no amateur, dude. I am. So I just watched it. Unbelievable. It's wild, right? Yeah, we're really getting there. We are. It's a good series.

It's so good. I really enjoy it. And that handsome son of a bitch is going to be James Bond. Yeah, Taron, Edgerton, and, I mean, Paul Walter Hazard is so good as Larry Hall. He really is. He's like a super-duper good actor. What's his name again? He's all range.

Paul Walter Hazard. He was an accused terrorist yes crushed it right he was what's the angle what's the angle what's the angle right crushed it in this one honestly amazing job as a serial killer who's incredibly creepy yeah looks i mean plays the role perfectly it. Great burn sides on him. I wonder if he grew those himself. Great burn sides. I mean, the pauses.

Like, that's the way he's... Hey, Jimmy! Yeah, it's unbelievable. Indiana does not look good in that. No. Indiana does not look good in that. Illinois looks good, though. Illinois looks very good,

even though Illinois was the place where... Actual home of John Wayne Gacy, yeah. Yeah. Let's go to the phone. The homeual home of John Wayne Gacy, yeah. Yeah. Let's go to the phone. The home of Harry Hall. Let's go to Dan in Maine. Dan, what's going on, pal? What's up, dude?

What's up, bro? How's Maine? You guys got sun right now, right? Winter comes soon? Yeah, we got some pretty good heat going on right now. Hell yeah. You live in Maine full time? Full time.

Yikes. How many months of cold-ass gray? Like nine months. And it's 76 degrees, partly sunny today or partly cloudy today. It seems like a perfect day in Maine. We appreciate you taking time to call in, pal. You get the lobsters or the crab? What is it, Maine?

Lobsters. Lobsters? You in the lobster business? No, I'm not in the lobster business. I'm actually painting submarines. Oh. Beast. You know, submarines are initially called U-boats.

Yeah. Were brought in to kind of change the entire world war. Now we got my guy, Dan in Maine, painting them. Whose subs are these? Are these Epstein subs? No, U.S. Navy. Hell yeah. Hey, let's paint those things.

Let's shine those sons of bitches up nice, huh, Dan? Hey, we make them look good. That's what I'm talking about, Dan. We wouldn't want anybody else to do it but you. What do you want to talk about, Dan? Hey, so SummerSlam, are we going to see AJ Hawk backing you up when you beat bum-ass Corman? Oh, good call, Dan.

Thank you for the question. AJ's got 100 kids. I think it's going to be difficult to. Oh, good call, Dan. Thank you for the question. AJ's got 100 kids. I think it's going to be difficult to get him to center in one place for a weekend. He'll probably be rooting for Corbin, too, because he's a scumbag. Yeah. Plus, when he's there. Yeah, true. You lost when he was there last time, so.

Try it, Omen. Yeah, and I got attacked, and he just stood there. He didn't do shit. He's got bad knees, so, like, I think I'd have to give him a heads up if he's going to do anything physical, he's going to have to do a little 30, 45 minutes. Uh,

sesh. I'm on AJ. No, don't you worry about it. I got this bum all by myself. Saturday night, 8 PM. Eastern on the cock.

Peacock summer slam in Nashville, Tennessee, Nissan stadium. I guess I've lost there one time. Ah, I guess I've lost her one time. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. I've, I have there one time. Ah. I guess I've lost there one time. Yeah, I'll be with them.

Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying. I have a fake punt in there. I have an onside kick in there. I have a tackle, I believe, in there. What? A lot of history in that stadium. Those fans are awesome, though. Yeah, they are.

And SummerSlam is going to be electrifying. Oh, hell yeah. I can't wait for it Saturday night, just like I can't wait to get back on this microphone tomorrow morning with more stories out of NFL training camps, more conversations, more guests, and hopefully more ha-ha laughs. Yeah. See you all in about 20 hours and 27 minutes and 30 seconds. You all are the best humans on earth.

Oh, so a giveaway. Okay. Hashtag PMS training camp. Yes. PMS training camp. Take a screenshot right now. Oh, PMS training camp. Take a screenshot, right meow. Oh yeah.

Dang it. Put your cash tag in there and give a motivational speech to somebody that's going to training camp. Hell yeah. Hey, yeah, somebody that's on the team.

At them on the team and screenshot that. Put your cash tag in there and send them some motivational words because there's going to come times over the next few weeks where a lot of guys that we have a lot of respect for are going to question what they do for a living. That's what training camp is. But these are the seeds that need to be sowed

if you're going to blossom into a Lombardi winning fucking squad. Who's going to make it? Who's not going to make it? Maybe your motivational speech will put some people over the hump. Once again, it's hashtag PMS Training Camp. Your cash tag name in there.

Then a motivational speech to somebody that just checked in training camp in the NFL. Letting them know it's all going to be okay and you can't thank them enough for their hard work

to go win a goddamn Lombardi. We'll be back tomorrow hopefully with AJ Hawk. Maybe not. See you then. Goodbye. Great work everybody. I appreciate the hell out of you.

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