The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 733 - College Football Week 1 Recap, Derwin James, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: September 6, 2022

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about an incredibly exciting week 1 of college football, all the different NFL stories that happened over the long weekend, and they look ahead to Thursday's NFL opener with the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills. Joining the progrum fresh off a massive new deal is 2x Pro Bowler, 2x First Team All-Pro, starting Safety for the Los Angeles Chargers, Derwin James, to chat about his thoughts on the Chargers this year, what type of leader Justin Herbert is, if he's the best Madden player in the league, what receivers are difficult going against, and much more (1:04:39-1:15:07). Later, joining the progrum is NFL Network Insider and friend of the show, Ian Rapoport to chat about David Bakhtiari's status for Sunday's game, the health of everyone in the Thursday night game, which players are potentially in or out this weekend, and everything else happening around the NFL as we approach the opening of the season (1:57:46-2:20:09). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. 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 NFL regular season game week Tuesday, September 6, 2022. This sports show begins now. Football is here. College football just got done with an absolutely epic week one. I understand some teams have played two games, but the majority of them only played their first game this past weekend. and last night ended the weekend of festivities of football Fantastic fashion. It was awesome to watch from literally game one all the way through the last game But now our eyes are set for Thursday night in Southern, California Los Angeles to be exact where the reigning defending

undisputed Super Bowl champions of the world shout out to like Paul Heyman Road Dogg and a bunch of other people that I just mimicked right there

the Los Angeles Rams will play host to the Buffalo Bills who are currently the odds on favorite to win the Super Bowl this upcoming season. Us NFL fans have been given a gift from the football gods,

saying, hey, the way this season is going to start is the way this entire season is going to go. It is going to be electrifying from kickoff to whistleblow in Phoenix, Arizona, to end this... unprecedented... There it is. This will blow in Phoenix, Arizona to end this unprecedented 2022 NFL season. We are happy to be alive. We're thankful you're watching here at YouTube.com forward slash the Pat McAfee show. The boys are here.

The talks at table at Ty Schmidt at Boston Corner. How you guys doing? Doing unbelievable. It was a great weekend. You said it. And now it's kind of like that. That was fun. But now we got the reset.

You can see Thursday. Then we got Sunday behind that. And then what is it? I mean, we got 25 weeks straight of NFL football. What? Be more excited. What? Be more excited.

How about the Iowa Hawkeyes winning off of two safeties and a field goal? On special teams. How you doing? Keep it moving. Torrey Taylor, appreciate everything you're about, pal. If you don't play well and bomb balls and pin people deep, those Hawkeyes ain't going to have a lot of celebratory moments over there this season. No, and that might be why I'm so excited for the NFL because they won.

I love watching Iowa football, but boy, oh boy, I don't know if I can do that for the next 12 weeks. That's just a slog. It really is. Every time on offense, you know, hey, there's a good chance we're probably going three and out. If Torrey Taylor doesn't pin him inside the 10, defense is still. But when you have to rely on your defense and special teams to score 14 to 17 points a game, not great. Yeah, but there's a lot of those people.

I think the Iowa Hawkeyes fan base stared down, oh, another year of this. Yeah, exactly. You know, a lot of, oh, another year of this. Yeah, exactly. You know, a lot of, oh, another year of this. In which, that is not necessarily fantastic. That is a recognition of what your season's probably going to be. In the NFL, there's none of that. No. Everybody has high hopes.

Exactly. Everybody thinks that they're going to win the Super Bowl. For instance, the other member of the talks at table at Boston, Connor, nobody has a clue what's going on with the New England Patriots offense or anything, but Bill Belichick said, hey, regular season you pull all the cards, I'll tell you. You're goddamn right. Basically saying you haven't seen nothing yet. Patriots could go on a run when none of us would be surprised by it

because it's Bill fucking Belichick. Yeah, exactly, and if on Sunday Bill Belichick all of a sudden is calling plays because his whole entire speech that he talked about yesterday that you just referenced was, we didn't do anything in the preseason that's going to reflect what we're going to do in the regular season. I assume their September is going to be like the previous seasons where it's absolute dog shit, and then they'll turn it on in October, maybe November, and then all of a sudden the Patriots are back where they're supposed to be.

That tone digs is here. One half of the hammer. Done. Cowboys, an absolute stallion in the betting world. I feel like you've continued to have great success even in the college football world. Are you the hottest college football veteran happening right now? Started very, very hot. How hot?

How hot? Through the noon games, before the season was like 5 or 6-0. And then I finished the weekend 11-6, 12-6. So, I mean, there was a cool point there. What's this guy? What? Tony, come on. Yeah, we-6. So, I mean, there was a cool point there. What's this guy? What? Tony, come on. Yeah, we get it.

You lost some games. 12-6 is a hell of a start. How are you? I'm trying to build up credibility for this show. I'm trying to build up good conversation. And all you're like, well, I started out 6-0. Well, I'm just saying. I am 12-6.

What the fuck, Tony? That's a great weekend. Congrats to you. Thank you, Tony. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. But you don't want to be the guy who's like, I used my million-dollar free play today, 100-0 straight.

What's wrong with that? There's a lot of people that do that, and I've got massive respect for it. There's a lot of people that do that we have no respect for, too, so I guess you've got to pick and choose. But I want to let you know I appreciate your gambling knowledge, but you were not the guy who had the biggest gambling weekend. No. The guy who had the biggest gambling weekend was maybe a man who had the hardest day of his life.

Now, is that a sign of what the season's going to be, or is that a, oh, no, we maybe peaked too early? At Boston Corner, you won a bunch of money this weekend. Yeah, I had a great weekend, probably my best Saturday of all time, so I'm glad we're talking about it now because it'll never happen again, especially now that we're talking about it. But, yeah, it was one of those things you dream about when you go into the first college football Saturday because it's never been like this. Typically, you know, Tony just said he was 12 and 6.

I might go, you know, 2 and 20 on a normal college football opening weekend Saturday. But, yeah, we got a little lucky. The gambling gods were smiling down upon me. And, you know, I'm glad they were then because it definitely isn't going to happen now. But, hey, Thursday, you never know with the NFL. Yeah, I saw you. I literally saw you watch the Boston College game, which was your only loss of the day.

You were really living and dying with everything that Boston College team was doing. And it seems like, I don't want to say it, but same old Boston College. Yeah, per usual. Even though they got a quarterback that's allegedly going to go in the top five pick of the NFL this upcoming season because Djarnovich. Yeah, Djarnovich. Djarnovich is an absolute stag.

And look at us learning all we can about college football, enjoying college football. But on Thursday starts immensely. Here we go. Goddamn right. And I'm not going to say that college football wasn't just electrifying. It was. But what we're going to see on Thursday is going to be magic personified.

We're going to be talking about like two teams that are probably going to go on run for the rest of the season. Two teams representing two different conferences, two powerhouses, kicking things off. Now, normally on banner nights like this, I got some interesting stats from old Bruce whenever I went in. Yeah, Bruce sent me a good text here. Let me find it. I got 400 of them right before the show started. We're moving into the Thunderdome soon, so

every decision has to be made right now. Right now. Before the show. Immediately before the show starts. Super Bowl champions are 10-5-2 against the spread in Thursday night kickoffs. Super Bowl champion home underdogs are 4-1 against the spread. Sean McVay, 5-0 straight

up and against the spread in openers, covering by an average of at least 12 points. The Rams are 2-4 against the spread in their last six games, though. Bills are 13-6 against the spread in Week 1 since 2003, best in the NFL. Bills are 4-1 against the spread in their last six games. So just like we always say, there's stats on all sides. Every single bet that we go to place on Thursday Night Football. And, you know, FanDuel has a no-sweat bet going on where you are betting,

you get a free bet, and then if you lose, you get that money back in free bets, basically. No sweat for Thursday night to kick off the season, and we're all going to win. Oh, yeah. This is the year every human wins every single game. Every week. Goddamn right.

And we've enjoyed, you know, Fandle being our exclusive sports book, and we've enjoyed what the partnership has been able to bring to us and our families and our lives. But it's a shame that on Thursday night, every human that's betting on Fandle is fucking winning. And that's how we're doing this season. Sorry.

There's going to be a chance, though, that we disagree on some things. But overall, we're all going to win on Thursday. Because we are launching into this season in super positive fashion. We're going to have a film breakdown, but it does appear as if the loading onto the computer has completely failed. And we're not able to do that. Once again, that happened just two minutes before we went live. Thunderdome can't get here soon enough. All the audio has been completely fucked in my ears.

I can barely hear anything. I'm actually hearing me twice in one particular. And hearing me once is here soon enough. That's right. All the audio has been completely fucked in my ears. I can barely hear anything. I'm actually hearing me twice in one particular room. And hearing me once is more than enough. Let alone hearing me twice, I couldn't even fathom what everybody around me

is like listening to my show and then having to deal with me at home. But nonetheless, that's what it feels like in this year right here. It'll get figured out because today is going

to be a big day. We got Derwin James of the Los Angeles Chargers. Just got paid four years, $76 million at safety. Congrats to the big old guy that got delivered to his house. He's incredible at

Madden and the stats with him on the field for the Chargers versus the win-loss stats when he's off the field, alarmingly different. Tom Telesco knew that. Spano's family knew that. He had a hold in, I believe, everything was going positively. Then he announced the extension.

He gets paid. He gets broken off. I believe he is an absolute dog. So, it should be an incredible conversation. Can't wait for that. Ian Rappaport will join us in the third hour at 210 Eastern. We're going to go ahead and give him a couple hours. Normally, he joins us in the first hour, but he's just waking up.

Sure. He's just sending out his first feeler text in the morning, just getting his first couple phone calls. By the two o'clock hour Eastern Standard, he should have some real shit going into this week. There's been a lot of news that have happened over the weekend that we should cover because we took

Monday off. Yeah, we did. So a lot has happened because we're a bunch of lazy fucks. That's right. Did you think about what our ancestors had to go through to get to the point where we could just take a fucking monday off absolutely i absolutely did not what you're supposed to that was what yesterday was i know i did uh hand up that's on me i didn't think about it once yesterday this guy didn't come from a union town obviously all right you know here in the rust belt i don't know about here uh in the Rust Belt, you know, unions became something of a necessity

because the way employees were being treated by the greedy corporate fat cats. Sure. Life wasn't sustainable in the way in which they were working. Unions were created. Labor became a whole thing. Some, you know, some real strides were gained, and then Labor Day becomes a thing, and we celebrate it. Absolutely. Now, do unions get in the way? I will say. But there is certainly a benefit to everything, just like everything that has a benefit probably

has some drawbacks. But I hope yesterday you at least took some time to reminisce a little bit about life that you have and the work that had been done in the past to get to this point. Yeah, absolutely. You did not. You already said you did not. You're a bad guy, Ty. You're a bad guy, Ty. But we took, I felt like a lazy fuck yesterday. Went to the Thunderdome, saw how some of the work was doing, seeing if we can get some things done. Shout out to all the people that are working on the Thunderdome on Labor Day, because they could have easily

taken off, and some of them did. Sure. But we are moving quite along here, and we're excited for the season, but we missed a lot. A lot. Three-day weekends, a lot. Big news. Missed Clash of the Castles. Clash of the Castles, Ryan Moran's still champion. That's all you need to know.

Still champion. Goddamn right. That's all you need to know. Imperium came back. Yep, Clash of the Castles happened. College football happened. The NFL, a lot of shit happened. Yep, yes.

Not only cuts and news, but contracts and deals. There is so much to catch up on. Tom Brady commented on his let's go podcast and last year we didn't get enough of the let's go podcast which i think i signed you to uh yeah and we took some looks but like you know tony kind of referenced there a little early on when you said tom brady said some things there wasn't a lot to be said on the let's go podcast usually okay so that is not the case. I assume he said a lot of things, but for whatever reason,

nobody was listening to it last year. Nobody was getting any clips. I was excited about it because Tom Brady was on Monday on this Let's Go podcast. Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday. Those two were the finalists basically for the MVP this past year. We're getting to hear them speak in an unfiltered fashion. It's starting to happen now with more people. Micah Parsons doing it.

I think Josh Allen was announced to do it. Obviously, Aaron's doing it. Tom's continuing to do it. This is good news for everybody. And on the first Let's Go podcast, I believe, of this season, alongside Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray, a SiriusXM podcast, Tom was asked by Jim Gray, sponsored by Roosquiz, I think. Yeah, Roosquiz, one of the many sponsors.

Yeah, I think Rooskris was a family dinner. Jim Gray asked Tom Brady about what is going on and what about the 11 days. And Tom Brady's answer was interesting. And there's one omission from his speech that everybody is saying is quite glaring. But do you notice a difference? Is there a difference now? And if so, how would you describe it? Yeah, I think there's a good difference.

I think for all of us, you know, as you get older, you know, life changes quite a bit. You know, I think there's different responsibilities that take form in your life. There's different perspective you gain. You know, when I was 25, all I did was think about football. You know, that was my life. did was think about football you know that was my that was my

life it was eat sleep drink football you know because it was my profession it was my career and then over time other priorities develop because you know you change and evolve through life and you grow in different ways so you know you take on these different responsibilities of family and and commitment so forth and you know, you commit time and energy to those things. So even though once at 25, you know, yeah, was I a good football player then? Yeah, it was pretty good. I think I'm a better football player now, obviously. Um, but that also comes with a lot of other aspects of life that continue to change because it is your life. And I think I alluded to a few weeks ago, you know, everyone deals with different things in their life.

it to a few weeks ago you know everyone deals with different things in their life and um you know because we're you know you play out on a big stage in a big you know there's there's a big uh there's a big camera that's always on you you know you you're living your life but you're living your sports life too and they're covering sports but they're you know they're covering your life too and you're living your life and you can't stop your life even though sports is happening so even though i'm you know playing in my 23rd year i have a freshman in high school that's playing football too i have you know a 12 year old that's going through his life i have a nine year old that's going through her life so and i have parents and i have you know a lot of things that are really important you know off-field pursuits and goals that you're trying to maximize as well so you know we all have different things that are going on and i think once football season comes i really lock in on

what i need to do and how i need to focus and how the kind of commitment i need to make for the organization so that we can maximize our potential as a team and that's the commitment i've always made and i've tried to do that in the best way possible and try to bring as much joy as i can to the people that are watching. I never felt like I ever wanted to cheat anyone with that. Well, a couple things said there at the end. Most joy for people. He definitely got booed at the Hall of Fame just a couple years ago

because of how much pain and agony he has brought to a lot of people out of his greatness. And he said he never cheated anybody out of any of that. A lot of people are saying, well, that's interesting. Where's the ball inflation? But Tom Brady obviously going through some shit at home home i think that is what the internet is saying immediately after this and we all need to be supportive of them being humans being adults and going through a marital relationship that everybody else is experiencing if you are married if you're retired and you think your life's going to be vastly different than all of a sudden just

a few days later you go actually i'm going right back into that thing to prove what to do what what are you doing uh there's still more to figure out you can see how that maybe becomes a little bit of a conversation that's the case if this is revenge season oh revenge body season whoa you know i'm not saying they broke up i'm not talking about anything this is what the internet's saying i'm just relaying a message and i'm you know trying to sniff out what's the truth oh yeah sure this is journalism. If this is revenge body season for Tom Brady, fucking look out. Look out. Yeah. I was actually kind of down on Tampa Bay Buccaneers because with all these distractions, I don't

care how many superstars you have, how many goats you got out in the pasture, distractions are not making it. That's not an easy thing to win alongside because it's already hard enough to win an NFL game, especially with some injuries in some key places. Not that I don't think old Hainsey, Bob Hainsey is not going to be able to do a trick with Jensen out there, but you're losing an old pro basically. Tom Brady says, who knows what's going on. Now that I'm here, maybe he's just fully focused on football.

And also his oldest son's Jack going into a freshman football, got to set the standard for him. I'm all the way back in on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And I don't think that's exactly how everybody else viewed that conversation they just heard from Let's Go podcast. Well, I think it could go one of two ways, too. That is the first thing I thought, too, is like, oh, fuck, Tom's locked in. Punch the ticket to the Bucs going to the Super Bowl right now.

But you also look at it on the other side. It's like if there really is what they're reporting with all the marital stuff. Trauma. Yeah, exactly. Giselle going to Puerto Rico or whatever it was. That TMZ. Yeah, bingo. Yeah, that's we let into it.

Yeah, but also like how doesn't that hang over your head? You know, if you're not just like because if he does just dive head in, it's like does that solve anything? You assume that that just makes everything in his personal life worse. And as the season drags on and it requires more time and attention when the games start to matter more, I feel like that is a tough thing to balance. I think Tom Brady only knows one way.

I think that he only knows one way. And obviously that way was something that he had naturally, but then Bill Belichick molded him even more so into how he should be spent. I think his work ethic was always incredible. Yeah. You know, people say, well, it's photo. Call him by. Sure.

Like, hey, this guy's working hard on his body. But I think he was always like a perfectionist, like a kind of overcompulsive, excessive compulsive. Yeah. Excessively compulsive on a lot of things. And then he was just kind of waiting for his opportunity. And then obviously in New England he did so I think him with his work ethic with his drive with his passion with his entire buy-in-ness to every single season when he said he was 25 all he did was eat sleep drink football I mean he was also going on and winning a bunch at that point too yeah so

it's like his entire life has brought a lot of riches and success with him doing things the way he has done things on the football field. Now I don't want to dive. I don't want this to be like TMZ around here because we have no reason to be talking about anybody, but Giselle was also the goat, right? Oh yeah. She was also in that documentary, the man in the arena, the man in the arena.

They even talked about how Giselle had to put her, like a lot of her opportunities to a side opportunities to the side because Tom with football. So whenever you see that type of thing in the documentary, you have to wonder yourself, whenever he decides to retire, do you think Giselle was maybe thinking like, okay, now I can focus and do some shit. And then all of a sudden, you know, he's like, actually, I'm going right back into that where I am. You know the deal. I'm watching film all the time. Even when I'm on a Manning cast, I'm fucking watching film in there because i have to be excessively compulsive about it now not only because i'm trying to build a reputation like i did whenever i was 25

now i gotta hang on to it when motherfuckers see tom brady this ain't the you know i'm i'm old and broke tour where you can barely get the words out into the microphone when these some of these singers hang on for one last payday tom brady's like i ain't going out like that so i have to do exactly everything i've done for this entire time the last 22 years and i assume that was probably a pretty big talking point within the household and you could see how that's the case but you could also see how tom maybe goes this is the only thing that has brought me happiness, success. Everything I've ever wanted in my life has come from this sport. Probably going to be difficult for Tom to let it go.

Impossible. Probably going to be difficult for Tom to let it go. So whenever your significant other says, I've put everything on hold for you for two decades, basically. Yeah. I've had opportunities to do a lot of things. She has. I think she's had a lot of success. Everybody's always talked about it.

But there's probably more that she's probably been able to, could have tapped into if she didn't have to worry about everything else while Tom was doing his thing. And then now she's realizing that maybe Tom's not going to be, it's not going to be as easy for him to hang it up as everybody thinks. He had $375 million waiting for him. That wasn't enough. He still said no.

Yeah, he still said no. It's like maybe that realization is becoming a thing. Maybe his kids. It just feels like Tom's got a lot of shit going on him. That wasn't enough. He still said no. Yeah, he still said no. It's like, maybe that realization is becoming a thing. Maybe his kids. It just feels like Tom's got a lot of shit going on at home. We would like to thank Tom for his sacrifices at home for all of us as football fans. Thank you, Tom. Hey, that doesn't change your situation at home at all.

Not one bit. Not one fucking bit does that make your life easier, but I'd like to let you know, we appreciate your sacrifices and all that you've done for the league and for the game. And, yeah, good luck, you know, at home. Good luck is right. That seems like it's going to be an interesting situation for some time to come. I wonder if Tom wasn't really ready to retire

and maybe it was Giselle who texted Schefter and said, hey, break the news, force him into retirement. And that's why Tom was so upset. I got to fucking put him out to pasture. Yeah. Get hey, break the news. Force him into retirement. And that's why Tom was so upset. I gotta fucking put him out to pasture. Get Darlington on the phone. Could see it happening. But also, if they don't win the Super Bowl, is he coming right

back? Because it feels like that's the only way he stops playing is if he ends on winning the Super Bowl. Well, the NFC is going to be difficult because David Bakhtiari says he's on track to start in the opener versus the Minnesota Vikings. It was reported by somebody else.

I forget who was the one that broke the news, but Bakhtiari. Oh, Bob Domofsky of ESPN Packers Nation, I believe. Bob Domofsky has been on this show before? Yes. Bob Domofsky, yes. Great call. Hey, Bob, doing great. Love you, Bobby.

Doing great, Bob. Bob Domofsky reported that he is due to return for the opener potential, and he quote tweeted that and said, hey, we're taking it one day at a time, Bob. Let's not get too out of control here. That's good signs for everybody in Green Bay, for every owner of Packers Nation, for every single person that roots for the Cheeseheads, including this show, because Aaron Rodgers Tuesday, he said, I'm just taking it one day at a time, Bob. Let's not blow things out of proportion.

And it was the Joker who had a bomb on his vest whenever he showed up at the mob meeting, I believe, when he ended up putting a guy's face through a pencil. Yeah, that's right. So I don't know what, I mean, maybe Bob has a little bit of a HR department here. You know what I mean?

Could be. Maybe a little bit of a threat from Bakhtiari. But also, it seems like when we talk to Bak, when we talk to Aaron, here you know what i mean could be maybe a little bit of a threat from bach tiari but also this seems like when we talk to bach when we talk to aaron the reports are coming out felt like it was relatively positive him being back for the opener great news that's a game changer for your fucking team yeah absolutely massive and even just him saying that even if he somehow does miss the opener that makes me feel like okay well it's not going to be, you know, we're sitting at week eight and he still hasn't played. Like, I think he's going to play much sooner.

Like, do you think at this point, what is it, Tuesday they play on Sunday? Like, do you, he knows whether or not he can go on Sunday right now, right? Or do you think it still is like kind of up in the air a little bit? I'm not sure. Maybe, maybe he's already made a decision that he's back and they don't want to publicly release it Because there could be a minor You know a little bit of a setback Over the next couple days Then you set the expectations

And then all of a sudden everybody's like oh again This guy isn't playing I thought it was interesting when he came on the show And was like yeah when I was on my honeymoon And I walked up this big fucking sand dude To see the view My knee hurt so bad And it was during that that I said

We probably got a problem here. And that led to a surgery that ended up probably fixing his knee and getting him back on time. So, you know, you can find true joy in an unusual place. You know what I mean? In a hopeless place there. But Bach being back is great for the Packers. I can't wait to see what they do with that young offense.

Aaron Rodgers Tuesday is back for an unprecedented season three. I assume it's going to be much more positive with old draft out there on the left side again. It's huge with him and Elton James. Let's just say he's back. Yeah, sure. He's Bach. We did that last time. Guess who's Bach?

Bach again. Bach is Bach. Tail off, right? Yep. Guess who's Bach? Bach again off for it guess who's Bach Bach again Bach again because he's Bach he's left tackle Bach he's all pro Bach

he's no longer sitting on a sideline chugging beers for watching other people succeed Bach Bach is Bach again and Bach is back well said it's good for Bach that's really when you start to feel like football is bach yeah it's really yeah football's bach dude what were

you gonna say i'm sorry no with him and uh elton jenkins being healthy i believe he is is he healthy now uh not completely but he's trending i mean he same deal he blew his knee out last year and he's trending in the right direction those guys because i feel like with the young wide receivers coming into it they got a couple stallions in the backfield people forgot people forgot about aaron jones yeah oh yeah he's still on the team right yeah haven't talked about him at all because aj dylan has kind of grabbed the headlines because he ran over that fucking mascot and his quads are so large and he had a great season last year and he's coming into another one aaron jones run catch everything everything Absolute dog in the backfield.

You get a good offensive line, you have the potential to play action. I mean, Aaron could probably make anybody open at that point, let alone people he's saying he ain't never seen run around the field before. He said, there's a draft running around like a goddamn gazelle out there. We ain't never seen a guy like that before. He's excited. Packers fans should be excited. And Baca's Baca again.

Hell yeah. Let's move along here. Left tackle Jason Peters, who's 40 years old, formerly of the Philadelphia Eagles. Everybody calls this guy probably the greatest left tackle of all time. Super athletic, super powerful, absolute dog. Was able to play the left tackle position at a high level for a long, long, long, long, long time. Now at the age of 40, Whitworth just won a Super Bowl with the Rams at the age of 40 plus at left tackle, which is the most athletic position on the offensive line.

Apologize for saying it to all you guards and centers in right tackles. They know. They fucking, they know. They know. They know. Most athletic position where you're taking on absolute stallions or getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars to get to the quarterback. You're the blind side. You're protecting a half a billion dollar asset behind you.

It's a difficult position. Last week, whenever the Dallas Cowboys lost their left tackle, they thought they were going to keep it in-house. They signed 40-year-old Jason Peters. Good for him. I assume he's all the way back. Ian Rappaport was the first on the case. The Cowboys have agreed to terms.

The future Hall of Famer, our offensive tackle, Jason Peters. Source said. So just one source told him that. So Jerry Jones said, Hey, Ian, fuck it. Guess what? You remember this guy, Jason Peters? peters source said so just one source told him so jerry jones said hey guess what you remember this guy jason peters he's been playing in the nfl for 20 years he's a fucking cowboy another year for the 40 year old who figures to help dallas out of position of need the former eagles legend lives in texas and now joins his hometown team now i did see that is not his hometown he is from like

an hour and a half two hours away and he got dunked on by somebody in Texas doing that. But he is a Texas boy playing for the Dallas Cowboys. At a position in need. We'll see if he's still got it. They're going to find out quick. Huge there because Jerry said that the Dallas Cowboys go through Ezekiel Elliott this year. That's what he said?

Mm-hmm. Same offense coordinator? Yep. Same Dak Prescott? Yep. Mike McCarthy's still there? Yep. That ball goes through the backfield.

They're going to throw it 60 times a game. Good idea there, Jerry. You can put that as publicly as you want to, but whenever push comes to shove and shit needs to happen, they're going to start slinging that rock. I mean, that's just what's going to happen. Dak Prescott's broken every record every single time he's gone in there and they still have yet to win the playoffs which is probably why uh jerry jones is like hey we need to start fucking let's start running that ball let's get these boys off the fucking field here let's go ahead and run this defense down so then dac can do his thing they don't win i don't know

what's gonna happen with mike mccarthy but we all assume that sean payton who was on up and ad Adams this morning, Kay Adams' new show on FanDuel TV debuted today. Congrats, Kay. Congrats to Kay and to FanDuel TV. Formerly TVG, now FanDuel TV on all your local markets, and you can find them online at any platform, basically. They're on basically everything.

Kay Adams had Sean Payton on earlier. He looked like he was having a good time. He looked like he's ready to go, taking a little break from coaching the game. He's working for NFL Fox Sunday, I believe. He's allegedly in the driver's seat to take over that team if they don't make the playoffs this year. Do they make the playoffs this year because the NFC East is the NFC East?

What are the odds? Can we get the odds for the divisions? I don't know what all graphics are worth. I believe it changed because it used to be the Cowboys were heavy favorites. Not heavy favorites, but then it was even at one point, the Eagles may be even better odds than them now. Yeah, they are. So the NFC East, Dallas Cowboys plus 145 to win that thing.

Eagles tied with them. That was after the left tackle got hurt. They'd end up being a two-headed, two-horse race in the NFC East between the Eagles who seemed like building all facets over there. Sirianni gets another year of experience doing rock, paper, scissors. A.J. Bryan. Defense inside the ball. Jordan Davis. Yeah, they got Georgia.

Big dude. Humble guy. Gets traded for C.J. G.J. Yes, bringing in an absolute doge on the back end. And then Washington commanders with Carson Wentz, plus 550. back end and then Washington commanders of Carson Wentz plus 550 and then the Giants who I know new regimes try to make old regimes look bad because new regimes are always going to say oh look what we had the deal with look what we had I don't think the new regime over there in New York Joe and Dayball have to do much to make Gettleman look like a fucking idiot.

Yeah. They've had to redo contracts so many times to try to open up a little bit of space. When you say like Galladay is getting paid more than I think like 15 of the top 20 quarterbacks this season. That's a wide receiver, by the way, who's not, I don't know, projected fantasy points because we got a draft coming up tomorrow night. Yep. First time I'm playing fantasy tomorrow, me and CFO.

Oh, hell yeah. Fucking. Okay. Make it happen. We're about draft coming up tomorrow night. Yep. First time I'm playing fantasy tomorrow. Me and CFO. Hell yeah. Fucking. Okay. Make it happen. We're about to win this thing too. Okay. I don't know what Galladay's projections is. Probably not great.

I have no idea. Then he just had to redo Leonard Williams' contract. He was getting paid more than Aaron Donald in 2023 now because he had to redo the contract. Edelman was trying to hand out cash to turn his team around quickly. Kind of like what the Jaguars are doing right now, but none of them seem to hit, and the team is in a worse spot than they were before he got there. So I guess the Jaguars are going to have to see how it pans out.

But that Gettleman guy, every day that passes, his shit looks worse, it seems like, over there for the Giants. They're fucked. Yeah, absolutely. And I think Dayball and Wink and Joe and all of them, that's a great lineup of people. But if you're constructed in a terrible fact, are the Giants ever going to be good?

Hey, Bruce, are you guys ever going to be good again over there? Honestly, it's a damn shame, I think, whenever you listen to Eli and Strahan and Canty, even everybody talk about the history of the Giants franchise. They were on that run. They've always been gritty. They had him in there. Big Tona was back there running shit. He was the guy.

Now they're just literally a laughingstock, and they're still dealing with the previous GMs here. Two, three years later, it's only going to continue to get worse. Yeah, until they get all those contracts off the books. But it's all fake. Yeah, it's all fake. And Daniel Jones, they didn't pick up his fifth-year option, so you know that it's like, hey, if Daniel Jones doesn't fall out,

which you can expect what you want, but probably not going to happen. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's the word? Positive. Yeah, absolutely. Staying positive. But like you said, Kenny Galladay, who I think had zero touchdowns last year, is getting paid more than Tyreek Hill.

James Bradbury, the corner they paid, they let him go, and now he's on the Eagles, still in the division, making that team much better. So it really is one of those things Where it feels like this year Is already a wash for the Giants And Dable and Joe Shane Just because of the fact That they have nothing to work with

That's his name, Shane I kept saying Joe I couldn't get it out of my mouth Joe Shane, though Yeah, but it spells Shane, right? Yeah, Shane And I almost said scone Because of Quills

Yeah, well, at the Rangers game You know, they didn't even know It's in his own city Remember they cropped him out And they just had Dable And he was sitting right next to him Yeah, but, you know Rangers game, you know, they didn't even know it's in his own city. Remember they cropped him out and they just had Dable and he was sitting right next to him? Yeah, but, you know, they go prove themselves. That's right.

And Dable, what, was big drunk at every fucking hockey game? Yeah, he was. Enjoy his good times, pal. Maybe that's why he's not calling plays this year. Who, Dable? Yeah, he said Mike Kafka's calling plays. Okay, so that's a great transition into a real conversation. There's numerous places that we don't know who's calling plays on offense.

This is a talking point that I'm not sure we've ever had before. Normally going into a season, it's pretty well established who's going to be calling plays. Hey, who's running the game for our offensive side? Who's been working with the quarterback? Who's been working with the offense? Who understands the flow of the game, what they want to accomplish? Normally, we're at a point where it's like, like we know and it's not really even a talking point it's just like correct you talk about the quarterback you don't really normally talk about the play caller

unless play callers the head coach and then that gets added into a conversation that's like that the head coach has it's never like a talking point and i might be wrong we're only in this game like four or five years at this point but this year it's a real talking point. Obviously with New England. Nobody has a clue what the fuck's going to happen. There's another. I had no idea that the Detroit Lions are currently in the middle of a who the hell is calling the fucking plays for this season conversation. That is taking place right now.

And MCDC had a press conference, and he didn't give us any answers on who's calling plays. He actually gave us a little insight into what it's like to once have the power to call plays, and then maybe a conversation is had about you no longer calling the plays and kind of the emotions behind it. MCDC, Motor City Dan Campbell, head coach of the Detroit Lions, talking about something that maybe the local people knew. I did not even know it was a conversation, but MCDC's awesome.

Here's what he has to say about calling plays in the NFL. Do you feel like he's ready to call plays this Sunday? Yeah, but I think I am too. So this is going to be good. This will be fun. And he's done a great job. Yeah, he's good.

Huh? Well, this is going to be interesting to find out. I'm excited to know, too. Is there a benefit as a really good fan? You mean by not saying who's calling? Oh, yeah. I mean, maybe, maybe not. I don't know.

I'll be honest with you. I'm just not quite there yet. I mean, I still have this eagerness to want to call it myself. And so, I'm just, man, it's going to be gonna be you know i don't know it's gonna be good rocking the podium and then he's talking about how it's going to be interesting i'm excited to see what that means are they going to go bull in a ring are they doing are they doing oklahoma drill to see who's fucking calling plays uh coach mc dc i did not know this was a conversation i guess this was happening behind closed doors what is really going on in your mind uh coach mcdc i did not know this was a conversation i guess this was happening behind closed doors what is really going on in your mind uh coach mcdc well man i mean you saw last year i started

calling plays we turned the season around man you know i mean what we won two three games i really don't remember because we lost so many but no man as you start you know i've been playing a lot of madden lately yeah that new madden 23 came out man. And not only do I look like an absolute bag of mashed-up asshole, and that's something they need to change real soon. Another thing with that, man, the tackling mechanics and some of that other stuff, it doesn't really feel like real football, man. But you get that joystick in your hand, you know, you get that R3-L3 bumper, man.

You start to feel the juice you're getting you know i i feel very good and granted you know we're still trying to kind of find our greg jennings man you know i mean every team wants to find a guy who can just put the team on his back though man okay uh is that what you guys are doing you're playing madden against each other yeah i've been playing a lot of it. You know, it's funny. The playbook they have in there, man, very similar to what we're actually – I don't know how they did it. I don't know how they did it, but we'll see. I mean, I may call some of the plays.

What if there is a team meeting and they walk in there, and who's the other person that might be calling plays? Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson. So it's not Brunel might be calling plays? Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson. So it's not Brunel either. It's fucking Ben Johnson. Yeah, Ben Johnson. Oh, see.

Okay, so imagine you walk into a team meeting and fucking MCDC's on the left with the sticks and fucking Ben Johnson's on the right. They both got to play as the Detroit Lions against each other. And whichever team has the most offensive success and wins the game is calling the plays. that would be an electrifying fucking team meeting i'm almost expecting on hard knocks tonight for him to walk in and throw something down be like madden's got our whole fucking playbook man how'd that happen huh i'm really expecting yeah which one of you guys is fucking

going to ea sports man huh They got every fucking play we run. Blames it on NFL films and hard knocks. Keith Goss, this son of a bitch is giving it out there. But I do like the fact that he's like, you're going to have to pry these play calling duties out of my fucking cold, dead hands. They were much better on offense last year when he started calling plays. Golf was a million times better. Golf was a different quarterback because it was Anthony Lynn.

Anthony Lynn gets relieved of his duties. No offense. I'm doing this. And it was a brand new person at quarterback. I couldn't believe it. And so now Ben Johnson got promoted to OC. Can we put a picture of Ben Johnson up? Do we have the capability of doing it?

When you said the Oklahoma drill thing, once you see a photo of him, MCDC would absolutely eviscerate it. He's pretty white. Just the whitest human of all time? Yeah. So everybody just assumed that this guy was getting a play call in duties just because MCDC's big, dumb meathead? Is that what everybody assumed?

I assumed so, but we knew in preseason that they were going back and forth and calling him. So is MCDC competing against a guy right now on a team that he runs? Yeah. That's exactly what's happening. That is exactly what's happening. That is exactly what's happening. It's interesting. We're going to look at the final tally.

How many firsts do I have? I'm excited to find out, too. Hey, we're running the analytics, man. I guess I called more draws on the first play than everybody else. We had more firsts. Oh, he is very wise. In practice, though, on hard knocks, though, it seems like he's calling all the plays.

So media just expects Ben Johnson. Ben, ben by the way just classic standard white this is not a that's not a shot of you now you're fine i am a brand of white as well there's a lot of fuck boys that look like i look as many wear tank tops as i do sure that's kind of become my fuck boy thing but uh good luck out there ben so i think you start with mcdc you can always go So I think you start with MCDC. You can always go to Ben. Yes. You start with Ben. Can he go to MCDC?

And what's Ben standing within the team if he's been by the head coach? I forget if he was tight end coach or if he was the pass game coordinator. The offense runs through the tight ends. I assume MCDC just took over last year without knowing how good he would be, and then he was like, I'm pretty damn good at this. I want to keep doing it. I fucking love this, man. I can do whatever I want. Beat the Cardinals.

It's like a video game, man. What do you want to see me? You want to make a call? Four verticals? I love just the thought of him putting a game plan together, what he wants to do. Because, you know, it's very easy to make fun of MCDC. Sure.

Because he is nothing like any other head coach we have seen he is nothing like the greatest coach we've seen bill belichick he's actually the complete ops gives a lot to the media has personality does 40 fucking up downs not that bill belichick wouldn't but he's just his own human and he is nothing like anything else him and vraves i guess kind of similar but vraves says shit to the media. Sure. Vrabes doesn't say a single thing to the media. MCDC is an entity in and of himself, and he's like nothing else. So it's easy to judge somebody like that. Same thing with Aaron.

Aaron is an anomaly, an alien. He's nothing like what he's supposed to be, back-to-back MVP. So he's easy to judge. What if MCDC is like the greatest fucking game planner in the history of fucking games? It's possible. Last year was his first year calling plays. He's settling in. It's going to be interesting.

Maybe he's thinking like, yeah, I'm hitting my prime right now. You should see the shit I'm dialing up in practice. I'm cooking up this fucking defense. Deuce Daly. You see Deuce yelling at Aaron Glenn every day? That's because of what the fuck I'm calling out there. I wonder if that's really happening in his head right now. Well, and I think he's obviously like a big proponent of collaboration

with his other coaches and stuff like that. But he also is, he is, from at least what we've seen, like he's not a pass the buck guy. Like he doesn't want there to be like a baked in, built in excuse. Like if they do start off shitty, it's like, well, I wasn't calling the plays, man. So now I'm going to call the plays and we're going to win some games. Like he doesn't seem like that kind of guy. It seems like he was almost like, hey, if wasn't calling the plays, man. So now I'm going to call the plays, and we're going to win some games. He doesn't seem like that kind of guy.

It seems like he was almost like, hey, if this ship is going to go down, I'm going to go down with it. So if that means him calling the plays from the get-go, I think that makes more sense for kind of what he's shown everyone who he is. Think about him going into the games. Dish, dish, focused up. Let's go. Let's go, Dan.

Let's fucking go, man. Get that call sheet. Jared, JG, I'm going to need you here. Just that whole process. Because he's in the game now. Not that head coaches aren't. No offense, head coaches. Fuck head coaches.

You get enough money for me to say this. Not that head coaches aren't in the game. But if you're calling plays i mean like really you're a part you are yeah yeah it's you jousting verse either linebacker or the defense coordinator or both depending on what team you are there so it's a different life i assume when you're not calling plays as a head coach mike mccarthy was enjoying it remember yeah mike mccarthy used to call plays gets Get stout So Cal Moore's gonna do it I'm good

For sure Well what are you gonna do? I'll oversee it I will oversee it Watermelons It's just Yeah I'll be smashing Fucking watermelons

Get the team ready I'll get in the boys jack Wait till you see what I do this year Jerry's giving me a monster truck Imagine he rolls in In a monster truck day one Could I mean anything

Motivate the boys But it's a much different life When you're calling plays when you're not calling plays. I assume there's a lot of proponents for MCDC to not call plays. If he has faith in Ben Johnson, okay, I can worry about a lot of other shit. If you're calling plays, that's kind

of, you're kind of baked into the offensive side whether you like it or not. And I wonder what Goff thinks, right? Because it's either Ben Johnson or MCDC in his ear the whole game, and that's a lot different, I assume. Yeah, because MCDC personally invested in the offense if he's the offense coordinator. So every drive,

every play, every series. Why can't we just do in-season hard knocks with the Detroit Lions? Yeah, just keep it going. Not that the Cardinals are short of stories. There's a lot of them. Including video games, Call of Duty. Sure, sure. Of course. New Including video games, Call of Duty. Sure, sure.

Of course. New drops. Yeah. Watching film. New skins. New head coach contract, new GM contract. Yeah. Those two seem to be just like every other head coach and GM out there.

Yeah. I'm sure. Yeah. Walking the path, yeah, of course. New wide receiver with Hollywood Brown. But with the Lions, it's much easier for them to start with Johnson, would you say, just because then it's like, hey, the first four weeks, you want to start good.

Like Lombardi said, good teams start good and finish good. But those first four weeks aren't as important as weeks 10 to 14, if you will. I have no idea. I have no idea what to do. I was talking earlier. We had a call with FanDuel chatting about everything that they got going on. It's an interesting call because they're laying out what they have going on, and we're chit-chatting about what we can do.

These are the meetings where we press a little bit. Like, hey, can we get a – Need this boost. Of course. Like, for instance, there's now a last touchdown scored bet. Yeah. Not in the week? No, no.

In the game. The last touchdown score. So you can say week? No, no. In the game. The last touchdown score. So you could say first scorer, right, is obviously something. Now they've added it even in last touchdown score, which is a complete gamble. Roll the dice. How? But if you think it's going to be a good game,

Travis Kelsey, right, for the Chiefs, probably going to have a lot of last touchdowns. So all these things kind of start taking place. And then they laid out a scenario they were kind of put into, like, either choose to do this or do this. And I straight up said to him in the middle of the meeting, man, I'm fucking pumped. I don't have to make that decision. Yeah. You know, like that.

Yeah. I guess whichever way you go there, it's going to be great. Great. It's going to be great. I'm sure. Yeah. But I'm excited. Like, that's the type of, like, Ben Johnson or MCDC, I am happy.

I don't have to make that fucking decision. Because if Ben Johnson comes in and he stinks, does he lose all credibility with the whole be great i'm sure yeah but i'm excited like that's the type of like ben johnson or mcdc i am happy i don't have to make that fucking decision because if ben johnson comes in and he stinks does he lose all credibility with the whole fucking team literally early and then mcdc comes in has success again yeah then they're good towards later end of the season what's life like around the building with ben johnson if mcdc starts has success cool this is how it's going to be if he does bad he can hand it off to ben john, and then I guess it's a big guessing game on whether or not he's worth a fuck. Well, I don't think the Lions are the kind of like – It's a win-win or lose-lose.

That's right. With Nagy, when he was calling plays and he wasn't good at it, he turned it over, and then they lost all respect for Nagy, it felt like. And that's what happened to Anthony Lynn last year. He had the play calling. He stunk. MCDC took it over. Anthony Lynn is not a part of the Lions anymore.

They're also not in a situation where they have to start fast. The Lions can't start 0-4 because when you do that all the time, I think they have to start fast. How many wins, Foxy? Ten wins, seven losses. That's not what he said earlier. They just lost offensive

linemen. Every Lions fan is looking forward to our offensive line finally being together, and this came out of nowhere, and I don't even know what the injury was. Mr. Vitae is out, which is a damn shame, but Lions got a lot of decisions to make. We'll be watching with bated breath as the last episode of Hard Knocks is this evening, 10 p.m. Eastern on HBO. Hell yeah.

More news around the NFL. Shaq Leonard for the Indianapolis Colts. Last year, should have been in conversation for defensive MVP. Team didn't make plus. Yep. Ooh.

Sorry. A whole new team this year, by the way. Yeah. Everybody on the offense talking about how much different it was than last year. And they're saying,

Matt Ryan's a fucking guy. Yeah, of course. Just like Jim Irsay said when he came on the show sitting on a throne at his house. When he came on the show at training camp, Jim Irsay said, Matt Ryan, we got an astronaut, we got a Navy SEAL, we got a guy. He's come in and been commanding, demanding accountability.

He's telling people where he wants them, how he wants them. This is from Zach Kiefer of The Athletic. It's night and day compared with last year, one offensive player said anonymously. Don't love that. Don't like anonymous quotes coming out of the locker room. Interesting. But this person probably didn't want to hurt any friendship with anybody. So that's why they did it.

It wasn't to go against the team. It was probably just personal relationship, family, friends. Sure. But it is night and day. In Westfield, Ryan was full-time quarterback, part-time coach, constantly tutoring the wideouts and tight ends during and after drills. Honestly, it's easier that way, Mo Alley-Koch said, tight end who's an absolute stallion,

because you're better off just doing what he tells you to do. Wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr., who was seen on our show during training camp when we stopped up there against the Detroit Lions, caught one of the Colts' in-home cameras echoing the same thought, just do what Matt says, he always says. Just do what Matt says. Last year, we were out there running the plays,

but we were basically just playing football. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Pittman explained a few weeks later, asked about Ryan's arrival. I mean, we would just run around and make plays. This year, we're trying to be organized, be at our spots and at our depths because that's how Matt likes it and how he commands it, and it's what he expects.

So you better be there, says Michael Pittman Jr. Thank fucking God. Matt Ryan has come to the court. Thank you, Matty. Thank you, Matt. What a glowing endorsement of Carson Wentz. Well, we knew. Stop. Stop.

You've got to feel great if you're a Commanders fan, huh? Stop. Stop. Fucking God. We knew Matt Ryan was going to be better than Elmo. We knew that from the get-go. Just because of the suit he was forced to wear for his press conference does not mean anything. Carson was great on our show.

He's very nice to everybody. He's beloved in Indiana as a human. As a football player, it was not like what Indianapolis Colts fans have become a tradition of watching. It was a lot of what Michael Pittman was echoing there, which is kind of the, you know, hey, we're just going to play football out here. This is the concept. This is the scheme.

But ultimately, let's just fucking feel it out there, okay? Let's just flow. I might fucking run around. I might balance on a goddamn football. You continue to run your route, though, because as I'm down on the football, which I already turned over in the last drive, left-handed shot put in somebody for a zero-yard pick six. Oh, yeah, that was back in the last drive, left-handed shot put in somebody for a zero-yard pick-six. Oh, yeah. That was back in the

Reddit stream today. Two days of NFL football, two-yard pick-six to lose for the second time to the Titans. Yeah. That was sweet. Yeah, then next series he comes back, fucking palms the ball on the middle of the field, and just says, fuck it, Pittman. Throws it into triple coverage, and Pittman goes up

and gets it. Dime. Yeah, dime. Yeah, dime into triple coverage. Absolute fuck it. It was. It was a beautiful ball. But that's what Carson it. Dime. Yeah, dime. Yeah, dime and a triple coverage. It was a beautiful ball, but that's what Carson is. He's just a football player. And I think they should have ran a little bit more hurry up potentially for him. That might have helped if there wasn't as many like even thought of plays happening. There was numerous times, allegedly,

we don't know because we were not on a play or know the play call where he would check out of a run when we have an actual MVP cannon in the backyard. So I think for all parties, we are thankful that Carson's taking that style to the commander's offense. And it can be electrifying. It can be great for the commanders and the NFCs. Maybe they go on a run.

But with Matt Ryan being in Indianapolis, it is a whole new feel around the Colts fandom, around Colts Nation, and around a lot of things with the Colts. Sportsbooks have the Colts over the Texans as the largest spread of week one. Largest spread. Colts over Texans.

Colts did not make the playoffs last year. Colts have a brand-new quarterback this year, a guy who's played zero snaps for the team at the most important position on the field. They are favored by seven and a half. That is the largest spread of week one over the Houston Texans with Dougie Mills. Now, I don't know how I feel exactly about that. I'll be forced to bet on the Colts because it's fucking week one, and I'm a Colts fan.

But a lot of that is because of how good the team is around Matt Ryan. That defense is fucking unbelievable. If they play adding Gillylock to the island, Kenny Moore, who I think has a few years left on his contract, they're in contract negotiation, so if he's still trying to hunt a bigger bag, that's awesome. DeForest Buckner, Grover down there. And then you have Shaq Leonard back, maybe healthier than he's ever been. Now they're reporting that he'll never be at a hundred percent. Nobody's ever at a hundred percent.

But if you recall, he had an ankle injury all last year that they couldn't fucking figure out. And they learned that it was actually a nerve in his back was being pinched. That was affecting his ankle. Couldn't even like use his ankle and it was painful so this guy had however many tackles let's say a thousand and just say a hundred thousand just however many punch outs which you have to be fast however many game-changing plays had limited use of his ankle this year he should be all the way back he missed practice in his first practice back just this past week he had a pick against the two it's not against the ones it wasn't matt ryan throwing the ball obviously so this team should be even better and you think if the quarterback position is completely figured

out let's go let's go on a fucking run in indianapolis and it's great to see shack almost back my only worry for the entire team is um how the offensive head coach, when I was watching film yesterday, was like, we do need to get to a certain amount of yards. We can't be doing this stuff. Does that make sense? What are you talking about? How come the head coach didn't fix, you know, all the just fucking willy-nilly shit last year?

Oh, why did he let him freestyle so much? Yeah, he can't fix madness. Because he's his brother in Christ. That's true. I thought that was the whole thing. I don't think Matt Ryan is Jewish or Muslim. I believe he is probably. I don't know if he's devout.

Right, yeah. I'm not like Carson. It's like that story he told when they were in the car, and he saw Carson's background on his phone. It was the exact same. Joel 316. Yeah, exact same scripture he read that morning. He was like, boom, that's my guy.

I don't know why. We're not making fun of it. We're just saying that is why the relationship is so tight. Yes, that's what happens. That's the real thing. And just like God created me to be a foul-mouthed fucking doofus. Sure. God created Carson Wentz as a football player just to be a wild animal.

Yeah, just to be a lunatic. And the greats are great. The extended plays that work are awesome. Yeah, wild. There are some other ones. Aaron Donald. He sprained both of his – I don't want to say it anymore, but if a horse had two sprained ankles on one particular race,

we would talk about it until that fucker was long, long, long. Yeah, it wouldn't take long. Yeah, we also know what that was like because Max Player is in the office. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, long. It wouldn't take long. Yeah, we also know what that was like because Max Player's in the office. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't need to get into how horses are treated after they run their final race. They're helping a lot of people nowadays. They're the glue in between arts and crafts.

That's what I was talking about. That's exactly what I was talking about. It's not talking about. But that's what is a good thing to think about. They're giving back to the community. It's like when you die and you get buried in the ground you help fertilize the soil we had a kid that ate glue all the time what was that kid's name remember his name i don't know which one we're talking glue sniffer this kid was really on it i remember thinking to myself that's a lot of fucking glue this guy's squeezing it out of the

bottle it was corner no yeah yeah that was. I had a good little run there. I thought it was fluff. Let's go to some fun calls here on the 5RNG phone. You thought it was what? Fluff. Like peanut butter and fluff. Marshmallow. Marshmallow fluff.

Wow. Tastes good. Really? Yeah, just like sniffing Sharpies. You know, just get your devices. I did. You know, I had a little bit of a run there and it's a little dangerous but i mean the smell of gas there for a while like still really still good stuff yeah

yeah i had some on your fingers yeah i had to get away from it though it was becoming a little bit of a problem how about those big like industrial size markers that are so off you basically pass out yeah i can't be having that shit out around me when i was a teenager what do you want me to do? I'm pretty bored around here. Yeah, especially, I mean, all the kids that you were selling cigarettes to, as soon as that business went out of town, they were stealing expo markers off the whiteboard.

What a run that was. I mean, I was selling to high schoolers. Fifth grade. No bodyguard. Entrepreneur. It says a lot. Thank you. It all started with One half smoked cig

That had lipstick still on it From a friend's mom You can up that price And I really started Piecing things together Oh this is A hawk molly right here Wait a minute

I need to start Robbing every ashtray I see Yeah Pick them up off the ground I'm pretty proud Of the little fifth grade I mean it caused Quite a problem

I mean they tried To expel me I mean it was real That makes sense But just piecing that together If I'm ever fortunate enough To be a father Like how do I deal with that

Like part of me That situation Is going to be in this little fuck How do I keep it You don't No It's Sorry about it Sam

Like this is just the shit And I don't even think kids that age You know It'd be more like a jewel Or something like that Sure They're not even smoking cigarettes And so you know You don't have to worry about it I can't even think kids that age, you know, it'd be more like a jewel or something like that. They're not even smoking cigarettes. And so, you know, you don't have to worry about it.

Listen, little Midas McAfee can't be fucking giving out popcorn long. No, it's true. Where's those spinners at? The fidget spinners? I thought about that this weekend. Where are those at? Those did die out. They did.

They took over everything. Are they impossible to create? Supply chain? Is that a problem? I just, I don't know. They were sweet. Did you ever use? I just, I don't know. They were sweet. Do you ever use? I mean, I would.

Oh, yeah. Just sit there all day. Yeah, I was sitting in the middle of having to fake like I was arbitrarily doing something in the middle of being a fucking kicker for a football team. And just sit there and see how many times we could get that motherfucker to spin. The thing about people with ADD or ADHD, though, is ultimately you give them an object that only does one thing, they're going to get bored with it. Yeah, but it does

more than one thing because you've got a pinky toe too. Yeah, you can go the other way with it. You're saying once everybody figured it out, you're saying there's really no more games to be played. Oh, that's it? Okay. I'm done with this. I've seen a lot of people on the internet call this the ADHD program of all time.

Really? Pretty accurate assessment, I do believe. I saw in the comments a lot of people on the internet call this the adhd program of all time really pretty accurate assessment i do believe i saw in the comments a lot uh the youtube the aaron rogers tuesday season three unprecedented announcement a lot of saying a lot of people saying i had a role on aaron back again whoa made me laugh made me laugh pretty good i don't mess around with that role i don't like what it did my brain i like this thing being all over the place exactly everybody needs to relax we don't need we don't need that at all i don't like what it did to my brain. I like this thing being all over the place. Everybody needs to relax. We don't need that at all. I don't need to be too focused on one thing. We need to continue.

We need to continue to do it. What a fucking season we're about to have. I know. Do you understand that? Oh, yeah. We are right here. Like, this weekend, watching college games was awesome. I enjoyed it so much.

I had a blast. You won a bunch. I enjoyed just watching a game be played. I like watching people go bananas. That Georgia Tech-Clemson game had a lot of empty seats. Oh, yeah. A ton. What's that all about? I don't know. I heard Dabo say, we came and played at their place. I heard Dabo

in the interview almost put it on Georgia Tech because Georgia Tech is in Atlanta. They're not normally in the Mercedes-Benz Sphincter-Dum or whatever it is, but it is. That seemed to be empty. Everywhere else, though, seemed to be pretty rompous. Yeah, it must have been just the spread. They must have thought it was going to be just a terrible game.

Started out. Yeah, well. Dog fight. Yeah. I'm not going to say it. Why? Dude, DJ Uyunglele, he throws a bottle rocket. Yeah.

So, like, I don't know if anybody's ever seen a bottle rocket get lit and shh. That's literally what his throw is like. I've never seen anything like it. I have no idea how it happens. But that son of a bitch will come down side. It'll, like, move. It'll, like, move. Knuckleball.

Then they put that kid in at the end from Texas, from Drew Brees High School, Caleb or Cade or whatever his name was. Freshman, five-star. Yeah, he's a beast. He runs like a 4-3, and he threw a rocket on a guy, literally right on a guy's. And I'm intrigued to see how Dabo handles that whole thing because DJ Uyunglele is conversation for being the starter.

He looked pumped. That freshman. Cade Klubnick? Cade Klubnick. Cade Klubnick. Klubnick. Nailed it. Yeah. I mean, without those two block punts,

their offense really did nothing. A lot of block hits. Yeah, yeah. A lot. A ton. A lot of block. The kicking setup in college football with the three up backs and everybody spread

so that you can run to the side and everybody can get down the field before the ball is punted so then kind of eliminates a return. The rules are set up for college football to punt like that it was to be had i think for a long time that particular setup i was doing that style of punting in college was that 15 years ago long time always had questions people would always get close but nobody ever like really focused on taking advantage of it seems like going into this season a bird

call was sent hey we can fucking go get this. There's people just running right through. Blocks just being – there's MAs on every one of those things, and I would assume that the players would be like, well, I thought I had this guy. They were just overloading, out-scheming it. They're just out-scheming these college kids playing a position they never played before, and block punts are just changing everything.

Block kicks changing everything. I like it. I love it. It's better for football. Well, it's crazy, too, because you look at some teams who, like Iowa, for instance, you can tell how much of an emphasis they put on special teams. Like, hey, guess what? We are going to be much better on special teams than whoever we're playing,

no matter what. And then you look at it like, I mean, special teams is what lost LSU that game. They muffed two punts. Norvell. Yeah, exactly. Like, it is just kind of crazy, like, to see what teams really do, like, you know, coaching. Special teams matter. Big time. Yeah, exactly. It is just kind of crazy to see what teams really do. Hey, special teams matter. Big time. Especially in college.

Especially in college. And in the NFL. Yeah, well, you guys know that. Bingo. Football is here and we are thankful for it, as is the talk to table at Ty Schmidt at Boston Connor. One half of the hammer. Cowboys turn digiggs is here.

And joining us live from an attic in Ohio, a man who's a college football national champion in which he celebrated 20 years later this past weekend in Columbus, Ohio. That's right. He's a Super Bowl champion. He's the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers. He's a Ryder Cup champion, a COVID survivor. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hall.

Hey, A.J. Hall. A.J., how you doing, pal? Good. How you guys doing? Good. How was the weekend? Did you guys get all boozed up and live like the glory days whenever you guys were running around Columbus as just a bunch of broke college football players breaking records, winning national championships,

letting the refs give you a damn title? That's exactly how it worked out. Yeah, you know what? Honestly, it was sweet it was awesome i was a freshman that year 2002 national championship so i saw a lot of guys that were juniors and seniors when i played and some of them hadn't seen in a long time yeah man you know like when you see old teammates my daughter made a comment she we took him to this brunch saturday we got to see a lot of people and their kids she's like dad every single guy you see

you're like dapping them up and you're hugging, and all you do is just hit each other the whole time. And all you're hitting them and pounding their chest and their back. I'm like, yeah, I guess that's what we do, man. I haven't seen these guys in a while. It's good to see them. It's nice to pick up right where you left off to. You know, it feels like that always happens in these types of events. This is the whole squad.

I believe this is Friday night. Where was this, AJ? They had a thing Friday night where they had Coach Trestle and some of the seniors on stage, and then we got to hang out and see each other. We went to a little place after this, but this wasn't everybody. I mean, everybody kind of came to the game Saturday. AJ, you're standing next to a legend.

Yeah. I don't know who the sunglass musketeer. Quinn Pitcock. He's the man. Lives in Indy about five minutes from you. Oh, Quinn. Hey, thanks for showing up with that musketeer. Yeah.

Wipe it. Whole squad was there. We got to see some of them, not you, on college game day. Yeah, what the hell? What happened, AJ? Did you just say nine doing it? No, they had, what, Maurice Claret and then the guys that were, like, upperclassmen on that team.

I shouldn't have been up there. AJ, why not? AJ, freaky, huh? I'm the freshman. Jack Harlow already had the stage, man. You got to give him his space. All right. True. Hey, had the stage, man. You've got to give him his space. All right. True.

Hey, he powered through, didn't he? Jack Harlow powered through that entire thing. He did. He crushed it. They displayed a trophy or art thing on college game day. I didn't know you guys had so many teammates pass away. That was like a massive part of the whole thing. It felt like, you know, Jim Trestle with Maurice Claret.

That was awesome to see them back together. But that team, I think, are you guys going to hang out more now? Is that the old classic when you get a reunion? When do you do this more often? Was that a conversation, I assume? Yeah, I think so. I think it really like set in for a lot of guys. You realize that?

We actually are old, and we've had four guys die from this team. So, yeah, I don't know. I hope we find a way. I hope they see – some of them see this and realize, like, how awesome I thought the weekend was and how cool it was to see those guys. I think they felt like it was – seemed like a pretty successful weekend for everyone. I'm happy for you. Ohio State obviously gets the win, but they – hey, it wasn't pretty early.

No, it wasn't. Hey, it was a grinder a little bit. I actually sent a text to them. I said, hey, go tell fucking LeBron James. Yeah. We need a little different mojo out of there. I don't like that your name or General Bob Carpenter wasn't listed on the stars at the game thing either. There was some F-list motherfuckers on that list.

You were not kind of a shot at this show. A little bit. Kind of a shot at this show. I did not like that. As I was reading it, I'm like, they're going to put an A.J. Hawks fucking name in this thing? You're kidding me. What the hell is that about? They're put an A.J. Hawks fucking name in this thing? You're kidding me. What the hell is that about? They're standing on A.J. Hawks field at Uncle Wexy Stadium.

Yeah. I mean, this is Uncle Wexy Stadium, A.J. Hawks field. They're all standing on there. General Bob Carpenter actually built the fucking uprights for the game. Saved the team. And they're not even saying anything. I didn't like that at all, A.J. But what was the vibe like?

Second half, much different squad. I assume that you guys just knew that was the vibe like second half much different squad i assume that you guys just knew that was going to come but started out a little bit rocky i was wondering if the new nil deals are ruining cj he's too rich he's too rich yeah you did you did send me a text like that i know about the nil ruining the squad i don't know i mean i think notre dame's good they're the number five team in the country you're not allowed to have a somewhat close game with i was pretty impressed by notre dame i like Notre Dame's team. I thought they had good goals. I thought their defense was very good.

I thought they looked fast. That's kind of how I judge every team now, if they're going to be worth a fuck. Are they fast or are they not fast? That's like after the West Virginia pick game, I was happy about the West Virginia team because they looked fast. Team looks fast. That means you're going to win some games because speed kills magic.

Notre Dame looked fast. they look like a different team than they normally look but obviously Ohio State in the end is Ohio State and that's how things are going to go well especially like the you know with the spread being what what it was I think a lot of people just assumed oh another big game you know like the national championship all those years ago where Notre Dame is supposed to be so good they get beat by 38 or whatever and like that that game was there for the taking the entire time you know it was like it seemed like that is one of those things where it's like okay this a team like ohio state who's probably going to be in the in the playoff like they are going to come back and win but i think notre dame not getting blown out like if they went out and they probably should like they'll

they'll be right in the conversation i think they lost by two scores still but it was 17 and a half. They lose by 11, 21-10, but it looked like the game was competitive. Ohio State, of the past, has run teams right off the field. We've all seen it. Now, speaking of run, did you have your eyes on that fucking drum major and

see if he made it all the way down in it? I didn't see any videos of him sprinting down that. He made it. First thing I checked on when I got to the stadium, I'm like, here, we haven't come out yet. I eyeballed him, and I'm like, yep, lawless execution. We got to win today. What was it, Oregon last year?

Yeah, face plant. Oregon last year. We came down that ramp. That's a big, long ramp where we walked down to go on the field in between the first and second quarter, and I was like, man, if I had to sprint, I would probably roll about 10 times down this sucker. And it's like this.

Oh, yeah. And it's like 50 yards. Like Death Valley. That shit's a hill. We had to push up a whole camera setup. Remember that? Oh, yeah. Because the guy was pushing by himself.

We're like, oh, this is not going to end well. We should help old cousin here. We were there for – we got to do game day there. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah, you were crowd surfing with Stipe. Oh, yeah. Me and Stipe. Yeah. Big nut. Did a couple 0-8s. Yeah, big nut spit in my mouth. Yeah. Right? That's what we did. Yeah, you were crowd surfing with Stipe. Oh, yeah.

Me and Stipe. Yeah. Big Nut. Did a couple of 08s. Yeah, Big Nut spit in my mouth. Yeah. That's right. Joining us now is a man who Big Nut has never spit in his mouth.

No. On purpose? Big Nut got all hyped up, and I asked him a question, and as I was finishing my question, I had mouth open, and he goes, I love it. Whatever. Harry Styles. And I went through the, he didn't spit. Did you see the side angle?

There was no spit. Yeah. Harry Styles, Chris Pine. Kind of a thing, I guess. That took over Harry Styles. He didn't spit. Did you see the side angle? There was no spit. Harry Styles, Chris Pine. Kind of a thing, I guess. That took over the internet. Yeah, that was crazy. I think Chris Pine would ragdoll Harry. Oh, yeah.

I don't know. Harry's scrappy. Yeah, he was in Dunkirk. War vet. He was in World War. Join us now. An absolute superstar. A man who just signed a four-year, $76.5 million dollar deal.

Damn. He's earned it. He deserved it. The stats whenever he's on the field for the Chargers. I don't have them exactly. Much better than whenever he's not on the field. Losing record when he's not on the field. Winning record when he's on the field.

Can't wait to watch him and his squad take the field this weekend. Ladies and gentlemen, Derwin James. Yeah are you, man? What are you up to? This is a day off or are you guys at the facility? What do you got going on, Derwin? It's a day off, a day off, but man, I'm just chilling, man. Getting a little work in. Trying to spend as much money as you can, Derwin? Hey, congratulations on the big deal. You deserve it. Appreciate that, man. Okay, so I just got the stats.

I believe they're 22 and 15 whenever he's on the field, and then they're like 12 and 16 when he's off the field. So, Derwin, you are an actual game changer. I assume we're not the only people that know that stat. When you were talking with Telesco and the Spanos family about this extension, was everything going kosher? You're all going to get to the same ending? And when you signed that deal, is it just a weight off your shoulders?

Now you can focus full-time on football? Man, you know, the whole process with my contract, you know, I just had to be patient. You know, I didn't really get to talk much with Telesco and everybody. You know, I kind of let my agent, you know, handle all that. You know, my job was just to be there for my teammates every day and show up and, you know, whenever the time did come, we'll get that deal done.

I know it will be. How ready do you think you guys, like your whole team, is ready to play? In the whole NFL, really, it seems like you guys have been off for three weeks now between your last preseason game and now. Like, you have to be ready to get back out there, I would imagine. man we're dying to get back out there you know it's a lot of hunger around the building and um like i said we can't wait to get out there and um show what we got a lot of investment in that team this offseason by you know the front office and everything going all in do you feel that and you're like an elder statesman around there what has your responsibility

been for all the new guys that have come in that are, you know, fucking top-class guys coming into the Chargers organization right now? I say every guy that we brought in, you know, they've been nothing but pleasure to work with, man. It's been amazing, you know. Everybody wholly started to a standard. And like I say, Khalil Mack, JC, everybody that we added, you know, they came in with the same dog mentality.

Let's work. And it's been amazing, man. Speaking of dog, Justin Herbert feels like one, but we don't really get to hear him speak ever. Is he a mute? And what have you seen him grow? How have you seen him grow over the last couple of years? He's a guy now. People are like, hey, this guy could be fucking MVP this year.

Man, we love Justin, man. Justin is one of a kind man um love him love having him as my quarterback and um if you really got to know Justin you'll see his real personality um everybody in the locker room loves loves who he is um he's becoming more of a leader you know guys are listening to him and um like you say man he's Justin Herbert man what kind of leader is he because I try to say all the time, leadership looks very different. It doesn't have to look one certain way. Have you seen him grow as a leader over his time?

I'll just say Justin, the guy that lead by example. This whole offseason, not a day went by he wasn't at this facility, getting better, working at his craft. Like I say, every day he's all in. The guys around him, from the receivers to Keenan, the tight ends, the backs, he's making sure everybody's on board. And like I said, we're very lucky to have him. How different is it whenever you add in J.C., Khalil,

and everybody that you talked about for you? Is there anything different for you, or you just got more dogs on the field alongside of you? Man, it's dogs out there, man. You can feel it. You can feel it. You can feel it. And I love to consider myself a dog, so just having more dogs out there with me with the same mentality,

you know, we're just trying to get out there and hunt. Hey, a lot of barking coming from that dog. Yeah. That huddle. You're looking over there. A bunch of fucking dogs over there. Absolute studs. We're talking to Derwin James, safety for the los angeles chargers ty

smith your question derwin it's widely reported that you're probably the best madden player in the nfl uh when you're playing that do you ever get pissed thinking like hey this is bullshit because on the field i would be able to do something and like as you're controlling it's like okay well i could actually do that the game's not letting me do it and is there anyone in the nfl who could beat you in madden man heck yeah to your first question i'd definitely be mad if i if i mess up a play or if i don't make the play i'm supposed to make but um like i say um if i had to compare one player i say probably keenan allen because he can kind of do everything man and he was he was number one safety coming out of high school too that's what a lot of people don't know hey do you still play

madden at all you're the guy for sure for sure i'm definitely still on the madden man and uh whoever won't smoke let me know hey are you the guy huh you you are the guy come on man for sure i'm the guy like pro madden guy like pro like you could be a professional madden guy if you had to if you weren't yeah if i really took the time and really worked at my craft phone i feel like i could i definitely could. What do you do in your off time other than Madden? Do you do anything?

Do you guys hang out together a lot out there in L.A. or what? Yeah, I hang with my teammates and really enjoy my son, man, because, you know, we at work all day. You know, I just had a son. He's 14 months.

Derwin James III. Hey! Really getting that dad-son time, you know, with my son and my girlfriend, just spending more time with them when I'm away from the building and stuff. That change the way you view life at all or anything? Man, heck yeah.

Having a son changes you a lot, man. Things you feel like was important really ain't even really that important. Did you get soft? Still a dog, though. Still a dog. Still a dog. Big dog. When you look at your defense, like the names you have,

it's going to be scary for every offense. I wanted to ask you specifically about Asante Samuel Jr. I think he is very underrated and how good of a, I know he missed a little bit of time, but how good that guy was his rookie year. How good can he be? Man, the sky's the limit for that guy. Asante, I tell him every day man you represent garnering

gold first and foremost i know what school you come from and um just i just love his the way he made up like he just he come out with the right man on mindset every day if somebody catch a ball on him he pitched like even in practice like it's just he got all the right mindsets to be great and i just feel like a lot of people don't really get to see that this year and year two with him. AFC West is going to be a fucking, you know, it's going to be a battle. Not that the NFL isn't as a whole, but the AFC West has obviously been propped up this season

as last year's NFC West was. And the NFC West won the Super Bowl last year. So if we're going off trends, let's assume Super Bowl winners coming out of the AFC West. Yeah, definitely. Is there a difference, you know, with the team, the pieces you've added, with the expectations now? I mean, the Chargers are a lot of people.

It's like, hey, the Chargers are a team that we're pulling for this year we think are going to go and run. Is there any difference in feeling with Staley with another year around the squad? Man, we definitely have all the confidence in the world in Coach Staley, man. He's doing a great job leading us. And like you say, man, the guys we have around our team, we just got to come out game by game and

just get better. We take in the field every time to win every game. So if that's our mindset, we'll be just fine. Hey, hopefully those LED boards working at Staley. They're fucking busted done, I guess, just a couple weeks ago. Connor, your question for Derwin. Yeah, Derwin, because you're loved by the Chargers so much,

there's obviously a lot of 33 jerseys out there. And last year, the big thing was that if you wanted to change your number, you had to pay for those jerseys. Did you have to pay like $10 million to switch to number three because of all the 33 jerseys out there or no? Three is going to be sick. No, I didn't have to pay. If I would have switched to number three last year,

I would have had to pay over a million dollars. But I waited a year. Hey, it's going to look clean. Huh? You like it? You like the way you look fast? You feel faster in that thing or what? No, I feel faster in the three.

I got a new haircut. You know, I'm back to the real DJ3. I can't wait, man. Let's see the haircut. Oh, yeah. I'm going to let y'all see the cut. Oh! You feel me?

Hey, is that going to be forever, or what are we doing? Man, that's temporary right now, forever right now. I'm going to just keep the cut, you know. All right, well, it looks good. The clean cut. Hey, you look good regardless, but I like the new style. Hey, it's a new year. New number.

Here we go. New cut. Baby's 14 months now. New contract. New big money. Yeah. Big. Now, there's a lot of taxes out there, but big money.

Congrats to the government winning. Yeah. Tony, your question for Derwin. Derwin, you almost gave Ryan Clark a heart attack when you were talking about Hunter Renfro and some other guys. How do you feel like going against him and Waller and Devontae week one out of the gate? Do you like that situation where week one you're right into it? I love it, man. I don't like it.

I love it. I love it. I embrace it. You know, why not compete against the best? You know, if you consider yourself one of the best, why not go against the best? So, you know, I can't wait until Sunday. So whenever, as you've gotten older now and wealthier, what do you think is the biggest difference between a team week one

and then the last week? Like, this week there's going to be a lot to figure out. There's a lot of new pieces. Or do you think you have to hit the ground running early to be a great team late? Man, I feel like you definitely, it's a mix of both, man. You definitely have to come out. You know, you can't get behind the eight ball too much,

but I definitely feel like you need to come out and compete. And like I say, we're coming out to win every game. We're not coming out to, oh, we need to get our legs on us. We need to do this. We're coming out to win the game. So I feel like we're going to be fine. Well, good luck out there. Can't wait for your next contract.

You're the man. Good luck with the Chargers this season. High expectations. Can't wait to watch you guys execute it. Ladies and gentlemen, stud safety for the Chargers, Derwin James. Thank you, Derwin. Thank you, dude. I don't know if you said anything, but he's fucking good at football.

Yeah, big dude that can run. 22-15 with him, 12-16 without him. Remember that Chiefs game, too. Even when he's playing in the game, but he's off the field against Kelsey in that overtime game. Like, Kelsey was not, you know, Travis when Derwin was on the field because of how good he is in coverage. And then when Derwin was off, he lit him up.

Four years, 76-and- and a half, Millie. Wow. Jesus. And then Jesse Bates from Cincy said, I'll sign a franchise today. I ain't no off-gun. I'm not doing any of this. You see what this guy just got. It changed the entire game.

Let's talk about some of the NFL stuff going around the NFL. Big thanks to Derwin James for joining us on this. Oh, yeah. Week one, NFL Tuesday. Hey, did you see David Bakhtiari? He says he's back on track to start the opener against the Vikings. This is good news. He came on this show and said that it was a walk with his new bride up a sand mountain that made him go, you know what?

My fucking knee ain't right, is it? Gets another surgery. Now he's on track to at least probably, he's taking it day by day, That made him go, you know what? My fucking knee ain't right, is it? Gets another surgery. Now he's on track to at least probably, he's taking it day by day, is what he said to Bob Domofsky. But even the fact that this is out there right now, this is great news for the Packers. I'm happy for the big draft that quoted the Joker,

who was about to blow up a mob meeting whenever he's talking about being back week one, AJ. Yeah, I think he's trying to, I guess, what, manage expectations. But the one thing I saw, saw i read did you see it where he said i i can make it through the year or something some kind of quote there i can make it through the season whoa what's that if he said that like that that worries me a little bit now we don't want you to make it we want you to thrive during the season man like i hope he's healthier than that yeah i think what's that all about what's he doing i didn't hear that i read something that someone could have easily – not a quote from him, but that's what it said underneath the tweet.

Did you get ball sack sports? Wow. Sounds like it. Did you get ball sack sports? I didn't claim like it was 100% true. I said I saw this. Well, Boktiari should retweet it, just like Antonio Brown didn't really take over.

Sincerely, Bok. Getting back is a big deal, though. Yeah, it's massive. That sounds more like someone saying, I hope he makes it through the whole season, like some pundit or something like that, because obviously they're a much better football team when he's on the field, and they need him to be around. The Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney II, who's the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers,

was scheduled to have a press conference at 1 o'clock to make a big announcement. Do we know what that is? They're retiring their third number of all time. They're retiring the number 32, Franco Harris, this season. Wow. Wow, okay, no better day than today. That's huge. 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Receptions this year,

so they're going to celebrate and do it on that day. All right, Franco. Nice. There you go, Franco. Jerry Dulac reporting out of Pittsburgh. The Steelers will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception, which is in the airport of Pittsburgh International at their December 24th Christmas Eve.

Whoa. Against the Raiders by retiring Franco Harris, his number 32 jersey. He is only the third Steelers player to have his number retired. Join me and Jerry Green and Ernie Stotner. Congratulations to Franco Harris getting his jersey retired. Anytime you get recognition from the team that you played for, it is obviously a massive ordeal. I assumed as those sentences were coming out of your mouth,

it was fucking seven. Yeah, me too. Because he's got a new podcast out, footballing. In the basement, I know. I saw it popped up. I was like, man, have I not known about it? No, it just started. Footballing with Ben Roethlisberger.

He sampled beers. They're talking football. Yeah, he sampled beers and he taught football. Hell yeah. I didn't know he was going to be hossing beers while he was doing this. Well, actually, they poured into this little sample cup. It's actually pretty funny to watch him drink because it's very small. And he's Big Ben.

Oh, they're doing it. Is that just his buddy who co-hosted it? Big Ben. I don't know. Big Hands. I don't know who that guy is. Bars. Whatever.

I didn't know Ben was going to be ponding flights of beer. Hopefully he plays Edward Fortyhands in one of the episodes. That'd be sweet. I don't know if that's what Ben's. Is it a drinking football show? I'd tune in. Yeah, they're getting torched. With Ben Rothberglisberger?

Yeah. Football with Ben Roethlisberger. It is spelled footballing. B-A-H-L-I-N-G. I'm sure that won't cause any problems this year. That basement's sweet. Is that in Ohio or is that in Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh.

With all his game balls back there. He said he and this guy have been doing this for two or three years just without the mics, so why not put mics on? I was like, oh, this has got to be Pittsburgh. Genius. It is. Me and you have been having convos for years. One of our good friends did his basement.

That's a boner? I had no idea. By the way, obviously. Really? I mean, obviously, yeah. That's a nice basement. That's going to be quality wood. Looks like it. That's going to be quality wood looks like it that's gonna be

quality wood those paisans put in there looks good now it's time for them to put on a show yeah now it's time for the backdrop to be great okay so that was the big announcement happy we did that happy we what'd you think they weren't gonna ben would have skipped a lot of people right yeah he would have yeah if they're done ben terry bradshaw they've only done three now i don't know how if the original tb12 is ever going to get that honor because of the things that have happened between TB12 and the Steelers organization on both sides. I don't think TB12, I think that would have to –

hey, let's put our swords down, by the way. Why not? Let's do it now that Ben's gone, new quarterback's in there. Mitchell Trubisky, officially named starter. In yesterday's report, Mason Rudolph was number two. Kenny Pickett was number three. That was just copy and paste there, Tom. That was just clerical error in the reporting.

We do apologize. Mitchell Trubisky, starter. Kenny Pickett is backup. Mason Rudolph is third stringer. Exactly how we kind of predicted the Pittsburgh Steelers to start this season. And Mike Tomlin is doing, for the first time in his entire coaching career in the NFL, figuring out a quarterback battle and a rookie quarterback that was drafted in the first round for the first time in two decades. Excited to see how they manage this, how they manage expectations, and what takes place as the weeks roll on in Pittsburgh.

Yeah. I mean, obviously Mitch needs to get out to a hot start as much as anybody. But yeah, how long is the leash on Mitch? And I truly am rooting for him. I honestly am. I don't – yeah, it's good when the Steelers are good, which obviously Tomlin's had them good for a long, long time. But I don't know.

For whatever reason, I think Mitch – like, I want him to do well. I want it to go well so he can find a great opportunity after this. I think we all would like Mitchell Trubisky to have success, you know, because Chicago, it was all there. Yeah. He liked sucking on tees. And he goes on a big winning spree. He's drafted ahead of Patrick Mahomes

and everybody. But he goes into playoffs, has a hell of a run. He's going to come back and run that back. There's going to be a whole new narrative about him. Then the head coach and he just don't talk to each other. Don't like each other. Don't like each other at all. He falls apart. He crumbles. The offense looks terrible. Mitchell Trubisky is now a punchline. He's a punchline. Hey, don't talk to each other. Don't like to each other. Don't like each other at all. He falls apart. He crumbles. The offense looks terrible.

Mitchell Trubisky is now a punchline. He's a punchline. Hey, don't beat Trubisky. Don't get drafted ahead of generational players and then fucking have one good season and stink. Goes to Buffalo. Sits behind Josh Allen under the day bowl offense for a year where they have great success.

Experienced a lot of things. See a building run differently than how a Nagy run offense is or a run building is. Now he's going to Pittsburgh with an opportunity. We hope he does well. But to your point, there was Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, chance in the fourth quarter of a preseason football game that did not matter at all,

with Kenny Pickett being a University of Pittsburgh quarterback for 10 years, then getting the first quarterback draft in the first round in forever, and he's beloved and has had success. I don't think that's going to be a long leash. Now, there was a time when Mason Rudolph was announced as number two over Kenny Pickett, and the world went crazy. This is how Mike Tomlin described that situation and how they ended up with Mason at two, Kenny Pickett at three. Mike, there was a depth chart that was released yesterday that had Mason as the number two today. Kenny, what's behind the discrepancy? It was a clerical error, you know.

That's how the depth chart was listed at the start of training camp. So the cut and paste component was the cut and paste component. I know you were hoping for a little bit more colorful explanation, but it is what it is. That's what happened. The cut and paste component. Fucking problem. That's a great answer. It is an incredible answer.

Component. Hey, that's how it was at the beginning. Some lazy fuck. Yeah. They change it. Double check it. Hey, what do I do? Let me just copy and paste this thing.

What a fucking magical moment. What type of operation they run over there in Pittsburgh? Yeah, that's interesting. Well, Caboli's in charge of the depth chart, so doing the copy and pasting the depth chart. It's Mark Caboli? Yeah. Mark Caboli decided he's been on Mason's side this whole time.

Had a sandwich in his pocket and some hate in his heart. Yeah. I'm going to start some shit. He fucking copy and pasted week one's projected depth start as the same as the training camp. I'm excited to see what the Steelers do, though, through the season. Yeah, it's almost a bad situation for Mitch now because if he does screw up maybe the first game, maybe the second game.

He's been there before, though. Then Kenny's going to get put in. Then Mitch might – that's all the opportunity he gets in that contract. Then he's back on the carousel and he's going somewhere else. Got to hold him off. I think that's what AJ – yeah, he's got to play well. He's and he's going somewhere else. He's got to hold him off. I think that's what A.J. Yeah, he's got to play well. He's going to have to play well.

He's going to have to quiet everybody down. I think he's excited for it. Matt Canna will hopefully take advantage of his offensive style a little bit more, get him moving, because I guess, you know, when Mitchell had success, he was top three. He was leaving the pocket. And then all of a sudden the next, Nagy came back and was like, hey, you know everything you're good at?

Yeah. We're not doing it. That's awesome. So, to AJ's point, just like you're mentioning, if he has success for however many weeks, they have a plan, I assume, to bring Kenny in whenever it's going to be. If he has success, that is great for his next opportunity. Or, you know, kenny rides behind him like

trey lance did for jimmy g and you know maybe they just invert just like uh because they're best friends allegedly like trey lance and jimmy g there are now reports though out of that san francisco 49ers situation that trey lance was annoyed by the jimmy g contract restructuring and bringing him back that's right everything was kumbaya. And whenever Shanahan was asked about how Trey Lance felt about Jimmy G, Trey Lance said, hey, man, that's awesome, man. Hey, Jimmy was awesome for me, man. I plan on doing the same for him, man. That's awesome, is how Shanahan said it.

Trey Lance spoke into a microphone and said, he loves Jimmy. Can't wait for it. Jimmy spoke into it and said, yeah, this is weird. This is very weird. Did not expect this to happen. Said my goodbyes. But I love Trey. We've always had a great relationship.

Albert Breer now of Monday Morning Quarterback via Sports Illustrated is reporting that Trey Lance's initial response was that he was annoyed. Whoa, whoa. Do we know any follow-up from Trey Lance? Has he responded to this? Albert Breer writing in his Monday Morning Quarterback, so as we said in the mailbag last week, this is no way ideal, but I understand why the Niners would do it.

There's too much on the line with the roster to worry about hurt feelings, and while I'd heard the news was, as you'd expect, it a little complicated for Lance to take it first. He's a smart, mature kid who I believe can handle it. The truth is, if he couldn't, you might have a bigger question. There was another quote, I think, before this one that we had to get to. This is how the whole thing wrapped up.

That was Albert Breer's opinion of, hey, if he wasn't okay with it, maybe they need a new guy. Nah, I don't think that's the case. But it is, you know, that's going to have to be a situation that's going to have to be massaged.

Yeah. You know what I mean? It's going to have to be massaged. And we'll get quotes and shit that we say on this show taken out of context and run through the San Francisco 49ers faithful.

We hope Trey Lance is very fucking good. We've said that literally from jump that we hope he is good. But if he is not, natural human reaction. Fan base, coaches, players. And Aaron said, no, everybody loves everybody. Okay, Aaron, you've been Aaron Rodgers the entire fucking time. There was people on that team when Aaron was – Brett was on the team. I assume this guy who was like, hey, this fucking hippie guy out of California

is unbelievable. We need to play. That'll happen. And I think what Albert Breer is referring to is that Trey Lance immediately wasn't like, oh, great news, which is natural to happen as well, I think, AJ. It is, but it's yeah like if okay say aaron rogers struggles tom brady struggles like it's not a hockey game where they're going to pull them and put their backup in usually until the last couple minutes but trey lance who hasn't

started in the nfl hasn't played a lot of football the last couple years if he struggles the first quarter of the season then people instantly will look hey we have a guy that's taking us he's been in the super bowl he's taking us he's won games yeah he may not have crazy stats sometimes but he's won so everyone instantly is like we have another option here that we could plug in so that's just what makes it weird it's a very natural feeling to both be oh that isn't what we were told at all and Jimmy said that Jimmy said this is weird this is not what I expected Trey I guess to whoever Albert Breer was talking to said yeah I mean, I mean, it was not the best thing. But they'll figure it out.

The San Francisco 49ers' decision to keep Jimmy Garoppolo reportedly wasn't fully embraced by Trey Lance, at least initially, writes Albert Breer. Per Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer, Lance was a little annoyed in the immediate aftermath of Garoppolo signing a restructured deal to stay with the team. After the 49ers lost to the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship game in January, the expectation was Garoppolo would be traded at some point during the offseason. He even gave a farewell address to 49ers fans during his end-of-season press conference on February 1st.

Faithful, thank you very much for everything. It's been crazy, man. Just all the comebacks and Levi's, comebacks on the road, ups and downs. It's been a hell of a ride, guys. I love you guys. See ya. We have referred to said press conference numerous times through this all. I don't know if this is an unprecedented

situation, but I'm excited to see how Shanahan and Lynch handle it all. Tom Brady was speaking on the Let's Go podcast with Jim Gray, SiriusXM, every single Monday alongside Larry Fitzgerald who got top billing on the photo of the podcast. Larry Fitzgerald,

Tom Brady, Jim Gray. Jim Gray is just the point guard of the conversation. He's there to maneuver through a great podcast. Last year we didn't get enough quotes because Boston Connor and the boys refused to listen to the entire thing and get quotes. This year, episode one, before the season even starts here, we're already getting a quote out of Tom Brady, maybe alluding to a little bit of what life is like at home right now, AJ.

It may be talking about life as a 45-year-old man still in the NFL. Do you notice a difference? Is there a difference now? And if so, how would you describe it? Yeah, I think there's a good difference. I think for all of us, as you get older, life changes quite You know, I think there's different responsibilities that take form in your life. There's different perspective you gain. You know, when I was 25, all I did was think about football. You know, that was my, that was my life. It was eat, sleep, drink, football, you know, because it

was my profession. It was my career. And then over time, other priorities develop because, you know, you change and evolve through life and you grow in different ways. So you take on these different responsibilities of family and commitment and so forth and you commit time and energy to those things. So even though once at 25, yeah, was I a good football player?

Then yeah, I was pretty good. I think I'm a better football player now, obviously. But that also comes with a lot of other aspects of life that continue to change because it is your life and i think i alluded to a few weeks ago you know everyone deals with different things in their life and um you know because we're you know you play out on a big stage and a big you know there's there's a big uh there's a big camera that's always on you you know you, you're living your life, but you're living your sports life too. And they're covering sports, but they're, you know, they're covering your life too. And you're living your life and you can't stop your life even though sports is happening.

So even though I'm, you know, playing in my 23rd year, I have a freshman in high school that's playing football too. I have, you know, a 12-year-old that's going through his life. I have a nine-year-old that's going through her life. So, and I have parents and I have, you know, a 12 year old that's going through his life. I have a nine year old that's going through her life. So, and I have parents and I have, you know, a lot of things that are really important, you know, off field pursuits and goals that they're trying to maximize as well. So, you know, we all have different things that are going on. And I think once football season comes, I really lock in on what I need to do and how I need to focus and how the kind of commitment I need to make for the organization so that we can maximize our potential as a team. And that's the commitment I've always made. And I've tried to do that in the best way possible

and try to bring as much joy as I can to the people that are watching. I never felt like I ever wanted to cheat anyone with that. We appreciate that. You know, we do appreciate him wanting to bring joy and, you joy and dive all into the NFL. Thank you for your service, Tom. We did this in the first hour and he'd do it again. Thank you, Tom. Thank you for your service to the NFL, Tom. We hear a lot of Hall of Fame speeches and at some point

during most of them is I like to say thank you to my wife and my kids. I wasn't around enough. I didn't do enough fathering. I didn't do enough coaching. I wasn't around enough. You know, I didn't do enough fathering. I didn't do enough coaching. I didn't do enough husbanding.

You know, I had to do what I had to do and you held it down so that I could focus fully and get here. You know, if it wasn't for you guys, I wouldn't have this gold jacket and that bust that looks nothing like my fucking face in this Hall of Fame forever. Like, you always hear it, and it's real.

You have to sacrifice so much to be in the NFL, especially to be the fucking greatest of all time. And now he's not building his legacy. He has to continue to not tarnish his legacy, so his work ethic still has to be the exact same. I think the glaring omission from his speech there was obviously his wife, and I don't want to judge anybody's relationships,

but as a married human who's only been married for a couple years and aj you've been married for a lot longer than i have you could see how giselle who was also at the top of the world right in her profession who probably had to put a lot of things aside so tom could continue to do his thing thought he was retired and maybe okay now we're living life this way and then now i'm back i can't i gotta fucking do it i gotta look i gotta watch film i gotta throw a football i gotta keep my pliability up i gotta do what i gotta do i am so sorry and then it seems like that's the case if we're getting revenge body tom brady okay if we're getting fresh out of a relationship tom brady i don't know what's going on i hope they're still in love for the good of everybody for the good of them let's not judge that but if this is a fully

solely focused on football tom brady this year look at aj AJ Hawk and we hope everybody ends up happy in this situation obviously yeah I guess I mean if he is dealing with whatever's going on at home whatever yeah he has a lot going on I I definitely feel for him trying to still like you say not tarnish his legacy and continue like the standard he has set is hey if we don't win the Super Bowl it's a failure like it's you can't really say I had a good year like we plan on winning the Super Bowl so I'd imagine as he gets older, that's harder and harder to keep that standard up. But you're dealing with a bunch of stuff off the field too.

I don't know. Like, what do you think he was saying there for real? Like what, what happened? I don't know. Everybody else is reporting a lot of stuff, you know,

it's getting loud around there because it's Tom fucking Brady, you know, and you never really see glitches. Tom Brady. No, no, this is very like relatable.'s very comes off very human in this a human yeah he didn't swear as much as i would like on the let's go podcast you know

because he said i think he said we're all going through some fucking shit or something like that whenever he first talked i'm like okay this is the 45 man here we go yeah this is the tom that we're going to see human tom you know as opposed to, oh, alien Tom. Oh, maybe Tom isn't from our planet. Oh, Tom is a different guy. We're seeing him go through actual human stuff. But being 45 years old, still playing in the NFL, he talked about how when he was 25, he was just all the way in. Same sport he's playing, 45 years, 20 years later.

Same league, same expectations, same goals, same age teammates that he had then and he has now. There has to be so much, and I think it all revolves around him just not being able to let go. This is one of those things, I think. He loves football. He's still really, really good at it. So he's like, why would I stop? He's probably thinking like, okay, yeah, there's a lot of stuff for me to do off the field,

but guess what? I absolutely love to compete. I can still do it at the highest level. Why would I stop? That's probably what he's absolutely love to compete. I can still do it at the highest level. Why would I stop? That's probably what he's going through his mind. You think Gisele and also everything good that has come to his life through football, like why would I? Everything good that I've had in my life, not everything. His family, obviously, I don't want to talk for him.

But all the successes, all the houses, all the moments all come from this sport that I am the greatest at, that I am still good at. So that has to be a mental struggle through that. Do you think Giselle, whenever she heard whichever – what's the family name that runs Fox? Lachlan? Murdoch. Murdoch.

Lachlan Murdoch. Lachlan Murdoch. Whenever she heard the Murdochs say to him, hey, we'll give you $375 million to do TV, and he's like, yeah, I'm going to do that. And then like 20 days later, he's like, I'm not doing that. I'm going to go play football. Giselle's like, $375 fucking million.

Won't even get this guy to fucking stop playing. I wonder if all, like we'll learn this later, I think. And he's probably filming an episode of Man in the Arena. And who knows how much we'll see. But goddamn, I hope they all end up happy. I could see how this is quite a problem in the marital status, especially with three kids growing quickly. Yeah, I can't imagine.

And also, like you said with the football stuff, I'm sure that is part of it too. I'm sure he's thinking, hey, if I wasn't the quarterback for the Patriots and so successful and winning all these Super Bowls, I'd probably never meet you. We don't get married. I mean, if Tom Brady's a fucking accountant in Boston or wherever, guess what?

He's not marrying Giselle. It's just not happening. So I bet it is kind of difficult. And like you said, he has other stuff he wants to do, but if $375 million isn't enough to take him away from football, outside of his kids and his family life, he's still going back. What is going to take him away from football? Well, 23 years in the end.

Ten years ago, he had 13 years and probably four Super Bowls or something like that. Ten years ago, would have went into the Hall of Fame. He said unfinished business. Ten years ago. Back then, he's like, man. People probably ask him, is it hard to relate to these young guys coming into the league, and now he's 45 and it's happening?

He's like, no, I got them all doing TV 12. Now they're all doing what I do. Yeah, it's awesome. We're a good squad. the family doesn't love it but we're just continuing to do what we gotta do and from the like documentaries like you mentioned like he only knows one way to do it and that's that's the real problem like yeah he can't you know do this 70 80 and granted i'm not saying like he could not do that and still be very successful he would but just the way he is it feels like he can only do it where he's watching film when he's not at the facility.

When he's at the facility, he's game-planning for the next game. He's just wired so competitively that that's probably why there's a little bit of a strain because they know for these next six months, they're really not going to see him. Pick 199 is a real thing. That's a, hey, I've got to make the team. This is how I've got to do it. This is how I have success.

I watched Robert Mathis towards the tail end of his career. I was lucky to be there for. And he hit every practice as if it was fucking every period. Every practice was like rookie practice, I think. And I'll never forget being like, what are you doing? Because I see, I saw other guys taking shit off, you know. And he's like, well, if I don't do that, I feel like I can't play or whatever. Like, I feel like if I don't do all that, I won't be ready to play.

I'll have doubts or whatever. So I would assume Tom, I'm not saying that Robert Mathis, I mean, he is, I mean, he'll be in a conversation of one of the greatest, I mean, I think he has the all-time leading strip sacks in the history of the game or whatever, which is a game changer. But, like, I assume that that is something that Tom has too. Like, if I don't do all of this, I feel like I won't be prepared on Sunday. So then there's no reason to do it, you know?

And if you've seen the same commitment from – if you're a family member seeing that, it's like, oh, we signed up for this again. We signed up for this again. Do you know players – I know a lot of players that their wives or spouses go the other way and they want them to continue playing and they don't want to play and they're like they're done the wife's like no no no what are you talking about what are you gonna do on sundays we bring the kids we do all this i've seen multiple situations where that happened no no no

you're away all the time remember we you're away all the time we get these big checks we have a good time everybody loves everybody hey well my body, my body can go one more year, can't it? I mean, we got to transition. That's wild. I've not seen that, I don't think. I was surprised to see that. It happened multiple times, though, yeah. I was even fooled at first until I learned, oh, wow, never mind.

Okay, there we go. She's pushing him back in. So your immediate question is, oh, this lady does not love you. Is that your immediate? I guess she loves what his football life brings her more than she loves him, I guess. Hey, this guy is slowly falling apart right in front of all of us. Not only his legacy and his name and everything, but also his actual body. But I guess, hey, another year of getting to go to games.

Yeah, that's great. I need a new car. So get out there. Yeah, so I guess this is all out of love, which is a good thing. There's a positive. Look at us. And what is it? Is it?

Where's Giselle? Is she going to be at the game? I'm Mr. Briney. That's where we are right now. We're looking at the positives. She loves him so much, she's tired of all the bullshit. She definitely loves him so much where she doesn't want to see him get hurt or anything. But, I mean, if that was the case and she was very supportive,

I feel like she would have gotten a major shout-out on that Let's Go podcast. Like, I can't thank Giselle enough for taking care of the family. No, I think she doesn't want him to play. Yeah. Well, she probably doesn't want her name out there either, too. Like, I doubt she wants – she probably doesn't love this. He left it off the lay. He turns to everybody.

It doesn't matter if she doesn't want it. It's tough. We'll talk about it. Let's go to the phones. They will. All year, I bet. Tom has an off week. Well, you know, I wonder if something at home is going on

and there wasn't a great – Well, is she going to come to some games, not come to some games? How does that work? Well, there will be eyes on the suite, I assume. Does Jack have a game? You know, he is on the freshman football team. They play on weird days. Yeah, they play on, like, Wednesday afternoons.

Yeah, exactly. Tom's going to be missing two days of practice every weekend Oh no He's coaching freshman football Down here in Tampa If Jack dresses for varsity on a Friday night He probably will, he's a fucking Brady, dude We'll see

What's he playing? Just saying What is your problem? This guy's just a freshman, he's got his whole world in front of him. Absolutely. I assume he's a wide out. Yeah, I bet he is. Yeah, I assume he's a wide out down there.

Look out for Jack Brady out wide for sure. Yeah, JB, guys. Florida football's not that good, right? Yeah, Florida football. So high school, he'll do great at wide receiver. Here, let's go to Tom in Tampa. Maybe this is Tom in Tampa on the 500 Fund Line. Tom, what's going on?

How you doing, boys? Keep it moving. Not Tom Brady. Doesn't sound like it. This is not Tom Brady. Not Tom Brady. Good, Tom, not Brady. Sorry.

Jesus. That was one of those moments. I was wondering if you saw Skip Bailey's tweet. He said that kickers aren't real football players. I was wondering what you think about that? Ooh. Hey. Said that?

Skip Bayless, dude. Yeah, after LSU. Oh, you got to go back at him. That's a sick burn. Yeah, man. It was a blocked kick, but certainly the kicker's fault. Yeah. Kickers decide almost everything.

Is that why he tweeted that? Yeah. Yeah. When the dude, the wing steps out and lets the guy come underneath? No, but there's like a thing on Twitter when you send a tweet, they go, you have tweeted something very similar to this before. Are you sure you want to retweet it? They actually asked that question.

Oh, really? I think Skip gets that like every two months. Probably. You can just go retweet one that you put out. That's Skip Bayless playing the hits. That's Skip Bayless playing the hits. Got nothing but respect for it. He's been playing the same songs for a long time,

still getting paid for it. Now, he's a fucking buffoon when it comes to a lot of things, but the guy is an absolute icon when it comes to sports media. And if you're able to get paid while playing the same exact takes, just like people are selling out arenas for playing the same exact songs, I got nothing but respect for it. Good on you, Skip Bayless. Now, every one of those kickers would obviously

run circles around Skip in every other facet other than talking out of their ass. But, I got respect for Skip Bayless and what he's accomplished. Also, just blatantly obvious that he didn't actually watch the game. That was his takeaway from it. You don't want to pin the blame on anyone, but again, they had a guy muff two punts

and gave Florida State the ball within their own 10-yard line multiple times. Yeah, the punter actually made him drop his ball. Yes. Because of how good he punted him. So what are we talking about here? Did you watch the game? Now, Skip Bayless has done his podcast.

I think it's Skip Skip. Oh, really? Club Skip Skip. Club Skip Skip. Nailed it right there. Club Skip Skip. Yep. Club Skip Skip.

And he said he has respect for punters, but he has no respect for kickers. So he kind of pulled me in a pretzel. Yeah, that was interesting. But come one, come all. Team on three. One, two, three, team. Don't fucking bury the kickers. They're former kickers, too.

Kickers are certainly a little bit more. Kickers are more pressure-packed situation. Yeah, for sure. But also normally a little bit more quirky, right? Absolutely. Yeah, like weird artist almost. Like a pitcher. Yeah, for sure. But also, normally, a little bit more quirky, right? Absolutely. Yeah, like weird artist, almost. Like a pitcher. Not all of them.

Like, Vinatieri is not weird. But there's been some kickers I've been around that are certainly a little, Oh, you're the reason for the... That's what I've actually said. Oh, you're the reason. I get it now. Okay, so you're why people say things about kickers and punters. Got it.

Because I was new to the football experience. I was the kicker and the punter. You know, every kicker and punter that I've been around, cool dudes. So then I get around a guy that's, you know, you're a problem. You're part of the problem. But I kick the ball well. So do what you got to do. So I don't like necessarily the fact that skip bayless tried to

take advantage of me for him compliment punters and the kind of divide and conquer type thing so just take it easy skip take it easy but i got respect for skip bayless how do they feel about long snappers everyone talks about oh kickers aren't players punters no one mentions the long snapper i think they're getting voted into pro bowl for the first time yep last year which is big deal long snappers become an actual position. I think everybody knows now because of, you know, he's sure a pet detective kind of set a narrative that wasn't accurate because fucking Dan Marino is getting blamed for those aces, those laces. Nobody knows that.

Well, I've tried to make that clear. It's the snappers. People that follow this program know that. But I'm saying outside of that, I don't think a whole lot of people know it's on the snapper. Well, and I don't know which colleges are expecting their snapper to have the laces. So, outside of that, I don't think a whole lot of people know it's on the snapper. Wow. And I don't know which colleges are expecting their snapper to have the laces. So like college, I don't know. NFL,

100% on the long snapper, the laces. 100% is what they're being judged for. This is their job. Get the laces in the vicinity of front so that the punter or whoever's holding, I think it's all punters now at this point, can catch, put it down on the spot and fix whatever it needs to do.

But this is all happening in 1.3 seconds. So you need to spin the ball the exact amount of times every fucking time. Okay? Deal. And if you do that, you'll get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be a long snapper. There's new rules. You're not allowed to be hit. You're not really allowed to be blocked. We just need you to snap the fucking ball the same way every single time. Is that good? Good.

And it's a weapon if you have a guy and if you don't have a guy you're gonna be looking for that guy for the entire season probably lose some fucking games yeah i mean that is exactly what happened with the packers they brought in a new guy he was on the practice squad i think and then he turned out you know wasn't even as good as the the previous guy who wasn't very good and like that has been like a glaring weakness like, something that they've been trying to address for, it seems, like 10 years now. I don't think there's enough love on Longstopper to follow up with what you're saying. And then Crosby gets buried for it, too. It's kicker stings. This guy has lost it.

He's got gray hair everywhere. How's he doing? Is he healthy? I think. They were worried about it a little bit, but I think all signs are pointing to him feeling good and being back out there on sunday so packers fans happy about crosby being back yeah for sure me too i'm happy he's back it better be because whenever mason's gone

like i don't know who's coming in next that dude like you took him i took him for granted for sure i still take him for granted i'm like this yeah he makes every kick i feel like yeah and it's it might take some time to find a new guy and when you're finding who the new guy is those are games that are happening and you don't find out who the new guy is until a game matters and if you got a guy who's made to kick in the past i would take that person well we also are if we're gms we're drafting all we're taking all the ogs yeah exactly but in a kicking position definitely would like to know that a guy's made a kick before. Even if he's in a little bit of a drought, it's like

I got faith this fucker will figure it out. You have no idea about any of the new guys. That's why you always talk about it. I think as Packers fans for sure and probably some other teams, you just take it for granted. What if we get into a situation where it's like you have four different kickers over the span of a season because

a guy plays good and then has a bad game and then you bring in a new guy and he plays good one game and has two bad games. Crosby's consistent. He's back there. Yeah, he's had his kind of bumps sometimes, but overall, it's just you know he's back there and you can kind of rest your head on that, which is nice. I think there was a 60 Minutes Justin Tucker was on the other day. Really?

I think so. About kickers. Just talking the game. About kickers? Yeah. Kickers are interesting, man. Well, he's like a, doesn't he play the piano and sing? He can do everything.

Yeah, they do that for everything he does, though. They always are like, oh, he's not just a kicker. He's this. It's like, yeah, the motherfucker is going to go down as the greatest kicker of all time, though. Can we just talk about that, maybe? And I think he, you you know he's great on camera he's incredibly likable he's cool he dunked on foxy i mean as soon as we saw him

he's awesome he is very handsome so nice charming what yeah he's i'm happy that he is that lamar jackson situation's continuing to happen has he cut it off yet close it in regular season once it starts cut off but what does that mean you know if they end up coming with a 200 million dollar guarantee in the middle of the season will he will he say you know i guess i opened the window back up i don't know allegedly bashadi the owner of the ravens has been on the record of stating that he would not be giving a deshaun watson like contract to him uh but he has improved their offer from baltimore to lamar this is via jocena anderson lamar jackson the only information we're getting from him Watson-like contract to him. But he has improved their offer from Baltimore to Lamar.

This is via Josina Anderson. Lamar Jackson, the only information we're getting from him is likes on Twitter and tweets that he has sent out. I think everybody is on the same page. Lamar Jackson deserves whatever Deshaun got. And it's going to be hard to get Lamar Jackson off of that stance, I think, just because this is a business. Lamar is the team over there, and if you lose Lamar, you lose everything. And this has already been set.

The precedent has been set. This is what a guy's getting paid who's here to be the franchise. With all the stuff happening around there, I don't know if they're going to be able to get Lamar Jackson off of that stance, AJ. I honestly don't think they're going to be able to get Lamar Jackson off of that stance, AJ. I honestly don't think they're going to be able to. It's going to be super tough. Is it possible that the rest of the league, too, is looking at Bashadi and, hey man, don't do this to us.

Do not do this. We have a quarterback coming up. This is just a huge trickle down for everybody else. Cincinnati, everybody sent Steve Kime like a, hey, good work. Thank you, Steve. Water found its level, didn't it? Yeah, dude. Way to to go now that clause you had in there

about watching film a little bit of a negative drawback but nobody's talking about the guaranteed money which is good way to go Steve we appreciate you

and then Lamar's coming in and he doesn't have an agent who's doing deals with all these GM's he's doing a deal for fucking Lamar Jackson

he's like I don't care about what happened in the desert I care what happened right there in fucking Cleveland and the people in Cincinnati, you know, that are building a new indoor practice facility,

which is getting better. Hey, let's go. It's only just 100 yards, no space on the side. But, I mean, beggars can't be treated. They're getting a fucking indoor facility. They crammed it in there. They don't have much space to work with. Yeah, they made it work.

They made it happen. And obviously, you know, with the highways over, it's awesome. Fucking let's go. This is good. Here we go. This is great news. But the ownership here, the Brown family is like, hey, Bashadi, don't you even hear me? Because our guy just went to the fucking Super Bowl.

Your guy hasn't even gone to the Super Bowl yet. Our guy just went to the Super Bowl. If you do what Haslam did, that flying J or pilot J, son of a bitch, Cleveland Browns. If you do what they did, they're going to expect us. We'll go bankrupt. You want us to go bankrupt? We can't go bankrupt. This is a – I like where Lamar's at, though, business-wise.

Honestly, I love it. Yeah, I think you should. Stay on your ground, man. Do what you got to do. So 230 for Deshaun. What's the closest guaranteed to that? 201 or something? No.

Is it Aaron? I think it's like 165, isn't it? With Russell? It's a big gap. It's a big gap to try to close. Big. That's huge. Yeah.

Man, I don't know what's going to happen here. Yeah, me neither. Yearly cash. He's got 111 guaranteed over the next three years if he stays there. Two franchise tags and this last season. Yeah, the tag could go off, too, if Burrow or Herbert get there. Eventually, how does it not? The relationship goes sour, though, if they don't give him a deal.

Well, now you're talking about how humans are going to act, and we do that a lot on this show, and we get Cruz a live orange. Thursday night has all the stars out. Thursday night has all the ingredients to be electric, and I can't wait for it, AJ. 2022 is starting in a big way on Thursday on NBC, pal. NBC,

so what, Collinsworth is there with Tirico, correct? That is right. Their first game together? No, they called Hall of Fame. Yeah, you're right. But the first regular season NFL game together. Yeah, that's right. L.A. Rams reigning, defending, undisputed Super Bowl champions. Currently the underdogs at home with everybody coming back other than

Odell Beckham Jr. Odds on Super Bowl favorite Buffalo Bills favorite by two and a half. They have a star studded lineup and a target on their back. They're at the top of the mountain, even though they haven't won anything. And talking to Stephon Diggs, it sounds like they don't care. We are in for one on this Super Bowl banner night in which Von Miller will have some emotions of what it was last year. Moving on to a new team. I can't fucking wait, Connor. Yeah, and also the juice is moving.

I believe minus two and a half is now like minus 120, minus 115. So we might get that number down to an even two, which is nice. And then, like you said, with the offenses on both sides, you've got Allen Robinson with the Rams now, you know, maybe no OBJ, but got him. Cam Akers fully healthy. Vaughn Miller switching sides, going from, you know, the Rams now to the Bills. Does he stand on the Rams' sideline when they raise the banner?

I don't know. Yeah, like Vaughn and them, I wonder what happens there, honestly. They're doing like a pregame banner deal and all that? Because the Bills will still be in the locker room, right? I guess maybe they'll give the, would they give Vaughn the option, hey, you can come out here and take part? I think so, right? That seems like the right thing to do.

Stands in a tunnel. Maybe without his jersey on, just his shoulder pads. No, maybe he has like a penny or maybe a jacket on. Sure. Okay. It's like a VF. Letterman jacket or? Like a Vaugh has like a jacket on. Sure. It's like a VF. Letterman jacket? Like a Vaughn Miller jacket. Just on.

Has his glasses on. Of course. Cowboy hat. Gets the ring. Does the whole ceremony. Takes a bow. And then. I'm not on your team anymore.

Sorry. Run to the other side. Sprints to the other side. Yeah. And waits for the team. Maybe gives everybody high fives when they're running out of the tunnel. It's going to be electrifying. Yeah. I'm very, very, very pumped

for this. Looking at the bats too. There's nothing like looking at the bats and putting together the same game. They've already been released. Yes. There's a lot of movement happening for certain things. Cooper Cupps like minus 150 something to score a touchdown. You like the over? 52?

What is it now it 52 and a half i don't know everybody never know everybody's saying yes to the over i haven't made my final decisions on how i feel about this i think the bills are going to get a win um but that would be exactly what everybody's kind of expecting which you know am i then fading myself and i can't start the season like no can't do that so i'm just going to go with my gut feeling for everything. I'm saying under Bills. But Connor literally right before he went live goes, oh, I love this over.

I don't like picking. So we can't all win. Both defenses are very good, but both offenses are also very good. Early season, though. It's early in the year. I don't want to... You guys talked about being electric. Have you happened to see

who's performing at halftime on Thursday night? Bad Bonnie? Is it... Nickelback? It's the Prince of Darkness, okay. Chris Angel? Ozzy Osbourne?

Ozzy Osbourne. What? I thought he was moving back to England. Chris Angel. I thought so, too. Let's go. But apparently he is... Chris Angel.

Ozzy's performing still? He's performing, yeah. Crazy train. So we were at a SmackDown a couple weeks ago in Detroit, and his blow-up, there's a blow-up Ozzy that's touring the country who's outside. Really? And we did a cutaway to it.

WWE Hall of Famer Ozzy Osbourne's blow-up doll is currently in Detroit, and it looked awesome. I mean, it was probably 25 feet tall. Jesus. His fingernails were each a foot long coming off. Nice. I thought it was Criss Angel. So when they first showed it, I was like,

is there a Criss Angel blow-up doll or something? They're like, it's Ozzy Osbourne, you fucking asshole. I'm like, all right, all right, all right. I do apologize. For some reason, that just doesn't feel like 2022 NFL Aussie. Feels like a 2018 NHL All-Star game. Yeah, like train opening for Aussie. Yeah, there it is.

I mean, I love Aussie Osborne. Absolutely love Aussie Osborne. What are you going to say? He had to have been like their 50th or 60th choice to do this fucking game. Are you shitting me? Ozzy Osbourne? Yeah. Guy can't even fucking talk or walk.

Come on. How's he getting out there? What's that song he sings? It doesn't matter how he talks. Look how good he looks. I mean, Crazy Train, obviously. Dang, he's got nice teeth. They're in L.A.

He does have great teeth. Superstars live out there. I think everybody's moved out of there. Really? That's my thing. Is The Rock doing the opening speech again? It's a promo, and I hope so. I hope he is.

I hope he has that purple fit on again. He's with Aaron Donald. How about him fucking... Dude, they zoomed in. Fucking 200 million people just getting a drone shot. And not a single person was like, this is weird. Everybody's like, this is awesome. The Rock's about to cut a promo.

On one side. Starts going through. The entire team is strong. He's like, yeah. I fucking... We did do that. Thank you. And then on the other, Zach Taylor's like, I wonder what he's going to say about us.

Yeah, fucking Rock. Let's go. Let's play the Super Bowl. And then he just tossed the mic and walked off. The game was delayed six minutes. Yeah, the kickoff and kick return teams were on the field. He had to dodge them. He had to dodge the guys to get to the 50 like they were ready to go.

They better get the fuck out of the Rock's way, dude. I don't want to run into him. If the Rock's cutting the promo, we don't care about what's happening at halftime. Sure. No. But it is interesting that Ozzy was selected, because I thought he was moving out of the country. I thought he was dead.

Ozzy Osbourne to kick off 2022 NFL season with Los Angeles Rams. When's the last time he performed? In this article here, it actually says, a direct quote from Ozzy, I will get back on the stage if it fucking kills me. Hell yeah. It might. If he dies during halftime, that'd be... Does he have any warm-up gigs, maybe?

Guitar hero. Danny. They do say people that struggle speaking, you get them in a song, they're good. Yeah. Ozzy might be... He'd have a good background track, you know that. Yeah, but he's a showman.

Yeah, big time. He's going to eat an animal. Eat a bat again. Joining us now is maybe a man who knows if Ozzy was the first selection or how we ended up with Ozzy Osbourne at halftime of the Rams-Bills game with all eyes on the NFL. Shout out to Ozzy. Hey, hey, hey.

Love you, Ozzy. Shout out. Love you, Ozzy. Thank out. Love you, Ozzy. Thank you for your service, Ozzy, honestly. Sharon! I used to watch that. Oh, yeah. Oh, it was awesome.

Those clips that come back on IG are awesome, too. That was like 20 years ago. He's performing now. The first reality show. The first good reality show. It's what made everything go. I concur. He's dating.

That was a dating. But, yes, anyways. That was like 45 years ago. He's performing now. The senior NFL insider for the league and the network itself, host of the weekly wrap-up of the Rap Sheet and Friends, us being the friends, he being Rap Sheet. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapoport.

Hey! Hey, what are you doing, Rap? What do you got going on, pal? Ozzy Osbourne, how'd that happen? Oh, yeah, I don't know. But I will say the reality show was great. I was a fan. I know maybe he was not totally of sound mind and body at that time.

Sounds like now he is, but that show was a wild ride, and I was here for all of it. Yeah, we all were. Loved every part of it. Sharon got yelled at all the time. It was only because the house was so big. Yes, you know, I just needed a little bit of help for things Hey Pat, I get a question. Do you like my shirt? Let me stand up. You like my shirt. I Mean I mean, come on. Yeah, how great is that?

handsome guy. And look at that shirt. That is, I know other people got merchandise, Rogers and whatever. That's pretty good. That's got to be your best shirt ever, right? That shirt is available at store.patmagfishow.com. Let's go. I got to go. I got to text.

It is raising money for a charity that Ian chose. Ian, what is the charity that you and the lovely Leah chose to support? It is the Kids in Need charity. It is for teachers and kids in classrooms. We like kids. I'm not making any money off it, which my wife made absolutely sure of when she recommended we give it all to charity. So I am now for that. And everyone buys some. It's going to be awesome. You're a good person. person now if we were to dive deeper into the shirt though i gotta go i gotta text i'm gonna go break news somewhere else can't do it on the show right here so it's kind of like him i mean he had to okay the design and you know

he had the ideas and everything like that but we are honored to be a part of that and i can't wait to wear my favorite i gotta go i gotta text text shirt someday in the near future for sure. Hell yeah. He's not going to be honest, but I mean, you know, look at the shirt. Yeah.

Put that back up. I don't know. This is like one of those, uh, hall of fame bus. Yeah. That, I mean,

I mean, I mean, it's kind of you, isn't it? I mean, it's what do you mean? Kind of me. That's the best looking me I've ever seen.

Kind of a little squirrely, I guess. Yeah, kind of got some flubby arms, too. Yeah, kind of fat in the face a little bit. Well, he's hungover. He's hungover. Oh, yeah, you're right. Not fat, just a little puffy. Did you see the left arm on that shirt? Did you see that? Yeah, I mean, that's

a golf left arm. You know, golf is a lot. That's kind of where the focus is, so that probably explains that. But yeah, it's a great shirt. All right, I hope you don't get golf arm, tennis know, golf is a lot. That's kind of where the focus is, so that probably explains that. But, yeah, it's a great shirt. All right, I hope you don't get golf arm, tennis elbow, or any of the other things that happen. Thrower's elbow. Yeah, let's talk about it.

Thrower's elbow was a story out of the L.A. Rams camp a couple weeks ago. Thrower's elbow is both sides. Tennis is one. Golf is the other. Thrower's is both of them. Matt Stafford was seen walking around like this in a couple videos. He was being, like, kind of held back, restrained on how many times he could throw the ball we thought oh no matthew stafford finally gets to be a peacock and let his feathers all the way out

in los angeles he's doing numerous commercials he got a guy cooper cup he seems to be on the exact same page up now his elbow is going to let him. A guy who has played with a broken neck in the past, broken ribs, I believe a bruised spleen or something like that. All sorts of broken fingers. Just tough guy. We thought the elbow was going to take him out. That's not a problem at all going into Thursday. Is there anything for us to think about injury front, either with Stafford

or anybody else on the Rams? I would say it's not going to be an issue for Thursday, but this is something that the Rams are going to have to monitor this season. If he was going to be one of for Thursday, but this is something that the Rams are going to have to monitor this season. Like if he was going to be one of those quarterbacks that didn't practice a lot on like a Wednesday, I would say that would make sense. So like it's not nothing, and he did have to have a little bit of a PRP procedure in the offseason,

but I don't think it's going to affect him in games. They're just going to have to be aware of it. So it's a thing. It's not not a thing, but he is one of many veterans who are kind of like managing and during the week and then the game should be fine. I would say Van Jefferson and his knee. He had knee surgery again in early August. That's kind of the only one to monitor. I think he didn't practice on Monday, which is, you know, noteworthy. I would say makes him pretty up in the air for Thursday.

That's probably the only starting player that may not end up playing Thursday night. Okay. Go ahead, AJ. Ian, other than that game, we're looking for the weekend. What do you think is going to happen with Zach Wilson? Are you hearing anything else that they possibly may be putting him in there? I don't think they should. Yeah, I mean, first of all, caution is is going to be their caution like it's

going to be the same it's going to be the same sort of thing where like he worked out uh monday which is good but the problem with a bone bruise is he needed to be off it and really rested for like a couple weeks so he was rehabbing the meniscus and the bone bruise that is a lot it's a lot to get better from in like less than four weeks so theoretically he still got a shot to play i would describe it more as an outside shot so like we'll find out tomorrow for sure but might we see flacco i'd say that's pretty decent possibility and then what we're going to find out among all the things is like there was a lot of optimism for joe flacco and during training camp, like, was that real?

Is he going to go out and light it up at 37? Like it's kind of fascinating. Or was that just to try to get them traded? Who knows? We shall find out this weekend for a Jets game that everybody's obviously looking forward to. Hell yeah. Let's go back to Thursday.

The Bills. That did not sound serious. Well, I thought AJ was going to ask about the Bills on the other side, but we were bopping around the league. Ian, sorry. I gotta,

I gotta have one crack. No, no, no. You're allowed to, ask about the Bills on the other side. We're bopping around the league, Ian. Sorry, I've got to have one track mind. No, no, no. Hey, A.J., your brain is a beautiful thing. I appreciate that. I would have never asked about Zach, so we got that answer. Let's go to Thursday, though. The Bills, everybody healthy, everybody good. It feels like this Thursday night.

Aside from the Ozzy Osbourne performance at halftime, we're about to get the best of both sides here. This is a great way for the NFL to start. This is, you know, Super Bowl champs, Super Bowl favorites. Is the Bills completely healthy going in? Yeah, I mean, about as healthy as you could be. Jordan Poyer, their, like, really good safety was kind of one that I was wondering about. He had a hyperextended elbow.

He's going to be good. And then Isaiah McKenzie, one of their group of receivers uh he is going to be good too it seems like so yeah I mean like all of the injury questions are I mean you mentioned Van Jefferson okay but like I think we're going to be good so really what we're going to see is just like a high-powered really good game between two Super Bowl contenders like this is I mean this is what you want like I am you know I know we we spend a lot of time talking about a lot of non-on-the-field stuff in the offseason. Like, I am legitimately pumped for Thursday night.

It is going to be awesome. Yeah, the I got to go, I got to text shirt is normally about some bullshit in the offseason. I mean, I wouldn't say that, but yeah. Yeah, it is. It is. It is. It is.

And I understand you spend a lot of time away from your family, and it is your profession. It's how you feed your family. And us just saying it's bullshit is kind It is. It is. It is. And I understand you spend a lot of time away from your family, and it is your profession. It's how you feed your family. And us just saying it's bullshit is kind of rude, but we spend our entire lives talking about bullshit too. It is great to have football to chat about. Everybody's healthy. Odds on favorite versus the reigning champs.

Everybody but Odell Beckham Jr. is back. Von Miller switching teams. Von Miller switching teams. Von Miller switching teams, yeah. How would that work? Will he go out for the presentation while the Bills are still in the locker room? Have they figured that out, you think? That's a great question.

I got to ask about that. That's a good question. I don't think so. I'm sure he'll be laser focused. What's your deal? No, it's a good question. It's Tuesday. How do you not have that fucking answer?

Jesus Christ. Do you want us to do your job for you, bud? I take it one day at a time. One day at a time. One day at a time. That's why, well, I mean, we'll see what happens. No, it's interesting, though, because

like, I'm just thinking about this Von Miller thing. Nobody ever chose Buffalo. Like, literally, nobody ever chose Buffalo. And then Von Miller has the choice of like, not dissimilar contract. You know, I think Buffalo offered him the most, but it wasn't by like leaps and bounds.

And he chose Buffalo over the defending Super Bowl champs. And everybody was like, okay, that makes it. Because that's where they are as a program, and that's where they are as a team. Like that is amazing. But they got a really good culture there. And I think that's what they needed. That choice makes sense. And we'll see if he can kind of help them get to where the Rams were.

You don't like Buffalo? I love Buffalo. I had amazing wings when I was at Buffalo. This is like when Ty goes, I love, insert name of a person that's about to get buried. You said nobody chooses Buffalo. What? I know people that love throwing billedos

and tailgating with Bill's Mafia and going through tables and being diehard loyal fans. Yeah, but remember, for years and years, it was all about no free agents wanting to go there, and now people are wanting to go there. That's when you get a quarterback, right? Josh Allen changes the game for everything. And GM and head coach on the same page really good development like good draft like they're just

it's a good program really good it's a good program I think the NFL has a home run on its end here for Thursday night can't wait to see what the numbers are in comparison to everybody was that uh Steelers Lions got like 5.2 million viewers or something like that it was more than everything else all summer and that game meant fucking nothing I can't wait to see what the numbers are for Thursday night for the NFL. Ty, your question for you in rap board. Rap sheet, Bob Domofsky reported that David Bakhtiari is on track to play on Sunday, and then he kind of tempered expectations a little bit

and said he's taking it one day at a time. Have you heard anything on that as in whether or not he's going to play? And also, I think it was reported that Alan Lazard might not play on Sunday. Have you heard anything about that? Oh, ouch. We'll start with Bakhtiari. Yeah, I saw his tremendous meme usage of the one day, you know, let's not blow it out of proportion.

I think with all due respect to Bakhtiari, who I love, I think it is looking good. You never want to assume anything, especially when it comes to him, because we've been here before. We thought he was going to play. Whoa, whoa, down. The only way to go to Buffalo is never want to assume anything, especially when

that fucking guy. We all assumed he was going to be good, and then it was not. So tentatively, I would say he's in a good place, which I would say he's one of the most valuable linemen in the NFL, just as far as what he does and how good place, which I would say he's one of the most valuable linemen in the NFL just as far as what he does and how good he is and who he's protecting.

So if he's good, I think that helps tremendously. Lazard. We'll see. Lazard. The indication I got is that he's got a chance to play on Sunday. So even though he hasn't been there, I think he's – we'll see. But I think it's probably looking good. And their receiving core is like one of the really good, fun puzzles. Like let's say like even for fantasy, like who is going to break out?

Like could it be Lazar? Is it going to be Dubs? Like there's a lot of really good options there. Are you a fantasy guy? I am a fantasy guy. Is he in Bruce's league? No, he didn't get the invite to Bruce's big league. Wait, let me ask you this.

Which do you think I'll get the invite for first, Tahoe or your fantasy league? Tahoe. Wow. I don't know. You took a shot at Buffalo and at Bocchione just in the first two minutes here. I can't be doing the whole Rogers contracts thing. Oh, yeah, you got no shot. You got no shot with that.

Would you want to be a part of Bruce's league? Could I dominate? No. Doubtful, yeah. A lot of sharks in the water here. Yeah, and I got to really – my plate's a little full. Maybe we'll see next year. We'll see next year.

How many leagues are you in? Two. I'm in one with my college buddies and then one with my nine-year-old and some of his camp friends, which has been quite the roller coaster, but should be fun. Are you the commissioner? No. No, I'm just his advisor.

I listen to whatever he says and then tell him the right thing to do. So this kid went out in the woods for four months this summer, comes back, he's running his own fantasy league. Do you advise? This sounds like the greatest trip of all time. And he wants to do it and is excited about it's got lamar as his quarterback it's gonna be good good pick that's good pick i was told though by a friend of ours friend of yours a lot jordan schultz yep some three key

what was that what's that that's, I'm getting a lot of texts. Go ahead. It's nothing important. Oh, you're going to go play into the draft. No, no, no, no. Nothing important. Go ahead. Go ahead.

Jordo Schultz told me what? Don't draft a quarterback early. Yep. No. Draft two running backs right away. Because there's not a lot of good running backs. No. There's a lot of quarterbacks and a lot of wide receivers.

Yes. You could also go with the zero running back trend as well if you want to do that. Tony, are you making fun of Giordo? Because there's no reason to do that. Giordo's at US Open all weekend. Were you there, Ian? I don't think so. No, I tried to get seats on Sunday,

and I guess my invite got lost in the mail. What's this all about? Call Giordo. It's been a tough road. It's been a tough road. Welcome back. Last year, they invited us with open arms. This year, you know, not as much.

Did you get boozed up and embarrass yourself? What happened? I wouldn't say embarrass. I mean, we were in a suite. Uh-oh. I would not say we embarrassed ourselves. My wife maybe, but I did not. So you got boozed up and said something you shouldn't have said to somebody.

We look good in the pictures. That's the most important thing. Yeah, but when the photos weren't happening, there was conversations that were taking place. You offended everybody in there? Tennis is a different crowd now. It's not like you and I are together. Rap Sheet's party man.

Fucking love it, Rap. I love you even more. Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, Rap Sheet, the Patriots went down to Miami today. Is that because they got to make sure, you know, whoever's calling plays can withstand the heat down there? Or why'd they do that? God, that's a great question.

I look forward to staring at the sideline ISOs and trying to determine whether or not Matt Patricia is calling the players or just reading the plays into the microphone. Like that will be a fun game on, on Sunday. You know, the, the heat in Miami, like this is kind of an interesting Belichick move. Like he could either completely eliminate distractions, not worry, or just embrace it and be like, we need a couple of days to get ready. So they are down there. They brought some injured guys. They got Tom Montgomery, which is, I think, a good sign for him.

Hell, yeah. And they're going to play, and we will see the, you know, we'll get our first read on Tua on Sunday against the Patriots, and I'm sure Belichick will have something up his sleeve, and that is going to be a really, really interesting kind of little showdown we got there for the first week. They're going to keep Mac Jones out of Tootsies. Yeah.

You know, second floor, getting shoulder rubs. We don't need there for the first week. They got to keep Mac Jones out of Tootsies. You know, second floor, getting shoulder rubs. We don't need any of that all week. Or maybe that's why Bill took the boys down early. Hey, boys, it's Tuesday. It's probably a good special. There's good wings over there. Stop by Tootsies. Get it all out of you so by the time we have this weekend, we don't have

any of the Miami flu. That seems to hit a lot of teams. Tony, your question for Ian Rappaport? Ian, there's a couple of NFC South wideouts coming off injuries. Michael Thomas, Chris Godwin, either going to go week one? So I believe Michael Thomas will go. Hey, that's a big deal. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a big deal, but I think Dennis Allen kind of said it,

but I think he's going to go, and I think he's going to be really good. I drafted him on my fantasy team, so if he was really good, that would be great. On yours or Jets? Max's, but actually both. My fantasy team and Max's. We got Damian Pierce and we got Michael Thomas. Both of us.

It's almost unfair having him in your fantasy team. We don't want you in Bruce's league ever. Go ahead. You can finish. And then God want you in Bruce's league ever. Go ahead. Ian, what do you think of... Oh, you can finish. You can talk about your league. And then Godwin. Talk about Godwin, too.

I think Godwin's going to go, and if he does, it'll not be a full complement of plays. I think it'll be more like some plays, get him in there, kind of get his feet wet. Anyway, go ahead, AJ. What's this guy laughing at?

I love that so much. It happened the other day when I pointed to you, but Darius was sitting right here. So you and Darius stepped on each other. I love that type of shit. I enjoy just how mad you get about it. AJ is my favorite. Oh, no.

Just water off my back. Ian, continue the conversation here. Dennis Allen made some comments about how weird it's going to be, how different it's going to be without Sean Payton on the field. What do you make of that? I think it's probably going to be a little bit of a breath of fresh air for the Saints. Nobody will ever say it, but Payton was

a very, very good coach who was very... Was he hard-charging? A lot more hard-charging than Dennis Allen, or what? A lot more hard-charging. I mean, Dennis Allen can be a badass himself, but not like Payton. Payton, every little detail was scrutinized, and he could get intense over literally anything you never knew. Now, he was so good that it didn't matter, and offensively he was amazing.

But it's hard, and I think after 10 years it was probably time. So I'm sure there's some people in the Saints organization who are taking a deep breath and being like, okay, this is maybe not better, but certainly different. I'm really curious to see what Pete Carmichael has up his sleeve. Like he's a really good offensive coordinator who always was in Peyton shadow and now we'll be calling it and designing it himself and using a lot of what they did with Peyton, but putting his own wrinkle on.

Dennis Allen's defense will be probably awesome and kind of like it was, but that's one thing I'm looking forward to see is the Peyton-less offense. How good are they? Sean Peyton's probably excited to just be a human because you know how much stress that is to work. If you're the type of person who worries about every little thing because the little things lead to big things. You take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves. If we let these little things get out of control it'll

spiral it'll be a reason why we lose the game you can see how somebody who has that particular personality steps away from the game it kind of maybe enjoys life a lot more but also good chance probably heading back right good chance probably heading back into coaching football yeah i don't think you ever lose that type of thing and we won't ask about the future of the dallas cowboys because if they win it doesn't matter but i will talk about the future of Tom Brady him on the let's go podcast talking to Jim Gray and Larry Fitzgerald you know about his oldest son is a freshman in high school and a 12 year old and an eight year old and talking about literally every human in his life but his wife maybe that was on purpose maybe not have we learned anything more about the 11 day

hiatus and is Tom Brady on a revenge body tour right now? Is this going to be the most focused Tom we've ever had? And do you think his lack of an ability to give up football is the reason why all this shit off the field is potentially happening to him? I mean, I think for anyone who has to work and has a job that is all in 100%, it is hard. So I cannot pretend that it's easy for Brady and his family. Like clearly the time away and some of his focus has been family related.

He is not the first person to go through this. He is not going to be the last. And I'm sure that it is not easy. I don't know if he, you know, left Giselle off his list or not. I just know it's probably know it's probably not easy. That said, when he is on the field, that is his place.

That is where he's good, and none of this matters. Not none of it matters, but where he can focus only on that. So I don't know if it's a revenge tour, but that will be his happy place, ultra-focused. He will be good there. Some of the other stuff is not always easy, like for anyone. But on the football field,

I have no doubt he will be absolutely awesome. And like in a perfect place to go kill everyone. It's a sanctuary, you know? And I, do you, have you caught any more information on what his plans are? Is this a one year thing?

Does it, has that been left open? Like $375 million is allegedly just waiting on deck for him whenever he wants to. We all see this as a final year. Is that not what he's thinking, you think? I mean, I would say, you know, certainly that would make some sense. But I think what we've learned last time, like trying to predict Brady, is always something where you don't know which way it's going to go.

I mean, last year I was, like, even going into last year, I was pretty sure it was going to be his last year. And then when all the reporting happened about him getting set to retire, I was pretty sure it was going to be his last year. And then, obviously, he's literally playing this year. So I think that makes sense. But, you know, look, he's 45 and he's got a lot of stuff going on. So I edited that um yeah

that's not what he said yeah because you wouldn't want to say potty mouth words you know i want to say what if kids are watching well there probably is but kids like listen you're not the demo fucking keep it moving go watch something else look at all the hey all the passes you have to everything you keep all those and you have a reminisce go through them and say, oh, I remember when I was at Super Bowl in 1996. I was cleaning shoes and filling coffee cups. Like, do you think about that? No, it's more like, oh, I remember this Mississippi State LSU game, when I was eating in the press box, or, like, this, like, you know,

weird college baseball game where, like where I couldn't find it and I had to pull out MapQuest, the big pages and all the directions, all that stuff I remember. The fond memories are fine. It's usually whatever disaster it took for me to get there is what I think about. Only the bangers survived. AJ Hawk and I, we walked 10 miles around Jerry World the first time we called a game.

Do you remember that, AJ? Yeah, we kept finding booths, but they were not the TV booths. 10 miles around Jerry world. The first time we called a game. Do you remember that AJ? Yeah. We kept finding booths, but they were not the TV booth. Yeah. We were in every single booth in Dallas, every single one in that new stadium. That sounds awful.

It was, it was terrible. Then we had to call a game that had cliff Kingsbury, Charlie Brewer, Matt rule. A lot of, yeah. I mean a lot of real characters in that.

And now look at you guys. Now we're on the internet. Hell yeah. What? Just like you. Me too. Just like me. All right.

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Yeah, Dean! The Raiders could absolutely surprise some people. Every year. We sent a request to the Raiders PR to get some Raiders players on. And in the request, we said, I feel like we're relatively positive about the Raiders. And in the request, we said, I feel like we're relatively positive about the Raiders. I feel like the only time we have been negative is when we thought Derek Carr's groin hopped out of his skin on a Thursday night football game and Mariota came in and started slicing and dicing,

thought Derek Carr's career was over, thought it was absolutely done. Nobody else is going to sign him at that particular point. That's the only time we've ever really been negative, I think, about the Raiders. We're talking about Coach Richie Passaccia getting a 10-year deal last year because of how good he did with the Raiders. I think we need a little bit more respect. Yeah. And we love Mark Davis.

I think we love Mark Davis more than any other show. We should put a request in for Mark Davis too. Hey, Zito, add to that request. We promoted the house he's building. Yep. Yep. And his starter jacket he was wearing with a backpack and a baseball cap. Yep.

Love McDaniels. Super high-back chair. I think they should. I think we should turn over every email. All right, guys. I'm good, Darren. Him and Jim Irsay need a podcast. Yeah.

Mark Davis, Jim Irsay. Sit him down. Have the Jim Irsay collection in the back. Maybe have Mark walk through. Oh, look at that. Oh, sick. You know? This would be amazing.

He'd be pulling guitars down and starting to strum. Watch this. Dang. Jerry Garcia. Oh, man. He has a concert. Ben might have him on. He has a concert this weekend.

Ben who? Ross Berger? Football. Footballing? Yeah. Jim Irsay has a stadium show stadium show this week let's go stadium show Luke Soil welcome back football Jim Irsay collection Jim Irsay concert there's gonna be what day Friday night right here kickoff weekend footballing at the state at the football

stadium he's putting his own band is putting a concert on. 65,000 plus. It's a celebration of football. Come on out. Let's go. Come on out. That's amazing. What if he just leads off? Time why you punish me.

And then Ozzy comes dropping down from the window. He was just at SoFi Stadium. Now he's at Lucas Oil. They're getting ready right now for this thing. I'm about it. They're bringing the whole collection out. It's a museum and a show, AJ.

Is he bringing Dolan, the Knicks owner out? I know he's a singer. James? No, they're battling. They're a battle of the bands at some point. That's right. Battle of the billionaire bands is taking place at some point. And I got my money on Billionaire Jim. Hell yeah. I don't know about any of the other fucks that are playing music but

billionaire jim's got over a hundred songs in the can already and he's got musicians like he's got an all-star cast around him playing he had the fucking um acdc guys um no beard guys slash beard guys zz top zz top yeah fucking zz top playing back like guitar for him at one of his things it was like okay jim's put on a goddamn show jim ursa collection jsc dude oh sweet hopefully they live stream it can i can i watch i think we tried to do that we gotta pay for that greatness i for that greatness. I'll pay. That's what I'm saying. I'm not trying to get it free. I love that he's just doing it. Yeah.

What was Aaron's entire quote about Creed or Nickelback? He said, somebody said that they're not a fan of that particular genre of music, but the fact that they're out there doing it, they like. I don't think I know enough of Jim Irsay's songs yet at this point. I'll learn a lot more on Friday, but just the fact that he's out there fucking doing it, I love it. Yeah, I mean, he could, what, be a recluse? He could just, like, sit in his house.

He was? Yeah, I mean. I think he was for a while. He was fucking playing in front of sold-out 65,000 people on Friday. That's incredible. Yeah. Him and J.D. fans? J.D. would be rocking that fucking band.

John Daly was on SEC Now or whatever on Saturday. Yeah, Marty McGee. He was with Marty McGee. They asked him a question. He goes, well, I'm drunk already, but it was 10 a.m. Yeah. John Daly's still living. Great choice for the guest picker, though.

Perfect. Yeah. John Daly, you kidding me? That guy's amazing. For Arkansas, too. Woo Pig Sui. His son playing for the Arkansas Razorback Golf Squad, I believe. He's going to be a problem in either live or PGA, whichever one signs him.

I'm excited for this upcoming week of college football. I'm excited for the NFL. We have some massive news coming at some point this week. Massive. Huge. Huge. This one's big. Yeah.

Very big. This is it for up to something season. Yeah. Great way to cap it. Kind of the cherry on top of up to something season. This one's big. Yeah, huge. This one's big. This is it for up to something season. Yeah, huh? Great way to cap. Kind of the cherry on top of up to something season. This is. We, you, we, the company, we're kind of like, you know, organizations that stop doing contracts when football season starts, okay?

Bingo. Go Shane, see you after the season. Negotiation window had ended. Yeah. Before this one showed up. 25th hour. Just like Lamar Jackson saying, hey, regular season, as soon as it starts, I'm done negotiating.

But if somebody comes with something, it's hard not to be like, I'll put this film down for a second. Oh, yeah, I could do that. I'll entertain it. Kind of what happened with this particular program and situation. I think it's going to be big. Oh, yeah. I'd say. I think it's going to be big. Hell yeah. I'd say.

I think it's going to be big news. I think this is potentially going to be the biggest one. Yeah, I'd say. By far and away. I'd say. I think so. I mean, I don't know. I don't want to.

Yeah. I mean, it's. You've had a lot of big news over the last couple of years. Yeah, we've got a fucking video game still going. Contest has ended for the highest score. We're getting the information. Gave away $20,000, $10,000 to the winner, $10,000 to the next 100 highest scores.

That'll happen in your FanDuel Face-Off app for the Field Goal Face-Off game that we put out. A lot of people playing over the weekend. Oh, yeah. A lot of people, including myself. I fucking stink at that game. There's some gamers. I assumed if I could get to a couple different altitudes,

I could maybe figure it out. I think I've hit them all. I have not. I have not been able to figure it out just yet, but I still have a blast doing it, still winning some games. We'll be announcing another contest with the field goal face-off, I think, in the next couple days. Excited for that. Excited to keep it moving. Ty, you've been playing a lot of that game,

huh? Yeah, you could say that. I mean, you can make money, so, you know, I'm pretty good at it. So why not play? Are you just hustling people in there? Early I was, but now I – shout out Basul. You know who you are. Basul is a good player. Me and him all weekend just going back and forth at each other.

Also, Dylan H0304, he's also a very good player. So they put you against similar skill sets. Yeah. So after a few days, the algorithm figures out who's dudes and who's not. And Ty is up in his upper echelon. And there's only two other people. He's playing against the same people every single time. Yeah, well, we got some stats back.

They are. I mean, Ty and these couple guys are literally, there's only three or four of them, I think, all together. There's four of them all together that are just playing at this particular level, and then the majority of people are here, and then there's some down here, and Ty knows them each. I think you could probably also throw Brett P21 in that as well. Yeah.

Good scouting. We'll never run into these guys, AJ. We will never see these guys. They're playing in their own league up there. They're playing in their own stratosphere. Had to change some future contests because of it. Because there's only four of them. That's the show. Gotta go up to the Thunderdome and continue to piece that together.

They pulled some shit out of this studio, put it in that studio. I learned about that a couple minutes before we went live. That changed a lot of stuff. But we figured it out. We got through it. This is a great day to fucking, you know, just exist. There's so much going on. There's so much positive stuff happening.

Let's continue to enjoy this. The season's here. We've been waiting for seven years, it feels like. We did it, AJ. Nobody thought we would be able to do it. We did it. Hey, will there be a big we would be able to do it. Nope. We did it. Hey, will there be a big buildup? Are they going to have like a whole afternoon's worth of stuff

leading up to this game Thursday, like a pregame? Countdown to kick off the whole thing, yeah. Will someone perform before the show? Usually there's a performance out there before. Was it Kendrick? Was it Kendrick last year? Ed Sheeran they had the Letterman for and stuff? I remember thinking something else.

Maybe, Ed, yeah. Oh, yeah, they had the leatherman for and stuff. I remember thinking something else. Maybe. Oh, yeah. In the rain. Oh, yeah. They had the leather jacket they were selling. Oh, that was a full thing. That was a full push on Good Morning Football. Maybe that's why Ozzy's doing it.

I thought Kendrick Lamar. He did the national championship, I remember. Okay. Outside. Yes. Who's singing the anthem? I'm sure you're going to bet on that, aren't you? You can't.

No, you don't. AJ, I'm going to're going to bet on that, aren't you? You can't. No, you don't. AJ, I'm going to be betting on fucking everything that is possible to be. I was very good this offseason not betting on shit I didn't know. Like, very good. I would ride along with the boys every once in a while if they caught some incredible heater on MLB like the Hammerdown boys did there for a bit. It's awkward.

Don't be when 18-1 was big. Yeah. What? He's just got it. What when 18-1 was big. That's, yeah. What? He's just got, he's, hey, he's. I thought baseball was over, and then I just. Goop. Goop has more information now than he's ever had. Lads, we can't.

Lads, I'm just getting an 18-1. Let's go, Gump. Let's keep it going. There we go. But I've been very good now at not betting on stuff that I don't really know anything about. So now that the NFL is back, I'm fucking going, dude. Go. Can J Balvin

perform it? Oh, okay. I know J Balvin. He's gonna crush. Absolutely. Balvin's a beast. Balvin is a beast. Yeah. They say this beastie Balvin really bellows out the greatness of those songs. It does. Kind of shades of the beastie boys. Well, I mean, just a little bit more,

you know. Balvin. Yeah, I mean, just a little bit more, you know. Balvey. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's the national anthem, you said? No, that's the kickoff concert. Oh, of course. Who is? Tekashi, 6ix9ine.

Oh, sweet. Tenashi. It's not 6ix9ine. That would be so good. Tenashi and Oz. That's pretty sweet. Damn. Oz?

No. Ozzy. Ozzy. Oh, my God. I was going to say fucking Nas' performance. That's pretty sweet. Damn. Oz? No. Ozzy. Ozzy. Oh my god. I was going to say fucking Nas is performing. Cut everybody else out. Not to be confused with Bill Oztriker, the great lacrosse player from America's Boss. Tanash.

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fucking know NFL why isn't Beyonce doing the national anthem is going to crush they do actually they don't want to I should say Tinashe

Tinashe you're going to crush make a break here for me at least They don't want to, I should say. Tinashe. Tinashe, you're going to crush it. Tinashe's got punch. Love you, Tinashe. Make or break here. For me, at least. Oh, this is how you're going to judge Tinashe? Yeah, I will listen to Tinashe if she crushes the national anthem. If she doesn't.

Are you downloading that thing November 21st? Absolutely. That's a long time away. Yeah, I'll forget about it 18 times before then. No, remember. Put it on pre-order. Yeah, okay. Remember.

You watch Top Gun at home yet? Does it hold up? Yeah, it holds up. And then, boom, what did we see this weekend? TC, you know, footage from Mission Impossible. Of course. Fucking guys. Have you seen this, AJ?

An absolute maniac. I mean, yeah. I mean, nothing surprised me. This fucking psychopath. Such a beast. In the middle of a canyon, just standing on this fucking plane. And he's like, hey, hope you guys are having a good Labor Day. And obviously the audio isn't perfect because he's flying at whatever fucking 400, 200, 300 miles an hour, whatever the fuck those shit planes can fly.

It looks like a Wright Brothers plane he's flying on. Just sitting on top of it casual. Who needs a seat? I'll fucking stand on top of it. Does this entire cool promo, and then some other fucking plane pulls up. It's like, all right, in three, two, one, action. And then they fucking dive into the earth with him hanging on

like he's riding his surfboard on this fucking plane. Tom Cruise is a human I didn't know I needed in my life until now. Top Gun Maverick was my introduction to him. He's a fucking madman, this guy. Yeah, it's the director saying, hey, Tom, we're losing daylight. We got to go. So what does he say? All right, see you at the movies.

And then boom. Watch him just peel off here and go right into Earth. Coolest lean of all time, like he's on a trash can. One leg up. No parachute wrapped around that body. All right. and go right into earth coolest lean of all time like he's on a trash can one leg up no parachute wrapped around that body all right he's got a piece of string holding him onto the plane no harness see it's the movies yeah he's got to be strapped in somehow no he's not he's not i don't care if you're strapped in look at that shit i mean no matter what he could have a thousand

strap straps on there i'm still we told you he was going to see that video of that 93-year-old grandma doing this, and he was going to say, you know, fuck you, granny. I'll show you how this is done. I love it. Whatever gets him going, dude. We need more of that. I mean, it's – no, I'm not going to even put that negativity in. What?

No, he'll be fine. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, listen. I'm not going to say it. No. You'll put it out. You'll say it. Seems like he's certainly dancing with death, but, I mean, for our entertainment, I appreciate it, TC. I'm not going to say it. No. You'll put it out. You'll say it. Seems like he's certainly dancing with death, but I mean, for our entertainment, I appreciate

it, TC. TC cannot die. Don't worry. He cannot die. He will not die. Was he on the top of the Burj Khalifa or whatever the hell it is? Sitting there, casual. Just hanging.

No, running across it. Jumping on like a harness around. I mean, the guy cannot die. He will not die. He will outlive all of us by hundreds of years. He has that same thing that Mark LeClair and... And Honnold.

Alex Honnold. Alex Honnold have. No fear. They just don't feel anything. Nope. They've already harvested all his adrenochrome, so he doesn't have those feelings anymore. Alright. Happy we got that in. Love you, TC. Thank you, TC. Keep going, TC.

Plane's okay, too. I would never get in one of those planes, so I actually understand why he was standing outside of it. Safer out there. Yeah, safer. No way. Hammer. Time.

It's about 10 or 15 minutes. Big news coming this week. Huge. Huge. Big news. Whatever you think it is, double it. I don't know if that's. Triple it. And then once you double it, triple it.

Triple it. Times it by six. No, that'd be different. I thought you'd multiply exponents. There's so many formulas that we have to compute. Did you excuse your let's just do it with two real quick.

We'll do it with the number two. You double it, four, triple it, 12. Two to the sixth is 12. He was right. Now, exponents would be two times two times two times two times two, right? Yeah, but I thought it was. So it's not two times six? If your expectation is one, right? One.

Fucking Will Hunting over here. One to the 65. 10 million. Let's do it with three. Three, you double it. That's six. Triple it. It's 18.

It's like 64 or something. Three times six is 18. So it is. You were right. He was wrong about the exponent part, I think. I'm lost. I don't know where we went. No, you did it.

You did it. I don't know where we went. It's that new math that they're teaching. That's right. He was wrong about the exponent part, I think. I'm lost. I don't know where we went. No, you did it. You did it. I don't know where we went. It's that new math that they're teaching. That's right. Common core. You have to teach that to your kids, AJ. You do well with that. I have no clue how it works.

I don't know anything about it. It's impossible. It's just tricks, right? Isn't it just math tricks? No, it's like, hey, here's 4 plus 4. It's 8. We can learn our multiplication and times tables, or we can spend 36 minutes writing things out to get 4 plus 4

That's how I interpret it It's fine I have a hard time It's a different way to go about it Yeah exponent is a different thing Than multiplying Exponent is 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 Times 2 times 2 times 2 Which actually equals 64

Fuck yeah, 64. Multiply it by that. Hey, Dustin Johnson put in an eagle in a playoff hole from like 45 feet away that would have rolled into the sand trap. Yeah, that's all he won. Hit the back of the hole, shot straight up in the air, and then goes in for an eagle to win on a playoff. Place went bananas.

I don't know where they were playing at. Boss. Seemed like a great atmosphere up there. Yeah. Looked crazy. They were wearing shorts. Uh-huh. Whoa.

Then him and Paulina went wild. What's that? They had a wild celebration after that was the headline I saw. Yeah, ripped up Southie. Really? I don't know. I'm sure they stayed at Southie. All right.

There are a bunch of very nice places in Southie. Maybe they went to Encore. He probably flew home to Florida like he does after every tournament. No. He didn't win any money. Yeah, it's just part of the pool. Pat Perez won money. So if they don't win, do they have to pay back the money then?

No, because you'd win some border. You'd win something. But it's like an upfront. Upfronts happen, and then you have to earn it back. Do you have to meet that? Hey, once you hit hit 100 then we'll like but if you don't hit that yeah do they come after that they come after you say you gotta write us a check you don't feel your obligation we are out of here uh hammer dimes in like 10-15 minutes should be great show yeah good luck out there all right thank you aj you, AJ. Big thanks to Derwin James for joining us, Ian Rappaport,

and that tea that has given me some real problems today. Real reflux. In this particular department. I tried to put amino acids into an unsweet tea earlier. Like your own, or you told them, yeah, you can put a shot of it in? Somebody sent us some amino acids. It was a peach flavor. So I said, bingo.

Give me an unsweet tea. I'll put these aminos in here. Now all of a sudden I got a peach tea like super drink, right? It's not good. It was not good. Back to the taste or what it does to you? The taste. I think I got hives for a little bit.

I mean, it was a full thing. The acid reflux thing. I can't. It's not my new. I thought I'd beat the game. I did not. I did not beat the game. You find new aminos.

Don't you drink aminos all day, you? Sometimes, yeah. I mean, but I don't know. What's the problem? What? Why can't we just ever ask you just a fucking question? It's a straightforward answer. It's in a bottle you're drinking right now, right? There's some in there mixed in with different powder I have yeah yes okay so the answer is not sometimes protein

muscle you fucking suck no you do not you do not but there is some things that are you know alarming like why do you feel like you're on the like the stand every question i just feel like there's certain things that are no reason for me to answer. Like, it doesn't matter how many times I answer it. What I give you, it's not going to be enough. But you're an amino expert.

You literally just... I'm not an expert at all. I'm not an expert on anything. I would never claim to be an expert. Okay, okay, okay. Tackling. You are one of the only people I know that drinks aminos every single day.

I know what works for me, what makes me feel good. I don't know what makes you feel good. Well, that's all I was asking, what works for you, because it apparently works. And you go, sometimes, no, I don't know. It depends on the day.

It's always changing. It's always a different. Well, it's not changing, though. Here we go. You do the same thing every day. It hasn't changed. No, you always got to make minor tweaks throughout the day. You know that.

But aminos stay the same. What? Aminos stay the same. No, no, you can change that. Oh, yeah, I changed it, too. You get that little spark, a little drink. I had some. Tasted terrible.

I didn't know if that's how it's supposed to be every single day. It didn't taste very good out there in Tahoe. I didn't have any ice with me. Yeah, it was bad. Okay, so I should be drinking aminos every day, though? You would? You do? I mean, if you want. If you're tearing down your muscles and you want to rebuild them a little bit and help out. Yeah. What?

I'd like to help out my muscles. Hey, hey, muscles, you call 911 because I'm fucking here to help. I'm taking aminos every day. Look up AJ Hawk. Is that, is that, I'm going to get yoke now? I don't know. Sounds like it. Sometimes, maybe. It depends.

Do I sit here and claim like I have answers? Yes. Well, you can answer questions about you, though. So when I say, hey, you drink aminos every day, and you go, sometimes, maybe. I don't know. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Jesus. Is everything okay?

Is everything all right? And you're like, well, aminos are the building blocks for your muscles. And it's like, oh, so you're an amino expert and drink it every day. So you're allowed to give a friend, I thought, at least, a friend a little bit of advice. Yes, your absolute friend, of course. A little guidance, maybe. Should I be having these aminos even though they taste like shit every day?

Sure. I don't think it's going to, like, I don't, it's not something that you're going to all of a sudden take and be like, wow, I feel so much different. It's not going to do that to you, but it shouldn't help you. Maybe. We don't know. Maybe.

Maybe. Who knows? Thank you for that answer, AJ. Isn't that nice of him? Yeah, it is. Well, like you said, I mean, you can't say, well, I don't know. I mean, maybe it changes. And they say, are you drinking it right now?

And I say, yeah. I mean, yeah, it's in here right now. I've been drinking it every single day for the last 10 years. I don't want to give advice to anybody. You know that. This is not investment advice. If you ask me, yes, you're right. I guess I should have given you a more straightforward answer off the bat. Okay, so I'll

start framing my questions better so you don't feel like you're giving advice to the masses. There you go. Okay. We are specifically asking about Aaron James Hawk. Anything that I have is strictly anecdotal data just on me, for me. So it doesn't count for everybody.

Is lawyer present? Well, it feels like that. I think the way I'm going to... Eric Seacon might be your guy after you watch this thing. Is he hanging out with McAfee somewhere? Similar... Similar

vibes, it feels like. John McAfee is definitely smarter than Eric Seacon, though. I think. Eric Seacon though, I think. Eric Seacon found a hustle and he fucking Did he take 500 and some million? 550 million, yeah. Eastern Kentucky. He must have been doing it

for a while then before he got caught. You'll see. Yeah, pretty fucking hilarious. Did he get caught? If you haven't seen the end, did he get caught? Well, there's jail. Yeah, I think he did. Unless you got DUI. They'd shut a mugshot early.

Could have got a Dewey. Bro, his fucking headquarters was just 50 trailers put together. Started out as one trailer. Then he just started adding trailers. He's like the trailer park king of all time. Got junkyard cars to put in the parking lot so it looks like people were there all the time. Just look busy.

This guy is the hillbilly king. Eric C. Cohn, the big Cohn. And he robbed the government. So, you know, a lot of people were like, this guy's robbing the government. But the way they paint the image is like, he fucked over everybody in America. And that was really, I mean, pretty valid, I guess.

The Big Con on Apple TV. Would recommend it because in a couple days, all we're going to be watching for the next five months is football. Football. NFL football. College football. NFL football. Al Greer has tweeted something.

Is this about Trey Lance? Yeah, full disclosure, my wording might have been a little presumptive there. I'm not climbing in a guy's head. What I heard was it was complicated news to take, as you'd expect it would be. And again, that was just in the immediate aftermath. He'll be fine. Well, Albert, we fucking took your words, pal. All right, Al.

You're the one that said he was a little annoyed. We all assumed he'd be fine because that's what he said. But Albert Breer had heard that maybe when it was initially introduced to Trey, he wasn't as pumped. Once again, a human interaction. We can respect that. Albert Breer also has to write about something. Well, Albert Breer dives deeper.

He was in Columbus. I saw him Friday night. Really? Was he with LeBron? Was he on the team? I don't know where LeBron was Friday. I saw him Friday night. I'm sure he went to the game, but he isn't a high-stake guy. Did you walk up to LeBron and give a face clap?

I didn't see LeBron. I didn't go see him. No, on the sidelines. He didn't come see you? I saw Zeke. I talked to Zeke. He was out there, but I didn't see LeBron. LeBron didn't come see you?

No, I guess not. Fuck that guy. What the hell is that? All right, we're out of here. We're back tomorrow. Hammer Don at YouTube.com forward slash Hammer Don is coming. Nothing but winners. Gumpy's 18-1.

Baseball is wicked, yeah. You're 12-6. Pretty good. Not bad. See you guys tomorrow.