The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 805 - Monday Night Football Recap, Titans Fire GM Jon Robinson, In The Trenches With AQ Shipley LIVE From The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

On today’s show, Pat, AQ Shipley, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about last night’s Monday Night Football game between the Saints and Buccaneers and Tom Brady’s comeback win in the final seconds of the game, why it’s going to be so difficult for guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers to retire, the Seth Wickersham article about Andrew Luck and his decision to retire, the Titans firing GM Jon Robinson seemingly out of nowhere, Jimmy G potentially not being out for the season anymore, and everything else happening around the league as we wrap up week 13 of the season. Later, 12 year NFL veteran on the offensive line, AQ Shipley breaks down the best O-line play of this past week as we go In The Trenches. 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 Aaron Rodgers Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 and this dumbass sports show starts right now. Football! Wrapped up its week 13 last evening in Tampa Bay where the greatest of all time showcased why he's the greatest of all time in a clutch comeback late to take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to 17, to the New Orleans Saints 16. Congrats to the NFC South on being the worst division in football this particular season. And also congrats to Tom Brady showcasing that he's still got it. Missed a couple throws early to Julio Jones. We thought, oh no, is this going to be an off Tom Brady showcasing that he's still got it. Missed a couple throws early to Julio Jones. We thought, oh, no, is this going to be an off Tom Brady evening?

Saw Andy Dalton make some plays. That guy is like 2-14 or something like that on Monday Night Football throughout his entire career, 6-21 in his career on primetime. Sorry, let me get it actually more accurate in this whole thing. Monday Night Football, I don't think he's won since like 2014 as a starter or something like that. There was a lot of stats about Andy Dalton not winning on Monday Night Football, I don't think he's won since 2014 as a starter or something like that. There was a lot of stats about Andy Dalton not winning on Monday Night Football.

I think he made every play he had to win last night. Had a couple of nice throws early. Then late to Taysom Hill. Down the middle. Fourth quarter to put the game on ice, pretty much. Big plays made. Taysom Hill drops the ball. Peyton Manning loses his shit on the Manning cast about it. And Andy Dalton

made a play to win a Monday night football game. Let's remember that whenever he's judged in the future if he's playing for another team on Monday night. Nonetheless, when Mark Ingram runs out of bounds, about a half a yard short of a first down in the fourth quarter, when you're up 16-3, six minutes left, this could also seal the game. Runs out of bounds, half a yard short. Goes down as if he's injured. Do we know what the injury is? We do

not. I don't think we've gotten an update yet. We hope he is okay, obviously. Big truss that a 12-year vet would get a first down in the fourth quarter whenever you can. If you're going to run out of bounds and stop the clock to begin with, you might as well get a first down out there. Mark Ingram has since put a tweet out saying, I should have got first down to Thompson on me. I appreciate the self-awareness and the accountability. But since that happened, they end up not picking up the first down on the next play. Tom Brady gets the ball back. Deep ball, pass interference to Mike Evans.

How you doing? Keep it moving. Three and out on the other side. They end up fucking scoring again. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the final four minutes of this game took this thing over. A lot of people might not have been able to stay awake all night. No, no, no. That's a long Monday.

It's a work night. What you missed was greatness. From Tom Brady to wrap this thing up, here's the moment that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers faithful, whenever they're down six with 240 left, and Tom Brady gets the rock back, they know what's in store. Not only is Julio Jones going to make a catch a big one two that were missed early would have been big ones as well is Julio Jones

still on the team yes he is when they need it they got it then a touchdown pass to Chris Godwin a lot of people at any time touchdown score touchdown passes to Chris Godwin here we go the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are an extra point away from taking the lead. Holding. Oh, no. Offense. Donovan Smith, who I believe has the most holds in the NFL since what year? 2015. 2015.

There it is. Every once in a while get beat. He knows in this moment can't give up a sack, so he does a hold, which is something he does on a regular basis, which calls back a touchdown to Chris Godwin, who might have been a massive part of a lot of any time touchdown scores because he is an absolute dog. He gets the ball back, ends up moving the ball down the field a little bit. Eight seconds left.

What are you going to do, Tom Brady? Third and goal. 16-10. Fourth quarter. Checkdown. Cuzzy we didn't even know existed. We saw him wide or whatever. He scores a touchdown.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hit the extra point, and they win on Monday Night Football in exhilarating fashion when really a game for 56 minutes was wildly boring. Oh yeah. Fun night on the Manning cast. Saw Randy Moss chit-chatting with old Peyton and Eli. A lot of stories were being told not only about how Randy performed and played against the Giants and against the Indianapolis Colts, and Randy was asking questions. Randy was doing a little interview on Peyton and Eli, which I think is always a good move, by the guests that come on to Manningcast. The reason why the Manningcast works is because Peyton fucking Manning is on television.

Now, helps that Eli Manning is also on there. Love Eli. Two Super Bowls. Fucking guy. I understand that. But the reason why everybody even tuned in to begin with is because Peyton's on there. You also get an additive of another fucking Hall of Fame quarterback on there he's related to and have good banter with, but it's Peyton fucking Manning.

So when our guests would come on and ask questions to Peyton, I think it's a good thing. Randy Moss did a lot of that, heard a lot of stories from Randy. That's my favorite player growing up. So I enjoyed listening to him chit-chat with the Mannings. I enjoyed the game until it got too boring. I passed out. I wake up after the game has already ended. I'm seeing interviews on the field afterwards.

Then I see the press conference that Tom Brady did. It's just how he fucking drew it up or whatever. It's unbelievable that they're able to win that way. Not great football, okay? Not great football by anybody. We didn't watch last night and think to ourselves, these teams are going to win the Super Bowl because of the teams that we've seen play. Now, obviously, we're judging them against the Philadelphia Eagles, and we're judging

them against the Cowboys on the NFC side. And then if you talk about the AFC side, you know, Patrick Mahomes is still Patrick Mahomes, and the Chiefs are still the Chiefs, let alone what the Cincinnati Bengals were just able to do, the Chiefs. And you think down in Miami, a team that just lost to the Niners, also in the NFC, what they could do. None of us watched last night and thought, this is a Tom Brady team that could go win the Super Bowl. This is normally a time, though, when Tom Brady's Super Bowl winning team

is kind of getting going. So should we be alarmed? I think so. Are they going to win the NFC South? Probably. And once you get Tom Brady in the playoff, maybe he's able to do it, but I don't think that's what we saw last night. Nonetheless, congrats to the Buccaneers on a big time.

Good win, bud. The Talks at the Table is here. At Boss Conner, at Ty Schmidt. Conner, you think Tom's done? What do you think? What do you think is going on down in Tampa? I think Tom made the plays whenever he had to. He was Tom Brady.

He got a chance to feel that feeling again, you know, which I think he'll be chasing for the rest of his life whenever he retires because there was a great piece that happened last night. Steve Young, John Elway, Troy Aikman, Peyton Manning. They showed clips of all their retirement press conferences, and they got some quotes from them since retirement about how hard it is to give up the game. And they were talking about how Tom Brady stared down retirement for 40 days and couldn't take it anymore, goes back into the league.

You have to think about these quarterbacks. In football itself, and I learned this whenever I got dropped and baptized into the football culture, I did not grow up in the football world. So it was interesting to kind of relearn it all or learn it all as somebody that had like already thoughts and opinions on everything. The quarterback, the way quarterbacks are treated in the football world, and I assume this is since Little League all the way through, whoever's quarterback. You get treated with preferential treatment. You're the fucking quarterback. You're the most important position.

So if you're getting treated with preferential treatment in your sport since you're a kid and all the way through, like, hey, this is our, we go as this person goes. Thank you so much. Even as teenagers, you got like coaches and other players being like, thank you. You're the man. You're the man. You're the man. So then you go on to become one of the greats of all time and that pantheon of greatest

quarterbacks of all time. So not only are you getting kind of fluffed and catered to your entire life, but also you're better than everybody else. So think about the amount of catering that you're getting done to them. So I don't think it's not just on the field, the competition level. It's like the way quarterbacks are viewed by their teammates, by their peers, by everybody in their world. I think it's probably a little bit difficult to walk away from that particular feeling as well for people. So you combine that with being great at something and loving that thing, because how could you not love it if you're great at it and you're treated incredible in the middle of it?

So then you have to walk away from it. And you were talking about Tom Brady. It made me think about Aaron. Like Aaron, everybody just says that Aaron's going to be able to retire. I think we've even got caught up in it. Like, oh, Aaron's just going to, he's going to go host Jeopardy. He's going to be able to retire. I think we've even got caught up in it. Oh, Aaron's just going to go host Jeopardy. He's going to be able to do it. I don't think that's the case. I think that was what they were trying

to make the point of last night about Tom. Everybody's talking about Tom experiencing what life was like without football, taking his kids to school. A lot of those jokes were made and everything like that. It's like, I don't think it's going to be easy for anybody that is in that position to ever walk away. It kind of got cemented home last night. What did you see from Tom Brady and what do you think the future looks like? I mean, it feels like he still has it. It's not

like he's missing balls, you know, short, even though there are some where maybe Julio deep ball overthrows him and everything. Him signing that one year deal last year makes me think maybe some other teams that he has a thought of going to play for, maybe he'll check out the free agency market again because he's only done it once before when he first came to Tampa. But also when you look at the contracts that a lot of those free agents in Tampa signed, Godwin signed a three-year deal, Jensen signed a three-year deal, Lenny signed a three-year deal. Like I don't know if his time in Tampa is up.

I think no way, no chance in hell he retires just because of everything that you just said and because of the quality of football that the Bucs have played this year as a whole. I don't know if Tom is the type of guy that has his worst season at least in the last 10 years and then says, yeah, I'm okay with ending it on that note. I assume he probably wants to be a little more competitive, a little more of a contender and go to the Super Bowl, go to the NFC Championship or the AFC if he comes back. Who knows if he does that? But no, they're just not a typical Tom Brady team.

I mean, six and six week 12. This is where you think that they're, you know. And they start showing signs of we figured it out. They already had their bye week where they could have re-scripted everything and change everything, which we have seen them do in Tampa Bay and go on and win a Super Bowl. It's interesting because all the personal stuff that's been happening, and there's no reason to dive into that, but it is a real thing that did happen,

so we have to acknowledge it. And he's been 3-1 since the divorce, by the way. So in my eyes, he has a lot more free time almost, right? He's going to have a little bit more free time. I think that makes him stay in football longer. Absolutely. So unless he goes on a bender, what if at the end of the year he's just like, all right, I don't have the kids for the next month because they're going to

Costa Rica or Brazil or wherever, whatever the case is. Yeah, I don't want to play football anymore. And just goes on a fucking festival run where he's just private planing around places having the time of his life and that's how tom brady ends that's how he's like and i'm retiring he's at like let's say he's at abitha he'll be at abitha and jules and gronk somebody will be like and he's out fucking retiring yeah i'm done i'm doing this every day for the rest of my life what if tom brady just becomes fucking leonardo dicaprio for the rest of his life and just retires out of nowhere? All of that is on the table.

None of us have a clue what's going to take place. Obviously, there's $375 million waiting on Tom Brady at Fox, allegedly, if you listen to the earnings call and everything like that that happened with Fox. But for me, he's not underthrown anybody at this age. He's overthrown people. I'm thinking he's going to want to go to a contender and fucking make one last two last maybe three last runs at this thing so he can let everybody know still got it can act like he's going out on his own terms as well because he's not want to get not going to want to get forced out i think this is all just from judging and watching from afar do not know him personally but there's another conversation we had it's going to happen today

like aaron rogers everybody said he did that salute very firm, stiff. Very firm. Stiff salute. Oh, yeah. Very, I mean, very strong. Yeah. Very strong salute. A lot of people are saying a lot of things about that salute on the Internet.

But the Internet's going to do that. Like it's been talked about him. And he said, you never know when your last one's going to be when you're playing the Chicago Bears. And it's like he said this a couple times, and everybody says he's alluded to retiring and everything like that. At that quarterback position, I think it's going to be tough, especially for those uber-competitive humans like Aaron and Tom both are.

And when you're that uber-competitive, and to Connor's point about them being 6-6, I just can't see there being any way that Rodgers wants to go out this way. The Packers have been in contention to either go to a Super Bowl or go to an NFC championship for the last 15 years, it seems like. I just can't imagine a scenario where they, even if they win out, let's say they don't make the playoffs, when guys are that competitive, you don't want that to be the lasting memory in a lot of people's heads because then it just gives fuel to the fire.

They don't remember all the stuff you did previously. People won't be talking about him winning back-to-back MVPs. It'll be, hey, you remember that last year after Devontae left when everything kind of fell apart. That'll certainly be in the pocket of the people that don't like him forever. Exactly, and I just think it's the same deal. Oh, yeah, it's sitting right there. Every conversation.

Right. I mean, it's not the same as Bill and Tom, but I'm sure a lot of people will use it as the same thing. It's like, oh, well, this guy couldn't win without Devontae. He couldn't do anything. And it's the same deal with Rodgers. His play hasn't declined. I mean, he's been hurt this year.

He's been banged up. But it's not like his body, it's not like he can't do what he's been used to doing. So, like, I just have a tough time imagining him hanging in there. Yeah, so do we. We'll get a chance to chat with him here in about an hour and 45 minutes. I can't wait. I'm excited to hear what he had to say about the Chicago trip,

about all the conversation happening about him. They're not mathematically eliminated yet. They're going to keep going. I can't wait for the talk. And also, the next book of the book club. know last week it was russell brand recovery freedom for more addictions did you read it yeah of course pre-book club or because of the book club because the book club probably should have pre what was your favorite i don't know i scanned through it here before the show started just so i can kind of get a, it's kind of, you know, at least let me get a feel for what we're talking about.

Right, yeah. I've done it for all these books because, I mean, we all know my story. Sure. Okay. I've never read one of these. Correct. But I at least would like to get a grasp of what it is. I started just kind of looking into them, you know, before this one.

This was a book that was recommended in the Aaron Rodgers book club. This Bible right here that you're looking at. One week, week to week, is what the book club is. This thing was recommended. Well, like Bible, I meant like in girth. Well, and he was trolling us with that one, if you remember what he said about it earlier this year in the book club reveal. No.

What did he say? He said, I didn't even read it. He said that? That can't happen with this book club. Yeah, he what did he say? He said, I didn't even read it. He said that? That can't happen with this book club. Yeah, he said that. Believe me, I still have the clip. You can't use the book club. Oh, boy.

Is this misinformation on the motion and agenda? Is that what you're going to say, Tony? I just, I don't like. Anyways, chapter nine. Now, I apologize, unless I would make things worse. Yeah, that's my favorite chapter. This fucker was deep right there. I fucking hate I would make things worse. Yeah, that's my favorite chapter. This fucker was deep right there. I fucking hate when apologies make things worse.

Why? Because it's just not fun or what? I don't know. Are you good at apologizing? I haven't been solid at it throughout my life. I've never actually had to apologize for anything. See? You and me, probably similar.

No regrets. I'll tell you what, though. Whenever you have to really, when you did fuck up, though, those apologies, those ones are real. After I got arrested, I fucking, they had a full, that was one of my favorite moments of all time. I mean, like looking back on not a part of it. Sure. Just because I learned a lot about me in those moments. I was pitched an idea by somebody.

I'm not going to say who the name is because I don't want to put a person in bad regards because I don't think that was the case. Starting to outline a speech for me to give about the life I used to live and then Christ coming into my life. And then what I've done over the last 10 days to really do it. And then this whole thing.

And I said, I'm not saying that. And I was bummed at this point. I just fucking embarrassed my whole family I lost forty thousand dollars uh I didn't know that could happen overnight it did been arrested been embarrassed been mocked been ridiculed uh everything like that and fucked up you know like I got so when that got laid in front of me and I said knock on do that and then uh I go up I was I'm just gonna go talk so I said I'm just gonna to go talk. That's what I said. I'm just going to go talk. The sheer panic on a lot of people,

the people that laid out a couple of their ideas, on me going up there to speak was an enjoyable thing for me to think of. These people think, what do these people think I'm going to say? What are they? Oh, I do that every night? I was obviously emotional.

That apology, though, was one of the biggest emotional. It's good to apologize every once in a while tone okay that's what i'm trying to tell you right now it's good to have that moment when you acknowledge that you if i have to i will like i'm not afraid of it i just never had to a man who's never had to apologize nope no you goddamn right man who's in the trenches all the time a guy who is just an absolute stallion at life, standing at 4'6", A.Q. Shipley. Yeah! Hey, Q, how you doing, bud?

What's up with the chair? You look a little small today. It doesn't go any higher. I don't know what happened. This one only goes down. Oh, I like that. So that's not a bar height. That's an office height.

Right. It's kind of nice though. My feet touch the ground. That's good. Because you know what they said about you? You were barely. Remember when you were coming out? They said barely.

Not like a bear. Not barely. He was barrel-shaped like a keg. Arms don't go that far. That's why he's bench-pressed maybe higher than others. They were bashing him, saying he's going to get out-leveraged by others with longer arms. And then his legs kind of shorter, too, because he has to, you know, Michelin Man around. And look what you did.

Twelve years in the NFL. You did it. Thanks, guys. Super Bowl champion, absolute stallion. Let's go back to the conversation we had there at the beginning because you were a coach of this guy and a teammate of this guy. That's right. It's a weird relationship.

This guy is taking a snap from your… Taint? Yeah, gooch. Yep. Boom. Probably both. Known very well. A couple of overthrows last night.

Didn't look his absolute best. A couple of decisions that were made, obviously, that happened that were like, that's not the greatest Tom Brady has ever been. You got to be around this guy. What the fuck is it about him that makes him better than everybody? He got the ball last night late. Now, I was asleep. I watched it back this morning.

But as soon as you see with the situation, it's like, oh, Tom Brady's going to score here. I guess the Tennessee Titans, the last drive he had for the New England Patriots, it didn't happen. He threw a pick six where he was in that moment where it was like, oh, this is Tom Brady. It's going to happen. Patrick Mahomes will get the same thing.

Congrats to Patrick Mahomes already accomplishing that. But what is it about Tom that last night everybody on earth watching was like, ah, he's going to fucking score here. This game's over for the Saints. Sorry about it, even though there's little to no time left. What is it about him you think on the day-to-day that makes him exactly who he is? Well, he's the clutchest performer of all time. I mean, I think that's neither here nor there.

But at the end of the day, he prepares so well throughout the week. More clutch than Adam Venteri? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah, I mean, I think so. I think you have to put him there, right? He's had so many more moments. So many more moments, right? And answered every time.

Yeah, well, not every time. I guess that one time. And against the Eagles in the Super Bowl. But that's so hard because Vinny's answered every time. No, he missed one. There was one he missed. I saw it on a package. Like literally one.

He's only missed one. Yeah, but there was one time he missed. It was a regular season game, though. Oh, okay, yeah. So the playoffs. It might have been a preseason game, actually. They put it in the clip that I watched or whatever. It was not a game that mattered.

Give the guy a break. The Titans won. They had a long road to go, but the Eagles won in the Super Bowl for sure. We got a strip sack. So I think, like, Vinatieri's clutchness comes from his competitive juices. Like, Vinatieri is so competitive. So, so, so competitive. He does not want to lose.

Like, everybody says, I hate losing. Like, I've been around some of my wife's friends okay and it's like a card game or something and you're like i hate you know i hate losing and i'm thinking to myself like everybody hates losing lady you know what i mean like yeah everybody hates like nobody's looking to lose i don't think and it's a fascinating thing because people are competitive and i i don't think full people comprehend, like, the people up there, the Jordans, you already saw his whole last dance, the Peyton Mannings, the Wayne Gretzky's, Serena Williams's.

Kobe. Kobe, yes. The Mamba mentality. It's described as the Mamba mentality. What that is is just being more competitive than fucking everybody else. I think it all revolves around the competitive juices. that what do you think it is with tom or no i think it's a little bit of that but also same thing going back to kobe right like whenever you if you guys saw that redeemed team or whatever on netflix and he they're all going out and having a

good time at the club or whatever and he's shooting shots at like 6 a.m and they pass them coming in the night before that is tom that is tom like he is they are so prepared they are so um they care so much they want to work on every little detail that when it comes to the game when it comes to those situation they have no excuse because execution is the only thing that matters they have all the answers to the test it just comes down to their execution yeah that's that goes to what you said about when tom brady is a free agent like hey Tom gets in there, he's making all these guys so much better because they all want that. And the Redeem team, Doc, they talk about after LeBron and D. Wade

and all those guys were coming back from the club and saw Kobe, the next morning instead of going out that night, the next morning they were down there with Kobe. Do you remember us stumbling out of that brunch very hungover at the Pro Bowl in Arizona. Yeah, yeah, JJ. Exactly. He passed JJ Watt.

Just like what you guys are describing in that redeem team. Me and AQ, I probably have sunglasses on. Who knows? I'm probably on cloud 50 at that moment and very hungover. Hell, yeah. I mean, very hungover. AQ, very hungover. Doesn't participate in the same vitamins as me,

so tough to get on the same wavelength all the time, but pretty close most of the time. We come stumbling out of this brunch, and JJ has AirPods in, fucking shoes, sleep. We go, JJ, what's up, man? He goes, what are you guys doing? We're like, oh, we just had brunch. You were coming from the gym?

He goes, yeah, I just got to go work out, and then I'm going to go clean up or whatever walks by and we just looked at each other like oh we're pieces of shit we are actual pieces of shit we're gonna go get a bloody mary to get this thing going i think we golf that yeah i think we got after it on the golf course like shortly thereafter that was when um that was when hey come pour some concrete in the desert you remember that was a good time right you remember that

yeah like three hours away yeah that's all why don't you serve the community made the Pro Bowl Habitat

Habitat for Humanity is that what it was no I don't if it was Habitat for Humanity probably would have been much more inclined

you just gotta pour concrete done that that's fun dude we're pouring concrete in the middle of the desert for some playground

at some school or whatever and I'm like what are we doing is this the Pro Bowl I made the Pro Bowl so I gotta pour concrete in the middle of the desert for some playground at some school or whatever. And I'm like, what are we doing? Is this the Pro Bowl? I made the Pro Bowl so I got to pour concrete in the fucking desert? God damn right. I'm happy for the kids.

They'll be able to fucking walk, I guess. What are we... We just lost by 50 of the Patriots two days ago. We did. We lost by 50. We did. We lost by... Those balls, though. We were playing with different balls, weren't we? Yeah, they were a little deflated. Yeah, they were. There was a report that they left out purposely that would later come out

that said that they weren't deflated. What? Still. Oh, no knowledge science guy? Did he come out? I mean, probably, but there was that report that, hey, it was a witch hunt. We're sorry. All right, let's talk about some reports now.

Let's actually talk about some reports. Let's talk about some reports now. Let's actually talk about some reports. Every time I got brought up, I felt so bad for Darius and everybody that was on that defensive side of the ball. For the Colts, yeah. Yes, because every time I got brought up, the immediate follow-up was, you think if they over-inflated, they wouldn't have won by, what, 50 against that team? They could have played with tennis balls.

They would have beat us by 50. Yeah. So every time it got brought up, though, it was like just another, it's like, what comes? Oh, these guys cheated. And then right behind it, every single time, it was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Beat the fuck out of the Colts team. Oh, this team stinks. This team stinks.

It doesn't matter. Boom. And then it's like, all right, it would disappear for a little bit. Then something new would come out of it. Ooh, these guys cheated. These guys cheated. And then on the other side, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Fucking, you know, just like, yeah,

these guys couldn't stop a fucking cold that night. All right. Another one goes, boom, boom. It was just a wave, never-ending beatdown of those guys. So I'm happy we're all past that. But, yeah, Bill Nye the Science Guy told me that the weather couldn't have changed the ball that much. So I don't know what you're coming out with. Bill Nye's on our side. It is what it is. It always is. To your point, too,

it was 2016 when Brady served that suspension, so it was a whole season after that and another offseason after that. Yeah, so it was a year and a half basically of just like, this guy cheated. Bang, bang, bang, bang. He killed the Colts so bad. Yeah, thank you. Sweet. Quarterback for that Colts team that made it to the AFC Championship game was a rookie.

And he was being coached by an interim coach by the name of Bruce Arians for that particular season all the way up until the playoffs because Chuck Pagano, brand-new head from the Baltimore Ravens, D.C. position, had been diagnosed with leukemia week four. We had an early bye, week five maybe. We had an early bye. He has a couple bruises on his body. It's his first time ever being an NFL head coach, a coach for 30 years or whatever. Obviously, his wife, Tina, who's a saint. She was here last week.

Incredible lady. She almost forces him to go and get it checked out. As soon as he goes to the hospital, they tell him he's not leaving. We're running tests. We're running scans. You have surgery starting tomorrow. You have this leukemia. We're told whenever we come back in the team meeting room that, hey,

this is what's taking place. Obviously there's some emotional players who have history with Chuck Pagano since college. Reggie has known Chuck literally since he was 17 years old. A couple questions, a couple doctors in there. And then Bruce Arians is named interim coach. We'll keep the light on. We go on a run. We end up making it to the fucking AFC championship game where we play against a team with deflated footballs. So then everybody starts crowning Andrew Luck as the next guy. And he had been crowned as the next guy literally since high school. This is the next John Elway.

This guy is smarter than everybody. He's built better than everybody. And his football IQ is through the roof. His dad, Oliver Luck, not only an incredible quarterback himself, but also a man who is a very, very accomplished businessman in the world of sport. So Andrew Luck has backgrounds from Germany, growing up in the Alps when his dad was working for the World League. Then in Houston where he was running the Dynamo, the MLS team, let alone all his football connections throughout the world.

So Andrew Luck is like maybe the most cultured, athletically gifted quarterback of all time since high school. They're saying this about him. In his rookie year, we go all the way to the fucking AFC championship game. And then from that point forward, all we would witness was greatness from Andrew Luck on the football field. But what we would also see is him getting his fucking ass beat on the football field. Literally every game, there was a hit that he would take that would make you think, whoa, this guy's got to be in pain. But he was so big, so strong, stood right back up, always complimenting the people that hit him so hard that everybody just assumed that he was okay. A report is now coming out, a very long, long article written by Seth Wickersham.

Shem? Shem. Shem. Shem. Shem. Seth Wickersham. Like this guy's a sham. Well, you say that because he's written some things about the New England Patriots.

It's an example of the word sham okay got it anyways seth wicker sham uh had the incredible opportunity to write about andrew luck's retirement why it happened where he's at what he's up to and to be honest ty read it because ty has a very big brain connor attempted to read it here's one of the quotes from the article. And I would just like somebody to... Somebody tell me what he wrote about after I read this

and then what the article was. So this was one of the quotes that was tweeted alongside the article link to go read at ESPN Plus, which is a special platform you have to pay to read. Yes.

But it's about Andrew Luck. This is a big-time story. Andrew hasn't talked to anybody. Andrew hasn't talked to anybody publicly since he retired nine days before a season started. So this article, obviously everybody's looking forward to. Smart business to keep it behind a paywall by the ESPN folks. Nonetheless, it's all going to get out. This was the one paragraph that was kind of slotted with it. Luck had started to tell himself a series of stories of being a quarterback, of being a husband and father, of the injury cycle providing

the gift of awareness, of having made a decision. He told himself stories of a former football player whose story made sense. Grieving what you know best, he says, often until those stories made sense. But none of them netted out in resolution or assurance that he hoped would erase this feeling he lived with and had no choice but to try to talk out. This insane conflict of giving his life to becoming one of the best in the world at his craft and wondering what's left when it's over. Therapy helped Luck to arrive at the clarity that I don't need more clarity, he says. Language that felt both sufficient and inadequate because it failed to yield what he most wanted to know. Which choices are the right ones? And are they right forever? And if they fade or if their edges recede like an iceberg,

were they wrong even if they still feel right? I doubt I will ever find the answers, he says, all of them or any answers. Okay, so the mental gymnastics I just had to go through to read that. Is the entire article like that? Good reading, though. Thank you. Thank you so much. That was advanced reader level 1,000.

I asked the group this morning or whatever. But is there any answers in this thing? Because I just read this one that was tweeted alongside the link, and I tried to read it. I'm like, this is a difficult read for me as somebody who's a part of a fucking book club. Right. I'm part of a book club. I've never read a book. Part of a book club.

So it's kind of on the internet all day, every day. There was a lot of word jumble there. But I think what happened was he's just conflicted by it all did you read the entire thing was your big takeaway about it yeah i read most of it uh this excerpt uh is pretty convoluted and confusing but this actually good work kind of goes well with what we were talking about today with like brady and rogers and these guys a big part of it is basically like he committed everything to being a quarterback and when you do that like everything kind of falls by the wayside like he committed everything to being a quarterback and when you do that like everything kind of falls by the wayside like he talks about his relationship

with his then girlfriend now wife and being a dad and how everything in his being basically went to trying to be the the best possible quarterback you could be and then on top of like being injured and having to rehab like it didn't really give much room for anything else in his life like he committed his entire life well we heard that about tom right exactly which kind of is why it makes sense when we're talking about with guys like that it's like when you're at this level and you're a quarterback who is one of the greats of all time like that's just kind of how it is like if you want to be one of those guys you don't really have a choice but to commit your entire life to it.

And that's why we see some of the – I mean, you know, it's not the same thing with Brady and his family and stuff like that or whatever you want to talk about. But there's a reason these guys a lot of times end up – you know, you always talk about the Hall of Fame speeches where the first thing they're saying is, hey, to my wife and to my kids, like, I'm sorry I wasn't around all the time. I definitely could have been a much better father. But think that is that's basically what this is saying is you

know like where he's at right now and kind of coming to peace with his decision because i think he still loves football but it came down to a situation where it was kind of like his wife was kind of done like she she you know like was accomplished in her own right she had there's a gymnastics move named after his wife because how she how good she is in gym yeah i'm pretty sure she's like a fucking from like the czech republic yeah like a stud over there at stanford yeah he met her at stanford she was getting an mba obviously if you go to like you know not they're not letting everybody into stanford like it's not like she's some dumb dumb who got lucky that she married andrew luck like she's

very intelligent accomplished in her own right had a bunch of stuff she wanted to do. But that's what she was kind of saying is like, hey, if your husband chooses this profession and this what he does and he's this good, like you have to just be at his service pretty much. Like it doesn't really give you the option to to do anything that you want to do on your own. So it was a lot of like luck basically coming to terms with like, am I OK that i kind of just walked away i still love this did i make the right choice i don't know if i'll ever know but it's it does really seem like he is actually at peace and like genuinely happy with where he is at right now but it also really underscores what we talked about with those other guys and why it is so easy to see like why it's impossible for these guys to walk away how long did it take you to read that thing uh i mean probably about 35 minutes 35 40 minutes it's a long read it is well yeah but you're you're like a solid reader like good reader as well i couldn't

even imagine if i attempted that thing how many times i had to do see we read what we just don't comprehend yeah we read i can read through you know you like, what was that game where you had to read? Retention and comprehension is a problem. Yeah, it's just, well, I can do it in tweets. You show me a tweet. I can probably remember it a week later who sent it, what it was said. Simple. But just those long, like that whole paragraph right there.

That was a confusing one. I'm like, bro, what the fuck? Is there any answers in this thing? I don't, I'm trying to use context. Why does he even write like this, though? Because he's a writer. He's super smart. He has to use super words.

But also, I couldn't even imagine what him and Luck's conversations were like because Luck's Rolodex of words is. I didn't talk to him that much. I didn't really know him that well. Andrew, I thought he was an incredible football player. I took a picture of Adam Vinatieri that had Andrew in the background. A lot of thigh. Whoops.

His whole thigh and his ass cheek was out there. A couple butt cheeks in there. Yeah, his right butt cheek was in there. Nothing else. Hands were placed perfectly in that particular situation there. But the conversations I had had with him, I was trying to use context clues, like trying to keep up with what he was saying. He was talking to somebody else, and I'm like, him, I was trying to use context clues, like trying to keep up with what he was saying.

He was talking to somebody else and I'm like, listen for somebody else that maybe knows what that word was to say something so I can start piecing some things together. Cause I think I know what he just said, but I'm not 100% sure because if that word means the opposite of what I think he said, I can see how that sentence could go the other way as well. So it was always a constant game of me trying to keep up with his big fucking brain because of how incredibly smart he was. I think AQ had a much better relationship with him than i did was probably around him a lot more

but we're talking about super intellect not just like a little super super intellect whose world traveled as well so he's like i could see how he's a deep thinker i could see how he's conflicted about it all knowing that he could be an architectural engineer at any time and make a shit ton of money doing that as well while his wife's not happy it made it makes a lot more sense about why he retired i think it's nice to have a little bit of an answer did you read in there though that somebody could come with a massive offer and say hey this is what your life could be and he could play did you hear that at all they didn't mention that and because i think i i don't see him at least least from the quick read that I don't ever see him playing again

because they talk about how Wickersham and him were on Stanford's campus because he went back to school to do whatever, and he was taking a full course load. He told him, like, I had to drop a class because I don't want to get in the situation where me and my wife and my kids are on a different page. That's happened so much already. I'm never letting that happen again. So it seems like football.

Happy for you, Andrew. They did confirm a shoulder further injury with a snowboard. They both love extreme skiing, which is probably one of the reasons. He hurt his shoulder doing what? Seth, not his wife. Seth and Andrew Luck love extreme skiing. Allegedly,rew luck was going to be a part of ski patrol maybe over in the alps yeah correct he said after he retired he was considering going and getting a job but just like a ski patrol and just vanishing would like to let everybody know that if i'm

trapped in the middle of um an avalanche or whatever and i see and this andrew luck dude show up i'm very pumped. Oh, yeah. He's just fucking snagging you over the shoulder, and we're out of here. He would be incredible at that. I wonder what he'll be seeking his entire life. It sounds like he just wants to be a good family man, wants to be a good husband, wants to be a good dad. Happy for him. He was a great football player, honestly a great football player.

AQ, your thoughts on Andrew Luck and him finally speaking now, apparently, out of nowhere with Seth Wickersham. Yeah, I didn't get anything from that. That quote right there? What? Yeah, I mean, it was a 35-minute read. We were banking on Ty's 35-minute reading to tell us what it is for us to get a full grasp. What are your thoughts on it?

I mean, I hope he's at peace. Yeah, yeah, legit. Hope he's happy. That's all this comes down to, right? As long as he's happy and can live with this, because there was a lot for him moving forward. A lot. Oh, yeah.

Those contracts are only going this way. He'd be right in the middle of all of this, this whole entire group. That was a big part of it. It's like when he retired, I think he was in the middle of like 100. Choked up right now? Yeah. I'm choking on something right now. What the hell?

I was going to say, get to it. But he was in the middle of, his contract was what, for however many years, for $155 million, and that was a big part. If he were still playing, either the contract he would have just signed or the one he was about to sign, is probably double that $155

million. He's probably getting close to what Mahomes was getting in his most recent contract. Did you guys ever get vibes that he was just miserable? See, I was never – honestly, I don't know. The contact clues? Yeah, I don't know. That's what it makes that to be, that he was going through this excruciating personal mental hell with football and with his family life.

I think the question that the therapist that he was seeing posed was like, depreciating like personal mental hell with football and with his family life and like I think the question that the therapist that he was seeing posed was like are you more than a quarterback and that kind of led him not immediately to yeah I don't really need football but it led him to like yeah I am also a father and like a you know husband and all these other things and that his entire life he was football football, football, football, football. But when he looks at it from an outside perspective, he's not just a quarterback. You know what's fascinating to me is the identity issue is why sometimes

retirement is so tough for a lot of people, not just quarterbacks, which is obviously much more difficult than everybody else because of the way they've been treated by the community forever, which is in high regards because they're the only thing that matters. But identity issues are a problem for people whenever they retire. They don't know what – they're lost almost. And then they feel as if even their family are judging them now or their friends are judging them now because when they used to go out,

oh, their friend was a guy in the NFL. Now they go out, oh, he's just a retired guy in the NFL. A lot of people lose confidence. They lose their identity. It sounds like there's a chance that that's happened or did happen with Andrew. Sorry he had to go through that happy he has found some happiness i actually if you ever hear me talk about andrew and i was on sports center i think the day after he retired yeah it's like my first time on sports center i think that's pretty cool

oh yeah they wheeled you out there right what's that pal were you the one that had to speak after no no i was uh i was already retired you're already done yeah i was already retired um the only thing i ever said bad about andrew luck was he wasn't a big enough asshole to be a quarterback yeah guy's not a big enough asshole to be a quarterback uh what do you mean he's not big enough so it's like being a quarterback you you have to take ownership of the team like the team only goes as you go it's literally what you've been told your entire life and treated your entire life i think you have to be a of the team. The team only goes as you go. It's literally what you've been told your entire life and treated your entire life. I think you have

to be a little bit more like, nah, we're playing this guy. We're not playing that guy. We're doing this. We're not doing this. This is what I like to do. For instance, I don't like having a lacerated spleen every single game because I'm just getting so we're not going to do what you want me to do anymore. We're going to change the offense.

I think you have to be that type of human to be a successful NFL quarterback, to be a successful maybe NBA superstar, to be a successful tennis. I think, like, to be those high-end people that we chat about when it comes to competition. Exactly. Like, this is an exact – exactly. I couldn't – that's a great example from literally last night. I think every quarterback that has been great has had some moment where they had to be an asshole.

But they were being an asshole for the betterment of the team. So who thinks they're an asshole? The one person that is either getting called out or affected by this or the whole group that is experiencing a much better life because of it. You're a CEO of a company immediately. And I thought when Andrew got drafted, number one overall, and he showed up three weeks into OTAs and was making checks that nobody else knew because he already had the fucking playbook memorized because he had to finish his degree. And he was just photographic memory. I got i got it no problem i was like okay this

is a guy but then as i watched him kind of play he was always trying to appease people felt like he was always trying to like the general manager well oh you're the general manager you know better than me uh coach or offense coordinator oh you're the coach your offense coordinator you know better than me oh yeah you think you do you know better than me and i wasn't tight enough with him to ever just be like hey they don't okay like they know what they know you are the one that has to do it though so you should fucking tell them nah for instance this guy right here like i think you and andrew got along pretty well right every time you played felt like we were doing well, and Andrew wasn't getting killed as much. Like, there's numerous moments where I think Andrew should have

been like, he's playing. He's playing. We're putting him out there. Like, exactly. But I watched Peyton do it for fucking three years or whatever, and I just assumed that's how quarterbacks are. I'm like, oh, this is what an NFL quarterback... Makes sense. This is exactly what the NFL is. And then I

watched Andrew, and he didn't have that in him because i think he was too nice of a fucking guy he takes a massive shot from somebody great shot man like he's just trying to appease them whenever a coach makes a decision that is obviously a wrong decision and we should not be doing an offense coordinator wise or whatever he's like well you put in a lot of hard work for that that's your decision we'll go try to make it work for you which is cool he's just like too nice of a guy, and it makes sense that literally he was so conflicted to how good of a husband he was supposed to be, which we hear everybody talk about, that that is what kind of took him away from being one of the greatest

quarterbacks in the history of the NFL. He's such a nice fucking guy, this Andrew Luck guy. Honestly, I think that is my biggest takeaway from all of it, is he's an incredibly nice guy, an incredibly good guy, an incredibly smart guy. Oh, yeah. So that's where we're getting out of that? We get that he was more concerned about being a better husband?

Yes, I think so. And person as a whole, like father, there are a lot of different aspects of it. I mean, there's plenty of time to be that, right? I don't know. Yeah, but I think a big part of it was that his wife basically gave him an ultimatum. She was like, hey, I'm sick and tired of this. That happened in the article?

In the article. How many minutes in? 20 minutes in? Was that like three quarters of the way through? Or when did the ultimatum come? Probably about an hour and a half for me to the article. Okay, 30 minutes in for Ty. What was she sick and tired of?

I think just, I mean, he was getting beat up in just the way he was acting at home. It was just like, I mean. Miserable? Yeah, probably not the guy she met when they first got married. You know what I mean? It's, like, completely different. And then I think it was all the stuff with football was just weighing on him. And he's just, like, I mean, I don't know.

You guys obviously know much better playing in the league. But it's, like, you know, you want to be home. And she probably, especially when you have a kid, like, she wants him to be present. And he's, like, there technically. But he's not present. Like, his mind's in the building or it's doing whatever like so it's so like you and i um will probably say like you know 150 million dollars i think was the contract right i think it was 150 million that's what we're thinking and a lot of people in a half month suck it up all right like six months i think six months

whatever it is well and like the ultimatum too was that uh like andrew wouldn't he wouldn't talk to her about it and like ty just mentioned she's a very successful gymnast like she understands the injury part of she has a badass degree too i think she's uh she got an mba from stanford she's like a master's in business yeah she's a fucking rock star associate producer for like nbc like very high up I believe because part of it that they were saying yeah part of it um in the article congratulations I didn't know that when she called when Andrew called her to tell her like hey I'm gonna hang it up she's like okay sounds good gotta go I'm with the camera crew right now I gotta do my job oh so so it was more yeah exactly the one person's job is a lot of it was about him kind of keeping it internal

and not sharing how he was really feeling. We hope he's happy. I hope everybody's happy. Sounds like they are. Congratulations. Congrats on all the success. Morocco has eliminated Spain. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Holy shit. Going into overtime, they were plus 270. Yeah. The World Cup ended on Saturday last night. United States game. Oh, that's how they knock Spain out? Cheeky.

Oh, and a waddle. And a waddle. And a waddle. As somebody who is, you know, obviously. Morocco's goalie, man. Breathe the air of Morocco. Yeah, Spain had all reds up there. Yeah, that's what Zito just said. The goalie crushed it. Congrats to the goalie, man. Breathe the air of Morocco. Yes, Maine had all reds up there. Yeah, that's what Zito just said.

The goalie crushed it. Congrats to the goalie. Wow. What a win. Oui, oui, monsieur. They speak French over there. Didn't know if you knew that. Didn't.

People forget. Not very cultured. You? Who would have guessed? Yeah, what do you mean? Yeah, you don't even have respect for fucking Joe DiNaro. Yeah. How's your Twitter life going? I mean, I don't even have respect for fucking Joe DiNardo. Yeah. How's your Twitter life going?

I mean, I don't know who this guy is. Joe, you don't know who Joe DiNardo is? You don't know who you are? Somebody in this office. I'm feeling it. No. What do you think we got time? What do you mean in this office?

What's going on? There's Joe DiNardo. Burner just coming at me every day. That's awesome. Coming at you? Coming on you? It's probably the ghost of Joe. Probably is the ghost, just coming at me every day. That's awesome. Coming at you, coming on you. It's probably the ghost of Joe. Might be his kid. What are they saying? What do you mean?

I get the weather update for Pittsburgh every day. From Joe DiNardo's burner? I bet you it's spot on. Nailed it. Do they have any pictures of Doppler that DiNardo's reading? No, no pictures. Is that his Twitter photo? I think it is, actually. No pictures. Is that his Twitter photo? No.

I think it is, actually. Oh, rest in peace, Joe. I think it is. No golfing today, bitch. Yeah, that's right. Is that what it says? I think so. Joe DiNardo's burner tweets you, no golfing today, bitch.

I love that. That's awesome. That person needs to start doing the Arizona weather, too. Hey, congratulations to whoever's doing that. Well done. Way to go, Joe Jr. Love you, Joe. Let's change subjects.

There's been a firing in the NFL. Oh, no way. Happened about 15 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, before we dove into the Andrew Luck conversation. The Tennessee Titans have fired their general manager, John Robinson, here going into week 14 of the NFL season 2022 Ian Rappaport was first on it he and Pellicero got the news before anybody else that the Tennessee Titans who are currently in the lead of the AFC South who were the number one team in the AFC going into the playoffs just one season

ago who have the reigning coach of the year, have fired the general manager, Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk, at Michael Dav Smith. Titans coach Mike Vrabel didn't want to trade A.J. Brown. John Robinson did it anyways. On Sunday, Brown had 119, two tuds, and his new team blew out the Titans, and now Robinson is paying the price. What about Vrabel? Whenever they asked him about trading A.J. Brown, immediately upon it happening, he did not have much to say about it. That was obviously now we know is because Vrabel did not want to trade A.J. Brown. Why would you want to trade A.J. Brown,

especially after what we've seen from A.J. Brown on the football field, both with the Titans and how Tannehill looked with him on the field, versus now with the Philadelphia Eagles, how he has been a complete difference maker for that entire offense and that team as a whole with the swagger and talent he brought to Philadelphia on a draft night trade that Braves did not love. Now, after a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and A.J. Brown doing his thing, John Robinson is fired. A.Q. Brown doing his thing. John Robinson is fired. A.Q. Shipley, your thoughts on this?

Is Braves now the GM of the Titans? And have we ever seen anything like this? Did they put a bet on? All right, we play them next year. If he has a bad game, you get promoted. You become the coach. If he has a good game against us, I become the GM. You're fired. You got it. This is a fucking good deal. Boom. I'm going to become the coach. If he has a good game against us, I become the GM. You're fired. Charles,

you got it. This is a fucking good deal. I'm going to become the head vice president of player personnel. Ryan Cowden is taking over as interim GM says at my sports update of pro football focus. So pro football talk and pro football focus are updating us on all the news in Tennessee. AQ, you're just immediate reactions here since we know absolutely nothing other than allegedly Vrabes was pissed that A.J. Brown went to the Eagles. I mean, this is unprecedented, right? I don't think we've ever seen a winning team fire a GM at this point in the season, maybe ever, right? Yeah, something stinks.

Something's going on here. He just signed an extension the same day as Raves did in February. Yeah. Now, the trade came after that, but. OC just got a Dewey. There's something going on behind the scenes. Yeah, but what? You think he was driving and OC took the.

You think OC was hitting shotgun and was like, I'll do it for you. Like when Kenny Powers put Stevie Janowski in the driver's seat. You're a driver. You drove. It's not funny. Don't drunk drive. No, no. We're just talking about the show.

The show is very funny. The show is funny. We know what happened. And honestly, we probably should have seen it coming. Vrabel is the consummate epitome of being a tough guy. John Robinson was crying and blubbering at the combine about not doing enough to make the team succeed. Braves probably saw it and said, get this fucking guy out of here.

I don't care when you do it. I don't care when it happens. Get this fucking guy out of here. I can't look at this guy in the face anymore. Make sure it's after we play A.J. Brown. Make sure it happens the week after. How about Braves going, I'm a quarterback who's going into depression because we lose a game. I got the fucking GM crying.

I got, what, six lips in right now? I don't got enough to get me through this. Oh, shit. We do remember this. Yep. He was sitting right next to John Raw. So you're telling me we're getting rid of the best player in football. All right.

Look at that look on the way back. Go back to that. Yeah. Fucking. His way back. Head shake. Tight pants. He's still working out. Obviously, look on the way back. Go back to that. Yeah, fucking. His way back. Headshake, tight pants. He's still working out. Obviously, it's the offseason.

Did you see the exhale by John Robinson? Look at that headshake. The whole. Pissed. Did one of these like. Robinson did? Yeah. Right after Braves got up.

There's full stats and analytics now. The Titans have made the playoffs four out of six seasons that John Robb said, oh boy. Oh boy. Braves head tilt right there. We'll fucking kill this guy, bitch. This guy's trying to fucking kill me. Now, do know that coaches and GMs

have a natural buttoning beef because coaches can only coach the players that the GM gives them. And the GM thinks all the players that they've given the coaches are good. So if the players don't play good, it's coach's fault.

And if the players don't play good, coaches believe GM's fault for giving us shitty players. Yeah. It's a big, Hey, this is on you. No, this is on you.

That's a natural thing that happens in. I, I'd probably assume every single NFL organization is outside of bill Belichick who does absolutely both of them. Andy Reid, probably same way with Veach. You're saying he's good with it? Yeah, I think there's a couple. I think Schneider's very good with Pete Carroll.

There's some good working relationships, and then there's some that are... Yeah, you're fucking me. No, you're fucking me. No, you're fucking me. Sirianni and Howie, because Howie looks looks into everything so Sirianni can tell him. Brandon Bean, McDermott. Coach T and anybody who was the GM of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

There's only been one person for the entire time but now it is somebody new. Of course. Who turned Diggs is dropping in. Good point though. Man, I'm fucking working. I love that.

What are your thoughts on I loved it. I love Coach Tom. I mean he's I mean he's going to have another not losing season which is unbelievable. So, all right. Let's finish up the John Robbins stuff.

We'll get back to that, though. They just have fucking terrible players in Pittsburgh. And why is Colbert held in such high regards? Because the stat that everybody says is another winning season. Holy hell, look at how he won. Look at who he won with. It's like, well, then why is the GM always held in such high regard? Well, you guys haven't won a playoff game in what, 11 years?

No, six years? 2016? I block out the bat. I just know that Colbert won two Super Bowls. Yeah. All right, I understand. 2016. Get your talking points.

Get your talking points. But that is a real thing. Every time they say that, I'm like, oh, they're taking shots at the GM right there. Whenever they say, Tomlin has never coached a losing season. And look at the teams they've had. I'm like, that's to what we were just talking about with the coaches and GMs. That's a shot at the GM pretty much. Or is it just untimely, unlikely injuries?

No, I think when it comes to it's there's so many cycles that go through when you have a starting quarterback that makes the crazy money as soon as you pay that starting quarterback that crazy money the team has to fall at some point unless you draft really well so i think there's a point to that that like it's hard to have a 500 plus season every year it's hard it is very hard there's gonna be boom boom, and then you see a drop-off. Boom, boom, boom, then there's going to be a drop-off. They've never had that huge drop-off. So we should respect both parties. Their drop-off is an 8-8 season.

That's a drop-off for them. Pittsburgh Steelers postseason results. Yeah. Yes, it's been six years. We had a championship in New England when A.B. started recording the postgame of the divisional of Mike Tomlin yelling something along the lines of, like, we're going to kick their ass.

Not to mention injuries, too, right? Assholes. Not when it's a roll with fucking Ben Levin. AB was real. It was a real fucking kick in the jaw. Take Hugh's point, though. When the offense was rolling like that, the defense wasn't very good.

Then they reloaded the defense. The offense started to stink. Anyways, let's get back to John Robinson. Something happened here. Oh yeah. Something happened here. Need some inside sources. We got a call. We're able to call somebody. Yeah, here's from Amy Adams Strunk. That's a sweet last name. Stink. Stank. Strunk. Since becoming controlling owner in 2015, my goal has been to raise the standard for what is expected in all facets of

our organization. I believe we have made significant progress both on and off the field through investments in leadership, personnel, and new ideas. This progress includes the core of our business, the football team itself, which is regularly evaluated both by results, parenthesis, wins and losses, parenthesis, and team construction slash roster building. I am proud of what we have accomplished in the eight seasons of ownership, but I believe there is more to be done and higher aspirations to be met.

I want to thank John for his dedicated work to set this organization on an upward trajectory, and I wish him and his family the best. Amy Adams is like, yeah, you've made good teams. You're number one team. With our coach, though, I think if we had a GM that was a little bit more aggressive and was able to make these bigger moves, and GM's probably like, are you guys giving me the money to do this? That's probably what he's going to say privately in the conference

because everybody has somebody else. We've learned that in every business. You talk to the person that we think is to blame, they have their own story as well. Unless they're just owning being terrible at what they do. I assume John Robinson has his own story in this entire thing. I'm excited to maybe hear it. Probably won't, though, because that's how the NFL works,

especially at the GM position. Who are they going to hire? They're going to try to get somebody aggressive? Is that what that sounded like to me? Yeah, or just do the Vrabel thing. We've talked about how Vrabel's reached that level of head coach. Let's say he's not that level to be the GM too and this is to your point like when they talk about getting rid of guys who are on the last year of their contract

like yeah you get something in return for them but you don't get that last year of that player and I assume the Titans front offense is thinking hey we have a great team if you were to add AJ Brown to the team that we have right now we we're probably not just in the top of our division. Oh, yeah, Vrabes. Vrabes in that moment says, so why do you think they're trading for A.J. Brown? Oh, they're trying to make a run at it. And Vrabes goes, so what are we doing?

So are we. We're the number one team in the AFC. What are we fucking talking about? We had 90-some players come through this roster last year, the most in the NFL, number one seed in the AFC. What are we fucking talking about? We had 90-some players come through this roster last year, the most in the NFL. Number one seed in the AFC. We're trying to make her fucking run, too. You think that's what it was there?

Yes, 100%, because they were the number one seed. And I get the whole, hey, they're drafting the replacement of A.J. Brown with Traylon Burks, and Traylon Burks has been good. He's a good player. Yeah, he's been really good. Good guy, good player. Made an unbelievable catch to score touchdown against the Eagles. But when you're talking about the tiers of players,

like A.J. Brown is in that upper tier of wide receivers, and they don't have that, you know, guy on their roster, at least, who plays wide receiver. What did Derek Henry rush for, 25 yards? Yeah, something like that. Yeah, 12 rushes. Not great. I think Tannehill was the leading rusher with 30 yards.

Yeah, but that all plays into each other. Exactly, right? Doesn't it? A.J. Brown on the team helps out the run game, obviously yards. Yeah, but that all plays into each other. Exactly. Right? Doesn't it? A.J. Brown on the team helps out the run game, obviously. 100%. That all kind of plays into each other. And it also, I mean, Tennessee got down early, right?

Well, yeah. Once you're down early. That's why he couldn't run, because A.J. Brown fucking gutted him and had two touchdowns. I mean. And it's the same thing we talk about with all that Shanahan stuff. Like, that's part of that Shanahan scheme, too. You get behind, you're fucked. Period.

How about Sirianni, too? Probably going up the Vrabes afterwards. Hey, good game, dog. Hey, too. You get behind, you're fucked. Period. How about Sirianni, too? Probably going up to Vrabes afterwards. Hey, good game, dog. Hey, thanks. Way to give up AJ, bro. Yeah, thanks, bro. Vrabes, you mother. He's done.

You mother. We're firing John. I think everybody loves Vrabes, if I had to guess. Yeah, that's why I make him the GM. Players probably want to. Do you think he wants to? True. That's a lot, dude.

That's why what Bill Belichick has accomplished is so impressive. Negotiating. Now, I assume that Bill Belichick delegates that to somebody. I assume he has somebody that handles the practice squad, the day-to-day. So he's not even a part of it. I assume he has to give the okay on it, and there's other people that do it. But the negotiating contracts with your stars every offseason, the structuring an entire roster in the offseason,

that on top of trying to figure out how the game has evolved. Like so much time. Bill Belichick has spent so much fucking time in the NFL, which is obviously notable, I think. Yeah, and it's also crazy looking back on Belichick too because he's never given a guy, you know, that A.J. Brown contract. He's never given somebody, you know know a five-year 100 million dollar deal because of the way he negotiates like even you look at the matthew judon contract who i think

we can all agree is probably the patriots best player when you look at it now in comparison to what tj wad or miles garrett got like i think they gave matthew judon like 13 million dollars a year and he's leading the league in sacks like the way he negotiates contracts is ridiculous and ninkovich told you that one time yeah i was in my head i was trying to figure out who told i think it was ninkovich i wonder how he deals with agents i would like to hear how agents feel going into conversation with belichick because i think ninkovich went in there and negotiate himself which i love yeah i love that if it works you know if it't work, I hate it. I absolutely hate it. But I like guys that represent themselves, take business into their own hands and everything like that.

But I couldn't even imagine negotiating with Bill Belichick. That would be a blast. I'm sure with guys like Vrabel, too, he's probably okay with the accountability. If he becomes the GM and they fucking stink next year, there is no finger pointing. You know what I mean? There's no like.

Let me send a text. Yeah. There's no way I get an answer. I think Johnny Robinson go back to the past, maybe. Go back to the. You know, everyone always comes home, Tony. But I don't know if there's a spot still for John at the table. I'll be honest with you.

All right. I just sent a text. Here we go. You going to want to be GM too? Question mark. Let's assume that never gets answered. But if it does, we'll certainly read it. Right into this microphone.

Right here. I try not to abuse my texting ability to people. But I mean, that would be a massive piece of information. There's another guy. About everything. Like if Frabel was like, I think I'm at the point where I could be a GM too. That would make sense on why this happened a little bit more than what's currently happening. Joining us now live from Manatee in Ohio,

a man who's a college football national champion, a Superbowl champion, a Ryder cup champion, a video game, shit talker, an NBA pundit, ladies and gentlemen, COVID survivor, AJ Hawk. How you doing AJ? What, what the hell did John Robinson do to get fired at this point in the season? Yep, we're all thinking the same thing, AJ. Sure seems like something is... Does Rap Sheet have anything?

That's a good question. I texted Vrabel. Will you text Vrabel, too? You're much closer to him than I am. I just texted him. Go ahead. Yeah, I FaceTimed him, Texted him. He hasn't got back to me yet.

Maybe Fickle or Taylor LeJuan might have. I said, you're going to want to be GM, FaceTimed him, texted him. He hasn't got back to me yet. Maybe Fickle or Taylor LeJuan might have. I said, you're going to want to be GM too, is what I texted him. I assume that's never going to get answered. I just assume. He'll get back to you. He'll say something smart, too. You know that. Yeah, I'm going to tell you that.

It'll be something like that. They're running a video from the draft night when A.J. Brown was traded from the Tennessee Titans to the Philadelphia Eagles. And you watch it back. And I think we chatted about it whenever we were on our draft spectacular. But we didn't make a big deal out of it because the Tennessee Titans have been so successful. Under his watch six years as GM, they made the playoffs four times. Last year, they were the number one team in the AFC.

They had to use more players than anybody else because of the IR situation that they had. Vrabel became coach of the year because of that situation, but you would assume that the GM and the head coach would be on the same page, especially when there's been that much success, and they're a winning program right now. What do you think it was? Do you think it all goes back to draft night? Do you think that's when Vrabel said, I fucking hate this guy? Do you think Vrabel had anything to do with this? Why do you think this happened now, AJ? Just giving your punditry thoughts. Well, I would assume, yes. Anything that happens like this, it usually has started months and months ago, possibly.

But, yeah, of course, Vrabel was consulted. The owner makes the decision, right? The owner is the only person that can fire the GM, I'm guessing. Correct? Yes. And the owner, Amy... Adams. Adams Strunk.

Strunk. There it is. Amy Adams Strunk released a statement saying, like, good, we're trying to be great. Basically saying, like, yeah, we're good. Trying to be great. So then that signifies that ownership, Amy Adams Strunk is saying,

we would have offered up money if this guy wanted to pay A.J. Brown or wanted to bring anybody else in to maybe help us go on a run as opposed to the Philadelphia Eagles who are going all in and will take one of their players and do as such is that what Amy's saying and what do you think Vrabel's the next GM here because they got an interim GM so maybe Vrabel's is like middle of the season this is not what I have experience of picking up in this whole thing do you think Vrabel's going to want to be the next

general manager coach following along and Bill Belichick's footsteps and Bill O'Brien's footsteps whenever he was at the Houston Texans when he was lead counsel, general manager, head coach? What? I think he was also doing the trash there, too. I think so. I think he was. I think he was.

I think so. Did he make him in custodial management? Custodial management. Anyways, he had every job. It was not good. He was taking on those jobs, I think, to. I think so. Custodial management. Custodial management. Anyways, he had every job. It was not good. He was taking on those jobs, I think, to try to get fired is what seemingly was happening with Bill O'Brien. But do you think Vrabel could do it? You know him much better than us.

And is that something he would want to do, you think? I do think Vrabel is one of the guys that could do it. He could find a way to balance that and be the GM and the head coach and still find a way to be successful. But yeah, that's the question. I don't know. I feel like Braves is either going to be all in, yes, absolutely. This is what I want to do. I love having control of all of it and getting input from the people

that I enjoy. Or he's going to say, absolutely not. I would never do that. I could see either way. Yeah, or he's going to, when you ask him that question, he's going to say, why would I want to do that with my life? You're the dumbest person of all time for even asking, right? Because it is a massive compliment to ask that question. Like, hey, we think you have the capability to be a person that can not only be a successful head coach in the NFL, but also a GM.

You might be one of the only people on earth that has the capability to do as such because you have a work ethic, you're an Ohio fuck, you've been a player, you've been in the locker room, you have the culture, everybody already loves you, and I assume you do good business because of the way he acts and does his thing. So I think it's a compliment, but you're right. I don't know him as well as you do. I do know a lot of Ohio fucks, and you're 100% right. He'll either be like, hell yeah, thank you for the offer, I'm excited for this, I'm going

to kill this, I'm ready for it, or it's, why would you even ask me that? You think I want this guy. I guess to kill this. I'm ready for it. Or it's, why would you even ask me that? You think I want this guy. Yeah. Like, I guess that is probably the way to look at it. I'd be excited for him, AQ. Do you think it's possible? You were a coach for one year. Mm-hmm.

Drawing up cards. What? Fixing printers. What? Getting coffee for me. 12 years, Super Bowl champion, accomplished, has a family, adult at this thing. Started at the bottom of the chain. Here's a paper jam, AQ.

I fixed it, too. Not scared to humble yourself, go back down there and do that. You know, Pittsburgh guy. Doesn't like DiNardo, so obviously red flags. But Pittsburgh guy, hardworking guy. Not scared to get on the floor and fucking help the team if he has to. And Hocus. He was the one who introduced me to Hocus, so I do appreciate that. And able to afford all the nice stuff as the intern.

Sitting next to other interns who are 22 years old in massive debt. Oh, yeah. AQ is walking in there as a millionaire already because he's already successful having to do it. That's good. Hey, way to showcase what good work ethic is. Let's go, Al. Just got to grind. Do you think being the head coach and GM is something that Bill Belichick just maybe has made look easy?

And do you think there's a reason why he's the only one that's ever been successful in doing it? Do you think that lends to maybe Vrabel not being GM head coach in Tennessee? Yeah, I don't think it is easy at all. So, like, what Belichick's been able to do is unbelievable because the biggest thing, biggest difference, I guess, between those two, right? The head coach has all these responsibilities during the week, things that we don't even see, right? You're pulled in 30 different directions, things are on your desk, got to do this interview, hop on this. What are some of those things? Interviews and media

availability? Yeah, it could even be just like you have to show up to some booster event or charity event for all the donors, whatever it is, right? Things that we don't even see behind closed doors, but then the GM is responsible for everything. Do we get to go any of those events because we're sweet holders is there any events we miss with jeff sarah's jeff

sarah doing sweet horrors anyways that'd be sweet right for sponsors and partners that'd be cool hey if he does it you can come with us thanks bro you're saying there's just so much on your plate already so much winning yeah and then now from the gm standpoint now not only are you having to handle, especially at this time of the year, now we start to focus on next year's free agents. We start to focus on college. We start to focus on combine. We start to focus on all those other things. Then you've got the pro side of things with still manipulating rosters

at this point in the game plus the practice squad plus injuries. I mean, there's so many different things. Connor Bean was at the Ohio State-Michigan game. Yes. Scouting and warm-ups of that game, walking around the field with a list of people to look at. Obviously, Bill Belichick doesn't have the means to be able to do that because he's preparing for a game on Sunday.

Have you guys been at a disadvantage this whole time, which makes that dynasty even better, you think, Connor? Well, no, I think it kind of goes to the point about Bill in free agency. You know, like, sure, he does take the draft very seriously didn't even go to the combine last year because he went to where middle tennessee state or something yeah oh so that that was uh was that two years ago is that last year in the rain yeah in the pouring rain there's the photo of him sitting in the rain with the guy doing the bag drill and it's like bill belichick missed the combine today to be in the middle of a rainstorm judging one person.

And I do believe that guy didn't get drafted either, which is hilarious. So maybe he got scooped. Is it Cole Strange? Yeah, where's Cole Strange from? Cole Strange is from, come on, guys. Middle Tennessee State, right? No, he's from the University of Chattanooga. He's the greatest player in the history of the school. Yeah, he's starting.

There's been a lot of bullshit reports. Is that where T.O. went? He went to UAB, I thought. No, Chattanooga. No, Chattanooga. Oh, okay. But for Vrabel. Goldstrange. Goldstrange, not the.

No, yeah, he still definitely is because he'll be a Hall of Famer when it's all said and done. T.O. already. Yeah, just like T.O. How many Super Bowls does T.O. have? Cole's about to have six. But to your point, well, you never know. At least one. Another guy just like Vrabel, Tomlin.

He's talked about it About him wanting to be Or him being You know Up for GM And Tomlin's like Hey I just Whatever players I get My job's just to coach

Man I'm fucking working Yeah exactly Hey Jay That's a weird scene though John Robbins there Boom This is awesome Only coach there

Keeve Shows you how bad he hates the combine Yeah Well Seems like A tie to bad he hates the combine. Seems like a tide has turned on the combine a little bit too when it comes to coaches and in general, not only head coaches, just coaches in general.

GMs are like, you can watch it all at home, right? They got all the angles of it all. They air it, right? Yeah, the scouts need to definitely go so they can talk to the guys. Get to know the guys. By the way, I could be there, too, with a Zoom call. So can't be in the room. I'm intrigued on what the combine is going to look like going forward.

But what did John Robinson do? Let's take our guesses. What did he do, AJ? I mean, there's so many possibilities. I guess just what – it's just probably just some minor disagreements that have kind of continued to happen throughout the season. I guess that's all it might be. Okay, so you're saying pissed off Rabel?

No, I'd just say, I don't know. He probably has disagreements with the front office as well, I would imagine. The ownership and everybody there. So pissed off the owner? Yeah, obviously if the owner's firing you, they're not happy. Okay, so you're saying he pissed off the owner? Yeah, I don't know exactly what he did to piss off the owner, but yeah, that's what I'm going with. This is your guess. My guess, pissed off Rabel. Yeah. I don't know exactly what he did to piss off the owner, but yeah, that's what I'm going to say.

This is your guess. My guess? Pissed off Raybill. Okay? Your guess? Him and the OC were having a power hour on the back of the plane. Okay. Might have got caught on tape.

Might have got caught on tape. Yeah. Good point. That's the direction I was going as well. Tone? Yeah, it's something un-football related. Okay. I mean, that's... It has nothing un-football related. Okay, I mean that's...

It has nothing to do with disagreements with the ownership or Vrabel or a trade he made. This guy is into some stuff. Tone! Tony! What do you mean?

This is a guess. It's not fact. Could be working for the cartel. I don't know. All right. So that is Tone's guess. We don't know if the cartel is going to be involved, but if it is, Tone, take a fucking bow.

Spot on. Plus 10 grand right there. Toxic Table, Appleson Carter, you first. My guess was that Vrabel and him probably had a post-game meeting, and this time, usually it's in Vrabel's office. This time it was in John's office. They go in there. Vrabel, obviously, stressed out, pissed. And this time, usually it's in Vrabel's office. This time it was in John's office. They go in there. Vrabel, obviously, stressed out, pissed.

Sparks up a cig. John Robinson says, hey, can you put that out, please? There's no smoking in my office. Vrabel says, oh, is that right? Flashes a cigarette down on his desk. Says, I'll see you never. Walks out. Calls drunk.

Says, get this guy the fuck out of this organization. Can't smoke a cig with him. Can't smoke a cig with this guy. Can't have a cig with him. Can't smoke a cig with this guy. Can't have a beer with him. I'm done with him. Then he gets fired. No moxie. Okay.

Maybe. Ty, your guess. Yeah, either Vrabes wanted to cave this guy's face in when he started crying at the combine and said, hey, listen, I'm not fucking with this guy anymore. Or John Robinson every once in a while has the frosted tips, came in one too many times and either Vrabes or Amy Adams Strunk said, hey, listen, our GM can't look like the fucking lead singer for Rascal Flats. Get this guy the fuck out of here.

We're done with him. All right. One of these could be the answer. We're excited to find out. Nonetheless, great work as the GM, John. Good run, John. So I see where you're going next. We have an update on Lamar Jackson and his injuries.

Zito just said into my ear. Oh. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson suffered a sprained PCO during Sunday's win over the Denver Broncos. Per league sources, PCO injuries often sideline players one to three weeks, and Ravens head coach John Harbaugh already has said that Jackson is less likely to play Sunday versus the Steelers. So Huntley and Hundley will be the quarterbacks for the Baltimore Ravens

taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers this week in a massive. You excited about this or what? What's different? Lamar Huntley. What's the difference? Oh! Oh! Oh!

Lamar stinks against Steelers, so, I mean, it doesn't matter. Huntley is awesome. Anyways, Sprains PCL. I don't know exactly which one's the PCL. I know there's an A in there. There's an M in there. It goes front and back. I tore my PCL in my senior year in high school. Is it from contact to the front? Because I thought it was potentially

going to be a bruise and it seems like your eyes there were sweet. You just did a sweet blink. You look like Katy Perry at that shape shifting. Uh oh. Oh! At that, uh, at that, uh, on that shape shifting. Oh, Oh, well, I've heard people are not her. Other people I've heard.

It's there's rumors out there. Report. Uh, the ACL in, uh, is the back, the poster. I post. Yeah. Like I, I planted my foot. I was faking a punt. My senior year fake punt.

I just planted my foot, like at the, and a dude went low on me, which at the time I thought going low was taking the easy way out. It's not. I eventually had to tackle low. But hit me directly with my knee, popped my knee straight back, tore my PCL. But you can also, if you land like super hard right on top of your knee, you can hurt it as well. Yeah, see, I thought it was going to be a bruise or something to the patella because how hard he went down there.

Now it's a sprain, which is a partial tear. We need need to remember that of his pcl in the front of the whole thing and you said some terrible things about that guy that tore your pcl huh oh no i don't i don't blame him but definitely in high school at that time if people were tackling like if people tackled low i was like what's their problem like why do you tackle why would you do that dude he'll hit me in the face. Sorry, I'm bigger than you. You want to tackle me? You want to tackle another man? Yeah. Face to face, bro. You guys know who Kirk Herbstreit is? I killed him.

Face to face. I didn't go low on him even though he was 18 years older than me. Well, face to temple, I guess, because he turned his head at the last second. Sorry about it. Because he was scared. So you said so many terrible things about that guy that tore your PCL. Think about him talking about the

guy after surgery when his teammates come over, his boys come over to talk to him, his family, and then they just bring up the guy's name. Oh, this fucking guy won low. Such a wuss. Of course he did. What school is it? What school is it? I don't know who it was and I don't even remember. I bet you don't.

The guy knows. Right now, the remember. I bet you don't. The guy knows right now. No, he doesn't. I didn't come out of the game. He didn't know. How would he know? Oh, tough guy. There's a guy that's telling a story about tackling A.J. Hawk on a fake punt in some year or whatever.

Just that person needs to know now. A.J. has said so many terrible, despicable things about you. I don't blame him. I do not blame him. I got the first down. I do not blame him. I got the first down. I do not blame this guy. I really don't. Not at this point.

Not at this point in your life. Because you said, I don't know. I don't know. Cost AJ a state championship. He thinks about him every other day probably. Well, he also cost AJ to have to answer questions about his knees for the rest of his life. Yeah. The amount of times that AJ has had to think about that fucking guy.

Oh my goodness. Oh my God. Thousands of times. You hate Oh, my goodness. Oh, my God. Thousands of times. You hate that guy. Every morning. Oh, my God. I thank that guy. I absolutely thank that guy.

You've heard me. He taught me how to deal with pain. So all of a sudden, when I'm 30 years old, I got a knee scope. I don't know how to walk anymore. Like, no, I knew you learn how to deal with pain. You learn how to take care of your body. So I thank that guy, whoever he is. All right.

Well, I'm happy now at the age of whatever the fuck you are. You see it that way. I thought your piranhas taught you how to deal with pain. Yeah. Because that one. Yeah. They didn't speak English, Con. Well, yeah, but they're actionists.

What was the one piranha? The one piranha survived eight hours on the living room floor. Gandhi teaches the world things. He doesn't speak English. Who? Gandhi. Gandhi? Yeah. Gandhi did speak a fair amount of English. All the quotes I've He doesn't speak English. Who? Gandhi. Gandhi?

Yeah, Gandhi did speak a fair amount of English. All the quotes I've ever seen out of Gandhi. Those are translated. I didn't know. Different story. What about the Bible? I guess that's what it's translated to, isn't it? Yeah, that's Latin.

AQ, when do you read the Bible? Is it in the morning or is it at night? I don't read the Bible. Oh! Bible review. What's your problem? I don't read the Bible. Oh! Bible review. Oh! What's your problem? I don't read the Bible.

Why do you have that cross tattoo then? Well, I know I've read excerpts. What's your favorite excerpt? What's your favorite? Phillips? Proverbs. 316? Proverbs. There we go.

And that's the bottom line. Proverbs 316. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. No, that's Philippians 413. I thought that was though I've walked through the valley And I look at my mind And I realize there's a lot left Cause I've been rapping

Who's this? Coolio That's in the Bible, what's that? Is that Coolio? That's Joe Weird Al Yankov. Yeah, Joe. Weird Al Yankovic. Anyways, the cross on your arm.

Yeah. Was that translated from a different language, or was that just placed on there in English? Were you born with that? Did you come into the world with a cross on your arm, bearing your cross? No. I got it put on. Who did it? By who? Jesus?

Who did it? I'm trying to think. God himself? He's got a lot of ink on him. Pittsburgh. AJ, you got any tattoos other than that finger? No. Just my finger. No, nothing else. McKee's rocks, huh? You got it done at McKee's Rocks. No, no, no, no. Erotica? Yeah.

I love Erotica. Erotica was a place that high schoolers in Pittsburgh would go to. Unbelievable place. Can I say that? Pittsburgh's number one. It's Pittsburgh's number one strippy. You getting a Prince Albert over there? No way.

They got a tattoo shop to the strip club? Right in the back. It's also here. Out of suit? Yeah. And if you're showing up at a... Yeah, and we know what a Prince Albert is. Okay?

Yeah. Geez Louise. Hammer the details. Don, okay? Yeah. Jeez, Louise. Hammer the details. Hammer the details. Alright, let's move on. Last night, what did you see from Tom? I don't fully know what it is, by the way, but yeah, Tom looked really good last night.

In the end. What is your problem? What is your problem? Let's start talking about some football, please. Okay, Prince? I'm trying. Tom Brady is not going to be able to retire, just like the guy who's joining us in 25 minutes is not going to be able to retire. In the Monday night kickoff show where it's RG3, Suzy, Steve Young, Booger McFarlane, Larry Fitzgerald, Alex Smith, Adam Schefter.

I forget who else. They have a- Randy's still on there? I think Randy's just on a Sunday countdown one. But on that show, they did a full piece about Steve Young talking about his retirement. Troy Aikman talking about his retirement. John Elway talking about his retirement. Peyton Manning being a part of it.

I don't know how much Peyton actually talked in the video, but his retirement. I forgot how choked up and how small he was when he retired from the Denver Broncos. I mean, all of their speeches when they retired were a lot of emotions, crying, the whole deal. They didn't want to retire. None of them did. Their bodies basically told them they couldn't do it anymore. That's why I think whenever we talk to Aaron about retirement and everybody's just so – even him. I think he even potentially has a pretty laissez-faire attitude

about what retirement is and being able to do it. Those quarterbacks are not able to retire from the – you think Tom Brady, who's still overthrowing people at his age, I think he's got another couple years. I wouldn't have said that until last night where Steve Young basically chatted about this guy's still throwing the ball. His body's not going to be the one that's going to tell him he can't play anymore because of how well he's taking care of it. It's only going to be his mind

and everything. Seemed like we've blown past any potential mental roadblocks that could have stopped, right? Like, Legacy already has it. He has more touchdowns thrown than fucking everybody. They were doing graphs last night, graphics last night about other people in the top 10 in the history of the NFL,

touchdown passes. Combine them, Tom still has more touchdown passes than them. Drew Brees, who's number two, you could add another top ten quarterback touchdown thrower to his amount, and Tom still has more touchdowns. So, like, all the stats he has, seven Super Bowls he has, he has beat the game. Tom Brady has beat the fucking game.

Like, congratulations, you beat the game. Way Brady has beat the fucking game. Congratulations. You beat the game. Way to go. And he's still going. If his body can let him play until he's 50, especially now with the divorce, and after what he's still able to do late in the fourth quarter whenever he needed, he's still fucking Tom Brady. He's still motherfucking people on the sideline when they're not playing well. This dude's going to play forever.

This dude's playing until he's 50. You think he's going to play until... This is the type of emotion he still has right now. I don't know if that's ever going to play until – this is the type of emotion he still has right now. I don't know if that's ever going to leave and if his body can keep up. This dude's going to play forever, AJ, I think. Yeah, I don't see him stepping away after this year. I know earlier in the season when they were struggling hard, people just assumed, well, this is Tom's last year, the last time to see him play.

I don't know. First off, do you want to go out that way? I don't know. I don't think Tom does. And also, if you can still play, what is – yeah, there's 300-whatever million. Yeah, that definitely means something. It absolutely does. But it's not everything.

It's not the main thing for him. But his new – whatever his readjusting, whatever his new lifestyle might look like right now, you're right, maybe it frees him up a little bit to have more football time to really dial in on things maybe he wasn't able to do in the past. 3-1 since the divorce. That is a big-time stat. He's playing good football right now. He seems to be his walk onto the field

pregame. He had this sick blue bomber jacket and then these blue sunglasses. He had these blue sunglasses that were kind of like... Shaded. Transition lenses? No, no, no. Opaque?

No, it's called something when it's like... It was thicker at the top and then it got like lighter at the bottom. Like it was like a... Faded? Faded. It was like a little bit of a fade. Like a haircut fade. Ombre.

Ombre. There it is. Hair. I believe hair is described that way. But yeah, it was like an ombre blue tint from the top to the bottom. He looks so cool. Such it is. Hair. I believe hair is described that way. But yeah, it was like an hombre blue tint from the top to the bottom. He looks so cool. Such good confidence. And in winning, doing chest bumps of people, he still got it all. Looking for people to, yeah, remember I talked last time.

I was pumped again to see Tom get to enjoy a win. Like he comes back, the game was not going his way. He throws this touchdown pass here. Also, Cam Jordan was inches away from hitting that ball out of his hand, by the way. That's how close it is. Yeah, he did. But look at Tom going. He's looking for people to find to celebrate. I think guys are pretty gassed at the moment.

I was pumped to see Tom get excited again for a victory. And I was pumped to see him get pissed off, too, for something going wrong. Any of those emotions, I think, are good to keep having. And obviously, Tom has a little bit of a dick there drawn on the screen. going wrong like any of those emotions i think are good to keep having and obviously tom there's a little bit of a dick there drawn on the screen the nice little shit shuffle inside though tom like a less experienced quarterback might stay in their ground and get that ball knocked out also throws

it to a guy who's three yards away from the end zone it's certainly going to be the last play there oh yeah not a bad i mean that's tom brady football baby look how happy he is look how pumped he is look at blaine gabbert getting in on a celebration. Byron Lefkowitz, offensive coordinator. Byron Lefkowitz is an offensive coordinator. He's not up for – like I don't think – is his name going to be coming up for the head coaching gigs this year as much as it was maybe in years past? I would not think so.

AQ, what do you think about it? Like do you think – You know him. You would know better than anybody. It's that smile. What do I think? No, no, the other question he asked you. That's what's so interesting about this league is you could be on top of the

world one minute, and then now you're in the worst division in football and you're 5-5 and you're an afterthought. We've seen it time and time again. We saw so many coordinators, boom, boom, boom, boom. They don't get it. And then the next year, somebody leaves. There's an injury. They're 4-12, and it's like not even a mention.

So who knows? You never know. They could go win the Super Bowl. They could. They could go win the Super Bowl, and then boom, all those names are back at the top. How come Tom does not call plays down there or he does? He does not.

Why not, you think? That's a good question. Again, like A.J. probably said, right? Like, you've got to remember everything. Those sheets are crazy. I mean, those sheets have 100 and depending on the game plan, depending on the week, 120. I see Mike Leach has seven plays.

Yeah. Seven plays. College. They're running well. You don't think Tom Brady can keep 100 plays in his brain? No. It's Tom Brady. Formationally. Yeah. Seven plays. College. They're running well. You don't think Tom Brady can keep 100 plays in his brain? No. It's Tom Brady. Formationally.

Yeah. Formations, all the shifts, all the motions, all the tags, all the everything. Doesn't he create all those, though? Yeah. Doesn't he create all those? I mean, AQ played. AQ was a center for Tom. I would assume AQ was a reputable source for this one.

Shut up, AJ. We're trying to ask the questions. I mean, when I hear it, yeah. But I don't, like, remember tag, tag, tag, tag, all the different taglines. Got it, got it, got it. You know what I mean? So it's a lot harder to call the plays than people probably make it out to be. Yeah, and like AJ said, too, like, situationally, like, he's right.

He's 100% right. Like, these cards, the way that they organize their call sheets, right? Like it's here's your third down place. Here's your chunk place. Here's your third and three to six place. Here's your third and shorts. You know what I mean? So everything's.

Peyton talked about, I forget whose call sheet last night I called in. He gave a reference to a New Orleans restaurant that was definitely French. I didn't hear the name, but Peyton and Eli got a pretty good pop out of it. And it would look like a menu. This thing was so big with different colors on it. And they started dissecting a little bit how there's like a Taysom Hill part of the menu whenever he's in. There's third and short.

There's third and long. So I guess it's just a good reminder is basically what Byron Lefkowitz is to do to Tom Brady. Or is Byron Lefkowitz making all those decisions and Tom Brady just has to live with them? Byron's making most of the decisions and Tom has to live with them. Byron's making most of the decisions, and Tom has to live with them. Now, granted, he does have some leeway. Like there is some, you know, like all your no-huddle code words

are like a part of the arsenal. So, like, he could come up and whatever. They might have a duo play called, and there's far too many people over here. It's like, oh, shit, this play ain't going to work. Let's check to this where there's only two guys over there, and we can just make a one-word call and go with it. But that's it. That's really it.

Well, and Aaron's mentioned before, too, where he has two plays, and he can choose which one he wants to run based on what he sees. Aaron also said a monkey can run the offensive line right now. Didn't he? Yeah, pretty much. Well, isn't that what a lot of people say, too? There's no feel for the game when you're doing that because all you're doing is just fucking reading your call.

It's like, okay, it's third and five. I have to call one of these like there's no there's almost no creativity there and also uh with calling that and tom having a bunch of stuff to do during the two minute like is that why they're really good in the two minute and they fucking suck for the rest of the game pretty much yeah because they kind of do last night was just basically two minutes that's the only time they had success yeah scored and every other part of the game they were fucking on the And the first series. Oh, yeah. Opening script.

But that's also. Tom has a big part in that probably, right? I think they're going to go to him and say, hey, listen, what plays do you like on that? Tom knows football very well, though. I would assume more than anybody in the history. I mean, he'd beat us. I mean, more than most.

He's probably. Listen, coaches know one thing, right? But to actually be out on the field and see all the all everything flying in front of your face and bend through every situation in live real time like he has to know more than anybody in the history of this game that's why we're so impressed with brock purdy because purdy gets in there that's pretty pretty good just sitting in the pocket taking a shot right down the barrel on that third and ten i texted you yeah you think he's a guy i I think he might be a guy. I mean, that was impressive.

A.Q. Shipley thinks Purdy's a guy. That was impressive. I think Shanahan does too because, I mean, he said, I think we're pretty set with what we have here when he was asked in regard to Baker at least. We'll look into anything he said. It showed that he prepared too. Like I like guys that prepare as if they're the starter when they're not the starter and don't look like the moment's too big when they get that opportunity. That's at Iowa State.

Isn't that right, AJ? That's what the Iowa State Cyclones do, right? No, I mean, he never beat Iowa, so we could probably pump the brakes on, hey, this guy's a big-time guy. The guy never fucking beat Iowa while he was at Iowa State. So, you know, I mean, yeah. Hey, if you guys want to crown him, go ahead. Let's fucking do that.

But let's pump the brakes. Listen, I love seeing an Iowa State guy do well in the NFL. I really do. But let's ease up on, you know, hey, Super Bowl MVP. Bryce Hall is a guy, too. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Oh, my God.

He is absolutely a guy. That's what the Iowa State Cyclones do, though. Yeah, they can't beat Iowa, though. They beat this year. Iowa's got to get defense. Yeah, that's probably what gets these guys ready for the NFL. What are you saying, AJ? What are you talking about? Is that, like, that's the main, like, team in the NFL. What are you saying, AJ? What are you talking about?

That's the main team in the state, right? Well, I don't know, AJ. You tell me. I mean, they beat Iowa, what, once in the last 10 years? So, yeah, I mean, if that's how we're measuring it, then I suppose. What about Northern Iowa basketball? They always beat guys in March Madness. We're not talking about UNI right now, okay?

We're talking about Iowa State You know any school in Iowa Hey congrats to the Cyclones for creating dogs up there Matt Campbell right? And guess what he's going to be fucking gone very soon Because the NFL wanted him last year They're probably going to come call him this year And guess what you spend enough time in Ames You're fucking getting out of Ames

So hey enjoy it Matt Well tell Brian Ferentz to hold tight, too, on that job. Next year is going to be his best year as an offensive coordinator. Ship that dipshit to Siberia. No, McNamara. Siberia. Jesus. Brian Ferencz.

Because they're not going to fire him. He will be back next year. And guess what? You know, Cade McNamara, I love you, pal. You got another thing coming. Why are you talking? It's St. Michiganigan why are you talking people out of coming to iowa they're in a transfer portal right now that's what you're doing you're doing

what i mean this is bad ball team ty that's your team jade mcnamara thanks for transferring to iowa your life is gonna suck i'm incredibly excited but what i'm worried about is you know because of covid uh spencer petrus is going to get another year and they should have benched that son of a bitch three years ago but they just kept letting him play because they love being, you know, just sticking with the guys, even though the guys might not be good. Our best linebacker for next year committed to Iowa over Ohio State. Guess what he did today?

What did he do? He entered the portal. He's leaving. He regretted that decision. Colorado probably. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Makes sense. Look at those two. Like father, like son. Great head of hair on the kid. He regretted that decision. Colorado probably. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Makes sense.

Look at those two. Like father, like son. Great head of hair on the kids. Thick as steaks. Well, that's what happens when you're a charter member of the Lucky Sperm Club. Usually you get a great head of hair. I don't trust him. Who?

We're not talking about this. Iowa plays Duke tonight in NCAA basketball. They got a big game. Texas plays Illinois tonight. Don't you worry about it. Same arena. Huge in NCAA basketball. They've got a big game. Texas plays Illinois tonight. Don't you worry about it. Same arena. Huge. Same arena.

They're both in Madison Square Garden. Jimmy V. Jimmy V Classic. I've been watching Texas boys on the internet do New York City. This team's tight, man. They're all together. They're all together. Walking the streets, not alone.

Not in little groups. Not two or three guys. That whole team is enjoying pizza together. They're through uh all of the different sights and sounds in new york city together nice going to carmelo's for a piece of pie two and a half they did two and a half point favorites did they go to rockfeller and see the tree i assume they did i think they actually stood around the tree and said Wahoo Wahoo Wahoo Welcome

Christmas time I love the Grinch I don't know how people don't think Jim Carrey's the Grinch is by far the best Grinch of all time Cartoon came on the other day I turned it off I said not my fucking Grinch I don't think that one's that. Cartoon came on the other day. I turned it off. I said, not my fucking Grinch. I don't think that one's that bad, though.

Yeah, but it came on right after Home Alone 2, so it stood no chance with me. Yeah, Home Alone 2, New York is a fucking good one. The cartoon's good. There's a CGI one that came out a couple years ago. It's by far the worst. I actually like that one. It's The Grinch, guys. It can't be that bad.

And I enjoy that one, too. Yeah, but there's six other Grinches that are good. I've never seen the cartoon one, the old one. No, no, no. There's a new cartoon one. The new cartoon one I like. That's the one I was talking about. No, that one's sung.

No question about it. Pharrell made a song for it. Oh, I've watched that one. Tyler, the creator, did the soundtrack. That was the selling point. Are we talking about the Grinch, or are we talking about Tyler, the Creator, making Christmas movies? I thought it was Pharrell. Together, I think.

But I know there is a Tyler, the Creator song as well. Nonetheless, the Jim Carrey one, you can run that back two, three times for one Christmas season if you want. You guys watch a lot of holiday movies over there with the 10 kids? Oh, yeah. We're big into all the holiday Christmas movies. Yeah, Grinch. That's the only Grinch I've seen is Jim Carrey as well. The only one you haven't seen the original?

Is the original, is it cartoon or animated? It's cartoon, yeah. I'm sure I've seen that too. But I remember, if I think of the Grinch, I think of Jim Carrey. Me too. Incredibly well done by old Jim. Have you seen the stories about how the cast were fucked up? He was just the biggest asshole of all time.

I think that's every movie Jim carries in. The Andy Kaufman documentary. Yeah, that one's awesome. The Jim and Andy documentary of shooting the Man on the Moon movie about Andy Kaufman, that's great. And everybody just having to deal with it. Just got to the point where they had to deal with it. Jerry the King Lawler shows up.

He goes, this isn't what it was actually like, though. This isn't what it was like. This is just, I'm going to punch this guy. Jerry the King Lawler is going to kill him. People sued the film, like a bunch of people, because of trauma caused by Jim Carrey acting as Andy Kaufman. I love that Jim just does that for, what, four months? Yeah, probably longer. Five, six months maybe, however long movies were made. And then he's just does that for, what, four months? Yeah, probably longer.

Five, six months maybe, however long movies are made. And then he's just like, yeah, I had to do it. Sorry about it. Just admitted to the craft. Yeah, I was the Grinch. Fucking sorry about it. I was miserable. You think the Grinch was going to be a nice guy to be around?

Couldn't happen. Oh, you want to sit in a chair and get makeup put on for 16 hours a day? Okay. You might be a little miserable too. Yeah. But nonetheless, why is everybody not, everybody not can you not just be a regular person? Just be a human? Some people are like that. Jared Leto, Suicide Squad.

He pissed in Will Smith's cereal because he was the Joker, so he wanted to do it that way. R.I.P. Heath Ledger. Will Smith ate it too, yeah. Yeah, Heath. What? Jared Leto did a bunch of Joker-esque shit on the set. This fucking guy, Will. Will said it tasted good. Yeah, well, What? What? Yeah, Jared Leto did a bunch of Joker-esque shit on the set. This fucking guy, Will.

Will said it tasted good. Yeah, well, hey, I can't speak on that. But Will Smith did say on The Tonight Show, like, I fucking hate Jared Leto. Seriously. That actually happened? Yeah, I swear to God, that happened. What kind of cereal was it? I don't know.

Probably the healthy one. What? Will Smith, like, actually, genuinely... You guys are wondering why he's slapping people. You know what I mean? Was it, like, entanglement? Yeah, he loved it. He does it all the time.

He's eating... There's actual piss in his Cheetos. Drinking piss. Cheerios. Yeah. I don't care how good of an actor you are. You don't have to do that. You just don't have to do that.

What Jim Carrey's doing? Yeah, and what that Leto guy did. Oh, and also, Heath, right? Heath Ledger. Yeah, R.I.P guy did. Oh, and also Heath, right? Heath Ledger. Yeah, RIP. That's why he... I appreciate the commitment to the craft. I appreciate wanting to pull something off for everybody to enjoy.

But, like, it is a movie. Like, you're not the actual group. If TC doesn't have to do it? Well, he is. He's just playing TC in all these movies. TC is TC. Correct. There's no method acting. TC will go to the moon tomorrow if he wants to. Well, he is, though. He's just playing TC in all his movies. TC is TC. Correct. There's no method acting.

TC will go to the moon tomorrow if he wants to. It's typecasting. Exactly. As opposed to method acting. The name in those movies could be Tom Cruise, but they changed his name so he could do it. Who's your favorite actor? Who is it? It's that...

Cole Hauser's my favorite actor. Hell yeah. Boom! Hell yeah. Boom! Great actor. Hauser! We're going to do Cowboy. Is that Wessie Angle?

No No it's Walter Hauser Okay Walter Hauser Walter Hauser Cool Hauser Wessie Angle Yeah we know your favorite actor

Cool Hauser played fucking Vince Vaughn's brother In fucking The Breakup Cool Hauser He's in Good Will Hunting He's one of these four in Good Will Hunting Also a bad guy in Fast and Furious. Boom. I think my favorite actor, Stone Cold Steve Austin.

He was on Monday Night Raw. He's also the condemned. He was Jack Conrad in the condemned. He's in The Longest Yard. What about Jake Sully? Jake Sully. Cena does movies. Why isn't it Cena?

Jow? Because Jow's a... You know why. I thought it was The Rock. I like The Rock, too. Yeah, but his movies just aren't doing what they used to, unfortunately. You mean Lose It Money? Yeah.

Hundreds of millions of dollars. He's teetering on the verge of being a B-lister. What? Get out! Do not ever say what you just said. I love him, but that's what the box office is saying. That's not what I'm saying. Oh!

People are saying he needs Kevin Hart. And without Kevin Hart... What are you... Everybody needs... This is The Rock. I know. That is what they're saying on the internet. Hey, without Secret Life of Pets and without that guy who's in, you know, the Central Intelligence

movie... Why are you guys saying all this? The Black Adam numbers have come in? Yeah. Yeah. Colossal bomb. $240 million below what their budget was. There's still time.

They're going to put that thing on digital streaming. Everybody's going to want it. I don't think it's in theaters anymore, is it? No, it's not. And guess what? Avatar's coming, which is going to just cycle over. I don't wave Black Adam. When's Avatar come out?

Two weeks. 17th, I think. Oh, next week, actually. Yeah, next week. I hope it's good. I hope it's good. The guy that said he wants no testosterone in human bodies anymore. That's right.

The guy that made the movie. Because I was originally reading it as like, the way of water. Now it's like, the way of water. All right. Well, Tony. Elon did say, too. Okay. Testosterone rocks.

Not going to lie. All right. Let's talk about some NFL stuff before we get out of here. Honestly, I'm worried about Avatar. You shouldn't. Don't be. I think you should be. It's long.

Why? It only needs to make $6 billion. Don't you worry. Thank you. Stop being an asshole. It only needs $2 billion. To cover their expenses, probably. Yeah, well, that would be a lot better than what's going on with the other movies that are happening out there, I guess.

I've heard great things. About what? About the new Avatar movie. Really? By who? By some good sources. Who are the sources? Who? It starts with a D and ends with an NZ.

Izzy. You talk to Walt? Yeah. Yeah, not NZ. Not Dizzy. Disney. Zito also loved Black Adam, unfortunately. So we're going to take that. Zito is a rock fan. True. Zito likes every movie he's ever seen. I would like to let everybody know that I rented Black Adam at the House

to stream it, to donate strictly to The Rock. Sure. And so, book production. I will say, I could not make it through the first 15 minutes of that movie. Wow. What happened? Do you know the story or what? Do you know the story or what is it?

There was a lot of story building there in the first 15 minutes, and it was a lot of, I don't give a fuck. If you can make it through the first 15 or first 22. Yeah, it's long. It's long. It's a lot. Just skip forward. Yeah, but then I'm disrespecting the movie.

So I'd rather just back away and say, it's not you, it's me. I can't do this anymore because it's not really the rock being it's the first 15 minutes the way they went i did not expect now i don't watch superhero movies though so maybe this is something that happens on a regular basis the beginning of that movie i was i was getting pissed a lot of character building i was getting pissed off they did origin story in the first film it's slow you always go back and do origin story bro 22 minutes who cares about the origin story bingo they've let off the movie with a fucking 20 that's almost that's an episode on television it is yeah i know don't they do that tie is that they all feel like

they have to set the stage i mean i suppose but dewey said it took him fucking 18 years to make this movie you'd think he wouldn't have had a misfire like that. So people are turning it off in the first 15 minutes. What's your problem? You seem to be a little bit negative towards future president of the United States, Dwayne Johnson. Again, I love Dewey. I will watch this movie, but it's what the people are saying. This movie stinks.

I will tell you, Young Rock has been amazing, though. Young Rock has had quite a season. There you go. I love the episode of the Hulkster. How are they doing going up against Smackdown? I don't know Honestly I don't know How's Smackdown doing?

Where's Butch? Sammy Zane is doing his oosology Bring back Danny Burch Right fucking now Two years ago today Two years ago today Yeah Two years ago today I was doing a Swantoni

Bombini Shout out to Jeff Hardini Off the top of a War game Steel cage On to Seven men

Taking them all out Supposed to be This is two years ago Today Me front flipping Off of a steel cage right onto a ring. Now, I took out seven people in doing so. I think it was my air going by them.

Just was going so fast. Just took them all out. You see that? Even my team. Even my team got taken out. Did the ref get taken out? The ref, if I do recall, I was very sore. Yeah, very tired. Very sore. I had a broken toe at that point. Did the ref get taken out? The ref, if I do recall, I was very sore, yeah.

Very tired, very sore. Broken toe. I had a broken toe at that point. But everybody was sprawled out because of what I did up there. Two years ago today, happy anniversary to my hips and my heels and my broken toe. Is there a T1, T2? Yeah, as well. Yeah, and my neck, yeah, of course. Not to mention your arms were dead because you had to lug eight tables into the cage.

All those tables and everything you see in there I had to pick up and throw inside of it Before I got into the match Quite a rib I was winning before I got in there And then I broke my toe in the first minute I did anything That's great We lost to the Unexpected Era

They would then go on to Break apart and join each other again In another wrestling promotion. And now, who knows? Pete Dunne would go on to become part of the Brawling Brutes and go back to his name that he was known on the street growing up as Butch. And then Danny

and Oney. I don't know what they're doing, but I miss them all. Where are they? I assume he's just planning for a big-time comeback. And Danny Burch, one of the most entertaining humans of all time. Bar none. Don't mind if I do.

Maybe the best moment of television ever. He was about to put somebody's head through a chair. That's right. And he screams, don't mind if I do. Don't mind if I do. Boom. With his British accent. The man to my left, your right, is a college football national champion,

a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup champion, a video game pundit, an NBA pundit, and a COVID survivor, A.J. Hawk. Also, a thing that is left off of his intro every single day is he's one of Aaron Rod rogers best friends that's right aj speaks to aaron rogers on a very regular basis every day a much more regular basis than probably any other human on earth other than maybe a couple people i honestly don't know who would be that would talk to aj more and obviously aj hawk's incredible personality has helped this show immensely what are we doing and obviously everything that's incredible personality has helped this show immensely. What are we doing?

And obviously, everything that A.J. does to add to this show and driving out here on Fridays and everything like that, his commitment has made our show better. But A.J. is certainly the reason why Aaron Rodgers Tuesday is a thing that either started or has continued and will continue because of his relationship with Aaron. So for A.J.'s closeness to Aaron, we want to thank him for that. Thank you, AJ. Now, with that being said, why didn't you tell us that he was not coming on the show this week? Because it has become very obvious.

It has become very obvious. You should have told us. This is something I would like to apologize to everybody that is watching right now because this was going to be an incredible conversation. I was excited to chit-chat about the quarterbacking of the team that has the most wins in the history of the NFL, just beat the Chicago Bears. Things were not going great, Aaron Rodgers Tuesday, not going great.

Things continue to not go great, Aaron Rodgers Tuesday. Another one doesn't go great, another Aaron Rodgers Tuesday. Beat the Bears. Here we go, this is going to be an electrifying Aaron Rodgers Tuesday. I was excited about it. I didn't even think it's a bye week. Yeah. And honestly, I think this exposes how much people think Aaron and I chit-chat.

We do not chit-chat that often, except for on Tuesdays when everybody looks at it. I don't know much, and I'm okay with that. I'm cool with that. We both got lives I got to live. But, AJ, how come you didn't tell us he was not coming on whenever I was just saying, Aaron Rodgers will join us in 45 minutes? You knew this was the case, did you not?

No, honestly, right when you said he's not coming on, I was like, ooh, bye week. When I do talk to him, I'm not saying, hey, looking forward to the show on Tuesday, Pat. Why not? What's your fucking deal? When I talk to him, I fucking try not to talk about

one of the coolest things that a group of people has ever been a part of. Yeah. He doesn't want to be like, he wants you to pot him up any questions or tell him anything that might go on. You're allowed to say like, hey, Tuesday's cool, though. Because Tuesday has been cool. But normally, I guess for the first however many weeks, I haven't had to say, hey, you're coming on Tuesday. I guess I should have this week. Thanks.

Yeah, probably. You should have. Now we got everybody Yeah, probably. You should have. Now we got everybody disappointed. Yeah. Think about it. There's a lot of people. How did this all come about? Do we realize this isn't happening?

So what had happened was I said, be a friend, tell a friend. Aaron Rodgers is in five minutes. Take five. Five. That's what happened. Okay? So then I think a friend told a friend, and a friend then told somebody told somebody told somebody that then told Aaron, because I got a friend told a friend And a friend then told somebody told somebody Told somebody that then told Aaron

Because I got a text from Aaron that goes Hey I'm on a plane right now Spotty service I don't think I'm going to be able to Guess we should it's bye week or whatever And immediately I go I've just lied to everybody Now I'm Billy McFarlane basically

If you didn't know the truth you didn't lie Yeah it's first bye week That was your truth Yeah. Now I'm Billy McFarlane, basically. If you didn't know the truth, you didn't lie. Yeah, it's the first bye week. Oh! Supposed to clap for that one. That was your truth. Supposed to clap for that one. Hey, you were in your bag early. Yeah.

You were in your bag early. That was a bar. That was a bar right there. That's unbelievable. Yeah, you're right. What Tone said. And listen, Tone has probably used that before to get himself out of the situation. I assume I have.

But I would like to let everybody know, I thought he was coming on. That's on me. I should have been a better host. I should have been a better facilitator of this entire thing. I should have reached out and said, hey, you're on a bye week. Obviously not coming on Tuesday. Probably should have done that yesterday maybe and got a heads up. I apologize to everybody that we lied to. Yeah, it's the first bye

week though since the start of Aaron Rogers Tuesdays that he actually has had a real bye week so 100 of the time before today he wasn't allowed to go anywhere he's been on the show during his bye week yeah he hasn't been a lot because he was immunized uh-huh but with his uh status in other people's eyes he was not allowed to go anywhere leave because he had to be subject to testing yes that's right that's why this happened. Exactly.

Because that was my first thought. Like, well, in the past, has he missed? Because, no, he's been on the show talking about how awesome it is that they're doing so well. All right. So we do apologize, but we didn't know. No one saw this one coming. Hey, have a great bye week, Aaron. Hey, enjoy it.

Have fun, Aaron. Happy belated birthday. Do you think his bye weeks are like most people's bye weeks? They haven't been a bye week the last two years. Yeah. Is this a carryover for a carryover? What's he doing for his bye week, AJ? Anything sweet?

Probably flying to Milwaukee or something cool like that. From Green Bay? Stay in the state. Him and Giorno are probably going to rip it up. So you think he's Probably going to Machu Picchu I mean who knows honestly Pick a

Grab a globe spin it put your finger down somewhere Here we go Alright let me find Probably an app for that I think we have a globe Just start guessing Just guess countries Alright let's start

They're not mathematically eliminated, right? Nope. So just like we did earlier with John Robinson on why he got fired, let's all start predicting and guessing where he went for his bye week. I will begin. Okay. I think there's a solid chance that he ends up in a jungle, in a teepee, in a ceremony again, does another ayahuasca trip.

So he did one, went back-to-back MVPs, did another one. Some things haven't gone exactly perfect on a football field. Let's hit another one midseason. Boom, he comes back. Good luck to everybody. They're still mathematically in it. I think he's in a jungle potentially doing a little bit of a plant drink that makes you puke and hallucinate and change your perspective on life.

Maybe. I mean, that could be happening right now with Aaron Rodgers. We hope it's a good trip. We hope it's a good trip. Good luck, Aaron. AJ, what do you think he's potentially doing? Your turn. I mean, yeah.

I don't know. I doubt. I don't know if he's going to the jungle doing ayahuasca right now during the bye week, but maybe you can have a quick turnaround like that. I don't know enough about it, but he's probably somewhere far away or headed somewhere pretty far away. But I don't know. He's not like a – I don't think he's just going to go hang on a beach

for four or five days, is he? You think it's an adventure? You think he's going to go like maybe climb something? I mean, he's from California. He lives on the beach there. Like I don't think he's going to go sit there and just lounge. He's probably going to be taking a bag of footballs with him, his shoulder pads, his helmet, be throwing on a beach,

maybe throwing on the mountains. In Monaco, like Russell Wilson. That's right. That's where he's going. Okay, so that's your guess is that he's going to wear shoulder pads, a helmet, and be practicing in a video some destination that isn't a beach somewhere. Okay.

Toxic Table, Boston Connor, what is Aaron doing for the bye week? My guess, similar to yours, revolves around perspective. I assume he's probably going to Ukraine, check out what's going on over there, check in on people, and then remember to himself, you know what? My life isn't so bad. Yeah, we're 5-8, but there's a lot of things going on in this world. He's going to come back, whole new perspective. We only throw in touchdowns.

Okay, so you're saying Aaron's going to Ukraine right now for his bye week. All right, Ty, owner of the Packers, what do you think Aaron's doing for the bye week this weekend? Well, when they come back, they have a Monday night football tilt against the Rams. It is going to be icy cold that night, so I wouldn't be surprised if just kind of, you know, acclimate. Mate, he loves the cold.

He may be ice fishing up in Saskatoon. Oh! He'll get away from everybody. I thought you were going to say he was Wimhoffen. Well, who knows? He may be Wimhoffen in Saskatoon while he. Get away from everybody. I thought you were going to say he was Wim Hofen. Yeah. Well, who knows? He may be Wim Hofen in Saskatoon while he's ice fishing. You know, one of those shitty little huts just out in the middle of the ice.

Dog sledding too, Ty. He's been dog sledding. He enjoys that. Iditarod maybe? Might be doing the Iditarod. Antarctica? Holy shit. So you think Aaron's potentially in Saskatoon doing the Iditarod.

You think he's in Ukraine. I think he's potentially doing – Bring Goompy back. Put him in the plane. That's right. Tone, your thoughts on what Aaron's doing in the biweek? I believe he's going to the Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education. I believe it's located in Vermont.

I believe he's going to finish his studies at that said school. What studies is that? The Healing and Earth Education. Okay. He's going to be a doctor. Yeah, it's a holistic place. He's going to be a doctor from Vermont when he's on his way back in.

AQ. Congrats. What do you think? We don't know if it's happening or not. Remember, these are all just guesses. These are just guesses. We don't know if these are real or not. Oh!

The Packers are in their bye week. AQ, what do you think Aaron's going to do for his bye week? I think he's on his way to Qatar. Boom! Yes! Go watch a little footy. Stay in the nice accommodations they got over there. Go check out the new football. Holy shit. Yeah. Some perspective. Piping hot falafel.

Support Harry Coyne because he was just in London. Yeah. That is probably what's going on. Him and Ted Lassler are watching the English team. I nailed it. Season finale of Ted Lassler. Maybe he's in the last episode. Could be.

Maybe he's filming that at Qatar. Qatar, yeah. Wow. Maybe, AQ. Holy shit. I nailed it. Maybe that's how the show ends with Jason Sudeikis getting his head cut off. Yeah.

Clean cut. He goes to coach the Cutter National Team. Loses his first game. They pull his fingernails, cut off his head. Let's move on. Let's move on. There was a report last night. We apologize for Aaron not being here.

This is on me. Kind on him. No, it's on AJ. Don't let him get away from this. Kind on him, but sack of bones. It's on me. It's on me. Okay, thank you.

That sounds like a fake one, though, that coaches do. Yeah, exactly. That's what it was. That's on me, guys me as okay thank you that sounds like a fake one though the coaches do like yeah exactly that's what it was that's on me guys i'm gonna have these guys ready i'm gonna blast their skulls all week long we're gonna run you know cut 300s after every single practice that's on me yeah that's on me i didn't have you guys ready enough i didn't tell you what was coming exactly how it was going to come and that one's on me and i told the media that those are just like you know i'm always gonna be guys you're gonna take blame remember in that one's on me and i told the media that those are just like you know i'm always going to be guys you're going to take blame remember that that one's on me a couple missed tackles we probably could have made i have to i have to address fundamentals better so you guys make the tackles better it's like hey just enough you know what i mean tom mcmahon did that a couple

times where he would take blame for like a block in the back on like a punt return that fucking certainly screwed us that's on me obviously you guys didn't know the rules or whatever i'm like tom shut the fuck up okay it's not on you you don't even need to act like it's on you we all know it's on somebody else and tom's like no really i could have i could have coached it better so it didn't happen it's like tom shut up you couldn't have i appreciate the fellow accountability here and maybe you do feel that's the case and that's kind of what you were doing because this is on me this is on me i should have reached out and said hey it's on all of us it's on us all especially you i don't know i feel like this is kind of on aaron am i the only one who's thinking that way just because he could have let us know and since we did he's never done the bi-week

thing so not to blame him i mean i love the guy but well that's what we're actually doing yeah we are we are placing blame that's right who we can Well, that's what we're actually doing. We are placing blame. That's what I'm doing. I'm just throwing that idea out there too. But you said, like, don't want to blame Aaron. No, but a text or, you know, even if the shoe fits. That's not normal, though. For me and him, that would not be a normal thing.

But then once again, that comes into it. That's why it's AJ's fault. A lot of fingers coming back to you, Bub. I don't know if you had any faux accountability there or real accountability. Seems like a lot of roads are leading back to your conversations, Bub. AJ can't look at us in the face and say, yeah, I haven't texted with Aaron since the game on Sunday because he has. Is he mad we didn't wish him a happy birthday?

We did. I sent him a text. Okay, never mind. Did you not? I did not. I said I didn't want to a happy birthday? We did. I sent him a text. Okay, never mind. Did you not? I did not. He probably has. I mean, not. Pat, you would know with his high level of income and he's on a private plane, is there Wi-Fi quick

enough to do FaceTimes? He said it was spotty. I mean, we FaceTimed on a plane. Sometimes, yeah. We figured that out. That could work. Let's FaceTime him. Yeah. Also, probably on a nice plane. Hold on. Guy owns the bucks.

He does. Sitting courtside. Yeah. My feet on the wood. His wood. My wood. I own this place. I'm an owner here.

Yeah. I mean, that was one of the best investments of all time. Larry Fitz. This is tough. Spotty Wi-Fi. Spotty Wi-Fi. This is tough. He could be trying to answer.

He could be flying the plane. Does he have a pilot license? Is that why you're so into that? You and him? Hey, we're going to fly. I don't think, no. There's a chance. He may have gotten one.

Jimmy's probably flying them. No answer. All right, we move on, okay? Okay. It's on me at the end of the day my name's on the show should text them abnormal for me to think ahead like that something i'm gonna get better at that is a downfall for me which in turn is a downfall for the company that's on me i will say when i was writing up the bio this morning you know because von miller thursday appearance every week

on their bi-week, they didn't, he wasn't coming on because it was a bi-week. Well, so this is your fault. So I didn't mention, like, hey, is Aaron still coming on because it's the bi-week. But once again, like, last bi-weeks. Also, as a Packers fan, I probably could have been like, hey. Certainly on the bi-week.

I forgot it was a bi-week. And I, as an NFL show host, I should know everybody who's on a bye week, though, too. That's another, like, here we're all passing blame. The buck stops here, doesn't it, boys? But that's the thing. You knew the Colts were on a bye week, so you were locked in on the team you rooted for as bye week. Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.

Rooting for them is certainly something, isn't it? 33 zip in the fourth quarter. It's fucking a hell of a ride, boys. Appreciate it. More fun making fun of them. You should jump on the ship. Can't do it. Everybody's doing the fourth quarter. It's been a hell of a ride, boys. Appreciate it. More fun making fun of him. You should jump on the ship. Everybody's doing that. Let's move on. Jimmy G might not be out for the rest of the season now.

That's crazy. We heard yesterday he was out for the season. We heard that on Sunday night, actually, after we saw his foot turn that son of a bitch sideways after getting tackled. We thought he had a broken foot at Liz Frank. And then last night, a report comes out from a man named Cam Inman at Cam Inman. 49ers Jimmy Garoppolo may not have Liz Frank midfoot fracture. They were talking about it

last night, but they're starting to believe that it isn't. So that's good news, but it's not all done. They have to finalize it. So we don't want to give you any false information, says Kyle Shanahan. I assume that's at a press conference. How do they get this wrong, AJ? How does somebody see it and it's reported as broken and then a day later maybe it's not? How do we get this wrong and where are you in this whole thing, AJ Hawk? I would assume there's some Liz Frank test that they do on the foot. Same when the doctors come out and they test for an ACL tear.

They can do a manual test and they feel pretty confident usually, but they're not 100%. Sometimes it's torn and they don't think it's torn until they get into the MRI. So it could be something like that. But it's huge news if it's not the Liz Frank deal because that thing is a super long recovery monster. Like that's a big-time injury. Painful.

Can you break down what that is? That's the midfoot they said. Is that the – I wish I could. When you get a bat, it like tears and dislocates, I think. It's crazy. Is that the thing that is the entire structure of your foot? Yeah.

ETN missed the entire year last year because he had to get surgery on that. Yeah, and there's so many little bones. There's so many little bones in there. I think it all connects in there. I don't know. I'm not a heart surgeon. Do you know enough about the Liz Frank to talk about it? I know nothing about the foot. We just know that if Jimmy G is coming back, it's good news.. I don't know. I'm not her researcher. Do you know enough about the Liz Frank to talk about it? I know nothing about the foot.

We just know that if Jimmy G's coming back, it's good news. It's a huge thing. Huge. But with how bad that looked, he's still going to miss some serious time, right? I would assume. I don't know. I have no idea. It's probably just pain, right?

It's probably just pain. Florio reported on NBC on Sunday night, Jimmy G out for the year. Florio's not just saying that because he fucking just made it up. Right. Florio was told by somebody very important. Shanahan said it. Yeah. Shanahan said it in his press. Post game. Out for the year. Florio's not just saying that because he fucking just made it up. Florio was told by somebody very important. Shanahan said it. Shanahan said it in his press. Post game. Out for the year. So then they're like, well, maybe

not actually. Maybe it isn't broken. I don't understand how that happens in 2022. How's that happen in 2022 at home? Well, that's why you should say, right? He has a lower body. That's all you gotta say. Did he see a specialist who has a different type that's all you gotta say did he see like a specialist who has like a different type of rehab that he could do over the next month that could get him back for the probably

got his mri he didn't have mri yet right after the game so they could scan it right mri just takes a little bit more time yeah i mean x-rays not i don't think i don't know if an x-ray would show liz frank or not so did they do that manual test and it was like no no, this is Liz Frank. And then they get scans and they're like, actually, you just sprained a portion of your ligament here and won't be able to fix it. Whatever the case, hope you get healthy, Jimmy G. Good luck, Jimmy G. Hey, happy it didn't end like this

with everything that had happened to Jimmy G. I'm pumped for that. Not end his career. I'm just talking about the whole run with the Niners would get certainly interesting here going forward. When it was being reported that they were both okay with a long-term relationship being restored again after how it started this season. OBJ was at the Dallas Mavericks game last night with Micah Parsons and Trevon Diggs and somebody else who was with Micah, I don't know who it is, had a couple good chains on.

Didn't appear to be an NFL player, but that's just from the eyes of not recognizing somebody they were at the game sitting courtside and obviously it had been reported that Odell Beckham Jr. had his visit with the Cowboys how did it go we don't know what we do know is all smiles last night with the boys when they're walking into the Mavericks game and welcoming OBJ to their city. Michael Parsons, potential NFL MVP sitting next to him. Diggs, the man who had almost broke the record for all-time interceptions and is an all-pro next to him. They're chanting a man that isn't even on the team yet because they're trying to do their recruiting pitch, saying Odell Beckham Jr., come

join us. There was reports on the internet that he had agreed to terms there. Then this morning, Jerry Jones did an interview with Chop and RJ and Dan. On the fan? I believe. Chop, RJ, and Dan on the fan. Where he said, I think, RJ, Chop, and Dan.

I believe that is the name of the show. Is that Chopper? No, Chopper is AJ Hawk's father-in-law, Brady Quinn's dad. Yes. Right? Correct. Chop, I believe, is radio talk show host in Dallas. I think.

This is, once again, me just looking at a tweet and trying to remember the people on it without remembering what was said as a whole. Interesting predicament I'm putting on a live microphone, but I believe it's R.J. Chop and Dan. Not a hundred percent sure. They're in Dallas. Jerry was talking to him, talking about the Odell Beckham Jr. signing, if it was to happen, and his thoughts on it. And they asked him if he was confident or something in Odell Beckham Jr. being healthy after not seeing him work out. If he didn't see him work out, would you sign him or whatever? And Jerry said, no, I'm not confident.

He went on an entire run basically about how I have no idea what's going to happen and injuries are prevalent. This is something that could happen to anybody. And I don't think he said anything disparaging about OBJ at all or not true at all. And he kind of went around about the whole thing. What is Sean? Fuck. Shan? Shan and RJ.

God damn it. Anyways, this is – You were super close. Was I? I don't think so. Yeah, RJ, Chop, and Dan. All right, so it's Dan instead of Shan. I apologize.

I'm the fan. What kind? DFW's number one sports station. I do apologize. Here's what Jerry Jones said about Odell Beckham Jr. and his health to Shannon R.J. and Chop. Is Chop on it? Why would you be confident in signing somebody that you haven't seen work out coming off an ACL nine, ten months ago? Well, I'm not confident at all.

And so that's the issue. Now, we all realize that that issue of health, that issue of availability, is here every time. Just this one is very obvious and very pointed toward his injury that had occurred last year in the Super Bowl. So we've got a good beat on that. We've got a great read on his career. It's not like a draft pick coming out. You've got a lot of history here and you take a good look at everything not only the obvious and that's his performance but

also any issues regarding health so all of this we've got to come in with our eyes wide open and it has to be addressed and that's when you see if you can make a deal or not. Eyes wide open. Hmm. Hmm. What's going on over there? I'm splitting, but. Did he answer that? Did he talk about that at all?

No, because remember, I don't think he was on Shan, RJ, Chop last week. Yeah, but it's still there. I mean, it's still certainly something we could answer. I think he could give a profound answer about, you know, everything you've seen and grown and learned from in life, but for some reason just hasn't. It's interesting. I don't understand why he hasn't just chosen to address it head on as an example of where the world was, where we are, where we're trying to get to. I think it could have been something, but nonetheless, he did talk about Odell Beckham Jr. He said, I'm not confident. No, I'm not at all. Does it sound like he's going to be a cowboy though I don't think

anywhere else makes sense for Odo Beckham Jr. and how do you think it goes as a cowboy for OBJ down there with uh Corey Gamble I guess was the other guy Chris Jenner's uh boyfriend oh okay Zito told me while Jerry was giving the answer to Shane RJ and chop down there in DFW is number one station. Yeah, that is obviously Odell Beckham Jr. Right there. Peace. What up? That's digs right there.

There's Michael Parsons. Corey Gamble over there. Okay. I believe that is who was with the crew there. OBJ was certainly getting a lot of love walking into the place and getting chance for him. What do you think it is going to be like down there in Dallas? This is obviously good. Add another weapon. Your team gets better, right?

That's how I view it. That's how I would view it. Yeah, and I think Dallas makes the most sense absolutely right now with Jerry. No matter what he has to pay him, I feel like Jerry is already like, all right, well, they're already chanting his name here. I got stars bringing him in. Like, this is what I want. I need this hoopla.

I want people talking about the Cowboys, and it gives our team a better chance to win. But going back to the workout thing, obviously he has to pass a physical right to sign what are the teams going to make him at least run around a little bit and see what he looks like i don't know because if you do that are you asking him to work out for you and is that disrespectful yeah which you know like i think i mean jerry each owner who i guess yeah i don't know what maybe some teams like, we'll come sign you. We might pay you a little bit less, but you don't have to work or do anything for us.

You can just sign right here. We'll give you your jersey. But I would assume he wouldn't mind working out, right? I think he's actually said no. He does not want to work out. I think that's been out there. Really? Yeah, like this is only happening if you just sign me.

Because no teams have done it. So if one team were to do it, that one team would probably be at a disadvantage because he'd probably feel a little slighted because they made him work out. Yeah, because what if Odell was like, come on, man. That's probably what Odell says, right? Yeah, probably. You want me to work out? Okay, okay.

I'm going to go over to the Cowboys, and we'll see if they make me work. Oh, who's your number one competitor right now? Cool, I'll go there and see if they're going to make me do a full workout. I'm in shape. I'm not signing up if I'm not in shape. You think I want to ruin my own legacy here? What are we even talking about? I'm one of the greatest athletes of all time.

That's what Odell Beckham Jr. is thinking. Now, if I'm on a team, if I own a team, and I'm a sign, I could sneak in a way to figure out, hey, we want to know all what we could do. Is there any way we can get you to run a little bit, see how fast you are, see how quick you are, see what type of lateral bursts you still have, so we can make this even better for you. So then we can add incentives in that you can really take advantage of. You know what I mean?

Like maybe we have you run the ball a little bit. We get a little, you know, see if you're ready to do that. We'll get some rushing incentives in there for end rounds, jet sweeps, things like that. There has to be a way where you see how a guy is in shape if he just had fucking acl surgery right you would think there would have to be a way i mean yeah i think if you present it to him like it's a it's a profession you know we talk about like the business side of everything jerry can be could tell me you're a businessman i'm a businessman i just we just we 100 trust and

believe you and know you've been doing the work, but here, before we give you this contract, we need you to at least run around a little bit. Was this a report on the internet, like a meme? That you just read AQ news? Is that what happened to AQ? I could have sworn I heard it somewhere. Are we not seeing it anywhere? Oh, wait, man. If you've seen it,

I mean, I trust you. I can see him not wanting to go work out for a bunch of tea. I mean, there's no way he wants to do multiple workouts. Those workouts, they suck. I've watched people trust you. I can see him not wanting to go work out for a bunch of tea. I mean, there's no way he wants to do multiple workouts. Those workouts, they suck. I've watched people do workouts. They are tough, tough workouts, not fun. Normally you don't have to do it if you're a big-time signing. Free agents don't have to do these types of things,

even if they're in surgery or anything like that. The bad news, the Cowboys are now under the impression that while he's excited to wine, dine, talk, tour, and undergo a physical, Beckham, coming off the knee injury that had kept him sidelined for almost a year, may not be willing to actually participate in a workout, and that's a problem. While in New York, Beckham had a Thursday dinner led by Giants head coach Brian Dayball, and then on Friday underwent a physical spending a couple of hours

at Giants HQ before jetting off to Buffalo. No workout was involved. Logically, the Bills and Cowboys, no matter their best laid hosting plans, can assume the same limitations on what Beckham is willing to do. Can team doctors examine Beckham's twice-surgically repaired left knee? Apparently so. And word is, there is an understanding that the involved suitors might share information with OBJ's approval, it is assumed.

Can trainers get their hands on him? Maybe. But is he going to lace up some cleats and catch passes from Dak Prescott while being loosely covered by Michael Parsons and Trevon Diggs with Ezekiel Elliott and Demarcus Lawrence present to root him on and Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, Will McClay, and Mike McCarthy present to evaluate? You're welcome.

Where is that from fan nation okay that's that's like a reputable yeah absolutely reputable step below sports illustrate i was on sports illustrate oh no oh yeah we have to talk about this. Oh, no. Oh, no. Whatever OBJ does, happy for you, buddy. Good luck, OBJ. But remember, no free agents have to do full workouts before they get signed to a team because you've already proven on film what you could be, what you are as a pro and everything like that. So it is considered quite a slight, I would assume, in the Odell Beckham Jr. camp to be like, yeah, I'll do a physical.

You guys can put scans on me if it's healthy. Also, I'm in fucking shape. You guys can put scans on me if it's healthy. Also, I'm in fucking shape. What are we doing here? I think that is how he would view it. I can see how other people would want to see the workout. Nonetheless, I don't know what the deal is going to look like. It'd be fun to see him as a cowboy, though. Going to be on

primetime. Potentially going to go on a run. Would like to see their offense continue to do that. Now, let's turn our sights to a story that has really disappointed a nation. Not just a nation, a whole community. Not just a whole community, maybe an entire planet. That's right. It appears as if the internet has done it again. Yes,

we all have been duped. The greatest shooter in the history of basketball agreed to do an edited video in shooting a basketball. Why would Steph Curry sign up for such a thing? We have no idea. Steph Curry, obviously, in the record books

as the greatest shooter in the history of basketball existing. All the other great shooters in the history of basketball shooting say this dude's the best of all time. He's changed the NBA. He's changed the future of basketball. And for some fucking reason, the sports person of the year, he agreed to do an edited video

that was very well done by a man named Ari Fararoy. And then, now we have to question everything this guy ever does. Yeah, we do. Why do we gotta do this, AJ? This is fake. I didn't know that. Why would he sign up for it? The bouncing, the rebounding of the ball when they go through the net and bounce off,

I've watched it probably 20 times. Even the lighting on the ball as it cruises past the lights, the shadow on there, the amount of editing and focus this had to take to create is wild. Unbelievable. The amount of frame by frame by frame by frame by frame editing that had to happen to make this appear this way is fantastic. Congrats to Ari, who also did Tom Brady's hole-in-one golf shot in the Amazon Prime footballs.

That wasn't real? Mm-hmm. Well, those – now, a couple things. When he threw it into the jugs machine and it threw right back, that was real. Same editor. I don't know why Steph would do this because I made one yesterday. Are they promoting something? Sportsperson of the year.

Oh. Here's a back view of it. They even did a back view of the whole thing. Two different angles, two different cameras, two different edits to sell it to us as if it's real. Come on. Let's see the original. Where did the originals go? I want to see when he

really throws it, where do they all go? I guess that's the next step in this thing. On Twitter, it had 19 million views in the first 24 hours. 29 million now. Now it's at 29 million. It's doing, obviously, insanely well because it's the greatest shooter of all time, accomplishing a feat that we think he could probably pull off

and be the only person that could do it. The amount of time they have taken to edit this is banana land. And I want to let Steph know, I still love Steph, but I'm kind of heartbroken for the emotional rollercoaster they took me upon. Yeah.

Because Twitter's telling us now, which is, this is brand new to Twitter. Yeah. And I thought Elon was going to ruin Twitter. That's weird. I thought this son of a bitch was going to ruin it. Pointing out truths and falses. Now he's saying like, hey, just for context,

the Warriors have come out and said this ain't real. So just so you know that while you're watching this video right now, do not expect any human to be able to accomplish this because this is fake. This is edited. This is altered video. Why would Steph do this, AJ? Why? Why, Steph? Why?

Why do you think? I mean, it's safe to just not believe any video you see on the internet, don't you think? I don't want to live in that world. I don't either. But I'm saying... This is fake, too. You've got to at least look at it. But like, is his videos where he made 80 straight fucking threes?

Are those fake? Exactly. The warm-up shots? Are those fake? How are we supposed... If it was another sport, if it was him golfing yeah or doing something else i'm on i'm with it right but basketball the length that they have went to make sure we were duped is bananas and why why why honestly i know you guys probably don't feel

this way but after this i mean step Steph Curry is now my basketball jubilee because that is just as bad as a lightning video. I kind of agree. We're going to kill a guy to market our betting thing. That's right. That'll make people want to gamble with us. Tom. How about them telling one of their biggest face at TV, biggest personality?

Definitely. Hey, listen. We think the best way to get people to come to our sportsbook is by killing you. Fucking just kill you. Take that however you want. Think about this. People like us more. We kill you in a lightning strike.

So, something to think about. Can't go to the Purdue game either. No. Well, you're going to have to hide wearing a mask so you can continue to live the gimmick that you fucking died. That was wild to me. I don't want to live in that world where everything's fake, especially when it's the greatest shooter of all time doing something that – I know this is much shorter court, and I apologize.

This is the only one we have access to. like i hit close in the area three four times in a row like very close oh yeah top of the paint off the front of the rim bounce out in rim round like four in a row i hit three four in a row a lot of backboards very very close and i'm like after i did i'm like i think steph could i think steph could have made five in a row now granted it was another 20 feet further back where he was throwing from then for me it's all we had access but like i think that is why i believed it so much because this guy's the greatest shooter of all time the editing was so incredible it's like why are they why steph why why you know aj It's only going to get worse. They're only going to get better and better at doing this.

We don't know. Ari is an incredible actor. Unbelievable. That is fantastic work. Ari Fararoy. Wait until there's a dog. Wait until it's deepfake of this. Then the winds are going to stop.

Well, that's already happening. Oh, yeah. Steve Curry. Yeah, AI. Everybody wants AI. Look at it now. It's manipulating images all over the internet. AI? No, that was

HI. That was Ari that did that. There wasn't no AI that did that. Let's go ahead and relax. It's humans. That's us. Let's take credit for what Ari did. Hey, Ari. Thank you for representing humans doing that editing. He's the problem. He's the problem. He should have said no.

Or if he went to Steph, he's even more the problem. We're not doing as good. What's that? He's the problem. He should have said no. Or if he went to Steph, he's even more the problem. Yeah, and this is the difference, too, like you just said. If Ari said it was okay to do this, switch sports, Steph. What if you throw a – Football. Football. What if you're playing disc golf and you hit a shot from 500 yards out? That would have been awesome.

Boom. Curve it through the tree. Can't do basketball. That's your sport, pal. Boom. 500 yards out. That would have been awesome. Boom. Curve it through the truth. Can't do basketball. That's your sport, pal. Who's to the truth now? Now he's spinning. He's full of shit.

Now there's a Sports Illustrated tweet of him throwing a ball over his head. And Ari Fararoy says, okay, now this one's definitely real. Congrats, Steph Curry. Had a lot of fun shooting with you in SI now. Sports Illustrated says you really don't miss. Congrats to SI Sports Person of the Year. And he was shooting backwards. So he's definitely real. Congrats, Steph Curry. Had a lot of fun shooting with you on SI Now. Sports Illustrator says you really don't miss. Congrats to SI Sportsperson of the Year. He was shooting backwards. He's winking. For the four.

Winking, crying, laughing. Unbelievable. This bullshit. Fucking world. I'm not out on Steph. This is bullshit. I'm done watching Holy Moly, though. Yeah, me too.

That's all fake. You think Robert knew? Why didn't they just have him make a 4,000 foot putt? Yes, exactly To promote Holy Moly Joe Tess can call it And Rob But instead now we got a boycott

Holy Moly Which I don't want to do Because I love the fucking show And I'm going to pull out all my money of FTX too Really? Too late Tonyony that's gone remember what all right let's move on uh the floor talked about bakhtiari's most recent medical situation which is he had to have an appendectomy i assume that's from appendicitis which people say

will kill you yes which comes out of. Your appendix basically just starts leaking waste into your body, and you self-poison almost is what the appendix is and appendicitis is, right? It's very painful. I believe that is the heads up. You go to the hospital. Emergency surgery normally to get your appendix out of there and to clean up all the waste and get out of your body. Now, what Matt LaFleur is saying via Matt Schneidman's tweet,

shout out to Schneidman on the report. LaFleur said, from what I'm told, it could be a while. So, obviously, the knee recovery has been certainly a long road for Bakhtiari. Now his appendectomy is a long road, potentially, is what LaFleur is saying. It's been a rough couple years here for old Bakhtiari. What are your thoughts, AJ Hawk? I don't know, man. Like, do you expect to see him back this year?

When LaFleur says it's going to be a while, I do not feel like we're going to see him back in the lineup. Is that just leaving him an out? He doesn't know what the proper answer is? What is a normal – Yeah, I think they don't know. With his knee especially, we talked about it. Sometimes they didn't know until a couple hours before the game

if he was going to be able to go with how his knee is. So now with – I'm sure with this, LaFleur's like, all right, we don't – the dude just had surgery. Like, we can't – I can't give you a time table. Is there precedent on this on appendectomy? Joe Burrow. Yes, and Minka. What did Joe Burrow – he was a couple weeks, right?

I can't remember. His was preseason, but that's better. Talk about him being rusty like week one because he missed the last, however, maybe two weeks or like ten days. Minka missed one game. What's. Minkah missed one game. What's that? Minkah missed one game. Minkah Fitzpatrick?

Mm-hmm. When was this? I think it was against the Bengals. It was like two or three weeks ago, yeah. Did he miss a bye week and then a game or just a game? No, no, just a game. And then he played the next game. Is there normally this many appendicitis throughout the league?

What's going on with the appendicis around time? Yeah, that's a question. Did all those players get vaccinated? Yeah, there you go, Tony. All right. Jeez Louise. What? What's your guys' problem?

I think we're talking about food is what I thought he was referring to. Plastic water bottles and stuff. You think that? You think Bakhtiari's eating plastic water bottles? Yeah. Okay. What do you got going on? Are you okay over there?

Yeah, you've been pretty quiet, Albie. What's going on? What are you cackling about over here? Just a lot of weird things going on these days. All right. That's going for the future governor of Arizona, too. That's something to think about. Congrats.

Albie, Quay, Shipley? Yep. All right, let's hit another. We have breaking news from the Philadelphia Eagles. Robert Quinn jumping in the IR. Oh! Tom Pellicero, the arrow, the Neuralink, is reporting that Eagles. Yeah, someone's got to tell.

I'm sick and tired of this. It's fly, Eagles, fly. That's the hashtag. I don't know what fucking country this is. I don't know what this represents. Stop doing it. Hashtag Eagles. They're still in the World Cup. They got a big

time win yesterday and congrats to Morocco beating Spain today in the soccer Lombardi. It's not coming back to the United States just yet. Robert Quinn is having a knee scope this week and will go on IR today. Per sources, Quinn had been coming on and settling into the scheme before the knee got twisted in practice

last week. Now at least four games, but there's optimism he's back for the playoff push. Okay. The Eagles get another quarterback killer for the end of the season. He's going to be fresh. His body's going to be better than ever. Good for them getting a leading tackler at the time. Was he? No, Robert Quinn.

That was Roquan Smith was the leading tackler. Robert Quinn, though. How many sacks did he have last year? He had a massive year last year. Getting his knee fixed practice is always the worst when you get injured in practice everybody gets so upset about it but it does happen oh yeah it happens

you gotta work on your craft man and how this dude can run we talk about it a lot how he can bend and turn the corners really special there's not a whole lot of people that can do it like him. AQ what does this mean at the end of the season whenever a fresh pass rusher is in off of a four-week rehab and recovery? Is that normally good or bad

for the offensive line who has to play every week? Yeah, he's going to get healthy. The healthiest you are is at the beginning of the season. Most guys start to wear down, wear down, wear down. You're all on a level playing field. This is going to give him a little boost. He'll have a little fresh legs coming in the playoff push. Linval Joseph, Indomitian Sioux, Quinn, Sweat, Cox, Hargraves,

Brandon Graham. Hey, the Eagles, huh? Sweat. Oh, yeah. They got the best D-line in football. And he's coming back healthy in four weeks. And their team has been so healthy. I think this is like the first injury they've had across the board.

Holy shit. Jordan Davis. All right, let's get to a break all right let's take five and on the other side we have in the trenches then we'll wrap this thing up with a nice little giveaway for the beautiful people who watch on this tuesday with no air this is crazy isn't it i know weird first bye week ever this is a slip-up by us though honestly this is something we'll be judged upon Remember it for next time Next time means he's not going to retire He just gave you a prediction Well How do you know that

I wasn't talking about maybe A different player You know Oh Jeez Hey if the Bills If the Bills have a Out with the old Congresses Yeah hey If the Bills have a first round bye, are we going to interview Von Miller that week?

To be honest, the Von Miller thing, I don't really understand how it works. Me neither. I'm very happy that it's happening. He loves the show. He does. And I enjoy the Von cast, by the way. I watch the Von cast. He fell asleep on Twitch the other day.

Fucking love that. Sleepy Von. I watch the Vaughn cast. He fell asleep on Twitch the other day. Fucking love that. Sleepy Vaughn. I'm enjoying, I enjoy Vaughn Miller a lot, but him just saying like, hey, yeah, I'll come on every week. If you get fucking right, we will. Hell yeah, Vaughn Miller. Hey, do you know your Vaughn Miller? Somebody needs to tell him that although he does own Greener Pastures Chicken down there in Texas,

he's fucking Vaughn Miller too. Yeah, but anytime you want to come on the show, Vaughn, come on, Vaughn. We've been lucky for that. I don't know how it's going to work. You think it will go through the playoffs? I hope so. Yeah, I'd assume so. And I'd also assume that they're probably going to end up with that first round bye.

Bill's pretty good at football. Very good at football. And aside from the Dolphins. Who just lost to the Niners. Just lost to the Niners. They, you know, should win out. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to go in the trenches with 12-year NFL vet, coach, and player, Super Bowl champion, A.Q. Shipley.

A.Q. How we doing? How we doing? Whoa, whoa, he talked. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! You know what I found out last week? What? What? I was going to talk later in the week. I heard Coach P's keys. I found out Cole Strange is a starter. They didn't make you.

Oh! Oh! You fucking son of a bitch. A couple years. Maybe he'll find in a couple years. Interesting. The old line guy doesn't even know who's starting for one of the teams in the NFL. That's weird.

Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. Hey, but check this out. Yeah, I think it's just. I love. Yeah, you get where I was going with that. Well, he also.

Yeah, gotcha. He said some terrible things about you, too. He said you're an offensive lineman guru, huh? Yeah. You don't know who's starting. Who's the best guard in the NFL. Yikes. Yikes.

Yikes. Sorry, we're back at it. It's okay. All right, we're back. New week. New week. Time. New time.

Yeah, here we go. New voice. First time. I love, new week, time. New time. Yeah, here we go. New voice. First time. I love what the Vikings do here. I love what the NFL is starting to do here. They're starting to take advantage of little wrinkles. Oh. Little wrinkles.

We talk about little wrinkles, so check it out. We got Cleveland right here. We saw the Eagles do it with Jason Kelsey on the game winner, loop around the guard, down block. Then he becomes the lead block on the draw. And this is a very, very common sub-personnel, six box draw. Here's the six in the box. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six. How do we account for all of them? Look what we do. We detach the tight end, get a wide split. He has to account for it. He gets out of the box, leaves really only one here. One, two, three. One, two, three. Center,

left guard, left tackle, middle backer, two-eye, wide end. Two-eye means what? Inside shoulder of the guard. Two would be head up, three outside shoulder. So here's what we got going on this is what i love in years past the typical way to block this we get a little draw scoop center guard would just work here you don't get much of a pass but what they're gonna do especially with the back over here they're gonna sell like they're running slide protection out to the slot he will take one step here like he's setting and then he's gonna loop around the center one step here like he's setting, and then he's going to loop around the center. One step here, then loop around the center to block Mosley.

Watch this shit. This is awesome. And then Hawkinson out here detached. Check it out. Knows he's wide. Fuck him. Let's go get another guy. Now, we don't even need to block him because he's so wide.

And also, take a little pixie left guard. There it is. Look at the one step right here, one step. Oh, I like it. Now we're selling pass protection. Everyone up front thinks this is a pass. Now we go to the draw, get the ball, and one of the most dynamic bats in football out in space doesn't get touched for 20 yards.

Kevin O'Connell. What a play. What a scheme. I do believe we'll have Kevin O'Connell on the program tomorrow. Oh, let's go. Kevin O'Connell on the program tomorrow. Oh, let's go. Kevin O'Connell on the program tomorrow. Man. Wow.

Ask him about this. Pretty awesome stuff, huh? Nice. Is that a big enough hole? Yeah, I'd say. Big, big, big, big, big hole. Hey, Pat, if you don't mind, rewind in this to the beginning, will you? Why?

Yeah, you got it, pal. Okay, so here's what I think. I don't know. I would love to ask him. I would love to ask what the scheme is but we saw kelsey do it like i said down block here center loop around this is what i think i think this is a read wrap when i say read wrap if mosley was over here in the b gap they would do exactly what kelsey did down block the two i loop bradbury around a mosley but since he's in this a gap here i think we go the other way we get the center to widen the hole here loop him around i think it's a read wrap which i think is really cool so you think dalvin could

have went here depending upon where this fella is lined up and i think these two could switch assignments depending on where he's aligned. Wow. That's super high football stuff, right? Yeah. How many people have to be on the same page? Just Guard Center and Dalvin Cook. Go ahead, AJ. I'm just wondering, would they communicate that right before the snap? Yeah. Or they don't read it on the run,

do they? No, no, no, no. It would be pre-snap. So, like, he could obviously trick-fuck him if he lined up over here and then shot here, right? But if he lined... Yeah here and then shot here right but if he lined yeah it's a little uh como se dice we used to always say that little trick fuck yeah a little trick fuck is a great word you need to you need to add that into your repertoire no but i do think they're you know whether it's a car meaning center around or guard guard around they got a little call pre-snap based on alignment. We're going to roll with that.

You're saying if he was lined up out here? Mosley, lined up here in this bubble. Oh, okay, cuz. This cuz here. 57 lined up in this bubble. If he was there, we'd get the down block like Kelsey did in the center wraps. Now that he's in here, we get the out block him around there. Bam.

Okay. Bam. Bam. That plays Bam. Bam. That plays. Bingo. That's a hell of a play. AJ, what do you do here? You got a hat on a hat.

You know, they tell you, AQ, you got to get a hat on a hat. Watch this, Pat. As you run it, they got people blocked up. Well, and they get him on a blitz, right? Look at his back. The other backer blitzing on the outside. Yeah, so we're getting a TE, and he's rapping, right? That's the other thing that's awesome.

If you're super aggressive here, you're never going to be able to pick. This is them picking off a T.E. pass stunt right here, which is awesome. Awesome. And then they're able to stay inside out and still keep their leverage on the inside draw. Minnesota Vikings offensive line been playing really well? They have been, and they're without their star. I mean, their star is out with a concussion. They're going to play it safe with them, they said.

Is O'Neal back at right tackle, or has he still been out? I think he's in there. Hey Q, I was told Hawkinson's not a very good blocker. That looked like a pretty good block to me. Glad you brought that up, Foxy. We talked about this pre-show today. Hawkinson does an unbelievable job. Look, most tight ends right here, let's rewind this all the way back to the beginning.

All the way back to the beginning, because this is not his guy. He's his guy. This backer right here, this is the this is not his guy. He's his guy. This backer right here. This is the sixth they're accounting for. That's his guy. He recognizes when he loops wide, there's no way he's going to make this play since it's an inside draw going there. He says, fuck it. We'll leave

him. Let's steal a blocker. Boom. We go two for one. And that's the one that the running back's supposed to beat. Bingo. But instead, TJ Hawkinson takes him out. That's really, really smart play. PFF says he thinks that block. But instead, T.J. Hawkinson takes him out. That's weird. Really, really smart play. PFF says, stakes at blocking. Yeah, I saw Hawkinson get on the catch. Maybe PFF doesn't know the scheme.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. It looked like you had a little heat there for PFF. I just don't think that the people grading it know exactly what the schemes are and what they're doing, all the little intricacies that go on, especially in this part of the world. Okay, because you're saying you can't figure it out sometimes for some teams, and you've, what, 12 years coaching, playing a lot of different systems. There's always a reason.

The person has to be smarter than you that's doing it. Not very often. Oh, geez. In this particular case, yeah, I i understand in this particular world got it yeah uh but i do find that interesting i think some positions bff can get it right agree but in some things there's no way they'll ever be able to fucking figure out because like you everything's game plan like what it is on paper versus what we're game planning and asking somebody to do on a week-to-week basis could be completely different than what you have in front

of your thing saying oh this is just a counter tray oh that's not just a counter speaking of counter tray you see what i did there yes absolutely we got the counter tray going right here check this out counter tray backside guard backside tackle pulling this way backside guard flat pull kick out backside tackle comes around here here's what what I love about this. When we go in the pistol, when we go in the pistol and we hand the ball off on the right side, when the run is meant to go to the left, you're getting the counter. It allows Kenyon Drake, not a receiver, a running back. Certainly a running back. Long time. Certainly a running back. We get him downhill on this side, which gives him an extra second to get in perfect relationship with his two pullers and be able to read this thing out.

And you'll see the big gaping hole open up real quick on this side. Look at those two on a goddamn string. Right guard, right tackle. Get the angle blocks. Everybody's blocking back, creating the wall. There it is. We're cutting the defense right now. Then we get the kick out.

Then we get the other kick out. And we got action! Big gaping hole! Do you think that Kenyon Drake, obviously, it was a massive gain, so he probably could have gone either way, but would you rather him follow

the right tackle around Sertain here? It's so hard to second guess. It's so easy to second guess when we're sitting here with the clicker, right? It's so hard to second guess what's so easy to second guess when we're sitting here with the clicker right but it's so hard to second guess what they see you're going to see a clip here in a little bit Christian McCaffrey makes a great run we're going to talk about it here in a little bit same thing I can sit here on the thing and be like oh Christian should have hit the cut right here and maybe he's gone but like what they see in the moment is what makes them special and

you know they may miss that one good which could have been a bigger one but done on the next one right like yeah it's hard not to do when you go downhill yes yeah you go downhill aq like you don't want to mess around if it's open get downhill especially how drake runs too drake's a hard runner man yes do you think greg roman is a big dumb dipshit like everyone's saying or are they still pretty sound in the run game and pretty good i don't think anybody's ever – I mean, listen, I think they question the points. I think they question the chunk plays. I think they question some of the down the field stuff, right?

But, like, you cannot question his run game. His run game is fucking impeccable. They're thinking about he's going to Stanford maybe. That's right. I mean, he's catching all kind of heat. I mean, in Baltimore, and I don't understand it because they've got a great offense. They're yards per carry through the roof.

Well, they scored 10 points this week. They also lost their star. Yeah, but even when he was in, they weren't. Or doing much. You know what I mean? I think you're one of the first people to ever really compliment Greg Roman publicly on a regular basis. I've complimented his run game a lot. It's really good shit.

Chuck Pagano also complimented him, I think, too. It felt like it was becoming a trend. Like like everybody's liking what Greg Roman's doing. Now we're back at the point where it's again where it's like this offense. And anybody that ever played for him, under him, when he was in Buffalo, when he was in San Fran, when they were rolling back in the day, speaks volumes about him. I do wonder. They love him.

They love him. Okay. I love him. Did Greg Roman tell the team, too, like, hey, we're playing the Broncos. We only need 10 points. We don't have to rush into this. You're right. Maybe.

Let's take our time. Yeah. Maybe. It's not good for the good stuff. Yeah, exactly. Let's not score too many points. Let's win, but not by too much. I'll give it to these guys.

Fakitis, learn some fucking English. That's right. Fuck. What do we got here in Seattle, pal? Hey, this was a fun game to watch. He plays against his former team as a monster game. We're not going to talk about that. He quarterbacked a hell of a game. We're not going to talk about that. He quarterbacked a hell of a game.

We're not going to talk about that. We're going to talk about what the big boys do up front. Just run in a simple zone scheme. We get a little jet motion with a ghost rat. Why do we call it a ghost rat? We're going to send somebody back, which really is just to affect eyes. A little eye candy. Don't we like that?

There's the ghost motion. Now, eventually, you might have something off of it With a reverse or a little pitch off of that But this one in particular Is just to affect eyes As soon as that goes in motion What's that do to him? Widen him What's that allow him to do?

Gain leverage That's all we are fucking trying to do Help every one of these guys But rewind it Because we just missed a lot of good shit here Check this out We get the slip block working here But check this out

We just get carnage throwing people boom boom boom We're gonna see bodies on the ground. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor What drowning Something's wrong with me. Something's wrong with me. What? Big barrel fucking rocks. Something's got you.

Something's got you. Yeah, there's bodies on the floor there. You really started vibing. It felt like you were in a concert. Oh, yeah, man. I was in the heavy metal concert in the back left corner. Get out of the fucking mosh pit. Let's go.

It's my time. Hey, but there's the mosh pit. Look at this thing. People are getting bodied. Bodies on the ground. Carnage. Look at that hole, though. I mean, this is a simple inside zone.

We get the middle opened up, but just affecting with eye candy. And then everything else on the front side, those guys were just beating people up. Kenny Walker's good, too. Yeah, he's ball player. Hopefully he's not out long. Yeah, him and Geno yelling at each other, too. What's that all about, you think? I don't know.

Heat of the moment, you know? It's going to happen. Competitors, it happens. Yeah, sometimes. Coach Stumlin. Yeah. Fucking work. Sometimes competitive people have emotions that aren't normal in the world, you know? It's an interesting thing.

Let's go. You love this team. I've always loved this team. And you also spoke very highly of that fucking guy. Oh, yeah. Purdy. Might be a guy. Might be a guy.

Listen, like I said, I'll say it time and time again it's awesome when you see somebody who's a backer prepare like a starter come in and do the right things moment not too big for him but hey check it out here's we're going to start with okay yeah we always start with him of course they don't this is what whenever we said earlier this is what we say hey let's why don't we trick fuck? Why don't we trick fuck? Trick fuck him. Here comes the trick fuck. We're just going to do a little D-line move. This guy, because this guy, this is what he saw.

Where's the camera that saw it? Yeah, you get it. There it is. This way. I'm straight out. Okay, so D-line. This way. No, I'm going to do it this way so you can see what I'm talking about.

So here, I'm a D-lineman. They're taught to come out, and all they do, press their hands like this. And so all their weight is forward. So what do we do? We use their shit against them. We trick fuck them. We throw them down with a little D line move. There it is.

Give the O. And that just opens the whole back side. We stretch the front side. Take notice of all these guys. This is the key to a Shanahan zone scheme. Watch all these guys. There's no short steps that you get taught in little Mighty Might football or whatever it is. Everybody is running off of the ball trying to stretch.

We get everybody running. That is also started by the pitch. When you get a toss, they have to fast flow. Right, AJ? Absolutely. Boom. Press, too. Yeah, man, they get them going.

They get them flying over the front side and now look where he hits this this motherfucker is going to end up back past this hash oh trent doing a good job too using his back to set a pick after he tossed the lineman down really good stuff right throws him down and then just plays basketball and boxes out another guy that's two for one right there. Just enough. Because that's the same as a pancake, getting him on the ground, right, throwing him down in his own face.

All you want is getting knocked down. This is fourth quarter, too, I believe. It's kind of. This is. Three minutes left in the game. Four-minute offense. You were saying he could have cut back right there when he passed the 65. Yeah.

And then hit right there. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. But how are you going to second-guess him, right? Exactly, yeah. Let him do what he. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. But how are you going to second guess him, right? Exactly, yeah. Let him do what he does that makes magic. He thought about it.

Well, he might have thought somebody from the back end of it caught him. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Because look at old cuzzy right here. He felt old buddy get held right there. Yep. Look at 64 grabbing old buddy 52. Yep.

I don't think they should have called it. Whoa. He felt that other color flash probably. AJ's linebacker showing. Yeah, look at his eyes. Look at his eyes. I mean. Look at his eyes right there. That hasn't have called it. Whoa. He felt that other color flash probably. AJ's linebacker showing. Yeah, look at his eyes. Look at his eyes. I mean. Look at his eyes right there.

Yeah. He looks. He takes a peek, right? Unless it's a kick return for the Vikings. Takes a peek. Takes a peek. Says, fuck that. Hey, you got to love this, too.

Let's go all the way back to the beginning, because I always love to give these guys a little love, too. Check my man out. Getting a little cake at the top of the rep. Getting a little pancake at the top. Kim's not in? Wait for it. Oh!

Gotcha! God of the big leagues. Love giving the tight ends a little love. McCaffrey's so awesome in this offense, huh? I mean, that's so good. I mean, when you have a frontside toss that is really meant to hit A, B, C, D, frontside, and it hits out the backside C. God, it's beautiful.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Chase away. Chase away. Chase away. Chase away. Chase away. Oh, no. Hey.

What is going on? I love this. I love what we're about to do here. The Colts or? Sorry, it's against the Colts. Okay, so the first person I want to highlight is the center. Okay, so let's just set this thing up first, right? You're going to get a down block here.

Down block there on the three tech, which when you get the down block, it's going to drive him this way, correct? You're going to... It's a zone. You're basically zoning off the backside. So he has to reach and get underneath him. So when that happens, both these D tackles squeeze this off. We call this squeezing off the hole for the center who has to get to this mic.

Watch him get skinny and be able to just turn his shoulder and get through this little, watch this, and get to the mic backer. AJ, wait until you see how good this is. Look at this. Boom, and then get up. Wow. Sweet. How good is that?

He's supposed to be there. Just enough not to hold, too. He doesn't hold it. Yep. A dumb guy would have held that just long enough. He got enough of him. It's perfect. And then now let me also do this.

Okay, so let's go back to the beginning real quick, too. What is the worst matchup in football? We talk about it all the time. Titans. Titans on D-ends. Everybody knows that. So what do they do? They use that against them.

We bluff it. We make it seem like we're running a G scheme, a true G scheme. If you go back to the very beginning here, real quick, right here, watch him. He's going to bluff like he's going inside. Watch this. Boom. One step, two step inside with his head. Watch this.

And then collect. You see that? Boom. Now we collect and we exchange assignments with Zach Martin, the guard, pulling around for the Sam. A normal G scheme would be Zach Martin kicking out the end, tight end through on the Sam. We exchange assignments.

Bluff, seal him, pull Zach Martin on the Sam linebacker, and then we put the fullback on the corner. Sam, Mike, Will. Sam, this is the strong side of the formation. Strong side. Left side. Strong side. Left side. Strong side. Left side.

Strong side. It's into the boundary. Again, this is the formation that I love over and over again. I talk about it. Tight end into the boundary. Everybody else over there. Now we only get one support player when the safety is down over here. It's just a corner.

Boom. Zeke is out the gate. High step. AJ, is that Sam Way too far inside Especially with the three tech Crashing down Like just Is that misalignment

To even start the play I mean he had to run it back But he If he does like box it back As you say to his help It doesn't matter They're all walled off already So watch at 45

He does get outside of Was that Zach Martin Pulling around If he gets outside here Like he can knock it back to 44 And what 58 Watch out They're not They're all both sealed already So even If he gets outside here, he's going to knock it back to 44 and 58. Watch out. They're both sealed already.

So even if he's outside, Zeke's going to hit that thing right downhill and boom. Got a two-way go. Really good scheme, though. I love little wrinkles. I love switching things up. I love exchanging responsibilities. Nimble centers. Got to love that.

You got to love seeing my man get through like that. That's awesome. Good skinny. Here we go. It's time. Itble centers. Got to love that. You got to love seeing my man get through like that. That's awesome. Here we go. It's time. It's time. I like big bumps and I cannot lie. All right, let's go. Here we go.

We're going to fake the power, the one back power going this way. And when you do that, this is a very typical scheme. I ran this scheme. Every team in the league runs this scheme. Fake the power. Quick screen to the receiver. Center intact. We're going to get out. One step out. What are we scheme. Fake the power. Quick screen to the receiver. Center intact. We're going to get out.

One step. Out. What are we going to do here? We're going to trick fuck. Right? That's the word of the day. Trick fuck this guy. Get him to go over the top.

And then boom. He got the alley. When he gets the alley, Julian Love, you ain't going to like what's coming. No, you're not going to love it at all. You're going to Julian hate it. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh! No!

No! Tyler Larson, 6'4", 325. Yep. Yep. Out of Utah. Yep. Oh, geez. Bad intentions. Oh, no!

Wait till you see this. His feet are above his head. His feet go above his head. It was unbelievable. Branovich is sick right now. Yeah. Bruce Branovich, big-time Giants fan. How good is that?

And look, AJ, look, check it out. When he goes back inside, he thought he missed the big block. He thought he avoided the tackle and doesn't even see the center. Just kidding. Tyler Lawrence. He jumps on top of him, too. Man. That's a good measure.

Man, it stinks to play defense. You got to let them go low. They need to go low again. That's unfair. That's a big double team. Oh, you want Lane Johnson to blow his knee up? Yeah. You said I'm a bitch.

Oh, thank you, AJ. Yeah, real cool, AJ. Really nice of you. These big guys running their asses off. Tyler Larson, 6'4", 325 when he weighed in. Look at the body on this guy. Yeah. He's fucking big body flying around rolling he's he's big body he's rolling way too athletic it's too athletic you

can't be that big and that athletic i agree it's funny what aj started off the show as is you know guys shouldn't go low when they're tackling and now here he is oh yeah because the guy heard his pco yeah he thought about that guy i told you I revised that comment before that. In high school at times, I thought that. Well, I still don't believe you. This is another. All right, let's pause this. Let me just set this up.

Big old bum. Uh-oh. Big old bum. This thing's circulating the internet. We've all seen it at this point. But let's just talk about why it's so awesome. Okay. They're going to reset the front.

We're going to get the three tech here. Most people, they teach the guys up front on these naked boots. Anytime there's some type of play action with the naked rollout, whatever it is, these guys typically are taught. This is where you get your shot, right? Hey, go get your shot. Go find some ribs. Get, get one in. That's going to get you. What you're going to do, but this is football. This is football, but they're also taught to everybody just turn and run. What makes this play? He sets this up. Like they're really running a true inside turn and run what makes this play he sets this up like they're really running a true inside zone he's not just turning his shoulders and running the sidelines like you do typically with with the naked he's going to set this up and watch this

inside arm get on this inside pec right here so whenever kelsey hits him he slingshots him with his arm watch Watch this shit. See the right arm in tight? Yep. Now watch it. As soon as Kelsey makes contact, it's like on the same exact time, we get a throw from that right hand. On the hand on the hip too?

He's hitting the hip, getting him off the ground, and then there's the throw. Oh, man. Sorry, pal. Let's watch that thing one more time in full speed. I mean, that is incredible shit. Big tree fall hard. Yeah. Boom.

Oh, my God. Lane Jaunt? No, is that Lane? No. AJ, have you seen this one yet? No, Lane's not. Oh, yeah. That's a good singer, guys. Yeah.

Some good teamwork right here. Yeah. Good awareness by my law to seeing it right there and just getting that leg out of there, too. Almost took the last tackle up. Almost hurt your own teammates. Yeah. Some really of there, too. Almost took the last tackle up. Almost hurt your own teammates. Yeah. Some really good stuff, man. That team played – that offensive line plays the game the right way.

They're constantly trying to be physical and make everybody know every single play, the Goons are in town. Oh, yeah. They're hunting ribs, huh? Yeah, they're hunting ribs. Jason Kelsey is the guy, center? He's having a monster year. It's unbelievable.

He's in year 13. He's almost having – this might be his best year yet. Is he best in the game? Yeah. Jason Kelsey by far? Yeah. Better than David Andrews? Best center in the game and best tight end in the game.

Have a podcast called New Heights Pod. Yeah. And they just so happen to share the same womb. What a fucking talented family. Unbelievable. Both are all pros. Yeah. Great athletes.

Both Super Bowl champions. Yeah, might meet in the Super Bowl this year. Dude, congrats to the Kelseys. Yeah. Killing it. Sorry to their parents if they have to deal with that Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl. Oh, the split jersey like Laura Hawke. That's right.

Forgot about that. You'll send one of those, obviously, to the Kelsey parents. And AQ, thank you so much all right it's time for us to get the fuck out of here we need to do a giveaway aq what do you want to do but putt all right here we go all right i want i want two out of five during one of the commercial breaks so if you go two out of five, we'll give 15 people $500 who retweet this video, say something nice to somebody, and put their cash tag in that same tweet.

Now, I think the world needs people to say things nice to each other. I think the world needs everybody, especially on Twitter, because they're saying the love speech on Twitter is higher than it's ever been. They always talk about hate speech, what's going to be out there.

Love speech, good. Let's continue to add to that. Let's say something nice to somebody. Let's retweet this video, and let's put a cash tag in that same tweet where it said something nice to somebody, because maybe we could be one of 15 winners who win $500 if A.Q. Shipley can bury two out of five. Going with the cross hole.

Whoa! He found the path. He's going cross court here. This is a smart idea. Nobody has used this technique yet. And also, the green has been beating. I thought it was in. It was a walk-off.

It was a walk-off. That's almost minus one. I was going to say, he's either got to make the next one or that's minus one. Man, did I just jinx this? Yeah. I think that's minus one. I am a bit worried about what just took place here. Oh, I felt good about it. You walk it in. You don't walk it off. I was watching it while I was watching's minus one. I am a bit worried about what just took place here. Oh, I felt good about it.

You walk it in. You don't walk it off. I was watching it while I was watching you walk off. Nice. Wow. Nice. Let's go. Great putt.

That was huge. Let's go. A potential very embarrassing false walk off. Yeah, that was bad. For him to step back in and make that? Congratulations to you. Thank you, boy. And congratulations to the 15 winners of $500 who retweeted this,

say something nice, and put their cash tag in there. We can't thank you enough for watching. Hey, Albie, great work. What's going on? What a day. What a day. Great in the trenches as well. AJ, great show today.

Can't thank you enough. Talks are terrible. You're fantastic. Tony Diggs, can't wait to watch Hammer. Dad! In 10 to 15 minutes at youtube.com forward slash hammer. Dad! AJ, great show today. Can't thank you enough. Talks to the table. You're fantastic. Tony Diggs, can't wait to watch Hammer. Dad! In 10 to 15 minutes at youtube.com forward slash hammer. Dad!

Everybody in the back, great work. To all the boys that work here, you are the best humans on earth. Can't wait to join you guys tomorrow. We got Kevin O'Connell joining us. Oh, hell yeah. Ask him about that draw, will you? I will if that was a read on where the mic is. Yeah.

Hey, that one draw Dalvin Cook did, is that a read off where the mic is. Yeah. Hey, you know what a draw Dalvin Cook did? Is that a read off where the mic is? And could the center and the guard switch reverse rolls there for one to pull like the Eagles did, as opposed to maybe the guard pulling on that draw? That's a great question. Is that the way it should be phrased? That's exactly, yeah. Okay, got it down. Feel smarter. And I also believe from the Buffalo Bills, Jordan Poyer.

Yeah, Jordan Poyer. Oh, nice. Poyer, Kevin O'Connell. We are counting that interception that did not count. Against New England? Towards the 12 for the million or whatever. So we are counting it even though the NFL did not. Can't wait to chat with them.

And we also have Kellen Acosta, United States soccer player, who we have followed each other on Instagram for a while. Just got back from the soccer Lombardi. Going to chat with him about all things happening in Qatar. Time to hear about it. It is time. Because I had high hopes and aspirations because of people like Kellen Acosta and how goddamn good he is at soccer.

That's right. Can we chat with him tomorrow and let him know, hey, in four years, it's fucking our game. Better be. Yeah. It will be. It's going to. Congrats to the Vegas Golden Knights beating the shit out of the Boston Bruins last night in Boston.

Their first loss at home. It was 3-0 and the Beast came back and went to a shootout. Stoner had three goals. Stoner did not have three goals, but he gave a fucking fiery speech to the boys in the locker room before they hit the ice. Like number 90. That was a good one. He had an unbelievable assist as well. Game puck for Stoner for a fiery speech pregame.

Get the boys in there. That one was for Butch. All right, we're going to get the fuck out of here. We'll see you all tomorrow. Sorry we didn't have enough foresight to reach out to Aaron to see if he'd be on today. Because obviously we knew they were in a bye week. And in previous bye weeks, he was under house arrest because of the immunized situation. This is his first bye week where he's able to leave his house in Green Bay.

We should have known that. That's on us. Can't wait to chat with him next week, see what he's up to. To all of you, you're the best humans on earth. See you. Goodbye.