The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 840 - Bengals DC Lou Anarumo, UFC Flyweight Champion Brandon Moreno, 49ers TE George Kittle, Darius Butler LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: January 25, 2023

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about this weekend’s matchups in the AFC and NFC Championship, Patrick Mahomes’ ankle status, the prospect of the Championship games being played in neutral site cities, and much more. Joining the progrum fresh off a dominating win over the Bills in Buffalo in the Divisional Round is the Defensive Coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals, Lou Anarumo. Pat, D But, and Lou chat about his preparation for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, how the team was ready to go against the Bills, the mentality of the team this year versus last year, how cool Joe Burrow is, and more (24:34-42:14). Also joining the progrum is the UFC Flyweight Champion of the world, the first Mexican born champion in the history of the UFC, Brandon Moreno, to chat about his fight with Figueiredo in Brazil, what’s next for him after closing the book on this rivalry, what he’ll do to relax and recoup post fight, and his mentality when stepping into the Octagon (1:23:43-1:41:09). Later, 3x All-Pro, 4x Pro Bowler, one of the best TE’s in the NFL, San Francisco 49ers TE, George Kittle, joins the show to chat about their upcoming NFC Championship matchup, the 49ers run game and the amount of weapons they have on offense, his relationship with Brock Purdy and why he’s a guy, what it’s like being teammates with Trent Williams and Nick Bosa, his run blocking prowess, and much more (2:29:12-2:51:51). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to our humble abode, the FanDuel Thunderdome. On this winter Wednesday, January 25th, 2023, this dumbass sports show starts right now. Football! We only got a few weeks left. Widening. You know, we've been pounding the drum hard that we need to enjoy every single NFL game that we have. And although the Philadelphia Eagles just beat the fuck out of the New York Giants, the New York Giants had a hell of a year, all the games have been fantastic as of late.

Truly been barn burners. And I've been trying to be positive. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. Like to be all positive, Pat, but I want to let everybody know we don't have a lot of football left. No. So every conversation we have, let's make sure we take it for what it is, which is something that is valuable.

Yeah. Not only what's not the sports media world, but for us, because we are just a few weeks away from having to talk about so much bullshit that we have to act like matters. So whenever we're talking about this weekend's matchups where the AFC championship is on the line

and the NFC championship is on the line and four teams are vying for two spots for Lambeau, let's remember that this is the best time of the year. Hell yeah. Let's remember that we're living in a good old days. That's right. And let's remember that when we break this thing down and we get a chance to chat with incredible people today,

tomorrow, the next day, the next week, and then at Radio Row obviously we have a stacked card from out there in Arizona. Let's enjoy the hell out of this. The Talks of the Tapers here. I know you guys enjoy everything. At Boston Connor, at Ty Schmidt. Not wearing the same uniform today. Is everything okay?

You guys off chemistry good? Everything's good. Everything's fantastic. We did our day yesterday. I had no idea, of course, because that's just kind of how it goes. But I did wear something I knew Ty didn't have just in case. What was that? Whatever this is, this button down.

Lumberjack. Warm lumberjack shirt, lumberjack jacket. It is kind of a flannel, but without the flannel appeal. Bingo. There it is. I will let everybody know, and that's one half of the hammer. Cowboys tone digs looking fantastic. and that's one half of the hammer. God! Cowboys, Tony Diggs looking fantastic.

And joining us, speaking of looking fantastic. Oh, yeah. Cooler every day somehow. Yeah. No idea how that works. Must have a... I forget who it was. Maybe I saw a video or a report on the internet.

Chris Brown has so many clothes. He has like a department store as a closet. Saw that as well. The rack's in there. This guy has to have the same exact thing because he shows up looking cool all the time. Hosted a Man to Man podcast. Nine-year NFL vet. Ladies and gentlemen, Darius J. Ballard.

Yeah, D-Bud! D-Bud, storm out there. Real. So a couple weeks ago, we got the freeze storm. The flash freeze. It wasn't a flash freeze. It certainly did freeze everything. But the way they were pitching it was uh whoever mother nature was going to left hand like a snowball left hand rain and then right hand ice it down that's right like jack frost or whatever

that didn't happen now it did get very cold a lot of ice a lot of bad things happened a lot of people lost power and it was crash but it was nowhere near as big for us here in Indiana. We don't know about everywhere else. But for us, what we were being told what it was going to be, it wasn't necessarily still a pain in the ass, still a lot of busted pipes, electric down, everything like that. This one, I've only heard about it for the last couple of days, and it was supposed to come overnight. It did not come overnight. No, no, no.

It's right now. It is coming down out there. I had to drive. Wife and I had an appointment we had to go to early this morning. We went after hearing what the storms are going to be all night. We woke up a little bit earlier. I thought I was going to be a little bit longer. Not bad at all this morning.

No. Yeah. It's supposed to come overnight from like 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. And then I guess after we had fallen asleep, before we had woken up, they had adjusted the time that the 8 a.m. hour is actually going to be when it is. Our appointment was at 8 a.m. So getting there, no problem. While we're in our appointment, we come back out.

Holy shit. Oh, yeah. Whole new world. Cars, side of the road, everywhere. Hope everybody's safe. We hope everybody's comfortable. Appreciate all the boys coming in here. But D-Butt, this is now two times where you've shown up

and just like miserable cold weather has come. Happy you're here. You know, it's Indy, and I heard, you know, you shot the Texas out. Hey, be careful. It's going to be ugly out there. As soon as I read them, I just heard A.J. Hawk's voice in my head like, you know.

Nick, you got to mute yourself. You're yelling back there. I didn't hear exactly what. What's that, Nick? I am muted. No, somebody's not muted back there. Thought I heard the rack. There we is.

There we go. Way to go, Nick, back there. AJ Hawk just talking about how soft. Just don't be soft. Don't be dramatic. Whatever it is, we'll deal with it. We'll get here. It is ugly out there.

It's snowing sideways. It's good to look at and see for a couple days. For sure. You know, shovel and do all this shit. I'm sure you guys got to do something. Tim McAfee is outside shoveling his fucking place. Shout out to Tim. I got to do snowblowers and wait for some

fucking accumulation. I need some. Yeah, absolutely. You're a snowblower guy in the neighborhood? Let's go. I moved in, what, two years ago to my house. I was the only one on the block without a snowblower. I had people coming over and fucking snowblowing my driveway. As a human, as a homeowner, as a man of the block without a snowblower. Okay? I had people coming over and fucking snowblowing my driveway. As a human, as a homeowner, as a man of the house, and now a father. Now a dad, yeah.

Couldn't have that happen, okay? This year I purchased a new fucking snowblower. Now I got the fucking biggest bat as well on the block, okay? So fucking step aside, boys. Congratulations, Tony. Are you taking it over to somebody else's house to try to help him? I'm going to fucking dunk on somebody else. Hey, I see your little, what if you just right next to him?

100%. Just blowing a much bigger little. Yeah, it's happening. Is it gas powered? Are you going to plug that thing in? No, no, no plug in. Oh, it's Mickey Mouse. Is it electric?

Huh? It's electric? It's battery powered. Fucking, fucking. Even more Mickey Mouse. It's got to be gas powered, Tony. You know that. Uh-oh.

You know that. It's the biggest, baddest one on the market. You don't even... You have to just flick a button. Just like your car. You gotta fucking hold the gas in and fucking press start. So there's gas. The throttle.

Okay, we'll dive into it deeper. Hey, congratulations. That's a big step. I used to obviously shovel the whole thing. Great workout. Oh yeah, congratulations. That's a big step. Oh, yeah. I used to, obviously, shovel snow, the whole thing. Great workout. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Makes money off it, too.

They were talking about we're only halfway through winter right now. They're saying another half of winter coming through if there was to get. What? That happened yesterday, too, Tone. That literally happened. Just a different what yesterday. You choked over water. And in the middle of a conversation with no context at all,

Diggs was just moaning into a microphone in the middle of it or whatever. Yeah, they're saying we're halfway through. And I only know that because I was watching local news because we had that appointment this morning we had to get to with what they were calling with weather. It was like we might not be able to literally get out of the house or whatever without the highways could be. And they were like, well, if six inches comes, we'll be at nine inches or something, only halfway through.

27 inches, I think, is the record for Indiana. So they were starting to talk that. I think we're halfway through. I think we still got. Yeah. I still think we got a lot of time. I think it's only going to get. I don't want to say worse, but I feel like this.

We're in it now. Oh, yeah. I feel like we're really in it because it was up to like 55, 60. Yeah. After that freeze. Yep. like we're really in it. Because it was up to like 55-60. After that freeze. After that freeze storm came in. It got back up to like 55. I thought we changed.

I thought maybe the four seasons. I thought we had changed. The news told me that was not the case. It'll go until April. It'll be cold probably until I think it's like the national championship for basketball. The end of March Madness is when we start to see it

really kind of turn into spring, but there'll still be cold days all the way until May. I don't know, dude. Hey, that earthquake in Malibu, hope Aaron's okay. And everybody over there's okay. That was like 2 a.m. this morning. I saw some tornadoes taking place in Texas. We got this massive snowstorm that's hitting the entire Midwest. They showed

the Doppler. I'm not DiNardo. I tried to read the Doppler. That fucker was nothing, nothing, nothing. Then there was some green and then blue just went over the entire Midwest. I don't know if it's because they don't have DiNardo reading the Doppler. They don't know where it's going to go. So they're just projecting it everywhere.

Or if it is actually going everywhere. Rest in peace, Joe. Thank you, Joe. We've been great to have you this morning or last night, Joe. A lot of anxiety. Who's going to make you wet? Do these snowstorms get named like a hurricane? This one actually did. What?

This one was responsible for the tornadoes down south as well, and then it came back up. It did have a name. This is a mean cuss. Yeah, holy shit. This one a mean cuss. Holy shit. This one, real problem, this storm. Hope everybody's safe. Hope everybody's okay.

We have a leak. Happens to be from the same place as the last leak. Haven't got it fixed yet. Someone's on it. We'll figure it out. Well, see, that's the thing about, like, someone. We are the ones. Yeah, we the ones.

We the ones. You know, we are the the one the ones yeah yeah we the one we the ones you know we are cassandra the ones that this is hurricane uh snow cassandra winter storm cassandra winter storm cassandra with a k fucking scram with a k yeah this bitch they're running out of name yeah come on tornadoes blizzards Is a bitch of a Cassandra. Was she part of the earthquake too? Earthquake probably, yeah. What's going on with the earthquake? Have you heard anything about the earthquake?

Is that the fault? That's just the big one giving a little rumble. Bro, that's directly out from Alabama. I don't know if you looked at the map. I did. Just directly outside of probably where a conversation was taking place yesterday that the world was responding to 2 a.m. I think it was only a 4 or something.

And some Californians were like, this is nowhere near the biggest we've ever felt. But people were feeling it. And earthquakes are a crazy phenomenon. I couldn't imagine living in a place where that takes place. Where you're just walking and all of a sudden the earth is like, what's up? It's like, okay, everything's good. Yep, just fucking act like our day's good. Let's act like nothing happened.

That's what earthquakes are. But the man who was in Malibu, we believe, was talking to us yesterday. A lot of reaction to his comments from yesterday. A lot of big-time takeaways. Seems like he still wants to play. Now, he has not come out and said he wants to play. Still going through his process. He said if there was a two-week timeline on when he needed to make his decision,

would have been able to do it. Not as easy, he thinks, to have done it, but he would have been able to make a decision if he was been able to do it. Not as easy, he thinks, to have done it, but he would have been able to make a decision if he was given some sort of timeline in the near future, which could take place with all the assumptions that are taking place around sports media with Aaron, that he's going to get traded. Well, Peter King says they're going to need two ones for that trade. Now, that's just him guessing, but he also has connections, so a lot of people have just

been taking that as gospel. Adam Schefter reported they would not trade him to an NFC team. It would be an AFC team. Now, we don't know if Schefter's reporting that as a pundit or as an insider. He is an insider, so his punditry should be judged in a fashion in which he has information that we don't have. So we just start piecing things together as gospel, and then Aaron kind of alludes to it like, hey, if the Packers want to move on,

there's no malice with me. I understand. Been in that situation with Brett. I think he loves Jordan. I think he's very appreciative of everything that Green Bay has done for him, the fan base. No, I don't think the fans feel the same way. I think a lot of the fans would. Not a lot of the fans.

A lot of the fans we see on Twitter, not as a whole as Green Bay Packers fans. Twitter vocal crew from the Packers fan base seems to be loud about, like, they're done with this type of bullshit. I'm happy you're done with it because the Colts might be getting Aaron Rodgers is what I heard there. D, but did you listen to the conversation? Did you take away anything from it?

And what are your thoughts on Aaron Rodgers' future, which he said would rework a contract to adjust how the future looks for him? I kind of feel the same way I felt last week and the week before that. I feel like he'll be back in Green Bay. Really? He's going to make the 60, you know, he's not going to walk away from the 60 million and retire, obviously. I think he's going to continue to keep playing. But

honestly, my favorite takeaway from the conversation yesterday was watching him go down memory lane with fucking Tommy Wilson. I was here last week when y'all had those. So like seeing that, seeing that, that whole interaction. How about Dexter Lawrence was mega DL. Yeah.

Or Darren Lawrence. Wait, who's that? That was number 15. Oh, okay. I don't remember. A couple guys played in the league. That was DL. On that team.

Yeah, 10 was Tommy. He's now a coach, I think. I think 10 is a coach now. Tommy Wilson. Tommy Wilson was a coach at Butte. I believe he's now the VP of athletic wear. Okay. Well, shout out to Tommy.

He's going to have success, whatever, because a lot of people quote tweeted the video. They're like, Coach Tommy. Coach Tommy. They're saying, that guy should have been in the league. Should have been. Only played one year. He's a soccer player, right? Yeah.

Cooper Copper. My senior year, my best receiver was a soccer player. I played quarterback. My best receiver was a soccer player as well. Fast as shit. Go ball. Stop. That's it.

Yeah, I feel like if our soccer team would have played for our high school team, Tone, no offense, the DiGiglio family is very deep in the roots of the plum football operation. So please do not take this as a shot, but I think you understand. We were a wagon. We had a lot of – if, like, my age would have played on the football team, we'd probably pick up three, four starters. A lot of good Italian athletes on that soccer team.

No offense, I was a state champion soccer player before I switched sides. Really? Goalie. Goalie. Conquered the sport. Tone was a guy. Yeah, same season. What's that?

It's the same season. You've got to pick one. You had to pick football. I had to. And you ended up being almost an Ivy League fucking player. That's the same season. You've got to pick one. You had to pick football. I had to. And you ended up being almost an Ivy League fucking player. That's right. Almost. Almost.

Not enough grass. That's a school. Not for you. But the big take, I did enjoy him kind of running through the list of all those names. And I saw a lot of people saying, how about this fucking guy just rattling off all the names? Then I started thinking to myself, if we had to do that for our high school when we were watching film, and obviously he's 39, right? Yeah.

So he's a little bit older. He's almost 40 years. That's a long time. What is that, 12 years removed? No, 22 years. Yeah. 22 years removed almost from all those situations. Still being able to call everybody.

And then the happiness that kind of lit up now, did we use that as a ploy to remind him how much he loves football and how much football? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, maybe we're playing close Sicilian chess and nobody wants to talk about it. We also have to find out the Almond Bowl story.

Yeah, the Almond Bowl. Yeah. The Alamo Bowl, certainly something that I'm sure Aaron has a take on. Yeah, great bowl game. But the Almond Bowl over there, we never got it because the night before something happened with Aaron. But watching him kind of relive and go through it, I saw genuine happiness on his face,

didn't you? And I think yesterday I heard a lot of like a guy that's very comfortable with who he is right now, where he's at right now. Everything that has happened and everything that can happen. And I think that's good news if you're an Aaron Rodgers fan. As a Packers fan, you heard the same thing, Darius? Because I heard he was a Colt.

That's literally what I heard yesterday. I heard he was an Indianapolis Colt. Nah, I mean, same deal. Colts stink. They are in a rebuild. He doesn't want to come here. No. He definitely doesn't want to put, I mean, if Jeff Saturday is the head coach,

no offense to Jeff. Aaron doesn't want to fucking play for Jeff Saturday. I can almost guarantee that. I don't know who the offensive coordinator would be. But, I don't know. I mean, this has happened basically. Dan Orlovsky, okay? That may swing the pendulum in the other direction.

I don't know. Colts are interviewing seven more people for second half. I mean, the Colts have interviewed everybody in the NFL. So we have no idea who's going to be the head coach. Allegedly, Jeff Saturday is a frontrunner, though, because everything that Jim thought about Jeff, he saw about Jeff, even though the results weren't necessarily the positive ones that we had all hoped for, which kind of goes to what Aaron was talking about yesterday about the process. Like if you think it's a successful process happening, you can't just judge strictly off the results.

You have to trust the process. Everybody from inside the building, now everybody inside the building that I know has known Jeff Saturday for a long time. It's like when Jeff came in, it was like the first time there was any real accountability. That's not something you can necessarily just turn around overnight, and you're not going to be popular, especially as an interim title. Like all these substitute teachers coming in here, they're going to tell me I have to take notes.

Okay, I don't take notes. Whatever you put up there, my fucking mind is just going to remember. How about that, substitute teacher? You're a sub. That's why you're not an actual teacher. You wouldn't understand it. Shut up. That's kind of what Jeff Saturday is coming in and going, hey, we're not late, okay, to treatment.

We're not late to meetings. We're not late to workouts. That doesn't happen. And you know what? If you do, you're getting fined. And we're going to fine you do, you're getting fined and we're going to fine you a lot of money for doing it. And I can't believe this is how this has been operating for a long time anyways. So everybody in the building has basically told me that when

Jeff got there, it was the first time there was like a, in the building, I think if you were to take a poll, everybody would be like, we would sign up for Jeff figuring out how to fucking get this group of people back. Now, with that being said, I don't know if Ballard knows that. I don't know if Jim Irsay knows that. I'm just telling you with the people that I've talked to, because although the results, because there's a chance Jeff gets his job, I think. Oh, yeah. I think there's a lot of people publicly that are going to be very confused by it.

I do not know what Jeff is like as a head coach other than what you all have seen. I've not been in the building. But people who have been a part of been a part of like the winningest decade in the history of the NFL and have had a lot of success and been there for a long time have been like, hey, what Jeff brought in was something that was needed and was not going to be popular. And he already got half a season pretty much of instituting that. So there's a chance it could work. Now, I think other people could come in and do a great job as well. I don't know how anybody's going to do.

Just like D-Butt put in the group text, we thought Sirianni would be terrible. After that opening press conference, it was like, oh, man, they fucked up. This guy's going to be the worst coach of all time. And then MCDC. Same deal. Thought he was going to be terrible. They turned around. Zach Taylor was literally terrible.

So you can never judge a hire literally the day it happens. There will be judgment. On this show, too, there will be either a lot of excitement or a little bit of excitement. You know, you can kind of see how I judge it. Everybody's natural reaction is to, but we have no fucking idea what's going to happen. But to your point, there's not an answer on who's going to be running the offense right now.

Yeah, exactly. So, like, Aaron thinking about possible destinations, it's like, okay, I'll be learning a new offense. Everybody will be learning a new offense, though. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Could he bring a guy with him? Could he bring somebody with him? Maybe Nate Hackett?

Yeah, there's a lot of coaches he's worked with. That's what the Jets are thinking. The Jets are thinking. A lot of the Jets fans are putting. We already interviewed Hackett for the offense coordinator job. He has a relationship with Salah. I think they know each other. There's a chance he gets it.

Him and Aaron get along well. The Jets fans are thinking that they're even interviewing him. Him potentially being the offense coordinator is a spot that Aaron would want to go to. Now, obviously, Aaron would have to agree to go to any of these places, we'd assume. I don't think he's just getting traded to any team that Green Bay wants to. Is that just out of respect from the organization? Because he doesn't have no trade club, right? I don't know.

I think that was kind of part of when, after last season, when they signed the deal, remember, because they were talking about him getting traded, and he said that there was kind of like a mutual agreement that, hey, if we get to the crossroads where, like, it's not going to work and there is, like, a finality and something needs to be done, that they're not just going to end up trading him to, you know, some fucking bottom tier team.

Who was that? Who? Jamie Collins? Yes, with the Browns. Jamie Collins, remember this? Lombaker? Yeah, so he was the guy that jumped over Overton to block the extra point, and I actually saw him midair as I'm catching a snap. Yeah. Oh, shit. Oh, no. remember this linebacker yeah so he was a guy that jumped over overton to block the extra point and i

actually saw him midair as i'm catching a snap yeah oh shit oh no that guy's gonna land on us this guy just jumped 21 feet how did that happen then he blocks the kick he was a guy allegedly and this story has never been confirmed i don't think no allegedly he said something in front of the entire team and bill about his contract getting paid something like that and bill said oh that's cute trade them to the browns the next day yep and it was the last year of his rookie deal he's a southern miss guy like kind of a no one in the draft drafted him in the first round he's another one of those picks from belichick that's like who the fuck is this guy and he comes in he's unbelievable and he jumps over offensive yeah

he's a freaky i mean there's videos of him doing, you know, eight backflips in a row and then sticking it, like, and then. But allegedly, the rumor is he, in front of everybody, was like, hey, is that what you, what are we doing? And Bill's like, oh, that was really nice. Next day at team meeting. I don't know if you've noticed, the person that raised that question yesterday,

he's playing for the fucking Cleveland Browns now. Trading for a bag of balls. We'll see what he thinks. And that was where careers go to die. Oh, Jimmy came back. Then he goes back to New England obviously has the same amount of success, but to your point, what you're saying is, that

has been done in the past where allegedly there has been a spite trade where it's like oh is that right you don't love what's oh we're a bad place huh okay bam welcome to houston texas something like that you know what i mean and it's like uh that's an it not no offense houston please no no you're the worst team in the league yeah i didn't know that yeah not taking not that the colts aren't i mean we're top five pick as well so let's not let's not crazy. But I think that's the big thing with Rodgers is, again, everyone's glossing over it.

Like he said, and I don't think he's going to retire. I think that's been pretty evident with what he's said to us. But he's not coming back if he doesn't think he can win a Super Bowl. And so you have to look at it as, like, do the Colts, him on the Colts, is that a better opportunity to win a Super Bowl than him on the Packers currently? Like, no way. And the Colts stink. You a better opportunity to win a Super Bowl than him on the Packers currently? No way. Colts stink.

You know it. We both know it. 0%. We can do whatever. What did you just say? We can do this all day? Yeah, we can. You've been judging it with Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback.

Yeah, absolutely. Who do I got? I got the guy on CBS right now. Yeah. Clean dab, though. Sick dab. Great dab. Colts Clean dab, though. Sick dab. Great dab. Colts don't know who their coach is.

Yeah, does Rodgers want to come in and kind of establish a culture in the last two years of his career? Do you think that's kind of where he's at? Have a Parks-Fraser call, boys? Yeah, I was wondering why everybody just is not talking about the Colts being a destination. Now you're starting to lay it out. I saw some Colts bloggers last night saying, we don't want them.

Okay. See, that's interesting. Okay. I'm not I saw some Colts bloggers last night saying, we don't want him. Okay. See, that's interesting. Okay. I'm not speaking for all Colts fans whenever I speak, okay? Because there are some Colts fans that go and they see the Spider-Man from New York Times Square and they go, that's awesome. Holy shit. You know what I mean? So I'm just talking.

I guess I come from some different. A lot of Colts fans, I think, agree with a lot of things I say, and I appreciate them. I still live here. I have friends and family that are dire Colts fans, so I feel like I kind of have a temperature on it. Now, I view it a little differently because I was in the building, and while in the building, I was having a lot of the same thoughts that you hear me have into this microphone every single day,

so I might judge it a little bit differently, but we're a quarterback away here in Indianapolis, aren't we? Aren't we, Darius? Absolutely not. Darius knows it. Look, he knows. He's choked up knows it. Look at it. He knows. He's choked up over it. That's how much he knows how true that comment is.

We got a lot of shit to figure out. We do have some good players on the roster, though. But I wouldn't necessarily say the quarterbacks. No way. The Bears? The Bears have some good players on that roster. We're in a better spot than the fucking Bears. I don't know.

An MVP candidate last year. Yeah. The Bears have a quarterback, though. I mean, all the good players on their roster. They're in better spots than the fucking Bears. I don't know. An MVP candidate last year. Yeah. Bears have a quarterback, though. I mean, all the good players. We're talking about a quarterback coming to the team. Who did you have? Exactly. Thank you.

Matt Ryan? Great guy. Astronaut. Navy SEAL. Off the field. On the field. Not there anymore. I still can't believe we're still saying that because it's so goddamn disrespectful to the

troops. It's a compliment. To Matt Ryan, it is disrespectful to the troops. Well, with how he performed, certainly. We watched the terminal list last year, and we saw what Navy SEALs do when they see enemies downrange. And I can't believe we're still saying that. But let's keep in mind, Matt Ryan was good when Andy Dalton was good, and that was a long time ago. And when you're looking at the Bears, at least you got a little bit of hope.

You got a coach, for one. The Bears are not in this discussion. I thought we were just saying better situations. For the Colts, really? How about the Jets? Better situation. 100%. No doubt about it. Buzz Aldrin just turned 93 years old. I'd rather have him playing QB than Matt Ryan.

Amen. Or coach. Thank you. Yes, exactly. That's what I'm saying. An actual astronaut. The Jets have good players, though. I think the Jets might be a better situation. Yes. They have a good defense. The Jets? Yeah.

What are we talking about? Greenberg? Is that why? Because Mike Greenberg? Absolutely not. Their good players play good. Okay? The Colts have good players that haven't played good.

So how are we going to say, hey, next year he's got a great online because Quentin Nelson's there. Aaron did know an alarmingly amount of stuff about that Jets team. But that's because they were a training camp. He had eyes on him. And we saw him go through his high school film. He has eyes on something. He's going to remember it.

Because I didn't hear a single thing about the Colts whenever. Because I brought it up a couple times. You guys are like, rebuild. We had seven Pro Bowlers last year. They're all on the roster still. It's not a fucking rebuild over here. But he didn't say a single thing about Danny Nathans. He said he likes color blue, though. Remember that? He does like color blue.

Yeah. Only one of those. His pillow's blue. Joining us now is a man who is not worried about this discussion, although he should be. What the fuck? I'm going to ask him why this is happening. Ladies and gentlemen, the defense coordinator for the Cincinnati Bengals, Paisano with a big brain, saw his team lock, die in winter conditions,

which is not easy at all. Ladies and gentlemen, Lou Ann Rubio. Yeah, coach! How we doing, coach? What's up, everybody? Appreciate you having me again. Hey, thank you for joining us. You do a lot of this whenever you're coaching out there? You got to whistle one hand and do this on the other hand?

A little bit, sometimes. There's a lot of, you know us Italians, a lot of hand gestures, basically all the time. Well, if you're not doing that, are you really saying anything? You know, that's the question. That's correct. Yeah. Hey, congrats on a win, bro. Yeah! Appreciate it.

Listen, it's Wednesday. You're on to the next one. We got to talk about the last one, though. Let's go ahead and give you your flowers. Ten points in those conditions against that offense. What? With DeMar Hamlin in the building, with everything. What did you see from your D that made you think, like, this is the best we've played?

Is that the best game you've ever seen your defense play? Because it felt like, discipline-wise, lockdown. Seemed like nobody was out of gap. Seemed like it was sound. Is that what you saw as well? And why do you think that happened? Yeah, I just think, first of all, let me get in the middle of this damn picture. There we go.

Yeah, hey, come on in the fucking floor. I mean, over here. Yeah, I think from start to finish, the way we, you know, we made a huge emphasis on starting fast, coming out of the blocks. And, you know, the guys did that. You know, we tackled really well. We, you know, didn't give up any explosive plays. And, you know, we've been taking the ball away.

And that's going to be key here, certainly on Sunday as well. So it felt like there was no space for anybody. And obviously, any time the other team is starting to have, like, inter-squ middle of a game you got to know do you know that that's happening you know that you're frustrating them obviously and are you know we kind of we pick out a couple guys to see if we can get them agitated um and i just happened to work out you know uh didn't know that that was all going on on their sideline after the game but uh you know it's it's um if you can create chaos uh as well as on the field, as well as on the bench, you've got a chance.

Yeah, it sounds like that's a game plan executed well. Eli Apple, now we saw a video of him smoking a cigar in the Bills locker room. Didn't look like a normal cigar smoker, but certainly called for it with that performance there. Now, obviously, afterwards on the Internet, Eli Apple is dunking on people profusely. Have you heard about that? And is that a conversation that ever comes up?

And how do you feel about Eli Apple, the competitor that is on the field every week for you? Well, that's the good news about Eli. He's got so much confidence in himself and his abilities. And, you know he plays corner in the NFL and those guys are going to make plays they're going to give up some plays but if you don't come out there with a ton of self-confidence you have no chance so um you know I am I'm not a Twitter guy thank God so um you know I stay away from it but uh you know I heard

he's got some uh some things out there but but I have not talked to him about it yet. Okay. I mean, it is, hey, it has drawn quite a reaction, and there is very rarely that type of shit talk on Twitter that draws reaction from everybody. So from a Twitter standpoint, I feel like it's successful. Successful tweeting as well. Yeah, successful tweeting as well.

Some people say cross the line. I mean, that's for whoever's drawing the line to decide. Nonetheless, let's move on. Not on the Twitter world. I'll tell you, we live on the Twitter world, Lou. Figure out the fucking camera. Other way. Other way, coach. Move it the other way. Other way. What the hell is going on? Other way. Other way.

Move it the other way. Other way, Lou. Other way, Lou. That's a disaster right now. Move it to your left, Lou. Coach. Your left. Move it towards your left shoulder. That's like, good thing I'm not in Hollywood here.

How's that? Go back to where you were. You can't move the camera and you. Disaster. Yeah, but that's not what it's like on a football field whenever you're coaching. So don't you worry about all this other stuff. It doesn't matter. We should probably set that up for you.

We'll send you a stand thing. That'll make it easier going forward. The boys have some questions for you, and before they get to it, I would like to ask you a question. Massive game this weekend, obviously. Okay, all focus on that. How come you're not getting any head coaching opportunities? How come you're not getting head coaching interviews?

And how come you're not at the Indianapolis Colts like a meteor falling this season? I wish I had the answer for you. You know, I'm going to – I have no idea. You know, we're just worried about beating the Chiefs this weekend. How's that? I love that answer. And once again, that's why I would want you as the head coach. Have you ever been in the head coaching cycle? Is that something you have to like,

act like you would like to be a part of? Do you think the interview process during the season is fucked up too? Like, even though you're not in it right now, what are your thoughts on it all, Lou? Well, I mean, I had a, I had a chance last year with the Giants, the Giants, uh, I interviewed for that job around this time last year. That was a great experience. Obviously, Brian got the job and has done a phenomenal job there. But it's just the way the rules are. Again, I haven't paid much attention to it and just focus really on beating the chiefs this weekend all

right well i want to let you know i've paid attention to it because i watch your team i've talked to you and we have a wide open we've interviewed 35 people i don't know if you know that uh db has a question for you coach hey what's up lou i had another question before i saw your hoodie but i gotta ask you about that hoodie because i saw dj reader yesterday on up and adam's show he had the scully on with the same thing. Is that kind of the mantra? I'm assuming there's no excuses. Was that the mantra coming in for the team or the defense coming in this season,

or did that kind of take hold later on in the season after everything happened with the field and this and that? It's one of our safeties, Mike Thomas. He's kind of got this, I don't know if it's brand or whatever it is, but he's passing it out to the guys. It's kind of been his career, really. Mike is an undrafted free agent that I had all the way back in Miami in 2013. And Mike and I have been together kind of throughout his career. So it kind of signifies him, but it's also our team a little bit where we don't want to make any excuses.

We just throw the ball out there. Let's go play. Do you harp on that? Does Zach harp on it, or is it just a natural thing? I kind of think it's just a natural thing, to be honest with you. You know, we've got such a veteran group now, and the young guys have kind of fallen in line with what we want to do as a team and as an organization.

And, you know, I'm telling you, man, the locker room is tremendous, kind of falling in line with what we want to do as a team and as an organization. I'm telling you, man, the locker room is tremendous, and Zach's done a great job with that, but I love coming to work every day. I feel like we got a glimpse into what the team meetings were like last week when Zach Taylor said the NFL wants their neutral site game and they have all these plans, and we ruined, sorry we ruined all these plans. Obviously that was something that you guys chatted about. Obviously that was something that had to be brought to the attention of the team. And what is it this week?

Just that it's the Chiefs and everybody loves the Chiefs? Yeah, I just think that, you know, we've been in this situation already. We've proven we can go in there and win. It's not going to be easy. They're a great team, but we've got a great team too, and it's going to be a great game on Sunday. And, you know, we should go in there full of confidence. And, again, knowing that it's not going to be easy,

but we'll be ready for the challenge. I love how Joe, Joey B., obviously the coolest dude maybe on earth. On earth. Dude, he's like modern-day Frank Sinatra. I mean, his the coolest dude maybe on earth. On earth. Dude, he's like modern-day Frank Sinatra. I mean, this dude's fucking cool, bro. I mean, you know, big New York guy. Obviously, you know, he's got, I don't know Jeter. Never met him.

But I got to think he's a little got some of that too. You know, just cool as a cucumber. And when it's all on the line, he makes the plays. Last year, there was people saying, why not us for the Bengals? And he was like, fuck you, why not us? No, like, we are us. What are we even? Like, he has that mindset.

Is that the whole locker room? Sounds like it is, especially with the way the defense has been playing. I would say, yeah, for sure. I just think the confidence and, you know, we've won a bunch of games in a row, and I think we're 14-4 right now, you know. And, you know, you just gain that confidence, and winning obviously helps all that. But Joe is beaming confidence, but a lot of our guys are too.

Lou, you're not going to give anything away, and we know that, so it's almost a waste of a question. But I'm going to ask it. Patrick Mahomes has a high ankle spring. Chad Henney comes in, does a 98-yard drive to score a touchdown and meaningful reps, obviously. Andy Reid's offense is always going to be Andy Reid's offense, which means it's not going to be consistent.

There's going to be things you're not going to be in. They have weapons everywhere. I understand that. How do you prepare for, like, what Patrick Mahomes might be, what he could be? Also, Chad Henney, how are you balancing all of that whenever it comes day to day? No, great question. I think you hit the nail on the head.

It's what Coach Reed has always done. I think he's one of the best play callers of all time. So you've got that challenge, and you've certainly got Eric Bien-Aimé there as well that helps with that, and they alternate. And then just the weapons around them. So the fact that, you know, Chad has been in the league forever and has seen everything, and, you know, it's just a testament to their team and their players around him that they can just go right down the field and score.

So, you know, listen, Patrick Mahomes is not human in so many different ways on how he plays quarterbacks. So even at him a little bit nicked up is still a huge challenge, and we'll game plan like he's 100%. Okay, because I feel like that's three different quarterbacks you kind of have to prepare for, and it sounds like you're like, no, it's an offense we've got to prepare for. How do you?

You've obviously squared off against Andy Reid in the past. You've beaten him in the past. He's adding more. Do you see the little ring around the rosy shit? How much time are you spending on that? You've got to identify where Pat is. Like, what do you do with all their tricking gadget stuff? How do you break it down?

You know, I think we've got to take care of the core stuff that they do first and just know, you know, we've got a set of rules. And then whatever we kind of know they're going to do, we've got to kind of nail that and make sure we put that to bed. And then whatever is different, whatever they come up with that they're going to do, that's why we have rules, and the rules handle all that. Now, the ring around the rosy thing, you know, they start going in circles. I'll tell our guys, just wait, something's going to come out of it,

and let's just cover Kelsey. How's that sound? Dude, how about they do that? They do the ring around the rosy, circling huddle. Then they got non-quarterback at quarterback. Option, okay, so you've got to be disciplined. Throwback to the others. I mean, that's like five trick plays.

Yeah. That's five trick plays in one thing, and they're doing that every week, Coach. I know, and so they've got some guys that have been quarterbacks in their history, like Kadarius Tony has thrown the ball. He's got a really strong arm. McKinnon played quarterback, so they've got some guys that

can also, you know, the halfback passes, the reverse passes, so we're kind of trying to make our guys aware of everything, but at the end of the day, if you're in passes. So, you know, we're kind of trying to make our guys aware of everything. But at the end of the day, if you're in the right spot, you're doing your job, you know, that kind of eliminates the big plays. And if you can make them check the ball down on those shot plays, even though they may gain 8, 10, 12, it's still a win.

Yeah, you guys have sound tackling too, it felt like, last week at least. It was like open field tackles. Almost batted 1,000. I mean, you might have. I didn't watch the film enough. Darius has a follow-up here for you. And, Lou, as a play-calling D coordinator, you do a lot, too, that an offense has to prepare for as far as, like, you know, bringing DBs a lot, simulated pressures, a lot of drop eights.

Is that something that has kind of developed over your career when you have older veteran players that have played a bunch together, or is that kind of something you do wherever you're at yeah no i think it's kind of developed as we've gone across and you know to me we've got the best nickel in all of football and uh mike hilton has a great great knack of showing blitzes when he's not blitzing blitzing from depth he blitzed last week from a depth that I was like, Mike, did you come from Detroit? Oh, yeah. I left him off the left side. Yeah, he gets there, and he just has a great – he's a football player,

and he has a great feel for the game. So we try to use him as much as possible. Vaughn, Jermaine Pratt, Logan, we try to use all those guys in our blitzes, and they've been successful for us. Yeah, it seems like your defense is all on a string too. It's fantastic to watch. Tone has a follow-up on that. Yeah, I do.

As a Steelers fan, I used to be able to tweet every single week, death taxes and Mike Hilton in the backfield. And you just talked about it. Can you actually use him, or you don't have to think of him as a nickel or a DB in the run game too? You could count on him. Like, cause he plays like he's, he's not his body frame. Like he plays like he's like six, three, two 30.

It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. You know, I'll go back to the one I think that best describes him as this year's. I mean, there's so many plays, but the one that stands out in my head is this year's Tennessee game. And we sent him on a blitz and he tack Derrick Henry in the backfield for a loss. And I think one of the reporters said, hey, you tripped up Derrick. And Mike said, no, I didn't.

I tackled him. You know, so, and he did. He takes pride in that. And he 100% plays that position like he's playing middle linebacker. I kind of just glossed over it, but open field tackling, it felt like last week. Is it, I mean, that's a staple of your defense, I guess I should have paid attention to more. Huge. I think we pride ourselves on that every, you know, every defense does, but we've been, you know, knock on wood, we've been really good tackling team this year. And, you know, it's going to be something that's going to be huge this week because they've

got, you know, catch and run space players all over the field that can turn short throws into long gains. So we've got to – that's one of our goals this week is have the best tackling game of the year. What do you guys have? You have one of those like robot tackling dummies in that indoor facility? You guys – you driving around the old Lubot and then everybody's got to tackle it?

Yeah, we don't – no. Come on. It's the future. We've got a couple of those agiles, and one of the coaches drags it, and they tackle it. So that's kind of the drill. I think you ought to work it, though. I think that's something that not a lot of people are scared to work it

because you get people hurt, but then it gets exposed, I think, right? Don't you? Do you agree with that? Yeah, no, for sure. I think it has to be done. And I think if you do it the right way, you know, it can be a tool that, you know, it's, it's how we tackle really most of the positions, even some of the big D linemen there, DJ readers, as good as he is up front, he's a great wrap and roll tackler because he's a good athlete. So we practice it at all levels.

We even do it in the spring. Um, we just put some pads underneath them and, you know, it's, it's something that teaches them how to do it it right. Yeah, let's not do the hip drop tackle. Yeah, that's right. Let's not do the hip drop tackle. Hey, you tell Reeder when he's got a quarterback, make sure you pick him up politely and set him sideways down like you're putting a baby to bed. Is that what you say? Pretty much how we got to do it these days, yeah. Pretty much how we got to do it these days, yeah.

I don't know how you, you know, a guy like Josh Allen last week who's so big and strong, it's, you know, you get around him and you got to, again, be careful how you fall on him. That's just the rules. The guys know it at this point, and they do a good job of adhering to him for sure, our guys do. Sounds like you love the rule. Connor has a question for you. Last one here, Coach.

Yeah, Coach, obviously back in the AFC Championship game, as like last year, and, you know, last year made the run of the Super Bowl, do you see a similar preparation? Is there kind of, you know, the experience from last year helping everybody out now? And is there a same sort of hunger as even heightened more because of the loss last year in the Super Bowl?

Yeah, I just think that our guys know. The good news is it's not the first time. So they know, you know, all the hesitation that can come and maybe some uneasiness when you don't know what you're getting yourself into. You know, when the when they sing the national anthem and it's the home of the, you know, we know what's happening, right? And the guys will just settle down and be ready for what's, you know, about to come out of those gates, as they said in Gladiator. You know, we'll be ready for it. How about you guys not having to go to University of Cincinnati and interrupt field hockey or lacrosse practice?

Hell, yeah. Huh? That's good. It's been unbelievable. The indoor is great. And, as a matter of fact, we just finished our walkthrough over there and you know, it just, it's,

it's, it's really been huge. You guys are doing walkthroughs inside. You getting soft coach. Oh, is everything okay? We'll be out. We'll be out in the elements for practice.

Okay. All right. All right. We can't thank you enough for joining us. Good luck this week. We'll be watching and I'm still holding on hope that you're going to be the Colts head coach next year. So I appreciate you so much, Paisan.

Always, and I love you guys. Love being on the show. Next time I'll try to get this camera squared away. My bad. My sons are going to kill me for that, but just for the record. You're not the only one. This happens to a lot of people. But with that being said, like you moved it,

and then you moved again. Exactly. You know what I mean? Bad ball by me. Sorry, you got other things to worry about. Coach Lou Enrum. Yeah, coach! I fucked that up too.

That's why when Al Michaels came on here and he had the – The automatic. Yeah. It was like, that's genius. How does everybody – and then AJ had it. Yep. Next level. Not everybody got it. I love that guy.

Yeah, he's the best. He's not the head coach of the Colts next year. It is weird that he's not getting. He did last year. I didn't remember that. Yeah, I didn't remember the Giants won as much either. He said it's the rules for the timing of the interviews. I think we've been trying to change those publicly here this year.

Maybe next year we'll have to pound the drum again. It doesn't make any sense. No, it doesn't. You know what I mean? No. But also, to A.J.'s point, teams can't just not have head coaches. But if everybody, you know, like if it's the rule, like, hey, this is the calendar, this is the time of year when you get –

if you're going to fire a coach, this is when you are allowed to – the process happens then. You just have dead men walking on the sideline for like five, six weeks. Yep. Well, no, you can do the interim, though. You can do like the Jeff Saturday. It might cause more, I don't want to say creative. Friction?

No, not friction, but like if you're hiring an interim head coach, your season's probably fucking already gone. But like Jim was like, I think Jim was getting a look at like who maybe might hire next. So you might get more teams to like, let me see what this guy potentially, but if he's on another staff, I guess you wouldn't be able to pluck him.

So you're fucked. I don't know how you fix it. It's not fixable. How much is being coached, like say your season ends when the Patriots or the Colts or anybody's team week 18, how much is the head coach

and the coaching staff doing from week 18 to super bowl yeah i don't think with the team i don't know i don't know probably they're i'm assuming they're fishing that's what i mean so like what's the what's the whole entire like oh there's no head coach for that many weeks but what are they doing with the team where when did we fire we week 10 yeah after new england yeah week-week season. So that was seven weeks then. Just hire from within, standard interim operation. If everybody just has to hire after the Super Bowl, it just becomes a thing.

You fire your coach, this is when you do it. Yeah, exactly. The interim obviously is the frontrunner in that situation because they've had those weeks, but also it couldn't be the frontrunner where they could just completely fuck it up. It's like, all right, we're going clean and slick. We don't know how you fuck it up. Results are processed.

Yeah, no, I'm not talking about Jeff Saturday. If you set losing records as far as most points in the fourth quarter or biggest comeback given up, maybe you're on the short end of the stick. Like Steve Wilks, for instance. He turns the Panthers around when their season's basically over, and he's the interim going into that hiring process. He probably is the guy for that moment, at least. I don't know how you fix it.

They need to, though. No, actually, the guy that got fired from the Colts is apparently the leader for that job. Yeah, Frank Reich, his second interview, already putting together a staff, allegedly. Yeah. He threw the first touchdown pass in the history of the Carolina Panthers, so kind of all come full circle.

He's been there before. Is he in there right now, like Harba, so it kind of all comes full circle. He's been there before. Is he in there like Harbaugh? I don't think there is. Let's go to the 5-Hour Energy phone line, which we got back yesterday. If you'd like to call us, we'd love to hear from you. Call 1-833-432-3663,

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Fantastic, Nina. Thank you for calling in. How are you doing out there? We heard there was an earthquake 2 a.m. this morning. Hope everybody's okay. Hope the buildings are still standing. I was asleep through the whole thing, so I wouldn't know. Paul rocks you like a baby here.

Some people did wake up. I did see the Twitter was active there for a bit. Well, I want to say a couple of things. A couple weeks ago, you shouted out to the people who are sitting here forced to watch your show. So I want to say thank you because I have to hear it every morning and I've actually begun to enjoy every second of it. Okay! What's that called?

That's called something whenever you're held hostage. Stockholm Syndrome. Nina, it's Stockholm Syndrome. We appreciate it, though. Thank you so much. I'm assuming my boyfriend or husband watches the show. Run into a lot of that whenever I'm out in public. Husband or boyfriend, Pat, very nice to meet you.

Oh, very nice to meet you too. And then girlfriend or wife next to you says, I'm forced to listen to your show every single morning. This is your biggest fan. I'm like, oh, my man, I appreciate that. Sorry about it to you. But I think that happens a lot. Those numbers aren't being calculated.

We should just start adding those in. Yeah, you know what? Just double them all. Times two. No, we'll count per eye. Okay, times four. Well, not start adding those in. Yeah, you know what? Just double them all. Times two. No, we'll count per eye. Okay, times four. Well, not everybody. Not everybody.

You don't need to be like this. Sorry to all my one-eyed friends. Yeah. One eye, one eye, one eye. Let's go to Nathan

in Memphis on a 500-inch phone line. Nathan, what's going on, pal? Nathan. Walking in Memphis. There's a bum doing crack right over there. Walking in Memphis. There's a bum doing crack right over there. Walking in Memphis.

An IG model on the stairs. Walking in Memphis. That's from 2019 whenever we were in Memphis. That was our song for our blog. Yep. Nathan's in Memphis. Gonna hang up on him right now. See ya.

Let's go to Anthony in Youngstown, Ohio. Wow. Youngstown, Ohio. So many Italians. I'm going to assume Anthony is one of them. There's a lot of them over there. What's going on, Paisan? Hey, boys.

How we doing? Keep it moving. Long neck, but light heart. Never broke my heart. Nailed it. So how are we not talking about the obvious choice for Aaron Rodgers this season in the Las Vegas Raiders? No.

He's going to hook up with McDaniels, an offensive-minded quarterback. He's going to hook up with Devontae again. He's going to have Darren Waller. What? And Renfro. What? Josh Jacobs. And Josh Jacobs in the backfield.

If he takes a pay cut and they're able to keep him. Are you a big Raiders fan? No, actually, sadly, I'm a Browns fan. Oh, loser. Anthony was like, we already paid'm a Browns fan. Oh, loser! Anthony was like, we already paid $230 million for our quarterback or I'd be throwing us into the mix. But Raiders aren't a bad thing. I think he got mentioned yesterday a little bit in conversation

because of Devontae. Would he want to go into Josh McDaniel's system, I wonder? Sure, why not? I mean, there's some great weapons over there. If they can obviously be healthy, weren't healthy this year, they didn't pay a ton of snaps together. But, I mean, Wilder, Renfro, obviously Adams, that would be a great situation for any quarterback.

Peter King said that if Tom doesn't beat Aaron to the Raiders, look at the Raiders being a spot for Aaron. I believe in his Monday morning quarterback thing or football morning in America write-up. That was the same one that said it would cost two first-rounders. Do the Raiders have that? I'd assume they do if that's going to be in Peter King's article. They had to trade some for Devontae.

I don't know if they have two, but I'm assuming they can. I also saw a report that teams are looking and watching to see if Waller or Renfro may be on the market this offseason. Oh, I thought Renfro signed. Yes, he signed. Trade. Both of them did, I thought. Oh, really? Yes. So that would not mean that Aaron be on the market this offseason. Oh, I thought Renfro signed. Yes, he signed. Trade. Both of them did, I thought. Oh, really?

Yes. So that would not mean that Aaron's on the way. He would not be trading weapons away. You would think not. Who do you think McDaniels would rather have? The guy he's done it with or Aaron? Tom. Yeah, for sure.

Aaron. Even though the conversation will be the same with McDaniels? Tone thinks Tom's dead on the football field. I do. So he has said that numerous times. I think you prefer Aaron. You think so? I mean, he's younger.

And he'll have the can't do it without Brady conversation. Do you think that factors into it at all? Yeah, man. Tom just knows it. Oh, absolutely. I think the situation is much better with Tom. He also can't afford, really, to have another growing pains year. He just went through that, and they were talking about him getting fired

seven weeks through the season. With Tom, you at least know that like – He knows the offense. Exactly. There's not going to be eight weeks in. One year. And you don't have to give up picks. Aaron's a smart dude as well.

Yeah, Aaron can figure it out. But in the first year of the floor's offense, granted, everybody was learning it though. Yeah, and they still went 13-3. Yeah, and he had like 24-2 or something like that. Terrible year there. Of course. Don't be a diva.

He hates his old guy. But it's kind of the same thing with the Raiders, isn't it? Like their O-line's not great. Their defense outside of like a couple really good pieces. Like I don't know if that's like a head and shoulders better situation than the Packers is. Let's go to Dalton in Nashville. Dalton, what's going on, Paul?

Hey, boys. How you doing? Keep it moving. Shut up. Hey, just had a question for you real quick. Good news. Wondering when the boys are going to move down to old Broadway down here and open the

Bud Light Sportsbook on Broadway. I appreciate you, Dalton. That has been a conversation, us moving to Nashville. Nashville's awesome. Just would like that to be known that behind the scenes, there's been a convo about us having a Nashville office, Nashville studio down there.

A lot of raw land out there. A lot of raw land people are buying, but also it's fucking awesome down there. I have a blast. I think there's a lot of people that go through there, so getting guests would be easy. Now, granted, I don't think we're able to just pick up and move there after building here but that has been in conversation piece why not it feels like nashville is blown up too yeah is it by the time we're able to move down there will it be already same well and also

how much different is it you know than Much. Could maybe do some... Really? It is much. Feels like the weather's the same. No, a little warmer. It gets cold, but it's definitely nicer. There's a hell of a lot more to do in Nashville. Maybe do some live shows and Kid Rock's honky-tonk. Take what you could do in Indianapolis and multiply it by, I don't know,

$600 million. Really? You might not be too far off. 600 million? They have some great steak houses down there. Oh, yeah. Live music literally every night. Yeah. Yeah, I know that little strip is awesome.

Not that little. There's a bunch of. Not the little strip that you're talking about. Awesome. There's a bunch of. Areas. Yeah. Sections.

Real estate markets boomed down there the last probably four or five years. It's been crazy. Cranes everywhere. Yeah. Sections. Real estate markets boomed down there last probably four or five years. It's been crazy. Cranes everywhere. Yeah. Everywhere. Anytime you go to a city and there's just cranes everywhere, it's like, did they make a show about this town? Oh, they did.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. They actually did. There's a bunch of cranes downtown Indianapolis, but they have wrecking balls on the end. Yeah. They're taking signs down and stuff. See them every day. They've been doing construction on the highway for four years.

Indy needs it. We need something. It used to be a convention city and then COVID shut down all conventions and the entire downtown became an actual homeless last of us. Now it's a volleyball city. Exactly. Now instead of AFC

championship games, we want volleyball games. I think the city is just pumped that people are coming back. So I think that's a big deal. Now granted, that volleyball tournament's in town for annual. When Aaron Rodgers comes to the Colts and we're hosting the AFC Championship next year,

that's going to be a problem. He said all 7,000 hotel rooms are gone because of this volleyball tournament. They can't cancel it. We've got every single hotel room booked. Every restaurant's going to be packed out. And they're going to come back every single year it's like let's do the nfl favor they got the superbowl i think it's only billions of dollars seems like that's where i play might help maybe some do but i also understand where the city of indianapolis is coming from because for two years there's

fucking nothing so like if a tournament comes and says we're going to buy every hotel room you got for the next four years straight i think think the city's like, sounds good. Let's do that. And then all of a sudden the AFC championship shows up as availability. And it's like, we really put ourselves in a predicament here, which sucks. But Indianapolis needs something, dude. COVID hit Indianapolis. Teams, man.

They got to bring us back. The Colts, the fucking Pacers. The Pacers get a big win over the Bulls last night. Tough loss. They won't be good for a while. They'll trade all their good players again. But the fireman convention, draft night, that'll be good. Like, there used to be two conventions a week here.

Yeah. So, like, there was a midweek convention and then a weekend convention here. So downtown was just a new group of people coming into town. Sweet. Literally, like, every four days. You think Indy's saying, no, the NFL, we might lose the combine now? That's certainly in negotiation. That's up.

And then also they're doing neutrals. We knew this was going to happen, but now it's being reported, I think, by Albert Breer I saw on the internet. The NFL is looking into a neutral site, AFC Championship and NFC Championship. It was like, no shit. As soon as that even became a potential reality for the NFL, anybody that's ever been in the NFL, our first reactions were

oh, this is the new NFL. Now there's three Super Bowls. We don't only, we have the Super Bowl obviously, which is the biggest of them all. Now we also have two off-site Super Bowls where we can sell all the corporate sponsor tickets that we sell to the Super Bowl at a price that is just absurd doesn't matter what teams are in it you know we always

have to worry about what teams are in the NFC championship how it's going to do rating wise how the weather is going to do the NFL sees this as a we can sell this thing out before the season even starts simple we can guarantee that the weather is going to be good and we can start having a radio row type thing in these type situations. We can make this thing a moneymaker. As soon as the NFL had the opportunity to do it, which it didn't even come to fruition this year, just the thought, oh, we have to. We have to schedule it.

Sorry, we have to look into this. Put the logistics together. And then as soon as they start seeing it, it's like, oh, boys, I think we got three Super Bowls all of a sudden. What do you mean? Put a deck together. I want it in my – I'd like to see it tomorrow, Goodell says. And then somebody comes in there like, okay, you see this dollar sign?

Yeah. See this one too? Yeah. How about this one? Yeah. How about the entire media world at this one? Do one Saturday, one Sunday. Yep.

Just AFC Championship, NFC Championship. Now we have three Super Bowls. You see what we just did here for you? And Roger Goodell's like, love it. Genius. Thank you so much to the Bills and the Chiefs for having that situation happen and us having to snoop around to see what this would end up being. And Albert Breer's like, now it's a real thing.

That was our first reaction. Like, first reaction is obviously the NFL is going to do this. I think it's good, though. Now, if you're a team that's going to do this. I think it's good, though. Now, if you're a team that's going to be great for the next 10 years, so if you're the Bengals, if you're the Bills, if you're the Chiefs... Well, Bills we don't have to worry about, but...

That is what the Patriots fans feel. If you're one of these teams that seemingly for the next 10 years is probably going to end up in a championship, sucks for you. Sucks for the owner of that particular team. Sucks for the season ticket holders. But for every other owner, now they're just getting another opportunity

to profit off a game that their team's not in. The NFL is going to do that 10 times out of 10 if they get the opportunity. Yeah, and they saw how many tickets they sold overnight. It's like, okay, so people are more inclined to go to these games anyway. It's a destination. It's like, okay, so people are more inclined to go to these games anyway. Like, it's a destination. It's a vacation. You know, if you're from a cold-weather city, like, why not go? Like, clearly price didn't matter at all.

Like, they're not going to have any concern or worry about selling these out. So it's like, all right, well, fuck it. Why aren't we doing this? It's another reason to build a stadium, too. You know, even if it's a new stadium. We just build a new stadium. We may have a shitty team, but shit, we can host a championship game. Yeah, that was part of it.

That was one of the reports that I saw was that exactly. They would use the AFC-NFC championship sites as a rehearsal to see if your city can host the Super Bowl. It's also leverage and negotiation for the new stadium. We'll definitely get a championship game and definitely get a Super Bowl. But we'll get a championship game before the Super Bowl. Super Bowl is billions of dollars in your city. Yeah.

Just over the weekend. I'm sure they've seen the college football playoffs, too, where both locations get fucking sold out and all of that. Plus all the media, the radio row. Yeah. Like the spectacle. Right. The league meetings are almost becoming this.

Yeah. Rappaport's there. the radio row yeah like the spectacle that right the league meetings are almost becoming this yeah rap reports there all the espn has people on on uh the ground fox has people on the grounds we do not have anybody but we're thinking about it we actually thought about it remember bruce reminded us last week or foxy reminded me last week yep fox is like hey let's remember league meetings last year we did note to self need to have somebody there because they do allow people there. So they try to make everything like an event. I don't know why you wouldn't do that for the championship games as well, which sucks, by the way. I'm not saying this is a good thing because the home crowd,

like what the Chiefs are going to do this weekend, their fan base. What happened in Buffalo? The atmosphere in Buffalo last week was awesome. Yeah, draining, just sucking the energy out of the place whenever it's happening. The Eagles fan base this weekend. They're going to be a show. That's going to be a part of the show. Now they're going to get called out. Oh, they don't

travel. Oh, they don't do... You end up turning it into something, but it won't be... Let's enjoy these home championship games. Let's enjoy these home championship games because the college football playoff are going back to home field advantage for the first round. So you get to host one of those games first.

Those are going to be bananas. Not that the fucking Peach Bowl was not that the national championship was. It was very loud. But there's something different about in your own yard almost. Yeah, it is interesting the top four teams there won't be able to have a home game because you would think maybe they'd appease them, but since they get the bye week, it's almost better.

Do you think they could do a Saturday-Sunday as well? So if they were to do it in Dallas, NFC on Saturday, AFC on Sunday, and then you just have – you dominate the entire weekend both days with all the ratings? Absolutely. I don't like that they're both on Sundays. Yeah, that is kind of – I mean, I guess it's kind of nice that you can just watch them back-to-back on Sunday.

But, yeah, the Saturday night into, like, a Sunday afternoon would have been. I don't think they like those Saturday night ratings. I don't think they do either. But also. That Saturday night rating was bad. The game was terrible. Yeah. Ratings are much better on Sunday.

But if you put Bengals, Chiefs on Saturday night. Saturday afternoon was 30-something. You can do three and three. Giants-Eagles was a blow, like a terrible football game. Yeah. I think that's more indicative of the ratings. For sure. Game was over after the first quarter.

And we know these two games. But a lot of people try to do something on Sunday night, don't they? Yeah. Like, that's where Sunday night used to be. Traditionally is, like, everyone's watching TV on Sunday night. If it's championship, though. Championship? Yeah, exactly. If it's championship, though. Championship? Yeah, exactly.

And if they're games like this, I mean, these are the perfect matchups for both sides. What did they say the ticket was for this Niners-Eagles? Cheapest one, I believe, is like $7.99 right now. Yeah, standing room only was allegedly like $880 or almost $1,000. Sheesh. It's going to be a lot. Yeah. The Johns are going to be out.

Oh, my God. Throwing horse shit at Chiefs players. Most expensive one. You going to be in town? I may stay out there for that one. Sal Powell could get you a headset on the sideline probably. Fucking right. I saw Sal Powell on the tube earlier.

He looked awesome. Shout out to Sal Powell. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm going to text. See if I can see if he can get you one. Oh, he can get you one. See if you can. You'll be on the field. I was going to say, you want a headset for the game?

So up at the top there, 591. Is that what I saw? Yeah. 754. There's a 491, too. 682, 690. That's expensive for a pair. 716.

Yeah, go over towards the over here. Up, right. Bud Light, Eagles, Nick. Up, right. Up, right. Left. I think I saw a 491 one. Go left.

One more. That was 591.1 is the last one Is it the standing room? That little That's a standing room Is it 461? Jesus I'm paying an extra $130

I think I'm getting a seat Oh yeah for sure But up there You're fucking hiking up there That's where that guy Oh yeah Oh yeah That John

The Bears game I was a Packers fan Oh I thought he was a John What's down there? 1,742. How about, yeah, behind the Eagles. That would be the most expensive, right? Well, I think the suites are.

Do we have any suites available? Oh, sure. The yellow one right there. Tunnel Club East. Click on that. Let's see what's available. Is this SeatGeek? Yeah.

Two tickets. Two tickets. Is Tunnel Club like the field level ones? Yeah, but the LS23s are probably sweets, right? Yeah, that's the one you want. No, that one would suck, wouldn't it? Yeah, because that's the... Where everybody's standing in front of you.

Yeah, we played that game. This is so fun. Do we have any of those... What about LS57 there? Down. Down. Down. Underneath 101. No dots, so it's probably not available.

Oh, fuck. Is that also suites, though? Because those are... That's where we want to be. That's what? Lower suite? Lounge suite? Yeah, C-suite.

Do they have any C-suites? I don't know. Let's get to a break. AJ Hoffman, we joined up on the other side. Look at us just trying to figure out if we're going to. I feel like we almost just went to this game. I feel like we almost just went. That's going to be a good one, man.

I can't wait to see that. We got two great games. Two great games. Let's check out the Q-POP to Kansas City. Let's see what's available out there. Because that Wolf don't have his. Yeah, true. Yeah.

Front row is available. See if we get front rows available see if we're getting them a home suite hey lock wider suite this year anything is possible i just saw a video i don't know oh you oh how many listings from that are those suites yeah i'm not sure if those are suites those are normal seats right yeah is that just the front of the second show you what it looks like what's's that? There's suites. Oh, it's section. How about down here? These ones.

Are those the same thing? Section. Fuck. Do they have any suites in this place? Do they have suites? What the fuck is going on? I think those ADA right here, those are probably suites right here, right? It's an old state and they might not have.

That's for handicapped folks. American Disabled Association. Disability Association. Why no sweets? Good deals on Seeky. There's definitely sweets because Mahomes, right? There are sweets.

Just want to let you guys know, we understand we are soft because we are strictly looking for sweets. We just walked through the snowstorm outside called Cassandra. That's right. And I ain't doing it. No. I would love to watch the game, but I ain't doing it that much.

Nope. No thanks. Almost just went to a couple games, though, I feel like. Right here, if there was a sweet available, we would have bought that thing. Boom, massive chance. Bang, we are going to Kansas City this weekend. Attica, Ohio is a man who's a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup champion, COVID survivor.

Hell yeah. Almost came up in conversation just yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. Hey, A.J. A.J., how you doing, pup? What kind of COVID situation almost came up yesterday? Well, I almost brought it up whenever, you know, there were certain networks that were

formally funded by Pfizer and Moderna and things of that nature. There was a couple yesterday where it was full Aaron Rodgers moments. I popped four times in the middle of a couple of different answers that he gave. I'm like, oh, that's awesome. That is straight from the mind.

The most Aaron Rodgers answer I thought I could have heard. Boom, it came out. Made me laugh. I enjoyed the conversation with him yesterday. How did you take it? What are your thoughts? Let me tell you why I took it first. Let you gather some thoughts real quick while I'm giving this answer.

He's playing football again. I actually said it to him. I'm like, so it sounds like you're still playing football. Because he talked about the process, how you got to love it. It's either a fuck yes or it's a no. That's what he's been saying since the beginning. But he still said that he loves the process, which is a great question from old aq shipley who has normally been scared to death every question so i was very proud of aq for doing that because

normally he just looks like a big baby up here sitting in a diaper doesn't he yeah ear and head like just like oh hey do you do you have a question he's like he's binky no i don't have a question you know i mean that's normally what he's like can. No, I don't have a question. You know what I mean? That's normally what he's like. Can you imagine AQ if he really did just wear a diaper one day on the show? He does. Dude, he's a big baby. No, only a diaper, though. Nothing else. Just diapers.

Like, hey, this is why I wear to fight camp, guys. I think he's jocked. That might be the fight camp uniform. I'm not a Hearthstone Shore down there in Walt's basement. But he is jocked, though. Like, his calves are fucking this large. Like, he is strapped right now now i think he's eaten a lot more than he had planned on in the past and obviously this is what he looked like

as a teenager alongside joe paterno oh my goodness this dude has been a pittsburgh fuck from the beginning from the beginning this imagine to see like see like 17 16 i think probably 17 there at that point he was just elbowing people in the paint in high school basketball. He told Foxy what his move was yesterday. He was like, I just checked the refs early, see what they were calling. I get the ball, then I fucking quick elbow to the ribs, and then I lay it up. If they didn't call it early, I was going to have a big night. All these guys are taller than me.

He played the I'm the victim card. I'm not built as tall as everybody. Everybody knows my arms are a little bit shorter. So, yeah, I got to fucking just make people piss blood whenever they're playing basketball. He did to me one day over here when I was fucking around. I put a little defense on him, and he gave me like a pump fake, and I'm like, oh, I'm back in high school AQ. Oh, this is high school AQ. I saw it in his face.

He gave a little pump fake. I did like one of those. And then he fucking spin elbow right to my fucking couldn't have been more hunting ribs. You know, that's what it was. Boom. Right to my ribs.

And then it was a layup. I'm like, all right, dude, Jesus. All right. Way to go. You know,

but he was a menace. All the famer. Yeah. Well, he was probably a victim in this world culture. All right. So that's another thing that Aaron talked about. And that certainly got run on a couple of political shows.

I got a couple of ads from people watching us on political shows. That's great. Honestly, I'm sure everybody's real proud of that. But what I took away from it, definitely still wants to play, still loves the process, and he's coming to the Indianapolis Colts. Now, Darius said he heard that he's going to be back with the Packers. Ty said he heard he's going to be back with the Packers. A lot of people on TV are like the Packers are the best situation for him.

What did you hear as a person that's always said for the last three years he's going to play and he's going to be with the Packers? Did lot of people on TV are like the Packers are the best situation for him. What did you hear as a person that's always said for the last three years he's going to play and he's going to be with the Packers? Did you hear the same thing yesterday? Yeah, pretty much. I definitely think he is going to play. The only thing that scares me is that just to spite us and everyone else, I can see him not just retiring because we're all saying he's going to play.

Oh, you thought you knew what I was going to do, didn't you? Okay, cool. Oh, you guys thought $60 million? I said it was a lot of money. I said it was a lot of money. I acknowledge it was a lot of money. Because I did. I said hypothetical here. Hypothetical here. $60 million is a lot of fucking money.

And he goes, it's a lot of money. It is? That's a lot of money. And I appreciate him being honest and transparent. Rarely does that ever happen. Then him saying he would rework it, obviously, to make it a little bit more salary cap. That was news. That's huge.

That was news to me. That's huge, isn't it, AJ? I mean, that's a big deal. Yeah, it means he's willing to do whatever to make it work. I mean, it seems like he wants to be in Green Bay. He just doesn't know how it's going to play out there, what they want to do. And everyone seems to be up in there. I just don't know when that deadline is to where something happens.

He said if there was a two-week deadline, he would be able to make that decision. Right? He said that's also news, I feel like. It yeah that definitely is and it's true like are you he has to be leaning one way or the other and you just all of a sudden wake up one morning but here we go yep i'm in i'm gonna make a call i'm playing like what do you how does it work yeah i don't well aq was asking and then i brought up the gut feeling thing that a lot of the preachers that i've been following on instagram because i've befriended them, they always talk as if that is God. So which might be, might be long term.

Maybe it's a person controlling the game, whoever it is. Grandmother. I've always called it gut instinct. I've always just like gut instinct going to do that. But every time I hear these preachers speak, they go like God has put it on me to say God has done that. I'm like, okay, maybe that's what gut instinct is. Maybe that is God doing it. I think that's what happens, though.

Whatever Aaron believes in, who knows what it is. I think it's just like something that happens where you're like, yep, fuck it. I'm doing it. Just as somebody at a much smaller level, much lower level, I wanted to retire for like four straight years. I mean, it was like four years I wanted to retire. I'm like, this is not what I'm supposed to be doing. This is not what I'm supposed to be doing. This is not what I'm supposed to be doing. And, but I still, if I'm going to do this though, I'd like to be fucking great. So I can still talk my shit though. Cause if you're a punter and you're not really good, Hey, shut up, get off Twitter.

Like I know that. So it was like a constant battle. Then finally it was like, this is it. This is when I think it was when I got fined for a photo after I had a fake punt on Thanksgiving. It led to our only points that day. Just shortly after I could find fucking $50,000 or something for a photo. That was still my from from your own team, though, right? Yeah. And then that was not as different than the league finding you. Yeah.

Yeah. I literally just got to the point where I was like, I'm not supposed to be. This is not what I'm supposed. This is not what I signed up for. This is not what I'm supposed. And I'm not supposed to be. This is not what I'm supposed to. This is not what I signed up for. This is not what I'm supposed to. And I'm not supposed to. I'm a person that's not supposed to be in the league anymore. That's literally what I just was like.

Cool with them. They're going to survive. They're going to do great. The league will go on. I didn't think that it was ever going to be a problem that I'm leaving. But it just, for me, it got to a point where I was like, I'm not supposed to be in the NFL anymore. Like, this is, it's just like a feeling, you think. Like, a lot of things happen, I think.

And how does that happen when you're whale watching i do not know maybe earthquake 2 a.m maybe it came shook something it was the lambo falling off the thing hits him in the head because the earthquake comes lays right next to him he's like that's a sign that's what i'm yeah oh my god that's a sign like is something like that have to happen or how do you get to the gut instinct i do wonder that terry's what are your I mean, it's different for everybody. Like you said, some people, it's God. Some people, it's just a gut feeling. Shit, Vontae, it was halftime.

You know, you never know. Shit, Luck, it was third preseason game. Like, it's different for everybody. Everybody has their different process. But for you, you know, you did it. To do something for four years, three, four years that you don't feel fully into, especially something as hard and as taxing as professional sports. I'm sure a lot of jobs are.

Yeah, but D-Bud, my position versus your position. I just got to show up and kick the fucking ball. You still got to be in the fucking building just as long as we do. Yeah, but I was starting to cook. I remember I did a comedy tour. I had a show. That was when I was like, let me see if there's anything outside of football that, A, can make money. I come from a place where there's not a lot of money.

So money is going to be a driving force behind a lot of decisions. My gut is going to have a lot of money, financial backing behind it. So I wanted to see all that stuff. But I knew that once I came back and said I was going to play, it's like got to be all in. You know what I mean? Got to be all in. Got to be great at it.

But then in the offseason, I'm going to see if there are some other stuff that could potentially generate a living if I wanted to. And then also do I enjoy it? And what I learned when I started doing more shit with my foundation, when I started doing more shit on a microphone, I was like I'm finding fulfillment because I was scared i wasn't going to find fulfillment and then also there seems to be some money over here as well and that was kind of what led to it but i think it's a lot of things aj i think it's a lot of things that lead to that point and i don't know how you make it this early

into an off season you know it almost had to be made during the season last year. I do wonder. Go ahead, AJ. My bad, Connor. What is it, Andrew Brantwood? Deadlines, spur action or whatever he says. Like there's a thing. Like whenever there's some kind of, you know, quasi-deadline out there, I think it probably gets more real inside his head. Go ahead, Connor.

Yeah, we saw the contract in his post-June one, and I don't think that changes anything with the Packers draft-wise because it's not like they're going to take another quarterback or anything like that, but definitely a deadline to look for. They can designate it, though. Yeah, designate post-June 1. It has to happen before the draft. They have to do something way before the draft. Yeah, but they'll definitely designate it post-June 1, though.

Yeah, because it's $15 million and then $24 million the year after, so it splits it. But you wonder with the competitive void he talked about, like that hole, what the golfing will do. That's so real. I brought that up to him numerous times. Yeah. He's no-sold me a couple different times. with the competitive void he talked about, like that hole, what the golfing will do. That's so real. I brought that up to him numerous times. Yeah. He's no-sold me a couple different times.

But, like, this Pebble Beach thing. Exactly. Like, he might go out there, and he might be competing in it, and he might really think that, hey, this is kind of actually. Does he feel anything? It's scratching the itch, yeah, or it won't. No. He already told you, though. He already said, like, he's not one of those athletes that thinks he can go

be a professional golfer. He knows that's not a real possibility he said that do you think he believes that he plays really well he showed up one time at that fucking match and what buries a 15 footer for birdie to win on like he didn't golf he was in hungary fucking or he was in wherever the jungle whatever jungle he was in off a plane onto a golf course better than fucking everybody that's golfing there, didn't even play. You don't think he thinks about that as well every once in a while? Like, I think I could. He knows that. He knows it's a different level, though.

He's actually very realistic and smart when it comes to that. He knows. Like, yeah, okay, I'm good out here. But he even said, show me one athlete, show me one former athlete that actually made a cut. Danny Woodhead. Not only Danny Woodhead. No.

How about that fucking teacher that was in the Champions Tour? Oh this guy's writing with chalk still not even a dry erase board this guy's on chalk hasn't played golf in 30 fucking years goes into the senior tour champion store make almost wins the thing i think he won the thing so we're talking about it could be possible now are you trading off though potentially winning an mvp with like shooting one under at like uh you know what i mean like unless you're competing going into sunday like hey i'm about to win this fucking tournament like i don't think the competitive uh hole is being satiated the same way where it's like hey i could win a fucking mvp playing quarterback so what's he gonna say shit are you thinking because that has been a big part of that's why i don't that's why i think he's

playing because plants plants the only thing that can do that he becomes the best ayahuasca taker in history that'd be he'll lead people up everest bro what if he gets like a fucking one of those like uh like a title yeah like congratulations it's an award and that's like his mvp the greatest ayahuasca of all time i was thinking about last night there's some other ex-nfl players doing that right now and we're watching it happen and we're laughing at it and then 10 years from now we're gonna start asking questions yeah they rule the fucking world we're talking about you know who i'm talking we don't have to say it right now because actually i have multiple players in my head right now actually so yeah i'll talk later bingo yeah me too right so we will, we'll save this for a later come.

Only difference between a cult and a religion is what? Acceptance. Cult leaders banging everybody. Poison. Vaccines. That happens in a lot of religions. Yeah, it does. That's a good point.

Fish, money. Religion makes money. Fish, money. Fish. Fish. The 12 fish. Yep, yep. That's how the Catholics made their money was the fish market.

See? Yeah, that's why Friday, no meats or whatever. That's right. Filet-O-Fish. Not a bad play. Yeah. That's how it started. That's how Good Friday, right?

Is that what it is? Good Friday, sir, with no meat? Yeah, and then every Friday during Lent, you can't have meat. Yeah, allegedly that was back in the day. Yeah, I like my fish fry. Yeah, the fish market allegedly needed a little bit of a pick-me-up. So they said, all right, you can only eat fish on Fridays. You know what?

How about it? We'll go to hell if you don't. Deal. Can you find enough fish? Yeah. Guess we're eating fish. See how big his ocean is? We can fucking find it.

We don't want to be greedy. Let's do it every Friday. It doesn't have to be every day during Lent. 40-day period, every Friday during it. Good for you guys. That'll get you a whole year. Oh, it'll get us 10 whole year oh it's 10 years all right we're doing it every year boom the fish business is booming on fridays and everywhere else

yeah allegedly but i was thinking last night i kind of want to ask aaron like when he makes this decision decision tough word i fuck it up all the time will it be like will he reassess after every season or do you think there will be a time where he makes the decision that he knows before the season hey this is my last year it's gonna be every year i think aj you're you know like i just talked about me four years thinking about retiring i think once it's in there i think every year you're gonna revisit it am i wrong yeah and i think he will know as the season goes like when it is the time when he's gonna step away i think he'll know during that season before the off season he'll at least have a better, much clearer idea in his head of what it might be. Him or Tom win the bowl, they probably walk away if it ends in the Super Bowl no matter what.

I just want to let them both know, you guys ain't got it anymore. Sorry. I don't know if you saw, Darius Butler put a football right into that trash can. He did. Right before he went to break. Tom Aaron can't do that. No chance. They used to be able to.

Yeah. But 10 years ago. We sawaron 22 years ago throwing a tommy wilson that's right it was unbelievable you see the spin the oh yeah aaron can't spin it like that anymore well it's like also you know we we could have said that but like tom had that opportunity during the covet year like they won that super bowl like he could have just closed the book right then. But, like, also, when you go back to talking about these guys being competitors, if you win a Super Bowl and you have a great season, like, I assume it's not easy to just be like, you know what, it's okay,

because you're probably thinking, like, ah, fuck it, I'm going to go win another one next year. It's the process, not necessarily the trophy that they're hunting. I think they'll be chasing the process, which is chasing greatness forever. We've seen it with every other quarterback that has been at that level. I don't know any of them. Do we know any of them? Payton?

His arm was messed up. Yeah, he was injured. He knew it. You couldn't call it. The game told it. Elway. Isn't Elway one? Didn't he win two and say sayonara?

Well, so I think Steve Young said Elway wasway was his body yeah it was the same deal like the when they won that second super bowl he he did like if you look at his stats from the game too like it was kind of similar to payton like hey it's almost like the game tells you you know the game tells you when you're done and normally teams tell you when you're done and once again payton got cut or whatever but especially when you're in that quarterback level now there's video surfacing on the internet of Tom Brady walking aimlessly around a school in Miami, and there's security there and obviously a wobbly camera because Tom Brady's around, so it is going to be a little bit wobbly.

He's peeking around, giving a tour, kind of looking into the Miami Country Day private school for his kids to live in down there in Miami, and everybody says, he's going to be a dolphin. And Darius even said this morning, oh, when Tom's a dolphin next year, he's going to be awesome. And I don't know if he's just buying into this propaganda or wanting it to be true. His kids live in Miami with Giselle. Yeah, they got houses across the bay or whatever.

Been living there for a while. If he wasn't to be touring the schools that his kids are supposed to go to and Giselle was doing it with somebody else, Tom, bad dad. Of course. Right. Tom doesn't want to be touring the schools that his kids were supposed to go to, and Giselle was doing it with somebody else, Tom Baddad. Of course. Right? Tom doesn't want to be Baddad. Tom just wants to get his eyes on something. Yeah.

Speaking of, where's Giselle? Is she a good mother? Because she wasn't there. Well, I think she probably had her own. She's, yeah. Well, then show me the video. I don't know. I don't know if what you just.

We'll be off next year. There we go. Give Tua a nice year to rest up. Okay. Get his melon right. Go back there. The owner already got caught up, jammed up with the fucking. Tampering.

The tampering shit anyway. You might as well get him now. Tom, I'm an F1 fan too. So we got F1 down there. There's that. Vegas is having F1 too, right? Yeah. And Josh McDaniels is out there.

But I don't think that video means anything, AJ. Your thoughts? You've had a tour of schools before in Ohio, obviously, for your kids. What are your thoughts? No, I mean, obviously, he and his wife probably split custody. They live with Giselle in Miami most of the time. That was the fastest. Is that the fastest divorce ever?

How does that happen? I think during those 11 days, there was a lot of negotiation on training camp. I think. But normally, I guess, how do they fast track it? It was like, oh, bam, here we go. It's final. Isn't it usually, like, drawn out months and months? But I know they already agreed to, I guess,

splitting everything up. The $40 million lost or whatever in FTX might have heightened it all with some lawsuits that were potentially coming. But I assume behind the scenes, this is probably cooking, right? Yeah, this had to have been in the works for quite some time.

Were they both? You think they, like, were they both reached? Like, when's the moment when they both reach out to their own lawyers? That's the thing I want to know. So we had a pretty good source.

We don't know if it's real or not. But during those 11 days of training camp, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson actually sitting at the table.

Yeah, exactly. Tom and Giselle. Right. And that was a full, they didn't know how long it was going to be. Yeah.

They had no idea. Right. But Vince and Owen put on their best fucking performance. You get some miles. It was 11 was 11 days yeah it's exactly what a couple miles our way giselle you can go have fun with a jiu-jitsu trainer like tom don't you want to get all hot and sweaty with yeah boom yeah that might have been happening norwegian model which would have been more impressive by the way and i think they should get like they've been working on this

they've been split for however long it is because normally this is very long and drawn out seemingly kept it under wraps pretty good for a long time yeah and then it had to be made public because it was a public thing yes and then it went right back to right yeah i think oh yeah went back to kind of normalcy congrats to both of them yeah hopefully they're both happy not easy that is not an easy thing i have some more kids what if tom gets remarried and Congrats to both of them. Yeah. Hopefully they're both happy. Not easy. That is not an easy thing to do. Tom may have some more kids. What if Tom gets remarried and is a younger gal and she wants to have more kids?

Maybe he'll do that. Yeah, maybe he's looking at this school for a kid that he hasn't even had yet. Maybe he gets back with Bridget Monahan. You know, the first love. That's what everybody's saying. He compliments her a lot. They have a great relationship. They're saying the Jets potentially in the running because that's where old cuz goes to school uh where i believe

it's jack his oldest son tallest who's a dog yeah he's got the makings of the prince who's promised he could be a guy and maybe you know tom's like i'd like to be around him through his high school years here yeah he looks a lot like tom, too, without the butch. Joining us now is not somebody who looks like Tom, but definitely looks like somebody that went into your trap. Ladies and gentlemen, a man who went into Brazil, TKO'd, figure it. Ladies and gentlemen, the number nine pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC, the flyweight champion, the first Mexican UFC champion of the world

Brandon Moran what's up dude amazing introduction man thank you so much for the time hey no problem at all Kia Stamos mi amigo huh nice Spanish that's all i get it that's all i got that's all i got okay no problem how was um how was it obviously we all saw the viral clip of you trying to run out of that arena after being very gracious and things getting tossed at you did you expect that going into brazil and getting a win before the fight even started did your camp say hey getting out of here might be a little bit problematic if we get a win man i mean not really i i was expecting a little bit more more love at the end from the brazilian people but i think the the end of the fight was a little bit confused for the for the people also

like a lot of a lot of fans uh thought i poked the eye of Figueredo's eye. But man, you can see the replay. It was a very clear punch right to his right eye. And that's it. But man, I'm from Mexico. I'm not saying it's something good. I'm not saying it's correct. But I don't know. Mexico. I'm not saying it's something good. I'm not saying it's correct, but

I don't know. The people get so excited sometimes and they love to throw things to the people. Soccer, yeah. We've heard about soccer. The exciting atmosphere is obviously in soccer down there. That's why for me it was kind of normal. Let's go. Let's just enjoy this

and that's it. Let me just get the fuck out of here real quick. That's hilarious. Congrats on a big win, by the way. Yeah. Thank you. Hey, Jay. Oh, can you talk a little bit about your camp? I know you had a ton of adversity leading up to this fight,

like crazy knee injury that you kept under wraps. You got sick during camp. I know all this stuff happened. Were you ever in jeopardy that you weren't going to make it to this fight? I know you stuck with it, and a lot of guys wouldn't. How was that camp leading up to it yeah maybe i mean but not really i starting from like i need to do like a huge change in the middle of the training camp like i need to switch a head coach uh for reasons that the people around this sport know.

So I started to work with a new head coach. Starting from that, that was kind of hard. Then, yes, I don't like to talk too much about it, but yeah, I have the little problem

in the knee. In the first round, Figi attacked my problem in the knee. And in the middle, in the first round, Figi attacked my knee, exactly the same knee. I had a problem. So, I don't know. I wasn't comfortable. Then, yeah, I got sick. And I don't know what happened.

I don't know if it was COVID again. I don't know. I mean, I'm vaccinated, so I don't care. But, man, it was like, yes was like two weeks, two and a half actually I was like two weeks with the sickness but I don't know man again, I said this

before I'm mentally very very tough and sometimes the people don't think that because I'm always like smiling and being very respectful respectful with everybody and you know i'm trying to to to be nice but i'm crazy man and i never i never really i never decide to pull out of the fight never so you're saying i'm

nice to everybody but inside i'm a dog Let's don't get this fucking twisted. Okay, let's not. And obviously that show. How long were you sitting? You said two and a half weeks. That's like 16 days, 17 days. Yes, man. Kind of.

It was weird because. It's a long time. After two or three days, I was fine. Like, okay, I'm starting to feel good. And then the sickness came to my body again. weird man was very weird i don't know if it was uh covid or another another stuff but i got like i got sick like for a long time at some point yeah i got a little bit scared but but i say like i don't care i don't give a five i just want to fight yeah yeah and we can respect that and obviously i think anybody that steps into the cage

is an absolute badass. You are as well. You were nowhere near your absolute best if you're sick for two weeks before a fight. Happy to see you got a win. Congratulations on that. Now, you're a black belt in jiu-jitsu, right? And I as a... No big deal. I got a white belt on here.

But I understand what Keanu Reeves here in a coloring book has black. Yeah. So I only know this from the Internet. I watch the fights. I don't follow along enough to know everybody's background. Allegedly, there's a conversation in the MMA world about like fake black belts or something like that. Is that real?

And do you know if you're your jujitsu is always going to be better than whoever you're fighting? Is that just something, you you know going into a fight? Definitely the fake black belts exist, for sure. Yeah, it's a real thing. It's not a real problem, but every single jiu-jitsu coach, every single professor, master, whatever you want to call, has different standards of how much they need to know or how much the level need to be, like, very high to give you the black belt. So some coaches give you the black belt very easy and other coaches give you the black belt with a lot of hard work. So it always depends on the coach.

It always depends on the standard of the coach, of course. You've submitted a lot of folks, so I'd assume that that black belt is legit. Valid. Now, I need to find the University of Phoenix black belt giver out. Yeah, that's right. You know what I mean? You just need to figure out how to get to the University of Phoenix andenix uh yeah black belt give her out yeah that's right you know what i mean just need to figure out how to get to the university of phoenix and get one of those because you've seen what they've had to go through to get the and then once you get the belt you got whipped right don't you get your fucking ass beat by everybody that has one

and yes actually it's a tradition and and the same also it's it depends on the gym some gym is like they give you like very light and everything is fine. But then other gyms, I remember my old gym in Tijuana, they give you with everything, with power. They grab the belt, like, damn. It's funny. I thought this was a celebration. Ty has a question for you.

Yeah, Brandon, obviously you fought this guy four times and now that you've kind of conquered that part and you're moving on like what's what's next for you and i feel like a big chunk of your career now has basically been like hey you gotta take out uh figueredo and now that that's done like where do you go from here like is there any thought in moving up weight classes obviously you know you don't want to just give up your belt like are you gonna potentially try to hold a couple straps at the same time like what where do you go from here after you've closed this chapter yeah I mean first I mean first of all these yes man I mean this reality was crazy I know

and now I'm part of the history of the mix much large I'm part of the history of the mixed martial arts. I'm part of the history of the UFC, the promotion. And, man, this rivalry took a lot of my mental health, man. Yeah. You know, it was a lot of time thinking about this guy, a lot of time, like, doing the game plan against him, trying to watch what can I do in the middle of the octagon against him. It's very hard because, like I said before, we fall four times each other,

so we don't have a lot of secrets between us. We know the style. I know the guy points very hard. I know the guy is huge. He's a bully. And he knew I was very hard. I know the guy is huge. He's a bully and he and he know he knew I mean I'm very fast. I have a really good technique a really good boxing. I You know, I have a lot of volume. I love to put pressure too. So man Was hard, but I'm so I'm so happy. I feel so grateful to finish this with him

I mean, I I finished him twice in the four fights between us. So, man, I finished this rivalry for sure. And, man, let's see. Let's see what happens in the future. So I need to recover a little bit of my mental health. I need to recover my body. But at the same time, I want to be more active because for the

same thing with, you know, for the rivalry against Davidson, sometimes when you are in high level, it's not just if you are healthy or not or able to fight. It's about, you know, like contracts, both parts be agreed for the

fight, whatever. So it's not easy to get fights when you start fighting the promotion. So that's it. I mean, I want to be active, but at the same time, I want to recover myself. I don't know, man. I'm thinking like June, July, maybe. Here we go. So let's see what happens. Hey, a little summer battle. Here we go. So let's see what happens.

Hey, a little summer battle. That's right. So what's the next plan? Are you pushing Dana now to try to get, so you could headline a pay-per-view event in Mexico? And have you thought what that might be like? Oh, hell yeah. Man, I would love to do that. And actually, they are building right now

the Performance Institute in Mexico City and I think they wanted to open it this year so it will be awesome like I don't know

do kind of like a like opening like huge opening of the performance institute on Friday celebrate the

fights something like that sounds perfect like do a kind of international fight week but in Mexico City will be very something like that sounds perfect like Olale Olale international fight week but in Mexico City will be very cool that'd be awesome

could you imagine that place? you just talked about how I'm from Mexico and the crowds are the way they are and that is a real thing I think we all know could you imagine the first UFC champion walking out, what's the first UFC champion walking out? What's the song?

You come out to the same song every time I should know this. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's always my same song. It's actually my song. Mexican Rube made the song for me. A Mexican band playing it out? Yeah. Let's go.

Oh, la, la. Could you imagine you walking out there with that place? It'd be going bananas. Are you somebody that, like, when you're walking to the cage, got to calm down or get hyped up? Man, before, yes. I mean, I know. I mean, before I tried to be, like, very excited, like,

pulling myself up. But you never know now, man. I mean, I'm just to to enjoy the moment and if if i'm angry i'm angry if not it's fine but the my main goal is just to be focused you know be focused and be ready for a fight i don't know what's going to happen during the day okay i might be fucking pissed off exactly yeah who knows god aj uh you mentioned uh recovering like you're getting your mental health back in order or whatever. What can you do for that between fights?

Like what do you do to, I guess, get away or try to reset yourself? What's that place called in Mexico everybody's going? Tulum. Tulum. You're going to Tulum? Oh, that's like – I've never been there before, but everybody says it's very cool. So, man, I don't know. First of all, I want to be with my family you know when you're

in a training camp uh it's like you are there but man you are tired you are like like very like homesick sometimes because uh you are every every single day thinking about the fight, thinking about the game plan, thinking about the other guy trying to kill you, you know. So right now, the first thing I'm starting to do is just be with my family, be with my daughters, with my wife and enjoy it. We are trying to get some little vacations this weekend. We are going to an international national park, Sion, in Utah. Oh, okay. Obviously, we know what that is. We have no idea.

It sounds awesome, though, doesn't it? It sounds amazing. It's going to be amazing. We need to go, maybe. Hey, it's beautiful. I've never been there before, too, but I saw the pictures, and the place is really cool. it's beautiful uh i never been there before too but uh i saw the pictures and uh the place is really cool it's beautiful so man that that's it i think i just need that you know be with my family we out of the uh of the all the all the noise about the fights a little

bit too and that's it hey you've earned it all champ go enjoy that thing connor has a question for you yeah brandon pat mentioned in the intro that you're the ninth ranked pound for pound fighter in the ufc is that something that you and other fighters really value or is kind of everything secondary to the belts like more than anything you want the belt but then is that ranking kind of something that everyone talks about in the locker room? Good question, man. I don't know. I think it's very personal.

Like a few fighters take that like very personal. Like, hey, I want to be the number one pound for pound in the world. And it's fine. And obviously, it sounds very good, but for me, I don't care, man. I saw the news yesterday. Like, now I'm in the ranking, in the top 10,

and that's very cool. I mean, it made me feel very proud of myself, but I don't care, man. Maybe I can be a 15-man. Who do you train with? Fuck it. Who do you train when you're fighting with?

Because they're obviously got to feel like they're pound for pound top 10 in the world as well. That is a huge deal. Do you train with other known fighters? What's your camp look like whenever you're fighting? Man, so the situation with my training camp right now is very simple. I have a little group in Las Vegas. We are training in the Performance Institute here in Las Vegas. My coach, he lives in Dallas.

But for this one, he moved to Las Vegas. He came every single weekend to work together. And we made really good things in a really short period of time um so that said man i have a a really good training partners um we are like a family hey i just saw a video get posted up here obviously one of the greatest boxers of all time canelo alvarez here uh share kindred obviously spirits are you train with him often what did he help fix anything did he change anything for you no i i met him i met him i don't remember when in 2021 i think so uh we went to to his gym it's a private gym um and nothing man i just i just went to his gym to meet him which we talk each other a little bit bit. He gave me a few advices because at the end,

and in that point, I beat Figueredo in the second fight. So I won the title the first time. So everybody knows Canelo Alvarez. He's the best of the best right now. I think the best power for power in boxing. So he gave me a lot of advices about, you know, success, about the people around you, about what is next, what I need to do maybe in my career.

So, man, the guy is very cool. The guy is a really hard worker. And there you can understand why a guy like him has a lot of success. Yeah, I like that. Now you're wanting family time and everything like that. I feel like some people at the moment get so big and they get lost in it. Doesn't seem like that's going to be the case with you.

I would like to tell you, though, if you get older in this fight game and you don't want to get hit in the face or anything like that, the Oculus, you know what the Oculus is? You know the the Oculus is? You know the Oculus? Hey, we can make a leak. You don't want that.

Hey, listen, I'm letting you know. Hey, I know you're bound for pound nine. In that Oculus, I'm a fucking problem, Brandon. I am a problem in the Oculus. I'm not sure, man. Oh, my God. Hey, we appreciate you, man. Enjoy your trip to the park enjoy being champion and hopefully we'll get to talk

to you again soon let's go guys thank you so much for the time and nothing enjoy the day you got it ciao no Jesus that's all me hasta luego

hasta luego Brandon Moreno Jesus. That's all I mean. Hasta luego. Hasta luego. This is Brandon Moreno. Yeah, Brandon. Here we go, big board. Here we go. AJ. AJ. Welcome to the big board, pal.

When I got this stick in my hand and that big board behind me, you know where we are? Big board. Bingo! Video has been released of Patrick Mahomes leaving his press conference today. Why is that a big news? Well, as Harold R. Kuntz tweeted out,

Harold R. Kuntz, I did this before, I apologize, sir. Harold Kuntz. K-U-N-T-Z. Don't do that. It is sir. Harry Kuntz. K-U-N-T-Z. Don't do that. It is Harold R. Kuntz. He is a great journalist out of Kansas City. That's right.

He had the forethought to not shoot Patrick Mahomes' face as he was going off for the press conference. Nay! Let me break down what the ankle's looking like. Here is Patrick Mahomes. This is his podium. Intuit Turbo Tax has paid a lot of money to become the sponsor of the championship games, both on the AFC and the

NFC. They put that over like a hundred times during these games. I couldn't even fathom how much fucking money the NFL is making off of this company right here. But I've heard their books are good. I've heard it's pretty quick.

And taxes are a nightmare, aren't they, Darius? They sure are. They take a lot of money. They do. Too much. Some people don't do them. Just don't pay them. Like Methy.

Well, there's some people way up there, too, that have figured out how not to pay them. Wesley Snipes. Well, he didn't figure out how to do it. He ended up having to pay. Nonetheless, this ain't about Intuit. This ain't about the AFC Championship. This is about this man. Finalist for the MVP this year. Probable winner of the MVP this year.

Patrick Mahomes leaving the press conference. Let's keep an eye on all this and call the other one. Stop! Stop! This guy tried to fuck it up. Yep. Right here. Who's that? Guy's got a big wallet in the back pocket. I assume he is an older man. This guy right here been around stuck in his ways. These are stonewashed jeans. He has no idea that Harold R. Koontz was getting shot in the century to judge this man's ankle, his plant ankle. When he drops back, what's he throwing off of?

This ankle. Except for whenever he's running around doing craziness, he's throwing off of no ankles because this fucking arm with this hand on it doesn't need any base. Looks pretty good here. Yeah. Looks pretty smooth here in the first set. Yep. Let's keep an eye on it.

Let's play this thing. Oh, right here. You see it? Go back. Go back. Yep. keep an eye on it. Let's play this thing. Oh, right here. You see it? Go back. A little light on it. Go back a little bit. A little bit more. Let's go from here. Yep. Run it. He lands it flat.

Oh. I think it's more of a mental thing. I don't think it's a physical thing. I think it's a mental thing. He's scared for it to hurt. As he walked off, too. Let's go to the... Let's get the ass shot here. As he's walking off. Go ahead and play that.

It's pretty clean. Super square straight on top of it. Uh-huh. Yeah. But he looks good. He does. Right on his feet. This is not the Patrick Mahomes gait that we thought we would see on this particular day.

After that disgusting, need-to-be-outlawed, hip-drop tackle that they're teaching in every fucking defensive meeting room, he looks good. Lou Anarumo, just a heads up, Patrick Mahomes is at 100%. Also, you're not doing tort all on a fucking Wednesday either, are you? No, this is big pain day. This is probably the worst he's going to feel all week. He's going to be good.

Andy said it in 2019 in week one, he hurt his left ankle, so obviously different than his right ankle, but he threw for 443 and four touchdowns in week two over the Raiders in 2019.

And Reid said, I think this one isn't quite as bad as that one, but it's similar. Sore, but not quite the same. And Andy Reid said that everybody is practicing, and he thought that Patrick would be going through the entirety of the practice. Now, it is the playoffs, late in the playoffs. How much are you,

you know, what are you doing? I'd probably go in full speed i'd assume but i don't think there's a lot of i don't know line hasn't changed from the video i could say that the line has not changed since seeing this video one and a half is the bangles favorite it's now one bangles favorite but uh so it has no no it was it was one before the video came out. Potentially everyone in the world is doing a Chiefs and Niners teaser this weekend. Niners? I think a lot of people are into Eagles. Do you think a lot of people are into Niners?

For a teaser purpose, if the watchers don't know what a teaser is, you can take the Niners to plus 2.5. You can tease it to 6 points so that they'd be plus 8.5, and they're taking the Chiefs, who are plus 1, up to plus 7. So those are the big teasers. You don't. Anytime you get an unexpected home dog. Yeah. Yes, very much so.

Is when you can dance with the teaser in a good way. Very much so. And a lot of people, it's a rule. I don't know if I abide to it as much as everyone else does. You're not supposed to tease through zero, so you wouldn't tease the Eagles from minus two and a half to plus five. Yeah, whatever it is. Why not?

They say don't cross zero. It's like an old thing. No point. Yeah, you're losing a point in there. You tease the dog. I will say I did it last year, last weekend actually, and took one through zero and And the whole thing lost. Okay.

All right. Because the one that you take through zero, you think to yourself. You took the bills. Yeah. Don't worry. You say you're a genius. You cheated the game almost. And then somehow the gambling gods just figure out how to say no, you don't.

But I think I saw a healthy pat right there. Is that what you saw, AJ? Yeah. Game's not until Sunday. Today is Wednesday. Yeah. I feel very good about where he's going to be on Sunday. Rehab, treatment, vitamin T.

Wide, wide. I mean, there's a lot that can take place. Lou Ann Rumo, I don't know what you're thinking about doing this week, but you ain't going home, Paul. Yeah, better get Eli Apple's phone because he's going to have to cover for a long time. Eli Apple is awesome. People are going to have a feel. Sunday internet will be top five. He doesn't care. will be top five if they get eviscerated.

Literally since day one. There's Patrick Holmes jogging on the practice field here. He's obviously far side there, yellow jersey. This is from Pete Sweeney, obviously Kansas City Chiefs. He was the one that told Sal Capaccio on Sal Capaccio's radio show in Buffalo that it would be in Atlanta if there was a neutral site game between the Chiefs and Bills. So Pete Sweeney's radio show in Buffalo, that it would be in Atlanta if there was a neutral site game between the Chiefs and Bills. So Pete Sweeney's dialed in.

I see Andy Reid focusing on what period one's going to look like. Nice little stretch day. Dunlap down there with his sweet hat. Patrick Mahomes doing a lot more moving than I would have expected. If any of the trainers or coaches thought this was an actual problem, he would not be doing fucking shit. He would be over there on the left side of this thing or standing right next to Andy Reid and not moving another inch. inch he's part of the calisthenics i think he just

finished up the calisthenics and he's jogging the rest of the way pete sweeney also has another video zito's thinking and saying this is great news for chiefs king yeah good news this makes me want to jump on it now because it does feel like the line is going to move again yeah because without his mobility in showtime play. Now, Aaron said this yesterday. Aaron said, Pat's good from the pocket, too. Like, all the other stuff is extra. That's where I would want to play Patrick from. Like, keep him in the – and that goes – that's obvious, I would think.

But you keep him in that pocket. Because when he extends plays and Kelsey and these other guys are just able to do that backyard shit and just find open spots, that shit is unstoppable. But loose defense, that's probably the best job in the league of boxing quarterbacks in. Like, they're so disciplined on the edge, boxing man. Can't run by the well, right?

Yeah, exactly. Chuck talks about it a lot, getting up the field, coming back. D-butt. Sorry to cut you off, D-butt, but that's a huge thing in New England, isn't it, where, like, doesn't Belichick lose his mind if you run past the quarterback? Yeah. You're not doing anything there. Grab the ankle.

I mean, this is – That's a good sign. He's going through full warm-up. Pete Sweeney – This was Friday. Hey, if Pat looked like this on Friday, I would feel very good about him. The fact that it's Wednesday and he looks like this, I feel much better. To your guys' point, 80% of the money is on the Bengals right now.

Uh-oh. 70% on Philly. You were also right on that angle as well, Pat. Okay, he's doing one-legged hamstring reach things. He's good. Yeah. That's tough to do on a bad ankle. That's good that he could even do that.

So, unless this is all work, which Ian Rapport told us whenever he didn't leave the stadium with a boot, Ian Rapport said Patrick Mahomes knows that everything he does is being watched and will be reported and will have to be dealt with later. So he probably knew that. I was like, oh, he's working. This dude's working.

Okay. I like that he's – this dude's working. Putter down. Uh-oh. What the fuck? What happened, Ghost? Michael Cole's putter? That's a good putter, actually.

That company, the – Bruce, correct me if I'm wrong. The guy that started that putter company actually. That company, the... Bruce, correct me if I'm wrong. The guy that started that putter company, like 20 years old or something. Really? I think so. Right, Bruce Branovich? Can you hear me? Mike's not on.

What's this guy? He said, yeah. Bruce, you have a microphone. I mean, Stogs. Bruce, you got a microphone. This mic is broken. Oh, is it really? What's going on, Nick?

What is the deal back there? It's not broken. It's back, yeah. Yeah, the kid's 21. He's a student at Tennessee. T-squared golf putter thing. Wow. That's pretty cool.

He just sent us one with For the Brand on it and the Pat Magby Show logo. Good putter. It has somehow just ended up being the one that is next. Because there's like 10 putters in this office and the last office. That putter has cost the show a lot of money. It has. That putter is a good putter, I think. Great putter.

Now, when Michael Cole is handling it, terrible putter. Use your mark. Use your error. When Darius is handling it. Decent. Well, I think that's generous. Decent. I mean, last time I was on the green, I hit the first one.

Yeah. That is a good point. AJ, I mean, not AJ, AQ. AQ, two. AQ, two. He was in the loop for two yesterday, right? Bruce, first putt. Not with that putter. He made the lefty? Okay, I was about to say. Fucking EJ first one. Yeah. That is a good point. AJ, I mean not AJ, AQ. AQ, two. AQ for two yesterday, right? Bruce, first putt. Not with that putter.

He made the lefty? Okay, I was about to say. Probably going to EJ hit one. But it's a good putter. Congrats to that 21-year-old. Yeah. There you go. Also, in that video, CEH is also warming up.

And granted, they got Pacheco and McKinnon, but that's just another guy for them. He's an afterthought. Pacheco really changed the game. He did. And McKinnon catching passes out of the backfield or just as like a change of pace guy. He's so good. I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Okay, and some breaking news here before our George Kittle conversation, and we bid you all adieu for the day. Got a chance to prerecord a convo with George Kittle, and it's good. Oh, yeah. How long is it, 20-some? Yeah, about 23 minutes. we don't normally do this we don't normally pre-record uh just because don't like the thought of it just the amount of pressure on like okay now do we feel obligated to make it like a perfect convo you know live there's a little bit

of different expectation and also don't want to be fucking just working all day having conversations with people so once we do it with one person i other people will start to think it's a thing and it's like would much rather have people live so i think we get a better read on the people live and i think it's a much better conversation and i think we're all better live as well we did the podcast where we pre-recorded there was nowhere near as good as live stuff we are not there's some people that are incredible at pre-recorded. It was nowhere near as good as the live stuff. We are not. There are some people that are incredible at pre-recorded stuff, and their brains are great, a lot of forethought, a lot of thinking. We're just fucking live action. But George Kittle can come on the fucking program, first time all year.

Fucking need to do it. Absolutely. So yesterday we were able to record with him like a 20-some minute conversation. 100% worth it. And it's hard not to just fall in love with the dude even more every time he talks it is with that being said we have some breaking news oh myself and kirk herb street will be the commentators for the seven on seven flag football games at the pro bowl on abc yeah i believe uh you guys are Sunday.

Two days, one competition. What does that mean? Okay, so I'm not 100% sure. I think on Thursday there's a lot of skill challenges happening, and then Sunday there's seven-on-seven happening, skill challenges happening like finals maybe, seven-on-seven game, then something else. There's multiple seven-on-seven games.

Okay. And then I think there's also skills challenges in there. It's going to be, I think, should be a pretty awesome thing. Brand new. I think they're playing for a real prize. Here we go. I think there's going to be some actual effort. Seven-on-seven.

I'm doing play-by-play. Kirk Herbstreit's doing color column today. That's awesome. On ABC. Yeah, let's go. What a joke, AJ. That's going to be awesome. Where's Mina?

Why isn't Mina with the crew? Great question. That is the NFL Live crew right there. Except for RG3, right? I was told NFL Live was thick as thieves. Mina's probably going to be there, and they are thick as thieves. We all know that. Have you seen the clips on the internet?

Not only the internet. We got to meet Laura down there and chit-chat with her. Obviously, we know Dan Orslavsky and the whole crew. Big Swagoo. Where is me? That's a great question. We assume she'll be a part of the... I mean, there's analytics involved.

I assume that she'll be there. I think ESPN's putting big backing into this whole thing. Oh, yeah. And the only reason why I'm doing this is because Herbstreet said he'll do it if I do it. There you go. thing. Oh, yeah. And the only reason why I'm doing this is because Herb Street said he'll do it if I do it. So, I don't want to say that, you know, Herb Street kind of said, Either you do this or I'm not doing it.

I think he said that to ESPN as well, which is really cool, and I appreciate Herbie doing that. But once again, I do not deserve to have people like Herb Street in my life. This is a joke. I will try to be as great as possible at the gig. I do believe Peyton Manning is going to be mic'd up the whole time. Eli Manning is mic'd up the whole time. I think Pete Davidson is going to be there maybe mic'd up.

I think Snoop Dogg is going to be there mic'd up. I think there's going to be a lot of potential things. Players, I believe, are going to be mic'd up. So I think it's going to be in my bag. I think it should be a good spot to wear in the NFL. You're going to be mic'd up. So I think it's going to be, you know, it should be in my bag. I think it should be a good spot. We're in NFL. I think. You're going to kill it.

You'll be in a booth calling it? Yeah, yeah. Up in a booth. That'll be awesome. You're not going to make any jokes about Pete Davidson's dong, are you? Well, so I've already tried to figure out how I got to get that in there. Pete, you're comfortable with things about the size of American football. What would you say the team needs to do?

You know what I mean? Yeah. I've got to get all those out now. American football? I thought they were going to use him as one of the upbringers. Well, there's a chance. I mean, he might be... He honestly might be... He might be the first down chains. Yes. Get rid of the chains. They could.

Soft. There's a chance. But anyways, he will be mic'd up, which is obviously hilarious, and I can't wait to meet mic'd up, which is obviously hilarious, and I can't wait to meet him. Hey, Pete, big fan, bub. Here you go, Pete.

Pete, you've been through it too. You've battled. Yeah. I mean, he had a – you know our friend Anthony Gonzalez going into politics. And when he signed up for politics, he decided that at least 60% of the people were going to – 70% of the people were going to hate him because the other political party is going to hate him. And also people that wanted somebody else in his political party to win instead of him, they hate him as well.

But then he got, you know, his own party completely. And we told him from the very beginning, why are you doing it? We don't know enough about politics to know what you're doing, but we do want to let you know why are you wasting your time doing this? These people are very mad. And I think he genuinely thought he was going to change the world, but he had the whole world at him. Yeah.

Because the president- Yeah, DJT. Put the sights on him. Put the red dot on him, yeah. I think that happens on the internet whenever Ye used to- Oh, yeah. Because Ye- Calling him skeet.

Put the dots on him. And he had to deal with that a long time. Oh, yeah. Everywhere he went, I assume Calling him Skeet. Put the dots on him. And he had to deal with that a long time. Everywhere he went, I assume, there's Kanye. Cole had to do it. And what did Pete do? Just laugh through it all. Continue to crush it. Tough not to.

When you have. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, you want to call me Skeet? I'm having sex with the wife of your children. Okay. Oh, jeez. Shut up.

Shut up, Kanye. Not the wife. I don't know what type of shit they're running over there. You never know. Pete's done fine for himself. Pete had a hell of a run. I can't wait to chat with him. Snoop Dogg mic'd up out there?

Yeah. I remember watching his youth football show. Coach Snoop. Didn't he call a fight, too? He did some of that trailer stuff, I think, he did earlier. Yeah, he did the Olympics as well Hockey You've seen Peyton and Eli

He was awesome He was on the hockey He was incredible Snoop on a mic Forever and ever He always does that Super Bowl flag game too The beach Whatever it used to be

Loves the football Peyton and Eli too whatever it used to be loves the football yeah obviously be able to payton and eli too also big push for like all the players to play in it so they're trying to make this like uh the actual pro bowl like hey because you heard aaron yesterday like well the pro bowl has kind of lost its shine because third and fourth alternates are in there it's like yeah yeah how about this year huh how? Are they wearing flags? Is it a seven on flag game? Yeah, I think so. That'd be cool. Are they going to wear the little baby soft helmets? Have to. Oh, that's

interesting. Are they going to have to wear the Guardians? Probably should. I don't want the last thing you need to be touching in the Pro Bowl. There's going to be some moments, though. Corners, you can't really half-ass there, right? Because you're going to get dunked on? I would assume receivers, too, but yeah yeah, you don't want to get. Is there a lineman 7-on-7?

No. Oh, they're not playing wide receiver and they're not doing their own brackets? ZQ Ali, it might be, you know, one of the skill positions, but I don't think there's linemen. Like when they, like the linemen do it in practice when they walk, they play walk 7-on-7 or whatever? Oh, yeah, and they do the. Yeah.

That started taking over a little bit. Walk routes. It over a little bit. Walk routes. It did a little bit. People started getting got. Is Russ going to be there? Does Russ get to go as a backup, as an alternate? And is he mic'd up? Do I get a chance to –

I want to see that. I want you to talk to Russ live on air with Kirk. Maybe just the whole game. Just talk to him. Well, Kirk is going to be great because Kirk is – he's so good in there. I got to watch him work for that vegas bowl him with the clicker with the drawer and with the microphone he's a magician yeah been

doing it 20 some years so i'm excited to set him up for that as well like i'm i'm pumped to do the play-by-play here's a funny story so a funny story. So whenever we got in this whole world, 2017 or whatever, 2018, 2017, and I was asked if I wanted to commentate games or whatever, and I was like, yeah, I want to be the host, though. I want to do play-by-play. I was told directly by somebody, like, you're too dumb to do play-by-play or whatever. Your color commentary is much easier.

It's an analyst thing. Nobody, no player has really ever done play-by-play. That's a journalist. That's a school thing or whatever. So I did that Thursday night football thing where we were going to tiny towns for these tiny school games, competing against the NFL so nobody's watching it. But it was my first opportunity to really be in a booth. Hasselbeck asked me to do it.

I was very appreciative of it. I did it. Then I saw how much Adam Amin was studying and how many things Adam Amin had to know. I was like, that motherfucker was right. I do not have the amount of time or the ability to do all the research that Adam Amin does, who we just saw the other day with his board and everything he's got going on. So now I'm getting an opportunity to do it where it's just I know everything about all these dudes yeah exactly yeah and it's just one one once a year that's perfect i know how they've done i know moments in there i know who they are yeah and then that

just makes i don't have to do all this stuff that is incredibly difficult for being a play-by-play like play-by-play very very very hard very difficult a lot of work that person kind of right not that i'm not smart enough but definitely don't have the ability to focus long enough to do all that research it has to be done but yeah especially college so this is like a perfect i'm very thankful for the opportunity from kirk herb street and obviously the people at espn for allowing it to happen so i'm pumped about it aj i'm excited i think it's gonna you guys will be i mean that's it makes complete sense, absolutely. Like, it definitely makes me want to watch the seven-on-seven.

Yeah, exactly. There's going to be a lot of people that don't want to watch now. What do you mean? Certainly something. Not this one. I think a lot of people are going to want to watch this because it's different. And NFL. We're kind of in the NFL.

Yeah, people love watching new. Correct. Yeah. Eli and Peyton. I'm going to trend in like Romo on Sunday. Well, as long as you're not hammered. Yeah.

Well, hey, Kim. Yeah, if you don't do that, call him. Yeah, really. Change your cadence. You know, way, way, way, way, way. As long as you don't do that,

you should be fine. Of course. Tony Romo, I would like to let you know. Oh, man. Tony Romo's been Tony Romo since day one. He was loved at the beginning.

Yep. The people will come back. I think the people will come back because it will become like the cool thing to not like Tony. Then others will start to like Tony again. It will be a full thing. Yeah, people in Boston will forget what he did to the poor people there and what he said about them. So I don't think they'll ever come back.

Allegedly. That wasn't on video. No, it was on video. No, but just in case. There was a real sports, huh, last night? Yeah, with Brian Gumbel. Did you hear about this, AJ? What was it about? Well, you may want to look into it.

Illuminating. And they start with it, too. It's the first 20 minutes, and it's about a certain case going on in the city. Your mentor and best friend. Oh, geez. We will certainly have a lot to say at the right time yeah that is still being processed watch you should watch it watch it this morning this is very interesting i wonder did they send the same type of thing to them you

think no but they did reach out for him to uh be interviewed for it and that person yeah they denied so this is awesome the situation we're in is awesome especially after watching that makes me feel even better yeah not very patient with a lot of things but like this one is worth it i'm swaying in the weeds this one's a uh oh yeah it'll be a big day uh-huh everything's dumb too you know like those people think we're dumb dumb exactly which we are are but it's good it's good when people think you're dumb it's great good card player though you know so like we're in the middle of a hand right now where some things are happening and everything seems to be good you know what i mean everything seems to be good and then at the end

it's going to be one of these and it's going to be glorious yeah it's going to, it's going to be one of these, and it's going to be glorious. It is going to be a great day. It is going to be a great day. Zito has some of the rosters for that Pro Bowl. Devontae Adams obviously playing in this. Is he? Are these guys all committed to this? I don't know yet. I guess it's in Vegas, right?

Okay, so we got – I feel like Josh Allen's definitely going to be there because of his relationship with Peyton. Look at that team on the AFC for these seven-on-seven games. Devontae Adams, Jamar Chase. Obviously, everybody's hoping not to be there, Jamar Chase. Stephon Diggs and Tyreek Hill lined up. Good luck.

This is fantastic. This is going to be a good time, huh? Travis Kelsey at tight end. Obviously, don't want to be able to play in this. We get it. Who's quarterback? Oh, I don't know. Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, or Patrick Holmes.

If the NFL, Peyton Manning, Eli, is able to get all these guys to the Pro Bowl, maybe they rented the whole hotel. Yeah. So guys don't have to maybe just get accosted by autograph hounds the entire time. Right. If they did this the right way, this could be amazing. AFC does have the quarterback advantage for sure. Also, you would think that a lot of these guys would go,

like look how many Buffalo players are there. You're with a lot of your teammates too. Yeah, but also offseason. Yeah, vacation time. Offseason's a good time. For sure. Depending on how they feel. Yeah, but Vegas is a destination.

That's the worry because last time Vegas it was like 45 degrees. So let's hope we have a good weekend. That's what it was in Arizona when the Pro Bowl was out there. It was cold. Loved it. Love Arizona. Thinking about moving there someday. That's how much I love the place.

Having a Pro Bowl there was a nightmare, though. I mean, that was not like, oh, I would like. Not Arizona's fault. Full hotel was not rented out. Yeah, exactly. There was other conferences happening in the hotel at the same time as J.J. Watts getting out of the gym at 6 a.m. He's getting accosted for autographs by somebody that was wearing a fake corporate shirt that was at a convention.

I mean, there's ways to handle it and make it good, but I think they're trying. I think they are trying to make it good, and I'm lucky to be a part of it. Hopefully it will become an annual thing. Yeah, and Arizona had the tough situation where they're being compared to Hawaii. Because the year before and obviously the many years before it was only Hawaii. Yeah, only in Hawaii. And then it moves

all of a sudden out of nowhere. First Pro Bowl. If I would have been better younger. It's okay. This one's going to be great. This one's going to be good. Let's have a good time. To wrap up the day, we can't wait to send you to a pre-recorded conversation to George Kittle from just yesterday.

He wasn't able to stop during the live time because they're on that other time zone. Not real time. It isn't. Arizona's different I think than LA right now. Two hours instead of three hours. We're going to have to experience it whenever we go out there.

One of the questions on the – we should hit the 500 phone line. We only did one call today. Aren't we stopping – we're stopping daylight savings next year, right? Are we? I'm about it. I thought Indiana was. No, I feel like it's loaded on. Everywhere is.

When we spring forward, it's done, I think, right? Yeah. I'm about it. Nice. I'm sure there's somebody out there that's pissed off about it. But I don't think I've ever talked to an actual farmer that said it was good i don't think it matters it is nice when you get that extra hour though what that one night yeah yeah that's fucking awesome it is awesome just a 25 hour yeah when you see it's two o'clock and then it turns to three and then boom it goes

back to two it's like oh let's fucking go then it turns to 3, and then boom. It goes back to 2. It's like, oh, let's fucking go. Back whenever I was younger and I was out and about at the bars. Here we go. That's a thing. Oh, yeah. Spring ball's over. Or no, spring ball was about over, I think, when we'd flip. A little extendo.

Yeah. What a time. Yeah. Let's go to the 5 Energy Fund. 1-833-4-DA-DOME. Let's go to Nathan in Memphis. What's going on, Nathan? What's going on, Nathan? What's going on, boys?

I was actually at College Game Day when y'all came to town, and I was fucking blown away. You guys were awesome. I took a picture with Chris Velika, and me and my girlfriend are so happy for you and your wife on having your child. I've been a fan for so long. You guys are the best. Thank you.

I'm with the boys band from Radio Rose. What the fuck? How you been b are you busting with the boys' band from Radio Row? That's nice. What the fuck? How are you guys busting? I don't think that happened. I think it did happen, but I think it has changed. I believe they are credentialed. With that being said, I will say, Nathan, we would not be able to get into Radio Row if it was not for Fandel being our exclusive partner.

Now, I do believe they've got credentialed in there as guests. I don't think they have. I don't know. I haven't explained it all. Fandel being our exclusive partner. Now, I do believe they've got a credential in there as, like, guests. I don't think they have a set. I don't know. I haven't explained it all. But, Nathan, to what you're saying, we don't understand it either. But this is – remember, we had the PAFL, Nate. You probably don't know that.

You probably just called in to ask that question. You probably don't know. We had a PAFL at one point during this year where, even though we had a deal with the league, we were able to run highlights and videos of the teams if it was to be paused in a graphic we are not allowed to have some of the team logos on the screen so it's like the nfl we are currently in the middle of a transition i think in media we all see it we all know it i think old school media will always exist i think there is a transition happening we all understand that um and the n just, I think, figuring out as it kind of happens.

So in a couple years, hopefully this won't be the case, but there are certainly some blueprints that still need to be laid in the entire media, Internet, NFL relationship, probably NBA relationship too, probably MLB relationship thing going forward. But I'm happy they're in there. I do believe they got in there, which is good news ultimately. Yeah, I mean, when we were with The Zone and Westwood One in Miami, we were

in a literal fucking shoebox on Radio Row, you know, like the smallest set next to, and granted, Romy is Romy, so, you know, you understand that he's going to get the... But The Zone had all the NFL rights for Germany, Italy, Canada, Brazil,

Mexico, so they're paying the NFL. All international. They're paying the NFL a lot of money, so this is a lot of, this is, Radio Yes. For Germany, Italy, Brazil, Mexico. So they're paying the NFL a lot of money. So this is a lot of, this is, Radio Row is a big, who is sponsor of, who has deal with teams. That's what, because Radio Row is, it's a spectacle. There's a lot of shit. But all the people that are in there have deals with the NFL. So I think that's why it was potentially a little bit more difficult.

But ultimately, in the end, they were able to get him in there, which is good news, I think. But they had to take it on the shins there from the NFL for a bit to, you know, invoke a little change. Right, absolutely. And I sent them a text to keep fighting a good fight, boys, because honestly, it's one of these things that's going to continue to happen with shit with the NFL as we go forward, I think, AJ. It's the best pub they could ever get, though, still. Best pub they could ever get. But having this rift with the league. Yeah, I mean, a lot of people were wondering how we were going to handle

the whole – I found this out afterwards. In the middle of it, I didn't think it was that big of a deal. I was just looking out for the show, like how are we going to do a fucking show? I guess around sports media, there's a lot of eyes on how is is and i'm only saying this because this is what they actually said to me from numerous different networks excited to see how pat mcphee and the gang hang handle this adversity with the nfl or whatever they're like how how are you going to handle this whenever we weren't allowed to have logos or whatever so i guess a lot of people were watching on as we did that i wasn't thinking about that at all i was just thinking about the show for the good of the show but i am happy that

we've basically said this is stupid i think they agreed and they agreed yeah credit to them so shout out to them also saying that's right because i don't think a lot of people ever figuring it out too right everyone's trying to figure it out right now exactly that's what i think i think it's like they're in the middle of like a lot happening a lot of money has been made one doing something literally in the exact same way for 30 40 years like the exact same way this is how the kickoff show looks this is how the daytime talk shows look this is how the coverage looks this is how this is this is how it spoke about this is what's not said this is what is said like a lot of money's been made by a lot of people doing it that way so as things are literally changing in the moment yeah everybody's figuring out i think with us the nfl quickly was it one week yeah not even it was like six days yeah didn't even make it to

the following sunday yeah it was like six days where they were like hey we've got this thing we uh we apologize this is what we're thinking can we do this like yeah you got it with them same type of thing so i think we should give a little forgiveness for the nfl for some of these things that are certainly going to happen but if they would have said no to them not even being allowed to go be guests on shows when they're both what is it 18 years in the nfl those two combined at a very like that would be fucked up i think in the nfl real somebody with a mind was like so two guys that are great for our league played in our league a long time they're not allowed in here but some local radio host who buries the league every single chance they get they're allowed in there like i'm happy it seemed like cooler heads seemingly prevailed, but shout out to them being there.

I think we'll see them there, I hope. Yeah, absolutely. With Fandle, I will say, and Fandle pays the NFL a lot of money, as does everybody that's in business with the NFL, but obviously Fandle, DraftKings, and Caesars. Caesars, yeah. To be the three official for the league, they're paying. I couldn't even fathom.

I couldn't even fathom what that money is. The Fandle stage last year was hilarious. Was that not? Oh, yeah. I mean, it was like a concert setup. I mean, you did have a concert there, but yeah, pretty amazing. With that being said,

there are no fans allowed this year. No fans allowed anymore. First year ever. The fans are not allowed. I believe no music acts are allowed. Sorry about it. And this is what we do. We fuck things up for other people.

We apologize, Will and Taylor. Probably partially our fault in this attack. I don't know about that. No fans makes it much better for all the current players that are coming through to sell batteries or whatever because they don't have to deal with that. Yes. The fans are awesome for us because we enjoy the because they don't have to deal with that. Yes, the fans are awesome for us because we enjoy the hell out of the energy and everything like that.

But I could see how at Radio Row the fans being able to go wherever is certainly a problem. Well, and last year too they had the thing where they didn't even have security so fans were just roaming around in the bullpen. In Miami they had that little walkway set up where people people could walk but last year people were just moving the cattle rail and just like fucking going and standing behind shows in shots and stuff they definitely don't want that and autograph hounds get a heads up to digs's point like hey they're not patrolling anything here yeah get here now boom you kind of get in there and get moving so i see where the end

of honestly and this is gonna sound crazy because i am uh i feel like we try to change the nfl a lot i feel like we have for the better i feel like we do try i think they have a lot of flaws i think they are trying to figure shit out too as they go in real time which is not something they normally do they don't change rules for like five years like the nfl is like uh we'll kick shit down the right now they're having to deal with shit in real time. They've been nice with us. They've been great with us. I assume they're going to continue to do so because it's better for the league as a whole. Yeah, and as the internet space has grown, it feels like they also have to kind of acknowledge that and grow with it.

And there's a scoreboard now. Exactly. There's many different. You know, there's people that put decks together that say they have 500 million impressions. Right, all time. and stuff like that. You know, so like... How much longer can people dupe all these corporations? We just got an email. We just got an email.

We'll keep going. We just got an email from somebody asking if we would do something and it was what we talked about yesterday. All of the talking points I brought up yesterday about just bullshit numbers, it was the first five things that were said were, BAM! Bang! The amount of retweets they got in a year i think was in there that's hilarious likes how many likes they had how many impressions they had that means nothing

like that was how they led off and it was like somebody had to sign off on this being the thing and whenever they were presented this they were like holy shit 500 million impressions holy wow let's lead with that it's like we read it and we're like this is bullshit yeah this is all this is all food gays i don't know how much longer i have no idea has to be the next generation of c-suite people that's what i'm wondering if this alpha generation comes up they may hire some of these younger these younger kids that have a greater feel for the whole internet situation. Yeah, the C-suites just have to change and turn over. But the C-suites have done great work in a lot of places.

They kind of take it as a personal shot, I think, whenever it's like, hey, the world's changing. It's not like it used to be. So you guys did great, I think, with the way the parameters of the world were. You did great. It's a whole different ballgame. It's a whole different fucking ballgame. Somebody new parameters. It's a whole different fucking bug. If somebody on a cell phone can become so different, the fucking media radio row is so different.

I remember going to radio row in 2007, probably second year in the league or whatever. Now you do it. And there's, you see like, there's a lot of podcasts that are just local podcasts that are big, like in that market that are actually really good shows. Like for that specific

team. There's a ton of that. There's just so many different opportunities, I think. There's a full process to get into that radio row, though. To Nathan that asked that question, there's a full process to get in there. Yeah, it's not easy at all. Let's go to Tim in Maryland. Tim, what's going on, pal? AJ, D-Butt, Toxic Table, COVID, Cowboy, Boys in the Back, Theater Wonder up north. Shout out that Toxic Talk 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube. Hell yeah.

Guys, how you doing? Keep it moving. All right. Hell yeah. What if I just sign up? Good call. I want to ask you, man. Any guesses for surprise entrance in Royal Rumble this weekend?

Oh. That is this weekend, isn't it, Tim? It is. Royal Rumble is this weekend. It is Saturday. Did you get it, Tim? It is. Royal Rumble is this weekend. It is Saturday. Did you get a spray tan? Come on. No.

You don't want to look like that. Are you setting up a program? Me? Oh, look at you. Look at that answer. Whenever you pause and you ask, what's that? What did you say? No, no.

I'm trying to figure out how to handle this. I thought you said all the boys could come to your house and watch the Rumble with you. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to handle this. You know? You guys the boys could come to your house and watch the Rumble with you. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to handle this. You guys can't come to us. Were you in a black box? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Remember when I told Vince how many fucking pay-per-views we stole from you with that black box? Right to his face. You probably lost out on, I don't know, probably $170 from our neighborhood. We stole them all. A lot of people are just tweeting me that I'm going to be in the Royal Rumble. That's wild. When is it? What are you coming out?

It's coming out this week. I think it's this Sunday. I think it's this Sunday. Is it this Sunday against the championship games? I believe so. I thought it was. No. I think it's Saturday.

I think it's Saturday. Okay. Where? So with that, I do not have plans. I thought it was on championship Sunday. Now it's Saturday. Hold on. Here we go.

Maybe. Hold the phone. Okay. I've not. Football season was. Now it's Saturday. Hold on. Here we go. Maybe. Hold the phone. Okay. I've not. Football season was our conversation point, basically. Yep. You're like, football season? Don't you, Mark?

Because of how much I had to do on the road. It is Saturday? Yeah. Let's go. Okay. Let's go. We got Royal Rumble on Saturday, then we get Championship. You do that.

All sports change their schedule this weekend to not be on Sunday. Yeah, you do not. Golf started on Wednesday this week. I don't know if any other sports are playing on Sunday. Is that the Phoenix Open? No. That's Super Bowl week. Yeah.

Farmers insurance. They're at 45. No, is the Phoenix Open different than waste management? Because I played both of them, I think, on my pro golfer. I won both of them. No big deal. Waste management is tough, too. It's the waste management Phoenix Open.

Okay, so it's together. How come on PGA they get two different tourneys? management's tough, too. It's the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Okay, so it's together. How come on PGA they get two different tourneys? I thought so, too. Huh. I do know Farmers is before Waste Management because of... Anyways, I will be watching the Royal Rumble. Yeah. If that means anything.

Still a fan. Still in good graces, I believe, with everybody at WWE, which is good news. Still love wrestling in WWE. Still a fan of wrestling in the WWE. Well, that means I've got a lot going on in my life right now. We should do a poll. What's that? Of who's going to win.

Cody Rhodes, I think they said, right, is coming back. Yeah. He's returning. He's not winning. How many people will compete in my... 30. Have you ever watched the Rumble before? 30 superstars. Who's your watched the Rumble before? 30 superstars.

Who's your winner? Is Brock coming? Is Brock? I think he was in the photo. I watched Raw 30 there. He was in a photo to promote something. Was it the Royal Rumble? Any old school guys going to come back?

Do you know who won the first ever Royal Rumble? Eugene. Hulkster. Ultimate Warrior. Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Ho! He also got broke into his house and he beat the fuck out of him. Yeah, he did.

Held him down with a two-by-four. Yeah. That was crazy he did that. Yeah, but I'll be watching this weekend. Let's go. Yeah. Who knows what the future holds for me in WWE, though, honestly. It'll be interesting to see.

Door's still open on both sides. Haven't had the conversation yet. I loved it. I enjoyed my time over there a lot. I mean, you're very good at that. Thank you. That was very nice of you. I think obviously because I'm a shoot fan, so like

it was pretty... You have to be. You absolutely have to be to have that gig. I think so. As a commentator you have to know what the fuck, at least Just being in that universe, you kind of have to be aware of that. What is being tried to be accomplished here? You know, because it is something and they've tried a lot of commentators throughout the years i'm not saying like right now try commentators that weren't fans of what was going on it's like i don't even know how you would do that i don't even know how you would go about

talking like i've watched i don't know i was probably 11 10 so was that 25 years of wrestling so like you can tell when they're not a fan, too. When things pop up, it's like, oh, I see why this is trying to happen. And I enjoy it still. So I'm coming from an angle of like, oh, this is awesome, this is fun. So I thought it was the perfect, I had a blast. And then Michael Cole is awesome. And then getting to beat the shit out of Austin Theory at WrestleMania.

I mean, come on. Drinking Steve Weiser's. What? He stung me, that was rude. Then getting to beat the shit out of Austin Theory at WrestleMania. Yep. I mean, come on. Drinking Steve Weiser's. What? He stung me. That was rude. Yeah? It was. It was all about.

Sorry, kids. Your ribs okay from Vince? Well, that is the thing. I have a – and I don't want to talk about this publicly because there's something. I do have a deformity. That's right. Now in my rib cage. Thank you for hearing, man.

Because the point of the football, Vince put through two of them. It pierced the lung too, didn't it? Yeah. That's why I couldn't kick out. Now, when there was a beer being offered, somehow that lung just opened back up. It helped. It was like, come on, bud. Once in a lifetime here. But as soon as I got to the back.

Puking blood. Yeah. That was not a sanctioned matchup, so I'm still undefeated in sanctioned matches at WrestleMania. Correct. I'm also getting rumors that Butch might be the hardest competitor in the Royal Rumble.

That's not true. Butch is in the... I sure hope so. So you let off with him getting reports just to lead us off a little bit? Good luck getting Otis out of the ring, boys. What's that? Otis?

Yeah, Otis is my winner. Otis in it? He should be. He doesn't have the stamina, Tony. I would be shot while he's coming out for the 28. Otis was playing cards with Corbin, JBL, and the boys this past week. Pit Fighters on. I don't know if he's ready for the grueling task of Royal Rumble.

It feels like The Fiend is going to take over this year. Is Bray in it? I assume. Fondango is coming back. Fondango. I follow him on Insta. He's been wrestling in the indie circuit. He's been doing it.

He's been doing it. He's still got that big ass. He's a master craftsman, too. Building houses. Flipping houses. That guy's awesome. Actual contractor. Shoot contractor building houses. That guy's awesome. Actual contractor. Shoot contractor building houses.

And then if you need him, he'll come. Then he's going to jump off the top rope. So like Hulk Hogan used to do a leg drop. Yep. And you see the way he walks. That's because when you do a leg drop, you're laying right on your fucking ass, and your hips are just like, it's not good. They talk about DDP used to do the diamond cutter, and it's RKO, similar.

And I guess DDP told Randy Orton when he was doing it, like, yeah, he did do that, bang. Bang! Yeah, he used to do that whole thing. He told Randy, like, I would not recommend this to be your finisher yeah finisher because you're just going to be doing like you're dropping you literally every single time you're in a ring you're going to have to if you want to do it so hulk hogan used to do that fucking leg drop and you just do it like 280 times a year 300 times a year for

10 to 15 years straight. Like your back and hips are going to get fucked up. Dongo was like, I'll do you one better. He used to jump off the top of the rope and do a fucking leg drop. Do you remember that? What a fucking psychopath. That guy's back, hips, whole body. The first time I saw him, he was like actually jumping too.

Like not high enough right here. I'm not just going to go. Like fucking jumping with a big fucking bang. I'm like, this guy's not going to be able to walk. Yeah. Year or two. But I'll tell you what, he was devastated. Nobody kicked out.

No. Every time. Ding, ding. Every single time. And then, da, da. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. AJ, you got a little zipper burn on your penis whenever you saw Dongo the first time down there at NHT. I saw it.

That was a good one. I never heard that one. I had to put that together. That's pretty good. Well, you took yourself back to when you met him. Oh, yeah, I did. Well, you know what? I did see him.

I saw a great move he did. I was walking with, forget the gentleman's name, but I was walking with him, and then I see Dongo like 30 yards ahead of us. I'm like, oh, yeah, here we go. This is Dongo. This is my dude. I love this guy. And Dongo did the old move to old buddy.

He's walking. They both see each other. And then as we get a couple feet away, Dongo puts his phone up and acts like he's on the phone and just keeps walking right by him. It was awesome. Was it Danny Burch? How perfect was it for your Dongo experience? You thought, this cool guy.

Then they circled back around, hugged and everything. I love this move. And they talked about it. I was like, I need to do that. I haven't used it yet. Don goes game changer. Yeah. I don't know if it was Burch, though.

Who were you walking with? Do you remember who you were walking with? He was not a wrestler. This guy was somebody that liked to run social media accounts, and I loved the dude. He was very. Oh, Nicky Tweets. Oh. I was going to say Gary Vee.

Well. Former employee. He is a Gary Vee disciple. Gary loves it. He paid $250,000 to Gary. No, I think he was working for Gary before Gary found out that that's how much. Oh, okay. He's got the NFT Super Bowl here in Indianapolis.

He does. Can't wait. It's in May. All right. Let's get the fuck out of here. Hey, that's Hockey Talk on a night 8 p.m. Hell yeah. How's the show going to be?

It's going to be good. It's going to be electric tonight. We've got an incredible guest lined up that we don't know who it is yet, but it will be a surprise. Sounds like a surprise to you. Good tease. Sergeant Slaughter. Sounds like you don't know.

I have no idea. Okay. Waiting to see. Oh, but Rob sent a text saying, got a big fish on the line. That's something special playing. Pittsburgh Penguins win 7-6 last night in overtime. The Pens are all the way back. They win. You see that?

You're still into hockey, right? Oh, yeah. Huge hockey guy. Let's go, Pens. Do you see who they beat? No. Florida Panthers. Beat your team. I was traveling last night and missed it. That's why I lost. Probably. Letang also came back. First game back back, scores two goals, including game winner in overtime. Wow.

Seems like your Panthers had no shot at it. You're still chasing the bees. Do you want to make a putt for the boys? What do you want to do? Actually, tie. Oh. Let's call it a tie. No, not putt.

He's been slinging it. He's got a cannon, I it. Ty's been throwing. He's got a cannon, I know. Yes, he does. Remember when I went and played baseball in that amateur, well, professional, I guess. Farm league. Ty was pitching to me. Hockey balls inside our old studio.

They were moving. He prepared me for a 92-mile-an-hour fastball. Oh, yeah. First pitch i see fucking make contact didn't go anywhere make contact exactly hardest thing to do in sports they say hit a fastball okay let me step right into the box here yeah well i did not hit the curveball and i would not have hit that fucking curveball guy threw me curveball second pitch you remember that did you ever see this aj oh yeah so didn yeah. Didn't you turn around and ask him right away what was going on?

Yeah, I motherfucked the catcher who called it, and then I asked the ump to throw him out. And then I stepped back into the batter's box, and then he threw the fastball again. I found it. Thank you, sir. Please put that right there. Broke my thumb off the bat because it rattled so hard.

And almost tore my hamstring running the first. Was out. because it rattled so hard and almost tore my hamstring running the first was out and third time same exact same exact situation hit the ball bounces back overthrow to first i end up on second with a slide curtain call i'm out of the game that's my baseball experience and it was all because of ty and that right arm that i was prepared for it ty you played baseball right football as well? Did you ever throw the pigskin around? Oh, yeah.

You've been spinning it today. It seems like you got a little bit more, what is it, a little bit more juice today. A little bit more juice, a little bit more pair. What's that all about? No Bud Lice last night? Bud Lice, Bud. And, you know, every once in a while you just get the fucking baby Duke in your hand. It's just like, okay, I feel like I'm spinning this thing today a little bit.

We're going for a net over there is what we're doing. One of those three holes, any one of them, whichever one you want to hit, you can go for it. If Ty is able to put a ball into that net, we'll give 15 more people. Wow. $500 who retweet this video, say something nice to somebody, and put their cash tag in the same reply so we can pay you officially on a cash

app. AJ, anything to say to old Ty before he lets it eat? Ty knows that he does not need any pump-up speech. He'll probably drain this first one. You don't need a pump-up speech, he said. Yeah, probably drain it. Ty Schmidt out of Waterloo, Iowa. Get in.

Ooh. Boom. How about it? What did I say? He did drain the first one, Hawker. Dude, what did I do? I want to shake your hand. Why did I grab these?

Why did I grab these? You don't need them. Ty dropped down to the platform, as they like to say. A little sidearm, a little slam. Hell yeah. A little Rich Cannon release. Slide. 15 people, 500.

15 other people, 500. Wow. Bud Light giving away beer money. What? Holy hell, what a winner Wednesday. Woo! All right, ladies and gentlemen, George Kittle will take us home here. We talked to him yesterday.

It is worth a listen. We can't thank you enough. We will see you. Mignogna. Big thanks to Lou Anarumo. All the boys. Tomorrow's show is big a listen. We can't thank you enough. We will see you, Mignogna. Big thanks to Lou Anarumo, all the boys. Tomorrow's show is big. Huge. Be a friend.

Tell a friend. George Kittle is on right about now. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a guy who, if you were building a team from scratch and you had employed not only a cultivator of culture, but a man to play tight end for you. That's not only going to be able to make miraculous catches, but also just debo folks around.

A man who's a consummate all pro, one of the founders of tight end university, a stallion out of Iowa. Ladies and gentlemen, fucking George Kittle. Wow. Thank you, Pat. The stallion compliments, honestly, my favorite thing you just said about me.. Thank you, Pat. The stallion compliments honestly my favorite thing

you just said about me. You are, though, dude. You know, we get to watch you play football every single weekend. You're a fucking stallion, dude. That catch that you made off your face in the bobble, Diggs wanted no parts

of you running full speed, head forward, and I do not blame him for that. Whenever you're able to pull off stuff like this, and obviously you just assume that you're able to pull off stuff like this, and obviously you just assume that you're supposed to catch it, oh, I'd even drop it to begin with. It's insane how big you are, how athletic you are.

At what age did this happen? Did you grow late? Or is this like high school all the way through now, you've always been the biggest, most athletic guy on the field? Oh, no, I was usually the smallest, most frail. That was the majority of my life growing up no i got i had a i grew two inches in college and put on 70 pounds so that was kind of my coming through okay so you still have that i'm a small guy chip on your shoulder mentality like you know those uh

the point guards that grow and all of a sudden it was like 5 10 5 9 and then they're 6 4 6 5 still have the handles. Like, you still have all the mobility of a smaller guy. It's unbelievable to watch you. You're changing the tight end position. Congrats to you. Hell yeah. Now let's talk about the team you're on.

Let's talk about the team you're on with Shanahan. We did in the trenches. For sure. We did in the trenches yesterday and all season with A.Q. Shipley. And we see some of the play designs for the run game, and you're a massive part of it all. When Shanahan's laying that all out, is it like you all just buy in immediately because it works,

or is it the right people in there? Because it's a very run-dominant fucking game plan, and we're in a world where everybody wants to throw the rock all the time. Offense alignment, tight end, wide receivers. Iyuk's down the field blocking. Is it the people? Is it the scheme? What do you think it is?

I mean, honestly, it's a combination of both. And you've got to throw your mentality in there, too. Like, you can have some of the most talented people in the world, but they don't have the mentality that on every single run play they're going to block their asses off. Then a lot of those run plays don't work. I mean, you see it like Debo took a shallow 74 yards to the house against Seattle,

and you had a blocked downfield by me, and then you had a six-second block by Ayuk on their guy that runs a 4-1-40. You don't really coach that. That's just a mentality that you develop. And so having guys like that that go along with the scheme, Coach Shanahan, Coach Fleury, Coach Furster, they put together for us that run game plan every single week. It's dense, and there's a lot going on to it,

but you just got to trust the process. And, you know, the benefit of it, you know, we're in what, like week 23? We've been running a lot of these plays for a while. We've gotten pretty good at them. So if they want to throw some new twists, you know, a new flavor onto something, hey, we just tell them to go for it. We'll make it happen. Yeah, you guys ran this deuce counter tray back away from the tight end

where earlier in the year it was towards you. Yeah, it was towards yeah it was unlike the two yard line normally that's happening in the middle of the field I feel like and I only know this from in the trenches with this man AQ Shipley but he is literally they broke down he has broken down your offense like every week

like the sophistication of this run game is just so much better than fucking seemingly everybody else in the NFL, other than this Philadelphia Eagles team, who also has a very similar operation. Have you guys thought ahead about this Eagles game? This is like a lot of dream scenarios, a dream matchup for a lot of football people. Defense is incredible. Offense is sophisticated and rolling. Have you thought about how big and how, like, this is a massive moment, obviously teams george that's gonna be really fun isn't it george how are you always

so calm you're looking at the sky cam middle of fucking divisional round look right look left little shrug having a time of your life you body a guy ha ha ha you're mic'd up are you like does the moment ever get to you do you ever think about how big it is? Are you just enjoying it all? Oh, yeah. I mean, it definitely hits you. But I think that's kind of why I just use my love of the game to get through those moments. It's just like, at the end of the day, I'm playing a kid's game, man.

I can't believe it. Like, these are the moments I dreamed of when I was six years old sitting on the back patio with my mom. So I'm like, hey, I'm going to go play in the NFL someday. She's like, damn right you are. And look at me now, playing in the NFL, NFC Championship game, one game away from the Super Bowl in Philly. The Link, insane fan

base. They hate us. They just hate us because we're not the Eagles. And I love that about them. That's the way a fan base should be. So I mean, I can't wait to go play to the Link. This is everything that you've ever wanted, everything you dreamed about. Might as well enjoy it, man. You think Pardee's got that same mentality?

This dude hasn't even blinked, let alone being a rookie quarterback. They're saying he's not even in conversation, I guess, for Offensive Rookie of the Year, which, okay, I don't understand how that happens. He didn't play long enough in the season, they're saying, whatever the case is. He has seemingly been dropped in and just been,

he's unconscious almost.'s pretty good what is that what is that why is that you think and has he always been that way like i don't he's only been there a year i guess you don't really know him that much aside from that but has he always been like that um you know from what i've gotten from purdy like ever since i met him as a like as a rookie so like eight months ago when he first showed up at OTAs um you know being now that I'm in year six um I try to you know I try to build a relationship with the rookies but I always try to like you know I don't I'm not I just try to like chirp at them just a little bit here and there to see what their mindset's like are they going to shrivel up into a little ball are they

going to throw something back at me and Purdy from day one just right back at me and I was like all right like you've got something to you I respect the the hell out of it. Let's see where this goes. You've got a good foundation. Let's see where this goes. And you get to training camp, and he wins the number two spot as a rookie. He's slicing and dicing our defense. He's doing a great job in the preseason games. Like I said, wins the number two spot.

And then we signed Jimmy back and whatever the hell that happened with our quarterback and stuff. But then he's just been waiting, going against the number one defense in the NFL for like 13 weeks. And then he gets a shot and just talk about a kid who, hey, his opportunity is right in front of him. He never knew he was going to get this opportunity, but it was right there and he was ready for it. And then he's just consistently been ready for it every single time. And, yeah, he's made some crazy plays and his feet are wild. And the way he gets out of the pocket is honestly funny to watch because I'm just like, what are you doing sometimes?

But it works. And so I'm just like, what are you doing sometimes? But it works. And so I'm just like, hey, dude, just go play football, take care of the ball, and, hey, we're going to have fun doing it. He's done that. The turnover thing is the big conversation. Like how has he not been confused? Like how has he – because a lot of these things he has to make reads. And everybody's saying, well, his system is going to make him do that.

It's like he gets to his third read, and sometimes that's a 25-yard ball that he has to put right on the money. It's like, is every quarterback a system quarterback? If that's being considered a system quarterback, it's unbelievable. He's not really getting chatted about for the Offensive Rookie of the Year, but he deserves it. And are you talking about his little hezy? He gets a little hezy.

It's, yeah, yeah, always. And everybody's like, ah, there's no way this. Whoa, shit, and he gets the edge. He's unbelievable. He's been fun to watch, dude. He's going to be a story in the NFL. Everybody's going to think, and's no way this. Whoa, shit. And he gets the edge. He's unbelievable. He's been fun to watch, dude. He's going to be a story in the NFL. Everybody's going to think. And now this is going to be a story every draft.

Remember, last pick of the draft. He went on. I mean, this is a whole thing. He's blazing a whole new story and a narrative in the NFL. He's fun to watch. Good dude. We love him. Oh, yeah.

He's incredible. He's incredible. He's a dude. He's one of the boys. That's great news. Great hat, too, by the way. incredible. He's incredible. He's a dude. He's one of the boys. That's great news. Great hat, too, by the way. Shout out Will and Taylor. They got credentialed.

They're going to Radio Row. Here we go. Hey. There you go, boys. They did it. I sent them a text of well wishes whenever they got into it. I'm like, boys, good luck out there. You know what I mean?

We're paying them $4.5 million. They told us we weren't allowed to use logos on still images. Yeah. So I just, good luck out there. You're fighting a good fight, boys. And they got in there. The boys are doing it. Love them.

Ty has a question for you. Go Hawks. Yeah, George, to my favorite one of Kirk's dogs of all time, first and foremost, just seeing how good you are in the NFL just makes my fucking head explode, knowing how they used you while we were in school at Iowa. That's neither here nor there. Speaking of Brock Purdy, are you at all concerned of the NFC Championship?

Does it worry you that the moment's going to maybe get too big for him? I mean, this guy never beat Iowa when he was at Iowa State. That's got to concern you a little bit, no? I mean, Iowa, I will say he never beat Iowa, but Iowa always plays the love of their competition. So you never know if was Iowa State better and Iowa just played better or was Iowa State worse and Iowa played worse but still beat them. Hey, we got a lot of questions about Iowa football, by the way.

That's just kind of big. That's Big Ten football besides, like, three teams. And, you know, everyone just kind of plays the level of their opponent. That is just what it is. You know, Purdy, I think the best, one of the coolest things about Purdy, like just if you look at his college career, he started in 48 college football games, right? His first two years, he took like the NCAA by storm. And then the second two years, they were kind of hard. He didn't win every single game.

He lost some big ones, lost like the primetime games. But like for a quarterback to do that and then pick yourself back up and then show up the next week and play at a high level, throw five touchdowns. Hey, one game you throw three picks. The next game you come back, you throw more touchdowns. Like just to be able to come back from that, that's what, you know, builds character. And that's what makes you a really good football player.

Because football humbles you and it humbles you quick. Man, you can be riding the highest high of your entire life. And then the next week you can fumble the ball in the last play of the game and lose your team, your playoff chances. And yeah, you're the, you should get cut. And so like this, the difference in football and being able to, you know, for Purdy to just to pick himself up, you know, after a mistake or something like that, just keep his confidence.

If you're confident in NFL, like you are doing a really good job. If you can keep that confidence, cause it is hard. It is hard and it's a grind, it's anxiety. But but if you can keep your confidence you can play at a high level I think people are forgetting that he's a rookie like I think people are viewing him as like a veteran backup like oh this guy's finally getting his opportunity it's like oh this guy just got here this dude just got to the NFL and he's taking advantage of we love watching so many weapons on your offense man you all buy in Debo back is a huge deal. Matt, who's your favorite weapon?

Fucking Georgia. Besides me. Okay. All right. We know. Yeah, we know. Come on. I don't want to say, I mean, because, you know,

the guy, the big brain that runs the fullback position there is obviously a stud. Of course. The Harvard guy. I mean, how do you not love the fucking juice? Yeah. Debo's name is fucking Debo yeah true so like pretty cool that's super cool you know what i mean that is like super duper cool mccaffrey yeah elijah so good i mean there is just imperty fucking he's a weapon yeah i mean we'll count him as well you love two three yeah fucking christian mccaffrey is a dog dude i dude a dude

him not in pro bowler obviously fucking not good enough uh not an all pro not good enough you know what i mean nothing like that he got traded to your team and then he became like the he was throwing catching running what is it just like natural as soon as he got like fish to water with the san francisco 49ers like he's supposed to be there or why do you think it all works so quickly? Christian's just, he's really good at football. He does it better than what most other people do. It looks like it comes a lot easier to him than anyone else. Like I feel like I still, like I have to try really hard and he does try really hard every single day, but some of the stuff that he does, you're just kind of like, come on, man.

Chill. But that's Christian. But I would say my favorite weapon is Trent Williams. But that's for us big brain guys. AQ has a question for you. Jesus. AQ. Let's go.

Oh, hey. In the play down by – I think it was maybe the one with Debo early in the game. You guys ran the counter tray. You did like a jab in, jab out, and got back to Vander Esch. Yeah. It was unbelievable. Yeah, it was unbelievable. It was unbelievable.

I mean, it wasn't like crazy when you look at the film, but, I mean, it ends up being a six, seven, eight-yard game, whatever it was. One thing I love about when I watch your guys' offense, you guys always have one little wrinkle. Everybody's running i watch your guys offense you guys always have one little wrinkle everybody's running the same shit but you guys always have one little thing it might be are you cracking the first stack back or it might be one little thing to try and get plus one on the front side for you guys when you come into game planning how awesome is that when you show up every week and there's one new thing it just kind of keeps it? Yes, except when sometimes our run installs are like 65 pages

for first and second down. That gets aggressive sometimes. But at this point in the year, we've run most of them. We're pretty familiar with them. There's only a handful of new plays, I would say, with confusing wrinkles, but it does make it interesting. One of the things I love about this offense is it doesn't put anyone in a terrible position like to succeed.

Like everyone's in a position to succeed. Like one of my least favorite plays in the history of the NFL, this run play, we call it punch or defenses call it crunch. And everybody just goes hip to hip and tries to drive block the D lineman in front of him. And 99% of the time it leaves a tight end one-on-one with the Nick Bosa defensive end. And he just gets absolutely murdered and has no chance. And that's what like 60% of the NFL it leaves a tight end one-on-one with the nick bosa defensive end and he just gets absolutely murdered and has no chance and that's what like 60 of the nfl teams do and i'm just happy to be in an offense where we're gonna run outside zone so if he jumps inside trip williams is gonna kill him if he jumps outside hey you're gonna be able to throw him out we're gonna run gap scheme and if you get a six technique you can easily surround him instead of trying to eat a six

technique and then hey you're pulling guard will just kick him out you go up to the back or wheel him out that's an easier block for everybody it's just like we're putting guys in positions to succeed and it honestly blows me away that not everybody does some of the stuff that we do because i don't really think it's that complicated doesn't it just make sense whenever aq was laying it out all year it's like oh he's setting him up to have leverage like oh we are adding leverage into the actual play design and sometimes what we've learned from aq is they'll even motion somebody in, all right, let's get a linebacker out of the way where that would normally be sitting. Now we've got a safety in here.

Oh, and this safety is coming from over here. We're going to run guy from over here, so it's just natural leverage already there. It's just like it's a sophisticated run game. And the one that AQ was talking about here is on this Debo run. This is your little pump fake game. Obviously, everybody sees his ass over here. You got a little shimmy here, a little bait him in there, right? Make him jump.

Yeah, there's six techniques. We're just eating the C-gap all day. And so when you're running, you know, and like we're pulling Trent and Banksy. That's just so much fun. Counter T. Yeah, there you go. But, yeah, so we're just running basically counter power, and now Trent Williams gets to be the lead blocker and a linebacker,

and then Debo gets a one-on-one with the safety. I mean, I will say that's a hell of a play by Wilson. He's a good football player. A lot of good football players in the NFL. You guys seemingly have your way with a lot of them. It seems to be going your way. Earlier in the year, you thought this team was going to be like this? Just what we had to develop was just, you know,

like you have to relearn how to win sometimes. And, like, that's a big part of it. We started the year, you know, Trey Lance is his first true starting stop. And so our offense was a little bit different just because of some of the things that Trey could do. And so we were learning how to do with him. And then a Trey gets hurt. Jimmy's back in.

Jimmy hasn't practiced with the team. He's had like one week of practice. And then he gets thrown in. Honestly, we played terrible on, what was that, Sunday night football, Monday night football against the Broncos. But then after that, we've been playing at a pretty high level. We've lost one other time since, I mean, I think we lost, yeah, our last last was versus the Chiefs. But it just took us, our offense, a little bit to, I don't know, find your identity. And our defense has been playing at a high level, kept us in all those games,

but it took us a little bit. And now that we've got that identity, everybody's playing at the level they need to be playing at. I mean, it's just fun to be rolling right now and scoring a lot of points. Yeah, not only scoring a lot of points, too, your defense is not allowing a lot of points. And I was at that Seattle game. Hey, I was at the Seattle game.

I like how much your team talks shit i enjoy you know what i mean i enjoy that about your it seems like the niners are like a team if bunch of dogs just everywhere across the board the boom box thing coming out fucking off it's just from the beginning all the way until the end it's like the niners are here almost it's like a whole thing and you guys are awesome to watch. Must-see television. Only 49 million or something watch you guys, I think. That's it?

Yeah. Numbers are down. Geez. Next time. Bummer. I'll try to do something dramatic this week to get the ratings up again. Hey, that Joker tattoo. We talked right before we started this whole thing.

That thing got a good shot on national TV. I think a lot combos that took place were like is that kind of a joker oh my god he does that's the nicest joker tattoo of all time your your ink in art is fantastic connor has a question for you yeah george david lombardi beat writer for the niners came on he talked about how like nick boson trent williams started doing you know post game you know conversation sharing some game and then you would jump in there and fred warner how awesome is it to kind of talk with guys who are the best player at their position in the nfl to kind of learn from them on what you could do to make yourself better because realistically you guys have five six seven guys who are the best in the league at their position? I mean, I'm going to first off,

Trent Williams and Nick Bosa are on a different level than almost everyone else. I'd throw Aaron Donald up there and maybe Mahomes. There's a couple guys that are up there, but Nick Bosa and Trent Williams are both just elite of the elite. I'll say it's like Trent Williams, I sit next to him on the airplane, and I sit right behind him, and the amount of film that he watches on every single defensive end, and he breaks down all of their moves. Hey, this is their main pass rush move. This is their counter to whatever you try to do to stop their move.

And then some guys have like a third counter. He knows all of their moves, and so then he knows how to set them up. And then he eliminates all their counters and allows them to only do their main move. And then since he's a better athlete, stronger, faster, has ballerina feet, he just dominates you. And that's the film you watch of Trent Williams. He knows everybody's move and all their counters. And you have Nick Bosa who has, hey, he has leverage on you because he's like 6'3".

He's stronger than you because he squats 700 pounds. He's got great hands. He does all the little cool hand slaps and all the Aeronauta knife fighting stuff. He does all that cool stuff. And so then when you combine that speed, that strength and that agility, okay, good luck blocking them. And so then when they sit down and talk about it, you're just kind of like, I can't do everything that they do, but I can hear their thought process and it can change the way I think about my job. And then I can learn something from them that way. Like, I'm not going to learn like Trent William, he does his ninja moves where he shoots off the ball, like he's going to block you. And then he just jumps out change the way I think about my job, and then I can learn something from them that way. Like I'm not going to learn like Trent Williams,

he does his ninja moves where he shoots off the ball like he's going to block you, and then he just jumps out of the way and throws you down. I might try that. Maybe not this week, but I might try that. Who knows? You busted out not this week, I guess, and the next time would be the Super Bowl. I mean, not a bad time to give it a go.

You know what I mean? You're sitting in that inner circle there learning some moves from Trent. Why not take it to the biggest stage that you possibly can? Last question here for you, George. Bosa's a jungle cat. This isn't the question. That was my... Diggs has a question for you and it's going to be a good question.

You brought up Bosa there being 6'3 and squatting 700 pounds. Watching him from where I was standing at the booth, he sprawled out in that sprinter stance, dude. He's fucked. He looks like an actual panther out there at the end of the thing. That's a good one. He does.

It's fucking unbelievable. And then he's just faster than everybody. Freak. Stronger than everybody. And he's absolutely jocked. He's jocked right now. What a guy. What a specimen.

How's his chef? A nutritionist. And and appears to be working for old Paisan. Go ahead, Tone. George, I need you to debunk something because the internet was saying that you were cheating and you were ineligible on the bobble catch. Will you let them know? I saw that, man. Will you let them know they're wrong? Gosh, Dallas fans, they're so angry.

I mean, everyone's like, well, there's not enough guys in the line of scrimmage. At the top of the formation, we have a enough guys in the line of scrimmage. At the top of the formation, we have a wide receiver on the line of scrimmage. You have our five offensive linemen, then me, and then we're in a West set, Queen set, whatever you want to call it. Juice is, hey, was Juice a little tight? Sure. But he wasn't covering me up,

and so then I'm an eligible receiver. So let's stop complaining about the rules and saying that we're cheating, and you guys are just fun. I love fans the game's getting dissected at different levels these days a lot more people a lot more eyes and all of them are saying you guys are awesome to watch we appreciate you taking time to join us here george wow pat it's a pleasure thanks for drinking bud light awesome hey hell yeah my Gatorades. Yeah, you're in the middle of a... I'm retired.

You're in the middle of a very important time. Yeah, close it out. Could you imagine the same? Wait, Pat, is that your WrestleMania photo up front?

Yeah, with Steve. You're in it, baby. I was just two rows behind you, man. I wonder if you're actually in this. I was screaming for you. I appreciate that love, too.

You showed it to me before the match, after the match, and during the match. You're the man for that. I appreciate that. How about me fucking with Steve Austin chugging beers on the ring? Could you imagine? It was a joke. Dude, no, I can't even imagine. You've never felt so cool in your entire life, have you? The coolest,

dude. I'm staying up there. Oh my God, yeah. Here we go. Just no big deal. It was amazing. I got a close second for you, though. I was sitting in the stands with Stone Cold's brother, and he was just housing him with me, and it was so much fun. Okay.

So you're drinking with the Austin family. What? Oh, yeah, dude. Me and Kev, we were having a great time. He was like eight beers deep by the time I showed up for the first match. He was eight deep. I was like, dude, you're going to have a great day. Did he sound like Steve Ward?

Was there a lot of that? Oh, it was fantastic, dude. That was one of the best moments. I'll see you at SoFi. Are you going to be in L.A.? I don't know. George is, you know. It's a loaded question.

George, we don't know. George, we don't know. Maybe. Hey, we'll sit next to each other maybe. Maybe get a suite, maybe. No, I like to be in the ring. You know, if we just put a table out there and we can throw someone through it, I'm in. Why?

Yeah, that should happen, right? I think at this point it needs to happen. You had the Goldberg shirt, obviously, the Steve Austin shirt. I believe there's obviously been more. Both of us, massive wrestling marks, bro. Massive. That should have already taken place. I assume there's already been more. Both of us, massive wrestling marks, bro. Massive. That should have already taken place. I assume there's already something in the works.

I hope there is something in the works. I don't know of anything yet, but if you hear of anything, you have my Twitter number, Instagram. You got me. Just hit me up. Kittle's going over. I don't do the booking, but okay. We will certainly put it in.

You've got a good influence there, Pat. Ladies and gentlemen, I do not. George Kittle, you're the man, buddy. Good luck, man. See you, Pat. Ladies and gentlemen, I do not. I do not. George Kittle, you're the man, buddy. Good luck, man. See you, fellas. Thanks for having me. See you, George.

Appreciate you, buddy.