The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 851 Part 2 - Brian Urlacher, Chris T Clem, Taylor Heinicke, George Kittle, Carson Palmer, PacMan Jones, Stephen A. Smith, Adam Thielen, and Aaron Jones

Episode Date: February 9, 2023

Today's Glorious show was so amazing it had to be split into two. As the show continues to roll through media row, Pat welcomes Bears legend Brian Urlacher alongside Chief Patrol Agent Chris T Clem to talk the current state of the NFL and the world (1:18:04-1:37:35). Joining the Program is current NFL free agent quarterback Taylor Heinicke (1:39:53-1:58:06) to talk zynning, his fresh J collection, and his football future while George Kittle makes a candid appearance to wrap up the conversation with some great Harry Potter talk. Friend of the program, Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL QB Carson Palmer joins the show to talk about his life after football and CBD experience (2:02:41-2:12:54). NFL and West Virginia legend PacMan Jones stops by to talk mental health post playing career and the cannabis industry (2:14:03-2:19:53). Pat welcomes on sports media legend and trailblazer Stephen A. Smith to talk about his career path, the current state of the NBA and much more (2:20:36-2:36:23). Pat welcomes you back to the program with all the boys, while welcoming Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen to talk about his performance at yesterday’s Waste Management pro-am and “Shot at Glory”(2:36:26-2:59:45). To wrap up today’s show Aaron Jones stops by the set to chat about the NFL Honors and the Walter Peyton man of the Year award. Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to catch the show live. We appreciate the hell out of you all, see you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're being joined by, I mean, what, greatest athlete to ever exist? Yep. A guy that tries to ride 500 miles on his bike every single month, I believe. Yep, what? Trying to accomplish 6,000 miles in a season on his bike, or in a year on his bike, in the middle of Arizona. Check. I did it. An absolute, you did it?

I did it. I was going to text you, but you never texted me back anyway, so I didn't worry about it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Erlich. Yeah! And joining Brian is Chris T. Clem, former Chief Patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol in

Yuma, Arizona. Chief Clem retired on December 31st, 2022 after serving more than 27 and a half years with the U.S. Border Patrol. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Okay, you're here talking about Ditka Jaws cigars? Tonight, yeah.

Are you a cigar guy? No, I'm not. Chris, you're a cigar guy? I am tonight. Okay, two cigar guys. I tried one cigar. It's not my thing. I tried dip one time, too. I threw up, so it wasn't my thing. Training camp, though? Tried to fit in? Tried to be cool? No, I chewed sunflower seeds during training camp.

It was actually college. I was out at a bar drinking. A guy gave me a thing of Copenhagen. I was like, oh, yeah, come on, man, yeah. Five minutes later. Yeah, I can't handle tobacco either. I don't like it, man. A lot of drugs.

I do a lot of drugs. A lot of drugs. That's right. A lot of drugs. I don't mind vodka. What? Yeah, don't mind that. A little whiskey?

What? No, no whiskey. Beer? What? No beer. Tequila? What? Yeah. I don't know that. A little whiskey? What? No, no whiskey. Beer? What? No beer. Tequila? What? Yeah.

Classe Azul. Oh. I couldn't even imagine you boozed up, pal. What has it been like Super Bowl week out here in Arizona, though? Are you close to here? Yeah, we're 20 minutes from here. It's great, man. I played in the waste management yesterday.

Missed you, I guess. Yeah. Where were you? Shot on boy. Yeah, where were you? We both got a shot in on 16. Shot on boy. Oh, did you make it? Did you hit on the green, too? I mean, I was straight at the Where were you? Shot on the board. Yeah, where were you? We both got a shot in on 16. Shot on the board. Oh, did you make it?

Did you hit on the green too? I mean, I was straight at the pin, about 80 yards over the green. Oh, did you hit a pitching wedge? I hit a nine iron. Did you hit it? Poor decision. I was not on the green. You hit your iron.

We didn't. We shouldn't have been there. No. Yeah, I hit the green. Okay. How'd you play? I had a great time. How about that?

Oh, you played terrible. Six and a half hours. Who was your pro? That's a JJ. So we had the front nine. We had Patrick Cantlay. Pop out in the world. And then back now we had Davis Riley. Unbelievable. This dude, I mean, he's 26. His driver's like 340, 350. So you're a golfer though,

aren't you? I wouldn't call me a golfer. I like to play golf. I play three, four days a week. But look at the weather here. It's fun. Hey, we just talked to Bob Parsons yesterday. You ever meet him? BP? You should remember his place.

Used to be. At Scottsdale National. Yeah, it's an hour. It's an hour away. 750 grand initiation fee. To join. 75 grand a year. I know this.

We did all the math. I know all of it. What's the guest fee? Do you know? What is it to stay at the villas every night? Do you know any of that stuff? I don't know. Is that a thing?

Sounds like I would like to do that. I played there last week, man. You're not going to find a better place anywhere than that place. It's unbelievable. Arizona has been home for you for how long? I retired in 2013, whatever it was. But I lived here. I had a home here before then.

So permanently 2013. I think doing well hosting. I think downtown here, they just shut down a bunch of streets. Yeah, perfect. So they're kind of doing whatever they need to do. This is great. Yeah, I like it. And the weather's freaking awesome, man.

What do you think about the game this weekend? I'm excited to watch it from my couch. Do you want me to know who I think is going to win? Is that what you want to know? Hey, if you want to give a take, do it. You're looking pretty serious right now when you ask me that question, too. Well, because I need to know, because this is a problem. I'm honestly having a problem with this, and the boys will echo the sentiment.

Spread still one and a half? Yes, but also like 73% of the money is on the Eagles, and everybody is just saying the Eagles are going to kill. AQ goes, Eagles are going to kill. It's going to be easy. Why? Because you think they run the ball. There it is.

It's a lineman. They run the ball. Agreed. But they've been ahead in every damn game. Agreed. So it's easy. They hand the ball off to get the lead, and then they let those pass rushers go get the quarterback.

So I'm a Chiefs guy, man. I like Andy Reid. I like Mahomey. I like what the Uggles are doing, too. But I like Mahomey. He's good, dude. Chris, 27 and a half years as Border Patrol guy. Yep.

I've heard about it. It is a big conversation piece. Has it always been a political conversation piece or is that just the last 10 years you know it's been political the last uh few years you know let's put it something you probably can relate to right so we've had you know i doubt it no no i'll tell you i think you can't so analogy right like like you know we have in the last few years we're planning and building up we had the infrastructure we had the resources we had the people you had the people. I had 25 plus years in and I finally become

going to be the chief. Thank you. Everything's going well. I'm getting excited about it. Then new administration changes. I've been through five administrations. I'm excited to get out to Yuma. I'm ready to lead the men and women there. Then all of a sudden the policy just

changes. it's like paula molly you in the c-gap man oh it's totally just the best the best the best laid planned to go lead the men and women there and then you have a checkout yeah yeah no we had to run it no no i believe, believe me, I did not. We are not running. I actually said, we do not have a blackout of this. It was supposed to be 100%. We are not running this right now. We are kicking a field goal. We ran it.

We continue to run it, and the men and women are doing a great job, and they've got their hands tied. You know, the people, the mass of humanity that's coming here from all over the world takes a toll. They're not able to do some of that primary mission of keeping America safe. They are your first line of defense. Some of the hard narcotics, the fentanyl stuff that's killing people in our communities.

That's a real problem, right? Absolutely, it's a big problem. That's a real deal. I've had friends. Obviously, I come from a town in which that particular avenue of life happens. People get into pills. People get addicted to pills.

Communities like mine, where I come from, are all over the country. And fentanyl is a real fucking... I mean, it's a killer. I've lost like four friends because of it. Just last year, 700 pounds seized by Border Patrol, or at least... And everybody says, well, they shouldn't be taking the drugs at the beginning. It's like, I agree that these

guys have, obviously, addiction issues and they're not able to get out. And then, out of nowhere, they're dead. Yeah, but take it out of there or something. If you don't know where you're getting it, it could be laced with fentanyl. How'd you two get linked up here? So that was exactly right. We were working on some resiliency issues, and I was able to connect with some folks. And Sonja Moschmeyer, who got us set up here, brought Brian and Nick Lowry and Randy Grimes, some other players down.

Nick Lowry. Dog. Kicker. Absolute stud. Don't fucking run in here. No, bro, he's good. I'm out with him, man. We brought these guys down there to talk to the agents and meet them firsthand.

And Brian can tell you the experience. But, you know, I can talk about mental health and resilience and telling our guys to take care of themselves. But when you have legends come out there who have been heroes on the gridiron, come out there and tell them, you know, hey, we appreciate you. We support you. And got to meet them and really develop a relationship with them. It was good stuff. Let them know we support them. You know, I see a lot of shit on TV that probably isn't true, so I want to go out there and see for myself.

But just letting them know that we're here for them and we support them and just hanging out. Hey, you're into that a little bit. A little bit, yeah. You get into the political worlds a little bit. I watch you dabble. A little bit, but I like our military. I like our law enforcement. I watch you dabble every once in a while. A little bit, but I like our military. I like our law enforcement. I like our border patrol. Those are the people that I... Oh, call me political.

I'm old school. That's what you just said. Did I say political? Because I support the police. I'm political now? I guess I am political if I support the police. No, but I see you dabble in there every once in a while. Every once in a while, I take a little heat for something. You never take heat for anything, right?

I stay out of it. I try not to. No, I mean for anything. I'm not talking about politics. I'm talking about anything in general. You never get any heat. You're always skating everything. Bro, I got murdered for a lot of things.

Why? I was killing people, allegedly, with my platform when Aaron Rodgers had a 500-page report. You're the only person that talks to Aaron, so you're the most hated man in media because he won't talk to anybody. It's so great. I love it, by the way. They all hate me, too, I'd assume. Even better. It's great, I guess, but look at our spot here.

Yeah, this is a decent spot. Got a good view out here. Oh, oh, decent this guy. I walked in, I go, where's the McAfee show? And then my wife goes, oh, it's right there, the one that says FanDuel. In the corner. In the corner. They put you in the corner.

Well, allegedly. Well, I'm not even getting into it. Okay. Yeah. What? Is there not room in the middle of the place for you? No, no, no. AJ has a question for you.

FanDuel people have been there. What about what you think about the Bears, man? How do you think about the Bears? How do you think about Justin Fields? The direction they're going. What do you think? We got the number one pick, AJ. Yeah. Who are they going to take?

What the fuck does that tell you? What are you doing? That's what I'm trying to ask you. What does that tell you? I don't know what they're going to do. So I think Justin's a talented kid, man. We've got to get some people around him. I think from what I hear, they're keeping him, correct?

There was some talk about getting rid of him. They've got to get some help. I don't know. I think number one pick, there's so many holes to fill on that team. You're going to trade back, you think? Trade back and get someone else? I'm all about getting more picks. I'm all about it.

Oh, yeah, fair enough. But if you don't get good picks, it doesn't matter. It's a tough gig, right? Yeah, I mean, everyone's like, oh, you're going to get so many picks. That's great, but the picks can't get as much. That's because you played in the NFL. So here's the thing that everybody that played in the NFL happens, and I obviously got to watch firsthand a lot of this happen. You see so many third-round

draft picks that are supposed to be game changers. Second-round draft picks come in that are supposed to be game changers. And then they just fizzle out and nobody talks about them. They just disappear from the conversation and everybody just assumes every second round or every first rounder is going to be worth something. It's like, that is not the case at all in reality.

A lot more people fail than anybody would ever exist and it doesn't matter where you get them from. In my 13 years with the Bears, I think we had five first round picks that didn't play longer than three years. They keep them three years because they give them money, so they're going to keep them for three years or they trade you. But all of our good picks, Mike Brown second round, Charles Tillman second round, ours were usually, besides those two guys,

were third, fourth, fifth, sixth-round picks. Those were all of our good players right there. That was the Colts. The Colts team was all fourth, fifth, sixth rounds. You got to hit on those guys, man. Have to. That's your core guys, I feel like, at least when I was there. Those were our good, good players.

I'll trade them the fuck away, though, to get a vet like this. I'm with you. You trade that number one pick for a DN or a left tackle. Left tackles are a big deal to me. So that's what you think the Chicago Bears need? No, no, no. I don't have any idea. I don't have to make that decision.

That's way above my pay grade. Ibraflux seems to be a guy, though, that you would like. AQ has a question for you guys. Yeah, I like him. Yeah, Brian, we had a conversation a couple years ago about Steve Wilks, and I know you love playing for him. How big is that with him going to San Francisco with all the pieces they have in place on defense?

They hired him as DC? They did. I've been out of the loop. I haven't seen anything. I love that hire. Coach Wilks is such a good dude. So I was with him in Chicago for three or four or five years. And then this year, how about Carolina this year?

What are you looking at? You got one of your buddies out here? No, just like you have no fucking idea this guy. I love that. I love that. Oh, okay. Anyway, Coach Woods is a man. That's a big deal.

I thought they were going to retain him in Carolina. I was hoping they would retain him because they were tough within the season. They got nobody on that team, but they were good, man. I'm sorry, not nobody. They got some good players. But you know what I'm saying. He turned that team around from what they were at the beginning of the season. But San Fran's defense is legit.

I mean, you look at Coach Sala went to the Jets, and then you got D'Amico going back to Houston. Oh, so you're up on it? Yeah. You know the news? I know. Hey, you had a baby earl. You know the news.

Oh, I can read the ticker. Yeah, I'm good. Ty, go ahead. Brian, last time you came to Indy and we're in the studio, we talked to you, and I think your son had just received an offer from Iowa. He did. I'm an Iowa guy. We talked about it.

We did. And the program right now is kind of going into the pooper a little bit, at least offensively. Oh, we've got McNamara now. Exactly. I'm going to say we like I'm on Iowa right now. Has he committed potentially? Is there anything I can do to kind of sway you to maybe get your bloodline to get to Iowa City?

I mean, we need this kid. We need this kid. I'm not sure. So I'll say this. The Iowa offer is not a weak offer because any time they offer a secondary kid, it's legit. So since that offer, he's got Wisconsin, UW, Penn State, Notre Dame. Hold on. there's more. Cal.

Nebraska. Miami. Ohio? Miami, Ohio? Everybody. The University of Miami. What? Yes.

You. Dangerous. My daughter also got accepted into the University of Miami Law School. Wow, here we go. Next year, possibly. Anyway, I'm not sure. He told me he's probably going to decide before his senior season. So we'll take some visits in June when they're legal or however the shit that works now.

I don't know. I think they'll do whatever you want. Remind him that Iowa's had about 12 D-backs get drafted in the last year. I know. Micah High's in the league. There's some dudes in there. And he knows that. Every kid wants to play in the NFL.

They're all playing in the NFL. You know that, right? Iowa City is also a lot of fucking fun. I know. It looks like it. And Miami's pretty good. Way better in the league. There's some dudes in there. And he knows that. Every kid wants to play in the NFL. They're all playing in the NFL. You know that, right? Iowa City is also a lot of fucking fun. I know. It looks like it. Miami's pretty tight. Way better than the U. I don't know.

Well, the U stinks. The U stinks. So does Iowa. The U doesn't stink. How many? 130th out of 131 teams. He's not playing offense. It doesn't matter.

We don't know that. He should be scoring touchdowns. We don't know that. He has that kiddo in Dallas. I mean, we don't know. He's a safety to linebacker. You never know what this kid's going to do, right? You never know. What was it?

The South Dakota game? They scored two safeties in the second half to win the game? They did, yeah. They won. What the fuck? It was good punting. Good old punter. Put him on the one twice.

So, LeVar Woods, our special teams coach, is a good friend of mine. Oh, okay. LeVar was like, yeah, we punted down on the one. We got two safeties. We won the game. That's how they score. Spread was 21 and a half. Not that I look at that stuff, but they should have. Do you look at that stuff? It's legal out here. I love it. Yeah.

It's so much fun to me. Do you win? Not usually, but I really like to play. I am not good, so whoever I take in these games, go the other way. I'm terrible. I've had a rough year. We've all had a rough year. It's possible. Take the dogs. Just take the dogs. Chris, you get in on it all? You do any gambling? My son does. He's a big fan. He does a lot of that

stuff. I haven't got much. Now that I've retired, you never in on it all? You do any gambling? My son does. He's a big fan. He does a lot of that stuff. I haven't got much. Now that I've retired, you never know. Pay attention. Dabble in there. I was just reading up a little bit here, and I probably should have done this beforehand. It's all right. Our frontline workers and support staff have been scrutinized for too long. It's time we thank these heroes for what they do and invest in their mental health, overall well-being,

and support their families who sacrifice day in and day out. Absolutely. The U.S. Border Patrol Mental Health Initiative. Yes. That is... That's what we're doing. day in and day out. Absolutely. The U.S. Border Patrol Mental Health Initiative. Yes. That is. That's what we're doing. We're getting people together. We're building this.

We're on the front end of it right now. Hey, good for you helping us out. Yeah, man. This is a great deal. I almost fumbled. Hey, ball security is job security, okay? Not for me. You used to be a power turner, bro.

Bro, I didn't fumble except one time versus Mexico State. Then they got it and they beat us with a field goal. Oh, no. Oh, it sounds like you don't remember it. No, no. It sounds like it's not. It was only my senior year. The last time I had to play those chumps down there.

It was bad. Hey, mental health, obviously you're older, old school, as are you, old school. As we learn more about it, I'm happy that we have things like what you guys are putting together to let people know, like, hey, you're allowed to just, like, feel terrible. That's exactly right. Because back in the day, it was like, hey, cheer the fuck up. What's wrong with you?

That's real. That's a real conversation. The stuff that we would see or experience in law enforcement, you know, it's going to have a compounding effect over time. Right. And that's one of the things that you just kind of look brought up. You don't cry. You put dirt on it and get back out there. Right.

And I'm not saying that you don't ever, you know, still kind of have to tough it up and get the job done, but it's okay to talk about it, and it's okay to say, I'm not feeling okay. And I think that's what's critical is we haven't done that, and we're doing more of that, and just having people, again, that have a lot of status like Brian and others that come out there and say, hey, we're out there looking out for you, and it's okay, because everybody experiences things, And we're all humans.

At the end of the day, whether it's a uniform or a badge, you take that off, there's a heart down there, and you've got to be able to invest in that. Humans, man. Humans are the end all, be all here. That's right. Your hair looks amazing. Thank you. Work on it.

I'm growing it out. Bro, when I got to the border, I saw him. I was like, this is a chief right here. Peacock a little bit. Yeah, he walks up. Are you a horseback? We don't have horses out there, but I took him out there on dune buggies. Dune buggy.

Way more fun. Don't do it. Took him out on the river. We went off a cliff, like a 30-foot cliff and landed on our nose. Was that a normal thing that you normally do? Yeah, well, they do. 30-foot cliffs for me. Yeah, we showed it up for a little bit.

I was strapped in. You were juiced. Well, you know. You're special. We showed it up for a little bit. I was strapped in. You were juiced. I bet you loved it. I watched. There's like a Netflix talk about Border Patrol, DEA, and then the people that are actually doing the moving. Yeah. They just go sit out there and wait for you guys to have to do a shift change, and then they just keep it moving. That's why, you know, people always talk about, you know, certain things like a wall or whatever.

It's the whole package. It's people. It's infrastructure. It's technology. You know, people do have to go home from shift, certain things like a wall or whatever. It's the whole package. It's people. It's infrastructure. It's technology. You know, people do have to go home from shift, and they've got to be replaced. But, you know, when you have sensors and technology out there, you can secure that border much better. We have a guy. Big words.

Okay. It's part of our family. Right. That we just can't get into America. Opposite border. Yeah. Yeah. This is real.

Send him down there. He can walk right across. Yeah. There's jabs out there. He'll get arrested and released in three days. I like that conversation. Two bullets in his forehead. But see, that's the frustration, right?

Because there are people trying to go through the right ways that are getting put in the back of the line. He has a six-figure job waiting for him in Indiana that he is the only person that can have the job. There are special visas for that. But because the system has been overwhelmed for the wrong reasons, people that have good intentions can benefit and provide benefits. American dream, this guy. This guy can experience the American dream from a shipyard to our fucking office. He's the only human. We're hiring the human.

It's not a role that can be replaced by somebody else. It is literally him. We can't do two, three different lawyers we've had to go through. I think that's the big argument. So you're doing it the right way. Trying. You're doing it the right way. Trying.

And that's the wrong way to do it. I got a great way to do it. So walk him to the border and put a sticker on him that says, call this number when you get me in custody, and they'll call the number and deliver him to you free of charge. All right, so we got to put my number. That's how some of the children would do it. That's how it goes, right?

That's it. Breaking down the game. We put AJ's number in there? I still think you go the right way, but the message, this is what's being lost, right? They're pushing these hundreds of thousands of people that are doing it the wrong way are getting ahead of line for those that need to do it the right way that they're going to be in. That's the problem. That's a policy issue that needs to be fixed.

That's the laws that need to be changed to make sure that we're doing them the right way. And that's where voices like this can make impacts. Okay. Well, hopefully we'll be able to for our guy Gump. We've been banging that drum. Loud. For a long time. I've actually sprinkled it into this microphone because our show has reach now.

Yeah. And I've just been like, hey, we got a guy who has a job waiting for him, a whole new life waiting for him, an American dream waiting for him. We would love to just be able to do that. And it's just been impossible to make happen. Whether it's like the lawyers bobbling it and fumbling it and then passing it off to somebody else who doesn't even enter the

right visa in. We're sitting on a fucking year this guy hasn't been able to get back into America. A year? A year! And they're telling us that this is not going anywhere. Just give me the easy way to get him in. It's a sticker. When they talk about the system being broke, that's an example of why it's being broke. Because the people that are doing it the right way are getting put at the back of the line.

And the people that are cutting in front are getting brought in. Well, we appreciate your service down there for 27 and a half years. Thank you. Appreciate you joining along, helping with mental health, making people's lives better. Tonight, Mr. Urlacher alongside Jaws, Ron Jaworski. Hell yeah. He's hosting the 13th annual Ditka and Jaws Cigars with the stars at 8 p.m, Mr. Urlacher alongside Jaws, Ron Jaworski. He's hosting the 13th annual Ditka and Jaws Cigars with the stars at 8 p.m. tonight

at the Hilton Phoenix at the Peak. Have an incredible event. Incredible stuff you guys are doing. And Mr. Urlacher, take care, brother. Thank you. Good seeing you. You too. You look good. You too. You been sick? Last week. Last week. Really? What happened, man? I got a bug in my stomach.

Yeah? And then I think I got like a twofer and half of the boys got like half of what I got. I think it's going around. I don't know. Yeah. Great. Great to hear around all you guys. No, no.

We're passing. Passing. Yeah, we're literally passing. We were in a bad spot, though, last week. We were in a bad spot last week, like thinking about how long it was going to be. And then we got past it. Thank God. You're good.

You beat it. You're tough. You're it. You're tough. You're fucking right. But me getting it to begin with, I felt, I'm like, what is my... You felt, how do I get sick? Yeah. That's how I feel. I'm like, how the fuck do I get sick?

Dude, laying in a bed. I'm laying in a bed. What the fuck, dude? This is not what I have. I agree. Is this the new me? Put dirt on it, right? That's right.

Put some dirt on it. Let's go. Yeah. Well, see, that's what we're talking about. It's contradicting everything we just said. It's okay to be sick, and it's okay to ask for help. Don't forget that. You're right, Chris.

We appreciate you. And thank you to you, Brian Urlacher. Ladies and gentlemen, Chrissy Clement and Brian Urlacher. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Appreciate you, man. Shift back.

Yeah. Chris, thank you for your service, sir. Appreciate you, man. I was going to do it. Yeah, have your service, sir. Appreciate you, man. I was going to do it. Yeah, have to. Hell yeah, bro. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

The show rolls on. We're live on Radio Row here. Super Bowl 57 is on Sunday. There's people just literally walking by, stopping by. There's a guy cutting a promo right in front of our stage right now, and I am in the back of the video. I think he's crushing it. He's giving a lot of demonstrative hand motions.

Keep going, keep going. Right there, that guy in the white hoodie just cut a great promo. I don't know what he said, but I know he was moving it. That's what Super Bowl radio row, media row is. You know, it's just Bruce Arians walking by, stopping by, talking about his departure from Tampa Bay a couple years ago. We haven't been able to chat with him about for some time. It's Sean Payton

literally talking to us through the intro. Hey, we're live. Really? Yeah. When? The show was live. Hey, welcome to the thing. It's great to see everybody. It's nice to catch up. it's nice to celebrate the league And everything that it has

Big shout out to Christy Clem and Brian Urlacher That was awesome They're both great Yeah he's just always going to be like that It's cool he got company It sounds like we have a sticker technique Did you see the shoes Did you see the shoes he was. Zico loves them, obviously.

Did you see the shoes he was wearing? On clouds, dude. Same ones. Yeah, they're awesome. I didn't know we were going to become an on-cloud marketing campaign, but you're welcome. Yeah. Because we've been noticing everybody's been wearing them, and they seemingly are beloved by everybody. I'm pretty easily influenced.

I was looking at a pair back there. I was doing some research to see if they're good for pickleball or not. I haven't reached a decision on that yet, but we'll see. I do like the fact you went to a golf tournament yesterday, and now you're a professional golfer. Bought four of them. Yeah. Had a baby toad. Very easily influenced.

Joining us now is a man who was the quarterback for the Washington Commanders, and he was no longer the quarterback for the Washington Commanders, and then he was the quarterback of the Washington Commanders, and then he was no longer the quarterback of the Washington Commanders. All he does is win and buy Jays. I believe he's about to be a free agent. Ladies and gentlemen, friend of the program, Taylor Heineke. Yeah!

Hey, baby Taylor. Yeah! How are you, dude? Good to see you, man. Four-star. Oh! Zim Lord! Hey, did you get a Zim deal after that last thing? A couple boys might want it. You're not allowed to get a Zin deal Zin lord Did you get a Zin deal

After that last thing I'm not allowed to Couple boys might You're not allowed To get a Zin deal Well I'm not allowed to But

I think they reached out To the guys And were like We don't want athletes Promoting Promoting it So little kids Look up to them

And they start doing it And you definitely Didn't promote it right No not at all No Say what you were gonna do Just talking about your life. Yeah.

Hey, what you're doing doesn't mean somebody else needs to do it. You're just saying my afternoon, I'm about to zin, zin, zin. No matter what. Shout out to you. I'm happy you put the zin in there for a great convo. How are you feeling, man? The year was crazy because you've handled this all so well. Sweet tats, too.

I didn't know we had these cool tats all the time. Have we always had those? Yep. This left four. Yeah, that one's sweet. Yeah had these cool tats all the time. Have we always had those? Yep. Yeah, that one's sweet. Yeah, with the joker on that side. What's this elbow scar? I tore my tricep against Atlanta in 2018. UCL? No. No.

Tricep. So they reattached it? Yeah, they reattached it after the season, and then I blew out all the ligaments. How'd that happen? You did one of these? I think it's Grady Jarrett. Oh, yes. Very, very good player. He hit me low, and I was... and you did one of these? I think it's Grady Jarrett. Oh, yes. Released, I think. Very, very good player. Yeah, he hit me low and, you know, I was trying to.

Yep, no. Grady. Yeah, if I was Brady, I would have got the flag. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Heineke, though, yeah. You got to wait a few more years, 199. But I tried to brace the fall and it just popped. Where's your mindset at right now?

Feeling good. Just kind of sitting back, relaxing, waiting for things to happen. This new Hogwarts Legacy game came out. Hell yeah. Yes. Been killing that. Hey, I heard it's awesome. It's awesome.

Now we're talking. I think the last two days I played a total of 24 hours on it. Love it. Hold on. Don't get addicted in there. Don't get lost in a society of wizards and shit like that. We got football to play still. Well, you know, I got about six months for that.

Last year, if we had to talk about it, you play, you no longer play they lose had to feel pretty good you don't have to talk about it you're a good teammate and now you're free agent right have you thought about potential landing destinations what you're looking for because obviously there's teams that need a starting quarterback there's teams that are very desperate we think for a starting quarterback is that how the conversations are going here early or or what are you thinking? Yeah, I'm not going to say any teams. Obviously, I would love to go to the Packers. That's been a childhood dream of mine, play for the Packers. But other than that, obviously, I want to play. I want to start. And if that opportunity doesn't come up, being a backup quarterback in the NFL is probably

one of the best jobs in America. Amen. Either way, again, I'm just happy to be in the league. You know my story. Three years ago, I was just chilling, taking classes. Sleeping on a couch. That's right. Your sister's, actually. That's right. Yeah, and now you're fucking starting quarterback in the NFL

and winning and buying J's for everybody and be loved by seemingly everybody. Do you reach out to, like, a Fitz Magic? Or do you reach out to any other guys that are seemingly going to take the road that you're probably going to end up taking here I've uh I've talked to Fitz multiple times and uh you know kind of blast from the past Sean Hill uh oh yeah that is blast from the past he was my he was my mentor in Minnesota when I was first there um you know just hearing his story I was that's that's the kind of life I want to live yeah because you're never going to get handed a full

program yeah for whatever one reason or another. It's just like, hey, this is your life. And you've understood that. Like, I was sleeping on the couch two years ago. I'm just happy to have a job. But, like, last year, very easy to be like, Hanukki's our guy. Yep. We're giving him the program.

And that doesn't happen for some guys. That's just how the career goes. I'm excited to see what you end up doing with it all. Yeah. You know, again, it's an exciting time. But, again, you know, there's lots of moving parts right now. So, for me, you know, to kind of's an exciting time, but again, you know, there's lots of moving parts right now. So for me, you know, to kind of take the stress off, I just sit back

and relax and play some Hogwarts. What's the... Hell yeah. What's the hat here? Reign in destiny? And then I see on the side of it, I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. Hell yeah. Wow. Hell yeah. What is this? Yeah, so guy on our team,

Mark and Michelle, the brother of Sonny Michelle. He's a practice squad receiver, but he made his own clothing line. And he started wearing these hats around the facility. And all the guys loved him. So all the coaches, all the players, they got a bunch of hats. And, you know, me with my losing hair, I wear this all the time. That's smart. We need to get Erlacher back up here.

Yeah, I got that. I got hair Jordan over there. AJ, go ahead. Were you guys the big hat team as well? Yeah, Brian Robinson. That thing took off. Did you try one on, and how does it stay on your head? I'd never tried one on, but it did take off from there.

Unfortunately, Brian Robinson didn't get any royalties from that. Oh, Brian. That's bullshit. Come on, Brian. He dropped the ball there. Did Rog take them? Did Rog take all his royalties? Good hell.

Maybe. I don't know. You talk to Rog ever? I have not. What's that all about? You should call him. Should call him. I thoughtalties? Maybe. I don't know. You talk to Raj ever? I have not. What's that all about? You should call him. I thought he's Zanz. I don't know. I assume he's Zanz. I don't think I'm in that club.

Go in the basement and watch NFL football with him and eat some M&M's. Peanut M&M's. Russell Wilson texted him and said, hey, we need flag football in the Pro Bowl and it happened. Done. I saw that. Why don't you just text him sometimes? Say, hey, we need flag football in the Pro Bowl. And it happened. Done. I saw that. Why don't you just text him sometimes? Say, hey, we need some Zin. Yeah, we need to, like, step up our game to the XFL.

The XFL, you win. You get seltzers after the game. Oh, yeah. After the NFL win, you should get something. Zin. Zin, beer. Bud. Bud.

That 1-0-C ruined. Pushed Lane Rides back. Yeah, he got a DUI after the biggest night of his life. Just beat the Packers. Yeah, cursed their season. Can't stop boozing on the plane ride home after you beat the Packers and then just hop behind a wheel. Can't do it.

It's 2023. Wake up. You know who the fuck I am? You know who we just beat? Can't do it. Not in this modern age that we're in. What's the offseason look like for you? We working out all year round while playing the Harry Potter game?

What? Do we call up shop? Do we set up shop? What do you got? Any trips planned? What do you got going on? I went to Denver last week to hang out with some friends. Did you go to the X Games or something?

No, I didn't. But this week, I'm not doing anything crazy. I'm going to the waste management on Saturday. Nice. Ooh, that'll be fun. Playing some golf tomorrow. Have you been over there? Never been. We were there yesterday. We got dropped in. It. Playing some golf. Have you been over there? Never been.

We were there yesterday. We got dropped in. It's unbelievable. Yeah. We did a shot. A shot of glory. A shot at glory. It's glory hole. We took a shot of glory.

At glory hole, which is different than anything I've ever seen. Honestly, that stadium hole is bananas. Did you guys hit the green? Oh. Yeah, I hit the green. I ended up on a fringe. I ended up on a fringe. I think I ricocheted off the back wall and came back in the green.

He got a little handsy. He just got a little handsy and hit it very clean off the carpet and blasted it direct. I thought it was going in, though. It was one of those ones. At the pin. Seeking at the pin. Boop, boop. And then it just didn't stop and it gets going.

That's happened to me one time in Denver. I forgot about the altitude change. So it's like a 150 par 3. I hit it. It's going right at the pin. I'm like, oh, shit. It's going to be my first hole in one. Oh.

30 yards over. Killed a guy in the back. Yeah. I just thought about your life. Are you excited to get out of that commander's building and kind of pass the drama or no? I might be back there. I would love to be back there. Is that something that's been chatted about?

We'll see. I don't think I'm allowed to talk about anything. Heineken. That's his back. Back again. Commander Heineken. Tell a friend. What is that?

Is that y'all's thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take a little jingle. We came up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but we'll see. You know, again, a lot of moving parts. You know, there's Take a little jingle. We came up with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but we'll see. You know, again, a lot of moving parts. You know, there's lots of big time.

Did you ever feel disrespected by them when they were in Ron Rivera? Or did you, like, did you ever feel disrespected? Because you were winning, winning, winning. And then going into the game, they were like, Taylor's got a short hook today. Taylor, it was just like almost understood the way it was being talked about. And we were all very confused. But also, $30 million is going to another person. we're all in the nfl we all understand how the nfl goes but that seemingly came out of nowhere with the success you were having and then no

success happened you could have very easily fallen into a little bit of being like you know a little jaded by that whole thing you had to have thought about it and then you just said i can't openly be a bitch about this or like how was it all kind of – how did you take it all in? It was tough. Again, like you said, I understand the business of the NFL. Just paid a guy $30 million. Let's give him another chance. I think we lost two or three in a row there.

Lost two, had a tie, and we were kind of on the cuff there. We've got to make the playoffs. I'm not going to say I felt disrespected. It was just kind of the communication of how it all went down. I wasn't very happy about. But other than that, you know. It was your team at that point. Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean? You're buying shoes. Ron Rivera's coming on. Like, Taylor has the whole team loves this. It was like your team. And then, obviously, you guys are going to lose games. It's the NFL. Nobody won perfect.

The people in the Super Bowl have three losses. They were beat by the Indianapolis. Chiefs were beat by the Indianapolis lose games. It's the NFL. Nobody went perfect. The people in the Super Bowl have three losses. They were beat by the Indianapolis. Chiefs were beat by the Indianapolis Colts. Right. They suck. Losses happen in the NFL. He beat them.

Who? Yeah. The Colts. Remember? You were there. Oh, yeah. Scary Terry. We came all the way back. Fucking like 60 yards.

Yeah. Yeah, we definitely ruined y'all's ring of honor day that day. Oh, suck it. Not just ring of honor, bro. People are paying a lot of money to be in that building. Yeah. Every game. All the fans. Every game. People are paying a lot of money to be in that building. Every game. All the fans.

A lot of money to be in there. You just suck the happiness out of there. But it felt like that was your team. Like, did you ever have that feeling or do you just, because of who you are, your story, you just assume that every day you gotta earn, you gotta earn, you gotta earn, you gotta earn. You gotta earn it, but at the same time, when I was handed the NFL script in 2015.

Boom. Boom. Confirmed. Confirmed. Fucking knew it. Ty has a same time, when I was handed the NFL script in 2015. Boom. Boom. Confirmed. Confirmed. Fucking knew it. Ty has a question for you, Mr. Heineke. Yeah, speaking of all that, I was a Packers fan, so I was juiced up when you weren't playing going against the Browns because I knew you don't have to say it.

He's your teammate. I was like, Carson's going to fuck this up. He stinks. He did through several interceptions. Jeez, Carson doesn't deserve it. Put him in a rough spot. Hey, that's me doesn't deserve it. Put him in a race. Hey, that's me saying it. That's not him saying it.

I know he's a great team mate. John Deere guy. Yeah, exactly. I'm a John Deere guy. You're a John Deere guy. He's a Bobcat guy, so we don't need to go there. But was there any point during that game where – because I'm pretty sure if you guys beat the Browns, you were in, right?

I think that's the way it shook out. Or maybe you needed a little bit of help. Ron wasn't sure. Well, yeah, he didn't know. But, again, Taylor doesn't need the comment your coach did afterwards say we're we're we're eliminated we can be eliminated was there any point during that game were you thinking like i mean because that would have been you know like a storybook type you know you get you get put in you guys make the playoffs like were you expecting to kind of, like, when you saw things going that way,

like, okay, I got to get ready to go here. I'm going to come in and save the season. Obviously, that didn't happen. They stuck with Carson. He played arguably his worst game of the year. But were you expecting, like, hey, I'm going to have to go in and get ready to go here? Yeah, you know, I was obviously getting ready the whole week.

I think they might have made a change at halftime, but right before halftime he had a 20-play drive for 96 yards and a touchdown. And you can't pull a guy after that, sure. Well, it depends. Yeah, but it is what it is. That would be a tough pull. For sure. It would be a tough pull.

There was a short leash, I remember. That's how they literally led off the game. They were told today, he's got a short leash. It remember. That's how they literally let off the game. They were told today, Heineken's got a short leash. It's because of the Niners. It's the best defense in the fucking NFL. You're playing pretty no pressure. What?

So you knew that going into that game you had a short leash? They told you about it or what? I had friends send me articles. So that was the communication. That's what we were talking about there. Got it. Tony has a question for you. So what was that? The last game of the year? It was earlier in the week.

You were supposed to start. You were going to go a half or whatever. And you said, listen, I've got the most box in the NFL. I'm a guy you could have a beer with. Let Sam go and see what he can do. Is that what happened pretty much? Yeah. I won't get into specifics, but they initially made me start it that week.

I'm kind of sitting back and look at it and how everything kind of unfolded the last previous two weeks. And the game really didn't mean anything for us. You know, we've seen Sam do what he can do during practice and through training camp. He's got a dog in there, huh? The dude's a dog. The dude can ball. So I was like, hey, let's give him a chance to see what he's got. You know, obviously I'll draft him for a reason.

So he went out there and balled out. I'm very excited for him. He's got a bright future ahead of him. He keeps working hard. So hopefully he can keep doing it. He's a player, huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

All the guys in the locker room believe in him, too. So this is what was said. Obviously, the locker room, you won over quickly. And you saying the locker room likes him too is a big deal because obviously you recognize that too you're a human that when you speak about football we should take you seriously but they're talking about Patrick Mahomes whenever they decide to name him the starter he had played against the Denver Broncos I think in a game that didn't matter in his rookie years like the last year Alex Smith was having an MVP like season and

they move on to Patrick Mahomes and then all word out of the locker room was like nope we got a guy because of practice reps and because of that you're saying similar type feel with Sam Howell all right I don't want to put that no no no but like that type of conversation like hey we think we got a guy because what we see in practice and what we've seen behind the scenes yeah that and you know you go back to his junior year of college he was projected to be a first or second rounder um and decided to come back his senior year. And obviously he lost a lot of weapons his senior year and didn't have that great of a year. And they thought that was, for whatever reason,

he fell to the fifth round after that. So everyone knew he could play. I just don't understand how he fell to the fifth round. What do you think about the Eagles? Obviously played them a couple times here. We beat them. Beat them, yeah. Colts and the Eagles? But, yeah, two powerhouses. You're right. Beat them, yeah. Colts and the Eagles?

Two powerhouses. You're right. Same sentence, though. Colts and the Eagles. That's right. Exactly. It's tough. Those are two tough teams. I think they're the best all-around team. How'd you beat them? We ran the ball 45 times. Oh, yeah!

And they brought in Sue and Joseph literally like three days later. You forced that guy into the late hit right at the last drop. Oh, yeah! Let's talk about that. Because I got a lot of flack for celebrating. But, you know, you go into a huge division

rival at their place, their undefeated, Monday night, and it's Philly. You know, those fans. And I completely let myself go at the end. And the guy had four or five steps. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to celebrate. Yeah, we just beat the unfeated guys Monday night at Philly.

Come on now. Of course. And, again, two years ago I was sleeping on the couch. So, yeah, I'm going to be excited. Yeah, you should have been. And the guy could have clearly not hit you. Yeah. Yeah, it was his fault.

But, once again, that script said, you know. Yeah, you knew it going in. Yeah. Stupid son of a bitch. These fans are going to be pissed. Oh, man. Wait till the fans see what they got scripted for the end of this thing. Uh-huh.

They're going to lose. The worst rule in football in everybody's eyes is going to end this one. I'm coming with a closer. And you know what I'm going to do? Heal. I'm going to celebrate. Ah! That's good shit.

Way to improvise there a little bit off the script. AQ has a question for you. Taylor? Yeah, the college game's really starting to penetrate the NFL, right? It's starting to real deep. Oh, yeah. Real deep, right? Getting in there.

All the RPOs, all the options, all the quarterback runs. You are obviously very dangerous when you run the ball. Have you ever been in that type of system? And would you feel comfortable kind of in that RPO, all the different option games? 100%. That was my whole college career. For four years we were kind of a hurry-up Oregon, old-school Oregon. But lots of RPOs, lots of just quick passing, kind of getting out of the pocket.

I feel like that's where NFL is going today. You don't see many true pocket passers other than Joe Burrow and those guys being elite. But you've got to be able to move. Those defensive linemen are too good nowadays. Hey, man, you're a multimillionaire now from football. Yeah. You did it.

Sweet. Very sweet. I never even thought about that, but, yeah, it is pretty cool. Yeah, you did it. Yeah. Yeah, you did it, man. Thank you for stopping by. Thanks for having me.

What do you got there? You just going right back into the wizard world right as soon as you leave? Hell, yeah. What house are you? Gryffindor. You know, I by. Thanks for having me. What are you guys doing? Are you just going right back into the wizard world right as soon as you leave? Hell yeah. What house are you? Gryffindor. Obviously. I did the quiz online. And they had me at Hufflepuff.

Oh, no. This Hufflepuff piece of shit. Come on. What did they say about Hufflepuffs? It said adventurous. Oh, what? That very happy about that one. What did they say about Hufflepuffs? It said adventurous. Oh, what? That's not what they say on the street. That's not what I was getting at.

It's the worst house in the world. Yeah, bingo. So, you guys are in frats now all of a sudden in Wizard World? Yep. And the Hufflepuffs are a real problem, huh? Yeah, feels like it. Dust up between houses? How does it work?

The Gryffindorfs and the Hufflepuffs. You're Slytherin. Slytherin for sure. Yeah, he is. Slytherin, for sure. Yeah, he is. Slytherin? Okay. That's a house? Is that good or bad?

Oh, yeah. That's the snake house. That's their move? Everyone hates them. You didn't deserve that. You're not a snake, Andrew. Oh, no. I'm crying.

AJ, you're more of a Hufflepuff. What are we going to do? Whenever he comes around, everybody's super scared. Yeah, you can't say that. You Hufflepuffs are bitch-made cats, bro. You're big time. You got to say, like, Espe, it's Crucio and stuff like that. Bro, the slithering snakes.

Harry Potter. I know Harry Potter. You spent 24 hours in there? World War II. I bet you. Wow. And Huffle Duffs, which is Harry Potter. Right here.

Hey, hold on. He just said he played for 24 hours the last two days. Get more time. Boom. I just learned how to fly on the broom. Oh, man. Hey, they're saying you're a Huffle Duff, dog. I'm a Huffle Duff.

That's what AJ said. He said you're a Slytherin. Nice to not be Gryffindor, man. Boom. Okay. You are. Are you hitting all the... I'm working right now.

You look good. The hair is fantastic. Gatorade, fast switch, short of milligrams, caffeine, no sugar. Drink it. Hell yeah. Woo! Hell yeah. Yeah, we love you, man.

Good, dog. Hell yeah. Great year, George Kittle. Mr. Kittle, too, right next to him. Yeah, Kittles. How are you doing? That's his dad. Taylor, you have to go to your next stop.

That makes sense. We appreciate you, man. Appreciate you guys. Hey, don't be a Hufflepuff out there. No. Come on, man. Stay strong. Hey, don't forget your zin.

It's on the ground. Thanks, buddy. Taylor Heineke. Yeah! Only three. Bro, those shoes are awesome. Those three? Yeah. His shoes are incredible. Great pants, too. Heineke Taylor Heineke. Only three. Those shoes are awesome. His shoes are incredible.

Heineke, Heineke. What happened? His shoes. His shoes are awesome. Those shoes are awesome. Can we get a zoom in on these things? Put them up on that chair. Hey, only three? You got hip flexors?

Put them up there. That's bad luck. Shoes on the table. What are those? It's not bad luck. Yeah, it is. What are those? Those are one.

Oh, jeez. Those are sweet. How many do you have now at this point? Can you play pickleball on those? 60 pairs of J's. Holy shit. Are they sending them to you yet? They should just send them to you for free.

Okay. All right, those are sick. Good. Those are sick. Ladies and gentlemen, Taylor. Good night, Taylor. Thank you for free. Okay. All right, those are sick. Good. Those are sick. Ladies and gentlemen, Taylor. Good night, Taylor. Super cool fit. Super cool fit.

Unreal. Like the jogger suit thing. Oh, yeah. Very cool fit. How about George Kittle's hair? Did you see how nice that thing was? Yeah, awesome. Perfect.

It's like AJ's long. You should straighten yours. You could straighten yours, Con Man. Oh, if I straightened mine, it'd be below the shoulder. Yeah, it'd be beautiful. Or you could perm it. I think I'd perm, yeah. I'd go perm before I went straight.

Perm would be sweet. I went perm one time, and I thought I was going to get like Justin Timberlake loose. That's what I'm thinking, yeah. Yeah. Since my hair's already curly, that thing went straight down. It was like tight little. That'd still be sweet. The tiny ones, like little rigatonis?

Yeah, little. Those are cool. Like my grandma used to do that. Rigatonis. What's that? Get perms, super tight perms. Yeah, it was very tight. It was too tight of a perm.

I do believe. We did it in a basement of somebody's house, obviously. It was not a professional operation. Same basement where he got those dreads done? Yeah, bingo. And then it was dyed chocolate cherry at the time, so it was these tight little chocolate cherry little wads of poop pretty much. Chocolate cherry was the color.

The color was chocolate cherry. The best. I don't know. It was interesting. I went white all the time with the hair, and then I went chocolate cherry one time. It was just bored. Like, what are you, bored? Let's just do this. I was caramel? I was caramel kissed at the time.

Good colors. Yeah, we ran through it. Once we found out that the grocery store had all these options, and it took like 35, 40 minutes. Fuck it. All right, we're going to do this. Tie me up. We had great hairstyles, to be honest with you, back in the day. Nobody has the A.J. Hawk, though, back in the day.

No. Seems to be the new look. What do you mean? The undercut? Just kind of on top. You've got a mohawk, but it's a little longer. Oh, I'm on top. No, when I was young, like sixth grade, I remember my brothers talked me into getting a sweet undercut.

Like I had long, bowl cut, basically, long hair, and they flipped it up and undercut. Yeah, I had one of those as well. Yeah. My hair was white, blonde. Lines in your head, comb over? Shaped lines, everything. Eyebrow? No, I never had put any deals in my eyebrow.

Charles Woodson always did that. He was the coolest guy alive, so I didn't want to copy him. I understand. I did it for sure. Boom. Pow. Ping. Boom.

Both sides. What AJ didn't mention is Charles Woodson went to Michigan, so he couldn't do what he did. Oh, because Ohio State. I love Charles. How about Ohio State? We're not talking about them. How about them? Demoree Smith has a big problem with the intrusive combine.

That's it. Why is everybody laughing? Continue. What's so funny? What did you say? What's so funny? What's so funny? What happened to Ohio State?

Did something happen I don't know about? Bro, this is the end. I'm not talking about Ohio State. I moved on to the NFL. The NFL PA. Your PA. Yeah, yours. The NFL Players Association that you created alongside you, A.Q. Shipley.

Your other president. Okay? Okay. Demore Smith came out and said, the combine's an intrusive process. Why are we doing it? Yeah. Oh, you gotta go get evaluated and woken up at 4 a.m. for what, them to devalue

you pretty much? Despicable. It's an archaic process. Let's fucking get rid of it. Now, there's obviously a real world answer where like, hey, this actually ends up being good for everybody yeah a lot of jobs come from the combine a lot of money is earned by a lot of people from the combine and in business if they're going to invest millions and millions of dollars we should be allowed to

give them an opportunity to at least inspect what they're going to potentially invest in for the future right now some of the shit is absurd. We talked about it the other day at the Senior Bowl, and I wasn't invited to the Combine, so I don't get a firsthand experience of the Combine. At the Senior Bowl, they're going out there shirtless in their tights, getting measured. That's a weird thing. Oh, yeah.

It has to be a better way to go about doing a lot of these things as if they're not from, you know, back in the day very uncomfortable. So I think there could be a more efficient process. But just saying that getting an evaluation on something you're going to invest in i just think that has to happen as well you know what i mean aj i think it was nice being in the middle but also what are we doing here there has to be something else to talk if they get rid of the combine who do who is demorris helping like current players in the nfl right now they don't care it's not they're gonna be like oh thank you so much these young guys aren't going to the combine and the college kids aren't sitting there worried about the combine right now, they don't care. They're going to be like, oh, thank you so much. These young guys aren't going to the combine,

and the college kids aren't sitting there worried about the combine right now. You're hoping to get invited to the combine, really. Exactly. Yeah, it's like a good thing. Some things are uncomfortable. Like, you know, I know growing up as a kid, and I say you're playing football. Any interviews are uncomfortable.

But you have to get – I'm talking very uncomfortable. When you're a young kid, I used to not look forward to this at all. You're saying, okay, I've got to get physical for football season. Guess what? Got to check if you're hernia. Drop your drawers. Grab your balls. Cough.

That always, I was always, my brother's going into that physical. We always hate it, but they got to check you, right? Yeah, it's like just standard operating procedure. You got to deal with some weird, uncomfortable situations. But yeah, maybe you could tweak it a little bit. The combine, I agree, you don't have rights, really. They get all your medical. They put you in 100 MRIs.

It sucks, but it's part of the process. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who was a Heisman Trophy winner. Whoa. Obviously, friend of A.Q. Shipley. Played 15 years for the Bengals, the Raiders, and the Cardinals. Former first overall pick, the prototype and USC legend, Carson Palmer. Hey, Carson! Carson!

Yes. Oh! Now it's time. Hey, Carson. Yes. Oh. Now it's time. There it is. What's up, buddy? Q, I didn't know you were going to be here. It is time. Thank you, sir.

Did you call me? Did you have a look at me? I live here. He lives here, Carson. I live here. He never left. I thought you guys were friends. He never left.

He tells us you guys are friends, too. It turns out you're not. Whoa, that's awkward. That's what I thought you guys were friends. He never left. He tells us you guys are friends, too. Turns out you're not. Whoa, that's awkward. That's what we just learned. Best friends. Obviously, you're here again for Caden Wood. I wanted to apologize for last year.

That was my... I should have told you, don't put it in your eyeballs. That's my bad. I apologize. That's my fault. I'm happy that you're owning it because the world needs a little more accountability. True. Now, this is like 300 and what, 64 days later probably? Yeah.

Maybe a little, hey, that one's on me. You know, because when I saw you starting to apply this menthol-laden lotion. CBD, yeah. CBD lotion to your face, I knew it was a problem. And you did. You were the adult on the stage.

I think you could have stopped me. I was trying. AJ and I were trying to stop you. We were like, no, no, no, no. AJ actually said, put it on your face. I read on your website this new formula he can put on his face and eyes. Is that right? I brought you gummies, though.

Love the gummies. Love the gummies. This's dummy proof right there. Love the gummies. This thing's CBD-focused energy here with some caffeine. That's what you need right now. Send a couple of them. Oh, I love these, actually. We're big fans of these.

Next level CBD products. Do you own this company? I forget. Every year you're with them. Yep. I've been with them since inception. This is going to get me all dumped up or what is this? Just press this down.

I need some too. Okay. Those mix well with real vitamins? These are great for focus. I'm like a one cup of coffee guy. Once I go to two cups, it's a problem. So I go one cup of coffee and then the CBD gummies. Q wants them.

Yeah, well, this will fix my spinal cord. Yep. No, nothing's going to fix that. Perfect. All right, perfect. Sorry. Yeah, this guy with his spinal contusion is actually the last person we want on our side if we get into a brawl with, like, an entire country or something.

You know that, Carson? Thank you. I love that guy. He's awesome. How was it? What is the relationship between center quarterback? Obviously, it's very important, but not all of them are good, right? Not everybody has a good one.

I always had a great, great relationship, but Q and I go way back. I mean, dinners, beers. What? All the good stuff. Just training camp. You know all that stuff. Yeah. AQ, as you know, is as good as they get.

This one's going to put me to sleep here. You don't want that one right now. That's tonight. I see restful sleep. Oh, restful sleep. Is it melatonin in here? And lemon balm, huh? How about this? You don't want that one right now. That's tonight. I see restful sleep. Oh, restful sleep. Zzzz. Melatonin in you and lemon balm, huh? How about this?

I've been playing pickleball, Carson. What are you going to do with that? I'm not going to put it on my face. Okay. Look at you. We're learning. I'm here to help. Temples.

We're instilling knowledge from years past. This is called maturing. Live and learn. This has been like your third or fourth year with these folks. Yes. Five years now. This has been like your third or fourth year with these folks. Yes, five years now. I'm a believer. I needed something other than Vicodin and whatever else I was taking. Did you take that?

I tried everything. I was always in pain. I was always aching. This is the only thing that works. But how good does that feel right now? Oh, my God. It's just like cooking in the greatness right now. You know what I mean?

That's Caden with a difference. That's Caden with a difference. What do you do for your free time now? Are we still active? I remember you were out in the greatness right now. You know what I mean? That's Caden with difference. That's Caden with difference. What do you do for your free time now? Are we still active? I remember you're out in the woods, right? Yeah. Oh, there's that menthol. There's that menthol. I'm starting to smell it. Immediate. Immediate. We need that. No, I live in the

mountains. I live in the middle of nowhere. What's that all about? I watched this thing on, what was it, Dahmer? No, the Dahmer. Ted Bundy. Yeah, Ted... Dahmer. Dahmer. Was it Dahmer? Ted Bundy. Yeah, Ted Bundy.

Ted Bundy. Unabomber, yeah. He jumped out. Ted Kaczynski. Unabomber. Unabomber, that's where he lives. Did you want to... You always just wanted to live so far away from people? Yeah, those guys are all in my neighborhood.

That's why I'm at it. Like a nice little cul-de-sac. I'm not necessarily saying you're killing people or doing anything like that, but there's people that just want to be away from society. Is that what you want to do? Is that why you're deep in the woods? I was living here in Phoenix for five years, Oakland, Cincinnati, and I've got a young family and just wanted to get away

and not be in a big city and not have all the things that go on with being a former football player in a big city, and we're in the middle of nowhere, and I love it. That's amazing. I'm sure your family absolutely loves it as well. Do you do any of the new weird stuff? And by weird, I'm only saying that because if you were to compare it to the old school stuff, Ed Menthol is strong.

I mean, that's something about your company that you guys do. You probably got enough on. It's just – Ah, pickleball. Ah, pickleball. Ah, pickleball. Sore right now. Do you do, like, cold tubs?

Do you do plunges? Do you do cold tubs? Do you do plunges? Do you do super fitness stuff? Would you go into a dark room for four days? I wouldn't do that. That's not my cup of tea. I got done playing and didn't want to be in the gym at all. Just got tired of being in weight rooms. And so I moved to Idaho, and my workout was I'd drop my kids off at school,

I'd get on the river, and I would fish until school pickup time. So I'd cover like 8, 10 miles and fish different sections of the water. So you're that thing, the bumper sticker, like rather be fishing. You were like – 100%. That was real. Are you floating? 100%.

How are you doing? On foot. Wet weight. On foot, okay. Fly? Fly? And you're catching trout? Trout the whole time?

You cook them? No, it's catch and release. Are you still doing that every day? It's fun. Not as much anymore, but when I first moved to Idaho, all I did was fish. So I know every spot on the river. I know all the holes where the fish like to hang out, and I would always fish a different spot.

You should come out there. Hold on, I've got a pretty good little motion. I've got a pretty good. The whole crew, I'd love to see you. Do you lead? That looks good. Do you lead? I'm not a sidearm.

I'm over the top, and I lay it down. Spin a football ever? I can still throw it. I can still throw it. Obviously. Do you want to run some routes? No, I've got a lot of show on my hands. I don't want to drop the ball, especially for you.

I don't want to be that type of wide receiver. I appreciate that. Conman, that would love to run. Easy. I'd run 1,000 routes. Let's talk about the game this weekend. I might sleep. Have you been watching out in the woods?

I have. I have. I like Kansas City. I just think when you get to this moment in the season, you take the quarterback that's done it, he's been here, and he's better. I'm going with Kansas City. It's a tough one, isn't it? How good do you feel right now?

It's really getting me jacked up. I can smell it over here a little bit. I do got to get my arms away from my eyes because we're starting to have what happened last year. Yep. You know, because I put too much on. This is my problem. Here it is. This is one year ago. To the day.

On February 9th. Yeah, I'm in better shape this year, I think, than I was last year. A little rounder face. But for me, you know, I adjusted a little bit. But that was three hours. I cried for three hours. Those tears of joy, obviously, the muscles in my face felt so much better

because they were iced down. But I do enjoy what you guys are putting out. Appreciate that. So you like Patrick Mavis because he's been there, done that. The whole team's been here. They've done it. And I've been getting heat. I feel like everybody thinks the Eagles.

Is that consensus? Thank you. You like the Eagles. Why? Because the defense? Offensive line. They have a better offensive line. And the run game. They have consensus? AQ. AQ. Everyone. You like the Eagles. Because the defense. Offensive line. They have a better offensive line. And the run game.

They have a better running game, but they don't have Patrick Mahomes. I agree. Boom. Bang. But every time somebody has said that Jalen Hurts cannot throw it, what has he done? Just fucking bombs. Number two QBR, I think. Just bombs.

I think you saw a little. There was a little. He was affected last week. Whoa think. Just bombs. I think you saw a little. There was a little. He was affected last week. Whoa. He was affected. Maybe he's missing guys. There were some guys that were open that didn't quite have the accuracy he needed. Patrick Mahomes doesn't have those games.

Okay. Even at 75% with three quarters of one. Just justified your bet. There it is. Suck it. Hey, Carson, we can't thank you enough for stopping by yet again. Oh, look at that. One more time.

Come on, boys. Let's do it. Yes. Hell yeah. What are we on? Let's make this one good. Let's go on three or something. Maybe four. Line up against AQ. One last time. In Arizona. Should we line up against AQ? One last time. Get a head up on it. In Arizona. SelectCBD.com.

There we go. Nice. There it is. SelectCBD.com. Hut, hut, hut. Oh, wow. Whoa. It's that first step.

It was a false start on the center. Bob will exchange. Bob will exchange. Oh, no. I'm going to be honest, because he used to do this all the time. It was unbelievable. He would have, like, this crazy cadence, but he would continue it to throw the deep. He would snap, and he would continue it.

How's that sound? Because the defensive line would take, oh, the ball snapped. And the ball snapped. He'd be on, like, second collar. He'd be like. Oh, so you're giving cadence post-snap. That's wild. Oh, genius.

As you're taking your drop, you're still calling the cadence. Yeah, let me hear. That's awesome. That confused the refs? Is that legal? Genius. That's awesome. I've never seen that. It was unbelievable.

It was one of the best things. It even threw me off the first time he did it. I was like, I snapped it early. What did I do? Did I get it wrong? Did you? early. What did I do? Did I get it wrong? Did you? Hey, that was awesome. Dude, that felt good, man. That was good.

That felt good. A little nostalgia right there. Q always took really good care of himself and his undercarriage. Oh, the hind end. Yeah, he has to. He really took a lot of time making sure every practice, every walkthrough, obviously on game day. But I miss you, brother.

I miss you, too, brother. Gotta wash your ass. Good to see you. I'm going to see you tonight. I'm going to see you tonight. A clean gooch. Have a good one tonight. Another one. Ill, brother. I'm going to wash your ass. Good to see you. I'm going to see you tonight. I'm going to see you tonight. A clean gooch. Have a good one tonight. Another one.

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Hell yeah. You're Carson. Appreciate you, man. Thanks, buddy. That menthol is a real deal. It works. Take it easy. Do you smell it over here? A little bit. A's always good. Yeah, it is. It works, huh? Pleasure, man. Take it easy. Do you smell it over here?

A little bit. A little bit. Hell yeah, Carson. In my eyeballs a little bit, I even. I need some of that. Hey, good for you, man, huh? Glory days. That was good, huh?

Fucking glory days right there. Good first step. That's one of my favorite traditions here. Carson coming on and you doing that. For real. It was to the day, too. That was February 9, 2022. So he had 364 days.

He could have apologized. Didn't, yeah. He decided to wait for the big moment. Does he owe you a bobblehead or something? His brother, yeah. Yeah. How's Jordo? Jordo has it.

Okay. Quarterback Summit. Yeah. Which is where Hendon Hooker is. Bingo. Training. True. Which is, well, maybe we do get that bobblehead.

He was the best deep ball thrower I ever played with. He threw a very pretty. Beautiful deep ball. Unbelievable. Ben Roethlisberger. You son of a bitch. Carson Palmer. Tom Brady. very pretty beautiful deep unbelievable. Ben Roethlisberger. You son of a bitch. Tom Brady. Carson Palmer threw to Tom freaking

Brady. He didn't play with Tom Brady. Oh yeah he did. Tampa Bay. Oh my god. Tom Brady. Tom freaking Brady. Dan Orlovsky. Yeah. What the fuck. What's up, Pac?

There he is. Pac-Man Joe. What's up? Hell yeah. Come on, Pac. What a fit. Good. How are you?

What's up, Pac? What a fit. What's up, Pac? You look amazing. What's up, baby? Isn't that, buddy? You look amazing. The shoes are sweet.

What are you doing? Aren't you boxing? Look at those shoes. Shoes are unbelievable. What's up, baby? Isn't that, buddy? You look amazing. The shoes are sweet. What are you doing? Aren't you boxing? Look at those shoes. Shoes are unbelievable. What are those? What are those? What are those? Those are awesome.

You look amazing. Hey, how's the weed doing? Let's go. The weed? I am so high right now. Yeah. Pack got the pack. Pack got the pack.

The weed is booming. That's why I got these high so high right now. Yeah, Pac got the Pac. Pac got the Pac. The weed is booming. That's why I got these high glasses on right now. Smart. Hell yeah. Yeah, dark frames. Yeah, I got me a good little buzz, bro. That's good. You should.

What are you doing? You walking around, pitching a little bit for the weed? Well, I've been here doing TikTok, and I'm an athlete. You know, did my stuff with Believe. And getting high. Getting high, talking really good shit. Being smart about what I'm talking about. Yeah, of course.

Of course. Hey, you had a great NFL season, dude. Yeah. You had a great season. Honestly, you kicked ass this year. Everybody over at IM Athlete, also all the traveling. You were at a bunch of different games. You had interviews with everybody.

I think you kicked ass this season. Did you enjoy it? I appreciate it, man. Yeah, I did enjoy it. But I enjoyed the waste management. Yesterday, way more. Oh, shit. Have you ever been there?

Yeah, we went and did the shot at glory. Oh, my God. So I had a chance to. You're a golfer, too. Did you play? Noted golfer. I didn't play. I should have played.

I turned it down because I seen the stadium. I said, oh, shit. Oh, yeah. You hit the ball in front of all these fucking people? Yeah, it was tough. That's what we did. Yeah, we were pretty high out there. So I got a chance to get high, sit there and drink me a cup of beers and interview Michael Phelps.

Yeah, he won. Which is fucking unbelievable. Bro, he won the closest to the pin at the Shot of Glory. He came in, he did the full thing. The stretch. He did the warm-up. I was there, right there on the box. I seen it.

He fucking plucked. We were there then. Where were you? Where were you? I was on the green. We were right there. Where were y'all at? We were hitting from the tee box. I was on on the box. I seen it. He fucking plucked. We were there then. Where were you? I was on the green. We were right there. Where were y'all at? We were hitting from the tee box.

I was on the tee box. Now we were on the tee box. We were on the tee box. Maybe earlier in the day. We were there like at five. We got proof right there. Right there. Right there.

That's Pat. What time was this? Five. So I was already gone by then. I left at five. Phelps, anyway, he fucking won. Phelps won the thing. I seen Phelps hit. I was literally gone by then. I left at five. Phelps, anyway, he fucking won. Phelps won the thing. I seen Phelps hit.

I was literally right there. And my biggest question was, hey, bro, what's up with the weed? He had a beer. Did he smoke at all? Yeah, I gave him a pack of the Pac-Man. My first question was, in 2009, you had the thing with the bong. Oh, yeah. You lost the cereal deal, right?

Fucking everybody's making fucking cereal now. Who cares? What is your thoughts on the weed now? Yeah. And he answered, he said, it was epic. He said, everybody go through shit. And at that time, I was going through some stuff, but I'm a big believer in mental health,

and I smoke. You know, I'm standing on what I say. So he was a big advocate of. How do you feel about being in the middle of, like, the new cannabis evolution almost? Not a lot of people. There's people that have strands, obviously. Wiz Khalifa's got Khalifa Kush. There's Bieber has some, I think, some peaches.

There's obviously Burner out there in L.A. He has a bunch, I think. But it's not like it's very early in the game right now. Yeah. So whenever you had your own and came out with, I believe you guys got dummies, you guys got smoke, you got everything. That's very like, you're one of the first people to do

that. That's huge. Yeah, and I kind of look at my whole career and the things that I do, I do shit that make me happy. I do shit that I'll enjoy doing and I do it my way, regardless if that person don't like it i don't

give a fuck if i like it and i believe in it a hundred percent i'm gonna do what i like to do i'm a big big smoker i smoke dabs i smoke anything would come with thc in it gummies i eat them yeah all of that so um it's good to indulge in something and learn more about the cannabis and just stop just smoking you know what i mean so i'm so picky now hello pat come smoke i'm like hey what are we smoking where did you get it from yeah have you ever have you ever smoked anything from montana uh no i haven't i haven't been in montana hey montana's got some good weed montana yeah they got good weed. We did the show out there.

So anytime we go to a state that has it legalized, I will always go to a dispensary and check out their stuff. They had this house dispensary downtown. It was literally like you walk across the front porch. You check in. The hallway is a lead way. The living room was set up with some gummies. The back kitchen area had some of their pre--rolls and then their flour was in the, on like, it was like the coolest dispensary. It sounded like my house. Yeah, legit. It was an efficient operation,

but it was like, it was incredible out there. And every state has like their own. I think you're in multiple states, right? Yeah. I believe you're in multiple. It's not easy. So I'm, I'm, I'm a part of cookies. Um, a percent of cookies. Gary Payton, I think? Yeah. I believe you're in Malta. It's not easy. So I'm a part of Cookies, a percent of Cookies. Gary Payton, I think, right? Yeah, Gary Payton is a partner with us also, but I think we have 56 stores across the country. We just opened up in Thailand. Wow. Right now, I'm only out in California. I actually just left Vegas smoking the pack. Hey, baby. I didn't approve it because the look wasn't where I wanted it. But I think they'll get it this next harvest.

So I think we're about 60 days out from Vegas. Utah actually is where I think the pack will be dropped at next in the cookie store. We went to Utah smoking unbelievable. Smaller market, but they got really good growth teams there. That's amazing. Well, I'm proud of you. We're pumped for you. Congrats on the continued success and good luck with the pack, man. I appreciate it, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Pacman.

Yeah! Hell yeah. Yeah, you too, dude. There you go. See ya. You can have it. Thank you. Hell yeah. That's Baby Duke See you. You can have it. Thank you. Hell yeah. That's baby Duke. Yep. That's baby Duke.

All right. Down one. Yep. That's good, though. Yeah. Yeah, if anybody was going to have it, Pax the guy. He's going to love that ball, too. Oh, yeah.

Speaking of love, ladies and gentlemen, a man that we have loved getting to chat with because he is a game changer. This dude's been in the sports media game for a long time. He's been the face of it for a long time. He is literally what a lot of people are trying to emulate on a day-to-day basis, but he is the original. He's an author. He's a stallion.

Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen A. Smith. Yeah! There he is. Hell yeah. How we doing? What's up, Steve? What's going on? Steve.

Mr. Smith, how are you? Man, nice shoes. Sharp. Good. You too. Okay, here we go. Look at you with props and everything. This is awesome.

Holy hell. This is what happens when Stephen A. shows up. Look at this. I don't know if we can get this camera to turn around. I think we should be able to. Let me go ahead and turn that thing. Look at this crew that is currently here for Stephen A. Smith. Wow.

Look at what goes down when you show up. This is your life, Stephen A.? Just everybody says, we need to see Stephen A. and, hold on, the Subway Series. What is this, Stephen? Man, listen, I'm not used to having to promote stuff, believe it or not, but I love doing this right now. They've got me here in attendance, Super Bowl week, asking me to engage in a trivia game.

So I got a trivia game for y'all as well. And since you can't be here, for those of you who are not here, you can go to Subway.com. Okay. And you can play the game yourself, okay? Because that's what I got going on right now. You're hosting a show here? I'm hosting a trivia game.

A trivia game this afternoon where I'm going to compete with some of the fans for the new Subway Series menu. You are? Me. Me. I'm showing it. Stephen A., you got every job on earth, and now you're a host of games, a trivia game host?

It's just a day. It's just a day. That's all. I'm trying to be where Pat McAfee's at. No, no, no. I'm trying to be where Pat McAfee's at. That's what I'm trying to do, fellas. That's what I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to pull that off. You know what I'm saying? They ain't ever putting me in a position to be asking anybody any trivia questions about. Please, please. All right, I got one for you. You ready for this? Oh, this is right now? Right now.

Hold on. Can we get a thought of what it could be about? We like the game plan. We didn't know this was happening. Trust me. It's the football. It's the football. All right, I got one for you. You ready for this? Oh, this is right now? Right now. Hold on. Can we get a thought of what it could be about? We like the game plan. We didn't know this was happening. Trust me. It's a football question. It's a football question. All right.

Boys, let's go. Boys, it's a football question. Mind-meld, mind-meld, mind-meld. We got to level up the Super Bowl experience. Who wrote the question? Subway? Subway. All right, so we got to think from their frame.

Yeah, exactly. Adam Vinicius. Danger Witch. Yes. How many AP Defensive Player of the Year awards has J.J. Watt won in his career? Boom. Three, six, eight. What?

I believe it's unanimous. The only reason why we know this is because T.J. won, and then T.J. had to talk shit about how many J.J. won right in his face. That's right. The answer is three. You all right? Hey! Come on!

You know what I'm saying? Hey, Subway! Suck it! Gotcha! How about it? You beat him. You beat him. How many questions

have you been asking? Excuse me? How many questions have you been asking? I've been asking like eight to ten questions. Whoa. People get them right?

Most of the people get them right? Half the time. Do you dunk on them if they get it wrong? No. How'd you get it? Do you do any of that?

No, I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be nice. No! I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be nice. I spent far too much time slicing the dice and people up. You want to know, show my nice side. I want to show my nice side.

Oh, baby face, Stephen A. Yeah! Hey, let's talk about your last couple days. Yeah, man. Because the NBA, you know, is cooking currently. Yeah. Kyrie Irving gets traded out of Brooklyn to Dallas. They get a big win last night.

He's leading scorer, I believe. Luka was out, so they're able to kind of maybe one and change. And you obviously cut a promo on Kyrie, and the world reacts to it. How do you see that all going in the future with you and Kyrie? What do you think? Like he wins? Do you ever see you coming full? Kyrie, listen, here's the deal.

Just your coverage of him. Here's the deal. I am, it doesn't matter how I feel about you, I'm always going to be fair, and I'm always going to be objective. You ain't worth my paper. So my attitude is that even if I don't like your ass, I'm still going to be fair.

Now, me and Kyrie have our differences, differences that I don't think will ever be settled. He knows why. It's personal. I'm not going to be fair. Now, me and Kyrie have our differences, differences that I don't think will ever be settled. He knows why. It's personal. I'm not going to say why. But that doesn't stop me. That doesn't stop me from looking at him and saying he's a phenomenal player. By the way, you'll appreciate this because I've been wanting to tell you this.

I've been having to tell people this the last couple of days. They can't seem like they can comprehend it. There's a difference between superstar players and superstars. Tim Duncan was a superstar. He was a superstar player. I'm sorry. He went on the court. He was the best at what he did as a power forward.

He won five championships. Blah. Kyrie Irving is a superstar. You walk through the turnstiles to watch him play. Blockbuster. That's who he is. So in that regard, Kyrie Irving pays for himself. Kyrie Irving is a sensational basketball player, a person that I think is worth $50 million a year in today's NBA economy. But you can't pay him more than one year at a time because you can't trust that he's going to show up to work. Literally over the last years in brooklyn you literally walk through the loading

dock area at times if you were a reporter to see if he would get off the bus because you never knew when he was going to play and i'm talking about yeah i don't feel like playing today oh hell i ain't coming to play without kd he out this week I'm out this week. I don't feel like doing that. Right now, I'm just traumatized by the riots at the Capitol in January 6, 2021. So I'm going to take two weeks off. Oh, by the way, I'm so traumatized that I'm going to party with my family,

which means, which was in violation of security protocols by the NBA, which gave them additional time off. This kind of stuff happens. And so because of that, you can't invest in him long term because he made those decisions because he didn't have to worry about his bag. But now he's in the final year of his deal. Those things are all true, what you just said there?

It's just like, hey, I don't want to play today. I'm not going to play today. And that's been documented. Absolutely. I mean, at one time, he was literally taking players. After Steve Nash, the former coach, would conduct the practice, he would go and take players out of the locker room and bring them back on the basketball court to talk about what plays they should run.

Very interesting. Obviously it didn't work out there in Brooklyn for Kyrie or KD, who's now in Arizona. This was being talked about last year, right? And then there was a rap concert where they all hung out, Harden, Kevin Durant, and Cy. I believe Cy. Yeah. I believe Cy was there. Their owner was there. And they get back on the same page.

There was allegedly a coach or me. Now we're a year later. Kyrie asked for a trade. Kevin Durant gets traded. That's bananas. He's got, like, what, four years left on a max? Three. Three after the season.

Yeah, so including this year, four years left on a max contract. Yes. And he's out of there. So Brooklyn just said, ah, fuck it? Is that what happened? That's exactly what happened. They said enough's enough. You know, I personally think,

even though Mikael Bridges is a very, very good player, I personally believe you don't lose the caliber of player of KD and Kyrie and not get one single all-star back in return. That's me. But at the end of the day, you're Brooklyn, and it was so chaotic. It was such a mess that you made the decision that I'm going to get a multitude of players, multitude of picks

and we're just going to start over and that's what it is and at the end of the day how much worse can you do? KD, Kyrie and James Harden was there KD and Kyrie for three and a half years they have one playoff series victory to show you have a fourth according to him, that

was doing his job. I saw your promo. I did my job. What'd you start doing? Fourth? You lost your mind. We were in fourth place. I was like, really? Did you tell him that? And then the thing that kills me is that you run into a lot of these players, and you know this.

You know, you have a lot, and this is a pet peeve of mine, and I'm going to say this to your audience. What pisses me off, very few things piss me off more than when the players want to step back and they want to talk about team, team, team. Wait a minute. We know it's a team. We know you can't win by yourself.

You know you can't only play one on five. But did you have that attitude when you went to the negotiating table and asked for your money? At that time, did you say you were 1 of 12? Hey, that's interesting, right? You didn't say you were 1 of 12 then. You said, no, I'm me. I'm KD. I'm Kyrie. I'm this. I'm that. This is the money I got. You Kyrie, you got $136

million. You KD, you got $198 million. Now, in KD's defense, the brother always comes to play. The only time he's out is when he's legitimately injured. KD is a baller all day, every day. Kyrie is a sensational talent who happens to ball when he wants to, but has so

many other things that he's preoccupied by that basketball ain't the priority it should be at times that it should be. Got it. But the check keeps coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always hard whenever it's somebody's job, too, and whenever somebody's being paid well. Now, they're being paid well because they've earned that money, and there's money coming in, so they are due money that they've earned

for other people and everything like that. But it's tough to feel bad for a lot of guys. That's right. And I think that is something that certainly shows up in the NBA, more so than any other sport. We know you're running out of time. AJ definitely has a question for you. So do the boys, Mr. Steven.

It was interesting hearing you talk about Kyrie and how you feel about him, but you can still praise him and say he's a superstar on the court. Why do you think a lot of people, a lot of fans, well, if they don't like a guy, they instantly write him off and, oh, this guy's a terrible player, too, and they can't get over that. Because personal animus towards people can tend to get in the way, particularly if you don't have a professional mindset. I don't dislike nor hate Kyrie.

I dislike the bullshit he does from time to time. I can say that about you. We're not friends. And still be fair. Got it. You know what I'm saying? We ain't having Thanksgiving and Disney together. We ain't exchanging Christmas gifts.

You got your job to do. I got my job to do. You go out and play. I chronicle it. Period. Have a nice day. But the fans, they're emotionally invested, and what they want from you is to know that there's an emotional investment

that comes in. Why do you think they love this guy so much? Because they see passion. They don't. And they're going like this. Well, here's the deal. You see a passion, and the passion that you exhibit matches the passion they want from you.

Yeah. And so you're good. They want the same thing in a player. They don't want to see a player like that. Think about this. If a player sits out there and he goes out there, you go to see the player play. And they go out there and they get their ass kicked. When you watch a fan, one of the first things that

pisses them off is when they see you smile. And laugh. And like, it meant nothing to you. Wait a minute. Did I come? Did I come here? I want to know that it hurts you just as much as it hurts me. That's what they're asking for. Yeah, and some of those things are a little bit impossible to deal with because, like, you're humans as well.

I've seen somebody get caught laughing, but what they were saying is, this is the worst night of your fucking life. It's almost like, yeah, this is the worst night of my life. And it can be construed differently. But you're right. It feels like the person that you're cheering for doesn't care anywhere near as much as you do. It's almost like, yeah, this is the worst night of my life. That's true. And it can be construed differently. Absolutely. But you're right. It feels like the person that you're cheering for doesn't care anywhere near as much as you do. That's right.

Easy way to just kind of check out. You're going to dismiss them and you're going to despise them to some degree because you've emotionally invested in them when you believe they should be more emotionally invested because of the money that they're getting paid and what they signed up to do. How's NBA going? NBA's going good, right? I think so. Hey, you guys do a lot of NBA talk. Well, damn right. You do a lot. Well, you know, that's what I do.

No, no, I'm being serious, though. I am being serious. Because the NFL, like our show, the NFL hogs our show. A lot of the show is on TV every single day. NFL is everything. You guys are like where we watch and pretty much digest our basketball. You're like an NBA show, I think. I will tell you, believe it or not, the person

I would give props to for that is Skip Bayless. Because when Skip Bayless recruited me to come on First Take in 2012, he's like, we got football. Football's king. But then once football is done, it plummets. He said, there's only one person that everybody clues in to hear about the NBA.

It's you. I need you. And when I came on board, the ratings didn't flow, didn't dissipate. Once NBA season kicked in, the football season was over. Got it. So that's what happened with that, and I remembered that, and I just held on to that belief, and I've been exercising it ever since. Yeah, you guys spend real time on it every single day.

We watch it. We're like, all right, that's a lot of time, and it's a great combo. That's right. I mean, it always draws a reaction. Twitter is where the NBA world lives. Well, I don't know about that. It's Twitter. It's Instagram.

It's everywhere. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's all contingent on stuff that's really, really happening. I don't give a damn what Twitter is. Crush is on Twitter, dude. NBA crush is on Twitter. I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm just saying that it's not the only place. I don't give a damn what's on Twitter. Crush is on Twitter, dude. Huh? NBA crush is on Twitter. I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm just saying that it's not the only place.

No, yeah, yeah, yeah. I completely understand. And I'm just saying that, you know, when you look at the NBA in and of itself, it's the individual. In football, the sport is marketed. But in basketball, the individual is marketed. And so when you can draw an attachment

to that superstar that's resonating, whoever they may be, then it does work for you. Yeah, and that's why all those guys are worth every dollar they get. Ty has a question for you, Stephen. Speaking of all that kind of stuff, Stephen, how kind of crazy was it this week when LeBron actually breaks the scoring record and you kind of

have to digest that with all the, you know, whether people like him or not, all the shit that's been said about him. Do you think we'll ever see anyone like him again? Like, will that record ever be broken? And also, do you think the Lakers, like them getting rid of Westbrook and getting these guys back, like, is the takeaway from them this season going to be that LeBron broke the record, or do you think they're going to make a push towards the playoffs?

Well, I will say that, first of all, to answer the second question first, they're going to make a push towards the playoffs. I think the moves that were made made acquiring D'Angelo Russell, acquiring this kid Vanderbilt, who's a defensive wizard at 6'9", and can defend on the perimeter, acquiring Malik Beasley. Both Malik Beasley and D'Angelo Russell can shoot three-point shots. You spread the floor. Oh, those are the good LeBron teams.

That's right. You spread the floor. You spread the floor. You let LeBron run the show, and you pray beyond prayer that Anthony Davis could stay healthy. The other thing about them was that they

had to trade Russell Westbrook because even though I was pleased with what I was seeing from him coming off the bench and being selfless, the fact is that there was a lot of noise about him being a problem in the locker room. And when he got into that argument with Darvin Hamm on the night

that LeBron was about to break the record, that was destroyed and broke the Campbell's back. That's why you saw Anthony Davis on the bench, and he didn't seem to be enjoying LeBron moment because just a few minutes earlier in the locker room, Russell Westbrook purportedly had gotten into an argument with Darvin Hamm that really escalated to some degree and kind of deflated things. So they knew they had to make it.

I think the Lakers will make a push. I think the Lakers, you can't dismiss LeBron and AD in a playoff series with nothing to lose. The playing game is different. You're one and done if you're at ninth or tenth seed, except for eighth seed're one and done. If you're a 9th or 10th seed, you're an 8th seed, two and done. But at the end of the day, if you get into that play as the best

four of seven series with LeBron... You've got to beat him four times. You've got to beat him four times. That's a lot. That's a lot of times for LeBron to get to know you. And we've seen him, obviously, in the playoffs all the way up to last year. And if they were to stink yet again and not do the playoffs... Because what was it? A couple weeks ago, he scored 40, had his knees iced. I think his head, he's sitting on the bench. A ball almost hits him in the playoffs. Because what was it? A couple weeks ago, he scored 40, had his knees iced.

I think his head. He's sitting on the bench. A ball almost hits him in the face. He doesn't even move. He's just so fucking disgusting. They're down like 25 points, I think, at that point. It's like, what more can this guy do? Obviously, he broke the record.

I'm excited to watch it all unfold. Stephen A., we can't thank you enough for joining us. The book, how's it doing? How's the book? This one is the third consecutive year. It's been three weeks. It's been three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. You go to straightshooterbook.com to get the book.

So I'm really happy about it. Kind of surprised, believe it or not, because I talked a lot about my personal life to some degree, which I never do. If it was sports, it would be different because I think that I can swing for the fences with that. I didn't expect this, but I am happy and I'm humbled that everybody seems to be so supportive of it. Hell yeah. And thank you, by the way, because you were helpful as well. Hey, no problem, man. Congratulations on all the hard work paying off.

That's right, man. It's a story worthy of listening to. Thank you, bro. A man who's worked his ass off to get to the top of the sports media. Straight shooter. Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen A. Smith. Yeah! Stephen A!

Joining us now is a man who we are a massive fan of. To get into the NFL, he had to pay to get to a workout, to then get to another workout, to then go on to become a pro bowler and an all-pro. Ladies and gentlemen, stallion for the Minnesota Vikings wide receiver, Adam Thielen. Yeah!

No, no, no. You can do whatever the fuck you want, bud. You do a decent gritty, though. Yeah, it's getting better. You can do it. Lots of practice. I'm all gritty. Come on, AQ. I tried it last night. AQ told Adam to do it. Didn't they ask you to do it before your shot?

Didn't they? Did you do it? The rapper, Kelly James. I hit the grid. Oh, I didn't see the grid. He's a rapper. I said back there that I got a video of it, so I need that. The grid you did yesterday? Yeah, Foxy has it in slow-mo, I think, actually.

That guy's a rapper? It's like Kelly James. Kelly James, yeah. I thought he was a comedian. Here's you yesterday at the Shot of Glory, right at the Glory hole there, feeling eye in the hole, and then boom. Oh, yeah. Boom.

Here we go. Now you know. We need Justin up here to rate the green. Feeling hit the green. I think it was good. Here we go. I think it was good, Gritty. What a swing.

What a swing. That was my best swing of the day. Is that Jon Rahm? Did you play in the Pro-Am? Yeah. Okay, so me and AJ were the only ones that did not play in the Pro-Am. Yeah. Just showed up.

And were in the Shot of Glory. Everybody in the Pro-Am. Yeah. Just showed up. And were in the shot of glory. Everybody in full golf attire. It was a golf tournament. I don't think I fully expected that. I thought we were showing up at an event, like a top golf type situation. Sure. I have tank top on and just casual pants. Yeah, but how else would have you shown up?

Agreed. Actually, I don't know how I would have done anything differently, but we got on a golf cart as soon as we got there, whisked away, and then we were taken in this back room and then we're standing on a tee box, and all of a sudden you look around, it's like, where the fuck am I right now? That is an insane event. Is that your

first time there? It's unbelievable. Last year I came and had an absolute blast. Stayed for a few days, just my wife and I, no kids. It's awesome. It's great. It is fantastic. Saturday. Wait for Saturday. Are you going to go out there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Saturday is going to be... just my wife and i know kids um it's awesome that's great it is fantastic saturday wait for saturday you're gonna go out there yeah yeah yeah saturday is gonna be happy yeah yeah yeah can't wait to experience that with everybody it's gonna be insane if you can take a video from uh

like this standpoint here right let the natural sound happen but no voiceover if you can just send that to me i'll be like like, yeah, so much fun! So much fun to be there! It does look like a blast. You'll throw the voiceover on it. Hey, your golfing ability is very good, though. And we were just talking backstage about, like, you're a shoe golfer. Like, you're trying to win these things that you're

playing in. Is this what you're going to do whenever you get old? Yes. One million percent. Yes. I'm going to try to get as good as I possibly can at golf, and I'm going to try to get as good as I possibly can at golf, and I'm going to enter every tournament that I possibly can and try to win it. And what's that, AJ? He's the one guy I think that has a chance. You know how Aaron says a lot of guys think they can become pro golfers when they're done with whatever professional sport they play?

I think Thielen might be our ringer. Why is that? Have you played your whole life? Played my whole life. You ever seen him grind away in Tahoe? He's on the putting green for like four hours before his round. Oh, so you know why things are going wrong, too, because you've played your whole life. That's an advantage, I think, that people who have had coaches or have played their whole life before have.

When they start slicing one, they're like, oh, I just have to do this. That thought ain't coming to me. I'm slicing. I'm like, oh, I've got to aim a little left. I've got to aim a little bit more left. Just play the slice. There's nothing wrong with that. So you've played your whole life.

Played my whole life, yeah. And you're incredibly explosive, athletic, and kind of hyper-focused on things. Unfortunately, I'm a little bit more left. Just play the slice. There's nothing wrong with that. So you've played your whole life? Played my whole life, yeah. And you're incredibly explosive, athletic, and kind of hyper-focused on things. Unfortunately, I'm a mental midget. Oh, no. What happens? Does the ball get small? No, I just get too competitive, and that pisses me off. Try too hard.

Yeah. Care too much. I want too much. Try hard guy, you know. We should know this. Should have done more research, and we should know. What's your contract situation right now with the Vikings? Yeah, it's a little interesting.

Okay, so it is something. My brain told me interesting contract. Oh, yeah, you got it. Okay, good. Yeah, you got it right. Shout out. Still got it. Shout out.

Long season. In the bag. That's right. Still got it. But what is going on with you and the Vikings right now? Yeah, so we're working through some stuff because I got a big cat pit, and my contract fully guarantees on, I think, March 16th or something like that. So they're going to try to do something, but we'll see.

And the conversations have already started or no? They have, yeah. Okay, so you're in the middle of those conversations. We're in the middle. And we have until March 16th? Yeah, pretty much. 37 days. Pretty much.

Hey, hey, hey. It'll be figured out. Give them a bonus and give you minimum salary and give it all on a bonus. Cash over cap. That'd be fantastic. Okay, good. Cash up front. Let's tell them to do that. Yeah, give you minimum salary and give it all on a bonus. Cash over cash. That'd be fantastic. Cash up front. Let's tell them to do that. Give you all the money up front earlier than what you're expected to get in.

Simple. Don't be mad. And then we prorate it over. Everybody knows it. It's the same game. Everybody's doing it. Just got done. Sweet.

Congratulations. Don't need 37 days. You're going to be a Viking. You're welcome. I was just going to say, obviously, you want to stay in Minnesota. Obviously. But have you already considered to say, like, obviously you want to stay in Minnesota. Obviously. But have you already considered maybe like, hey,

what number might I be wearing for the Packers next year? If things don't work out in Minnesota and you were to, I don't know, sign with the Packers, you know, I mean, just don't put it out of your head. Well, I got to wait and see what happens after this darkness retreat. I agree. That'll mark. That's a good point. Could you imagine? I'm not doing it. I'm just saying after

he's done it. Bro, I'm happy he's doing it. Whatever he feels like he needs to do to be him as a human, fucking whatever. Do it. Do whatever you need to do. Now, I've heard this is a bit extreme in the meditation practices. Like when he gets into a conversation with other people that do

meditation stuff, I think there's only a few people that have really accomplished a DMT search through the darkness retreats. Okay. So you've done your research? Yes. Because when I heard about it, I thought it was a joke. Like, he's going into solitary confinement.

What the fuck? Why are we doing this as a thing? Then you learn, like, it's in Thailand, and they, like, do all this stuff. But he needs to get that to continue to still play, you think? Is that what he's trying to figure out? Or what do you think he's trying to figure out? And was this something you could ever accomplish in your life? I could not.

As I was talking to him, and AJ was asking about the diaper and, you know, all the other – I have a lot more questions now. Fair questions. All those are real questions. I tried to picture myself in this thing, and every time I just got, like, so freaked out. I'm like, I can't do it.

I don't know how he's doing it. I have no clue how he accomplishes this. I don't do well with isolation in general. So, yeah, I'd last maybe, I mean, as long as I slept, I guess, I'd sleep for eight hours. And you could probably push through, like, another 15 hours acting like you're sleeping. No. No chance.

You know, like, oh, I can't sleep. I tried to push through a four-and-a-half-hour flight here, and that was difficult. And that's with people next to you. What, are you doing high knees like Russell Wilson? Is that what Adam Thiel is doing? Yeah. Makes sense.

Well, I was getting ready for the golf tournament, of course. So your contract's got to get figured out with the Vikings. That's interesting. AJ has a question for you. Yeah, so when you say if you're already working through it, that means probably somewhat good things that Minnesota obviously isn't saying, we'll just see you, you're out of here. Good things for returning to Minnesota, possibly.

If not, I know I was on the course yesterday, multiple fans yelling out, Adam, go join Aaron with the Raiders. Everyone wants you to go to Las Vegas and play at the Raiders if Aaron goes there. Have you heard that? I heard a lot of comments around the golf course yesterday. Come to Philly, come to – Hey, a lot of weapons are needed right now. Oh, yeah.

But, no, honestly, for me, obviously, I'd love to finish my career with Minnesota. I mean, I grew up in Minnesota, played my whole career there so far. But at the end of the day, like, I feel like I can still play at a high level. How old are you? I feel like I prove that every single day. How old are you? 32. That's it?

Jeez. Still spry. Come on. Still spry, baby. Super young. Yeah, you still got it. 32 is the new 25. And you're training at that gym? Yes, ETS, baby.

ETS performance. And you're eating over easy bars. I like that you got one. You're in an incredible shape. We all do. Healthy bars. Is that toasted coconut? Here's the oatmeal raisin. No, they're legit. There's a peanut butter one. What are these, protein bars?

Peanut butter. There's a dark chocolate peanut butter bar. We could cut more of these peanut butter bars. We don't have any snacks at the house. No, we're going to send a bunch. That is true. And these seem, are these, these are, what are these? No, they're legit because they're healthy.

THC. But they don't taste like a healthy bar. They actually taste like a legit granola bar. Oh, it's got, it's got a little moisture. Oh, really? That's nice. That's key. You you like that that's the separator like the health and like the good taste and health yeah anybody can make a healthy bar that tastes like cardboard right and a lot of people are like oh they start cardboard but this one has like some good moist uh texture in there yeah i like that how about you let's go yeah own this company? I assume you just own it because that's what you do.

You're like a super businessman. We have a piece of it. Small, small. I love that. It's like 30-40%. I will say, and you guys are very similar, I don't want to be a part of a company that I don't believe in. Every company that I'm in, we believe

in 100%. ETS performance, this stuff. I believe in it. And for my family, my family loves it. We throw it to the kids on the go. So it's great. This is really good. Let's go. Oatmeal Raisin makes me feel healthy to begin with because it's two things that are allegedly healthy coming together.

But there's some of those ones that are oatmeal raisins. A lot of sugar still. This is going to be terrible for me. This is a really good little bar here. Yes, sir. Over Easy? Yes, sir. Over Easy Bar. oatmeal raisins like... This is going to be terrible for me. This is a really good little bar here. Overeasy? Yes, sir. Overeasy bars. O-V-E-R-E-A-S-Y dot com. Healthy morning, healthy life.

Hell yeah. Complete nutrition, breakfast shakes, and bars to supercharge your morning routine. You a morning guy? You guys are doing a good job back there. Hell yeah. They always do it together. Vito, Foxy, Frank back there, Bill back there, Mitt back there, Dirty back there, Phil back there. Hell yeah. They always do it together. Unbelievable. Dino Foxy, Frank back there, Bill back there, Mitt back there, Dirty back there, Bruce back there, Phil back there.

What? Are they going through contract negotiation back there? They need more money. Yeah, well, hey, listen, you're 100% right. You're 100% right. Actually, this whole set. Unbelievable. Yeah.

It's very nice. Unbelievable. Have you been doing the rounds here? What is the question you've been getting asked? What question I've been asked? Yeah, what is the question you've been getting asked that we have not asked, that we should be asking as a sports program? Sure.

What's Justin Jefferson like? What's your favorite route? Actually, that's my favorite question from my kids. They're like, you know, we were on the golf course yesterday, and it's like, hey, do you know Justin Jefferson? Nope. I do know him, yeah. That's cool.

He's a pretty good player. Pretty good player. Yeah, he's a beast. Hey, yeah. That's cool. He's a pretty good player. Pretty good player. Yeah, he's a beast. Hey, everybody loves Zach Grady. Yeah. Everybody. It's going to be around for a while. That is everywhere.

It is? Yeah, I saw somebody tweeted about it, like, when is this going to end? Was that you? Did you tweet about it? I don't know. AJ! I think it was you. I said that to my kids, maybe, because they all try it.

I think that was you that tweeted that. Was it? I don't. I'm not super active on the socials. Okay. We'll see. No, somebody's hitting you up on social, isn't it? Yeah. Jay Glazer. I'm not super active on the socials. Okay. We'll see. No, somebody's hitting you up on social, isn't it? Jay Glazer.

Not Jay Glazer. Yeah, he was. Yeah, somebody's hitting you up on socials. I'm not in the fight club like AQ. I don't wear a singlet and, you know, wear a cane to a party at night. I need a singlet. Are we going to hit the gritty or no?

No, I don't think so. Terrible. It's so bad. Tony has a question for you, Thielen. I bet he's good. Tony has a question. Mr. Thielen, like us, you were born and raised pretty much a four-season climate guy. But after your career, you're going to want to do a bunch of golf.

Have you thought about where you want to move and play golf all the time? Because it is not an easy adjustment going from four seasons to just beautiful all the time. Yeah, that's not an easy thing. It's terrible. What a terrible adjustment. It isn't. It's something, I guess. Oh, really?

Yeah. You're going to miss the fall. You're going to miss the fall. You're going to miss the fall. If I miss the fall, I go there for a week. Bingo. I'd rather take a week in the cold than force me in the cold in a week in the warm. Yes. Yes.

100%. To your point, what you just said. So we actually live in Orlando, right outside of Orlando. Okay. Good golf time. We're on the golf course, golf cart. Gators? Gators.

Gators, yeah. Snakes? Nice gator. Just saw one Tuesday. I played golf. We're on the golf course, golf cart, right around. Gators? Gators, yeah. Snakes? Nice gator. Just saw one Tuesday. I played golf. You got any animals or kids? Got three of them, kids and animals. What happens to the gator?

They're a mixture of both. You just got to keep the gator fed? The gator, they don't like humans. They don't like humans. So, like, I assume I move to Florida, fucking gators killing my dog. Yeah, Mike, get your dog. Yeah. Jeez.

They don't like humans, but they like dogs and deer. So you have to have your whole thing fenced in then, right? Because they can climb fences. Oh, yeah. They can't climb fences. What? Oh, yeah. You think gators climb fences? I don't think so.

Yeah, two frame, bro. Show me. Pull it up. I don't think that'll happen. How does he climb? It's an incredible grip strength. How does he even get started up? You don't know about these gators, do you?

Sticky hands, bro. I had one. My gator could not climb anything. Sticky grips are all over it. Yeah, but you guys were boozing that gator up. Yeah, Jimmy was strong. Jimmy the gator. At times he did.

Jimmy was hammered. I didn't know that. So you don't worry? Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

That's photoshopped. No, no, no. That's why they have that thing. That's why everybody in Florida has that thing. You can see the guy's head sticking out of the mouth. That's not real. That's real. That's a real person. That's a fucking dinosaur, bro.

The thing's walking on two legs. You're telling me the things that have been living here since however long, many thousands of years, they haven't figured out how to climb a goddamn fence? Yes, I'm telling you they have not figured it out. I mean, they're physically like, how do you... These things are stronger than you can imagine. How do they spring up to get those first two arms up?

It's like, you know, whenever you do the handstand against the wall? Like a tricep push-up? That's what that tail is, bro. Exactly. It's already halfway up with the tail. I mean, it may not look like much. Their fingies are incredibly strong. Crazy.

I guess so. Of course those are because it's a human in their control. No, it's not. Nope. Nope. Wrong. What are we talking about? That thing's from Chuck E. Cheese.

Chuck E. Cheese doesn't have gators. Son of a bitch. The ones in Ohio did. You would never, ever last with this fucker in your backyard. With this guy, I would go smash this human living inside this thing. You're right. A real gator, you know I respect them. I would not touch a real gator. So you have no fear of the gators down there in Florida? No. My wife does.

Look at this guy. What about snakes? Oh, I don't like snakes. I don't mess with snakes. Yeah, I'm not messing with snakes. What about this weekend's game? We should talk about it before you get out of here. There's a game this weekend? What's the game? A team's playing against another team for a big old trophy big old chiefs eagle is obviously uh fascinating in the nfc side we thought you were

going to be a team that was going to be around towards the end honestly thought i think we all thought that and i think that was the aspirations you know so you're not scheduling off season because you guys could have won on a run so congrats on that type of season with that being said this eagles team they beat the dog shit out this Eagles team, they beat the dog shit out of the Giants. Then they beat the dog shit out of the Niners. Obviously a couple quarterback injuries, but they did to that defense that nobody thought they could be done. And then Chiefs have Patrick Mahomes. And that's kind of the conversation right now.

Is that how it should be, you think, in your eyes? Yeah, for sure. I mean, as far as an all-around football team, the Eagles are the best in the NFL right now. Here we go. From top to bottom. Unbelievable roster. Here we go. From top to bottom. Unbelievable roster. Great coaching staff. The defense coordinator for the Eagles is one of my favorite coaches in the NFL.

I think he should be a head coach. What's his name? Gannon. Yeah, Jonathan Gannon. Gannon. Yeah, he was here. He was in Minnesota a couple years. In Minnesota?

Yeah. Doing a hell of a job over there. Unbelievable. They got dogs everywhere. Yeah, I mean, I don't want the Eagles to win because I don't like the Eagles. Oh. I don't like the Eagles. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What the hell is that about? They beat us in the NFC Championship game. True. They were messing with my family. That was like eight. That happens. People are saying that happens in Philly. Yeah, they eat shit when they win games.

Yeah. Literally? Yeah, horse shit. They eat horse shit. Yeah, but how about like how town. Is it tradition? We can't just always talk about the horse poop eating without saying like. They climb greased poles.

Yeah, they're gritty. Better than any city of all time. Well, I heard they have a jail underneath the stadium. When they built the new stadium, they built a jail underneath. So that was in the old one as well. Oh, really? Not a lot of use. They perfected the whole in-house jail prison system.

They're the real deal. We don't have that in Minnesota. That place is so nice. No, you just put them outside and they freeze to death. You were supposed to come do the school chant. Great pivot. There's no way I could have. There's no way I could have done it. Oh, there we go.

Oh, good save. Good hands. I think I was in Montana. Montana? I think I was in Montana, wasn't I? Yeah. It was some big travel. So I had a massive travel and I think the Colts Montana. Montana? I think I was in Montana, wasn't I? There was some big travel. So I had a massive travel, and I think Colts had a game.

Yeah. I think at the same time. Oh. So there's some part of it. I shouldn't have done that, though, right? I'm not a guy that should be doing the Skol thing. No, you for sure should. Is that what you guys do?

You just have random humans do it that have no affiliation to the team? You're not a random human. Yeah. I appreciate that. That means a lot. That's very, very kind of you. But I thought about doing that in my reaction if I was in the stands I'd be like fuck this guy

literally that would be my first reaction I was coming from that standpoint as the invitation came in it was like whoa whoa I am not worthy of doing the school thing and then there was also a bunch of hectic schedule stuff so I didn't get to do it I was honored I was asked but I thought it would have been weird

you don't think it would have been a weird thing? If I'm back next year, you have to do it. I think it'd be cool. Okay, I will do it. When I'm back. Oh, is that how we feel? Yeah. When you get all your money up front, too.

That would be sweet. If we go somewhere else. Come on. Signing bonus, let's get a new Lake Minnetonka house. Oh, you earned it. Ice fishing. Oh, yeah, you did. Running those rocks.

Hell, yeah. Scoring touchdowns. Nice old lake house would be nice. Are you going to always – no, you're in Orlando already. Got out of Minnesota as fast as possible. Yeah, summer, Minnesota. School year, Orlando. You're a Florida man.

I love Florida. I mean, I'm literally on the – I drop the kids out of school. I get home. I train in the morning, drop the kids out of school, come back, get on my golf cart, right to the course, hit some balls. It's beautiful. It's like a vacation life. Yeah.

That's your off season? Yeah. That's awesome. Good for you. What's the closest team down there? Jacksonville? Jacksonville. How close are they?

Two hours. Man, you and Calvin Ridley and Christian Kerr. Oh, man, with Dougie B. Catching balls from Trevor Lawrence. Oh, that hair he has. Doug Peterson. Doug Peterson. Yeah, man, with Dougie P. Catching balls from Trevor Lawrence. Oh, that hair he has. Doug Peterson. Yeah, Doug P. He's up for coach of the year tonight, isn't he? I believe so.

He's up for coach of the year. You going to the honors? Yes. Okay. I've never been invited. Huh? I was actually up for an award one night. Wasn't allowed to come. You weren't allowed? I was a finalist for the Salute to Service Award. Only one finalist was able to go. So that was the winner. There wasn't allowed to come. You weren't allowed? Yeah, I was a finalist for the Salute to Service Award. Only one finalist was able to go, so that was the winner. There wasn't a finalist.

But, yeah, I was up for it. I wasn't able to get in. Are you wearing, like, a fresh-ass suit? We got a good one. Are you going to go crazy with the suit? Yeah. Yeah, this is like our NFL's, like, award show, right? This is our thing.

We're trying to make it a thing, right? Yeah, come on. I think it should be a thing. Yeah, I think so, too. And I was going to wear the same color suit as my wife's dress. Oh, like homecoming prom. She was like, no. Why?

She's the star. She was smart because she has reason and she said, you know, if it's a little off color... She was doing the right thing. And the suit came this morning. Oh, does it fit?

I don't know. You haven't even tried it on yet? Not in a bad time. Oh, my God. What a moment. You on the red carpet with an ill-shaped suit. Yikes. Oh, my God.

Nowadays, people are wearing weird-shaped outfits. Wherever you want. Yeah. That's fashion. It's your fashion. You can wear that, right? Yeah. You can wear a tank top in those shorts.

You should wear a no-dress shirt underneath your suit jacket. Yeah, that's a cool look. Who does that? Have you ever seen anyone do that? Jamie Tartt in Harry Styles. Oh. Dressed like Harry Styles does. Yeah, like just straight chest out.

Oh, yeah. Do Harry Styles. No, doesn't he wear dresses? Yeah, but he won an award. He won the award. He won album of the year. Oversized suit jacket. Are you up for anything tonight?

Do we know? Are you giving an award? I will. Yeah. I'm not going to wear a dress. Sorry. Just something to think about. Hey, listen.

You don't need to attack us. Exactly. Don't bring an umbrella here. Hey, your fashion's your fashion. We're in the middle of a brainstorming. That's true, though. That is true. Fashion is, yeah.

Are you giving an award? I don't think so. Who's hosting? Well, he might be. Kelly Clarkson. Kelly Clarkson. Of course. She's going to sing tonight, and it is going to be Kelly Clarkson.

She sings great. Come on. Hosting with Kelly Clarkson. What's she do? She does Kelly tonight, and it is going to be Kelly Clarkson. Come on. She's going to do Kelly Clarkson. What's she do? She does Kelly Oakey on her show. Yeah, very good. Where she just sings songs. She's on The Voice, too.

She's incredible. She's a fucking beast singer. Oh, yeah. What'd she sing? Unbelievable. Everything. She'll sing everything. She has a bunch of hits on her own as well.

Yeah, fucking. Since you've been gone, I can't breathe for the first time in my life. Yeah, yeah. You know it. Those notes were hit. I do know it. Those notes were hit. Kelly sings a little better, I guess.

Well, it depends. It depends who's listening. We had a passion of four people. Kelly James. Wait, Kelly James is electric. Yeah, doing those. Yeah. Love that guy.

That song is unbelievable. What did he say about you? Steve Lynn. Here we, he would know. Yeah. Love that guy. That's unbelievable. What did he say about you? See, Lynn. Here we go. You know. Look at the show. Let's do a freestyle. Gotta hit that gritty.

For those that don't know. He made me hit the gritty. That's who made me hit the gritty. Okay, it was great gritty. He puts it on the green. He's got to hit the gritty. I don't know. He said it better.

He flowed for like an hour and a half. Hour and 15 minutes. Well, when you rhyme everything with now you know and here we go, it is a pretty good routine there. Kelly James killed it. Absolutely killed it. He did it down at the Bahamas, too. Yeah.

Yeah. That's all I remember. He was right over top of me as I was going, and I didn't know if I was supposed to let him finish. You know, like. Yeah, sure. Let him finish. He was over there.

Yeah, he was screaming in your face about stuff. He brought my baby. I had a baby on the way. In your back swing. He's about there. Yeah, he was screaming in your face about stuff. He brought my baby. I had a baby on the way. In your back swing. He's about to be dead. He's at his wife, Samantha, and his new baby. And I'm sitting over the thing. And I'm like, am I supposed to?

Was that like the lead up for me hitting there? Well, you took about 10 minutes to grab a golf ball. So you made a tunnel on the guy. Golf club. Yeah, golf club. And ball. And tee. Yeah, I had nothing.

What do you want from me? Well, you didn't need that. but you could have just grabbed one. Where? You kind of were like searching. Well, I was going to use one of the broken ones. I didn't want to eat up another tee. I was going to be a veteran. That's why golf rounds take eight hours because guys are grabbing keys and balls.

I wasn't part of your seven-hour golf round. That was you. That was not me. Me and AJ decided not to do that at all. You showed up, broke a tee in half. I broke my tee, grabbed a nine iron. You should have grabbed a 54 degree wedge. Wait, did you guys see the

guy with the driver? Yeah. Is he a trick shot guy? He got super close to the green. It was so much for trick shots. Didn't he get it pin high? It was pin high. It was like 30 yards right.

That was a tough shot. Great event the Thunderbirds put on now. Unbelievable. Thank you, Thunderbirds. All right, Thielen. Good luck with everything. Thank you for the over easy granola bars here. Thank you.

This is incredible. Good. Do we got a deal on these or anything, or are you guys just saying fucking full price you get to know about? No, no. We're going to send you some. No, no. For the people.

People watching. Oh, for them. Yeah. For the people. For, no. For the people. People watching. Oh, for them. Yeah. For the people. For the people. For the people. There is a discount code, but I'll tweet about it because I forgot what it was. There it is.

There it is. Good tease. Good tease. That's a good plug for your Twitter, too. Yeah. At Adam. At A. Thielen. A. Thielen 19.

Yeah, A. Thielen 19. Now you know. And if you follow at Mrs. T19, that's where you really find the deals. There you go. Hell yeah. Let's go. We appreciate you. Good luck with everything.

Thank you. We hope the contract works out exactly how you want it to. Appreciate it. We figured it out, it seems like. It's already over, I thought. Give him all his money. We just need Kwesi right there. How's your relationship with him?

He's the man. Okay. Yeah, he's the man. Good to know. How's your relationship with him? He's the man. Okay. Yeah, he's the man. Good to know. That's good news. Thela19 is the promo. Okay. Whenever you go to overeasy.com.

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Open Raisin was unbelievable. I'm trying to mooch a couple more from them. I'll try them. Yeah, we'll certainly do that. No, we're going to send a bunch. Yeah, that's for later, but what about today? Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Thielen. How are you?

We're on your way. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, man. Awesome. Appreciate it, man. Awesome, brother. Yeah, man.

See you, buddy. Awesome golfer. Hey, have a good one. Come to New England. Yeah. That'll be fun. Future pro golfer. Thank you, Mr. Thielen.

See you, Lambo. All right. July. I believe that's the program today, boys. Oh, peanut butter? Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! One more. Oh! Oh! Banana nut. Here you go, Diggs. Apple cinnamon? Oh, my God.

I feel like we're the pigeons outside. Banana nut? Oh, jeez. They got all kind of good. Oh! This is nice. Holy shit. This is banana nut. Look at all these. My man. Oh, peanut butter. Hey got all kind of good. This is nice. Holy shit. Look at all these.

My man. Peanut butter. Hey, can you show your right thigh? Boom. Oh, yeah. Show your leg. Can you show your right thigh? Here we go.

Where's the question? Is that Adam Thielen? Yes. Oh, that camera's right over there. Holy shit. Hold on. Hey, right that way. Right there.

Right there. Camera four. There you go. Look at that. Zoom in. Hold that thing. Thielen. Wow.

Lost him in fantasy, I heard. I heard you lost him in fantasy. No, no, no. If you make the Pro Bowl, I'll get a tattoo of you. Oh, pretty good. This is back when he was in like D7 college football. Yep. Okay.

Thank you. He got tattooed. It looks exactly like Bob Ross painted it. Hey, there's a fucking banana nut. Hey. Apple cinnamon is divine. I hear apple cinnamon is pretty good. I need an apple cinnamon nut.

Put it over my bag. It is so good. No, no, no. Don't put it back into the thing. No, he ripped it off. Aaron Jones, holy hell. Sir. Oh, yeah.

Great to see you, Aaron. Always good to see you. How you feeling, man? Feeling great. Feeling great. What are you walking around selling right now? What are you doing? Nothing.

I'm about to go get ready for the honors. I was doing some Radio Row. Let's go. There we go. What are you wearing today? You got anything sweet? Yeah, I got a little plaid suit with some little shiny LV shoes. Oh!

Gotta keep the drip on the feet. Are you doing anything, or are you just going to go have a good time? Just going to go have a good time. Hopefully I win the man of the year. Yeah. Oh, shit. Walter Payton? Yes, sir. Thank you for your service. We voted for you.

We did? Yeah, we did. Well, some of us voted for Adam Thielen. Oh, is that what Payton? Yes, sir. Thank you for your service. We voted for you. We did? Yeah, we did. Well, some of us voted for Adam Thielen. Oh, is that what Adam Thielen voted for? Yeah. Thielen also. Thielen, why wouldn't he tell us? He's up for an award.

What is he doing? You're up for an award tonight? Oh, yes, Walter Payton, man of the year. Like, the award. That is the best. That's the last award. Yeah. Hey, you're up to be the best human that the NFL has.

Congrats. Hey, we'd be honored to be a show that talks about a league that has you as their man of the year. Because you are a fucking stallion, dude. Honestly. I appreciate that. That's love. No problem, man. Good luck out there. Do you have your speech already ready? Straight from the heart. Yeah. Hell yeah. Smart. I think we should

have some bullet points. Straight from the heart. You get it from love with that. Alright, I think we should have some bullet points, but I'm excited to hear. I'm excited to hear. I think you're going to crush it. Congratulations if you win. If not, thank you for being an incredible representative of the NFL.

Yes, sir. Thank you. I appreciate it. Good to see you guys. Ladies and gentlemen, Aaron Jones. Yeah, Aaron. I like you just shooting from the hip. Yeah, pretty sweet.

Sweet rings, too. See all his jewelry? Yeah, those are awesome. He looks so cool. Thielen didn't want to mention what he was up for. He's too humble. So are you giving out an award? Yeah, we're winning it.

He wanted us to win it, and he said, no, I'm not winning anything. He needed us to be like, you're welcome, Thielen. Yeah, classic Walmart Pay Your Man of the Year. Hey, Thielen. Thielen. Hey, Adam. Adam. Adam.

Hey, thanks for telling us you're up for an award tonight. Thank you. That was very nice of you. Thank you. The biggest award. Thank you, an award tonight. Thank you. That was very nice of you. Thank you. The biggest award. Thank you, Adam Thielen. Thank you. When I said, are you giving out an award?

I'm a great guy. You said you were doing your research. I'm not, obviously. Obviously, I did not. Hey, good luck out there. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck, Adam.

These people need to tell us these things. Yeah, what the hell? I know. What the heck? That's a big deal. How dare he to tell us these things. Yeah, what the hell? I know, what the heck? That's a big deal. How dare he not tell us? Thielen is like, yeah, you should know, you asshole. But all the other shows definitely didn't know he was up there.

When you said, is there anything we should be asking you about? Yes. Right. I knew there was something. I'm sorry about that. Because as you were sitting there, I'm like, I fucking love Thielen. All right, we're chatting with Thielen over easy. It can't just be that.

It has to be something going on. We missed it. Brain lost it. I told you earlier, they said still on contract. Contract, right. Contract still good. We took care of that. We didn't know he was up for a goddamn award.

No. We're talking about his business sense, his celebration of everything he's done for the city, for the community, for the league. Such a good guy. Thank you, Adam Thielen. Thank you, Thielen. Thank you, Thielen. Tell you what, if you're the Vikings, you cannot screw someone on their contract

if they're Walter Payton Man of the Year. Can't do it. He gives a speech tonight, and at the end of it he goes, hopefully the Minnesota Vikings are able to work out our business side to keep me around the organization. You know, kid from Minnesota, went to school in Minnesota, had to pay his way for a workout, wins the Walter Payton Man of the Year. I mean, it would be nice to keep that in-house.

It would be, but they might be a little salty that he uprooted his family and moved them to Orlando instead of staying in this image. Just immediately. Can't have it. You guys didn't know about those Gators either. Don't be so – it's such a mark. Yeah. Sorry, Zito pulls up the visual evidence that shows me they're real.

They climb fences. Yeah, they climb like bears. You're a part of the problem. We show you evidence that you are completely wrong, and you just can't accept it. That was a clip from Lyle Lyle Crocodile for sure. No, it was your post. Okay, let's have makeup saves. You did it on Pickleball Court the other night.

I mean, you looked a scientist, a doctor right in his face and said, concussions aren't real. Look at that. What's that? Two different ones and said concussions aren't real. Look at that. What's that? Two different ones. My guardian caps aren't real. I don't know. What is that?

Look where that one is on the pole. Look where this one is on the pole. These are two different gators. It's the same one. These are two different gators. Move your head. You won't even look at it because you know you're wrong. I'm looking at the monitor directly in front of me.

Your eyes stink. This is your problem. Look at the big screen. This is the problem with society. We're literally watching it unfold right in front of us. Gators climb fences and they fucking gnaw on your dog. Good. Show me the one.

Of course we eat my dog. I know that. The most impressive part about this, if you've ever climbed a fence before, that one doesn't have the top rail on it, so the top's very, very flimsy. That's very impressive. You need that top part to get the... How you get it? Exactly.

I used to be a pretty good little fence jumper. Oh, yeah. Had to be. Had to be. Solid. Solid fence jumper. Just like alligators are be. Had to be. Solid, solid fence jumper. Just like alligators are. Amen.

It's kept me away from Florida. So I got to build, what, 14-foot fence now? Yeah, electrify. 14, 14. I know they build those things. If you use marbles. That's for lizards for falling off trees. If you use marbles, they can't climb up marbles because it's too slippery.

Well, and gators. Marbles too slippery. Use marble. Oh! Boom! Look at this one. What are you doing? Breaking your neck? Well, and gators. Marble's too slippery. Use marble. Oh! Boom! What do you know? Look at this one. What are you doing?

Breaking your neck? Oh, I don't got one. And then just fucking goes away. Alligator climbs fence. There it is. It's impressive. How'd it get up there? How'd it get up there?

It climbed. How'd it get up there? It climbed it. How'd he initially get his first little baby paws on the fence? I'm sick of you just being a part of the problem and not a part of the answer. What do you think? I watched you came up behind him to help give him a boost? You can give a speech and say, I've been corrected.

I was wrong. Oh, I mean, if that is true, if that video is real, I absolutely think. It's on the goddamn local news. Then one alligator climbed a fence. Great. That doesn't mean all of them can. Yeah, it does. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

I don't know what that means. What do you think? That was a super special alligator? Let's get the hell out of here. This show has been quite a run today. And we only have one more day here. It's wild. It's flu this week.

It has. Let's go early leans here before official picks. AJ? I've been, I haven't mentioned it, but yeah, I've been on the Chiefs from the jump, I think. And it might be just because everybody's on Philly and whatever. Carson made me feel a little bit better today talking about Pat Mahomes. He's a quarterback. Yeah.

I just – AQ, he's not asking you yet. The only way – I think Kansas City needs to find a way to get out to an early lead. If they get out to an early lead, they respect it. AQ, please, you're lean here. You've been pretty heavily Philadelphia Eagles. You changing that thought or no? Eagles, 34-21.

Whoa. Carson Palmer doesn't know shit about fuck. Now he's just going to lean towards the quarterback. They do have the quarterback advantage. I get that. What's the points? 34-21. 13-point victory for the Eagles.

Okay, Al. 10. Because I respect the troops. Eagles. All right. Shout out to the troops. World War II. All the boys went and fought.

Steagles were formed. Steelers, Eagles together. went and fought. Steagals were formed. Steelers, Eagles together. Respect the troops. Eagles. Okay. It's going to be tough to get him off of that, I think. It is. Sounds like it.

Seems like you have planted your roots. I've respected troops for a long time. Yeah, I have. Yeah, you have. It would be so un-American of you to even think about taking the Kansas City Chiefs. Love you, Eagles. Love you, Eagles. Love you, troops. Hey, that's the greatest generation back then.

You're telling me, pal. What do they do? Fucking save the world? My grandpa was at Normandy. Took Stratton O in the eye. Did he? How you doing? Rest in peace, Grandpa.

Your grandpa? Yeah. Are you old enough to have your grandpa in Normandy? Coach's dad, yeah. That's impressive. Tell him thank you for his service. Yeah. You just said rest in peace, Grandpa.

Well, tell him when you're praying to him. Tell Coach. When you're praying to your grandfather, tell him we said thank you. I will call Coach. Coach called me first thing this morning. How the fuck are you getting that tournum yesterday? What?

What are you talking about? Waste management? Yeah, it's on his bucket list. See, I can't find fucking tickets anywhere. Coach, we'll get you in there, I think. We're not going to be able to do it ever again because it's the same week as Super Bowl every week. So we're probably never going to do it again unless the Super Bowl comes back here. But shout out to your grandpa, Tony.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. What was his name? John. What was his name? Johnny Diggs. Oh, what? That was so disrespectful, AJ.

Because no one's ever said his real last name to me. Is that it? DeJulio. Okay, what does Conman call him? Who ever said his real last name. DeJulio. Is that it? DeJulio. Okay, what does Conman call him? Who? His last name? Diggs. Okay.

That's what I know you as. Sue me. Sorry. Yeah, so why'd you have to go slanderous with DeJulio Lee? Because I've been here three years, and there's still probably four or five guys who I don't know your real names. Well, that's because you're not a good teammate. You don't ask. I mean, Zito's name nobody knows.

No, yeah. True. He's a mystery, though. Ty, which way are you leaning, pal? I've been on the Eagles all week because I love Sirianni, but too many people like the Eagles. I'm officially switching to the Chiefs as of today. Oh, my God.

Wow. Well, find out where you're at tomorrow. You know, people can get late feelings. Take care. Connor Campbell, your thoughts? Yeah, similar to Ty, I believe Monday. I said I'm switching to the Chiefs, and I have not backed off that. And similar to Tone, because I support the Troops.

Chief. Me too. Hell yeah. Is it because they say, The home of the Chiefs. Interesting. I'll be excited to see where we all land tomorrow. Where are you leading?

Yeah. I think it's been pretty apparent where I all land tomorrow. Where are you leaning? Yeah. I think it's been pretty apparent where I am. Philly. What's the score? No. Isn't this a program where we talk about football? Not necessarily Philly. That was not the way he was leaning.

I don't think it's been. I think I've been pretty. You're worried. Yeah, dude. I've been saying 76, the biggest game of the year. But why do you care about all those marks that have money on another team? The sports book's not moving. Like, for me, it just feels weird.

It just feels very weird. Yeah, I'd be shocked. It seems like it might be, as far as money line-wise, because it's like minus 120 Eagles right now, like plus 105 Chiefs, it might be a pick-em by game time. Yeah, that last two hours leading up to kickoff. One and a half, basically. I'm trying to remember back last year.

Did we waver at all? It was four and a half, five and a half. No, I think we were pretty strong on the Bengals pretty much all week, I feel like. Were we? Yeah, because it was a line. Remember? Four and a half, five and a half. The Hammerdown boys like the Bengals.

Yeah, they're good gamblers. They're good gamblers. You're right. You're right. Fuck. So I'm trying not to make the same mistake. Tomorrow I'll make my official pick. Hell yeah.

As we all will. Remember, you can sleep on it and change your mind. Okay. Always. I always reserve that right. We'll watch some tape tonight, Con Man. What, pickleball? No, football.

Pickleball. Unless Mahomes and Kelsey play pickleball together. And I assume they're going to be good. Yeah, I'll watch tape of that. Can you imagine Kelsey with his length at the net? Big thanks to everybody that stopped by today. Kelsey was on one of them, but we hope someday he will stop by again. Adam Thielen, Stephen A. Smith, Carson Palmer, Taylor

Heineke, Brian Erlacher, Steve Mariucci, Dr. Alan Sills, T.J. Watt, Bruce Arians, Adam Packman-Jones, Sean Payton, George Kittle, George Kittle, Aaron Jones, Aaron Jones, and Adam Thielen's dude with the tattoo on his quad. Kittle. George Kittle. Aaron Jones.

Adam Thielen. That Adam Thielen. Dude with the tattoo on his quad. Adam Thielen, tattoo guy. Chris T. Clem. Border Patrol. Yeah, he's stacked some. I saw Warren Sharp walking around. I did see Warren. Let's get the hell

out of here. Have you ever heard that term, the hip drop tackle? I never heard of it. It was made on the internet. He made it up. Well, he invented the game, though. Exactly. I know it was so... Hammer Don is in like 10 minutes, I do believe. What time is it on the clock? Yeah, we could do it. 140. Okay, so in 10 minutes, we'll have a Hammer Don

to shut down our last hour here on this FanDuel stage. We have some stuff to go take... I'm going to sign this. Slit throat movement. Yeah, Jill also gave one of these. Oh, fuck. She's standing right here. You got to watch her do it. Ways to win it.

Oh, really? What time does ways to win start? More ways to win. Do they really? Yeah. Wow. So if we would have ever gone the full length. Yeah.

Jill would have fucking blew a gasket. Jill's awesome. Yeah, she is. She is. Jill is an absolute dog. Yeah. But that was set up for failure then, Jill would have fucking blew a gasket. Jill is awesome. Yeah, she is. She is. Jill is an absolute dog. But that was set up for failure then, it sounds like.

Very much so. Okay, cool, cool. So no hammer down. We'll remember that for tomorrow as we get the fuck out of here. What's that?

Some... I just heard Gumpy. Gumpy. Gump, pal. Nope. We heard him. Yeah, we did. I don't know if Zito has a soundboard.

Gumpy! Look at Zito up on the top corner over there. Gump, can you hear us? Talk, talk, talk. Talk, talk. Can't hear you. All right. Gumpy, you're ready to roll, bud.

Gumpy, you're ready to roll. Hey, baby, Gumpy! We can hear you. We can hear you. We can hear you. He's 15 seconds behind, I think. Erwacker told us how to get you here. Hey, we're going to put a sticker on your chest. It's going to have a phone number on it.

It's going to be AJ's phone number. When you get in, they're going to call AJ. AJ's going to be like, bring him to the house. You're going to come to the house, and then you're good. It's great to have you, Gump. Love you, Gump. Nice to meet you, Gump. great to have you, Gump. Love you, Gump. Welcome back to America, Gump. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

And that's what happened yesterday. Alright, so that's why we're not doing a Hammerdown. We do apologize to the Hammerdown fans, which we are. Oh yeah. Big Tex AQ, AJ, all the boys. Let's get the fuck out of here. We got a big meeting tonight. Hell yeah. Let's go. How you doing? What's the future look like?

What are you thinking about? What are we thinking about? What do we want to focus on? What do we not want to do more of? It's awesome. Super Bowl is incredible. Radio Row here has been fantastic. Tomorrow will be the same as today. A lot of guests, a lot of conversations, and we'll make our official picks. You all are the best people.

Oh, no, no. We've got to do a giveaway. Oh, yeah. Here we go. Thank you. How many people? You make this on the first shot. First shot? Yeah. 15? We like 15? Okay.

I'm not gonna get up and get the rebound. What if I miss? Does it drop? Nobody. It's not a possibility. You'll make it. Come on, Al. All or nothing. 15 people. Don'll make it. Come on, Al. All or nothing. 15 people. Don't be short. Don't be short. 500 outs.

We'll retweet this video, say something nice to somebody, and put the cash tag in the same reply so we can pay you officially on Cash App. If AQ Shipley can go one of one with the great little one, Fisher Price basketball hoop. No pressure, AQ, here live in the city that you've called home. 12-year NFL vet, Super Bowl champion. All the eyes are upon your big, bald, dumb dome. Here we go.

Hall of. Oh, no. Oh, yeah, I got Phil. Phil's back. Phil is distracting in the background with a noodle arm type scenario. CFO Phil wants no winners. CFO Phil doesn't want 15 people to win $500. AQ's thought about it a lot.

Is that going to change a style or strategy? Is he already in his own head? We shall see as AQ attempts the impossible. One of one from the Fisher-Price hoop. Come on, Kish. Joe New. Ooh. That was good. Oh, bonus ball, Fisher-Price hoop. Come on, Kiusch. Joe New. Ooh! Bonus ball, bonus ball, bonus ball, bonus ball, bonus ball.

Same result, same amount of winners. You get a bonus ball because the rebound was perfect. AQ. I told you not to come short. Lay out, lay out. I told you not to come short. I told you not to come short. Yeah, if the hoop was three foot closer.

Bonus ball, bonus ball. Bonus ball, foot closer. Bonus ball, bonus ball. Bonus ball, bonus ball, bonus ball, bonus ball. Ten people. That was good reach. Yeah, that's crazy. That's good reach. Combine time would have paid off a little bit. Maybe you'd go back 12 years.

Why do you keep coming short? This guy's never going to make a shot. He keeps coming short. That's the way it is. Tomorrow, big giveaway, hopefully. Boom. With other people. Thanks, AQ.

Thanks, AQ. Hope you're happy. Fucking asshole. More Ways to Win is on this stage here in about 10 minutes or so. I hope you all watch that. Have a good one. We'll see you tomorrow. Say something nice to somebody.

Goodbye.