The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 857 - The Happy Hour Show With Ian Rapoport

Episode Date: March 3, 2023

On today’s show, Pat and the boys do a happy hour show to chat about Pat’s golf trip with the Manning brothers, and how incredible the experience was, before diving into all the news surrounding the NFL combine, who some of the most impressive guys so far have been, Jalen Carter’s situation, and the NFLPA’s new survey breaking down everything about team’s facilities, food, travel, and overall treatment of players. Later, NFL Senior Insider for the NFL Network, Ian Rapoport, joins the show from the combine events at Lucas Oil Stadium to chat about the QB free agency market, who has impressed thus far, where he’s been spending most of his time boozing and gathering information, and more (1:07:40-1:33:44). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you later today, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to Thursday, March 2nd, Happy Hour version of the Pat McAfee Show. Live the same day the combine starts, we start now. Happy Hour! How you doing? We're supposed to go live roughly 55 minutes ago. Things like that are going to happen whenever you're traveling via air to get back to Indianapolis. I do apologize that we're a little bit later than we thought it was going to be. I did say roughly five. So if you go from the grand scheme of things, like 24 hours in a day, certainly in the five

o'clock hour, but disrespectful of your time, I do apologize. Hey, Pat, why are you wearing a sports coat with a tank top? Well, I just got back from a golf trip with the Manning. Whoa! Those Mannings? Yeah, we went down to a golf trip with the Manning. Whoa! Those Mannings? Yeah, we went down to a golf course. Don't need to talk about the name of the course or whatever, but it was an unbelievable once-in-a-lifetime experience

that I had to do. And I'm going to tell you what. Those Mannings boys are good at golf. Okay. They are phenomenal at golf. They better be. I watched the big one, Peyton. Sure. phenomenal at golf. They better be. I watched the big one, Peyton. Sure.

Taller, a little bit taller. Eli's a tall fucking guy, by the way. This is my first time hanging around Eli for like an extended period of time. Had seen him come and go. Obviously, we've done Monday Night Manning. We know him. He's fucking tall.

Yeah. The first time I seen him bust out his driver, he hit this fucking draw. His swing, though, it looked like a pterodactyl was swinging. He is so large. Very long. So large, just in comparison to normal humans that you're just walking. He hits this bomb draw, like 335 or something like that, up over some trees, like back like that.

And he goes, oh, I just caught these clubs yesterday or something like that. First time in the drive, I love it. I'm like, oh, it must be nice to be at Manning. Peyton dropped three 30-footers, just putts. Boom, boom, boom. Imagine. Back nine of the course we were playing at. Sure.

Par was 36, 35, I believe, on the back nine, Peyton Manning. Damn. Pro goalie. Dude, it was unbelievable. This place that we went to, and it was warm weather. And once again, the course does not matter, obviously. The name does not matter whenever you talk about that whole thing. No, no, no.

There were some humans that I encountered down there that were fucking spectacular. You're talking about the tops of their businesses. Just coming down, playing a little golf, having a good conversation. Met a couple country musicians. Wow. Kenny Chesney? Did not meet Kenny Chesney. Heard a Kenny Chesney song, though, that was being played by a top five country musician in the world. Here we go. Just sitting. Kid Rock? No, absolutely not. Was Kenny sleeveless? Did he have his sleeves off? now kenny was not there okay

i do know kenny and peyton are you know boys boys of all that were in tennessee i'm saying it was not uh parker mccallum who everybody just needs to understand that this guy is going to be probably the most famous person singing songs yeah jocked hugeocked. Huge. Jocked. He's absolutely jocked. Next one up. The anointed one. This whole thing. Home plate face.

This whole thing. Money maker. Unbelievable. Okay. Used to be a rancher. Okay. This dude played at the Houston Rodeo. Okay.

Two nights ago. Right before we played golf at this golf course. He rode off the 6 to 66,000. He's from their hometown show. 66,000, I think, down in NRG Stadium, whatever they call it now, where the Houston Texans play. Huge. He was the guy that night. Rode a horse off the fucking stage. Okay? So when I heard that, obviously, I said, that's cool. Was that the coolest thing you've ever done in your entire life? Like, all right, let me kill this song real quick. I'm in my hometown.

There's 66,000 people. Clearly the next. Clearly with the way his music is, how he sings, everything. And then all of a sudden you just fucking hop on a horse and say, oh, I'm fucking getting out of here. Just got done with a tour. The Houston rodeo was like the end of his tour. Oh, a finale.

Like a celebration of this old yeah sold out everywhere obviously and then we're golfing with him literally the next day i'm like god did good for you hey hey parker good for you here we go he's cool motherfucking guy is he swinging him as well parker's a player yeah i i played um i played a little bit with him in the same group as him and he I have very negative swing thoughts. Sure. Okay. I'm staying over a ball.

I'm staying over a ball. I mean, we understand what the task is supposed to be. Right. We understand the game of golf. We're trying to get this little white thing to a place over this way where there is a hole in the ground that has been designated the fucking goal of this particular hole. hole in the ground that has been designated the fucking goal of this particular hole. But boy, if that thing's like plugged a little bit or it's in the middle of some stuff and I'm, I'm standing over that ball. There's a lot of like, that ball looks a little smaller.

I mean, doesn't that look a little small? And I'm watching guys golf right now that is just like, so there was a lot of that coming out of Parker, you know, like, well, this ain't going to go in. And then it did. Oh, okay. It did. I like that. Underselling. Sandbag. Overperforming. so there was a lot of that coming out of Parker you know like well this ain't gonna go in and then it did oh okay it did I like that underselling sandbagging performing yeah yeah sandbagging's interesting because I think people that played in the groups that I was in would say that I was potentially the actual sandbagger because you remember what Josh Allen said about Aaron Rodgers right uh handicap same type of situation was taking place. And at this particular course, they just add a couple to your handicap for everybody or whatever.

So I was getting like 14, 15. Ooh. You know what I mean? Yeah, sure. So you talk about 18 holes there. Yeah, that's a good deal. That's a lot of... Yeah, yeah.

So there was some tensions, you know, on this set. Oh, people were pissed. On some... Yeah, because I would uncork like a fucking 300. Oh, was there gambling going on? I mean, there was certainly a little bit of conversation taking place on there. Me and Peyton did win. Okay.

Now, with that being said, he buried three 30-foot putts and won 35 on the back nine whenever we were playing against Eli and another guy named Mike, who is the greatest golfer I've ever seen in real life. These eyes have never seen a better golfer play in real life than I think, you know, I get, I don't play golf much, got the golf simulator because I wanted to get good at golf. Like, Hey, something I would like to get good at is golf. I think I have the capability to be good at some point. There are moments when I'm golfing where I hit a ball. I'm like, hey, something I would like to get good at is golf. I think I have the capability to be good at some point.

There are moments when I'm golfing where I hit a ball. I'm like, hey, that's a fucking golfer. That is a golfer right there. Now I just got to do that every time. Replicate it. Punning, okay? So, like, the difference between good and great in punting is how often can you do it? You know, like, consistency is the difference between being great and being good. being in the NFL, being great in the NFL, being out of the NFL. How often

are you going? So like when I started punting, I'm like two out of five hitting good balls. By the end of that thing, if I wasn't nine out of 10, like I was very upset at myself. So like consistency, being able to repeat what you do is a massive piece of being a punter and being a kicker, which is why they say punters and kickers normally very good at golf because mentally you've had to battle that before. Like, hey, we just got to repeat that. This incredibly boring thing. Got to repeat it. Got to repeat it. So I think it's in there.

But, boy, I cannot. With the golf thing, I have not been able to just every time. I hit a ball. But I got a two-wood now in my club. Whoa. I got a two-wood now, and I'm fucked. I smoke this two-wood. What kind of sticks do you use?

PXG. PXG bats, okay. Bob never said me. Bob never said me. The waste management open. Well, there's a reason. I was going to say, why didn't you send me any calls? Well, talks the table at Boston Corner at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer.

Die. Cowboys 10. Thanks to all the boys the Table at Boston Corner at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer. Die. Cowboys 10. Thanks to all the boys in the back. I appreciate you all. Yeah, like, I don't know if Bob Parsons necessarily wants you to wear them. No, no. Definitely not. I have a full BXT kit.

I mean, we're talking. Oh, the merch as well. Polo, pants. Yep. Here we go. They don't have shoes, so I didn't have that. But first time ever getting clubs fitted. First time using these clubs.

Oh, yeah. That's right yeah the fits work or well you know it's it's an interesting thing is it me is it the club sure i hit some incredible shots the two wood though something i didn't know existed and it ended up in my bag shout out to jake the guy that did the club fitting at pxg for me it just ended up in there i'm sitting i'm sitting in on a par five i don't remember which one it is i should know the ins and outs of the whole thing i'm sitting on a par five and i'm like 260 out 260 out okay and i'm like it's time two wood where's that two wood i grab this thing and i fucking smoke it like fade that thing

beautifully hits the green rolls off it a little bit i'm like i'm a golfer you know that's like in the first couple holes that's like the first couple holes i'm like holy shit these clubs okay so like 260 i'm hitting things we're doing it i'm feathering it in there i'm doing it i brought that to it out a little bit later, didn't I? Same result? No, no, no. Watered it? That thing did not do what I thought it was going to do, so that's golf.

But I would just like to let everybody know, had to do what I just did. You ever get invited to go golf with the Mannings, you're probably going to do it. Come on. It was incredible to catch up with them. The humans they had around them were fantastic. Jordan Davis was the other country musician I got to see. This is one of the coolest motherfuckers of all time. Incredible beard.

He's from down there in Louisiana. There was a couple times last night when we were hanging out, he grabbed a guitar and started singing. I'm like, this dude is so cool. Parker did the same thing. Heard a couple unreleased bangers out of Parker. Here we go. Now we're talking. Yeah, Parker took his fucking, and Heard a couple unreleased bangers out of Parker. Here we go.

Now we're talking. Yeah, Parker took his fucking, and if he's watching this, I hope he hears this. Parker has his same exact thoughts towards, like, I think some of the songs. Oh. So, like, he sang an unreleased song last night. Mm-hmm. Banger. Now, who's going to go?

Yeah. But he wasn't sure? He said, no, that won't probably never be. What the fuck are we writing? What are we doing? Well, I just asked him. He knows, and Jordan also knows this as well. I'm a big fan of both these dudes. They were dogs.

These guys were awesome. They were incredible. We're talking about their voices. After the day that we had, the amount of things we were drinking down, and then we sat down in an area and there's guitars there and these two are there i got uncomfortable i'm like oh no these guys what happens if these guys suck i don't know not good you know like i've heard people who are singers who maybe have a pop or two or like 15 let alone like hours and hours let alone

right out of the fucking rodeo on a horse, boom, pow. After a tour with golf, with the whole thing. Like I fully expected this to be an embarrassing situation. I have that thing where when others are going through some stuff that are uncomfortable, I get uncomfortable personally. Heat rises, I actually get like very uncomfortable. So it got to that. It felt like that was about to happen. got to that it felt like that was about to

happen you know i felt like that was about to take place i was getting very uncomfortable so i kind of just sat down and i'm like what am i supposed to do here you know just take it in or boy i couldn't have been more wrong jordan davis took that guitar and he started going and i was like holy shit this is a fucking talent and now my guy parker he's got a fault so now i'm even now i'm even more uncomfortable okay i'm like i love this guy like i love both these guys but me and this parker guy have really like all day we've been bullshitting like and i'm like he kind of got to all right hey you kind of got to go now. There we go.

Like, this is something that's going to have to happen. Boom. Delivered. Just zero sleep. I may or may not have given him some, like, sugar candies. Sure. You know, to get him to an altitude that I normally cruise at. We had some wine, some vodka.

Wine, wine, wine. I mean, and he'd just gone off, done with a tour, I think like 20, like this whole thing. He's jocked. Played golf, jacked. And he fucking got this guitar, and it was like whole, I literally did a whole, like when I saw Joe Montana, I was like, holy shit. I was like, okay, here we go. Now I don't want to be too rude. He's singing, i need not make

any noise here and uh he was reading from his uh note section on his phone oh okay i didn't have the don't go to sleep thing on so i seen it start to get dark the screen oh yeah so i touch it boom touch it boom touch it touch it too hard though. Keyboard pops up. Oh no. Got to hit done on top quarter. This is all while the whole thing done. Hit the done thing. So then it starts to go dark again. I'm like, let's wake it up. Then I, notes user myself, I'm like, is he going to have to scroll? Boom. Did a little scroll for him as well. I'm like, look, hey, we're a fucking team. We're a fucking team here, pal. Crushed it. Jordan gets a guitar back. Unreleased.

It was, I just had the greatest, it was fucking unbelievable. It was remarkable. And I have to say this again. There was a time in French Lick, Indiana, where I was invited to a golf trip by Peyton Manning. And obviously the golf is fantastic. Golf's great. Hanging out with Peyton's cool. That was when Red 18 happened.

Yep, yep. Okay, so I actually profited off of that trip, but also just the experience as a whole was bananas. The fact that I got invited to play golf with that family again, I'm so thankful. Peyton, I appreciate the hell out of you, pal. I appreciate the invite. And to everybody I met down there at that golf course.

That doesn't need a name. Thank you all so much for being so kind to me. They never seen a motherfucker like me at this particular place that we were going. I don't think some of the humans that were there had ever met a fucker like me. Like, I think it was a lot of like, what is this thing?

And then, you know, as you go on, it kind of unfolds. So I'm very thankful. It's great to be back. There's a lot going on. And the happy hour episode is obviously turning into a very late episode,

but there is a lot to catch up on. Boys, the combine has started. There you go. Next generation. The future is here. What happened with Jalen Carter? The future is here. What happened with Jalen Carter?

So as I was going through my golf excursion, and I decided, not the golf course that we don't have to talk about today, I decided I wasn't going to take my phone. Once in a lifetime experience, you want to actually drink it and get away from it. Yeah, I'm not going to have my phone anywhere. No, smart. I'm not going to. You know what I mean? I'm going to be Amish.

Right. That's what I'm going to do. Smart. Oh, no. You can pop it up on the phone. That's not us. That's not us. Hey, that was not us. That was not us.

What happened? Nonetheless, I didn't have my phone. So I didn't really know anything. What's that? Did not. did not uh that needs that needs not that that was uh that is not on us that is not on us i um anyways so i had i've not known what the world has right i legitimately yeah no idea. Going in to golf and enjoy life. Yeah. Going in there to do my thing.

This dude, arrest warrant in Georgia. Right. This is all reported. Hey, did a lot of talking about that too, by the way. Did a lot of talking about that.

This is actually being reported here. Seth Emerson, who I believe is a local Don,, I'm not 100% sure, Jalen Carter is subject to arrest warrant in Athens after being implicated by police for racing in the crash that took the life of former teammate and UGA staffer. First of all, terrible to be linked to such a terrible situation. Obviously, Jalen's got a lot of love for not only the persons that passed away, but also the whole situation.

See, that was the day of the parade. I mean, that is sad of all sad, terrible. Now that's even getting brought up and we have to think about it again, it sucks. But then for a star player to also be implicated in it, terrible. He's at Combine, maybe number two, like top five pick. Potentially, yeah. And this coming out now, it felt weird.

So then, I learned from you, what has taken place since that has been reported a couple days ago? After that came out, I believe it was either today or last night, he flew back to Georgia. He was arraigned, brought in, and then he posted bail like 12 minutes later. Flew back

to Indy to complete the rest of his testing at the combine. I'll be excited to hear what GM's thinking of that. Yeah. Big time. This guy goes to jail. Comes right back. Yeah.

He's got a lot of football. He's got a lot of football. He's got to sit down at bowl games and everything like that. But they were saying, yeah, because I guess his story has flip-flopped and changed a little bit from when the police initially showed up on the scene to what may have actually happened. So I heard his lawyer said these misdemeanor this is two misdemeanor right uh things or whatever certainly sad certainly terrible and obviously not something anybody

would want to have to go through but if you know things happened also like he's going to deal with that for personally for forever forever so there's a lot that has come out of that that is going to be a combine story of this year for sure. Another one is straight out of Aaron Donald's school, straight out of Aaron Donald's weight room, straight out of Aaron Donald's workout facility that he donated back to the city of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh. Another D-tackle, just want bananas.

And this is what we were talking with Darren or Jeremiah, who I just saw on TV on NFL Network over there. It looks incredible. These big dudes running fast are so fucking impressive. Yeah, I think the D-tackle ran like a 4.87 or something. 4.67. 4.67, which is ridiculous. And then, you know, we're talking about Jalen Carter, obviously, off the field.

But on the field, he's projected top five pick. They just had a D-end or an outside linebacker run a 4.44. So, like, all of a sudden, now there's another guy kind of similar to, you know, I don't know personally, but similar to Trayvon Walker last year where this dude kind of comes out of nowhere does an absurd thing at the combine and then shoots up draft draft boards and that's what just happened with this dude who ran a 4-4-4 at like 6'3 280 pounds. The Colts equipment manager Brad Powers who has been with the Colts for a long time is getting highlighted because he was holding a bag,

and it just hit him right in the face, and he lost his glasses. Hey, Powers, we appreciate you. That's the Colts equipment managers every single year at the Combine. So whenever you're talking about catching balls from pretty much, I guess now not as many quarterbacks throw, but back in the day everybody used to participate, same equipment managers. Those guys are catching balls from literally every quarterback that was in the NFL for a long time.

They get asked a lot. Like, hey, how is this person to you? How is this person to you? And these guys, top of the line, old buddy just got busted right in the face. Combine time is certainly narrative-changing time for people. Tony Diggs, this is that AR-15 conversation. This D-Tackle obviously is going to do his thing. AR-15 is going to go bananas here, and there's going to be a lot of teams

or a lot of teams' fans that are like, get that guy on our fucking team. Yeah, I don't know if he's running or not, because I would be very curious to see what he runs, but the dude who just came out, Nolan Smith from Georgia, who's 4-3-9 official now at 6-2-2-40, which is just absurd.

What? It's fast track, that's what they say. It's a fast track, yeah. Yeah, that's unbelievable. And the dude from Pitt is kind of built similar. I mean, not Aaron Donald. Like, Aaron Donald now is a little bit different. But, like, coming out, like, he's like 280 D-tackle. I can't put enough emphasis on it that whenever you have,

here's Nolan Smith striding. It doesn't even look like he's trying. Yeah. 4-4-4. It came out at 4-3-9. Official, yeah. D-lineman. Damn. 6-2.4. It came out at 4-3-9. Official, yeah. D-lineman. Damn.

6-2. Edge. 2-40. 6-2-2-40. 4-3-9. Jesus Christ. He's got some long arms, too. That's absurd.

Could you fathom? No. No, not at all. 6-2-2-40 running a 4-3? Yeah. 4-3-9? That's scary. No, that's 4-3. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You don't need to say it. Listen. No, yeah. 4-3? Yeah, 4-3-9. That's scary. No, that's 4-3, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. You don't need to say that. No, yeah. 4-3. He also jumped 42, so he's pretty athletic. He's fairly athletic. And in the modern NFL, like, that edge position isn't, like, the third or fourth most important position in the whole of sports at all.

No, definitely not. And you're not looking for speed out there with those left tackles. Nope. Nope. Holy hell, good for this guy. Yeah, yeah. Hey, congratulations. You just changed your whole life. Nope. Holy hell, good for this guy. Yeah. Hey, congratulations. Just changed your whole life. Yeah. 40 yards. Changed your whole life. There's a dude from

Texas Tech who, like, I don't even I haven't seen any of his testing yet, but they just had the picture of him with his wingspan and it was like 86 inches. They're like, well, yeah, a lot of teams could use that. Hey, congratulations. Hey, way to go. Way to put on a show. Here we go. I don't like that the TV copy was slower than what it actually was.

Yeah, that's weird. Hey, let's hide that thing until we get the official number. I know we have to have it for everybody's like, I need to know, I need to know now. But I always thought that was gassed. I always assumed that was faster than what it actually was because it would always come out officially. It was like a 4-4-8, officially a 4-5-3. Yeah. So it was always that way.

I didn't like that that was a 4-4-4 and it was actually a 4-3-9. Like, hey, NFL Network, we got a 6-2 240 guy running a 4-3-9. Let's fucking not... Give this guy his due. You know what I mean? Let's screw him. He was projected late first, early second. So I assume he's going to be... Welcome to the top 15. Yeah, right.

That's what the combine is. And it's hard not to just buy into all the hype for everybody. Hey, this year? Buy it. This year in this particular happy hour? We're not buying it. No. We're going to stay above the hype.

That's right. Unless it's warranted. 6-2, 240? That's, yeah. Here's to you, Nolan. Hey, Nolan. Hey. Not to mention teams might not trade out now, right?

Like the Colts, if they want to trade up with the Cardinals or the Bears, they might be like, yeah, actually. I didn't get to hear what Chris Ballard was saying. I did see his handsome ass standing at that thing, and obviously he looked incredible, and I assume he said smart stuff. Me and Peyton chit-chatted about the state of the Indianapolis Colts. What the hell is going on? Yeah.

No, no. He doesn't have it that way. He's, like, he views everything as, like, you know, Peyton Manning. Yeah. So he's not. He's viewing things a lot different than, like, we are. Yeah, every day. Battling.

Yeah. I'm like, team's dead, dude. I mean, like, Jeff Saturday actually wanted that job. Did you talk to Jeff? Did he actually get him? Why did he even fucking, like, just, bro, that job. Did you talk to Jeff? Did he actually get him? Why did he even fucking just, bro, he sent a selfie video from fishing. Yeah. I assume that's what he wanted to do.

Like, the Colts are a tough spot. And then I said, I think Chris Ballard, I think Jim Mercy has given Chris Ballard, like, hey, you got as many opportunities as you want. Because could you fathom if Andrew Luck didn't retire nine days before the fucking season started, what that team would be? yeah sir with the way it was built how it was built like chris ballard put together that team and then all of a sudden it's like hey the roster construction that you were thinking quarterbacks gonna get this money so if you're getting this quarterback money then you don't probably don't pay this person you'll pay that person gotta pay

this person gotta do this it's like nine days before, boom. And then now Chris Ballard's got to do like a full. Scrambled down. And we're watching it live all happen. Now, it's been a long time. It's been years since Andrew Luck has retired. I understand that completely. But I think that's also why Jim is giving Chris like a lot of shots. And Peyton had an interesting perspective on it all about Andrew

and what a team build and how it is I didn't want to put him in a position to judge anybody because he's probably doing business like yeah this is fucking Peyton Manning so I didn't want to do that but it was a fascinating question poised like is that why Jim you think like Chris Ballard survived Frank Reich survived Chuck Pagano was there Frank Reich was there people were thinking were thinking like, are they going to do a full sweep? And it's like, Chris Bauer's are there. And I think it's because Jim Mercer was like,

brother, this guy got fucked. Yeah. Yeah. He had a team, you know what I mean? So I, like,

I think out P outside people that aren't in Indianapolis would be like, he's had four years. It's like, actually think about what happened in that generational quarterback. Remember, got rid of Peyton. Didn't know if Peyton was going to be able to play football again. There was obviously conversations like he's going to be able to play football again, and clearly he was able to play a football game.

Wasn't a certainty, though. Was not a certainty at the time with his own neck thing. And Andrew Luck is sitting here. So, all right, we'll fucking fire. We'll cut everybody. Like, actually, for that team, cut everybody. We'll paint over the walls, obviously. New GM, first game.

Forget about it. We'll do a full new thing for this guy. And then that's going. Success is happening. We're about to get into probably now it's here we go time. And then injury, another one happens. Completely. Like, that's a wild thing that happened and Chris Ballard

has the opportunity to get another franchise guy for sure a lot of us see that a lot of us know that I think Jim knows that as well so Ballard said today he said everybody believes you got to go up to one to get your guy he said I don't know I don't know if that's true so I wonder if he thinks that there's different people who think the guy is. Like, does he have a disagreement on who the guy is? Like, is he getting word from other teams on who they think the guy is? And is his guy different? Does everybody have their own individual guys? Because right now, it's Bryce, CJ, Will, AR-15, Hendon Hooker.

And then it's a whole bunch of different, I mean. But it's all like, but everybody kind of has potentially their, if you listen to Dan O'Jeremiah speak. So I mean. Yeah. But it's all like, but everybody kind of has potentially there. If you listen to Daniel Jeremiah speak. So I think that's what Ballard's alluding to. But like you, you go back to what him and Jim Irsay did during Steichen's press conference. Yep. Where Jim wanted to go up almost. That's like almost Ballard talking again about like Jim, like we don't have to go.

Like we're not, please do not tell Chicago that we have to go up to one. Like negotiate. Is he working here or does he actually believe that and this is all smokescreen like we're gonna have to deal with this over the next couple months it's bananas to think about oh yeah and to your point like there's reports now that the carolina panthers are you know in love with anthony richardson they want to move up to get him and rap sheet mentioned also kind of out of nowhere and maybe not but the atl Atlanta Falcons also trying to move up. And then, you know, John Lynch is saying, hey, we probably need to look at quarterbacks.

Like there are all these different teams that it feels like are kind of coming out of nowhere, and the Colts are in one of those great positions because those top four guys you just mentioned, like luckily they do have the fourth overall pick. And is this going to be like one of those situations, like the charges with Justin Herbert, where they like a couple guys, and they're like, hey, we're okay with both Tua and Justin. So whoever gets taken first.

I remember Tom Telesco said that. Bingo. And people were trying to cook him, and Tom was just telling us the truth. Yeah. He was like, hey, we were – Either one. Listen, we love Justin. We absolutely love Justin.

We're happy that Justin Herbert's our quarterback. He was like, but if Miami happened to take Justin Herbert, we were in a position where i was like all right we're taking two like two or two yeah like yeah and everybody's like is this what herbert wants to hear and it was like no this is draft yeah and this is how yeah this is how this works i do wonder if chris ballard's like they don't know if they don't bryce is a guy yeah cj's a guy will's a guy eventually all these guys are guys. So we're happy with whatever. And also, we can't just be publicly desperate.

That's what Chris Ballard is thinking to himself. It's hard for me to believe, though. Yeah, that happened. They were happy with Justin or two or whatever. But everyone in their heads definitely has a favorite. Chris has a favorite quarterback. You think he has his own bias? Yeah, but you've got to remember, he has a whole. Like there's definitely, Chris has a favorite quarterback. Oh, you think like he has his own bias. Yeah, but you got to remember, he has

a whole scouting department that has all their own ideas. They have all their own thoughts. So I, maybe it's torn within everybody. Maybe nobody knows who's going to be a lock because it does feel like all these guys could be. Yeah. And all these guys might be shit. Yeah. Like we have,

we have no idea. Here's Chris Ballard talking about the whole situation, sitting at four with the eyes of the world saying, Hey, you have a chance now to make up for what happened. Were you wrongfully like, there's no way Chris, not wrongfully Andrew Luck got to do whatever makes Andrew Luck happy and

sane and everything like that. Like Andrew Luck, you're a human. You got to do what you got to do. But I think from a. Like, Andrew Luck, you're a human. You got to do what you got to do. But I think from a football perspective, like, you're getting an opportunity here to finally potentially get over that hump of what your team was going to be. Here's what Chris said about the whole situation.

Lawrence. You talked about doing whatever it takes to keep a quarterback. What about doing whatever it takes to get that quarterback? How do you weigh the motivation to get the top guy on your board versus just playing where you're at well one and i know this is coming up because i know all the speculation out there one to move up you there's got to be a guy worthy of it okay i know everybody in the in america is going to say like this is what's great right now. Everybody has just automatically stamped that you've got to move up to one to get it right. I don't know if I agree with that. I don't.

And but that's going to be the narrative. And that's OK. You've got to write something. You've got to keep the news flowing. So but you're wrong. I don't necessarily know if that's the, I don't know if that's the right course of business. If when we meet as a staff and we say, okay, this is what we need to do. This is the guy for the next 10 to 15 years. And we think he's the right guy. Sure. We'll do it. But who's to say we won't get one at four?

I mean, the bar. Who says we might not trade back? I mean, fuck. Yeah. Listen, I'm tired of what you guys got to write what you got to write. Okay. I'm here to tell you you're fucking wrong and you've never drafted ever before. Pretty much what Chris said. Yeah. And he said, I knew this was coming. I like how comfortable Chris has gotten. Not that Chris has ever shied away from the media. Whenever he

does his press conferences, he will sit in the pocket. Like, hour and 30 minutes, we're talking, like, press conferences. He will just sit in there and spill his brains, his thoughts. People love it. People hate it. I mean, there's a lot of that. He will always sit in there. I enjoy the angle in which he's going with here, but I think there's still a lot of shit to be decided, I think.

Oh, yeah. And that's probably where he's sitting. That's because the Cardinals are sitting in front of him, too. So he knows they're not. Like, someone's going to have to trade up to take. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Shot, shot, shot. What happened there?

Something happened with him, right? Yes, he was saying something, I think, about the Eagles team and whether it was about the struggles in the Super Bowl or just playing the defense as a whole. And CJGJ quote-tweeting and said, you ain't put us in position to make plays, okay? Is that all he said or or did CJG just- I think that was just the one line.

So, Elliot Shore Parks? Yeah. We got to get better on knowing who the fuck these people are. It seems like there's a new batch of humans coming in. We appreciate- Elliot, we'd like to show you respect. I have never seen your- That's on me. This is not on you, Elliot.

Elliot, you are a big doll. I understand that. This is 100% on me. This is not on you. Elliot, you are a big doll. I understand that. This is 100% on me. I'm talking about me having to get better. So that whenever I read this tweet, I can say, Elliot Shore Parks of boom. You know what I mean? Right. Just like we did with Harold Arkuns.

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And Leeds Unite. One L. Are we sure it's Elliot? Because one L. Elio. Elio! It might be Elio. We're not here to say sure,

but shout out to the go Birds Pod and Elio, who said, Jonathan Gannon on what went wrong with second half of the thing. He basically talked about it all. Then CJGJ quote tweets us and says, you ain't put us in position to make plays with a shrug.

Now, CJGJ, notoriously one says, you ain't put us in a position to make plays with a shrug. Now CJGJ, notoriously one of the greatest shit talkers in the NFL, has made numerous people lose their cool and throw punches in games because of what he's able to do with his mouth and or Twitter fingers if he needs to. In this particular case, I do wonder if there's smoke

fire situation. Will there be more of this type of stuff? And what did Gannon say in that video that pissed off CJGJ? I didn't see the video. I just saw that and just assumed, oh, man, he really doesn't like this guy. But also, like, yeah, that's basically what he said in the video. But also, there were a bunch of people who were saying right after he got hired, like, this guy just gave up fucking 35 points in the Super Bowl, like Lou Anarumo.

Why is a guy whose defense has kind of crumbled at the end of the last two years, why is he all of a sudden this hot name, especially when you have – your biggest issue is that you have a quarterback that you need to kind of nurture and develop moving forward. Yeah, we can't judge any higher. We have no idea. We have no clue what's going to happen, how it's going to go, we can't judge any higher. We have no idea. We have no clue what's going to happen, how it's going to go, who's going to do what. It's just like there's a lot of fired coaches.

Oh, yeah. What was it, $800 million? $800. $800 million the NFL was paying out to fired coaches on their guaranteed contracts just last year alone. Halfway through. That wasn't included in some of the coaches that got left. After, like Frank Reich wasn't even added into that.

Matt Rule probably in there. Matt Rule was, but there was still a batch of coaches. Cliff Kingsbury. Right. Every year it just becomes more. It is not easy to be an NFL coach and have success. And I think the whole narrative about you gave up that many points, like on the other side there was a very good coach.

Yeah, for sure. And there's a very good offense. So I think it's difficult, although 113 million people or whatever watched it unfold, they did make it to the Super Bowl. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The old adage is if you make it to the Super Bowl or you win, if you win, there's enough to go around.

Doesn't necessarily mean here. But when you win, people want your pieces. Hey, how'd you get there? Boom. We want to do that. Oh, we just hire something that's in that building. Oh, you're an equipment manager for a team. You probably know something that we don't know. We'll hire you. That's kind of how it always goes. It doesn't always work out there. No, no. It'll also be interesting to see like how different the Eagles are next year, losing their OC and their DC. Like, you know, I mean, like they're obviously very good, but CJ, DJ said they're getting better.

Exactly. So we'll see how much of an impact those guys actually have. Well, the Cardinals, I mean, it feels like that place is just fucking. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Not farewell. The report cards. AQ Shipley, victory lot.

Yeah, for sure. AQ Shipley. And then those people that were tweeting us that are marks. Yeah. That's right. Eating a bowl of shit right now after seeing this. Yeah, there was an NFLPA vote, right? Yep, it was like 1,300 players or something.

Yeah, it's on Pellicero. The NFLPA is releasing the first ever team report cards based on surveying roughly 1,300 players. What's the number of total players? Like 2,900, I thought. People, people? 1,900, 1,800, 20. Including like practice squad guys? No, the, I thought. People, people? 1,900, 1,800, 20. Including, like, practice squad guys?

No, the 53. Oh. Yeah, and I wonder, are these? Then it's less. Yeah, I forget the actual number. That seems like a lot of players. Yeah, a lot. Like, 1,300 players is a lot of players.

Yeah. Like, this feels like probably getting a good focus group here. Like, how are we doing? Ranking number one overall in football facilities, staff, and overall treatment of players, Vikings., followed by the Miami Dolphins, which is wild because the whole unk thing that took place. Dolphins players are like, good play. Hey, we understand what took place.

It was his back. I mean, you guys, it happened to be unlucky, but good place down here. Raiders at three brand-new facilities in Vegas. Congrats to them because they came from the worst by far, stadium and everything like that. This is also the facilities, the day-to-day. Worst team in the NFL, Arizona Cardinals. Wasn't it F-minus, F-minus, F-minus, F-minus, F-minus?

Commanders' worst team. Cardinals' second-worst team. Do we have these pictures of these? They were making – Cardinals were the only team in the league that made their players pay for lunches and food and stuff like that. Take it out of their check? Yep. Yeah, and then after the season also not take it out of their check,

just make them pay. Yeah, that's awesome. There's also some teams that like – I don't know about – this is obviously different. There's teams that – here it is. The NFLPA received grades. This is from the Cardinals. Locker room, it's going to be an F, yeah.

How about treatment of families? Yeah, it's going to be an F. Get them out. How about these guys filling this out? So what is the grading system? Like, just like school? Like, can we do a G or an H? No, F is the worst.

Failed. Okay. Locker room, it's got to be the worst. Failed. Okay. Locker room. It's got to be the worst, right? You've been on other teams? Yeah. This is not like a D, right? This is not passing.

Ds get the greatest. This is like the worst. F. By far. Families. What did they do to your? Yeah, and then. Yeah, they kicked my baby out because he was crying.

I saw something like, because other teams that got Fs, I guess a lot of teams have on game day where you can bring your kids and they have a daycare for the families. Yes, there's a family section. So, yeah, that's. Okay, we didn't get that F. Get that fucking. Food service and nutrition.

We have a sports nutritionist that's 350 pounds. You saw him smoking darts. In the food service. What are you talking about? We get charged. We're in the NFL. We make billions of dollars for these people. They're charging us for shit. That's an F. Actually worse than an F. Can I give him an F-?

Our strength coach is an absolutely incredible human being. Incredible human being. We'll give them an F-. Get that out. If it wasn't for that, we'd do that.

Strength stuff, they're awesome. They're working with nothing. Doing better than give them a fucking A. Thank you. Training room? We got cinder blocks for weights. We know they suck.

No, the training room is the... Oh. Yeah. Duct tape. Band-Aids and ibuprofen. Yeah, that's it. Cold tub, warm tub, tables. Sauna, steam room.

Yes, that type of stuff. That was brought up on him. Also, like game ready, how many... I'd assume how many things they have. Half a month, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Like all that stuff. Like the cold tub, warm tub. Yes. like game ready, how many, I'd assume how many things they have. Yeah, exactly. Like all that stuff.

Like the cold tub, warm tub. Yes. That Colts had before Chuck got in. Like one, like they had like one or two. Yeah, one steel one. Yeah, so like that was a big, had to make a whole new pool. Yeah, at that point, if they were to do this, the Colts old one would have got a very poor grade. Then upgraded it obviously which is good and everything like that but yeah we give that one a fucking f

minus training stuff they're good people they're fucking trying their best they got we don't have enough tape they're doing remember that guy i wrapped with duct tape yeah i didn't even have anything we'll give them b minus travel i mean he's got a plan b plus all right and aq said this yep yeah on this program yep Yep. Verbatim. And then a lot of people in the Cardinals fan base were like, he has invested in a new stadium. He has a plan. He paid this guy.

He paid this guy. And it was like, AQ didn't back off either. No. I was like, hey, AQ, they're like, people are saying that you're not right or whatever. And AQ's like, okay, that's fine. And then I got some messages from some other anonymous sources that have been in that building. They're like, AQ's right.

He's right. He's right. Stay on it. Yeah. And the only reason why we're staying on it, and this is just like the Bengals, it's like, hey, a lot of money is made, okay, by these owners. A lot of money is made by these teams and franchises. Just like any other business, you need to invest in your business. And I was very lucky to be a player that happened to be in a building.

So I got a chance to see what a benefit of a good building is or what a benefit of a bad building is. And if you're trying to beat other teams and win the Super Bowl like every team is selling to their fan base, have shit that is at least better than a D2 school or high schools in your same state. That's why whenever the Bengals didn't have an indoor practice facility, and I understood that some Cincinnati natives were like, well, that's what makes us tough. It's like, no,

it makes you a fucking inept operation. Every other team has one. The teams that you're trying to win for the Super Bowl and beat the Super Bowl, there's at least an option to go run extra routes in the middle of a blizzard if you want to get something done, as opposed to having to wait out the storm or go be under a highway in the middle of it. So they put that bubble up, and it's like that is a massive smashing success. For the Cincinnati Bengals fans, Cincinnati Bengals players, the coaches. You heard Lou talk about it. He's like, we're actually in there for a walk through this morning.

Instead of players just wanting to get the fuck off the field, it's actually like a little bit more investing because, you know, like this is just standard operating procedure in the year 1999 for the NFL. Like these types of things, I'm happy we have a chance to like, because the fans should not be against us for saying this. No. We are actually trying to tell your team like, hey, your fans deserve better.

Your players deserve better. And you're making a lot of fucking money off of this. You'll probably, guess what, make more if you invest in the product. That's how business goes. Go ahead, Tone. The full report got popped up there for a little bit, and I was looking at it,

and Bengals still got an F in that area or whatever. But if you look in the middle there, strength coaches, everyone's very, very nice to their strength coaches, except for that one right in the middle there, that F-Miles, for the team that's working on Lamar's knee and he never got back. Yeah, the Ravens aren't happy. A lot of beef about that as well. The Ravens players are not exactly thrilled with what's going on in the weight room.

If you're the owner and you see this, probably time to fire that strength coach. Yeah. Like, strength coach's job is to be liked by the players. Yeah, it looks like a lot more. Hey, yeah, look, that is like just standard operating. This guy or woman is trying to make me better, is investing in me, likes me, cares for me, probably has energy and juice, is commanding and demanding accountability out of me.

Like, that is a very important relationship. Players and strength coach, very important relationship because that is how, you know, you get better mold and a lot of time spent in there to come together. That F- right there is alarming. I have never seen a team hate a strength coach, ever. Strength coach is beloved. I had Mike Barwiss as my strength coach at West Virginia. He's the most hard- a strength coach ever. Strength coach is beloved. I had Mike Barwiss as my strength

coach at West Virginia. He's the most hard-ass strength coach probably on earth, if I had to guess. I don't know who else would even come close. He drove a lot of people to puke, myself included. Miserable morning, 6 a.m. We all loved him. We're like, we fucking love this guy. This guy cares about us. This guy wants us to be better. He wants us to achieve our dreams deep down in his soul. He has compassion, empathy, and hopefully a lot of hope for all of us, which is why he's coaching us the way he is. And he's bringing us misery and we love him. Strength coaches are loved by the people that they work out with. That's why they work out with that person because it's like, I need this person in my life. That might be the most alarming thing I have ever seen in my life.

Get that fucking crew out of there if you're the Ravens. And I'm sure there will be some fans that are like, he's pushing the boys too hard. You don't think the strength coaches of all these other fucking NFL teams are pushing the boys? 31 of them. Be your heart. How about the Falcons? Yeah.

Get the Falcons strength coach the fuck out of there, Artie. Artie. Right. Listen, you can be a hard ass. Your coaches can be a hard ass. You don't have to be liked by your players. Coaches don't have to be liked by your players. Strength coach always liked by players.

Training room, always had, like staff, always had to be liked by the players. That's just a wasted effort almost behind the scenes. Fucking get them in there pal. Oh, Carl Davis Jr. Here are the Ravens grades according to the NFLPA. This service was survey was orchestrated by the players. Oh yeah, the F minus.

And Carl Davis Jr. at Trenchwork 94. Incredible at. I was definitely a victim of the strength coaches. Two labrums and multiple pack strains. Ain't do shit for me. Yeah, and then Davis Jr. at Trenchwork94. Incredible at. I was definitely a victim of the strength coaches. Two labrums and multiple back strains. They ain't do shit for me. Yeah, there's like a bunch of players. Bam Bradley, five months post-ACL, unsuccessfully doing the same leg workouts as people with healthy knees.

Never sits right with me. They ruined me, Bam Bradley said. They ruined Matthew Judon. Ben told them to fire them. A long time. This is a tough day for the strength coach who tells a lot of people he's a strength coach for the baltimore raven oh yeah oh yeah i know blah blah blah i know blah blah blah then a survey comes out this guy's hated oh no he was fired last vote okay here we go okay turning things around unfortunately now though he's uh working for

eric to cost the gm i i wasn't sure if this is what you're saying but now you know rashad There we go. Okay. Turning things around. Unfortunately, now, though. He's working for? Eric DaCosta, the GM. I wasn't sure if this is what you were saying, but now Rashad Baton and Eric DaCosta, they're battling. So the Ravens at the moment, they don't have Lamar Jackson signs. Their wide receiver's coming out basically saying, fuck you to the GM because. All the players just told the world. That the Ravens training staff is the worst in the league.

So that place right now, you wonder with this Lamar thing, if they don't get this done, that might quickly turn into one of the dumpster fires in the NFL right now. Which is a shame. Absolutely. It would be a real shame. It's hot in the kitchen up there. This guy. Let's see

how the Colts did with the team. Let's see how the Colts did with the players. Indianapolis Colts, where are we at? Right in the middle of the pack. B-plus on treatment of families. Yeah, got a good family. Absolutely. Got a good family area. They do the Marvel halftime show to appeal to the kids.

Now, if that was on here, every player, every coach, every person associated with the team would say, what the fuck are we doing? Families love to go. But nonetheless, nonetheless. It's not on here. No, the families of the NFL players, they're not looking for Times Square Spider-Man at halftime.

70,000 people. What? Yeah, that's not. I thought that's why he was doing it. No, no. I don't know why they were doing that. Oh. Well, kids love Mickey Mouse. That's what I mean. Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse. Colts, treatment of families, B+. I love that. Food,

service, nutrition, D. Now, I will say, former chef there, D was his name. Oh. He got fired. They let him go. Maybe a tribute then. This might be a tribute. Okay. None of these guys are in this building now, no D, except for the training room and the equipment room. And I would like to hear them compare to D. DeWitt was his name. DeWitt was da Man. We loved DeWitt. Whenever sports nutrition came in, a lot of DeWitt's recipes, they were kind of... Went by the wayside. They were not the biggest

fans of. Some slop. But remember back then, you were able to have a chicken wing on like a Wednesday and still be able to play football somehow. That's weird. Now you can't do that. You have a piece of pizza potentially on Friday. Out two weeks. No way. You can't do it. You have a piece of pizza potentially on Friday. Out two weeks.

No way. You can't do it. What are you even thinking? That was the NFL I came into. A lot of stories about that, too. I was very lucky to get dropped into the NFL. Before? When? In the time that I did.

Yeah. You know what I mean? I got a good three years of watching old school, this is how football is. We had pizza what saturday nights before games guys house and beers too right yes beers pizza there was an option for ice cream i'm not saying everybody was eating it i'm just saying there was an option wings were there and then obviously they have all the healthy shit for all the guys that are super duper like i would say dwight freeney was probably ahead of time with what he was eating how he's eating d

dwight had to make a, he had his own thing. So I'm not saying, like, everybody was forced to eat this, but it was like, hey, offensive lineman, if you want to go have a piece of pizza here, like. Knock yourself out. Have at it. Whatever fucking makes you feel good, you know. Like, hey, you want to have a beer, go ahead and do it. Now, like, sports nutritionists are like, do you know the carb intake on that?

Better be non-alcoholic. Are you kidding me right now? What are you even doing? So I'll be excited to hear why they got a D there. B in weight room, I like that. Strength coaches, A, shout out. Richard Howe's been there, by the way, for like 20 years. He's the assistant.

Love him. I don't know who the head guy is. I think he's been around before. Good guy. I've never met him. Training room, B. Training staff, A+. Hell yeah.

Hey, boys. Let's go. Aaron, Kyle. Hambone team. What? Hello. Still A+, boys. Here we go.

You know what that A-plus is? It's not just obviously how good they tape ankles and how good they put together treatment plans and get people back and everything like that those dudes are electric every day yeah they know that their vibes are a massive part of the training room the people that are in here are not happy they're in here the people that are in here are going through some very painful and miserable shit this is they're watching somebody else play their position like your training staff has to be entertaining as fuck energetic as fuck and like incredible at what they do it is very tough to staff it is a very tough job people say like oh the water boys and we talked about this before water boys make a hundred

thousand dollars in the nfl it's like those water boys are in the building at 4 a.m and they're not leaving until fucking midnight every rinse and repeat every day from training camp starting until season ends and by the way can't have a bad day you can't be in a bad mood because who's coming in here is in a bad mood right you have to get them through this exercise and through these workouts and the only way to do that is to be in a good mood energetic and by the way can't get to the next guy until you get through this guy. So your day could get even longer if you can't get through this.

So it's like, it's a whole thing. They've been in there a long time, that crew. It's good to see they still got their fastball. Not that I would ever doubt it. The travel, which you always said was great. Locker room, B plus. And then team travel, F. Yeah, could have predicted that one, Pete Ward.

Could have told you. I don't know if I ever did. Oh, I F. Yeah, could have predicted that one, Pete Ward. Could have told you. I don't know if I ever did. Oh, I did, yeah, probably a couple times. Yeah, you can certainly, you know, save and travel. Oh, yeah. We've all experienced that. I'm a big don't let somebody else book my travel guy because they don't have to actually do it. You know, the people that are normally in control of travel in some places don't have to do the travel.

Right. So it's just like my job is to get them boom to boom. Point A to point B. But it is a whole new world, okay? And I'm like, all right, I guess this is what they feel they got to do. I can't wait to see how this whole thing unfolds. We get to our first away game, and we get on a plane, and Anthony Costanzo is sitting behind me.

And he's fucking left, and we're sitting on the – it was just two three by three, we're sitting on, it was just two, three by three. Three, three, three, three, three, three, three. But you have marketing on there. You have sponsors on there. You have front office on there. You have coaches on there. You have, it's a packed plane. It's a packed plane.

And back in the day, it used to be like good plane, two different areas. Players are in the back. Hey, don't come back here. You guys are up there. Players are in the back. Hey, don't come, don't come back here. You guys are up there after games. Good time. We're having a celebration. Like it is a, it was awesome. First travel game, new regime, three by three plane. Everybody's going to say, this is different. You know, muscle. I was going to ask questions. Everybody knew I was going to ask questions,

but I was just like kind of taking it in. I just assumed that something happened. Anthony Costanzo is sitting right behind me. His right knee obviously jammed directly into my back. He's 6'7 or 6'8. His left knee is literally like acting as my arm right here next to me. So I'm sitting like obviously incredibly uncomfortable. I turn around.

This guy's left tap was supposed to protect Andrew Luck. This guy over here. His knee is jammed into my back, this whole thing. I forget. Is that maybe Overton, long snapper? Oh, who cares about him? He is literally just packed into the corner. Who cares about this guy?

So I go to Chuck. I'm like, hey, I just want to let you know this was not how the planes, like literally last year. This is not how this is. So I don't know what the fuck you guys got going on, but that can, next one, bad plane or whatever. Okay. So I go to Pete, I go, Pete, what happened with the planes? You know what I mean?

Then they get us this old, massive plane. It was one of the most awesome things. I assume I wasn't the only person that was like, hey, this is not how this old thing. Taking a fly all year. This is the only thing. They get us this plane out of like 1985 that was like a 757. So old plane, huge though, massive amount of space. It almost felt like they were like, is that enough fucking space?

Like to me? So I think everybody was like kind of happy. Like, yeah, actually, this is really good. So I wonder what has happened. And also I wonder who will be the person, right? Like I, as a punter, I think I was a little bit too comfortable with the things I was saying. But I think I earned that right. And I don't think just because that's my position necessarily means that I have to act how everybody else has,

especially if I have the respect of the boys. Like, hey, if I am speaking for something that I think, like if I was out of pocket, I think a lot of people would be like, hey, punter, shut the fuck up. Like teammates. Right. But most of the things that I would take would be like, everybody would be like, hey, thank you for saying that. You need to say something.

All right, I'll be this guy. I guess I'll be this guy. I'll be the guy that's just like, hey, this is bullshit. And that's not necessarily the, that's why I knew I had to be very good at punting. You know what I mean? Had to be. Be who you can afford. Bingo. Yeah. I was three shanks to be very good at punting. You know what I mean? Had to be bingo. Yeah, I was three shanks away from getting cut at all times.

I knew that. I think everybody in the front office was like, go ahead. Yeah, right. Go ahead, I dare you. But I wonder if they went back to the smaller ones. Three by three. What are you doing, Jim, bro? You got fucking Muhammad Ali's boxing glove for 17 million dollars standing in there

can we get the boys to the game can we put them in a bird can we get them comfortable you know because traveling is exhausting yeah it's it's exhausting you get dehydrated even if it's comfortable yeah it's every it just takes things out of you like it is the way it is so bill belichick or craft has like a what a plan for the boys yeah two of them they were down the list too what on travel yeah i don't Two of them. They were down the list. What on travel? Yeah. I don't know about travel.

They were down. I was surprised. Like. Chiefs are down there at the bottom. That's the thing. There's not a lot. I would, I would assume like the better organizations would,

with all this would, would win the winning organization. Oh, so you're saying that maybe the players, you know, I would, I would expect the chiefs players to be a little more happy. Yeah, see, that's why. The Chiefs players are like, hey...

You're right, you're right. We win. Let's fucking turn this shit around. Hey, don't be such a fucking old white, bro. Don't go to what you're... You know what I mean? Patriots D-plus travel. Yeah, the Chiefs, yeah, it's incredible because they have their own plane, so that would be insane. So, hey, why don't we upgrade the inside of that fucking plane? And also, like you mentioned, like the top three, like those are all like almost brand new facilities, so like that makes sense. Shout to the Dolph that fucking plane deck? And also, like you mentioned, the top three, those are all almost brand-new facilities.

So that makes sense. Shout to the Dolphins building a new facility. Yeah, exactly. And the Raiders obviously have their brand-new one. The Vikings Stadium is unbelievable. And I think they have a new training facility as well. So in what the NFL will say, every owner, if we were to have the owner on here or the person that handles the –

they would deflect accountability. So they all charter planes from companies. So they would say the Delta is only allowing us to use these particular planes. We have a contract through Delta or American, and these are the only planes that we're allowed to do whatever. It's like, no, no, no, I book a lot of planes. You could certainly say, hey, we'll pay, and there's a whole new, and they're like, well, not in the team charter stuff.

It's like a contract. That's what I was always told. I was always given like the, these are the only planes we're allowed to choose from. It looks like that is across the board. There's a lot of lower letters in the team travel department, and that's because traveling sucks. Always does, always will. But how do we make it not as terrible for the boys to maybe be the best they could possibly be?

I do like that you just became an old white doe. You know, Chiefs just want to see maybe boys just fucking just accept what you've got. As opposed to being humans with brains and being like, hey, we're in the middle of a dynasty. This team's never been worth more money. How about we fucking invest in some facilities, pal? Cowboys is interesting, though,

because I would have figured that the Cowboys would have their own planes or some sort of own system that they have had for years. Yeah, I wonder what a C is. What's that all about? Cowboys, though, across the board. Yeah, A's. Oh, yeah. A plus, A plus, A plus, A plus, B, training room.

All right, let's get a little bit better hot, though. A plus, A plus, C minus. Cowboys, we got a chance to see them do their stadium. Standard might be high for them. That's top of the line. Yeah. Cowboys really do it. And I saw some stuff with Jerry coming back into the world, right?

Big time. Hey, that's going to be a massive ordeal, especially with what's going on in Washington. Bingo. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. How's that? Yeah, does that correlate?

That's interesting. We are not saying that is what happened. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. You can see how. You can see how. You can maybe say, whoa, whoa, whoa, you know? Yes, with the photos and stuff like that.

Jerry. No, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no, no, no. The opposite. Allegedly. All right. We'll have a lot to talk about tomorrow. I believe we've got Orszalowski tomorrow.

Dano's coming in. And Stu. Hold it. Do we have our friend of the program? Wait, fuck him. We'll talk to him tomorrow. Fuck him. Yeah.

Is Dano in, Stoops? Ian Rappaport is down at the stadium. He had Boo's voice today on air. Big time. Yeah, this is Boo's week for him. This is Boo's Super Bowl for him. It is. Well, I mean, Bruce was glad-handed yesterday.

Yeah, Bruce was at prime seeing every big league in the NFL. That's what he said. He said he was actually going to go post up at prime. And he did. And he was going to be there six, seven hours. Yep. And just see what's going on. Him, Dave, all Joe Shane were eating dinner together.

Yeah, he's best friends with the Cowboys tight ends coach now. Where's that a go, pal? Yeah, so I went kind of joking like, oh, imagine Dave's and Shane are there. Boom. Walk in. There they are. Corner table. Yeah, that's what Indianapolis becomes. Yeah, that's what it is.

Three Tomahawks steaks. He said Dayball eats like a menace. He's a dog. No pork or knife. I talked to some people that know Dayball pretty good. He goes. I got a chance. They love that guy. Oh, yeah. Hey, people love Dayball, Bruce.

People like pretty important humans love Dayball. Like stalwart for the next 20 years. Now, granted, he had success. He did. So people are going to like you when you have success. But the human that is Dayball, it sounded like from the humans that I was talking to, like, we like you, Scott. Yeah.

And Shane, I don't know if this might have got lost in the shuffle in the group chat. He said whether they get a deal done or not, they'll tag Dan Jones. Yeah, I heard that. That's a big deal. Huge. That's a big deal. What would the tag be? 40-something?

I think it was like 33, right? In the non-exclusive. Yeah, they better do it quick. Because I don't think anyone's given two for... Yeah, two first-rounders. Absolutely not. And then the transition tag. Hey, I thought about this. Imagine Danny was stiking.

Okay. Yeah, that would work. That actually... I thought about this. I got no problem with Dano being your... You know when you're walking on a golf course and you choose not to have your phone? Bingo. Right. about this i got no problem with dan o being your you know when you're walking on a golf course and you choose not to have your phone bingo right and you're just kind of that's like four and a half five hours just kind of walking at least a lot of thinking bro i wasn't in a darkness like

in a hobbit hole or whatever sure but pretty much you know what i mean you're essentially i was just i had no idea what was going on a lot of of thinking. And I was like, Danny Dimes. Why not? He runs the fucking shit out of the ball. Oh, yeah. Very well. His body, comparison to Jalen. Huh?

Yeah, not quite as thick, but outside of that. But I think upper body, though. Like, his leg's not what Jalen's is, but he's a fucking. Over rush yards. Best bet in the league. And I'm like, if they're going to let him go, he gets the market. Now, Ian's saying it's like $40 million. It's like, we can figure that.

I started like almost falling into like, is Danny Dimes? Fucking trade for Danny Dimes. With what Steichen was able to do with Jalen, it's like, he's almost a perfect guy. Because we've seen him have accuracy with slants. Yeah, that playoff game he's dominated. Yeah, we've seen him like really evolve. It's like, that playoff game he's dominated. Yeah, we've seen him really evolve. It's like we don't have to wait for a guy to get good.

Like Danny had to wait to get good. It's like he's good now. Colts wide receiver room is probably a step up from who he was thrown to the Giants last year. Where can he go in it? Which isn't saying a lot, but still, you know, it's. Isaiah Hodgins, Richie James. Mark Pittman had a hell of a year.

Michael. Michael Pittman. Michael hell of a year. Michael. Michael Pittman. Michael Pittman Jr. Alec Pierce. I am a... A year under his belt. They need to get a couple receivers. We do.

We do not have a wide receiver room. No. Michael Pittman, dog. Yeah. Alec Pierce has shown glimpses of being great. But with that offense last year, I mean, nobody was good. True. Jelani Woods is six foot fucking seven and a

tight end who catches the ball and for some reason they don't put him on the field. Maybe just line him up. Maybe he's a wide receiver. Hey, he might be a bear. What? He might be a bear. Nah, Chris Ballard ain't training. Get the fuck out of here. Well, that's what Jelani Woods for the number one overall straight up.

A couple of the picks. I would like to let the world know that I am a Jelani Woods for the number one overall, straight up. A couple other picks. That's something you'd entertain. I would like to let the world know that I am a Jelani Woods fan. I think very loudly during the season. You should have heard us in that suite because we see him. Screaming. He's 6'7". It's hard not to see him.

Just standing on the sideline, we're in the red zone. It's like we got a guy who's 6'7". They don't. What do we? Oh, the guy can't catch, obviously. No, he can. Oh, he must not like being in traffic or whatever. No, he does.

It's like, what? He did show up at home more often than not, and probably because Colter flying on those tiny little planes, his legs are all cramped up. Oh, I didn't even think about Jelani Woods. Yeah. That's why they couldn't put him in games on roadie. He cramps both hammies. And he allegedly didn't show up on Sundays when Frank was preaching Yeah, Jelani Woods. Yeah. That's why they couldn't put him in games on roadie at cramps. Yeah. Both hammies jammed in there.

Andy allegedly didn't show up on Sundays. That's right. When Frank was preaching and doing his math. Saturday night, he didn't. We're not doing this again. Yeah. We're not doing this again. That was alleged for you. That was alleged for you.

New team now, too. Oh, there's the cold season ticket marketing picture. Oh, yeah. Right there. There it is. Hey, by the way, you're going to owe us about $200,000 more. Just so you know. Mick, you look awesome. there. There it is. Hey, by the way, you're going to owe us about $200,000 more. Just so you know. Mick, you look awesome.

Look how pumped Sam is. That was the win, right? Yeah. Yeah. That was his second touchdown of the game. That's right. It was like his second completion or reception of the day. Two fucking wins.

I'm standing on, what, six-inch stage? Oh, yeah. We're fucking eye to eye. And I want to let you know, in his eye, dog. It was after this game where I was like, this dude's got it. I actually looked him in his eyes. It is now a season ticket marketing campaign for the Indianapolis Colts, for free, obviously, for them.

Right. And I looked him in the eye. That guy's a dog. Oh, yeah. And then he never played again. It's like, what are we doing? What the fuck is going on in Indianapolis? It can all be right here. It can all be right here, baby.

Steichen will have his ass on the field. Why didn't we just ask for him to be named a wide receiver this year? That's what we should have went with. Because we didn't have any wide receivers. So we should have just put his ass at wide receiver and just say, just have him run three routes. Yep.

And then have whichever quarterback's in actually look at him. I'm thinking that has to be the reason why he's not out there. You guys did get a dog in O-line coach, fucking Anthony Michael Soprano Jr. We hired Paisano? Mm-hmm. Tony Soprano's son. Hold on. Did Cuz leave the former offensive line coach? Yeah.

He's working at Build-A-Bear Workshop now. No. He was going to Houston. Why do you remember? Houston was there. That's right. He had an interview there. I'm sure he's a great guy.

Yeah. D'Amico. I don't know if he got hired there. I remember he was looking, and I remember going, oh, Houston. He's going to the division. Don't let him go. You're going to like Anthony Michaels, Brown, or Junior. I'm sure of it because I do know what this offensive line looked.

I know what the offensive line looked like. And then when this guy became the offensive line coach, I know what the offensive line ended up looking like. So maybe it just wasn't the right fit with the right boys or whatever. Happy he's no longer here. This guy is the answer. Yes, he is. For sure.

Yes, he is. He sure. Yes, he is. He is. He better be. Simple as that. Bears are trading, right, out of the number one overall team? Allegedly. Yeah, they're saying most likely if a team wants to move up. Is that all posturing?

Is that them saying multiple people, right? Anytime you're going into any negotiation ever. A lot of it's for the right price. You want multiple people. Yeah. Okay, multiple people so that other people that have reached out know, hey, you're not the only's for the right price. You want multiple people. Multiple people so that other people that have reached out know, hey, you're not the only one in the ballpark.

Paul's also said he's looking for players more than picks. The reason he's getting so out... You're not getting July. It's so logical because so many teams need a quarterback. It also makes no sense because a lot of people have the Texans trading up to get him, but the Bears have already said, and that could be bullshit, but they're keeping Justin Fields.

So it's like if you're the Texans, why would you trade multiple picks because it's supposed to sound like it's going to take a king's ransom. Yeah, potentially. So right now the Bears are trying to set up Colts-Texans. Who wants to come get it? Who wants to come get it? That is everything right now. That's why with the Colts, you could sign Danny Dimes,

but could you imagine what Ballard would do when he doesn't have to pay a quarterback $25-plus million? Yeah, but also, could you imagine what Ballard's going to have to go through if we have to go through a whole other fucking, is this quarterback a guy? He's going to get fired if he doesn't find the right guy. Yeah, exactly. I feel like that's probably how he feels.

Yeah, this is his last shot. That's what sucks about this year, though. He might find the right guy, and then the good players that played well the last three years might not play well again. Well, that's what happened last year. Exactly. That's what sucks about this year, though. He might find the right guy, and then the good players that played well the last three years might not play well again. Well, that's what happened last year. Exactly. That's what I mean.

The dudes that were guys might suck again. I think Shaq Leonard maybe being back next year will definitely help on the defensive side. We're talking a lot about the Colts. Colts are a huge part of the draft storyline. They're also a good team right now. Yeah, and also a team I played for. So it's hard not to talk about them.

That team, so much promise. I don't want to stress this too much because we harp on it too much and we're the only show that talks about the Colts because they have the number four overall pick, and they've paid everybody. Such a colossal collapse of what they were supposed to be. That whole. One of the worst.

They were supposed. Fifth best odds to win the AFC going into the season. Seven Pro Bowlers the year before. Most in the league. All came back. Most in the league. Everybody's paid. Mm-hmm.

Here we go. We're hitting our prime. Yeah. We got an astronaut quarterback. That's all we needed. Yeah. And then. That guy. Coach is fired week 10. We stink. Pick four. That's all we needed. And then coach is fired week 10.

We stink. Pick four. Who wants to come here? Nobody. You get stiking. I'm like back in the game. But God damn, it has become quite an interesting situation. Houston's a whole other conversation.

That place, Coach Dave a couple years ago, chewing on his tongue. Optically. This is not allegedly or reportedly. Saw it. Saw it with these eyes. We saw Coach Dave chewing on his tongue. They were projected to be terrible, played good. Tough.

He gets fired. Lovey comes in. They play terrible. Lovey, good coach. Yeah. So, like, I wonder why. Like, Colts shouldn't have been as terrible as they were. They were. Houston should not have been as good as they were with coach Dave should have been better complete opposite

Nothing makes sense And that's why this whole draft process is so beautiful Because any one of these guys could go on to become the greatest player of all time at their position and Any one of them could be the biggest bust of all time in the history of the NFL. Your point on all that look at Threes Arizona they were supposed to be good. Four's the Colts. They were supposed to be good. Five is Seattle, but it's from Denver who was supposed to be good.

Six is the Rams. They just won the fucking Super Bowl year to year. Even the Raiders. Yeah, Raiders. Raiders are seven. It's the greatest league on earth. It is. Because nobody has a clue what the fuck's going to happen.

And we're talking about the first round. There will be 10 guys. Dougie Mills is just. I think everybody's on our back. We're not the only ones. There will be 10 guys. Dougie Mills is just... I think everybody's on our back. We're not the only ones. They're drafting a quarterback. They're getting a quarterback. New coach. Trade for Dougie to be their quarterback. No, no, no. We're

okay. We do appreciate Dougie. He's a black belt. He'll be a serviceable backup. Absolutely. Yeah, we appreciate the hell out of him. And he'll come in. He'll win four or five games for a team. Absolutely. He'll do it. He'll be able to learn every offense, too, because he's a Stanford guy. I just don't know if we're the right fit for Dougie Mills. We hope somewhere is, and it seems like Houston is not the place for him.

Matt Ryan's the perfect mentor for him. You're right. Downer and Houston. Big trade. Bring him home. Bring home Matt Ryan. Let's say you can draft a guy. Let him get his hands on a guy who's just coming out of college and then go with him.

I'm going to get my hands on him. And then let Ballard use all that money to bring in more weapons. Okay, I'm cool with that. Or get a guy who's good. I mean, I'm cool with whatever. Need to get a guy who's good. Just would like us to be good at football again. And also, let's fix the plane.

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Yeah, Rap Sheet! Yes! We're down in there right now. How are you? Good. I wanted to get a good location. So can you see the field? It's that green thing behind me.

Yeah, that's the combine that's happening there. The NFL combine? He's been a comedian all day long. Yeah, so we got the defensive linemen are thing behind me. Yeah, that's the combine that's happening there the NFL combine Yeah, he's been a comedian all day So we got the we got the defensive lineman are running behind me doing all sorts of three cone agility things behind me in Spandex, which is obviously, you know a great thing to watch We got over here our set. So that's Chris Rose and Schrager and all them Shrugs Hey, and I'm sitting. He can't hear you.

He's checking on his iPad. I think he's watching the F1 series on his iPad. Oh! So, yeah, I'm here. What's up? How's it going? We appreciate you joining us. I've done a lot of things in that building right there behind you,

but I do know that nobody's really allowed to get any glimpse of it other than the NFL Network. So we appreciate the hell you letting us in that building. I used to not be able to get in the building whenever I was trying to do something for NFL Network, for the combine. They wouldn't let me in the building. Like, security people that I've seen literally hundreds of times, Pat, you're not allowed in here.

I'm like, I am allowed in here. They're like, the NFL has this blocked off completely. Like, I'm here with the NFL. Somebody from the NFL is going to have to come get you. And it's like, every time, how heavy it's locked down. How's it going? It seems like it's a massive success. How's your week been?

You boozed up? No, I'm not currently boozed up because I'm working, but there have been times this week when I've had a couple of drinks. How's it been going? I'd say it's going good. I mean, it's, you know, it's, we talked about early in the week how there weren't going to be a lot of coaching staffs here. It feels like about, you know, it's, we talked about early in the week, how there weren't going to be a lot of coaching staffs here. It feels like about, you know, almost the same.

And I've seen, seen a lot of people. I've met some people. It's a good time for like me to meet a lot of the young coaches that maybe I didn't know previously. Right. So like I hang out in this concourse right here, say hi to some people I haven't met. It's, I would say it's, it's been a very productive week work-wise and also a little bit of fun. Okay, so let's talk about some of the production

that has been happening down there. Derek Carr met with three teams, I believe, here in Indianapolis. Has that already taken place? How did it go? It has taken place. What he did was he rented an Airbnb kind of near the stadium and just hosted teams. And it was the Panthers.

What's that? Stadium's a bad area. Was he over there? What's that? stadiums are the bad area was he over there? What's that a red garter? Yeah, was he at the ballet those right across the road there or what did he? Um, I don't know specifically where but apparently it was a quite a nice spot Some of the owners Dave I know Dave Tepper was there visiting and Woody Johnson hung out at the Airbnb Gail Benson met him when he was at the facility in New Orleans, so she didn't come to go to his Airbnb here. But it was actually a smart – I kind of wonder why more free agents

who are free now don't do this because everybody's here. Just show up, meet with some people, make it easy, and come up with a decision. My guess is at some point early next week, come up with a decision. Okay, so Kevin Durant did this, right? Didn't he get a house in the Hamptons? And then everybody came and, like, pitched almost. Is that what this was or is this, like, a happy hour type thing?

What is it here? I mean, I don't think Derek Carr is, with all, I don't think he's getting boozed up like maybe I have a time or two here in Indy. A time or two here in Indy. A time or two every day. I don't know that he and I are on the same page as it pertains to beer. Wine. Wine. Tequila.

Wine. Bourbon. Wine. Jesus. All that. Yeah, I could go on forever. High noons. Anyway, Bud Light, obviously. You're adjusting. Bud Light. Yeah, I could go on forever. High noons. Anyway, Bud Light, obviously.

You're adjusting. Bud Light. Yeah, absolutely. But anyway, no, so I think it was pretty productive. I wondered if there would be more teams jumping in. Instead, it's three, which is, you know, if you're a free agent, you've got three teams willing to bid on you. That's a good market.

I just wonder about the timing because we still have not heard from your friend Aaron Rodgers, and I just wonder, like, do the Jets do something knowing that if they try to make a run at Carr and get him, that they wouldn't get Rodgers? Like, that's kind of the only thing that's still hanging in the air for me. I was on a golf course the last couple days with—we don't need to name the golf course. No. I was on a golf course the last couple days, so I haven't been able to keep up with everything happening at all times. I did see a report that Raiders are out on Aaron Rodgers. Is that true?

And does that mean, is that real? Like, what is that? What happens there? What does that mean for the Jets with Aaron Rodgers? They're still all the way in on Aaron? If Aaron were to say, hey, I would like to play, and the Packers are like, well, because of the darkness retreat, how long it was, we've actually already come around to moving forward.

Or if he said he wanted to go somewhere else, Jets still in? Is there other places in? If the Raiders are out, how does this work? So what that report was based on was Josh McDaniels saying they're looking for a long-term solution to quarterback, which they are. I mean, they're one of the teams in the top ten. There's certainly a possibility of trading up. they are looking for a long-term solution the problem is is that aaron rogers breaks all the calculus or whatever you i don't even know if that's a phrase but like

he disrupts everything we're talking calculus it says you plus me equals us banger that's what you're talking about yeah Yeah, like that. Yeah, yeah. I think that's about right. And now, Rogers, he's a guitar guy, so I bet he probably could sing that. Hey, he jams. He does. I got a chance to watch it out in Tahoe.

That fucker just, I walked into a room, and this long-haired hippie-looking fuck has this guitar, and just, we're doing it. Mountain. Doing it. I'm like, holy shit. play i've got a response what's that do you play so actually last night i did have a guitar in my hands it's funny that you asked that question there's a couple country musicians and i said boys you ever heard this one? You know, gave them a little bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,

bang. Now, it sounded much differently. The guitar was out of tune when I touched it. Yeah, I wasn't able to. You know what I mean? Yeah, so I handed it away. I used it as a drum a little bit a couple times. That's also a veteran move. Yeah, it was bad, but no, I cannot play shit. I used it as a drum a little bit a couple times. That's also a veteran move. Yeah, it was bad.

But, no, I cannot play shit. I wish I could play the piano. Me too. I think piano is the one that I wish I could do. But anyway, did we move anywhere with Aaron? The Raiders never said they were out. They just said they were looking for a long-term solution. Yeah, I don't know for sure that the Raiders are out,

and I do know for sure that the Jets are in. And to me, like, you know, this is not a derby. You know what I mean? Like, this is not a – like, Derek Carr, it's like, all right, three teams sort of fighting for one. This isn't like that. This is really like, where does Aaron choose to go? Okay, well, then Packers will make a deal.

San Francisco is looking for a veteran quarterback, right? You know, yeah, I saw that, that they might dip into that. Some of that will depend on Brock Purdy, his surgery, which I think is early. I think it's going to be early next week, if I'm correct. Do they know it's going to be able to be next week, or is it potentially still too swollen to do surgery? They think it's going to be next week, but you're right.

I mean, the same, you know, you hope that the swelling has gone down. You hope that he's sort of cleared for surgery because that starts the cock. If he's not, then they probably have to look a little more heavily in, you know, a veteran quarterback. And I just, I would never rule out Aaron Rodgers because I know previously there was at least a discussion of, like, should the 49ers make a run at him? Like, was it, yeah, it was last season. Aaron Rodgers, 49ers? Whoa. You him like was it well I was like I was last Aaron Rogers the last time I think that's real that you hold on I this I don't think that's get the ticker right don't okay you know I don't know I mean the the problem is

like they may have the French as quarterback already and if Brock pretty is gonna miss let's say he has to be delayed again and he has to miss a month of the season, like, okay, well you're not going to bench Rodgers for Brock Purdy. Like it gets a little complicated. So I think they'll look into the veteran market, but I don't think it's going to be Aaron Rodgers. Talks the table has a question. So where do we lie with Aaron then?

Just the Jets and the Packers? Yeah, Jets, Packers, and maybe the Raiders. I mean, that's about just quickly about the Raiders. Like, I think in a lot of ways it doesn't make sense for them, right? Like, they're a team that probably should go for a long-term answer, but how do you turn down Aaron Rodgers if he wants to come there? Like, that's the hard, that's, I don't know that you do. That's like whenever you're asked to go golf with the Mannings.

Like, all right, I'm going to do that. Connor has a question for you, Rhett. See, I haven't had, can I, hold on before Connor. Hey, you got buried on that hippienings. You have to do it. All right, I'm going to do that. Connor has a question for you, Rhett. See, I haven't had... Can I... Hold on, before Connor... Hey, you got buried on that hippie podcast. You did. They killed you on there, allegedly.

I didn't listen to the whole thing, but I did hear the couple shots that came at you trying to get first and not right. I mean, just... That's no shit. This guy, it wasn't... He didn't say your name directly. He didn't, but he was...

It certainly sounded like you were taking some shrapnel there in the middle of that whole thing. good fuck he wasn't wearing shoes hey listen this will not be the first hippie podcast that i've been shredded on oh oh oh you know it's it's all right and i've told you like whatever aaron says he is allowed to say it and i i am a free thinking man and i give everyone their opinion and he has certainly allowed his opinion. Hey, he's a free-thinker. Anyway, what I was saying was I am happy. So you're a PXG guy now I hear, huh?

What is this guy? What is this guy? What? First time ever getting clubs fitted, PXGs. Pretty exciting. First time ever getting them fitted. You know, the issue is I don't know what my swing's gonna be from swing to swing sure so like does the club fitting really you know you have a sweet bat it's amazing

dude it's like no ian it's for like the last three years every time i've golfed i've played with different clubs pretty much because it's like well i'm not setting my clubs so i'll just rent some there yep and then i'm playing with them and it's like so for me it's like, well, I'm not setting my clubs. So I'll just rent some there. Yep. And then I'm playing with them. And it's like, so for me, it's like, does it matter if my swing's different if I'm using different clubs every time? No. Matter. So this is my first time playing with these PXG. Hit some good shots.

Hit some terrible shots. Bad shots. Hit some great shots. Hit some horrendous shots. So I'm still, what I'm saying is, love Parsons. Appreciate he came on. Was taken care of by the PXG at their store. What a

cool store. Cool store, good vibes, good energy, but I'm not 100% sure if these are my bats forever. I'm going to have to see them on a different course. Not that that last course that we don't even say a name of was like grotesquely impossible. You know, like this,

I'm going to have to see what they are on like courses that I normally would play. I won't congratulate you yet. A lot of trees down on the right side of the fairway on the course that does not need named. A lot of trees down there. I was doing a lot of scrambling out of said trees that have seemingly been in the earth for a long time. These fuckers were girthy, thick. It was – but I was hitting good little – Hey, Scramble was a big shot, big park off.

Fucking stroke, Scramble. I played, man. I was playing. Anyway, Connor has a question for you, and we appreciate you joining us. We don't want to take up too much of your time, obviously. Yeah, Rob, she says someone interested in there. You said the Niners, if they have their franchise guy, Brock Birdie. Trey Lance is dead, right?

He is definitely not the future of the Niners. And does that go down as the worst trade in Niners history? So Jordan Love and Aaron Rodgers, I think, have taught us a lot. And we forget from time to time, but they really have taught us a lot. And I think Justin Fields has taught us a lot, too. We know nothing. Two years, a couple games, we know nothing. I think if we were having this Rodgers conversation last year, and we did,

we would know for sure that Jordan Love sucked. But he doesn't suck. Actually, he might actually be really good, but sometimes it takes time. So just because Trey Lance is not ready, wasn't ready last year, doesn't mean he sucks. I just don't know. I know that Brock Purdy immediately looked better and looked awesome and had an incredible year.

So I would say he certainly would be the guy who would be the starter. But I'm not ready to say Trey Lance is bad because I've seen other quarterbacks in similar time frames kind of figure it out. How about Danny Dimes? There's another guy we were talking about. That's another one, yeah. Yeah, because as I was walking this golf course with no phone, like I'm Amish, like a lot of thoughts

No phone? Yeah, I put it away to enjoy the moment. I put it away Golfing with Manny. Yeah, it's like I just want to enjoy the moment, you know what I mean? Must be nice. I put the phone away, I just want to enjoy the moment. I put it away. Golfing with the Mannies. Yeah, it's like I just want to enjoy the moment. Must be nice. I put the phone away. I just want to enjoy it. It was 170 emails and texts when I got back.

That's so many. No way I answer. There's a lot that I have to. I was scrolling through and I'm like, that's important, that's important, that's important, that's important, that's important. I'll get it tomorrow. Tomorrow's feel good Friday. There's no chance.

And the weekend's on the other side. Yeah. And then by Monday, it's like, well, now it's too late. It's awkward. If I was to answer this now, it's awkward. Yeah. So you know what I mean, Ian? I mean, the worst answer to that would be is if you have no, like you put your phone

away, you're like, oh, finally going to get away. And then you pick it up and you got like three messages and two from like your wife or whatever. Like that would be. Oh yeah. Nobody missed me. Holy shit. The world happened and nothing and nobody thought is, uh, could you imagine? It would be.

That would be tough. I mean, no, just complete flip side. I am pretty pumped for the day. I was going to say, I, just complete flip side. I am pretty pumped for the day. I was going to say, I bet you would have enjoyed it. I'm pretty pumped for the day, like hopefully 10, 20 years from now, where I do put the phone down for like a week and a half, and I get back and it's like, okay, text from the wife, text from hopefully parents still, and a couple of boys, and then that's it.

That'll be, that's like dream life that's like that's what we're all working towards you know it is wild just to drop middle of the week after taking 10 days off just be like oh i'm gonna disappear from earth real quick once in a life you had to do it though had to do it go for the mannings you should have seen uh eli eli's good bro he's fucking big isn't he like you gotta be like this when you're talking is that right he's tall I mean that's a lot of people honestly but yes

I didn't know he was that tall I've been around him a couple times and I think maybe he was sitting whenever I was around him I think one of the yeah one of the first things you're a big fuck dude I did not know. So he took this thing.

He had like a beautiful swing. It was like, that club was like seven, eight feet in the air at the time. And then he came beautiful. This draw was like, it was out of a movie. It was like a shot tracker out of a movie coming down at like 3.30. It's like like holy fuck and then i think today i think this morning or today he drained like uh like a 26 foot putt to win eli on 18 just just a gamer dog dude absolute dog there was a couple times where i was lining up for shots and we didn't know where the ball was going

and he'd be like are you an athlete or are you a punter? I'm like, Eli, get the fuck out of my house. Please, get out of here. Oh, who is it? Who is it? Who is it? Who is it? Nope. Nope. Big Dog and Shrakes.

Wow. Oh, is that Cadell? Shrakes? Wife? It's not. Not Cadell. Not Shraker. No.

Who is it? It's one of the lovely people working at NFL Network with me. The Arrow? I'll tell them we said hello. Is it a host of the Insiders working at Edible Network with me. The Arrow. I'll tell them we said hello. Is it a host of the Insiders? It is not, although Pellicero's still bouncing around here.

Probably having some booze right about now. Are you done for the day over there? No, I'm on until the drills are over and then I got total access after. So I'll be out of here at 8. And I'll probably have a beverage in my hand at 12. You ever heard Parker McCollum or Jordan Davis?

I heard of them. Country musicians? Didn't Jordan Davis play for the Eagles? He did. He ran a great 40 last year, actually. Nolan Smith, 439, Your network tried to fuck him. Yeah, that's right. So, you're talking about humongous people.

I was at an event Super Bowl week. Jordan Davis showed up just quickly because he also had to play in the game. Maybe the most enormous human I've ever seen in my life. Dude, 4'8". Absolutely bigger than I... comically big. He ran a 4'8 last year. 4'8"? And then this guy today runs a 4.8 last year. 4.8?

And then this guy today runs a 4.39, 6.22, 40 edge rusher Nolan Smith. Are you kidding me? And then the D-tackle at Pitt, what, he ran a 4.69 or something like that? I mean, some pretty incredible feats of athleticism. We still got Will Anderson coming up here. His sport is going to be interesting as well.

Since you bring up Will Anderson, let's talk about Jalen Carter. What's going to happen there? His people are saying, what, this is not how this went. Once our story gets out, we'll be good. They're misdemeanoring. No. He put out a statement. He said he's confident that he'll be fully exonerated. His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, has not made a statement yet. I would say that's probably by design because you got to let the legal process you know kind of take hold it's going to be

there's a couple interesting things one all this came out on the first day of the combine wild i mean it's the ajc story and then the police you know the the charges came out on the first day of the combine that is either an interesting coincidence which I guess is possible or it was designed to get the maximum amount of publicity which is probably more likely and I think you know this changes things for Jalen

Carter now because every single team is going okay like what do we know like most of them and not all of them I've talked to did not know about his involvement in this specific event his his involvement in this specific event His alleged involvement in this specific event until the news reports came out. What else do they not know? So that's like if you're gonna give him 30 million dollars like you got to be confident of what you're getting Yeah, I think that's on the teams now to figure this out sad sad all around man

Just like having to relive that crash again all of us as sports fans like sad because i was on a parade day it's like man so sad that that's how like that's a bad right that's a terrible movie ending yeah oh yeah you know like that's that's how like a a terrible movie exactly you have a parade you celebrate and then two of our people die beloved people that's not good and then now we learn. And in a way that allegedly, according to this police report, highly preventable. Like racing at 2.30 in the morning. Yeah.

Allegedly. It's very sad. But he goes down there, goes to jail, 12 minutes, back to the combine? Yeah. I mean, you know, they kept a pretty good lid on what was going to happen and i'm thinking to myself like no way he's coming back but he he came back he was on field over there cheering on his fellow defenders didn't work out but like you know he'll go back to being a prospect now work out of georgia pro day and the legal process will play

out and you know i'd say there is a possibility that something is sort of finalized before the draft. I think that would probably be in his best interest. But, you know, we'll see. We'll see what happens. Yeah, we'll see. The legal process is adjourned. Oh, yeah.

We've allegedly. Allegedly. Ty has a question for you. Yeah, there it is. Hey, you nailed it. There you go. Ty has a question for you. Rep G, where's all the moving and shaking been done so far this week?

I saw pictures of Schrag's really close talk and Andy Reid, and then allegedly he was doing the same thing, basically sitting on Sean Payton's lap last night. Where have you been kind of doing most of your – We have boots on the ground here. We have boots on the ground. Where have you been doing most of your kind of information gathering? And also, has Ciceliano slapped you in the mouth yet for you punking him on air today

uh i would say i've been routinely punking ciceliano and he hasn't done anything you know he'll send a text but like you know not i wouldn't say he's someone i'm afraid of if we're just being completely honest here. Hey, you're two kind of kindred spirits, right? Like, you guys are out with each other, you know, kind of like the – Tail the tape would be very similar. Yeah, reach, very similar. Yeah, exactly.

Touch of the palm. Everything would be – Yeah, get this going. I mean, this would be – So I like the fact that you feel as if, like, you're in a comfortable spot, because I think you are there. Yeah. He's also thinking the same thing.

Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. You're not dummies by any means. Oh, Muppet. To answer your question, I've been in these not a big place. So Prime 47 has been one of the spots. JW, Marriott Bar, restaurant. Bruce, nice.

Bruce, lock it in. Bruce, get your drink. Walk in the streets. I've been on a bird a little bit, you know, bird riding. Oh, boy. You're taking private planes just up in the sky, turn around, trap them in there, and come back down? Not that kind of bird.

Oh, scooter bird. The scooter bird, yeah. You got to pump it twice, and then you're off. We had an injury. Be careful. Yeah, Nick actually broke his AC joint on these Indianapolis streets on a bird. Are you left foot? He did.

He's boozed up. He's boozed up. And we used to have potholes that were like driving on the moon. I haven't been knocked down in a while. I assume it's the same way. It came out of nowhere. He died. Are you left foot forward or are you goofy footed?

What are you doing? What are you doing? Your feet are so small. You probably can of nowhere. He died. Are you left foot forward or are you goofy footed? What are you doing? Are you doing... Your feet are so small, you probably... Oh, yeah. He can both run. Yeah, both of them. If I run next to him, it's actually offensive. It's actually offensive. No, no. It's a good thing. This is a good... If we were talking about just like...

Shaq can't get, you know... No. His foot is a weird spot on the back. Exactly. If I'm wearing cowboy boots, it's difficult for me to get them both in the bird action properly. That gets weird. What do you do? Do you stand both feet forward, tip to tip? I go right foot in front, left foot to wheel.

Now, I take my boys to school every morning on scooters, electric scooters. So this is not my first rodeo. I would say I'm pretty comfortable on it. Very efficient. Hey, we're happy you're having a great combine. Last question here for you from Tone Diggs, pal. Ian, is there any scuttlebutt around the report card that's coming out from the NFLPA?

Are their owners dunking on each other here around Indianapolis? Like, hey, your guy's fucking travels in F-minus and ours in A-plus, and are you guys going to do something about it? Wow, your facilities were in F-minus, actually. Not just's fucking travels in F-minus and ours in A-plus, and are you guys going to do something about it? Wow, your facilities were in F-minus, actually. Not just in F, but in F-minus. The use of the F-minus is probably the thing that's guarded the most conversations. Like, come on, bro. F's fine, but F-minus?

It's extremely interesting. I don't know if they've done this before. I don't remember it if they have. I think for those of us who live this life a little bit but don't really, it's a good inkling into what is it actually like. Inside the facility, what's it actually like? How do they treat you? How do they handle injuries?

How do they handle food, families? Really, really interesting. This took off like i'd never imagined and it has actually gotten a lot of conversation in indianapolis and you know for those who didn't score well like my guess is some things will change i think i think my favorite thing about it is that you just like everybody else, it sounded like, you get to be in the NFL. Okay, boys? So just fucking take your shoes off. Shut up.

Sit in your locker. Okay, do your thing. This is really nice. As those of us who, to say I'm a professional athlete would be a joke. Now, granted, I am undefeated in sanctioned matches at WrestleMania. That's right. Okay, and I played in the Frontier League Baseball. Talked about that a little bit this weekend.

332 on base percentage. Yep. Made connection with first pitch I'd ever seen in a batter's box in my entire life. And, you know, I punted balls for a while. But to say I'm a professional athlete is a different level. But I got to be in there and watch professional athletes. And, like, I have a pretty good, I think, entrepreneurial mind and, like, kind of understanding of things and what pisses people off.

I'm happy this was leaked. I hope this continues to get leaked. And I hope these owners don't take this as a shot. I hope they say, oh, we can make our business better and make more money. That's how we have to frame this. Invest in your business. Make more money. You know what I mean?

That's what we've got to keep saying. Because if not, they're going to continue to cut corners, save dollars. Fuck everybody. You get to be in the NFL. I to continue to cut corners, save dollars. Fuck everybody. You get to be in the NFL. I'm happy this is happening, Ian. I'm happy. Me. I think a lot of people are with you.

Everybody noticed. I mean, and I don't know what the NFLPA sort of thought it would be like, but it certainly has garnered a lot more publicity than anyone imagined, and I would guess it would lead to some changes. It's a good play by the NFLPA. Congrats. Maybe there's some new stuff going good play by the NFLPA. Congrats. Maybe there's some new stuff going on here at the NFLPA. Ian, we appreciate you so much,

brother. If you get a chance to hop on tomorrow, we'll be excited. If you're busy, we understand. We can't wait to watch you on the television at the tights, gymnastics, Olympics that you're at down there. Keep killing it, pal. All right. Well, thank you, guys. This is happy hour, right? Yeah, bro.

Wide. Wide. Are we drinking? Wide. All right. Enjoy the drinks, guys. I'll have some in a little bit. Isn't every hour happy hour with Ian Rappaport?

Oh, yeah. More like Rappi hour. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rappaport. Yeah. He's the best. That was very nice of him. We're not supposed

to get that footage no yeah so like they keep like all the they're running like a radio row i didn't know that was happening there's a lot of shows there did they do that at the convention center remember that one is that where it is and then you did the show in the van on the street for that was a sweet setup that year yeah we were across the street from the convention center. Yeah, in like a little card table. Well, we had a warehouse. Yeah, hey, we got six people on the show, so we need like six mics if that's okay. Well, we got three.

And also, the mics have four-foot wires. Oh, my. So they're all plugged into one thing. So we sat in a circle on a stage in an empty warehouse across the street from the convention center, five blocks away from our studio that has obviously all of the rooms. They also said, oh, we also can't give you internet. Yeah, it was.

So, I mean, we've attempted to combine. We did. We're 25 minutes from down there here where we're at. We're very appreciative of the people that have traveled up here. We think tomorrow there's going to be more people stopping by. Let's go. I got a chance to chat with Pat White a couple days ago. Yeah. Obviously on the Chargers staff.

Just turned 37. He and I, like three hours over there just bullshitting. Like, Combine's awesome because everybody's coming to town. But they're going to have to come to us. I'm not going down there. Yeah. I am so sorry. I just, I am so sorry.

But we should think about getting into that radio row area. It would be nice. We should at least send somebody down there to have a setup so we can just. Oh into that Radio Row area. It would be nice. We should at least send somebody down there to have a setup so we can just answer that. Yeah, I didn't know they were doing that. You know what I mean? Because it was set up like the suit. That's what Levitard. Levitard, super genius with that whole thing.

Like at Radio Row, this year he had Stugatz and I forget, actually there. In years past, it was just a camera with a chair with like a levitard thing and he's in his studio yeah so you get the presence of radio row you get the guests of radio row but don't have to do the whole song and dance at home we should potentially for this because we are in the city send two people down there maybe how to do that for a super bowl a couple years ago yeah it did not work terry bradshaw. Terry Bradshaw still wandering around trying to find the set. Still. I was told. We got some breaking news out of Southern Whiteland.

Alex Murdoch of the Murdoch Law family in Lowcountry, South Carolina has been found guilty of double murder of his wife and asshole son, Paul. I do not know the wife, Maggie, what she was like.

Sounds like she was potentially a part of somebody passing away that was a housekeeper lady. Yeah, she was bad. But nonetheless, this family, if you watch the documentary on Netflix, this is just reportedly and documented in a documentary. I do not know them personally. I've never met these people.

This is one of the worst families that you could draw up in a book of like bad guys from the South. Right. They had all the relationships with the judges and the law

in one particular... Fodder, fodder's fodder, fodder's fodder's fodder yep had the connection in the power in a place in the south and they abused it like big time big like out of movies like hey dead body that actually just cover it up don't worry don't even talk about it see you later another one don't even talk about it see you later another one don't even talk about it. See you later. Another one, don't even talk about it. See you later. That's just with this particular era of the Murdochs. Who knows where it's come from. So I think the world rejoices as this man goes to jail for the double murder. And as this family loses its power and allegedly chokehold over a town in South Carolina. So I think they got it right.

I did see that OJ Simpson had a take on this. I didn't get to watch the full three minutes because that's a long video from OJ. And I'm just saying is how he ended it. But I would assume that he would know how Murdoch was potentially feeling in some of these moments. He's going to jail for the rest of his life. Good for South Carolina. Good for society. Yeah, I think how this guy's going, but to your point too, it's every generation. Like his youngest son was responsible for one of the deaths in this documentary. Mallory. Yeah, his older son was responsible for another death of a student in his class, allegedly then you know allegedly maggie the mother was responsible for the caretaker who her son actually like genuinely loved they made it out to be so

it is good because now the father too responsible for the two deaths of his own son and his wife it's kind of like a full circle it is it really is oh you guys just gonna kill a bunch of people cool now you're gonna kill yourselves and you're gonna people? Cool. Now you're going to kill yourselves, and you're dead too. You're going to jail as well. Actually set up his own killing of himself, they allege in this documentary. Yeah, which they failed. Yes. And the guy that was allegedly a part of that said, if I was to do him, he's dead.

I can bring a shot. Give me a fucking target. All right? Listen, I look like I'm on some stuff. I might not be able to do things and I'm not capable. Put a gun in my hands. Give me a fucking target. Watch this.

If you think I was a part of this thing, I'll hit him. That man shot himself with me in the area. I did not want to go down. He survived. Now he's in jail forever. Congrats to America. Hey, what a better way to end the half-time. Hell yeah. Hey.

We apologize for being a little bit late. Once again, can't control Bird. Can't do it. Teams can't. Nope. How are you supposed to? There's scuttlebutt about it. Had to do it.

I apologize that I had to go do what I had to go do. Don't. Once in a while. You stuff your stories in a sack, okay? I do. I talked about that a lot Yesterday with the team that was around while we're walking on the course Oh a topic I said like I never do what we're doing right now like this is work day right here

But this I had to oh, yeah, just as he I was telling them, you know, like this is very abnormal I'm actually pretty uncomfortable right now like what's going on with, you know, like, this is very abnormal. I'm actually pretty uncomfortable right now. Like, what's going on with how, you know, because there's a couple of babies in the, like, this is a, but had to do this. I want to let you boys know how quickly you all were like, yep, you got to do this. Yes. I thank you guys for easing my mind. My wife, too. Like, obviously, we are late in game here. You know what I mean with having a baby?

And this particular thing pops up, my wife's like, oh, got to. You have to do it. This is a got to do it. So to the people that we potentially let down because we weren't able to spend Wednesday afternoon or Thursday afternoon with you, I would like to let you know, I do apologize. It was something I had to do. And we'll be back tomorrow with Feel Good Friday.

Hell yeah. Noon to 3 tomorrow. Hey, we're going ham tomorrow. Listen, tomorrow's going to be a good program. There's still a lot of things on this list that we have not talked about. There's things that are happening in the NFL world. There's things that are going to take place in this combine that we have not talked about. There's things that are going to happen overnight.

Bruce's liver is going to get a chance to experience a witness. And there's things we're going to hear about and the things we're going to see. Tomorrow's going to be a big day. Before we get out of here, there's been a couple people on the call here on the 500 phone line, even though we did not tell people to. 1-833-433-3663. Mitch, shout out to you answering phones. Phil, I'm getting to answer the phones.

Didn't know we were going to do that. Mitch did his job fantastically. These people called in without us even saying. 1-833-4-DA-DOME. 500 phone line phone let's go to cody down there in texas cody what's going on cody not much man just hanging out enjoying the talk about football hell yeah man that's what's all about honestly that's all we really do but it is great to get back in the saddle and chit chat about football especially when there's some

real shit taking place at the combine cody what do you want to talk about so i want to talk pittsburgh steelers i'm actually a pennsylvania native just moved to texas i want to talk about? So I want to talk Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm actually a Pennsylvania native, just moved to Texas. I want to talk Steelers draft. Probably the most youthful offense on the field right now with the drafts they've done the past three years. With, you know, Pat Friermuth, George Pickens, all these guys, Najee Harris. Quarterback Cody Jesus. Yeah, quarterback Kenny Pickens. I mean, even Jalen Warren, the undrafted guy, Najee Harris. Quarterback Cody Jesus. Yeah, quarterback Kenny Pickett. I mean, even Jalen Warren, the undrafted guy, is a stud.

Do they look at offensive line to try and sure up that offense, or do they go defensive line to help Cam Hayward out, or do they go get a starting quarterback? Hey, good luck down there in Texas, Cody. We appreciate the call. Tyron, you are a big draft guy, big Steelers guy. What do you think? Yeah, I'm probably going to go with Skowronski.

Nice. Climbing out of Northwestern, just an absolute staple for the next 10 years. Or you go on the defensive side at corner, you take Joey Porter Jr. Both can't miss, guys. Oh, corner. Yeah. Joey Porter Jr., right? Oh, yeah.

For Penn State. Yeah. I was talking a lot of shit about him for the Penn State folks this year, right? He is a dog. Unreal. He was talking a lot of shit about him for the Penn State folks this year, right? He is a doll. Knows the team. Knows the building. It's been the exact same as we saw in the ratings for a long time. Let's go to Justin in North Carolina on the 5RMG phone line.

Justin, what's going on, pal? Pat Lodge, how we doing? Keep it moving, pal. First time, long time. Happy, happy hour. They would always speak of the cards in that failing facility doing? Keep it moving, Paul. First time, long time. Happy, happy hour. Speaking of cards and that failing facility and them young bucks down there running their 4-2-40s showcasing their skills or whatever, with the rumors of D-Hop in Arizona with that F-graded facility, their slippery, shitty, sodfather grass, allegedly.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey, hey, now, Justin, whoa. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Now, Justin, what do you think is going to happen with D-Hop? I don't, I want to see him go to New England. Okay, I want to see him

in Indianapolis. I think everybody wants to see him wherever they are. Another weapon, a game changer would be fantastic. We have to clear up what he just said there, though.

Yeah. Because the sodfather came out and said, put some motherfucking respect on my goddamn name. That's right. And I didn't read the whole article. I only saw the parts you guys sent.

But it feels as if because he's 94 years old, maybe it was told to him like, hey, this is the next guy that's going to do this. This is the next person. Just need you as an advisor role. Let old buddy kind of handle this thing. He tried. And the sod father, 94 years old, still got it a little bit. He was watching some of the moves this fuck was making. He's like, that ain't right.

We need at least two more rounds of sand on this thing. Wow. If we're going to water it, let's dry it before we tarp it. Because you're watering it on Wednesday, then you're tarping it. You're cooking the fucking grass. How much sand did we put in? One? Should have put three in there.

Sod father said, clear my name. That was not my name yeah that was not my work that was my apprentice's work who i did not pick no that is not sod son i am sod father they forced this kid upon me that seemingly was the interview am i reading that right absolutely clears it up i believe in me basically said listen i told this son of a bitch exactly what you need to do to get this field ready and this lazy son of a bitch didn't do anything i fucking asked him to so fuck this guy sod father's like i'm hearing anything I fucking asked him to. So fuck this guy. Sartfather's like, I'm hearing a lot of hate towards me.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This guy's gotten every Super Bowl field ready. You think he's just going to fuck up all of a sudden because he's 185 years old? I don't think so. You think his Derek Jeter? Yeah, exactly. Sure. You think it's going to be his worst turf?

Not a chance. No way. Not a chance. What was he doing? But they were still tagging his name. Exactly. He's not happy. He should have.

What? Should have shot that apprentice. Yeah, stupid apprentice. Hey, buddy, guess what? You're not allowed to touch this grass. If they're putting my name on it, I'm doing this. Think about who the apprentice is and how smart the apprentice is, right? Yeah, he thought he was.

Apprentice is super genius. Yeah, he's done now. This is the next one. This is the prince. This is the crowned prince, Assad, coming in here. He had a big brain. He said, I'll take it from here, Saad. That always seems to be the case.

Assad, S-O-D. Isn't it kind of the case here? It feels like the people who, you know, start something, right? They started. The founders is what normally they are titled as in the business world. That's a founder. That's a founder. Founders mindset is talked about amongst executives, like what founders are like, what they're normally not like.

I tend to get along with the founders mindset. Sure. The people who start things. The founder yourself. The people who, but also I just, not only like this particular thing, but like in life, I've always been kind of drawn to the people that start things, build things, do things, and then like continue.

Like, I think that is very impressive. A lot of people attempt to do that. Not a lot of people succeed at that. So the people that are able to do that, we should celebrate and also learn from. So like, I've always, I think our company has always got along very well with, if we have a relationship with the people that found, I think people that are founders of companies and things normally

understand me a little bit better than other people as well. That's why dealing with middle management is not something that we can do here because we will never be able to talk the person who was put into a position because they were good at something else because they had to fill this position and i they went to school they did the whole thing they've never met a yinzer white trash like me how i operate me and that person probably never going to get along founders and i and us as a whole, I think even the boys and everything, they appreciate that. Once that baton gets passed, these people, we're smarter, we've been tasked with taking on this title, and we've got to do it in our own way, though, because we've got to build our own legacy. We can't just do exactly what this person does, because then this person's going to get credit for everything that we do. We are smarter and better.

That's why we were handed the baton. In my particular experience, that has never been the case. No. Always, right? Baton getter is always seemingly much dumber than founder. Step down. Who got that person there, but has no idea, has no clue, because they've been told that they were the next one,

even though they have done nothing to get said company to where it is. And people are going to take that as like a shot. That is not a shot at anybody directly. This is just my take on business as a whole. This is not just our business. This is business as a whole. I will always have appreciation for people

that founded something and had success. That next group, I don't think I've ever been able to really get along with them. I feel like that is something that is very real. I think so. And this is the Sodfather. This is... Same situation. This person's smarter. Yep.

I mean, his nickname's the fucking god of Sod. You don't just fucking stumble upon a nickname like that, okay? But the next one was going to do it in a different way. We don't just fucking stumble upon a nickname like that. Okay. But the next one was going to do it in a different way. We don't have to do all the shit that Sodfather did. I learned in my teachings that we only got to do this. And the Sodfather's like, I fucking told him.

I tried. Yep. You guys wanted to parade me around like a puppet. Oh, Sodfather's last one. Sodfather's last one. Yeah. Well, they don't let me do anything because I'm 94 years old and I can't even fucking wipe my own ass. Exactly.

But I want to let you know what I was witnessing, that ain't a sod father field. Nope. That's what he said. Don't look now, but I don't know if you saw the occupation. It did say known for being the sod father of the Kansas City Chiefs, which is interesting. Yeah, but real quick, like, Chiefs are slipping, too. Absolutely. Everybody was slipping.

That field was bad. The NFL knows that. Philly ain't going to like it. All right, let's get the hell out of here, huh? Boys, I appreciate you. Everybody that watched, I appreciate you. Let's do some giveaways. Hey, Brucie.

Hey, Source. Let's come out here and make some punts. Come on, Bruce. Bruce. Come on, Bruce. Move for day ball. Come on, Bruce. Come on, Bruce.

Danny Dimes is going to get franchise tagged. We should have set these balls up, obviously. Oh, we got a lefty T-square. Wow. That's big development. Let's go. 21-year-old dude created this putting company. Oh, yeah, that's right.

Sent us one out of nowhere. Tony. Name's Tony, huh? Hey. Tony. What's up, Tony? For this happy hour, why don't we make it happier than happy? Whoa.

Why don't we go, how many put pots are you going to make, two? Sure. All right, you make two out of five, okay? We'll go 20 people. Okay. $500. No pressure. Go retweet this video, say something nice to somebody,

and put their cash tag in the same reply so we can pay them officially on Cash App. Brucie Brown, diehard New York Giants fan, eavesdropping on all NFL conversations happening around Indianapolis every single evening during the combine. This man from the Northeast has adopted Indianapolis as his home. Has a blue F-150 out front just like fucking Dayball has. He's living on top of the world. Brucey needs to go two of five. 20 people, $500.

Look at those blue jeans. I love a strap. Hard strap. Good. Good pace. That was good. Good pace. That's one down. Just need to hit another one out of the next four. In 20 people who win $500

who retweet this video. Say something nice to somebody. This happened last time. I had one of those. Right there. Stopped early. I was following it in and it stopped. I had to pick it up and walk it off. Sure.

See you later. Oh, Bruce. Bruce. Oh, no. Oh, no. You got 1,000 shots. Bruce, it's happening. Flash bulbs are getting to him. Hey, listen.

Don't let old Super Bowl kickoff photo Bill. You know, come on, Bruce. Bruce played well yesterday, too. But that went a little closer. All right, Bruce. Oh, you boys played a little golf yesterday well yesterday, too. That went a little closer. All right, Bruce. You boys played a little golf yesterday? Got a round in. Smart.

70 degrees in India yesterday. I heard it was beautiful. Yeah, it was beautiful. Ridiculous. I'll tell you where I was. It was hot. Okay. It was thick.

Here you go, Bruce. Complete silence. There's no way that's going to work. Bruce! Atta baby, bro! Wow. I thought you had no shot. The whole place went quiet.

That's the quietest it's ever been. The tension was built, and Bruce stepped up. 20 people, $500. 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 a cash app. What a happy hour. Here we go.

Here's to you. We'll be back tomorrow with a feel-good Friday. We appreciate everybody so much. Boys, you're great. Everybody in the back, you're fantastic. I'm gonna get home to my wife. I can't wait to see her. We'll see you tomorrow for a feel good Friday. Goodbye.