The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 871 - World Baseball Classic Final Recap, "The Mayor" Sean Casey, Rece Davis, Laremy Tunsil, Pacman Jones LIVE In The ThunderDome, & The Return Of AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 22, 2023

On today’s show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about last night’s World Baseball Classic Final which saw Team Japan beating the United States 3-2, why it was great for baseball, and everything else happening around the NFL, and March Madness as we approach the Sweet Sixteen. Joining the progrum to chat about the World Baseball Classic and why it is the perfect thing for baseball at this time is 3x All-Star, member of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, MLB Network Analyst, and host of The Mayor’s Office, “The Mayor,” Sean Casey (45:42-1:03:23). Next, ESPN College GameDay host for both football and baseketball, Rece Davis joins the progrum to chat about his Sweet Sixteen picks and who he likes moving forward in the tournament (1:24:29-1:58:29). Later, 3x Pro Bowler, #13 pick of the 2016 NFL Draft, a man who just reset the offensive tackle market for the 2nd time, Tackle for the Houston Texans, Laremy Tunsil joins the show to chat about making a deal, doing business for himself, which QB he likes in the draft, and the legend that is Saint Omni (2:10:52-2:24:40). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023, a sports program starts now. Much mana! Much mana to all you boys as well and everybody watching wherever it may be. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to be a part of your day. I've heard from plenty of people that are on the opposite side of this particular earth that watch our show every single day. And right now for them,

they're like 13, 14 hours ahead of time. So it's a vastly different experience watching this show, whether you're in the Midwest, the West Coast, or potentially in fucking Japan. Speaking of Japan,

I've had a couple people send me some DMs and some messages. I was very fortunate enough to go on a USO tour to Japan. Went to Tokyo, went down to Okinawa, went to a couple different bases,

went out and about a little bit, went to a penguin bar where literally every 30 minutes they rang a bell and then these penguins would come fucking marching out of the goddamn aquarium that they had on the side of the wall

and they'd walk around table to table and you'd feed them a little fish. That's sweet. You'd feed them a little fish. Hell yeah. And then they would just waddle their asses right back into their rooms, and then they would swim in front of you while you finished your dinner. I've gotten a chance to experience Japan.

I've gotten a chance also to experience the military that is in Japan and how many people the Americans have in Japan. So last night while I was watching that game, in Japan. So last night, while I was watching that game, I had full focus and intention of thinking about those military folks over in Japan. Hell yeah. Whenever the United States beats Japan

in a World Baseball Classic. I thought about, wow, how nice their life must be when they go to a McDonald's and get a McFish. I forget what it is, the exact wording of it. It was a different McDonald's. It is a completely different world over there. Their language, completely different than ours. Their lifestyles, completely different than ours.

They are very nice, very courteous to me. Now, I don't think they love Americans as a whole, everybody because of something that happened in the past, which is valid, but also valid you know both sides feel the way they feel forever i think we're past that or whatever great allies everybody treated me very nicely over there and i'd wandered off the whole thing but it's a different world over there and when our military is over there they're living in a completely opposite world their families are there they're there for like 13 14 15 straight months so whenever the united states has an opportunity to take on japan and something that both sports feel very very very good about last night was a beautiful thing yeah i enjoyed the entire process of it i love the fact that japan

was on the national stage for us and obviously the international stage for everybody else because a lot of us in America, and I think we're going to be informing the world of, a lot of us don't fucking watch baseball. Oh, not at all. So like, baseball's an interesting time. That's why they put the pitch clock in. They're trying to make it a little bit more appetizing for people that are of a younger age and maybe have a shorter attention span in this world in which there is content everywhere. And there's like four highlights in baseball games normally. We can see them all on the internet in 14 seconds. So like baseball viewership is going down.

So a lot of us don't watch baseball much. I'll watch the playoffs if the Yankees are playing or some other big names are playing. I'll watch the World Series because it's the World Series. But normally there's a lot of other football shit going on too in that time, so it's kind of tough to do. So, like, last night was the first time I feel like a lot of Americans, myself included, very excited for a fucking baseball game. Whenever the Olympics happen and you see the United States take on another country, it's like you're allowed to be pumped for the U.S. to go win. When our women's soccer team plays against somebody, it is so much fun to just be like, yep, you ain't the fucking Americans.

We are going to kill you at this sport. And it's all competition. It's all friendly banter. But in the end, one person is going to be better than the other, and we can all talk shit for the country we live in, which doesn't happen often anymore, really. It's not really a thing that happens. So I enjoy international competition.

Who doesn't? It's great. Great. Brings everybody together. Let's prove it out there. Same team. We had fucking Mike Trout playing on his team. He walked out with a United States flag, Captain America.

I seen his post. He said it was an honor to serve as your captain is what Mike Trout tweeted. Hell yeah, Mike, is what I said to this guy. He took it as a real honor. He was excited. He was pumped. Team he plays for, hell yeah, Mike, is what I said to this guy. He took it as a real honor. He was excited. He was pumped. Timmy plays for the Angels. Stink. Even though he's the best player in America history, allegedly. I'm only saying that because people got loud about Mike Trout last night on the internet.

I don't know shit about fuck. I'm not the one that's going to judge anything. But with the way things went, people were saying it. I'm not saying it. I've been told he's the best fucking baseball player in the history of America. How much he cared about it. How much it seemed like the team cared about it. I met the coach last night in an interview. He had chops.

He was funny. He knew that there's probably 70, 80, 90, maybe 100 million people watching. It was intense. It was magical. I didn't know any of our pitchers. That was a worry. That's the sport. That's the sport.

I didn't know any of our pitchers. Ultimately, in the end, though, Shohei Otani, Japan's greatest player, world's greatest player, in our eyes for a long time since we learned about this fucking guy, pitching better than everybody else, hitting better than everybody else, greatest fucking baseball player of all time. In our eyes. We didn't know. We don't know baseball, though.

This is just Stooge looking into the baseball world. Outsider. Oh, well, this guy's the best pitcher. This guy's the best hitter. Okay, where's that guy? Well, he's like second best pitcher whenever he's on. And one of the best hitters. Oh, so that's the best fucking player then.

That would be the best player, that guy. That's what we've always said. End up with him on the mound pitching against his teammate, Mike Trout, the best in American baseball history. Top of the ninth. I mean, This was a perfect story for baseball. I think it delivered last night.

In the end, we lose to that man who is a fucking dog. The Talks of Tapers here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt, who's a massive baseball guy. Can't wait to get your thoughts on this. One half of the hammer. Cowboys turn. Diggs is here. And a 14-year NFL corner. Pro Bowl All the hammer. Cowboys turn digs this year. And a 14 year NFL corner.

Pro Bowl All-Pro Adam Pac-Man Jones is back on stage. Ty, I'll start with you here. Last night delivered I think for baseball. That was a great game. Close game. Came down to the game's two biggest stars. Probably that tournament's two biggest stars. And it was one on one. And we go 100 miles an hour,

100 miles an hour, 102 miles an hour, 100 miles an hour, 87 off the table. How you doing? Keep it moving. Strikeout. Is there a better ending in the history of sport for Shohei Ohtani last night? Yeah, I don't think so. And then now there's stuff coming out that when he was 15 he mapped out until he was 45

what he wanted to accomplish. And I think to the year he said when I'm 27 years old I want to play in the World Baseball Classic and win an MVP. What do you know? He did it last night. That was a weird thing at the end, too, with the line, who's going first, who's not going first.

They had Bob Manford there and then two people that I assume very important people in the history of baseball. I had no idea who the hell they were. Great beard on one guy, had a nice bald head, and then the other fellow was a little bit older. But the commissioner was there closest. Was he involved with this? Because some teams weren't letting their players little bit older, but the commissioner was there closest. Was he involved with this? Because some teams weren't letting their players play, right,

in the World Baseball Classic. Then seeing Bob Manford there, and then I felt like Shohei, if you watch it back, he didn't know who he was supposed to go get the medal from. They wanted to send him far left, who's probably World Baseball Classic commissioner. I don't know who that commissioner is. Instead, he goes, I'm going. That guy's the commissioner of the league that I'm about to make a billion dollars in.

I'm going there. And then they take the picture. Then they head out to the thing. Interesting ceremony. I think there should have been a little bit more preparation and ceremony. But he fucking won everything last night. Yeah. I mean, the best part, obviously, we were texting during the game. And it did kind of play out exactly how I thought it was going to.

I told you, hey, we need to score early. We need to kind of pad a lead because Shohei's going to be there at the end of the game, and we do not want to be going into a situation where we've got to put guys on base and then try to score a run off him. And we had multiple chances, you know, ducks on the pond, and we just couldn't get it done.

But the best part is that baseball season starts next week, and they couldn't have fathomed having a better you know like momentum going into the season because if this game or this tournament as a whole sucks and is boring then it's like you know it's a non-starter people don't give a shit that baseball starts you know next week and granted like i don't think it's almost like your all-star game before the season starts yeah unbelievable it's like good baseball, I don't think. Pack and Ty, we're going to continue to talk about this. We've got the mayor, Sean Casey, coming on the show

in the third hour. He's from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There's never been another guest that has brought more energy than Sean Casey. Oh no, and texting him this morning, he is jacked up. He is so juiced about baseball. Played for the Reds, played for the Tigers, for the Tigers. Red Sox.

Yep. I believe he's been in a fist fight on the mound before a couple different times. He's a legend. Long for Jim Leland. Yeah, played for Jim Leland. Love it. He mentioned Jim Leland's name and then immediately popped. Yep.

Yep. Screaming into the microphone. And we were all like, whoa, what the fuck did Jim Leland do? Yeah. Like, what popped into Sean Casey's head there that he lost his mind? So we'll be talking about this a lot, I think, today, which is weird because baseball. Baseball.

But to your point, last night was great for baseball as a whole. Pac, you wanted to talk about it. You're like, let's talk about this baseball. Yeah, because it was very interesting. It was an unbelievable game. I thought it was just like you said, it was almost like an all-star game, if you ask me. And same on the Angels for having these two guys on their team.

This is like, I would say, Kobe and Michael Jordan being on the same team. That's what they're saying, right? That's kind of how it's been talked about. And losing. And can't win. Losing. The Angels got to figure out something to put some pieces around them. But this is probably, Shanghai is probably one of the best that we would ever see.

We haven't seen no one do what he's doing. Shohei? I mean, maybe. It works. I thought you said something different. Shohei. Shohei. Hey, listen, I write to people's faces.

I forgot their names. So I've had to kind of just stumble through it. It's going to happen. But Shohei. Shohei Otani. You had it right. I of just stumble through it. It's going to happen. But Shohei. Shohei Otani. You had it right. I heard wrong. To pitch and hit, it's hard to do.

And what he's doing, what he showed last night, it was unbelievable. You play baseball? Yeah, I play baseball young, but not at a level where I can really. Break down. Break it down. Yeah. At a high level. But yeah, I was pretty decent.

Yeah, because we listen. I listen to some of these. I was at Get Up, for instance. And who was there? Mark Teixeira. Mark Teixeira was there. Okay, so I got a chance to chat with him. In listening to him talk about what he's thinking about while he's hitting or whatever,

it's like baseball has varied. And I didn't play growing up, okay? Sure. I did play in a Frontier League game. That's right, professionally. On base percentage? That counts. 333.

No big deal. Slid, too. How you doing? Hall of Fame numbers. Bang. Contact. First time stepping into a batter's box in my entire life. Actual first time stepping into a batter's box.

First pitch, 92 mile an hour fastball. No, that's not crazy. I guess like 97. 102 last night. Yeah. That fucking Shohei guy. Holy shit. To your point, dog, this guy.

Contact, break thumb pretty much. Yep. Almost pull hamstring. Right. Run into first base. Almost beat it out, though. Yeah, almost, right? Yeah, because it was like a bunt how much I did not get any power on it.

Yeah, it just kind of like fluttered below. Almost had some time. have any power on it. Yeah, it just kind of like fluttered below. Almost had some time. But I get on base. So not knowing the baseball as well as I probably should, this, I loved it, Connor. Yeah, no, it was unbelievable. The whole process of last night. And I'm in the same mindset as you.

Like, I don't watch baseball. I'll watch the World Series. I'll watch the playoffs. Like, when the Red Sox are good, sure, I'll watch, but they haven't been good for a little bit. But to your guys' point about, like, you know, all-star game feel, it's almost like with March Madness going on. It's like if March Madness ended and then their season started.

Like, that's how I see it because you got to see all these unbelievable players. It's like a world championship, and then they're rolling into the season. Like, I'm going to watch baseball next week because of this. How was that little 20-year-old throwing 97 last night? Did you see that? How those little dudes do it, I'll never understand. Dude, this guy was 20 years old, appeared to be very small,

and then it was just like 97. I'm like, what, bro? I loved everything about it except for the fact that, you know, U.S.'s 25th best pitcher, Merrill Kelly, was the starter last night. I mean, where were the big dogs? Where were the big pitchers at? I mean, Erlander, Scherzer, fucking Gary Cole. Where

were we? Gromby. Yeah, how come we got Trout out there? Yeah, all the position players are. Yeah, our lineup was unbelievable. Yeah, we could have used another guy too. Fucking Judge, but he decided he doesn't love him. Judgey. Yeah, what's that all about? Typical Yankee. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You mean the team?

The team. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Judge, he could have maybe played. But, I mean, the pitching is the major issue. Because if we would have had our top guys. That's the sport, isn't it? I mean, the sport is the pitcher. And it makes sense because in a tournament like this, you assume that – because teams don't want,

with the season starting next week, you don't want your ace going out there and having to throw eight innings in a game. So, hey, Tony was pitching. this guy hits his well why are we but he only threw like you know he only threw an inning because they don't want him fucking throwing what was the guy's name last night that was commentating he said the angels aren't going to be happy with a quick turnaround here with show hey going into warm-ups or would possibly not be happy because they he went into seventh i think right yeah he started warming up yes and then they didn't you know because uh because schwarber hit a homer in the seventh, I think. Right, yeah, he started warming up and then they didn't

because Schwarber hit a homer in the seventh and we were kind of starting to put a little rally together and then they were kind of playing it like, well, are we going to have to go burn him and put him out in the eighth and he'll have to pitch the eighth and the ninth? Or are we going to be able to hold on and just bring him in in the ninth and kind of shut the door, which

ultimately is what they got to do. But that's why our top guys aren't going is because and know and i think bruce mentioned this earlier sitting out there like when when you're getting ready for a season like this and these guys are going to throw over 200 innings like it's a process building your arm back up so you don't eat like you can't come out of the gate just throwing unless you're shohei you know but like a hundred a lot a lot of these like you were saying verlander like he's he's like 39 years old so he he can't like if he doesn't have his full process working that was a text i sent to ty last night because i somebody else came out to the mound yeah loop or whatever yeah

loop was the most baseball player looking baseball player i've ever seen in my entire life he did the job he did he got us out of a jam. Hey, loop's kind of a dog. Oh yeah. Loop's lower body. He's squatting 10,000. Oh yeah. But these pictures coming out, I don't know who the fuck,

I knew who the more Japanese pictures were. Yeah. Then I knew the American pictures and I sent him a text. I go, where's Justin Verlander, Pac? Where's, and I think the thing is,

and you would understand this, I think as much as anybody else, I would assume baseball is a massive limit reps. Like, hey, we're going to have you on a pitch count. That's an actual thing. Yeah. A pitch count.

And it's almost as you get older and older, that becomes like a year-round count of everything that you're doing almost to save your body. Is that why you think maybe we didn't have any of our fucking pitchers, Pac-Man? Or what are your thoughts on our competition level from the mountain, which is the sport. That is the sport. The pitcher is the sport. I think this was a big payday for Shohei. That's why he was planning this.

I think everybody knew that it would be us against Japan for the championship. And I'm quite sure he made a bankroll. Oh, yeah. I mean, listen to what we're talking about. I assume we're not the only people. Like, that's getting it, though. That's like content, business,

everything like that. I don't know how he remains so... You know? You put one of our aces over there, they're not going to make the payday that he just made. Yeah, I mean, no one's going to sniff what his contract will be. He's going to make so much money, right?

Buster Olney reported this morning that the bidding will probably start at like $500 million plus. It'll probably eclipse $600 million plus for some of these teams who don't really have a shot. How about Cohen, dude? Cohen, he spends every dollar. He's going probably $10 million more than whatever the bid is. I've told you guys the story about I was at an auction,

and it was a golf outing auction. Yeah. And they were offering up Saturday Night Live VIP with a private plane. Okay? With a private plane. Hotel, everything. It was like, hey, that sounds pretty sweet for four people, I think. I think it was four people or whatever.

I'm like, oh, that sounds like a great time. Like, Nick was potentially going to end up at fucking Saturday Night Live. We were just going to be having a good time on this thing. I start bidding. I have a pretty good amount of money at this point in my life. Pretty solid amount of money. I feel good. Like, all right, we're going to win this.

I don't know what it's going to take, but we are going to do this. I start bidding. It starts at like $10,000. I'm like, cool, $10,000. Obviously, going to charity. Somebody behind me goes $15,000. I goes 25 i go okay sweet 30 guy goes 50 i go okay 51 the guy goes 60 oh i go okay 61 the guy goes 75 i go well i don't know what the fuck who is this going on and the person I was sitting with was hosting the thing.

He told me the guy's name. The guy created Exact Target, I think. Exact Target was the name of the company. And then it sold to Salesforce. And he did that literally 10 days before this auction. $4 billion or something, like $3 billion. Plus with cash. So much money yeah so my one of

the richest people in all of indiana was sitting four tables behind me pretty much and i was like who the fuck like i've because i'm a colt player in indiana yeah exactly pretty good amount of money like i feel pretty i felt pretty good for a second no chance so i did one more 76 he goes 100 i'm like all right i thought we're gonna do that all do that. And I felt like the bidding war people at the auctions, like I ran it up almost for charity. Good for me. I'm a hero. That is not the case.

I look like an asshole. Like I look like a complete asshole. So I go meet old buddy. He's a Colts fan, obviously. I should know his name. That's a person I should know the name of. I do not. He was a good dude.

But there's those people in like baseball now, it appears. Oh, yeah. They're like, oh, you're saying 61? Sweet. Here's 75. Like Cohen, here somebody offers this. He's like, hey, just listen. I want you to not only like come, but I want you to be happy to come.

We're going to go 20 million over what they're saying. And we're going to pay the luxury tax just to get you to become a fucking bet. I don't know if you've heard this. I've invested money everywhere. They're fining me for everything. And then one of the guys I invested my money to, guess who he did? Guess who he did, Shohei? Fucking just ruined his whole season in a game that didn't matter,

allegedly, in my eyes. But I loved it. I love you. Here's that. They were talking about $800 million or something last night, potentially, for Shohei. Is that real? Is that a real thing?

$800, probably not. The internet was talking about that. Yeah, no. I mean, but we'll see. Because it'll be the kind of thing where chances are he's also going to want to play in a big market that probably has some sort of, like, Japanese reach, you know, because I think most of those guys who are studs, like, it's still, I mean, like, he has to talk through a translator, you know? And a translator needs a little moxie.

Can we get a little, because I think Shohei has a little personality. I think he probably does in there. But that is why places like New York, because a lot of Japanese people live in New York, there is kind of a sense of home a little bit. And there will be a couple of those teams, like the kind of blue bloods, like the Yankees and the Mets, obviously because Steve Cohen has so much money,

the Dodgers, talking about the Mariners, the Red Sox, teams like that will be able to bid. That's right. But ultimately, too, Shohei talks about there's a reason he wanted to play last night. He fucking loves baseball. He loves competing. He wants to win.

He knows what he's worth. He knows how much money he's going to make. But he just spent five years in limbo where it's like, hey, I'm not here to fucking win 75 games, miss the playoffs, and then just have everyone tip me all offseason about how good I am.

I want to show it in the playoffs. I want to show it like I did last night when the moments are huge. He is an actual fucking gamer. So I'm not saying he's going to take $50 million less to go play somewhere where he thinks he can win, but I also don't think he's just going to sell out and take money because also the reach in Japan, like his off-the-field endorsements, he's going to make a shitload of fucking money.

Has a new balance deal? Is that what it is? Yeah. Has a new balance deal? Go ahead, Pac. What were you going to say? That's what I was saying. After winning this game, that number back in Japan don't skyrocket. It's probably billboards, statues already being planned. How many million people 127 million people

127 million in Japan marketing can be pretty good yeah market can be pretty good over there I would assume it has some Shibuya I believe is an intersection in Tokyo you guys might have seen it in the Fast and Furious we walked through

there after a night of incredible sushi and incredible sake. Hell yeah. A lot of it. What was that shit? I was drinking like Japanese moonshine. That's with scorpion in it? It had a snake in it.

Yeah, snake. The guy with the sword. Yeah, the guy with the sword. We were drinking Japanese moonshine. I mean, we were having a good time That was when me and Chuck Habushu Habushu

Thank you Made in Okinawa That's really where me I had a good time that night We had six straight with us Other side of the country I just got done with a stand up comedy tour Literally the day before we took the flight to um to japan it's where me and chuck met each other but we walked through shibuya it was like 10 30 at night 11 o'clock at night

they call it the busiest intersection in the world or something yeah there's it's literally just a sea of human like actual humans like a wave is just going across it's a five-way and every single thing is just people just humans everywhere think about the endorsement deals with how many humans are over there holy shit their business must be massive Shohei's got to be the king of Japan it has to be right now it's like New York Times 10 over there and that's my point like to win at that level and the showdown that it came to at the end of that game, you couldn't ask for a better rollout. Hell, yeah.

That was a nice rollout. And I think whenever you – we were supposed to be chatting with Laramie Tunzel, I think coming up here in – okay, so Laramie, there might be a miscommunication. Because remember, we had timing issues there with Laramie. Yeah. We had a miscommunication. We remember, we had timing issues there with Laramie. We had a miscommunication. We don't know. This morning, too.

Because what time zone is he in? You know? Might have been speaking. No, I never told Laramie a time. I actually told him the wrong day. And I have not even responded to that. So I think it's all whatever's going on back there, ZD, baby. So ZD, the Texans, their teams, like they're like, hey.

They're about it. They come into the office. Exactly. They send us stuff. They're like, hey, anything you need from us, please let us know. I'm like, I appreciate that. No, I don't know how, like, there's some things like we have to, you know, like we're not just like if the Houston Texans stink like they,

like we got to do what we got to do. Right. But it feels like they get it down there with us. Very much so. They're very wide open. I mean, and I was in the heat of the Easterby stuff. And like they still, like they understand that, hey, we have to talk about this. We were very supportive of that.

That's when they got introduced to us. Did you hear about Jack Easterby? Do you remember what this story was? We probably tightened that up so we're done doing that, I assume. Remind me. Jack Easterby was the FCA guy for the New England Patriots. He was the...

Loved. Fellowship of Christian Athletes preacher, I do believe, for the New England Patriots. Loved. Long time. Goes down to Houston. Gets recruited down to Houston with the GM, I believe. Nick Casario.

No, Nick came after. Yeah, he was before. They were saying that he was a big reason that they brought in Casario. Yeah, Billy O, maybe Billy O'Brien. Somehow, this guy gets brought in from New England, from a New England person's recommendation in Houston. Jack Eastbury gets in there, and this guy can say the Lord's word like, hey. He's the Shohei Otani of the Lord's word.

Bro, he was crip walking on one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish in the middle of a service. That is a real deal. He worked himself up to being the president of the fucking Texans and making all the decisions personnel-wise. Allegedly, this guy. Had a mic. Had a microphone during games, headset during games with a thing.

This guy, FCA guy, New England. Houston Texans, right up to the top. Wow. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. Having actual say. Watching film, judging things, making plays. This is all alleged. Alleged, right.

We have never heard from Jack Eastbury. We have heard Jack Eastbury knows about us. I would assume so, because we are very fascinated by this. Have you ever heard anything like this? I've never heard of it. Me neither. No. It was a week.

He must have been good. That's like taking Connor off the show and say, Connor, go be the head coach of the Texans. Yeah, yeah. Go call plays. Yeah. Yeah, Connor, hey, you're a good speaker. People seem to like you. Let's go ahead and put you in a position of power in the NFL,

the highest level of the hardest sport in the world. That'll be. Was that cover two or cover three right there, Conor? Hey, speaking of. Okay, let's talk about that. Devin McCourty was doing an interview with Tom E. Curran up in New England, and Devin McCourty was asked by Tom. I think they have a good

relationship, it seems like. Yeah, for sure. Seems like they get along well. Tom E. Curran works for NBC Sports Boston. He covers the Patriots. He's covered the Patriots a long time. Has been on this program before. Has been on this program before has been on this program before devin mccord basically broke down to tommy kern like what he hates about television coverage and sports coverage as a whole of the nfl and even brought up the point where there is people that he appreciates and respects in the football world calling games in a moment and saying something's cover three and there's clearly two safeties on tv so he says he doesn't want to be the person that does that he would like to grade

things because he's getting into the media world but it's hard to is there ever a time where you remember where the commentator just threw you under the bus and did you hold a grudge against that human forever uh because of it i'll tell you a prime example the steve uh smith play we was in cover two um it was a broken play what a prime example. The Steve Smith play. We was in cover two. It was a broken play. What was the Steve Smith play? Because I don't remember what it is.

Clearly you do, though. He caught a long bomb. It was Ravens game. It was a busted play. It was cover two in the coverage. But I end up catching him. And he broke the tackle. And first thing, the commentators say, he was a man a man he didn't

keep it he wasn't even fucking man a man you didn't know what the fuck you're talking about but no i don't hold a grudge because i i know once i get back to the meeting room when we get that that paper that grade us out and then i get to go back and talk on monday and tuesday yeah so yeah you get to clarify some things you get to clarify but it's not heard by the amount of people that are potentially hearing things so for me like kicking and punting nobody knows shit about like nobody has a clue about hang time anything yeah where i'm putting the ball the hang time like what i'm trying to do versus what other people are trying to you know what i mean yeah like that that whole thing is happening so it's like it's okay you don't ask me but also

like don't be you know say like there's been a couple commentators that know nothing about kicking or punning that have made comments not only about me but a lot of guys and it's like yo what you're saying is not like that is nothing to do with anything that we're doing but that shapes a narrative in some people's minds and those people are voting for pro bowls and other honors and there's bonuses big ones that are attached with those types of things. There's legacies that are attached to those types of things. I think it's very important that when we're watching something, that the narrative is not built too early and completely false.

Remember the one about Micah Tone Diggs. Micah Parsons' first game. Yeah. He was – Middle linebacker. This guy has no idea what he's doing. Now, granted, he has ended up being one of the greatest edges in the history of the game through the first two years of his career

of all time. Mike, you want to be that? I think you would have figured out Mike, too. Probably, sure. I think you would have because he plays that a little bit. But that first game, he was getting cooked and roasted because of what the commentators said. He had stepped up to play the run in his run duties or whatever and then had to flip his hips and get

back into coverage and kind of wall off the tight end. It looked like he was lost for a second, but he wasn't. But the guy created football who put the video out. Which you are a fan of again. We need to let that world know. One tweet made sense.

No, no, no. You are a fan. There was one tweet about Lamar that made sense. No, no, no. And you saw that tweet and you about Lamar that made sense. No, no, no. And you saw that tweet and you said, I assume if we agree on this, we agree on a lot of other things. We don't need to hold grudges, maybe because a couple different thoughts people have had. I mean, they could hold those against us forever as well. I didn't know what you're saying about the guy.

Yeah, you bought his book. Yeah, you did. Holy shit. Sent that book. What's your problem? Didn't we disagree? I just wanted to set the record straight back at the time he was incorrect okay all right got it but yeah that michael parsons that happens a lot in a lot of different uh positions and situations it's like are we 100 sure and i think the dbs are normally the victims of it the most especially after what we've seen

from darius this year and then you hear other people talking they hear devin mccordy like that's his first thing is like well there's people that are talking and it's like they you feel that through like your career because although you can get the answer on twitter nowadays and things like that there's like 42 million people watching these fucking sunday night games exactly there is there's a lot of people that their first thought is like oh that's a guy that got cooked like, oh, that's a guy that got cooked. Like for two days, that's a conversation that happens. And there's humans on the other end of it and legacies. I enjoy it. I think the world's going to get smarter than football-wise.

Absolutely. I think we're at a stage where it's like getting, you know what I mean? Much better. I think so. Ty, you don't think so? No, there maybe. I don't think Twitter helps because everyone maybe on i think i don't think twitter helps because any everyone has a voice 50 50 i i think it's actually just like it's jumped the shark a

bunch because now that like you can buy the all 22 like people think everyone thinks they're a d coordinator or you think so you think this has been oh yeah it's actually had a reverse i think i think there's been like a shift because you shift because you will see people who get on there who watch the film and don't know what they're looking at, but because they have it available and they can watch it and they maybe enjoy it, they've convinced themselves, I do know what I'm talking about. And then it takes someone else who was a coach or was a GM

or worked in the league for a long time to be like, yeah, just because this guy has access to the All-22, he doesn't know what he's fucking talking about. This is bullshit. I think that has kind of become a lot more prevalent since that stuff's become available. I didn't even think of the for every action, there's an equal and

opposite reaction. Exactly. And that is happening, I assume. But whenever you come out, that's why you need to keep saying stuff. I think that's a big deal that the former players continue to make things. Because I think fans would want to know. Personally, I think so. That's why I feel like it's 50-50. There are a lot of those fuckers that Ty's mentioned.

They watch the film and all of a sudden they know everything. Watch this release here. That's what Devin McCourty said. How many times did you watch the game? Tom Curran, what are you talking about? I watched it on Sunday. These dudes watch it over and over again, but with all those idiots, there are guys like

Lombardi, Pac-Man, Darius Butler, who know what they're looking at. Offensive line, same thing. Exactly. With how mad AQ used to get. He used to get furious. Yes. People on TV. Athletes who played on TV. NFL guys who played on TV, he gets mad at a lot. Yeah, he does.

That's why Greg Olsen was so good this year. He just stayed in his lane, only talked about what he knew. But right now, players are using their platform if you start talking shit about them. Yeah. They're going, all right, let me rewind this play. Not everybody. Me personally, if I was in the league now, I would me rewind this play. Not everybody. Me personally, if I was in the league now, I would break down

every Sunday. Me too. Wrong or right, no matter how good I play. Don't need to give away strategy. Don't need to fuck your team. Hey, look. Boom. That was a great play right here. And then if I could cook one play, hey, look. I got all leverage on this play. This was a good release. He called the ball, or I fucked up right here.

Yeah, it's actually something NFL film should offer like nfl film should be offering it up to um that sounds like a good business idea this is the things like nflpa should think of hey nflpa let's think of this let's all let's think of content ideas that you know nfl films and probably a sponsor could do for the players because now we're making money. You say not just taking money. Nope. And, like, using money. Now we're making money. Hey.

Huh? Pretty smart. That is a great idea, Pac. I didn't even think about that because – and it doesn't have to be the whole game. No. Notable plays that you were involved in. Yeah. Don't give away the strategy.

You would not be giving away anything that anybody else hasn't already said. And if you are, don't. Obviously can't happen. Let the team watch it then. Like let somebody have to give the final okay. The NFL Films people, high football IQ people, they've been around football a long time. They don't want to fuck anybody over or give anything up.

Hard knocks. That would be incredible. It's not even that hard, though, because right now you can go and watch every game. Anybody got some common sense of football, you can go right now on NFL go and watch every game yeah anybody got some common sense of football you can go right now on nfl live and watch the game yeah yeah and it shows the whole view you don't get the back copy um like we get when we watch it on you're not exposing anything that isn't already wide open to everybody to potentially look at you might be now i do wonder

though like what would be the backdrop there would be be people right now in the NFL that would not want this. Coaches would not want this to happen. Why would they not want it to happen? That's just immediately what my first thought is because it's a brilliant idea. Yeah, would it be because then the next team knows they're looking for this? The one thing that popped in my head because of the big-brain football you did last year at the beginning of the season, that Ramsey play, talking to him about when Gabe Davis and them

had that conversation on the sideline, and he was looking for something specifically, and he jumped that route. But instead, because of the Gabe Davis conversation, he went 70 yards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They made an adjustment live. Yeah, if you could talk to Jalen Ramsey, like, hey, explain what you were seeing that you thought you were going to get, and then that might be where, like he's saying,

yeah, our coach wants us to look for certain spots on routes. Yeah, this is also where you could say, well, it was cover two, and then I was just the fastest two of the guys. That would be an easy way to clear that type of shit up. I think the players already get to see that anyway. Like, they got every game. Dude, just call it the clarification series, bro. Why don't we just and it doesn't

have to be every player every week it could just be the ones that's like players are like hey this is wrong this is being talked about i want to have the pr team be a part of it just like any other opportunity i mean that would be great content and have the you don't have the deal be with the teams you can negotiate a deal i've negotiated with coach for appearances and other things that have happened because it's through one of their sponsors. I think that is easy money that can get brought in and make our world a lot better, make the sports world as a whole a lot better. Brilliant concept.

Yeah, and some guys might not want to do it because it's like this is the worst moment. Like I got cooked here, and that's one thing. But if you were to do the Bills and the 13 seconds left in the game against the Chiefs in the divisional round last year, what were they trying to do defensively where you had the do it, Kels, do it, Kels from Mahomes? Yeah, because they were just getting dunked on relentlessly. Over and over again.

For not being able. Yeah. And if somebody would have came out and said, hey, this was the plan, the plan did not work clearly. Bingo. But we did have a plan because that was a tough offseason. They were thinking about changing rules. Yeah.

And then every time they were thinking about changing the rules, that got brought up. It's just like the Flakey. Every time the Flakey got brought up, we would literally get brought up about how bad we lost. Yeah, they beat the shit out of the Colts, remember? Yeah, that was like, that was literally the side effect conversation that came immediately

upon that happening. So I think you heard all of us and I'm not saying I was anywhere near a spokesperson for the fucking team. I'm just saying the team, everybody's idea was like, can we stop talking about this? We would like to move on. It's been two years. We just get dunked on.

Yeah, two years. He didn't get suspended until 2016. Two years. What a wild time. That's kind of, you know, that's every action. That's right. Equal and opposite reaction. And bills were talked about all year.

Who was that? Who was the equal and opposite reaction. And bills were talked about all year. Who was that? Who was the equal and opposite reaction? Isaac Newton. Is that who it was? I think. Shout out, Newton, dude. Shout out.

What else did Newton do? Newton did some shit. Three laws. Okay, go ahead. The equal and opposite reaction. Okay. This is not the exact terminology, but it's the weight of everything falls or whatever. Fucking apple on the head. Yeah.

Okay. 9.8. Oh, the speed in which gravity. 9.88, and then there's a thing over top of it, I believe. Yeah, I remember that. And then treat others the way you'd like to be treated. Nice. No one's a fucking dog.

He did come up with that. You're right. The golden rule. A body in motion remains in motion or a body at rest remains arrest until acted upon by a force okay newton shout out force equals mass times oh there it is that's a big one yeah that's a big one there it's america's funniest home movies but in different order yeah i'm not yeah that's how we remember it yeah that's how we remember it that's how I remember it yeah you're you're 100% right why was that so big

yeah that's how for every reaction for every action there's an equinox reaction there's a third one too he thought of that one late yeah

fuck need another one Newton said need another one you were a genius whenever you thought of that now we just kind of take it as for granted

think about whenever the person created a a couch. That person was fucking loved, dude. They were just sitting on hard-ass rock for a long time. They were just sitting on hard rocks for a long time. If you go back human history, we can assume that at one point. 2,000 years ago.

Jesus, right? It was Jesus? No, I think he had sandals at that point. So I assume they were thinking about protecting themselves. They used to just walk around barefoot. Do you think they're putting any padding on anything they're sitting on? Oh, no, I thought you meant that. No way.

Sorry, Ben. Humans at one point, bro, were just sitting on rocks, dude. I just went down a wormhole actually right before this show about the history of humans. Who knows? They could have been sitting on fucking clouds back then. We'd have no idea. Oh, okay. You think we have a little bit more buoyancy out of boys?

I mean, depending on what the aliens brought. have no idea oh okay you think we a little bit more buoyancy i think there's i mean depending what the aliens brought now the couch of course was invented by jay wellington couch in the year 1895 but the sofa was invented much earlier of course that's bullshit from what we know the earliest recorded image of a sofa or anything resembling it is in 1686 on the engraving called woman of equality on a canopy okay so like. Okay, so, like, yeah. Imagine when the first sofa popped up. They were so happy, dude. People were sleeping, like, so much better.

They're probably so much nicer if I had to guess. What? And then the pillows. Pillows were probably thereafter, yeah. And the floor, I know they loved it. Dude, think about the people, though, that still sit on the sofa. The soft generation.

Yeah. Yeah. The soft generation. I mean, could you imagine the shoe generation? The people who didn't wear shoes? Oh my god. What the hell is that on your feet, boy? Oh my god.

Those things all had to happen for us to get to this point right now. Shout out to the past, dude. Not all of it's good. Hey, a lot of bad back there. A lot. A lot of bad, but some stuff had to happen. Hindsight. I mean, everyone, you know, 2020, whatever the fuck.

All right, speaking of hindsight's 2020. Hilarious. Cam Newton. Good transition. Oh, shit. Yeah, he said hindsight 50-50. Well done. Cam Newton had that quote whenever he was asked about something

that went wrong in a football game. And we all remember in the press conferences how cool cam would always look oh yeah and when cam looked so cool and they were playing incredible football and winning it was like a match made in heaven you know this guy's got this fucking top hat on he's got a scarf on he's got four jackets on all different length they all match perfectly this dude loves his fashion and appears to be an absolute fucking GOAT! The way he handled questions, it was almost like he was built for the moment. This dude was a defensive end

that could play quarterback. Had to go to Juco. Obviously, we all remember that because he was cutting bars before a practice that was filmed in maybe the earliest forms of great internetting. Cam Newton breaks it down. Then he goes to Auburn. Then he obviously wins.

Then he gets into the NFL with the Carolina Panthers, and he takes over that whole city. Carolina Panthers become a thing in Carolina again because Cam Newton was there. This fucking freak show athlete who was incredibly charming and handsome and fashionable and still dog somehow, was going to be the next guy. Would go on to win an MVP. Would play in a fucking Super Bowl. Would be able to be a guy that nobody thought would be able to be imitatable because he was different than everything. And some shit happened. Some injuries, some situations, father time potentially.

Situations weren't necessarily the greatest, and he was still going in there, not performing what we had seen him do in the past, which was freakish, which was unbelievable. So he's being compared not only against everybody else, but also what he used to be. That was two different types of comparisons happening. And now he seemingly is making a fucking NFL comeback, or he's trying to. In Zubas yesterday, he was at the Auburn Pro Day

throwing to his younger brother and others. There was a bomb that we all have seen on the internet. There was a promo from Shannon Sharp about Cameron Newton that was incredibly put together. And if you're listening to it, you would be able to think to yourself, he's speaking the truth there. Everything he to yourself, are you speaking the truth there? Everything he's saying is speaking the truth.

But then you think about, like, Cam Newton, and you think to yourself, is Cam Newton going to go out like he went out in New England? And is Cam Newton going to sign up to look like that Cam Newton again? I'm not 100% sure that's the type of human he is, but I don't fucking know the guy personally. So he has to have some sort of confidence. He has to have some sort of thought that he'll be great.

Is he a guy that's just going to think that way for the rest of his life, you think, Pac? Or is this really something potentially because he is bigger, stronger. How old is he? 30 what? 34. 34 years old. We got 40-year-olds playing.

He's in great shape, right? He is obviously a guy. His body could potentially play a style of quarterback if he had the skills to do that particular style of quarterback while also being able to beat Cam Newton. There's people that have been very much older than he is now that have been able to accomplish that.

What are your thoughts on it? Getting in the door is going to be tough, but just as a player, what do you think? As a player, I don't know. To me, it don't add up. You know, we got guys that are playing at MVP levels last year that's not even getting paid. Two years ago.

Two years ago. I think he's going to get paid. He was hurt last year, MVP. He didn't have the MVP. But he still played. Yeah, when he was number one. He played at an MVP level. Got it, got it.

Cam haven't played in two years. I've seen the one deep ball. I also called around and asked, how did he look to a couple of my buddies that was there? And they say he overthrew a couple of balls. And they don't know if that's the same Cam that they've seen before. So, me personally, I would sit it down. You think he's going to think like this forever?

I would sit it down if I was him. I know Cam is a high competitor. He loves to compete, but I don't know. He's definitely not going to go and be in backup. I think whoever get him would have to be a backup bro. It's not too many teams that are bringing guys that haven't played

in two years to come to be the starter it's interesting unless you it's an interesting situation because he's a dog we all just uh we just laid out how he is which is why we loved him yeah but you gotta be aaron rogers arm scrone you gotta be tom brady arm scrone yeah you gotta You got to be Tom Brady Armstrong. Yeah, you got to throw. You got to be. Lance Armstrong. Strong. Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning. Bingo. My strength to come back for two years.

Eli Manning. Eli Manning. Like, this is not easy is what we making it. Yeah, the throwing aspect of it, the super elite throwers are the ones that are seemingly being able to last longer because they can control the amount of hits that they have to get and they can still have success that people want to keep them around so like the style of play that can last whenever you lose your mobility is obviously one and then also you have to have success in doing that style and it's not just a style that everybody can be successful at.

Not everybody. Like Joe Burrow is like such a thing because it feels – and Patrick Mahomes, whenever he throws 90% of his passes from inside the pocket, they're like 16 and 0s. I forget what – he's an – you've got to be elite arm talent, I think, to play like extended amount of times because cheaper to go younger normally.

Younger is longer. Younger has the mentality of just wanting it still, not already having it. So you can get people that kind of sell themselves away from signing Cam Newton, potentially, I think, just if you think about it from how they're viewing the whole situation. But, damn, I don't want to see this every year.

I don't want to see this. Tough. I love Cam Newton, man. I don't want to see, like, every single year we have to come out and say, like, no, he's not the right guy to be in the NFL right now. Hey, look, if you want to keep trying, I'm all for what he want to do. Okay. As long as he's happy.

T.O. did the same thing. Yeah, still. He still said he want to play, them all for what he want to do okay as long as he's out to you did the same thing yeah still he still say he want to play too yeah i don't know why to still want to play football but well he is i see hey he played fan craze football a little bit hey did he catch uh he may have caught yeah i believe he had one caught a game winner for the uh zappers all right we have to move on quickly because we have a man who's joining us early, and I apologize for not getting to you as soon as you hopped on. Ladies and gentlemen, absolute icon of a man,

host of the Mayor's Office podcast, three-time All-Star, Yenzer, the Mayor, Sean Casey. What's up, fellas? What's going on? Hey, where you at right now? I want to come. Hey, after the WBC, I want to come back and play some baseball, but I'm 48 and there's no chance I could run the bases, so I'm out.

Okay, hold on. You just got to get to first, don't you? Because I saw a pinch runner last night. I saw a pinch runner last night. All we need you to do is just spray the ball a little bit, which is all you did, right? You just put wood to ball, spray the field, let me get on there. That's what we needed last night. That's all we fucking needed last night.

What happened? Were we supposed to lose that game, Sean, or no? Wow, I'll tell you what. You know what? I think, listen, Japan is so good. They've been so good. They've been the icons of the classics since it started. And I just think last night it couldn't have gone any better.

It was an absolute dream for Major League Baseball, the way it was set up. The whole WBC was incredible. But for it to come down to Shohei Otani coming in to close the finals, facing Mike Trout, and get into it. Come on, man. 3-2 game, 3-2 count. And then he throws an unbelievable slider to punch him out so Japan wins. And I just think for baseball, for the game of baseball,

it couldn't have happened any better, and it was an incredible WBC all around. That's a dream moment, right? Whenever you think of baseball as a kid, it's like as a pitcher, swing and a miss, right? And then the punch out, like he said. That's the whole thing of baseball happening on a stage that's going to have, what, 90 million viewers? How many million across the

world because it's like matt you said how long has the classic been around and you said japan's basically been the kings of this thing since it started so it's got to be massive over there 70 million views japan and korea south korea i believe it's huge over there right and why don't we take it as serious or do we we do we do. We do. We do, Pat. It was incredible. I was fortunate enough in 2008 when I was with the Red Sox, my last year, we opened up in Japan. So we got a chance to play in the Tokyo Dome. We got a chance to play against the Giants there.

It was incredible. Literally, it was almost like for nine innings, they had chance for everybody. They were cheering the whole time. When Big Papi came up to hit, they were cheering for him it was just it's an incredible it's an incredible thing over there they love baseball and this classic means so much to that country i think it's such a big thing but hey listen the u.s showed up the u.s showed up mark the roads did great job the the power and the force of that lineup was incredible i mean just for it to be

the u.s versus versus Japan in that finals, like I said, it was a baseball international dream come true. Shohei Otani and Mike Trout are the two best players in baseball right now, faced off for one time. Teammates went head-to-head. Let's get it on. Power versus power. And Otani came through at the end.

How about that being a scripted tournament yeah i mean how about it i mean it was getting thrown at our sport right oh yeah this year it's been thrown in our sport a lot that would be the script to a movie of baseball hopefully this leads to a resurgence of baseball with the pitch clock and making that shorter they didn't have that in world baseball classic i don't know how people are reacting to it. It was something that I noticed, though. Because it's the first full baseball. First inning. All the way through. I watched the whole fucking thing.

Hey, the whole game. That's the... Maybe the first. The whole thing. I was so invested in it. I enjoyed the hell out of it. It felt like every pitch mattered. It felt like it was great. But the thing about pitching, I didn't know who any of our pitchers were i had no idea who would ever will we ever be able to do that isn't that the sport those guys hey great job all tournament

boys hell yeah great job all turn loop loop great job those boys did the thing but i knew more of their pitchers than i knew of ours like is that ever going to change or you think with how close it is to the season impossible well you know what I think listen I think the guy that you know with it being spring training these guys are still getting ready for the season but I think obviously because of the WBC and what it means to be there you know the adrenaline and these guys you know they pitched out they pitched well I mean it was it was a well-fought tournament even the pitching was great you know the hitting Trey Turner, all those guys. But I'll tell you what, brother.

But for you to watch a whole game, that's what I'm saying. Come on. So many people tuned in that weren't huge baseball fans because when you can see the icons of Japan and the icons of United States baseball and the DR and Puerto Rico and Mexico, man, these were countries. So, like, for you to lock in, bro, from nine innings,

we know we're on to something. Dude, I don't – yes, thank you. And there's going to be people that are pissed off that I said that. It's like, good luck getting me to watch anything. Yeah. I mean, I'm a mover. Obviously, people watch the show. The mind is a scattered thing over here.

But I was genuinely vested in last night's outcome i enjoyed the hell out of baseball for the first time probably ever except for when i was at pnc park and i had that big fishing net nick i had a big fucking fishing net i took a fishing net in there like uh for a thing let me walk right in there i have no idea how that was even possible i got i got a ball thrown to me from third baseline's person. Snagged that thing right over somebody. Did its job. Sorry.

How you doing? Keep it moving. That was a great time. I loved baseball that day. Hard not to. Every pitch, I was fucking waiting for some foul ball. Hey, that commentator last night on Fox Sports 1, that thing was 9-11 Lone Star. Yeah, exactly.

Lone Star, 9-11 Lone Star. Which apparently is a good thing. Commentators last night, do they get to see the outcome before I get to see it? That guy knew it was a foul ball as the ball was hitting the bat from my watching. Now, my Hulu might have been delayed or something like that. Is that standard operating procedure, Ty have is that a standard operating procedure as

soon as the ball was hitting he was like foul like schwarber i thought he hit five home runs i i thought it was five home runs that he hit and then it was like found like bro you didn't give me a chance to like oh i wasn't even like leaning in it he was like found like what the fuck does this guy know that i don't know because it wasn't on screen? That's just obvious that that's happening to baseball people that know it? Yeah, I mean, Case might know more, but I just assume it's because they're so high up behind home plate that you can track the ball very easily and see

almost right away like, oh, okay, that's foul. Dude, because I was like, oh, fucking Schwarm out here? In the same bat, he had five home runs in my eyes. I was like, this guy, and then it was like, nope. I'm like, god damn, how? It was an incredible showing. An incredible showing. Go ahead, Ty. Oh, I was born there! I was like, this guy. And then it was like, nope. I'm like, God damn. It was an incredible showing. An incredible showing. Go ahead, Ty.

Oh, I was born there. I was about to say, were you born there too? Hey, that's where I was born. Come on. No way. Were you really? Yeah. McGee Women's Hospital.

Me too. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, Sean. Wow. What are you doing? I knew it. I knew it. That's awesome, man.

That's incredible. Hey, thank you, hospital. Thank you, hospital. Thank you, hospital. Thank you, hospital. I really appreciate it. Honestly. Sorry's awesome, man. That's incredible. Hey, thank you, hospital. Thank you, hospital. Thank you, hospital. Thank you, hospital. I really appreciate it. Honestly. Sorry about that, Ty.

Hey. What a moment. I just felt a little nostalgia there. It's unbelievable. What are you going to do? Sean, we were discussing and kind of pontificating. How much do you think Shohei is eventually going to get with his contract when he's a free agent? Shohei is eventually going to get with his contract when he's a free agent.

Buster only this morning says, you know, like bidding might start at 500 upwards of 600 million. Are we looking at potentially him like kind of getting close to a billion dollar contract? And ultimately which teams do you think are really going to push for his services? Like if you had to guess two or three in terms of like that final bidding war yeah i mean no doubt about it i think he's gonna no doubt be the first 500 million dollar player we've never seen anything like it i mean it's incredible we've never seen a guy that's one of

the best pitchers in the game that's in the thai young award race every year and also one of the best hitters and also he's probably one of the best base runners and would be one of the best outfielders if they let him play but you know this guy is incredible you know he's we've never seen anything like it it's it's going to be at least 500 million just lock him down and it could be up to 600 million and i think at the at the end of the day you know it's going to be uh you know i think that the dodgers are going to be in there big time i I'd be shocked if the Padres aren't in there. And I think the Yankees, you know, are going to be in the run too. But we're talking about legendary, legendary player, man. Never standing like it.

And it was showcased like no other at the WBC. Yeah, you've been on that for a long time. A lot of the other baseball people have been telling us that we're saying that it's not possible or whatever. And you were, I think, a genuine fan since the beginning of the show here, right? I think on this show, at least, you've been very positive. How long can he do this for? We don't know because we've never seen a Shohei before. Is that kind of the whole thing?

You know, well, listen, we've never seen it before, but the way this guy works and the way he goes about his business, he's proving that I think he's a better player when he's doing both of them. I mean, he's been injured before and he's just been a hitter, but I think there's no doubt he's better when he's doing both of them. And he's proven to all of us in the world that, like, he can get it done and get it done at a high level. It's been absolutely amazing.

And I think he could do it for at least another seven, eight years. Holy shit. Good for him, man. $500, $600, $700 million. Pac-Man has a question for you, Sean. We know the Angels have one and two for as best players in the major leagues. Will there be contenders? There'll just be a team to watch this year.

Oh, good question, actually. Oh, man. Pac-Man, that's a great question, man. It's such a frustrating thing for baseball fans because you have the two best players on the same team in the world. You've got Shohei Otani and Mike Trout, two best players. And I think the thing that the Angels have struggled with all these years since they've had those guys is you win on the bump. You win in that rotation.

And they just haven't had the horses in the rotation to really be that great. So I think it's a shame, but I don't think they're going to be contenders this year. You know, if anything, they'll be a little bit above 500 and maybe have a shot at that second wild card. But it's a bummer having the two best players in the world in the same team that just can't get to the postseason. Pack, I'm happy you asked the question because I was starting to think there as you were saying it, like everybody just says the Angels stink.

They stink. They stink, right? Season hasn't even started. When does season start? Coming up? Yeah, next week. They're going to be better than the Yankees this year. They're going to be better than the Yankees? Is that why you asked the question? I'll cut my arm off if the Yankees are better than the fucking or the Angels are better than the Yankees this year.

Well, really? You got two best players in sport out there. They don't. That's debatable. Mike Trout's unbelievable. He is, but right now and I think Sean would agree with me, he's not fucking better than Aaron Judge. It's debatable. Mike Trout's unbelievable. He is. But right now, and I think Sean would agree with me, he's not fucking better than Aaron Judge. He's just not. Oh! He's just not defending MVP.

Judge, he's probably going to hit 70 this year. Why didn't he play? Dude, Trout hit 40 home runs last year in 98 games. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. Pretty good. But no. Stay healthy, though, and they might make the playoffs.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Team! Their team! Their team! Health. Judge, why didn't he play? You're right. Judge is legit.

Judge is so good right now. And, you know, Pat, I hear you're about to ask him why didn't he play. I think it was just one of those things, like, got $360 million at the time. He wants to be with his team out there in New York. And it just, I don't think, I don't know if any Yankees were there. Are they missing any team? Tagashi Oka, the only one. Really?

Yeah, their backup catcher. For? That's right. The Yankees. He was the only Yankee that played in it. Who did he play for? Team USA. He was in it?

I don't think he ever played. He was the backup catcher. So he's allowed in? He's the row guy. He's allowed in it then, right? Yeah, because he's not, I mean because he's not going to play that. He's not going to be a huge piece for the Yankees this year. Oh, okay.

So he just conceded that and said, you know what? Yeah, we'll be all right, Higashioka. You batted 175 last year. You can go play the Olympics. Is that a team mandate? Like the NHL said players weren't allowed to play in the Olympics. I felt like that was an incredibly short-sighted thing because a lot of people get introduced to hockey through the Olympics.

When old Cuz, who's really handsome, plays for the Capitals now, did Yoshi. When Yoshi. DJ Yoshi. Yeah, whenever Yoshi had the nine straight shootout. Yeah, Sochi. Took over the entire internet. Took over the world. And then that was like the perfect guy for a lot of people that aren't hockey fans maybe to get introduced to.

This guy's representing your country. He was fucking good. Killing it. This dude was unbelievable. So like there was those types of moments that if you don't let your players play in the Olympics because you're thinking about just the contracts and everything like that, you're missing out on for the sport of the game. Is that what happens with the MLB?

Do teams tell players that they don't want them to play because of the jeopardy of Edwin Diaz happening and also anything else? Is that a league mandate, team mandate? How does that work, Sean? No, I think it's a team-by-team thing, but I also think, Pat, like early on when the WBC started, I think it was more of that. Hey, the teams didn't want their players to go because they didn't want them to get hurt. I think now, since they won it in 2017, you know, and the WBC

is getting bigger. And you're right. They're able to showcase the players. They're able to showcase the best players in the world. I think teams in Major League Baseball now are saying, hey, yeah, go ahead and play. Go represent the U.S. Show, you know, show the world the talent that we have or show the world the talent that we have in or show the world the talent that we have in Puerto Rico and the Dominican and Mexico and Japan. Major League Baseball now is the best players in the world are here, man, the best players in the world. And the WBC gives you a shot to showcase that

and to showcase the amazing talent that these guys are. Go ahead, Tom. Wasn't there, to that point, wasn't there one of the pitchers, I can't remember from which country, he struck out the side of, I think Puerto Rico or something like that. He had Nicaragua. He immediately got picked up by an ML with the team, correct? Yeah, it was a 20-year-old

kid out of Nicaragua punched out, I think, like Juan Soto, Manny Machado, I'm not exactly sure, but three guys, and Julio Rodriguez, and I think the Tigers signed him right after the game. They're like, hey, come on and come to Detroit, brother, if you're going to strike out three of the best players in the big league. Connor has a question for you, Sean.

Yeah, Sean. I mean, you know, I do kind of am pissed at you right now just because you said that Otani was going to go to a place that wasn't the Red Sox. And the Red Sox have his best friend Yoshida on the squad as we speak. I mean, hey, look, I understand Boston doesn't have Jim Leland as their manager, but still some good weapons to use. How do you feel about the pitch clock?

Do you think that is actually going to get more people to watch because they will be shorter games and there will be some sort of time limit to it? Or do you think this is something the players are going to get more people to watch because they will be shorter games and there will be some sort of time limit to it? Or do you think this is something the players are going to hate? No, no, I think the players are going to love it. You're already getting a great response from the guys. Because at the end of the day, Major League Baseball games are over three hours. And with the pitch clock, it's taking it down significantly. I think it looks like 238, 240.

It's knocking off 20-some minutes. And I think it's great. I think you look at it this way imagine imagine the nba without the 24 second shot clock or the nfl without without the play clock you'd be like what the heck's going on here like basketball yeah that's high school basketball it's so ridiculous where you can run the clock out so i think in the i think that it's going to be a great thing for the sport i think they've tested it already in the minor leagues it's proven that it works great thing for the sport. I think they've tested it already in the minor leagues. It's proven that it works, and I think the players are all on board with it. Those high school basketball games, some of them, geez.

Man. 20 left. They just started running the clock. Four corners. Every state. That's Iowa. Oh, yeah. That's Plum.

Ron Richardson. Here we go. Listen, this is what we're doing, boys. It's keep away right now. For how long? Forever. Five minutes. Rest of the clock. We scored how many points today It's keep away right now. For how long? Forever. Five minutes. Rest the clock.

We scored how many points today? 17. Fucking run it. What, dude? I'm excited to see how the pitchers utilize the pitch clock to their leverage. Yeah. You know, and control the clock, you know, because I think you can. Like, we watch offenses when they snap the ball in the play clock.

Is it early? Like, you watch people run tempo. Are pitchers utilizing it? Is there a strategy that they're employing? What are we learning about here? That's a great point, brother. It's happening already. Because the hitter, 15 seconds with nobody on,

the hitter has to address the pitcher within eight seconds. At eight seconds, his eyes have to be on the pitcher and you are noticing guys maybe a quick pitch you know you know when i when i was playing before the pitch clock and stuff you could call time out to the up and say hey give me a second now these guys can quick pitch you slide step you so there's no doubt going to be a little bit of more strategy for the pitcher here being able to rush the hitter even more. Here we go. This might change the game then, huh?

Oh, Pac-Man, it's going to change the game, no doubt about it. What it's proven to, you know, the biggest thing is that, you know, strikeouts are up in the game. Well, what it's proven when they did the pitch clock, more balls are put in play. You know, strikeouts have gone down. So it's going to change the game in a big way. There's going to be more action, no doubt, with the pitch clock, more balls are put in play. You know, strikeouts have gone down. So it's going to change the game in a big way. There's going to be more action no doubt with the pitch clock. We appreciate

you so much for joining us, Sean. We miss you. Thank you for taking me back to the place I was born. I said earlier... I knew it, bro. Yeah. I knew it. I'm going to find the room where you were born. I'm going in right now. Where was Pat McAfee born? I'm going to find the room and I'll get back to you, brother. They do not have that documented,

I would assure you. But I appreciate you, man. You're the best. Host of the Mayor's Office podcast, which if I'm going to listen to a baseball podcast, I'm going to listen to you, brother. We appreciate the hell out of you, man, every time. The Mayor, Sean Casey.

Hey, man. They called him the Mayor because at first base, he fucking talked to everybody. It was his office is what they called it. Unreal. That's the type of guy he was known for. He just talked to everybody.

Yeah. And then he just sprayed the ball, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's literally all he did. Maybe the nicest, most jovial guy on the planet. Of all time. Yeah.

Has never been in a bad mood ever. He's outside of a hospital right now. What happened? We don't know because he would never let us know because he's just so pumped. He's just hanging out. It also looked like he might have taken a miter saw or something. Yeah, off to the finger.

Maybe that's why he was there. I did see that. I didn't even think about it. I should have followed up with him. You'd never know, though. Yeah, he's probably volunteering there. What if that thing was literally just gushing blood? He taped it up for that interview.

It was that blue electrical tape that we have here on the floor. Speaking of on the floor, we've got some big things coming today. You know what I mean? If you look out on this Thunderball court in the Thunderdome,

you'll see what appears to be maybe an obstacle course. Whoa. So Bud Light's doing an easy carry contest. Yep. Okay. Easy carry contest. The commercial's running on the television during March Madness. I think it's like grab your beers, get back to your seat and watch it.

And this lady grabs five glassed beers and then she she battles her way through to get back to get everybody. I think. Okay? Nailed it. All right. Have I seen the entirety of that? We'll go back to the whole base. That's the first time I ever watched a baseball game.

I haven't either, but I did see that part. The concept. Oh, so you don't know either. No, same deal, though. I saw it, and I said, oh, okay. Okay, we get it. Beers are easy to carry if you want to. Right.

Hashtag easy carry contest. They're inviting everybody on earth to go ahead and display. I guess you probably got to be 21 plus. I'd assume. I'd assume. I don't want you carrying ice cold beer if you're 17. It doesn't say 21 plus, but I assume it's 21 plus. Okay, you record yourself doing a sweet carry of beer to friend

okay um what we chose to do with that idea was make a fucking obstacle course boom okay go so you guys can get creative however the hell you want to get creative this is what we decided to do 21 plus of course it's a beer company in america we should have known that as soon as i said it certainly makes sense. As soon as I said that, it was available to everybody. Immediately known. And residents of the 50 states. Oh, shit.

Sorry about it, Japan. You won last night, not today. Suck it. And a legal resident of the 50 states. Whoa. Oh, easy, tough. Yeah, come on. That goddamn cowboy hat.

Right wing cowboy. Jesus, God. I'll read the rules. So you guys can do anything you need to do that you think is impressive. And Bud Light is going to pick one winner of $15,000. Let's go. Just for having a good time. I don't think it has to be anywhere near as dramatic as this or drastic as this.

But go ahead and use your creative minds and potentially win $15,000. Not a bad time to win $15,000 with everything going on in the world. Shout out to Bud Light for doing that. to win 15k with everything going on in the world shout out to bud light for doing that and then we'll also pick eight of our favorites from the hashtag easy carry contest tab and then we'll put them into a march madness style tourney okay and then we'll have people vote in polls like nice okay and then one winner will win an autographed hey bruce can we get that belt? I think Bruce has it. He's on it. Old Brucie Championships.

Yep, this belt. Sweet. Old Brucie titles. Old Brucie belts. What? Baby. What dreams are made of right here. Wow.

Thank you, Bruce. We'll give away one of these. My God. It'll be autographed by the entire crew, including everybody in our extended family, a la Chuck Pagano and Chris Shipley. I assume we'll attempt to get... Nah. Let's not push our...

There's no reason for us to do that. Pac will be in there, obviously. All the boys will be on it. We'll sign it, and then also $1,000. So $16,000 up for grabs and an autograph like legit. Hey. That thing's sweet. Oh, yeah. That's worth more.

That's a nice belt. I love a white strap. Yeah. Fucking Intercontinental title. That thing's 16K on its own. There's only one of them. We're going to need another one to have at the Thunderdome. Yeah. Jordan just offered one up immediately without knowing if there's another one.

No, fuck it. People deserve it. This thing's awesome. We'll make another one. Hell, yeah. The original one. That thing's got some weight to it. Yeah, it's a real deal. Real nice. It's a strap. It is. Oh, one. It's got some weight to it. Yeah, it's a real deal.

Real nice. The strap. It is. Oh, hey, you've been tag team champ, remember? That's right. Tag team champion TNA. Not your first title. Huh?

You ever had a belt? Whoa. Title? I've had belts, yeah. I wear pants every single day, so I wear a lot of belts. Yeah, I had one of these before. Hey, you look very natural with it, too, in the photo we saw last week. You look super cool with it.

Did you enjoy the hell out of it? I enjoyed the hell out of it. Well, now you could win one of these. Hell yeah. Hashtag easy carry contest. And later today, Ty Schmidt will attempt this obstacle course. And if he's able to get through it in 90 seconds,

we'll give 20 people $500. Yeah, so that's even more money right there. It's not $10,000. So $26,000. Not bad. Hashtag Easy Carry Contest. That's not bad. Come on. Shout out Bud Light, dude.

We are in a partnership with Bud Light. That was a big day for us. Oh yeah. Awesome. That was a big deal. Huge. That was a big deal. Huge. We have held off on beer sponsors. Do you know how many beer sponsors we could have had?

Terrible business person. This is just classic read beer sponsor. You know what I mean? With how many beers there are from craft companies that are trying to create things. The amount of potential business operations in the sports talk world for beer there's a lot we held out paid off we're waiting move we're waiting oh we did do that natty light

thing that's a lie but since that moment it's also in the family that was actually when i decided though right not doing this again until bug like i have my natural light run i did appreciate it right it was with me every time i needed it in Morgantown, West Virginia. And in those early 20 years. But I'm a Bud Light man now. We waited. And now they're fucking giving away money alongside of us. That's cool.

It's the first company that's really come up to us and been like, hey, we want to give away money too. Whatever you want to do. Nobody ever wants to give away money. That is never something anybody wants to do. Because that's like, our giveaways are always like, yeah, let's give away fucking 10 grand is never something anybody wants to do. Our giveaways are always like, yeah, let's give away fucking 10 grand today. Wow, 20 grand tomorrow. Let's just do this. Let's hope for this. Because I think

it's a cool thing to do because a lot of people would never ever want to ask for it, but could potentially enjoy it. Yeah. And it's like, let's go. That's why anytime we talk to a company and they want to give away money, which is an impossible thing to do in a bureau like a bureaucracy type network yeah because the amount of people that that has to go you have to jump through and then the people though like

it's easy for one of them just be like nope i'll take the bullet for this one and then we'll just move along like nobody ever gets to do it so us doing it any company that's like yeah we want to get in on it i fucking genuinely appreciate because it's not easy to do no yeah also seeing like their twitter account like actually interacting with like videos from the show it's like oh okay like typically you know like one of the like a lot of these big companies like it's just it's one big ad like everything you know like they'll respond to stuff but it's just a fucking ad for whatever there is and like a lot of a lot of times like when bud light will pop up it's like they're responding to something from the show and it's like it's

crazy and they get it like i take a fan it's not just you know it's like they're responding to something from the show. It's crazy. It's like I can take a fan. It's crazy. It is an interesting situation because it's fucking Bud Light. This is the number one selling beer I think forever. Top dog. So good. The best. Icy cold. You drink Bud Light? I drink Bud Light.

I think everybody does. Oh yeah. It's the beer. You can have enough. It's tough with. You can have enough, you know? Mm-hmm. It's tough with the keto, though, when you're going to do a beer night. You know, that is something. Yeah, you just got to buy into it. But whenever I inevitably stop doing keto and however many months.

You just got to do Budweiser Select. As soon as we get to football season, it's fucking, I'll get exhausted and it's over. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then it's like, well, Bud Light, welcome back. Thank you so much. But they are small. I was trying to see how many carbs they have.

Three, I believe. Yeah, it's not that much. No, not at all. Hey, we got donuts, dude. You guys talking shit on our drinks. And then you're stealing them. Isn't that interesting? Yeah, it is interesting.

I'm not stealing anything. I wanted to try one. There had been a lot of conversation around it. I didn't get to try one yet so i took one sip and then you guys attacked me like jackals yeah it's not just one sip it's a whole can you took see that's the thing though and this man can corroborate i may not like it i may not enjoy the taste of it but it has caffeine and i will drink the whole fucking thing i'm not i'm not taking one sip and tossing it away. I will not do that. You're not bitching and moaning either. You didn't crack it open and waste one.

Who knows how many of these fucking things exist? All I've heard about is how good these drinks are. They're not bad. The enemy came from within and he couldn't help it because he was so fucking excited. Monday morning, he came in here. Boys, full fridge of Zevia. Feel free. Connor, you remember those buns? We'll run out of those two, three weeks. Exactly. They he came in here. Boys, full fridge of Zevia. Feel free. Connor, you remember those buns?

We'll run out of those two, three weeks. Exactly. And guess what? They won't be here. And I'll come back with the Zevias and everyone will, oh, this isn't soda. Yeah, no fucking shit. But guess what? Everyone's going to be drinking them. I look like it was shit, though. Oh, yeah. It does not taste good.

Why would you drink it? Thank you. What other options do I have? Soda. There you are. No, that's not healthy. Drink soda. You've had an incredible fucking can of dried ginger ale sitting right there. Well, that's because I was coming back from my sickness, okay,

and I wanted to make sure, you know. Come on. Come on. You're back from your sickness. Yeah, exactly. You haven't battled. It's been great to see you back. It feels good to be back.

But, you know, you said it on Monday. You're like, hey, you think you're going to be a little tired because you were just laying around, pretty much laying in bed. And I was like, you know what? The one nice thing about the Zevia, however you want to pronounce it. Zevia. It may taste like complete smash dog shit. What is your problem?

But it has caffeine in it. What does this guy do? And I eat the caffeine. And you know it's not true. Yeah, there's green tea. There's coffee. We have ice. Put that in your coffee.

All of a sudden you have a cold caffeinated drink, which I believe is all you were looking for. And then you know what's happening 45 minutes later. I'm the fucking mayor of Butt-Piss City in there. You're right. We'll make it through the show. You'll be tapping. Exactly. We need you.

Great to have you back. Speaking of being back, ladies and gentlemen, this man went from a boat to Mexico. What? Of course. I knew this was a fugace. I knew it wasn't. Maybe not. Yeah, of course not I knew this was a food case. I knew it wasn't. Maybe not.

Yeah, of course not. What do you mean? Holy shit. What are you talking about? Holy hell. We know what this guy's shtick is now. What's his shtick? What?

Oh, man, the amount of shticks. My shtick was talked about. Holy fuck, dude. You're telling me. Man, oh, my God. schticks. My schtick was talked about. Holy fuck, dude. You're telling me. Man, oh, my God. Dude, we get killed. Yeah, it is what it is. I get murdered.

I'd like to meet some of those people and just be like, you were so rude. You were so rude. Jordan Stein was a man who's not rude, but he's toxic. Very much so. He went from a boat that was, remember, a no-cuck Buckeye cruise. That's right. Where he was not only meeting and greeting Ohio State legends and boosters and alumni.

But? He was making the state of Ohio a much happier place. Then he came back for a couple days and said, you know what? The family deserves to take the tractor another round. Got a chance to go away for spring break for a little bit. While he was gone, we missed the shit out of him. A lot of things that happened since we have last chatted with him, which is damn near whenever Aaron made his announcement

that he intends to play for the New York Jets. Yeah. There's been a full-on Packers beef. Yeah. Burial of me. Just a murdering of me. There's been other stuff that has popped off on the internet calling me a horrible

human being getting murdered. And I do believe it's all because this guy was absent from our lives. It's great to have him back. He's a college football national champion. He's a Super Bowl champion. He's a Ryder Cup champion. He's the

all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, who are one of the oldest organizations in the history of sport. Nobody's ever tackled more motherfuckers than this guy. COVID survivor. Father of 10. AJ Hawk. AJ!

What's up? Anything happen? What's going on? Bro, great to see you. A lot has happened, man. It is great to have you back. How was your trip? I hope you had a great time. I hope you're refreshed. You look fantastic.

Look at you. He's glowing. Wow. You're glowing. AJ, you're glowing. You look good, pal. Yep. You say it every time.

You say I'm glowing. I appreciate that. Thank you for the nice compliments. But, yeah, it was nice to, yeah, we went to Mexico for a few days with the kids and had a good time. It was fun. I love that me saying you're glowing is something you remember because this is what I said to you last time.

And whenever I was saying it inside, he was like, if this motherfucker doesn't stop. I'm not fucking glowing. As soon as I said you're glowing again, he said, oh, yeah, you're saying I'm glowing again. You see, I'm like, he's thought about me saying, you look fantastic. Okay. You look great. You look great.

You guys all look great. I wish I was able to participate with Sean Casey, but it's very fun to watch that guy do anything really. He's an animal, bro. The best. He's always like that. So what's the hospital deal? What's going on? I don't know.

That's what we saw. We, I mean, I noticed something with his hand. I didn't see exactly. The boys, it was bandage, right? Yeah. He volunteers every day at the hospital. I believe two fingers were together. Okay.

And it looked like it was an amateur. That wasn't a real wrap, right? No. Was he going to get his finger, like get some finger surgery or something? You think he chopped it off at his wood shop or something? I do wonder. I genuinely wonder what all caught in a door. Didn't Kevin Costner do that in the movie?

Didn't he saw his hand off? Yeah, for Love and Game. Oh. Yeah. Saw, you remember? That's another good movie. And saw his foot off. I like those movies for some reason.

That's not a series I would enjoy either. That one freaked me the fuck out. I like it. There's a bunch of movies. Do you want to play a game? It was interesting to see whoever came up with the the scenarios to kill people that's who i'm interested in yeah let's keep eyes on that guy yeah or girl saw one i thought was bill is that bill college cycle whoa bill's got writer's credits what for saw what is that what you just said really that makes sense i mean that'd be i mean maybe he's

making a great income behind the scenes you know writing for Saw movies and things like that. Okay, so you're in Ohio. You thought that. I assume everybody thought that. That was like, hey, whoever wrote this. You ever see Saw, Peck? Yeah, I've seen it before. Bill's a nice guy.

Yeah, you're scanning it. He is a very nice guy. Bill. Saw, I'm pretty sure, was a college psych class, and they sold the idea. What do you mean? Like it was a psychology class on ways to get people to do things for them, and similar to the Stanford Prison Experiment. Oh, that one.

I don't like that one. That one just tells you all you need to know about humans. Yeah, bingo. And then they made it into the Saw franchise, and then obviously after the first one it was like studios. It wasn't. So the Stanford one that you just mentioned, is that true? I didn't know that.

I'm pretty sure it is. Jesus Christ. Yeah. So there's other opportunities from other people that were in that class. Exactly. Not even like other humans that just exist in that class. There's more ideas out there, which I understand. It's probably for the good in the end.

That Stanford prison thing. What an explanation of human beings. If you were to were to just say all right what would you have done if you were one of those like if you were picked to be one of like the guards at their makeshift jail would you think you would have been that guy like trying to beat him and torture him so i'm not signing up for that ever okay that's something i know about me so like to ask me if i don't think they'll allow that they're not gonna let that happen again. Unfortunately, we're not going to get a great, uh, in-depth experiment like they did. No, but I'd like to say, you know, you, me, all of us, we get approached for said experiment. I think we would all say, nah, sorry. I think we would

pass. I'm not hurt. So it's tough for me to even say what I would do. Cause I could never imagine a time of my existence where I would have said, Oh yeah there's a 50 chance i end up as a prisoner okay yeah that'll be great like i don't want to i don't want to do that you know like i and they pick you up from your house and arrest you to make it all like feel real yeah yeah for no reason and then on the other side there's somebody just like me just like fucking asshole jackass idiot who is all of a sudden the guard and that person's in charge. So now a human, there's probably no way you're my signing up for that ever. I would do it.

You would? Yeah. Why? How come? I don't know. Just for the hell of it. To be the guard? I would want to be the inmate.

Pick me up and let me go through the experience. It would be crazy thought. They get extra credit? Did they know going into? How did it begin? It was a game, credit did they know going into how did it begin like they chose it was a game wasn't it no i think it was picked like wasn't it i think it's like the same thing like when you're in college you know like you the hospital send those things out to students and like they pay you for like these experiments you know it was probably just what

would you do aj you'd beat them up you just said yeah no i don't i don't think i'd be very good at that i would probably be better as a prisoner than one of the fake wardens. Please, you'd be a warden. Stop lying. The warden, Jesus Christ. What a villain in every story I've ever heard in my life. Great gig in that, though. That's what you all say.

Yeah, you're in charge of all these randoms. Andrew getting paid for it. And you don't even have to do anything. You just sit in your office and smoke cigs all day. And you're the worst human of all time. Take care of old Red, though. That's right. Get that dog.

Some white corner. What the hell? I would do that in a heartbeat. You would sign up for that? Yeah, I'd do it. I think psychology is very interesting. So what did they think was going to happen? They didn't think the guards would turn into fucking full-blown assholes?

Probably not. Or they did. They had a hypothesis that was like, hey, whoever the guards are, they're going to actually think they're prison guards. They're going to beat the shit out of these prisoners. Let's see if it happens

and sure enough, it did. AJ, how about you just getting your ass beat by somebody that isn't actually a prison guard? Yeah, loser. The whole time, could you imagine

whenever they told you to do something and be like, shut up, you're not an actual fucking prison guard. Every time. Every time. You would think that's how it would go,

but maybe early on they tried to fight, and then they just said, hey, here we are. Let's go with it. Everybody over here, everybody over here. Will you keep it down, please? You're not a fucking prison guard, okay? Jesus Christ. Shut up.

What is it? Fake. What is this? Holy fuck. Bore on the floor. Do you think the V... Whoa. Succession's back, by the way.

Let's go. Coming up. Best season ever, they're saying. Hell yeah, AJ. We got it coming back. Will it be... How do they release them? I don't remember.

Once a week. Sunday night. Come on. Do you binge watch shit? What do you binge watch? And do you do, if it's a weekly thing, like The Last of Us was the first one I've ever successfully done a one-week drop thing since the streaming era has started. Do you do once a week shit or do you have

to have the full season or at least three, four episodes to get into something? I have to have three, four episodes. Me too, dude. Just one episode I think is tough. The Last of Us had me though. See, that's the thing though. When you have The Last of Us or Succession and all of us are watching it, it kind of builds excitement because we're all in the same

spot and we can come in on Monday and talk about it. Is this what they knew would happen? It's like going back in time. It's like going back to the early 2000s. Bingo. HBO, that's been their model. Yeah. I think Apple's doing it too, though.

Actually, that was every single person's model until Netflix came and had a different model. True. Apple had a couple, though, where they would release three or four episodes. That's the right answer, I think. Just two. At least two.

Just give us two. Give us all we need. Come on. Let us at least. Yeah, I watched Ted Lasso. First episode of Ted Lasso, it's like 23 minutes. I'm like, all right, what am I going to do now? Yeah, and season two of Ted Lasso, they put two.

They were at the White House. Diggs, I bet you were all into that. I was. Chupska. Yeah, Chupska. Chupska. Fake skin. Teeth.

Teeth, excuse me. What's your problem, bro? I just learned what Chupska. Yeah, Chupska. Fake skin. Teeth. Teeth, excuse me. What's your problem, bro? I just learned what Chupska was. I love Sudeikis and I love Ted. Yes, I do love it, AJ. I love anything Sudeikis. I've seen Sudeikis off-Broadway. I'm cultured, bro.

I've seen Sudeikis off-Broadway, small theater, intimate theater, four, I think three areas theater floor. That's like real theater type stuff. For that Robin Williams movie where he's the professor. Dead Poets Society. He was Robin Williams in the thing. It was a good show. He's fucking up in the crowd

at one point. It was a good show. I had no idea what I was walking into. I had no clue what I was walking into. We're like in theater class right now. It was a small thing. I had no idea what I was walking into. I had no clue what I was walking into. It was, oh, shit, we're like in theater class right now. It was a small thing, and then he was really cool afterwards. Then he said he rode his Vespa back to Brooklyn. His Vespa guy.

Nice to meet you, man. And now he's a fucking coach of a team that is really on the uphill. Yeah, they're going for it all this year. 23-minute episodes. Yeah, he's getting a million in an episode. Congrats, Ted. Way to go, Ted. Joining us now is a man who deserves 10 million in an episode every time he comes on here because last time

he was on the program, he said, Furman, you want to see a team that can put a ball in the bucket? Furman's a team that can get an upset. What did they do? Well, they upset Virginia. He also gave us a shout out about UConn, who seems to be like one of the hottest dogs on earth right now.

I also saw a speech from their old coach. What's his name? Jim Calhoun. Jim Calhoun gave them a speech the day before they left, and it was... Better be able to smell it, because I can smell it. It was fucking... I keep feeling it. It was awesome. Sounds like all UConn's rallying around. This man said that was going to happen, and I don't know if that's something that everybody's thinking about,

but it wasn't something we were thinking about. Now I'm excited for the damn UConn Huskies out there. Ladies and gentlemen, he's the host of every college game day that is on television. When it is on television, it is normally the number one rated show of the week. Ladies and gentlemen, Reese Davis. Yeah, Reese!

What's up, dude? What's happening, guys? How we doing? Reese, that Furman call. Hey, thank you. What a pick. I'm glad you didn't bring up the other ones, but I was really happy to see the Furman game come through for sure. I will say... Because all I was

thinking about is, like, Connor's going to give me crap if none of these guys I was going to. That is actually what Connor, before we went live, I said, Reese, he had fucking Furman

or Virginia and Connor and a few others. Yeah, I can't say in trouble. Yeah, but those were underdogs. But you also, after getting a chance

to know you through College Game Day a little bit, the way you self-critique yourself, I knew that you would immediately address the elephant in the room. I knew you would attack that because your Furman call was spectacular. We appreciate your humility.

Now that we're at the stage where we only get games on Thursday night and Friday night, I think. Thursday through Sunday. Yeah. We're a little bit closer now, right? Sweet 16, it's not as much as taking over the entire world like it does the first couple rounds of the tournament. What do we need to be looking for here, Reese?

And what should we be thinking betting on these games more specifically? Are underdogs going to go? Should I bank on FAU's guy still making incredible plays? How should I be viewing these games, Reese? I would be careful with the FAU game. I'm looking here. It's a five-and-a-half-point spread. I do think that the way they play might give Tennessee some problems.

Tennessee lost its point guard late in the regular season, and I was very surprised they beat Duke without him. But they were able to kind of turn that game into a fist fight. Florida Atlantic will try to play ahead of them a little bit. So they could give them problems, but I'm afraid of that one. I'd lean Tennessee there. I'll tell you the one, even though I've got Alabama going to the Final Four, that number seems big to me.

What is it, seven and a hook? Yeah. Yeah, it seems a little big because san diego state kind of grinds you down and tries to play slow and they've got a really good defense veteran team i think alabama will win think they should win but that's that seems like a pretty big number okay reese that a baby reese what about uh you got a big nfl guy kyle brandt loves princeton that's his alma mater what do you think about their chances moving forward i I like Creighton in that game. I'm fond of Princeton too because my son played baseball there. And so occasionally the basketball coach would wander around. He'd come up on the hillside

at Clark Field and we'd chat a little bit while we watched the Tigers do damage in baseball. So I'm fond of Princeton, but I kind of think that Creighton's really good. They're bigger. I kind of think it comes to the end of the line for Princeton there against Creighton, but I would love to see the Tigers win. Nothing against the Blue Jays or anything, but I'd love to see Princeton advance another round if it could. Are all your kids geniuses? I only have two. Okay. Are both your kids geniuses uh i like to think so but i'm kind of biased i'm probably not the best person to ask there getting into prince i mean that's just like a throwaway comment yeah that's a big fucking deal i think you okay how about how about if i throw away

another one and brag too because after he he got hurt lost a couple years lost a year to covid and played his last two years at duke so that's pretty good too okay okay guys go somewhere i don't think you play basketball i don't think you play for coach k no he's not playing for coach k uh so whatever uh sorry about that go ahead aj do you have something for him all good i was good i do want to ask you i've heard enough of this no reese re Reese, you are a never ending supply of information. Like AJ has a lot of questions. I didn't think, sorry, Pat.

I didn't think Reese is old enough to have kids in college. Honestly, I really didn't, but I did. I have heard about your son and everything he's went through. It's an awesome story, but quickly, I wouldn't ask about these basketballs.

They've been using for a couple of years in the tournament, these shiny rubber looking balls that make it look like you can't make a shot. What's the deal with those? I don't, I would love to tell you, I don't know, but I've noticed it too. And the other thing I've noticed is that guys just kind of lose the handle occasionally dribbling it. So I don't know why you don't use roughed up basketballs as opposed to slick new ones. Why would you do that in the biggest event out there? I haven't heard any of the players say anything directly about it,

but I've seen several guys in a lot of different games just be dribbling down the court. It sort of gets away from them. That doesn't happen at this level. It must be that. And they're bouncing on the rims, it looks like, in some places too. Yeah, there's obvious balls and situations when shooting that are better or worse yeah and if something is the same way all the time for shooting there's no reason to make it worse or harder in the biggest moments i this seems to be a

combo like every year isn't it yeah i feel like we've had this conversation before why does it happen what do they change and why would they even think about doing it? Why would they even let us? Trying to keep the games close. That's the conspiracy. Oh, AJ. Allegedly, allegedly. Please, especially.

It's similar to the NFL, though, right? When you get in the Super Bowl and the playoffs, people complain because balls are kind of slick. It's the opening kickoff of the Superbowl and the, and the playoffs, they, you know, people complain because balls are kind of slick and hard. So opening kickoff of the Superbowl ball, pull things brand new. That's a nightmare, but that's the only different ball that I experienced. And I think with quarterbacks now and with kickers now,

the balls are also monitored. Like they don't want, they don't want Patrick Mahomes to have a bad game. You know what I mean? Like they want, they want Patrick Mahomes to have a good game. Jalen Hurts, they want him to have a good game. They wantomes to have a bad game. You know what I mean? They want Patrick Mahomes to have a good game. Jalen Hurts, they want him to have a good game. They want everybody to have a good game.

That's why the ball change doesn't make sense to me. Don't we want this to be the best it could possibly be, at least what it normally is? I feel like we talk about it too much, though. Hey, Reese, why don't you fix that? Come on. Why don't you fix that? Yeah, why don't you get on that, Reese?

Pac-Man has a question for you, Reeseese reese this is a two-part question um we want to know was do you think the campus was really like that when princeton won last last week because we had a debate i'm like no way that nobody is happy because of this win and it looked like it was a stage shot it was a kind of nobody, everybody just doing their normal day stuff, as in going to class and doing their work. And my second question is, with Alabama having Miller, do you think it's any team that will be able to stop Alabama? Okay, first part is that I would say it would be somewhat on brand

for Princeton to continue business as usual after making the Sweet 16. But I also think to be fair to them, you go to the eating clubs and you fellows would have a good time at some of the parties at the eating clubs from what I understand. Eating clubs? Eating clubs are like their version of fraternities and sororities. But I think they might have been on spring break last week too so i think the campus might have been so both a little bit of both that was the but it was kind of rigged maybe yeah maybe so as for the other part with alabama i still think they're the best team with the most answers and brandon miller hasn't really shot the ball the

way he's capable. I'm dealing with a little bit of a groin injury. And obviously there's a lot of outside pressure and a lot of scrutiny on him because of the tragic situation in January. But they have more answers than anybody. They have more bigs to bring into the game. They have more shooters. They have more guards to offset it.

But they will need him to play a little bit better. And if he does, I think it'll be really hard to keep him out of the Final Four. And the only two teams that if Alabama plays to its potential that can also play to their potential and beat them, in my judgment, would be UConn and Houston. Those two teams could probably do it. And that's because they can score? Is that what we're saying?

Is it all about scoring? I think, well, Houston has a little trouble doing that, but Houston's an elite defensive team, probably the best defensive team in the country. And UConn, to me, is similar to Alabama in this respect in that they have a lot of different guys they can turn to. They don't just have to have one guy have a big game, and they've got multiple bigs.

So I think UConn's already beaten Alabama in the regular season, and Alabama beat Houston in the regular season. So I still think those three teams are the ones that I would favor. But then again, I thought the stone-cold lock of my bracket was Duke going to the Final Four, and Tennessee punched them in the mouth. Heart-breaker there.. Heart breaker there. Heart breaker there. I'm always fascinated by, like, because the way you broke down Furman,

maybe beating Virginia, like, they can put the ball in the basket. Like, hey, that, which is, like, so basic, but it's, like, a real thing that when you're watching a team, it's like, oh, they got multiple guys that aren't scared to shoot. Because I think I'm watching this thing, and it's clear there's two to three guys on a court for some teams they are not going to put a shot up we we like i don't follow college basketball as closely as i should during the season especially because i end up losing all of my money betting on these games but like we talk about people standing off of russell westbrook and we talk about people standing off of other

people in the nba college it's happening. I'm watching this thing happen. You're like, let that fucking guy shoot. And he just stands there, ball. He is not passing it. To your point about the Alabama team, Brandon didn't score a single point. They put up 81, I think, 81 points. That's not happening a lot in college, I think, is what they did,

right? That whole team. Yeah, the game that he didn't score, I think they scored in the 90s that was the open saw it in 81 christy okay yeah and um and then the second one against maryland he made he played really well he didn't shoot really well but he played really well and he made some big shots to to stretch that game out so you know but they still have uh you know they still have guys who can do it javon quly, who started his career at Villanova and has been in Alabama the last few years, has been sensational in the first two rounds for them.

And they've got different contributions from other guys in the midst while Brandon's sort of been working his way through some shooting struggles. Breeze, it seems so simple. Just get those guys on your team. Get the good guys. Get the guys that are good. Yeah, get a Get the good guys. Get the guys that are good. Yeah, get a bunch of good guys. Get the guys that can score. That seems like that is the game here if we're learning anything.

It has been spectacular. I think there has been some magical moments that will be remembered for a long time already in this tournament with the Sweet 16 still to go. So, Tone Diggs has a question for you, Reese. Reese, Michigan State is the only lower seed to be favored in the Sweet 16. Do you think that is deserved? I do. Kansas State, neither of those teams are playing their best ball

at the end of the regular season. I would favor Michigan State a little bit, but both of them have been excellent in the tournament. Marquise Noel is a point guard for Kansas State. New York City, who's just been great. Keontae Johnson, I don't know if you guys know his story, started his career at Florida, collapsed on the floor during the game with a heart issue.

We almost lost him. And they didn't know if he'd ever be able to play again. Ultimately transferred to Kansas State and has been great. So that's one of the great stories. Happy he's back. Yeah, but i do think michigan state right now michigan state is probably not a vintage tom iso team but uh actually i was i'll name drop here i was texting with tom a little bit yes Oh, January, February, April.

Yeah, I got it. Yeah, I got it. You were texting with him? He feels – I just sent him a little congratulatory note, and he said, hey, look, you know, we may not be great, but we got good guys who play hard and are playing their best ball right now the last couple of games. So I would favor Michigan State in that game despite the fact they're the lower seed.

Let me ask you about Xavier because I'm in Cincinnati. I watch Xavier a lot. They've won, what, 11 straight games. They got a big senior group. I think they combined for like 50 points the other night. Is this the last time we see them play, or do you think they can get past this week that's coming up? No, I definitely think they can.

I think one of the interesting things about them is Sean Miller, when he was at Arizona, obviously a terrific coach there, but he played a different way. He was a little bit more of a grinder style, and during his time off after things got sideways with the investigation and stuff at Arizona, he sort of evaluated how he might want to play. He watched a lot of NBA. They call fewer plays now, play a little more wide open,

and they're really dangerous offensively. I think there's a really good chance. There are several of these teams. I think seven of the 16 are trying to get to the Final Four for the first time. Xavier's had a ton of heartbreak in the Elite Eight over the years and in the Sweet 16, but I think they've got a chance too. They're really, really good. So I think there's a good opportunity that Sean Miller could make it to the final four with Xavier.

First time for the Musketeers. Xavier won me a trip to Vegas with the boys. The Bracket Busters a few years back. New coach, I do believe, now at this particular standpoint. Still having success. Now, I will say, you're playing against Texas. So let's go ahead and remember that. AJ has come for you. Go ahead, Reese.

That's your team, too, Pat. I mean, you coached them up when we were down there. Both times. We were down there two times. We went to Texas twice this year. Yeah, that's right. We did. I'm coaching them. I'm in the meeting room. I'm doing things. I'm at practice. I'm checking in. I learn a little basketball, why their team's set up the way it is how it's set up well you got to have you know at

least a mcdonald's all-american or two you got to have a couple great transfers that are dogs and then you got to have you know your crew that has been there that knows the entire thing and you get a combination of that you're in a pretty good spot we got that this year is what they were saying the first time literally first time i talked to him, I think we were having some, being like the whole coaching staff, having like beers, chit-chat, the whole staff, whole staff. Now it'll miss. Sure. A lot has happened. Yeah, a little different now.

A lot has happened. Whole staff though, and they were like, hey, we got a team this year. Like every person I talked to and it didn't feel like they were just like bullshitting because I felt like I was talking to them like 20, 30 minutes got past the bullshit phase. Yeah. And they were like, kind of like, I felt like I was talking to him like 20, 30 minutes, got past the bullshit phase. Yeah. And they were like kind of like, yeah, like we got a fucking team, we think, this year.

And they do. Yeah, they do. Xavier, very similar, though, because Sean Miller, like Reese mentioned, is a big time cheater. Whoa! Wait, wait, wait. Allegedly. Allegedly. AJ, go ahead, pal.

Reese, a two-part question. With this Alabama team and how good they are right now, can ahead, pal. Reese, a two-part question with this Alabama team and how good they are right now. Can we expect to see them make a run? And they're going to be one of the top teams here for the next five, six years. And second part of my question, that piece of artwork behind you, is that you and your wife embracing, or what is that? Hell, yeah.

I wish it were. I'm at the – let me get right here. Oh, Classic Hotel. This is at the Delano In Las Vegas Jen Ladd and I are here for An event so that's why But I do have a similar one of my wife

And me at my house So I'll let you see it sometime I assume Like everybody that has a kid that goes to Princeton And Duke does have one of those photos You know somewhere In the house because you're shredded, Reese. Hey, I saw Reese. Holy shit, Reese.

You remember when I saw you? What time is it? Six early. Seven a.m. Maybe. I don't know. It was early. Reese, we're walking.

And there was like perfect walkway. And then there was like a little sidewalk. And then there was this horribly placed plastic thing and then there was more sidewalk over here not a lot of light like not a lot of light not a lot of visibility here i watched reese davis in front of me holding up some show notes in his hand and his hand has a jacket i believe it was a little bit chilly incredibly fresh tailored suit i mean fucking fresh tailored suit nice dress shoes they brown they were shot it looked like brand new out the box but okay it was fucking unbelievable he turns the corner he hits this

thing slips boom right here catches him like hits ground catches him pops right back up keeps walking as if it didn't fucking happen i'm like reese did you just break your wrists and your elbows there like in a suit with the violence in which you hit the ground i would have been sore like whiplash potentially happens reese pops right back up didn't even drop the papers and just kept moving i'm like you're a weapon dude hey reese you're you're a fucking weapon. Honestly, dude, you're one of the most impressive things I've seen in a long time, pal. I was the biggest surprise. I thought for sure that was going viral someplace because, man, I bought it. I did catch myself, but I was rear-end over tea kettle.

I was down. It was quick, dude, like swift. It was quick. I've never seen, oh, my God, there was like a little bit of was quick, dude. It was quick. It was quick. I've never seen. Oh, my gosh. There was like a little bit of a hill, too. Reese, that College Game Day show is unlike anything else, man. I don't think there's anything like it, bro.

It's crazy how it gets set up. We're using what? We're using classrooms as production meeting rooms. Okay. And then you're walking through the back of a school through humans to get through this thing. Like it's a, it's a, it's a very cool show that you get to host over there and that you crush, uh, over there. So I want to let you know, it was an honor to work with you this year, pal. It really was.

Likewise, man. I mean, you, you elevated the show, brought a new dynamic to it. And the thing is that I've told a lot of people and anybody who would listen, i'm just coming on trying to blow sunshine up your skirt you worked your tail off worked your tail off not only with everything you do but to i mean i think what you told me was that you'd sort of been locked in on the nfl much more than college football and it took you hardly any time at all uh to be to be right there in the middle of it. Race. You worked. Race. You worked, man.

I said a guy was on the opposite team, and I picked the opposite team because the guy was on that team. That was early, though. And that was also my fault. No, no. No, no. It was my fault because I heard you say it. It was, wasn't it?

Yeah, but I heard you say it. I heard you say it, and I should have fixed it right then. And I thought that he just means he's going to get after it. I think it was Kansas State. TCU. He just means Duggan. And he said, so I just let it go. And that was my bad.

Dude. That was on me. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. Every thought I say, yeah, you should correct it. I'm not an adult yet. Good teammate. No, no, that is not how it goes.

I was trying to watch film, though, like the night before. They have like little five-minute games. And I remember this guy. I'm like, this is the fucking guy. And then he was in a purple uniform. So as we're on the set, I'm literally talking about, as we're live, I'm talking about it. And I see his highlight.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot he did that. And then I just immediately, boom, wrong team. Both are wearing purple. Son of a bitch. it was earlier over there in Oregon too I mean that was pitch black whenever we started that show it was a blast the boys have some questions for you though Reese I don't want to waste any more time um but enough skirts I wear pretty good pants though you know what I mean it's been a good time. Connor has one for you, Reese. Yeah, Reese. You know, Pat was working hard all college football season. You said a team that's not working very hard again is Purdue.

Are they cursed? Do they fucking stink? What happened here? Because it seems as though they cannot make it past the first weekend, and they're a team in Indiana, and we would have liked to support them. I don't know if cursed, but they've got a psychological problem with the tournament it's a it's a third straight year this has happened and they're hey look i love the fairly

dickinson story their coach got a new job out of it good for all of them but that shouldn't happen no and and they you could see how tight they were. Speaking of Pat was talking about it earlier, there were guys who didn't want to shoot the ball. And they've got to find a way. I don't know what they have to do psychologically, but now they've got a problem. Before it was just sort of an aberration. Oh, they stumbled a couple of times.

Three times in a row, that's a problem. And it was embarrassing. It's the worst loss in the history of the tournament any measure i mean there was one other 16 over one maryland baltimore county beat virginia a few years back this was worse they're a bigger underdog and fairly dickinson if not for a weird rule don't even fit in the tournament. I mean, because Merrimack won that conference by beating Fairleigh Dickinson, but they were ineligible because they're moving up

from Division II or whatever. So, you know, it was the worst loss in the history of the tournament, and there's really no excuse for it. And they've got to find a way to address it. It's a psychological problem. It doesn't mean that, you know, address it it's a psychological problem it doesn't mean that you know matt painter's a terrible coach or anything but they have to deal with their

psychological hurdle uh to have any kind of success in the tournament it was embarrassing it was a bad performance lose to a 15 then you lose to a 16 the following year and then that record's two and 150 you know that's yeah that's not a lot of times that that particular situation has happened and obviously it's going to get loud for Coach Painter, but everybody that knows him says he's an incredible coach. So I think you just need a new batch of players, which happens in college and in basketball all the time. Speaking of like new batch and change. So Merrimack is doing something better for their school, better for their sports, better for everybody's life going to d1 and the ncaa says

yeah we you can't until you get here like you could if you would have stayed until you're actually here you can't like why is that even a rule why that's the dumbest thing i've heard now i love that fairly dickinson got it yeah we love that story we appreciate hearing that and maybe there should be a re-evaluation on how you pick all the teams that end up in the tournament, including teams that are from mid-major conferences that might be the number two school. I guess you have to have that conversation now because of FDU. Somebody will make it.

Why couldn't that Merrimack team go? Is that the dumbest rule? I mean, the NCAA has a lot of them over time. This one feels like one of the dumbest. Why would they do it like what who benefits from it no the short answer is no one but i think the reason they have it because we had in football this year too with james madison moving up from fcs to fbs not being

eligible uh for the postseason and they they push back a little bit and they're trying to shorten what they call their transition period sure the reason for it is more administrative, at least in football particularly. They want you to have a certain size stadium. They want you to prove that you can maintain the financial commitment in terms of the number of scholarships offered, the attendance, all those types of things. They want you so that people aren't just moving up and down all the time. all those types of things. They want you so that people aren't just moving up and down all the time. But that doesn't seem to outweigh if you're going to let them play, they have to be able to compete for championships. And certainly in basketball, where it's a much larger group in Division One than in football, if they're there, if they're in it, you've got to let them compete and if you're accepting

them and they're playing in the conference tournament and that's how you're going to give away your automatic bid to the NCAA and they win it they've got to go it's as simple as that I think it needs to be addressed and whatever the administrative issues are just make it more difficult to move up instead of doing this whole transition uh period we have like i agree with everything you said there and reese you're so reasonably minded about everything but like fairly dickinson they're not trying to move up and they lose to that like why fairly dickinson's got a small arena doesn't have a you know what i mean now granted they showed up in uh ohio there the fdu chants were fucking very loud. It was awesome

and everything like that. But administrative-wise and business-wise, like, Fairleigh Dickinson's no better than Merrimack, are they? I don't know. I might be completely wrong. So, like, in basketball, why? And they said they want to shorten it. Why are we, for sports purposes, I guess for, like, I don't know why

you would do that. I don't know why you would not just eliminate that. Because you're going to have to go through the work of voting on shortening it right yeah then why no vote let's just eliminate this yeah if you're gonna have to do a procedure we might as well do it right or you don't think that'll ever happen no i i think it i think that maybe this pressure will help it happen i mean i think the smartest thing and most reasonable thing is if you are accepted to a level whatever level it is why do you need this transition process if you're in you're in if you're not you're not and you know it's it's as simple as that to me i don't they make things way more complicated than they ought to be no no that

doesn't happen in our world every world actually nowadays it feels like reese it's a bananas thing the more i learn the more i'm confused ty has a question for you reese yeah reese sorry for insinuating that you said that sean miller was a cheater those are my words not yours uh moving to allegedly not allegedly he got that's why he had to leave Arizona. Very true. But moving to a different guy who is also no stranger to cheating or bending the rules. Rick Pitino is going to St. John's.

Do you think that he's going to turn around? I mean, there's no reason that a team in New York City, in the mecca of basketball, shouldn't be unbelievable. Do you think, Rick Pitino, we're going to see him turn them around into a powerhouse fairly quickly here? There is absolutely no question in my mind. They will be in the Sweet 16 in a maximum of three years, probably shorter. And I mean, this guy is a brilliant coach. There are a lot of them out there. But if I had one game to win, equal talent, and they said, you don't get to hem and haw, you don't get to be diplomatic,

you've got to pick one coach to coach that team to try to win that game with all the money on the table, I'm taking Rick Pitino every time. Whoa! It's got to be Izzo, Reese. Number two's got to be Izzo. Maybe 1A. Whoa. I wouldn't go against Pitino, man. And being in New York with his background there,

his ability to develop and motivate and all of those things, he's going to attract talent like you can't believe. They're going to turn it around fast. Fast. I was excited to see him back on the sideline in that incredible suit. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? He had the arms crossed at one point.

The suit, he is – you've obviously – I assume you've met him through your travels here for college basketball. Oh, yeah. He seems like he's either the most fit or thin person of all time. His suit's always impeccably fitting. And he has just a look on the side. And then you see Iona, people are like, look out.

They might go on a win. It's like, this guy's all the way back, it feels like. This is kind of the routine, right? Kind of got to earn it again. And then you can maybe go do it. And if he turns around St. John's look at the people will be Patino gonna

turn around fucking St. John's is that what's gonna happen Reese you think that's definitely gonna take he's in the middle of New York City I'm just starting to think about that they used to be like Big East days it was fucking they were great at basketball St. John's was definitely going to happen I mean I try not to go too far out

because you start speaking in absolute, you get yourself in trouble. There is little in college basketball that I would be more confident about than Rick Pitino turning around any program, particularly one in New York City that's sort of starving for some success. So with the way you can get into the transfer portal and rebuild your team quickly now and his reputation among players and, you know, look, he had all kinds of NCAA trouble at Louisville. I think as memory serves it, like Sean Miller, that the official reports exonerated them mostly from any of that type of thing. We all know the head coaches are responsible for what goes on in their program.

But on the floor and building a team, that guy knows what he's doing big time. He'll have a chance. He's taken five teams to the tournament. It's going to be six with St. John's. He's won a national championship at Kentucky and Louisville. I don't know if he'll do that at St. John's because that's a little bit of a crapshoot, but I'll bet you he has a shot at the Final Four within the next three or four

years. Look how good he looks. He looks like a spring chicken. Look how good he looks. He was running the sideline. He's 70, they said, right? Yeah. I guess they didn't say his birth certificate would say it, but people were saying it, and that's how I found out. Damn, he looks great for a 70-year-old and he looks great for a 50-year-old, it feels like.

Bettina's going to go win New York City. Last question for you here, Reese, from Pac-Man. It's a big day up in Ohio State in Columbus where my boy AJ is. Speaking of quarterbacks, who would be your first quarterback off the board? Who are you hearing? I heard CJ had a really good day today yeah i think it's going to be cj stroud if um if bryce young were just a little bigger i would put him in the category of prospect of like andrew luck i know andrew's way bigger i understand that

but i mean in terms of can't miss guys the only thing that can possibly miss about Bryce is there's not a history in the NFL of guys his size, not an extensive one of guys his size having elite success. I imagine they'll go with CJ Stroud. If I were making the pick and we're going to take a quarterback, I'd probably take Bryce Young. And understanding that quarterback is the most important position I kind of need to stick to my guns here I've said for a couple years if you have the first pick in the draft and you don't take Will Anderson you're doing the draft wrong so I'm going to stick I'm going to stick to that I mean I like all the quarterbacks I'd take Will Anderson but that's just me well right now the way people are drafting is every team that's good in the NFL

has a fucking great quarterback. We need a great quarterback. Yep. That is how everybody is drafting in the NFL right now. And you still think Will Anderson, huh? He's an absolute can't miss right now. I think he's absolute can't miss. And while all of the quarterbacks, well, I won't say all of them.

I have real questions about Levis and Richardson, even though Richardson, the ceiling is higher than is the roof for anyone for anthony richardson i have questions about them much smaller ones about young and stroud but i have zero about will anderson you know barring you know barring the injury type thing he's going to be a star for a long, long time cornerstone of a defense. But, I mean, you guys know better than I. You've got to have the quarterback.

And if you really believe that Stroud or Young, that they're that guy, then you've got to take it, even though it's possible that the quarterback class next year will be a little bit less. There will be fewer questions about the quarterback class at the top next year than this year, I think. Oh, quick early projection before we get you off to your event with Pollock and Jen Latta. Projection about which quarterback next year?

Yeah, you think Caleb they're just going to have above everybody else? I think Caleb and Drake May. I love Drake May at North Carolina. I think he is – I mean, Caleb's obviously great. everybody else and then i think caleb and drake may um i i love drake may at north carolina i think he is i mean caleb's obviously great but i think those two guys are they are your generational can't miss no real holes at this point type of quarterback that i wouldn't mind staking my franchise to i like cj stroud a lot i love b I love Bryce Young, but I've mentioned the question. There's a little history there that would give me pause just taking your franchise to it. Everything in the drafts to gamble to a degree, but I would have far fewer questions about doing it with Drake May or Caleb

Wood. Okay. Drake Tall? I'm sorry, Caleb tall? Probably about 6'2", 6'2", 6'3", something like that, right? I think he's tall enough. And Drake May, I thought he was – was he a redshirt freshman? No, I just was wrong all year. I kept saying first-year guy. Yeah, I know he's his first year to play. I actually ran into him a couple of weeks ago. I mean, great demeanor, great presence,

hanging out with Sam Howell, already an NFL quarterback. I think he's going to have another sensational season. We appreciate you, brother. Thank you so much. Enjoy the event. Likewise, man. Please tell them we said hello, and we appreciate the hell out of your time, Reese. You're the man. I will. See you guys later. Have a great one.

Hey, let's stay on twos while we're walking. Let's not need to hit all fours, but if we do, we know you're a fucking jungle cat out here. Ladies and gentlemen, Reese Davis. Never seen a more violent fall in my life, AJ. Honestly. And a quicker pop-up. Dude, it was...

He'd pop up and start running like it didn't happen? Jason Kendall? No, he definitely looked back. Yeah, it was kind of pop-time like Jason. It was a Jason Kendall pop-time. Wow. That's exactly... It was a Jason Kendall pop time. Wow. That's exactly. It was a Jason Kendall pop time off the ground.

He acknowledged that it happened. He looked back like, what the hell just happened? And it was like this. I didn't see it at the time either because we're kind of walking in like a group. There's humans. It was cold in the morning. So there's like kind of a moisture on the ground. But we thought we were on a good sidewalk.

And this thing was just kind of like peeking into the like over top of the sidewalk from the side here that had a little fence on it, I think. And then we're going up a little bit, too, but not enough for like to shorter the fall. OK, it was like up, but like still like that a little bit. Dude, fucking quick. I've never he's an athlete. Athletes know how to fall. He's an athlete athletes know how to fall he's an athlete i think so i thought he i literally legitimately i thought maybe both wrists cement right skin his bombs pretty good i hate that holding the paper too so i mean he had a lesser athlete would have

broken both hips and probably smashed his face i was so impressed dude i was so fucking impressed aj it was how old is reese that dude looks like he's 38 yeah but i think he's like i mean i don't know i'm not doing it i'm not doing it i'm not guessing i think he's like 48 nah he's got a kid in college looks awesome princeton yep below he's almost 60 bro he's 57 years old whoa unbelievable serious yes that's why whenever i saw it all happen and i like i think i I had learned either a week before that or two weeks before that, that this dude who is quick as anything and boom, he's almost 60 fucking years old.

I think he was in a meeting. Dog. He said something, and I was like, damn, that was pretty- That gives everybody hope. Don't you think that gives everybody like, hey, look at this dude. You say he's 57 right now? 57. I would never guess. Anywhere near that. And I don't want't want 57 year olds to think we're dunking on you or anything

like that but i just in our heads like damn near 60 i think to myself what i'm probably gonna be like and it's like i'm not gonna be what anywhere near with that it's like that's my projection so to your point i guess it is kind of like a hope but he said like i remember he he like quoted something from way long ago and i was like where'd you read that he was like there i was i was like so i like googled how old is this fucking guy yeah and i was like damn you're 60 i'm like jesus christ and i think it was like the next week it's fresh in my mind that in he did that and i'm like boom bounce right back up this guy's gotta be dead oh my god i thought it was like i've fallen i can't get up time yeah i thought it was give me a button time whenever you're getting damn near 60 he's fucking planking

while falling faster than any human i've ever he defied one of isaac newton's yep that's right three loves three loss gravity fell quicker that. It wasn't 9.8888 whatever it is per second. That was awesome. Let's get to a break, dude. Listen, I don't think we've taken one. Two hours straight. Pretty solid idea. Explosives.

AJ, have you seen the obstacle course that Ty Schmidt will attempt to get through to maybe win 20 people $500? Can you explain? Does he chug those five beers and then have to carry five full ones? Yep. This baseball bat is Andy Dufresne off of the stage. Do not mind that at all.

What he will have to do is start at the start line right over yonder, obviously directly below the hoop that is closest to the camera here. He will then have to make his way to the stool that has five tall, ice cold, couple hours ago, blood and life. What? He will have to carry those. Somehow,

some way, he will obviously prepare for this and have his own technique to carry those five as efficiently as possible. I thought you had to pour them into glasses. From what I've seen online, they pour them into glasses and have to carry them. Not everybody. There was only one commercial that did the glasses. There are people also doing it with cans.

You're an asshole. So you can do it, however, with a barbed wire. And then he will have to make one ping pong shot into one of the three cups down there. It should be a relatively easy shot. Nice little cluster of three there. Normally gives you a couple ways to miss. Once he makes a ping pong shot, he will then go up and over the Thunderball net.

While holding said beer still. Then he will have to go around the cone. He will go forward to the front cone from left to right looking. Left being the beginning, right being the ending of the sprint. He will go from around that left cone up to the front cone. Have to kick that cone. Make sure you get all the way to the sprint. He will go from around that left cone up to the front cone, have to kick that cone.

Make sure you get all the way to the cone. I will. Back pedal around that second cone on the left, front to that front one, kick that one again. Then he will be able to turn around the left final cone there. Those coolers will be open. He will have to kick the cooler shut like a badass. Hop over one. Kick the cooler shut like shut like a badass. Pop over one.

Kick the cooler shut like he's a badass. Pop over another one. Then you have to sprint to the putting green, bury about a five-foot putt. Then you have to deliver all of the beers to all of us sitting up here on the stage. Whenever the final beer is delivered, we will stop the clock. He has 90 seconds to do that, AJ.

Whoa. 90 seconds. Wow. I cannot wait to see the end of this program to see when Ty does this. I think he'll do it, though. Ty, how are you feeling about it now that you've got a chance to think about the hashtag easy carry contest by Bub Light? Well, it certainly won't be easy, but I'm up for the challenge.

Let's go. Pac-Man, any words of advice for a man who needs your type of athleticism to conquer the feat that is the Thunderball Thunderdome obstacle course. Hashtag easy carry contest. I think Ty got it. Stay light on your feet. Hell yeah. Appreciate that. Let's go.

In jeans. Yeah, jeans over the Thunderball net is going to be the telltale task here. We'll find out. The tale of the tape is the height of the Thunderball net versus the height of the bottom of Ty's ball sack. That is the tale of the tape in this entire thing. It is. Bingo.

It is. You should get down to his skibbies then. If he's worried about his jeans ripping, get down to his skibbies. I'm not worried about my jeans ripping. We don't promote you bullying somebody and taking their clothes off on the show. I'm trying to give him options for a faster time. Let's see your balls. Guys, be on vacation.

Bumblebee tuna. Bumblebee tuna. Bumblebee tuna. Your balls are showing. I get you want to relive the whole sitting in gum prank that you did to every single one of your teammates every single day of practice. Explain that to me. I don't know how that works. You know exactly what it is.

I was disgusted. I do not show people my balls and say I sat in gum. Okay. I've been around people that balls and say this is a satin gum. Okay. Oh, that's what it is. I've been around people that have done it, though. No, you're more of a goat brain bat wing type of guy. Anyways, you're disgusting. Okay.

Cheeseburger. Thank you. Speaking of CJ Stroud balling out over there, we were watching it live on that TV. There was a couple rollout. Did you get on NFL Plus somehow? No, it was just on ESPN. They were just streaming it. Colts either don't think they're against CJ Stroud

or they have one scout that they trust really, really, really, really, really. Why, why, why? No way. Colts only sent one scout to the Ohio State Pro Day. It's three hours away. Columbus is right there. This fucking place. That's okay. That was the report. I don't know if the It's three hours away. Columbus is right there. This fucking place. That's okay.

That was a report. I don't know if the report's true or not. Why is everybody trying to bury the Indianapolis Colts on your head? Well, and we'll see, too, because after that glowing endorsement from Reese, you know, you got to feel pretty good about Will Levis potentially being the future of the Indianapolis Colts. All right. It's okay.

Hey, we'll play football. Hey, look out, Cincinnati. We're good. Our power rankings are good. I think y'all are damn near the worst team in the league when the power rankings came up. I think the last team. Y'all are, who was it? Yeah.

Tell them, Pac-Man. Yeah. Probably. One A, one B. Texas and Colts? What power rankings? Arizona. That's who it was.

Arizona. And they got a quarterback, at least. You mean to win the Super Bowl? Is that what you're talking about? No, no, no, no. Power rankings is what people say. This is who's good. Colts, Texans, and Cardinals are dead last.

Dead last. Go get Cam Newton. What are you guys doing? Tied with 30th? Plus 18,000, plus 18,000. Actually, Texans are plus 20,000. Okay. But then the next team is plus 7,500.

They think those three are by far the worst. That's right where we want to be. Okay. Yep. Under the radar. That's right. No pressure. Sneaking up on people.

Thank you, AJ. Playing with house money over there. Boom! We're going to go 10-7 and win a playoff game. Hell yeah. At least the fleet will be cheaper, right? Let's go. No, no, no, no, no.

Inflation, inflation, inflation. All right, let's get to a break. We'll be back on the other side. Laramie Tunzel will be joining us in about 10 minutes, I think. Not 100% certain, but I do believe in about 10 minutes we'll be talking to Laramie Tunzel, who just signed the largest offensive lineman contract in the history of football for the second time in his career.

He did it the last time he signed a contract. This time he did it again, representing himself. Well, by way of St. Omni. Bingo. Where's St. Omni from? We have no idea. We have no idea. We want to know. We are asking Laramie Tunzel about it.

Let's remember though, Laramie Tunzel, 6'5", 318, listed, probably in that ballpark,'5", 318, listed. Probably in that ballpark, offseason, whatever we can think. Sure. From Louisiana, Florida, and went to Ole Miss. Okay, so he's got Louisiana in him, Florida in him, and Mississippi in him. And Texas.

Okay. And Texas. This dude's a fucking dog. Yeah. Absolute dog for the Texans. Texans are getting a young quarterback, allegedly, is what everybody's saying. Mm-hmm. What a perfect way to welcome into town saying,

hey, you got this fucking guy protecting your blind side. Okay? So you just worry about everything else. Can't wait to chat with him. And also, it's great to see the glowing A.J. Hawk all the way back. A.J., good to see you, pal. Good to go, Hawker. Great to be here.

Great to be here. The hashtag Easy Carry Contest submission by Ty Schmidt from the Thunderdome will happen at the end of this hour as well. Potentially 20 people winning $500 if Ty can complete an Easy Carry Contest obstacle course challenge in 90 seconds. Here we go. 90 seconds, Ty. You got it.

Easy. Hey, beer pong, you're a good player, right? Yeah, I can hold my own on the beer pong table. Last time we were at a beer pong table, you weren't able to play, if you do remember. Was that in L.A.? It was in Michigan. That was hilarious.

Different situation. We may have been in Michigan. I was on fucking Pluto. I was at your bachelor party. And I think you were right there with me. I don't remember if you were playing. Oh, yeah. I was running.

If you were, you shouldn't have been. Oh, yeah. That's why that was the conversations we were having. I was standing. I could not open my eyes. Literally couldn't open my eyes. Couldn't open my eyes. Couldn't see anything.

Fully awake. Could not open my eyes. Ty's open my eyes. Couldn't see anything. Fully awake. Could not open my eyes. Ty's sitting right here. Beer pong player, I think, normally. We have full beer pong set up happening in Michigan here for the Bachelor Bachelorette Party up there. And we're just kind of playing beer pong, chilling, having a good time drinking beers. Pizza was ordered by IQ.

A lot of pizza. But me and Ty, there was a chef that cooked THC food. And boy, oh boy. I don't know if anybody ate as much as we did. That cheesecake was dangerous. Unbelievable. The fucking whole thing.

Yeah. And Ty was sitting right to my left. The table was right here. And Ty could not move. I could barely move. I was playing beer pong. And all Ty said is, how are you playing? How are you playing?

Yeah. But even you picked up a ping pong ball in that state of being on cloud 75. I think you buried three, four straight. I don't think that's going to be a problem over there. I'm not too concerned. I think the net is going to be easy. I think the little zigzag drill here, Ron, you're going to really get a chance to showcase those fucking quick feet out of Iowa. Hell yeah. And then coming up over to Cooley, you get a chance to showcase those fucking quick feet out of Iowa.

Coming up over to Cooler, you get a chance to showcase to yourself. I'm a fucking doll. Kick that thing, shuck it up over it. Bury the putt, deliver the beers. It's going to be a glorious time for Ty Schmidt. Boom. $500. 90 seconds.

Ty, you can do it. All right. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. We're going to take a little five-minute break. Take five! Five! And joining us now live is a man who, business-wise, should go down as one of the smartest humans in the history of the NFL. He was born in Louisiana, if his Wikipedia is right.

Went to high school in Florida, if his Wikipedia is right. Went to high school in Florida, if his Wikipedia is right. Went to college at Ole Miss, was the 16th overall pick, three-time, or 13th overall pick in 2016. Three-time Pro Bowler. Ladies and gentlemen, stud, left tackle, Laramie Tunsil.

Laramie, please allow me to tell you that I have wanted to have a conversation with you since draft night. Now, we will not have to dive into draft night, but I will want to let you know that I am a human. And I'm sure you've met a lot of these people through your travels who is 100 percent on your side that evening. Even more so, I sent a text to people of power and said, hey, this is an impressive thing that he just did here, not the opposite. And ever since then, with all the scrutiny

that you had on you, all you did is you show up and play fucking football better than everybody else. I don't know how you were able to do it. The mental toughness is a real thing, and we want to, as a show, congratulate the shit out of you for battling through something you did not deserve at all i think to start this whole thing so let's dive into it you just re-upped

with the houston texans uh yes sir was that the plan all along is that what you assumed would happen and uh how long did that process take yeah that was the plan all along um the process didn't take long guys you know both sides was ready to get the deal done. And that's what we did. Um, my biggest thing is like, I hired this great team. I hired, um, I hired St. Omni. I have. Hold on.

Oh, we did not know we were going to get into this, this quickly. We got to, we are so excited. We do got this guy. We want to know, know uh we looking for him we can't find it we're big fans yeah we are big fans of saint omni but it is like one of the most interesting conversations i've ever seen on the internet in the modern day saint omni should be able to be found quickly and we should do that you would think saint omni would want everybody to know it's the complete opposite.

It sounds like, who is he? How'd you meet him? St. Omni, my business partner, a mastermind, a trusted confidant. He's just always there when I need him. So, so. Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! That was him? That was him? He's always there when I need him. That was him? Hold on, was that his ass right there? That was him. He's always there when I need him. That was him. Hold on. Was that his ass right there? That was him. Oh, can you have that guy walk past?

One more time. We need a little slower. Just know he's always there when I need him, guys. That was one of the greatest works I've seen in a long time. That was unbelievable. That was really good. That was awesome. Wow.

AJ, go ahead, pal. Do you think other players are going to be jumping on the bandwagon and trying to hire St. Omni as well with all that he's done for you? I hope so. Like I said before, this guy is a mastermind. He gets things done. Yeah, I'd say. All right, so you got yours done really quick.

Lamar haven't got his done. If you could speak to lamar right now about your guy that just uh whoever the guy is or he or she or him or her or bot or computer or ghost or ghost um i'm lamar role play hey man i need an agent hey lamar let's sit down and talk okay i my guy. I have my guy reach out to you. We can get things done. We can get things rolling. That's crazy. It'd be simple, man. The business side of the NFL is something that's very difficult. Honestly, it is very, very difficult to get deals done. We're seeing it all over the place. It's how it's always been.

It's been done a certain way for so long. So when it comes out that you represent yourself, and then they're obviously talking about St. Omni as this figure that just exists and we can't get any information the way like the NFL and the NFLPA and the insiders are talking about it, it's like obviously you have to be an absolute beast on the field. But whenever you're talking about business with these people throughout your career, like the last couple years, whenever you're talking and handling the day-to-day with Casario and with everybody in Houston, is it just like you're always interacting with them?

You're always communicating with them? Because this is two times now where you've gotten the biggest deal in the history of your position, $50 million guaranteed, bro. Damn. Three-year deal, $50 million guaranteed at offensive line. Let's fucking go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But how come you think it's because—what do you think it is about you, bro. Three-year deal, $50 million guaranteed at offensive line. Let's fucking go. What do you think it is about you, other than the fact

with how good of a football player you are, which you are fucking unbelievable at what you do. That cannot get forgotten in this whole story. That's why you get paid. Why do you think it happens much easier and quickly and better for you, as opposed to maybe some other situations, Laramie? Well, first and foremost, just producing on the field, man,

just made a lot of things easier for me on the business side. You knew that though, right? You knew that. Absolutely. Just my biggest thing for me as a player is just staying consistent. And that's what I did our last season. And I showed them like, Hey, like, and I let them know, like, I want to be here long-term. I want to help you guys, you know, potentially win a championship and win a lot of games. So I'm here. So let's get something done. And, you know, Nick was very, Nick and D'Amico was very good in this process. Like they was ready to get it done. So it made

everything smooth. Congratulations on it. It's not easy to get done. AJ Hawk, go ahead, pal. What's it been like in D'Amico's short time there? Obviously a lot of hype with hiring him, bringing him back, obviously a stud player in his own right there. What's it, what's he been like in D'Amico's short time there? Obviously a lot of hype with hiring him, bringing him back, obviously a stud player in his own right there. What's he been like, I guess, through the negotiations and also in his early time that he's trying to set that culture even though you guys aren't back yet fully? Yeah, he's setting the culture right now, actually.

Great guy, high-energy guy. Every time he comes around, it's just high energy. Everybody's just happy to see him. Everybody's ready to get to work. And, you know, that's something we need in this building, in this organization, like to get things right, get things right back on track. You've obviously started your career somewhere else, but you've gone to the Houston Texans. There's been, to what you just talked about, a lot of change, a lot of change. And you said your goal last year was just to be consistent, show them you want to be here and everything like that.

With all the turnover, how have you maintained the ability to be like so driven, team focused and everything, like almost optimistic? I would assume you have to remain optimistic. How have you been able to do that? You got to remain optimistic for sure, especially the things that we've been through as an organization. But, you know, just things like I love being an underdog. I love having

to prove myself every single time i step on the fields like i want to be the best player and i view myself as the best player i want to be the most consistent player on the field and and that's that's been my goals since i got into the league so you're a businessman represent yourself hire a team around you you know that those quarterbacks behind you, especially the one they're going to draft here, you're how old, 20 what? 28. Yeah, 28 years old. Be back at 31, back at the door, get more money.

With that rookie quarterback. Hello, Pat. I'm trying to find this guy that's in the back. St. Omni. St. Omni, we got to find this guy. We are big fans of St. Omni, but that rookie quarterback that they're going to draft, everybody just assumes this year, he'll be three years into his contract too at that

particular point. And with how much money they're getting, Laramie, you know what that means for your position? That means that thing's only going up and up. There's not a lot. It's only going up, man. It's only going up from here. You know that, right? Is the three-year deal like something you wanted, or was that what the team wanted?

Because it feels like every deal that's getting signed this year is like a two-year deal pretty much. Except for quarterbacks, it's like a two-year deal. Was that from the team, or did you see that trend and wanted it as well? That's me and my business team. That's something we wanted to do. We want to stick with the three-year deals. Smart, isn't it?

I mean, you're going to get another bite at the heart. Yeah, big bite. Get another big old bite at the heart yeah big bite get another big old bite at the apple connor has a question for you laramie yeah laramie on this subject as far as business goes have you always been like this like did you know going into the nfl okay as much as i love playing football this is a business and i have to do what's right for me or was that something you kind of learned as you went from miami to houston because obviously you were stud in miami and then you get moved to houston a lot of people were kind of you know from Miami to Houston? Because obviously you were stud in Miami and then you get moved to Houston.

A lot of people were kind of curious as to what happened and now you've turned it into two massive contracts. Right. No, that's something that I learned as I got older, like just being like the CEO of my business. You know, I always wanted my business operation. I always wanted to be the CEO and I always wanted to hire smart, intelligent guys around me or or smart intelligent women and guys around me and just get things done so as it's

something as i got older i just realized you know you were saying guys as a yeah a full thing everybody yeah i think you're saying i don't think anybody pac-man has a question for you um pat what up what's up baby you know you're the big dog in the locker room now if you could pick one of these quarterbacks right here and there's three, four really good ones. I don't know if you got to see CJ play today. I mean, his pro day today. If you could add one of them over there,

delete the huddle over there, which one would it be? No, I'd love to have any one of them quarterbacks in the locker room, honestly. You know, I trust Nick and I trust the front office to make the right decision to help us win games, man. Have you paid attention to it at all or you just got to focus on your own thing because you're just in the contract? You have to hear it. You know I've been tapped in.

You know I've been tapped in, man. Somebody don't call. Hey, they're pro day, dude. CJ's pro day was right here. They're showing these clips from CJ's. It's like he's fucking phenomenal. But then we'll watch another pro day. And then we'll watch another pro day dude cj's pro day was right here they're showing these clips from cj's it's like man he's fucking phenomenal but then we'll watch another pro day and then we'll watch another price young tomorrow and it'll be like and i think that's why you said you're good with any of them because it

seems like right now it's like how do we definitely know you know what do you think you need down there quarterback what else you think to to really make the place go? You think, Laramie? Man, quarterback, receiver, we need a lot of pieces just to get this thing right back on track. We close, man. I love the fans down there. They're loud. They are a loud fan. Fifth largest city in America.

People forget about that whenever you're... No, sixth, fourth? Fourth largest city in America. Moving up, yeah. Phoenix is fifth largest city in America. People forget about that because all you ever talk about is New York, L.A., Chicago. It's like Houston's fucking massive. Huge.

It is a huge place with a lot of humans. Ty has a question for you, Laramie. Yeah, Laramie, you kind of alluded to it when Pat asked about all the turnover and staying positive there. And, you know, obviously your job is to protect the quarterback first and foremost. But we've learned a lot more about offensive line play this year with a guy like aq shipley who comes on the show played in the league for a really long time um how difficult has it been like when you know you you almost like you're getting into a groove or whatever the case may

be and then you have a whole new offensive system that comes in and you have to do that multiple times like again you're protecting the quarterback but i think it's it's a lot more complex than just hey i just gotta sit back here anchor and make sure my guy doesn't get you know his head taken off of course um you know it's ups and downs that's what that's what come with this this will come with this business this comes this lead it's gonna be a lot of ups and downs but you know that's a part of the business we just gotta my main thing for me was just to stay consistent no matter what happens no matter how many ups and downs happen no matter what we go through just stay consistent and just get it done laramie you know when you

i've done some past sets in my day i mean i used to do public past sets, Laramie. It was like walking through the airport. Somebody's walking and you just start doing this to them. It is a hilarious thing. People have like their AirPods in. They're just walking. What the hell? What the fuck is wrong with this guy? And then you just keep walking.

It is a fantastic thing. Is there anybody in the league right now that whenever you're like, you know, pretty good, right? You saw that square shoulders. Fucking didn't peacock too much you saw it i know you saw it hands are ready inside leverage we would do it unless we're fucking out of that you know what i mean but is there anybody that lining up on the other side you think you like less sleep the week of and it feels like there's a lot of those types of guys in the league right now we got some fucking monsters coming off the edges these days in the nfls

afc also like is there anybody up there that is different than anybody else and is there any weeks that are different for you i'll give credit to this one guy and i've been giving him credit since we was in college battling miles garrett man who he's a dog dude he is what what's he do is just is a combination of his size and speed and everything and what's he do different size speed ben he can do everything and he's dunking too just like yeah you ever seen athlete instagram instagram he's taking shirt off his bucket oh yeah and then he's just like dunking on these kids at la fitness it's like bro could you imagine i'm gonna play a pickup game la fitness yeah hold on oh you win a game, and somebody shows up, and they call next. It's like, you're not even really paying attention.

You're on the court again. Third game, maybe. Third game, new team comes on. I feel tired. And they got fucking Miles Garrett on the team. What are we even doing when it comes to that? Zito just told me that you have a YouTube page that is very new, I believe. A YouTube page that is very new, I believe.

A YouTube page that is about to go. Protect the Tree at Laramie Tunzel 78. There's a video on it. St. Omni's in this. I've been told. I've been told St. Omni's in that video. Is that accurate, Laramie? Hey, y'all going to have to watch it and let me know.

We appreciate the hell out of you. Congrats on the new contract. Thank you for making time for us, and good luck with the rest of the offseason. I appreciate that, guys out of you. Congrats on the new contract. Thank you for making time for us, and good luck with the rest of the offseason. I appreciate that, guys. Thank you. Hey, and tell Saint, Omni, you know. Hey, bravo, dude.

Yeah. Keep it going. Laramie Tungel, ladies and gentlemen. Laramie! Thank you, man. That was him. In the back, walking by. Would it work?

I think we found his Instagram. Yeah, I showed him the thing that gumpy sent us yeah so we've had a photo for a few days but we certainly were not going to be the first people no it also just seems too i mean again we talked about this earlier this week like gumpy is you know he's he is deadliest catch of internet fisherman he will find his man he always does he's captain. But I feel like that's just, it was just too easy. It's too out there. Gumpy found it. In like four minutes he found it.

It got sent in. Then there's no other photos at all anywhere. It's like, I don't know. It does have a lot of NFL players saying happy birthday on his last post, so maybe. Which would also be a great cover. Yeah, very easy setup.

Yeah, this could be a fake account. There's a chance this is not a real person. He's a mastermind. He's this. He's that. It's like, God damn, this promo. He's always there when I need him. He walks by like this.

Yeah, covering his face on the phone. That was awesome. We got worked. That's never happened. Nobody has had the forethought to work with him. Respect. Unbelievable. I respect that a lot.

That was fantastic. Is he an agent? Is he a certified agent? No, that's the big thing. And believe me, you've missed a lot since you were in Mexico. No. Should he not just get a doctorate in agenting? Like, you know when people give a donation or they accomplish enough in life

that they get a degree? You know, it happens all the time. The NFLPA just won't just be like, hey, if you work with St. Omni, you're good. The guy's contracts are better than all these motherfuckers that we have certified. By far. Not all of them. A lot of these motherfuckers that we have certified. They should just give them one of those honorary

certifications. Like a doctor. Congratulate. Holy shit. So that was not the photo. That's the Instagram. Yeah, it is. I thought that was a the photo instagram yeah it wasn't it i thought that was a little thinner i think so see what if they change and that's the thing what if they just change the person that they put the at saint in front of in this video that doesn't work what if they do just work it the whole time this is the first one but like who knows beard the guy did have a beard in the photo there's a good definitely had a beard there's a good chance

he's like definitely had. What's the name? It wasn't short hair. I think he's got a lockbox with like 10 different passports. Is Protect the Tree, is that in reference to protecting Davey Mills because he's from Stanford, or does that sound different? To be honest, Zito told me the name of it in my ear while old buddy was talking. He was like, oh, new YouTube page, Protect the Tree. And I was like immediately like, that's sweet.

This guy's got like a marijuana lobbyist thing. You know what I mean? Like I thought that's what it potentially was. Maybe he is pro-plant, though. He's trying to protect the forest. Oh, he certainly is. He certainly is. I think it's a reference to Ole Miss, isn't it?

I don't know. You mean when that guy from Alabama killed a tree at Auburn? Oh, Harvey Updack? At Laramie Tunzel 78, if you want to find it on YouTube. I assume that video is going to do pretty good numbers right there. Yeah. Satan is in it. That's up from four months ago.

I assume people are going to want to see that. Immediately. Immediately. That's the thing with YouTube that's so fascinating. And I always tell people like just keep going you know like um because the videos that you had at the very beginning of your youtube those numbers are all going to grow because the more people that see you later are all going to go back so it's like as you continue to go you're only going to continue to grow and literally

everything else grows as well so maybe you weren't able to have as big of an audience whenever you were kind of younger on TV or something like that. Like on YouTube, there's a good chance a lot of the shit that you've done is all going to help. It's all going to grow at a chance with it all. I'm excited to see what that video does with the growth of St. Omni.

I would really like to see what that video does. Protect the Tree, a documentary series with an inside look into our company brand, Divine Tree. Follow the gang as they try to master their crafts. Season two is here. Tune in for more episodes and shorts. Okay, so Divine Tree is the company. Protect the Tree.

Now we know. For the brand, for the shoe. Yes. Protect the Tree. For the tree. Divine Tree. For the tree. For the tree.

For the tree. Literally. Oh the tree. For the tree. For the tree. Literally. Oh, sorry. Guy has a medical license to do that in Ohio. That's right. It is prescribed. AJ, I know what you were thinking as soon as you made that note. CBD in here only.

Always. Here in Indiana. AJ, you want to take some phone calls on the 5 Energy phone line? 1-833-432-3663 1-833-4-DADO this is what we'll do wasn't sorry wasn't your bachelor party I didn't mean to go back to it wasn't that where Ty

came up with how you doing keep moving when he was blasted at night yeah we were on the street I believe and there were those bikers going by yeah we just kept saying keep it moving there was 20 of them I think every single person in robot Those bikers going by. Yeah, we just kept saying, keep it moving. Keep it moving. Yeah.

There was 20 of them, I think. Yeah. Every single person that rolled by, keep it moving. Yeah. I do remember that. That was a good time. It was.

I believe the exact quote we said, big how you doing, keep it moving, Tom. Yeah. This place. Yeah. It was. Everybody was like, fake wave, move. Keep moving.

Great view. That lake is fucking big. Awesome. Oh, yeah. Lake Michigan. Huge. You guys out there are just eating chop. Oh, my God.

You remember near the shore when we first ran in? There's just butcher's knives. Yes, rocks. Sticking straight up. Well, you got past that and got out to the sandbar. Not bad. The sandbar was magnificent. Yeah, but to get to the sandbar, though, you had to do a fucking triathlon. Oh, yeah. I that and got up to the sandbar. Not bad! The sandbar was magnificent. Yeah, but to get to the sandbar though, you had to do a fucking triathlon.

I mean, you had to really do it. Slicing up your feet. Oh my god. Pretty much always cold too. Boom! Alright, I'm trying to carry a drink too. Get to the sandbar. Sounds like a blast. Yeah. Boom! Another one just breaking on your head. It's like, I'm not

that level of swimmer. No. I don't think to be doing it. If I die, that would be wild. Two white claws in hand, finally get out of the sandbar, and it's like, I never want to go back. Yeah, exactly. You want to stay out there. How long are we hanging out here for?

Oh, six hours? The rest of the day. Yeah, we're out here for six hours because we don't want to go risk our lives out there. Then we had people trying to chuck drinks to us so we didn't have to go get it. Yep. What a scene, dude.

Bailey, we talked about it earlier a little bit about how high Ty and I were because of that chef. Uh-huh. Do you remember Bailey was holding down the furniture? Yeah. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. We wanted to move.

Yeah. That was a great time. That was like holding down basically the counter in the house that we were staying in just like this for an hour and 45 minutes. 845 Rice Krispie Truths. Because he had a victim underneath there. He didn't want to get out. All right.

That is also possible. You hear this? It's unbelievable. Bill's a good guy. He is. Great guy. Bill is a great guy. He'll never get caught.

No. Exactly. AJ. He's not doing anything. He's too smart. He's too smart to compliment the bill. I don't know. I don't know anything.

We love Bill. We appreciate Bill. This is a new Bill. New Bill 2.0, too, is going to be. Much faster. You can chase people down quicker. That's right. Yeah, he's been working out two times a day.

Ain't that fast. It's not chasing people down. Exactly. Jesus. Exactly. Jesus, this shows the work. Bill was involved in some physical contact this past weekend with numerous people. No. Yeah, downtown Indianapolis. It was not.

You okay? Are they okay? Bro. Well, I mean, they're in a few different places. We didn't get to see them, okay? No one ever will. Yeah, exactly. Because they're in a few different places we didn't get to see them okay no one ever will yeah exactly we did because they're dead yeah exactly that is not true we gotta make sure people we know that that's not true we have ended up in lawsuits and such for things that are good point blatant jokes that have been taken very seriously allegedly allegedly

we have but um i woke up sunday morning to a photo text message from Bill McComas, and my heart dropped. I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah. Is this guy okay? We almost lost Bill. I think we almost lost Bill. Legit.

Bill is back, though. Yep. Bill's back. Was it 30 people jumped him? Well, that's the thing. We've heard a couple different. Yeah. We're going to find out.

Cameras are coming out, So we're going to learn. All right, Bill. Text me. There's a chance, though, this video comes out and Bill actually. Hi. Yeah. Grab his knife. But he's the bomb.

All of them. Four or five people. Slits and throats. No, Connor. Because he has his knife on. No. Self-defense. Self-defense.

Yeah, exactly. Always got his knife on. All right. Let's get to a break. On the other side, Ty will attempt our hashtag easy carry contest. Hell yeah. Entry. We'll be entering alongside everybody else who has the opportunity to enter

who's 21 years of age or older. Bud Light's giving somebody $15,000. Wow. Nuts. $15,000. Woo! For you to get creative and do a... This one might be tough, Ty.

I'm looking at this thing. What we're having Ty do to enter the easy carry contest that Bud Light's doing, one winner, $15,000. Must be 21 years or older. He's starting at that start line right there. Grabbing those five ice cold Bud Lights about three hours ago. Then they were ice cold three hours ago.

Fresh out of that cooler. Literally feet away. Immediately regretted pulling them out and starting the whole thing without just having them grab out of the cooler. But also, don't want to go much longer than 90 seconds. Let's not add in that beautiful cooler getting tossed around. Also, if they would have been as ice cold as they were earlier, it would have made it like 50 times harder.

So. Holding them. So we made the right play. Absolutely. Ty will carry those five lukewarm Bud Light bottles to that ping pong table right there. He will have to make one ping pong ball into the cup at the end, one successful beer pong toss, and then he will move on. What he will have to do next is going to be a tall feat. He's going to have to go up and over the thunderbolt net.

Once he does that, while carrying the five beers still, he will be zigzagging through these cones. But it won't just be the standard half-ass zigzag. No, no. He will go around the left one. He will run forward towards the first one on the right. He will kick that one. He will have to backpedal to the second one on the left. Go around that. Kick the first one on the right. He will kick that one. He will have to back pedal to the second one on the left.

Go around that. Kick the second one on the right. Then he'll go around the bend. He'll go up over both these coolers, both of which will have the roof back. You have to kick those sons of bitches down. What? While balancing, the beers are not dropping.

When you drop one, you're DQ'd. Yeah, it's over. Can't drop one. You will then go to the putting green. You'll make a putt, hopefully. Then you will deliver a beer to all the boys here. And that means the time will stop. You have 90 seconds to do it.

If you do it, 20 people will win $500. Wow. Let's go. Let's get this thing set up. Let's get this thing ready. Here we go. Let's do that. Then we'll answer some phone calls.

And then we will wrap up this glorious Wednesday. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, AJ. It's great to have you back. You think Ty completes this 90 seconds, AJ? I think Ty does it in under 60 seconds. Whoa. Wow.

He's going to drain his first or second ping pong ball and then boom, glide over that net and see it. If he does it in under 60 seconds, we'll make 25 winners. Boom. $ winners. Boom. $500. Perfect. Should it be 60 seconds? Should it be 60?

Can he spill beer? Can he spill any beer? They're going to be closed. Oh, okay. Good. We want this to be a successful operation. Definitely 60 seconds then. Definitely we'll do it under a minute.

Yeah, like people aren't going to do this if they're just going to spill beers all over their house or apartment. You know what I mean? Like, that is not what Bud Light wants. Bud Light's just like, hey, you go grab a can of beer. Go ahead, bring it to a friend. Get it to the spot. Easy carry. Boom, easy carry. Like, let's go ahead and do this. And if you can get four or five of them,

what a stallion. Unbelievable. And if you do a cup, two of them. Probably, just like how they score tricks in Olympics and stuff, your pre-score will probably be higher if it's a cup. Yep, higher difficulty. And risk, because you're potentially ruining the carpet in your entire place.

Losing beer. Losing beer as well. Dropping a pint, shattering one. Glass everywhere. Impossible to get every piece. Oh my god, yeah. Risk score would have to be high. Yeah, later on, stepping on glass. But if it's not a success story, it doesn't matter because you're not going to get enough good scoring

in the other areas. Exactly. Kind of an all-who kids. Got to add up. Bud Light, one winner of $15,000 if you enter and make the best video in their eyes. We'll take their winner and seven others to put into a March Madness Elite Eight bracket

where people will vote in a poll either on Twitter or on YouTube to see who will advance in the video contest. One winner will survive and win. It's right over here. Pac-Man. Boom, right here. It's a good idea by Bud Light

I like it I do too one winner will win this incredibly professional title one of a kind we don't even have another one we're just giving it away we'll all autograph it in our universe

and another thousand bucks so there's a lot of ways to win with the easy carry contest and we appreciate Bud Light being creative with what they're doing creative with the partnership and we thank them for everything. Unbelievable. Hey, that was

Saint? Yeah. Yeah, that was Saint Omni. Yeah, that was Saint. He knew. Yeah, he knew. Yeah, that was a nice little hey. They might have looked yesterday. Everyone's asking who's Saint Omni and we're going to have you walk by and you're going to be covered in your face. I love it.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. And lo and behold, we go to his YouTube page. We can just see him. At St. Dot. I believe. Was that Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok? Was the account that Gumby sent in at St.? Yeah. That was the IG account. Was it? I didn't know. Yeah, Instagram.

Instagram. Okay, so that is St. Hey, good for you, man. Keep doing it, Saint. Mastermind. Is it possible that Saint is Danny Boy Hustle Hard? Cheech. Could be. That's interesting.

He's at devil. Hey, Aaron's definitely, right? Hanging out with Danny Boy Hustle Hard this weekend? He's in the back. No, no, not just. For sure. He's in the car with Danny Boy Hustle Hard this weekend? He's in the back. No, no, not just. For sure. He's in the car with Danny Boy Hustle Hard, right? Yeah, I'd say.

If he ends up in New York Jet, Danny Boy's getting him in and out of Teterboro. He's moving into the penthouse with him, yeah, for sure. Danny Boy's electric, but he doesn't even fucking come close to touching Pac's driver, Joe, as far as electricity. Amen, brother. Pac-Man had a driver yesterday, which I think is a smart idea. Very. With how long of a drive it is. Studying up. And where you're driving.

And if you have a Rolls Royce, you should. Oh yeah, for sure. You have a living room on the road. You might as well at least enjoy it as opposed to the part of the car that they don't set up for the person that bought the car. Like the actual luxury in the back.

You had a driver yesterday. This guy was a lightning rod. Yeah, he was. Has he been driving for you a while? Pac, you had a guy that came in to the Bengals locker room and he was wearing a pith. I don't even know what a pith is. It's like a safari hat. Is it the same guy? Joe had a safari hat on? No, it's another dude.

The helmet. Okay. Joe's awesome. Joe sat helmet. Okay. All right. Joe's awesome. Joe sat right over there. He did. Right over there. Big chill. He was starstruck. He didn't say a word.

What? AJ, he didn't say a word. Like, not one. I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good at getting a convo out of people. Oh, yeah. Very good. Pretty solid.

He wasn't having it? He wasn't about it? Bro, the fucking Amish. I got the Amish. I mean, I got a 20-minute conversation with the Amish at Topgolf. I was on an Amish person's Snapchat. I mean, it's 2023. Nice.

Joe, I couldn't, because I could tell that I liked the cut of Joe's gym. He's a tough egg, though. I could tell that I liked the cut of his gym. He was a tough egg to crack. Tough egg. He was here to work, bro. Bingo. Yeah, it's Joe's world.

We're just living in it. Joe's a dog, dude. Yeah. He put a tough wall up i always sit next to him and i usually get a lot of people talking yeah zito's also chatty yeah yeah but that's all right joe look at you joe he had a job to do and that's what he was focused on there's one job here i i wrote on rolls royce here exactly okay i'm going back joe's handling biz i get my package from point a point B. I do not need to open my mouth when I get to point B.

I actually texted Nick at one point yesterday when Joe sat next to Zeke, and I said, I can't wait for Zeke to crack this guy. And, boy, it never happened. It got pretty solid. For Zeke not to, I'm not saying something to. Yeah, because Zeke's persistent. He was like a 1980 Winchester safe. It was impossible luck.

Has a couple dents in it. Is he open to sit down on the couch? Four times. Say something, man. He's a good guy. Joe's a good guy. He was a good guy. Let Joe be Joe.

Good guy. Joe laughed. There was laughing moments out of Joe. Wait, when? Yes. He laughed? Yeah, right out here. Probably.

He had good vibes, dude. Joe had good vibes. Oh, absolutely. I did love him, though. I loved him. Take a bullet for Joe. Are you kidding me? That guy was a fucking weapon. I don't know if Joe would take a bullet for us yet. We'll get him there. Alright, let's go to the phones.

Let's go to 500 phone line as we wrap up this Wednesday. This A.J. Hawk is back Wednesday. I still can't believe it. He's fucking here. A.J., what's going on with Packers, bro? They didn't trade him. I've seen another person that's covered the NFL for a long time, you know, point out some things that the Green Bay Packers have

in their house right now currently that potentially negate a trade that I think every Packers fan thinks is potentially going to happen because how good a football Aaron is and everything like that. And it's almost like disrespectful to say that they have no leverage. But they've come out and said that aaron's not playing here anymore we're moving on to a new yeah they have to see what jordan love has before they you know extend his fifth year he'll be gone he went he there was also alleged trade talks about jordan love saying i would like to be able to play and prove that i could be an nfl guy i got drafted here i've just

been sitting here so i think all these things that are very public have taken away from the packers leverage and whenever you're talking about deal making it's easy to talk about comps and everything like that but comps are only comps if the leverage is comparable and there is i don't think for either side any it's just almost like let's get a deal done and let's move on is how i view it is that how you see it uh from a 30,000 foot view where do i have it wrong and what do you think is going to happen no i mean especially with where we're at now and the fact that it hasn't happened, and it's so public. Like you said, the Packers basically said he's not going to be here. He's not playing here.

Aaron comes on here and says he plans to play for the Jets next year, and still nothing happens. And I hear this could go all the way to the draft. It's not good for either team to be hanging in limbo right now. Neither team it's good, obviously. But for the Packers, you've got $60 million in the cap. You're sitting there. Free agency just came and went not that you know the packers

are normally big time spenders but it's like jordan love you're gonna want jordan love to succeed yeah it's like are you just gonna have a guy sit there and take up six you just you lost lazard already too so he said today didn't even really talk to him right you know what lazard kind of said that the packers didn't even reach out to him. I think Goode wants, like, his own team, which, by the way, he will be judged by. This is a result-oriented game. Goode was there when they drafted him, though. Yeah, he drafted Lazard.

Oh, okay. So that doesn't make sense. Yeah, but they have two new guys this year, obviously, with Dobbs and – Christian and Romeo. Yeah, and then they had two other rookie receivers, Torre. They got in the seventh round. He was a good player. Remember Aaron said.

Yeah, he didn't get very many opportunities, but when he did, he was pretty solid. There's a chance the Packers are very good. Like, we are not saying that there isn't a chance. For sure. But this exact moment, it's like. A lot of holes to fill. A lot of holes to fill. Yeah, and you got $60 million being held up right now just because of what?

Stubborn? I don't know. What could it? You know what I mean? Very selfishly. I do kind of hope it gets dragged out and then he gets traded on draft night

because that'd be great for us. For the show? Yeah. For the draft spectacular? Absolutely. That's very selfish play by you. Absolutely. I like it.

There's a lot of humans involved in this that I think, like, you know, Aaron was obviously not thrilled with the situation where it was.

Sure, clearly. Mark Murphy, clearly not thrilled with the situation. Beauty, not thrilled with the situation. Fans, not thrilled with the situation where it was. Sure, clearly. Mark Murphy, clearly not thrilled with the situation. Beauty, not thrilled with the situation. Fans, not thrilled with the situation. Jets aren't. Jets, like nobody's thrilled with the situation. It's like, can we not just fucking make a deal and move on

and just understand the reality? I think that is like a lot of our questions. But I got, I woke up trending because I was getting murdered for all very valid reasons what they were saying. But it's also like results will tell us all the answers to this whole thing, I think. Well, and I wonder if now, because like you said, they missed out on the free agency vote, like completely. So now the fact that they didn't get it done beforehand

and they really couldn't be players in free agency at all. Can't miss out on the draft. Exactly. So they probably are just like, all right, fuck it. We'll just wait. We'll just wait. You know, it's like, like i mean it makes no sense but also like that's kind of like they made their bed now they have to sleep in it yeah right and it don't make sense that uh not even communicate

with lazard obviously they said all right we we're getting rid of everything that's with aaron rogers and we're gonna start new so um that could be a good thing and that could be a bad thing but they got time. That's one thing. He got time in Green Bay. He got two to three years to prove that he's what they're saying he is. Who, Jordan? Yeah.

So he's kind of. I don't know. What if he doesn't light up this year? Then they may have to draft a QB. Yeah, they may have to do it. And then a re-back in the – like this is an interesting situation that they have put themselves in, which gets forgotten about

from the Packers fans that are attacking me. Like, Gooty and Murphy put themselves in this situation. Like, this is – like, whenever you make a decision to think about the future, it's beautiful. Like, that's a good idea. That's how you, like, properly can protect the future profit of a business as well if you're in charge of that whole thing. Like, have to think ahead, have to think forward.

But also, there's other things that come with those decisions yeah and it's like if the guy that you have goes back to back mvp and then the whole thing and then now you're just sitting on an asset that you thought was going to be great but you haven't even seen haven't even got a chance to see and now we have to uncomfortably awkwardly move on and also our legacies matter from this whole thing as well it's like it's a complicated situation and i don't know why all parties aren't just like yo let's get fucking let's let's let's move let's move on next chapter well and that's the thing like there is no middle draft night will be there is no middle ground it's either hey the guy i drafted jordan love Jordan Love, he is the next franchise quarterback for us, and

that was a success, or he's not, and Gutekens was the guy who shut the door on the Rodgers era, potentially prematurely, and that's what he'll be remembered for. There is no middle ground. It's either Jordan Love is a smashing success and it was the right move, and they got

lucky again and moved on to, you know, and that's regardless of what Rodgers, even if he wins a Super Bowl success and it was the right move and they got lucky again and moved on to you know and and then that's regardless of what rogers that like even if he wins a super bowl with the jets lock payton situation exactly but if he doesn't like that is what he will be remembered for yes you close the door on the aaron rogers era prematurely and he and you'll probably get fired but they could be good they could yeah i hope they are they could be good. They could be. I hope they are. They could be really good. Could be really good. We just saw the Jets sign Hardman in that last hour.

Yeah, McCall Hardman. Do you think that is a move that the Jets made? Maybe they thought, sure, we can go after some guy in the second round this year's draft and instead sign Hardman and then feel more comfortable. Lose the 13. Yeah. Losing both that pick and possibly a second draft pick. I don't think it's going to be a freshman.

So I said last week, even during this whole thing, that like a one with like a future potential third or second like. Escalator. Escalator. Like I feel like everybody would be like, that's a good deal. But then you got to think about the Jets who hit on their draft picks. Right, besides quarterback. Yeah, exactly. Quarterback they did not hit. They put themselves in this situation as well.

So I guess the Packers fans, a lot of them said the Jets have no other options. So the Packers care about the AFC East New York Jets? That's their leverage? You guys are fucked. It's like, do you think that is what the Packers are like? We can really fuck over the Jets here. It's like, that is not a real.

In Green Bay, in the NFC North, I don't think that is a real top-of-line thought when it comes to negotiation. I might be wrong, though, AJ. They know, too. You're going to deal with these people in these front offices the rest of your career, so you don't want to try to screw them anyway. You still want to do right by the team and not hold things up if you are. Like, I just wonder how much they're communicating.

Are they speaking every day or is it one of those deals? A lot of times we find out in negotiations, sometimes the sides don't speak for a week at a time. And you're like, man, this is crazy to think of. That is crazy to think of. Have we heard anything about that? No, not really. Where do the brothers say, hey, look, it's a date on this.

Y'all get this shit done or I'm going to sit here. Because they got to pay the money. Or I'm coming into the facility. I'm going to take part in off-season workouts. Imagine him showing up at OTAs. Right. Wouldn't be great for him. I'd say that wouldn't be the worst.

Would he do that? What's that? Would he do that? You think out of spite, Aaron Rodgers? Is that what you're asking? I'm asking if he doesn't get traded. I would if I was a player I would definitely do it

If he wants to force their hand If he comes back and he's playing a spite season They might win the Super Bowl with him I think it's a spite within the building I don't know if that's I don't think he would want to do that He's not going to do that His MVP years were a spite inside the building

Yeah you're 100% right. Jesus. I'd be ecstatic if they got their first-round pick this year. At this point, it's like that, for me personally, it'd be very tough to stomach them just being like, all right, fuck it, we'll take a third-round pick. That would suck. But if they get the 13th pick or whatever,

Who would you blame if it's a second-round pick? I don't know. What if it's a second-round pick? I don't know. What if it's like a second and a third, something like that? I just – because I'm always going to compare it to Russell Wilson. I'm going to look at what the Broncos got for Russell Wilson, and then I'm going to be like, this fucking guy who threw 12 touchdowns last year and, you know, 18 picks and fucking sucked. And Rodgers has won two MVPs in the last three years,

and he's going for a second and a third. And then the Broncos also, you know, like, it just – that would drive me insane. So who would catch the brunt of that, just like – Well, it would be the Packers front office. So if it's a bad deal, I think the, who do we, you know, because the situation has been made, and then if the trade is shit, who is the X factor of all of that? Well, yeah, because then it's like you were incredibly stubborn.

You held the whole thing up, and then in the end, like when you needed to stay strong, you just fucking crumbled. It's an interesting thing because there's a lot of human stuff going on there behind closed doors. You know, everything you said about his legacy, he knows that. Oh, yeah. It's an interesting thing because there's a lot of human stuff going on there behind closed doors. Everything you said about his legacy, he knows that. Oh, yeah. Guti knows that 100%. He knows exactly what he's doing.

He's committed to it. He thinks that there's massive success on the way. It's like, okay, if that's the case, let's fucking – Yeah. Let's go do it. Let's get it done. Let's go do it. Like the Russ contract, that would suck in Russ Conning extension,

but even the Devontae. Look what these wide receivers were getting traded for last year. Tyreek Hill, what did he go for? I think a first, a second, two-thirds. That compensation for a wide receiver, and we're talking about Aaron Rodgers here, who has won two MVPs in the last three years. I think there's competition, though, in both of those. The Jets and Miami were in there.

But even looking back to the Devontae getting traded, in hindsight, it kind of feels like they got fleeced on that too yeah because what tyreek and just and then davante like you know it's like he kind of has a whole home year and he still has fucking 1200 yards and catches 12 touchdowns like oh yeah he's he's washed yeah they traded the court that was good boy he's washed he's washed but i guess in that situation they did offer him more like they tried to keep him. Allegedly. Have we heard that exactly from anybody in Devontae's camp?

I don't know. That's always been just the story. Yeah, true. True. But it's probably true. It's possible. Don't you think the Packers, will the Packers eventually try to leak through insiders that there's other teams coming for him to try to hurry the Jets up?

So that's what I'm saying, too. Like, it feels like there's only, there's other teams coming for him to try to hurry the Jets up. So that's what I'm saying, too. Like, it feels like there's only – there's no – I don't want to dive back into this again. I just don't want to do it. Devontae did confirm that the Packers offered more money. Okay. Was it long-term? I don't know.

More or the same. He mentioned – Matched or the same. Offered bigger contract is the headline. Yeah, and he – I remember this now, and Devontae said, like, the unknowingness of Aaron was a reason. When it happened, I think we went to bat

for the Packers doing it. Also, no state income tax in Nevada and being closer to home. And Raiders. He was a Raiders fan, wasn't he? Derek Carr is like his best buddy growing up. He's not there anymore. He's gone. He's now a quarterback. Have you seen Your Honor?

Oh, yeah. The show? Uh-uh. Who's in it? So good. Bryan Cranston. Yeah. Oh, I did see a trailer for that.

Chet Hanks. Have you seen this? Chet Hanks? Yeah, he's a henchman. Chet Hanks is in this? Where was he? I didn't see Chet Hanks. How far are you in?

Blah! Huh? Yeah, how far are you in? So, I only watched one episode. Okay. I don't think Chet's in that one. Yeah, he's in episode, like, four in episode seven. He's coming, though.

Dude, does he have a Jamaican accent? No. No. Okay. But he could. I didn't know if it was rude, but... No, he... Chet Hanks.

There he is. Oh, I've not seen him yet, but I will say, like... Got some Jonah Hill in him. We woke up on Sunday, my wife and I... He does kind of, doesn't he? With the beard there a little bit Jonah has a bunch of different Jonas Yeah, that's true

Jonah, he's incredible. Jonah's really good Sunday morning we wake up though and I'd heard about your honor from a couple different groups of humans so there was nothing to watch until the fucking basketball came on so I was like, oh I heard about this, you're on. Or we had to find where it was. Give it a run.

We put it on. 10.30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. That's a wake up. Watching that show. Not the time. No way. Do not do that. That thing's a thriller, bro.

I was like, I really like the show. I'm like, I do too. But I don't know if I'm doing this in the middle of the day on a Sunday. You can't do it. I cannot do it. It's a fucking, from moment one all the way through it's like uh you're really it's it's a real deal yeah and the cure the world of pain guy from the uh oxycodone show okay that's the dad it is okay that's the that's like the are you speaking with an accent or what yeah he tried

that's how he talks in the Painkillers. Richard Sackler. All right, let's go to the phone. That's how he talks. It's a good show, though. I've only watched one. I think I'm in it. I think I'm in it.

It's a great show. I haven't seen season two yet, but because you brought it back up, I remember now how good it was. You should have heard Samantha, my wife. As soon as I said, I'm not trying to watch this in the middle of Sunday, she's like, oh, you don't want to watch it so I can watch it by myself? I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I enjoyed it. Two tense steps there.

I was like, yeah, if you want to watch it alone, you can watch it alone. But I'm going to watch it alone as well whenever I get time. She was like, oh, well, so if you want it to be one of our shows, we've got to be able to watch it together. So when we're together, I'm like, valid. But, like, I'm trying to have a Sunday here. I can't wake up. March Madness is coming.

Is it dark? Or what is it? What do you mean? It's intense. Dude, it's very intense. It is very dark as well. I mean, the parts of it. Opening episode.

Yeah. Unbelievable start. 10.30 a.m. on a Sunday, I see a guy's leg sideways. I'm like, what the fuck, bro? There's some happy scenes, too, later in the week. I have yet to see one. Start to finish. It is unbelievable.

Yeah, it's a phenomenal program. All right. That's at night, though. I think that's at nighttime. Season two is also good. You want to go to bed with that, though? You want to go to sleep with phenomenal program. That's at night, though. I think that's at nighttime. Season two is also good. You want to go to bed with that, though? You want to go to sleep with that? Right, like maybe after work then.

I don't want to wake up to that. I know the rest of the day. The rest of the day. It's after dinner. You want to watch that after dinner, then after that maybe get into PGA. Or, yeah, or a basketball. Watch Baby Rock before you go to bed to feel good. Young Rock, and I know why you did what you just did.

We're going to the 5RNG phone lines. Let's go to the phones. Young Rock is a great show. Great. Really? Hell yeah. All right. Let's go to Arizona on the 5RNG phone.

For five more seasons, I heard. I hope so. I mean, I've heard from people who love everything that even the last episode was a little tough. Zito said that to you? I would not say that. Uh, yeah. I don't love everything. To all of us. last episode was a little tough. Zito said that to you? Evie? Yeah. I don't love that. To all of us.

Evie has never bought into Young Pebble. He's not a fool. Oh, shut up. Young Rock's good show. It is. That's another program, the 22 minutes episodes. With commercials. Speaking of 22 minutes, too.

Ted Lasso, first episode of season three. 23 minutes. Yeah, you kidding me? It's a perfect story. What have they been before? No wasted lines. What's that? Were they normally an hour? What's the normal time? 26? Yeah, a couple 45s.

Boom. Those are quick, bro. Yeah, late seasons of The Office. That's what it should be. What were they? 45. Was it slated to be an hour on tv no i started at like the 23 oh sorry on tv yeah probably so like that kind of controls everything i think back in the day now with the streaming shit it doesn't yeah without commercials i mean come on remember when we started learning about everybody's the length of their shit from the streaming thing like hey this is a 53 minute throw this. This is a 37-minute throw.

It's like, whoa, a lot of commercials on this fucker. They were pumping them in there. How many people do you think watched that World Baseball Classic last night, AJ? Did you watch? 200 million. I don't know. What do you think, Peck? I'm going to say 150.

You think it's going to be bigger than the Super Bowl? Yeah. Holy shit. Now, I'll say 40. I say 40 mil. No, the Japan-South Korea game was allegedly 70 million viewers. But do the U.S., you think, carry more than South Korea? No.

That's what I'm wondering now as we think about it. South Korea's watching it, though, don't you think? I think more South Korea's watching it than the United States. That's why. No, no, I'm saying the Asian countries are probably still watching. But North Korea, can they see it? I think it's like World Cup. I think they're still following.

North Korea has not had a team in the World Baseball Classic yet. No. Kim Jong-un. Yeah, because Kim Jong fucking paints the black and throws heat. That's too good. What did they say? 107. Yeah.

107 is fastball. Call him Shohei-un. Shot in 18, golf. These are actual reported facts. No butthole. True. Doesn't poop. He bowled the perfect game.

Twice. Right-handed and left-handed. Actual reports being released to the public. Robin was there. Well, he saw the basketball game where Kim Jong hit a full-court shot. He dunked from full court. Opposite. No, opposite free throw line,

I think, Z. He did step in the line, though, didn't he? Yeah, he did, but nobody would tell him, obviously. Because how could you? It was still impressive. Actual reports. He ran a 4-1. And he's faster than you. Popping on one foot.

Slow ass. Alright, let one foot. Slow ass. All right, let's go to the phones here. Let's go to Dylan in Arizona on the 500 phone line. What's going on, Dylan? Hello. What's up, boys? Hey, how y'all doing? Hey, keep it moving, Dylan.

Hell yeah. Hello. I want to talk about the Raiders and that No. 7 pick. It feels like we're signing somebody new every hour. What do we do with this pick? Are we picking up a new player? Are we trading it away? What do you guys think? Interesting thought, Dylan, there. I don't know if I've gone through

my draft board just yet. I don't know if I've put it all out there, but I do like the fact that Jimmy G looks really cool out there. I do like that the last two off seasons, that brand new GM named Ziegler Ziegler has been making moves they're bringing people in, paying people

they're trying to get better, what do you think about the Raiders back you know much about them, have you looked into it well I know they got out really all the toxic so I say that I think it's a rebuilding point I don't know if they're contenders I think they're in the midway group what'd they pay Jimmy?

three years, 66 how contenders. I think they're in the midway group. What'd they pay Jimmy? What'd Jimmy G get paid? Three years, 66. How much guaranteed? I think 40. It's more like a two-year out, I think. Right, every deal. Even the quarterback deals, I guess, if it's Jimmy's deal. Yeah.

So it's like two years, 40? I think it's 35. Now that I said 40, that's way too much because Derek Carr got 40 for the $100 million deal he got. It's crazy. That's a great deal for Jimmy G. Jimmy G's about to make some fucking $35 million, dude. That's a lot of money.

We always compare the contracts, a couple hundred million, a couple hundred million dollars. It's like Jimmy G now with another massive bag. Heard he got offered free sex, too, from people out there. He did. Did he? Hustler Club. What's the Hustler Club?

The guy who runs the Hustler magazine. I can't think of his the Hustler magazine Larry Flint He's dead Offered him a free VIP membership Which I believe is valued at $500,000 What is the Hustler Club? I assume you get your penis sucked Yeah, you just get blowies for free

That's what it is? And then a couple people who work at It's similar to the Bunny Ranch They basically said Jimmy G can come in here and have his way with us, and we will not charge him a dime. The ranch? Yeah. I've heard about that ranch. Better tip

him. They had a TV show. Jimmy will tip. Could you imagine walking into that place and having cameras everywhere and just being like, hey, walk on! Pretty crazy. That was crazy. Yeah, the guys that signed off, you know you had to sign a waiver for them to show your face, right, when I was on HBO.

Hell yeah. Give me. How much am I paying? $10,000. Yeah. That's right. We should do a where are they now on those guys. We should.

We know where they are. That kind of took over the world there for a bit. Hustler Club is similar to that. I did not know that. Yeah, I think so. I didn't know that either. I was speculating. I'm not just going to automatically ask you.

Allegedly. Allegedly. I just want to let you know that. I wasn't going to. Allegedly. I'm not just going to automatically ask you. Allegedly. I just want to let you know that. I wasn't going to – allegedly. I wasn't just going to automatically ask you because I felt that would have been a little bit too ridiculous. But do you know anything about this place, Pac? Ever heard of this place?

Yeah, I have. You've heard of it? That's their logo. Sweet logo. That's almost as cool as the Fives in the Major League Pickleball. Hey, Gary V's team played in a game and their team name is the Fives.

Let's go Fives. Let's go Fives. Let's go Fives. These Pickleball leagues are pretty lit. Does Gary play? He's the owner. He's not Jackie Moon. What do you think this is? He's a professional. I watch him play basketball. I watch him

swat dudes on the basketball court all the time. Foul dudes. Yeah, you've seen him foul, foul, foul. He'll play in the final. In the grand final. He's not going to fuck around in the regular season. Is it better to watch? What's that? Is it better to watch? I've said before, these

high-level pickleball players just sit the net and dink and dunk. Yeah, it's sometimes. When you start playing the game, though, everybody starts. I don't fully understand the logo. Why? What do you mean? Why is it a clown? To scare the opponent. That's the crazy clown, and he fucking spikes it all over the court.

Because I think it's almost like these are clowns. They're going to pick the shit out of these clowns. Yeah, you don't want to be like, hey, I'll play for who? The clowns. Yeah. I'm a clown. That paddle looks like a massive spoon. They're not a Clon, though. They're the Fives. Let's fucking remember it.

People are scared of Clons, though. Maybe he wants them scared. Intimidation does work in pickleball, I think. You get Connor out of his game, he's done. He'll quit. His body language sucks. I mean, out of nowhere. This guy gives up one point and he just crumbles completely. It's not true. That is true. Foxy? It's a thousand percent true.

And then when he tries, he rallies six in a row on me. I'm like, thank God he's not trying the whole time. That's not true. That is true. Foxy? It's a thousand percent true. And then when he tries, he rallies six in a row on me. I'm like, thank God he's not trying the whole time. That's not true either. When I do get points, it's when my serve actually goes over. And guess what? 80% of the time, it's not going over. You know why it's not going over? Because I just switched from bounce to hit it out of your hand. No, no.

Because you've got rap sheets mindset going into free agency. I don't. I understand. I understand how it might appear that way, but if I'm just shutting the fuck up and just hitting the ball, that's just me and my game, baby. That's how I play. No, you get upset. You get really upset.

It's not fun. I don't like it. I get pissed off. Yeah, who doesn't? I haven't seen you play one game and shit the fuck up. Bingo. That's because that's the afternoon, boys. In the morning, it's a much different story.

The morning Thunderball boys. Yeah, Foxy and Pat are incredibly good. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't know. We haven't played against anybody who's like professionals in this thing. Well, no one's professionals at Thunderball. Thunderball is a little different game here, AJ. We're not playing pickleball here.

This is Thunderball. It is a take on pickleball, though. Yeah. I think it'll help us with pickleball. A chicken and pickles coming to Fishers, Indiana. Cannot wait. Cannot wait to get up there. Cannot wait to see. Who's that, Kerry Brackett? Back in the

Pickle game? Come on! That'd be sweet. I think that's a franchise. That's a restaurant and a Pickleball place. That's cool. They've got a bunch of them. I wonder how similar Thunderball will be to actual Pickleball. Well, if we know anything from the fucking video guy who came in here, much different.

What? I think he lied. Casey. You talking about TikTok? TikTok kid? Yeah. I think he lied. AJ, you'd be great at Thunderball.

I don't, I mean, does the ball react different bouncing off that gym floor? It's a little quicker, yeah. I do believe it skips a bit, you know? Quicker and wider. It's not, but it's not like it's. Take me some time. It's not like, because it's not like it's... Take me some time. It's not like you won't be able to adjust to it. Who, AJ?

Yeah. Yeah, AJ figured it out. AJ would be a good Thunderbolt player. Pac's starting to figure it out. You feel better about your game, Pac? Way better. Just need more reps. That really is a reps game.

That's all it is. I'm playing like 10 games a morning. That's awesome. That's a great little routine We've gone into it It's been so awesome Foxy's been in here Foxy is a player

Foxy looks like Ruffin the doll out there There's certain games though When Pat's on I actually physically cannot win But when we're both close We had four deuces today It's been so fun. It was good intensity. There are some times.

So, you know, my ping pong strategy was, you know, I'm milking two udders out of that cow. Okay, I'm going this way. I'm going that way. I'm going this way. I'm taking the ball that way. I'm taking the ball. Every time I'm going back and forth.

Bang. Pow. Like I am. So I've been playing this style of ping pong literally since i'm more like 13 probably yeah so that is the technique in pickleball though like you are because you're getting people to run now so you're just wearing them the fuck out so it's like i feel like i've been preparing for fucking thunderball i don't know about pickleball for a long time. Just have to get used to the fucking paddle, which is where the tennis helps. Foxy's got this. Keep it in play.

Just keep it in play, right? Much different. We're past that now, AJ, unfortunately. I know. Trust me. It's frustrating. In Arizona, though, it was a keep it in play game. It is not the same. Force the other team to make a mistake. That was the Arizona game. Yeah, that was Arizona completely.

Who's going to make the error?'s like much different we're hitting shots and stuff like ending ending points winners yeah it's getting fun i'm almost embarrassed in arizona that we didn't have both partners up at the fucking kitchen ever yeah like that's the biggest difference is how quickly we get up to the kitchen that's what's going to be interesting to see because i feel like our court is damn near perfect, but we might be six inches off. Yeah, everywhere. Just by a little, but that makes it matter. It's smaller. It has negated my

game big time because I can't hit a cross-court backhand winner. You just can't do it. Yeah. Because the dimensions are smaller. That's your bread and butter. Bingo. You've got to take a line. Take a line. Line's a winner. It's like swinging a heavy bat. It's like swinging a heavy bat on deck. That's what you guys are doing.

Once you get to the real court, it's like, ooh. Jumping heavy. I think so. I hope so. I think we will. How would it not help? Obviously, reps and reps with smaller dims, as you say, is only going to make you a better player.

Serve is the only thing that will be easier in the regular pickleball. Connor's serve is no joke. When Connor's serve is on, good luck. And I've only had one of those since we've started playing more regular pickleball. Connor's serve is no joke. When Connor's serve is on, good luck. And I've only had one of those since we've started playing morning pickleball. It's hard. The dims are a little shorter. You only play good against me. Against Foxy today, I only had one good serve.

You had like four against me, though, this morning. You had good ones, and then you just. See, this is why I don't like morning pickleball, because you guys are just blowing whatever you say. Smoker. I want to hear that shit. You did. You had four good serves.

I'm losing 11-3. We're not talking about good serves. What is this? You scored three. Talking about dimensions, like because you cut the court in half on the serves. Because in here, you've got to stand in the middle. You don't know if it's going left or right. But in the regular pickleball.

Yeah, defending a serve, easier probably. Oh, so you can serve either way on that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's just one box. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a problem. It's a game. Jeez.

Anyone doing no-look serves? Interesting. There has been look-offs I've experienced. Look left, serve right. Look right, serve left. Some people have some tells on their serves. You know, some people have some. Got to disguise it because getting a jump is a big deal.

Here's the deal. Because you're leaning one way or the other. And remember, that return, the server can't hit until it bounces. It has to be deep. So you got to get that thing deep. If not, I mean, you're just getting peppered. We're going to put together a Thunderball tourney. And I would like to see

the pros take on this. What their take on it would be. So we'll put up like a $150,000 grand prize. We'll probably set up commentator tables for us. We'll probably have a little bit of an audience opportunity for bleachers or benches or something like that. And then we get some of the pros in here.

I think we'll be able to watch and find out how we would stack up against the pros in Thunderball. We don't need to throw ourselves into the pros in here. I think we'll be able to watch and find out how we would stack up against the pros in Thunder Bowl. We don't need to throw ourselves into the fire just yet. We need to see how they play Thunder Bowl. Yeah. Right? Oh, yeah, for sure.

Curtain match maybe with the pros. Yeah, afterwards. Well, now that it's getting more popular too, like professional tennis players who, like, you know, can't quite hack it anymore on, like, the professional tennis, like, they're going and playing pickleball. Speaking of, we have McEnroe on tomorrow to talk about a pickleball tournament he's playing in for a million dollars.

Easy. Damn. A million bucks, John McEnroe. That's awesome. Who else is in there? Agassi? Yeah, Andre Agassi. Andre?

Well, he fucking hates that. That's what Zito said. Zito said. Big Agassi guy. Hey, who all do we want to request in there? Agassi? Yeah, Andre Agassi. Andre? Well, he fucking hates that. That's what Zito said. Zito said. Big Agassi guy. Hey, who all do we want to request over there? We got Agassi. We got McEnroe.

Pete Sampras, is he playing? I don't think so. Surprise, Agassi's playing. I learned that Federer's got those Onnit shoes, Oncla shoes. That's Federer's company. Yeah, which is nuts. The OCs? Is it?

Yeah. Is that his company? Either that or he's a huge investor because I read an article about it the other day. They're making so much money. Somebody's going to buy him immediately. Very wealthy. He's just going to make another billion dollars like he's Ryan Reynolds selling burner phones. Unbelievable.

Possibly some news that just happened with the Jets. What happened? They just traded Elijah Moore for a second and third rounder. Okay. Elijah Moore has a new home. In Cleveland. In Cleveland, Ohio. Good luck over there, Elijah.

Pretty good second round pick. 40 seconds. Now, are they stocking up picks here to potentially make a little bit of a move for Aaron Rodgers? Obviously, anytime somebody gets traded, it's not exactly fun. That person has a family. That person has friends. Hey, get the fuck out of here. Go to Cleveland, Ohio. That is potentially somebody gets traded, it's not exactly fun. That person has a family. That person has friends. Hey, get the fuck out of here. Go to Cleveland, Ohio. That is potentially how you could view it.

The way we'll view it from a football-speaking podcast here, this is the Jets trying to get picks here to potentially help get a trade done quicker, Ty, you think? That would make sense. It certainly seems like that would be the case. Maybe

if they're okay with trading away that first-round pick now, if they have think that would make sense it certainly seems like that would be the case i mean you know maybe yeah maybe if they're okay with trading away that first round pick now if they have 40 you know yeah three or four picks in the second round what do you think pack i think you get your one now i think you get your one they give them four picks and i mean what two four yeah four picks between between two and third round um i like this a lot i like cleveland a lot of people thought he was going to be a part of the trade for Rodgers. Yeah, just like kind of go alongside of it. He also didn't have the best

time in New York. He didn't like love. Very poor relationship with Zach Wilson. Bingo. Okay, so Mike White came in with Michael Fleur. So he probably assumed he was on his way out. Yeah. Even though brand new. Zach Wilson's not quarterback and the floor's not there anymore. He just assumed probably assumed he was on his way out. Yeah. Even though brand new. Jack Wilson's not quarterback and the floor's not there anymore.

He just assumed probably that he was on his way out. Like Kadarius Toney almost. Yeah, because I think he was the one who said, like, I want to be traded in solid. He said, like, tough shit. Like, we're not trading you. Oh, I didn't remember that. AJ, what do you think? Yeah, I mean, they're going to try to build up some picks so they can put whatever package together.

I would imagine this all goes hand in hand. All right, so next couple days, deal's getting done. Yeah, here we go. Well, actually, reportedly. I didn't say that. Something has to happen, right? Has to. Draft day, obviously, is when massive trades happen.

So that's the next deadline. Can't miss out on free agency and then also miss out on the draft. Nope. Like for things. Yeah. You know, you're getting in return. Either money or picks, obviously. That area.

Let's go back to the 5RNG phone line here. King Dom. Batista? What? I don't know. Batista's on? King Dom from the kingdom. Mitt, I don't know how this happens, but I'm excited to hear what this is.

King Dom is on the 5-hour energy phone line. King Dom, what's going on, pal? Boys, how you doing? Keep it moving. Okay, I already sense where this is headed. King Dom, where are you from, pal? From the kingdom. Okay, nice.

Of Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints, which one? No, the Chiefs' kingdom. Oh! You're like Red Xtreme, X Factor, the Chiefs' kingdom. Oh! You're like Red Extreme, X Factor, the Bank Robin Wolf. This is King Dom from the King Dom. Okay, respect, King Dom. I apologize for fucking that one up. What do you want to talk about, pal?

First, I might need Tim McAfee for a few days to help me with these household projects I got. But other than that, I need to call out the toxic table. Okay. Set me straight, boys. How come Pac's more toxic than y'all? Wow.

King Dom. Who? With it. He said, how come Pac is more toxic than y'all? Whoa. And he said it's great for him, too. So I believe he is probably a massive Pac-Man fan and said that you guys are soft. Do you

hear the same thing? I guess so. How about this, Tom? You sounded like a big dumb dipshit when you called in. Sorry, buddy. Look at you, you fucking buffoon. Wow. Holy shit. Ty, you're fresh out of a sickness. King Dom said you

kind of lost your fastball, it sounds like, is what King Dom said. Well, King Dom sounds like a big old hayseed, so I'm going to go ahead and just kind of take it with a grain of salt and not get too offended by it. Jesus Christ. This guy's a fan of the program. He said it's great. Absolutely. You too. And we appreciate that.

You too. It should be a shame. I wish I could disagree with you guys, but I don't. Yeah, all the super fans from the Chiefs Kingdom are destined for what? Jail. And drugs. Whoa. Sorry, Dom. Just reading patterns. Red Extreme wasn't on. How do we know

Dom wasn't hanging out with Jackson Mahomes when he was groping and kissing? Do we know that? It would make sense that King Dom would be hanging out with the Prince. It would. It really would. All right. All right, King Dom.

Thanks for the call. Thank you, Dom. Thanks for calling in, Dom. Great call. Great call. Let's go to Kalen in Washington. What's going on, Kalen? Hey, boys.

How you doing? Keep it moving. Hey, I had this thought. I've had this thought for months now with the stuff going on with Lamar, and no one seems to talk about it. Pat, I'm sure you're familiar with this. This happened in your division about five years ago. There was a running back for Tone's team who held out because he wanted

guaranteed money and wouldn't sign his tag, and then he didn't play the whole season until the team decided you know what we're done with you we're moving on you can go free agency and they got a bag from the jet only to you know fizzle out and not be very great but hey levy on got his money i'm proud of him what do you guys think do you think we can do the same thing with lamar kaylin great question if you do recall when'Veon set out for a year, he released a rap album. The rap album, the least part, he was on a yacht, I believe, and then a nightclub.

He had a freestyle in his front yard where he said, you're going to have to give me at least 17. I think he kind of said the number that he was expecting. But he is the last official full holdout. Pac-Man, you think we'll ever see this out of Lamar? Because all anybody says about the situation is Lamar's been a good dude through this whole

process. Could have been more of a headache for the Baltimore Ravens by holding out or doing something like that. He has kind of just been good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good in the eyes of everybody. Do you think there's a chance of a holdout here? No, I don't. Lamar is the MVP. That guy

wasn't the MVP of the league before. So I really think some get done. But you don't want to sit out a whole year of football. The guys who've not sat out a year don't come back the same, I don't think. It takes time to come back. Le'Veon was one of the best before he took the year off. You can tell he gained a lot of weight. The little quick moves and this and that, you can tell, went to a faint.

I hope and pray that he don't take a year off this is not good there's money to be had obviously not as much as we all think he should be getting okay just so we're all on the same page but i don't think aj that would be a tough decision for lamar to do and that's not something lamar has ever shown that he would do in the past which baltimore might be taking advantage of in full transparency lamar seems like he's a guy that seems like he loves football so just out of that that point, like, I don't think, why would you want to leave and sit out a year when you're in your prime physically, mentally, feels great. Yeah, there's no way.

I really hope that doesn't come to that. Well, in such a different situation. Like, both with Baltimore and Pittsburgh, like, those cultures are, you know, they don't need one guy as far as a running back goes. Like, we're talking about the fucking quarterback here. Like, Lamar Jackson, you need Lamar Jackson. They had seven back in. And Lev, that was the second year he was

franchise tag, so he had already played under the tag for a year. The second year was when he sat out where he was going to be tagged again. Alright, big shout out to King Dom and Kalen on the 5 Energy phone line. We appreciate them calling in. Three hours and 50 minutes into this thing. Jeez Louise. Hell yeah.

Good show. We're on time today, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yesterday we had a delay. You remember? Yes, sir. AJ, you missed it.

Just full sending signal crash. Sending. Like, to send the feed. Boop. Out of nowhere. Things go. How does that happen? Great question.

Exactly. You tell me. We don't know. That was the whole thing. Yeah. How does, you know, us thinking you're back on Tuesday, but you're not, happen, you know? That's a good question.

I don't know. Lamar Jackson has tweeted. Is that mud? Every time I get on social media. Oh, because he's getting dragged through the mud? Probably. Oh. Who's dragging him right now?

Who's the guy? Who's in the picture? That's a guy that had a bad day. I mean, probably stood in front of a puddle that he shouldn't have stood in front of and then somebody drove into it or a big thing. Oh, yeah. We used to do that in college. Hopefully, this is the guy that he's looking for that we don't know who.

Oh, you think that's him? Oh, St. Omni? St. Omni. Pac-Man, great work today. Tongue, great work today. Toxic Table, you did fantastic. Even though King Dom, I had a King Dom. So you guys might have lost your fastball a little bit.

Great show, boys. Not worried about it. Great show. Everybody in the back, great work. I appreciate the hell out of you. AJ, it's been great seeing you. You have been glowing. You have a glow above you.

Unbelievable. You have a glow. I'll tell you what, I've been texting with Bill. We need to get to the bottom of this. Hashtag easy carry contest. If you'd like to enter into Bud Light's $15,000 grand prize contest on social media, on Twitter, I believe. And then we are also having a sidecar contest happen alongside Bud Light's contest where you can win a title belt. All you got to do is film yourself being creative while carrying some beers to some friends.

Tie completed. belt. All you gotta do is film yourself being creative while carrying some beers to some friends. What? Ty completed this obstacle course that you see on the Thunderdome Thunderball Court in less than one minute and 25 people won $500 earlier today. That'll be our submission until it isn't. Maybe we'll be able to top it tomorrow. Can't wait to see what everybody's up to. Can't wait to see

what we're talking about tomorrow. You all are the greatest people on earth. Thank you for allowing us to do this. Thank you for following along. And we got a big one tomorrow on Thursday. John fucking McEnroe tomorrow and many other guests hopefully and hopefully you as well. Shaquille O'Neal will be on tomorrow.

Oh my god. The Aristotle? Yeah. Shaquille O'Neal will be on tomorrow. That's huge. John McEnroe Shaquille O'Neal. Massive Thursday coming tomorrow. Be a friend. Tell a friend. Goodbye!