The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 895 - NFL Draft Recap, The Bruins Collapse In Game 7, Daniel Jeremiah, NBA Playoffs Chatter With Alex Caruso, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap everything that happened over the weekend in the NFL Draft, who the biggest winners and losers were, what people were saying, and why it ultimately doesn’t matter until we see them step on the field. They also chat about the incredible weekend of NBA Playoff games and the Boston Bruins’ inexplicable choke in game 7 at home, after the best regular season in the history of the NHL. Joining the progrum to recap the draft, and give his biggest takeaways after going 42/50 with his top 50 prospects is NFL Network Draft guru, former scout, and friend of the show, Move The Sticks, Daniel Jeremiah (1:13:28-1:42:00). Later, NBA Champion, and current guard for the Chicago Bulls, Alex Caruso joins the show to chat about the playoffs, if he thinks LeBron is going scorched earth after the whole Dillon Brooks situation, why LeBron is so good, his thoughts on Steph Curry, and how he thinks the rest of the Western and Eastern Conference playoffs are going to pan out (2:04:54-2:26:28). 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, wow, what a sports weekend. Monday, May 1st, 2023, this program starts now. Much mana! Much mana to all of you as well. Can't thank you enough for watching here on this glorious first of May. It's gonna be May. It was yesterday. It is May today. Happy full spring, I believe believe may is a beautiful month a great month a lot of things come into the world and a lot of conversations are had around the

sports globe more specifically about what the draft took and what the draft didn't take let me tell you about this year's draft this year's draft seemingly all positive across the board for all 32 NFL teams. The Miami Dolphins didn't even have a first rounder. They forfeited it whenever they cheated and called up to New England and Foxborough and said, Hey, Tom, you're the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots. We were wondering if you wanted to get a percentage of this team. We'll give you ownership shares of this team to be the quarterback and even the coach.

If Sean Payton doesn't want to do this, you could be Jackie fucking Moon the nfl said you can't do that we can't start this trend no no what we're gonna have to do is we're gonna have to take your first rounder you forfeited the right to draft in the first round because of what you did and even they had an incredible draft yeah every team seemingly got better we have no idea what's going to take place with any of these players 259 people were drafted there might be 259 people were drafted. There might be 259 Hall of Famers. That's the real deal. That'd be sweet.

Possible. There might be zero Hall of Famers out of this entire draft class. That's possible. I don't like to be negative at all. Any of these players could be great. Any of them could be terrible. And the undrafted free agents that were signed, it's a pretty big deal. Huge.

Guys are getting paid more money than seventh rounders are getting paid to be undrafted free agents. I don't know how that works, but I happy for everybody good luck to all parties good luck to all teams and congrats on a hell of a draft weekend yeah draft we'll be talking to daniel jeremiah in the next hour he was 42 out of 50 nailed it i think or 44 out of 50 yeah 46 i think 47 out of whatever it was who knows pretty good daniel jeremiah was spot on he'll 42 out of whatever it was. Who knows? Pretty good. Daniel Jeremiah was spot on. He went 42 out of 50. Nailed it. Should have trusted it. Had some whiskey. Wide.

A little bit of THC. Wide. Had a great weekend. Fantastic weekend. Only got a couple of those left with the wife before our baby comes. That's right. So we've been trying to have a good time and celebrate and enjoy the alone time. And we certainly have been doing that.

But it was a great draft weekend. Great NBA playoffs weekend. Unreal. Holy shit. Steph Curry puts up a record-breaking 50 in the playoffs in a game seven in which they needed to win against the sacramento kings now sacramento kings were favored in that they had home field our home court advantage game seven in sacramento because of what the golden state warriors were during the season but now it's playoff time now it's prime time now it's the time to everybody watches in that guy over there no no, he's back to us.

Figure it out, dude. Yeah, he's got to start. Figure it out, okay? Figure it out, Clay. That other guy over there with the sleeve on both his left arm and his left leg looks so cool. Great swag. Looks like he's got a superhuman costume on the right side, and then he's just basic basketball player on the other side.

He is phenomenal. He is great to watch. And in the biggest moments, it appears as if he shows up. And I know his dad, obviously, a professional, and he grew up around the game and around professionals. But to show up in those big moments is not something to sneeze at. That is not something to overlook. He does that every time.

Congrats to Steph Curry for being a fucking dog through and through and breaking the record. Congrats, Steph. He's unreal. He's so good. Then, there's the NHL playoff. And joining me is one half of the Hammer Cowboys.

The toxic table is here with the great Ty Schmidt, who is getting many accolades for his performances last Thursday night. Not only is Lou Holtz, which was great. Michael Mayer didn't get drafted. He didn't hold up his end of the bargain. But Mad Mel Kuyper with two ear infections, okay? Tired as hell.

Fresh out of bed into a green screen around Kansas City. Put up 40-12 in 10. Should have said 50. I didn't know Steph was going to fucking step on you immediately afterwards. An incredible performance by Ty Schmidt. Well done, Ty. Appreciate it.

And congrats to the Detroit Lylewins and every other Iowa Hawkeye that got drafted. Hell yeah. Starting to hate your program. Yeah, you mentioned that. You mentioned that. Starting to hate your program. Just want to say that. What?

They tweeted. It was good. I like their social media department. That was great. I love the social media department. Okay? Absolutely love it. I love all the guys I know from Iowa.

Okay. I absolutely love it. Mm-hmm. But this Van Ness guy not starting for your team, okay, just because we have standards here. It's like, all right, bro, we get it. You won't fire your fucking kid, but you'll have a standard where an NFL drafted guy in the first round can't start the fucking game

because he's not a senior. I just feel like there's a little wishy-washy on what we're standing for and what we're not standing for. Starting to not like it, but love everything the Iowa Hawkeyes are about, if that makes sense. Yeah, absolutely. And you love the players. You mentioned it.

It's not like you're holding it against any of those guys. And it's weird because a lot of people were saying that. And, yeah, that was a big talking point for Van Ness especially. But when you actually watch the games, I think he had more snaps on the D-line than any other person. So it is stupid. Yeah, so he doesn't even believe it. So then even more so, you don't even believe it.

It is stupid. That's the way it goes. And that's the thing, like you mentioned, like because Ferentz has been there so long, like that's one of the things that Iowa fans get frustrated with is like shit like that because, like, you get these great recruits and it's like just because they're freshmen, you know. Like, I think you said it to me.

You're like, hey, if you're at Alabama or Ohio State or wherever, like if you're a Alabama or Ohio State or wherever, if you're a lottery pick at the NFL. Van Ness said, if it wasn't for Iowa, I wouldn't have made it in the NFL. He didn't even start it out. Let me tell you something, Van Ness. If you were to went to Georgia, Bama, Ohio State, any other school that is sending anybody to the NFL,

even Pitt, fuck, they got like six guys in there this year or whatever. Pitt's starting to become a factory. You would have sending anybody to the NFL, even Pitt, fuck, they've got like six guys in there this year or whatever. Pitt's starting to become a factory. You would have made it to the NFL. Top five. And you would have been a starter. Yeah, you would have got more. It is like I understand what he's trying to do, but then he's got a kid who's his offense coordinator who's 130th out of 131 people, and he won't get rid of him.

So, like, I think I'm starting to have a little bit of issues with the Iowa Hawkeyes. And it's in the name of the players. It sounds like, yeah, you have issues with Kirk Ferentz, which is... The entire program. And that's okay because, again... It is disheartening. I don't like this. But you're not ripping on the players, which is why I'm okay with it.

No, love the fucking... I think the players are getting held back by what we actually believe, what we don't believe, what we believe publicly, what we don't believe, what we believe publicly, what we don't believe. I feel like there's a lot of that. I think that's fair criticism. But I'm pulling for the Hawkeyes. You guys should win so many more games

than you do. Dude, so many. So many first and second rounders. 14th overall? 15th overall, Van Ness? 13th. 13th overall. Campbell, 18th overall. But that's the thing. Their defense is a top-five defense. Yeah, but Van Ness didn't even start. That is not even a disrespect thing.

It's just like, why is this a thing? The guy just got drafted 13th overall, but I guess since you're standing for it, it's good. But aren't you disrespecting him a little bit, too? No, he loves Iowa. They had Jason Sehorne get drafted, too, which doesn't rarely happen. Is he the starter yeah i love charles davis actually on nfl network saying i'm just gonna say it he plays corner and he's white so everybody says he can't do it this kid can do it that is what charles davis said this

kid can play corner which i appreciated him just saying that because that's actual conversations that are happening for sure by people that are making decisions and in the locker room and everywhere. If that dude locks down Justin Jefferson, anybody around the NFL, fucking any wide receiver in the NFL, if he locks him down, just go into the team meeting room the next morning and listen.

Just give a little eavesdropping what the conversation is. Boy, it is going to get real loud. So I like that Charles Davis did that about him. But shout out to Iowa producing dogs. Way to go, Iowa, baby. So the draft happened. Iowa and many other schools won.

Obviously, Georgia is now the Philadelphia Eagles. Joan Diggs will dive into that here in a little bit. We'll also dive into the Steph Curry scoring 50 here in a little bit and everything else going on around the NBA. But the topic of today that we have to truly dig a little deeper into is the fact that in the NHL playoffs, something happened last night that none of us could have seen coming. No.

In a million years. You're talking about an original six. Just wait. Okay. You're talking about an original six team. Okay. Kraken are awesome. My wife loves the Kraken.

Hats off to them. They got a teal in their uniform. She's a Kraken? Everyone was doing Kraken last night. Dude, love their uniforms. Both of them. They beat the fucking Reigning Stanley Cup champs. Unbelievable.

The Kraken did. In that great, great uniform. Yeah. The Kraken. Anyways. Okay. Story of the day. An original six team.

Yeah. From up there in Boston had the greatest regular season in the history of regular seasons. Now, there'll be an argument that it's not just since the beginning of hockey they had the greatest regular season in the history, the most successful regular season,

and most wins in the history of hockey. A lot of people argue it's since 2005 when the shootout era started because they had 65 wins. The next highest winner had 62, but they had four wins via shootouts. Shootouts didn't come into the NHL in regular season games until 2005. So there's an argument that four of those wins would be ties, so you'd only have 61 wins, so you'd be one behind the overall record.

But not the Bruins' fault that we're in the shootout era. No. They won more games than anybody in the history of hockey. Unbelievable. Lourdes was waiting for this team at Destiny. The greatest President's Cup trophy winners in the history of President Cup trophy winners. There's been so many greats that have played this game. You're talking about Waino, Mary, Sidney Cross, Bobby Orr, you name it.

You go through the list of the greatest hockey players of all time. None of them were able to put up a regular season performance that was as successful as the Boston fucking Bruins. Hell yeah. So you would think if the Boston Bruins were playing against some sorry-ass team from South Florida, they don't even have ice down there. No, they don't. Hockey.

Pretty big part of hockey? Ice. Yeah. South Florida. No ice available anywhere. Seven seed. Taking on the greatest team of all time. Yep.

There's no way this game reaches five games. No, no, no. Eight seed. Sorry, not even seven seed. Worst seed. Not even does this reach six games. No, no, no. Eighth seed. Sorry, not even seventh seed. Worst seed. Not even does this reach six games. Not a chance. It got all the way to a seventh game in Boston.

At home. In the garden. In the garden. The house that Bobby built. And the Florida Panthers knock out the greatest hockey team in the history of the NHL. The Boston Bruins blow the highest expectations in the history of hockey in the first round to a team from a place that can't produce ice all year round. Wow.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to get to thoughts of what Boston is thinking. Connor, what happened? How did we get here? You guys are the Penguins now. First round exit. Maybe on the back end of this whole thing. We were talking about you guys going on a dynastic run here. That's right.

Could have won the next four or five Lordos. You locked down Posta. Great jersey there. But now you're just the Pittsburgh Penguins. First round exit. Toronto even got past the first round. What's going on in Boston? How'd this happen, Connor?

Well, let me take you back to October, Pat, okay? Because October comes around, and I have said this on the show before. Prior to this year, I've been an NBA guy. I've been a Celtics guy. But for some reason, you know, I got a text, hey, this might be the Bruins year. Go bet the Bruins win the Stanley Cup at plus 2,200. Unbelievable odds. Okay?

To start the playoffs, they're plus 325. So to say that I had very much invested in the team myself, let alone my money, I was invested. Go throughout the whole entire year, Pat. Okay? That was to win $6,000. Go throughout the whole entire year. A lot of great games.

You know, we win the Winter Classic. We go on to, you know to have the most wins ever. 65 wins. Most points ever. 135 points. Most highest goal differential ever. Which I didn't even realize was a thing until Nick told me about it. Plus 43.

Unbelievable. Pasta has 61 goals. We have the most road wins of all time. Road wins. Tested. Road wins. Battle tested. Wow.

Wow. So going into this you know playoffs there there's always that thought the president's trophy winners 10 straight years where they don't go to the cup that's going to happen to you we go up 3-1 okay we feel great we win two in florida not worried about a thing to go to game five at home. Brad Marchand has a breakaway at the end of regulation in a tie game. And you know what? It's Brad Marchand, Sergei Bobrovsky, stuff some. Buzzer beater.

It was at like.2 seconds. .2 seconds. He actually shot it. It wasn't like where he shot it and the clock was going to hit zero. It was like if it hit the back of the net, the clock would have hit zero. Boom. Buzzer. Buzzer. Other buzzer. Yeah. So that was one time where... Which doesn't happen in hockey. Ever. Ever. Especially to win the

game. Especially to win... What a moment. We got robbed of a real moment. Yes, we did. That was when? Game five? That was game five. Oh, no. You started seeing it there then, huh? So the series is 3-1. So to your question about how Boston is feeling, we're going to lose that game. And after that, there still wasn't any doubt,

but there was the thought like, is this really going to go seven games? But at the same time, up to game five, there's only been one home win, and that was game one for the Bruins. So really it was kind of a road test between the Panthers and the Bruins. So we get to game six in Florida on Friday night.

And I don't know what it was per se, but there was something in the air. And it wasn't good. I'm not talking about like Febreze. I'm talking about like poop. Stinky poop. Stinky

skunky poop. What Febreze scent is that? Poop. It's poop. It came out of somebody's assunky poop. What Febreze scent is that? Poop. It's poop. It's poop. Came out of somebody's ass, actually, not a Febreze scent. Yeah, I farted into a bag, and then what I did was I took the bag, opened it. That's what was in the air. That was game six.

That was game six. Oh, shit. Linus Olmark. Yeah. Linus Olmark, who had one of the greatest seasons of all time for a goalie. Number one goalie in the NHL. Number one goalie in the NHL. What does that mean, Nick? That just

means high save percentage, lowest goals? Yeah, yeah. Very good season. You know, people didn't expect it, but he put on a show, put on a performance. Number one all season. Number one all season. Like Nick just said, going into the year, it wasn't as if goalie was our strong suit. It probably was the weakest part of our team, but

after the regular season that we had, number one goalie. So, game six, you know what? Linus Olmark, he's going to show up. Guy lets in six goals. What do you want? I mean, we go up five to four in the third period. Another time we come back, and then they score two more.

Six to five. Guy forgot how to play goal? Guy forgot how to play goal. He gets out, they got their seventh goal, Pat. Guy in the uh panther zone offensive zone face off for the bruins we got six on the ice they got five they win the face off this guy just throws it off the boards fuck it i'm just i'm just trying to ice this thing here's the bars goes in the net okay so it's seven to five and that happens and there's 30 seconds left in this game in this game six and that is when i think i started

to feel okay we're in a little bit of trouble hockey gods yeah i i feel the not the ice tilts you know but i feel in my brain yeah this isn't how this is supposed to go yeah okay but we're going back to the garden but we're going back to the garden yeah we're going back home home where you want to be home ice Ice Advantage. The reason you win all those games in the regular season is so that if it gets to a game seven, you play it at home. That's right. Okay? This is a Sunday

game. This is the only thing people are thinking about. You thought it was at 1.30. You were so excited. I thought it was at 1 o'clock. Saturday. All day. Can't wait for the B's at 1. Can't wait for the B's at 1. Gonna be a great game. Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh. Bullshit. 6.40. 6.40. See you there. So I had a great game. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Bullshit. 640. 640.

See you there. So I had about five hours to kill. And in those five hours, you know, I cleaned. I saw the Steph Curry performance. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable. I watched the golf, the Mexican Open. Nobody there.

Nobody there. Holy shit. After what happened in Port Adelaide with Liv, for PGA to have that turnout on their Sunday, Rahm was in there. Yes. Rahm is like big name. Straight now, big name.

Akshay Bhatia. My God. He's up there. The young stud is in there. There was 15 people on that course. 15. Crickets. Not even crickets. It sounded like you could actually hear the waves crashing in the ocean.

What a boring, terrible display of TV that was. Not good for PGA. No, terrible for PGA. Funny enough. But if they have a good tournament, we'll all be back. Yeah. So it doesn't matter, I guess. See you next weekend.

Nobody cares, though. Nobody. In Mexico about the PGA. No, Mexico is a huge brewing city. That's why. Oh, okay. They were getting ready for the game. They were getting ready for the game.

Okay, that makes sense. They weren't thinking golf. That makes sense. Our guy, Rom, I like him. I's why. They were getting ready for the game. They weren't thinking Goff. Our guy Rom, I like him. I love him. He shot like a maybe a 24 yesterday. Didn't win. Came in second, but he put on a performance nobody knew. Nobody was there.

People were watching the seventh round of the NFL draft. People were re-watching the draft because you go over that hockey or go over that golf thing. It's like, what? Am I watching paint dry right now? What the hell's going on? Nothing.

Not even one of these in the back. No. No claps. No nothing. No cheers. It was like COVID. We're watching a COVID sporting event again. Rahm doesn't deserve that.

He doesn't. I'm surprised he was playing in that. Well, he's a reigning champion. Reigning champion. Yeah, he's got his title. I don't think he'll be there. I don't think anybody's going to win next year. He will not be back. Akshay might win that fucker next year.

We're pulling for him. Shout out to him. Anyways, you watched the golf tournament. Anyways, yeah, watching the golf. And no one's there because. Did you fall asleep? No, I didn't fall asleep. I passed out during the golf.

Yeah. Yeah, there was no chance I was sleeping yesterday. Oh, okay. So jacked up for the Bruins game seven. Yeah. You know, best team ever, game seven. So Steph happens, 50 points, unbelievable. And I ended up betting on the Warriors, so I was feeling good going in.

So, okay, got the Warriors. And right before the game started, and I'm not kidding, I'm not saying like 630. I'm saying like 640 right after the great Todd Angeli sings the national anthem. Had a bear on his tie. Yeah. Dog. Just came out point, thumbs up to pasta.

Boom. Thumbs up to the goalie sitting on the bench who let up seven goals last game. Yep. Boom. We're going to change this whole thing around. Oh. I mean, he was. Yeah.

And I don't know if you guys heard it, but there was a time during that national anthem where the fans started to overtake it. Oh, yeah. Place was rocking. And there has been Game 7s in the past, and I try not to think about it, but this is what happened to me right before the game started, right before the puck dropped.

I thought to myself, man, we played the St. Louis Blues in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final at home, and we lost. And for some reason, after that happened, whole entire mood shift, everything was ruined. Oh, really? The enemies within our own camp? Your brain thought of the St. Louis Blues game years back. And that wasn't even a close

Game 7. It was a way worse game than we had last night, but you know, game starts come out pretty slow. I think, you know, you texted me. These guys aren't really playing. It was a slow start, but there were signs. They got one shot on a power play to start the game.

Looked slow. Sloppy pucks. The entire thing. I bet very heavily on the Boston Bruins. I was like, let everybody know. I bet very heavily on the Bruins because there's no way you're the best team in the history of hockey and you lose game seven at home first round. It's just like Steph Curry. You bet on Golden State because there's no way you're the best team in the history of hockey and you lose game seven at home first round. Bingo. It's just like Steph Curry. Yeah. You bet on

Golden State? Yeah. Because it's game seven and they're playing fucking Sacramento. Steph's gonna show up. You bet on Steph Curry. That's who you bet on. I was betting on the greatest team in the history of hockey. Ever. At home. Game seven. First round. Original 60. They go down two zip. First power

play. They look fucking terrible. I mean, it was like, what is wrong with this team? What are they doing? They didn't even look like that. Then all of a sudden, the boys started monocling. That's right. 2-0. I cracked the boost.

I had to crack open something. I had to relax. Put the record player on. Try and change the vibes a little bit. Like you said, Bertuzzi, he tips one in. Here we go. Okay. And that was kind of – or Krejci had the first power play goal, but

Bertuzzi tied it up. There it is. 2-2. And at 2-2, that's when I shifted back. Okay. You're a little drunk too. Yeah, I had two Tito's and Gatorades. Ice cold, shout out. Ice cold, as always.

But that's when it changed. 2-2. No, high school is what I said. Oh no, ice cold. No, I said high school. High school is what I said. Oh, no, ice cold. No, I said high school. High school. Also ice cold. I assume it is ice cold as well, but I like the fact you're electrolyting yourself with Tito's. But yes, ice cold, high school-like drink.

Okay, ice cold. And I'm thinking to myself at 2-2, what were you worrying about? This is the greatest team of all time. Three minutes after we score that game, Ty what does pasta do he scores goals pasta gives us the lead three to two so at this moment there's about 15 minutes left in the game and i'm not saying like hey just start dumping the puck still gonna play our game you know We still have to do what Big Jim Montgomery wants us to do, and that's score and that's forecheck. Yeah, work.

But at the same time, in my mind, I was thinking, hey, let's just get this clock to triple zeros. Hats off to the Florida Panthers and what they did, but let's just get this fucking game over with. Okay? Minute 30. Game comes around. They've pulled their goalie.

I'm looking at the TV. A lot of people got Bruins minus one and a half. Very excited. Very excited when they pulled a goalie. Very excited. A lot of people had a lot of money on that. A lot of people, Pat. A lot of people. Hey, whenever you had that little square box up in the left corner and they got that fucking goalie, it's like,

thank God. How we go? We had two minutes. I think it was two minutes. Two minutes. Yeah, two whole minutes where he went off and a lot of people had Brad Barchon goal as well and Brad was on the ice. Numerous times. He had two or three different shifts during that thing. So, like you said, they had two minutes.

And at 1.30, I'm watching the game. I'm clock. Watching the game clock. At 1.28, I'm looking at the clock and it says Panthers goal. And I'm thinking what is what what what just happened there that's not a i don't like that omen it's three two still they have the puck in our end but what the hell are they saying panthers goal for so you know as the hockey gods as you mentioned do they give you signs and let me just say that was the sign because 30

seconds later what happened the panthersthers scored a goal. Boom! 59 seconds on the clock. Boom! And after I turned when it was 2-2, hey, no worries about it. Boom. I turned right back. The team who scores that tying goal going into overtime, I'm not a stats guy. With a minute left?

With a minute left in a game 7 on the road? I'm not a stats guy, but I'm going to assume 100% of the time the team that scores that tying goal goes on into overtime and wins. Stat that. So we come back out. Posta right off of the overtime draw. Boom.

Shot on net. We're testing Bob early. Feel great about it. And then the second puck drop, Posta has a chance right in front of the net. And I'm not sure if you saw this. He shoots the puck, and it goes past Bobrovsky, and it hits the fucking end of his stick behind him. Goal!

Goal every single time! It's a fucking goal. Posta had 61 goals in the regular season. He probably scored that 30 out of 30 times during the regular season. Stat that. But for some reason, last night, he fucking slots that puck right over Bob's right shoulder. And instead of going in, it hits the end of his fucking stick. He got knobbed, dude.

He got knobbed. Hit the butt of the stick? It hit the butt of the fucking stick. He got knobbed, dude. He got knobbed. Hit the butt of the stick. It hit the butt of the fucking stick. Sometimes deep in Vietnam, too, you get, you know, that is. Exactly. That is a tough. Sometimes the odds aren't in your favor. And yet, after that, I'm still thinking, best team ever.

There's no way we lose this game. Five minutes later, eight minutes later, whatever it was. There was a breakaway saving there too, I thought. That was a start. Swainman had a couple. No, Swainman, the other side too. Oh, no, no, Swainman did. He had a couple. Wait, what? The start overtime. I was like, oh, that's definitely

B's now. Place one, bananas. Tuchuk, their best player too. He was the guy on the break. What's his name? Matthew T'Chuck. So all of a sudden. Come on. He does have a T in the front of him.

I don't care what his fucking name is. Okay. His name's Matt T. That's what I'm going to call him from now on. He's a pterodactyl. Okay. Yeah, he is. You're damn right.

He's a pterodactyl. Yeah. He gets stuffed by Swayman. So now in my mind we're good the goalie is good exactly the guy who hasn't started one game leading up to this game seven he has stopped the breakaway and then he also stopped the one-timer right after that you know there's another chance should have had a goal swayman locked down this game Pasta, he should have scored once. He'll score again. And then we're behind the net, playing with our dicks. Not

really playing with the puck. A lot of knobbing. A lot of pegging. A lot of it. The whole entire game behind the net. That's where all of our losses come from. Pegging's another word for turning the puck over in your own zone.

Always from behind. From behind the net. Where all of our losses come from. What's your problem? Pegging's another word for turning the puck over in your own zone. No. Always from behind. Yeah. From behind the net. With a nod. Got it. With a nod. With a nod.

It was tough because we usually, we weren't pegging all year. No. You know, we were just playing good hockey. Yeah. And then we're behind the net pegging and turns out Florida was right. Just reaching around. You guys, that is disappointing though. Disappointing?

No, I mean, I can't really put it at disappointing. Oh, devastating. Yeah, devastating is where I'd put it at. Because losing the Game 7, yeah, boom. That was my immediate reaction. Losing the Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Final, it's the Stanley Cup Final. It's Game 7. Anything can happen.

That was actually the Big Rigsigs first Stanley Cup going on that three year streak. So you can understand that. And they had a goalie, Bimington. He was doing amazing things. So you can understand. Bimington. Again, JB. That's his fucking name now. His last name starts with a B. His first name starts with a J.

I don't know if it's Jordan or Jeff. I forget. Either way. Jeff Bimington. That was devastating last night because I saw people talk about the whole comparing it to the Patriots 16-0. First of all, if you do that, just shut the fuck up. You don't know what you're talking about. Really? They made it to the Super Bowl. No, this was worse.

No, no, no. See, they made it to the Super Bowl. Was this worse? The Bruins. First round exit. See ya. Up 3-1. Against an 8 seed? That's why it was devastating. We had three chances. That's where the devastation comes in.

It's not as if it was a 4-0 sweep which has happened. It was up 3-1 against the worst playoff hockey team in the entire league. We couldn't get it done. It's a sad state of affairs and the good thing uh the good thing about boston is you know you guys have never won anything well so like when this type of stuff happens we all feel very very

sorry thank you guys i appreciate it don't we we feel terrible yeah hearts broken i wish you guys could win one we would like to honor though what, what the season was. Boy, can we please take the position? Connor, if you could please give your jersey to Ty Schmidt, we would very much appreciate it because what happened to that Boston Bruins team this season should never be forgotten, right? Never. Never. Never be forgotten.

Oh, geez. Right into a Celtics jersey. They got a game tonight. Alright. Thank you, Connor. As we were thinking about what we would do for the greatest regular season team of all time, and, you know, the Colts have hung banners before for being finalists in games and stuff, and they've certainly got chewed out for that.

For us to do our own little thing, I think we've got to put Pasta's jersey in the rafters. Greatest season in the history of hockey or since 2005, Connor. Pasta's jersey's going to hang over your head.

How do you feel? I feel amazing Pasta's jersey's going to hang because it's going to hang in the garden one day too. I doubt it. Not if you keep losing in the first fucking round

when you're a number one seed. Greatest regular season. You said greatest season. Oh, yeah. Regular. We're talking about a regular season here. This is a regular season. Thank you. We're talking about the regular season. You said greatest season. Oh, yeah, regular. We're talking about a regular season here. This is a regular season.

Thank you. We're talking about the regular season. Yeah, it's tough. Ty, if you could please, if we could set the tone here, please, for this moment. Na, na, na, na. Thank you, Billy, with the flashlight. Na, na, na, na. Thank you, Billy, with the flashlight. Na, na, na, na. Hey, hey, hey.

Goodbye. Your team sucked bad in the first round. In the first round Now you're golfing Goodbye You're like the Penguins Your team sucks now But the jersey Reminds us of good times now. But the jersey reminds us

of good times. Thank you, Pasta. Hell of a year. Hell of a regular season. Love you, Pasta. Way to go. Good work there,

Ty. All right. Fuck the Bruins. Let's move along. Man, that's tough. Didn't want to have to do that, Connor. Honestly. I think what we got to do here for the stick taps for the boys.

Ty, if you could Eagle Scout that thing, we'd be very grateful. I'm trying. Okay, Ty. Hell of a run by the Bruins, we'd be very grateful. I'm trying. Okay, Ty. Hell of a run by the Bruins, though. It was a really good regular season. It was fun. Couldn't win a single playoff series. A lot of bad teams have done that, a la the Florida Panthers.

They win in the first round. Good season. Very hard. It is. Very hard to win the first round. Toronto wasn't able to do it for 19 years. They did this year? They did.

Congrats to the Maple Leafs, huh? Good work, boys. I FaceTimed with Connor throughout that game yesterday. When they were down 2-0, I FaceTimed him. He's just smiling. You know? Okay, okay. I believe that's the moment

he started boozing. Next call. Next call came when it was, I think, You know? Okay, okay. I believe that's when we started boozing. That was. Next call. Next call came when it was, I think, 2-1. Call him. Not bad. Still down. 2-2, no call.

They go up 3-2. He calls me. I answer. He goes, huh? You're not just calling me when we're losing, are you? Huh? Seems like you're only calling whenever we're losing. I had to check.

Is that what you're doing? I close in on the FaceTime. Is that what you're doing? Huh? Aye. Close in on the FaceTime. Is that what you're doing? Huh? Just checking and it hangs up. So then after the game, obviously, how everything unfolds. Of course.

I call him. He goes, watching Succession. Sorry. Talk to you tomorrow. Hangs up. Great answer. Episode of Succession sucked. Yeah, to be honest.

That's how we all feel. I was all night quelled up. I need to rewatch it. But yeah, I fell asleep during it. Yeah, me too. That's not good. Let's bring the fastball out every week. Okay, boys? Let's how we all feel. I was all night quelled up. I need to rewatch it. But yeah, I fell asleep during it. Yeah, me too. That's not good. Let's bring the fastball out every week. Okay, boys, let's not.

You know what I mean? Well, they got no writers. What happened? Apparently, they're striking because, you know, AI's taking over. Well, AI designed some city landscapes for the NFL draft, which we will dive into right now. They had backgrounds, backdrops, like the AI created. It was on NFL social like the ai created it was

on nfl social media i guess it was happening behind the scenes at the draft ai's a dog bro so sweet hey listen we already heard what ai drake is they made the beat yep and this and drake's rapping winter's cold banger so absolute banger yes now ai is dabbling in a graphic design and dirty good luck pal i don't know if you're going to be able to pop out city landscape like ai is able to do probably generated this in less than four seconds as we load here good boom that's arizona bang atlanta boom baltimore boom buffalo look at oh so sick god so sick yeah i like how cleveland's just orange lights i I like how they just asked for AI to do this, and then half a second later, boom, here we go.

Indy is unreal, too. Here's the best backdrop you could have of all time of the city. They're crushing it, but the draft was a great time. I enjoyed it. I watched the NFL Network and ESPN's coverage. NFL Network's coverage is a little looser. A little bit looser, a little bit more fun, especially during the later rounds.

I don't know what it is like the first round because we haven't been able to watch it with sound on. But the way Rich Eisen and Jeremiah and Schrags and Rap and Joel Klott, I believe, did the first night, the way they kind of handle it, I enjoy the levity of it all. Because, honestly, you have no clue who any of these people are going to be. Now, Daniel Jeremiah had a top 50. He watched all the film. He was dialed in.

As are people on the other side, Axl Mel Kuyper, Todd McShay. I understand those people. Louis Riddick seemingly watched all the film and everything like that. Him and Booger got into it over a couple different things, which I appreciated. And Green, he's a great host. I didn't get to see him the whole weekend. I don't think he was doing it all. But I enjoyed the coverage.

I enjoyed the thought of it. And I enjoyed how positive it seemed this year. It seemed like a much more positive draft. At Tone Diggs, what were the big takeaways? And did everybody win the draft? This is the first time I've ever heard this. It seemed like it because I was looking this morning and kind of paying attention this weekend on who was losing the draft potentially.

And it seemed like everyone got the lowest grades that I could find was like a B- for some teams. So it was overly positive. The teams that were general consensus A-plus grades were the Eagles, who basically got every Georgia Bulldog in the draft. And traded for one who's already in the league, Philly Devontae Smith from Detroit. Who I think is going to be very good there,

but don't say that on the internet because people get very mad at you. Well, people get mad because he wasn't as healthy as he could have been whenever he was on the Detroit Iowans. Now he's going back to Philly where in Georgia when he was there, the fans actually called him Philly. Like, go Philly, give the ball to Philly. Philly needs the ball. So now he's going back home, and he has some history there.

Yeah, I was just going to say, he's a good guy. So it's kind of one of those things. Allegedly in Philly. Self-defense. No, it was nothing wrong. Yeah, we don't know how that whole thing ended. But, yeah, he's back home. He's a dog.

He's going back home. He is a dog. Your Indianapolis Colts were another consensus A-plus team. Hell, yeah, Chris Ballard. Chris Ballard had the Jordan shrug going through the middle of that thing, and then he just continued it all the way through. They had Richardson, Brents for the corner from K-State, Downs, the wide receiver, the BYU

tackle. They got A-squared, who stole the draft, who is an athletic freak out of Northwestern. Hell yeah. Yeah. Peace. Hell yeah. Great value pick. D-lineman. Yes. The Giants were an overall A-plus grade. They had Deontay Banks in the first, one of the best centers

in the draft, Jalen Hyatt, the Bolitnikoff wide receiver, and then Eric Gray running back out of Oklahoma. The Steelers were a consensus A-plus from everybody. What were they calling him, the con artist? The con artist, Omar Khan. Him and Mike Tomlin were in their fucking bag all weekend. Here's Mike Tomlin talking about Omar Khan. Feels like they are very tight,

and this is a different Pittsburgh Steelers than it's ever been. Aggressive, making moves. Here's what Tomlin had to say. Yeah, what do they call them, the con artists? I like that. I like that. I saw that. Man, that's pretty good.

That's a cool nickname. Do you have a favorite nickname? I've been called worse. That's my favorite nickname. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, my wife calls me. You should see what she says. But it feels like they've got a good little team there.

Tomlin and Conn get along, and it's almost like the new era too. Old Colbert, older generation. 20 years. Kind of conservative. We're not trading anybody. We're not paying anybody early. We're drafting right where we're drafting. We're doing this.

Conn and Tomlin seem to be a tag team kind of taking on a new initiative. Good for the Rooney family saying, yeah, we're about it. Great, because they made some off-season signings and moves they wouldn't do before. Like Pat P, I don't think they would have done before. Allen Robinson training for him. And then in the draft, they got the tackle they wanted. You got PZ Jr. fucking coming back, which is awesome. Darnell Washington, who slipped to the fourth round.

Yeah, it was a really good draft. How about me tweeting when Darnell was available? Feed me Darnell Washington to the Indianapolis Colts. He's 6'7". He's not as good of a pass catcher, even though I watch highlights of him catching passes all over the field. And they have Brock Bowers down there, who's allegedly the greatest tight end maybe ever.

So Darnell's not going to get as many balls whenever there's so many tight end plays. And he got that Brock guy out there. He's 6'7". He can catch. He can jump. And they call him a road grader. For me, as an Indianapolis Colt, I'm like, perfect.

Let's fucking. We got Andy Richardson. We got JT. We need him. And then a couple picks later, the Pittsburgh Steelers play. It's like, good for you guys. Aren't you just so fucking happy? And I know they say other tight ends are going to be better than Darnell Washington.

The motherfucker just wins. Yeah. Like, he knows where it takes to win. He has won. He has sat behind a guy. Yes. Being who he is. So he's humble, I would assume, like you would have to be.

Right. Even coming out of Georgia. Didn't transfer. So there's a lot of people saying, like, yeah, he doesn't have this, he doesn't have that. It's like, I feel like all the intangibles, that fucking guy has. He's got it. Including the mental toughness, which is the biggest part going into the NFL. That was't have that. It's like, I feel like all the intangibles that fucking guy has. Including the mental toughness, which is the biggest part going into the NFL.

That was a massive pick-up. And he was super pumped because he's going to be with Roderick Jones, their first-round pick out of Georgia, and George Pickens, their second-round pick out of Georgia last year. So that was awesome. Levis got really excited when he got picked in the second round. I'd get really excited, too, but he got real fucking excited. He was fucking...

Come on! He did. He was fucking, oh! Come on. He did. He did. So? He did. The worst night of his life. Rightfully so. Packers.

We don't know. He's a psychopath. That fucking guy is a psychopath. Well, he's playing it cool. He's playing it cool. He's playing it cool in the video. Yeah. The video kind of played exactly what Rap kind of was talking about.

A little bit. And Rap said, my personal opinion, he's a little intense. Yeah. The video kind of played exactly what Rap kind of was talking about. A little bit. And Rap said, my personal opinion, he's a little intense. He's a little bit of this. He's a little bit of that. That might have been something that kind of turned some people off. I think I like the fact that he's intense. Is our internet going down? Are we okay?

Let's go. You have no fucking idea how pumped I am. The let's go was okay. The pacing back and forth. Why? The guy just got drafted. You have no fucking idea how pumped I am. The let's go was okay. The pacing back and forth. Why? The guy just got drafted. You have no idea how you would act. You have no clue how you would act after sitting on TV.

Yeah, definitely not. For four or five hours on night one? We saw what would happen. The Patriots drafted a guy in the second round, and he looked so pissed. Everyone thought he was 50 years old. What's his name? Keon White. He looks like he's damn near 50 now.

He's going to fuck some people up. Yeah, he is. I don't know who's going on the other side of that, but it feels like that is a guy I'd like on my team. That's a guy I would like to be friends with. That is a guy in our circle. I assume we will be someday once we get to know him. He was not thrilled, though.

No. Just a quick little tap up. Thanks. Awesome. Thanks. All right, yeah. Go to the Patriots. Are you happy? Pumped. No. All right. I'm pissed. See you awesome. Thanks. All right, yeah. Go to the Patriots. Are you happy?

Pumped. No. I'm pissed. See you in a bit. Belichick's calling this guy. Think of the amount of emotions on this call. Mom's there like, we did just get drafted to the fucking NFL, though. This dude's damn near 50, though, bro.

He's old. They didn't show the full video, too, like when he first got drafted. Big huddle, cheer. He was crying. So what happens is, too, like when he first got drafted. Big huddle, cheer. He was crying. No, so what happens is, so this was something, good point here. They were showing before everybody knew. Like the call would happen. It felt like the TV networks knew who was getting drafted.

They would go to the person while they're getting the call. Has not been announced yet. Right. So then they would go back to the room and the entire family, I think what you're talking about, would celebrate. but our first set of eyes on this guy was this is my first time seeing this motherfucker was that and i'll tell you what i was like wow why didn't coach travis yeah this guy looks like he is you know ready to grown man maybe retire and go to the hall of fame great now yeah this dude but then they did come back you're right in the entire family

was uh huddled up and excited. And I think that's the two Will Levis' shots we saw, too. We saw, like, back. Nothing happened. Then we saw the whole family celebration. Then he, yeah! Let's go! I'm pumped for Will.

Me, too. Him and Vrabes are going to be perfect. Yeah, I think so. You know what I mean? Him and Vrabes are going to be perfect for each other. But they spent a third rounder on a quarterback last year. It obviously did not work out in their eyes. Brand new GM.

If Levis doesn't work out, I think they'll also try something else. They'll pivot. Second rounder instead of like a high first where they were allegedly going to trade up to four or to three to potentially get a quarterback. It's like a much different story. But I was happy for Will. I was pumped for Will. I was also pumped for Hennon Hooker. Exactly.

I was about to say Detroit had an interesting draft. They got Hennon Hooker. They got two guys in the first round in Gibbs and Jack Campbell, who they said were drafted too high, but they're fucking guys and they're dogs. They got Laporta. They got Branch from Alabama. I thought the Lions went out and got guys who actually had good play. Yes, they got immediate impact, guys.

So you hear AQ Shipley whenever he was here, and we were talking to Schrager and these other – shout out to Schrags doing great out there. AQ got a draft comparison this weekend. Yeah, by Charles Davis, Penn State Center. You know, these guys like AQ Shipley. But AQ was so mad at Schrager and Jeremiah and all these draft people. He's like, do you watch film?

I asked the guys, okay, what do you want to ask a question about so that I can send it to him properly timed so the conversation flows a little bit easier? And he wrote on a little dry erase board. He said, does this guy watch fucking film? It's like, all right, thank you. But that's a real thing. Like, it seems like ex-players and people that aren't a part of the scouting department and people that played are like, yo, just show me good players.

This guy's a good football player. Let's get him in there. He didn't run as fast as a 40, so we think the transition to Sunday might be a little bit step behind. Not going to be able to keep up and do what they were able to do in this college as they will be able to do in the NFL. It's like, I understand that that has a little piece of it, but a much bigger part of it, which I think is Motor City, Dan Campbell, and that entire front office over there with

Spielman setting the culture and the GM. Brad Holmes. Brad Holmes. It's like, is the guy good at football? Yeah. Does he have the intangibles that we think he could translate into a Sunday player? Yeah. Fuck.

Get him. Bring him in. We had Herbie on the show Friday. Herbie's seen all these guys, and he said, I absolutely love the Lions draft. People are saying we reached for him or whatever. That's all I had to hear. Kirk Herbstre, he knows.

Yeah, but you got to remember, Kirk Herbstre watched terrible NFL football this year. That is true. There's Thursday night game. Good point. Those games were bad, so I would assume everybody's like, oh, Herbie's only seen bad football. So in the NFL.

But Herbie is a guy who's been following the NFL for so long. But what did he say? He said, I didn't make it to the NFL and have a great career, so I don't feel like I should be speaking about the NFL. It's like, Herbie, shut the fuck up. You're the face of college football. You have been for 20 years. Everybody in the NFL has respect for you.

So we're so thankful he got into the NFL. Those Thursday night games were terrible, but he is a guy that watches literally every single game. That's why they have him on ABC for the draft because that's like, when I'm on game day and I say something and I don't know if it's true or not, what I

just came out of my mouth, I think that is what I read about said person. Herbie's right to my left like boom. Yeah, I think what you actually meant was boom. Hebie's right to my left, like, boom. Yeah, I think what you actually meant was boom. He is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to college football. Obsessed with college football, has been in the middle of college football for 20 years.

So him saying, like, hey, Jack Campbell's up. What are we even talking about? Off the field, this guy is like everything you want. On the field, he's 6'5 and runs a 4'4. Won the Buck Kiss last year and had one of the best combines. Putting his name up there with Von Miller, it's not like he's just some

unathletic white schlub from Iowa. So whenever Herbie talks, I think we should listen. Absolutely. I think we should listen. That's all I had to hear. And that's what happens with fans at the draft, though. Even people in New England, it was like Keon White, the second round pick. Guys were like, what the fuck? It's like, hey, look, I don't know.

You don't know. Some guys. Not everybody. He's more positive this year than it's ever been. As a whole, fan-wise, because New England, everyone wanted a new offensive weapon, Darnell Washington, and then Bill drafts a defense. These fans get pissed. It's like, you don't know how good this fucking guy is

or will be in the system in New England. I mean, Keon looks like he's already made Pro Bowl six times. Yeah, I'm trying. I think that's what I've realized too, especially since we've been doing the draft shows. For every guy, like a Jack Campbell, or even with the Packers draft, it's like, guess what?

We're not going to know for four years from now. You just have no idea. For every one of Jack Campbell being all, you could have got this guy at 50, how many guys in the draft are major busts who go in the top five? And it's like, oh, this guy's a big misprospect. I have to get this guy. And then he watches out. That's the draft.

It is a scratch-off. Yeah, that's right. With a little bit higher, because on scratch-offs, you can actually go to the websites, the state lottery websites. Yep. And, yeah, I'm going to get there. Hold on. know because on scratch offs you can actually go to the websites the state lottery website yep and and yeah i'm gonna get there hold on there is there's like you can go to the state lottery websites and tell you how many winners are in the scratch off and get left you know like hey this one has this many winners left out and about this one has this many winners out and about so you can

kind of rig the game a little bit. Still a scratch off. So like top 10 pick, like, hey, this one probably going to be good. This guy probably going to be really good. But we have no idea what's going to happen when money gets in the pocket. We have no idea what the coaching situation is going to be like, the NFL game, how it's going to translate. How about what their life is like off the field

whenever they don't have school in such an absolute rigorous schedule? It's like, there's a lot of stuff that goes into play on whether or not somebody's going to be good. So I've enjoyed the fact that a lot of fans have seemingly said, like, you know what? We're going to wait. We're going to buy time here and we'll judge it later. That's good for sports.

Stick to that for sports. Stick to that for sports. Now, on the flip side, that fucking guy won on the flip side That fucking guy I want on my team Yes That is the newest That is one of the newest members Of New England Patriots

That guy Is the guy you want On your side Yep Congrats to Bill Belichick Meeting this man Looking at this man And saying

I want that full grown adult On my team Yeah What a fucking dog This guy Freak Has an actual dog chain on. 6'5", 285.

Give me that guy on my team. Immediately. You're telling me Patriots fans or some? Overwhelmingly positive. You're saying some Patriots fans saw this dude and said nah, we don't want him on our team? We need to not talk to those people ever again. We want that guy on our team. Yeah, it wasn't even

so much about him more so than it was about bill drafting defense defense in the first and second rounds even though that all they did in the offseason was sign free agent you know tight ends wide receivers o lyman and also when you look at the afc east aaron rogers is playing quarterback in there now josh allen and tua like guess what? You got to go and get the quarterback, and that dude looks as though he eats quarterbacks for lunch. Okay. Yes, he's 24 years old. Mm-hmm. That's what we would have guessed.

Yeah, sure. That's just like when you go to the state fair or whatever, and they say, guess your weight. I always win. Guess your age. This guy's batting 1,000. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Hell, yeah. Congrats, Keon. Let's go, Keon. I just got a text from somebody that said, even the New Jersey Devils are still in the playoffs. They're good. Michael Cole. Game seven, whatever.

Yeah, that's tough. That guy doesn't even really watch hockey. He doesn't even know hockey. No, he's a mark. And he feels like he can talk shit to you. That's the world you guys are in when you lose in the first round after having the greatest regular season of all time. That's tough that you guys got to sit in that pocket right now. I don't like that for you. That's the world you guys are in when you lose in the first round after having the greatest regular season of all time. That's tough that you guys

got to sit in that pocket right now. I don't like that for you. It's not fair, is it? Hey, look, I got to bounce back tonight, play off basketball, but why don't you ask Cole how the Mets are doing? Because I know he's a massive fan. Fucking jackass, Mark prick. Mets are

still in it. That's what he would say. This is what Cole would say. Mets are still in it. Bruins are he would say. That's what Cole would say. Mets are still in it. Bruins are not in it. They might not have the greatest season of all time. Like the Boston Bruins, hey, we hung a fucking jersey for that. Mets don't have the second best record in baseball, I can tell you that. Well, that's Pittsburgh Pirates.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Baseball happened this weekend, too. At the beginning, we said the draft happened. That was awesome. NBA playoffs happened. That was awesome. And then we went directly to the NHL playoffs. talk a little bit about golf just being terrible this weekend even though the golfers were great didn't even bring up baseball baseball still

happening sure is all right baseball yeah thank you baseball yeah uh jay glazer stabbed david blaine with a nice pick that was wild we will not run that video what we're not running that video was that just you know i was looking forward to running it no we don't jay i gotta get back That was wild. We will not run that video. What? We will not run that video. Damn it. What's that? I was looking forward to running it. No, we don't. Jake, I got to get back to Jake Leiser. He texted me last week. I have not texted him back.

Yeah. That's a man that you keep in the text. Yeah, he'll stab you if you don't. Yeah, you stab David Blaine. I mean, we had the great American escape hero here. Legend. Michael Johnson or whatever. Michael Smith Johnson. Michael Bo Griffin.

Michael Bo Griffin. Oh, Michael Griffin. Michael Bo Jenkins. Bo Zito. Zito is laughing. Bo Griffin. He's what he just did. I thought it was Michael Bo Griffin.

That's a great name. Might be. The great American escape hero. Dog. Which he is. David Blaine got stabbed by an ice pick by Jay Glazer this weekend with Michael Strait. The ultimate murder weapon because it melts. Dane Cook did a full 25 minutes on that.

And that's why I knew Dane Cook probably turned a little bit. You know, whenever 25 minutes of your stand-up is how you would murder somebody and get away with it, it's like, oh, you've thought about this. Who are you killing? Turned out it was like his brother. His brother. Yeah, it was like his brother or something came shortly thereafterwards. Speaking of killing the game, Kenny Pickett shotgunned some beers at Luke Holmes this

weekend. Sweet. Luke Holmes sold 61,000 tickets at Accresher Stadium this weekend. That is quite a weekend. Wow. Let's go. Thank you. That was immediately after doing Detroit.

Kenny Pickett came on the stage, shotgunned a beer with him. I do believe Luke Holmes is one of the greatest beer shotgunners in the history of shotgunning beers. Really? Once the first couple videos we saw of him shotgunning beers on the stage hit the internet we all assumed it was a fugaz a gimmick a prop a fake yes we said this guy why is he doing it almost didn't want to like him because he was doing that then i got to meet him at game day seemed like a legit dude then we start hearing a little bit more about his songs seems like he doesn't mind drinking. I can still hang out all night with the boys

when I want to. Lay that hammer down to see how fast she'll go. That Growing Up and Getting Old song is very, very good. This weekend I saw a video of him shotgunning beers with Kenny Pickett, not only on stage, off stage. Kenny Pickett had a great weekend.

He actually two-gulps those things and they're empty. Beast. Luke Combs might be a modern marvel, not only for his singing and for his ability, but for his shotgunning, which leads me to this. Kenny Pickett being your quarterback doing this is so fucking cool, I bet, for the entire city of

Pittsburgh. Not that Ben Roethlisberger wasn't there. He was with his cowboy hat. He's been wearing that a lot. But Kenny Pickett literally walking around saying, I'm proud to be the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. I am going to shotgun beers. I will get a suite for me and the boys to go enjoy life a little bit. He's old school

with what happened in the draft. You've got to be pumped with the state of the Pittsburgh Steelers. If Matt Cannon, the offensive coordinator, is worth a single fuck, which we do not know. Nope. Not sure. We have no idea if he is. His performance, his plays, boring, terrible, not working. Although towards the end of the year, they started winning with him. You've got to feel like you guys

are in a great spot turnaround-wise. Kenny's awesome. Kenny embodies the city. He tried taking some time off this offseason. It was like two days, I guess, and his fiance was like, please just go back because he was getting stir-crazy. He immediately went back to work. He's been working all offseason. Oh, so like TJ

who was working at JJ's house this weekend. Remember, JJ Watt told us when we were on the Knicks match party that hanging out with TJ is difficult because when you invite TJ somewhere, you got to be like, hey, TJ, we have two hours to work out in the morning.

We have one hour recovery. Then there's like a field for some on-field work and then we're going to like uh son's birthday party and then afterwards we have a film room for you and then at night we have a dinner if that's okay and then we gotta we're all out of there 8 30 and then same setup tomorrow like jj talked about how inviting tj to something is difficult because you literally have to have enough time and everything, vacations, all this. Like need to have full gym, need to have access to full field,

need to have recovery set up ready to go. TJ Watt is all ball all the time. But you got TJ being like that. You got Kenny seemingly being all in. TJ kicked his agent out of the way. TJ's girl said, no more offseason. Go back to work. What a movie you guys are cooking over there. I asked Kenny. He was pumped about getting

15 feet worth of Georgia Bulldogs on the roster for this offseason. It was awesome too. He was there. Seven was there. I believe Mitch was there. I saw Mitch there. Duck Hodges was there. Duck! Laney

Laney and her entire band were wearing Duck Hodges jerseys. What's that all about? I don't know what it's all about. They must be quackers. But I saw all the quarterbacks. Duck Hunters? Duck Hunters fans. Oh! Is he the world champion? Nick, did you see Mason there? Do you think Duck is

Duck is Duck and Laney? Is Duck in the band? What do you think all the What's Duck going on with Laney? Is Duck in the band? What do you think? What's Duck going on with Laney? Does he know the band? I don't know. Let me ask. Because the whole band had Duck Hodges jerseys on. Interesting. That was interesting.

So you're saying maybe Duck and Laney know each other. What? Oh! That's what I'm just putting together. That's what you said? Hey, if she's the lead singer, the guys in the back are just wearing Duck Hodges jerseys for no reason. We didn't know if Duck was maybe in the band.

Did he have a hat on? Was Duck actually out there? I don't know. There's been a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers. I didn't see him. A lot of Steelers. There's been a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers over the time. For her and her entire band to wear Hodges, we loved it.

That says a lot. But immediately we go, what's going on over there? Okay, Duck. Yeah. Is there a chance they went to like a Champs right before to get Steelers jerseys and Duck was the only jersey there? You've seen what players have to go through if they want to change their number. They have to pay out all the jerseys to move to their new number.

The NFL ain't wasting no money on any jerseys. No offense, Duck Hodges. I don't think they're making any Duck Hodges jerseys at the moment. No way. Although they should be now that Laney and her whole band. What's going on over there? Being reported on the internet, they might be together. Oh!

Happy that's been reported already. Way to go, Duck. Didn't know if we were alluding to something. I do believe Duck and Laney do have a romantic relationship. It's awesome to see her showing a little love to old Duck. I'm happy for old fucking Duck. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. They should be. Pittsburgh and also West Virginia Mountaineers. Neil Brown went up there and gave him a We're All Mountaineers Here shirt. It turns out he looks like just a regular old hayseed when he wears a vest, a flannel, and a hat. That's all we're looking for.

I personally, I think Kenny should be watching film and not shotgunning beers. But, hey, we'll see what happens in the fall. Hey, Jared Goff is on the golf course. He is. He's watching film. No, he actually was giving interviews at the draft party like, oh, is Aaron Rodgers still here so we can beat him twice a year? Great line.

Kenny Pickett did that as well with Cam Hayward. So, I like this old school out of kenny though this is old school yeah oh yeah sweet letting not being scared to shotgun a beer in public is old school need that like because him buying into that being a human he's like setting the tone right now because if he was not and then six years from now he did that it'd be like is kenny pickett really serious about winning here in pittsburgh or is kenny pickett worried about being the steelers quarterback the title not the player it's like i love this is old school his teammates love this everybody that love absolutely love this about him i really appreciate him being a young fuck

but still being a human because it's not easy. I was at a restaurant this weekend. We'll end this hour on this. I was at a restaurant this weekend. I'm not going to say the name of the restaurant because the food wasn't bad. What was it called? Giordano's. Oh, Giordano's. Yeah, yeah. It was really

really good. But judging this younger age now of workers is like just if they show up. Like I was pumped for the people that showed up at this place to work. Like thank you on Sunday showing up for work. It was the first time my wife and I had been in there. We get a chance to experience it. We're doing a little shopping.

Bye-bye babies going out of business. Ooh, what? Going out of business. It was a madhouse in there, bro. I did not know what I was signing up for. That was Costco. And Bed Bath & Beyond. Yeah, same companies.

Yeah. Wow. B, B, B, B, B. I think they're both going out of business. Yeah, the place is awesome. So we stopped by Bye-Bye. I'm not even going to get a chance to experience. I don't know what it's normally like because this is like one of my first times there.

It's gone. It's gone. I guess it's ending soon. Yeah. So my wife and I go in there, try to find some stuff. It was bananas. Everybody was really nice in there, but it was packed. Yeah, madhouse.

We're talking cart to cart. Yeah. Tiny little aisles. Nowhere. Uncomfortable the whole time. Picked up some great shit for our baby girl, though. Here we go. Shout out, bye-bye, baby.

Don't know why it's going out of business. I wish I could have helped you. First baby coming. I don't know what happened. Too many coupons. Wish you would have kept around. Yeah, the internet, too, probably affects a lot of this. Because you want to take some of those big boxes home. There were some things

even if it was on sale, I'm like, Sam, I'd rather that get delivered to the house than buy it right now. So we go down Jordan, Don's down there. And first time in there, we're going to watch a couple games. You know, basketball games on. Got the Heat and the Knicks are on right there. There was also some of that soccer, ping pong that

AQ talked about on one of the TVs. We actually chose to go to this place instead of another place strictly because the environment, the vibes, and because how Zito has talked about this place. They did show up to work, which is awesome, and we should thank them for that. I tipped

accordingly. Thank you for showing up at work. That was the worst run restaurant I have ever seen in my entire life you should have just tipped the cook my entire like dude i am not i'm being serious why the the cooks i get an hour and 20 minutes we took one piece just the way they were like the managerial style there i think terrible but also like this younger generation because they're on the phone like interacting with humans just not good at it like yeah like they're not it's not a it's not a i don't think it's a like a good thing with everything that has kind of happened so we have

not been out and about in a while that's one of our first times and i was thankful for everybody that showed up to work there and the food was good but i looked at the managers a couple times i'm like you guys should never be in charge of anything. This is a pretty poor run operation, but to their credit, they showed up and they did work. So any of these young people we see that act like old school humans, we have to appreciate because they're

in a completely different generation. On their phone, I was thinking about servers and waiters and all these things. That's a lot of human interaction. Not a lot of humans used to that now. know what i mean terrible if that's the bar though now they just showed up like the service industry especially like hey yeah you just got to show up it's like well not really like that you you got to do more to show up well sam was in the service industry so she instead of being like somebody that is like nicer to the service center, she's much worse.

Harsh critic. Yeah, she's like, this can't happen. I mean, there was a stack of trash just sitting right, like this big, like 25, 30. Yeah, can't do it. It was like, Zinder, we're one of the only people in the entire thing. But you're right. It's just like, hey, thank you for working, though.

And it's not this person's fault. Yeah, exactly. It's the manager's fault. It's not on the 16-year-old kids to make sure the place is running. It's the manager just letting it happen. He was just sitting right there, and it's like, it's not my place to speak about this. But Jesus Christ, I'm worried about the future of all that stuff

as more and more turns into phone stuff because that's human interaction. Going to have to have it. Oh, yeah. Going to have to have human interaction there. It was a wild time. We enjoyed it. I mean, we laughed our way through that entire thing. Okay, yeah. Like, gonna have to have human interaction there. It was a wild time. We enjoyed it. I mean, we laughed our way through that entire thing. Okay, so you

made it light still. Yeah, it was not a miserable experience. It was a blast. I was watching how terrible. Did you get deep dish? Right. No, thin crust. Come on. I ain't doing your lasagna pizza. Thin crust is fine. Deep dish would have took two and a half hours. But you guys might have the best thin crust pizza. Their thin crust is very, very good. Giordano's thin crust might be

one of the best thin crust pizzas on earth. Yeah, it's delicious. It is. It's legit. That's why that should be the one you guys sell. So you're going to have to take that with the terrible service. Yeah, and as we were taking it in, it's like service being terrible might become a new norm. Yeah.

Might become a new thing. How do we fix it? I don't know. I don't know if you can. Because it's like a whole generation of speaking. Like Kenny Pickett has been told not to do anything that he just did there. Like you going up there, can't do that. Going out, doing things, you can't do that.

It's like almost like this one generation has been trained to act a certain way. It's why whenever I saw Trevor Lawrence have emotions for the first time, I'm like, thank you, dude. Because he's been trained just to be like this way the entire time. You can get caught doing anything. So people are scared to, I think, be humans. But even more so in the service industry, like you never fucking talk to anybody anymore.

You're on your phone the entire time. Just wait a few more years. Robots will be serving everybody food. They'll be cleaning tables. AI, they can easily plug one of those in. That's just the greatest butler of all time. Your time is coming, but not today. Let's get to a break.

Well said. Well said. Not today, sir. Not today. Hell yeah. Watched Top Gun Maverick yesterday? Mm-hmm. Unbelievable.

I slept, okay? Immediately after first dogfighting sesh. Yep. When Tom had to remind them all. Right. Hey, you don't learn today. Yeah. Fights on.

Doing the pushups. That's a kill. Yeah. Yeah. Fell asleep immediately after that. Okay. It's fine. You've seen it before.

Seen it before. I know what's going on. Okay. That's fine. It's fine. You've seen it before. Seen it before. I know what's going on.

Woke up as Rooster and Maverick are talking on the aircraft carrier. Right. And they say, I'll talk to you afterwards. Whatever they were going to talk. Unreal. And then some things happen. So I wake up at that point, and I'm like, fight's on. Yeah.

Four daggers take off. Hell yeah. Those are awesome. Now we're on a mission. That's right. Bye-bye, uranium enrichment facility. 45 minutes straight. Yep. Action.

Of jizz. Edge of your seat. Bro. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Non-stop. I made my wife and I watch this movie. So when I fall asleep in the middle of it, obviously, as soon as I wake up,

there's shrapnel coming at me from the wife. Right. Oh, I wanted to watch it. I had to watch it. I fell asleep through it all, which is a pretty status quo for me. I am going to fall asleep in the middle of movies, especially if I'm at my house

and there's been a vitamin from a legal state that I went and got maybe for a day. Right. Yeah, okay. I said, Sam, I love you. You're right. But the movie's about to start. Please.

Grab some popcorn. Let's do this later. And these daggers took off, stacked up on top of each other. Fuck yes. Oh. He's got another one coming out in the next couple months. Yeah.

Him running through that forest in the middle of the snow. Man. Just perfect form. Yep. Robotical. Oh, yeah. Need to get him in a 40. With all that shit on.

With all that shit on. Yeah. As like a ghost. Like they do with Run Rich Run. Yeah. With all that shit on. With all that shit on, yeah. As like a ghost, like they do with Ron Rich Ron. Yeah, maybe a 4'2". How about him catching that swing pass on the beach and taking it 60 yards? Slept through that. Missed that whole thing.

Dogfight football. Yeah, I missed the Miles Teller. I wish I would have seen it. The rooster dance? Yeah. I wish I would have seen it because of how damn good he looked. Right. How about Hangman?

That son of a bitch. Hangman. Saved the day. Didn't he? Yeah. Threw that smoke. What a shot. What a shot.

Page saved the day, too. How much fun does that look like, by the way? I don't know if he did. What? How much fun would that be, though, if you had the ability? You got to be able to not get sick, I guess. Yeah, that's the big thing. You got to be able to not get sick.

Those things are flying, what, like 50 feet above the ground? And they had to really fly those, I'd assume, for all that shot. Oh, yeah. So Tom Cruise is obviously flying one of those. Legit. But how about our actual pilots out there that are fucking turning sideways through fucking bridges and stuff? The Blue Angels? That has to be bananas on a day-to-day basis.

How about when Mav does his old, put on the brakes and fly right by, and then the Gen 5 says, oh, really? The enemy Gen 5 says, oh, really? And does like a fucking- Inverted. Yeah. Just stops out of nowhere in there. Those planes are insane.

They turn sideways, straight up and down. Foom, foom, foom, boom. Yeah, it's absurd. That's actually happening, right? Yeah. So now you got to think about who we got these ideas from for these planes. Yeah, you know who. Because that fucking Mach 10.4 or whatever that he's flying at the beginning, that looks like a UFO.

Yeah, it is. There's a lot of other stuff coming out too, isn't there? Interesting. Let's get to a break of different types of UFOs. Well, not even in that sphere. There's a lot of stuff coming out. Wall Street Journal just had a pretty... They did.

Let's get to a break. Let's get to a break. Oh, come on. I just saw the headline. I'm not reading into it. What was the headline? That seems a lot bigger than my brain will be able to process. What was the headline?

I think we know someone's probably going to bring that up first thing. Yeah, certainly. Oh, I saw Wall Street Journal today. Exactly. Hey, I started my morning with my Wall Street Journal read, just like I do every day. Did you guys see? That's what AJ's going to say.

Yep. Just a little heads up. All right, our two is on the other side. We've got Daniel Jeremiah joining us. We've got Alex Caruso. Hell yeah. Of the Chicago Bulls joining us in about an hour and seven minutes to talk about the NBA.

Steph Curry hung 50 yesterday in a game seven against the Sacramento Kings. What a dog. What else should we be looking at? You know, how about Bron Bron? How about the Suns taking on? I know Joker's a dog. Jamal Murray went in fuego on Saturday. We're talking like 12, 13 straight points in the fourth quarter.

Shooting from the logo, shooting inside, shaking people, and also letting the fans know, I'm that fucking guy. He was a show on Saturday night. Yeah, this is bubble Jamal Murray. We saw it a couple years ago, haven't seen it since, and now he is fucking balling. Morning, it's live. From an attic

in Ohio is a man who's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion. He's not a Ryder Cup champion, but he is the champion of Ohio. Actually has a trophy that says, you are Ohio's finest sir you are the greatest ohio fuck in history ladies and gentlemen father of 10 covet survivor aj hawk holy shit you look good aj what are you doing this weekend oh am i glowing you are yeah are you pregnant you're pregnant holy might be you never know i never say never i guess right, right? Oh, that's a much bigger conversation to have. Yeah, I was going to say.

You want to dive into that? The world's been talking about that a lot lately. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? If I could get pregnant, you mean? I don't think I can. I don't think I'm equipped. I don't think I can either.

But they've been saying, I don't think I can. No, you can't. Thank God I can. After watching what my wife has been through here. Jeez Louise. can't thank god i can't after watching what my wife has been through here geez louise i am not cut out for what she has been through over the last 10 11 months with the entire process that we're at we're getting real close to a baby girl aj real close like the countdown is on like days days may it's may already this is the month right right? Remember, we were all saying, it's going to be May.

And then now it is. You know what I mean? May 1. We're here. We're in the birth of my baby girl's month, which is an amazing thing. You have 10 kids. You've been there. You've done that. This weekend, in the name of one of your kids, you fought a bunch of parents at a basketball tournament? Did I read that text right? Is that what happened? I did not fight anybody, but yeah, I was in Cincinnati Saturday, Sunday, and Saturday there was a bit of a brawl that broke out. A guy had a cane swinging at people,

and then I guess five people ended up getting arrested, we found out. Okay, so is this at the refs or is this a team thing? Somebody didn't have a birth certificate? I don't know what started it. It was a big AAU tournament, so ages from, like, probably third grade up through high school. My sixth-grade daughter was playing in it. And, yeah, in between games, I was standing there with my parents.

They came because it was in Cincinnati, not too far from Centerville. And I saw it brewing. I was like, man, this isn't going to end well. I could see them kind of going at each other. And then all of a sudden, boom, a couple people on the ground, a couple ladies on the ground, and guys on the ground. This guy, one dude had some great head movement, going back and forth with people.

It was amazing, man. And then they got it all under control and everything was good. So these are your parents, standard parents of players that were playing in the tournament, yeah? I believe it was actually coaches that started the fight, but the coaches, people claim, had coached together before, maybe last year, so they knew each other. Oh, beef.

I think people from the outside that were either trying to break it up or do something, then that's when it kind of got wild. Did any of them have a fliction on? Did any of them have a fliction on? Because you know if any of them had a fliction on or anything like that, immediately upon that thing going to the ground, they're, Ah! Rear naked shot.

There's one video of a dude, kind of cheap shot a dude in the back of the head, and then he got him into a headlock, but the guy was slippery. He got out of the headlock pretty quick. Oh, was he greasing? He put a little lotion on him now he's this is the dude that had the great head movement and was was trying to like when the dudes were coming at him he had some good movement it was him so i think he just you know he he knew his way around a fight okay how close were you to this fight uh i was like

15 yards away just wow just right down the court and i just instantly started looking like where are the girls where's the squad where i'll make sure they at least go over in the other corner somewhere away okay so you did good dadding immediately what a hero that's oh i was fine and i was i was pushing pistol i was pushing my dad and come on pistol you got to go take care of this man take that guy's cane see what happens see what i see so there was a foreign what was the cane user connecting with anybody or no yes Yes. Oh, yeah. He was swinging it around before the fight. I was like, this dude seems to want to use this thing. Yeah, like pointing at people and kind of swinging their direction.

And then when things started to go, he got five or six good shots on somebody. Not a bad gimmick there. Have a prop of the cane, use it as a weapon. I'm going to spin it like this. If I hit you, that's on you, not on me. That's like the people that do this number. I'm going to walk. If you get in the way, then I'm going to hit you.

That's on you. That's not on me. I didn't start this fight. I'm just doing what I normally do with my cane, and your face got in the way. Did he make any solid contact? And it appears that he actually needed the cane because I've learned something. People that don't need things are all of a sudden acting like they do. Funny you say that because i don't

know if he needed the cane if it was even his cane to start with because stole somebody's cane no i think he knew so shortly after the fight there was a lady carrying the cane acting like she was using it but the whole lower half was bent into like a c so it didn't work still it was all bent up and she was walking around acting like she was using i'm like yeah smart the guy he gives it to her. I didn't use this, obviously. Hey, I wore gloves, but my fingerprints aren't on this thing. Five people got arrested.

That means there had to be a pretty good little scrap out there. Well, I was surprised five got arrested, but then the cops came in. There was like eight cop cars there. They were reviewing everyone, like footage from people's phones, from the security, everything. Did you have to speak to any? Give a statement? No, I didn't. I mean i mean there was i don't know how there was would you have played people that you've been so cool i'll be the first i didn't see anything let's see shit yeah definitely you should check the cane though the cane where's the cane they should have taken

off smoking gun is all the people gotten the people are getting this little fight they hung around and waited the cops didn't show up for like 15 20 minutes i was like what are you guys doing here get out of here so they're fighting in front of the kids kids were all there too that's sad right i mean that's yeah yeah i know that's how we saw it's the one girl came sprinting over to her mom and said hey dad dad come over quick and then that's why i looked over like oh they boozing at these events people drunk at these events or this is a sober fight this was like 11 a.m. I don't know. Possibly people could be. I'm getting into this parent world.

I guess it is bananas. I see some of those videos on Fight Haven or whatever. Yeah. It'll just pop up. No, parents. Parents like swinging at kids. Throwing down. Yeah, parents are crazy. I saw parents get kicked out and stuff.

Yeah, it happens all the time. I've gone in a fight with a parent playing sports. I think I verbally have gotten into it with numerous parents. I don't know how I'm going to be as a parent if a kid's talking to me the way I was speaking to certain parents and things like that. But, like, that's always the biggest deal is the parents, right? Everybody hates the parents at these sports.

Yeah, like most coaches, like people that coach teams too, like they just hope they have a good set of parents that aren't going to be killing them every single game and asking why my kid didn't get enough time and all this stuff. I thought about that. What if the coach sucks? You know, and I guess that's what the parents, that's why the parents get the way they are because the coach is bad.

I've already started this whole problem. Yeah. Yeah. Mike Allstock said, I was watching and I just said, well, I've got 40, 50 beers here. Yeah. I'll drink these and then. Now he's coaching high school and they're like state chomps.

Yeah. They're unbelievable. One of the greatest coaches of all time. AJ, you don't coach that team, or you do? No, it's an AAU team. I do not coach. My daughter now, she's kind of out of my coaching realm because she's in sixth grade next year, seventh grade,

so that's school ball. So that's like teachers coach that. Oh, so she's going to get better, you think? What if the coaches suck? Coach is good. The seventh grade coach played Ohio State. There you go. AJ's got no good name.

He's on my team, so, yeah, I know him well. Joining us now is a man who absolutely dominated the NFL draft. 42 of his top 50 prospects got drafted in the top 50. Is that good? You tell us. All the film study that he did paid off in a big way. He was also incredibly entertaining on television. He got pissed on by an actual dog.

Ladies and gentlemen, move the stakes, Daniel Jeremiah. I'll tell you what, boys. I hear you guys talking about youth sports. Pat, you're getting ready to figure this whole thing out. But this is the one piece of advice I would give you is get away from the other parents, even the parents on your team, because that's the – like you don't want to hear other people talking about your kid. Like that's the worst. So you just want to go other people talking about your kid. Like that's the worst.

So you just want to go – like if it's Little League Baseball, you're going to want to go down the sight line. You can go like left field line and go hang out down there because I have been there when your kid's playing in the field and like makes an error and you hear the pitcher's dad go, Hey, Johnny, don't worry about it, buddy. It's not your fault they can't catch out there. Like that's the kind of stuff that you're in for.

That's the kind of stuff you're in for i couldn't even fathom that situation i didn't even think about that situation oh yeah the enemy's always within your own camp that's right on your own team they're they're gonna be coming oh oh yeah what'd you say i can't wait yeah what was that what'd you say okay all right mean, let's just relax. And then I'm not going to bury a kid. No. No. Can't. No chance.

No. Have to personally attack human. Right? Exactly. I don't have to do that. And then that's when canes start flying. You're right. That's a good call.

Move the sticks. I'm going to stick out. I'm going to stay down by the side there. Let's dive into what you are incredible at, as it sounds like parenting is another thing that you are. But the draft really is your thing. Were you seeing the board well this year? I mean, you did.

You called the Houston Texans trading for number three when a lot of people had the Titans trading for number three and everything like that. They get exactly both people that everybody thought maybe they wanted, C.J. and Will Anderson, in one move that you predicted literally, what, 14 hours ahead of time. Yep.

Now, we all assume that you just have sources inside Houston now. We know that anything you say about Houston going forward is 100% accurate. So you have kind of outed yourself for this moment, but I think it was a good swing. Did you know what was going to happen? Because everybody was talking about how unpredictable it was, and it seems like you had it pretty figured out going in. No, it has nothing to do with talking to people in their building. So the interesting thing is, you talked to a bunch of people, and I to do with talking to people in their building. So the interesting thing is I have just, you know, you talk to a bunch of people and I knew just from talk canvassing a bunch of people that they really like those two guys. So just kind of like piecing things together.

And look, I talked to our guys, our information guys like Ian and Tom, you know, talking to them, get information. You talk to everybody involved in this whole process from guys who are training these guys to guys who are coaching, coach with their coaches in the past, personnel guys who have relationships there. Rarely does it all come together. But this one was just, okay, you've got a team that likes two players. You've got a team at three who's basically put up a billboard that says they want to get out. And the Houston Texans have as many resources or more than anyone else in this draft. Add into that, you've got a first-year head coach. It's like a plant-your-flag

type draft. To me, I was like, this is a perfect opportunity. They can get an offensive pillar, get a defensive pillar. It could all work out for them here and get these two guys and go. I'll be honest with you. You're sitting there on the desk and the draft is going on. They make their pick a stroud. You're like, okay. kind of been preaching that for a while of it just

doesn't make any sense they have to take the quarterback uh and sure enough they end up taking the quarterback but you're just kind of sitting on the set and all of a sudden there's a trade and your ears perk up a little bit and they go houston's on the clock and i go holy crud this is actually i'm a genius it's really going down that's what you start thinking to yourself and you saying that you don't talk to anybody in there, my immediate thought is like, oh, so people are going to hear this, and they're going to say, seems like Daniel Jeremiah has the draft figured out.

That's a massive piece of a general manager's job. You've been in scouting before. The person who had your job previously became a general manager for the Raiders. You have said that that's not what you want to get into. I love my job. You keep doing what you did this weekend, though. There's going to be billionaires that are thinking about talking to you for certain powerful positions.

Let's talk about those powerful positions that 32 people have, which is general manager around the NFL. Feels like everybody won. Is that how you're taking this? Feels like everybody seemingly got better and everybody's fans seem to be happy with who they took. Do you think that's because it was such like a mixed bag of reviews for a lot of the middle rounds and everything like that? Or why do you think it's overwhelmingly positive in all eyes? I'm happy in Indy.

He's happy in Pittsburgh. Green Bay's happy. New England's happy. It's like everybody is seemingly happy. That rarely happens, right? Move the sticks. Yeah, and I think there wasn't like that opportunity cost where you had your eyes

on a player and all of a sudden it's like, oh crap, we lost this guy. The drop off between getting this guy and the next guy, it wasn't really there in this draft. We had the intriguing quarterbacks, which really kind of drove the discussion, but not to get to next year's draft already, but the wide receivers we had in this draft, there was no Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase type receiver. The corners, they were good players, but we didn't have a Sauce or a Sertain or anything like that. The pass rushers, a ton of them, a lot of depth.

There wasn't a Vaughn Miller or there wasn't a Miles Garrett. So what I'm getting at is you weren't a fan base that was like, oh my gosh, we're going to get, even like we're going to get Rashawn Slater in this draft. I cannot believe this. And all of a sudden, bam, he goes right before you pick and you're devastated. It was a draft of a bunch of really good players, like a lot of starters, maybe not quite as many stars.

So everybody just kind of got the guys that they needed. Yeah, it worked. Houston's pumped. And they traded a future first rounder and their fans were like, we got our cornerstones. It was a joyful weekend. Honestly. Go ahead, AJ. first rounder and their fans are like we got our cornerstones it was yeah it was a joyful weekend honestly go ahead aj uh dj when the colts took uh richardson at four did you did you sit there and look and feel like hey where's will levis going did you know he'd fall out of the first round well it was 4 11 for him so you know that there were all there everybody was a bryce young team

but you knew that wasn't going to be possible cj strJ. Stroud had a lot of support. So you're like, if C.J. somehow Houston didn't take Stroud, there was going to be a market for him. And then it was, okay, Levis. Hey, next year, I'm taking this. You got to put this on your shoulders. This needs to be on your shield and everything. When bullshit

starts coming out about somebody, we need you to be like, have not heard that. We'll even text you the stories if you don't want to have to keep up with them all on the internet or the narratives but you saying cj stroud had a massive market like that is not what was being said last week at all before the draft sorry to interrupt you there no yeah i mean again like that's at some point in time we have to have a room for logic like logic has to be involved the guy's a really good player. The tape's really good. There's a lot of teams that need quarterbacks.

That's why he was still well thought of and had other options. With Levis, it was 4-11. It was the Colts and that was the most likely. You'd heard all this chatter and all this buzz about him. I don't know if they talked about it

after the fact. When I was told that when he went on his visit to Indy and Levis and Shane Steichen played nine holes of golf, I was like, okay, well, that's kind of a lot of time for your head coach and your quarterback to spend together. That seems like that's probably a good sign that there's something going on there. But then they go Richardson. So once Richardson happened, you're like, all right, he gets to 11. Now it's the Titans. If they don't do it now, I don't know what's going to happen. Now I'm thinking it's got to be somebody trying to get back into the back of one. And, you know, was told that the Titans did have conversations with a couple of teams picking down there, including Kansas City and Buffalo to come in and take him at the bottom of one. Those teams

liked the options they had. They didn't want to get out. So that led to him going with the 33rd pick. What about Levis, do you think, out on that golf course? He duffed one and just immediately – Fuck, fuck, fuck! Threw his bag in the lake. I just wonder, like, think about the pressure that that would – I suck at golf. But I'd be overthinking it.

I'd be like, wait, did they want to see if I'm lining this thing up or am i doing am i lining it up too much how many practice swings do i take here because i want to show that i care and i'm prepared but i don't want to be looked at as i'm over analyzing anything i'm not comfortable like that had been all in my head yeah they they just wanted to see if they could hang out with you for two and a half hours yep whenever like yeah competition's happening that is a hundred percent why they were doing that also try to figure out you know steichen puts one close you know is this guy going to be able to answer because you can tell if somebody's shit at golf like terrible then you're not expecting anything kind of good at golf it's like okay here we go let's see what

i only have i only have one rule with golf though because i am terrible but my rule is we all can't be you can't be terrible and slow. It has to be relative. If you're a bad player, we're playing fast. We're going. What if Will? What if Will? Oh, man.

Patrick Cantlay Jr. Bingo. Oh, yeah. That'd be tough. They were scheduled to play 18, but they only got nine in probably. Yeah, we don't know the whole story. What if they were trying to play 27, but they only got nine in probably. Yeah, we don't know the whole story. What if they were trying to play 27? Yeah, it took eight hours.

Yeah, just line it up. See, I don't know. Think about the pressure that would put us. Steichen's like, not fucking doing it. No way. No way are we doing that. I don't know who you got to call. Is that from Steichen saying about the goal?

That was my brother. The other time we were doing it, it was a GM. That's just my brother probably wanted to get lunch. Dude, shout out to your brother. Hope you do get lunch because it was a busy week that knew that's a new piece of information there in our world that's stiking what levis golf nine holes and then for whatever reason they end up with anthony richardson did they do anything with anthony richardson because ballard came out and told peter king i don't know that he probably

would have liked anthony richardson like a month before the draft is when he found out jim mercy talked to anthony richardson and played 12, 14 years, you can make a billion dollars, brother. A billion dollars. That was his conversation with Anthony Richardson. All Colts fans are very happy that he picked and they picked AR. But Will Levis, I guess, could be a guy. Seemingly, what Rap Sheet was kind of alluding to was he's just like tough to be around. Which golf would immediately yeah that

would show that that would immediately figure that out what a move by chris ballard and the colts but i you know i don't know i mean i don't they could have just been locked in on richardson and and maybe they're like who knows maybe they were just bringing in will levis because they wanted people to think they were on will levis and was like hey we're bringing in will levis shoot let's just go play some golf let's just just get a nice little after, get some sun outside. Like, I don't know what the driving force was there, no pun intended. Ballard, great pun. Ballard going, I got some meetings to do with the scout guys.

Stike, are you going to take this guy for a lap at the mall? I'm golfing today. Hey, Pat, my job when I was in Baltimore, it was my first two years in the league league was I would take guys out to dinner. Like go pick them up at the airport and then I would take them out to dinner. Their visit would be the next day. Well, you're a scout. You're making 30 grand.

Like just starting out, you're an office guy. Like I didn't have many nice meals. So like I remember picking up Jamal Brown. It's like we're going to Ruth's Chris. And like I'm getting – this is all in the company dime. So I'm getting these great meals. I remember I didn't eat all day. Um, I was starving and we had, uh, Bob Sanders coming in. So I'm like, dude, I can't wait. This is going to be, what are we? Seafood like steak. What are we doing tonight? So I pick him up in my 94 accord where

the window doesn't go all the way up. Uh, and I pick him up, he gets in my car and I'm like, Hey man, anywhere you want to go for dinner. And goes, hey, you guys got a Quiznos out here? I can afford Quiznos, Bob. Damn it, Bob. I can't. I didn't eat all day. I didn't eat all day, and that was it. It was a very nicely toasted sandwich.

Yeah, but at Quiznos Subs, any coupon works. That's right. What a place. Unbelievable marketing campaign. So good. And then they went out of business somehow. They did, yeah. They had good sandwiches.

They had good subs, dude. Not bad. All right. And also, they're asking you how that person's acting towards you, right, the whole time. Like, I got picked up by a scout. Oh, yeah. Jamie, still know him. He drove me around Indianapolis.

And if anybody's ever been here, getting getting around 465 takes hour and a half probably you want to do that i was in a car with this guy a long time west side north side south side then back to the facility so we were driving i don't want to say peppering me with questions but we were having a conversation the entire time and i didn't even think about it till afterwards i was like oh everything i told that guy has been recorded and probably being sent in there. It was like, we had a good guy. He was a good guy, but I didn't even think about it as, oh, this is an interview happening right now.

I'm like, I just got to go get my knee checked out. They're worried about my fucking knee. It's a very interesting game, trying to get all pieces of information, and every piece of information has to be accounted for, I guess, if you're making a $100 million decision for a billion-dollar operation. So that golf round, I would love to hear what Steichen thought of it

and how they shot. Let's try to figure out those scores from somebody in the Colts facility and see if that had anything to do with it and what happened with Anthony Richardson. Tone has a question for you. Yeah, DJ, you tweeted that you love the Steelers draft, and I saw that one of your most valuable draft picks was Darnell Washington. Why did he fall to that spot, and how do you think he's going to work out for the Steelers draft and I saw that one of your most valuable draft picks was Darnell Washington why did he fall to that spot and how do you think he's going to work out for the Steelers yeah there was a medical stuff there so that was he would have been long gone but I but it was I

believe was his knee so there was just some concern there so once that you know once he started dropping you get to the point where you're like is this I mean this is ridiculous this guy's. This guy's way too, I'm looking at where he went, 93rd overall pick. I thought he would, I thought he would go probably in the back half of the second round. He'd drop a little bit, but I think the fact we had so many tight ends in this draft, the teams were, you know, maybe a little reluctant to go there. But I mean, the last time I remember, I don't remember if I was in Baltimore or Cleveland, but when, when Gronk came out and there was – you know, we couldn't take him. He was off our board.

And they're like, this guy's only going to last a couple years. Then he'll break down, like, his knee or his back or whatever issue he had. And, obviously, we know how that ended. So, hopefully, similar success there for Darnell. What was the knee? He played, right? Didn't he play? Yeah, he played in the natty too.

Yeah. No, I mean, I don't know. All the medical stuff goes over my head, but it was – in the run-up to the draft, it was – I was just told, like, hey, he could slide a little bit because of some of the medical stuff. Give me a 6'7 guy who's okay being the number two tight end. Yeah.

When he shouldn't be. Oh, he would block your butt off, man. Like, he is an unbelievable blocker. That's why – He can catch too. Yes, but if you watch Georgia run the ball, it was their left tackle and Broderick Jones, and it was the big tight end, Darnell Washington, next to him,

just mauling dudes, and that's what the Steelers got, both of them. But he can catch, too. I mean, they're a tag team already. They showed highlights of him catching and jumping over people. They got Brock down there. He's supposed to be like the greatest tight end to ever come out or whatever. So a lot of plays to the tight end are being designed to him. So did darnell get as many catches as maybe other tight ends get might get the opportunity obviously not there's another tight end on the team he was cool with that didn't

transfer continued to do his thing and made the most of his opportunities i wanted him on the fucking colts as soon as we saw him do it the national championship it's like what is that man he's mammoth. Like, AJ will know. I mean, to me, he was a souped-up Mercedes Lewis. That's who he reminded me of. And Mercedes is still going. I mean, he's played forever.

He's going to be on the Jets this year. Go ahead, AJ. Sorry about that. DJ, I know we can't grade anybody yet. I know people love to grade the draft. But what team do you think had the most interesting or most surprising draft to you? Well, you know, looking at it in hindsight like the i thought the packers did a really nice job like you're trying to craft a draft for a young

quarterback you go out and get a couple tight ends um they took vaness early who fits like the mold of the bigger like kind of rugged edge guys that they like to play with i thought they got just kind of a lot of value throughout the whole thing and i didn't realize till the end of how many dang picks they had they had a zillion picks um so i thought they did a kind of a lot of value throughout the whole thing. And I didn't realize until the end of how many dang picks they had. They had a zillion picks. So I thought they did a really nice job. And, you know, Aaron leaving, I mean, we'll find out on Jordan Love. We don't know. But to me, I thought they did everything they could to try and support him

as he gets his opportunity here. I like what the Green Bay Packers did. Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, DJ, in the same kind of aspect of some teams and what they did in their draft, a lot of people are saying the Lions reached for some of their picks, especially in the first round. Do teams look at it that way, or is it just like we love these guys, we're going to take them wherever the hell we want?

And then also in the same kind of tone with the sleepers. Is a guy a sleeper, or does everyone just know he's good, and then for some reason he didn't get picked earlier? And why wouldn't a guy like Boutte, who went to the Patrier, or does everyone just know he's good, and then for some reason he didn't get picked earlier? And why wouldn't a guy like Boutte, who went to the Patriots, get picked earlier on? Yeah, I mean, I'll work backwards. Like, Boutte is just – he wasn't the same guy later in his career that he was early in his career.

So, you know, he was kind of trending down the wrong way. Obviously, he had a new coaching staff. There were some changes. So, you can explain away some of that. But that's why he drifted and fell a little bit. With the Lions, I think you've got to remember, when you look back on a draft, if we look back five years from now, if you have four starters that came out of one draft, that is an insane draft.

That's incredible. Three is usually kind of the target. If we get three guys in our class that emerge as starters, I don't really care where they came from. I mean, we took Danny Watkins in the first round in Philadelphia. It was going to go down as one of the all-time kind of bust picks. But we took Kelsey in the same draft in the sixth round. He's going to go to the Hall of Fame. So it's like when you look back on it, it's like,

does it matter where you picked them? It's about who ends up starting on your team in each class. And I think the Lions surprise people with non-premium positions early but you go through the list of guys they they could end up with like four or five starters that emerge from this draft class they just approach it a little differently you guys uh have one of the biggest busts in history yeah james what do you know i mean that's that's the draft though isn't it dj that gets forgotten about oh yeah and your whole like hey it doesn't matter when you draft them, as long as we're playing them.

Like that's setting aside your ego, which some GMs in the history of the NFL, probably none now, we'll say. But in the history of the NFL, some GMs can't put their ego aside and think like that though. So you see a lot of fourth rounders and fifth rounders get released almost because they're better than a first rounder. And they're like, ah like i can't have this happening and then they go on to have successful careers potentially elsewhere that's a big time

like human side of this whole element which i guess the draft is massive because all you need is one person to really like you and you'll get drafted yeah i would say like this weekend i i get a little bit nervous even though i'm not with a team anymore like because as a scout there's this is this weekend coming up is the worst weekend of the entire year, because you are going to go to that mini camp, the first mini camp, and you're going to see guys that you stood on the table for in the fifth or sixth round.

And until that first rep, you're going to feel sick to your stomach because you're like, oh, please don't look stiff. Oh my gosh, please run. Please be able to run. You know,

like, like I said, and I, and you, I've been there where the practice ends and you're walking back to get some lunch with the personnel department like, hey dude, that free agent

we gave $8,000 to, he looks better than the guy we took in the second round. That's when you get him on the grass and then you get a little nervous when that happens. They're paying people a couple hundred thousand now, undrafted free agents. Oh yeah, dude. It's a whole new world.'s a whole new world. We didn't in Baltimore. We never gave over a thousand bucks. Like when I was there going back, we were like, Hey, I thought we gave, we gave,

uh, we gave priest Holmes 500 bucks. We gave Bart Scott a thousand bucks. Like it's about opportunity. You're dumb. If you're going to go take 20 grand to go somewhere else, you're going to get cut or you're going to take a thousand bucks and make our team. Think about that from, you know, we had to sell it. Like we were where you're going to get cut, or you're going to take a thousand bucks and make our team. Think about that from, you know, we had to sell it. Like we were a salesman trying to get those guys to come in. Yeah.

It's a full process. Go ahead. Yeah. I think Mo Ibrahim went with the lions who I was surprised he didn't get drafted, but I think he got a hundred thousand to go to the lions. Yeah. That's a good chunk.

I think there was a 200 and like 45,000 one. Yeah. What? Yeah. We weren't, we weren't offering that cheddar. I remember back. How,

what, what, what, how does that, how do we even get to that point? What does that even mean? You're confident that that dude's making your team. I can tell you that much.

You must be really, really thin. I remember in Baltimore. Yeah, exactly. I remember Baltimore. We had a, so confused.

I was told we weren't going to draft a running back. So it's, so they always pair up a scout and a coach. So it was me and Deuce Staley. We got running back. So we're like, Hey, we just need to sign one running back after the draft. So we kind of identified this Chris Polk, this running back from, from Washington. We're like, okay, this is, he'll be a good fit with us. Like that's, let's, let's go get him. So we start calling him in like six round and you know, we're recruiting, Hey, we didn't draft a

running back. Look at our roster. Like you're going to, you can make our team. Like there's, this is one of the guy you got to beat out, but I think you're more talented, and Deuce is loving him up and loving him up. So you're just checking in with him sixth round, seventh round as it's going along. And the whole sales pitch is like, look at our roster. We're not drafting a running back. So we're in a side office on the

phone with him, and on the bottom of the ticker, it says Eagles select, and I think it was like Bryce Brown, the running back from Tennessee and and uh Polk's like hey dude you just took a running back I'm like no no yeah yeah no no no but we that that's that you're better than him trust me like you can beat him and we're like me and deuce are looking at you like oh crap like I didn't know we were taking this guy so we thought we lost him and then uh he's all upset so then we walked down to Andy Reid's office and we're like

like coach like Polk Chris Polk running back Washington he gets on the phone and he goes Chris he goes can I talk to your mom Andy Reid veteran hall of fame move boom mom's on the phone within five minutes done signed sealed delivered we still got him well Andy Reid's good deal how do you end up playing I think I know the right? He played in the league for a handful of years. Yeah, he made it. He played for a while. Look at you, staying on day. Yeah, Patriots signed Malik Cunningham out of Louisville as an undrafted free agent.

Guaranteed him $200K. Hell yeah. $30,000 signing bonus and $170,000 of his base salary is already guaranteed for next year. A four-year starter will turn 25 in October. Was not drafted, but will compete with Trey Spixorly for QB3 in New England. Hey, Kraft, need 200 grand. A guy we didn't draft. Yeah.

That makes sense. Okay. So when I got drafted in the seventh round, picked 222, I think I got like 53,000 guaranteed or something like that. Not bad. No, that's pretty good. Not bad. Learned about taxes, bought an Escalade.

Didn't get the money for like 60 days, 90 days. Almost had the Escalade get repoed. I mean, it was a full thing. Learning about when money's coming, how money's coming. I thought as soon as I signed it, that shit was hopping into my bank account. It did not. I actually had to go into the bank with a headline of how much money I was making and telling them that the money will come soon.

He's getting $200,000 to not get drafted. What the fuck is he getting drafted? $259,000, probably getting $40,000, $50,000 guaranteed to get drafted. You're much better off going to get drafted? 259, probably getting 40 grand, 50 grand guarantee to get drafted. You're much better off, if it's late in the seventh round, you're much better off being a free agent. Not only do you, you know, financially, but you get to pick the roster you want to jump on and compete. Other than specialists, I think.

Yeah, because you're pot committed a little bit with a specialist. Yeah, like I won the job my rookie year strictly because they drafted me and they didn't draft the other guy, Tim Mastay, who'd go on to have an incredible career with the Green Bay Packers and was a stud. But every other position, getting to pick where and who you compete with, I think

is a good move. But getting drafted always great, unless they're going to pay you $200,000 to not get drafted like Bill Belichick did. How about it hell yeah bill good for malik yeah great for malik yeah i has a question for you sticks yeah dj i don't know if it uh was because like you mentioned like there really wasn't like a bunch of high-end prospects this year just a bunch of guys who are really good but we saw several guys go on day two who

i think a lot of mocks had going in the first round who would you consider as like the kind of biggest steal of the draft like I just continue him going back to Michael Mayer who everyone had him going in like the top 15 and he's the he ends up being the third tight end taken yeah that was for me too that would be the one that jumped out um I just thought in a draft where there was so much uncertainty and so many guys were exceptions, like not tall enough, not big enough, not fast enough, you know, not enough starts. Like there were all injuries, like all these other things. Like Mayer was one of the, literally like the cleanest players in the whole draft and was steady

through the process. Like he kind of passed every test. I don't think he's going to be like the elite, elite player, but he's ready to go. The guys in Notre Dame were like, he'll learn the offense in a mini camp. Like this dude's incredibly bright. He stepped right on the field there and had an impact. So I thought in this draft, for sure, this guy's a lock to go in the first round.

So him going outside the first round was a little bit of a stunner. But if you look back, I think, in years from now, you'll look at day two as being kind of the real guts of this draft. I don't think the first round was quite as good as some of the other first rounds we've seen, and I don't think in the back end it was maybe quite as deep as we've seen. But second, third round this year, there's a lot of really, really good players. So that to me was the guts of the draft. How about Keon White?

I didn't know this guy existed. He's 47 years old. I want him on my team. Grown man, grown man. The first game I watched I think was Florida State. They get a turnover and they're bringing it back the other way. I see him

run like 80 yards. He's running with a skill guy running down the field at 285 pounds. I was like, what the heck? Later on in that game, he peels off with a back running a wheel route. He's stride for stride down the field. I'm like, this dude, he's still figuring everything out. He was a former tight end, but he is a grown man now.

Dog chain. Yeah, that was a good pick. Iced out dog chain around it. Give me that guy pronto. Make a middle backer. 285, that guy, you're saying? Yeah. And pick.

And loves architecture. Like, went to Georgia Tech and, like, studied architecture. So that guy can literally, he can set the edge and, like, design your remodeled living room. He can do everything. I love that guy. Get him on this team immediately. As we wrap up here, Ty just brought up a very good point.

Stetson Bennett gets drafted in the third round of the Los Angeles Rams. Fourth round of the Los Angeles Rams. Matthew Stafford and he, obviously, both Georgia Bulldogs. Stafford has how many years left, and then the reins are going to be handed over to Stetson Bennett. I like anybody that wins. Stetson Bennett wins, it

seems like, all the time. And I know some people had questions, maybe, outside the NFL about his public intoxication and raising hell down here in Athens. And he has a lipper about the size of a standard Chiquita banana in his mouth whenever some things are happening. So, like, all those things I see, though, and I'm like, okay, if we can get that guy to stop partying, okay, which he should be able to do,

should be able to get him on. This guy's a winner. He's jocked, properly jocked right now do, should be able to get him on. This guy's a winner. He's jocked, properly jocked right now. He has been able to handle SEC defenses. He has a chip on his shoulder, obviously, the size of Georgia. He goes in the fourth round. People were surprised by that kind of though. They thought he was going to go later.

Why didn't he go sooner? What does he not have? I don't think I fully understand. Well, I had a talk with the GMm early on the process who said and we maybe we talked about this at the combine which was if bryce can go number one at his size then why are we saying it's deadson bennett's a seventh round pick at the same size like you know that that doesn't compute now obviously he's older obviously he's older um that factored into it i mean he's not and he's not you know the same player on tape obviously that i believe bryce

young is but he's he's a good player. And I thought, to me, that was like the sweet spot. I thought that was about where maybe a little bit earlier than I thought he would go. But when you look at the fit, which is everything with these quarterbacks, I was at the national championship game. I saw Stafford at the game. So, I mean, he's not going to walk into a better room. And I think you can look at it as two ways.

You're looking at it as, okay, does he take over for Matthew Stafford? I'm looking at it saying, you know, Stafford's had some back stuff. If Stafford has to miss, you know, a handful of games this year, like this guy gets on the field and helps us, you know, he helps us stay alive, run around, make some plays, make some things happen. I think you've got a really, really athletic number two. So, you know, it was an interesting fit for sure.

They only have two quarterbacks on the roster. Stafford was the only quarterback on the roster going into the draft. One, two natties. Yep. That means in the big moment he shows up. B price. You know, like he shows up. I don't know.

I think that type of stuff is invaluable. I didn't know he was also 5'10". Okay. That makes a lot more sense all of a sudden. But I'm excited for him to get an opportunity with the Rams. And it feels like Sean McVay with Baker Mayfield was able to bring up offenses that will make anybody successful. Just like we hope you continue to be with the NFL drafts.

We appreciate the hell out of you, man. Go take a nap or two. What does life look like for you right now? I've got to – tomorrow I'll kind of finish up all my media stuff. And then, yeah, I'm a ghost. I'm going to go try and find a beach and just relax a little bit about a baby hell yeah hey some beach somewhere he's gonna have a guy who's really good at predicting the draft ladies and gentlemen he's a dog yeah yeah the best he's he's gonna get uh there's gonna be billionaires that are

offering him jobs soon, I think. I don't know if he knows that. It seems like he just, oh, that injury stuff's way over my head. No, it's not. No, it's not. You're a scout. You're in there. We know that you know, but smart just to be like, oh, geez.

He's going to get offered something that feels like he was spot on with a lot of shit. And if billionaires think, like, this guy seems understand uh we've had a shit show here for a while that's something that happens you know it has happened in the past and i assume it's going to happen again he's a good dude i like him aj he should feel really good about his his performance on his mock draft and all the work he's done but hopefully he can re-up with nfl network and use this leverage other nfl teams trying to come lure him away to get a front office gig yeah nfl network's known for paying their talent oh yeah top dollar that's their thing is it i don't think big time i don't i think the nfl network uh i mean maybe it might have changed you get to work here

congratulations the shield roger dell is your boss here as well you are part of the nfl but i don't know if they i don't know if that's a big part of the game is the star which I respect and appreciate the game is what it is and I guess they got incredible they have to be paying rich he's so fucking good yeah definitely he's been there for so long yeah gotta be paying Michael Irvin yep yeah uh is he still working there I think so okay I wasn't sure I haven't seen him on there well that's because at the end of the year, that thing. Yeah, that's what I mean. Warner probably makes a decent buck. Has to. Mooch.

Mooch. Probably that Sunday show. And maybe, I don't know. They got good shit going over there. They do. I think the NFL Network needs to realize they got good shit going. They got good talent over there. They do.

You guys got a good thing. I hope not that Roger would ever watch this show. I've heard people in that office do. You guys should invest in NFL Network. Yeah. You know, like that is something you should, that's good for the game. Yeah. That being better.

With that being said. I'm sure they say they do. Oh, yeah, certainly they say they do. We spend blah, blah, blah. And also, did you see our numbers? Here's the numbers for the NFL draft. The NFL media has tweeted out 54.4 million viewers unique for the three-day event as a whole six million viewers on tv plus digital over three days across all networks and digital channels each day up in average verse 2022. 312,000 fans attended Kansas City there live in person at the World War I Museum.

Damn. That's the second most people. Nashville had 600,000 allegedly. Are you serious? 600,000. Holy shit. Yeah, Nashville. I mean, it continues to be the bell of the ball.

But Kansas City did great. Stone Street got a great promo. Jason McCourty rocks. A lot of people on the internet were like, you know, there's no reason to even bring that up because the Titans have been so dominant over the Colts. Then you bring it up on a live stage, people saying, Jason, congrats, you switched the mojo.

We got Anthony Richardson, you didn't. Now we switched the mojo completely. So I hope you're happy, Jason. Hope you're enjoying that. Good promo, though. I enjoy the fact that a lot of people took their time on a microphone, made it a little bit more entertaining. This is entertainment.

You know what I mean? As one wise man once said. Absolutely. But 54.4 million people over the three-day. Unique, they're saying. That is a massive number. Congrats to them being able to just kind of make whatever a massive event that they want to. They didn't do this in the past.

This was used to just be in New York. Now it's a traveling thing. 300,000 people come into a town. You don't think there's some NFL shops or some other stuff that potentially benefits from this in a business wise? The cities benefit from this? It's like another championship weekend. It's like another Super Bowl weekend. It's an event the nfl takes over and you're not even playing they're doing absolutely nothing just announcing guys that might be in the nfl congratulations the nfl is a wagon an absolute

champion aj it really is amazing when you think about it like if you had to explain that to an alien that had no idea about sports or whatever like like, no, we're just this many people tune in, this many million more tune in to watch these guys get their name called to see which team they're going to go to in three or four months until we get to see them really on the field with pads on compared to watching a live game in the NBA in a championship series or something. Are we going to see the people that get their names called? No, not all of them.

No, just a few of them. We'll have a No, not all of them. No, just a few. We'll have a camera for a few of them. Yeah, it'll pop up on the screen. You'll see them at home. You'll see their families. It'll be a thing. But not all of them. No, no.

250, we ain't got time. No. Even like Dolphins fans. How many Dolphins fans do you think still watch the entire first round? They didn't have a pick. It's like, well, who knows? We might trade it up. Trade it in. We might trade it for somebody.

What did we say, though? They need to keep it tighter. Have to. Have to keep it tighter. In between or how? What do you mean? First round, they got to keep the picks tight. Can't get out.

Got to keep it tight. Those later rounds fly. How do they do that? Later rounds are awesome. Later rounds, picks leaking, who cares? Better for the entertainment. Those things. First round, though, we got to keep those tight.

We have to. You just got to get the people in the room to know and say, hey, not allowed. Yeah, no phones in the war room. Should be real fines. Like they should actually fine them if it gets out. So there's actual accountability because I just I think it would make it better. They get 54.4 million viewers for this. If you make it even better with like, whoa, like imagine when Houston trades.

Yeah, that would have been the whole world at the same time experiencing it. As Roger Goodell is saying it out loud, like that is, that would be must watch. Not that it isn't already, but that type of shit is must watch. You know what I mean? Yeah. Good luck. Good luck figuring that out. What are you going to make everyone in the war room, like put their phone in a yonder

bag like they do at comedy clubs? Yeah. Exactly. But what about when you're, what about those texts and calls to other teams to try to set up trades and stuff? You can only use the landline right there. Yeah. The phone. You can take care of all that shit.

You can get all that stuff figured out. You know what I mean? The agents, too. You've got to lock the agents down because they're fucking giving info out, too. That's the problem. Yep. The agents, of course, are the ones putting it out. But if the teams don't call, just the commissioner is the one

who's announcing the pick and they're not even doing the call. I think they make the pick first to Roger Goodell. Yeah. As Roger Goodell is walking to podium, they call player. Hey, we just drafted you. When? Right now. Because that whole – I think that takes the agent out.

Yeah. I mean, yeah, if you just called him right as – because that whole, I think that takes the agent out. Yeah, I mean, yeah, if you just called him right as, like, yeah, they, like, have it all queued up, which I'm sure they have other queues. Like, in St. Rog, he starts walking, and that's when they make the call. I don't know. They want to make sure they get a hold of the kid before Rog says their name. Why? People find out they get cut on Twitter all the time.

Yeah, I mean, I know. I'm just saying. I'm trying to think from how they would think. It doesn't matter. They call and say, hey, are you alive? And the kid says, yeah. Those kids watching on TV, too. Hilarious. Yeah, cooler mean, I know. I'm just saying. I'm trying to think from how they would think. It doesn't matter. Hey, are you alive? And the kid says, yeah. Those kids watching on TV, too. Hilarious. Yeah, cooler for them.

That's an awesome moment. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they could do it. You're right. Let's keep it tight because I feel bad. We're 15 minutes ahead.

So far ahead. Of the TV on that first round. It's like, how is that far ahead? How? I don't know. That's what I'm saying. This is bad. Because they knew that Bryce Young was going,

and we announced it, and Goodell still didn't come up for 15 minutes, and by that point, the pick two, it wasn't confirmed yet. We knew Stroud by the time that Bryce Young was being announced. And then right after they picked Stroud, we knew that the Texans had traded up for number three. We were seven minutes ahead of pretty much everything.

Yeah, very far ahead. And that's not good for any party. No. That's not good for us. We're a watch along. Did we know as Roger was up there with the firefighters and the troops and the kids and everything at the beginning? Did you see? He did not though one time.

He did not go out there with the baby faces. When was that? When was that? I forget. I watched it. It was live. It was that? I forget. I watched it. It was live. It was live. Which day?

I don't know. Maybe second day. Maybe first day. Day two. Yeah, maybe day three. He definitely went out there because he was casual Raj, and he was like, come on, boy. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

He was talking shit. That's all you got? Yeah, I like that. He was ready for it. That's awesome. How about him telling wife and family? I'm going to go. I'm going to tell them. Yeah. Raise to go. I'm going to tell them.

Yeah. Raise the roof. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do this thing. It fuels him. I can get a. Go ahead. Sorry to cut you off.

What if they gave him a fire hose and he pulls out and he just starts blasting people with it? No, beer truck like Stone Cold. Yeah. He comes out with a beer truck, you know. Comes out with a beer truck, starts spraying that thing all over everything. Milk like he's Kurt Angle. What was that boo again? Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.

It was hard to boo. When you're getting drowned in milk, Paul. They'd go crazy if it was a beer truck. Oh, my God. That'd be sweet. Kansas City showed up. Yeah. They were there.

Last round, seventh round, pick 250 maybe. They went out to the crowd. There was fans dancing with Chiefs fans' jerseys on. I'm like, what are you doing? Get out of there. It was awesome. It was. A lot of DJ, a lot of sing-along.

And Rich Eisen was talking about the cover band and their song selections ad nauseum. He was talking about that a lot. Because I think he was questioning a lot of the song choices. Because they played Free Fallin' at one point. He was like, not the draft. Yeah, right.

Not the draft. We don't need any picks falling you know free falling is a bad thing read the room is what rich was pretty much saying and i respected what rich was doing but also i like the fact that the nfl is like hey we have 600 000 people coming here we need to take advantage of this yeah okay so when travis kelsey comes out he's gonna do a lambo luge with a beer right and then he's gonna spike that fucking lombardi like we're trying to entertain the people here yeah let's have a show here while we're having a show i appreciate them doing that because at least if you're going to the game or to the thing you

should be entertained yeah it was good lombo luge here by travis kelsey you've had an incredible kelsey jam that had machine gun kelly and Ronson spiked the Lombo. I had a little bit of a feeling towards that. Is that real? Is it real? Is it a real Lombo? I found it was a fake one. At least Chiefs PR says so.

Chiefs PR came out and said it was a replica, but it was on an NFL stage, so we thought maybe actual Lombo. And we are big fans of Travis Kelsey around here, massive supporters of the Kelsey brothers and everything they do. The spiking of the Lombo would have been a tough thing to babyface afterwards. It was a replica. We want to win a real one. Could you imagine what the Lombardi family

would have done after what happened at the Tampa Parade? You're talking about the artist family. Not actually Lombardi's family. The artist of the Lombardi's family. Tom Brady, you've won seven of these? Don't disrespect Lombardi. I'm going to shit onombardi's family. Tom Brady, you've won seven of these? Don't disrespect my father. I'll shit on my dad's grave.

Throw it from one yacht to another. You pig. This thing is supposed to be in hands, in all mantles. Not free falling over the fucking water. That's what they said. Keep it out of the bay. That was back in a time where everybody was allowed to be mad

about everything and then people allowed to be mad about everything and then people who even were mad about terrible things had some supporters. That lady did not have many. No, she took it out of the shins. Not a lot of supporters. It's like, okay, please. Shut up, ladies. Okay?

Your dad's art was incredible. Your family, great job. We all love the Lombo. Yeah. With that being said, Tom Brady could do whatever the fuck he wanted. He just wanted a lot. She was not happy. No, she wasn't. She was not happy. Yeah. With that being said, Tom Brady could do whatever the fuck he wanted. He just wanted to love. She was not happy. No, she wasn't.

She was not happy. I think she's come around, though. I think she has come around. And we're happy that Karen Lombardi artist has come around full circle. But him spiking that, I don't want to say I felt like her, but as I was watching him spiking, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Jesus Christ, don't do it. Please don't do it.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then he did. I'm like, oh, no. How's he going to? how's he going to say? There's going to be people mad about that. That's what I thought. There's going to be people mad about that. He knows.

It was a replica. He should have thrown it. He could have thrown it to the crowd after he did that. Oh, that would have been awesome. Yes. He probably hit somebody. Had some weight to it, so it might have hit somebody. He punted that thing.

You know what I mean? Howdy Boo Boo's grandfather made the Lombardi trophy. What's going on, Zuto? No, did Gronk dent it with the baseball at one time? Yeah. She was not mad about that. Good pivot. She was not mad about the baseball. She was not mad at all.

Are you worried about the draft next year? Because Detroit's doing it in front of a landfill. That's not true. That's not true. Okay. Apparently not a lot of people. It's going to be the biggest draft Yeah, alright

Record low Detroit is on the clock I'm thinking night one We go Kid Rock Thinking night two We got Eminem Night three Posner on Saturday, of course

Oh my god, yes And then Sunday We wrap it up with Big Sean Alright Exactly Posner's a day three guy Gene Simmons Saturday

Yeah, so fucking Bob Seger The whole thought of Eminem potentially performing in next year's draft is what keeps me around. Let's go. You know what I mean? You only get one shot. In front of a trash burn. Imagine Roger Goodell coming out with him.

Don't miss your chance to blow. Yeah, opportunity comes once in a lifetime. With his first overall pick. What if that's how Roger Goodell. What if Roger Goodell comes out hoodie on. Do rag underneath. Bleached hair. Bleached blonde like old school Eminem.

Oh, okay. Okay. Bleached blonde. Pants at the knees. Holding pants. For sure. Middle walk up like this. What if he does that?

That'd be sick. Foxy didn't mention any of the Motown artists, which is kind of fucked up, Foxy. Oh, wow. There's only four nights, boys. And the white stripes you didn't mention either. Hey. There's only four nights, boys. And the White Stripes you didn't mention either. Hey, there's only four nights. What can we do? Only four nights?

What do you mean four nights? There's three. Well, no, Sunday you still celebrate. Oh, okay. Maybe in Detroit, hopefully, if a successful one goes off. But that is interesting. 312,000 people are at Kansas City. How many people will go to Detroit?

Probably 700,000 if I had to guess. That would be more than Nashville. That would be quite a surprise. What's going to great is actually uh it is snowing in michigan today so that's gonna be great so that added elements will be good the set designers deserve a little bit of credit what they did there in kansas city was beautiful perfect i assume they'll do the same thing in detroit yep this is almost like uh yeah we're not gonna give you a super bowl but you can get the draft yeah you know what I mean? That's not a bad play by the NFL. Not bad business. Calvin Johnson said the city's nice now.

Remember when he said that on the show? And he was there whenever old cuz got there this weekend, right, with Barry Sanders. They were in the building. That's good news for Detroit Lions fans. Jack Campbell looked massive standing next to him, too. He did. Absolute beast.

And then the other guy looked awesome. So cool. Jameer Gibbs. Gibbs looked so cool. Yeah. Just chilling. The man. What's up, dude?

Jack Campbell, I guess. Beast. He was pretty close. Barry Sanders, Erlacher right there is how I'm looking at it. Oh. Yeah, well, some Lions fans didn't see it that way. No, I mean, they're clowns. MC DC had a button down on from 1999.

Yep. He had gel in his hair. Looked sweet. He was fucking jocked. Yeah. Properly jocked. Dude, he had this. Oh, yeah.

Did you see what he was wearing? His button down came down in the middle of his fucking knees. I'm like, yeah, I remember when people did that. Oh, yeah. It's not the untuck it shirts that they sell now? No. MC DC was told to wear a button down. What do I got to wear, man, on the second day?

Like, need a button down. He's like, well, fuck, why? That's crop. He probably wore that when he got drafted. Dude. If he did, I actually don't know. That thing came all the way down to here. He looked awesome. Yeah. Yeah. He is so large. Yeah. Massive human being. He's a fucking dog, huh? MCDC?

I love it. I love watching them headbutt each other after they make fun of how cute theyila sheila for now she was she's in there on the side she looks yeah she looked very uncomfortable being in there she ran away they put yeah they put her in a little bit of like a bullpen those calls are awkward aren't those calls awkward when they keep putting different coaches on like no matter what team it just feels awkward boom thank you for that the calls are could be awesome though especially when a dad calls his son and says hey the team that i've worked for for a long time as a scout is deciding to draft you the dallas cowboys released a video of chris vaughn telling his son deuce vaughn that he was being drafted to the dallas

cowboys and it was one of the best things i've seen in a long, long time. This type of shit, sports can also provide, and that is something that makes it so magical. The stories, the drama, the emotion, the compassion, the empathy, the family ties. This, out of the Dallas Cowboys camp, this NFL draft was beautiful. Hey, buddy. How's it going? Hey, it's going good. This is Dad. My phone wasn't working. Look at here, man. You want to come to work with me next week? Oh, man. I wouldn't mind that.

I got somebody who wants to speak to you. I got somebody who wants to speak to you. I don't know when I've been speaking for everybody that's really in the heart of the Dallas Cowboys is standing here with a tear in our eye. We're so happy to have you on the Dallas Cowboys. I can't thank you enough. Well, what I really want to say, you earned every ounce of me being able to make this call.

I'm so excited. There's just something magical about this moment that may be bigger than we even realize here talking to you on the phone. But you is now a Dallas Cowboy. Your daddy just handed the card in. Right here. It's got him on it. This might be a fucking movie, Jerry said.

Hey, Deuce, Mike McCarthy. Congratulations. What's up, Coach? I appreciate it. I'll tell you what, I've been doing this a long time. This is so special for you and your father and your family. If you can, make sure you drive, so make sure your dad's on time for work. We'd appreciate it.

I can do that. I can do that. Deuce, man, congratulations. One of the coolest things I've ever seen in football was your dad making that call. Thank you, brother. Thank you. So proud of you and your family. That is. Thank you, brother. Thank you. So proud of you and your family. Thank you.

Hell yeah. How about Big Mike having to be a yinzer at the end, drop a little shit talk. All right, everybody's too emotional right now, okay?

You make sure your dad's on time next week. Let's go ahead and get a little levity in here. I like Jerry Jones saying something a little bit more magical

than we can even realize might be happening right here. In his head, he's like, God damn, this could be a movie one day. Oh,'s dad yeah what's the next scene uh he your dad's turning in the car right now actually and you is a cowboy quote jerry jones he's in his mind as a business person he start you can see him actually you know when he says you've earned every bit of me being able to make this call, that's like a good part. That's like, hey, let me go ahead and remind you of who you are, what you

are. Then you see Jerry's like business brain start going, holy shit. This might be a little bit more than we even we're even realizing right here. If this does work out and Deuce is a dog, Deuce was that offense, Kansas State, for a long, long time.

He got the ball in the backfield. They threw him the ball. He was the most electrifying football player on most fields that he was on throughout his entire life. He's a little bit undersized, but in the NFL, who gives a fuck? Especially with Tony Pollard being there, they'll be able to put Deuce as a little bit of a scat, a little bit of a slot.

He's going to have success. If he does, this moment is going to be something that they're going to make a movie out of, and that's a beautiful thing that football and sports have that not everything does aj yeah i think this should be like i hope people that are like super casual football fans or don't even watch football i'll get to see this that those are the stories i think that can kind of bring someone to the sport make them want to watch it because they see the humans like oh okay these everyone's not just a big dumb meathead like there's actual feelings and people

like there's real humans involved. And I think this is a video right here. Shows it perfectly. Just like Anthony Richardson's phone call with his brother or his brother's video message. I don't know if you saw it. Unbelievable. And then Anthony gives advice back to his 13-year-old brother. That stuff. I was a fan instantly of Anthony Richardson even more after I

saw that video. A lot of hard work has led to all these moments. And in that that hard work you can find real emotion and him saying hey you want to come to work with me next week and choking up there at that exact time because he's realizing his kid just got drafted in the NFL too yeah all the hard work he's done as a guy as a when Deuce was growing up driving in the practice and then by the way hitting the road and scouting yeah for the Cowboys which is not an easier life, coming back, buying him, taking him, nursing through injuries. Whenever he was crying because something didn't go his way,

his dad was talking to him saying, hey, it's going to be all right. We're going to move on. All those moments to get to the fact that he's an NFL player, like you heard that in the, hey, you want to come to work? That was really cool, man. That was a really cool video. Getting choked up even talking about it right now. So with that being said, let's get to a break.

No emotions. Let's get to a break. Jeez Louise. How cool was that, though? His kid getting drafted would be cool enough. The fact that he makes the call and he's coming to the Cowboys, the place he's been forever. Yeah, it's not even – you're right.

That's like a fantasy world. That's not even real. And he feels like one of those players who's just going to be great in the NFL because of how good he was with Kansas State. Hell yeah. I concur. He's going to be a player. We just seen a video of Aaron Rodgers throwing in a practice jersey in May.

What? To a wide receiver in New Jersey. And it is an absolute strike. Bob Sala looks so cool in the background here in about now. Then you got Nathaniel Hackett down in the catcher's position. Focus, locked, great play action, and a dart from Aaron Rodgers right to Garrett Wilson's hands. And Garrett Wilson actually thought to himself,

oh, fuck, we're going to be great this year. That's the first ball they completed. That's the first time they've thrown a ball with each other. That's the first time they've been on the same field as each other. What is it? Perfect harmony in New York. Well, in New Jersey for the Jets. That 8 looks so fucking weird. Weird? I was about to say how clean

it looked. Run that thing back. Look how clean this video looks, AJ. Yeah, I know it's college number 8. Look at this play action. Yeah, it does look weird. You're right. Looks good, though. Boom. I'm not saying it doesn does look weird. You're right. Let me go ahead and run. Looks good, though. Boom. I'm not saying it doesn't look cool. Linebacker's sucked up right there.

So sucked up. Just sucked him up. He sucked him up so hard. Was that a Rangers and a Knicks game this weekend? Sucked up the linebacker on a fake play action on route first air and throws a fucking strike, dude. Are you kidding me? He was the bell of the ball this weekend at all the sporting events. Biggest pop at the Knicks game. Biggest pop at the Knicks game.

Biggest pop at the Knicks game. And at the Rangers game, MSG blew the roof off the place for him. I thought Rangers were Giants fans. I guess they're Jets fans as well. He was big pop over there. He was yelling too. I don't know if that's the actual song. We don't know if that was the actual song, but he was doing that with Lazard. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, biggest pop AJ who got it who got it wasn't I assume it was Aaron right and Jack Harlow next to him interesting song choice at number five on your new album gonna be tough to listen to your music ever again but I mean that is something

dude he had a chance to make him his album was going yeah I gotta go listen to it song five on that album is interesting and I guess he was mocking what people would do but that doesn't really come across in the way that it's kind of delivered there. It was tough, but Jack Harlow put out an album. One half of the hammer died. Cowboys 10. Diggs is there and joining us now. He's an absolute

NBA legend. Out of Texas A&M. He's played on many teams in the past, but currently on the Chicago Blues. Friend of the program. Great golfer. Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Caruso. but currently on the Chicago Blues. Hell yeah. Friend of the program, great golfer. Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Caruso.

Yeah! How are you, buddy? The intro every time just gets better and better. Well, I do apologize for making you wait there a little bit. As we were at the break going to you, we seen Aaron Rodgers throw that ball all. Caruso, did you see how clean he looked at that? Did you see that?

Yeah, y'all were talking about the number. I think the eight looks good. I think so, too. I think the number looks incredible. I never said, too. I think the number looks incredible. I never said it didn't look good. You did. It looked fucking weird. No, you did.

Whoa, everything's okay. I've been watching the guy wear 12 for fucking 17 years, so yeah, 8 looks a little weird. Chris, is he okay? You think he's going to be all right, pal? The single-digit numbers are the ways to go, so I think he might be better than the 12. You think he's going to win?

A couple of Super Bowls are over there in New York? A couple is a lot, but maybe they'll make the playoffs, you know? Okay, realistic expectations out of Caruso there. I respect that. I thought maybe just for the time to get Ty's gears really grinding, I thought you were potentially just going to say, yeah, probably going to have a better legacy with the Jets than he did with the Packers. He wins two with the Jets, one with the Packers.

You're never going to see him in 12 ever again. Oh, yeah. He's going to be in eight forever. That would be tough to swallow. Even just one. I mean, look at that one with Peyton. Yeah, Peyton Manning's only in Broncos. Shit.

The Colts fans never see him in anything. But Aaron loves Green Bay. Will always be a Green Bay Packer. That's right. Let's talk to you, Caruso, about life in the basketball world. We're currently in the playoffs. Everything's on primetime. The world's seemingly following every single storyline.

Fox, you just kind of put it up right there because I did want to lead with it your former teammate LeBron is doing things that I haven't seen LeBron do publicly unlike you little bitch I'm a grown-ass man big shoes to fill bitch in grown-ass pants probably hustle with your pops gotta ask your parents it apparent you're staring at a legend who put a few little bitches in their place before trying to eat without saying their grace before with a crown and a huh. LeBron James is pissed.

He said, if you see me fighting a bear, go help the bear. He's saying that because Shannon Sharp in 2018 told a tale on Undisputed. He said that LeBron James inia is going to come out and if you see him fighting a bear or shannon sharp say you see me fighting a bear please come put honey on me because in california it's illegal for a human to attack a bear so that bear needs to attack me so i can go call back about lebron james here this farther and then dylan brooks saying he pokes

bears lebron fully motivated how how does this go behind the scenes is this real does LeBron James need actual motivation and how do you feel it's going to work out long haul here yeah that's like rule number one in professional sports it's like you know elite players you don't give them bulletin board material right like they're already going to get they're going to get their numbers the The dude averaged 38-8 in his, what, 20th year? He's fully capable. He's one of the best players ever, if not the best ever. And you're telling him, like, I don't know,

you're just trying to show him off. That's not high on my priority list whenever I'm about to play against Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, Giannis. I'm not poking, like we said, I'm not poking the bear because these guys are, they don't need the extra motivation. But you live and you learn, right? People have made mistakes before and take your L and you move on to the next one.

How long do you think this carries LeBron? You think this is like full playoffs now? Like people forgot, People must have forgot. Or is this just like next series with Golden State? Now he's got a different thing to prove with Stafford. Do you think we got pissed off LeBron the rest of the way here, Caruso? I definitely think that was a little extra juice for the first round. I don't know if it'll carry over, you know,

because you kind of have to reset and just go on to the next one just because there's different guys. But, I mean, there's plenty, if not more, motivation in the next round, right? You've got the Golden State-LA matchup, Braun versus Steph. I mean, everyone knows the history they have. Like, that's going to be fireworks within its own right. So I don't even – I think they'll – in my opinion, I think he's probably already forgotten about it.

Damn. He beat out. He put his Instagram out, and now he's on to the next one. Okay, well, good for LeBron. Go ahead, AJ. Alex, how do you see that series going? Obviously, that's a dream matchup for the NBA and for the networks. Everyone, obviously, we want to see this happen.

Who do you think wins this series, and how do you think it goes? Dude, I'm telling you, L.A. looks good, man. You know, like, one, they're smart. You know, they got good coaching staff. I know some of the guys that are still there. And then Bron is just a genius within his own right. So, like the – Hey, why?

Why is he a genius? You were a teammate of his, obviously. You play in the NBA. Why is LeBron a genius? I mean, he just knows basketball. You know, like he understands what it takes to win. He understands how to, you how to manipulate certain matchups. You've heard stories.

He knows all the other teams' plays. He knows everybody's tendencies. That's a bunch of stuff that I, especially defensively, I took from him and some of the other guys when I was there, just learning players' favorite moves, different spots on the court they like to play in. Every time you play somebody, you gain a little more knowledge, a little more knowledge.

So in the series, the longer it goes, you know, the more adjustments he makes and the better they kind of get. But, you know, the other side's got some history there too. Like they're just as good if not, you know, in the mental department with Golden State. Steve Kerr is great. Their whole staff in Golden State is really good. And then Steph, Clay, and Draymond have that pedigree of being in big games.

Did anybody have a doubt that they were going to win game seven? No. I was surprised they lost game six, to be honest. I thought going back to Golden State, it was going to be over. And then going back another game, I didn't waver. I was like, yeah, they're going to win honest. I thought going back to Golden State, it was going to be over. And then, you know, going back another game, I didn't waver. I was like, yeah, they're going to win that. I didn't think he'd go for 50, but, you know, I thought he was going to. Hey, what does that mean?

When somebody's like that, you just assume, obviously, if you're on their team, let's get the ball to this guy, right? Because the hoop is bigger for him. And on the defensive side, it just feels like you're just, you're watching everything in slow motion. You know exactly what he's going to do, how he's to do it and there's just no stopping it is that how it feels to be on the opposite side of something like that yeah i mean yeah sometimes there's a snowball effect like it with great players like if you let them get going then it's too late like

i can do the best defensive job i can do night in night out and guys are still going to get their averages you know if you if you fuck around with the game, they're going to go get 50. And that's kind of – you talk about the – his legacy was a little bit on the line last night. All those four championships, obviously he's great, they're great. That's not going to be a question. But going to game seven the first round like maybe there's some doubt people put a little asterisk on on that and he was like

no it's okay i'm going to just go get 50 and we're going to move on to the next round and not worry about it the lower third this morning was has lebron's stardom outsh Steph's actual legacy or something like have we not given Steph Curry enough talk because it has been like LeBron Jordan basically and I'm saying we as media because LeBron Jordan was an actual argument that happened for three years straight that's right every single day on television like that was an actual that was an actual conversation happening every single day and then through that time stuff was just winning breaking records shooting more threes than anybody changing the game completely for the next generation i think the next era of basketball has been changed because of it and it's like we haven't talked about it enough is what everybody's saying i think that's probably pretty real i think

that's what the conversation is going to be now for this series don't you think alex yeah i mean at this point like both of them have had you know like you could chop their careers up into for lebron like into thirds or into force and like each one is kind of a hall of fame career and you can kind of do the same thing with staff like he hasn't played quite as many years so it might just be like two careers but that's yeah that's just the media you know you as you know are you being a part of the media now, you know, you gotta, you gotta find your story and you gotta milk it a little and you gotta make

sure you can get some entertainment value out of it. Because I mean, both of them are without a doubt, you know, they're, they're obviously going to be hall of famers, but you know, Bron top one,

top two, that's, that's a debate for everybody to have. And then Steph is like, the more he wins and the more he does, he's like creeping into that top 10 category depending on who you are and what you hold like you know in certain esteem but for me at least basketball wise like everyone in the game kind of recognizes the greatness there like there's there's no what do you guys you guys hate the media in the NBA you You guys talk about the media.

You guys watch clips on flights. How does that work? I mean we hear everything. Like guys that say like unless they just don't have social media, you know, you hear everything. It's just whether you listen to it or really give a shit about it. That's kind of the difference. Because like I said, media has have to they have to get stories right

like they got to talk about something in certain parts of the year it's a little slower than other parts so you're talking about rumors or you know like what would they say they somebody at one point was talking about like if ken lebron keep doing it or you know what's wrong with staff did he run out of did he run out of juice? Oh, yeah. That's a Wednesday. That's a Wednesday. That's a Wednesday. I mean, that's how normal.

That's how the media goes. Not us. No, no, no. We would never do that. That's how the media goes. Let's stay in the West. Let's wrap this up. Speaking of people that are great and prolific on social media, Kevin Durant and that Suns team, I got to watch them 420 in L.A.

Shout out. Don't go through airports. Whenever I'm sitting at that game, Suns versus Clippers, I'm in the Suns bench pretty much where we were sitting at. We were gifted these seats, me and Connor. Beautiful. You guys aren't giving a lot of room.

Your NBPA is incredible. Phoenix is one of the worst too. We're in LA for the Clippers. think oh sorry yeah yeah clippers too clippers well there's 50 50 of the arenas around the league you're like bumping knees if you're the last seat on the bench yeah there's dudes sitting on the ground there's guys taking knees there was like it was for how good the mbpa is which it is incredible negotiating deals and guarantees and everything like that, I would assume that that would be a part of the conversation

because the entire time we were sitting there, I was very high. I mean, very, very high. So maybe I was looking at things differently. It was April 20th or whatever. But I'm like, I am way too close. And I wasn't even the closest. There was two people down here. At the end of the bench. And there was four people that were even close. They were actually

on the bench. So me and Connor were kind of away. And I there was four people that were even close. They were actually on the bench. So me and Connor were kind of away. And I was thinking, we are way too close. Like, how do they let this happen? I don't know. That might be it, though, because, I mean, y'all are used to having a full, you know, barrier on the sideline of football. Like, basketball, it's always been like that.

Like, if you, even from, like, middle school, high school, when you go to AAU tournaments, like, it starts there. Like, if you're playing in a big game and there are good players on the court, like it looks like those videos of people playing at the park where there's just hundreds of people all around the court and you're literally just running into people. So I think that's just a little bit of a culture. Yeah. No, I mean, butts in seats, that's money in pockets.

So I understand. I don't know. Whoever gave us those tickets paying a lot of money for that weapon. No, I mean, butts in seats, that's money in pockets. I understand. Whoever gave us those tickets, paying a lot of money for that. I assume they're paying a lot of money for that. It was awesome to be there. But watching the bench operate for an entire game there, big-time win. I think Booker won for like 30-some. Kevin Durant won for like 20-some or 30-some, whatever. It was the amount of pressure every single series.

It's like guy gets off his man just for like half an inch, full yell, let's do this. I don't think that gets talked about enough for the NBA. Like every series there seems to be max effort. You just can't stop some people. Kevin Durant's one of those guys. He's banging. There's a lot of action down there.

He seems to be unstoppable. Then you watch the Nuggets play the other night, and Jamal Murray is all of a sudden shooting in a Fisher-Price hoop. It gets like this big out of nowhere. That feels like one that I just assumed the Suns were going to win. But then you got Joker. He's not even the star of the show. Jamal Murray seems to be the star of the show out there.

The West with LeBron and obviously Golden State, are they going to win this whole thing and what do you think of that particular uh matchup over there in denver and phoenix yeah the west is always just a buzzsaw man like coming out of the west every year for the last decade plus has been you know pretty pretty meticulous just because like you said like every team has one or two guys that can go for 40 and the other guy can go for 30. And you have to find a way to like limit the other guys from getting 40 points. Right. That's that's kind of what you talk about, too, is like it's all matchup based. Right. So like Jamal Murray, the Suns don't really have a lead defensive guard.

You know, like they had Shaman on them a lot. And that's just a tough matchup for him. I mean, obviously, Jamal Murray is really lot, and that's just a tough matchup for him. I mean, obviously, Jamal Murray's really good, but it's about limiting the guys, making sure they get their average and they hold everybody else under theirs. But, dude, the West is – it's a lot. But I think – Stars out there. Stars out there. Yeah, dude.

I mean, star power and just offense, offense, offense. I mean, it's like football. It's like West Coast offense, right? Spread it out, a lot of space. Whoa. That's kind of what the West is. It's a lot more offense, and the East is a little more grit and grind, kind of smash mouth.

Oh, so we like the East and all that. I'm more of a grind and pond, grit and grind. That's East basketball, baby. That's the West, dude, That's the Midwest dude right there. Hell yeah, Cruz. Are you a football guy? You used to play football? You got too tall?

What happened? Yeah, no, I played. I mean, I grew up in Texas, so you know you have to play football. It's a mandatory thing for a certain couple years. No, I played up until after my freshman year. I went through spring practice with the older kids, the varsity kids, and then I basically had a decision to make if I wanted to, like, play AU indoors or if I wanted to have to go, like, to speed camp

and lift weights and do all that outside. And I was like, meh. I guess I'll go play basketball. Yeah, I was a little better at basketball too, so that helped. It didn't work out. You made a terrible decision. Let's go to the east now. Connor has a question for you, Alex.

Yeah, Alex. Obviously Celtics-Jersey, Celtics-Fan, trying to recover from this Bruins loss. How do you feel about the Celtics' brand of basketball? It was a very tough one. I appreciate your Ts and Ps. But how do you feel about the East as a whole with the Bucs out? Is it clear now, like Boston's, you know,

they got a clear shot to go and run the table in the East and make it to the finals? And what do you think about Joe Mazzulla? Because obviously it's his first year as a head coach. Like Boston's, you know, they got a clear shot to go and run the table in the East and make it to the finals. And what do you think about Joe Mazzulla? Because obviously it's his first year as a head coach. Last year he was an assistant. Is he just like a wizard or is the team just perfectly set up for him? Yeah, Boston, I mean, I think at this point they're probably the betting favorites

to get out of the East. Yeah, they are. Yeah, but the way, I the way the way the heat are playing i wouldn't want to play them right now okay why just because jimmy butler's unconscious man it's kind of it's kind of like they just started they just started clicking at the right time you know guys are making shots everybody knows their role the matchups have been good um and yeah jimmy's i mean jimmy's and jimmy's a top five player in the playoffs bro like he just turns into another dude you know like he has all year he's great

athlete you know finishes well around the rim uh rebounds well plays defense well and then once he gets to the playoffs he just becomes an elite shot maker like he gets to his spots you know he's going right. He still gets there. He pump fakes. You still jump. He just finds a way to make plays. And teams tend to take on the personalities of their best players,

so you've got a guy like that leading the troops. And then Miami, like they said, they have their whole culture thing. They've been there before. Spoh's a good coach. He schemes stuff up, so they have a good – they got a good – I think they just have a good fit. And like I said, they're getting hot at the right time. That's kind of what it takes. It's a little bit like March Madness.

The team starts finding a flow, and all of a sudden they're in the finals. Hell, yeah. And you mentioned the heat culture. Oh, my bad. No, John Mazzulli. Do you want to talk about John Mazzulli real quick? Yeah. I was just going to say he's doing a great job.

You know, he was in – I think a couple people voted him for coach of the year just because of the job he did, you know, coming off the finals, adopting the team and having expectations. But it does help picking up a team, you know, that's – they went to the finals and then they picked up malcolm brogdon hell yeah he was like a borderline all-star a couple years ago and he's coming off the bench for him so they got a really good team but he's doing a good job too west virginia guy joe mazola shout out crushing it up there good luck joe go ahead i'm sorry about it you were talking about uh the

heat and the culture they have there with spolster can you explain a little bit more about what that is i know i've heard stories about them, tested body fat, doing all these different attention to detail type things. What are they doing different that other people aren't doing? I think they almost run their organization, and this is me outside looking in and hearing stories and stuff from other guys that have been there and been around it. They run it almost like a professional college, you know.

Like you still have like obviously it's pro basketball, but, you know, they're testing body fat. You're doing your conditioning test. You don't make it. You have to do it again until whatever, and then you get fined if you don't make it. Like they're just – Old school, huh? That's old school it feels like?

Is that not – is that what it used to be like or are they their own thing? Yeah, but, I mean, that's Pat Riley. Like that's – he's kept his same ways for, you know, however many years and he's had success with it and it's worked for him. So, you know, he's done a really good job. And they always – they just do a – they do an incredible job of always finding some undrafted guy or somebody that was in the G League and just, you know, turning them into really, really good players.

It's probably through a lot of hard work and then just them being able to develop guys. You saw it with Duncan. You saw it with Max Struess, Gabe Vincent. All those guys, I'm pretty sure, were undrafted and kind of bounced around a team or two. Now they're consistent NBA, like, rotational players. Jimmy Butler's Jordan's kid?

He might have something in there. I don't know. He's got that same fire that Jordan had as far as being able to compete at a high level. That's something that I really admire because that's how I like to play, too. Yeah, Alex, you spent a year with – or a few years with the Lakers. LeBron, reading those books or what? Wait, what books? Exactly.

Boom. You're not saying anything else. What do you got today? What are you doing the rest of the day? Anything? What do you got going on? The golf course is closing on Monday at the club, so I'm probably going gonna just get a little workout

and try and do some stuff around the house i gotta i played over the weekend so what will you do will you do you have like uh i gotta hit a thousand free throws i gotta hit a thousand shots or how how is your how do your workouts go in the off season yeah i'm on the make sure make sure the body's fully recovered before we get anything going mode because I was dealing with some foot stuff. We healthy? We feel good? Mostly. We got to go through a couple more tests and make sure that everything's, you know,

100%, but for the most part, I feel good. You know, that's usually how it happens, but you all know that. During the year, it's hard to stay healthy, and then once you're in the off season, you can kind of get it back. Okay, so whenever you're back, your foot is all the way healthy, which we assume next week or so after these tests.

Way to go. Hey, way to grind. Get that foot back. We appreciate you. Always a pleasure, man. Always a pleasure. Hey, when you go, when you go, though, do you do by shots made? Like how does your workout go by yourself?

Are you just playing pickup? No, yeah, I got to actually get reps in. yourself are you just playing pickup no yeah i gotta actually get reps in uh the it's usually depending on what i kind of emphasize at the beginning of the summer and i want to want to work on oh what are we getting better at this off this is fun what are we getting better at yeah so last year it was uh making sure you know i could be healthy as possible play as many games that could shout out me career high in games Probably could have been a little more, but we lost a couple late. Shout out. Shout out you.

Working on the catch and shoot from the three, especially corners, just because everyone knows that's kind of where you have to be whenever the big dogs have the ball late in the game. And then this year probably just being able to play off pivots, play a little slower in the paint, maybe try and learn how to draw some more fouls, get some free throws because I shoot those well. Hell yeah.

Hey, good luck out there. We'll be excited to watch the growth. We can't wait to chat with you again, hopefully. Yeah, now it's on tape, so you'll be able to tell me next year if I actually did it or not. Well, this is how you speak things into existence. You say them publicly so you feel more pressure to get them done. What's that about?

I said now there's accountability for it. Bingo. Everybody's like, you can't speak things into existence. It's like, agreed, but you can certainly put your ass out there to get roasted. You know what I mean? To get absolutely roasted, which you won't do. You won't do that. No way.

No, no. We're much more conservative over here. Hell yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, Chicago Bullhawks. Gross show. Yeah. Hell yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, Chicago Bull, Alex Caruso. What a dog, dude. Classic Texas. He's good at basketball.

Oh, yeah, he's awesome. He said, shout out to me. Played most games I've ever played. Thank you. Yeah, focused on it. You didn't bring it up. I did it. He was the absolute dog on defense.

He was the only guy that wasn't up for trade, right? At one point, remember? It was like, Chicago Bull is might trade anybody except for Caruso. It's like, that's hilarious. I wonder, does Caruso know that they're saying that? That's good leverage if you want to do a negotiation, pal. It was like that with the Lakers, too. When the Lakers were trying to move their entire team around,

he was another guy that was like, hey, we're not trading Caruso. I don't love that LeBron's no longer pissed. He kind of put the post out there, and he's moved past it. I'd like pissed off LeBron forever. But right now they're saying Steph's the guy. Bingo. They get beat game one and Steph has, you know, 35 points and they're saying, well, geez, you know, Steph's better than LeBron. Boom. He's back.

I don't love that Zero Dark 23 is not engaged. Zero Bron 30. That's weird. That was so cool. Can you put that tweet back up that he put up there? I tried to read it accurately. There's some bars in the middle there I don't fully. I think that was just like poetic brawn in the middle. Unlike you, little bitch, I'm a grown-ass man.

Big shoes to fill, bitch. Grown-ass pants. Probably hustle with your pops, go ask your parents. So parents and pants there? Supposed to go? Yeah, is that what it is? Or is it parents, like legend? What am I rhyming there?

Is this A-A-B-B, or is this A-A-A, and then we're going B, and then we're back to C-C here at the end? This might be A-B-C-D-E-F-G. Unlike you, little bitch, I'm a grown-ass man. Big shoes to fill, bitch. Grown-ass pants. Probably hustle with your pops. Gosh, your pants.

It's apparently, it's apparently staring at a legend. Parent to parent, yeah. That's tough. There it is. Unlike you, little bitch, I'm a grown-ass man. Big shoes to fill, bitch. Grown-ass pants. Probably hustle with your pops.

Gosh, your pants. It's a pants turn. And a legend. And a legend. Who put a few little bitches in their place before. Trying to eat without saying their grace before. Shh. Should have kept going.

Did he write this? If they would have given him more characters, he would have. They shut him down, Elon, because he wouldn't pay for that blue check more. That's right. Yeah, no, I think he typed into the AI like cool rap. Hey, bitch, I would not blame him at all. That would be a big brain move. He just said LeBron's a genius.

You heard him. Bruce is saying this is Jay-Z. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Makes sense. Shout out Jay-Z. So he didn't make it.

Damn. Oh, fuck. Damn. He said he did, though. No, he did not. When did he say that? He might have wrote it with him, though. Yeah.

Jay-Z doesn't write anything. He does write it. I was actually standing in the back of the studio. I was like, big pants. I like that. He did say yesterday when he woke up, though, Steph's going for 50. We have some breaking news in the NFL. DeAndre Hopkins will not be traded.

He'll be staying with the Arizona Cardinals. I see everybody telling me to stay. Who said I wanted to go? Who said I want to leave? Looks like DeAndre Hopkins will be staying in Arizona via his Instagram. Congratulations, DeHop. Congratulations to the Arizona Cardinals. That's all time.

Interesting. This is a very fascinating situation. It's all time. That we are currently in right now at this exact time. Interesting. This is a very fascinating situation that we are currently in right now at this exact moment because we have had sources in this particular thing that have said maybe this team, maybe this team. Now brand-new GM Monty and D-Hop sat down and had a conversation and said, listen, we need you, pal.

We're investing in Kyler. We're also investing in his team. We'd be a much better team with you on it. Bygones be bygones. You might have thought you were getting traded. We might have told people you were being traded. You might have wanted to be traded at a point because we said that you were going to be traded. You might have gave facial expressions to a couple different places saying,

I'd love to play football for that team. But now we're at a point where you're staying home. He's staying home. Guaranteed? Is it guaranteed that he stays home? They could still technically trade him. Let's listen to the video so we can get full context of the quote. Here's D-Hop live.

I sat down and had a conversation and said, listen, we need to. That sounds like me from before. It does. Wow. That's what I sound like every day. Thank you all for choosing to listen to this fucking terrible sound that is coming out of my mouth right now. D-Hop, though, had this to say about being back in Arizona. Oh, geez.

Man, that was riveting. Oh, man. He said, I want to leave. And I'm back. Who said I wanted to go? I never said I wanted to go. Oh, yeah. Let's run it back one more time here

and see if we can get the sound on this. Here's D-Hop live. Can you put it on this here? Can you put it on this here? Here's D-Hop from the beginning here. Here's D-Hop. Hey, guys. I'm in an airport in front of glass.

I wanted to say, who wanted to say me out of here? I'm back in Arizona, baby. Look at his workout band. I see me, smell me. Hell, yeah. That's right. That's what he said. All right. Congratulations. Nice. of here i'm back in arizona baby look at his workout band i see me smell me hell yeah that's right that's what he said all right congratulations nice so he's back i probably talked to gannon gannon was probably like shots downfield big hands yeah coach and gannon talked to him and while gannon was talking to him he was like hey when i was talking about their shots i was talking

about you great to have you back i know there was a thing. New GM. If we trade you right now, your contract would be off our books completely starting next year. We would be able to rebuild kind of with all contracts from previous regime other than Kyler gone. New ones in. Seems like that would be. But instead, we want to pew, pew, pew. Shots of shots.

And he also said, I'm talking to you. I didn't talk to the media all weekend. First time in like 15 years. Head coach of a team just didn't talk to the media. That's because I've been wanting to talk to you all weekend. That's right. Josh Weinfuss says, interesting move here by the Cardinals during the draft. Head coach Jonathan Gannon did not speak to the media after any of the three days. First time that's happened that I remember in his 12 drafts.

That's almost a baker's dozen, Bob. This guy said, why is the coach not talking to anybody? That would be front office decision, not Gannon's. I don't think we should blame him. But he might have been so focused on the picks. What do we expect? Yeah, he was so dialed in. But, yeah, I would imagine it's the owner, the GMs,

who kind of make that decision. I don't know what Gannon, if he wanted to or not. But did the owner and GM speak? I would assume they did. Oh, I don't know. What if they just all said, fuck you? Just like the Giants, how Dayball was like, let me get high real quick. Hits that vape immediately upon

drafting somebody. Celebratory uh... Shout out. I don't know if he was maybe eating a pretzel here, too. You know what I mean? He did the cigar at the Combine. I thought he was just doing that. It's an unlit cigar.

I think so, too. A lot of people say he was vaping, though. A lot of I thought he was just doing that. Is that a cigar? It's an unlit cigar. He's chewing on it. I think so, too. A lot of people say he was vaping, though. A lot of people say he was vaping. Could be a vape that looks like a cigar. He just ate the vape, though. Yeah. You know, just took it in, let it dissipate in his body. Right. As opposed to out his mouth. Have seen the move before. Oh, yeah. People who have had to hit a vape

in private public places. Take it. Eat it. Swallow it. Then like a minute later, a little bit comes out the nose or whatever, and then that's about it or whatever. Tone, what are you saying, pal? I found a video of Monty Austin Fort speaking.

So he did speak after the draft. You don't need to talk. Coach ain't making any decisions. You want to talk to somebody, you talk to me. It's my game now. You've heard him talk. Pew, pew, pew, pew. He's a special effects guy.

Let's go to Lewis in Frankfurt, Indiana on a five-hour energy phone line. What's going on, pal? Hello? Hello? Yeah, Pat. What's up, Lou? Hey, what's up, man? I'm going to keep it moving.

I know you guys just talked about LeBron a little bit there with Alex Caruso, but my question was with LeBron and Steph about their matchup in a round two playoffs here, how big is this for LeBron? And who has more pressure on them to get past this round? Great question, Lou. AJ, your thoughts? Beautiful question, Lou.

I would assume they both have equal amounts of pressure to try to advance to the next round and continue their legacy. That can't be real. Somebody has to have more pressure than the other, Lou. I would assume they both have equal amounts of pressure to try to advance to the next round and continue their legacy. That can't be real. Somebody has to have more pressure than the other, AJ. What do you think this is? I'm probably not the best guy to ask a question like that, too, because I don't really have much of an answer. But, you know, I'm excited to watch the series.

You just had an AAU tournament. You know basketball. You saw a guy hit a cane, use a cane to hit another man at a basketball tournament. You are in the trenches of basketball. LeBron has more pressure on him, I think. Me too. There you go.

Agreed. Great answer. LeBron also, I think, will use all the hype Steph is getting as another chip on his story. What are you talking about? They should be talking about me the whole time, not Steph. Big games tonight. Sixers, Celtics, Suns, Denver. I will say that Denver team is fun to watch.

I have no idea why they're not on TV more. They're not because they don't have any stars, even though Jokers won back-to-back MVPs and they're on the left coast. But that team, fun to watch. Jamal Murray was shooting at a bigger hoop and was talking a lot of shit. Yeah, he's awesome. Throughout the entirety of it. Then they go to a break, he comes back still hot.

It is a fun team to watch, and KD's on the other side. Yeah. And Devin, I mean, that team's going to be all. Basketball's good right now. Yeah. That's why the Nuggets haven't really won anything, because when it has gotten to the playoffs, Jamal Murray hasn't been who Jamal Murray was,

and he obviously hurt his knee really bad. So now that he's all the way back, it'd be wild if they do it. Let's go to Jake in Kansas City on the 500G phone line. Jake, what's going on, pal? Hey, Pat. Hey, boys. How you doing? Keep it moving. Hey, I'm calling about the Super Bowl champions,

the Kansas City Chiefs. I know you guys just talked about D-Hop and how he's going to stay in Arizona, but after the draft spectacular Thursday, right after it, they talked about, it came out that the head coach or the GM or something said that he's not planning to trade him this week. So he could possibly go still, I think.

I don't think he's staying in Arizona. I don't. What did you possibly hear from maybe the head coach or the GM? Here. It says it right here on ESPN. Cardinals GM Monty Austin DeFort Whatever the fuck his name is He doesn't expect to trade DeAndre Hopkins

At any point during this week's draft Oh Is that quotes from him Or is that headline from ESPN It says it in the article Maybe next week's draft That's interesting Well, I don't know if he said just no when they asked him,

do you plan on trading him? And he said no, and they say this week's draft. Like, they're adding in their – Do you plan on trading him during this week's draft? Yeah, that could happen. You know what I mean? Likely staying after busy draft night. The Arizona Cardinals made three trades Thursday night,

says John Weinfuss, of which reshaped the top of the NFL draft, but none of them involved moving star DeAndre Hopkins. Cardinals general manager Monty Ossenfort said after the Cardinals were done with their first round that he doesn't expect to trade Hopkins at any point during this week's draft. I don't foresee that happening, Ossenfort said Thursday night after the Cardinals drafted offensive lineman Paris Johnson at number six. Starting day, third overall pick.

I don't know what is going to happen here in the next couple of days right now I don't foresee that happening no interesting and what Bean said that kind of goes with that beans like we're focused on the draft we're not doing that this weekend yeah 100% Austin Fort later doubled down on Hopkins DeAndre is a Cardinal Austin Fort said and we're moving're moving forward. Technically, he is a Cardinal, right? Yeah. Everything he's saying is true. I mean, everything he's saying is true.

He didn't lie. This is just like AJ with Aaron Rodgers news. That's right. I don't even know why it's a story because DeHop never said that he wanted out of there. He didn't. That's true. You're right, body language. Yeah.

But he was told that they wanted to shop him. Remember? Yeah. That's an interesting situation. Kind of told that you're going to get broken up with. Or did he request? And then people start asking you, like, hey, would you want to go to this place if you were gone? And he's like, well, I don't know what to do here.

Maybe. Are you guys moving on? Probably. Okay. Sweet. Yes. We'd love to go to the fucking Buffalo Beals. We'd love to go to the Kansas City Chiefs if that's what's happening.

Now he's saying, that was in a different situation. I was being told I wasn't wanted here in Arizona, the place that I truly want to be at. I was being told I was probably getting shopped. So if I'm getting shopped, do I want to go to New England? Maybe.

You want to go to the Jets? Which is interesting. You want to go to the Buffalo Beals? You want to go to Kansas City Chiefs? Hmm. That's what he did. That's not what we're saying. That's what he did.

Yeah, that's right. But he was put in that situation to do that because he thought it was a different situation, and the Cardinals won him now. Yeah, he posted on IG, too, right after. Was it right after the season? But it was some sort of people kind of saw it as a goodbye Arizona. Oh, yeah. He was in that.

He was in the drop top Oh that one yeah Buffalo Soldier Yeah Yeah With Vaughn Odell Odell Raven Yeah Let's go to Jake in Colorado

What's going on Jake How's it going, boys? Keep it moving. Hell yeah, Jake. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. So I just had two questions for you guys real quick. The Denver Broncos are one of the teams that spent the most money in free agency

bolstering the O-line. Do you think that's going to help Russell Wilson pull his head out of his ass? Oh! My second question would be, my second question would be, the Broncos just picked up Jerry Judy's fifth-year option today. Jerry Judy had over 500 yards in the last five games. So do you think Jerry Judy is going to have a breakout season this next season? Jake, great questions.

I think the first question answers all those things. So if they have a good offensive line with Sean Payton's brain, who Sean Payton is very creative on the offensive side. I think the reason why he's potentially so creative is because maybe he will dabble every once in a while with something that has been utilized since the beginning of time to kind of transform moods, appetites, feelings, and maybe just life as a whole. There was a video that circulated around the internet this past weekend of Sean Payton in what appears to be a college living room smoking clearly CBD out of a glass pipe.

Milky. Now, they say it's a water pipe, obviously, in certain different places. The timing on which he pulled the mail piece out of it and not pulling it out of there, I think, makes us think that he's done it before, but how often? We don't know. Sean Payton is our favorite head coach on earth right now.

Sean Payton came on our program, talked about the offensive line to A.Q. Shipley, said, hey, we're going to go ahead and do this. First day of free agency, the tampering period, three guys, boom, bang, pow, in the draft, did it. I believe that he believes that if they fix up that sure that up

that'll be able to allow Russell Wilson to hopefully cook a little bit Sean Payton's gonna have a new offense for Russell Wilson as opposed to Nathaniel Hackett who we're not going to say anything about because he's now the Jets kind of play caller and everything like that but the whole thought that if you fix the offensive line you can fix the offense is a real one and I think that's Sean Payton's mindset AJ it's absolutely a real one but i think sean payton also knows if i don't fix this offensive line i have no chance of this team getting much better and having a chance to make a run of the playoffs and all of that so yeah he takes what he what you need to right off the bat like you say you you say all the time you're an old school guy you gotta build through

the trenches right o-line d-line o-line d O-line, D-line. Me, Sirianni, A.Q. Shipley. Anybody that watches football. In the end, when the games matter, your offensive line is going to have to do good. Your offensive line doesn't do good, you lose. Patrick Mahomes, a couple years back, they lose in a Super Bowl. Why? Because he was running for his fucking life. Joe Burrow, they lose in a

Super Bowl. Why? Because he was running for his fucking life. The offensive line is truly the most pivotal group of men on a football team, I think personally. But you can't judge if somebody's going to be great. There's so many sixth-rounders, seventh-rounders, undrafted free agents that get slotted in there, and there's just a group that can maybe catch some chemistry,

and that's what you're trying to find. I don't know if, like, 40 times or 10-yard split times or verticals, anything like that can tell you whether or not a group of five are going to be able to come together. But I think Sean Payton's willing to roll the dice on a new group of five to hopefully give them a shot to maybe win some games. I do like, too, that he seemed to be, if that thing would have stayed lit a little longer

and he could have made that thing a little milkier, I think he would have. Who filmed it? They're obviously hiding. Yeah yeah i don't love that well the person that's filming him is a piece of shit yeah exactly yeah you can tell he's sneaking it he like sean doesn't know he's sitting there like broadcast yeah that whoever filmed it we assume white dude yeah there it is loser come bomb this is a bum but i mean this could be from 15 years ago. Probably was. And that's when Sean Payton was suspended for a year.

Exactly. That was when Sean Payton was suspended for a year. He did a documentary. Yeah, and he did a documentary. Is this in that Kevin James talk? He was a producer, too. He was making shows and movies at this time. He was trying to fit in with the writers.

The writer's room. This is the writer's room. Exactly. And now this person's trying to make him look bad draft weekend we don't need that well this is too to nick's point when he said like i want kevin james to play me doc about my life i mean what if hitch came on that tv right afterwards he saw hitch doing his thing he's like that's my move yeah that's my move he does that whole thing i this makes me like sean payton even, even though I assume there's some people that feel the other way.

I was thinking, though, if the O-line does get better, Jerry Duda could be a high wide receiver, too, in a lot of leagues. Whoa. Who are you there? Yeah, why are you talking like that? Oh, you're the fantasy guru. Yeah. Oh, fantasy tongue.

Oh, fantasy tongue. Holy shit. You remember we had the guy that created fantasy football on the show? Matthew Barry. What was his name? Yeah, Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry is that SportsCenter guy. Same guy. holy shit what we had the guy that created fantasy football on the show matthew barry what was his name yeah matthew barry matthew barry's that sports center guy same guy that's matt barry different guy spelled b-a-r-r-i-e this is b-e-r-r-y that's his name yeah i'm talking about the guy who's at nbc now yeah matt matthew barry okay he created fantasy football this guy we don't do much fantasy football respect that that people do it, though. Mad respect that people put that much time and effort into something

when they could just do, like, same-game parlays, player prop bets, things like that, and just kind of pay off. So I have massive respect for the fantasy football people. Never got into it. Matthew Barry comes on. We try to learn about fantasy football. Like, try to become a little bit of fantasy footballers because we're going to have a draft.

Every question we ask this guy, Tony Diggs gave the answer before the guy could even answer And we're like, Tony, we didn't even know If we had the fantasy fucking guy on the program Maybe we'd do a little fantasy There he is That guy created fantasy football He comes on the program

Hey, what do you think about drafting? Well, actually I wouldn't do that That's not true. There was a mistake made that I accidentally whispered one answer to myself. No, John, you wanted him to know. Matthew Barry, I think you

asked actually who scored the most points ever in a fantasy football season and Matthew Barry's about to answer and Tony went, Don't answer, stupid. We know. Anyways, we have a fantasy expert. Yeah, we't answer, stupid. We know. We have a fantasy expert. Yeah, we do.

That's the voice of Fantasy Tone. That's what he's doing. I don't know what I just did, to be honest with you, voice-wise. I was trying to do a Bill gamer voice and it just came out weird. But now we know Tony has his maybe voice. He has his voice and that was Tony. He also has his, remember,

Southern, South African, European. That's right. He forgot about that one. He's got his right wing lunatic voice. Which is tough. I mean, there's been a man absent from your life here for a while. Which is weird because I thought he would have said something about that man. I've never listened to that man before, but he is talking a lot of sense lately.

Okay. Tony. Let's go to the phones. Tony actually said he watched something this weekend regarding that. Let's go to Brock in Los Angeles on the 5 Energy phone line. Brock, what's going on, pal? Talking about the Wall Street Journal? No. How we doing? Keep it moving, Brock, please.

How we doing? Keep it moving, Brock, please. I was told the Boston Bruins were the greatest. Oh! Oh! I was told the Boston Bruins were the greatest. So there is that asterisk. But, you know, you can't win or even make it to a shootout if you hold an overtime con, man. There aren't shootouts in playoff overtimes, dipshit. All right, Brock in L.A. just dunked on you.

Okay, I hung up because I wanted him to take a victory. I'm sure he would have said something incredible back to you right there. Although he did not know that rule, fascinating. But if it would have made the double overtime, at least he would have been able to say, oh, maybe shootout, you guys would have won. Instead, did you see that, AJ? Did you watch it?

It was tough. So I didn't see a lot of the game, but I legit turned it on and just happened to be watching it when there was like three minutes left to go. So 90 seconds left, I see him tie it up, and I see all the just – I felt for the fans. I really did. I'm like, this is – They brought it to all game.

Hey, those fans, all game. They were doing it. They were devastated. Down 2-0, still in it. You come back 2-2. They were booing their own guys there for a little bit early. Still in it, though. That's great. back 2-2. They were booing their own guys there for a little bit early. Still in it. That's great.

That's still showing. That's hockey town. Instead of sitting on their hands. It goes 2-0, 2-2, 3-2. We won this thing. That place is, they're already celebrating in the streets. Yeah. We are already on to the next series.

And then here we go. Back, holy shit. Yeah, I know. Fuck off! Skittles has tweeted at 1026 AM, my weekend wasn't great, but at least I didn't choke away a 3-1 playoff lead. Anyways, taste the rainbow.

What the fuck? Skittles is not planning on selling anymore in Boston, and they do not care. Shout out to Skittles taking a swing right now. I was going to say there's one brand not being sold in Boston, but I guess you can say there's two now. Jesus Christ. All right.

All right. And that's the program. What's the other one? Starbucks. Did you see that Wall Street Journal article there? Did you see that? Which one? Which one?

I read the Wall Street Journal every day, front to back. That's what I thought. We know. That's what I thought. No, AJ did see, though. He texted me this weekend, like, dude, this dark brand and stuff is so funny. You got to check it out. This what?

Dark brand. You see Joe Biden lean into dark brand in this weekend like, dude, this dark Brandon stuff is so funny. You got to check it out. This what? Dark Brandon. You see Joe Biden lean into dark Brandon this weekend? It was electric. Okay. You didn't see it? No, I did not. Oh, man. It was awesome. I do not live in the annals of the internet. You in tone. I try to stay away from that stuff.

It pops up. It was sweet. Anyways, that Wall Street Journal thing is a little bit alarming. Yeah. It's about that island you're going to buy. Yeah. I feel like there's a lot. Well, you're buying it, but I feel like there's a lot. You're buying it.

I mean, let me know when they actually name names. Well, no. Not just like a couple. Don't be such a psycho, dude. Isn't part of the face of Ohio they give you some property right next to Wexie's? They actually give you a submarine. Oh, okay. They give you the key to the caves.

I would take it. I might get claustrophobic, but I like submarines. What? Have you ever been in a sub? Nope. Okay, so you like the thought of submarines? Is that what it is? I just think it's cool that we have them, that they're actually a real thing.

Whoever engineered the first one. Germans. World War I. The ballsy person. U-boats. That's what they were called originally. And then they go on to become submarines. Watch Greyhound.

It's awesome. One time, dude. With Tom Hanks, Greyhound? Yeah. He's the captain now. Yeah. Your buddy. We used to have one right down there in the river.

You could go in. Right by the football stadium. Science Center, yeah. Did you really? Yeah. Oh, my God. Get going. Boom! No big deal. Still got it. It in. Right by a football stadium. Get going. Boom!

It's going to be a great week. Thanks for the shoes. That's awesome. Need a minute to bring in the skateboard tomorrow. These are the Cactus Jacks. Is that what they're called? Yeah. Oh, that's sweet. You can grind on this rail with Jabba. You're damn right I could.

Hey, hey, hey. What's up? I'll do a fucking kickflip. Boom. You know what I mean? Wait till you see me go. Boom, boom, boom. Go practice. That was a fucking holly with a kickflip.

Yeah. Pop, shove it. Boom. You know what I mean? And then I'm riding on the back. Whoa. Yeah, manual. Whoa.

Whoa. And then fucking boom. Right on the front. Yeah, nose grind. Hell yeah, dude. Boom. Pow. Pang. So good at

hauling on that board. Bro, I'm a hauling champ. Wait till you see what I fucking... Oh! Parkour! Did you see that, dude? Fucking extreme walking. Can you do it again? Can you do it with both feet? Nah, that thing was gonna... That was a gift from Nick. Shout out to Nick.

Just a stack of money? Yes. Nice. Shout out, Nick. Just a stack of money? Yes. Nice. Shout out, Nick. A million dollars. It's not. It's a desk. Don't rob us. Let's get to a break for about 19 hours or so.

20 hours. 20 hours, 45 minutes. That ball falling is a big deal. Yeah, massive. That one hurt coming out. It's going to be great. I was going to say, it didn't sound right. Your papadius.

No, my papadius is good. I did get fouled. Right here by my tricep. And one. Definitely got fouled. Oh, my God. That was dialed right now. Yeah.

That's kind of a rocker right now. That's kind of dialed. I was told. All right, if one of these go in, we'll give 10 kind of dialed. I was told. All right, if one of these go in, we'll give 10 merches. Okay. Yes. Okay.

Stay ball. I'll sit. The power of Joe. Too much. Yep. Leonardo. Love you, Joe. Miss you, Joe.

Miss you, Joe. Hell yeah. Probably still alive. All right, for 10 merches here, AJ. Out of your pocket. Yep. With Joe's picture on the background. Rest in peace, Joe.

We appreciate you, Joe. Love you, Joe. Hey, Joe said it would. Yeah, he did. Oh! Hell yeah. Yeah, he did. Joe said it would, and it did.

10 merches. All you got to do is retweet this tweet, say something nice to somebody, and you could potentially win one of 10 merches from store.patmackfyshow.com. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. Big shout out to Daniel Jeremiah and Alex Caruso. Got a big show for you tomorrow. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. AJ, we'll see you. Goodbye. See you.