The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 943 - WE'RE BACK With Ian Rapoport, Justin Herbert, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: July 31, 2023

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys are back from vacation and have a lot to cover including what they did over their breaks, the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe, the ESPY's, and all the drama happening in the NFL right now including Jonathan Taylor and his agent being at odds with Jim Irsay, the RB market as a whole, Aaron Rodgers response to Sean Payton's comments about Nathaniel Hackett, and everything else going on in the NFL as training camps are officially underway. Joining the progrum to chat about the Jonathan Taylor situation, Justin Herbert's new contract and when Joe Burrow might get his done, some of the different significant injuries that have happened around in the league in training camps, and much more is NFL Senior Insider for the NFL Network, Ian Rapoport (1:10:10-1:49:06). Later, fresh off signing a 5 year, $262.5 million deal, is the 2020 Offensive Rookie of the Year, Pro Bowler, and Quarterback of the Los Angeles Chargers, Justin Herbert to chat about how training camp is going so far, his new deal and whether he was hands on or not, if he'd entertain being on Quarterback season 2 on Netflix, what he's purchased with that new contract, his thoughts on the Chargers offense this year, and how much he wants to play in the preseason (2:01:29-2:10:55). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. It's good to be back. We'll see you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this glorious Monday, July 31st, 2023. This sports program's back, right now. Football! It's happening. All the training camps have kicked off for the NFL. We're fresh off a two-and-a-half-week break. This is the longest time since I'm 13 years old or 12 years old that I was at home with my family doing absolutely nothing. Now, we went to Chicago for my wife's birthday for a couple days. Beautiful city. Beautiful celebration. But most of the time I spent with my wife and my baby

trying to refresh and re-energize myself as we go into a fall that is going to be spectacular. I am so thankful to be back. We appreciate the hell out of you. We're just less than 24 hours removed from trying to be canceled from Michigan State folks as well. How about that? Happy to be live on a microphone. Happy to be doing it.

And we are thankful for all of you. The Talks at Table is here at Ty Schmidt, at Boston Conner, and at Boston Conner's Mall. It looks fantastic. First break for that thing. Yeah, it was a great time. It was fantastic. Go down to Puerto Rico where, you know, although they are part of the United States, it didn't feel that way. It felt more so like, hey, thanks for what your country's done, but don't get too comfortable around here.

Oh, they were running out of town. They were running us out of town. But, yeah, there were a few who were. You told me you had a great time. Fantastic time. Looked great time. Fantastic time. Looked like it. Fantastic time, yeah. Was able to swim in the ocean where, although it's not boiling just yet down there, it was

beautiful. It was about 80 degrees. Water's boiling. Perfect, really. And then all the other things, got to go skydiving. I heard it used to be warming, now it's boiling. Yeah, yeah. It's not warming anymore, Pat.

I don't know if you want to get canceled today, too, for saying warming, because you should really probably emphasize on the boiling, because the warming crowd is, they're at a new level now. It is a different ballgame. I understand. I appreciate them looking out for all of us. Absolutely. I can't wait to hear how we fix it, although I've heard.

Uh-huh. Huh? Uh-huh. We're popping. Uh-oh. Putting holes in the. Bingo. Huh?

We're done for. So, listen. I mean, there are some things that we feel like are in our world, and there are some things that are very much out of our world. And although we have to discuss something, sometimes we try to bebop through them because they are out of our comfort zone.

Whenever we start talking about global warming, global boiling. Thank you. Okay, that is new. Let's all make sure we get that right and not piss anybody off because I do believe that what they're doing, we're very thankful. We're excited to see how you guys think we should figure this out.

We're on board with the smart move. But whenever we start talking about these things, you know, from our dumb brains, we start hypothesizing a little bit. That's right. About what potentially is going on. You know, because I wondered, we're sending all these goddamn rockets up to space. Don't we have a thing there? Yeah, we do.

Aren't we just, are we potentially just poking holes in this thing? And if you open up a hole, you know who's going to get it? The sun. That's right. And the sun's real hot. Yes, it is. Have we thought about potentially poking holes in a thing? Maybe that's why everything's getting hotter.

And how about us walking on the ground and maybe pushing the ground down towards the core? And the core is all fire. We know that. Is that emulating through a way? We just want to know what it could potentially be this past weekend. I guess Elon Musk putting holes in the fucking ozone. That's right. That's what's being reported.

That's an issue. Is that a part of the globe boiling issue? Is that a... I mean, I don't want to talk about it. I don't know enough about it, but this kind of... This was something I saw, and I'm like, okay, so Kim Jong-un, way back in the day, we were... I think we're ahead of time. The aliens at all,

not that we were the first. I'm just saying we were very much on board for a long time. Found out during the break they were just 100% real. Yeah, on board. Absolutely. Yeah, we got an alien body, the one guy said. Yep. Hang it out. Walk them out there.

Yeah, walk, waltz them out there is what we want to say. But aliens living inside of the planet, not on the outside of the planet. I feel like we've been on that since the very beginning. Yep. And then now global boiling feels like, you feels like we don't have it all right. But every once in a while when we guess like, oh, this is how the Avengers movie is going to end. Yeah, there you go. You know, without ever seeing one.

And then it, boom, isn't that? Oh, yeah. Boy, that makes me feel like I'm such a smart human. You know, whenever that type of stuff happens. But it's not good what's taking place. We would like the Earth to cool down a little bit. We would like the smart people to take care of it. We would like them to tell us what to do and hopefully it'll be able to work. But right now, I'll say it was hot as fuck those last two weeks.

I don't know how it was down in Puerto Rico. You were back in Iowa, right, Ty? Yeah. How was it? Good to see family, I assume? Yeah, it was great getting back there and just kind of, you know, again, not a whole lot to do in Iowa, which is nice because I really didn't want to do anything. There was that IndyCar race. Caitlin Clark was there. Yeah, I was up in Newton. I was about two and a half hours away.

You didn't go. I thought about going down there. Zach Rambam was there. Kenny Chez was there. Henry Caitlin Clark was there. Yeah, I was up in Newton. That was about two and a half hours away. You didn't go. I thought about going down there. Zach Rombain was there. Kenny Chez was there. I know. Harry Underwood was there. It was a who's who of, you know, hey, if you want something to do in Iowa, you go down to the races. I'd rather watch paint drive than do that, though,

so I wasn't going to, you know, drive two and a half hours to do that. But back to your point, the fucking heat is unbelievable. I was there with my daughter, and my wife left a little bit early, so I had her on my own. But, I mean, you go outside for 10 minutes, and I was like, I can't have her outside. This is ridiculous. You know, we can get in the pool for a little bit.

But outside of just sitting in the AC, turning that down to about 58, and, you know, probably sending my mom's air conditioning. Through the roof. Through the roof. But it was great. It was great. But it is. I mean, I thought we were going to get a little, you know. Through the roof. Through the roof. But it was great. It was great. But it is. I mean, I thought we were going to get a little, you know, comfort from it.

Like, when we got back, it's like, okay, we had the really hot July weeks. We're getting into August. We're getting closer to football season. We're going to kind of get that cool weather a little bit. I don't think so. I think we're going to be dealing with this through November this year. You both, very white whites, have done well with the sun, though. Like, I got hooked.

You guys look good. You look like you have handled it pretty properly. Well, first and foremost, in Tahoe, we both said, hey, listen, we ain't doing third-degree burns on the first day after nine holes. We were reapplying sunscreen damn near every other one of your shots. It was like, all right. So I was the complete opposite. I think you guys saw that.

Yeah, you got pretty cooked on Thursday. Day one, third- 30 burns on the arms. Because you're at 6,000 feet above sea level. You're closer to that sun that is closer to us because the holes that are happening. You do start cooking. What a beautiful area. Oh, my God. So nice.

Because we haven't been live since Espy's, which happened. Story behind that is epic. Man, oh, man. We will dive into that someday whenever we run out of information to talk about. Playing around was epic, too. Oh, boy. I didn't hear about that. Holy shit.

He fucking turned the plane around. From L.A.? No, Connor turns plane around. Coming to meet me in L.A., right? Yep. So, espies happens. One half of the hammer. Die!

Cowboys turn digs as well. Tone, how was the break? It was awesome. You look amazing. You look like you're down a bunch of weight. You look incredible. And we got a chance to see your head this past weekend. You look fucking good.

Thank you. It was awesome. Thank you. A lot of time with the family. I spent a lot of time at the pool getting a little sun, nice little olive Italian skin. You know how that goes. But it was awesome.

But you turn the player around? Yeah. So, there was a whole thing. I mean, like, I'm in the middle of a full rehearsal for the sb real rehearsal an actual rehearsal okay they're going through the whole thing well i had to give a speech at this rehearsal and god bless everybody at the sb because i i don't do rehearsals well i'm not i've never been able to do them and i'm definitely not letting these people who didn't want me to be able to be in the position that I was in to hear anything that I'm actually going to say. No. So I had to give two fake speeches at these rehearsals, okay?

And that was just for the good of all parties. You know, it was just kind of the situation that it all was. And I'm not going to be able to say the stuff the best the first time or the second time as I was the first time. So for the good of all parties, these rehearsals, I cannot be doing what I'm going to be saying. So I had to give a couple of fake speeches, a lot of moments that were just fantastic in there, I will say. But as I'm walking out to go do my final fake speech, I get a text from Plain Lady and Karen. She is, Karen's been with us through everything. She's the one that books all of our travel,

pretty much everything we've ever done. Karen is an absolute dog. Karen is the best. As I'm literally walking on to give another fake rehearsal speech, right? I'm walking out here. They just had a fake little Wayne doing a Millie, a Millie, a Millie.

I get plain text. They just had to U-turn because something was forgot. And I just like, look at that. I'm like, oh, the airport has a road closed down in front of it. They probably had to U-turn and go all the way around. They're probably late, like 30 minutes, because the plane was supposed to take off like an hour before I got this text to come meet at the ESPYs. Then we were going to go to Tahoe. My wife and I were out in Foxy.

We're already out in L.A. So this all came together on like Saturday, Sunday, by the way. So ESPYs on Wednesday. This all happened Saturday, Sunday. After a Friday, it gets announced publicly that there's no host for the ESPYs. It all kind of happens pretty quickly. So we had to figure out how to get everybody to everywhere so we could do

our thing. And we all decided that it would be dumb for me and Foxy to take my golf bags. Yes. To lug them around. Carry them everywhere in L.A. L.A. So Connor, in the middle of that conversation, goes,

I'll get the bags. I'll get, and what else do we need? I'll get this. I'll get this. You know, Connor, obviously a guy for the team. You know, team on me, team on three. Connor's like, one, two, three, team. I mean, he is.

We got it. So I'm like, thank you, Connor. That's actually pretty legendary. Bring the clubs in, have them all set up out here. I guess they got 25, 30 minutes into this flight where the plane had already flattened out. Cruised out. Was not doing this. The way I was told the story by Connor was that the plane was doing it.

Oh, you know, we just kind of got internet. Like 10,000 feet is when you get internet. Everybody kind of knows that. AJ Hawk was like, that plane was cruising at 35,000 were 17 20 no chance connor goes up to the cockpit and tells the pilots need to turn around i forgot the golf clubs so the only reason we he was going to tahoe yes was for this for this pxg thing we had going with road to tahoe club's pretty vital part of the entire thing. Connor, give it to me. Connor forgets the club's in his car at the airport, has to ask the pilot

to turn around. Only like a $35,000 Yeah, that's all. Just a full turnaround, go down, refuel, retake off. You're talking about global boiling. This guy is the depiction of the problem.

But Connor told, I'm not, I wasn't there. This is just all how I've been told. Connor told the pilot to jump out of the plane and done turn around because the pilots didn't want to turn around. Now, Connor, you explain your situation, please, and how this happened. Because the plane lady who's been in the plane business for 30 years never experienced this in my entire life. Yeah, makes sense. The people on the plane, right? Oh, yeah.

Two pilots and flight attendant were like, never experienced this before ever. Yeah, she said she'd been working there nine years and not once had they had to turn the plane around. Something happened at like one point with like Future where like they almost had to, but they didn't. And then we asked the pilot like, hey, have you ever been, has anything like this anything like this happened he was like not for fucking golf clubs

that's for sure not just golf but there's a new golf partnership yeah exactly is that what you we are very honored to be a part of the pxg family exactly we are very pumped to be a part of it the road to tahoe presented by pxg connor i got him and then you don't got him. Nope. First of all, it's not just your fault. And I told the group this. Yeah. This is just like when the RV thing goes through there and it's a whole scene. When this whole thing starts happening in my phone while I'm sitting at this SB's rehearsal and me and Fox are sitting next to each other and we're talking about what could potentially

be happening on that plane. Yeah. And how, boy, we were having quite a laugh. I bet. We were having quite a laugh. I could have been a full freak out. Bro, there was a stand-in giving a speech for some humanitarian award. Oh, yeah.

Okay, in reading the teleprompter. Serious moment. Serious moment. Great speech. Great speech. But I assume both times it was given. But in rehearsals, it was given. And I am full trying to hold in, because I'm a very loud, like when I laugh, it's very recognizable.

Let alone in a theater where there's only like 100 people and it's completely silent. And I'm dying in there. We're in an uncomfortable position. Absolutely. But we're only laughing because of how uncomfortable you had to be. I couldn't even fathom how uncomfortable you had to be through there. So shout out to you for doing something for the first time in everybody's lives that is involved in planes.

You fucking continue to change the game, Connor. We appreciate that. Exactly, and we figure it's not the worst thing because if Elon's punching holes in the atmosphere and everything, we can turn a little plane around and it's not the end of the world. But, yeah, it was probably top five worst moments of my life. What ended up happening was we were talking about last year's Tahoe, how awesome it is, who we might play with this year.

There's so many different people who are out there. Maybe we play with Miles Teller again. That'd be fun. And then in the midst of that conversation boom i throw my sunglasses off holy shit i forgot the fucking golf club so right away without without even a thought i'm i'm in the cockpit i mean i'm there within 10 seconds maybe and i know 35 000 feet i'll never forget what i had to do so i will tell you i was i was climbing up i wasn't i wasn't walking flat yeah i think i think plainly definitely 41 000 i think no yeah

and aj was the one who told me like hey just one like we were we were we were not we were leveling out because aj's probably mind blown by this too. I mean, he obviously, through osmosis, through the camera, I guess, gets a chance to kind of experience us on a day-to-day basis. But not really. Him sitting on that plane going, we're fucking turning this thing. Yeah, and his brother. You forgot the golf clubs.

I mean, we're going to a golf tournament for a golf company. Anyways, you did great. It was the only thing we couldn't forget, Pat. We could have forgot a person. We could have forgot wallets. We could have forgot anything and everything. I sent a reminder text, too. For all the stuff we needed.

I know, yeah. I know. But don't trust AJ. Let's follow up now because that was a negative. Yeah. But the positive is we have that story forever. Yeah, exactly. So the moment of negativity that it was, far smaller.

Sure. Puking in your mouth, sweating, threatening suicide to a pilot. Oh. Yeah, I mean. Poofing your pants. His butthole was clamped so tight, probably until like the eighth hole on Thursday still. And then he was fine. Like, okay, everything's good.

I can relax a little bit. Yeah. The whole trip. Yeah. But dude, like literally, I think as soon as I saw you, I was like, that's one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. And there's nothing you can do about this now. So let's just fucking move on.

But there's nothing in there. The only issue is that was the reason why AJ Hawk was not a part of the. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because we didn't know when they were going to land. We missed the red carpet. Missed red carpet. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Because we didn't know when they were going to land. We missed the red carpet. Missed the red carpet.

Yeah. Did not know if they were going to make it in time for show. I was wondering why. Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of people were like, AJ Hawkins didn't present or whatever. It was like, well, that's because a plane had to go from Illinois probably. Well.

Maybe even into Missouri. Yeah. Maybe even into Missouri. It might have been. Had to turn back around, come back, and do it just because Connor's Connor. But I want to let you know, Connor, it sounds like you had an incredible break. You were amazing in Tahoe. Your vibes were immaculate.

The clubs did not help me much. I do love the clubs. Yeah, sure. I do love the clubs. Boy, I suck out there. The thing is, I was up in that sim. What the sim does not account for, you see,

is walking eight miles every single day at altitude. So the first day we do like a little pro-am pairing thing, and I'm with some incredible people. Great dudes. Great dudes out of Jersey, and one guy's from Indiana.

Harvard guy. Yeah, Harvard hockey player from back in the day. Dude, we took no shit because they're in the liquor business. Corbell. Corbell. Corbell's, and they're in the liquor business. These dudes have been selling booze for a long time. Yeah.

Good golf games. Oh, they sponsor the tournament, right? Yeah. Yeah, big-time sponsors of the tournament. But these motherfuckers' livers arevers are professionals i mean these dudes are at drinking events like that's our job yeah like hey go hang out have a couple drinks this is why you should buy more of this see you later and then if you it's almost like an insurance business where if you get one bar as long as that bar stays in business like that's just kind of like here we go

but you have to like continue to build for whoever you're working for. We were hammering shots at tequila. It was absurd. Every birdie, and you guys shot a 60. Yeah, so we had at least 12 shots of tequila, and these guys weren't even, we're talking, I'm getting a little like, man, I don't drink like this anymore. I'm pretty fucked up right now. These guys are not at all.

Chilling. They're just like chilling. So I'm like, are these guys drinking water while I'm doing this? They're all coming out of the same flask, this super cool leather flask. Scotland. This group of dudes were very cool. But I got so boozed up and I was on so many milligrams. It wasn't until like that night after I get back, take a quick nap.

My feet are just, the toes are bruised. Front of my toes are all bruised. And then the middle of my feet are like cramping. It's because the shoes that I wore might have been too big. So when you're going downhill, my feet are just bruised and then the middle of my feet are like cramping it's because the shoes that i wore might have been too big so when you're going downhill my feet are just like jamming into this thing so from day zero of the tournament all the way through like my fucking toes were broken and it doesn't matter how your swing is no yeah at all i could barely stand on some of those things i'm like like, I am the biggest bag of shit

is what I'll say on earth. Because you got some of these golfers that I do not have much respect for their physical fitness. And it's like, that golf tournament two years in a row has beaten me. And they find a weakness

and they go after it. Last year, it was blisters on the back of my heel last year it was blisters on the back of my heel right bad bad blisters on the back of my heel and then on the bottom as well which were so annoying and that affected me the entire time this time they said ah this fucking idiot yeah he super soft in the back of course but we'll attack the front so i can barely walk i can barely stand it's an incredible event yeah it is people out there are magnificent the pxgs when i hit him was fucking awesome. Yeah. And when I was making putts, it was so much fun.

I rimmed out like six, seven times, too. The golf gods were not on my side. Not at all. At all. They were telling me, like, pal, this ain't for you, dude. So I didn't play any golf this year. I didn't walk a course since last year. Next year, boys, we're prepared. Now you know. Let's go. Now you know. 18 every week.

A.J. Hawk is unbelievable at golf. That needs to be said. Ridiculous. He is so good. Aaron Rodgers goes top five. Yeah. They earned $125,000 donation with their performances out of Tahoe. Top 50 for A.J. and top five for Aaron.

Now, I think we did kind of, we've been kind of, you know, handicapping things pretty good. Because we said top 50 for AJ will donate 50 grand. Yes. Top 45 will donate 75 grand or 65 grand or something like that. That's only five spots. He ends up at 47. Yeah.

I feel like we. Oh, yeah. Huh? Not bad. We're kind of getting in there. Very well. I feel like we're starting to see the field pretty well. Orlovsky score right before we left.

There was like three straight, I think, where we were doing this. Except for that fucking sandbagger, Steph Curry, who decided he remembered to play golf again, huh? Yeah, he was awesome. His energy around there, too, is fucking really cool. Marty got screwed. You got to remember, I mean, somebody yelling in his back. Absolute bullshit.

Absolute bullshit. Stay hungry, Marty. This is just another chip on his shoulder, Marty. They don't want you to win, Marty. Exactly. They wanted Steph to win. Give him holes and ones. Yeah.

Steph deserves it, by the way. He works his ass off. But that's up there in like NorCal or whatever, you know? Yeah. So Golden State has a pretty good, you know what I mean? That's in that. Yeah. There's a lot of, Steph has a great energy around him up at that tournament.

I'm happy he won. He went directly to work after losing to Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey. He said, this golf shit ain't ever going to happen to me again. He goes out and wins that thing. Congrats to him. Aaron goes fifth. AJ went 47th. I went 73rd out of 90. So, you know, not a lot of people below me, but still

humans below me. Next year, going to prepare. Yeah. Where are the Miz fans? So, he's third to last because what's his face from 2011? Oh yeah, Don Cheadle WD'd after the first day. Heavy box. We're jumping heavy box. Exactly. He withdrew after day

one. He might have had the bruised toes that I had. He might not have been as boozed up as I was, so he might not have realized, or he might have realized it at the course. And I didn't realize it until the night when I tried to get up and go, oh my. Oh my god. This golf course is beating hell out of me. And then didn't realize it until the night when I tried to get up and go, oh my. Oh my God. This golf course is beating the hell out of me. And then Dylan Dreyer from the Today Show.

She came in last. And then there was Miz right there. And Miz is flexing right now. Of course he seemed awesome to play with. Pat didn't want us to bury him in the beginning. That's what we wanted to do. I was like, don't bury Miz. It would be easy to bury Miz.

Let's not bury, by the way, you two did a great job. It was a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you for the pre-cane and letting us do it. It was a lot of fun.

Shout out to Mitt, too, by the way, Big Mitt. Yep, big boy Mitt. Big Mitt. I thought you guys killed it, but yeah, I was like, let's not kill Miz. Like, you know,

Miz is already. We like him. Yeah, we like Miz. So then I got a double, I forget which hole it was. I think it was the third hole. And he starts screaming, Pat McAfee with a double bogey.

And I was like, is that right? He's like, yeah, because he made like a bogey. Yeah, probably. I think he made a bogey and I made a double. So he got like real loud. And I was like, I couldn't even walk at this point. And this guy is fucking awful at golf. So bad.

Not just bad, like so slow. Like, I need to say this because I feel like I am a friend of Miz at this stage in life. Sure, yes. And nobody else will tell him this. He is not supposed to act how he acts at that golf tournament at all. Like, as a human, awesome. Everybody, you know, the Miz shows up.

Fun to be around. This guy, every shot, he thinks he's going gonna fucking miraculously become a golfer like if you're playing bad like i was playing terrible get over the fucking ball and just try to advance it down the course okay like how far out are you cool you need to get your yardages cool just try to make solid contact let's move on this motherfucker is on double bogey, trying to save double bogey or save bogey 150 yards from the green. And he's sitting there with his fucking caddy, who's probably a good guy, but that guy's a part of the problem too.

They're talking. They're like, should I hit a little fade in there? Should I maybe hit a draw? Should I maybe punch one low? And then he'll stand over it. A different club didn't like him. It's like, yo, bro, you and i are not this good at golf you have no idea what you're doing then he'll hit a good shot and it's like yeah and he puts it back

in and then he feels warranted to do it for the next seven holes yeah and he hits zero good shots everybody loves the ms yes but if you don't know the ms and you're forced to golf with him oh my god you can see how people are like this guy's the fuck yeah get him out we can I do not want to be around this human again me and AJ were at the green he was 200 yards behind us yeah I do not have a good hole I think I'm trying to save but I'm already trying to save bogey AJ's up there trying to make par or whatever. He's hitting four 200 yards behind us, trying to figure out if he wants to hit a draw or a fade, and then inevitably duff six yards, pick up, now we can go. So that was one hole.

That was one hole. Ridiculous. But I do love the Miz. I do love the Miz. He was putting for double bogeys, like double bogeys max score you can get. So once it gets to double bogey, usually you're just picking that up, getting the hell out of the Miz. He was putting for double bogeys. Like double bogeys max score you can get. So once it gets to double bogey, usually you're just picking it up, getting the hell out of the way.

Miz is full on. Got to see it go down. Soon as it falls. I was like, hey, you cannot be putting doubles, pal. No. Like, listen, you and me. Like, AJ's actually playing pretty good right now. You, me, a few others.

We're happy to be here, right? Having a good time? We are. Just doing the whole thing, but he is electrifying that guy, so we enjoyed the biz. But yeah, after he started screaming, I doubled bugged him. I was like, okay, alright. Kill him! Let him have it, boys. And we did. It was a fun day.

It was a fun trip. We appreciate them. We appreciate the people at the ESPYs. I appreciate the hell out of my family for putting up with me for the last two weeks. I assume everybody else is the same. In the back, we have some announcements to make. Nick Moraldo is here. Hi, baby Nick. Hi, baby boy Nick.

Dirty's back there. The baby Dirty. Hope you guys had incredible breaks. It's great to see you guys. And then the front row of the back room there. Real life changing moments over the last two and a half weeks. Yeah. You're not lying.

Big congratulations to Evan Fox on getting engaged in fucking Italy. Thank you, guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Fox A, that was beautiful, Fox A. Thank you. It was awesome. It was a great trip. We loved it so much.

Foxy was out there. Paisani. Hey. Grazie. He's an honorary Paisani. Prego. Prego. I assume that any time we get get into Italian conversation, he's just going to start saying

like, have you guys been here? Yeah, I'm Italian. That's what I thought was coming there. But congrats on getting engaged. That's amazing. A man who has already been engaged, obviously, and got married just on Saturday. We fucking love him. Huge congratulations.

A viva Lizzie Dope. Thanks, boys. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Great wedding, pal. Unreal. You should be incredibly proud of yourself, man. The wedding was awesome. The families were fantastic.

The vibes were high. And I hope you felt the love from everybody, bud. We really, really appreciate you existing, and we're incredibly happy for you, pal. That's awesome. Thank you so much. Hey, now, we did nail it, though. This is for people who have been fans of the program for a while that's right

okay we just talked about it the avengers movie yep the whole whole thing the earth thing you know we every once in a while we'll kind of find a scent and we just kind of wait a second here what's going on see through it bought like a seven thousand dollar sword so that he could be one snow one year and i knew exactly how much money zito was getting paid obviously so whenever he was making those types of decisions i thought maybe i would have to sit him down and be like hey bro okay like very standard i was also somebody that everything i saw fucking give it to me i i'm not supposed to have money i can afford a wrestling room well i guess I can afford a wrestling ring. Well, I guess I'll buy a wrestling ring.

Sure. I can do this. I guess I'll do this. So I was trying to have like a finance thing. And Zito was like, oh, don't worry, I'll write it off. I'll write it off.

I'm like, well, that's not how that works. But he didn't seem to have much stress. So then as we were talking about it amongst the group, you know, we started saying, Zito,

we don't know nothing about this fucking guy. Yeah. We know nothing about his background. Nope. We know absolutely nothing. His dad's probably like a bazillionaire or something like that, we said. And then, ha, ha, you know, Zito laughed.

Maybe he died, that whole thing. And then as he continued to live, we just never really knew, and we kind of forgot about it when we moved past it. We got to meet his whole fucking family at the wedding. Yeah, everything we thought was about accurate, but they are a family that deserves a reality show. Come on.

Zito, your mother, okay, deserves to be on a camera at all times. How about that dance? Did you see the groom and mom dance? Oh, yeah. Hey, she was ready to go. She was crushing it. And I liked every time your family said Paquito,

I felt like I was, you know, like in a place in a movie or whatever. You should be called Paquito. Maybe you should be. Is that, that was your nickname as a kid, Paquito? Yeah. Oh, how much cooler, no, Zito's cool. Evolution right there.

Zito's cool. Zito is cool. Zito's sweet. Paquito, what a name. There was a lot of people calling him Jose, too, which I didn't. That one kind of weirds me out sometimes. That was whenever we went down to the bachelor party down in Nashville. Yes.

We sat down, and we weren't there for the first night. We just caught up with him for the second day down there for brunch, and we sit down and talking, talking, talking, and one of his guys, Banda, was like, Jose, do you want to? And I'm like, okay. So I hear that, and then I kind of look away, and I think Danny is the other guy, Puerto Rican guy, right? Oh, yeah.

So Zito's Cuban. Banda's Mexican. Danny's Puerto Rican. Yeah. Right? And they were sitting like kind of next to each other. Yeah. So and then Danny was like, yeah.

Jose used to tell everybody. And I'm like, OK, so Jose is the name here. Italian friend down at the end. Jose, we get to the wedding. Family down in South Florida, Paquito. And then you talk to some of the family in Illinois, Paquito. Then you talk to some people with Zito. I'm like, this

motherfucker has different identities within his own family. No wonder we couldn't figure it out. We were on. Yeah, Roll Bird. Yeah, Roll Bird too. Heard this guy didn't even go to school there. Didn't even go to school in Illinois State. Lived on campus at Illinois State. So everybody he lived

around, roll birds, birds, birds. Zito did not go to any classes or anything there. I did go to classes. That's not what we were told. That's not what we were told. They said Paquito didn't go. Paquito did not go. No, he was always around. Jose, Jose did not go

to any. No, Jose, that was amazing. Zito, I want to let you know, your family and group of friends, and obviously we should assume this with how fucking big of a weapon you are as a human. Great group of people. You should be incredibly proud. We're happy for you. All right, let's start diving into the sports. I hope everybody enjoyed the break.

Streets were talking. I think they missed us. Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think there were some people that missed us. Go green, Foxy. Go white. You son of a bitch. Son of a bitch.

I don't want to say it because there is an all-out onslaught against me right now for simply linking one terrible thing from school with the most terrible thing from the school to a friend in a reply tweet talking shit to a friend. And I do apologize if some people took that in a different way

and then spun it in their own narrative to offend a bunch of other people and then kind of did that whole thing. I was simply talking shit to my friend. But does it feel like Michigan State alum are trying to silence some media whenever they acknowledge that Larry Nassar, one of the most horrible humans

ever of all time. He was at Michigan State 14 years. Long time. So that's not really a part of the story. They kind of created, empowered and yeah. So like if that's going to get us canceled, when we get – Yeah, Foxy knew. We're in trouble.

It's going to get loud. Loud. I was thinking that yesterday as I was reading this thing. People are, you need to delete this and apologize. I'm like, why? I'm talking shit to my friend about something that definitely happened at his school, and I said this guy's on a design team. But if he was, the least of anybody, this guy has done the worst imaginable.

So if he did design those terrible jerseys that Michigan State had as well, that wouldn't even be mentioned in the Larry Nassar entire thing. I want to let everybody know what's coming after me. We believe Larry Nassar is a terrible human. Worst human. Disgusting human. I would like to say this show covered that more than probably anybody. Pretty extensively.

More than anybody about how bad of a guy he is. Definitely. More than anybody did. So there was a lot of people like, oh, you think this guy's not. No, what I'm saying is, terrible guy, also, foxy school. Yes. Right. So I am, you know, I do appreciate that Michigan State all kind of came together seemingly around me.

There's people talking shit, terrible shit to me. I mean, they were saying some awesome, awesomely terrible things to me. But all I could really think about the entire time is like, when Epstein Island gets brought up on. Man, oh, man. Oh, boy. Penn State is undefeated. Wait until AQ's here. Oh, my God. AQ's going to be right in there.

It's like we need to tell people that there's disgusting, horrible people in powerful positions. We can't just – this isn't something where it's like, hey, can't talk about this. No, it's like, hey, in our history, very recent history, people were given a lot of power. There were very terrible people in the sports world. And the way we decide to cover it is by talking shit to somebody

who loves everything about Michigan State because it's his school. If I went to Michigan State and this whole thing happened, if they didn't say that to me, we would be avoiding something that is very serious, very terrible, and very real.

So I do apologize to everybody that just took my six-word tweet and then said that I was disrespecting this and not thinking about the victims. It's like, what? I think we're thinking about the victims, future victims, and everything by reminding people that this motherfucker had a lot of power at Michigan State for a long time while being a terrible human being. And I'm just shit-talking a friend. I was going to say, you're taking a shot at a buddy.

It's as simple as that. But I have to – it was an eye-opener, though. Yeah, for sure. You know what I mean? It was an eye-opener. Definitely realized some things, but it's not as if it's just those things, too. Like, wait until they hear when we talk about the COVID summer of 2023. I mean, there are so many other venues.

I was thinking that yesterday. Back, boys, it's back. Well, Zeta, I saw your response. Yeah, so good. And I saw you promoting a movie. Yeah, oh, yeah. Bingo. People tried to get you out.

That's a must watch. Yeah, well, there's another one. I didn't see it, but I'm saying. There's a lot of that happening. So as I put that tweet to Foxy, like heard Nassar was on design team too actually send put my phone down wife and i go to state fair yeah have a good time right see a lot of people having a blast then all by the way for those that are new to the program like

any time michigan state gets brought up any time i mean that's probably like when i send that tweet i'm not even that was a team like i thought that super, like, I didn't think it was going to cause anything. When I read it, didn't even think twice. Nope. I replied, it was a reply tweet, too. Hey, this is directly to my guy. So anybody that's going to see this are people that follow me and Foxy. Now, obviously, with the world we're in, everything's public knowledge.

But then I got everybody telling me I need to delete it and all that shit. I'm like, well, if I delete and apologize for that, like, I think it's about to be 150 shows we're going to have to delete off the internet and scrape from the internet. It's like I will talk shit about bad people forever. That's right. Sue me. Don't actually. Please.

Shout out Brett Favre. Exactly. Let's move along. Let's talk about sports. The NFL training camps are back. And we aren't in a time where NFL training camps are rolling into the season and there isn't drama. No. No, talk about sports. The NFL training camps are back. And we aren't in a time where NFL training camps are rolling into the season and there isn't drama. No, no, no, no.

What we are currently in is a time in which there is drama. Coaches talking shit about coaches. And coaches, players talking shit back to said coaches with quotes that are going to be on hard knocks with the behind the scenes that should make tomorrow night's first episode absolutely electrifying then you go to other teams and

there's owners bickering publicly with players agents who seemingly don't want to be able to do business with uh 132 132nd of the amount of owners he's going to have to do business with going forward there is fights happening at training camps. There are storylines developing. There are young stars who are him. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of them. Him.

A lot of them. This dude is him. No cap. No cap. Well, what do you do? Well, with no pads on, in one-on-ones, absolutely cooked a veteran. Oh, my God. Oh, no.

Now, we are in the first couple days of training camp, so we appreciate the overreaction because we've all been starved for good football. But there is so much to chat about, and we talk too much about what we got going on. Let's dive in, shall we? Let's start here in Indianapolis. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. You know, there is something that we've had here, a segment on the program, mostly because there's

a lot of people that have talk shows, a lot of people that have sports shows. But there is very rarely a time where you kind of have a microphone and a platform and a chance to kind of explain a human that is maybe a bit misunderstood and has been an enigma for his entire existence. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for what is Jim Ersegian. Whoa. That wasn't a window that whole time. LED board. What the hell? Hell yeah. Right here. Microphone down here, too. Hey, how you doing?

Whoa. Yeah, we did it. This is Zito. Zito. Zito worked on the break. Tim Maxey worked on the break. Jake and Doug kind of worked on the break. We appreciate you, boys.

Thank you, boys. Got a new LED board. I can't wait for the season with things running back. It's going to be a full thing. We're also putting together our weekly schedule for the fall right now, currently in discussions with a lot of people. This is going to be the biggest fall that we've ever had.

If I don't get canceled beforehand. That's a good point. I think we're done doing that. What's that? Maybe they're not. No, we're not. We haven't even talked about the biggest news of the last two weeks. I think we're done doing that. Shoot. What's that? Maybe they're not. No, we're not. Yesterday. We haven't even talked about the biggest news of the last two weeks. Mitch McConnell not even being a human being.

See? All right. Let's get back to it. Every day when we're on here. Oh, that's what I read yesterday. That's what I was seeing yesterday. Oh, yeah. Oh, no.

It's probably easier just to break it down by hour yeah no it'd be a couple things from each hour i've had a lot of people be like uh you know you have the bullseye on you right now because people believe that you're the reason a lot of people got fired i'm like well the people that believe that are fucking doofuses yeah they're like well yeah those people have friends though that have the power of the pen right now or whatever i'm like i hope everybody makes a bazillion dollars what do we what dollars. I'm on everybody's side here. And I think, I'm not Hermson Shore, but what we have done is maybe proven a way

to, you know. Circumvent. You know, kind of do your own. So you should be, I wouldn't make sense. Not my small town. Don't try that in my small town. We don't need that. That's not what See? Boom. We don't need that.

That's not what we're doing. We're not doing that. We're not doing that. Please. Can't joke about that stuff. Not this small town. Are you allowed to even say small town right now? That's kind of what I was being told. Not even allowed to say the name Nassar.

It's like, so Michigan State's just trying to... That's what that sounds like. I thought that was weird. That's what it felt like. That's what everybody was telling me, man. Hey, you people were coming out to be pretty strong i was in every single one of those tweets i could not believe those things being said to you there's some really mean stuff being said this is hey heavy is the head bro come on yep people we grew

up on the internet people have been saying very terrible things about me for a long time we will continue to understand that but like i didn't understand one. But it did kind of open my eyes like, man, they're going to... Oh, yeah. Yeah, we just got that target right on our face. You're going to start wearing fucking chain mail every day. I'm like, Stefan Diggs? Yeah, exactly. Got to wear Stefan

Diggs chain guards. Or Bruce could just update us on what his camp's emailing him so we know what the hell we're supposed to stay away from. Alright, let's get into it. Anyways, welcome to be here not canceled yet no no no no no no kirk herbstreet got a text uh he sent me a text this morning saying uh that uh he was told by uh a number that he did not know that he should distance himself from me uh because i'm a sinking ship because i won't apologize or delete a tweet from yesterday that is so vile and disgusting

that our ESPN deal might get canceled before it even starts. Herb said, what did you do? And I sent him the tweet back, and we have not talked since, but hopefully his kid works for us. Yeah, he might pull Jake out today. We'll see. We don't know. Come pick him up. Makes sense.

Wants him to graduate still. These people are so mad. I did not expect people to be so mad about that. Same. No. I've been misreading some stuff, though, because I've been in this like, excuse me, hold on, let's. All right, we're in India.

Wow. We're not doing what is Jim Irsay. Okay, okay. Holy shit. We're not doing it yet. It will be in this city here, Indianapolis. And Zeno tells me we'll actually be able to make these clods move. What? That's cool.

Make these clods move. Can we put in homeless people pooping on the street too? That's not happening anymore. They cleaned it up. I was this close. They cleaned it up. I was this close to human shit yesterday. Yeah, welcome to a big city, pal. Okay, that's the way it is. 2023. This is the small town. Have you seen Sam?

Don't say it. Watch it. I thought that's where Everton's in. you seen Sam? Don't say it. Watch it. That's where we're referencing. Don't try it. All right, let's dive in. Yeah, here we go. Enough of the fuckery, boys. No more bullshit. I'm kind of sick of us just bullshitting around. Yeah, I hear you. Let's get into sports

because there is a lot of stuff to talk about. Ladies and gentlemen, in Indianapolis, there is quite a situation of brewing. And it's not just brewing. It is at a boiling stuff to talk about. Ladies and gentlemen, in Indianapolis, there is quite a situation of brewing. And it's not just brewing. It is at a boiling point. Shout out. Yeah. Shout out to a boiling point where running back Jonathan Taylor has officially requested a trade.

Jim Irsay has come out and spoke about the running back market and how business is being done. And there's no better segment to kind of explain it all than what is Jim Irsay. Okay, so let's dive into how we got here. As we know, the running back market is one in which the running backs who are currently free agents and ones that have one year left on their contract apparently are very frustrated with the respect that they are getting financially. Now, we all very much understand that because as the game has changed away from the power football game into running back-centric football teams, it has now become wide open, throwing the ball, stable in the backfield, as opposed to just one guy carrying the load, which football has been for a long time. You can go through your head and name them, all the incredible running backs that put teams and cities on their shoulders

and ran to success and had an absolute blast doing so, becoming the face of programs and organizations. Now the quarterbacks are all the faces of the organizations. The quarterbacks are the ones that are kind of relied upon for every single success of your team. That's why the quarterbacks' contracts are so fucking absurd right now. Speaking of, we'll be talking to Justin Herbert of the Los Angeles Chargers in the third hour. He just signed a contract.

Five years, $262.5 million. Congrats to him. $133 million at signing. Justin Herbert walked in there with his sweet hair, signed his name. $133 million came into his bank account. Just a big old splooge into his bank account. $133 million that's because in the way the NFL is played now with the rules that are set up it's a passing league that's just what it is and if it's not a passing lead it's a zone read league which means you can have a stable running

back so therefore the position is not as valued as it has been in the past which we do not like for any player that is currently having to experience a transition phase in football James Harrison got fined millions and millions of dollars while he was transitioning to the new style of strike zone tackling. This has happened in numerous different occasions. Now it's the running backs kind of paying the piper for it. Now, Saquon Barkley agrees to an $11 million deal whenever the franchise tag that he could have taken would have been like $10 million.

And he said that him missing his team would have been a no-go, even though the running backs like a day beforehand were on a Zoom call with each other saying that they were going to reset the entire market, which leads us to a situation

in Indianapolis. Jonathan Taylor, who two years ago in 2021 was an MVP candidate for the Indianapolis Colts. Two years ago, he was the entire offense for the Indianapolis Colts. Two years ago, he was the entire offense for the Indianapolis Colts. But last year, he accounted for four touchdowns, and he played in 11 games,

and he had 800-some yards. Not his greatest year at all, but certainly a man that everybody knows is important to the Indianapolis Colts' success. Now, with the Indianapolis Colts, they had the number four overall pick in the draft. The team was the most boring team in football. And there is one particular operation in Indianapolis that paid $250,000 to watch that team every single week be one of the most boring, non-alive, stale, uninspired football teams of all time.

So hearing that Jonathan Taylor is mad alongside Saquon, Josh Jacobs, Austin Eckler, and Najee Harris, apparently, I, as an Indianapolis Colts fan, immediate reaction was like, now's not the time, JT. You just had four touchdowns. If this was two years ago, you come off that year, you're the entire offense. All Colts fans

understand like one quarterback after another after another it's a tough situation but number four overall pick terrible last year by his standards now publicly being standoffish with the team requesting a trade in the building not talking to anybody used to be the mayor of the Indianapolis Polts practice facility and training camp now not talking to anybody. Used to be the mayor of the Indianapolis Colts practice facility and training camp. Now not talking to anybody. Hoodie on away from it all. In April he said he signed the contract pen to paper. I'm going to go ahead

and fulfill my obligations to the Indianapolis Colts. I'm thankful to be here. Two, three weeks later he hires a new agent and everything changes is apparently how it looks from the outside in. And Jim Irsay ain't about it, about it. No. Jim Irsay actually had this to say from a golf cart at training camp. And at this training camp day, I believe he had a bunch of envelopes

with so much money inside of them. He was just handing them out to fans like Willy Wonka. Now, the people on the internet very mad at jim merce colts fans love jim merce so it's an interesting development but here's what jim merce had to say about the whole situation regarding jonathan taylor i mean if i die tonight and jonathan taylor's out of the league no one's gonna miss us the league goes on i mean you know we know that the national football rolls on. I mean, you know, we know that. The national football rolls on. It doesn't matter, you know, who comes and who goes. You know, and it's a privilege to be part of it.

And now is the time, you know, for us to do our work. It's now is the time as an organization and, you know, players that are, you know, 24, 25 years old. Now is the time to seize the moment of greatness. And look at, you know, both Jonathan and Quentin Nelson. I don't mind saying it. You know, they're two guys that have a legitimate chance of making the Hall of Fame. But there's a long way to go to get to that. Long way to go, brother.

So what is Jim Ur saying? So I think what he was saying there, although, you know, whenever he says, if I die, Jonathan Taylor's out of the league, it's a little bit of a different delivery. What he's saying is long after I'm dead and long after Jonathan Taylor is out of the league, the NFL will go on. The NFL does not care about me. The NFL does well care about me a little bit more than they care about Jonathan Taylor, obviously. But what is Jim Irr saying? He's saying like, hey, Jonathan, you're lucky to be here, pal, and when you're not here, the NFL will still be great. I don't

love it that Jim is saying this. I also don't love the tweet that Jim put out that was about the NFL market as a whole, but I think I understand why Jim Irr was doing it from his perspective. Here's the tweet that Jim Irr had. NFL running back situation. We have negotiated a CBA that took years of effort and hard work

and compromise and good faith by both sides. To say now that a specific player category wants another negotiation after the fact is inappropriate. Some agents are selling bad faith. So there's him kind of trying to take a shot at some of these agents, and this was coming immediately after the running backs were having that auto FaceTime Zoom call to kind of get on board with each other. And you've heard a lot of ex-players come out and say, you need to get rid

of the franchise tag. You need to do this. You need to do that. And Jim Irsay is actually in the position that where he stands. He told us that at the last owners meeting, there was somebody that said, hey, Jim, look at this picture. And in this picture was Jim Hersey's first owners meeting. And the guy told him, nobody else in that picture is around anymore. So Jim looked at that and Jim said, holy fuck, I'm the father of the NFL now. Yeah. I am the longest tenured owner in the NFL now. And then also in that interview with us,

he said he was telling the other owners, this is our league. This ain't their league. This is our, it ain't Roger Goodell's league. This ain't any of the, it is our league. Back in the day, George Hallis used to say, bam, bam, bam. He said, this is our league. We own it. We run it. That's what he told us immediately after telling us that he's the longest tenured owner in the NFL. Jim Irsay feels as if he is the spokesperson for the NFL, I believe, at this stage of life. Not saying it's right. I'm just telling you what the fuck Jim Irsay thinks in Jim Irsay's mind. And with that picture and him being around and the voting of every other owner into that room he has been a part of, he is going to be very confident with that.

He's the one that got Dan Snyder conversation expedited quicker. Came out publicly. Say, yep, yep, yep, brother. Yep, brother. And everybody's like, Jim, we love Jim Irsay. Commanders fans, I think PFT is actually buying two season tickets to the Indianapolis Colts from Pardon My Take in the middle of their grit week. Can't wait to see that.

But PFT said he's buying season tickets because Jim Irsay expedited the process of the Dan Snyder outing. So whenever Jim Irsay puts that tweet up about the running back market, I don't believe this is about Jonathan Taylor specifically in Jim Irsay's mind. I think Jim Irsay speaking as the voice of the NFLfl owners pretty much as the voice of the nfl hey we're not doing this anymore now what i would say to that is jim just fucking text woody johnson who's not in the middle of a running back yeah contract situation uh that is happening that you were referring to have somebody else say that not you so i think jim in the wrong voicing publicly his thing i don't think this is good i think jonathan taylor's agent is certainly bickering with an owner of a team the team that the person's on and is being associated with being the reason why jonathan taylor has basically become a toxic individual

inside of the indianapolis colts facility when just three months ago he was the greatest person inside of it now jonathan taylor has his three months ago, he was the greatest person inside of it. Now, Jonathan Taylor has his worst year as an NFL running back last year. So if you want to negotiate fresh off of that, I understand you want to get your money, you want to do your thing, you want to get an extension, you're supposed to do that. But I think it's gotten very ugly, and I think Jim Irsay, who views himself as the voice of the NFL, has dug his heels in because now it is being alleged that they are thinking about putting him on the NFI,

which is the non-football injury list, which means they don't have to pay him. And also, there's a chance that his contract just rolls into next year. He's supposed to be a free agent after this season? Nah, not if we put you. Your back hurts. Your back hurts. Remember? Remember, your back hurts.

Put you on NFI, we don't have to pay you, and this doesn't count as an actual year, so your contract's just next year. So if your agent wants to come ahead and shh, shh, shh, sounds good to me. We can do that. Now, he's requested a trade formally. Jim Mercy's come out and said we're not trading him. There's been a lot of threats at high levels. Seems like Jonathan Taylor's a new person.

He wants his money. I hope everybody gets paid. But it's ugly. And from what I'm hearing, doesn't seem like it's anywhere near being resolved, which is not good. Whenever you have a rookie quarterback, who's a fucking guy. I got a chance to go see him up at training camp. This dude is a dude. Everybody in the building loves him. Everybody equipment room, training room. You didn't really hear them talking much about the last couple of quarterbacks. Now you heard other people talking

publicly, but this is the first time I've heard from the entire building, this is a fucking guy. Works hard. He's quiet. I was actually there for this particular throw. I was standing with Chris Ballard. It was like play three of the team period. 55 yards, cross body, flick of the wrist. Alec Pierce is a dog too, by the way. We forget about him, but I literally punch

Chris Ballard with my left hand as this ball is in the sky, and I say like, congrats, dude. Like, that play right there was never available in the last four years. That play right there makes offensive linemen a little bit more excited to go to work. That play right there makes wide receivers a little bit more excited to go into the building. That play right there lets Shane Steichen, who I've been told by all parties,

good. Here we go. I've heard by all parties, like, hey, this is how we're doing this shit. We're not doing this way. We're not doing it this way. They're saying that about Gannon down in Arizona, too. I think Sirianni, pretty, even though people see him talk shit. Everybody's saying Shane's good. Everybody's seeing what Anthony

Richardson's able to do on defense and on offense, and they're pumped about it. Jonathan Taylor is the only guy that isn't kind of on board. Shane Steichen says he's not healthy. When he's healthy, he'll play football, but it's a fucking ugly situation over there, and I have no idea how it ends, but I wish that Jim would

err say less right now, and I think everybody is kind of on that same opinion. It does suck for running backs. They do get their production used against them in contract talks. There's no doubting that. But with Jim Ursa, the players love him too. I feel like there's kind of been...

He's paid everybody. Yeah, there's been some narrative because of this stuff that Ursa isn't a good players owner because of what's happening with Jonathan Taylor. And that's just not the case. I mean, you've talked about it. And a bunch of players who have played for a different team. Paying Andrew Luck $26 million after he retired. And this isn't, I don't think,

I think this guy should be er saying less. Okay, I want to let you know that. But this guy feels like he is er saying what everybody in the NFL owner's room is thinking. He is taking that upon himself. This is our league. He actually said it on this show. So like, I believe, personally,

you think about his relationship with Edge, Edge and James. You think about his relationship with Reggie. Like Reggie will have a job forever. Peyton, if he ever wanted to do anything ever with Jim Irsay, he would do it. If I, and I'm a punter, if I ever needed anything at all,

Jim Irsay would fucking like that. Vinny? To the Vinatieri, same exact way. Anybody that has ever done anything for the Colts, you go all the way back. He's bringing old motherfuckers back and give them cars and shit. Shit, I mean, hardballs in the Ring of Honor. I mean, Jeff Saturday was a head coach at the NFL. That's what I'm saying.

Jim Irsay, if you do stuff for the Colts, which Jonathan Taylor certainly has. Yes. Certainly. Two years ago, he was our offense. 1,800 yards, 18 touchdowns, I think. Last year, four touchdowns, 800 yards.

I mean, that's not great. But I think Jim's biggest issue, and if you think about where he is now in his life, I think he's re-energized, too, because his grandkids, I think he knows he's the oldest owner. The agent publicly, you know, like Jim should not have said the running back thing while he's in the middle of the running back thing. That's just bad business.

I think personally, even if you think you're the voice of the NFL, have somebody else say it. I don't think you should be the one. Now what he said though, coming from the owners, like... Makes sense. That's how they probably, like yeah, we negotiated. If you want to get us in five years whenever, coming from the owners, like. Makes sense. Yeah, like that's how they probably, like, yeah, we negotiated. If you want to get us in, like, five years, whenever this next one's up, cool. But right now.

Yeah. We set this back 10 years. You can see how the owners would say that. And there are numerous lawyers would say that any time negotiation happens. So I'm not saying it's right. Get rid of the franchise. I got a franchise tag. I fucking hate it.

Get rid of the franchise tag. Get rid of everything. Have the quarterbacks be in their own salary cap so they don't have to eat into everybody else's because whenever that salary cap got made bigger and percentages were changed, all it meant was that quarterbacks were going to get more money and then everybody else just kind of gets fucked.

So there's a lot to renegotiate and hopefully the guy who is the new NFLPA guy that I learned a lot about over the last two weeks, have you looked into this guy? No. I'm not going to say it because we might as well. I saw the company. His company had to pay the government a bunch of money.

Yeah. Like 350 million or something. He was CFO, right? Yeah. Who? Oh, come on. That's not great. I think this is all a legend, but I saw a headline.

I think. What's he doing? Is he buying up all the farmland and changing the cows? See, there it is again. Is that what it is? There it is again. Can't have it. Can't have it.

No, but hopefully in the next deal they're able to negotiate something that does kind of save other positions other than just quarterback and puts everybody in a much better position. So that's where Jim's coming from, from that particular tweet. I don't think he should have been one of the Senate. Jonathan Taylor in April saying, hey, all is good, and then not being all good a few weeks later and being like toxic in the building to people that consider him a friend like that's been the

biggest thing I think like hey Jonathan was like our greatest guy which he's probably saying like yeah I'm a good guy like also you should pay me in there now what everybody else is going to say is you had four touchdowns last year we have a brand new-new coach, brand-new system. We have no idea. Now, can they negotiate, like, a window? Like, I don't know how they get by this now. I don't know how they get past this situation, because it's gotten fucking brutal. And they're trying to start a new culture.

They're trying to build back a culture in there. Remember, you had guys gambling on games. You had guys showing up late to treatment, late to meetings. There was really no accountability seemingly in the building now jonathan taylor also one of the leaders of that team that kind of let that whole thing happen too which i assume jim is also bringing up but i don't know how to get past this i hope jonathan taylor gets paid we're lucky to have him on the indianapolis colts and uh it's ugly bro it is ugly that's why it makes no sense is because yeah like you you

understand that he wants to get paid especially after uh 2021 where he you know he wasn't a first round pick so he wasn't making as much as some of these other guys and he was arguably going to win mvp but it's tough to imagine that this isn't all because of this new agent that he hired kind of getting in his ear and saying like hey look what all these other guys and right after they had that zoom meeting nick chubb basically came out he was like yeah it sucks but we're not going to change anything he's like this is the way it goes this is the way it's going to go and he's a guy who's making you know either number one or he's the number one or number two paid running back in the nfl so it's just like the leverage and we talked

a little bit about it before the show like it's different for a guy like josh jacobs or saquon who coming off last year it's like okay you yeah you led the NFL in Russian you were a massive piece of like why we went to the playoffs and won a playoff game like you do so much for this team we need you and Jonathan Taylor has done that but it just reinforces what these guys are saying it's like you missed six games last year like what you want us to give you 16 million dollars a year like it's not going to happen and then trying to strong arm him and play hardball like it that is not helping your case at all. So I don't know how this all ends up, and I don't know Malky Kawa.

Yeah, that's right. I don't know him as an agent. It feels like an interesting move. It might end up all working out. I'm not 100% sure. But, like, if they were to trade him, which they've commanded. Now, they demanded a trade before the bus meeting. So, allegedly, the trade that was being demanded or commanded for

was announced like four or five days later. So, it wasn't publicly announced that they had requested a trade for whatever reason. I don't know why Jonathan Taylor's team didn't want it out or the Colts didn't put it out or somehow didn't do it because I thought they had that meeting in the bus at training camp, Jim Ursa and Jonathan Taylor, and then I thought, I thought Jonathan Taylor walked off that thing, sent a text,

like, give me the fuck out of here. Because that's kind of how the news kind of unfolded. Allegedly, the request trade was before then, and I have no idea how it gets fixed. I'm excited to hear what A.J. Hawk has to say in the next hour, but that was what Jim was Ursa-ing. I think. I hear what A.J. Hawk has to say in the next hour. But that was what Jim was saying. I think. I think it was.

Yeah. Just ugly. It feels like JT, if he would have just, I don't know, like there was no reason to do this right now because he probably would have gotten paid. Like if it just went through the normal cycle of contracts because Jim does pay his guys, you know? Like, I don't, it doesn't make any sense.

Unless he thinks, unless he really is in health and he thinks, hey, I'm not going to have another great year. I need the money now. But he's not going to get the money. If he doesn't get it from the Colts, he's not going to get it somewhere else. I forget. All you need is one team. Jonathan Taylor is a special talent. I'm a big fan of Jonathan Taylor.

Now, I don't like the way I've heard he's been treating others that have nothing to do with contract negotiations. Right. Or what people are getting paid. Don't love that, but maybe this is just how he has to do it so he remains firm in his conviction or whatever. But if it was a good trade, I mean, it'd be a sign-in trade because he's only got one year left. Nobody's going to pick him up for one year.

trade doesn't mean it'll be a sign-in trade because he's only got one year left nobody's gonna pick him up for one year so then you'd be banking on a team to want to pay you at this stage of the season of the nfl cycle yes and i guess zach moss who's running back for the indianapolis coach just broke his arm at training camp bam so i would assume jonathan taylor and them are just only going to get yeah more locked in now so how long does this brew for? Can they negotiate a negotiating period in the future? Like, hey, week 10, we'll talk. Mm-hmm. We'll see where we're at. Week 8, we'll talk.

Right now is not the time. No. Trying to learn a whole new offense. Right. Go get ready. Mm-hmm. We got a fucking rook quarterback. If you wanted this, we should have been doing this February, March, April,

which I assume Jonathan Taylor was. Yeah. But Jonathan Taylor then in April says, I'm going to play my contract. Yeah, I signed that line. Bro, that's a wild scene, dude. This guy's a fucking great football player. Yeah. And if we have him in the back with, hey.

Yeah, and Steichen's offense. He went out the best year of his career. I saw this AR guy with these eyes. Mm-hmm. He's fucking huge. 255 pounds. Yeah, that's massive. 6'4", 255.

We got real wiggle. Moving. And just like this at all times. Do you think he's going to start over the Gardner? Well, Jim said that on our show. Yeah, yeah. Jim was like, guys got to play. Yeah, that's true.

You know, they want to be slow with him, but also what we need is, you know, Peyton played a lot of college ball. He was 3-13 his first year. So, like, Jim was basically like, get him out there. But Gardner, hey, still got it. Great dude. Hey, there was some intro mania in there.

Yeah. And the boys tell me, like, Gardner's like, hey, if they want me to play, I'm going to go win games. Like, Gardner, I love talking to him. Had, like, five-minute convo with him. First time I ever chatted with him. Kindred spirits. He would do well in this particular program, but First time I heard a channel with him. Kindred Spirits. He would do well in this particular program, but all he cares about is ball.

Yeah, well, there you go. That's all we care about. I was like, hey, you were on the internet a lot like a couple years ago. I'm like, man, this guy's fucking awesome. Then he kind of fell away. He's like, yeah, man, I just want to focus on ball. That's fucking awesome. Beast.

Love him. He'll be in the league for 15 years because of that. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, for sure. Oh, he made some plays, too, that were like hilarious. Because he knows the offense inside out yeah right right so he and he's very super intelligent human being so he was making some plays i'm like god damn gardener's really good and i told ballard i'm like gardener's really good he was like the guy might have been our star

we didn't get a quarterback you know like we brought him in for yeah he's good i asked chris ballard at the training camp i said was anthony Anthony Richardson always the guy? He goes, yep. And he goes, I said it at the combine. He basically said it whenever he said, I don't think we have to move up to get our guy. Yes. In his eyes, he thinks he gave it away that he was drafting Anthony Richardson then. And I think we kind of maybe the next day overreacted and said that as well. But then we probably changed our minds 50 times. Because the Stroud stuff.

All of a sudden it was like, wait, CJ Stroud might be available at 3? Bro, what I was seeing from this motherfucker? Legit. He had some Lamar shit going on too. And I know everybody's just, back in the day if somebody could move, oh, it's Steve Young. Guy can move, it's Michael Vick. Guy can move,

it's Lamar Jackson. That is rude. That is fucked up to say because of how incredibly athletic these humans are these are aliens these are different football humans than everybody else like being able to move like that is not a it's not a normal thing for a quarterback because it's just like show hey who's got a fucking right how do you work on this and that and still maintain fluidity athleticism and everything like that not easy no just natural yeah you gotta you gotta be born right to do that this dude And that, and still maintain fluidity, athleticism, and everything like that. Not easy. No, just natural. Yeah, you got to be born to do that.

This dude, a lot of wiggle. And with Shane's offense, there's going to be. Exactly. And I think he likes it, too. I think he. 2.55 running downhill, too. Gets a little head of steam. I am too excited after watching that practice.

That 55-yarder thing I was there, as it's in the air, I'm punching Chris Ballard. I'm like, if I see this one time at Lucas Oil this year, that'll be better than all of last year. Yeah, worth it. That'll be better than all of last year. He had another one that he, like, pulled, and there was a big hole, and if he would have just taken it,

it would have been a 75-yard touchdown probably. It's like I thought about it at Lucas Oil, him just fucking wide open and as soon as he gets in the end zone, he's going to do that little backflip thing. I'm like, football's so much better. We're going to win six games. It is going to be fun to watch. There's a chance, though. Darius Leonard's back.

Shaq, sorry. Shaq Leonard's back. It's like, the vibes are very... That's why, even more so, with what's going on with Jonathan Taylor, it's like it sticks out because everybody – talk to the offensive line, them about with what they got potentially brewing and what Shane Steichen's saying, like, all in. Yeah. Defense, all in.

Everybody, like, super excited. Then you just see this guy in a hoodie who's, like, standing off, not talking to anybody. It's like who could be the best player on the team. It's like Shane Steichen's got to be the motherfucker. Yeah, Zach Moss was the backup.

So Jonathan Taylor's going to have that hoodie up even more. Yeah, even closer. What was that? Hope they get it figured out. Good luck out there.

Hour two will be on the other side with AJ Hawk. Can't wait to hear about how his trip was to Paris. Ooh, unbelievable.

Oui, oui, yeah. Tu es très fantastique en Paris. And joining us live from Manate Oui, oui, yeah. Tu es très fantastique en Paris. And joining us live from an attic in Ohio, Cultured Man. Very cultured. Not only is he the president of Ohio.

Yeah, of course. He's a college football national champion. He's a Super Bowl champion. He's a Ryder Cup winner. He's a man who's the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers. And now, a guy who just goes to Paris, France whenever he wants to. Wow. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk.

Oui, oui. Bonjour. Ça va, A.J.? Yep. You know way more French than I do. I never knew any French going over there, and I still don't, but I had a great time. A, B, C, D, U, F, J, O, E, J. I think it's J.

A, J. A, J. Hawk. Wee-wee. You're a fucking cultured dude. Did you think about moving over? Did you see a fit he had on? Oh, yeah.

Had a onesie on. Oh, yeah. So nice. Had a onesie on. It was sick. Was he there for the tour? Because I know that just happened, or maybe he's still happening.

No, he wasn't on. He might be there for the tour? Because I know that just happened or maybe he's still happening. No, he wasn't on the bike. He was maybe there for Fashion Week, bro. This guy had shorts, shirt, sweet shoes. Turquoise. Yeah, turquoise. Tealish. Yeah, teal. Where do you guys find this at?

Bro, he looks so cool. You look so cool over there. I hope you had a blast. How was the break, AJ Hawk? Oh, it was awesome. I mean, it feels like it's been two years since we've been here doing the show but uh yeah I got out there to Paris for about four days my wife's birthday we went with another couple it was sweet man honestly rode bikes walked everywhere it was uh we had a great time hell yeah how long is that flight over there uh like eight eight and a half pretty much

that's you know that's not bad did you take a little uh melatonin sleep over there did you get the pod what'd you do I mean yeah I tried to take yeah we got we believe me like this trip has been scheduled for a while for their birthday so we yeah we made sure we got like the lay down situation i got a big claustrophobic on the way over there your legs are kind of trapped in there i woke up a little bit the whole flight was asleep i had a brief you know panic attack in the bathroom started sweating luckily i sweated so much i still had five hours to go. I fell right asleep. Okay, good. Good.

Happy you got a little anxiety workout in halfway through the flight. And you looking, that pod is not real. Would have been amazing. You have a full freakout, I mean, on the plane. We would have obviously been very worried about you and hope you're okay. Think about turning it around? Yeah, did you think about walking up to the pilot and say, hey, listen, need you to turn this fucker right back around.

I seen a guy named Connor Campbell do this just the other day. AJ, you were the one that told me. That plane was like this, right? It wasn't like this. It was like this. It was. Our angle of attack was not in takeoff mode. We were leveling out at about 41,000, I believe,

when Con Man made his just absolute sweaty sprint to the cockpit to tell the guy, you better turn this thing around right now. That's amazing. We have video of the entire crew reenacting it. It'll be part of the Road to Tahoe. Oh, yeah. Presented by PXG Vlog that Foxy will put together. We've got some ESPY stuff in there now.

Oh, yeah. You know, that whole thing. And it is – that should be an incredible – I'm ready for the next Foxy flick. I'm also ready for some football information and football conversation. We're at a time where training camps are back, AJ. I'm going to save the question like, what's going through your mind the first couple days of training camp as a

football player? But what I am going to ask you about is, it feels like there's a lot of drama, AJ. I mean, Aaron Rodgers told Sean Payton, hey, how about you keep my coach's names out of your goddamn mouth. I enjoy that that's happening. I enjoy the fact that Sean Payton was probably doing this for Russell and for his team. There's a narrative out there that Sean Payton couldn't have been doing that because he came out and apologized and said he had his pundit hat on.

But I think both things can be true. And I think Aaron was coming out to not only do it for his coach but also to his teammates like hey this guy that just got dunked on by Sean Payton who we all have respect for like motherfucking knows what he's doing yeah middle of training camp if your credibility is just cut and sawed in half yeah while you're trying to coach that probably makes your life a little bit more difficult yeah and I know Sala came out was like well we they got us on a mile we don't play till week five and and kind of high-rooted it. But I think Aaron, and I respect this about Aaron, Aaron was like, this motherfucker needs to be addressed.

And he went in, AJ. When you saw it, how happy were you? What were your first thoughts? And how do you think this whole thing pans out between Sean, Aaron, Hack, and the whole crew? I mean, I think they all will be fine and get along just great. I know, yeah, I was a little surprised, I guess, that Peyton came back and said he kind of regretted his comments or whatever he said.

But I think – I know Lambeau wrote a great thing for one of the many, many sites and things that he writes for about how Sean Peyton, he feels like was doing a good job being a leader of taking it away from the players and everything, trying to, like, say, hey, it's a fresh start. This is all new. We all have a say, hey, it's a fresh start. This is all new. We all have a fresh, clean slate and all that, and he's trying to empower his players. Maybe that was part of it.

Probably. I don't know. But, I mean, I think everybody's fine. Aaron can say that. You're right, though. I don't want to stand up for a guy that he likes and a coach that he loves, but you're right. It sends a message to the rest of that team, that Jets team as well.

Okay. We're good here, guys. Don't worry. Yeah, we got a guy here i really like the guy everything we're doing is good like i understand everybody's thinking about the reaction from sean and his team which i would assume is like a hell yeah this guy's saying what we all would have wanted to say yeah for a long time i think that can be very very true but i think aaron's also saying that for like their behind the scenes joining us now might be a man who has a little bit more information about the behind-the-scenes. Are there any backdoor conversations going, hey, let's put our swords aside.

Ladies and gentlemen, a man who is on tour no longer with his wife around the world. Now it's around the NFL training camps from the NFL Network and NFL Plus. Big promotional push happening right now. Welcome back. We're all together. Football is here. Weekend. One of the hosts, we're all together Football is here, weekend

One of the hosts, Ian Rappaport What's going on, Rappaport? Oh, there it is, put it on there NFL Plus Hell yeah, you guys are killing it Nobody's seeing it Good NFL Plus pop yesterday With the Aaron Rodgers interview

From my guy Schrager On NFL Plus action Yeah, we saw it on NFL Plus Action. Yeah, we saw it on NFL Plus, too. We didn't see it on X. No, no, no. No, we didn't see it on X as a—and I posed this question yesterday, and I was genuinely asking. And, of course, because I was in the middle of getting canceled, everybody attacked me

for even asking the question. Oh, yeah, you're the first person that thought of this super funny guy making jokes about stuff. I'm like, all right, bro, get off. Legit. Yeah. Are we sending x's or tweets like i asked elon musk directly like hey we need some fucking information you're just gonna change something on my phone yeah my home screen was a blue fucking weird for a long time really weird i can almost not like it's very strange yes i need to know though like what am did he say? No answer. I just got buried. I mean, yesterday was a tough day on the air.

Well, it would sound like Zeet, too, actually, if we keep the tweets, but you just put an X instead of T-W. Oh, Paquito. Love. Zeet's back there. Anyways, we don't have any of those answers, but hopefully you'll have some answers. Sean Payton, Aaron Rodgers, Hackett, Sala, Broncos, Jets, week five, any conversations behind closed doors you think, hey, let's put swords down or is this just building for an epic

regular season matchup? I mean, I think probably everyone has said what they're going to say. I know Sean Payton said it, said it all. And you know, look, it's, I think what he said probably upset a lot of people. I know there was some plenty of coaches around the league that weren't happy to hear that just because coaches don't really talk like that. On the other hand, this is how Sean Payton speaks. And a lot of times it's, I'm not saying disparagingly, he just says what is on his mind all the time, which is why he was very good at Fox. And while it was not a great thing to say in the coaching community, he just literally said what he clearly thinks. And so like, I guess it was bad in our world, but I didn't totally hate it because like more guys should say what they think just like Aaron Rodgers literally did.

Rodgers was pissed and he said it, he supported his guy strongly and it's all okay. At least according to me, I thought everyone, everyone you know if you speak like that the real stuff you are going to upset people having said that we want the real stuff michigan state yeah sorry about it bingo aj i agree with what you're saying though by the way i agree with what you're saying i love it when sean payton came out and said it i was like fuck yeah dude yeah and like i'm obviously we are very tight with Aaron and now the Jets because of it. But Sean Payton saying that and Hack, like, we've been there since the Gold Zone. We know.

Hey, we've seen that. Hack's dad, too, I think, was one of the founding fathers of the West Coast offense. So, like, there's a lot of people that have respect for Hack, and we've kind of learned about him through this whole thing. But when Sean Payton, a coach, comes out and is like, this dude's slob, bro. This dude is absolute trash. Like, I enjoy it just from an entertainment standpoint.

But Aaron answering, love it. Absolutely love it. And hopefully week five will be epic. And both those teams, obviously, like, I don't think the Broncos have made the playoffs since 2016, I think. Since they won the Super Bowl, Peyton. Whatever year that was. 15, 2015.

Haven't made the playoffs since then. Jets are, you know, that's why this is all so awesome. Dalvin Cook's just walking around practice. Dalvin Cook's not signed to the Jets, but I'll go to meetings. I'll go to meetings. I'll start learning the shit. We'll figure it out. We'll do that.

Jets fans are like, Dalvin Cook, Aaron Rodgers. We got everybody trying to want to come here. What a time. So both these teams and their fan bases have been in absolute dog shit for a while. And now this type of stuff's happening. Broncos fans, whenever they heard with Sean Payton, they had to be like, oh, yeah, here we go. And Jets fans, with what Aaron's saying, they had to be like, boom, here we go.

So to your point, I love it. AJ, your question for Rap Sheet. Ian, getting back to the Broncos, have you had any early reports on how they've looked on the field, like what the football has looked like? How has Russell looked in the had any early reports on how they've looked on the field? Like what the football has looked like? How has Russell looked in the Sean Payton system and what they've been doing? Like, is it all positive or what?

I mean, I'm going to get there in, I think, a week or five or six days. I'll be there. I'll get to see myself, which will be good. It seems like it's been good. I mean, it's a big undertaking I know for Russ you know it's not really going to be like it's it's another offense but it's a you know coach who I think does things at a very high level and hopefully this is good for him and Russ has looked like he slimmed down a little bit hopefully going back to kind of his his core where he could move around and throw on the run and kind of get outside the pocket and all that I think it's going to be better. It sounds like it has looked better. Now we'll see what happened with Tim Patrick. He went down with an injury a couple minutes ago, which the reporters there, it sounded

not very good at all. So he had been having great camps. We'll see what that was like. But it seems like early on it's going OK. OK, so we'll talk about the injuries that have already happened in some camps. Some big names, obviously Joe Burrow, Jalen Ramsey at the top of that. Now you list off that one in Denver. And also today, Moss, backup running back for the Indianapolis Colts,

I guess broke his arm in practice. He was carted off. Godspeed with the arm. That is no fun at all. That's a broken bone that heals at its own time. So sorry, but that obviously adds a little dash of ooh in it. It's a little dash

of ooh, ooh, ooh to a situation that's already the running back room for the Indianapolis Colts with Jim Irsay and Jonathan Taylor. Now, we know in April, Jonathan Taylor said, I put pen to paper. This is my contract.

I'm going to play through it. Then we know a couple weeks later, he gets a new agent, Malky. Kawa. Kawa. Okay, Malky Kawa. Now, allegedly, he completely changes his position. I mean, apparently that is the case at this point. Changes his position.

Has become a bit of a toxic human around the building. Doesn't talk to anybody. Hoodie up. Staying away. Isolated. Kind of quite a distraction for a brand new head coach and a brand new quarterback. But he feels as if he needs to get paid right now. So, with all this happening, what do you know?

What do you think is next? And how do you think it ends up? Okay. First of all, I was in Indy. You were not there. You were there the day before. But I was in Indy when all this went down. It was surreal because, you know, I knew he was on the bus with Jim Irsay.

I knew kind of what was happening. And I had heard but wasn't 100% sure that he had asked for a trade a couple days before. But I believe he wanted to talk to Irsay face-to-face before anything kind of happened. And then I'm about to report the trade request. But Jim Irsay is literally talking to reporters over there, like 20 feet to my right. So I kind of had my finger

on the button, but was waiting for him to get done with reporters before I tweeted. Just because, I don't know, it's not fair to ambush someone like that. I don't want to drop it in the middle of a press conference. I don't like doing that. So that all happened. Thank you, Rap. all happened. Thank you, Rap. Great guy.

Thank you, Rap. Really appreciate it. Hey, way to go. What a guy. Thank you, Rap. That's amazing. Superstar. Nobody else does that.

No, nobody does that anymore. Shiver is not dead. Class. Give him an award. Thank you, Rap. Would everyone do that? I don't know. I'm not judging how nice it was that I did it.

I'm saying that's what happened. Well, your NFL plus is finest for good reason. New standard. Nobody's watching that. You guys need to just fucking cut it out. Just go straight to NFL Network. Yeah, I'm sure they're telling you fake numbers. Nobody has seen any of that.

Is it an app? Is it an app? How do you get it? It's an app. It's not. Nobody downloads it. An app has to be downloaded by people. That doesn't happen.

You guys need to put all the effort that you put in the NFL Plus on NFL Network and on all your socials. Also. Huh? We do that also. Also high level. Two high level programming things. Just put it all together. You guys are on TV for 40 hours a day

But I get it NFL Plus is going to be a very valuable commodity Especially come preseason You got those out of market games you want to watch Audio, yeah, radio, marketing I can get my iron coat back Preseason you watch Double boy

You will get on board And then you will call me And you'll be like NFL Plus is going I'm waiting. You will get on board, and then you will call me, and you'll be like, we love NFL Plus. NFL Plus is going to get sold with the NFL Network, and it's going to get bundled into another app, and the NFL Plus is going to be remembered for taking up great content when it should have been on NFL Network. But I love the business move, Rog.

Hell yeah. It's a good business move, Rog. It's a good idea because all the people that are potentially going to buy are streaming platforms who want apps. It's smart. But with that being said, let's put a little bit more effort in what people are going to see. Please. Just run that shit on social.

Come on. Make it simple. Have NFL Plus have a Twitter account and just run it live on the Twitter account. Exactly. Nobody's downloading, which is what they want us to do. But anyway, you're a hero here at NFL Plus. You knew that the trade was already requested. I think Josina Anderson reported that it was requested on like the 29th or something.

Then Stephen Holder followed up. And then you obviously didn't want to break the news in the middle of a press conference. You waited until afterwards to talk to Jim Irsay. But that news came out immediately after Jonathan Taylor and Jim Irsay were on that bus. So I, as a human at home, maybe on some edibles of CBD, because I'm here in Indiana, I think, oh, no, what did Jim tell John on that bus? Because on that bus, you assume there's some good guitars.

You assume there's good vibes. Probably Sigs, yeah. I mean, he spoke two in one interview. Yeah, he probably is one of those fans that AJ has in there to do that whole thing. But then for Jonathan Taylor to walk off that bus and be like fuck that get me out of here get me like that was alarming the way it kind of all rolled out it was not like that is this salvageable or what is it you think well first of all i think he wanted to talk to ursae i don't want to put words in jonathan taylor's mouth but my understanding of the situation is wanted to talk to ursae first

you know because you never know what an owner is going to say. You want to have these man to man conversations. What if he says, you know what, we are going to rethink things we would like to pay you. That might change. That would change the calculus. Right. So is it salvageable? I would say history says that it is. The Daniil Hunter situation in Minnesota was very bad. I was pretty clear it was going to be traded. I don't think he wanted to be there. He had a good relationship with Kevin O'Connell always, but with other people in the organization, not as much. And then cooler heads prevailed. They got it back together. He got a nice deal and he's back. These things can be fixed. I just don't see how right now like it is you know the stories of

like sort of threatening that he's going to be put on nfi you do not see that a lot from a team i was surprised saw that hey that's real that's like them digging their heels in right yo right because basically what that means is what they are alleging and and the reports i believe cited team sources well chat with the guy that reported this, Chap has been covering the Colts since 1980-whatever. Okay. So he's OG in the Colts media. He's very plugged in.

He's the one that does the Hall of Fame presentation. He's the one that has the vote. Like, Chap is OG media guy here for the Colts. He's the one who reported that. So he's not getting that information from anybody probably other than Ursa, if we had to guess, right? That's what we're all kind of thinking here? I don't know, but he is

very, very, very well plugged in. So they do that and first of all, I'm like, because basically what they're alleging is is that he had a non-football injury that he didn't tell them about. And the only way that they could put him on NFI is they could do it with a failure to disclose, which is alleging that he not only suffered a non-football injury, but then didn't

tell him about it. And then he came out with a tweet and said, that's not the case. Not real. Basically, if you're on NFI, they don't have to pay you. Like that's a big, that's a big shock. And the year doesn't count, right? Next year, he'll still be on contract, right? Is that real or no?

Yeah, I think that's right also. Yeah. Yeah, that would be wild that that even exists. It's wild that that exists for that CBA negotiation. Hey, the boys have questions about stuff right now. AJ, I don't know if you've seen this. New NFLPA president? Something happened with the previous... about stuff right now. AJ, I don't know if you've seen this. New NFL PA president?

Something happened with the previous... What was it? You were probably in Croatia or something. Yeah, smoking weed. Swimming. Yeah, I mean, Croatia's awesome. Slovenia was great too, by the way. Add that to your list.

That place was incredible. Yeah, well, I have a kid now. I'm not just going to ship her off to the woods for seven weeks so me and my wife can go on a world tour. Like a machine gun Kelly or something. Not a bad idea. But I do appreciate that you guys did it. It looked like an absolute bust.

I'm happy I got to travel the world with you. What's that? Did they come back yet or are they still out there? So he's at the papers. I think Leah's still... Oh, the kids you're talking about? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, are the kids back? It's real. Are they in the woods?

Two more weeks. Geez. They come back, Max and Jude. What you guys do while we're in the woods with no service? Ah, well, we're in Italy, Slovenia. I've been in Indy, Cincinnati, Carolina. Lived my life. We hated it, though. We really missed her.

Nice, too. The kids probably go back to school, you know, day after, so they don't even get any time to spend with, you know, mom and dad. It's all right, go to school now. Anyway, so while you were in one of these countries on a world tour, okay, without your kids, while your kids, once again, are in the woods somewhere learning how to fish and chop wood. Right.

And stuff like that. Labor camp. For seven weeks. For seven weeks or whatever. Like, there was something that came out about the NFL PA president, right? Did I see that or was that a false headline? I saw that. It was a, and I don't, you know, this is not necessarily my world,

but it was a lawsuit for the company that he used to work for. That's what you're talking about? Yeah. What was it though? You remember? I don't want to say it because I don't want to mess it up, but I did read about it. And, you know, I was wondering if the NFL, NFL PA had talked about,

I don't believe anyone's talked about it publicly. So I'm kind of where everyone is, which is just reading about it. Yeah. Cause I saw it pop up on my phone and I go, all right, here we go. Cause allegedly he's allegedly we've been in these waters. Yeah. Especially with what's cooking now too in my world yeah is the case still going on with this guy or no i think it's already i think it's oh

it's done it's over yeah it's not with him with the company but yeah but he was cfo of the company right and it was a money thing where they found isn't that right well you know what it was right you know more than me yeah i um it was i know it was the lawsuit and i thought it was a settlement but i would probably screw it up aj i think what i read was and i'm not 100 sure because once again i saw this on the internet report and who knows what internet reports are real or not but his company x company is gonna have to pay like 350 million to government for some fraudulent something oh and he was the CFO of the thing. Oh, so NFLPA got a guy.

They have a dog. Sounds like we got a dog. Yeah. But he got caught, I think. I think they got caught. I don't know if he was in the know or his department or something. But that came out and I immediately was like, this is the guy that's going to be negotiating with Roger? It says this is from PFT.

And by PFT, I mean Pro Football Talk. New NFLPA Executive Director Lloyd Howell was previously the CFO at Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz Allen has agreed to pay $377 million to settle a claim that it overcharged the federal government. All right. All right, Lloyd. Lloyd, you can't be doing that. You're going to get caught. Good move.

To the man. Sorry about it. What was it? Like $6 billion accounting error happened. Oh, yeah. That's right. It was like $6 billion accounting error. $377., that's right. It was like $6 billion accounting error. $377.

I guess you got to take your shots, Lloyd. Exactly. All right, so I'm not worried anymore. Respect. Got caught. Trying to help his company out. Certainly did get caught. Connor has a question for you about what's going on right now

and money and everything like that. Yeah, for sure. And, you know, maybe Lloyd was pissed about, you know, the COVID summer. That's kind of how he's trying to get back at it. But rap sheet with the Herbert deal. What's your problem, dude? We're already in the cross. I know, but we were just talking about it.

Was there cocaine in the White House? Well, there was definitely cocaine. But a bit. Oh, whoa. People were asking. Don't need to talk about it. People were asking what was in the punch bowl. I saw that film and stuff you were talking about.

They filmed everything. Why is that guy going to be on camera for everything? Never mind. Let's get into. What guy? You know stuff you were talking about. They filmed everything. Why is that guy going to be on camera for everything? Never mind. Let's get into. What guy? You know who we're talking about. H.B. You know who we're talking about.

Goes out in the woods and hunts a lot. Why is this guy on camera all the time? If you're smoking crack behind the wheel of a Porsche and you're going 180, you're going to want to document that. Show that to your friends. Probably. Dude, that was making its way into my timeline. Oh, yeah.

And I'm like, well, I think it was Twitter at the time. You know, I think it was Twitter still at the time. Oh, okay. Yeah, true. But I'm like rolling through there. I'm like, why is this guy naked on my thing? And then I'm like seeing, I'm like, this guy's naked everywhere. It's everywhere.

See him and his lawyer? See, no. We don't even need to talk about it because my algorithm is about to pick it up. His lawyer was See, no. We don't even need to talk about it because my algorithm is about to pick it up. His lawyer was ripping sweet bongs. Yeah, his lawyer was taking fucking huge poles out of this bong at his house. It was sweet.

Anyways, Ian, that's not what we're here for. We need to stay away from that stuff. Because listen, we are in the crosshairs. That's what I learned yesterday. That's what I learned yesterday. So I want to draw my line in the sand. Yeah, I mean, I guess we could just take it or we just say no.

No. That's what you're saying. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but that's kind of out of our realm with that particular thing. Not my small town. That ain't happening here. All right, enough. Okay, we can't have that either.

That's a touchy subject. It is. That's a good point. Okay, no music. We're not talking about music either. No music. Anyways, Connor, please ask your question. We're talking about sports.

All right, Mitch McConnell. Rap Sheet, when you're thinking about what happened to him, did you have any information on that? I haven't looked into that. That happened while we were gone. He got hit with the fucking men in black thing and just stood up there and didn't know what the hell was going on. That guy's in charge of stuff, right?

Oh, yeah. A lot of stuff. Important stuff. What are we doing over there? How's that going on. That guy's in charge of stuff, right? Oh, yeah. A lot of stuff. Important stuff. What are we doing over there? How's that the thing? That world's supposed to be smarter than us. Much smarter than us. That world, like, is much smarter than me.

I wear a tank top. I talk about sports. Who's this guy? Said Skip Bayless, said dead body at the ESPYs. This guy is disgusting. And then all of a sudden, we got this guy making decisions in that world? Yes. This was a little was what happened what

happened ian well how'd this work isn't talking a pretty big part yeah big part especially when you're at a podium if he suffered a uh a medical situation obviously you hope that he's okay you're right we hope for sure thanks yeah well his team came out and said yeah he took a breather came back yeah sharp as a tack good what do you mean? Take one of our playbook. We hope everyone's alright. We hope nobody dies. Yeah, we hope everyone's okay. Took him to the back and changed his depends. He pooped his pants up there. It happens. Big deal. I feel like as somebody

that doesn't pay attention to the political world at all, really. This is both sides now, right? This one's from the one side, and then you got the president and whenever i'm the videos that are being shown to him how are these people the ones making decisions for like ian don't you have any smart friends that are supposed to be doing aren't the smart people supposed to be handling this what are you guys doing it's this actually this obviously

is not my realm but it has led to not hard either columbia what do but it has led to a discussion of should there be term limits? Should there be age limits? These are the people running our country. I don't know any of the answers, but on both sides, there are examples of maybe someone else. You know, like, isn't there some, and like the country going, perhaps like suspended immediately after this. You're going to get canceled for this. Oh boy.

I'm saying that there are discussions. There are discussions going on in the country about these topics. Get rid of all the old people. Get rid of all the old people. There's a lot of good old people. Make them retake their driver's license test and don't run the country. That is the first one for sure. They are a lot. Make them do 50 push-ups.

And more condoms at their retirement homes because they're spreading STDs. That's real. They're allowed to sling whatever they want. Why would they need condoms? They live whatever they need to live. What's that, Rap? The clap is in right now. How many of you guys can do 50 push-ups in a row?

I cannot. I bet you could. I bet he-ups in a row? I cannot. I bet you could. I bet you could. I could probably do that. No way. Rap, you weigh 122 pounds. Yeah. You could probably do 40 pull-ups.

Not after that. You're even blinking. Yeah, I know. I saw you eating and boozing in four different time zones. It was really remarkable. Anyways, we hope smart people figure it all out. Yeah, good luck. Please, come on.

In a profession that is literally talking and communicating, we should get people that are able to do that. I agreed. And every time your guys' world, you smart people's world, comes into my world, I assume it's your worst moment, so I do apologize for judging that. Can't have it, though. Nope.

Can't have it happening. Connor has a question for you about football and about money. Yeah, rap sheet. Obviously, some of the big news over the last couple weeks was the Herbert deal. Got paid a bunch of money, and it's awesome. And now there's only one quarterback left, really, from this conversation back in April is Joe Burrow. Is he going to have a contract similar to Herbert?

Is he going to go over and reset the market once again and be the highest paid? Or is the idea that he is going to have a more team-friendly contract so they can hold on to guys like T. Higgins and Jamar Chase probably more realistic here? Okay, so the Herbert contract was really nice. It was a five-year extension, so add that to what he already had. I would expect Bro to go over him there are ways to structure it um to make it so the team can keep their guys because they really do have a lot of players i mean that teagans who's up for an extension now they have jamar chase who will be probably next year there's a couple other players i mean trey hendrickson got a raise this year and an extension um there are ways to do it but i have a hard time imagining herbert's era burrow is

anything but the highest paid player in the nfl when it's done you know that said i mean he's got an agent who has brian ayrault as the agent he has both bosses nick bosa currently holding out joey bosa previously held out um he is, you know, these things take time. And I will imagine there are some strong lines in the sand being drawn. I don't get the sense anything is imminent, imminent. But eventually when it gets done, if it gets done, I do believe he'll be the highest. Hell yeah, he will deserve it all. I like though, and you say his agent takes his time and we'll kind of we'll do business and

in a certain fashion with the bosses and everything like that i really appreciate the fact that he's waited and now lamar's done yeah lamar said jaylen's done lamar's done herbert's done now there is the hey here's comps here's literally here's comps because before everybody every quarterback was just negotiating against Deshaun being the Deshaun deal. And then everything else that's happening. Now it's like actual comps to kind of compare and feels like the market

has settled back in. And I know nobody's happy that it isn't all fully guaranteed money like Deshaun Watson was able to get at the highest value of all time. Yes. Mulageta, that son of a bitch mula get the was able to make it happen uh but i do appreciate that joe burrow now has the ability to have options speaking of joe burrow and options uh tongue digs has a question yeah

and there's only been no so far that we've heard for quarterback season two are you hearing of any yeses or anyone that we can see on quarterback season two are you hearing of any yeses or anyone that we can see on quarterback season two because season one was pretty good pretty good um i i don't know i was reading something this morning did peter king somebody reported that i think no girl might yeah jpa football did yeah they said peter king reported it, and then... Did he not report it? Well, we put our splunker, Gumpy, on the case to find the Peter King quote. Like, hey, where'd Peter say this? We couldn't find it anywhere.

Then we go back into the article. I think Peter King was edited out of the article because whenever Peyton came on our show... Here's a little inside baseball. Here we go. When Peyton came on our show, here's a little inside baseball. When Peyton came on our show and said that season two has been approved. Greenlit. Greenlit for Netflix.

And we're like, oh, that's big news. We clip it. We put it out. We get email from some people like, can you please take the clip? You don't have to do that whole thing. We have not been greenlit for season two. We have not been greenlit for season two we have not we have not been greenlit for season two so you know so we have to take that tweet down then we go on two

and a half week break yep and we're six days into that thing seven days in that thing and people are like oh shit Peyton Manning after everybody watched quarterback one it's like is there gonna be a two yeah Peyton Manning has already confirmed it's going to be that. So then that kind of ran, and I'm like, do I stop all of this? Because I hadn't seen it for like 24 hours, so it had already built. I had my phone down, and it had like seven – I think one of them had 7,000 retweets and another one. They were gone. These things were gone.

It was out there because of how good season one was. I think everybody was very excited. The timing of it, you felt like you were in the middle of the season again. You got to relive some shit. I mean, it was like perfectly done by Omaha and NFL Films and Netflix getting involved there. So we were told to take it down, then they broke the news. Then one account was like, it was confirmed on Pat

McAfee's show by Peyton Manning, season two's happening, and then also gave out three quarterbacks that it was going to be as if it was in the news break from Peyton, and that thing also was already gone. So so like there's been a lot of shit kind of reported and about quarterback season two but a lot of it has been that this person said no this person said no this person said no this person yeah no is that what you're thinking or what do you know yeah I mean I've seen some of those comments it's it's kind of annoying honestly i love season one and like as a football

dork like i think we all are i i want everyone to be on it like it was so good i don't necessarily think it's disruptive i mean how hard is it like a couple cameras follow you at home maybe super bowl guy won a super bowl doesn't matter and an mvp yeah super bowl and mvp season one doesn't matter like hardbox Hardbox Has been battling that But the pitch about it not being a distraction When a guy in the first season wins a Super Bowl And MVP, that's an easy sell Easy sell, I think

No, I agree And like, you know, I have a new appreciation For Kirk Cousins For sure And Mahomes too It's so good Whoa, okay Well, too. It's so good. Oh, did you like Mariota? Whoa.

Okay. Well, Mariota was good. Yikes. Hates Polynesian people. Hates hooses. Unbelievable. Son of a bitch. Oh, my God.

Didn't vacation over there. We didn't see him flying over there. No. Wow. Interesting. Do not put me on that island. Bad mana. No way.

The best lunch I've had was in Hawaii, okay? I wish. Giovanni's Shrimp Truck, literally the greatest lunch in the history of the world. Oh, so not even something? Yeah, the food. Okay. Giovanni's. People stink.

Oh, God. The Italian guy with the shrimp truck. Anyways, Marcus Mariota, thank you for documenting all that. Yeah. Pregnant, cut, like all that. Injured. Thank you, Marcus Mariota. Althoughregnant, cut, like all that. Injured. Thank you, Marcus Mariota.

Although Ian of NFL Plus does not appreciate it. Love you, Oos. We certainly do. But to your point, Kirk Cousins, awesome. And Patrick Mahomes, absolute dog. I enjoyed, now Tone did not like this particular part, but I enjoyed learning about his dad a little bit more. His dad dog.

Yes. His dad's a fucking dog. The man. His dad as a pitcher was a dog and I think as a human, a guy that I would like to probably have 10 to 15 Coors Lights, I think is what he was slamming with. Love everything about him as a professional athlete. Think he's the reason Patrick is Patrick or whatever.

What? Sean Payton just said that his fear is that Tim Patrick tore his Achilles. Oh, no. Second year. Yeah, non-contact. Non-contact, and he went down.

That's the worry. We were all worried about that with Joe, right? Like, when he saw that Joe Burrow video, I had Achilles nightmares as soon as I saw it. Well, it's interesting. I'm on the road talking to coaches and obviously that was a big topic. And they all said the same thing that when his toe was pointing up, he's hobbling and his toes pointing up.

They're like not an Achilles. Cause if it was an Achilles, it'd be pointing down. Like watch. Yeah. Up, up. See?

What? What? What? So it's not like, and I didn't, you know, I've never looked for that, but like,

I guess these guys, you see, unfortunately these things enough, you know what to look for that, but I guess these guys, you see, unfortunately, these things enough, you know what to look for. Yeah, see, I guess that does make a lot of sense because the Achilles holds it up and people become very loose-footed. But if you tape your ankles, you know what I mean? So I appreciate that person acting like they are the smartest human of all time. I do respect that. And that is certainly a good observation.

But I think I've seen an actual achilles in front of me with uh they are the scariest oh who was it uh vick ballard i think oh i remember that i like vick ballard love love vick ballard dog incredible football player non-contact achilles oh fuck that is that is one that is tough to get back. We hope old buddy in Denver is better. Godspeed. That is a terrible situation. For the Joe Burrow one, he already had a sleeve on his calf. I wonder if there was – did you guys report something on NFL Plus about –

and nobody saw it, that there was something already going? A lot of people watching. I believe he had some soreness, which Zach Taylor said is kind of normal, but I think he had some soreness and then taylor said is kind of normal but i think he had some soreness and then you know had a little bit of a little bit of a strain so i would imagine related but that's you know early in camp like that's unfortunately what happens he's back before season that's what it seems like i haven't talked to anyone who's like nervous about the first week like my guess is he's back a little bit before that but hopefully when the next time he's on

the field he's already rich but hopefully the next time he's on the field, he's already rich, but hopefully the next time he's on the field, he is a lot richer. Yeah. We all hope everybody gets paid a bazillion dollars. AJ has a question for you, rap rap.

Want to go back to Nick Bosa. You mentioned him. He's having an old school holdout, right? Where he's not even going in the hold in where you stand there and you don't practice. How do you see this thing playing out and how long do you think this goes on?

He obviously has a ton of leverage because of what he's done on the field. Yeah, I mean, I have not heard anything as imminent. John Lynch talked today and said— Big deal. Uh-oh. He said—I don't know. It was either Kyle or Lynch. I'm sorry.

Said we should have some patience. Usually, if they're saying we should have some patience, it means nothing is happening just yet. You know, these things generally happen as you get closer to the season. So he's getting fined, but I believe because he's currently on his fifth year option, if a deal gets worked out, the fines could be potentially waived. Whereas like Chris Jones or Zach Martin who are on veteran deals, their fines cannot be waived.

So Bosa's can. So I would imagine closer to the season, but this is another one like Nick Bosa is awesome and deserves all of the money. Yeah. He's a jungle cat. He is only getting better at this stage of his career. Somehow him sitting out week one,

it seems like would help the Steelers. I see Tom Diggs' brain helping out there. Kyle Shanahan runs that team, right? So it's Lynch's job to do the negotiations and lead counsel. Who is dealing with that on the day-to-day? Is Kyle involved in that as well? I don't think Kyle. A lot of times, as you get deep in negotiations, it's the cap guy.

Brian Hampton is theirs. And then they have Parag Muradze, who's their CLO, president, basically the person in charge. I would imagine he's probably pretty hands-on too. It doesn't necessarily help things if the GM or the coach is involved because it gets tense. A lot of times those guys step in at the end when it's about to be good, and then they get to do the handshakes and stuff.

Yeah, they get to do the high fives, although it doesn't sound like that's happening in Indianapolis at all. In Green Bay, though, there's a new turn, a new transition, a new era that's allegedly starting good. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Rap Sheet, per everything we've seen online, Jordan Love just looks night and day different from where he was at last year. He's really kind of starting to come into his own. I think Peyton's actually there in Green Bay today a lot

of people are speculating it might be for quarterback season two uh who knows though but what have you heard and kind of what's the conversation around the NFL in terms of Jordan Love and and kind of what we've seen from him so far in camp yeah I think a lot of basically the thought is kind of like looks good we have not seen nearly enough um because like i remember two years ago he played in a i think it was a he was a kind of like a covid replacement i believe um was that two years ago anyway he's played only a little bit didn't play well played last year in a couple series looked good and so far has looked really good and i think at

camp you know early returns are it's been pretty promising but like you just quarterback is so hard it's all hard but quarterback especially is so hard there's such ups and downs you have to be able to like withstand the roller coaster maybe as much as just do it so like there's cautious optimism um but like rogers is amazing and it even took him a little bit to become aaron rogers so like there'll be some growing pains i imagine but everyone seems pretty positive there geez just hang from the guys nuts good lord louise i mean what are you doing i mean geez hey oh aaron's amazing what are you we're supposed to say that we post a couple highlights from the Jets camp on Instagram

or Twitter or whatever like 30 comments are just like Aaron on everything Aaron so leave it all there best quarterback of all time so the guy, four time MVP new games what's that pal?

I have some bad news. He is very good at football. And, like, if you post highlights, they'll probably look very good. And we are, yeah, they're called highlights. And we're a football operation outfit. Yeah. He's, bro, huh? I know Jordan Love has a chance to be great.

No, honestly. I've loved watching Jordan Love in interviews. I think he talked to, like, Schrager or somebody, or I don't know who from NFL Network that he chatted with at training camp. He looked calm. He looked cool. Every answer was sweet. Like, I think he's going to be a guy.

But we've all seen this, Packers fans included. Like, seems like this is a pretty pissed off Aaron Rodgers. Well, and I thought I'd hate it. Like, I love how much fun he's having and how, like, you know, reinvigorated and re-energized he is. Like, he is going to have a fucking unbelievable year, and it's going to be awesome to watch. Ty got to hang out with him out of Tahoe at the Haas for a bit, you know.

So, this is the first time I think Ty and Aaron have got to hang out for a while. So, I'm sure Aaron learned a lot about Ty. Probably. And I think Ty learned a lot about Aaron. How was that, by the way? Well, AJ's a lot about Ty. Probably. And I think Ty learned a lot about Aaron. How was that, by the way? Well, AJ's a stick. AJ. AJ, 47th place.

Right, AJ? Isn't that what it was? Something like that, yeah. I mean, if that's good, then I don't know. So AJ comes in 47th place. After the weekend, we see the scores. I guess there's an app to see where the scores are. And AJ, who played, we were obviously with him all three days.

Fucking phenomenal. Lights out. We're talking putting in from like the rough hole one, day three, like just chipping it. He would hit it over an entire set of woods and somehow, like the golf gods were on his side all weekend. For sure. He would somehow have

a clear path over somebody else's tee box and he would put it to like seven feet and then make him putt saving par we're getting points we're out of here like great golf the entire time smashing drives killing it comes to 47 points agent goes wow what do you got to do yeah that's much good i was thinking the same thing when I heard you were 47. I was like, AJ's got to be fucking top 20. Seriously. Top 20. I'm seeing the way you're golfing.

I'm like, this guy is killing it. Yeah. It's like, well, 46 people were doing better than he was. I'm like, where? Excuse me? Where are these fucking people? It's hard. It's a hard game, Ian.

It's a hard game. It's a hard game. Did you play any over there in your world tour? No, I haven't played. I played at Torrey Pines when I was in LA a couple of weeks ago. Oh, dude. All right, let's get out.

Did you walk it? I got to start walking more. My toes were bruised. I had bruised toes. Didn't we have this conversation last year? You got to start walking. Get some good golf. He will never do it. You will never. He will never do it. You will never walk. AJ, we've decided.

Next year. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I'm doing it. I'm ready for next year. I'm ready. Let's turn a four-and-a-half-hour round into a six-and-a-half-hour round. I'm not going to miss this thing.

No. No, never. AJ. What do you mean? He's super fast. Bro, how about him? Ian, this guy is laying four.

200 yards from the hole. Par four. I'm not playing good, but I'm not going to hold everybody up. Me and AJ are up on the green. He's 200 yards behind us going for bogey. He has to chip in for this hole to matter at all.

Two club changes. Two club changes. Two club changes. And also trying to read the wind on whether he wants to fade it or draw it in. And we're like, come the fuck on, Miz. We almost got the clock put on us on a celebrity golf tournament. Never seen it before in my life.

Never happened before. Unbelievable. We appreciate you, Ian. Good luck today on NFL Plus. Nobody's going to see it, but if anything good happens, we'll see it on Twitter. That's right. Bingo. Oh, sorry. Unbelievable. We appreciate you, Ian. Good luck today on NFL+. Nobody's going to see it, but if anything good happens, we'll see it on Twitter. That's right. Bingo. Oh, sorry. X. You're the man. Where are you at today? Carolina? Carolina today. I'm going to the Giants tomorrow. They love Bryce, huh?

Everybody loves him, Donner? Yeah. Looks good. Looks really good. Got left hanging over the weekend, though. Went to give kid nucks. Kid just peaced out on him. But then self-awareness. Did it himself. Walked away. Vet move there.

Absolutely a vet move. Adam Thielen looks good, too, right? Really good. Okay. Yeah. I think he's going to be really good here. For a white. Is that what you said? Nope. He's a little older. He looks really good. For a white, is that what you said? Nope.

He's a little older. Boom, there it is. A little long in the tooth. I don't know if he still had it. Old white guy. He's six. All right, Ian. Just watch yourself, okay?

I put out six words to a friend. You just need to start watching yourself a little bit more, especially with the growth of NFL Plus. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rappaport. Yeah, R.T. start watching yourself a little bit more, especially with the growth of NFL Plus. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rappaport. Joining us in a few moments. Justin Herbert, quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers. Man, just signed a deal that was worth $133 million

upon signing. $193 total in guarantees. $262.5 million potentially for the new deal of Justin Herbert that we've been waiting on. Now all eyes are on Joe Burrow, his calf. Hope it's going to be okay. Rappaport just reported that nobody is scared for the first week.

It seems like he will be back. Last year it was appendicitis. He was running sprints on a golf cart. You remember that? With the team. Joe Burrow is an Ohio fuck. When he can get back, he will get back. Everybody seems to think he'll be back by the regular season. We hope that'll be

the case, but now all eyes are on his contract. We'll talk to Herbert. And also if Herbert was, how close is he watching Lamar and Jalen and all the other deals taking place? Or was he hands off? We'll find that out as we go forward. There was some stuff that happened in the college football world while we were gone. AJ, obviously

Northwestern. I was up in Chicago for my wife's birthday. Local news had new stuff coming out of, like, new allegations, new lawsuits, new firings, new this, new that. So I think we'll probably break that down at some point whenever it all seems to be done. But another thing that's seemingly done is the decision for Jim Harbaugh to be suspended for four games.

I've tried to look into this a little bit, and you're an Ohio State guy and obviously OH. I-O? Yeah. What do you mean? Wow. Yes. That was big.

Come the fuck on, man. No hesitation. I'll do it every time. If it gets you that juiced and it makes you that happy, I'll do it. What? I mean, hell yeah, dude. That's 102 on the tape. Yeah.

That got me juiced up. Thank you, AJ. Didn't leave the IOs on the pond out there. That's right. Ducks on a pond. That was amazing. That felt good. That's whoo.

Whoo. Especially a junior. Bingo. Yeah. Oh, my God. Whoo! Especially a junior. Bingo, yeah. Oh, my God. We're all Buckeyes here. Chris Henry Jr. is going to be a junior. Chris Henry Jr. Just come on now.

Just skip the rest of high school. We could use you now. Let's do it. He's going to be a junior next year. 6'6", running a 4'4", right now, already. 360 windmill dunks. Windmill dunks. No problem.

Easy. Easy. In Uggs. Yeah. In, like, Uggs slippers. And his dad, like one of the most physically gifted athletes of all time, who's being raised by Pac-Man

Jones, one of the most physically gifted of all time. There's 10 people in that house that are all going to end up with D1 scholarships at least. And that's who congrats to Ohio State doing that. We're all Ohio State people because of the show and everything else that goes on.

So we don't want to sound like this is any negativity towards it. I don't think I understand this. So he's getting suspended for four games because he bought a cheeseburger for somebody, and then he lied about it. And now we're in 2023 where people are getting offered like $250,000 to sign here. You give $150,000 to do this. You transfer to do this. You transfer to do this. You transfer to do this.

They're actually suspending him for a fucking cheeseburger. Is that what we learned? And why is the NCAA anything at this point whenever it comes to actual money-making sports in college? Now, you and I, obviously, we played, so we are going to hate the NCAA. That is just how it goes. If you understand from the inside out

on what the NCAA does, and they can grandstand that they're there for the student human athletes and all that. But normally they're getting in the way of people having a good experience in college or potentially changing their lives. And it's all bullshit, especially now. I mean, years ago they sold their right to name a champion to the BCS. Their champion was the Division II football team that was there. They sold it.

They said, we don't want it. Now they obviously grandstand on everything with fake punishments. Their champion was a Division II football team that was there. They sold it. They said, we don't want it now. They obviously grandstand on everything with fake punishments. Is that what you heard? A cheeseburger? Four games? This team was in the fucking playoffs last year. Why is Jim Harbaugh going through this?

It makes no sense at all to me. What is the NCAA doing? Are they trying to make an example? Because I didn't even know there was really rules when it comes to anything like this anymore. I know recruiting times and all that there is, but back in the day, yeah, if someone picked up your meal, a player could get in trouble. Coaches do that. They can get in trouble. But now I didn't even know that was in effect anymore. I thought that was gone. So they always say like the lie is punished.

That's what they're saying. He lied though, but he lied about it. That's why they're doing it. You can't lie to us. We have no say over anything. Come on. Well, why don't you guys make a little say over the NIL? Well, the government's going to have to do that. Aren't you kind of the government? No, well, the actual government.

No, we're not doing that. We're not doing that. Like, why would we do that? I just, if I'm Harbaugh and they said he self-negotiated this. What was it? Was it going to be eight games? Yeah, what a joke. The first four games are nobody, right?

That's why people are saying, too, like they're – But still, like, is he allowed in the facility? How does it work? Is he paid? He's still missing a conference game, though. Like, granted, it's Rutgers. It's not – but, like, you know, I mean, a lot of people are just saying, like, oh, they play Bowling Green three times and then they play Rutgers.

But, like, still four games for that? Well, try to build up your team. That's a third of the season. Is he not allowed in the building? Like, that's a whole other question. I don't like the fact that if that's a whole nother question. I don't, I don't like the fact that if that's all it is, there has to be more,

right? That's what I, like, I keep just thinking there has to be more, has to be more. This can't be real. It's got to be the lie thing. It's got to be.

They want to make an example. Hey, whatever you do, if you're truthful, it'll be better than if you lie to us. Even if you think it's not a big deal, even if we have no say over anything and we've been incompetent at every single state.

Yeah, what if he said no? What if he's like, no, I'm going to be there. I'm coaching. That's what I was going to say. I listened to a lot of college football stuff. I can't remember where this came from. Hell yeah, Tony. Thanks for doing that, by the way.

That's so you can help me for college game day this upcoming season. New episodes coming soon. One of the podcasts. They were asking, what if he just says no? It's not like the NCAA has any power over anything right now. Why can't he just say no and show up? Would be such a G if he just says no? It's not like the NCAA has any power over anything right now. Why can't he just say no and show up? Would be such a G if he walked out there with a big glass of milk

and just said, I ain't doing it. Brows that thing down, give me the whistle. He's bending over with his cleats on and just says, tell the NCAA to send somebody to come get me off his sideline. Wow. I would love it. Now, I think that sets a precedent, and obviously other people will abuse this type of thing, and there'll be some sort of guardrails that we need from somebody at some point, but it

is all just so confusing, and it muddies the water, and it makes the sport worse than better, which is seemingly what the NCAA is known for doing at this stage of the game. Yeah, it makes no sense. It really doesn't. And I don't know if it's partly because of like all the stuff like him not properly vetting some of the coaches that like, you know, they've had to let go of two guys. There was one guy who, I don't know if it ever came out, but like, you know, the FBI like raided their facility and then he hired Shammy Sham Beckler and like he got fired like right away because he had racist tweets right

after that. So I don't know if they're just, like, kind of rolling this all into one and then just trying to make an example of him. But you would imagine that college football in general, like, wants a guy like Jim Harbaugh around. Like, they don't want him sitting out for a third of the season. I don't. Yeah. No way.

That Michigan team was a college football playoff team. Yeah. Back-to-back years. You know what I mean? Like, what are we? Yeah, back-to-back years. Yeah. Like, Ohio State, I just, i assume they're always going to be great

right michigan i guess it was always talked about that they're always going to be great but they weren't no now it's like hey michigan's going to be great with that qb too yeah they got a quarterback back and we talked about this earlier with college football pack 12 a lot of returning quarterbacks son bo nix that at o is at Oregon. Caleb Williams is at USC. You've got Washington back. Utah is back. But then when we delve into Georgia, Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, all question marks, quarterback.

Yeah, Michigan's the only team really that isn't in the Pac-12 that has a real powerhouse that has their quarterback back. They're the only ones. Everybody else kind of has a question mark at the most important position so that's worthy of conversation we assume the rest of the team will be able to carry them like that georgia team got a chance to try out like uh two years from now starters yeah exactly in the national championship in the fourth quarter so like they do have obviously dogs and everything but how they will transition to college football there's a lot of questions in a lot of places michigan's not one of them it's like i was very excited to watch this michigan team again

and although they'll be great still and i assume they'll do good it's like not having the head coach around for like pivotal times of development you know like is he allowed in the building that's pretty big time to have your coach in the building would be the first four weeks there has to be more to what you were saying. Yeah, I hope. I hope not. Didn't someone just put a tweet in there, though? Someone put a tweet in the chat room that said they believe he will be available to be at meetings and everything, just not on game day. He can't be there.

Oh, so put his ass. Why doesn't he just get a helicopter? Yeah, it'd be awful. Just get a helicopter and just circle. Chris Angel suspends him from the top of the stadium. In a chair. Chris Angel making an appearance in Indianapolis, Indiana, September 8th. That's right.

Chris Angel, today's Houdini, will be at the next Jim Irsay collection show, which is happening at Lucas Oil Stadium right here in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 8th at 8.15. Criss Angel will be attempting to break a world record. Come watch as he does death-defying stunts and Jim Irsay in a collection of Hall of Fame musicians sing songs that you'll love forever while getting a peek at some really collectible shit. Absolutely.

It's going to be a night to remember. Super collectible stuff. Super duper collectible stuff. Top tier. I collectible stuff. Super duper collectible stuff. Top tier. I'm not into big super duper collectible stuff, but I am in the I'll get high and look at stuff. Oh, yeah. Department.

It's a perfect situation. Love going to museums. Yep. Went to the aquarium up in Chicago. Shed Aquarium. Good one. Very nice. Yeah, it's a good aquarium.

Very nice. The shocks? I did see some shocks. I saw a beluga whale. A couple belugas. A beluga whales couple belugas four belugas were they scaring the kids how big are they huge these belugas are huge they're like the um what's called when um they got a tank in there they're all white the uh albino albino they're like albino or whatever so you kind of look in this tank and you just see this large white mass, like probably 10 feet.

I don't know how low it is. And then as it gets lower, it gets bigger, obviously, because the water magnifies and everything. So when we first walked up, four of them were swimming at the bottom. I'm like, holy fuck. How big? And then as they get up, they get a little smaller, but we're talking about just massive creatures floating around in the

water. Who knows what Lolita's going to run into when she finds out it's free. Did you guys go to the dolphin show? Right after the dolphin show ended, we got there. Oh, nice. Of course. Perfect timing, actually. We got to see the kind of breakdown.

You know, the dolphins were having a little fun afterwards. As the people were filing out of the little auditorium, the dolphins were, you know, hitting balls and going and everything. So we got to see that. Beluga whales right next to them. Saw some otters, penguins. Oh, okay. Here we go.

No penguins. Oh, bummer. But it was also the night Beyonce was in Chicago, so beehives were everywhere. Ah, gotcha. Beehives were everywhere in that aquarium. It was pretty cool. Pretty cool little...

You think that's part of Jim's frustration is he's dealing with so much bullshit, red tape with Lolita, that he doesn't want to have to deal with it with any of his players. Yeah, but he's not really dealing with it, right? He said, $30 million, I'll just pay it. Exactly. With the red tape, though.

When I was in negotiating, if they slow it down and Lolita isn't able to get from Miami to the most northwest part of Washington, the longest American flight available in a 757 with a tank that is built inside of it for this whale that Jim Mercy's paying for. With the whale trainers. You should tow it on a boat. I mean, it might get there by 2027. Yeah, Jesus.

It'd be a lot cheaper. Jim's in the... How do we make this Buddhist whale's life better now? Yeah. He is Buddhist. I forgot about that. She's Buddhist. She's kind of cool. Just keep going, though. He mentioned that. He is Buddhist. I forgot about that. She's Buddhist. She's kind of cool. Just keep going though. He mentioned that Lolita is a Buddhist

but doesn't pause or anything. Just keep going. Just standard statement. Yeah, this whale is Buddhist. So we got to get her out of there. Especially after her brother just smashed his head into the enclosure and killed himself. How many Buddhists were you guys with in Tahoe? I don't know if they're Buddhists.

Were those people Buddhists? Is that what that is? Some of them are professional wrestlers. I have been a professional wrestler. There's amateur professional wrestlers that were in that house. Greatest of all time. That's right. The Stone Cold Steve Austin.

The rock of this one form of wrestling was in the building with us. The guy. Old school, like throwback type wrestling. Yeah. Old school. Speaking of old school, the man joining us right now is a throwback. Yeah.

Just loves football through and through. Absolutely loves doing media and interviews. Always. Cannot wait to hear how he is in just moments. A guy who just signed a deal that was well deserved well earned and well warranted ladies and gentlemen the stud quarterback for the los angeles chargers the ever handsome justin herbert yeah what's up guys hey thanks for having me i know you love doing this type of stuff so like shout out to you dude you know what i mean you're

super wealthy now you're rich you know they say once you get rich, you get more handsome. I think that has happened somehow to you. And you're doing an interview. Fuck yeah. Hey, hey, yeah. Come on. Hey, yeah. Hey, yeah. How's camp? How are you feeling, buddy? How's life? It's been a lot of fun so far. You know, it's been good to get back

out there with the guys, the teammates. We're working hard. You know, camp's tough, but we're having our best effort out there. Okay, so were you worried about that deal at all? We had Tom Telesco guys, the teammates. We're working hard. Camp's tough, but we're having our best effort out there. Okay, so were you worried about that deal at all? We had Tom Telesco on during the combine, I believe. We had him on during the combine, and it was when Lamar's stuff was still kind of cooking. I think Jalen had just got done with

his deal, and we said to Tom, we said, hey, you're going to have to pay Herbert, bud. Kind of like put him in there. Everybody was doing it. I said, are you losing sleep about that Herbert deal? He said, no. He said, hey, I'm not losing sleep at all we'll get it done were you hands-on with that kind of standoffish and they just told you hey come sign for 133 million dollar signing bonus or were you kind of uh how hands-on in the whole process were you justin um i had complete faith in the front office and tom you know they've done such a great job taking care of us and

um you know my agents and ed mcguuire, Katie Sylvan, they work great together. And I'm glad that we got it out of the way. We're focused on camp now and our greatest focus is just playing as good a football as we can. So it's out of the way. And I was thankful for that. Yeah. Congratulations. Go ahead, AJ.

Justin, do you feel like, do you want to take a bunch of reps in preseason games or do you need reps like that? Like, how do you view that, especially now as you're obviously a veteran in this league? I think that's a really good question. And, you know, there are two ways of thinking about it. And, you know, I think the joint practices that you have kind of in the preseason, I think those are very valuable.

So I know the Saints are coming here, and we'll be able to work with them, and we'll get some live reps there. And so being able to see that type of defense, that pressure coming at you, I think that's huge. You know, at the same time, preseason football, it's always great to get those reps. But at the same time, you've got to be smart going into the season. And it's a long season.

It's tough on your body. So making sure that you're healthy and ready to go for week one is our most important job. You look so cool with your hair right now. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Sorry. Don't be sorry to me.

No. Please don't apologize. Yeah, you should. You're doing it. Yeah, do don't apologize yeah you should you doing it yeah do not ever apologize for anything that you got going on uh but whenever you talk about that pre-season work obviously there's a young guy that has been making a lot of highlights on social media with you with quentin johnston he seems to be this monster of a human your team looks like a basketball team everybody's so tall and so athletic your connection with him has been documented keenan allen you throw in deep balls too and the social media team's like oh another

deep ball another deep ball how does it feel knowing that your offense brandon staley being kind of the head guy in charge of this whole thing is like yeah we're throwing a deep ball we are taking shots we want to be an electrifying offense like is that something you think about or is it just you got to go out and make the plays that are called or does it kind of get you going that you're an explosive offense and expected to be like electrifying whenever you step on the field as a quarterback i love it i love throwing the deep ball and to have guys like that on the outside receivers and tight ends that are able to move and um you know like you said a basketball team they're tall they're athletic and they can jump and so to have that deep ball uh you know it opens up our offense

and allows our run game to get going, our short and intermediate game. So it's only going to help us. And to have Q around, you know, he's going to be a star. He's athletic, and he runs with the best of them. So he's been a very good surprise so far. Yeah, I mean, all the highlights look spectacular. Yeah. I got a chance to watch them last year because we were at the TCU-Kansas game

for game day, and that was like when he bursted on to the scene. I think he had like two touchdowns or three touchdowns late. And then like after that, it just like kept rolling and rolling. And some people thought he wasn't going to be good. And then like, all we're seeing is highlight after highlight after highlight. How do you feel about where your offense is as opposed to what it was last year? How do you feel about where the team is right now? I think we've made huge steps. You know, as an offense, it's a new offense, but we're able to pick it up pretty quickly. And the guys have worked really hard this off season to really understand the offense, the ins and outs and you know, everything we can do with it.

And Kellen Moore has done such a great job of teaching and guiding us through it that we really feel like we're making our own offense. And so us, we're going out there making plays and you know, people are playing free and fearless. And I think that's the most important thing when you're playing offense. And so us, we're going out there making plays and, you know, people are playing free and fearless. And I think that's the most important thing when you're playing offense. Kellen's spinning it at all, or is he just fat coach only talking into microphones? He's still spinning it a little bit or what? No, he's showing us how to spin it. He's done a pretty good job.

He's winning those quarterback competitions. So it's been impressive. Oh, really? Like crossbar. We got, what are the competitions we're doing? Yeah, we're doing crossbar. We've got the, you you know the garbage bin set out uh goal line fade uh you know we got the golf where you're punting it uh copping corner uh we're not as good as you are but uh we're getting there no you're better than me right now i mean i don't fucking put that i don't put that thing through the end zone i think that's what and i talked to your dad i think and i don't know if we have talked since then but your dad told me like growing up growing up, you guys, like, loved football. Like, your family loved football.

He said he taped on uprights in the living room of the house when there was no furniture in there so that whenever you guys would play football, somebody could kick an extra point because that's what football is or whatever. You're like an actual good punter kicker. You are. Like, actually could do that that do you think that's why um i think it definitely helped my dad was he was a pretty good punter and kicker back in the day i think he might have went straight forward straight on though um so he wasn't the soccer style but uh no we definitely take those uh field goal posts up in our living room uh the amount of windows that we broke uh growing up with football flying around. So it was tough.

But he's a pretty good craftsman, guys. He got those fixed up, no problem. Yeah, looked like a dog when I met him. Seems like a guy that can remove a window and put another one in. Yeah, fuck it. Just keep going. AJ has a question for you, Herb. Hey, it's July 31st right now.

I don't know how long it feels like you've been in camp. I know it hasn't been that long, but I know those first couple weeks can tend to feel like they maybe two months or so. Like how good does it feel knowing, hey, there's light at the end of the tunnel. We're going to be playing real NFL football games pretty soon. I would assume the team's pretty excited. Yeah, I think it's awesome.

I think maybe our next preseason game is in a week and a half, something close like that. I know that we've got a scrimmage maybe next week. So it moves by pretty quick. The guys are getting after it out on the field, and we've got great energy, and we've got a lot of fans coming to the practices. So it feels like a game-like situation, and I think that's important for preseason and especially camp.

So there's a lot of excitement over here and a lot of energy for sure. Hell, yeah. Ty has a question for you. Yeah, Justin, Pat kind of alluded to it at the start. I don't think doing interviews and doing media is necessarily one of your favorite things to do per se, but there's been a lot of talk about Netflix's quarterback, and I don't know if you've seen it or heard about it or anything, but a lot of reports coming out that they wanted you to be on season two

and that maybe you declined. I don't know if that's true or not, but something like that where someone follows you for the course of an entire season, whether it's for your own deal or something else, is that something you'd ever entertain or is that too much of a distraction and all you care about is

football so you don't want to have to deal with all that extra bullshit? I think that's a good question. I think that's similar to the hard knocks that we had in 2020. That was my first NFL season and kind of getting used to hard knocks is a little challenging, but it was a lot of fun and being able to go through that and watch it afterwards. You know, I thought that was pretty cool. And I haven't seen this Netflix documentary yet. You know, I'm sure they've done a great job with it. Those are three pretty impressive quarterbacks.

But I think it could go either way. You know, if you let it be a distraction, it can be a distraction. But if you're focused and you stay dialed in, you know what's most important. So it probably wouldn't be too much of an issue. You're doing it. Here we go. No, I'm unaware of anything going on. Oh, guys, sounds like Wood Entertainment. Yeah, absolutely.

Negotiating. Yeah, certainly. Just like whenever you're coming out of college, you're like, yeah, wearing Nike. I'm a Nike guy. No, we're maybe wearing Adidas. We're maybe, no, no, wearing Nike throughout my entire life. Obviously, it'll end up working out. You know better than us.

But it sounds like it's something you would entertain. That's good news because it sounded like we thought nobody was going to be able to do that. Quick question here before you got to get back to your training camp. Last one here from Boston Conner. Yeah, Justin, look, you've got $133 million. I mean, we all know it. Is there anything that you bought immediately? And I assume, you know, more footballs and other things that you can do with football was on that list.

But was there anything that you bought specifically or anything that you wanted to do with something like that? Maybe build a massive house. I don't know. Was there anything? I'm thinking maybe put a field goal post in my backyard for my dad so he doesn't have to tape them up anymore. Love that. with something like that may build a massive house. I don't know. Was there anything? I'm thinking maybe put a field goal post in my backyard for my dad so he doesn't have to tape them up anymore. Love that. Love that.

Hell yeah. I haven't done that yet, but I probably owe the team some dinners. Khalil Mack last year paid for the offense and the defense. We went to team dinners. So, you know, I feel like I owe him a couple dinners at least. Hey, that's good leadership out of Khalil, especially out of you. Well warranted, well deserved. Congratulations. We can't wait to watch you this year, buddy.

Awesome. Thanks again, guys. Always a pleasure. See ya. Ladies and gentlemen, Justin Herbert. Yeah! Middle training camp, man. Middle training camp. Just got paid $133 million. Taking time in between practice and meeting. We appreciate him calling in. He looks so cool. So cool. Oh my god.

Looks awesome. You know how big of a pain it is to do an interview right there when you just get off the field? He probably has a meeting starting at 3 o'clock our time, so like in 11 minutes he has something he's probably, man, now he probably can't take a shower until after three meetings and two more walkthroughs. So I guess there was a meeting at 2.50 our time, so he's done.

He's up against it. So we're actually making them have a bad culture over there. Not a good excuse. Not a great excuse. I was doing all the Pat McAfee shit. Oh, cool. Staley. Give this guy $133 million now.

We do apologize to all chargers, but we appreciate him stopping by. Feels like vibes are high over there. Vibes are high in a lot of different places, it feels like right now, AJ. How do you feel about it? That's what I'm saying. How do you feel about being this time of year? I enjoy it, and let me tell you why. Foxy, how are the Lions going to do this year?

Oh, we're going 10-7, winning a playoff game, probably making it to the Super Bowl this year. Hell yeah. Zito, how do you feel about the Bears this year, pal? We only lose two games. Okay, love that. 15-win season. Tone, how do you feel about the Pittsburgh Steelers?

Best defense of all time, Super Bowl guaranteed. Okay. Ty, how do you feel about the Packers? Absolutely winning the division all time, Super Bowl guaranteed. Okay. Ty, how do you feel about the Packers? Absolutely winning the division, no question. And the New England Patriots, how are we feeling? I mean, the dynasty's back on, boy. Seventh Super Bowl coming this year. Okay, so this is what happens at this time of year.

Every single fan base and every single locker room is believing and buying into the fact that their team can go on a run. If you do not have that feeling at all, you do not have a team in the NFL. The NFL is built so that the Cincinnati Bengals, just three years ago, four years ago, whatever it was, four-win season. Then the next year, they go to the fucking Super Bowl. So every single team's fans and every single team

thinks that they could have what it takes to go on a run. It's a beautiful thing. But we're crowning a lot of people that are not going to end up in the NFL right now. Oh, yeah. You know, and I think that is something that is kind of needs to find its level with all of us. And we're a big part of the problem, AJ. I'm not going to say we're not. Yeah.

I mean, we all are part of the problem where we see like a one-handed catch made on Twitter or something. There we go. Rookie of the year. MVP, whoever that is. That's not that catch. We don't even have a judge. That catch was so sick. Hold on. It was very, very sweet.

That was unbelievable. That one got me. I was like, oh, that's a little different. That's a little different than the other one. Look at Wink Martindale's defense. They're flying around out there. And then you had Thibodeau saying, I played like shit last year. So you got that guy making that one-handed catch.

And Thibodeau, who disrupted a lot of games last year, saying he played like shit. With another year with Wink's system in there, with Dayball and the whole culture they got. Now, granted, they get Saquon back for $11 million. There was that little drama, but it's not anymore. It's like the Giants aren't being talked about, but you get that one-handed snag.

It's hard not to be like wait a minute and then 10 minutes later they're saying Darren Waller no one can stop this guy he's got he's he's caught he's been thrown the ball 95 times and he's got 96 catches this year it's unbelievable it's like the Giants maybe we start buying in then you get

B. John Robinson runs a little stutter go and it's like it's hard, boom! It's hard not. Jackson Smith and Jacob did have that one-handed catch where the defender definitely didn't slow it down or whatever. And he should have been the number one overall pick. Just real quick, we are part of the problem. We are not saying we are not.

Very much. But there's a lot of these guys are not going to pan out. Yeah. I don't like to be the bearer of bad news. I don't know. I think this year is different. I think there's going to be 95 rookies that go to the Hall of Fame this year. That'd be awesome.

I mean, that's what it seems. I mean, Christian Gonzalez might be the greatest corner in the history of the NFL. And to your point, Anthony Richardson is fucking remarkable. Boom. Yeah. I got so excited watching him play football. Irrationally excited watching him do a couple things. I'm like, man, that's worth the purchase of that suite.

Just one of those. Well, he can jog like, man, that's worth the purchase of that suite. Just one of those. He can jog and run, and that's something the Indianapolis hasn't had in 15 years. That's a reason to get excited. Call the phones. 1-833-432-3663. We will take some phone calls. John the Terror's gone

for sure, right? Hey, that deal is no longer gone to the what no yeah it's no longer it's just the phone line well yeah so it was kind of when the deal was up was like as the time we're going over so we're in like a purgatory mode right now oh in between twilight zone yeah in between a couple, you know, this is a, we're in a wild time. Okay, who knows if we even make it to ESPN, you know, with. This is right. You're right.

This is right. No chance. You keep shooting your mouth off on Twitter. You're right. Yeah, if the fucking Go Green Gazette has anything to say about it. They weren't the only one, bro. I think there was a lot. I mean, there was a lot.

It was getting real loud out there. I apologize for offending you. You should shoot your mop up. I mean, don't you dare. I'm not going to delete that. I can't. That was so. I read it maybe 50 times as all of them.

I think Nasser was a part of the design team actually and that just mentioned his name is the problem yeah i guess and don't you dare disparage jerry sandusky because those people for real what's your problem that's a little chop you down i'm just i'm just saying i think it was a little unfair the way i was being attacked i think it was a little unfair the way I was being attacked. I think it was a little unfair. Now, those people are saying that I have no idea what I did, and I think that would be an accurate sentiment. I was just talking shit to my friend who happens to love Michigan State. Love.

I hate to break it to you, though. With what Michigan's doing, with or without a coach. Yeah. I talk good about Michigan State, too. All the time. Every once in a while. You guys just met Kirk. Yeah, we just met Kirk.

Go green. Go white, he said. Oh, man. Nick Foles died on the field for the Colts. I know a lot about Michigan State. I know more than most people know about Michigan State. That's why I'm like, hey, people need to know this. I feel like this is kind of.

Let's not sweep this under the rug. There's people in some very powerful positions that have done things. Not the humans in Michigan State's fault right now. No. Not at all. Not saying that. Not saying he's a good guy. Saying he's a despicable human.

The worst. It'll happen again. But also, yeah, this guy had a lot of power. A lot of influence. For a long time. At Michigan State. Yes. That's right. Your favorite basketball team, who owns them?

Guy who went to Michigan State. Rock and Morgan. Ishbia. Love Ishbia. Kirk Cousins, one of my new favorite humans on Earth. How cool was he at that premiere too? He was the nicest guy in the world. Like actually the nicest guy ever. Came over, stood like perfect posture.

Yes, he was. Well, he gets it worked on every week by Mary Jo and Bob, Billy Bob. Bro, why is he going to that house? But hey, you do whatever you got to do. He came over, good suit, perfect posture. Did not budge either. We had like a 25 minute conversation didn't see the posture just give at all super kind to every human great handshake funny funny

funny dude very awesome very much understands though that he's a nerd yeah yes and i think that's why we all loved him in quarterback so much aj you watch quarterback right i haven't seen every episode but i've seen two or three yeah why don't you kirk seems like he seems like the all-american guy like he seems like the dude so what you mean you just said is he you don't want to watch it i saw the first two episodes yes how many are there total eight six yeah six or eight that's a lot that's a lot i mean i'll get to it best episodes when they have the comeback against the colts because and not because the colts but because he of the Colts, but because he brings his son

into the locker room. That moment between him and his son. I saw that. Gets him some chicken tenders. Only one cookie. Him, the cut from Patrick Mahomes being Patrick Mahomes. Talking shit, doing his thing. I love everything Mahomes is doing on there, by the way. Everything.

I became a massive fan of, not that I wasn't before, I mean, you've heard me cut promos about Patrick Mahomes for a long time, but now watching him behind the scenes, I'm like, yup, we got a guy. This is the guy. But there was Patrick Mahomes doing something. Talking shit, fighting,

whatever. Who knows what he was doing. Hard cut. Boom. Kirk Cousins sitting at the fire pit with his kid. Yeah. Dead silence. Yep. You built a good fire, Coop. Good job.

I laughed so hard. I thought it was, I thought they did an incredible job with that. And I hope it's easy to get. Sounds like Herbert would do it. Yeah. Yeah, it does. They should get on that right away. Yeah, especially in L.A.

So the Burrow thing was fake? I think everything that has been reported about who is going to be on and if there is going to be a season two. Now, granted, Peyton did report it the first time. There's no way there won't be a season two. So Peyton, he's down there recruiting Jordan Love. Is that what he's doing in Green Bay right now? Peyton was at practice today, right?

He was. Bob Domofsky said that Omaha Productions is there. I don't know if it's for a separate project. I suppose you could say that, but they also could be courting him for season two, maybe. Jordan Love would certainly be a great person. Yeah. Because seemingly very mature, has some years under his belt. Everybody loves him.

And it's a very fascinating situation that doesn't happen often in the NFL. So if you're Peyton or Omaha or NFL Films, it's like, hey, here would be a good one. And if you've got Peyton at your house saying, hey, we're wondering if you would do this, I think you'd be good. And I think that's kind of a deal closer. It's kind of a deal closer. Hey, no one knows anything really about you aside from the fact that anytime anything bad would happen with the Packers,

your name would start trending because people would talk about it. And then with Herbert, if they're in L.A., they should do Herbert and Stafford. So do Herbert, Love, and then Burrow would be sweet. That would be awesome. There was a report Stafford already did. You think Joe's doing it? I don't think so.

Joe didn't. When I saw that report that he was gonna do i'm like man that's a bit surprising he seems like the last guy to do it yeah but like uh you never know though yeah that's what i'm saying he also has money too he also seems like the guy where if peyton would sit down with him and like peyton could close the deal with him netflix money too for sure netflix saw you know what i mean netflix saw with the first if you could guarantee if you knew it was going to be a good season for you, I think it would be a lot easier to say yes. If you knew,

okay, I'm going to play great, we're going to win a ton of games, hopefully win the Super Bowl. If you could project that. But he probably feels that way, doesn't he? He does, yeah. He's like, oh, we might go 6-11 this year. Joe would be perfect for it. What about Josh Allen? Josh Allen would be perfect for it. Yeah, he'd be great. Yeah.

Josh Allen would be perfect for it. He would be. Probably great. Josh Allen would be perfect for it. He would be. Probably Joseph Fields when he wins the Super Bowl, probably. He already said no, allegedly. Yeah, he turned it down, but who knows what's real and what isn't real. He is no longer a vegan. He is now a pescatarian, which is not a religion. It is a fish-eating operation. Piscopalian.

Is the religion. Correct. Pescatorian is we eat fish and veggies. Yes. religion. Correct. Pescatorian is we eat fish and veggies. Yes. I will say the vegan thing is an incredible amount of discipline and commitment.

When I meet somebody at a dinner or a gathering and they ask for the vegan menu or they say they're vegan, which they are going to at some point, I am always incredibly impressed. I'm like, how? Did you see this steak that i just fucking got pulled out here did you see this chicken that just got put out not one time do

you want to have a chicken parm like how do you have the discipline and the commitment to do it but then also you have to do so much research so that you're supplying yourself enough protein like you have to get a prep you got to prep you can got to prep. You can't just wing it and find food everywhere. It's a whole life commitment to doing that. Now, granted, Justin Fields became like... So shredded. Absolutely shredded. It pays off, obviously,

but the commitment level is something that I'll never experience. So I got respect for that, but I don't fully understand how they're able to do it. I like that he opened up the door to another option. You know what I mean? I'm happy he's allowing himself. I can send in a sea bass if I need

on a Thursday. That's a bigger picture that his passing games will get a lot better. He can have cheese now, too. Fish oils. Salmon. Cheese. He wasn't having cheese. Deacons can't have cheese because it comes from a cow. Anything that comes from an animal, you can't have. They can't have can't have cheese because it comes from a cow. Anything that comes from an animal, you can't have. They can't have eggs?

No, because it comes from a chicken. Well, eggs we knew. The milk and cheese, I did not know. I'm pretty sure. I think you're right. Thank you. So was he wearing, I'm not getting into it. I was going to say.

Did he make special shoes that weren't leather? As long as they weren't from China. Is that football? He can't touch that football because it's from a cow, right? I think seven footballs per cow. I think was the number. Griff Whalen, actually. Why is it called pigskin?

Well, because I think back in the day they used to take the bladder of the pig. Throw laces on it. I don't know if that's real. Sounded right. Frozen. Nice. Hold it, Connor.

Oh, Jabba, thank you. Thank you, Jabba. Jabba. Oh, yeah. Oh. Jabba's look good. You guys look good up there. Yeah, so I guess the first hour I was a bit red.

Yeah. I guess I was a bit red. Yeah, I can't say shit. I don't know. Every time I look at me, I get disgusted. I thought it was darker for a while and all, too. Well, I think it actually is. Softer.

It looks like softer lighting. Yeah, it is. It is softer. Well, not if you look at it. It's pretty sharp. You stare right at these lights. They put one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. They're not as white though are they like do they

have a hint a tint of yellow or something when you go by light bulbs and you get either blue yellow orange they were definitely blue and now they're more of like a yellow well and also they were in a spot that the light didn't even make it to us no sure so the experts that did that of course so we paid right it doesn't feel like that's right. Nah, it's fine. We're the experts. It's fine. We're the experts. Okay.

Just doesn't feel like we're the experts. Please shut up. Or lights that don't work. I can't. I don't think anything's changing, though, when you turn it on or turn it off. Feels like it's... Please shut up. Do you do this for a living?

Because I do. Right. Right. Right. So we got another group of people living? Because I do. Right. So we got another group of people to do that to us. Right. But now at least I can feel a light on it. Oh yeah, I can see it. You know, every other studio I had ever been in in my entire life,

you see a light. Like lights. Yep. Massive part of production. We somehow figured out a way to just not have any lights. Eliminate. Energy efficient. It worked.

How about it, AJ? Wasn't that amazing? Saving lives, man. Wow, it's global. Think about it. It's global boiling. Starting a blunder. So it's boiling now.

You felt it. You've been outside? How's Paris? Was Paris hot as fuck? You been in the Atlantic Ocean? Shockingly, no. It was before we got there, and it was nice during our time. It was raining.

Italy was very, very, very hot. How was the air conditioners? They have no AC there. They don't believe in it because they're saving the earth, which I respect. Don't lie. But we are fucking, it's 95 to 100 degrees, and we want to go eat, and guess what? It's fucking so hot there, and you're eating pasta and pizza for every single meal. Yay!

Crunched and slurred. Don't get me wrong. I loved it. Your hotel's got to have air, right? Yeah, hotels had air. It ain't because they're saving the earth. It's because they're saving money. My dad used to say, turn that air off.

You're fine. I don't think Yenzer Italian Frank is the same as country built in what? I would say those years. 1200? There was no AC. It's so old school there. Dude, that's like Europe, right? country built in what i would say those years those buildings 1200 there was uh there's no ac i couldn't it's so old school there so dude that's like europe right like you um you go to boston pretty old oh pretty old oh my god pretty old over there pretty old it's like cars used to be real small oh yeah you're like walking through streets it's like no space and then every place

feels like a little village yeah it's like really you do take take a step. Every place, they don't have big cars. I know France definitely doesn't. I know I've been to other places too. They have, the majority of cars are tiny little cars. The car that I learned about during our break that I'm going to need is one that has a fucking kitchen inside of it. Yes. Do you see this Saudi chic about a Hummer that has a kitchen inside of it? Is it a Sprinter van type?

Oh, no. H1, Hummer, how you kitchen inside of it? Is it a Sprinter van type? Oh, no. H1 Hummer. How you doing? It's nuts. You know, I watched that Super Mario movie. It was awesome. You know, whenever he eats that mushroom. It's the Saudi Sheik that had an original Hummer.

He said, give this thing a mushroom. I need it bigger in all facets. That's this thing. Oh, my gosh. It's got a kitchen in it. Yeah. It's got a kitchen inside of it. Does one person drive that?

How do they? I think it's a stand. Yeah, I think it's like a kitchen inside there's one person drive that how do they how is like i think it's a stand you know yeah i think it's like a boat i think they're standing i think there's one person controlling the gas another person driving it how big those wheels are it's two stories yeah i mean the wheel is the size of that regular is there a is there a pool in there there's a tub yeah yeah full bathroom, full bathroom. Yeah, bathroom, kitchen. I need to see the pictures of that. So this is what happened. This guy, you know, he had a plane.

And this plane was awesome. We've seen these planes. Magnificent planes that these sheiks have just flying around with gold-plated everything, full spas in planes, everything. So an absurd amount of money. A never-ending pile of money, actually. We're learning. Sports are of money. A never-ending pile of money, actually. We're learning. Sports are learning this.

Yeah. A never-ending pile of money. What would you do? Oh, I'd make the greatest plane of all time so I could travel alone in with an actual gold throne, an actual lion safari in there, like a full thing. This one chick just was scared to fly. Yeah. Scared to fly.

I'm not going to up air. No. I need to do what you guys are doing up air for down here. You fucking made this thing. This thing is his land yacht. He's driving around because he's scared to fly. And whenever he's rolling through town, it's a parade every time. Love this guy.

Whoa. What? What road does that fit on? His road. It seems wider than anything. Where's he going to take it? Dude, anywhere he wants. He's a sheik.

I think he's allowed to just drive wherever. Yeah, he can drive on the cars. Sidewalk, kill as many people as he wants. He's a sheik. I think he's allowed to just drive wherever. Yeah, he can drive on the cars. Sidewalk, kill as many people as he wants. He's got one of those cars in front, like an oversized load that has the thing. Exactly. And he's just like, excuse me, look out. And they're actually taught just to run people over. They don't care.

I believe that was where he was. AJ, how about you just step up one time for the team here and say you'll give one of these land yachts away to somebody if I make a shot right here? Yep. Who manufactures this land yacht? Hummer. How much do you think it costs?

Not that expensive. You can afford it. 50, 40 mil? Your top five pick, old, old CBA. How do you gas that thing up? You make the next one, yeah. we'll find a way to give one of these things away you make this shot there's a giant electric battery there that thing's running on diesel oh no i think there are actually the kids that are in the mines are in the truck i

think drills its own oil they run it it's like flintstones they just use their legs to make it move guys can't be saying any of this stuff all right, we're in a crosshair truck. Holy shit. Look at that dude. It's like a monster truck. He took a ladder from inside the thing. Up inside. Can we get some more speed? How fast is it going? I think it does go up to Mach 4. We need more speed. This thing's got a lot of

speed. Don't worry about that. Oh yeah. That's his American friend. Is that a Ram 1500? Yeah, it's's aj's old truck they put it on top of those tires look at the replica little guy he can drive right over it that ain't a replica that's the actual that's the old four miles to the gallon hummer they were selling way back in the day those tires are amazing the world's biggest hummer. Pop the back off. Kind of enjoy a nice little sunset. How do you get in?

You get a cherry picker out to get in every time? There's a ladder from inside of it, I think, that takes you kind of up in there. Should be a rope ladder, so you got to have some core strength. Here's the oversized load, yeah. Have you ever seen those videos coming out of here where they fucking put vans up on two wheels? Oh, yeah. You ever seen that? Oh, yeah.

With like 15 people in the car. They are are talented drivers feels like it might not be easy super easy to drive this yeah i don't know you got a team of 37 people directing you so you can go two miles an hour that's where you get in right there you see maybe not the most practical vehicle you could get but it seems fun right there there's a stair right on the right practical vehicle you could get, but it seems fun. There's a staircase right there. That's where you get into the living room. Pop that thing down. The first floor. People have a lot of money over there.

How many people can you fit in there? They got to do this. That's right. What a time. How about that deal that old buddy was offered? Mbop? Mbop? Yeah.

For a year. Is there a rule that every car has to was offered? Mbop? Mbop, yeah. For a year. Is there a rule that every chorus be white? Maybe around the world. I want to see. I assume that's kind of their thing. Mbop, though, this whole billion dollar for one year so then you can go play somewhere else thing that was being alleged on the internet

really turned some heads. LeBron's like, I'll play soccer. I will certainly play soccer. I'll go out there. Fuck, you need me for one year and I'll play striker. I mean, who cares? Or do we really mind what it's going to be? This money that this soccer league is starting to throw around is insane.

You got Cristiano over there, some of his friends over there that are trying to pay a billion over to Mbappe. He said no, allegedly, which more power to him. He's going to Real, I think, if we get Gumpy a little. How much did that give him? Say he got offered a bill from there. What did he get from Real? I think it's like $261 or something.

One year? I think it's even more. What, Real? Yeah, I thought it was like $350. Wait, do they all have Saudi money? I don't know, bro. I assume. Remember, we pulled that thing up where all the Saudi money is,

and it's like every company. Yeah, a lot of companies. Pretty much because they have all the money. Right. But this is a new thing, though, right? In soccer, often these guys, absolute monstrosity of deals for one or two years, right? Yes.

Well, Methi coming over to the MLF has really affected my viewing of the MLF. Oh, yeah. I will watch Methy. Yes. I see one tweet, oh, it's happening, and it's him warming up. I'm like, take me over to Apple. I'm going to watch this. I don't know how much Apple paid him.

I don't know how much Adidas paid him. I don't know how much Inter Miami paid him. I don't know how much the MLS as a whole paid him. But I will say, they got me hook, line, and sinker. And the losers in this, and I don't want to say this, but like the Women's World Cup, this was their soccer time in our country. In our country, this was their soccer time. And all of a sudden, this guy's scoring eight minutes into a fucking game,

and then he's scoring again. Game winner. Game winner in his first game and actually it's like this dude is electrifying yeah have you watched any of this fucking guy he is believe me he's sweeping he's sweeping the world like with soccer content from what he is doing but does is it going to make you tune into any game that he is not a part of no absolutely not no chance actually the other guy we need a messy on every team is what we need well busquets do you need one of them yeah he's been playing for like his whole life he just said the other guy i would have watched joseph martinez joseph martinez i met him whenever i did an mls thing with c geek and he was electrifying great

and he's a goal scorer was in atlanta Atlanta was selling like 30, 40,000 tickets to every single game. They were very good. Joseph Martinez, great player for him. He's on Miami with Methy. So like, they have everybody. They were out of the playoffs whenever Methy joined. Worst team in the league. Now they're going to

win the fucking whole thing. And there isn't even a question about it. Methy, I don't think I ever watched him play soccer enough. I watched the World Cup, but I guess that's a little different style. This dude is just walking around whenever they don't have the ball, just so uninterested.

All right, how's it going? And then as soon as it gets in his radius or in Busquets' radius, it's like everybody in the world is like, goal time, about to happen. He's out of there, and he's going to score and do something. The buzz around him, I didn't expect soccer to have this type of the air and he's going to score and do something the buzz

around them it's i didn't expect soccer to have this type of thing ever he's the guy yeah this is the guy and i'm thankful he chose the mls over billions of dollars with that saudi soccer league well and that's what they what they said too is who knows what he's getting from apple but like rarely does he do stuff like this i think it was before the second game on his Instagram. You know, he's got like 45 million followers or whatever. 450. Yeah, there you go. He had the link for, hey, buy Apple, Apple Plus, the MLS package or whatever. And they're saying, like, he's going to make so much fucking money off this that it's absurd.

He earns it, though. Oh, yeah. You don't just become that good at soccer. He is gifted at that sport. And he gets percentages of all the signups. Yeah. So it's not like he's just sharing it to grow the MLS. He's making money

off of the people who are going to watch. Yeah, true. Him and David Beckham having that moment afterwards where he goes like this. This was the exact same thing that the MLS did with Beckham. Whenever Beckham was the guy out of Manchester United. He had a World Cup and he was, honestly

I remember it. He hit a penalty kick and it went like 90 some miles an hour. and he was honestly I remember it he hit a penalty kick and it went like 90 some miles an hour and he was super handsome had all those tats he was dating Spice Girl like he was the one of the most famous people on earth pretty much especially in the soccer world he was the guy especially everywhere everywhere at that time I from someone who was not watching soccer David Beckham was everywhere for 10, 15 years, I feel like. Pop culture, he was soccer. So then whenever he comes over to the LA Galaxy and the MLS like hedged their entire league on David Beckham, and then in that deal, I guess I didn't even know, they promised him a team in the future for $25 million.

So that's what he used for the inter-Miami purchase of $25 million. Give me a team in Miami. And then he saw what happened with him i assume he goes we can do this better yeah we can do this better he probably says yeah and then he's just got to go pitch to methi you know say hey this is what they did with me this is where we went wrong or this is where we went right we're gonna do a little bit more with this we got adidas in here apple wants to be in there and the league's's already in. It's like perfect pairing. And I like the fact that Beckham is kind of putting his ego to the side here. You know, because Beckham was the guy.

Oh, yeah. MLS hero. He's the one that started all this. Zlatan Ibrahimović, Wayne Rooney, Thierry Henry. All these guys. Ruud van Nisselrooy, I believe. All these guys that have come over towards the later stages of their career. David Beckham was the first big one.

So him kind of putting it to the side and being like, this is what we need to do and going and getting it. What a moment. I'm sure Methy is very happy, but Beckham has got to be very thankful as well, A.J. Hawk. Yeah, he does. But also, okay, how long will Methy be in the MLS and how long does the rest of the season run

until he's back playing overseas again? I don't think he's playing. I think he's here. So he's here for good now? Like he's not going to be bopping around all these concafas and all that? Not for four years maybe. I don't know. The concafas.

I assumed he'd be like, okay, he's here for a month or two, and then he's going to be playing in Europe in two months. No, he's playing for Argentina, I assume he'll play. They just won a World Cup, obviously. And the Zito just loans are how soccer works. I don't think Inter-Miami is going to loan him anywhere. Okay. You know what I mean?

And that would be crazy if an MLS team loaned a player, too. Yeah. I don't think that would ever happen. Obviously, it wouldn't happen, but it's never happened in the past. Him scoring at will, seemingly. I don't know how great it is for everybody. I've already seen everything.

Is Messi way too good to be playing in the MLS? Absolutely. That's why it's awesome to watch. Joining us now is our soccer aficionado, ladies and gentlemen, the greatest footy handicapper

on earth the other half of the hammer dad cowboys gumpy's here baby hi baby go good can't wait to see you in person obviously we're all hoping that that is very very near i love you we miss you let's talk about soccer so like gumpy you and i played obviously so we understand a little bit more you though greatest footy handicapper on earth because you watch so much soccer. You know, people talk about, like, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, understanding what defenses are doing. So, like, whenever you see a setup, it's like, okay, whenever you're facing this particular defense, this is what we need to get to.

This is what we need to do. Whenever you're playing against soccer defenses, what the formation is, like, Messi can figure that shit out, the formation is like messi can figure that shit out too and bosquets can figure that shit out too people are like how's this guy running free it's like well he wasn't supposed to obviously he knew exactly what they were doing and the other guy who's been playing with him since he was a little kid was like yep we know we're bang wide open they're not even he's like is he gonna kill everybody are they gonna kill everybody in the mls gumpy is this what we should just expect?

Yeah, and guess what? Jordi Alba hasn't even arrived yet. Who's that? That's another good guy? Unbelievable left back from Barcelona. The only thing that sucks is they won't let him get Suarez. The Suarez deal won't go through until next year. His team he's with.

They're going to win, right? Joseph Martinez, Methy, Busquets, this guy, Alba. They're going to just dominate everybody? Is that what we're thinking, Yumpy? Yeah, they dog-walked Atlanta. Atlanta's one of the best teams in the league. They beat them

4-0. Damn. What stops them, though? Is there any team to stop them? You got to foul them? The only issue is, is Messi going to play everywhere? Is Messi going to go and play on a turf field somewhere in Montreal? He's already said no, right? Didn't he say he's not doing it?

I haven't seen that confirmed, but you know what I mean? That's what could stop them. If Messi says, I'm not going there. I think Beckham never came to Vancouver when he was with the LA Galaxy because everyone was kind of waiting for that. So, like, if Messi doesn't go somewhere. But it feels like he's all in right now, man. Like, he's fucking insane, dude. When he hit that free kick, I was talking to you.

I was on the golf course. I started fucking running down the golf course, dude. What a moment, bro. It was fucking banana land, man. It was top bid. The whole world is watching. Like, I know the World Cup. The whole world is watching like i know the world cup the whole world's watching and he wins one so that's a big deal but for everything that has been said about him and everything that has happened and how the mls is basically pulling

out like a loan to make this happen adidas is like hey apple just spent billions of dollars like hey we need you he has all that sitting on his shoulders when he goes into that game lebron serena bud kim everybody's there all eyes are on apple i couldn't even fathom the amount of people that signed up and subscribed to that fucking bullshit yeah that night i was one of them like immediately upon i'm like yep let me see it he gets subbed in the place goes bananas obviously but then for it to be in extra time a free kick that he draws tie game the whole world is like this guy's gonna score and be the guy or he's gonna miss and be a little bitch like that's what everybody's thinking he knows that and he bends

that fucker up and over perfect top shelf no problem at all stone cold killer in that celly too this is the run to the corner and the jump on his body like it was just fucking magic dude just a dog yeah an absolute dog the mental toughness to kind of survive that regain your cool with the weight of an entire league city streaming platform what everything on your shoulders they already had a parade for you had a welcome thing hey the rest of your teammates like we're basically here just we're here for you this guy and then he fucking first game welcome to the fucking messy show love it love everything about it martinez said he's more impressed with busquets he said busquets he's more impressed with him dude like guys just said Busquets, he's more impressed with him, dude.

Like, guys just sitting back in the middle of the midfield just spraying the ball around. Like, if they all play, they're untouchable. Like, I don't know. So the MLS stinks, Gump? Is that what we're – Yeah, this isn't good. No, I don't think so.

Like, they'll have a tough match at some point. We lose to who in the all-star game? Yeah, but Messi's literally like the greatest player of all time, man. Is he in his prime right now? Are we watching a guy in his prime right now too? Probably like maybe just on his way out.

Oh, so we got a guy. Yeah. We shouldn't just bury the MLS because this guy's scoring at will right now. And the way he plays is different than Cristiano. Cristiano's all power and speed. Messi's game, he can fucking dance around until he's 40, man.

He can just nick it around. Dude, I love the way he just does this. Just moseys. Literally just fucking moseys. As somebody that played growing up, I hear so many coaches throughout his life that have probably told on deep like as somebody that played growing up i hear like so many coaches throughout his life that have probably thought i'm like pressure the ball he's like all right

shut the fuck up okay when the ball let me save some energy here when this thing gets on this foot right here it is going to that net let's see every time he touches the ball wherever it's at it's like oh goal's coming this is awesome magic so quick with his feet his feet are so quick man it's absurd just like you and z we, a goal's coming. This is awesome. Magic. So quick with his feet. His feet are so quick, man. It's absurd. Just like you, Anze. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, one half of the hammer. Cowboys gonna be there. Alright, let's take a phone call real quick and then let's get the hell

out of here. Let's go to Austin in Michigan. Hopefully it's a Michigan State guy. I'm excited to hear. Austin, what's going on, pal? What's up, boys? How we doing? What's going on, brother? Foxy, go green. I am a Michigan State guy. Oh, what's going on, pal? What's up, boys? How we doing? What's going on, brother? Foxy, go green. I am a Michigan State guy. Oh, oh, oh, oh,

hey, listen. Listen, great, great university. Well, Tom Izzo. January, February, Izzo, April. I get it. Hell yeah. A lot of greats coming out of there. Draymond Green, Evan Fox. April. I get it. Hell yeah. A lot of greats coming out of there.

Draymond Green, Evan Fox. Kirk. Magic Johnson. Kirk Cousins, Magic Johnson. Jeff Smoker. Boom. Brian Hoyer. Le'Veon Bell.

One of the worst humans of all time, though. Yeah. Very powerful position there. Yep. We need to remember that so we keep our eyes peeled in the future. That's right. I hate to be the bearer of actual news but so be it you know what i mean yeah so be it anyways austin what do you want to talk about pal so fucking yeah i got it i got a question uh hope you had fun tahoe and everything

so it seems like uh connor forgot the club clubs it doesn't seem like it i have a question i believe aj hawk didn't really want to present at the sb is it possible this was a sabotage from the ohio comeback no we haven't pieced that together did aj keep the clubs locked in boston connor's trunk at the airport because he didn't want to be a part of the sbs so he said let's delay this plane a bit maybe austin i didn't want to be a part of the SBs. So he said, let's delay this plane a bit. Maybe, Austin, I didn't even think about your toxicity potentially running a gamut where we have to turn a plane around and almost ruin Connor's life.

No, I ruined AJ's life. AJ, actually, we were talking about how, you know, maybe he was a little nervous for it, and maybe he did want to skip the red carpet, but he did want to present that award. Well, we presented uh i presented damar who was presenting a presenter yeah and the marsh it's pretty crazy oh yeah that was a wild scene like reliving it all there through that video we watched the video yes that was a crazy

night that's scary nuts he's full pads today i saw that yeah man i wonder how he feels i think good i asked i mean yeah it feels good, but I wonder just how – yeah, I mean, I guess until you get like a – yeah, it's like any first day of pads, I guess, but still for him it's a little different. Yeah, a little different. A little different. I assume he's –

He's minus 300 to win Comeback Player of the Year. That feels pretty safe. He's a Pittsburgh guy, so we assume he's an absolute dog. He is an absolute dog. So I think we're all just thinking like, yeah, he's all the way back as he is. I asked him, I'm like, how's the speed? He was like absolute dog. He is an absolute dog. So I think we're all just thinking, like, yeah, he's all the way back, because he is. I asked him, I'm like, how's the speed? He was like, good.

I'm like, this dude was dead. How? This dude was dead on the field. And now, because of Denny Erickson? Kellington? Kellington. Denny Kellington. I got a chance to meet him at the ESPYs.

Great handshake. I don't doubt it. Great. Very handsome. Very. I met the doubt it. Great. Very handsome. I met the entire Bills training staff, obviously. They won that thing, and Denny was there. It was very nice to meet them. And very cool.

They invited us to a game. They're like, you guys need to come to a game. We love the show or whatever. I'm like, hey, Denny, I mean, you're a fucking actual real-life hero. Whatever you say. Whatever you say. You got it, dude. Just in the moment, you know what I mean?

Because a lot of people have the information on what to do in a moment but then the moment comes like are you able to they panic that's the problem yeah you want to be prepared but a lot of people when it really matters freak out and panic and forget their training and they all just kind of it seems like we're able to put emotions to the side a guy we care about a lot you know trainers and the players get along very tight it's like i need to do something and execute what i've been training for and and now here we are emts on the way over the doctors at the house i mean it's just like the story is insane to really comprehend whenever you take us back to when joe and troy were kind of covering it all there and now he's full pads at practice back back back confidence moxie talking to him the night before the espy's got a chance to chat

with him so cool dude just like all positive vibes very thankful understands yeah the whole understands the whole situation it's like a cool mixture of swag and humility about the situation. And it's like, I couldn't be more happy for a guy. And on the flip side in Buffalo, that Naeem Hines stuff. Man. Tough. Buddy. Heartbreaker. AJ.

Who hit him on the jet ski? His friend or something? I don't know, dude. I have no idea. I'd assume you're jet skiing with people you know. Bad luck. Dude, I have no idea. I'd assume you're jet skiing with people you know. Bad luck. Dude, bad luck. We saw the greatest

wrestler of all time on a jet ski. Who did we ever? He was also the greatest. And he was, you know, turning that son of a bitch sideways. Yeah, daredevil. Next to a couple rocks. Yeah. Over the neighbors. Little splash pad. Little splash pad, obviously,

that we were ragging him on. A little bit of a tattletale. Yeah, he is a little bit of a tattletale. But were you going to wrestle him? No, no thanks. After the stories I heard. Like Olympic wrestling? Amateur wrestling.

So he was... Think like Greek, back in the day. Okay. Greco-Roman. Greco-Roman. Anyways, he's flying around on that jet ski. Yeah.

And he was sober. I don't believe he partakes really in anything or whatever. So if you get some people on jet skis, and I get to see them on the lake I live on every once in a while, that appear to be a little bit boozed up. Shouldn't be on a jet ski. Right, not. Not legal. But you start seeing what people think they can do on jet skis with their friends and stuff like

that you can see how shit can turn sideways a bit real quick so yeah i'm gonna spray him look i'm gonna splash him real quick oh boom hit him holding the horn at the six to the bottom yeah or showcase boom showcase like look at how hard i'm yeah i'm gonna be able to cut this or do a donut and then you just lose the and then all of a sudden you're outside of the tide that you're in it's like these things are very powerful very powerful very agile and if they're in the wrong hands it can be very dangerous seemingly but that being the reason why you're gonna be out for a fucking year is a heartbreaker now obviously there's a full conversation about whether or not the Buffalo Beals will be paying Naeem Hines because since it did not

happen at the workplace and it was a season ending injury, they can certainly grandstand on a thing like, were you thinking about our team whenever you were out there on a jet ski getting your leg broke by somebody else? So, we're not going to pay you because you weren't thinking. They could do that. They could do that. They would have to sleep, though.

They would have to sleep on that or there could be a deal to be made so at all parties could be taken care of because he is a member of your team very vital member of your team last year especially in the most important game seemingly of the year the game after tomorrow hamlin so that's a scene they're kind of brewing as we look at it but what a heartbreaking way to lose a season aj hawk yeah it's terrible i mean it's honestly the only you try to take anything positive from it it's glad that he said non-life-threatening injuries you know you think hey you're sitting stationary on a jet ski and somebody hits you depending on how fast they're going and where they hit you yeah i'm

glad that he's not sitting there in the icu right now geez true i hope they work that out yeah nine they have to it's a tough look to not 2023 you would think you would have to you know you would think especially and he didn't try to like lie and say hey i did this actually in the facility or he didn't even try to say i was working out somewhere like he told the truth yeah and with our organization you know right now why why would you want to? Right. They can. They could. That's what... Nick Roggins

sent in a photo of who he believes was probably on the other jet ski. Bill Belichick. Could be. That's one of those stand-up ones that can do tricks, too. That would be what Bill rides. They don't be what Bill rides. They don't really make those anymore.

I don't think they're tough to find. But every once in a while, you'll see one or two of those on the water. There's some really talented jet skiers out there. I'd assume Bill Belichick, with the time he has on his hands now and his personal life, potentially doing flips and shit on that. Not as much time as his personal life. I don't know. What's that you don't know?

Yeah, just because I assume his personal life is his work life, which is his football life and other things. But Bill's not getting on a jet ski. He's riding eight rings around Nantucket for a couple days. Oh yeah, the yacht. And then he's going back to the lab

to try and figure out how to stop Josh Allen. Not in any minds. So whenever he shows up on that tuck up there, just like Bill's Island all of a sudden? Yeah, basically. What is Nantuck? That's the Hamptons of the mass? Yeah, kind of.

Yeah, that's a great way to put it, actually. It's Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Martha's Vineyard is where you could say blue collar, but you could also say the Obamas go. Obviously, we saw something happen over the break. What's your problem? It is kind of the other side. They have storms there?

If you're a good swimmer, it might not matter. Let's just say that. That guy couldn't swim. Really? Someone swimming in the ocean that couldn't swim? Just real quick, I don't know why anybody's paddle boarding at all, but I do appreciate that people do. Paddle boarding's great.

Hold on, hold on. You think he was paddle boarding? I think that's what I read. Yeah, okay. Can't say what you just said. I don't know. Can't do what you just did. I heard about that, though.

Rest in peace. That was no fun at all. Don't do what you just did to Barry O. Great cook. He was. Not good enough, I guess. What are you talking about? You're insinuating some things.

No, he'd have his own restaurant. I mean, I'm not insinuating anything. He's cooking for a president. Yeah, he's probably making pretty good money. That's good. He did. He did. Job well done.

Hey, good life. We're sorry you passed. Peace and peace. Might have been diving out there for the fresh catch of the day. You don't know. Probably. It was a pond. When's the next election that's a big one?

This year? 24. Next year. Next year. Next year? Yep. 25. Oh, my God.

It's about to start. 26. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So excited. Tone, I don't need your innuendos. This is when shit really starts popping off. I hope you guys didn't throw your fucking masks away.

Hold on. Isn't this when normally, though, gas prices go way down? Like everything else that can potentially be monitored by government changes quickly, right? Oh, yeah. Have you seen on YouTube the ads for Tim Johnson or something like that?

I've seen 150,000 of them in the last two weeks. Who's Tim Johnson? What's he running, gubernatorial debate? No, he's a Democrat running for president. How's he doing? Does he look like he's going to do okay? I'm so sick and tired of seeing him that I haven't really given him the time of day anymore. Hold on.

So it's him. It's the... Bob Kennedy Jr. It is RFK. Yep. Vivek. Triple H. Dude, Vivek.

Dude, Vivek. Paul Vivek. Holy shit. Paul Vivek. Triple H. Dude Vivek. Dude Vivek from around here. Holy shit. What? Triple H? He's only 37, yeah. All right, well, I hope you all win. I hope you all win.

They won't get Bob fucking protection. Kind of fucked up. Who? Bob FK. All right, we're good. Good luck to everybody. I hope you all make our life better. That's what I hope happens. I hope you do a great job. I hope. We're good. Good luck to everybody. I hope you all make our life better. That's what I hope happens.

I hope you do a great job. I hope you unite the country. I hope you make the world better. And good luck. I hope you can speak. Yeah. That would be a cool thing. You should put TC in the Oval Office.

What I hear about TC, something came out about TC over the last couple of days. Uh-oh. Save the movie theaters? No. Maybe he said he's going to do this until he's like 70 or something. Oh, yeah. Mission Impossible movies. He said he wants to make them as long as Harrison Ford's making Indiana Jones movies.

I'm having way too much fucking fun. I'm not stopping doing this. Love that. Yeah. What a dog, dude. Exactly. This one's for a meet and greet with Tom Cruise, paid for by A.J. Hawke. Hell, yeah.

I don't think that's a possibility. Boom. Well, you're right. Yeah. Well, maybe Kevin Spacey. Spacey got acquitted. He got acquitted on everything, right? Congrats, AJ. I need House of Cards back tomorrow.

Not me. You can wear your pinky rings again. I need House of Cards back tomorrow. Put President Underwood back in the Oval Office, and let's figure it out. That was surprising to the audience. Was it a trial? Or did everyone drop the charges, or did he go to trial? I don't know how it worked.

Trial. I think trial. I think. You know, in England, when you go to trial, your lawyers aren't allowed to prep you for trial. I did not know that. They were. What do you mean?

Is that real? I heard that when one of the. This should be good. What are those people called? Yep. Cricket. Judge. Quarterback.

Queen. Thank you. One of the royals. When one of the royals had to go to the court recently, I was thinking about it. Meghan Markle's husband? I believe that's who it was. The lawyers are not allowed to prep you for it.

Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about, but I do appreciate the fact – I got a pretty good idea. I'm sure there's some sort of truth in it. Prince Larry, right? And I'm very thankful that you allowed us all. I'm sure they can talk to him, though. No.

Nope. Nope. Not allowed. In a cage. That's right. Soundproof cage. Like when Michael Cole was getting in the coal mine. That's right.

When the pope is rolling around that's what you're in you're kind of in like a soundproof cage anyways did not expect kevin spacey to be no not at all especially when you see some of the things like he squeezed some dudes not so hard they popped no no no he squeezed some guy's dick and balls so hard the guy felt sick to his stomach that's about all they could prove Yeah that actually happened So it wasn't even a sexual thing Maybe he was just upset He just loved squeezing nut sacks really hard

At fundraiser events Only laughing about this This was a surprise And for those that are saying Why are we talking about this Big part of this show AJ's favorite actor. So House of Cards.

No, we said it's Pat's favorite actor. Not my favorite actor. Whoa, whoa, whoa. House of Cards was the first ever series I ever watched, though, in my entire life. I watched Monday Night Raw. Okay. And I watched NFL football. That's right.

You got ripped away from me. Your first series ever. First series ever. House of Cards. House of Cards. Only reason because I had a knee surgery. I was down for like eight days. So I was forced to be in a bed pretty much.

And somebody told me like, House of Cards, you'll like it. I get through that first scene where he's killing a dog. Never would have made that if I'm not drugged up after surgery. So then as I'm like forced to watch something pretty much. And I got into it. I started watching. I'm like, all right, here we go. Fucking I got to see. I'm a forced to watch something pretty much. And I got into it. I started watching. I'm like, all right, here we go. Fucking, I got to see.

I'm a serious guy. And then all of a sudden, president's just out there handsy with everybody. Can't even talk about it. Can't even mention it. He's out. Put the wife in. Obviously, we all watch that.

And it's kind of over. Wait, Claire became? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, she became the president. Yeah. She's a great actor. What was that? Why didn't you watch?

She's great. You the president. Yeah. She's a great actor. What was that? Why didn't you watch? Why did I not watch it? Yeah. Because I stood with integrity. All right. Whoa. Aaron Rodgers just met the voice of God from Hard Knocks, Levi. Oh, Liv Schreiber. Yeah, Liv Schreiber.

Levi. I didn't know who Levi was. I thought it was maybe Levi Strauss. Oh, the Schreiber. Nice. Yeah, Liv Schreiber. Levi. I didn't know who Levi was. I thought it was maybe Levi Strauss. Oh, the gene guy. Yeah, I was excited. I'm like, Levi Strauss is about out there. Liv Schreiber, voice of God. Aaron Rodgers was excited to meet this man when he heard about Hard Knocks.

Now, wasn't excited about anything else? No. Not anything about the Hard Knocks, which I've seen some clips from behind the scenes. I think Aaron has kind of bought into the Hard Knocks. I think so. That's some good stuff. I think it's going to be good tomorrow night. I think Hard Knocks, which I've seen some clips from behind the scenes. I think Aaron has kind of bought into the Hard Knocks. I think so. That's some good stuff. I think it's going to be good tomorrow night. I think Hard Knocks is back tomorrow night.

A week from tomorrow. August 8th, I think, is the first one. Oh, wait, so we get the Hall of Fame game in there? Fuck, I thought it was tomorrow. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's August 8th. We get fucking, give me four courses, Travolski. Hold on. Oh, yeah, because that is how it starts.

So they sent me a clip that they're already on the internet in case you want to post on your show today. Oh, I thought they said tomorrow was the thing. Son of a bitch. No, that was on me. That was on me. Well, no, I'm assuming that next week's episode is this week. So maybe that's why they.

Yeah, because they film it all the way up until like, you know, they do like the South Park thing. They do that on Monday. Have you talked to Aaron since the Hard Knocks stuff? Yeah, not about Hard Knocks really, though. Of course not. What about wrestling? Wrestling? Did you talk about old school wrestling?

Oh, but no, I did not actually dive into that. I was going to let him get through the heart of camp before I dove into, you know, House Guest and their wrestling records. But if you let said wrestler get your back, it's over. Yeah, you're done. That's what we learned. We didn't really know. Or you're the winner. Depends on your motivation going in and you've got to set your intention

or maybe that was their goal all along is to let him have your back. I guess if you're looking to lose, you're right. I guess we've got to weigh those options as well. I only hope that Aaron brings that to the Jets locker room just because it feels like a bonding experience. What are those shoes?

I don't know. I got them off Amazon. They are Jordans though. They're sweet. They are sweet. Futuristic. Thank you. They feel pretty good too. They lace themselves like Michael J. Fox? No, but I got fat feet. Oh, yeah. I like those.

These things are pretty wide. Dirty told me, oh, I like the red on the back. Go pop on her. That's what Dirty said. I appreciate you, Dirty. He knows the finer details. That's why you're a graphic designer. Yeah, man.

Everything is sweet. Hell, yeah. Thank you, Dirty. We had a good time at the wedding. Dirty did some fucking... Spinneroonie. Great little dance move. What's a breakdance? He did a little breakdance. What? Dirty did a full breakdoonie Great little dance move What's a break dance

He did a little break dance What Dirty did a full break dance In front of this fucking robot And then he did a full It's awesome Nailed it Crushed it

Never seen somebody Hit that so perfectly No Thanks guys And then he goes I didn't know I had that in me I'm like Motherfucker you practiced

Yes you did And his wife was like I've never seen him do that I'm like so is Dirty Practicing in his bathroom alone Door shut for that moment Right there Smart Big bathroom We got good floors in there

It paid off Dirty you crushed on that That was a moment Zito's wedding was cool Thanks for not coming Sorry I had to tell Zito It was the exact day I was going to be gone You can just say you don't want to go That's clearly what he says

I saw pictures it would have been fun You guys were smoking cigars A bunch of fellowship it looked great You just say you don't want to go. Like, that's clearly what this is. Oh, no, I saw pictures. It would have been fun. I would have loved to go. You guys were smoking cigars, a bunch of fellowship. It looked great. Driving Gruner was there? Yeah. Yeah. Who?

Driving Gruner. Driving Gruner. You forgot to put money on it. Oh, yeah, my bad. I don't know the names. I got it. Did you see that? No, I didn't. I got to find a way to make off of this.

Oh, I didn't even see that. Why didn't you guys tell me? It was already out there. Yeah. It was already gone. You can't edit. Yeah, I didn't even see that. Why didn't you guys tell me? It was already out there. It was already gone. You can't edit. Yeah, you can. People got it. I mean, it was... People got it. You just missed one word, money.

Yeah. I should have gone with a different quote because the first thing I did when I got home after the wedding was watch the driving crew. Well, you were reenacting them the whole time. I'm happy you did that. Yeah, I had to. You looked cool with that hat. Well, I'm just glad the guy... Hands a that hat. Well, I'm just glad the guy hands a little high, but

I'm just glad the guy let me in because that dude would stare at that car for, what was it, eight hours? He wouldn't be more than ten feet away from it. You see what we're saying now? I see it now. Yeah. We got it, though. I actually, I did not notice that until right now.

That screw up was there. I want to let you know, I didn't notice it the first 15 times I watched you because I was so mesmerized by your... Yep. Okay, nice. So I don't think it mattered. It was fun. You ever see one of those things where they have the word spelled wrong?

Yeah. They have all the letters in the word, but they don't do it. It seems like everything our brain does for us, a lot of the minuscule shit doesn't matter. I say if they got the right first letter and the right last letter, then your brain will be able to figure out what it's supposed to be.

And the same amount of letters. Yeah. And the letters are in there somewhere. Your brain will figure it out. Yeah. AJ, your brain do that? No. Yeah, it will.

Okay. They have like my kids. I take my kids to breakfast at First Watch And they have the kids menu And they have like three words usually that are jumbled up And you gotta figure out oh carrot or apple I can figure those out Oh hey way to go

That's why you're the president of Ohio That's right I told you I'm not good at riddles you know that Yeah it's not really a riddle it's just reading And my brain that's a riddle. It's just reading. Yeah, it's just words. And my brain. That's a riddle in my brain. I like it. I respect it. I bought some local jam at the state fair.

Not bad. Speaking of riddles. How was it? Hey, there was jam over in France, and each time they would deliver jam to the table, I would always say jam and different things. Nobody ever picked up on anything. I started to explain Shakira's situation for a second,

and I just stopped myself. I'm like, just never mind. Don't worry about it. They knew it over there in France. They knew what was going on in PK's fridge. Of course. They knew that Shakira had a certain type of jam that she was the only one that ever ate.

Yeah. And then PK had some floozy in there. That's right. Stealing her jam. Some family ruiner. Golly. They were jamming themselves right in the foot. Aaling her job. Some family ruiner. Golly. They were jomming themselves right in the foot.

A lot of jomm. For the jomm! There you go. There you go. Extra ball. Bonus ball. Bonus ball. Bonus ball. Good pass. Joe Nardo, welcome back, baby. Love you, Joe. How we doing? Things awesome. Things sweet. It looks good. Pretty cool, right? It looks good when you're, right? Pretty cool.

It looks good when you're sitting down, too. Is it not moving? Oh! I didn't know we had that capability. Jeez, that's a cool camera angle right there. Thank you, Joe. Wow. Damn, that looks great.

Could you imagine what Jay Inardo would be saying right now about the AQI and the heat? Oh, man. He'd be able to at least tell us if this AQI is coming back. I didn't know we had another round, another bout with that thing. We were up in Chicago, couldn't see the lake. We're two blocks away from it. AQI is so damn bad. It's so hot. I'm like, are these fires still burning up there?

Can we not put a fire out? Can we get a fire extinguisher? Is everybody okay? Have we heard about the fires? No. No. Nothing. I didn't know that was still going on.

Still going. Well, guess what? There's another wave of it coming. They've got an AQI wave. Yeah, these news things, they get their ratings and then they move on. There's a war still going on, too. I forgot all about that. Oh, man, I saw something crazy in Moscow. Holy shit.

I didn't see what you saw. Ukrainian drone strike in downtown Moscow. They're in Russia now? Really? Oh, yeah. Young girl with her mother. She's filming it. She starts screaming.

It was crazy. Out of nowhere. Just right into the side of this big building in downtown Moscow. It was crazy. When was this? I saw it last night, I think. This weekend? All right. We hope everybody's, we hope everybody's safe.

Hope everybody's safe. They're not going to be. Probably not. What would like it to be, though? We hope everybody puts their drone, bombs, and swords aside. That's what we hope happens. We're on that team.

Just like we're on the team of Larry Nash, our terrible guy. Terrible guy. Amen. Always will be. Jared from Subway. Bad guy. Bad guy. Sandusky. Bad guy. Get out. All right, Sten's got something going on. Bad. We'll learn the name. We'll learn the name. Northwestern.

Bad. Bad situation. Don't like what happened with PJ. No. So, like, happened with PJ. No. So, like, this is during a break, and Will Compton, former player, obviously, obviously, free agent right now, year 10, may become the Colts. Might need him. Maybe.

Might need good energy in that locker room right now. With what's going on. So, maybe we sign him. He, I appreciated his take. So, like, I was out of pocket, you know, not lying, but, like, put the phone down for this two-week break or whatever. So, I was kind of out and then came back in, then out, then come back in. And I appreciated him taking a stand being like, so these guys said they had to work hard to be on a football team. Fucking boo-hoo.

That is what that one felt like in the Minnesota one. And it was, I was almost embarrassed for the people that were trying to like kind of grandstand on that. So unless I didn't read all of it, this is now, I assume what people think is a new way to run somebody out that you don't like. Like the Northwestern one, from everything we've heard, sounds absolutely egregiously terrible. Like what was going on.

Don't need it in football. Don't need it in football. Don't want it in football. But like these people that are like, this guy made us work hard. It's like. He made us memorize things that we may not have wanted to memorize. He told me to set an alarm clock and wake up. He told me to say I was elite whenever i was being asked it's like uh he's trying to build a culture that you should have seen coming before you committed to right

sure he's not like he's not torturing anyone he just made it sure it's kind of corny that's it it's cheesy if i have to like repeat these things but he's not like yeah from what i've read he is not doing anything like egregious so unless we miss some things foxy's generation don't they think they're like they're putting allegations out against other people the only thing you're doing is reaffirming what a lot of us think about this generation right now it's like a boo-hoo. Herbie's generation. Oh, this is fire alarm.

I'm starting to blame your guys' generation a little bit, too, because you guys are starting to get that age where you're the coaching staff. You're setting the example, and now you're allowing this to happen. Yeah, we're tough. We're hard, and you guys can't fucking handle it. Guys, we're the same generation. No one hates PJ Fleck more than me. I think that's been very for a long time but it was like this whole thing was bullshit you can't fire a guy for being a horse's ass and a snake oil

salesman which he is but but you can't fire a guy for that okay he got he's a douchebag yeah no no two ways about it he is he is i mean the I mean, the Fleck coins, the Fleck spank back. There was no coins, he said. How about him saying there was no actual coins and there was no actual Fleck bank spanks. Exactly. Him having to say that already. He basically said if you didn't buy in, you didn't have a good experience.

Shocker. Sorry, you stink at football. Sorry. You're a waste of laundry detergent sorry we thought you were going to be good we gave you a scholarship you stink sorry get out it's like that one sounded real soft especially in situations like that where it's like minnesota fucking sucked before he got there like i'm not saying they're you know one of the best teams in the big 10 but like they're respectable and like it is because of him. He has changed that program.

We saw their facility. That shit wasn't there before he got there. Like a $40 million facility or something. Beautiful, beautiful. New stadium. Yeah, they haven't been good over the last couple years or whatever. They've been good, but not in the... Didn't you take away from when I read all this stuff about PJ?

I was like, man, however you feel about him, we know how Ty feels about him, but he seems seems like he cares the dude wants him to be good he wants to win like that's what i was like man this guy he's spending a lot of time on these guys this guy just get a promotion from these allegations this guy coaching this guy's a better coach than we thought like it was but all the hazing and stuff that's happening in other places we assume because we didn't know what's happening in the center of Chicago. Yeah, at a very prominent school. With media people everywhere and high society, high intelligence.

What was happening there, we could not have expected or knew was happening in this morning. So we assume it's happening in other places. But we don't need the boy who cried wolf thing. Right. You know what I mean? We don't need the whole... cried wolf thing right you know what i mean we don't need the whole because you make yourself look worse like these people at minnesota made themselves look much worse than pj did to a lot of people now i'm sure there's people are like he shouldn't be telling you oh yeah to run sprints you run sprints because you

know what you need to do right how old are you you haven't figured out you know exactly what you need to do i hope there's not people like that oh you there's definitely people gassing them up i know i know there is i know there is this is the pj like the minnesota thing is it still going on or is that just kind of now that's are they investigating like what's the school say that he said that he has full support from the minnesota yeah but that is the problem like the obviously like the stuff with northwestern that needs to come out and it needs to be public, and people need to learn about that. But now it does just give all these people who haven't had a good experience playing college sports or whatever, like, oh, fuck it.

Let's try to band a couple guys together, and let's see if we can't run this guy out of town and see what we can do. And we hope that doesn't become the trend. Right. We hope that only people that have actually been wronged and have actually been put in terrible situations and had their football experience ruined for them because we love football we would like everybody to have their football experience be a fantastic one so that's why the northwestern thing is very alarming it's like yo that's not how it's supposed to be that's not how

you should view football that's not how anybody should think that they're going to have to do when they do football and i'm only saying that because i was very lucky to be on football teams they're very good it was a great experience. Don't need to have that in our game or be associated with our sport. But also, you gotta be a dog to play fucking football. That is just amen

until the very end. You gotta be a dog. No matter how much money it is, no matter how new it is, no matter how this generation changes, whenever the whistle blows, you got to be a dog. And that's just how it goes. You know what I mean, AJ? Yeah, you can't hide, man.

That's the thing about, it's a great thing about football. You can't just hide and be like, oh, I'm just, I'm not really feeling it today. I'm just going to kind of hang out. It's not like you're basketball. I'm going to hang in the corner and shoot some threes today. Like, even if it's practice, you know, like, hey, I'm going to get hurt if i don't come out there and

try to bring it so coaches that are coaching like tough is a good thing for our society not a bad thing for our society so i hope that this type of fuckery kind of stops so foxy tell your generation yeah i mean it won't stop though we know we know it's like when people when stuff goes wrong if you know let's say for this instance, you're not getting playing time or if you work somewhere and you get fired, they'll point fingers at other people for that reason. And that's just going to happen and there's nothing we can do about that. What are you talking about?

Are you talking about people on TV? No, no, no. At one network? Well, no, I mean, shoot, we can even go back to that. I started thinking about calling myself The Reason, bro, with how much i've been like fucking blamed for everything that song you know what i mean just for every like what song that song the reason yeah who was stank i'm not a perfect person I never meant to do anything to you I thought you were talking about But honestly though

Like when we were getting blamed For other people's shit not working Like Oh yeah I forgot about that Yeah it's like come on bro And then all those people now Did he say that That guy that was at that school

For 14 years With a lot of power and prominence Did he say that they were at that school Yeah This is what we got Just like come on Come on bro That's not how life works Come on That guy that was at that school for 14 years with a lot of power and prominence, did he say that they were at that school? Yeah. This is what we got. Just like, come on. Come on, bro. That's not how life works.

Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Can we live? Grow up. Yeah. Peter Pan. Count Chalk. Nice.

We are the dumbest show of all time. Oh, yeah. Brett Favre sues me. Next day, lead show with it. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cancel me on a Sunday. First day back. We're going to talk about this for. Oh, yeah. Brett Favre sues me. Next day, lead show with it. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cancel me on a Sunday, first day back. We're going to talk about this for three hours, bro. Super Bowl. Got to do it. That's been

today, AJ. That's been today. Great to be back. I don't like bringing negativity into people's lives. I don't like that. I don't like us being associated with that. That's why we try to be as jovial as possible. Even whenever we're talking about something we hate, we at least try to in the end be like, well,

but we hope that I'll figure it out. So I guess it was not cool. I don't like appreciate the fact that I'm being associated with that, with everything, but it's also not what I said. Like, I don't know. I don't know what,

you know, that's tough, but there's going to be a lot more of this. Yeah. So we just drop in. We say, say the pocket. So excited.

Yeah. And just wait on it. Big blinders season, big blinders. She's in So excited. And just wait on it. Big blinders season. Big blinders season. Shin guard Stefan Diggs season. You know what I mean? Chain mail. That's a great idea.

I might start on a camo, though. You know, because they do got the... Or just... Feels like we got a pretty large bullseye. Oh, yeah. Red dots just all over us. Could wear Cena right now. I need to wear a ghillie suit.

Yeah. Yeah. That blends in with the desk. Oh, that'd be awesome that'd be awesome I'm excited to see the response to our response they made a mockery out of it fuck you all right maybe tomorrow let's get out of here hell of a day back boys hell yeah good to be back. Let's take one more phone call. Let's go to Sam in New Mexico. Sam, what's going on, pal?

New Mexico, huh? How you doing, Pat? Hey, real quick. How close are you to Los Albas? Yeah. What is it? Los Albas. Los Albas.

Only where the atomic bomb was created. Los Alamos. Los Alamos. Yeah, Los Albas. Only where the atomic bomb was created. Los Alamos. Los Alamos. Yeah, Los Albas. Might have passed that. I have no idea. Well, some big shit went down there, I learned. Look it up.

Oppenheimer and a bunch of... I might have just missed it. You know, I think I just missed it out here. Yeah, well, pretty big bomb. Pretty big bomb, but you'll figure it out. New Mexico special place. What do you want to talk about, brother? Well, I'm on a cross-country road

trip, and I was watching Becoming Cody Road, and I just wanted your thoughts on, is the talent pool just so large in the WWE right now that they don't know who to take the throne from Roman and put it on someone else because the talent is so large? It's like Sami Zayn, LA

9K. It's so hard. Is it LA 9, Jay Uso. Or is it just like they're capitalizing on all these guys right now that you can hold on to it right now. Like they're just never going to, they're just going to wait as long as they have to before they put on the belt of the next guy. Sam, great question. I appreciate you. SummerSlam coming up in Detroit.

This upcoming weekend. Roman and Jay are going to have to What's that? That'll be awesome. What? Everything that is inside the arena. That's exactly what he said. Yeah, why'd you say SummerSlam's going to suck? SummerSlam is not going to suck.

No, no, it being in Detroit. No, it's at Ford Field. That place is beautiful. Remember, Detroit's back, too. Yes. Detroit is back. Calvin Johnson told us. A lot of people invested in Detroit.

Detroit is all the way back. SummerSlam's going to be awesome. There's been a lot of incredible moments that have. Detroit is all the way back. SummerSlam is going to be awesome. There's been a lot of incredible moments that have happened through the history of the WWE at SummerSlam. There's been a lot of new highlights. Obviously, I'm undefeated at SummerSlam. Had a choir sing me out out in Nashville. Now, I did not prepare for the ropes to be a little bit wet. I almost fell on my face and died.

But instead, I just beat Baron Corbin's sorry ass. Love SummerSlam. Love being a part of the wwe but his question about like roman reigns he's now i don't know how many days but it's all the days allegedly now you're gonna have to out strategize him in paul heyman in the ring which is good luck that's gonna be tough to do you know he grew up in a wrestling family so you know they talk about hackett's dad founding the West Coast offense or whatever and being a part of it.

It's like Roman's family literally has won so many wrestling matches in so many different ways. He's just osmosisly, through his whole life, just knows every system. Yeah, that's right. So he's unbeatable. And he has a wise man. Bingo.

Paul Heyman, same exact thing. Yes. Just in the other way. So you've got to out-strategize him. You've got to be able to beat him in the ring, which is going to be tough. What's so funny? Yeah, fucking... Am I funny?

I'm waiting for you to finish. Do I make you laugh? Do I... I actually watched some of that on the plane. Yeah, I was just waiting for you to finish i mean it's amazing you're right i don't see how he gets beat like he's gonna be the champ the next 20 30 years if he is his body can stay in the shape that it's in right now which is spectacular elias and all the like seven siblings he has without the hospital so elias is a guy that

if he was able to get back in there and i don't know if the whole family's okay or not he might be able to do it because of his physical fitness, but I'm not sure he's in the ring just yet at the stage that Roman Reigns is at. So he's talking about are they just not sure? It's like can Sami Zayn beat Roman Reigns in a ring? I love Sami. I love Sami. I love KO. I love their

tag team. I love everything about him, but Roman... What do you mean not sure too? I mean, if you beat him, you're the champion. What do you mean not sure? So the guy mean, if you beat him, you're the champion. What do you mean not sure? So the guy to watch right now is a guy that, as I left NXT 2019, there was a guy, literally the next pay-per-view. So I'm out after wall games. Keith Lee.

Keith Lee left, too. He got promoted when I was there with you. Yeah. Bearclaw. But then he ends up leaving and going to aew now but as i left nxt to kind of go off into just nothing land you know what i mean just kind of it's over it is over it's been fun that decision was made it was not mine but i do appreciate that it it happened la night came back into nxt like the next pay-per-view and they had i was watching and he cut a promo in that next pay-per-view,

like right to the camera. And I'm like, who's this guy? I would like to, this would be a guy that I would like to talk, I would like to talk to this guy. This would be, yeah, this guy, really entertaining. So then I finally get to meet him. He got called up, I think, to SmackDown,

and I got a chance to meet him and everything like that. And I'm like, hey, buddy, I'm a massive fan of yours, yours bro and they weren't really using anything then he was max maxim uh oh yeah do pre or whatever which you know was something certainly but it wasn't the whole la night so now that he's getting to be himself and kind of do everything he's done through his entire career i'm incredibly happy for him the pops he's getting whenever his music hits yeah our fucking attitude era pop i think he's got like top five uh shirts right now in wwe i saw like a tweet like he's got all five of our his yes so like wwe knows though you know they know that that guy is they hear the pop every time his in triple h who i

believe is running creative still i'm not behind the scenes i do not know what's going on over there but i believe they they can hear you know they have they know yeah him on the mic they know he's good the clips of him on the like i will stop and watch the entire thing whether it's one minute or three minutes because what what he says and does is awesome i've told him like numerous times how big of a fan I am of him. At that time, I don't think he was necessarily taking compliments as well because he wasn't able to really do his thing. So now watching him kind of grow, I've been super pumped for him.

Cody Rhodes, that was another guy. I mean, what a fucking dog. He's got to deal with Brock Lesnar. Yeah, exactly. Good luck. So. Nobody doesn't die. Ain't that right, AJ? So. So. Nobody doesn't die. Ain't that right, AJ?

Yeah. I didn't know LA Knight went through a couple name changes already. What? You said he was Max Dupree for a minute. Yeah, he had a modeling agency. Just kind of doing his thing to break it. Yeah. Yeah.

Had to do it. It's his model name. You can talk. I've been mentioning him for, what, a year and a half. I saw that guy in the mic one time. Yep, this guy has it. Did you see your other guy, Cam? Bob Backlund?

No. The guy who gave the— Don't go? No, he's wrestling again, though. He needs to get back. If he— I think he's a contractor. He actually builds homes and stuff.

Yeah. Very successful. He should have a reality show. I think he should have every show. Don't go. I kind of retired him, though. I kicked his soul out of his body, and that was the last time he was seen. And he actually put that on one of my Instagram comments.

You retired me, kid. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no The WWE right now is in a very interesting time because they're in the middle of their TV negotiations as well. Just got acquired by Endeavor to create TKO alongside UFC. Ratings at an all-time high. Merch at an all-time high. Ticket sales at an all-time high. So to Sam's question, things are going really good right now. So I think that's probably where it will stand unless somebody goes in there and just beats Roman all night,

which could happen. Roman might rest on his yawnies, but that ain't our champion. No, no. That ain't our tribal chief. Not after what Jay and Jimmy did. I love Jay Uso, though. They're great. Yeet.

Yeet. Yeet. Yeet. That's a full conversation with the Uso's right there. Actual. Actual. Full convo. Yeet. Yeet. That's a full conversation with the Usos right there. Actual. Actual. Full convo. Yeet.

Yeet. Yeet. Yeet. Walk off. We just had a great convo. Yeah. How you doing? What's up?

Good to see you. All right. On our way out of here. Sweet. Their energy is always awesome. All right. On our way out of here. Sweet. Their energy is always awesome. The best. The Usos are maybe the most, like, up people I've ever been around in my life. At all times, too.

All times, too. Just like, yeet. You know, like, just nonstop. Walk in, they're sitting down. You sit next to them. They have a story about where they were yesterday. Yeah. They have something.

It is. They are phenomenal. Don't like what they did to their tribal chief. Yeah, I mean. They're coming. You know what I mean, AJ? I don't love it. I check in on them.

I see what they're doing. They kick Roman in the face. Knocked him out. Aren't they family? That bald line's thin right now. People are saying The Rock coming back to SummerSlam on the internet. What? People are saying, let's get out of here.

Holy shit. Four hours on the day back. Not bad, boys. I thought maybe we were going to have a little microphone rust. You know what I mean? Thought we were going to have a little mic rust. So much has happened. Like, now that we actually can talk about football.

Yeah, but we didn't really talk a lot about football today, which is kind of. True. Like, Frank Clark's on the Broncos now. Yeah. And he was asked about the Chiefs-Broncos rivalry. And he had to remind himself, like, three different times in the interview. I'm on the Broncos now. Mm-hmm. I'm on the Broncos now. And he was asked about the Chiefs-Broncos rivalry. And he had to remind himself like three different times in the interview, I'm on the Broncos now. I'm on the Broncos now.

Like, that's hilarious. We'll talk about that tomorrow, obviously. Justin Fields not being a vegan, where I talked about. Holdouts currently. You asked about one to Rappaport. Josh Jacobs, Zach Martin, Chris Jones, who said he's going to be defense player of the year this year. He's sitting out.

There's a lot of holdouts right now. This isn't normal with the modern NFL with this post-CBA. Normally it's hold-ins where people go and just don't do anything so they're not privy to a fine. But it seems like a lot of these guys are like, fuck it, fine me. I don't care. Forgot about Bosa. I am out of here.

If you're good enough, you can do that. Yeah, be who you can afford to be. Bosa can just. Yes. Yeah, and also on top of that, what's the fines for what I've missed so far? $650,000. Sweet.

So that's... We're putting that right on top. Signing bonus. And then we are right back in here. Be who you can afford to be. Get all the money you can get. I don't know if it's going to work out for Jonathan Taylor. I'm excited to see how that pans out.

We'll probably have a lot more information tomorrow. After everything we said today in a microphone today I assume maybe I'll get some messages Hopefully from some people That'll be like oh something you forgot about this whole thing Or like hey you said this This actually That's a fun thing I really enjoy our show

Over the last two weeks I've had a chance to kind of Sit back, reflect, watch other shows Get a chance to hear from people that watch our shows That didn't know we were taking a break The amount of messages i got from people that are like where are you and i'm like i'm at my house where are you and i thought i'd be getting invited somewhere yeah and it wasn't me getting invited anywhere it was where the fuck's the show and i was like i had no idea you watched you watch the show they're like yeah buddy a lot of did that to us. I assume you got a lot of that as well. We are very thankful and lucky for everybody that spends their afternoons

or mornings or evenings with us wherever you are. We're going to continue to try to just do our show as best as we possibly can. I understand very much that I am going to be a bullseye for a lot of people, for a lot of things that we talk about on this show. But in a transition phase to a next era, that's always going to happen. If not us, then who? That's right. B right yeah absolutely well said i like it all i agree i missed the show honestly i felt like we were off for three months it really did seriously me too i uh i loved the time with my wife and baby loved it kind of and i said this to begin the show

that's the most time i've had straight where i didn't really go anywhere probably since i'm like 12 or 13 years old actually like you know i've been on the road my whole life pretty much soccer every football kicking camps now then started then soccer was coinciding and it just was a non-stop had this had this had this had this forever me and my dad had been on the road for like forever so getting a chance to stop for 17 days seemingly yeah even though tahoe ate into that a lot espy's too it wasn't like espy's a lot of walking my feet were sore but getting a chance to like see what the future looks like i thought i was gonna i was very scared going into our break. I was very scared,

very, very scared. I'm like, what a wife can hate being around me for this long. I mean, what am I going to do? I'm just going to stare at the wall. Like,

what am I? And then I started like settling in. I'm like, all right, now I have a goal. I'm going to get a chance to get back to this at some point. However many years in the future, refreshed,

re-energized, refocused. And we got a chance to do something that's never been done in the past and that's changed the course of a genre so let's go ahead and fucking do that hell yeah let's do that i'm in can't wait man i'm excited to be back me too i appreciate you all so much good show out of you boys hammer dad in 15 minutes probably about five youtube.com forward slash hammer dad good gambling bets right now right now. What are you talking about? We'll do baseball.

Still happening. Yes, it is. It's still happening. We'll talk about some of the injuries and stuff like that have happened in the NFL, how they've affected the odds of college football, and then we'll probably start previews as far as props and stuff for the season. Can't wait to watch. Can't wait to hear it.

I appreciate you doing that every single day. We've been diving into college football stuff, looking at the season ahead. I cannot wait for game day to get started back up. Although there's people that don't want me on game day anymore because I let them. Oh, sure. Saw that a lot. That's right. I'm trying to figure out what to do now. We'll see how the football team goes.

You know what I mean? Yeah. We'll see how Michigan State's football team does. Big bounce back here coming. Hell yeah. Hey, they gave Henry Hasselbeck a scholarship. I'm pumped about that. So happy. So I'm pumped about that. He's a dog, too. That kid's an absolute dog

been around football a long time. Has a lot of ability. I'm happy he's going there. So I'm trying to figure out if which could happen. I'm a big fan of the Michigan State football team. Yeah. I don't know what happened in the last 24 hours affect my judgment. Yeah. I'm going to keep my blinders on. How much of that is the football team, too?

More so just people on the internet. You're right. Good point. You're right. You're an adult. Me. I can go above it. Yeah.

I mean, these people are trying to get me and 15 employees run out. We're the bad people, obviously. These people are trying to get our entire lives taken away from us, have babies, weddings, houses, everything being built. But yeah, you're right. We're the bad people. I won't let that affect anything I'm not judging Michigan State. Thank you. Thank you.

I won't do that, AJ. It's big of you. It's very big. Thank you. I appreciate it. I feel like yeah, if not us, then who? That's right. I'll be the bigger guy. Speaking of bigger, I'm 255 right now anybody wants something i'm ready feel good i do i feel really good i stayed like kind of in shape during this two weeks as well i ate a little bit you know sloppy but kind of locking in for the sea it's a long season bro so I'm trying to be healthy so I have energy. You know what I mean? Like last year, I made it to like

December and I got like two months early. I'm like, whoa, I'm really dragging to the finish line. But I wasn't as healthy. I wasn't taking care of myself. So now, we focused, we studied, we learned, we're making adjustments. And now it's like,

let's enjoy this. Let's do this. Let's have the greatest football season any show has ever had in the history of shows. Yeah. It's basically here. Season is basically here right now. Yeah, but until we watch that first preseason game, we go, this sucks. Yeah, but it's this week. We're getting four quarters of Strzofolski.

Zach. Zach Wilson. Yeah, we're watching a CFL game on Thursday. Yeah. I do want to see Zach, though. I want to see Zach Wilson play. Hey, what if Zach Wilson is, like we're watching a CFL game on Thursday. I do want to see Zach, though. I want to see Zach Wilson play. What if Zach Wilson is so much better? What if Zach Wilson, after just hanging out with Aaron a little bit,

is just so much more decisive and handshaking teammates and acting completely differently? And then Aaron's like, well, I think I'm playing two or three more years. Zach Wilson's like, what the fuck? Everybody's saying this guy better not play one year. Zach Wilson was like, yeah, one year's good. Let's get a little quick little learning curve. And then Brown's got Dobbs and DTR.

They run. Yeah, DTR will be sweet. Hey, how many years has he got left, AJ? I don't know. I mean, listen to these quotes he has. It sounds like this first year goes well. Obviously, another year after that, and then he sounds like, hey, I'm going to go as long as I can.

But he has alluded to, like, if we won a Super Bowl, though, probably. Probably going to ride off. Yeah. I still think that's hard to do. I think so, too. But he's, you know, he's Aaron Rodgers. He could do it. Yeah, believe me, I know.

He's a unique character. He could do it. But I just think that's hard to do. You know what's really hard to do? Is put yourself in a hole for four days with no light. Very much so. He just did that. Just taking dumps in the corner that he thought was the toilet.

Finds out the fifth day when they turn the lights on, oh, there's poop over that corner. Oh, my God. I got it on my nose. Oh, my God. Some people told me that your reaction to him, AJ's first reaction to the dark hole was uh how do you wipe your ass how do you know when you're that was your first reaction there's been i'm a practical i'm a practical thinker i always think about like a

real day-to-day how does it affect my day-to-day a lot of people came up to me and said like what aj asked was my first thought too like valid how do you know when you're done wiping or whatever i'm like well i think he's only eating a tiny meal so probably small poops yep man you never know still might be sloppy yeah you think he's doing one of these in the dark he's got his legs all the way up there probably maybe he's down in the in the bathtub doing homemade bidet yeah yeah maybe he's getting a bottle that he brought in with the top yeah and he's doing we don't know we'll with a top. Yeah. And he's doing. We don't know. We'll ask him.

That would make the most sense. Hopefully we'll get a chance to talk to him again about his darkness retreat. That seems to be very topical. I do wonder what his next offseason adventure will be either way. Well, in New York, I think he's going to be the lead for fucking like. Oh, do a play. Rent. Yeah, definitely. We'll have to ask Bruce what's his big up and coming. Well in New York I think he's going to be The lead for fucking Like Oh dual play Yeah Definitely We'll have to ask Bruce

What's his big up and coming Fuck Remember he saw That one before He saw Hamilton Before it was on Broadway Hamilton wasn't on Broadway Off Broadway

Really Off Broadway Yeah they were testing it out He was a focus group Yeah Lin-Man Bruce was on it early Yeah He was like you know what

The king needs to be A little bit more spunky. Need a little more pizzazz. Bruce, thank you for doing that. Hell yeah. He did have a lot of pizzazz in the end, that king. Yeah.

I've never seen it. Me neither. This guy sucks. Has anyone ever said Hamilton's not not good it's good bro it's it's i know but i'm saying has anyone ever said it's not good is it the point now where people are scared to say it's not good if they really think that no like there is stuff like that like we talked about threads like that thing's bad and it sucked right And there was people that were scared to do that at the time. I feel like, once again, we are a group. So be it. Mm-hmm.

Sue us. Don't actually. Right. But I don't think Hamilton's like that. I think Hamilton's like, shoot good. You know what I mean? Yeah. Everyone I've seen that I trust said, yeah, it's legit.

Yeah. Go see it. At this point, it's going to be hard to see it, though. You got to see one of the traveling ones that's coming around the country. What are you talking about? Why wouldn't you watch it? Because I've made it this far. Yeah, but learn a little bit about your history.

I'll go to the next Hamilton, if that makes sense. Wicked? No, I thought Wicked was the first Hamilton. Jersey Boys? Ooh, Jersey Boys is awesome. Yeah. What is there as a new one, like Saved by the Bell or something? Oh, yeah. What? No. Yeah, I think Aaron went to it. I think there? There's a new one, like Saved by the Bell or something. Oh, yeah.

What? No. Yeah, I think Aaron went to it. I think Aaron was talking to Petey Schrags about it at training camp. Oh, I go to the Harry Potter one. No one saw it, though. I wouldn't go to that. Is A.C. Slater there?

NFL Plus. Hey, can we fucking please get this NFL Plus thing enough? Enough of it. The only time I've ever heard about it is from you. You pub it more than anybody on the planet. Do they ever talk about it? How does it work? The only reason why, I try, you know.

You're mocking it. Yes, I understand. No, I'm not mocking it. This isn't a woe is me thing, but I legitimately try to see everything that happens in the NFL. So I have NFL PR, NFL films, NFL. These are all things that show up in my timeline a lot because I want to see everything that's going on.

I would like to know. So they just start pumping this NFL Plus. They had an Octobox on NFL Plus with every single insider that they have at all these different places. And then on NFL Network, it was like Steve Mariucci, who I love, interviewing a coach about like his golf game. I'm like, I love Mooch. Can we not just combine?

Yeah. Can we not get these? Why are we wasting? And then you've got to go to Twitter for the clips that are good from NFL Plus to come out. Well, I'm trying to watch this. They're trying to build up this platform, obviously, so they can sell it. But wasn't there – okay, but wasn't – yeah, exactly.

But their tagline or their selling feature is saying, we have out-of-market preseason audio games if you need them. That's one of the big ones. It's video for preseason. It's great for gambling preseason. I have NFL Plus. That's the only reason you have it. That's one of the big ones. It's video for preseason. It's great for gambling preseason. I have NFL Plus. That's the only reason you have it. Yeah, I have it as well.

You're forced into our life. But I have it. I'm still not watching anything on it. Yeah, the only time I've ever used it is when it's like, let's say it's 830 in Sunday Night Football. I got to go grab something to eat or something like that. That's the only time I've ever used it because you can watch it on it. Just do YouTube TV. Yeah, even then. That's what I was going've ever used it because you can watch it on it. Just do YouTube TV. Yeah, even that's what I was going to say.

YouTube TV is about to steamroll a lot of places. Yeah. Stealer's preseason games or if I bet on a preseason game. We need YouTube TV to work for the NFL. Right. Because then Google is invested in. They have to be ready. They got to be ready.

They know what's coming. I think so too. Yeah, hell yeah. Hell yeah. I mean, there's enough damn warehouses full of servers everywhere in this country right now. It better work. Let's not even start diving into that. Let's get out of here.

We've gone too far. We've talked too much. Have we been canceled today? Probably. I hope. That's fun, though. That's like the first real cancel attempt. You know what I mean? It was real. It felt real. That's like the first real cancel attempt. You know what I mean?

It was real. It felt real. Felt like there was some real conviction behind these people wanting me to ever, ever exist again. Felt real. I read every single one of them. So I couldn't read all of them. I had to mute it at some point because I was just, oh, geez, these people are really mad. Holy shit.

I didn't hire them, dude. What the fuck? You guys did. Yeah, right. I didn't create this guy dude. What the fuck? You guys did. Yeah, right. I didn't create this guy. It happened. Yeah, sorry. Trying to silence me.

I won't hold it against Michigan State, though. Go green. Go white. Thank you. Unless they start on three. Then all this team stinks. And also, listen to this. I can't wait.

Yeah, exactly. It's all right. I appreciate them. I appreciate everybody. We're back tomorrow with hopefully another terrible show that somehow will be enjoyable for people to watch, which is what has happened the last five, six years. Hell yeah. We're lucky to do this.

We're grateful to do this. And you all are the greatest humans on earth. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. Goodbye.