The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 958 - GUMP IS BACK, NFL Preseason Week 2 Recap, Andrew Whitworth, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: August 21, 2023

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys welcome Gumpy back from Canada after a long, arduous process. They also discuss all the games and the biggest takeaways from week 2 of the preseason including the Steelers looking great, the Bills not so much, Jordan Love continuing to look good, all the other Quarterback play that impressed, and much more. Joining the show to chat about the importance of playing in at least one preseason game to get the juices flowing before the preseason, the Rams offensive line this year, and more (1:16:35-1:28:44). Later, NFL Network Senior Insider, Ian Rapoport joins the progrum to chat about all the different news stories and holdouts that are happening around the NFL that we need to be aware of, Nick Bosa's holdout situation, what's happening with Jonathan Taylor, he learns of Tokitae aka Lolita's untimely demise, and much more (1:54:53-2:30:11). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this big time Monday, August 21st, 2023, this sports program starts right now. Football! Happened this weekend, a lot of teams playing players that we know, a lot of teams resting players that we don't know. There's joint practices still taking place. There's canceled joint practices taking place.

There's preseason games in abundance. And I can't help but think to myself, we are just 17 days away from actual NFL football. And we can't wait. Let's go. Hope you all had a fantastic weekend. We enjoyed it. The Toxic Table is here at Boston Connor and Connor's Mullet. Ty Schmidt is here looking very dapper.

And one half of the hammer, Cowboys' Tone Diggs is here. And we'll be diving into all the NFL storylines. We'll have the great Rapaport Rap Sheet joining us in the third hour today. Cannot wait for that. Andrew Whitworth, former offensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals and Super Bowl

champion with the Los Angeles Rams. Now with Amazon, we'll be joining us with Fisher Price. There's a big announcement today. Okay. Some toys? Bingo. Basketball hoop? No, these things are out today.

These are called Little People. Holy shit, is that you? Yeah, this is me. They made a little person me here, you know what I mean? Obviously, good fluff on the hair. Nice tank top. Little roughed up jeans there. Little person me they sent to me. Thank you very much, Fisher Price.

And I think they are doing this for a fantasy football league as well. If you enter to win, you got to go to Mattel Creations. But they got a bunch of team ones. They're $25. They're available right now at MattelCreations.com. Thereittsburgh steelers one tevin diggs they sent to us shout out to them for sending out the tone there's a go pack ghost green bay packers one boom and then there's a patriots one boom nobody's gonna buy that but nonetheless these things are 25 bucks at mattel creations i believe andrew whitworth's gonna be coming on to chit chat about them i feel

like we just did our thing there right we? We just promoted the shit out of this. I love these things. Huge. Right? We just did it. I think we killed that. That's what I'm saying. I think we just, right?

Yeah. So we're going to have to prove this to a bunch of people once we go on ESPN, whenever some bigger named humans that we are not able to reach are going to come on the program. We're going to have to sell some of their stuff. It's like Super Bowl Radio Row, basically, all year, potentially. I think we just fucking crushed it. Nothing better than a new thing of toys. Dude, $25, too, for that entire thing?

Football? Is it available at a store? No. Who goes to stores anymore? Nobody. Idiot. Go to MattelCreations.com. That's M-A-T-T-E-L-C-R-E-A-T-I-O-N-S.com to get yours today.

I thought it was metal. I thought that's what you were saying. No, Mattel. I did not know Mattel and Fisher-Price were the same. Me neither. I did not. That's a big conglomerate. That's almost a monopoly on the whole baby toy thing.

Are they the ones that killed Toys R Us? I think everybody killed Toys R Us. I think you killed Toys R Us. I think you killed Toys R Us. I think you killed Toys R Us. I went there. I picked a slip out. I said, have my video game, sir.

Yeah, and for people who don't know, Mattel is the company that we all know of, but they do good stuff. But for the people who don't know, what would you maybe say they do in particular? Oh, they're kids. This is a baby kid. Probably the biggest one on the internet. Oh, Connor, you didn't know that. I had no idea.

Okay, I love that. I absolutely love that. Mattel and Fisher-P price are the uh toys for like little children ah okay andrew what was coming on for a little children toy thing okay i'll call it up to speed yeah those who have not been around children or have any kids i can understand how you might not have a clue what the hell that is no idea yeah and me about three and a half months ago probably had no idea either but boy you find out quickly once a little human comes in these two motherfuckers

run the world oh yeah and fisher price are everywhere and if they miss on one item guess what you're gonna go buy another one to see hey you guys got this thing figured out right oh my baby girl doesn't like this particular rattler but you get her another one pull now she's in it all day that's what mattel and fisher price kind of got you oh that's what that boy on youtube opens up presents yeah for sure stuff that boy was really doing it yeah what was the eight-year-old boy right he's opening those toys and making millions of dollars yeah all right we'll dive into all the storylines around the nfl we will certainly have a lot to say about all of it everybody seems to look good in the nfl there's

only been a couple teams that have not looked buffalo beals uh there's only been a couple teams that have not looked great but doesn't mean we're worried about any teams it is what it is but this year has had some more storylines kind of developed we're all very excited to dive into all of them obviously aj hawk will join us in the second hour as well but the big story of the weekend i think we all agree with this oh yeah this sport that has become ours now yeah yep soccer right of course we got the best player on earth yeah by far we're gonna win a world cup yeah and it's our sport now why hell yeah this weekend there was a tournament that took place a finals that took place of a uh a thing that we didn't

know existed until this weekend or maybe a couple weeks ago whenever the greatest player of all time joined it leo methi has just continued his dominant reign over the entire soccer world. Now, I saw highlights of him back in the day whenever he was playing for Barthelona and whenever he was doing his thing. Very similar to what he's doing right now. So we got the world saying, well, this is what happens when you play in a farm league. It's like, he did this to your

leagues, and now he's just doing it here. And now it's in a country where it's our sport now. Yeah, people watch. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us to chit-chat about the soccer takeover that it has been with old Leo Methy and Apple that's seemingly making a great play on investing on this guy, our soccer aficionado, one half of the Hammer Cowboys, Bob Elgampina.

Hey, Bob! Gumpy! Good to see you, pal. You look fantastic. A little bit of a different background for you there. Just the old school green screen. I like it. Going rugged on this Monday. Yeah, the old background isn't working this morning. Classic Monday. You know how it goes.

Oh, the background's got a case of the Mondays. Let's talk about something that is not a case. I got a case of the Messys. I'm watching this soccer. I'm watching these tournaments. What did he just win? Does it matter? And what does this mean for the MLS as a whole, Gump? I mean, we all know it's just Messi being Messi.

Like, he's the GOAT. Everyone knows it by now. That's just what it is. That's how it goes. And the other thing is. What the hell? Let's go! Let's go! And the other thing is... What the hell? Goal! Let's go!

This is it! Back on the... Gumpy's back! Love you, Gumpy. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a celebration. I wish I could mute his phone.. I wish my mute is phone. Yeah, my mute is phone.

The, uh... Wow. Our friend, our family member, one half of the hammer, died. Cowboys. Old Gumpy was deported

for 446 days. Whoa. And as of Saturday evening when he caught a red eye from Victoria to Toronto and sprinted through the fucking airport in Toronto to make the flight, in 46 days whoa and as of saturday evening when he caught a red eye from victoria to toronto and sprinted through the fucking airport in toronto to make the flight he's all the way back gumpy we fucking love you hell yeah now gumpy is back for good is what we're being told whoa legally okay yeah he is back legally huge yeah so get ready to hear a cackle that you have

never heard before if you're new to the program. If you do not know who this Gumpy character is, you thought this show was toxic. Just wait until this Canadian ship painter with no college degree, which did become quite a conversation piece through this whole immigration process, is back on the mic.

Gumpy. Gumpy. What a time, pal. Welcome home, Gumps. There we go. Now we're back. Now we're back. Slow start. Hey, great to see you. Thankful you're back. Messi won. Do we care? Oh, yeah.

He's a goat. We just did all that to get you back. Congrats to Messi, though. Way to go, Matthew. Ten goals, seven games. Is that good? You tell me. They haven't lost.

They're the League's Cup champion. What is this League's Cup? What does this mean? It's just the Mexico League and the MLS League middle of the season, but they'll get cooking now in the regular league and make a push for the playoffs. Got to make it. They're still in dead last in the MLS?

Yeah, they got 14 games to make it. Okay, well I don't think they're ever going to lose. Yeah, they're going to win 14 games. They won the 10 penalties the other day to win the League's Cup. Their goalie rifled one top shelf. And then the other goalie, Gump...

Guys not score a penalty with a helmet on. That's how it goes. Those are the rules. He was a little kid. He was a little kid. Those are the rules. He was a little kid goalie. Yeah, he had a helmet on. Like, he looked like Peter Cech out there. Nice.

Yeah, and the goalie – the other goalie that did not have the helmet on. Hey, listen, you do what you got to do. And if it gets to the 10th penalty, nobody is expecting anybody to make any. But then whenever the inter-Miami goalie rifles one, and then he's in net and the guy has the helmet on. You just assume that the mentally tougher one here is the guy that just scored and rocketed a ball. And then he makes the stop.

They celebrate. They go crazy. League's Cup champion. Did we know that existed? No, but here we are with the chomps. Unbelievable. All I heard is we beat Mexico. Yeah.

Boom. Is that what you heard? Yeah, I heard that as well. Suck it, Mexico. And again. Again. What? It's our sport now.

Speaking of our sport, football. Yes. You know, Gumpy's return is now. Speaking of our sport, football. Yes. You know, Gumpy's return is not just something that we've been eagerly awaiting. No, no. It's been something that's been eagerly awaited around the world. Gumpy, we're going to have to figure out your microphone thing back there for sure. That's going to have to become something that is easily figureoutable, which we assume it will be. That is easily figureoutable, which we assume it will be.

But there is a message from one of the NFL head coaches, more specifically the Miami Dolphins, a message from the head coach about our friend Gumpy returning. Gumpy, what is up? Okay, we are about to go to practice right now. But all I can fixate on is the adversity that you've overcome. They kicked you out. You're back're back okay you didn't blink okay just let the rest of the shipyard know it spins up fins the ep up time can't wait to hear you uh love the show um yolo love that nice yeah awesome he was excited whenever

we sent a message out we said hey is there any way we could get a video for gump coming back coach mcdaniel i heard you was like yes absolutely fins up let's go do this thing they love you down there in miami gumpy that was unbelievable man i mean the journey back i've i've missed you guys like just yesterday like having dinner with you pat and just being here this morning, I can't explain how much it means to me to be back with you guys. 446 fucking days, dude.

We thought it was going to be three weeks. We were told a month. Three months tops. At most. Living out of a suitcase for a fucking year, dude. I cannot explain how happy I am to fucking be back with the lads, man. It's so awesome. Hey, welcome home.

Yeah. Gumpy also caught a 10-year ban in there as well. That's right. Yeah, it wasn't just three months. Yeah, it wasn't just 446 days. There was also a lot of adversity behind the scenes with a lot of paperwork. Three different law firms. What?

Three different ineptitude kind of situations with the immigration offices in DC. And then, you know, had to shake some hands, do our thing. That's right. Got pushed through our guy. You're good for a few years. I've been told. Three years. We're cooking.

You're allowed to drive. You got a car. Real life. You can have a real life out here. Yeah. Yeah. You can completely legal. Now we did learn that there was some times where we were operating

maybe a little bit illegally under the immigration laws. Everyone does. But not everyone. Wow. COVID. It was COVID. It was COVID. We didn't know what was happening.

And that's the first time ever. And, I mean, border gets shut down. So, I mean, there's quite a gray area there that I feel like anybody with some sort of brain would have been able to see through. But some of these letters I was getting from our United States government about our filing for Kyle Cathcart were not positive. Not at all. We're talking actual sass in the paragraph, like actual pizzazz on the, oh, you think this process is for a sports show, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like, oh, this person's done some research on us.

And this person does not like us for some reason, it felt like. So there was a lot of moments of gloom and doom and everything like that. But here we are. You're going to be back for the season. The Dolphins are going to be good, right? Obviously, of course. No worries at all. It might be that current team that doesn't look good.

Do you have no worries at all? I worry about our offensive line. Everyone's talking about the Jets' line. Our line is, in fact, could be cheeks as well. Oh, cheeks! Oh, now when the internet starts saying something's cheeks, you know it's real. Obviously, we heard that about Malik Cunningham, his senior year

at Louisville, or his junior year at Louisville, whichever year he decided to declare after. And, Gumpy, obviously, every time we get a chance to chat with you, normally it's about soccer. The soccer world also wanted to welcome you back. And, Gumpy, obviously, every time we get a chance to chat with you, normally it's about soccer. The soccer world also wanted to welcome you back. Friend of the program, obviously, Tony Miola. Hey, Grumpy. What's up, man?

It's Tony Miola. Welcome back to the U.S., man. See you soon. Yes. Yeah! Tony. I was watching Tony late night last night. You and the St. Louis game.

Probably that one we're good. Hey, Grumpy. What's up, man? It's Tony Mola. Welcome back to the U.S., man. See you soon. Nailed it. Tony.

He sent us another one with Grumpy. Yeah, he did. He was like, oh, let's get it right. Much better. No, no. You nailed it. It was amazing. Everybody's pumped your get it right. I'm much better. Not. Yeah. No, no. You nailed it. It was amazing. Everybody's pumped your back, pal.

Thank you, brother. Like I said, I mean, I fucking love you guys, man. This is this is surreal to be back in this spot like where I'm supposed to be like this. This is fucking awesome, boys. First day in the Thunderdome, too. What's your thoughts? Unbelievable. I mean, we got a good pump in this morning.

We were fucking all is well, man. All is well. Just, you know, in a couple of years, we'll look back pump in this morning. We were fucking, hey, all is well, man, all is well. You know, in a couple years, we'll look back on those 446 days as if it was just a blip in the radar. Yeah, that's right. You know, it won't count as that much length of time later whenever we think back. But, boy, there were some bad days. Yes, very. There were some days where we thought you had no shot.

One lawyer actually told him, fucking go. Yeah. He said, just go try to make a run for it. Just try. Go ahead. Just take him this email we just sent you. Yeah. Just go right into basically the courtroom and then just tell him, yeah, it's supposed to happen.

Maybe he'll let you go. And then he walked right into a courtroom and he ended up being on trial for a 10-year ban. Yeah. Just 7 a.m., wake up. Oh, I'm going to go. I might. This lawyer says I'm getting back to America. I'm walking in. Right now. By 9 a.m., he thinks he's actually going to jail. Yeah. Yeah. Just 7 a.m. Wake up. Oh, I'm going to go. I might. This lawyer says I'm getting back to America. I'm walking in.

Right now. By 9 a.m. He thinks he's actually going to jail. Yeah. Yeah. And then he gets delivered news. He has a 10 year ban. And then he's back on a ferry back to his hometown.

9.45 a.m. It's like, what a fucking wild. Crazy. And that was when I lost hope. I want to let you know. Oh, yes. It was dark days. I remember that face I'm with you because we thought I was coming back. And dark days. I remember that FaceTime with you because we thought I was coming back.

And I was like, dude, within like two hours, I thought I was coming here. I was back on a ferry, back to fucking Victoria. Like two hours. With a 10-year ban. Yeah, the guy was like, you got a 10-year ban. Now we're going to ask you to answer all these questions and take the plea or take the oath or whatever. I'm like, I got a 10-year ban. I'm not answering anything.

Just fucking send me back. Yeah, smart. Hey, smart. I saw some lawyers on x and twitter put some videos out of what you should say whenever people start questioning you shut the fuck up remember that video oh yeah all the time there's the please shut the fuck up yeah once again shut the fuck up that's what gumpy did yes he did and it's crazy because the highs were really high there was like four or five different times gumpy was back in like seven to eight days. Coming home. And then all of a sudden we would get a letter

that was like 10 pages long. And it was beautifully laid out in detail on why Kyle Kaskard is not coming back. Listen, we're not just going to let your buddy into the country, okay? It doesn't work like that. Lady said that. Yeah.

That was one of the answers we got. Oh, so friends with pat mcafee okay thanks let us tell you about our laws pretty much i'm like god damn i don't know because social media and like his job what his job is these dinosaurs no i do have no clue that it's an actual job. He's an internet splunker? What does that even mean? Why would that be? Well, it's a very important job. He worked 15 years at the shipyard, though, so I should be able to get him in. He's got good grit. Yeah, exactly. Well, we're going to need

a 10 to 15 year breakdown on what Kyle Cathcart has contributed to TV, and then we can go from there. We got letters. The amount of emails and letters we got from the vast amount of people from different buckets that have encountered Gumpy. We're talking WWE people

and high ranking. High ranking people from pretty much everywhere writing in support of Gumpy. And we all kind of thought and Gumpy, I apologize that this is the case, but I thought, man, Gumpy must have some sort of something on his file. He killed somebody 15 years ago.

He did attack a very high-ranking health official for years and years. Yeah, I understand he went after Mike Florio for a bit, but I'm just saying, like, I think, like, there was moments where I'm like, man, why are they being so mean to Gumpy right now with everything else going on? So we just assume that you potentially did have something that you haven't told us about. And we didn't want to ask you about it because it was uncomfortable. We just assumed that was the case. That was the case.

They were literally just kind of like, nah, fuck this guy. Yeah. Sit him out. Yeah. We learned a lot about the immigration process. And I'm not going to say we're going to be the face of changing it. We are never going to deal with that again. We are just going to go ahead and go the opposite direction.

But we are very thankful for Devin Brooker. Devin Brooker, yeah. Devin Brooker of Gallagher's office. Gallagher beast. Beast. Gallagher stepped up huge here.

Mike Gallagher is a fucking dog That's my president I don't think he's running for president He's so focused on beating China That is literally all he does All day every day He is in there Trying to defeat them

But also some members of his office Listened to the program And they kind of heard what was going on And they kind of I don't want to say led, but they did. They were like, hey, we'll do this. Let's do this. You guys got to do this.

And then we did some politicking pretty much. Yeah, we did. We shook some hands. And that guy got Gumpy back into America alongside his office, so we appreciate the hell out of him. Hell yeah. Gallagher's like a Sean McVay. You know, he's in that umbrella, but it's in politics.

I could see that guy coaching for the Rams for a week and then being a head coach of the Browns or something. Yeah, I think so. Good energy. Smart guy. Can have a beer with him. We'll love to see that defensive plan against TriCom. Yeah. He's got one. A lot of blitzes. He's got a dry race board.

We're going to run a little inverted twist here. Going to man zone over here. I heard there's some real stuff popping off of them by the way oh who's that always who he is yeah the godless soulless chat the ccp is not sleeping my friend every single day no like some real stuff starting to pop off i think with like boats entering like our potential oh yeah that uh international water she explained about with taiwan taiwan tai about with Taiwan and how that whole situation is, I believe that has turned quite sour.

They won't win. Well, if Mike Gallagher is on the case, I got faith, and we appreciate him for getting our guy back. Also, a man named Alex Jarvis. Not supposed to say names, probably, with these people. But he was a dog. He was great. Happened to be on the same plane as him.

And then that plane got delayed for like three hours. And we were sitting right next to each other. And I was just giving a full on, because he works in D.C., has worked there for a long time. And I was laying it on him. This is your fault. So everything that has happened is your fault. We do this with ESPN.

You should see us talking to representatives from ESPN. This is your fault. You've been there a long time. This is under your watch. Well, I mean, same thing with this guy. I said, we've been trying to get our buddy in. He's the only human on earth that can do the job that he does. Only one.

I'm not taking an American's job away. This is literally an American dream story. And for some reason, your fucking town, I told this guy, doesn't want this to take place. But everything else we got going on isn't there. He like actually put it upon himself too. I got a text like four days later from this guy.

How did he get my number? I don't know. He works. He sends me a text. He's like, hey, I looked into your buddy. Let's do this whole thing. So big thanks to everybody that kind of dove in on this thing. And we got our guy back. And, Gumpy, you're going to make our show better. You're going to make our life better. And you're going to make this football season better.

Hell, yeah, Bubba Gumpy. Welcome back to America, buddy. Hell, yeah. Can't wait to watch Hammered Down with you boys in the studio. You guys are going to be wild out there. All right, let's dive into some of the news around the NFL. Basically, whenever we say that everybody's good, it does feel like everybody's good. Let's start in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Now, the Pittsburgh Steelers obviously hold a lot of weight in a lot of our hearts here because we're from Pittsburgh. And last week, the Pittsburgh Steelers took care of the Plum Youth football team who lost one of their members in a house explosion. They were incredibly hospitable and nice. Everybody from T.J. Watt to Kenny Pickett and everybody in between. Shout out to those guys for doing that.

Shout out to Kenny Pickett seemingly becoming a dude. I don't want to say overnight but the Matt Canada offense is appearing to let him do a lot more stuff. Him and Fryermuth's connection right here is great. And Fryermuth bringing back the dab. Love it. The dab's back is what he said.

I assume that most Yenzers will start doing it if they're going to keep scoring touchdowns. But them throwing the ball and opening it up with Kenny Pickett has been really fantastic to watch. And people are talking about the Steelers being a sneaky contender this year. Now, they were taking on the Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills did not look fantastic. Obviously, if Kenny Pickett's going to look very good, that means on the opposite side of the ball, that team's not going to look as well. I believe there was a running back, Warren, undrafted,

who pulled away from the Buffalo Bills' defense. And Kenny was kind of picking them apart. And on the offensive side of the ball, Josh Allen got sacked a few times. Yeah, this dude's undrafted. Hi. Hi. Hi. That's in one defense for the Buffalo Bills.

And I'm not saying that this is problematic for the Bills, but the Steelers look much better than I think we could have guessed. The Bills didn't look like what we think the Bills would look like, but as a Steelers fan, you've got to be incredibly optimistic about what's going down. The preseason so far has gone, through the first two games, has gone about as good as you can imagine. And, yes, it is only the preseason, but the last few preseasons,

they've looked like dog shit, and that's kind of turned into what the season's been for the offense. So it's really nice for them to come out and actually look fucking awesome and everyone's every single person's been involved al robinson's been involved deontay johnson's been involved pickett the pickens was last week fireman's been involved jaylen warren gets involved nosh hasn't been involved yet we'll see how that goes uh the old line whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa the old line has looked good all the rookies who were balling out at camp have looked really good in the game. And, like, it was good to see.

Like, that's over – that throat of Muth was over Matt Milano and Jordan Poyer, who are both all-pro, pro-bowler players. Like, are they trying their hardest? Hard not to when you're on the field in preseason. I don't know. And Micah was there, too. Oh, great dab. Calvin Austin had a really good punt return against –

and then, yeah, the defense looked really good against Josh Allen. It was 14-0 after the first quarter. And it was as good as you could possibly imagine. Herbick, he appears to be her good. Yeah. So he's basically, they drafted him out of Wisconsin. TJ Watt drafted out of Wisconsin. He's basically been his shadow.

He's basically followed him around. He's not as tall. He's not as big as him. But he looks kind of like him coming off. It's been awesome. And it's, yes, it's only been his shadow. He's basically followed him around. He's not as tall. He's not as big as him, but he looks kind of like him coming off. It's been awesome. And it's, yes, it's only the preseason, but you would like them to look good in preseason than look like shit in preseason.

Michael Lombardi said the misconception is that you don't have to be good at the beginning of the season. You can get hot late and win a Super Bowl. You know, the Giants did that way back in the day with Coughlin. They almost fired Coughlin. Then they turned around. They beat the Patriots whenever they were undefeated in the Super Bowl. So you can just get hot late or whatever.

And Michael Lombardi goes, you look at stats. The teams that are good at the end of the year are good at the beginning of the year. Now, there might be some people that obviously develop and grow more than other teams, but it's not like trash bags at the beginning of the year, every single year, are just becoming great teams. Something's flipping and the switch is going. So Steelers looking good I think you Matt Canada right huh

it's been good so far yeah I mean he says he's calling the same stuff I don't buy it I don't fucking believe it but we're watching yeah you can see the difference unless Kenny Pickett's like okay fuck you new play yeah which by the way awesome if that is what Kenny Pickett is doing he's been ripping it but there's a lot of optimism coming out of Pittsburgh, which is beautiful. Mark Caboli even put out a tweet. He said, normally I'm a negative prick. But, like, Kenny Pickett has looked phenomenal. Really good.

And the way he's handled himself. Obviously, we've seen the offseason. He's drinking beers with the boys at New Combs. They got an offense where he's able to open it up. He's making all the plays. They seem to have swag. And Moxie Tomlin is always going to have the boys in every single game. What if the Steelers go on a run? Now the AFC North

is problematic. Let's talk about another division that is problematic. The NFC East appears to have some very, very, very sound football teams. Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia Eagles, we assume they're going to be great. Still the same offensive line. Jalen Hurts is still there. A.J. and Devontae

are there. Sirianni's there. They got better on defense. Philadelphia Eagles obviously going to be the favorite until they're not. But how many years has it been since the same person has won back-to-back NFC East titles? I believe after last year it was 17 in a row. So they passed that title around a little bit. We've seen the bottom of the NFC East

not that far in recent history where a team that was like 7-9 ended up going into the playoffs because they won the NFC East or whatever. But this year, if you look at what the Giants are doing right now. Now, I know it's just preseason and we have to preface that with every conversation. But Daniel Jones, another year in the same offense, being able to pick apart people and also just sling it. He's got Darren Waller, obviously, out of the Raiders camp. And they seem to have a great relationship together. And how could you not with's got Darren Waller obviously out of the Raiders camp and they seem to have a

great relationship together and how could you not with how big Darren Waller is? But every ball that Daniel Jones threw was a dart, perfect spiral, and he seems very comfortable in the offense. They got Saquon back at a different rate obviously than all parties were expecting. Are the Giants not being talked about at all because the jets because the eagles because everything like that the giants are going to be a problem this year i cannot wait to watch old danny dimes on a brand new contract and another year in wink's defensive system that team's going to be fucking good i think yeah and another thing lambo said to us too was like yeah sure you can't really point directly at stats but you can point at what the team's doing as a whole.

Like the Giants are really good throwing the ball and rushing the passer. So I assume that is something that they're probably going to be really good at, just like the Steelers when the regular season comes around. Now who knows if Jalen Warren is ripping off a 70-yard run, but if they're good at those things in the preseason, to Lombardi's point, that is the stuff that translates to the regular season. The Giants feel like one of those teams, and it was kind of similar to the playoffs against the Vikings, where

everyone loved the Giants against the Vikings in that playoff game, and you almost get jinxed on it. Everyone loves them. I've got to go Vikings. Now it's kind of a similar thing. You actually watch them play, and it's impossible not to think that they're going to be a really good football team. Dable is a great coach.

Everybody loves Dable. You hear all the expatriate guys are like, if I was to play for anybody, it would be Dable. Yeah, love him. Gronk said that. Edelman, I believe, was at camp the other day, kind of shouting out. I forgot that he had such a deep history with the Patriots organization. Oh, yeah.

But, like, players love him. He's still driving that blue F-150, Bruce. Is Dable still driving that blue F-150 or not? Hell, yeah, he is. And Mike Kafka's offense with the 12 personnel, Bellinger and Waller, it's looking awesome on that first drive. You've got to be pumped that everybody's talking about the Jets and now you guys, I guess,

kind of quiet over there? Yeah, fine under the radar. I mean, you know, still dominating the city. Well, I don't know if that's the case. Aaron Rodgers is starting in this final preseason game against the New York Giants. Excited to hear why. What did you say? A little footnote about how much money the tickets cost on the Jets' side versus how much money they cost on the Giants' side? So 50-yard line, the Giants' sideline is about $350, $400.

You can get tickets on the Jets' sideline for $130. That's Giants fan right there. Wow, he's catacorning. Just reminding people of who's been much better as of late as opposed to this Jets hype train that's taken place. But I think every time I see Zach Wilson do Zach Wilson stuff, we're watching pro day Zach Wilson on NFL games. Now they're just preseason games.

We have to preface that. But even if you see in hard knocks and the decisions that he's making around Aaron. Now, everybody's going to say that we dangle from Aaron. Of course. But I think it's pretty obvious here that through osmosis, getting a chance to watch one of the greatest players of all time operate, not just on the field, in the meeting room, in the locker room, out of the building with your teammates,

that type of stuff is just a priceless amount of information that Zach Wilson is getting funneled his way. And then whenever you see plays like this from old Zachariah Wilson, uncle-founded Jet Blue, Blue Who? I am off. Little shimmy shake gets the corner. Could go out of bounds. Nah, give me a big shot.

Boom. Boom. Boom. I believe they had a camera on Aaron, and I think at one point he said, Get out there. Because he clearly could have got out of bounds. But this type of confidence and swagger. Then you see his teammates celebrate with him.

And then you think about where he was last year as a New York Jet. Where the fans were booing him. His teammates fucking hated him. They were wearing somebody else's shirt at his position around the facility and traveling. Then you see this. It's like, wow, this guy's been reborn. This guy feels fresh. This guy could be the future, and traveling. Then you see this. It's like, wow, this guy's been reborn. This guy feels fresh. This guy could be the future of a franchise,

and that's what we're getting from a preseason game. I couldn't even fathom how much better Zach Wilson's life is right now with zero pressure on him and getting a chance to actually learn from a player who's probably most similar to him, both on the field and off the field. What a time for the Jets. Good for Zach. And Aaron came out and said, I plan on playing like a few years, and then Zach runs this thing for 15 years,

and then we're good for about 15, 18 years. So that's an interesting thing. So Aaron Rodgers is saying, you know, I'm probably playing like three years here. They're going to have to pay Zach now. They're going to have to do that deal. But what a perfect, huh? Nice little handoff. That's how Aaron's viewing it. Jets going to have to do that deal. But what a perfect, huh? Nice little handoff. That's how Aaron's viewing it. Jets fans had to love hearing that. Packers fans, another three

years of Aaron Rodgers. That's good news. Get to watch your guy. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think, I mean, you hit the nail on the head. Like, I can't imagine how freeing it is for Zach Wilson to be able, he can just go out there and have fun and play and kind of just like, he knows like, okay, I just got to learn stuff. I just got to pick stuff up. And it's not the same, but like, you're looking at Jordan Love, like clearly, guess what what like the osmosis thing is real like yeah we haven't seen him play in a regular season game but like sitting behind one of the best quarterbacks ever like whether or not he's actually actively you know there was the big thing when farve uh when rogers first got there he's like listen i'll i'll teach him stuff but it's not my job to get him ready to play like and i think aaron took that to heart and he's kind of like changed that a little bit like not

obviously he's not trying to make sure that like Zach Wilson comes in and takes his job but like he's very confident in himself so he can he can let him know like hey on this like we're looking for for this like on hard knocks he's every single thing they do like no you know and Zach to Zach Wilson's credit too like he's asking questions he's no, you know, and to Zach Wilson's credit, too, like, he's asking questions. He's not, like, you know, kind of jaded because he's not the starter anymore. I think he did realize, like, hey, BYU, like, yeah, I was the big man on campus there. But, like, it's different when you go play in New York

and you're expected to be the savior of a franchise. And now he's got a guy who is – Potentially the actual. Exactly. And so you can just be like, like hey so even if it's like little trivial stuff that maybe he thinks he should know like why'd you do this or what should i do here and you can see just through a couple weeks like it's already paying dividends well you see aaron's out at like uh nicks games and islanders game yeah plays rangers games plays

with his teammates going to his teammates event like the reason why i wanted to play is because somebody on the team is like an executive producer yeah so he wanted that to just like show face you know like hey i'm the quarterback of the team that you're on we are teammates i'm gonna show my face here it's like those types of things that zach wilson can watch and be like oh these people need to know that you like care got it genuine time yeah like we're friends playing for each other, not just with and alongside of each other. Got it, got it. Like those types of things so you don't get that situation

where it's, do you feel bad about how the offense is done? No, no, I don't get it. Next question, shut up. And then the whole locker room's like, fuck this guy. And you can kind of nip that in the bud ahead of time if you're friends with people that aren't just in the quarterback room. Sure.

If you're friends with defensive players like Aaron and Sauce, seemingly very, very tight, playing catcher for game. If you're friends with, you know, the offensive lineman, they're probably going to care a little bit more. If you're friends with your wide receivers, you're probably going to be able to figure things out a little bit better. It's like those things. I wish Andrew Luck got to see peyton do it not

that andrew luck wasn't like that but there's other things that you can watch too like aaron telling a head coach like not don't like this play yeah we're not running this play like andrew didn't learn that until like second third year fourth year where if he saw peyton i think he would immediately have known like okay if i'm not comfortable with something i'm able to say nah yeah not doing it and that's like something that quarterbacks are expected to do especially if you're going to be great as opposed to just always you know kind of laissez-faire on every decision it's like the rest of the team wants to see that too so good for zach good for aaron good for the jets and good for you guys

back to your point jordan love huh man yeah this dude's a player everybody was coming after us thinking that we would not be Jordan Love supporters. I feel like we have been Jordan Love supporters. And watching him play, there's good reason that we've been Jordan Love supporters. We all remember his first training camp where the videos were being leaked of him just missing entire nets whenever he was trying to do an accuracy drill. Now he's in a bucket every time he's on camera seemingly. The teammates love him. The Packers are going well with him. And against the Patriots, he's throwing

fucking missiles. Jordan Love, I assume, has won over all the Packers fans that were maybe thinking we're going to be in a transition year and a bad year. And what I'm seeing out of them, Packers fans might be the luckiest group of people of all time. Once again, this is just pre-season right but from farve that's a compliment yeah compliment that's playing career football player aaron football career to this guy what a

incredible run now it was uncomfortable at every single one of those transitions it was not great. You know, there was a lot of bad times. But what he's been doing, I think we all think, hey, there's a guy in Green Bay right now. Yeah, I mean, it's the same deal. You try to temper expectations because it is just the preseason. But the more you watch him, the more I get excited about watching him

once the season actually starts. Like that touchdown to Jaden Reed right there with the play action like that reminded me of Rodgers like and I just yeah the ball placement the way he carried out the play fake like all that stuff and it just again it goes back to what we were saying like he very clearly yeah he was not ready to be a starting quarterback when they first drafted him but he learned a hell of a lot and he obviously has the skill set he's got a big arm he can move around i think they're still gonna figure out uh they said that there's been some issues with the center so they might end up having a new center once the the season starts because he had a fumbled snap that wasn't really his fault but outside of that all the throws he's making

like it's hard not to be like yeah he's he's a guy he's he's ready to go the packers are gonna be just fine speaking of a guy I think we all kind of forgot. Call that bitch my bodyguard? Yeah, that's my bodyguard. Drew Locke. Highlights all over the place in Seattle. Now, Geno Smith obviously just got paid, and that's his team. They had the number one offense in the NFL last year through the regular season. Seattle obviously surprised a lot of people. We see Pete Carroll last week fucking wheeling and dealing on the run, slicing and dicing.

Drew Locke, same exact thing on the field. He, we forget, was supposed to be the future of the Denver Broncos franchise. Always pick, right? Hey, this is going to be our guy. One thing leads to another. One loss to another. Erratic play. Another year of wondering, is this our guy? Is this our guy?

Is this our guy? Denver Broncos time kind of ended. He gets traded to people like oh here we go competition between drew lock and geno smith although pete carroll seemingly was in geno smith's camp the entire time but we forget about all that whenever we see throws like that it's like jackson smith and jigba okay probably going to be able to make some absurd catches in the NFL just like he was able to in college. But Drew Locke put that thing over a guy's shoulder in between threading a needle. What a ball. Perfect. What a fucking ball.

This Seattle Seahawks offense was great last year. Seemingly going to be great this year. And if anything happens to Geno, Drew Locke seems to have found his game again. It's him and – Preseason football. Preseason football. Him and Zach Wilson are almost identical as far as, like, how they came out. We're supposed to be the next guys.

Kind of their play styles, too, and stuff like that. They didn't protect the ball. They have live arms because they can make every single throw. And now they're behind a guy where they can just kind of be free and, like, kind of return back to who they were kind of in college, it feels like. Yeah, just wrapping on a sideline. Yep, yep. Doing a little Jeezy.

Chilling. You got to do what you got to do. And then if you go in there, this game plan was made for somebody that isn't you. Just kind of go in, expectations are nothing. But in that, you see these glimmers, and you're like, that's an NFL throw. That's an NFL throw. Like Kenny Pickett, that's an NFL throw. That's an NFL throw.

There's so much optimism around the NFL even with a guy who regressed so much from year one to year two that you thought maybe this guy's going to get kicked out of the league. Then you remind yourself well, he had a special teams coordinator and a defensive coordinator and his offensive coordinator.

Mack Jones is slinging it right now, huh? Yeah, he looks good too. I mean, it's not at the extent of those other guys, even Kenny Jordan. I think they've had more moments. But, yeah, he had two series this past week against the Packers. I think the biggest thing with the Patriots is that the majority of the rookies that they have have all played unbelievably well. We've never really seen a situation with Pop Douglas

where he's playing two snaps a game, he's getting two catches, and then they sit him down for the rest of the game. I mean, he's a six-round pick, and this dude is basically a made man already, two weeks, two games, rather, into the preseason. So there are things like that that you see, and it's like, okay, Patriots aren't showing anything won, and hopefully they just have this diamond in the rough. But this does feel to be Mac Jones' last chance because he's got all the pieces around him now.

I love this preseason. Love it. Yeah. Hate watching the games. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they suck. They are so bad. The one last night was brutal.

Holy shit. These highlights are sick. They are. They are. Highlights are sick. Fun to watch. But, boy, watching through the low. We want to let you know, the lowlights in these preseason games, if you're not watching,

if you're like Darius fucking Butler. Of course. If you're not watching any of these games. Guy doesn't like football. Not at all. Nope. Can't wait to have him right here and just be like, you don't even like football.

You don't even watch football. You don't even like football. Preseason games are tough to watch. A lot more low lights than highlights. For sure. But the highlights do give you that glimmer of hope. Kansas City Chiefs said Patrick Mahomes started the ball 15 times. What?

Okay, 15 times. Played a whole quarter. Travis Kelsey's out there as wellomes started the ball 15 times. What? Okay, 15 times, played a whole quarter. Travis Kelsey's out there as well. Reigning Super Bowl champions, reigning MVP, playing a lot of time in preseason, when in a lot of other places they're not playing at all. Patrick, though, I think feels like. Oh, that looks normal.

Yeah, I mean, this is a fucking week 14 game here. Patrick Mahomes running to his right. Travis Kelsey leaks into a wide open space first down travis kelsey clears the space number 11 mvs kind of got it oh that was kind of a bit of a bop there was a penalty yeah isaiah simmons uh got a late hit on patrick mahomes as well he was he was throwing his body around out there but safety this feels like it's week 14 here with Patrick Mahomes. Obviously, they're going to score on Patrick Mahomes playing football,

especially in preseason football. But Andy Reid's like, nah, we're doing this. In the Patrick Mahomes credit, in the Travis Kelsey, in MVS, in the offensive line, because they're not going to put Patrick Mahomes out there without the starting offensive line. They're all just bought in. They have the shortest offseason. Make it to the Super Bowl, you have the shortest offseason.

Let alone quarterback and everything else. They're back in there doing it. This is a team that wants to win a dynasty. This is a team that somehow still has a chip on their shoulder. And this is a team treating preseason as if it's 1995 instead of 2023. We need to look out for these goddamn Chiefs being on a war path, seemingly, from day one when other players are resting, they're choosing to play. Makes no sense.

Make it make sense to me, as an Indianapolis Colts fan, that had a sold out stadium. Lucas Oil was sold out. Yeah, excited. A lot of excitement. Sold out. Wow. It was fucking bananas. Now, Chicago Bears fans were there.

They were probably like 35- 40% of the people there. A lot of orange. Yep. Actually, potentially affected a dog. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Yeah. They did this at halftime.

They had this dog show. It was sick. It was sick. I mean, this one dog jumped like 14 feet off your owner's back, little springboard. There was another dog that did like a jump off backflip thing off its human. And then there was a dog that was trying to break a world record. And this dog and this dude, he hucked

a frisbee. Punters are punting balls. Kickers are kicking balls. Players are coming onto the field. I mean, it was a clusterfuck here. They saved this for last. Should have had it first when the field was the most cleared. This dude throws this thing. This dog catches it like 85 yards away. So full sprint, finds it in between players like colts players are standing here refs here this dog goes dog runs all the way back they're like all right now time for a world record

the field has filled up more oh yeah so many people field has filled up more and this dude hucks this frisbee 130 yards maybe yeah and the dog starts sprinting then the dog can't find a frisbee so then dog turns around yeah dog comes back one more time full field now no way they should do this we're all kind of watching like maybe now's not the time to send a dog staring at the sky onto the field this is the dog this dog is a fucking beast dude this is the completion yeah unbelievable so the next one was 120 yards dog couldn't find it think the frisbee was potentially getting lost with the chicago bears fan but we did not have anthony richardson on the field no we don't have any of our offensive

linemen on the field and that's the reason why because the old line didn't play so they didn't want to put anthony richardson out there obviously But that whole stadium was there to see AR do one thing. And Colts fans were like, wait a minute, who's playing? And then all of a sudden, Minshew mania. Here we go. Threading the needle, doing his thing. Love that Minshew's on the squad. I don't know how our team's going to be,

because we didn't get to see a big question mark, which is the offensive line. That guy was going to huck that thing into the stands. I love that. That was his immediate thought. And Gardner Minshew put it right through that guy's arms on purpose. Great ball. And thought it was picked.

We were right there, obviously. It was not. It was a touchdown. But, like, AR not playing at all. And the offensive line not playing at all. I assume it's because the joint practices, they were able to see it. But the whole stadium was there to see that fucking guy. And then you see Patrick Mahomes playing like a full quarter and a half,

and it's like, are we making the right decision or what's going on? Who knows how they'll handle week three. Yeah, the amount of Anthony Richardson jerseys, shirts, kids wearing them, they were everywhere. And I was like kind of taken back almost because I don't know if I've ever really been to a preseason game. Definitely haven't on a Saturday night like this one. Just being in the stadium and looking around, there is a completely different buzz this year with the Colts than there were in the previous years.

And that is for sure because Anthony Richardson, so if he has even a little success early, and if Jonathan Taylor stops crying, then maybe there's a chance. Oh! He's in a bit of a business negotiation. Well, you know what? There's, then maybe there's a chance. He's in a middle of business. Well, you know what? There's lives at stake with the Colts. I don't know if there's lives. There was a life, and unfortunately, heartbroken.

That's what people are saying. I didn't want to get into this because it's a feel-good here. Lolita has died. That's right. My God. The whale that was going to be saved from a life of horror inside of a too small tank by Jim Irsay, where he was going to run a 757 and turn it into an aquarium and fly her from Miami to Washington.

and fly her from Miami to Washington. Literally the longest continental flight possible was going to turn an entire plane into a sea for this whale to experience wide open wilderness and waters and get back and maybe find her mom. See her mom and live a good life. Dead. Whale's dead. So dead.

Love you Taka Te God damn it I go to the game on Saturday It was nice to get back in there I see Matt Conte, Colts PR guy He's hilarious He comes up to me and goes Pat good to see you

Introduced me to his kid His kid's friends, good to meet you guys Your dad obviously a legend this guy He goes hey seriously You see Jim like let's make sure we're yeah lifting him up you know i'm like jonathan taylor's situation getting that bad he goes well yeah of course but also like the whale yeah that's what conti said that wouldn't make sense the whale so i guess jim was devastated i don't doubt it. Obviously he's heartbroken. Takate, also known as Lolita,

never got to experience the open waters. But she did pass away. Makes me wonder what would have happened in that plane? You know? I don't know how that would have ended up working. Oh yeah. Curtains. Blouses. But Jim Irsay spending 20-something million on that plane

and then Tarkatay dying on that plane? That would not have been good. That might have broke Jim. Yeah. That might have broke Jim forever. They did it with Free Willy. He was fine. Yeah, I don't know if they put him on a 757.

Yeah, it was an AC-130. That was awesome. We had some ideas of the game. Listen, we had a similar situation, okay? Let's say we had a whale in this office that was sent away. I couldn't come back, okay? The process of trying to get back almost killed that whale.

You're right. Once you're on that plane, and once you know you're on your way back, Takate would have been fine. I don't know if they would have been able to get through the Buddhist Lolita and let her know, like this is gonna be good you're going home you're going you're gonna she's like running her head into those pods that are up in

the first class like her husband she's like what the fuck is going on i probably would put on free willie though for yeah this is gonna be you doing this whole thing yeah but anyways lolita's dead so say uh say a prayer for lolita she lived lived a good life. Did she? Sounds like she really did. 56 years old or whatever. Yeah, but whales live 120 years. Lolita dying, just kind of like an alarm. I'm like, maybe Lolita didn't have the dog mentality.

What? She was a Buddhist. Yeah, we know that. Well, maybe she didn't have the Buddhist mentality either, because I know Buddhists would have lived through a plane and been like, oh, okay, I finally get to go back to my home. She didn't get to the plane, right? Yeah, she didn't get to the plane either because I know Buddhists would have lived through a plane and been like, okay, I finally get to go back to my home. Yeah, that probably scared her.

Do you think she was told about the plan and that scared her? I think Taki Tay is kind of a bitch. Yeah. Yeah, I said it. As we've broken this down, as we've broken this down, look her right in the eye.

You are a bitch. I'm not doing this. Hey, Chucky Tay. I think you're kind of a wuss. I am not going to sit here and allow you to say what you just said on this show. That's my truth.

You're out of line. That's my truth. You're out of line. That's my truth. This guy. I can't believe this guy. If Gumby was... I can't believe this guy. If Gumby...

I can't do this show with him. If Gumby was... If Gumby was... No, no, no. Hey, hey. Don't drag me into this shit. Don't drag me into this shit. Mute me.

Mute him. You think if Gumby... Was he Canada for that long? Yeah. Whoa. Thank you. And then he had a phone? And then he was muted.

Muted Nobody can hear you Bunch of fakers She just died She just died This Buddhist just died What does this mean for the locker room Anyways

Rest in peace Takate Are these going on the jerseys So we were hoping that maybe statue out front or i think a good thought would be the colts horseshoe yep with takate going in the middle that's a good idea maybe put it on the helmet yeah have you seen that have you seen the vancouver canuck symbol it's basically a this horseshoe with as a whale so that's what we're talking is that actually talking to her or just a random killer whale?

Exactly. That is Lolita. I don't even know. That was one of her last jumps. Look how much hair she got. She was ready. I know they don't really do this with whale blubber anymore,

but what if they used the carcass to create commemorative candles and handed them out to everyone at Lucas Oil to have a vigil? You think Jim Irsay wants everybody smoking Lolita around Lucas Oil Stadium? I don't think so. No. What's this guy's deal?

He should stuff her and put them in his house. Yes. Hager from the Rafters. That would be awesome. Should be in the Jim Irsay collection. Exactly. You walk in, ZZ Top's playing on stage. Jim Irsay's singing.

You know, you got the Muhammad Ali gloves right here. The Jack Nicklaus putter that he just bought from the Masters. You got that scripture thing that's like super long. And then you just lift your head up a little bit. Boom. Talk of tape. Flying in over Jim's head. Yeah.

I figure Jim will figure it out. I think so. The piece of shit internet said that they have enough salary cap they can pay Jonathan Taylor now because that's what this is about. Good point. The internet needs to relax because the body was still in the water and they were talking

about, was that Jonathan Taylor who did that? That's what people were saying. Rogue. Assassin. Let's get to the break. You need to figure it out. No, I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Nope. Talk of Tay.

Talk of Tay died too soon. What did Talk of Tay do for us? Aside from just stir up. What was it, like two weeks of internet? Yeah. You don't appreciate two weeks? And now she's dead. What, you want me to cry?

Oh. Oh. Whale's dead. You're disgusting. Aw. Whale's dead. You're disgusting. Please. I was at a celebration of love whenever I got the news about Tocantins passing. Yeah. And it was nice to be the bearer of the breaking news to numerous people.

I will say, as soon as Connor heard about it, loud laugh. Yeah, very loud. Bruce Brown hears about it, laugh. Yeah. Zito was the only one that cried. He did. Bruce Brown hears about it. Laugh. Yep. Zito was the only one that cried. He did. Immediately upon hearing about it.

We appreciate you, Zito. Thank you, Z. Thank you, Z. Good guy, Z. And congrats on getting engaged, Fox. Thank you, Foxy. That was really nice. It was a surprise party. She died for you.

You guys actually surprised me, too. It was good. Well, we didn't do shit, to be honest with you. No. We were just kind of told where to stand. Yeah. Foxy's dad surprised surprised me too. It was good. Well, we didn't do shit, to be honest with you. No. We were just kind of told where to stand. Foxy's dad surprised me too. Drinks way more than what Foxy said. I'm a mass quantity guy.

Yeah. Volume. Volume. Yeah, he said volume. Volume drinker. Yeah. I said, you like all beer? He goes, who doesn't? i said it's where like uh

like ipas and stuff he goes oh no no no no two my i can only drink like one or two of those i'm a mass volume beer drink yes right in front of you right yeah he did loved it oh it was awesome he had no idea like it was just a matter of fact the way he was speaking it was not a joke i don't think no it's not we were laughing very hard, and he's like, what are these guys laughing at? If he doesn't know where his next beer is, he gets a little sweaty. He gets a little nervous.

Dude, he literally, I seen that nerve thing happen. Oh, yeah. He poked his head around, and there was a beer sitting on a column that was out of view from him, but he was in view of me, and the beer was on, and I saw him eyeball this beer. And then he was like contemplating because he had a beer in hand already.

And then he walked over, pump faked, walked back. I think he decided not to do it. And then I saw him go all the way and grab that beer. And then he had them both in his hand while he walked, finished this one, threw it away. Had the one he just picked up from the pillar. I don't know if that was one of his previous beers or he saw the beer, had a little condensation on it. That looks like a cold beer still.

Exactly. I'm just going to grab that one. That's definitely what happened. That's amazing. Yeah. Is anybody going to claim that? All right. He walked over, pump faked.

Nah, I shouldn't. Well. And then, yeah. You know what? I was nervous they weren't going to have beer at that place we were at in the first place. That place was huge. That was my first time at that place. Really nice.

Me too. Super nice. Fucking ACDC doing a show right next to us. It was crazy. Fucking nuts. It was packed. It was a winery that had a hairbanger's ball 80s cover band. Oh, yeah.

They rocked it. They hit it. Yeah. They absolutely rocked it but you wouldn't expect that at the winery that's my first time there i saw people walk in with these cut off nascar shirts yeah and then i'm like yo these are my who where am i where are these guys going and then i see a guy pre-makeup still in his leather tights with his hair long yeah and i go oh that's probably a member of the band right there. I say to Sam,

that was the lead singer. You should have seen what he did to his hair. He made that thing real big. He had full makeup on and he rocked. Put on a fucking show. First song gets out there. Fucking girls, girls, girls.

It was nuts. Nobody was listening at the time. Nobody. Nobody was, everybody was just kind of mingling around him and this guy. Girls, girls, girls. I was like, holy shit. at the top. Nobody. Nobody. Everybody's just kind of mingling around and this guy. Gas!

Gas! Gas! Holy shit. Yeah. I loved him. I loved everything about him. I saw a couple people I had known

from around town, you know? And I'm like, hey, who are these people? You don't know who this is? I guess they've been a legendary band for like,

a cover band for like 20 years, 30 years. Makes sense. They got, all those people are like their, I think like every weekend. 30 years. Makes sense. They got, all those people are like there, I think like every weekend.

There was 600 cars there. So many. This band is killing it. We need them in here. Oh, they're awesome. Oh my God. Yeah, we do. Yeah.

They need a few originals because they should make it. No, we don't. I think they know their role. Fingers only. Bingo. See, they should be the Colts halftime show. Yes. That would crush. Well, the dogs were good. Yeahingers only. Bingo. See, they should be the Colts halftime show. Yes. That would crush.

Well, the dogs were good. Yeah, the dogs were great. I do appreciate that they were giving 27 bucks to that one guy if he made a 45-yard field goal at the Colts game. Yeah, that's pretty sweet.

That was awesome. Free Crunchwrap Supreme. All right, yeah. Get a Crunchwrap Supreme, some of those cinnamon twist things, and 27 bucks. You make this 75-yard field goal. Good luck, kid. In front of like fucking 35,000 people those cinnamon twist things. And $27. You make this 75-yard field goal. Good luck, kid.

In front of like fucking 35,000 people. Towing it. He did not make it. No. So the Colts got to keep that Crunchwrap Supreme. That's right. Thank God. And a cinnamon twist. We'll see it for next week. And $27. Yeah, I wonder if that'll carry over. Yeah. You'll be like, alright. $54.

Two Crunchwrap Supremes, a week old cinnamon twist. I was the new chef. Did you get to try his treat? So fucking good. He was high. What? Who are you? Me?

That guy was high. No. Yeah, so maybe that's why the food tasted a little bit better. Little munchies. No, I wasn't that high. This guy accidentally ate one of those fruities. Yeah. Didn't just have no juice in it.

Not all fruit snacks have 100% apple juice in them. Yeah, some of them got like 10 milligrams after asking, is there five in this? Yeah. Yeah. There is certainly five in there. Right. It is actually 10, though. Yeah.

What have you done? It was a fun walk home. I'm sure it was. It was. Good people watching. You should have seen the bums. Living the dream out there for the Colts. I forgot about that.

And joining us now, live from an attic in Ohio, is a man who's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a man who wrote a letter, you know, so we could get Gumpy back into America. Now, they did not listen to a single word that was in his letter but he did take the time to do as such a man who's beat covet 100 times a father of 10 he's the current president of ohio ladies and gentlemen the all-time leading tackler for the green bay packers aj haun aj we did it we got goon back pal

goop i mean i'm i'm a little bit – I was surprised, actually. I was watching the show, and I see all of a sudden Goop with the weird green screen. I'm like, what are we doing here? But it all made sense. And Goop coming on, trying to make everybody cry, too, talking about how much it means to him. It's awesome. I'm glad to have you, Goop.

I don't have any jokes for you. Goop. Good guy, AJ. That was very nice. That was good. It's true. You can tell what it means. It's awesome.

I can't believe it was 400 and however many days. 446 days of being deported. 448 days since being on camera. God, it's crazy. And he was just bouncing around couch to couch, house to house. Do you want to run through how many different houses you lived at here over the last 446 days? Because we heard it was three months. Then it was going to be like five months.

Then it was going to be six months. Then it was going to be forever. Yeah. And then he kind of got to figure out but we'll hold on some hope how many different places did you live in over 446 days so when it was the month i was just doing airbnbs week to week living out of a suitcase but not easy to book airbnbs for a long time there's some fucker like one random wednesday you can't book for a month then i actually was able all football season six months was able to stay at one of the lads' houses.

But after that, other than that, I was Airbnb and then I wrapped up the last few weeks with fucking mom and dad back home like the good old days. He's got a gypsy around Canada. Gypsy around Canada. Did you think about getting a college degree during that time? Because I think that would have

helped. Phoenix.edu? Yeah, probably. Phoenix.edu. Yeah, man, we should have paid somebody to give you a degree. University of Waterloo. Ooh. Could you imagine? Yeah. Hey, listen, the Waterloo, Water Buffalo, they are a team now.

You maybe should have went over to Saskatoon. Maybe see what they had to offer. But I guess the customs guy that he was going through this morning in Toronto, red-eye from Victoria to Toronto late, right? Delayed on that flight because it's airplanes in 2023. I guess that's how it is. So he shows up late, has to sprint through the customs to get to his connection to Indianapolis.

The customs guy that he just so happened to run into, fan of the program. Probably didn't even need to waver. If this would have happened six months ago, there's a chance we'd kind of just slip in the back door there through one customs person. But instead, the last person we tried to do that with put a 10-year ban on him, almost put him in jail. So, you know, quite a run, AJ, for our guy Gumpy.

But he's back. He's back, AJ. He's here, and they cannot take him, right? They can't. They can't take him. They can't come snatch a good. But I think it's good news for G, but he's back. He's back, AJ. He's here and they cannot take him, right? They can't. They can't come snatch a good. But I think it's good news for Gump that he's back because although there seems to be a little negativity out of the Dolphins camp, McDaniel did a video for him. Vibes seem to be high.

Tyreek Hill is still going to get 2K. Intua does not look bad. Now, threw a pick on the first play and then almost got knocked out trying to make a tackle with his back, which is certainly a little bit alarming. This is how we're going to start the preseason when we're worried about a guy's health. On the run, pick, and he gets off the block, makes a tackle. He's a dog.

He's been practicing jujitsu. He just rolled that guy, said, you know what? I'm going to snap his shin with my fucking back. I am a brown belt now. But then there was other plays where Tua was slinging it, throwing it all over the yard, looking very good. You forget about how fast everybody on their team is there's Tyreek Hill's first completion then you got Waddle out there as well they can be an actual team this year if Tua does well that's the entire conversation right Gumby also let's dial up the run game they

ran for 250 on Saturday night they got that rookie they got Mostert, they got Wilson. Let's run the fucking ball. And I think McDaniel will, because think about last year. He went from run game consultant to head coach of a team and calling plays. I think his second year, he's going to dial up the run game a lot more. And he loves watching film, probably a lot of self-scout. How do you feel

about the Dolphins and the AFC East that's loaded right now, AJ? Well, I think isn't that one of uh Lombardi's biggest like critiques is that did they attempt like the fewest rushes in the NFL or something like that yeah they're talking about the offensive line being bad and two are getting hurt and then you don't run the ball at all it's kind of like the easy crutch to help that entire situation McDaniel knows that right McDaniel knows that yeah of course he knows that he knows there'll be like an added emphasis and especially early in the year I'm sure they're going to want to balance

it out and figure it out but all like when it comes down to it you got to find a way to win the game no matter what no matter what you have to do yeah and you guys got all those running backs didn't sign dalvin cook but like tyree kill you know yeah you can have him do a couple of these bad boys yeah ball you know what i mean all chain can boogie to that rookie quarterback or running back hard he took off on saturday a chain yeah he has a sick name right texas a&m yeah yeah he's a beast i remember him from a game day i did not know that he existed early in the season and i think pollock was like in what a chain does and i heard the name i'm like is that a nickname there's a guy there's a nickname called a chain that's a fucking great

nickname and he watched got he runs mad yeah he very. He's about the only thing that went well for that team last year. Yes. Had number one recruiting class. They did. What's going on with that? They're back. Well, I don't know how they stink or why they stink. But everybody's saying they're all the way back.

Oh, okay. Johnny Manziel. Yeah, Manziel Maniel. They brought in really good character coaches, Bobby Petrino, and he's going to turn around the offense, and they'll be fine. Petrino? He is an offensive guru, though. Well, yeah, but that's not what Townsend.

No, he's not. Yeah, he is. What are you talking about? He had a problem, right? He rode that motorcycle with his mistress. On the back. Yeah, and then he broke his neck, and then they had to fire him publicly. Exactly.

Big deal. The guy liked watching the Rough Riders anthem video one too many times. He said, I'm going to go do this. He actually said, hey, let me impress you with something real quick. Exactly. Saddle up. That's not real. I cannot believe that was a real situation.

I was really, they got fired like this, you know, because the whole thing came out. Damn shame. The road rash on his face. Oh, my God. Dang, dang, dang, dang. Dang, dang, dang. Dang, dang, dang. Oh! You weren't here. I'm happy he's okay. Oh, my God.

You weren't here. I'm happy he's okay. We're happy he's okay. That's right. Obviously, but... Yeah. Road rash, huh? Yeah. Stevie Janowski, you were driving.

Sure. Yeah. Maybe one or two many, you know, face-its from... That might have been one of one. That might have been one of one. You have paper on your cake? No, i think he was no i think he was doing off-season mat drills that's what you're talking about mixing up yoga yeah a little mat dress you know sean jefferson with the chargers that guy's putting on he's a wide receiver guy with the panthers he's the wide receiver coach he's putting on the pads he said yep petrino Petrino likes to do the same thing. Oh, okay. He likes to do the same thing. He likes to roll around with the boys. That makes sense.

Do the entire thing. But I am pumped to kind of see, not Texas A&M, but A-Chain with the Dolphins, because they're not getting talked about at all. Another AFC East team I think that we have to talk about, the Buffalo Beals. Okay, listen. Preseason, there's not a lot of hype around the Beals this year. Last year, they were winning the Super Bowl in everybody's eyes. What were their odds last year?

Four to one? Yeah, they were the lowest. They were the favorite. Yeah, like four to one, I think they were like plus 400 or whatever to win the Super Bowl last year. And everything was, you know, hey, the Beals are pissed about the coin toss. The Beals got their entire team back. The Beals are going to go.

They invest in Vaughn Miller. Here we go. They're going to go. This year, very quiet about the The Beals are going to go. They invest in Vaughn Miller. Here we go. They're going to go. This year, very quiet about the Buffalo Beals. Stephon Diggs wearing his shin guards there for a little bit and not being in the building. That was a conversation. Leslie Frazier no longer

being the D coordinator. That was the conversation. Other than that, it's been kumbaya, kumbaya, kumbaya. Same old Buffalo Bills. McDermott's calling plays on the defensive side. And then we watched the Steelers starters take on the Beals starters. And they went one way. They went one way. Both sides of the

ball, AJ. Are we worried about a preseason game? No, right? We're not worried about this? No, we're not worried, but we are talking about it. So it's definitely something. It's just, I guess it gives you a little bit more urgency to start the season quick because you want to be like, hey, this, that was not us. Like once they end the the preseason i'm sure the head coach would say this

is a reset now everything matters now this is our team we gotta go build our identity in the regular season yeah i mean maybe this is like uh something mcdermott can use as like a wake-up call for his team like hey we got 17 days until this regular season starts that was their starters we got a lot of we got a lot of shit to clean up here. And maybe that'll be the way to do it. But on the other side, Pittsburgh Steelers fans are pumped. AJ, tell them how we're doing this year, how the Pittsburgh Steelers are doing this year. I came in this morning and I said, Super Bowl. That's where the Steelers are right now.

I said it was kind of like a joke earlier in the season. But now, for sure, Super Bowl. Because of that, and before we start chit-chatting about the Pittsburgh Steelers as a whole and how Kenny looks and how kenny looks and how the defense looks and everything like that we got to talk about this 46 709 fine that was given to kwan alexander in a horrendous horrendous call in a pre-season game this is in a pre-season game and we look this up uh rookiesies get $1,800. Jeez, what a tackle. What a shot, dude.

Perfect. I mean, perfectly timed. The guy even stumbled a little bit, so he might have meant to have his head on the side. But since it timed up. His head didn't hit his head, though, right? No. We see the slow-mo. It was in chest, I think, right?

Your head can't hit their chest? Dude, I have no idea why or how the rules are. They said he's a repeat offender we'll say he led with okay so they'll claim he led with his head and i guess his short his head didn't get to the side and his shoulder didn't make contact first bingo i think is what they're saying okay they're saying right there yeah they want to take that away like i okay no it's a great tackle great tackle the entire internet agrees but the internet's not the ones making the rules i believe the nfl is because they're trying to save football for the long

term, but like just a little bit of like reading the room, like just reading the room a little bit. Did that guy get hurt? No. Did Quan Alexander get hurt? No. Is it a preseason game?

Yes. Do we need to find this? So we set a tone. Sure. 10,000 bucks. We'll find you. He's still out fucking $6,800 on the day, like negative money for the entire.

Them getting paid $3,200 and then him getting fined $46,000 for football, that is wild to think of. And I bet Quan Alexander's not thrilled. No. I bet he's not happy about it. But everybody else in the NFL is like, what the fuck?

That can happen? I can lose $40-some thousand on a day in a preseason game? Guys are not going to want to play. like, what the fuck? That can happen? I can lose $40-some thousand dollars on a day in a preseason game? Guys are not going to want to play. You know what I mean? It's like, you start really starting all that type of stuff. It's crazy to think that that's where we are right now, AJ. It's something that I'm sure maybe has happened before where

a coach is like, hey, you got to go finish this tackle or finish them off. You're second to the pile. And they're like, coach, this is the preseason. I'm not getting a $50,000 fine when i'm not making any money right now a forty six thousand dollars think about what guys on defensive side of the ball around the nfl or just what you just said to your coach right there like no i'm not doing that no way for a preseason game i'm not gonna lose forty three thousand dollars or whatever guys are gonna actually think about that yeah you know our job. This is our business.

And I'm just going to potentially, if my head not perfect in this preseason game, which we're practicing, I'm out like a year's worth of money for most people that have jobs out there. That's wild. Absurd. How is that a thing? How is there not a preseason fine? You're right. There definitely should be some kind of preseason.

Because they do that. They'll give $10,000, give 10 15 000 fines to guys that are undrafted rookies and haven't made any money in the NFL I'm like yeah you're really putting a guy in the hole like that's I think that's horrendous when they do that but it's when it's not like an egregious over the top cheap shot or crazy headshot I just I struggle with it and I think like what's Kwon supposed to do right there just please tell me he has to make a physical tackle to stop the guy from getting the first down all of that stuff i just don't know exactly how he keeps his head out of it and obviously the players are gonna have to figure it out old school guys weren't able to do it that's why they got phased out of the game as this new heads up football thing was kind of taking place were you on scholarship in college

yeah so you're not in debt no okay welcome to, welcome to the NFL. Fuck around one time. We'll put your ass $20,000 in debt. Dare you. Just act. Dare you. You'll be leaving this camp. You're in the NFL, yeah. You're in debt.

And you're never working for another team, by the way. You're getting fined $20,000 from the NFL and getting the hell out of here. Only guy in the history that made the NFL, was in an NFL camp, lost $20,000. Undrafted guy getting fined.'s just it feels bananas the only reason why that was my first thought is because we played a pre-season game in canada what up gump nice got a gumpy up there in canada and the taxes they tax us on our yearly salary earnings as opposed to the week we all lost like i think four or five thousand bucks just like well i assume the heavy super high-paid guys lost even more money. It was a good use, though.

I'm sure the Canadian government used it wisely. I doubt it. I think they were... Halloween costumes, right? They were building up their deal. Oh, boy. Those are pretty cheap. Pretty cheap to do with those.

The ones he was doing, I think they would kind of do anywhere. But I do think they built up a D-line to just tackle people trying to make a run for America. So we potentially funded people that were stopping Gumpy from getting over here. But I remember that happening and being like, oh, nobody wants to go to this. Why? Because we're literally just losing money. Guys can't be losing $40,000 in a preseason game, especially when we're in a time where guys don't really want to play in preseason games to begin with.

Just for the good of the game, for the good of the fans, for the good of the league, we can't be having that. That can't happen. We need to change that. So, Kamish, we assume you'll figure that out. Yeah. Get on that one. Well, it's the same deal.

Like, what are you going to do if a guy is like a fringe guy to make the team or not? And, like, he comes up and makes a hit like that, and neither, you know, I don't think he got penalized in the game, but if guys do start thinking, okay, well, I'm not going to do this because I'm going to get fined 50 grand, and then you don't make that play,

and it's like, well, yeah, you didn't get fined 50 grand, but we're cutting your ass. You're not making the team now. Yeah, so you've got to start using your hands a little bit more. I've never been. I've got to. What are you talking about? You've got to take the chance.

You've got to take the chance that you get the fine. If you're on the fringe and you're trying to make the team, you got to figure it out. Yeah, just throw your face in there. You know what I mean? Just throw it. No, no. That one was – it was like bam, bam for Kwon right there.

Like, great tackle. Beautiful tackle. I don't know what to tell you. That was a great tackle. The internet agreed, by the way. Everybody on the internet was like, this is bullshit. There was a couple people that were like, if you don't know the rules, then this is what's going to happen.

It could have been much worse. He could have launched himself right into his head. He could have. Well, he was low, too, to begin with. I'm saying he didn't. He tried to go low. Yeah, but that's what you would have done. Right. No, I'm saying back in the day, people would have absolutely done that. People?

No, I mean, you've got to get him down whenever you get him down. I don't know what could have happened. I'm not there. Others would have done it, too. I'm not the only one. That's what he was saying. Other people aiming for Adam's apple as well. It wasn't just me. He was clearly going for sternum there.

We should, I mean, that's a big change. We should be applauding this guy. We should be giving him a bonus. He could have decapitated that dude. Probably should have. And he did. So, thank you, Quan, is what the NFL should be saying. Instead, pal, pal yeah we're

going to take your first two weeks of checks sorry in a pre-season game uh speaking of pre-season game your guy your friend friend of the program aaron rogers playing in his last pre-season game what do you think that's about do you think it's because he saw zach wilson got inspired and said you know what i want to do a little whoopty woo i got a new body guru i feel better than ever i'll hit a spin move don't run down the sideline. Instead of hopping into a tackle like Zach Wilson did, I'll hop out of bounds, and it'll kind of be a plus, plus, plus everywhere. But what are your thoughts on Aaron playing this week,

and how do you feel about the osmosis seemingly taking place in that quarterback room, making this guy a different human, not just a different football player. Confident, charming, lovable. How do you feel about everything going on over there, and why do you think Aaron's choosing to play? I think it's awesome that he's going to play. I mean, I would assume he wants to kind of get a good feel, a good rehearsal before that first

regular season game. He wants to see what it feels like, and he wants to get some timing and get the ball out of his hand quick and just get some game action. Even though he's in his whatever year, 18th, 19th year, whatever, he's still like, I guarantee you it'll feel like a real game. Going out for warm-ups, it's going to feel real even though it is the preseason.

Yeah, let's get the jitters out maybe. Let's do one where it's a new audience, right? It's a new crowd. Yeah, entertain the crowd too. He wants to give them, he wants to give the fans what their money's worth. Yeah, like, hey, welcome to the new era of the Jets here. We'll give a little bit of a taste, but also the day-to-day. What time do you show up at the building at a new stadium?

What time do you go to the training room? What time do you get ready? What time do you come out for warm-ups? How does this whole thing go, the day-to-day? And then also go out there and play. I don't know how much he'll play, but, like, the old-school days used to be, hey, that third preseason game. This is way old school, obviously.

Starters playing first half and then first drive of third quarter because they want to go through halftime routine. Like, hey, I want you to come back out after halftime as well. Obviously, we don't expect Aaron to do that with the Jets against the Giants this upcoming weekend, but I do wonder if there'll be a significant amount of time

or just like, hey, we got them in here, let's go ahead and save the shit out of this because if we lose them in a preseason game, we're all going to look like the dumbest humans of all time. Yeah. And like the routine, of course. I bet it's going to be super emotional for him to put on a Jets 8 because he hasn't had the jersey in any of these games.

He hasn't really strapped up the entire uniform. I bet it's going to be weird, and getting that out of the way is probably helping. So we're 17 days away from that first Thursday game, which puts us, what, 20 days away from that Sunday? Yes. Somewhere around there. So even if he plays on Thursday, then they're still –

we talked about this before. They're still two and a half weeks away from the regular season. That's the last chance they get to get any improvement against a different team, right? Yeah, and you hope everybody will view it that way. Colts got the Eagles on Thursday night, I believe. Hopefully they'll play Anthony Richardson. Let's get the guy on.

What happened? I literally walk into stadium. First human I see, me and my wife. First human I see, Shane Steichen. Just so happens to be walking off field as I'm walking down tunnel at the same time. Big, what's up? How you doing? Introduced

to my wife. Big fan, Shane. I can't wait to see what you do when they are here. You know, you do one of those little fucking. Of course, people will be excited. He said, I'm not playing him. I was like, coach. Excuse me? Oh, no.

Coach. Why are. Wife and I got a sitter. Did you turn around? Coach, wife and I got a sitter. What do we. He said, you think I'm going to put it out there? I'm not playing the offensive line.

I'm going to put him out there. I'm like playing the offensive line. I'm going to put him out there. I'm like – Oh, no. Coach, coach, everybody's here. Everybody's here to see. He's like, I'm not doing it. I give him credit. I give him credit for not giving in then and saying, no,

it's not about this preseason. It's about the long haul. I give him credit for that. I actually loved it. Immediately after, I was definitely disappointed. Like, wow, we got to sit it for no reason here. Could have used this on another night for sure. But it was great to get back in there and kind of do the whole thing,

experience a game day. But I did appreciate him going, I'm not putting him out there with a backup offensive line. I'm like, okay. Feels like we got a guy at least that's caring, seemingly figuring it out. And all reports out of camp are like, hey, he's good. I would assume he would play Thursday night because it is the 17 days and it is the Eagles.

But they got joint practices, and nobody has done the joint practice and also played in the game. That seems to be the new kind of – how do you feel about these teams canceling joint practices, AJ? Houston and – Not New England. New England and the Titans did, though. Houston and Saints canceled their joint practices.

New England and the Titans canceled their joint practices. Thought maybe Colts-Eagles would potentially do the same because just came off some joint practices with the Bears. I think they're keeping that. How do you feel about teams, like, adjusting this year more so than ever before? I think it's smart. I mean, I think they probably sit there and realize, hey, what, like, the risk-reward if we do, if we practice.

Like, say we practice the second day after it's already gotten chippy the first day or just cancel them all together now which i don't remember a time when this ever has happened though because it seems like yeah we're just protecting our guys and we don't want anything stupid to happen joining us now ladies and gentlemen is a man who is phenomenal on the television because not only is he wildly handsome uh-huh he also has a resume that immediately upon him speaking you should say Phenomenal on the television because not only is he wildly handsome, he also has a resume that immediately upon him speaking, you should say, oh, this guy is supposed to be talking about the NFL. He's a Super Bowl champion. He's a staple in two different cities of their team.

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And for me, earlier in my career when I did play in preseasons, I don't feel like game one was as big a deal. But when you don't play at all, you don't put on any pads or a helmet, and then you walk out week one, there's some nerves and adrenaline running. That's definitely a different feeling. How many years did you play again? 16. nerves and adrenaline running uh that's definitely a different feeling how many years did you play again 16 so years 16 you're saying game one still a little bit of jitters whenever you're walking now granted if you lose those you should probably retire but you're saying without playing in the preseason there's a lot more pressure feeling for a 16 year vet than you could have imagined

yeah i just think your practice is different we all know Walking out in the practice field in your pads and your helmet and scrimmaging against somebody is great. But when you step out in that arena, especially for us, our last couple years with the Rams, it was a Monday night football game or a Sunday night football game. It was a big game. And you're strapped up and the lights are on and the fans are there and it's loud.

That adrenaline, you're just not used to the feeling. Because even in a preseason game when you do that, you feel your heart rate up a little bit. It's just a little different. Just having that feeling I think sometimes is why veterans, they're like, why would he play? It's just they want to get out there and have some nerves and maybe have a bad play and get it over with.

Yeah, get it out of the way almost. This doesn't matter. Like how do you feel about the joint practices? Because it feels as if all the teams that are doing the joint practices are not playing their starters in the game now game and joint practice i understand same players but to your point the atmosphere the energy the jitters where it really matters are keeping score there's a ref for some reason who can't get the calls out of his mouth whenever he's making those calls let's get a little bit more confidence out of that guy representing the entire game but how

do you feel about the joint practices kind of replacing that? And how do you think this is just the new norm going forward? Yeah, I mean, I think that teams are starting to realize that, especially maybe two is too much. I mean, going back-to-back days, if there's any animosity built up on day one, a couple guys get chippy in pass rush or, you know, a guy gets too close to the quarterback. It just seems like day two, there's always something that escalates out of it. I know

that was our experience when the Raiders came to town a couple years ago for us and scrimmaged at our place up in Ventura and Kalu, but, you know, we ended the second practice, I think, only 15 minutes into it because of a fight in special teams. And, you know, I heard Matt LaFleur kind of say that day two is getting to where it's more fights than production. And so I just think coaches are saying, hey, there's still good things that come of it. We want good on good. We want some competition.

And preseason games, you can't set certain situations you want your guys to play in. We want a red zone situation. We want a two-minute. You know, we want to end the game. They can kind of create scenarios that they really can't put their ones in those positions. So there's still really something useful that you can get out of them,

but maybe two days is too much. Just one scrimmage, one practice against each other and get out of there. I know all the staff would appreciate that too. You know, we've got to get treatment in here. We got to get all of our equipment over there. We got to get it back and forth. How are you going to get, how are you getting to get treatment? Well, we have to use a – I mean, I didn't even think about those types of things that are taking place behind because they're all split in facilities, I assume. So the support staff, I would assume, would be in on one day.

Let's make this a special occasion and move forward because when is it a detriment and when is it helping, I guess, is a fine balance that they're all trying to figure out go ahead aj wait i wanted to ask you about the your old team the rams and sean mcveigh i think people are kind of i would say they're under the radar people think it's like a rebuild situation what are your expectations for the oh right whose house oh hey baby uh you know it's it's one of those things to me, their team is going to be, they're really young, 36 rookies in camp. It's just unheard of. It's wild how many rookies are there. I'm walking around the building, like, trying to dab people up I know, and it's hard to even find them in the locker room.

I'm like, man, I think I might know this kid, but maybe not. So, you know, you come back, it's, man, I was only gone a year and a half. Nobody, you know, I have nobody to talk to. But it's this team to me, it's got some young talent. I think some of these guys they've drafted from a Byron Young, seeing him turn it on last week against the Raiders in practice. He was a guy that I was standing with Dave Ziegler during practice. And he's like, tell me about this kid.

He's shown up over and over again in the team drills. And he's a young pick. Puka Nakua, maybe one of the most fun names to say this season because he has really shown up. Everybody in Rams camp is excited about him. And some of those other picks, I think they look good. They look talented, but they're young. So you know how that goes, AJ.

I mean, they're going to get out there. They're going to have a good season. They're going to have good moments and games. But they're going to make rookie mistakes. And I don't know sometimes if you have that many rookies on the field, you know, what's the end all record. I mean, yeah, you have some great leaders and great players with Stafford and Aaron Donald and Cooper Cup and others. But you know, you end up with that many rookies. You're going to have those moments in the game that you lose just because maybe experience is your biggest, you know, adversity situation you're

going to face each and every week is there's going to be something new they're going to have to learn in every game situation. Such an interesting transition here for the Rams, you know, because at the beginning, fuck them picks. Remember? Oh, yeah. We won a Super Bowl. Please have them back.

No, yeah. We won a Super Bowl, though, with that mindset. So, like, that's good. That's what we're – yeah. Hey, and then the moment with your kids. Oh, yeah. Look at that right there. So, like, that's good. That's what we're – yeah. Hey, and then the moment with your – hey, then the moment with your kids. Hell, yeah. Thank you for that right there. Hell, yeah.

I mean, everything was good. It was great. It was great. It was great. Now we're on the other side of it. It's like, how long do they have, you think, during this transition era with Stafford and Aaron, everybody you just talked about? How many years do you think they're committed to potentially having to find

another team again after the whole we're going all in to win a Super Bowl at home thing? Well, I think that's the toughest part is that those guys really look at it. I mean, Aaron Donald was contemplating retirement, what, two years ago or almost a year ago. And then Matthew Stafford got banged up last year, Cooper Cup as well. How many more years are they going to keep that together and then let these young guys grow and also collect some of these draft picks. And this might be the first time they've picked a first rounder since, I don't know, Jared Goff this next year. So it's going to be, hey, how long can these guys hold on? You've got great leadership. You've got a great quarterback, the best three techs ever played the game, in my opinion, in Aaron Donald. And you know what? Can they stay long enough for us to get some of these

young guys growing up, have some experience and add some more talent to compete again? Because that division is not going to be easy. Seattle looks like a team that's really on the rise and San Francisco is going to be one of the best in the game this year. So I think my favorite part of that Rams team, and you say young guys there

and he's happy to hear that because that hasn't been said about him for like the last six years he's been in college. Fourth-round pick Stetson Bennett. Hey, looks like a guy. Huh? Looks like a guy. Stets.

You know, he's one of those guys in practice that you can tell the new stuff that he hasn't experienced. It's like you're a young quarterback trying to learn the motions and the fly sweeps. And everyone knows Sean McVay's offense is not something you're just going to walk in and master week one or two of doing it as a quarterback in camp. But when things are static and they can just kind of run simple concepts and he can sit back there and just show how quick he can get through his reads and progressions, he's really looked well and he doesn't look too big for him. And I think that's something they're really excited about is what could his future be?

Because he also made a play with his feet the other day that you could tell, and, you know, it got called back with a holding, but kind of a QB read that he showed what his ability is to get out of the pocket and then use his feet, too, in space. So I think it's one of those things. He has some things that you like, and so I see his progression is going to be fun. Lombardi called in the next Brock Purdy. This guy's got – he wins. Everybody around him loves him.

He can move and make every single throw. I don't know if Stetson takes that as a compliment or not, but Brock Party's back balling after a Tommy yawn, and it feels like Stetson's going to be a guy too. You were about to say balling? I feel like he's got to just continue to grow, and I think nobody better than Sean McVay to be with for that. Really, the detail and execution and fundamentals of Sean are special,

but you know what we need for you guys is what I was thinking about this. You know, I'm on here, little people collector set. Pat, how cool would it be to get the Pat Maxby show in on the Fantasy Frenzy Sweet States? Into the team. People this year, what's different? I know last year we talked about the Super Bowl, the Eagles and Chiefs, the collector set. But this year, we had all 32 teams, and you can enter your fantasy team, and they have a chance to win the sweepstakes

and have up to 12 people have their own. Whoa! Come on! Whoa! We got to get a Pat McAfee show collector set after winning the fantasy prize. Whoa! Yes.

You can get one of these, 12 of you. Okay. You're fantasy league. Shut up. Not yours can get one of these, 12 of you. Okay. Your fantasy league. Shut up. Not yours. How do you win? How do you win? You got to enter the sweepstakes.

MattelCreations.com. Go there. Log on. Sign your team up. And somebody's going to be chosen as the winner. You ain't going to win. I guarantee I do. No, you're not going to win.

I already drafted. I bet I do. You're not going to. No, you're not, Chris. You're not either. I'm going to win. No, I'm not going to win. I already drafted. Ben, I do. No, you're not, Chris. You're not either. I'm going to win. I'm winning. I've already drafted my team. My team's going undefeated. I'm doing fantasy football for the first time ever in my life. I'm actually

paying attention to this one. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm back in it. Our league's going to go. Team's still going to stink compared to mine. No, you're not even in my league. I'm too mad. We had the discussion today, Pat, about NFL and Prime doing one, and I said, listen, last year we did Pick'ems. We didn't show who the winner of the Pick'ems was. Who's that?

I'm not going to name who the guy was, but I'm just saying we didn't show it. So I told him for that reason, I'm out. You know, if we're not going to tell who wins it on air, maybe somebody you're talking to, then I'm out on the whole thing. Oh, didn't want to give the big guy any love. Interesting. If I just hear the winner, then let's just not talk about it, all right? Let's move on to a different segment.

But you did get one of these, and those other bums didn't. You know what I mean? So you did win in the end. This Thursday, is this your guys' first one back? Come on, preseason. Me and Carissa, we're on the road. First one. Let's go.

I think Kirk. I'm hoping to see Anthony Richardson play. I don't want to ruin date night. I mean, this is – come on. I'm leaving the wife and kids at home. Can we get A.R. down on the field? Boom. That's what we're asking for, Coach Shane Steichen.

You know what, Coach Shane Steichen? I've heard if you put him in, you get one of these. That's right. I heard you get one of these, Shane, if you want it or not. All right. We appreciate the hell out of you, Whit. Have an incredible season. We appreciate everything that you did for the NFL last year

and going to do this upcoming season. Good luck in the second year on television, pal. I appreciate it, brother. Thank you all, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Whitworth. Yeah, Andrew Whitworth! Hey, listen. Get you all, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Whitworth. Yeah, Andrew Whitworth! Hey, listen. Grace Baker.

Get you one of these. AJ, you got one of these, I do believe, but we had to take it and use it today because Ty forgot his. Yeah. Look at this little guy. But AJ doesn't have his own. No, of course not. Idiot.

Is this thing attached? Poop. Darn. It must be attached to the platform Yeah, oh, you can't take him off there? Rip him off there No, I don't want to break him You wouldn't break him, you don't want to

It's a podium for it Yeah, he got me up on stage Got my little guy up on stage My fantasy team's going to win for sure I'm getting my whole family made It's a fantasy league Your fantasy league's going to lose. Your fantasy league is going to lose because my fantasy league is going to win.

His team came in last place last year too. Oh yeah, and there was no punishment either. That's right. A lot of cool punishments floating around the internet always. Yeah, well AJ was real quick to say Bill was too busy killing people to do our entire fantasy football team so that's why we came in.

We talked about this, didn't we? Did we talk about not saying that about Bill anymore? I wasn't there for that conversation. Bill was a great teammate. You guys came in last. Still a great teammate. Yeah, but kind of an embarrassment to the program. You know what I mean? Kind of an embarrassment.

I'm dealing with a bunch of guys back from West Virginia. Ooh, here we go. Old college teammates. Yeah, old college teammates. We're doing a fantasy football thing. You'll be super attentive to that. I'm sure you'll definitely keep up on it. I've tried my best in these group texts to keep up with everything

everybody's saying about everything. They sent over the rules. What are we doing? When's your draft? What do you mean? What kind of rules? It's sometime. You're definitely taking part in the draft, too.

I'm honored to be asked to be a part of this fantasy league. Hell, yeah. It's called Tough Street're definitely going to draft, too. I'm honored to be asked to be a part of this fantasy league. Hell, yeah. It's called Tough Street, okay? Whoa. So one of our friends who passed away used to say he grew up on Tough Street. The further down the road you lived, the tougher you were. I lived at the end of the road is what he used to say all the time. It was a classic, just well-delivered every single time.

The type of guy who would actually gnaw your Achilles. We all are very bummed that he passed away and everything. So I feel honored to be asked to be a part of this. My team's name is End of the Road, by the way. Nice. End of the Road. That's great. Now, I did get picked 12-team, random drawing.

I'm picking 12th. It's not bad. It's a snake draft. You're good. That actually was a full conversation. It It's not bad. You're good. That actually was a full conversation. It is a snake draft. That's a good pick, actually, in a 12-teamer. So I'm in a good spot.

I think so. You're always going to have two picks in a row, so you don't have to be toiling between, oh, should I take this guy? I want to make sure no one takes this guy. You got to pick the litter, take them both. Definitely sounds like something Pat will be toiling over, what he's going to do on the fantasy draft. What's your problem?

I am in here. I feel like I know you pretty well. None of this is going to happen, so it's cool that we're talking about it. It is. I will – my team will be – You can just auto-draft. Can't you make them draft for you? Well, yeah.

So I think it's a bonding thing, isn't it? Yeah. It's all about being in that group chat. That's the only thing that matters. A live draft, like where you all take part together? I don't know. I've seen the punishment. Those are fun, people say. Looks like a good time. Oh, what is draft? Like where you all take part together? I don't know. I've seen the punishment. Those are fun, people say.

Looks like a good time. Oh, what is it? What do you got? Oh, no. I don't know if it's been voted on. It's been the only idea that's been thrown out there. It's the whole pancake thing at the diner. Oh, yeah.

That makes sense. What's that mean? Because I'm in the tough. You have to stay in a diner for 24 hours, and every single pancake you eat, it takes an hour off the clock. So if you eat 24 pancakes, then you can leave. Yeah. Are people doing that?

Oh, yeah. It's a punishment. People are in there like 13, 15, 16 hours. Oh, that's tough. That's a long time. I agree. I've seen that float out there. And I'm like, who has 24 hours to stay in a diner?

I can't sign up for this. And then I didn't want to complain about that because I've seen some other punishments, and I'm like, I don't want to sign up for any of this shit. How many pancakes could you eat in a row? What would you eat? Four right off the bat, and then what, take a break? Yeah, my buddy actually just did this on Saturday for our fantasy football league.

He got 15 down, but it was three plates of fun. So he's there for eight hours. Yeah. So he just sat there. Did someone sit with him? Nine hours. No, no, no, There's a casino next door. So he was just in there.

Oh, well, that doesn't count. What do you mean? No, no. That's where the people went. He ate them alone. Anyways, I'm excited and pumped, and I'm going to be very attentive because I don't want to be stuffing my face if that's what they end up deciding. But they're talking about rules and shit, bro.

I didn't know there was this many things. There's a lot of things. Don't take Justin Tucker. I know you're going to want to take Tucker first. I didn't know there was this many things. There's a lot of things. Just don't take Justin Tucker. I know you're going to want to take Tucker first. Scores every time he goes on the field. Is that not good? You tell me. Is that not fantasy?

Okay, sweet. What is his points per minute on field? Better than everybody. Give me that, guy. Is there kickers in the league? There's a bunch of rules sent over yesterday, bro. What kind of rules do they have? What do you mean?

PPR, IR spots spots how many bench spots you have tie breaking hold on let me fucking read these things so you're gonna have somebody that's in charge like the commissioner like pays attention and does all this oh yeah yeah i didn't even know this about a guy who was my roommate he seems to be pretty plugged in in the whole fantasy thing there's payouts obviously i get it it's another reason to get together. I get it. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like a good camaraderie builder. They got a bunch of rules.

I don't know. Big shit talking. Big shit talking. They're all just going to be shit talking to me because I got a feeling. You might get first place being that way. You know that. Yeah. It's all luck.

It's all luck. Foxy said the only one. It's all luck. It's all luck. Foxy said the only one. So I should just be talking shit in here as if I have a chance? Oh, absolutely. Because I've been trying to kind of dial it back

because I'm feeling like because didn't my team get what? Second to last last year? Yeah, but you were in first for the first four or five weeks. Yeah.

Easy come, easy go. Cooper Cuff got hurt. Yeah, it's all about injuries. 50-50. Yeah. All right, let's go to the phones here as we wrap up our two.

Big shout-out to Andrew Whitworth coming by. Amazon kicks back off this Thursday. What's up? We could do a little mock draft for you after the show if you want. Maybe just go over some things, ones and twos, you know? Lock it in. Lock it in. 12, 13.

Yeah, why don't we do that? 12-teamer. We can kind of see the lay of the land. Yeah. AJ, you going to do it? I heard a let's there. Yeah. Let's do some LARPing too, Con Man.

Hey, I love LARPing. Do not compare mock drafting to LARPing. Hey, Goomp. Yes, sir. You a good fantasy footballer? First year I ever did it was last year, the one we were in. That's the first time I've ever done it. Did he win?

His team was pretty good. Yeah, he went to the finals, right? Jalen Hurts got hurt at the end. It kind of sewered me. Sewered you? Nice. Did he win? His team was pretty good. Yeah, he went to the finals, right? Jalen Hurts got hurt at the end. It kind of sewered me. Sewered you? Nice. Who did win? Me and Bruce were in the finals and then, you know, the whole DeMar Hamlin thing happened and Bruce was like,

we gotta keep playing the game! And then no one won. Oh my god. That's not true. Skip Bayless? I didn't know Skip Bayless was like that. That's what he said. Foxy had like Dawson Knox and he wanted the game to keep going so that he could come back and win. That's why I hate fantasy football.

You hear what it's making these guys do. I would have won either way. This is disgusting. When's fantasy football draft season? Is that this week? This week before. People are doing them right now, but yeah, typically. Week of, week one.

Yeah, do it the Wednesday before the Thursday night game. That's kind of the fun. Injuries, that's why. Yeah. Boy. Final rosters too, right? Yeah. And that's what, every week I got to do something? I guess it doesn't matter. Check it once a week. Just make sure you don't have any guys who are starting on buys. Of course. I'll do that on Thursdays.

Is that today? Yeah. Well, the tough thing I mentioned this to you, on Sundays when guys are questionable and then sometimes they're out, sometimes they're playing. Just call Ian. That's right. I don't think we have a chance. You guys are all going to be doing this for him.

Mitt, strap in, buddy. It's going to be a long fantasy. Whoa! You think I'm handing this over to Mitt, bro? Yeah, I would. Mitt, you ever do fantasy football, pal? Fucking two times. Fuck yeah, man.

I do real football. I do real football. Thanks. I am very good at fantasy football, pal? Fuck yeah, man. I do real football. Thanks. I am very good at fantasy football. I did get second place in our league last year, but that was No, you didn't. I did. I did. Look it up.

Fox, you played him in the championship. Nope. Fox, he lost to Bruce. I beat I was around Robin. Oh, geez. Okay. I played Bruce for two weeks in the finals, and Bruce did beat me. That is true. You played for two weeks in the finals? But I thought you won.

Oh, so he didn't play Fox. Mick didn't even... I'm so confused. What are you talking about, dude? Bruce, I beat Foxy in the finals. What? How does this happen? What's going on?

This is what... He had his computer stolen, so he probably missed it. For the fourth time. Bro, I was playing week 14 on week 17 because my computer was missing for 14 days. Two different times. Bro, a bench guy. A starter guy.

What happened there, pal? No, I'm not making things up. I do specifically remember that I was playing Bruce. Me and Bruce were talking a lot of shit about the game. Yes, Bruce did fucking win. Alright, well you made it to the you played after the final.

That's right, you made the playoffs. Maybe. This office sucks. I'll run your team, pal. I can optimize every position. Yeah, we're going to start this first day back. Gump, what are your thoughts on old fake Gump that took your spot there for a long time? Nah, he's been dead for a long time.

So you're in the room now watching it take place. They have the same hat on. What's that about, pal? He's got that Fidel hat. Oh, no. Come on. That hat's never seen pal? He's got that Fidel hat. Oh, no. Come on. That hat's never seen the light of day since that show. Well, the good thing about it is if it was in his luggage,

it wouldn't be here anyway. Exactly. Gumpy made it to America. All of his shit did not. Nope. Pretty much. Is it coming or are they keeping it? Yeah, it's on the move today for sure.

Stayed up until 1 a.m. waiting for it last night, actually. What time was delivery ETA yesterday? 12.36 last night. A.M. Stay up, especially in your apartment building. We don't leave this outside. Oh, actually, it's been postponed to 4 a.m. You just stay up. Postponed to 8 a.m. Actually,

maybe Friday. I mean, in the airport's defense on this one, I did kind of force my way onto that plane yesterday. I showed up at 838 for 840. Well, you didn't show up. The plane, a roof. Customs held you until that time.

Yeah. It turns out Gumby didn't actually have a ticket. He was... He was... Standby. He wasn't actually on the plane. This guy was got... I mean, what a shit show.

You couldn't make it up, dude. Well, you can't make up the fact that a guy thinks he was in the finals of a fantasy. I mean, this show is just a never-ending supply of so dumb. Dib shits. All the time. Do it today, Sam. We're down for more of that. Yeah, absolutely.

You're right. Hey, that's a good plug. Let's go. Let's go to the phones here as we wrap up our two, which has been really riveting. Nate in Michigan. What's going on, Nate? Yo, yo. What up, guys? Yo in Michigan. What's going on, Nate? Yo, yo. What up, guys? Yo, yo.

What's going on, Nate? Two things for you. Welcome back, Gumpy. Thank you, sir. So, Pat, I just want to get your thoughts on Jack Fox. I'm a big Lions fan. I think he's

the second highest paid punter in the league. I love the guy. He's one of my favorite players for a while. And I just want to get your thoughts. And also see if you keep in touch with these new guys. Thank you, Nate. Yeah, I got to meet Jack last year. I don't remember where it was.

Maybe the Pro Bowl. Preseason, maybe. Maybe, yeah, with the Colts. I'm a training kid. Yeah, I got a chance to chat with him. He has a monster leg. What he's able to do with the football, he's awesome. He had a great game, too, I think, the other day.

Yes, he did. Yeah, I was watching. I got to see him hit a ball a couple times because I saw a fair catch take place. And I often wonder, oh, who hit that ball? And then it was Jack Fox walking off the field. He's remarkable. He's awesome, and he's really good at fakes. He's converted a lot of fakes on fourth down as well.

Great athlete. Yes. Absolute stud. Tommy Townsend of the Kansas City Chiefs, he has a leg similar to old Jack Fox, able to absolutely murder the ball. The dude at the Raiders, Cole, I think his name, has a massive leg. There's like five guys I got up there all at the top who have booming legs. Like it's different when the ball flies.

Stonehouse. Yeah, those rookies. Big balls. Ryan Wright, the Vikings dude. Yeah, and there was a dude, Beringer, right? Yeah, Bryce Beringer for the Patriots now, yeah. He had like – first game jitters, I think, which happens with kickers and punters.

I think first game got to get it out of you a little bit, especially if you're new to the league. A lot of the rookie kickers and punters did better in week two than they did in week one, which is good. I think they're going to be able to just go on them. Beringer hit a couple monsters. Yeah. 70-yard balls, I think.

Huge balls. He's hit them straight down the field, though, which is not normal Patriots stuff. Not to the sidelines just i guess bill's like hey if you're gonna hit this ball 5070 yards let's go ahead and do that you know we got slater let's get you comfortable but yeah he was playing that fucker straight that monster ball yeah huge and then uh who was jordan stout was doing the uh big ball yeah big oh yeah the kickoff game that's what it was yeah i watched him hit a uh what was it a 92-yard kickoff on the internet? Yeah.

Some of these dudes, I don't know what the fuck they're doing. I don't know how they're hitting these balls as high and as far as they are, but good for them. Absolutely good. Who's the partner for the Bears? Trent Gill? Trent Gill, yeah. He hit a couple big balls, warm-ups.

I saw some balls. I'm like, oh, that's a big ball. Rigoberto being back. Love him. He hit some big balls. Yeah. Seems like it's in good hands. It's a golden era of punters, AJ.

Even though they're trying to get priced out of the league. Bullshit. Is there any punters right now that are just straight tacticians? They don't hit boomers, but they can just put it in a bucket? I think you have to be able to hit a boomer in the NFL now, but Thomas Morstead is a jugs machine. He just hits that thing.

Just like this right here. Aut thing. Just like this right here. Automatic? Just like this right here. Michael Dixon, he's so good. Forget about him because he's all the way out there. Tressway's been in the NFL forever. Has hit monster balls. Logan Cook is huge.

He's like six foot something massive guy. Mitch Wischnaski? Love the way he plays. Oh, yeah. Love the way he plays. Wasn't he like an Aussie rules football guy or something yeah all these aussie guys michael dixon he was a good aussie rules football player now michael dixon remembers what everybody was hoping for when the next australians came over it was like oh we

got the next michael dixon because of texas he fucking yeah crushed was the guy but you know kicking game is good right now mo Moody hit his first game winner. Yeah, he did. Yeah. Hit a close one first, too. That was, no, that was the game winner was. Real close. Yeah.

Real close. Carlson. The one in who cares. Carlson for the backers had a 54-yarder, and he looked much better than he did last week. Jake Elliott hit that 56-yarder. That guy's got big legs. Mauer actually kicked one this week.

Justin Tucker hit a 60 60 yarder last year. Meyer for... Well, they got rid of McManus and they brought him in. I think he missed three last week, but he made a long one this week. McManus down in Jacksonville. He had a good week, I think. And they cut a guy that was really good for them.

Yeah, Riley Patterson? Yes. He's with the Chargers. Got it. No, is he? No. Lions. I thought he was Lions the Chargers. Got it. No, is he? No. Lions. I thought he was Lions. Chargers have Cameron Dicker and Dustin Hopkins. I think in a competition. I think they're currently competing against each other, I think. Oh yeah, because they signed Hopkins from

Washington, right? And then they started kicking field. And people are saying, why are you talking about kickers? Because it matters. Okay, this is from the E-Cyclopedia. Obviously, shout out to Frank the Tank. 18.7% of NFL games have been decided by three points. Is that a big number? I don't know. You tell me.

28% of games have been decided by one to three points. Is that a big? You tell me. 56% of games decided by one to seven points. That's why they always say parity matters and extra points matter and these little short kicks matter. And if you've got a guy missing, it's probably going to show up at the end and fuck you over,

which sucks, which is why Justin Tucker is so damn impressive. Ridiculous. short kicks matter. And if you've got a guy missing, it's probably going to show up at the end and fuck you over. Which sucks. Which is why Justin Tucker is so damn impressive. Ridiculous. And why Boswell is so damn impressive. And McPherson is so damn impressive. And you go down the line, we've got a guy Matt Gay, we paid him here in Indianapolis. I hope he makes every kick.

That'd be sweet. If he does that, good luck to him. Going to need him. Let's get to a break. What are you saying? I'm just saying they're Going to need him. Let's get to a break. What are you saying? I'm just saying they're going to need every point that they get. Who? Every team, but especially the Colts. They should have had him just say something to the audience. Take the mic for a little bit in the street clothes.

Yeah. He was in pads. Would have been sweet. Oh, he was in pads? Okay. Easily could have just been. Still. Hey, can't wait to play in front of all of you. Thank you for coming out.

Go Colts. Yeah. Yeah. Or his own little cool tagline. Or like a TV timeout. Like, now watch me throw this ball. Yeah. And then he hits a crossbar.

Exactly. Yeah. Okay. I guess we could have. Yeah. Would have been sick. A lot of untapped potential. We could really dial in in the future.

I want to let you know, I sent the ideas over. And I was sitting there realizing that I'm not watching anything. No. Wait, when's Criss Angel coming to Lucas Oil? September 8th. Okay. It's a kickoff concert. That's still happening?

Okay, it's a concert. That thing's still happening? Yeah, are we sure? Lolita's death is not going to stop the kickoff concert with the Jim Irsay collection and Criss Angel breaking a world record. Did anyone else just think this? Never know. Is this a setup and Criss brings Lolita down?

Boom. Two for one. Yep. Reanimator. There we go. The Houdini of our generation. This is how Jim Irsay described it. This is the work.

We're getting work. It's like a bunch of marks. Based on what we heard Saturday night, I don't think this could be working. What if Lolita comes through the open roof? Retractable roof. Wow. Out of the 757. Chris catches her.

That's the world record. Power cleanser. I missed that fucking whale. That's not Lolita either in that Yeah. That's the world record. Yep. Power cleanser. Yeah. I missed that fucking whale. That's not Lolita either in that picture. That is. Lolita hasn't jumped down the water in 44 years. Thank you.

You pig. You pig. You pig. Thank you. Come on. That's disgusting. I'm just saying. And how do we know it wasn't suicide?

Bingo. No, it was a renal problem. Kidney disease. Thank you, AJ. You're disgusting. Thank you. So many hot dogs disease. Thank you, AJ. You're disgusting. Thank you. So many hot dogs. You get it, AJ.

We were told, if we see Jim, please lift his spirits. He is heartbroken. I said, what? The whale. Not the movie. And you're out here making jokes. I'm not making jokes. I would be heartbroken, too, if my whale committed suicide. No, you wouldn't. You son of a bitch. No, you wouldn't. You are're out here making jokes. I'm not making jokes. I would be heartbroken too if my whale committed suicide.

You son of a bitch. You are way out of line. Whale out of line. That whale saved Jim a lot of money. We know that. Oh yeah. Really cared about that. I am disgusted with the lack of respect for Tocantin.

The picture of Jim Irsay in that Tocantin picture. He's looking over. He's crushed. What a great graphic. Lolita will be with Harambe now and we'll all be fine. Way to go, Dirty. She's four feet off the water. We know that's not talkie tape.

Yes, it is. No, it's not. I am getting irrationally upset right now with the way you're talking about Takate. Stay on your ground, Hawker. Stay on your ground. Did we trade Takate for Goop? Is that what happened? No.

I traded Takate for a bag of balls. Takate swam so that Gumby could fly. That's right. Good play. Takate died. Jim has cried. Bars. Jim has cried. Bars. That's right.

I do wonder how that plane trip would have went for old Talkie Tay, though. I said that in the first hour, and it's real. If this took a ride, what would being at 45,000 feet have been like? Would have killed multiple humans. Probably crashed the plane into the ocean. I watched Hijack. If Takate was on there, none of that happened. No chance.

Idris will get that buttoned up real quick. Soaring like an angel. That's for Takate. Rest in peace, Takate. That one was never rest in peace. I hope the Colts play for Takate this year. They will. Helmet patch.

Or just play. Super Bowl or bust. For Tocantin. You think there will be a helmet sticker or a jersey patch for Tocantin? What if they get a team on me, Tocantin on three, one, two, three, Tocantin. Never forget. Let's take a break. Helmet sticker.

Helmet sticker would be amazing. He has to appeal to the league and Roger Goodell to get a helmet sticker for the whale. Brother Roger, if you met this whale, you would want him on the horseshoe. Him jumping through. Sorry, her. She don't give a fuck. She's dead.

I am disgusted. So she all of a sudden got liver failure and died right towards the end? We're about to freeze it? What island is this whale on? Show me some video. She swallowed all that red tape

and it killed her. Yeah. She's in captivity. They're feeding her fucking circus peanuts and dumping cans of Coke down her mouth. Good.

They can't have those. And now you guys are mocking this 757 that was going to fly her to the open waters. Is there chlorine in the ocean? I don't think so. Exactly.

Good point. Great point. I mean, if Jim really loved her, then he should change the name to the Indian't think so. Good point. Great point. I mean, if Jim really loved her, then he should change the name to the Indianapolis Whales. For talk it, Dave. Oh. That'd be so cool if he did. Yeah.

The Indy Whales. Nice. Yeah. I mean, talk it, Dave. Yeah. Needs a statue. Yeah, she is. Definitely needs a statue outside next to Peyton.

Oh, bonus ball, bonus ball. For talk it, Dave ball, bonus ball. For Talkatay! Yeah. Yeah, she's with us, so watch your mouth when you're speaking about Talkatay. Let's get to a break. Okay, Ian Rappaport's on the other side. Okay. Oh, he'd probably try to get the whale meat and smoke it.

He does like smoking meat. Yep. But I don't think there's any whale meat getting smoked by anybody, especially Taukates. She's going into rafters where she deserves to be. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. And maybe be the friend

that tells your friends when they're fucking up. What you guys are saying about Taukates, I don't know. A whale being is a fucking dork. That's a factual statement. That is true. Is it like a baseball bat? Well, a factual statement. That is true. Like a baseball bat? Some of them. Some of them not so much. They live a really tough life out there. They get bullied.

But those who have the big old dorks are swimming around those waters, jumping all over the place. Bingo. The human. That would be so scary. The whole body. That thing comes slithering out

Red rocket style Like you see with a dog Yep And you know that dork Is about to do some real damage That's right Talkatay was going to get to experience that For the first time in a long time

Oh she was craving dork Why is it funny? Craving dork Son of a bitch Jeez Good lord Yeah you guys really care about Lolita Craving dork. Son of a bitch. Jeez. Good lord. Yeah, you guys really care about Lolita, huh? She was looking for a dork.

You guys all broke up about it. Okay, Tony. Real broke up about it. Yeah. These guys standing on their high horses. God, Lolita. She wanted a dork. You're an asshole.

Football! It's happening. Hell yeah. Three seasons everywhere. There's more joint practices and storylines developing. You're an asshole. Football! It's happening. Hell yeah. Three seasons everywhere. There's more joint practices and storylines developing. We'll cover all of them. That's A.J. Hawk.

The Toxic Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the Hammer. Dad! Cowboys turn digs is here. The other half of the Hammer. Dad! Cowboys. Bubba Gumpino back in America. Hell yeah!

Hell yeah! Deported for 446 days. died. Cowboys, Bubba Gumpino back in America. Deported for 446 days. Given a 10-year ban. Walked his ass right into the Thunderdome this morning with no limit on the amount of time he's allowed to be. Three years. But other than that,

no limit. He is in America for good back in before football season. We love you, Gumpy. Love you, guys. Good to be home. I just read through the Internet, which I'm going to start doing a lot less of going forward. But I seen the reaction. Gumpy, the people are pumped as your back, pal. I hope you feel the love.

I hope you appreciate everything that's being said about you. Because for a long time, both governments were telling you to go fuck yourself. And there were some days where we thought you were never going to come back and today's the day where everybody's saying goop is home and we fucking love you for that gump and i appreciate the fact that everybody has remembered you and that you're all the way back back in our family had to do some politicking didn't we that was that was the end game. Yeah, I had to go, you know, yeah, you can wear your John Cena. Go ahead.

That's the politicking you did. Yeah. Yeah, you can say whatever you need to say. Go ahead. All right. He did. Now on the flip side. Bring him home.

We need a guy. Yeah. When does Gump's mandatory military service start? Okay, so I heard that is actually in 446 days. You get the exact amount of time that you're banned, that you can kind of delay the start of this whole thing. Gumpy's going to be an absolute dog out there. Yes.

Sniper. That's fair. Absolute dog. He's going to be in charge of vibes, obviously. I think he's going to be a sniper, and also he has the music control. Yeah, of course. Which might be always. We know when I'm on the aux, it's fire every time. It's just what they're control. Yeah, of course. Which might be always. We know when I'm on the aux, it's fire every time.

It's gone fire. What did we say? What did we say? There was some, his music popped. Oh yeah. There was potentially a new music person for a show or whatever that we kind of learned about. And we said literally anybody would be good

except for Gumpy. And this is Gumpy's first day back, and we just fucking have to bury him. I forgot that his music taste is horrendous. No way, man. But the good thing with like a military. It is so bad. There's no way. It is so bad.

He loves to introduce you to these up-and-comers that nobody's ever heard of. They are up. They are up, man. You know the hits that you really like to hear? I'm not going to play any of them. One fucking plane ride to L.A. That's a long time. That's a long time to be in charge of something.

It made an elastic impression on him. It did. AJ's like, wow, is this a fucking nine-hour flight? Why does this feel so long? Oh, cruel and unusual punishment music that I don't know, and it's terrible, pounding through my ears. Who's doing this? Oh, the guy that dressed like Fidel Castro.

That's his head, not us. No, no, no. But everything other than that, Gumpy is the best at, and we're thankful he's back. Joining us now, senior NFL insider for the NFL Network and NFL Plus. They were running a banner ad for NFL Plus that took up actually 65 of the screen have you seen this on the nfl networks display these preseason games they drop an nfl plus thing that takes up the entire screen

while football is happening i'm like all right here we go now we're ruining nfl network with nfl plus stuff i assume nfl plus is. I think people watching preseason games on there. Yeah, but it won't let you airplay it from your fucking phone or tablet to your TV, so you have to watch it on your phone or tablet. Why? So update the tech. Let's do it.

If we're going to be forcing it down our throats, let's do that. Ian Rappaport, though, the focal point of NFL Plus and a man that hosts the weekly wrap-up of Rap Sheet and Friends, us being the friends, he being Rap Sheet. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Roport. How you doing, Rap? What's going on?

How you guys doing? I don't know if you've seen, obviously you haven't because we haven't changed it yet, but we have a background for you that I've heard that you would know about, maybe other people would not. Oh boy. This is Nantantucket are you yeah yeah that's i mean that looks that's basically been my life for the last four days and that is every night around 7 30 or so that is reality it looks very nice okay so you're on vacation again this guy well i'm i'm literally working right now i worked yesterday now the location is different like so i'm not home but i've been grinding here oh i bet yeah yeah you look around like fruits of your labor but also gotta earn this okay i get it right like i was on a boat this morning and i took a phone

call on the boat oh really everybody else on that boat loved it i bet i bet they were very happy about that. Yeah. Yeah, they got a big kick out of it. Although it's Nantucket, so nobody cares. It's like Vegas. It's like a lot of people do, you know, a lot of people do important things around here. Not like me, but real things. And so nobody cares.

Yeah, I've heard about a beach up there that actually has quite a scene a few years back. I've heard Nantucket gets a little bit wild. I'm sure all the yups love it. Happy you're calling us from there. And thank you for working on this Monday, August 21st. Let's start diving into what you maybe got a phone call about on

that boat. Jonathan Taylor traveling with the Indianapolis Colts to the Philadelphia Eagles joint practice, allegedly via Shane Steichen's statement. Last week, he was out for personal reasons. Before that, it was rehab on his ankle. This is all during training camp. Very abnormal situation with a very loud negotiation happening around it all with Jim Mercer and his agent. Where do we stand? Him traveling with the team, this is good news.

And is that what you got to call about on the middle of the boat where you pissed all these rich people off? I don't get the sense that him, so him traveling is interesting and, you know, it does sound like Shane Steichen is telling the truth. It sounds like he's going to be there. He's still on PUP. I don't get the sense that his status is changing at all, and I don't get the sense his trade request is being rescinded or is any closer to playing with the team.

So him traveling is at least interesting, but it's not something that's indicative of like, all right, well, he's traveling, and I'll come off PUP and then I'll play for the Colts and we'll be good. Like, I guess theoretically, maybe in the future that could somehow happen, but it doesn't feel like they're close to that now. It feels more like physically he will be with the team, but everything is still where it was before, which is, firstly, thinking one thing, Jonathan Taylor having the trade request that still stands, essentially because the Colts have decided that he was not going to get a new contract this year, and everyone is still tense and at odds with each other, despite where he might personally be. Yeah, and he's getting $4 million this year to play running back for the Indianapolis Colts. We all

just kind of started brainstorming publicly about how this could get settled. You give him a couple more million dollars guaranteed and let him know, hey, this is the reality of the situation. We're not able to trade you right now because nobody's going to want to give you a long-term contract at this particular stage of the NFL calendar. We don't have a lot of money, but it's gotten really ugly

publicly, obviously. If he's back in the building, let's go take a road trip together you know maybe yeah maybe you know you're a mind of like hey we can be this is good this is fun it's good to be a part of a team yeah we like that you're a part of our team you know maybe after two weeks away from the team isn't that probably a step in the right direction yeah and i think for you know if you're everyone has a role in these negotiations right and so the gm is the business guy and he's going to handle whatever negotiations with anyone are going on. You have the owner, Jim Irsay, who has been uncommonly vocal as most owners are not. But he is clearly the one I would say kind of driving this and making the ultimate decisions.

And then you have the coach who's trying to coach the football team and bring and essentially recruit guys in to his culture. And I think eventually the Colts are going to have a really good culture because that is what Shane Steichen is going to expect and demand. And so that's kind of his role is to see if he can bring from a football sense, bring Jonathan Taylor in. Now, the other thing is, you know, you said no one's going to trade for him. I have some questions about that with all due respect, of course. Really? Because we're getting closer to the season. The leverage is if you're a good team and you really have questions there,

like do you want to pay for a running back? I don't know. Not everybody does. But maybe you're like I'm one player away, and this is the only way that I can get a great dynamic player. So I'm not saying anything's happening. I'm just saying we will see if anyone's willing to trade for him. And I would assume that Malky, the agent of Jonathan Taylor that has made this,

been a part of this whole thing, is how everybody views it because once he signed with Malky. Kawa. Kawa. Once he signed with him, that's when allegedly this thing all changed in the last few months. They're taking a firm line in the sand. They're saying this is how we're doing it. He would have to think that there's more money out there somewhere or a trade destination, right?

If he was the one saying we want to be traded, you would think? I mean, you would think, and this is sort of what agents do. Now, obviously, everyone's going to follow the rules and no one's going out there and, you know, doing something that's going to get anyone in trouble, I believe. But yeah, I mean, this is the agent's job is to see what else is out there in the best interest of his clients. And it seems pretty clear to me that if the Colts were willing to pay Jonathan Taylor what really, really good dynamic running backs make, that that's where he would be. But if they're not, it is the agent's job to go out and say, like, what else is there?

And that's why, you know, I think the trade request was interesting. It was delivered, I think, in a pretty professional way to Jim Irsay's face, kind of reiterated there and made clear, like, this is what's the best interest of Jonathan Taylor and his client. And that's, yeah, I mean, that's what the agent's job is. But you're right. I mean, it does seem like when he made an agent changed, it seems the plans kind of changed a little bit. I hope he gets paid all the money in the world.

I hope he plays good football. But as Shane's trying to build this culture, a culture, might I add, where everybody on the sideline, the sideline staff, coaches' choice, White Air Forces. They're wearing ice cream. That's what everybody on the sideline the sideline staff coach's choice white air forces they're wearing they're wearing ice cream really that's what everybody the equipment managers like all like all whites all whites freshest ice cream air forces that's cool yeah you're damn right a couple guys i know that work there walked over and they're all wearing like fresh white air forces i'm like is this the sideline

shoe of the year they're like yeah we all got to pick out a bunch of them whatever i'm like shane's the fucking man holy let's go ahead and do that that's a great choice i love that and then i used to love air forces you know i used to wear them in like 1997 1998 i went back to my childhood home to get my old ones my mom threw them threw them out. Oh, no, they're not available either. You go to Nantucket, you can't get a fresh pair of ice creams. Obviously you can't do that. And I know why you like them,

Ian. Same reason I do. Just like cowboy boots, you're two inches taller in these things. I like that Shane Steichen's like, hey, our sideline's going to fucking tower. Everybody else, and we're going to look fresh. But with that being said, his culture, everybody is loving it. You know? Yeah.

It's like how long do you – I hope he – if he's traveling with the team, that makes me feel good. For sure. That makes me feel good personally. And maybe they'll figure it out. We shall see. Go ahead, A.J. Hawk. Ian, what about another running back out in Vegas, Josh Jacobs?

Anything going to happen anytime soon? I know the head coach has been talking about it a little bit. Okay, so it's August 21st, right? And so I think we're a little more than two weeks for the season, right? So this is around the time that guys will sort of sometimes show up. It's basically around the time frame where guys need to get ready. So unless Josh Jacobs is going to miss games, which I've not got any indication that that's going to happen, you'd think at some point soon he would show up, right? I mean, it seemed like obviously the

negotiation to a long-term deal didn't work. He did not get a new contract, but it seemed like at least everything was transparent and honest. And so my sense was, this was not a situation where the player was like, I hate everyone. This team's terrible. They don't respect me. It was more like we disagree on value. And so therefore we weren't able to get a deal done. So I would imagine, you know, his window to show up is probably fairly close. And if that's the case, then it's an easy transition. RB1 comes in, sounds like he's in good shape, but come in, work with the team, take a couple weeks to get back.

I don't get the sense that this will be anything that will actually affect this team on the field for week one. Yeah, him and Jimmy, we assume, will just pick right up. No problems at all. Josh Jacobs, consummate professional whenever he's there. Everybody loves one. Yeah, him and Jimmy, we assume, will just pick right up. No problems at all. Josh Jacobs, consummate professional whenever he's there. Everybody loves him. Everybody enjoys him. And an awesome player. Led the NFL in rushing.

Talking about Jonathan Taylor being a dynamic player, he certainly is. He was not Josh Jacobs last year. No. He's not Saquon last year. He was the year before then, which is the big question mark about running backs. It's like, can you sustain being great at that position? I guess we'll see. These running

back conversations hopefully don't happen again next offseason, but there's a lot of big name free agents next year in the running back market. We're really going to see if the narrative that's being built right now is reality or just the current circumstance. That's right. I was actually thinking about that

because there's going to be probably, I mean, we'll see who kind of emerges this year, but like six or seven or more big name, really good running backs are going to be, now some will get tagged, but going to be free agents moving forward. And then it's like, you know, do none of them get paid or does everyone go,

you know what? These guys are valuable based on the current market because it's actually gone down, down, down. At some point it's going to go up. You know, free agency for the running back is going to be, I think the biggest story next March, probably. The punter market needs to go back up. You know what I mean?

You said down, down, down. It needs to balance out at some point. Diggs has a question for you, Rap. Yeah, Ian, the last quarterback competition down in Tampa Bay, Trask got the start this weekend. I thought he actually looked pretty good he played a lot um is there a decision coming out of there soon or what are you hearing uh so it it seems that you know the we got a preseason game this week um at some point they will name a starter for that third preseason game a lot of times it's like we're going to name this guy the starter,

and then if he does well, that's our guy. Usually the third preseason game is the closest we get to what's like an actual warm-up to the season, so that should be a good indication. I would say just kind of taking a look at it from afar, it does seem like Baker Mayfield's in really good position there. I think you sign him to that contract, sign just him in general, that's probably the way it's likely going to go anyway. But what you want to do is you want to play the whole thing out,

get the whole body of work, and then make a decision. But I think it certainly looks like, from the way it's shaken out now, that Baker Mayfield's in a pretty good position. I don't like what Baker's family allegedly did to him yeah i mean because this is uh you know like this could be a brand new very hungry baker right sure this could be a very which could be good for the buccaneers but also would like to let baker mayfield know that's bullshit that that happened to you if that happened to you you're never probably going to trust anybody ever again for the rest of your life and like that, that sucks, dude. Absolutely sucks.

If what allegedly he invested in some of his family's businesses. And then I think it's his, it was his dad's company, right? Wasn't that right? Yeah. 12 million. And then it just disappeared. And then now he has some questions about where it is. And on this call right here, I mean, obviously we've got people that have kin that have suffered

from this. I mean, obviously we've got people that have kin that have suffered from this. Like, I think that's why we always try to say, like, not everybody's family is out of the movies. You know, like not everybody's parents are like good parents and actually care about their kid. Now, the Mayfields are obviously going to have their response. This is all alleged. But there's a lot of other situations that we've experienced in professional sports as a whole and in the NFL where sometimes these guys are getting preyed upon because they have money as opposed to being celebrated alongside. And it's fucked up if this is what happened with the Baker.

But on the flip side, huh? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We are back trying to rip it up. You know what I mean? We got to go. We just lost a lot of, we just lost a significant amount of income for the rest of our lives. We need to get going.

Not that Baker won't do well on the internet and be able to make a living, but it's like that could be another, you know. Stack it up. Here we fucking go. Have we ever talked to Baker? I don't think so. No. I said what's up to him that one time in Miami.

At Super Bowl. That was it. That's it? Yeah. Weird, right? Feels like this – He's a good dude. We don't know him.

You would like him. No, not at all. I mean, you would like this. He's a good dude. We don't know him. You don't like him? No, not at all. I mean, you would like him because he's one of those guys that literally whatever you ask, he'll just tell you what's on his mind. So, like, it's not for everyone, but you like honesty more than a lot of people I know. So, it would probably keep you on your toes, but he's a good interviewer. Love it.

He was on his toes that one night. I've seen his highlights. He takes shots and just keeps coming. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? He takes shots, keeps coming in the nfl in college on the field off the field oh yeah every i love the way the guy plays love the way he operates fucked up what happened to him if that is what happened to him do you know anything more about that as an insider

is that just all we'll see how it plays um i don't know any real facts about it because and i think with these things it's so hard because everyone on both sides is so sure about what happened that Michael Warren, for instance, it's like better to be like, let's just let this play out. And getting in someone's personal business is not fun. I do not always want to be there. Just being completely honest. So I will let this one play out. How about Michael Warren, the two of these? Yeah.

You know what I think? I mean, I... The author's on his side. No. Yeah, no, he's... The author's on whose side? RL's side. I thought he was on Oren's side.

I thought he said Michael didn't get any money from it. Yeah, no, he basically said... But didn't he also say the family didn't get a lot of money from it, which... Yeah, my understanding of it, and this is just from following loosely because i met michael orr at the senior bowl and he was so intimidating looking we had great conversations massive in his face he has resting like i will fuck you up face it is one of the most he was on my field he was on field goal and it's like you don't deserve to be like i should you should not be on my field goal team so sorry that being said uh when you look at me i'm scared to death so i'm gonna tell you that

every time i see he's very kind very very nice to me i always understood the story and i don't think he told me this but i just kind of looked into it afterwards was they sold the story to somebody yep that person wrote a book and then that person got the residuals from the movie so it was like the author of the book who bought the originals from the movie so it was like the author of the book who bought the original rights was the one that kind of cashed in on the whole thing that's how i understood it and then obviously last week everything changes sounds like you don't know shit about fuck so we will know but that's also i would say that's the money you know the money rights are a thing but like there's also the like sort of cottage industry with all this so like leanne

too he has built a foundation that has raised a lot of money and i don't know i don't know enough to know if she gets a paycheck from that or not i just don't know that but that has been a massive massive multi-million dollar business based on from the book and the movie and so if anyone's profiting from that then i think that would be so it's not just the it's like the book the book and the movie. And so if anyone's profiting from that, then I think that would be – so it's not just the – it's like the book, the movie, and then everything else, like their whole life is that. And I was covering – so I was covering Mississippi State for the Jackson newspaper when Michael Orr was going to Ole Miss.

And so it was this crazy – before it was a book, it was this crazy message board story that this unbelievable football player was, they thought, taken in or adopted or who knows by this Memphis family. And everyone thought it was the craziest thing because it's like, well, obviously you did this so he could go to Ole Miss. And it's like, well, no, no, it's legit. And then the movie came out. Everyone's like, no, no, it's legit. no, no, it's legit. And then the movie came out and everyone's like, no, no, it's legit.

And now I think it's like, I don't know what to think because maybe all those message board people in like 19, you know, in 2004 were right. I don't know. It's crazy.

Yeah, there's a lot of conspiracies popping off about what's real, what's not real. I think while you're watching a movie, they even play into the fact that, oh, you just did this

so he'd go to Ole Miss or whatever. And it ended up going that way and working out. He goes to the NFL and it seems to be a great story. And now it's all fake.

That was terrible. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for what? Playing a fake person. Oh, that's what actresses do. I mean, she did a great job. That was a great role. Yeah, made everybody fall in love. Right.

So much. She was almost too good. She was almost too good at that. She was. Anyways, I appreciate the fact that you have a little bit more information. Hopefully it all figures itself out, and we hope bygones are bygones and they all make money off it. Yeah. You know, I appreciate the fact that you have a little bit more information. Hopefully it all figures itself out and we hope bygones are bygones and they all make money off it.

Yeah. You know, that's what we hope. Yeah. Who knows if it's going to happen? Probably not. Ty has a question for you. Yeah, probably not. Rapsheet, just curious.

I saw a report or a rumor this weekend that there's a chance that Bosa's holdout could actually extend into the regular season and he might miss a couple games. Are things souring there is there any validity to that or is that mostly speculative bullshit i would never say that so the bosses are the most concrete black and white business-minded people family maybe in

all of football right so like they're going to get their value that they believe they deserve no matter what. So while, like, look, I would be surprised at this point if that ended up happening, a lot of times the team and the player can come together on a deal and, you know, figure out something before the season. If literally anyone would be willing to do it, it would be, well, I'd say Nick Bosa in this case, but, or Joey Bosa. I mean, Bosa did it his rookie year, his last contract. Like I, you know,

obviously showed up to training camp before he got his extension, but the deal was done by that point. And like, if I would never say with a Bosa that it's impossible because these guys take their value extremely, extremely seriously. Now this case case what this seems to be about is is he going to be the highest paid non-quarterback or is he going to come in under aaron donald like that's the question aaron donald at 31.5 or 31.4 i think i think that's right good friend and so like is bosa going to come in under that or above that? That's really the question. Either way, he's going to be very rich, but his value he takes extremely seriously.

Yeah, and he's only getting better, it feels like, especially with the new diet that he started last year where he looks better, is more explosive somehow than he's ever been. He understands his value. His whole family does. If you do recall, you know, we looked up what the Paisans' history is with their family tree. Al Capone's bodyguard in chicago is their grandfather so i think they've understood worth for a long time and i appreciate that that is just how it is seriously eden didn't know that did i not know

that you don't know clearly oh my god shit about anything no one has mentioned this they've been in the league for like eight years no one has said something to me about it? We have said this. Yes. Hundreds of times. At least. Dido, what was his name? What did he go by? He went by Big Tuna and Joey Batters. Big Tuna and Joey Batters.

Sorry, great-grandfather. Great-grandfather. Sorry, Al Capone. A little bit longer. I didn't know how long these Italians live. They live forever. Yes, they do. Pasta. You know what I mean?

What's that? Pasta helps. Is that what you heard? Yeah. I saw it. It was a tweet. It was a report. His great-grandfather, Tony Accardo, was a Chicago mob boss for more than 40 years.

Thank you, Tony. Tony Accardo? Mm-hmm. Bro, the bosses don't fuck around, and they're so good at football. So good. So good. Unbelievable. They have been, too, right?

Just since forever. Yeah, and they know they're good, too. And I like that they set the standard, like, yeah, you're going to pay us. Yes. Sweet. What are you going to do? Not show up. We actually won't too.

This ain't all this public conjecture. We don't care. You think Big Tuna fucking did what he did for us to bow down to you guys? I don't think so. So you're going to pay me $32 million a year. That's what we're going to do. Okay. Or I'm not going to be there.

And the Niners are going to have to do it. Oh, yeah. He's a defensive player of the fucking year. He can give us 10% of the team too. Yeah, we're going to do. Or I'm not going to be there. And the Niners are going to have to do it. He's the defensive player of the fucking year. You can give us 10% of the team, too. Yeah, we're not even talking about that, really, at all. Let alone the great-grandfather, Al Capone bodyguard, them being very cutthroat business people. Just like, hey, this is how

this goes. He's the defensive player of the year. They're a very good fucking team. Brock Purdy's back. He looked phenomenal. I assume all vibes out of Niners camp right now are very high except for maybe our best football player that we have is just not here and it's not really being being chatted about much i guess it is you're right now first of all the vibes are really good like the fact that purdy went out there and i think looked like himself i mean really just looked regular which i don't know what we were expecting but like i was really curious looked totally fine Like that's really good. You know,

the holdouts are weird. Like Chris Jones, obviously holding out too. But you sort of just like, you know, it's like how many days in a row, there's no update. How many days are you going to say the same thing? So we all kind of forget about it. And then we get to like this point or maybe the next week or so. And it's like, like hey you know that one of the best players in the nfl is not actually there and the racking of fines now the difference is bosa's fines because he's on his rookie deal is on his fifth year option they can be forgiven chris jones's cannot so that actually is a little bit different like he's going to be fine we'll see if they work it into a new contract if he gets it but like bosa can get those can get erased chris jones cannot but yeah i mean two really awesome defensive players not with their teams right now god aj ian what about dak prescott and dallas

that things kind of calmed down a little bit from all the all the chatter we've been hearing about about dachshund interceptions and practice and them talking back and forth. Yeah. The, I was a little surprised that the trash talk thing has become such a thing. I mean, Dak does talk some trash and I think Trevon digs talks and it's like, Cowboys have a very active camp. They also have reporters who are very active as well. And like literally right there. I mean,

they cover the team as hard as anyone. So I think all that's gotten some publicity to to me that's all good like reporters right there what does that mean putting on pads like sean jefferson watch your coach for the panthers no pat like what i mean is like there are some camps where reporters are like over there like when i was at broncos camp it was like all, the field is here and all the reporters are over there. And so we were all like on a hill in a tent. It was very lovely. It was shaded. They had sodas and water for us, but like we couldn't hear what was being said on the field.

The Cowboys reporters are right there. Like they're literally like in the huddle. So you hear all the trash talk and I really like it because it's fun and like some of the stuff is really clever but you do get kind of like a really close view at what guys are saying on the field which you know not for everyone and not everyone's used to hearing that um so i think it's gotten some publicity i think dag is going to be fine i do think the interception thing was a storyline and i think has been a focus in camp. I think he's going to be fine, but like that drumbeat is going to continue until he goes out and is sort of as clean. You know what I mean? Weren't they killing Dak for saying that the interceptions were going to go down this year?

Yes. What he's talking about? What's he supposed to say? What is Dak? I would throw twice as many. Bro, you thought it was bad last year. Holy shit. Wait until you see me now.

I've been working on left-handed ones. Everything about the Cowboys, though, I guess, is Jerry Jones was on some show saying, well, of course I'm going to chase a ghost every single year. I'm not going to give up hope, he says, but it feels like this year we have a legitimate shot, even though it's been 28 years since they won a championship. Every year you get bought in.

This year with Mike McCarthy back calling the plays and Dak Prescott maybe using to run a lot more, hopefully they'll be able to do their thing because we're going to see them on national TV every fucking weekend regardless. The other team you talked about not letting you see anything, the Broncos, interesting situation brewing over there in Denver

because we're all eager to see how the Sean Payton-Russell-Wilson relationship goes. Connor has a question about that whole thing. Yeah, Rapshie, obviously the Broncos played Russell Wilson five years, 260 or whatever it is, so he's going to play, but Jarrett Stidham got first-team reps in that preseason game. I believe it was against the Cardinals, not positive, though. Is there some sort of leash on Russ?

Is he going to get a full season or could this be like a derrick carr situation where halfway through three quarters the way through it's just not working out and sean payton's going to go somewhere else nobody wants that like i know it was the reality for the raiders but nobody wanted that either that was a sort of a unique situation um but look i think it's really clear that this is a pivotal year for Russell Wilson. Like if he comes out and it's like last year, then it's not good. And, you know, do I think he's going to be pulled for Stidham? Like, I don't think that's on anyone's radar, but Russ needs to perform. And it's a, you know, it's a hard offense to pick up. It is

really complicated. It takes someone with a really, really high level of processing, but Sean Payton has been successful with basically every quarterback he's had. Like really, like, you know, and it's not, I know, I know some were Drew Brees, but they were not all Drew Brees, right? They weren't. So, you know, I would say it's a pivotal year for Russ. He really needs to, needs to figure this out, needs to come out strong, needs to have a really good year. He played a lot in the preseason. Like most teams, it seems now, don't play anyone.

Except for the Super Bowl champions. Except for the Super Bowl champions. Well, yes, except for the Super Bowl champions. But I actually don't know what the right answer is. I know we talked about this before, but there's various ways to do this, but Sean Payton has played everyone and I think it'll help, but it does underscore how much work needs to go into it for his team

to be functioning. Sean Payton, Andy Reid, Mike Tomlin, McDermott. What's Cincinnati doing? No. No. Burrow's been hurt. But also, Zach Taylor's from

The Rams Who didn't play anyone until this year When they're playing everyone Which is different Anything we miss? How about that fine on Kwon Alexander Just absolute bullshit Why is that happening?

Guy lost $40,000 for that hit. Ian, who do we got to talk to? How's this happen? Why is there not a preseason game fine schedule where guys are making 3,200 bucks a week? So he can appeal and then they can whittle it down to a certain percentage of his salary.

So that actually happens a lot. It, I'm not saying it's the media's fault, but it doesn't get publicized a lot when guys win these appeals. Could be anyone's fault. So that would be your fault? Your fault. NFL Plus's fault?

Yep, that is correct. Whoa. NFL Plus is a thriving, successful organization? Definitely not their fault. I don't know. I saw some people trying to watch some games on there, and it was just like, you know, when you're FaceTiming and you can't connect,

they got like that exclamation point. Oh, you mean my nightmare? nightmare no that's not the case no and it's plus it'd be great those banner ads i got a lot of screenshots i didn't do it but i heard a lot of people yeah i think it was a stealers game on there i think it's numerous people oh i watched it but i assume you know people sometimes blame his ass when they have terrible fucking internet oh yeah that was the amazon did you see did you see that the Steelers had to clarify? I saw Matt Canada's comments that Najee Harris is their starting running back. Did you see this? No.

So this is something we didn't talk about. What happened? I mean, I guess Jalen Warren's been really impressive, which is awesome. And I think he's a really good young running back. But basically, Matt, I think while we were starting good young running back but like um they basically Matt I think while we were starting today you guys called that up I think Matt Canada basically said Najee's our number one which like I would never think anybody would need to say but it is really interesting because if you're a Steelers fan like this is good news like running

backs like Najee Harris is extremely good but running back sometimes can get hurt um this is a really good deep team and I I do think, you know, I know you guys always pay very close attention to the Steelers. Like, I think this is going to be a pretty good Steelers year. I really do. Yeah. Everybody's saying they're a sneaky contender out there. Cause how Kenny Pickett's looking is nausea hurt right now.

No, no, no. He, he got a, he got a carrier too. It's just his Jalen Warren's yards per carry is much more. And you know, the Steeler, the Pittsburgh Steelers fans, me being one of them, always sometimes tends to like the backup more than the starter. Always. If they're not performing up to their highest. Well, Jerome Bettis, you know what I mean?

A bossy. Nausea is our one. There's no doubt about that. We're protecting him to get him to that point. We're planning on nausea being nausea when we start the regular season. Boom. You just watch a guy pull away from number one defense in the NFL. Okay?

We all saw it. He's awesome. Last year, there was glimpses of it, too. He's really good. He's a ball player. We understand this might be a Zeke-Tony Pollard situation, but with that being said, Najee's still number one. We love him here.

And Najee's a lot younger. Like, when it was a Zeke-Tony Pollard situation, Zeke was getting up in age not saying he's old but i'm just saying power to clue was the faster better running back like i think both these guys for the steel and be really good wow how is zeke up there in new england good because i remember connor's first reaction to it was it's not dalvin but it is something well i didn't say this either but everyone was like jesus christ is zeke on the james hardin houston diet whoa i thought that was uncalled for people said that yeah doesn't seem I didn't say this either, but everyone was like, Jesus Christ, is Zeke on the James Harden Houston diet?

Whoa. I thought that was uncalled for. People said that? Yep. Doesn't seem right. How's your Nantucket diet? You just boozing all day? What?

Oh. What do you mean? Of course. Why do we even ask? You're already boozing. I would say this. I was at a brewery before this. Went to Cisco Brewery, but just to have lunch.

That's your utopia, huh? You walk into a brewery, you're like, oh my. Explosion everywhere. They have a very good... That's a terrible visual. They have a good product.

I've had Whale's Tail. It's very good. But food trucks, a lot of good food trucks there. So it's a good... And they've had Whale's Tail. It's very good. But food trucks, a lot of good food trucks there. So it's a good. Too soon. And they had a magician for the kids. So the kids were all hanging out with the magician for 20 minutes.

40 minutes was great. Oh, magic man, huh? Can you bring back? Lolita? Yep. You got anything to say about Takate? No. You piece of shit.

I'm in rest in peace. Yeah, Christ. Who is this? Thank you. I feel like. Oh, my God. No You piece of shit I'm in rest in peace Yeah Christ Who is this? Thank you I feel like Oh my god Ladies and gentlemen Wow

The NFL insider For NFL Plus Ian Rappaport Yeah See ya Wow That was so disgusting Wow

Hang your head In shame Hang your head In shame He might get cancelled What a sack of shit Yeah Shepster's stock Is just going through The roof right now Holy shit Hang your head in shame. He might get canceled. What a sack of shit. Yeah.

Schefter's stock is just going through the roof right now. Holy shit. Unfollow. I mean, this is... People are saying it. After this, as soon as we get done, I'm going to look up what that is, and then I'm going to feel what that is. It's Lolita, you son of a bitch.

He's got pubic centipede right before that. What? If he's going to be looking stuff up. Don't look up that. He's aware of it. Two girls, one cup while you're at it. Don't do that either. Island boys.

Churchill fudge. 11.40. Island boys, carrot. Glass ass. Glass ass is a good one. He might as well just meat spin that. But like, hey, talk it to you. You need to know that.

This can't happen again. This type of thing here. Is that why? What is happening? Is this guy serious? Don't wait. He doesn't know. Where have you been?

Have another beer, Ravshi. What? Cisco, bro. What? Have another beer, Raph Shee. What? Cisco, bro. What? I'm reading about talkative. What? Jay Marseille said. What?

Heartbroken. What? He's going to fly this whale from Miami to Washington. What? Raph, you're an embarrassment. You need to know that. I'm an embarrassment for a lot of reasons. This is not the biggest reason.

You have no idea? I don't know. All right. I told you I'm going to figure it out. It's already been figured out. She's dead. Thanks, Rapp. You just ruined the ending?

It's not a movie. This is a real life story that never really got started. It was not. It was not suicide. It was not suicide. He's a Buddhist. Hold on. It was poisoning.

Are there conspiracy theories? No. There are no conspiracies. It's not. It was not suicide. It was not suicide. He's a Buddhist. Hold on. Poisoning. Are there conspiracies? No. There are no conspiracies. It's cloudy. Cause of death has been cloudy. It's cloudy? Yeah. Yeah.

Why are you laughing? Now you're making me laugh. Stop laughing, Pat. Don't laugh. The whale was dead. Pat's not laughing. Pat's not laughing. He's crying.

He's a dead whale. He looks like a laugh. I laugh at a funeral. Can't understand what I mean. I saw it. Okay. He's crying. He looks like a laugh. I laugh at a funeral. Okay. I saw it. Okay. Anyways, rap.

This is not a good way to go into the season for you. No, it is not bad. You cannot be so checked out of everything happening in the NFL that you don't know about literally and figuratively the largest story happening around the NFL, which is a killer whale that Jim Hersey fell in love with, who's a Buddhist, who he

wanted to free one time. So maybe that whale could go meet her mom again that she hadn't seen in 50 years because she's been in captivity in Miami. He was going to pay $25 million to turn a 740. What are you laughing about? What are you laughing about?

Couldn't pay Jonathan Taylor because of it. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Statue's already up. This is the first outline for it. This is disgusting. Let's get out of here. Thanks, Rap.

Thanks for everything, dude. Talk a day, thanks, and her family. Talk a day and her family. Thank you. Yeah. Rest in peace. That was heartfelt. No, that was heartfelt.

She didn't have a family. Yeah, I was just going to say. She talked about the family was waiting in the Puget Sound for her return. No, that was heartfelt. She didn't have a family. Yeah, I was just going to say. She talked about the family was waiting in the Puget Sound for her return. No, no, no. They ripped her away from her mother 65 years ago. Yeah, shot that way on the head, too. Two. What is that?

They didn't shoot a cockatay in the head. Yeah, we're still going with this. All right, thank you. They would have used the harpoon. Thank you, Rapport. Jesus. This is disgusting. It is. I'm so sick of this. You're part of the problem, ladies. Thank you, Rapport. Jesus. This is disgusting. It is.

I'm so sick of this. You're part of the problem, ladies and gentlemen. Ian Rapport. Jeez. That's what happens. What happened? He didn't know about talking to you? That's wild.

That's sleeping on the job. The only owner who tweets. How does he not know about what we do? Woody Johnson tweets. I thought he talks. Oh, yeah. He Instagrams. Wait, speaking of.

Oh, come on. What teams winning the Super Bowl or National Championship now because they see him in their building? Ohio State. Carl Magic. Yeah. Did you see that? Carl Magic made his way into the Buckeyes football team meeting room.

Yeah. Nope. I'm unaware of any of what's happening with all this. Carl Magic is a dog, dude. Carl Magic performed at a couple of our shows. Like back in the day. We've known Carl Magic a long time. He's not the great American escape hero, but he's good.

Huh? Is he an indie guy or something? No, he's from actually Myrtle Beach. Oh, I've been to Myrtle Beach. You've seen Carl Magic then? Yeah. He's seen you. If you've been there.

This guy's a talent. Yes. Unbelievable. This guy's a talent. He is. This guy's a real talent. Tricks are really good. Did you take the American Escape hero over Carl Magic? No. I'm taking Carl Magic 10 days out of 10. Over Michael Griffin?

Definitely over Michael. That's a lot. Are you sure? You know how I know this? The great American Escape hero that you got to speak of? Mike Griffin. He's from Ohio. You know who they called in to Ohio to talk to the Buckeyes?

Fucking Carl Magic. That's because they couldn't find Michael Griffin. Because he escaped. Yeah. Reality. So, ipso facto. What if the great American escape hero just went to the sixth dimension and never came back? I could see that happening.

Good, if he wanted to. Does he call himself Carl Magic or Carl Michael? Magic. Carl Magic. Carl Magic. I mean, you guys don't want to call him Carl Magic, I assume? No. Call him by his right name, like we do everyone. Carl Magic. Carl Michael. Carl Magic. I mean, you guys don't want to call him Carl Magic, I assume. Call him by his right name like we do everyone. Carl Magic.

Carl Magic's magic tricks. Carl. He's a dog, dude. That's all you need to know. CM Magic. Carl Michael Magic. I'll have to check him out. I like Magic.

You won't be able to see him. Now you see me. Boom. Now you don't. Carl Magic. See you later. He loves vodka too Oh yeah

I didn't know He had some vodka for him He's a booze hound We had a good time That night everybody was boozing This was the evening where It was awesome Joey Jaws chestnut

Frank 13 beers Yeah What? Nice And then chugged an entire Tealist bottle He got a Carl Magic's vodka stand

Carl Magic got after it a little bit Did a magic trick in the middle of the entire theater. I think he was standing on seats at one point. It was great nights. It was a great night. We should do that again. But also, I don't think I could survive another one of those evenings.

I think we're booking a live show soon. An announcement. It's a big one. It's too big of a venue. Okay. But they say you can just... Yeah. Just like Jacksonville Jaguars used to have.

Yep. Tarp off a couple. Cut it. Bingo. Protocote! Oh. So what do they do with the body for real? Throw it in a dumpster.

Oh, man. There's got a lot you can use on there They don't do much for it It goes into the Jim Irsay collection I know I thought that's what they do Melt it down into a brick How big is that whale? Very big

7,000 pounds How many feet long do they say? That's how big they get 100 feet long That's how big they get. 100 feet long? And she's at max capacity. Really? 100 feet? 100 feet.

100 feet long? That's a blue whale. That's the biggest whale out there. Takite. Ooh. Ooh. Nice shot. Where's Beal?

This one's for Takite. Beal. Oh! That's a tough shot. Come on! Takate might be alive. Thank you, Pat. She might be coming out.

The spirit of Takate is here. Gumpy is back. Yes. In actual human form. Yep. It's a great day. Tomorrow's going to be even better. 27 feet is the approximate length of an adult male killer whale.

And 7,000 pounds is certainly not that. It's actually 13,000 pounds. So Tuckatay lived a full life. Tuckatay's dead, though. Was Tuckatay only like three feet long because he lived in such a small little tank? She? No.

She was a Buddhist, and it was a big tank. Yeah. But she deserved to see the open wall. Why is she banging her head off the sides for the last 12 years? That was her boyfriend. Brother? Oh, her brother. It could have been husband, actually.

And he was banging his head because they were snipping off parts of his fins and selling them on the black market. Oh, gosh. That sounds terrible. They don't do that. Yeah, Bill told us. Bill said he was going to buy a j Tocate, but it was too much. All right, let's get out of here before you guys ruin us even more.

Tocate doesn't deserve this on this particular Monday. Gumpy's back. This is a good, positive day. Hell, yeah. Yes, it is. Gumpy, how's the Internet reacting to today's program? You know, everything that has been happening out there. How's the reaction on the Internet?

Great day on the Internet, my friend. Great day all around, to be honest. Yeah, well, except for the disrespect to talk to you. That is disgusting. Yeah, I agree. Not disrespectful, just, you know, pointing on another side of the coin. Rap sheet was the worst.

Yeah, by far. I mean, not even knowing who the fuck Lolita was. Well, he doesn't even look at it. He doesn't work anymore. That's a good call. How could he? So he doesn't just... So football season, he's just on. And then every other time,

it's just, yeah, we don't work. We go to Legos, camps, golf. We walk 36 holes in a day somehow as a parent and a person with a full-time job. Vegas, Croatia. How's that happen? September to draft. And then he's kind of done.

That's exactly it. He deserves it, though and then he's kind of done exactly it he deserves it though we appreciate him i don't think he broke any news to us but he did say some things that are of importance jonathan taylor's thing nowhere near nope no josh jacobs what day is it yeah this feels right bosa we'll see al capone really i didn't know that we taught him more real today than he taught us that's all we do that do. That's what the offseason is with Rap Report. But I appreciate the fact that he seems to appreciate all the information. And he'll go down and hunt some stuff down. He's going to learn about Tocantin and Lolita,

and he'll have some piece of information that none of us have had. He'll go looking at the Jonathan Taylor situation saying, hey, he's on the bus over to Philadelphia. That's good news, right? And then he's going to snoop around. Josh Jacobs as well. He'll come back with some information later in the week. Or he's just boozing on

Nantucket for the next four days. It's a safe bet. How about what you said about Togete? You led. Why? Because I said it was kind of bitch-made for not making it to the boat because that's what it should have done. About to be free after 50 plus years of

captivity and says, no, it's too late for me. Alright, let's get out of here huh talk today is very considerate talk today knew the dollars it would cost and then also oh my god if talk today made the flight think about it you got to go live in a a curtained off area of the ocean for a while like how much does that cost so you think talk today felt real guilt yes about what was being spent and set up? The fact that Jonathan Taylor, Takate probably heard the rumors that Jonathan Taylor might not be able to re-sign with the squad. So he's like, I'm going to take myself out and help the team. I don't even think it's TikTok-ate, like big in social media.

Takate took her own life because she knows there's a younger, more vibrant whale out there that needs rescued and said, take that one. Is Jim Hine Jim mine another? I hope so. He should. There's no way. He already had the money set aside. Brother.

We already had the plane aquarium. He could save the dolphins. Couldn't you go save dolphins from places? Aren't they? They stopped doing that stuff. A lot of places, I think. And the dolphins you can actually like talk to, right? And they'll just talk right back to you.

You can train them. Do you have a dorsal thing? Yeah. You're like actually talking to these things. Oh yeah. Shut down. Hey, we're getting fuck fuck out of here, okay? Don't hunt me.

Is that all right? Sounds good. Perfect. Those dolphins are genius. Very smart. Yes, very horny. That's why we use them. They are horny.

Hey, Jay. Keep it in your pants. They love slapping cheeks. Listen, we understand they're looking for dorks out there, but we don't need you guys just rubbing that in everybody's face. Could you imagine if they found a dork out in the open? That thing would tear them apart.

Oh. Oh. Yeah, kill him. How many people did Lolita attack with her dork? She's a she. Oh! Oh, yeah. You son of a bitch. You're on fire.

These hoops are getting bigger. I like what you guys are doing. This is talk of the day spirit. And Gumpy's back. Gumpy's back. All right, we'll be back tomorrow. Another big one.

Tomorrow's going to be a big one. We've got some big-time guests joining us at some point this week. I think Tabo. Ooh. Tim? I think it's a chance. Tabo joins us this week. Even after everyone claimed that he blew up that bathroom?

Does Timmy know about that? Well, there's even more news coming out. You know, teammates used to run around and just show them naked pictures. Like, hey, look at these boobs. Really? Yeah. At Florida. I didn't see that.

Was that in the new doc? Has that came out yet? I guess that's in episode four of the Untold that will be released. I watched the Balco one. Vince Conti. I watched the Jake Paul one. Won't watch the Manziel one. Okay.. I watched the Balco one. Vince Conti. I watched the Jake Paul one. Won't watch the Manziel one. Okay.

Because I'm a fan. Yep. And I'm just going to move about. Yeah. We're on to Florida. We're on to the Gators. Bingo. We're on to Urban Meyer, who I got a chance to get a sneak peek at episode one of this thing.

The way they describe Urban Meyer, this guy is just football. This guy is all football. Yep. That's what this guy is just football. This guy is all football. That's what this guy is. That's what they pretty much say. Actually gained respect. Oh, you did? Okay, you saw the first episode? Yeah.

Wait till you see what he did first year off-season workouts. Boy, he would be in jail if he did it now. Absolutely. Okay. Like the classic, I need to find out who wants to be here and who doesn't. he would be in jail if he didn't know. Absolutely. The classic I need to find out who wants to be here and who doesn't. Which we all

know what that means. Who is willing to just suffer through the suck and who is not? Because the people that are kind of on the fringe are going to quit. And the people that are all in, they'll keep going. Now, the workout that we have to have people do to really find this out has to be terrible.

Yeah. So what are we going to have them do? Wrestle to death, pretty much. Right. And they did that. Back in the day, I think that was a lot more common, obviously, than it is now. But like Urban Meyer, just he is football is pretty much how he is described. And as I'm watching him talk, I'm like, oh, this guy had no brains about anything

other than football. You know what I mean? Just like... Is he interviewed in real time throughout it, too? Yeah. All of them? A lot of the guys? Yep. Tabo's in there. It's going to be so good. It is very good. The first episode I watched, very, very good. It's four-parter.

Manziel, one part. Jake Paul, one part. Balco, one part. I think Thrasher's one part. Yeah, this has been the only multi-parter, I think. Yeah, four-parter. It's good. It's good. Teo, they did that two-parter.

Oh, yeah, you're right. The first part and the second part were a little different. Was that Untold? Yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it was. Pretty good series. Really good. Pretty good series.

Yeah, they hit a lot. The Marty Fisher one was awesome, too. Yeah, it was. I can't believe somebody yelled in his back. So fucked up. On the 18th tee box, right? Yeah. Who was that?

Those people I thought were having a good time. That's right. Can't wait to see them again down the road sometime. Yeah. What? I do believe a decision has been made about that golf tournament in my household by me. I do believe a decision has been made about that golf tournament in my household by me. I don't know if you're going to see me out in Tahoe for the next 10, 15 years.

Down the road. Down the road. 11 months out? Yep. 10 months out? Yep. I don't deserve it. I stink at golf.

It's a long time way out there. Way out there. The camaraderie is beautiful. Love that part of it. That'll be irreplaceable. But also, when I'm out there, I feel guilty because there's somebody out there that's actually worth a fuck at golf. Like Brandon Bean. He's like, I can't wait to, hopefully one day I'll get invited out to all these other people. I'm like.

Poyer. I do not. Poyer loves golf. It's not about golf. It's not about golf out there. You know that. It is. It is literally. Part of it. It's not about golf. It's not about golf out there. You know that. It is. It is literally.

Part of it. It's definitely part of it, but I'm saying everyone's not getting invited for their golf game. Yeah, but I got to either get better at golf, in better shape, or get the fuck off that mountain. You know what I mean? And that's where I'm at right now. But maybe I find a swing.

We got some time. Yeah, we got some time. Yeah, especially with what's cooking in the back. Whoa. Two par three holes in the back of the thunderdome put in you know because i thought the simulator was just going to get me right turns out that was not the case outdoors you mean outdoors you got some greens out there oh yeah buddy shout out to celebrity greens shout out to a man named ross greens that's his actual last name

i don't know how he fell into the greens business, but, boy, they crushed it out here. He had his trailer out front, right in front of the Thunderdome for a nice 72, 48 hours. Thought maybe this was his building. He did a great job out the back. We appreciate the hell out of him. Hell, yeah. Ty's neighbor.

Yes, he is. That's awesome. Oh, so those synthetic greens they put in? Yeah. Those are amazing. They can build some crazy stuff. I guess they put sand underneath it so it reacts like an actual green. We can hold from 250 in.

That's pretty good. 250 in. And we got a bunch of sand out there in case we need to retreat those greens, you know, maybe slow them down, speed them up. Oh, my God. Making putts out there? Oh, yeah. Good luck.

Game changer. It's awesome. Happy Gumpies here. Let's go. Gumpy, if it wasn't for you, none of this happens. No chance. You know what I mean? Nope. 446 days deported. That's here. Let's go. Gumpy, if it wasn't for you, none of this happens. No chance. You know what I mean? Nope.

446 days deported. That's awesome. Over and done with. Spaceships don't come equipped with rearview mirrors. Bingo. They dip. That's right. We ain't going back.

Never. Never. Well, except for, I mean, Toronto's a pretty cool place. We'll probably want to travel up there at least once. I don't know. Montreal. Montreal. Montreal. Montreal.

What about Christmas in Los Santos? No, he shouldn't cross that border because he doesn't know if he's getting back. Apparently, Whistler is also. Is that real? Does he have to worry? Does GoPet have to worry if he goes back for real? As long as I got those two pieces of paper, I'm free to go and do whatever I like. Yeah, he's like real human, which is cool. And if the threat comes up.

Real American human. Yeah. You know what I mean? Well, are you in the process of trying to become a citizen? Is that how it works? I think I can get a green card after this. Whoa. 10,000 hours felt like 10,000 days.

That's right. For our guy Gumpy as he was deported out of the U.S. of A. 10,704, Is that what that said? Yes, it was. That's how many hours. 642,240 minutes kicked out of our country. 3.85 million bazillion trillion seconds breathing Canadian air.

Not allowed to inhale any America. That man sat in Victoria, Canada, in 32 different homes for 10,704 hours. He's finally back. Hell yeah, boys. Good to be home. Good to be home, my friends. That 10,000 hours thing is Macklemore, I think. 10,000 hours.

10,000 hours 000 864 minutes till nfl oh yeah that was good bar the ai one didn't no go as much as i thought it really no no no it did not what's that all about people are over ai darts on the board yeah the uh the superconductors has really taken over. When's that happening? That is currently happening. What's going on? We're recharging my Hummer quickly? Yeah, they're just trying to implement it into all the stuff that they can actually get out there for.

How about Russia couldn't make it to the moon? Losers! Oh! Idiot! Look at that! 1969! Fool! You got a war to worry about? The microwave was debuted in 1967.

Internet much later 1969 we made it all the way to the fucking moon no questions asked none here in 2023 putin couldn't get an unmanned object to land on the moon without crashing right into it damn shit ty this this type of stuff's really gonna get you jacked up on a weekend. It does. We always know it. I mean, it's about the man inside the box, or the men inside the box. And these Russian astronauts, if you want to call them that, didn't have what a fucking Cosmonauts.

Cosmonauts, sure. Yeah, you know, they just, they weren't Buzz. They weren't Neil. They weren't Michael. Okay? If you could grab any of those three guys, shit, we could dig up Neil Armstrong's corpse and put him inside one of Elon Musk's missiles right now, and I guarantee he'd fucking go spend the next three months on the moon. Really? Parking it? Dead body?

Yeah, you're right. Wow, that's crazy. Still just got enough intrinsic juice in him. He knows exactly. He can close his eyes. He can fucking tell you exactly how to get back to the moon the only one right yeah the only couple no i mean then you obviously need uh buzz to land lunar module and all that kind of stuff but yeah if you're talking about the technology though 1969 1969 where we were able to make these don't make them like they used to that's the problem what's no what's with the technology what you make them people what are you well just you know spaceships uh rocket ships the the components the parts uh and again you know

it's it's less about the actual the slingshot slingshot method you know the uh the telemetry it's less about that kind of stuff than it is about the the man commanding the mission and i think that's what we learned this weekend. Boom. Astronaut. Explorer. Rocket scientist. American hero. Couldn't say it better myself.

Buzz Aldrin. I believe that's Neil Armstrong. Oh, it's just him. No, it is. That is Buzz. Well, put fucking Neil up there, because Buzz gets all the fanfare. But, you know, that was Neil's mission. How did we do it? I guess never really know.

We've been back since. No. We went there once and said, fuck it, we got everything we needed. These guys are hitting golf balls up there. Paying all this taxpayer dollars for these guys to go up there and act like it's a fucking weekend at Bernie's away from their wives playing golf. What did the Red Hot Chili Peppers say? They said, you know, Hollywood. Like a lot of people, you know hollywood like a lot of

people you know what i mean yeah but those guys were all hopped up on heroin and shit like that when they wrote that so i don't know if i buy you know red hot chili yeah what and it's a great song don't get me wrong they're not the only people that say that though a lot of people know a lot of people said yeah fucking kubrick directed this on a you know a studio lot in century city that's what people said yeah a lot of people say that. That's horse shit, okay? Kubrick never shot anything over here. He's always in London. You think we're going to fucking send our guys over to England to fucking act like we went to

the moon? I don't think so. Not a chance. Look at that. Not even a question. No, none. That's fake, Ty. You know it's fake. This one is obviously doctored. That's not the real picture. I mean, that's, you know.

That's for a golf podcast. Exactly. That's a joke. Somebody got a hold of that. That's a show. Solely Solomon and the No Laying Up podcast using that. Frankie and Foreplay. Exactly.

Yeah. They're saying, like, golf is universal. Right. Fucking DB and the Junkies, you know. Yes. Bingo. All those guys. Definitely made it to the moon in 1969, though.

Without question, without a doubt. If you don't believe me, go watch First Man. You're right. Yep. Can't argue it. AJ, what do you think? Have we really not sent any other humans to step on the moon? No, there was nothing up there.

There was two? No. Nobody. Really? Anybody's made it? I mean, it is intriguing. The more you question it, there's a lot of different crazy things out there. The more who questions?

You're questioning it? You. You. The way you are questioning it. No, I'm just letting Ty do his thing. No, I think we went. I'm with Ty. I think we were there.

I think we were. Yeah, and if you want to act like we didn't go to the moon, you fucking remember what's in Buzz's right hand. Yep. Lightning. Exactly. Yeah, he did punch this guy right in the suckle he did socked him real good hard the only i'm just asking the questions as a host of a program because i know one of my guys here is literally maybe the most impassioned fan that's right of us definitely going to the moon in 1969 before you know really anything else was operable that we currently use on Earth right now. That's what's so crazy.

I mean, we basically fucking went to the moon inside of a tin can with a couple, you know, wires attached to, you know, a couple buttons that, you know, who knows what those things were doing. But we did it because the men inside there, you know, they just had the will. They said, hey, are we just going to fucking turn around right now? No, we're going to the moon. Buzz, shit, the lunar module, that thing damn near didn't even work. He said, you know what, fuck it, I'll just freehand this thing. We'll get down here. Don't worry about it.

Really? Like Maverick, like whenever they had to free aim the thing? Exactly. And what does Maverick always say? It's about the man inside the box. So you're telling me that the technology for the lunar thing didn't work? Yeah, well, I mean, it worked, but there was some sort of hiccup. So it couldn't even operate the one thing that is within it.

He just eyeballed it all the way down? He did. But the rocket was able to work all the way to the moon, but the thing that was inside of it was not able to operate. It's called telemetry, AJ. We're in a sleep mode. Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in 50 years and the reasons are depressing.

The last time a person visited the moon was in 1972. Okay, so it hasn't been back. Okay, there we go. During NASA's Apollo 17. Astronauts say the reasons humans haven't returned are budgetary and political, not scientific or technical. Thank you. End of discussion.

I agree. There we go. I believe it. Oh, and there's theories, too. I might have found something on the moon. Yeah, I got scared and told not to come back. Bingo. Dark side.

And if there was someone going back up, let's say it was a commie country, who says they don't shoot them down before they even get there? Oh, you're saying maybe that's the aliens going. You're crashing. No, actually. No. You got shot. Yeah, you're saying maybe that's the aliens. You're crashing. No, actually, you got shot. Yeah, we're making you crash. Dead. Sorry. This is our moon. Two more commies. So they had a manned craft go down?

No. Unmanned. Oh, okay. Yeah, just a tin can sent up. That happens all the time. Not in the moon. Let's get out of here. That was a good way to end this. We definitely went to the moon in 1969 All in favor of that belief say aye Aye

Foxy Foxy's the only one You asked a lot of good questions there Foxy's a fool That was a lot of good questions And he might as well be a goddamn chai comm If you won't stand up and say yeah our boys did go to the moon We won the fucking space

race, Foxy. Sorry, okay? Pleasure, allegiance to the CCP, you fucking Russians. You got such an issue with this. That's my guy right there. That is my guy right there. What does Gallagher say? That's what I need to know. I know what Gallagher says about

if we've been to the moon or not. He's a space guy. What do you fucking think? Yeah, we the moon or not. He's a space guy. What do you fucking think? Yeah, we went to the moon. The war hero. I'm happy we got to this point of the show. This is really good. Excited for this on ESPN. Yeah.

Me too. That'll be fun. People are going to be so mad. Think about the other astronaut community. You guys only got 400 things wrong. We're like, well, we have a corrections guy. That's on him. Go ahead, Bruce.

Directing to Bruce. It's actually not telemetry, actually. Oh, that would be amazing. At least y'all want to work. All right, let's get out of here. We've ruined enough lives today. Thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. The bucket's getting big.

We're doing very large giveaways. Like, for the first week and a half we're on espn starting september 7th remember that has been announced which is 17 days away which is also the same day as nfl football coming back we cannot wait we are thankful and excited and i appreciate all the terrible things people are saying about me on the internet yet again as we announce the date that we're going live on espn i think you know you should have a little bit of faith that the program is going to remain the program, but I do appreciate your passion for this particular

program being one that you enjoy and love because we are a group of idiots that have chit-chatted about sports in a way that is literally to make us laugh. And we're thankful that you have joined us. There's a lot of people

that have told me they won't watch our show anymore because us saying fuck was why they watched. I want to let you know, I do appreciate your fanhood. I don't think you're really a fan of the show, more so of a word. But other than that, there's really going to be zero change to the program. And I guess nobody really has any faith

in that being the case because how different things have obviously been throughout the history. But I don't think in the history of this type of shit has the actual person that's on the microphone been the one doing the negotiating. So, like, obviously there's been other deals that have happened between, you know, shows that operate in the fashion that we do or businesses that operate in the fashion we do with large corporations. that we do or businesses that operate in the fashion we do with large corporations. I believe it involves a lot of suits and agents and negotiations behind the scenes, things being agreed to that the talent

or somebody that has to be on a microphone has to learn about later and kind of know this is a little bit different situation, I think. I hope you give us a little bit of faith and we cannot fucking wait to start. It is going to be electrifying. Thursday live. Thursday night, NFLifying. Thursday live. Thursday night,

NFL football. Friday live, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Here we go. Cannot wait. Friday night, Jim Irsay, obviously Chris Angel, and potentially Saturday morning game day somewhere. Saturday night, Alabama,

Texas primetime. We're going to be live on the field. Then Monday, obviously, overreaction Monday to the first lineup of Sunday games. And then Jets and Bills on Monday Night Football. Cool. 17 days away. Yeah. Let's go.

You know what I mean? We are in a great spot. It is here. It's time. But still. A little bit. A little bit. These two weeks are going to fly.

Be here before you know it. Yeah. Bingo. A little bit. These two weeks are going to fly. Be here before you know it. Yeah. Bingo. Yeah. Definitely. And that's our thoughts while we're watching all these preseason games, too. Like, this is good football. This is fun.

Yes. We're watching football. Yes. I went over to America's Got Talent last night, whenever there was a game on. Nice. Got to take it anymore. Yeah.

There's a drummer from Atlanta. I might as well watch that. Got a golden buzzer Straight to the top Good for them Was he playing like his normal drum? Bongo With a hole It was really good

Love that show We won't be doing that 17 days We're watching games Because we know the people And there's real things on the line Hell yeah. Alright, we'll see you tomorrow. Big show. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life.

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