The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 966 - College Football Week 1 Recap, Deion Sanders, TJ Lang, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: September 4, 2023

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap week 1 of the college football season and all the best games, biggest upsets, and what we should keep an eye out for the rest of the season. They also discuss Chris Jones' continued hold out, the start of the NFL season starting this week, and much more. Joining the progrum fresh off a massive 45-42 victory over TCU, 2x Super Bowl Champion, Hall of Famer, 8x All-Pro, 8x Pro Bowler, member of the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team, and Head Coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, Deion Sanders joins the show to chat about the big win, Shedeur Sanders having a career day, Travis Hunter and his two-way excellence, the expectations moving forward, and much more (17:16-38:54). Later, Super Bowl Champion, 2x Pro Bowler, 10 year NFL veteran on the offensive line, and now Detroit Lions sideline reporter, TJ Lang joins the show to chat about Eastern Michigan's OL Brian Dooley giving up his scholarship for one of his teammates and what TJ is trying to do to make things right, the expectations for the Lions this year and why he's very optimistic about their chances, the offensive line being a strength, why Jared Goff might be the guy for the next 10 years, and more (1:11:18-1:47:01). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this Labor Day Monday, September 4th, 2023, this sports program starts right now. Football is happening in college already. We had an electrifying weekend of college ball that had big-time upsets, massive comebacks, big-time plays, and a storyline developing out of Colorado that might be the next documentary piece for the next 50 years about turning around a program. We'll have Deion Sanders joining us today in about 17 minutes or so. Now, obviously on Saturday had the incredible fortune of being back with the game day crew in front of a crowd. We're live in the Queen City of Charlotte where the South Carolina Calks

were taking on North Carolina Tar Heels. This was Duke's Mayo Classic. They love mayonnaise down there, I guess. But it's who's the better Carolina we're hearing. And it was fantastic to get to feel that energy again. 175 degrees. Hot. I decided to wear all black.

Smart decision. It was very, very thick down there as I was sweating, but the people showed up. We got to make some picks. I was the only one that picked Colorado. Oh, no big deal. Super dog. No big deal. Yeah, it is my super dog as well with the new rules that are being enforced this year.

I have a pretty commanding lead. Yeah. Now, last year, I came in dead last. Okay, I missed the first couple weeks of the show, but also I did not do well in this particular portion of the show. So now we got super dog. I'm in the lead. Big time. Colorado, I called. Yep. got Superdog. I'm in the lead. Big time.

Colorado, I called. All these people said I didn't know ball. I feel fucking great. You should. And there will be a lot of these times where this will not happen. What is happening here. And also, I called Toledo over Illinois, and it got really close. They did not win.

And then West Virginia had to. That is a whole other discussion. Sure. Penn State's unbelievable. Penn State's a great football team. Penn State's a great football team. I mean, six seconds left going for the cover. I mean, come on, Coach Franklin.

Don't have to hit me in the back of the balls that hard, pal. But there's going to be times where I get everything wrong, so we have to celebrate. And I think the reason why Deion's joining us maybe in like 16 minutes is because I did pick him. So shout out to the program. This is going to be good. And shout out to the Colorado Buffaloes.

That was incredible. There's a lot of storylines already coming out of college football. You know, Heisman talk and who's the guy, who's not the guy, what teams are let down, what coach is going to get run out. That's already started. But speaking of starting, hey, we're just a few days away. Oh, boy. Made it.

Huge. Here we go. We're a few days away here. Thursday, the NFL kicks off as the Detroit Football Lions. What? The brand new Lions. Travel out to the Kansas City Chiefs to see if the Kansas City Chiefs will be able to add an undefeated season to their entire record run of this dynasty of the current that we are watching unfold right in front of our faces with more access, I think, than we ever had with the New England Patriots

because we literally got to go through the entire season last year with Patrick Mahomes. With doing that, I think I've fallen in love with him more. When you see him play football, you think, this guy is filthy. This guy is stupid. He's balancing on one arm while scoring a touchdown. He's talking shit.

He's fighting people. But then you learn about him behind the scenes. It's like, this dude's a dog. This dude's slamming Coors Lights for real. This dude's talking shit with his boys. This guy's dad was a shit-talking pitcher for a long time. This dude's the real fucking deal here.

And likes ketchup. I always bring that up, not just because I'm from Pittsburgh, shot to Heinz, but because if you like ketchup, probably a regular human. Not a lot of super-duper successful people are like, you know what, give me that sugar shit with tomatoes. That's what I want to eat in the football world.

He's like, I love it. Let's do it. So I think we got a guy. And then you think about Jared Goff. Jared Goff has been reborn in the waters of Detroit. He got traded away after a Cabo vacation between old Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford, who just so happened to be in the same hot tub at the same time.

Right. With Glazer. Whenever Stafford finally, after how many years in Detroit? 11 or 12. 11 or 12 years in Detroit, finally says, you know what? I need to win a Super Bowl. That's how I'm going to be judged. For the first time in my entire football existence, I'm going to go ahead and take a stand and say, I want to

be traded. I don't want to be here anymore. Let's not make it too loud, though. Let's make this thing happen. Then he ends up in a hot tub with Sean McVay. And all of a sudden, we're making deals. Sean McVay's calling Les Swartz's face and saying, move everything. Who cares? Well, we'd probably have to give him a quarterback. Who cares? Get Jerry Goff the fuck out of here.

Well, he's got that golf course we watch on Hard Knocks. Loves L.A. Has been in a Super Bowl as a quarterback for you. Yeah, have you seen him lately? I put the guy with the broken neck in. Yeah. Over him. So let's go ahead and move on from him. Let's get Matthew Stafford there.

So then the guy goes from Los Angeles to Detroit. Basically, publicly, it kind of gets exposed that Coach did not want to work with this guy anymore. Then in a game, he was benched behind people. It was like all signs were this guy's life stinks this guy's life brings quarterback and then he gets to detroit he's getting paid so much money a ton everybody's like the contract is something that's terrible we even had to bring it up because it was like 30 million dollars got a first round pick for that reason yeah because of taking on the contract yep the reason why we're giving you a one is because you're taking on a contract we appreciate that and this motherfucker with ben john Johnson has just become a whole weapon up in Detroit.

And I think the Lions team, not only do they love him, they have a whole new identity. It's the perfect game to start this upcoming season. And that's just a few days away. We're going on ESPN starting in just a few days. We're going to be live in Tuscaloosa on Friday. Then we've got game day. Then we've got our mega cast on Saturday night. Then our first NFL Sunday.

Then overreaction Monday. Boy, we did it. This is the time that we've been waiting for. The talk table is here. I've lost Connor in that time. She made one half of the hammer. Cowboys, Tony Diggs is here as well. And Connor, I'll just roll right back to you there with that sports dude shirt.

We are sports stooges. We enjoy watching all sports, all competition. We think sports bring out the best in everybody. Okay's like you had to work commit you had to have so much discipline to get to this point and you're going to showcase what you've worked on against somebody else any sport is that and you like watching competition but boy when football is rolling like it was this past weekend i assume it's going to start just on thursday for the nfl there's nothing better we are in the greatest time of the calendar that there ever is, was, and will be. And we need to embrace that every single moment here.

Yeah, it is the greatest time of the year by far. Obviously, the college state was awesome, but I feel like we all kind of owe golf and tennis and all those other sports that have gotten us to this point. Just a little thank you. Basketball. Yeah, basketball, sure, in the summer. Vegas Golden Knights. H a little thank you. Basketball. Yeah, basketball, sure. In the summer, Vegas Golden Knights.

Hockey. It was a hell of a run, but boy, I cannot wait to not act like I care about those sports because football's here. I am so jacked up. Even when you wake up, you kind of mentioned it before, when you wake up and football's in the air. It's like a birthday. It's different. It's the most wonderful

time of the year. I know that song's about Christmas, but it's not true. It's Christmas, by the way. Also. In football. Yeah, great. Christmas Eve this year is a Sunday. If so, facts. Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving also. Great time. In football. Football, yeah. Halloween, that's a fun one, right, Coco? Sure. Also in football. Football season.

So it's just like, we're not saying football was the, you know, and Jesus was born December 25th. God didn't do that, you know, knowing that football season was going to also be surrounding, you know. We're just saying maybe, though. Maybe. Jesus could huck a fucking. Had a vision, right? I'd imagine that son of a bitch would have been great. And no offense to Mary, the mom.

Yeah, Mary. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you got it. Liar. I didn't mean that. Boom. But anyways, all these things are in football season. Football season is just so great.

And I can't thank everybody that has watched along for the past five months. Yeah. Because, boy, this show really goes to some interesting conversations. It's been bad. Bad. Bad, bad. Bad. Bad, bad. Bad. Some of our worst stuff, really. For sure.

You know, wake up in the morning, what are we talking about? We'll get in there, we'll figure it out live on air, and then we start diving into stuff that's happened. We can only observe and report. That's literally all we can do. We are only as good as whatever's going on around us. Now, with that being said, when football's going on around us,

goddamn life is a lot better. And I'll tell you what might be a lot better for you, Ty. Iowa football might be better. Look out. 24 points scored, and he had 25 for that Ferens activation into his contract, so I'm sure he is in a good spot state of mind. But maybe the Iowa Hawkeyes aren't terrible, huh? Yeah, we'll see.

I mean, the graphic was going around, you know, the first opening drive touchdown pass since 1991 for an Iowa team, so. Wow. I mean, that's all it took. You know, you just got to go in the transfer portal and grab a kid from Michigan who, you know, kind of was kicked out of Michigan almost. Hey, you're not good enough to play here anymore. Went to a

college football playoff. Yeah, absolutely. But. Not good enough. We got a young gun. You're not good enough to play here, okay? So, yeah, it was great. I mean, they scored on their first two possessions, so I was, like, really juiced up early in that game. And then, you know, in classic Brian Ferentz fashion. What happened? Well, they kind of just stopped playing, you know,

just pounding the rock. I mean, they don't want to show too much. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, you're right. Hey, let's take it easy. We need to score 25 over the course of the entire season. Let's not score too much early here. Exactly.

Let's go ahead and keep some of these plays in the back pocket. But if he was smart, because it is an average. Going out against Utah State, who kind of stinks, you put up 59 early, and then you kind of get a little bit of leeway when we got the good defenses in the Big Ten later in the year. But that's neither here nor there. Going into this year, I really was, hey, listen, there are no excuses. Iowa should win the Big Ten West this year,

or at least be in contention coming down. After week i'm still feeling great yeah so let's just go ahead and throw it out there because it's a matter of fact we have no idea who's good and who's not right because some team that got a win might be great but we might look back seven weeks from now and be like oh that team that they beat that we thought was good not a good team at all actually who cares but with that being said some of these teams that got beat this weekend are going to go on to be great yeah and it's like we should look back on some of these wins as much bigger than people could imagine that's college football baby yeah that's college football i love that we're in a time though now where these bullshit conversations that we've had to cover for the last few months

actually matter for instance chris jones of the kansas city chief still not in the building or in the facility has been holding out for looking for a brand new contract. It has been reported now that it's like $84 million over three years is what Chris Jones is looking for. But he is still holding out. Andy Reid chit-chatted about it, and you could have heard a head coach say this exact thing probably every single time anybody has ever held out of a training camp and then into a season.

Here's Andy Reid talking about his defensive player of the year finalist, Chris Jones, and his contract situation. I can't tell you. I mean, I don't know. I don't know what his agenda is or when he's coming or not coming, but we're rolling right now. I haven't put much thought into that part, Adam. Okay, so listen, and then Patrick Mahomes comes out

and he starts speaking about it, and you can clearly tell that Patrick Mahomes got the messaging from Andy Reid. It is just like, hey, we are worried about who's here. We cannot worry about who's not here. We are moving forward. Then you heard Travis Kelsey in the New Heights podcast go, Chris, will you come back? You're kind of scaring me right now. I thought we had plans to just go

and get more Super Bowls. And I think what you heard there through Travis Kelsey was whenever TJ Hawkinson signed his deal, and then Travis Kelsey moved down the list of highest paid tight ends, when everybody knows he's the best in the game right now, especially with Patrick Mahomes, and he's a wide receiver, he's not a tight end, and he's not even getting paid his top tight end,

let alone where he should be in the wide receiver ranks so he basically came out and said hey well we're trying to get super bowls this is kind of the goal here you heard what travis was thinking you know what patrick's thinking he always says i want a good team i don't want to do that then you hear this chris jones situation take place and you're andy reed it sounds like everybody's just like hey bud i thought we just thought we just were going to go be a dynasty here. Come on. And I appreciate that Chris Jones said, nope, I would like my money. I would like a little bit of attention. And he's willing to hold

out into it. But he's millions of dollars into this thing. I think they said if he was to hold out until like week eight, which he said he was, it'd be like a 13 or 14 million dollar hit or something like that. But his new contract he wants is 84 million. So if you could put that in comparison, I think you would be willing to lose 14 million if you're going to gain 70 million if that's how you're thinking about it but i don't know if they've been in

contact or how close they are but there's a chance this doesn't get done and who knows if he's on the move out of kansas city and who would want him probably everybody yeah and because of the tyreek deal it feels like they definitely do want to keep him home right because this situation with tyreek happened last year and then they couldn't come to something. They traded him damn near the next day to Miami. So that's got to be at least a good sign if you're a Chiefs fan. But there's no way he's playing on Thursday if he hasn't been there all week. No.

It doesn't sound like there's good relationship status here either. At all. What you heard Andy Reid say there was just like, yeah. Yeah. So, you know? Not thinking about it yeah not even nope this i think shane steichen had to kind of say the same thing about jonathan taylor there towards the end it's like yeah we're just assuming that he is not with us because we're rolling into football season this i apologize he didn't even say like because you could put over chris jones love chris jones could do that whole thing but instead it's just like none of us know why he's doing what he's doing right now. We hope

they get a deal done, but it doesn't feel like it's happening. Which is a shame. He's a fucking great football player and on Thursday night, there's going to be a lot of eyes. A lot. A lot of eyes. And he said he's going to win Defense Player of the Year this year. Not a bad way to start. It appears as if we're nowhere near seeing him on a football field. This is kind of what we talked about a couple weeks ago.

Granted, this situation's different than the Bosa situation, but they're just kind of saying like you know you just assumed it would get done because he's so good but then all of a sudden you wake up this morning and it's like oh shit like the nfl season is here it's starting on thursday they're playing like and it it's crazy that they've gone this long without actually getting something done and who knows if they think he's being unreasonable and how much he's asking for. It doesn't sound like that's really necessarily the case because he's not asking to be the top-paid guy.

He doesn't want to go over Aaron Donald, and he was a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. But it is just crazy that they've gotten to this point, and now they've backed themselves into a corner where it's like, well, fuck yeah, he might miss one week, he might miss four weeks. We don't know. He might be able to move. I think Browns fans thought he was going to be a Brown this weekend.

I saw that trending on X at one point. They were making a play to make a move for him. I don't think Browns fans are the only ones that are like, hey, somebody should go snoop around over there to see if Chris Jones is available because that changes your defense entirely, especially with the modern NFL. If you have an inside guy that can get

to the backfield, that is a weapon. That is why people are so expensive in there that can move and groove 84 million I don't know a lot of salary caps are sitting but the contract gymnastics that these people are able to do with the salary caps and everything you can find it in there and numerous teams could yeah you can definitely find it and we talked about it with Bean when he traded for Diggs or whatever that if there's if there's smoke GMs are going to be calling so I assume there's a lot of GMs calling. And you talked about it like it's a tough situation because what he's asking for isn't asinine.

It puts him like second, third, overall highest paid defensive player with similar to TJ Watt and Joey Bosa. But like, yeah, when Travis Kelsey and... It's a weird look publicly. Really weird. It makes it a tough situation. Yeah, it's tough for him. him it is tough for him but we hope they'll figure it out huh yeah good luck brett want to see you figure we'd like to see him play we won't i'd like to see

chris jones on football for you against that online you can take this week off oh yeah you can take this stand off yes for the players that right. Just like Tony's pushing for Bosa. Exactly. We won't have a contract either. How's that, though? They should stand together. Have they talked about that much? I haven't heard anything.

Me neither. No updates over the weekend, I don't think. No, I thought the report was that they expect him to play, but not that that was confirmed whatsoever. I remember, what was it, 10 days ago, there was reports on the internet, a deal is imminent in the next few days. Yes. And it's like, well, is imminent in the next few days. Yes.

And it's like, well, that's been the report for like two months. Whenever it gets to this amount of days away from season, probably going to get the deal done. So I didn't feel like we learned anything new. Then those days passed, by the way. And then now we're kind of creeping into a – Soft tissue. Wait a minute, we have six days here?

It's game week. We have six days here? Six days. Against the Steelers? Yeah, you got to worry about soft tissue injuries. Like, that's not good. Yeah, you don't want to lose them for the wholeers. Yeah, you got to worry about soft tissue injuries. Like, that's not good. Yeah, you don't want to lose them for the whole season. Even if you guys get a deal done, you're saying.

What, are you going to run them out there and he pops a quad? Don't want that. That'd be foolish. Can't have that. By the way, this is going to be the year. I'm excited that we're making this proclamation today. I love it. This is going to be the year nobody's getting hurt. That's right. So pumped. Not one. Everyone's happy. Hell yeah, dude. Nobody. Huge news. How cool is that? It's pretty cool. Thank God. That's very big of you. Well, it's getting hurt. That's right. So pumped. Not one. Everyone's happy. Hell yeah, dude. Nobody.

Huge news. How cool is that? It's pretty cool. Thank God. That's very big of you. Well, it's not me. No. I'm just the voice. It's coming.

Well, that's what I mean, to let everyone know. That's huge. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to put it out there in the universe. Yeah, I just wanted to put it. Football gods, let me know. Hey, go ahead and relay the message. Every joint, cool.

Every ligament, fine. Every muscle, pliable. Okay. That's what the football god said to me. Now, I don't know which football god is chatting with me, if that is their department or not, but I got a good feeling about this year with injuries. We're going to be good, baby.

Thank God. We're going to be good. That's a healthy team. Hell, yeah. Put that in the universe one time. No injuries ever. That would be fucking fantastic. But whenever they do inevitably hit, a lot of these deeper rosters are going to that in the universe one time. No injuries ever. That would be fucking fantastic. But whenever they do inevitably hit, a lot of these deeper rosters are going to be in a much better spot.

You need to get your top guy done. And I think Bosa should be in the building. I think that's a good person to have so you can look at him and say, oh, that's how it's fucking done. Speaking of, there's been a man that I think a lot of us have looked at and said, hey, that's how it's fucking done for a long time. Not just in the sports world, which he was dominant in two of them damn not just talking about like hey this guy played multiple professional sports it's like hey this guy was dominant multiple professional fucking sports and he gets into the coaching world and now all of a sudden he's the biggest story in college football why because what he said was going to happen happen and now he's wondering why is everybody so goddamn confused

ladies and gentlemen joining us now color Colorado Buffalo's head coach, Coach Prime. Yeah! What's up, man? Hey, Pat, them shoulders looking good, baby. Hey, I've been on day two. Hey, the shoulders looking good, baby. Hey, listen, I'm making this ESPN debut in a couple days. You know, I'm going to be on in airports and cafes and bakeries, Coach.

I'm going to have to, you know, let them know that there's been a little bit of vitamins maybe added to the routine, but also we're cooking, baby. We got some boulders over here. Thank you for having our back. I watch everything. Thank you for having our back. I just want to let you know, no problem. Whenever I gave

the response that I was picking the Buffaloes, I said, I believe. I think the reason why I believe is because Buffaloes, I said, I believe, you know, and I think the reason why I believe is because literally everything that you've tried to do and committed to, you've succeeded at. And that's not blowing smoke or kissing ass. That's just the real fucking facts of life. You happen to have this it factor. And then whenever I heard you talking to your team, you were standing in the middle of them and you said, do you believe in you? And they all said, yes, sir. It's like, I feel like what you're trying to put on into this locker room

that is very new is the right shit. Is that why you were so incredibly confident going into this game? And how did you feel about your team going? And do you think they were riding right along inside you? Yeah, I knew. I knew. I didn't have no doubt about that we were going to win that game. I never second-guessed, never doubted, never said,

hey, we could do it. And I knew if the ball is in Shador's hand at the end, we're going to win. That's my son. I've been with him since he was a baby. I knew what time it was. But man, we worked our butts off. Everybody else does as well. But the preparation and the passion and intensity that we have, and then you throw in the doubt factor of other people that that's something i could tug on with my kids i could tug on with my team i could tug on with my coaches like they don't believe us they they think it's a game they think it's a joke they think we just flipped the schedule for no reason just because we not the schedule is the roster for no reason because we just wanted to they don't they don't believe so

as long as you could give me a thread that I could pull on that heart, oh, my guy's ready to hunt. They ready to hunt. And they couldn't. We on the road. We in Texas against a team that went to the national championship. Please, that's all we needed. That was like a story that I could unravel slowly but surely.

And I loved it. Well, and everybody else that was, like, doubting you, they loved it too because all the hype. This is this. This guy's doing something that you're not allowed to do with college football. And I don't know if you heard, but, like, Coach Lee Corso, he felt like a little bit a certain way about it. You know, a lot of old-school college football people did.

He said it on the show about how whenever you go in there, you got to treat, you know, the people as stepchildren. And you went in there and say, hey, this is how it's going to be. And then I heard an interview with Joel Glatt. You said, like, 30 of these kids quit. Like, or 20 of these kids quit. Like, they're not my people. But then, you know, the conversation on the other side is,

this is what college football is now. You're able to do this with the transfer portal and the NIL. So everybody is going to try to do what you did, but nobody's fucking you. That's getting missed in the conversation. You're all like, this is what the future of college football is. It's like, yeah, if you can recruit like Deion Sanders, this is potentially what it is. Why do you think, aside from the obvious that you're prime, why do you think you're able to find the right guys for your program? And how do you think you go about

finding the right guys for your program? Because to get this buy-in this quick, you've had to find the right dudes, not just the right players. And you've seemingly done that. Well, first and foremost, you've got to understand you've got to identify the staff. We identified a heck of a staff that's very complimentary and very good, I mean, at what they do. I mean, they're engaging. They understand the relationships they

understand the reliability the dependability they understand how to talk to today's kids now once you get that staff in place now what we're going to look for smart tough fast disciplined kids with character but not only that it's kids that love the darn game i know it's no way to detect love from inside the heart but it's little things we listen for when we're interviewing these kids. It's a little thing we look for when we're watching these kids. It's a little thing we look for when they come up and they bring their families. It's little things, little nuggets that, man, they'll tell on themselves if you give them time. And we look for that kind of stuff.

That's why we're able to assess these kids ain't for us, but these kids are real quickly. And we're still in that process. So now we just got to find these kids that are like-minded because you're talking about Lee Corso, old school, baby, I'm old school. I ain't an old fool. I'm old school to the point. I mean, we do stuff kind of militaristic at times. We wear black socks at practice. We don't do this. People would think because the way I started on the field, my uniform was out of order. No, I didn't get fined. No uniform fines. No, I just

wore it the right way. Yeah, we're very militaristic and structured in how we do things because if you allow these kids to get outside the gate on this, they're going to get outside the gate on that. So we know what we want.

We identified, and we go get it. Okay, and I think that is something that was missed in your story whenever there was a lot of schools that were hoping for your services, only one of them, and I saw the embrace with the AD after the game that said, hey, we want you entirely. I think there was a lot of people that didn't expect you to be somebody that holds your team accountable. You know, you're a former player, hey, we want you entirely. I think there was a lot of people that didn't expect you to be somebody that holds your team accountable. You're a former player, obviously,

and money, you know, hey, everything you've done has been a production, and you've backed up everything you've said, but I think people don't expect that from you. So then whenever you get the right guys in there with the talent, and then you can still coach the way you can coach, that's a recipe for success. Another recipe for success

is having a guy that can play, huh? 144. This, hey, this dude's fucking unbelievable, Brian. Hey, he's unbelievable. And football, Travis Hunter. This kid, first of all, you got to understand the commonalities that we share. Travis is a kid that really grew up in Florida that moved to Georgia. So he understood, you know, my my my journey.

Travis loves fishing. You know, I love fishing. Travis is pretty much a homebody. I'm pretty much a homebody. Travis is is is really recluse to a point like I am as well. When I don't know people and kind of stand offish. But when I'm in the crowd, you know, I turn into him, that dude. Travis is all these things times two, man. Like this kid here loves the game. Last week I told Travis, look, you're not going to practice until Friday

because, you know, you got a little hamstring or whatever. So just chill. I look out there on the field. He's going both ways on Thursday. I said, Travis, did I tell you not to work today? That's who he is. So this week I say you off until Wednesday. We practice on Sundays if you didn't play 60% of the snaps just to get my guys ready,

just to give your young guys some reps as well. Then Monday we're off. Tuesday, Scott Report Day, Wednesday we practice. I don't want to see him on the field until Wednesday. I don't want to see him because I know what he's going to do. And I got to really keep him strong because I went through this. I did this before. So I identify with who he is and how he is and what he is and what he needs to do to continuously be who he is. But this man right here is a dog. You saw on the shirts, we don't have captains, man. I don't believe in that foolishness. I believe in leaders and dogs.

Every dog ain't a leader and every leader ain't a dog. We got some dogs. That kid right there is a darn rock wilder. He don't play. He text me at 6 o'clock in the morning on Saturday. Let's go, baby. Let's go do this. That's the text I got

from Travis at 6 o'clock in the morning. Let's go do this, baby. As I was watching him, Coach, this is literally my first thought. Like, hey, the football gods just said, hey, listen, we need to drop something in here that hasn't been done in like 30, 40 years at a high level and probably never going to be done. We need to drop somebody in here that can maybe be hope for a younger generation that you're allowed to play multiple positions or multiple sports.

And there is going to be tough to replicate a Travis Hunter, but maybe there'll be something else. This is different, you know, because normally in a world full of, like, specialties, like you need to specialize in this, you need to specialize in that, you need to go to a DB specialist in the offseason to work on your back pedal. Right. There's not a lot of people that would allow somebody to do both of these things.

Now, you – They've done it. You – How you going to take me, Pat? How you going to take me somewhere that you hadn't been? been how you gonna tell me to do something that you hadn't done you i don't get down like that i identify with the travis hunters and the others that's coming to boulder colorado because they say they want to play both ways but you got to be great on one side and that was idea hey you got to be dominant on one side before i put you on the

other side because now both of us are looking like a fool. So that Travis Hunter, I know what he needs at practice. I know, you know, the study habits, the tips. I know what this guy is thinking and what he's fathoming in his mind. I could look at him on the sideline. Okay, get him out, get him out, get him out, give three plays. And I know when he's ready to go back. So I've been there and done that. So I could reconcile with Travis and who he is and his one. That Travis don't get full, man. He's always hungry.

Like, even in the game, he wanted more. Hey, I'm open right here. Do this. Hey, man, let me just take him. I got him. Y'all deal with the rest. That's how he gets down. That kid is straight different.

Yeah. He is different. He's the he gets down. That kid is straight different. Yeah. He is different. He's the first rounder. He's the first pick overall when it's his opportunity to go in the NFL draft. First pick overall on both sides of the ball. Are they going to let him do both in the NFL, you think? Are they going to let him do both? Yeah.

Well, only a fool won't let him do both because he's going to be the best player on either side. He's awesome. And you looking out for him. You looking out for him. But he loves to play. Yeah, you looking out for him you looking out for him yeah you looking out hey you looking out for him is a big deal though like hey you're gonna take a g day here on tuesday okay we're not gonna do anything because it's not about how you feel right now travis this is about how you feel nine weeks from now when we're in some big time fucking games hey coach i listened

to you talk to joel clatt i listened to that interview i enjoyed joel and i uh i enjoyed you talking to him and he said hey, hey, in my profession, in following college football, we know that four more wins or five more wins than last season is a massive, a massive swing of success for a first-year coach. Only one win last year. And you said,

I don't want to hear that. I want to go win a national championship now. That is what I want to do. And I obviously know, you weren't just talking to Joel there, you're talking to your team there as well has that been the standard literally since we get in there we're winning right now go ahead the standard the standard and the standard don't change like the standard has a location and it don't change whatsoever now it's up to us to get to that destination like the standard is the standard i would be a fool to sit up there like, hey, man, I think winning four games is great.

Please. Four games for us? Come on, man. We don't think like that. We ain't built like that. We don't talk or walk or act like that. We're here to be dominant. We're here to take over this thing

and change the whole darn game and be unapologetic about it. That's the way we are. I want my kids to have fun. I want them to do stuff. I don't give a darn if we're 21 points up, get the penalty. Do your dance, baby. I got you. I got you.

I love what I do, and I do what I love, and I love these darn kids, man. I want them to go pro. I want them to get the degrees. I want them to be assets to the communities. I want them to be great fathers, great sons. I want so much for these kids. I want them to understand financial literacy. I want so much for these kids. I wanted to understand financial literacy. I want so much for these kids and they love it. And they know I've had my turn,

baby. I'm your navigational system. I'm your guy in the corner, in the ring. I'm telling you left, right, left, up. Okay. That's super. And that's chat jab like that. That's who I am. My man, Pat, that that's what I enjoy every day. and I don't tire in doing it. Okay. So it sounds like we're going to win a national championship this year. Hell, yeah. I mean, that's what I – we got a game here now, a couple days away.

Yeah. How do we feel? This is one of my favorite books next to the Bible. Remember this? Everybody remember this? Oh, yes. The little engine that could. You know what he said?

I think I can. I think he said? I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I would be a fool to ever don't think I can. And I think we can. I really do. And as closer we get up that hill, we're going to say, I know we can. I know we can.

I know we can. That's what I heard on the sideline. It wasn't just I believe. They really felt that, and they really believed before we took the field. They really believed. It wasn't a soul on that sideline didn't think we were going to win that game. I knew darn well, as long as that ball is in the hands of

number two. Yeah, let's talk about him. We're going to win this game. Let's talk about him. 500 and some yards. I enjoyed in the interview afterwards. He hilarious, by the way. There's like four or five hilarious lines in there where it's just like one

after another. He goes, just HBCU, kid. That's the most yards I've ever had. That's like the best game I've ever had in my entire life. I just killed this team worse than anybody. We all knew that at Jackson State last year, he was phenomenal, unbelievable. And then he moves over to Colorado, and there's some books, sports books,

that had him immediately in the Heisman watch. But then a lot of the old school college football people were like, not going to be able to do it, not going to be able to do it. He's your son, though. He's your son. So if you weren't coaching him or playing somewhere else, I think there's a lot of us that would be like, this is Deion Sanders' son.

We should at least show a little bit of respect that he's been there, done that his whole life. He's got a chance to learn it all. What do you see in Shador that makes you think like, hey, this guy is going to be a dude forever? And also, why is he so fucking good? That was he was clinical, bro. He threw one ball out of bounds and then he dropped one in a bucket.

He's clinical. He's clinical. He's been checking off and calling his own plays and changing plays at the line since he was six years old. Like Shador, the first thing I taught him was defenses. And he played both ways in strong safety as well. He understands defenses and the movement. He understands when the blitz is coming. He understands.

He's rock steady. He's right there on the line. Never gets too high. Never gets too low. He's rock steady. He's not going to be flustered. He's going to maintain himself. He'd rather throw the ball than run the ball. He don't give a darn who it is. As long as you're open, he's goingsteady. He's not going to be flustered. He's going to maintain himself. He'd rather throw the ball than run the ball. He don't give a darn who it is. As long as

you're open, he's going to give you opportunity. Four guys go over 100 yards the first time in history. It is unbelievable, but this kid loves the game. He studies the game. He prepares the game, and he has a chip on his shoulder. Let me give you some history on this, and you're going to love this. I don't think I've given anybody

this yet. The reason he was so intense and just so relaxed and ready not only did he study but when we went to a camp of a certain school and a certain coordinator we just played against he's an offensive coordinator he was at that school and we went to this school of camp and he didn't pay him no attention i don't even think he barely spoke to him he just pushed him off to the side and i went and told somebody i say man that ain't a way to treat them now that's not right that's not right and he remembered that and he told me probably 20 minutes after the little situation happened, he said, Dad, we'll never come back here again. Okay. All right. Good.

We'll never come back here again. And we remember this. And we go 5-10 or something. Damn. Yeah, he said we'll never come back here again. And because of the way that coach treated him. That's why I tell my guys, you be careful on these visits because these kids watch everything.

And be careful how you treat them because you never know what they're going to come up to be. And he dissected and he wanted to beat that guy so bad that he just went to work. So chip on the shoulder is something that all the greats have, like all of them.

We saw it in the documentary with Michael Jordan. It was the greatest display of it where a Utah jazz coach comes in and goes, Mr. Jordan, I love you. I'm a big fan. Good luck tomorrow. And Michael goes, that's all I needed. That is all I needed.

You think we're talking rare, huh? We're talking rare with Shador, your son? No, no, no. This kid is a bona fide winner. I don't think Shador has lost over ten games in his whole life since he was there in six years old. I don't think he is. It's not even double digits.

It's probably six games that he's lost in his life. So the kid is a winner. He's a bona fide leader. And he knows the game, man. And he loves football. Now, you come to the Pac-12 where it's quarterback happy and quarterback friendly. And everybody's ranking these guys. And they just forgetting him. He loves it. all right okay all right watch this that's how he thinks well

it's going to change i think pretty quickly a couple weeks here all of a sudden i think he's going to be a part of the conversation and i listen to you say from the 40 yard line down to the end zone you walk with him and you said that's the dad moment. And then whenever we're done with that walk, all of a sudden I'm back to coach. What do you tell him in those? What do you tell him there as dad? We've been doing this for a long time, for years. So when we go down from the 40 to the goal line, I'm dad.

You know, I'm making sure he's straight, how's he feeling, all that. I'm the father. When we touch that goal line and come back, I'm the coach. Now, this is what I want. Protect the football. See it. No late throws out in the middle of the field. Get everybody involved. Keep your line energized. Take care of yourself. Don't do nothing stupid.

Don't run. If you're going to run, slide because we need you. Such like that. Then it always ends with let them know. I want them to know our last name before we walk off this darn field. And who are you? He said, I'm a Sanders. I said, all right, let's go show them what we know.

And we kiss, and we go. We go to work. I'd say. Yeah, damn. Yeah, I'd say you go to work. Yeah, I think that is correct. And then there's another Sanders, too, who just led the team in tackles on the other side.

And then you've got Dylan Edwards, the running back. I think there's another Sanders too, who just led the team in tackles on the other side. And then you've got a lot... Dylan Edwards, the running back, I think he's a guy that you... You know, Dylan played for me when he was four years old, man, when he was four to six years old. He played youth football for me. Yeah, so you've got... Travis Hunter calls you Pop and Dad, who's probably the best player in football right now.

Best player in football. And then you've got a guy who just had four touchdowns as a freshman, outrunning everybody in his first ever game. He's been in there since he was four to six all time. Then you've got a guy who just had four touchdowns as a freshman outrunning everybody in his first ever game. He's been in there since he was four to six years old. Then you've got Shador actually in the family. His own son. His own son. Pretty good.

It's unbelievable the amount of relationships you have into these wells of greatness seemingly in football. And that's why when they say, this is what everybody's going to do. Everybody's going to do what Deion did now. It's like, okay. Sure. Yeah. I bet they'll be able to find the right guys everybody's going to do. Everybody's going to do what Deion did now. It's like, okay. Sure. Yeah.

I bet they'll be able to find the right guys to be able to do that type of turnaround that quickly. You know, how do you, how do you even get everybody to row in the same direction that quickly? You know what the thing is, man, grownups have a problem with one another. Grownups are jealous, jealous, envious, just, just petty and just foolish. Kids get along along you drop your kid off at a nursery or daycare they're gonna come back home that same day with three or four friends you dropping a

dog off at a new job a new career a new beginning he ain't speaking to nobody until he's spoken to that's just the nature of life these kids migrate towards one another, man. They can't wait to get to know somebody from Florida, being a California kid, somebody from Boulder, being a kid from Georgia. They can't wait to click and get together. So grownups are the ignorance. Kids, they get together all alone. The thing that I'm most proud of, though, out of the whole game, we had six penalties, man.

Yeah, I saw that. Only six penalties, and those six guys are going to run tomorrow for that six penalties because we're disciplinarians as well. But I loved it, man, because we weren't supposed to be disciplined. Well, of course not. We had three of them on one darn drive. Three of them on one drive. But six penalties the whole game. I love it.

I absolutely love it. What's the run? What's the punishment? Gas is up and back. Up and back is one. I respect that. Anybody get two or is it all six different guys? Six different guys.

Okay. Six different guys. Yeah, six different guys. Yeah. I want to see what happens when a guy gets two of them. That'll be – see what the next step up there is. Well, Coach, good luck this week. We can't wait to continue to watch your story.

And let's go, man. Let's go. Hey, we having a good time doing what we do. We really do, man. to watch your story and let's go, man. Let's go. Hey, we're having a good time doing what we do. We really do, man. And I thank you for the platform. I thank you for the love because the more you guys talk about us and why kids get love and they get the respect and appreciation that they want

and they absolutely love it, man. So keep on doing what you do and we're going to keep on doing what we do. Hey, sounds like a deal, bro. Team on three. You were clean too, man. You were clean on Saturday too baby You look good You changed it up I had a belt buckle on too I felt like a real fucking cowboy out there

You know what I'm looking for a Buffalo too man If you run across a Buffalo I'm looking for a Buffalo Cause I'm gonna rock a big belt buckle one of these games Oh you want a Buffalo belt buckle Buffalo Yeah we can find that no problem We appreciate the hell out of you, Coach. Have a great week.

God bless you, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Coach Deion Sanders. Yeah, Coach! I mean, yeah. That was all I kept thinking about. Yep. The reason why the old school guys hate it is because they, I think the natural feeling is, this is what it is going to be now.

Sure. This is what it is going to be now. Mm- what it is going to be now and it's like yeah maybe you know maybe this is what it's going to be but also like maybe that that dude that was just talking there is like not a normal no like that's not a there's not just 10 of those out there yeah you know it's he coached that guy when he was four years old all those dudes he was coaching whenever they were Shador's age, whenever they were little kids. The reason why he got into coaching, I think, is because of Shador. All those kids he was coaching are now in college or a little bit younger, and you don't think whenever he was at practices, the younger teams didn't look up to Coach Deion Sanders

and probably family members. It's like he has built a pipeline. He has built a pipeline. He has built a pipeline. Yeah, for sure. And then let alone the winning. If they have success, now you can talk about people that are in their third year, fourth year, that are pretty good. Like Kavassi A. Smoke, for instance.

He didn't even have that big of a game. He didn't do anything. He was back up running back for Kentucky. If they need him to do whatever later, he's lightning. Like there's a lot of guys I think we didn't get to see that all have incredible talent that are on that football team still. So people are talking about, you know, well, are the young guys going to be able to make it?

It's like, those are just young guys we got to see. I have no idea what the other young guys are that we haven't seen yet that will inevitably come, even though football guys said there's no injuries. That's true. At some point, we're going to really test the depth of his recruit. 80-some people is a lot of people. Yeah. Like, that's a lot of people, and there's a lot of talent in there

that we haven't even seen yet. And then you think this is the next three years, probably. Two, three years at least. It's like they got something brewing over there, and they're moving over to the Big 12. Yeah, the two running backs that everyone talked about them getting, I don't even think got any carries, to be honest with you. And then I heard a story this morning.ylan edwards the running back that had four

touchdowns or whatever he was committed to notre dame and then soon as prime got the colorado job he was like oh i'm going there yeah that's gonna happen more and more no that's gonna happen with a bunch of people it's like i don't think so bro that is not something that's normal at all well and i think a big part of it too like oh it's kind of similar with like the jeff saturday situation like you know that there's just jealousy because it's like oh well Dion didn't have to you know he wasn't an OC or like a quality control coach in college he didn't have to do all that kind of stuff he's a hall of fame you know one of the best NFL players of all time and he gets it but Dion said like years ago he's like hey I didn't want to coach like this is a calling like you know he's

very religious and he said like I mean said he felt like God told him, hey, this is your mission now. You have to go coach because he obviously cares about the young kids and wants to turn them into men. You can just tell by the stuff he's saying. He's a coach. He understands what he's doing, and he knows how to get guys to do shit that they don't necessarily think they can do.

And on the flip side, do you hear what the guys are saying about him all right yeah my son literally said this is my pop right here like whenever he's talking about it and shador obviously he's gonna you know have to say he loves his dad of course i mean that would be that'd be quite a story right we'd leave game day with it it'd be huge or sanders says he does not love his father that'd be a big thing. But you listen to all these guys talk about him, and it's like he's saying we're military. Yeah.

Ian? It's militaristic. Militaristic is the proper one. As he was saying it, I was trying to figure out how I would deliver that word if I had to as well. Big word. And I think I'll just stick away from it. But he's militaristic.

He said accountability. We're all wearing the same socks. He said people talk about how i dress that was all within the hey you give me the rules i'm gonna make it my own now but i will be within everybody's rules that seemingly doesn't get talked about a lot about with him because everybody sees the flash and everything he's like he's a badass coach like he's a hard ass i think which he thinks the guys need and obviously they're responding to it very well well and that's why it's impossible to, you know,

everyone's going to be able to do this. Because, one, he's not afraid to coach hard, which he does. I mean, that's one of the things we saw and talked about last week, how if one fights, we all fight with Colorado. And the other thing is he is one of the greatest corners of all time. Like, is Tom Brady going to come in and be the head coach of Michigan? Because I guess he could probably do it. But the list of people that could.

Well, the head coach of Michigan right now. Oh, yeah. He died. Rest in peace. Yeah, it was a good run. It's really sad that that father is dead. The internet, you guys in the internet are the worst. I just want to let you know that.

Dude. You guys, they're just taking a stand, you know, for their self-imposed penalty. Yes. That they had to give for a cheeseburger. That's right. Speaking of, rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett, cheeseburger. Yeah, yeah. That's an actual recipe. Yeah, that's real Jimmy Buffett. Cheeseburger. That's real.

Four's up for that. You can't put your fours up in the first quarter. It's against the rules. Save it for the fourth if you're going to do it. It's ruined forever. They didn't know how many people were going to be watching. Three new ratings might go down. They wanted everybody to know.

It's not ruined forever. It wasn't for four quarters of football. No. It's for four out there. You put fours up on the field, it better be for the fourth quarter. I'm excited for her saying the Colts come out on Sunday and put their fours up to start the game. Well, they're going to spell out hardball with the Marvel characters, right?

Isn't that what they're doing? Listen, Chris Angel's fucking breaking a record Friday night in Lucas Oil Stadium, so show some damn respect. I forgot about that. That's Friday, not Sunday. Yeah, that is interesting. So more eyes on respect. I forgot about that. That's right. That's Friday, not Sunday. Yeah, that is interesting. Some more eyes on Sunday, so they'll probably do the Marvel thing. Listen, I disagree with the way they utilize their budget with the performances at halftime.

I've been open about that. I've spoken to the powers that be. That's right. We got Chris Angel breaking a fucking record on Friday night, okay? And then on Saturday, we'll have a field goal kicking contest for $23. I was going to say, they're kind of, I mean, you know. There's 70,000 fucking people in here, okay? We're watching.

Let's go. Let's do it. I've told the people in powerful positions, I don't love it. With that being said, Chris Angel's still breaking a record on Friday night at Lucas Oil Stadium. Of course. And that record ain't going to be broken until the next Houdini of a generation, which who knows when that'll be

because Chris Angel's already... He's in this generation and this is Chris Angel. Michael Griffin. It's Michael Malone. I don't know why you insist that it's Michael Griffin. You guys are just disrespecting the American escape artist and if he does somehow catch wind of this, if he's not working on escaping, which he always is, he's going to come back

here and escape both of you into jail probably. No, I don't think he'll be able to escape us anywhere where we're sitting when at a particular time. I will say he was pretty incredible with that whole rope gimmick. Oh, yeah, the rope gimmick. Punching himself in the stomach trying to get the needles down. I was very against the eating of the needles since the very beginning of hearing about it.

But boy, Michael Malone said, need to have... Yeah, I gotta eat needles. Almost yanked him just to cut him up. Do you think you're going to bring in Red Panda in here to not throw bowls? Absolutely not. Her throwing bowls is me eating needles. Okay.

Yeah. All right, Michael Malone, you do your thing. He crushed it for us. He did. Yeah, he was a beast. He was. Griffin. But Chris Angel, yeah, Friday night, not Sundays.

So no one will see it. Okay. See what? Sold out. Jim tweeted about it today. Is it sold out? Yeah. I thought it was free to go to. You still gotta claim the tickets. Oh, okay. And there's gonna be like 150,000 because they're filling up the field too. Oh, is that right?

Yeah, because Chris Angel's coming down and they're all gonna give him a hug. He's gonna break the hug. I think that's what it is, and they're all going to give him a hug. He's going to break the hug. Yep. I think that's what it is. 150,000 people are going to give him a hug, and then he's going to get out of there quicker than anybody ever. See, that'd be cool.

Chris Angel's going to do that. Wrap himself in the AFC finalist banner. Anyways, the big weekend comes for the NFL this weekend. That's why Chris Angel's breaking a Houdini record at Lucas Oil Stadium on Friday evening. There's going to be a lot of other stuff that's going to come down the pipe as well whenever we talk about this particular NFL season. What teams are we not talking about at all that's going to end up going on a run?

There was something that said there's going to be a Super Bowl participant for the last nine out of ten seasons or something like that that didn't even have a playoff win the year before. The Eagles were this past season's example of that, and then there's many others before that. That's the reality of what the NFL is. And a lot of it comes down to who gets lucky injury-wise, who potentially has a little bit of this at one position

and not a lot of that at another. I'm pumped to see what teams go. Are the Jacksonville Jaguars going to do it? Possible. Are the Jacksonville Jaguars and the AFC South going to be able to go on a damn run? Doug Peterson was able to put his culture in. They were so close last year. So close to doing some things.

Shoulda. Yeah. Finished strong. Shoulda done some things. But instead, they don't do it. What other teams? The Giants. How about the Jets, obviously? What about the Tennessee Titans, who nobody's talking about? They got DeAndre Hopkins. You remember when the Titans had A.J. Brown? And I'm not saying Nuke is A.J. Brown.

Obviously, they're different wide receivers, but let's just say a threat that can maybe open up that box a little bit for Derrick Henry to go ahead and do some of his damage with Tannehill. Are the Titans potentially going to shock some people? There's a lot of teams out there that can maybe make some head waves, and then there's some teams also that we think could potentially get

crushed, like the Arizona Cardinals. Video has crushed, like the Arizona Cardinals. Video has surfaced from the Arizona Cardinals building of the new head coach addressing the team. And we do believe this was edited together, not a free-flowing speech from Coach Gannon. But this is from the Arizona Cardinals. And this is the brand-new coach talking about firing the boys up a little bit. Welcome back. Who drove over here?

Quick, let me see your hands. Who took the bus? Did you have fire in your gut? Hmm. Huh? Did you? I don't know. We're here for a reason.

Don't get that twisted. Nope. Okay, we're here for a reason to win games. Yeah. So if you didn't have that fire in your gut, you better light the fire pretty fast. Yeah. Yep. Be who you are.

Just understand, I'm looking for a f***ing killer. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Shout out to Arizona Carpets Flight Plan. Let's go. That's their hard knocks. Yep.

Okay. Getting a peek behind the curtain of Coach Gannon. Damn right. He wants some f***ing killers, dude. That's right. I want guys that take curtain of Coach Gannon. Damn right. He wants some fucking killers, dude. That's right. I want guys to take the bus to work. That's right. Okay?

I don't know what year it is. I don't know how this goes. I don't even know what the bus operation is out here in Phoenix. I just want to let you know, got to have a fire in your gut. Yep. We're looking for it. If you don't have it, get some kindling, man. Figure it out. Yeah.

We need some fire now. Get some lighter fluid. In there. And I understand that this seems eerily similar to the Sirianni opening press conference. Sure. Where you say, like Stinky, more athlete takeover. And we all said, oh, okay. A buffoon is the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.

A cool Paisano buffoon, a guy that everybody in Indianapolis loved. This guy can't speak. I feel like a large part of coaching is speaking. And then here we are years later. Sirianni's one of the greatest coaches in the NFL. And we are so incredibly happy that he's a coach. And the entire culture in Philadelphia is one that matches the city and is one that's entertaining for the NFL.

So maybe, just maybe, this Gannon situation is similar. But I pictured myself in that room, and I had a tough time coming out of there without saying something. Just, hell yeah, hell yeah. Yes. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

Fucking killers, dude, which I love. I absolutely love the fucking killers line. I hope they have that in there, and I hope he's able to put that inside of that culture. But the delivery was certainly one that I found fascinating. And we're going to have to TBD on our thoughts here on the Arizona Cardinals going forward, but maybe they do just have a bunch of homicide in there. And they got killers all over the place,

and they're able to go win that daunting NFC West. I mean, I think it's certainly possible that he called Sirianni and was like, hey, how do I address these guys? And Sirianni told him, like, hey, you guys go out there and give a d minus speech okay can't be f because guys will turn off right away gotta be at least d minus like when he you know kind of do you have that fire in your gut do you do you know like kind of challenging guys a little bit um and then killers yeah yeah i wasn't fucking killers make no mistake about it i think the biggest difference the eagles had a lot of good players when uh when sirianni first got there i don't i saw james

jimmy connor yeah buddha for sure i saw some people in the background that didn't raise their hands for either answer right so i was watching that you know whenever they get to work that day the people that didn't answer yeah what if they did maybe they bird scootered yeah didn't answer. Yeah. What if they, maybe they bird scootered? Yeah. Didn't leave, maybe? Oh, sleeping. Sleeping in the locker room. Oh. Yep. So what if that was his big gotcha there?

All right. Who drove in here today? Okay. Who took the bus? Okay. Who took the scooter? Okay. Who walked? Okay.

Who took the bus? Keep your hands up. Keep your hands up. Who took a bicycle? Okay. Everybody's hands are up there except for mine. You know why? I fucking slept here.

Bitch. Okay. So that's what I fucking need out of all of mine. You know why? I fucking slept here. Bitch. Okay? So that's what I fucking need out of all of you. That would have been an interesting little turn. Yeah. But instead what I saw was nobody answering them in the back. Yeah. And that's not good.

No, no, it's not. That's like just knock on wood if you're with me, you know what I mean? Sure. That's a big thing. You know, the give and take of a speech team meeting, who's dialed in, who's not dialed in. In the back there, they might have just been the ones, the stenographers. Maybe they're just typing it up and they didn't have the time to put their hands up because they didn't fully know where he was headed but i saw zero action from the background that's not good personally but once again this doesn't mean anything no they might win football

games and we'll just look back on this and go that's what a team meeting motivational speech at the beginning of the season looks like. Yeah, just like Billy Walter said, you found the best book. I sprinted to the best book that had Arizona Cardinals over three wins, and I put everything on it because I don't know about you guys, but they're going to be the toughest team in the NFL this year. They're going to have a bunch of guys who are willing to murder people, and we have one in this office in the back, and he is a psychopath.

So if you're telling me that there's going to be an NFL team with a bunch of Bill McComas. He was on the right. He was on the right. Four touchdowns, one game. Big go. Yeah, they can do that. Yeah, I think it might have been 14. Might have been four offensive, two defensive.

Uh-huh. Because he played D-tackle, actually. He did. Big move. Took the ball out of the quarterback's hands as he was trying to hand it off. I think he should have led with the, I want some fucking killers. Yeah. Before the bus gimmick.

Cardinals social team has killed this guy twice now. They got to stop doing that. What are you, beep, beep, beep, beep. Exactly. Shut up. They don't have to put this out. Why are you putting it out? Because it's shit.

I've watched those videos a combined 600 times. Yes. They're doing their job. I love it. And that's my favorite coach in the NFL. And fucking I'll go to war for him. Amen. Thank you, Tony.

That's because you're a killer. Yeah. And and you got that fire in your gut yeah and now we know why cole mccoy left because he was like jesus christ i'm not in year 13 i can't kill people it's too it's too late for me i've got to pass it over texas well they probably go i did appreciate though that he was just so like yes the whole time yes you know a little ben steinie in there uh-huh i I enjoyed that. You know, because that's like Arthur Smith. Yeah. Arthur Smith is like this the entire time.

And he goes, how many NFL games you got to win over there to get knighted? Just in the middle of a sentence. Yeah. So I don't know if that's how Gannon talks, because if you think back to the one that you watched over 600 times, where he's like shots. He's like this all the time. I'm pretty pumped to watch him kind of operate in NFL season. Me too. That's why I think

that they're going to go over. But also, come on, he looked like a buffoon. Well, I don't know. Who rode a bus? I didn't see that. All right. I didn't see the buffoonery. I only saw greatness. I genuinely believe that the Cardinals are going to win four to five games this year. Holy hell.

Greatness, you say? Yeah, that's right. going to win four to five games this year. Holy hell, greatness, you say? Four to five. They've got 17 tries. Four to five. They're going to come back with a dub, which would be big for the Arizona Cardinals, especially if what Olombo was talking about last week. Bingo, yeah. He was talking about it last week. I already reported on that. That's old news.

Dove made the correction. He did. He put it in there. Michael Lombardi presented something to us last week that was kind of eye-opening about the Arizona Cardinals. I guess it was like $56 million associated with Kyler Murray getting injured, and it's like a guarantee if he gets hurt, okay, you get another $56 million. They do this so that they don't have to send the big check to the NFL and guarantees pretty much.

So this is just to offset a little bit of the guarantees and everything like that and contract language, Michael Lombardi basically said. So then he said, Kyler's not going to play next year for this particular team. They're not going to risk getting him injured and have to pay $56 million. Now, we did push him a little bit on why he thought that. He said basically he alluded to them being kind of moving on. They're ready to move on to another era, another generation. But also, maybe their season's at a point, whenever he's back to be healthy,

where it is absolute dead. And they're like, we don't want to risk the $56 million. Does that mean they're moving on? That's a fascinating thing, because we would assume that a team would trade for. We would assume. Oh, yeah. But also, i'm not saying running back and quarterback are the same thing but like there was no deal to be had for jonathan

taylor is it the calendar year is it that big of a contract who would want kyler is there a team that would want to go ahead and make that move there's so many question marks about the arizona cardinals kyler murray the future and what it even looks like which is all bananas to think it wasn't that long ago he just signed one of of the biggest deals in NFL history to remain there, and then they fire both the head coach, offense coordinator, and the GM ends up out of town. Cardinals are an interesting fucking case study on how to run an NFL team. As we've heard before, there will be a coach or team out there

that thinks that we can win with this guy. It's just where he was. But if you're the Cardinals and you didn't draft him and you didn't draft him and you didn't pay him and there's potentially two of the highest rated quarterbacks coming out of all time. Now, who knows if they're going to be good in the NFL or not, but

you know, it's something that he probably have to look at as an organization. What? Drake May or Caleb Williams. Yeah, but what about the fans that pay for season tickets this year? I don't know if they love Kyler either. Yeah, they might not. Has anybody come out and been, like, very openly supportive of Kyler Murray being there? Yeah, FaZe Clan.

You guys didn't see the FaZe Clan statement? FaZe Clan sold a thing? They folded, I thought. No, 100 Teves. Yeah, Billy McCormick. Yeah, it was 100 Teves. You're right. Something happened.

I was a fan of all of them, but then Bill came in one day with this little droopy, sad-ass face. In tears. Yeah, tail between his legs. I'm like, what the hell is wrong, Bill? We're in a good spot. We're doing good things. We got a good life. 100 tees.

100 tees folded. 100 tees. Faith Clan's going under. Is that real, Bill? Well, somebody asked the Bill if... Because this is a pretty big piece of information. Huge, actually. If Faith Clan isn't around anymore, it's like, is anybody coming to support Kyler Murray?

Didn't D-Hop tweet about Kyler once during all this mess? Am I making that up? Oh, yeah, he supported him, right? I thought he did. He came out for him. Okay, good. Well, as long as he's got his teammates' support, I will continue to support him. I think him and Cliff are still best friends.

Cliff's just out there living in USC. He's got a quarterback that just drops, snaps, who cares, throws at 60 yards, sprints to his right directly, full speed, somehow is able to shoot a ball straight without it tailing out of bounds. Straight up overhead at running probably 17 miles an hour to

the right somehow. I have no idea how you even do that. That guy's running for his life a lot, making plays, and the defense isn't getting as many stops as everybody wants him to. I assume USC will continue to win, but that Caleb Williamss guy is fun to watch and he's got cliff kingsbury there obviously cliff is a offensive mastermind when it comes to the spread offense and everything like that with caleb uh drake may yeah he's got clive christensen yeah now clive christensen's like nfl quarterback guru pretty much has been a long time and is like the answers pretty much for, I don't know,

Peyton, Tom, Andrew Luck, and others. They're going to him with questions. So, Drake May has a chance to ask that guy questions. Caleb has a chance to ask Cliff questions. It's like, to your point, they're talking about these two being full-on program changers real quickly. Dudes. Nobody can tank for him though let's get to a break yeah it's the nfl can't have it they might not need to you said drake's a tall

drink of water too a lot bigger he's like this big he's big and he was in some flat jordans too like not like uh not elevator shoes at At all, yeah. I was in... I think I was in basic shoes, too, so I didn't have my cowboy boots. Yeah, you were. Had no idea. Should have had my cowboy boots on so we could be a little bit more... Yeah. Looked on.

What's up, Drake? Well, Dano did say this morning, this guy's size reminds me of Big Ben. Yeah, so here's all the comparisons he's gotten. Big Ben by Dano this morning. That's sweet. Joey Burrow by Gene Chizik, Who's obviously been around college football and media And everything now he's their D coordinator For North Carolina

Clyde Christensen told me he's got a Peyton Manning like awareness Whoa Like wants to know everything and has the brain ability To be able to do it He has the size and the vibes of Josh Allen Herbert I've seen So just every good white. Very easy going. Easy.

Every good white quarterback, this Drake May guy, they're like, he's got all the good traits of all of them. Yep. Athletic family. No idea that his brother was the UNC. Yeah, Luke May. Champion. Yeah, I was talking to him. I'm like, so you're king of the campus now? He goes, he's like super. He is ridiculously humble,

but good vibes. Okay. He said, no, my brother's king here. Always will be goes he's like super he's ridiculously humble but good vibes okay he said no my brother's king king here always will be when he told me he wouldn't even listen like when people were trying to present him i think he genuinely found out that it was a five million dollar offer from the media like after it already passed like i that's the feeling i got from talking to him wouldn't even listen i was like, so there's a bunch of offers for you? He goes, not to me, but family, agent, you name it. There's a bunch of people talking. I said, you didn't see, like, $5 million on a national championship contender immediately

and just, like, think about it? He goes, I didn't even know. They offered me $5 million. Yeah, he didn't even listen. Wouldn't even listen to it. He's like, I couldn't do that to Chapel Hill. It's like, could you imagine that type of fucking loyalty? This guy doesn't do social media.

Love that. Just loves ball. Loves fucking ball. Baller. Loves competing. And then you got Caleb on the other side. I don't even know how like physics allowed him. Bad throw.

Oppenheimer would be like, in theory, I guess. He's good, bro. Let's get to a break. We'll be back on the other side with AJ Hawk. Also, TJ Lang. Former Detroit Lion great. And Green Bay Packer great. And Eastern Michigan University

Eagles. Eagle great. That's right. Do that. For sure. Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti. It's there right on the eastern side of Michigan. Yeah, exactly. Eastern Michigan University.

Just north of Detroit. Oh, that's what I'm talking about. Nothing better. Bam, bam. Bam, bam. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. We'll be back on the other side with AJ Hawk, TJ Lang,

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At this time With this ball In that hoop If this goes in We won't be alone in Tuscaloosa I'm very worried about that Alabama is not a... I've scrolled through everything we have that tells you exactly where your humans are.

Sure. Boy, Alabama, alphabetically, I guess it's up there. Okay. But whenever it says like... Numerically. I'm telling you, though. We are not beloved. Well, per capita, I mean, there's not a lot of people in that state.

Yeah, they don't have a lot of internet in Alabama. See? That's the reason why, I think. Because they think that we're assholes. That is true. They think we're Yankee assholes. That's true. Third week of school, these kids are going to be looking for whatever reason to skip class on a Friday. Whatever reason.

All right. We'll see. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Hope you're happy, Ty. Hey, Ty, listen. i'm i'm not worried about it i don't think you should be and a man is in an attic in ohio who's a college football national champion a super bowl champion a rider cup winner a father of 10 a covet survivor and the current president of ohio alongside kirk herb street Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. A.J., what's going on, pal?

Not too much. I mean, I think Kirk, you can give him, he's the president of Ohio. He has represented very well for a long time. Excuse me, you put your hand, and then you did the, and then you took the. It's too late. So that's you. We did that. We did that.

I didn't know. I forgot we did that. My bad, yeah. Put our hand on the Bible and did the whole thing like they're swearing us in? I only saw a still photo. Right. I just assumed. No, not a Bible.

A Buckeye. Yeah. Boom. Chocolate and peanut butter. Mm-hmm. Ooh, very good. These taste very good. They do.

Now, you would think Reese's kind of came up with it first, but the Buckeye version of it as a circle, really, really delightful. Fire. Really, really delightful. Let's talk about the Buckeyes, though. Uh-oh. What about them? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I mean, Indiana's got some players. Yeah, really delightful. Let's talk about the Buckeyes, though. Uh-oh. What about them? Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. I mean, Indiana's got some players. Yeah, they do. Indiana's got some players. I tell you, Indiana does have some players, especially on defense, man. They can get after the QB a little bit. Okay, so let's talk about that, the conversation that we had. I think what we're going to see take place with NIL,

with some schools not being able to get as much money as everybody else but being able to get some money, you're going to see that money spent in key positions. I think you're going to be able to see a wide receiver that can maybe get some separation that might be able to help a quarterback. You might see a defensive end or a pass rusher who they're going to pay that might be able to get to the quarterback.

Quarterback, obviously something that you'll see. So I think there's going to be some strategically placed NIL five-star type guys on some of these teams. So we might be able to see some, you know, some teams get got by some teams. For instance, I thought Indiana was going to shock the world with Ohio State there. Like there was an old buddy, what's his number five, I think was his number? No.

Number one was making some plays as well on defense. Yeah, one on defense for Indiana. Five was last night at Florida State or whatever. But he was a dog. I was watching that Indiana team. I'm like, hey, there's some real fucking players out here. But then on the flip side, I'm like, Ohio State's Ohio State. Yep.

Is McCord going to be the guy? Why? Is Sling and Sammy Ball going to come in and do the thing? Are you guys anywhere near comfortable with who the starting quarterback is after week one? Or is this still a work in progress after only beating indiana by 20 they win by three scores yeah and it's like maybe are you worried at all right now aj hawk uh no i'm not worried but that's kind of i think plenty of people are worried about ohio state and where they're going to be because it's true like

when you have this standard if you don't win 55 to 3 your first game everyone panics and thinks that the program's going down and we don't have a quarterback i love what you said there was program because you look at what oklahoma did man and fans are just like you see what oklahoma did yeah yeah oklahoma won 73 nothing killed him saw butch jones's soul leave his body yeah it was awesome so butch jones got to start i don't know if people know this west virginia oh he was graduate assistant he ran the punt team and some of the special teams whenever I was dropped in to be punter without knowing how to punt.

We called him Mini Rod, this guy. This guy was Mini Rod. He used to get really fired up and fucking lose his mind. But we all enjoyed him. We all enjoyed like he was just this fiery, sparky human being. We didn't know how it would go with him as a head coach. I think he went up to Michigan. Then he was obviously to Tennessee.

Then he went over to Alabama and he was a consultant. Saved me in the Saban waters. And now he's back at Arkansas State. And watching his soul kind of just leave his body after the Oklahoma drumming. And good for Oklahoma being back. Venables, hey, congrats.

Congrats. That was a big conversation last year. But with that being said, all the other teams see them do that and they're like, why aren't we? Why aren't we doing that? That's the expectation in Georgia. That was a big conversation last year. But with that being said, all the other teams see them do that and they're like, why aren't we? Why aren't we doing that? That's the expectation in Georgia. That's the expectation in Ohio State. I think Michigan fans are thinking the same exact thing.

It's interesting at the top how kind of, I don't want to say unsatisfying it is, but like kind of. Like you win by 20 week one and it's like, shit. That's why coaching, like, yeah, you want to coach at these big-time places that are expected to win every single game, but it's like, man, you understand why these coaches are under so much pressure and they feel this anxiety and they're crazy because they're like, man, we're just trying to win a game.

These guys are all on scholarship too, and if we don't win by 60, it's like they won't be fired. So, yeah, there's a lot of pressure, but that's what you want. Everyone wants those jobs. How many targets for Marvin Harrison Jr.? Marvin Harrison Jr., I believe, had six or seven targets, only two catches. What are we doing? What's going on?

What was the run-pass ratio? They didn't throw the ball as much. I think that's the biggest thing, too. People are like, they need to get it out there and let it fly and get the ball in the air more. Yeah, but Mayan and Travion Henderson are both incredible running backs. It's almost like a gift and a curse to have so much talent, but I think everybody heard the conversations about Marvin Harrison Jr.

going into the season. It's like, hey, this is like teams are thinking about sucking for this guy. Yeah. And then all of a sudden he has two balls in the first week. It's like, whoa. It feels like it's a pretty easy game plan. I think it's going to be all right. They're going to get him going.

He'll be okay. All right. Good luck out there. A.J. Hawks says it's okay. They're 36. 36 passes to 31 runs. Balanced. Because they're balanced all-packs.

Two running backs, three wide receivers, though. Cornell Tate, Agbuka, and Marvin Harrison Jr. studs. Then you got Mayan and Trevion Henderson. If they remain healthy, it's not going to be enough balls. Is that going to be the problem? It's not going to be enough balls? It's not going to have enough balls in the house?

The tight end led the team with catches in yardage, I believe. He had a John Deere deal, so we know why he's getting a rock early. He's coming fresh out of harvest right into this damn thing. He's been working for months and months and months. Hard work, dude. Yeah, honest work. And we know they're not slapping that deer on anybody.

What's he harvesting, do you know? Harvesting catches, obviously, down there in Indiana. Harvesting a lot of catches, dude. He's swinging that hay bale all around town. Yeah, come on. I love everything about it. Wake up. Hey, college football was fucking...

By the way, let's start now. Yep. We'll stop with the F-board. Okay. Right now? No more. Can I squeeze one in quick just to... Yeah, go ahead.

Let it out. Fuck! That was a good one. Thank you. You might have earned another one there. I won't burn it right away. Okay. What about a two o'clock?

Yeah, when we go on YouTube, we're okay every single day by the way going forward okay so just the first yeah it's just the first i think the first hour i don't even know if i should say this now or just let it kind of happen because it's been speculated upon so much yeah okay pretty big change yeah coming to linear television oh yeah pretty huge pretty big change coming just you know i think that's going to be a pretty big fucking change oh yeah new conversation piece yeah it's just going to be something that it's not even going to chit chat about but yeah first two hours we got to limit the fuck okay all right and remember that was me saying right oh yeah offering up that thing just because we don't need new people to be turned off by one particular word without even listening

or giving us a shot there's some people that operate like that i don't love it i don't enjoy it i'm not friends with any of those people those people exist though so as we're getting introduced to a whole new group of people let's just stay away from one particular sure well there's also a couple others we gotta yeah that is we don't use those words. Everybody says, hey, you wouldn't say this before. There's a lot of people saying, you would have said this before. They're going to say that. It's like, no, you don't know anything about the show. I actually would have never talked about that in a million years. So we got to stop. We'll slow down.

Let's do that tomorrow. Okay. No, let them today understand that we're on house time right now. Let it rip. Fuck. Fuck it rip. Fuck. Fuck, yeah.

Fuck. Fucking right. Should you start saying frickin'? I don't know. We tried to brainstorm. There's nothing that doesn't sound terrible. Please don't do that. You don't need to do that.

Does AJ ever? He does not. He's never said, yeah. He does not. AJ, no change. Well, yeah. I hope, yeah. I plan to still talk about whatever topics pop in my

brain no yeah but we're talking about uh fuck yeah they have bombs okay you're not a big fuck user which i appreciate 10 kids yeah well ohio too they have a different f word but what is it what would that be what are you talking about you tell me it's just what i've heard through the grapevine i don't know i don't know what you're talking about. I have no clue. Joining us now. How many letters is it? Oh, wow.

I don't know how to count it. We need to do a full Wheel of Fortune here. Let's pivot away from that to another man who you would think would be an Ohio fuck, but I don't believe he is. No, he's a Michigan fuck. Hell yeah. This man is obviously an NFL legend, both for the Packers and the Lions. He's a man that is

friends of the program and also an Eastern Michigan Eagle, through and through. Hell yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, a guy who has been discussed about numerous times because he's been involved in numerous bar fights in which he won outright. Ladies and gentlemen, tough son of a

bitch, T., DJ Lyne. Yeah! It was only one bar fight. It was talked about, though, a lot. It was talked about a lot, and it always goes like, he won. If you're wondering, he won. It's kind of how the story goes, so we appreciate that. In my mind, it's just like a video game.

You walk into bars, clear them out, and then you go to the next place. Thank you for joining us. I would like to dive into obviously chiefs lions on thursday night because what a time for detroit lions fans being showcased in the opening night this wouldn't have seemed very realistic just a few years back and here we are motor city dane campbell golfing the boys are one of the favorites in the nfc we'll get into that what i want to talk about is eastern michigan university because uh there was a piece on eastern michigan this weekend on college game and the boys are one of the favorites in the NFC. We'll get into that. What I want to talk about is Eastern Michigan University because there was a piece on Eastern Michigan this weekend on College Game Day

where Brian Dooley, one of the tacklers for the offensive lineman, gave up his scholarship to another offensive lineman who, amongst other things, was selling his blood plasma so that he could pay to go to school at Eastern Michigan. Now, with the timing in which it all fell upon, there was no scholarships available for this kid. So Brian Dooley, who was on scholarship, chose to give his scholarship to his teammate.

And I think everybody just assumes this Brian Dooley kid is just rich. Like, oh, it must be easy. He's not. He's not from a rich family at all. His family actually came out and said, we're going to have to take out a loan for this, and we'll make it work, and we'll go forward. So it's not like what you thought.

And I just want to ask you, like, Eastern Michigan here, let's go Eagles. Is this the nicest gesture you've ever heard from a teammate ever? And is this not such a beautiful depiction of offensive line and football, TJ Lang? Yeah, I've never heard that before. I mean, have you guys ever heard of somebody, you know, literally volunteering to give up a scholarship? I mean, and everything that comes along with it, right? I mean, you're talking about the scholarship checks, right? The food. I mean, how are you going to pay rent? I mean, you're not just giving up an education. You're giving up a lot in excess with that as well.

I thought, look, I mean, when you guys showed the piece on Saturday, I thought it was awesome. I saw the original video about it maybe, you know, two, three weeks ago. And, man, it hit me. It was like, holy cow, like this is just, this is incredible, man. Like you talk about the selflessness and, you know, looking out for each other. And like you said, that's part of being, you know, an offensive lineman. I know there's a lot of schools, especially some smaller schools now that are still in a bit of a difficult spot when it comes to the scholarships, just because of the COVID period and guys get an extra year or two, you know,

you've got a ton of players on rosters that, you know, some teams might only have eight scholarships to give out, you know, right now to new coming kids and Eastern kind of one of those schools where, you know, you're not sending a lot of guys to the NFL every year. You send one or two every couple of years, but you're going to get a lot of these holdover guys. And for Dewey to, you know, give up his scholarship for Zach, I mean, I thought it was just unbelievable.

You know, I know me and you have been talking about it a little bit the last couple of days. When I saw that story on Saturday, it was like, man, we got to come up with a way to, you know this kid just to be a part of it just um with everything with nil money now and they and in the avenues that we have as alumni uh to help these kids out um you know we're looking into doing some stuff for him because he deserves it and you know just a a complete class act i mean that's just who i know know Brian Dooley for a number of years now. And that's just who he is, man.

And I think – hell, I mean, I think you even said it on Saturday. You know, you started kind of getting emotional watching that video a little bit. I mean, it was incredible. It's incredibly special. And for Brian and for Eastern Michigan and Chris Creighton over there, I mean, that's how he coaches those guys. You know, he coaches them to be good football players and good human beings, and I think that was a prime example of it.

Okay, so I don't know if I just heard it through the whispers there. This dude, like I said on game day, I think like, hey, Mom, let's not sign for that loan yet. I feel like we can get that figured out. And I think you texted me within like two minutes or something like that, and it was within me remembering, oh, he is an Eastern Michigan guy. Yeah, this is right. And offensive lineman.

It's a perfect thing. But it's not as easy as that, right? It's not as easy as just like taking care of it is what I think. If you want to expand upon that. I'm just, I'm really new with the whole NIL stuff. I mean, it sounded like when it first started, you know, probably a year or two years ago that it was just kind of wild, wild west. I think right now, you know, there's still a bunch of, gosh,

I don't know, laws and rules that you do have to follow. I mean, you can't just, you know, cut a kid a check for tuition and basically, you know, say, we want to buy a scholarship. You can't do that. There's other avenues that you have to go down. But, yeah, we're working through that all the time. Yeah, but there shouldn't be. Like, TJ, that's like, that's the thing all yeah but there shouldn't be like that's what tj that's like that's the thing like there shouldn't be for

that particular case you know this is like seemingly the same thing over and over again where the ncaa like takes a stand or has a rule for something and it just goes completely against what they should be for none of us because so what we'd like to say i think and i don't want to speak for you but like if somebody can figure out how we can help this guy i think tj and others would like to help here we go if somebody can figure out how we can help this guy, I think TJ and others would like to help. Here we go. If somebody can figure out how to do it, he would like to take care of this for the Dooley family. Right.

I think that's. Yeah. And we're definitely working through that. I mean, there's you know, we're we're pretty close. And I'll tell you what, I mean, it's it's there's going to be something that and I don't want to take any of the credit away from. No, no. Brian or Zach. Absolutely.

And I don't want to take any of the credit away from Brian or Zach. Absolutely. But, you know, these are college kids that are doing something incredible that, you know, you guys are the same. I mean, if you saw that at, you know, West Virginia, Ohio State, I'm sure you guys would feel compelled to, you know, help out kids as well. I mean, it's nothing that, you know, me kind of being in a spot like, oh, I want to get my name in there and help. No, that's not it. It's just it touches you in a way where you're like, man, like these kids deserve it. Right. And when I heard, you know, even you mentioned it, I think I can't remember the lady on game day, but she said, you know, it spoke to Brian's mom and, you know, talking about taking a loan and that kind of hit me like, man, like we gotta,

we gotta help this kid out. We've got a great group of alumni too at Eastern Michigan that do a lot of things behind the scenes as well. And Brian's going to be one of those kids that, you know, we're going to make sure that we can give him as much help as possible. Because, like I mentioned, I mean, you know, it's not just the school. It's not just the education. This kid's still got to eat. This kid's still got to train. This kid's still got to pay rent.

I mean, and Brian is a kid that I think might have a chance to make it at the next level. So anytime you get a kid like that, obviously, being an alumni, you want to find ways to help. And I think we'll be able to find something to help them out a little bit. Hell yeah. Hopefully they'll be able to direct TJ and the rest of the Eastern Michigan alumni that want to help. And that was Jen Lada that did that piece. I thought it was fantastic. She told a great story, Jen. Go ahead, AJ. TJ, pivoting to the NFL. So Chiefs-Lions this Thursday night. How excited do you think the Lions O-line is right now

with the fact that Chris Jones is not signed with the Chiefs right now? He's still holding out, and he's probably not going to play this Thursday. You can't help but to be excited, right? I mean, all the guys are saying the right thing in the media right now about, oh, we're not worried about that. That's not our team, right? We worry about our players. But, hell, I mean, you guys know what it's like.

I mean, the other team's missing a player, whether it's for the holdout, whether it's injury. You can't help but to get a little bit of excitement going, right? And Chris Jones is a hell of a player, man. I'll be honest with you. I think Kelsey and Mahomes are underpaid as well. I think they should probably sit out to get some more money, to be honest with you.

But, no, I think that offensive line, look, it's a confident group. I mean, this is going to be Foxy. You know, a couple years ago when they signed all these guys and they drafted Sewell and, you know, on paper this line has been, they've looked so good. The reality is we haven't seen them play together in the last two years. Different guys have been hurt at different times. You know, Ragnow missed a lot of time last year.

Vitae missed the whole season. This is going to be the first game in the past two, three years where we're going to get to see this, you know, starting five play together. And I think there's a lot of excitement there. And that's a confident group. And look, yeah, hell yeah. Anytime that, you know, the other team is missing a key piece, you know, barring any changes over the next couple days, I mean,

you can't help but to get a little bit more motivation. You can't help but to feel that excitement. And, you know, as a Lions, you know, fan myself right now, I hope Chris Jones doesn't find a way to get back this week because I don't care, you know, call it a cop out, whatever you want, man, but that's the reality of the business. Nobody's going to feel bad for you and you got to, you know, miss a couple of guys.

Nobody's feeling bad for the Lions that they're missing, Jameson Williams, for the first six weeks. So, you know, don't reciprocate that feeling to other teams. Yeah, you're allowed to feel the way you feel, especially for a defense player of the year candidate. It does not sound like they're close. So I think you're pretty clear for Thursday. I think Thursday is pretty good with no Chris Jones, which is a bummer because he's one of the NFL's best players,

on showcase night, which I think we should talk about. The NFL chose for this Lions team to be on showcase night. It could have been any of the Chiefs games, home games, that they would have picked for opening night. It was the Lions. They're believing. I think the reason why is because Jared Goff and Ben Johnson this fucking last year were remarkable.

We can see a lot of the same things. What do you expect from the offense on Thursday night and how do you think it goes? I expect Jared Goff to be even better, to be honest with you. I mean, the last 10 games, you know, going eight and two there, he was really phenomenal, man. He wasn't turning the ball over. You know, I know his road stats last year were a little bit, certainly not as good as when he played at home. I think he had six touchdowns, four interceptions on the road and, you know touchdowns three interceptions at home that's going to be something that he's going to have to be a little bit better at this year is being a little bit more of a playmaker on the road but we talked about ben johnson and the creativity that he has um he's

just a bright guy i mean we talked about a lot last year quite frankly uh you know he was getting a ton of buzz you know back in the uh back in the spring and after the season about getting some head coaching interviews. And for him to come back, I think, gave a real big jolt. Not only that team, but that offense and Jared Goff. Because Ben Johnson has been seemingly the one coach that has found a way to just get into Jared Goff's head, get on the same page with him. That's the most important relationship in the NFL building is that play caller quarterback relationship. And they've got something good going on now. But I think the primetime game was like, all right, you know, you guys finished eight and two last year. A lot of people were talking about, we

didn't give you a primetime game. You know, you ended up playing yourself into one on Sunday night football to close the season. But here you go. You want primetime? Bam. Kansas City, Thursday night. Let's see what you got, right? And when that ball kicks off Thursday night, I mean, we know it's going to be loud. We know that that place is going to be raucous, raising the banner and celebrating and getting the rings and all that.

But it's basically, there's going to be nowhere to hide. And we're going to find out a lot about this Detroit Lions team real quick. Yeah, and I think we're all very pumped for it. And Dan, Motor City Dan Campbell said, it's not a weight on my shoulders, no, it's wind beneath my wings, man. That's right, man. Fucking lifts me, man. That's what we're here for.

Freaking, my freaking wings, man. He's awesome. Yeah. He is awesome. And he's been consistent too. You know, like, hell, even two years ago when they were, what was it, 2-14 or 2-13-1? I mean, he is the same guy.

He is the same coach. He's the same person. He's the same guy in interviews. And you guys know that as players, man. That's the one thing you want out of your head coach is just to be consistent, man. And I think that Dan Campbell, he's proven that over the last three years. And they've done a hell of a job, man. Brad Holmes, I mean, I remember sitting there two years ago, you know,

watching this team in preseason, and it come down to cut day, and you're like, fuck, they got 90 guys. I don't even know if they have 53 NFL players on this team. You know, now you look at it. Now you look at it this year, and you're like, they probably got 75 NFL players on this team. It's going to be a difficult transition to get that down to 53, but that just says a lot about Dan and Brad Holmes

and the guys that they've brought in to compete and the young guys that they're getting a lot of big-time play with, too. It's definitely an exciting time. TJ, they get so jacked whenever they pick a player. Dude, oh my God. Yeah, bro, that's what we

fucking wanted, dude. It's our guy. Could have got him last round. This was where we wanted him. Fifth round, bro. This is the guy. It's unbelievable. I love the juice. I love the energy.

And I love the vibes. It's like the opposite of like the Lions get every player they want. And then you hear guys like, I think it was like Jerry Jones, like every year he's like, there'll be like some Hall of Fame type player. He's like, man, we really wanted to draft that guy. Shit, dude. You know, Jalen Hurts really wanted him. Really wanted him on the team.

Justin Jefferson, if he would have, oh boy, we were going to pull a trigger. I was going to trade him two spots to get him. You guys talking about Justin Jefferson now, I was talking about him then. But obviously the Minnesota Vikings do what they did. They're pumped about, I'll tell you what, the Lions, man, they're pumped about Jameer Gibbs too. You watch some of those videos and how jacked they were.

I think even Brad said, like, we wouldn't have been fine taking him at number six if we didn't, you know, we were able to trade back to 12 and still get him. And that kind of let me know like, damn, all right, they had him even graded higher than, you know, B. John Robinson robinson because bijan ended up going a couple picks later they wouldn't hesitate to take jameer gibbs at six either i mean that was uh that's something that stood out like they really do love that guy well he's the dynamic right and how they use them

can run routes yeah be in the backfield you got a good offensive line you got good golf so anytime you got a good offensive line people forget about about this. Normally you're going to have a good screen game too. And Jameer Gibbs should be a monster in that particular world. Cannot wait to watch what Goff does and what Ben Johnson does. Connor has a question for you, TJ. Yeah, TJ. What's up, Connor? How are you doing, TJ?

Everything good? What's going on, buddy? Same old, same old, yeah. You mentioned how MCDC kind of hasn't changed at all, especially with these expectations. And you've been with the team when they were 3-13-1 or whatever the hell it was. But when you look at like when you were playing with the Packers, kind of how those camps went and how the expectations were,

especially then when, you know, you guys were going to the Super Bowl and were always projected to be there at the end. And then you look at this camp now that the Lions are going through, and again, a lot of new, brand-new expectations for them as a city, as a team, especially as the playoffs start to become a conversation with them. Are there similarities between the two? Do you see a little bit of the group that you had in Green Bay?

And also, is Jared Goff's experience already been to a Super Bowl? Is that coming through a little more because he knows that this team has the legs to go and make some real damage this year? Yeah, I think starting with Jared Goff, this is probably the most comfortable and the most confident that he's been in his career. Obviously, we all know it's well documented how he was kind of treated on the way out of L.A. They kind of threw him under the bus a little bit and said, we want to go get a guy that will even give you an extra first round

pick to just take him off our hands. And Goff came in here at Detroit and the first year was like, all right, he's going to be a bridge guy. You know, we're probably going to be picking high next year and see if we can get that franchise quarterback. And he's played his way into potentially being here for the next 10 years. That's just how much they love him here. Of course, he's got that, he's got that stature around him.

He has been to the Super Bowl, right? He has been a big-time player in this league. He's been a bit of an underrated guy and maybe not gotten as much publicity and positive things said about him in his career. But I think that he is 100% so confident and just content with where he's at right now. I generally think he wants to be here and he wants to be the leader of this team. Now, going back to your question, AJ was there in Green Bay a couple years before I got there.

My first year there in 09 was really the first year that we saw the potential that our team was going to have. I think it was Aaron's first year in the playoffs. We went out to Arizona. We lost a tough wildcard game in OT, but after that, it was like to have. I think it was Aaron's first year in the playoffs. We went out to Arizona. We lost a tough wildcard game in OT. But after that, it was like, holy shit, man, we got something special. And look, I'm not trying to say anything here about negative golf, but you see it on hard knocks.

Like even the coaches talk about Aaron Rodgers. And they're like, guys, we are going to be in every single game. Like we are going to have a chance to win every single game. And that's how it felt, you know, in the eight years that I was there with, with Aaron as well. And just the expectations were legit. You know what I mean? Every, every summer, 32 teams get together and they say one goal, win the Superbowl, right? We know that there's maybe five or six teams with legit chances, bunch of them. Hey, maybe some teams can make a run. We probably know there's five or six teams that don't have a chance in the world. Right?

But in Green Bay, we believed it. And I think in Detroit, they're starting to believe it. So, Connor, to go back to your first question, I think that they're getting to that point where, you know, we don't want to just win the division. We don't want to just kind of make our way into the playoffs. Like, we actually want to make some noise, and we want to get to that level where we're competing for a championship.

But I think they're getting there, but they're going to have to prove it. Let's win a Super Bowl, Fox. Let's do it. We don't need to win the division to get to the playoffs. I love everything TJ's saying. I just want to go 10-7 and win a playoff game. That's good with me. All right, let's crawl before we walk, Fox. Last year should have been in the playoffs.

Obviously, something had to happen earlier in the day. It did not happen. So that primetime game with the Packers ended up being just for pride, pretty much, and Detroit did what Detroit does. I'm excited to see what this year is with expectations. First time, long time. And Goff might be the first person that got paid a lot of money. Oh, yeah.

A ton. And now he's babyface. You know what I mean? Like, everybody loves him. He's already been paid, like, an enormous amount of money. His contract was a big part of the trade discussion like who's gonna take on his contract and now it's like he's good for another 10 years yeah that doesn't yeah that's that's huge golf has to be so much better now than it was just a

few years ago good for him and with the videos that the social media team's putting out they need to just run that out 15 yard out 20 yard out, 20-yard out that they've been throwing lines on. I don't know how it's stoppable, honestly, unless they've got somebody parked on the sideline. Then we assume that they have to take a human from the box. They can just run the rock a little bit. But he's seemingly the best outthrower in the NFL right now. And what else will he do?

How about the tight end? And it's a wide-open NFC, man, isn't it? I mean, I know you've got Philly at the top, who's kind of the NFL right now. And what else will he do? And it's a wide open NFC, man, isn't it? I mean, I know you got Philly at the top, who's kind of the Kings right now, and San Fran, Brock Purdy, you know, what's he going to look like as a first year, as a full-time starter? But it's not the gauntlet that you look over at the AFC and see.

I mean, AFC's got freaking eight, nine, you know, all pro quarterbacks over there that you've got to go through. It's a gauntlet, man. You look at the NFC and it should nine, you know, all pro quarterbacks over there that you've got to go through. It's a gauntlet, man. You look at the NFC and it should be, you know, outside of Philly. I think St. Fran's obviously going to be good, but you know, that, that, that division or that, that conference seems to be kind of a toss up. We'll see how it goes. I mean, I think we all expect Dallas to probably be a good team again, but yeah, you look at that AFC, man. I mean, just look at the, you know, the North, right? Look at the quarterbacks in the North.

It's just incredible. And obviously with Aaron going over there now, that's given a lot of people in the NFC North, you know, more confidence just having Aaron Rodgers out of the division. But I tell people all the time, man, and I still wouldn't be surprised. AJ, I think we talked about it last week when we were in Green Bay. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Jordan Love turns out to be a good player. I think a lot of people are kind of writing off Green Bay right now.

I'd say that'd be a mistake. They've got a good defense. They've got a lot of young talent. Aaron Jones is, I think, one of the most underappreciated running backs in the league. I love watching that dude play, and they've got some stud young receivers, man. Green Bay, they might be a dark horse to make some noise this year. If Jordan Love is even just above quarterback, I don't even think he needs to play at a Hall of Fame level for they might be a dark horse to make some noise this year. If Jordan Love is even just above quarterback, I don't even think he needs to play at a Hall of Fame

level for them to be a good team. He's a player, though. Everything is coming out of there. Everybody loves him. Go ahead, AJ. Tej, I don't know how much of hard knocks you have watched this year with the Jets. It's been pretty intriguing. It's been fun to watch, but everyone's talking about their O-line issues. Everything's great. Everything looks

great. Offense, defense. And they're just worried, is the offensive line going to hold up? What do you think? Do you study them all? Do you watch them at all? Like, how do you think it's going to play out? Man, I did watch a couple of those episodes of Hard Knocks. They had a really rough day, it seemed like.

I think when they were down in Carolina for joint practices. That looked ugly. And, you know, talking, obviously, we know James Campin, who was on Hard Knocks, Knocks 2 he's in Carolina and talk with him a little bit about it it seemed like it's it's a little bit of concern there for New York now I know that Makai Becton the massive tackle who's had some issues the last couple years with injury former first round pick kind of played bounce around left tackle right tackle you know this year he's he was kind of started at a depth spot. I think they've worked him back into that starting line. And he can help.

He can be a positive player. He's just so massive. And then Dwayne Brown, I think, too, is a guy who's played, gosh, it seems like 15, 16 years now in the league that, you know, I think he's coming off a puck. Maybe he'll be available for them at left tackle. But it seemed like it was a big concern in practices. But I'll tell you this.

I mean, I can't remember how many practices, you know, that we had even in Green Bay in, you know, 14, 15, where we felt like we were a top offensive line. And, you know, we were getting our ass kicked by the defense, right? You're getting beaten one-on-ones. One-on-ones are tough. And, you know, you're seeing some of those pressure periods that you're getting beat. I don't know if it's an overreaction right now. We'll obviously find out real quick. But Aaron, one of his strengths, AJ, you know this too, is to find ways to adjust to what he's got, right? If the offensive line's starting to struggle

a little bit or, you know, pass protection's breaking down, he'll find a way to change the plays. He'll find a way to try to help those guys out and make sure he doesn't hold the ball too long and, you know, at least get some confidence going there. But that's definitely, it seems to be the one question mark, I think, around the Jets right now heading into the season is that offensive line going to be able to hold up. Breece Hall, Dalvin Cook in the backfield. What's that mean for an O-lineman?

Shit, that means a lot of fun, man. You know what I mean? You get running backs like that, and you feel like you don't have to do your job to, you know, an incredible level. Like by meaning that, I mean, you just got to give these guys a second or two to get through the line, get to the second, third level. There's a lot of guys you play with. You're like, man, I'm going to have to finish this block for four or five seconds to give ourselves a chance. Guys like that, it's like, dude, just get a hat on the other guy. And, you know, Dalvin Cook and Breeze, they're going to be by them.

You know, they're going to be by the third linebackers they're gonna be up to the safeties um so that that makes your job definitely a lot a lot easier and i'll tell you what man they those those guys still got some speed too dalvin cook i know he's getting up there in age a little bit but you know you watch that cat just watching him nice cheeks there for a long time a lot of speed there's people saying you're a wilson dude he looks like a stud too, man. Oh, yes. He looks like a player. Phenomenal. And then you think about Lazard. Lazard's huge.

Yeah, massive. Massive, dude. I think everybody kind of forgets about that. And then you look at Hard Knocks and it's like, oh, that's a defensive end pretty much playing wide receiver out there. Cobby. I mean, Cobb and Aaron, you know, you can't talk enough about the chemistry that they've built over the last, you know, 10, 11 years too.

I mean, that's going to be his comfort. You're watching Tennessee. His safety blanket. Yeah, he's going to be years too. I mean, that's going to be his comfort, his safety blanket. It's going to be interesting to watch the AFC, man. That is going to be an absolute gauntlet over on that side of the NFL this year. Ty has something for you, TJ. Yeah, Teej, when you look at the Lions offensive line going into the year, everyone's saying how, hey, this is like a top three unit, maybe the best offensive line in football. And barring injuries with when everyone's drinking the kool-aid like that and kind of letting you know on the outside you hear how good they are like how quickly do you buy into

that and know like okay like we do have the the chance to be like one of if not the best offensive line in football this year like how quickly do you think it will take them to kind of realize that obviously assuming everyone stays healthy god i think that i mean they've already they already think that you know and a big part of it was the way they played last year i mean they were able to stay healthy for the most part that they lost vitai the starting right guard i think in training camp to a back injury but uh you know it didn't really matter who they lined up last year guys were coming in off the street, you know, two days before. And, oh, you're starting the right guard. Okay.

You know, but you're playing next to Frank Ragnow. You're playing next to Panay Sewell. It's like, all right, you know, this is going to be fun. I belong here. I think that group is – they've got so much confidence. And their expectations are extremely high. But, Ty, you nailed it, man. In the last couple years, and we talked about earlier, they've just –

knock on wood, they've just always had, you know, one of the three kind of pop up early in the season. It kind of derails, you know, the offensive line. You're playing a little bit of musical chairs. But I do think, I think they feel better about their depth this year too, where if one guy does have to go out for a play or a series, it's not going to sidetrack the entire offense. It's not going to make Ben Johnson say, okay, you know,

we've got to start calling this because we get right guard or we get center, right? They've got some good depth that's going to help those guys out as well. And that offensive line, they know it. They know that a big part of why there's so much hype and excitement and optimism around this football team is because of them. You know, anytime you have a good offensive line, you're going to have a chance to run the ball. You're going to have a chance to pass the ball. And Jared Goff is one of the best play action passers in all of football, in my opinion, and that's their bread and butter. As long as you've got an offensive line that can block guys,

and Ben Johnson, who's creative as hell, calling the plays, I think that's where a lot of that excitement comes from. I wonder if a team that is ever coached by Motor City, Dan Campbell, won't have a good offensive line. No way. You know, I wonder. That just feels like, you know, the identity of the coach, the identity of the team. MCDC feels like his identity is now pretty much all over that roster,

which is also another reason why we're so incredibly pumped for it. Tony has the last question for you here, TJ. Yeah, I don't want to rain on the parade. Whoa! Tony! Tony! What the hell, Tony? The O-line is great.

The weapons are great. Goff has been great. You know, you bring in Aiden Hutchinson last year. He seemed great. Jack Campbell comes in. But is the defense still going to be poop or no? They're going to be better. I promise you that.

And you know what? The way they played, I think, the first 10 games last year, it would be impossible not to at least make slight improvement because they were historically bad, and that's just a fact. So, yeah, I'll tell you what, man. They're secondary, bringing in, you know, C.J. Chauncey Gardner-Johnson. I mean, I've never seen somebody like that before, even in practice. You know, the way he runs his mouth and talking and the energy.

I mean, they had a joint practice. I think it was with Jacksonville. And, you know, the – like, Pat, the kickers, his mouth and talking and the energy. I mean, they had a joint practice. I think it was with Jacksonville. And, you know, the kickers, you guys are on the sideline when seven and seven is going on or whatever. And I can't remember who the kicker was for Jacksonville. But he was just putting the ball on the tee and kind of practicing that. And CJ just walks up and just like boots it off the tee and starts talking shit to the kickers. It's like, oh, I've never seen something like this. But he's made a huge impact.

Bitch. Not in the back room, but just that whole defense, the confidence that he has. And he is a Aaron Glenn type of guy. I mean, Aaron Glenn, he's said it probably ten times this year that, you know, a loud defense is a confident defense. CJ is definitely one of those guys that brings that confidence and, you know, that arrogance. But I think you need to have that on your team.

And that's been the biggest improvement. They're going to be able to start locking guys down a little bit more in the secondary, which was a big issue last year, not only with injuries but a lot of young guys they had. So I think that's probably where this football team made the biggest improvement. What did the kicker do? What did the kicker do?

I don't know what he did. Honestly, I don't know his right answer. He's got to fight him again. Yeah, what are you supposed to do? Could you imagine a kicker just fights CJ, GJ right there? He could sue him and take the Jacksonville kicker. That would be so awesome, bro. Could you imagine if that kicker just fought him?

Even if he loses. Even if he just gets. What if he puts his helmet on and is like, what did you say? It would have gone a long way for respect when it comes to kickers. I'll tell you that much. Well, that's what I'm saying. You get an opportunity to do something. That's what I'm saying.

In my head, I don't know what the answer is there if that happens. I think you laugh immediately because that's a hilarious move. Fight. But then you have to fight the guy. It's like going up to a trainer and just spilling the water and being like, fuck you. What's up, bitch? What are you going to do today? Nothing And then I'm going to do practice

You just stand over here like a little bit Like I do wonder what that kicker did Alright we're pulling for you Man it is a shame that that wasn't an immediate try to tap Yeah full brawl Just full melee How'd this start? Well he kicked the kicker

That would be amazing for our show That would have been amazing How did this start? Well, he kicked the kicker. Yeah. He kicked it off the team. That would be amazing for our show. That would have been amazing. Anyways. I think the second time he did it, like the first time he booted it, the second time he just walked over and just tapped it just enough to knock it over. This guy was bullying this guy.

This is the annoying part. Got to fight him. It has to happen. Don't like that. Don't condemn that. But also, at some point, you know, you got to knock it. It has to happen. I don't like that. Don't condemn that. But also, at some point, you know, you got to not get – Got to stand up. That's a good gimmick, though. Hilarious.

Yeah, CJ and DJ. Let's not spread this. Let's not have this start happening in another meeting. Maybe we should. I mean, CJ and DJ would play well in, you know, Arizona. He's a killer, it sounds like. Yeah, you got all these – yeah, no doubt. Shout out to Gaines.

Did you hear Gaines? Yeah, he's got the fire in his gut. I just thought about being in the room, though. I just thought about being in the room. I couldn't take it. What did the transportation have to do with any of it? Well, I just wanted to know. Have you ever heard of an NFL

player taking a bus to work? The thing about it is, I don't think anybody rose their hands. I don't think anybody did. I was looking in the back, and he said, who drove here? Nobody raised their hands. I was like, well, a lot of walkers over there. And then, you know, I don't think he had anybody with him. I don't think he had anybody with him.

I don't think. That's tough. Yeah. Yeah, there's a – yeah, that was a tough speech, yeah. I don't know how I would have – Dude, imagine the afterwards, walking out into the locker room. Okay, we're just sitting down. Maybe there's like five, ten minutes before something has to take place.

Sure. And I don't know who the person is on that particular team, but somebody said, who took the bus? Somebody fucking did. You're in that locker room. And then all of a sudden it would be like, he told me, pew, pew. Yeah, shots. And then it just becomes a full-on roast session almost.

And it's like, all right, let's go to walk through with this guy. A bunch of fucking killers out here. Prater. Prater. I got somebody. I can't remember who said it earlier, but their social media team's got to start having a little bit more awareness, don't they? Don't say that. There was something at the very beginning, too.

Remember, like, that video they put out when he was speaking? Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Explosives. It's like, oh, my God. They know what they got. You know? They know what they got. They know what they got. A little more weird out there in AZ, fellas.

Listen, you say that, you'll ruin your entire relationship with the team. So that came out of TJ Lang's mouth. Not our mouth. Should have seen what they were doing. These people are terrible at social media that are getting these jobs because they have social media degrees and the NFL pays these people nowhere near what they certainly deserve if they're an actual social media person. Just making players look terrible.

Just killing their own team for views. It's like, hey, that's not the right path. Says who? They're paying me $14 a post to get this. Yeah, it's a whole thing right now. Yeah, don't tell me how to do my job, buddy. All right. Bingo. That happens. I actually had one of those conversations. I said, you're right.

Yeah, you're right. Fucking kill your team. All right, TJ, we appreciate you, buddy. You're a good man. Hopefully that Eastern Michigan shit gets handled quickly. Yeah,

no, we will, man. He was a great kid and, you know, he's, he deserves it, dude.

So it's, we'll get, we'll get, we'll get, make sure we get him taken care of. I'm excited for football, boys. What do we got?

Three damn days. Holy shit. Hey, college had good weekend though, bro. TJ college had a good weekend. How about Dion, man?

Oh my goodness. Dion. I saw you talking to him earlier. Holy shit. Hey, I think they got a shot. Like for real. I think like not just this year,

obviously, who knows they'll run into a team. They want to run into a team. Inevitably. They want to play in a game where they're going to run into a team that is literally, I don't want to say Travis Hunter, just Travis Hunter could go play anywhere but like

dudes everywhere and they'll just get outpowered maybe here early right they'll come a team that has offensive line something absurd some d-line something absurd this year but like i think they're set up for the next two three years yeah you know what i mean like i think they're in a very good spot and it's only going to get better and better he said on uh undisputed earlier i saw the clip where he was like, I just need some of those big boys. You know, I can get some offensive linemen in here. That would be great.

You know, we got all the skill positions we possibly could need because the question was phrased like worrying about his depth or whatever. You know, how much depth does he have? And he was like, you didn't even get to see all the depth that we have because you got one guy going for four touchdowns. You got one guy playing both sides of the fucking ball. You got another guy that's through for five. Like, we got depth all over the place.

You just didn't have enough spots. He's like, well, we need, though. We need the big guys. Big guys will go, right, if they know that it's a good opportunity? Oh, hell yeah, dude. You see, you know, Sanders' boy playing quarterback and Travis Hunter. I mean, my goodness, dude. I haven't seen a player like him in a long time. But, hell yeah, that's going to attract a lot of dudes. Hell yeah, you know, Sanders boy playing quarterback and Travis Hunter. I mean, my goodness, dude, I haven't seen a player like him in a long time, but hell yeah, that's going to

attract a lot of dudes. Hell yeah, that will. Now I don't know what's going to happen. Cause you think like, isn't, is the PAC 12 like dissolving? Like I know they're losing a ton of teams. Colorado's going big 12. They're going big 12. Okay. Yeah. So that's still a big time conference. I mean, you're still gonna be able to get some, some big dudes, but man, yeah, that, I wonder how sustainable that's going to be with that Travis Hunter kid playing, you know, 150. What do you think? What do you think? Hey, they're saying he's different though, bro. They're saying he's, Deion's saying this guy's different. I mean, for 12 games, you know, they're going to have to cut back at some point. And I think that's kind of what Deion might've been alluding to. Like, Hey, we kind of wanted to showcase this kid, and

hey, when we play big-time teams, he's going to be on the damn field every snap. Like, you're going to need him, but you're going to get some of those games where he's not going to be playing that much. I wouldn't think so. I'll tell you what, dude. Oh, my goodness. I didn't even know what was happening. I was watching the game, and I was like, is that the same corner?

Do they got two number ones on his team? Do they got two number twelves on his team, or what the... That guy looks exactly like the other twelfth. Is that the same 12? Is that a fucking corner? Do they got two number ones on this? Do they got two number 12s on this team? Or what the? That guy looks exactly like the other 12. Is that? That was my first thoughts. Because I even knew the story that he was playing both. And then you just can't help but while you're watching it, it's like,

they got two 12s, one on offense. Are those the same? That's the same dude. Holy shit. This guy's a guy. They're saying the pick that he made down near the goal line there and the coverage that they were running and where he was, like football IQ through the roof,

knowing that that ball is coming because I guess he's supposed to be back a little bit. And then the athleticism to launch seven yards pretty much while the ball is in the air is like impossible. There's a bunch of corners talking about that play. It's just like absurd to even think about in of itself, let alone the fact he's also playing wide receiver and scoring touchdowns. It's like. And it seemed like he could add a couple more. I mean, they showed probably five or six replays.

He was like running the route for the receiver when he was playing corner. It's like, gosh, damn, this dude is going to be special, man. It was fun to watch. I'll tell you what. That probably made a lot of the a lot of the old, you know, talking college football heads a little bit uncomfortable. With what? Old who, TJ? 88 guys.

You saying the old why? Why? You saying the old why? There's some old whites out there that wanted to see TCU. Hey, TCU needs to hang 73 on them boys. Come on now. 88 new players. 88? Oh, my God. on them boys. Come on now. 88 new players. 88.

Oh my God. And you know, holy, dude, that made a lot of people probably uncomfortable. But hell, Deion, man, he's doing it, dude. That was awesome. It's a professional outfit. Game of the weekend, I think. That game was awesome. Last night, what FSU did. Last night was good. I did not expect that. That was sweet. I did not expect that. I thought LSU was going to win that game.

Me too. Legit. Congrats to Norvell turning that culture. Pretty quick. Beat the shit out of them. Really well. All right, TJ, we appreciate the hell out of you, buddy. All right, boys. Always good talking to you, man. I'll catch up with you this season.

Keep us updated on that dually sitch. Yeah, we'll do it, buddy. All right, fellas. Have a good week. Nice job with TJ Lang. Hey, TJ! Yeah, TJ just wins every bar fight he's in Oh yeah, you can tell

Junkyard doll type of guy you want I wouldn't challenge him Yeah, but you probably didn't practice You probably ran at him full speed every single day That's not fun That was not enjoyable running to TJ You see how big his head is Yeah, so what is he? He just has that massive cranium

Can probably die on a lot of booze He's exactly what you want in an offensive lineman. Like, he is gritty. He's nasty. Like, he is going to finish through the whistle no matter what. He is a tough guy. He's a tough, mean cuss. He is, isn't he?

Yeah. Yeah, he is. Yeah. Could you help? Did you think of the same thing I did when he was talking about CJ, GJ kicking the ball off the kicker's tee? It instantly made me think of that video of AB farting in that guy's face twice.

Remember that one, like the chiropractor guy? I'm sorry. My bad. Oh, man. Bubble guts or something. That was awesome. Yeah, got to fight him. I think that has to happen.

He's back in the news, too. Oh, he is? Yeah, AB. Allegedly, he asked one of his partners if the AR-15 was still in a car while talking to a couple of his players about some things. They said that he said it in a manner. I believe the story goes they said he said it in a manner that he was threatening them with a gun pretty much.

Now, who knows what all is coming out, but he was the owner of an Arena League team for a few weeks. He was. Not him. Exactly. It was – Well, I can't even remember the name. Oh, yeah.

Saudi. Albany? Wasn't it Albany? Yeah, but what was the title of the – It was like a Saudi Arabian or something, like a Dubai. Oh, really? Or all Hadid Brown or something. No, I don't remember.

When he was floating in the pool over there? Well, it could have been. That could have been how he initially. That was Dubai. Let's go. Anyways, that Arena League team, they really had it this year, too. They did. I think that's the biggest disappointment of all.

I know. They got the Dave Snyder of Arena League. Let's go to the phones. Kind of. Let's go to the phones here. Let's go to Darren in New York. What's going on, Darren? Hey, how's it going, boys?

Steve Goldman. Yep, hell yeah. Nailed it. Hey, I want to know, so everyone's talking about the AFC East being a slaughterhouse division. How come nobody's talking about the AFC North? You got the Bengals. As long as Joe Burrow's on the field, they're going to do their thing. Deer seem like a sneaky playoff got. The Bengals, as long as Joe Burrow's on the field, they're going to do their thing. They seem like a sneaky playoff

lock. The Ravens, why is nobody talking about the star-studded Ravens? You got a healthy Lamar with all those weapons on offense. And the Browns, people seem to forget how good Deshaun Watson was and how talented he is at football. All that cap space they have scares me.

Why is nobody talking about this division? Whoa. Whoa. Feels like you did all of that to leave out the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's what it feels like. Whoa. No, I think they're a sneaky playoff lock, man. They did great in the preseason.

Okay, Darren, I appreciate that. Darren just wants a little bit more positivity about the AFC North and how great it is. I feel like we've chatted about it a little bit. I think everybody has. But I guess the reason why it's not being chatted about is the team isn't in New York, for instance. The New York Jets just made a massive move.

They're in the AFC East, which also has the last dynasty in the NFL. So a lot of people are going to talk about the New York Jets being good for the first time, seemingly in a long time. Then you talk about the NFC East. You got another New York team everybody's going to talk about. So I think the AFC North doesn't have these

pretty cities being represented. You know, you got got another New York team everybody's going to talk about. So I think the AFC North doesn't have these pretty cities being represented. You know, you've got blue-collar cities, gritty cities, rust belt cities in there. So it's not going to draw a lot of attention from a lot of people maybe in larger cities. But we understand that the AFC North is the kitchen, and it gets hot in the kitchen. And the team that makes it out of there is going to be a tough team, and they're going to have a rugged season. They're going to have to deal with some injuries probably, some weather, some adversity,

and probably lose a game they're supposed to win and win a game they're probably supposed to lose. That's the AFC North, and that's what the football is. I couldn't have said it better myself, except for the one part you messed up was there's going to be no injuries because there's not going to be any injuries. Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right. So sorry. I made that proclamation earlier.

I don't know if you heard it. Football gods put it on my heart. Zero this whole year? Yep. No injuries this season. What don't know if you heard it. Football gods pull on my heart. Zero this whole year? Yep. No injuries this season. What a great year. It's awesome. I can't wait for this season.

Football gods pull on my heart. So I had to let it out. Toughest Super Bowl to win ever. Football gods have been hot too lately. Football gods have been awesome. Northwestern scored zero points. Shout out to the... Rutgers.

But the... What do you want to call it? Oh, the football gods lock of the week. Boom. That was Rutgers but the Football Gods Lock of the Week. That was Rutgers the whole entire way. You can't be putting dinghies and butts and winning football games. You can't be doing that in the locker room

and win games. So right away I saw that. I'd actually called Gumby. I said, hey, I don't know what you like. There was a very, very, very serious hazing scandal at Northwestern very recently. Very real. Like within the last month. Not a lot of time to turn over culture.

I assume there isn't vibes that are too high around that facility. So seemingly you would think the Shiano man would take advantage of that. Yeah. Would that carry another week, you think? I'm not sure, you know, because you don't want to not take advantage of the football gods, but you don't want to disrespect them thinking the football gods are going to have their lock of the week be the same exact thing every week. Like, I'm going to bet against Northwestern every single week this year,

but that won't be the football gods' lock of the week every week. That'll just be you with a little bit of—why are you guys doing that to football? Exactly, yeah. Can't be Elvin walking and still thinking that you're going to go out there and score. They say they're putting on purge masks. Yep, they did purge masks. They did the whole thing.

What the hell is going on, AJ? That's Big Ten football, I guess. Who put purge masks on? Northwestern. Northwestern. They're doing a naked slingshot. Get rid of the demons, or is that going on during the car wash situation?

I don't know what you're talking about. They said car wash. Elder class don't know what you're talking about. The car wash, they said car wash, they would, elder classmen, vets would line up and they'd make them walk through and go into the shower. Oh yeah. That was written. That's why they called it the car wash. That's written. That's reported.

We didn't make this up. No. We just observe and report. That Northwestern culture is not a winning one. No, not right now. They will not win this year. I do not think so. I don't mind UTEP storming into Northwestern culture is not a winning one. No, not right now. They will not win this year. I do not think so. I don't mind UTEP storming into Northwestern on Saturday, to be honest. Boom. Just keep with the football gods.

Don't mind it at all. Minus one and a half. The football gods have been great, though. Let's talk Shrek claps. Ooh, what's that? When upperclassmen on the team would run around a player who made a mistake in practice while clapping their hands above the head of a teammate. Can't do that.

Wow. Car wash, a tradition that consists of players lining up, standing naked, and spinning around the entrance of the showers that all freshman players are forced to rub up against the line of men to get to their showers. That one is tough to believe. The car wash one? Yeah.

I mean, I'm not saying whatever is going on, whatever happened, but, man, that's a tough one. I don't know how innocent bystanders watch that and say, hey, oh, yeah, man, can't wait until I'm a vet and I get to be the guy driving the car wash. Like, I don't know how that happened. Yeah, so that was kind of my big thing, too, because they were talking about this being in the middle of the locker room.

So if it was in front of the showers, that would be in the middle of the locker room. So I didn't really fully understand how in 2023 or 2022, 2021, with the amount of access we have to things and the amount of cameras that are everywhere, how something like this would have been able to take place in the locker room. But then it sounds like here we are past it. Nobody really disputed it.

No. No, yeah. Not all of it. Obviously, some of this was just allegations that are real, but not all of it was openly, nope, nope. I don't think to our – that was a surprise to me. It wasn't more like, no, that's not true, that's not true. Very surprising.

It was wild. It's wild. So we should bet against them. That's the way it should go. You know who else we should bet against? Who's that? Well, I don't want to do this because it's a bit negative. I don't want to do this. Uh-oh bit negative. I don't want to do this.

Uh-oh. I'm worried about Cooper Cup. Yeah. Uh-huh. Because, you know, Cooper Cup, and we said there's going to be no injuries this season, so this happened before the football gods poured it on my heart. That's right.

Cooper Cup had a hammy, came back, had another hammy. They're starting to think that it's the way his body is potentially built, that this is going to be a forever type injury situation so he's actually currently visiting minnesota right now the state great state great lakes over there too i mean minnesota is a beautiful place to meet with a body guru who can hopefully help with the hamstring issue that is seemingly one that they think is going to be a problem for the long haul now obviously cooper cup when he's playing on a football field we think he is remarkable he's another quarterback on the field. He

earned one of the biggest contracts in the history of wide receivers because he and Matt Stafford were literally on the same page. He was fast. He was quick. He was in chain. He was tough. He was durable. Now, all of a sudden, there's a couple injuries, a hamstring. They're saying the way his body's built, it's going to hurt again. Seeing a guru in Minnesota, they don't have one in L.A.?

Yeah, that's interesting. I thought all the gurus were in LA. So, what? You know who he's going to see. Who? Kirk's guys. And Gal. What are their names? Peggy Sue and Bobby Joe.

What if he did watch quarterback and was like, you know what? I'm done with all the glitz and glamour. I need them. I need these two. Just very basic, one table. They hand wash the cloth and linen that's on top of you. Yeah. We were in their basement. He had to travel from L.A. to their basement

to get this hamstring thing resolved. And if that's the case, they're running a good business. There you go. Congrats to them. And he's going to be back on the field. Very soon. But it did freak me out that they had to go to L.A. to Minnesota. No offense, Minnesota.

I got a lot of respect for Minnesota. But also, L.A. normally where all the experts, at least one of each field would head to. That not happening. Are we worried about Cooper Cup in the future of his entire career here, AJ? I am. The fact that you said, so he had a hammy and then he came back and he had a setback.

That's what worries me. When it's a hammy or it's any kind of muscle injury like that, you just don't want it to linger throughout the season, have him always kind of worrying about, hey, today I can't really open up all the way, coach. I can go about 70%. You can't. Hopefully they figure something out structurally or whatever

to where he doesn't have this all the time. What, Connor? You're being super negative over there. No, I'm not being negative, but this Rams bug, I am genuinely worried Matt Stafford's going to get hit this year from behind and he's going to be paralyzed. Cardinals might beat the Rams. Jeez Louise.

Genuinely worried. The Rams sold their soul for that Super Bowl. That's what happened. The offensive line was not great last year unless they got better. Now you lose your best weapon seemingly here for a good bit, so you might have to hold on to the ball a little longer. Yeah. Aaron Donald's still there, but is he just a trade piece

for them? I do not know what to expect from the Los Angeles Rams, but to your point, Matt Stafford saying, I'm coming back for this, we gotta keep chatting about is awesome. He's a football guy, through and through.

Who cares? Yeah, I got a spinal bruise. Who cares? Yeah, I got a spinal bruise. Who cares? You ever see what I played through before? I had a separated shoulder, a broken rib, and a punctured lung. Threw a touchdown. Run it back. It's on NFL films. I just play football. That's what I do. And also, if I play this season, there's another like

$50 million coming to the old Matthew Stafford camp. I just don't know with his legacy and everything he has already built why he's signing up for it, but I respect it. And just don't know with his legacy and everything he has already built why he's signing up for it, but I respect it. Yeah. And he can't keep up with the lingo either. He's having trouble making friends too.

Why even be there anymore? I saw him having a catch yesterday, though. He looked pretty good. He can sling it. Yeah, he said he might suit up and fucking be thrown out of the bullpen for the Dodgers during the playoffs. Huh? Whoa.

Yeah. Closer. Guy was throwing fucking heat. Bro, that was a pop on the glove. Oh, yeah. You could see the fucking dust and the dirt coming out. And it was like perfect form, too. Oh, yeah.

He looked good. Yes, he did. You see, everybody talking about how we went to high school together, they forget who pitched better. That's right. I did. Don't, Clayton. Me.

I can do this any time I want, but instead, my wife has a podcast. I'm in L.A. having a good time. I'm going to go sign up to get my ass beat for another season, and then maybe I'll come over here and throw some baseballs for you guys. Exactly. It'll be cool. What's going on with baseball? Yankees need to win 25 straight, I saw.

Yeah, pretty much. But the young kids came up and played very well. They just swept the Astros. And, again, typical Yankee fashion, wait until you need to win 35 games in a row to be nine games back to sweep a good team. So, you know, doing great. But, hey, guess what? Football's here.

Oh, nice. Just kind of moved on. Orioles, number one, the AL East. Yankees, dead last. Very good. Dead last. The Sox are a tough out, too. Yeah, the So socks are certainly something.

Second to last in the AL East. Let's go down and see the real action. Yeah. Where we at? Oh, hell yeah. Oh, second to last. Name is the socks. Well, we have a 500, Tony.

Doesn't matter. That's the best division baseball has ever seen. Well, this sport is really fun. I got to hit some baseballs. Oh, yeah. You got a metal bat? Metal bat or wood? They had a metal bat out there and a wooden bat out there. I was

told that the metal bat is the cheat code. This is what you're going to want to use if you want to hit a ball out. So I used the metal bat as everybody was using, and I am a righty, even though Jet Passon took some still frames and said my form is shit because the baseball bat was pointing down at the ground, I guess, at one point while the ball was already pitched.

So he said I need to keep that up a little bit higher. I caught pretty good wood on this thing. Well, metal on this one. 330 out down the left line. It's off the, I don't know, about three-quarters of the way up the fence. Thought that was it. Really thought that was it. When that one didn't go, that's when I knew probably not getting one out here today.

Damn. With that being said, a guy named Matt, who's from Boone, North Carolina, who's the greenskeeper for the Charlotte Knights and has been for a long time, he told me if I would have been using a wooden bat, that ball's gone. Really? Because of my swing speed, he said. Oh. He said that bat was almost too small for me.

That bat should have been using a heavier bat. It probably gets out. So I stepped back up with the wooden bat. I hit some fucking lasers. Pulled them off the net. Couldn't time one up to get it out. That's all right. Well, you also didn't have cleats on.

Couldn't dig in and actually be one with the dirt, which matters quite a bit. Your fucking feet are slipping and sliding all around. I mean, it makes a huge difference. Wind was in the face, too. It was actually in the face. Blowing in from left. Yeah, it was blowing directly in from left. You did have a foul ball, and that fucking was crushed.

Yeah, I hit a couple good balls, though. But I'm not a lefty. I saw you guys changing tires, too. Yeah, that was a lot of fun, the whole thing. Then we did a simulator. I crashed in pit row. Oh, yeah. Nice.

Kill a bunch of people. I got last place. Foxy did get last place,, yeah. Nice. Kill a bunch of people. I got last place. Foxy did get last place, which I think we all. Yeah, of course. Why? Why is that? Of course. Foxy just.

Foxy's a bad driver. That's just how it is. I'm not a bad driver. We saw him on the go-kart track. I've never gotten an accident once in my life. Safe driver. Well, super safe driver. Yep.

Have you ever got a ticket? Once. For what? Not stopping at a stop sign? Speeding. Speeding? No way. It was in the upper peninsula and the speed limit there is 55 miles an hour, which is

bullshit. His car had a governor that wouldn't let him go over 62. Yeah, so now his hands start to shake and tremble whenever that thing starts going, even in the big old Bronco. Even in that big old Bronco. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. That's a good car, that Bronco. You're in a big old Bronco. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. That's a good car, that Bronco.

Great car. Anyways, the simulator was not realistic. I mean, they said it was. Yeah, isn't that how that kid became a race car driver? Yeah, I saw the movie preview. Yeah, me too. Is that Million Dollar Arm for racing? Yeah, some kid was a virtual reality racer, and he made it all the way, and he turned pro.

So I think there is actual, you know, as we know, there was one guy who was really good. Very good. But he got so mad one time whenever he was not doing as good. But now he's taking over NASCAR. Exactly. He's the Morgan Wallen of NASCAR. Boom. Yes, he is.

He certainly is. That one's real, I think. But we were putting these little cars. I couldn't get my leg underneath the wheel. So I'm sitting like this, halfway out. Couldn't touch the brake. Now, I like to drive like Tony Stewart. I don't like touching the brake.

Turns out when you're driving at Darlington, you need to hit the brake, I guess. Because it's a dangerous thing. So I was spinning out every... You drove the door open. Yeah, door was open because my ass was hanging out. Racing's not for anybody who has a dangerous thing. So I was spinning out every... You drove the door open. Yeah, door was open because my ass was hanging out. Racing is not for anybody who has a fat ass, is what I've learned. Nope. Because those seats are impossible.

It was a good race. Even the go-kart ones were pretty tough. Yeah, I couldn't get out. Yeah, both of them. Charlotte's a great city. Yeah. Queen City. It was alive.

Clean, alive. Yep. A lot of people. Those Cox fans, bro. They were out there early. Rowdy. I did not expect that. I did not expect... Clean, alive. A lot of people. Those Cox fans, bro. They were out there early. I did not expect that. I guess I should have. They overwhelmingly won the day.

I think so. When I was there, we didn't stay for the game. Got home to watch them all and see the baby. Right. Then they lost. Well said. Last night was all Florida State. It felt like there were no LSU fans.

No, there was not. Yeah, that was awesome. It got real loud there. Brian Kelly brought it up, I think, in his mic before the game about the fans. He's a partisan crowd. He also talked to Norvell and said, hey, you did it. Way to go. Way to take a stand. Do everything you do the right way.

Norvell goes, yep, I respect you. All right, have a good one. Brian Kelly, though, seems a little bit different than Norvell before the game with Mic'd Up. He said, we're going to go beat the heck out of Florida State. They did not. No, they didn't. Complete opposite.

It's a tough second half. How about Florida State? Florida State looked good, man. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. How about Florida State being good? Good game. Like, when I was – I don't know.

Like, I'm ordering you guys. When I was growing up, Florida State was legit. They were the real deal. Hey, this kid fresh out of Michigan State, phenomenal. So good. Thank God. What's his name? Keon Coleman.

They told a story on the air last night about he was a transfer from Michigan State and they knew they were getting like a great player or whatever. Then they had a cookout or something at Norvell's house and he was in jeans and he did a windmill dunk pretty much. And everybody on the team was like, oh, okay. We got like a guy here. And then all of a sudden last night, they started targeting him. Him and Wilson being the one-two

threat for Jordan is going to be really good. But it's hard after this first week to be like, this team's good, this team's bad. Because we have no idea what teams are going to be good, what teams are going to be bad. Like LSU we all thought was going to be good this team's good this team's bad yeah because we have no idea what teams are going to be good what teams are going to be bad like lsu we all thought was going to be good because how the season ended and then last night you watch it's like jayden played seemingly one of the worst games i've seen him play yeah or was florida state's defense just incredible it's like so many question marks here early still even after watching a little bit of ball yeah and he

i mean there's like 100 plus yards that he should have had on drops which ridiculous. But that Keon Coleman kid, there's a clip now coming out. I think it was his second touchdown where they run the ball the play before, and he's jumping up in the air, going like this to the sidelines. Pointing at the corner. Yes, and then the next play they threw that deep ball in the corner, touchdown. Yeah, he actually, yeah. I loved it because he's going like this.

Yes, like, come on. Excuse me. I will come on. Excuse me. I will catch this. Excuse me. Are we looking? I don't think they're subbing this guy. He's standing right here still looking at me. Yeah.

This guy's still looking at me. Then they ran a little ball in a bucket. Yeah, there it is, yeah. To your point, too, like, you might go 11-1. That would be a great win for Ohio State. Bingo. Right, AJ? That could happen, right?

That's college football right there. That's what we've got to remember over there in Ohio, though. That's right. None of this matters. You know, like we get into November, late October. Are you going to be thinking about what happened the first three weeks of the season? I guess if you lost, then yes.

But as long as you squeak by with a win. Yeah, if you care about the game. That's right. Come on. Do you care about the game? I care about it. I care about what your team looks like towards the end of the season. I guess if you lost, then yes. As long as you squeak by with a win. Yeah, if you care about the game. Do you care about the game? I care about it. I care about what your team looks like towards the end of the season. Might have four Pac-12 teams in the college football playoff. I think it was like 1984, somewhere around there, when the last time a team lost in week one and went on to win the national championship.

That's a long time ago. Might happen again. Who was that team? I want to say Miami. Boom. Reese Davis told me. And I just saw Bam. I'm like, oh, Bam I want to say Miami. Boom. Reese Davis told me. And I just saw Bam. I'm like, oh, Bam. Got to be Bam. Got to be Bam.

It was not. It was Ammy. Miami. How about them, huh? Miami. They look fast. Yeah. Fine.

They got some weapons. Yeah. If Van Dyke can figure it out, they're going to be in a good spot down there. They got an A&M this week. A battle of teams that looked like dog shit last year that weren't supposed to. Oregon State, five tuds for DJ Uyunglele. Did you see that? Yeah. Everybody loves a

comeback. I feel good. When you see that happen for whatever reason, I'm like, okay, good. I'm glad this kid's having success because he was so hyped up at Clemson, so it's cool to see him going out there and succeeding. Penn State snuck by. That score is not indicative of the game. They scored with six seconds left. That was much closer. You're right. It was much

closer than that score should have been. Nah, it started to get to a point where it was becoming... I like Garrett Green, man. I like the QB. Yeah, didn't throw a ball. Just, you know, threw one or two passes. I like his moxie. I like the cut of his jib. I agree. I do like the cut of his jib, and Penn State might be Penn State again. They're going to be good. There's a chance

that Penn State's actually good. QB looks good. Yeah, and Penn State might beat Penn State again. Yeah, they're going to be good. There's a chance that Penn State's actually good. Yeah, and then this will look back on this and be like, okay, lost to Penn State, but Penn State is finally back in the conversation of potentially winning a Big Ten title, you know, so maybe you can think like that, but boy, oh boy, West Virginia

fans are about done with old Neil Brown. Yeah, I'd say. You know, because he's seven years in, six years in. I forget what it is. Six, right? Six years in. Six, I think, yeah. Should not just be, like, such a miracle to think that we would beat Penn State

six years into a guy's tenure. Yes. We're in the Big 12. Bad spot to be. Got a lot of money. You know, we got an NIL thing that spends money, pays money. Like, you're six years in. It shouldn't be like people are like, well, they were able to cure COVID, right?

So we should be able to beat Penn State. Like, that's not how, you know what I mean? Like, that's not how people should be looking at that game six years into your regime. Yeah, true. And then whenever it goes down the way it does and they don't even cover, it's like. Next week's the real test, though, right? Duquesne. And then whenever it goes down the way it does and they don't even cover, it's like. Next week's the real test, though, right? Duquesne, buddy.

We lose to Duquesne. That's the one that you got to run them out of the stadium. You have to. On the field, they lose to Duquesne. Take his fucking whistle. Seriously, yes. Take his visor. Shave his head. Don't.

His hair is phenomenal. Hair needs to go. This needs to be a public humiliation. Give him a swirl. No, listen, none of that needs to happen. But honestly, like six years in, this is all your people. This is all your culture. Yes.

This is all your thing. And we're a Big 12 school. And we've had a lot of success before. Like going against these big schools. Although the national audience might be like what a surprise little old big uh west virginia it's like that should not be how it's viewed oh like that is not what you're in charge of you're in charge of winning games and like building and instead it's like oh the max school is going to play yeah against penn state that's

how that's how people are viewing it's like that's not good either and then you lose it's like get huggy bear back in there to fire up the troops. Rich Rod is who people. Yeah, they want to get. Yeah, they had a good one. Bring him back. Bring him back. Dude, if he was to go back to West Virginia, I know one thing.

If James Franklin scores with six seconds left through that whole thing, there's a chance old Rich Rod's on a beeline to James Franklin's face with his right hand. 49-3, Jacksonville State. Nice. Big-time win over their D1AA opponent here, one of the only ones left on the schedule because they are making the change up to D1AA football.

But, yeah, I think that was my big realization while I was watching the game, realizing we weren't going to be able to win that. It's like we should be able to, though. We should at least have some sort of thought that we should win this. And I don't like getting laughed at by Kirk Herbstreit. Yeah. Again, Paul. I don't like that.

He keeps doing that, too. Yeah, he does. I don't like him laughing at it. Hey, he was a voice of college football. But then reality strikes, and it's like we didn't even cover. Penn State actually covered 20. It should have covered, though. It should have covered.

But they didn't. They didn't. They didn't even cover. Penn State actually covered 20. It should have covered, though. It should have covered. But they didn't. They didn't. They didn't. Watch out. Duke's won like 49-7, too, I'm pretty sure. Man, that can't happen. That really can't happen.

I'm not even saying. What's the spread on that game? It's probably not up yet because it's 1A versus AA. Probably 4 and a half. 4 and a half, 5 and a half. Don't do it? Who's favorite? We gotta make a change. AJ, enough. Let's go to the fence. Gotta make a change somehow.

Never know. With me being the loudest West Virginia fan in the world now at this point, not strongest, but the loudest, I've been given some ridiculous platforms to say i'm cheering for west virginia which i am i would like west virginia to be good you know we talked about that so if it's me doing that and then rich rodriguez welcome back to west virginia that'd be

something you wouldn't have imagined happening in about 2008 or so just just you know with the way everything's going that would be a pretty wild scene. But, boy, what I love to see Rich Rodriguez get a chance to do another run at a Big Five school. With money? Hopefully. Yeah, hopefully. With money to recruit people. It would be night and day.

And just the respect factor, like you said. They got bitched at the end of that game. Will you stop it? They did, though. They really did. No fear whatsoever from Penn State. I mean, Neil Brown's not going to come over here and spit in my face. He's a wuss. That's what they are saying

about the end of that game, and that's why they scored that touchdown at the end. Let's go to the phones. Week three could be the end of Neil Brown. We have trusted the climb, to be fair. That was his thing the first few years. Trust the climb. It's like, Mountaineers, get it. We got to climb.

It's like, bro, we haven't climbed in a long time, have we? And we haven't really moved anywhere but down. You know what happens when that happens. He's been there six years, you said? Six, seven years he's been there? Yeah, long time, bro. That's a real conversation. It's all this guy's recruits and a half.

It's like a recruiting cycle and a half. Plus, you had COVID. You can keep a couple of those guys. It's almost two full recruiting cycles. He's like a recruiting cycle and a half. Plus, you had COVID. You can keep a couple of those guys. Yeah. So it's like almost two full recruiting cycles. Fifth year. He's been at fifth year where he's been able to run this. It's fucking crazy. Well, like you said, West Virginia should not be a team where big-time Power Five schools are scheduling them like a fucking cupcake.

Homecoming. Yeah, exactly. Like, hey, we could be playing Alcorn State or whatever, but whatever, playing West Virginia, it's the same fucking difference. Like, that shouldn't happen. Can't have it. Garrett Green's going to run wild. Come on, Garrett. Good luck, GG. Go run

wild. Run wild. Take it to the Dukes. Can't lose to the Canes. AQ is popping off, too. Yeah, AQ was certainly something, wasn't he? Was he feeling it? Oh, yeah, he was. In his biker shorts.

Looks good. He needs to eat something. Big thank you to his wife for recording that. So we know what he's like behind closed doors. Yeah, that was awesome. The guy loves the Nittany Lions. His little boy is going to grow up and be real proud of the Nittany Lions, I think. Yeah, I was wondering about his kids watching their dad wearing tights around the house.

Oh, you look good, don't you? He looks very good. He does. For real. A little too good, some people were saying. What did he say? 225 he wants to get to? Yeah, that's a little bit too small, but he looks good wherever he's at right now.

Why do you? Why do you? Why? That was me. That was me. That was me. I was trying to incite Gumby. Gumby made a great point. I mean, in the trenches is in jeopardy if that's what we're looking at.

Uh-huh. No. I agree. He looks great. Me too. I think the same thing. He does look great. It's just in the trenches, I mean. No, legitimacy.

We might have to change the name. Not – Former O-lineman. Former, yeah. Put him in a fat suit or something. I could do that. Not a bad idea. All right, we'll think about that.

What if every time he came in here, all right, got your own little office. Go ahead. Get one of those sumo deals that you sumo wrestle against people. Make him wear that. For in the trenches. Of course, so that we have some legitimacy.

And he can say like, hey, I am so jacked, they're making me put this fat suit on, but I will do it for 17 weeks. For the good of the show, because everybody said I look like a punter, I will put on this fat suit to let you know I was once an offensive lineman. Bingo. Alright, that's cool

for him to do that. Yeah. Strong move. He's going to do that, right? That's very cool. Oh, yeah. Thank you. He just texted me. He just texted the group and said, I'm in. So, yeah, we're good. Did he say that? Maybe. I don't know. I haven't checked yet. I doubt it. Let's go.

Back. Need that. Boom. The universe just told us. Put a jersey on it, though. Let's talk about the universe putting some things together for old Aaron Rodgers. He went and watched Novak Djokovic play at the US Open the other day at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

And he took a photo of Novak Djokovic, where right over his head is Moderna, which is obviously the vaccination company, one of the biggest ones, right over there. And this is the universe saying, I still have my fastball.

Let's put Aaron Rodgers in this spot in direct line with Joker, who, if you do recall, lost his number one title in the world because he refused to get vaccinated. And then whenever they told him he had to get vaccinated to do this, he bought a medical company for like $500 million or $250 million or whatever to prove that they were wrong. When you say digging your heels in, this guy's heels couldn't have been more in against Moderna and against the vaccination. And then the person taking this photo somehow had his heels deeper than Djokovic without buying an entire business.

So the universe aligning this entire thing is wonderful. And it's time to remember that we lived in a world that was so divided just a few years back. But now we are no longer. That's right. Now we're all in this thing together. And now we get a chance to watch Joker do his thing in front of a company

that he almost gave up his entire career for pretty much. And that's a beautiful thing, AJ Hawk. That's a beautiful thing. Yeah, it truly is. I'm glad we're all together now right everyone we're all just all in the same boat just rowing the same direction well yeah well see i seen somebody with a mask on this weekend boy oh boy i don't know why it made me feel the way it made me feel a little fired up no i didn't get fired up i didn't get fired up. I didn't get fired up. I wasn't mad. But there was like a certain level of like a little bit discomfort. Sure. Where it was like.

What are you saying? Are you just thinking, oh, no, hopefully we're not going back to this? Is that what you're thinking? No, I'm just, what do they know that I don't know? It for sure was at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. It wasn't that much. It was not at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. That's true.

There was no mass at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. No's true. There was no mask at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. There's no mask in a lot of places. That's why this one person I saw wearing a mask, and I was just like, what website did they see that I haven't seen? Makes you nervous. What meme have they read that I haven't read that is telling them they need to do that? And then on the flip side, are they sick? So they feel obligated to be here?

That's why they're wearing a mask. They're trying protect me could be but then whenever i went up to talk to the person i said oh i feel like this person probably hates me okay you know because there has been that in the past as well sure so i stayed away i didn't know the person i didn't just walk up and ask but it that we're not doing that again right well i can't do it there's one instagram account remember my nose is too big my nose is too big. My nose is too big. My head's too large. So anytime I put that thing on, it was really making a joke on both of my fucking ears. Yeah, you can't breathe. You can't do it. I heard a speech earlier. I was getting claustrophobic. Yeah, don't need

rope burn on your ears either. No thanks. No, I let it on the bottom of my eyes. I mean, I'm already running a little bit red because of the way I cook in the sun, but then those things were plastered across my face. Might poke you in the eye. Lose an eye? So that's what I thought of whenever I saw this one person.

I'm like, they must know something that I don't know and I don't want to go back to that world because although I will, hey, listen, I will certainly do it if they give me some real solid evidence. It's going to have to be really,

really, really strong evidence. Concrete. But is that person still doing it from that and we're all wrong or are they sick i don't know that's just my immediate that's first time i've seen somebody with a mask a long time long time like months and months and months yeah it's the second wave they're talking about but not everyone's about second wave we're at the 40th wave what do we remember because we were we had a surfboard and that motherfucker yeah oh yeah wave wave

another covid and great grandchild, a niner, 19er. That scared me. Fauci poked his head out the other day and said masks actually don't do anything.

Fauci came up out of his hole and saw a shadow? Yeah, he said masks. I did not know that. Six more weeks of COVID. I did not know that. That's crazy.

Anyway, smart people, figure it out. Figure it out. Figure it out. And the people that are still wearing masks, all we ask is just tell us why so we can maybe be safe as well. Yeah. You know? Because we want to live.

Boom. Now, we are living, though, so that should potentially be an indicator. True. That maybe air okay? Yeah. Maybe. Could have been an AQI thing. You never know. Could have been an air okay? Yeah. Maybe. Could have been an AQI thing. You never know.

Could have been an AQI thing. You're right. I don't know how those fires are burning. Yeah, are those still burning? Is that still happening too? I think so. Dumps. So what happened? Was there any... We never saw the fires, but we certainly felt the effects.

Is that normal? They were really bad in Kelowna right before I left. Lots of my friends lost their houses. It was brutal. So do you guys have fires often? Like California has fires often? Canada has fires often? Calgary is usually very bad, very dry.

Calgary Flames. That makes more sense now. Oh. NHL team. Is that why? Yeah. Hamilton Oilers, yeah. That makes sense.

It all came together. That makes a lot of sense. And we saw that one video of the fires. Obviously, we don't like fires, but AJ's got. They were the Atlanta Flames before they went. Hot Atlanta, though. The Atlanta Thrashers, I thought. Hot in.

I thought it was the Thrashers, Nick. So the fires are still happening? Separate franchise. We hope everybody's okay. But even while the AQI was happening, we weren't really told much about anything. No. I started thinking about that. We haven't been told much about much, huh?

No, no, no, no. I was holding my baby girl this weekend and watched some football, and I was like, I can't wait for you to learn football. I'm very excited for you to learn about this sport and everything it is. And I just thought about the questions she's going to ask. And there's so much that we just don't have the answer to as humans, and we're just like, yeah, it just doesn't have an answer. And you just kind of keep it moving.

What an interesting thing. National Wildland Fire Situation Report. Current active fires. Is this in Canada? Canadian, yep, this is in Canada. 255 uncontrolled fires 93 being held 180 in control Modified responses to 112 of them

I think is how you would read that there Well I hope everybody's okay Fires no fucking joke No they aren't Actually Washington State this weekend Wide receiver from Maui Yes Had his 11 for 100 and something

I forget what it was 160 I think 160 That Maui stuff Yes. Had his 11 for 100 and something. I forget what it was. 160, I think. 160. That Maui stuff, crazy. Crazy. You saw the Rock and the Rock and Oprah. Yeah, I saw the beginning in the kind of backlash, if you will. Well received. For what? Did you see any of that?

Lincoln Victor was the name. Let's just say people aren't too keen on Oprah helping out. What the hell does she do? To even go as far as say Dewey does not seem to have the same poll that he used to have in Hawaii. He said he's donating $5 million. I did see that. I did not see all the things you're talking about. That's a lot of mana.

There's a lot of backlash about where that mana is actually going to come from. All right. But look, I think it's cool either way. If they're helping people. Hey, I hope they figure it out. Hey, I hope they figure it out. Yeah, I hope they figure it out. I hope they figure it out. We'll figure it out.

Figure it out. Let's take some phone calls and then get the hell out of here on this Labor Day. Got a big week. We're back tomorrow. Off Wednesday. Got a full test. Yep. Oh, yeah.

A lot of tests. A lot of tests. Too many, some would say. Some would say. Not me. We're going to write the script for Thursday? Bingo. Yep.

NFL already did. Boys, I wrote the A block right into the B block two months ago. Can't wait. Let's go. Two months ago, I wrote that thing. George RR. A couple dry runs, rehearsal, dress rehearsal. It's actually been fascinating trying to book it.

Because it's like, who do we want on on Thursday? Well, it depends what happens Wednesday, is how I'm thinking. Yeah, actually. As opposed to like, oh, this is the first show type thing. So I'm trying to balance that whole thing. We'll get it figured out. At least we'll have the magician, Mike Griffiths.

Malone. It's Michael Malone. Griffin. Opening segment on ESPN. Griffin. Drawed him out. Griffin. You should be,

you know what? That's the reason why they wanted that 10-year ban right there. Exactly. Where does he work? Where's the, yeah, where does the escape. Where does he work? Where's the escape hero? Does he work in Vegas? Ohio.

He's from Ohio. He's the David Blaine of Ohio. Ohio. He eats needles in Ohio. He's the third and fourth dimension. Also, I've heard that he's done the Buckeye Crew seven times. I doubt it. I would have known that.

I would have recognized him. Shout out, Irvin. Saying he works in between the third and fourth dimensions. Such a good descriptor of old Michael Malone. Griffin, but yeah. Is it Griffin, Griffith, or Malone? It's Griffin. Mike Malone is the Denver Nuggets basketball coach. We know that.

He was on the show. That's why you guys call him Malone. It's Michael Griffin. Guys can be named the same name. That's how I remembered it. He was on the show. That's why we love him. It's Michael Griffin. Guys can be named the same name. That's how I remembered it. Oh, shit. He has the same name as the Denver Nuggets head coach. That must suck for the Denver Nuggets head coach

because he's the second most popular Michael Malone. Zeke can pull it up. He's just choosing not to. He just looked. That's all I'm just saying. All right, do it then, Zeke. He mouthed Michael Malone. He was a not to.

He just looked. I saw him just. Yeah. All right. Do it then, Z. Mouth Michael Malone. Do we know for sure his first name is Michael? Yes. Certain.

We all agree on the Mike. Yeah. It is definitely Mike. It's like Carl Magic. Yes. We know his name. Yeah. Carl Michael Magic.

Oh, yeah. That was real good. That was a good ball. Oh, he's a three-name, man. I felt pretty good about that. With how much football has been happening, I've been watching guys spin it. Shador Sanders can really fucking spin it. By the way, your color matching is great today.

I accessorized today. I feel real good about it. Boom! Nice! I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Let's go. Mate, it's football season.

No more basketball. Yeah. No more shooting. You're right. That's right. That's right. Time to move those out. Especially since Team USA lost.

Yeah, what's that all about? We lost to a weird country named Lithuania. I didn't know a tournament was happening, so I assume it matters. You guys just learned some fucking English. What are they playing in? What is the... Is this like an Olympics?

Get ready for the Olympics? Yeah, is that what it is? We need some other countries to lose for us to qualify for the Olympics. If they don't qualify for the Olympics, boys, come on. Come on. You know, this is what everybody's been talking about, about how- They have to qualify. No.

There's no way they don't qualify. No, they don't. There's a chance they don't. What is this, soccer? What are we doing? This is needed every once in a while. It's the Olympics. This is why Noah Laws said that this is a world championship.

Exactly. And not when everything else is going on. They do this one every year. So, I mean, they're still not eliminated. Yeah, they're not eliminated or anything. Oh, they just lost? What's our team's stink? What are we?

No, this happened last year, remember, when KD and all of them lost and everyone was like, oh, my God, the United States men's team isn't going to win. And then they went on and they won the gold medal. Same exact thing is going to happen. Not worried at all. Did you see LaMelo Ball's tweet about the Lithuanian team? Because LaMelo Ball played basketball in Lithuania. He was like, I swear I know that 33 buddy on Lithuania.

And then he posted another photo of him playing with him in Lithuania. I knew it. He was my teammate. That guy looks familiar. Old buddy looks familiar. But they had that Facebook watch whenever he was over there, right? Oh, yeah. That show.

He was playing Lithuania. Love that country name. Couldn't tell you where it's at. Next to Serbia? No idea. That's a hell of a... I don't know. I don't know where Serbia is either.

Near Serbia? Bosnia? Yeah, general area. How does it go over there? All the E's. Yeah. E-O-E-O. Romania. Exactly. Exactly. E-O-E- Yeah. E-O-E-O. Romania.

Exactly. Exactly. E-O-E-O. E-O-E-O. You know that song, AJ? No. Lithuania is near Latvia, Estonia. Yeah, the E is, like we said.

Bruce is getting upset back here. Tony Kukoc from Croatia. Where is that? Croatia is down. That's another E. Just pronounced differently. Next time you say Croatia, why don't you address Bruce directly? Okay?

AJ? Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, all down there. Romania. Romania down there. And then Czechia, Austria. Jesus, so many E-As. A lot of E-As. Oh, yeah.

And then Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. See, we knew it was by the Ias. It's not Syria. It's the Northeast. I don't think we would have known that there was this many fucking Ias either. No. This is one of those things like on one of those trivias. Name a country that ends with IA, and you got to do like 10 of them.

And you're like, 10. There's only two. And they're all right there. Does the Ukraine have a team? Yeah, I think so. They usually do. Don't we usually play against them? Yeah, I believe they do.

Klitschko's. They were on the war team. They're still fighting, right? They still have arms. Is that still happening? Oh, boy. Yeah, and the news is not good. Tell you what.

Oh, really? Yeah, Ukraine. I'm sure you've got all the answers. Uh-huh. I do. Let's just say. Oh, boy. Yeah, and the news is not good. Tell you what. Oh, really? Yeah, Ukraine. I'm sure you got all the answers. Uh-huh. I do. Let's just say. Oh, boy. Did you hear him light up right there?

Yeah. Oh, boy. Yeah, dude. Prayers for Ukraine right now because it is not going well. I've seen that Russia shot down the Benedict Arnold in Putin's eyes. Oh, boy. Shot down that plane. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They claim they didn't, though, right? Yeah, claim they didn't. That's a big deal. Benedict Arnold in Putin's eyes shot down that plane.

They claim they didn't though, right? Yeah, they claim they didn't. That video was scary, bro. Scary. That video is very good. You're watching and you can hear the engines, you hear the pilot trying to get under control, but it was obviously he couldn't and the thing is just falling out of the sky. It's a terrible video. Every once in a while, some of those things

will pop into the algo and you'll be like, oh, there's still war. You say very real right now. Yeah, very real war. Yeah, definitely. And Russia's, you know, they're going. And the other number two in Putin's camp, they sent to Mexico, and he just died yesterday too. A plane crash.

Yeah. Jesus. For a gender reveal. He's got to take a bus. Yeah. For a gender reveal. That was it. I can see that. That's got to take a bus. Yeah. That wasn't. For a gender reveal. That wasn't. I can see that. That's sad. Oh, that was sad. That was sad.

That was sad. Oh, yeah. I can tell. I can tell how sad you guys are about it. You were the asshole that just said something, not us. Don't you project your terribleness on us. I'm not. I mean, that is Will Ferrell from Wedding Crashers.

That is the exact same situation. Yeah. The whole. Hang gliding accident, gender reveal accident. Yeah, that was wild. Good idea, though. Like, as I saw the video, I'm like, oh, this is taking it to the next level. Duck taping the wings on, probably a bad move.

Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Kyler in Arkansas. Yeah, you always got to do a nice look at the plane before you get into it. For sure. We landed some of those places. Some of these planes are so small. And I'm like, who's getting in this? They're like, every pilot has to be in this.

Such a small plane. Let's go to Kyler in Arkansas. What's going on, Kyler? What's going on? Keeping moving. Nailed it. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. Let's do that. Yeah. So why is nobody in the SEC talking about these Razorbacks? How are we this year? I lovebacks? How are we this year? I love Coach. How are we this year? We've got a new, I say new, but a returning offensive coordinator

who was here when Alex Collins, rest in peace, was leading the SEC in rushing. We've got a way better defense. The secondary is looking so much better. Still got KJ and Rocket Sanders in the backfield utilizing these wide receivers that we've not used in the past few years.

We're looking pretty good this year. Woo pig suey, Kyler. We need to talk about them. Yeah, for sure. Their coach loves cold beer. Sam Pittman. He was asked about his dream day or something like that.

I forget what he said. He woke up and said something about pancakes or something like that, having a good breakfast with his wife, and then somehow he ended it with cold beer and going to bed early. It was like his dream day. It seems like he's the perfect coach for Arkansas. I hope they get going. KJ is a dog going kj is a dog

he was so good it's like remembering who is still in college stuff is a big part of this first couple weeks college football because as we're doing game day like des would say something and i'd be like oh yeah i remember that from last year like so many different storylines pop up because there's so many teams yeah so many teams 130 and and you can be in college for nine years now with the whole covid year yeah clemson's running back i forgot he was still in shipley i thought i thought i just figured he was gone because it feels like he's been there forever not just running back he's also returner yeah everything else he's got going on last phone call of the day let's go to tanner in chicago tanner what's going on pal

bad boys happy happy labor day hey happy labor day Chicago. Tanner, what's going on, pal? Hi, boys. Happy Labor Day. Hey, happy Labor Day to you as well. What's going on? You know, I just wanted to talk about, last time I called, I asked about the Chicago Bears. This time I want to talk about this Baltimore Ravens. We got OBJ. We got Dave Flowers.

Looking pretty nice out there. We got Mark Andrews, and we got a former Lamar Jackson I want to know, does Lamar Jackson Have a chance of getting an MVP shot? Whoa, Tanner Good question, that's a teaser We'll be back tomorrow with the answer to that

Yeah, let's get to a break here Let's enjoy Labor Day Let's get back tomorrow And let's really start locking in on not using the fuck word Yes, I agree You know what I mean, tomorrow 12-2, can't do it 12-2, can't do it Let's get back tomorrow, and let's really start locking in on not using the fuck word. Yes. Tomorrow, yeah. You know what I mean? Tomorrow.

12 to 2. Can't do it. 12 to 2. Can't do it. How's that going to go? It's going to go good. I think so. It'll be fine.

We're professionals. I think so. I did an interview or whatever. First six questions were about us not saying fuck. Interview. Pretty good interview. Business interview. Oh. Asking about fuck.

We'll see. All the time. I'm like, I think it's gonna be okay. And if it doesn't, we got a thing, I think. Yeah. We watched you do a three-hour show on Saturday. You didn't drop one. Yeah. I didn't even think about it, actually. A lot of WWE programming where you couldn't say fuck. Yeah. But as a whole,

you know, once we start going. So it sounds like this person didn't trust us. Which, to be fair, you can understand why. When the vibes get going. Yeah. Football. When the conversation starts diving in there. How are you going to be able to refrain from saying that fucking team can go?

Yeah. I'm not sure how, but we're going to try. We're going to try our best. And if not, we'll figure it out, won't we? Yeah. There's always a workaround. We always do. There's always a workaround. We always do. There's always a workaround.

There's a figure it out. You know, do a swear jar for something. Sure. Donate something. Yeah. We'll keep it moving. All right. We're going to enjoy this.

Big shout out to TJ Lang and Deion Sanders for stopping by. Awesome. Tomorrow's show's a big one. Huge. I think. Big. Definitely. Big.

Real big. Thursday, bro. It's right around the corner. Right there. I'm so excited. Jacked up. Shannon Sharp and Stephen A debuted this morning. Yep, mid-morning. Did you see that? I got to see a little bit

of him calling him Skip, of course. Yeah, that was awesome. Because he starts going and he just can't. Come on, Skip. He's fucking so jolly. How old is he? He's 50-something, right? He's not only jet. He looks like he's 3% body fat.

That's what's nuts when you look at him. He's so big and so shredded. It's awesome. You know what I was thinking whenever I saw it at first? He was on the left against Skip. Now he's on the right side. You can see the whole other side. Still jocked.

Oh, yeah. Still jocked. Properly. Hey, good work on this side, too properly hey good good work on this side too here good work on this side looks damn good out there all right let's get back here tomorrow and let's have a good time with it all oh my god let's remember to enjoy the hell out of this yeah dude that'd be cool not jeez jeez that'd be so cool i bet he can still run. I bet he's very fast still. Is that the proper way to flex with your thumb in between?

Thumbs in between your fingers? I don't know. AJ, is that what you do? I don't know. I think I have seen people do that. I mean, I don't know. I wouldn't. If he's doing it, I would trust that that's the right way.

Yeah, I agree. Okay, so this is what we do from now on, boys. Okay. All right, this is the thumbs in between. Thumbs in. I don't think that's how you throw a punch. He's probably trying to get your pointer fingers up a little bit higher. Yeah.

Might make the veins pop a little bit, too. Yeah, maybe it reaches a little bit different muscle down here. Okay. I wonder. That would make sense. Yeah, my thumb isn't flexible enough to do that. It's like I'm popping my thumb. It's flexing your forearm with your thumb because you're bringing it in.

I can actually feel it. That's why. Thank you, Unc, for teaching us stuff without even saying anything. We just got better today. Let's go. Let's get better tomorrow. And then on Thursday, let's get ready for the sound. That is everybody who hates us taking all their shots.

Can't wait. But when we're on, guess what's happening? NFL football, college football, Friday in Tuscaloosa. Massive guests planned for Friday in Tuscaloosa. That's right. Should be pretty big. We hope people will show up. AJ.

AJ. What are you worried about? Bro. The game day said alone, people will be. Is game day announced that they're going to be there? Yep. It'll be announced on Saturday. Yeah.

I think you're going to be good. It's a college campus. It's Friday. Yeah. It's a college campus. It's Friday. Yeah. It's me, Pal. It's you, too. Listen, if I'm up there alone, you're up there alone, too. Yeah, of course.

Yeah. We're all together. I get it. But I'm just saying, I think it's going to be all right. I think it's going to be great. Pumped. I've never been to Tuscaloosa, either, so I'm pumped to see the whole place. Yes.

Me, too. There's been shows, though, that you turn on that are live. Yeah. And you go, no juice. You know? We got to bring our own juice. No, no. I'm just talking in juice of in the world.

Yeah. No juice in the world. So now we're signing up to do that in a place that is not like our, you know what I mean? Yeah. So just as a human who's naturally going to be like well these people fucking hate us that's how i think about everything this is an aggressive decision by us to be our first one that we choose to do especially live but i think our people show up i think our people show up i think we got people down there look at last year i mean last year you were there and that was without even playing the audio for

everyone else to hear, correct? Yeah, there were some people there. There was a good amount of people there. Good people came. Good people came. Never really promoted it. Yeah, you're right. You know.

Should have faith. Faith in the people. Let's not just lose our faith. Well, they don't have faith in us, so it's hard not to reciprocate. We've got to believe. If I learn one thing from Dion, we've got to believe. Do you believe in you? Yeah. Yes, sir.

I think I can. Hey, I enjoyed that is what he's teaching. Like, hey, you've got to have a belief in yourself before anything else. Like, that's a massive piece of it all. Instilling confidence in people, if that's what he's doing, and finding guys that are confident, that's a heck of a head start. Let alone if you got guys that can run 144 plays and do all that. They're in a good spot over there.

Did you listen to that convo, AJ? What are your thoughts? Yeah, I got to hear pretty much all of it. Yeah, I mean, I've been a Deion fan. I had a hamster named Deion when I was a kid like i said i was a big florida state fan and him in the nfl um yeah even if like for some reason if they would have came down the wire and they were lost by three people would have still been pumped for them like oh look at these guys are legit but the fact that they were able to finish it off and win like that and never really

have a hiccup like either way whatever you feel about anything going on it was an awesome game to watch like the back and forth was great i like that they answered there's a lot of times where they could have not where you felt like okay yeah like all right here okay here well they caught up with them or oh here we go tcu's gonna gonna start to roll and no they had answers all day long it's like if people think oh they're front runners oh it's good whenever it's going good that type of stuff that naturally comes alongside the that ain't real that thing isn't real so there was a lot of moments for them to potentially fold yeah and they did not at all it was the complete opposite oh they would show up and score quicker on the other side and i like dion saying if we got shador with the ball at the

end of the game i like our chances i've been seeing him obviously since he's like yeah he has a lot of confidence in his kid and it doesn't seem like his car his kid has become like a a prick like an unreal seems like his teammates understand and love him too for him to show up and ball good for him unreal good for him good for them all yeah yeah and tcu's like they're good too yeah maybe yeah true big turnover yeah big turnover. Yeah. Big turnover on TCU. Yeah. Their whole offense, right?

Three returners on offense, I think they said. Yeah. Including quarterback, running back, and star wide receiver. That's a big part. Yeah, huge. It's a big part of your offense. For sure. I said one team lost their defense, too,

and their fans got all pissed off at me. It's like Illinois. They lost their D coordinator and five starters. That's a lot. It's like, Illinois. They lost their D coordinator and five starters. That's a lot. It's a big deal. They gave up 28 to Toledo. They only gave up 28 one time last year. So, we'll see.

I was getting attacked by the Illinois people. Some blogger was like, this guy doesn't follow the ball. We lost our defense, blah, blah, blah. It's like, you did. The guy's the head coach at Purdue now. That's your defensive coordinator. And then five starters, you lost that as well. Got to rebuild from scratch. Not saying that everybody is gone but you did you lost

it's a whole new defense now that's the way it goes that illinois team that ran the ball and played great defense they snuck out of there with a win because they're kickers of dog which i appreciate but i don't think we're going to see the same illinois team for a few weeks as we saw last year whenever you got a lot of people to fill in you lose your defense coordinator and what number five overall pick yep that's decent amount to replace big deal no these bloggers though they got it all figured out i don't know ball aj i don't know ball because i was a punter i mean are there are there technically bloggers anymore yeah there are there's some good ones too i will say there's some. College football has a great blogging universe, I think.

A lot of talent, a lot of passion in there. But, boy, a lot of them, I think, want my seat. You know, so they. I mean, they're very. You understand, like, college football fans especially are very emotional about their team, so they're going to be very irrational as well, and that's what makes it great. Bingo, which I appreciate and respect.

But I don't mind having two or three of the biggest calls, you know, not no ball to start the season. Now, we got to keep going, though. That's right. We got to keep diving in. Hell, yeah. The amount of football I'm going to watch going forward, just like last year. You know, I didn't start game day until like week three last year.

So, it was not in my life schedule until week three or whatever. And we got in there and I was playing catch-up pretty much. Now, had a full offseason. Oh, yeah. Have full training camp going on. Prepared. Full regular season. I was having a lot of fun up there.

It was a lot easier, you know, to pull from stuff whenever you're in there. But we got a long season ahead of us, boys. Can't wait. February what? 18th? 14th? 13th? Once the Super Bowl?

Yeah, I think it's the 13th or the 14th. Is it Vegas this year or what? Yeah, Vegas. Vegas? Mm-hmm. Sweet. the 13th. Is it Vegas this year or what? Yeah, Vegas. September 7th. February 14th. What's that?

I heard Chris Angel's doing the national anthem. He better. I think Carrot Top's doing it. Maybe half time. February 11th. There it is. February 11th. Chris Angel and Carrot Top doing a duet. Can you imagine?

It pops up. The first thing you see on the screen, Super Bowl Sunday, is those two at the mic. Oh, like when The Rock cut a promo? Yes, that was awesome. And a Penn and Teller will pop in. Yep. And one of them will talk, the other one will go, hmm. Yeah.

They don't want their ratings to start here, though, and go down. What's he going to do? What's Teller going to do? That's unbelievable. It is. Great pitch. What go down. What's he going to do? What's Tyler going to do? That's unbelievable. It is. Great pitch. What a career. What a career that guy has made.

God, he speaks. Yep. And then that guy talks. That's amazing. I watch their shit still to this day. Fool Me, I believe, is the name of the show. Yeah, CW, right? Yeah.

CW got inside the NFL. I don't know if you've seen it. Yeah. I didn't see the show, but I saw that news. Airs on Tuesday nights, I do believe. Here we go. That should be a good addition to football world again after being lost in the Paramount Plus desert. Yep.

I wonder how many people watch that show. Millions. I don't know. For 17 weeks combined, yeah, probably. You think? Probably not, but, I mean, you know, that's more realistic than... Honestly. You mean the show time?

I have no idea. I don't know anybody that watched it last year. I saw the clips, a couple of the clips, but it seemed like they didn't let a lot of the clips out. I honestly forgot the show time was still a thing. They got... Your Honor. And the Matt Barnes and Stack.

Yeah, up in smoke. They're good in basketball. Yeah. Showtime's good in basketball. KG certified, right? Good in basketball. Mm-hmm. But yeah, I didn't...

Inside the NFL was almost gone forever from our... Yeah. ...only sex of life. So it went from Showtime to the CW? That show? Showtime to Paramount Plus. Gotcha. Okay, that's right.

Disappeared from our vernacular, you know? Yeah, that's the thing. Will it be back on CW? I think so, right? People will watch NFL if it's available. Yeah, people watch the CW with Liv. What happened with Spectrum? Liv crashes on CW.

Yeah. At least CW is on a guide. If you're flipping through, you can see it. See it. Yeah, you can see inside the NFL. There's nothing else on on CW. Yeah. At least CW is on a guide. If you're flipping through, you can see it. See it. Yeah, you can see inside the NFL. There's nothing else on on Tuesday night. What happened with Spectrum? Something on Thursday night.

Yeah, they shut down. They were blacked out. They had multiple games blacked out on my Spectrum I have. And I think the message said something talking shit about Disney. Yeah, it's the same thing. This happens all the time, but typically it's before the something's like before the nfl season starts like that message will pop up like hey there's a contract dispute right now like call your local office or whatever to make sure that the like we don't drop cbs so you can watch football like it

used to happen with iowa football all the time in iowa but they would always get it worked out before the start of the season but yeah apparently they didn't get it worked out before Saturday or Thursday or whenever it was, and people couldn't watch college football on ESPN if they had Spectrum all weekend. And I obviously got a bunch of people saying that, obviously, it's your fault. Yeah, of course. Because Disney has been, it's like, let's assume that maybe, you know,

because I think they said, the Walt Disney Company, the owner of this channel, has removed their programming from Spectrum, which creates hardship for our customers. We apologize for the inconvenience and are continuing to negotiate in good faith in order to reach a fair agreement. I don't want to speak too much for Disney here, but what they say a fair agreement is and what Disney says is a fair agreement

is all in the eye of the beholder, right? So I think it's very nice that Spectrum, who drops this right before college football happens, says, they're being terrible. And then all of a sudden I start getting messages about how big of scumbags it's like. Let's assume that maybe there's some ridiculous ass maybe on both sides.

Oh, way. What is Spectrum? I don't know what Spectrum is. Just a cable provider. Time Warner. It's Time Warner. Oh, really? So it's like, it's a competition

with Xfinity and DirecTV? Not Hulu or YouTube TV? No. Yeah, it's actual, like, cable box. They're just trying to stay around, I would imagine, because they know cable box is all that. It's a thing of the past. Yeah, I wonder who values what what.

Like, I would like to know who sent the first shot about, nah and verse the other side good luck i hope it happens though that's bullshit we don't like that i don't like it sorry spectrum and i didn't know what spectrum was i had no idea i don't think i've ever lived in a place where spectrum was something i don't think no we were more of a comcast yeah xfinity world yeah that type of thing so good luck i did not know that was the case. Hopefully they'll get a deal. They'll need to. Got a lot of good shit coming out.

Yeah, well, it's the day. Oh, that being said, our show will be on YouTube. This YouTube. Exactly. Doesn't matter. And YouTube TV has Sunday Tickets. So if you don't have YouTube TV, then what are you doing? And we have no relationship with YouTube.

None. This is just us saying Sunday Ticket, four box, multi-view. Yeah. Just don't be an idiot here. Yep. They're going to do what makes sense. With everything else. Yeah.

Which is good. Very good. I experienced it the first time the other night, Friday night. Sweet. They had to multi-view for me. They told me which three games could be on. Interesting. That was very interesting.

It's so awesome. That's the only thing they have to fix. They have to let the person choose. You can. I think you're going to be able to for NFL. Have to. Yeah. They gave me so many options on Saturday, I didn't think it mattered.

So on Saturday, they have all the options out that you could potentially. Pretty much all of them. Yeah, it was perfect. Really? I wonder if the coding for manually selecting the four is just, like, something they haven't figured out. I would imagine, because that's part of Sunday ticket. Like, on the old things, when they had this,

you could manually select the four games. It wasn't just like, oh, here, this is what you're going to get. It was a nightmare to get into. It was a nightmare to set up. But you could pick what you wanted. Yeah. YouTube TV, I think, with the four box seems a little better. I watched some of that Saturday.

I saw some of that Saturday. I liked it. I enjoyed it. And you can pick which volume you go on and all that, which game you listen to. Easy to get into. Yep. It's right there. Boom.

Showed up for you. Bang. Pow. Welcome to the future. Old hat. That's the key. How do you get it in front of people? That's the key.

How do you pop it up in front of them where they don't have to search? You know what? The key is convenience. Yep. How easy is this shit to do? Yeah. Why Amazon took over the world? Because boom.

Order. Here we go. I don't have to keep entering my information all of that another thing just to think about and i think about this every once in a while whenever like small little decisions that are just in the ground scheme brilliant mcdonald's do you remember how fast our card thing was oh yeah they were just banking that you had the money yep and if you didn't they would take the 15 hit in order to do the time they were the first place that your they would take the $15 hit in order to just do the time. They were the first

place that your card would go through. Approved. Here we go. Let's move on. Let's get out of here. There's no way it was able to read as fast or faster than everybody else. They just made the decision. Let's assume that everybody has enough money on their card that they'll be able to afford six bucks or seven bucks worth of shit.

And let's not even fuck with it. Just slide it. Get it. We'll charge it. Move on. That was something I thought was brilliant. I'm like, you put you, as soon as you hand your card over approved, get out of there.

Other places, it's like calling, waiting. There's no anxiety for some people. This is not going to go through, let alone if it doesn't go through, we got to do this whole thing over again. Like that's such a small decision. It's like so convenient and easy.

It just changes things. Amazon, obviously door dash, anything that's convenient. And he's new tech streaming platforms. Like you make it easy. People will do it. If there is just one excuse for somebody to have though, there's a chance they're going to say, nah, I can't fucking do it. Like Apple is like, you got to go into Apple.

Do you want to watch soccer? Yeah. I want to watch soccer. Which game do you want to watch? I want to watch the messy game. Do you want to watch it in English? Yes. I want to watch. Do you want to watch soccer? Yeah, I want to watch soccer. Which game do you want to watch? I want to watch the Messi game. Do you want to watch it in English? Yes, I want to watch. Are you sure? Yes, I'm fucking sure. It's like, yo, you know what I'm here

for. Just do it. Just fucking put Methi on, on English, and if somebody needs to move that to Spanish, whenever they log in, save it on the Spanish setting, and then they're off and running. I think that is something. Amazon, same thing. Yeah. With that Thursday Night Football. Yep. Like, there's too many options for the I just want to watch the fucking game. I think that is something. Amazon, same thing. Yeah. With that Thursday night football. Yep. Like, there's too many options for the, I just want to watch the fucking game.

Just give me the game. Just let me get in here first. Right. And then for everything else, let me get the option. At least them know you can have the game up on your phone and still do other stuff on your phone. Agreed. That's a big part of it. Love that.

That's a huge thing. Shout out to technology, too, building all this. You know, there's coders and shit that have to do all this. We appreciate you guys pushing us forward. Hell yeah. We need those people. Well, that being said, you don't figure it out quickly. It's going to be a tough transition for everybody into the streaming age.

Paramount Plus inside the NFL. I'm guessing over under 1,000 people each week. That's what I'm guessing. I'm going to put CW pretty close, too. They're not putting their numbers up there, though, are they? No, because Paramount Plus is the only ones that know. Why would you put them up, either? Bingo.

I do not know that number. There's just a... And you're not even saying anything about the show. It's just hard to find. Good show. I assume it's a good show. Like, Julian Edelman was on there. I enjoyed Julian Edelman.

I would watch Julian Edelman do anything. But nobody was going Tuesday night to Paramount Plus to watch this thing And then when they weren't clipping it It's like impossible And our show's not good enough That's why it needs to be easily findable for everybody Keep it simple Stu Don't you think that's going to cannibalize?

No no no Just make it as easy as possible please Because I would like Tim McAfee to be able to figure out how to fucking watch her. Sure. Yeah. Yep. A lot of people doing that. I just want to watch my asshole kid.

All right, let's get to a break. We're back tomorrow. That was a good show today. Good Monday. Yeah. Not a lot of storylines in the NFL world. A lot in college. We hit a lot of them.

Gone before the storm. Which one did we not talklines in the NFL world. A lot in college. We hit a lot of them. Gone before the storm. Which one did we not talk about in the college world? I saw when I saw the scores pop up, Pennix was awesome. He was. Five turns, I think. Nominated. You brought up DJ. Colorado, LSU, Carolina.

Pac-12 is 13-0 right now. Yeah. Clemson tonight. Pretty good. Pretty good. And then late day. Who's Clemson have? Duke. Duke. 13-0 right now. Yeah. Unreal. Clemson tonight. Pretty good. Pretty good. And then late day. Who's Clemson have? Duke.

Duke. 13-point spread. Mike Elko's boys. Ooh. Somebody pick Duke. Somebody pick Duke. Really? On the season.

Stand for Steve. Also, Rucker. Darius. Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah. I thank Darius Rucker for his decades of sing-alongs for me and the friends. Every group of friends I've ever been around enjoyed Hootie and then right into Darius. Hell yeah.

So, buddy, I've been singing alongside your goddamn songs for a long time. I genuinely appreciate that. He's, oh, thank you. And he has that incredible voice. Oh, yeah, velvety voice. And I was like, have you had that voice just since you popped out of the womb? He goes, yep. And I'm like, what a dream.

Yeah. What a dream. Good for you. What a legend. I appreciated him. I thought that was a good celebrity picker. Yeah, absolutely. Good for you. What a legend. I appreciated him. I thought that was a good celebrity picker. Yeah, absolutely. He had good information.

He had notes and everything. He loves football. Yes, he does. It was obvious. You know what I mean? Just like he loves football. I know like all your guest pickers, when they love football, like Faldo, he loves football, follows it very closely.

Jack Harlow, when they follow football, it makes it much better. I'm a big golf fan. Sorry, guys. I know you guys are not. I am. I was excited to have Faldo on in Montana last year. Alright. I was excited as well. The Montanans, though. Not so much. They did not love it.

TBD. That's a good insight. Was that a silver ball he pulled out of his pocket? Yeah, I put it right there on the... Some dude from Montana killed somebody this weekend. Oh, holy shit. It was a toss, right? Or maybe it was the screen, right?

He came up playing safety. Fucking knocked this dude out. It was a great hit. It was Montana State. That's what Montanamals do, bro. It was the red one. Whichever one's red and silver. That's Montana. Oh, okay. That was Montana. The Grizz. Yeah. That's the Grizz. It was a great hit. That's the McMahon. Yeah. That's Montana. Oh, okay. So it was Montana. The Grizz. Yeah. That's the Grizz. It was a great hit.

That's the McMahon. Yeah. That's the McMahon. Oh, yeah, that's right. He's from so many places, I forget. I was fucking born on Utah State's campus. So I got a little ties to them. No big deal.

But also, like, Montana's where my dad rode horses. Yeah. Nevada. Oh, yeah, here it is. Boom! Is that Butler? Yeah. That's against Butler. Oh, yeah. Here it is. Boom. Is that Butler? Yeah. That's against Butler.

That is against Butler. Great stuff. Boom. Butler of Indiana traveled out to Montana for this to happen to him. Boom. Boom. All right, buddy. He got ejected?

I don't know. To be honest. Yeah, because that kid, I mean, you see how low that dude, I guess rules are rules. The hit on Daniel last night was awesome. Yeah, jumping in the middle of the crowd there. Bold move. That was sweet, AJ. I love that. Anytime you got a guy willing. Planted awesome. Yeah, jumping in the middle of the crowd there. Old move. That was sweet, AJ. I love that.

Anytime you got a guy willing. Planted him. Catch him and plant him like that. It's amazing. And then how about the ref talking to him afterwards? Because I assume whenever he was on top of him, he was telling him what just happened. And the ref was like, listen, we all saw it. Just let it go.

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