Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara - Matt’s CFB Playoff Road Trip, Bruce Feldman’s Transfer Portal Breakdown & Scott Porter Joins the Pod

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose! Scott Porter – also known as Jason Street – joins to look back on his time in the hit series Friday Night Lights including the risk he took to land the role as well as the football camp the cast attended to prepare for the show. Plus: we all knew that Scott could act but did we know he could beatbox?? We certainly do now!  We also chat with college football insider Bruce Feldman about the unfolding transfer portal chaos as well as Bill Belichick’s new head coaching gig with UNC.   And finally, Matt previews his exhilarating playoff road trip, and we present you with our top 3 fictional quarterbacks of all time in the latest edition of the Throwback 3!   New episodes of Throwbacks drop every Thursday. Make sure you’re subscribed on YouTube and following on all podcast platforms. Also, make sure you’re locked in on social @ThrowbacksShow on all platforms for highlight moments, bonus content, and to engage with the guys & the Throwbacks community. (http://throwbacksshow.com/)     A big thank you to our sponsors:   Throwbacks is presented by Cash App  That's Money. That's Cash App.  https://cash.app/bank    Wendy’s   Try Wendy's New Saucy Nuggs Today   https://wendys.com/nuggs    NHTSA  NHTSA Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over. Paid for by NHTSA.   https://bit.ly/46ZF9nM    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Matt Liner, you know what I want to lead off with this show right now, because I'm so hyped up. Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose. So good. Friday Night Lights alum Scott Porter, AKA Jason Streets, going to be joining us later, which I'm so fired up for. He's a huge college football fan too, but I know him for a long time. I just think that, and they just announced Friday Night Lights, uh, reboot, reboot is

pretty much on and going. It's going to be a new storyline. I think it would be foolish not to invite some old cast member. Like clearly Jason Street could be coaching somewhere, right? God, what a stud. And also just looked into, my wife has a just ultimate crush on him and pretty much every guy in that show. And he just looks into the video and just gives her a clear shout out. Like it was like, it was amazing.

What a great dude. What iconic show, like Entourage, iconic show. Kind of the same time, it was the same years. You guys were kind of on legendary iconic show kind of the same time It was the same years you guys were kind of on that kind of the same time and when I was get up I was gonna ask the reboot question and You know my take with entourage is it's just hard to think what it would be But sure, I guess it could happen. But Friday Night Lights is such a clear Reboot you could drop in at any point point change schools. Just stay in West Texas or wherever it is Under the lights on Friday get a good little love triangle in there and we're off to the races, right?

The love triangle. Yeah, it's a great show. He's he's awesome and what a multi talented guy to like unbelievable just like you talk about like we talk about versatility in our world, like of sports, studio shows, like, you know, like in any industry, like the more you can do, the better. Like if you look this, look Scott up and just his resume and his like IMDB page and like everything, like he's truly remarkable.

Like everything that he's been able to do and like, what a great dude, man. And you guys used to rock fantasy football together. All the time. I'm out on fantasy. I even told him on text Yeah, you're I'm like Scott. I'm out on fantasy. I bet now and he's like what that's ridiculous He's he's still like hanging out. I have a spot open I have a spot open up in my league for next year. Come on, dude It's gonna be really hard to get me back in it's gonna be really hard to get me back in what's it gonna cost? What's it gonna cost? That's why me. I might have signed an NIL deal to join your fantasy league.

It did inspire our throwback three today. So in honor of Scott Porter, AKA Jason Street, joining us, we're going to do our throwback three best fictional quarterbacks in movies or TV shows. That'll be later in the show. But we said triangle, three. Speaking of things of three, you this weekend have something happening. You're going to three places this weekend.

Christmas is coming early for me. Let the audience know, because to me this is what I would want for Christmas is this exact trip. Without all the just super in the weeds details. So this weekend is the first super in the weeds details. So this weekend is the first week in the college football playoff 12 teams, right? Everybody's super excited. Got a couple

great NFL games on Saturday. It's like they're going head to head. But it's kind of like what everybody's want, right? This is the first like March madness esque for college football. So my oldest committed to SMU. So we're originally going to Penn State SMU game all the way over to State College was just there a month ago. Hell of a hell of a travel day for us. But you know what? You only get to do these things once in a lifetime with my oldest. So I said, screw it, we're going, let's go. So we were going in the stands, we're sitting fans like SMU rocking,

whatever. I'm total dad mode. Okay. I get a text from a buddy that's like, hey, you know, what time is that game? All these games are like lining up or telling the times. And he's like, why don't you fly out to, to Notre Dame or Chicago Friday, come to the Notre Dame, Indiana game, Brady Quinn, my buddy on the show with me, he's obviously going to be there.

And this other friend is friends with both of us. He's like, let's go to that game. And then we'll just fly over on the plane over to Columbus that night. You can, you can take the plane over to Penn State the next morning. The Penn State games and noon Eastern game. So fly it back. We'll go do dinner in Columbus. And this is one of my best buddies. So it's like, you know, he's like family. He's like, fly it back. We'll go to dinner and then we'll go to Ohio state, Tennessee that night. And while I'm having this conversation, I'm in the car on speaker, you know, I'm driving on speaker and Cole is looking at me

like freaking out. What dad? What? What is it happening? Is it happening? So we're essentially, we're going to Notre Dame, Indiana Friday night. We're flying to Columbus that night. We're waking up. We're taking the plane over to State College on Saturday morning. We might actually be in a suite that game. I don't know, but it's refreezing. We're watching that game at noon. We're coming back.

It's about a 45 minute flight. We're coming back. We got a great dinner down on Hyde Street or what's it? I don't even know the street in Columbus, but we're always at when we're in Ohio. And then we're going to the night game, which is an eight o'clock Eastern game, Ohio State, Tennessee, the next morning we're coming home. So I would have been gone the same amount of time. I'm actually home earlier leaving from Columbus and State College. But I mean, three of the four playoff games this weekend, we will be in attendance. Shout out to my boy.

Cool experience, you know? It's not like I get to do that thing all the time. So, yeah. It's just wild. It's just like, it couldn't have worked out like the timing and the proximity of each place. It just like literally couldn't have worked out any better, I guess.

And we're doing it, man. We're gonna do it. So that's a dream trip for any sports fan, let alone college football fan. But here's to me the thing that makes it iconic for you. Your son's going to beat with you. You know, even if you were just doing that with friends, like, you know, Matt and his buddies, that's an unbelievable, you could do a bad, that would be the greatest bachelor party. That would be the greatest bucket list, like just whatever. But the fact that you're doing it with your kid who's getting ready to go off to college, getting used to traveling west to east, he's going to have to do that in his profession.

He's going to be he's going to be miserable Saturday. I said, buddy, I said there's going to be absolutely zero complaining these 48 hours. I don't care if you sleep three hours Friday night or say nothing. Yeah, this weekend is going to be the you know what? It's such a good point, man. Because like, I've we've talked about this on the show. But like, I mean, it's like we wear a lot of hats, man, as dads and moms and work and this and that. But for me to watch my kid live out, like what I was able to do, and he gets to do that in his own way. And now

he's committed to this school. He's just so fired up. It's just awesome to see, right? It's like, I'm just so proud of him, right? So it's not even me. Football, it's not even me. It's just me, dad. And then this weekend came up and like, I've been traveling every weekend all fall and it's a lot of travel, as you know, and we're going, we connect everywhere and it's not

easy to get to. I knew it was state college. I'm like, Oh my God, it's like the hardest place to get to from LA. Literally. It's like, it's just miserable. But he's like, he looked my God, it's like the hardest place to get to from L.A. Literally. It's like it's just miserable. Right. But he's like, he looked at me, he's like, Dad, I really want to go, man. Like it's once in a lifetime. And I'm like, I look at him like, you're right. Like, who cares? We're going to sit in a plane. We're going to watch a movie. We're going to hang out. Like, I'm going to get that one on one time with him. I miss a lot of his stuff in the fall. You know, like I miss a

lot with the family, but I miss every one of his high school games on Friday night, which kills me. So I told the wife, she goes, go, like, just do it. Like, like we made like, we never get that opportunity again. So and then obviously it just got enhanced, like freaking like unbelievable. It kept getting better. It just kept getting better. It would have been amazing if we were just there for Penn State. Like we were rocking Penn State.

We were getting state college. We're going to do dinner Friday night. We were gonna brave the winter elements Saturday, route for SMU and go to dinner that night and come home Sunday. And maybe even a Ferraris surprise showing in Columbus. Only 90 minutes away. I'll believe it when I see it, dude. I'll believe it when I see it.

You've got a ticket to Ohio State, Tennessee and putting this out there right now. Jerry has a ticket to Ohio State, Tennessee in the suite. Nice steak dinner before. Good wine. Nice suite. You don't have to sit outside. Maybe a little snow about 25 degrees there. You get to be in the shoe to watch Ohio State versus Tennessee. It's great. I've never been. 100,000 people, hour and a half trip down the road,

go back to sleep. You wake up with their kids the next morning, like it's, they wouldn't even know you're gone. You make a great case, Matt Lyon. I'm going to repeat, I'm just basically going to show this part of the pod to Brie and just be like, what's your thoughts? By the way, I mean, it's, it's a work trip for us. It is a work trip. We'll do some fun stuff. Yeah. It's, it's a great, it's a great weekend of college football. We, you know, the portal has been a big story this week. You've been sending me so much stuff and my mind is spinning so we have something for everybody. Yeah, we have a

good friend of mine, Bruce Feldman, coming on here in a little bit to kind of just explain what the portal is, right? Because we just saw in the prime example is the backup quarterback for Penn State, Bo Prabula, who's a good player, plays a lot for them, kind of a package deal, you know, whatever. He announced that he has to, he's going in the portal. That means he's not going to the game this weekend. Like it's pretty simple.

Like, so he's leaving the team early, not by choice. James Franklin came out this week and said, you know, this is So he's leaving the team early, not by choice. James Franklin came out this week and said, you know, this is what's problem with the rules now is this kid was going to leave after the season because Drew Aller announced he's coming back, but he is forced to leave during this window to ensure that basically he has a job or a spot that's lined up on the other side. It's in a way almost kind of taking over like what the story is and that's the games and the games will be great. But we have Bruce coming on to kind of just break it down, which Bruce is the best in

the business. He's our insider at Fox and he does an incredible job of kind of just like, like breaking down, like what is the portal now? Why is the window now the window that comes in April? Is there an easy fix? What has to happen? So It's it's wild times man. Why that's the game So really quick and cuz Bruce is gonna come on in a second really quick, too

I was just looking at the games and the lines, you know me I like to put some well There's no way by all accounts the kid who left that in the transfer portal was very very well liked by coach Yeah, this was not like, so there's gonna be no bad blood meeting within the locker room of Penn State. Other than the fact that he is a part of some packages and has played, even though he's the backup quarterback, make some thin at the most important position. And if right, I'm looking at SMU, I like vibes, you know, our boy, your boy, our boy, Cole's there for signs, eight and

a half. So I am looking at that. If, if go, either way, I could never take Tennessee no matter what. I have to go OSU no matter what. That's the one I'm most toss up to me. We just asked Bruce. I'm going to feed off you guys, but I am going to be putting down some coin. But I'm very interested in that Penn State SMU game now because there's emotional storylines and that's where you get me. That's where you get me. I have, I would, before we go, Penn State to me has a chance to make a run at the national championship. And, and, and I, and I, it's because of their path. If they beat SMU, they would play Boise State, right, at a neutral site. Then they would play the winner of potentially right, and a neutral site. Then they would play the winner of potentially Georgia, maybe Notre Dame. Obviously, Georgia's up and down. Like, I'm just telling you, Penn State kind of like weirdly has a, it's a really good football team that has a path to make a run that no one is really talking about. But obviously, I'll take SMU and the points. SMU is good, man. There's a lot of points out there though.

There are a lot of points. Yeah, there are a lot of points. It makes me a little nervous. But they are home games, though. You got to remember. Like that's a big deal. Texas is getting like, what is it? 12, 11 points? Texas is laying 12. That's why too for me, I like Texas. Notre Dame's laying what? 7 and a half? Notre Dame's 7 and a half. OSU is 7 and a half.

Penn State 8 and a half. Texas 12. Yeah. I'm Nordame 7 and a half. OSU 7 and a half. Penn State 8 and a half. Texas 12. Yeah. I'm going to pick Texas to cover because that's the only game you're not going to. And to me, that's going to be the blowout. You're going to be like, look, we even dodged the blowout. We dodged the 42-7 halftime. I think that's a good shot of being a blowout.

I think that's a good shot of being a blowout. I don't see Clemson scoring a ton in that game. And Clemson has struggled against, outside of SMU, they struggled against, I think they played Georgia and South Carolina, the only two teams ranked, they played during the regular season and they couldn't even move the ball. Now they scored obviously SMU,

but Texas's defense is unreal. So I like that one, that's a safe pick. All right, now we welcome in my good buddy, Bruce Feldman, our big noon kickoff, college football insider, senior college football writer for the athletic and co-host of Bruce and the bear. Brucie, what up baby? How you doing, man?

What's up guys? Good to be on. Finally made the big time. Thank you for finally inviting me, man. Well, we haven't we haven't gotten invited on your pod. I mean, you do like a million pods, but maybe one day we'll get on there. All right. So I wanted to bring you on obviously, because this weekend is a big weekend because it's

college football playoff 12 team, everyone's really excited for it. I almost feel like unfortunately, it's been a little overshadowed by the portal news and just like, I think I read like 2000 kids somewhere around there in the portal and this go around. The big one was Beau Prabula, who's playing in the college football game. He has to he left before college football game. Can you just explain the portal, you know, why now? Obviously there's another window in the springtime, how it's affecting these players

and how it's affecting these teams now and moving forward? Yeah, it's mass free agency. So the Bo Prabula story, and he's not just a backup quarterback at Penn State Yeah, he's a big part of the game plan. They have a package for him because he's a dual threat quarterback You see him in games. He's accounted for nine touchdowns He felt like he had no choice if he was going to move on for next year You got to remember these things. So this is the last week for official visits for transfers.

Also, if he was gonna do an official visit, Penn State's playing in the game on Saturday. They have a playoff game. So you would have missed practice time, preparation time. They felt like he couldn't really do that. And as a quarterback, it's different if you're a receiver, if you're a defensive lineman, schools can take multiple. You're only taking one quarterback.

So it's essentially like a game of musical Right. If somebody else gets the spot first, you got to look elsewhere. And I think that's hard. And it's really hard for him. Because as he said, Pennsylvania kid grew up dreaming of playing for Penn State. Now they're in the playoff. It's a home game. You know, you've been in, you know, in Happy Valley for big games. I mean, you know, he's going to miss that. And, but he felt like he had another choice because the timetable, when they have this portal window, it's ridiculous because it butts up against the post-season. And if Penn State keeps winning,

he wouldn't have been able to do anything until probably January 20th. So what I think you will have happen at some point is there will be only one portal window and it'll be in the late spring in that late April to May range after spring football. But what you got to keep in mind, I know a lot of people rant about this. There is no easy fix for this because to move it from, you know, at that point, there are also no, you're probably getting lawsuits that'll come up because players will argue, hey, regular students can transfer at mid-year, why can't we?

Football coaches can go take another job at mid-year, why can't we? And so once you get into that issue, that's what a lot of the schools and the NCAA, I think is really worried about is that if you move it away, move that this one window and reduce it to only, you know, spring window, you're going to get lawsuits.

And that's why people can think, oh, it's an easy fix to do that. It's not an easy fix. Yeah. Cause what does it look like for him if he said, well, I really want to play in the national championship in the playoffs. I want to try to compete for a national champion. You know, he has five touchdowns this year, so he's a part. There is a package for him.

If he waits, what does that second window look for him? Just like not he's kind of out of a job almost. He might be out of opportunities because there's only so many spots. Look, you know, you know, to a lesser degree, you know, Matt, you're seeing this with with Cole, his son, where it's like you have to look at the board of who else is is going like, you know, to a lesser degree, you know, Matt, you're seeing this with Cole, his son, where it's like, you have to look at the board of who else is going. Like, you know, schools aren't investing, and literally now it's investing, in multiple quarterbacks. You're either the guy or they either they move on to somebody else. And I think for him, especially as a dual threat quarterback,

there's certain systems he feels like he's gonna, that are gonna be best for him. And I think what you do have, because there's a couple of instances of guys, Devin Brown, who's one of the backup quarterbacks at Ohio State, he's in the portal, but he is gonna play in the playoff. Preston Stone, who used to be the starter, also gonna play, but I think there's guys

who may already know where they're going. So if they have a destination already lined up You know, I think it makes it easier for them to go. Okay, I'll join them later But also for the schools that do that you run the risk if it's a quarterback You you really value it maybe a guy you're gonna pay 500 grand or more to you're taking a chance that that guy is still gonna Be there and what happens if that guy just you know doesn't end up going to your school, then all of a sudden you missed out on other quarterbacks. I mean, it's a weird free agency model, unlike the NFL. Like the NFL isn't doing free agency in the middle of the Super Bowl season, you know, or in the playoffs. So that's why it's,

it's, it's weird. It's a tough fit. I get why he was in, felt like he was in a no-win situation. And I know from talking to coaches at Penn State, they have a ton of respect for him. I know that some people on the internet felt like he quit on the team. I know that people at Penn State don't feel that way. They have a ton of respect for him. I was telling Jerry this, I actually think maybe,

because obviously Drew Aller announced he was coming back. That was a big thing. I was wondering, maybe Drew Aller did that in the beginning of the portal, like, because him and Bo, I'm sure, really tight say, like, hey, I'm coming back to school. This is going to be your opportunity, obviously, like to get out of here, because we all kind of assume Drew might leave, obviously, his he's not projected to go super high. How? But while just on that piece, Matt, this is interesting though. Like, cause I, he drew must've told them ahead of time for sure.

For like a day or two and for sure. But what happens, we, we both, you know, you've seen Aller in person. He's big, strong, he's pretty athletic. He's got a good arm. What happens if he goes on a roll and leads them to it? Then all of a sudden he may end up going to the draft. I know. But also what happens if something happens and now they're going,

I mean, who's their back? I mean, Tyler Warren is going to be their emergency quarterback. I mean, they're going to play a freshman, right? Yeah. Ethan Brunkmeyer, who was like a former league level, but he, no, he was the three, you know, like how many reps are you getting as the three? 2000 kids, right? Give or take. I mean, I always say this too with NIL and like we all there's a lot of tampering going on. Like you said, a lot of these players know where

they're going to go before they even enter the portal because agents are talking and all that. Bruce, what percentage of kids do you think go to the portal and don't have something waiting on the other side? Because I think that's always a huge problem with the portal. Like, look, you look at some of the guys like Miller Moss waited his turn at work. Now he's going to go start at Louisville, like some, you know, Mac Jones, like some of these guys just waited it out for their opportunity. How many players don't get that opportunity, but are maybe told something or lied to, or now they find themselves on the street?

Probably 95%. Which is crazy. I have a score I'm working on now for the athletic about this very thing and talking to a lot of coaches and one of the coaches yesterday made the point. This probably works the portal probably works really well for like the top 200 kids and the top programs. But for all the other ones, it is a big mess and a big pain in the ass. A lot of kids and they're still college kids,

they're young, I think they're naive. So they think, oh, this school recruited me out of high school. Right. You can go back to them. Well, that's probably not the case. And I think for a lot of them, you know, if you've played in college,

even if you played at a lower division, or at like a lower, at a group of five, at least you have film against college kids. It's the guys like, you know, Malachi Nelson's a name you know well, you know, former five star kid from Southern California, you know, started out at USC, didn't end up playing there, then bounced to Boise State, didn't win the job there, now he's bounced again.

I think those are tough evaluations for people because it's like, what are you evaluating off? High school seven on seven film? You know, it's like, yeah, he was once a five star, but you know, like those, you know how those high school valuations work. And so I think that's why it's really hard to go through this process.

And I do think, as you said, Matt earlier, you have a lot of agents and they're not like the agents you had in the NFL. A lot of them are just like, all it takes to be an agent in the NIL world is like a cell phone. you don't need to be licensed or anything so they can tell like hey we can get you I can get you such and such right because this school told me they'll give you a hundred grand. How do they know that's true and then the kid goes in the portal and then they're probably left you know with their fingers crossed. I mean you know I was definitely one of those you

because you mentioned earlier everyone rants about You know, well you could fix this but hearing you lay it out this is far more nuanced than I even realized when you start even talking about the Faux agents of it all is this all heading in the direction where does it need a Commissioner I know people have ranted about that because, you know, to me, I could see that solving some things, but then you bring on a whole other world, like, first of all, who's going to be that person?

But who do you nominate? Is that the way it's heading? Is it heading in that direction? And who would it be? Well, I think Jerry, I think it's heading in the direction of collective bargaining. And I think this will this will facilitate or fast track it because every pro sport here in the United States has some version of that. And so it's agreed upon. I think that takes some of the lawsuit threats out of it. If you're going to go with a commissioner,

you know, it feels like there's got to be either the head of the big 10 Tony Petit or the head of the SEC, Greg Sankey, because those are the ones who are really driving everything, you know, and I think I don't know if Greg Sankey, because those are the ones who are really driving everything. And I think, I don't know if Greg Sankey wants to do that job or not. I don't know, but it's somebody in the power structure because you don't have the blessing of the two big power conferences, you have nothing, right?

And so I get it, there's been a lot of chatter for that because college sports is rudderless, especially college football because of that issue. I named Tim Brando. I think we'd get our boy Timmy B. Everyone's been asking for a commissioner in college sports for like, since you were probably in high school at modern day. I know.

Bruce, before we let you go, one last thought on just Bill Belichick getting hired by the, you know, Tar Heels, North Carolina. Thoughts on that? I've heard actually a lot of positive feedback. Like I think it's great for college football. I think it's interesting, obviously, his personality. Any inside story on how that went down? And what's your thought on Bill being in college? Yeah, from talking to people who are close to him in this process, you know, he is his son Steve was the defensive coordinator at Washington. So he he was there a lot for for spring football and for training camp. So he has seen that his college his system can work in college football and defense, but also that college kids can run it because

they were much better, even though they had two starters back on defense. Washington was actually a lot better on defense this year than they were last year but you know he's a brilliant coach I mean there's been guys who whether it's Herm Edwards or you know you've seen you know Charlie Weiss you've seen NFL guys come back they ain't Bill Pelichick though I mean Bill Pelichick's the greatest football coach in the history of the NFL. It's so strange still thinking that he's in college. Yeah, it is. I mean, he is, you know, six Super Bowls that he won and then an additional two as an assistant.

I mean, great teacher, you know, knows all three phases better than everybody, all those things. I think he will have a lot of success early because he's going into the ACC, not the SEC. You know, so we just saw SMU go first time in, not a lot of big recruits. They're in the playoff.

Duke with Manny Diaz wins nine games in his first year. Fran Brown at Syracuse wins nine games at Syracuse. He'd never even been a coordinator before. So you can go into the ACC and make a difference. I think though he will ultimately leave after a couple of years because I think he will just get so so sick of dealing with unregulated agents and the chaos that's around college football. He's 72. I don't think he's going to want to deal with the nonsense. You think he'd

go back to the NFL? I just I don't think he had an opportunity in the NFL. I think that like, like to your point, his son obviously is in college. College is being ran more like the NFL and it will eventually get more like that in the next couple of years. I just got it just like the Jordan brand and obviously Bill Belichick and like recruiting and like like like even I was talking to Cole. I was talking Cole about this. He's like, Dad, that's pretty cool, man. Like it's Bill Belichick.

Like like we can like he can get us to the NFL. Like that's the way he thought of it already without even really talking about so be it'll be interesting to see him actually Happy he's actually laughing a lot more though. Maybe he's kind of like changed a little bit of a tune like understanding What's he's got some young young people around him now? Yeah, you know, he's yeah, he's uh, yeah What's a 50 50 year age difference? Hey, it's alright good for him, buddy Well Bruce enjoy the enjoy the game who'd got? You got any upsets this weekend? The one I think Brady's not going to like it. But like, you know, does Indiana learn from what happened in Columbus where, you know, our buddy Mark Ingram was was pulling his hair out because

the backs couldn't pick up pressure. And they were, you know, Notre Dame is going to try to do a lot of the same stuff. I think Kurt Spenetti's a really good coach maybe they've made adjustments I love that we're gonna get snow on the get on the ground and it's gonna be cold I mean you know as you know you've been I'll be there I'm gonna be there for that game I'm gonna be there what I hope you're freezing your butt off I think I'm gonna be in a suite so we're gonna be good yeah hey if you're with Brady and South Bend, you're with literally royalty. Yeah, royalty. royalty. Jerry walking around with it. Yeah. Last year, and it was awesome

to be with to be with Brady in his element, see people worship. Like I remember we were worshiping, we were walking around the stadium and urban was there. And urban could have been like a homeless man. Nobody mentioned attention to him. It was, they were like, there's Brady Quinn, you know, and it was, and Urban was an assistant at Notre Dame, but it was Brady. I mean, you get that treatment, you know, around here anyway, Matt, but like it was really as you know, Brady's friend. It was so cool to see how people revere him around South Bend.

Hey, there's a couple of fast food spots in Southern California. I get that treatment when I walk in, they're like, Hey, we's a couple of fast food spots in Southern California. I get that treatment. When I walk in, they're like, hey, we know, here comes Turtle from Entourage. Let's go, what's he gonna eat? Yeah, I guess it's the closest of being like a Greek god is Brady Quinn at Notre Dame, I feel like. It was, we did, it was last year,

so he and I did like, you know, we walked around, did some content, had fun, and like, we went into like his old dorm, freshman year, we went into the dining hall and like, South Bend is small, right? And it's just Notre Dame. And he is he's you know, he's probably the best quarterback to ever play there. If you really look at it. He is literally I took Jerry with me to USC like last month. And you know, it still gets some of that around there. But yes, he's bigger. And

it's just different student body. Just, and it was like, it's just, it's just a little different with him at Notre Dame is it's, it's pretty fricking funny, dude. You just kind of good hands as we walk. Oh, you're, you're in good hands. Like we broke into the locker room, um, legitimately broke in the locker room. The poor girl who was sitting at the door was like, no, the alarm will go off and Brady's like, like, I got it. If the alarm goes off, don't worry, you'll be fine. You know how Brady talks to be fine. You'll be fine. Sure enough, cops came all

this shit, dude, and Brady and then they're like, Oh, Brady Quinn, it was awesome. So I Indiana, I like that one. I'm pulling for my I'm pulling for the Mustangs. I know you're pulling for the Mustangs. I think Texas is gonna handle them. And then I think Ohio State, Tennessee. I think that one's gonna be interesting. I do like Ohio State. I think they bounce back, but. All right, Bruce.

It's gonna be a good weekend. Thank you, Bruce. Thanks for joining us, buddy. Appreciate you, man. Okay. Safe travels. All right. Now it's time for our can't get enough sauce moment of the week

brought to you by Wendy's. Perfect timing. I need to take a little drink. All right, Matt. A lot is going on in the world of sports today. Who's your can't get enough sauce moment of the week? Yes, I'm going with Michael Vick and Michael Vick just took the head coaching job this week at Norfolk State, which is yeah Norfolk State which is close to where he lives. He was in kind of in talks I believe with Sacramento State. I think that's what first kind of broke and then eventually takes Norfolk State, which is close to where he lives. He was in kind of in talks, I believe with Sacramento State. I think that's what first kind of broke

and then eventually takes Norfolk State. I've gotten to know Mike a little bit at Fox, great dude. I'm wondering if this is going to be more of a trend that we see with former players throwing their name in the ring for these spots. You look at kind of Antonio Pierce for the Raiders, right? He got that job. Coach Prime is the biggest one in college football

and we've seen what he's been able to do. Ray Lewis was, I think, through his name in a job earlier this year. I know Ed Reed has been like that and now we're seeing Michael Vick. So it's gonna be interesting, dude, to see over the next four or five years, especially when some of these guys actually have success,

just maybe not coaching experience, but having success running teams and understanding, obviously from a player's perspective. So shout out to Mike Vick, happy for him, great dude. Love getting to know him over the years at Fox, and I'm rooting for Norfolk State now, man. Yeah, that's something I always want to ask athletes who are in retirement if coaching is ever and we even asked

Barkley a little bit because they even look around the NFL Dan Campbell Vrabel is gonna go any George Eddie George Eddie George right is having a great job over there, you know where he's at So I love it. I love it mine Mine is a theme mine is a theme. I can't get enough sauce moment of the week is Mine is a theme. Mine is a theme. I can't get enough sauce moment of the week is the the whole team an organization of the Milwaukee Bucks look I can't say I really Cared about the NBA. You don't like the Bucks though. I don't like the Bucks But here's what I like number one the Bucks are now starting to play really good basketball on the NBA Cup

They're getting healthy. I had the feeling Giannis was going to be like the terminator this year, but the most important thing, they win the NBA Cup, which we still don't quite know what it is. Every baseball player would have popped champagne, celebrated because they won the NBA Cup. It's the NBA Cup, bro. It's a mid-season tournament.

I don't get it. Well, your Lakers drank champagne and beer last year if they won the NBA Cup. You know what the Bucks did? They didn't, did they? They did. The Bucks said, no, we're not going to do that. All the champagne they had in the locker room was left in the coolers.

No champagne. They actually had champagne ready to go? Yes, there's a picture circulating. You're our NBA guru. What is the point? I mean, outside of a lot of the guys getting whatever, was it half a million dollars or a million dollars? Yes, which is very cool for, you know, guys, one thousand percent. Six through twelve. Yeah.

Yeah, but even guys six, seven and eight are still getting millions of dollars in the NBA. True, true. But, pretty cool. Milwaukee Bucks, love them. I'm actually a fan of all those guys. No champagne. They didn't even, they did it and they went about their business. What is the NBA Cup? We're still trying to figure it out. What the hell are we doing? We're trying to figure it out still, Matt. That wasn't the sauciest part. The sauciest part was the Bucs did not drink their champagne and celebrate. Cause to me, that's the kiss of death. To me, that's it. What'd your Lakers do? They won the NBA cup,

they drank champagne and they got bounced out. By the way, my Dodgers drank all the champagne and they whooped up. That's a baseball. But every team drinks champagne and baseball. There wouldn't be a world. Some team has to win the World Series and they all do it. Anyway, Doc Rivers even said, you know, I, we just left it there. We didn't even have any. So shout outs to the Bucks. That is my Wendy's. Can't get enough sauce moment of the week. Don't know what the NBA Cup is, but I do know passing on champagne for a midseason whatever win is saucy. Finding the perfect gift is hard, but sending a Pressie? Well, that's easy.

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But just real quick, we did the guilty thing of a great moment that we were not rolling for. You know, you come on, you got a nice Denver Broncos helmet in the background. How did you start again? Refresh it. You talk about your wife and cheerleading and how does that intersect with Mr. Matt Lion? Yeah, no, I said I moved my, we just got new internet in the house and I had to be in a different space and then my wife's craft room and I had to move some helmets and stuff to

you know, dress up the space. I've got my Nebraska stuff up there. And I just said, you know, I thought about it, but I didn't move to Texas stuff up here because my wife was a cheerleader at the University of Texas and she actually cheered at the Rose Bowl, Texas USC. Of course she did. Of course she did. Yeah. Yeah, that's the ball out, you know, the whole thing.

The confetti coming down the picture that haunts me forever. It's, it's awful. But yeah, whatever man. Hey, it's good to see you buddy. Thanks for coming. Thank you for having me. It's good to be here. Okay.

I really quick because I know you're from Nebraska, right? Yes. So Omaha? Yes, sir. Yeah, my dad was born and raised in Omaha. What part? Yeah, I'm born in Papillion and then I moved all over the place, but.

Honestly, no clue what part. He lived there till he was about eight or nine, then moved to California, but all his cousins still live there so we just did the College World Series this past year. It's kind of like it was like a bucket list thing so I took I took my youngest son little daddy like son time for him he's only three but then my brother's nephew or my brother's son my nephew is a big-time baseball player he's 10 there's like they do that

big tournament out there during the College World Series for all the kids like a thousand teams and then we went to see a couple of the games we took my dad. So it was really cool. But, but, uh, have you been, have you been to the world series? Oh, I've been to the college world series plenty of times. I haven't taken my kids yet. And that's like, I tell them there's something about the ding of the Illumina bat, and you know, the old Rosenblatt park, which I know is completely updated. Yeah. No new stadium now, but yeah, I went many times as a kid, many times. It was cool.

It was cool. Like it was just, just walk in. Honestly, the coolest part was being with my dad. My dad's older. So like for him to, and we were a big baseball family. So for us to look around that little area, like the hotel we stayed at, you walk around, it's pretty cool.

Like it's definitely, I don't think Jerry's gonna go, but it's something we're gonna do's I'm more focused on Scott. You know, I want to actually take because over here in Ohio, it's like right in between Ohio and New York Williamsport where they played a little league World Series. That's where I want to take my kids five and three because I just hear it's a lot of fun for them. Go down the grass slide and all that stuff. So, um, really quick though. All right. So we know Nebraska, but where did the Broncos come with you? I never got the backstory from you of where the love of the Broncos. Okay. Here's the deal, man. When you're from Nebraska, you are a free agent.

So I walk people through all this stuff because you and I actually share a team in common. We love the Knicks. So let me start when you're in Nebraska, you're Nebraska born and bred. It's all corn huskers all day. You're spoken for college football back in the 80s, right? College basketball was the next sport I started kind of to watch. It was another thing that was on, you know, Saturdays. So college football rolled over into college basketball in the spring, and I would get up, I'd watch Saturday morning cartoons, and I'd watch whatever came on next. And what came on next was big East basketball. So I'm

four or five years old. I'm watching the Hoya destroyer run onto the court. You know, I'm watching Villanova and I'm watching Syracuse and I became a huge Patrick Ewing fan. So I followed him to the NBA. So I'm a Georgetown and a New York Knicks fan. And then I started watching professional football. And when you live in Nebraska, the games that come on, because back then we didn't have satellite to all the kids out there, you know, we, we had two games to choose from. That was it, right? And you would get chiefs games, sometimes Vikings games, Bears games would always be on because there was a network called WGN and they carry, you know, bears, they carried the bulls. That's why so many people were bulls fans who didn't, who aren't from Chicago.

It's just cause they could watch them all the time. Right. So I didn't like the bears. I didn't like the Vikings, you know, but the Broncos were almost always on and it's proximity. I mean, it's there. They're one state over. So I watched John Elway lose three super bowls and was still just a massive Broncos fan because that man had no quit in him. And one of the livest arms you've ever seen. You know, people who come up now who don't understand just how good John Elway was, I challenge you out to go watch, you know, some highlight reels and everything. And I know

everybody looks good in the highlights. But I mean, he makes some impossible throws, but his heart, his grit, that was like, that was a very Midwestern embodiment. We are very proud of that. Right. We get up, we go to work, we don't quit, we don't stop. And that's how Elway played. So that's why I'm a Broncos fan. Listen, I love Elway. I think Matt does this great thing on TikTok and social, where he'd like to build your, your perfect quarterback and one of them's arm strength. I think I picked Elway for arm strength. You might You might it might have been Elway or Marino. I mean either way. I mean Marino had a absolute howl So here's my 32nd Elway story. It's it's golf related down in Cabo

For New Year's Eve played golf with those guys. Well, he's a stick. Of course, right? He's like a one handicap and then it was me him and drew blood cell and this at this bar in Cabo They have frozen shot glasses you take a shot and then you throw it was me, him and Drew Bledsoe. And at this bar in Cabo, they have frozen shot glasses. You take a shot and then you throw, it's just ice. And then you throw it against this wall. And I'm with Elway and Bledsoe. I'm like, guys, could you do me a favor? Let's take these shots.

I want you to just rear back and just fire. And these dudes pounded it, fired, and it sounded like gunshots. It was like, psh, psh. I just like, if I threw that hard, I think my shoulder would come out of my socket. So LL is a legend for a lot of reasons. He's the best.

I think for me, man, I just, I wished that, cause being an actor, like, so I'm a sports fan. And when I get around other actors, like, I have so much respect for other actors. Like I met Morgan Freeman once, I met James Earl Jones once, I met Clint Eastwood, like, and I just have so much respect and everything for them. But I don't like, freak out. But when I meet, like my childhood, like, athlete,

like icons, like, it's different. And so once I got into the business, like I just the only thing I do, being a part of this industry is like call people to see if I can get to sports games, right and like You know and it works man. I don't see games everywhere I want to go to every stadium every sport everything and then I play in like these pro-ams, right? Like I'm sure you do the same with golf Like I did it for flag football for a long time because I played football in high school and into college at the university

We're getting to that Scott. We're getting to that. I was an invited walk on a UCF and then quit very quickly because I knew it wasn't, I knew I wasn't going pro. Let's just say that. At the end of the day, like I started doing these programs and I got, I got to meet Peyton Manning. I got to catch touchdown passes from Jim Plunkett and from Dan Marino and from Troy Aikman, but I never once got to play with Elway. So that's like the biggest regret. One of the balls I got behind me is actually signed by like everybody in the

Madden bowl was like Barry Sanders, John Randall, Jerry Rice, Tim Brown. It's crazy. I got to play on fields with those guys. And so that's, that's, that's pretty cool. So for me is as I, my dream was always to play with Elway, but never got to catch a pass from the man, but hopefully one day I'll meet him at least shake his hand. You know, we met years ago through fantasy football, really,

is the thing that brought us together. I think we kind of knew each other a little bit and mutual friends. But you you've had and have such a good career. So we're going to go back a little bit because something we talk about a lot on this show is, you know, we connect sports and Hollywood wherever we can. And for me, I'm a little worried that the sports movie, particularly the scripted movie, is going away because it's been so tapped

and now sports documentaries are so good. And the number one thing that will drive me away from any sports movie is bad, not acting, bad sports actors. We talk about it so much on the show. And that's something I loved so much about Friday Night Lights is the football looked great. We know Pete Berg was probably, it was probably a maniac about that. And what I want to ask you is when you were up for the role, going after the role, whatever, how much was it acting versus how much were Pete or whoever the show talking to you about the football of it all?

Yeah, man, no Pete. So in Hollywood, there's something called cast contingency, right? When a network greenlights a show like NBC greenlit Friday night lights, they say, Hey, but we want you to really take a hard look at some of our picks at some of our favorite actors that we think would be great for the show. And Peter came in, like, I don't know, like a new head coach into an organization that's basically like, no, fuck that, like not doing it. Right? Like, I'm not doing that. I'm going to cast the people that I think are right for the roles,

period. I'm not putting any of your stunt casting into the show. But the football never really came into it. He just wanted guys and girls who he thought like really embodied the spirit of the characters because as great as Friday Night Lights was, and we did have wonderful football coach, Allen Graff was our stunt coordinator. He's been around. He's almost any big football movie you've ever seen. That's him. But he's also done stunts for other shows like Deadwood, this guy is very accomplished. And so that's why our football

looked really good. And we had former D one players who were the stunt double. So I'll just Hodge who played food who Tate him. James Brown from the University of Texas was his stunt double, who led Texas to a big 12 championship. Eric smart who started at free safety for Texas Tech was Tim Riggins main stunt, stunt double. And there's another guy that we called Wichita who was literally playing, you know, semi pro football at the time that was like his other stuff that because Reagan's needed to stunt doubles, of course. But throughout the fullback

position is gone. Riggins was the last great fullback. It was the last great fullback. But was the last great fullback. But the, the thing with the casting was, you know, he took chances on people who wanted to, like, leave their mark on the character, he didn't care as much about the athletics with the actors. So like, when I went into audition for it, I ripped a different scene out of the script and went into the casting director, Stephen O'Neill and said, Hey, I think you have the wrong scene for Jason Street. And he said, what do you mean? And I said, you don't have the locker room where he says, I think everybody loves football. You know, the question there's like a line from the show. Do you think God loves football? And he says,

I think everybody loves football. That line wasn't in the audition scene. Instead, they had like a kissy kissy scene with Minka Kelly, with Minka Kelly's character, Lila Garrity. And I was like, I think this is so he goes, all right, let's put it on tape. And I think that's the real reason I even got to test for the show is because Pete was watching reel after reel and going, ah, same thing, same thing. Everybody's doing the same thing.

He's like, wait, this kid's doing a different scene. What the hell is this? And they said, they looked at the notes and said, he thought you had the wrong scene for Jason Street. He's like, fly him out. So that's how I booked it. Months later, two weeks before we start shooting, I get a phone call from Casey Hodenfeld.

This guy is like, he's been Michael Mann's first AD. I mean, this guy has done a lot of work in the industry. He calls me panicked. Scott, I can't believe we've never asked you this, but holy shit, please tell me you can throw a football. Wow, I'm shocked that it took them that long to ask you that. I never asked you this, but holy shit, please tell me you can throw a football. Wow. I'm shocked that that took them that long to ask you that. And then it was cool because what we did before our actual pilot, and I'm glad they did it before

the pilot and not the series, was they actually had a football camp with us. They brought us all down a couple of weeks early ahead of some of the other actors. So me, Gaius Charles, you know, Zach Gilford, Taylor Kich, we all came down early. They had the quarterbacks coach from Compton College to help teach myself and, and Zach, you know, how to, how to throw we went through quarterback drills, like all this stuff. But it was the coach from Compton College that led us through some of that stuff. And I'll

never forget when he walked us into the locker room, I was doing an off Broadway show at the time about a struggling Christian boy band. And I had blonde hair down across my forehead looked like Justin Bieber. And we walk us all into the locker room to introduce us to the stunt players who have been working with graph for a long time. And like I said, they were former D one athletes, a lot of these guys, we walk in, these guys are huge. They're sweating. You know, they're doing two a days learning all the stunt choreography. He walks us in and I got an American Eagle shirt on with his hair.

Coach graph. He looks like Andy Reid. He's got the big walrus mustache and he's like, these are the actors. And he looks at me especially. And he goes, we're gonna try and make him look like football players. But we went out we did the thing you know, man, we did it. I got one of my throws is actually on camera. The rest of it my stunt double big shout out to Kevin Reed. He backed up donkey Dante Culpepper at University of Central Florida. He was the guy

that was my stunt guy. He is incredible. Like these guys are magicians with the ball. I know, you know, like he could do all types of tricks, all everything you ever needed a guy to do, you know, and he was he was so money. So he was my stunt double and then played a lot of the opposing quarterbacks throughout the series. But one of my throws didn't make it on the tape.

So I was I was proud of my what I did. Would you was, I was, I was proud of my, what I did. What'd you play in high school? I've ran and you see it. What'd you play? I was a wide receiver. Wide out. Yeah. Went to Lake Hall high school in Winter Park, Florida. My grandfather retired from the air force. That's the whole reason I'm from Nebraska. And he moved to Florida, said, I don't want to spend another winter in snow, which I know you know how to, you're dealing with that now, Jerry, but

It's the worst. It's the worst ever. But everybody followed him down there So I went to high school and college in Florida and played football down there So I you know outside of Texas, I'd say Friday night lights in Florida shine Yeah, you know second brightest, you know, if not even brighter sometimes So it was a cool environment and then I was invited to walk on at the University of Central Florida in 1998 So alright now it's time for our defining moments I was invited to walk on at the University of Central Florida in 1998. So All right. Now it's time for our defining moments.

We're gonna do it with Scott Porter and that's brought to you by the National Highway Traffic Association as a football player. You probably were aware. Were you aware of when you get this show because this show is it's like Jerry, like entourage. It's like just an iconic show and you guys had an iconic run. Were you aware of how big Texas football was? And then also when you got the job, you're like, and I know you're younger, but like, shit,

like this could be something huge. Like, were you aware of that when you got that? Yeah, 100%. My mom is from Amarillo, Texas. My grandma, her whole side of the family, they're all from Texas. You know, she got three brothers named William, which no one ever called them William.

It's Billy Bob, Dub, and Buster. And you know, she got three brothers named William, which no one ever called them. William is Billy Bob dub and Buster. And there you go. You know, it is, it is in my blood a little bit, especially on my mom's side of the family all the way down. So I really understood it and being from Nebraska. I mean, it's the same thing. It's like the people don't understand that Lincoln Memorial stadium on Saturdays is the third most populous area in

the state of Nebraska outside of the cities of Lincoln and Omaha. There is no city in Nebraska, town I should say in Nebraska that has a larger population than what Lincoln Memorial can hold and it's full every week. So whether they're winning or losing, they're always, yeah, since 1962, every sellout, right? We're like 490 or almost 500 sellouts, you know, but it's you bleed Husker red. So I understood the concept of that. What I wasn't completely aware of is just how these towns recycle this feeling, right? Because I was still young when I jumped into this show,

but I had a feeling like this was gonna be a different thing. But how, you know, people who never got out of the town, reinvest themselves into these student athletes because they wanna vicariously live out their dream. And that's what Pete did such a good job of showing. And I think that's why people love the show so much is because it's not just about the sport. It's just not about the Friday nights. It is about Monday through, you know, Thursday, it's about, you know, Saturday through Thursday, it's about all the other days when

people are trying to live their life in this town that, you know, they wish they could get out of, right. And that's, that's kind of what I wasn't completely up on. But Pete did such a good job and Jason Kadems and everybody else did such a good job and Jason Kadems and everybody else did such a good job of delivering. But yeah, man, for me, I was doing off Broadway at the time I auditioned for a big, big musical with Disney theatricals came down to me and one other guy to do Tarzan on Broadway. But it was my first year in New York is my first year with an agent and I never auditioned for television pilots really. And we asked if we could get an in the contract and out to go do television. If I booked a job and I ended up not getting Tarzan, but getting offered

the lead understudy role, I was, you know, going to be in the ensemble. I'd be on the album. It was a pretty cool thing for, you know, for a kid from Nebraska to be, Oh my God, I'm going to be on a Broadway stage and I will eventually play Tarzan. That would be pretty cool. And the guy that sat me down from Disney theatricals looked at me and said, why do you want to go do television in the first place? You're just going to be fourth handsome guy from the left on some WB show and have a,

you know, that's going to be your career. We can teach you how to own a stage. And I was like, okay, so obviously doesn't understand I got an athlete's mentality. I'm like, you're telling me I'm just going to be like a four stringer the rest of my life. That ain't gonna work. Yeah. So I went to pilot sees I started passing on scripts. I was like, No, I don't think this is the one I my agent calls me. She's like, What the fuck are

you doing? Don't pass on this. This is before you ever even had her a job or role before I even had a job, a role? Before I ever had a job. But I thought this was, you know, I don't know. You get a chip on your shoulder. So I was like, no, no, no. She's like, you don't pass on anything. Seventh script I ever got was Friday Night Lights.

And the thing is, is I played, you know, I played with Ford Future NFL players on my high school football team. I went and saw Friday Night Lights with two of them in the movie theater, the movie. I knew this was a special project. And that's why I ripped scenes out. That's why, you know, when, and I ended up booking it and it was like, kind of like a big middle finger to the Disney theatricals, big guys. I was like, this is the I'm not going to be fourth guy from the left. I'm going to have

a career like, you know, in spite of you guys. So I always like, this is the, I'm not going to be fourth guy from the left. I'm going to have a career like, you know, in spite of you guys. So I always say, thank you. Could you imagine if you, if you would have just stuck with Tarzan and never would have done Friday night lights, man, this life is crazy. I'm sure for you, Jerry, like being in this industry and I'm sure for you too, Matt, like, you know, athletics is just as much about opportunity as anything too. Like I know there are so many people out there infinitely more talented than I am that just didn't have the opportunity. That's why I look at it like, okay, I got the opportunity. I'm going to give it everything I got because I don't want to disrespect them. Right? Like I don't want to take this opportunity

and not give it a hundred percent. I don't want to take this opportunity and not put everything I have into it because I have friends back in Orlando that I performed with the theme parks that are just, they're more talented than me, but never had like the shot. And so, you know, in a weird way, you know, you do it for them too, you know? So that was that, that's my story, how I got to the show and everything. That's how I approach work in this industry. Well, I think, and I'm with you by the way. I think I only even attempt to maintain an acting career to keep my next tickets. I think I think that's my only real interest. You know, I'm kind of always the greatest. You have the greatest flex. You have courtside

next tickets whenever you want. It's just like, I really don't think I have any. Not that I mean, I'm sure I have interest. Right. Project. Right. But like I continually just always put have some kind of meat on the grill. So then when I make that call, like, Hey, it's, uh, you know, Nick's warriors, you got room. They're like, yeah, come on out. But what I love what you said, we always try to find like the intersection of, cause I do, I had this talk once with a Justin tuck at a Nick's game, right? And he's asking me all these acting questions. I'm like, and I'm asking them all these NFL and football questions. And I think I finally found the relationship between athletes and actors.

I think what we have in common, nothing really physical, maybe you, Scott, because you played high school football. It's understanding the moment. An actor's job is really to understand the moment and what you're trying to convey. And I think you could say the same thing about football. Matt, you played the position on the highest level. How many times you in the situation where it's, it's, it's understanding the moment. Like, Hey, we got to get this yard and a half or else it's not a first.

Like you got to under or even end of game. Like this is the play right now. It's understanding the moment. And I think you Scott sounds like you understood the challenge. Like it's almost like, you know, when you hear the stories about football players, remembering everyone who passed on them in the draft, that's what Disney, that's what the music department at Disney did for you. Essentially, they were giving you that motivation. So, you know, what a defining moment. Good for you.

That's incredible. I love that. It's, it's a blast to be able to look back. But I do remember days on set, I remember a sequence of plays when I was playing. There are certain sequences of things that you'll never forget. But a lot of stuff we just flush, right? I think that's a similarity too. Oh man. He did this thing to me. But go ahead. Keep going. Yeah, man. No, but it's just that same kind of thing. There are some games throw away, right? You got to have a short memory. There's sometimes I'm out there, I do something poor and I'm just like, Oh man, I just got to forget that you can't, right?

Exactly. We're neurotic. Actors can be neurotic, but you got to have a short memory, right? And that's what they always talk about. You just got to have a short memory. But then there's those special ones where you remember every single moment, everything slows down, you remember everything. And when it really hits, it hits, right? Like, it's, it's just cool. That's, that's something I've always thought about. So a couple weeks ago, and this hasn't aired yet, but we did Jerry made me audition. Okay, so I actually I've auditioned. Yeah,

he made me Connelly and Dylan made him a draft day for dry. Actually, I auditioned for draft day actually. In real life. When it came out. I really did. That's actually pretty cool. Clearly I wasn't good enough. I didn't seize the moment. But so you're talking about plays. So did you have to recite plays when you were doing Friday Night Live? Like, did you have real plays or like whatever? Like a huddle, right? You did. Yeah, we did.

And you obviously have a football background. So I pulled, this is crazy. So I pulled an old call sheet from, Gary, yep, it's hard to see with the light. Okay, so this is an old call sheet. Okay. This is from the Houston Texans versus Baltimore Ravens

divisional playoff, January 15th, 2012. So this is the run. That's Schaub? That's Schaub? That's Matt Schaub. So. But this is the run. That's Shaub. Okay. That's Matt Shaub. So we're at. We lost this game. We're at Baltimore.

This is like 2012. So this is like Ed Reed. You still have the one from 2012. Like that was in your fucking butt. Well, okay. So what I wanted to do. That's why I love this guy. What I wanted to do.

Well, now this was like under the bed somewhere or some shit. My wife is like, why do you still have that? Throw it, I have it for moments like this, okay? So I'm gonna read a play, and this is what they do to us in the, it's very similar to auditions. So like when we go to the combine and there's a team that really wants you,

and Sean Payton did this with me with New Orleans. I think I met with maybe the New York Jets, I met with the New York Jets for hours when they came out and did actually like a private workout where they sit you in like a room and they just grill you on whatever. And then they make you they send you the whole you know the story. They send you the whole playbook before read it and then they're going to quiz it to you like a month later. Right. Some people do some people don't.

It's terrifying. So this is a call sheet. So I'm going to I'm going to say I'm going to say a play here. This is out of base. This is a really easy one, dude. This is like Acting 101 football 101. Okay, right. So I want I'm gonna say the play I want you guys to give it I'm gonna say the play the read and I want you guys to recite it back to me I want Scott to go first. Okay Okay, hug near right slot to jet X curl half back burst hug near right slot to two jet, X-curl, half back burst. Hug near right slot, two jet, X-curl, half back burst. Your read is a curl, flat defender. The curl's one, the flat's the two.

Your Z is on a skinny post, single high man. Your half back burst is your third. Your two jet, which means your full back in this formation has the Sam to the mic. Your offensive line has the four down sliding to the will. You're hot off the Sam Mike. That's hug near right slot to jet. What's the question? I know you're right.

I cite that again. Yeah. So, so if I'm right, you're, you're initially looking weak side. Your hot reads going to be right. If your weak side linebacker is jumping the route, right? You said the Sam is your hot. So hug, hug, near right slot. Hug, near right slot, X-curl.

Half back burst. Half back burst, yeah. Okay. Okay. Hug, near right, two, X-curl, full back jet. Two jet. Two jet. Two jet. All right. I am one of those who think that it's all too complicated, but I never played football. It's way too complicated.

So that sounds obnoxious to me. So my question is though, like once you're in Kubiak system, do you start to, I mean, once you're in the system, right? Yeah. Like once you've been in the system, you, I understand the terminology a little bit, but they give it to you cold, like, and they just expect you to understand their terminology, because what might be scissors for someone is obviously a different term for someone.

That's what we always talk about. And you would know this guy from a football like, when quarterbacks go to all these different, you know, had all these different coordinators, you're essentially, for the most part, learning a new system, a new terminology every single year, which is hard, man. It's like getting a movie script a day before and you're like, all of a sudden, hey, you need to know this in the next two weeks. And you don't get do-overs, you don't get retakes, you get one shot. You have to learn.

So actually, funny story, when I went to Houston, it was with Shab and Dan Orlovsky was there. And I got cut from Arizona. I went to Houston like two days later, literally two days later. And I'm, you know, whatever I'm learning. I'm meeting with my quarterback coach in the morning, learning this is this is Kyle Shanahan's now system, the same a lot with these Laflora McVeigh. It's like this whole branch, right? This coaching branch and the first game I'm sitting there and I didn't even dress up this game.

I'm sitting there and they told me't even dress up this game, I'm sitting there, and they told me like, yeah, Kubiak quizzes the quarterbacks the night before the game on like the whole thing, the starter, like literally 150 seconds. That's not, that's insane. But to your point, when you learn it once, it's like it becomes, like I could recite that play a hundred times in my head and know exactly

where I'm going with the ball once you're in it, like once you're practicing it. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm nervous and I'm not even getting called on and Kubiak actually called on me the first, he's like, let's see, like he was the best, he's like, let's see how fucking smart you are, I heard you're a pretty smart guy.

And I'm like, coach, I'm like, so he gave me like, what are the new like four new screenplays in this week? And I'm like, and he was fucking with me, I was like, coach, I got no fucking idea. But it was like, I could imagine it was like being in like your first audition where you're like probably nervous. You don't want to fuck it up. You're like, don't call on me, whatever. But yeah, it was, but to your point, Scott, it was like, it's basically you learn a new language and then

all of a sudden it's just become second nature. But when you go to a different one, you have to start all over again and all over again. And that was that's that's a challenging part. Hug near right. He's still thinking curl. Wait, hug near right slot x curl to jet. What did I miss? There's something to jet to jet x curl to jet x burst, half back burst, half back burst, half back burst near right slot to jet X curl slot. What? Hug near right slot. So you always do the formation first. Yes. Hug is hug. Just hug. Hug slot tells the X and the Z they're hugging in the slot. So they're 100%. Yeah. Near right is fullback. That's Riggins right to the tight end. Hug near right slot to jet is the protection. And then you give the play concept X-curl X-curl essentially tells the Z.

He's got a skinny post. The wise probably in that formation, he's probably got some type of crossover to the curl. He made me draw this try to like he drew. He made me try to draw it on a board. I'd be better. I'd be better at drawing it up because I have I have an understanding of concepts. But, you know, Matt, you're talking about like, you know, this would happen like the night before you find a new team or whatever. But when you're doing television, especially network television, we are 100% getting scenes

the night before that we've never seen before. They're coming out, you wake up and you go to bed having learned a scene, you wake up, you know, you say you go to bed at 1030, 1145 pm while you're sleeping, new scene comes out new pages. And one time I was doing a show called Scorpion for CBS and they move very fast. And it's a, it was a procedural in a way it was you know, it was national security geniuses who all were working together to save the world basically. And I was playing a former Navy SEAL with a medical background who took

shrapnel is back and couldn't be a SEAL anymore. So he joins this team of geniuses and we're doing a episode set in Vietnam and they didn't realize they needed somebody to be able to translate to Vietnamese. I get a phone call at 4 45 PM the day before we shoot the scene. Hey Scott, we've got two and a half pages of Vietnamese. We need you to learn tonight to do on camera tomorrow. So Vietnamese, easy language. I got the first scene was about three quarters of a page, right?

Which is like maybe four lines. I got that one memorized. You know, they sent me the script and then they sent me somebody who, you know, was fluent in Vietnamese on a recording that I was just trying to listen to and just learn the audio cue. But for the second scene, I was like, screw this. I wrote it out phonetically and taped it to the dude's chest that I was working against. I went brando. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I mean, look, what a party trick. I've never heard that. Well, I'm sure though, but I'm sure there are tricks in the huddle. Like if you get put into service and you're not fully up on something, like if you're just joining a team or whatever, right? You kind of go rogue and be like, hey, we're doing this. To know who goes rogue or the receivers are like, Matt, what I got on that? Matt, just throw it up deep.

I'm going to go get it. Throw it up. Let Larry Fitzgerald used to do that, who I consider one of the best of all time. He'd be like sometimes like, hey, what do I got backside on that? Man, you got to come back. Hey, Matt, just throw it up here. Let's go get this. Like, you know, sometimes it sounds good. Football man. I'm like, I'm like, okay, that's it, man. We all got to go. Yeah, yeah. That's wild. I didn't

know you guys read that off that. I mean, you asked me to learn another language in less than 10 hours. I'm gonna have to do something. You know what else I love, Scott? We had, you know, every time we get our guest on, like Matt's wife asks, like, who's coming on this week? My wife, my sister-in-law, you for sure, so far to date of our 15 episodes have gotten the most reaction because Matt's wife wanted to jump on because she loved Friday Night Lights. My wife and sister-in-law are trying to get Ginny and Georgia information from me, which I'm like, I'm not going to ask him. Number one, the show comes out this year. Did they announce the month?

Is it March, April or just sometime 2025 for Ginny and Georgia? I mean, I keep hearing the words late spring, early summer. That's, that's what I, it's already picked up for season four, right? Yes. We, we got picked up after season two. It took them. Amazing. So man, working for the vote of confidence. Yeah. I mean, working for Netflix is crazy though, because everything is algorithm based and they have their own schedule. So usually a show comes out, they look at 28 days of data and decide if you're worth it. Right. It is just, it's that quick. And you know, that's, that's it. That's another thing that's like with sports now, like the analytics, like it is the same in the film industry. Now it's not feel anymore. It's not like, Oh, this dude's making art. We love this.

Let's support this or this guy. We know he's a player. He can do this. No, it's analytics are driving everything. So they look at their analytics, right after four for four weeks. That's it. And then they're like, this show's going to be worth it or not. And then they, they either cancel you or they continue. But after the second season at Jenny in Georgia, we knew something was up because we didn't get a call four weeks later.

They waited five months before they gave us a call. That's like old school HBO shit. That's what HBO used to do back in the day. Right, but they took care with all their shows. So we feel very fortunate. It felt like Netflix actually put some thought and some care into us. And then that May they announced that not only

will we be coming back for season three, we're also to be coming back for a season four. So it was cool to get the back to back pickup. It's a very rare thing these days. So super honored. Yeah, shot season three, this past summer into September. So we, you know, we're wrapped, they're doing post right now and editing and getting everything together. And our creator Sarah Lampert is just super hands on with all that stuff. So she's taking the time, making sure that it's right for all the fans out there. And then, yeah, we'll go back next year to film season four. So super excited about it.

It's the closest thing that actors get to like guaranteed contracts, because we get these five or seven year deals, but it's still every year as a contract year. So to to get like, hey hey your season three hasn't even dropped But we're ready you're already greenlit for season four That to me is the biggest vote of confidence, and I've never had that in my career I've always sweated out every single pick up. We got we got throwbacks now, baby. We got throwbacks. Yes We got throwback so I so well going back to my wife really quick. So yesterday, I'm like, Hey, babe, we got a what's your favorite show of all time? No

joke. She goes, Friday Night Lights. I go, well, I we have Scott coming on from it. And she goes, she goes, she goes, who? I go, Jason Street. And she goes, shut the fuck up. Literally. I swear to God, she literally stormed in the room. She goes goes shut the fuck up. And she literally I swear to God, she literally stormed in the room. She goes shut the fuck up because she also loves like Pal Chandler is like one of her favorite people. She was in our production meeting yesterday. So she came in. She I actually I was missing the doctor. We're like eight months pregnant.

So I was missing a doctor's appointment and I wanted her to come in. I wanted to embarrass the hell out of her. But she's not here. But she wanted me to tell you hello. And she's a big fan. I'm like, I'm sitting here thinking because I was talking to Jerry. I'm like, okay, Friday night lights. Obviously, Ginny and Georgia has been a hit and congrats on getting picked up. And then you do a ton of voiceover work. That's my favorite part of his career. Like, well, then it's like the Madden Colt Colton is a Colt Cruz, right? I remember like you're building the like

And then tarzan off broadway, but almost tarzan you did the mass singer like dude like you're like it's unbelievable like the versatility and everything that you've done if you Like I know obviously you love acting but if you like there's so many different pots It's like you have so many different talents like is there? Something that you love to do them like voiceover? Like my, my wife did voiceover work. She was an actress. Like she loves that. Let me point out, Scott is in the game of the Marvel rivals. It's the game right now. I cannot wait to play it. It's the most straight. It's the game, everybody. The game out right now.

You have like an incredible resume, dude. It is incredible. Oh, thanks man. No, you know, here's my thing is, you know, I think I spoke to it earlier a little bit, like the way I approached the business. I'm not sure how everybody does, but I didn't go to school for any of this, right?

Like I didn't go, I didn't really go to college. Like I was, you know, I went to University of Central Florida for about a year and a half, and then I left and just started performing. I was on stages, so I learned on stage traveling. I lived in Tokyo for a year, Mexico City for a year. I opened up for Carrot Top for six months in Vegas, beatboxing.

I learned very early, as versatile as you can be, you're always going to have a place somewhere in the industry. And, uh, you know, not having any classical training means I wasn't coached up on how to approach everything. Like, uh, you know, like a professional quote unquote. So I was always just, you know, hustling and I keep that hustle with me still to this day. So when other opportunities come up, I go. And the interesting thing is, is when I started in this business about 20 years ago, people

told you, you had to pick a lane. Yeah. You have to be a television actor or you have to try and be a film actor because filmmakers don't like television actors. They don't think you're going to be great for the, like, you know, you had to pick a lane. Now we got Meryl Streep on a half hour on Hulu. You know what I mean? Like, it's crazy now. So multi hyphenate is now the new thing. I mean, we're doing a podcast right now. Like this is awesome. Like to see Jerry

and keep your lights. See him with you, Matt. Like, so I just have tried to stay as fluid and as open as possible and haven't been afraid to say yes for a long time. So I've ended up doing a lot of different things. And that's the real, that's the really cool thing about the industry now is it accepts that it used to not accept that, but now it does. So, uh, but what's your wife's name, Matt? I was just going to give her a shout out. I know she couldn't be here. Give her a shout out. Josie forever, Texas forever. Congrats on the new little one. Clear Osville hearts, can't lose 100%. Just want to give her a shout out, man.

That's so cool. Can you end this with beatboxing, please? Can we get a beatbox? Or are you out? Everybody always are used for the beatbox. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, they do? So I used to be in an acapella group.

They're called VoicePlay. You can find them online. I'm a big gamer. So the last thing I did with them was the halo theme song. We did it all, but just voices. So if anybody out there is one of the top three game of all time, it's my top three game of all time. I almost wore my master chief ugly Christmas sweater today. Cause I was like, but because Jerry, because you're in Cleveland, I told you, I know that town. I love that town. I

got the great lakes, great lakes, baby. Great Lakes Christmas sale. One of the greatest beers on earth, man. They release it in a limited quantity and like people bum rush places trying to Christmas sale. Yeah. You got it. If you don't get it by the beginning of November, you're too late. Like you'll never get any. So my cousin always picks them up because he lives in Cleveland now. So he always, right. I got to meet up with him and drink some. Yeah, man. But if anybody wants to check out some beatboxing acapella stuff that I've been in, go to YouTube, check out voice play. They are incredible. But, but yeah, man, I came up beat boxing on street corners. And that's great.

Everybody say, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, damn, there we go. Dude, are you kidding me? That's the greatest walk off ever. You just started talking. You're like, yeah, man, I could do like electric electric guitar with my voice. That's how I got my start in the industry. Open for Michael Winslow for a little while from police academy. They got a big shout out to him. So, you know, it was just it was a cool thing.

Maybe we'll change our theme song to that. That was. All right. True, true. Last thing. You're, you're, you're the voice of star Lord in model rivals, the game I'm going to binge like crazy, but do you, so you play, do you main star Lord? Do you actually play with your own character?

Who you voice? Is that your guy? It was the first, it was the first character I picked up. I've been a gamer for a very, very long time. The whole reason I'm a voiceover actor is because I would go to E3 and just you know, get hands on with people's games. And I would just say the words, hey, I'm a fan of what you do. And then one time, one of the guys that was working was like, I'm a fan of what you do Friday night lights. He's like, let's work together. And that's how I got my start in the industry. And I've just you know, I still audition for stuff like Heimdall got a four that was an audition like, you know, I audition for games like I audition for film and TV stuff. But yeah, when rivals dropped, I was 100% in on StarLord first now I've got, you know, because the way the game

is built, you have to have multiple classes that you can play as so that you have a good team comp. So Star Lord, Adam Warlock, and Magneto, those are the three that I kind of focused on. So those are the three I play with right now. And I'll branch out and learn some other ones. But yeah, you'll catch me you'll catch me with some MVPs every now and then just had a big one last night, man just had a big one last night. So I cannot I cannot wait to play it. You're the man, dude.

Yeah, Scott, thank you. You gotta come back because there is about another, we need another hour at least, but enjoy the holidays, man. Yo, I would love to come back, y'all. We got so much to talk about. We would love to, seriously, we haven't even scratched the surface, so I'll be in touch. Enjoy. But thank you, man. That was awesome. Thanks, Scott. Congrats on everything. Take it easy. a qualified therapist via phone, video, or live chat. It's convenient and affordable and can be done from the comfort of your own home. Having someone to talk to is truly a gift, especially during the holidays. Visit betterhelp.com to learn more and save 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp, H-E-L-P.com.

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Well, it's only fitting to acknowledge our newest Heisman trophy winner and Travis Hunter, right? The last weekend, excuse me, last weekend was the Heisman ceremony. It was him and Ashton Genti and Dylan Gabriel, Cam Ward. And by no surprise, Travis Hunter took home the award much deserving Ashton Genti, much deserving. Great. I think the closest total

since 2009, it was like a couple hundred votes, which was crazy. So pretty great race there. But one just moment of him winning and him talking to his dad in the speech. And that, and I remember giving my like, like, it's just a moment there where you just have a chance to like reflect on, um, how you got there, right? And everybody has a different upbringing and been through different stuff in their life. And like, I just remember for me, it was like my family, my family, my family. And for Travis to watch it, and I got teary, I think I'm like his dad wasn't there, but

then you saw the videos come out this week, like his dad watching them. It's just really a powerful moment. And then on top of that, to make matters even better and to just say like, if you didn't already like Travis Hunter, he comes out, I think Dion Sanders Jr. was on the podcast this week and he was talking about Travis Hunter and the fact that he takes no money from Colorado's NIL collective. I'm sure he has some deals and I know he has a couple deals in there. He pays for NI deals for about 10 to 15 of his teammates. Basically just takes care of his teammates. And it was

also reported that he flew 50 plus staff and teammates to the Heisman ceremony last weekend in New York. It's just like, it's like he just gets it man. Like he's not only one of the most talented athletes we've seen, because I know you've seen him play basketball, but he's just an incredible athlete. He's obviously a great human being. So shout out, that's my money moment. He's an incredible human, incredible player.

I cannot wait to watch him at the next level. Yeah, that story really stuck out to me too, and I agree, that is definitely the cash out money moment of the week. I also want to point out how much if you're an NFL team, of course, the it all comes down to the physical ability. But when you look at something like that, what he's doing with his NIL money, that's got to make you feel good about who you're trying as the person.

A high character guy. Right. Like a lot of you hear all the stories like draft process, you really vet players because you're in vet, you're going to invest millions of dollars quarter by any position, history, background, family, how they were brought up, you know, how many friends they have, like, like, we kind of we talked about draft day the movie a couple times, remember draft day, they really like, it was all about like, well, how come none of his teammates went to his 21st birthday party like that was the whole plot of the movie. That was the whole plot.

But there is truth that that people really want to know what type of person you are. And Travis Hunter is as good as it gets. And whether he plays both sides, he even came out this week said, I'm playing, I'm playing both sides. I'm not going to be shocked, dude, if the guy tries like why not give him an opportunity. But he's a hell of a player. He's an even better young man and wherever he goes in the top five That team is getting just a stand-up dude and a great crazy. Don't fit went should door one Travis to

It's possible like how many times that happen in the in the draft how many times have we seen First and second picks from the same team. I don't know. I'm sure there might be there might be. Might have to. I don't know if anyone could pull that before. I was actually going to say how about how about sidebar? Maybe your money moment could have been Shador Sanders throwing a Malik neighbors. You know, you saw that in the streets of New York. I don't know. Are we manifesting it? I'm not making that my money moment because I don't me, manifesting it is don't say it out loud. I have too much reverse jinx in me. Yeah. No, I'm the same way. It was a good sign, but he's going

number one. He's going number one. So whether that's, whether that's New York or whether someone trades up or where he refuses to go, I can tell you whether the giants are, I went in the game the rest of the year. So the Raider, if the Raiders want it, the Raiders are going to have pretty, I'm pretty sure he's, we're going to see him in the silver and black but which would be cool But yeah, I don't know Andrew I don't know if you could see it have two teammates ever gone one and two in the NFL draft And if I'm just like blanking might be fun So we'll get that for you hopefully before the end of the show, but now it is an Alabama. Maybe I don't know right

All right now it is time for Kind of like in Alabama, maybe? I don't know. Right. All right. Now it is time for our Throwback 3, which is basically motivated by having Scott Porter on the show today. So Matt, we're going to go Throwback 3, fictional quarterbacks. Not as many as you might think. There is a good list. So I'm curious to hear some of yours. And my criteria might be a little different than yours. I'm...

Yeah, I was looking this up and I'm like, there's some great ones. There's not a lot of depth to this. I let you go real deep and you're like, like for me, it didn't mean anything on some of these guys. This was actually a real person. So fictional or not, but whatever I'm going, I am going Ronnie Sunshine Bass. I'm not thrilled with this one. This one was tough because I had Willie Beeman and Jamie Foxx from Any Given Sunday, who was great. Great movie. Remember the Titans, one of my favorite movies, one of my favorite sports movies of all time.

I think it's iconic. Obviously we were talking about like the cast, like you got Denzel as Herman Boone. You got a young Ryan Gosling getting torched outside and then getting benched. But Ronnie Bass comes in from California He has like the you know Like the kind of like the kissing scene in the locker room where he's trying like there's a lot of racial tension back then

Yeah, and that was like the real story behind all that and he's like this White kid with long blonde hair comes in and kind of kind of relieve some of that tension by doing that stuff. So pretty incredible history Ronnie Bass for that team. But he was also a great character in the show, man, in the movie. So I'm going with Ronnie Bass. My greatest, my favorite tweet ever is written about that movie. I wish I knew who tweeted this because he they deserve all the credit. But I think right after like Ryan Gosling officially blew up to giant movie star status someone tweeted Look very happy for Ryan Gosling. He's awesome, but let's not forget for one second. He was an absolute Great and remember the Titans. It's one of my favorite tweets of all time I stumble upon it from time to time and I laughed my ass off. That's a great and remember the Titans. It's one of my favorite tweets of all time I stumble upon it from time to time and I laughed my ass off. That's a great one

My criteria Matt is a little different. I went for Acting and also just who to me who looks like a quarterback You're gonna hate this cuz we actually don't really see much of his physical the physical I saw look good I'm going varsity blues I'm not going I saw looked good. I'm going varsity blues. I'm not going Johnny Moxon. I'm going Lance Harbor. Paul Walker as Lance Harbor and varsity blues talk like when he comes out of the

house and I guess in Texas, they really do put your billboard and your picture outside your home with those blue eyes and that blonde hair. That dude to me looked like what you should make a movie quarterback look like. And I thought a really great performance. And I think varsity blues is a sneaky, good football movie. So that's my number three Lance Harbor. So that's perfect because that segues me in number two with Johnny mocks. Johnny mocks. Okay. And case And listen, life is all about opportunity and Lance Harbor goes down in this show

and Johnny Mocks, the backup quarterback, who's kind of a nerd, all he does is read books on the sideline, he gets an opportunity. And by the way, we wouldn't have got the whipped cream bikini scene if it weren't for Lance Harbor going down. Great case. Okay, one of the best iconic

scenes in that era of movies when I was a young buck. Okay, we love that scene. Also, this is just off the field. Also, we're in the classroom and some of the greatest one liners when he's talking to his teacher when he they're talking about sex ed, by way his teachers are stripper in that town and he's got about they're talking about getting an erection you remember that and he starts throwing all the names the purple-headed yogurt sling yeah pinching a tent a sport in a wood and then he goes mom all time personal favorite Pedro I think you made such a compelling case right there. That's your number one.

What a great the number one. You just killed it. You killed it. The whipped cream doesn't happen without Johnny Moxon. But then on the field by the way also save Billy Bob's life save Wendell's life from getting a shot at the end when the old coach was trying to shoot up everybody and then goes on and wins to the, was it the hook

and ladder when he does the hook and ladder to Billy Bob, Twitter, Twitter. We used to call my shout out Scottie con my boy. That's a great, that's a great, we gotta get great. That's a great, we always joke around. Like we should do like some kind of skit turtle in Twitter where we just stay My character. Oh yeah. My boy, my receiver, one of my college receivers, we used to call him tweeter because he was just a short white receiver, kind of look like tweeter. What a great case for moxen you just made.

Yeah, moxen. I mean, moxen, I think he ends up going to Brown. He goes to Brown. He stays with his high school girlfriend. He stays with his high school girlfriend. He could have been one. I'm proud of my number one, but Johnny Mox gets number two for me.

All right. Well, my number two, it's Steem and Willie Beeman. I tried. No, it's good. It's good. And I even tried making the case for Dennis Quaid in that movie as Cap Rooney. He had the neck problems. He wanted to play He was a gamer didn't quite do it. But just in terms of again who looks like a quarterback and Kind of had all the you know He's making music videos stuff like that like he was a content creator as well. Willie Beeman was a content creator He would fit perfect in this as well

It's just one of my favorite performances that famously that fight scene with him and LL Cool J's character was actually a real fight And I encourage anyone to Jamie Foxx's new Netflix special is tremendous. It's emotional talks about everything with the stroke It's really really good. So steaming Willie Beeman. I like that one He was honestly he was my third with Ronnie Bass But alright, I hope we don't have the first one here because I know you love this movie and You've already talked about a character in this movie named Latimer But I don't have it's not my number one. All right good I'm going with Joe Kane from the program and I tell you what

varsity blues blue chips the program that era of sports. Actually, before we get into this, you know what other sport movies came out that year of the program? The Sandlot. Oh, what a Rudy and cool runnings. This is what the program went up against, and the program is one of the best football movies of all time Joe Kane

ripping darts riding motorcycles Okay, this is what I thought quarterbacks were like wearing the leather jacket Picking up the hot chick in the back driving her through making her scared on the motorcycle Heisman candidate alcohol problem Joe Kane is the movie is great. If you haven't seen the movie, go watch the movie. It's awesome. Joe Kane is a stud in that movie. And then this is where it gets cool. So I was, I was reading a deep dive on this and I came across like this thread of all the actors and the director and basically talking about the casting and just like where

they pulled players from. These were, these were real players. They were pulling from like, I think Joe Kane's character was based off a Penn State quarterback that backed up Kerry Collins at the time. It was like they pulled all these little stories from these people. So the director, I don't know his name, but the director was saying he originally wanted Johnny Depp

to play Joe Kane. Because Johnny Depp, yeah, because Johnny Depp was on 21st Jump, on 21 Jump Street at that time, right? Which he was like this young charismatic, this was his quote, he was like, he was young charismatic. He was like, I think that kid is going to be a star. That's what he thought about Johnny Depp at the time. But he didn't, he obviously didn't get, so Craig Sheffer is a name who played Joe Kane,

he's actor. He comes in and his audition, and this is what you like about actually looking the part. He said he auditioned, he threw a football, I think on the lot. I think he's like the Disney lot or where they were. Yeah. He said he threw the ball about 60 yards. And he's like, I just threw the ball because I could throw. And the director's like, OK, I think we got him.

And that's sort of like that's what I read sort of how Joe Kane became Joe Kane. And that's how he got the role, which I think was fascinating. So Joe Kane is my number one man, like all time movie, all time character. I'm with you. I didn't, I didn't put him in just because I love that movie so much. But let me just say, after that awesome reporting by you right there, we are all robbed from watching Johnny Depp throw a football on screen. We are robbed of seeing,

because I love Johnny Depp's performances. There is no, I would be shocked. By the way, he's a big Dolphins fan. Really big Dolphins fan. Really? Yeah, I know him a little bit over the years. I've never heard Johnny Depp speak about sports in any capacity ever. He's never played any kind of an athlete ever.

I am probably wrong. I bet you he could throw a football, but I would bet money that I could throw a football farther than Johnny Depp. Yeah, for sure. Okay, I'm just saying. I love it. I have a, I think I have a guess. Go ahead. Guess it. What? I don't want to guess it. I have I think I have a guess go ahead guess it what I don't want to guess it Well, do you want to hear some funny honorable mentions? Okay. Yeah, let's see I love again looking the part Jerry O'Connell as Kush and Jerry McGuire. Yeah, sneaky good. Never saw him do anything athletic

Just didn't see it. I thought that was a really really cool. I almost gave love to the program for Tim He could go all the wayman that dude that must have been a real quarterback He looked like he and also Johnny, Utah in point break Keanu Reeves Utah Give me two one of the most famous lines ever was a quarterback But my number one is in fact Keanu Reeves in their replacements Shane Falco He just looks like a quarterback. I just look at it. I buy it all.

The movie is I think good, not great, but I think it's aged well. Good performance from Gene Hackman. John Favreau really funny as well. I'm gonna rewatch it because I haven't rewatched it in a while. Oh, I love the cheerleader. She was super hot in that movie.

Brooke Langdon, I believe. So I just, if you're giving me a guy and I think wasn't he lefty? Was it Keanu lefty? He's lefty. He looked he was good. By the way. Scott Mitchell or something. Steve Young. That was like his double probably. How about do you remember the movie Lucas? Of course. Charlie Sheen. Yeah. Charlie Sheen played the quarterback in Lucas, I think. Am I wrong on that? I think whoever.

You're right. Vince Bomb is the quarterback in Rudy. And Rudy, I know. That was a good one. And then the other one, Brendan Fraser and school ties. Brendan Fraser and school ties. I thought you were going to go, it's kind of, it's kind of unoriginal, but Paul Crew and the Longest Yard.

See, I enjoy it. It's too far. Yeah. But you could have also done like all of the movies with Burt Reynolds. And then you got, I love the Longish Yard with Adam Sandler. I thought that was a great movie. No, I'm standing by, but please again. I like it.

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The last one in two picks to go in the same draft. Most recent was number one, Courtney Brown and number two, Levar Arrington from Penn State. And then I think you go all the way back to 1967, Bubba Smith and Clint Jones, Michigan State. So I don't know if we'll see it, but it's in play, that's for sure. So enjoy the weekend, Matt. Enjoy one of the greatest trips known to man. I'll see you Saturday. Maybe I'll see you Saturday.

And what a trip. Come on, bro. one of the greatest trips known to man. I'll see you Saturday. Maybe I'll see you Saturday. And what a trip. Come on, bro. What a trip. Thanks, everyone.