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Today is Wednesday, February 16th.

Life after football has begun.

Yeah, and to be honest with you, these are the bleakest days of the year, in my opinion. You know what really twisted the knife? And I don't care about baseball until baseball actually starts.
Then I don't care about baseball until after the All-Star break. But today was the day that pitchers and catchers were supposed to report.
And today was the day that Tony Kornheiser was supposed to say, the beautiful cycle of sports continues as pitchers and catchers were supposed to report and today was the day that tony kornheiser was supposed to say the beautiful cycle of sports continues as pitchers and catchers report hope springs eternal but unfortunately for a big team head like myself they're still at the negotiating table we're still sitting in the trucks we still got the truck truckers just sitting there yeah causing traffic rob manfred's just got a bunch of a bunch of semis outside every stadium just parked, holding up traffic. I actually – I obviously get a little sad when football ends, but a part of me is like, okay, now kind of readjust your life because there is a lot of football, and I love college basketball, so the come down isn't as harsh for me.
But there is always that feeling like the Monday after the Super Bowl where you sit there and you debate the game and you talk about it and legacies and all this stuff, and you're like, ah, this is kind of the last time we're going to do this for a few months. I'm just like, why? Why am I getting up in the morning when there's no football on TV anymore? But you know what? We'll get through it together.
Yep. We'll find some ways to replace it.
And actually, for me, the next two weeks are going to be filled with sports because these are the two weeks where i do a crash course in college basketball okay i get really into college basketball again i just i found you have to know yourself sometimes and i know that i can't pay attention to football the way that i pay attention to it and college basketball at the same time i know you are able to do it i personally do not have the ability this is to process all that during the fall during like november december no i don't care about college basketball unless it's like number one versus number two in a prime time game i can refresh you real quick give me give me anything no no i wanted i'm gonna do this on my own i'm gonna cry i do this every year i get back into it i've got my websites that i read zag is good again i know gonzaga but i called them frauds yesterday um just out of habit because they don't play in a real conference. Well, I'll give you one tip about Gonzaga and it will help you because it's going to be shocking when you watch him.
They are very good again. They can definitely win the title.
Chet Holmgren, the number one recruit, is like the skinniest dude ever and people get really mad because if you watch him for the first time, your reaction is going going to be i actually would like you to see you do this is like this guy's this guy's gonna be soft when he plays against real men so okay then people are like but his skills are so incredible nobody's just yeah he looks like he's gonna be soft when he grinds up against a real guy it's it's impossible to watch him once and not be like oh he's gonna get eaten alive but he is. But he is really fucking good.
Okay, yeah. I actually kind of feel that way about Paolo Banquero.
Yeah. Like, he might be too soft to go up against a man.
Yeah. Well, we'll get into all college basketball.
Let's do some Super Bowl cleanup. So, I went to sleep at 9 o'clock last night.
Felt great. I was so tired.
How tired I was? Like, it's it's something i've never done before i bet i'd cleveland state minus two against uh indiana uh purdue uh fort wayne right uh i'm up three with five seconds left ipfw whatever the fuck hits a three to go to overtime and i was just like i i can't do it it was this was there's an 8 55 i tapped out for overtime tapped out for overtime i was like i'll find out what i i lost i was like i'll just figure it out in the morning just check the app yeah i literally tapped out for over for a five minute college basketball overtime yeah that's how tired i was i was kind of feeling the same way yesterday i went to go see hasaguchi in theaters highly recommend lady gaga excellent performance got snubbed at the Oscars. I fell asleep like seven times during the movie.
And as I was asleep, I was combining the storyline that I was hearing from House of Gucci with football stats from the Super Bowl. And I was waking up very confused.
It was a combination of like football, the plays I remember from the Super Bowl running on repeat in my head and also blackjack hands that I had been dealt over the weekend at the casino. And I was combining that into the dialogue from House of Gucci.
And so I woke up and had no idea like seven times during the movie. Completely lost.
I probably need to see it again. Yeah.
But it was the end of a long 12-day run where my brain had just become mush. And it's good to get out and do something to cleanse it out a little bit, which is why I went to go see a movie, just get media injected directly into my brain.
Something a little different. Try to do a flush.
It has nothing to do with sports, but it didn't work. Yeah.
Oh, by the way, I just looked it up. The game actually went to three overtimes.
Okay. Then I was smart.
You made the right choice. Yeah, I just looked it up to the final.
All right, let's do some Super Bowl cleanup, though. Now that we've had a day, where do you want to start? I have a couple of what-ifs.
Okay. I have a couple, everyone just stop talking about this.
Maybe a couple of legacies. Well, one thing that I've learned from this Super Bowl, and especially the aftermath, is it's a perfect example of how misinformation is passed along, washed, rewashed, until it just becomes accepted as truth yes in society the biggest case of this that i'm seeing everywhere is aaron donald was lined up off sides on that last play of the game the fourth and one where he made that stop and the refs fucking blew it and the nfl is rigged that was the that was the first fourth and one of the game yes in the first quarter yes.
As everybody should know, that was a completely different offsides thing. He was offsides.
They're facing different ways. But now I've accepted it as truth because I've seen it pass along so many times online.
So Aaron Donald was offsides on the last play of the game, that fourth and one, and there should be a full investigation to Roger Goodell who should be arrested. And Jamar Chase was open.
That's the other one. That drives me insane because, yes, he was open by the definition of like, oh, he was eventually open.
But there was never a point in time where Joe Burrow was standing there and Jamar Chase was open. Jamar Chase got open well after Aaron Donald had already started ripping Joe Burrow down.
So it's like, it's not like a situation where you're like, well, how did Joe Burrow miss him? Or even people saying, well, if he had an extra second, well, yeah, if he had an extra second for every play, the Bengals probably would have won. That's why this happened.
A full extra second is a long fucking time. Against Aaron Donald.
Against Aaron Donald. And Von Miller, who was exceptional.
It was very funny to see people be like, yeah, he was wide open. That happens all the time.
I feel like Jimmy Garoppolo is a long fucking time against Aaron Donnelly. Against Aaron Donnelly.
And Von Miller, who was exceptional. It was very funny to see people be like, yeah, he was wide open.

That happens all the time.

I feel like Jimmy Garoppolo is a quarterback that happens the most to.

They'll take a screenshot of a play, and they'll be like,

look, this guy was wide open as Jimmy's getting sacked by something. He eventually was open, yes.

But if you freeze it right when Aaron Donald starts ripping Joe Burrow

to the ground, he wasn't open. It just wasn't that way so i i don't know if that's people torturing themselves like don't do that to yourselves bangles fans i actually i agree with bangles fans the past interference call or where holding call at the end was bad it was it like it absolutely was orange gloves made a difference julian edelman told us like yep orange gloves bill belichick used tell him all the time, wear white gloves so they can't call you for holding.
Yeah. So I understand the coping mechanisms that are used here that you have to go through the whole thing.
I also think if you want to do a what if, what if Odell Beckham doesn't get hurt? Did the Rams win by 10? Like they were looking back at that game. They had three drives, or it might have been four drives, four drives two punts two touchdowns but the two touchdowns were very easy once Odo Beckham goes out they don't they don't do anything until that last drive like they don't do anything real until that last drive of the game yeah we also had the the goat uh if Patrick Mahomes makes this throw the media goes nuts moment which was awesome because everyone was going everyone That's how they were going nuts about it.
But Matt Stafford had a sick look-away pass. So now I'm going to flip it next year.
And when Patrick Mahomes does something, I'm going to be like, when Matt Stafford makes a throw like this, everybody goes nuts. When Pat Mahomes does it, crickets.
Yeah. We're going to flip that narrative on its head.
But that was a very nice throw. It was a sick throw.
The look-away pass completed it. That was to Kupp, right? Yeah, that was to Kupp.
That's why the Cooper Kupp, I know there was some debate about the MVP. You could give it to Aaron Donald.
That Aaron Donald play on third down is so insane to watch. The fact that he was fully blocked and got around the offensive lineman and then grabbed Pirine by the hips and just sat him down.
Who's a big dude. It's an insane play to watch over and over.
And then obviously the fourth down, he gives Joe Burrow no chance to do anything. I still don't – I want to see like a full all-22 angle of where the ball landed because I think Pirine's probably getting dogged a little bit when it – I feel like the ball died faster than we realized.
No, it landed a few yards away from him as he was running downfield. Right.
So you can't stop, turn around, and jump. We can change.
I could. Me personally, I could do it.
But he's a running back. How do you not die for that? It's like, well, all his body momentum is going one way, and the ball is dying going the other.
But I would have at least made an attempt at that catch. Listen, me, I would have put my body on the line.
That's the most important catch. Season's on the line.
Season's on the line. Your championship's on the line.
P. Ryan, you know, obviously he's thinking about his next contract and probably not willing to dive for a pass like that like I would have been as a real fan.
But there was no chance he was going to get to that. Yeah, and so what I was saying is that Aaron Donald, those last two plays were insane.

But Cooper Cup, the reason why, I mean,

the fact that Odell Beckham goes out,

the whole defense knows it's going to be Cooper Cup.

There's nothing you can do about it.

Credit to the Rams for finally being like,

hey, let's stop running the ball for nothing.

Let's stop trying to do different plays.

Let's just say no matter what, it's Cooper Cup. like you even saw it with the fourth and one uh run play that cooper cup had the ball they're like this is our best player he needs to have the ball and everyone in the world knew it was going to him and it still went to him and he still made catches the stat that was crazy to me in the playoffs cooper cup had in the fourth quarter of the playoffs 12 targets targets, 12 receptions, 208 yards, 9 first downs, 2 touchdowns.
That's the definition of clutch. The definition of, like, if you watched all these playoffs, you knew whenever the Rams needed a big play, whenever they needed a first down, it was Cooper Cup.
And it was automatic. It was literally automatic.
It was 12 targets for 12 receptions. Yeah, he was definitely deserving of the MVP.
I do understand the case for Aaron Donald. Me too.
I had a future on both of them. And this is also just in a stupid, antiquated...
Anything that has to do with journalists, it's always antiquated. Like in leagues, the MVP voting has to be submitted by the two-minute warning.
Right, that's what I was about to say. How stupid is that? It's so dumb because not only in a case like this where it is, you could be like Aaron Donald deserved that MVP over his teammate Cooper Cup, but what if the Bengals had won? Do they still give the MVP to Cooper Cup? Well, I think you vote for both.
I think they vote for both in case. But what happened in the Falcons-Patriots game when it went to overtime? Yeah.
I think they were just like, you know what, we're going to give it to Tom Brady. It's nothing ever- Was that Julian's? No, that was Julian Elman.
That was Julian's, yeah. Nothing of consequence has ever happened past the two-minute warning in a football game.
It's so stupid. There's this thing called phones.
In the age of technology. And how many votes are there? Probably like only 50? Yeah, there's probably like, yeah.
You could just go around and get a head count. You could just be like, yeah, hey everyone who likes aaron donald put your hand up yeah exactly in the press box but yeah that was so stupid um they probably have a more advanced system for ordering diet cokes with a push of a button than they do for voting for for super bowl mvp without a doubt without a doubt uh cooper cup does i think submit the best single season a receiver's ever had i know that he had uh extra game in the regular season but there's only been three triple crowns in the modern era before him it was jerry rice sterling sharp and steve smith he adds the super bowl and the fact that he was so clutch 33 receptions 478, six touchdowns in the playoffs.
Insane. Absolutely insane.
And then the other notes I had, so Joe Burrow at the party and Joe Burrow with the suit. I have no problem with Joe Burrow at the party.
I don't understand what you would do there. I think most people didn't, but he was singing along to Kid Cudi.
He was on the stage. I mean, knowing the Bengals, too, their organization, they probably paid a lot of money for something that they didn't want to pay a lot of money for.
You got to get everyone to the party. Yeah, I think the owner was like, you're all going.
Yeah, you all have to come. You all have to go.
I'm not wasting my money on Mr. Cudi.
And guess what? You're all eating steak and chicken. Yep.
Two meals. Takes them home.
I do think, in fairness, I was thinking about it, I do have the take that Cam Newton has to bring two different pairs of clothes to a game. I think Joe Burrow should have brought a losing pair of clothes to the game.
Yeah. Because it did look, it was sad when he was walking out with a limp, losing the Super Bowl in a zebra suit.
The silver tiger stripes. It's more for him than anyone.
Like, dude, do you want to be in that right now? no chance i'd like a bruised knee to slip on like suit pants i agree with that i think that that every quarterback should have a winning suit and a losing suit yeah and it's it's equally to me as a fan of respecting the media it's equally as disrespectful when a quarterback who just won isn't dressed up like cruel deville with like a giant hat with a feather it. I want my quarterbacks to be easily identifiable.
That's the guy that won. That's the guy that lost.
I don't want a winning quarterback to be wearing a tattered T-shirt and sweatpants. Yeah, tough look for Joe, but that's fine.
Joe will be back hopefully. I do find it kind of interesting how everybody's like, the Bengals are going to be back here for sure.
Just say that out loud to yourself. The Bengals are going to be back here for sure.
It's, I hope they are. I love Joe Burrow, but given like who's in the AFC right now, if we said bet, you have to bet next decade, the Bengals go to X amount of Super Bowls.
What would you bet be? I wouldn't even feel comfortable saying. I'd say one more.
One, but over one and a half, you'd take the under all day. Yeah, for sure.
All day. And that's going.
It's not disrespectful to the Bengals. No.
No disrespect to you guys because the Chiefs are that good. The Bills are looking that good.
Herbert. Herbert looks great.
Lamar Jackson got forgotten about because he got injured, and the Ravens got forgotten about because they all got injured. The Ravens are the most consistent one of the most consistent franchises in the NFL.
Like there is a lot of guys that are going to be real. I mean Carson Wentz.
Yeah. Great.
Great. Mike McDaniel.
Looks like he's going to be a great coach with Tua. No but it's just very hard to get very hard to get to these.
And just ask Dan Marino who went to one what? His second year? Yeah. And then never went back? Like, it's crazy to think about how difficult it is for a franchise to get to the Super Bowl and then to be like, yeah, we'll be back for sure.
They got a lot of things they got to work on. Now, the good news is the Chiefs went to the Super Bowl last year, got absolutely destroyed by the Bucs, and their offensive line failed them.
They rebuilt it in a year. I don't know if you can do that.
They hit on some things that you have to get a little bit lucky on. But to say the Bengals can't just figure out a way to rebuild or drastically get better on the offensive line in one offseason, they absolutely can.
If they make a couple moves. They can.
Yeah, it's just the competition is pretty tough. We need to do one final last ranking of AFC North quarterbacks.
Okay. As is tradition on this show.
I'm going to say number one goes to Joe Burrow. I'd agree.
Number two, I'm going to give... Jameis Winston in a Steelers.
No, no, we don't say that yet. Okay.
Because I'm hoping for him as a commander. Okay.
Number two, I'm going to give... Jameis Winston in a Steelers uniform.
No, we don't say that yet. Because I'm hoping for him as a commander.
Number two, I'm going to go with Ben Roethlisberger. Out of respect.
Out of respect. For everything that he's done all season.
Number three, Case Keenum against the Broncos. Yes.
Number four, Baker Mayfield when he's healthy. Number five, Lamar.
Number six. Without diarrhea.
Yeah, number six, Huntley. Number six, Huntley.
Number seven, Lamar with diarrhea. Number eight, Brandon Allen.
For that one play that I thought he was going to have to come in when I thought Joe Burrow's ACL was torn. He fucking sucks at calling the coin flips.
And I looked over to you, PFT, and I was like, yo, who's the backup? You're like, Brandon Allen. We both were like, oh.
Oh, wait. Number one A, Joe Mixon.
Yeah. That was a sick pass.
That was a sick pass. That was a sick pass.
That was another thing, and I do feel bad for Bengals fans. They should cope any way they want.
And I know that a bad call at the end of the game feels more important. The missed call on the T.
Higgins touchdown was very important when you think about how the Bengals weren't really moving the ball. They used a trick play to score a touchdown, and they had that.
So I don't walk away again from this game being like someone got robbed. I wouldn't say they weren't moving the ball.
They were moving the ball a little bit. A little bit.
They put together a couple decent drives, but any time that you have a 50-yard yard bomber how long is that 75 yard touchdown pass

on clearly an offensive pass interference like that that makes a big difference yeah they were

they had a couple nice drives I'm just saying it wasn't like it the that play gets minimized I think

if it's a track meet and everyone's scoring on every play and it's like oh that probably would

have happened anyway right I'm sure like three of those catches happened in that uh in the Ohio

State Utah game right exactly this one it every yard was hard to get especially in the in the second half for the bengals so i mean there there are two drives they had they had a field goal drive eight plays yeah think about it their entire second half they had remember they got the interception so they eight plays, 11 yards to get a field goal there.

They had the T. Higgins touchdown.

Every other drive was punt, punt, punt, punt,

and then turnover on down to end the game.

So they weren't moving the ball in the second half.

They were in the first half a little bit.

But that play was significant.

I'm trying to think.

Oh, so two other things, the retirement boys.

Sean McVay retiring. I think that one has a little bit of merit to it.

Aaron Donald retiring has no merit to it.

That is the most blatant, and good for him, the most blatant,

I'm the best player in the NFL right now, and my contract is outdated.

Pay me money.

Yeah, because right now I think he's currently due, what,

$15 million a year for the next two years? Yeah. Which is, it sounds like a lot, and it is a lot of money, but not for him.
I think it's three years. He's not going to walk away from that money.
He's just trying to get more money. Right.
I think he's now the eighth highest paid defensive player or something. It's stupid where he is compared to what he produces.
That produces that's how contracts work obviously but this is a very clear move by him to be like i'm gonna retire pay me more money and they should pay him more i'd like to um just breaking news i'm considering retiring from podcasting in two months i'm gonna walk away i'm gonna hang up the sticks hang up the mics one last time um unless i want to more money. If you want to pay me more money, that's fine.
I'll come back. Sign me up for a big deal.
Boom. Done.
So, yeah, I think Sean McVay, like, that has a little bit of merit, but who knows. And then the only last thing I had – well, two last things, sorry.
The Rams parade is hilarious. Did you see it? I saw that LeBron James is planning the Rams parade.
Okay. rams parade uh how long is the rams parade give me a guess 90 minutes no no length oh you mean in terms of buses how many am i doing bus math distance trucker math distance traveled okay it depends again if there are trucks that are blocking up the front five um 17 miles.
It is three quarters of a mile. That's awesome.
It's three quarters of a mile. It's incredible.
This is their parade. Hold on.
I had it pulled up. Are the trucks actually going to go? I don't know if they're going to walk.
I don't know. Maybe they'll change it after they realize how ridiculous this is.
Their parade is going from basically outside the Los Angeles Coliseum to inside the Los Angeles Coliseum. They're going from the Shrine Auditorium to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
That rocks. Good for them.
It's so perfect. They're just going to set up a bunch of buses and then just have them walk across all the buses.
It's not a parade. It's just a party.
It's a party. That's fine.
Call it a party. It's a party.
But that's LeBron James. He's planning that.
Did you see his tweet? He probably wants it to be less than the Lakers one. Yeah, so LeBron James.
Well, that's the thing. The Lakers didn't really get one because it was a Disney bubble championship that they got.
Yep. So LeBron James yesterday logged on to Twitter, as he often does, and he tweeted out, We, Dodgers, and Rams should all do a joint parade together with a live concert afterwards to end it.
City of Champions. Trophy, trophy, trophy.
Ring, ring, ring. Congrats once again.
Fire, fire, fire, fire fire fire so lebron james king of making everything about lebron james that's incredible yeah it is no i i actually want lebron to miss a lakers game because he's attending his own championship parade with the rams that he's co-opted into being a lakers parade while the rest of his team has to play during the game but only like lebron and ad yeah skip the game to go to the rams super bowl parade which also honors the lakers i'd like to also invite uh because of a covid year all four-time and five-time awls please attend this parade this will be your parade yep so we're just gonna throw that in there make sure that they get awarded as well yeah also if we win a sports emmy which we're nominated for and we with this podcast isn't really fond of awards because i i don't know i guess we're too cool for school we just think that like they're basically to get retweeted so make fun of the way that award shows work is that they they nominate people who they think will either retweet the award or they select the people who are going to win based on the people that are going to show up to the award. Right, and we're doing either.
And then they talk about the award and they talk about the network that the award is being broadcast on and it becomes just a big suck fest for everybody involved, which normally I'm all for being involved in a giant suck fest. Well, I want to be sucked.
I don have to suck right that's the problem i have right i don't want to leave with bad taste in my mouth and uh we're not going to win this award we might but we but either way we're tanking yeah we we submitted ross they asked for our best clip of the 2021 2022 season and we submitted john cena getting mad at us because his friend died two days before so I hope that they play that at the awards ceremony it would be awesome and I'm sure that we lost the funniest part to me is uh our iHeartRadio podcast award record that we have which is being nominated we're the we're the only person to be nominated every year and never have won or attended or attended and so that streak is definitely they probably already had it i don't even know i want that streak forever i never want to yeah yeah we're the award list show all we do is give them out that's just the type of guys we are um all right so that oh the last last thing the safford hall of fame debate i know that it up. I just want to clarify.
I don't – I'm not saying that I think that Matt Stafford is like an incredible Hall of Fame quarterback. My statement has simply been that he will – his career will be there by the end.
And I think this will – this is a cherry on top for him. Oh, breaking news.
The Bill Simmons podcast won Best Sports Podcast. So, the streak continues for my heart.
Yeah, bullshit. Think it was a Cena interview? Probably, yeah.
No, but I think you're right. I think that Stafford is going to be a Hall of Famer.
I also think the big – you know who actually had the best come up from this was Matt Ryan. Yes, Matt Ryan and Phil Rivers.
Usually Matt Ryan and guys like him, they take these ricochet shots when somebody's having a debate about somebody online. But in this one, it's like, no, wait.
Matt Ryan was a fucking awesome quarterback and has been a great quarterback for a long time and probably will be a Hall of Famer. Phillip Rivers, too, if you look at his stats, just insane.
But yeah, now that Stafford has this and he is a wife guy. He's good to the media.
He's good to the media. He got a ring.
He's probably going to be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, no, all these things actually matter.
You can argue they shouldn't, but they absolutely matter. And, again, he's like the Hall of Fame.
They'll have to figure out how they judge this era. But Matt Stafford's going to end up like top six all time in passing.
And he's also going to – no one's saying that right now if he retired he would be a hall of famer because i think he's still probably got a little work to do my argument was always under the assumption that he plays until he's i don't know like 38 39 and he adds up you know which would be four or five more years assumption that might not come true though because who knows because the crazy thing is the way that the rams are built right now they're all in, but they've got the tiniest window. You know that window in the backseat of a Honda Civic? That's part of the side window, but it's a really small sliver? That's their window that they have right now, and the way that they're going to get hit by cap stuff.
They're probably not going to. I don't know if Stafford's going to play for five years.
Yeah, we'll see. I mean, maybe he'll go somewhere else and play, finish out his career.
But either way, he's going to have. It's also going to be very similar.
Like, everyone obviously assumes Eli Manning's the first ballot Hall of Famer. The two Super Bowls to one is the difference.
But there's not going to. I mean, at the end of the day, like, Matt Stafford and Eli Manning's numbers are going to be very similar.
Where it's like you could never argue that they were the best quarterback in the league, but they put up great numbers. They were consistent.
Eli obviously – Matt got the MVP. Eli, his regular season is – he's 500.
Exactly, 500. So it's not – Matt Ryan did get an MVP, though.
Matt Ryan got an MVP. Yeah.
Yeah, no, Matt Ryan has absolutely a case. People were trying to come back at me being like, so what about Matt Ryan and Phil Rivers? I'm like, yeah, they're Hall of Famers too.
It's not the argument. And people are throwing Richard Sherman's quote in my face.
I agree with Richard Sherman. The Hall of Fame is not what it used to be.
The passing stats have changed how we perceive all these things. My argument is that because of where the Hall of Fame sits right now, guys like Matt Safford, Matt Ryan, Phil Rivers,

they're going to get in.

They just are.

So, yeah.

I agree.

I agree.

All three of those guys are in.

Someone asked me to put my house on it.

I should have.

They're like, dude, if you really think this, put your house up.

I was like, I don't own a house, but I will.

Yeah, no, you should actually bet your life, actually.

I should bet my life because it's one of those things that I could never actually lose. Just buy a cyanide capsule.
He could still get in. And say, yeah, I'm still waiting on it.
Yeah, he's still waiting on it. The Veterans Committee might get him in.
That's going to be the funniest part is he's going to get in, yeah, in like 40 years, and I'm going to be screaming to no one. Told you so.
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All right, back to part of my take. Today, it's me, PFT, Bubba, and memes.
Hank billy and jake are off on vacation just a reminder so everyone remembers we're on vacation as well starting after this show friday we have an awesome life episode two and a half hours with ryan rusilla and mark titus monday is president's day we're off tuesday no show wednesday we'll be back so we're really not we're taking a holiday that's given to us and that's it we're missing a show we're technically it's a holiday we're not gonna be here Billy wanted us to take it off for Biden yeah no yeah Billy said Mr. Biden President Biden yes yes and Dr.
Jill yeah and Bill Clinton one of his heroes um yeah so that's the schedule and then we have some great interviews coming when we get back. But I want to see some vacation positivity from everyone.
For sure. Not saying from the AWLs.
I want to see, like, hey, good job, guys. You're going on vacation.
Good job. Actually, yell at me if I tweet anything over the course of this weekend.
Be like, get back to your vacation. Go back on vacation tell me log off touch grass yes vacation i need i need your support in this yeah i'm going on a vacation i'm on an actual vacation without kids i've learned very quickly that having kids means it's a trip when you're with the kids it's vacation when you're without yep it's just moving it's moving home base when you're with you.
Yep. All right, Bubba, hot seat, cool throw.
My hot seat is everybody in the NBA not named DeMar DeRozan because I watched the Bulls last night for the first time, and he's just turned into, like, the greatest player of all time. He's amazing.
I turned on the game. He had back-to-back possessions where he dunked on a guy, and then I think he scored every point in the fourth quarter.
Yes, he's been incredible this year. He's so good.
Like, out of nowhere. Are we on turn back into a pumpkin watch with him? I've heard that narrative going already about DeMar.
The season's like, he can't keep this up. Yeah, there's regression that obviously people talk about.
I did see an interview he did with Taylor Rooks maybe a couple months ago where I guess his dad was really sick in the last couple of years in Toronto. He was flying from Toronto to California in all his off days and then flying back, which had to have affected him.
But he's been awesome to watch, so much fun. I think the Bulls as a team are kind of pumpkining.
They don't play defense since Caruso's been out. but DeMar DeRozan and Zach Levine also

has one of those knee injuries that just keeps lingering where it's like seeing specialists

and it just never feels good.

But DeMar's awesome.

So much fun to watch.

And my cool throne is Kodak Black.

Yeah.

PFD's guy, super gremlin.

Basically, he just went on Sunday Conversation. It's one of the best ones ones was he part of the shooting though that almost killed Dave yeah he got shot did he get shot he got shot yeah he got shot how bad but he's alive yeah he's fine where'd he get shot he got shot I think like in his leg quick power rankings places to get shot back like back of the leg right here the fleshy part of the thigh i mean yeah yeah over it too i wonder you know what like what if he paid some old like italian mafia guy to shoot him in the fleshy part of the thigh in order to get street cred yeah for his album that he's gonna put out he's been to jail like several times but he needs to streak.
What about right here? Yeah, no, it's a Sopranos episode.

That would suck.

Right through the...

That would suck, you think?

Yeah, because then you couldn't...

Yeah, that would hurt a lot.

Right through your thumb,

the thumb part.

Yeah.

Impact video games.

Memes, you got a shot?

Yeah, you couldn't fire off tweets.

Ear? Foot?

Foot, top of the ear.

Foot would suck.

I'd say top of the shoulder.

Ass would kind of be lame.

Yeah, ass would be kind of cool.

Yeah, but it would be lame.

You couldn't sit. Yeah, you couldn't sit.
But would kind of be lame. Yeah, ass would be kind of cool.
Yeah, but it would be lame.

You couldn't sit.

Yeah, you couldn't sit.

But it would be the least hurtful, right?

Yeah, probably.

I feel like calf.

Calf.

Calf muscle would be fine.

Calf.

Maybe tricep.

Tricep would be not that bad. No, tricep would be bad because then you couldn't extend your arm at all.

For a little bit. But then you get a sick tattoo sick tattoo yeah my problem is my triceps are so small i'm sure it would graze a bone yeah that happened uh okay so kodak black's back cool throne yeah the sunday convo is very funny it's very very funny go check it out it's very good uh memes you want to go sure here we go memes uh thanks for having me on yeah get.
Really talking to Mike there. Is Harambe one of yours? It was going to be.
Go buy the shirts. We have them out now.
Yeah, we put out the Cincy Harambe shirts, too. And we got an update.
There's so many sickos in this world. Because the dead Harambe was the best seller from a fucking Ram Super Bowl.
So you talked about it a little bit.

I'm going with the ESPN Monday Night Crew on the hot seat because supposedly if McVay

wants out, ESPN wants him in for Monday Night Football.

Tony Romo makes $18 million.

Same as Belichick, who's the highest paid coach.

So they're saying.

Yeah, I mean, I never understood when people are like why would mcveigh ever want to do this i don't know why would he want to work like 100th of the amount of hours and time and stress for for more money yeah i i think that's a pretty good deal we were talking about this the other day and a lot of coaches they keep coaching when they don't have to just because they want to be away from their families all the time but in McVay's case he doesn't have a family he's getting married this summer yeah so now he's like I'd love to spend all the time with my hot girlfriend and just with my boys chilling yeah so he's in a position where he wants to stop coaching get paid a shitload of money go on tv it makes It makes a lot of sense. Now, what would happen if the Mannings said, we want to do the booth? Would they, like, relegate McVay? McVay would do the Manning cast? And we'll move to Hartford.
Yeah. McVay, what they would do is they'd be like, hey, we'll get McVay and all the Grudens to do the Manning cast together.
Yeah. And it'll just be the Gruden show.
All, like, the would love McVay, just referencing like random plays from five years ago. Yes.
Oh, my God. He's a fucking genius.
Oh, my God. He'd be like, we call this play Rihanna.
Remember that? Yes. Yes.
Yes. Okay.
You're cool thrown. And then cool thrown Nets locker room.
Bruce Brown said everybody likes each other now. Yeah simmons no longer mental health patient good to go i'm very happy for ben simmons yep who knows what the fuck is going to happen between him and james harden but it is also very funny that james harden didn't sign his extension yeah so he could be a free agent this offseason i really do i actually might is gonna sound This is going to sound crazy.
I might take a future on the Nets to win the title. If Ben Simmons can play and be decent, Kyrie and Kevin Durant, and it would be awesome if Kyrie just got vaccinated tomorrow, just right in James Harden's face.
Because I know Harden was really pissed about that. So that would be a very funny thing if he was just like, actually, I'm all in.
Well, it depends if the new governor of New York is going to do like these hundred dollar incentives. Maybe Kyrie sees that and he's like, yeah, you know what? Shotman gets paid.
It's worth it. Yeah, it's worth it.
All right. Good ones.
Good ones. PFT.
My hot seat is Tommy Amaker. Yeah.
See the report coming out? Oh, it's too bad that Hank's not here to talk about Coach K. But there's a report coming out of a new book that Tommy Amaker was going to be named next head coach of Duke.
He coaches at Harvard now. He coached at Seton Hall, I believe, before then.
Yep. And Coach K got on a Zoom with him him and essentially said i can't have you taking this job because that would set john shire back in his career so we want you to take your name out of consideration and out of respect for coach k tommy amica realized that this job search thing was open apparently he had been offered the job right already until coach k stepped in and told him no sorry we don't want you here wow so coach k racist i would just love to hear hank's position huh on maybe add a couple more k's to your name interesting this is legacy defining moves it is legacy defining i i hope it's not true i hope that there's some sort of mix-up in the press yeah and i'm'm sure Hank will clarify at his earliest possible convenience when he returns from vacation.
Yes. My cool throw is Kyler Murray.
Ah, that was my hot seat. No, it's a cool throw because there's absolutely nothing to see here.
Kyler Murray hopped on social media and he cleared things up. Everybody had been wondering for the last couple weeks, what's going on between Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals? He unfollowed them on social media, which it's so hilarious that this is what NFL players are doing now to like voice displeasure is they're looking at their hands at their phone and they're hitting a button that'll show them.
But it's funny, but it's also very true. Like whenever we're like, oh man, how is this news that someone unfollows someone? Yeah.
Kyler Murray consciously unfollowed them in anger. Yes.
Like, he looked at it and was like, fuck these guys. Yeah.
You can't tell me different. I'll show them.
Yes. So, between this and, like, the fake, is he lobbying for a new contract? I don't know.
But anyways, he said. No, he wants less of the blame.
Okay. Fine.
Fair enough. You'll get less of the blame, Kyler.
Yeah. He tweeted out a statement he notes apped it and he said i play this by the way you can tell it's a very serious notes app because he used the the uh the title heading for the entire one the big bold one i play this game for the love of it my teammates everyone who has helped me get to this position that believed in me and to win championships all of this this nonsense is not what I'm about.
Never has been. Never will be.
Anyone who has ever stepped between these lines with me knows how hard I go. Love me or hate me, but I'm going to continue to grow and get better.
So boom. End of story.
That says it all. All of this nonsense that I directly caused, I'm not about it.
And you can make the case that this is just more nonsense. Correct.
I think Kyler Murray leads the league in nonsense. He does.
He also, so this was I don't know if it was transcribed to a notes app on Twitter. I'm blocked by him, but he did use this same caption on Instagram and he posted it with a picture and the picture he posted it's the tallest I've ever seen him.
I saw that picture. He's remarkably tall in this picture you know what the angles wise he's a master of angles what he's done is he's he put his helmet a couple inches behind his feet so he stepped in front of it and no one else is around him yeah yeah he looks so tall in this picture he does i i actually could learn a lot about posting from this picture but yeah this uh kyler murray way to go dude.
It's like you're causing all this, but you're not about it. Case closed.
All right. So that was going to be my hot seat.
My cool throne is Novak Djokovic. So he has decided that he's going to opt out of future Grand Slams with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
And I just want to say I I applaud him and he's brave. And I think that everyone should get their own choice.
So good job, Djokovic. You're my goat.
Yep. Unlike other athletes who may have opted out.
Yeah. Well, there's a difference.
He plays an individual sport. Right.
Other guys who play team sports, if you refuse a vaccine, jail. Yes, exactly.
He also said it's not about the vaccine. It's about the principles of it.
So there you go. Just for anyone out there who thinks this is about the vaccine, it's actually not.
It's states' rights. It's not.
It's not. What was it? It's not slavery.
It's states' rights. Yeah, it's about states' rights.
Yeah. There was actually on the road trip, the drive to the 405, a couple times when I thought that Billy was going to just start driving north.
Like when we crossed 35, I was like, Billy's going to drive up to Alberta. And he's going to think that he's a trucker and joined the convoy.
I also just remember we forgot to mention this story when we basically just did a PMT at like four in the morning the other night. Oh, yeah.
When we all just happened to randomly walk into each other

like by the pool at the hotel.

All four of us ended up back walking into the hotel

like within two minutes of each other at 3.45 in the morning

just sitting down at the hotel pool

and just laughing and starting to riff.

And there was like a couple of random people there.

They're like, what are you guys doing?

It's like, don't worry.

We're doing a show right now.

We do this often.

This conversation is brought to you by Roman Swipes.

We're doing this right now.

I'll just... And there was a couple of random people there.
They're like, what are you guys doing? It's like, don't worry. We're doing a show right now.
We do this often. This conversation is brought to you by Roman Swipes.
We're doing this right now. Just go away.
We're recording a podcast in real life. We actually had, there was a friend came back at about the same time, and she walked behind us.
They're like, friend, you want to come on the show? Yeah. We just essentially yelled at her to ask her into a conversation.
She's like, no, thanks, guys. I'm tired.
Like, all right, that was Fran. Give it up for Fran, guys.
It was very similar to the memory that we had of last time we were in L.A. You weren't with us, Bubba, but it was me, PFT, and Hank.
We played a very physical game of 21 at the Beverly Hills. What was that? What was that hotel? Marina Del Rey.
No, Marina Del Rey. Four seasons.
Played a very physical game of 21, then smoked weed, then got

in a hot tub, and it was

the three of us and then a couple that were

trying to have a very sensual evening,

and we were just talking about if we

were super rich, what we'd put in our house.

I was like, I'd put a Chili's in a bowling alley,

and these people are just sitting

there trying to make out while

we're just super high talking about the most random shit. We end up doing the show a lot.
Yeah, when we're not doing the show. That was a good one though.
I think this most recent one might have been our best episode. Oh, so good.
I wish we had recorded it. I don't know.
I don't remember it. I'm glad that we didn't.
That one's like, it's good to do an episode every now and again that just goes out for the love of the game. Yeah.
Like people say, I do this for free. We actually do do this show for free.
Right. It's like when Kyrie shows up, like dressed up like an old guy, even though that was for a movie.
Yeah. You know what I mean? We just show up and start podcasting.
We should actually do that at some point, like go to some sort of podcast convention dressed up as old people, like Donna Gruden and what was your name? Hyman Roth. Hyman Roth.
And be like, can we see how to use these things? Yeah. And then just step up there and do an episode of part of my take dressed looking like old people.
Or even better, we go to like a busy coffee shop or like a train station and we just start, you know, like the Beatles playing on their rooftop. We have a loud conversation.
Not that we're the Beatles, but yeah, just be like, holy shit, they're doing a podcast. And then we have like millions of people like oh my god they're doing a podcast the funny part about podcasting is that even if me and big cat did that and even if we did like a monday recap where we're doing like the fastest two minutes with the noises nobody would stand and watch maybe maybe one person it would be like the videos of uh like a world famous violinist playing the world's most expensive violin in Union Station and people just walking by, ignoring.
Yes. Again, we're not that guy.
Again, we're absolutely not. We just compared ourselves to the greatest.
Well, no, I'm saying it's totally different for podcasts because what we do takes significantly less talent, I would say. There'd be one dude that would be like, hey, can I just get a picture and you guys can just keep talking? Like, I'm not here to listen.
Yeah. And then he puts his headphones and listens.
All right, let's get to TJ Watt. When we come on the other side, we're going to actually have the man himself, Jersey Jerry, on the show to do guys on chicks and tell us about his TJ Watt FaceTime.
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All right, back to part of my take. All right, we now welcome on a very special guest.
It is Defensive Player of the Year. night tj watt the watt trilogy has been completed so thank you you are the you are missing like avenger stone i don't see those movies i've not seen it either but you're sure so yeah collect them all we've got them all you're like pokemon yes yes um so very like awesome congratulations by the way uh like we thought you were defensive player all year.
Also, a little mini dynasty right now because I think I crunched the numbers. Four out of the last ten defensive player of the year are Wisconsin Badgers, which is insane that they produced that many good defensive players.
It was literally just J.J. and T.J., but that's okay.
That's okay. It's a cool stat to throw out there now.
Fullbacks and defense. Yeah, there now backs and defense yeah yeah um but we have to start before we get into the season and everything else um we have to start with something this is why we had to have hank here who was a little late but that's okay uh i don't know if you saw the video oh i saw oh so do you want to apologize or how do we go about this? Because I do want to apologize.

I don't know if you read it wrong how exactly it happened if it was if it was dj i would understood but hey i i understand the excitement that you had i wish it would have hit for you buddy but uh well for anyone who doesn't know what we're talking about most people to do but h Hank bet in the Steelers-Chiefs game, first touchdown, he thought he had bet first touchdown scorer T.J. Watt.
Which is crazy. It's insane, and you actually did score the first touchdown.
How many touchdowns have you scored? That was the first one. First one ever.
First one in the game. Hank stood up and thought he had won $3,000 off a $20 bet.

The look on his face was priceless.

Before and after you found out.

Yes, and I actually remember I was talking to JJ after because he was like, this has to be a bit.

And I was like, no, no, no.

Like, we are this stupid.

So you robbed him of an unbelievable moment.

I'm sorry.

I'm truly sorry.

Yeah, you owe him like three grand um we'll figure that out yeah that was cool though when you scored that touchdown it was you can never take away that moment we had with hank where he thought he hit that bet hey that had to be a hell of an exciting couple minutes so yeah no it was right yeah and it actually was like a couple minutes before h read your name. And he was like, oh, shit.

No, it was Nick, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Nick was like, this is Derek Watt.

Incredible.

Yeah, it was great.

It was all time.

In that game, were you, after you scored the touchdown,

because we put together a list of things that needed to happen for the Steelers to win that game.

And I think the first one was we need TJ Watt to score at least one touchdown,

maybe more. But at that point, were you like, we can do this.
Maybe we can beat the Chiefs. I mean, I thought we had a chance.
I really did. I mean, I didn't know how their offense was so powerful, and we put together a great string of stops, and it was one of those things where you don't know how much longer you're going to be able to keep stopping them.
But we knew we had to score points. I was glad to get in the end zone.
I tried to do my own little Lambeau leap. I think I headbutted the guy.
I felt so bad. I hit him hard with my face mask and turned around, celebrated, thought we had good momentum, and clearly it just wasn't enough.
I mean, it was crazy that you guys got to the playoffs to begin with because there was times where it felt like the season was slipping away, and you obviously battled some injuries. Incredible defensive player of the year.
What injury though this year was Big Ben most jealous of? Was he like, ooh, I kind of wish I had that because he loves injuries. I don't know.
I mean, I think people are always jealous of a nice groin injury. I don't know because it's still probably throw in the pocket with a groin injury.
You can miss practice time show up on a friday still practice got a sick limp yeah it's nice nice little limp um i don't know i mean i go get treatment done yeah yeah a little treatment little grassed in on a little get some treatment cupping all that stuff but uh yeah i had a fair share of injuries myself but uh didn't miss too much time no you didn't uh how many walking walking boots does he have just in and around his locker? He's got a separate locker for the walking boots. I like to think he's got different styles.
He's got Jordan walking boot. He's got a Yeezy branded walking boot, depending on the day.
We love Big Ben. We love him.
His goodbye this year was emotional. I think everybody got a little emotional seeing him walk off the field with his family.
Is there any chance at all that he comes back? Any chance? Just tell me like one percent. I have no idea.
I have no idea. I mean, it sounded like his retirement was a true retirement, but who knows? I'm just thankful that I had the five years that I had with him.
It was cool to be a part of. So uh playing for the steelers obviously iconic franchise how much does it actually pump you up when renegade plays because i was at the monday night football game bears steelers and they played renegade and literally two seconds later the bears fumbled and i was like this is illegal this is not fair does it really pump you guys up like because from a fan perspective we're like holy shit this is awesome it's cool i mean in college you used to watch like hit tapes before games you know and it'd get you guys up? Because from a fan perspective, we're like, holy shit, this is awesome.
It's cool. I mean, in college, you used to watch hit tapes before games, you know, and it would get you pumped up.
In the NFL, you don't really have all the hit tapes and the hype before games. So the lights go out, and it used to be – I mean, my dad always said to me, like, every time you guys play Renegade, the team just goes down your throat and just scores a touchdown.
It was like a stretch of games where Renegade played and we just played terribly. And this year it was just one of those years where Renegade played.
We really fed off the hype and the adrenaline. The lights go out and the terrible towels go crazy.
And when that stadium is rocking, it's a fun atmosphere to play. Yeah, one time they played double Renegade.
That was crazy. Double Renegade.
Yeah, they went double Renegade like two years ago. Just run it back.
Yeah, i don't know if they did by mistake or if it was on purpose but it was awesome and i think you guys got like a turnover on that drive do you like what do you listen to in the locker room before a game well i'm not allowed to have my phone on me 90 minutes before the game so is that tomlin rule no that's an nfl mandated huh really i uh you gotta check got to check that. I received a fine for saying it jokingly in an interview this year, so I'm just a little stabbed.
Oh, okay. I jokingly said I checked my phone at halftime of the Baltimore game, and the NFL took it as a real saying and fined me $10,000.
No way. Why aren't you allowed to get your phone? That doesn't make any sense.
So it's just one of those things where, yeah, I'm not allowed to have my phone on me at all 90 minutes before the game or during halftime. So if there's music playing in the locker room, I'll listen to that.
Otherwise, I just sit there in my locker. Just focus? Is Goodell trying to cut down on screen time for all the players? Or like what is – I don't understand.
Hey, six-star pro nutrition, that was our thing. It was cutting down on screen time.
So maybe that's a full thing. Yeah, I did a terrible job, by the way, of introducing the nutrition you got here, the stuff here.
That's my bad. We did have Billy Football's already in Vegas, but this is – PFT's been working out a lot, so he's going to start using this.
I went on a run a second ago, and I brought my jewel with me, and I hit it before I turned around. When they said in the workout, I was like, okay, now it's time to turn around go back i was like all right just give me a break here took a couple drags got the lungs moving activated i'll take some of this pre-workout now yeah so it's got they got pre-workout it's called six star pro nutrition you should check it out uh if you're if you're trying to get back in shape in 2022 boom here it is put on some muscle it's right here for you pt's literally gonna take you just gonna scoop and dump it or you gotta put in some water just raw dog it all right yeah here's some water i respect that i do have to i tj i have to come clean with something um we almost had a disaster in this studio when he's right before you came here what happened all right so uh jj and i like everyone knows part of my take in jj's relationship it's actually i I've become friends with him.
We text, you know, not like all the time, but you know, we'll catch up every now and then talk about the Badgers. So last night I texted him and I was like, hey, what, like, what do you have on TJ that I can get him on? And he was like, well, he's like legit, like very, very badly allergic to tree nuts.
And he was like, he almost died at Derek's wedding, like didn't go to the wedding. So I was like, great.
So I went and I bought some nuts and put them in a Ziploc bag and wrote tree nuts on them. And I told the guys before and they're like, but wait, what are those nuts? And I was like, almonds.
And they're like, those are tree nuts. A tree nut is a type of nut.
Like I was, yeah. You thought there was an actual tree nut.
Yeah, I didn't realize. So you almost died again.
Like that would have almost happened. That would have been like three out of the five Super Bowl weekends that I attended that I had.
We were just telling the story last night. When we were in Arizona, JJ got defense player of the year, I don't know what, one of the three times.
And I ate some like lo mein or something from the hotel, and I had an allergic reaction. I was on the red carpet with just a red face.
There was once in Pittsburgh, James Harrison actually emergency drove me to the hospital. Holy shit.
Because I had my face looked like I just went five rounds with Mike Tyson. Whoa.
And then one year at the Super Bowl, my dad jokingly threw a pecan at me, and it hit me in the face, and my face blew up. No way, because I washed my hands i went and washed my hands because i was like oh shit i know yeah he felt terrible about it but uh he threw a pecan yeah he felt he felt really bad but i still give him crap he's like i didn't throw it i'm like what yeah me and you were the only ones in the room man holy shit the big yeah the big plan was we're just gonna toss these nuts nuts out of it.
Man, that would have been bad. And see what happens.

We might have killed you.

Fuck.

Oh, it might have been bad.

Yeah, I saved your life.

I saw that bag and I was like, wait, big cat. Those are almonds.

I think that almonds are tree nuts.

Please, can we not kill our guests today?

Is there a certain one that you're more allergic to?

I do.

They run me through a gamut of tests every year and they're like, I don't think you're

allergic to almonds.

And I'm like, I'm still staying away.

Yeah. They give you ones that you're allergic to.
But do you want to yeah my fiancee carries the pen i know i'm why don't we just try an almond just with the boys you want to play it would make great content we just just have like a time lapse of my face just like blowing up it's like a spinoff of sean evans hot ones we just find things that people are allergic to and try to kill them slowly during an interview just see how long my airways cut off yeah i say we play almond roulette we have two peanuts and then one almond yeah and then you have to you have to overturn a cup and eat that nut that's under there yeah i've always envied like pecan pie and stuff like that it always smells so good but i've never been able to eat it um all right so who's the Watt brother I heard it's you it is me yeah I heard it's you because I mean I did hear it was you are you guys still like now obviously Derek's got kids you guys have moved around a lot of career shifts are you guys still just as competitive when you get together the three of Yeah. It's funny that you mentioned Derek has kids because Derek always mentions that he has kids.
So we guys go, Derek, you got kids. Yeah, we're very competitive.
And it's one of those things that whenever we do get together in the offseason and train, you do kick it up a notch. And that's why when you win awards like this and we have that special embrace on stage, it truly is so special.

And you have to take a moment to realize that three of us are in the NFL.

We grew up in the same household together and put so much work into it that when we are together, we truly bring the best out of each other.

And it's a really unique bond.

And the craziest part about your career, because obviously everyone knows JJ's, the Central Michigan part of it. But when you went to Wisconsin, was it three full years that you didn't play a snap because of injuries? Yeah, I mean, if you want me, I can run through the game, and it's taken me like two minutes to run through, but yeah, I went to Wisconsin as a tight end, was 18 years old, redshirted, was fine with that, going against like Brendan Kelly, guys like 22 years old, I mean, I wasn't ready to play at all, just scout team, bowl prep, dislocated my right kneecap.
So basically just pops out and comes back in. They said, just rehab it, no surgery.
So I said, all right. First day of spring ball, it's like three months later.
First day of practice, dislocated my left one. So basically said, the right one's fine with rehab.
So just rehab it again. Came back, first day of fall camp.
I think first day of pads, dislocated the right one again. So basically flew down to Houston.
JJ's team surgeon, Walt Lowe, operated on my right knee and was really healthy. Was there for the LSU game when they played LSU down there.
Emotional, saw them go out of the tunnel. Was bummed I couldn't be't be there came back after surgery I think it was spring ball again or maybe it was fall camp left one or spring ball left one went right after I repaired my right one so I was still a tight end went down got surgery again and then it was that summer where coach Chris was like hey man you should try playing defense and I was like am I not a good enough tight end for for you or what? I thought you were going to say, like, try playing soccer.
Yeah, you should try handing out water. So you popped both of them out twice.
Yeah, yeah. And that's so now we're what, 2014? Yeah, so I had two years at Wisconsin where I actually played.
I had the one year where I switched to defense and played behind Vin Spiegel and Joe Schober. In 15, yeah.
Yep, 15. And then in spring ball, had a true spring ball, which was the first one I ever had in college, and then played the one year, started, and then NFL told me, returned to school.
I submitted my papers and just said. We're going to get right back to the show.
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You don't know me. You don't know the work that I put in, what I've been through, and was able to be a first-round pick.
It's crazy, though, to think. It had to be very demoralizing to have being a football player, someone who loves football, football family, and you go, like I said, I think it was three full years that you didn't get to play a live snap of football.
Yeah, it was frustrating. Obviously, you have a lot of expectations being the younger brother.
Derek was a hell of a football player at Wisconsin, too, and still is to this day. But I was just trying to figure out why this was happening, all that stuff.

But it gave me perspective.

You'd hear guys complaining about practice, and they don't want to be here.

And I would have given anything to be able to practice.

And I think that's why I love this game so much is because it was taken away from me for those crucial years in college.

Yeah, yeah.

And that 16 team was obviously very good.

Did you think, Bart Houston, did you think he maybe had a shot at the Heisman after that first game? Yeah, I did. LSU? I made the shirts.
Hey, Bart Houston was a hell of a football player. He's like a California high school legend.
I know, and his name was just awesome, and I was like, holy shit, you guys beat LSU at Lambeau. It actually, it's like a sliding door moment because that kind of ended Les Miles.
Like,

that was the beginning of the end for him.

And I was like,

oh,

fuck,

man,

Bart Houston,

Bart Heisman,

this is going to happen.

You don't meet too many

Barts these days.

Real true.

Good Bart.

Good slip ball name.

Yeah.

It's true.

Yeah.

How come Derek's the only one

that's allowed to play offense?

I mean,

I don't know.

I'm trying to figure out.

I would like to get

a snap of offense.

Yeah.

So what position

would you like to get

at a tight end

or do you want to be

a fullback?

Thank you. I mean, I don't know.
I'm trying to figure out. I would like to get a snap of offense.
Yeah.

So what position would you like to get in a tight end,

or do you want to be a fullback?

Tight end. I don't want to.

I don't want to have to have a big collision.

But don't you try.

I'd rather save a potential helmet-to-helmet collision.

It would be just so awesome that it would be like,

I want to do something on offense where I don't touch the ball.

You never hear about a defensive player lobbying to play.

You just go on offense and not get the fullback dive on third and one. Yeah, yeah.
I just want to block. Can you just put me in at a tackle eligible, but I won't go out on a route.
I'll just stay in and block. Exactly.
I'll just come back and block the end that's not even on the play. Yeah, have you asked Mike Tomlin if you can play offense? I haven't.
I'm sure he'd look at me and just say no. I don't think there'd be much joking to go along with it.
But who knows? What is it about Mike Tomlin? Because I've actually, like my thoughts on Mike Tomlin have evolved through the years where there was, you know, there was the time when Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell thing was happening. I was like, is he kind of losing this? But then in retrospect, I'm like, holy shit, Mike Tomlin's an incredible coach that everything was able to stay together.
Like is he, everyone says he's a player's coach. What does that look like day to day? He's a cool guy, man.
He's fun to play for. He can be like that, that friend role if you want, if you, in moments, I think he just plays those moments so well.
And then there's also times where he's just so commanding. I don't know if you've ever met him or had a conversation with him, but he's got that deep voice and he'll have you run through a wall for him.
He's just so organized. He knows how to motivate individual guys.
I think that's really tough in the NFL. You got guys coming from all different places, motivated different ways.
And he knows how to grind your gears and he'll talk up the other team's edge rusher like he's the almighty and kind of look at me side-eyed. And I'm like, message received, message received.
So what is it, the Tomlin thing that I love? I love coaches that I can, like, depend on. I know the spots to pick.
Like, all right, this is a Mike Tomlin spot. The first part of this question is going to sound like it's a dig at you guys, but there's been times in the past where the Steelers have gone in as big favorites, and it's like maybe come out flat.
But then when you guys are, like, back against the wall, what does he do to get it? Like, back against the wall, Steelers are underdogs. It's like maybe come out flat but then when you guys are like back against the wall what does he do to get it like back against the wall Steelers or underdogs like all right Mike Tomlin he'll have them ready yeah I think it's one of those things where he's consistent in everything that he does it's not like there's big rah-rah speeches or when we're on top it's not like we're sitting around thinking we're the shit or anything like that I think it's just one of those things where he's so consistent over a time that it's hard to not buy in and um i don't i don't think that's anything to do with him i think in those situations we just can't let up on the gas pedal yeah do you ever find yourself listening to him talk and you're like the words that he's using are english and i know what he means by what he says but it doesn't really make sense as a sentence he He's got a lot of one-liners, a lot of good sayings.

I mean, there's a fine line between squishing grapes and making wine.

Yeah.

I like that one a lot.

That's a good one.

Cut your eyelids off.

Cut your eyelids off.

Don't blink.

Yeah, don't blink.

The standard is the standard.

The standard is the standard.

The new one this year was you're either buying smart or you're buying in a gated community.

So either you're balling and you're making a lot of money

or you're buying smart.

I like that one a lot.

Yeah, that one's good.

You can tell he's definitely reading a book where he got that from.

Yeah, it's got to be.

He's got to be coming from somewhere else.

Yeah, definitely.

I love it because I get his vibe whenever he says something.

I know what he's trying to communicate.

He's a very effective community.

He could say anything. He could read the dictionary.
I'd be like, oh, okay, yeah, he wants me to get amped up. I get that.
We love Mike Tomlin. What does the standard mean? We've been debating that for the last couple years.
Haven't gotten around to figuring it out yet. I take it as the next man up mentality.
Pittsburgh Steelersers gritty defense for for me as a defensive player

doesn't matter who's in the game like i said i missed a couple games the next guy has to step up the standard's been set by seven six super bowls in the past it's the standard is the standard yeah what is it i just say a whole bunch of words that just didn't mean anything no it's great the way that you described it was perfect actually it's like you know pittsburgh steelers our mentality Yeah, the standard is the standard.

I get it.

I get what it means.

Yeah, we love them.

I have a quote here. This is actually a tweet that was put out earlier this year from our good friend Adam Schefter.
So you signed your big contract. Congratulations.
Can I have some money? You don't have to answer that. But the tweet was, Steelers outside linebacker TJ Watt overruled his agents, who believed they could get more money today, marched into the office of Steelers president Art Rooney and told him they had a deal.
Then the NFL's new highest-paid defensive player excused himself and announced he had to go work out. That's just one of those things, man, having fun.
And, I mean, the deal, I'm just so glad that the deal got done with mr rooney and uh it was a hard process to get there glad it got done and it was a thursday i always work out on a thursday always take always take a scoop of my six star pre-workout same which by the way is delicious yes is it good yes is your face crawling yet you're starting to get a little red in the face you have beta alanine or whatever Maybe it tingles a little bit. But yeah, I went down.
I worked out.

And just. your face crawling yet you're starting to get a little red in the face but yeah i went i went down i worked out um and just went about my day it was one of those things where when they said the deal was was potentially done it was it was a thursday after practice normally get my workout in afterwards and went up shook mr uny's hand and went down and worked out and went about my day.
Did you march into the office? I don't know if I've ever marched anywhere. Did you announce that you had to go work out? No.
Or did you just go work out? There's no megaphone near me to say, like, to let everybody upstairs know that I was about to work out. So did you write that tweet or did your agent? I said you wrote it.
I didn't write that tweet. I was probably doing my social media cleanse through Six Star at that point.
Oh yeah, there we go. Wait, who is your agent? Who else do they rep in the league? My agency is CAA Sports.
Okay. We just try to connect the dots.
Adam Schefter tweeted about how important Jimmy G is. It was clear he was trying to just get the info on Tom Brady's retirement.
So we're trying to just figure out like, what was he tweeting that got him this. That's mind blowing stuff.
That's why you guys who are working out and we're sitting here being like, Ooh, what does this tweet mean? I wonder who wrote Adam Schefter's tweet for it. It's a great life.
It's a great life. It actually is.
Hypothetically, not talking about anybody in this room, but hypothetically, would it be weird if a 37-year-old man was DMing college students trying to get them to transfer to Wisconsin? Hypothetically. Hypothetically? Yeah, hypothetically.
Pretty weird. Yeah.
But depending. I'd have to know the hypothetical situation.
So hypothetically, it's not a high school kid. It's a kid who already went to hypothetical Oklahoma for a year.
It's never good to start a sentence with. Hypothetically, it's not a high school kid.
I promise you. But I just want to clear.
I would never DM a high school kid. It's not a sentence you ever want to be.
Unless he was a five-star quarterback, then I probably would. But hypothetically, this person just said, Yo, what's up, man? Madison is sick.
You fuck with my vision?

Let's build.

I'd say hypothetically, your poll must have not been what you thought.

Clearly didn't.

But hypothetically, if for some reason he didn't choose Wisconsin and he was like, all I really wanted was for Big Cat to reach out, maybe the .0001% chance that happens.

If I hadn't, I would have been killing myself. Hypothetically, you did your part.
You did your part. You can sleep at night.
Hypothetically, other guys, you know, again, just like random people, guys who maybe signed a $100 million contract a few years ago or a guy who signed an $80 million guaranteed contract and then immediately marched into the weight room weight room like those guys feel like guys that have a little bit of money that they could throw around to hypothetically get this kid to go to wisconsin hypothetically i don't know what jj's doing why not just be like i guess this is the difference between like players and fans that like if i had your money i would have been like hey kill Williams here's 10 million dollars i'm not sure that's i want to just be happy where do i where do i send that wire to yeah is that i don't even know what nil rules are no you can you just cash out that you're like oh yeah just venmo or zell or whatever they're doing these days no problem no problem i just listen that just, listen. That would get him Mickey's Dairy Bar forever.
Yes, exactly. What would you spend that on in Madison, Wisconsin? I know, right? Yeah, I don't know.
You actually couldn't. It'd be like a Brewster's Million situation.
Can you spend $10 million on drinks in a college town like Madison where everything is like $2? He'd be like $1,000 in and be did everything i wanted right living like a king i just i listen i i am very open about the fact that i would like to be a booster why not why not yeah why not what's the downside i don't think i can go to jail right no i don't think so so then i'm good all those miami guys that worked out fine for them wait no one guy went. He did like fucking, they always get you for like tax evasion or something.
I'll just pay my taxes and then just give money to players, high school kids. No problem.
Sounds like a good business. Sounds like a great business.
Who's stronger, you or JJ? JJ's stronger. Really? Yeah.
He's strong as shit, man. Get some of this pre-workout in.
He's strong as shit he's strong as shit yeah i mean with my six-star pro nutrition uh this is i think my second or third year with them now um i think i'll be able to take my my workouts to new heights this off season i like it what um how much more does he bench than you um i i have no idea what the actual number is we don't really do max benches anymore. I know that people don't like to hear that because it's too dangerous.
It's too dangerous. Yeah, I guess.
Do your band work and shit. Yeah, it's all football-specific stuff now.
Right, yeah. People want to see the squats and the bench, but a lot of times, I don't know, J.J.
likes to get the pictures of the squats deep in there. He does.
Yeah. He loves posting online.
What's the – so Derek being on your team this year, like Derek's a good football player. You're defensive player of the year.
That's no knock on Derek. But is there ever a time where it's like Derek has to be like, hey, TJ, like the guys are being mean to me.
Can you like help me out? Like you're the best player on this team. No.
Derek can handle himself. That's the cool thing cool thing I mean like I hate that special team gets overlooked as much as it does and I know you're a kicker um but uh true it's the the amount that goes in that he puts into special teams and the amount of pride that he takes in special teams is something that I didn't have an appreciation for until he got here I didn't know how much he truly put into running down the field.
It's hard to make those tackles in open field. I was on punt my rookie year and I got hurt my second game and I hoped that they didn't put me back on the punt team and they did anyways.
Those are hard plays to make and he cares a whole lot about it. I just love watching him compete and being able to see him up close and personal do what he does professionally is awesome.
Yeah, he's a very good fullback, and he's a very good special teams player, like you said. How come he doesn't get a J in his name, though? Because I think DJ Tanner from Full House was a girl, so he didn't want to be DJ.
I think that's the root of it. So his middle name is a J? Derek John, yeah.
Oh. So it's his choice to not be a J.
Yes. Wow.
I don't know if I like that. It is kind of cool to have the one guy that plays offense.
He's not a J. He's a little different.
He did play defense in college, though. He started out.
So why did he get switched? I think it was Chris Borland and I forget who else is in there. He smacks it around in there and throws his head around in there.
They liked the way that he presented and accepted context. They put him at fullback.
All right, so we're going to run this right after the Super Bowl, but there's been a lot of talk about Joe Burrow and playing different sports and how he could – I think his quote is he could get 12 points in an NBA game. You're an insane hockey player.

If we threw you out there, could you last a shift in the NHL?

It was like two minutes, right?

Yeah.

I think I could last.

I mean, yeah.

I think I could last.

I mean, if we're fighting for 30 seconds of this shift, maybe.

Would you score?

What position?

I was a center, a left wing.

I was a lefty.

Okay.

I haven't played.

It's actually this offseason I want to get some skates and I want to run out some ice time and I want to get back on the ice. I think that would be a lot of fun.
Yes. I don't know if I'd get you a goal.
I mean, some of the scores are 1-0, 0-0, so I don't know. I don't want to disrespect the NHL guys out there.
Maybe just crash the net, just get in front of the net. Yeah.
Yeah. Push the goalie around and see who's got the goalies back.
Yeah, it's a playoff goal. That was the thing on the team playing home one year, or one flight, we said, I could get you two points in a rebound in an NBA game.
You could? Yeah. I think I could.
A rebound, maybe. Yeah? The rebound would be tough.
No, I think the rebound might be easier than... Well, you could be tough.
Would you be the under-the-hoop rebound, or would you just be one for the three-point missed rebound? No, I would hang out on the perimeter and for a really ugly miss yeah that would be where are you getting your points though you got to get two i don't think i can do it have you seen me i'm like five two you get to play the whole game though yeah no i don't think you'd probably only be able to play i mean the problem is you're you'd probably only get to play five minutes if you're playing with other n players, maybe you'd have a chance to get one shot up.

But like if it was just regular guys,

like the hypothetical is so funny.

If you're playing an NBA team,

you wouldn't be able to get the ball in.

Like you wouldn't be able to,

maybe you because you're different,

but like we wouldn't be able to get the ball inbounded.

Yeah, that's true.

Right.

And they'd be on you like white on rice too.

Yeah, no, we literally wouldn't be able to pass the ball in

with one guy standing in front of us and one guy guarding the other. yeah.
That's a good way of putting it. That's intimidating itself, I guess.
But in an NHL game, you'd just try to get into a fight. Yeah, but I've never, I mean, on skates it'd be tough.
I think I would just be around the blue line waiting for a slap shot, honestly. Yeah.
Have you ever gotten into a fight in hockey? No, I mean, I stopped playing hockey when I was like eight years old. Okay.
But you were really good, right? Yeah. I mean, JJ was on Team USA.
Derek was on Wisconsin AAA. I was about to be on.
I had my Wisconsin AAA jersey and, like, uniform, and then we stopped playing. Was it where your parents were just like, I do not want to get up this early anymore? It was just too much, man.
Hockey's a tough sport

on the family just because JJ would be

out of the country playing hockey at

12 years old. Derek would be in a different state.

It was just pulling the family apart

and it got to be too tough.

Yeah, and the smell of the hockey

bags is something that

is brutal.

It's really bad. Do you think that

the Watt brothers could take the Gronkowskis?

Ooh.

Take them where?

Like in a fight.

Yeah.

Like Battle Royale.

I don't know.

There's a whole lot of them.

There is four of them.

Five or six of them?

Are there five?

Four or five?

Yeah, five.

Five.

Five Gronks.

That'd be tough.

I don't know.

I don't know, man.

Isn't there like a new UFC where they have like five versus five? Oh, yeah, like in Russia they do that. Like team fighting? It's crazy.
That's the most violent thing I've ever seen. We need to get two extra Watt brothers when you guys can join in the fight with us.
Yes. Put Hank in there with you.
What's the one play in your NFL career where you look back and you're like damn that was sick um i don't know good question never never really i would think about like oh man that was so sick when i did that never really thought of it um you had one i don't know the touchdown was cool we lost the game so it's not that cool um i think sack and tom brady was cool i think my second or third year um sack Fitzpatrick, fumble, recovering the fumble. I don't know.
Still waiting on a bigger play. I don't know.
It was that touchdown, and then the Chiefs happened. If you don't win the game, if you save that game ball, it's like, all right.
Yeah. Are you rooting for the Bengals, or is it one of those things where it's like, they're in our division, I hate them no matter what uh no I mean I respect I respect them for where they are I mean they were hurting I think only won a handful of games two three years ago and to be where they are now it's a great model for the NFL to look at and they've done some great things and we weren't able to beat them this year which obviously I'm not happy with but uh I'm just rooting for a good game I think I'll be on a flight during the game so I don't know if I'll be able to watch oh wow Super Bowl if my brother isn't playing it and me or Derek isn't playing it I I've never been to Super Bowl that'd be the only situation where I actually go but huh um all right so I had one last well I have two last questions one is um can you at least make sure that Jim Leonard stays at Wisconsin was he he He was coaching when you were there, right? I think he – yeah, I think that was the year he was a defensive backs coach for one year because I played under Dave Aranda, great coach, and then Justin Wilcox, who's also a great coach, and then Jim came in doing crazy things there.
Defense is so good. I love him.
I actually – because he was – when I went to to Wisconsin he was playing, and he was one of my favorite players. Punt returns and all that stuff.
He's like the scrappiest grittiest dude out there. So you gotta, can you at least give money to that? Can we just get some money? We need help.
We need help. I need to visit.
I need to go, when I'm back in Wisconsin I need to go up there and I need to have a conversation. Do a rah-rah.
Yeah. And just throw my name.
Be like, we can make some sick shirts. Yeah.
Free rah-rah. But we make, yeah.
Like I was talking to Big Cat. He's like, whenever you need a shirt, we're ready to go.
Gotcha. Gotcha.
I can just see it right now, five years from now, when Wisconsin's just won its third national title. It's like how a dynasty was built on the back of cheap t-shirts.
We're all holding them up. Yeah, and run the damn ball hats.
I love going to Coach Chris, but hey, what we need to do is we don't need to run the ball better. We don't need to play the events better.
We need to print some more damn shirts. Yeah, let's print some fucking shirts.
I got to say this six-star pre-workout explosion that I took, it's got me on the moon right now. What are you going to do about it? Attack my day.
Yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to attack the hell out of you.
You're going to be a walk. You're either going to be sitting in a chair fidgeting all day or you've got to do something with him? I'm going to march directly into Dave Portnoy's office and I'm going to tell him we've got a deal and then I'm going to excuse myself and go work out.
That's my plan. My last question was, when we were bullying JJ like four years ago, five years ago.
Yeah. And we kind of owned you because we bullied your older brother.
Yeah, exactly. We kind of became your oldest brother at that point.
Wow. I'm sure he'll appreciate that.
Were you like, I fucking hate these guys. Did you did you want to like smack us around? Yeah.
For a while there, I was like, I just didn't get the point of it. And I was like, there was none.
That's fair. Totally fair.
Totally. It was a point where like, it was just like, no one talked about it.
Like no one talked about it. We just knew it was there and it was just something that you just expected to be there but no one talked about it.
Which I am, I am glad that you guys have a good relationship though. He does, he really does admire you guys and talks highly of you.
Yeah, no, I like, it was it's actually the perfect internet store, because I obviously look back, I'm like, damn, we were kind of dicks, but, like, getting to know JJ, we were. Yeah, we were.
I mean, we are. 100%.
We are dicks, but, like, it's never meant to be truly mean-spirited, but, and then, like, you know, becoming friends with JJ, it's like, JJ's a very, very good guy, and he's like, you know, it was, was you know it was like a peak of us being dicks and also when jj was on his like little captain america run where he thought he was like you know actually from a marvel movie guy's famous man i mean it's it's crazy that's like just walking around with him i've i've gone everywhere with him i've gone over to europe i've gone all these super bowl weekends just the lifestyle that he lives and the amount of people that recognize him is crazy and you like is it kind of nice that you don't have that level for like do you get recognized a ton outside of pittsburgh well not really and i i like that i don't i'm not searching for crazy fame i like kind of just the little life that i have yeah yeah yeah sorry for uh for basically owning your family there for a little bit there man we learned a valuable lesson though yeah was there a moment where you're like if these guys show up like they'll probably kick our ass they'll you guys would kick our ass yes correct yes that's what i said that crossed i said that correctly i said that correctly like i hope they never come over here nerds they'll kick all of our asses. Hank, DFT, and Big Cat are going to beat up all the Watts.

With a pre-workout from Six Star.

Anything's possible.

All right.

I have one last, last question.

I have to do this.

Jersey Jerry, you got to FaceTime him.

He's the biggest TJ Rock fan.

The best.

Just keep it right by the mic.

If he doesn't pick up.

Oh, my God. He'll never forgive himself.
told him too No dishes, nothing Oh no No Jerry Oh my god I told him Wow, is this the new iPhone? Did you tell him the right time zone? Yes Did he tell you you he wanted to, like, come here? Yeah. I talked about that.
Oh, my God. Crazy.
That's bad. All right.
Well, maybe we'll get it on the, like, two minutes before you leave. Yeah.
But we can't do anything about that. He was so excited.
He was, well, first he was mad. He was mad.
He was like, you. Was he sleeping like Hank was? No, yeah, seriously.
He was like, you're having you're having TJ Watt on without me. It's like, well, Jerry, you're not part of this show.
And you're also not here. And then he was like, all right, well, I guess you can do it.
Like, he gave me his approval. But he loves you.
He loves you. He rides and dies for you.
He's got stats all the time. Just so you know.
He rolls around with stats in his head just in case somebody would say to him, like, I think Aaron Donald is the best defensive player in the NFL. He's like, actually, in the last two years, and he'll show every category that you beat Aaron Donald in.
He's constantly defending your name. Yes.
He tries to trick people, too. Fortunately, he didn't pick up.
I know. That sucks.
Maybe on your way out. But he tries to trick people all the time.
He's like, who do you think is the best defensive player? If you say anything besides CJ Watt, he's like, well, that's interesting. That's awesome.
And he just fucking unloads the clip of stats on their face. I saw a couple of his videos.
I don't know if the one was at the end of the Raiders game or something. He was all laughing and giggly.
He's got some good content. All right, so that will at least, just that you're aware of him, will make him feel good.
He's got the nicest laugh in the world. You can't hate a guy like him.
All right, I'm going to try one last time, and then it's over. This is so sad.
You know after four rings, it ain't happening. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah.
And I did tell him. I've told him all week.
I even said to him yesterday, I was like, hey, reminder, TJ's coming in.

Make sure you're ready.

He's probably stuck on the New Jersey Transit.

He's going to blow the whole thing up now.

Maybe that's where he is.

He's stuck in LA traffic.

Maybe he's stuck at Clancy's.

Went down there for a little dance.

All right.

Well, it's over.

Sucks for Jerry. All right, maybe we'll's over.
Sucks for, for, uh,

Jerry.

All right.

Maybe,

maybe we'll do this.

You can just say shout out Jersey Jerry,

uh,

to the camera and,

and give him a message and we'll just clip that and send it to him.

Yeah.

Shout out,

shout out to Jersey Jerry.

Uh,

I hear you're a huge fan.

I just want to say thank you for all your support,

man.

I wish,

I really wish,

uh,

you picked up your phone.

I hope something more important was there. All right, thanks, TJ.
Awesome. We're going to get right back to the show.
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All right, back to part of my take. Okay, we're going to wrap up with guys on chicks.
We were supposed to have Jersey Jerry on, but he had to go do something. Not his fault.
We'll have him on next week or the week after. It was funny though.
The TJ Watt FaceTime with Jersey Jerry. I don't know if we, did we record it that we could put it in the end of the interview? I can't remember how it all went down.
No, I think he was like outside. Yeah, it was right outside.
So as we finished, Jerry finally called me back, and TJ was able to talk to him while Jerry was in his – he was topless. He was coming out of the shower.
He was wearing a towel. He had a towel on with one hand, and Jerry did a great job of ingratiating himself into TJj i think they made plans to go out and get some dinner together yep at the end of the phone call but jerry's request at jerry's well jerry was like me you and pat friarmouth we'll go out and get some dinner sometime yeah and uh tj was like sure yeah uh yeah yeah okay yeah fine whatever can i get out of this room uh no they had a good conversation it was actually cool to see jerry's face because he just lit up yeah seeing his hero it's funny because like even though we are in our 30s we still do have heroes who are like 15 years younger than us yes and this is one of those circumstances yes absolutely very very cool moment like a make-a-wish moment for jerry we got to get him that dinner all right let's do some guys on chicks and we'll send everyone on their way reminder uh friday we got a life episode two titus and rusillo um and then on monday no show because it's presents day back on wednesday bubba sup pmt boys i've been coerced into running a half marathon in less than two weeks by far the dumbest thing i've ever done for a boy and he happens to be a fellow awl so i really need to impress him shout out brian he doesn't sound much like an awl if his like valentine's day request was he'd really like to see you run far yeah and that says seeing how big cat pulled out the 5k so athletically do you guys have any tips for me? Billy, any supplements I should be taking? Thanks.
Oh, man. This is a – I think you've got to end this relationship right now.
Unless this could be a situation where she's like a distance runner and she has done distance running before. And so he's seeing this as like a date for – if you don't have any experience running long distances and your boyfriend is asking you to run a half marathon for him break up he he sounds like the long distance runner it sounds like runners date runners that is like everyone like they have to date each other because they go and run together and they do that shit like i don't i can't think of many relationships where i've seen someone who's like there's a runner and then there's someone who doesn't do anything that doesn't exist no and why would you ever go on a date with somebody to a track or to a gym you're just gonna be around people who are in much better shape than you all the time relationship built off fitness i don't think are built to last and in this because at some point yeah you're going to be out of shape well and then what you both have to be fitness freaks and then make tiktoks together about like meal prep and shit that's true rg3 and greta's tiktoks have been pretty lit recently i think you just got to fake an injury by the way like this is pretty easy just yeah training injury it's winter maybe you slip on some ice coming out of a bar like just do it do it without any like do it in front of him but it doesn't have to be you know some big show it just has to be oh whoops i fell down the stair oh whoops i fell outside of a bar or you can just get registered for a different half mile than he's doing go out buy the bumper sticker that says 13.1 put it on the back of your car be like yeah i totally did it yeah you could hypothetically get hit by a car.
Hypothetically. Hypothetically.
Yeah. Uh-huh.
I was crossing the street with Bubba on Friday in LA. He started screaming.
Well, because I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I'm kind of a ballsy guy when I cross the street. And I sometimes forget I have other people with me.
Sometimes I forget I have people who have been hit by cars with me. So we were like halfway through the street and there was like three cars coming i was like bubba come on hurry up and he didn't get hit again but i could see in his eyes he was scared bubba was complaining for most of the week about how long the crosswalk signals are there like you have to wait forever i wouldn't want to move there just because of that yeah i'm like so impatient well you know it takes like five minutes across each street yeah bubba likes to going.
Right. Cross that street sooner rather than later.
Right. What, so once every few years you get fucking mangled by a car? It's worth it.
Only in New York. Yeah.
Hey, Dadcat, PFD, Cometor, and Fu Manchu Billy. My boyfriend and I have been dating for four years, and lately he has been growing out his facial hair.

However, I don't really love his mustache or beard as they can get quite patchy and itchy.

I asked him to shave his face for Valentine's Day and this led to a conversation about if a girlfriend should be able to ask if when their boyfriend can shave you got it yeah memes memes pick ones that are way too long i usually pick the short one there's like three more paragraphs about like nothing yeah i mean i don't know apparently the girl wants him to shave by the way that was that's the easiest valentine's day gift ever if this guy fucked that up a moron. Just shave.
Just shave and it grows back. Just be like, every time you get waxed, I'll shave.
Right. Boom, problem solved.
All right, next one. Been hanging out with this guy for over a month and really like him.
Only problem is he started using heart emojis over text in like one week. Is this a red flag? heart emoji now i does that mean i love you or does that just mean like wait is it it's a big question of is it heart a heart emoji or is he like pressing the the thing and hearting it because i become a big i think at first i thought that was annoying but then i realized that it's the greatest way to end a conversation, to not reply with words and just heart something or exclamation point something or thumbs up.
So if it's that, I'm down with it. But if it's actual heart emoji, that seems weird.
Do you ever fuck with the auto replies that Google suggests too? No. I do that sometimes.
I'll start typing something that are my own thoughts. I'll be like, wait, Google suggests that I just say this instead yeah and i do the same thing on text message now with like i half my vocabulary is now whatever steve jobs or dan google wrote up in the code and wants me to like reply yes i so to this question i i actually think it's very important like when who drops the first emoji because everyone knows a relationship, whether it be a sexual relationship or a friendship, whatever it may be, the first emoji is important because either you're an emoji texter or you're not, and you have to figure out that line of, am I texting with an emoji person or am I not? I don't know.
That tough one heart emoji a weekend feels weird yeah i don't have a problem with it i think as long as it's reciprocated it's not weird but if only one person in the text thread is using emojis that's strange i do the cry i do the laughing cry face thing just so i don't have to type so that's tricky though because the laughing cry face there are like three different options there are the laughing cry face and i never know which one is appropriate because i don't want to do one that's too much laughing at not that funny of a joke i like to make people feel good just cry hardcore laughing cry guy yeah that's like always the top of mind yeah because i just reply with it right that and the skull oh you're dead bro yeah i just text we did this just texted people. We did this, fam.
I'm going to kill you.

Hi, Big Cat, PFT, Billy, and Hank.

My guy friend says it's weird that I brought seven pairs of underwear on a three-day trip and that anything more than four pairs is excessive.

Most of my girlfriends do the same as me and subscribe to the

what-if-I-shit-myself everyday rule of packing.

Do guys not follow this rule? And if not, is overpacking like this excessive or no? Do you think girls shit themselves way more than guys do? It's just that we talk about it more? Yeah. That's a possibility because every time we do it, we announce it.
Yeah, we announce it. Right.
As someone who on this recent Super Bowl trip that was like 10 days long, I ran out of clothes like four days in. So I'm a terrible, terrible packer.
I either pack way too much or way too little. I never nail it.
Ever. I find myself always leaving out one item of clothing.
Yep. So sometimes it'll be socks.
I'll pack everything else and I'll be like, oh shit, I forgot about socks. Forgot socks existed for a week.
I like to roll up a bunch of underwear and just toss it. I rarely count the amount of underwear they bring, but I can confidently say that I've never in my life packed double the amount of anything for any road trip before.
You eyeball it. We eyeball it.
Yeah. It's like, all right, I'm gone for five days.
I don't know, six, seven, eight, whatever. Sounds good.
I close my eyes. I visualize my ass seven days from now.
And then I imagine, do I have anything to put on my ass that day? Yes. And if I don't, then I throw another pair of underwear in there.
I also sometimes will do the, I'll convince myself like, oh, halfway through, I'll just go to like a laundromat. Never do.
No. But like, if you go on a long trip and you convince yourself like, oh, I'll be fine.
I'll just figure out a the clothes no you don't you'll just wear dirty clothes i'm sure the hotel will have laundry yeah that never works that's what i did for this last trip i was like i'm gone for 10 days i'll do some laundry at some point didn't do that just wore dirty clothes for half the time yeah we actually yeah mb mb did our laundry and this was very close hooked it up with a laundry service after we we got done with the drive out there because i't think any of us packed. I barely packed enough clothes to get through the driving part of the trip.
I wore a Bass Pro Sharp shirt every day. I just bought them all there.
It's true. You look good, though.
Real good. Shout out.
Sup Thiccat, PFT, Hank, and Wild Bill. My boyfriend and I have been dating for four years, and we always do something special on valentine's day nothing fancy usually a nice dinner and a movie or something this year he said he had a big surprise for me he made me put on a blindfold as we drove to the restaurant and when i took it off we were at mcdonald's he had two land air and sea burgers in front of us i started laughing uncontrollably but then realized he was being dead serious he loves mcdonald's am i an asshole for thinking this was a joke and what should i do to make it up to him no do they have the ball pit in the the uh play place there because if that was part of it then i think he's cool ball pit is sick no i don't think you should be mad at him actually he's done a great job of somehow convincing you that you're in the wrong for

thinking it was a joke.

Right.

Like, this guy has you mentally twisted right now.

I'm down with this.

It was very nice.

Thought?

Is it not the thought that counts anymore?

I think it's like limited edition, too.

Right.

Might be.

Right.

That's true.

The Land, Aaron Seaburger is only going to be there for like another week.

I can't stand this.

When people say that it's the thought that counts, well, then thought doesn't matter what the end product is he set something up he did something you know it actually is a really good Valentine's Day gift and it might sound a little bit weird but if you just go to the store like a convenience store and you get the person all their favorite snacks in the world and you spend maybe like 20 bucks on it but but you get every single chip that they like, every single piece of gum, every single candy bar and soda that they like, or Gatorade, and you put it in a bag for them. That's maybe the best gift ever.
That's true. Doing small things like taking them to fast food, you got to keep the small things spicy sometimes.
I like this move. Shout out this guy.
But it is very funny that she's like, should I feel bad i feel bad about thinking it was a joke yeah no i think it sounds like you guys had a great time yeah all right last one hey fellas my boyfriend and i's love life is great but lately he has become addicted to bonking me that it started to ruin my mood yeah anytime i try to say something sexy or try something new in bed he immediately says bonk and starts laughing yesterday i sent him an unsolicited nude and he just replied with bonk how can i get him to stop see this is what we've done as a society with the bonk we've ruined everything not only have we ruined the times when people are actually horny in in acceptable places to be horny but also when people aren't horny at all now they're getting bonked left and right it's it's a bad problem that we have as it as a nation i think it's funny i don't bonk you anymore i know yeah also it's like you can't really get bonked when you're having sex oh yeah that's actually yeah that's horny yeah no no that's the most bonk worthy play like oh your dick is hard you're this in my vagina? Bonk. That is bonk.
That's what he's doing to her. Yeah.
He's sending her to horny jail for sending a nude. But that would be the definition of bonk.
Yeah, I guess. It seems like that's the appropriate place, though, is what PRT is saying.
She's like, I want to sit on your face, and's like bonk during sex he's like bonk you know

what they should actually they should make a vibrator that looks like the horny stick yeah for chicks to use on themselves you're fucking be too hard you're bonking yourself yeah with a dildo you know i i think the bonk plays here i just don't like the bonk at all i think it's unacceptable i I think it's sex shaming.

Yeah.

We don't sex shaming.

And sometimes it's not even sex shaming.

It's unacceptable. I think it's sex shaming.
Yeah. We don't sex shaming.
And sometimes it's not even sex shaming. It's just thought shaming.
It's thought shaming. You're thought policing me.
Yeah, thought policing. All right.
1984. Numbers? Six.
69. Oh, hell yes, memes.
I hope you get it. I'm going to go with 27.
I'll go with 22.

And, yeah, get excited.

Friday's episode is going to be great.

Maybe a little less serious than the first one, but just as funny.

And then we'll see everyone on the other side of President's Day.

All right.

Here we go.

Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers.

27, 27.

71.

71 for everyone out there.

Love you guys. Thank you.
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Say after me

It's more better to be safe than sorry

Hey, come on me

Hey, come on me Thank you. Thank you.