Justin Herbert, Aaron Donald, And Segments Are Officially Back

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Speaker 4 On today's part of my take, we have Justin Herbert and Aaron Donald. We're going out to the West Coast.
We got the two LA franchises. We awesome conversation with Justin Herbert.

Speaker 4 Aaron Donald, We were reminded what Super Bowl Media Week is like. So we only had about 10 minutes with him, but we got a couple good questions in there.
We have the return of segments.

Speaker 4 Segments are officially back. We have a segment heavy show for the first time in a long time, a post-football life.
We have who's back of the week. JJ Watt is a free agent.

Speaker 4 Billy is back from Florida slash whatever his excuse was for not showing up on Thursday's show.

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Speaker 4 Today is Monday, February 15th, a post-football world.

Speaker 8 Post-mostly football.

Speaker 4 Post-mostly football. And J.J.
Watt is officially a free agent. Henry Lockwood has made that possible after slandering him on Friday's show.
But JJ Watt is a free agent.

Speaker 4 Heartfelt speech to the fans that I loved. I thought that was really nice and really genuine.

Speaker 4 And that's the big news.

Speaker 8 Yeah. And I thought he did it in a very classy way, extremely classy.
Thank the fans first and foremost. Thank the franchise for putting him in that position.

Speaker 8 That's something that you wouldn't expect a guy like Russell Wilson to do. JJ meant every word that he said.

Speaker 8 I think that there's probably at least like three or four hundred thousand dollars that he has earmarked right now to take out full-page thank you ads to the entire city of Houston.

Speaker 8 He's probably going to be buying billboards all over Texas, thanking them for his time there. JJ gets it.
This is a guy who gets it, right, Hank?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, it was a nice video.

Speaker 9 I think it's something on par with exactly what Russell Wilson would do. So, you know, my point was proven.

Speaker 10 So

Speaker 4 I would contend that J.J. Watt being a free agent, he has the most ties to the most teams, strong ties to the most teams that a free agent has ever had.
So the free agency looks like this.

Speaker 4 Everyone says he's going to go to the Packers because obviously he's from Wisconsin.

Speaker 8 No, no, no.

Speaker 4 No, no, wait. Hold on.
I'm going to go through all of them.

Speaker 4 He grew up in Wisconsin. He's a Packer fan, grew up a Packer fan.

Speaker 4 His wife plays for the Chicago Red Stars. So there's some links to Chicago.
He actually Instagram story to Lou Malnati's pizza the other night.

Speaker 4 So he's in Chicago right now, probably talking to Ryan Pace. If I had to guess, Ryan Pace is going to offer him somewhere between $150 and $200 million.

Speaker 4 And then the completion of the Watt trilogy in Pittsburgh,

Speaker 4 the cap-strapped Pittsburgh Steelers to add J.J. Watt to the TJ Watt

Speaker 4 and the

Speaker 4 Derek Watt trio in Pittsburgh. And then I'll just throw in the Bucs because now that the Bucks have won a Super Bowl with Tom Brady,

Speaker 4 I think that that becomes the new like New England Patriots where every whenever there was a free agent, it was like, oh, he's going to go here.

Speaker 4 I think the Bucks are now here because like, oh, he's going to go there to win a ring.

Speaker 8 Yeah, if you're ring chasing, that's the new destination you go. I think, I mean, the list for me starts and ends with the Pittsburgh Steelers, just because I know J.J.

Speaker 8 Watt, and he's going to want to go play with his brothers and have them rub that in our faces. Like, the Steelers are going to get every single primetime game.

Speaker 8 They're going to play 16 primetime games next year if they have three Watt brothers and we're going to get sick of it. But that's like, that is the quintessential JJ Watt destination.

Speaker 8 Like, let's go finish out my career with my two brothers and have my parents come to every single game wearing like triple jerseys.

Speaker 8 We might see the first ever, ever triple jersey that represents all the kids there. I could also see the Tennessee Titans.
I could see him going there.

Speaker 8 They swung and missed on jay van clowny last year but you know that he loves rabel and you know that he would go to the titans just so he could stick it no back easterby twice a year

Speaker 4 and and you know that you know that rabes would let jj catch at least like three touchdown passes next year too much something that he'd really like to do nope too much respect for the texans fan base you know that he's got too much respect for the texans because the colts are also one of those two the colts i feel like the colts are are officially the team that uh everyone is pointing to like they are one quarterback and one impact player on defense and maybe one awesome wide receiver away from a super bowl which i love whenever that team arises because it's like well so that's pretty they're kind of yeah they're kind of far away right you just named the three most important positions in football and they need like a slightly better head coach yeah yes uh no so i i think that he would go to the titans because he does love rabes rabes you know what he could always make the case like me and rabes It's like Houston Light, you know, like Vraves moved up there after he was a Texan.

Speaker 8 He's a Texan for life. I'm a Texan for life.
This is just where Texans go when you put us off the stud.

Speaker 8 And I was talking to Brian Mitchell, the old Washington football team guy on Friday, and he was like, I would absolutely go within the division. I was like, yeah, no shit, Brian.
You did it.

Speaker 8 to go to the Eagles and then you got mad at the Eagles. So then you went to the Giants.
You did it twice. So of course you would think that JJ would do something like that.

Speaker 8 But I think it's like the Steelers. Yeah, you have to say the Packers because

Speaker 8 not only like the Wisconsin Ties, but you know that JJ sees every preseason, JJ sees the players doing the bike thing where they ride bikes with the kids.

Speaker 8 JJ's going to buy every single bike in Green Bay and just give every child that goes to every elementary school a bike and have a big JJ Watt bikes for Tykes Day.

Speaker 4 And you do have to say the Bears, because of his wife and also Ryan Pace will undoubtedly pay the most. Yeah.
Like it would absolutely like the market will be wherever the market is.

Speaker 4 And it probably won't be like, you know, I would imagine he gets an incentive laden deal and he's you know i mean jj would admit himself he's not obviously in his prime anymore his prime was something that uh was one of the greatest primes that a defensive player has ever had he's never going to be that jj watt anymore so that's the perfect time for ryan pace to be like yo i'm going to give you 50 million dollars just so i can tell people that we have khalil mack and jj watt on the same line and uh that will sell some more tickets i mean what you said about the colts was pretty true about the Bears, too.

Speaker 8 They're like a quarterback, a wide receiver, and an impact defensive player away from the fight.

Speaker 4 A new front office.

Speaker 8 New front office. Yeah.

Speaker 8 I think that, yeah, you should probably include the Bears in this whole thing. Although we have to refer to his wife, Kayla Watt, we have to refer to JJ as Kayla Watt's husband if he goes to Chicago.

Speaker 8 Correct. Make sure to do that.

Speaker 4 Correct. All right.
Other news.

Speaker 4 Urban Meyer's hiring of Chris Doyle. Turns out the NFL is a little different than college football.
Who would have thought? Urban Meyer got slapped on the hand?

Speaker 4 And of course, the framing of it was Chris Doyle gave his resignation after realizing it was a distraction.

Speaker 4 No, you all Urban Meyer realized that maybe I can't call every shot and do whatever the fuck I want in the NFL. This is maybe a little different than college football.
So good start for Urban Meyer.

Speaker 4 And by that, obviously, I mean the worst start possible.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 4 he did get to stand.

Speaker 4 Did you see Trevor Lawrence's pro day? So, Trevor Lawrence

Speaker 4 was throwing missiles. He has 10-inch hands.
And then Urban Meyer stood essentially like he basically was teabagging the pseudo-center who was snapping him balls, asserting his dominance

Speaker 4 amongst the NFL scouts because there was no one else on the field besides Clemson players and staff. And then Urban Meyer standing front and center, being like, this is my guy.

Speaker 8 Why would you even go to that workout if you weren't Urban Meyer? What's the point of sending a scout there? Like, you know, it's like the most obvious thing ever.

Speaker 8 If you, if, if Urban Meyer does not draft Trevor Lawrence, then someone's going to trade up to number two, and then they'll take him there. Like, what's the point in sending anybody out there?

Speaker 8 He's obviously going to take him. But yeah, Urban had quite a weekend.
The only, I'm kind of upset that we haven't gotten an apology for the apology yet from Urban. He's the best at that.
Bar none.

Speaker 8 There's nobody better in the history of college football or the NFL.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 8 the apology for the apology, that's urban territory.

Speaker 4 Like

Speaker 8 in the apology that the Jaguars put out actually did leave a little bit to be desired.

Speaker 8 It was just like it said, we didn't vet him enough, but their statement when they hired him was, we thoroughly vetted him and we're confident that this is the right guy to have for the job.

Speaker 8 He's done it for 20 years. Yeah, so now I'm in the position where I'm just sitting around waiting for Urban's apology to the apology.
And it's, you have to question if he's still got it.

Speaker 8 If it's taken him 48 hours and I still haven't gotten a notes app for him yet. So let's get let's get to work on that, Urban, make it a little bit better.

Speaker 8 But yeah, he was definitely, he was asserting his dominance at Pro Day. He was like, this is mine.
This belongs to me right now.

Speaker 8 He might as well have had Trevor Lawrence on a leash. But some of the passes that Trevor was making was like, I'm back in love with Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 8 I fall in and out of love with college players like very, very quickly, depending on what I just saw from them most recently. Like

Speaker 8 in Trevor Lawrence's last game that he played against Ohio State, I was like, oh, he looks like crap. Maybe he's a bust.
I was going to call him a bust before I ever got drafted.

Speaker 8 And then he threw that like 60-yard pass on a dime. And I was like, yep, the truth.

Speaker 4 See, I think he was actually not even that bad. The game against LSU was bad, but the game against Ohio State, like his offensive line didn't give him any time.

Speaker 4 I actually thought he looked okay in that game. I've always, I mean, it's not, it's not crazy to say like Trevor Lawrence is going to be very good.
Yes.

Speaker 4 It's not a hot take, but I've never fallen out of love with Trevor Lawrence. Also, his brother, if you've ever, if you've never seen his brother, his brother's like maybe the coolest guy ever.

Speaker 4 He looks, he's just Trevor lawrence if trevor lawrence decided he was going to be in the lumineers

Speaker 8 so uh it's it's it's it's a very cool family overall um the other very he's a very cool hat guy yeah i'm talking like flat brim looks he's like a charlie whitehurst yes if charlie whitehurst had like decided to not pursue an nfl career that's exactly what he would look like and uh i i actually Over the weekend, I started watching Yellowstone Big Cat.

Speaker 7 I don't know if you've watched it yet.

Speaker 8 Really good show, but there are hats everywhere. And got I bought my cowboy hat.

Speaker 8 Don't I thought we need a cowboy hat guy in the office? Hank's saying yes.

Speaker 4 Oh my god.

Speaker 8 Like, I don't know. I put it on.

Speaker 4 I watched two episodes of Heidelberg is our hat guy, by the way.

Speaker 8 Yeah, but he's not a cowboy hat guy.

Speaker 4 He's a good hat, too. Heidelberg's getting old, too.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.
PFT is a lot younger.

Speaker 8 I wore it for two episodes of Yellowstone. I just put a cowboy hat on and watched Yellowstone and I felt good.
And I was like, this is dangerous, PFT.

Speaker 8 You're getting dangerously dangerously close to start walking around with a belt buckle and calling yourself big country again uh i don't know i might have to be talked out of it yeah i don't think

Speaker 7 don't

Speaker 4 whatever fine do whatever you want i just think that there's the weird hat guy is definitely it's a hard thing to pull off and i don't know i don't think any of us have that it's not weird it's big hat No, I get that, but I'm saying there's certain types of people like Charlie Whitehurst.

Speaker 4 He can wear a cool hat. Yeah.

Speaker 4 PFT, not Charlie Whitehurst.

Speaker 4 I don't know.

Speaker 4 He's got the hair. Do you think you're that cool?

Speaker 7 No, big cat.

Speaker 8 You're mistaking a cool hat for a cowboy hat.

Speaker 4 No, no, but totally different.

Speaker 8 No, Charlie Whitehurst hat is not a cowboy hat.

Speaker 4 No, I get that. I'll put it on.
I'll put it on. Hat guys in general, like if you're going to go weird hat, you've got to.

Speaker 4 I mean, this is, by the way, PFT's got a browser's password or browsers background.

Speaker 4 And when Billy, when he logged in, Billy was like, like oh dude browsers see i don't think well we can't see it because you got your browser's background so here you go cowboy hat guy

Speaker 4 that's like a that's like a corporate one though you gotta get a you gotta get a real yeah i don't know yeah that one doesn't that's the one we got from the from just lockwood my cousin yeah but i can't i can't wear like an actual worn-in cowboy hat because then everyone's like oh all hat no cattle this one i'm saying like i'm admitting to you yeah i don't own a fucking cow what do i look like i i'm a podcaster who wears a cool cowboy hat sometimes i mean give it a try it's just that you you would agree right like when you try to wear a cowboy hat or a weird hat there's a fine line between like regular look and trying way too hard yeah i don't think i'm trying that hard if i'm wearing a cowboy hat but big cat you also are the one who tells me like if i wear a collared shirt you tell me i'm trying too hard no i say you're i always

Speaker 4 hold on big cat yeah he is i am i'm feeling very hold on when you wear a collared shirt i say who died because i thought you were going to a funeral. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Because you don't, you usually wear like whatever shirts you get given for free in sweatpants. Like is that crazy?

Speaker 4 Yeah. So

Speaker 4 when you wear a collared shirt, I'm worried that you're going to a funeral and I ask you who died. I think that's totally normal.

Speaker 8 I kind of like the cowboy hat look.

Speaker 4 Okay. I mean, do whatever.
What are you going to say, Billy?

Speaker 12 I'm literally wearing cowboy boots right now, so I can't.

Speaker 4 And we clown you for those.

Speaker 8 I know, but they're very practical.

Speaker 12 If you have a practical thing to back it up, like, oh, they have a farm.

Speaker 4 No, you don't have a practical thing. Every time you do that, I do that.

Speaker 12 The snow's deep and they're high, so the snow doesn't get into my boots, as opposed to Tim's.

Speaker 4 One other note about,

Speaker 4 no, I want, keep it on, PFT.

Speaker 8 No, I can't, because I can't fit the headphones on. Okay.
I've got the cowboy hat.

Speaker 4 I'm not deter. I think you should give it a shot.

Speaker 7 I'm just letting, I'm warning you that there's definitely, you know, that fine line.

Speaker 4 I think I'm being a good friend by saying there is a fine line.

Speaker 4 I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to, if you start wearing a cowboy hat, I'm going to give it a solid two weeks and I'll give you my natural reaction.

Speaker 8 I don't want two weeks. I think that if it takes two weeks to get a reaction, I think we can all make that judgment call within like 24 hours.

Speaker 4 All right. That's fine.
But I think that like all

Speaker 4 this is a very relatable thing. Like all friend groups have that one guy who's like, hey, I'm going to try this wild new look.
And it's up to everyone else to be like.

Speaker 8 that doesn't work or it does because otherwise then you end up with hat guy who just walking around thinking he's john mayer all the time well okay so this definitely needs to be like a clear line of delineation here i'm not trying to be a cool hat guy i am not a cool hat guy i can't pull off like the felt flat brim i wish john mayer

Speaker 8 i can't pull off the jason mraz he's a hat guy the fedora one jason cock feather yeah one peacock feather coming out it's the coolest look there is none of us are cool enough to pull off a jason whitlock look maybe jake maybe jake jake could probably only if he was wearing like suspenders and a tie basic dresser of all time literally hoodie and jeans or hoodie and joggers.

Speaker 4 So am I. None of us dress well.

Speaker 4 None of us are like sitting here being fucking Mr. GQ Russell Wilson.

Speaker 8 I do think that if Jake was just wearing like a white dress shirt, a tie, black pants, suspenders, he could pull off the fedora, like the old school press sign that's like in the side of it.

Speaker 8 If he had like a big camera around his neck all the time, Jake could pull that off.

Speaker 4 We also, we also have to just say, like outright, like we live in such a weird bubble because we're bloggers and podcasters. So like we don't even know what normal is like anymore.

Speaker 4 You know what I mean? Like I don't, I don't even own nice clothes anymore. I don't own anything besides sweatshirts and jeans because I've never, I haven't had to wear anything different for a decade.

Speaker 4 So we're in a weird fucking like

Speaker 4 bizarro universe where people are looking at us like, you guys all dress like shit. We know that.
We dress like, you know what, we dress like 15 year olds pretty much going to whatever middle school.

Speaker 8 And you know what? This is a classic case of post-mostly football season.

Speaker 8 Like, we got to, I'm trying to find something weird to do because my mind is bored because I haven't been able to sit down and watch nine hours of football today. Yes.

Speaker 8 Now I'm wearing hats. That's where I've gone.

Speaker 4 Yes. One more note about Trevor Lawrence.
So there was some nerve. There was some nervousness.
We went to a little side veer there.

Speaker 4 There was some scuttlebutt about his height. So there was some talk that maybe Trevor Lawrence was too tall.
So

Speaker 4 Jane Slater

Speaker 4 pulled this up. There were 22 QBs that have been drafted since 1990 that are 6'6

Speaker 4 or taller.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 here's some of the names off the list. These are the best names, the most notable names: Mike Glennon, Paxton Lynch, Brock Osweiler, Justin Herbert's good.
He's coming up in a second.

Speaker 4 Derek Anderson, Joe Flacco won a Super Bowl. Nick Foles won a Super Bowl.
Jamarcus Russell, Andrew Walter, Dave Brown, Jake Lutton, John Navarre. He had a rocket arm.
John Skelton, Jonathan Quinn.

Speaker 4 Not exactly like the best. John who?

Speaker 4 What? Josh Freeman. Jonathan Quinn, Josh Freeman, John Navarre, Nate Sudfeld, Ryan Mallett, also rocket arm.

Speaker 8 Nate Sudfeld, John Skelton,

Speaker 4 Sean Mannion.

Speaker 4 Yeah, John Skelton. He started for the Cardinals, right? Yeah, you don't remember him, hey? John Skelton person.

Speaker 8 I think he was one of the, one of the Carson Palmer backups where Palmer would get hurt and they'd toss him in and be like, who?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 8 So, but good news is trevor lawrence actually official height was uh six five and five eighths so he doesn't he's not he's not too tall yeah so officially not too tall i guess the argument is if you're six six or taller then you've just got a weird you that that turns into like weirdly gangly body unless you're thick unless you're a big boy like ben rocklessberger who's got to be is big ben like six five yeah he's five it's it you know what it is i think it's just throwing motion like it's impossible to do a short throwing motion if you're six six actually billy go ahead.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I know you're chomping at the bit to break this down for us. Well, Big Ben is 6'5.

Speaker 4 241.

Speaker 4 That's his listed weight.

Speaker 4 That's like when I tell people I'm 230 and they're like, sure, dude. That's big.

Speaker 8 That's what Big Ben weighed in at like his senior year in high school.

Speaker 4 And he just kept that going.

Speaker 8 He's like, he never showed up for weigh-in day. He was like, no, it's in the media guy from last year.
Check it out.

Speaker 12 I'm going to, I'm going to be honest.

Speaker 4 This is a little

Speaker 12 Trevor Lawrence kind of gives me paxton lynch vibes oh

Speaker 4 no don't say that now that's the worst thing you could say about anyone no but literally the worst thing kind of does he kind of he kind of has the same sort of build as paxton lynch and you know going like i've been i've been thinking about this a lot because i'm a jet fan so like i've been thinking about trevor lawrence justin fields way too much and look your best case scenario with trevor lawrence is tom brady your worst case scenario is paxton lynch wait that's okay So he could either be really, he could be all time great or just the worst quarterback ever.

Speaker 8 Billy's making a lot of sense, big cat. You're laughing at him, but he's right.
You have to admit that he's right.

Speaker 4 No, that was an anti-take. That was an anti-take.
You didn't say anything. I think you said that he could be out of the league in a year or he could be the greatest of all time.
There's that.

Speaker 4 That's an anti-take.

Speaker 4 There's no, everything is in between.

Speaker 12 I know, but the thing is, like, Pax, but it's like a little more towards Paxton lynch because we don't know

Speaker 8 is it wait okay all right now we're getting somewhere so he's more he's more like

Speaker 4 motion his throwing motion reminds me a lot of paxton lynches and that's just because it's it's crazy to say but you know they're around paxton lynch was a little taller but you know by like a third of an inch yep right but we get to the point where it's like paxton like paxton lynch i think is a very good comparison just because they kind of like are built the same okay they have a better listen i'm i all right i'm coming around to this just because, Billy, the, the, the best thing you can do in media is to be different.

Speaker 4 Everyone is talking about, about, about Trevor Lawrence being 1-1, being like a future, can't miss. They're saying best

Speaker 4 prospect since Andrew Locke, all this stuff. Here on part of my take, we have him comped out as Paxton Lynch.

Speaker 12 Right, but like, of course, he could be amazing.

Speaker 8 He could also be good, though.

Speaker 12 I think Justin.

Speaker 4 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 He couldn't be good. He could be the greatest of all time.

Speaker 12 I think, no, but the thing is, he needs a supporting cast

Speaker 4 to be good. He needs like a lot of quarterbacks, yep, right, right.

Speaker 12 But you know, I don't see him just like bringing electricity to an offense, like making plays with his feet, like even when he has no blocking.

Speaker 12 You know, I just'm a little skeptical, but hey, if the Jets get him, I'm so down. But I think there's other they're not gonna get him.

Speaker 8 Also, Billy, toss this one in here. Say, I could be wrong, though.
I hope I'm wrong. Say that you hope you're wrong.

Speaker 12 But I think if you look at paxton lynch's throwing motion and trevor lawrence

Speaker 4 also also

Speaker 8 i've looked this is just this is billy right now resorting to squatting on the take that he had six months ago that that justin fields would be better fit for the jets yeah because also billy don't don't forget trevor lawrence hasn't lost enough yeah

Speaker 12 that's what i'm saying he's always had a supporting cast like you could be a good quarterback on a bad team or a bad quarterback on a really good team so that's why you like justin fields more who had no supporting cast no i just think justin fields could do more by himself

Speaker 4 he could like justin fields i think you can make the exact same argument for just basically the only you should take zach wilson

Speaker 8 yeah well i don't think he i don't think he's a good enough athlete i'm a trey lance guy i think we should become a trey lance podcast

Speaker 8 billy actually can you can you do us a favor so i know that like you know you still probably need some time off off after putting your body through hell, becoming a weapon.

Speaker 8 I want you to take as much time as you need, but I would like you to do like a John Gruden quarterback camp type thing where you evaluate every quarterback and give us a strong side, weak side with some film comps and like how they project to the next level.

Speaker 8 Can you do that?

Speaker 14 I would actually.

Speaker 4 Yes, I want that on the list.

Speaker 4 Look at other variables that have nothing to do with football. No, no, just no, no, whatever you want.
You do football. We'll do it together because there's no chance you'll do it on your own.

Speaker 4 So we'll do it together. You do the football and PFT and I will sit in the quarterback room as the guys behind Gruden

Speaker 4 who are like, hey, what about this? What about that? And we'll feed you some facts. And then you'll come up with a grade, okay?

Speaker 12 I know. I can't wait.

Speaker 8 Do you think we can get interviews with the actual quarterbacks and have just give them to Billy?

Speaker 4 Yes. Yeah.
We should definitely, if we ever get together, dude, they're going to be like, this guy's a clown. Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 8 I know.

Speaker 4 One last question, Billy. You versus Trevor Lawrence in a fight.

Speaker 12 He's got reach on.

Speaker 4 He is taller. All right.
Let's do.

Speaker 8 I do also think that the long hair makes you look a little bit shorter.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.
I think he's got a haircut. He's going to get a haircut.

Speaker 4 The long hair is also like a look at me move.

Speaker 12 I don't, and I don't get like

Speaker 12 it's a big look at me move.

Speaker 11 How the cowboy hat.

Speaker 4 Yes, yes. Very simple.

Speaker 12 You got to take that into account.

Speaker 4 Yes. All right.
Let's get to who's back. We're going to do some, we're going to have some segments.
We're segment heavy show. I've actually had some people be like, hey, when are segments coming back?

Speaker 4 Guess what? Today, we got five segments. We got Justin Herbert and Aaron Donald's.

Speaker 4 Aaron Donald interviewed, we only had like 10 minutes with him because it was Super Bowl Media Week and we remembered what Super Bowl Media Week is like.

Speaker 4 But let's do who's back before we get to both of them.

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Speaker 4 Who's back of the week? Hank.

Speaker 8 Who's back of the week is La Crosse.

Speaker 4 Ooh.

Speaker 9 So I know, I know. Football season's Billy's mad.
Uh, football season, you guys, you know, think football is the biggest sport, number one sport in the country, sport of the future.

Speaker 7 But, you know, Chris Hogan begs to differ.

Speaker 9 He played in the NFL. He's a Super Bowl champion.
He is choosing to, instead of continue his NFL career,

Speaker 4 yes.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 4 He's opting.

Speaker 14 He has declared for the Premier League lacrosse draft.

Speaker 4 Chosen?

Speaker 7 Yeah, he declared. No one declared for him.

Speaker 9 He declared on his own behoof.

Speaker 4 He didn't care on his own behoof. I mean,

Speaker 4 you just said choosing. Yeah, well, it was choosing.

Speaker 8 So, Hank, I actually had this as my people forget that, that people forget that Chris Hogan played football.

Speaker 8 Because now I haven't heard anybody talk about Chris Hogan being a football player in a while. He's a lacrosse guy.
He just took a vacation to play in the NFL and win two Super Bowl rings.

Speaker 8 But yeah, I'm... I think that we have to draft him, right?

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 8 On the water dogs?

Speaker 8 I mean, otherwise, like, what is the point of this entire show this entire podcast we have equity in the water dogs whatever whatever we have to do to get chris hogan on our team we have to do it well we have to smoke screen because we actually we if you if you own another lacrosse team or if you governor another lacrosse team uh just disregard everything that we just said because we have to we can't let them know that we want to draft him should we downplay his draft stock yeah be like um does he really love lacrosse no one went to his birthday party yeah no he i heard he's actually going going to just, he's doing this for show.

Speaker 4 He's going to end up going back to the NFL.

Speaker 12 I think he's just going to be a short stick defensive MIDI, which isn't going to be much contribution.

Speaker 8 Now he doesn't have the stick skills to hang with the pro lacrosse players. Now you're now you're just being mean, Billy.

Speaker 4 Now I'm trying to downplay his

Speaker 8 once he gets on the team, you'll have to answer for all that. You should stick to something that

Speaker 8 he knows, he knows its business. Billy, you got to stick to something light, like his mother was a prostitute.

Speaker 4 Wait, Billy, wait, Billy, is he

Speaker 4 really?

Speaker 12 are all those things you said true we'll cut this but like is he bad at lacrosse no i mean i mean i don't know how i watched his penn state tape it's pretty it's pretty legit but what would you

Speaker 4 like uh jim brown is the is his peak versus uh me playing lacrosse where would he be exactly he'd be he'd be somewhere in the middle okay cool all right i'm in talks of getting us a uh to call a game i know paul rabel mentioned it a couple of years ago so i haven't forgotten that yeah would we have to go anywhere maybe

Speaker 9 nah when you say in talks jake is this you just the talks from these talks this is the talks no i've been

Speaker 4 i've been in talks we're in talks i would love for you to call a game with you guys right but that means i'd have to watch an entire game

Speaker 4 yeah jake if you would i'd do it with you

Speaker 4 yeah that would be great you you guys can go you guys can do it i that would be great that would actually be great um and i'll watch the the highlights. You know what?

Speaker 8 You know what would really help actually, the possibility for you guys to be able to do a show like that together?

Speaker 8 If, Billy, if you change your name to Jake, like Mike and Mike, it always made it pop a little bit more when Mike and Mike were in the booth together doing something. So if it was Jake and Jake.

Speaker 4 Or if it was, if Jake changed his name to Will and it was Bill and Will.

Speaker 8 Ooh, that's good too.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that'd be really good. All right.
Good who's back, Hank. Thanks.

Speaker 4 Appreciate that. PFT.

Speaker 8 My who's back of the week is

Speaker 8 we need to reset the counter as a podcast.

Speaker 4 Uh-oh.

Speaker 8 We need to zero days without an accident.

Speaker 4 Shit your pants.

Speaker 8 On the Peloton.

Speaker 8 So I was pushing hard, maybe a little bit too hard. I'm trying to get back into shape.
I ate salads all week with the exception of Friday where I had a nice big steak.

Speaker 8 But yeah, I was

Speaker 8 healthy

Speaker 7 and fajitas and margaritas, no?

Speaker 8 Correct. It was a cheat day, Hank.
It was cheap.

Speaker 4 No, I just,

Speaker 4 yeah, I mean, yeah, but

Speaker 8 I want to say that during the week, though, I was eating two salads a day, basically. I was going to almost no carbs during the week.
And so, trying to get back into shape, noted.

Speaker 8 Football season happened. And that's something that we can acknowledge that happened.
But now it's time to remake my body. And so I've been on the Peloton a lot.

Speaker 8 And it turned into an actual buns of anarchy at the very, very end of the ride today.

Speaker 4 I think that's totally fair if it's workout. Like, that's not, you just, you just know no limits.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's a type of stuff that doesn't show up in the stat sheet is right well this guy pushed himself so hard that he shat so i think that's totally fair yeah it's uh it's whole cycle yeah um

Speaker 4 all right uh

Speaker 4 billy do you have a who's back

Speaker 12 uh my who's back to the offseason oh no my who's back was gonna be hogan Oh, fuck, dude.

Speaker 4 That was fun. Damn.
All right, my who's back is Jordan Speeth, because he was back for about 12 hours.

Speaker 7 Max Holmes was back, too.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Jordan Speet, though, though, was back. I didn't even realize, fully realize how bad Jordan Speeth has been for like the last five years.
He hasn't won a tournament since 2017.

Speaker 4 He was leading on Saturday going into Sunday. Didn't win, but he was back for like 12 hours.
And I guess everyone's saying like he's, watch out.

Speaker 4 Jordan Speeth might actually win a tournament again in his pro career.

Speaker 8 Well, he was the future of golf for a little bit. He was like, who's next? Yeah.
When he won that master's, right? So like, I hope hope he comes back.

Speaker 8 That'd be good for my Under Armor stock, assuming they haven't thrown him off the cliff yet. But yeah, I like, I guess I like Jordan Speeth.

Speaker 8 I think I, it's always so hard for me to figure out, like, when it comes to individual sports like golf or NASCAR, like, how do I pick somebody and be like, I'm, I'm just a big fan of that person.

Speaker 8 So I already got Brooks. I already got Max.
I think we're all homosexuals on this podcast. So like, how do I determine whether or not I'm rooting for Jordan Speeth or not? I think I like him.

Speaker 4 No, so I think everyone likes Jordan Speet because he's been so bad and such a head case for so long that he gets the pity like.

Speaker 4 Okay. So like the country likes him now because it's like, whoa, dude, you haven't won in how long?

Speaker 4 They did a graphic on CBS. It was so mean.
It was like.

Speaker 4 Virginia

Speaker 4 has lost as a one seed to a 16 seed and won the tournament all within the last time that he's won a tournament.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I think he falls into the category of like it would be a good story to see him come back.

Speaker 4 Correct, correct. Yeah, it's actually a great lesson in life.

Speaker 4 Like, if you can't be consistently good, be good for a little bit and then be so bad that everyone feels bad for you, and you'll get that vote.

Speaker 8 Now he's an underdog, despite the fact that he's won millions and millions of dollars playing golf. It's like, man, I really hope something good happens to this guy who plays a sport for a living.

Speaker 4 It also made, like, I think it also, I know myself personally, I did this, like, he, when he he was good, it was okay to make fun of the fact that he was balding very prematurely.

Speaker 4 So, but now that he's been bad, it feels yucky. Like, I feel yucky that I did that.

Speaker 4 So, I think we're all kind of like, hey, remember when we made fun of his hair because we thought he was going to win every tournament and like be a billionaire?

Speaker 4 Well, I'll take a mulligan on that and say, I'm going to root for Jordan Speeth.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 You know what? It's good to see him back in contention. I hope that he, I hope that he remains competitive.

Speaker 4 That's what I'll say about yes yes jake did you have a who's back

Speaker 4 yeah

Speaker 4 i have two uh first up sister jean yeah because

Speaker 5 they lost today uh but they won saturday they're in great shape to make the tournament she was on game day she's 101 now so expect to see her make the media rounds these next few weeks i hope bad loss to drake though like they it was they didn't have the best player and they were up at the end they blew it yeah But

Speaker 5 they're in good shape to make the tournament. If they make the tournament, everyone's going to talk about her.

Speaker 8 That would really be pushing your luck if you have like a 101-year-old and you're wheeling her out in a pandemic in front of the media and cameras.

Speaker 8 Let's keep Sister Jean isolated for a while.

Speaker 4 She has God on her side.

Speaker 4 I was watching that game. It is.

Speaker 4 I know, obviously, there's the debate, which shouldn't even exist because it's like you can like two things at the same time.

Speaker 4 Like, how can people watch NCAA basketball like NBA is such a better product?

Speaker 4 I know NBA is a better product, but there are certain games, the Drake Loyola of chicago game which i watched this afternoon where it was 45 45 in overtime and it was like whoa okay this is this is something and then like last night when it was fun i was watching the the nets versus warriors that's it's a different sport it is a different sport at times um and what was your second who's back uh tim tebow the mets once again invited him to spring training let's go dude i saw tim tebow at the uh did you see shaq's like um he had like it was like a summer camp like party where he had people, he had like a bunch of celebrities playing games before the Super Bowl and Tebow was there just taking it way too seriously.

Speaker 8 I did not see that, but it doesn't surprise me. Tebow is back in a big way because,

Speaker 8 so I subscribe to Tim Tebow's instant messaging service, as I think most of you out there probably do. He's a little thirsty.

Speaker 8 Tim Tebow texts me like five times a week and I've not, I haven't responded to him since the very first time they texted. Look at this.
And he just keeps texting me me non-stop.

Speaker 8 It's like, chill, dude.

Speaker 4 Well, you know what it is, too? Tebow's gotta, there's a definitely a part of Tebow that's like, this Trevor Lawrence thing doesn't work out. Urban's probably gonna call me.

Speaker 8 I mean, Tebow should be the ceiling for Tebow is being a Jack Easterby character coach that like that swindles his way into the front office of some NFL franchise.

Speaker 8 Yeah, he just he keeps texting me about sex trafficking. It's like, dude, Tebow, I, I

Speaker 8 haven't been, yeah, I haven't been thinking thinking about sex trafficking, but you are certainly making me think a lot about it. Yep, yep.

Speaker 4 Save the children.

Speaker 8 Okay, let's get to our interviews.

Speaker 4 First up, we got Justin Herbert. Then we have Aaron Donald.
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Speaker 4 Okay, here he is, Justin Herbert.

Speaker 4 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, Offensive Rookie of the Year

Speaker 4 from the Los Angeles Chargers. It is quarterback Justin Herbert.

Speaker 4 He's here with us from Strive Bill Tong, which is a snack that relies on nutrition training and fuel for his professional athletic career. Now, what is this? Is this basically beef jerky?

Speaker 17 First off, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
And it's a Bill Tong. It's a little different than jerky, and it's got all the protein, but none of the sugar.

Speaker 17 And I'm excited to join their team because it's a perfect snack for me, workouts, practice, whether I'm golfing, fishing, hiking.

Speaker 17 Um, it's just an easy snack that I can go to to get all the nutrients that I need, dude.

Speaker 4 You nailed that. You nailed that.

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Speaker 4 You crushed that.

Speaker 7 You crushed that.

Speaker 4 Like, I can tell you've done this. So, good job on that.
Thank you. Um, all right.
So, let's first, I want to just, I have to get this out of the way. I called you a bust because

Speaker 4 you beat my Badgers in the Rose Bowl, and I was very upset about it.

Speaker 4 The comeback game, your last game in college. So I said you sucked, and I was rooting for you to suck.
You proved me wrong very quickly.

Speaker 4 So I just want to get that out of the way because I feel like it's important to at least say that. So my bad.

Speaker 4 But really, like, that was fucked up that you guys came back and won that Rose Bowl because all I want to do is win a Rose Bowl.

Speaker 17 Well, I really appreciate you saying that. And I know that probably wasn't easy for you, but

Speaker 4 not at all. It wasn't.

Speaker 17 No.

Speaker 17 I mean, the Rose Bowl, no matter who you play and no matter what happens, it was just a great experience to be there. And it just happened to be against Wisconsin.
And they're an incredible team.

Speaker 17 And just for us to be in that game, it meant a lot to us. And, you know, this past year has been tough on everyone, but I've had a lot of fun and I've gotten better.
So I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 Okay. All right.
Deal, deal. I switched pretty quickly.

Speaker 4 In my defense, I switched pretty quickly after you started coming in and just throwing lasers all over the field. So I am team Justin Herbert now.
I want it on the record.

Speaker 17 That's big time. I really appreciate that.
That means a lot coming from you.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Right.
Like right off the bat, I think it took us maybe one or two games. And we're like, okay, this guy's got poise.
That was game one. Then game two was like, this guy's got Moxie.

Speaker 8 We upgraded you in Moxie. And then game three, it's like, this guy is the truth.
So now you're at the truth level.

Speaker 8 It takes, it usually takes like a full season to get there with us, but we upgraded you pretty early. The only

Speaker 8 qualm i think that we had with your game that we really knocked on is you just you hate sliding you just love running people over you haven't learned yet that like sometimes it sucks to not slide uh but it's fun watching you play has there been like a hit where you're like hey maybe i should give myself up like maybe maybe a yard and a half early that's a great point the very first game against the chiefs i it was third and short and i i thought I could just get the first down and I took a linebacker head on and I found out then like I should probably never do that again and I've gotten better over the year.

Speaker 17 Um, but yeah, you're, you're right, I, you know, I need to slide more, and my ability is my availability. And so, just being smart on the football field, this is what I need to do.

Speaker 4 So, that first game against the Chiefs, everyone, you know, the story goes that you found out essentially like 20 minutes before, was it that, was it that close to kickoff and that close to starting that it was like, okay, Tyrod's not going to play.

Speaker 4 You're in, Justin, you got to go against the Super Bowl champs.

Speaker 17 It was right before the kickoff. So, maybe 15 to 20 seconds.
We're about to field the kickoff and Coach Lynn comes up to me and tells me, Justin, you're going in.

Speaker 17 And I didn't know whether they had planned that the entire week and just not told me because I didn't really get any reps with the ones that week.

Speaker 17 But I mean, I just had this great big smile on my face, like, I'm ready to go. And they're all like, all right, Justin, focus up, like, knock that grin off your face.
Like, you're about to go in. So.

Speaker 4 Okay, so that leads me to this question because I have a theory that quarterbacks, young quarterbacks,

Speaker 4 there's a period of time where you don't realize like you're supposed to make young quarterback mistakes.

Speaker 4 You're actually like just too dumb to realize like, hey, maybe this actually, I shouldn't be playing this well. Did you feel that where you're like, I'm just out there bawling?

Speaker 4 Like there's no real pressure here. I'm just having fun and doing what I've always done.

Speaker 17 That's a great question. And I think the best thing about it was I looked at it and I said, you know what, no one's really expecting a whole lot from me.
I've got nothing to lose.

Speaker 17 I can go out there and I can have fun. And I'm playing in the NFL and this is a dream of mine ever since I've been a kid.
So what do I have to lose? And I just go out there, play loose, relax.

Speaker 17 And, you know, if you work hard, you do things right on and off the field,

Speaker 17 good things will happen.

Speaker 17 So it kind of funny the way things worked out.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah. What was that like right when you got into the game?

Speaker 8 And you obviously didn't get those reps with the first team and they don't really have plays scripted for you like they would for a guy that went into the game as a starter.

Speaker 8 Do they have to make some adjustments on the fly or

Speaker 8 like, how did that hit you in that first series?

Speaker 17 Yeah, for the most part, we stuck to the game plan.

Speaker 17 Our quarterback coach, Pep Hamilton, we walked through everything and we talked about the game plan so much that so that when I went in, I was ready to go in. I actually tell the story all the time.

Speaker 17 I go into the huddle and Hunter Henry looks at me and goes, what are you doing out here? And it was just one of those things that you don't really want to hear as you go in the huddle.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I would imagine so.

Speaker 4 As a rookie, what's, you know, we hear about the difference between college and NFL, speed, coverage. What's harder, though?

Speaker 4 Is it the different types of defense they're throwing at you, the different coverages, or is it the just physical speed of the defense and like the defensive line, especially?

Speaker 17 Yeah, that's another great question. I would say probably the speed of the game.
I mean, both are tough, but you get guys on the edge that are just as fast as they can possibly be.

Speaker 17 And I found that out early. If you get too deep in the drop and you sit back there, you got edge rushers that are going to come and knock the ball out of them.

Speaker 17 And then also you got coverage guys that you can get away with with things in college that you just can't get away with in the NFL.

Speaker 17 That's just it's just experience and learning and playing through it to get to that level.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 8 We always hear about the difference between like being open in college and open in the NFL. Can you explain like what is open in the NFL?

Speaker 17 Yeah, it's maybe a couple steps here and there. And then in college, you get guys that are wide open, a few steps ahead of the defenders.

Speaker 17 The windows are just smaller in the NFL.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 17 tiny bit of separation, the guys open, and you better hit them because you're really not going to get a whole bunch of huge plays in the NFL.

Speaker 17 And so it's just kind of taking what you can get here and there. So that's probably one of the biggest differences.

Speaker 4 Was there a specific jersey at Oregon that made you feel like you could like would never lose in or that you the whole team felt like they played better in?

Speaker 17 Yeah, I would say the stomp out cancer ones, my sophomore year, they were all white with the chrome helmets. And it was just.
It was just a really good look.

Speaker 17 And we went out there and we jumped on Nebraska, I think 42 to 14 in the first half. And we were just playing pretty well in those.

Speaker 4 Okay, so it is true. Now,

Speaker 4 was there ever a jersey that you wouldn't say it because, you know, you're an Oregon duck and Nike and all that stuff, but maybe there's a little part of you like, is this really what we're wearing?

Speaker 17 Yeah, like you said, I was a big fan of all the jerseys.

Speaker 17 Unfortunately, the one that we never got a win was the Oregon Duck when we wore the orange socks and cleats.

Speaker 17 In Colorado my freshman year, and we lost in those.

Speaker 17 But I like the idea. I supported them.

Speaker 4 Dude, I'm looking at these. I'm looking at these right now.
The Nebraska, the ones you wore in Nebraska, those are clean. You guys would never, if you wore those, you would win every national title.

Speaker 8 Have you gone back and looked at back in like the early 2000s when Oregon tried to introduce their second duck mascot, the like Cyber Duck that was like, yeah, I think it was Robo Duck, maybe?

Speaker 4 Yeah, Robo Duck.

Speaker 8 What did you think about RoboDuck? Any chance we could get him back?

Speaker 17 You know, I thought it was a good idea.

Speaker 17 I think Puddles, the main duck, he's just, he's too tough to beat right now. And I like the idea, but I'm a big Puddles fan.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Did you ever get lost in that locker room in Oregon after they redid it and made it basically like an amusement park?

Speaker 17 All the time. My first couple of weeks, I got lost on my way to meetings, and I had to end up going like 15 to 20 minutes early just to find my way.

Speaker 4 The end of the Bills game.

Speaker 4 I had the over. I really needed you to score there.
You ran QB sneak when your entire offensive line was running past block.

Speaker 4 Who did it suck for more? Mirio?

Speaker 17 Probably both of us pretty evenly.

Speaker 17 You know, that's one of those situations where, you know, we wish we handled it better. There's some miscommunications from everyone on the field.
And it was just a learning experience for all of us.

Speaker 17 And, you know, it's unfortunate that we didn't get to score. And we felt like we were in that game for the most part and

Speaker 17 fell up short and we just had to learn from it.

Speaker 7 Wait, was it your fault?

Speaker 17 It was all of our fault. It was my fault going out there and we could have done better.
And,

Speaker 17 you know, it's a tough learning moment, but I'm better because of it. And the team's better because of it.

Speaker 4 Okay, I think I'm going to blame you.

Speaker 4 I think I officially am going to blame you. That's right.

Speaker 4 What about

Speaker 8 the end of the Raiders game? That was a crazy game. We like dove into the end zone.
I had you to score a touchdown as a prop in that game and the over.

Speaker 8 So needless to say, that was a very exciting, like two seconds for me.

Speaker 8 So just thank you for that. I just wanted to say, I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 How many interviews have you done in the last week that just have been bringing up specific plays being like, dude, what the fuck were you thinking there? Because we had money on that.

Speaker 17 This is the first one.

Speaker 4 So it's a good opportunity to talk about it. Okay.

Speaker 8 Was that, seriously, though, that Thursday night game against the Raiders, that was one of the craziest games that I think we had all year.

Speaker 8 After that's over, are you even able to like process, like when you're watching the film? Are you able to like break that down like you would a normal game?

Speaker 17 Or was it just so unusual and so hectic that it made it like more difficult to learn lessons from a game like that yeah it was pretty crazy for sure but i think that the following day we ended up watching the film and talked about it and you know we did our best to just go through everything and and get a good beat on on what we did well and what we what we need to do better the next week um but that was definitely one of the the most fun games of the year and just being in it and uh it's an incredible stadium they've got there and you know the raiders are always tough so a lot of fun there All right, so my last question, Justin Herbert, Offensive Rookie of the Year, he's brought to us by Strive Bill tongue i'm sure you've been asked this but we have to ask it is the hair coming back because that was did you know you made a mistake when you cut your hair uh that first off the hair is coming back um okay but i needed to cut it it was getting long and we're kind of in a losing skid and um i i felt like changing it up could have helped me um and it did we we won a couple games there here and there on that so um it'll come back and the best part about hair is it'll grow back yeah but did you you knew though like when you that first picture hit the internet you're like oh this is going to be a, this is going to be a day for me.

Speaker 17 Well, I think the best part about that is, is I kind of stayed off it. I don't, I don't listen too much about what people are saying.
So, you know, it's, it's a pretty negative place out there.

Speaker 17 And I'm glad I kind of stayed away from it.

Speaker 8 Good. Listen.

Speaker 8 I actually, I actually had your back on the haircut. I thought it showed it showed leadership that you went to your strength and conditioning coach and trusted him to cut your hair.

Speaker 8 It's like that dude only knows how to do like a buzz cut. That's a guy that like showers with Brillo pads, his washcloths, and just like cuts his hair off because it gets in the way of him day to day.

Speaker 8 So I didn't mind the haircut, but yeah, people have to get their jokes off about it.

Speaker 4 Wait, you don't, you don't even have Twitter?

Speaker 17 No, no, Twitter.

Speaker 4 Damn. Good for you, dude.

Speaker 17 Thank you.

Speaker 4 That's that's impress. That's more impressive than anything you did on the field this year to be like, I don't have Twitter.
I'm good without it.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I mean, we don't obviously don't get as much news. So I kind of find all the news elsewhere, but

Speaker 9 it's been fun, though.

Speaker 8 You must be happy all the time. That's a great decision.

Speaker 8 Don't ever log on, Justin. I want you to stay pure just the way you are.

Speaker 4 I'll do that for sure. Yeah.
And if you ever need like a couple watchdogs to just, you know, keep the streets clean for you,

Speaker 4 we are willing and able to do it.

Speaker 17 Oh, I appreciate that. That's, that's huge.

Speaker 4 So I really

Speaker 4 all right. Awesome, Justin.
Thank you, man. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 17 Yeah, appreciate you guys. Thank you.

Speaker 8 Thanks, man.

Speaker 4 Thanks, man. Seriously, congrats on not being on Twitter.
That's fucking sick. Thank you.
I mean, it's just kind of a negative place sometimes. And yeah,

Speaker 7 had I read the tweets from you, that probably would have hurt me.

Speaker 4 So yes, actually,

Speaker 4 I don't know if I roasted you that bad for that.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I don't think we roasted you that bad for it. But yeah, it was, it's a very good decision, not being on Twitter.

Speaker 4 I secretly envy you. Yeah, you like, if I could trade anything, like it wouldn't be your bank account or your rocket arm.
It would be the fact that you're not on Twitter.

Speaker 4 Wow. I like that.

Speaker 4 All right, man. All right, we'll have it coming.

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Speaker 1 Can you explain to us the backstory of Ready and what people can look for in the stores?

Speaker 14 Sure.

Speaker 14 First, thanks for having us on.

Speaker 14 From a sports drink perspective,

Speaker 14 I think with my background playing and obviously with Aaron and Yannis playing at such a high level, elite players that they are.

Speaker 14 We, especially those two guys, have an appreciation for what goes in their body and very particular about it.

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Speaker 6 Sounds delicious. And Aaron, you were actually involved in the making of the product too?

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Speaker 7 I was...

Speaker 18 Pretty much with the flavors, the taste, as far as, you know, I'm real big into what I'm consuming, what I put into my body.

Speaker 18 So obviously I want, you know, nothing that tastes too sweet, you don't want nothing too watered down. So, trying to find something that's right in between the middle.

Speaker 18 So, me having my input to figure that out with Pat was great, you know, even when it comes down to the bottle shape and everything like that, um, get my input.

Speaker 18 And so, um, I definitely was able to, you know, play a role as far as, you know, trying to make this drink right.

Speaker 6 I like that. I like the feel of a good bottle can make all the difference.

Speaker 6 I remember back like when I was a kid, there were certain Gatorade bottles that tasted better because they had like the little pyramid stuff on the outside that you could squeeze and it was really satisfying.

Speaker 6 That's a real thing. If a bottle feels good, it's more hydrating.

Speaker 14 100%. We'll have to get you some product.

Speaker 14 I thought we had a care package sent up for you, so we'll have to make sure we get some for you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, get it. Yeah.
Aaron, how are the ribs?

Speaker 18 They're getting better.

Speaker 18 You know, this week, this has been the best week so far. So definitely feeling a lot better, you know, hell and good.

Speaker 1 Can you tell us how that happened? Because

Speaker 1 I did make the joke afterwards that you are able to dodge knives during training and then Russell Wilson lightly sits on you and you broke your ribs.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 18 it was just weird how it happened. I hit him, took him down.
I guess the way, you know, he landed on me and the way my body twisted just happened how it happened.

Speaker 1 It was a freak injury. Yeah.
It was so, because we all, you know, we watch you every Sunday and you are. exceptional and like an Iron Man.
So when it happened, we're like, wait, what the heck?

Speaker 1 But I guess it also is like, if you're, if, if you feel like you're hurt, then I would imagine it would be something that would probably kill us.

Speaker 1 Like, I think if Russell Wilson, if that same thing happened to me, I'd just be dead.

Speaker 18 No, I felt it. It was just, you know, I felt it like a weird feeling.
I kind of like, I'm like, the way it happened, I couldn't be, it can't be nothing serious.

Speaker 18 So I kind of thought I got the wind knocked out of me. So I tried to like gather myself.
Then I started walking and it was like a burning feeling.

Speaker 18 And I sat down trying to, trying to breathe, which is uncomfortable. So just trying to, I was trying to compose myself and calm myself down and see what was wrong.
And the pain wouldn't go away.

Speaker 18 So I went inside and see what was going on from there.

Speaker 6 Yeah, rib injuries are weird.

Speaker 3 They're like the most weird.

Speaker 6 They're the most frustrating injury ever because it hurts to breathe. It hurts to laugh.
I don't know if you had the hiccups at all when you had a rib injury. That's a fate worse than death.

Speaker 1 Difficult to diagnose.

Speaker 6 Yeah, very trying to take a crap. Everything hurts when you've got a rib injury.
Has that put a

Speaker 6 cramp in your workout time? Because I know that you probably don't go longer than like two days without working out ever in your life. Has that made you had to like sit back and

Speaker 6 rest your body a little bit more than you would like to?

Speaker 18 Well, no, I really, after the season,

Speaker 18 took two days off, was back in the weight room training.

Speaker 18 This is actually, this is the first week that I took off at all. So this is, this is my first week off since the season ended.

Speaker 18 So I'm just trying to let my body heal a little bit more, but feeling good.

Speaker 6 What's the longest that you ever have been without working out at all? Like without picking up a weight? What's the longest Aaron Donald has actually let his body rest?

Speaker 18 um a week i did a week not a full week i usually i usually go you know try to go a whole week and buy like like a thursday friday i'm i'm i'm doing some type of weight backing away from trying to do something just to feel good so Yeah, I randomly last night was because since it's Super Bowl week, I was watching NFL Network and they were playing old Super Bowls.

Speaker 1 So they were playing the one a couple years ago against the Patriots and you were giving yourself a pump-up speech and you were telling yourself, controlled aggression, controlled aggression.

Speaker 1 Do you notice when you have uncontrolled aggression on the field?

Speaker 18 Well, yeah, everybody can notice that. You know, you just lose it.
But yeah, a lot of things that I say to myself is stuff that my dad told me.

Speaker 18 You know, he still tells me to the day, but a lot of things he told me,

Speaker 18 you know, grow

Speaker 18 controlled aggression, hard work.

Speaker 18 Things I just, that he used to tell me as a kid, give me my little prep speeches that I just talk to myself now. Like, if it was, if it was like, if he was talking to me.
So

Speaker 18 it's kind of weird, different, but

Speaker 18 everybody get motivated different ways.

Speaker 1 You should think about,

Speaker 1 I know, I'm sure that like, you know, shit gets talked back and forth on the line, but you should at some point just tell the lineman across from you, like, hey, just so you know, I'm doing controlled aggression right now.

Speaker 3 Like, I'm controlling it.

Speaker 1 You don't want to see me uncontrolled because I was watching the video and you were pumping me up. And I'm like, holy shit, like, what is uncontrolled aggression from Aaron Donald?

Speaker 1 Probably the scariest thing in the world.

Speaker 18 Yeah, just,

Speaker 18 it's not too good, but you know, that's, that's why you got to, you know, control it because you got to be smart.

Speaker 18 You don't want to do nothing foolish to the point where, you know, you get a flag and hurt your team.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Yeah.
What happens when you're uncontrolled aggression? Is there like something that you can tell on yourself, like, hey, you've crossed the line? Bring it back. Control that aggression.

Speaker 18 Well, whatever happened, it happens, and then you lash out, and then after you, you got to relax yourself and calm yourself down.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 6 it just occurred to me.

Speaker 6 I remember watching a video of you a couple years ago when they implemented the new rules about how you're allowed to tackle a quarterback and how you're allowed to land on the quarterback and what you can and can't do.

Speaker 6 And you were just like belly flopping onto the training dummy in practice.

Speaker 6 It just occurred to me that Russell Wilson did that to you in a game and injured you by landing with his whole body weight on you.

Speaker 6 Do you think that there should be like the same rule for quarterbacks that you're not allowed to land on defensive tackles?

Speaker 18 No, man. It just, it is what it is.
It just happened how it happened. So,

Speaker 18 you know, injury happened, you you know season's over so i'm just here you know trying to you know talk about my new ready sports drink you know here with my partner pat yeah you know just talking about a great drink um i saw a video of you where you were jumping into a pool and you were you were saying that like you could play on offense is that something that you've talked to coach mcveigh about like put me in a running back put me in a tight end well i've been trying to get get like a goal line package since my rookie year so i've been trying it just ain't taking a bait so um they're trying to get me a little nice little goal line package for a while it just ain't happened.

Speaker 1 We got to get that going.

Speaker 1 Have you talked to Matt Stafford yet? Obviously, the big trade happened. We are, just so you know, friends with Jared Goff.
So,

Speaker 1 you know, that was the Rams' big loss there because we're going to always have Jared's side. But have you talked to your new quarterback yet?

Speaker 18 Yeah, I talked to him. You know, I talked to him.

Speaker 1 What'd you guys say?

Speaker 3 Were you like?

Speaker 18 No, we just talk. You know, you just, you know, at the end of the day, it's a business.

Speaker 18 You know, I wish nothing but the best for Gov. You know, I'm going to keep in contact with him.
Um, I'm more happy for Gov just getting a first start, you know.

Speaker 18 Um, you know, I know this is going to motivate him and push him. So, I know he's going to do great things in Detroit, but um, the switch happened, the change happened from a business standpoint.

Speaker 18 So, um, you know, I talked to Stanford, we said some things, and that's what it is.

Speaker 6 So, I remember this week, last year, uh, we had you and DK Metcalf on at the same time, uh, and DK was saying that he could bench press more than you.

Speaker 6 Uh, do you think that after this season, another year, another year getting stronger for you, that you can take DK in a bench press?

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 18 He's a radio receiver. I'm a defensive lineman.
So we lift different, you know?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 What about squatting? You think you can out-squat him too?

Speaker 18 We lift different.

Speaker 6 Do you think that you're the strongest player in the NFL?

Speaker 18 I don't know, man. I just know I'm pretty strong.
You know, I stay in my own lane. You know, I know what I can do and can't do.

Speaker 18 I know what I need to do to prepare myself every season, you know, because I got to work. You know, if I don't work, I ain't going to be productive.

Speaker 18 The better you get at this game, the harder it gets because now you got that much more attention. Now more teams are trying to find ways to slow you down.

Speaker 18 Players are trying to find ways that, you know, now allow you to make plays. So I can't allow myself to, you know, fall short of nothing.

Speaker 18 I got to continue to work, you know, continue to find ways to get stronger and get better. So, you know, that production continues to stay at a high level.

Speaker 1 So the other big change for the Rams this offseason, besides the quarterback position, was your defensive coordinator got hired by the Chargers.

Speaker 1 What was Brandon Staley doing this past year that was so different? And,

Speaker 1 you know, he was talked up a lot. What was he doing that was so different schematically or just preparation-wise, that had you guys playing at such a high level coming into January?

Speaker 18 Well, we had some great players, man. We had some great football players that was all playing at a high level.
I think he did a great job as far as

Speaker 18 game scheme and certain things and

Speaker 18 men able to give different looks to offenses, and they think one thing and they see another.

Speaker 18 Be able to do certain things to give certain guys one-on-ones up front. And I think

Speaker 18 as a defense, I think guys were just making plays. You know, it wasn't one or two guys, it was multiple guys that was, you know, making a game-changing play at any time of the game.

Speaker 18 Each week, it was somebody different. So

Speaker 18 when you got a defense like that, guys is having fun, guys is flying around. You know, good things come out of that.
So, you know,

Speaker 1 that's what you guys were seeing so a quick follow-up to that can you tell when uh a coach has put you guys in a spot where it's like if we just do this we're gonna be awesome like we're gonna succeed can you tell when a coach has everything lined up and you're like the trust is here they see things that are going to show up on sunday and we feel like we're like almost a step ahead of the competition Well, yeah, that's game planning.

Speaker 18 You go into, you study film.

Speaker 18 You have a game plan you go into.

Speaker 6 Then you, once you're out there playing the game you get a feel for what's going on um you see what the offense is giving you they see and vice versa so um playing the game getting a feel for it like that you see a lot of things like that so yeah is it is it actually fun for you if you have a game and let's say you're getting double and triple teamed the entire time and uh you don't put up any tackles for loss you don't get a sack but your defense plays well like do you have fun in that game as as they've clearly like game planned to take you out of it but your other teammates are still having a a great game out there like is that fun for you For sure.

Speaker 18 You know, obviously, I want to be out there. I want to make plays.
I want to be the guy making, but as long as somebody's doing it, you know, that's all that matters. You know, I'm doing my job.

Speaker 18 You know, if I'm out there and I take a double team or a triple team, whatever the case may be, and the guy's able to wrap off that and make a play, or one of the DDs is able to make a pick and make a game, change a play to help us win.

Speaker 18 Yeah, I'm all for that. Because at the end of the day, it's about winning.

Speaker 7 You know, the individual's success is great.

Speaker 18 But, you know, the overall goal is to make it to a Super Bowl. And I can't personally do that by myself.
You know, it's a team effort. So I need guys around me, too, to make plays.

Speaker 18 And that's what it comes down to.

Speaker 6 I've always wondered about that. If you're a guy that's getting triple teamed on a play, do you have like a game plan in your head of in what order you're going to take these guys out?

Speaker 6 Like you have to pull some John Wick shit, basically. It's like, I'm going to hit this guy in his chest.
I'm going to kick this guy in his shit and then put my forearm in this guy's throat.

Speaker 6 Then I'll get into the backfield.

Speaker 18 Well,

Speaker 18 you just... You just play the game.
You know,

Speaker 18 when you line up, you're not expecting a triple team.

Speaker 18 you're expecting to try to defeat the guy in front of you you hear different calls if you know the slide protection is coming to you you know certain blocks from what i watched on film what i'm going to get so that all a counter into it so um you know you sometimes it might i might beat the first guy the center might slide you might be him and there might be like a back chipping or something like that that just um slow you down enough not to get to the sack but you know um

Speaker 18 you really can't do too much you just play your game

Speaker 4 all right guys we're gonna yeah we're gonna have to wrap up excuse me i just wanted to say thank thank you.

Speaker 3 Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 All right, thanks guys.

Speaker 14 Thanks so much.

Speaker 6 Take care. All right.
Thanks, sir. See ya.
See you then.

Speaker 4 Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 All right. Take care.

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Speaker 4 All right, segments. Segments are back.

Speaker 4 First up, we have Respect the Biz for Tom Brady. If you missed it,

Speaker 4 one of the greatest clips that has been put on the internet came out on Saturday night. Let's actually play it here.

Speaker 21 And it takes a lot of work, a lot of hard work,

Speaker 21 a lot of hours go into it. It just really upset me that this trophy was disgraced and disrespected by by being thrown as if it was a real football.

Speaker 21 I didn't sleep for the past two nights because of this. I was that upset because I know the passion that goes into this trophy and how my dad and all his fellow silversmiths are so proud to make this.

Speaker 21 I personally would like an apology,

Speaker 21 not just to me and my family and the other silversmiths, but to the fans.

Speaker 4 That was 100% real. That woman actually has lost sleep over the fact that Tom Brady threw the Lombardi trophy to his teammate across water, disrespecting silversmiths far and wide.

Speaker 8 Yeah, respect the silversmith industry, big cat.

Speaker 8 I think that the Lombardi trophy should never be touched. It should be like that guitar and spinal tap.
It's not to be played. Don't even point at it.
Don't even look at it.

Speaker 8 It should just exist in a glass stand forever.

Speaker 8 And if this lady thinks that the Lombardi trophy was being disrespected by being thrown, she should have a conversation with some NHL players about what the Stanley Cup has been through.

Speaker 4 You know what?

Speaker 8 Like me and you getting to drink out of the Stanley Cup is far more disrespectful to a trophy than Tom Brady almost throwing it to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 4 How about the fact that Gronk dented it? like a year ago, two years ago.

Speaker 4 I love this lady, though, because she doesn't have the internet, because there's no way that you do that interview if you know how the internet works. You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 Like she thinks that she just put that into a void and just shipped it off. And it was like, I just need to get my thoughts out there.
I haven't slept. It was appalling what I saw.

Speaker 4 And I just want someone to hear it.

Speaker 4 She doesn't know that like she dominated Saturday night and that people were laughing at her and she's utterly ridiculous. And I appreciate that type of person.

Speaker 4 We just had Justin Herbert on, who doesn't have Twitter. Like that's people who don't even know what the internet is

Speaker 4 and don't use it. I respect so, so much.

Speaker 8 So I'm confused about the Lombardi trophy because there seem to be a ton of them. And that lady was acting like this is the only one.

Speaker 8 Like this is the real one that he threw, but they seem to be like Mr. Smiths in the Matrix where like they just show up everywhere.

Speaker 8 I see like an interview with Charlie Caserly on NFL Network and he's got like two Lombardi trophies behind him in the background.

Speaker 8 What's going on? How many are there?

Speaker 4 We should actually, like, if anyone can get us a couple, we need at least a few in our, in our studio.

Speaker 8 I've been saying, like, we've been, because if Tom Brady, if that was the one Lombardi trophy, like the actual one that they just give you for a parade, and he had thrown it into the bottom of the ocean, I actually think that there's a good case to be made that they should invent a new trophy and just know that the Lombardi is sunk forever.

Speaker 8 And now then that one's named after Tom Brady, Hank.

Speaker 4 Yeah, there you go. But it's also crazy because I think

Speaker 4 she was essentially saying that her father made the first one,

Speaker 4 but didn't make this one.

Speaker 4 He just made the first one. Okay.

Speaker 4 So she's offended for the first one. I wouldn't design it.
I don't.

Speaker 8 I mean, it's a football on a stand.

Speaker 4 Right. But no, it's don't, it's more than that.
It's sneaky genius. Yeah.

Speaker 4 None of his perfect.

Speaker 8 You know what? The Lombardi trophy has lost a lot of its shine.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's lost a lot of its shine recently because it's always always in the logo for the super bowl i see it too much yeah it's always in my face back when the super bowls had different logos getting to see the lombardi trophy was an event it's like oh there it is oh i forgot what that looked like yeah exactly it's like a big reveal and i i would have liked it if this lady had worked in like some millennial bashing to her comments where she was saying like uh oh now that every kid gets a participation trophy athletes don't respect trophies anymore and they're just throwing them around like they're party favors right unbelievable Unbelievable.

Speaker 4 All right. Next up, we have Sorry, Not Sorry.
This is from James Harden.

Speaker 4 This is equally as unbelievable.

Speaker 4 So, James Harden did an interview with Rachel Nichols before the Nets Warriors game on Saturday night, which, by the way, Kyrie Irving has said that James Harden is the point guard. So, he has

Speaker 4 essentially said,

Speaker 4 Hey, there's only one ball. It's James Harden's ball, except for when it's Kevin Durant's ball and also when it's my ball.
But

Speaker 4 James Harden said he is sorry for how his Houston Rockets tenure ended and quote said, I don't like it at all because that's not who I am.

Speaker 4 That is who you are. You did all those things.

Speaker 4 So he said, I feel like it could have happened a lot smoother, a lot easier, but it is what it is.

Speaker 4 Does he know that he caused all of it?

Speaker 8 Well, to me, that just speaks to my theory that James Harden has a twin, a fat twin that steps in and fucks everything up for him when he needs somebody to be bad at basketball.

Speaker 8 And he's like, that's not who I am. He's just like, he's admitting it.
But yeah, like, that is what happened, James.

Speaker 4 You got fat.

Speaker 8 James,

Speaker 8 you got fat. You ate your way out of Houston, which is very difficult to do.

Speaker 4 You stopped trying, and then you said that the Rockets were just not good enough and it can't be fixed. Those were your quotes.
Those are what you said.

Speaker 4 Taking private jets to Las Vegas in between games and on days of games.

Speaker 4 That's not who he is. Took a personal data.
That's not who he is, dude.

Speaker 8 The media is making him out to be like some guy that strokes in big situations that loves strippers and yet gets unhappy despite having a $200 million contract in a state with no income tax.

Speaker 8 And that's not at all who James Harden is, guys.

Speaker 4 That is so bad in closeout games that it actually is believable that he was on drugs.

Speaker 4 Not that he was, but it actually is believable because that would be a better excuse for just, I was trying my hardest and I sucked this bad.

Speaker 4 So he finished with, apologize for how it went down, but I guess I had to do what I had to do in order to get where I wanted to go. Yeah, that's not who he is.
I don't apologize for any of it.

Speaker 4 You actually aren't sorry whatsoever.

Speaker 4 You're just saying the words, sorry.

Speaker 7 It's almost like

Speaker 4 a four-year-old being like, I apologize, but like they don't, they're just saying it so they can get out of trouble.

Speaker 8 That's not the real me.

Speaker 8 Like everyone thinks that they know somebody just because there's six months of on-the-record conversations and hours and hours of game film that they can review, but that's not who I am.

Speaker 4 That's not who I am.

Speaker 8 That's not who he is.

Speaker 8 I do like Kyrie saying it wasn't a mystical conversation because,

Speaker 8 I mean, the first thought I had in my head is like, what type of mystical conversation did they have to determine who was going to be the point guard? It is Lunar New Year.

Speaker 8 I'm sure there was astrology involved.

Speaker 4 Well, that's, I mean, it's similar to the guy who said that he wasn't a cat. The lawyer said he wasn't a cat, who I can't get out of my head.

Speaker 4 But like, dude, if you, or Jim Caldwell, when he said he was very much alive, like if you say it wasn't a mystical conversation it was a mystical conversation yes you just told us what it was you're trying to detest us to think it wasn't but it clearly was my t-shirt that says it was not a mystical conversation is raising a lot of questions that should have already been answered by my t-shirt right exactly guys stop talking about the mystical conversation i don't know where you get that idea other than me saying it wasn't a mystical conversation uh all right uh before we have a drunk idea we also have thoughts and prayers calling coward he had what was his official diagnosis?

Speaker 8 He had a blood clot

Speaker 8 in his lung.

Speaker 4 Which I think he even said that might be because he's been doing so much high-altitude skiing. So

Speaker 4 he had, it's a vacation injury. He got a vacation injury.

Speaker 8 Hank, let that be a lesson.

Speaker 8 I like it to be like watching one piece.

Speaker 4 In his first video, when he's like, yeah, I got a blood clot. It could be because I've been in Vail, just fucking dropping out of copters and doing some sick-ass tricks.
Like, what? Okay. The powder.

Speaker 4 And I went scuba diving in the Bahamas. So it could be something with that, the change in altitudes with my awesome lifestyle.

Speaker 8 Listen, the powder's been too extreme up in Aspen recently.

Speaker 4 Like it,

Speaker 8 that's probably going around a lot amongst extreme sports athletes. You're seeing it as a pandemic.

Speaker 4 It's tough to have sympathy for a guy who's like, hey, I got an injury, probably because I've been spending so much time on the fucking in Breckenridge.

Speaker 8 I mean, too much, too much soup could be an issue too. You inhale that soup, it goes down the wrong tube, it goes into the lung.

Speaker 8 It's just basically like pneumonia that gets started in there. Just except, you know, it's not like spit or bile that gets lodged in there.
It's just melligatone and that can get infected.

Speaker 4 So I was a little upset because he kind of stole my shine as sportscaster fighting for his life this week.

Speaker 4 But whatever. He also like, he did like daily updates where he's like, look, Justin Herbert sent me a signed.

Speaker 4 uh ball or like he even did one tonight where he was like i'm going back to work i was supposed to have monday off, but I'm going back to work.

Speaker 7 Fucking way to go, Colin.

Speaker 4 But he did mention that he was having soup for dinner. So he's all the way back.

Speaker 8 Okay, good. Glad to hear that.
Yeah, he is really stealing your sign. Like, there's, there's a, there's a lot of podcasts.
There's a lot of podcasting lung injuries that are going around.

Speaker 4 I could have died.

Speaker 8 And if Colin Coward, maybe if he smoked a little bit more weed and chilled out on the soup and all the cocktails that he's having with Brian Rosillo out in Manhattan Beach, maybe if you puffed a little bit, if you blazed more, Colin, that would train your lungs to be acclimated to environments where there's less oxygen yeah what were you gonna say billy uh i actually have who's back of the week johnny manzell scored in the flash thing controlled football league this weekend yeah by the way the name what was the name of his team the zap was it the zap zippers zappers

Speaker 12 the other team was owned by marshawn lynch and they were the beasts i think

Speaker 4 a really quick way for me to not respect your football league is to have a team named the zappers

Speaker 4 That's like a character from Doug Funny.

Speaker 8 No, it looked like it was a 1991 arcade game.

Speaker 9 And they're playing on like a 12-foot field.

Speaker 12 It's an arena. Honestly, I just love all football.

Speaker 12 I'm actually going to follow this now.

Speaker 4 He was one for five throwing.

Speaker 8 He scored.

Speaker 4 He was one for five throwing.

Speaker 4 I saw that because

Speaker 8 Bunny Man's. He also said that he felt washed up as he was running in the game.
He was like, man, he's like, man, I really suck right now. I got caught from behind.

Speaker 8 I don't know why they're paying me to do that, but win or lose, the Zappers booze. That's what they say about the Zappers.
Everyone knows that.

Speaker 7 Illustrious franchise.

Speaker 4 One of the founding franchises of what's the league called?

Speaker 12 Fan-controlled football league.

Speaker 14 So I'm going to, I think you can like call their plays.

Speaker 4 Dude, they really should bring back the arena league.

Speaker 8 They should bring back the XFL.

Speaker 7 The XFL.

Speaker 8 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Billy.

Speaker 4 But the Arena League was a little different, whereas, like, you know, I don't know. You just,

Speaker 4 actually, not, I didn't even watch it, so I don't even know why I'm saying it had a little bit of hobby. Like, I didn't even

Speaker 4 care about the arena league, but it was nice to know it existed. Yeah, so

Speaker 4 existed.

Speaker 8 Big Cat and I were actually offered to be owners of a franchise like a year and a half in the fan control.

Speaker 4 Do you remember that?

Speaker 8 It was going to be Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch, and then us, I think, owning a team. And we just kind of, it was classic us because they were like, hey, do you want to own a football team?

Speaker 8 And we just kind of forgot about it.

Speaker 4 Well, they also, if I remember correctly, they're like, we're going to pay you in sweat sweat equity, and you're just gonna talk about it a bunch. You're like, What? Okay, that doesn't really

Speaker 4 make any sense. Um, all right,

Speaker 8 all right, sure, yeah, come on, Billy, Billy's just

Speaker 8 where is it located, Billy, uh, Las Vegas. Yeah, okay, Billy just wants to go to Vegas.

Speaker 4 That's that's what we're working with here. Serious question, though, Billy.
If you did put on the pads and you went out there, like, what would your mindset be?

Speaker 1 Um, you know,

Speaker 4 just a great all right he's figured it out never mind all right he caught on i was testing i had to test to see when billy would actually keep i'm officially out of fight mode and sober and it's you know okay what's fight mode jokes done

Speaker 8 yeah what is fight mode what's the difference between fight mode and now

Speaker 4 when are you gonna start calling people out billy we gotta keep the momentum going i know i I gotta get myself. Who's on the short list?

Speaker 7 Who's on the short list?

Speaker 12 I mean, of course,

Speaker 5 honestly, I'd fight a Paul brother, and I probably wouldn't fight anybody else.

Speaker 4 What about a guy named Paul?

Speaker 4 What about the guy that he falled out?

Speaker 4 Dude, Jose,

Speaker 4 would you fight Jose in a rematch if Jose got $0?

Speaker 12 I'm actually kind of sad.

Speaker 4 Yes, winner-take-all would actually be the only way. I'm not sad now.

Speaker 8 Winner take all for $0.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 4 I think Jose could legitimately rematch Jose, but you'd have to be like, $100,000 is all you can get, and you have to win the fight.

Speaker 12 that was sad realizing that he wasn't like, actually,

Speaker 12 shouldn't have been in a boxing ring by any means.

Speaker 8 Billy, you should actually just cut yourself short, Billy.

Speaker 13 I don't want to, I sort of,

Speaker 12 it's, it's, you know, I've centered my.

Speaker 7 You're a pussy.

Speaker 12 You're being a pussy. I'm a pussy.
No, I just, I,

Speaker 4 you won't beat an old man up again.

Speaker 12 But the thing is, I didn't know he was an old man.

Speaker 4 I thought he was going to kill me.

Speaker 8 Why? Why'd you think that?

Speaker 7 Because he said he was like blunt force trauma to my brain so i was like bro like kids sleeping

Speaker 4 you you knew that like once he hit you like he didn't have that i know but i i was in i was that was

Speaker 8 i was in wartime bro i was in the zone anyway but like going so going into the fight like you thought it's different from it is now because now you're like i could kick this guy's ass yeah going into the last fight you were like this dude is huge he's like 6'3 yeah how am i going to be able to prepare for that

Speaker 8 i it's the whole thing i i've sort of i've i'm back to earth we're all good huh all right uh pfc you had a drunk idea real quick yeah i don't i don't know how good this idea is but it sounded good at the time and wearing a cowboy hat all the time well no it was actually while i was wearing the cowboy hat i thought of con diapers it was yeah

Speaker 8 it's actually a bike seat that's just made out of cloth

Speaker 8 it's it's a bike seat that's a giant tampon that goes up your butthole while you're biking on it uh no it's um um it's top golf but for other sports why why is top golf the only like thing that exists where you go someplace and you play a sport and it's like an arcade there should be top golf but for like football where you're the court you're the quarterback

Speaker 8 yeah but batting cages that that could be cool but like imagine football gyms those exist yeah imagine you have a football and then in front of you it's like this big field and there are people there are people that are like running routes and you can like hit the receivers with passes.

Speaker 8 You can, you know, just throw deep bombs. They're net set up.
They keep score of every ball that you throw. You compete against your buddies.
Or like,

Speaker 4 yeah, that's. I think that exists.
Does it? Well, I mean, like, it exists in like arcades.

Speaker 8 Yeah, but I'm talking about like a bigger, a bigger.

Speaker 4 I think you're just talking about David Busters. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Well, so the big thing is like at top golf, you can play your sport, but you also get to drink beer.

Speaker 8 And so at top football, you would have couches, you'd have a whole setup, you'd have a bartender that came out, and then you also have footballs. And so then you just like airmail like 60-yard bombs.

Speaker 4 What about what? So what would be the plan for the amount of fights that would break out in the parking lot between like high school warriors who are like, I was fucking all state?

Speaker 8 That's it. So that's the beauty of it.
The parking lot is top boxing.

Speaker 8 They actually have a bartender out there and they're like ropes set up and gloves. Just like, actually, you know what? A bar that you can go into and challenge somebody to a fight and it's all legal.

Speaker 8 You put on the boxing gloves, step into the ring, sell your beef.

Speaker 4 I think you should have even more. I think you should even be further after the after the top boxing in the party.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's also, no, but it should be top medic because all these guys clearly think that they're doctors as well. So they're like, oh, dude, that's just a shoulder strain.

Speaker 4 Like, we'll get you fixed up here. Take some HGH.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 4 Perfect. It's just Billy's camp.
Yeah, you're just talking about Billy.

Speaker 8 Then they have like top top sex after the after party where you can go with a girl.

Speaker 4 Fuck.

Speaker 5 Top official, the Michael Vick experience from Nike.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 5 That is kind of like what you're doing, right?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Perspective of being a quarterback.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 8 I mean, it would be fun as shit.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it would. It would be very fun.

Speaker 4 All right. I'm, I'm in.
Let's, we're investors. Let's do it.

Speaker 4 Top football. Top football.
All right. That is our show.
We'll see everyone Wednesday.

Speaker 4 There's a rumor on the street we might even talk a little hockey on Wednesday with a good friend of ours, Ryan Whitney. Probably heard of him.
Probably heard of him. All right.

Speaker 4 We will see you guys then.

Speaker 8 Love you guys.

Speaker 4 Oh, are we going to do numbers?

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. Let's do numbers.
I got it. 14.
8. 32.

Speaker 12 Raccoons hate cayenne pepper and Irish Spring soap bars.

Speaker 8 Yeah, JJ Water told us that.

Speaker 4 Seriously? No, he just said he's never used Irish Spring and he's basically a trash panda so oh all right here we go 99 66 8 18 32

Speaker 11 i hope i don't get it 80.

Speaker 4 80.

Speaker 4 all right see everyone we'll be back together on the 22nd love tuesday we're in the office not you

Speaker 8 okay not you and not you no you can come back actually

Speaker 8 That's not gonna bill. It's not gonna work for Billy.

Speaker 4 What do you have, Billy?

Speaker 11 What do you have, Billy?

Speaker 4 Did you think it was a little ridiculous on thursday right before the show started you're like hey guys i can't be there i've i've been i i need to put my life back together why what happened well i had to it turns out in order i had to do this volunteer income tax assistant thing and i had to get on the flight and it was just do you think i got delayed twice then you tweeted that yesterday that you finished it yeah no but i did one i have to do like a hundred Billy, do you think that like the last week you were in like a like I you felt different.

Speaker 4 It felt different. Were you in like a different mindset dude honestly i'm just i'm just glad to be back to earth did you get a concussion did jose give you a concussion yeah are you okay

Speaker 4 did you give yourself a concussion no training i i need to get my nose fixed

Speaker 4 that's what i need to do uh-huh you're not saying what happened to your nose i buckled my septum too much cocaine No, I did surgery in college.

Speaker 4 Also, he was addicted to cocaine.

Speaker 11 Did you?

Speaker 4 No, i i i don't dude i did zero cocaine down in florida zero i'm not a drug guy i just like oh this is like the mystical conversation why'd you bring that up bro because you guys know i did zero like what what's the least amount of cocaine you can do i did i did less than that i did negative dude i just drink i don't have any other vices whoa working out well i mean berserker is definitely a vice yeah i don't think i'm going to get there ever again in my life that was crazy when were you there last?

Speaker 12 Thank you guys for being so patient. I was, you know, I was shacked in a fool.

Speaker 8 You're fine. You're fine, Billy.

Speaker 4 I love you, Billy.

Speaker 4 You know, we're keeping all this in. Wait, wait, Billy, what are you spending your money on?

Speaker 8 Dude, I've just, I think I might, I might

Speaker 4 like realistically.

Speaker 4 If I could see Billy burying a bunch of $100 bills and being like, fuck.

Speaker 12 Well, I have an idea.

Speaker 4 I would like to talk to Dave because no, talk to us first. We'll

Speaker 4 cut this.

Speaker 3 We'll cut this. Okay.

Speaker 12 So I was going to be like, look.

Speaker 12 I don't know what

Speaker 12 to say. I'm saying

Speaker 12 anyway.

Speaker 12 But today isn't my play. Just finally

Speaker 12 shy it away.

Speaker 12 I'll be coming for your love of day.

Speaker 12 I'm upset.

Speaker 12 But I'll be so a little way.

Speaker 12 Slowly learning the final thing's okay.

Speaker 12 Say after me.

Speaker 12 At least we're better to be safe and sorry.