PMS 2.0 1384 - Antonio Gates, Eric Allen, Jared Allen, Anthony 'Tank' Jones, Dan Orlovsky, & mgk

Speaker 1 Hello beautiful people

Speaker 3 and welcome to the sporing grounds of Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 4 It's Hola Fenstar. Clock 31st.
This program starts now.

Speaker 8 Football is absolutely magical and today is the day that we can say that the NFL is officially kicking off its 2025

Speaker 3 season. Here we go.

Speaker 15 Now today, just like many years years in the past, this season will start right here at a place that has been honoring legends since 1963.

Speaker 20 This is the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Speaker 22 It is raining and we clearly don't have speakers for the crowd.

Speaker 26 But what we do have is an excitement level beyond belief because football is back in our life for real tonight.

Speaker 29 Harbaugh will be on one sideline.

Speaker 30 MCDC will be on the other.

Speaker 32 And I believe we have a little bit of breaking news for the Detroit Lions fans.

Speaker 37 Tonight, starting for the Detroit Lions, according to source, says,

Speaker 30 Kyle Allen will be getting the start, but we will be seeing Hendon Hooker.

Speaker 41 From what we have been told.

Speaker 17 Now, for the Chargers, we do not have any inside source.

Speaker 40 Says.

Speaker 13 But as that information rolls out today, we will certainly keep everybody updated.

Speaker 23 Tonight's game will not be littered with superstars.

Speaker 42 It will not be the guys that we know on every single part of the team, but it will be two NFL helmets helmets battling in front of a building that celebrates greatness from beginning to end in a town that loves ball.

Speaker 42 Loves ball.

Speaker 18 We've only been able to be here for like the last 18, 20 hours or so, but as you drive through this town, it literally emanates ball.

Speaker 14 Everybody here loves ball.

Speaker 37 Everybody's committed to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 54 And there's actually telephone pole wires that hold up that are two uprights field goals.

Speaker 8 This entire city is committed to ball and we're lucky to be here it's not just me obviously it's obviously the boys the toxic table is here at Boston Connor

Speaker 24 not bad they get it and at Ty Schmidt now

Speaker 37 Ty Green Bay Packers Sterling Sharp going into the Hall of Fame congrats to him we'll have a chance to chat with most of this year's class but the hall of fame beautiful thing lucky to be here cannot wait to walk through and see all the history of the greatest league on earth yeah without a doubt You know, we've talked about this a little bit.

Speaker 62 I don't know if any of us, I mean, I don't know if you guys have.

Speaker 61 I know us three, we've never actually walked through and had a tour of the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 61 It kind of seems like something, if you're a fan of the NFL, you absolutely need to do, you know, at one point in your life. So really looking forward to that.

Speaker 61 Obviously, you know, all the fans out here braving the weather, but let's be honest.

Speaker 49 I mean,

Speaker 61 picking off the NFL season, it's football weather.

Speaker 68 Yeah, you're damn right.

Speaker 69 You got football weather today.

Speaker 54 And, you know, it was like 145 degrees yesterday up there in Leitro, Pennsylvania for the Pittsburgh Steelers training kit.

Speaker 54 Okay.

Speaker 43 Now, fun fact that we learned from Jim President of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Speaker 58 Whenever they were creating the pro football, there's some Yanjers here for sure.

Speaker 74 Yes, definitely some Yanzers here.

Speaker 27 Whenever they were going to create this Hall of Fame back in the 60s, 1963, it was either going to be placed in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, or it was going to be in Kenton, Ohio.

Speaker 79 So we just found that out this morning.

Speaker 45 Very cool football trip that we have been on over the last two days.

Speaker 82 And obviously, you can't come to this state without mentioning a man who's a former president of this state, a college football national champion with the Ohio State Buckeys.

Speaker 56 Ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 56 the all-time lady tackle for the Packers.

Speaker 67 AJ Hawk is here.

Speaker 1 AJ with his uncomfortable and awkward point at a random kid in the crowd.

Speaker 86 Right here, this nice lady, right here.

Speaker 89 Not just a nice lady here.

Speaker 39 There's been people that have been here since like 6 a.m., 7 a.m.

Speaker 60 It's raining. We appreciate the hell out of you for doing this.

Speaker 23 We would not have done that for this particular show, but we appreciate that you are doing as such.

Speaker 17 The state of Ohio has been great to us.

Speaker 92 I feel a lot of kinship with the state of Ohio as people that grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Obviously, I go to school at West Virginia.

Speaker 93 These hills, these people, very similar.

Speaker 35 Everybody loves ball, AJ.

Speaker 95 I think that is one of the fabrics of the state of Ohio and why the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Ohio seemingly makes the most sense.

Speaker 86 Yeah, it makes sense, I think. I mean, look at it, like Ty said, this is football weather for people that actually truly care about football, not casuals.

Speaker 86 Yeah, they're here around the set, but I think they would be here either way going around checking out the festivities because this truly is the startup.

Speaker 67 I can't really catch it through my earpiece on that, but let's try some good ones.

Speaker 99 Yeah, there are people from all over, though.

Speaker 86 I would imagine there's people rep like there's people from every NFL city here, don't you think? I would imagine this weekend's so big for that.

Speaker 102 Last night outside of the hotel, there was representatives getting autographs from every team.

Speaker 103 People travel in here.

Speaker 81 People do an annual trip out to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 105 I'm learning as we go.

Speaker 106 This is my first time here other than whenever we played a game here and it got canceled.

Speaker 107 Sure.

Speaker 46 Don't love that, that that happened.

Speaker 53 Wow.

Speaker 108 But it was awesome to only play four preseason games.

Speaker 11 Not for me, but for the rest of the team.

Speaker 76 I don't have to do shit in preseason.

Speaker 39 I was just a punter.

Speaker 90 With that being said, one of my teammates, nine-year NFL vet, one of the smartest guys in the history of football.

Speaker 43 Ladies and gentlemen, Dairy Shea Bowlers.

Speaker 12 Debuts.

Speaker 12 NFL football is kicking off a game tonight.

Speaker 57 NFL helmets will be on a field tonight. NFL uniforms will be on a field tonight.

Speaker 42 Sunday Night Football with NBC will be calling a game tonight.

Speaker 30 It feels like we made it, Debuts.

Speaker 39 What a perfect time.

Speaker 5 Yeah, your mic isn't working.

Speaker 5 Come on.

Speaker 5 You know what it is?

Speaker 67 Hey, I don't want to say it, but you know what?

Speaker 111 No, I'm not going going to put that out there. It's Ohio.
You're back.

Speaker 67 You're back. Kinda, yeah.

Speaker 111 Okay, kinda. Oh,

Speaker 112 oh, oh, oh. It is Ohio.

Speaker 110 He's a bitch.

Speaker 96 It's a great time in Ohio. Had a great time last night, you know, at the hotel, having some food and just seeing all the legends out there.

Speaker 96 And it's about the guys that are playing tonight, but it's more so about the four legends going in.

Speaker 113 What's that?

Speaker 67 Nothing.

Speaker 98 The hell?

Speaker 96 Sorry. But yeah, it's about the legends going there, going down in immortality in football, man.
They put so much on the line.

Speaker 96 I saw so many people, players, coaches, contributors walking around a hotel that I grew up looking up to, man. So I'm excited about tonight.
And then obviously our future going forward.

Speaker 96 We'll have Sunday after Sunday after Sunday after Sunday with football on the screen.

Speaker 90 Okay, so there you just mentioned

Speaker 90 Sunday after Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.

Speaker 28 That's all the way until

Speaker 5 February. February.

Speaker 110 We did it. Long time.
Got a long run.

Speaker 54 Zito found this pen in David Banker's office.

Speaker 81 I guess he left it around.

Speaker 25 This was

Speaker 95 the former head of the Hall of of Fame. He has since moved on.

Speaker 90 These big-ass pencils might be the best thing you could buy at this Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Speaker 67 But with that being said, the mark store that are outside, the merch that is here, a museum, the

Speaker 32 hospitality of everybody that has worked at this Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Speaker 89 It's a lot of, I think it's like 90% people that just live in this area.

Speaker 46 A lot of pride.

Speaker 50 Very thankful for everybody that comes in.

Speaker 75 If you've not made a trip here, I think this is something you have to do.

Speaker 54 Legitimately, I think it's something.

Speaker 58 If you're a football fan, I think this building right here, we saw a

Speaker 81 cursive written letter from 1925 that had implications on how football would be run forever.

Speaker 80 We saw the actual letter that was sent from Lamar Hunt to Pete Rozelle back whenever the AFL was going to merge with the NFL or whatever it was.

Speaker 83 And I'll tell you what, I don't know who he is, but there's a guy named Larry

Speaker 67 something

Speaker 67 for a reason. He was from the AFL.

Speaker 50 He's the first thing that Lamar Hunt talks about in this letter to the Pete Roselle.

Speaker 93 Need to get rid of this guy. Okay, I don't like what he's about.

Speaker 17 Then down there, number point number five in this letter, he says, we need something like the Great Cup. We need something like Wimbledon.
We need something that's big.

Speaker 76 I have jokingly called it the Super Bowl, but we can obviously workshop that in this letter from 19 whenever, 60 something.

Speaker 81 And then obviously that would go on to become the biggest game in the history of any league.

Speaker 86 And it's like there's artifacts like that from our league and from our game littered all over this building that I didn't know existed until they showed it to us earlier today I saw my draft card

Speaker 90 the one that was actually turned in whenever I got drafted it's like this is football paradise and it's the right spot to kick off a league every single year now we are joined by a man named

Speaker 25 Well, he's one half of the hammer.

Speaker 43 Dad, Cowboys, AP Tone.

Speaker 16 Tone, are we gambling on the Hall of Fame game tonight?

Speaker 26 And what should we be looking at?

Speaker 116 We are 100% gambling on the Hall of Fame game tonight. As you said, you know, two teams teams with NFL helmets are playing tonight.
So we're definitely gambling on it.

Speaker 116 The Lions are favored by a point and a half, so basically call pick them. So you can just pick the winner tonight.

Speaker 116 You mentioned that big news tonight that Kyle Allen will probably be the starter for the Lions. And then Hennon Hooker will see some time.

Speaker 116 Kyle Allen was really good in the preseason last year for the Sealers. He was 17 and 23 of 23 in the one game that he got.

Speaker 116 And then the Chargers side, they have announced Trey Lance will be the starter for at least a half. And then you get DJ U.

Speaker 88 Uriangala.

Speaker 69 Yeah, up and down Pollins Greer.

Speaker 66 So you'll see DJ U late.

Speaker 116 I normally side with the quarterbacks who I would give the advantage, Kyle Allen and Henan Hooker in this spot.

Speaker 116 Trey Lance threw five interceptions in one preseason game last year.

Speaker 99 I don't know, though.

Speaker 116 The hardball record is a lot better in preseason games at MCDC.

Speaker 117 All right, so it sounds like you...

Speaker 118 Both sides, yeah.

Speaker 27 Yeah, it sounds like we didn't really get an answer.

Speaker 48 I played the Chargers.

Speaker 113 Okay, sweet.

Speaker 96 You're betting on this game. You might have to call the number.
You're betting on this game.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 99 You're talking about NFL football.

Speaker 119 It's been so long, Deepa.

Speaker 81 This is March Madness of NFL football.

Speaker 99 The Chargers are playing their rookies, too.

Speaker 116 Armarion Hampton's going to play. Trey Harris is going to play.
It's going to be exciting to see those.

Speaker 27 Yeah, excited to watch the game.

Speaker 42 Gambling on it, though, is pretty wild.

Speaker 120 We have no idea what's going to happen out there and who's going to run what plays.

Speaker 25 Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, senior insider at ESPN.

Speaker 45 Ladies and gentlemen, friend of the program, Michigan Man,

Speaker 50 Adam Schefter.

Speaker 57 Yeah, Shefty.

Speaker 4 Looking like a warm reaction.

Speaker 67 How you doing, Sheffield?

Speaker 37 Shefty, just can you give us one OH real quick just to hear how the reaction goes?

Speaker 71 And O.

Speaker 110 Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 11 All right, Shefty's traveling from one posh event to another.

Speaker 57 We understand how Michigan operates.

Speaker 25 Shefty, can we get a couple quick updates before we get a chance to speak to these Hall of Famers?

Speaker 78 Trey Hendrickson has come out and said, hey, nothing's changed.

Speaker 45 Where do we stand with Trey Hendrickson over there in Cincinnati?

Speaker 20 And the boys are very disappointed in Trey Hendrickson.

Speaker 81 How is everybody else kind of feel about this?

Speaker 85 Well, listen, they have near agreement on the length of the deal, the value of the deal, but not the guaranteed money in the deal.

Speaker 125 And that's state too

Speaker 97 for me.

Speaker 56 I see a shepherd for saving Sunday.

Speaker 126 And I see a shepherd.

Speaker 77 I don't know if that was just the entire state throttling Shefty there.

Speaker 102 I don't know if that was the Cincinnati Bengals throttling Shefty there, but I do know I couldn't hear a word he was saying but it sounds like from what trey hendrickson has said nothing has changed and in my eyes the only thing he would be trying to do is extend an all of branch you guys you not me definitely yeah it was you you're on sports center yesterday saying this guy tucked his tail that's what you said you started it i said you said

Speaker 67 he started

Speaker 131 off you should definitely said it what if a deal gets done here i think that would be considered a success but it seems like everybody's thinking that trey hendrickson looks like a a coward is what we said yesterday but but I don't know if it's a good idea.

Speaker 69 That's what you said.

Speaker 8 You said, not everybody else said that.

Speaker 25 He's trying to get back in the ball.

Speaker 36 He wants to get a deal done. That's what I think is a good thing.

Speaker 76 But business-wise, I don't know how this works out for him.

Speaker 32 I hope it gets done, but every day he's not on the field.

Speaker 59 It's a new D coordinator, right?

Speaker 133 Yeah.

Speaker 67 New D line coach, new everything.

Speaker 44 Is he getting traded?

Speaker 105 How do we see this ending if we could just put kind of a bow on to Trey Hendrickson?

Speaker 64 I see him just eating $350,000 in fines and then playing. And then, you know, hopefully he has a great year.
And then next year, he has a great free agency where he does get the money he wants.

Speaker 64 But coming in and saying, like, yeah, no, nothing's changed.

Speaker 132 I'm just here now.

Speaker 64 It's like, okay, well, everything you set out to do, you've accomplished none of it. So that kind of stinks.
We all, like we said yesterday, think Trey deserves $35 million a year.

Speaker 132 So because of that, if you and other people believe that, which a majority of the people do, then you stay.

Speaker 19 Like, it reminds you of the Chris Jones thing.

Speaker 64 When Chris Jones was going with the Chiefs, he was eating all those fines, but he still stayed strong. He missed the first actual game against the Lions at home.

Speaker 132 On banner night, he was up there with the Katz brothers in the suite. And then he got paid a bunch of money.

Speaker 64 And then after he got paid a bunch of money, he got an extension. So it's like, hey, Trey, you did the exact opposite thing.

Speaker 132 You bent the knee to Mike Brown, who was basically shitting on you for three months. Katie Blackburn was saying stuff about you for three months.

Speaker 132 And now, after this started in February, it's over in July with you basically just looking.

Speaker 132 looking like an absolute clown because that's from your point of view from my point of view because you deserve 35 million dollars and you're going to play for 16.

Speaker 76 Well, we'll see. Maybe they'll give him a little bit of a raise.

Speaker 35 Maybe this olive branch will be nice because that was originally being talked about.

Speaker 45 All I know is Trey Hendrickson back in football camp.

Speaker 87 It's because he's a football guy.

Speaker 67 Love you, Trey.

Speaker 118 He's a good team guy.

Speaker 72 He's a good team guy.

Speaker 58 He was talking to Shamor.

Speaker 5 He's coaching.

Speaker 5 Hey, he's a good man.

Speaker 138 Can't just run your shoulder into an offensive lineman's chest.

Speaker 33 Not going to work.

Speaker 15 Maybe use your arms a little bit.

Speaker 39 That's good news.

Speaker 32 Maybe the Bengals make a run.

Speaker 45 And also, people are saying that Joe Burrow right now is looking better than he's ever looked.

Speaker 81 This is the best Joe Burrow that they've ever seen. Obviously, he's only had a couple healthy training camps.

Speaker 51 The Cincinnati Bengals notoriously start very slow, put themselves in such a deep hole that all they're trying to do is climb out of it the rest of the season.

Speaker 60 Will this year be different?

Speaker 59 And is Dre Hendrickson starting week one?

Speaker 5 Ooh.

Speaker 139 Yes.

Speaker 86 I'm going to say that. Yes, because even if he signs three days before the game, he should start.

Speaker 35 AJ, how'd you feel about being on Sports Center telling Trey Hendrickson?

Speaker 86 I missed that. You let me know when I got here exactly.

Speaker 98 I thought you were a player.

Speaker 86 That's how they popped me up. You know, taken out of context, I think.

Speaker 86 I was speaking as if I was Ty Schmidt.

Speaker 140 I was really.

Speaker 128 Classic journalism.

Speaker 77 Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to celebrate the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 18 It is time to celebrate this year's class.

Speaker 29 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who is the all-time leader in touchdowns at the tight end position.

Speaker 141 Change the game. Kent State basketball legend.

Speaker 7 Chargers icon.

Speaker 142 Now, officially, Pro Football Hall of favor.

Speaker 141 Ladies and gentlemen, Antonio Gene.

Speaker 98 Careful.

Speaker 48 It's slippy.

Speaker 67 Athlete. It's an athlete.

Speaker 71 It's slippy down there.

Speaker 67 What's up, man?

Speaker 140 It's an athlete.

Speaker 96 Hell yeah, man. Careful.
Don't lean back. Hey.

Speaker 25 What you say, they've got to be an athlete to get up here?

Speaker 124 Yeah, man. You got to be the major athlete to get up here on this list.

Speaker 23 Well, thank God it's you, because we went through your shit today.

Speaker 143 I don't think we knew your history.

Speaker 51 We We knew you were a Kent State basketball player.

Speaker 144 We had no idea that you were enrolled at Michigan State when Coach Staben was there.

Speaker 92 Asked to play both sports.

Speaker 81 He said, no, not going to do that.

Speaker 42 I think even you're going to defensive side.

Speaker 29 Then you transferred to Eastern Michigan or something like that.

Speaker 124 I was on tour, like an artist.

Speaker 44 Then you went to Juco.

Speaker 50 Then you went to Kent State.

Speaker 51 And I was committed to Kent State in high school, my senior year for a point. Went up on a visit.

Speaker 35 They have a whole mural about Antonio Gates up there and you hooping.

Speaker 145 And it was like real shit.

Speaker 58 Like you were like a real hooper.

Speaker 32 Now the world knows you as the greatest tight end touchdown scorer of all time.

Speaker 76 What do you think back to those days?

Speaker 42 Did you know that the cards were going to be football?

Speaker 51 Did you think it was going to be basketball?

Speaker 81 Like when you look back now as an official Hall of Famer, I think it all worked out well.

Speaker 109 But was there a lot of moments of like wonder how it was going to go for you?

Speaker 124 Well, you know, you're always, you know, you're always optimistic that things will go the right direction. But for me, it was just all about basketball at that point.

Speaker 124 I think, you know, even when I went to Michigan State, me going to Michigan State was me, you know, having an opportunity to play the game of basketball. So

Speaker 124 never in a million years had I thought I'd be standing here in Canton, Ohio, being a pro football having fun.

Speaker 54 Well, you're sitting right now.

Speaker 42 You will be standing later, but nonetheless, it all remains.

Speaker 81 And we looked up your stats.

Speaker 90 955 catches.

Speaker 44 11,841 receiving yards.

Speaker 29 116 touchdowns, most in the history of the NFL.

Speaker 54 you and phillip rivers had a great connection but the way you played the position was so much different than everybody in the past how easy was it transforming into a tight end in the nfl and then how easy was it transforming the position of tight end forever because if you look now a lot more antonio gates is at tight end than there was before you got in the league you changed the game forever brother yes i appreciate that well uh it wasn't easy because i got cursed out a lot.

Speaker 124 Yeah. So just so we clear, I got cursed out a lot.
I did a lot of off-platform things. And at the time, I think that is what it means to redefine certain things.

Speaker 124 When you do things off-platform, people don't agree with them at times. I like to use the analogy of

Speaker 124 the enemy of great is good. Hell yeah.
You know, so that was kind of what it was for me. I would see guys who did it the right way.

Speaker 124 And obviously, as a basketball player, I had things that I was used to doing of creating separation.

Speaker 124 And, you know, I was going against guys 6'9, 16, so I had to find a way to get my shot off at times. So playing the game of football, I would do that, and guys say, Coach, say, go to 16.

Speaker 124 I'm like, well, he's sitting at 16, coach. I'm going to go to 14.

Speaker 124 You know,

Speaker 124 a guy that knocked your head off sitting at 16 yards. I'm not going to 16, coach.
And I think what happened is that they start giving me the ability to make the adjustment.

Speaker 124 And I think when you think of a good athlete, you think of his ability to adapt in the actual space at that moment.

Speaker 124 And so when I would run around, I really don't never really know what I'm about to do. I just make the adjustment at the right time.

Speaker 124 And I think that's what gave me an opportunity to be successful in the game of football.

Speaker 103 So on that note, we were talking about you earlier today.

Speaker 12 AJ Hawk was a rookie and preseason game. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 114 I don't know if you remember the rep.

Speaker 26 He does.

Speaker 109 You were on, I think you were at the end of the line, then you motioned out a little bit.

Speaker 51 And AJ Hawk, linebacker, has you.

Speaker 77 AJ was trying to disguise that he was not covering you.

Speaker 58 Okay.

Speaker 83 You knew this guy.

Speaker 120 You guys did a skim milk check on this guy.

Speaker 109 And he said that you hit him with, how many moves did you say?

Speaker 60 It felt like 15 moves within like that half a second and obviously you're not wide open you get a catch and then he said immediately afterwards you were like hey you gotta look at my hips dude starting to coach

Speaker 35 coaching him up how much of that what was your relationship like with the guys that you played against and at what point did you realize like oh i can get open against basically anybody

Speaker 124 Well, you know, it's a natural reinforcement when you make catch passes. So when I first started in the NFL, I went against a guy named Rod Woodson.
He was playing safety for the Raiders at the time.

Speaker 124 And I was a rookie, and I had been playing video games with Rod Woodson my whole life. So I remember Drew Brees was the quarterback at the time, and they called him a play, and it's like a slot.

Speaker 124 I'm out the slot formation, it's backside, and it's one-on-one. I got a corner out.
And in my mind, I'm thinking, I've been playing video games with Rod Woodson.

Speaker 124 There's no way I'm going to get open against this dude. He's a Hall of Famer, right? So I went up and made a catch on Rod Woodson.
It was like a third-down conversion.

Speaker 124 And I think what happens is that it sends a signal to your brain that I belong here. And I think ultimately, the more plays I made, the more I felt like, okay, you know what? I belong here.

Speaker 124 I think you got to have it mentally first before you can obviously play it and let it come out in the game. So you got to have it mentally to make no mistake about it.

Speaker 124 No matter how humble I sound, how humble I seem, when I play, I feel like I got this dude.

Speaker 124 I can beat him. You got to have that part in order for it to, you know, come to fruition in real life.

Speaker 12 The conversation with the lads afterwards, that was Rod Woodson, bro.

Speaker 137 Yeah. Did you see that?

Speaker 35 D-Bun has a question for you.

Speaker 96 Yeah, a lot of the guys playing now, look up you and Pat Mitchell.

Speaker 96 You changed the position, but who were some of those legends, some of those Hall of Famers? I know Kellen Williams Sr., Kellen Winslow Sr. played for the Chargers.

Speaker 96 Who were some of those legends you looked up to coming up at the tight end position?

Speaker 124 Well, you know, again, basketball was my forte. I didn't really have, you know, guys that I would say I look up to in a sense.

Speaker 124 But I know the idea of when you make... things happen is the respect factor of guys who've created the lane for you.

Speaker 124 And you name the guy like Kellen Wenzel Sr., you know, Marty Schoenham would always say, you know, he would compare me to Ozzie Newsom a lot.

Speaker 124 Right. I'm from Detroit, so I knew a lot about Charlie Sanders.

Speaker 124 Guys that just paved the way and created that lane. So,

Speaker 124 you know, when you think about the sport, and then, you know, obviously, you know, Natoni Gonzalez is in the Shannon Sharps and the younger guys now.

Speaker 124 So it's so many guys, and I like to use the analogy because they always talk about, you know, who's the best tight end or who's the best this, and that's the comparison in sports.

Speaker 124 but the reality of it is is that i treat it like a four by one team we all had the baton at one time and we ran as fast as we can

Speaker 124 and i think that's really what it's all about is now we're passing it to the next generation and i see guys like george kittles he you know i mean the guys that's keeping it going and i think that's what it was for me a guy gave it to me and i had it at one moment and i said i got to run my best race you ran

Speaker 124 and then pass it to somebody else and hopefully they run hey it's your turn you got to run fast as you can i think that's really what it's all about And I hope, you know, now you see the generation and they constantly growing at the position.

Speaker 124 So I'm happy to be a part of that.

Speaker 51 How do you feel about tight end university and everything like that? Talk about changing the position. I mean, that was kind of the goal of that.

Speaker 51 I think it was financial business talk too.

Speaker 94 Like, hey, we're starting to catch the ball a lot more.

Speaker 51 And they're trying to talk about us as tackles. We're actually wide receivers as the market kind of changed for everybody, but also like give an inside game to everybody.

Speaker 51 You talk about passing the baton.

Speaker 42 It feels like they're trying to do that.

Speaker 57 Have you witnessed that from afar?

Speaker 109 Have you gone to it? And what are your thoughts on it?

Speaker 124 Well, I was invited to it, but I haven't been yet, but I do like what they're doing.

Speaker 131 You missed the Taylor Swift conference.

Speaker 153 Yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 124 My daughter would be mad about that.

Speaker 124 Door to left that swift. But yeah, I do like what they're doing because at the end of the day, that's really what it's about, right?

Speaker 124 It's serving a purpose and having a platform to be able to say, all right, well, I had this opportunity to do X, Y, and Z, and this is the space that I was in.

Speaker 124 Now let me tell you what you should do and what you shouldn't do. And I think that's a great idea for the tight ends and the next generation.

Speaker 1 AJ has a question for you as a Ohio guy hits the horn as he rides by in the highway.

Speaker 86 It's fascinating to listen to you talk about running routes and I would assume like you had a lot of freedom to run, you know, work off the leverage of your defender.

Speaker 86 Like was that always a thing when you were young getting into the league? And obviously how do you build that rapport with Drew Brees? Obviously Phillip Rivers we saw the connection you guys had.

Speaker 86 How do you earn that trust in the quarterback and the coach to where, hey, hey, I'm going to get open.

Speaker 67 You throw it.

Speaker 155 You told me one.

Speaker 124 Yeah. Well, you got to earn it.
That's for sure. You know, I think what happens is that it's repetition.

Speaker 124 it starts with underneath the surface so they would know that at the end of the day I'm working beyond my means so I it means more to me to have success than it does to the coach staff and everybody around me I think that's just something that you build that's what training camp is for right you start with them dog days that foundation you're working hard I'm the last one to leave I'm working hard I'm running more I'm running extra I'm doing extra and ultimately when I get out there it means just as much for me to do it right than anything because I know guys are dependent on me so that was my philosophy going into any game: that, man, these dudes believe in me.

Speaker 124 The game plan is surrounded by number 85. I need to make sure I deliver.
And I think that meant the world of me that guys would believe in me to that level. So I would always make sure

Speaker 124 I would do the best I can and, you know, set the tone, you know, as fast as I can.

Speaker 25 Ty-ins, question for you.

Speaker 40 Hall of Fame, Antonio.

Speaker 61 Yeah, so just curious, he just mentioned Phil Rivers there. In terms of, like, whenever his name gets brought up, it's always, hey, is this guy a Hall of Famer?

Speaker 61 Obviously, we see his numbers, they're incredible, but then the Super Bowl discussion always comes up. What was it like having him as a teammate? We've all seen the videos.

Speaker 61 Like, his personality, I truly believe he's one of one in terms of like his personality.

Speaker 61 When you look back at your career, like, how thankful were you to have a guy like that as your quarterback? And just what was it like being teammates with him?

Speaker 124 Wow, I mean, you're talking about

Speaker 124 a fiery, passionate,

Speaker 124 his IQ was unmatched, man. I always knew that he was going to come compete.
I think that's what we had in common is that our ability to go out and compete. I knew he was going to give it his all.

Speaker 124 And he's going to trash talk along the way. So, I mean, you know, so

Speaker 124 you got to be prepared because he'll be trash talking to guys that you got to block.

Speaker 127 So, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 85 So that was the hardest thing.

Speaker 124 You know, God, you know, Richard Seymour was a big dude, Phillip. So, you know, you keep talking to him.
I got a trade block to Richard Seymour, and he's mad at Phillip, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 153 So

Speaker 124 it's the greatest fit in the world to have a guy like that on your side because it makes the game fun, too.

Speaker 124 Because at the end of the day, we play the game for all the other stuff, X's and O's, and the money. But you kind of keep that same kid energy, that 14, 15-year-old kid.

Speaker 124 Let's go out here and have fun, man. We playing in the NFL.

Speaker 124 We got the best job in the world. We get to play games and get paid.
That's, man, that's what he loved to do, is he loved to play football.

Speaker 18 You look pretty jocked still.

Speaker 51 Look pretty jocked.

Speaker 31 I don't know if that's just going to be forever you or if you're still getting accurate or not.

Speaker 42 You think you don't get enough credit for being able to block?

Speaker 66 Nobody ever mentions your name with blocking.

Speaker 124 I know, I know.

Speaker 124 Well, people don't know this, but in order to start for Marty Scheinheimer, you got to be able to block power and counter, man.

Speaker 124 So I started with Marty Scheinheimer, and the reason why I started is because of my ability to block power and trade block go to backside back and ability to block Connor.

Speaker 124 So people really don't never, they don't never say that.

Speaker 155 But

Speaker 155 the athletic part came later on.

Speaker 124 I had to block power and Connor because the AOT was getting the ball. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 30 You could say you cut your teeth.

Speaker 150 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, pick up.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you earned the passes to block you there.

Speaker 118 Nobody ever says that about Antonio Guy.

Speaker 74 They say everyone's like,

Speaker 67 160 touch ass. I know.

Speaker 70 This guy's a threat through the sky.

Speaker 40 11,841 yards.

Speaker 72 Holy shit.

Speaker 58 They don't talk about it.

Speaker 5 You have to be able to block.

Speaker 74 You have to be tough, too.

Speaker 51 Yeah, absolutely. That's how you get the ball.

Speaker 112 Last question here.

Speaker 57 This guy looks still jacked and obviously always going to be athletic.

Speaker 51 Can I come, man?

Speaker 35 Oh, no. Connor's microphone's off.

Speaker 96 Oh, no.

Speaker 35 Oh, no, Connor's microphone is.

Speaker 67 Here, here, here.

Speaker 85 There it is. Boom.

Speaker 67 Nice catch.

Speaker 64 Obviously, Antonio.

Speaker 64 You know, you play basketball, Ken says that's part of it. I don't think any of us knew how much success you guys went to in Elite Eight, you know, and you're the star of that team.
That's absurd.

Speaker 64 Now that you are, you know, Hall of Famer in the NFL, is there...

Speaker 65 Congratulations, it's incredible.

Speaker 64 Is there a shot maybe you now turn back to basketball, join like Ice Cube's big three, possibly get back back into hooping.

Speaker 67 Are you still hooping or no?

Speaker 124 Yeah, no, I'm not hooping, man.

Speaker 124 Football is the wear and tear on your body, so I can't really go out and play as much now.

Speaker 124 But I do watch my kids play. I enjoy watching them play, but I do not pick up the basketball, haven't picked it up probably in about six years.
Damn.

Speaker 137 Six years?

Speaker 124 Six years. It's like six years.
I haven't played it. We don't even get like, yeah, I mean, I still can have a four.
I mean, I was a scorer. Yeah, I'm left at it.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 124 Yeah, see, you can't shoot. I can see it all.

Speaker 53 You got to have the ball.

Speaker 110 You You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 5 Right, I'm laughing at it.

Speaker 153 Yeah, but he got it like this. You know what I'm saying? So

Speaker 158 you got to have a flick of the wrist.

Speaker 67 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 5 It's your Hall of Fame weekend.

Speaker 110 Okay, it's your Hall of Fame weekend.

Speaker 67 You haven't shot a ball in six years.

Speaker 139 Six years.

Speaker 67 I'd light your ass up right now.

Speaker 67 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 81 I think the game was so lucky that you played it.

Speaker 57 I think the league was lucky to have you.

Speaker 51 I think the Chargers organization as a whole was lucky to have you represent them. And I guess the last question would be,

Speaker 81 what are your thoughts on where the Chargers are headed right now?

Speaker 58 We love Harbaugh.

Speaker 42 We love Jim Harbaugh.

Speaker 129 We love Justin Herbert.

Speaker 58 We love

Speaker 6 national champion in Michigan.

Speaker 41 Jim Harbaugh, now the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers.

Speaker 145 The ownership spent $300 million on a practice facility in 2024, 2025.

Speaker 51 Like that never happens anymore. The Spanish feels like they are trying to move the chips in.
Tough division out there.

Speaker 81 We all understand that. What are your thoughts on the state of the Chargers and what what it could be out there in Los Angeles?

Speaker 124 Well, I would say, you know, the more they be together, the more continuity that it will build. Last year was his first year as a head coach, and we were super excited.

Speaker 124 And to see the situation, what I thought was going to be a challenge to change the style of what the West Coast ball is normally like, coming from the Midwest, the running style.

Speaker 150 Oh, got it.

Speaker 124 To see that, because you know, in the West Coast, they like to throw the football. So to see that, you know, you start building the foundation from the offensive line and start building out.

Speaker 124 And to see that happening and us winning games is uh is is refreshing to say the least so i'm super excited about what they're going to do after a year on the hardball and then the guys being together you know collectively for a whole year um who wins tonight

Speaker 137 in my house i got my shirt on man

Speaker 67 i got my shirt you ain't got to ask me no questions

Speaker 4 we got some real degenerates around here that are going to gamble on tonight's game do you have any inside information on the los angeles chargers tonight yeah they're going to play okay

Speaker 20 Hall of Famer, all-time leading touchdown scorer at the tight end position in the history of the NFL.

Speaker 29 Legend, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 141 Busted-ass jumper heaven.

Speaker 67 Appreciate it, man.

Speaker 118 Appreciate it, bro.

Speaker 85 Let's see you, man.

Speaker 124 Yes, sir.

Speaker 51 Appreciate you, Antonio.

Speaker 28 What a legend.

Speaker 4 I'm not a left.

Speaker 66 Not at all.

Speaker 83 What was that guy's dude?

Speaker 64 Just talking junk.

Speaker 146 I had no idea, you know, he was a lefty.

Speaker 86 They were showing his clips right there. I saw he got a nice little jumper.

Speaker 131 Dude, at Kent State,

Speaker 66 he went there on the visit. Great time, by the way.

Speaker 98 Great time. Oh, yeah? Great time at that.

Speaker 31 We had a good time.

Speaker 1 They had a mural of him down the whole hallway.

Speaker 94 And every one of them was like nasty highlight pictures.

Speaker 67 And he's an agent. He's crazy.

Speaker 4 Look at him. Ah.

Speaker 101 Ah. ah.

Speaker 96 Get off me.

Speaker 78 And now he's a Hall of Famer here in Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 131 I'll tell you what, the weather has certainly been a factor.

Speaker 75 Lost a couple speakers.

Speaker 35 We lost a microphone.

Speaker 56 But these football people have been standing in a parking lot.

Speaker 118 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 56 I can't hear things at times.

Speaker 52 I don't think they can either.

Speaker 21 But what an honor it is to kick off football here in Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 87 I also appreciate the truck drivers that roll by and hit the old howdy you doing because they might be watching while they're driving.

Speaker 25 We'd like to tell you, keep your eyes on the road.

Speaker 46 It's raining out here.

Speaker 26 But also, Bogey up here on the right.

Speaker 46 I think we saw him on the way in.

Speaker 39 Keep your eyes peeled.

Speaker 51 Ladies and gentlemen, the Hall of Fame train continues.

Speaker 10 Antonio Gates is first.

Speaker 29 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now: a man who had 54 interceptions in his career.

Speaker 7 787 tackles.

Speaker 6 Five force fumbles.

Speaker 5 Nine TDs.

Speaker 56 Three-time all-pro

Speaker 56 six-time Pro Bowler.

Speaker 7 Eagles legend. Eric Ello.

Speaker 29 Gaps up a John with a beard right there.

Speaker 71 The play. The play.

Speaker 121 How are you doing, man?

Speaker 16 Thank you for coming. Hell yes.

Speaker 68 Thank you for having me.

Speaker 96 Congratulations.

Speaker 35 Congratulations, man.

Speaker 58 Hey.

Speaker 155 Yeah.

Speaker 67 Congrats, Hall of Famer, dude. Appreciate you, man.

Speaker 155 Appreciate you, man. Come on.

Speaker 129 Congratulations to you.

Speaker 82 We were in the hotel last night down there in the

Speaker 102 lobby restaurant area. Right.
And we saw you hanging out over there.

Speaker 80 We saw everybody kind of rolling through there.

Speaker 90 How has it been to just be at the position of the same exact place as all the legends that have basically created this league?

Speaker 95 Was last night a cool moment?

Speaker 90 Whenever you get told, obviously, you're going in the Hall of Fame, very emotional.

Speaker 81 Has it all settled in, especially after now you've got here to Canton and seen the other gold jackets?

Speaker 59 You know what?

Speaker 155 It really has.

Speaker 155 I think the knock on the door with Randall McDaniel kind of solidified it.

Speaker 86 Me and Randall went on a recruiting trip to college together when we were 15 or 16 years old.

Speaker 155 So obviously, Randall, one of the best guards in the history of the National Football League. So they did a pretty good job of hiding it from me.

Speaker 155 But when I opened that door and saw Randall there with that gold jacket, man, it just kind of like cemented everything. You know, all the hard work, the sacrifice.

Speaker 155 And that's what this is all about, you know, that journey there.

Speaker 42 It's nice to be acknowledged too, you know?

Speaker 118 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 81 And I think finally getting the acknowledgement, was there a sense of fulfillment?

Speaker 117 Was there a sense of I knew all along?

Speaker 89 Or what is like kind of the mindset of it?

Speaker 116 No, not for me.

Speaker 67 Not for me.

Speaker 155 I think validation for the family members and all those teammates and that support and coaches who all, you know, believed in me.

Speaker 155 I was given like a piece long ago that, you know, it was just about time, right? And I was never really tripping worried about if I would get here. I knew it would be a time when I'd be here.

Speaker 155 It was just about validating all of those people in my corner, right?

Speaker 155 The coaches, the players, the fans, you know, who always had the stats and was talking about, yeah, you should be there with Daryl Green and Prime and those guys.

Speaker 155 So I'm just graded to be on the same team with all my brothers.

Speaker 90 That's awesome.

Speaker 87 Devon has a question for you.

Speaker 96 So along the way, you mentioned the coaches, teammates. Who was that coach that you would say had the biggest impact on you, on your game?

Speaker 96 And what was that moment or the biggest thing that you figured out during the game? Because I know it's a lot of people watching, players, fans, young kids who want to be where you are.

Speaker 96 So what was that thing that you learned that kind of took you a long way in your career?

Speaker 155 Well, let me tell you, man, a coach named Willie Shaw. And he's David Shaw's dad who coached at Stanford.
But Willie coached in this league a long time.

Speaker 155 And it was about preparation, kind of understanding that to be a great player, it was about playing from your neck up.

Speaker 155 You know, you can have all the speed and the height and all that stuff, but my deal was I'm going to be be where the ball is at the end of the play.

Speaker 155 I can care less about what Jerry or Michael or what these great receivers are doing at the line of scrimmage. I'm going to be where the ball is going to be at the end of the play.

Speaker 155 And to be able to get to that point, you have to have great preparation and have a great understanding of what not just the quarterback is doing, but what the offensive coordinator is doing.

Speaker 155 So in the offseason, I would take whoever's... offense is that one and usually it was the west coast offense i would take that offense in the offseason and I would be Jerry Rice.

Speaker 155 I would run every route that Jerry Rice is going to run.

Speaker 155 I would take the Dallas Cowboys offense and I would run Michael Irvin's routes. I would be the Buffalo Bills.
I would run Andre Reed's routes. I would be the Atlanta Falcons run Andre Rice and routes.

Speaker 155 So when I got to the game and it was a portent situation,

Speaker 139 hey man, if it's going to be a quick slant, Jerry, you know you're going to run it.

Speaker 5 I'm going to run it too.

Speaker 153 So I'm going to be in the right spot.

Speaker 155 So it didn't always work, but of course, when you're going against someone like my buddy Sterling Sharp, now that's it.

Speaker 85 Congratulations to Sterling. Yeah, Sterling's big time.

Speaker 155 He's a different dude, man.

Speaker 158 He's like, he was a T.O. before T.O.
big, strong, physical.

Speaker 139 If you get in press in front of Sterling, he's going to grab you and move you

Speaker 3 in with you to play.

Speaker 120 So on that note, let's talk about how football used to be.

Speaker 51 I know the OGs always talk about that. I see you got some busted-ass fingers.

Speaker 5 Always. There's Jersey.

Speaker 110 Always.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 89 There's jerseys, obviously, and helmets and everything.

Speaker 51 When you view today's game and today's DBs, I mean, we got guys running 4-2, 4-3s out there, and they're not allowed to grab as much.

Speaker 103 They're going to be very tricky with it.

Speaker 51 What do you think of the state of DB play right now and covering people?

Speaker 67 I love it. I love it.

Speaker 155 As many of you know, I work with the Raiders, so I do post-game, pre-game, interview players.

Speaker 155 And my deal is I love talking to the receivers, Devontae Adams and those kind of guys, to kind of get an idea of what the DBs now have to deal with.

Speaker 155 And man, not being being able to get your hands on guys now, man.

Speaker 20 Not able to dislocate your pinky on this guy's junction.

Speaker 74 It's a whole different game.

Speaker 155 So man, so for the corners who are balling today, man, they're really cerebral players now, right? They have all the athleticism and all the measurables that you have to have.

Speaker 86 But I love the fact these guys are cerebral.

Speaker 155 I have a lot of these young players come approach me and talk to me about the game and how they can get better. So that's really what stands out now.

Speaker 155 These young guys having a great idea of kind of what's happening and what's going on.

Speaker 25 AJ has a question for you.

Speaker 115 He also has some terrible figures.

Speaker 86 When you watch the game now, do you think the game, the game is always evolving? It feels like for a little bit we had, hey, we're spreading out, they call it basketball on grass, whatever.

Speaker 86 I feel like now at least the game's getting more physical. We were at Steelers training camp.
They were tackling to the ground. I saw what the Browns are tackling to the ground.

Speaker 86 I feel like we hear Ben Johnson makes comments about the Bears having their longest, toughest practice day. Right, right, right.
And seeing who's going to survive.

Speaker 86 Like, do you think the game is coming back even to a more, like, yeah, a safer, but even more physical form than it has been maybe the last last five, eight years.

Speaker 155 Without a doubt. And the big reason why is because the Birds, the Eagles.

Speaker 127 The Eagles are a physical football team, right?

Speaker 155 And they're the champs right now, right? So whatever that champ mentality is, that's what everyone else is going to try and copy.

Speaker 155 I imagine this year everyone's going to try and get a running back, right, and try and figure out a way that you can get to some third and short situations.

Speaker 139 But as you know, there's not going to be any more three days, right?

Speaker 161 We used to have three days.

Speaker 5 Not me.

Speaker 84 I missed the three days.

Speaker 67 Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 88 Yeah, two.

Speaker 158 Two days, we'd have two practices of full hitting, and then the third practice would be conditioning, right?

Speaker 155 So it was all.

Speaker 53 It was like six weeks long, too.

Speaker 3 I feel like it's a good thing.

Speaker 67 Who put that tweet out the other night?

Speaker 5 Somebody put a tweet out the other night, OG.

Speaker 79 It was like, I went to training camp for six weeks, and we had three practices.

Speaker 67 Everything.

Speaker 5 It was like back in my day, uphill both ways.

Speaker 18 It has changed

Speaker 67 physical presence.

Speaker 127 All the money.

Speaker 139 Yes.

Speaker 85 And you have to protect your guys, your assets. You got to protect your assets.

Speaker 155 The one thing that has to continue to improve, though, is the tackling, right? That's the one thing.

Speaker 155 If you're going to be physical defensively, we have to figure out a way to really get the ball carrier on the ground without putting yourself in jeopardy.

Speaker 155 So I think that's the next phase defensively: is to make sure we're tackling properly so we can continue to play that physical game.

Speaker 155 But after those guys are finished, they don't have the head trauma and things like that.

Speaker 59 Speaking of head trauma, you guys used to do some wild stuff going on.

Speaker 67 And now, hold up, hold up, hold up.

Speaker 139 What do you mean, you guys? You.

Speaker 21 But now, I will say, we appreciate your era of football so much.

Speaker 51 None of this happens without you guys.

Speaker 50 And then obviously the guys that are before you.

Speaker 21 Football is beautiful.

Speaker 160 And what you guys did, I think Antonio Gates was a great way to describe it.

Speaker 51 He talked about the tight end position, how everybody says, who's the greatest, who's the greatest?

Speaker 109 He's like, I took the baton and carried it to the next generation.

Speaker 1 It feels like all of football is like that.

Speaker 155 Pat, let me tell you something, man.

Speaker 155 I was in the perfect sweet spot, right? So I played against Joe Montana and those 49er teams, 88 and 89, when they were rolling, right? They had Jerry, Mike, they had all tremendous players.

Speaker 155 I ended my career playing against Tom Brady. So I have a window of looking at all these great players.
And then I'm able to sit on the sideline and watch Mahomes.

Speaker 155 So I just kind of take it all in, and it's changed. from era to era, but the one thing that remains constant is it's really all about the team.

Speaker 155 There's no one individual that's going to be able to win by himself. It has to be a collective.

Speaker 67 Adam Veneteri was able to do it.

Speaker 40 Adam Venetier was able to do

Speaker 140 by himself.

Speaker 127 Listen, no, listen.

Speaker 161 Now I was in that game, right?

Speaker 155 I started my career against the Bears in the playoffs.

Speaker 67 Listen, listen.

Speaker 98 The Fog Bowl.

Speaker 155 I was in the Fog Bowl in 88 and then ended my career at the Tuck Rule games, right?

Speaker 73 Wow, what a run.

Speaker 108 And I'm not sure if you guys know, they call a timeout before the play,

Speaker 85 before the sack, right?

Speaker 85 And Brady comes over to the officer coordinator, Charlie Weiss.

Speaker 155 I'm on the Patriots sideline, and I hear Charlie tell him, hey, we're going to go three by one and throw the slant the back side. They don't see me.

Speaker 67 I run back to the huddle, and I'm like, hey, man, listen, listen.

Speaker 161 They're going three by one.

Speaker 158 They're going to throw the slant backside.

Speaker 161 And I hope I'm on that slant side because I'm taking it to the house, right?

Speaker 155 And so we get the slant. My linebacker is William Thomas, great friend of mine, telling Willie T, sit in the first window, and you're going to get a pick.
If not, I'm going to get one.

Speaker 162 So Woodson comes off the side, sacks him.

Speaker 155 I run to the sideline, tell everybody the story, and then there's that pause.

Speaker 4 Oh, no.

Speaker 139 That pause.

Speaker 155 And that referee, whoever his name is, he goes to the sideline and he's looking up and listening to this and that.

Speaker 162 I'm not sure what happens after that.

Speaker 155 Gets the call.

Speaker 67 And now Raiders fans forever.

Speaker 110 That's right.

Speaker 5 That's right. They are.
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 158 They are, for sure.

Speaker 51 And by the way, Adam Vinatari misses that kick. We don't have the conversation.

Speaker 67 Exactly.

Speaker 87 That's right.

Speaker 28 But Adam Vinatari does what Adam Vinatari does.

Speaker 67 He walks out in the middle of hell.

Speaker 141 He knocks that thing through just to make sure.

Speaker 54 You understand?

Speaker 81 Dins has the last question for you.

Speaker 116 All right, Eric. You started your career with Buddy Ryan.
You ended your career with John Gruden.

Speaker 116 Now you get to see Pete Carroll almost every single day. Do you like when the head coach has a big personality? He's a little feisty.

Speaker 139 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 161 I do.

Speaker 158 I think that bodes well, especially for our group of being the Raiders.

Speaker 139 This is our fifth head coach in five years, right?

Speaker 155 But Pete's the kind of guy who can get it done.

Speaker 86 He has receipts that he's been there to the big games.

Speaker 155 When you go to Kansas City and you're playing the Chiefs, you're playing the Chargers, you're playing the Broncos, who have coaches who have been there and done that before consistently, you need to have a coach that has done the same thing.

Speaker 155 And I think him and Geno are going to bring a little more pepper to the Raiders.

Speaker 42 Speaking of Pepper, how's the speech?

Speaker 85 It's good, man. It's good, man.
You feel good about it?

Speaker 155 I do. I do feel good.

Speaker 27 In the mirror, we've done it in front of family.

Speaker 18 We've done it only to ourselves.

Speaker 78 We've done it. How much?

Speaker 155 How much work? You know what? When I'm sleeping at night, boom, I go over it. It's in there.
The only thing is

Speaker 155 guys on the teams are giving me calls late. You know, whoever they think is going to call late is going to get mentioned, but no.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 158 I keep looking at the Venmo.

Speaker 139 The Venmo's not getting bigger.

Speaker 5 So, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 139 You're not getting mentioned if the Venmo account is not changed.

Speaker 59 We can't wait to watch you be celebrated all weekend.

Speaker 90 Congratulations. How about Catton, Ohio?

Speaker 120 These people are going to be a little bit more comfortable.

Speaker 5 Oh, man.

Speaker 67 It's been awesome, man. It's been awesome.

Speaker 126 There you go.

Speaker 161 See, look at that. Represent, baby.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 110 This guy's been drinking John Daly's all morning. Yes, he has.

Speaker 89 $5 John Daly's drink.

Speaker 159 That is what I'm doing.

Speaker 66 There you go.

Speaker 46 And then the Philadelphia Eagles, John over here was a chunk of the fish.

Speaker 161 Oh, yeah, with the cowboy guy right here.

Speaker 153 Yeah.

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 110 330.

Speaker 3 And on that note,

Speaker 121 all right.

Speaker 71 E A G L E S E go

Speaker 5 Couple drawns out here.

Speaker 149 The whole world's going to celebrate you. Congrats on being a Hall of Favor.

Speaker 1 Thank you for coming by.

Speaker 150 Cheers, man.

Speaker 112 Ladies and gentlemen, Hall of Favor, Eric Allen.

Speaker 57 Congratulations, man.

Speaker 21 14 years in a second or four.

Speaker 67 Crazy.

Speaker 133 That's a long time.

Speaker 39 Congrats. His fingers.

Speaker 84 There's 40%. Congratulations.

Speaker 21 He's got a 40%

Speaker 86 his fingers. Yeah, that arrow, I think, the majority of those players.

Speaker 50 They were fingering pads, right?

Speaker 67 I mean, we were trying to get.

Speaker 66 We were trying to get right in there.

Speaker 96 Tackling somebody's turns.

Speaker 86 Jerseys are a lot looser, too, so I think the fingers are getting jammed and jerseys getting caught and ripped up.

Speaker 77 Twisted.

Speaker 45 It's getting a little breezier.

Speaker 82 The rain has not relented.

Speaker 25 I do appreciate everybody hanging out with us, chucking these $5 drinks.

Speaker 11 There's a bunch of them back in. That's a good price.

Speaker 68 I think, $5 is a good price.

Speaker 89 Because it's probably, what, like, a dollar worth of stuff, $1.50 in there.

Speaker 17 They could charge something astronomical like a lot of people do.

Speaker 13 $5 drinks.

Speaker 89 It feels like every $5 beers, $5 John Daly's, $5 this, $5 that.

Speaker 56 Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise.

Speaker 67 Jared Allen.

Speaker 23 Jared, can I go through your stats?

Speaker 58 Because you just blew right through.

Speaker 1 I was supposed to do the stats while you were walking up.

Speaker 127 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 159 My bad.

Speaker 7 Ladies and gentlemen, a man

Speaker 20 who had 136 sacks,

Speaker 56 32 forced fumbles,

Speaker 56 two tugs,

Speaker 7 and force one man to run out of the back of an end zone.

Speaker 50 That's tough, Daniel.

Speaker 160 That's going to be a long weekend for you, I think, or Lovsky.

Speaker 58 Glad to have a Jared Allen is here.

Speaker 85 Appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 25 Congratulations.

Speaker 57 Thank you so much.

Speaker 67 Love the show.

Speaker 85 You guys are killing me.

Speaker 57 Well earned, well deserved.

Speaker 76 How's it feel to be here?

Speaker 90 We saw you last night looking very trim.

Speaker 106 We'll get into that here in a matter of moments.

Speaker 42 But how's it feel to be amongst the immortals basically here in the NFL?

Speaker 58 Good, good.

Speaker 162 Just take it as it comes. I don't try to look farther than my feet, you know what I mean? So, but it's good.
It's a great honor. It's one of those surreal things because you can't really do anything.

Speaker 162 to earn it and you get the award you get the recognition so many years after you play you did a lot to earn it

Speaker 108 after you retire but when But when you're playing, you're not thinking about that, right?

Speaker 162 You're trying to win Super Bowls. You're just trying to be the best guy you can be.
You're trying to outdo yourself from the year before.

Speaker 162 And this becomes a byproduct of it. So it's one of those surreal moments where you're kind of reliving the past

Speaker 162 and get recognized for it so many years later. So it's good, but the coolest part about it is being up with the legends.
Like, you know, sitting there talking with Randall McDaniel, you know,

Speaker 162 meeting guys that, you know, I used to watch the 100 toughest films for every high school game, 100 toughest NFL, 100 toughest men. And to actually get meet those guys, you know,

Speaker 162 seeing some of the guys that have passed, meeting their wives and their families. So that's cool.

Speaker 162 And just listening to guys talk, I was talking to Jan Stederu the other day, you know, fellow Norwegian.

Speaker 167 Hell yeah.

Speaker 162 And so just, you know, Willie Lanier hearing his story, and I haven't seen Willie for years and years and years since the Chiefs. So

Speaker 168 just

Speaker 140 super cool, super fun experience.

Speaker 18 I haven't heard Jan Stedere's in it.

Speaker 67 Had to write that one down there.

Speaker 50 AJ has a question for you, Jared.

Speaker 66 Yeah, Pat asked Eric Allen about a speech.

Speaker 86 What about your speech? Did you write it yourself?

Speaker 66 Do you feel comfortable?

Speaker 98 Call me. Oh,

Speaker 86 is it going off the top of your head? Read it? What do you do?

Speaker 162 So I started off the top of my head, right? And then the hall is very controlling, they try to be sometimes.

Speaker 86 They want you to check in.

Speaker 162 I refuse to check in.

Speaker 157 I refuse to be censored. I'm not your answer.

Speaker 85 They want you to send your outline.

Speaker 74 They want you to send a speech.

Speaker 70 What else could this speech be?

Speaker 67 And I'm like, absolutely nuts.

Speaker 167 I will not send a speech until yesterday.

Speaker 162 No, so I wrote it myself. It was all up in my head.
My wife was like, you might want to actually write it down.

Speaker 162 So as great thoughts popped in my head, I wrote them down, organized them.

Speaker 158 You know what? It's pretty awesome.

Speaker 5 Maybe.

Speaker 47 I don't know. Send a lot of love to a lot of people.

Speaker 76 Yeah, it's a typical.

Speaker 162 Let's be honest. There's 380 speeches that have been...
I'm through number 380, right? So 380, 79 people have spoken before me. There's not going to be a lot of original stuff coming out of my mouth.

Speaker 113 There could be.

Speaker 25 How shout out to my high school coach believed in me.

Speaker 108 Yeah, we're going to hit the topics.

Speaker 162 We're going to hit the topics. Throw a little humor in there.

Speaker 1 Wife, Wife, love you.

Speaker 127 Everything so much.

Speaker 162 I was like, this could either go 23 minutes with me rambling or two minutes. It'd be like, thank you, everybody.

Speaker 1 No, you don't do two minutes.

Speaker 118 We need you right there in the middle.

Speaker 67 It's going out and speaking.

Speaker 74 We're good. I just ran it through the teleprompter.

Speaker 162 I'm 11 minutes with Pop.

Speaker 67 So we're good.

Speaker 58 Okay, good.

Speaker 90 They banked in the clap and the laugh break.

Speaker 58 Is that a laugh?

Speaker 108 That's up to the audience.

Speaker 52 Oh, they'll deliver.

Speaker 127 I got some jokes that I hope don't fall flat.

Speaker 58 Cars on the highway will also be cheering for you as you go.

Speaker 81 D-Bud has a question for you, Jared.

Speaker 96 Yeah, when Antonio was up here, he talked about him, you know, watching Rod Woodson and having a route when he made a catch, and that was kind of one of his moments.

Speaker 96 He was like, okay, if I get open against Rod Woodson, I can get open against anybody.

Speaker 96 You had a long, elite career, but was it a play or a game or maybe a tackle you went up against, a quarterback you sacked?

Speaker 96 That he was like, okay, I've kind of arrived, even though you obviously bump your ass off the whole thing. Yeah, that's actually part of it.

Speaker 162 I don't want to get the story away because it's in my speech.

Speaker 53 Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

Speaker 162 Yeah, but early in my career, let's put it this way, I took some lumps in the practice field, right?

Speaker 162 And you learn very fast.

Speaker 162 I had the displeasure and pleasure of practicing against Willie Rofe every day. And I think he's the greatest tackle to ever play the game.
And some people agree, some people don't.

Speaker 85 That's my opinion. But I knew if I could learn to beat him, I could beat anybody.

Speaker 162 And so, you know, I think probably one of the first The first times I figured, you know,

Speaker 162 we're going to be good was just, A, learning through Willie and knowing what I was practicing against.

Speaker 162 But yeah, I mean, I got my first sack, I think it was like week three or four or something like that against

Speaker 162 the Texans.

Speaker 150 And,

Speaker 162 I mean, just obliterated the tackle.

Speaker 67 He disappeared.

Speaker 162 He disappeared. And I was like, okay, we can do this.

Speaker 127 Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 21 How many of these guys are in the league?

Speaker 70 Did you do this immediately?

Speaker 162 No, so that, so when I was a rookie and my first couple years,

Speaker 162 the vets, you know, the vets tell you what to do, you got to do it. So the vets would make stuff up for me to do on Saturday.

Speaker 109 Jack Sawyer was just carrying TJ Watts' helmet off the field yesterday.

Speaker 162 Yeah, so like I one game they'd make me do spirit fingers.

Speaker 162 No joke, I got a $5,000 fine my very first sack. It was a preseason, so it didn't count against Eli.
I did the slap the, you know, like flex the leg out, you know, like bodybuilders do.

Speaker 162 They said it was sexually suggestive.

Speaker 113 $55.

Speaker 127 $5,000.

Speaker 23 Yeah, we don't know, especially with your sexual look, man.

Speaker 166 So then I had to do the lawnmower one week.

Speaker 162 They would make me do like high kicks. So finally,

Speaker 162 they used to make me do all sorts of dump stuff. The Neil Smith, Neil Smith got put in the Ring of Honor, and I did his celebration, hit a home run, had a couple sacks against the good old Chargers.

Speaker 162 I also loved Phillip Rivers.

Speaker 28 He held the ball a long time.

Speaker 5 Love you, Phillip.

Speaker 24 And was not the greatest mobile quarterback of all time.

Speaker 145 Boy, the guy could play ball.

Speaker 98 Oh, fantastic.

Speaker 98 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 140 That's what I love about it.

Speaker 162 But I got a couple sacks, and Neil was like, hey, man, I appreciate you doing my celebration. You need to do something that's you.

Speaker 162 And I grew up on horse ramps, renting cutting horses, and I used to grow up calf roping. And And so we were talking about, I was like, man, when you calf rope, right?

Speaker 162 You throw the calf down, you tie up three legs, put your hands in the air, stop the clock. So we started doing that on quarterbacks about a year, I think, my second year, and it stuck.

Speaker 58 Legendary. The best.

Speaker 16 Also, you're like the only cowboy doing light ranching.

Speaker 103 You ride a damn horse into the retirement thing. It's like, are you still riding horses?

Speaker 25 Are we still...

Speaker 74 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 70 I'm still light ranching a little bit.

Speaker 162 Oh, yeah, I'm still roping, all that fun stuff. My hands are just healing up.
I got tore up at a jackpot.

Speaker 58 A jackpot? What is a jackpot? It's a rodeo?

Speaker 85 Roping, yeah.

Speaker 162 It's just a roping competition.

Speaker 118 Are you in it? Yeah.

Speaker 81 Are you by far the largest human being that's on top of these horses that are doing these things?

Speaker 42 Yes.

Speaker 109 Now, on that note, you're much smaller than you were.

Speaker 72 Correct.

Speaker 81 Are you, I don't want to give away the story, but as soon as we saw you, we thought you were doing like the Iron Man cycling race,

Speaker 81 the post-NFL career. Nope.

Speaker 43 That's not the case. No, so at first.

Speaker 128 Actually, something very scary.

Speaker 162 So at first, I realized muscle weighs more than fat, so I quit lifting weights. Right, just get rid of the muscle.
Yeah.

Speaker 162 That's health tip number one, people.

Speaker 155 Get rid of the muscle.

Speaker 67 I'm on a lot of science trying to build it. Hold on right now, but okay, I'll listen to you.

Speaker 84 You're holding teasing.

Speaker 162 But no, so then I was losing weight rapidly, right? I couldn't figure out, like, I randomly dropped 10 pounds.

Speaker 85 I couldn't gain it back.

Speaker 162 I randomly dropped 10 pounds. So I was doing all these tests trying to figure out what I had, make sure I wasn't dying.

Speaker 162 And then my doctor found out doing some absorption tests that I had alpha gal, which I got bit by a lone star tick when I was out in the woods one time.

Speaker 162 And it makes me allergic to the sugars in mammal meat, any mammal meat.

Speaker 74 Wow.

Speaker 162 And so I was having some digestive issues and losing weight. So now I'm on the fins and feathers diet for a little bit so I can get it out of the diet.

Speaker 67 Fins and feathers. I like that.

Speaker 126 Just calling fins and feathers.

Speaker 162 And yeah, just trying to get weight back on. And now I got to start lifting weights again.

Speaker 12 How long has this been happening?

Speaker 85 I don't know.

Speaker 162 I just found out, but it's been happening probably anywhere five or six years.

Speaker 153 I just found out this year. Yeah.

Speaker 84 How long?

Speaker 35 Is this forever going to last?

Speaker 162 No, some people, it's forever. I'm lucky I have it light, so I might be able to get it out of my system.
Some people have to carry EpiPens.

Speaker 162 Some people can't even touch grease or use hand soaps that have beef gelatin microwave like that.

Speaker 87 Holy hell, that's crazy.

Speaker 51 Well, I'm happy you figured out what it was.

Speaker 11 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 23 Because it did look like you had a 32-inch waist when you walked in.

Speaker 127 Yeah, 34, but yeah, it's getting there.

Speaker 5 Let's get there.

Speaker 126 Let's get there. Nice.

Speaker 108 You could be a tailor. Yeah, we were eyeballing it.

Speaker 146 I was like, that dude's got a 32-inch waist, I think.

Speaker 162 What sucks is when you get smaller here, your head doesn't change.

Speaker 85 So the head looks bigger.

Speaker 153 It's like, oh, this is not a good one.

Speaker 74 You just eat the whole thing.

Speaker 31 No, you look healthy. Yeah.

Speaker 140 Even though you weren't at all.

Speaker 104 Outside looking in, you looked very good.

Speaker 81 And also, the hair still looks phenomenal.

Speaker 67 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 157 You know what?

Speaker 162 And Connor, I appreciate you letting it flow tonight.

Speaker 48 Actually, funny enough,

Speaker 64 before the show, I said,

Speaker 137 fuck Jared Allen.

Speaker 110 I'm going to be a career.

Speaker 167 And then, you know, when I saw you, I said, you know, this is Jared Allen's weekend.

Speaker 85 You know, this is something that's cool. It's

Speaker 137 an incredible honor.

Speaker 23 Last night, for those that don't know, which is everybody that's listening, Jared Allen walked over to us in the lobby restaurant of the Hall of Fame thing.

Speaker 81 Walks over to us.

Speaker 45 We have like a 35-second encounter.

Speaker 23 Great to see you.

Speaker 91 Holy hell, you look good.

Speaker 21 Well, I'm actually not good. Does the lone star thing, the whole alpha goal.

Speaker 76 And then he looks at the table, he sees Connor, and he goes,

Speaker 44 You got a man bun?

Speaker 32 And then he looks at the rest of the table, he goes, You guys are letting them do this?

Speaker 20 It was within 45 seconds, just murders Connor immediately.

Speaker 26 And Connor goes, Okay.

Speaker 3 And then obviously,

Speaker 112 it's not a degree.

Speaker 110 Super defensive.

Speaker 126 He got super defensive.

Speaker 5 My hair is longer than yours.

Speaker 108 You can't tell it's in a bun, bro.

Speaker 157 My daughter's wear a bun, so that's cool.

Speaker 108 But I'm just saying, with a mane like that, dude, and it's a windy day. That thing's just got to be wet.

Speaker 67 No.

Speaker 66 Now, windy and wet. We were actually.

Speaker 100 I was going to ask you a completely different question, but what should I do with my hair, man?

Speaker 119 Like, I don't know what to do with my hair.

Speaker 162 Every time you're in a public swimming pool, you should just duck your head under and just come out and just shit. Like, that should be

Speaker 101 swimming pools.

Speaker 5 I'm not swimming in this.

Speaker 67 What are we talking about?

Speaker 67 I like that idea with the pool, but that doesn't change my hair.

Speaker 66 I'm talking about changing the hair.

Speaker 106 Hey, we got a minute and a half

Speaker 127 before I heard amazing.

Speaker 79 You burying Connor was wonderful.

Speaker 79 Toad has a question for you.

Speaker 67 Last one. Minute and a half.

Speaker 116 Dude, do you get a commission or percentage when Miles and TJ get paid $40 million a year? Like

Speaker 116 the DNs and the edge rushers before then?

Speaker 116 Do you guys get a commission for that?

Speaker 48 Unfortunately, I don't.

Speaker 108 And you know what?

Speaker 162 Every generation says the same thing. Oh, man, if I was playing today, I would have been super paid.
Like, imagine Reggie White was playing today.

Speaker 108 They'd have to pay him a billion dollars.

Speaker 127 He'd be the first billion-dollar concept. See you guys ever.

Speaker 162 No, I just like seeing the success, man. I like like seeing guys that are still playing all four downs or all three downs, right?

Speaker 85 Like Miles Garrett up here, he's a beast, right? TJ,

Speaker 162 he's making plays just other than the pass rush, you know, and that was what, you know, when you get high sack numbers, a lot of people start focusing on that, right?

Speaker 162 You know, I came from like I heard Antonio talking about Marty Ball, and he had to, I mean, I played against Antonio, right? Which tight ends are still only half people, just so we're all killed.

Speaker 5 Half people.

Speaker 74 We win the D-line and we don't consider them full people.

Speaker 169 They're only half people.

Speaker 67 They're not CJ Watt Friar moves.

Speaker 108 But anyways,

Speaker 162 yeah, so I like seeing those guys carrying the torch and still setting that pace of being a football player, not just a pass rusher.

Speaker 60 Well, Jared, we appreciate you being a football player, a great human, a hilarious one.

Speaker 1 And now, ladies and gentlemen, officially, a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 30 Enjoy the hell out of your weekend.

Speaker 7 Ladies and gentlemen, Jared Allen.

Speaker 129 Appreciate you, baby, bro.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much, man.

Speaker 67 Yep, he's going to put some more weight on him.

Speaker 126 Yeah, I got to go eat.

Speaker 76 Yeah, he needs to eat something.

Speaker 43 Disappearing. 34-inch waist is insane, but he's a legend.

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Speaker 17 Football is kicking off this evening as the Chargers and the Lions will play in the Hall of Fame game.

Speaker 76 And we will all celebrate the fact that football is all the way back.

Speaker 21 It is a perfect day here in Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 8 As it's rainy, it's windy.

Speaker 41 And there's a lot of Ohio

Speaker 102 folks standing in a parking lot getting getting drenched, celebrating football in its entirety.

Speaker 13 The first hour we had a chance to chit-chat with three out of the four dudes that are going into the Hall of Fame this year.

Speaker 45 We did put a request in for all four dudes that are going into the Hall of Fame this year.

Speaker 78 I don't know if it was scheduled, timing, or anything else.

Speaker 44 I just want to let that was not on us.

Speaker 82 Anybody's going to talk about it?

Speaker 42 That was on the other side.

Speaker 16 Correct.

Speaker 83 And also, kind of understandable for whatever reason.

Speaker 20 It's not just me, the talks of tables here at Boston Connor and at Tai Schmidt.

Speaker 93 One half of the hammer.

Speaker 141 Dad.

Speaker 15 Cowboys A.P. Tone is here.

Speaker 45 College football national champion for the OH.

Speaker 44 State Buckeyes Super Bowl champion.

Speaker 24 Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawk is here.

Speaker 72 Nine-year NFL event.

Speaker 58 I don't want to step my net.

Speaker 86 Bruce, yeah, I see it, Bruce.

Speaker 110 Speech.

Speaker 27 AJ Hawk is getting his name chanted by Bruce Brown, who's standing out in the rain with everybody because he did not want to be be in the truck with the entire group of dipshits is his exact word.

Speaker 24 I don't think he's talking about you, Foxy, back there in the truck, but you boys are doing a great job.

Speaker 129 We appreciate you. Yes, sir.

Speaker 106 Nine-year NFL vet.

Speaker 45 Absolute genius, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 35 Dairy Shade Bothers.

Speaker 110 Deep.

Speaker 24 We appreciate you, Debutch. In about

Speaker 106 17 minutes or so, I believe we'll be breaking some news with another incredible honor of having a high school commitment take place on our show.

Speaker 95 We don't know how this has become a thing for us, but we want to let everybody know we're pumped about it.

Speaker 98 Pretty cool.

Speaker 33 The guy that's going to be joining us today is 6'3, 260 pounds

Speaker 46 going into his senior year from Alabama.

Speaker 53 High school.

Speaker 91 And Anthony Tank Jones.

Speaker 168 And they're going to say, Tank Jones.

Speaker 73 Tank Jones.

Speaker 73 Tank Jones.

Speaker 67 Tank Jones.

Speaker 53 This guy's a monster.

Speaker 72 He's huge.

Speaker 90 And he's making this commitment here in about 17 minutes.

Speaker 81 I believe with the way he is built and the mindset that he has and how everybody talks about him, there's a chance that he ends up in this damn Hall of Fame.

Speaker 106 There's also a lot of players right now that we have ah on around the NFL that could be destined for Canton, Ohio in their time.

Speaker 91 Let's talk about a rookie who is attempting to do something that has never been done before.

Speaker 54 Let's go down to Jacksonville, Florida.

Speaker 93 More specifically, Duval County, new coach, new GM.

Speaker 60 This is what they had to say the day after the draft when they traded a lot of assets to get up to number two to make their pick out of Colorado.

Speaker 147 Yeah, you know, as we sit here,

Speaker 147 Travis Hunter is a Jacksonville Jaguar, and really what comes to mind for me, right, thinking about the sport of football and really the power of the game itself, right?

Speaker 147 Its capacity to ignite belief, right? Belief in ourselves, belief in others, right? Belief in achieving what many may deem impossible. Travis Hunter,

Speaker 147 he embodies belief, right? He's a rare person.

Speaker 147 He's a rare player. But he's also a reminder that the boundaries of the game of football were built to be challenged.
Oh, yeah. And so the decision to select him

Speaker 147 was actually a statement, a statement for how we plan to move, who we are, and we want him to be nothing more than him.

Speaker 147 Because when he is, he elevates the space around him.

Speaker 147 From the football field to the city to the game of football itself, Travis Hunter is who we've been hunting up.

Speaker 147 Couldn't be more jacked to be sitting right here beside him and introduce you all to the man of the hour.

Speaker 147 That

Speaker 58 is how Travis Hunter was introduced to the NFL media and to the entire Jacksonville Jaguars fan base from their brand new GM who looks 12 but has a great football mind is what everybody has told us in Gladstone old stoner then let's go to training camp where Travis Hunter was chit-chatting with Pete Prisco of

Speaker 121 CPSA

Speaker 103 bingo guy's been around a long time we appreciate his commitment to football this was his question for Travis as we all said to ourselves there's no way this guy's gonna be able to do something that's never been done before right here's Pete Prisco

Speaker 173 How many plays do you think you could play? You think you could play them all?

Speaker 174 Yeah, I definitely think I could play them all. If I didn't think I could play them all, I wouldn't be trying to do it.

Speaker 173 But what makes you able to do that? Nobody's ever done that. What makes you capable of doing that?

Speaker 174 Just my mental. You got to have the right mindset going into it.

Speaker 174 You got to have the right knowledge. You got to understand what you're doing when you're going out there.
You got to understand how to take care of your body, too.

Speaker 144 So when he says those things, Debutch, obviously,

Speaker 30 he is going to be a guy who thinks he can do it all because he's already done it all at a very high level.

Speaker 21 He is a guy who was drafted number two overall to do it all.

Speaker 13 He is a guy who is special.

Speaker 46 He's the highest rated Madden player in the history of rookies in the NFL at 84.

Speaker 102 Just one point below the highest-rated punter in the game.

Speaker 58 And AJ Cole is a three-time Pro Bowler at 85. Don't love that.

Speaker 24 But with Travis Hunter, what are your thoughts early out of camp from what we've seen?

Speaker 91 And how do you think this works out?

Speaker 77 What does success look like?

Speaker 96 I mean, I played both ways my senior year of college. We had like a 15-play script for certain games.
And I thought, just like him, I could play full-time on both sides.

Speaker 96 Then you realize, nah, probably not. You can't be effective on both sides full-time.
And people have said it's impossible. The boundaries will be pushed.
I'm excited to see him attempt it.

Speaker 96 The mindset though, when you get to the NFL, we heard Eric Allen talk about his offseasons. He was running routes.
He was learning the offense.

Speaker 96 Like those are the details and the levels that these pros go to. So for him to be able to compete and excel on this level on both sides of the ball will be extremely difficult.

Speaker 96 But we saw he's a unicorn. We saw him do things we've never seen him do on a big-time college level.
So can he do it on the pro level? We shall see. I'm excited to watch.

Speaker 96 He has the skill set, but up here is going to be between the ears. Can he figure it out? Can he game plan? Can he take care of his body? Can he do all those things for an 18-game regular season?

Speaker 67 Or 18-week regular season.

Speaker 77 Yeah, 17 games, 18 weeks, nonetheless. And you start stacking ears.

Speaker 92 Now you've got preseason, off-season, playoff games.

Speaker 31 Hopefully, they're thinking down there in Jacksonville.

Speaker 35 Remember, they were in the playoffs. That's right.

Speaker 169 Just a couple years ago.

Speaker 36 Brand new head coach, brand new GM, feels like a new energy.

Speaker 105 They got stadium to deal with over the next couple of years.

Speaker 75 I don't think anybody's expecting them to win a Super Bowl this year.

Speaker 35 But if you were to say, what does a successful career look like for Travis Hunter?

Speaker 46 Obviously, if he comes premier at one of those positions, that's a successful career, no matter what, even if it's number two overall pick, number one overall pick, whatever it is.

Speaker 21 But if he's able to play both ways for an extended period of time in the NFL, I think everybody will be mind-blown by it.

Speaker 12 What does success look like, AJ?

Speaker 35 How long do you think?

Speaker 86 Man, success for him, obviously, if he's a premier player

Speaker 86 as a corner or a receiver, but I think if he doesn't have to play every single play, they can talk about, can you play every play? Yeah, I could. Like, technically, I could.

Speaker 86 I think you can find packages here and there for him. I don't know what, like, what does he, does he identify more as a receiver or as a DB?

Speaker 66 Do we we know?

Speaker 42 Well, I don't, like, that's like Shohei, who said he was a hitter, who became a pitcher or whatever in his entirety.

Speaker 50 That's two different things that everybody said you can't do, you can't do, you can't do.

Speaker 81 He is trying to defy the odds there.

Speaker 76 We said he was also a unicorn.

Speaker 81 Baseball people said he was a unicorn.

Speaker 21 And then in his fourth or fifth start, whatever it was, he had a bad outing.

Speaker 94 Now everybody's calling for him, stop wasting your time.

Speaker 36 You need to go hit.

Speaker 32 Well, that happened with Travis.

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 102 If he gets bombed on and he has like two touchdowns on the other side, people are going to be like, why are we wasting any time on the defensive side?

Speaker 78 And on the flip side, if he is a Glove, if it is Revis Island on defensive side, and he's, you know, the Jacksonville Jaguars on the offensive side, he's scoring like maybe has eight touchdowns on a year, nine touchdowns on a year, which would be very good.

Speaker 151 Yes.

Speaker 79 It's like, do we want to sacrifice Glove on defense for the other?

Speaker 43 Those conversations are going to last for his entire career, just like it has with Shohei.

Speaker 63 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 61 And I think with him, like, the expectation shouldn't be like, oh, because he can play both ways, like, this guy should be a top five receiver and a top five cornerback.

Speaker 61 Like you look at Shohei, he's either the best hitter or the second best hitter, depending on, you know, how you feel about it in the MLB.

Speaker 61 And he's probably like a top 25 pitcher, but he's good enough to go out there and compete on the mound as well. Obviously, he just got hurt, which kind of throws things into array a little bit.

Speaker 61 But for Travis Hunter, if he is a top 10 guy at either receiver or cornerback, and he's a top half guy at the other, is that good enough to dictate like, hey, this guy needs to continue to play both ways?

Speaker 62 Or do you just say?

Speaker 70 I genuinely don't know how to handle it?

Speaker 5 Especially after that we're gonna get a break.

Speaker 86 I'm gonna give you the most too for the team needs.

Speaker 74 Do they need a corner more? Do they need a point and a receiver more?

Speaker 155 What do you need? Like, there's more drum.

Speaker 23 Like, we are a supporter.

Speaker 25 We would like him to play both sides.

Speaker 78 And we talked about this earlier in the basement of the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 5 Best point of the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 38 Yeah, we're sweating in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 67 It's a banger. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 58 We're in there in the basement, listening to that.

Speaker 44 I will have you know.

Speaker 13 Also listening to

Speaker 121 MGK, who will be joining us here

Speaker 81 with some breaking news, actually, about one of his songs. I believe about the call she's.

Speaker 54 But we were chit-chatting there.

Speaker 12 How long does he have to play both sides to be a Hall of Famer?

Speaker 76 Just like considered a Hall of Famer because we're in here.

Speaker 44 It's like if he was able to play what?

Speaker 43 A contract, two contracts? Yep.

Speaker 131 That's what? Six, seven, eight years?

Speaker 151 If he was able to play eight years on both sides, guaranteed Hall of Fame.

Speaker 81 I mean, not even a question.

Speaker 77 If he was to play both sides five years and then transition, or four years and transition into one of them, I think still Hall of Fame resume type stuff.

Speaker 8 Anything he does is going to be unique.

Speaker 102 It's going to be

Speaker 46 mold breaker.

Speaker 107 But how long is this able to last?

Speaker 81 What can the human body do, even if it's one of the most physically fit bodies that we've ever seen in Travis Hunter?

Speaker 28 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 64 I don't think the full offense and defense is going to be, you know, for an extended period of time. Like, I know it's Sweden training camp.

Speaker 64 And, you know, when he's doing offensive drills in the morning during special teams, he's doing defensive drills.

Speaker 99 He's getting the most reps out of any one basic exercise.

Speaker 63 I think we just go back to what we said originally.

Speaker 100 Like, I think the idea of him having a package on one side of the field is still more likely than him playing every single time.

Speaker 48 What side does he make?

Speaker 41 He's going to play full-time in one position.

Speaker 50 We just got this smacked at our heads.

Speaker 118 I didn't know they were right notes on it.

Speaker 160 Somebody in the crowd, Michigan sucks here on one side.

Speaker 49 Now,

Speaker 57 what is Michigan's record against Ohio State over the last couple years?

Speaker 48 Pretty good. It's undefeated against Ohio State.

Speaker 16 This guy said, also, need some beer money if you'd like to hit me up.

Speaker 140 That'd be great. Smart.

Speaker 67 Classic Ohio here.

Speaker 17 One side, we got Michigan sucks.

Speaker 146 The other says, hey, don't be scared.

Speaker 67 Send me a little beer money.

Speaker 12 Love that. Love what you're doing, buddy.

Speaker 6 Good luck.

Speaker 50 I hope you get a beer, too.

Speaker 79 Five bucks if you want to send.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 70 Five bucks. Everything else is five bucks.

Speaker 30 All you can eat.

Speaker 81 The Travis Hunter story is going to be one that is going to be talked about forever.

Speaker 51 If it doesn't work out, okay, at either position, not saying it's going to.

Speaker 118 Don't want that.

Speaker 46 I was kicker-punter coming out. Yeah.

Speaker 32 Thought that I was going to be able to play both.

Speaker 34 Said I think I could, was in the senior bowl as a kicker, was drafted as a punter.

Speaker 30 Thought I could maybe at one point figure out how to do both.

Speaker 81 There was one guy that tried it in the past.

Speaker 92 He was at Atlanta.

Speaker 42 They had him kick field goals, they had him punt.

Speaker 23 And he missed like six straight field goals or something after like a great four-week start or five-week start.

Speaker 109 Then he missed missed a bunch and they were like, we're never doing this again because your leg cannot take it.

Speaker 81 You need to be a master at one thing.

Speaker 13 So if he does this, obviously historic for all positions, all sports, everything like that.

Speaker 55 But there's a chance that neither, what if, what if one's eating away from the other and they both kind of attack each other?

Speaker 94 So many different options on how the story can go.

Speaker 81 We believe in Travis Hunter, the person.

Speaker 70 Yes.

Speaker 43 But the NFL is tough, dude.

Speaker 96 And it's been guys who had the ability to play both ways. Charles Woodson, Akeem Talib, one one of your college teammates, Chris Gamble, a guy I looked up to.

Speaker 96 These guys had skill set to be a full-time wide receiver or DV.

Speaker 86 But

Speaker 96 you get to either it's college, which happens to most guys, you go to a big-time D1 school, but definitely to the NFL.

Speaker 96 Deion Sanders, he's the guy that I can remember most touching the ball on both sides. Champ Bailey, another one, but like, it'll be incredible if he does it.

Speaker 96 He has already pushed Brownies and broke boundaries, so I'm not going to doubt him. I'm excited.

Speaker 116 I know he's going to be successful because the Cleveland Browns passed on him.

Speaker 99 And if the Cleveland Browns passed on him, would trade away that pick. This guy is going to be an automatic Hall of Famer.

Speaker 11 Great point.

Speaker 27 I think Cleveland's like 45, 50 minutes from here.

Speaker 99 Yeah, there's a lot of scumbag Ohio inside.

Speaker 21 Not him. There's a Cowboys fan.

Speaker 67 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 116 Latrobe was so much better in this place. The Hall of Fame should have been in Latrobe.

Speaker 48 They made a huge mistake playing here.

Speaker 99 Captain Woodbeat pissing rain.

Speaker 53 This is awesome.

Speaker 67 Tony, the thing about that is they can't hear you because the Ohio weather is beating the shit out of these speakers because of how tough Basketball Latin is.

Speaker 79 I heard enough. Which is why it's a pro football hall of fame.

Speaker 70 Travis Hunter's story, though, special.

Speaker 92 We all need to treat it that way.

Speaker 81 And I know there are some people that are probably sick of hearing about it or whatever because there was a lot of attention to that Colorado team.

Speaker 76 What he's doing is a very big deal in the history of sport, and we need to talk about it.

Speaker 64 Do you think at all about those guys Debut just mentioned? The places they went to school were all top five in the country, and he went to Colorado and they're playing Colorado State.

Speaker 64 Like, does that actually come into a thing?

Speaker 66 Colorado State's a good program.

Speaker 66 Colorado State's a great program, yep.

Speaker 64 We know for sure Trey McBride, love that guy.

Speaker 62 Bradley Vampelt.

Speaker 98 But truly, like,

Speaker 136 Gamble,

Speaker 64 Woodson, they're playing against the top talent in the country every week. And then you're thinking about Travis Hunter, and they go to Nebraska, who wins seven games, and they lose 30 to nothing.

Speaker 134 So it's just wonderful. Control is great.

Speaker 67 Absolutely.

Speaker 96 And if you look at Travis as a player, like he was like a five-star coming out of high school.

Speaker 96 To any program. And then he follows Coach Bryan, goes to Jackson State, and go to Colorado.
But got drafted number two for a reason.

Speaker 96 Like, if you look at his skill set, him running, him breaking his awareness, his ball skills, all of those are on an elite, like tier one level. I would say all-time as far as a prospect goes.

Speaker 96 So I don't have any, you're saying, like, do you have like a level of

Speaker 111 level of comp?

Speaker 64 Yeah, well, my thing is, like, Deion let him play both ways, but all those other top schools that he was getting recruited by as the top recruit, they were only going to let him play one way.

Speaker 132 Like, it wasn't like a, hey, you can, the reason he wanted to go play for Deion is because

Speaker 135 Dion was the only one that was like, yeah, you can play both.

Speaker 106 Well, Dion also put a plan together for him, understood.

Speaker 51 I think Dion, there's only a couple people that can have those conversations, too.

Speaker 132 Exactly.

Speaker 5 Coach Brown is one of them.

Speaker 81 And once again, we can't say this enough. Coach Bron.

Speaker 16 Hell yeah, dude.

Speaker 101 Coach Brown.

Speaker 67 Hell yeah, Coach Brown.

Speaker 66 That's a unicorn.

Speaker 11 Paula Framer, obviously, this is home.

Speaker 72 And yeah, you talk about a unicorn.

Speaker 113 And he can't play every snap.

Speaker 130 For everything that is said about Coach Bryan, I would like it to be known that the way he coaches, he's a hard ass.

Speaker 60 He's attention to detail, committed, and then also, like, a lot of people say he's flashy and yada, yada, yada.

Speaker 59 The dude just went through cancer, and nobody had a clue about it.

Speaker 118 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 46 You're talking about a dog through and through.

Speaker 106 And, Coach Brian, we love you, man.

Speaker 46 We're happy you're good.

Speaker 67 We are very happy that you're good.

Speaker 62 He loves his players, too.

Speaker 61 I mean, that kid who just had to, you know, medically retire, and he honored his scholarship, and he'll keep him through.

Speaker 61 Like, so people can say what they want, but the players on his team, obviously, love him and would run through a wall for him.

Speaker 35 And it's a perfect place for Travis Hunter. Yes, yeah.

Speaker 51 And if the Travis Hunter story goes how we all hope and think it's going to go, that is a huge decision that he made coming out of high school.

Speaker 90 Now, speaking of decisions coming out of high school, ladies and gentlemen, it is our honor to be a part of yet another commitment for a high schooler that is six foot three, 260 pounds.

Speaker 98 Wow.

Speaker 15 Head on his shoulders, pure.

Speaker 78 These younger guys who have been dealing with this business stuff and a little bit more attention feels like it are much more mature than we would have been back in the day.

Speaker 91 We're standing at the Hall of Fame here, obviously.

Speaker 14 There's a chance that this guy is in here someday.

Speaker 24 A lot of work to do, including a great college career.

Speaker 22 Where will it be?

Speaker 35 We shall find out.

Speaker 29 Ladies and gentlemen, from St.

Speaker 13 Paul's Episcopal in Alabama, a man who's a five-star edge rusher and an absolute beast with a great nickname.

Speaker 37 Please make some noise for Anthony Tank Jones.

Speaker 26 Big Tank, tank, how you doing?

Speaker 121 Good boy.

Speaker 41 Okay, I like that.

Speaker 58 We got a microphone. Where are we right now?

Speaker 84 Let's zoom in.

Speaker 17 Let's do his shot full there. Okay, who all do you have with you right now, Tank, just so we can get the names with faces here?

Speaker 176 This is my dad, Anthony Jones Sr.

Speaker 67 What up, man?

Speaker 118 My little brother, Tristan Jones.

Speaker 24 What up, dude? Good to see you, buddy.

Speaker 176 This is my mom's Finnethi White.

Speaker 88 Hey, mama, good to see you.

Speaker 102 Where are you right now, Tank?

Speaker 102 Sir. Where are you right now, Tank?

Speaker 176 I'm in my school theater.

Speaker 25 Okay, so you're in the theater.

Speaker 13 Is there people there?

Speaker 31 Are you guys just taking up the stage with nobody in the crowd?

Speaker 101 I got people here.

Speaker 30 That would have been a big time move if you would have done that.

Speaker 102 Tank, to please tell everybody in there that we're appreciative of the time today, and we're honored for this opportunity for one of their finest in the history to tell us where he's headed.

Speaker 29 Tank, I assume this whole recruiting process has been pretty awesome, but also maybe a little bit heavy.

Speaker 46 How has it gone gone for you and your family and how much work has it gone into making this decision today?

Speaker 176 It's been a long journey, I can say. I feel like I don't been blowing up.
I've just been taking it day by day, staying humble and just keeping my head grinding and stuff like that.

Speaker 176 I've just been thankful for it.

Speaker 26 Okay, well, it is our honor to be a part of this.

Speaker 144 We have your final three that has been basically all over the internet.

Speaker 58 Ohio State is not a part of the final three.

Speaker 13 We're live in a parking lot right now in ohio tank had to say that alabama oregon texas a m obviously has scholarship offers from everybody including west virginia which don't love this tank

Speaker 22 but nonetheless tank jones will you please let the world know where you will be continuing your football career

Speaker 176 well first off i'd like to thank the lord Without him, none of this would be happening. And I would like to thank my family, all the sacrifice they've made.

Speaker 176 The long long nights, standing up, long flights, all that.

Speaker 176 And I would thank the community also, and my coaches, and the school, just the dedication they showed to me, and the love they've shown back to me. I've just been very grateful for it.
And

Speaker 86 for the next three to four years,

Speaker 176 I'll be continuing my

Speaker 176 academic and athletic career at.

Speaker 176 Wait a minute.

Speaker 176 Wait a minute.

Speaker 137 Are we contemplating right now?

Speaker 176 The University of Oregon.

Speaker 9 Congratulations to you.

Speaker 15 Congratulations to Oregon.

Speaker 79 I know your school there is in the state of Alabama.

Speaker 102 How hard of a decision was it to go to Oregon, and why did you end up choosing Coach Dan Lanning in the Oregon Ducks?

Speaker 176 Just the way I know they can develop me, the history of

Speaker 176 Coach Lanning and Coach Blue Boy, like the ages they can coach, and I just know they can give me to the next level.

Speaker 23 All right, well, congratulations to you, your family, your entire school there.

Speaker 34 Thank you for letting us be a part of this.

Speaker 70 And Scoobs, Scott, Dogs, Scott, Daws, Ladies.

Speaker 146 Hey, congratulations, man.

Speaker 13 Hopefully, someday you're here from us and all of you.

Speaker 29 Congrats, ladies and gentlemen, Anthony Tank Jones.

Speaker 95 I thought doing that at the Hall of Fame could be cool.

Speaker 98 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 164 Completely forgot about Ohio State.

Speaker 70 Sure.

Speaker 40 And then

Speaker 44 we didn't know exactly where he was going to go.

Speaker 39 We had three different graphics for committing to or whatever.

Speaker 13 The fact he's going to Oregon is obviously a great thing for these people here because Ohio State, Oregon about to become a great rivalry for years and years.

Speaker 126 Oregon's far, but it is beautiful.

Speaker 53 Yep.

Speaker 46 Beautiful campus, beautiful views, and obviously with Uncle Phil,

Speaker 46 the amount of money that they're pouring into ball and sports is all.

Speaker 60 They already have a nice facility.

Speaker 81 They're building a new facility just because we need a newer facility, even though they have one of the newest facilities in the country.

Speaker 31 It's like Oregon's going to be a player.

Speaker 21 Just like Ohio State's always going to be a player.

Speaker 15 Just like Texas is always going to be a player.

Speaker 141 Just like Penn State is always going to be a player.

Speaker 56 And just like Michigan is always going to be.

Speaker 67 They got a quarterback.

Speaker 22 They got a quarterback who's young and very good from all reports.

Speaker 105 But him going to Oregon, what does this mean to you?

Speaker 90 What do you think this is saying to Alabama, right?

Speaker 130 Because he's in Alabama.

Speaker 102 Huge.

Speaker 90 And they were one of his final three.

Speaker 60 And what do you think this means for Oregon as a whole going forward?

Speaker 96 I mean, I'm sure

Speaker 96 Bama fans are pretty pissed off right now. A long way, but you know, Dan Landa, he's building a great program out there.
But I just love these kids making these commitments on the show.

Speaker 96 And the odds that we're playing now, we've had, what, five or six of these guys now, four or five stars. We're playing some good odds.

Speaker 96 We may not be doing this anymore, but they may definitely be in this hall, at least one or two of them.

Speaker 96 But I love them getting on here with their family, all the people that made those sacrifices, saying for the next three to four years, committing to where they're going to.

Speaker 79 That was awesome. What was the percentage that we heard about five stars?

Speaker 116 So yeah, I heard this on a show the other day. It used to be 60% of five-stars got drafted in the nfl or made it the

Speaker 116 nfl in some way over the last few years it has jumped up to 65 percent so i don't know how if the rankings are getting better or whatever but or if more nfl teams are just taking more chances on talent but about 65 percent of uh these five stars are now going to the nfl tank john's great nickname con man fantastic 63260 he's on the internet 63245 face time with him this morning i'm like uh 63245 geez what a monster and he's like nah actually i'm like 260 right now because remember these guys are all still growing

Speaker 135 That's the thing. Like, I get that.

Speaker 64 And I don't know how it was when you guys were growing up.

Speaker 100 Like, is this how it was for everybody?

Speaker 64 Because the Atkins kid we talked to, he's massive.

Speaker 132 There's a few other players that we, I mean, the tackle, that guy was 6'7, 350.

Speaker 88 And he's in high school.

Speaker 132 Like, I don't, when I played, which was kind of recently, I don't remember it being like that. Like, Clowney, for instance, he was the one guy.

Speaker 134 Derrick Henry.

Speaker 132 Derrick Henry, the one guy.

Speaker 66 But now it feels like there's 25 25 of them on every 100 lists.

Speaker 145 It's absurd.

Speaker 131 AJ, Ohio High School Football.

Speaker 67 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 86 Camp McKinley plays right here.

Speaker 88 Legends came through here.

Speaker 46 Yeah, is Ohio high school football still very much right?

Speaker 86 It's very, very much legit, yeah. Why? Why do you ask it that sarcastic, condescending way?

Speaker 71 Dude, I was not.

Speaker 67 No 2000

Speaker 108 used to have that game every year.

Speaker 99 They used to have the Big 33 game.

Speaker 85 I don't think they do it anymore.

Speaker 116 Well, I lost so many in a row that they stopped doing.

Speaker 66 Did they?

Speaker 131 Actually, we have no idea what the record is in that particular Big 33 matchup.

Speaker 87 I was not able to play it in it.

Speaker 55 I was at school already, you know, just getting ready to be a mountaineer.

Speaker 39 And also, wasn't invited.

Speaker 79 I don't even want to get into it. 6'3, 260.

Speaker 118 And he's going to Oregon.

Speaker 86 And they seem to be good kids, too.

Speaker 67 That's what they're doing. All of them.

Speaker 85 They were beyond their years, as you say.

Speaker 87 Okay, let's talk about some NFL news that is happening.

Speaker 24 I guess Ben Johnson's a hard ass.

Speaker 5 Hell yeah.

Speaker 57 That is what they're saying.

Speaker 127 Ben Johnson?

Speaker 4 That's what I've heard, yeah.

Speaker 76 And I can respect and appreciate that, especially if he starts out that way.

Speaker 78 There's been basically daily reports that Ben Johnson has been holding them accountable.

Speaker 14 You miss a read or something, get off the fucking field.

Speaker 18 You jump off sides, get off the field.

Speaker 39 You don't know the route you're supposed to run, get off the field.

Speaker 23 And I guess it's being reported as like, this guy is a terrorist.

Speaker 7 This guy is the meanest man man of all time.

Speaker 117 Ben Johnson's trying to change the culture in Chicago quickly.

Speaker 39 That is very evident from what I've been hearing.

Speaker 30 How do you think it goes, Debut?

Speaker 91 Because obviously, if it goes well, it's good.

Speaker 9 But we've seen the Matt Patricia situation.

Speaker 7 We've seen the Man Genie situation in Cleveland here.

Speaker 3 Guys,

Speaker 44 where I heard guys McDaniels out in Denver.

Speaker 52 This can go the wrong way.

Speaker 67 Absolutely.

Speaker 26 But also, it can go the right way.

Speaker 109 And I think I like that Ben Johnson is leading with this as opposed to evolving.

Speaker 42 I think you probably feel the same thing.

Speaker 96 Yeah, you said something very big there. He's coming in starting off as a hard ass.
We've all had experience with coaches.

Speaker 96 It's one way to start off that way, and then you can get a little lighter as time goes, as you build that trust.

Speaker 96 But if you come in as a light-hearted player's coach, and you try to become a hard-ass doing your

Speaker 96 tenor, that never works. But

Speaker 96 he chose his place. He could have went anywhere in the league for the last two or three years, and he chose to go to Chicago.
He chose to go and coach Caleb Williams. So he saw something.

Speaker 96 something there.

Speaker 96 I think they had a good draft. I think they had a great offseason building up their offensive line.
And And now it's going to be about developing a quarterback. That's going to be his biggest job.

Speaker 96 And when you are the head coach and you're the play caller, you don't have to worry about leaving every year. You know, he's going to build that continuity.
So I'm high on Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams.

Speaker 96 I think they'll figure it out in the next couple years.

Speaker 75 Chicago Bears might be the new kings of the NFC North.

Speaker 73 They're not.

Speaker 73 We can do that.

Speaker 99 Hey, we got a couple.

Speaker 172 We got a couple weeks here.

Speaker 99 We can still do that.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 5 No, they are.

Speaker 69 Let's do it.

Speaker 42 Ben Johnson's coming in there with a little kind of ability, just like every other team.

Speaker 46 Ben Johnson's coming in there with a quarterback who's picked number one overall with generational talent.

Speaker 59 AJ, as a Green Bay Packers legend, you scared to death that all of a sudden the Chicago Bears are about to show up in the NFC North conversation?

Speaker 86 No, I'm not scared at all, but I think it's good.

Speaker 66 Scared to death.

Speaker 86 That's good for the NFL. Let's go for the NFC North if the Bears are good.
I like to see a good rivalry game. The Bears-Packers matchup is unbelievable.

Speaker 86 The history goes back forever, but have you ever seen a coach say this before at practice? Like declare that, hey, this is going to be our longest, our toughest practice.

Speaker 86 Let's see, let's separate the men from the boys.

Speaker 58 Who's going to survive in the future?

Speaker 5 You said

Speaker 69 to win him.

Speaker 99 Who wants to be king of the mountains?

Speaker 86 So that means first play at practice, you just got to annihilate somebody and start a full brawl with the whole team, right?

Speaker 66 Yeah,

Speaker 116 he didn't say he likes fighting.

Speaker 116 That's all what he said.

Speaker 67 These guys are saying they don't give a shit back here about why this whole talk.

Speaker 85 Guys, wearing a Dolphins hat. He is wearing Dolphins hat.

Speaker 95 He was like, talk about the Dolphins being all the way back.

Speaker 42 I think Dolphins fans are believers.

Speaker 30 They might not be as shite as we thought they were. They'd be because any of these teams could be good, including the Bears time.

Speaker 23 No, yeah.

Speaker 132 And

Speaker 61 I also appreciate that he's doing this now because it kind of just shines a light on. Apparently, Matt Matt Eberflues was just letting these guys do whatever the hell they wanted at all times.

Speaker 61 I mean, we saw how many gaps they had on both sides of the ball. So, like, I understand it, but again, we do this with the Bears every single year.

Speaker 61 And Bears fans will say, like, hey, you beat the Packers once last year. They did.

Speaker 136 I don't know what you're mouthing at me.

Speaker 62 Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 61 But it's just, you know,

Speaker 62 this is why this part of the calendar

Speaker 69 is awesome. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 63 Because we get to do, every fan base gets to do this for the next four to five weeks. It's, hey, we're going to win a Super Bowl.
Everything has changed.

Speaker 61 We got a new coach. We got

Speaker 61 this player in the draft. That's why this part of the season is so awesome.
And then when week one gets here, we'll see how much of this stuff is true.

Speaker 96 Another big question mark. Minnesota, they got a brand new quarterback.

Speaker 99 No, they're going to the NFC championship.

Speaker 69 Dan Roloffsky.

Speaker 48 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 99 Dan Roloffsky said they're in the NFC championship.

Speaker 113 Oh, the bandwagon to start the market.

Speaker 67 They said they're going to be better than they were last year.

Speaker 75 Last year, they were playing in the last week of the season for the number one overall seed in the NFC with Sam Dorn.

Speaker 87 Correct.

Speaker 44 Now, JJ McCarthy out of Michigan, national champion.

Speaker 26 Could be a guy.

Speaker 99 Never lost to Ohio State.

Speaker 44 Could be a guy. Absolutely.

Speaker 4 Could be a guy out here

Speaker 44 in the NFL.

Speaker 75 But anytime you've got a question mark at the quarterback position, you got everything else happening around it, that's great.

Speaker 76 It's obviously going to be scrutinized.

Speaker 90 But we've learned that KOC can basically make an offense for anybody, and I believe that's going to remain true.

Speaker 75 I don't think the Vikings are going anywhere.

Speaker 106 I don't think the Lions are going anywhere, even though who

Speaker 76 their whole team's different.

Speaker 165 Yeah.

Speaker 81 You know, Jared Goff's there, obviously.

Speaker 78 But whenever you talk about coordinators and everything else that's kind of having to change because you have success, it's brand new.

Speaker 103 I think they're still going to be around.

Speaker 32 I think the Packers are always going to be good.

Speaker 106 How are the Packers going to be this year?

Speaker 62 Like I said,

Speaker 62 it all depends on how Jordan Love does.

Speaker 63 I mean, their defense was much better last year.

Speaker 28 He's a guy, though, is he not?

Speaker 61 I believe he is. I think he was hurt for a lot of the early portion of the season last year and probably came back a little too early and got hurt again.

Speaker 63 But we've seen what he can do in his first full year as a starter. They win a playoff game.

Speaker 61 They beat the hell out of the Cowboys. And if they had Brandon McManus at the time instead of Durz Carlson, they probably beat the 49ers and maybe play the Lions in the NFC Championship.
So we'll see.

Speaker 61 I think the Packers are always going to be in the conversation, which is what I appreciate. Are they going to make a deep run in the playoffs?

Speaker 134 I don't know.

Speaker 61 I'm hoping so, but we'll find out week one what they kind of look like.

Speaker 59 AJ, are the Green Bay Packers the weak link in the NFC North?

Speaker 86 No, they're not, but getting back to what Dan said about the Vikings,

Speaker 62 he thinks if they have average average quarterback play, they can be in the NFC North.

Speaker 66 He said if they have average quarterback play, they will be in the NFC North.

Speaker 85 The offensive championships.

Speaker 86 I don't think any teams win in their division with average quarterback play, are they?

Speaker 132 No, it lists Ryan Kelly, unless Will Fry's, and then he lists Jonathan Allen and Hargrave.

Speaker 111 Yeah, they do have a great team.

Speaker 66 I agree, but every great team still needs a quarterback to play

Speaker 98 above.

Speaker 96 Average quarterback play NFC championship.

Speaker 158 That doesn't count.

Speaker 48 To be fair, it doesn't die today with average two.

Speaker 48 or two?

Speaker 164 You're saying Dan Orlovsky's

Speaker 74 stupid slide.

Speaker 116 Guys, he's already going to have a tough weekend. We don't need a pal on him.

Speaker 118 Remember, this is Jared Allen's Hall of Fame weekend.

Speaker 39 The slow motion.

Speaker 74 Yep.

Speaker 25 Dan is going to be shown a thousand times.

Speaker 81 Not that it isn't every single day, but a thousand times this weekend. A man so intimidating that other quarterbacks

Speaker 21 thought the end zones were 15 yards.

Speaker 54 Like, that is going to be shown some time.

Speaker 28 And now you're saying it's Asinine.

Speaker 96 I mean, that statement, that statement is crazy. And look, I love Dan.
I love the work that he does. I know he grinds.
He watches the tape. He does all these things, but we just haven't even seen J.J.

Speaker 96 McCarthy on the field. He's already said it's going to be a step up from Sam Donald coming off a career year.
And then to say average quarterback play, you're going to get to the NFC championship.

Speaker 96 We just mentioned these other NFC teams. Didn't even mention the Cowboys, the Niners.
We obviously know what the Eagles are, the Rams. We got teams with Samsung quarterbacks.
We got, like, we'll see.

Speaker 100 Maybe he's right.

Speaker 25 He's not the only one kirk hers you said it's it joining us now ladies and gentlemen is uh the man who put out the asinine tweet uh yes dana rulowski

Speaker 29 Dano, it looks like you're having a great day.

Speaker 13 Let me tell you, you're getting your name tarnished out here.

Speaker 31 So the tweet you had out about average quarterback play from JJ would lead the Vikings to the NFC championship game has been absolutely cooked.

Speaker 128 A lot of the boys up here have said you're going to need a quarterback to play very well to make it to the NFC championship in the NFL.

Speaker 79 Would you like to clarify a little bit more here or defend yourself from vacation?

Speaker 123 No, I don't need to, I mean, clarify, I can.

Speaker 177 I don't need to defend it that much, but if we had to ask everybody

Speaker 177 the top four rosters in the NFC, top to bottom, the best rosters, Minnesota is unequivocally going to be in that conversation. Eagles have the best roster in the NFL, probably.

Speaker 177 And then you're talking Rams probably in that conversation for the two-spot.

Speaker 175 And then the three-spots, probably a debate between

Speaker 177 maybe Green Bay, maybe Minnesota, Chicago at some points.

Speaker 99 Before the Lions, maybe Tampa Bay.

Speaker 48 Yeah, that's insane.

Speaker 50 You missed a team or two.

Speaker 125 Tampa Bay, the Niners?

Speaker 177 There's no way you're going to say the Niners.

Speaker 112 You have to go lost.

Speaker 177 The Lions probably, but the Lions, dude, the Lions got big losses.

Speaker 118 Big, big, big loss.

Speaker 73 Roster or coordinator.

Speaker 99 Roster losses are not as big.

Speaker 123 Then coordinator, Frank Ragnows, Frank Ragnow is an enormous loss. He's the best center in football argument.

Speaker 123 Two-star defensive players are coming off injury, so like, let's see what they're like.

Speaker 81 Best player on the field, they said.

Speaker 90 But

Speaker 67 he's

Speaker 123 coming off a big injury. So Jameson,

Speaker 70 Danny, take a two.

Speaker 5 You think a team?

Speaker 21 There's nothing.

Speaker 21 We're sitting there.

Speaker 5 there at the hall of fame.

Speaker 123 Minnesota's lines of scrimmage are going to be great. They're going to be great.

Speaker 37 Yeah, but a quarterback has to play.

Speaker 54 Like, that's why the Jalen Hurts thing, I get it, but, like, had to make plays.

Speaker 81 Like, have to.

Speaker 125 Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 67 I totally agree.

Speaker 128 So, to get to an NFC championship game, like, you're going to have to make plays.

Speaker 78 Like, you're going to have to make plays.

Speaker 32 So, I don't think an average quarterback would be able to make the plays that are going to have to be able to make.

Speaker 4 Okay,

Speaker 123 let me ask you this and let's let's be completely honest about the whole situation that be your first time jalen jalen last year jalen hurts last year from in totality

Speaker 123 was he above average below average or average through the through the body of the season above average i want a super bowl

Speaker 110 body of the season

Speaker 131 i'm sick of it get it big standards

Speaker 61 i want a super bowl well you also can't say that like

Speaker 10 average.

Speaker 30 This isn't the 1980s.

Speaker 61 He said with average play, average quarterback play, the Vikings will be in the NFC Championship, and then listed every other team in the NFC North as potentially second-best roster football.

Speaker 99 So it's like, what are they?

Speaker 62 Just going to run roughshod through the division and then get the ball.

Speaker 56 I guess Orlovsky's yelling from the beach.

Speaker 67 Let me talk. That's how he gets it, though.

Speaker 4 That's what he does.

Speaker 31 What do you got, Dan?

Speaker 123 Dude,

Speaker 123 I asked you the body of his season, Tigers.

Speaker 126 His final two games.

Speaker 49 Talk about that.

Speaker 66 Ladies and gentlemen, we ruined his day.

Speaker 15 Hey, Dan, enjoy the beach.

Speaker 25 This ain't that big of a deal.

Speaker 32 We'll have this conversation.

Speaker 35 Get out of your best day.

Speaker 98 Love you, Dan. Love you, Dano.

Speaker 51 We know what side of the conversation he's on there, don't we?

Speaker 133 Oh, yeah, we do.

Speaker 69 But that's what he does.

Speaker 100 Ty just laid it out perfectly.

Speaker 64 Okay, because this is how he says, like, I never said that.

Speaker 140 Nope, that's not true.

Speaker 62 Because he lists the Vikings, but then he does all the other teams in the NFC North.

Speaker 66 So then when it comes around, he says, no, I thought they were, I thought the Lions were were just as good, if not better.

Speaker 55 Let's move along.

Speaker 45 We have an Ohio legend here, and we also have some breaking news, I do believe, for the college football season.

Speaker 144 They have a new song of the season and a video to debut it that is absolutely filthy.

Speaker 21 And we're here at the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 81 The Hall of Fame game's happening tonight.

Speaker 37 We'll be kicking off football.

Speaker 77 And in just a few weeks,

Speaker 20 Texas will be traveling to Columbus to kick off the greatest college football season we've ever had. And this

Speaker 168 will

Speaker 24 scratch you right where your college football fandom itches.

Speaker 67 It's the dawn of a new college football season.

Speaker 4 College football runs through our souls.

Speaker 97 We're going to war with it.

Speaker 118 And we are ready to start this season. Here we go.
Turn this thing back up. Let's go make it happen.

Speaker 118 How many of you really know you're alive?

Speaker 127 They pull me over doing 135.

Speaker 127 Show me the money and I'll show you the lies.

Speaker 73 Everyone's equal to the time to divide. Let's go.
You want this, you got that.

Speaker 73 You want this, you got that.

Speaker 73 Don't wait, watch them walk right past you.

Speaker 73 Run fast, run fast while you have the chance. Don't speak, let him work.

Speaker 73 Please go!

Speaker 73 Come on!

Speaker 73 Come on!

Speaker 73 Can you believe it? Antibuzzard!

Speaker 73 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 66 Yeah, yeah. A 12-team playoff.

Speaker 161 We knew this is gonna be fun.

Speaker 85 You can feel the energy.

Speaker 53 College football has got this one right.

Speaker 127 Wow!

Speaker 159 It is a brand new roster.

Speaker 116 A chance to make it a special season.

Speaker 119 The energy's coming back.

Speaker 119 Don't wait, watch them walk right past you. Run fast, run fast while you have the chance.
Don't speak, let him look right at you.

Speaker 119 Run back, run back while you have the chance.

Speaker 26 Ladies and gentlemen, the man who created that song, Ohio Legend, he'll be releasing his seventh studio album in early August.

Speaker 29 Ladies and gentlemen, MGK!

Speaker 46 Hey, thank you for joining us. Thanks.

Speaker 156 Whoa, this works.

Speaker 72 Cool.

Speaker 26 Yeah, you definitely work.

Speaker 35 You and a microphone's a good thing, so we're going to make sure that absolutely happens.

Speaker 102 I've been a fan of yours for a long, long time.

Speaker 128 Okay, we were actually going through the WorldStar shit earlier today.

Speaker 95 The freestyles from the car, everything like that.

Speaker 33 Your song with Jeezy, hold on, shut up.

Speaker 16 Who remembers my coma?

Speaker 32 I was in a gym probably a thousand times with that song.

Speaker 51 So watching you continue to kill it and then change genres and continue to crush, cool thing as a day one fan.

Speaker 81 I'd like to let you know.

Speaker 156 Thank you. I feel like, you know what's funny? Did you used to, did you ever tweet me back in the day? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, see, I remember like 10 years ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you didn't have a lot of followers there.

Speaker 89 Yeah, then you took off to the moon. So I'm a big fan.

Speaker 129 I really respect your grind and hustle.

Speaker 156 I also was in my head, I was like, man, I wanted to do this interview with a mouth guard so bad, and I asked him to give me a mouth guard.

Speaker 156 And I'm like, since when did mouth guards look like the things that my babies have?

Speaker 67 Yeah, a little pinky situation. They look like a pinky.

Speaker 148 Like when I was...

Speaker 156 When I played sports, the one time I ever did, I would just look like a mouth guard.

Speaker 17 Wait, I saw your baseball throw.

Speaker 76 You looked athletic.

Speaker 156 Yeah. well, look, looks are deceiving.

Speaker 44 No, I saw you dance, too. A lot of people saw you dance.
I think you look athletic, got good rhythm.

Speaker 9 I appreciate the change here.

Speaker 115 Now, let's talk about Don't Wait, Run Fast being the song for college football.

Speaker 81 How's that come together?

Speaker 122 And that video was sick.

Speaker 44 I hope you were proud of it.

Speaker 118 I appreciate it.

Speaker 99 This has been happening a little bit.

Speaker 67 It's raining because the day it's raining, guys.

Speaker 140 It's raining.

Speaker 67 Got a prayer.

Speaker 129 Yeah, you understand.

Speaker 152 Well,

Speaker 35 okay, so

Speaker 156 this song is actually ironic because I made this song the day after I played the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl party, but they didn't win.

Speaker 156 And so we had to still play the party. And

Speaker 156 I was.

Speaker 118 It's got to be fun.

Speaker 70 Is that not uncomfortable?

Speaker 67 Yeah, I'm not going to be able to do it, dude.

Speaker 156 You know who doesn't go to the after parties of the team who lost?

Speaker 31 Players.

Speaker 155 Players, girls.

Speaker 67 Anybody.

Speaker 67 A lot of suits in there, though, huh?

Speaker 156 Yeah, so we had to go play, and we were in there for like, you know, and of course, I was like the headliner of it. So, like, well, not of course, but I was saying

Speaker 156 as luck would have it, it was like I had to go play like an hour set versus like Quavo, Shibuzi. They went to go, they got to play like one song and did.

Speaker 156 So I was up there for like an hour, and I was like, dude,

Speaker 156 when you're playing songs that...

Speaker 156 Now, for the past five years, I haven't played in front of a crowd that, you know, wasn't.

Speaker 156 that young. That wasn't stoked.

Speaker 121 So like that was,

Speaker 100 for me, that was

Speaker 156 for sure. And I was, and there was about four girls, and I'm playing a bunch of songs that I realized in that moment.
I was like, man, these songs are kind of like four girls, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 156 Could have really used a song with testosterone right now. And I got back to the studio the next day, and I was like, dude.

Speaker 156 Never again. Never again.
Like, we need something with

Speaker 156 that we could have played in that.

Speaker 102 Why'd you end up going the way you went?

Speaker 92 Because we were watching the freestyles from the car.

Speaker 87 Yeah. Unbelievable.

Speaker 55 And I know in the rap world what happened.

Speaker 130 Don't have to bring it up, but it did happen.

Speaker 25 Everybody says that about you. I, as a fan of yours, pissed that you left the rap game.

Speaker 81 Would like to let you know that.

Speaker 106 Felt like you were making music for me, right?

Speaker 127 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Through that entire thing.

Speaker 59 When you transition to become more of a musician in the entirety,

Speaker 81 why do you end up doing that?

Speaker 76 Do you want to showcase musical talent?

Speaker 130 Like, why is that the decision you think?

Speaker 156 Yeah, I think it's just adding on to. It's never leaving.

Speaker 156 yeah cuz there's some rap there's rapping in everything that you for sure I mean I also think like I'm not dying tomorrow so thank God yeah I'll wait

Speaker 156 I'll wait for a while you know and but

Speaker 156 when I look at the artists that I love like a Bowie or a Prince or

Speaker 156 I don't even when I think about bone thugs you know like they they they had melody and harmony and all of these things that are untraditional towards what

Speaker 156 is supposed to be expected from them which as rappers, you just, there's,

Speaker 156 I think breaking out of the box is inspiring, and I'm, I think,

Speaker 156 I don't know.

Speaker 156 What I was just listening to in the car is a rap album that I'm working on.

Speaker 142 Oh, wait!

Speaker 72 Okay. Really?

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 165 How? We got bangers?

Speaker 163 Yeah, we got bangers.

Speaker 81 I can't wait. I can't all wait to hear.

Speaker 87 We are very excited for that.

Speaker 156 I think there's a, there's, there was a, I mean, Lost Americana, which comes out on Friday,

Speaker 118 it was originally, thank you.

Speaker 156 Congratulations. It was originally a double album.

Speaker 117 So, at this point, you're saying that my assumptions that the rap game was over for MGK were a little bit early and wrong, is what you're saying.

Speaker 148 Very wrong.

Speaker 53 Okay, I was bummed out.

Speaker 28 I was bummed. I'm happy now.
I want to check that. Debun has a question for you.

Speaker 96 Yeah, where did that passion for music come from?

Speaker 96 Did a little research, you grew up kind of all over the world, speak multiple languages, but where did that passion for music come from at an early age?

Speaker 156 Just not having friends, I think. My like friends being here and my headphones.

Speaker 156 I would watch TV or watch movies and be like, oh, I want to be that guy.

Speaker 156 I remember when I saw Tom Cruise and Top Gunn, I was like,

Speaker 156 for sure, I'm about to be an Air Force fighter.

Speaker 67 100%.

Speaker 156 When I saw Vegeta and Dragon Ball Z, I was like, for sure, I'm going to become a Super Saiyan.

Speaker 156 When I saw DMX on top of a bunch of school buses

Speaker 156 on Rough Riders Anthem or We Right Here, it was one of those two songs. I was like, for sure, I'm going to ride motorcycles and become a a rapper.
So,

Speaker 67 yeah, I think.

Speaker 40 I think they've all worked out, man.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 121 I hope that continues to work.

Speaker 156 Well, I haven't gone Super Saiyan and I haven't joined the Air Force, but like. Still got time.

Speaker 65 Still got time.

Speaker 95 You're not dying anytime soon.

Speaker 50 AJ, fellow Ohio, fuck, has it been a bit more fun?

Speaker 86 As far as your career, you've been doing it for so long, it's unbelievable. But do you have like a plan? Do you sit there and write it out or think, this is what I'm going to do?

Speaker 86 Or are you more organic? I know different musicians or artists, they approach it differently. Some people have everything, like, oh, the next five years, this is when certain albums are coming out.

Speaker 86 Or do you just kind of let it hit you and go with whatever you feel passionate about?

Speaker 156 No, I have a plan, it just sucks sticking to it because I'm not.

Speaker 5 It's auto, though.

Speaker 156 I mean, I got Pat being like, oh, man,

Speaker 5 you're not rapping enough.

Speaker 4 And I'm like, in my head, I'm just like, oh, dude, I have so much.

Speaker 110 Wow, boy.

Speaker 137 Come on, man.

Speaker 108 Yeah.

Speaker 66 I need you.

Speaker 67 I'm getting lazy.

Speaker 3 I need you.

Speaker 156 I hear you. I got you.

Speaker 156 It's there. It's present.
It's coming. Thank you.

Speaker 28 And I'm going to run fast. Run fast.

Speaker 4 I'm going to do that. I am.

Speaker 67 I'm behind you.

Speaker 16 I'm behind you. But the plan thing.

Speaker 11 But look,

Speaker 156 when you you look back on

Speaker 156 this career, it's like a roller coaster where you don't know where

Speaker 156 the drop-offs are. It's more fun that way.
If you know what to expect,

Speaker 156 it's just a little.

Speaker 81 I haven't seen any drop-off.

Speaker 1 I feel like I followed you from the beginning.

Speaker 118 No, no, no.

Speaker 156 I'm saying

Speaker 156 if I make this type of album, it's like a drop. You're like, oh, I wasn't expecting that.
Oh, okay, cool. And then, you know, you go up this way or you do an unexpected turn.
I just

Speaker 156 like being

Speaker 156 Elusive.

Speaker 152 Yeah.

Speaker 51 How's the creative process?

Speaker 81 Are you writing songs all the time?

Speaker 156 Do you have time that you allot, like, hey, I'm going to go into the woods and yeah, this album I did after a four-day water fast, and that's why I was just like, okay, I believe in it.

Speaker 156 Like, this came from a pure place. I did it with my best friends, all the ones that were like making all those songs with me that you talked about.
Like, you know, we made this in the living room.

Speaker 156 Our studio burnt down in those LA fires.

Speaker 140 Man. Yeah.

Speaker 156 And so we just set the mic up in my house in the living room and

Speaker 156 made this joint.

Speaker 90 I can't wait, and I assume it's going to be phenomenal. We can't wait to listen.

Speaker 115 I think we just saw the other day, you said you drink coffee, drink water, and smoke cigarettes.

Speaker 65 That's about it, dude. Living the dreams.

Speaker 67 Yeah, super handsome. Great shame, too.

Speaker 49 Always obsolete.

Speaker 81 You look like the mannequin, you know, can wear whatever.

Speaker 94 You are like supermodel stuff now.

Speaker 53 Thanks, man.

Speaker 67 What a run you had.

Speaker 76 I can't do the water, coffee, cigarette thing.

Speaker 165 I wish I could, I fat, I'm a fat ass.

Speaker 118 Which is why

Speaker 118 I'm a

Speaker 5 gym.

Speaker 118 Yeah, okay. See that?

Speaker 81 It's for my career, too.

Speaker 67 You don't think about it. I got you.
No, no, I got you.

Speaker 156 I'll have to start being less selfish.

Speaker 67 Thank you. Jesus.

Speaker 43 Ty has a question for you.

Speaker 61 Do you have any, I don't want to say aspirations because you've done acting stuff before. Like you were awesome as Tommy Lee and dirt.

Speaker 61 And I remember, I mean, the Netflix movie with Joseph Gordon Levitt, it was kind of like a bit harder, but yeah, you were right at the start of it.

Speaker 61 Like, do you cut out any time to pursue any of that kind of stuff? Or is that kind of just like if someone comes to you with like an idea that you're kind of into you you kind of dive into it?

Speaker 156 Yeah, I just get nosed so many times

Speaker 156 I just

Speaker 156 I pursue it. I pursue it as much as I can, but I get

Speaker 56 I don't I don't believe that.

Speaker 81 So you're saying hey, hi, I'm MGK would love any role in your movie that you have like, you know what, MGK? Why don't you get the fuck out of here?

Speaker 118 Yeah, nobody's doing that.

Speaker 87 It's about that. No way.
Yeah.

Speaker 81 You would want to do more activity.

Speaker 67 Do you think there's cuss on here?

Speaker 71 Yeah. Yeah.
Wow.

Speaker 156 That's fucking awesome.

Speaker 152 Yeah, see?

Speaker 67 Yeah, go ahead and do your thing.

Speaker 42 Breaking the mold, you know, we take inspiration from you, brother.

Speaker 163 Thank you.

Speaker 152 Well, shit.

Speaker 156 Yeah, all good.

Speaker 156 Yeah, I have a lot of aspirations to be in movies. It just doesn't, you know, hasn't panned out that way.
I'm on universal timing, though, so we'll see.

Speaker 44 Universal timing?

Speaker 156 Yeah, like

Speaker 156 it'll align. The angels will put something in the works whenever they feel like.

Speaker 165 We see signs and everything?

Speaker 66 Yeah.

Speaker 152 Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 156 I mean, there's been plenty of movies that come out that I'm like, ah, I was supposed to be in that. Ah, I was supposed to be in that.
Or, oh, I did auditions for that.

Speaker 156 Like, Sinners, I was supposed to be in that.

Speaker 169 Oh, shit. Which one guy?

Speaker 156 No, The Vampire.

Speaker 156 They had me set up to do the auditions. It's the vampire, the one that's in the house, so he's the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and he eats the family up.

Speaker 156 Yeah, but he said in the audition, he says he has to say the N-word, and I just wouldn't do it.

Speaker 35 Yes,

Speaker 28 I think there is, from our conversations.

Speaker 59 Push up.

Speaker 67 Yeah, that was very good.

Speaker 70 Hey, bring your world, Gary.

Speaker 53 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 78 Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 81 That Django and Jane thing was pretty wild to watch.

Speaker 67 It was pretty wild.

Speaker 5 It was worse ever.

Speaker 46 Connor has a question for you, MGK.

Speaker 64 So when it comes to acting, then do you have any sort of timeline? Like, you don't really care. You're not really, you know,

Speaker 64 you're saying they're telling you no, but you were also in shows, like, their series on Netflix, things of that nature.

Speaker 64 And you also said, you know, when the universe aligns, but like, do you ever have some sort of schedule, some sort of like, hey, this is is the thing I want to do next this is exactly you know what my plan is or is it just kind of you know see the pants it's which camera can I look at this one yeah hey dude

Speaker 156 I'd like to be in cinema while I still look young okay all right that was the message to Hollywood I would really like to be recruited into a movie

Speaker 156 while I still got some looks Hell yeah, let's make it.

Speaker 67 We're part of an Oscar run here.

Speaker 4 Hold on. We're part of an Oscar run here all of a sudden.

Speaker 156 I just feel like my luck is going to be like as soon as like all my hair just leaves or goes gray or whatever yeah but you could be a great white trash whoopie

Speaker 3 i feel like that will be like the the run that will be the run was as soon this guy was born for this role um can we talk about the tattoos yeah because i got my first tattoo cool see that yeah

Speaker 77 They've been asking for me to take my shirt off this entire day.

Speaker 81 Now's not the time. I am a sex symbol, much like you.

Speaker 156 You're a good healthy, good-looking dude.

Speaker 87 That's really cool of you.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna put that on my Twitter bio.

Speaker 107 Yeah, I'm gonna put that on my bio.

Speaker 131 I got this tattoo here, and I think I checked the box.

Speaker 120 I was awake. It's on a tough spot.
That hurts, right?

Speaker 87 That's what everybody says.

Speaker 25 My wife's bad, so she gives me a little bit of respect because I did this.

Speaker 145 Then I'm gonna have them give me the drugs, and I'm gonna wake up with a fool Samoan ooze.

Speaker 44 Yep, you tattoo people say that.

Speaker 81 I understand, but I did it.

Speaker 67 I did it here.

Speaker 51 When did we decide just to do the entire matte black on the upper eighth of our body?

Speaker 18 That is so much time in pain, I would assume.

Speaker 51 Yeah, and how do you feel now about it all?

Speaker 156 You know, for the first couple months, I was like, wow, you look like a Cretan. Yeah.
You know, and I was,

Speaker 156 for the first couple months, I had to have some friends that just could

Speaker 163 just do the right thing because I would just.

Speaker 67 Looks good, dude.

Speaker 66 Looks good. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 156 I needed a couple of those because I was like, I would, you know, you brush your teeth and you look up and you'd you'd be like, oh, Jesus.

Speaker 124 Like,

Speaker 86 dude, like, okay, so if you were looking at me,

Speaker 156 what would you think? You know, I needed a couple

Speaker 71 of things.

Speaker 131 What are you going to do? Go get it lasered?

Speaker 33 Were you going to go get it lasered off?

Speaker 25 Like, I think, is that what the realization was?

Speaker 77 Hey, this is for definitely forever.

Speaker 50 We have to do it.

Speaker 156 If you're going to get this lasered off, you might as well just die.

Speaker 66 There it is, right there.

Speaker 75 You can't see the camera, but it's right here.

Speaker 156 Yeah, if you're going to get that, and it's got worse since then. Not worse, but it's gotten more intense since then.

Speaker 76 I think it's hilarious and as soon as I saw it I was like well he has the right body for it because you're jacked yeah you know you're absolutely jacked

Speaker 140 up but basically slim to to me

Speaker 156 take your clothes off dude to me uh I just liked redesigning like the human skin

Speaker 156 go on I liked redesigning the human skin I thought it was cool that's it your human skin yeah yeah your human skin everything to me like sometimes I get bored and I think everything is an art project so I think I was just kind of like looking at my body and I was like, hmm, this sucks.

Speaker 137 Are you on your phone much?

Speaker 110 Nah.

Speaker 24 You read books?

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 93 TV?

Speaker 156 Yeah, I like TV.

Speaker 57 Serieses?

Speaker 156 Yeah, I get envious because I've never booked in any of them, but yeah.

Speaker 118 But you're away from your phone a lot?

Speaker 28 Yeah. When did that start?

Speaker 156 I don't know. I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 156 When I stopped looking at porn.

Speaker 39 That's fair. You stopped looking at porn?

Speaker 81 Yeah. Congratulations, man.

Speaker 149 I think that's a big deal deal for people. There's a lot of like

Speaker 67 that's a huge addict.

Speaker 16 A lot of addicts come out.

Speaker 60 A lot of actually former players we've seen.

Speaker 64 Yeah. Stop jerking their

Speaker 64 jerking.

Speaker 70 So

Speaker 25 the phone was basically just a bopping device for you, and you say, you know what, now that you can.

Speaker 120 It's bopping. You know what it is.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 Bopping your meat.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 140 Gotcha. Gotcha.
You know what it's like?

Speaker 103 Unless you're just watching just for cinematic purposes.

Speaker 67 No, no, no.

Speaker 67 Oh, man. Dude, that's good.
That should have changed that scene.

Speaker 26 Okay, let's talk about the don't wait, run fast.

Speaker 105 Is that going to be in your next studio album?

Speaker 81 And are you performing this throughout the college football season? And how much of a college football guy are you? You're from Ohio, I would assume the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 140 I always love the Buckeyes, dude.

Speaker 58 Everybody from Ohio does.

Speaker 29 Legitimately.

Speaker 139 Yeah.

Speaker 156 Cool colors, cool logo. Yeah.
Cool everything. It was just cool.

Speaker 81 And reigning national champions.

Speaker 67 Yeah.

Speaker 115 Yeah, and they spend a lot of money and they're invested and it's good.

Speaker 25 Are you going to be doing a lot throughout the college football season?

Speaker 76 We'd love to see you. We'd love to see you.

Speaker 156 I'd love to be a part of it. I don't really associate me much with sports, you know, but I would love to.

Speaker 85 We're into baseball trade.

Speaker 67 So look at you right now. You got baseball cap on.

Speaker 172 WWE.

Speaker 44 Yeah, WWE.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 70 Yeah, come on. We got you.
Look at that.

Speaker 167 What the hell are you talking about?

Speaker 172 You got showtops on right now.

Speaker 28 Got showtops on right now.

Speaker 89 You played basketball in those if you had to.

Speaker 67 Absolutely.

Speaker 145 Yeah, absolutely. You're a big sports guy.

Speaker 148 What sport did you play?

Speaker 86 Sorry, you said you played sport for like a minute. Yeah.

Speaker 156 What was it? I was a tight end.

Speaker 74 Really? Yeah. Nice.

Speaker 51 We had Taniel Gates up here.

Speaker 115 You could have been him.

Speaker 156 Yeah, I scored one football.

Speaker 98 I mean, one

Speaker 110 football. That's crazy.

Speaker 67 Let's not do that. That's crazy.
Don't do that, yet. Hold up.

Speaker 110 Hold up, dude. Hold up.

Speaker 110 Hold up, dude.

Speaker 21 Yeah, let's not put a microphone in front of him in any of these sports events.

Speaker 67 Jesus.

Speaker 85 I scored one touchdown.

Speaker 156 Oh, my God.

Speaker 110 I scored one football this time.

Speaker 70 You hit a grand slam in that football game.

Speaker 156 Dude, I'm on a

Speaker 156 50-hour migraine.

Speaker 165 So how's that happening?

Speaker 60 Is that because you're water fasting and don't eat food, you think? Or whatever?

Speaker 156 I actually do think that it's catching up to me because I was in London and I came back for this really quick.

Speaker 178 For this? Yeah.

Speaker 85 So sorry. What else are you doing?

Speaker 66 Thank you, but what else are you doing?

Speaker 156 Nothing. I just came here.

Speaker 71 For this.

Speaker 87 The Hall of Fame.

Speaker 13 For y'all. This is so dumb.
And you're going back to the business.

Speaker 90 We should have been given a heads up that you're flying from London for this.

Speaker 25 Why? This is a bad decision.

Speaker 59 You remember when you looked in the mirror and said you saw the thing?

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 129 And said, boys, need a little motivation about not the biggest news?

Speaker 80 You should get one one of those from the boys today as well.

Speaker 178 I'm happy I came.

Speaker 156 Except for the fact that I just said I scored one football, which is crazy.

Speaker 67 I'm going to get

Speaker 70 torched.

Speaker 46 Well, dump it.

Speaker 1 Nobody will ever know.

Speaker 58 Nobody will even know.

Speaker 44 Who's your NFL team?

Speaker 165 Are you a Cleveland Browns fan?

Speaker 28 Oh, for sure.

Speaker 81 How do you think the Browns are going to do this year?

Speaker 156 You know,

Speaker 156 it's just one of those things that you just.

Speaker 156 I love them for what's inside. That's right.

Speaker 67 They try more.

Speaker 66 The New Jersey ain't cool.

Speaker 5 I mean, you got the cooler.

Speaker 169 jersey.

Speaker 156 It's fire. You know what I mean? The New Jersey's fire.

Speaker 140 The new helmet's cool. New helmet's cool.

Speaker 169 Got some of these quarterbacks.

Speaker 65 Maybe that. We just needed some cool.

Speaker 99 Mason Graham in the middle.

Speaker 166 Yeah. Cool mascot.

Speaker 126 It's cool.

Speaker 156 We're doing a collab with them too as well.

Speaker 67 So that would be cool. Merch.
Yeah.

Speaker 81 Are you going to go break?

Speaker 104 You've broken the guitar a couple times.

Speaker 156 I don't think I've broken the guitar, actually. I played guitar.
I brought them out like playing guitar.

Speaker 42 You always been a good guitar player?

Speaker 58 No.

Speaker 156 I still am not.

Speaker 72 I think you are.

Speaker 163 Yeah, I think I am.

Speaker 156 I think I am enough for like what I like that I play whatever I feel. But like by technicality, I'm like,

Speaker 67 yeah, you're comparing yourself to like Bonnie Rasso and like people at the top of it.

Speaker 109 I think whenever you're playing, it's great.

Speaker 58 And you've always got a sweet guitar.

Speaker 87 Yeah.

Speaker 94 Always has some pizza.

Speaker 118 I'm here for the looks, dude.

Speaker 81 That's why we brought you from London.

Speaker 7 All right, we'll continue digitally.

Speaker 141 This has been us from the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 44 Goodbye.

Speaker 129 All right, we're still live. We're still live.

Speaker 89 We're just not on TV.

Speaker 51 So now we are currently on digital, ESPN Plus, Disney Plus, TikTok Live, YouTube.

Speaker 42 TikTok probably really good for you, I assume, right?

Speaker 156 I think so.

Speaker 126 I don't.

Speaker 19 What do you mean you think so? You're doing all this shit. Hey.

Speaker 72 Yeah. You're doing the shit.

Speaker 25 A lot of conversation about that shit.

Speaker 87 You heard?

Speaker 76 That pissed you off?

Speaker 72 No, no, no. I thought it was good.
No,

Speaker 156 I think it's cool.

Speaker 156 But I just, I'm still like, I feel like I'm in an archaic form of,

Speaker 71 uh,

Speaker 156 I guess I just don't really do stuff for any

Speaker 156 opinions anymore. So, I just am kind of just doing stuff that I like.

Speaker 54 Well, the TikTok dance took over everything.

Speaker 87 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 77 And then, obviously, you had people that were pissed off about it saying, Yeah, so mad.

Speaker 25 They were so mad you were dancing on a song called Cliche.

Speaker 87 Yeah, it was a beautiful thing.

Speaker 51 That was fun to watch from outside looking in.

Speaker 156 Yeah, it was because obviously you got to understand that I'm like inside my house, dying, laughing over.

Speaker 67 Of course, I'm like, dude, you guys are dumb.

Speaker 54 Made that video with your buddy yeah about it yeah that was awesome yeah vampire diaries that's a good one we listened uh listened to every lyric of that today trying to listen to your story you're telling you're a great writer dude thank you yeah great writer that song is cool it literally is about a vampire just wants to go outside in the sun and it's like said well there's like cool parallel uh

Speaker 156 you know metaphors like the try to find the silver lining but it'll kill me if i touch

Speaker 104 cool and you talk about never being able to walk in the day

Speaker 78 you know the grass isn't always greener there's a lot of there's a lot in that yeah i feel like you're very.

Speaker 156 I really wish I could know what they're, whatever they're making those moaning noises over.

Speaker 67 I wish I could always think of beach ball.

Speaker 53 Yeah, beach ball getting popped.

Speaker 118 Beach ball. Dropping the beach ball.

Speaker 25 Yeah, there's the Venmos.

Speaker 59 People are writing their Venmos on the beach ball, hitting it on a screen.

Speaker 28 Yeah, they were headhunting us a little bit earlier.

Speaker 124 That's funny.

Speaker 20 It's been a fun time.

Speaker 81 You know, we're back in Ohio.

Speaker 118 This is the way Ohio is fun.

Speaker 81 And also, not only beach balls that we have, we have a mascot too.

Speaker 51 MGK, I don't know if you know this, the Hall of Fame has a mascot.

Speaker 76 And we had an opportunity to speak to mascots Handler.

Speaker 74 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 35 Is that the proper term?

Speaker 66 He's Lacky.

Speaker 52 He had a lot of energy.

Speaker 129 This guy was jacked up about the mascot.

Speaker 82 I believe the mascot's...

Speaker 77 This is the goat.

Speaker 21 This is Goldie.

Speaker 121 Do you go?

Speaker 33 This is Goldie the GOAT.

Speaker 67 Goldie the GOAT.

Speaker 12 Your thoughts on Goldie, MGK, just early initial thoughts.

Speaker 67 You, Goldie. Goldie, Goldie.

Speaker 87 Yeah, initial thoughts.

Speaker 120 Good fit, not a bad fit.

Speaker 35 Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 56 Gotta see you, Goldie.

Speaker 84 Holy shit, you're here.

Speaker 53 We're here. That takes a lot of time.

Speaker 71 Oh, dude, you better go and talk.

Speaker 93 Goldie, do do you talk or no?

Speaker 166 I hope not.

Speaker 20 No, but I shoot.

Speaker 121 Oh, no.

Speaker 67 Oh, no. MGK.

Speaker 97 Oh.

Speaker 67 Oh. Oh, that's pretty good.

Speaker 156 I obviously just want to pants Goldie. So back.

Speaker 118 The opportunity is right here.

Speaker 79 Normally, mascot uniforms don't have the actual shorts on top.

Speaker 5 Normally, they'll suck.

Speaker 70 Mm-hmm. You want to pull it up?

Speaker 68 Float it, float it, float it. Nice toss.

Speaker 68 Oh.

Speaker 3 Oh, no. Is there safety on this thing?

Speaker 72 There you go, right there.

Speaker 67 Aim it low, Pat.

Speaker 49 Oh, I got a bumper, bumper, pump it, bump it, bump it.

Speaker 79 Keep going, keep going, pump it up.

Speaker 70 Yeah, we're gonna help it.

Speaker 142 You got t-shirt guns in your show?

Speaker 156 No.

Speaker 150 Maybe.

Speaker 4 This is the first time we've ever had one, too.

Speaker 66 It's great television. I'm loving your aim.

Speaker 156 It looks like it's really gonna hurt somebody, so let's keep going the way you were just doing it.

Speaker 65 Lower it.

Speaker 70 I run it.

Speaker 67 Hey, I'm bombing it right now.

Speaker 74 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 I didn't know.

Speaker 95 If he would have still had his phone, I would have had him tighten this thing up a little bit.

Speaker 159 That's a great catch. That's nice.

Speaker 118 Okay.

Speaker 148 Yeah.

Speaker 67 But that's a pumpkin.

Speaker 31 Let's go pump, okay?

Speaker 116 I'm looking for the next wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns really quick.

Speaker 2 Hey!

Speaker 67 Found Found him!

Speaker 5 I know that!

Speaker 41 That was a great show!

Speaker 67 Did the kill show!

Speaker 132 Turn that thing sideways, did the kill show!

Speaker 1 Yeah, I saw you, fucking hang.

Speaker 67 Yeah.

Speaker 142 Okay, yeah, it's on you, Golden.

Speaker 67 All right, Goat.

Speaker 93 Bye, Golden.

Speaker 67 Jeez. Hey, have some muzzle control.
Goldie. Some muzzle discipline.

Speaker 89 I'm a little bit worried about the gun safety here.

Speaker 17 All right, we appreciate you, Goldie. Have a great weekend.

Speaker 154 You go on now, Goat. Thank you, GOAT.

Speaker 67 Go on, get it down.

Speaker 110 Oh.

Speaker 88 Hey, go on, man. That's bad one.

Speaker 67 You go on kick, go.

Speaker 42 What's next for you, MGK? We got album on Friday.

Speaker 156 Album's Friday.

Speaker 10 Thursday midnight.

Speaker 129 Is that how that works?

Speaker 118 So Friday morning? It's cool.

Speaker 156 It happens right like during MGK Day. So we do like the Mayor Mates

Speaker 156 the weekend of August 13th every year is MGK Day. So we throw free concerts.

Speaker 9 Is that ESD Fest?

Speaker 156 It's what it, it's kind of like the new version of what that was.

Speaker 81 Oh, that's sweet.

Speaker 118 I remember watching the early music. Those were fire.

Speaker 35 Yeah, they were outrageous.

Speaker 51 You're still doing that, MGK Days.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 51 It's a music festival that happens back.

Speaker 156 We kind of just, we just, we do it for free this time, though.

Speaker 148 So we just give back and let everybody

Speaker 5 come through.

Speaker 42 Do you remember these days?

Speaker 90 When was the last time you saw this video? Put this photo up that's in my little screen here.

Speaker 42 That's you in that car.

Speaker 54 We went through those earlier today.

Speaker 103 You took over WorldStar for like,

Speaker 152 I don't know, it felt like

Speaker 156 what's crazy about that, my boy had just got out of jail, and I picked him up on the side of the road.

Speaker 156 I saw him walking on the side of the road, and he had just got out of jail, and I was like, oh, hop in here.

Speaker 87 That's literally how it all started?

Speaker 156 yeah it's i i i think i think that we invented vlogs

Speaker 47 just gotta put that on the ticker you you invented vlogs yeah like me soldier boy

Speaker 86 who did it first

Speaker 156 i think maybe maybe maybe soldier and then and then me and then whiz and we i think we were the first that pioneered like uploading daily versions of our lives or like what was happening you know in our weeks and stuff like that.

Speaker 156 Like I had my

Speaker 156 daughter, I had that video. I was just looking at that the other day where it's like,

Speaker 156 what's up, guys? I'm about to have my daughter.

Speaker 67 It's great.

Speaker 67 Awesome. And then now your daughter.

Speaker 156 It's 2008, 2009.

Speaker 51 Yeah, now your daughter, you're FaceTiming her that you're on the Spotify hot new playlist or whatever.

Speaker 25 And it's like, it's cool to watch you.

Speaker 81 You've been very public for a long time.

Speaker 109 And you've had like 10 different lives.

Speaker 42 For sure. And we've learned about all of them.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 76 That has to be tough as a human.

Speaker 152 Yeah.

Speaker 156 Yeah, I mean, dude, I feel deflated sometimes, but I'm also just like, dude, I'm living in a place of like,

Speaker 156 I feel very free because I stopped caring about opinions anymore, you know what I mean?

Speaker 23 You're a success, brother.

Speaker 93 From Cleveland, Ohio.

Speaker 49 There it is.

Speaker 67 Shock Doctor. Boom.

Speaker 67 If he didn't quit in one day at football, he could have been in here with that.

Speaker 156 Remember when I scored one football? Yep.

Speaker 85 Yeah, dude.

Speaker 85 What a game, man.

Speaker 13 This guy hit for the cycle in his first ever football game.

Speaker 67 That's right.

Speaker 20 Got a hole in one in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 156 So fire.

Speaker 108 Unbelievable.

Speaker 148 You remember that, right?

Speaker 11 Rolled a turkey right before half with my cricket bat.

Speaker 108 Bingo. Slam dunk.

Speaker 47 Football legend.

Speaker 118 Straight up. Icon.

Speaker 137 Yep.

Speaker 42 MGK, we appreciate that.

Speaker 4 Wait, real quick. You know what would be so awesome

Speaker 67 is if

Speaker 156 on the last day of this show, whenever that could be, 20 years from now, I think, he just lifted up his hat and his hair came with it.

Speaker 67 There's a chance.

Speaker 118 How do you know that wouldn't happen right now?

Speaker 28 Well, that's what he's saying, I think.

Speaker 54 I think he's saying that right now,

Speaker 48 we got a Brent Michael situation. Make a wave.

Speaker 3 Make a wave.

Speaker 118 Make a wave. Is thisn't the last day of the day?

Speaker 156 But boy, oh boy, would that make me so happy to just one day?

Speaker 98 Tom's gone.

Speaker 148 You go, guys.

Speaker 156 You set that headphone down.

Speaker 124 You go.

Speaker 11 And it's just. That's the final shot.

Speaker 99 And now my watch has ended.

Speaker 67 This guy is bald all along.

Speaker 156 Yeah, or has the work like just a very, very, like just a scraggly comb over it.

Speaker 99 One or two

Speaker 99 pickles. Or you have the Coolio.

Speaker 4 That'd be sweet.

Speaker 67 That would be sweet.

Speaker 67 Those were good digits back in the day.

Speaker 44 TRL had a run there.

Speaker 23 Coolio was a part of that.

Speaker 81 And I was going to ask you about WorldStarHipHop.com being like such a huge part of your career.

Speaker 150 Yeah.

Speaker 105 But you got to go do sports there.

Speaker 81 It's going to be very similar to what you just did here.

Speaker 48 Yeah, same thing for you guys. That's basically the same thing.

Speaker 90 So you can say fuck on there, too.

Speaker 18 Yeah, and shit.

Speaker 156 Drop it. Oh, fucking shit, dude.

Speaker 65 I'm going to go see what they got popping, man.

Speaker 40 Ladies and gentlemen, MGK, we appreciate you, dude.

Speaker 4 Thanks for hanging.

Speaker 64 How do you know I was bald?

Speaker 10 Hey, dude, have some food. Let's get rid of those migraines.

Speaker 96 Cheap meal.

Speaker 138 Let's have some Italian.

Speaker 11 Little chicken parm.

Speaker 121 Thank you.

Speaker 104 Thank you.

Speaker 46 All right, he said bangers are on the way. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 140 Appreciate it, man.

Speaker 98 All right, bro.

Speaker 10 Hey, C-Lender, big man, that's protecting him.

Speaker 80 You are huge.

Speaker 67 Yeah.

Speaker 42 Guy with big ass beard over there.

Speaker 45 Appreciate what you do for MGK.

Speaker 67 Oh, hell yeah.

Speaker 21 Also, everybody, this is Mystanius Parking Lot.

Speaker 104 Thank you so much. Like, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 60 Thank you, guys.

Speaker 24 Listen, just like him saying he came here from London, that was a terrible decision.

Speaker 77 You guys hanging out with us out here in the middle of this rain, terrible decision, but we appreciate you doing it.

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Speaker 28 And to wrap up,

Speaker 13 We should go around table and see who's going to win tonight's big game.

Speaker 83 Tonight will be talked about for at least 25 minutes.

Speaker 72 Tonight's game is going to be an epic battle that we will remember for at least a day and a half.

Speaker 114 Tonight we kick off the NFL season in beautiful fashion in Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 56 It is Lions versus Chargers.

Speaker 20 It is Kyle Allen versus Trelance.

Speaker 7 It is Hendon Hooker making an appearance versus DJU.

Speaker 52 Uyunga Lule.

Speaker 114 There's going to be names that we know from college football fame. There's going to be helmets that we know from NFL lore.

Speaker 76 And we'll officially say we're in football season tonight.

Speaker 78 Everybody playing in this game tonight had to report to training camp earlier,

Speaker 58 mind you.

Speaker 32 They don't necessarily love.

Speaker 83 that they have to play in the Hall of Fame game, but they understand the honor it is to play and kick off what this weekend is about to be here in Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 26 A celebration of those who laid the grounds for the world that we live in now.

Speaker 91 The greats are honored here, celebrated here, and live here forever.

Speaker 95 And that's why the Hall of Fame game is so damn important.

Speaker 81 It's not just about what's happening on the field.

Speaker 91 It's the aura of the city in which the game is taking place.

Speaker 21 This is football through and through.

Speaker 43 This is an awesome time.

Speaker 130 And we've been very lucky to be here.

Speaker 8 Now, who wins Lions Chargers at Boston Connor this evening on NBC?

Speaker 135 I'll take the the Lions. I'll take the over.

Speaker 64 Pat, I think it's pretty simple here. I don't think anybody's really playing.

Speaker 116 Three straight overs.

Speaker 60 What were you going to say?

Speaker 116 Three straight overs.

Speaker 45 Okay, three straight overs in Hall of Fame games.

Speaker 115 Yes.

Speaker 81 Okay, so maybe towards the end of it, there's a little bit of chaos on defensive side.

Speaker 45 We got Miss Simons. We're running a ball.

Speaker 81 Maybe not making tackles.

Speaker 46 We're scoring a bunch of points.

Speaker 58 Three straight overs.

Speaker 64 Some guys playing, too, probably three quarters tonight by the fourth.

Speaker 63 They're going to be pretty tired because there's no backups going in after them.

Speaker 24 Ty Schmidt, do you agree with what Conman said?

Speaker 140 I like the Lions.

Speaker 62 I like a big game out of Hendon Hooker and maybe igniting a little bit of a quarterback controversy in

Speaker 53 Jared Goff.

Speaker 134 Okay, maybe.

Speaker 85 There's a chance, you know, they chant Jared Goff.

Speaker 25 Foxy, did you hear what Ty was just trying to do to Detroit?

Speaker 175 I know what Ty's doing, okay? We actually have a quarterback battle for the backup quarterback, so I would love to see Hendon play great so he can confirm that QB2 spot.

Speaker 106 Zeno, what do your notes say on how tonight's going to go?

Speaker 27 Have you been keeping track?

Speaker 143 Yeah, I've been taking a lot of notes with this other David Baker pencil. I think Chargers all the way.

Speaker 76 Okay, you like Chargers. I respect that.

Speaker 95 Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Speaker 8 Cowboys AP tone.

Speaker 99 I've been struggling with this one.

Speaker 116 I like the Lions quarterbacks better, but I think the Chargers have a lot more bodies. Lions still dealing with a lot of injuries, and Harbaugh's the better preseason coach.

Speaker 116 I'm going to go with the Chargers in this one.

Speaker 129 Okay, you've got the Chargers, Lions, Lions, Chargers,

Speaker 89 Super Bowl champion, Green Bay Packer legend, Ohio guy.

Speaker 93 A.J. Hawk, who do you like?

Speaker 76 like, how you like it?

Speaker 85 I'll take the Lions 28-21 on this one.

Speaker 73 Whoa, whoa.

Speaker 67 28-21.

Speaker 74 What's over-under?

Speaker 67 33.5.

Speaker 98 33. 33.5.

Speaker 71 I like it, AJ.

Speaker 42 Didn't even know what the over-under was.

Speaker 99 Took your life. Way over.

Speaker 3 What are you going with it?

Speaker 16 Debuts, your pick for tonight's Hall of Fame game, kicking off the NFL season.

Speaker 132 I'm going to be honest, I don't care.

Speaker 96 I don't care.

Speaker 121 I don't think that's a good thing.

Speaker 88 We win. We win.

Speaker 96 We win because we get some football.

Speaker 172 You don't care what your teams are doing.

Speaker 96 No, what I care about is the legends that are going into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 96 I don't care about Sterling Sharp.

Speaker 73 I care about Jared Allen.

Speaker 166 Why do I care about Eric Allen?

Speaker 96 And then I care about.

Speaker 67 You're not going to say it?

Speaker 111 You're not going to say the last guy?

Speaker 111 You don't know the last guy?

Speaker 111 You're talking to Antonio Gates.

Speaker 69 I'll be honest with you. I can't hear a fucking.

Speaker 70 That's what I was telling you.

Speaker 67 Antonio Gates.

Speaker 25 They were telling me they couldn't hear anything.

Speaker 58 I'm like, bro.

Speaker 5 Antonio Gates.

Speaker 96 Antonio Gates, the legends that have been in Shrine Night. That's what I care about.
Don't care about the outcome of the game. Like I said, don't listen, Tony.
Don't bet on this game, guys.

Speaker 96 Do not bet on this game. Just watch and enjoy it.

Speaker 96 If you want to bet on this game, there is a number called on that fine print in any sportsbook app you use. But have fun tonight.
We got some NFL football.

Speaker 81 I think what D.Butch is saying is very accurate of how everybody feels watching the Hall of Fame game, even the Lions and the Chargers fans.

Speaker 105 With that being said, there is certainly going to be an overwhelming amount of people that watch this game.

Speaker 76 Jim Harbaugh told the boys.

Speaker 26 No big deal.

Speaker 109 Obviously, we're honoring the greats of the past.

Speaker 78 Antonio Gates is coming in representing our team, the Chargers.

Speaker 105 The Hall of Fame game will outrate the World Series and the NBA Finals.

Speaker 109 So,

Speaker 52 no, no pressure.

Speaker 75 You're playing for your life, you're playing for your career, and also more people will watch you in this game than any other sport, and also maybe any other game you've ever played.

Speaker 76 That's just because all we care about is football happening.

Speaker 78 Yes, and whenever you talk about honoring the Hall of Famers, it's like the amount of interviews and highlights that are going to roll tonight from football's past, it's going to be a beautiful thing.

Speaker 32 But the game does suck, certainly.

Speaker 48 Maybe

Speaker 135 it's not really like to build up their

Speaker 70 I'm watching an XFL business.

Speaker 86 They keep its score.

Speaker 6 I agree.

Speaker 25 I agree with that, which is why I watch.

Speaker 128 There's a guy that has a Michigan Panthers flag.

Speaker 101 I saw that.

Speaker 58 Right over here.

Speaker 116 The only one ever sold.

Speaker 69 Rest in peace.

Speaker 111 New Investor just won. New Investor just came into the league.

Speaker 25 And I immediately thought to myself, that's right.

Speaker 164 It is the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Speaker 28 It's not the NFL Hall of Fame.

Speaker 94 Could you imagine if a Michigan Panther made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

Speaker 99 Jake Bates.

Speaker 62 Yeah, they're booing Cardell Jones.

Speaker 47 Yeah, but he's in the NFL now. Oh, that's a good point.

Speaker 105 Yeah, I'm saying if XFL-only career.

Speaker 164 That'd be awesome.

Speaker 23 Into the pro football.

Speaker 165 There's a chance it could happen. That's next.

Speaker 65 There's a chance it could happen. Yeah, TFL too.

Speaker 116 It's an XFL too. Got it.
Or UFL now.

Speaker 6 You pig.

Speaker 86 I didn't know who felt UFL.

Speaker 119 I don't know which league they could say.

Speaker 12 Tonight is not just about the football on the field is what I'm saying.

Speaker 87 It's about the whole entire thing.

Speaker 75 Yes. And what it symbolizes is the fact that

Speaker 160 football's back, and there's no better place to be than Canton, Ohio, and this garage band.

Speaker 87 Easy pop.

Speaker 18 Everybody ain't back in the truck. Great work, boys.

Speaker 67 Great work back here.

Speaker 50 Great work back there.

Speaker 81 Living a nice life back there.

Speaker 63 Yeah, I mean, you should feel my fucking shirt. Wait,

Speaker 63 it was sideways over here.

Speaker 61 It was incredible.

Speaker 78 To the people that are saying kind things right now, we appreciate you guys hanging out with us.

Speaker 115 To the production crew that was able to set this up in such limited quick time with all the elements, we appreciate the hell out of you guys.

Speaker 13 Great work.

Speaker 18 Even though we couldn't hear some things, it's water, it's technology and we're live as hell and uh

Speaker 181 hell yeah thank you to almost i don't know what this is what do we got okay what's going on here boss almost have an ice cream almost have an ice cream yeah you guys have been advertising for us all day so we thought we would thank you and give you some ice cream okay we appreciate that so uh are you from west virginia no we're from canon ohio canton ohio yeah hell yeah we had mary ann's doughnuts earlier today

Speaker 77 so good's doughnuts are so good this is local ice cream here now how long have have you guys been creamery or ice cream place?

Speaker 5 17 years we've been making ice cream.

Speaker 59 17 years you've been making ice cream out.

Speaker 75 Yes, sir.

Speaker 27 This is the chocolate

Speaker 53 peanut butter

Speaker 57 cup. Yes, sir.
This is your highest seller. What's your biggest seller?

Speaker 181 The butter pecan is our number one seller. And we just won a gold medal in it in the LA dairy competition.

Speaker 5 You got a butter pecan seller?

Speaker 67 You want one? I do not.

Speaker 90 I want a gold medal, please.

Speaker 181 And the coffee caramel crunch is a gold medal winner as well.

Speaker 53 Oh, the CCC.

Speaker 71 Okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 121 Can you tell me, Debbie, how long you guys have been doing this?

Speaker 181 17 years.

Speaker 89 Nice.

Speaker 42 Congratulations to you. Are you from Canton originally?

Speaker 63 Yes, sir.

Speaker 9 How do you get into the ice cream business?

Speaker 181 You just start one and hope for the best.

Speaker 9 You just liked ice cream and said, you know what, I want to make my own ice cream?

Speaker 87 Yes, sir.

Speaker 104 What's your favorite? You butter pecan?

Speaker 181 My favorite, chocolate. I'm a simple person, but I would do chocolate.
Yep, but chocolate peanut butter cup has the same ice cream.

Speaker 1 All right, I love that.

Speaker 81 What's your name again? Jared.

Speaker 175 Jared?

Speaker 27 Yes.

Speaker 21 We appreciate the hell out of you.

Speaker 22 Thank you for the ice cream.

Speaker 78 Thank you for the hospitality. And

Speaker 71 Bull Moon? Yeah.

Speaker 70 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 73 Really good. Thank you.

Speaker 110 Thank you very much.

Speaker 69 Top milk.

Speaker 101 Thank you.

Speaker 58 Thank you, guys. Thank you.

Speaker 96 Yes.

Speaker 74 Good cows are here.

Speaker 99 I was looking for a kid to give it to.

Speaker 87 Thank you.

Speaker 162 Good color bite.

Speaker 164 That's the gold metal.

Speaker 67 All right.

Speaker 71 On those hips.

Speaker 125 West Virginia

Speaker 5 Ridge Mountains sharing the Lord River

Speaker 5 Life is older, older than a dream

Speaker 97 Younger than the mountain

Speaker 5 roaring like the breeze Country road

Speaker 117 Now that's almost heaven, okay?

Speaker 35 So I don't love the name.

Speaker 5 Oh, good guy.

Speaker 141 Don't love the name.

Speaker 40 But I do love this honesty.

Speaker 67 It's delightful.

Speaker 9 This is very good.

Speaker 92 Gonna hear a lot of that.

Speaker 76 I thought about if game day was to go to Pitt, West Virginia, which is week three.

Speaker 42 I think both teams need to do their shit the first couple weeks so we can make that happen.

Speaker 60 I think that'll be an incredible scene.

Speaker 25 Obviously, we'll showcase a rivalry that hasn't been showcased in a while and deservedly needs a spotlight and attention. Two football places taking each other on in a big, big way.

Speaker 81 Luke Combs actually came out. I think he was up in Barcelona, Chicago, and he was asked, hey, what rivalry doesn't get talked about enough?

Speaker 51 And he said, the backyard brawl, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, because I think he's been to both games in Morgantown and in Pittsburgh for that.

Speaker 130 So if we're able to get to that, that would be great.

Speaker 28 And I thought about it last night.

Speaker 75 I was literally like, there's a good chance we get to that game, especially if you look at the schedule before then.

Speaker 80 And then I thought, how are they going to handle the eat shit pit chance?

Speaker 87 Like the ESPN.

Speaker 131 Yeah.

Speaker 10 I'm very excited. Let it fly.

Speaker 131 Because that'll be the entire.

Speaker 98 2025. Let it fly.

Speaker 67 I think so, too.

Speaker 33 But there will be some suit back there.

Speaker 100 I think I can actually see.

Speaker 116 It's not like things are getting canceled anymore.

Speaker 128 I can see that guy's face is going to change.

Speaker 90 Jelly Swole.

Speaker 116 Huh?

Speaker 18 Jelly Swole.

Speaker 69 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 67 And if Hogan.

Speaker 66 And if you put jeans on.

Speaker 67 Well.

Speaker 50 If you're natural and proud of it, I guess it can certainly be taken away.

Speaker 49 Lay off, 60 Sweeney.

Speaker 153 Whatever.

Speaker 99 I'm fucking sick of it.

Speaker 62 Lay off.

Speaker 69 All right? I agree.

Speaker 119 Jesus. This is on ABC.

Speaker 137 I know.

Speaker 26 It was on Good Morning America.

Speaker 94 That's crazy to think about.

Speaker 51 Now, with that being said, no cars crashed.

Speaker 99 No, I thought.

Speaker 54 No lightning hit the set.

Speaker 85 Gunshot.

Speaker 115 We kicked off Hall of Fame week in proper fashion, and we ended it with

Speaker 95 mama's having ice cream

Speaker 24 it's very good ice cream if you're in canton have some ice cream come to the hall of fame enjoy these people enjoy life football's back be a friend tell a friend something nice it might change their life we're in this thing together we'll see you guys in a while

Speaker 67 it's gonna be one

Speaker 96 of you guys

Speaker 93 we do love you we'll see you in a while

Speaker 14 and yes we understand we're taking up all of the days that we have.

Speaker 12 Big football season coming.

Speaker 70 It's starting tonight.

Speaker 99 We're supposed to take those days.

Speaker 78 You're the greatest people on earth for allowing us to do this for a living.

Speaker 81 We can't thank you enough.

Speaker 7 Team on me.

Speaker 168 Team on three. One, two, three.

Speaker 67 Goodbye.