PMS 2.0 1380 - Ian Rapoport, Kyle Busch, Brownie the Elf Debuts New Cleveland Browns Alternate Helmets, Dan Orlovsky, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

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We have Ian Rappaport joining us in about 14 minutes or so.

We'll see if he knows anything.

We'll see what he knows.

Yeah, not.

He's been golfing a lot, going to Pez Dispenser Factories.

Yeah, that's right.

And Legos Museums.

Yeah, Harry Potter Museum.

And I believe his kids, currently, Max and Jude, are out in the woods for their eighth straight week of the summer.

Correct.

But nonetheless, we love Rapsheet.

We appreciate Rapsheet.

We can't wait to catch up on everything happening in his world.

And also, what do we need to be looking at at these training camps?

Obviously, there's a quarterback competition in Indianapolis.

Early reports are saying it's a close one.

Now, there's going to be a lot of chatter about who's going to be the starter here.

There's also going to be a lot of chatter about a lot of new starters, more specifically over here in Pittsburgh.

How about the New York Jets?

How about in Seattle?

Nobody's talking about Darnell coming off a potential MVP year.

Now he's out in Seattle trying to revive them.

Geno Smith in Las Vegas.

So many storylines.

It's absurd.

And we're lucky to be here.

The Toxic Table's here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

Nine-year NFL vet Derry Shea Butler's here.

And the reason why he's sitting over there is because we've come become a little bit of a farm.

You know?

A petting zoo of sorts.

A goat is here.

Whoa.

Did you hear it walk in?

I did a little bit.

What's the noise that a goat makes?

Usually it's like,

I'm not 100% sure if that's a horse or a sheep or anything else you got going on, but

that's what we heard coming in here because this guy is a little bit of a stallion.

A little bit of a stallion as well.

Ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes, the goat of punting a football.

He was a raider

then he was a texan

then his ass got fired geez ladies and gentlemen a man who should be in the hall of fame yesterday shane leckler yeah

what's your chat good to see you dude man it's it's great this is my first time here i've seen it on the show a lot and this place is legit okay thank you shane is a man who loves the spotlight uh he since retirement he has tried to find every camera that he possibly can he hasn't just kind of isolated himself in Texas around his daughter's sports and fishing, I believe, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Of America.

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Gulf of America.

You've been in there closer than I ever have.

I've gotten some videos of him hauling ass through the Gulf with four fishing rods going out the back end, him having the time of his life.

And I'm thinking to myself, Shane, you've earned that.

You've deserved that.

And you know what else you've earned and deserved?

Is a Hall of Fame node.

So I just want to let you know, and I would like to let the world know, as somebody who punted and as somebody who's been nominated now three times for the Pro Football Hoffman.

Congratulations.

No big deal.

No big deal.

Thank you so much.

That's certainly real.

But with that actually being real, this guy deserves to be in there.

We all respect and appreciate the hell out of you.

And the way you went about your business was special.

He was a guy that would have beers for you for the trip back.

You know, that's old school.

Hey, you got some beers delivered.

Who are these from?

Shane Leckler, enjoy the ride out of here, boys.

Have yourself a good time.

You and Sebastian Janikowski, absolutely legendary.

You're a nine-time all-pro, seven-time Pro Bowler.

You're a special athlete, dude.

Special athlete.

I appreciate the hell out of you, man.

Thank you.

And a hick, too, which I think we all very much appreciate.

Football season around the corner.

Are you getting the itch to go back and punt?

No, I'm not, but I'm ready to watch some football.

It seems like it's been a while.

I'm a huge college football fan,

but

I'm ready to go.

I don't miss what the guys are doing right now.

Training camp.

Yeah.

Training camp was great in Napa.

Why is that?

You guys boosted it.

I mean, the weather was awesome.

You had, you know, the winery and all that.

I don't drink wine but it was there.

You see the you know the big air balloon hot air balloons and stuff flying over practice.

You know, Napa was fun.

Janikowski and I played golf almost every single day.

See, that was part of the narrative that when I got into the league about kickers and punters.

Now, granted, you guys were dogs, and I think your teammates absolutely loved you.

I think you've told us a few stories about,

you know, the house that you and Janikowski lived in together and what mornings looked like in that place.

When were you drafted?

2000.

What round?

round?

Fifth.

And when was Janakowski drafted?

First round, 17 pick overall.

Same draft.

Same team.

Al Davis is drafted.

We love Al Davis.

I love Al Davis.

We love Al Davis.

He also drafted every person that ran a 4-2.

He was specifically drafting for the punt team, I think.

And you were the perfect punter for it as you go.

Whenever you look at this NFL, are you one of the old heads because you were in the league for so long that think the game's soft?

Or do you love where the game of football is at right now?

Because you, quarterback,

college, I don't know if you're a college quarterback.

I was a backup quarterback in college, played a little bit, but that was it.

Always spinning it, though.

Warm-ups, you know, whenever there's pat and go happening on the field, you're always going to see Shane Leckler on the other side.

Probably have something, you know, and then there's going to be a ball spinning.

That was my favorite part of the game.

It was pat and go before game set.

Especially if one of the quarterbacks wasn't thrown like well, and you get in there and you spin like five perfect balls.

You're like,

get your shit together.

Put the butter.

Put the punter in.

But how do you you feel about the state of football?

How do you feel about it right now?

I mean, I like it.

It's high scoring and stuff like that.

But

there's still,

I feel like the officiating is still in the way of some of the stuff.

Because,

of course, I played for Al Davis.

So we always felt that way in Oakland back in the day.

And, you know, you can watch how Al was such a maverick.

Whenever there was league meetings, there would be 31 yeses and one no.

And we all knew who that was.

Yeah, but literally, it was expected that it was Al in the entirety.

You know, we kind of grew up after the um i guess after the tuck roll game against uh uh new england whenever that happened it was just felt like dang you know the whole world's operating against yes and so do you want more technology or less technology do you want more phone in the ear to the refs or do you think that builds for conspiracy fodder

well i mean you know like like

the whole bringing the chains and stuff out needs to stop like we know when a damn first down is right and then or when you're scoring you know you don't need to like replay like this would be something to say yeah the ball crossly, let's move on.

Yeah, you're talking about let's

set baseball up.

It seems like some football games are getting slower sometimes to me.

Yeah, I agree.

I think we're going to see.

And I mean, I still love it.

It's a great game and it's fun to watch.

And I love the fact that, you know, it gave us our livelihood and everything that it gave us.

But, you know, there's always room for improvement.

How do you feel about the players?

The GOATs at the top right now.

Patrick Mahomes, special individual.

That kid is unbelievable.

And, you know, whatever they say, I saw something somewhere.

I'm not on Twitter or Instagram.

I'm not on anything.

I'm not even on my own email.

You know, I don't even check yet.

So if you need to get a hold of me, call me or text me and I might get you.

Yeah, yeah, I got you.

But, you know, I saw where somebody kind of made fun of how Pat looked at a beach or something.

Oh, look out.

He might, he may,

he may break every NFL record this year.

Yeah, I think people operate that way.

Speaking of players that we have massive respect for and chip on shoulder, and I guess, you know, Patrick Mahomes is passed out by a lot of people.

We all know the story.

Chicago Bears fans are still doing their thing about that entirety.

entirety.

Tyron Matthew, the honey badger, coming out of college, he was the guy at LSU.

I mean, he captivated the world.

Did he win to Heisman?

Finalist.

Yeah, finalist.

He was a Heisman finalist.

Punt returner.

I think they give him the ball on the offense and on defense side of the ball.

He was a magnet to every.

I mean, he was electrifying.

Obviously, everything that happens with LSU, you know, maybe a little bit of marijuana.

KA, maybe, maybe a little bit of a weak.

Still dominant on the field.

Never really, everybody talked positively about him.

It was just a little bit of a different road than we all expected.

Nothing was handed to him.

I think BA tells a story about drafting him, how happy he was and pumped he was, and basically was like, hey, here's your opportunity, basically, to prove everything right about yourself that you've always said.

And he did all of that and more.

I was very thankful to watch his entire football career, I think is what I would say.

But his LSU times, all the way through these Saints days, he has seemingly maintained this magnetic ability to the ball.

The dude was everywhere.

Electrifying player.

You played with him.

What was he like as a teammate?

I've only got a chance to watch, obviously.

He hung it up yesterday.

Congrats to him on a phenomenal career.

What was he like as a teammate?

Man, Tyron was amazing as a teammate.

I got to play with him a short time in Houston, but you talk about people that gravitate to leadership.

They gravitate to him, and he doesn't speak a lot.

He's quiet.

He's a very quiet guy.

I remember we were in training camp, and Bill would have a player speak.

Kind of towards the end of the training camp.

He'd pick like six guys that would speak either every night or every other night, have one.

When Tyron got up there, you could hear a pin drop and he got extremely emotional.

He told his life story and mad respect for that guy.

Okay, I love that.

I'd love to hear that.

I think the most transparent leaders are the best leaders, no matter how much you talk.

He's a Super Bowl champ.

Obviously, he just showed the photos whenever he was with the Kansas City Chiefs.

What a run that was.

He goes back home to the New Orleans Saints.

D-Bun, he was great.

It feels like, and he was able to do everything, absolutely everything on the football.

Legend, you talked about being a ball magnet, but just his overall football IQ.

Like, that was why he found the ball, just like a guy like Charles Woodson it's like I just got always around the ball like those guys study those guys that anticipate he was on everything DB I feel like every year at least a few times every year just making big-time plays I'm glad he got to finish his NFL career back at home I'm sure that was special for him and then his journey you talked about his journey we all saw it from you know being a Heisman finalist and then having his his pitfalls or whatever and then get drafted to Arizona I think he went what third or fourth round when he was clearly like a top 10 or 15 talent and then that's that's a big that's a big moment we always talk about mistakes that happen in your younger years.

And then, how do you respond to that?

And he's a perfect example of that.

I'm sure we'll see more of him giving it back and paying it forward because that's the type of guy he is on and off the field.

Yeah, hopefully we do get more of him.

We always talk about dogs, it feels like.

And Tyron Matthew, for me at least, him talking shit to Tom Brady in the Super Bowl when he was still with Kansas City.

And granted, We know how that turned out.

You know, maybe it didn't go exactly how he wanted because Tampa ended up winning that Super Bowl by a lot.

But it feels like that kind of encapsulate who he was, at least on the field.

I don't know him, but him talking junk to basically everybody.

And then you think about it in the biggest moments where you don't want to maybe talk shit or poke the bear, if you will, but he just didn't care.

I mean, him getting in Brady's grill, talking shit.

That, to me, is like what football is all about, especially because it's Brady.

I enjoy the fact his name is the Honey Badger, too, which is a phenomenal nickname.

Hey, yeah, phenomenal nickname.

Obviously, the internet is always going to do its thing.

Congrats on a hell of a career.

The game will miss you.

The game will miss you, man.

And I'll be excited to see what he does next.

A lot of platforms have a lot of football.

What are you doing in TV?

No, right now, and this is it.

What are you doing?

What are you doing right now?

Why are you in Indiana?

Do you want to tell me?

I'm here for my daughter's softball tournament.

And we

travel quite a bit.

And this was one of our big tournaments, last tournament of the summer.

And then she'll turn around on Monday and go right into high school volleyball.

So she'll finish up this weekend.

And no, actually, she'll have one one week off and then start up high school volleyball.

But Emerson's, you know, she's got offered scholarship to Baylor.

Couldn't be more proud of her.

My older daughter is playing volleyball at UTSA in San Antonio.

So

it's going to be busy, busy after they both are in college and one's playing in the fall, one's playing in spring or summer.

It's going to be a lot of traveling, but I'm down.

Hey, a little empty nest, but the birds are going to take a little bit of a flight over there.

Meet me and to Baylor, beautiful Texas schools.

I'm sure you absolutely love that.

Let's talk about a Texas school that you love, Texas A ⁇ M.

Hey, can I tell you,

we went down there two times, I think this last year.

Yes.

We were there early and then obviously later in the year.

I love that place.

What a town.

Traditions are insane.

I mean, people say you guys are weird with it all.

And, you know, everywhere is a cult, I think.

And that is what makes college football awesome is the cultiness of the fans and the passion.

I mean that in a positive way, not in a negative way.

Obviously, there are negative cults.

I'm not talking about those cults.

I'm talking about this being a positive cult,

which is what these colleges are.

And down there, you know, the cultness is all aligned because it is like a, obviously the Aggies is agriculture, but I believe it is a military type setup as well.

If my research kind of reminds me, well, what a place.

What a school.

What a town.

Who are you in school with down there?

When I was there, college roommates with Dan Campbell, the head coach, Detroit.

Everybody knows Dan.

How was that?

How was that?

He was my roommate, like roommate, roommate.

There was two beds in one room.

Like we had, he came from a, he came from, you You know a family that didn't have that much money and I came from two teachers too.

So it was that was it.

And in the other room was Billy Lucci, who runs Tech Sags and Seth McKinney, who played 10 or 11 years with Miami and then I think Cleveland.

But yeah, it was awesome.

And being, you know, being with Dan growing up, I guess our whole college career, except for one, he was one year ahead of me.

You know, that was awesome.

And then winning the 98, we just talked about it the other day, winning the 98 Big 12 championship game against Kansas State, getting home late that night from St.

Louis, and then I think we went to bed like

two nights later.

Oh, so we did it, Doc.

Yeah, so MCDC is who we thought he was.

Oh, yes, he is exactly who you think he is.

You thought he would be an incredible coach?

I just knew his work ethic.

I mean, he was that type of guy in the summer, before summer off-season program started, we were already in there because Dan was kind of like, hey, guys, let's go.

You know, let's get this right.

And he was kind of the nucleus of that group.

It was him, Datwyn,

was the linebacker then.

And it was just a great, I guess, probably the tightest team I've ever been around.

We all hung out.

We all did everything together.

And

I wouldn't say we were the most talented team that year in the Big 12, but...

We won it because we were a legit team.

Yeah, and dogs, I think.

That's a big deal.

And I think the teams that like each other play better.

I think that is kind of just like on the record at all levels, high school, college, in the pros, definitely.

If you like each other, you're certainly going to be better.

Dane Campbell is beloved by every person he's ever met.

Is that kind of how that goes?

I mean,

I've never heard someone say something negative about him.

Well, when he said he was going to gnaw knee cows,

they took some shots.

The helmet,

yeah, they're going to, they're going to, they're going to let their jokes fly.

This guy isn't normal.

This isn't what I'm used to seeing.

I hate it.

And then whenever he remained that person, and they were ass.

You guys were ass there for a while.

So bad.

So, so, so bad.

And he just stayed the course.

Yes.

And didn't change, didn't waver.

I love that.

And then they get their first win.

He cries.

It's like, yo, this guy that says he's going to gnaw kneecaps.

He's so proud of his team for finally getting a win.

And then the weeks leading up to it, he was like, we're close.

We are doing everything right.

Never turned his back on his team.

Never did anything like that.

Took all the shots.

All of them.

All of them.

And then I think he actually did get bigger.

Would like his nutrition routine.

Please.

Everything he's doing.

Would love to see what that is.

He is an absolute monster, an absolute animal.

he said he works out at home he doesn't even work out at the gym what do you think the shower's routine involved you think he's like vegan

yeah i think so yeah mcdc's not a big meat guy yeah

i think that's gonna be tough for him to ever be a vegan i think he's eaten the de shambeau diet that whenever he was trying to put on the 40 pounds

protein shakes a day looks like he's always adding yeah he might he might just be eating like 45 pound plates from the gym like the actual weight.

Yeah, like the actual weight.

Yeah, I didn't even think about that.

At least at 25 because that's a little thinner.

Yeah, exactly.

You can really get your teeth in.

Yeah.

He's fucking huge.

He's so big.

Massive.

And he's only getting bigger.

I have no idea how it happened.

He's always been a dog.

So have you.

You've always been so kind to me.

I appreciate it.

Because you're the best in the world.

And then I didn't really know how to punt when I got into the NFL.

Was kind of learning as I go.

And you were always so cool to me, so nice to me.

And I watched your film on a very regular basis because we had similar styles.

Bang it.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

We absolutely did.

So I appreciate you, man, a lot.

Remember that whole thing, like, oh, he out-kicked his coverage.

You know, Al would be like, you can't do it.

I'm just going to get somebody faster.

Yeah, and that must have been nice.

Thank you.

Yeah, that was really nice.

Every time somebody for Al Davis drafted somebody for the Raiders, and I was younger then, I wasn't a punter at that point, so I didn't have the mindset yet.

But every time they were like, Al Davis is going to draft the top five fastest guys in the draft.

As soon as I got in the NFL and I started learning that, I'm like, all we're looking for is one guy that runs a 4-4.

That's all we're looking for.

We got a guy, Darius Hayward Bay.

He was

trapped by the Raiders.

We get him to Indianapolis.

And for one reason or another, he was making plays for us, which I appreciate, but he wasn't in the full rotation.

So I just asked him, like, will you be a gunner?

Will you do a gunner?

He's like, yes, would want to be a gunner.

We put him in a gunner.

What a life.

What a life that was.

Yes.

That was a very good time.

He was one of the greatest special players.

He was played probably six or seven more years.

No, he went to Pittsburgh and had some good years.

He was unbelievable.

So fast.

Wide receiver get off too.

So getting off the jam.

And then he was 4-3-4-4 down the field.

And it's like, holy shit.

And then the Raiders team.

And he wasn't small either.

No, big.

And people were scared when they saw him.

So fair catches were going up very, very quick.

Early hand.

Speaking of Tyreek Hill.

That's one of my favorite stories.

My

I punted the ball to Tyreek in Kansas City.

And at that time, you know, we were outside the numbers against him.

Like, just get every ball outside the numbers.

If not, get it on the boundary, you know.

And I hit a ball and I'm like, oh, this is perfect.

You know, it's spiraling, it's tailing right towards the sideline.

Did it?

And he plants his foot.

You know how, like, when they rush, they run right by you.

You hope no one loops back around to come get you.

Yeah.

So I turned to make sure he didn't loop.

And when I took, picked my head up, Tyreek was on the other numbers already and hauling ass.

Yeah, and lost

myself.

Here he comes.

Yeah, Antonio Brown, Tyreek Hill.

Obviously, Devin Hester.

Devin.

Cribs was just a different animal.

Cribbs was just so hard to bring down.

I mean, fearless.

Yeah.

And, you know, and I played with Dante Hall in college.

Dante and then Dante, you know, the human joystick, whenever he went to Kansas City, that guy was unbelievable.

That last turn he had against Denver?

Unbelievable.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, there was six blocks in the backs on that one.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

There's always a block in the backs.

No doubt.

Oh, I'm returned.

I'm like, throw the flag.

Anytime you see somebody running a little bit, you're just immediately scanning the field.

Where's that yellow?

Oh, shit.

There is no flag here.

This is a real deal here.

Oh, the stats ruined forever.

And they're scoring on us immediately.

Job fail.

You know who doesn't get a lot of love?

Pac-Man was a dog back there.

Pac-Man never had a fair catch.

Yeah.

There was a season when I turned to the Aussie and I was just hitting it like 49 yards to the left every time, which turns out

obviously very effective.

Like if you can do it.

Yeah.

You're swinging really hard at that foot.

I was swinging very, very, very hard.

Like looking back on it, I'm swinging.

Like it's basically punting, you know, those wooden drivers that they have?

Those wooden drivers, and you got to like really

out of like the 30s or whatever it was.

That's what that is, basically.

Because the thing, the sweet spot's so small.

Oh, it's so small.

And I'm trying to hit it to an exact spot as opposed to just like

an area.

And it's like, I just started swinging so hard at it.

And Pac-Man, I think I had like,

I maybe had zero return yards until like maybe week eight or nine kickoff and punts.

I felt pretty good about that.

That's pretty good.

Yeah, that's pretty good.

Then there was a year where I was doing pretty okay and we were playing Pac-Man and I had a bunch of fair catches.

And he comes up to me before and he's like, I'm not fair catching one of these things.

Not one of them.

Don't you love when they always come talk shit to you in pregame world?

I'm like, bro, just fair catching.

We're both out of here.

You don't fumble it.

I get my shit.

It's going to be 49, 50 yards.

Could be worse for you.

Could be worse for me.

This is good.

This is a perfect thing.

He said, I'm not doing that shit.

Not one time.

I'm like, come on, bro.

West Virginia Royal Mountaineers.

Tyrone.

He just wanted to be known as the guy that never fare caught the ball.

He would have somebody right in front of him.

Yeah.

Head straight up like this.

Casual, too.

Like, what?

You're not going to do shit.

He had a fearless mindset.

And he never gets

the punt return tuck because I don't think he has as many cribbed.

Right.

But I think he has a lot of block in the back.

I think there's a lot of flags potentially against him.

Some of those returners are just phenomenal athletes.

Tyreek changed the entire game, though, whenever he showed up back there.

Yeah, and they're so good.

Both those guys, like Tyreek and Pac-Man.

Tyreek will get talked as a returner, but like Pac-Man, I feel like won't just because he was so good at corner.

Played so long.

Some of those other guys, they're specifically returners.

And Tyreek, you know.

Antonio Brown's another guy.

We're not going to talk to him as a returner.

He'd be an unbelievable returner.

If he was just a full-time returner, he'd probably be go down as best ever.

And same with Tyreek Edelman.

Unbelievable.

Edelman was so good returner.

Unbelievable returner.

Pat P was.

He didn't play.

Obviously, he's been an all-pro corner.

He wasn't back there his whole career, but he was a dog.

And Reason Pac-Man, he missed a little chunk of his prime, too.

Missed a chunk of his prime with some off-the-field shit.

And then playing in the same era of Devin Hester.

Yeah.

That combo just kind of is like playing in the safety era with Ed Reed and Troy.

Ben a punter with Shane's in there.

Like it's just certain Vinny and he's kicking.

It's like, okay, you're not going to get that recognition.

But yeah, if you played against those guys, if you ever game plan against those guys, absolute animals.

Yeah, congrats to all the part returners that literally do make our lives awful like you need to know that i do think we do think about you we do and going in we do think about you and we all wish that you guys would just be cool down here just fucking fair catch it go on to next week it'd be good for all of us shane i know you got to get to a game we appreciate you good luck thank you man appreciate you

appreciate you let's go ahead and pack one of these what is the thing you guys do down here

what is the the aggies thing you know what i'm talking about oh i know you do know what i'm talking about i don't know yes

You know, it's a whoop.

Yeah, you're getting me in trouble with all the aggressive.

No, no, you know what I'm doing.

You know what he's doing.

Is that what it is?

Put it on a video game.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

What is the saying?

Will you tell me at least so I don't look stupid?

I don't know.

It's just whoop, like whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.

Oh, you can't do that.

Whoop.

Not with the hip.

Yes, they do.

They do that.

You don't need to do that.

We appreciate you.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, joining us live from an attic in Ohio is a man who's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner.

Sorry.

No, no, you're good.

You're good.

You're good.

You're good.

You're good.

That's it.

Yeah, you missed it that time.

Good luck.

I knew his face was going to be winter for me.

Shane, you're the man.

Well, says Spike.

No, it's off all the way.

Oh, it's off.

Good call, Hey, hit that riser.

Yeah, need to hit that riser.

Offer from Sit Dead Red.

Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now live from Anatican, Ohio, is a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Roderick Cup winner, friend of the program.

Family of the program.

His family, 10 kids.

Ladies and gentlemen, A.J.

Hall.

Yeah.

Walker, we're letting our hair grow.

It's summer.

Whoa.

Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah, I don't have any plan, but yeah, I'm letting it grow for a while, man.

Did you hear our conversation about the returners and how incredibly freaky athletic they have to be?

How about the Honey Badger?

Honey Badger retirement.

punts as well.

Like he was an absolute monster.

What are we talking about?

That was everything.

Yeah, he was back there.

There's an interesting little game that kind of happens pre-game that Shane was referring to there where the returners do come up.

And I would like to have a conversation with them as well.

I would like to talk to them.

Is it normal?

Did most all of them speak to you?

I would try to speak to everybody.

I don't know.

Edelman didn't talk to me.

I was going to say Edelman would just cold shoulder.

Edelman wouldn't talk to me.

I could break everybody else.

I could get everybody else.

Because my thing I wanted them to know is

who?

Jules.

He's a break.

Out there, yeah, certainly.

I mean, he wouldn't even crack.

And then I saw him like in the offseason.

I'm like, you know every fucking bus I might even have.

And then I think he was even empowered by that.

I got to talk even less.

Yeah, I think he felt even.

I just wanted to tell them, I wanted to get in their mind, hey, don't run me over.

Sure.

Okay, that's all I wanted.

All I wanted to get into their head was like, hey, just don't run me over if you get this thing.

You know, juke the shit out of me, dude.

Do what you got to do.

Because then that put in their head that they can run by me.

You know?

Bait them a bit.

That would be, so it was literally a little bit of, like, hey, just being cool.

Like, hey, if you break one, when you break one, you're so good, man.

Just don't run me.

Or my family's here.

You know what I mean?

Like, just don't do that.

Because that Antonio Brown

Brown.

Oh, yeah.

Can't have it happen.

My family's here.

My dad's here.

Can't have that happen.

Football is happening, though, in a big way, and we're pumped up for it.

I think it's time we go camping, don't you think?

AJ, you want to go camping?

Yeah, I love camping.

Let's do it.

All right, let's go camping.

Ton Davids, what do we have going on?

We are fully, fully camping, boys.

The Falcons and Steelers reported today, so all teams are officially at camp.

26 teams reported yesterday, and then we already had four teams in camp before that.

So we are going to focus on some things of the teams that we're already practicing.

You know, there's some videos out there, some teams that, you know, aren't practicing, people got caught, but that's for a different day.

Let's start with the Chargers in LA.

Early indications that Justin Herbert and Quentin Johnson are having an unbelievable first week of camp.

They are linking up every single day with a lot of highlights.

So I'm looking early and often to see what Quentin Johnson and Justin Herbert are.

Big year for you.

Can't wait for the Los Angeles Chargers to be who they can fully be, is what we all expect.

Another year in the horrible boss system, we assume it's only going to get bigger and better out there in Los Angeles.

And they got a brand new prax facility.

Yes, that's beautiful.

How many hundreds of millions?

Not a lot.

Three, four.

Yeah, I want to say three.

Three, four hundred million dollars the owner just put up in 2025 to build a practice facility.

We love that.

As you guys know, not a lot of, you know, I don't know if all the fans know, but the best part I assume for you guys and for a lot of people watching practices is good on good.

So we're going to go to the Lions Camp.

They also started early.

We got J-Mo versus Brian Branch here in Lions Camp one-on-one.

That's awesome to watch.

Those are like...

Two of the best players on the team.

I assume that's all you guys are watching, Pat, especially as a punter in practices, good on good

in that situation, Debuts?

Yes, absolutely.

I mean, you always get jacked up for the one-on-ones.

And aren't both these guys Bamba boys, too?

So they probably

played against each other a bunch in college doing this.

But this is a moment where, yeah, Pat, Vinny, everybody's going to be on that sideline watching.

Front row.

Big on big, good on good, sharpen that sword.

Front row.

And depending upon who's going in the big boys, like, are our guys going offensive line, D line?

Like, are our guys going?

No.

If they're going, we're going to want to go watch Robert Marathis.

But if we got our guys going wide receiver, DB, that is certainly one that we would like to have eyes on.

That is when spectacular things happen.

That is when people make the team in those number ones.

I mean, that's where the stage is yours.

Like, that's literally what's happening.

And that is also where some guys get caught with a four-string quarterback.

Oh, yeah.

Can't have it.

Well, it's good for you guys.

Can't have it, yeah.

Can't have it.

It'll feel good, though, because in the training camp for the pros, AJ knows it too.

We don't really get to go against the starters as much anymore outside of training camp.

You know, that early part of training camp, that's when, you know, Brian Brunch, hey, you want to go against, you you know, a T.Y.

Hilton or whoever those top guys are because you're not going to get those reps, you know, once that season kicks off.

So, yeah, those are high competes.

Let's head back to the AFC champions from last season.

The Chiefs is still the Chiefs in our eyes.

A lot of people were talking about it.

Travis is looking

bats looking super motivated.

They were hooking up in practice.

Whoa.

Everyone was watching?

Yeah.

Yeah, they're hooking up.

Look at the connection.

We're watching it right now.

Good connection.

Great chemistry.

They put out a tweet about a Xavier Worthy catches, even though it was just one catch, which really pissed me off for some reason.

But the Chiefs are back in my life.

They said passes.

It was only one pass, but it was a great pass.

And I forgot that Xavier Worthy was a wide receiver for them.

Yeah.

And I forgot how fast he is.

Yeah, very.

And then I saw that clip, and I was like,

Chiefs are still the Chiefs.

Chiefs are still the Chiefs.

And now they're a little bit more.

Yeah, these passes were worth

the wait.

I like that.

That's a good tweet.

You could have just this passed it.

Yeah, I agree.

Whenever I looked down and saw the the number, and it was six seconds left on the video, I was like, what the hell?

What the fuck's going on here?

I thought we had it.

We're back at football.

I wanted more highlights.

We need more is what we were thinking in that video.

And speaking of, let's head out to Oxnard, California, where the Dallas Cowboys were in camp.

They had their first practice yesterday.

It was good to see CD and GP together.

Those two are going to be an absolute problem together.

And then there was a couple of highlights coming out of that camp of Dak getting into GP early.

Obviously, he's an athletic freak.

He looks quick.

He looks fast.

That's going to be a situation, a fun situation to watch this year.

Yeah, I love the Dallas Cowboys have a lot going on, and we forget that they got to play football.

And Dak and GP are going to be amazing.

Micah and

Trey held a little bit of a press conference out there.

Yeah, we see other people getting treated good.

We wish that was us.

We're here to work for our teammates, though.

It's kind of how we view it.

And we'll just move on, basically, is what they said.

Yeah, we're not happy.

We don't love it.

We certainly think we deserve it.

But if I'm not going to be here, Micah said, I'm about to go show out.

And it's business at the end of the day.

It's business.

You You know, it's unfortunate.

I'm not sure if he's practicing or what the situation.

Like, I know he had some back tightness, so I hope that.

Yeah, I hope that gets cleared up soon.

And then Trevon Diggs coming out saying, like, they knew where I was training.

You know, I am on pace to recover and be back in time.

So it was interesting to have these guys make themselves available together.

And speaking, you know, when you see a TJ get his deal, when you see Miles get his deal, when you see Max get re-upped early,

your top guy, we talk about it.

Going into your fifth year, and you've done everything imaginable since showing up to the organization, you expect to get paid.

did saquon and ed berry new president of football at ca congrats to him get that deal done three years early or two years early it was i think it was three years early after his first year yeah okay obviously yeah who knows if it was three year or four year deal whatever the case he got that multiple years early first year at the place obviously they have massive success but it's like players around the league see that it's like yo yo they're taking care of people over there in philadelphia good for them they're the reigning champs joining us now is senior nfl insider at nfl network nfl.com and also the host of the weekly wrap-up of the rap sheeting friends us being friends he being rap sheet ladies and gentlemen he and rapapor

great to see you happy summer Wednesday to you I hope life is good uh football's back training camp's happening let's start in Oxnard over there in California Dallas Cowboys a lot of noise a lot of drama uh what gets settled micah parsons Trey Hendrickson which one happens first

My sense this whole time is that Micah Parsons will be last.

Now, you know, if you're Trey Hendrickson, like, I'm not sure that Trey's deal directly affects Micah because he's going to get a raise if he gets a deal done with the Bengals, which just to be totally honest, like, I thought a couple of days ago, what's today?

Wednesday.

So I thought Monday there was a real, real chance that a deal was going to get done.

I think the overall numbers were probably

about where they should be.

The guaranteed money was certainly not, which is where this broke down.

And when you have guys like TJ Watt, I mean, the Steelers historically have not done multi-year guarantees.

They did it for T.J.

Watt.

Actually, did it for T.J.

Watt last time.

Now did it for him again.

Bamben.

You know, you see that.

And if you're Hendrickson, you want that multi-year guarantee.

The Bengals weren't where he wanted it to be.

So that thing kind of blew up.

And then he posted a pick from Florida.

Yeah, now he's gone fishing, brother.

See you later.

He's going to be in that shape, though.

He's going to stay committed to the sport.

He's still.

I'm sure.

I kind of like the geotag.

Like, you know, what's this more?

It's like, that's a beautiful pick.

And then it's just like, Florida.

Like, all right.

Like, just letting you know exactly where I am.

And the sky is beautiful.

Look at this sunset.

Or maybe that's actually the sunrise.

Yeah, because you could be getting to work.

Beautiful future.

Maybe trying to go get a swordfish, too.

Yeah.

Or coming back.

The owners at both these places, Cincinnati and Dallas, seemingly saying very interesting things here to start training camp.

What are your thoughts on that?

Did they have a call and say these players think an area a little bit too important in this league?

We got to remind them, or why do you think this is taking taking place?

Well, you know, Mike Brown came out and was like, you know, Trey deserves a raise.

We offered him a raise.

You know, he was optimistic about a deal getting done, which sort of, for me, was like, all right, I think a deal is probably getting done.

It did not.

Jerry Jones,

you know, was a little different.

That was a little bit of a different press conference.

I can't say that I've really seen that many press conferences like that.

It's not zero.

You know, I remember when Dan Snyder was mispronouncing Kirk Cousins' name, that kind of what this reminded me of.

I mean, Jerry Jones called him Michael at one point,

which is, you know.

Well, Bron called him Trey Henderson.

These guys are old.

Give them a break.

No, I hear you.

I hear you.

They're close.

But, you know, what's so interesting about Jerry's press conference is like, he really did tell you everything that was on his mind.

Like, you want to know why he waits for a deal,

why he's not proactive, like, say, the Eagles.

He really explained it to you.

He wants more information.

Now, I think with Micah, you know, you don't need more information.

Like, I think Micah is content to be the last of these deals to have, you know, Aiden Hutchinson get paid, to have Hendrickson, I was going to say Henderson, Hendrickson get paid.

I think Micah would like to be last because he probably comes in above all of them as he should.

So like, yes, I think a deal, you'd always like a deal.

You always would like money now rather than later.

But my sense is that Micah ends up last and most.

Well, yeah, in the next three years, you sign a four or five-year deal or if anything can happen.

You ever hear about guys getting mono?

Drink out of the wrong bottle.

Sure.

Lose 20, 30 pounds.

All of a sudden, you're not as fast as you once were.

All of a sudden, that bull rush ain't too bull anymore.

It's more like a young bull rush.

No calf.

Calf rush.

It is a little calf rush.

Had the old bull.

Now you get to the young guy.

Young calf.

All right, go ahead, Andrew.

Grab the button.

No.

Rap sheet.

sheet, you mentioned with Trey Henderson.

You said the overall numbers may have looked somewhat near what they should be, but the guarantees do not for Henderson.

What does that mean?

I mean, all he cares about, I would imagine, is guaranteed and then number of years in the contract.

Is that a big holding point or what?

He said Henderson.

Okay, so I believe the overall number of years.

It's fine.

It's not fine.

We're not disrespecting this man.

We are on this guy's side.

He's a second king right now.

He's got big money and we can call him by the right name.

Okay?

This guy's whole entire life sucks right now.

He's fishing in four.

He's got a beautiful fishing.

He loves ball, though.

He wants to be a training kid.

Exactly.

He's fishing.

I bet he loves fishing.

He wants to be

in the painted grass.

There's two things he loves when he's fishing, and that's Jesus and football.

And guess what?

He can't do right now.

Football?

Play football.

Hopefully.

Hopefully, he's still talking to Jesus.

He might be thinking.

And I only talk to God when I need a favor.

What a song.

That ain't true.

That ain't tricky.

No, that ain't true.

No, Trey ain't singing like us.

He's talking to God all the time.

Yeah, every day.

Which we are appreciative of.

He actually prayed.

And told him for us.

Oh, that was a good prayer.

During that prayer, he should have.

That's a crazy prayer.

Because he would not think that you would.

No, you could.

Yeah, he should have wished for Mike Brown to maybe,

you know, pronounce his name right.

Give him a new deal.

Anyways, go back to the...

You said the guarantees were at the same because he said it was a good thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Go ahead.

So, so my sense is the overall numbers were probably okay, right?

So like he was going to get a huge raise, like

very large raids this year, which basically what you do is you do a two-year extension, right?

And then you take some of the money and you front-load it.

So he gets a big raise this year.

So he gets more in line this year with what some of the other top, top guys are making, which, you know, would probably put him somewhere in the middle of that graph.

And that is good.

Raise this year is good.

And that part is guaranteed because he's going to get it.

Okay.

But then then what a player wants is they don't want to have to go through the same thing next year and say i'm not guaranteed like what if god forbid something bad happens he has an injury or he doesn't he's not as productive sacks are tough right you can play great and not get a lot of sacks what if he doesn't have the numbers then he's like he doesn't want to be at risk next year he wants the protection that he has earned and that is why he wants the guaranteed money and that really is what the deal broke down over.

It's not like, well, the Bengals don't want to pay him.

They made an offer.

It just, it was not enough.

and they are at two sides of the country now like one's like in the middle and the other is kind of like down here doctor still a long flight we did it last week to the esps the um

the

the thought of shitty flight it was a long flight

it was like an hour actual plane

it was those damn cars what happened to you you guys got murdered they got you and you're 40 to 4 aggregate score four games aj did you hear that yeah you guys stunk four points in in four games you only got four points yeah and we probably actually had like 42, 43.

I need to start playing like AJ.

Cheating?

Winning.

You were winning.

Join the squad.

When did you win?

When did you win?

Ian,

you said in there at one point, you know, sacks are hard to get.

What if his numbers are down?

Well, he's the sack king.

Exactly.

He gets sacked.

They are hard to get.

So pay the guy is what everybody's thinking.

Interesting that he was offered a one-year 34-35.

If we go by the hints that you were kind of leaving.

No, no, no.

It was multi-year.

Multi-year.

It's just you take the you take the money you front load so he was going to get a big raise this year then there was years on the back end as well oh so he wouldn't have been a free agent it would have been oh here we are looked good though pat it would have looked good but then it could have cut him after a year or two i guess yeah cincinnate bangladesh don't know

here no offense to cincinnati banglas but you're kind of grandstanding on this particular contract design for a guy that's a sack king at this stage nonetheless good luck to everybody rapperport we uh

we have one final question for you here from uh darius j butler uh terry mclaurin officially a holdout now up in Washington.

Any, I guess, anything going on there with that front office and getting his deal done?

Yeah, they're trying.

This is another one where like I kind of thought maybe they would get it done right before the start of camp.

They were in talks.

There's a lot of conversations.

You know, Garrett Wilson gets done at 32.5

yearly average based on new money.

Sounds to me like that's where Terry McLaurin would like to be in the 30s.

Believes he has earned it.

He has been one of the faces of this franchise.

It's not great now, but he's in town.

I saw a picture of him doing yoga earlier today, so he is at least there if things happen.

Power.

So they are going to keep talking about this one.

He's doing a power pose right there.

I love everything about it.

Is this the power pose?

That's a good picture.

Yes, power pose.

That's strong.

All right.

We hope everybody gets their business settled and handled.

I got one quick thing for you.

Okay.

You guys did, people might not remember this.

It was a long time ago.

You guys did a home run derby announcement.

Yeah, uh, it was awesome.

Thank you.

I got a text from my mom who's very excited about it.

Do you mind if I read it?

By all means.

Okay.

McAfee is on the home run derby.

He's on now, announcing the players with some guy.

Cows and all-star.

Your mom sucks.

Tell her I said that.

Cousin All-Star.

Jeez.

Got plays for the Yankees.

All right.

Pratt, tell your mom we appreciate her falling along.

I don't.

And tell her what Ty said.

And I think in the state of journalism, you should tell her what Ty said.

What that guy.

That guy said.

All right.

We appreciate you again.

All right.

At least call me utter guy.

See you, Rap.

See you, Rap.

Thank you, Rap Sheet.

Have a good one.

Jeez.

Ladies and gentlemen, have you looked to the left here?

It's been kind of hard to focus on this entire thing.

Bronny from the Blake Room Browns is here.

That is that son of a bitch.

Bring some cookies.

He sucks every time he's here.

Dude, Brian?

What's he?

What is that?

He's putting another march here.

I like a good mask guy.

You think he's going to talk to you, Comrade?

Is that a bomb?

If he talks to me, then that'll be the last thing he does.

It does have a bomb.

What if that blows up and everyone dies?

What if that?

What if

that'd be tough?

Where'd you get that, Brian?

Carry on our legacy.

Wait, is Miz gonna jump out of this box?

That would be awesome.

I'm the Miz

and I'm

so.

is that is Miz in here?

Oh, baby.

Oh, baby.

Okay.

What is this here, pal?

What's going on here?

I see the clock in front of it.

Yeah, watch the basketball, so I don't want to trip you.

Box.

It's right.

Time.

Right in front there.

Mm-hmm.

Uh-huh.

Open.

Uh-oh.

Oh,

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what was this?

What was this?

Bombing explosion.

Rodney, you're doing a little bit bomby.

That was a little bit of a bomby.

Oh, there we go.

Slow.

Okay.

Slow.

Check it out.

Slow.

I like that he doesn't talk like that.

What's in there?

Anything?

Hey, man.

We'll find out.

Dynamite.

How are you doing?

Who's your quarterback?

He doesn't know.

One, two, three, four.

Only got four fingers.

That's interesting.

You made an adjustment there at the end.

Perfect.

That was a really good play out of you.

You know, Blooper, Brownie?

You know Blooper, the Atlanta Braves.

The Atlanta Braves mascot?

You got those big ears.

You can't hear shit.

Do you know Blooper?

He does.

Oh, yeah.

He does.

Oh, you know.

You would know, right?

That guy's a fraud.

These things talk, Connor.

These things like the gossip.

Yeah, these things

are not supposed to be.

I know they talk now.

Don't.

No.

No.

Did you say handshake?

Wow.

Nice.

Who won that?

Hey, dude, Brownie.

I didn't say it because of his head.

I gave him a one of these, so he looked up here and I shook his hands.

Hey, we did not talk, Brownie.

Oh, no, fuck it, dude.

We saw it happen there.

Appreciate you, Brown.

Respect.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got a good one.

Dap it up.

Hey, Hey, Brownie, let me get a dap, Brownie.

Come on, man.

Come on, Brian.

Brownie, that can't happen, Bronny.

Brownie, Brownie, AJ, he's Ohio guy.

He's Ohio.

Hey, buddy, fuck it, buddy.

Bam.

Look at his fingers.

Ooh.

Dude, why are you having dirty?

All right, Bronny.

Thank you, Brownie.

Eating poop.

So this is going to go up.

This is going to blow up.

It's going to blow up.

Eating poop?

You brought a dog out there in the yard?

Nobody gloves.

No yard gloves.

No gloves, buddy.

No gloves.

Hey, why'd you throw up that, like, uh, the Star Trek thing?

Why is your finger Star Trek?

Live long and prosper.

Yeah, is that Star Trek?

Star Trek.

I can't even do the Star Trek thing, though.

No, you do.

Your hand's always doing it.

Oh, well, I got, yeah, these left two, yeah, ring finger picking things don't operate.

They don't work normal, so it's kind of, yeah, naturally does that now.

AJ, how do you feel that all NFL teams are back at training camp and that there's a box counting down ratio i mean it's kind of unsettling yeah what yeah we don't it is kind of unsettling you're right like it is it does make you a bit anxious when you see that counting down you only have 25 minutes well until what break it open chop it open get bill out here to chop it open yeah he has he has wire cutters with him we should just open it right now you should you're not gonna be able to open this brother i guarantee bill bill

this is oakwood bill can walk in

probably just full of dog shit in this

is all they have let's let them have it to be clear you guys were dancing in his face when he gave me me the old hootie-hoot.

I got him so good.

What if this is just dog shit?

That'd be so good.

That would be good.

Super Bowl.

I don't think it is, but

I do appreciate the box.

I guess we should get the clock.

The result could be dog shit.

There's no doubt.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have somebody else in the Thunderdome

joining us.

He is the

racer that we love the most.

The racer that we, well,

obviously.

One of Sean Dale.

Yeah, Sean Sr.

Shout out.

Shout out to Shad Jr.

But with that being said,

a man smoke as well as being very good.

Jeff Borden.

Lewis Hamilton.

Carl Edwards.

We're not talking about fake races.

We're not talking about fake racing.

We're not talking about parading around a track.

Kyle's driving.

We're talking about racing.

Kyle Lars.

Trace and Pate.

Yeah.

Friend of Proke.

Kyle Larson, who's but loves as well.

Ladies and gentlemen,

he's a man who

is about to race here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend at the Pennsylvania 250 brickyard.

The cars are going to fly.

The attitudes are going to flare.

And if this man's racing, this man's winning.

Ladies and gentlemen, K-Y Kyle Bush.

Trying to calm Roddy.

I love it.

I love it.

Thank you for making this happen.

KY.

What's up?

What's up?

K-Y.

How are we doing?

I like that.

Go around the horn there.

Put it on a box, man.

Is that now a countdown clock for the race this weekend?

Well, the race is right around the horse.

The race is this weekend.

Let's go.

Hey, welcome back to Indianapolis.

I appreciate it, man.

Thanks for having me.

Great to have you here.

You are beloved here.

Obviously, racing city.

You are obviously racing man.

And for us, you've always been so kind.

We appreciate you.

This weekend, how do we feel?

I'm looking forward to it.

You know, we had a fast race car here last year at Indianapolis.

We were right there in the top five there, coming down towards the closing laps.

Kyle Larson stole the win, so we want to make that this Kyle this time.

Yeah, we certainly do.

I think there's been some conversation about your car team, I believe, this week and throughout this entire season.

Yeah.

How do we feel?

Getting on the same page as everybody.

Do we feel like we're working toward championship operation?

I tell you,

it is not due to lack of effort.

That's for damn damn sure.

You know, everybody at RCR, back there at the race shop, they're working as hard as they can.

Engineers are trying to figure it out and look at all the notes and figure out where the speed's at.

So

balance of the race cars has been pretty good this year.

The drivability feels okay.

It's just the lack of speed.

Like there's just guys that are out there more.

They just have more speed.

They just have more potential.

They're just a little bit faster.

The team aspect of racing, I think, doesn't get talked about a lot.

Obviously, in Super Duper G1, Drive to Survive, they documented behind the scenes.

I've yet to watch the entire series.

I don't know how much they talk about how important that is.

Obviously, growing up or becoming an adult here in Indianapolis, getting to know you.

You have?

I think at this stage, we got kids now.

I know, I know.

Isn't that crazy?

Yes, it is.

It damn sure is.

It is.

It is a wild thing.

That's right.

Yeah, I've known you a long time.

I know.

It's been good.

Yeah, I've become an adult out here in Indianapolis.

So I learned a lot about the Indy 500 stuff and like the racing world.

Did you know much of that as like a kid?

Not at all.

Really?

I didn't know any of it.

I know Pennsylvania.

No, I was in Pennsylvania.

But I know Pennsylvania is is a big racing place, too.

Right, for IndyCar stuff with Nazareth.

Nazareth was around there forever.

You never went there either.

Never.

A Pittsburgh.

We're football town.

Football town, Hopkins Town.

Yeah, Sixburg.

Yeah, absolutely.

Looking for seven with Aaron.

You know what I mean?

That's what Aaron's trying to do.

But I didn't grow up around racing.

Then you realize the engineering, the computers, everything happening behind the scenes are just as important as what's going on on race day and at all.

How many years is this now for you, professional driving?

Let's see.

This is my 22nd season, I believe.

21st, 22nd.

I've lost track.

And you guys race forever?

Guys are starting to tap out around 44, 45 years old, somewhere in there.

That's about the number.

Average career.

I just, what's that?

Average.

20.

20 years?

I would say so.

If you make it past what?

Three years or four years.

Yeah, yeah.

Like if you're a guy who's sort of, you know, if you're winning each year and you're making your way through after about four or five, you're pretty much, you can go all the way 20, 25 years, yeah.

How many different styles of racing have you done?

Have you done any

IndyCar?

You've wanted to to do IndyCar?

I think

we would support you if you were to do IndyCar, by the way.

I don't know how that whole process is.

It would be the Pat McAfee car.

Is that what it would mean?

Sure, I've done it before.

I mean, I've been in it before, and we would certainly enjoy that, especially if we make it a good car, especially because I know how important that is.

We're going to bust the news wide open today.

Let's go.

Okay, so I don't know if the Indianapolis Motor Speedway or the Indy 500 would be on board with that, but if you were to try to do that and get into that, had you ever raced in an IndyCar before?

Have you ever driven an F1 car before?

No.

Have you ever felt how those cars are versus how?

I have not.

No, obviously, I've made my way in NASCAR I've been in NASCAR Cup series forever the Xfinity series I've raced the truck series I've raced so I've done all three of those I've done a couple sports car races just here or there and I've never gotten in an IndyCar no so would you think you'd be able to do an F1 he's a massive F1 fan literally do you think anybody could do it it's just a matter of doing it fast if you're good or not yeah what is the mentality because I think there's like a cutoff for some speeds for drivers right like there are some guys that are and girls that are able to operate at higher speeds than other people like that is a real thing that it holds back drivers Yeah, I mean, I think it's a it's a feel thing.

Like when you're a race car driver and you're going out there, like you want to push the car to its absolute limits.

And for me, what always sort of made me as successful as I was, like I could push it to that 100.5%

line and just a little bit over the edge and yet keep it under control where everybody else sort of lies within that 97 to 98% range.

So you can get that little bit out of it.

You can make a lot more hay in being able to get those wins.

We're going flat, right?

You know what it's called?

Indy car is wide open around Indy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

yeah, the stock cars are not.

No, we got to lift.

We're just so big and we're so heavy, and we, we, we don't have

big ass, we don't have the down force either.

D-Bun has a question for you, KY.

F1, the movie just came out.

Obviously, there have been other movies that have covered motorsports.

We know when we see like football, a sports movie, it's some realistic, but a lot of and how realistic are those movies with the team aspect of it and what the drivers are going through?

Yeah, my favorite movie as a kid growing up was Days of Thunder.

Hell yeah.

Days of Thunder was always my favorite movie.

The nickname Rowdy sort of came from that a little bit.

I certainly caused my own headaches, let's say, when my younger years.

But,

you know,

the Days of Thunder one was pretty real.

Like, there was a lot of, you know, the crew chief talking to the car and like souping it up and getting it ready to go for the big race and all that.

And then the drivers having their rivalry and hitting each other and not liking each other.

Like, that was all pretty real.

And then you had

Ricky Bobby come out, right?

Yeah, his documentary.

And

exactly.

And that was sort of a spoof, you know, a little bit of a comedy to what we do and things like that.

Put some real shit in there, too, I bet, right?

Yeah, no, no, for fact.

I mean, I'm a driver's wife.

I don't work.

Like, yeah, that's real.

There's some things that they definitely captured in that particular shit.

Obviously, they did in a comedic fashion.

Right, right.

And so I haven't seen the F1 movie yet, but I'd be interested to see it.

But, like, you know, there's been some other F1 movies in the past where they were pretty good.

Like, they gave you that rivalry of those two drivers back and forth, and they told the true story of them battling for championships and then one of them obviously getting in a bad crash and

burning and things like that.

And so,

yeah, it's, I mean,

it's, it's, it's the nature of how much you want to put into it and believe in it, but I would say, you know, 80% probably.

Okay.

Okay, so we need to know that the Ricky Bobby thing real.

Yeah, 89.

That's not real.

That's what I got.

Peppy LePue comes in here and does his thing.

Go ahead, Ty.

So you mentioned, you know, last year that you thought you had a really fast car here in Indy and you had like the opportunity to win.

Is that still, I mean, given what we heard, you know, about your car from like the last race, like, are you, is that the expectation going into this weekend?

And are there specific like tracks or courses around where it's like you maybe just, I don't want to say put more into it, but you understand like, hey, we have a much better shot winning this week than maybe we did last week.

Yeah, I mean, I would, you know, with Indy, I love Indy.

Coming to Indy is a lot of fun.

I've really gotten pretty good here over the years.

I won the race in 15, 15 16 should have won it in 17 but uh we got got screwed we got wrecked out uh in a late caution restart but um that's bull i feel pretty good about me here at indy and then you know the chevy camp has obviously been really fast here over the years as well too kyle winning the race last year so um i would think that our basis should be pretty close that we can go out there and we can have a good shot aj has a question for you from ohio Yeah, I know you've been driving for over 20 years.

What's your car like now compared to back then?

Like, does it take more skill now to be a driver or maybe less?

Because I know there's so much parity between the teams.

Yeah, that's that's a really good question.

So, the cars the last three years have become more sourced from a single source supplier.

So, you buy that, everybody buys their chassis from the same place.

The bodies all come from the same place, the parts and pieces all come from the same place.

Where years prior to that, everybody always built their own stuff.

You, you, in-house, you would build your own chassis, you would hang your own bodies, all that sort.

So, I would say now the engineering aspect of what little tricks of the trade there are is huge.

You know, having the smart people of being able to kind of go manipulate the little bits of gray area is way bigger nowadays than maybe what it once was.

You could always manufacture and build your parts and pieces better than everybody else, where now all of that's the same.

So, how you assemble those Legos and manipulate those Legos, you got to be better than all the other teams.

That's a big deal.

And that's engineering.

Do you think you would have been a good moonshine runner or no?

Oh, hell yeah.

Back in the day.

Oh, yeah.

I love the back roads.

That's what they said started the whole thing, right?

That's right.

Yeah.

Moonshine running back in the the days, guys souping up their cars, they had to run from the cops.

Yeah, yeah, boy.

What a time.

That's awesome.

That is literally how it started.

Yeah.

And then now let's go ahead and get them on massive traction for the hundreds of thousands of people this weekend in Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

There was an announcement as we're coming up on a hard out.

We can't thank you enough for coming through.

There's a street race, I'm reading it right now at Naval Base Coronado.

Do you know about this?

This sounds awesome.

Yeah, it just came out.

So we've raced in the streets of Chicago the last couple of years.

We've had our big race there.

And so that race has kind of moved off the calendar for now.

And we're now going to the naval base in san diego in replace of that event so yeah it's going to be sweet that's amazing happy 250th birthday to the united states of america and uh i can't wait to see you guys rip them big nascar drivers right there they made a huge commercial about it man i wasn't invited

they're always against you k why i know you're always against the rowdy ones dig it to them i've always got to battle with the sheets over me man we got to go we got to get back up to the top Jeez, that's awesome.

We can't wait to watch you this weekend.

Thank you for stopping by.

You are the man.

I appreciate it.

Yeah.

Hour two will be on the other side.

What the hell is in this?

I have no idea.

I'm going with poop.

I think that's what do you think?

What do you think is there's zone in there?

There's what?

Zone nicotine pouches.

It's full of it.

Oh, geez.

Off TikTok.

What a

smart.

Yep.

Right there on his chest.

Hell yeah.

All right, Kyle.

You're the man.

That's an Ascar right there.

Yeah.

That was Jackie Bobby.

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Football!

Missed it.

Missed it.

We're already at football.

I thought we were still at sports.

That's on me.

100%.

I was not.

I did not jump into it all the way either.

I tiptoed in.

That's on me.

I'm sorry.

No, I appreciate you making that move.

Had he move.

Yeah, because you let the pack kind of thrive.

You didn't want to hold anything back because you were out of the conversation cycle.

And what I want to let you know is we were that way as well.

Whenever it kind of all settled in, whenever we drank it down and really let it simmer, every NFL team is at training camp right now, AJ.

Every single one of them.

Now, these training camps are certainly long, monotonous, and when it comes to news and conversation, they kind of suck.

But

day one, everybody's at training camp.

We are jacked up, AJ.

Literally, we've made it.

And I started the show by saying thank you to all the other sports.

Thanks for what you did.

We appreciate the hell out of you.

Honestly, TST even.

We didn't even mention it.

It's like TST.

Soccer even a little bit.

Yeah, NHL.

NHL.

Completely forgot about the NHL.

Cross.

I mean, there's so many things that are amazing in the sports world, but it feels like today, I talked to Kavanaugh's the other day.

It feels like today

is a day that

we can really say

we did it.

We made it to football season.

The first day of the year, this is basically the first day of our year.

Yeah, yeah.

First day of the rest of our lives.

Happy day, amen.

First day of the rest of our lives.

Seven minutes, we might be dead, but yeah, seven minutes and 28 seconds, we might die.

Very good tech, by the way, that you were that on, because some have a delay where you would be at least a second off, and then let alone the audio coming from and to, to our ears.

Incredible setup we have here.

Shout out to Zito Production and everybody else that has kind of come through.

This is a little bit eerie, I will say.

Bronnie, an elf, walked his ass out here.

Big ears, the whole thing.

Mascot for the Bronx.

We're grinning.

Brought it out last hour, set it down, brought a table.

Nike

don't know where this table is from.

Don't know where this table is from.

Keeps that thing on him.

Legit.

Truly, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Stay strapped.

Always strapped.

Yeah, always strapped.

He

dropped this box off, and we assume that.

I mean, is this account down to him showing up?

What if he pops up out of here?

Now, that'd be a good trick.

Like Chris Angel?

Yeah.

Yes.

What if he's...

What if...

That's why he has this.

That's why.

Because he's in there right now.

Oh, shit.

I'm still holding on to hope is Miz.

Elves are mysterious creatures.

There is a chance it's Miz.

I mean, we don't know what's in here.

I would like to let everybody know I do not know what's in here.

If it's the Mason Rudolph helmet without the face mask.

It's possible.

Anything's possible.

They might have it.

Exactly.

That guy's still in the list.

That's not your NFL vet.

Darius J.

Butler.

Toxic table at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt are here.

And one half of the hammer, Don Cowboys, AP Tone.

Incredible shirt.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I think you did something on purpose in the first hour.

I don't love it.

We did a little camp run around.

We went through.

We're going.

We want camp.

We want camp.

Yeah, we want camp.

Did you see us go camping, AJ?

We want camp.

We had the Chargers, we had the Lions, we had the Chiefs, the Cowboys, and you knew something was coming.

And I feel like you're like, you know what, we need to get wrap on right now.

Yeah, maybe.

There is one situation in the NFL

that's actual quarterback competition, and that's the Colts.

And boy, we got a view of that competition today, and the boys are slinging.

Danny Don, Don.

A.R.

This is both.

That's one Kamo Alley Cox jump.

Good lord.

This is one throw.

Well, I'm just saying, maybe people didn't see this yet, and we were just out here.

We won.

There's no reason to take that time we're gonna let people know how

people gotta know what the competition is doing

it's frozen bullshit it's frozen

it's frozen on this

up

we put a picture up there can we put something different up there thank god

Jesus.

What a ball.

I saw a lot more throws from here and they were all good.

Right on the money.

Well, dimes throw was not.

Was anyone moving?

Dime's through, yeah.

Let me tell you.

It's the first couple of days of training camp.

Defense has a head start.

Always.

Please?

Agree.

That's true.

True.

AJ, agree?

Defense definitely has a head start.

This was routes on air, but yes, defense does have a head start when you go team drills.

Yeah, that threw me off, too.

That's freaking me out a little bit.

That's my first time.

I'm not sure if I'm seeing that.

The top right?

It's like inception.

Yeah.

Oh, shit.

No, no, no.

I think it's good.

People are wondering what it is up there.

What if it just

slings human turds in four minutes?

Yeah.

It could.

420.

All right.

Let's talk a little bit about some other news happening around the NFL.

Head coach of the New England Patriots, Mike Frabel, has introduced himself to the local media.

Run it.

This is awesome, AJ.

How'd they do?

How do you feel about how to pass the back?

I mean, whether you were

in a coma when I answered Tom's question

or typing on your phone or tweeting.

I don't know, but I spent five minutes answering that question.

And I can go back through it,

but I'd rather not.

You see,

so I don't know.

You might have been doing your job, okay, while I was answering this question.

You're going to have to go back and do it.

And that's, we believe, Ben Ben Volan.

And Tom, that he referred to.

Curry.

Guys who have been covering.

New England and the Patriots for a long time.

I assume Vrabel knows them.

I would assume.

Definitely Tom.

I would assume that Vrabel knows them.

And I appreciate the fact that that is the Vrabel we have seen in press conferences in the past.

And I assume there will be some sort of conversation with him and Ben at some point throughout this season that we will enjoy.

But I like that Vrabel is not scared to be himself at all.

Day one.

Feels like he's entering his 10th year as the coach of the Patriots with how comfortable everybody seemingly feels about him being the leader.

Yeah, a thousand percent.

And everyone's so pumped about the season in New England.

Of course, with Drake Man, everything like that, and you know, Vegas having them being favored in 11 games, all that type of stuff.

But this is why everyone in New England thinks the Patriots are back or knows the Patriots are back, is because Mike Vrabel's doing this type of stuff.

He's probably, I'm assuming when he's talking to the team, it isn't as much as, hey, we're going to help these guys along like we ran earlier in the offseason.

I expect today being the beginning of, oh, Mike Vrabel, hard ass.

Here we go.

We are really starting to do this thing.

But it's just great to have this back in the NFL, regardless that it's the Patriots.

Just Mike Vrabel burying reporters is just good for everybody.

Yeah, it's good for the season.

I mean, Ben probably doesn't feel that way.

This is the first age right now.

Yeah, sure.

It's like Jerry Jones or Brian burying their players in the first eight of the entire thing.

It's been an interesting start, Age.

It's been an interesting start to this season.

Yeah, but don't you think this will, at least I know that reporters are obviously typing up his answers, but they're going to be making eye contact, I would imagine, from here on out when Raves is answering someone else's question, I would think.

Did I already talk about that?

Set a precedent.

Yeah, for everybody across the league, you know, I think you guys should say thank you to Vrabel.

If I were you guys, I would be saying thank you.

I don't give a lot of press conferences, but I do feel

as if

somebody wants me to give a comment on something.

It's like I talk for

anywhere between two and a half to four hours a day.

I assume I have said.

I've touched on that.

A thousand percent.

You can go get that's a little, sorry.

You got to do a little bit of looking, you know?

It's like we are.

So I couldn't even imagine if Raybo did at.

I still have yet to hear the answer.

I have not heard.

I've yet to hear the answers that Ben clearly did not hear.

But you could see how Frabes immediately after answering that, just being like, nope, this ain't how this is going to go.

Yeah.

Just won't let you know that.

What a dog.

Are they good this year, H?

I think so.

Yeah.

I don't know what that means exactly, but yeah, I think they're much better.

How'd you feel about Pete Carroll saying we're going to win, man?

I don't care.

I like that.

Said the toe early.

And

he's a winning coach.

You got a quarterback.

It's not like you got a rookie quarterback trying to figure it out.

You got some good piece.

They signed some vets.

So, yeah, I came here to win.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we are under.

Oh, shit.

Did the clock disappear?

Yeah, 40 seconds.

No, it's turned red for death.

I can't see it from where I'm at.

40 seconds.

Fire.

I don't know.

Let me know when it gets to 30.

Would you rather be dog poop or human poop in there?

Dog human for sure.

30.

Lovely.

You're a freaking human poop.

Who does it?

Get my ball mid on, just in case.

Don't trust the broad.

I just need to tell you, mid.

20.

What's it at right now?

Just hit 20.

Yeah, 18.

18.

17.

16.

15.

14.

13.

12.

11.

10.

Good luck to everybody.

9.

Good luck.

7.

6.

I'll jump on it.

5.

Boys,

I will jump on it.

Two.

One.

It's unlocked.

It's close.

Shoot him.

We missed his run.

We missed his run.

Oh, my God.

The lock did pop.

I thought it did on its own.

Oh!

It's the helmet.

It's the new Cleveland Brownie.

It's the helmet.

Okay, so, Brownie,

this is the alternate helmet.

Is this thing going to beep the whole time, Brownie?

So good.

It's still beeping.

Brownie, shut that goddamn thing up.

Your ears are massive.

It must sound

Brownie!

Well, this is the last one we do here with Brownie.

Thanks for coming, Brownie.

He's only got four fingers.

Brownie, I got good news for you.

Don't worry about any of that.

Don't worry.

So does Jesus.

It's still.

Yeah, the only thing that's left standing.

Jesus Christ.

Of course.

I think that's good news for the new alternate helmets for the Cleveland Browns.

How often will we wear this this season?

How often will we be wearing these?

Three times.

Wow.

Three times.

Okay, these are beautiful.

What color jersey probably will be worn same color oh we're going color rush okay oh

what is that we like this yeah it is a matted brown obviously you got to earn your orange stripes out here in cleveland i mean that's what you got to do brownie you getting one of these helmets on that big ass head of yours congratulations this is uh really cool i like all the alt uniforms alt jerseys alt helmets i like the way the nfl creates and this one is called the alpha dog oh great name yeah i'm just getting now getting information here the alpha dog it's a helmet that features a matte all-brown shell, brown stripe between two orange stripes in the middle of an all-brown face mask.

This will be the first time in the history of the organization that a brown helmet will be worn.

Wow.

Cleveland Bronze wearing a brown helmet, first time ever.

Respect that Alpha Dog embodies what we set out to be as the Cleveland Bronze.

Leaders of the pack.

See, that's a mascot.

You see what I'm saying?

That's a mascot.

Bros, pro right there.

Get right in his face.

Get right in his face.

John.

See?

Who?

Alpha dog.

No flubs.

That's a mascot.

We're excited about this new alternate helmet and the ode it pays to the rich history of the color brown as part of our organization, switching it up from our iconic orange helmets, said J.W.

Johnson, who's the Cleveland Browns all executive vice president and partner.

Those are cool.

These are the Alpha Dogs.

And as the presenting sponsor of Alpha Dog, dude wipes.

That makes sense.

Makes sense.

Okay.

All brown.

Yeah, sure.

Remember, they were going to give away...

$100,000 for a kick return.

A punt return, a brown streak.

First one says it's never happened.

Yeah, still never happened.

Initiated its one-of-it-kind stunt on Lake Erie with a covered object on a 20-foot barge 100 yards offshore from Huntington Bank Field yesterday.

Following the announcement of the alts and the helmets today, the object was unveiled to be large, inflatable dude wipes and browns, brown helmet to help bolster excitement.

Okay.

Yep, and it did.

It did.

I'm fucked and pumped.

Yeah.

So pumped.

I can't wait to watch it.

Lake Erie, you guys aren't going to be there anymore because you're moving away from the state, huh?

Yeah, you guys are moving a little bit into the suburbs, huh?

You don't.

Ah, moving on up.

I don't care about that.

You guys still going to have dogs or not?

Up air in the suburbs?

He's got our favorite player, Pat.

All right.

Rock, paper, scissors right now.

Jerry Jidd.

Am I keeping this helmet?

Rock, paper, scissors.

Rock, paper, scissors for the helmet.

That's the three.

or the box

and the table

and all my shit yeah you knocked over olympic gold medalist tyre's out don't worry about it don't worry about it don't keep your four fingers eight fingers don't don't touch shit touch of that an advantage which game what should i throw what should i throw i would you always start scissors i i would throw scissors because he can't really hit

scissors will be hard for him to touch

rock every fucking time

i think i think that's all he's got in his bag though no he can do scissors I don't think he can.

I don't know if he can.

That'd be a good move.

Saturday light with the ear.

Maybe he's got it.

That's what his ears look like, Adrian.

He's not going scissors.

Best of three.

Four fingers.

We don't know if you can even throw scissors.

Oh, he just did it.

And now you know he's not throwing it.

Oh, you wouldn't do that again.

Look at you.

You're an elf.

You go a little baby brain.

A big head, though.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey, I'm throwing rock.

No, Keith.

Go back to your tree, Elf.

I'm throwing rock to you.

I'm throwing rock right now.

I dare you to throw those scissors.

Are you supposed to be blue?

It's rock, paper, scissors, shoot.

Right?

I'm throwing rock.

What are you throwing?

We'll see you out there.

He won't.

He won't.

Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.

I mean, he said with tie.

He said with tie.

Okay.

Smart.

I'm doing it again.

Are you doing off?

Are you doing it again?

I'm doing it again.

You You guys always got it.

Are you doing it again or no?

I'm throwing rock.

Rock, paper, scissors.

You're a liar.

You're a piece of shit.

Wow.

Elves can't lie.

They die if they lie.

I'm throwing rock again.

What are you throwing?

Scissors?

You've told me that twice now.

You haven't thrown it yet.

I like this guy.

He's got a little moxie.

Do you know why he has moxie?

No words.

Yeah, I don't like that I can't see.

Yeah, I can't hear.

Pokeface.

You know, I would like to be able to see, you know, the soul in there.

You know what I'm saying?

What are you throwing?

I also don't have souls.

You're throwing scissors?

No, they don't.

You've lied to me twice, though.

All right, I'm going to throw a rock again.

Or am I?

Oh.

Oh, God.

Here we go.

Game seven.

Game seven.

Swing off.

It's a one-swing swing off, ready?

What we live for.

This is for.

It's for the alpha doll.

We need that helmet, man.

It's for the alpha doll.

We need it.

He won't throw rock every time, would he?

You think I would?

No.

I wouldn't do that.

What are you throwing?

Oh,

wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Son of a.

You ready?

Oh!

He threw six.

Whoa.

He got us going.

Right!

I'm throwing rock.

What are you throwing?

Scissors?

Sticking with it.

Ah!

Got him!

Ah!

Thank you, sir.

Yes!

That was a great game.

Hell win!

Elwin go there, skip!

With a cold cop!

That was a great game.

That was a great game.

Good luck this year, Brownie.

That was a great battle.

That was a really good battle there.

Holy shit.

How tall did it, Brownie?

6'5-ish?

Shadur!

Oh, okay.

6'5 ⁇ .

Good luck to all four of your quarterbacks.

6'5-6'6.

Good luck on these new helmets.

Great performance today, Brownie.

Jerry Judy said, What's up?

Go ahead, Brownie.

Yeah, tell Jerry Judy, we love him.

Yeah, tell Blooper.

He says, shut up.

You don't know, Blooper.

He said he did.

That was a big win.

Yeah, that was huge.

Yeah.

That was a good game.

Dude, throw that helmet on.

It's yours, man.

It was hard.

I couldn't see, you know?

Oh, yeah.

I couldn't see him.

It's off.

And Brownie had good pizzazz there.

Yeah, he really did.

He had solid.

It's got the thing in it.

Never mind.

Oh, it's fake?

Yeah, it's a fake.

Give me a shocker from that organization.

Brownie's a good mascara.

I like Brownie.

He's a lot cooler than those Indianapolis Knights uniforms we saw last year.

She grew up tall and she grew up brown with them Indiana boys on them Indiana Knights.

Dude.

It's a great jersey.

What are you talking about?

Yeah.

They got the one.

Your helmet usually matches the jersey and stuff.

Well, it was a daytime gang because they didn't have any primetime gangsters because the state

franchise at the time.

But now we're all the way back, so it doesn't matter.

Those are cool.

Brown's never having a brown helmet.

Yeah.

That feels weird.

That's crazy.

I guess the orange is always

iconic.

Yeah.

Anything we haven't covered before we launch into a beautiful conversation with Dan Orlowski that we had earlier today?

Things that we need to hit?

Brewers almost gave away

the city of Milwaukee, George Webb and his restaurants almost gave away hundreds of thousands of burgers.

The brewers actually,

if they win 12 straight games, this George Webb's famous restaurants around town gives away free burgers.

It's something that they've had in place for a long time.

In 1987, it happened, and they had the same thing.

They gave away 170,000 burgers.

They feel like they were doing their part to motivate the brewers and motivate the city to be invested in this brewers team.

And it was about to happen again.

This would have been the third time in the history of the promotion.

2018, I think it happened.

They gave out vouchers and stuff.

It was a little different than it was in 1987.

1987 is the greatest year of all time.

Anyways, it's a phenomenal year.

Such a good year.

So there was a chance that hundreds of thousands of burgers were about to be given away last night.

And guess who was on the fucking bump?

Oh, you are busy.

Big Miz.

Big Miz, the heater, the flamethrower.

Miz.

This guy is awesome.

Remember, everybody is pissed off that he was in the all-star game.

Well, it turns out Miz loses.

I don't know if it was his loss or somebody else's loss.

He only threw three and two-thirds, but he didn't give up any runs.

He had a bunch of strikeouts.

He threw it really, really fast every time.

He's unbelievable.

And Cow took him?

Yeah, Big Dumper was the guy who Milwaukee is collectively going to hate now for eternity because no free burgers.

Well, there's a chance they can win the next 12 games.

Could.

You could.

Sure.

The next 12 games.

Sure, you could, I'll.

They are the best team in the MLB right now.

The Brewers are the real deal.

What's the other big-time story?

out of baseball right now.

There's about to be a guy that has a lot of dongs about to be traded.

Yeah, Eugenio Suarez, the third baseman for the the Diamondbacks, has, I believe, 36 homers.

Now he's hit five homers in like the last three games.

And Jet Passen basically said, yeah, there's like a 90% chance that he is going to be traded.

All the teams who are really good, who are kind of going all in, want to get him.

Also, Shohei pitched yesterday.

He's homered in four straight games, so he's kind of starting to heat up a little bit.

But the Dodgers are sliding a little bit.

They have not been good over like their last 13 games or so.

And then the last big thing I'd say, yesterday was Skeens Day.

His ERA is under two.

He threw another gem.

Like, he's unbelievable.

Yeah, you said I saw some stat that he would be 29 and one with average hitting or something like that.

Is that real or not?

What does that even mean?

Yeah, anytime I see stuff like that, I think that's just like you can't really do that.

But he gets no run support.

Like he should not have the record that he has.

And obviously, we talked to Jett, and he kind of said, like, there's a good chance he still wins Cy Young because his stats are unbelievable.

He just doesn't have the win losses because, yeah, they don't hit for him, but they don't hit for anybody.

Baseball is doing its thing, though.

Yeah, without a doubt.

And we're about to have a little baseball talk?

Yeah, with a trade deadline, we'll really start heating up now.

So, like, all the teams who are kind of, you'll see who's going to declare like themselves as like, hey, we want to go win a World Series this year.

There'll be several of those teams will kind of be making big swings, and then we'll see what else happens.

You're talking about the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Pittsburgh Pirates are going to be the other direction.

Basically, Paul Skeens is off limits, and everybody else can be trading.

All right, okay.

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And our conversation with Orlofsky earlier was special too.

Let's go to that now.

Oh, we got the windshield wiper fart thing right back in play all of a sudden.

Let me guess.

You didn't fart today when it happens.

Can you please not fart?

Last time I seen you in this vehicle, you

all over yourself.

I will not fart, I promise.

Dan, this is the best your beard has ever looked.

And also, your hair, you look kind of cool, you look kind of lit, bro.

The salt, the touch of salt, the touch of gray, yeah, it looks real good.

Yeah, wait till you get to mine, just straight white, bro.

I'm getting straight white.

Summertime.

I'm Bob Barner.

Summertime.

Tell me one thing.

How old are you, Pat?

38.

Dude, I'm 41.

I turned 42 in a month.

How many?

Thanks.

My body is

changing.

I feel like I'm like a

60-year-old person.

I have no idea how people my age can.

My hair is gray.

I stubbed a toe yesterday on a bounce house.

Yeah, that's athleticism.

More than anything, bounce house also soft.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think maybe mentality is a part of your problem, but also I agree with you.

I used to not stretch.

I used to not warm up.

You know, like what Prime says, like, you ever see a cheetah stretch?

You ever see that, you know, that, that whole thing?

I, I firmly believe that.

I think I was the only kicker and punter in the history to not believe in stretching and everything like that.

I'd be able to just wake up.

It happened, training camp.

I took a nap, haptics and sounds.

Did not get the alarm.

Punt periods, first period.

It's 11 minutes from when I wake up to the start of punt period.

And I just

lock a room, pads on, to the field, bombs, just fucking bombs.

And I was like pretty proud of me.

I was like, look at me.

I still got it.

If I was to do that now, it would require three surgeries.

I think my hamstring would be gone, hip flexor, and probably my back.

And also, let's not even think about the amount of anxiety I would have sprinting over there.

I might pull a muscle

in my brain.

It might blow an Achilles.

Yeah, you're right.

It's crazy how fast it happens.

So that leads to this.

So quick.

Aaron Rodgers, like 50 years old playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers right now.

Now, there are some Pittsburgh Steelers fans who obviously will hold against you everything you've been saying this offseason about the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But on that note, we are now at a point where the Pittsburgh Steelers are loaded.

TJ Watt back, highest paid non-quarterback in the history of the NFL.

Obviously, they got DK for 30 mil.

Darius Slay comes in, let alone Jalen Ramsey and oh yeah, Aaron Rodgers.

Now, already stacked roster with a lot of vets who have had a lot lot of success, just haven't been able to really get over the hump.

What are your expectations on this Pittsburgh Steelers team?

And we talked about this earlier.

Aaron Rodgers slept in the dorms the night before training camp.

When you want to talk about being excited to be there, I think that is how you would be describing that situation.

So what are your thoughts on the Steelers now after all the shit you talked this offseason, Dano?

The season comes down to three things, reality when it comes to the ultimate goal.

Number one, this is the biggest question mark.

Can the offensive line not only get improved but stay healthy for an extended period of time?

This isn't Rogers of four, five, six, ten years ago, where he can move and kind of cover up for that stuff.

And this was a very poor offensive line last year when it came to pass protection.

So, can that offensive line take a massive jump?

If they do, then I think this offense has got a chance to be good.

The second part: Rogers' health.

Can he stay healthy?

Maybe not for like

as close to 100% as possible, but can he be at least 80-plus% health November, December?

Like, can he feel as healthy as he kind of looked at the back three or four games of last year?

And then the third thing will be the reality of him and Arthur Smith when things go poorly.

Like him and Arthur Smith are both strong personalities.

I've sat with Arthur Smith before.

You guys have had him on your show.

Great dude, good coach, strong personality.

So like when things maybe hit lulls, when they have some moments of struggle, when there's some lack of continuity,

how do they work together and figure it out for

the great, the big scheme of the offense?

And I think those three things will determine kind of how good this offense and team will be.

I still find it to be a good football team.

Now that they've made their final moves, I do not believe this is a Super Bowl contending football team.

No.

Okay, so that's a wild thing.

For all the moves they made, with all the vets that they had,

have, with the amount of success that they've had without this type of roster, you saying you don't think they're a Super Bowl contending team, I think goes against what everybody in Pittsburgh feels like this team is supposed to be.

I think everybody views this as, hey, we're going all in.

I think Cam Hayward even mentioned in the offseason about how, you know, we don't know how many more years we got in this entire thing.

We got a lot of vets here.

And Omar Khan, obviously, the con artist shout out to him general manager of the pittsburgh steelers who's been in the pittsburgh steelers organization for a long time i like the fact that he's got the roonies on board too like hey let's go make some plays here yensers are happy i assume the steelers are happy and you brought up a good point there with arthur and aaron's relationship that i haven't thought about

november those two Oh

the double shit.

Holy shit.

I hadn't even thought of it until he mentioned it.

It was like, how are they going to get along?

I see them getting along swimmingly.

I think both of them, very deep thinkers, even though people wouldn't give a lot of credit to either of them or football players for that.

Love your takes there, Dano.

We'll see how it goes.

You're going to get clipped, though, if it goes well for the Steelers.

On that note, A.P.

Tone has a question for you.

Yeah, Dano, I appreciate you saying that you do think the Steelers do have a shot at the Super Bowl just then.

I do appreciate that.

But besides them, in the AFC, is there a world that we live in that it's not Chiefs, Ravens, or Bills?

I do not see that.

I think the AFC championship game comes out of those three teams.

You know, I think the Ravens have the best roster in the AFC.

This is like the third year where you said it's the year for Baltimore.

And I think that Buffalo is going to be just as good as they have been.

And they've got a quarterback that, you know, is as good as anybody outside of Patrick.

And then obviously the Chiefs will be an improved football team, specifically offensively, what they were last year.

But I will say this, Tone Diggs, like because we all expect those three to be the top three players, the next group, like the next two, three, four teams that you realistically sit there and say, yeah, they got a chance.

I'm going to tell you, I think Houston's going to be awesome this year.

I think Houston has like a little bit of a massive bounce back here.

Their defense is absolutely loaded.

And there's a little bit of a mismatch or mix in match with their offensive line.

They missed or moved on like three or four pieces.

No offensive coordinator.

I think they're going to be awesome this year.

Everyone stupidly talked about this regression for C.J.

Stroud last year.

His numbers weren't all that different than they were his rookie year.

More interceptions, no doubt, but offensive line was bottom five in the NFL.

He's lost his number one, number two, number three wide receiver.

So, like, I think that that football team is tough here.

Absolutely.

That'll hurt.

Yeah.

I think it's going to be fantastic.

I think Denver is going to be absolutely awesome.

They'll have the best defense or second or third, best defense in football.

And I think Bo Knicks will only improve, but their offensive line will be top six, top seven in the league.

So I think if I had to pick two other teams that I really believe like deep down,

full roster can get there, it would be them.

Obviously, Cincey with their defense is massive question marks.

Their offense can score with anyone.

But the Chargers, I want to see how good their weapons play on the outside.

But those would be two teams outside of those top three that I'm like, yeah, watch them.

Denver's fun to think about just because what Bo Nix became at the end of the season.

You know, and the way he is fiery, too.

I mean, Bo Nix is a fiery guy.

Him and Sean Payton's interactions on the sidelines last year were incredible.

I really enjoyed.

Sean Payton came out and said he's still got some Ferris Bueller in him.

And I didn't know what that meant.

I did not know what the, I'd seen the movie.

I did not 100% know what it meant, but I think what he was trying to say is, yeah, he's still, yeah, we're still growing in this entire thing.

Sean Payton loves this dude.

Yeah.

And Sean Payton is a great ball coach.

So we just assume if Sean Payton and the quarterback get along, they're going to win games.

But that is a tough division over there, dude.

You just mentioned the Chargers.

I mean, I just watched Jim Hardbaugh poke his head out behind a big tarp.

You know, two of them.

And I watched him explain.

It's a peripheral view

exercise.

Basically, I'm just moving these things.

So then Justin Herbert can't see the wide receiver, don't know when he's coming out.

Also, wide receiver doesn't know when the ball's coming.

It's my job to watch the quarterback.

So he's right there watching the quarterback.

And then with his other hand, he's directing the person behind him to either go one way or the other.

So Justin Herbert doesn't know which way the person's coming, and then he's going to throw it to him.

So he has to have his head there because he's got to see the quarterback, you see?

But he's got to have it closed because Herbert can't see which way wide receiver is going.

I've never seen this drill before in my life.

He loved it.

He broke it down for a minute and a half.

I watched him yesterday break it down.

Yeah, it's just, you know, because you can't always see the ball.

You could tell he was a big fan of the drill.

I've never seen the drill either.

And then as you're watching him play it, it's like, this is a pretty genius for both the quarterback and the wide receiver.

It's smart.

Quarterback, wide receiver, that ball pops up out of nowhere.

And it's like, if you drop it, get him out of the league.

Get him out of the league.

And for a quarterback, you're standing there sometimes.

You could speak to it much better than me.

Can't see shit.

You're just throwing to like a window, basically, hoping they get there.

That's the difference between NFL and college, I think, right?

NFL is like

this room.

College is like, you got like this amount of room.

I often say it like covered in college is open in the NFL.

Has to be.

Mindsetwise.

Yeah, like you can.

Great quarterbacks throw guys open.

Like there is, you know, there is no quote-unquote defense for the perfect throw.

And so, you you know, in the NFL, if there's an opportunity to throw the guy to a space, and that's why so much of it comes down to ball placement, so much of it comes down to touch.

Can you throw a guy that might be covered out of his cut to a space that he's open

two or three yards from the opening of that cut or the top of that route?

That's what makes guys like, you know, Purdy's great at it.

Tu is great at it.

Honestly, I would tell you that guy was probably one of the best at it that doesn't get enough.

And Geno Smith is one of the best at it.

Stafford's ridiculous at it.

Joe's ridiculous at it.

Aaron, obviously, best of all time.

These guys are special.

Aaron's been ridiculous at it.

Best of all time, they say, right?

I don't want to speak out of pocket, but like Aaron's ball placement and shit is what he is.

That's he is the guy, right?

Yeah,

Aaron's ball placement is as good as anybody's.

I think, you know,

historians would tell you Montana.

Yeah, but Stafford's is

ridiculous.

Right?

Marino, Montana, Aaron, Stafford, I think, are the conversations for prettiest

dots that get thrown, I think.

L WA.

Yep.

L.A.

Yeah, I guess Peyton too could throw it, but he was a timing guy.

You know, I mean, he is timing everything.

I mean, we watched Josh Allen yesterday.

He's been a wild.

Oh, shit.

Josh Allen's got a hose.

Yeah, Patrick Mahomes.

I mean, we can go through them all.

Yeah, you can throw Burrow.

You guys are all.

Every guy was good.

But Aaron, like, created the back shoulder of it.

Like, he was the one that started just taking over.

Hey, so if I put this thing on your back shoulder while you're running 22 miles an hour, it's unguardable, right?

That's basically what I was saying.

I remember, I'll give you a quick Aaron story about that type of throw.

We were playing there, I'm going to call it 10 years ago.

So 2013, 14, 15, somewhere around there.

I think our defensive coordinator was, who's the D coordinator at Terrell Austin, down in Pittsburgh.

And he was our defensive coordinator in Detroit at this point.

And our secondary was good.

We had like Darius Slay, Quandre Diggs.

And we were, I was running the scout team in practice.

And it felt like every rep, our defense down in the red zone would just all out blitz you.

Like play zero, play man-to-man coverage.

Everybody was blitzing.

And, like, on Thursday or Thursday or Friday that week, I was like, hey, T.A., like, I don't think you guys should do this against Rodgers.

He's like, I was like,

he's going to know you're doing it.

He's like, oh, we know that he'll know we're doing it.

And I'm like, well, then you have no shot.

And he was like, we have no shot whether we do it or not.

We're just hoping that

our guy will make a play on the ball or not.

So I remember first quarter, third down in the red zone.

It's like third and 12, I want to say it, like the 18-yard line, something like that.

And I remember looking at staff, and I was like, there's no way we zero here, right?

Like, there's no way we're just gonna play coverage, take it off the field.

He's like, we're gonna zero.

And they zeroed, and he threw the ball.

I believe it was to Slay.

And Darius Slay was in like Jordy's face mask, like perfect coverage.

And Aaron put the ball literally on Jordy's ear, right?

And Jordy turned right at the last second touchdown.

And we just looked at each other like, I was like, hey, man, good luck.

Go score 35.

That's a real thing, though.

If you've got a guy that can spin it, I mean, that is a great place to be.

Now, granted, not every strong arm can put the ball exactly where it needs to be, which is why the development of Josh Allen was so spectacular.

And anybody that is a young quarterback who has a lot of athleticism and maybe a lot of potential talent, everybody points at Josh Allen and they go, hey, look at the development from year one to year two, year two to year three, year three to year four, year four to year five.

He's only gotten better and better with his arms and his mechanics and everything like that.

Which leads us to Indianapolis, Indiana.

Ty has a question for you, Dano.

Yeah, yeah Dan it seems like the Colts have the only true quarterback competition going right now I don't know if you've seen it but we saw a pretty spectacular highlight of both quarterbacks um earlier today foxy if you want to show Dano no

So Dan, you know, you see that.

Obviously, you got both guys just ripping it out there looking good.

Okay, sorry.

It's one throw.

No, I get it.

It's one throw.

But

AR looks different.

He looks like he's in very good shape from the pictures we've seen.

And obviously that.

What do you think of this whole QB situation?

Because it kind of seems like it was dimes and now it's kind of more of an open deal again.

Yeah, for Anthony, one, stay healthy, obviously, but two,

take the easy things and make them easy things.

I think that's really going to be the challenge for Anthony Richardson is when, you know, Shane Seichen,

these play callers, with all these young quarterbacks, one of the things that I learned so much from Gary Kubiak when it came to hauling games, and I think Shane Steichen calls a really good game, is like,

there's times when I'm just calling this play for us to get five yards.

And sometimes it's,

whether you're a great athlete when you're seeing these clips running, sometimes it's trying to give an offensive line a break.

Or I haven't gotten Michael Pittman Jr.

the ball in five plays.

I want to get him a touch.

Or I just want to get to second and five because when I call this second and five play, I'm setting it up for another second down play call and a quarter from now.

And so I think the more Anthony learns that and realizes that and makes the commitment to treat that four or five yard completion like the third and 10 run or the fourth and goal run.

Like it's the most important thing you can do in that moment.

And to have that high level of focus, that the high level of commitment to execution, that it's not just the completion, how you complete it, the timing of it that you do it in, the placement of the throw to maybe steal a yard or two is a big deal.

And so, and this happens to a lot of young, ridiculously physically talented young quarterbacks is you think because you're so physically talented, the next you could you can make it up the next play or something like that.

And the more disciplined that you get,

the better you become with that consistency.

And then those big plays happen.

So I think if you're the coach, you obviously want Anthony be to be the guy, but that's the big challenge for Anthony.

Yes, stay healthy, stay on the field.

But dude, you got to make the layups all the time in that league.

That was fourth quarter right there, drive at the end of the game.

That's how it ended with him running.

It was awesome to watch that.

And as you watch these highlights, you can't help but get incredibly excited.

I mean, he

has the potential to be a unicorn.

He's there.

Has a chance to be a unicorn.

He literally does.

And you talk about taking like first down, second down, third down, check down seriously and everything like that.

I think that's just learning to become, you know, a professional athlete that's on a little bit of a different playing field than you have been your entire life because he's always had the fixer.

You talked about, hey, his athleticism will make it up for the next play.

It's like his arm, his athleticism, he's always been a fixer.

Like, hey, if this one doesn't work out, who cares?

I throw a pick, I'll be able to get back.

I miss a throw, I'll be able to get it back.

Now it's like, hopefully, at this stage of his professional career, he knows like, hey, everybody has that that's on the field.

You know, like everybody has that.

You have an advantage because you are more athletic than basically everybody on the field.

You are.

It is spectacular to watch.

And also everything you're doing off the field, everybody's watching as well because you're the quarterback of the team.

You're the number four, they're overall picked.

You, whether you like it or not, are a CEO of a locker room.

That is what a quarterback is.

We go as you go, brother.

We operate how you operate.

So everybody watching every, his, every move, if he's able to dial in being a professional quarterback, which is focusing on every play, off the field, leading and being a person, you You know, you don't even have to talk.

If he just wants to do as I do, as opposed to what I say, it's all good.

It's like the chance is there.

Carly has come out and said he's got enough time to save it.

Chris Ballard said he's got enough time, more than enough time to still save it.

It's like with everything that's gone on and how slow of a start it's been for his career as a whole, it's still all out there in front of impossible.

And I, guys, I think this too, Pat.

Like,

there comes, and I remember

how Shanahan saying this: dude, as a quarterback, like you have to fully understand, top to bottom, like when we give you the ball, everybody's job is in your hands.

Everybody's.

Everybody within the building's job is in your hands.

And that's a big burden and that's a lot of pressure, but that's just the reality of that position.

So like

the more you can understand, like, dude, everyone's job is in your

decision-making's hands.

You have this,

you go to this reverence of like, no, I can't be careless with that.

I can't be reckless with it.

Oh, wait, this actually does matter.

And there's a rally like, yo, Chris Ballard chose you.

You know, like, he chose you.

He chose Shane for you.

And you, they chose you.

And so, like, you got to prove those guys right and do right by those guys because their future and those roles in the NFL very much so is dependent on what you do every single play.

He's got backers.

He's got supporters, obviously, in the building and in a genre of fans here for the Indianapolis Colts and I think we're all hoping for him to do great I am I know that I am at the

point of realization that like he could be so special and he could be so so special I can't just hold things against him he's 20 what two years old yeah

23 years old or whatever it is it's like let's go dude you you have the chance and that team they've invested on defensive side oh yeah got a great offensive line seemingly all the time got Jonathan Taylor a lot of weapons and it's like in Daniel Jones the Colts weren't the the only team that wanted to sign Daniel Jones.

You know, there were other teams that wanted to sign Daniel Jones.

And is he going to have the Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield type situation where his first team, for some reason, doesn't work out, takes a little bit of a road, and then finds a place and goes absolutely ape shit.

He could, and he plays very similar to how Anthony Richardson plays.

A lot of people wouldn't think that, obviously, if you just look at Daniel Jimes and you say he's a Duke guy, he looks like he's a little bit of a nerdy guy.

It's like he will run.

That dude will run people over.

He will stride out on people.

I think cults are in a good spot.

Quarterback competitions, though, I think you need to get those over with quick.

I think the team needs to know who the guy is personally, but they know a lot better than I do.

And they've named a starting quarterback in the years past, and it hasn't worked out.

Now, on that note,

real quick on Indy.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I think they also give whoever they choose a month.

I think they give the guy the month.

And you either are getting it done and we're good, or if you're not getting it done, we're going to the next guy.

You're saying the lease should be at least a few weeks.

weeks shouldn't feel as if or the yank should be at least a few weeks we don't need to feel as if every single play we're looking over our shoulder who's next i assume they'll handle it right shane steichen chris ballard a lot of respect for them good luck to them as they do it and debaut you said the locker room knows yeah uh i think that's evident i would assume because the locker room can't pick and choose favorites okay just because of personal uh feelings because everybody's job to dan or lofskies is reliant upon said person.

There might be people pulling for somebody.

Hey, I hope you ball out to me.

Like there's been times where I've witnessed a competition happen at a position, and there's one guy who's really good at special teams, and there's one guy who's not.

So, I would like to go motivate the guy.

Hey,

need a big day out of you on a fucking seven on seven.

Need you to learn this shit.

Okay, well, I need you personally to do that.

Like, that'll certainly happen, but it all plays out on the field, and everybody kind of sees it.

Everybody kind of sees it on the field.

And Dan mentioned it when the quarterback has the ball in his hands, like you have the team's fate in your hand, and everybody on that team, you want to win.

You want to go to playoffs, regardless of what situation you're in, free agent, whatever.

Every team wants to pluck from a winner.

So you want to be in a good situation and you can't lie to the locker room.

But moving on, go over to the NFC side.

We talked about the top of the AFC.

NFC side.

I don't know why.

I honestly don't.

But for some reason, I'm really, really high on Dak Prescott and the Cowboys.

I love the George picking the dish.

I don't know why.

I'm never in on the Cowboys, but I like Shodi.

I think he'll surprise a lot lot of people.

We like Shoddy, too.

As a head coach, there's always headlines, you know, dealing with Jerry Jones and the organization with Michael Parsons.

They'll get that figured out.

What's your expectations for the Cowboys?

Dak Preston.

His connection's unstable.

Our guy is going for it.

He's out on the Cowboys.

Jerry Jones, I don't want to hear it.

I don't want to hear it.

How about him just actually being like

five-year deal?

I'm committing to somebody for five years.

That's a long time for you.

Shit, is there still cars on the road?

In this sport.

A lot of water.

A lot of water under that bridge.

And that water under that bridge, let's talk about it.

Might have E.

coli in it.

Yeah.

And one of my guys I pay five years gets in that water, gets sick.

He's shitting out of his ass and his mouth.

Can't play two, three weeks.

Now, I'm still paying the guy.

Do you want to do that?

I don't want to do that.

Are you going to pay Micah?

You ever pay a bunch of money to somebody and they suck?

I have.

I have.

And the press conference.

Jesus.

That's how we're starting the season.

Wow.

I don't think we need to.

A little bit of heat.

Somebody said something to him before he gets up on that press conference.

He's like, I need to, they need to remember who's doing what around here.

Yeah.

It's Jerry's world.

Yeah.

Literally and figuratively.

Between him and Mike Brown.

I don't know what they said at the owners-only meeting, but there had to be someone in there getting them riled up.

Like, hey, it's kind of weird.

All these players seem to have a lot of power.

You guys still

own these teams or no?

And then all of them left.

Are people really saying this?

Are you kidding?

Okay, fine.

I own the Cowboys.

The players don't own the Cowboys.

That's not what they're saying, Jerry.

Yeah, everyone's saying Dak and Mike.

They're saying we're the NBA.

Is that what?

Yeah, I know that.

I'll set that shit straight with you.

Cole Mark Brown.

Hey, we're done with it.

I'm saying we're the ending of NBA.

That's seemingly what

that's what happened.

I mean, that first day of training camp, you'd think teams would be pumped.

Like, football's back, our business is back, everything's good.

Instead, it's about sick of these players' shit, aren't you?

All right.

I love that Micah and Trevor just went out there and had their own

impromptu.

Hey,

what's up?

Got any questions?

I'd like to go get a haircut.

Okay, Dan, will you answer about Dak?

Will you answer about Dak?

Yeah.

Yeah, sorry.

I got a haircut.

What was the question, Debuz?

Like, you're just high on him?

Well, I am high on him.

I do love the moves.

I love what they did in the draft.

But what's your overall expectation?

I know we haven't seen Dak for a while with

his injury coming back.

He is the highest paid quarterback in the NFL for a reason.

But what's your expectation for that team going forward this year?

I think Dallas is a good football team that is going to be a playoff contending football team.

I agree.

I think the offense will be a good offense.

A bunch of five picks in their offensive line.

I think Shotty's going to be like sneaky good.

I think Schottenheimer is going to be who Mike McCarthy kind of set out to be initially, which was, you know, once he took over the play calling,

you know, they want to be dominant running the football and a heavy play action team.

I think we're going to be much, there will be much more of a reduced split offense, which is something we've talked about a little bit on NFL Live is like how much the offensive football in the NFL has changed, touch splits.

And so I think that's going to help their offense.

I think this is a top 10 offense in the NFL that will be very much so dependent upon.

Is their defense okay?

Is their defense top 15, top 16 in the NFL?

But I think Dak plays well.

To your point, he's got to stay healthy.

I don't think we're going to see Dak Prescott, which would, you know, four years ago when he had to throw for like 38 touchdowns for them to win some games.

I think they'll be a little bit more balanced on offense,

but more big play-centric.

All right.

Well, we appreciate the hell out of you stopping by.

Who's winning the Super Bowl, Dan?

I thank God they're at Philadelphia or Baltimore.

All right.

Pull on ticker.

We appreciate you.

Enjoy your summer Wednesday out there.

Good shrubbery behind you.

Is that the house or are you somewhere else?

No, no.

i'm i'm going to walk in to get a haircut right now i'm in the parking lot oh where are you at sport clips or great clips like kirk cousins no no i'm at westport cut and shave i gotta get cut up oh my god

one of the best don't touch

the beard dan it looks too good don't touch it do they use heated foam with the straight edge on that thing yeah but i don't shave i don't if i i don't like shave shave i use an electric laser but they um they do my neck put some beige in there you're telling me they don't they don't straight they don't they don't do the

not for me they do it for other humans Maybe just let that thing continue to flow.

Not a bad idea, it looks good.

It looks pretty good, dude.

I don't cut the top in the summer.

Oh, it's kind of like long hair, don't care, bro.

Rag top down so this long hair can blow, too.

I see you up there in the Jeep.

All right, good luck.

Enjoy your day.

Congrats on another contract with ESPN.

Congrats, Dan.

Congrats, Dan.

Sub-tweets work together.

Yeah.

Master businessman.

All right, we appreciate you, ladies and gentlemen.

Dan Herlovsky.

he does weapon those exes oh yeah all the time he really does all the time all right boys what a what an incredible week it has been hell yeah it has been it really has now people are gonna make fun of us for taking another couple days off here and i want to let you know there's more to come yeah

i'll let you know there's more to come they're doing the same in summer well and we have logged a lot of because of the run that we've been on there's a lot of days where like hey we got the 50 and 50 thing If you guys would like to maybe have a three-day,

four-day weekend.

What?

You want to take this off?

This is happening this week.

For the first time, I think, in our career, I've gone, you know what, I will.

There's a lot of me out here.

Maybe we do slow it down.

Maybe we do slow down a little bit.

At Disney, they don't carry over either.

If you don't use them, you lose them.

Yeah, it's a year or two,

gone.

Ridiculous.

Gone.

It's not ridiculous.

Well, I will say, as the person who negotiated the contract,

I would like to say I'm appreciative of those off days.

We very rarely have taken them, though.

Like, that has been, we kind of feel like we've been lucky to have this platform, this opportunity.

And also, we appreciate the people that follow along with us so much.

And a lot of people sent us messages about they spend their afternoon or maybe they're going through something, whether it's an injury or some sort of treatment.

So I hate us missing days.

Just know, we got a lot logged in there.

You can go catch up all.

Yeah.

There's a lot of terrible show that you can go watch.

Tons.

Because we did a lot of it.

And we're gearing up for the biggest football season we've ever had.

So

I'm very excited.

Next Wednesday, we're in Pittsburgh.

Next Thursday, we're in Canton, Ohio at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Come see us.

Come see us.

We're going to be at both of those things.

I have no idea what the setup's going to be like.

I assume a training camp you're able to go.

I was up there as a child.

There's places for fans to sit and hang out and maybe get a hug from Kevin Green.

Yeah, yeah.

What's the name of the city that training camp?

from?

La Trobe.

Okay.

Are you sure?

Because I get a lot.

Look, I do a little extra research now in pronouncing cities' names.

So are you sure?

So what I've been told is, you know, I've heard it pronounced this way my entire life.

I've heard people say latrobe.

Okay, and I saw a couple people in the comments say it's latrobe.

And Nick Meraldo is certainly a Latrobe guy out there.

I think everybody in the state calls it Latrobe.

People from Latrobe, though, though, I believe call it Latrobe.

So maybe we should pay respect to the Latrobeans

and call it Latrobe.

Diner at the trobe.

Yeah, but you just skipped it there.

It's diner at Latrobe.

Is what you would have to say there if you were really rolling there.

Nick, you've never said it like that before until the last couple of days once I started getting comments on how I said it.

It seems like you were potentially trying to

make me feel like an idiot.

Or is this now Latrobe going forward in your eyes?

I think I'm going to respect the good citizens of Latrobe.

And I saw those same comments.

So I said, okay, you know what?

I will change the way I've said this way my entire life.

Yes.

It's been Latrobe.

It's all I've ever heard.

And now all of a sudden, we're saying Letrobe.

So.

I've been up to Latrobe.

I've been to training camp as a little boy.

As a little boy, I was up to Le Trobe.

It sounds Canadian.

Latrobe sounds American.

Letrobe sounds like it's right outside Calgary.

Yeah, but it's not L-E-S, which would be like the French word.

Like Les Trobe.

Yeah, it's not Letrobe.

It is L-A-T-R-O-B-E, which I think in our language would be Latrobe.

I think some idiots would say latrobe.

Oh, sure.

And then the people of Latrobe say it's latrobe.

Anyways, we'll be there on Wednesday.

Cannot wait to see the Insers and cannot wait to see the Latrobeans, brother.

Yeah.

Cannot wait to see it.

Hopefully they come on and say hello.

The only way to get the bottom of this is you got to go look up an Arnie Palmer and interview and see how he said it since he is the greatest person to ever be from Latrobe.

From there, Great drink too he had to make billions of dollars off of the licensing his name for that what you think we're gonna see a lot of those on your on your chest there on Wednesday uh yeah Italian Yinzers yeah bring non-leaster shirt

I have that mug I have that mug it really makes me feel good more when I'm drinking my Nespresso

Jeez Louise it's all over your chest

talks to table great work

too.

Have a great weekend.

Everybody in the back, great work.

Getting lazier as we get older, but football season is going to be big.

Boom.

Football season is going to be

very big.

August 30th, College Game Day.

Texas, Ohio State.

Lee Corso's last headgear pick.

Cannot wait for that.

Going to be an emotional start to the college football season, but also a massive start to the college football season.

Obviously, the Hall of Fame game on Thursday will be there helping kick it all off.

Then Hall of Famers go in in the weekend.

Great class of Hall of Famers.

All the teams are a training camp.

Yeah.

Full pulse back.

Here we go.

And hey, why not, over the next few days, make amends with some people?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Go talk to some people.

And maybe you haven't had a chance to chit-chat about, go learn about some people, maybe show some people some love, like I got to do.

What an honor it was.

And as a lot of you know, on February 26th of this year, we were down to Combine on this particular program.

We discussed a very viral internet story about an ole Miss college student.

We weren't clear at that point where the story originated from.

It was all over the internet.

Yet by the time we talked about it, the story was everywhere.

I have since learned that the story was not true and that my show played a role in the anguish caused to a great family and especially to a young woman, Mary Kate Cornette.

I think you all know from tuning into this program that I never want to be a source of negativity or contribute to another human's suffering.

And I can now happily share with you that I recently got to meet Mary Kate and her family.

And I got a a chance to sincerely apologize to them and acknowledge that what I said about Mary Kate was based solely on what others were saying on the internet or had been previously reported by others and that we had no personal knowledge about Mary Kate or her personal life.

As a girl dad, I also was very thankful for the opportunity to let Mr.

Cornet know that I was wildly regretful.

for the part that our show, our program, played in his daughter, Mary Kate's pain.

I know many of you are wondering why I or we haven't addressed this topic until now.

It's a fair question.

But as you might imagine, there was a lot going on behind the scenes since this all happened.

The most important element on the timing is I personally, a decision that I made, wanted to talk to the family first before addressing it publicly.

And I can now say that I had the opportunity to meet them, chat with them, and

they're wonderful people.

And I'm very thankful that they gave me the opportunity to tell them how sorry I was that this all happened and that our program was a part of this.

I deeply regret the pain that was caused.

I hated watching what our show was a part of in our interviews and reading about it.

And my hope is that this can be something that we all learn from going forward.

I know we certainly have.

Our goal with this show is to make the world a happier place, a better place, to celebrate life and sports and to unify folks.

I and we don't always get it right, but we'll never stop trying.

Thank you to the Cornettes for the time and the conversation.

Now, We will all try to get back to trying to make this world a little better place, a little happier place.

And we hope you have the greatest weekend of all time.

Thank you to the Cornettes for allowing me to introduce myself, chit-chat to you with you, and also let you know that I am so sorry that we were part of this portion, in story, in chapter of your family's life.

On that note, the greatest summer weekend of all time is right around the corner.

Have a good one.

Don't be scared to go shake some hands, meet some people you might disagree with, and understand that we all get to live this life just one time.

We have no idea what's happening tomorrow.

So let's enjoy it all.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

It might change their life.

We're in this thing together.

Team on me, team on three, one, two, three.

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