PMS 2.0 1351 - Feel Good Friday With Matthew Tkachuk, Peter Schrager, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdown.

On this Feel Good Friday, May 30th, 2025, this program begins now.

Sports are happening all around us.

And yes, the Pacers lost.

to the New York Knicks last night in Madison Square Garden.

All New York Knicks fans that I know have sent me a text over the last 12 hours saying Knicks in seven, Knicks in seven, Knicks in seven.

And it is wild in these seven-game series, the best of seven series that these sports have, more specifically the NBA.

All you got to do is win one game and all of a sudden you're back in this thing.

Wait a minute, did we find it?

Are we going to be the team that is going to make every shot?

And are the Pacers going to become a team that can't knock down a shot at all?

Are the Pacers going to become a team that doesn't try to run as fast as they try to run in the games that they win?

And are the Knicks going to be the ones that are going to control the tempo going forward?

That's what their fans can literally say on this Field Good Friday because of what happened last night in Madison Square Garden.

They were the one that dictated the entire game they were the ones that were dominating we were the team that tapped out at the very end oh yeah sub tyrese yeah subbed the entire crew out rick carlisle basically lets the new york knicks faith faithful have a final two three minutes up 16 just getting a chance to take the victory lap take the tractor another round and take a chance to maybe win this eastern conference final jalen brunson goes bananas yet again cat continues to do his thing josh hart even made some plays and this new york knicks team is the real deal they're one of the final four teams in the NBA.

With that being said,

Pacers and six.

This thing comes back to Indiana on Saturday.

And I know Madison Square Garden had to be an incredibly wild experience.

I wish I could have been there last night.

I wish I could have had some scheduling conflicts.

Had an incredible opportunity to introduce Jelly Roll at the big ass stadium tour in Pittsburgh last night.

That was an honor of a lifetime.

For Jelly Roll, I will do anything.

Because when Big Night Out was happening, I called Jellyroll.

I said, hey, I'm having a show in Pittsburgh.

I want to give away some money.

I want to do some stuff.

Will you be a part of it?

He says, say no more, Bubba.

I'll be there.

I said, Jelly Roll, I need to pay you for this because I know there's probably an amount of money that you could be making instead of coming to Pittsburgh to do my show.

He said, No problem, Bubba, no money needed.

I said, Well, I'm gonna donate the money.

He said, Sounds good, Bubba.

I'll donate as well.

He matched the donation.

So it's like what a jelly roll has done for me.

I felt obligated as a friend of his to do the same for him in Pittsburgh last night at his big-ass stadium tour at PNC Park.

It was phenomenal.

Jellyroll plays for an hour, okay?

Straight, banger, banger, banger, banger, banger, banger, banger, banger.

Like Seamus.

Bingo.

But it's just heat after heat after heat.

Cover, promo, gots a promo about Pittsburgh.

Great one.

How thankful he is in this entire thing, how lucky he understands he is, how much he appreciates everything.

Banger.

Plays for an hour.

We get a chance to hang out with him afterwards.

Incredibly honored that I got to be a part of that.

Then I get to watch Post Malone do his thing.

Wow.

First time I've ever been to a Post Malone show.

And I'm going to say this.

God's a rock star.

Guy is a rock.

hey showman hey he is we are out there doing it he is in that music i mean he is in this he's i see the videos of him dancing and getting lost up on stage when you go to a show it makes sense from the moment he enters he is inside of those songs that he is saying i mean he is there was a lot of yeah like i mean he is oh yeah i'm telling you

this dude is a rock star so good he is so entertaining it's just him on this big ass stage 40 some thousand filled up pnc park And as I was in the annals of the PNC Park, I knew there was a chance I'm probably never going to be allowed back in there.

Sure.

With our relationship with the ownership and everything like that.

So I was taking photos of everything.

So incredibly nice.

Stadium, so incredibly nice.

The view, nice.

Posty spent some money on maybe some Zambelli fireworks.

Dating.

A lot of fireworks.

A lot of fire.

I mean, that show was.

Love that.

Banger.

I mean, that show was absolutely awesome.

So very lucky to be a part of that.

But as Jelly's down there performing, giving his testimony and crushing, and as Postie's doing his thing within the music, we're watching Nick's Pacers on a little bit of an iPad, a little cell phone next to us.

Had good service too.

Great way.

It was great.

And all I could think of the entire time was Bruce Brown, Michael Cole, even Michael Che.

Okay.

Sent me a text last night just with two emojis.

One of these right here, saying the seven.

Then you look at the celebrity row that they had over there.

Okay.

I don't know if they're paying $171,000 a ticket.

If they are, congrats to all of them.

Seems like they have afforded the opportunity to be able to do that.

TJ McConnell, Miles Teller, I've seen him there.

Oh, yeah.

Saw his wife there as well.

I sent a text.

I go,

I thought you were a Philly fan.

Excuse me.

You were there for the Pacers is what I said.

Is that my time?

Is that this game?

Hey, you're a Pacers fan?

Is that what we're doing?

He responds to me, don't want to talk about it.

And I go, no.

I go, wait a minute, Miles.

He goes, I'm here as a guest of New York Knicks fans and potential ownership or whatever.

I'm like, Miles, you need to stand up for the Pacers in there.

You could be the turning point of this entire thing.

You could be the lynch key of this entire thing, Miles.

Nope, he's there with Chalamet.

Kylie Jenner, obviously, in the building.

Ben Stiller's rocking.

Spike Lee was there.

They were all having the time of their lives as they should.

It's a very, very cool time to be a Knicks and a Pacers fan.

This Eastern Conference finals has been electrifying.

And it comes back to Indiana tomorrow night.

Cannot wait to see how the Pacers respond.

Cannot wait to see if Tibbs and the boys can continue to put the pressure on the Indiana Pacers.

Does this go to seven like all New York Knicks fans are hoping for?

I don't think so.

But it's possible.

It is possible.

True.

Congrats to the Knicks and their faithful one a big time.

Hell yeah.

Now, when the Knicks are playing in Gainbridge, I believe there is going to be some booze.

There might be some negative things said

towards the other team.

I hope not.

There might be.

It better not be.

That is kind of how sports work, I think.

Not if we're there.

Well, now, going forward, we are going to be an agent of only

good things at sports stuff happening.

Only positive cheers going forward, because that will make John Cougar Mellencamp happy.

What a moment for John Coog yesterday.

Oh, you mean one of your hospitality?

What's that?

You mean who's your hospitality?

That's right.

quotes like this.

Mr.

Miss Mr.

Coog Mellencamp.

I don't know what he thought he was doing with that particular quote tweet.

I respect and appreciate the fact that he said, you know what?

I've made a pretty good living over the last few years, grandstanding higher than anybody else on everything.

This feels like a good time to do that right now.

And he puts out this horrendous quote tweet.

Horrendous graphic.

John, can't tell you how bad everything you did here was.

Everything.

The graphic, the quote, the timing.

You're two days late, John.

You're two days late, Bub.

Puts this thing out there.

Don't even say my name.

No.

John, shut the fuck up.

Okay.

So they put this out, calls me somebody.

Okay.

I am somebody.

And I normally don't want people to just get slaughtered, you know?

Because I know we have a very active following and I appreciate the hell out of those people.

They are very kind.

The people that have followed our story are the greatest people on earth because there's a lot of times they could have just said, no, we're not doing this anymore.

And they've stuck with us.

They are active, though, and they like us, John.

I know you probably talk to people that say they don't like me, you know, and you probably read from journalists.

We know who you hang and who you listen to, John.

So you probably read a lot of people that don't like me.

I don't think you or your team had any idea that there might be people that are on my side, John.

So I hope whenever you opened your X account, if it is you, you've seen what everybody did and you could have taken the angle and be like, hey, there's some people attacking Pat for what he did.

I'm actually on Pat's side because we represent this state of Indiana.

We're lucky and thankful to represent this state of Indiana.

We don't have a lot of of people pulling for us in the state of Indiana, but you know what?

I see another young buck that's doing it, and I appreciate him doing it.

You could have easily done that, John.

But instead, you're trying to think you were going to bury me?

I don't think so, John.

Hey, Coog, suck it, buddy.

And hope I get a chance to see you real soon.

I think we were probably going to be at the same place pretty soon.

Oh, yeah.

I don't want any of your bullshit, okay?

I don't like you.

I know your name, and I don't like you.

Your songs are pretty good.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Lil Diddy, what's that mean?

About Jack and Dying.

Two Mecking kids growing up in the hot land.

That shit's great.

Song.

Song.

He's got a couple.

He's got a couple bangers.

He does.

He does.

Coo's got a couple.

He's had a lot of success.

He's been a great success story for the state of Indiana that is my home now.

And it's a good thing.

He could have, he could have, you know, he could have seen everybody trying to kill me for this and kind of had my back.

He goes the opposite way.

And then what happens in turn is every human that's ever encountered him sees this as a bird call to tell their story about John Mellencamp.

And it turns out, I didn't say this, but a lot of people are saying, who the hell are you to speak about treating people right?

And we didn't say that.

We're just reading the responses to that.

And, hey, Coog, have a good one, brother.

I hope every sporting event you go to goes the exact same way that Game Four went.

And I hope your little head

just explodes because you can't take it anymore.

Talks and tables here at Boston Conner, at Ty Schmidt.

What a day on X yesterday for Koog.

Yeah, I mean,

to be quite frank, it was absolutely awesome because you don't ever see someone miss the mark so completely anymore.

Like, Koog was thinking that everyone was going to be like, you know what?

Thank you, Koog.

That's not Hoosier Hospitality.

We don't do that kind of stuff.

And like you said, I mean, yeah, Koog has some bangers.

He does.

Let's not get that twisted.

Like, this guy in his day was

a heat maker.

Exactly, exactly.

But, I mean, we're talking tweet after tweet after tweet after after tweet after tweet.

Because at a certain point, you could be like, well, you know, like a lot of this could be BS.

There are about 5,7,500 responses, all basically saying, like, hey, John, don't you remember when I interacted with you?

There's a lot of those.

A lot of those.

A ton of them.

This guy is a massive, massive asshole.

Apparently, apparently.

I don't know him from anything else, but

he saw 8 million views on his.

There's no way he thought.

That thing goes out yesterday during the show, I think.

Like we're at at the tail end of the show and it goes out.

And I'm reading it and I think, I think this has got to be a joke.

I thought it was.

Then I read through it again.

And it's like, nope, nope, keeps going.

And the number of views and interactions with that thing just starts climbing.

I see it has 1.5 million.

I'm like, that's a big.

That's a big tweet.

Huge.

That is a good tweet.

There's people that see these tweets that have like 40 million views.

That is outliers.

If you get like a million view, a million impression tweet, that is gigantic.

Like those are big numbers.

This guy's at 8.3 million or whatever right now on this thing this thing has just been a runaway and i i want to be honest it very rarely happens i appreciate everybody going to bat for me similarly yeah that was awesome so i felt like everybody was kind of on my side i didn't see everybody stand up unlike john cougar did for our stars and stripes yeah bingo we can talk about allegeds thank you tony you're welcome that's one half of the hammer

cowboys ap tone we can talk about the alleged stories that people have we were in lucas oil

i mean he put the

flag he was in he put the colts in the answer spot because he's in a Colts suite, too.

And everyone in that suite was standing up, except I think for maybe one person that was 90-plus years old.

And then you look over, and Melan Camp isn't standing up.

So I get it.

Those other people are telling their stories.

One of the most respected newscasters in Indiana, Angela

Gnot.

Yeah, she

shared her two cents.

She didn't really even go into it, but she basically alluded to.

She's been on TV for 24 years here in Indianapolis.

Went to IU.

She's like a TV legend.

She even felt that, like, as I was reading this, I'm like, John Coog had no idea.

But I did know that that was not a good indicator for what was going to happen in our game.

He's a Pacer fan, allegedly.

You know, he's lived here his whole life.

He's paying for it.

He gets free tickets, I think.

So he goes and shows up at these things, takes over entire portions.

His little crew, too.

They act like they created the place.

I've had to deal with this group numerous times before.

He's a legend, though.

Lil Diddy.

Bout Jack Day.

Suck it on, chili dogs.

Side taste freeze.

freeze.

Great.

Like, we are saying this.

But yeah, I knew it was a good indicator for what was going to happen in the game.

As I was reading, I'm like, this is not good.

And then everything I said, not good.

And then how big that got, not good.

How empowered they had to feel, not good.

Did not feel great about game last night, which is why during the show yesterday, I was like,

we lose this one.

Sorry, it's best of seven.

Because I had a bad feeling.

Game six back here in Indiana.

Hell yeah.

Sucking on Chili Dogs.

Yeah, exactly.

We're going to be doing just fine.

And Melankamp just fine.

Melancamp actually didn't even get to see the game, too, because

allegedly in the first quarter when the Knicks started booing, he just destroyed his TV.

Really?

Said this is not sportsmanship.

Yeah, basically, just are you kidding me?

Well, I thought maybe his high horse was so high he didn't have his binoculars to be able to watch the game.

There's a chance.

There's a chance he couldn't see all the way down there.

So basketball is still happening.

Who will the Oklahoma City Thunder take on in the NBA Finals?

We shall see.

The NHL Stanley Cup finals, we know.

Representing the West, after beating Texas Hockey last night, the Edmonton Oilers are back in the Stanley Cup finals.

And congrats to Connor McDavid and Drive Seidel and the boys for putting on an absolute clinic against this Dallas-Stars team.

The goalie, Otter, who we love, we've become a big fan of.

He's potentially going to be Team USA's goalie going forward, which we love.

He got pulled after two shots.

Now, that was also two goals up there in Edmonton.

The coach was asked afterwards, like, why'd you do that?

He goes, This guy stinks in Edmonton.

Okay, then we see two shots go by him.

We decide to make the change.

It did not help.

Edmonton would still go on to win this thing, even though Dallas would fight back a little bit.

Connor McDavid would ice the game.

And now the Edmonton Oilers are going to the Stanley Cup final, representing the West, taking on the back-to-back Stanley Cup champions.

The men

could be back to back.

The three-time Stanley Cup final appearance:

Legends of South Florida, Elbow Room Regulars.

Ice Dominators.

Ladies and gentlemen from the Florida Panthers, Matthew Pachuk.

Yay!

Chucky.

Chucky, what's going on, man?

What's up, guys?

What's going on, guys?

Thanks for having me on again.

Hey, thank you for joining us.

Congratulations on a big Eastern Conference finals dub and heading back to the Stanley Cup Finals, a place that you guys have called home for the last three seasons now.

Looking to go back-to-back, obviously, would be a big deal in a dynastic conversation.

How do the boys feel?

Do you feel more healthy this year or is at this time of year everybody kind of feels the same exact way and you're just used to it?

Yeah, it's, I mean, there's bumps and bruises along the way.

Everybody's pretty banged up this time of year on every team.

But, you know, it's what's nice about

you know our team is the depth.

And when guys have been in and out, we've been having guys that are able to fill in the spots.

But yeah, I would say we're, you know, obviously knock on wood, but we're, you know, pretty similar similar to last year with health going into it.

So, you know, we're confident, but, you know, so is Edmondson, I'm sure.

They're a hell of a team, and it's going to make for an incredible series.

And not very often do you see a rematch in pros sports in the finals.

So I think that

it's the two best teams in the league.

And to be honest, I think it's pretty clear that we're the two best and it's going to make for an incredible final.

Yeah, it's been fun to watch you two get back to this point, obviously, through the different roads that you've had.

And you said it's been pretty clear that you two are the best teams.

There's a clip coming out from you last year talking, I believe, to McDavid saying, we'll see you again next year, do the same thing or whatever, almost calling your shot.

What is it about that Edmonton team?

Obviously, we see McDavid.

Obviously, we know Dry Suttle, but they're just the same as you guys.

They're fast.

What do you think it is about them that makes you say we are the clear two best teams in hockey at this moment?

You're obviously in the finals, back-to-back years.

Everybody's going to talk about that.

But what is it about their team that you have so much respect for

yeah i'm pretty familiar with them going back to my time in calgary and and seeing a lot of those players grow playing against mcdavid a ton uh i mean i think that that's that's pretty much um you know when you're playing against the best player in the world it's he's always gonna give you a challenge each and every night but you know it's not just him they're they're a deep team um they play really hard um

both ends of the ice they their goalie is playing incredible right now um i think the thing that's underrated with them is is their defense i mean they make it hard to get to the net.

They block a lot of shots.

All the stuff that you've got to do to have a successful team.

And

they started the playoffs at

down two games to L.A.

And since then, they've been 12-2.

So 12-2 is incredible in the regular season.

It's almost unheard of in the playoffs.

So they're playing...

the best hockey of the year so far for them and and it's going to be a battle for us.

You know, we're going up there to Edmonton to start and you know, they're like I said, they're 12-2 in the last 14.

So we got our hands full.

We're going to take that underdog mindset and mentality and go up there and try to do what we did last year, I guess.

Yeah, you have the experience.

Obviously, you've been able to accomplish it.

Hoisted Lordo last year.

Did you see what Conor McDavid decided to do last night that caused quite a little bit of a stir in the hockey tradition and hockey

tradition?

I don't know, whatever.

He lifted a Clarence Campbell trophy last night.

Last year, they did not touch this particular trophy after winning the Western Conference, and they would go on to lose.

So this year, they decided for him to touch it.

Now, the crowd said, whoa, whoa, whoa.

It was quite a reaction.

You guys, I've heard, have done multiple different ways as well.

Touched it, lost, didn't touch it, win.

So what is the conversation?

Is there a vote on whether or not we're going to hoist that thing after the conference finals?

Or how do we go about getting to that point where Conor McDavid did that last night?

I can't remember exactly how it went down two years ago when played, ended up playing Vegas in the final, but I think just us as captains were talking.

And going back to that year, it was such an accomplishment, us being an eighth seed and kind of just getting into playoffs and then kind of going on a,

I wouldn't call it a miraculous run, but it was pretty close to it that year.

And so we just decided at that time, like, we've earned this.

Like, let's go, let's, let's touch it.

Let's carry it around.

Let's be proud of it.

It didn't work.

So last year

the,

you know, not to touch it.

And last year it was, you know, very similar to this year for us.

It was kind of like that business-like, like it wasn't so much of an accomplishment where it was, you know, kind of part of the, part of the journey for us.

So

this year we just decided to do the same thing.

And Edmonton, if we were in their shoes,

we changed it up last year.

They're changing it up this year.

It's pretty natural for them to do that.

And I'm not surprised by it.

But I think that's more of,

that creates a stir with you guys, with us.

that really doesn't mean anything because

the Stanley Cups, the final goal.

No, no, that all matters.

What he did last year, it all matters.

We got guys around the country for your team, I assume, that'll wear the same shirt whenever they watch.

And if they don't wear the same shirt, you guys will lose.

And even though they've worn it during a loss before, they just didn't wear it the right way.

You know, that shit happens.

Hockey, I feel like you guys have a lot of those, though.

Superstitions?

There are some guys that are psycho with them.

I am not one of them.

I don't know how people could live their life like that.

I'd be so stressed out.

I'd barely sleep if I did that.

So I think as the years go by, you get less

you're less worried about that stuff.

And I know I am.

There's some.

Dan Hurley in his underwear.

Yeah, Dan Hurley wore the same underwear through the NCAA tournament.

I mean, we've heard stories about some of the greatest of all time in hockey with what they, how they have to operate on a day-to-day basis.

For me, I got a chance to be around a couple guys in the NFL early in my career that had like,

every day was a fool.

We got to put left sock on, right sock on we got to do this we got to knock on this we got to do this every single time and i'm like what if you don't do it what's going to happen well i'm going to get cut and i'm like so are we sure if you don't knock on this door here you're going to not do your job well yeah i'm not i'm not risking it and then just building that up 10 years 10 years of shit how do you remember all the shit to your point yeah i would stay i'm okay with i'm okay with the routine like i've got a pretty strict routine but once guys start changing it up after a win or a loss or or whatever and they they start psyching themselves out, that's where I got an issue.

I've got no problem calling guys out for it, too.

So I think that's our team does it pretty well, too.

That's good leadership.

Now, let's talk about a new superstition happening down there in Florida.

Go ahead, Con man.

Yeah, Maddie, it feels like after every big win, you guys are just gunning rats at my beloved Brad Marshan.

Hopefully he's appreciative of it.

You know, treat him kindly, of course, as always.

But I think it was you, Barky, and Rodriguez at the end here.

after closing it out against the canes how did this come to be was it uh marshy like hey you guys should just fire those things at me that's gonna get me all fired up after a win or how did you guys start this uh routine here

i don't i don't actually recall how it started because i wasn't playing in the regular season like i i think marshi came and he played probably 10 15 games um at the end of the regular season and i wasn't in them so uh i normally go out I leave the bench, or sorry, I leave the ice second to last with Barkey after a win.

And once I came to game one of playoffs, I know Marshi picked up a few rats, I think maybe for his kids or for people that were asking during the regular season.

And then I think it started with Roddy.

I think E-Rod shot the first one at him and then Barkey was like, all right, well, if you're going to shoot one, then I'll nicely pass one into you.

And then when I came back,

we started firing them at him.

So

it's been a fun tradition.

Yeah, people seem to like it.

And it kind of

fits what our team's all about, having fun and not taking anything too seriously.

Yeah, and him being a rat, too.

I mean, it's like a perfect...

Him coming to your team seems like the perfect...

you know, storm.

It really does feel like he was built to be a Florida Panther.

And now, Boston Bruins fans hear that.

He goes, he was built to be a Boston Bruin.

What are we talking about?

But with the way your team is kind of pieced together, it feels like he was a perfect addition.

Culturally, obviously, his style of play, the way you go about doing things, and also championship pedigree, which he has, which leads to this.

What are you going to say?

I was going to say born to be a brewing you know but built to win a cup with the panthers oh i like that i like what you just said

i like that too i like it too yeah chucks like yeah i'll take that as well go ahead to him though yeah on top of all that chucky it feels like you know before marshy was got there maybe you and sam bennett and potentially some others were king of the pests on the panthers and now that marshi's there he is he is kind of taking that spotlight off teams who you know are dealing with him being the pest do you guys have a competition uh for who can rile rile up the other team more while you guys are on the ice?

And who do you think is king pest of the Florida Panthers?

Ooh, that's tough.

Ah, man.

I think that maybe changes from game to game and series to series.

I think that,

well, Marshi got a puck shot at him last round.

Yeah, that was why.

Hey,

let's talk about that.

So that was just...

He takes the title for that last round, but yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

We'll see.

Maybe this round will be different.

But I feel like I got my money on Marshi.

He's pretty good at that stuff.

And it's nice because

if people aren't

worried about it, if people aren't worried about us doing it, we could just go out and play.

But he's been a great addition, not only for that, but he is such a good player.

And people don't really see it too much.

I get to see it every day, whether it's the games or practice.

He is so skilled and so strong on the puck.

And then like you said

about him fitting in culturally,

I get he's you know, he was the perfect Boston Bruin for a long time, but I don't know.

He's almost born to be a Florida Panther the way he's like on and off the ice.

So

we're very happy to, uh, very happy to have him.

Yeah, it feels like with the way your team is built, it is a perfect relationship.

And the fact that the Bruins traded him there, I think, has made a lot of the Bruins fans go, what are we, what are we, what are we doing?

So we're just sending the guy to make the champs even better who would be perfect for them.

You talked about him getting rifle, a puck rifled at him in the middle of a game.

After he takes a shot at the guy, all right, right, we get a chance.

That's fair play.

Fair play there.

And then just moments later, old buddy at his own blue line shoots a puck at him out of nowhere, which obviously would turn to him going, what?

Are you serious?

Fighting, and then him getting kicked out, then him asking the refs if they know ball, basically, saying that the refs didn't.

What was your guys' reaction?

Because afterwards, it seemed like everybody, even coach included, said, like, we have a lot of thoughts on this.

We're going to keep them to ourselves.

We're going to keep it to ourselves.

Everybody just thought that was like a Bush League type move in your guys' locker room.

Was there ever, was there, like, was there a conversation about how we're going to handle this?

Everybody kind of understand?

Because it felt like the entire hockey world was like, that's not supposed to happen in hockey.

That is not how this goes.

We'll fight each other.

We'll cross-check every once in a while.

But firing this puck at somebody that close is just kind of not acceptable.

Is that an accurate read on how everybody viewed it?

And what was your guys' convo about it afterwards?

I don't know.

It was pretty greasy, but I mean, I don't really know.

Like, I definitely was staying away from Marshi after that game.

He was fired up, so I had to let him cool off a little bit after that.

But

I don't know.

It was kind of greasy, but I don't know.

It's playoffs.

There's shit that happens.

That's way worse than that.

And I don't know.

It is what it is.

Playoff hockey.

Yeah, but you guys didn't, I thought there was a potential five-on-five fight to start the next game.

Just take a stand.

Obviously, that would be stupid because the penalties and everything that would take place in the Easter Conference finals.

But the way you guys beat teams down, it's just like, you guys are the bullies on the ice.

And I think that's why Marshi going to the team is just so damn perfect.

Go ahead.

Yeah, we're talking about Marshall going to be a little bit more.

Well,

you can't let that stuff

take away from what's really important, you know, and, and that's winning the game and advancing.

You know, right now we're, we're the, I guess we're the, you know, with, after that happening, of course we would love to go out there and, and stick up for a teammate in a situation like that or at the start of next game or whatever.

But you got to be careful the way you do it.

Like you can't let, you know, the big picture is winning.

And you could take numbers and get them next year

if that's what you want to do, but you can't let it get in the way of what's the goal right now.

You can take numbers and remember.

Hey, you remember East Craft for finals.

Yeah, a little bit more at stake then.

Not able to necessarily do this right now.

We are, go ahead, Connor.

Yeah, I was going to say, maybe not right now, but I mean, it happened with Aho while you were in the penalty box, Chucky.

I mean, everyone saw you kind of point or look at Aho and point your head.

And then at the end of the game, you know, after it was kind of signed, sealed, delivered for you guys, I mean, you beat the brakes off him.

It was awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah, Chuck?

Yeah, I mean,

I guess that goes against everything I just said.

But

I don't know.

I don't know.

You know, I've played with Rhino for a bunch of years, hated to see that hit happen, and it knocked him out for that game.

So,

you know, we were obviously very lucky.

He only was out for one game, and we got him back in full force.

But, you know, never liked to see that happen.

And the game was out of reach.

So decided just to, I'll take the two-minute penalty to stick up for my teammate.

got kicked out of the game and it is what it is.

Yeah, that's why we love your team and you.

I just want to let you know, let alone the National Anthem Booing.

We're fighting right now.

I mean, you are everything we like about hockey, Chucky.

You need to know that.

So even if you're lying to our face about how you're going to operate things and then we counter it immediately, we will still love you, pal.

Go ahead, Ty.

Chucky, how do you guys either like rattle or kind of get into Stu Skinner's cage when this next series starts?

Because, you know, last year, the last couple years, that was kind of like, I don't want to say the downfall of the Oilers, but everyone was saying, you know, like, hey, Stu Skinner's gettable if you kind of, you know, get some momentum, get some, you know, pucks on net and all that kind of stuff.

Like, is there anything you guys need to do differently to kind of get inside his head when he has been standing on his head these last, you know, I mean, you mentioned it, they're 12 and two since the opening two games of the playoffs.

I really think with Edmonton, like they've got the experience over the last few years where, you know, you're not going to really do a whole lot that's going to mentally get in their head or whatever.

I think you just have to keep sustaining pressure and shots and offense and continued physicality.

You know, not obviously, it can't be physical on him, but you know, the rest of their team.

And I think that's how you just, I don't know if we can really get to them mentally by saying stuff or doing stuff, but

I think our team's mindsets is try to wear you down, wear you down.

So even if you're up three and you lose the next

three, wear them down enough where that game seven you could win.

So we have that game seven mentality, and we have it each and every shift in every game.

And whether that's, you know, Skinner wearing down or whatever, I mean, he's been playing incredible from the games I've been watching

the last couple rounds.

So

we're going to make sure we're going to have to make sure our shooting's dialed in.

And we've got a lot of guys in front of him to make sure he doesn't see it because everything he's seeing right now, he's stopping.

So got to give him a lot of credit.

He's playing great all right let's talk about bob also playing incredible feels like you got to have a hot goalie he is always feels like he's just uh always standing on his head does the guy have feet

he's uh he's incredible he is our backbone he's uh he's been our you know

he's just been so reliable the last few years and and he's just a guy you really root for like how he prepares his routine you know how dedicated to the sport he is how how great of a teammate he is and just such a special human being.

So

we got a chance every night with him, and that's all you can ask for.

And he's been absolutely incredible again for us this year.

Goalies, weirdos?

Not him.

He's incredible.

He's awesome.

I've played with a couple that are weird, but not our goalies.

Love this Panthers team.

Good luck, Bub.

Yeah.

Connor McGee's is flying right now.

He's literally hovering above the ice.

It feels like that's always happening.

But obviously a hot Edmonton Oilers team taking on the reigning chomps in the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

It's a beautiful thing.

You're the man.

Keep representing for all sports, brother.

Ladies and gentlemen, Matthew Kachell.

Yeah, Chucky.

See you, Chucky.

Yeah, you got to watch what you do, especially Easter Conference Finals.

You can get them back later, Connor.

Yeah, but what about whenever you...

Oh, yeah, I didn't like that he did that.

Yeah, had to handle the business.

Game was put away, though, at that point.

Yes, it was.

You know, there's time and place, right?

This is a close game.

We can't be taking cheap, you know.

But we can certainly remember.

We got you, I think, fourth week next season.

That That game matters.

We can give up a penalty or two, though, though.

You know what we got back-to-back days?

What's that?

Greasy.

Yeah, so Greasy is our new thing.

I guess that's the new world.

A little greasy.

Yeah, that's lacrosse yesterday.

Chase Frazier talks about a center having a greasy face-off.

So it started an entire line brawl.

And then Chuck goes, yeah, it's a little greasy move.

And everybody knows exactly what it means.

Yeah, I like it.

I mean, those connotations used to be bushley with greasy, of of course.

There's not.

What are you guys saying?

Gosh, the spear is not from Italy, if that's what you're talking about.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Holy hell.

Holy hell.

I was back in Pittsburgh yesterday, saw a lot of Italians, by the way.

I bet it was awesome.

Felt good to get back in there.

Felt good to get back into the mix.

You know, how are we doing?

Mozzare, where's it at?

See 40-some thousand people there.

That's a lot.

And every seat.

It wasn't one of those where there were spots.

Like, it was insane.

Yeah, it goes straight up.

The baseball shit goes straight up.

And speaking of baseball, baseball, there's no hockey tonight.

There's no basketball tonight.

But there is baseball, isn't there, Tom?

There is.

Thank God for baseball tonight.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, if you want to stay up late, we have,

well, it's, you know, 10-10 Eastern.

What?

First pitch.

No way am I watching that.

Yeah, Yankees West Coast road trip.

They play the Dodgers.

We got a World Series rematch from last year, potential World Series preview for this year.

Both of them have been playing very, very well.

But yeah, I mean, if you're not a guy like me, or, you know, I mean, shit, I don't even know if Bruce is going to, you know, stay up for this one with the Knicks tomorrow night.

But yeah, 10-10 is very late.

But this whole series, all three of these games are on national TV some way, shape, or form.

So if you do want to just get like a little, you know, a little morsel of what the baseball season has been so far, I mean, this is about as good of a matchup as you could ask for.

I love to hear that all of the game stars are playing in one game.

Yes.

And I appreciate that it's on at 1 a.m.

Eastern.

Well, you know, no,

1 a.m.

Eastern.

It'll be.

Can you call Passing, please?

Eighth inning.

Specific.

And this is also.

Yeah, specific move that.

Don't we move?

Wouldn't we want to see Aaron Judge versus Show?

Well, that's what's interesting is tonight is 10-10, and then like tomorrow, I believe, is on Fox, and that's 7-10.

So I think I don't know if it's just because it's Friday and they want to make sure like both of the weekend games, Sunday night, this is Sunday night baseball.

So that'll start around 7.

Okay, so Tuesday or 7 o'clock.

Yeah, exactly.

Just tonight is the 10-10 season.

Yeah, tomorrow, too.

The Pacers start at 8, so you'll get a good three at-bats tomorrow.

It probably should be flipped where the baseball kicks off later.

But this is a good reminder how these conference games, we've been so lucky, that none of them have been on the West Coast.

You forget games start that late because all these games have been, you know, every team has been, what, Mountain Time, I guess Edmonton's the only one that isn't Central or Eastern.

It's been kind of one of those blessing in disguise you don't really think about until you you remember that games do start at 10 o'clock.

Okay, let's go to the NFL.

Quasi Adofa Mensa has signed an extension with the Minnesota Vikings.

Congratulations to the general manager over there who put together a team that was competing to be the number one seed in the NFC in the last week of the season against the Detroit Lions.

They would lose and maybe even get a rule change because of how great their year was from going a first to a fifth seed in the NFC.

He has pieced together quite an outfit over there.

Now, what are they doing a quarterback going forward?

Well, it's J.J.

McCarthy's team.

Now, obviously, nobody has said that outright, but every move and everything that they've alluded to is basically that they're going to rely upon the national champion out of Michigan, whose rookie year didn't even get started because of a surgery that had to happen in training camp.

So now that J.J.'s their guy, Quasi's locked in, Kevin O'Connell is going to be there for a long time.

It feels like the Minnesota Vikings have found some stability if JJ could play quarterback well.

There was obviously a conversation about, are they going to bring in Aaron Rodgers?

Does Aaron Rodgers want to go play with, you know, this Minnesota Vikings offense that is absolutely loaded?

Quasi was able to get Justin Jefferson paid while also bringing in a lot of other weapons on the offensive side.

He was also able to almost have a defensive player of the year candidate.

They are stacked on both sides of the ball.

All contracts are seemingly good.

And the only question mark is, is J.J.

McCarthy a guy?

They have rolled the dice and said, we are willing to bet on it.

We believe in him.

They drafted him.

Jim Harbaugh, whenever he was coming out of Michigan, said, this is the best quarterback in the draft.

The guy had the best workout I've ever seen is what Jim Harbaugh said.

Now, Jim Harbaugh did recruit him to Michigan.

He did win a national championship with Jim Harbaugh at Michigan, but that's literally the only question mark.

Everything else that has happened around Minnesota, I think everybody would say, yeah, that's the right move.

Gway, obviously a general manager, a large part of all of that.

He gets an extension.

Congratulations to him.

That's a big deal.

Yeah, yeah.

And we all just have so much faith in Kevin O'Connell, where you feel like you've seen it.

The pastronaut thing, I feel like, solidified it for me when the pastronaut came in and they just started winning games with KOC telling him in his ear what routes his receivers were running to the point where, you know, KOC, I believe, came on this show and told us, yeah, sometimes I had to shut up.

I had to stop talking because I was giving him so much information.

But, I mean, he had a year to kind of watch.

How much do you think he was able to watch?

Because with him being so hurt, he was on the sideline.

I think we saw him in the building.

There was articles.

He was in the building and doing VR stuff with the quarterback.

Yes, we saw him around.

We saw him on the sideline.

He got a chance to experience it.

A lot of mental reps.

We talk about rookie quarterbacks not having to start early.

Now

he had to miss some time and he had to go through rehab, which might have helped actually if he's in a training room with the boys, you know, throughout the entire season.

What you hear, what you pick up, what you learn.

There's a chance that he got like a masterclass on how to be an NFL quarterback last year while rehabbing, becoming the healthiest he could possibly become.

There's a chance this is the guy.

I mean, like everybody that's talked about him says this is the guy.

They actually say that the Vikings are going to get better.

Sam Darnold was their quarterback.

He was up for MVP throughout a lot of part of the year.

Sam Darnold reinvigorates his entire legacy, his entire career last year.

He doesn't get re-signed.

They go, wait a minute,

this is what you wanted.

Kirk Cousins, same exact thing.

They don't re-sign him.

Isn't this what you wanted?

Now they're going with J.J.

McCarthy, the young guy, and it's like, you listen to Kirk Herbstreet talk, he's like, they're going to be better.

And it's like they were.

Or Laska thinks that, too.

They're playing for the number one seed in the NFC last year.

He's like, going to be better.

I don't know if they're going to be playing for the number one seed because it might take them a little bit to learn.

But in the long run, team is going to be better.

And J.J.

McCarthy is built for the moment.

In the big moments, J.J.

McCarthy is there.

He's got got it, is basically what everybody says.

IMG, he had it.

As soon as he got to Michigan, he had it.

As soon as he completed his career in Michigan, he had it.

And he would have had it last year if they would have let him play.

That is what everybody that knows J.J.

McCarthy says.

So let's just assume he's the guy.

And let's assume that the Minnesota Vikings are set for the next 10 years.

He's in a 10.

10 years in the NFC North.

Yeah, and like people might snicker at the, oh, he was doing VR work last year.

Like, I'm sure that.

helped him a ton.

Jaden Daniels talked about how the VR stuff was some of the most important, you know, routine kind of prep that he had during the NFL season.

You can get 100 reps.

You can get 100 reps in like three minutes.

So as opposed to everybody having to walk through and reset everybody, it's just like, boom, put them out there.

We're doing walkthrough.

Bang, reset it, walk through.

Boom, we move this guy here.

This is what you got.

You can just get so many reps so efficiently, so conveniently, so quickly without having to call up the practice squad or read the card team, get everybody set up, get everybody realigned.

It's like you just lock in.

everything's realigned.

Oh, let's show you two high.

Okay, so when they do this, they're going to do this.

Let's do that again here's a hundred different forms of that if you're willing to put in the work and invest in the time which they say jj mccarthy is doing hardball guy and they say exactly and they say jaden did and all these guys that have success they invest the time if you're willing to invest the time with virtual reality and technology the amount of reps that you can get is a thousand x what it used to be so you can learn much quickly and it feels like guys are doing so i just read so what they did was they put a camera on sam darnold's uh helmet during practices and walkthroughs and then put that footage into the VR so that J.J.

McCarthy could see what Sam was seeing during walkthroughs and practices.

Then, obviously, the game stuff, you know, you could do that as well.

Yeah, and the amount of trivia, there's just so many things that they can do in there with how interactive it is.

I assume JJ's going to be great just because everybody that knows him says he's going to be great.

That's what I assume.

And he's got Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hawkinson, and Aaron Jones.

Yeah.

And Kevin O'Connell.

And Kevin O'Connell, and they invested in the O-line.

And they have great defense.

Yep, great.

And they have great special teams.

Still got B-flow.

Yeah, it's like, you're in a great.

JJ might be the perfect guy for the job, but also that might be the perfect team to be a first-time starting quarterback in the NFL.

Good luck to them all.

Congrats to Quasi.

Ryan Grigson gets a bump in title.

He is now assistant general manager.

Congrats to him.

Happy for him.

Oh, yeah.

Happy for him.

Still.

Oh, yeah.

Just an aux.

By far the most jacked general manager, assistant general manager in the NFL.

No questions asked.

305, I think, still walking around.

Beard game very tight.

Obviously, I was in Indianapolis when he was hired as a general manager in his 30s.

I think all parties would say he didn't necessarily handle it the perfect way with everything that comes with being a general manager, not just finding talents, putting together a team, but also negotiations and, you know, communication and how you operate and a building and everything.

So I think he got thrown in the deep end.

I think he had a chance to learn.

He has a chance to kind of look back on the mistakes that he made, look back on the things that he did very well.

We won whenever he was there, and now he's continuing to climb the ladder.

I'm happy for him.

I'm very happy for him.

And I hope he gets another opportunity at it.

It feels like the second time after getting hired very young is normally a successful thing.

He's obviously moving up the ranks over there in Minnesota.

Might win a Super Bowl.

Yeah, maybe.

For sure.

Joining us now is a guy that might know a little bit more information on Quasi signing.

And if anybody else,

because we had no idea that was coming.

No.

I mean, I'm assuming people did.

Is there any other big money moves going to executives?

Is there any other moves about to happen around the NFL?

And how happy are the New York Knicks fans?

Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, Emmy Award

winner, one of the founding hosts of Good Morning Football, now ESPN analyst and pundit, ladies and gentlemen and insider, Peter Schrager.

How you doing, Shrags?

I'm doing awesome.

Smiling just took my kid to school this morning and everyone's in blue and orange.

Back on the bandwagon.

New York is beautiful this time of year, Pat.

Kind of wish you would have been able to witness it, but I understand.

I love Jelly Roll.

Saw Jelly Roll in Post Malone in Vegas at Allegiant Stadium a couple of months, a couple of weeks ago.

Outstanding.

Was Tyrese Halliburton with you in Pittsburgh last month?

Or was he on the court?

Okay.

Yeah, he didn't have his best night.

Okay, two or seven.

Okay, they only had seven shots.

Not great.

Okay.

And every once in a while, you know, we'll have a game like this where it just doesn't go our way and it goes the other team's way.

We look out of sorts, but the other team's playing fantastic ball.

This other team just so happens to be in Madison Square Garden with a place that was rocking.

I was watching along.

It looked awesome.

I know you were not there as well.

I was not going to pay $171,000 for a ticket.

So that is, and also bail on jelly.

Right.

Not bailing on jelly roll.

No way.

But I would have been able to make it.

Just not $171,000 worth.

I saw a lot of Knicks fans calling me a coward.

Valid.

I respect it.

I would have been saying the same thing, but I'm not paying $200,000 to go watch the Indiana Pacers against the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals while getting bullied by all of New York.

I don't have that type of fetish in my life.

I don't have that type of need for attention.

But I will say, watching the game, I could see how Knicks fans all of a sudden have hope that this is their series.

I was getting a bunch of texts: Knicks in seven.

We saw the chance outside, Knicks in seven.

That's really what the hope is at this point.

And whenever they have a game like they had last night where everything's falling, Kat and Jalen are going bananas.

Indiana's not able to make much.

It's like, well, is that Indiana or is that maybe the Knicks defense?

It's kind of figuring it out.

Are those all the thoughts that you guys are having this morning?

Like, wait a minute, maybe this is our series.

Yeah, and like the truth is, you know, we're up by five with a minute left in the first half of game four.

And I'm in the building looking around to the 10 other Knicks fans that are with me in Indiana.

And I'm like, we got a shot.

And then at the end of the half, you guys really put a nice run together.

And then it's just an avalanche.

And then we get the promo cut.

And I'm like, we're not winning now.

Like this, like this place is the building was on fire.

So it was like, you felt we had a shot.

Now we go to game six and all of my friends, and I'm not talking about sports media, I'm not talking about people who are sitting on the courtside, all my friends who are going to the Knicks games when they're playing the Clippers and the Kings and the and the Pelicans,

they're texting me, is like, should we go on Saturday?

Is it going to be hostile?

And I'm like, no, no, no, you don't understand.

These Indiana fans are amazing.

They're not hostile towards Knicks fans.

They're welcoming.

They want you to enjoy the experience.

They're just smart, good, and loud as you know what.

Like my ears are still ringing from that game.

So

I don't imagine it's going to be a little smattering of Knicks fans on Saturday.

I think a big contingent is coming in.

Oh, really?

Invasion.

He's going to show up big.

Weekend, Saturday.

And I'm urging everyone, go.

If you can afford it, if you can find a way there, go.

Whoa.

Go, go, go.

And represent the Knicks in Indianapolis.

You have to.

You want invasion of the big city.

Okay.

Jeez, Louise.

That'd be good for sport.

It'd be good for sport if it was loud.

I mean, we got people in this building that are inviting inviting

Knicks fans out here as friends, taking them to the game.

So I think they are trying to have a little coyote situation where they're trying to sneak them in in the entirety.

Pacer fans aren't going to let that happen.

Pacer fans aren't going to happen.

No.

That place is going to be packed out.

I don't love the yellow out, just with like

the way it...

Optics.

Just how I'm built.

You know, you're not going to really see me in a light shirt.

on a regular basis.

Just I'm built like a spark plug.

My complexion, not good for yet.

Like, that's a tough color, you know?

But it'll be a yellow out I soup.

And it might be a little bit of orange and a little bit of blue scattered throughout there.

But inevitably, what's going to happen?

You know what Tyrese is going to do?

You saw the game he just had?

You think that's going to happen?

Yeah.

I don't think so.

That's the thing.

It was the greatest performance I've ever seen live in a playoff game three nights ago.

Tuesday night, he was unbelievable.

He had 32, total 15, zero turnovers.

And then he was, he was nothing last night.

So I don't know what's going on.

And hopefully, I'm sorry.

I'm saying like it is.

I respect the hell out of that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, no, I understand.

I have to say, oh, whatever you say.

I just didn't realize that the concert poster was Jelly Roll Post Malone, and Tyrese Hell.

Okay, all right.

He wasn't at the big ass stadium torn in Pittsburgh.

He was at Madison Square Garden.

Rick Carlisle and the Pacers have not lost back-to-back games since March or something like that, March 10th or something.

I assume Rick Carlisle's message to that Pacers team was

pretty enthusiastic.

I would assume pretty harsh, if I had to guess.

And back in Indianapolis on Saturday, should be a beautiful thing.

Last question about this particular series before we move to NFL stuff.

Go ahead, Connor.

Yeah, just so you know too, Pat, some people are inviting Knicks fans out here just to watch them lose, just to see the tears of Knicks fans.

That would be my case there, okay?

There's some Celtics fans that are out here that are going to the game

just to invite Knicks fans out to watch them cry and losing the series.

Bingo, yes.

More exact.

Yeah, just to make sure on the same page.

There are some people doing that.

Some people are doing that, not everybody.

Smart people, you could argue.

but strikes uh you know a lot of people are talking about bridges uh og and obi being the key is mitchell robinson kind of the key to the knicks winning here and do you think they need to give him some more minutes here because it feels as though that six minute span with mitch last night was kind of it was early but it almost kind of set the tone where hey indiana you're not coming into this house and winning Well, hold on, wait a second.

Al Horford just hoisted up another three and just oh wait, no, that didn't go in.

Sorry for the chase.

Yeah, no, Al Horford.

you can't talk shit to me straeger because you guys aren't worth shit you're not gonna win anything and you see this trophy right here you son of a bitch right here you better take a good long look bitch because you're never gonna see it again all right so you can hang the banner for winning a second round you know playoff series that cool wow but uh celtics fans a little rattled right now when tyrese albert no no i'm not taking no shit from some guy who's never even sniffed the finals since you know it got before he went to the battle wow celtics are rattled i didn't even know the celtics are rattled

I'm not I'm taking it from the Pacers fans because they got a team and respect I'm not respecting the Knicks fans I'm not gonna bow down Don Mellencamp is not gonna be happy

well guess what I'm not Hoosier Hospitality I think Hoosier Hospitality is stupid first of all

first and foremost

it's real but I think it's stupid who's your hospitality we host more events here conventions and it's real but I'm I come from a place where I want a little hey can you get the out of the way hey can you just shut the f up you know I like that stuff from the people of my city, and it's very nice.

Like, you know, everyone's, oh, well, everything's great.

You know, there's nothing wrong with telling somebody to go to hell or somebody to go back to the head.

Listen, out here, you come out to Indianapolis, you have a good time.

The hospitality will host you.

We got great hotels.

You got good restaurants.

Everybody else.

It's an awesome city.

Awesome city.

Everything exists.

One of my favorites.

That's Hoosier Hospitality.

No doubt about it.

And I'm not going to talk trash to 18 championships.

I know better.

And I grew up having nightmares of the Celtics.

So I was just having a little bit of truth of the matter.

Shut up and suck it, bitch.

Truth of the matter is, Mitchell Robinson, that guy's been on the team for seven years.

Mitchell Robinson's the actual heart and soul of this team.

So whereas we're flipping the team and we're getting Josh Hart at the trade deadline to really kickstart this thing a couple years back, and then we bring in Brunson.

And of course, we get Cat and Bridges this year.

Mitchell Robinson was there in those dark days.

So Knicks fans have like a real place for him.

So when he comes in, and you know he's bringing defense, you know he's bringing rebounding, and you saw him in the corner there, Jalen Brown in that game.

Like, you know, he's bringing that.

But when he starts scoring and gosh, when he's getting those offensive rebounds and dunking, like that is an extra good feeling because it brings you back to those days where these teams were not making the playoffs and the Celtics were beating us by 20 and the Pacers were beating us by 20 on our court.

So yes, Mitchell Robinson not only brings it on the court, but he brings it with the fans.

There's a special connection with that player.

Yeah, we need him to not have a good game on Sarah.

No doubt.

Need him to play bad.

Everybody play bad.

Jalen Brunson doesn't know how to play bad.

Now, there's some stats coming out about Jalen and Kat being on the court at the same time last night and having success as opposed to the early games where they weren't having success.

And it was hard for me to understand people saying they need Jalen not to play and it would be better because as a Pacer fan, I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's definitely do that.

Let's have Jalen not play.

Because every time that guy has the ball, it feels like it's going in the hoop.

I mean, every single, it makes no sense how he's able to create his own shot and how often it falls.

Like if he has just a window of hope, the ball's going in.

Then they talk about on the defensive side, though, and how they're trying to run plays for him and how him and Kat don't work together.

It feels like last night they were able to really make it happen.

I hope that means they didn't find a recipe.

No, no.

I hope that doesn't mean that they have figured it out in the Eastern Conference final.

I hope that means it was one night of magic.

in Madison Square Garden with all the stars out, Shregs.

How about that TJ McConnell photo in front of Miles and Kelly and Tim and Kylie?

I had to tag him because if you do it, it's like a where's wall, though.

It's just every face in there.

That's Lance Thomas and Chris Dudley, former Knicks in the back of that picture.

Like, you've got Mike Novogratz, the crypto king in the orange.

You've got all sorts of people.

Stiller, Stiller is kind of hanging halfway.

He's standing up.

That's Stiller's kid next to him.

It's an incredible image.

And the fact that it's Jinzer, TJ McConnell, doing the three-point thing right on the sideline.

He's wearing those kicks.

Those are like the John Morants, but the most like TJ McConnell version of the John Morant.

What's happening?

I love it.

What's that mean?

Sick.

What's that mean?

I don't know.

They're just plain.

Sick.

Milk.

Milk, you're saying?

Those are the milk.

Those are the most plain.

We got it.

Those are plain.

So good.

Sorry.

TJ's a dog.

Yeah, he's from Pittsburgh.

And there was a time last year where he was marching up and down everybody's court in front of their crowd.

Love watching it.

Great series, great atmosphere.

Can't wait for tomorrow night, game six.

Now, let's talk a little football, shall we?

There's a lot going on down in Miami.

A lot seemingly going on down in Miami.

Go ahead, AP Tyre.

A ton going down in Miami with the Finn fam and the Dolphins.

Yesterday, there was a report.

I don't know if I buy it or not, Shreg.

That's why I'm asking you, that there's potentially trade talks between the Steelers and Dolphins for John U Smith, specifically because Artie Smith loves Jonu Smith, even though the Steelers have a few tight ends already that they love.

So, you know, you can talk to me about that, see if that's bullshit or not.

And then also, Tyreek Hill's been on a lot of streams lately, which is always a good idea.

He's been saying stuff.

Is there any chance that Tyreek is potentially in trade talks as well this summer?

Well, there's a lot of credibility behind the John Eo stuff.

Schefter's got it.

And then Field Yates added a good point that in both Tennessee and Atlanta, John Hu Smith was one of the favorite players for Arthur Smith.

So if Arthur Smith has a voice, that makes a lot of sense that Pittsburgh would add another weapon to that offense after losing George Pickens.

Johnu Smith's not going to replace George Pickens, but it's another receiving option for whoever the quarterback's going to be.

As for Tyreek, so much chatter, and yet from what I gather, he's not going anywhere.

And right now, Jalen Ramsey is more likely to be traded than Tyreek and Tyreek Hill.

Truth of the matter is, both of those guys have massive contracts, and you're going to have to find teams that are going to be willing to take them on.

And for all the chatter with Miami and how public he is with some of the stuff he said at the locker room with the last week of the season, and then he's been on all these streams.

And I don't know, you know,

if there's a directive for him to maybe not be talking so much about it.

The truth is, when Tyreek Hill's there, he's fine and he's one of the best players in all of football.

In fact, the NFL network did a poll last year, this time.

The number one player in the entire NFL was Tyreek Hill.

So like, you don't trade that player because he's said some comments that upset

your fan base online.

When he's there, he's great.

And the truth of the matter is, he and Tua actually do have a really good connection.

So I don't think Tyreek Hill is going anywhere.

I think he just likes being on social media, likes doing those podcasts.

And truth of the matter is, it's pretty entertaining.

Yeah, he got a good pop.

Everything he says gets pretty good pop, both with the people he's with and then on the internet.

It gets a massive reaction.

He did say in his press conference, he's doing a lot more personally with what he's going through.

And he feels like he understands what Coach Mike is trying to do in the culture, the locker room more now than ever, and also Tua more now than ever.

So I guess that's good things.

And then they asked him about his quote, and he said it was high emotions.

You know, I just try to move.

on look focused in the next day.

There's a lot going on.

Feels like everybody's past it.

He feels like he's past it.

Every time he goes on a live stream, though, there's something coming out of it.

There's something coming out of it.

Tyreek's a good talker.

He is.

Tyreek is a good talker.

I tell you, like, he was traded from Kansas City because he wanted to get paid.

They couldn't afford him.

Like, I know those Kansas City guys from Veech to Borganzi, who's now in Tennessee, to Andy Reid.

Like, they love...

Tyreek Hill.

Like people who play, like had Tyreek Hill is like the man once you're in the building.

So there was no like bad blood when he left.

And I think the same thing with Miami.

Always going to run his mouth, always going to say things.

but like the people in that building they love Tyree Kill and he's a well-received player it's not like he's some cantankerous guy or a cancer in the locker room I do appreciate his quote on Aiden's live stream is right out of a movie

let's go yeah Aiden Ross's live stream those streamers are that business is wild that business is wild congrats to all of them that is a whole new

genre of entertainment uh truman show like that these dudes are doing and women i assume i haven't seen them but oh no i saw at streamer university there were some there were some pops off down there so what these men and women are doing in the streaming world it's the future i believe obviously yeah everybody says ask future ask future ask future you got to be on they gotta be on yeah all the time like hey when you're being boring this is not where you gotta be on on on on on congrats all of them doing their thing and for being as electrifying as you have to be for people just to watch you live your life but every time uh when tyreek was on there and every time tyree has gone on there, he's given a clip that seems like it's out of a movie.

The most recent one was, yeah, I wanted to punch him in the face because he wasn't throwing me the ball.

Yep, like that's straight out of a wide receiver movie.

Yeah, you know,

big pop, though, big pop out everybody's room.

So I think he was trying to be funny.

And like you said, everybody in the building loves him.

It's like, if you can get Tyreek locked in, he's a weapon.

He says he still wants to go for 2K.

What are we talking about?

Let's keep it moving.

We appreciate the hell out of that.

And we appreciate the hell out of you, Shrace.

Congrats to your Knicks.

Are you coming tomorrow?

I'm not.

No, I've actually been texting

with our mutual fan, Jerry Ferrara, you know, him from Entourage, of course.

He's texting me as we speak, like, should we go?

How do we go?

Do you know a hookup?

I'm like, I'm not your private jet guy, and I certainly don't have a hookup in Indianapolis, but I will say this: it is an amazing experience if you do go.

And I urge all Knicks fans to represent.

Now, I'm going to go take all my Mellon Camp albums and burn them in the back deer.

I'm Team Mac as we let them.

Nah, the music, Smith.

The music, Smith.

Don't burn them.

And hey, Turtle, hit the jet.

We'll see you soon.

Triggs, we appreciate you.

We'll see you in the next hour.

Goodbye.

Race the rudders.

Raise the sails.

Raise the sails.

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Sports are happening all around us.

Congrats to the Knicks and to the Edmonton Oilers.

Knicks get a big win to extend the Eastern Conference Finals of the NBA, and the Edmonton Oilers bury the Dallas Stars and become the Western Conference Finals.

champions and head to the Stanley Cup Finals in a rematch of last year's Stanley Cup Finals against the Florida Panthers.

The Edmonton Oilers were playing a Dallas Stars team that had a chance to reach the Stanley Cup finals.

Instead, they lose last night in pretty devastating fashion.

The Dallas Stars goalie, who we love, Otter, got pulled after two shots.

Two?

Two shots.

Totals?

Two total shots he saw.

How many saves you?

None.

They asked two goals.

Otter.

I mean, get him out.

All right.

Otto.

Then Connor McDavid said, I'm going to take this thing over, does some glide glide on it.

Boom, pow.

Assist, bang.

Edmonton.

Oh, hi, I'm Connor McJesus.

I'm faster than your whole team.

And I'm going to, who's this goalie?

I don't know him.

I was waiting for an otter.

This looks more like a bar.

You do know.

Don't stop.

Casey's doing it.

That was the goat.

Yeah.

Whoa.

No, no, Louie Legal.

That was the goat.

Yeah, yeah.

Louis LeBron.

Oh, my God.

I was watching Nick's basis.

I didn't know they put the goat in.

The goat was sitting behind behind the otter this whole time.

Gumpy, I watched you go through it all night last night.

We're watching Nick's Pacers here.

Jelly Rolls performing here.

Post Malone then comes out.

Rock star.

Holy hell.

Actual.

Screaming.

That's why.

Carrying it.

And then right into singing.

I don't know how his.

A little bit of rapping, too.

I don't know how his vocal.

I don't know how he does it at all.

It's impressive.

He's a real, real talent.

Like, we we saw taylor swift and taylor swift does her thing in a different avenue post malone has just the same amount of yeah these are rock stars crowd control yeah that it's like it's a different when you watch like taylor had the entire stadium exactly okay it's like oh this is a rock star and then post comes out and he's in his songs I mean, like, he is within the lyrics.

Real passion.

Really, like, in there as he's, I don't know how you're able to do that every night.

Like, I don't know how you're able to, every song is like it is, is he's writing it is singing it for the first time he really got after it last night but that's happening then we got gumpy sitting two doors down here fuck

what what's going on

otter gave up to

he they pulled him they pulled otter they pulled him pulled him they sat him and he turns his phone around and it's otter skating off to the side and it's like they make the otter do the the skate of shame basically over to the bench after everything he's done and now the season's over for the dallas stars and gumpy i'm sorry it it was a hell of a run.

He made it to the final four.

Made it to the final four, Gumps.

The Dallas Stars could have been in the Standing Cup finals if they just didn't run into the McDavid train that, you know, is back in the finals.

You should probably go out with one of your best players playing, though, I would say.

You know, two shots.

And then DeBoer throws him under the bus after the game as well.

You know who took the fucking penalty to score the first goal?

A kid that hasn't played since April 26th.

Who made that decision, Pete?

Who was it?

That would be you, Mr.

DeVoer.

So guess what?

Otter's going to be in Dallas a long time before you were and a long time after you are.

Oh, you're saying get this guy out of here?

I'm not going to go.

I'm not.

I'm not.

That's three in a row.

I'm not going to go that far.

You don't throw your goalie, franchise goalie, under the bus after the game.

They weren't bad goals either.

Yeah.

So you guys are the Carolina Hurricanes in the West, right?

More or less.

We've won a few more games, but yeah.

Long story short.

Gumpy was calling for heads to roll.

It's crazy.

The heads to roll last night.

I mean, it was, we're flying home in literally, we're, I don't know, 20 minutes into not that conference.

Probably just chilling.

We were just hanging, cutting, taking in the concert.

And then all of a sudden, Gumpy just starts laughing.

The bar.

This guy.

Just out of nowhere.

Just like loses his mind in the entirety.

Let's go to one hand with a hammer.

That Cowboys AP tone.

I also thought it was insane.

I mean, the first goal was a power play where it went from dry settled with McDavid to Corey Perry in under under a second, maybe.

And he's, he's standing in front of the net by himself.

Okay.

So, I mean, almost saves it.

That's not a, what'd you say?

Almost saved.

Almost saved.

And then the second one, it's basically, it's basically a breakaway that he slides five-hole.

Like, these are not terrible.

This is not like, oh, he didn't catch it or anything.

Like, these are not, these are pretty normal goals for a goalie to give away.

He wasn't saying the puck.

The board knew it.

Hey, man, have you seen his record up in Edmonton?

The board let the whole world know that.

Scott never wins up here either.

I don't know if you've looked into it.

Yeah, he's a franchise guy.

The guy stinks we had to pull him anyways long offseason for all teams except for one stanley cup winner it'll not be the dallas stars although you guys had a great season let's talk to stay by boss connor at tash mitter here and joining us live from an attic in ohio ladies and gentlemen a college football national champion a super bowl champion a rider cup winner ladies and gentlemen aj hawk yeah

hawker how you doing pal i'm doing great but i want to ask gump this does how does hockey work did otter know okay you're on a short leash tonight if it if it goes poor early that you're out of here zero chance he's like top five goalies in the nhl There's no way that was even a conversation.

Yeah, they were actually talking about him being the reason why they could win the Stanley Cup.

Yeah, honestly.

That's what I thought.

He made that save against the Jets.

That's why we got to where we are.

Like, he's been unbelievable all playing.

So diving one back across.

Yeah, like he's absurd, dude.

Good player.

He hasn't been his best in Winston Conference Finals.

I understand that.

But still, you end your season with him and Net, not with fucking Casey DeSmith.

I mean, De Boer seeing DeSmith, and he's like,

Yeah, got the goat.

Yeah, how do we know DeSmith didn't look at the board and say, you know, dude?

Y'all want to win?

Put the Smith in.

You think DeSmith actually was the one that was handing over the stats?

You know, this guy's done up here?

Yeah.

Yeah.

See this coach.

You see Mustaz?

And then who'd they have him sitting next to?

Who was Otter Smith?

Oh, Ray Ferraro, Mr.

Edmonton Euler himself, that guy.

Never heard more bias.

If I close my eyes, it's like I'm back in Canada watching sports and that listen to him call an Oiler stars game.

Gumpy had a tough time last night.

Yeah, it was brutal.

Gumpy had a tough time.

Potentially the most bummed I've ever seen him.

Yeah.

He's asking for heads and roll, you know.

I love that team.

The stars give you hope, not like the Miami Dolphins, you know?

Well, the Miami Dolphins got a lot of stories going on, but Frank said, it's all noise.

Don't worry about that.

He has dropped them.

What's that?

He's dropped the Finns.

Fan of the Shield now?

No, I haven't fully dropped them.

Rob Lowe.

You are no longer a fan of Shields.

I'm still a fan, but I just...

You refuse to be emotionally invested?

I'm at the point where I wake up every day and there's more bullshit.

It's like Joe New Smith was our best player, only pro bowler.

And you want to trade him?

Chris Greer, every time a guy knocked on the door, here's more money.

Tyreek, more money.

Not more years, just more money.

Xavian Howard, more money, more money, more money.

Jalen Ramsey, here's more money.

Oh, Joe New Smith's getting 4.8.

I can't give him anymore.

Our best player.

It's great.

It's a masterclass again in Miami.

It's fucking everything's great.

Happy gum.

Yeah.

Let's feel good Friday, H.

And how are we supposed to feel good with Knicks beating the Pacers last night?

Gumpy's calling for the head coach of our Western Conference final team, three straight years, to get fired.

Okay.

And Grok was bullying me last night.

Did you see this, AJ?

I did see.

This is a new, like a creative way where you can kind of, yeah, Grok can do some creative things, it feels like.

I think a lot of people learned that last night.

And I'll tell you, I get back to my phone after the concert and after the Knicks Pacers game.

And I see a bunch of Knicks fans going, hey, Grok, put Pat in a clown costume.

And guess what Grok was doing?

He's doing it.

He was doing it.

10 seconds.

Putting me in different clown costumes.

And all of a sudden, I go, hey, Grok, because Grok does what you say, right?

That's what Grok does.

I've learned very well.

So I said, hey, Grok, stop doing it.

Okay.

Shouldn't Grok listen to me?

No, no.

Instead, hey, Grok, stop it.

Okay.

That's me telling Grok to stop.

Should listen to what I say.

Didn't listen.

Picked everybody else.

There must have been 10,000 clown pictures of me last night from Grok.

People just, TJ Lang explored the space.

He really explored the space.

He said he had no idea that this was possible.

And they started sending me texts.

Just, I didn't know this was, this is scary, he was saying to me, this is scary that this is ever possible.

I go, yeah.

So stop doing it.

He goes, well, I just gave you tattoos.

I can't, I just got you a pacifier.

I just put big tails on your hand.

I'm like, stop doing what you're doing, TJ.

He goes, this is scary, man.

I'm like, yeah, I know.

So stop doing it.

He said, I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight just exploring what Grok's capabilities are.

I'm like, go to bed, DJ.

Enough of it.

He wasn't the only one.

There was a lot of that.

Now there were some good ones as well.

A lot of me is a clown.

Sure.

And I'll say, Grok, you are a talented artist.

The way you were able to do this so many different ways for people in a matter of seconds is certainly something.

I asked you numerous times,

what are you doing, Grok?

Can you stop bullying me?

There's people that made me look jacked.

There's people that made me look stupid.

They even put me on top of New York City.

Did you see what Grok was able to do?

Put me on top of New York City.

I was kind of the king of New York at different times.

They had me wrestling.

They had me hanging out with Ben Stiller.

I think a lot of people learned last night that Grok can literally do whatever you want it to do.

There was a couple people that utilized Grok to respond to John Cougar Mellenkamp as well last night.

Man, those were masterful, too.

No, those weren't even photos, Hawker.

It was almost like a short story, poem, if you will.

Oh, yeah.

I saw a couple of those pop up.

I saw some of those pop up.

So it was John Mellenkamp.

Who was he standing up for?

Who was he grandstanding for?

Like, he not Indiana Pacer fans.

No, good people in Indiana yeah because I was a terrible person I was somebody it was nice to feel like somebody there for one day not even though he was standing up for the big city bigwigs because whoa he said he was like he called out you know these these Knicks fans down there and they got booed and that's not Uzier hospitality so he wasn't even staying you know he wasn't even like some average Joe Knicks fan he was he was upset that you were calling out the big city bigwigs who were down there and no he was saying this is not what uh this is not what we do He was standing up for the real people of Indiana.

No, no, I think Ty's right.

I saw him taking a knee, kind of doing the whole entire thing.

I'm basically bending the knee to the gritty corporate fat cats of New York.

Well, I appreciate the fact that he made the graphic.

It was a good graphic.

You know, I appreciate the fact that

kind of tough to read the white overlay and the picture behind it.

It's a good picture.

I mean, the white on white shirt didn't do it for you.

Yeah, but little diddy.

Two men king kids growing up in hot land.

You know what they say?

Jackie gonna be her

football star.

That's a heater.

Yeah.

Okay.

That is an absolutely.

Oh, baby, when you hurt so good.

Sometimes love don't feel like it should.

Don't hurt so good.

Bang it.

Banger.

This guy makes good music.

And he, you know, has been from Indiana his whole life

so i respect that seen in a lot of events don't respect him sitting down at those events just because yeah everybody else is standing

tough it's tough do you think he has any idea of uh the you know specific individual stories that people reach out to him and let them know happened i don't know if you can hear what all the peasants are saying yeah no whenever you're hot horse in the way john method camp has and think about how much his horse has grown over the last few years oh yeah it was a hot horse now that some bitch is a giant

I think it's a giant.

And he's just, hey, hey, this guy fucking made people boo at a sporting event.

I don't think so.

He came riding in paint today.

Lil Diddy, back with the fucking

on his high horse.

Yeah.

Can't hear what everybody else is saying.

Bingo.

You know, he can't hear what everybody else is saying.

And I don't think he was the one that...

I don't know.

I always try to make the benefit of the doubt for these olds.

Sure.

No, I think he was in

all that software doing it.

I was trying to think of the editing software, but I couldn't come up with it in my mind.

Yes, on $2.99 a month, me map on his phone.

You think he made that?

Yeah, I think there's a chance of how bad it is.

I think there was somebody that told him he should say something because he probably read like the, there was the Hollywood Reporter.

Sure.

Variety.

Yep.

Elite Sports Illustrated.

Many others.

New York Post.

Yeah, he was reading all these.

He was reading all these.

He was going, oh, oh,

oh.

and somebody around him was like oh

you should say something john and he said took the toothpick out of his mouth because that's what he does he looks super cool yeah i should and then he said something and then somebody goes we'll put that on x-ray he goes yeah make sure people hear that bingo and then he walked away exactly and then they were like we're gonna make this look sweet it's a good quote put it on the picture Bang, bang, make this thing artsy.

Has anybody told him how this has gone?

I think I would guess guess word has gotten back to him at this point that john don't don't ever we're not doing that again okay we're not doing that ever again

trying to tarnish your reputation overnight you've been making bangers for 45 goddamn years now everyone hates your guts overnight no it turns out he just learned that everybody hates his guts

i think that's what we all did i did not expect that reaction to be honest i thought i was in one there I thought I was in one there.

I was like, yeah, when I saw the quote, I'm like, whoa, no.

Because John's at every event.

If he he can get free tickets, John's going to be there.

But who's, like I said, the who's he, you, like, first off, with it, with your whole promo that you did,

the whole place, the whole arena was jacked.

The players were jacked.

Everybody was pumped.

Who was he standing up for?

Well, he heard that Ben Stillard maybe wasn't happy because remember that Ben originally, I think, was a little indifferent about it.

Then Ben, I think, watched it back, heard that I said ears ringing and not just said, get these sons of bitches to New York.

And then Ben was like, oh, cool.

You should come out to our.

Like, he was past the point of everybody that he thought he was standing up for getting past it.

They're like, oh, okay.

This understanding makes sense.

Not that there was a large majority of people that were against it, but there were some people that are like, this dude just said, get these sons of bitches back to New York.

Like, that does come off a little bit.

You know, like the people that are normally...

the grandstanders.

I guess it was not for the national TV audience, though.

That was for that arena right now.

That's quickly for the arena.

I'm talking to the arena right now.

Yeah.

And we're trying to win a game.

We are trying to win a game.

And this atmosphere can certainly help, especially with what I heard happened after the race on Sunday.

It's like, okay, here we go.

So I think everybody that like maybe at the beginning were like, that was unexpected.

That never happens.

Then they're like, oh, okay, moved on.

Ben Lilly, Ben Stiller was like, invited anytime.

Obviously, this game is not possible because the tickets aren't taken, but invited anytime, which is very cool of Ben Stiller, by the way.

Would like to say that to Ben.

Appreciate him.

And I'm texting with, you know, Miles last night.

Like.

We all got, everybody understood what was going on.

Yeah.

I think there was like a respect type thing.

Now, I did throw myself into the fire for the New York Knicks fans.

Now I made myself a target, which goes back to Grok.

But that's sports.

That's what's going to be.

That's targeting it.

That's heat of competition.

I'm in it.

Exactly.

And I understand that.

Right.

And I said this in the first hour, AJ.

John Coog coming after me, day of the game.

Okay.

Then Indiana deciding to just

kill him.

I mean, it was awesome.

It's a bloodbath.

It really was.

It's a bloodbath.

I don't know if he

knows how to open X.

He should not.

And his people that are did this for him and posted this for him

you're probably going to be fired if i had to guess i i'm not maybe not though i'm not 100 sure whoever relays the message is probably not going to get a good good response you know in that entire thing so you got to pick and choose who's going to do that but it's like then we got a little infighting happening here in indiana now okay now everybody's kind of on one side it feels like but still that's a little negative

then the amount of juice that i kind of added into this with the that was a little negative are you worried just last night i thought we i thought last night was going to be a tough one.

Do you think the Cougar will be there tomorrow night?

Oh, I hope.

I hope so, Jesus.

Give him a microphone.

Oh, yeah.

Give him a microphone for fourth quarter.

Let him do a little ditty.

That'd be great.

I'd love to hear it.

That would be great, actually.

There's no chance.

If he goes, little ditty,

everybody would sing along.

That'd be a positive thing.

He's doing it for free.

Yes, he is.

I don't know if they'd all sing along after this whole ordeal.

Ladies and gentlemen,

that might fall on deaf ears.

No, Indiana would give him.

I mean,

he is a Indiana.

He could hit a hib-hib hooray, like you wouldn't believe, I bet.

You're right.

A boom-boom.

Let me hear you.

Go do that.

Are you stopping over at the memorial this weekend?

I don't know.

I might.

It's a torrential downpour still pretty much over there.

I got a son selling Gatorades and Waters outside one of the gates trying to pick up some extra cash.

So hopefully.

Are you donating that money or is that coming back to the Hawk house?

That's going directly to my son's safe in his room.

I like that.

Good hustle out of the kid.

How much are you charging for these Gatorades?

Are you certainly not allowed to be up for resale?

Yeah, that's part of the that's part of the the process.

What we're doing probably five bucks a pop.

Maybe maybe you know three for ten if you want three for 12.

And we bought punches.

Three for ten, one for five.

That's a good

steal.

That's a good deal.

You got you got to take advantage of the drunk guys coming.

You go towards the end of the turn, all the drunk people stumbling out of the thing.

I was driving by on the road last night and saw multiple people having a tough time putting one foot in front of the other.

So they had a good time.

They would have needed three for 10 there.

I don't know where Axel was or who's the one doing the exact sales.

Are these cold Gatorids?

It has to be cold, right?

They got to have a cooler.

Yeah, he and a couple of his buddies have been doing it for a couple of years.

We bought like 15 ponchos last night, too.

We can upcharge big time for those.

Oh, we're selling ponchos.

We got a little stands.

Wow.

We got a little boat coming up.

Do we got any

blueberry muffins or anything?

Maybe

the cheese crackers, peanut butter crackers.

That's good for the drunks as well.

You should buy a whole bunch.

Oh, yeah.

Buy a whole bunch of zen.

I don't know.

I don't know if you want yourself.

You know, you make sure he's not, you know, and him and his buddies are getting in there.

Yeah, I sold SIGs in fifth grade.

It was good 50 cents a sig.

That's good.

That's good profit.

I don't want to say you guys should be doing that.

Zin would be good.

He said guys are asking for beer all the time, so he wants to be able to sell beer.

I said, well, you got to watch out because there's cops all over the place.

They want to watch you sell them beer.

Listen, if you're going to sell these beers, we're going to have to put them in Gatorade bottles.

And you got to tell them you stole them from your parents, too.

We didn't give them to you.

Yeah, we did not help in this process.

Zin, you could sell for 50 bucks a can.

25 bucks a can for sure.

And those things will

go like hot cakes.

All right, So think about letting your child sell Zins to these drunk adults.

He doesn't know what it is.

He doesn't know what it is.

Just tell him.

My dad told me these are magic vouchers.

25 bucks a ton.

It's caffeine.

20 bucks, kid.

How about 20 bucks deal?

Boom.

Pow.

Yeah.

Boom.

Can you sell some extends too?

This kid's going to buy your house.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know if you need to say that.

That is part.

I mean, we've brainstormed a lot of different things.

That would go wrong.

Narcan.

All right.

Let's talk.

Ben Griffin's in the lead.

He's 7-0 at at the memorial.

It's going to be a muddy track.

Everybody's there, though.

I saw Scotty go off with Peyton in the pro-am.

He's up to fourth.

Scotty's hot today.

Okay.

So Scotty's going to win that.

Yeah.

There's a good chance.

Did you rent your house to anybody?

No, I am in my house this year.

Going strong.

Let the kid make the money.

Yep, smart.

It's either the house or the kids, one or the other.

We didn't rent the house.

Get out there and sell.

Scotty's currently plus 120 to win this warming.

Okay.

Rory's hot on his heels, I'm pretty sure, though.

So it's the memorial.

Rory's terrible.

He's not.

He's not.

He's not.

He didn't even call Jack to tell me he wasn't coming.

Yeah, there's some beef with Rory in this tournament now.

It feels like Rory's on the outs with some of the old heads of golf.

Okay, so the memorial, everybody plays in it.

It's not a major, obviously.

It's an elevated event, though.

One of those deals.

It's an elevated event.

It does feel like it's always packed.

Like, it feels like...

Yeah, it's Jack Nicholas.

Yeah, you know, it's Jack's course.

So that's why I think.

And it's now it's an elevated event.

It's a big, big, awesome place.

So, yeah, I think it's a big deal.

So So Rory's not doing any elevated event?

Isn't that like kind of the entire thing that he was fighting for?

Is he hurt?

Don't we know?

Is he okay?

I think he's fine, but it's not.

He's getting ready for the U.S.

Open.

Getting ready for the Open, I guess.

He has like a whole process before the U.S.

Open, I guess, he likes to do.

And remember at the PGA championship, he didn't talk to the media after any round, and that was a really big deal.

And no one really knows why.

He had something with like they tested his driver and they don't know if it was officially like legal to use.

So there's been a lot of stuff with Rory going on.

Is he okay?

I hope he's okay.

I think he's okay.

Rory, we hope you're okay, but look at us.

Who's Ross Taller?

He won the Masters.

He's happy.

He's got to be happy.

He should be.

They're not happy with him.

Just call the Golden Bear next time, all right?

Exactly.

Let him know you're not coming.

Make a graphic like Cook.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Sorry to golden.

I won't try to read it.

Like, you remember those 3D photos you had to crush your eyes with?

Oh, yeah.

That's what it felt like with that graphic.

Yep.

There's no way he's reading it.

Oh, Cook's not happy.

Is that Coog's nip?

He said it.

That's somebody.

Got it.

How did Coog respond to the malice in the palace back in the day?

I bet he struggled when the pacers got in that fight well he he was too busy sucking on chili dogs outside to taste the freeze what a line true true that's why it's such a bummer because it's all the all the songs are so good i know i yeah i've been out on them for a while so this is just kind of the cherry don't stand for the flag that's it national anthem yeah i mean that was a big deal he's in the colts box doing it years after it's already stopped

doing it in the colts box so it's like now everybody has to answer questions take the free seat, though.

I understand, John.

Take the free spots.

Got to do what you got to do.

His hair is so cool, too.

It's like a little

always kind of messed up a little bit.

Yeah,

like that cry.

You ever see the movie Crybaby back in the day?

Oh, yeah.

That's literally what he looked like there.

Little Travolta in Greece.

And he's got that toothpick coming out of his mouth.

It's always so cool looking.

Cool, man.

So cool looking.

Instead.

Jesus.

Is he still Jordan?

He's a sack of bones.

He could have had my back, H.

You You know that.

I mean, it made no, it doesn't make any sense.

Who is he standing?

He's apologizing to the New York fans when he is supposedly a die-hard Pacers, Indiana, like everything Indiana fan.

Yeah, I don't know.

Like, he just could have won a different way.

He didn't have to say anything.

At all.

You had the thing with Ben Stiller, and then Ben Stiller was like, it's cool, man.

Hey, it is what it is.

Whatever.

That's a game.

End of story.

Like, he didn't.

Like you said, it was two days after the fact.

I believe there's a TMZ article.

Pat McVeigh responds to John Mellicamp.

Shut the fuck up.

Oh, yeah.

Pat McVeigh responds to John Melley.

Hey, Coop, suck that buddy.

That's a good byline.

I love that.

I love that.

Yeah, had to do it.

Had to do it.

Had to do it.

Just look at Diddy.

By John Cooke camp.

Oh, look at it.

Who's in the background of that?

That post right there?

I don't know.

That's John.

To the left.

Oh, geez.

What is that?

It's the documentary.

That's Diddy's trial.

Hey, I haven't been keeping up with that.

A A lot of stuff's been being said about a lot of people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A lot of people don't know.

Feel good Friday.

And I never know what's real and what isn't real.

You know?

I'll see like one account recap everything that's said, and then I'm like, how does this person know?

And like, well, they're in the trial.

It's like, are they?

Is anybody else reporting this?

No?

Seems like they're saying some pretty crazy stuff.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy in there.

It's like, well, how come nobody else is, you know?

There's a lot going on in there.

Yeah, to the internet.

I wish it was televised.

Yeah, why?

Well.

Isn't it the judge's decision, I believe?

I mean, there's a lot of things that are judges' decisions, it sounds like.

And

you get that gown thing.

You got a lot of power.

Yes, you do.

A lot of power.

Yeah.

And if you get called to testify, you have to answer.

Just so people.

Yeah, you get subpoenaed.

That is the way it goes.

I think it is how it goes.

I think Cuddy's taking a lot of shots.

All right, let's talk about some news around college ball.

College football, interesting time.

A lot of changes have to be made.

A lot of changes are going to be made.

Who's going to make them?

We don't know.

When are they going to be made?

No clue.

There's just stuff that has to happen.

Everybody acknowledges it.

Nobody wants to actually do it because of the amount of work it is.

But college football is going to remain awesome.

Right?

That's a good breakdown.

Yes.

That's good.

Play on the field.

As long as the play on the field stays awesome, we're good.

Which it is.

I think Ohio State actually has a night game, too.

We got one.

You get one?

Yeah, you guys got a

night game.

It is against Ohio University.

The Bobcats.

The Bobcats.

That's a tough one.

Do not sleep on the Bobcats.

Rivalry game.

You guys are playing Grambling?

Yeah.

Is that Grambling?

Yeah.

It has to be.

Who is that?

I don't know.

I think so.

I was going to say I don't play Georgia this year.

They're playing Tunisia, too?

It's just a national team then?

It's Grambling.

It's Grambling.

That's Grambling?

Yep.

Okay, so they got Texas noon.

That's a big one.

That's a big noon game.

Yeah.

That's a big noon kickoff.

Huge.

They got Grambling 330, night game against Ohio, because you Buckeyes fans have been complaining this entire time.

We don't get any night games.

We don't get any night games.

It does feel like it is some bullshit that we don't get any night games, but every game is a noon kickoff.

You got a night game.

Okay, now you guys can booze all day and showcase that beautiful stadium.

I assume you guys are going to go ape shit with the fireworks and the lights.

We only have two of these all season.

It's going to be a playoff game and this one against Ohio because every other home game has to be at noon because Fox has made that their new main slot.

That's an interesting move.

And I wonder if the Big Ten commissioner, and I don't think it was Petiti who did this deal.

I think it was Kevin Warren did this deal.

I wonder if he truly understood that this could potentially turn an entire school schedule into just noon games, noon games, noon games, which has happened to you guys, right?

Isn't that what has happened to Ohio State, basically?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I don't know how everything works, but yeah, they get to pick the games that they want for the noon games.

And of course, why wouldn't you pick Ohio State?

I'd want them as many times as possible.

Team up north.

it's not it's not tunisia okay it's not tunisia okay so that's uh but there

it was surprised to all of us that it was not that there is the ability to have these big 10 games as night games it was announced that penn state's whiteout game is going to be oregon at home i believe that one's going to be at night if i remember correctly at least i know it's the whiteout game so like

yeah i mean have your big noon game but also It doesn't have to be Ohio State's every every game doesn't have to be.

It does feel like it is Ohio State every week, though, isn't it?

And you know why?

Because like I've learned this through the the college game day run here for the last three years.

It's like the amount of people that are watching College Game Day

in Columbus and in the state of Ohio is like the most in the country, I think.

And then you look at the college football ratings, it's like what state is watching at a higher percentage than every other?

I think like Ohio is like by far number one.

Always has been that way, I assume, AJ?

I mean, yeah, I'm sure there's been ups and downs, but yeah, I mean, there's huge school, huge alumni base all over the world.

Yeah, why wouldn't it be?

Yeah, so if you're Fox, it makes sense.

Like, hey, we've invested a lot of money in this conference.

We've invested a lot of money in this game.

And our stats and analytics tell us that if Ohio State is playing anybody, if they're at noon, we're going to draw a big number regardless.

Even if it's a blow-up, we're going to draw a big number.

So you see why Fox does it.

But I wonder if Ohio State knew that this was a potential ripple effect of this.

No way.

right?

There's no way Ohio State knew this.

No, their new AD, Ross Bjork, he's awesome.

He's been there about a year.

He wasn't here when this all started.

I know he's been trying to push back and figure it out and have some of these night games, but yeah, what do you do?

Like you're, you're locked in.

If you're Fox, I get it.

If you're Ohio State, you're screwed.

Like, what are we doing?

And I don't think Petiti did the deal either.

So Petiti is like probably hearing it from, I assume, Ohio State, which is a very prominent school in the Big Ten, has

a lot of people, a lot of power, a lot of success, obviously.

So Petiti's got to deal with it too, I assume, from Ohio State.

And Fox is just like, what do you want us to do?

We gave you guys billions of dollars.

And this is a guarantee.

Maybe create other teams.

I don't know what Fox would say out of that.

Well, that's what, because I understand like the Fox aspect of it,

and I'm sure they have maybe like once or twice, but I don't think they've been on CBS, you know, because there's like the CBS, they had the late afternoon game and the night game too for Big Ten.

And then there's also like the Peacock game that they've been doing where like they have night games on those.

Like it's interesting that for at least a couple of like their non-marquee Big Ten matchups that they aren't night games on one of those.

So Ohio is a Peacock game.

There you go.

So at least that's the only way though.

The Oregon Penn State one that I referenced also a peacock, also a NBC game.

It's not Fox.

So I think the way that deal was set up is Fox owned all the games.

Fox then subleased games to other people through Big Ten negotiation.

So then Fox had to give up games ahead of time, I think.

So they can market it.

So they're not going to give up any of the, they're not going to give up any Ohio State game.

Oh, you can get them when they're taking on the bobcats at Ohio University for sure.

Everything else we would like first glance at at least.

And from Fox's standpoint, if that's allowed, it's like

understandable.

But from the Ohio State standpoint, can we cap this?

Can we have like,

can there only be like two or three of these things that are allowed to be at noon?

Because I assume that Columbus at night is insane.

I've never been there.

Yeah, we have to Tennessee.

Oh, you were there, Tennessee.

Oh, yeah, Tennessee.

Insane.

Freezing cold.

Yeah.

Freezing.

Freezing cold.

Drone show.

I mean, there was a whole,

there was a whole thing.

Yeah.

And every single game is at noon.

And it's like everybody's watching guys.

Ohio State's atmosphere, pretty good.

Pretty good.

Penn State, though, they do that whiteout with the fireworks and everything.

That's great.

That's what a good atmosphere is.

People at Ohio State are like,

you don't think if we had nighttime, we'd be able to do some other shit.

It's just a world you're in.

I guess too much success.

And after Ryan Day golfs with Nick Sabin for an entire round at the Memorial, who knows if Ohio State ever loses another game?

Yeah.

Who knows if Ohio State loses another game in this entire thing.

Yeah, it's a smart move too, by Fox, just because if they kick the games off a little later, it can boost the ratings of other shows they have.

But when you look at that schedule.

Oh, you're talking about like a 12-20 kickoff.

Yeah, and usually it's just noon, but they decide to do it at like 12-15, get that average peak up, whatever the hell it is.

It's all fake.

You know, I look at that schedule.

Ohio Bobcats,

Grambling State.

You know, it kind of does make sense.

The SEC is all up in arms because the SEC is kind of running through the gauntlet.

And I see Ohio State with a bunch of cupcakes up there on their schedule.

And, you know, all of a sudden I kind kind of get what Glenn Kiffen says.

I know I said the boo-hoo Lane Kiffen rule yesterday, but hold the phone.

It looks like the Big Ten's got a bunch of I just got corrected.

I just got corrected.

Jim Delaney, who was the Big Ten commissioner before Kevin Warren

and Fox,

the ones that set this up for Ohio State and Michigan to be stuck mostly, is the information that I just received from source.

says

and i assume when they're negotiating the deal they knew like it's going to be probably one of these two schools.

They didn't tell Ohio State that.

They said it'll be whatever the best, whatever the best thing is will be at noon.

We get a, I mean, this entire network is basically like

going to give us major slots.

It's good news.

Billions of dollars, too, for everybody.

And then all of a sudden, what's week one?

Ohio State.

What's week two?

Whoever's playing Ohio State.

What about week four?

Buckeyes.

Club is two.

Week five.

Yep.

Yeah, you guessed it.

it.

Six, Michigan.

Yeah.

How many more years?

How long are they locked into this deal?

I think it's pretty long, brother.

Yeah, it's a good one for them.

I think you're locked in there pretty long, brother.

I think it's early mornings for the Columbus folk.

And I would like to say to the Ohio State fans,

because I think game day is going to be there, I don't know, I assume numerous times throughout the season, don't get bored with us.

You know, we're not the ones scheduling the noon games.

No.

Tennessee took that thing over for the playoff, College Game Day.

Ohio State is a a place that gets a lot of College Game Day, you know, so their fans maybe not always as jacked up to go out to College Game Day, you know.

And I would like to tell the Ohio State people, we love doing it on your campus.

We appreciate your hospitality.

And come hang with us.

They should embrace it.

Like embrace the noon thing.

Instead of bitching about it every week, you know, embrace it.

Yeah, you're welcome.

You get turned on to some of the best teams in the country play right at noon.

No, they want to showcase their university.

That's what they want to do.

Yeah, it's light out.

You can see better.

Yeah.

Guess what?

I can see all those trees better because it's like if it was dark out i wouldn't be able to see a j hogg's tree yeah but you can't see fireworks you can't see the light show you can't see the back that that

that that that that that that

throw that light you can't you guys have it they should build a dome so they can turn off the lights put a roof on it

i guess then yeah we could make it look like a night game indoors bingo i mean step it up to biddle you know all this light show stuff i thought you were to biddle why don't you just do play your drums drum boy you know do one of those.

They do.

Drum boy does play.

Drum boy a lot or drum boy.

Yeah, they do.

They do the whole thing.

You want to show off your entire atmosphere.

It starts and ends with the middle.

Forget about the fans and everything, which are obviously very important in this entire thing, and I feel for them.

The players having to play at noon every fucking week.

Every week.

You're the best team in the country.

You just won the national championship.

You got to play noon.

What's wake-up call?

7 a.m., 6 a.m.

This is what we're doing every single time.

It's like, I think they deserve to have a little bit of a prime time game.

It's under the lights, under the lights through the entirety.

It's a couple.

That's not going to happen.

It kind of helps with the college ball playoff, though.

Where like you do get to those night games, then you kind of know.

Oh, this feels like a big deal.

Yeah, here we go.

This is what we're playing for.

So cold.

So cold.

So cold.

So cold.

That was part of the winning factor.

Yes, it was.

All right, let's pivot away from college ball.

Congratulations to the WWE and the Big 12.

Reaching an agreement for SmackDowns, I believe, to go to a lot of the big markets before the couple of the Big 12 games.

I don't know how many games it is, but I do know that this is a continuing relationship that is being built between the WWE and the Big 12.

Remember, they have a title.

I believe Undertaker was there giving out the championship.

And now Friday Night SmackDown will hopefully kick off a Big 12 big weekend at some of these places.

I like it.

I think it's beautiful.

I think it's a wonderful thing.

And if you already got a city that's ready to explode, pop a SmackDown in there on Friday.

Come have a night, then roll into the weekend.

I think it's a great relationship.

Congratulations to all parties.

I assume Morgantine, West Virginia, is going to have a few of these

in their world.

Especially with what I'm hearing.

What are you hearing?

Well, I'm just hearing Rich Rod's still a coach.

Oh,

I did hear that.

He's going to bash someone over the head with a keyboard like Urban Meyer.

What happened?

Or, sorry, that was Charlie Strong.

Urban Meyer gave it to him.

Didn't that happen?

Oh, you're talking about AEW?

AEW.

Oh, yes.

Excuse me.

That was not actual coaching.

That was AEW professional wrestling down there.

I believe that was Stadium Stampede is what you were referring to, where they rolled through Urban Meyer's office.

And remember Urban Meyer, one of his first things down there in Jacksonville, he said, everybody uses this word elite, elite, elite everywhere.

The name of the wrestling promotion that is founded in that stadium is All Elite Wrestling.

And he said,

not everybody's elite.

We need to be on the edge.

I'm tired of hearing this word elite.

It's like, well, it's a wrestling.

All right, Urban.

All right, Urban.

Let's go to the NFL, shall we?

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is the host of the weekly wrap-up with Rap Sheet and Friends, us being a friends he being rap sheet ladies and gentlemen Ian Rapapore

what's up big

you in the big city right now you look that's a great I am in the big city yeah it looks it looks I'm framed kind of nicely actually it's pretty cool yeah I got some trees around your head you got a good building in the back good lighting good polo how are you everything good

I'm good, man.

This is, yeah, it's very nice.

I heard you guys talking about college football.

I had no earthly idea what you're talking about, but I guess that's okay.

Yeah, well, just know that Ohio State's playing at noon, unless they're playing Ohio University, then it's a night game.

And the Big 12 and the WWE have built their relationship.

Seeding is coming.

That's good when I saw that.

Seeding is coming to the college football playoff as they're going to continue to evolve and trying to find the right answer.

And

there's a bunch of dogs coming out of college football.

So the sport's always going to be good, but the chaos around it is going to survive.

Now, let's go to the NFL.

Quasi signs an extension over there from Minnesota.

We knew this was coming.

And is this the time of year for executives to get paid normally?

It's actually normally not.

You guys hear me okay, by the way?

Yes, you sound great.

Okay.

Yeah, it's actually not usually the time of year that executives get paid.

This is one they've been working on really for some time.

Kevin O'Connell,

the other leader of that organization, got paid

right around, I think it was February, right?

I think it was either late January, early February.

So Kevin O'Connell gets paid.

The plan was always to pay Puesio Dofo Mensa as well.

And if you're the Vikings and, you know, you've kind of built this really good, budding, you know, team that should be on the rise.

These are the two guys kind of behind it.

So locking in both of them long term makes a lot of sense.

And, you know, I don't know where the Vikings are going to go, but they got a lot of talent.

They got a young quarterback that they like a lot.

Like this, you know, should be a team that does really, really good things.

in the future.

Might as well sign the guys behind it before you do anything else.

So I think very, very good things for Minnesota.

Okay, you're probably getting updates right now on your watch as you're talking to us on your phone.

I appreciate that.

If you have any news to break, just go ahead and spit it out.

Okay, just go ahead and let it out.

We'd love to hear that on a Feel Good Friday.

The Minnesota Vikings, only question mark is quarterback.

Is J.J.

McCarthy going to be a guy?

What have you heard from Minnesota?

There were some rumors about potentially Aaron Rodgers coming in.

There's some rumors about what they were going to do.

J.J.

McCarthy solidifies himself, I think, from everybody's perspective as being the next quarterback for the Vikings.

Herbstreet said they're going to get better because J.J.

Orlovsky said it.

Jim Harbaugh said it.

Everybody has said this guy is made for the moment.

With how great that team is, if he can play exactly how everybody expects him to play, this team's going to be in a Super Bowl hunt for the next 10 years.

Is J.J.

the guy, and what are you hearing out of Minnesota?

Yeah, I mean, I would say

everything I've heard has been very positive for J.J.

McCarthy.

Now, I mean, He didn't play as a rookie, so there's always going to be that, you know, sort of not concern, but just question mark.

It's like, what is it like when he actually plays when the lights come on?

You know, is he any different or is he everything you would hope, right?

There's been a lot of positivity.

And, you know, through the Vikings,

they know more than we do.

They've seen more.

They've seen more behind closed doors.

Obviously, they have a relationship.

They've seen him during training camp.

They've seen all of the things.

They could have brought in a veteran quarterback.

And, you know, they made an offer for Daniel Jones.

We know that, but it wasn't that big of an offer.

They, you know, if they knew if they really felt like he wasn't ready they would have gone all out for a veteran and they didn't um that to me probably says more about their confidence than any words um should be really good i mean if he's just pretty good then as a team given where the defense should be given the weapons like they should really be they should be very very good excited to watch the vikings continue to grow ryan grigson also assistant general manager happy for him and his great beard hopefully he'll get another shot at running the team until then uh maybe they get a super bowl ring in Minnesota.

Let's talk about the team that did win the Super Bowl last year.

Schefter is reporting that Bryce Huff is being traded or they're finalizing a trade for him to go to the San Francisco 49ers.

Obviously, he has history with Robert Salah.

This would be the third player now from the Jets under Salah that is being sent to the 49ers.

Do we know this is possible?

And what are your thoughts on the San Francisco 49ers' moves thus far?

Yeah, I mean, Bryce Huff has not been present with the Eagles.

Obviously, they paid a lot of money for him last year in free agency.

did not work out I think they've tried you know for a while to to send him somewhere um to kind of make it make sense still do a bunch of monies I think there's some still some questions about like how they figured this one out but you know if you're the 49ers

it's a player who's got talent who obviously again was a you know big ticket free agent item a year ago

He's healthy now, which I assume he is to complete the trade.

Add him to the mix,

some help off the edge.

I'd say, given the familiarity with Sala, like that, that makes a lot of sense.

And just knowing,

you know, Sala's thoughts and views on Bryce Huff, this is a player he really, really, really liked.

And I know,

you know, I'm sure he's going to be extremely happy right now.

Yeah, absolutely.

And the Eagles are going to pick up $9 million of the salary is what's being reported.

And then the Niners will pick up the rest of that.

That's kind of the conversation for all these these veteran players after salaries have kind of been figured out and contracts have been figured out.

It's like, who's paying the bill here?

Because that's a big part of it, especially at this time of the calendar year for NFL teams.

Yeah.

And, you know, I would say for this one, like, if you're going to trade a player who obviously did not perform with the Eagles and he's got a lot of money, like they're, if they want to trade him, they're going to have to eat some of it.

You know, I would say it's a similar conversation.

You know, similar conversation with Jalen Ramsey.

Like, you know, obviously the Dolphins are certainly open to trading him, but it seems like he's open to leaving.

Do $21 million.

Like, how much money are they going to pay, if any?

And if it's none, then it's like, all right, like,

how does this one make sense?

So that's, you know, when you get a veteran who has not lived up to what you hope, generally, if you're a team that wants to get rid of him, you got to eat a little bit of money.

And that's obviously what's happening here.

Go ahead, AJ.

Shepdie or excuse me,

how about about Fano going well is that he hasn't done that yet.

Oh, I know.

We just mentioned that the Chef D tweet and everything.

Hey, it was in my brain.

Sorry about that.

Rap sheet.

What about John New Smith getting traded rap sheet?

How much do you, is this a serious situation here?

Is this real?

I think John U.

Smith wants to make money.

It feels to me, and you know, there's been some teams that have kind of nosed around, some veteran tight ends.

John U.

Smith is one.

Kyle Pitts is another.

You know, usually you get to this point.

You can do some trades.

They can happen.

It's just a little more rare and

a little hard to do.

You know, again, it depends on how much he wants to get rid of a guy.

Like the Bryce Hoff Eagles are motivated to

do the deal and basically move on for a player who didn't, you know, didn't really figure into anything they wanted to do.

It's different for John U.

Smith because he is actually a part of what the Dolphins want to do.

Feels to me like he wants more money and would like to stay.

You know, I know he wants a lot.

We'll see what they end up doing.

But again, going back to the Ramsey thing, like if they are able to trade Jalen Ramsey, that's $21 million.

Some of the $21 million will come off the books depending on how much they pay.

So that might, trading Ramsey might help Jono Smith get the contracts he wants as well.

Johnny Smith being traded to the Steelers would be awesome for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Yeah.

I mean, got a chance to see some Pittsburgh Steelers last night, I will say.

Got a chance to chit-chat with a few Pittsburgh Steelers.

Good lads.

Which ones?

I'm not going to say their names.

Herbig's a good dude.

Herbig's a hilarious guy.

He was one of them.

Cam's head.

Still.

Humbly.

Yeah.

I saw Cam Hayward eating a salad at 8 p.m.

last night.

Come on.

He was in a suite that had everything available.

Everything.

Chicken wings, pizza, sandwiches, you name it.

Everything was available.

Cam Hayward, 8 p.m., a lot of chips.

Gotta chip.

Cookies.

I mean, you name it.

Delicious.

8 p.m.

salad sitting down right in front of me.

Committed.

Watching Nick's Pacers.

We're in between Jelly Roll and Post Malone.

Literally there, turn around, look down.

I see him eating a salad.

I go, this is a game.

There's got to be a work.

He's doing this for show right now.

Eats the whole thing, cleans it up.

Cleans it up.

Obviously, what would you expect him to eat?

Like a big old, like, you know, meatball or something?

What?

Yeah, big animal.

meatball, meatball.

One big apple.

Yeah.

Yeah,

one big one.

Yeah.

Good out, Sifo.

Let me eat the ball.

Massive.

Just like a massive.

I just ate the

salad in the suite that we're in.

I did not expect.

And I told him, nobody in the history of football with a T in their position title has ever had a salad at 8 p.m.

at a concert with everything that has been available around it.

Keanu wasn't even thinking about it.

Not even.

Keanu, dog.

Weapon.

By the way, I really like the Steelers, Steve Holtz.

Yeah, yeah.

After last night chit-chatting with him, I really like what the cut of the Steelers did.

I am a big fan of the way they operate.

Who's going to be their quarterback, Rap?

Who's going to be their quarterback?

Do you know yet?

I mean,

I will say it again.

I would be surprised if it's not Aaron Rodgers.

I would be surprised if it is not Aaron Rodgers.

Oh, you talked to him.

Somebody here might know more than me.

It is possible.

But to me,

the Steelers telling you that, rap sheet?

Are the Steelers telling you that?

No,

no.

I think the Steelers are more kind of like,

we want him, but, and we hope we get him, but we just don't know.

And like, you know, they have been so, I do think they've handled this the right way.

They have been so patient, making sure that everything that happens is exactly as he wants and plans.

And they've never been like, like.

When I've had conversations with Steelers people about this, I've never felt like it's some sort of like power player where they're trying to get this done, want to force it.

They're like, like when he decides like we'd like to know when he decides he decides and that's okay and like it feels like the offseason been going on forever um but there really is a ton of time before the season starts so there's there's some time i concur but the way you all have been reporting it is as if the aaron rodgers is the steelers quarterback done deal so all the people in pittsburgh are like i'm tired of seeing scout war guns out there with who what's his name mike bub Mike Dudd Mike i don't care why is he not at otas with the rest of his teammates And it's like, well, he's not a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

And he has clearly come out and said he's not going to be a member of any team until after all the OTAs, until the summer.

And if teams don't want to wait around for him, he completely understands.

He doesn't want to have to do the whole song and dance of being the bad guy for missing some of the off-season workouts like he was last year, even though he wanted 98% of the off-season workouts.

So he said he got a lot going on.

So now everybody's just running with it.

Like, oh, he signed up with the Steelers.

He signed up with the Steelers, sign up with Steelers.

Then OTAs happens.

He's doing a QTA,

a Q ⁇ A with some shorts on with Mike Studd down here in Texas.

And everybody in Pittsburgh is like, why is our quarterback answering questions about Chicago Bears and Texas when his teammates are up here in Pittsburgh working to win a Super Bowl?

And then you got to remind everybody, he's not a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Never said he was, but it's all just been kind of alluded to the fact that he is.

I get it.

That's what it feels like.

Yeah, yeah, literally.

Everybody has said that.

It's an interesting situation.

It's a very interesting situation.

Because I hear a lot of Yinsers.

Sure.

Me.

Then get it.

Last night heard a lot of Yinsers.

And also completely understand if they're being told, this guy's your quarterback, this guy's your quarterback.

He's just not your quarterback, right?

But he's going to be your quarterback.

He is your quarterback.

You might as well view him as your quarterback.

And then he's not doing it.

It's like, Orn is our quarterback.

We're the Pittsburgh Steelers.

What's this guy think?

This guy thinks we're the Arizona Cardinals?

Yeah.

What is this guy?

Well said.

What does this guy think we are?

We're the Pittsburgh fucking Steelers.

That is how the people in Pittsburgh feel.

Volunteers, not hostages, is what we've always said, what we've always said.

And little did Aaron know is if he would have just

signed and probably missed OTAs because of reasons that he said, it probably would have the back, no, the backlash or whatever probably would have been less than it is right now where not signing, playing this game, Sealers fans are waiting around.

Playing this game.

Look at this.

This is it.

This is it.

Tell you what, if he signs, he's been playing games.

What?

Gotten it on it.

He's dealing with personal things.

Bingo, what if he hasn't even had thought whether or not he wants to play?

I know if he's still trying to figure out whether or not he wants to play.

I mean, well, if it's taking you this long to decide if you want want to play or not, hang him up.

Coming from a guy named A.P.

Tony.

He's done that.

Yeah, not a 41-year-old guy who has committed his entire life to football.

I mean, it is.

It's a fascinating situation.

I too, and I think AJ's even said, we got to get an answer at some point.

I think AJ's been on the record of saying that.

I think we all feel that way, but there's only one person who truly knows.

And I think we all know that.

Good luck, Aaron.

Pulling for you, buddy.

Good luck.

I will say, being in Pittsburgh last night, asking a lot of people who's going to be your quarterback.

Who's going to be your quarterback?

That's my first thing ever.

They love that.

They go, Aaron's our quarterback.

Do you know?

Do you know?

This is not Steelers fan or Steelers players, obviously.

A lot of Steelers fans, though, bumped into.

And they go, big one, we're going to get it to you.

I'm like, who's your quarterback?

Who's your quarterback?

And I go, you know, you know.

And I'm like, I do not know.

Do you know?

Aaron's our quarterback.

And it's like, this is what AJ's life is like, I assume also.

Like every second now, it's just like, AJ,

what do we hear?

And AJ lies to us.

That's why he said, are you hearing that from the Steelers?

Because AJ wanted to know what all he's allowed to say.

Exactly.

AJ wanted to hear what all he's allowed to say and what somebody else has already said.

It's obviously going to be a story until it's not.

And then once it isn't a story, there'll be some new story about Aaron because that's the way his life always works.

Let's talk about some of the other stuff happening around the NFL.

There was a yacht party that everybody saw.

Go ahead, Boston Connor.

Yeah, Rafael, situation brewing with Stefan Diggs in New England.

My sources are telling me that the things that are seen in videos were pop rocks.

They were actually sealed because there were kids on there looking for pop rocks.

That's also why he's being referred to as daddy in said video.

I'm just curious if you...

You don't want to mix pop rocks with pop either.

No, you don't want to make soda.

People don't even want to know what happens when pop rocks go in the ocean.

It is not just bad for the environment,

it's bad for fish, plaque, algae, they all die.

I didn't even think about the plaque.

It's terrible, yeah.

And that's in the water, and that's why Stephon Days kind of caring for, you know, not just the kids on his got it.

Is Stephon Diggs going to get in trouble at all, Rapton?

Is there any situations looming from the league or from the Patriots in general?

And what Mike Rabel said about it, does that make you think there'll be any team discipline as well?

Yeah.

I mean, my

thought from from Vrabel is that just listening to him, he's maybe not like the most thrilled of all time, especially when you have a big free agent sign still coming back from an injury, partying on a boat with, I think, Cardi B, right?

Which, I mean, could be anyone, but

not that that bad.

Cardi B to you, rap sheet.

But there was a lot of girlfriend.

I mean, there was, seemed to be several girlfriends.

I don't know that situation.

I'm just saying there seemed to be a lot of them.

He was very close with

in physical proximity with.

Whatever.

He was on boat.

There was things that, I mean, why are we seeing?

We should not be seeing this.

Like, as somebody who is,

Stefan's been on the show show before, love how good of a football player he is.

It's like, hey, mate, come on.

You know.

That's not.

But he's living.

He's living his life.

But the whole thing is like, he knew what the reaction was going to be.

Right.

The reaction has been exactly what we thought it would be.

That's what I don't understand.

It's like,

look, I don't know what was in the pink, whatever.

Pop rocks.

And we'll probably

watermelon pop rocks.

I thought it was the,

what's the thing?

It's got the four flavors of powder with the milk thing that you dip in.

Fun dips.

Fun dip, yeah.

That's what I thought.

It wasn't fun dip.

That's white powder, or excuse me, purple powder.

That's not, whoa,

excuse me, are you okay?

Powder, brother.

Fun dips.

They're not coming for me, by the way.

Anyways, that whole thing, it's just like you see it, and it's like, okay, he's living his life, but also knew this was going to happen.

No, but also, like, you can't.

Like, how does the video get out?

No one said to anyone, like, hey, like, this guy's part of the patriots like maybe don't post this on social media like i i think it's the like stupidity part of it which is just as bad as the whatever he was doing going dummy yeah he was going dummy okay they're going mad dummy out there on that yacht i've never done the yacht thing looks like it's a good time i think i get seasick though i don't do they do a lot of this when they're on there oh yeah

a lot of dancing jumping up and down

yeah that's only the stabilizers are working or they dance like that yeah no that's not dancing that's that's the waves yeah i'm riding a wave bro got it it got it

they probably danced like that too that's it what if rap she was in that was on that boat how awesome would that be and if you were up there with him yeah floaties on i mean my wife wouldn't have been that happy if we're just being honest well she could be with me i would have had some how did you say

if she was if she was on the boat with me minus the substance whatever that was the fun dip or whatever i have no idea

damn you don't have to do it you don't have to do it um that would have been fun i like a good boat it's just we're in that time now i guess after otas where there's going to be a lot of freedom and opportunity for people.

Stephon Diggs has put a lot of great tape out there as a football player.

I assume the Patriots are excited for him to get on the field.

But all this other stuff, you got New England fans going like, what are you talking about?

The pop rocks.

Nothing anyway.

How did you know?

They weren't shooting a video.

Yeah, could be shooting a movie.

Maybe he's a movie star.

We don't even know.

This could be an opportunity.

Yeah, exactly.

This is going to be.

This could be the next Sparty B video.

Maybe she's got an album dropping that we don't even know about.

Bingo.

Maybe.

Maybe.

I'm sure somebody on the internet knows, but whatever the case, Stephon Diggs and New England Patriots, we hope the relationship works.

It's gonna,

it's gonna be glorious.

Drake May obviously will do well with a Stephon Diggs as wide receiver.

Vrabel is gonna win.

That's what Frabel always does.

We're coming up on a hard out here on this Field Good Friday.

We'll continue on YouTube, ESPN Plus, Disney Plus, and TikTok Live.

I just want to say it's been a great week.

Quickly here, favorite things that happened this week.

We'll start with you, Boston Connor.

Hard to say not the constraint yesterday but man that melecamp address is going to carry me for wind under my sails brother ty favorite thing that happened this week yeah it's a layup the coup getting declawed yeah for sure no doubt for sure ap tone your favorite thing that happened this week doing the show down at uh gamebridge it was very nice that was this week i know tuesday i mean jage jage coming in with jage

aj what's your favorite thing that happened this week uh Shraig's hitting 10 threes in a row on film.

Yeah.

He does have a clean jumper.

High school.

Rapperport, your favorite thing that happened in Sports World this this week?

Shot 89 at Fayon Dog Club.

Kept the ball in the fairway except for 17 when I walked there.

Still shot 89.

Cool every fairway but one shit.

Unbelievable.

Coolest thing in the sports world is the new Yokozuna.

There is a new Yokozuna.

What?

Yeah, there's a new Yokozuna that has been cracked.

Who told me about this?

That's a big deal.

We'll continue.

We'll be back over Reaction Monday.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice might change their life.

Goodbye.

All right, now we continue.

What was your favorite thing?

My favorite thing?

Yeah.

Game Bridge was cool.

Yeah.

That game was cool.

It was.

I mean, Triple H, Nick Con, my wife.

Shaz, King of Kings.

That was a good time.

Tyrese doing what he did.

Tyrese wanted bananas.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Yeah, that was cool.

Jelly roll yesterday.

JJ being here was cool.

It's a hell of a week.

Saturday next main event happened on Saturday.

Was that last Saturday?

Yeah.

Then you Monday, you were somewhere too.

Patty Maroon back in Tampa.

Tampa, yep.

8,500.

8,500.

That was all this week.

Yeah.

La Crosse National Championship.

Good week.

Hell of a week.

It was a good week.

Great week.

Paul Skeens' birthday.

Happy birthday, Paul Skeens.

Yep, Japan has a new Yokozuna.

Onosato Daiki.

Correct.

That is top-notch.

Became the first Japanese man in eight years to be named a Yokozuna or Gron Champion.

The highest title in the sport.

I forget the exact number.

125, man?

In the history.

It's been like, yeah, it's been, I think, they mentioned nine years.

Eight years right there.

Eight years.

The way you go about it is there's a council that has to vote for you.

There's 75 of them.

75 in total, Yoga Zunes, in a history of sumo wrestling.

That's not a lot.

Were those two photos or are they holding up fishes watching a match?

Why are they holding two photos?

No, that is Anasato holding up the,

I presume, after he was, you know, named Yoga Zuna.

And he's the one on the right there in the lighter blue.

Yes.

And they get a fish?

Well, he eats two fish.

It's just a snack.

That's just.

One fish, two fish, who fish, new fish, Yokozuna, big fish.

Bingo.

That's what they say.

And we're happy.

And now that we know the sumo wrestling business a little bit more in detail, after hosting, want it.

Boom!

Big night out.

Ichi was known as the Yokozuna killer.

That's correct.

But neither of these men were deemed Yokozunas.

You got to get voted in by your peers.

You got to.

Do you

Boom.

Boom.

Shane Gillis, obviously one of the greatest sumo wrestling refs in the history of referee.

Massive respect, though.

Dudes are so big.

Yeah.

A lot of power.

So big.

A lot of power.

The guy that was right over, right there, boom.

Can we go back and pause it?

Boom.

That guy, licking his lips right above Shane Gillis's head right there.

That guy loves sumo wrestling more than anybody.

More than anybody on earth.

By far.

That is the USA Sumo lead.

his name is

gregory bruce would know bruce

gallagher i mean we could just call him goat because that's kind of what he is the goat yeah this guy was passionate about sumo wrestling yeah this guy loves sumo wrestling and because of him i am now more passionate about sumo wrestling andrew fruin andrew andrew loves sumo and he's not scared to get in there and mix it up with the boys either not at all he was supposed to be a Yokozuna, but his body never developed into one that could be 500 pounds.

Exactly.

So he's just a little fella, spry little fella.

He's not scared to get in there and grab some belts, though.

No, he's not scared to get in there and show you what to do.

I think he's like the top trainer in the world, too.

He's like Freddy Roach, kind of for you know

in the boxing world, yeah.

In terms of everyone, you know, are flying from Japan to come find him and on a sato and Daiike, actually.

I believe so.

I believe he's one of his pupils, yeah.

All right, rap.

Have a great weekend.

Anything we should look forward to happening?

Playing golf on Monday.

All right.

This guy horses are.

Talk about in the NFL.

Talking about in the NFL.

Oh, my bad.

I don't know.

I don't think so.

I got a couple things brewing, but hopefully we'll have a couple fun things before we all go away for the summer.

How about this?

Scott Hanson?

Back.

That's right.

With NFL Red Zone.

Nice.

I read.

Is that official?

I have not heard that.

I read something of it, but.

Yeah, you're right.

Who knows if that's real or not?

I guess Ari Mirov broke it and we should have double checked it but i just saw it and got all zeked did he if ari broke it then i'll tell you this i hope so yeah we all do scott's right man for the job every once in a while

scott handson 100 days from now equals nfl red zone and for those wondering yes i will be there we have a lot of touchdowns to watch together hashtag nfl red zone hell yeah

that's great news love that with scott congrats to him i assume that's a big deal I assume he's getting paid a handsome amount of money for that because that is a very valuable property for the NFL as it continues to shop its entire media properties.

And as are you, Rap Sheet.

What a weapon the NFL has in you.

I appreciate that, Pat.

Thank you.

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Do we ever get ratings for that for a red zone?

Like, they ever say the number?

It's got to be gigantic.

I don't know.

Everybody.

Yeah, for real.

Like throughout the day.

I mean, yeah.

Everybody.

Especially now with the quad box.

Not his octave.

I'm talking

our quad boxes.

Multi-view.

You just put, boom, top left is where I put it.

Red zone's there.

Normally sound on that one.

And then Colts game, top right, and then bottom two, best games available.

Yeah, go.

Then that's how we do the day.

And it's become a nice routine.

It's incredible.

It has become a very, and Scott, once again, has become a soundtrack of my NFL Sundays, basically, whenever I'm at home.

Now, when the Colts have a home game, we had been going to the games, which is a whole to-do.

That's a whole to-do.

I haven't pointed out your eyes, by the way.

What's that?

That you go upper.

My eyes are lazy, so they naturally droop.

So I go lower for Steelers and Red Zone.

Oh, so red zone lower right.

Yeah.

Because it's the close.

Yeah, so I don't have to look up.

Wow.

Tony.

That's awesome.

Good for you.

Yeah, what I've realized is those top ones tough for a long time.

Strain,

strain on the eyes.

Never thought of that.

Never thought of that.

It's got to be.

I mean, it's literally got to be that much higher

in the grand scheme of things.

What do you got?

A fucking IMAX theater at your house?

God, I'm the fucking worst.

I don't know.

No, you're not to geez you're the best to eyes naturally droop you just said

good condition any news we haven't talked about charlie woods wins his first amateur event at taylor made invitation he's down two going in sunday ends up winning by

five or something like that oklamazoff

yesterday was actually pretty sweet oklahoma softball big-time comeback right yeah and the the girl there playing tennessee like she was shutting it down all day i think she has the fastest recorded pitch ever she's throwing like 79 i mean like 110 equivalent if it was like from an mlb mound they had been shut down all day, and then they hit a three-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the seventh to win their first game.

It was pretty

Patty Gasso's gals have no quit.

I had a chance to meet, I think I know her.

Probably.

I think I know her.

I think she's the best hitter on their team.

She hit two homers yesterday.

Okay, I think I met her whenever I went out and we did the Oklahoma game day, and then they asked me, like, hey, do you want to go meet the Oklahoma softball team?

I was like, absolutely.

I would like to go meet because they're dynasty type shit.

Oh, yeah.

So go over.

This is Ella Parker.

Is that the name?

That sounds right.

That's what it says on the screen.

Yeah, it sounds right.

Coming in a second here.

Okay, Ella Parker.

I assume I got, they were all awesome.

Just want to let you know.

The entire team, awesome.

Gasso, dog.

And then we saw Tennessee in the first inning, I think, got two-run lead on Oklahoma because I think Ketcher dropped the ball and I think something else happened.

So we were worried about Oklahoma and the Gasso team, maybe with an early exit.

Instead, they say, what do you think we fucking came here for?

Boom.

Gone.

Yeah.

Love that.

Love everything about that.

Boomer.

Yeah.

Sooner.

High stakes, high drama.

Tennessee, by the way, if you start looking at their sports,

they're starting to really

that game day was Oklahoma, Tennessee, wasn't it?

It was.

Because that's when Hypo went.

Oh, yeah, because

that was when Hypo's defense.

Yeah,

Hypo's defense knocked like four guys out of the game in one series with just regular hits, like legal hits.

I'm like, whoa, this Tennessee team's flying.

And then both of them obviously end up not being the national champion.

How Tennessee season ended last year, geez.

And how it all started the off-season.

Yeah.

Nico, Iyamali Ava.

Where's he at?

UCLA.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who's Tennessee's quarterback?

The UCLA kid, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, they basically swapped.

Oh, yeah.

He never played at UCLA.

He played at App State for three years.

He was a starter there.

Went to UCLA to start there.

Never made it to starter because Nico came in, so now he's starting at Tennessee.

Okay.

Wild.

Pump for football.

College football time's coming around.

It's got to memorize who's where.

Yeah, they just dropped the trailer for NCAA football 26 yesterday, so that's going to start, you know, all that mumbo jumbo is going to get.

Mumbo jumbo.

What do you mean?

Yeah, I mean, you know, we were excited last year, big time.

Whoa.

Because it hadn't come out in like 20 plus years.

And then you watch this and it's just like, oh, okay, this is just last year's game, you know, different guys, different places.

So kind of the maddened thing, but, you know.

What do you want them to do?

You want him to return?

Rebate stages?

Yeah, I do.

Look, I do.

You know how much fucking money they made selling this thing last year?

Fucking, let's take some of that cache and let's maybe upgrade the product a little bit.

Starts with a B, by the way.

What's that?

How much they made.

Well, I would hope so, right?

Because how much money they probably put into it.

Grabbing it.

Yeah, see, that's what I'm hoping.

Ah, Hall of Famer.

Yeah, that'd be sweet if they did that.

If they did.

Tebow right there, too?

Yeah, Tebow's Bro Reg.

Marcus Freeman, I see.

Yeah, dude.

He wants to play USC every year.

Kirby Small.

He said, I don't know how I can put this any more clear.

I want to play USC every year.

They should.

Period.

That's not a good look for Lincoln Riley.

I heard there's a lot of people not happy with Link and Riley.

Well, I mean, if you don't win, they're not happy.

That's basically what

if you don't win, they're not happy with you.

That's college football.

Yes.

In a nutshell.

They need to do the eras.

If they want to take this game to the next level, you know, with the NBA 2K, they do Eras, where like the 90s, you can be a team, 2000s, 2010s, present day.

Like if you were able to go back and play as like the 2007 Mountaineers or the 2003 USC Trojans and do full seasons with those guys, that would really take the game out of it.

Yeah, they got to pay a lot of people.

Yeah, I was going to say it probably gets a bit messy for that.

That'd be fun.

They got to pay a lot.

A lot of people.

But to your point.

Starts with a B, brother.

Starts with a B.

They're going to need a lot of it for a lot of people.

Yeah.

Even go back to that Tennessee team that Peyton Manning led.

Yeah, without a doubt.

Have Peyton play against Archie.

Yeah.

Randy Moss.

Oh, Marshall.

Come on, dude.

Come on.

They need Pat White in that game.

I don't know if he is.

That's what I'm saying.

I assume they are.

He's coaching, right?

Is he coaching at WVU?

Yes, sir.

Yes, he is.

I think it's good news to have him back.

I hope the boys do well this year in West Virginia.

You know, picking up a culture and making it the complete opposite of what it was.

Complete opposite.

It usually only takes one year.

Just a couple months.

Well, I mean, with the transfer portal and the NIO and everything like that, you can't make that.

Rich Rod.

I was thinking about this.

Rich Rod will win games just because his teams win games.

Like, he will figure out a way to win some games.

So, I think they're going to be okay.

Do I think they're going to be like,

you know, this year?

They'll be both out.

They'll be both eligible.

Better be.

Okay.

Yes, they will be both

five or six wins.

Fucking hope so.

Yeah.

They will be.

Fucking better be.

They're not ball eligible.

Heads will roll.

Yeah, that is.

Not by me.

Six and a half.

Okay.

They will win right now.

You got Nico Spinita?

Nico, we got another kid, Jaden, I think his name.

We got like a deep quarterback room, actually.

Like a very deep quarterback room.

But Rich Rods, our pace

and everything will win games.

Part of it.

Like, that'll win games for us.

So I think that over is very nice.

I didn't even think about bowl eligibility being the goal of this entire thing.

And then six and a half, it's like, that is the exact goal.

That's the goal.

That is the exact goal, I guess, for this season.

I think like two years, like next season.

It'll be like, all right, we got to culture it.

You know, it's going to be hard to do that.

Then you got to have to worry about what, you know, Signetti mentioned the other day down there at IU.

He's like, yeah, Darien needs a whole new roster.

I felt the pinch.

I don't have as much money as I used to.

He was telling the truth there.

He was absolutely telling the truth there.

There's a lot of schools that are going to have to deal with that.

Ohio State, obviously not.

Oregon, obviously not.

Michigan, obviously not.

Penn State, obviously not.

And that's why a lot of people are like, hey, we got to get this under control because the Big Ten has all the money.

And they're going to continue to do that, AJ.

For real.

I don't think this is getting picked for or getting fixed for a long time.

Long time.

No, it's definitely not.

And I know each one of the big schools, though, I am sure that they still feel the pressure to continue to bring in all this.

Like you said, if you're a big old donor and you're paying a couple million dollars, like, okay, cool.

Now, I'm going to come back to you in six months and you better re-up this situation because we need to continue to keep these players on the roster and continue to recruit the guys, the type of caliber we have.

So it's a never-ending system, never-ending thing.

I feel bad for, I don't feel bad for him, but to try to raise this NIO money for all these schools has got to be brutal.

That's a full-time job.

That's a full-time job, not a lot of people.

For a lot of people,

think about how nice it was for Notre Dame last year because they go to the, they are not in a conference, so they go to the national championship last year and they get $20 million to do whatever they want with.

And Pete Pavaka, who's the athletic director there, big brain.

Yeah.

Big brain.

I assume he's managing it perfectly.

Why doesn't West Virginia just go independent?

All right.

Sure.

Sit on that one over the weekend.

Think of them.

Keep all the money.

Okay.

Let that simmer.

Put the basketball team in the ACC.

If they won't take it, put it in the Big Ten.

If they won't take it, put them in Big East.

A lot less travel.

Playing in a great conference right there.

Gymnastics.

We got great gymnastics.

Put it.

Hey.

Fucking go to the SEC.

Yeah, baseball.

Baseball, put them in the ACC.

Soccer.

Soccer, same thing.

Shooting, rifle.

I think that's a good thing.

Yeah, they can be independent.

Yeah, they're going to have to join West Virginia's League for shooting.

Yeah, we run our own.

And then for the football, just put a schedule together.

Let's take on Maryland, Stu Virginia Tech, Stu Pitt, Stu Penn State.

Miami.

Let's play Miami.

Yeah, shit.

BC.

Play Miami.

Hell.

Don't be scared to go down there in the SEC, too.

Marshall.

Yeah, don't be scared to go down there.

Put that thing there.

Then win and then get to the playoffs.

We just collect all the money and then we don't have to travel all the way to the fucking across the country for every sport.

Why don't they do that?

Could.

Yeah, they might.

We're probably locked into a deal for another 20 years.

Yeah, man.

I would assume so.

Rand will get those boys right.

Notre Dame has it made.

Yes,

Notre Dame has them made.

So why would you join a conference?

They're not going to.

Never will.

Never.

Not never.

You know?

Everybody's got this apartment that they're living in over here, this building complex that they have like their apartments in over here.

And then Notre Dame just builds their own building across the street.

It's like, yeah, we're just here.

Yeah, we'll come over, visit, have some meetings, and we'll just go back to our shit here.

We own it all.

We get to schedule it all.

We get to do whatever we want.

And the profit's all ours.

Any questions?

No, sweet.

All right, we'll come play you guys, I guess.

You don't want to?

All right.

We got it.

What a setup.

Good for Notre Dame.

Great for Notre Dame.

Especially if they make the playoffs, so they get all the money.

It's like first year of the big boost.

It's like, whoop, here you go.

Yeah.

And it's only going to continue with Marcus Freeman as the head coach, you would imagine.

And then all the other sports are great as well.

And they also don't give a shit about like the cut from like the TV deal because guess what?

They have their own TV deal with NBC.

And that's not going anywhere either.

And guess what?

I think there's people with a lot of money that have graduated from Notre Dame.

Yeah, quite a few.

Catholic Church, you know, that's not a cheap institution either.

They have, they have everything.

And their pockets are pretty well lined up.

American Pokemon.

Yeah.

He probably loves Notre Dame.

Chicago.

There's a lot of Chicago and Notre Dame people.

Without a doubt, all of them.

Who's

without a doubt?

Like.

Ty, like, yeah, he does.

Thanks.

He certainly does.

Thanks.

He does.

They'll probably be at their fucking opening game this year.

Who's the...

A lot of people are saying that College Game Day should go over to the Vatican and do a game day from over there.

That'd be cool.

I fancy that's

why

that'd be cool.

I think everybody's just saying it because we have an American pope, so we try to figure out how American we can fucking make this place.

Okay.

Have Pope Leo decide, you know, have his guess for who's going to win the national championship.

Because he can put the headgear on, you think?

Yeah, the whole thing.

Yep, he is.

Maybe that is the thing going forward.

Maybe the celebrity puts on the headgear.

Oh, that is a good idea.

Dump that.

Yeah, dump that.

I don't know.

Or maybe they retired.

I would guess they'd lean towards that.

Retiring the hitter, but that is a good idea.

Because you could pay homage to Lee Corso.

A lot of decisions have to be made there in that world.

I am not

consulted with on those, and thankfully so.

Good luck out there.

I got like built

the way Lee Corso is viewed for a good reason.

He like billed college football.

Yeah.

Like, hey,

as College Game Day and Lee Corso got bigger and bigger, college football got bigger and bigger.

They just kind of became synonymous with each other.

And Lee Corso was incredibly proud to represent.

So, hey, you want a speaking event?

Yep, I will certainly go and represent college football.

Bum, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Like, for so long, that's a crazy thing that has happened.

You know, I think obviously decisions had to be made.

And I assume Coach was on board, but it's like now after, what do you?

Because he's such a huge, you know, that's a huge aura in the space of college football.

That's a, that's a big,

that's a big decision.

I'm happy to.

Yeah.

Think about the people that had to be a part of that.

You've done good, coach.

You've done good.

He's making his last pick, right?

You know what they're saying?

That's going to be

week one or whatever.

Wherever the hell that is.

The guesses are either Ohio State, Texas, or Florida State, where obviously he has ties.

I believe they play Bama?

Someone.

Oh, interesting.

They go to Florida State or do they go with Ohio State and

Bevo?

You know, because aren't those two?

And his number, yeah, his number one, his most headgear is Ohio State.

That's interesting.

A whole nother decision.

Wow.

That's more shit that's happy we don't have to be a part of.

All right.

Let's move along to the great weekend.

And not just a weekend that we'll remember forever, but a weekend that we'll talk about forever.

That's true.

Because you know what's happening tomorrow here in Indianapolis, Indiana, AJ?

I think there's a big basketball game.

I wonder if the Coog is going to be there.

I think the Coog will be there.

I assume Coog will be there.

Coog's at every event in Indianapolis.

Is he?

Every one of them.

Toothpick, he looks super cool.

Chilling in his chair.

Super cool.

Does he live out by Smoke?

I do think he's actually down near where Smoke's

Cabela's store is.

I thought Smoke was trying to sell that property.

I think he was just basically saying, hey, if somebody wants to give me fucking $50 million, I think he might do that.

You know, I assume.

I assume it's hard to, it's going to be hard to move out of that place with how big it is.

Certainly.

But if somebody wants to pay for it i'll certainly move out of this place he's got a fishing pond in the creek in his house yeah basically in the living room i remember seeing the pictures when that thing went up for sale like there are so many properties on that place like so many buildings and that like it looks awesome do you follow zillow gone wild

i do not i will though i follow zillow gone wild on instagram good account there's um okay there's some good that pops i'm a big zillower personally myself

oh i like this place if i wanted to live here

how much does the nicest house in the area cost?

And then you just zoom out, you circle, and you put the filter on the most expensive, and then you see these houses around town.

It's like, damn, damn, damn.

And then Smoke's house goes up for sale and you see it, and it's like, oh, I don't know if any other state's got one of these.

Smokes.

Uh-oh.

Smokeshouse.

There's no comps.

There's no comps in the area for Smoke's house.

He's got a Cabela store as a house.

I think he actually sleeps under the waterfall.

Yeah.

Really?

Your grotto?

That's cool.

Well, a grotto is the pool behind the house.

Would you pee your pants?

Would you pee the bed then if you're sleeping under a waterfall with that water gushing over top of you?

Um,

no.

I think that's an old wives tale.

Yeah.

I don't.

I don't know about that.

I do think that's.

I don't know that the pee testers used to turn the sink on if they thought guys were when they were getting a little catcher's umpire stance to watch you take a leak when they're drug testing you.

They would sometimes they'd always turn the little sink on.

I remember when they would do that for me.

I don't know.

I didn't need it, but maybe if you put your hand in it, it would help.

Yeah.

If you're in a dream and you're about to go pee, that's why Always.

You're peeing.

You gotta wake up.

That's a real pee.

Hey, that might be a dream, but that's a real pee coming.

That's right.

Gotta remember that.

Always.

Whoa, shit.

Let me get out of here.

Startling.

Can't be an adult that pisses the bed.

No.

Well, I was trying to pee in a dream, of course, but that's

your bladder doesn't know that.

Your bladder's working hand in hand with your dream at that moment.

Letting you react, let you do your thing.

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

What's on tonight?

Baseball.

Yep, baseball.

Friday night SmackDown.

Yep.

tomorrow, Pacers.

Yeah, golf all weekend.

Sunday evening races, Detroit, I think, Indy Car.

Yes, I'd assume there's a NASCAR race.

Yeah, there's an F what Dale Ernard Jr.

responded to one of our tweets where Darius Butler said that F1 was the most boring sporting event he's ever watched.

Dale Ernard Jr.

said, we had a good time in North Carolina Sunday night.

Like, I hell yeah.

There's a new Dale Sr.

doc on Amazon Prime right now as as well.

Very good.

I haven't watched it yet, but Bone was just...

He's been texting me while he's been watching it, saying it's unbelievable.

Hey, Bone, any new music out today that we need to check out?

Bone?

You saw Jelly Roll and Posty?

Maybe one of the top five takes of all time from Bone.

Why did he just turn back around?

Which one?

He just walked away.

Bone!

Who?

Yeah, um, you know, Culpepper Jones just came out with some new heat, actually.

Can you get him the handheld handheld mic?

I think it's behind you.

Let's talk about Joe Diffie all the morning.

I'm gonna get on this guy.

Shout out to North Central Football National Champions.

Your mic's off.

Hold on.

We'll turn it on.

Okay.

Yeah, I know.

That's yeah, yeah.

You go.

I know.

I fucking picked into it.

Dickhead.

There you go.

Yes.

There we go.

Debon, any new music we need to check out this weekend from any of your favorite artists?

Nope.

I haven't seen anything.

I'm still grinding the Morgan Wallen wallin album so he did see uh lilo and stitch last weekend said it was life-changing it was awesome lilo and stitch after mission impossible he still hasn't made it still hasn't seen mission so yeah what's your goal for the weekend debone listen to some more music eat some burgers with no cheese and have a great weekend we're pacing oh you're going to get more yeah did you hear shrike said he wants to invade the city i heard that are you going to represent out there or no yeah Did you last time you went to a Pacers game, you represented for the Pacers?

Oh, yeah.

No, you didn't.

Yes, I did.

You were wearing a LeBron jersey.

No, I was in the suite for game three.

That doesn't count.

You were wearing a LeBron jersey the last time you were on TV.

But that was right after LeBron was on the show.

It was

a post-LeBron versation.

Yeah, I seen you had a full circle moment with the Watts there.

That was a sentimental moment this week.

Yep.

Good for you.

Good graphic, too.

You made for them.

Thank you.

Always have had the talent.

Trying to figure out the words and where they go is something that we're trying to evolve into, right?

Yes, sir.

Favorite song from the Morgan Wallen album?

Yeah.

Shit.

Any upbeat?

Any upbeat ones, like fast ones?

L.A.

Night.

Yeah, L.A.

Night's good.

Miami's good.

Yeah.

Miami's good.

You don't want

mine

anymore.

Leaving's the least I could do, I think, is my favorite.

Oh, he's talking about...

The least you can do.

Hey, this relationship is unsalvable.

Oh, my God.

Come on.

Jeez.

I invited him over here.

I forgot.

I forgot.

I invited him over here.

That's a good song.

What about TN?

You like TN?

TN's good.

Skull, Chevy, and Browning.

I know you love that one.

That's a good one.

You are like Skull and a Pinch.

Yep.

Yep.

Be like Skull and a Pinch.

The Morgan Wallen album is unbelievable shit.

Unbelievable.

Would you have known all the songs that Posty was singing last night that I heard?

Definitely.

Like on the country side of it?

He did country and he did some of his.

Yeah, he only did one of the country while we were there.

But we missed, you know, we had to leave with like an hour left, so I'm sure he did more.

But he did all three.

He did his Stony album.

He did his Morning album.

And he did his country album.

He's a real rock star.

I would recommend watching Post Balloon Do Anything after watching him last night.

Male Country Artist of the Year.

Posty?

Little Man J.

Now, have you heard anything about Lil Man J?

I have.

You've done your research on Lil Man Jay?

I respect Lil Man J.

Really?

The comparison some of you guys have to him?

You guys?

What does that mean?

Everybody in the office.

Not me.

Not me.

Little man J.

I've watched this kid become a man

on the internet.

I watched him go from making beats and rap songs to now becoming this country sensation.

He's taken everything he's learned and then we've watched him learn and taken it and applied it to country music.

And I think Lil' Man Jay has found his home.

And you need to welcome him into the community.

I respect him.

I do.

He even wrote a song for Morgan Wong.

Where did he cut his teeth?

Morgan Newmont.

Yeah,

Bone said, I love him, but let's stay away from the acoustic is what he said earlier.

Well, I mean, acoustic stuff.

I mean, fucking Jelly Roll had me try to sing in front of 45,000 people last night.

That was certainly something.

That was a lot of fun.

So I go there.

I go, Jelly, what am I doing?

What do you want me to do?

You know, he goes, we got three options for you.

First of all, I love that.

I love that somebody has three options for me.

I got three options for you because he's thought it out.

Jellyroll, by the way.

Businessman.

I believe it.

He is a, he's a good.

I'm a big fan of him.

Some very awesome combos back there.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the way his brain operates.

Like, I am, uh, I enjoy the way he views things.

I enjoy the way he attacks things.

I enjoy his professionalism, his pre-show routine, getting his voice ready, and how much he appreciates what he's doing.

And

you can tell he's genuinely thankful for what he's getting.

Like,

I really enjoy that.

He said, We got three options for you.

I chose the second option, which was me starting off with

coming out, saying hello, and then starting with Renegade

and singing Renegade.

I had to start the band.

In my ear, there is the fucking band.

So, one,

two,

one, two, three, four, one.

Downbeat.

Oh, mom.

I was leading the 11-piece 36-hour band there in my ear.

So, I do my talking, okay?

I do my talking.

Welcome to Pittsburgh.

It should be the greatest night of the big-ass stadium tour.

And everything that comes from Pittsburgh is great.

I rattle off some things everybody knows.

Then I call out some local personalities from Pittsburgh that helped shape my life.

Sally Wiggin.

Hell yeah.

Joe Nardo, rest in peace.

Gave a full shout out to him.

Iron City Permanes.

Didn't shout out Rudy's because I didn't think enough people would have known Rudy's.

Didn't think it was right time for the occasion.

But Rudy's knew that they were deep down in there.

And I talked about, you know, the Steelers being six-time World Champions.

Penguins being five-time Stanley Cup champions.

And we're in the home of the five-time World Series champion.

Yeah.

Pittsburgh Pirates.

Yeah.

Five times.

Did you know that, AJ?

I asked Grock.

I did not.

That son of a bitch.

That two-timing bully tag team son of a bitch.

Grock.

I asked Grok.

Told me that the Pirates won five World Series.

I thought that was pretty sweet.

So I mentioned that.

Booze rained down.

But it was the most beautiful park.

And then I mentioned how Jelly Roll asked me to come out here and start a Pittsburgh concert, the only way that a Pittsburgh concert is supposed to start.

And me and the band coordinator, I think his name is Chill.

Child?

Chill.

Oh, I forget his name.

I'm so sorry.

Very cool guy.

Very nice.

He goes, hey, when do you want me to start the, because I had a thing in my ear, the

thing in my ear to start the entire fucking band.

And we're talking about it.

I was like,

I'm going to ask them if they'll help me.

And then I guess a good indicator would be like, I'm just going to do Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I'm going to say, will you help me?

Give me a hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

And I was like, so once I do that, we're good.

And then jelly social media guy, long hair, good dude.

Yeah, weapon.

Weapon.

Southern California kid.

I forget his name.

Good stash.

Great.

Good hair.

Yeah.

Everything.

He was a good dude.

He goes, you need to do the hell yeah twice, don't you?

And I'm like,

what do you mean?

He goes, you're going to do it once and then you're going to need to do it again, right?

And I'm like, good call.

So I go right back to to the band guy.

I go, hey, second, hell yeah.

So literally, as I'm like, you guys are gonna help me, right?

Give me a hell yeah.

First time, they go, yeah.

I go, I am a shit singer.

I'm gonna need you to help me.

You're gonna help me, right?

Give me a hell yeah.

And then as I hear it, he goes, one, two, as they're screaming, hell yeah.

And I'm like, holy fuck, right now.

I got the, and I turn around and the entire band is sitting there with their shit.

And it's like, oh no, here we go.

And then they do the one, two,

one, two, three, four, one, downbeat.

Oh, mama.

And then you hear him in the back come with me.

I'm like, holy shit, that's pretty cool.

Then I'm in the middle of singing and I'm like, I'm pretty exposed out here.

Okay.

This voice is not meant to be doing this.

And I didn't remember what me and Jelly agreed to when he was going to come out and save the fucking day.

You know, because I did say a couple times, like, I don't know if my voice is meant to be out there all by itself.

40,000 people, 11-piece band behind me.

Oh, my.

I was trying to sing this entire thing.

So they got to a point, I think, in the second one.

Long man is putting into my, and there's a part there where you got to like actually sing.

You see me turn around and be like, where the fuck?

And you see Jelly Roll walking out like, thank you, Bubba.

Thank you, Bubba, for coming out here.

It was, it was a really cool moment.

It was a very, it was a very cool moment.

But what Jelly in the 36-hour band did after that was just heat.

Just fucking

that hour slot.

I would assume, if you're Jelly Roll with the amount of songs that he has, like an hour of just like, boom, boom, boom has to feel so good for everybody.

Because the entire place is singing for an hour straight with you.

That is, yeah, it had to be all.

I was lucky to be a part of it.

Very lucky to be part of it.

Pork chop, the drummer, did a stone cold, blew a kiss to the camera on the way out.

Yeah, Cody, Cody's a dog.

They call him pork chop.

Legendary.

Joe Hadley, who was with us, Haddlebags.

He'll clean your windows if you call him.

His number's on the internet.

JoeHadley.com.

Joe Hadley.

Not happy you did that.

His hair looked phenomenal.

So good.

He came from Menace.

You know, he loves music.

He's very into music, loves Jelly Roll, obviously.

He loves Posto.

Asked me if he wanted to come.

He comes, and as we're watching Jelly Roll, he points at the drummer.

He goes, pork chop's so fucking good.

And I'm like, oh, you know, because I know him because he's been incredibly cool to me.

And I follow him on Instagram.

And he gets a lot of love for a drummer.

He gets a lot of love for a drummer.

And he fucking murders it.

And Hadley's like, pork chop's so good.

And I'm like, okay, so he's like known amongst the drummers, right?

Because I like follow along and I say this guy's good.

He goes, first of all, if you're on a tour like this, you're really good yeah you're really good but pork drop yeah the guy is beloved by everybody seemingly he does the oh yeah he's twirling the whole thing

chaga doing the whole thing yeah the whole band very cool looking yeah a lot of tat great mocks joe's very good the guitar backup singers phenomenal they got a good crew it was very cool to hang out with surprise joe didn't play last night well i was trying to get him i was trying to get him i was like hey he can like shred a guitar pretty good

and uh joey's like bring him down to nashville when you come down they all they they all would like me to record an album all the country people that i know would like me to record an album because you know the music issue with us is a problem so they're all like you need to record your own songs brother and then whenever you come to our shows we can just do a couple songs it's easy it's easy thing i'm like think about it boys can't sing okay that's a big part of the entire thing can't carry uh ah i i just say too much you know i've done a lot of damage here done a lot of damage here and they're all like nope we got you we got you jelly roll sending me a fucking 30-minute class for how to take care of my vocal cords and how to train my vocal cords.

Ernest has just been sending me shit.

Bod, you can do this for sure.

Can't you?

Videos, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Everybody in the Nashville is basically like, you need an album, you need an album.

It's like, I don't think so, brother.

They're like, we got you, we got you.

So I'm going to bring Hadley down there.

I'm going to do it.

I think.

So Hadley can get down there.

Yeah.

Let him experience a little fucking.

Yeah, that'd be awesome.

Hadley's always been incredible.

Incredible on the guitar.

He just never really, you know.

He's in a band for a long time.

Long time.

Dad was in a band he's got a show this weekend oh he is playing yeah

just

that'd be cool a photo of him fucking sitting yeah

in nashville with that hair we need to get one of those cool hats too he's got one yeah we got to dress him up for this thing he needs to have full costume in this thing oh yeah it's got he's got yeah last night he had a good costume had his hat attached to his fucking love that

had a good

flannel on he looks super cool it was a good night last night in pittsburgh so many people people from Plum were there.

Got a lot of, holy shit, are you?

That's you?

I look at my phone.

We're here too.

Photos, photos, photos everywhere.

Saw some people from a couple Sweet Sound I haven't seen in 20 years.

I'm like, oh, I wonder if those people still hate me over there.

Hey,

good to see you.

All right, it's good.

Great news.

It was great.

Great night in Pittsburgh.

Bad night for the Pacers in New York.

Great night for Edmonton.

Bad night for Dallas.

And this weekend's about to be great for all parties, except for Knicks fans.

Yeah.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice about change your life.

We're in this thing together.

Have a great weekend.

In the back, great work, boys.

Graphic design, boys.

Really good work out of you.

Good work, boys.

Work, boys.

Really dominated that microphone today, too.

Thank you.

Didn't he?

Yeah, you always do, boy.

Mitt, good work, buddy.

Mitt let two high school seniors into

the property this morning and said it was his food.

What's my food?

Fault.

They were doing graduation pictures in front of our building i've never seen an outfit like that as we're going what was the hat he was wearing man what was he did say though that afterwards when he realized his what he'd done he went out there and said you guys gotta get the fuck out of here dude it's not my food fucking peeled out

they peeled they did he let a car in

that's my food let it in

And they were wearing full graduation gear taking pictures.

Yep, yep.

And he did that one.

Ray right out the front door.

We're going live.

It's literally as we're going.

Connor's like,

there's two graduates out front taking photos or whatever.

Oh, that's awesome.

And Mick goes, oh no.

I'll handle it.

Fuck these people, dude.

Be a friend, tell a friend, something nice.

It might change your life.

We're in this thing together.

Have a great weekend.

We appreciate you all so much.

Team on me, team on three.

Way to go, Mitt.

One, two, three.

Goodbye.

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