PMS 2.0 1403 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL Week 1 Recap, MNF Preview, Adam Schefter, Colts QB Daniel Jones, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this

Overreaction Monday, September 8, 2025, this program begins right now.

Football is here in full effect. And obviously, we have one game tonight, an NMC North battle that'll be on ABC that we will certainly be watching.

And then Peyton Manning and Eli Manning doing their simulcast as well.

But week one of the NFL season has completed a full Sunday slate college football still throwing a hundred on the paint today is a great day to celebrate everything happening and also today is a glorious day to overreact uh ridiculously now from week one of the NFL season all the way until the Super Bowl obviously teams are gonna change mightily injuries are gonna happen teams are gonna get better you know offensive coordinator and quarterback are gonna maybe get on the same page same thing on the defensive side of the ball so anything you say the day after the first NFL Sunday slate is certainly going to be ridiculous if you were to look at it from week 15 back until until now.

But in this moment, everything we're about to say makes a lot of sense. Now, is it going to be overreactions? Potentially, some will say in the end.

But in the real moment that we're living right now, the reason why the NFL is what it is and why football is the greatest sport on earth is because the way we feel today is how a majority of fan bases feel around the NFL.

We'll be celebrating mightily with the teams that won. It will certainly be dunking on the teams that look like ass.
How are you getting paid money to do this? Were you guys even practicing?

How'd you roll out of bed on this particular day and look that bad and on the flip side holy shit we're winning the super bowl a lot of that today and we're so thankful that we get to do this for a living the non-professional athlete table at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt are here I mean it's just sitting there no yeah someone had to yeah once you're too by the way I hope we all just kind of you know now there are things nine-year NFL events

I would say

no doubt you guys have no idea about I think that is a fair fair thing to say but now we all on the same team now baby yeah We're all on the same team now.

And we are very thankful for your perspective because obviously it's going to be vastly different than ours. With that being said, a lot to celebrate this weekend from the toxic table, huh?

Drake May might be a guy. Definitely.
Green Bay Packers, holy shit, Tai Schmidt. Might be the team.

You know, listen, I tried to kind of downplay it going in, but after yesterday, yeah, that might be the team. Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Cowboys, AP Tone. The Pittsburgh Sailors, one of the biggest stories stories of the offseason.
They're going all in. Wow.
High scoring.

Thrilling affair over there in New York with your former quarterback, Justin Fields.

Tone, are you guys winning the Super Bowl? If you recall, on Friday, I said if they lose week one, the season's over. And if they win, we're going to the Super Bowl.

On that note, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the first 15. We'll be doing this on overreaction Mondays throughout the rest of the year.

We think these are the top five things that you need to know about. And if we miss a couple, we'll certainly pick those up.
This is the first 15. Let's get to it.

Number five starts in the steel city the pittsburgh steelers the rogers reminder still got it you know there was a lot of conversation last year about whether or not this guy is worth a damn at professional football you know he flew all the way from his home in beautiful Southern California.

I mean, he's got a gorgeous

waterfront. He walks on that beach too.
He's got his dog, Apollo, coming around. You know, he's having a good time.
It's a beautiful house.

He said, you know what, I'm going to go fly back to New York whenever they get the new GM, new head coach. I want to talk to them personally.

So I want to go ahead and just kind of see where they're at. If they're to move on, hey, that's their prerogative.
They can do what they want to do.

But just wanted them to know that I would like my Jets tenure to end in a good way. It's what he told us.
Verbatim. Flies all the way over.
That's about four and a half, five hours.

Depending upon the jet stream behind him, you know,

maybe five and a half, depending. Yeah, there's, you know, a lot of that thing.
Gets all the way down there in Teterborough, drives over to the facility, sits down. Aaron Glenn says,

You can go get the fuck out of it.

That is too much. Yeah, we don't want you.
Now, I don't think those are the exact words.

Now, the way Aaron Aaron describes the encounter and the lack of description of the encounter from Aaron Glenn makes us believe that it probably was a pretty uncomfortable situation. No doubt.

So then Aaron leaves, and now he's trying to figure out his life. Remember, close personal friends going through a cancer battle.
We would inevitably learn. Had to be there for them.

People that rely upon him were going through some very heavy things. He had his offseason.
He was thinking about potentially retiring. Doesn't join any team.
Everybody's loud.

This guy needs to make his decision for a draft. Little, they know that was going to happen.

He wasn't going to be making a decision for a long, long time at that particular case.

And the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin, was calling him every single week, checking in on him, seeing how he's doing, how's it going?

They were preparing an offense allegedly for Aaron Rodgers, even when he wasn't a Pittsburgh Steeler

at the time. So you wonder with all that shit and all the noise and everything that's going on, how it would fare.

Thought it was going to be a cagey affair because these two teams, obviously, defensive stout. I'll tell you what, Justin Fields might be the right fit for an Aaron Glenn offense in New York.

They might have some things to be excited about. And on the flip side, Aaron Rodgers slicing Dyson for four touchdowns.
You Steelers fans got to be losing your mind tone. Yeah, we are.

It was really cool. Once the Steelers got their first kickoff and you saw Aaron run out on the field, like it was a surreal.
Like, holy shit, Aaron Rodgers is our quarterback.

And then you watched him orchestrate that offense like Leonard Bernstein. It was a thing of beauty.
He was up to the line, just changing plays, manipulating the snap count. Like, it was awesome.

He was working. Everyone got involved.
Like, literally everyone on offense got involved. Four touchdowns.

Oh, and he had a game-winning drive, which is what, you know, is something that we haven't had in a long time. It was so cool to watch Aaron Rodgers be a quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Four tides for him. DK Metcalf had some big time plays.
Had a first drop early. Obviously, there were some other things going on, but you can see that DK is worth the money.

And DK is the best athlete whenever DK is, wherever DK is. And not only that, you guys have a kicker who is potentially doing a hold-in, Chris Boswell.

Well, he didn't hold in, and he did play, and I think he made some 55-plus yarder earlier in the game, and then to win it, 60-yarder.

Now, granted, there's a minute-some left, so they could have come back and taken that from Chris Boswell. Under a minute 30 to take the lead, I think everybody would call that a game-winning kick.

Chris Boswell does that for the Pittsburgh Steelers. So damn pure.
Now, there were some misses from the kicking department around the NFL. And I think we should all like kind of,

you know, kind of view it the same way. If a ball is kind of drifting to the right for a righty, okay, not an absolute miss.

A miss is going to happen where you just miss a sweet spot, your swing, just like in golf, you kind of come across it.

But if there's one like drifting to the right, not normally the ball, probably because the kicker's trying to guide it a little bit, you know, know, trying to guide it.

Like when you're throwing a baseball or a football, it'll be in the vicinity because that's what you're actually doing. Sure, but it won't be your pure ball.
Does that make sense? Yeah.

Like Luke, the kicker for the Baltimore Ravens, his first kick was a 52-yarder. That thing was drifting a little bit right.
He has a massive leg. That kid has a very, very strong leg.

Misses the next point. Obviously, people pissed off about it.
He is a very talented kicker. So his first one going a little bit to the right.

I'm like, ooh, he was trying to guide that a little bit, probably thinking about it. Still goes in, still very good for a very long time.

Boswell hits this 60-yarder yarder under pressure first week contract dispute okay money this is actually every ball is a money ball yeah every ball is a money ball this was supposed to be a 58 yarder they actually lose yes they did two yards to play before that they try to pick up a couple more yards for him and ends up going back so he comes out there this ball is pure and that leads to mike tomlin describing chris boswell in only a fashion that mike tomlin could describe a kicker And I can't say enough about Boz.

Man, our kicker is a serial killer, man.

He got a low pulse rate. He can't wait to deliver.
That's what I'm talking about. Boz is not thinking about guiding it.
Boz doesn't think about anything.

Boz said he just goes out there, thinks about his steps, hits the ball, doesn't even watch it, and just leaves the field. One of the greats, one of the greatest of all time.

Happy he got a chance to step up and perform and deliver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hell of a start for Aaron Rodgers.

Congrats to the injuries. A lot of drama over there.
Yeah. A lot of drama over it.
Came down to a 60-yarder. Yeah.
Okay.

Came down to a 60-yarder song. Big hit Jalen Ramsey, too.
New edition. Big hit knocking that ball off a scare wolf.

The way he's talking is he loves the culture of the Steelers. Oh, yeah.
Like, he's talking like we.

Yeah, he's doing a lot of like, hey, we are, this is how we play. We're not going to let people kind of come in here and not play us now.

It's like, it does feel like Jalen Ramsey's supposed to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. Same with Aaron.

I mean, even watching Aaron and him walk off with Cam Hayward at the end, Cam and Coach Tomlin have walked off the field together basically for like the last five, six years since social media has really been capturing it.

We don't know how much longer before that.

but them waiting for aaron and then aaron walking with them yeah like this is a cool moment like this is a very cool moment especially walking out of the stadium that he was at last year and once again fly all the way over there

get the hell out of here i mean that's a cool moment for the steelers steelers fans got to be pumped okay let's move on number four uh is micah parsons going to be in game shape is micah parsons going to be able to play football for the packers after being traded so late he did address being traded so late where he was like if we would have done this at the right time, I could have been working with these guys.

I think Micah loves his time at the Packers. Now, obviously, they get a win.
Yeah, that helps. Obviously, he gets a sack.
That helps.

Obviously, he becomes the highest paid non-quarterback player of all time, $47 million a year. There's a lot of honeymoon things.

But boy, when Jared Goff just hears a banning, banning, banning behind him, I assume that he thought, no, fat, so, no D-lineman, no defensive. Nobody over 220 pounds is going to be able to walk me.

I have a 20-yard head start on all of them. Remember, Field is 53 and a third wide.
Micah hunted him down. Neckton mentality like a damn shark.
And obviously, he has a celebration point in the sky.

The number one looks much cleaner than I think we all thought it was going to be. Jordan Love was slicing and dicing.
Feels like the defense is very good.

Green Bay Packers fans thinking Super Bowl this year for the PAC. Yeah, without a doubt.
I mean, there's no question now.

I didn't know going into yesterday because, again, the Lions are still very good, but boy, did the Packers dominate this game from the onset, too. You mentioned it.

I think the Micah stuff, we'll get to that in a second, but Jordan Love, like people are talking about him winning an MVP this year. He had to do it.

He came out, started 10 of 14, and they scored two touchdowns and were up 17, you know, three very early, which they were playing from behind against the Lions all year and in division games.

They just look crisp. And everything you were hearing from the Packers offense was like, they're really hurt in the receiver room.
They don't really know.

Like, we thought Josh Jacobs was going to come out. And if he wasn't scoring multiple touchdowns, like this Packers offense was going to be in trouble.
Not the case. Love looked phenomenal.

And then you mentioned it, Micah Parsons. I mean, everyone can say whatever they want.
I get it. He only played 45% of the snaps.
Only got one sack.

Only had three pressures. Those three pressures, okay, there was a two-yard

or two-yard loss for a completion on third down, caused a punt. He had the sack.
And then they also, he got to Jared Goff, and Jared Goff threw an interception. So those are pretty, you know.

Also, guys playing alongside of him. Yeah,

that is what it ultimately what this comes down to is Lucas Van Ness had his best game as a Packer yesterday. Rashawn Gary had a sack and a half.
Like he makes all the guys around him so much better.

And again, you talk about all that stuff of him being happy. This is a different guy than we saw in Dallas.
Like, sure, there's some of that. But everything I heard from him post-game and like,

he's ecstatic to be a Packer. From some people that were there, they said when he came out of the tunnel, said it was the bit.
the loudest pop they've ever heard in Lambeau.

Hello, welcome to Cheese Land, Micah Parsons. What a way to kick it off.
The Backers look like they're legit. Are the Lions dead? Whoa, whoa, whoa, Foxy.
Are the Lions dead?

Yeah, I'll tell you what. Oh, no.

Everything we were worried about this whole offseason was exposed yesterday. Detroit is burning to the ground right now.
It's not good. Well, you guys got two coordinators.

The offensive line is the biggest worry. Foxy, the Applebee's commercial.
No, no, even Dan Campbell's. You get rings for those.
Dan Campbell's F-game in that one.

Even he admitted he wasn't as funny in the Applebee's commercials. That was a sign.
Let's be honest. That was a sign.

Oh,

no.

Not Detroit from five years ago.

Yeah, the biggest worry, though, Ragnall being gone was so evident. That's a killer.
Long season, though. We got the Bears next.
Have to beat them. I believe in Dan Campbell.
Yes.

So I don't think having a rough start with new coordinators is a bad thing. But boy, they're going to have to get much better out there for Lions fans not to lose their mind.
Let's go to number three.

We got to go back before the weekend.

Should be talked about. Herbert's hot hand handle skates.

This guy was electrifying.

This was exactly what Justin Herbert was kind of billed to be. This is what we had all hoped that Justin Herbert could be this season.
Second year in the Jim Harbaugh culture.

And you were talking about Quentin Johnson doing his thing. Keenan Allen.
Oh, yeah, he's back on the Chargers. And what's he doing? Oh, scoring touchdowns again.
Justin Herbert was outrageous.

I mean, everything he did was seemingly the perfect decision at the right time. His leadership very evident.
His press conference afterward sounds exactly like a robot.

Like, sounds, hey, hey, we need AAI. We need a quarterback.
It's tall, handsome. He's going to date another celebrity.

He's going to be very happy. He's going to, I need him to have the proper composure and massive moments.
He needs to be able to throw a football like a goddamn animal.

Okay, that's what he needs to be able to do. Needs to be able to run people over.
Needs to be able to be more physically gifted than everybody else on the field.

And also have an incredibly cool ability to slop. Yes.

And stay in bounds high football iq let's go ahead and ice and seal this game but also whenever he speaks to the media just needs to say just all the right stuff yep just everything needs to not even come close to being huh huh yeah we're just focused on tonight playing our best football what do you got next week well we're just gonna i think we're gonna focus on playing our best football and we're gonna do our thing yeah oh it was great to have him in here he works really hard we try to work really hard uh how do you feel about coach harbor oh he's the best every day he's working so hard it's just every day we're kind of focused on that day that is in front of us and if we keep stacking days we're gonna be good okay what do you think about your wide receivers oh they're all so good they all run such good like everything he was saying was just super perfect quarterback movie quarterback and he has been called the blueprint he josh allen the other very tall very large very athletic very fast very durable guys uh are like what everybody's looking for

Is this the year, D-Bud? You've been on the Chargers Justin Herbert hype training four or five years now. Oh, yeah, since inception.
Since

Mr. Brissie Staley

coaching tree.

Yeah, Bruce and Linda Staley's coaching tree have come through there. You've been on the Herbert train, I would say, since the beginning.

I'll tell you what, Friday had to feel pretty good for that train as they got off the stop down there in Brazil. Yeah, and even before that,

we had a great, you know, Coach B.A. sitting in this chair.
When he was here, he asked a great quarterback, if you have a clip, what quarterback would you build your franchise around?

Believe it or not, I like the guy with the Chargers. Just

involve it. Yeah, Justin Herbert.
I think they just kind of, they've gone by the wayside. Oh, and I got a lot of

side eyes up here on the stage. I'm sure it was a bunch of, I saw a bunch of comments on X.
Wow. And he showed out, man, 25 and 34, 318 yards, just dotting up.
And it was a pass first offense, too.

Something you don't expect from Greg Roman. Something you don't expect from a Jim Hartball football team.
Just opening up, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass. Got after that Spags defense.

Everyone was involved. You mentioned Ladd.
You mentioned Keenan Allen, been back. And Quentin Johnston.
If he can continue to play like a first-round pick in ball, they'll be in a great, great spot.

Did a thing with his arm, but with his legs to end the game once Chris Jones got a little greed. It's kind of what makes Chris Jones great.
You go and take a chance on the edge. You dope dive inside.

Herbert gets the edge and seals it with this beautiful slot using his legs to seal this game. So yeah, Justin Herbert and the Chargers look like they might be the real deal this year.

Uh-oh, AFC Web says a lot of competitors. KNC Chiefs are gonna have to figure it out pretty quick.
Ty, they're getting loud over there in Kansas City around the world.

I hate to say it, but I think the Chiefs might be dead. No!

No!

I know!

They might be. The Chiefs is still the Chiefs and always will be until these eyes don't see Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Andy Reed, Brett V.
Spaggs, and Tob.

The NASCAR. We'll talk about that later.
We're running out of time here. We need NASCAR.

We will certainly talk about it because that was one of the things. I'm saying we need it right now at 140.

Yeah, we need NASCAR. I don't know.
I don't know just for this collaboration. Yeah, I don't know if we have enough time.

So, like, for that NASCAR kick that they did

right before half there, there is a cutoff time. They were certainly at it.

That was unbuckled. Yeah, yeah.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, number two headline that I think we need to be talking about, Josh Allen and the Bills.

You all were probably asleep. I fell asleep after watching Lamar Jackson run 200 yards to pick up a first down after he was outrunning the entire Buffalo Bills D-line, and they were up 15.

I'm like, well, if this is happening in the fourth quarter, it has seemingly been the Ravens night to begin with.

Josh Allen has certainly made some massive plays, but this Baltimore Ravens team looked unstoppable.

And when Lamar's doing this shit in the fourth quarter and they have a lead, my brain just said, you can go to bed now.

What did I miss? Oh, a record-breaking final four minutes where team is down by 15 with under four minutes, 3.59 right there. Bang, fourth and two.
Tip ball. Keon Coleman, touchdown.

Well, now we got to, you know, now we got to hope for something else good to happen. Well, Derrick Henry, who was having a

career evening in Buffalo, going for 100 early, couple touchdowns, does something he never does because Ed Oliver is an absolute monster on that Buffalo Bills D line. They scoop it.

Obviously, Josh Allen and the Bills do what they do. They score, miss the two-point conversion.
Now they're down too. Baltimore gets the rock back.
They can run the clock out. They don't.

Leads to what? Matt Prater, 41 years old. Walk off.

Field goal. Buffalo Bills beat the Baltimore Ravens.
What a night for Josh Allen. What a night for the Bills.
And the number one headline is the Colts are going to win the Super Bowl.

The Colch is going to win the Super Bowl. And that is no question.
And that's because the big three.

As coined by Edrin James, is how I heard it. The big three are holding people accountable in that building.
Carly, Kalen, and Casey, congratulations on being undefeated owners.

And Danny Dimes, we got a chance to catch up with him earlier today. We'll run that interview in about an hour or so.
He is in in the perfect place here in Indianapolis. It was fun to watch.

Tyler Warren, this guy, man. He's Sasquatch actor.

This dude's unbelievable. And Danny Dimes loves them.
Danny Dimes was getting the ball to everybody. I mean, everybody was eating.
Jonathan Taylor had a big game.

Offensive line did some amazing stuff. I mean,

it was the most fun we've ever had in

the Lot House. By far.
Since becoming fans of the team, like show, you feel like in the suite. It was spectacular, electrifying.

Cam Bynum, and I said this to Danny Dimes earlier, which you'll see in the conversation about an hour from now. Cam Bynum between every single play was like this.
And he gets a turnover.

You can see that he is just a juice machine and he's everywhere. Lou Ayn Rumo's defense held him to a shutout in the first half and only gave up eight points or whatever it is.

And Cam Bynum hit the seat.

I mean, that is unbelievable stuff. I wish he would have hit the kip up into the pop lock, but nonetheless, the Colts look different.
And with these eyes and boots on the ground, actually,

they're going,

this team's a real deal. 7% optimism in that athletic poll from a lot of people that are AR fans on the internet.

And those AR fans were saying a lot of terrible things about me whenever I was pointing out the obvious last year.

And now they were saying very negative things whenever Danny Dimes became our quarterback.

And everybody kind of said that this team stunk. Everybody.
People forget we invested in defense. We got a new defensive coordinator.
We got dogs across the board over there.

And on the offensive side, Danny Dimes has loved his weapons here since the day he got here.

The only reason why i know that is because i had a chance to have dinner with him a couple weeks into his stint here and he started rattling off names who he likes how he likes and you saw pittman jr do his thing downs do his thing tyler warren do his thing big mo alley coffee pierce i mean pierce is doing i mean there he is

we got we got a team that's bought we got a team like our guys and uh shout out to boss man you know uh certainly put pushing the pacers on a little bit of run yep and i'll tell you what if jim marshal is going to be doing a little bit of run for his indianapolis colts we'll certainly enjoy the ride brother one one last time.

It was a fun day celebrating the boss. A lot of alum came back into town.
Saturday night, there was a gathering as well.

It was a perfect weekend here in Indianapolis for the Colts, and the team looks damn good for real, Connect.

Well, that's the thing is that it was just justifying watching the entire thing because it was domination.

You know, we talked about some of the games earlier, like the Packers, they dominated the Lions start to finish.

The Colts are one of those teams who dominated week one, the Dolphins, from start to finish.

And when you just look at all of those weapons that you just mentioned, this is why living in Indianapolis and watching this team has been such a nightmare for the past five years, because this wasn't the first time they've been out on the field with all these great players, all these great receivers, all these great players on defense, and performed well.

You know, that's why it is stunked because we've seen the potential. You see A.D.

Mitchell, Pierce, Downs, you know, Tyler Warren now, Pittman, like all those dudes have been there, minus Warren, and they haven't had a quarterback like Dan Jones.

They haven't had an O-line play that well like they did yesterday. It was just a big time like, okay.
So we haven't been watching or talking about the Colts like absolute idiots.

They have been this good. They just needed a quarterback to come in, and Danny Dones is the guy.
A lot of pressure on them, too. Yeah, a lot on the Colts as a whole.

On Dan Jones specifically, because you come in and you have a very, you know, publicized quarterback battle. We know what he did in New York and what that was.

So it's a lot of pressure for him to come in. Okay, now it's obvious that he won this job.
You know, and when I reached out to people in the building once he was named a starter, nobody was surprised.

And now you see why. And then the game plan, you know,

you'll see it more in the conversation with Dan, but it was pass, pass, pass, pass, pass out of the gate. And I definitely didn't expect that.

But yeah, he showed up. And then his defense, Luana Romo,

been in a new spot with a bunch of new pieces. They were seven minutes away from a shutout.
So yeah, all things are clicking right now for the Colts. Indiana Jones and the Dimes Dive, brother.

We're about to have a run over here. And Tyler Warren ain't from here.
No. No.
he is gigantic add him to the list and i think he might have the head the skull like aj has one of these ones

just a super thick massive massive head cannonball bing it is like cannonball yeah it would have to be to survive that hit we saw penn state yes it would the way his head snapped off that it's the most violent thing i've ever seen in person just complete

and they just oh

and they just got a handoff on the next player i mean he is he is awesome and we got OGs that are good. But you're right.
It was like kind of like justified.

She's just like, thank goodness what we've been seeing and talking about isn't just us. Well, and Chris Ballard's probably thinking the same thing.
Yeah. Oh, my God.
Jesus Christ.

I thought we've had a good team for a while. Okay, quickly, D.
Butt, you heard the top five there. Anything we missed that people definitely need to know?

Oh, speaking of violence, I saw something violent yesterday out there with the Rams.

Puka Nicole, an absolute dog, friend of the program, took a nasty, nasty hit from that nasty Houston, Texas defense. But guess what? He didn't cry.
He didn't pop.

He went back to the locker room, showed his quarterback, all right, all right, go patch that shit up and get back out here, need your 12.

And he came back out and he showed up, and they got a big-time win. Tough opponent, look, week one, it's all about getting a win, regardless of how ugly, how pretty it is.
You want to get that win.

But it's not just about offense. That defense Shula got the boys still hunting.
Landman had a huge, huge punch out, but this is the coverage.

That Durant right here with this nasty interception on the sideline, just nasty had to replay it to make sure it was an interception like they do all turnovers.

That guy's name is Land Bam. No, no, this is Durant.
This is Land.

Yes, and this punch out is phenomenal. The peanut punch, Marlon Humphrey, all these guys have made it famous.

Not even going in, thinking about a tackle, just going in with an actual laser missile on that punch out. Unbelievable turnover.
Rams found a gritty, gritty win. And the recovery.

I mean, the recovery is just as nasty and as athletic as the punch out. This was one great, great game, another great game down there in the NFC South.
Nothing we didn't talk about.

The Tampa Bay Bucks in the Atlantic. Who is Landman? Hold on.
Landman.

That's his first name like Rock Landman. I will never say his first name.
Punching Land Debats. Landman.
Boom. Landman, Landman.
Landman, Landman.

It's a great name. Something else we definitely got to talk about.
It's a great game down there in the NFC South.

They always have bangers week in and week out. But Michael Pennix Jr., first of all, the Falcons made the right decision.
They made the right draft choice.

And the Falcons are going to be, all right, it's a big time throw in the fourth quarter to get his team in a position to come down and possibly win this game.

The Raymond McCloud had two phenomenal diving plays. This one was a fourth down scramble to the left where he dove and got the first down and made it a go-to-go situation.

Unbelievable athleticism here. We know what he can do throwing the ball, but this is just showing off his athleticism.
And it didn't stop there. He had another one.

here another one fourth in goal where he had to stretch out keep all his lower extremities off the ground and get the ball to break that plane to get this game close but bait it started off a little shaky Atlanta looked better on defense as well but they got a superstar a budding superstar over there wide receiver at Buka and we saw him during the whole Ohio State run he's always kind of the guy not talked about but he always shows up in the biggest moments this was an absolutely nasty throw a seed and a great throw and then a great throw and catch here to sit basically go up and win the game just big time big time player i think he will become that wide receiver one we know Mike Evans, he'll be a first ballot Hall of Famer or should be.

Chris Godwin will get back in the fold at some point. We got Irving.
We got all these other pieces, but Ibuka, you will not be able to deny him. He'll get open.

He'll make big time plays week in and week out. And he's going to be nothing but a perfect teammate down there.
Yep.

You know, Marvin Harrison Jr. was the big conversation in Ohio State whenever he was there.
Then Jeremiah Smith was the big conversation whenever he was there. And what'll he do?

Oh, just be the second leading receiver every single year. Yep.

He's not as the one. So he won't get into shit.
Seems like he'll be a great teammate. Oh, yeah.
Block his ass off. Smart.
Everything about him. Yeah, knows where to play everywhere.

He's durable, reliable. He's like Terry McLaurin.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm excited to watch him. Shout out to the Buccaneers getting a big time win.
Falcons defense is playing pretty good there for you.

Yeah, they were. Oh, yeah.
Well, they get it figured out. And Pennix being a guy is certainly sweet.
All right, last, before we get to Adam Schefter, the G's, Louise,

play of the moment of the weekend.

It was last night. Yeah, it was.
Baltimore Ravens scored a touchdown there. Henry's back in there.
Guy in the crowd. swipes.

I'm sorry, D-Hop catches the one-handed, swipes D-Hop's head, and then pushes Lamar Jackson. Lama Jarson said, get the fuck.

What are you? What world? Get your hands off of me. Joining us now to hopefully explain this.
Jeez, Louise

moment from last night. Senior NFL insider from ESPN, Adam Schefter.

Shefty, you look amazing. Thank you for waiting alongside of us.
We have no idea how long this segment's going to be every single week, especially because we just started it.

But that type of interaction, how do we think the league plays this out? Do we think they shake hands, move on, that kid's banned? You think Lamar high fives? What do you think happens there?

I think it provides a good time for the league to remind players not to touch the fans, but clearly the Bills should be taking action against that particular fan because no fan should ever be allowed to touch a player.

They shouldn't be close enough to do that. And I don't think Lamar was right for doing it.
I understand why he did it. But to me, there shouldn't be any discipline involved here.

Everybody's got to keep that.

everybody's got to keep their hands to themselves and to me this would be a time for the league to send out a warning reminding players not to get involved with fans if they can see on a complete flip side i wasn't saying there was anything wrong with the mar there so this is the non yeah

shifty's never played again

we're joking we're joking we're joking but i immediately as soon as i watch as soon as i watch it i'm like yeah don't hit my teammate in the head don't hit me in the head.

Like, that is literally my first thought. I'm happy to hear it out of the Bills and the Ravens.
Let's move along.

Hey, what are the big storylines coming out of yesterday that we should maybe pay attention to, pal?

All right, pal, let's rip them off for you.

I think we start with the New York Giants and the fact that Brian Dable, the head coach, declined to commit to Russell Wilson as his starting quarterback after the game, despite repeated chances to do so.

The time to go to Jackson Dart, the Giants rookie first-round draft pick, is coming.

We don't know whether it's going to be this week, next week, next month, but make no mistake about it, Jackson Dart's time as the starting quarterback of the Giants is coming.

We had a number of notable tight end injuries. Brock Bowers left the game with a knee injury that he said after the game he didn't think was serious.

George Kittle, the great 49ers tight end, left the game with a hamstring injury early on, did not return. You would have to figure that would sideline him for a little bit here.

And the Broncos tight end, Evan Ingram, left the game with a calf injury. We'll see if he misses any time.

And to talk about the entire week as well, we'll probably hear something from the NFL today regarding Jalen Carter and his spitting incident with Dak Prescott.

We'll see whether the league decides to take additional action. Usually in the past, they have not.
They've left the one-game suspension stand.

In this particular case, I think back to what Troy Vincent, the NFL executive vice president, told NFL executives and GMs and coaches at the owners meetings in the spring.

He said, we are not going to tolerate anything that demeans the game. We want only good sportsmanship and there'll be zero tolerance involved.
We'll see how the league decides to handle that.

And in regards to tonight's game, the Vikings and Bears. Harrison Smith did not make the trip for the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings have, but the Chicago Bears have no sympathy for the Vikings because they have a number of question marks around a number of their defensive backs. Jalen Johnson listed as questionable.

Uh-oh.

I don't know that he's going to go tonight. I have my doubts about whether he's going to play tonight.
Tyler Gordon put on the injury report with a hamstring injury.

I don't know that he's going to play tonight.

So the Bears could be down Jalen Johnson. They could be down Kyler Gordon.
They could be down any number of defensive backs as J.J. McCarthy makes his first NFL start.
People forget that.

He didn't play at all last year. He was the only quarterback from the great class of 2024 that didn't take a snap in a regular season game.
He gets to start tonight.

And Pat, he grew up in Chicago as a Bears fan. The first ever NFL game he attended, the very first NFL game that he ever attended was at Soldier Field Bears Vikings.

Remember the game where Adrian Peterson ripped off those runs as a rookie running back? That was J.J. McCarthy's first game as an NFL fan tonight.

He'll have the opportunity to go and be the starting quarterback for the Vikings.

And you have to figure some young Chicago Bears fan is going to be going to his first game tonight, and he'll get to see J.J. McCarthy in uniform against a depleted Bears secondary.

Well, shout out to that future J.J. McCarthy that's attending his first ever game tonight, Monday Night Football.
Let's have a good one. Congrats to J.J.
McCarthy having this be his debut.

What a magical moment. Honestly.
So cool. Last season had to suck for him.
Obviously, everybody talks about his uber competitive spirit and his leadership abilities.

So having your entire career basically stop before it can even get started had to suck. I'm excited to see what he's able to do with Kevin O'Connell.

I'm excited to see what he's able to do with this offense. Obviously, Justin Jefferson is absolutely insane on a football field.
He's always open.

And for Caleb Williams, we've seen some great out of him, right, in the preseason. There were some great moments.

And then, obviously, there is always going to be negative chatter until they have some sort of success. Tonight could be a brand new era for both of these teams.
The J.J.

McCarthy era potentially begins in a huge way. And Ben Johnson, the super genius, first time head coach, could kick off in a beautiful fashion as well.

Schefter, hey, I feel like we just did the first 15.

i feel like we just did the first 15 32 minutes yo it's first 15 plays yeah exactly yeah there's a 15 minute clock just uh you know on there it's sometimes a 15 play drive you know might only say eight minutes but in real time that's 35 minutes real

play time yes

that is a good call things have commercial that is a good call we know this like we're all watching the game and i said to my wife there's only two minutes left she goes oh yes it'll be over in you know 46 minutes right yeah exactly

especially if it's a good game like last night night was insane. I mean, they're going to certainly drain some of those commercial opportunities out, which, by the way, we all watch Red Zone?

No, it sucked. Oh, did it?

Wow.

Did everybody watch? They're going to show a big decline, I see, in Red Zone. Huge.
Because the things that I was being told, just me personally, for saying that

we do not care, meaning we will watch. Didn't even notice it.

Really?

Who's not watching it in the quad box? You just look at something else i didn't know speaking of

gentle

hey good play by them by the way

hey and maybe somebody did look into how much are those you know just as a nice little fool company i'd rather not commercials okay but if the nfl is going to utilize an opportunity to make money

We know they're going to do that. And we are going to watch Red Zone Channel because it's like the greatest invention in sports television, I think, because how great it is.

And to everybody's point here, we still watch, right? Now, granted, people watching might not have. And I want to let you know, I appreciate you taking that stand.
Hell yeah. I do.
I do.

We need more people like you. That being said, you missed a great day on your

hand. Did you see the behind the scenes? Oh, yeah.
Cooking. Oh, yeah.

Green screen. Yep.
Going nuts. Yeah.
It's great invention.

Yeah. Great invention.
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Let's talk about some other stories that you did not bring up there.

Although, a lot of insane Russell Wilson, maybe not starters, is Jackson Dart time.

Is that what we're seeing? That's what kind of.

He was iced out. He was ready.
He had it all. I mean, I want to see him do good

in New York. He'll be good.

New Jersey actually.

You get it. JJ Watt did a great job.
Feathery hair. Fantastic choice, Jay.
Let's talk about some other storylines. Go ahead, Con Man.
Yeah, Chefty, a few more injuries happening yesterday.

Christian McCaffrey, not one of those, however, which was great news. He looked unbelievable.
Are we okay now on the McCaffrey calf? Was that more of like a throwback joke by chance?

But then also Kittle goes down with a hamstring after scoring a touchdown. What's going on with him? And should we look for the Niners to be one of those teams to sign somebody now that Kittle's hurt?

Well, first of all, that tight end that replaced him, Jake Tongs, made an unbelievable catch to help win that game. So I think that they feel pretty good about their tight ends right now.

They signed another tight end from Jacksville during the offseason, Luke Farrell or Farrell, however you pronounce the last name. Forgive me for not getting it maybe right.
So they have tight ends.

They'll make do without Kittle. And I would imagine with the hamstring injury, he'll miss some time.
Now, Christian McCaffrey, what happened there was on Thursday, he felt

something in his calf.

It didn't feel right, whether it was a cramp, whatever it was. They sent him for an MRI.
The MRI came back completely clean. And obviously, it just acted up that moment.
He took off on Friday.

He himself said it was overblown.

Now, again, when you're talking about one of the elite offensive players in the game who missed as much time as he did last year and has what the team is calling a calf injury, there's nothing that can be overblown about that.

Nothing. But the fact of the matter is, it was not any type of serious injury at all.
He was ready to go, and they had no questions going into the game.

Talking to the 49ers over the weekend, they were like, nope, he's good to go. Not an issue.
He'll be already. You don't touch the football as often as he did yesterday if it was a major concern.

Seattle's got a stingy D. They do.

They sting. Seattle.
Seattle's got a.

Nobody talks about them because it's so far away. We apologize.

And they're still in everybody else's eyes nationally turnover phase with McDonald out of Baltimore going over there and then painting over the walls and Sam Darnell and everything happening.

But watch them against the Niners. And I got high faith for the 49ers.
Obviously, Purdy throws a couple bad picks early, you know, but that's because Seattle's doing their thing.

So I think we should pay a little bit more respect to the Seahawks. Salah, too.
Salah being back.

I don't know if it was just overall sideline vibes, but him and Shanahan celebrating together after Bosa's game ceiling sack right here was unbelievable when you just look at the Niners coming out and dominating the Seahawks.

I mean, that's potentially a touchdown to Sam Darnold's win right there. And the Seahawks beat the 49ers week one, and we are having a very, very different conversation.

Instead, the jungle cat Bosa closes the game. Congrats to the Niners on a huge win.
And also the Seattle Seahawks, I think, going to be a team. I'm very, very pumped for them.

Now, let's go to a team that a lot of people are out on, but I don't think they should be. They ran into a juggernaut yesterday in Lucas Oil Stadium.

Miami Dolphins situations are going to be all brought back to the surface.

Everything we alluded to in the offseason, as you may be getting breaking news at the time, and I'm just filling until you good? Yep. All right, sweet.

Kendrick Board to the Niners in a one-year deal. Okay.

That's big news. Okay.
Directly after the question. Yes, I got that.
Yeah, so they are adding a pass catcher, okay?

Which is where he started. Started in Sam Fran went to New England back to San Francisco.
Looked like they could use it yesterday. Thank you for that breaking news there, Chef D.

And

we don't know what other breaking news is going to come through on this particular overreaction Monday, but there is one reaction coming from all of South Florida, and it's, oh, no, we're dead.

Now, on that note, Ty has a question for you, Chef D. Yeah, Chef D.
After yesterday, we basically had the definition of what belt to ass looks like after the Colts beat the hell out of the Dolphins.

And then a lot of people were talking about, you know, Mike McDaniel and, you know, Tyreek Hill and the body language and him being upset because they were getting killed.

He wasn't getting the ball, et cetera, et cetera.

Are we going to get like a state of the union on the Dolphins here? We're talking about teams in need of pass catchers.

Like, is Tyreek Hill going to be traded within the next few, I mean, we were talking about it before the show. It just almost makes sense with Xavier Worthy getting hurt for the Chiefs, too.

Like, we're going to see Tyreek Hill in a Chiefs uniform within a few weeks here. Oh, that's a big move.

I don't know about him going to the Chiefs, and I don't think the Dolphins are thinking of trading Tyreek Hill now, but if the season continues to go this way, obviously you'd have to think that all options will be on the table at that point in time.

They're trying to turn things around.

It's one game on the road in Indianapolis against a Colts team that hadn't won an opener in almost 4,400 days that came in inspired with Tim Merce being inducted into the Ring of Honor.

Yeah, I'm just up 4,400 days back.

But the Colts came out with the fury of 4,400 days of non-opening day wins behind them and they laid out the dolphins so but the dolphins still think they have a good team now again it's up to them to go out and prove it so they're not going to trade away tyree kill now really good if they have more games like that and the losses start piling up i think all of us logically would have to think at that point in time you start looking to the future But they're not there right now after week one.

But Tyree Kill,

he has been missing that big play explosion. It's been exactly a year since he had his last play of over 30 yards.
They need to get him going.

Major weapons.

Yeah, there it is. What?

Yeah, 300. Happy anniversary.

Or unhappy anniversary. It was a leap year, though, so maybe we wait until tomorrow.
That's a good point. Jeez.

This guy hasn't had a... He's the deep ball guy.
Cheating.

He was. I didn't get cardio.
He's still fast. I saw it this summer.
I saw him on the field. He was still fast.
I mean, he was still waiting for movements.

We caught him, though, I think, a couple times.

There was a couple situations where I I didn't think Human was going to get to him and got to him. And him on the sideline, Shefty,

he's the number one wide receiver. They're paying him a lot of money, and they're getting killed.
I'm happy he's upset. That could be much worse.
Yeah.

You know, so like people are trying to obviously call this a massive crash out and stuff on the internet, classic internet. Classic.
I think this is much better than what it could have been.

And also, I like that he's mad. Like, should have been.

Yeah, it's been 365

since I've got anything.

I appreciate it. It did not look good.
The Gumpy, do you like what Shefty's saying there as a Dolphins fan?

You had a long day in the loudhouse yesterday, Gumpy. Long day out there.
Yeah, it was by far the worst performance they've ever had with McDaniel and Tua healthy by far, start to finish.

Tua wasn't even accurate. I've never seen him look that bad when he hasn't been hurt.
And he was decently protected. He was top five protected in the league yesterday.

I appreciate that you stuck in there, though. He did.
Yeah, kept sitting in the front row. Front row.
Had his Dolphins gear on. Isolated, sitting all by himself, front row.

Everybody saw him and everybody had something to say. Yeah.

It was a nice walk home yesterday. Yeah, I bet it was.
Lou was real pumped. Very positive.
Speaking of a walk home, let's talk about a walk off. Chris Boswell is an absolute monster.

The wizard of Boz has been on a heater for like 10 years. AP Tone, you said just a couple weeks ago, Cam Hayward, okay.
Chris Boswell, give him whatever the hell he wants.

If he wants an extra million dollars, let's do it. Because the Pittsburgh Steelers from Jeff Reed until Boz were looking for a kicker.

He has been the guy in a a very tough division with tough stadiums, and he very rarely ever misses yesterday's 60-yarder to win it. Yeah, I looked it up yesterday.

I believe he's the third most accurate kicker of all time.

And it's not short kicks, it's long ones. Yesterday he had a 56 and a 60, and I believe Shefty was on the call when I said pay him 50 million.

We're looking at a Chris Boswell pay bump anytime soon, Shefty.

He hadn't gotten one going into the opener. I know he wanted one, and I don't think he was particularly pleased about it.
But the fact of the matter is,

that guy is an incredible kicker.

That 60-yarder would have been good from, it feels like 70 yards and he's been so accurate and you see that guy's disposition he's he's unbelievable the way he carries himself great kicker um i like that tried to get a raise tried to get a raise hasn't gotten a raise we'll see if we'll see if the steelers budget all there it's a 60 yard game winner week one with the whole new team probably gets a raise

if i had if i had to guess there's going to be some incentive-based raises probably coming out of the bar is a little bit more like if he like allegedly had like a allegedly allegedly allegedly had a tree company or something like that.

Oh, you're talking about like a allegedly, allegedly, allegedly like a front. Like if he started working for Frank Meraldo's concrete company.

Which, by the way, I do think they need some good workers because Frank needs to not be out there pouring concrete every goddamn day for the rest of his life.

His knees. Two guys' knees.
It's going to be Boswell's boots. Tough to think about.

Perhaps maybe he's selling fake shoes. Allegedly.
They can find him some money, I'd assume. I hope.
I hope they're able to do that. Big win for them.

How do you think the Steelers feel feel about everything they had going on yesterday cam hayward mike tomlin obviously waiting for aaron rodgers huge part of the storyline of the offseason dk metcalf has a big game jalen ramsey wins the game for him i mean everything that is john new smith touchdowns huge plays out of john new smith everything artie smith's offense looking good i mean everything that was talked about kind of came to fruition yesterday and they get a huge win what are your thoughts on the steelers world

You know, the Steelers won as many games this season after one game in which they allowed 30-plus points as they did in the previous six years.

So they hadn't gone six years without giving up that many points and scoring that many points to win. They won in an unconventional way.

We talked during the offseason about how these were not your father Steelers. They were going out making trades, doing deals, making big-time acquisitions.

Like we never see the Steelers act like that. Well, guess what? We never see the Steelers win games in shootouts like this, the way that Aaron Rodgers did yesterday in New York against the Jets.

Obviously, he took it personally, but they win 34-32. Chris Boswell, in the past, when some team has scored over 30 against Pittsburgh, which doesn't happen very much,

they don't score over 30 to win that game. Yesterday was the first time they did that in seven seasons.
So clearly, this team can do it a lot of different ways.

And Rodgers is inspired, and Jalen Ramsey comes up there and lays the wood on Garrett Wilson to close out the game at the end of the game. Another one of those acquisitions.

And so, yeah, that's a strong start for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers showed everybody he could still play.

Yeah,

great big win for Pittsburgh. Huge win for Pittsburgh.
Huge win for their fans.

Also, respect and love the fact that Jalen Ramsey didn't want to disrespect Tom London or the Steelers by taking his helmet off and getting a 15-yard there. But also, game's over.
Yeah.

I just, I mean, I,

you saw him for like 10 yards. Like, am I taking this off?

I'll tell you what, he flirts with it all game long. It was discipline.
It was like, ah,

keep it on. All right, I'm not happy about it.
Gotta get, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, okay, I love it. And then cut back and it's gone.
Yeah, and then he gets off the. I think I'm a lot off the other one.

Yeah, it was a cool moment for them. Speaking of cool moment, had a guy play on both sides of the ball.
How long will it last? What did it look like? We shall see. Go ahead, Con Man.
Yeah, Chef D.

Travis Hunter was listed as wide receiver two, I believe, starting. And then he played like 10% of the defensive snaps for the Jags.
Weird game with it being a one o'clock start. Then it's delayed.

It doesn't really finish till five. It was just odd all day.
But what did you think about Travis Hunter? Do you see him kind of going with this route, all offense and then just a little defense?

And also just a PSA to people, stop saying bad things about him because of the way he looks on the internet.

His new haircut looks great. And Travis Hunter's a great player.
We agree. I saw nice things.

I saw only

for the other team. I saw some mean things.

I've seen only mean things about Travis Hunter on the internet lately.

Well, your algorithm maybe needs to be a little bit kinder to a guy playing on both sides of the ball for the first time in the history of the fucking NFL.

To be fair, the algorithm is still throwing 100 on the black. They were hilarious memes, but I'm just saying they're very uncalled for.
You should not be doing that. The internet's a creative place.

Yeah. Very creative.
Well, here's what I'd say. The plan going in was to have him yesterday, yesterday as a full-time receiver, a situational defensive back, and that's exactly what they did.

He played regularly at wide receiver, situationally at cornerback. And there are going to be games this year where they're going to start him at receiver and cornerback.

Now, there have been only three players that have done that in NFL history. Deion Sanders, Champ Bailey, and Antonio Cremarti starting games on both sides of the football.

Two of those three are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Travis Hunter is going to become the fourth one to do it at some point this season, but they wanted to obviously have him involved more so as a wide receiver to open the season.

And they're going to evaluate that on a week-to-week basis. We might this week, for instance, get Travis Hunter more as a defensive back and situationally as a receiver.

It certainly sounds like they are determined to use him as a receiver.

They'll build up his work as a defensive back, but it's something that they're going to be deciding on a week-to-week basis, deciding how to use him. And again, guy's a great player.

They're going to want him on the football field and he'll be out there playing. Sean Kahn owner's excited for it.
Yeah, he looks like it.

Here's him after the big-time win for Liam Cohn, Stoner, Travis Hunter, and the the boys to start the season.

This is what we envisioned in January, okay? Sir, it's happening here in September. Gonna go on forever.

Yes, that's right. That's right.
There's a man that's invested a lot of money in that team.

A lot of money in that team, hoping that they would become good. And it's like you bring Liam Cohen in there, you got Stoner in there, you draft Travis Hunter.

It's like, are the Jacksonville Jaguars on the right path? It looks like it at this point.

And if it wasn't an offensive head coach, okay, if it was a defensive head coach, I wonder if Travis Hunter DB full-time

with a wide receiver on the other side. Because Liam Cohen calling plays, head coach.
Good play call. We got a guy who is dynamic as a wide receiver.
I'll take him over here.

Yeah, we certainly would like to have our side be successful. Now, I'm not saying that he doesn't want the entire team to win.
He definitely does, but it's natural.

Like Bruce Arians told us last week, he said to Tom, whenever Tom joined with the Buccaneers, first time offensive coach as the head coach.

So whenever, are we thinking about going for it or are we thinking about doing this?

He's like, yeah, baby, we're fucking going. Yeah, absolutely.
Up by 10 in the third quarter, expecting to run it out. Yeah, we're taking shots.
Yeah, what are we talking about?

We're just going to point it.

We're going to have points. It's like just naturally.
It's just a natural, different viewpoint in it.

So I think they're going to definitely play him on defense, especially after Stoner's promo the day after the draft.

But it's like Liam Cohen also, like, This guy's a dynamic number one wide receiver, too. Let's not lose our minds.
And you got Trevor Lawrence there, who you already paid. You drafted number one.

This is a big year for him, but you're Liam Cohen. You chose that job.

Like, this is a quarterback that you want to give all the resources and everything, you know, to put him in a position to succeed.

But talking about Travis Hunter, another wide receiver, I know Todd mentioned Tyreek possibly going back to Kansas City.

Big injury there with Xavier Worthy week one, getting knocked out of the game pretty early on with the shoulder. Any update there? What's going on with Xavier Worthy and his shoulder?

I think he's probably going to miss a little bit of time here. He'll probably be week to week with that dislocated shoulder.
Obviously, went down there, went out of the game, did not come back.

They sent him for tests, and they don't think it's too bad, too serious, but it does look like he could miss a little bit of time here. So you have no

Xavier Worthy right now. Rashid Rice misses the first six games.
So they're a little shorthanded there right now with some of their playmakers at the wide receiver position in Kansas City.

And by the way, they have the Eagles coming in on Sunday. And that'll be an interesting little matchup there.

Last question here. Definitely an interesting little matchup there.
Hey, Chiefs, I still believe.

Me too. Justin Herbert looked unbelievable.
Yeah, Eagles. He rolled through that schedule.
He looks unbelievable. If Philadelphia Eagles coming up next, okay.

They look good, too. Yeah, they do.
Okay, guys, for questions at corner. Okay, so let's hope that Patrick Mahomes and the boys go ahead.
But I'm a believer in the Chiefs.

If Travis is playing, And the reason why that happened to Xavier Worthy is because Travis is a moving freight trainer. And he got blindsided there out of nowhere.
I mean, that is dope front.

Derwin James, great rewrap. Well, it felt like it was a little made passer for

that first five yards or a lot. It seemed like they were getting a little hate.

And also, Travis Kelsey gets punched in the mouth. Now, that was,

first of all, an incredible open-hand punch. Yeah, tart.
I will say, that's a talented palm to the face.

Did you know that open hands slaps are okay, apparently? I heard that from the rules

guy.

I don't know who it was, but that was a terrible thing to say publicly. It was not Mr.
Beast.

Does he still own the league? I think it was just for that first night on YouTube, which, by the way, congrats to YouTube getting an NFL game. We are very pumped.

YouTube has never viewed us as YouTubers. We built our entire business on YouTube.
Which I appreciate now. Yeah, we are very thankful that they have it.

But we are very pumped that YouTube's getting into the NFL. Like, very, very pumped about that.
YouTube's platform is awesome.

I mean, it literally, it's for creators, it's for entrepreneurs, it's for, it's a great platform. And it's obviously world wide.
Wide, wide, wide, Google pretty big. Yeah.

You know, so I'm happy that they're dabbling into the NFL and the live games.

Yeah, they got it off of the ground. There was no, I didn't see any heat,

none of that, right? No, nope. That's what I'm talking about, dude.
That's what I'm talking about. Tonight, you rattled off a bunch of things we need to think about.
A bunch of people not playing.

Garasaw, Jalen Johnson, Gordon. Gordon.
Anybody else, Chef D, or what?

Well, I mean, the Vikings are missing Harrison Smith. They're missing some guys.

Obviously, Jordan Addison is suspended for three games. This will be the first of three games that he misses.
They're getting back their wide receiver.

Yeah, they're getting back Jalen Naylor, who had a hand injury in camp. He'll be out there tonight.
Adam Thielen returns to the lineup tonight for the Vikings. Nice.
Again,

a lot of positions in flux. There's the injury report that they put out this past week.
So

both teams have some obstacles to overcome tonight in the opening Monday night game of the year. Yeah, but you'll get through all those obstacles and let us know what the hell they're battling.

And we appreciate that, Shefty. You're the man.

Did that work out for you the 90 seconds, Pat? We good there? I think it was good, yeah. We're trying to put this first 15 together because I think it's a good idea.

Because all of our podcasts are only two and a half to three hours.

Okay, so that's a really long time for people to commit to. So I've tried to like, let's just hit a first like little quick, little weekly wrap-up.
And that kind of sets the tone for everything else.

And then we can kind of sprinkle in whatever we missed. Yeah,

you play a vital part of that. So I appreciate you doing that.
It's an honor. I appreciate it.
Thank you for having me today. And enjoy the game tonight.
Yeah, but

what you did today means nothing for next Monday. Yeah, don't try to forget it.
That's for all of us. Hey, that's great.
Exactly.

That's the way the league operates. That's the way it works, right? 100%.
Yeah.

Got to prove yourself again next week. Not just next week.
Today. Today.
Week after. Next post.
Week after. Next week.
Next day. Next minute.
Next work. Yeah.
Yeah.

And that's what you've done for so long. We appreciate you.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a step for you.

I got a question for you. Why was the first 15, 32 minutes? No, no.
No, we explained that. We already went over that.
I think most of us, yeah, understand that. Are you surprised that Sean Cod did a

kind of like a wrestling promo to celebrate the win just because it kind of takes away from

Liam Cohen's first victory? All right, okay, okay. That's my favorite video of all time.
Oh,

I'm not kidding. Yeah.
That was my first time.

Yeah.

Think about it. He built two pools

in the stadium just to get people. Like, okay, you don't want to watch our team play? Shit, come have a pool day.
Okay, on a Sunday, we'll have the best pool in the city. 20 bucks are you can eat.

Please come.

He has done everything he possibly could. Pay whoever, new coach.
You want to build a new city? I'll build a new city.

Everything he, he is committed. Shad Khan, since when we were playing against him and he took over, It's like he is clearly just like, I would like this team to be good.

And for whatever reason, it just has not. One reason after another, whatever it is.

And their fans, it's hot as shit down there for a large portion of the day. Then it gets a little chilly towards the end.

But towards the end of the seasons, a lot of them, they have like really not much to book, show up and they are menaces. Their fan bases are menaces.
Their fan base is menaces.

So it's like, I got a lot of respect for what's going on down there, but I don't think anybody ever really takes the Jacksonville Jaguars seriously.

And Sean Kahn has been fighting that for a long time. If the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Colts in a season, people celebrate it.
Like that is is what they're aiming for.

If they were to win-win down there, like they were so close to with Blake Bortles, and then it all kind of fell apart.

If they were to win-win down there, I think Sean Khan would be deserving of quite a hate. Way to go, buddy.
You've really gone all in in this entire day.

But also, we need those videos every single week now. Because now, all I'm thinking about, and I hope this isn't the case, but like now I kind of want to see the Jags get beat by five touchdowns.

No, just to see him come in and see what you're playing and see what he says. Because that's must see.
Come on, Sean brought back wrestling promos to sports.

I'm glad for it too. It was good.
Jacket was sweet, too. Jacket was sweet.
Yeah, but to Ty's point, him boozed up after a loss. Holy hell.

Wrestling promos

are good. That's normally what

we know. Forever!

Yeah.

Let's get to a break. Come on, dude.
Freaking set you up there. Yeah, but Coach Corso got some of the best promos in the history of sports.
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Football! He's magical. The toxic tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.
Patriots, that

probably May is really good. I do think the Raiders are worth talking about.
Gino looked fantastic. Pete Carroll and his debut, the defense, GNT looked apart.

Bowers, their offense, I mean, the whole nine. Yeah, but the thing you said was, hey, oh, yeah.
If we talk about the Patriots Raiders,

there's one one thing that really needs to be talked about, and you said exact words. Max Crosby just wrecks the entire thing.
Yeah, he's a huge asshole. I mean,

just

not having him on your team is one of those things. And I'm sure it's like how Ty felt with Micah.
Like, if you have one of those guys, it must feel great watching him because he's always there.

I mean,

the interception Drake May threw, who's there? Max Crosby in his face. The reason, you know, May can't step up is because Max Crosby's a freak of nature.

I mean, Will Campbell saw it, but if you're going to have a, you know, a rookie tackle out there, you're probably going to have a little bit of a problem when Max Crosby's there.

And then it's more so the extracurriculars, too. Like, hey, man, you don't got to be a prick.
You don't have to talk to him. No, he kind of does kind of expensive.
No, I know.

But when you're playing him, it's like, hey, dude, relax. Like, hey, we have, does he know Bubby Spillane's on the Patriots now? You know, he likes Bob Spillane.
I know he does, but then here we go.

He's basically, you know, getting in May's head. I wouldn't be surprised.
Was that on Netflix quarterback? Yeah, him and Mahomes

was actually talking about it. Like, this guy,

every time we play him, it's just got to be something every time. And they have respect for each other.
And it's almost as if Mahomes just knows this is how he is, and Max goes, ah, sorry. Yep.

It's just kind of the way it is. That's his style of football.

Perfect raider. It's amazing.
Geno Smith, perfect raider at this stage of his career.

Pete Carroll, perfect raider at this stage of his career, which is crazy to think about because he was the, hey, Will Farrell's coming by practice, USC guy.

Then he gets kicked out of Seattle and it's like, is Pete Carroll the perfect guy for this Las Vegas Raiders atmosphere and culture right now? Tom Brady, new ownership. He wanted to be a Raider.

John Gruden said, nah, we're going to stick with Derek Carr. Sorry about it.
So he's got a little chip on his shoulder as well.

It seems like a really, and then Chip Kelly sitting there, an offensive coordinator, has been a head coach before in the NFL, obviously with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Didn't go anywhere near how everybody planned, but he's still a damn good football coach.

Goes back into college with the Ohio State Buckeyes just as a coordinator, as as opposed to being a head coach like he was at UCLA, wins a national championship immediately.

It's like they got a lot of big brains over there and a lot of experienced dudes with chips on her shoulder. And Brock Bowers exists.
He's unreal. He's unbelievable.
It's like

and he's a dog. He is.
Brock Bowers is a very good tight end. We got one here, bro.

Tyler Ward.

Tyler Ward. He's on his heel.
He's this year's Brock Bowers, without a doubt. Yeah.

Wait, wait, we haven't seen Loveland play yet. True, true.
Michigan obviously created an incredible one in Loveland. Yeah, we've seen Caleb Butt.
No, we haven't.

No, we haven't.

My bad, my bad.

That's nine-year NFL. Darius J.
Butler. Debut.
Big story coming out of the weekend is not the Raiders being potentially back and Pete Carroll being the oldest winning head coach in NFL history.

And if he was to lose the game, he'd be the oldest losing head coach in NFL history.

He's the oldest coach in NFL history. Pete, you're a dog, dude.

Looks great. Looks great.
Still spinning it too. Still spinning it at training camp.

Him having to find this whole new motivation, I assume, wasn't that difficult.

But then whenever he gets kicked out, whenever he says, I fought for the job, he went in there for like an hour with his resume, all of his championships at every different level, everything he's accomplished, especially whenever he's been in Seattle and helped build that entire Seahawks place.

Him going in there for an hour and pitching for his job and then getting kicked out. Is that the first time Pete Carroll in a long time has been told, no, you're not good enough?

So then he's away and then he comes back. It's like, what a perfect storm brewing for that Raiders team.
And let's not even talk about Geno Smith. Same exact situation in multiple different stops.

He chooses to go to the Raiders over the Seattle Seahawks, but allegedly the contract offer that Seattle Seahawks gave was like not something that Geno Smith would ever take at this stage.

So it's like, maybe that type of motivation and drive is something that could bring them all together, debunch. Is that a storyline that's not being talked about?

Or what is something else you think that we should definitely chat about? I mean, I think that's definitely a good storyline, definitely potential there.

Raiders, they kind of always take on that mindset or that personality. It's them against everyone else.
So, you got guys, you know, from the head coach position on down who feel that way.

But let's see, biggest story for me. I mean, I got to start right here with the Colts.
Like, that was a big storyline in the offseason talking about the quarterback competition, Daniel Jones.

Could he be the next Sam Darnold? Could he be the next Baker Mayfield? Could he be the next Geno Smith?

Where you're finding your footing in a new spot, and you couldn't have asked for a better start for the team as a whole, offensively, of course, but defensively, even almost pitching a shutout with that explosive Miami Dolphins offense.

It was very, very impressive all the way around. You guys were actually in the building, so you felt the vibes, you felt the atmosphere.

We know it was for Jim for Boss Man as well, but it was just an amazing start for a fan base who has been yearning for this for a long, long time. Energy through the roof.
Yeah.

Energy through the roof in there. And also, new playlists.
Soundtrack. Yeah, we got new playlists in there.
New music. New DJs.
Yeah, and we're swag and surfing in there too a couple different times.

I mean, we are.

What's that Auburn video? A great video.

Yeah. The boys, the lads.
That song will hit forever. A lot of great videos this weekend from the college.
Mo Bamba. Mo Bamba will hit forever.
Awesome. Swag surf will hit forever.
Levels of V Chi

will hit. White Stripe Seven Nation Army.
We'll hit. We'll hit.
These are just things.

Storm.

Yeah, yeah. I think that is certainly in there.
Do host.

Do Haas Smith.

I don't know if Du Haas is carried over to the next generation, but if they were reintroduced to it i think they would uh they would certainly enjoy that yeah there's a couple songs that hit all the time that is one of them uh i appreciate the fact though that um tom brady's ownership uh is going to lead them winning yeah like of course you know and that's just kind of how it's a how it all goes and they're talking about how hands-on he is and he's talking about everything with everybody he's hands-on in there mark davis got to think to himself i'm a genius yeah yes he's got his little backpack on yep got his house built got his house built he's maybe got the irs off his his ass because he had him on them for a while.

And then all of a sudden he brings Tom Brady and Tom's like, how about for a very small percentage of this entire thing, I just kind of do everything I think you're supposed to do.

Mark Davis goes, sounds good. I can play Pokemon.

He's not playing Pokemon. If that's the case, you're a Tom.
I got to beat this new Pokemon.

Think about him being like some sounding board for Tom, though. Now, Tom, remember? Whenever my dad was Bubba Bubb or whenever I was a young owner, this whole thing happened.
What a great spot.

Is he that hands-on hands-on yet? I mean, because

we know offseason, we know Monday through Saturday, but we know his day job now where he's in the booth and he's on site with these other teams, you know, calling big time games.

So he's not, you know, he's not boots on the ground like Carly would have hit. Don't you worry.
He's not

going game day. He's not game day, no.
You know, he's not up in the Jerry Jones type suite.

So I do wonder how long can he, you know, stay in this role and if things, let's say, not aren't going great.

There I want to know right now, but let's say things start going not so good does he ever think i know he's getting paid a shit ton of money too to do his job but does he ever say you know what i am going to focus and keep the main thing the main thing and become more of a boots on the ground game day owner what is it 37 million a year or something like yesterday

37 three heads don't forget

he's getting better he's getting a lot he was really good like i listened to a good bit of his yesterday it was really good yeah we assume tom brady's gonna be good at everything yep uh being an owner in the nfl as well and thank you for bringing up

he's not boots on the ground with a headset on is it There's also a new tradition. I don't know if you knew what your owners do.
I don't know what everybody else's owners do.

Carly Ursay, she's running the length of the field one time before the game starts. Love it.
She wants to feel it. Wow.
That's what it's all about. I love it.
That's awesome. Sorry, what? That's it.

I mean, that's true. She gave a speech at halftime.
Awesome. She gave a speech at halftime.
The microphone was high because Peyton was talking. And she walks up, she goes, oops.

Like, he even acknowledges it, drops it down, just like so comfortable. Nice.
I'm telling you, I appreciate like they're very much accountability driven here like they are there's attention to detail

it is it very much is and i think everybody appreciates it actually i think like uh the cults the building the equipment managers the trainers the staff the marketing everybody like that like i think there's a a little bit more of like they're doing their way obviously but they've grown up in it so they literally know all these people that have worked in the cults since they're little kids so it's like hey how do i make your life easier also how do we do that it's like i think they're doing a great job legitimately and uh obviously I know them, but it's like, you can feel it.

Like, you can really feel, like, it feels like it is a little bit more of a,

I don't want to say a tightness, but a sense of urgency. Yeah.

There does feel like there's a sense of urgency. Like, change could be around a corner if we don't do our shit.
Like, it does feel like that from a crowd standpoint, from a team standpoint.

And the way they played certainly looks vastly different. Like a stern but fair almost.
Like, they don't want to go on to the next era.

Like, it's not like they, you know, are want steiching out or or Ballard out I don't it didn't feel like that was the vibe It's more so like hey you either win or you lose and then we have to do our job because your job's to win and you guys have been losing and our job is to basically make changes if you continue to lose and it didn't feel like there was a hey, you know third and five maybe Steichen's a little too nervous to call a certain play like it feels like they've empowered all the right people and that you know goes to the Raiders too.

Like sure Brady isn't boots on the ground, but that's why I hired Pete Carroll because he knows Pete Carroll has been through, you know, NFL seasons, has been through NFL seasons where you go all the way to the Super Bowl and knows how to manage that.

And that's probably why Tom doesn't, you know, feel the need. And then to your point about Pete Carroll, kind of, he's never really been kicked out of the building.

I believe probably the last time he got kicked out of the building was New England when he was the head coach in New England, which adds a whole nother thing to the weekend because I didn't think about that.

I think most people were thinking, hey, McDaniels, you know, he got kicked out of the Raiders building. This is great.
You know, he gets to come back in the NFL and this is his first game.

Whereas Pete Carroll is the real one that got kicked out. I think it was 96 before he went to USC.
Yeah, before he went to USC. Yeah, Vineteri was on that team, I think.
Bingo, yes. And then there are

Parcels for a second and then Belichick, I think. Yeah, all right.

He worked out of USC. They try to bring a lot of penalties on it.
He worked out. That's right.
And he goes to Seattle, worked out.

And then he gets to the Raiders after getting kicked out of Seattle and goes, just, you can kind of check. I don't want to be the one that says this, but I win.
That's what I do. I win.

I've done it for like 20 years. That's what I do.
I win. And it's like, I believe them.

And good on them. Having a great weekend.
Nobody has good a weekend as the Bills. Oh, no.
What a win for the Buffalo Bills in the fourth quarter.

Josh Allen puts on a Superman cape and does his thing in front of a home crowd that wasn't completely filled in the stadium. No, not at all.

Because they fell asleep about the same time that I did and said, we got to get out of here. We got work in the morning.
You know, Buffalo Bills, that's a working, that's a working world. That's it.

You know, it's late night. And you're going to play like this.
Okay.

I got to go to bed. I got to work in the morning.
Wow. These tickets don't pay for themselves.
Okay, they had to go do that. Wow.
Great fan base. It was late.
You got to be a quarterback.

That's a great fan base of football. It's week one.

Week one. I don't want to hear that it's late.
If it's week 12 and they're down and they already have 10 wins, fine, it's week one. Shut up and sit the fuck down and watch the game.

That's a Patriots fan. Okay, he's going to be jaded towards Bill.
All the bottles of people. That's a dolphins haircut.
He's going to be jaded towards Billy. I want to get out of there.

Speak to real quick. No way.
I like it. You much rather go home and hear, holy shit, we won 41.40 than to sit there and watch you beat 41.25.
Yes. You have Josh Allen.
You have Josh D.P. We won you.

We got Danny Don. I'm going to let you know I got out of here before that game ended.
Yeah, I got by 25. There's 12 minutes left.
You've seen your team lose with 13 seconds.

You don't think that you can just sit around for a little? Now, on that,

Bill's Moffe is going to show up and show out everywhere they go. Not true anymore? Yeah, it is true.
Not a Patriots fan, Dolphins fan.

But what Josh Allen did at the end of the night, obviously spectacular and a great way to kick off this NFL season as a whole is a primetime game. Hopefully Vikings Bears delivers tonight as well.

But Tone, nobody had as good of a weekend as Sportsbooks. Nope.
Sportsbooks started out swinging. They came out swinging.

I mean, there were some heavy, heavy bets, and seemingly all of them had red X's next to them. Tone.
How did the Sportsbooks do? And what does this mean for the rest of the season?

Yeah, let's just start just for the year as a whole in general. NFL week one, the top five most bet on teams went one and four against the spread.

College football week two, the top five bet on teams went one and four against the spread.

And then last week, college football week one, the top five bet on teams went 0-5 against the spread week one. So what is that? 2-13 to start the year for most five bet on teams per week.

So not a good start. And then what do people bet on? Overs or unders normally? Overs.
We like football.

Unders went 12 and three this weekend. So I would say a lot of people are getting kicked on the shins to start the year.

But I did see a lot of tickets on the internet last night. The Ravens-Bills games saved a lot of people because a lot of people were butting touchdowns, and they were like, oh, who's going to score?

Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, all those people scored. Let's go to the other half of the hammer.

Cowboys, Bubba Gumpino. Obviously, the Finns had you in misery at the Loudhouse Lucas Oil Stadium, but you hit a massive one last night, right?

Yeah, me and Connor had a little face time, put together a couple touchdown parlays.

We had Derrick Henry for two, Josh Allen for two parlay, and then I had a Kincaid, D-Hop, Lamar, and Josh Allen for three grand. Okay, gosh.
See you in the field. Oh, yeah.
It's a nice evening.

Nice evening.

Also, with these public.

Keep it private. Don't tell anybody.
Good job, bro.

You know, we throw those out there a lot, but again, when you're throwing out plus 100,000 bets, typically on a rare occasion, you're coming in pumped on Sunday.

But at some point, we have to remember, there will come a week where the public goes five of five. Yep.

And there'll be a 90% public bet that hits. Exactly.
And we don't know when it's going to be. It's not often, but it will at some point.
So if it looks too obvious, it might be.

Now, granted, on the other side of that, sports folks are throwing a lot of this is throwing some real heat right now.

People are very, very confident early in the year in what they think, even though they haven't seen anything yet, and they go hard on it.

And it turns out that, you know, a lot of these bad teams aren't as bad as people think, and a a lot of the good ones aren't as good as people think.

That's what Coach Saban said after his first game in Michigan State. The other coach's team came over to him after they lost 55.9.
He said, you're not as bad as you think.

He said, I remember that forever. And they weren't.
No. They certainly look terrible, though.
And I'll tell you what, speaking of looking not good, or as Rhys Davis said, ungood the other day.

Yes, he did. Got a pretty good pop out of me there.

Pet Ohio University Bobcat team with Navarro quarterback. Good team there.
That's good. Yeah, kids got a lot of players.

They might make the college football playoff that they should. They're a good team.
Defaro's a dog. They had us completely in shambles out there.
Electric atmosphere there, too. Electrifying.

A lot of West Virginia fans there. Yeah, but also a lot of Bobcats.
A lot of Bobcats. They made it really hard on us.
That's Mac, right? Mac? Yes. Ohio Bobcat.

Yeah. But they won.

They're Mac champions. I have a little respect.
They're Mac champions. I just want to know what.
These guys have won the title. The Ohio Bobcats are the Bama, okay, of the Mac.
It's not.

Right now, definitely. And there's a chance they make college football playoff.

There's a chance they make. At least they're in a conference, D-Butt.
Yeah.

This is true. This is true.

To be fair, West Virginia losing to Ohio,

not fun. That was not cool.
Next weekend was about to be electrifying. With that being said, still part of the process of building a hard edge.
Yeah, without a doubt. Lot turnover.

And also, Ohio University, really good team. Yeah,

if Syracuse would have beat Ohio University by seven,

I don't think Fran Brown has the boys running sprints.

They only beat UConn by seven. Fran Brown says, while these fans are in here, they need to know that we're not happy about this on the line.
That's what happens against UConn. Now,

West Virginia, there's... Oh, look at me.
I'm a tough coach. I'm going to run my team after the game in their pants.

We pissed down our leg. We should have won that game.
We had it all game long, tricked it off. But yeah, this is cute.
I'm glad you lost some practice time. Yeah, what are you guys talking about?

Did you guys ever have to do this? No.

Okay, okay. That's not really.
Not in the NFL. I mean, like at West Virginia.

No, no, no, it's not real.

It's not even high.

I would high-figured, yes, for Rich Ron at some point. I like the Fran Brown said.
You were either coaching or a lot.

He drove. I like Fred Brown, too, but

he said there was just, it's my job to make these guys the best men they could possibly be. His promo was actually like,

these dudes are going to be fathers. They're going to be husbands.
And I can't let them slide on, yada, yada. It was like a really good speech afterwards.
And I was like, all right, I respect that.

And then I watched the video again. I'm like, those guys, I don't know if that point's going to get across in that moment.

I don't know if that's going to be the case. Joining us now.
ladies and gentlemen, is college football national champion and Super Bowl champion and a rider cup winner, A.J. Hawk.

AJ, you ever run sprints after a game while the folks are still in the stadium? No, I cannot say I have.

Maybe in like fifth grade, I think we did a couple of times when the coach was really pissed, but it's usually after a loss. You usually don't win in grandstand on him at Sprint.

Well, if you only beat UConn by seven. Grandstand, yep.
That's exactly. Wow.

Run some hard 20s here, right? Yeah, but it looks like some of them are only running 15, so we didn't get a point across. You know, we finished it through the line anyways.

Is anybody starting off sides? I assume somebody they're rolling start left center there about L5, L4.

Do you appear to have a lot of snaps? There are some luck. Who scored the game winner? Because whoever scored the game winner touched him.

I assume the offensive line is going to be somewhere in the back of

Peanut Fighter and Jelly. Steve Angeli, who scored the game winner, potentially.
He's the dog. Syracuse.
OT, right? Orange, obviously. OT? Overtime.
Yeah, yeah.

Syracuse, Orange, and the Freeman Brown era have been good. Have been good.
Will they continue to get better after this? And AJ, maybe more teams need to start throwing this. We'll see.
We'll see.

Dan Campbell. Didn't Dan Campbell, when he became the interim head coach of Miami, didn't something happen? He had him doing one-on-one.
He did like

Oklahoma drill for a long time. I think Dave.
Pregame, right? And sprints, I think. I think he had him doing sprints in practice, and I think there was like Oklahoma's in a pregame.

It was like week 13. Their season was already over, and all this stuff was happening.

That was the only coach's suggestion, I think. Yeah, there was a, yeah, there was something.
Oh, yeah.

He was juiced up. Let's get fired up today, boys.
All right, let's talk about the Detroit Lions since we are kind of just slowly, easily transitioning into that situation.

Obviously, the Packers are a team, okay?

Micah Parsons comes in there, 40-some percent of the snaps, gets a sack at the end, obviously has a new celebration, opens up for everybody. Jordan Love looked good.
Defense looked good.

Lambeau was electrifying.

And the Detroit Lions, somebody that you thought you'd be competing with the NFC North with, obviously, seemingly going to have a little bit of a tough start to this new coordinator era that they have over there.

What is your big takeaway as the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, AJ Hawk? I mean, my takeaway is this Packers defense.

Obviously, the offense did everything they needed to win, but this defense was awesome. I mean, we know the impact Micah had, but I think everybody else stepped up.

And it's easy to say, oh, Micah opens it up for all these other guys. And yeah, he definitely does.

But I think it brought everyone on the defense like it brought him up to another level and Micah barely even played. So imagine when Micah is actually a huge part of the game plan.

But man, Edger and Cooper, Quay Walker, like these, these guys can fly all over the place on the Packers defense. I love watching them play.
What do you think about Jordan Love?

What do you think about the team as a whole? Do you think there was good situational management out of the floor? Do you think the dominating win, that was a strike right there?

He threw a couple of those over this middle that were obviously thrown to a spot, not to a person, thrown to a spot, and his receivers went and got it. Showed incredible arm talent.

What do you think about everything else about managing and handling the game? Oh, I thought it was great. I mean, especially week one, that's all you you can ask for.

Sometimes it can get clunky and can not look as crisp as you want it to, but I think, especially with how young they are, we hear them talk all the time how young the roster is, but the fact that they look good.

And I mean, just I'm a bit biased. I was in Green Bay for nine years, but Green Bay, like when the sun is setting, when it looks like this, the setting, everything about it, it's a magical experience.

I think that came through the TV. Like, it would have been an awesome day to be at Lambeau.
I think so, too.

And it sucks for the Lions fans who've had such a high for the past couple of years that they're maybe going to go through another little transition phase here as you're trying to recycle everything.

Go ahead, D. AJ's point, man.

That Packers defense, that was the thing I was most impressed about because when you think about Lions football, you think about them starting, I know Flashy, Gadgets, golf makes great throws, but you think about the line of scrimmage and been there to run the ball.

They could not run the ball at all from the beginning. I think Gibbs ended up like 20 yards rushing to be.
And then Gibbs had, I think, 10 catches for like 31 yards.

That lets you know how these guys are flying around, attacking, tackling, getting guys to the ground, not allowing a bunch of yaks.

So, Jeff Hafley, the job that he's done on that defensive side of the ball, Jordan Love has been a very good quarterback for a couple of years now.

Matt LaFleur, we know who he is offensively as far as play calling goes. But this defense, man, they showed up and showed out for sure.
Week one, yeah, worrying about the run defense.

There was a stat from NFL Pro after the game. It said of the Lions 22 carries, 16 of them, the Packers hit them in the backfield.
That's crazy.

Like, so that, and which is like in year, I mean, the last game, last year, late in the season, you know, it was in Detroit, close game, but that, like, the Lions kept going for it on fourth down, kept getting it.

They rushed for 250. I think Gibbs and Montgomery both had over 100.

So, yeah, hearing all this stuff about Micah can't play the run, like, and just the Packers in general, and then for them to come out and have that type of performance, it was incredible.

Let's stay in the NFC. Jaden Daniel was a real deal.

Hey, this guy, the sophomore slump, I don't think so. I don't think there's going to be one of those for Jaden on the run, on a dime, in rhythm, on time.

I mean, everything yesterday looked like they just picked up right where they left off for the commanders.

Cliff Kingsbury, obviously another year there, could have maybe interviewed for some head coaching jobs, decides to stay. Debo Samuel gets a tud in his debut with the Washington Commanders.

AJ, it looks like they're not just a flash in the pan. Looks like this is for real over in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland area.

Yeah, I feel like, especially with that Ertz touchdown early, you know, like, all right, these guys, they must be feeling feeling pretty good about themselves.

How about Bobby Wagner leading the team in tackles still? Like, this dude's been playing forever at the highest level.

Like, I love watching these guys, Devin White with the Raiders, all these, I know I'm not talking about the Raiders right now, but I'm thinking of these older veteran linebackers that are playing very well.

Debo, you know, they wanted to get Debo going early because if not, they have to answer questions. Hey, how are you going to work Debo into this offense?

What do you do with all the talent you have around him? And they had a nice little balanced mixture. So

Cliff is feeling himself a little bit, I think, as a play call right now. And Mike, the question for me is, like, we knew the offense was going to be pretty good.
The defense only gave up six points.

Like, the defense was always going to be the question. Yes, they have Bobby Wagner, who is one of the greatest linebackers of all time, but they're older.

Six points to a Giants team who, yes, has offensive question marks, but six points to any NFL team is a great defensive performance.

And I thought that was like, that was questions answered on the defensive side. Yeah, Russ was 17 for 37.
Yes. I don't, you know, whatever you think about Russia, he's a good quarterback.

He's been around for a long time. They named him a starter for a reason.

We'll see how long he actually starts but yeah to hold a quarterback 17 to 37 is tough getting uh um uh samuel uh debo involved early on was a big deal was a little off with terry mclaurin which we kind of expect it was a deep shot that he kind of overthrew him on but you can tell it was still good vibes there and jaden is just he's a great lasers dude yeah lasers in the pocket outside of the pocket and when he takes off the run he is so fast like he was like jogging past some of these linebackers and dbs they're cooking up something special up there in dc for sure and having that rookie running back, Wild Bill Krosky-Merritt over 22.

We saw him go in there in one of the early highlights and go nuts after his first career touchdown, but it feels like they didn't have a consistent run game.

You know, we've talked a lot about Brian Robinson Jr. and he was great.
But I mean, he was averaging eight yards a pop and he's extremely fast and can catch the ball out of the backfield.

Like before it was Brian Robinson Jr., power, and then maybe Eckler, kind of that more out-of-the-backfield guy.

This Bill Krosky-Merritt dude seems to have both of them, and he is unbelievable and has a great name. Wow, Bill is certainly a good nickname.
Bengals do something that's never been done before.

Yeah, yeah. Really? Completed episode.
Got to win. Yep.
Got a win. Amen.
Yep. And I guess the Browns did what I guess

have done.

Yeah, they can do that. The Browns have done.
Cincinnati Bengals should have lost to the Cleveland Browns, but instead they squeak out of there somehow with a win.

Cincinnati Bengals get their first win to open a season in a long time. Boom.
But none of them are saying it was a good game.

AJ, how's Ohio feeling about this battle of ohio and cleveland seemingly browning all over themselves yes you are correct so i am uh i am surrounded by bengals and browns fans both and a lot you know they're both everyone's diehard like family fans whether bangles or browns where i'm at and the browns fans are all saying yeah here we go it's just same old browns it's kind of what we do this is how this is what happens to us and the bangles fans are saying that's a great great gritty week one

we found a way to win

i would certainly spin it that way as well and if i'm uh zach over there I'm trying to spin that to the case as well. Tough game.

Tough game got out of it. We've won with a win.
It's going to be tough.

Always going to get an AFC North win. This is Ohio.

It's always going to be tough. And also, we got a lot to go through.
I mean, seven yards of offense in the second half and still win somehow. That's crazy.
And

the Cleveland Browns fans are just

incredibly athletic.

To that point, New DC over there. So congrats to them having a great game.
And congrats to us having Lou Ann Arumo.

I am so thankful that he is with the Indianapolis Colts, which leads to the next conversation, AJ.

Yeah.

Say it. It's real.

I followed along your excitement on Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it. Yep.
Yeah.

I mean,

the Colts are early leaders in the clubhouse to win the Super Bowl, I would say. Let's not overreact.

Okay.

It's only a second quarter of the first game. Pretty level-headed.

Thank you.

You're not the only ones. Austin Colley, okay? He's now a money manager.
Okay. Level-headed individual.
Has to be. He quotes me and sisters and say, nope, it's not overreaction.

We are winning the Super Bowl. It looked different.
It really did. And I know everybody else's angle is, wow, these Dolphins are the worst team ever.
And that might be true. I hope not.

I don't think it is. I hope it's not for the sake of the Indianapolis Colts.
That is literally why I hope that.

But if the Miami Dolphins are a professional football team, which we assume they will be,

at some point, we assume they will be. The Colts look so good in all facets.
I mean, just no punts, obviously. Great coverage.
Hey, Schrader hit some monster field goals.

Spencer Schrader, our kicker this year, is going to be very, very good for us, I think. He needs to work on those kickoffs.
So, hey, Bob, let's go. We need to work on those kickoffs.
A lot of people.

But, hey, the kickoff is a new weapon. That 35-yard line start is tough, but also you can't just chip it to the 10 or the 11 and have them start at the 11 either full speed.

That's not a like getting good at those kicks is a big deal. Schrader has such a strong leg.
I think he's going to be good at that.

And I think if you're good at that, I think it's going to win a game. I think it's going to win a playoff game personally.
I think it's going to win a big game.

This whole landing zone situation, drive start average conversation. But the Colts looked very good, AJ.
Bynum, he's the guy. This guy is the guy, AJ.
The defense looked unbelievable.

Hey, also, I mean, I have a hard time not talking about Tyler Warren. There's a baldy breakdown already on Tyler Warren.
We know that. This guy is killing it.

But if the Colts can put this together, didn't they already say, hey, there's new sheriffs in town, right? Here we go.

We are back.

It's a different world now. We have, you know, we're going to lock it down the back end.

Any great defense when the DBs, like the safeties and corners, when they are playing at a super high level, and I like when they're outspoken, too. You got to have a little bit of ego about you.

You got to be very, very confident as a DB. And I feel like the Colts are doing that right now through week one.
Now, AJ, the reason why I

wanted you to highlight the defense is because of how damn great you were at defense in the NFL. You know, player, professional.
Yeah, that's right.

National champion player. National champion and Super Bowl champion player.
Want to do that?

But also, because we had a chance to catch up with Danny Dimes earlier today, and we talked a lot about the offense.

I think he's going to come across as a guy that's charming, funny, funny, and like a bro.

I know he had an NFL record. You know, he was historic there for a bit until Josh Allen had the fourth quarter that he had.

But Danny Dimes, Indianapolis, we get a chance to catch up with him this morning, fresh out of a massive win.

Mr. Dimes, what up, dude? Yo, what up? How are we doing? Hey, we're great.
Hey, we are great don't you ever don't you worry about that we are in a great spot um

first of all congratulations

thank you uh we're gonna get right into it here uh whenever you came to indianapolis i had the incredible opportunity to have a little dinner with you and uh one of the greatest auteurs of all time mr berg and uh it was very evident when I was speaking to you that you liked this Indianapolis Colts team.

I think like you had heard about maybe me having some beef with the the locker room or whatever. And I said, Yeah, I just don't know if we got dogs.

You started rattling off names immediately on the offensive side that you liked and on the defensive side that you liked. And obviously, there was a competition with you and Anthony Richardson.

It was very public, but it felt like you all handled it perfectly. At what moment did you feel like, hey, this could be a really good home for me in my style of play with Shane Steichen?

Was that immediately? Is that why you signed here? Or was there like a time throughout this entire process where you really felt that?

I think I had a good idea,

you know, making the decision to come here. There's a lot, a lot here.
Like you said, a lot of good pieces, a strong, strong team, strong up front, strong in the skill positions.

And then, yeah, you know, Shane's system, what he does, the moving the quarterback, the RPO game, the drop back game, you know, all that stuff, I think, was something I was excited to be a part of.

And probably sometime during camp, you kind of felt it coming together and getting more and more comfortable with all this stuff. But,

yeah, I've enjoyed working with him I uh we didn't see a lot of positive whenever you're named the starter and for Colts fans it's because since luck retired we've been searching for a quarterback so whenever you spend the number four overall pick on a guy who has immense upside everybody was hoping that that was going to be our guy then in comes Danny Dimes okay from the New York Giants and then a stop with the Minnesota Vikings and it's like Colts fans I think naturally were hoping that the number four overall pick would win the job but instead everybody that was watching said you clearly were the leader of that team.

Did you hear all the outside noise, the reaction? I mean, the athletic put out a poll that was like, what, 93% negative or something? Internet pollers were 93%. Now, I didn't vote on that.

I would have been optimistic.

Yeah, yeah, I'm on your side. I would be on your side.
But that was like a real thing. Did you hear that? Did you feel that? And how do you kind of distract all or keep away from all that?

I did not know about the poll, but I mean, I definitely realized

the public, the media, the press

is not in my favor, has not been in my favor, and

that's part of it. We didn't win enough games in New York, and I didn't play well enough, so that comes with it.
But,

you know, I think you're aware of it. You know, at this day and age,

you can't completely block it out, but you try to as best you can and stay focused on what you're doing. So that's what I tried to do.
And I think,

you know, I think the team does a good job of that here.

You know, just kind of focusing on football and what's the most important. I love what you guys did yesterday.

Okay, I was talking to some people in the building that I know, and I'm like, how do we feel? Nobody really knows anything about your team. The only thing is the negative drama.

Oh, there's a bunch of bullshit going on. So I asked some guys in the building, you know, over the past couple of days because there was a lot of events happening for Mr.

Ursay going into the ring of honor. Shout out to you getting a big-time dub for him.
And that day being absolutely perfect. But everybody in the building is like, hey, we got a team, man.
Like,

we got a really good team. We should kill the Miami Dolphins.

That is what was being said by the people that aren't football players or coaches, but people in the building is like, hey, we have a good team. Yesterday was awesome.

It's the first time that the first three drives have been scoring drives since 2006 to start a season for the Indianapolis Colts.

Obviously, we lost 11 straight season openers, and then just the vibe in that building was just positive, literally from the jump.

At what point did you think, hey, our offense can kind of do whatever we want to do right now? And at what point during camp did you know that the defense was going to be legit?

Cam Bynum, obviously, has a massive day. DeForest Buckner does his thing.
Zaire's getting tackles all over the place and penalties.

But whenever we talk about the Colts, it's very rare that we talk about a dominant defense. And it felt like they were that yesterday.
In camp, you knew that was going to be the case.

When did you really see this defense being real?

I would say pretty early on, you know, the first three or four days of camp, to be honest, I'd say they got after us pretty good on defense.

You realize they were, you know, and that's kind of sometimes the way it is with offense and defense clicking and sometimes, you know, how that works during camp.

But they were from the jump, they were making plays. You could see the guys all over the field.
And, you know, what Lou does on defense, I think, is tough for a lot of offenses. He's got pressures.

He's got different coverages. He's got all, you know, kind of mix it up on

guys and keep them guessing. But they got a lot of playmakers over there.
I think we realized that pretty quick early on in camp.

That was Leatu Latu, number first-round pick, who's a pass rusher, dropping into coverage out of nowhere.

There's no way. Yeah, Chris Ballard laughing while I'm saying that because of how offensive heavy that particular draft was, but him dropping into coverage like Tua, never.

I don't think that guy was ever in coverage last year.

I don't think there was one time where he was 10, 15 yards off the ball and then snags that thing out of the sky. It's like, that was awesome.
They were hunting.

You guys were methodically moving that ball down the field. And that is something that we have not had a lot of opportunity to celebrate.

There's always been flashes, but there's never been like sustained success on the offensive side of the ball. Feels like the run game's great.
Feels like you got weapons outside.

You spinning it better than you've ever spun it in your life, or do you think you just don't get enough credit for how you throw?

I feel like I'm throwing it well.

I don't know. I mean, I think,

you know,

it's about where you throw it. And,

you know,

I feel like I'm throwing it well and how much credit I'm getting for it. I don't know.

I don't really think too much of that. We got a lot of open guys.
We had time to throw.

It was fun yesterday, but good start for us. We got to keep it rolling, though.
And let's talk about that guy, Tyler Warren. He is a hospital.
They were showing him during the National Panthem.

He's a dog, yes. It appears we saw him get definitely concussed.
Without a doubt.

Against Penn State, against Notre Dame. Yes.
So cold. His head through the turf, like a full whip through the turf.

And he just got his ass right up and just jogged right back on the field and continued to make plays. And when he showed his face in a national anthem, he's a Sasquatch.

He's hairy and he is a Sasquatch. And then he gets on the field.
He's a playmaker. He might be the best player in all football.
Go ahead, Tom. Yeah, Mr.

Dimes, I saw he was your leading target getter yesterday. I think with nine, he had seven catches.

Is it just like impossible not to look down the field and be like, oh, that 6-8 guy has a mismatch against everyone on the field?

Pretty much. Yeah, he's

a heck of a player,

tough as crap, and always makes the play. I think you just feel for space.
I mean, you see on some of these highlights, he's feeling where the defense is, the overlap.

He's feeling the space underneath and settling down the right spot. This play right here, he catches it immediately, gets upfield, and gets 12 yards on a play that should be a minus two play.

You know, I think stuff like that, that,

you know, it's just instinct. It's a football player stuff.

He's just a good football player. Yes, he is.
Yeah, they even go off doing

a little bit of a draw, a little bit of dive at fullback.

Go ahead, pal. I do remember, hey, Dan, great, great game yesterday.
I just want to ask about the game plan specifically. I know every week to week, the matchup is going to be different.

What type of input do you have with Shane when it comes to game planning-wise?

Because to me, from the start, it was very evident that you guys wanted to use your arm and open up, be a pass heavy, at least early on in the offense.

So what's that input like throughout the week with Shane while you're putting it together?

Yeah, we communicate a lot, try to watch, you know, watch a lot of tape. And, you know, it's him, it's Jim Bob, it's Tanny.
All those guys are putting together the plan in the pass game.

The guys up front do a great job with the run games. So, you know, I'm, you know, when I have an idea, you know,

talking through it and seeing what they think. But,

you know, it's, yeah, it's been a collaborative process. I think we saw some things we thought we could do in the past game,

you know, and a lot of those things converted. But I thought we had a really good plan going in.
The guys up front, I think when you look at that defense, it's a strong front.

You know, they got good edge rushers, good guys inside, and we knew that would be,

you know, a big part of the game. The guys up front, our guys handled them, handled them really well.
Great run game yesterday. The dimes-dive era is in full effect.

It is hundred percenter okay no questions asked let's go there's actually we get down into the red zone again for his second dimes dive touchdown right here and uh the first time we get stuffed okay and i'm literally screaming to shane who is 30 yards away from me on the sideline just call it just give it to him just do the dimes dive it is you're bigger stronger and faster than anybody thinks legit and also it feels like you tell shane steichen hey i want to get a helmet to helmet hit okay at some point, I need a helmet to helmet hit a little bit earlier.

This is bullshit that it did not get out of here.

Yes,

you did.

You kind of came out of nowhere. Yeah, I thought I had a little more space than I did, but that was a good like

welcome to the season hit right there.

Yeah, it was five yards. It was like 10 yards in front of us.
Foxy actually got like a great shot of it on his camera. 4K of you just getting absolutely obliterated.
That's from the dimes dive.

So there was a time of you just getting absolutely absolutely obliterated in that call. No call, no nothing.

It's like any other quarterback in the league other than rookies, probably getting that call.

Yeah. Instead, all we get is dimes just going, oh shit, tighten that thing up and just jogging away.
Tighten that thing up. That's right.
Yeah, it was, it was awesome, man.

It was a lot of fun to watch.

A lot of people saying that your journey is potentially why you are the quarterback that you are right now.

And we've seen this with other guys in the past where they have to go somewhere and then they end up finding a home. I want to let you know this feels like a great place for you, brother.

And it was fun to watch. A lot of shit to do left, okay? Hey, you haven't won shit, okay?

But

yeah, with that being said, there is that was yesterday's buzz was awesome in that building. Go ahead, Convan.

Yeah, Danny, we talked to Kevin O'Connell a lot, and when we have him on, he was raving about you last year and just about when you joined the team, how big of a pro you were, and things of that nature.

What did you take away from Minnesota that you've kind of carried into the offseason and now week one? Because, I mean, shit, you said it.

That was the best you've thrown the ball, is the best you feel like you've thrown the ball.

You were unbelievable yesterday. Watching that Colts game was that was the best game that that stadium has seen years of Colts in all along.
Brother,

listen, I don't want to stress this too much with Connor. We're standing in that stadium.
It was a great time. It was crazy.
Yeah. The whole time.
Usually it's like, oh,

you got to drum up a little bit of energy. That place was like in Bynum, we're talking every play.
Oh, yeah. By Bynum is every single play like this.
Love that. It was.
How about that?

How about that dance, huh? Can you do that dance? No, I can't.

I can't. I'm not explosive enough.
I'm not explosive enough.

The ending of that dance is actually pretty crazy after the kip-up. Yeah.
And then into the

can you do, can you do it, though? Yeah, do you try that? Absolutely not. No, no, no, no.
No, I don't think so. I didn't see any cool dances out of you yesterday.
Not yet.

I'm not much of a dancer. Really?

You're going to score 32 touchdowns this year, so Bynum should probably give you a couple celebration ideas. I'm sure you guys can collab a little bit.

You should do the whitest, most Caucasian thing of all time after maybe you just shake the hand of the ref and just hit the ball and then just walk it away. But let's talk about KOC a little bit.

How much was the Vikings like

a confidence booster for you, maybe, or a reset for you? How do you kind of view that? And how do you view KOC?

Yeah, I think just being around, being around Kevin, being around Josh McCown, Grant Udensky, those guys there,

I learned a lot from them. I think the biggest thing I took away from there was just the preparation, how detailed they were in the game plan,

you know, how much they

prepared for certain looks, checks they had, motions to undress the defense, you know, every little thing they were going over, they were talking through, they were walking through, they were, you know, discussions about, it was, you know, know, very, very detailed, high-level.

Here's what we're expecting, here's what we're going to do to it.

You know, and the preparation day-to-day throughout the week was really impressive to me, just the level of detail that they had.

So, yeah, I think being around those guys and seeing that, being able to

watch Sam prepare and how they prepared him to me was really impressive. I love that you brought it here.

It's everything we need here.

That is literally everything we absolutely need. The building loves you too, man, which is a cool thing.
I think you're just like,

especially when we had Peyton, Andrew, you know, and obviously you with Peyton, the Mannings coaches, coach

there, yeah, and all the ties on draft night and everything like that. It's like you just felt like very much in command, felt like nothing was too big.
Everybody obviously respected you.

And you got dropped in here in obviously an interesting situation personally for you. I couldn't even imagine what it would be like with everything going from New York City all the way to Minnesota.

Then you come to Indy, win the starting job after multiple teams wanted you. And all you, obviously, you didn't hear this, so I'm breaking the bad news to you now.

Everybody was like, that's a bad decision. That is not how it goes.
It's like having to do all that, man. And then for you still to just be like...

almost, I don't want to say bulletproof, but unfazed by it, that's a special trait that only NFL starting quarterbacks have. So we're very lucky that you're here.
I appreciate it.

On that note, this place is going to love you for a long time. I also have like four houses floating around.
If you need anything, go ahead and talk. There you go.

Yeah, Daniel, you've been in Indianapolis for a couple months now.

Are you starting to kind of realize like, wow, this really isn't that much different than New York City in terms of stuff to do, restaurants, you know, nightlife, all that kind of stuff.

But honestly, and not saying you were doing all that shit when you were in New York, but when you get to a place like Indianapolis, does it kind of make it easier to realize like, oh, okay, like I can just focus on football because even if I'm not doing all that other stuff, like those distractions just aren't here unless you want to go to like a movie and go to McDonald's.

It's a little bit different than a Saturday night in New York. Yeah.

Yeah, you know, I think,

yeah, it is in a lot of ways.

It's about football here, but the people have been great. I've really enjoyed being here and,

you know, getting to know a lot of these fans and the people in the area, but very different feel from being in New York and right across from the city for sure. But I've enjoyed it.

It's about ball here, and we got a team that kind of all thinks the same way. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Fan basically thinking the same damn thing.

Yeah, we'll let you know that. We appreciate the hell out of you.
Good luck the rest of the way. And remember,

week one doesn't mean a damn thing, does it? That's right. We got a lot of things.

One and out, baby. Unless you're.

Yeah.

I mean, week one means a lot for the Dolphins fans. And I think that's not being talked about enough is how good you guys are.
Like, I think that is kind of missing in conversation.

We We can't wait to watch it. You're the man.
Ladies and gentlemen, Danny Don. Yay! Appreciate it.
Hey, baby, Danny.

Oh,

Dan. Oh, I'm serious about selling him a house.

He's in his seventh year. Is that what it is? Yes.
Yeah, I think he's in his seventh year.

Quarterbacks definitely have 17-year careers.

Talk about a decade here, maybe. You're talking about maybe just owning this role and this job for these Indianapolis Colts.
And

it was awesome, dude. I'm telling you, I don't want to say overreact.
Okay. I don't want to do that.
Might have been underreacting, to be honest.

We'll see how the story kind of plays out in its entirety. Everything looked good.
His throws were like, he was throwing the spots.

You know, he was very much having great chemistry with his wide receivers, which make you wonder, like, if he would have got all the reps in training camp, how much further would we?

Are we only at the beginning of this entire relationship? Because he was in a competition, so he was only getting half the amount of reps, half the amount of everything.

It's like it feels like as you're watching it and it's all going well, it's like we're at the very beginning of this.

This is still, there's still so much room to grow, and I think that's possible for us. That's how a lot of fans feel.
Obviously, after week 116, fan groups feel that way. Other than maybe,

nah, Cincy for sure. Cincy, yeah, but he just said gritty win.

And plus, you know, like you know, they're gonna be all right. You got Joe Burrow you got Jamar Chase, you got T, like they're gonna score points.
But for the Colts, I think we didn't know.

i think i think colts fans had no idea what it was going to look like and then we see it and we're like wait this is much better than what we've been seeing over the last five years this might be the gardener minshew

love

love garter minshew sure garner minshew almost took the indianapolis colts to an afc south championship and to the playoffs one play away he should garner minshew was in the pro bowl with this shane steichen offense and it was like we've seen that and i think what yesterday was was way better than that team way better than all shane steichen got the head coaching job because he's this offensive guru.

He's this wizard. He's able to do things.
And it's like Daniel Jones, I think, understands the offense and he's making the checks and putting him in the right play, making the right decisions.

It's like this offense has been unlocked. And then let's not even talk about Lou Ann Arumo coming over here with weapons.

Lou Anarumo, when he was with the Bengals, they didn't really invest in any defensive players, invest in many of anything.

But Lou Ann Arumo, Paison Greatness, they've invested in players for him on the defensive side. Top picks on that defensive side of the ball.
A lot of money on that defensive side of the ball.

So, although the national narrative might have been negative, and I guess there were some online fans that were voting negative, if you watched this team over the last couple of years, you'd think there's good players.

Jim Merce spent a lot of money on this team.

There's a lot of good players on this team. Just for whatever, it looked like they unlocked that.

It did, and it didn't look, you know, gimmicky. Sometimes you can look at the score, okay, you got a tip ball here or a strip sec, somebody picked a block punt, you score.

Like, it was just full operation. And we knew the weakness coming in for this Dolphins defense was definitely in the secondary.

So, when you have a team and you have an offense, they can say, okay, they got a weak secondary, we got good weapons, let's see if we have a good quarterback.

And you go out there and actually execute, and the quarterback has a complete understanding of the offense. He was comfortable from the beginning.

Coming into the season, it was like, okay, Dan Jones, take care of the ball, run the football defense. You guys play great.

But when you have, when you come out here and you have a start like this, now who knows what the Dolphins go on to be. Maybe they are just a shitty, shitty, shitty team.
Maybe it was all time.

But maybe 1972, only undefeated team. And maybe 2025, only 17-game, completely defeated team.
Possible.

16 teams, it's possible.

But you can respond to it to a set. Hey, how do we respond? And we all remember that blowout when the Broncos got 70 put on them by the Dolphins, and then they responded.

So we'll see how they respond. It's a long season, but love what we saw from the Colts.

And then you mentioned Chris Ballard finally opening that checkbook and going getting some big-time players, going to get one of the top safeties on the market, Cam Bonham, going to get Ward, big-time cornerback in the league for a long long time you see a guy like kenny more when you have players like that around you now you can play better nick cross got involved he got a nice sack on so yeah uh look big lou bringing his defense here with these new weapons he's he's having a fresh start because they ran him out of sentence he as well like loved everything i saw from this coach team in all phases well and that's the thing too like you can say the dolphins defense isn't good for sure the dolphins offense is good like they have tyree kill who was voted the number one player two years ago they have waddle who they paid.

They have A-chan, who's good. Tua, he's been paid.
Now, did people figure out the Mike McDaniel gimmick bullshit? There's a chance because

everyone's running.

There's a chance. Everyone's running the stuff to the left and to the right, but more so with the Colts.
They never melted, which was nice.

Like, we've seen the Colts play well in spurts, like a quarter or a half, but then they shit down their leg. Then they call some gimmick bullshit that doesn't work.

And it's like, okay, well, what the hell are you doing, Steichen? There's no point to do shit like this. Like, that didn't exist, which was nice.

It just feels like the gimmick maybe screw up shit down. They're like, and maybe that is a Dan Jones thing where Dan Jones isn't going to, you know, try and break it.

He looked like he didn't have a pulse yesterday. Yeah.
You know how Tomlins said about Boz being a serial killer?

That's how Danny Dimes scored that touchdown, like super fought, like fought through it. Then just like got up, all right, and then just like head-butted all his teammates.

Good work, boys, and just jogged off the field. It was like getting a play call late or whatever, just no worries.

Introduced.

They were introduced as a team. It wasn't offense or defense introductions.
It was team introductions. I said, hold the phone.
Yeah, that's what I said. That was my exact thoughts.

And I don't think I realized it was happening. No.
So the team normally runs out first to create the tunnel for everybody else. You know, the other half, whoever's not starting.

And then they do the intros. First game day ops, new video, sick, sick video.
New game ops. Everything's very good.
And then the team comes running out i

you know the lucas whole motorcycle comes flying out there with a sidecar i didn't know that's like it's like a prize it's a new person in sidecar it makes sense in a way you got blue doing the entire thing then big portion of the colts come out okay and it's like all right now what are they doing for the starters and i saw uh

I think I saw Zaire sprint out. I was like, okay, so the offense must be getting introduced or whatever.
And I even look at Boston Conner. I go, is Danny Dimes getting introduced last?

Or is Jonathan Taylor? It's got to be Jonathan Taylor. We all agreed, got to be Jonathan Taylor.
Then we look out and we start seeing like offensive linemen that we know running and it's like,

they just introduced a whole yup. Love everything about

it.

Go ahead. We got a flyover?

Two of them.

Roof was open? Roof open. Yeah, that looks good.
Same scoreboard or not? Fun stat. Same scoreboard.
Fun stat flyover is insane. Always awesome.
Always going to hit. Love everything about it.

Two of them F-18s, I do believe, coming over here. Thought they were going to come length upfield.
Same. We all thought they were going to come.

I thought connor missed it actually because they came across and he was under a little bit of a little bit of a hangover but whatever the case i got lucky i actually like was looking for the vertical but it only lasted a second because it was just the horse size yeah and by the way they slashed that thing nice

you could hear them homing in in the eastern church choir from the

national they were there they did the national anthem from the screen i go oh shit this is the uh this is from the funeral they are very good yes and they made a great jim urse video tribute video that Tony Dungian.

It was very good. But the team getting introduced was awesome.
Yes, and the roof and the window were open. You know, Jim Merce.

And I learned that the night before from Pete Ward, who's been the president of the Colts for a long time. Came over.

I believe him and Jim, actually, their first year working for the Baltimore Ravens, they shared an office at training camp, you know. And he was like scared to death that he was with the owner's son.

And what happened is they end up becoming like brothers. And Pete Ward has been with Jim.
through absolutely everything. And Pete Ward has had to handle everything.

You know, like this is, this is real deal deal here, how long Pete's been around. And he told me Saturday night, there was a little gathering downtown, a couple of cocktails.

It was good to see everybody. Pete comes up to me.
He goes, you know, the window and roof are going to be open tomorrow. And I go, you love that shit, Pete.
That's why I said to him.

He goes, did you know your average was longer whenever the roof and the window were open than whenever it was closed? And I said, no way.

He goes, I looked it up because of everything you would say to me whenever I would tell you that we were either opening it or closing it.

And I said,

who helped you? And he goes, yeah, I looked up every single game. I said, well, how is Vinny's field goal stats? Because I'm fighting for the team, not just myself.

You know, I'm mad for Vinny as well. And he goes, well, I didn't look that up.
I don't look you up. But next time I see him, I bet he's going to go, Adam Vinatari.

94%

with the window.

It was amazing. Yeah.
It's like celebrating the Ursae.

family in the Colts this weekend was cool because it's such a small group of people that are really doing it. And they've all been around for so long.

and listening to them talk about this particular team it's cool it is like a very very cool thing to hear how not only how carly kaylin and casey who they've all known since they were very young how they've just like taken over and they've kind of had to be put in a position that they knew was coming for a long time yeah but like actually having to do it the way they're operating it's like Vibes are immaculate right now around the Colts.

Like Peyton Manning gave a little halftime speech and then he introduced Carly for her to give, you know, the Jim Ursai induction into the Ring of Honor. That was incredible too.

Dallas Clark, he wears pants that don't fit him, which was

my favorite part.

No pants will fit him. This dude's squatting three times a week.
His quads are gigantic. Sue him.
He wears tight pants.

To be honest, I thought someone painted them on.

That might have been skin paint. Yeah, I thought he wasn't actually wearing pants dong out because they were that tight.
It was disgusting. No,

what are you talking about? I thought it was impressive. I mean, it was cool.
Like, oh, wow, this guy's got kegs for legs.

But then you look up a little, it's like, geez, Louise, this guy's dogs in my face. That's not true.
That's not true. Dallas looked like a gentleman.
His quads are gigantic. He is incredibly ripped.

And it was great to see him and everybody else. The Colts are the real deal, AJ.
That's what everybody needs to understand. But are the Packers as well?

We'll continue to debate that on the other side. Plus, overreactions.
I don't know if the actions can be. Nah, that was perfect.

Especially after watching the one second thing they did with Dalton Kincaid after the end of the first half. Oh, yeah.
Whereas clearly like 15 seconds to get him to the ground.

That definitely got stuff. Yeah, we'll see.
I mean, there could be, who knows what the delay is where. You know what I mean? Who knows? Because there's always some sort of sync issue going on.

Those on the road shows on Friday have become pretty good. Like pretty

technically sound. Certainly much better than last year.
Yeah,

those are always fun to deal with, those ones on the road. Now, granted, everybody's working their ass off.

Aiden's a lot of tech, a lot of this, a lot of that, a lot of internet connections, also sending to here to there. There's a lot of shit involved.
I forget who did the stand-up joke. Um,

somebody was mad about like the wait time, might have been Bill Burr, and their phone's going to a fucking satellite in the sky, and it's coming back down.

You're upset about having to wait for fucking four minutes, whatever. Technology is absolutely insane, okay?

It is great for our lives, crazy, but it also can be the worst thing of all time because it seems like it's the only thing that understands itself.

And when it comes to like video, audio, all these types of things, boy, tech just holds us all by the

by the

you can say. Oh, yeah, you can say

they got you by the shorthairs. They do.

They do. I get to.

I know you have to deal with it here, but it normally goes off without a hitch. Like hearing you and everything like that, and like seeing you.
Let's knock on wood, please.

Let's please knock on some wood. It's just that little delay that you have to deal with.
Shout out Barcode and the team, though. Yeah, they're doing a great job.

Yeah, they've really worked their asses off. Chads over there, too, I believe.
When we do have a problem, it's crazy because every time with tech, the solution is the dumbest thing in the world.

Like, we had a problem with the talkback stuff. It was because our computer was just on volume zero.
So it had nothing to do with the program. It had nothing to do with stuff.

Just had to go volume up. That can't happen.
It's crazy. That can't happen.

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is the greatest we can't thank you enough for allowing us to talk about it for a living that is aj hawk wow aj you look good, Bob. You look good over there.
You look great. You guys all look great.

Well, we appreciate that. But you, dude, he popped up on a screen.
We said, holy, this guy's in the middle of a new haircut. Thank you for it.
Yeah, it is. People talk about J.J.
Watts here.

I don't know if you saw the tweets talking about it being feathery and later. I think he did it right.
And obviously, him and cousin, he's calling with quite a height disparaged. Eye and Eagle.

Eye and Eagle there. I mean, one's...

Uniquely tall. Absolutely must.
Get him a bump. He's a monster.

Him and some of those old stadiums would have been great because I think he's actually calling game like this in some of those stadiums with the way some of those booths are for everything.

His hair looks great. I think he called the game very well.
I think it was a great game for him to call. A lot of action, too.
So I'm pumped for J.J. Start.
We'll talk to him on Wednesday.

The Toxic Tables here at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer, Dad.
Cowboys A.P. Tone is here.
And a nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler is here.

Everything DB, good D, bad D, back for another season. Can't wait to dive into all of that.
We had some good defensive performances around the league, I think, right? We did.

We had some great defensive plays, great performances overall. Can't wait to dive into it.
Were the Broncos great defense? They're pretty good. They were pretty solid.

Yeah, rookie quarterback, you know, you expect a defense like that to show up and show out. That game kind of stunk.
We didn't really talk about that.

Also, Card Saints game kind of stunk. We didn't really talk about that.
Those Saints jerseys?

Yeah, those are shite.

The game stung for us, but it didn't stink as much as Cam Ward's dad thought it stunk.

Yeah, if that was his dad, we all saw the video on the internet of his dad getting up from the seat, going over the handle rail, and just putting his head down and then turning back around.

We all saw the video. We don't know if that was necessarily him, but he was certainly at a point of, come on, boys, what are we doing here? And then, you know, coach saying,

potentially not knowing the rules. I don't know if any of us know the rules.
I guess. A lot of rules.
So many rules.

What's in, what's out? Is an elbow count as good? If it's one foot, you know, what all all do you need? There was that whole situation. But Saints cards, Broncos, Titans,

kind of two games we didn't really dive into. And I think for all four fan bases, for the betterment of everybody.
And they understand. Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.

Was there any of that? Maybe next week. Yeah, maybe next week.
A lot of games left. A lot of games left.
Congrats to the Broncos getting a big time win.

Congrats to the cards, getting a big time win. That's right.
Congrats to those two getting out of there 1-0. Yeah, that's all you need to do.
As opposed to being completely duff-eated.

Now, the other teams are wondering themselves. All right,

what's this year?

There's a little bit of that going on for some people. But no, it's a long season, and even the Shite teams are going to steal a win.
Maybe. Maybe.
Now, let's go to some overreactions.

What do you think, AJ?

I can't wait. I bet there are some good ones today.
Yeah, I think so, too. I felt like there was a lot of pent-up energy through the offseason, a lot of thoughts coming into the season.

And then whenever that particular game plays out the way that you thought it was going to, in the mostly negative fashion, like I heard Gumpy yesterday say like 10 10 different times, oh, it turns out all of our actual feelings about the team were right.

Yeah, all of our actual thoughts and concerns were good concerns because they are concerning watching them play football. Ain't that right, Gumpy? That was kind of your realization.

Yeah, it looked as bad as it possibly could have. And that was in the moment.

That was at halftime. I couldn't even imagine what some of these fans could think of overnight.
Ladies and gentlemen, I put a tweet out saying, hey, I want to hear your thoughts on your team.

All you have to do is put the hashtag. I don't want to overreact.
But

what's the number one trend? Ty scanned through them all. Ty, you said there were some good ones in there.

Yeah, there's definitely a, I mean, as to be expected, you know, people have been waiting to do this to just unleash on their team or say we're going to win the Super Bowl for quite some time.

So there were some really good ones. Great morning on the internet.
Let's go to the first one from our Boston Connor. Hashtag I don't want to overreact a butt.

There's a chance we are entering into the NFL's golden era of primetime football. Last night was week one.
It was a 15-point fourth quarter under four minute comeback.

It's going to be the best season yet. Hell yeah, Connor.
I don't think that's overreaction. I think that's reading what's happening and understanding the future, brother.
Yeah, very excited.

Thursday night was fantastic up until that weather delay. That's going to throw a wrench in it.
You can't really qualify everything after that.

Just think about the football you saw before it, top tier. Then you go to Friday, Justin Herbert, Patrick Mahomes, Mahomes is running wild.
Herbert played unbelievable. Last night was last night.

Tonight, maybe you're not as excited as all the other primetime games, and that's okay, just because it's a lot of question marks. Enjoy that.

Enjoy the, hey, I don't know what I'm going to get with J.J. McCarthy tonight.
This is the first NFL game. Hey, guess what? You're going to know what you're going to get with Justin Jefferson.

He's going to do something unbelievable. Caleb Williams, I don't know what I'm going to get.
Hey, guess what? He might suck. It's going to be freaking hilarious if he does.
Enjoy that.

If he's good, that's going to be just as cool. And if the game sucks, shit, we got to wait a couple days.
Guess what we're waiting for, guys?

You know what's on Thursday?

I don't know. Commanders-Packers.

What? You got to be kidding me. The The primetime, this might be the year where every single game in primetime delivers.
I'm juiced.

Yeah, because every once in a while we'll run into a little bit of a wall in the season.

And we start to wonder, has the NFL lost its fastball?

Are they not able to project ahead of time what teams are going to be good so that we have good games?

But now at the start of this season, AJ, both college and NFL, feels like we got some good ball in the season. Might be the best year of all time, AJ.

Oh, it's setting up to be the best season of all time, no question. I mean, Packers, Commanders, you series on Thursday, Micah gets a little bit more into the game plan, and we get to see both teams.

Who is truly legit? Who backs up what they did week one, I guess? We'll do our selections, you know, on Thursday for Thursday night, and then on Friday. We both, you know, not bad for a first week, H.

You need to know that. I don't know if I did great.
What did I do? Not bad, dude. 500.
50.

You're seeing it. You're seeing a few.
I'll tell you what, I might be. I might be.
Now, with that being said, I waffled on four or five of these picks, and I think they all went the right way.

There's certainly a time where you're going to waffle and they're going to go the wrong way.

And shout out to us getting the best line too, AJ. We'll continue to do that all season.
But you at 500 week one, we should be happy about. Me above 500 week one, I'm happy about.

We are, let's keep, you know, maybe our overreaction is, holy shit, might be the greatest NFL season of all time. Yeah.
Might be out here, AJ. This is good news.

Because there's been some times where both of us have started, you know, three for in that day. I've had, I think I've won one or two games before early in the season, no question.

Yeah, because who knows knows what we're looking at? Nobody knows. It's hard and early on the game.
Like the Giants.

And they've been great. Go ahead, Ace.
Sorry, I took a shot in the Giants at plus six, and we had a lot of hope coming out of camp with them, didn't we? We felt like everything was good.

And yeah, unfortunately, it didn't happen. Well, that sounds like an overreaction error from him after one game saying the Giants might be dead.
You know, Russell Wilson doesn't even have a start.

Let's go to the next overreaction from Ty. Hashtag, I don't want to overreact, but

it's destiny. Written in the stars.
Jordan Love looked exceptional. And yes, Micah Parsons with a limited snap count had a massive impact on the game.
See you in Santa Clara. Hashtag GoPackGo.

Hashtag Kings of the North. Good hashtag.
Is everybody seeing it? Great hashtag usage. Thank you.
Even anytime there's a little emblem after that. Anytime you can get the emblem in there, yeah.

Yeah, because that's just a little pizzazz.

Yeah, it is very neat. Yeah, it is very neat.

Is this how every Packers fan feels? Yes. Micah Parsons gets traded to you guys.
You all think you're going to win the Super Bowl. And then first game goes away.

It goes against a Detroit Lions team that's normally good against you guys.

And you have your way with them. You guys feel great.
Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, I think everyone was still kind of, and no one knew how much Micah was actually going to play.

So, you know, you were hopeful the whole time.

But, yeah, had they done this against like the Bears or, you know, one, like another team that was like kind of on the fringe, hey, maybe you make the playoffs, it probably would have been a different reaction.

But doing it against a team that won 15 games last year and the team that, you know, is the king of the division right now. And I mean, it wasn't particularly close.

Like, they thoroughly dominated that game. So, yeah, everyone is taking that, hey, we're going to win the Super Bowl.
And now I think it's just amplified by like 100. Well, congratulations.

Yeah, pretty good. All right, Flipso.
Hey, that's Carmen Paulicy's boy. Head policy making that big time trade with Jerry, bringing in the juice.
That's what you do.

You give up some assets, you bring in a difference maker.

We all want guys that can change the math on defense, and that's the guy that changes the math, not only for the guys he's lining up with on the same level, but those secondary guys.

You bring in a Micah Parsons. That's going to upgrade everyone on the back end.
So you you got a defense still winning championships. You obviously have an offense that can score.

I don't think that's an overreaction, Dad.

Yeah, there are moments where, and we talked about this a little bit before, there are moments where you forgot, like, Penne Sewell was on the field because of how good Micah Parsons was.

Oh, they give him the damn ball, they should.

Ben Johnson would have been giving him the ball third quarter if things weren't going

to be Timmy Horton calm play.

It was like the OC doesn't know football. Did it? What? Geez, that's an overreaction.

Didn't Lynch play?

You wouldn't be able to tell. Lunch did play, okay?

Did he? He didn't look great. Thanks for your time.
He's back from an injury. The whole pass rush didn't look great.

I'm starting to think

that non-player Peter Schrager didn't know what he was talking about about the Lions. I'm starting to think, hold on.
Hold the phone.

There might be a, for the next 20 years, the, you know, the number one seed in the NFC might go through the NFC North, but shit, he might not be, you know, MCDC. He's quarterback.
Oh, yeah.

It might be, it might be, you know, Green Bay or Minnesota. We might see tonight.
J.J. McCarthy looks good.
Shit, we're talking about the Lions being the third best team in their division together.

Holy shit.

What if Caleb Drew?

Oh, man. Don't.

We can't go there. We can't.
Or we can.

All of a sudden it's Lions. I mean,

Jared. First in the entire NFC.
We got Jared Guflovsky on the internet.

I'm seeing a lot of

Govlovsky on the internet.

Without Ben Johnson, we're looking at Jared Guvlovsky running out of the back of the end zone as Micah Parsons. I saw a lot of people saying that that's what it looked like.
That was unfair, I think.

Sad, I thought, yeah, just a bit of a

Govlovsky.

Thank you.

Pretty messed up. That is.
That is. The internet's good, though.
Yeah, where was J-Mo, too? We're just talking about Govlovsky.

Where was J-Mo? Where was Amon Roll? Yeah, just getting paid counting their bills because they weren't catching their passes. I will say.

I will say a lot of people are saying, I know you guys call Monty and Gibbs, Sonic and Knuckles. Some people are calling them ass in cheeks now.

I don't like that. I do not like that.
They were banging.

Who was that? That was a tweet. Yes, that was a tweet on the internet.
Sonic and Moose Knuckles. The internet is the greatest.

The internet is the greatest.

Who's the lion's next opponent?

The Bears.

They better show up. We're in a must-win situation right now.

Uh-oh. The Bears haven't even played yet.

They might be the best. They might be the best NCAA.
They might be.

I'm a believer. Number one in the NFC.
What Connor was alluding to is number four in the NFC North. Oh, Jeez, Louise.
That might be the Jeez Louise moment

of the weekend.

I'm sorry Lions fans feel that way. Jeez, it sucks.
I mean, but that's the thing. You know, everybody wants to be the Patriots.
It's hard to be good for that long, man.

You know, the Lions just, they're just going to be one of those flashing the pans. No, no, I don't like that.
That's an overreaction.

I never saw Bill in a fucking Chili's commercial.

Yeah, it's Applebean. Triple Denver.

Actually, fucking nutty, but that is weird because the moment it all started going downhill, you could argue, was when Bill Belichick appeared in that substitute. Subworking commercial bad boom.

Sat down on that bench.

Is it true MCD isn't letting Texas AM scout?

Or is that? That's Faye. Is it true MCDC made the boys run sprints on Lambo? No, that was Fran Brown and Syracuse.
All right, let's go to the next overreaction, or maybe not.

This is from Frankie Moraldo. Hashtag, I don't want to overreact.

Ben Stonium, incredible graphic designer, video editor, you name it out of Pittsburgh. And he created, you know, a Netflix docuseries about Chris Boswell being a serial killer.

And that is because Mike Tomlin had this to say about the wizard of Boz, who's been on a heater for the Pittsburgh Steelers for about a decade or so.

And I can't say enough about Boz.

Man, our kicker is a serial killer. Man,

he got a low pulse rate. He can't wait to deliver.
That last line, I think, is the most important one. He can't wait to deliver.
Whenever you talk about kickers, you know, you talk about the mental.

capacity of it all. The fact that Tomlin can feel the fact that this dude wants to come out here and hit that.

That's what separates, you know, like Adam Vinatari from like me or guys that weren't like great kickers, but good kickers. Boz has been so good for so long.

Danny Smith is chewing on his gum with delight knowing that Boz is there. And there was a little bit of a contract thing going on before the season with him, AJ.

So the fact that he was able to block all that out and knock one of those home and Tomlin describes him as a serial killer, which is a great compliment for a kicker.

What if it's a Steelers year, AJ? What if it is the Steelers year? I mean, they sure look good to me, but going back to Boswell, it's true.

Like, Tomwood knows, we've all seen people, like, say, I don't know, say you're running a drill in practice, and there's a guy who's a monster who's killing everybody, and they're real slow to get an opponent versus that kid.

You know, a lot of times no one wants to jump up and challenge that big kid.

Boz seems like the kid that's going to be jumping to the front of the line, going 10 times in a row, trying to challenge himself against that biggest kid.

So I'm sure Boz has said to me, I'll make it from 70. I don't care.
You guys don't need to get any farther. Here we go.
Let's go.

Wherever I'm at, I'm going to make that thing. And what an absolute weapon to have as your kicker to be that guy.
I agree.

There has to be some sort of incentive-based something coming, I would assume.

You'll pay him now. Kind of how they deal with Cam, yeah, kind of the three million dollar incentive base for Cam.
I assume there'll be some kind artists at work. Yeah, making it happen.

Make him happy.

He was walking off the field afterwards with Tom. Good dude, though.
All is good. Yeah, they're happy.
Yeah, and then solid man's pumped. Would be a hilarious headline.

Chris Boswell signs new four-year blah, blah, blah, million-dollar deal the day after hitting a 60-yard game winner. That's out of a movie.
Could do it. Should do it.

Would they? Or hold out.

Oh, you think he says I'm not doing it anymore? No, wait. Find somebody else to make a 60-yard game winner, coach.
See ya. That'd be so sweet.
That'd be the coolest thing.

You had to go ever for one week. Boswell is like, all right, Mike, I'm going to sit this one out.
Let's see if you want to pay me now. After

you need another guy to kick a 60-yarder to win. Now, that happened up in Buffalo with Prater getting the job.
Yeah. Prater, 41-year-old.

Did he get there thursday thursday thursday yeah gets your dropped in there

and then hits a game winner it's like that's classic prater you know and maybe he if he was available maybe that's who the steelers would be able to call but i don't know if prater's just stepping in hitting a 60 and maybe actually he would be new cable prater might be the only guy for the old caballs yeah the original c-balls back in the game was a big deal like these dudes are going to murder these footballs chris boswell hit that 60 yarder that thing hit the net that net at that stadium is far back too like it's hard to you know, because some stadiums, the nets are very close to the uprights, so they're going to be a little bit higher on the thing, obviously, as you go through.

Some of them are a little bit further back. There's a little bit more space in between the upright and the stands.
So it's like he murdered that ball, crushed it.

And I think if they would have lined him up for any distance, he's the type of guy that's going to make it. Like, it's going to be good enough.
It's going to be far enough. I love Boz.

I like that he's getting love. Hopefully, he gets a little bit of cash out of this, too.

Yeah, let's not forget the 41-year-old quarterback who started that drive on the 19-yard line and just had another notch on his belt for game-winning drives. Hello, Aaron Rodgers, Pittsburgh Steelers.

I was told that I was a fucking idiot for wanting him on my football team. What did Bruce Arian say? Bruce Arian said there's going to be a lot of close games.

I don't think there's anybody I want with the two-minute other than Aaron Rodgers. Isn't that what he said? That is exactly what he said.
I thought about it yesterday. Or Mike, McCarthy.

It was McCarthy. Yeah.
I thought about it as that was happening yesterday. I was like, you know what? Things happen on the show all the time where people say stuff and then it happens.

And I was thinking of that during the game yesterday because I needed a lot of hope. Yeah, there's a lot of points being scored against Pittsburgh Steelers defense.
I love it. It's very abnormal.

But Mike McCarthy saying a lot of those games are going to be very close, and it's going to come down to Aaron in a two-minute trial and he gets it down. Obviously, 60-yard field goals a long way.

They lose two yards and the down right before that.

But nonetheless, Pittsburgh Steelers win. Yingers are jacked up.
Now, they watch the Colts do what the Colts did, too. So they know there's levels to do.
Yeah, exactly.

After week one, let's go to the next overreaction. Speaking of that from Jonathan May at Jonathan May 2434.
Hashtag, I don't want to overreact. But the Colts aren't just winning games.

They're rewriting Destiny. This squad looks ready to run the table, go undefeated, and bring the Lombardi back home for Jim Mercy.

Forget movie magic. This isn't Indiana Jones on a big screen.
This is real life. Hell yeah, Jonathan May.
This is real life.

I don't think that's an overreaction at all. But what he's saying about not being Indiana Jones, I'm okay with it being Indiana Jones.

If he needs to, you know, turn over every stone to figure whatever out needs to be done to win a a damn Super Bowl. I hope Indiana Jones gets to the bottom of it.

I appreciate what Jonathan May's saying here, Todd. Yeah, and there were a lot of people, you know, alluding to the Indiana Jones thing.

So, you know, that's great, but maybe let's not do that every single week.

Are you talking about us? No, no, I'm saying. Are you talking about Debo? I'm saying literally every single overreaction had some sort of Indiana Jones, you know, play on words in it.

But I'm already sick of it.

Yeah, I'm already sick of it.

But I was thinking about it, and like you, when you put everything together from what the Colts had going on this week, like, I I don't think it is an overreaction as a Colts fan to feel this way.

Going in that all that stuff comes out like, okay, we're just going to suck again. People are pissed about Daniel Jones.

And then that's on top of like the added pressure to go out there and not just win, but look good when they're honoring Ursae. And you have all these Colts legends back there.

Like, can you imagine your mood or your, like, how you would have been feeling if the Colts either lose that game, but even if they win 21-20, like, you're not coming in today the way you are when they just beat the shit out of them, leave no doubt, look like one of the best teams in the league.

Like, if I'm a Colts fan, I think, I don't, I really don't think this is an overreaction. Like, you should feel this way until they give you a reason not to feel this way.

We've had homecoming-type games before where a lot of legends are in the building. Freeney went in, I think it was big.

Dallas went in, I think it was big. Glenn,

Tarek,

Tarek was big. Like, they have those.
This one, like, everybody

came to it, you know, because it was Jim.

And having Reg, Marv,

even the older OGs, Bill Brooks was there and, you know, Peyton obviously speaking. New ownership is like everything about it, like was a big deal for the celebration of life for Jim Merce in there.

And you could feel it. And you're right.
In years past, they would have lost those games. Like when everybody's in the building.
It's like, all right.

you know let's get us out of here these yet where they would have done something stupid or something like that and instead it's like they just play sound football and just beat the.

I think there was a 14-play drive. I think there was a 15-play drive.
I think there was like a 17-play drive. Anthony Calhoun tweeted about it.
I forget the exact ones.

But it was like they were just drumming. Yeah.
Efficient. The Miami Dolphins.
Dialed. And everybody's like, hold on.

I think there were some guys that potentially had their flights scheduled for after the first quarter. Sure.
You know, to potentially be out of town. And instead, like, wait a minute.

This is, wait a minute. This feels a little bit different.
Yeah, here it is. 14, 17, and 15 play drives during the game.
Scored on every possession.

First team to do that in forever, whatever the stat was. I forget what it was.
It's like, yeah, it was awesome in there, man. It really was.

I hope we got it bottled and I hope we're drinking it all season. Yeah.
Week one. Was it a packed house? Yes.

It was, that's good because, you know, sometimes that just shows that everything that's being said on the internet is exactly true. Because if that was true, no one would have showed up for the game.

Oh, yeah, you're right. 93% negativity.
Yeah. Worse than a league.
Was it Melancamp there?

He was sitting around somewhere

the whole time.

Two American kids going up in the

banger. I didn't see him.

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if he's not doing like a halftime or something at some point. New playlist in there.
With a big three. Yeah, it's changed.

I wouldn't be surprised if we might see someone else in there instead of that avenue. Who's that? Maybe like, you know, Rose,

although I don't know. Ricky Ross was playing yesterday against the Miami Dolphins.
Lot of Ricky Ross. I like that.
Yeah, because I was like that. I was sitting there.
It was cool.

I was in the suite looking out and I see Gumpy's Dolphins tarp in his hat. And then on the field, all I see is Colts players dancing to Rick Ross.
And I'm like, oh, so you knew right away.

We just stole Rick Ross.

It feels like we are enjoying this a lot more than you guys. Yeah, it was a lot of GZ in there.
A lot of Ricky. Yeah, it was.
That's all new, though. That's different compared to what it was before.

Yeah.

There was also Jim Merce's playlist. I think there was one in the boss's playlist that had like heat.
From his band? Yeah.

His,

I don't think any from his band were.

It was all like just basically like sing-along songs. Old school bangers.
Yeah, old school bangers.

It was really good. It was really well done, I will say.
They're not done with it yet, but there will actually be a building in the skyline, which will be cool through the window. Two cranes.
Yeah,

yeah, that's what Danny Dimes era has brought. Cranes to the city.
They are building a new

mega hotel in the city. Holly Sam in Tampa.
Holy shit. Four seasons or what's that? Four Seasons Indy? I don't know.
Maybe. That's a good question.
I forget it. JW came in.
Fountain Blue. Yeah.

Fountain Blue. Fountain Indy.
Fountain Blue, like Miami or something. W.

Maybe, because

it is a massive space. Yeah, that's the thing about here.

If we are to city develop, there's a lot of space and it's all flat. You know, so it's very easy to build as opposed to having to, you know.
Could be the biggest red roof in the country.

I was going to say they should make it the biggest red roof for Best Western, just to really be cool. Wasn't Halloween kind of the standard whenever it comes to all those?

Yeah, Yeah, but they don't leave the light on for you. Yeah.
Who does that? Motel 6.

Yeah, but Holiday Inn, don't they have the breakfast? What was theirs? Yeah, I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night. Yeah, well, that was Holiday Inn Florida.

Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, I mean, Spring Hill Sweets. They got good continental breakfast.
Turns out they do. They do.
They have the eggs. Tons of eggs.
So all the eggs. 38-story Signia Hotel.

Oh, Signias are nice. Signia coming in town.
Oh, yeah. It looks wonderful.
It's not a Holiday Inn or Best Western. No.

Still be cool. How do do you feel about Indiana Jones? Instead of Indiana Jones? Because his name's Danny.
No, that's. Or

Indiani Dimes. Who's Annie?

Or Indy Jones.

Yeah, Indy Jones. Yeah, instead of Indiana Jones, Indy Jones.
Because it plays on Danny Jones. Doesn't play as well.
Indiana Jones. Do young people know what Indiana Jones is?

A new one just came out a year ago, so I think. With Harrison Ford? I've seen them all, and what I like most about them is when

they do the. When he cracks his whip.
Yeah, that's really cool. I also appreciate the fact that he's always

carrying that gat on him. He's

always on an adventure. Always looking for treasure.
He's always snooping around. That hat says.
Which one was your favorite? Yeah.

Well, the most recent one, I think, was good for the generation that it was trying to play to, but I remember when old buddy was doing it back in the day. Raiders of the Lost.

He just told me Raiders of the Lost Art. It's one of your favorite movies.
Yeah, it was actual film. It wasn't digital.
You know, so it's just a little different quality.

Was surprised you weren't a Temple of Doom guy. Well, the thing about the Temple of Doom is I liked it, but I thought it was just kind of ripping it off that other one a little bit.

Greater Temple Sargarch. Yeah, I think it was a little bit too close.
No, the other one. And you were pissed when Sheila Buff, you know, got cast in it and they tried to pass the hat off.

And you were like, fucking not my indie dude. Yeah, just like when I was watching that Queen show.
Queen's Cambod. No, the crown queens came.
The crown with the crown.

When they changed the queen's. I saw my queen right there.
That's going to be tough for me to pay attention to. Well, she's older now.
It's like, nope, that ain't how she's going to.

Kind of like Fresh Prince. Which one? Aunt Viv.
She changed as well. She did change.

I don't think I remember being as upset as I was. Plus, I don't think culture at that time was getting as upset at things.
Yeah, and you know, I thought about this the other day.

You know, because,

for instance, with Red Zone, whenever I was getting attacked pretty heavily, which for saying we don't care, which wasn't the proper wording, what I should have said is, obviously, it's better without commercials.

We hope everything had no advertising. With that being said, con man.
Con man.

I mean, you can just grab yourself a little Jose Cuerva and make it almost better.

And on that note, as we were getting just absolutely murdered and killed for everything like that with the Red Zone channel, I should have said we would rather no ads, but the fact that it exists, like we will still watch, which I hope and assume everybody did and you couldn't really matter.

And ESPN, I started getting called a Disney show.

They're not going to have two years. They don't even, you know, this is a YouTube TV.
This is Google, which is awesome, by the way. Love YouTube TV.

They're very kind to us and they've been very good but they're like disney espn ruins everything i saw a lot of that and i i i'm gonna let you know yeah there's a lot of things over the past that we have certainly all shared the opinion that you all have in that particular department i think we all have eyes and a sense of everything like that but whenever people say like i used to just watch sports center and it was like the greatest it was like Sports Center was also showing you for the first time a lot of shit.

Like, hey, here is a highlight play. Here's a story.
Here's this. Nowadays, we see everything fucking immediately.
Right away. Like, everything is happening so quickly.

So, like, having to adjust in how you deliver things, I think is a, is a tough,

tough comparison. You know, like, uh, trying to compare what life was, because we all grew up with Sports Center,

but also it was like the first time I'm seeing a lot of things. With the sidebar.
Yeah, with new.

Yeah. Yeah.
In your team, in your C Unit, let alone if you lived out of the market from wherever you played. It's like some of the only shit you're going to see is that.

We're in a vastly different time. And I think this red zone changing thing to four 15-second commercials for a total of one minute, which I don't know if I

was down at the Colts game, so we had Red Zone on TV. Love it.
Keeps you updated with everything. But I didn't really feel the commercial break as much as everybody else.
It's a start, Pat.

It's just the tip of the spear. I know, I know, I know it is.
And here's what I'm going to say. And I don't speak for everybody clearly.
No matter what they do, I'm going to fucking watch it.

And I don't like that. I'm telling you, I don't like it.

But I'm gonna watch it. That's a reality.
It's a great idea. It's the best products there.
Keep it split screen. Keep it split screen.
And we're fucking gotta do the playthrough. Yeah, that's it.

Gotta do the playthrough. All right, let's go to the next overreaction, shall we? This is from Gambling Gary, the 96 draft.
Hashtag, I don't want to overreact, but

keep that seat warm because old Chuck Pagano might be back in it by Thanksgiving. If Jair Alexander kids getting beat like a drum,

The Ravens secondary look like a JV team out there and that's supposed to be their strong suit. Tighten up, Chuck.
Chuck, I don't like that.

I don't like that. I didn't like it.

I didn't like it either. These are my first time seeing these AJ.
They were obviously picked by Ty. It's a fool surprise.

I did not know Chuck Pagano was going to catch it in his Italian shins, but I guess that would make sense if Josh Allen's able to come back from being 15 down with less than four minutes against a defense that is highly, highly regarded as being one of the best in the league.

Chuck Pagano knows that, though.

he knows that back into the nfl fire is going to be these types of days and josh allen is an alien in that whole thing jair alexander i think did talk a little bit about it playing a really good quarterback here we're going to continue to uh mold and grow for what should we think about this baltimore ravens defense after what they give up to josh allen i mean that's that's tough whenever you are a defense and you are on the other side of a quarterback doing something uh historic i have personal experience with that played against uh big ben in in hines field at the time and i think he threw for like 500 like six touchdowns crazy it was on the field so that's never a good feeling but long season ahead you got a bunch of talent a bunch of first rounders in that secondary so yeah as a fan and gambling gary probably has some money on it too but as a fan you do think that you do lean on that to be one of your strengths of your team but they will figure it out they got the talent they got the coaches we're not keeping this seat warm for chuck when he's ready to come back he'll come back after he hoists the lumb the lombardi but uh you know you got to get it done and josh allen is a generational talent at the position so shit like this will happen.

Uh, but yeah, it was ugly, and I can understand where Gambler Gary's coming from, but he's an asshole. And Ty, you're an asshole too, for picking up.

Picking that one, yeah, there's a lot of different options out there that couldn't get the point across.

But I guess keeping a seat warm for Chuck is certainly something that would brighten our day because it would be great to have Chuck Pagano around here. W, coach.

I don't know how today is for Coach John Harbaugh and the entire Baltimore Ravens staff. There's some stats coming out about that whole situation.
That's certainly disappointing. Yikes.

I would assume that's not a fun existence over there. I appreciate, though, that Budda said it was my fault.
I did.

But it's not me. It's not me, budda.
He said, Mr. McAfee jinxed us.

He said, I thought I'd.

He made it, buddy? And you were at Latrobe. How would you jinx? He's with the Steelers.
No, Mr. McAfee wouldn't do that.
But I would never. I was on your side, Budda.

I was excited to see your reaction as the Baltimore Ravens continue to do things that nobody else could do. Derrick Henry, he's 30, what, one?

Faster, stronger than he's ever looked. Lamar Jackson doing Lamar Jackson shit on a very regular basis.
I was excited for Budda. I was pumped for Budda.
I was pumped for Buddha.

And then Budda started thinking after the game,

this guy fucking jinxed us. And I want to let him know it was the on purpose if that was the case.
AJ, I am a Baltimore Ravens fan. I hope the Baltimore Ravens play well.

And I think last night was a great AFC playoff game that we're going to see in a few months from now, brother. Don't you think? Yeah, the Ravens fans should not be freaking out.

They know that they're going to be fine. Lamar Jackson, that offense, and their their defense is going to be just fine.
They ran into a juggernaut, the Bills.

And Josh Allen, we know that dude is pretty damn special. So it was a great game.
Here we go. Like, we got plenty more to have.
Kyle Hammond figure things out again. Almost blocks that field body.

Oh, he can't. Yeah.

You see him jumping, like, oh my goodness, I had that. He was way too clean there.
If I'm Buffalo, we need to figure that out very quick. Look at him.
Oh, and he's the guy to do that, too.

I mean, he probably has the perfect timing for perfect. Why'd you block out? Why'd you block out?

I can't believe you faded him.

Who? Butter?

I did not.

Oh, God is. No, I did not.
And if Kyle Hamilton blocks that, but that's why he didn't.

No,

don't you

turn the audio on.

You're gonna have to zoom out a little bit, I think. Oh, we'll be back.

Seasons, man. It's the Ravens quarterback.

Well, look at Gary, bro. Look at Gary.
Nobody can stop it. Like, he's on going so good.

He's on going so good on all cylinders.

Storm night. Great night.
Store night. And anytime we're gonna start doing nothing but greatness tackling opportunities against Derrick Henry, you can just about forget about it.

It's us playing football right here.

We didn't got bitched by Pat McAfee in it.

What

this might be Pat McAfee fault, bro.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

But it might be Pat McAfee's fault, bro. Whoa, whoa.
He done jinxed us. No.

He done said it. Oh, he done baited butter.

Oh, he done baited butter. Oh, he didn't.

Oh, he done got me.

Oh, Pat got me. No.

I didn't bait you, but I'm on your side, butter.

Bro, it was like after this play,

right before the half time, Pat was like, this y'all year.

Oh, I was asking a question. God, his ass.

And butter done filled for the bait.

Bro, what, what? I done said, hell yeah, this are you and shit.

Bro, he done got us.

And he's seen the stealers.

Pat wouldn't do that.

Pat wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that.
You're right. He wouldn't do that.
You're right. He wouldn't do that.
You're right.

He wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that.
Right? He wouldn't do that. I didn't.
You're right. You're right.
That's a man with integrity right there. Exactly.
He wouldn't do that. Exactly.

I'm going to give him a benefit of the doubt. Thank you, Butter.
Thank you, but okay, that's good. I'm happy.
It took him a long time to get there. Oh, yeah.
And that was quite a quick amount of time.

I don't know if he was really there yet.

But I want to love butter. No, I didn't bait you.
I was on your side. I love Jimmy's famous seafood.
Yeah, you do.

I love the Coach Magano's there.

I would like to see the Baltimore Ravens going on. Now, the Colts all of a sudden are a monster.
Are a problem. And we did go to the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp.

It doesn't necessarily mean I'm a Steelers fan. Ravens? They didn't invite us.
I would like to see them do well, though. I got a lot of friends over there, but I love the Baltimore Ravens.

Where did the Colts come from? Yeah, they were in Baltimore, yeah.

They're in Baltimore. Yeah, then they left.

Then they came here to Indianapolis. We celebrated that this weekend, actually.
i it does i did not have that on my mind of course i love butter man of integrity i was excited to see stavi and butter

all year

all year i was pumped for that need them together need them together that yeah ravens might need them together too something to think about it's a lot of power might be the most entertaining fan in the entire league yeah i guess there isn't a might be to that i think they are Yeah, I think.

Well, we got DeFlo. Yeah, we got

snuck out.

That's true. He's got a lot of Moxie.
He's a different category. He had a great performance.
He nailed the halftime, I'll tell you. Yes.

Whenever I heard he was going to do a live show in front of 60,000 people, I was a little bit eager to see how it went. Nailed it.
Yeah, he did. Absolutely.
Moxie shine through. Yeah.
That's DeFlow.

But he's more singer. Like, you can't compare, like, Dave Chappelle and Kanye when it comes to art, you know? Because his is comedy, his is music.

Did you see Shane opened up for Zach Bryan at Notre Dame Stadium? Did not see the full thing. You saw like five seconds of it.
I saw a couple of the clips where Shane was wearing a helmet and dancing.

You saw that? No, I didn't see it. Yeah, he has Notre Dame Fulbright helmet on.
He's dancing on stage, obviously. Is that the first time it's happened? Absolutely.
Dance with a helmet on?

I assume it's. No, a comedian opened up for a musician.
So that's what he said, actually.

Zach asked him if he wanted to go first or second. He was like, what the fuck? That's what I saw, yeah.
Let me guess. So you're going to play just fucking until when? 10 o'clock?

And then I'll just go hit him with some comedy afterwards. So he said, what do I go out there and say, is he going to jerk off lately?

Exactly. Yeah.
I assume there he is. There he is, having a good time.
Yup. Yup.
On stage in front of everybody the whole time. Having a great time.
Yep. Good to see you, guys.
Thank you.

We're going to go win the national championship now. They're going to have big game this weekend.

Huge. Texas AM.
Got to win. And Cancer 0-2.
Hey, college is doing it, man. Yes, it was a great win.
There was a couple blowouts, obviously. We'll talk to Coach Rule here in a couple days.

He won like 69-0 or something.

But like Mississippi State? Unbelievable.

It was unbelievable. They had two wins last year, okay?

And then I got Pete Famil telling me they got this freshman quarterback who's the best quarterback they've had since Dak Prescott, and they're going to play him a couple plays.

And I'm like, fucking put the guy in. What do we, he won two games.

So my entire thought about Mississippi State was like a negative one going into game day because I'm like, why don't they play the guy that they got that's supposed to be the guy? I don't get that.

Seems like they're trying to lose. Yeah, right.
That place was awesome. Yeah.
They got a whole new game set up. I guess game ops are crazy down there.
They got new intro, new everything.

The show was crazy. Everything was sick.
And then obviously they get a huge win.

And their fans immediately, I think it's like an engineering school, immediately get the field goal bound and take that thing through town it's like shout out to the bulldogs man i did not expect that arizona state obviously did not expect that and a team that made the college football playoff last year and won the big 12 loses to mississippi state and this drums up now when conversations start at the end of the year for college football playoff

who's we'll just throw out a team name that is in our conference that is not yes it will in the playoff or winning uh their conference mississippi state for instance how many big 12 teams supposed to be in there because if they had to play in Starkville just one time, are they going to win?

Like that is literally what that feeds. Oklahoma getting a huge win over Michigan, huge deal.
Like for the SEC, obviously, and I mentioned that in my pick, but it was real.

It was like, hey, the SEC conversation gets real loud around college football playoff for good reason. The culture's down there, the environments, the players, everything.

The team's awesome, incredible, great for college ball.

But it's always talked about as if it's better than Big Ten, better than the Big Ten, way better than the Big Ten whenever it comes to football on the field So in a playoff whenever Ohio State does what it does to Tennessee then Ohio State opens up with Texas the number one team in the country does that It's like people are like wait a minute Is that a thing of the past the whole SEC is better than the Big Ten and this Oklahoma team with Matir and Arbuckle as the offense coordinator and a Vennable is defense They're for real So like I had a lot of Michigan people that are full panic, you know, and I saw Portnoy's reaction talking about how he felt like he was lied to or whatever by Bryce Underwood and everything how good he was going to be like that was his reaction.

He was like very, he's not the only one. There's a lot of Michigan people that are like very bummed out that I was talking to.

And it's like, hey, I think Oklahoma is for real.

I think Oklahoma is the real deal this year.

Offensively, whenever you bring in a quarterback and the offensive coordinator, it's like it has worked a lot in the past because the quarterback knows exactly what to do on every single play.

So you can make everybody else catch up. But if everybody else knows what to do and the quarterback doesn't, like, you're going to be slow.

You're going to be behind because he's the one making the decisions.

When the quarterback knows every aspect of the offense, it's like, and then you plug in better athletes and better players at all the the spots, and then Venables has that defense.

It's like, I think Oklahoma is a real deal. Like, I think they are very good, AJ.

I think they're great. I mean, talk about the confidence they have in Materias.
Well, you showed it earlier, they're running a double move backed up in your own end zone.

Okay, like you must feel pretty good about what your offensive line can do and what your quarterback is able to do. What a beautiful ball right here, too.
But Materias a player, bro.

I really enjoy watching him. Good for Venables.
I think Venables is a great personality for all of college football. Very jacked, too.
We saw him on the set there for College Game Day.

He's pretty built, good intensity always very cool to me and to the show says he watches show knows the shows exist uh which is pretty cool but he's always gonna have a good defense they were flying around and hitting so hard michigan those boys are flying around and hitting too but that was a very very violent violent football game big time win i love material too like just his his awareness as like a great quarterback great thrower but his awareness as a ball carrier like him just knowing like the spatial awareness he has in traffic is very very special big time win for the sec it's big time loss from the SEC, too.

Who? Boys down in Gainesville. Yeah, we got a little USF on a little bit of a heater here.

Byron is a dog, the quarterback. And the USF coaches were seen celebrating afterwards.
I think they know they got a team, and the Florida Gators needed this one.

I think we all thought that Billy Napier and DJ Lagway and the Florida Gators were for real this year. We all thought maybe Billy Napier's culture has settled in and they're going to do their thing.

USF gets a massive win. A Grammatica hits a walk-off game winner down there.
And I picked against USF. I think we all need to just start having a little bit more respect.

And I think I was talking to Edrin James.

And he said, USF's got a lot of Florida boys. Yep.
Anytime Florida boys take on Florida Boys, there's a lot. It's a little bit different.

He said it's hard to judge those particular games as if it's any other game. Is that an accurate depiction? Oh, yeah, very, very much.
And I feel like it's like that a lot of places.

Even the receiver from Oklahoma, he was a Michigan kid that wasn't offered by Michigan. So

that's everybody in South Florida.

You want to go to UM, you want to go to Miami, you want to go to Florida State, Florida, all these big schools, and you kind of probably get overlooked and go to USF.

And you remember when we were in the Big East. Like, I think you might have talked about a little bit on game day, like, recruiting those South Florida boys with Growthy and everybody else.

Like, they built the powerhouse. I think they got ranked like number two or three in the nation at one point just by recruiting their kids.
And you have that chip on your shoulder.

The coaches know that. You saw the coaches' reaction.
up in the press box. Like that's something you rarely see.
I don't know how much it actually happens.

That's something you rarely see as a fan outside of the building but yeah you can build up a program quick and it's hard to judge those types of i guess it wouldn't be considered a rivalry game but if i grew up and we played each other in high school but you were the five star and i was a two star but i felt like i was better than you when i'm lined up on you on saturday with this jersey on it's gonna mean a little more for sure yeah but do you know who uh usf has this saturday Oh, yeah, definitely know.

The hurricane. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, they're all playing each other.

I like that they're all playing each other because Florida's still got Florida State and Miami, I think, on the horizon and everything like that.

Miami also doing the same thing, and that's you know, you talk to Florida football people, it's like, hey, these games right here are going to be showtime,

they are going to be real showtime. I guess SMU's got a bunch of Florida boys too, from what I've been told.

So, like, how SMU does, obviously, they lose to Baylor in a thriller, which I think everybody was kind of calling for whenever you're thinking about that game.

48-45, I think is what that game ended up being.

But SMU, I guess, they're playing Miami, and Edge was like a lot of Florida boys on SMU. So, like, rule out everything whenever they play.

It's like, is this a new stat that I need to start looking for? Hey, where are the Florida boys at? And when do they play against the Florida schools? Edrian was talking like, yeah, that's rude.

I'll scratch you, I think, because Rhett Lashley came from Miami, if I'm not wrong, and he brought a bunch of Miami dudes with him. Yeah, you know, just he knows.

And like, recruiting people talk all the time about like recruiting your own state in your own area and how important that is. Like, you're the team.

Like, if USF goes on and sweeps all the Florida teams all of a sudden you're that school in florida and i'm not saying they're gonna like flip recruits or anything like that but you get one or two more guys from south florida that a different school doesn't get just because you do end up being the best team in south florida that probably changes a lot of stuff for your program they were problematic for us when we went down there i mean they um

the shop boys maybe party like a rock

Party like a rock star. Is that the Shop Boys? I think so.
They had a concert outside the stadium whenever we went down and played there one night. It was a big deal.

They had a concert outside, full-free festival.

Played it in the middle. In a book stadium, right? Same.

Remember? Yeah, the whole thing. It was the first time playing there, I think.
Okay.

And are the Yankees down in that area, too? Yes.

Yeah. That was Rich Rod's only time I've ever seen him use a prop.

We went down there. They're having a festival.
They're having a concert. It's a Thursday night game, I think.
They're selling out. They think it's going to be the biggest home attendance or whatever.

And he said, we just drove by their facility. He said, we have become the fucking Yankees.
Okay. And he pulls out the Yankees' hat and has NY on it or whatever.

And he goes, and this USF team thinks they've arrived. Not fucking yet is what he wore.
So we all wore Yankees' hats into the building. We lost.

And I'll tell you what, I don't think Rich Rod probably to this day will ever do any of that shit. Never again.

Ever again. You leave them in the longer room.
Oh, I have no idea where those things were. They did not make their way back.
I know that.

It was a, that USF team was problematic for us because they were fast. Yeah.
They were very fast and very tough. And with our offense, if you need penetration, you could kind of stop us.

And by stop, it's slow us down at least. Nobody's going to be able to really stop us.
And they had a team back. Oh, yeah.
Feels like they got one now. Yeah.
Feels like they got a real team.

They're still very fast. You know who else has a team? Who's that? Who?

You see that Scihawk Bull.

Wow. Wow.
Rocco Becht is a first-round driver. He's a guy.
Yeah. Rocco Becht is an adult.
He is playing college football. Iowa State gets a massive win win over Iowa in the Scihawk Bowl.

Comes down to a 54-yarder for Conradi. I said that Drew Stevens, the kicker for Iowa, is going to hit a game winner.
Instead, it was Conradi. This was a very kicker-dominant game.

A lot of the first nine points, I think, scored raw from kickers. Obviously, a game-winner kick.
Both kickers, very talented.

What did you learn from the game, Ty Schmidt, as Iowa State and Tyrese Halliburton are dancing in the faces of Iowa Hawkeyes fans? Yeah, I mean, that's probably the biggest thing.

Listen, Iowa State's better this year, but I haven't thought about this game game since it ended.

Iowa State folks will celebrate this, bring it up every time they can over the next year, and that's fine. You know, you can do that.
They have that right because they won.

I may have put too many chips into the Mark Granowski's going to save us, you know, basket. He's not, unfortunately.
He's just fucking not. And I'm not going to rip on the guy because their skill.

You FaceTimed me on Saturday night and you were with Dallas Clark. And me and him kind of just had a nice little two-minute like, hey, what the fuck's going on with the Hawks, you know, real quick.

And he was very complimentary still, obviously. Yeah, he believes still.
He believes. Last season.
And I believe, too,

for an extent,

or to an extent, their skill position players just aren't good. Receivers don't get open.
They don't have the batch of tight ends that they usually do.

So, you know, you're kind of asking Gronowski to beat Josh Allen. Well, there's only one Josh Allen, you know, so maybe two, Justin Herbert.
Well, maybe two. But his name is Justin Herbert.

Maybe four. Yeah, but yeah, but those guys are NFL quarterbacks.
Those are their names. I'm saying this guy, you know, he was good playing against the lower competition.

Iowa State's good. But I'll be honest with you, really ever since the

Iowa's offense started looking like this, so what, 10 years ago, maybe, like, right after, maybe close to right after I graduated from college, I said, if Iowa loses a game, for the most part, you know, it's fun coming on here and going ape shit because I do care, but I'll tell you what, when the Packers look like they did on Sunday.

Oh, my gosh. it's very easy.

It's very easy to say, okay, Bronowski's one good national championship. I'm not going to spend another fucking second thinking about the 13 points that Iowa scored on Saturday and AI.

Because they should have won that game. They should have.
They played like hammered dog shit, like they kind of do every week.

Rocco Becht is good. He threw for like 122 yards.
So first round, draft pick, maybe.

But Iowa's defense is still pretty fucking good. If they could just get a guy who's halfway halfway fucking decent playing quarterback, just halfway.
Well, you're not going to get any wide receivers.

You think you're wide receivers? That's the problem.

That's the problem. You're running the T-Bow.
The Witchboard. Yeah, the Witchbroad.

That's that rude. That's all.
The Iowa quarterback. Yeah, yeah.
He's had like the worst start in the history of college football.

He's completed like 48 passes for like 127 yards or something. It's bad.
It's not good. But you're right.
You know, we get a couple transfers in.

They're like, hey, this guy was number three at Northwestern. He wants to come play at Iowa.
It's like, well, Jesus fucking Christ.

If this guy couldn't see the field at Northwestern, we're expecting him to catch 100 balls and have 1,200 yards this year. Give me a fucking break.
No way.

Iowa needs to rush for 450 yards every single week. That's fun to watch, too, right?

I don't mind it. Because, listen, I got the flash of the Packers now.
So, you know, I can kind of bounce. I can have the best of both worlds.

You just watch a fucking hard-nosed, gritty, shitty, boring football game on Saturday for three hours. And I actually tweeted.

I was like, you know what? Is this Iowa offense maybe like giving me a stroke because I was smelling something burning? Luckily, that wasn't the case.

There was just, you know, I had a problem with my furnace. So that's what I was smelling.
It wasn't Iowa. You turn them on for the first time.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.

You didn't tell me lights on fire or anything.

Well, it turns out I got a blower out. So I'm going to have to get my furnace fixed.
So that was kind of just another one-two punch on top of the.

But, you know, hey, the Hawks are going to do what the Hawks do. We're probably not going to go to the playoff this year, unfortunately.
But they could still make some noise.

And now it's just, hey, let's try to ruin Oregon season or let's try to ruin Penn State season. That's that's really where I'm at.
Yeah, it's unfortunate.

You could think about having a little bit of the Cuervos Devil's Reserve, maybe,

help you out on those Saturdays, a little tequila. And there's nothing I love more than green booze, you know.
So

it's a green bottle. It's a green bottle.

Crack this thing open and have a, you know,

green.

Guess what? It's clear booze. Yeah, okay.
Okay. You're right, because I am.
I see this

in the stores. I'm fucking grabbing.
I'm just a tractor being explained to him what it is. Connor and I had a whole mess of it this weekend.
I know.

Yeah, what you don't understand is that the Quervo's Devil Reserve is a sweet, tropical, spicy-infused tequila that is smoothly and devilishly good. And for the record, it is delicious.

I'm not a tequila guy, but when I do drink it, it is Devil's Reserve and it is fantastic.

It's time to listen to the little devil on your shoulder, pour a round of shots, and get ready to raise a a little bit of hell. Yeah.

Go to your local liquor store or go to Quervo.com to purchase your own bottle of mischief. That's what Ty means by like the green bottle, the green coloring.

It's not green liquid. It's just a green bottle.
And you can see the bottle does kind of reek of mischief. You know, when you look at it, you can see, hmm, maybe that.

This guy's a lot of mischief. What's this guy up to?

What is the devil up to?

There's that devil on my shoulder. Oh, is that...
No, that's not the devil. That's just a little bit of Cuervo's Devil's Reserve.
But remember, you must be 21 years of age to consume alcohol.

And please drink responsibly or you'll end up like Mitt.

That's right. And many others.
Sweet, tropical, spicy. Boom.
Cuervo. Cuervo's devil's reserve, baby.
Raise the hell. Devilishly good.
Hell yeah. I was going to read by you guys.
Wow.

Why am I helping you man? I do like that the Iowa Hawkeye football team immediately leads to a booze advertisement. Yeah.
Okay. I do not work.
Hey, that's Big Ten football. It is.

That's Big Ten football. It is.
Amen. How long are you guys going to do that over there in Iowa?

Who knows? Let's move along. Did you see the University of Louisiana Monroe punter? Yes.
His name's Mackenzie Ryan. Okay.

And although their team got their asses beat and this wasn't his best punt, what he did at the end of it was certainly desirable. Out of Australia, lad hits a little worm bouncer down the right hash.

Oh, now he's breaking free. Who's going to stop him? I got him.

Lariat, clothesline from hell from McKenzie Ryan as he roughs it up with the boys a little bit afterwards. Alabama would go on a score just a few plays later, but nonetheless,

a punter with a massive hit should be showcased. Not his best punt, I think he would even say, but obviously a lot of people following each other.
That's not good.

Never want to see anybody stack behind each other in punt returns. Mackenzie said, Let me go ahead and get underneath the block and lay his ass out.

I assume he played some sort of rugby or Aussie Rules football over in Australia. And And that move right there, look cheeky.

That is an Aussie Rules football. Certainly may be a play.
And then flexing on him, too, letting them know that, hey, listen,

you guys might win by 40, but you'll never forget the time. Mackenzie Raw and pow right across your kisser.
I love that. I love everything about it, AJ.

That's the only thing that can save an explosive return, right? Like, the coach is going to be pissed. Everyone's going to be pissed, but hey, at least our punter got to have a little highlight shot.

I'm sure that was run all over Sports Center. If it was a banana,

if that was a home game, Place would have went crazy. Whenever I tackled Trendan Holiday, every time I made a tackle, Place made noise.
But when I tackled Trendon Holiday, Place went.

Pretty ape shit. And they were getting the ball at the 50.
Peyton Manning's getting the ball at 50. Yeah,

great return. I completely failed.
I completely failed my job. Everything that we did was wrong.
Supposed to be a touchback. Wasn't a touchback.
Trending holiday gets a massive return.

Nobody's covering shit. They're supposed to be trapped back there because Peyton Manning's very good.
So we're trying to give him a long field.

Now, I think I did have six inside to 20 when it came to punting. I think it was a very long field, maybe the best game I've ever had.

Nonetheless, the kickoff, though, getting all the way out there sucks. This is not good.
This is terrible for all parties. Huge hit.
Place goes crazy. Get to the sideline.
Everybody's like, yeah!

That was ass, bro. That was the worst start that we could possibly have.
You kept him out of the end zone. Yes, you did.

That's the first play of defense. Kickoff.

First play of defense. You set the tone.
I wore a defense jersey

in practice, you you know, if any was on the offense. So that was always

very real. But anytime anybody cheered for a tackle, I was always like, if I'm tackling,

we fucked up pretty good. And that was normally my thought.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Panicking, running through.

And also, let's make sure they think they can get the edge. Yeah.

Always, yeah, we're bait and tackle. We are a fishing shop.
We're going to bait them to think that they can get by, and then we're going to tackle them. I saw somebody for the Buffalo Bills.

Oh. If they're going to do the the bait and tackle.
Derrick Henry. Yeah, you got to make sure.
Any of their safeties. It happened all night long to their safety.

Yeah, you got to be able to close that distance. Correct.
That is the whole entire safety. That could have been Taylor.
Derek turns it on pretty quick. That's a fucking nightmare.
As

a deep defender, a safety, like that's the one Saturday night, that's when you think, especially playing against Derrick Henry, when that fucking hole opens up. 53.

Because you're one of the safeties on kickoff. Like, you know, it's two safeties.
You're the middle safety, pretty much.

When you are that post safety and you got 22 or anybody that looks like this guy coming down the hatchet at you, that is a fucking nightmare. See, for you guys, I think

the runners with the ball have respect for you guys. Okay, so for most kickers and punters, not a lot of respect.
So in warm-ups, I'm trying to give little pieces of intel into their brain.

Like, hey, run right by me. You know, like, run right by me.
I'm slow. I'm on athletic.
So then hopefully in the game, they actually do that. This one's tough.

That one's tough. You come to Phil, come come to Phil, and then he just runs right by you.
That's the

you got to close that sideline. But nonetheless, Derrick Henry's done that to a lot of people.
Oh, yeah. He's done it.
And thank you. For many years, I never had to do that.

King of Manager Planet's got high school. Like the craziest, the craziest fucking stat I heard this weekend.
Yeah.

This guy's in his ninth year in the NFL, has had all these records and still hasn't reached, I think, what is he like 600 yards away? Yeah, I think now he's like 500.

From his high school total, we played like 10, 11 games in high school maybe it like that is absolutely fucking ridiculous he had to be the absolute king oh yeah he had to 13 000 yeah he rushed like 13 eight touchdowns a game yeah 11

so that was midway through the game so he ended up right he finished with what 12 124 yards in high school high school how many touchdowns i assume he had like eight touchdowns 180 probably oh my gosh think about how much fun high school had to be for him

that's why he's so mature he he had everything offered to him whenever he was like 14, squared. All right, let me get past this.
And then he's like in the gym.

He does all the insane workouts and shit. I mean, he's been great since the day we saw him.
That record's been 53.

153 rushing touchdowns. That high school record? Yeah, that high school record got broken.
I'm pretty sure Biden, I thought Naje.

Wasn't there an absurd Najee? So this like the highest.

153 rushing touchdowns over four seasons in a senior year rush for an astounding 4,261 yards and 55 touchdowns.

Pretty good year. Breaking multiple Florida single season records and setting a national single game recording 510 yards in one game.
Jesus.

Yeah, I think Najee Harris broke his record, some of his high school records. Not all.
That's crazy. All right, let's make some picks for tonight's game.
Let's get the hell out of here.

Today is a good day. Great day.
I'm thankful we're here. It's a great game tonight, too.

I agree. NFC North is going to have a lot of implications down the road.
So tonight is very important. The J.J.
McCarthy era starts. The Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams era starts.

Will Kevin O'Connell maintain his his offensive greatness with a brand new quarterback that had to sit out his entire rookie year with an injury? Everybody has said that J.J. McCarthy is a guy.

Will he be tonight? We shall see as he takes on his hometown Chicago Bears. Ben Johnson, there's a new sheriff in town, actually.

More accountability, a little bit more of a hard ass. Will that pay off or will that hurt them? Will he lose the locker room early like other hard asses have if their team doesn't win?

Or will this Chicago Bears team be everything that we hope Caleb Williams could be in his NFL career? The current spread still one and a half. Yes, it is.
Minnesota favored on the road.

Tone, what do you like in this?

I like the over, first and foremost. Okay, think both offenses are going to do well, even though both defenses seemingly will be better from the jump.

Yes, but just the injury news in the secondaries that Schefter talked about. So I kind of like the over in that situation.
And I'm going to...

Go with the Bears. Okay, you like the Bears? Debuts.
I heard you made the picks in the comments section. Somebody made a very nice graphic.
That was a beautiful graphic.

I wish they didn't because I didn't.

I didn't even bring it up. You noticed I didn't even bring it up earlier.
Knew it existed. Didn't want to talk about it.
We're all going to hit the ball and then miss the ball right.

So tonight, though, we can make it up. What have you done for me lately? Who do you like? How do you like it? Oh, remaining, returning D coordinator, Flores.

They did really good against the Bears last year on third down, especially. But you mentioned new Sheriff of Town.
I am. On the Caleb Williams is going to be good with Ben Johnson train.

But I'm not going against my my former teammate, KOC. I think J.J.
McCarthy shows up, and Justin Jefferson definitely shows up big time tonight.

So I'm going with the Vikings on the road, getting a big time game on Monday Night Football. 8.15 on ESPN and ABC.
ESPN 2 will have the Manning Brothers in a simulcast.

It should be a magical evening of NSC North football. AJ, are you going with the Minnesota Vikings minus one and a half with D.Butch?

Yes, I am going to take the Minnesota Vikings. I mean, being favored on the road, that's got to be a little bit, I'm sure the Bears are pissed off, and Ben Johnson are pissed off about that.

I think the Bears will be there. I think Caleb will be good.
I just think it might take a little bit of time with Ben Johnson to figure it out. Just like Jared Goff with his new OC and everything.

There's

Jared Goff. Oh.
You remember the Gooflovsko? Guflovsky is what everyone's saying. No!

A lot of people are.

It's the year of Guflavsky. I think it might take a little bit for Caleb and Ben, just from what we've heard.

I think there is greatness in there, but just like everybody else is saying, and if you want to use us as motivation, you certainly can. I'll take the Vikings as well.
All right.

we'll be back tomorrow. We can't wait.
We're so thankful for all of you. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice that might change our life.
Football season's back. Let's enjoy it all.
Team on me.

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