PMS 2.0 1405 - JJ Watt, In The Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, Andrew Santino, & AJ Hawk

Beautiful people and welcome to our Humble Boat, the Thunderdome on this White Wednesday, September 10th, 2025.

This program begins now.

Football is magical, and we're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat about it.

Tomorrow night, Commanders Packers will obviously be on prime, kicking off another fantastic full weekend of fantastic football from beginning to end, just like week one of the NFL season.

And just like since the beginning of college football season, football has been showing up in a big way.

Two massive upcoming NFL generational superstars will battle as Michael Parsons will hopefully uptick in the amount of plays that he plays on the defensive side.

And then for the Commanders, is Cliff Kingsbury going to continue to cook on that offensive side?

Terry McLaurin, Debo Samuel even got into the pay dirt a little bit.

They're obviously on a mega run from the depths of hell that they used to be in Washington to what they have become.

And then the Green Bay Packers, is this the year?

LaFleur Guthikuntz, head coach, GM, have not been given extensions.

New president of operations over there, Carmen Polissey, who used to run the San Francisco 49ers.

His boy, Ed Polissey, is the man who made the massive trade for Michael Parsons.

He's also the man who has said, we'll see how this year goes to see who's going to be wearing the cheese heads going forward for this particular organization.

Massive game, massive implications, and massive opportunities for both these teams to maybe change into their own little dynasty.

Before we get there, we got a lot to talk about today.

And we call it Watt Wednesday because JJ

will be joining us.

Obviously, he'll be a first ballot Hall of Famer whenever he is eligible here in a couple years.

He's calling games this year, traveling around.

His first game was Jets versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Obviously, his brother was in that game.

And he

dwarfed the guy.

Come on, man.

So Cecilia

happened here to Iron Eagle, and that's not fair because they had Ian Iron standing further away from the camera it appears as if the camera's a little bit left here natural implications if you're further away from something going a little smaller especially with a lens amplifying it so i eagle got put in a bad spot here with that being said it's a good reminder that jj watt

is not from here yeah

he is very very very tall very very very large very very explosive and very very handsome with brand new hair that the world seemingly loved i feel like it was a a seamless.

You really put the best photo you could find of him.

Yeah.

And I'm sure he was very thankful for that, Con man.

You put him over because obviously the hair combos been good.

He crushed it, I think is what everybody's saying.

Excited for him to go forward this year and excited he's here on this Wednesday.

We also have the talks at the table here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

We have nine-year NFL vet Darius J.

Butler who will be having everything DB, Good D, Bad D's first episode today, later this hour.

Is there going to be any shockers on there, D.

Butch, or is it status quo from last season on who's playing some good d and who's got that bad d out there uh it shouldn't be any shockers some really really good plays obviously a lot of football uh play all teams are in action so you probably miss some so we the ones that we kind of talked about we already shown probably won't see those on there but there'll be some good ones mostly good

But you got to talk about the bad.

Yeah, what team's going to be on the bad D?

Maybe it's the Miami Dolphins because they just got absolutely smoked.

We'll see that at the end of this first hour.

Can't wait for that.

And joining us for the first time since last year.

He was offered plenty of opportunities to come in here.

See if he wanted to talk a little bit, hang out during the offseason.

He said, I got to train the next generation of offensive linemen in my backyard.

I got to put him through the workout in the shipyard, in my backyard.

He's a 12-year NFL vet.

He's a Super Bowl champion player coach, like he's Jackie Moon.

And he's a host of Indy Trenches.

Ladies and gentlemen, back for another year.

AQ Shapley.

I am so pumped to be back with you boys.

This is awesome.

Yeah, see, right now you're getting sicili on it.

See, see, this is because you're further away from the camera and that thing is really far down low.

You are kind of

still.

Still, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And also, we will point it out because a lot of people are thinking it and they might be scared to say it.

We'll say it.

Yes, AQ is a much happier person at this moment than he was a couple years ago.

Sure.

Okay.

AQ is fully being AQ.

There for a while, there's a little identity crisis.

Okay, we all saw it.

We're all part of it.

Why are you saying it?

Because he's smiling more?

New specs?

No, because I'm eating Reese's cups and carbs again.

That is exactly why.

Remember when he retired, he was going to be super healthy.

He was going to do a martial on the way.

He was going to go.

He was wrestling people in billionaires' basements.

That's right.

He was in fight clubs with Jay Glazer.

He was just celebrating Wiscola for his 38th birthday.

It was the coolest party I've ever seen.

That looked like Brett Michaels.

Yeah, but AQ was fighting him in a basement.

He was, you know, meal prepping.

He was eating all meat.

He had this weird stuff.

He was carrying around red light therapy thing.

He was, he was, I think he was actually backpacking cold tubs around the country so he could cold tub and get an old thing.

It was a lot.

And we were all very supportive.

I think we were, right?

Yeah, he looked great.

As he withered away into this marathon-looking runner, as he was doing in the trenches, talking about offensive line on this particular program, kind of combating himself a little bit with how in good of shape he looked.

Looked like he could have been a running back.

Yeah, maybe even a fullback out.

But instead, he became a super fit, super healthy, not as happy guy.

sure

now it appears as if he's all the way back and we'd like to let you know

we are happy as hell for you welcome back

welcome back

trying to look closer than i did in uh that trenchies trophy so is that too far don't go that far if you get that there i think you're really and you guys said you were supportive i remember you guys every day every day i walked in here I mean, what are you doing?

You look miserable.

Stop this.

What are we doing?

Who would do that?

Everyone.

Everyone.

You were supportive.

That's still a buddy.

I mean, you were taking 27 fish pills a day.

I was going to say that.

I'm still doing that.

Maybe counteracting it by eating Reese's cups and carbs and all the other things I'm doing.

I like that.

You're going to get a little Reese's deal right now?

I don't mind that.

It dropped it a couple times.

I just lost it.

Hey, I'm eating a lot of chocolate and peanut butter.

I'm eating a lot of chocolate and peanut butter.

Mitt actually introduced me to protein ice cream.

Boy, that suck.

What?

Boy, that was a false bill of goods if I've ever tasted one.

Steve O'Connor, I feel like you've never done like the, I'm going to try to eat healthy, what that normally tastes like, which is cardboard.

Yeah, yeah, it's the Quest Cookie era.

Believe me, I know exactly what it tastes like.

And it ain't ice cream.

Yeah, you're right.

Quest Cookie really changed the game.

And you know who else did?

For 88 years, there's been a company that's been alongside College Ball, the oldest pop in America.

Dr.

Pepper, good to see you guys.

Yeah, Doc.

Is it game day?

Feels like it.

Is it Saturday?

Not currently.

Well, also, not unless you're drinking dr.

Pepper.

Okay, grab something today make it feel like a game day Make it feel like a Saturday get you a dr.

Pepper.

Hell yeah.

I love dr.

Pepper.

I do too.

Wait, I gotta wait till Saturday drink it no no no no no no no of course not

hurt.

Do you want to feel like

a game day like a like a college football Saturday go ahead and grab yourself a Dr.

Pepper?

That's what I'm talking about.

Gotcha.

Dr.

Pepper you think

College ball.

That's what you think because I think you see he's I was I was just there.

I was sitting on my couch.

Holy shit, game day is on, and it's it's almost over.

And now I'm about to watch college football for 10 hours, and I got an ice-cold 12-pack of Dr.

Pepper.

And then, what's on the other side over there?

Over here?

Yeah.

What are you mixing with that, Dr.

Pepper, maybe?

Well, at noon, depending on what kind of day we're looking at, you might have a booze cocktail.

Maybe you have Jack Daniels sitting right there, and you're going to do a little Dr.

Daniels mixture at some point.

But noon might be a little earlier for that.

But if it's Saturday, wait a minute.

Yeah, I think I will have the.

I think I will have the.

Thanks for keeping your eyes closed.

I had to.

I was just sitting there.

I was doing it.

I was doing what I'm going to do on Saturday.

Dude, shout out to Dr.

Pepper just making you live that type of thing.

I know.

I know.

You were able to close your eyes.

You were there.

Yeah.

I will say that was what Adam Veneteri was able to do that he taught me, I think.

And not able to lock in as good as him, but like he could turn a practice rep in his mind into a.

Super Bowl game winner.

Like people would say that.

I think whenever you're a kid, three, two,

one, and you're doing it.

And you just kind of do it.

There's like levels to being able to do that.

Quite a skill set.

Adam Vinatari was able to like actually put himself into that moment in practice.

It was one of the things Jim Caldwell preached the most.

It's like, put yourself in there.

If you already have the rep or the game winner in practice, then in the game, whenever it shows up, you've been there before.

You only get a certain amount of opportunities at that entire thing.

They talk about Tiger Woods being able to visualize the course and like what he's able to do.

I think Tom and Peyton were very much into that.

I assume Serena was as well.

Gretzky, it's like I watched Vinatieri do do that, and I tried my best to get in there every once in a while.

I mean, all those guys are great and gals.

When it comes to visualizing, though, it's only

one person in the top of that list.

I mean, obviously, Ty,

I felt that I was there.

That's what I was about to say.

I think you are an elite Dr.

Pepper, Jack Daniels drinker there.

Yeah, I've done that many times.

But the creator of this map, I don't know,

that is the creme de la creme when it comes to visualization.

He's talking New York Giants starter week one, Russell Wilson.

Drew Brees?

Obviously, because he was able to, yeah, Drew Brees did the in practice.

Yeah, the whole first 15 on it.

I appreciate and respect everybody that's able to do that.

We'll talk to J.J.

Watt.

I assume he was doing that.

There's more videos coming around the internet hitting the algorithms again of him mic'd up from when he played.

Yeah, he was a menace.

He was taller than you, stronger than you, faster than you, richer than you.

More handsome than you.

And he was talking about that the entire time to you.

He was even calling to huddles, hey, this tackle ain't it.

And this guy's standing right there, there.

You wanted it, buddy.

You got it.

Get a new tackle in there.

Then they would chip him.

He'd say, oh, two guys.

Like he was a problem.

So now that he's a commentator, you know, now that he's got his good hair.

Oh, yeah.

He's on here every Wednesday.

It's nice to see the duality of man.

Yeah.

Isn't it?

More like duality of monster.

Sure.

If that's what he was.

I can't wait to catch up with him.

AQ, I also can't wait to hear what your big takeaways were from week one of the NFL season because by this point on Wednesday, we've hit things pretty hard on Monday Monday and Tuesday.

Now we get an opportunity to hear from you what the big takeaways were that we should be talking about a little bit more in your eyes.

It's time for AQ takeaways.

Let's go to week one.

He said

the thing that needed to be talked about?

How about Sean McVay playing chess out there?

How about McVay's Gambit?

Now, I don't know exactly what this means, but I do know this is a brilliant way to describe somebody that's playing chess.

I watch Queen's Gambit, and that's where I picked up the close Sicilian every once in a while.

I'm a noted checkers player, just trying to get kinged out here, and then I'll turn around and I'll try to do it again.

But the chess players, when they're setting something up, I believe is what you're referring to, and Sean McVay's back on his bullshit, is what you're saying.

Absolutely.

When you watch him, we talk about this all the time.

There's coordinators that call plays, and there's coordinators that call games.

And when you look at Sean McVay, he is setting something up.

Sometimes in the first quarter, for something that happens in the fourth quarter, this is the last three plays of the game.

They have to close it out.

They have to seal the game.

They're up 14 to 9.

Two by two, they send motion.

Puka Makua or Puka Nakua inserts right there.

When we go to the next play, it's going to be the exact same look.

Two by two, motion Puka in.

He's going to insert for the safety.

Looks the exact same.

Run duo.

Two double teams at the point of attack.

Wait a minute.

Everything looks the same, right?

Now we're going to do it again.

Got to close the game out.

Two by two.

Motion Nakua in.

Guess what?

Not going to block this time.

Bluff, CEO.

Got him.

Got him.

Got him.

Winner-winner-chicken dinner right there.

So you're saying that obviously that's not the only example of that, but that is just a clear example all happening very quickly of somebody literally doing something just to show you something.

If we have success on this plate, cool.

That would be cool.

But really, this is just a show, you show, you show, you get you baiting.

You're baiting butter, basically.

You're bait and butter.

And then as soon as you get the opportunity to take advantage of it, obviously Stafford, Puka Nakua, and the talent that they have are going to be able to do that.

I do see Guardian Cap on the offensive line.

Yeah, tough look.

No, yeah, it's a tough team.

It is a tough team and a smart team is what we're referring to there, AQ.

Do you believe in McVay this year?

Do you believe in his Rams team?

I think a lot of people are saying yes.

I have never wavered confidence on Sean McVay.

The guy's an absolute stud.

We talked about it a lot last year.

They lost some talent with injuries last year, but they continue to show, he continues to show him with Matthew Stafford is an absolute weapon.

Okay, I love to hear that.

Matthew Stafford not looking like a clone of himself either, I heard.

No, no, no,

same old Matt.

Yeah, same old Matt, you could argue.

It's the same old Matt Oi.

oi oi not a clone named Matt oi oi oi what was that trailer oi oi oi that all got really weird oi oi oi kind of came out of nowhere oi oi boy but it doesn't matter anymore i guess I guess not.

What was all that?

It got very loud.

It did.

It got very loud.

I was concerned.

I'm glad Dan wasn't.

He was spot on.

You know, he came out, played great.

And to AQ's point, when you're setting that shit up as a defense, and it's only week one now, so that's the only tape you can watch.

But as the season goes on, when offenses self-scout or defenses are looking at certain cut-ups and clips, that insert block, it's tough as a DB because you have some run responsibility

if that wide receiver gets in there to block.

You have to fit off of him.

So once those eyes are just off him for one second, we know how great Puka is in space and how great Matt is in and outside the pocket.

It's a big time play and a big time moment.

So that's very, very tough on the defense when when it comes to between the ears and reading your keys.

And we haven't really even chatted about Devontae Adams being out there.

No, well, yeah, and Stafford said to him after the game, like, hey, we're going to get better at this because they haven't gotten many reps.

Like, how long until that is full throttle?

And then him, Puka, Devontae, they really didn't even play their second-round pick, the tight end Ferguson from

Oregon that they drafted.

So it's one of those things where, like, the Rams, you know, they're 1-0 against a really good Texans team.

They might run the table in the West.

People kind of down on Texans.

I think they need to remember who this Rams team is.

Rams, you know, West Coast, obviously, so that's going to be a massive piece of it.

And also, Philadelphia Eagles from the NFC win the Super Bowl.

So everybody's just kind of talking about them coming out of that conference for good reason, by the way.

The Philadelphia Eagles are still the Philadelphia Eagles.

I respect that.

But they had their biggest issue last year whenever they were playing their best ball with this Los Angeles Rams team, who we thought was potentially going to go through multiple different rebuilding eras.

And they haven't.

They've just maintained through the entirety.

Sean McVeigh is a damn good ball coach and matthew stafford is a beast all right what's the second takeaway from aq shipley's brain well it's how about there might be a storm war

yeah storm warning potentially but a storm war and this guy's everywhere

i mean i mean he is and his hair is spectacular is it obviously like well kept no It's got a little bounce to the ounce down there.

That thing might look like a little bird's nest at some times.

It's certainly flowing all over his headband at the beginning.

He's got this gigantic though, but massive head.

And we all know on this particular program, size of head does matter.

And the bigger, the better whenever it comes to football.

That is a compliment.

And we have A.J.

Hawk, obviously, on here every single day.

When you talk about large craniums as a compliment and a weapon when it comes to football, he is maybe godfather of that entire thing.

This guy is a Sasquatch, and I love the fact that he's one of your takeaways.

What's the storm warren for the rest of the NFL?

When you talk about Tyler Warren, he's an absolute dude.

We talked about him from day one when he was at Penn State, how good he was.

I remember, remember coming in and telling you how good he was.

UIC game, if I recall, that was where he had that 16 receptions.

Yeah, yeah, that was when he said, hello, I'm bigger, stronger, faster, more athletic than everybody else on your field.

And then in the Notre Dame game, not a receiver caught a single pass.

He was the entire offense.

And when you look at him, Indianapolis Colts, week one, he was everything.

Right here, runs runs a wheel route.

They went to him early and often.

And not only was he just at tight end catching the football, he was everywhere.

Motions into fullback right now.

Let's give it to him on third and one.

Watch this.

Fullback dive right in the middle.

Boom.

Get three yards.

Next play.

Good fundamentals there in that hand though.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Good fundamentals.

Next play.

Let's put him on the backside.

He's at the wing.

Check this out.

Climb up on the safety.

Climb.

Climb.

Keep going.

Keep driving.

Keep straightening.

Take him into the end zone.

Jeez.

Tyler Ward.

Ward.

Then guess what?

Let's put him opposite, send him in motion, go a little naked hide, get it to him out in space, feel, get up, field, get another 10 yards.

15-yard gain that should have been a two-yard gain.

Guy's unbelievable.

Wow.

It's the best.

He's very tall, and he's very athletic.

They said he was maybe not as fast coming in the combine.

Is that what it was?

Who cares?

Guy's 6'6 ⁇ , 270 can block, can catch, can take the snap under center, run the quarterback sneak, can run fullback duck.

He can do everything.

I like the chain steichen immediately was like, hey, we got a guy.

Let's go ahead and use it.

I like that Danny Dimes did the same exact thing.

Only going to help out everybody else.

Michael Pittman, all of a sudden, his life's getting a lot easier.

Yeah.

All of a sudden, Michael Pittman, Josh Dones, we get him start

working a little bit.

His life gets a lot easier.

Jonathan Taylor's life gets a lot easier.

Everybody's life, including every fan in Indianapolis, gets easier if your tight end is a stud like this.

I love it.

I love everything about Tyler Warren.

There's something about that look, Foxy.

If you could just pop up the photo of him.

When a player player has a brow like that, where there's like a mini fupa on your on the middle of your eyebrow, that should be kind of studied because it feels as though if you have that, you are damn near, you know, your chances to be a successful, you know, first-round pick, a successful football player, seem to double.

I've never seen it where it doesn't work for people.

Yeah, if your face grows a guardian cap on the front of it, naturally,

it feels like that's probably like, hey, this skull is built for battering.

And he's smarter.

I mean, you talk about the instincts of getting upfield right there.

I mean, his brain might be.

That's like Gronk.

You know, the more Gronk talks post-retirement and they're like, hey, in your combine meetings, he said, they told me a play and then he asked me to go draw it up on the board.

I can't do that for you, buddy.

But then they talk about Gronk on the field and they're like, Gronk's football IQ.

Through the roof.

Sense of feel, his ability to understand what's going on.

I guess Tom would tell him a lot of things, but then once it gets out there, that's Gronk just understanding ball, just like natural instinct.

I think he was a savant, I think some people would say and when it comes to the football world you were saying like there were some things he was doing where it was like hey his feel for football is real obviously that cutback yeah that was that's a natural feel just being able to do that and he's way too big to have that in his bag in his first game you're saying there was a couple other things as well that happened throughout the game yeah there was a couple plays where he was not at the point of attack or he was not catching the football and maybe they had a high low route the guy underneath makes the catch he immediately turns and starts blocking i mean that is all feel that's something you see from a travis kelce a george kittle somebody who's done this for seven, eight years and really a true veteran.

But when you see a rookie doing that, he's just got a great feel for the game.

First game, Shane Steichen's going to love him.

All right, what's the last big takeaway you think that should we have a little bit more conversation about?

Oh,

Josh Allen's not human.

But you see, there's an I

through the

up of the second L.

Josh Hayes.

But it's still an L, though.

You see, because he's an AOL.

Oh, that's a UFO.

Boom.

You see the UFO.

That doesn't look exactly the same as the one that got hit by the Hellfire ballistic missile.

Right.

That was on Good Morning America today.

But similar, though, when he gets hit, he just keeps on trucking along.

Yeah, you're right.

You can send a missile, saw it in half, and just

gather my bearings here and then just keep on rolling it.

That's the best you guys got.

Okay, that's cool.

Right outside of Yemen, too.

What's going on?

What's going on?

What's going on?

What's going on?

We don't need to get into that.

No, but we need to get into that.

But maybe this,

maybe.

He's won.

Yeah, maybe he's won.

We have to consider it.

And I think for a lot of reasons, he's so handsome.

How about how good he just got at football?

Yeah.

Great hair.

He's out in the middle of a farm out in California.

Okay.

One of those.

Let's go put him out on 10,000 acres out there.

Then he goes to Wyoming.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then he's just what?

The fastest, strongest, can throw the ball the furthest quarterback.

And he has the greatest work work ethic every offseason.

He only gets better and better and better and better and better.

Likely story.

And he says all the right things.

Now he's marrying a movie star.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Very interesting.

Isn't it?

It is.

And he goes to Buffalo, lovely.

What?

Something's up.

Something's going on.

Something's up with this guy.

It is.

Yeah.

Why do you think we should talk about it?

Because it did just kind of start to settle.

He's been right in front of us this whole time.

We talk about Elon, obviously.

Elon, obviously.

Like four different genres of business.

Hey, I'm coming in and I'm smarter and better than you.

He doesn't actually build it.

Okay.

Okay.

Steve Jobs.

Yeah.

LeBron.

Yeah.

I mean, is he just going to be great forever?

He's in his own Hall of Fame.

He's cool.

It's crazy.

It's crazy.

He might go to the Hall of Fame again.

I mean, he might pick up a coaching tattoo.

He might go as a Hall of Fame coach while he's still playing.

Owner.

Might be a scratch golfer next something.

Guaranteed.

Could be.

His swing has gotten much better.

That first time, obviously, he was like, all right.

Much better.

Yeah, it's tough at 6'8.

Something else.

But this guy might be.

This guy might be.

We need to think about this a little bit stronger.

Yeah, especially like when, if you are an alien like Josh is, him being kind enough to lose all the biggest games so that people don't catch on.

That's alienation.

Okay, is that what you, is that why?

Is that why we're not talking about him anyway?

That's part of it.

My man BA said yesterday he might have wrapped up the MVP in week one, and he might have.

I mean, there's some clips in this game that are super impressive.

Right here, poised, backed up, in his own end zone.

Don't panic.

Step up, move around.

Up, shovel.

There's second and 18.

Let's just pick up 20 on a simple shovel pass.

He never panics.

Everything is so smooth with him.

Right here.

Look at this out route.

Unbelievable.

Just drops it in a bucket.

There's under a minute left.

There's under a minute left.

This is the last drive of the game.

We need points.

Check this one out.

A little seam ball.

Hey, we need points here.

Third quarter.

This is down to the throw.

Down to the one.

Down to the one.

That was third string tight end, too.

Third string tight end.

I mean, it's unbelievable.

He is so good at football.

He's always poised.

Every throw is perfect when you need him to be.

Throws for almost 300 yards in the fourth quarter.

He's basically the MVP already.

It's incredible.

That game was insane.

That was a great way to start the NFL season, certainly, for primetime.

And then Monday night football backs it up again with J.J.

McCarthy potentially coming into his own in the fourth quarter in the Vikings era maybe kicking off officially with the kid from Michigan leading it but Josh Allen last year winning the MVP I think everybody's like okay you know that makes sense and now with him starting it he's already won the MVP he's already been the guy that everybody's calling the prototype this is the blueprint this is what we're looking for good luck finding it because everything we just said about him he's a cowboy he's an actual cowboy and a rancher happier is just loves football let's not forget too when he first came into the league he was not accurate he was stunk yeah he was was he stunk at throwing the football

he was doing a lot of things way differently than he's doing right now so it's um

i don't know if there's pitchers that throw it really hard but i have no idea where it's going yes absolutely hayden hurst okay so hayden hurst he couldn't hit he couldn't throw a damn strike after getting drafted to play baseball that sucks for him i'm happy tight end for football ended up working out for him but for kicking you know i guess i could be classified as this guy And there's a lot like me, really strong legs.

So every once in a while, you're not going to be able to control it as good as somebody that doesn't have as strong of a leg.

It's like he was like that as a quarterback.

Really strong arm, but we didn't know where the hell it was going.

Overthrowing people by a lot, missing people.

It's put in the first row of the stands.

We're throwing picks because it's off a little bit those first couple years.

And everybody's thinking, like, is this guy just going to run and jump over people the entire time?

He's going to be a running quarterback.

Is that what you're going to do?

And then the work ethic.

and the diligence to change your entire form and lock in and become fundamentally sound while being a professional athlete, while getting paid the most amount of money that you've ever been paid in your entire life.

For him to like lock in on that, get the lasers on his shit and turn into a fundamentally sound and like perfect operating quarterback, it's like, that's a lot of humility.

That's a lot of everything.

That's, that's a lot of leadership.

I mean, that's just like, it's unbelievable.

That's why the Anthony Richardson conversation

was like, hey, this guy, back foot 70 yards, no problem.

But then he'll miss a layup.

He'll miss these other ones.

He'll throw somebody out of bounds.

If he goes and does this laser thing that Josh Allen did, it's going to be the same type of results.

And it's like, I don't know if it was because we didn't really get a chance to see as much whenever it comes to that.

But we know for Josh Allen, every offseason he changed his shit and he just got better and better and better.

They also got him weapons,

right?

Like getting Stephon Diggs up there was a big deal early in his career to get him a guy that he could throw to.

Then whenever Stephon leaves, Shakir becomes the guy last year.

Kincaid, they drafted to play him at wide receiver.

Keon Coleman

is seemingly the guy for them whenever they need it.

Great number, too.

I love what he's doing.

But yeah, I love this Buffalo Bills team.

I love Josh Allen.

And they have invested in guys, but they still don't have that true

number one.

And it feels like he's in the way, you know, Rodgers was for a long time there in Green Bay.

It didn't matter.

Year after year, it's just another guy, and boom, you know, he's going to end the season with 800 yards and seven touchdowns.

And it seems like that's the trajectory Josh Allen's on right now.

Like, no matter who they get, he's going to find him in the offense, and they're going to have a great year, and maybe they get paid and go somewhere else, but they're they're just never quite as good when they don't have Josh Adams.

Was it you that said they weren't going to win?

Uh, that their window was closed.

No, you said something about him being human and losing a game.

No, no, no, I said something about how, like, it's sweet that he is an alien and he's this good, and then he decides, like, hey, I don't want everyone to know I'm an alien.

So, in the biggest moment, like, it's like he has super strength, like, he can't win all the world's heaviest, you know,

you give it away.

It's like the Olympics for that guy who's a sniper.

There you go, exactly.

Yeah, the serial killer CIA guy who was in the Olympics.

You know, with the glasses on he just, let me move just,

I'll take second, I guess.

Yeah, exactly.

Same exact thing.

Like, he's the flash, but he can't run the 100-meter in track.

You know, he can't win gold.

He's got to come in second.

That's fascinating because maybe he doesn't want to give it away.

But that Buffalo Bills team,

AFC Championship, have they made it to?

Yeah, last year.

Okay.

Right.

How many?

They

were three, I think, because they lost

Mahomes' first Super Bowl where they beat the Niners.

They're in the AFC Championship then.

Their second Super Bowl where they beat the Eagles the first time was

that Baltimore on the road, right?

Whatever the case, if they were to win a couple Super Bowls here, would this entire thing be considered a dynasty?

Like, because AFC Championship, the amount of playoffs, would they count that before?

Or would it not be until they win one?

Because if they would start doing the entire thing, well, they've been an AFC Championship, AFC playoff, they win a Super Bowl.

Price still not tell you when one.

You definitely have to win, but I'm saying that.

But I'm saying, how many years would they say this is?

Three of the next five would they take 10 years and say, hey, yeah, hey, this is what they did for the entire thing because of the success that they've had.

They've always made it to the playoffs.

They had home field advantage for their playoffs.

They obviously tricked that off with Patrick Mahomes coming in there in a snowstorm, Travis Kelsey doing a thing against them.

And we all saw the entirety of it.

But it's like, they are, we all think, what, one play, two plays away from being in the Super Bowl every single year?

Didn't Dan Osay like eight plays away from being like two-time Super Bowl champs or something like that?

I mean, you just think about his dad.

He says a lot of stuff.

This is his version of the Bills, but like what this franchise has been through, and we know their fan base.

Deep One, welcome to the Bills Mafia.

But going to four straight Super Bowls and losing them all, and now, you know, not even being able to get over to that hump to get to another one.

If he does get to the big game and win it, he'll be a king forever up there.

Oh, yeah, in that new stadium, too.

Brand new stadium.

Hey, that thing looks so nice.

I don't know how Buffalo people feel about it.

I don't know how Bills fans feel about it.

But whenever it gets spotlighted, like, hey, here's what the future looks like.

And here's what old stadiums used to look like.

Thank you to these stadiums.

Okay.

You guys got us to the place that we're at right now.

Just like the OG NFL players, just like everybody that laid the foundation for this league that we currently have.

But look at this thing that we're able to build now.

You know, that Tennessee Titans' new stadium information is coming out.

Do you see that?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, boy.

Okay.

Yeah.

We should have assumed this was the case, but with this, a lot of funding from the taxpayers.

Yep.

Most ever, okay, coming from the taxpayers, 1.2 billion, I do believe.

They're giving like 700 million, I think, or 800.

Let me see what it is.

Carado, 840 million, okay.

So they're giving 840 million, 1.2 billion is coming from the public.

This is going to be a really nice stadium.

This can be a nice venue.

This also means the city owns it.

Yeah.

Okay.

If they're giving that much money, the city is going to run it, I would assume.

This happened in Indianapolis.

In Indianapolis, the city of Indianapolis runs Lucas Oil Stadium.

And whenever they were looking for a potential home for the AFC AFC championship they needed a dome that was in close proximity to both teams that were playing.

We were literally the perfect spot for it here in Indianapolis.

So everybody was naturally saying, hey, just do it here in Indianapolis, do it here in Indianapolis.

And the city that has control of the stadium, because they offered up as much money as they offered up through taxpayers' dollars, we got a volleyball tournament actually.

Yeah, big one.

They bring 40,000 kids here every year.

Are you guys doing AFC championship here again next year?

Or we're looking at the roster.

I don't know if we are.

So

that was basically how that goes.

So do I believe that billionaires should pay for their own shit?

Yes.

Yes, 1,000%.

Do I believe New Stadium and NFL brings a lot to every city that they're a part of?

Yes.

So I think there is an argument to be made about what it brings back, the return on investment from taxpayer dollars versus where other taxpayer dollars potentially go to versus an NFL stadium.

But with that being said, with Nashville being country music home and the amount of concerts and everything that they have, I think think CMA Fest happens at Nissan Stadium already.

I think they got a lot of stuff that takes place there.

I hope that this becomes a beneficial thing for the entire city of Nashville, which is an amazing place.

I love that city.

I love its weather because it does get cold, but it does get warm.

I love its vibes.

I love everything about Nashville.

That's why I hope Cam Ward's a guy, which everybody's saying he is.

And I hope this Tennessee Titans team can get good.

I don't know if it's possible in the short near future, but I'm pulling for it for Nashville.

And that new stadium looks nasty.

Well, and the revenue from the Super Bowl weeks.

Like, if we were to go back and look at the last, you know, five Super Bowl weeks in these cities, every time after the Super Bowl, it gets announced, like, the Super Bowl generated $300 million.

Like, I forget what it was exactly for New Orleans this past year, but I remember the number being massive.

So, if they build a state-of-the-art stadium, which they will, from if they host two Super Bowls in 10 years, it'll be worth it for all those businesses.

around it, even though the taxes do blow.

Nashville Super Bowl would be insane.

The draft was great when it was out there a few years back, but a Nashville Super Bowl, like a whole week out, that would be awesome.

Nashville is ready for it.

Yeah.

They host every weekend.

Have multiple parts of the city that are ready for it.

And then when you talk about Super Bowl and entertainment and parties and everything that's happening, it's like be able to have live music

at the highest level.

Nashville is a great city.

They're in the AFC South.

Obviously,

that's going to be a hard road.

Not Danny Dimes has anything to say about it.

That's right.

Danny Dimes actually owns four tons in the AFC South.

Obviously, he's got Jacksville yet to be determined, but we think he will.

Liam Cohen's a damn good coach down there.

Really good coach.

You really like Liam Cohen?

I really do.

He comes from McVeigh, so he's doing the same stuff.

And then Stoner, the young GM, he's aggressive out there.

And Shad Kahn.

Best owner in sports right now, Shad Kahn.

Well, the big three have something to say about that here in Indianapolis.

Yeah, but are they afterwards holding the ball and say, hey, we just won our first game and it's going to last forever?

No, they're not.

Run it, please.

This is what we envisioned in January, okay?

It's dirt.

It's happening here in September.

Gonna go on forever.

That's right, I love it.

Had a good promo in there.

I love that.

He knew the audience.

He read the audience.

I know what we're doing here.

We're going to do this forever.

This night never ends, man.

I hope that happens.

I love Sean Kahn.

He has invested a lot to them.

I do hope they play well, but it's Danny Dimes time.

And sorry, Houston Texans.

I know you had a tough one against the Rams.

People are ruining you out.

And Domico Ryan's a great head coach.

And his defense is going to be great.

And C.J.

Stroud, we love CJ Stroud.

We think he's supposed to be a guy, but Danny Dimes time.

You know, and they know when they come in the lighthouse, it's going to be tough.

CJ's undefeated there, but you know what I'm saying.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

And then the Tennessee Titans.

If the town could play, we'd be in trouble.

Good town.

Great town.

Broadway comes out there.

Losers, Riley's duck blind comes onto the field.

Yep.

John Daly's bar lined up at fullback.

Yeah, right.

We'd be in trouble.

We'd be in big, let alone you go down Music Row and you just see all the music, basically, that you've ever listened to your entire life.

That house wrote that.

That house wrote that.

Right there has this right now, currently that.

In that room right there, probably somebody writing four number one hits right now.

That's Nashville in a nutshell.

That city is fucking legendary.

Their football team, though, just hasn't really been able to get going for a while.

You know, and that's Cam Ward seemingly the guy.

Yeah, if Callahan's coaching the city, though, I think the Colts will still be okay.

Yeah, I didn't like a lot of the things he said, but yeah, he's hard-nose football guy.

I think he's hysterical, but not for the right reasons.

All right, let's talk about some awesome things happening in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

I don't know if you got a chance to see the clip of Aaron Rodgers watching Jalen Ramsey hit Garrett Wilson

to win the game against his old team that kicked him out of the building.

Did he say F you to them?

Do you think that was F yeah?

F out of here, I thought so.

Okay.

Can I say one more time?

Yeah, let's run it.

He's on the bottom here.

I mean, that's some real fire out of a 40-plus-year-old.

Let's go wherever we go.

I think F yeah, man.

Yeah, it's fired up.

We got the, you know, we got the old school.

Yeah.

That was just, you know, anytime you can get a win against your own ball club, I don't care.

Two years, 13 years.

Anytime you can get a win, that's huge.

41 years old, that much passion.

Jalen Ramsey, one of the new additions to the team, making the big play.

Let's go to Hammer.

Done.

Tone.

To one half of the Hammer.

Don.

Cowboys, AP Tone.

Tone, everything coming out of Pittsburgh.

It seems up and up.

Aaron Rodgers showing that much passion.

Feels like it's been a while since we've seen that out of him.

See, the cool thing is that me and Aaron had the exact same reaction at the exact same time to that hit.

I yelled.

I woke my daughter up from a nap.

Wife wasn't super happy about it, but that's a football season.

But no, you talked about all the new guys making plays and being awesome.

DK was awesome.

Aaron was awesome.

Johnny Smith had a touchdown.

Jalen Ramsey with the huge breakup there.

So it's like...

It's really cool to see the offseason additions when you're going all in, actually paying out and working week one.

And hopefully that continues to be the thing for this season.

So this game had a fumble on a kickoff return.

Oh, yeah.

That was big momentum swift change, I guess.

That guy won the game for the Jets a couple years ago whenever Aaron got hurt on September 11th, 2023, I guess that would be.

When Aaron went down on the fourth play offensive and then they end up winning that thing with a big-time return.

Xavier Gibson was the one that did that.

Xavier Gibson was the one that fumbled the other day.

He's been fired.

Yep.

Damn.

Easy coming, easy going, the NFL.

You might win a game a couple of years ago.

What have you done for me today?

You fumbled, and they scored 14 points very quickly in this whole game change.

Get the hell out of our building.

That's the NFL in a nutshell.

In this business, that is

how that thing goes.

Exactly.

Now, returners, though, are being valued.

at a much higher clip tone.

You know, we saw the stat.

It's been reported by multiple people.

29.1 yard line drive start average.

So obviously, whenever the touchback was at the 25 a lot was there it was at 30 you know there were some returns whenever they moved the touchback to 35 yard line we all knew that that would draw more returns what it has done is make the best field drive or field position start for teams that's good news for the nfl that's what the nfl wants and uh you're seeing a little bit more focus on these returns you saw the philadelphia eagles make a trade for tank bigsby who's a running back for the jacksonville jaguars everybody's like well he's not that good of a running back it's like he's a good returner so that's literally why they traded for him.

I think that's becoming a weapon tone for teams.

It is.

And all the games I saw on Sunday where every kicker was trying to put it between the 10 and the zero,

I didn't see anyone just being like, all right, hey, we'll give up the 30-yard line or whatever.

35.

35, except for the Bears, and they couldn't kick it out of the back of the end zone.

So that's something they'll have to deal with.

But no, it was awesome to see.

Like, every single game.

It's not like, hey, okay,

score, extra point, kickoff.

We got like five minutes before we have to be back here it's immediate action all the time though yeah i think so i think what they were looking for is good and i think some of these kickers are gonna have to figure it out somebody uh landing it at the one

is like the perfect long kick so whenever you see that know that that's not easy to do unless the guy's strongest kick is to the one, which is like a dude perfect setup.

You know, and dude perfect, which by the way, we like dude perfect and we are impressed by dude perfect.

I don't care what other people think about dude perfect.

They accomplish some incredible shit.

Like it is, and their vibes always immaculate.

But if you throw the ball, let's say you could throw it 52 yards, your full max throw.

Well, then you can put something there, you know, and then if you throw a max throw, it should be there.

You know, that's like easily kind of rigging something or setting something up.

So unless guys natural kicks just come down to one, that's all feel that guys are having to do for a lot of these NFL guys.

So whenever you see one that's like right at the one, know that I was not good at that.

That was not something that I was going to be able to do.

That's like the King Bradley ear to ear.

Ear to ear.

That's exactly what that is.

But it's hard because you're not swinging it.

You know, I don't know.

It's very, very, it's a good skill.

Now, if you see those landing at the eight to the 10, that's a massive deficit.

Like, that is a bad kick.

Like, that is a bad kick.

And then if you see the guys that are trying to get that thing to land and then squirt through, like, that's the A kick.

The A ball is an ugly ass kick that hits the landing zone and then squeaks through for a touchback because that's at the 20.

It's like, that's the goal is to do that.

But if you hit that thing short of the landing zone, it's at the 40.

So some of those squibs can fucking hit a little bit early, then it's at the 40, like you kick off out of bounds.

I'm intrigued by they should have just put it at the 35 last year.

We would have had this last year because it was supposed to be the touchback comes out to the 35.

So that's going to, you know, hopefully motivate more kicks in, more returns.

And then they softened it at the last minute.

They were like, well, it's only going to go to the 30.

And it's like, well, NFL teams are cool with the 30.

They're not really cool with the 35.

That's, well, it's only five yards.

It's like, yeah, but percentages of scoring here are massively different than what they are.

I think it's worked.

And I'm incredibly pumped for the kickoff

probably remaining in the game for a long, long time.

Yeah, because we thought we were going to see this last year.

And because very rarely is a rule changed where we get to see teams have to react to it and like kind of figure it out in real time, especially something like this where we're, you know, late in the game field position.

Like if you don't execute this, it can really kill you.

And last year, you know, like you said, I mean, Pat, you you said it before the year started.

It's like, okay, well, the penalty is not enough.

Teams are just going to kick it out of the back of the end zone.

And ultimately, in situations when it really mattered, that's what happened.

But we are seeing teams now in real time being like, hey, we have to figure this out.

And we just very rarely do you actually get to see that.

Here we go.

Special teams are going to survive.

Yep.

That's good news.

This guy was a king of the wedge.

Ty got my start.

I was disappointed.

It was going away.

They were trying.

I still don't love

the kickoff.

I want full-tilt old school.

Well, no.

You're saying because we don't have a line of scrimmage here.

This is the only play that doesn't have a line of scrimmage.

Yeah, I like.

Did you see that hit, though?

I think it was the Bears.

There was a D-tackle or a DN, definitely DN, who was on the kickoff team and he de-cleated this dude for the Vikings.

To your point about the squib, a couple of them were successful, but no one consistently got it.

Like there were a few guys who did get it, and then sometimes they landed early.

Can you perfect that?

Like, will someone be able to nail that down?

I think so.

Because for me, I think my squib, if I was to hit it as hard as I possibly could, would land naturally in the landing zone.

The issue with my squib was it went too far, you see.

It wasn't a good squib kicker either.

That was not a, to be clear, I only had a couple balls.

We're going long left.

We're going long right.

We're doing on-site kick right.

We're doing on-site kick left, on-site kick middle, or we're going a long way.

I don't have the, I'm sorry.

I just anxious.

I don't want to do this.

More of a flat flacco.

Yeah, exactly.

And flacco, or if we want to do trick stuff, I'm here.

So all these guys that are able to like hit these other things much better than I am.

But like my squib was too far.

So normally it was caught by the up back.

So it was like a complete not good at all.

We're not on the 40.

This has like a, no, not, it doesn't have,

doesn't get to the, yeah, probably to the 40, but the hang time is like one second.

Yeah.

And they already have the ball and our guys are running down the field.

So my squib was always ass.

Like it was not a good kick forever.

I don't think it ever came.

Anytime it was like called or it was looked at, I literally would say, not good, not going to be good.

And they're like, go do it.

It's like, sweet.

I'm going to either kick this thing out of bounds or they're going to get a big return.

Why are we doing this?

Just let me hit it deeper.

But I would buy in, but my squib would land in that landing zone and then go.

For me, as I'm watching these guys, I'm just like, you should have far squib here.

You got a chance to do it.

But you're going to see guys try to hit little,

like little side spinners.

Like Brandon Aubrey, I'll be excited to see what he does.

He's a great ball striker.

He's a really good.

Boswell, I think, I don't think he'll play around with it too much.

Did he?

Did Boswell miss it?

He was just doing like a casual chip, like trying to get it as deep as he possibly could without getting in the end zone of it.

So he's going to the what the really talented ball strikers will be trying to make that shit dance.

Because that at the 20 versus the 35?

Huge.

I mean,

that is a massive weapon.

Boswe looked like he was swinging like 10%.

He was just very casual, just trying to bloop it and put it right where he was in the five.

Yeah, I was seeing what guys were doing.

I think I would probably just do the three-step thing as well, you know, just to do that if I had to adjust.

But I don't know if any big ball hitters love this because there's guys that can hit kickoffs through the upright.

Yeah, right.

Harrison Bucker can hit a kickoff into the stand.

Bass hit that one in the playoffs that watch.

Off the upright.

Yeah, it was.

There's some massive ways.

Like, doesn't matter.

You might as well hit that thing with a 2-0 hang time to the one, and then you're off and running.

They're changing it, but we still love it.

We still love it.

It's definitely helped.

I think so.

This year, I think it's awesome.

Last year, it felt Mickey Mouse.

Yeah, now we're kind of used to the optics, too.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

And it genuinely matters.

Like, starting at the 35 or the 20 or having that perfect kick and tackling them inside the 20, like, that is a huge game.

Yeah, pin is a big deal right now.

Yeah, pin is a big deal right now.

I'll be excited to see who uses it.

Close games.

Brian McCarthy of the NFLPR gave out like a little bit of a summary of week one.

The average margin of victory in week one was 7.5 points.

Wow.

Third lowest margin of victory in week one since 1970.

1979 and 1983 had a little closer games.

Obviously, we all remember that year.

1983, old buddy was doing that thing with that ball, and it was like, holy hell, you remember that?

You remember that?

Hell yeah.

1983, I don't even know if I was swimming yet.

I don't think so.

I don't know how long I last in there.

But I do know in 1983, they used to say, that guy could do that thing.

And you were one of the guys that told me about that, AQ.

Yeah, what did I tell you?

You said you were going to go to the USSR and become a communist.

Oh.

What's that?

I don't know.

In your 1983 time on you?

you?

Is that what you said?

I was born in 86.

I was your puppy.

I thought you were studying what was happening in football.

What are you talking about?

A lot of teams were kind of trying to tank.

It was a great, great upcoming quarterback draft class.

No, 1983.

84, 84, that draft class.

That's Marino?

Yeah.

Spank Brown.

Kelly.

Oh, gosh.

1983 was really paving the way for the rest of the season.

For the rest of the league's

existence.

And they had close games week one.

And it was that year, 1979, kind of gave him them a little bit of a peek of it.

You know,

the first time like

humans realized winter came, like for instance, here in Indianapolis, Indiana,

like there's no sun for like five months.

Correct.

Yeah, it's great.

First humans that experienced it had to think they were dead, right?

Yeah, or were going to die.

This is.

Sacrifice of this is a place we needed.

We need a winner.

Oh my God.

And then the sun comes back.

You're like, holy shit.

But that first time,

it's really probably, that was a long time ago obviously and rest in peace all those people had to go through that and thank them for going through that honestly that's very kind the first time the nfl had that close to games all the time 1979 they were like holy

we got something then it disappeared for a little bit then 1983 it came back holy we got something here then the league started building started building and then in 2025 they said we perfected it third best start to an NFL season across the league that we've ever had.

Are you kidding me, AQ Shipley?

This is good news, not bad news.

I see you over there smiling and grinning.

This is a good thing, not a bad thing, you asshole.

This means that the parody in the league is better than maybe that it's ever been.

Seems like they figured it out.

Seems like they figured it out.

What happened to the Dolphins?

That thing should have been even lower.

Yeah, you're right.

Colts too good.

Colts too damn good.

Importance of week one results.

Since 1990, history has shown that teams that are victorious in their season openers are more than twice as likely to advance to the playoffs as teams that lose their opener.

During that span, 54.2% of teams to win their opener have advanced to the playoffs, including both of last year's Super Bowl participants, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

However, an 0-1 start is not impossible to overcome as 25% of the teams since 1990 that lost a season opener advanced to the playoffs, including five in 2024.

Wow.

You can lose early in 2024 and go, not in 2025.

No, different year.

Water finds its level.

Dolphins, dead.

Yes.

Indianapolis Colts, Super Bowl.

That's what that says to me.

Is that how everybody else is reading it?

Well, playoffs, for sure.

I don't know about Super Bowl, but playoffs.

But what about when you win by that much?

He didn't add the caveat.

Yeah, I don't see an asterisk in there, so that might be down at like the bottom of the page.

You might be right.

But what about when you make the other team look like they're so bad people are calling for everybody to be fired?

You know, is that in there?

Is that team go to the Super Bowl?

That adds an element.

That certainly adds an element.

What teams lost this weekend?

Team you're calling for?

Nope.

They won.

Big time play at the end of the game.

Buda Baker, Jalen Thompson, knocked it out.

That's how my call sounded.

Buddha Baker, kip-up.

Oh, yeah.

Great.

I forgot about that.

Did you call it a kip-up?

I called the kip-up.

Did you call it a kip-up in the moment?

I did because Dave Pash said it right before us.

See?

See, Steve.

Save it work.

Dave Pash, we appreciate you dealing with him, by the way.

He was chit-chatting before we went on air.

The hardest thing is the names of the players on the other team.

And I quickly told him, Dave, that's on Dave.

That's not on you.

But when Dave says name, you steal that thing.

I just dealt with Michael Cole.

I don't know the particular name of this particular move right here.

I should, but I don't.

Michael Cole would say the name.

Okay, thank you, Cole.

Very kind of you.

I'm going to steal that thing for my thought here.

But if he was wrong, very rare, boy, I'm doubled down on it.

Yeah,

we're going right on.

It's a team effort.

Dave knows that with you.

First time in the booth, he knows that you're going to have that type of situation.

He's going to take care of you.

He's a great caller.

You on the call this weekend, I've heard.

Yes, sir, here at Denver at Colts.

I'll be on the call with Chris Carlin again for ESPN Radio, ESPN Radio.

Yep, let's go, boys.

Come on now, buddy.

Let's go, boys.

We got JJ on the call.

Yeah, look at hey, kind of doing it around.

Circling the lag,

kind of doing it around here.

On that note, it's time to do one of my favorite segments every single week.

We all get incredibly intelligent in something that doesn't get talked about nearly enough.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the

first episode of the 2025 NFL Seasons.

Everything DB, Good D, Bad D with Darius J.

Butler.

Glad to be back at it.

Week one.

A lot of close games, a lot of big time plays.

I mentioned it earlier.

We talked about some of the

bigger interceptions that we saw.

So we'll get to some that you may have missed.

Now, usually in past years, I haven't had a bunch of losing teams on here, but this interception was so good.

It had to be on here.

JC Horn, one of the top corners in the league.

One of those corners, if you keep it pause here for a second, one of the corners that got paid some big, big money this offseason.

This is why.

I said when he got paid, hey, I would love to see some more ball products from JC Horn.

So this is a great way for him to start this season off.

If you look at the bottom of the screen, we had the circles on there a couple of seconds ago with Travis Hunter in the slot.

And then you see JC Horn on the back side as a corner.

Now they'll rotate post-snap to a single high safety.

And as a corner, as that deep third corner, if you don't have work in your area, you don't want to just cover grass.

You want to find work.

Pause it.

right here.

So right now he's finding work.

He has a curl route in front of him, but he has zone defenders that are responsible for that curl curl route so he peeks across the field everybody in the league knows hey they want to get the ball to their shiny new toy travis hunter uh trevor lawrence i don't think he ever sees him backside let it run great go up there high point it boom high point that

i did not see that handed interception yeah this was a long long game they had a weather delay but that's a big time play from a big time great throw by trevor too that was going right to travis out there it's a good throw if you don't get that backside that backside defender that's how you can catch uh good quarterbacks.

That's how you catch all the quarterbacks.

When they don't see you, you just kind of sneak into that vision.

Trevor should have known he was there or no.

He bunked his assistant.

If you go back to the copy real quick, with offensive, and AQ will know this more than me when they come to play designs, that backside receiver, that backside route has to hold that deep third corner if that's going to be the coverage.

So he has to run something deeper, maybe a deep out route, and that'll kind of, but a good corner, good veteran corner, but you got to give something that kind of takes his eyes because right now he relaxed, he He trusts the other guys and he keeps his vision.

If it's a vision-based defense, this is the type of play you want to make.

That's why corners love when they can play defense and have some vision on the quarterback.

You got to look for work if you ain't got to do it.

You got to look for it.

Got to find work.

You like seeing people scrape around Paul out there.

Hell yeah.

What else do we got for some good D there?

Let's go.

Next play, Evan Williams.

He had a big time game.

Hey, huge game.

And this is a huge moment in this game.

Week one.

Look, Lions are driving.

It's third and seven in the red area.

They did not do too great in the red area, if I'm not mistaken, right, Foxy?

Terrible.

Okay, yeah.

So 112 is a two-minute drill into half right here.

And we know where the ball is going.

Third and 12, where do you think the ball is going, Pat?

The Maraw.

Yep, boom, right there in the slot.

Everybody knows it.

Everybody in the crowd, everybody on defense.

Ev Williams kind of looks like man-to-man coverage a little bit.

Pre-snap, post-snap.

That slot corner.

He's going to get out of St.

Brown's face.

And then the safety is going to insert, be this hook curl dropper.

Once again, great vision on the quarterback.

Baited it right to him.

And they ran this on Friday and it feel good Friday drill.

Four teams wide open, probably probably walked to the end zone, but great job anticipating that breaking.

Trust me, they looked at it.

It wasn't in the turnover.

Every turnover is reviewed.

Yeah, he looked at the right tackle.

I was going to say, I mean, you want to talk about getting beat like he stole something.

Penne Sewell looked great.

I mean, Micah, this guy, that's why they got him.

That's why they got him.

Yeah.

But he counts as one of the first.

True.

But only one first rounder.

But that's the best right tackle in the NFL.

So that's the DB's best friend.

Because Because when you are that DB, when you're in that secondary, you know, you got a guy like one in front of you.

He wasn't even practicing.

And it's going to make the other guys better.

I can jump this.

I can pull that trigger and go and make this play.

Big time play for Kendall Williams right here.

Great play.

In a big time moment.

It's a 14-point game.

This could have easily been a seven-point game.

And we were getting the ball after half.

I'm thinking we're the highest game up.

Yeah.

Middle eight, huge, huge end of end of half execution right there by the defense.

Let's go.

Next one.

Jeez.

The Lions heartbreak.

Red zone was an absolute disaster.

Offensive line, absolute disaster.

Because Ben Johnson's running Penn A.

Sewell in motion.

Right.

Now he's sitting there just staring down Michael Parsons one-on-one, and you got the most obvious guy getting the ball.

I have not seen Debutch's place.

Okay, I did not know what that was.

I, Punter, literally talk show host.

Who's getting this ball?

Amal Ross ain't proud.

You know, ball?

No questions asked, though.

Only name that came to everybody's mind, I think.

100%.

That is literally the only name that came to mind.

And it's like, I'm happy that the Green Bay Packers are taking advantage of that.

Yeah, Halfley knows too.

He does too.

But in years past, Green Bay Packers defense maybe does.

No, definitely not.

Definitely not.

Right here, rookie, you know what's coming.

Second to 10.

We call it get back on track play.

AQ's definitely seen his play.

He was in the booth.

Chris Olave, one of their big-time weapons.

He comes around.

Hey, look, sometimes some old-fashioned

Michigan versus Ohio State.

Great anticipation.

Great play and clean.

This is what NFL wants.

Big hits, but clean, violent violent hit by will johnson right there might just be the still of the draft had a great week one went in the second round could have easily been a top 10 pick this year that's a big time play big time collision right there inside shoulder on his outside shoulder too and foot same foot same shoulder that that is like perfect technique textbook textbook violent leverage everything's just because even if you miss that the guy slips right there but you got inside help uh rallying inside out moving on xavier woods

yeah big big time

Yeah, exactly.

And he just walks it off, too.

Could have done that again.

Could have hit somebody right afterwards.

He was so good in Michigan.

How many of you see it?

So good.

So clean.

Xavier Woods, big time play here.

Kind of fooled Bo Nicks here.

We got a cornerback blitz down here with a tight cut.

Xavier Woods kind of coming.

He'll become the corner.

He's a safety right now.

Now he kind of becomes a deep corner.

Great vision.

Passes this off.

Hey, deep safety, take that.

I'm going to get off.

Take advantage of Bo Nicks right here.

It makes an unbelievable play.

We get it from the TV copy.

We'll see another DB.

Hey, they say he played DB because he can't catch.

That's a lot of big-time play and way to secure it.

And then the last one, those were four good Ds.

This is one bad D.

Come on.

Third.

Stop it.

Hey, third and 11.

Who are the big-time interior rushers for the Patriots?

Christian Barmore, who got paid last season, and Milton Williams, who is actually the highest-paid New England Patriot in the history of the French.

Okay, I talked about past rushes being a DB's best friend.

Not when they're dropping back, covering grass.

What are you doing?

Get Get after the quarterback.

Don't let Geno get back there and hit his guy down the field.

We got pressure here.

We can get after him.

But great job by the receiver Tucker right there.

Great job by Geno taking advantage of the mistake on the defensive side.

Patriots, only team on bad D.

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Football!

It's magical.

We're lucky we get a chance to chat about it every single day.

In the first hour, you missed everything DB, good D, bad D, which was spectacular from nine-year NFL vet.

Darius J.

Butler, good work.

You also missed AQUSH's takeaways, which is Akush's thoughts.

Aqush is a 12-year NFL veteran and Super Bowl champion, and also a player coach.

Like he was Jackie Moon, ladies and gentlemen, AQ Shipley.

Great work on the takeaways.

Cannot wait to see who your top five, top five, top five offensive lines are around the league as we go in the trenches.

The toxic tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

Let the ponies run, brother.

Hell yeah, man.

This is one of my favorites.

And last night was hell without any football after five straight nights of it.

Tonight kind of stinks as well.

Baseball has been fun.

Red Sox are still hot, but it does stink when you're waiting for this week two to start.

Colts Broncos this weekend, and we're all Mustangs here.

So I love the ponies on the chest there.

That's what I did it for doesn't sound like it that's what i meant we're all we're all mother

mustangs brother just want to let you know plum mustangs football team quarterback leading the whippeel in pass yards i do believe excuse me yeah wes lorish uh freshman for marshall former plum golfer i tried to get him to sign with west virginia i guess west virginia had flawless scholarships taken up he ends up going marshall oh whoa he was leading in his first tournament i think he ended up top five or something like that in his first golf tournament for marshall so mustangs are really starting to dominate football team trick one off week two.

Let's go to Hammer, Don, Don.

One half of the Hammer, Don.

Cowboys, AP tone.

We lost week two.

We shouldn't have lost that one, but the Plum Mustangs actually rolling right now, an actual problem tone.

Yeah, they took down the Gateway Gators in week three, which is the first time they've beat Gateway in like 25 years.

For those that don't know, that's a home of Justin King

and many, many others.

Morti, many others.

It was just a recruiting

powerhouse back when we were in school.

Dominated them, dominated Franklin in week one, lost to Latrobe in week two.

That was a tough one.

But the Mustangs are hot.

Yeah, Keith Donnenberg, quarterback.

Sorry, John Donnenberg, Keith Donenberg's boy, quarterback for the Plum Mustangs, spinning it.

Junior, too, we got another year here.

That's big.

We got a lot going on here.

Not just conference, brother.

I think the Western Pennsylvania

athletic team.

The whole state?

Yeah, I see.

350 yards a game, I think.

What?

Maybe not 400?

That's not real.

Maybe we're making things up right now.

But I do know he's top of the class.

Top of class.

There's like 160 teams in the WPIL, just so you know.

And he knows that because he's in the Hall of Fame.

Bingo.

And there's been a lot of people that have played a lot of sports in all 60, 160 of those sports.

Congratulations to you, Hall.

Thank you.

Way to go with a Hall of Famer out of Moon Township.

Same time as Joe DeNoro.

Oh, I miss you, Joe.

Miss you, Joe.

Rest in peace, Joe.

He's doing good, Diner.

We know that up in heaven, too.

His body, if we were to ask the bones, would be able to predict storms.

And his soul is floating over top of us at all times.

Whenever you're seeing a weather warning or seeing that red ticker at the bottom, you can't help but think about Joe DeNordo, the most accurate weatherman, meteorologist, and the founder of the Doppler from his guy's hometown.

AQ, why don't you say something about Joe DiNardo, a man who did so much for society as a whole and is from your hometown.

I've turned the corner on Joe.

I took a trip back to Memory Lane this past summer.

Did Kennywood?

What?

Saw Moon Township, Permani Brothers, went to all the places back in Pittsburgh, Oakmont, right?

I forgot about him.

How good he was.

Did you watch a couple play calls from him?

He used to say, here's a thunderstorm coming around and left, and then we're going to go ahead and send a little bit of lightning over here.

We're going to delay the game for about 35 minutes, but then we're going to be back on the other side.

You'll have a good time down there, break.

That's what Joe Nardo used to be able to do.

He was always right.

He was more accurate than I thought.

He didn't visit his statue when you were home.

I don't know if they got a statue there.

They got a statue.

They did accurately.

They got the water tower.

They go.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, and also a drive-in movie.

I mean, they say his soul apparently.

Township's got a drive-in movie.

It was a little bit of a far drive, but it was certainly worthy of destination.

You know, the things that happen,

that's good camaraderie built in place over there in that drive-in movie theater.

Great camaraderie.

I mean, there's some things that happened there.

Boy.

It was electrified.

Like what, Akuge?

It was always good vibes coming into there and going out of there.

Always good vibes at the drive-in.

Become a man at the drive-in.

Yeah, you get to meet other people from other towns and stuff like that.

You got to find it right on those things.

You guys are sucking bots in the Moon Township Moon Drive-In Movie Theater.

That's disgusting.

Is 5G ever there?

We're talking about camaraderie.

5G go there.

What's the matter with you?

It was a long drive, though, I will say, for us on the east side of Pittsburgh to get there.

But the entire time thinking there, it was like, it's going to be a good time when we get there.

And then, wherever we get there, it was like, all right, we're leaving now.

It feels like we didn't really have to come this far.

And then, you know, it was always good vibes, though, in Moon Township.

Absolutely.

And Joe DeNordo, thank God.

Quick little drive for me.

Two minutes down the road.

Perfect for me.

It is perfect.

Shout out to Swap Shop.

Hey, I'll meet you to driving.

Yeah, people

joining us now.

Dark place.

Yeah, quick 10 minutes.

A lot of people.

I mean, it was

there was a lot of opportunity at that place for a lot of things, you know.

And the fact that you are two minutes oh my

that's one of the most dangerous things I have ever heard.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who probably grew up around drive-in movie theory.

I see Ohio had a few of these.

He's college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, rider cup winner, ladies and gentlemen, A.J.

Hawk.

Yeah, Joe Hawkins for all.

Walker, that was alarming news for all of us that he was that close to that place.

But I will say, Joe Denardo getting a shout-out here on September 10th, 2025 is a good day.

Yeah, I don't know if I feel AQ is fully genuine when he says he turned the corner on AQ or on Joe DiNardo.

When you first brought up Joe, he kind of had this weird smirk look on his face.

You didn't really see it, but it looked like he was thinking, hey, rest in piss, Joe.

No!

He was not.

I didn't say it.

I didn't say it.

I'm just saying, if you go back, you can run it back.

Look at AQ's face.

It's

like a bad thing.

Hey, it's good to see you again, AJ.

Go to hell.

Thank you.

Go Go to hell.

I like the readers.

Yeah, thanks, man.

They're not readers.

They're just actual glasses now.

We're at that stage of his life.

But geez, Louise, is that what you were thinking for?

I don't like one bit.

I don't like that AQ.

The angle I saw in this camera, maybe I'm wrong, AQ, but I just felt that way.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that's a certain feeling that's really disgusting.

That angle was doing some things to you, too.

I was really excited to see that haircut pop on the screen, and then you go with that.

And then you start with that.

I don't like it one bit.

Yeah, well, we don't like the way your face is looking whenever Joe Nardo is being talked about.

Yeah, how about that?

I had a good smile, I was ready for it.

Oh, it was fake, though, is what he was saying.

Oh, let's move a little.

Well, I believe it.

I believe it.

I believe AJ.

Spit on him like Drewski.

AJ, uh, please.

But he did it.

Where you at, boy?

Where are you going?

What a moment.

That hat.

The

beater handler

on his back.

Too good.

Where are you going, boy?

Just absolutely outrageous.

What race?

That thing had like, I forget how many million on X.

I saw it at 130.

Million?

130 million.

Yeah, that might go down as the biggest of all time.

Now, there is going to be somebody that rolls the dice.

Good luck, Theo.

Theo, I think Theo would be one of the only ones

that would

be able to.

Maybe the Miz should give it a go.

I can see that, yeah.

Yeah, maybe

yeah maybe the miz in a death match maybe the miz should get 243.3 million views on x right now

yeah

i'm looking at

an absolutely legend come on here

smoking a cigarette

he had to hang around these people for real the genuine reactions like he had to put in real time at this particular place to have the relationship that he had with them yeah like we're talking multiple hours of hanging out with these people i think just to get this what six seven seconds yes of the moment here so then he can move on.

Unbelievable work.

If I look

and then he says something and then the pop that happens is exactly what you're talking about.

Yeah, it's a good shot.

It's a really good shot.

AJ, I don't know if you saw this.

Quentin Nelson of the Indianapolis Colts is a vocal leader now.

Have you heard this?

I have heard a little bit about this.

Are you excited?

I am very excited.

So my big takeaway for the Indianapolis Colts, and a lot of people are saying we're only talking about the Indianapolis Colts because this show is in Indianapolis and I played for the Colts and so did Darius.

And maybe that's true.

And we had eyes on the Indianapolis Colts.

AQ also played for the Colts.

AQ also played for the Colts.

I apologize.

He is also a professional football player in this conversation that we're having here.

We'll tap out here, boys.

Let's go.

We'll mute the mic.

No, but maybe that is the case.

But also, the way they made the Dolphins look, no matter how you feel about the Dolphins, their professional football team, they just absolutely took them.

And with the wave of quarterbacks finding a new home and being comfortable and having immediate success and the amount of money that the Colts have spent on that roster and how long guys have been there.

I mean, it is a very,

the continuity of the team has been there for multiple years.

They just haven't been able to figure out the quarterback position.

Danny Dimes feels like he is the guy.

A lot of people didn't expect that going into the year, but he feels like he is the right person to lead this particular team.

I don't think he's very vocal.

We haven't had a very vocal leader on the offensive side for a long time from my eyes outside looking in.

I think that's been a big part of the problem.

Now we're getting mic'd up Quentin Nelson.

Feels like Ryan Kelly leaves, who was the center.

He's with the Vikings.

Congrats to him on a big night.

He was in the video in the locker room afterwards, celebrating.

He looks incredibly happy.

Love him and his family.

He's with the Vikings now.

Quentin Nelson, now OG almost, right?

I wonder if he feels more obligated to speak up.

Whatever the case, look at this guy who's known as one of the toughest, meanest offensive guards in the history of football.

Touchdown.

Let's get some sacks.

Let's get some sacks.

Sacks.

Yeah, f you.

Try to fight JD, man.

The f are you doing?

Yeah, JD.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Get down.

Good job, pow.

What a throw.

Yeah, pin.

Good, baby.

Come on, baby!

Hell yeah,

that's a hell of a catch, one.

Yes, sir.

Good job, Tyler.

Yeah!

Good job, Gons.

Where do you call that out?

What are you getting at first, baby?

Good act.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

What a fight, Henny.

Okay.

Good run.

Okay, Jalen.

Yeah.

Hey, good job, Brooks.

Yeah, yeah, sir.

So, first of all, I want to let Quentin Nelson know if he sees this, I love that.

I love everything about that.

I love everything about that.

Obviously, celebrating with the defense.

He's going up to the rooks afterwards.

He's in the pile.

His first thing after Danny Dimes's touchdown is like, where's Dimes at?

Let me celebrate with him.

Feels like a natural leader watching him operate in that particular video, knowing what to say to who.

Offensive guard, tough position to be a vocal leader from.

Do you think that is valid?

Or is an offensive lineman of his stature with his resume kind of in a good position to lead, do you think?

I think his resume speaks for itself.

And I think when you look at that, I think that's a guy that's pumped to have a lead again, right?

Like

to be on a team that knows he's got a chance to score touchdowns again.

And to see him going up to everybody, it wasn't just Danny Dimes.

It was the rookies.

It was the offensive line.

It was the defense telling them to get sacks.

I mean, that is a guy that you want to be your leader, and it was pretty cool to see.

Yeah, pillar of the organization at this point was a very, very high pick.

he's lived up to the billing.

He's spoke vocally about how he's felt about, you know, rotation at quarterback and not having that leader.

So he's, you can tell by this clip and this video that he's kind of taking it upon himself.

You can tell it's not fake, too.

You can tell because I feel like sometimes we can hear a mic that we're seeing mic that okay.

This guy's just doing this because he has the mic on.

You have rarely seen this from Q throughout his career.

So I love every bit of this.

You guys mentioned it, talking to both sides of the ball.

I've been on a bunch of teams.

I don't think I've ever seen a guard be that vocal.

Many talking to both DBs, wide receivers.

You know, I'm sure offensively, sure, it happens, but Khalil, when I played in Carolina, he was a center.

Usually, centers are more vocal because they're used to talking to kind of.

But outside of that, I can't recall hearing an offensive lineman move around like this and be almost like one of the vibes guys.

And you know, he's going to bring it, you know, in between the lines, in between the whistles as well.

Yeah, like even that first play, I mean, Quentin Nelson, he's not really near where Daniel Jones is like lying down, but he leaves and gets on his hands and knees to yell touchdown.

Like he's not on the ground and rolls over.

He gets on his hands and knees to yell touchdown and then to stand up with Danny Dimes.

Like his vibes are great.

And then even in that little video, too, he's helping Michael Pittman Jr.

up at one point.

And Michael Pittman Jr.

jumps up and like screams.

Like it feels like a lot of the guys that are just that have been there for a while, you know, were.

Empowered all the time.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Like, hey, now it's just on us.

All the other shit.

Like, these guys, we've been paid, you know, Quentin, Michael Pittman, Kenny Moore, who he mentions in there.

Jonathan Taylor.

Jonathan Taylor, yeah, the list goes on.

Zaire, DeForest Buckner.

Cam Bynum, Ward.

Ward, yeah.

I mean, he's paid a lot of people, which has been a big part of my problem with this Indianapolis Colts team, AJ.

It's like, hey,

Jay Merce has paid a lot of you motherfuckers.

This is it.

All of you basically have been here.

These young bucks that were supposed to come in and change this is going to be the generation.

They've gone through, they're in their second contract.

They're going through their second contracts almost already and haven't had much success.

And it's like, hey, I like the fact that they feel empowered.

Now, a lot has happened at the quarterback position.

I'm not blaming anybody.

Obviously, you need to have a quarterback for you to go on a run, whatever it is.

But like all the stuff we were hearing about in the locker room and behind the scenes about this Colts team, that was not good.

Like, hey, that is not professional football right there.

We don't miss meetings.

We're not late to treatment.

We're not skipping treatment.

Like this shit is not, that's not what professional football is, especially in that building.

Like that building has had a lot of success and there's a lot of carryover from a lot of people.

So, watching Quentin Nelson become this loud leader, DeForest Buckner being this guy, it's like Danny Dimes fits in.

Tyler Warren seems to be a no-nonsense guy.

Bynum has the most juice I think I've ever seen from any player.

And then you see Ward locked down.

He's like, I'm not scared of anything.

It's like, wait a minute.

Steking's offense.

Wait a minute.

Is this the, it was hard not to get excited, but then I didn't know Quentin Nelson was like that.

Think about how exhausted he had to be, AJ.

That's offensive line.

And then he's running down the field and he's still got enough juice.

juice.

That's crazy.

It is.

Very, very high on this.

I think AQ hit it.

I think AQ hit it.

He said, it looked like a guy that was pumped to be winning to have a lead again and realized, hey, we can score touchdowns.

And con man, it's true.

Like, that's such a great demonstration.

Like, he gets on his hands and knees because he's so excited to tell Danny Dimes, like, hey, that's awesome, man.

Touchdown, you're in.

And then it's true that when Pittman jumps up and almost says, like, yay, it almost reminds me of when your kids, like, it's so funny.

Every once in a while, my kids get pumped and they'll say, yay.

And I'm like, holy smokes, when's the last time you said yay?

Like as you're pumped.

And it makes me think like he didn't say yay there, but it made me think like he's joyful.

He's happy.

And it's awesome to see because winning is a lot of fun.

So these guys are going to want to figure out, hey, how do we do this every single week?

The vibes in the entire stadium were like this.

From the beginning all the way through the game.

Now, obviously, it goes perfectly throughout the entirety of it.

We're about to get to the Pittman one here, I think, here in a few.

Whatever he picks him up and he does a quick yippee kaya Because I agree with what you guys said.

It was quite a moment there.

No, yep, there it is.

Right there.

There it was.

Yeah.

There was up at a bottom of a pile, Michael Pittman.

He gets

jacked off.

Yeah, I mean, that is a, the vibes are immaculate in Indianapolis.

Hey, what have you done for me lately, though?

Exactly.

Who cares?

In a crazy NFL, nobody will care.

If Danny Dimes doesn't have a perfect performance on Sunday, they're going to be like, so we're just wasting number four overall pick for this.

You know, like, that is literally what the NFL is.

There's a couple teams that maybe didn't win.

They're getting accolades.

Have you heard that?

No.

Yeah, D-Buck put the Carolina Panthers on there.

Oh, that was interesting.

That was a great individual effort.

And I don't want to do any spoilers or anything, AJ, but it's that time again to go in the trenches and find out the top five performing offensive lines from week one with AQ Shipley.

Hey, let's go in the trenches.

You know, last year you had the Philadelphia Eagles as the number one offensive line throughout a majority of the NFL season.

Now, granted, they were down at two, maybe a three, a couple different times, depending upon how the Baltimore Ravens' offensive line would do.

And maybe the Minnesota Vikings really had a good offensive line.

But we were able to find out who was going to be good by these particular rankings.

Who did you see after week one of the NFL season that had a good performing offensive line, brother?

Yeah, last year was pretty predictable.

You knew who it was going to be.

It was going to be Philly, it was going to be Baltimore, and then you were going to have your little sprinkle of whoever else, probably Detroit, right, would probably be number three.

And then everybody else this year,

what have you done for me lately, right?

New team, a lot of new guys, a lot of people trading, a lot of new faces.

But number five this week, the Indianapolis Coats.

Hey, wow.

Wow.

Yeah.

We were never on this last year.

Not one time.

Any good list, actually.

Not one time.

No upside, no prime time games.

No good lists.

No good times.

Only injuries, controversies, and drama all over over the place.

Now, first week, we get a top 5-0 line is what A.Q.

Shipley saying, why are you saying that?

They're a very good unit, period.

But when you look at this, take a look at this.

Ryan Kelly leaves in the offseason.

Bordellini out of Wisconsin.

This is a cross dog.

AJ, you know a little bit about a cross dog.

Used to run it all the time at Ohio State.

You get a middle dog cross, so two linebackers cross in the middle.

It is the hardest run blitz to pick up as an offensive line because you want to stop on that first guy.

Bordellini, right shoulder, puts it back to the right arm.

What's his name?

Bordellini.

Bordolini.

Oh, Billy Bordolini.

We got Bordellini.

Bordellini at center?

Tanner Bordellini.

No, it's Billy.

Yeah, it needs to change.

It's Billy Bordolini, actually.

You're talking about Billy football?

You're talking about

Tanner Bordolini?

We got a Bordolini at center.

Billy Lini.

And he's a dog.

Yeah.

Out of Wisconsin.

I know.

Yeah.

Like all the young Wisconsin south.

Let's go to one half of the Hammer.

Dad.

Cowboys over in Hammer.

Dad, God.

You know, we had a Bordolini playing center for the Indianapolis Colts.

I did.

I believe he came out either last year or this year, if I'm correct, to AQ.

He was one of the best centers coming out of the draft for Wisconsin.

So, yeah, I mean, he's Italian American of the Year candidate.

I don't like that Connor's changed his name, but Connor's a Mick bastard, so that'll happen.

You're not allowed to say that.

You're not allowed to say what you just said right there.

You know, that Billy Bolognese or whatever sounds better than whatever.

His name is Bolo Neese.

Portolini.

Exactly.

Bordolini.

Billy Bolini is incredible for him.

Billy.

Billy.

Bolognese, baby.

Portolini is a pasta company.

It's delicious.

Oh, so this kid might be Paison Royalty.

He could be.

I didn't even know that.

That's unbelievable.

From one of the big five pasta families in America.

Yeah, the Bordolini.

And then you got the ragus.

Of course.

And then you got the spaghettiolis.

The Bobilis.

Bobili.

The Zornas, don't do a bad jolly.

Yeah, you know.

I mean, there's a lot of...

What was the fast food one?

Oh, Bazzolini.

bazzolis.

Yeah,

I had no idea we had a Pisan at center.

No wonder the vibes are so high.

Unbelievable.

This guy brought the Gabagoul before the game, and the boys went crazy.

Now,

Nico Mozzarell came from West Virginia.

We need to keep him in the ball game.

Mozzarello needs to be behind Borolini.

It sounds like.

So, Borolini, we'd certainly take your services at West Virginia if you would like to go back in and play for the Mountaineers.

We would certainly appreciate that.

Love Italians down there in Morgantown and West Virginia.

There's a kid named Scotty Fox that we didn't see at all in that game against Ohio.

He's from Ohio.

He had a 60-yard touchdown as soon as he got the ball in the first game.

So I like Nico Mozzarella.

Okay, I love Nico.

He's unbelievable.

He looks the part.

Then we had Jalen in there out of Texas A ⁇ M.

He didn't look like he was, you know, on that particular day right now.

But we didn't even see Scotty Fox.

It's like he's from ohio you think he didn't have something to say to the bobcats i think he would have didn't matter with parker navarro it didn't i agree is navarro

a pizza navarroni navarro might be a pison initially yeah let's go back to borderlini and the boys please indianapolis colts top five offensive line that's what i just heard from in the trenches aq shipley i absolutely love this crosstog he picks it up the guy who's supposed to keep his eyes in attention isn't able to do it he scoops over bang jonathan taylor picks up quick 15 quick 12 and runs somebody over love that Who's number four offensive line from week one?

The Jacksonville Jaguars come in at number four this week.

Lately Cohen and Stoner down there.

Yeah, Liam Cohen did a great job.

And let me tell you something.

They had 200 yards rushing this week.

200 yards rushing, zero sacks allowed, lowest pressure rate of any offensive line in the National Football League.

Right here, we're just going to run a simple zone play.

Watch the offensive line just wash and create a wall.

Brenton Strange, Penn State product, comes back, cuts off, little jump cut, set up his block, 71 yards right here.

End of the second quarter.

This was a big game changer going into half.

Jacksonville Jaguars able to run the rock.

Liam Cohen, you know, obviously he's an offensive guru.

Every good offensive guy seemingly has a good run game as well and blocking scheme, AQ.

Is that what we learned here from Liam Cohen, day one with the Jags?

Absolutely.

And he spent some time with Sean McVay out with the LA Rams.

So he learned very quickly the run game is a major part of having a successful offense.

What do you think it takes to have a successful team?

Sorry, D, but AQ said something off air that I can repeat here.

Good play caller is in play designer is a massive ordeal, huh?

The biggest thing whenever you are setting up your game plan on Monday is getting the formations to match up, right?

That's the biggest thing.

So you can't just sit there and be disconnected between your run game coordinator and your pass game because when you do that, now you're running pass plays out of certain formations that may not match up with the run game formations that you're doing in the run game.

So when you do this, the good coordinators will go to the run game coordinator and say, okay, here's the deal.

I want to run this, this, this, and this out of these formations, make it match up in the run game.

And so that's what the good coordinators do.

Yeah, Liam, last year,

if you remember the years previous with Tampa Bay, that run game was terrible.

And he brought that Tampa Bay Bucks run game all the way back to like top five in the league last year.

So good to see this.

And Etienne, a lot of people are writing him off this year.

So for him to start the season off like this right after this game, all right, we can trade Tank over to Philly.

And a big part of it, I'm sure, was because of the performance of one.

Well, yeah, that's what I mean.

Like, they Eddie N was a shell of himself.

And now he's not Travis Etienne.

Okay.

Eddie N.

But this is the team that they envisioned in January.

So, like, that's the, you know, that's what they wanted to do: be able to run the football and take a little pressure off Trevor.

And I don't know, AQ, maybe you tell me.

I mean, is this something that can go on forever?

Sean Khan believes so.

Yeah.

Just curious.

Yep, it can go on forever.

Okay, who's the number three ranked offensive line around the NFL after week one of the NFL season?

Coming in at number three, the Washington Commanders.

Power over here now.

Okay, got some big boys up there.

Speaking of good play callers, Cliff Kingsbury is doing it again.

He set up this play all game long.

Notice the orbit motion.

Debo Samuel is going to come in orbit.

That is when you go across and then come back behind the quarterback.

Pull Laramie Tunsel.

Remember him?

Oh, yes.

Used to play for the Texans.

They traded his big ass over to Washington, and he's out there leading the charge.

Debo Samuel for the big touchdown on the fake counter end around behind.

Also, steal plus one with the running back getting out in space.

AJ look at Laramie Tunzel down there.

Look at Laramie Tunzel number 78.

Go back to the beginning just so we can watch this.

What year is this for him?

I mean he's coming on year 10 it feels like.

He's been in the league forever.

Watch him run.

Look how big he is.

Shouldn't be able to move.

You should not be able to move like this and come get another shot on this guy.

Watch how pumped he is too after the score.

I love that part.

Yeah, too.

All the O-line is juiced.

Yeah, because he just got there too.

To have that big of buy-in, I think whenever you see Jaden Daniels, you probably realize quickly, oh, we can win a Super Bowl here.

And then they got Laramie Tunzel pulling and moving like that, week one.

I mean, they're going to have his ass in motion.

They're going to do the, they're going to do the train.

With Laramie, I assume Cliff Kingsbury is going to do a little bit of that.

That's special right there.

They told me Debo was fat and wash.

No, he said that.

He won orbit.

He did an orbit motion.

He ran more than everybody else.

He looked good.

He did about five orbit motions because early in the game, they were doing that and they were just using him as a decoy and running counter the other way.

So again, setting it up all game long.

Come back to that.

Is that McCaffrey getting that block on the edge too?

Is that McCaffrey coming down, number 11, getting that nice block on the edge?

Luke?

Yeah, 11.

I think so.

Yeah, that's a key block right there.

Oh, that's good.

Look at Tyler Bianch out front, the center all the way down there, too.

Yeah, he's first one in, last one out, launch pail guy.

Nice pail guy, coach ski it.

He'll stick his face in the fan.

Literally, right here, he'll stick his face in the fan if he gets it.

That's carded, too, right?

Yeah, Abdul's father.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He has a little bit of a blind side.

Now, on that note, with what you said about Debo, wasn't that you guys on the internet saying Debo was fat?

Look, I wasn't saying that he was fat, but there were videos of him running routes where people were, quote, shooting it and said, geez, Louise, more like fat so Samuel this year.

And I said, no, that's not the case.

That's nowhere near Debo.

Exactly.

It ends in O.

It's like, that's not even clever.

Wild Bill Krosky merit, however, for this team, the Commander social team,

they're going to make a run at it now.

Okay, we're talking about...

Chargers, Panthers,

Commanders.

Adding the Commanders because they did the throwback, I'm just a a Bill video.

I don't know if you remember that when they're teaching you like, conjunction, Joe.

Schoolhouse rock.

Schoolhouse rock.

That's what it's called.

What's your function?

One of them's about the Bill of Rights, I think.

And the songs, I'm Just a Bill.

It's like one of those things.

And I think it was more our generation where you hear it and you go back to where you were.

And they used it for Wild Bill, Krowski, Merritt.

I think the Commanders are going to have a hell of a year.

I like what they did there.

It was genius.

Anytime there's thought behind things, I receive it.

It was a good video.

Yeah, if it's good internet, I like it.

With that being said, he's saying offensive line is a real deal.

I forgot about the Laramie Tunzel move until right now, whenever I saw him 20 yards down the field, pushing a guy about and celebrating at whatever age he is, whatever size he is.

And remember, we know his lungs are better than everybody else on the field and maybe everybody else in the history of lungs.

You know, his reaction to that video that I saw was no reaction that I've ever seen before with anybody using that device.

Okay.

That thing is a

that cleans up.

That's a clean up hitter right there.

Yeah, that is a everybody's going down with that thing and he just sat in the pocket took that thing off a couple of those yeah

called chuck pagano draft that guy okay that is a special talent right there I know you don't know this world as well as I do for sure I know that device very well I've seen many of men go down very good athletes in very good shape Lance Armstrong might not be able to take that thing as good as this and what has he become literally a pillar in in the NFL.

This guy's a stud.

The signs were there.

They were.

The signs were there.

Instead of everybody looking at it as a negative, I immediately was like, holy fuck, this guy's lungs are better than everybody that I've ever seen.

I have seen that.

He was great.

I'm happy he's getting a chance now to go for it.

Not that he didn't with Houston.

Obviously, they've had a couple different runs with him being there, but it looks like he's pumped to be of the commanders.

And the way this whole thing started, unfair.

I love him.

I love Larry McDonzall.

And they just drafted what, the kid from Oregon, Conner Lee Juneau, for him to be able to, you know, I mean, like, starting his career, starting at right tackle, to be able to learn under Tunsel right when you get there, too.

Like, I mean,

commanders, I'll tell you what.

Why not?

Yeah.

Let's go to the number two ranked offensive line out of week one.

The number two offensive line from week one is the Buffalo Bills.

The Bills obviously doing everything.

Go on, Bills.

All right, so I went away from what I normally do and normally have a run game on, but I went past game, right?

I went past protection here.

And the reason why I did it, it starts with that quarterback, that alien that we spoke about earlier today.

you see what he's doing right there everybody see how his hands are over his head he's signaling cover zero

a little grainy but you see it he's up there he's going like the zero zero zero he's telling everybody zero zero zero here let's pause it real quick go back and if we go back to this you'll see right end tight end also saw it he's out right so you see kincaid right there he's out probably three yards wider right there and when he's three yards wider and he signaled zero now that's telling him hey you come in and block so they moved him in so now he's in line now here's what they're gonna do they're gonna send from kincaid over all the way to the left they make a liz call you have to be an absolute stud at quarterback to see this call it and execute it right so he cut he says zero zero zero sends liz everybody over there now he's gonna send the back 26 tyler johnson over to the right

pick up kyle hamilton boom now he's just sitting there pretty all you got is one-on-one on the back end dart winner winner chicken dinner a couple plays later matt prater the 70 year old kicker comes in and nails the game winner all of those things are happening um obviously after the play play has been called.

This is all happening just from Josh Allen seeing this.

So we're motioning in Dalton Kincaid.

We're changing play.

Running back, you're coming over here.

Keon Coleman, you got no safety over the top.

You are in a beautiful spot right now.

That's all happening in that moment.

Josh Allen has to calculate it, see it, execute, and communicate it.

Rewind right to the beginning of this back mode, too.

Go to the behind the bottom.

He pattin' his chester's ribs right there.

Now look at Josh Allen here.

Watch this.

Watch his left hand here.

See him right there?

That little signal right there?

That's the Keon Coleman to run this land.

lamp

hey that's pretty good there out of josh allen it feels like a lot of dissecting of information and then uh regurgitating it in the biggest moment yeah prepare it prepare for the biggest moment as a db jar when you're going zero you got to protect your inside easier said than done but you have to protect the inside because you don't have any help from any deep safety so when you are a db and you have you know it's a cover zero the worst thing for you to do for you to see pre-snap is a quarterback okay he's checking his back all right kinca you know what you're out of route progression get he got it he got it so now you know you better cover your ass but i mean protecting that inside it is big time the little subtle you know signal right there all the great ones do it so this is big time execution and obviously a huge moment in this ball game yeah he's an alien yeah and the pocket was huge listen when you hear cover zero a lot of times like even as an offensive lineman your antennas go up and you start to panic right so like everybody oversets and jumps out of there everyone stayed calm everyone just kind of set straight back and let everything come to them it was i mean it it was so well executed.

Everybody has to be on the same page there, obviously.

Everybody.

All of them.

Everybody.

That's unbelievable stuff.

That's tough.

If you go back to that tight again, the only thing, because we can always send one more than they can block.

But like when 24 right here, the rookie Malachi starts, when you're kind of in that area about 10 yards off of Kincaid, that's his guy.

Once he becomes a blocker, if you're not adding on to that pressure, which you probably still wouldn't get there, and you're not helping and being in the passing window, like you're basically in no man's land, just like the play with with JC Horn, you're basically covering grass in a high leverage moment when we're sending pressure.

So that really becomes the difference because we all get mugged up there, like you see Flores do a bunch of times and everybody just goes, we can always send one more than they can account for.

But when you just have someone floating out there, you're helping out the offense.

But it takes a big-time quarterback to see that, understanding he has protected, and then make an accurate throw.

Two safeties down.

to the same side always tells you it's cover zero yep okay i love that little bit of a tell um and your number one offensive line coming out of week one is, was it the Buffalo Beach?

Again, doing something a little different.

I never put a loser in my top five last week.

This week, the Baltimore Ravens are the number one offensive line.

They lost.

Why'd you do this?

I get it actually.

They ran for Laudio.

Yeah, but you put Carolina Panthers on everything, DD, Good D, Bad D on Good D's side, even though they lost.

Was that a new thing?

Is that a new thing?

The game gone.

I mean, they ran.

The game is gone.

The tape doesn't lie, guys.

And at the end of the day, I'm not sitting there judging running backs and fumbling late in the game.

Again,

we can all point to that or whatever.

Who did that to him?

Ed Oliver.

Where's he at?

Literally, he was blocked on that play, gets off for, and then Derrick Henry tries to make a play, backs up a little bit,

has the ball a little loose.

Okay, I'm a Baltimore Ravens supporter.

Call me Buddha.

Sure.

Okay.

I am Baltimore Ravens supporter.

So this is not about the Baltimore Ravens.

I assume their offensive line is certainly deserving of this honor.

This is strictly for, this is the first time we did this this year, and the number one team is a losing team.

To the number two.

To the number two team.

The score was 40 to 25 with less than seven minutes left.

Baltimore over Buffalo.

Let's not forget how well they played.

Let's not forget

how good their running is.

I'm going to say we put a loser at number one, week one.

I don't know if that's what we need to start the entire season.

I don't.

Is this in the trenches?

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is the first ballot Hall of Famer whenever he's eligible.

Now he's calling games on Sundays.

Ladies and gentlemen i'll get his thoughts on this i'm excited to hear it the uh

third member of the houston texans uh bull ring of honor ladies and gentlemen jj watts

jj we're going through the rankings of the offensive line here and the number one offensive line coming out of week one is on a losing team we never had that in the years past uh what are your thoughts on that early and obviously the baltimore ravens offensive line is good they were number one last year a lot yeah i'm not saying they're not and all that but what type of precedent do you think this sets, JJ?

AQ is in off-season mode.

He's getting, he's knocking some rust off, he's getting comfortable.

He's figuring it out.

You know, he's figuring it out.

He didn't know that this was going to turn into just an AQ roast session of everybody questioning his rankings.

The Baltimore Ravens played great.

The Baltimore Ravens' offensive line played great.

I don't disagree with the fact that they were a top-notch offensive line,

but he knew what he was doing.

He's creating some headlines here.

Oh.

He knew.

You think he's trolling right now?

He baited back part of the problem.

He baited me.

All right, so here's a stat for you guys.

Okay.

Okay.

He didn't bait me.

Indianapolis Colts, if we take the Baltimore Ravens out of this, had the most 10-plus runs from week one.

Five.

Okay.

How do they five?

Okay.

Let's go.

Let's now go to the Baltimore Ravens, the team that I put first.

We're not talking 10-plus runs.

We're not talking 20-plus runs.

They had four 30-plus runs.

Okay, okay.

All right.

30-plus yards.

All right.

Yeah, that's a long way.

That's a long time.

Derrick Henry on a safety out in space.

That's exactly what you're doing.

You did your job for the first five of those.

O-line does their job for the first five of those yards.

And then Derrick Henry takes it over from there.

Let's throw some tape.

Let's show some tape.

Do you have any tape that makes you careful?

Yeah, we got great tape.

So you tell me if this is any good, boys, and we'll go back.

I might need you guys to hop in on the old tagline if you guys remember.

I got you.

Okay, cool.

So we got three tight ends in the game.

One of them serves as a fullback.

We're getting a simple zone.

His responsibility is that DB off 47 right there, right?

So the fullback is going to go take him.

We're going three for three.

Tyler Voorhees.

Linder Baum.

Boom.

What is that, boys?

Boom.

Gabe.

Gaby.

Hole.

What do you do there?

What do you do there?

And here's what I love about it.

By having the fullback in the backfield, and this is what we talk about all the time.

No fullback in the backfield.

Every offensive line is outleveraged.

If we go back back with the fullback in the backfield, now the single works back to a linebacker.

Now the backside combo works back to a linebacker instead of being outleveraged the whole way across the front.

No Ricard, too, right?

No Ricard.

Ricardo's out there.

Where are you going?

So,

I got his name.

I got his name.

Fullback, Zaire Mitchell Payton, elevated from the practice squad.

That's your fullback on that play, boys.

Okay, we love that.

We appreciate that.

I understand that that was a big game.

Big hole.

And we love the Baltimore Ravens, but don't you think just crowning a losing team, though, is, once again,

it's a bad precedent for the entire year?

Yeah, if you want to crown them, crown them.

Oh, I crowned them.

AQ.

It's just bad.

I get it, AQ.

I get it.

Hey, put James.

It's about the process.

It's about the process, not the results, right?

You and that's right.

Coach speak now.

That's right.

Well, congratulations to the trenches.

Top five offensive performing lines, you know, from week one.

We love the Ravens.

We're just saying number one team being a loser.

So you're saying Ravens we should not be scared about.

When it was 40 to 25, I remember hopping on my dad.

You've had plenty of conversations with my dad.

My dad goes,

Thank you.

It's the best team I've ever seen.

Best team I've ever seen.

Yeah.

So, so they,

the number one offensive line of the week, obviously, uh, they had, I believe it was that fourth and one late in the game, right, where they punted it instead of going for it.

Fourth and three.

Lamar was cramping.

You do you think they could have gotten three yards there?

Was it two or three?

Three.

Yeah, I mean, obviously, yes, but I also think John Harbaugh, special teams coach, loves his defense, which obviously was playing pretty good when it was 40 to 25, right?

Like

DBs on the other side of it, you know,

what are you doing, Jay?

You're running for it?

I mean, it's so tough.

No, I personally think it's the right call, but I'm just saying the number one.

I watched that film and I'm like, I'm so glad I don't have to play the Ravens anymore.

Yeah.

Because that team, that offense, and everything they did through the misdirection, the Zona Reeds, and having a great offensive line really sucks to play against.

But no, you can't there.

You can't there.

That clip just reminded me because it's interesting now that I'm calling games.

I don't get to see everything as much as I used to.

But hop with that one-handed catch that he had.

Incredible.

Yes.

Still doing it.

Casual.

Yes.

Casual.

What have we talked about?

Sean Payton's call at the end of that game?

Boy, oh boy.

That was insane.

We have not.

Oh.

that game had a few calls.

So he has the ball at what was it, the 40,

probably the 40, 45 opponents of Tennessee's going in.

Going in, they're up eight, and it's a minute and a minute left.

A minute left.

A minute five.

And instead of punting to put it down or try a field goal, which obviously, if you miss a field goal, you give him, I think, goes for it and tries to throw it and gives Cam Ward the ball back down eight with a minute at the 42 yards.

That's an aggressive start.

It wasn't like a hitch, like, hey, drop the ball or miss.

I mean, it was a Bo Nick's deep shot, moon ball to Marvin Mims, and Marvin Mims just didn't get there.

Okay, so we'll keep an eye out for that against the Colts because he does that.

We're going to punish him.

Oh, yeah, Dime's going to punish him.

Oh, yeah.

JJ, let's talk about the game that you called.

You did a phenomenal job by a lot of very harsh critic standards, okay?

The boys hate everything and everybody.

100%.

Pretty close.

I think that is, at this stage, that is what we have gotten to.

We don't love it, but that is where we are at because so much.

You crushed it, we all think.

How did you feel in there?

And how about that game?

One of the best games of the year.

You got a chance to call for your first full-time gig.

Yeah, I mean, I appreciate it.

I appreciate the kind words.

I had a blast, man.

I really, really enjoyed it.

Being in the atmosphere, being in the energy, being able to talk football on a little deeper level and try and explain what I'm seeing and give my perspective.

And also working with one of the absolute best in the business, an I and Eagle.

and then thankfully we had an incredible game it had plenty of storylines going in and then it far surpassed what i thought it was going to be on the field i did not see the score being in the 60s between the two teams combined i did not see that type of throwing performance and i didn't see it going back and forth at that level so it was such a fun game to have for my first game and I look forward to many more.

He said you weren't biased at all towards the Steelers, which you obviously could have been.

Your family is very tight in the Pittsburgh Steelers organization with your brother, who's obviously an absolute monster and he's all the way back.

But you talked about, you know, Justin Fields spinning a little bit, Aaron spinning it.

The moment, the emotions immediately afterwards, too, it was cool.

The way it ended, Jalen ending that game and Aaron's reaction.

I don't know if you've seen that.

It was on social media.

I don't know if you guys had it on the television cast or not.

He loses his mind, obviously incredibly excited and emotional about it all.

Whenever you're doing the pregame conversations, did it feel like everybody there is on the same page and all in for this season?

Because I think Jalen Ramsey said on the pivot, he said, once I heard what Aaron's doing and why he's doing it, I was all in.

It's like, yep, we're all on the same page here.

Did you feel that in your interviews beforehand?

Not that you don't know that already, TJ.

Yeah, no, you can definitely tell that they have this kind of,

we brought all these vets in.

We brought all these pro bowlers, all pros.

We got these guys with all this experience, and we are putting together something something special for this year.

And now they have to go execute it.

But they talked about what it's like at practice to have these guys.

You can have conversations at such a high level when you have vets that have been playing for that long at that high of a level.

And Aaron is making the defense better, the defense is making Aaron better.

And there's really a lot of intermixing and intermingling between that team.

So they did really well.

I loved, I mean, the hit to end the game by Jalen was obviously a great hit, a massive play, but also they had been going back and forth all game.

They got into a scuffle at the end of the first half.

And so it was just really, really good game all around.

And that play is a perfect microcosm of it because it was a great throw and catch by Justin DeGuerre Wilson.

It was just also a great play by Jalen.

Let's go to the Steelers offense.

D-Butt has a question for you.

Yeah, Aaron.

Four touchdowns, had a great, obviously game-winning touchdown, but gave up four sacks that offensive line.

I know you watched it and you studied him coming into it.

Any concern going forward with keeping it?

Because obviously, when you have an older quarterback, keeping him upright, keeping him protected is priority number one.

Any concern with that still is offensive line going forward?

Yeah, I mean, I think you definitely have to, you know, first game, all that type of stuff, but you definitely have to look at and see what happened.

I think the left side struggled a little bit there, and everybody knows Aaron's not as mobile from a scrambling standpoint.

He did a great job in play action, getting out on the edge and making some great throws and making some things happen.

But you don't want him taking those big hits in the pocket.

And he's smart.

He gets down sometimes when he knows it's coming, which is what he should do.

But yeah, they're going to want to solidify that.

And I also think they're going to want to get the run game going more.

They didn't quite get it going at the pace that they would like it to.

I don't think Jalen Warren played as much as people thought he was going to play.

But they are.

They definitely will want to try and keep him more upright.

as the season goes on.

The Jets have a great D-line.

You know, you're going to have to battle against that.

That Jets team, I don't think any of us are completely out on.

I assume Jets fans feel a little bit better, but what a heartbreaking heartbreaking end for them and a great win for the pittsburgh steelers go ahead aj hawk yes staying with that jets team uh jage what'd you feel like i don't know if you spoke with aaron glenn at all in production meetings leading up to that game and what'd you feel like that the atmosphere and the culture was like around that jets team in the stadium on opening day

Yeah, it is extremely clear when you talk to Aaron Glenn, when you talk to the players, when you talk to the coordinators, what they're trying to build there.

They are trying to build a physical, aggressive identity and a team that is disciplined doesn't beat themselves and that is clearly referenced by today's news of their kick returner xavier gibson being released after fumbling the ball that kind of turned the momentum around in that game so aaron glenn talked about it and there's a lot of times when coaches talk about things and they don't actually back it up he clearly sent a message today that if you do things to potentially cost us football games, it could potentially cost you your job.

And I think that sends a big statement to the locker room.

And while it's unfortunate and we've all made mistakes, we've all had one play here or there.

I'm sure it might not have been just this one play, but it sends a message to your locker room.

Hey, get on board or we're moving along.

I'm an Aaron Glenn fan.

I appreciate this style of coaching as well.

I think it does pay dividends.

I think you can win this way.

Hopefully it's able to happen in New York.

Yeah, New Jersey.

You know, in the entire New York.

Yeah, shadows of New York City.

I think you got to give a ton of credit to Justin Fields, man.

Like, watching that game, I said it on the broadcast.

I think it was a tough day for the people who call Justin Fields a running quarterback only.

Like, he stood in the pocket and delivered the ball.

He shuffled around the pocket, keeping his eyes downfield on the scramble and delivering the ball.

He obviously did some great things with his legs.

But I think for him.

To have ownership of this team and ownership of the number one quarterback role is huge.

He's been leading players-only practices.

He feels like it's his job.

He doesn't have to be looking over his shoulder, and he's kind of able to take control.

And it was a lot of fun to watch him play.

Yeah, Justin Fields, a guy.

Yeah.

I think that's what everybody's saying after week one for the New York Jets.

And you talked about him being able to throw dots all around the place.

I didn't know that about Danny Dimes either.

And it felt like with Justin Fields, same thing.

It was like, I didn't know you had this.

I thought this was kind of the thing that you couldn't do.

A lot of work in the offseason, a lot of empowerment for Justin Fields.

And then we all know whenever he runs, he's the fastest guy in the field.

And he showed that in Chicago.

He showed that in Pittsburgh.

He can also show that in New York.

And if they're going to have a good defense with Aaron Glenn and he can keep the ball, okay, maybe the Jets are on to something.

Maybe they're moving on.

Let's go to another team.

Let's go to the NFC.

Con man has a question for you, JJ.

Yeah, Jage, fantastic hair the other day.

Really good.

It was wonderful.

You really picked a great picture.

I appreciate it.

My eyes were just wide open for it.

You know, it's really nice.

No problem.

It was a live photo.

I picked that frame.

and also

I'm not sure if you saw people were calling you watch Stradamus I think is what was dubbed earlier because that cool little prediction you had on the Justin Fields keeper unbelievable but another quarterback that was fantastic was JJ McCarthy yeah not to mention the height different difference but we won't even get to that

but it's not that darn yeah yeah I can't even tell why are you so close to the camera you guys are the same height too is you're just the difference.

We're the same distance from the camera.

I don't,

it doesn't feel that.

I can definitely tell you it doesn't feel like that.

I think it's like an optical illusion because of that ceiling.

My head is very close to the ceiling.

I can tell you that.

But

I mean,

you should pick them.

You should pick them up like a stuffed animal.

Oh, shit.

Next time.

Oh, my God.

Next time you do it, that'd be that.

Speaking of stuffed animals.

Yeah, exactly.

This ain't one of those.

Oh, okay.

You just saw it shouldn't be.

Was it crazy, though, whenever you, like, did you expect that you were going to have to,

you know, like, did you, did you know that going in?

You have to do that a lot, I assume.

Because, JJ, like, this is not a knock on iron.

I think this is more a conversation about how abnormally tall you are.

You are.

Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying.

Like, I'm you're abnormally large.

Like, you are just a giant of a human being.

They're talking about these giants that used to exist, you know, it's the same thing.

Giants of Canahar.

Boom, bingo.

You are a descendant, I believe, of one of that.

Like the way.

For sure.

Because you're like, you could be 330 pounds, no problem, and nobody would even notice.

And it's like, you're a giant.

So there's a lot of people that could be in Ian's position, but he is the only one there.

And it's hard not to be like, damn, I mean, that's quite a, that's quite a, I mean, can we get him on a box maybe?

See, shaking your finger.

You know, he's the best, man.

He's the best.

I love Ian.

He, because he, he's so quick with it.

Like, we can joke.

I mean, he made a twins reference there, obviously.

I mean, it makes sense.

Arnold and Danny.

I heard you hear that.

Wow, that is quick.

Very good.

I like that a lot.

That's why I am a goat out there.

Let's get away from that.

We're excited to listen to you all year.

We thought you guys killed it.

Go ahead, Con Man, on your question about the NFC's quarterback of the future.

Oh, that's right.

Yes.

And also, I didn't listen to you.

I'm so sorry.

JJ McCarthy.

That's what I do with you every day, anyway.

Perfect, perfect.

Let's just get along.

Excuse me, JJ.

That's the thing that really grinded my gears just last week.

It was like, oh, Connor, coal hair.

And it was like, dude, don't do this.

Don't be like, I started off nice and then he was a prick.

It's like, you want to, if you want to do like the whole compliment, dude, text me so you want to know.

We're hair brothers.

I told the guy when I got a haircut, I said, I want to flare the black.

I want to flare the black like my guy, Connor.

So

I'm going for your look.

I appreciate that.

But once again, what I was getting to, like, if you want to compliment me, like just text it to me so I don't have to respond and we don't have to do this whole thing where like I turn into the bad guy because I want to screw around.

And you're like, dude, cool shirt.

Those shoes are cool.

It's like, shut up, dude.

That's not what we're here.

That's like not what we do here.

I mean, you got the Oregon Trail shirt today.

I mean, we can go at that if we want to.

Oh, forge the river.

You got to do that, by the way.

You got to forge the river.

Exactly.

That's cool.

Don't, don't.

I'm done with the compliment shit.

Just send it somewhere else.

I got the Patriots game next week.

Not this week, but next week.

So we'll have plenty to get into there.

Perfect.

I love it.

And maybe by then, you'll cut the string sticking up on your hat by then.

But seriously, JJ JJ McCarthy, let's just get into it.

JJ Watt

made it worse.

I made it worse.

It's a lot longer now.

I've got the time to do it.

How's not the time?

I'm just pouring it out.

Don't do that.

That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

Yeah.

Get a lighter.

That's the right plane.

It's so much better.

Oh, way better.

Way better.

Yeah, it looks good.

It looks good.

In the morning, we drink coffee.

In the afternoon, it's rum.

Tonight, it's Espanol.

are.

Yeah, yeah.

I hope you guys got it.

Back to your question.

You want to talk about the future?

See you there, man.

Louise, all right.

Yeah, I was just going to say,

as a non-player, you probably shouldn't wear your hat backwards like that.

But again, let's just reset here.

JJ McCarthy had his debut on Monday night, and for three quarters, it was absolute shite.

But then he turned it on.

There's actually a story going around.

He talks about it where he says to his own lineman after he throws his pick six in the huddle, like, hey, where else would you rather be?

And it kind of did get a great reaction from everybody.

What'd you think of his debut?

It seemed almost with the opposite of Caleb's, where he started off terrible and then came on out at the end.

And then Caleb started off good and then completely collapsed in the second half.

What'd you think of this game?

And what do you think about JJ McCarthy and the Vikings?

Yeah, I think that those types of things like you're talking about and some of his quotes, I think

he's had a bunch of those kind of hardballisms, which are great.

When you come back and win the game and you also

throw the touchdown to Aaron Jones and then you run the one in down by the pylon, like

all of a sudden that stuff, people start buying in heavier and heavier as you say it moving forward.

Whereas you start saying that type of stuff and you don't win that game, then some eyeballs start to roll and you're like, all right, what, what are we doing here, man?

When you do do it and you do it successfully, it is a magical, powerful thing.

And so if he keeps that rolling and he continues to improve, I mean, you have to remember, this was his first game.

They were throwing a lot at him.

There were a ton of different looks.

And so as the game went on, he got more and more comfortable.

And he's got a phenomenal head coach who knows how to develop a quarterback.

I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

His offensive line after he scored that run-in touchdown, which I believe was obviously after he said, is there any place you'd rather be than right here or whatever?

The one guy's calling him either a sicko or a psycho.

I forget what it is.

Like it is, you're a psycho or you're a sick.

I forget which one it was in his face.

It's like whenever you call your shot almost and then back it up,

what a what a moment.

Unreal.

That's an immediate exponential.

Yeah.

Just through the roof.

Yeah.

We got the guy.

No left tackle, too.

Missing his starting left tackle.

He paid $130 million.

And then fourth quarter, you know, and I talked about this yesterday.

He did exactly what everybody said he was going to do that knew him.

JJ, that's kind of been the talk.

And I think he's a hockey guy, too, right?

Yeah, that's the story for Michigan.

Yeah, he's a hockey guy as well, which we all understand the hockey culture.

I think that's a great thing to have.

Yeah, no, big hockey guys, fantastic guys.

I did see it.

He got NFC Player of the Week, right?

NFC Offensive Player of the Week.

That'd be cool.

Is that breaking?

I think I might have just seen that, which I'm with you, but I think it's awesome.

Congrats to him, but I think that might be a little primetime score-the-winning touchdown bias there.

Yeah, but

it might be NFC rookie of the week since we don't know just yet.

We shouldn't say technically not a rookie, though.

NFC Player of the Week.

Oh, yeah.

143 pass yards.

Okay.

That's a tough graphic.

That's a tough graphic.

What are we doing?

They're trying to put that graphic up there.

They've got to put other stats.

That's kind of crazy.

I can say, as somebody who's won a few of these before on the defensive side of the ball, they value heavily if you contributed directly to the win.

You can't get it if you lose.

I know that for a fact.

So if you got an unbelievable guy on a losing team, I believe they will not give it to a losing team.

I like that.

Take note of.

Yeah, but then I feel like there's a couple guys out there that might have had the graphic could have looked a little better.

Yeah, I think they chose a different stat.

Baker Mayfield.

Yeah.

Baker

tied under a minute left there to Ameka.

I mean, guys, but Bucks tight end, I think.

I think

I don't want to try and say his name.

I don't have it down yet.

Jordan Love.

Give it a go.

What tight end?

Take a shot at it.

Yeah, take a shot at it.

The Bucks.

The Bucks.

Ameka Ibuka.

Oh, the receiver.

Yes, thank you.

He's on a tight end.

He used to be a trip.

The receiver sorry, not a tight end.

You sound like the Ohio University coach.

Kate Otten's pretty easy.

Trying to give him credit and failing.

We'll continue with this conversation on YouTube,

TikTok Live, ESPN Plus, and Disney Plus.

Jage, thanks for showing up today with that hat.

We'll be back tomorrow.

Have a good one.

Goodbye.

Not my best send-off, but I'll tell you what, Jage, the hair is a little bit mesmerizing whenever it pops up underneath that hat.

It's great.

It's very full.

You got a very full head of hair.

Yeah, there's a lot up there.

There is a lot up there.

Are you just going to keep it going?

Maybe you should put that Mr.

Incredible look.

Like, you know, some people say that to me every once in a while when my hair gets a little bit too long, but for you, you could actually do the...

The Jimmy Neutron.

I'm really trying hard.

I don't love that it parts in the middle when I'm on the air.

I'm trying to figure out how to part it a different way because I do not want to keep the middle part rolling.

Well, you know, you can do that hard part that kind of forces your hair to do it.

You can rock the middle part, though.

The middle part, like, I can't do the middle part of my hair at all.

You can rock the middle part, so I wouldn't just abandon it after week one.

You should give it a little time, see if you like it.

Yeah, Travis Kelsey brought it back, said it was okay.

Yeah, I'd still consider the mill rose, I wouldn't throw that out.

Just slick that something

straight back.

The mill rose, just slick it.

Just you think that's just a bunch of gel?

Yes.

Hang time in the back.

You got that curly hang time you'd have in the back and throw it out.

I'm trying to get that, man.

That's the goal right there.

I want that little flip-up.

You'll get there.

Dye your beard black, maybe, too.

Oh, hulk.

Throw it out and dye your black.

Rest in peace.

Maybe do a handlebar

blonde.

Yeah.

And then spray paint this black.

Yeah, rest in peace.

It's happening for him.

It could be for anybody.

Or a bandana, maybe, too, and sunglasses.

And then every time I and Eagle introduce you, you should say, he is a real American.

JJ Watt, what are your thoughts on it?

I got a WWE reference into the game.

We had a WWE reference.

What'd you say?

Something about Shinsuke, Nakama.

The ref called a penalty on the wrong team, and then he switched it.

And I said he made a heel turn because the whole stadium went banana.

It was pretty wild.

That is a good wrestling.

Hey, that is a very good wrestling.

Lingo.

Yeah, I think it was actually a face turn because it was good for the home crowd, but it was kind of a 50-50 50-50 crowd since they've gone a little ways.

Such a bullshit call, too.

You blew it.

Yeah.

It was a bullshit call.

I agree with that.

It was.

You were in the ballpark.

He'll turn to the Steelers fans, but you were talking about the actual crowd.

They went positive, right?

Yeah, the Jets fans got excited.

So that's technically a face turn, correct?

Who had more fans there, though?

That's the question.

It was, at the beginning, I called it 50-50, but by the end of the game, I corrected myself.

It was 70-30 Jets fans.

They did a good job.

Yeah, that was a big storyline going in: is that the Pittsburgh Shields were going to take over MetLife?

They did not.

And also, you're feeling positive about the Jets, it sounds like, coming out of that game.

And also, JJ McCarthy.

I like to hear that.

Jage,

are you worried that you covering these games is going to get you too close to these teams and you're not going to be able to fairly evaluate these teams?

Do you think that's going to happen, Akush?

I don't think so.

I think you can be fair and honest and still

do what you have to do.

How would that be possible?

I'm covering them all.

Yeah.

Like, which one would I favor?

I think one in particular that you said the refs were doing a heel turn against.

Yeah, when it was actually a face turn.

You're a little brother.

Just ask chess fans.

Reach out.

Ask chess fans.

Was I biased in that game on the call?

Do you think you were?

No, I was extremely conscious not to be.

It was something I prided myself on because it was, yeah, you could easily sit there and root for your brother and want to have him be successful or have their team be successful.

But it honestly, once you're in the booth, it's not that hard because you're like, I'm just doing my job.

And then after the game, you go back to being a brother and talking to him and talking about his plays and what happened.

But during the game, it's really not that hard.

You just call him TJ Watt instead of TJ.

You did call him TJ Watt.

Yeah, go ahead.

Sorry, yeah, Pat was taking.

Was that weird?

I heard you multiple times.

Yo, you see TJ Watt here on the outside.

Was that awkward saying the full first and last name for your brother like that?

It made it a lot easier for me to to just be clean and unbiased.

I think if I would have been calling him TJ all day, then it starts to creep in where it's like, if I just treated him like a regular player out there on the field, it did make it a lot easier for me.

I think I referred to him as 90 a few times, like just to anything but what I would normally call him in day-to-day life.

Teege Tege gets to the quarterback.

There he goes.

Teach has been working on that.

Did it in my backyard?

Taught him that.

Koa was actually standing in as a tackle and Tege learned that one there.

Yeah, I'm happy he didn't do that.

What a great game for you to start your entire career.

Now let's start talk about the game that started Micah Parsons' Green Bay Packers career.

I'm sure you saw it and obviously heavily invested.

Go ahead, Ty.

Yeah, Jage, when you first saw the video of Micah Parsons in pads with the Packers hitting the sled, you were basically like, yep, his back is fine.

You're not that explosive.

If you do have back issues, I think it was like a day later.

They said, yeah, he's not going to need an epidural to play, but still only played 45% of the snaps, but he was dominant dominant in those 45% of the snaps he did play.

What do you think his ramp-up process is like?

And do you expect him to play quite a few more snaps on Thursday, even though it's a short week?

I mean, I think you should expect him.

The short week kind of messes it up because the biggest challenge is knowing the playbook well enough to not screw it up when you're out there.

And then also, it just depends on truly how much he was doing off to the side by himself in Dallas during training camp and where he's at from a conditioning standpoint.

because the last thing you want to do is throw him out there for 60 plays when he hasn't been fully ramped up to that because of the whole holdout situation in Dallas.

So if he's in condition, if he has been working on the side and everything is ready to go, then it only becomes...

Does he know the playbook?

And you can pick up the playbook really fast, especially when you don't have a whole lot else going on in Green Bay.

You got plenty of time to study the playbook.

But the short week will definitely throw it off a little.

I'm excited for tomorrow night.

Me too.

I've been waiting all day

for Thursday night.

Alec Kirk are in for a fight.

Yeah.

Witt and Fitz

and Sherman and

Tony Hartop

are all in for a fight.

Yeah, Bert's gonna take his fucking shirt

off.

Then we're gonna see Peter take it off.

Yeah.

Al is pissed.

I'm excited.

That's tomorrow night.

Watch it, Darren.

Tony is cold.

Darren needs to not be saying things to Kirk as we're going back live.

Geez.

Yeah, what were you saying, Darren?

Something that was

bad.

Kirk was so pissed.

I mean, that was classic internet just saying, yep, this is what this is.

Send it.

And Kirk gets out of here.

I didn't even see the original.

All I saw was Kirk's tweet, Firestorm.

And I was like, oh, something happened.

Kirk's like, this is not fair at all.

If you listen to that, that's not what I said at all.

And also, that's not what that's too.

What are we doing here?

They had Darren in the vlog, though.

So if you wanted to, Darren is always right next to him in the booth, too.

Need photo, it is.

So it's very clear that Darren, he's been friends with him since high school.

Darren's a spotter.

Debone's been around.

You know, we have bigger Deepone.

Kirk has a little D-bone.

This guy's lost a lot of weight.

He's lost a lot of weight.

Used to be a fullback.

Now he's like a model in this entire thing.

Tight paint.

He's good.

He's a good vibes guy, morale guy.

I think

bring him morale.

Like good vibes guy.

So I don't know what he was saying, maybe to help pass the time of that game or whatever it was, but whatever it was, got Kirk's attention, obviously.

And he was just responding to him.

You don't know?

No idea.

To pull my finger.

I don't know.

It could have been about anything.

That legitimately could have been about anything.

It's a tough game to call.

Good game.

Well, just keeping it, keeping the energy up.

That place was so electric there at the beginning of that game.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Randy Moss was there.

Yeah.

Michael fucking Jordan.

Fucking Lawrence fucking Taylor.

Yeah.

And Mia fucking him.

Eric fucking Church.

Teddy fucking Bruski.

Petey fucking Pablo.

Yeah.

Fucking Pablo was there.

Yeah, everybody was there.

I mean, it was

alive.

By the end of that,

by the end of that middle of that second quarter, I mean, that thing was fucking nobody.

Where are you at this week?

Fucking nobody, huh?

Where are you at this week?

Rocket Top in the

belly.

Good old rocket time.

Rocket Top Dennis.

That's a great song.

I agree.

That is top, top, top tier song.

But who or what's that coming?

Down the track is on the other side right here.

You know, I'm pretty excited about this SEC clash.

USF Miami could have been a good one.

Yep.

To go to Game Day 2.

Texas AM, Notre Dame would have happened if Notre Dame doesn't lose to Miami, obviously, which obviously puts the other one in.

I saw some things floating around the internet.

I don't know what's real.

I'm not paying attention to that.

But allegedly, Miami was potentially a, I don't know.

I don't know the inside scoop for the game day, folks.

I don't pay attention to that.

Really cool video.

A lot of people telling me I need to pick game day to go somewhere.

Come on.

Mommy, if you're a bad person.

Why are you throwing it up, man?

Why are you not picking certain places, dude?

I have a negative vote, not even a no vote.

I have a negative vote.

I withdraw from all of it.

So that is somebody else's decision that's being made.

Just know, I fucking want to go to your school.

Hell yeah.

You know, whoever you are.

Yeah.

Because if you're passionate about us coming, I want to go there.

I want to go to the place that wants us to be there.

Like, that is literally the best mornings of game days, whenever the crowd is clearly pumped that we are there.

Those are about the places that are about sick, you know, or used to game day being there.

Those are places out.

So, everybody that says, hey, you need to get to blah, blah, blah, that isn't normally a game day school, know that I, my vote does not count, but I fucking want to come.

You think Miami students were getting up at 7 a.m.

and driving an hour to the stadium for a 4:30 game?

Probably.

It was packed for the Notre Dame game.

Yeah, the Notre Dame game, though, was just a game as opposed to Sunday, Labor Day weekend.

9 a.m.

They'll make the trip.

South Florida fans, too.

Yeah, South Florida probably takes that one over, you think, man?

Oh, nah.

Not with you, baby, bad.

Georgia, Tennessee would be good, though.

I think it's going to be a great one.

It's going to be awesome, dude.

I'm a big tunnel walk guy.

I grew up and I just loved watching YouTube videos of tunnel walks, like Nebraska and all those old school teams.

Tennessee, I doubt they'll do it for this one because it's not a night game.

But when they hit that night game and they they get that spooky rocky top intro,

that is some top tier.

Hey, and their lighting, their lighting that they have there.

I'm telling you, there's been massive investments by these places to get their light show and their intro and their game entertainment at like top-notch.

It is Tennessee, I think, has been a standard, I think, for a lot of people.

Like, they redid it and everybody follows them.

Alabama has a great one, right?

If I recall, yes, that one.

And their DJ is very good.

We got them this week.

So

who's that?

Badgers heading down there.

We got the Badgers heading down to Old Tuscaloosa.

Now's the time.

Yeah, for sure.

This might be the time to be heading down there.

You know, that's how I believe it, brother.

Better believe it.

There's also a chance, though, Kalen Boers got those boys, you know, figuring out who they are.

And then it goes the other way.

21 and a half point spread's a big one.

Three and a half, George.

That's a large number.

That's a large number.

That's a large number.

You like it or hate it?

That's a large number.

I did not expect that.

That would be tough.

Pitt, six and a half.

Pat, West Virginia, Diner at Morgantown.

That was potentially game day stop from what I heard.

Yeah, that's going to be a big one.

Six and a half.

West Virginia must win that one.

I think everybody knows that.

Can't go back-to-back losses, especially with Ohio being the first one there.

That's going to be a battle.

Six and a half feels a lot.

Who's everybody on there, Tone?

Pitt, West Virginia.

I would assume Pitt.

I could look it up, though.

All right.

No, geez.

That's because nobody understands how good Ohio is.

Ohio Bobcats are a good footballer.

Defending Mac channel.

That's right.

They had some massive injuries, unfortunately.

The Mountaineers.

It just doesn't.

Yeah, we lost a run back.

Our best running back, best player, probably.

He's

definitely out.

But that's an opportunity for others to maybe become the best player.

That's exactly right.

He's got his top receiver or top lineman.

I forget.

There's another top position you guys can.

Oh, he's over.

Their players are

70% on pit.

70% on minus six and a half at pit.

You can't send game day to a 17.5 point spread game.

What are you talking about?

You said you, you, you and Miami and USF.

I didn't realize it was that.

That's crazy, isn't it?

I was the same spread last week.

Yeah, no respect against Florida.

It's crazy.

No respect.

All right, Jage.

We appreciate the hell out of you.

We're going to start Ash Jage next week.

Awesome.

Can't wait.

Look forward to it.

What game do you have this week?

Poop questions.

Yeah, definitely.

I have got the Rams at the Titans.

So we've got some Cam Ward action.

We got Matthew Stafford balling out.

Rams defense, Titans defense.

Yeah, should be a good one.

Looking forward to being in Nashville, Tennessee.

Maybe you're just

great city, Nashville.

Nearby.

Knoxville.

How far is Knoxville from Nashville?

Probably far.

No, I bet it's a stone's throw.

You think a couple haulers?

Yeah, Tennessee's not a huge state.

I assume it's a few hours.

A wide state.

It is wide.

Three hours.

Or tall.

Yeah, that's not bad.

It's doable.

Fuck.

Kidding me?

You know what, Jake?

We'll drive over to Nashville, come see you.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, just stop there.

Jake, this might be your calling calling games, bud.

You're really good at it.

I don't know if these boots are going to be big enough for you, but

I appreciate it.

I enjoy it.

One thing I didn't think about when calling games, which you've got to be like, oh, you're a moron, then.

But you have the best seat in the entire stadium.

You're a dead center, 50-yard line, like perfect height.

It is, it is glorious.

Not everybody, though.

Yeah.

Perfect height.

That was the last one.

Okay.

We're not doing it it again after that.

But that was

kind of late.

I'm looking like a giant over there, dude.

Well, I didn't say that, but I'm also not on TV looking like I'm fucking 3'8, you know?

So it's gotta be those.

You know what I mean?

Solid 6.

I was gonna say,

I'm an average height, and I'm okay with that.

But that's not happening to me.

You know?

But he doesn't give a fuck.

You're next to Conf.

You're not next to life.

Yeah, look where I put the chair in.

I'm 6'5, bitch.

What are you talking about?

Hey, James, we appreciate you.

You're the the man.

Congrats on everything, ladies and gentlemen, JJ Watts.

All right, let's take a break.

On the other side, we got Andrew Santino joining us.

He has a special, White Noise, coming to Hulu.

Cannot wait for that.

It's his third special.

He had one on Prime, had one on Netflix.

Now he has one on Hulu here in just a few days, or it's already out.

Hell yeah.

The 12th, September 12th.

September 12th, September 12th, okay, in a couple days.

It's great news.

I've seen clips of this man, a lot of them,

talking about so many different things.

All of it is hilarious.

Loves golf.

He's actually got a golf podcast

called The Bad Strokes.

No bad lies.

No bad lies.

There it is.

I like that.

Bad friends.

They walk and carry their bags, by the way.

Right.

They walk and carry their bags.

Wow.

I love that.

He's on the golf podcast so far.

He's had Charlie Day, George Lopez, Michelle We West, Kevin Dillon, Nick Jonas,

Steve Durbin,

J.R.

Smith.

They're walking.

Yeah.

I thought they were walking and carrying.

Love that.

And I don't think they're playing 18.

I think they're only playing a couple.

Play four holes.

Yeah, I think so.

Walking's a lot.

Tearing bag would be a lot.

Sky's a dog.

Got a special coming out September 12th on Hulu called White Noise.

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Imagine that.

He's magical.

That is college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner AJ Hawk there.

AJ, it's good to see you.

I was like revisiting that Rose Bowl and the thought of your boy just puking all over a section and not getting an opportunity to see the Ohio State Buckeyes beat the hell out of the Oregon Ducks and the Rose Bowl crowd chant his dad's name.

Is he okay, by the way?

I don't think we ever got a full report on post-Rose Bowl dumping and puking all over the granddaddy of the mall.

How is the boy doing?

The boy's doing all right.

It took multiple hours to get it all figured out, but he's doing great now.

Was it a food poisoning ordeal?

Was it some kale he had over there in Southern California?

What was it?

Honestly, I have no idea.

His younger, my middle son, he actually clogged the toilet earlier in the day.

So I don't know if it was food they got from something or what, but yeah, puking in, dumping for multiple kids that day.

Big dumps from the Hawks when they come to time.

Gotta love it.

Tell your toilets and the pipes to get ready because the fucking Hawks are coming in.

And they're not playing any games.

The Toxic Tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

Nine-year NFL vet, host of Everything DB, Good D, Bad D.

Saw some bad D out of the Patriots earlier.

Yeah,

some of the worst d we've ever seen uh it was yeah but some people were slinging that good d around the nfl including teams that lost ladies and gentlemen darry stay ball yeah thank you much that was a good good d bad d i appreciate it good week one you put a losing team on there though you know what that was a crazy titans titans panthers you got them in you got to get them in when you can get them in because week seven week eight week 12 gone

Could be, but it's the new year, too.

We'll see.

Yeah, those teams still exist, guys.

Let's not just say those teams are gone.

All right.

They still play games and they still try really hard.

We'll watch.

Yeah, but we're giving medals participation trophies.

Exactly.

That's what we're doing.

Ladies and gentlemen, that leads a 12-year NFL veteran, Super Bowl champion, host of in the trenches, top five offensive lines, performing week to week here on the program, putting a team that lost at the number one spot, AQ Shipley.

Baby AQ.

See, I didn't put a team there.

Let's be very clear about that.

Just like he didn't put a team there.

He put a secondary,

corner a position player i put a unit yep and put a team we're not giving participation trophies a team this is bad precedent especially with who we have joining us right now ladies and gentlemen this guy just wins at everything

you've seen him in dave great yeah i've seen him in ricky stanicky unbelievable certainly that movie was way too good It really was.

You know, I don't think concept-wise, in theory, it was supposed to be as good as it was.

He made it this way.

And John Cena, his fucking Ricky Stanicki, did an incredible job in this entire thing.

Has his third special dropping on September 12th on Hulu called White Noise.

He's a host of bad friends alongside Bobby Lee.

Hilarious shit all the time.

All the time.

Seemingly every word that they say to each other is fucking hilarious.

I see the clips all the time.

Thanks to this man for making our life better, ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Santino.

Yay!

Hey, boys.

Sir?

Great to be here.

Hey, we made you,

we're late, so that's 100% on us.

Just know that there is accountability on this end, and we were eager to chit-chat with you.

JJ Watt had that hair thing going.

He had such good hair, kind of dragged it a little late.

So we apologize, Andrew.

It's all good.

No problem.

The kid does have good lettuce.

You can't take away that.

You know what I mean?

Hey, man.

Sounds like you got a little bit of hockey talk, too.

I see a men corner up there.

I know you're a golf guy.

How much sports are in white noise here?

What are we expecting for this third stand-up special, if I'm remembering them accurately?

And how long does it take to put this together?

Well, this takes, you know, it's different for every comic.

Some guys, it's a year some guys it's more this took me just about a year to put together on the road uh the best sports story in this is uh i took my dad to monday night football last year he'd never been to a monday night game and uh we went out and got hammered and then after the game we were at the hotel bar having a one for the ditch is what he says and what we were wobbling against the bar And he was looking at me like the way a father would look at a son, like he's going to say something important to me.

And I got a little, you know, choked up.

And I was like, what's going on?

Do you, you got something to tell me?

And he was like, I'm pissing right now.

All over, all over himself in the hotel bar.

He's the king.

My man is the king.

Okay.

All right.

Well,

I love just the life that you guys live, you comedians, you know, just the brains, the experiences.

And you're a necessity to society, I think, by the way.

Do you agree with that or no?

I think so.

I think there's so much wild shit going on in the world right now.

We need to laugh at it.

A lot of people are living a tough, tough life right now.

It's confusing.

It's divisive.

I think we're there to just crack it up and let everyone know to chill out and laugh.

It's all good.

I mean, you know, that big rock is coming soon.

So have fun while you can.

Take it, smoke it, snort it, drink it.

Do whatever you got to do.

Whatever you got to do.

Yeah, I don't know, especially

this day and age.

I don't know if all the drugs are okay, but go ahead.

No, not all of them.

Yeah, you got to do what you got to do in 2025.

You think it's coming from the sky, huh?

Some people think it's coming from Earth.

Some people think it's coming from Earth, brother.

Some people think it's coming.

You think sky, don't look up.

Yeah, no, I think, I think it's coming down eventually.

For years, they were like, you know, there's nothing out there.

And then finally, the government was like, no, there is.

And we were like, oh, really?

They're like, yeah, just don't worry about it.

It's coming.

Forget about it.

Good morning, America.

This morning ran a clip.

So this is when you know it's a big deal.

Obviously, the internet, which we all live on, probably way too much.

What a creation.

Oh, yeah.

Just in it all.

We've all seen this stuff.

Good morning, America, runs us.

What is this here?

Okay.

This thing takes a hellfire ballistic missile and just keeps on rolling.

We should know what this is.

Love that they're reporting on it because if it's not something that is from outer space, who the fuck's got it?

You know, that's all vital information.

We should know this thing.

That's what we need comedians for.

You guys need to start pushing the envelope when it comes to the alien conversation, Andrew.

We could be the aliens.

You don't know.

You know, we're pretty dynamic, odd individuals.

So we could be the people that you're talking about, but you'll never know.

Fuck.

Wow.

Go ahead, AJ.

Go ahead, man.

Yeah, Andrew, speaking of your special, I saw there's some, you know, some controversy.

You got some suits that are kind of manipulating some of your jokes, something going on here.

I don't know if it's just a great publicity shot or what, but yeah, what's going on?

No, the house of the mouse didn't like some of the Disney jokes that I was making about Disney adults being a little

odd creatures, if you will.

And so they didn't enjoy that.

But you know what?

If you guys met a Disney adult, you know.

I had a joke in the special that I said,

you know, I don't have kids, so we don't go to the park.

We don't go to the park, but, you know, I think there should be two lines at Disney, one for people with kids and one for people without.

And the people with kids get to go in the park.

And the people without get to go to jail.

You have to go to jail.

I don't know what you're doing there.

And they didn't like it.

And I think it's perfect.

It's not insinuating anything.

I'm just cracking a joke about people that go to Disney alone.

By the way, they had some wild stuff.

In Paris, they just had Paris Disney, some guy try to like, like have a fake wedding in Paris Disney, some Disney adult.

It was the creepiest thing, man.

So, yeah, man, it's real.

I didn't make up those stories.

They happened.

But yeah, the mouse house called.

They weren't, you know, we went back and forth and we had a compromise.

You know, that's how it goes.

The compromise.

So we call things Mickey Mouse.

We say, no offense, Mickey Mouse.

Because obviously our show is streaming on ESPN, which is like, oh, I know.

Yeah, the whole thing.

Oh, you know, yeah, forced to be here, actually.

Yeah, I know.

It's part of the.

No, I love.

No, I love you guys.

But I know that the overarching gods that are Hulu, Disney, ESPN, all that, I'm sure they're behind the computer going, oh my God, oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Why is he saying it?

But this is the truth, is the truth, man.

Live on

the plus currently.

If you are watching.

Yeah, get on it.

Yeah, but with that being said, that's a very okay joke to say.

Like, I don't think Disney folks should feel offended by that.

The people who are going to Disney World or Disneyland as adults all by themselves love the parks.

Okay.

They understand that they're going to take some shrapnel.

I think they've probably taken a lot of shrapnel through it all.

And the internet certainly lets them have it.

That's not Disney's fault.

That's certainly not.

You're allowed to point these things out.

That's a comedian.

That's what a comedian is supposed to do.

That's what I would think.

And also, like, I've gotten trapped on my whole life.

I'm a, you know, I'm a lepre.

I'm a six-foot-one leprechaun

who's a Chicago kid who's watched my Chicago sports teams continue to let me down over and over and over.

So I know pain.

I understand pain.

And I'm going to say this right now on your show.

Look, I think for my money, I ought to switch out.

I ought to switch out Caleb for Badgett.

I say switch him out, dude.

Yeah.

What?

Yeah.

It's your bad baby.

They gave him a $10 million deal, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did they not?

This half season.

They gave him a $10 million deal, which is a lot of money, but you need a backup quarterback, especially if there's a chance for injury, if the person is going to be a mobile quarterback and everything like that.

But boy, it does feel like they like him up there.

You know, and he.

I like him too.

Yeah, you like them.

Go ahead.

You're saying, fuck it.

What are we doing?

A lot of people are like when they're the backup.

They come in and spin it for a few plays, look good.

A lot of pizzazz on the sidelines.

Different ballgame with your game planner for a guy.

He said the grass.

You're going to give up for your number one pick already, Andrew.

New, you got a bell of the ball head coach.

Giving up.

Let me tell you something.

We went against, you know, JJ is a second-year rookie or whatever you want to call it, and he performed magically.

He may have one of the best coaches in the NFL, but it doesn't matter.

We had a quarterback that had more experience than him that should have been able to seal the deal in that game, especially at home, especially with all the hoopla of coming back after, you know, completely, you know,

changing everything about our team, firing a coach midseason we've never done.

We thought, hey, look, this is it.

Show up, show out.

Did not happen in week one.

So I'm sorry, man.

Week one, he said.

He even said it did not happen in week one.

You know, there's good early.

Didn't happen.

Good early.

These weeks are running out of time.

We're losing weeks.

We're losing days here, especially.

We are.

We don't have that many.

We got, dude, we got 17 weeks.

You got to make it happen right away.

Come out.

And we had to beat the life out of Minnesota at home if we wanted to have any dignity.

And I know they're hurting from it.

Those guys are all bummed about it already.

And the entire city of Chicago bummed again to start a season.

This happens to us every year.

We needed something, we needed some hope up top.

We needed something big to happen, and it just didn't happen.

Sounds like you're a little bummed out, too.

You bummed out

big time.

Yeah, big time.

I hate it, man.

I think, like, I'm a little bit more.

You got a special coming out.

You got a special coming out.

I'm happy about that.

You got me.

I got on the Bears for a second, but my special is great.

Go watch White Noise.

I'm excited.

I'm more excited for that than the bears season right now but we'll see what happens understandable i think a lot of chicago bears fans probably waiting for that moment to happen though too you know you guys have kind of been born in the dark now at this stage so it's like i feel like you're waiting for the other shoe to drop even if things are going positive you got the hottest coach allegedly in the coaching cycle for the last three four years as your head coach you got a once-in-a-generation talent he's wearing that gray t-shirt underneath i thought that was an aggressive fashion

i liked it i liked it i like it he's a fashion guy i mean he he's going to do his own thing.

Whatever.

He does that.

But I think they're going to work it out.

I think they're going to figure it out.

I think you should have hope.

You should.

What do you think the record's going to be at the end of the year?

Oh.

I'll make you a bet on air right now.

Let's make a money bet.

You and I.

We've never met before in the real world.

I'd love to meet you in real life.

I'm a big fan.

Me too.

Let's make a money bet.

What do you think the record's going to be for the Bears?

Okay, so let's do an over-under.

Sure.

Okay, seven and a half.

Oh.

All right.

Okay, I'll take,

I'm going to take the under.

Love it.

Love it.

Yeah.

Love it.

He knows to take the under.

He knows.

No, I have the under.

You're the bears, man.

You have to take the under.

No, you gave me the option.

I'm taking the under.

You heard it your first.

That's unbelievable.

America, you heard it.

McAfee bet me 10 grand.

I take the under.

He takes the over.

God.

All right.

And the money's going to charity, so we'll do it right.

Okay, let's go, Badgett or Caleb.

Let's go, boys.

I need you to win eight games.

I was on the other side of that.

You were the Bears fan.

You were supposed to take the over there.

I was trying to give a number that you would say.

I was doing the deal or no deal, the bank person.

Like, what number would he say over to?

And I thought you would say yes to eight because that's not a winning season, so you would still be negative.

Instead, you're like, this is comedy.

We like misdirect.

We like the opposite of what you think it's going to be.

So you gave me the option.

I took it, baby.

I'm going low.

All right.

The Bears fan takes the under.

I, not Bears fan, will take the over on the Skuggle Bears for $10,000 to charity.

I like this.

I like everything about it.

Okay, sick.

Connor has a question for you, Andrew.

Yeah, Andrew was reading into you today, and I read that you were half Italian, half Irish, and I'm from Massachusetts, so it kind of shocked me because all Irish people hate Italian people, and all Italian people hate Irish people.

So I'm assuming.

That's not true.

Well,

for a lot of things.

Like,

there's no way your parents are still married.

And I hope something terrible didn't happen to one of them or something like that.

He's a terrible human being.

We apologize.

This is just a very, I was just curious, and I don't know how it works.

And you said you were a 6'1 leprechaun, so I'm glad you picked the right side, brother, and not the Italian side.

But

that aside, I just thought that was a cool little tidbit, and more people should know about it.

I think you might be the only one on the planet who's both.

One of the shows you were in was beef, and it's kind of different than some of the stuff like Dave and your stand-up specials.

It won a bunch of awards.

It was one of my favorite things that Netflix had put out.

What was that like?

Kind of filming something that isn't technically like inside your lane, even though there's still a lot of humor.

But what was that kind of process like in comparison to the other stuff, especially because beef was just kind of like a one-season, hey, this is essentially, you know, like a 10-episode movie?

Yeah, I mean, I'll answer the first part.

Of course, my parents aren't still together anymore.

He is right.

I was born in the 80s, babe.

Many of these parents are still together.

It was born in the 80s.

What are you talking about?

And yeah, Italians and Irish.

Why do you think I am a mix?

My mother was trying to get back at her father, so she's like, I'll go get with the biggest Guido I can find just to piss you off.

You're allowed to say that, I guess.

Yeah, I am.

I could say that.

That's me.

It's my people.

Yeah.

And so, anyway, that is the truth.

And Chicago is a big mix of Irish and Italians, but both good people.

Both good people on both sides.

Good people on both sides.

No, but I, but to answer the beef thing, yeah, it was a great moment for me to kind of shine.

A different role was offered to me.

And Sonny, who wrote it's incredible, I mean, and Ali Wong, everyone on that show killed it.

And it was a pleasure to try to mix it up.

I want to keep doing that.

I want to do more comedies, but I also want to keep inserting myself into stuff that is maybe a little bit different and unique.

And

we're going to see what's coming.

I got a few things working in the pipeline.

So hopefully we'll see.

Oh, we got shit on deck.

The IMDB is stacked up.

We got future projects rolling.

Do I see, is that the card Conan used first time you got on Conan?

Is that what that is?

Yeah.

Yeah.

The first time I kept that card, man, that was like one of the only, like, I loved Letterman when I was a kid.

I was a Carson fan when I was a little lad.

And I only wanted to do Conan really, really bad.

And that was the first time I did Conan.

I'm happy I can do it before he went off the air.

But I never did any of the other ones.

And that was the only one because I, Conan was a hero, man.

I love Conan so much.

So I was happy to do the the show and I had to keep the cue card I asked the woman could I keep it and she's like why I was like because I want to keep I want to keep it she's like it's trash I was like well your trash is my gold lady so give it to me I want to take it home Lady, that's going on my wall.

Your trash is going on my wall for the rest of my life.

Hey, ginger power here.

I don't think you understand what is going on in front of your face.

Also, the history of Conan being such a good writer for everybody for so long.

And then obviously the live show that he just completely transformed the game and then the business aspect of it and who got chose for what job and how he goes and TBS, how much money they put into it.

Yeah, the late night whole business and the layout and the politics, I guess, of it all, of who got where, incredible story, fascinating story.

Still important to comedians?

Still important to comedians?

You know, traditional media is a little bit hard for us in that regard because we have our own show.

You know, like I'm sitting in my whiskey ginger studio as one of my podcasts and then Bobby Lee do bad friends.

We do bad friends here as well.

And that's kind of been our our new world of media.

You know, you know, you guys live in it.

So that old traditional media thing is harder for us to do because we could say whatever we want on our shows, do whatever we want, and the audience gets the most real taste of us.

I mean, you guys, this is what you guys do too.

So I think it's hard for us to go back to those worlds.

I mean, we still respect them, but it's not the same anymore.

Times, they done changed.

I think so.

Very quickly, too.

I mean, obviously, it was a slow roll for a very long time.

There was one way of doing things.

And then all of a sudden, the world just kind of transformed.

And we're still in the middle of that transformation i think for a lot of people but obviously if you have a podcast or your own platform that's the best way to get something out without being forced to say something on that note bobby lee's a gimmick what there's no way he's actually like that is that what he's like i've

no that's that's what he's like he is the uh he's the biggest 13 13 year old 54 year old i've ever met in my life uh

it's unbelievable i can't believe he's lasted this long but he's my best friend and he's my favorite little dumpling on earth and i i love him dearly and he means the world to to me.

And he's been the best comedy partner I've ever had.

And I hope we just get to continue to do the show as long as people keep watching our stupid show.

I've heard you say your show is stupid.

We talk about that.

Like we say, we're just idiots having a good time.

And I'm glad people watch.

That's all it is.

Yeah, we definitely watch.

The clips are just immediate.

And then it's everybody's algorithm, I think.

And then every time I hear Bobby speak, I'm like, there's no way.

This has to be.

This is one of the greatest characters of all time.

This is one of the greatest characters of all time.

And then to hear that he's like that full-time, what an electrifying individual, honestly.

You guys are great together.

Very, very, very, very good.

Yeah, it's awesome to watch.

Go ahead, AJ.

So did you have any idea when you signed on to do Ricky's to Nicky that John Cena had so much range?

Like watching it, that was honestly a great movie.

I had no expectations going in.

It was very funny throughout.

Oh, you guys, you did a great job as well.

But did you know John Cena was going to come in there and be so good?

It's tough doing comedy.

We know that, especially a guy that's not a comedy guy coming from the wrestling background.

Yeah, you you know, it's funny because that movie got pitched around for like, I think it was like 10 or 12 years, and different people were going to do it.

And it kind of came and went.

No one figured out how they think they could do it.

And Pete Fairley, you know, had told me that he got John Cena to do it.

And I was like, I wonder if, is that going to be something that Cena could do?

I mean, genuinely.

And honestly, he's like, wait till you see what he brings to the table because they already kind of did some test stuff with him.

And on day one, I knew right away.

I was like, oh, man, he's got it in the back.

I mean, John's a brilliant dude.

He's he's like intelligent and

sweet and funny and cool.

He's the total, you get it right away.

You're like, yeah, the guy's built to be a superstar.

And he worked really hard.

And you could really tell.

I mean, the movie's very funny and it's carried by John because he is.

He's a bona fide star.

The kid is a star.

He was born to be a star.

And you can tell.

And he's super funny and a lot of improv, great on his feet.

And also respects the comedy process.

You know, he doesn't think he knows better.

He loved kind of this, you know, all hands on deck approach to the show, to the film.

So he killed it, man.

John is the man.

Yeah, he's

so good at acting.

You know, and then Peacemaker, full commitment.

Oh, yeah.

Full commitment to the bit.

And he'll do that.

That's the thing.

Like in wrestling,

he would do whatever.

Like, hey, I'm open for whatever.

Then he gets into the movie biz.

down for whatever.

People are like, that's a humiliation ritual.

It's like, nah, that's just John Cena saying that would be hilarious.

And I will do that.

He fully commits to everything.

And I think everybody that's ever been around him is like, this guy is awesome to work with.

And I think he's going to win a damn award.

I think he's potentially going to win an award for acting, which is wild to think about, especially from the wrestling world and it all.

And a lack of respect, but that Ricky Stanicki movie, unbelievable.

On that note, you mentioned something in there about acting.

Ty has a question for you.

Yeah, Andrew, you mentioned improv.

When you're filming these TV shows and movies, how much ad-libbing do you get to do?

Like, do you get to do multiple takes where you can just fire off a bunch of jokes?

And how involved are you in kind of that process in your scenes?

Like, is it anywhere similar to your process when you're creating like a stand-up special or is it completely different?

No, I mean, there's, there's definitely some similarities.

I mean, you know, as far as joke writing goes, because you're doing that live all the time.

But, like, for Dave, for example, you know, Dave was really collaborative and Dave and I worked a lot on,

you know, in throwing in jokes and we usually would get one, you know, by the book, so to speak.

Like we'd get one that was to script and then we would just get to play.

And that's when we had a lot of fun, when we would just improv and let it rip.

And yeah, there's some shows let you do it a lot.

You know, Curb, I did Curb with Larry.

I did an episode and they let you go free.

They get one to script and then they let you fly.

And it's the most satisfying thing in the world when you kind of...

create this good rhythm of what's on the script and then what's what's free and you know just spilling out of your brain uh but it's it's honestly it's better when it's collaborative you got really good people around you it's easy, man.

It's so much fun.

Just someone to bounce off of, like you guys on this show, you got someone fun to bounce off of.

It makes everyone hum a little bit better.

Man, we're looking for that someday.

Harley, that's what we're doing.

We're all trying to find it.

We're going to get there someday.

Yeah, I agree.

Whenever you're working with good people, it makes the world better, honestly.

And I got a chance to do the movie world for like 10 days over in Australia right before the season started.

That was my first time ever on a set.

It's my first time doing the acting thing.

It's my first time ever a part part of any of that.

It was such a team effort.

You could see there's so many moving parts.

Now, obviously, the amount of people involved in that particular movie, I guess, different than everything, but everybody like kind of rowing in the same direction was a really cool feeling.

Is that how movies are?

Is that how all these TV and production entertainment worlds are?

I'm very new to this whole thing.

No, I mean, a lot of times it's hard.

I mean, you're trying to balance a bunch of egos and it, you know,

egos at all levels, you know, whether it's a a director or producer a writer an actor like you're talking about how do you get 50 people to think and do the same thing at once that's why hollywood is a lot of hurry up and wait as the old joke says because everyone's trying to you're trying to get all these people to do one thing and that is hard to do and hard to agree on but when you do have good rhythm you can tell that's why certain shows and films are so seamless because they have a good captain and then they have just you know good worker bees beneath them that kind of make this thing come together and you know it's not always easy, but if you get the right people, truly, it's, it's not work.

It's, you're really just kind of playing.

I was watching Peter Berg, and he was the coach of this whole thing, you know, like the director of photography was the guy doing the cameras.

He's like, that's offense coordinator right there.

Then there was like, it was like, and Peter Berg was the overseeing it all.

And it was like, man, your leadership is a big deal here, I think.

Having everybody on the same page was awesome.

It was cool to experience the entertainment world for a little bit, which you were about to just absolutely crush.

White noise.

Whenever you have a stand-up special, crush.

What does that do?

Does that open up like potential you can write sitcom?

Like, is that more important than anything else that you do, you think?

I don't know.

You know, like, we do stand-up specials truly to get more people to come see us live because we love live.

Like, you know, I think live is the best thing that we get to do to entertain people in person because filming stuff is great.

Specials are great, but there's literally nothing better than a live show.

And that's why I'm always pushing it.

Like, go see an entertainer live.

Go see a musician live.

Like, go see someone put on a live event.

The holograms are going to take over for us and AI is going to kill us.

So for now, we might as well, we might as well enjoy it while we're here, man.

Yeah, you're right.

People who have been dead for a long time about selling pieces out.

They are about to sell it.

100%.

Family estates.

Michael Jackson is really close to having a full concert.

We are almost at the technology of watching his ass moonwalk from one side of a stadium to the other side of the stadium and feel as if you can even have air blow as he's going by to like feel the entirety of it all we just watched hank aaron jog the bases at the home run derby exactly yeah didn't touch third crazy no that was interesting didn't touch third yeah I was the only one that pointed it out.

I'm the outside of baseball guy.

I'm like,

you got to fucking don't you have to touch it.

That one's got to be touched, doesn't it?

I see you see the footprint right there.

Shit.

Shit.

It was very much like sports, though.

I didn't expect it to be as similar to a team sport.

I think if you play in team sports, I think you learn a lot of vital things.

You know, I think you learn working alongside each other, buying into a role, and it felt like the same in the movie world.

I did not expect that.

I thought it was going to be like what you talked about with the egos and everybody being assholes.

It was incredible.

Now, there is a podcast that you do that we love.

Yeah.

Because we are all kind of backbitten by the bug.

for the sport.

Go ahead, D-Buds.

Yeah, speaking of team sports, I know you did this podcast in partnership with Live Golf, launched back in April.

No bad lives.

How did that come about?

How's it going?

I saw you have Phil and Bryson on there.

So how's that been going?

How did that come about?

And how personally is your golf game right now?

My golf game's good.

I'm going to go play today, this afternoon before I take off out of town again.

I'm at a 2.7 index right now.

I'm playing some good golf.

Playing some good golf.

Yeah, it's been pretty good.

But that spawned because I love golf and I had pitched it to a few people and I said, I'd love to do a golf show where, you know, it's just like a walk and talk and we get to see another side of these, of these pros and celebrities and friends.

And,

you know, they really loved the idea.

And they said, well, you want you come out and grab some of our guys.

And they, they were really open to whatever we wanted to do, which was great.

You know, and I'd love to get PGA guys on in the future.

I don't know if we're, I don't know what the next season looks like,

but they really lent a hand to getting guys like Phil and guys like Bryson on the show and DJ was on the show.

But it was so much fun, man.

It just, I was like, like, I got, I got free golf lessons from the greatest alive

and I just had to put it under the guise of a show, of a TV show and a work trip.

So easy money for me.

Good hustle.

But here, I'll show you just for fun.

Here, hold on.

I was going to show you the, I give you the number.

There it is, dude.

There's that 2.7.

That's the real deal.

Damn.

No lie.

There's no lie.

No, no bad lies here.

No bad lies.

But I love golf and I'm obsessed with it.

So I wanted to bring comedy to golf.

And then thankfully they were interested in doing it.

And we had a good season, and we'll see where it continues to go from here.

Being a two-handicap helps when you're trying to make golf content, no doubt.

Certainly, well,

that certainly helps.

I want to make comedy, yada, yada, yada.

Also, watch me hit this fucking drop.

I'm a fucking stick.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Also, that's a big one.

Well, people will watch boring good golf.

You're good golf and funny.

Seems like a genius idea, if I might add a 2.7?

That's outrageous.

2.7 index.

You need some clarity for the audience that knows golf.

2.7 index isn't necessarily your handicap number.

That gets mistaken a lot.

Like, index 2.7 means this aggregate number that the app puts together.

But at most courses, that would probably be a five at a challenging course from Good Tees.

This guy sucks at golf.

All right.

All right.

So it's blueberry golf.

Got it.

Okay.

Breaking 80.

Yeah.

Unbelievable.

Breaking 80.

Breaking 80.

Yeah.

Oh, fuck you, dude.

Are you kidding me?

Shut up.

All right, look at him just

blade that way.

Skull the shit out of that drive.

That's a douche.

Get some love from Phil.

No, come on.

I'm just being clear, man.

I'm just giving clarity to it.

Don't be mad at me, dude.

Behind that 2.7 index into the, well, actually, you're driving.

I just don't want, I don't want golf nerds to get mad at me and go, he's not a two.

That's not a two.

Because you know how it is.

Baseball, basketball, every sports fan on earth will go, well, that's not really what it is.

And then they try to pick apart.

So I want the clarity so I don't get attacked.

Someone go, you're not a two.

I respect that.

I respect that.

But to be clear, most of the people that would be saying anything to you, you would beat a golf because of how good you are at golf.

So I think in the end, you should just rely on that and not worry about it.

People will watch just good.

There's a guy that doesn't speak any English.

He's on my phone.

I've never heard him talk.

Never heard a Japanese fellow talk.

Kawa Moore, you know Kawa Moore?

You did?

The slow swing guy that goes to the range?

You're talking about that guy?

Yeah.

You know Kyle Mora.

Yeah, you know who he is.

You know who he is.

I don't think he has any quick wit.

I don't think he has any good interview questions.

I don't think there's anything happening on that.

All it is is just a fucking buttery, smooth, Kawashallo swing every single time.

And I'll watch it.

I'll be captivated by Kawamura.

I will spend an hour at that driving range with this motherfucker.

Okay.

I will be watching him with all his different little gimmicks, all his different little toys.

Now, if you can do that and interview somebody while you're doing it that seems like uh this is the right world you're supposed to be in this world i think honestly i hope it's a great marriage i mean i hope we get to continue to do i mean it's super fun you know and and i'm i'm okay for an average guy but when you see me go up against these guys it does prove when everyone's like i can hit a good shot you're like wait when you play with them it's it's the world is it's just so different it's hard to explain people who hit a good shot you're like no no they'll hit five in a row in the exact same spot you want to watch a buttery swing watch jake knap you know who who Jake Knapp is?

You want to see a guy.

My God.

You want to talk about a buttery swing?

I mean, that's not Columbo.

That's not what are you doing?

What's your full panic over there?

Literally just Bruce, full panic.

Kyle Moore.

There we go.

Watch.

You want to talk buttery?

Oh, I love this guy.

Oof.

Yeah, you should get him on bad lies.

No bad lies.

I would love to get him on.

We wouldn't, you know, but I already have Bobby Lee.

I already have my Asian that I can barely speak to.

So I don't need to.

All right, slow down.

unbelievable.

Nap, bring up Jake Knapp.

You want to watch a swing?

Bring up Jake Knapp.

That kid, I think, is one of the best swings in golf.

He's got like a Freddie Couples-style effort move.

Come on,

boys.

Excited.

Yeah, I love Boom Boom.

Modern Dave.

He's the man, dude.

And he's got the same kind of slow, fluid swing.

He's got Takawashala.

I think, well, he's better.

He's better.

What up, Jake?

You can't just think

Bobby Lee stinks at golf that this guy stinks at golf.

That is not how

look.

Oh, shit.

Oh, get out of here, bro.

This kid is so clean.

How far is he going?

Just watch a few more.

Don't just show one.

Show a highlight reel.

This guy, so he's driving about 260 yards.

So what?

Okay.

Okay.

I can do that.

Anybody can drive.

Out of pocket.

250.

Out of pocket.

What?

That swing right there hit that thing 340.

Smooth speed.

Can we put this up?

This kid's got crazy torque.

You have no idea.

He just pounds the ball and it's effortless.

Kicknap is the man.

That ball's going far?

Yes.

100%.

No.

Boxy?

Yeah.

Yeah, he's very good.

How can he be that?

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to do that every single time?

Ugh.

It's repetitive.

It's robotic.

It's like, it looks the same way.

Freddie did that for years.

Couples did that for years.

It looked like the exact same swing.

It looked like the same amount of effort every time.

Congrats, Jake.

You and Kyle Moore got the best swings I've ever seen.

And, you know, the sport of golf is in a good spot.

Andrew, good luck with the special, man.

We appreciate the hell out of your time.

Thank you.

I appreciate you guys very much.

Hopefully one day I'll pop in studio live, man.

I'd love to see you guys.

We've got a golf simulator right up there, too.

We can see what your 2.7 is, you know, right up there.

Let's do it, man.

Let's do it.

We got all the golf clubs you can need, too, because I haven't been able to figure out golf yet, so we need new clubs.

New clubs?

No, I'll bring my own sticks.

I'll bring you some sticks.

You like, throw those away.

I'll bring you some sticks.

What do you play, Andrew?

What's sticks you got?

I'm not throwing them away.

I play, I play, I play, uh, I play Bet Nardi, who's uh

Chicago-based company.

I'm supporting my Chicago-based family, Bet Nardy.

They make some of the best putters in the world, and they make uh irons now, too.

So I play Betty.

Betty is my guy, and Bet Nardi is one of the best companies out there.

What do you got?

What putter is that?

Uh, the

is that a is that a lab?

Uh, LAB?

Is that what you're saying?

Yeah.

I heard you talking about Denardi.

I respect that.

Pat Nardy.

Do yourself a favor, Pat.

Throw that thing in the trash.

Throw that thing in the trash.

Throw that spaceship.

Throw that piece of shit spaceship in the trash.

What are you talking about?

JJ Spawn.

JJ Spawn won the U.S.

open with this thing.

He's the only guy that's ever won with anything that looks that dumb.

The greatest putters alive, always putted with blades.

That big, dumb spaceship, that's Emperor's new clothes.

Get that out of here.

That thing stinks.

No, it stinks.

No, look how cool it looks.

Look how cool it looks.

Wait, hold it up.

You know what I see when you hold that up?

A four-putt.

That's what I see with that thing.

Get it out of here, dude.

Get that out of here.

Must be nice to be a 2.7 index.

He didn't say that.

Yeah.

All right, so Pat Nardy is what I need to be doing.

Bet Nardy.

Bet Nardy.

Bet Nardy.

They're a phenomenal putter company.

They're a mom-and-pop shop in Chicago, and they're my people, and I support Chicago.

And by the way, for all the Bears fans that are going to hate me for taking that bet, it's all for fun.

I hope the Bears do great, But if they don't, good.

I'll lose.

They're not going to hear that.

They're not going to hear that.

Yeah, they won't.

Yeah.

They're gone.

Yeah.

They're gone.

They checked out.

They got mad.

That's exactly right.

It's all white noise.

Go watch white noise on Hulu right now.

I appreciate you guys, man.

Is that what?

Well, it's not out yet, right?

September 12th, Jesus Christ.

It's coming out.

It's coming out on Friday.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can watch it.

You can watch it.

Is the white noise about all the is there obviously a theme about the noise of the world?

Is that too deep thinking?

Or is it just because you're

escaped?

It's a double entendre, hit.

What it is, is a two-way joke there.

So

it's about me being a white guy, white noise making noise.

And it's also

about a joke that I talk about a white noise machine that I don't want to give away.

I want you to watch it.

It's a great part of the special.

A good part of the special.

I want you to see it.

Yeah, got the fucking name of the place.

Yeah, I understand.

All right, we appreciate you.

Ladies and gentlemen, white noise, September 12th on Hulu, Andrew Santin.

Thank you so much, boys.

I appreciate you guys.

Thank you.

6'1 leprechaun.

I don't know if that exists.

Fucking 2.7 index.

It's only really good.

Four or five handicaps.

Fuck that narrative.

Brett and Ardy putty putters are fire, too.

We got gifts.

I think it's time to go back to our old thinking with golf.

Fuck that.

Yes.

Exactly.

All right, let's put it to a test.

Oh, no.

I got faith.

You like that fat grip?

What?

Perfect.

That big fat grip that takes your athleticism out of it.

You like it?

Easy.

You think so, AJ?

You think it takes it out?

Yeah, they want you.

You, never mind.

I shouldn't even talk about this.

Controversial stuff.

Putting that, you need to be an athlete, putty.

You don't need to go stiff.

Use your hands.

Tell Bryce in that.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

Everyone, you know, tomato, tomato.

Kick your ass.

This thing stinks.

And golf for sure.

I don't know.

Pretty big.

I don't know.

Putter.

If a putter feels good, get it.

That's the thing, I think.

Boom.

Boom.

Yeah, you'll grow.

Boom, boom.

Boom, boom.

Two in a row.

Boom, boom.

Oh, no.

Fuck that golf.

Get that super tall one that's nine feet tall.

Sorry, golf.

Yeah, that thing's sick.

We should make that into a sick thing.

Maybe we should make our golf thing.

Fuck that golf.

Yeah.

Yes.

Jesus.

It's too big a kick.

It's hard to get it out.

Alright.

I don't know if it is this one right here, bro.

This is the one.

No, this is the one that takes the athlete out of you.

No, this is the one that's like, dude, this is the hardest thing to do on the planet.

There's a fair amount of jackassery involved with this thing.

I cannot imagine ever bringing that out.

What do you mean?

Bang!

If I made every single putt I took with that, I don't think I could put that in my bag.

It's hard, actually.

I had it in my bag.

I was gonna say.

I fought out in the back seats for sure.

They're pulling a fucking pole vault out of the bag.

Get in there.

Boom.

Uh-oh.

You have to put it in play.

Yeah, you're gonna have to put this in play.

Better pay.

Scott.

Uh-oh.

Might be the one.

Uh-oh.

Adam Scott, the Masters.

Oh, shit.

They banned these for a special shit.

Oh, okay.

You can't.

You can't.

Can't anchor it.

Yeah, you can't put it on your chest.

Oh, yeah.

I remember they were just pinning that thing in there like this, right here.

All right,

on the way out of here, we got to get the two guys that aren't going to be with us tomorrow to make the picks for the Thursday night game.

That was a fucking terrible show putting over there.

Two putters, not a lot of made putts.

I don't like it.

You're 50%.

There's three.

Putting so hard.

Ten feet.

So hard.

So hard.

Very hard.

Very hard.

And just just so tedious and annoying.

Yeah.

It's like if you're on the green, all right, add two, keep it moving.

A green?

I like that.

Why don't they do that?

They should let that be a thing.

I'd take it.

Me too.

He still doesn't take gimmies.

Nah.

Still?

No.

Still don't take it?

I mean, depending on, you know, depending on the round, if it's more competitive.

If I see you putting a one-footer out, I'm hitting my T-shot right in front of him.

Damn it.

Behind.

Right on him.

I mean, I'm not standing over him.

He's really going to put his out on on the fourth hole.

All right.

Here we go.

I'm not tapping into a triple bogey.

Have you been watching him?

He's been going live while

it's been a good time.

Butler Birdies are starting to really heat up.

Have I seen a birdie?

Yeah.

On live?

On live?

No, no, not.

I mean,

live a couple times.

Yeah, I got you.

You need to do that more, too.

I got you.

It's a new time.

It's time to change it.

A new note.

No, it's not.

The Butler Bogies.

No, no, no.

We're always chasing.

We're always chasing.

We never attain perfection.

Chasing us.

Exactly.

Bogeys.

Butler bogeys, though, is a good little set standard here.

Birdie is perfection.

Bogeys is what you're chasing.

Nah, I'm chasing birdies.

I can feel it, and I'm chasing.

They're right around the corner.

Damn right.

Butler Birdies right there.

I don't even need.

If I get

two in a row, that's a two birdies?

Yeah.

One, it's a great one.

That'd be a great thing.

It's a dog leg around the corner, Butler Birdies.

Right there.

It's coming.

It's right there.

I'll tell you, I enjoy watching.

I'm in there.

I'm in there watching.

Golf is something you can just easily get captivated by.

Oh, yeah.

That's why, like, Santino being entertaining and getting good shit out of it would be good content.

Like, golf content is very good.

It's unpredictable, too.

You get three great shots.

Fourth one, right in the fucking water.

Hole ruin.

Brown might be ruined.

Put a simulator in my house.

Just hit.

No.

This looks sick.

Got rid of every toy my kids own.

Fuck this.

You gotta hit the long ball.

I saw you click vacuuming in there.

Yeah, it was awesome.

Where's it at?

Where's it at?

The kids' playroom.

Come on.

Danny.

Kids' playroom now.

Pick up a club, baby.

Put a lock on the door, too.

Fingerprint only.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

Every time the door opens, like, get out of here.

What are you doing here?

It used to be the place we went to, Dad.

It was our playroom.

We have a lot of good memories in it.

Go outside.

It's 112 degrees.

Go play.

200 goo everywhere.

All right.

Let's pick the game, shall we?

Let's do it.

Hall of Fame dad stuff right there.

Thanks.

Hell yeah.

The Commanders will take on the Packers.

Packers currently favored by three and a half.

Another big one at Lambo is Jaden Daniels, Cliff Kingsbury, Don Quinn, and the Commanders try to continue to staple home that they are a legit contender in the NFC.

And on the Packers side, they bring in a future Hall of Famer.

They're doing things they haven't done before.

They drafted a wide receiver in the first round.

Very, very rare stuff.

Are they going to be breathing rare air by the end of the season?

Huge game tomorrow night to kick off week two of the NFL season.

Ty Schmidt, you're a Packers owner.

What is your thoughts on this game before the boys make their selection?

Chances are, Packers, as of right now, there's a chance two of their starting offensive linemen aren't going to play.

So

that's a little bit worrisome, but

there is a chance that first-round pick from a couple years ago and shipyard veteran Jordan Morgan is going to slot in and play.

So I'm very interested to see about that.

And then ultimately, it's just how's Mikey going to disrupt this game?

I believe he has the most sacks in his career against Washington.

So he's fared pretty well.

I think he's going to be lined up over their rookie tackle when he is playing.

So kind of a welcome to the NFL moment for Connerly.

And then we'll see.

Jordan Love got to build on last week.

If this was in Washington, I'd be a little bit more hesitant.

But with it being at Lambeau, I like the Packers' odds.

AJ, all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers.

What are your thoughts?

Yeah, especially being at Lambeau night game.

I mean, that place is going to be electric.

It's going to be on fire.

And especially if they can get Micah Garwick going early and he disrupts and gets a sack or two or some big hits, man, good luck.

Good luck stopping this Packers too.

I love the fact that the Packers could actually go.

Yes.

And if they do, that'll

pay off Policy's new policy of being aggressive.

Immediately.

So then you would think maybe other teams will be like, hey, that is, or the Packers will go, hey, this is the right way.

Because if they do all this shit and then they lose,

not good.

That's like the Pittsburgh Steelers.

First time in forever, they're fucking bringing people in, paying them a bunch of money, doing this entire thing.

If they win, good.

If they don't, bat, you get set behind a little bit.

So, and obviously people are going to say that's why you don't do that.

So, I hope the Packers win and benefit from making aggressive moves that they would have never made before, because then hopefully, they'll continue to do that.

And it's just a massive change because, like, you know, going into the year, Dano had, you know, Jordan Love as his MVP pick.

And my entire lifetime, no matter how good the defenses may have been, you know, like the year they won the Super Bowl both times,

but that was, it was always the offense.

It was always the offense was the lead story.

And then after this week, that's all everyone was talking about.

It's like, hey, this Packers defense is for real.

So with people thinking Jordan Love might potentially win an MVP, but the big takeaway is like, no, they actually got a defense now.

Like, that's very encouraging.

D-Bunch, who do you like?

How do you like it?

Packers are favored by three and a half.

Defense did look great.

Offense did as well.

Being at home on a short week, that definitely helps, especially when you have a guy like Michael who just got in there a couple weeks ago.

But the pass rush and the defense, it all looked great against a kind of statue type quarterback.

You're not facing that this week.

Jaden Daniels as a D-back.

Sometimes that pass rush gets after that type of quarterback, and it ends up being worse for us because then he breaks the pocket and throws it 50 yards down the field to Terry McLaurin.

So I'm going with the Youngkin.

This is a big spread to me.

Three and a half points.

The prime time slate has been great so far.

They've all been close games.

It came out to the wire.

I think this will be another one.

I'm going with the Commanders plus three and a half.

Okay, Washington plus three and a half for Darius J.

Butler.

AQ Shipley, do you agree with him?

Or are you riding with the Pack to win by more than four?

I am riding with the Packers.

I really like this Green Bay Packers team, and when I turned them on, I thought their operation was as clean of an operation as you saw in week one from an offensive standpoint.

What does that mean?

So I thought they, listen, in the first

five minutes of the game, six minutes of the game, they had three blitz pickups that you, it's next level stuff.

Like, you don't see in week one.

And when I watched all the tapes this week, across the league, I saw more operational stuff, illegal shifts, illegal motions, guys on the wrong guy, center making the wrong identification or making the right identification and a receiver, not seeing it, and then two guys on the same guy.

So different things like that.

Green Bay was clean across the board their entire game.

Blitz pickups were phenomenal.

Jordan Love played great and they got Micah against a rookie tackle.

Watch out.

Okay, you like the Packers, it sounds like.

Commanders just on the

top five trenches.

Oh, yeah, they were.

Yep, they were.

Washington Commander, number three.

You know the difference about that, though?

What was that?

Micah Parsons wasn't across from him.

Oh, you liked Michael Parsons.

That's fair.

Do you like Michael a lot?

There was a $150 million man, though, Brian Burns, and I believe he had two sacks.

Burns had one.

Only one.

Okay, okay, only one.

And I think the Stu Carter?

Yeah, Burns was the one who did the sacks.

Burns Carter, Dexter Lawrence, yeah.

Are people questioning the validity of your top five offensive lines coming out of week one?

Are you questioning the validity of your top five offensive lines?

Do you know what would be the dumbest thing that somebody did after this week one?

Question my O-line rankings.

Oh,

that's why I'm going to go back.

And that's why you're a trophy, brother.

Listen,

exactly.

That's right.

The trenchies certainly matter.

He went with your pick.

He liked the Washington Commanders because you said they had a good offensive line.

Love their offensive line.

Don't love their defense.

Who's on their defense?

They got rid of Jonathan Allen.

He's their best pass.

Robert Lucknow.

Bobby Wagner's in his 15th season.

Louvu's phenomenal.

But they got

no pass rushers.

None.

Love that.

None.

I fucking love that.

That's Green Bay.

Game of Pass Rusher form.

Go ahead.

Do it for me.

Right here, puppets.

Come on, dear.

Name form isn't a pass rusher, buddy.

He's a problem in the middle.

Yeah.

How about Von Miller?

Go back and watch it today.

How about Vaughn Miller, buddy?

You ever heard of him?

Yeah, yeah, I have.

Oh,

look at your dad.

You got somewhere to be.

You got somewhere to be.

You are a pig.

No, you know what I was doing there?

Looking at...

Time is not on his side.

Oh, okay.

Thanks for explaining that one, AQ.

Thank you.

We knew.

Hey, Cush, I like it.

I didn't get that.

You didn't know what he said.

I didn't know what he was saying until he did it.

What are you saying?

You did?

I did.

I did it.

Is that God's over to me?

I didn't know.

Hey, Kuche, you want to

try to win some people some money?

Yeah, I don't know.

That kicking contest is getting pretty expensive.

Yeah, I think during football season, the giveaways are suspended.

I think so.

Fair.

One shot for AQ.

That's it.

There you go.

You only get one shot, one opportunity.

And you got to throw this ball.

No.

No.

Do not touch that ball.

Son of a bitch.

That ball is a very important ball.

There'll be stories about this ball, I think, at some point.

Do you want to throw a football?

You want to shoot a basketball?

You only get one shot.

Don't miss your chance to blow.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Yo.

Throwing a Duke?

Yeah.

All right, where are you throwing it?

That it.

Okay.

Basketball.

good for you.

Okay, how many winners would you like?

Because of.

That's a good because.

How many people you're giving money away to?

It's not how many people, it's how much money is given away to.

How much money's given away?

We'll keep it to 10.

Boom, I love it.

Let's go to five.

No, all right.

That's not even that exciting, I don't think.

Let me introduce you to my number 10.

20 people, $500.

All you got to do is put that football into that hoop right over there.

You only have one shot.

Okay?

Ty Schmidt actually has a little motivational message to deliver to you.

Listen, Pat gives out a lot of money on Saturdays.

So as far as I'm concerned, you can throw that fucker up into the mezzanine.

That's not a motivational speech.

That is the complete opposite of that.

That toxic table is not the group that I should have went to to motivate you because they are hoping for no winners ever.

These kickers are already taking too much money out of the company.

You know, there's a chance that that's happening for the toxic table.

AJ Hawk, though, over in Ohio.

He's a lad that certainly would like to see you succeed.

AJ, will you please motivate A.Q.

after the boys here are trying to force him to fail for the fans?

Yeah, of course I will.

AQ, you know, you're an elite athlete.

We've seen what you did in high school.

I don't know a buddy's name, but you used to back him down and drop step dunk on him all the time.

That was a great thing on hard tongue.

Like Ty said, these kickers are kind of gaming the system and taking, you know, winning a lot of money

on game day so instead of throwing that thing in the meszzy why don't you punt that thing

okay guys probably that's over two on motivation

a lot of money getting out there man but i'm happy these kids logan and jack you know a couple good kickers out there jack having cleats was certainly something interesting that was an eye-opener these dudes are getting there at 9 a.m the day before friday morning they're getting in there camping out you know i would like to say still making that kick true even if you are a person with the amount of pressure on you, the entire thing, still impressive.

It might look a little different this week, though.

Okay, okay.

I might make it a little bit more game-like.

Here we go.

You know, we might have to rush.

You gotta be rushing.

What do you gotta do?

That's not hey, that's no spoiler.

That's a good idea.

No sports.

Other guy in the ape.

Put another guy in a helmet.

Maybe we do give him a helmet and have him rush from the field goal.

He starts whenever the guy starts lining up his steps.

Yeah, he sprints.

That's the time.

He's got an axe.

What?

For the pressure of it.

Like the hunter guy's running at you with a knife and a helmet.

All right.

Thank you.

Listen, it's not about what happens on Saturday.

It's about the people that follow the program every single day and watch a show and make it what it is.

Love you people.

Now, those people say a lot of terrible things about me as well.

You know?

And

I understand and I respect that.

I've been with me a long time.

Believe me, I completely get it.

But those people make this all possible.

This Watt Wednesday within the trenches celebration every single week is because of these people that follow along.

They deserve an opportunity to win, not just the kids that are showing up at 9 a.m.

More than 24 hours beforehand to try to game the entire field goal system.

Why don't you win for those people?

Here we go.

20 people.

Actually, debuck us some city here.

Yeah, you know, I'll be a face here since these guys are being assholes.

All right.

These people, like Pat said, he said, well said.

They're doing this.

There's a couple bad apples in there, say some good, bad shit, but I'll dive in the chat, you know, here and there.

It's a lot of good people, more good than bad.

So do it for them.

Do it for good people out there.

You put it in the bucket for the good of my mentals.

Uh, I don't look at those.

I've never seen our YouTube

two times.

I've seen our YouTube comments, and I said, Okay,

I'm gonna get out of here.

I don't know if I'm the right, but I do appreciate the hell out of them.

I know they're very active, I know they spend a lot of time with us, and they have to hear me talk a lot.

So, I appreciate the hell out of them.

They deserve an opportunity to win.

You need to be the guy that wins for these people.

20 people, $500, one throw for Make Q Shipley

Jeez.

Pretty good line.

That's a good truck.

That's a pretty bad call, though.

It's good.

AQ tried.

He did.

I committed.

I appreciate you doing that.

That's what it's all about.

What if we're going to do?

What do we even do?

Talks table is going to try.

There's always going to be detractions.

Exactly.

You know what?

Fuck those people.

That's right.

You know?

And on that note, Tom.

No, no, not fuck those.

You're talking about detracting.

That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah, not the people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

AJ too is pretty.

I'm not going to punt it up to the mezzanine.

You know what I did think about, though, to make it a little harder next time?

Maybe I try to long snap it in.

Might have a better chance to make it.

How about harder?

20 people.

There we go, right?

$500.

Here we go.

I think this would be cool.

How about if you make this pot comes back?

I like that.

I wouldn't push.

I have lights on the line.

Still trying.

Ryder Strike.

Oh, Mr.

Kibbs.

The Ryder Strike has been done for a long time.

Mr.

Kibbs.

20 people.

All right.

Yeah.

Oh, almost.

You know what I mean?

It didn't matter.

It didn't matter.

Was it close?

Check the watch, brother.

Yeah, it's close.

Maybe sometime it will be.

Yeah.

Maybe another day.

You know, maybe a nutter day.

Did it spiral at least?

As we wrap up here, after we leave, there's going to be a couple graphics of winners because of Owen.

Oh, sure.

Oh, yeah.

Shooting winner.

So whenever we get up,

this will remain up.

If you're on there, obviously, congratulations on being randomly selected.

shout out to owen and then we're gonna run um

uh

a nutter college uh ball conversation convo with stanford steve a college podcast that we are launching okay uh it'll be called a nutter college ball convo with stanford steve the pat mcve show presents yeah there it is a nutter college ball convo with stanford steve we recorded the first episode this morning aj real deal nice i can't wait i mean yeah everyone loves stanford steve we know that we need more of them.

We need another show with Stanford Steve.

And another

show.

And don't worry about that otter show.

We're talking about another

show.

And even another.

And another.

And another.

And another.

And that's why the Pat McAvey show will present.

Another

college ball convo

with Stanford Steve.

Available now, I do believe.

It is.

Podcasts.

Correct.

We launched its own podcast

thing.

Feed.

RSS.

Feed, I believe is the name.

Sorry at Zero.

I'm excited to see what that is.

Yeah.

I think we're going to have a lot of good guests.

A lot of college ball coaches, I think, would like to do stuff.

Only available on Spotify right now.

It takes a little bit to get on all the other podcasting platforms.

And we're also in the middle of changing the title graphic.

Correct.

So what you're seeing right now is not the final product.

We're talking to Stanford Steve mostly.

When you see that photo of you, we know that that was

not an up-to-date photo of you.

You look a lot better right now.

Actually, I'm going to change that right after this because it was

like 400 pounds in this photo.

You do not want to piss off the under dead.

No, because that could be another problem.

Yeah,

we don't want that.

Yeah, just be a nutter dead body.

Yeah, another stew, another one, and another one, and another one.

And another one.

Then.

Another one.

Then another one.

The utter one.

Yeah.

At some point.

That ends at the utter one.

And we don't want any of that.

No, of course not.

Ton, great performance on

another

college ball combo with Stanford Steve.

I think we did okay in there.

Yeah.

I'm just happy AQ didn't give any fucking money away.

So you wouldn't have motivated either, he said.

You're wearing those, though, so.

These are sweet.

What's he wearing?

Okay, I see.

He's got TFPs on.

Oh.

Oh, oh, those are really sweet.

Jeez.

Someone say something bad.

What do you say?

He's making shit out of your shoes.

I said they look sweet.

He said, oh, those are really sweet.

It was not a compliment.

I'll tell you what, AJ was saying, if you typed out what I said, it was a compliment.

But certainly the delivery, you know, it's not what he said.

It was how he said it.

Obviously, he's not an outdoorsman.

He said, you're, all right,

being friends off friends something nice if I change your life.

We're in this thing together.

Team on me, great work this week, boys.

Great work.

You too.

Team on three.

One, two, three, team.

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