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

On this NFL week three kickoff Thursday, September 18, 2025, this program begins now.

Football!

It is the greatest sport of all time and week three of the greatest league on earth will kick off its wonderful weekend tonight in the AFC East as the Miami Dolphins will travel to take on the Buffalo Bills.

The Bills 11 and a half point favorites at ESPN Bet you can find them as 12 and point favorites at a couple of the other books.

The dolphins, a wounded,

wounded, they're a mammal.

Yeah, yeah.

Wounded mammal.

Big brain.

Huge brain.

I appreciate dolphins, the mammals.

They do like to reproduce, and even if they don't have a chance of reproducing, they will certainly hit that thing on your arm or your body if you're in there swimming with them.

But they got big brains, okay?

I believe the Navy SEALs actually use them to circle our ships out there, and they protect us.

So we appreciate the Dolphins, the mammal.

And I'm pumped that Ace Ventura was able to find that snowflake or dolphin who was able to kick field goals because that's a wonderful thing.

But whenever you think about this Dolphins team of now, you do kind of think about the Ray Finkel era of the Miami Dolphins.

You think about the 1972 Dolphins and how they were undefeated.

You think about Dan Marino and the run that he had, but he was never able to win a Super Bowl.

But at some point, this Miami Dolphins team is going to be legendary.

They reset the market for wide receivers when they brought Tyreek Hill in.

Tula Tongavaloa Tongavaloa is an absolute star.

He's going to change it all.

McDaniel, this big-brained offensive guru, wakes up at 3 a.m.

That's right.

This guy loves ball.

Obviously, everywhere he's been, he's been successful and he's unique to himself.

He's obviously one of one.

We've never seen a head coach like him before.

The Miami Dolphins were going to return to their glory days.

Post-Brian Flores' head coaching run there, which has resurfaced

into the new cycle here as of today.

But this was supposed to be a great run.

And now we sit here three years into the experiment.

Tyreek Hill potentially not going to be a dolphin by the end of the year.

Sure.

Tuatonga-Valoa, potentially not being a guy.

And McDaniel, the conversation is, is this guy a good head coach?

Well, we got a fun little stat for you as the Dolphins are 0-2, traveling to take on the Buffalo Bills as anywhere from 11.5 to 12.5 point dogs.

NFL teams that are 0-2 and are dogs in week three have gone 37 in 17 against the spread.

Wounded teams, teams that are backed in a corner, normally cover a spread force.

Now, that's not outright wins.

No, that is not outright wins.

That is just covering the spread.

11.5, 12 and a half feels like a lot of points for a Thursday night game, especially a division game between the Dolphins and the Bills.

I believe the Bills have won 11 of their last 12 against the Miami Dolphins, but they've been games.

Oh, yeah.

They've been games.

Just at the end of those games, one team is able to execute.

One team isn't, which has kind of been the story of this Miami Dolphins team who were in a dogfight with the New England Patriots just a week or four days ago.

Now, what will they do tonight?

We shall see.

Obviously Kirk and Al will be on the call.

Hell yeah.

We'll be waiting all day for Thursday night.

Time's always good for Amazon Pound.

Pretty good little kickoff show they got over there.

Great, great production value.

And tonight, Buffalo will be alive.

Is this the last?

No, it won't be the last game that we see in this stadium.

No, not yet.

No, because they're going to have a lot of primetime games this year.

Josh Allen, where do you see Josh Allen?

Under the lights a lot.

We talked about everything about the Miami Dolphins.

On the flip side, this Buffalo Bills team is now, they're ready to avenge the four falls.

Yes.

This team is the one that's ready to go.

So, in your head, you think to yourself, maybe Josh Allen and Bosa's interesting photo there of Bosa.

Who's that Chet Haiti?

That is Chet.

That's not Bosa.

I don't know.

Bosa and Josh Allen, obviously, there for the.

Why not?

That's not Bosa.

Is this a bone graphic?

Is this a bone graphic, dirty graphic?

Yeah, it's bone.

Is a bone graphic?

He's a Buffalo Bills fan.

Did he try to make Bosa of those city

is that jake laser uh where talk about boss right there yeah

i guess i could say i could see a young jay glazer in there

nonetheless i thought it was brawn breaker for a second

he does have a little bit of a brawn breaker feel there on the right side the buffalo beals who are d-bone's team that he just adopted three weeks ago they are potentially gonna win it all they potentially best team in ball dolphins potentially worst team in ball so them blowing out the dolphins is certainly on the table as well tonight for Thursday night.

And I think that massive question mark gives us a great way to kick off this week three.

The Toxic Tables here at Boston Conner at Ty Schmidt.

One half of the hammer.

Tied.

Cowboys AP Tone is here.

11.5, 12.5 point spreads, depending upon the book.

ESPN Bet has it as 11.5.

That's big for a week three game, especially on a Thursday night game.

That feels like a lot of points for any NFL game, let alone early Thursday.

division game.

Yes, huge, and that'll be tied for first or second, depending on where the line closes at for for largest spread of the season.

Last week the Ravens and Browns was also around 11 and a half, 12 and a half.

The Ravens did cover that number.

It wasn't on a short week though and this is one of those things and you take a look at the stats of the 37 and 17 0-2 teams in week three as dogs again and a lot of it is like people think they just look at that 0-2 number and they're like, oh, this team is absolute trash.

It's not always the case.

A lot of time it's not the case.

But the sports books kind of think that.

Yeah, they build it in.

They build it in the public, you know, to

take away from the risk that they have.

They got to cook that into the number as well.

But I have always been a guy who, if losing bets upset you and you went to bed after tonight, like at midnight, and you picked the Dolphins and they lost by 30, you'd be like, what was that?

Yeah, you're right.

It is, you know, the pillow talking.

Whenever you have to pay attention to the business, you could probably live the other way.

When you say, I picked this Miami Dolphins team, this one, that we saw.

week one in the loud house against

potential best football team of of all time.

Exactly.

Indianapolis Colts.

We have no idea what it's going to be at the end of the season.

All these team stories could be anything.

We could be looking at the greatest season of all time from 10 different quarterbacks, 10 different running, but 10, but we have no, still so early in it all.

But the way we're viewing the Dolphins at this moment, they could also be the worst team in the history of ball.

They could be one of the only teams to go completely duff feeded.

They'd be the first team ever to lose 17 straight games in a regular season.

They're also the only team to ever go undefeated throughout the entirety.

So the Dolphins fans have certainly lived both worlds, especially if you're 95 years old and you saw those 72 dolphins because if you're younger than that you haven't really seen that part of it you've only seen this particular shoe drop in the entirety but we have no idea what the rest of the year is going to look like and maybe tonight tonight that tua sure tai

enty can get on the same page it's possible and maybe the miami dolphins come flying up maybe achan Stays in bounds on that cut and it's a long run.

Let's go to the other half of the hammer.

Don, Cowboys, Bubble Gumpino, great jersey.

You look fantastic.

I know in your heart heart of hearts, you're hoping that the Dolphins do turn this around.

And maybe you do have a Super Bowl team in there somewhere.

And maybe you do have a head coach that can make adjustments and rally the boys and keep everybody on the same page.

But in your brain, I think you're a little bit more negative than your heart is.

Is that an accurate depiction of how Dolphins fans feel?

Yeah, Josh Allen never lost to the Dolphins at home as well.

Only lost at Miami once.

But you got to show some pride tonight.

I'm telling you.

Oh, we're at the show price.

Oh, yeah.

You got it.

Yeah, you got it.

You got to fight.

Because after this, you got the Jets and you got the Panthers.

So say you keep it close tonight.

Say you lose.

Then you come back.

You win two in a row.

All of a sudden, you're two and three.

Season's back on.

You got to fight tonight, boys.

Your back's against the wall.

Show some damn pride.

Don't lose by more than 12 and a half.

Come on.

Come on, boys.

Gumpy's getting a dub tonight if this thing is less than a two-score game.

Sounds like he is.

It sounds like he's been there.

And also, I assume he's going to cook together alongside Connor, and they'll keep it in their inside voices.

Not true.

Don't share it with anybody.

Don't even have an inside voice.

That's true.

That is true.

That is true.

Won't talk about it when other ears are around.

They'll have some sort of touchdown parlay.

And tonight, Gumpy will find a win, is what Gumpy's saying.

Con man,

from listening the way you're speaking, You are almost maybe all the way in the aquarium with the Dolphins right now.

Is that accurate?

Yeah, I'm swimming with the fishes, and my fins are up.

I'm not going to go out there and say, hey, my fins are jumping out of the water, and, you know, I'm having fun, and the Dolphins are going to win tonight.

I just think with the bills you know they're a great football team no matter what you know they could have played the two worst teams weeks one and two and we would still know that they're a great football team with miami like they lose to the colts week one you're not really sure i think right now you can say the colts are a very good football team so like that loss now sure after week one it was terrible because they got their asses handed to them but now it doesn't look as bad the colts beat the broncos like okay hold on maybe the colts are good patriots you don't know patriots lose to the raiders and then they beat the dolphins you really don't know if the patriots are a good football team yet so for miami you're not sure and like the idea that they're going to get blown out completely believable josh allen in um i mean he just threw for 274 yards in the fourth quarter of a you know primetime game against the ravens he can definitely do that against the dolphins without a doubt but hungry dogs run faster baby they need one they need one so bad or it really is over not just for the season but mike mcdaniel all of a sudden you're you're starting to think does he even get a chance to play the Panthers in the Stance?

Like, tonight is kind of one of those Tier 3.

Jeez, you're saying that seats getting

blistering hot down there on the butt cheeks of McDaniel.

It's definitely hot, Miami.

You know, you're about to experience it.

It's hot no matter what.

He's going to be sweating, you know, especially if that's like a metal chair in the sun.

He's going to be sitting down and his ass cheeks will get burnt.

But I more so think just like Thursday night.

If you're going to fire a coach, right, you got 10 days.

You can at least three that way.

You can at least turn it around a little bit.

Well, well it's not week three we've got we've done this gimmick we've done the two years we've seen what has happened they've traded play they've let players go who have then gone on to be all pro van ginkle and that felt like a layup it's not like he was a hundred million dollars he sounded like a two-year 15

tonight there needs to be some conversations potentially had or possible conversations to be had yeah exactly just just about the whole thing like nothing got to show some fight boys got to show some fight like tyree kill was number one player in football last year at this time he he got the huge award.

He got the number one award.

So it's one of those things where they don't have shitty players.

They have good players.

So they shouldn't be getting beaten by third.

A lot of distractions in Miami.

I don't know how anybody does football done or to be honest.

I'm happy I didn't get drafted down there.

I don't know if I would have actually survived.

I have no idea if that would have happened.

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is a Ram truck.

No question about it.

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Getting on it.

Motor Trend has chosen Ram 1500 as its truck of the year.

That's

truck of the year.

Hey, we know Mototrend.

Mototrend's big deal.

Yeah, they're not just giving that out.

It's like the Oscars.

Yeah, they're checking every bolt.

They're looking into every V.

Yep.

You know, even those four banging pieces that are outside that D-bone showed up in his first couple of weeks here.

They're checking them all out to see who's superior.

Motor Trend said, boom.

Ram trucks got it.

The V8 Hemi being back is good.

You got a Hemmy in there?

Happy that's back in our society.

And Ram's truck also back on the track and returning to NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

Wow.

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That's good.

That's all we're doing.

Yep.

That's what's going to be.

Yeah, Jimmy.

Incredit.

You've watched it.

So often.

They're in New Hampshire this weekend.

Truck series?

Truck series?

Live free or die, baby.

They're going to have fun up in New Hampshire.

Well, they need to get comfortable because next year, whenever ram trucks get back in that, we already showed what's going to be.

Yeah, exactly.

It's going to be flawless.

It's got to be the worst half.

Yeah, it's

great in the history.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who drives a ram truck every day.

And when you look at him, you you think to yourself, that's a ram truck man.

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Because all he does is just

his way through all the NFL news, opinions, and obviously headlines.

Ladies and gentlemen, senior NFL insider for ESPN, host of the Adam Schefter podcast, Adam Schefter.

What's going on, guys?

What does a ram truck sound like?

Yeah, close, close, close, close.

Pretty close,

especially wherever it's kind of wide open there.

Third of a way there, I think you nailed it.

I think you nailed it.

Okay, hey, let's look at tonight.

We saw a stat

from

Josh Applebaum.

Applebaum, which we appreciate.

Great name.

It said that teams that are dogs in week three that are also 0-2, they've gone 37-17 against spread.

Seemingly, a lot of fight in week three because this does feel like the stats of a team making it to Super Bowl or making playoffs after being 0-3, obviously not much worse than anybody anybody else, but 0-2, you have a little bit of a shot.

0-3, history tells us that's going to be a long road.

That's a long hole to get out of.

So is that why you think team show a little bit more fight in week three and at least cover?

And do you think this Dolphins team is going to be on par with that?

Now, we watch them against Colts week one.

We're best team in both.

We understand it.

Eyes on them in the Lot House.

And then against the Patriots, they were in that thing.

Maybe should have won that game.

Are we giving up on the Dolphins or how do you feel about them going into tonight?

Listen, I think that they've played fairly well in Buffalo, better than people think.

And they played well in Buffalo when it's been cold out.

It's 68 degrees there right now in Buffalo.

And so the weather is not going to be a factor.

And yeah, the Dolphins gave away the game.

If they hadn't given away the game last week and come back and beat New England, you might have a totally different perspective on the game tonight.

But it feels incredibly lopsided.

I think it's the biggest spread of the week on any of the week three matchups.

And it just feels like Buffalo should do what it wants.

But look, we all know what happens in these games.

Weird things happen, strange things occur, and all of a sudden, a team like the Dolphins that not many people are counting on comes through and plays better than people think.

I think we get a better Dolphin outing.

They don't have the horses to match up to Buffalo.

Tua himself has said he's half the quarterback that Josh Allen is this week.

That was an interesting comment.

He can't do half the stuff.

He's very self-aware.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

But, you know, that should have been followed up, but Josh also can't do.

Yeah, yeah.

But it wasn't.

No.

Which is part of the problem.

The issue.

Everything's negative coming out of Miami from our experience right now.

And Gumpy, obviously, die-hard Dolphins fan.

So we live with every single news break, every player release, every Pro Bowler left out of the building, every leader, get out of the building, every conversation that seems to just come back up every two months.

Is this guy on the team?

Does he like being here?

Does he not like being here?

Coaches.

Coach, everything about it.

We've lived through Gumpy, and Gumpy's always, oh,

literally, that is the relationship that Gumpy as a Dolphins fan has with the Dolphins.

So tonight would be huge for them is what I'd like to say and huge for Gumpy.

I've got a good friend who's a Dolphins fan.

He starts ranting to me during these games that they're losing in.

And he doesn't understand.

I love him, but I don't really care, you know, when he's going through his frustrations.

Like, I love him.

You know, shout out to Mark Patrickoff.

Love you, Mark.

But when the Dolphins,

that's your concern.

Mine.

I love that.

Schefter's like, hey, Mark, you know this.

I don't have personable conversations.

You either have information or you don't.

Okay, I don't.

This is the opinion game.

I don't need to hear that.

I don't care.

Now, let's talk about some other topics.

Obviously, tonight, Tua and Josh Allen will be playing.

We are now officially maybe

at five backup quarterbacks, getting some playing time.

Brock Party might be back.

I guess that is kind of the report coming out of San Francisco yesterday.

Possibly.

Like, they think there's a chance.

I guess we'll know more today.

I still think it's, you know, it's possible.

We'll get a better idea today and tomorrow.

they felt last week when when we spoke with the niners over the weekend they're like

brock purdy's gonna have a chance next week not a great chance but he's got a chance and that was exactly what they said yesterday so i i think they've been holding on hope that he can make it back but mac jones showed last week that he's capable of stepping in and playing well he helped san francisco beat new orleans in new orleans last week so if they have to roll with mac this week they'll do that Obviously, they'd like to have Purdy back, and we should have more clarity here in the next 48 hours, I would think.

Okay, we're pulling for everybody's health.

Obviously, this is a lot of quarterbacks out early.

You kind of alluded to Jaden on Monday before any of us really knew anything about that potentially being a possibility.

He's out with a mild knee sprain.

Then J.J.

McCarthy, he's obviously out.

Joe Burrow, he's obviously out.

Who am I missing there?

No, that's Justin Fields.

Fields is out.

It's like, this is very early for this many quarterbacks, or is this something we just don't remember until it happens?

Well, you know what?

It's funny.

I said to Ty this morning, I said, like, when you get Jake Browning and Carson Wentz in week three, that's the kind of matchup that you feel like you normally get in week 17 or 18.

Like, oh, it's Wentz and Browning.

And by the way, the Bengals like Browning and believe in him, and Carson Wentz has been a great quarterback against the league for a while.

But it just feels a little odd to be getting that matchup in week three when we could have and should have been getting Joe Burrow versus J.J.

McCarthy.

And it doesn't go that way because of a couple of injuries here.

It is early.

This is an unusual amount of injuries this early in the season for quarterbacks.

There always seems to be a stretch in the season where all of a sudden quarterbacks start dropping.

It occurred a little earlier this year, which is never good for anybody.

It's not good for the teams.

It's not good for the quarterbacks themselves.

It's not good for the NFL, not great for fans.

So hopefully these guys will get back soon.

You know, Joe is going to be on the show for a minimum of three months, but JJ will be two to four weeks, and Jaden may miss a week or so.

Brock Purdy, we'll see if he can get back.

Justin Fields in the protocol.

The Jets play on Monday night next week against the Dolphins, so he'll have an extra day to get ready.

I would think that he'd be back, assuming he can clear through protocol.

But yeah,

a lot of quarterback questions for this early in the season.

Okay, you mentioned Carson Wentz there playing for J.J.

McCarthy.

We obviously experienced the Carson Wentz experience here in Indianapolis, and his good ball is so awesome.

It is electrifying.

It is great.

And then his wild Carson Wentz experience stuff is obviously very cardiac worthy,

I would say, through it all.

What is KOC and what are you hearing out of Minnesota about Carson Wentz, the quarterback that he's going to be for them?

And his sixth start for six different teams in six years.

Obviously, people are talking about how that's pretty wild in an NFL record.

But what are they expecting from Carson Wentz?

Look, they went out and signed him, and they traded Sam Howell to the Eagles, knowing that they could get Carson Wentz as the backup in there.

Carson Wentz is somebody who grew up as a Vikings fan, always wanted to play for the organization, went to Vikings games as kids, did the skull chance, and now he's got a chance to kind of live out his childhood dreams there to go be a quarterback in Minnesota.

And look, if he can succeed, that's going to be interesting because that's going to be a direct reflection again on Kevin O'Connell being a quarterback whisperer that he is.

If he steps in and lights it up,

you're going to start like the way that Mac Jones did last week for San Francisco, frankly, when we think of Kyle Shanahan elevating the level of play of quarterbacks.

So now that's at stake here for the Vikings, Kevin O'Connell.

And by the way, if he plays really well, all of a sudden you'll be like, okay, now you don't have to rush JJ McCarthy back with them going to

with, you know, they got to go to

Ireland, Dublin, London for

back-to-back games before a buy.

So, again, if and when Wince plays well, then I think that takes some pressure off you in terms of getting JJ back.

McQuaid's covering the game.

McQuaid is covering both games.

I think McQuaid is on the caller out there.

Congrats to McQuaid.

You need to meet McQuaid.

He's an Irish legend.

He's your job.

He does your job, my job, Ty's job, Didell's job.

Dodd's job.

In Ireland, he is one of the him and the Irish pro football Irish guys.

They are

really been

banging the drum for the NFL in Ireland for a long time.

The pipe.

They're getting it.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

They've been playing the pipe.

They're playing.

They've been chucking the beer.

Chucking the

beer.

They've been splitting the G.

Hup, hup, hup.

Playing the live music.

They've been doing the whole thing for the NFL for a long time over there and getting a chance to see them.

Get a chance to do, like, the NFL taking care of them.

Yeah.

I think it's very job and quay.

I'm happy to see that.

Okay, let's say in the NFC North, you just talked about Carson Wentz potentially being the starter for the Minnesota Vikings for the rest of the season.

Is what I heard.

Yeah.

That's what I heard right there.

No, no, that's not what you heard there.

Okay.

No rush.

Got it.

No rush to get JJ back, though.

That is good.

Got an experienced vet.

That's why you pay him.

Allegedly, they also offered Daniel Jones.

They were looking for an experienced veteran for whatever happens, whether it's injury or, you know, if JJ just plays not great at all, which we still have yet to see.

Very young in his career.

I'm excited to see how that all goes.

Carson Wentz' experience could be.

Oh, yeah.

A went.

I mean,

but it could also, I guess, have a little bit of a hunt.

Yeah, like Sam Darrell stepped in there and Sam Darrell lit it up.

Different style of play.

I think different style.

Carson Wentz,

you know, they say Brett Favre of gunslinger, that guy.

Okay, because he was...

He had trust in his arm or faith in his arm.

Carson Wentz, not only gunslinger, he's a runslinger as well.

Like, he thinks his legs can beat everybody.

He thinks his shoulders can beat everybody.

He thinks every play,

he can beat everybody.

And it is awesome when he does it.

When he does beat everybody, it's amazing.

Bouncing on a ball, throwing that thing into five,

what it was.

Penta

penta coverage.

Yeah, I don't even know if that's what that would be.

Throw it into five people on somebody and still make the catch.

Yeah, Zaro.

Zaro coverage.

Yeah,

that would be exactly what it is.

And then if he can, like Sam Darnold, not same as Carson, but if Kevin O'Connell can wrangle Carson Wentz into all the positives,

that boy's going to fly.

Carson Wentz might get $150 million.

All right, let's move forward.

Let's stay in the NFC North.

Go ahead, Con man.

Yeah, Chefty, I'm going to have Foxy run this clip about the Bears, and I'm going to ask you about Ben Johnson here.

I think our practice habits are yet to reflect the championship caliber team.

He's a psychopath.

I love Ben Johnson.

I think this is awesome.

Him talking about practice habits.

Everyone was kind of saying, hey, buddy, you're the head coach.

Like, why don't you fix it then?

That is a question for sure.

I think another thing would be, what about the quarterback?

Feels like the quarterback and the leaders of that team would be someone who kind of figures practice out.

What's going on in Chicago, Shefty?

It feels like it's much worse, much quicker than anyone could have really thought.

And is there a chance that we do see Agent Bajant, Tyson Bajant, play football this year?

Boy, we're getting to the Tyson Bajan question in the early part of the program.

It's not good, Chef.

They're paying them money.

Yeah?

They're paying them money.

Listen, Caleb Williams, they brought in Ben Johnson to fix him.

I'm not going to tell you that eventually at some point, if Caleb struggled, they couldn't get there.

That's a down-the-line thing.

And if they do, that's going to be quite the story and quite the conversation.

I think right now, obviously, they're focused on getting Caleb Williams right, but there are issues.

He has a lower completion percentage this this season than he did last season.

So

again,

the idea was to bring in Ben Johnson, elevate Caleb Williams, beef up the offensive line, get everything homing.

And I think that this just shows you it's going to take a little bit of time for everybody to get acclimated.

And when Ben Johnson's talking to reporters about the practice habits, sometimes Jimmy Johnson used to say that you don't speak to the media, you speak through the media.

So I wonder if that's a case where he's speaking through the media to get a message to the players that our practice habits are not at a championship level.

They're not where they need to be and they need to be better.

Now, you could say that to the team.

You could say it publicly and have people carry the message for you.

He chose to go the public route.

And these questions are all going to come up as long as they don't win.

And now they got Matt Eberflus coming in there.

They're forming the approach.

The Bears have lost six straight home games.

Like, there are a lot of issues.

that they have to quiet down.

And the only thing that stops all that is a W.

That's it.

They don't win.

The noise, all this noise, can increase.

Get louder.

But is the feng shui of the sweets going to be good?

Remember Kevin Warren?

That is perfect right now.

Yeah, because Arlington Heights is where remember that from Hard Knocks?

Yeah.

I watched John Taffer on bar rescue, and the people will bottleneck here.

But if we do this with this particular direction, we'll have good feng shui.

I had no idea Kevin Warren was designing the sweets in the stadium as well.

He's pretty good.

Yeah, he did.

If the feng shui is good, maybe they'll be good there.

Maybe they're waiting to get to that stadium to be good at football.

Smart.

Or maybe Ben Johnson is just trying to put his.

We have seen this before, right?

Matt Patricia, whenever he went up to Detroit, tried to institute something that didn't end up working out.

Cleveland, Manjeani, went over there.

He had like 6 a.m.

rookie Oklahoma drills taking place, I think.

I heard horror stories about that coming through to our locker room.

Flores, Miami.

Flores trying never really worked out, but there has been obviously places where it has worked out.

Yes.

It's better than them.

It's better that way, right?

Than letting the team walk all over you.

I mean, if you suck and you you never get the whole team to buy it,

it doesn't matter either way.

So that's what I'm saying.

Like, Ben Johnson's going to stay steadfast on who he is from what we've learned.

The Chicago Bears obviously paid him a lot of money to be the head coach.

We're assuming that they stick with him instead of, like, Lockerbie needs to get on board with Ben Johnson is how everybody feels in Chicago.

Yo, it's his show there.

Like, he's the guy, and he's got a lot of security there, as it should be.

He waited a long time for the opportunity that he wanted and that he chose.

He chose Chicago.

And obviously there are issues to address.

That's why he was being hired.

All right, let's talk about some issues to address.

Got big money problems happening.

Go ahead, Ty.

Yeah, Chefty, earlier when Tom Brady first became a minority owner of the Raiders, people brought up the, you know, hey, this is a conflict of interest.

This cannot happen.

And then it kind of just went away until we saw him in the booth on Monday night with a headset on.

And then the report came out, hey, he's actually talking with Chip Kelly five to six times a week, you know, kind of breaking down the game plan and setting up what they're going to be doing on Sundays.

And a lot of people weren't happy about it.

From what you're hearing around the league or people that you're talking to, is this going to come to a head at some point?

Because I assume that most teams think this is bullshit and they're irate about it.

I think there are certain people, like there are coaches, that don't like it.

But look, here's the deal.

Tom Brady's on the production team.

He's coming into your building.

You could tell him whatever you want or not tell him whatever you want.

And Tom is smart enough and has seen enough football that he could scout those players and nobody needs to know about those players without hearing it from the coaches, too.

I understand the appearance of it all, the conflict it all, but

I'm not worked up over it like some people are.

I don't think it's a huge deal to me.

Like,

he is a limited partner in the team.

If he wants to go sit in the booth with headphones on and can offer...

Call plays!

Shit!

Go do what he wants to do.

It's his team.

Scored nine points this day.

Yeah.

Tom Brady's in the building.

He owns the team.

Might help.

Can't score a damn touchdown.

Let me get these headset.

Let me get Chip Kelly.

Hey, you need to tighten up.

What if he is just doing what Carly Ursa has been doing on the sideline?

What if Tom just wants to hear what all the coaches are saying?

Let me see how they're communicating with each other.

Let me see how they're talking.

Because he could just be trying to evaluate his own business that he currently runs and currently owns.

With that being said, a lot of other teams saying, well, why the hell would we let if this guy's strategizing for another team?

Why would we let him in?

And then Ben Johnson came out and said, Yeah, we don't care.

This is what Ben Johnson had to say about Tom Brady being in the booth and then also having to play the Raiders.

He wasn't the only one

who's affiliated with the Raiders, obviously, but you play next week.

Are you going to do that pre-production meeting?

You have to be careful kind of how much you divulge it.

I mean, I've been careful everything I've said since the season started.

I've been in pure coach speak mode.

Big pop.

With me, it's just business as usual.

I'm just fine.

I like Tom, and we have a really good relationship.

To Matt's question on Brady, you've got one of the most competitive people in the history of the sport prying around for information

world.

How do you reconcile the conflict of interest that exists with all the situations?

Yeah,

like I said, I'm really not worried about it.

I mean, we change week to week in terms of what we do.

Schematically, he's going to be able to turn on the tape and see what everyone else in the world is seeing right now.

Personnel-wise, really the same thing.

It's not like I'm going to sit down with them and tell, hey, don't do this to Caleb Williams or you might get it.

There's not going to be any trade secrets that are going to be exchanged, but

I just, I really don't think it's that big of a deal, to be honest with you.

On that note, Jeff, the R source says have told us that a lot of those meetings with Tom have become coach, coordinator, player, PR person.

asking Tom questions about what Tom would do in situations or how like quarterbacks have been taking the opportunity to pepper Tom Brady with questions and he's been very open allegedly wanting to give back to the game.

So interesting storyline here that's developing but with how paranoid all NFL teams are and how paranoid NFL fans have become, especially with what the Patriots have been caught up in, you know, in very public stuff, this is a perfect storyline for some real conspiracy fodder.

Oh, yeah.

But I think what the actuality of it right now, now who knows what two years now, three years from now, four years from now, however long this goes.

But right now, I think it's a lot of people getting info from Tom.

Palm.

And what if that production meeting actually becomes

Tom spilling the beans on Chip Kelly's

interesting, Shefty?

It really is interesting.

By the way, everybody should be going to him for advice.

Everybody in the organization, he can help everybody.

Like, he should be helping the coaches on play calls and giving the personnel department ideas on players he likes and talking to the players about being more pliable.

Like, yeah, I mean,

there's a reason he's the GOAT, you know?

And by the way, Ben Johnson wasn't the only coach.

Brian Schottenheimer came out and said he doesn't care what he says to Brady in a meeting.

And Sean Payton came out and said he doesn't care.

So you're hearing a lot of hate coaches.

Are there people, other people who are Leary?

Sure, there are.

I'm sure there are.

Big deal.

Again, if he's coming into your building, you control what you tell him.

Just like if there's a reporter that calls up, like, I could ask, hey, what's going on with the draft?

They're not going to tell, well, here's our board, Adam.

Like, Like, okay, but but don't tell anybody, right?

Like, I mean, you're going to be selective with what you share and who you share it with.

Use some discretion.

It's not hard.

I appreciate the head coaches coming out, being like, let's not talk about how those meetings are going, actually, because Tom, two minutes left, we have one timeout.

Okay, what are you?

I think that is what BA said the same thing.

BA was like, those production meetings are all bullshit.

They're whatever you want them to be, literally, whatever you want them to be.

And we have Coach McCarthy joining us here in the second hour.

I'll be excited to hear his take.

I assume he's on every coach's side that we have heard but it is weird having an owner just waltz into a strategy meeting with people it's first time ever but tom brady's the first ever of who the hell he is go ahead ap tone yeah chefty i wanted to talk to you about 0-2 teams i think there's different levels to 0-2 teams and the the top level what everyone i think assumes is the kansas city chiefs but they are still 0-2 with uh tough games against uh the chargers and the eagles last weekend is there is there any sort of panic that you're hearing coming out of casey or is it not panic at all?

Because they've started season slows, just like the Patriots who start some seasons slow, and they're probably going to be there in the end.

Well, I don't think there's panic there, but there are issues that they have to work through and correct to turn it around because

we looked at it since 2000.

I think there have been 118 teams that have started 0-3 over the last 25 years.

And of those 118, one,

the 2018 Houston Texans, turned around and made the playoffs.

So, you know, the Chiefs margin of error is gone, and they're in a division where the Chargers are better than people realize.

The Broncos obviously lost last week, but they're expected to have a good season.

The Raiders have been tough.

So, I think they're in a tough division and a tough conference.

You can lose games, and yes, we all know the talent and brains that are there, so we expect them to turn it around.

But, you know, if they happen to lose Sunday night in New York to your 0-3, that's a little bit of a problem.

And right now,

they're missing explosive players on the offensive side of football.

It looks like they have a chance to get back.

Xavier Worthy on Sunday night.

Jalen Royals, the rookie wide receiver, could be back.

That'll also help some.

So they need some reinforcements until Rashi Rice can come back in week seven.

But 0-2, you're behind the eight-ball.

And so you just feel like you're playing catch-up all year long.

It's tough physically.

It's tough mentally.

They've won Super Bowls.

They've got a champs mentality.

They've got talent.

But at 0-2, you've got some things that you've got to work through.

Okay, let's go to tonight's game, talking about things to work through.

Here's the full injury report that we have it right here as we look.

It's week three.

Geez.

So anything that we need to look at here?

Anything before we make our picks at 12.5 or 11.5 that we need to know?

Well, I think it's interesting that Storm Duck is out for the Dolphins.

He was a starting cornerback at a position where they've already been decimated with injuries.

And so that's a tough one to lose the number of players that they have.

Perfect name for a Dolphin.

Yeah, absolute dog.

Hey,

Storm, it's a great name, and he's a good player, and they're going to be missing him tonight.

The Bills, obviously, missing those two defensive guys.

Ed Oliver and Matt Milano.

Those are two losses for the Bills.

Obviously, Jalen Waddell, questionable for tonight with the show that they're hoping he goes.

We'll see whether or not he's out there.

If he's not, then Malik Washington would have to step up and they'd have to rely on other people.

But that Storm Duck one is the one that I think, to me, if I'm a Dolphins fan, worries me.

Okay.

All right.

We appreciate the hell out of you, Shefty.

Thank you for joining us, brother.

Thank you, guys.

Have a great day.

Hey, you have a great weekend of football.

You too, my friend.

Numbers are up across the board for football as a whole.

It's a good time.

How about Michigan-Nebasket?

How do you feel about that?

Well, do you see the bet that those guys have for this weekend?

The boys, the boys, yeah, not guys, the boys, the busting with the boys, the boys, the boys, yeah, the boys, the boys, yeah, the boys, the boys, the boys.

Somebody's losing their hair, you know, for the team that loses.

Somebody's losing their hair.

And I think there's a $50,000 donation and also a concession of the 1997

Code title.

Wow.

This particular game.

Holy shit.

Yeah, obviously, Michigan at Nebraska, favored by one and a half.

Will Compton has to feel very comfortable with this team versus any of the other teams since the busting with the boys have started the busting bowl.

So this one's the big one.

This one's worth $50,000, shaving the whole head, and also a former national championship.

This is a big one.

It's a huge game, Shefty.

Good luck to your Michigan team.

Where's College Game Day Saturday, Pat?

We are in Miami, Florida, Miami.

Nice.

Okay, great.

Well, that'd be fun to go down there for the Florida Miami game, right?

Yeah, it'd be great.

Shefty,

I am pumped to get down.

I've never been down to the U.

Okay.

A lot of times.

Never been there.

I've been to the city of Miami before.

Yes.

Played in a Super Bowl down there.

But when you talk about the U, its history to football, it's importance to ball.

I've never been on their campus down there.

I guess we're going to go check it out this weekend.

I can't wait.

Florida versus Miami.

There's some other games.

Sure.

A few.

There were some other games that were certainly being chatted about, but I know the people at Miami, from my conversations with them thus far, very pumped pumped to have us down like

very eager to have us down the juice i would say that is a good way to describe

juice for us to be down there so that's that's really what i think is most important is like is the fan base pumped for us to be there you know because that changes the whole show well but are are they never are they ever not pumped for game day in an area well you're right i mean every Very shout out to the college football fans that show up to game day.

We are very thankful for them.

But there are some schools that get game day a lot.

And like, I don't want to say that, you know,

maybe there has been a little luster lost by some

in some places.

Going to Bama and Georgia sucks sometimes.

And even potentially Columbus every once in a while.

Every once in a while, we'll go there and people are like, yeah, because Tennessee, when it was ice cold, like took game day, you know, like those places get it a lot.

So it's like they're very used to it kind of being there.

So whenever we go to places it isn't normally at, which for instance, last year, Indiana was insane.

That's awesome, right?

James Madison a couple years ago, absurd.

Yeah, absolutely absurd.

Kansas was sick.

Cal, Berkeley was unbelievable.

Now, obviously, big games have to happen those weekends, but like Miami, we haven't been, game day hasn't been there since I've been a part of it.

So I think there should be some real excitement.

They were great last year.

Now, with that being said,

Illinois, Indiana, the place would have gone crazy.

Yeah, that's a big game.

I mean, the busting bowl.

Yeah.

You know, maybe the busting bowl would have gone absolutely ham.

Missouri, I think, has

South Carolina.

Yeah, so that was a big one.

I think the people like there's obviously big games each week, so there's a lot of conversation here.

But I'm excited to get down to Miami.

They've seemed to be very eager to have us down there and obviously showcasing this Miami team.

And also, I guess, Napier's Florida team, because this could be the end.

Yeah, for sure.

It's going to be the end if that thing goes the other way.

So there's a lot of implications this weekend.

But yeah, we're in Miami.

It's going to be hot as hell, Shefty.

My last thing for you before you kick me out of here.

How cool, Peyt.

There's no reason you can't come back and volunteer to punt for the Colts these days.

Like, there's no reason.

Just go.

Right?

Good one, Schefter.

Rigoberto Sanchez, when his time is called, will be up to

fourth quarter, backed up in your own end.

Got to flip field because field goal would win it for the other team.

Rigoberto's first punt of the season.

Yeah, week nine.

Good luck out there, buddy.

Go hit a big one, bro.

Need you to hit a big one.

He will.

He will deliver just like you do every time.

We appreciate you.

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Adam Schefter.

Yeah, Shifter.

Joining us now, one of the coaches of the Busting Bowl.

Ladies and gentlemen, we're incredibly lucky that he's been joining us every single week of this college football season.

He's the host of a podcast called Has Rules.

Ladies and gentlemen, he's a college football coaching legend.

He coached in the NFL, and now he loves his time with an undefeated Cornhusker squad, taking home Michigan at home as underdogs.

Ladies and gentlemen, Coach Matt Rules.

Yay!

How you doing, Coach?

What's up, brother?

How you doing, man?

Life is good.

Thank you so much for joining us.

How is life over there in Nebraska?

Obviously, we've been winning by a lot.

We've been setting precedent.

Now we got a huge one where you're underdogs at home.

What is the mindset this weekend?

I think we're excited.

You know, this is an excellent football team coming in.

It's the big 10 opener.

And as you said, it's a ranked opponent.

It's going to be a crazy atmosphere here.

And we think we have a pretty good team.

So we're expecting a heck of a game.

A lot of fun.

The Bustin Bowl is obviously what this has been dubbed because Taylor LeWon, I think five-star recruit out of high school, first-round draft pick, incredibly handsome, very tall, represents Michigan.

And Will Compton, the walk-on undrafted, busted grill, nine-year linebacker, special team dog, represents the Nebraska Corn Huskers from the Busting With the Boys podcast.

Obviously, they've tried to make this a thing for a few years now.

This year feels like getting very real in the momentum.

And I feel like you guys have your best team for this.

And I think Michigan Michigan has being favored, they feel in a good spot as well.

Is this the perfect time for the bust and bowl to actually launch into real in-season hype and expectation?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, you know, we played the game two years ago and it was, you know, everyone was here.

Will was here.

Taylor was here.

And, you know, we didn't, you know, they were a much better team and it wasn't a very close game.

And so,

you know,

it'll be a great game.

Two really good teams.

And

it's what the Big Ten should be all about, you know, good rivalries.

You know, we're not too far away from each other.

I'm sure they'll bring a lot of fans.

Our fans will be ready, and

it'll be a great college football game to go along with all the other games.

All right, let's talk about the on-field stuff.

Cincinnati was able to run a little bit first night, obviously.

Quarterback able to move as well.

Is that the big conversation point for your team?

Is we're going to have to stop Michigan's run, even though Biff is the acting head coach and he let Bryce spin it a little bit more than maybe Sharone.

But is that the, we got to stop the run?

Is the only mindset on the defensive side?

Yeah, they're 15th in in the country in rushing offense.

And to your point, last week, you know,

quarterback was the leading rusher.

So the things that bothered us against Cincinnati, you know, they ran for 200 yards and over 100 of that was the quarterback.

Just, you know, Sora's bee from Cincinnati dropped back and found a hole and ran.

And we didn't have a great answer for it.

Obviously, that hasn't hurt us the past two weeks, but

we're facing a whole different animal now.

And so big physical O-line, you know, that's what Michigan football is, right?

They're going to run the ball and stop the run.

It's true, Big Ten football.

And now they have a quarterback who can also run.

So

our guys are going to have to defend the run and defend the quarterback run to play well.

Have you seen Bryce at Big Ten days?

Have you seen this 17-year-old as of a month ago, now 18-year-old?

Have you had eyes on this guy in real life?

No, I haven't.

It's weird now with the Big Ten because there's 18 teams.

They do three days and they do, I think, six teams each.

Of the five other teams than us, The only team that we played while we were there was Maryland.

You know, it was Rutgers.

It was Ohio State.

It was a bunch of teams that we don't even face this year.

So it's really like the NFL, man.

You don't know who you're going to face.

Even the Busting Bull,

we faced him two years ago, not last year.

We faced him this year.

It's a rotating schedule, but he's really talented, elite recruit, and

he's done a great job for them.

We think we have a really good quarterback, too.

And so

excited to go compete.

Yeah, tell me about Dylan.

Obviously, this is the biggest game of the year.

Much more comfortable where he's at.

Emmett, obviously, a dog in the backfield.

Tell us about your offense a little bit, taking on this Michigan defense with, you know,

a defense that hunts over there in Michigan.

Always going to bring a lot of different disguises and everything like that.

Yeah, I mean, it's Wink Martindale.

You know, I mean, he's one of my favorite coordinators in the National Football League.

He's brought it to college.

I mean,

they're lead up front.

They can blitz.

They can show a bunch of different stuff to you.

But, you know,

we have a really smart quarterback in Dylan.

He can try to get us in the right play.

He can try to get us in the right protection when he's fooled.

He's done a great job.

He's completing 77% of his passes yet.

He hasn't thrown an interception and really only one that even had a chance to be intercepted.

So he's a really, really smart football guy.

You would love him.

He's a football guy.

He's in here all week studying.

Last week, we finished a game last week.

I went to Vegas to watch Bud Crawford and he's texting me pictures of him in his house.

He's already watching Michigan.

He's trying to outwork me.

And so

I respect our quarterback, Dylan, quite a bit.

So it'll be a great chess match, him versus that Michigan defense with what they do.

Hey, coach.

Hope you're enjoying Allegiance Stadium in big Las Vegas.

This is what I got going on.

How about about Bud?

Obviously, a Nebraska guy.

Anybody can be a nobody.

We had him on the show earlier this week, and he was talking about how everybody doubted all the people that he fought in his record.

And he basically said anybody can turn into a nobody whenever he looks at it.

I've seen you kind of adopted that as well with the messaging that you're sending to the players.

I think your strength coach was talking about it in your office.

Yeah, no, no, no doubt.

Since I've gotten here, you know, I've always known who obviously Terrence Bud Crawford is, but getting to know him,

I mean, he's elite.

He talked to the team last year, let us out against Colorado, and literally there was no chance you were going to lose

once he spoke to the team and he started walking up that tunnel, I was like, man, this is different here.

You know, pound for pound king.

And then, you know, I went to his send-off, and he had so much respect for Canelo.

He was talking about how they're both first ballot Hall of Famers.

Yet when they went to the weigh-in, I showed our team, he wasn't talking about if, if I beat him, if this, if that.

I mean, he risked his whole legacy.

He was talking about when.

you know, when he's never even been knocked down.

And so we went to that fight, man.

I was just, I was so fired up, so happy.

You talk about a big day for the Cornhuskers, man.

I mean, he's got the Nebraska N on his mouthpiece as he's fighting.

You know, we go backstage afterwards and see him and all his guys are all wearing Husker red.

I mean, he's loyal.

And so it's a great message for our guys, man.

No stage is too big for you when you put the work in and you believe in yourself.

Oh, I love that.

Coaches being able to utilize anything for their own motivation, for their own team hype is glorious, let alone when you got the guy literally in your backyard.

I was talking to people that were in the boxing world a little bit, and they're like, hey, you know, Canelo moved.

He's got, you know, he's living his life.

He's had a couple hundred million dollars for a long time.

You know, maybe things a little bit different.

Bud still lives in Omaha.

He's got seven kids.

Like he is, you know, still,

I don't want to say in the grind, but still very much like doesn't even realize basically the money or hasn't done any of that.

And I picked Canelo to win because I thought he was heavier.

On the show, I did that.

And I got a call that night from like three people.

They were like, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

Bud still.

Did you see Bud?

Did you see what he looked like at the way and did you have you heard the way he's talking it's like and he's american we need him right now it's like i messed up and then you watch that fight and it's like in the ninth round bud wasn't scared of bud was like let's go let's go hang he's heavier he's he should be a harder puncher than he's ever faced yeah let's go dance here i could lose the entire fight just with one catch and instead he stepped right into the fire it's like massive respect for both of them but also definitely for bud and we saw that end oh yeah we saw that end a lot in the biggest fight of the century they're calling it and

right on the mouth.

I mean, it's a cool thing for the brand.

Good for you.

Tone has a question for you.

Yeah, coach, you have one of the best play callers in the country, if not the best player caller in the country, a veteran in Dana Holgerson.

But it was a very rare move.

You brought him in, I think it was week 11 last year.

How big was that for him and Dylan to get some actual live game experience last season before the spring ball, before summer?

And then the offense looks like it's flourished this year.

Yeah, you know, no one had ever really done it.

You know, we lost to UCLA a week after playing pretty well against Ohio State.

And I called him and said, hey, I need you here.

I need you to, you know, get this fixed.

The guys are working hard, but we need to, we need something moving forward.

And so I think it was pivotal because, you know, Dana had to decide if he wanted to be here this year.

And he finished that year out and he said, yeah, I'm all in for this.

Like, can him and I work together?

And it's been an unbelievable relationship.

And then he and Dylan, I mean, every team in the country came in

and recruited Dylan.

Hey, hey, come play for us.

Come play for us.

And, you know, he believed in what we're doing.

He's a husker, but he also believed in Dana.

And so I think that time, and then we kept the staff.

Like, I said to Dana, do you want to change anybody out?

How do you feel?

And he's like, no, I like these guys.

They're good coaches.

We'll make this work.

And so

to me,

it's been an unusual move, but one I'm glad we made because everyone came back this year and we're significantly better.

I bet Dana loves just being able to focus on the offensive side of the ball than all the bullshit that comes with being a head coach, too, at this stage of his career.

Yeah, a couple of times I've said to him, like, what do you think?

And he'll give me both perspectives, like, well, you know, you could do this, do this, but that's your job now.

Where's my red?

Where's my red bullet?

I got to worry about one side of the ball for you.

That sounds like a you problem right there, buddy.

I've been there before.

He was great offensively for West Virginia and obviously down to Houston.

And him just being able to lock in on that without having to deal with all the politics and all the handshaking and everything like that feels like it's great for him.

Sounds like it's great for you as well.

Connor has a question for you, Coach.

Coach, with the last two weeks being not cupcakes, but teams that aren't ranked like Michigan, it feels like, you know, the videos we saw of you were very raw, rod, you know, getting the team going, making sure they stay locked in.

Is it different this week when you're playing in Michigan where everyone is kind of zeroed in, laser focused at all times because it is such a tall task?

And, you know, you did just mention right there, Bud Crawford leading Nebraska out, and you went to Bud's game or match rather last week.

Can we expect Bud maybe to lead the Nebraska Cornhuskers out on Saturday?

You know, you know, I don't know that.

I mean, he, you know, he, he, I tried to call him the other day and he's like, hey, I got the Mac if you show right now, bro.

I don't know.

I mean, people have reached out to me.

I mean, I'm talking about superstars that don't know me, but are called someone out.

Like, I mean, what he's done is, to your point, it's a fight of the century.

Chappelle, front row.

Yeah.

Going crazy.

It's like, that's one of the biggest.

Yeah, yeah, I understand.

He's been.

So now, I mean, so, yeah, so I don't know.

I don't know how that'll play out.

I mean, he's got a lot of things going on, but but we know he's the day that he decides to come in, we'll be here ready for him.

And, you know, I think the thing that the videos that we released, I mean, those were both at halftime.

And so to me, like leading up to the game, you always have a different approach every week, depending on who it is.

Like if I have to sit here and yell and scream about, hey, we better be ready.

This is a, you know, I think everyone here knows what the University of Michigan means and they know how good of a team this is.

You know, we better be pretty locked in.

For me, that was about at halftime.

being like, hey, this isn't good enough.

And, you know, year one, I couldn't have done that, you know,

with all the team.

Year two, we kind of could, but some guys have been like, why is he saying this?

Year three,

you see our players.

I mean, it's one thing when they show me, but our players are saying, hey, this isn't good enough.

And so we understood playing the teams we faced.

We're trying to get ready for the Big Ten because the Big Ten is a different animal and it starts this week.

We've been working to get ready.

On that note, Ty has a question for you.

Yeah, coach, I believe the Big Ten is currently like 42 and 5 or something like that in that neck of the woods.

And a lot of people, there's top 15 teams, I think.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, there you go.

There's still a lot of the talk about, you know, the SEC being the superior conference.

And then people were even cherry-picking early in the year saying, hey, look at all the cupcakes the Big Ten teams are playing.

But every week when you have a game like this, does it almost, because we know who's at the top of the Big Ten currently, and we have a couple teams, you know, you guys are one of those teams who are kind of right there.

Does it feel like a lot of these games are almost like playoff eliminators?

Because you know every week in the Big Ten, you're going to have a team that, hey, if we don't play well, we're going to get beat, and we might only have, you know, one or two opportunities, you know, for the rest of the year to actually solidify our chances of being in the playoff.

Yeah, I think, I think the SEC is an elite conference.

I think the Big Ten is an elite conference.

I think, you know, two things can be true, right?

I think the one thing that the SEC has done a great job of is they've branded themselves as the SEC.

And when you look at the last 25 years, I think four teams have won national championships.

You guys can, I might be, I could be wrong.

Yet when we talk about the SEC, we talk about all the other teams as well.

It's not just the Alabamas, the Georgias, the LSUs, the Floridas.

It's the whole league.

And so people, you know, the tier of guys that are like 9-3, 10-2,

they still get a lot of street credit when we do the voting and all that.

You look at Illinois last year.

You know, it took Penn State down to the wire.

They finished 9-3, and they're barely in the conversation.

And the Big Ten, we talk a lot about the top four teams.

But, you know, this is the, I said on a podcast to house rules,

not the free shout out, just joking.

But I said, like, you know, Division I football is the only football league where weather doesn't have an impact in the offseason, in the postseason.

Like in the NFL, being in Buffalo, being in New England, being in cold, being in Kansas City when it's cold, like you have to play through people's homes.

In the FCS, Montana, North Dakota State, those places matter.

The Big Ten, man, you got to.

You got to go on the road.

You got to play in the weather.

You got to play in differently.

We're trying to plan out going to Maryland and coming back and going to, we're going all over the country.

And so I think as a league, we have to do a great job of talking about the Big Ten, not just Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon.

Those are great teams, but Illinois, Indiana, USC.

Washington played for the national championship two years ago.

Hopefully us.

I mean, there's a lot of them.

So to your point, you know, you don't have a lot of free chances if you're not in that upper conversation, but there's really good teams in the Big Ten.

I think the Big Ten is really strong top to bottom.

Yeah, I think the conversation is going to change.

I've mentioned this a couple different times.

I don't know if you've heard me say it, so if I said it to you, I apologize for repeating myself.

But all of a sudden, whenever the ranking happens at the end of the season and the college football playoff is being talked about, we have an SEC team, a good SEC team, traveling into Big Ten.

And the style of roster that you have to have in the Big Ten at that time in the most important ball certainly paid off.

Gonna have to be a little bigger.

Can't be as fast.

You gotta have a little bit more physicality.

You can't just run four threes everywhere because it might be negative 55 degrees or whatever the hell it was at Ohio State for that game.

So interesting dynamic, obviously, being added into it.

Everybody understands Big Ten and SEC are at the top, but the Big 12 got rich rod.

Let's not forget that.

The ACC, we'll see how it goes.

Hey, last question here quickly, because I need to get your opinion on this.

I've talked to a couple different coaches now about the transfer portal going from two times a year, both in December, January, and then also in May or April.

I forget which one, a spring and a winter one.

They've cut it down to just one transfer portal, and it'll be the one in the winter, okay?

What are your thoughts on the December, January, and the middle of college football playoff transfer portal being the only transfer portal window?

And what are your thoughts on going from two to one?

It feels like everybody's on board with that.

Yeah, I think it needed to go to one.

You know, you would negotiate with a player and all power to the players, but you would negotiate with a player in January, December, January, and then have to renegotiate three months later when there's no, you know, you haven't done anything.

So that, that doesn't happen in the NFL.

And so it should be once a year.

You know, you make a decision and then you play that year out.

Number two, I, and most of the big 10 coaches wanted it in April and May because, you know, we pay the guys July, July 1st to June 30th.

So in the NFL, like the league year ends, you know, you get paid for the year.

We're going to have in college football, we're going to have players getting paid by two different teams in the same year.

It doesn't make, doesn't make any sense to me.

And we're doing it that way because basketballs, you know, everyone's using the same money.

So it doesn't make as much sense, but I would have had the portal in the middle of September for all I care to get one portal.

It's better for the players.

They don't need to be transferring twice or in the spring.

I mean, I just think it's way better, but I would have done it in May.

Yeah, I think the playoffs should never be touched by players saying to themselves, you know, am I staying?

Am I going?

Last year, Penn State's backup quarterback left in the middle of a playoff run because he had to do what was right for him.

I'm not saying anything about LeBo.

Those things shouldn't happen, in my opinion, with the portal, but some really powerful coaches wanted it.

They wanted it in January.

And, you know, no one asked me.

Okay, so on that note, everybody I talked to would have preferred the April-May one.

Everybody preferred two to one.

Everybody's like, need to only have one.

Everybody agreed on that.

But everybody, to your point, was like, the one in

after spring feels like, so we know what we have, you know, and then also we don't worry about the playoff conversation.

Nonetheless, it'll all get figured out, right?

Always does.

Well, we'll see.

Always does.

You're the man.

We appreciate you.

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Football is the greatest sport on earth, and we're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chit-chat about it today.

The week three of the NFL season will kick off tonight as an AFC East battle will captivate us all.

Will the Miami Dolphins show any fight and cover anywhere between a 12.5 and an 11 and a half point spread?

Or the Buffalo Bills continue to be the team that we all think they could be this year?

The most dominant team in the entire entire NFL.

Will the reigning MVP, Josh Allen, continue his back-to-back MVP run?

Or will Tuatongo Villo and Mike McDaniel figure out how to be a football team again and win against the Buffalo Bills and change the trajectory of their entire season, maybe their careers?

We shall see in front of a captivated crowd up there in Buffalo that'll be celebrating the hell out of the last year in this stadium before they make the big move to the big Bison Stadium.

that is right across the parking lot.

Tonight, we're in for one on Amazon Prime.

We got Kirk Kerbstrick, Alan Michaels, and Kaylee Hartong on the call.

And then for the kickoff show,

dogs everywhere.

Look at everybody.

Richard Sherman's there.

What?

Witt's there.

Wide.

Fitz there.

Charissa's there.

Tony Gonzalez is there.

Wood.

And all the other participants.

What?

In which there are many.

Those got some gimmicks and games to play.

And then the post-show, if you're up after the game, they do a full-time, 2 a.m.

That's a full thing there.

If you just happen to be a little bit of a night owl, they will certainly take care of you with a nightcap, I do believe.

Not that nightcap.

Right.

But Primes.

Yeah.

Primes.

Exactly.

Two shows with nightcap right now.

Okay.

I think Primes is,

yeah, you get it.

A little different.

TNF nightcap.

No doubt.

There it is.

Vastly different shows, though.

That's one half of the hammer.

Done.

Cowboys A.P.

Tone.

The Toxic Tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, a man who's in the middle of of changing his hairstyle.

You can't tell because how good he looks.

A.J.

Hawk.

Hasn't even been a topic of conversation over the last few days.

I think we've gotten to a good stage of it all.

How are you doing, AJ?

I'm doing great.

How are you guys doing?

I really enjoyed the Ram truck advertisement you guys ran a little bit earlier.

Well, we did run that.

Yeah, we ran that.

That was a pre-recorded advertisement that had to get approved, obviously, by all parties and signed off on.

And I'm sure that really moved some ram trucks.

I bet it did.

I assume people were going down the line to get themselves a ram truck.

Tonight though, AJ, AFC East battle, everything negative seemingly about the Miami Dolphins are my thoughts, you know, especially after watching them.

Now the Indianapolis Colts might be the greatest team in the history of football.

That is TBD, period.

Okay?

Not question mark, not mockery voice.

That's actuality, brother.

Danny Dimes is on a loaded roster with an offensive guru, but they made the Miami Dolphins look very bad to start the season.

Very, very bad.

Not a great way to kick off an entire vibe run for a Miami Dolphins team that was maybe entrenched in a little bit of controversy.

First time that Tyree Kill has been on that team.

He's not been named captain.

Obviously, at the end of last year, there was what it was where he said, I don't know if I need to be here.

Then Tua came out this year during training camp and said, you know, it takes a little time to heal from some things that are said.

And it also takes some time to heal from shipping all your Pro Bowlers out of town and seeing if you can be a football team.

Jalen Ramsey, John U.

Smith, Callaeus Campbell, you name it.

Get the hell out of here.

We'd all need you.

How's the team going to be?

Well, they start out 0-2, put up a lot of fight against the Patriots last week.

Will they do the same against his Buffalo Bills teammate, Jay Hawk?

I mean, I think they are definitely going to put up a fight.

I mean, I think I said a couple of days ago, like, this is a great opportunity for the Dolphins.

That's the way they have to approach this.

Yeah, we know they're up against, what, 12 and a half point dogs, maybe even more, depending on where you look.

But if the Dolphins, like, just think of what it could do for their season if the Dolphins find a way to win this game.

Legit.

This is like a turning point.

It's a turning point.

We're going to go one way or the other.

And if this is one of those years that we can hope we have some kind of success, like we'll we'll look back on this week and say, hey, there's where it kind of turned around.

And there's where we find a way.

We, you know, kind of found a way to put it together against a great Buffalo Bills team.

I know we're talking about the season and everything like that, and I don't want to be dramatic.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Not a dramatic person.

No, never happened.

I don't really.

I wouldn't overreact anything.

No.

Not in the moment at all.

No.

But you're talking about maybe career-saving nights tonight?

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, you mentioned it.

I think if for a lot of people, if the Bills throttle the Dolphins, like I I don't think

it's crazy

that both those guys get fired.

Tua?

Yeah.

Like this early tie?

I don't know.

Connor mentioned it earlier.

Week three is so early, but if it is a drumming on.

I think there's a chance.

I really do.

Especially with how flat they were against the Colts for it being week one.

And then they basically gave away that game last week.

If they, like Gumpy said, hey, they just got to be competitive.

If they get beat by 28, you know, four touchdowns or three touchdowns tonight, I think there is a chance that at least McDaniel gets fired.

I think I'm being a little dramatic, but it's very early in the season, but we happen to be around a Dolphins fan.

So I think that is why maybe we cover it a little closer.

Could be.

It's just like the Detroit Lions before they became the brand new Lions and they were still the same old lions.

We covered a lion strictly because Foxy, who is here, was a Lions fan.

So I would like to watch this Lions team so that I can understand what mood he's going to be in and maybe talk shit to him about what's going on with his emotions and feelings.

So we've been covering this Lions transition and change throughout very close closer

i'd say closer to anybody that has had although we were just a small regional show much closer following of the detroit lions here over the last five years than anybody else i was i will say that other than local media talking about the lions you guys witnessed the heartbreak that lions fans went through for all those years you understood it so then now they're good it's awesome yeah it's a brand new lions now with the dolphins it's the same thing with gumpy and boy i remember the excitement when this era was starting oh my god trading for everybody signing everybody.

They're going to win a playoff game.

Paying people.

Remember, there was rumors,

alleged, we did not make this up.

This has been reported out there.

There was rumors that maybe the owner was trying to lose games for the draft.

This came out after the season, a season in which Gumpy, who's a Dolphins fan, said, it feels like they're trying to lose.

So then when the owner comes out, allegedly was potentially, this is all reported, we are not making this up.

This was alleged.

we did not this is the thing was

telling the coach I'll pay you more money you lose some games 100 grand okay so the fans have to go through that fans have to be like

don't even want to win what do we what the

can we get some money maybe

for us trying to how does this even become a thing not saying it's real I'm just saying it was talked about so for that moment from that moment of Gumpies fandom okay when it's like I knew it they're definitely trying they're not trying to win That's course.

Then that gets debunked, goes to court, whatever the case is, kind of disappears.

Whatever happens there, I don't know.

Other stuff started coming up.

Yeah, getting a little bit more prevalent in that particular story.

But from Gumpy at that moment of life, when that was being alleged, once again, not real, I don't think.

I don't know.

Actually, we don't know.

Do we know?

Not sure.

Never really.

Try to never find out.

Yeah, I don't.

Not real.

We'll say it wasn't real.

Allegedly, yes and no.

It wasn't real.

Okay, we'll say it wasn't real.

But at that moment, when it was being reported, Gumpy was down here.

I committed my whole life.

They're not even going to say I'm sorry.

Not one time.

No.

What's that about this team?

I've given so much to.

They're down here.

Then McDaniel, Tyreek Hill, they pay the most amount of money in wide receiver.

We're not paying money to lose.

We're paying the most money for a weapon on the offensive side so we can be explosive.

So that ride, just watching him go from the depths of hell all the way to Euphoria down.

And then now what we're staring down week three with this team is just it's heartbreaking for our guy Gumpy.

And he painted too many ships for him to be this heartbroken week three in my eyes i think that he probably represents not all dolphins fans but at least some dolphins fans that are like man are we ever going to get it right tonight i guess we find out if they can correct it or if we're on a path to full rebuild yeah and that's what stinks too is like that taking you know us back all the way there when it was the flores situation was crazy because then i remembered the first initial mcdaniel thing like gumpy wasn't sure about two oh really no one really was because he wasn't getting a fair shot.

McDaniel comes in.

He's like, hey, you're the guy.

Like, I'm going to make you great.

Tyreek Hill.

They also signed that year was the number one free agent was the left tackle, Teron Armstead.

They signed Armstead.

They got a good old line.

All of a sudden, like, going back to that time.

Trading Jalen Franklin

that year, Tua.

Yeah.

When did it go bad, though?

When did it start going bad?

Last year, right?

Last year, the end of the season, I think, is when it really started.

That's the question, AJ.

Would Would that be when it was, Jumps?

Yeah, Tua's record over the last 16 games has not been good.

Like, actually,

every other season, you could say if Tua was hurt, we were bad.

Whereas the last little while, even if Tua's healthy, we are bad.

Like, we haven't been a good football team.

That is the biggest worry.

This is the first time in, as long as I can remember,

all the Finns faithful agree everybody's pissed.

Okay, I like that.

Like, usually there'd be like some people love Tua, some people hate Tua.

The whole

fans all of them are pissed and everybody did i see tua on

that mountain

he was he was at the top tua was on cuck mountain you've seen a lot of tua the tweet actually said enough is enough he's finally made it to the was i on that mountain at one point years and years ago i was on that mountain at one point which means i am enemy number one basically of the uh finn fan on the internet basically that is that is that That's what it felt like, at least whenever I got put on there.

It was an honor to not be mentioned amongst the Mount Rushmores of Cuck Mountain down there in the Finns family.

Anyway, it was nice that I got out of there because I did become a believer because I think you became a believer.

They put two on there now.

Wow.

That's how you know.

That's how you know.

It's over.

That's how you know.

It's like a big one tonight.

Big one, go, Dolph.

Huge.

Oh, man.

What's that?

Just going going back through it again, not to mention just like the ups and downs of the concussion stuff.

Like, that's what you did to.

Yeah.

Did you like going all the way back to when it started with Josh Allen to the third to the prime time time with the Bengal where he got slammed by the D-tackle, like it has been quite the ride.

And then he came back from that too.

It just, it sucks, but they're going to show fight 12 and a half to.

Yes, they are.

We are Tua fans.

We are Dolphins fans.

It has not looked good, but almost beat the Patriots last week.

I GPT'd earliest firing since 1990.

Scott Linehan for the Rams was fired after 0-4 start in 08.

Dennis Allen, 0-4 start in 2014.

Joe Philbin, a 1-3 start in 2015.

and Bill O'Brien an 0-4 start in 2020.

Okay, so it feels like you're going to make it at least four months.

Philbin was in Miami as well.

That was him getting fired by the battle.

And is that when MCDC went in interim?

Yeah, I believe so.

I'm not positive.

All right, wild times, obviously.

Dolphins had MCDC in the building.

Let them go.

And Ben Johnson.

Ben Johnson right there.

Well, we'll see.

Yeah, you're right.

I mean, we'll see how that all goes.

We have some breaking news, AJ.

What happened?

What happened?

Greatness happened.

Yeah, I'm trying to ask.

Greatness happened.

Do you remember the announcement of the WWE and ESPN partnering, the world's greatest entertainment company, sports and entertainment company, going with the worldwide leader in sports, finally coming together to become a superpower partnership of sports and entertainment?

Do you remember that announcement?

I do remember.

So then you know that WrestlePalooza this weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana at Gainbridge Fieldhouse is kicking off this partnership and it's going to be a massive night.

You know that, right?

Yes.

The show starts at 7 p.m.

Eastern Time on the ESPN app.

WWE is bringing it in a big way.

John Cena, Brock Lesnar, on the marquee.

You have, in a lot of people's eyes, the greatest of all time in John Cena, a man who had a 20-plus year run at the top where he didn't miss a show.

An absolute workhorse, a man who is absolutely shredded, goes from being a guy laughed at, basically.

who worked his ass off to becoming the guy in the business for over two decades.

Then obviously goes into Hollywood, takes over, does his thing.

He's on his last run right now.

And the WWE world is saying thank you to him all across the world.

That's because he has done such amazing things.

The guy he's taking on, the alpha male of our species.

A man who was so fucking good at wrestling that he got to the top of it, maybe at the youngest and the quickest in the history of WWE.

Then whenever he conquered WWE, he said, in my body, in my mind, he's built to do more.

What do I need to do?

Oh, I'm going to go try out for the NFL.

Rain of 4-4 in jeans.

Becomes a D-tackle, never playing the sport before for the Minnesota Vikings.

All parties agree, if you were to put about a year of work into this, two years of work into this, you could potentially become like a Hall of Fame NFL player, even though you've never played the sport before.

He goes, oh, thank you, you know, and then he decides that I'm going to go and do the UFC, becomes their world heavyweight fucking champion and beating people up.

His arms are so long.

His hands and fingers actually dangle and touch his shins whenever whenever he's walking around.

He's built to be a destroyer.

He knows that and he has executed that.

He's become a goat in multiple places.

And him and Cena are going to be battling for one last time here in Indianapolis, Indiana.

And it's going to be must-watch.

It's going to be show stealing.

It's going to be something that's talked about for generations and generations.

And that fight will be taking place

at the top of the show.

Kicking off the ESPN WWE era will be John Cena versus Brock Lesnar here at Gamebridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

This is obviously gigantic.

What a way to start.

The best partnership I've ever seen and the smartest partnership I've ever seen between ESPN and WWE and also two GOATs going at it.

So

that's breaking news, AJ.

And I'll let you kind of digest that and take that all in.

But just know 7 p.m.

Saturday, it's coming out with a bang, brother.

Hell yeah.

Hey, do we know if the roof and the window will be open?

It's a Game Fieldhouse.

Come on.

I assume the roof of the window.

The two legends are going to go in the stadium.

So, listen,

this would be a stadium match.

This is a stadium match.

These two are a stadium match.

Oh, yeah.

WrestlePalooza, though, in Indianapolis, is not.

I mean, we had Triple H on, what was that, last week?

And it was like, hey, ESPN had a date.

They asked if we would be able to do a show.

We certainly love that idea.

Here we go.

So

I don't know if stadium was pitched or presented, but whatever the case, this is a stadium.

This is a history box office.

This is a must-watch

fight, and it'll happen to kick off the entire partnership.

That's good shit.

Let's go.

That's good shit.

That's good shit.

7 p.m.

Kick off the show, right?

So boom, they're coming out first.

Yeah.

Good move.

Boom.

Great genius.

Yeah.

That old fucking thing.

Yeah.

And then John Cena, I love the way he's coming out with the black screen.

Oh, yeah.

And then we're dropping it into the I wonder if it will be.

What?

I wonder if he goes old school.

Just goes no black screen.

Oh, you're talking about him going thugonomics?

Going all the way back.

Yeah, if he comes out with the chain and the hat, he'd be sick for sure.

Your time is up.

His time is down.

That's right.

Who knows?

I think that's what he said.

That's Russell Palooza football.

Anything could happen.

What if he comes out as peacemaker?

I mean, there's

shoots him in the head.

Ricky Stanicki, maybe?

I mean, there's no way.

I think John Cena is probably going to be the one that shows up, but anything is possible.

Is Dimes going to be here?

Yeah.

Danny Dimes, Saturday night?

He's going to be screaming.

He's more of a

crowd.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he sent his manager for this one

as like an honor being in.

Welcome to the city.

Thank you for coming to the city, says Danny Dimes.

I respect that.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a Super Bowl champion head coach.

He's from Pittsburgh, which obviously makes us love him immediately.

He is currently enjoying a year off from head coaching after coaching the Dallas Cowboys.

What does the future look like?

We don't know, but we're appreciative that he joins us every single week, ladies and gentlemen.

Coach Mike McCarthy.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Coach, you see John Cena, Brock Lesnar leading off that show.

You all right with that, or what are your thoughts?

I'm heading to Indy as soon as I get done here.

Yeah, there it is.

Hell yeah.

Good place.

We would love to have you here, obviously.

We're very pumped that you're coming.

I'll let the WWE know,

you might be sitting right.

You might be in the ring.

Might need you.

Go in.

Get in there.

Might have you in the ring.

You want to slide in there, maybe hit the ropes a little bit.

Coach, thank you for joining us.

Week three obviously kicks off tonight.

AFC East battle.

12.5 point spread now at ESPN Bet and multiple other books.

I don't even think you can get 11.5.

12.5 feels like a lot of points for a division game on a Thursday night.

How do coaches view these short weeks?

And if you're these coaches, what is your messaging to your team?

Well, I mean, I've always liked a short week because, you know, I think particularly when it doesn't go great on the prior Sunday.

But yeah,

this is a tough one here because, you know, division game, like you've already stated, Thursday night, you know, Miami going up to Buffalo.

I mean, but you know, you look at the numbers and you watch the first two games.

I mean, Buffalo is really rolling right now.

I mean, just the way the ball distribution, Josh Allen's playing at an MVP level.

I just like the way their defense is coming on.

You can see that at the end of the Ravens game and then obviously last week.

So

in Miami's turn the ball over a little bit.

So

I definitely think this is a favorable game for Buffalo, but that's a lot of points.

Got it, AJ.

Yeah, Coach, let's say you're trying to defend Josh Allen in this offense.

What can you do?

A quarterback like Josh that is so dynamic, can beat you so many different ways.

What are you telling your defense to do to try to contain this guy?

Well, it's twofold.

I mean, they do such a good job of staying on time.

When I watch them play, you know, they're in sync.

I mean, this is an offense that's played a lot of ball together.

And I think that's really, you know, things I always watch for in September football.

You know, you look at the teams that are playing well offensively, it's usually illustrated by a group of men that

have some time on tasks together, and they look really, really sharp.

But his ability to extend plays, you know, and when you've got quarterbacks that can you know, exit through the A gaps or exit through the B gaps, extend plays, and obviously turn them into huge gains.

I mean,

that's a tough task for the defense, especially early in the year.

Defenses, you know, their timing, the rush lane discipline, all those things, part of that September football, you know,

Miami's going to have to have it tonight because he's going to make plays and then the other part of it, he can throw to any spot on the field.

He can make any throw out there.

So

I just been so impressed with him the first two weeks.

Josh Allen, reigning MVP of the NFL, every offseason, he's only gotten better.

This offseason, he got married.

We'd obviously like to congratulate him for that, but he's also gotten better somehow.

This Buffalo Bills team, very fun to watch.

And on the flip side, people are saying the Dolphins have gotten worse.

Ty has a question for you.

Yeah, Coach, I remember a couple years ago in Dallas when you guys were in a little bit of a rut, you went with the Gallagher gimmick, and you started smashing watermelons in the locker room.

We all heard about it.

We all loved it.

When there is this much negative surrounding a team like there is the Dolphins right now, would you encourage Coach McDaniel, hey, maybe smash a few watermelons in the locker room, get the boys going, or is it a little early to bring out something like that?

Well, in honor of the Great Gallagher, he was 2-0 in my time in Dallas.

So,

rest in peace, by the way, Great Gallagher.

Rest in peace.

Yeah, rest in peace.

But no, actually, that was during the pandemic times, too.

So we were probably cased up a little bit too much.

Just wasn't thinking about it too much, probably.

But no, I think

you have to have fun.

You got to keep the energy up.

I mean, that is so important.

All all part of the group dynamics and the challenges of every single year.

So, yeah, I think the most important part is you want these guys clear-minded.

But, you know, Miami's going to have to go.

It's a division game.

You know, these division games are always tight.

We talked about this a little bit last week.

September division games, I think, are a real, real challenge.

So,

they're going to have to really do a good job of taking care of the football.

And as you know,

Buffalo just looks so good right now.

So,

and Miami's going to have to shorten the game, you know, win the time of possession.

The first two weeks that they've been on the wrong side of the time of possession.

But division games are usually tight.

You know, like I said, that's a lot of points to give up to a division opponent.

Why is the division game normally tight?

Because don't rosters change every year?

Like, why is it always?

I mean, we were a part of them with the Colts.

They were always tight.

And it's always like, well, you know exactly what the person's going to do.

You play them so much, but what if it's a new OC, new DC?

What if it's a new coach?

Not that it is in this particular case.

But why is it just, is it the vibe of the game just feels bigger so people are a little tighter?

Like, is it the knowledge of the other team that just naturally comes from playing each other so much?

I mean, personally, they're my favorite games of the year.

I mean, they are the best games of the regular season.

I mean, I know as a coaching staff, you always put time, you know, into the division games

in those June weeks before you go on vacation.

It just carries so much more weight, you know, plus the fans, the tradition, the rivalries, all that play into it.

So there's nothing like the division games.

You know, I know there's so much made of the night games and so forth, but

the division games, just the competitive spirit is always high.

You know each other fairly well, even like you've stated with the change of rosters.

I mean, there's definitely a familiarity to your division opponent.

What's behind you there, Coach?

What do we got?

The photo.

Oh, Roberto Clemente.

That's the

best.

Roberto Clemente Bridge, my favorite all-time professional athlete.

Hell yeah.

Is that your favorite bridge?

Is it my favorite bridge?

Okay, that's a good question.

I'd have to say the Homestead High-Level Bridge.

Oh,

good pitch.

That's a good one.

The closest one to the highest.

Of course, Dinari, obviously.

There's a beer distributor right at the end of it.

Pittsburgh,

actually,

most bridges of any city.

Pittsburgh.

In the world, right?

Isn't it a world record?

In the world.

Bridges everywhere.

I mean, it's architectural engineering marvel as you walk around town.

That one right there, though, leads to a lot of good times.

It does.

And that one's named after a phenomenal human in the history of sports.

Go ahead, Tone.

Yeah, coach, we were talking about Daniel Jones earlier this week and how great he was against the Blitz, against the Broncos.

And we talked about it with Bruce Arians a little bit and A.Q.

Shipley.

And they were saying, like, some of these teams, they don't have sight adjustments anymore.

They don't have hots.

I was asking you, like, overall, is that what separates a good quarterback from a great quarterback?

Is against the Blitz, knowing your sights, knowing your hots.

And is that why young quarterbacks sometimes tend to struggle coming into the NFL?

Yeah, definitely.

I think that's a great point.

I think schematically, you know, when you do put together an offensive system, you know, we always talk about proactive adjustments.

And, you know, some teams don't believe in having sight adjust or a hot system built in.

It's more, you know, make your protection adjustments.

So it kind of varies scheme to scheme.

But definitely that's something that, you know, when you go back and you look at your training and training camp because you know the live work the live teamwork um because you the speed of the pressure is so important for the development of quarterback you know flipping to the other side of the ball and i learned this from dom capers uh back in 09 when he came to the packers you know we were talking about the preseason you know how much pressure to run in this in the preseason versus not showing your pressure and you know just playing coverage and and standard defense and the point that he always made which i i i still see it as true, and I obviously use it on the other side of the ball offensively, is that defensive players got to learn to play to the speed and the time clock of pressure defense.

So having pressure defense for a young quarterback in the training component is critical.

And I think that's probably, along with what I think Bruce's comments is

a key to their development.

Can you tell me a little bit about confidence and what that can do for a quarterback, especially when you come out like Danny Dimes, new home?

Obviously, a lot of shit has been said about you.

And then the first two weeks, you're playing damn near perfect football.

Your choices, your options are all right.

Your throws, all on the money.

Your decision making on when to run, seemingly right.

You're taking huge shots.

You're bouncing right back up.

It's like, that's a great way to start a new relationship in life, but definitely with a new team, right?

Confidence has to be a weapon for Danny Dimes and Shane Steichen at this point.

No, absolutely.

I mean, and you get the big win over there in Denver, too, is awesome.

No, confidence is really what it's all about.

That's what moves the needle.

That's what moves the the needle for the player.

That's what moves the needle for the offense, the defense, and ultimately moves the needle for the team.

And then the fans and everything, you know, the external energy increases.

But I'm really happy to see his success.

He's had some tough moments, but I always thought he was an excellent prospect, both in the pocket and out of the pocket.

And it's great to see him have the success he's having in Indianapolis.

Was it against you we saw him just running, stride now?

Was that again?

It feels like it was on Nat primetime games, which is normally against you.

I mean, mean, I think that with the one year, he had what, three touchdowns over 50 yards.

I mean, he's, I mean, he can run.

He can definitely run.

But

I just think he needed a little more time in the pocket in the earlier days

because he definitely has that ability.

Our source says close to Danny Dimes tell us that he's only 28 years old.

The body feels like it's only getting faster.

So enough with the wow surprise, you can still run stuff.

You know, because this weekend against Denver, defensive end or outside linebacker, I don't know who it it was, within a foot of him, he switches gear, gets around this guy.

Like, it looked like a Tyreek Hill, kind of like getting out of a phone booth almost.

And it was right in front of us.

I'm like, I didn't know Danny Dime still had that.

And then I was told promptly, 28 years old, what are we talking about?

He's still young.

And he got blasted before.

We've seen him get crushed and pop up, too.

Yeah,

he's really hitting his climax here.

And so are we.

You know what I mean?

Just like those glory holes.

We're always looking for those glory holes.

Right down there in Dallas, I've learned the glory hole is what we're all seeking.

Right?

Is that right?

I heard Jerry Jones say that, coach.

Are we jumping to the oil business now, Pat?

I'll tell you what, after learning I could buy an $800,000 rig and potentially make $100 million.

I certainly thought about it.

I've certainly thought about it.

I don't know how the modern age is with oil, and I don't know if we're trying to find it still.

I think we should.

Sounds like it's the right move.

But if I could get one of those rigs to get down there and

cough like any mammal would, and then start to bleed, and then start to hiss and start to howl out.

And I knew it.

I said we found it.

There's a glory hole down there.

And this $800,000 rig just penetrated that thing beautifully.

You never know what's on the other side.

You never know.

No, you don't.

Because you might run into

something you don't want to run into down there.

That's why you keep your eyes off it.

But every once in a while, you find that glory hole.

And magic starts happening for everybody, right?

That's what we're doing with the Dallas Cowboys that we're trying to do.

You're talking with the Cowboys or with the oil?

With the glory hole?

Yeah, I mean,

go ahead.

I don't know who the hell you're asking me.

You don't want to get in trouble.

You're no more.

Whoa!

We're talking about a glory hole, glory hole.

I'm going back to the production meetings.

I'm sorry.

Okay, geez.

Jerry, KJ, what is this guy's problem?

We're talking about Jerry Jones.

This week, okay, on a radio show, he explains what a glory hole is.

Please run this from 105.

Okay, well, I haven't seen this yet.

1053, the fan.

Glory hole talk.

Jerry, his agent said, really, I'm getting him signed over there because I want to know Jerry's definition of glory hole and if it's the same as mine.

That came from Jadavion's agent.

So could you just clarify that for him?

Well, he knows it's an oil field term.

Comes from Matt when you're in the business of drilling wells.

And it's when you've

basically made a big well and you've

mentally or physically pitch you're just drilling a well and all of a sudden having all the oil start coming out at once and going in the going in the air and that's when you've known you've hit a glory hole.

Jerry,

Coach, how many times have you been either forced or heard the glory hole reference or metaphor to your football team down there in Dallas?

Bring a guy in, struck glory hole with this guy.

Is that used on a regular basis?

Is the oil terminology used on a regular basis down there with the Cowboys with Jerry Jones?

Yeah, definitely.

No, it's definitely a term.

And, you know, it's part of his great storytelling and analogies, you know, both the oil business and pro football.

Yes, definitely.

I've heard it a number of times.

So you have had to utilize the words glory and whole as motivation to a locker room in the NFL?

Well, you know, a lot of things that are said in the locker room stay in the locker room.

Oh, yeah, of course.

Of course, of course.

That's a good call.

Yeah, hopefully.

So, AJ can help me out here.

But, yeah, so definitely.

I think everybody that's worked there has heard has heard the term glory hole.

Okay, I've never heard it before this one.

So,

really?

Yeah, I never heard it.

But, you know, things aren't always staying in that locker room.

As soon as your mallet hit that watermelon, we learned of it.

Yeah.

So, you know, we need to keep this shit tight.

We need to keep the sheep a little bit tighter out there.

Now, can we talk about the rooms that you do have and the rooms you have to monitor as a coach?

In the most important position, we got a lot of question marks going into this week.

Go ahead, Con Man.

Yeah, coach, a lot of backup QBs playing.

We got Mac Jones for Purdy, Carson Wentz going for J.J.

McCarthy, Jake Browning going for Burrow, possibly Mariota for Jaden Daniels, and Tyrod Taylor going for Justin Fields.

You were basically dominating with Cooper Cush when he was playing for you guys when Dak was hurt a few years ago.

What is it like coaching and preparing for a team when you know you're going to be having your backup quarterback going in?

And are you asking for some of your superstar players, maybe even your defense, to step up, have a big week?

Or is it kind of, hey, let's keep this thing rolling.

This is a train.

Let's just get the backup in there and, you know, continue to play?

Yeah, definitely.

I would say it's part of the rhythm of a season.

I mean, the 17-game season is real.

And, you know, 16-game seasons.

I mean, to see quarterbacks go through a whole season.

I mean, that's the most important statistic for any starter in the NFL, let alone the quarterback position.

As we all know, it's the most important position.

So yeah, when you talk about the backup quarterback position, I mean, philosophically, I think it goes back to your roster development.

In the old days, sometimes you like to have a different athletic profile to your quarterback to maybe have a change up.

I personally always try to prefer the skill sets to be as similar as they can because with the training regiments and being able to train all three quarterbacks, hopefully a fourth one in the room is so important.

And I go back to the quarterback room.

You have your starter, then you have your number two and your number three.

They all have responsibilities during the offseason, during training camp, and ultimately in season.

So

quarterback rooms are critical.

Who you have in that room,

as far as coaching,

the diligence that go into it, you're really preparing yourself for this situation

back when the offseason program starts, in my opinion.

So it's all about the quarterback room.

And I think every one of these guys that, you know, they're going to have their opportunity come Sunday, and they'll have the support of not only the quarterback room, but the whole football team.

Some of the best leaders that I've come across have been backup quarterbacks before they've, you know.

before they got their ultimate opportunity as a starter.

Can you talk about that a little bit more?

Whenever we had Andrew Luck, we had Matt Hasselbeck as the backup quarterback, and he acted like a buffer almost for Andrew as he was kind of finding his way in the entirety.

Obviously, you had success with Andy Dalton as your backup quarterback for Dak.

Cooper Cush, obviously, had a good run.

Cooper Rush, sorry about that.

Cooper Rush had a good run with you.

But having that veteran leader type person as a backup quarterback, outside looking in, some people can say, is there going to be a little conflict here on who's alpha in room?

What have you experienced?

with maybe two top dogs in the same quarterback room.

Well, I've been so blessed throughout my career to experience it so many different times.

Back in 1993, my first year, you had Joe Montana as a starter, but Dave Craig was the backup.

And Dave was incredible.

I mean, you know, Dave had played so much football at a successful rate up there in Seattle and so forth.

So they complemented each other so very well.

So in Joe Miss Games, Dave stepped right in there.

Later in Kansas City, we had Rich Gannon backing up both Steve Bono and Elvis Gerbach.

And

then he went on to a phenomenal stretch over there with the Raiders.

I had Matt Hosenbeck as a young guy as a backup to Brett

in Green Bay.

So so many times, Aaron Brooks is a young guy behind Jeff Blake.

Jeff goes down, he steps up.

Aaron goes down, here comes Jake DeLoom.

So I've just been very blessed to have so many guys that were ready to go, bought into the system of always being ready, the development of each quarterback through quarterback school, which was a different era back then.

You were able to to spend more time with them.

So I've experienced it on a number of different opportunities.

And the latest is obviously in Dallas with Cooper Rush.

He actually did it for us two times, both in 22 and 24.

Do you think you're the first guy that all those backup quarterbacks had ever heard speak with a Jinser accent?

It's a good shot.

It's something I had to be conscious of.

you know, during the week because, you know, as a head coach, you kind of

don't always want to have to be in charge of calling plays, particularly in the headset.

You'd like to be more, you know, mobile on the practice field.

But I was told I had an accent and probably they needed to hear me.

So, but yeah,

there's a pretty good shot.

Yeah, I love it.

Just the thought.

Aaron Rodgers talked about a couple of times about you calling plays in a headset with the Inser accent.

Just sounding so I couldn't even imagine how spectacular that had.

Myron Coate dropping a play call into Aaron Rodgers.

Rest in peace.

Rest in peace, peace, by the way.

Rest in peace.

No doubt.

Yeah, you old doubt.

You are old school today.

Yeah.

We're paying our respects.

Roberto Clemente.

Absolutely.

Joe DeNardo.

Joe DeNardo.

Rest in peace.

Joe DeNardo.

Mr.

Joe.

Rest in peace.

Jeez, God.

He's the greatest opera operator of all time.

Yes, he is.

Yep.

Rest in peace, Joe.

Oh, wow.

Appreciate you, Joe.

Love you, Joe.

Appreciate you, Joe.

Joe's strong right there.

Hey, Joe said Wood.

And it did.

Shout out to Joe.

Rest in peace, Joe.

Kyle, I have a question for you about a lot about what you just talked about, actually.

Yeah, coach, of all those situations, when you look at San Francisco, a lot of people have been saying, hey, especially the way Mac Jones played on Sunday against New Orleans, if he continues to do that and he looks really good, and we know that Kyle Shanahan initially, when they traded up to number three a couple years ago, it was because he wanted Mac Jones.

And then, you know, through discussions and

whatever happens, they ended up going with Trey Lance.

Is there ever a situation you can remember or do you think Shanahan might be going through this right now where you almost get enamored with the backup quarterback because he's playing so well and it makes it a little bit harder to go back to whoever your starter was?

Well, I think the biggest thing is, I mean, it really focused on winning games right now.

But going back to the draft process, you know, it's something that I learned from Ron Wolfe back in 1999.

And he always talked about always trusting your grade on a player, you know, and the irony for Mac to come back around, and then for Kyle and the 49ers to now get him as part of their team.

I think you have to trust the draft process because when you look at the draft process, there's so much time and energy goes into

where you put these grade you put on these young men at the time, and then they have their experience.

You know, they could be different from each opportunity, injuries, and you know, so many things can go a different direction.

So, I think this is clearly a case of trusting their process, and now he's having success there.

And

then with that, I think it's a great situation to be in for the 49ers because now you have two

players that you feel really good about that can win and play at a high level.

So hopefully Matt keeps going and keeps playing at that level.

But I think this is a great spot to be in.

You said trust your draft grade.

That's a Trey Lance trade that you guys bring back to Dallas.

You guys really liked him.

Yeah, definitely.

I mean, that'd be definitely an example of it.

You know, when Trey Trey became available and it was definitely the conversation was, you know, we talked about the grade that initially had on him and the value that we thought it would take to get him there.

So absolutely.

I've seen it happen over and over and over again, where you just, you've got to at least bring the guy, you've got to at least bring the player in.

At least bring him in and

take a look, have the conversation.

And it really, you got to trust that draft process.

So you think Shanahan after that game was like, we knew it.

I knew it.

I knew after he goes against the Saints and goes, I knew this is what I thought whenever we initially initially did that and on that point trey lance goes to you guys you liked your draft grade on him you get him to the dallas cowboys currently with the chargers right how do you feel about trey lance whenever your time with him oh i think he's definitely on the up you know he's improving uh i think he's he's he's he's getting to the point now that he'll be he'll be ready to to be a starter in this league sometime i was very high on Trey in my time there.

I just thought he was very young, very, very raw, hard worker, you know, excellent athlete.

I think he has so much more in front of him.

I think he just got to really look at these players here in the last five or six years.

I mean, this pandemic and the things leading into it.

I mean,

I had a young, you know, one of our youngest son senior year was the pandemic.

So, I mean, I think that time clocks on development can be a little scooted

as far as guys.

You see it.

We talked about a lot in the old line room, offensive line room, letting those guys have an extra year to develop.

So I just think patience is something that we all wish we had, you know, in the development outlook.

And I think Trey is definitely someone that's turned a corner.

I've really enjoyed my time working with him.

I forgot there was a world stoppage of events and being around each other and everything.

And crucial development years, too, whenever everything kind of changes.

I don't even think until you mention it right there, Yins are genius, obviously, football.

I don't think that has even crossed my mind about like football development for players because of COVID.

Obviously, you think about life, people being locked in their houses and separated from everybody and people maybe getting more deep into the internet and believing things and seeing things and yada, yada, yada.

That's life affects.

And then high schoolers not being around each other.

So them

interaction and how they feel publicly, that's a whole thing.

Whenever the developmental years, obviously, I hadn't thought about football development, though, much.

That is certainly a thing.

Oh, yeah.

If you go through Colts, what's Colts got going on with AR at quarterback?

And then you think about Trey Lance, I assume this is that other position.

You said offensive line.

That makes a lot of sense because that's a year of

that you miss out on that you certainly need in the development phase.

Wow.

Hey, that was pretty profound.

I want to let you know that.

That was pretty profound what you just said right there.

No shit.

No shit.

Go ahead.

What you expect.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go ahead, Adrian.

Go ahead, Adrian.

Coach,

why for so long, why is it always so difficult, I think, to evaluate college quarterbacks coming out of their college program and making that transition to the NFL?

I know so much relies on what's around a QB to make him successful, but it seems like since the dawn of football, it's really tough, and there's a lot of different opinions on who's going to be the guy at the next level and who's not.

What do you think that is?

Like, is it ever going to get easier?

I think it's always going to be a challenge because of the access because you really...

You know,

the pro experience of getting access to really truly understand the guys is so important.

I personally think it's a little, it's better because you're seeing more

quarterback-driven offenses as far as them running the ball that's now transferred to the NFL, where you used to have to project

a quarterback that was in a primary,

run first, throw it second offense, and how would he do in third downs and things like that.

evaluate his drop back passing game and so forth.

But I think you see so much more of the quarterbacks with the athletic ability being used in college that now is being used in the NFL.

I think that part has gotten a little easier.

But it's just like anything.

I just know for years and the video is so much better as light years compared.

But in the old days,

if you really didn't get to get right next to the quarterback and feel the ball come off his hand and be at the workout, you truly didn't know the velocity.

Now you got the instrumentation that there's so much data out there.

Now you're on the opposite side of the evaluation curve of having maybe too much to look through and really sort down because at the end of the day, you know, these guys don't, you know, when you look at players that make it versus ones that don't,

I don't think it's their physical capabilities.

I think there's so much more data and information where the scouting departments do an excellent job there.

It's really the emotional development and the emotional projection of how they're going to project to the

professional sport life.

How do you go about doing it?

We've seen like rock, paper, scissors people do.

There's a basketball shooting.

They try to figure out the competition level, try to find out if they love ball.

Like what is the goal of trying to figure out if they're going to become somebody that's an asset to your locker room or a turd, you know, for lack of better words?

Is there anything you try to do in the process of scouting a player that makes you feel one way or another about what they could potentially be in a few years as humans?

Yeah, I think, I mean, from the head coach perspective, it is different.

I mean, but but I think it's you know your scouting department.

I just go back to the last one.

I've been very blessed to work at two organizations who have you know they're different in their scouting approach, but I thought both organizations did an outstanding job of clearly understanding the player, you know, and hey, and there's ones where you know there's times where you may not have all the information that you would like to have, but it really comes down to the to the scouts and the whole process, you know, the testing and just once again, collecting the data and

having an understanding of how it's presented and then, you know, setting up board the right way.

But I thought both the Cowboys and the Packers did an excellent job in that area.

We appreciate the hell out of you, Coach.

And I know you don't like to pick games.

Obviously, you wouldn't want to do that or do that.

But if you were over the last couple of weeks with what you said, you'd be undefeated right now picking games on Daniel.

Congratulations.

Congratulations, two for two.

Last week, you picked the Packers.

Felt like that was going to happen regardless.

They showed up for you.

It was a big one.

You didn't pick them, by the way.

You said, I like green gold.

Yeah,

so we

we put words in your mouth and had you pick the packers tonight uh i think i heard you say earlier that's a lot of points that's a lot of points for a thursday night game how do you see this game going for us that will be picking games here in a matter of moments

i i think buffalo is going to win the game um that's a lot of points for a division game but say no more i'm well i'm going to go against my you know against the grain i'm going to i'm going to go with the bills tonight oh geez okay

oh no yeah Oh, no.

Good night for the Blue and White.

You said that.

It's going to hold the Bills.

All right.

We appreciate the hell out of you, Coach.

You're the man.

All right, man.

See you next week.

Coach Michael Corson.

Yeah, coach.

He's the man.

The best.

All right, man.

I'm not making actual picks, right?

No.

Sounds like he likes the 12 and a half, though, right?

What are you asking me?

Well, he just kind of walked for a little bit.

He's taking Bill.

He's taking the Bills.

He's telling you it's a good night for the Blue.

When Joe Denara popped up in his face.

Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

He had some profound shit.

We're on the opposite end of the evaluation

scale or something like that, where we know too much, where at one point we didn't know enough.

We had to go see him.

And then what was the other

COVID affecting development of football?

Didn't even think about that.

Didn't even cross my mind because we had football during COVID, but there were some places that didn't.

And there were some places, high schools and things like that, that didn't maybe had two games or something like that because they couldn't get through all the COVID stuff.

And a lot of, I mean, California obviously had very heavy regulations during COVID.

A lot of football players come from the state of California.

You know, there's a lot of, I didn't even, that was pretty profound.

Thank you.

Yes.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah, that is.

It is, though.

It hadn't even really crossed my mind, dude.

It is hard to be patient with these guys, but also just understanding that

their development kind of got fucked by the world, actually.

Like the whole,

we're not even diving into that, but

everything.

Legitimately, like the state of the world has affected how these dudes can play ball.

I know the rest of the world, too, and that matters a lot more than just a game in a sport.

I'm understanding that.

But I'm talking about just in ball, I never really considered that.

The only one that's still on the same team is Trevor Lawrence.

Like, you look at that entire draft class, Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Mac Jones, Justin Fields.

Trevor Lawrence is the only one who's still there.

And you could argue he had some of the worst development because of what he had to go through between the coaches he dealt with when it was Urban and then Doug Peterson, who had the whole play calling debacle, and now it's Brian or Cohen, Ryan Cohen already, or whatever the hell his name is.

Liam Cohen.

I blinked on it.

I don't know why, but a lot of Cohen's.

And then you look at Mac, he's bounced around.

Fields is the only one who's actually gotten like a true second opportunity to be a starter.

And even then, you know,

they're 0-2, and he's not playing this week.

So it's one of those things where that entire COVID era, I never even once thought of that.

I think probably because the guys after them ended up being well who were young.

Yeah, that was...

Thank God I wasn't going through high school, college during that stuff.

Dude, especially with the Aussies.

It's so much fun.

It's a lot of fun.

Aussie punters and kickers.

Oh, yeah.

It would have been over for me, brother.

Yeah.

But also just life development.

Well, like you said, like they still had, they still had football in a lot of places, but it can you imagine?

It is nothing like it was the year before.

Like, it's football, but it's like,

this isn't what I'm used to.

Not allowed to be in meetings together.

Not allowed to be in a locker room.

Not allowed to really train or practice against each other.

Yeah.

Could hear Big Ben at Agrichore.

You know, that's how different it was.

They were hearing him yell slant, slant, slant.

And they could hear him on defense.

Hey, don't, you guys are playing the Steelers next week?

Yeah.

Ben is just going to tell you exactly what everybody's doing.

Just don't let him know that you can hear him because we're all kind of playing it.

So

you guys can't hear.

What's that?

Act like you cannot hear whatever he's saying.

Okay, please.

As you slide to the proper leverage, as the ball is snapped, and you hopefully get interceptions and tips and overthrows.

Don't ruin this for all of us.

Please, don't ruin this for all.

We got him next week.

Don't just act like you didn't hear him.

She didn't care.

11-0.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ben Rothenberg.

You got to stop him.

Wants you to know about it, actually.

And then he probably, if we know Ben, now that we know Ben,

he was definitely working that a little bit.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, when I say slang, I mean go.

If I say hot route twice, go deep.

You know what we're talking about.

Rothensberg is a dog, dude.

His show is good.

He was wearing a hockey helmet the other day.

He was.

He's the man.

He's really stretched his legs.

He's a tape job on a stick.

Yeah, he's exploring the space, which we are grateful for.

Him and Spank are doing it down there in Chef.

Keep going, boys.

Football is a good show.

Keep going, boys.

Great show.

My TV, when I do...

So YouTube TV, probably

an app.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The TV I have, I got to go through YouTube.

What?

Then I got to go into...

To the bottom?

Yeah, to the left, down to the bottom of YouTube TV.

Really?

That sounds horrendous.

Yeah, I don't like it at all.

And I know YouTube TV doesn't like that.

That's what I got to do either.

But it is what my TV offers, and it is the only way I know how to get in there as somebody that's not great with this entire thing.

Anytime I go to YouTube, you know, it gives you suggestions.

Bluey.

Yep.

Okay.

Metallica and her sandman at Virginia Peck.

Nice.

Daughter loves it, which is great.

Love that she loves that, by the way.

She'll literally,

alongside of it, does the entire thing.

Classic Metallica, though, they don't let the whole video play.

They cut it off.

Awesome.

Love the way that guy operates.

Shout out, Lars.

He just lives.

He's okay.

You are operating how I am operating, or you're not operating at all.

Mad respect.

Lars World.

You do what you got to do, Lars.

Great performance at Virginia Tech too.

I wish I would have been there.

I watched the first minute of it

with my daughter.

I feel like I got it.

And then there's Rothesburger.

their newest episode right there.

Not even our show.

Not even our show on it.

Not even somehow.

But Rothensberg is on there every time.

So it's a new Ben face that pops up on the screen whenever I'm trying to get in my bedroom.

Saw him with that hockey.

There it is.

There it is.

That was what pops up.

Big pop out of me, Ben.

I just want to let you know, it's a big, big pop out of me.

Spank going, I'm not doing this.

Yeah.

I thought this is football, not hockey ball.

Yeah, I enjoy.

I'm trying to tape it with the gloves on.

He's from Ohio.

You know, he grew up around hockey.

You know, he understands what's going on.

He gets it.

Him and Sid boys.

Him on the ice.

Crawling on that.

Oh, my God.

He had 100 goals one season.

Yeah, happy call.

Yeah, he took the stick from here.

It's like combining Patty Maroon and Gretzky.

Yeah.

Bingo.

Yep, I think so, actually.

Hockey better be happy.

He chose football.

Yeah, thank you, Bingo.

You're welcome.

All right, let's go through some news

of the day before we make our picks and get the hell out of here.

I don't want to talk about it.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Everything's going right for Danny Dimes.

Everything's going to go right.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What's wrong with you?

I thought you craig up something very bad.

Yeah, I know.

I'm not even talking about the alien in Panama.

Okay.

I'm not even talking about that.

Okay, but certainly saw it last night, whatever the hell is going on, Wald.

Yeah.

Rest in peace to that guy.

Everything's also.

We'd like to thank that guy for whatever he's documenting right now.

If it is real, obviously it is a profound discovery.

But what I would also like to talk about is Danny Dimes.

Everything's going his way.

Him and Riley Leonard were outside the Indianapolis Colts Practice Facility.

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

And they did a closest-to-the-pin challenge on the 105-yard hole, which goes over some water.

Danny Dimes knocks it off a rock that's right next to the water, closest to the pin, beats Riley Leonard.

Everything is going Danny Dimes's way.

I will say, Danny Dimes and Riley Leonard both have beautiful swings.

Yeah, they do.

I mean, it was this middle season, there's no way they've been able to play in a long time.

And Riley Leonard puts one to like 15 feet or something like that, 16 feet.

And then Danny Dimes goes off the rock to within 10 feet.

As soon as I saw it, I said, Colts might win the fucking Super Bowl this year.

It's a beautiful thing.

I'm happy we put it out there.

And welcome to Indianapolis and welcome to the Colts, Danny Dimes.

I think you're going to be here for a lump.

Boom, right there.

Boom.

And

to six feet.

Everything's coming up, Dimes.

That's what we're talking about.

We need more of that happening.

We need to maybe have Danny Dimes go down to the gas station, grab some scratch-offs

because he's going to hit.

We need him to just randomly start selecting money numbers so that maybe if the powerball gets up to what it is, Danny Dimes is on what we like to call a life heater.

And we are going to be the ones that are going to benefit from it here in Indianapolis.

Let's enjoy it all, AJ.

Let's enjoy it all, I'm saying.

I'm looking forward to, I mean, when I see that, I think everything's going well.

Like, let's say Danny Dimes goes out and he leads you guys to a Super Bowl.

You guys win the Super Bowl.

He's going to be hosting SNL like February, March next year.

He's going to be all over the place.

His cover of GQ, muscle and fitness, all of them.

So I think Danny Dimes understands it.

He doesn't want that.

Now, will you host Saturday Night Live, mate?

He'll be good.

He'll be really good.

The only thing he wants to be on the cover of is the hard work times.

Okay.

That's right.

The blue collar magazine.

Bingo.

He ain't doing anything but that.

He ain't doing no GQ.

He ain't Joe Cool Burrow.

He's going to have gloves on that are going to have holes where the calluses are to showcase his calluses.

He's going to have boots and big jeans on.

Maybe a car hard jacket.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what he's going to do.

He's going to maybe have some duck paint on because he just got done shooting some ducks out there.

Bumperjack Weekly.

Boom.

Maybe.

Fuck it.

Yeah, over his shoulder at the axe out there.

That's what Danny Dimes is out here.

He ain't doing that other stuff.

Yeah, GQ Magazine, you had your opportunity at the New York Kid.

Okay, he ain't out there anymore.

Think about Playboy, though.

What's that?

He'll think about Playboy.

I don't know.

I don't think so.

You got to keep Danny Dimes away from the duck blinds.

Okay, we went over this once with Carson Wentz.

We don't need this guy to fucking fall in love with Mallard Hunting, and then he comes back, and that's all he cares about.

He doesn't care about football.

Sounds like a hick.

I'll tell you what,

I've seen some real

pictures from duck hunters.

Do they ever not beat the ducks?

No, they feel like they always kill 300 every single time.

Now, I watched Riley Green on Jimmy Fallon, still a show.

Crazy what's happening in the world right now.

I watched him on Jimmy Fallon, and Riley Green hit that duck call.

He made that thing sing.

Pretty good.

It'd be hard not if you were in the sky as a duck to be like, oh, shit.

What is that?

What is this?

Get me down there.

And as soon as they get down there, all they hear is,

you think him and they don't win.

No, never.

These guys have mastered, and women, there's a lot of women duck hunters out there.

They have mastered the trailing.

It's almost as if they know the exact speed that each duck is going to go.

I don't think they ever miss.

I don't think they do either.

No.

Congrats to them.

That got to be, hey.

Those ducks, though.

A lot of practice there.

You think him and Hodges?

Devil and Duck Hodges go out together.

Riley Green, Country World together.

I do wonder if Duck Hodges can keep up with Riley Green.

I know he's a world champion.

I was back in the day.

Riley Green might be the big.

You know, he might be a little bit more.

You know, Laney has taught him something with a voice.

Yeah, all he's doing is singing.

Jimmy Fallon.

Jimmy Fallon took that thing backwards.

Riley Green said, you probably don't even know which end of blowing.

And then immediately on cube, back into that thing.

It was good to TV.

We're up.

That thing's off too in two seconds, I will say.

say uh

that was an important thing to bring up we had to talk about that yes it was if we didn't get that on there yeah then it's got any buttons it's like why did we do a show today then go yeah yeah you got a bookend the show yeah agreed love a good bookend don't you that's why we always appreciate seeing your book oh yeah shelf back there

Which one's the most recent book that you have read?

That's a good question.

That's a great question.

That one, the green one, with the green pages, probably.

Oh, yeah.

And we've talked about this before.

You don't have a cover to the book because you don't want to judge the book by said cover.

So you actually ask the publishing companies to send them without any words on the cover.

We need a blank cover around all of them, except for that one.

You wanted people to know what you handwrote it on there.

You wanted people to know what book it was.

These books, though, did the kids, are the kids starting to read these yet?

Or any of the family friends asking about maybe sharing one?

Maybe

leave a book to them.

I don't share these books.

No, you don't get, I don't share these books.

No.

kid this is too advanced for my kids

maybe maybe when they're 35.

what what was that thing that they did at that place next to i'm not a big book reader sorry actually never done it uh what was the

quills yeah they had like a leave a book take a book bingo yeah very popular deal you go in there you drop off a book you see one you might like and i shit i'll take this one which book did you leave in there while taking uh a very good book uh i put coach jb's book in there because i just figured some big gift someone's got to read this what is that hate me now love me later bingo coach jb JB.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Still doing it.

Yeah, it's pretty dope.

Did you read the audio?

Yeah, the audio version is unbelievable.

It's I would listen to that.

I don't know if that includes it.

Does it leave a little thing on top to plug in for the audio version?

Like an MPT?

I should have.

I didn't.

I left a stick on top for whoever was going to grab it next.

Enjoy this with a stick.

Yeah, you need to take down a stick, dude.

All right, let's get to a break.

We'll pick the game on the other side.

Sounded like Coach McCarthy went against what he always says.

Yeah.

Oh,

all points.

Thursday night.

Josh out, man.

Division game.

I'm going to go against that.

The dolphins are going to get fucking throttled, man.

He didn't say that, but he did.

Yeah, exactly.

His brain said that.

Right.

At one point, that was a thought.

And what came out was

those look real good.

All points, fucking.

Gumpies, that make you feel better or worse about this evening that people are going against their own rules, Dorgley.

I'd rather everybody go against us at this point.

Are you going against you?

Not a chance.

You said you wanted to go fight.

And guess what?

You know who's going to score a touchdown tonight?

Alec Ingold plus 2,500.

Okay, there's his touchdown bet.

They've been hit.

He has some hope.

We want someone to fight.

That's what he's saying.

I know there's no moral victories, but you have to show up tonight.

If you lose by a touchdown, lose by three, the season's still alive with the next two games.

If you get killed tonight, it's Jover.

Yeah, if they get killed tonight, kick them off the toy.

Legitimately, and I'm not shitting you.

You got to fight tonight.

You got to show up.

You talk shit.

You say the culture change.

You got to do something.

Please show up.

You guys can't see this, but on his hat, it literally says low bottoms and high hopes.

Right here on the house.

And right now, we're at low bottoms.

Wow.

We're just pulling for him to fight.

That's a fight.

I'll take a moral victory tonight.

How about that?

Okay.

I will.

Week three.

Fight.

That's where I'm at.

I like that.

I like that.

I think I've been in your position maybe a couple times throughout my life in history of sports, either playing or watching.

It's great that we're not you.

It is great to not be in your seat right now, but I want to let you know

low bottoms, high hopes.

Maybe tonight changes everything.

Could.

Maybe tonight brings the Miami Dolphins back to that team that scored 70 points against the Denver Broncos.

70.

Wow.

You remember that?

I knew.

That was recent.

Oh, a long time ago.

A lot of football has been played since that has happened.

Two years ago.

A lot of hopes have been

smothered since then.

Might have been week three, two years ago.

But tonight,

we fight.

Fight, fight.

Fight.

Fight.

Fight.

Fight.

Fight with all our might.

Fight.

Might.

Might.

Fight.

Fight for close.

12 and a half.

Take moral victories tonight.

Moral victories.

Week three division game.

There's moral victories.

I love it.

I watched that shit live week one.

All right.

That's where we're, I saw it live week one.

I watched every snap.

I saw Zach Wilson come in and throw balls into the fucking husk, okay?

Just show up, please.

Thank you.

He's talking about the coconut husk, which is obviously the rubber that is used on our turf at Lucas Hollow Stadium as opposed to tires.

Coconut husk, better for the joints.

What we've been told.

Quick track.

And with that being said, Gumpy not only saw every snap, he heard every snap.

He was the only Dolphins fan that was within, and he took it.

He sat there.

Dolphins tarp, dolphins hat, dolphins flag, I think, over his head.

Just sitting there, just taking it from everybody.

Then he walked out of here.

We fucking suck.

Fuck this.

And then fight against the

fight against the Patriots.

Yeah, it was a fight.

And then tonight, maybe

more fight.

And then week four, guess what?

Maybe a little.

We're winning Monday night against the Jets.

Fall.

Prime time again for the Finns.

And don't worry, it's not a doubleheader.

It's not.

Flex it out.

Get it out of there.

Pull up.

All right, be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

Gumpy.

We love you, man.

Love you too, man.

Fight.

Fight.

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Football!

This is the the greatest sport of all time.

That man is a college football national champion and Super Bowl champion.

That's AJ Hawk.

The Toxic Tent was here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

One half of the hammer.

Don't Cowboys AP Tone is here, and I'd like to introduce something to the show, officially.

See those, AJ?

Oh, those Shaqs?

Yeah, a little Shaq Nos is here, brother.

I'll tell you what.

It's Katie.

Saw him on Amazon.

Had to pull the trigger.

Yeah, don't look too.

Oh.

those are sweet.

They're gigantic.

It's a nice reminder of what shoes used to be like.

These things feel like I'm putting on like old school football cleats.

That's what they feel like right now.

And obviously, you're just supposed to wear them on day to day and whenever you're about to go wreck a rim, obviously.

But these things are gigantic.

I mean,

there's a lot of stuff around them.

My toes are at the very tip of this thing.

I do think they make me, do they make me shoot better?

Yeah.

It's fine.

I don't know if that's what they're meant for.

Oh, I think so.

Okay, I think that shout out.

Hey, Shaq, shout out, dude.

Appreciate that.

That ball falling there is good vibes and good sounds as we head into week three of the NFL season.

AJ, last week you won in the picks.

Congratulations.

You're back on the board.

You know, first week you were horrendous.

This past week, you got hot.

Is that going to continue?

We shall see tonight.

Dolphins taking on the bills.

At ESPN Bet, it's back to 11 and a half.

It was 11 and a half at ESPN Bet to start the show.

Some other books had them at 12.5.

Middle of the show, ESPN Bet moved it to 12.5.

Everybody was kind of sitting at 12.5.

Now we're back to 11.5 at ESPN Bet.

Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Don, Cowboys AP Tone.

What does that mean?

Everywhere is 11.5 except for one book is at 12 and a half.

I assume it's just fluctuating money coming in on the bills.

So they jumped it up to 12 and a half for a second.

And then there was some money coming in on the Dolphins, so they went back down to 11.5.

Okay, so kind of a mixed bag.

What's the percentage of bets here?

72% are on the Bills tonight, which is not surprising.

I thought it would probably be more, to be honest with you.

Okay, Mike McCarthy also likes the Bills, both at 12.5 and at 11.5.

Remember, he made his pick at 12.5.

He did.

Okay, so let's hold him to that.

Don't forget that.

Yeah, let's not forget that with Coach Mike McCarthy, he wants that type of standard anyway.

Well, there was 11.5 out there when he did make the pick.

Yeah, so I guess with our own rules, we kind of have to go with the best option available.

So he's at 11.5.

Connor, anything you're thinking about for tonight's game?

The only thing is the desperation.

Miami backs against the wall.

That's it.

I mean, Noette Oliver, probably going to be big.

Didn't really hurt the Bills last week with the Jets, but with A-Chain and Ollie Gordon, you would assume maybe they do run the ball a bit.

I don't know.

It's just one of those games just like the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles.

It's not as dramatic of a situation because it's week two and not week, or week three, excuse me, not week one, but they are desperate, and these games are always close.

Ty Schmidt, 27-14 can happen.

Yeah, exactly.

That's kind of what I was thinking, especially with hearing what Sheffield said about their secondary being super banged up.

Miami's, I mean, like, it's tough to envision that they won't win by at least two touchdowns.

And I think even, you know, if you're a Dolphins fan, maybe that's not the end of the world.

You're just trying to avoid, hey, we can't get beat by five touchdowns tonight.

But I

think it's very likely that the Bills win by at least two touchdowns.

Gumpy, you're hearing what everybody's saying?

72%

of the world is on the Buffalo Beals right now from the website that we're reading.

Gumpy, you've heard it all morning.

Obviously, it's been a little emotional throughout times of both the pre-show and even during the show.

You got a little worked up there.

How do you lean here as we final and why should we pick the Dolphins?

Jalen Wright, also back tonight, one of our running backs.

If you get Jalen Wright, H.

going, and Ollie Gordon, you could control possession a little bit.

That's what you have to do.

Like, this is the thing.

No,

we have, we run for a lot of yards, but we don't run the ball is the issue.

Like, McDaniel, you have to run the ball.

They're making gains.

They just refuse to run the ball.

You have three good running backs, pound the raw.

Is that why you're wearing that jersey?

Is it like a subtle reminder to McDaniel?

Maybe if he saw you on TV today, like, oh, we got a pretty good running back in eight channels.

He's actually my favorite player on the team, though.

More into Tyreek?

This guy.

I like this guy.

Wahoo's always kind of banged.

I didn't, I had the Waddle jersey's hanging in my locker as well.

He's banged up, though.

I didn't know if he was playing or not.

I mean, this is

what it's all about.

Yeah, he didn't do it on Sunday.

Yeah, the owner was doing it.

Yeah, and then he scored.

He didn't walk.

And then he stopped because the owner was doing it.

Like, you know what?

This shark may jump the dolphin here.

Yeah.

AJ, 11 and a half is the spread.

I know you have been seeing the board well here for the last few days.

The NFL is unpredictable.

Division games are unpredictable.

Thursday night games, unpredictable or are they?

You know, they're unpredictable until they're not.

Correct.

And we got to remember there's been 90% public bet that has covered

in the past.

And usually around this time is when the public does hit.

There's been games that have seemed too obvious to be true and then they were as obvious as we thought they were going to be.

But there's always that thought.

that the games that we also have seen is a team change who it is for one game for four quarters they piece it together and they're able to beat anybody Could could tonight be the turning point of this Miami Dolphins team, this Miami Dolphins franchise, this entire program organization's trajectory?

Does it change tonight?

Do they beat the Bills?

Do they keep it close?

Or do the Bills win by at least 11 and a half?

A.J.

Hawk, you will go first.

A lot of times in these situations, when I take like the obvious pick with all these, with so many points in the NFL, I think it's tough to cover when you have 11.5 a spread like this.

We don't see this a whole lot, but I think the Dolphins know they have a great opportunity.

I don't think they find a way to capitalize on it.

I think the Bills win by 14 plus.

Okay.

AJ's got the bills.

What's up?

What are you worried about?

Just hold on.

He's digging.

I mean, it's a big spread.

And you're seeing the board.

You took the bill.

Yeah, you took the bills.

That does change.

You're seeing the board right now to everything Connor just said and to tone.

I take into account if other people are seeing it, you know you have one week right there what i was doing is that one week of seeing it or is he actually understanding what's going on right now who are you talking to right there in my head me

i didn't know there was some sort of shaman or

well i would hope it is actually a much smarter version of me every time i do that have the self-talk i'm always hoping to fucking god it's a better me that's answering i pictured you i pictured you like ace when he was in the in the den and then he hovered above himself venture ace ventura that is oh yeah i remember what he's talking about Whenever he was down in the jungle.

Yeah.

Yeah, I understand what you're saying.

Probably too.

Your balls are show.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

I mean, I was going to say, it's basically it.

This is the last time all year you can battle you can pick the dolphins.

Yeah, you really would like it.

And that might be because you're a Patriots.

No, no, I just think that the Colts are really good, and I think that there's a chance here that the Patriots end up being a pretty solid team, and the Dolphins aren't that bad.

And you're saying I watched every snap of the Dolphins last week, and also I saw them week one.

They look like a much better team against the Patriots than maybe they looked against the Indianapolis Colts, is what you're saying.

Yes, and I genuinely think the Colts are like one of the top eight teams in the NFL right now.

So, like, can we really hurt them that much?

Like, it's the same with the Packers.

But you know, who else is one of the top eight teams in the NFL right now?

Buffalo Bills.

The Buffalo Bills.

Give me 27-14 at least.

Buffalo Bills win in that game.

I mean, it might be.

I like the Buffalo Bills.

I'm just

really in the end.

I didn't watch that whole New England Miami game.

You see, that's the problem here.

I haven't seen, because I think they had good moments, great moments in there, right?

They had really good moments.

But again, the other thing with the Miami Dolphins game is just that the Patriots, you know, their defense isn't all out there.

It's hard to even judge that.

Our defense also can't get a stop.

Okay, give me the Bills.

Thank you.

That was awesome.

Appreciate that, Gumpy.

I know you're pulling for the Dolphins tonight.

I know Connor is pulling for them to keep it close.

I assume there's going to be a lot of money potentially on it.

Let's go, AJ.

Let's win this thing.

Let's do this.

Let's get a perfect board this week.

Oh, why not?

I think we can.

I told you, I am very biased from the 10 minutes of a hard knocks episode I watched of the Buffalo Beatles, like August 17th airing.

And I saw the camaraderie of that team, and that has stuck into my brain when I see how much of these guys enjoy being around each other.

Shane Steichen just said that yesterday about the Colts team.

He's like, hey, they hang out.

They go to dinners, multiple dinners a week.

They hang out.

It's just the vibes are vastly different.

It's like, that means something.

I think we look at that a lot more than other people do.

Anytime there's a mic'd up, I'm trying to see how they're interacting.

That's all I'm trying to see is the interaction.

How's the interaction?

When we're watching a sideline, we're just trying to see the interaction.

Hard knocks, stories are cool.

Guy does rocks and shit.

Okay, sick.

How do they interact?

That's all I want to see.

Legit, all the teams that I've been around and been on that are good or great,

the boys like each other.

Whenever it's clearly that they aren't all on the same team, it's teams aren't good.

It's just an X Factor that seems to show up with great teams and doesn't get talked about much.

I agree with what you're saying about that Buffalo Bills hard knocks.

I do.

Division game, though, Thursday night?

That's a short week.

I mean, the Bills, though, it's big for the Bills.

The Bills are rolling and everyone had, like, they have everyone's respect and everything.

They know they don't want any letdown.

If they go drop a game to the Dolphins, that changes their season too pretty quickly, even though they'll be fine either way.

But they don't want this to happen i mean you're it's uh you start thinking about how the game goes and what happens like if the beals with all that energy at home come out and get an early big lead then we're talking

scorched earth yeah and they would and also potentially miami yes yeah you know

turning down a little bit maybe at that moment maybe some disagreements maybe some miscommunication happens but if miami's able to battle there gets the ball first yeah if they're able to keep that thing then dolphins

They got to get a deep bone to Tyreek early.

Like Miami needs something like that to happen early.

Let's get Tyreek involved.

Let's get some excitement early and get on the board.

That's Miami's chance.

Yeah, so let's watch that first quarter.

What's the, I mean, that's a bigger question mark, I think, than the overall game because how the first quarter goes, I think, is how we're going to find out what the game is.

If Buffalo's dominant, that's going to be.

Even that first drive, because if the Bills, you know, Buffalo faithful, Bills Mafia gets going after like a three and out from Miami, and then the Bills go score, and then they play Mr.

Brightside or some shit.

It's going to be real hard, you know, ending the first quarter, 14.

Both teams want the ball here, right?

I think so.

I would start

probably.

I think both offenses are better.

I can see Buffalo being like, fuck it, no, kick it.

Bills are minus.

Let our fans eat here for a second.

Bills are minus three and a half first quarter.

If it fancies you.

Do we have the percentages on who's on what there?

No.

What's the over-under of the first quarter?

The over-under of the first quarter, the first quarter total, nine and a half.

Oh.

I like over there.

Yeah, I like over for that and the whole game.

7-3.

What, you're going over?

Yeah, I want to feel alive today.

Oh, I love it, Tony.

You like that, Tony?

50 and a half is a lot of points.

It is.

That's a lot of points.

Bill's rush defense stinks.

Dolphins stink.

So, okay.

Points, points, points.

Once again, I would love to see Willie Gay get some burn.

The guy's a ball of energy.

He's so good.

He's played two fucking snaps all year.

Great two snaps.

He's so good at football.

He just doesn't.

Why isn't he playing guards?

I have no idea.

I put out a clip.

It has like 500,000 views.

No one knows why this guy doesn't play.

He had two snaps.

He had a tackle and another tackle for a five-yard loss where he hyped up everybody, took him off the field.

New England made a third and 17th screen.

All right.

We're excited for tonight.

We're excited for Gumpy.

He said Willie Gay, one of the best players of all training camp, they're saying,

does he?

Let's see him on the field then.

They're saving him for Thursday night, Buffalo Bill.

Must be Spartan.

It must have been what it was.

Tonight could be the night for the Miami Dolphins and their fans.

And for that reason and that reason alone, we're pulling for them.

Yeah.

But on the flip side, this could be the year for the Buffalo Beals.

And tonight could be a big one on national.

Yeah.

Prime time.

Only people on to say, hey, this is who we is.

If you were wondering about the Buffalo Beals.

I'm excited for tonight.

All right, we're going to toss to a conversation we had a chance to have with Stanford Steve and about college ball, especially this weekend.

I think you're going to enjoy it.

It's a segment that we're calling

another

college football convo with Stanford Steve.

We think you'll enjoy it, and also we think it'll give a good breakdown on the storylines that you need to know going into college ball.

And on that note, be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

It might change your life.

We're in this thing together.

Team on me,

team on three.

Let's enjoy tonight.

Oh, yeah.

Okay?

Let's enjoy this life.

Let's enjoy ball.

50 and a half is a lot of points.

I hope the overheads for all of us.

Team on three.

One, two, three.

Team.

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