PMS 2.0 1423 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL Week 5 Recap, MNF Preview, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Andrew Whitworth, Adam Schefter, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

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

On this Overreaction Monday, October 6th, 2025, this program begins right now.

Football!

It is magical, and we're incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat about it every single day.

It's a massive Overreaction Monday.

We had comebacks in abundance both yesterday and on Saturday.

We had absolute chaos in college ball.

Baseball is still happening.

Obviously, the WNBA has its finals.

It's a great day to be in the sports world.

We'll be covering it all.

We have Adam Schefter joining us in about 15 minutes or so.

And the toxic tables here at Boston Connor, who has become a New England Patriots billboard after a huge night last night.

Seems like you're a little bit louder in your fandom of the Patriots on this particular overreaction Monday than maybe you have been in a while.

Huge, okay, and that's a Drake May.

Okay, obviously, you got a Drake May mug.

I mean, it's pretty standard.

I don't know why we're doing this whole thing like, you know, this is Monday, but I don't know.

What are you guys talking about, you know?

It just, I don't think we've seen that mug used.

This one?

Okay, so you guys are just screwing around.

You're trying to do the whole, this guy doesn't use the May mug every Monday.

Okay, Monday, May mug.

Yeah, we know it's been a thing.

On that note, congratulations.

Yeah, big win.

Thank you.

Expected.

That's a huge win.

You've been a Drake May supporter even through the very, very rough year of last year.

Every single week, your big takeaway about the Patriots was, hey, our team stinks.

We really suck.

Drake May is a guy.

Yeah.

Drake May is a guy.

And we'll dive into that in a matter of moments.

Nine-year NFL vet, host of everything DB, Good Deep, Bad Deed, Darius J.

Butler's here.

And ladies and gentlemen, joining us on their trip across the country in a bus, representing Amazon's Thursday night football crew that has done a fantastic job since its rollout.

Really, the trailblazers of the new streaming world that professional sports is getting into.

Whenever the NFL decided to dabble with Amazon Prime on Thursday nights, there's a lot of people that said this is going to be ass.

There's a lot of people that said this is going going to be terrible how the hell do i even download the app and who's going to be the ones talking well they go and snag al michaels and kirk herb street to call the games do you know who they are they're pretty good

and then they put together a pre-show that has a resume filled absolute legendary cast that not only knows the game

a pretty good little moxie oh yeah

great chemistry up there bet definitely the best pre-show just because it's not the same you know rundown crap we've seen for 20 years and also we've seen a lot of other crap be tried to put together exact for their pre-shows and very rarely work because they don't.

You know why this one works so well?

Yeah, they do because.

Yeah.

And also I think it's they don't love ball anymore.

Yes.

They don't know ball anymore.

So they all share, you know, what they had in common used to be this love of ball.

They have it.

And the two people joining us right now are in the middle of a bus trip from Los Angeles all the way to MetLife because Rams obviously hosted last week and then this upcoming week we got the Giants hosting the Philadelphia Eagles.

Eagles coming off their first loss, which we will certainly talk about.

What type of team is going to be showing up for the New York Giants?

We had a tough one down in New Orleans.

Ladies and gentlemen, representing Thursday Night Football, Fitz and Wick back.

Thank you for having us.

Appreciate it, baby.

17 years.

And then how many for you, Wick?

16.

Okay, so quick math.

It's 33.

I'm not a Harvard guy.

33 years of NFL experience.

Let's talk about you guys on this Thursday night games.

And we were chit-chatting with them a little bit beforehand.

Seems like you guys are a tight-nich crew.

Did you guys expect to have the amount of success?

And did you hit it off immediately, Fitz, with a Thursday night football game?

We did, but there was three guys that had never done TV when we first did it.

It was me, Witt, and Richard Sherman, which, you know, Sherman's been auditioning for this thing for his whole career.

It was meant to be on TV.

He was meant to do it, but for us knuckleheads, we didn't know.

And I think that you hit it on the head.

We love each other and we love football.

We love watching it.

We love talking about it, and we like to have a good time, too.

Not short of that.

I think that's the best part.

It's really, when you leave the game of football, I think you remember the locker room.

And that's the part, the vibe with all the people you do do work with each and every week.

We've created that with our crew.

From Wednesday when we get in town to Friday when we leave, there's not a lot of sleep, and there's a lot of hotel bars staying open late.

We have a great time just hanging with each other, and that's what we do.

Well, I think that's how you build chemistry.

You two are phenomenal teammates.

So obviously, having good locker room glue guys around is always going to be good.

It seems like you guys are killing it, and you are crushing it.

And I know you paid attention to what happened yesterday.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to hit the top five storylines coming out of week five, Sunday.

The conversation regarding yesterday's day games is going to be: you never know what the fuck's going to happen.

It's not just any given Sunday, but Brian McCarthy, NFL PR, said it's any given fourth quarter.

Now, this one is driven by Ram.

Let's put the first 15 minutes on the clock.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's get started.

Number five, comeback chaos.

We got some stats here from Hembo.

There have been 16 games this season with a go-ahead score in the final minute of regulation, the most through five weeks of a season since the 1970 merger.

Fitz Harvard guy, how many years has it been since 1970?

55 years.

Wow!

That's a lot of time.

That's a lot of balls.

That's a lot of balls.

There have been 10 game-winning field goals with no time left in regulation, the most in the first five weeks since the 1970 merger.

Hey, Fitz, Harvard guy, how many years is that?

I didn't see the stats.

Paramount.

Since 1970, since 1970.

55.

Damn!

Two to two.

We got comeback chaos, and yesterday certainly contributed to that.

Six of them happened across the board: 18-point deficit, 17-point deficit, 14-point deficit, 11, 10.

And then obviously, Minnesota kicked off the entire day over there in London Town with a magical comeback.

Any of these games, Fitz, in your eyes, really steal the show.

I saw a tweet that you put out, and you said that the Cardinals just lost in the worst possible way of all time or something like that.

I mean, I'm an Arizona guy, so I've been a Cardinals fan for a while.

They're getting ready to go up 28 to 6.

And Di Mercado, we did it again.

We did the drop the ball at the one-yard line.

We need to flip it.

And it happened to Indy last week.

So you think that every team is showing the Indy clip and saying, we don't do this.

We run through the goal line.

He flips it.

Was it really a fumble?

Was it not?

I don't know, but I sure am glad they called it.

I sure am glad they called it.

It feels like it was potentially a touchdown because he's flipping that thing.

And if it's in the fingertips, it doesn't matter.

It's still in his possession.

Is the tip of the ball breaking the line?

And why don't don't we have a a camera down the line exactly on that note to what fits said i think everybody around football and in football said who cares shouldn't even be that close if you're going to drop the ball before getting in the end zone one week after ad mitchell did it you don't deserve score touchdown right there now he obviously took his lickings yeah uh coach gaining on the sideline was certainly had his hat sideways

he even hit him in the chest at one point like can't happen And then the football gods blessed the Titans with their first win.

Cam Ward's first win.

Callahan's first win.

I think we should be celebrating that D.B.

Absolutely.

Big-time drive by Cam Ward at the end of the game to get it done.

Threw an absolute dot to Calvin Ridley.

This play was unbelievable.

This is ridiculous.

Some shit.

You absolutely don't know.

That's how you draw it up.

On the NFL football field.

But yeah, to see Cam Ward come down after last week, coming out what he said.

He's pissed off, pretty much, dropped a quarter of the season already.

And for him to throw this dot to his big-time receiver, and then put his team in a position to win the game.

Big time moment for this team and for this young quarterback.

Good for football yesterday at comebacks.

Hey, good for red zone channel.

We're all still watching.

Half my team.

Three of my teams are on that list.

Yeah, in a good way.

No.

Oh, no.

No.

Boom, Charles.

Boom, boom, boom.

Just get

done out there.

But I will say, Scott Hanson did a great job on that thing.

And it was a good juggle because a lot of those games were absolute shite.

Obviously, you have 18-point comeback, 17-point comeback, 14-point comeback.

That late in the game, you think to yourself,

this slate of game is kind of shit here.

Just like we said it was.

We thought this was a bad slate.

Turns out it was blowouts across the board.

And then all of a sudden, we had magic there in the witch and the golden eye and the witching hour out there.

And it's beautiful.

The NFL certainly needs that.

Let's go to number four headline out of the week.

Jets and Bengals.

Woof.

Complete ass football teams.

Former Jet, former bang.

So we'll go straight to the Amazon boys here.

I'm watching the same shit you are.

We'll start with you, Wick, the Bengal.

I mean, score says it's a little bit closer, okay, because Jamar Chase did his thing.

He walked in backwards, actually, at one point yesterday, scoring a touchdown.

He's still his thing.

Going into the season, though, we thought to ourselves, is that the right way to build a team and win a Super Bowl with the way they're spending the money?

Then the star quarterback gets hurt with the way you're building that team.

They've looked like ass.

Are they complete ass or just somewhat ass?

Wick, speaking for the Cincinnati Bengals team.

I'm going to go somewhat ass just because they don't have Joe Burrow.

That's fair.

But I will say this.

You could go watch the last three plays of the game against the Cleveland Browns in four-minute offense where they're trying to secure the game.

Those three snaps are maybe the worst three snaps I've ever seen of physical football from an offensive line of trying to win out a game.

The entire offensive line is moving backwards, those three snaps, and the running back's getting hit as he's taking handoffs.

That told me that if we don't have Joe Burrow and we got to rely on running the football, we got a lot of freaking issues.

And I think that's what you see.

Is this all on Jake Browning to do something?

And I don't think Jake Browning's built for that.

Ty Schmidt, Detroit Lions, worst team possible to have to play against in the situation that the Bengals were in, especially Gary Owen.

Yeah.

OG ruling the jungle.

We told him on Friday, hey, this is a bad one for you to be ruling the jungle, we thought.

Kind of expected outcome here with the Lions thrashing the Bengals.

Yeah, without a doubt, I think you actually have to give the Lions credit because if they would have wanted to, they could have won 50-0, you know, 65-0, could have beat them by 100.

It's just tough.

I mean, we talked about this last week.

This should serve as the final warning.

Get the Bengals off Thanksgiving.

We can't do it.

We need them off Thanksgiving.

We can't do it.

Remind them.

Remind them.

Is that you guys?

Yeah.

Can't do it.

Is that you guys?

No, no, not us.

Run off the ladder.

Get them off Thanksgiving.

If it was, then we would pass this crowd.

It's going to you to bear, okay?

Talking about the Cerro, three games without Joe Burrow.

The Bengals have now been outscored 104 to 16.

What do we do?

They started having more, though, at the end of that game.

I mean, there was a lot of piling on this particular Bengals team.

And we'd

like to let let the Huday nation know that, like, you guys are okay, man.

You guys spent the money in the right spots.

That's right.

These are things you can recover from.

What are you laughing?

These guys.

What are you talking about, dude?

You know, I would like to see them spend it in the offensive line room.

That's where I think they should spend a little more money.

Hey, they have tried, though.

We had a graphic last week about them drafting and spending money, and it just for some reason.

They've been terrible at it.

So I think that's the thing.

That's the problem.

So that is the thing.

You get the wrong guys, wrong group.

What is it?

Since 2011, that they've drafted an offensive lineman and he's signed a second contract.

I want you to think about that.

14 years since they've drafted an O-lineman and he's actually signed a second contract.

Is it scheme building, evaluation?

I think it's evaluation.

If you look at it, I'm going to throw myself in the mix.

2011, since they drafted a guy and he re-signed a contract, and they've let Kevin Zeitler and myself walk in free agency.

So if you can't draft an offensive lineman and then you've let guys leave who continue to go elsewhere and win, you clearly have an evaluation problem of the priority of the position.

You struck a nerve right there, Pat.

I mean, I'm just saying.

Hey, journalism.

Good journalism.

That's real journalism.

Well done.

That's a good job.

Thank you.

I'm excited to do that.

And then let's go to the other team that people were saying.

Oh,

no.

That's the whole caboose, brother.

That's the whole thing.

Yeah, the whole thing.

Obviously, the Dallas Cowboys have a big time day, and we're certainly happy for Dak without a lot of guys playing, which D-Butt's going to hit here in a few moments, I think, having a huge win.

But on the flip side,

the tweet was floating around yesterday, and the stat was floating around because obviously it's a big one.

This Jets team under Aaron Glenn has no turnovers.

So he's like defensive matchmall.

We got no turnovers here.

We got dogs all across the board on the defensive side.

And then obviously offensively, I think it was very impressive what Justin Fields was able to do with that football off that guy's face.

Yeah.

And hitting that sky can.

We watched that a lot this morning.

We'll certainly buy into that a little bit.

What a throw.

But let's talk about the Detroit Lions with MCDC.

What were you guys that first year, Foxy?

Started out 0-10.

0-10.

They're going to get a big-time win.

Okay, so like instituting that particular culture obviously took a little bit of time.

I think there was even conversations about this guy's lost the locker room.

This guy's not going to be able to do it.

And then obviously they find their stride and they go.

With the New York Jets, the market, everything like that, is it going to be possible for Aaron Glenn to have the patience or for people to hold on for them to develop the culture?

Or what are you seeing from them?

Yeah, it's a tough place to play.

It's a tough place to not win in.

They're the only team that hasn't won in the NFL this year, but I think there is some patience and some grace for him this year.

They've seen this as a rebuild.

I mean, if you go back to the first game, they took the Steelers down to the wire.

Then we've got him doing this deal against the Bucs.

I mean, how quickly we forget, with under two minutes left, they were beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers two weeks ago.

So I think this team, they're going to challenge teams this year.

Obviously, they're not going to go to the playoffs, but this is a huge culture-setting year for Aaron Glenn, and he's got to get it going.

So Connor, actually, big believer.

And I don't know if he's doing it at the reverse tanks, but you actually are a believer, even after what we saw yesterday.

Yeah, four shoots, a believer, like, especially when you look at the players from the Lions that got much, much better in his defense.

Like, I just don't understand why, like, what's going on with Sauce Gardner.

Like, that's my question to D.

But Sauce Gardner's rookie year is all pro all world unbelievable and it's just been like this weird kind of not I'm not gonna say fall off because he's still a great player but when was it DJ Reeder DJ Reed

he went he goes to Detroit in the offseason and now you know Sauce Gardner doesn't have a counterpart on the other side that can cover a guy you know with without question and he's kind of getting abused in five straight games the fact that they have no turnovers like dude at least grab an interception and I'm not saying it's easy like that's that's me simplifying

Sauce a fat fat idiot, yes, but I'm saying, like, hey, dude, like, somebody's got to make a play, right?

You're the one that's getting paid $120 million.

It's got to be you.

Yeah, for sure.

And that's never really been his game since coming into the NFL.

He's just kind of been one of those lockdown corners, a bunch of back downs.

That's one of the things you look at and start, hey, I want some more ball production.

But through five games, I mean, you would think something would accidentally happen.

Yes, a ball, you're a ballot line of scrimmage, a tip, an overthrow, something at this point.

So it's just tough.

Some of it's some self-inflicted negatives, as Chuck Pagano will call the sins.

A lot of penalties, a lot of sloppy football.

Justin Phillip has kind of looked good, which is weird.

Yeah, they got a lot of things to figure out.

I just hope they do have some patience to give Aaron Glenn that time because we know we are not in the environment where you're giving coaches, you know, a long leash at this point.

Well, and the other thing, too, is like we talk about how many offensive linemen went in the first round this year.

Will Campbell, as a Patriots fan, I'll say, you know, he's doing, baby.

And bingo, bingo.

Oh, yeah, but he's got

from Monroe, Louisiana, baby.

From Monroe, Louisiana, 3-1-8.

Is that where you're from as well?

That's where we are.

So you guys have small arms there?

What is the thing?

There's no small arms here.

But no, we have different problems.

Different problems.

But he's a hell of a football player, and he's going to be, I called him to Taylor LaWan of Raybel in Tennessee.

That was his tone setter.

That's who Will Campbell's going to be for this team.

Why'd they make such a big deal out of the arm length?

Is that a thing?

I think it is a thing in the sense of you need, I always call it your fallback.

When you think of playing DB, you play offensive tackle.

What is it that

I'm going to have moments where I get out of control or I got to be able to survive a down?

What is it that I fall back on?

Is it my arm length?

Is it have my feet?

Do I have great feet?

Do I have a really great anchor?

What are those things?

So one of those for an offensive lineman, you got to think about pushing guys around the edge is your ability to extend and get a guy around the depth of the quarterback.

So length goes into that a bunch.

And so that would really what that long arms comes from.

And then you get long-arm bull rushes, stuff like that.

You need length.

And so I think for Will, he has tremendous feet, a great anchor, and he's a powerful kid.

He can make up for not having the longer arms.

Got it.

So it's like a long snapper in my world.

You either got to be like perfect snapper and blocker, or you you got to be a really good cover guy.

There you go.

He's got to be one of the Zach Diaus.

I need a trait.

What's my trait?

It's the Aussie.

Ah!

Absolutely.

But his snaps, I think he would even say, like, compared to other guys.

He's a tackler.

Bingo.

He is a coverage guy.

He's a weapon going down the field.

For me, okay, I'm trying to get hang time.

I would like my snapper to be like, hey, just jugs machine, bro.

Brett basket every time.

And you don't even need to cover.

But on that note, that's literally how they're judged.

You're saying offensive lineman, same exact thing.

Back to your point, though, there's a lot of people that were like, Will's not the guy.

Because of literally an inch,

is what people were saying.

But I think most people with a brain knew that wasn't a real thing.

And to your point, like, you know, I appreciate it.

He's the tail of the wand of this variable team.

When it comes to comparisons, we don't really do like any Titans players in New England because they've sucked forever.

He's more of like a wit of New England LSU, okay?

But he got real fast.

Have you ever seen Fitz in a Tennessee Titans year?

We'll talk about it later.

But no, just to wrap up the just to wrap the Jets real quick, Armin Membu.

Like, it's not as if they drafted bad players.

Like, Armin Membu has been arguably the best rookie, you know, offensive lineman.

So, I don't know what the hell is going on.

Their defense shouldn't be this shitty, though.

The other tough part about the Jets is they have to face Drake May twice a year.

That's a good point.

That's a good point.

I agree with you, Fitz.

And if we want to really go through it, I wanted to thank you because I personally believe the only reason Drake May is this good is because he spent a month or two with Josh Allen over the summer.

And like, you can say, like, Vrabel and stuff.

And I definitely want to talk about Vrabel, but, like, I don't think it's that simple as McDaniel comes in and or McDaniels comes in and does well like I think it's kind of Josh Allen is the one who birthed this beast if you will in New England and I think you're the one that kind of helped birth that beast above

that's just what I think

he's the grandfather exactly he's the fodder's fodder yeah fodder's fodder yeah maze fodders Josh Allen and Mays fodder's fodder's right for this matchup that's great news look what you're doing he's a great player yeah great player hey we'll get to Drake Mays certainly we have to But we're saying Jets and Bengals kind of complete ass.

Someone said that.

That's what we're saying?

I think Jets less ass.

Current ass.

Really?

Yes.

I'm like, everything that just happened right there.

Let's go to number three, a team that is not ass at all.

The last

play,

boys.

These guys won their last two games, literally on the last play.

They have four wins on the season, five weeks, all of them comebacks.

This team is always in it.

Baker Mayfield's mentality has seemingly oozed and radiated through the entire locker room.

Now, granted, they've already had a good, you know, pillar of Levante David getting a big-time pick.

Wow.

Shout out to him because first week he dropped a pick that Vita Veya would have caught right behind him.

Vita Veya has been burying him ever since then.

We learned that on our show when Coach BA actually talked shit to Levante David as well for dropping a pick in week one.

Instead, he makes a diving play.

Unbelievable catch here out of nowhere.

How you doing?

Keep it moving.

And it's not just Baker.

Obviously, this defense.

gave up some points to Sam Darnold.

Yesterday, this game was bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

But was there any of us that didn't think Baker was going to end up, if this was a shootout, Baker Mayfield's going to be the one that's going to come away, and they certainly did de-butt.

I love this Buccaneers jib, if you will.

For sure.

It seemed like watching this game, it was whoever had the ball last was going to end up winning.

And you create that big turn.

That was probably the only bad play Sam Darnold had.

Both of these guys were just spinning.

But Baker's game, probably the best game I've seen from a quarterback in a long time.

Like he was, you could just tell he was just locked in.

Emeki Buka dominant.

He continuing his dominant year.

Jackson Smith and Jigbo on the other side.

Both of those Ohio State boys showed off.

But this game was phenomenal from before it even started.

Honestly, with these jerseys, this might be the all-time best Jersey matchup with both these teams celebrating 50 years.

But yeah, Baker's been dialed in, especially in the biggest moments when his team's been needing the most.

Yeah, and

for me, luckily when I played in Tampa, we didn't do the all-whites like that.

That'd have been tough in the all-whites.

But Bucky Irving's out, right?

Mike Evans is out.

And I think the thing that's not being talked about enough, Joshua Grizzard's the O.C., first-time O.C., first-time play caller in the NFL.

What Baker's doing with this offense right now and helping Josh also has been fantastic.

It's crazy because that was the story like two weeks ago.

Remember two weeks or three weeks ago, it was like, he's got no tackles.

This guy's got nobody, brand new O.C., and they're just winning.

Now we've just gotten used to it.

We're like, ah, week five.

This is what the Bucs do, dude.

It's like, it's still so early in the year.

How much better can they get with?

They can still get.

I think they can get a lot better.

I mean, look at their starting center.

Graham Barton's been playing tackle.

Tristan Wurfs just got back a week ago.

I mean, you look at it.

They've been doing this without their group, and now they're starting to get healthier up front.

And Tristan Wurfs and that crew is dominant.

So I think they're only going to get more physical and better up front.

And I think that means this team's going to be even better.

Well, the football gods continue to bless him.

You win in games like this.

Football gods on your side.

Is this team a destiny field down there in Tampa Bay, Josh?

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

Is this the Cleveland Browns kicked this guy out of town?

He wasn't played on a scout team punt team in Carolina.

They kicked him out of town.

Look at how they are.

He goes cross country, obviously, with Los Angeles Rams, puts on a show, becomes the guy in Tampa Bay after Tom Brady.

Maybe we deserve to give this guy a little bit of love.

Is that what's happening right now?

The booted out of the Browns building team of destiny, Baker, Mayfield, and the Buccaneers.

I mean, I think you could certainly make that case because everyone who wants to poke holes in the Bucs, they just say, well, this isn't sustainable.

You can't do this over the course of the season.

Four out of five weeks is a pretty good sample size.

And I feel like anytime after the year when we look at this kind of, like a team.

team always one year like they'll be eight and one in one score games and then the next year you know it kind of waterfinds levels.

Exactly.

So, like, as of right now, it's hard to argue.

Like, that's just who they're going to be this year.

They're going to perform very well in one-score games.

And does that give them enough momentum to eventually go on a Super Bowl run?

We'll see.

Number two storyline: congratulations to 1972 Dolphins.

Hell yeah, Coach.

Yeah.

There baby goats.

I'll tell you what, McDaniel.

Oh, my gosh.

That walk.

How was that walk, Pat?

That was awesome.

Hold on, you got to kick that left shoe more.

Yeah, left shoe.

He got

his little off-white

swag.

He's mad dummy.

He's just flopping around as he's walking.

So sad.

It's part of comeback chaos, obviously.

So sad.

Carolina Panthers is not supposed to win this.

So sad.

Hey, he's Xavier Lee yet.

Maybe a guy.

So sad.

Look at his little tag on his left foot.

Drag that thing home, man.

That sucks.

He knows.

We all know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But, hey, Vaughan Ron.

Rico Datto goes for 200.

200.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey.

Vaughn Ron.

Hey.

It was a good run.

It was a good run.

Everything down here was fine.

And I think that's where he's.

Wait, what do you mean it's a good run?

You saw it.

Glasses off, little thing kicking.

He knew.

Yeah, he knows.

He knows.

That little tag flapping around was the last straw.

If Stephen Ross sees that, he's going to say, get this guy the fuck out of here.

He's done right now.

How about I sent that video to you guys?

And I just said the little tag.

Yeah, yeah.

It's the saddest part of the whole thing.

It's sad.

It's a bumper.

Bopping around.

And I didn't notice it till halfway through.

It's here too, Bob.

Bob.

You know, because the way he walks, there's a lot of pizzazz for that tag to kind of just bop, bop, bop.

Man, like we said, though, we all said it in football.

If you're winning and all that happens.

It's cool.

And they love it.

It's cool.

If you don't win, okay.

Oh, let's talk about you down in the Miami Dolphins.

That place, whenever you were down there, there was a lot of of allegations about what was going on down there.

Do you think Miami Dolphins can win?

Okay, 1972 Dolphins obviously go undefeated.

We are all adult humans who have been in locker rooms.

And in Miami.

And to the city of Miami.

We've definitely been in Miami.

Is there enough?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

Do you think they can win in Miami?

Do you think you can win in Miami?

That's a lot going on.

That's a lot of fun.

There's a lot going on in Miami.

And it was COVID.

One of the years was COVID year when I was there, so there wasn't a lot going on.

But there are a lot of distractions down there, and it is an issue.

I think so.

Like, Gumpy needs to celebrate these 1972 Dolphins, because

I think even as the world continues to grow, it's only getting, because Miami's getting more and more popular to certain people.

Yeah, Larry Zonka ain't coming through that door.

It just ain't happening.

Duggo.

They need them.

Exactly.

Celebrate that.

And then the number one story in our first 15 that has now ran about 20 minutes or so, cults are going to Super Bowl.

Hell yeah.

Woo!

Come on now.

Now, this says the cults are going to the Super Super Bowl, and I appreciate that, but that's a little humility from the graphic maker.

The Colts are going to win the Super Bowl.

Okay,

that is the five.

After watching this team live with these eyes, boys.

Okay, these eyes right here watching this team live.

Last couple years, we've had okay teams.

Gardner Minshew almost took us to the playoffs, almost won the AFC South

in our stadium, literally right in front of us against the Houston Texans week 16 or whatever it was, a couple years ago.

We always believed Shane Steichen.

We always believed that there was a lot of talent on the team.

There's one position we just couldn't figure out.

I'm surprised you didn't play for us, to be honest.

I don't know how that didn't happen with the run that we were on.

Danny Dimes with us is awesome.

Jonathan Taylor, I think he only rushed for like 66 yards yesterday, three touchdowns.

He's the best version of himself for sure in this offense.

The offensive line, they're finally speaking the same language as quarterback.

Remember, there are some stories.

Fitz, I'd like to ask you about this as well.

That's my dad that Pittman just stapped up in front of this week.

Tim, obviously, in there.

Matt Ryan, whenever he got here, allegedly, him and the offensive line just couldn't, they weren't

saying the same.

They were speaking different.

That's a

that's the whole thing.

It's hard.

That's why we had Matt Ryan come in because we thought he was like a super smart football guy.

This is what we need because we got enough talent everywhere.

We just need a quarterback.

And then for some reason, they couldn't speak the same language.

Danny Dones has come in here, mastered the offense, understands everything, puts him in the right position, and he's spinning it.

I mean, it is, when we need it, he's very rarely missing.

I think I saw him miss one time yesterday.

It was an overthrow overthrow out of bounds.

Every other ball that comes out of his hand is like catchable.

Tyler Warren might be the best football player, period.

Just go ahead and put that right there.

He's gigantic.

He's tough, and he's always open.

But our defense is legit as well.

I had a chance to chit-chat with Colts owner, one of the big three, Carly Ursay.

Nice.

How's she doing?

About her time on the sideline.

Okay, journalism.

Okay, she came in to see Chuck Corgi and caught in a big race, which we will certainly cover here in a matter of moments.

As one of the dog Chuck, who was in a a corgi race called Stumpy Stampede yesterday.

But Carly Ursay came in to see Chuck, you know.

She immediately goes, whoa, he's big.

And I go, easy.

He's in a big race coming up.

Yeah, we're just trying to get him to stump.

It's shocking, though.

We should lay that out.

It is shocking when you see a dog that fat with such small legs.

He was triple the size of every other competitor in the Stumpy Stampede.

But Carly, I said, okay, I have to ask you.

Me and Carly don't really, I have not really talked to Carly much.

I was on the way out while she was kind of in.

We're not the same age.

Caitlin and I, same age, so we kind of knew the same people, so I got a chance to chat with her.

Carly, I've never really talked to her.

I'm like, hey, what, what are we, what have we got out of this?

Do you know the calls?

Like, are you at the point where you know the calls?

She's like, I kind of know what we're looking for.

She's just charting, though.

She's charting plays, basically, charting plays, charting plays, charting plays, just to see what's going on, trying to learn as much as possible.

She said some of the coaches have been a little bit against it because they think that she's like, they think I'm going to hold it against them or like interject or something.

She's like, I'm just literally just charting plays there.

And I was was like, tell me about the defense.

She goes, lose defense versus the last defense we had.

So many more words, options, choices, so many more things for our guys to do.

It's like, there's a call and then there's like two adjustments on top of it.

She's like, that's the biggest takeaway for me is like lose defense versus the other defense.

It's like, there's a lot of options.

And then you give these guys more options.

They utilize them.

And so she's like been excited to kind of watch it kind of grow.

And then she told me exact words were, we think with the way Gino throws and where it's coming out from, we should be able to get a couple today, is what Carly says.

Wow, she knows ball, she's dialing.

So I said that to the entire suite.

I was like, Carly leaves, and I was like, Yo, Carly Ursa just said, The way Gino's throwing it right now, we think that we got the guys that are going to be able to get some hands on some balls, and then we got some picks because we didn't get any last week or whatever.

She was like, So, we need turnovers, we need you turnovers.

So, the first one happens, it's a deflection pick.

I'm like, I look over at

Carly Ursa called his thing, so it's like everybody is all in, literally from the top all the way down to everybody is all in for the Colts right now.

And we've always had the players, we've always had the building.

And now it feels like we finally got the quarterback fits.

You're a journeyman, kind of your thing.

We're seeing this resurgence of guys that kind of have to bounce around a little bit.

Danny Dimes is doing it.

to an entire city right now for us.

He's doing it for an entire city right now as we're kind of going.

Why does that happen?

Is it the experiences teacher stuff?

Is it just getting to the right system?

What are your thoughts on that?

Yeah, fit and timing are so big in this.

And I think even with Mac Jones right now in San Francisco, we had him the other night.

It's the same thing.

So this is very sustainable for Daniel Jones as well.

Steichen's a great play caller.

He showed it in Philly.

That's why he got the head job here.

And he has the weapons on the outside.

The thing that I love about him, he's got Pierce, who didn't play yesterday.

He's got Pittman.

He's got Tyler Warren, all these big dudes.

And you see every ball that comes out of his hand, it's drilling guys in the face mask, which is huge.

The thing I want to go back to, though, have you ever been on a headset?

It's nasty.

I I mean, these coaches, I've done it once, and I said, I can't do that again.

The shit that they're spewing about the players, like,

I don't know what she's hearing, but I guess they've been winning, so it's all been good, but it can get really negative on that headset.

I used to have a coach who would say all the time, he says, listen, guys, whatever you guys are saying down here about us, we're talking the same shit about you guys.

It's coming up, it's coming down.

Don't worry about it.

But I think, too, your points about going to the Super Bowl, who's the defensive coordinator?

Lou Annarumo.

Who beat the Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl?

The Cincinnati Bengals and the defensive coordinator?

Lou Annarumo.

Tell me about Lou.

So everything I was just saying there about Carly was saying, you were nodding your head, yes.

Obviously, you had a lot of time.

You know, Lou pretty good, I see.

Yeah, we've gotten to spend some time with him on Thursday nights before games.

Just being around him, his energy, his passion for the game.

And I think just really, he's one of these guys that he kind of has chess piece guys that he's like, I need this player to be able to do these things for these specific calls that I want.

You look at some of these simulated late pressures he brings.

He has a guy type in mind that he needs.

And when he puts that together, you look at the investment they did in the secondary.

Now he knows, like, these are the calls that I can call in these kind of situations when I want to play chess with people.

And I think you look at it, he has.

He's been in that playoff run with the Bengals.

He's got that experience.

So that's the guy you want calling plays when it's playoff time, baby.

Kenny Moore's coming back.

I mean, we're not even at full speed on the defense.

We got a real defense.

Oh, yeah.

We got like a real defense.

Grover Stewart and Buckner down there can fight anybody.

Leatu Latu gets another pick.

They got him dropping out.

He's finally finding his.

There was a guy.

First time hear of this guy.

Gots a quarterback.

Cross is blitzing and getting to the quarterback seemingly every other play.

Defense feels like it's potentially a championship run, and then the offense is matching it.

Oh, yeah, it's a crazy time right now for the Colts.

Complimentary football.

Only thing I worry about is us losing our kicker.

We lost Spence, we lost Spank.

Is it for the year?

Is he out for the year?

Has been that been confirmed?

It didn't sound good.

I don't want to.

It didn't look good either.

I don't want to be the one.

Okay, well, we'll say it.

I'll say it.

No, I'll say it because it's going to get out anyways.

I think it was multiple ligaments were torn.

Oh, I think.

That's up.

Yeah, from my understanding, just because

I apologize, left middle of fourth quarter

to be traffic.

You're good.

Okay, on way out, I get asked if I'll go say what's up to him.

Obviously, in the middle of a moment, he's an Indiana kid from Indiana.

So, like, I think he maybe knew of me or my existence.

Went in there and talked to him.

Spirits seems like he is obviously on the right track, but obviously, he's going through a lot of shock there, too.

This kid has been great for us.

He's already hit a game winner.

He's got a massive leg.

The one where he got hit, he made, I mean, he is, especially after the years passed, we've had a couple misses and some big moments.

He local kids, he's 24, so we think he'll be.

He'll bounce back for sure.

But that's going to suck.

And I told him, like, I didn't want to be the bear of bad news.

I'm like, yo, what you're about to go through is about to suck.

Like, you need to know that.

But on the other side, you're going to be mentally tougher and even better, and you're younger, and you got a special talent.

He's a really good, he's a good kicker.

We've been lucky to have him here.

And he loves the Colts.

So it's like, we like those people around the building.

And a ton of faith in the training staff.

Like, Rigo just tores Achilles, you know, and he's back punting football better than Denton or anyone.

When he does.

Yeah, we do like the training staff.

Yeah, it's great.

Like Frog, like, you know, it's good.

So that'll be the only thing that I'd be worried about because this is kind of been the year of the kicker, whether it's been hitting bombs or kicks getting blocked.

It's been a storyline.

So I think it'll continue to be a storyline.

But the other things, the defensive pieces, I feel like with Lou, they'll only continue to get better and more dynamic.

You see a lot of free hitters.

Blackmun stepped in.

He got a big pick yesterday.

So I love what Lou.

And then what Danny Dimes has been doing in this offense.

Like, it's one thing to kind of get early in the year.

You can catch defenses off guard, maybe some gimmick shit, but they're doing like real like this is a high level high operating offense you don't know where 84 warren's going to be he could be a fullback he could be split out wide he could be in the in the coordinate formation he's a weapon kind of like gronk always open regardless if a guy's on him or not he's so big pittman you talked about his big body the mismatch that josh down downs can give you in the slot and then jonathan taylor playing at an mvp level right now so we got all the pieces from top down right now we can go on a real real run especially with a division that you know looks like we should be in the driver's seat the whole way.

AFC South is real jogger naught.

Don't you ever get twisted.

They got a big win yesterday.

Two things we didn't hit there in the top five, you think?

Two quick things?

Two quick things.

Let's go.

Dak.

Dak had a big, big day with down a bunch of old linemen, down his top receiver, CD Lamb.

Turpin was actually out as well, but he had a huge kind of MVP caliber day.

He's been another quarterback coming off a year where he was hurt.

He's playing top, top-notch football.

You didn't know what to really expect coming into this game with all those pieces being down, but he raised his level.

Shout out to Shodi, calling the plays, putting them in good situations.

And then a great, great kind of feel-good story.

David Montgomery, Monty going back home, having a passing touchdown and a rushing touchdown in front of his sister, Kiki, who got in a terrible car accident.

So she actually been paralyzed a little bit over a year ago.

So this is the first game she got to watch him play live since that terrible accident.

So it awesome.

We talked about, obviously, his game.

And it's the 14th game where he and Gibbs have scored a touchdown in the same game, which is the NFL record, which is insane.

You remember whenever Foxy was saying they weren't calling him Sonic Knuckles anymore?

What was it other than that?

What was it?

What were they calling him?

They were calling them ass and cheeks, and I didn't like it one bit.

The internet is a cruel place, all right?

That's messed up.

I didn't like that at all.

That seems like a long time ago now, though.

That was a bad week one for the Detroit Lions.

As bad as it gets.

I'll tell you what, we are in a much different place now than we were in week one for the Detroit Lions.

I'll see you in the Super Bowl, Pat.

Colts Lions.

I don't know if MCDC wants wants that right now.

Okay, I don't know if you want that right now.

They'll fight all your guys.

Yeah, but once again, due to the Carly, exactly.

We win.

Yeah, but unfortunately, then Bennett and then

Sheila Fort Hamp walks out.

Yes,

she doesn't want that glass to break, brother, because then Kaylin and Casey are.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so three-on-one.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who might pick up where we left off.

If there was any crumbs to a story that maybe we didn't dabble upon, he will certainly keep us in line and also maybe tell us some shit that we've refused to cover because of our ignorance.

Ladies and gentlemen, senior NFL insider for ESPN, a Michigan man, Adam Schefter.

Whoa, shirt and tie.

Whoa,

professional.

That looks good.

I was dressing up for Fitzy and Big Wick.

Oh, thanks, Shafie.

All right, Sheffty.

Hey, Shefty, they're on a road trip across the country in the back of a very nice bus.

I believe this morning was the first time Fitz chose to shower on it, if I'm reading the TRA.

I I grow tested.

You said it was going to be nice in there, though.

It was really nice.

Hot water,

good water pressure.

Yeah.

See, it's not bad.

Not bad.

I love the bus life.

He doesn't travel with shampoo and conditioner, so I didn't get to shampoo and conditioner.

Oh, we got some for you here.

We'll certainly continue.

Now, to be clear, we didn't buy it.

People have sent us that in the past.

We do not know if it's going to work or not, but we assume that it's okay.

Probably some starter company

call it like Moppet or something.

Right.

It'll work.

Harvard, you get it.

Some kid created this in his garage.

Good to see you guys.

Schefter, what did we miss in there?

I know you were sitting around listening to a lot of what we were chatting about.

The Colts are going to the Super Bowl.

The 1972 Dolphins undefeated streak continues.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, outrageous in what they're doing.

Jets and Bengals, not complete ass, is what the Jets and Bengals.

Half ass.

Half-ass.

Half-ass is what they say.

And then Comeback Chaos yesterday.

If you want to hit any of those or anything we left out, we'd love to hear it, Chef D.

Well, I don't know how much you hit on the Denver Broncos, a team that going into yesterday had a record of 1 and 112 going into the fourth quarter when they were down by 14 or more points.

And yesterday pulled out their second win in 114 games when they were in that spot.

Now, I covered John Elway for a lot of years.

There weren't many more players that were clutch than John Elway.

And even he didn't do that when they were down 14 on the road in the fourth quarter.

And yet, Sean Payton has now done this twice the last few years.

He did it yesterday in Philadelphia in the Eagles Stadium on the road against the defending champs.

It's pretty impressive.

And on that two-point conversion at the end, they didn't even hesitate.

They got right into that two-point conversion.

And there aren't a lot of head coaches across the league who would call for two points on this particular play right here, down 17-16, and go for the lead halfway through the fourth quarter.

That was pretty bold to Sean Payton, but that's how confident he was that they would make it.

And the Broncos pulled through, and they left after the game to go to London.

They played the Jets there on Sunday, so a big matchup for them.

Yeah, the Broncos coming into the season were obviously a lot of people's Super Bowl darlings.

They played an incredible Indianapolis Colts team.

You know, and I think a lot of people maybe weren't giving the Colts a lot of credit at the time.

So I think maybe the Broncos were maybe judged in a certain way that they might not be judged the same exact way today if it was to happen.

But they get a huge win.

And obviously,

that's the 1972 Dolphins get a chance to celebrate, especially after the Bills lose last night.

Any storylines out of New England in the Buffalo Bills last night?

Obviously, Stephon Diggs said it was very personal.

He goes off for the second straight game over 100 yards.

First time wide receivers done that since.

since.

I don't know.

2019, Julian Edeman, I think, is what the stat was or whatever.

So he's going crazy.

Vrabel in the Patriots.

Everything's clicking.

All systems go out of there, it appears.

That was a big statement that they made there going to Buffalo.

If you could win in Buffalo on a Sunday night, then where can't this team win?

And again, the Patriots still has to go.

They'll get better, but Drake May looked the part.

He made a couple of plays that not a lot of quarterbacks can make.

Vrabel Bull has helped turn around the culture.

There's still things that they have to do and will do better, but that was a big-time statement.

Like, Drake May on the national stage that hadn't played in prime time, hadn't been in that spot, and it got down late in the game, and Drake May was making plays to Stephon Diggs, like you mentioned, over 100 for the second straight game, got a game ball after the game, big victory for the Patriots.

That was a statement that they're in the hunt for a playoff spot.

That throw right there, like he's got a guy draped on him.

He's got another guy coming at him straight ahead.

And he still manages to not only get rid of the ball, but get rid of the ball on target for a 12-yard.

That was an incredible play by Drake May.

Yeah, it certainly was.

And Amazon's coming everywhere.

We know that.

We heard that last night.

All over the place.

Yeah, all over the place.

Wayne has a question for you, Chefty.

Shefty, I'm concerned.

My Rams lost in overtime last Thursday, so I'm a little worried about next week.

Talk to me, Lamar Jackson.

Is he playing next Sunday against the Rams?

Well, you know, the great part about that for the Rams, and you'll know this better than anyone, Big Wood, there's no way they're going to play a game like that two games in a row.

And Baltimore seems to be missing half its roster.

Now,

with the way it sets up, the Ravens have a bye week after that.

So if they rest Lamar next week, if he's not ready, they get him two weeks to get ready.

And I almost feel like that team has to view themselves making a push after their bye because they're missing so many key players on both sides of the football right now.

My guess is they won't get Lamar on Sunday, but obviously the team will see how he's doing this week.

Lamar wanted to try to play last week.

He's going to want to try to play this week.

If he can play, he'll certainly be out there, but he couldn't walk out of the locker.

He was limping around last week.

He didn't practice at all this past week, ruled out on Friday.

And they have the buy on the week after.

So my guess, and it's a guess right now early week, is that he won't wind up playing, but we'll see how the week unfolds.

Chef, did you have any experience with hamstring injuries just in your athletic career?

Fish.

I've had a lot of injuries.

You're an Achilles, I know that, right?

I've had a lot of things.

I've had, oh, yeah.

I've got.

Broken thumbs.

I've never pulled my hamstring.

You've never pulled your hamstring?

Not fast enough, no.

Yeah, it takes a real explosion to be able to do that.

What's the worst injury you had?

We've seen you bleed, obviously.

Broken tibia was probably the worst.

Yeah.

That's the tough, that's the number.

Burst the Colts, actually.

It was actually, it was probably you kicking on-side kicks in that game.

It probably led to my broken tibia.

Okay, where's this hat?

Here in Nashville.

Here.

When I hit the one to the right?

Sure.

I think you hit two in the game.

No?

God damn it right.

Oh, shit.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Come back to the next one.

Have you seen you okay?

Happy to see you okay.

Let's talk about some people who might not be okay.

Go ahead, Ty.

Yeah, Shefty, this kind of got put on the back burner after they had the big win on Thursday night, but Mike McDaniel yesterday, just not good, blowing a 17-point lead and then walking through the tunnel looking like a fifth grader who just got his ass beaten, his lunch money stolen.

Is this going to happen?

I mean, are we going to draw this out and we don't really have anything to worry about?

Or is Mike McDaniel going to be getting axed here fairly soon?

Look, I think everybody's smart enough to figure out who's in trouble and who's not.

And when things actually happen are entirely up to ownership of these teams.

But none of these teams are

in any rush right now to make that move.

As much as people are going to talk about it, there's still a lot of time to go in the season.

What do you want them to do?

Who's going to take over if somebody gets fired in a particular city?

These are all the decisions you have to make, but the Dolphins obviously have been a disappointing season so far.

Everybody knows that you have to win to avoid facing some of these questions.

But I don't get the sense

that it's anytime soon.

Could that change?

Of course.

Of course.

They lost to Carolina yesterday.

But the ownership has wanted to be patient with him.

That I can tell you.

Good luck, McDaniel.

We're pulling for you.

Good day.

Mike, Type.

We're pulling for you, you, man.

That was a sad image of him with glasses off, just the whole thing.

Because he feels like he's, when people are around him, they enjoy their time.

Like, I think he is a

good vibes human.

This is like Sala at the Jets, and then we see him at the Niners

going absolutely crazy.

It's like he lost his joy when he was with the Jets, clearly.

And now it's like, McDaniel, this guy has lost everything but the shoes.

Still got the shoes.

Still got the joggers.

Still got the cool looks.

Looks good.

Still's got the glasses that change when you're outside.

What are they doing?

Yeah, Transition lenses.

Transition lenses, which I think more people should do.

I think they do look pretty cool, especially with the styles that they have these days.

But boy, they've got to win because there's people like Gumpy in the back that are going, how long are we waiting here, pal?

What are we...

We're year five now, Gumpy.

Is that what you're thinking?

Back there as Dolphins fan?

Whenever they get a lead, he doesn't know how to call the game.

It's insane.

They went up 17-0.

They were cooking.

Waller's got five for 78 with a tud.

Don't target him the entire second half.

Are you shitting me?

They got the beam on him.

He did.

He's the best player we know.

He's wide open every time.

You're saying he's not the one.

He is the one.

We won't give him the ball.

It's because they got the whole fucking theme on him.

You know what I mean?

Mike dialed up some stuff.

Tour got to make the throws, too.

He got to make the throws.

And shit.

Tour or Mike and give up 250 yards.

They got dialed.

250 yards from the damn ground.

You got to go.

They didn't get rid of them.

They did get doubtless.

Ran through.

But moving on.

They got the Rico Ad vote on him.

That's awesome.

That's awesome.

We got a big court.

So the boys in here got to give them credit.

They had the Joe DiNardo.

They saw it well before we did, Shefty, because me and you kind of dismissed this.

Might be a quarterback conversation in San Francisco now.

But before we get into it, how's Brock's health right now?

How healthy is he?

When will he be back in the lineup?

And Mac Jones, is there going to be a conversation?

I know Mac Jones saying all the right thing, but is there going to be a conversation with how well he's been playing?

Personally, he's been unbelievable.

And I think people were surprised at how well he's played, but but the environment has elevated his performance, and there aren't a lot of people who would have thought on Thursday night football, in front of Big Witt and Fitzy there, that Mac Jones would have led that team to the victory that he did.

But they've rebuilt him, they've reprogrammed him, and he's playing the way that they thought he would when he left Alabama, and they considered taking him.

Like, they initially traded up.

with the idea that they were going to pick him and fell in love with Trey Lance along the process.

Now Mac is back there playing exceptionally well.

No, I still think it is absolutely Brock Birdie's job.

I don't even think it's a question.

Mac Jones did say the right things because I think that's the real situation right now where he's going to be in a situation where he's called upon when Brock's not playing and he'll step in and play the way he did.

It was fantastic.

And he's got a two-year contract.

You know, so he's going to be there for a couple of years, unless all of a sudden he's got value.

But Brock Birdie, they just paid, and he's going to be the guy.

Pat, also, I have to give you props.

Thank you.

Spencer Schrader, you're correct.

Both.

You beat him.

He's been unbelievable this year.

Great kicker.

My fancy kicker out for the year with a knee injury.

Yeah, that is, I heard it's real.

Very, I mean, the thing he

when I saw him and also everybody kneeling around him.

That was very scary.

But the brace he had on when I went to see him was...

groin to ankle, triple, you know, and I'm just like, damn.

And I will say his mindset,

good in the moment.

Yeah.

Total shock.

Obviously, everything happening.

He's been great for us.

Great.

Gonna have to have a good kicker if you want to go on a run.

Hopefully, we'll find somebody.

And then when spank, when you're back, bud, we can't wait to welcome you back.

We can't wait to welcome you back.

Okay, last question.

It's about tonight.

Obviously, Monday night football.

And I believe there's a Manning Must Watch ride-along.

Ah, who cares?

No, Shelfield.

You don't be there.

These are good.

The man and cast are good.

We get good clips out of these things.

Let's make sure.

Exactly, yeah.

Okay, there's good clips coming out of ESPN, too.

See on X, not going on my TV.

Shefty, if you need a kicker,

go ahead and grab Borg Gallis.

He had a kick yesterday that would have been good from 80, but looking at tonight.

That was a booming kick, right?

That was a huge.

Yeah, I love them.

Yeah, great.

Looking at tonight, though, what do you think about this game setting up?

The Jags defense has been figuring it out, and now the Casey offense has been figuring it out.

Is this going to be kind of like a gritty, you know, run and gun type game?

Are the Jags going to force him to run the football?

Are the Chiefs going to force Trevor to throw the ball?

Because kind of has a noodle arm, but ETN is running well.

Hopefully, we get a heavy dose of Travis Hunter.

What are your expectations, and who's missing on both sides tonight?

Are there any big injuries that we should know?

Well, the Chiefs added Xavier Worthy to their injury report when they landed after flying to Jacksonville because his ankle swelled up on the plane.

And they just put him on there, I think, as a precaution, just to make sure, because you never know.

But the sense is that he should be ready for tonight unless that ankle continues to go the opposite way, which we'll hear that soon enough.

But I would expect that he does wind up playing tonight.

And I also think weather might figure it there.

Like you're in Florida this time of the year, storms, thunderstorms, rain showers.

Some of that's in the forecast.

Don't know if it'll hit at various points during the game, but that always could be a factor.

There were some calls for some lightning.

Hopefully that stays away and does not impact tonight.

But yeah,

this is a game where I think we've seen some teams make some serious statements this weekend.

Some upstart teams make some statements.

And you just wonder if Jacksonville, which has been playing great football,

hasn't played a big game in primetime like this with a winning record in this kind of spot.

It feels like New England last night.

It feels like Denver.

It feels like India.

It feels like some of these teams they get a chance to make a statement by playing with a team that one of the top franchises in sports thanks for not putting the Colts and Tyre in there okay I was about to really have a moment there winning his second NFL history you go back in time uh on that note Sean Kahn tonight

let's expect the best need one this Monday night football for the Jackson need it yes

and also this thing will be the wax it'll be strength clean strength for strength tonight chiefs only have one turnover i think they have only given the ball away once Jaguars lead the league right now in turnovers, 13.

So

we'll see how that goes tonight.

Ball security is job security.

Absolutely.

The ball is the program.

That's the program.

We should see how it is.

We appreciate you joining the program.

You're the man.

Will we see you tonight?

A lot of this.

It looks like you're ready to go.

I'm just, I wanted to get ready for game time.

You know, you're never too early to get ready for a kickoff, Monday night countdown, clock roll race.

You know what they say?

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So maybe you should start doing that.

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schefter.

Yay!

Appreciate you, Shefty.

You know, as the hour wraps up, I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about my day yesterday.

Yeah, sure.

Ladies and gentlemen, I was part of something very special.

Not only,

you know, by myself and getting just to experience it, alongside my wife.

And

he's considered my dog as well, but certainly my wife's dog.

We were invited to be a part of the Stumpy Stampede, which is a corgi race that happens during TV timeouts.

And I was pretty against it.

I didn't know if my guy would be able to survive it, just in general, running that far.

And it turns out we didn't even need to find out.

It was a great day yesterday.

Me, my beautiful wife, Samantha, and our dog Chuck was by far the fattest corgi in the entire race.

There were two heats,

and our dog Chuck was barely able to survive just getting to the spot.

We had to go two yards ahead of everybody else because I couldn't get him back onto the spot.

I was trying to point out his mom: Go get your mom, the one that you like.

And he asked, Are you?

Are you?

Where

are you?

Who's

Are you coming?

I'm not going.

And he turns around.

He says, I'm not doing this bullshit.

I'm not your puppet out here amongst all these other corgis.

I'm heading back this way.

And I said, Chuck, this is a moment I've been dreaming of with one of my boys.

I remember this moment in real time.

A father taking care of his son.

and making sure he finished the race.

Chuck had to battle through adversity, including his own weight.

And a lot of different problems, I assume, going on with his joints.

His mom medicine's finished line and the cameraman tried to kill him.

But Chuck finished.

And Chuck did his race.

And Kaylin Ursay, one of the owners of the Indianapolis Colts, was there to greet him.

And people clapped for the fatso.

Said, we didn't think a dog could finish that type of race.

So we appreciate that moment.

Well done, Chuck.

Good job, Chuck.

Thank you for the invite.

Stumpy Stampede.

They do that race.

16 teams use that particular setup for their corgi races during TV timeouts.

It was an honor to be a part of.

All the other dogs had done a walkthrough or a smaller race to get to said race.

Chuck was the only one out there without a collar on

and also a Halloween costume.

Couldn't, none of the Halloween costumes were fit.

We actually had to surgically remove one of the outfits from Chuck because he was just too big.

Corgi race, though, though, good pop in the stadium.

Good pop.

Which immediately led to Fitz and Witten the boys are coming by.

What are some of the best TV timeout in stadium shows that takes place?

And we came up with a pretty good corgi race was good.

I think this is very new.

I think it's very new.

The field goal or throwing challenge.

You guys brought that up.

I don't think I've seen the throwing challenge, but I have seen it.

Like the Dr.

Pepper pepper,

you gotta throw it in there.

You're talking about that one.

Okay, the Colts have one too where they're throwing it in trash cans.

You remember that?

There was like a trash can throw.

It was a little, the helmet shuffle, I think in football stadiums, okay,

nobody will ever compare to Red Panda.

But the helmet shuffle in stadiums, always captivating, always a little bit of a degree of difficulty.

So people feel like they're super geniuses.

And I would like to humble bragged throughout my playing career, punter not paying attention to much, and also fan thing, I've never got this wrong.

Never, never, not once.

I lock in, bro.

Yeah.

I'm captivated captivated by it.

They got a new one where it shakes and they even have it leave the fucking

and then they come back on.

I'm like, you're not going to get me.

And now the reason why I think it's a good one, no matter what stadium you're in, loud to

from everybody whenever it happens.

I agree.

You guys played actual positions.

Did you watch?

No.

Were you able to do the helmet shuffle or were you guys working on it?

No, the helmet shuffle.

You never watched the helmet shuffle?

I always watched the helmet shuffle.

Helmet shuffle is good.

I love the helmet shuffle.

The kiss cam too.

I always love the kiss cam.

There are concerts.

Concerts doesn't go as well.

What's that?

Kiss Cam not as good at concerts.

No.

No.

Well.

Depends where you are.

And who's where, you know, because there's other potential significant others that stay with other people.

Same one.

Role play really brings everybody together.

The mascot football slash races, Pee Wee football, always good.

The military hometown hero coming back.

That one gets you.

Stand up off the bench, clap.

That's a good one.

Got a chance to be a part of one.

It was insane.

Wish for our heroes here in Indianapolis.

We were able to set this up.

Because when I'm warming up on the field, it's during all these TV timeouts.

And I'm trying to do this entire thing and trying to warm up.

I'm crying my eyes out in the middle of all these fucking games.

The military reaction,

surprise I'm home six months.

I think this guy was six months early.

Okay, so they weren't even, it wasn't even a thought.

I think they thought maybe getting a car when Car comes out, because I think they had some breakdown.

But for dad to come back home like six months early, always waterworks every stadium that it happened.

always anytime you see it especially when it has the music obviously in games is huge but like kid in the classroom like all the different types of day yeah this is all it always hits t-shirt toss cannon

we got to do that

shoot hot dog

radius at the fans we have the video of that I think it's like 30 seconds in he had cannon

and then shot that thing out there that's been a part of this bus ride the guy the guy told us he said let me crank up the psi you can shoot it over the stadium i said no you can't he's doing the tape around it put extra tape all over psi up that thing went out of memorial style over the top over the top what insane

is that did they do we have camera that's what we're celebrating

that's the reaction they probably

need camera on that that's a good-looking dog can that is believable that's a good dog gun there trivia on the big screen always good depending upon if the crowd's drunk or not and then uh the hot dog can in there to wrap it up the in stadium entertainment can be good there's some shite ones Oh, yeah.

There's some really bad ones.

You can't depend on people talking.

No.

Like if people are just at the game.

Have you seen the Hardwood Classics?

Uh-uh.

Golden State Warriors, dance team, 55 and up.

They're incredible.

Really?

I think there's a 79-year-old on the squad.

They're incredible.

Wow.

You're saying like...

Love, love.

Because if we go in the NBA world, Quick Change, I think rest in peace.

Quick Change used to change the dresses because they obviously have it.

We saw a BMX one.

That was kind of okay.

That was bad.

Okay.

And that was bad.

at the NBA Finals.

It was awful, Panda.

Hey, before we wrap up, Red Panda's the goat, as are you.

Thank you guys for joining us.

You've been holding something.

Oh, I got a little something for you, Pat.

Okay.

If you watched the Bills game last night, Josh Allen sails a ball out over in the stands.

Guy catches it, rocking the Milano jersey, tucks it, and just takes off out of the stadium.

I think Trico did a great job describing it.

Well, that was Fitz and I.

On our journey, we stopped by 1587 Prime, our boys Pat and Trav.

Okay.

Went to the restaurant, and we thought, you know what, what could we get Pat and the boys to just, you know, commemorate our trip?

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Football!

It's awesome.

We're incredibly lucky that two football guys, Andrew Whitworth and Ryan Fitzpatrick, who are on a bus journey from last week's Thursday night football game on Amazon Prime on Thursday night to this upcoming week's Thursday night football game on Prime in New York from LA to MetLife.

And they stopped by and they brought

a plate from 1587 Prime Steakhouse, which is Patrick and Travis Kelsey's here.

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He's Redwood.

I think that's because he's a member of Chiefs.

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So canceled continues to be a banger, by the way.

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But we appreciate Witt and Fitz for stopping by.

And what a great first hour.

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Done.

Cowboys AP Tone joins us.

Tone, what is the gombling story coming out of week five that we weren't able to maybe talk about in the first hour?

Okay, some good news.

Kind of.

For the first time, we've been talking about, you know, how the top five against the spread teams for the public have gone.

It's been one and four or 0-5 basically every week.

They were 3-2 this week.

Let's go.

We're getting smarter than these sports books.

We need this.

So I went through and I looked and I was like, oh, I wonder if that continued down the line.

I looked at every single team that was over 50% of the public bets.

They went six and seven, so a little bit under, but that's okay.

So, you know, we're still down, but making progress.

Yeah, we're close.

Well, nine-year NFL vet, Darius J.

Butler.

Oh, yeah.

Had a baby D-Butch.

D-Butch, good to see you.

I don't know how your picks went because you're not with us on Friday.

I know there's some times where you make the picks in the YouTube chat.

It's in chat.

Shout out to the chat.

Shout out to the chat.

Shout out to the chat.

You said you got discouraged?

Got discouraged.

I did it the first week, and I was like, ah, fuck this.

Yeah.

Once people start tracking what you're doing, it gets loud.

Yeah.

Got somebody doing it for our college game day picks and for this.

I thought I maybe got out of the picks game, but it feels like we're right back in it with people keeping track.

The man joining me right now had a a pretty good weekend of predicting ball ladies and gentlemen he's a college football national champion super bowl champion rider cup winner ladies and gentlemen aj hawk yeah

hope you had an incredible weekend uh don't know if you know this or not but you certainly don't you want 10 and 3 brother

Okay, that Cardinals one, I knew I the only pick I remember was the Cardinals one.

I knew that whole debacle would just screw me on that pick.

So, you know, I guess chalk it up to just a bizarre situation.

I picked the Jets, brother.

So I mean, you can certainly talk about a lot of bizarre situations.

That was an absolute blowout, and they have been crumbled.

10-3 is certainly nothing to sneeze at, AJ.

And maybe it's because it was such an interesting slate with so many weird ones.

We all just went with whoever we feel better about at the time.

And those seemingly covered for us, so we're thankful for that.

Tonight, we have a great Chiefs Jaguars battle.

Chiefs favored by three and a half on the road.

Is this because they don't have any respect for Jacksonville because it's the Jacksonville Jaguars?

Or why do you think this number is three and a half, AP Tone?

I just, no, I just think they think the Chiefs is the better team.

The Chiefs is the Chiefs.

The Jags have had a great start this year, but the Chiefs have looked really good as of late, and they're the more proven team.

Also, they know that the public is going to hammer the Chiefs, so that's also built into this as well.

Okay, so let's talk about this game, AJ.

What's your initial lean, initial reaction?

Feels like if the Chiefs are still the Chiefs, we saw that just last week where they won absolute ham.

Will tonight be their first primetime explosion performance in some time in the regular season?

Well, it sure would not hurt for the Chiefs to show us that they are the Chiefs that we know they have been over the last few years.

But Jacksonville, for them, I think this is a giant opportunity.

Your dog's at home, so you can already have that chip on your shoulder.

And if you find a way to win this game in Jacksonville and win like in an impressive fashion, like this, I think it can springboard you into the future.

And we'll see more and more, you know, probably locker room speeches from the owners.

So it'll be great for everyone.

Yeah, forever.

We're all hoping for it because they were having these conversations.

Yeah, back in January.

it happened in September.

Now we need it to happen in October.

When it does, it's going to last forever.

We need that.

Yeah.

Like I need air to breathe.

If anything, we need Stoner and Liam Cohen to get it figured out down there strictly so we can see more Shad Khan.

Talking about a guy who has wanted his team to be successful for a long time.

He spent a lot of money and, you know, I think investments in trying to make it was willing to rebuild an entire city for this team to be good.

Urban Meyer, you're going to save the whole place, right?

What do you need?

You need Jacksonville town,

you need Jaguars place.

I'll build that no problem.

They put out graphics, 3D graphics, of what it was going to look like down there.

Say hello to the next iteration of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

You guys haven't won it forever, except for against the Colts, whenever they come down there for some reason.

You guys only win one game a year, and it's against the Colts at home, and it's a heartbreaker for everybody every time it happens.

But against everybody else, you guys think your own fans dress up like clowns.

And Sean Kahn's like, Yeah, but if I spend enough, if I spend enough it'll be good and honestly I appreciate an owner that's like that and now it seems like there's a chance for them to be actually good now it's very early in the year Liam Cohen obviously very new to being a head coach stoner very new to running a team but it's like if the jags are for real that would be a surprise and tonight could certainly be a night to say hello to the world AJ Hawk yeah I think for them to to take that next step they need to prove to people that they are that that you know they they're not the jags that we think they are and they're not going to be able to win these big games but to Shad Khan like I do respect the fact that he's trying to win.

Like we know there's definitely owners around the league that are just trying to make money and trying to continue to make money and stay positive and all that.

Shad Kahn feels like, all right, yeah, like money's cool.

Like I got money.

I need to find a way to win.

I want to brag about my team.

And maybe we're seeing that this year.

Maybe this is the beginning of something great for Jacksonville.

Debut, Xavier Worthy gets hurt on a plane.

What happened there?

They said he got off the plane, had a swollen ankle.

Obviously, everybody was excited for him to return, another great piece for that offense.

what does that normally mean had an injury going on to the flight flight and the pressure and altitude just kind of cooked it a little bit what do you think hopefully it's just them covering their bases just in case and they do have to rule him out uh late in the game you can't come back and say oh well he wasn't on injury report this wasn't there so they're reporting it um hopefully we get him there because this team i feel like just preparing for him and playing against they're completely different when number one is on the field you saw that last week they all of a sudden get explosive they get speed with thornton with him with the other guys out there running around and once again like i said earlier, the Chiefs don't turn the ball over.

So when you don't beat yourself, that's a big deal.

And on the flip side, the Jacksonville defense is kind of middle of the pack, except when it gets to turnovers.

They do create turnovers, being at the top of the league.

A lot of speed out there on both sides of the field.

Travis Etienne, he's having an unbelievable year.

Brian Thomas Jr., if he can get going, he's a big speed guy.

And then is this the first time we see Travis Hunter on primetime?

So it's

how he is deployed on both sides of the

team.

My bad, my bad.

It's hard about that.

But like at what point are they going to just finally say like hey we're done with this shit go play wide receiver you and brian thomas and etc right now would be absurd together like is this kind of where they start now that september's over you know are they gonna kind of maybe start curtailing some plays towards him are they maybe gonna you know choose a little bit on what he can play because it just feels like it's never gonna be possible no matter what to play both sides at the highest possible level.

I agree with you.

I don't see it being possible.

He has.

What made you think that?

Okay, so let's say, because whenever we were coming into the league, coming into the season, and once again, my name's on the show, and it's only from my perspective, so I'm going to say this, but there's only been one guy that they let kick and punt.

And he was in Atlanta, and he did not do well.

He won two for like 10 on field goals, and then he went back to being a punter.

And he was a great punter, and obviously a great field goal kicker as well.

They even gave him the opportunity.

When I was coming out of college, they're like, what do you think you are?

I was like, I think I'm both.

They're like, well, nobody's both.

I was actually told, you should never punt a football again because I was in the senior bowl for as a kicker.

And the senior bowl, obviously, back then at least had a percentage of hit rate that like the NFL guys want.

So I was actually told, you should never punt a ball again.

You should just focus on kicking.

You can't do both.

Now, granted, I did do that.

I stopped punting.

And then I get drafted to be a punter.

Then the day after the draft, it's like, well, I guess we got to make up for some lost time here.

At least three months of potentially learning how to do this because I focus on one thing.

But the conversation around kicking and punting is like way too much time.

It's hard to become an expert on either thing when there's only 32 jobs.

And how are you going to manage your energy?

How are you going to manage your reps?

How you can do all that.

So whenever we saw what Travis Hunter was doing in Colorado with Coach Prime and he's like managing this state, what we're managing here, what we're managing here, I wanted longer season, higher level of competition and peers, you know, because if I was going to kick and punt, I had to be better than every kicker that they brought in and I had to be better than every punter that you brought in.

So in this particular case, he has to be one of the top three wide receivers on the team.

And he also has to be what?

One of the top three corners on the team, let alone competing against the other team.

You got to compete against your own fucking team.

I think because of what they did trading up to Lenham, they're going to give him every opportunity to do that?

Or do you think there is like kind of a realization about like this might legitimately not be possible, which is why it's never really been possible.

Yeah, I don't think they're necessarily in a rush because of where they are right now sitting at three and one.

If they can get a win tonight, they'll still be tied up there with the Colts for first place.

But yeah, it's just so tough.

Even when I think about guys who play the same position, like you think about Darrell Revis and then Richard Sherman, like they were completely different corners.

Like Darrell Revis wouldn't be Revis if he tried to play like Sherman and vice versa.

So it's like even playing the same position is just so.

difficult and so different and then like you mentioned week in and week out teams are game playing okay what is travis hunter good at coverage wise what is he good at as a receiver so for him to balance that it'll be so tough physically i think a lot of guys could have lined up and played wide receiver and cornerback but just the mental aspect of it game in and game out and then you

football account very high you talk you talked about um you know having to be better than every kicker opponent that they brought in it's the same thing with him especially when you're drafted number two overall like you want to you want to see that impact on whichever side of the ball it is if it's uh hey you're just going to be a lockdown corner maybe we sprinkle a little bit wide receiver or vice versa so it's so tough could he be the first like we see with shohe otani or you know the second or babe but could he do it it's possible but do you want to sacrifice what you may have to sacrifice on either side of the field to get him to that point, especially when you're trying to build a contender that's trying to compete year in and year out?

And I think, like, we talked about it coming into the season.

We did have that wide receiver graphic.

It was like, which teams have good wide receivers?

When is he going to play more snaps or whatever?

And I think it truly has been like that.

So week one, he only played five snaps on defense.

Week two, he played 38.

Week three, he played 42.

And then last week against the Niners, who are all banged up all over the wide receiver position.

He only played nine on the defensive side.

So you would think probably coming in tonight, because especially if Worthy does play, he'll probably get another extended look on defense.

But no, he's played about the same amount of snaps each week on offense, but vastly different on defense depending on which team they play.

Well, and like you said, it's funny you bring up Shohei because that was kind of my argument is he, we just saw it the other night.

He started the game and

he was the starting pitcher, but because you have to do both, he struck out four times at the plate.

So it's like with Travis Hunter, like he absolutely could do both, but is he making enough of an impact both ways that makes people say like that's why you trade, that's why you gave all that up to trade up to number two to get this guy?

It's like if you have to really put everything into both sides, are you kind of just watering down what he does so well on both sides?

AJ, the season's slipping away.

You know, we're already at week six, which we need to remember.

Okay, for ourselves.

But also, these teams are starting to figure out who the hell they are as well.

Travis Hunter figuring out what he is as well.

Do you think that's going to be an ongoing experiment all season?

Like, when do you think they have a conversation, AJ?

I mean, I would assume it's a daily conversation on what to do with them.

Like each week, you probably change up the plan a little bit, but I'm sure you guys remember you have a guy, say you have like a D-lineman that plays goal line offense.

And the only time that you got to take the guy away from defense during like there'll be a period you'll be doing some kind of defensive install, whatever.

They'll have to yell down, make a big deal.

Hey, send the big guy down.

He's got to go run down and go play fullback with the offense.

He has to maybe miss a couple, you know, parts of a defensive meeting to sit in with the offense to go over their like red zone plan or whatever.

It just takes away during the day because, you know, like in meetings and walkthroughs and everything, I don't know if people realize offense and defense is completely separate.

Like you're not doing anything together.

You're not even seeing those guys that much outside of the team meeting until you get on the field for that first walkthrough and practice.

Like you don't really interact much with the offense.

So it does, you're always taking something to try to gain something, whatever you're going.

So it's just, how do you balance that?

I don't, we don't, that's why we don't really see this happen ever because, so they're kind of showing us the way, I guess.

The old classic Rob Peter to pay Paul, that's actually happening.

You know, like you're actually stealing from the defense a time that you could be working to go over the offense and vice versa.

The only time you're ever together is special teams, and usually stars aren't going to be a part of that.

So team meeting, we're all receiving the same message.

And then special teams, everybody's kind of in there.

But other than that, you've got two different teams operate.

I mean, that's been well documented throughout the history of football.

All the way back to West Chicago, right?

When Chicago

was right where Rex, or not,

bears, yeah.

And oh, yeah.

And the offense, they were

hated each other.

Yeah.

Was it Dikka and

Ryan, right?

Yep.

Yeah, they told a story they actually did not like, like every day.

It was like, no, we're better.

And they, they really did well with it.

Yes,

really, really well with that.

But the team, that's why we always talk about the teams that get along.

It's like, because you're two different outfits, basically, and then you got to come together.

And if everybody gets along, you're in a much better spot.

but it is easier to get along when you're winning.

Yeah, yeah, I will say, boy, it's much better to get much easier to do that.

Yeah, just completely forgot about for the game tonight, though, like that, the idea of that worthy and Travis Hunter matchup, like that is going to be something.

This whole entire day have been thinking to myself, they better play Travis Hunter every single snap on offense.

And now, you know, like hearing that, it's like, oh, no, he better play every single snap on defense because it is awesome when you have a lockdown corner.

For the Patriots, everyone's talking about May and like, you know, the offense, and it's awesome.

Diggs, Christian Gonzalez, just watching a football game and then never hearing a cornerback's name.

And then the first time you hear him, it's a guy catching a ball out of bounds because he's covered so well.

And then the second time you hear him, it's him breaking up a pass on third down.

It's one of those things where it's like, oh my gosh, I forgot.

Like we have our best player on defense back.

This is why the Patriots look so good.

On that note, if you're those guys,

there's a lack of respect for you.

How many pass breakups, how many passes, defense, if you were to go through like Rivas, you know, whenever he was playing, like, how many pass breakups you have?

He only averages one pass breakup a year.

How many throws are going his way?

Because that's what you literally just go into irrelevance if you're one of those guys.

Gonzalez, I think, has become one of those dudes.

Yes.

Which is a good thing.

A great thing.

But it's not great for brand building.

Yeah.

You know, like, I mean, if you know, you know.

And then once you get paid and defense according, and it doesn't get talked about enough, like, if a corner goes down, like, it probably won't change the point spread at all, but it's going to completely change how the coordinator is calling that defense.

Or if you don't have a guy like Charles Woodson playing the slot that week, that completely changes how that defense is going to be played and called.

And just every game just means so much.

And with the Travis Hunter conversation, like every play, too, if he runs one wrong route and Lawrence tries to lead him somewhere, that's an interception.

And the same thing on the defense.

You blow one coverage, that could be a touchdown.

So you're playing very high-leverage positions out there.

Yeah, that's what sucks, though, because

Gonzo isn't allowed social media guy at all or anything, like people see PFF rankings and think, oh, okay, so if he's ranked 11th, he's the 11th best corner in the NFL.

And it's awesome for PFF just because it feels as though Collins were started in and he's just kind of held on to that job, even though he's been saying the same thing for 20 years.

And it's awesome that he does have that job because I do think there was probably a time where he was good at it, even though, you know, when you go.

Why are Patriots fans not liking him after last night?

Oh, no.

So this is the only reason I'm saying it is because, like, I didn't, when I told Collinsworth, or I didn't tell Collinsworth, when I tweeted, this game would be so much better if Collinsworth would just shut the fuck up.

What was he that way?

He was making Patriots fans mad?

No, no, he was building May up, but it's just like the same watered-down bull.

Like, I'm pretty sure he said the same thing about Josh Allen in the first quarter and then said, like, no one's going to remember that I said this earlier.

And then say the same thing about Drake May.

No, no.

Drake May's piss.

Drake May's pissed too.

Drake May's pissed too.

That's what Chris Collinsworth is doing right now.

He's dancing in your brain.

He's spinning your dreams.

Well, no, no, he's not dancing in my brain at all.

I just think he's been robbing money from

NBC for a long time.

I think PFF is proving that they don't know what they're talking about.

Steve Spagnolo just came out.

Steve Spagnolo, probably going to see him on the camera

on the broadcast tonight.

He's basically the greatest defensive coordinator in the the history of the NFL.

And he came out and said, like, well, when PFF ranks players, they have no fucking idea what they're talking about.

Why would they?

So again,

why would rankings like that be on the most watched game every week?

You probably think to yourself, like, oh, okay, they must know what they're talking about.

They don't.

But that's what bums me out about Sunday night football.

But that's why I'm so excited about tonight.

Because Monday Night Football.

Joe and Troy are the goats.

I love them two on the call together, and I genuinely think this is going to be a great football game.

I think it's going to be a great great football game as well.

And I would also like to say, Chris, we're big fans, dude.

I was a PFF.

That's not true.

That's not true.

I was part of it.

Do you want me to leave the stage and then you can say we're big fans?

Because

that's okay.

I just don't, I can't do it anymore.

Congrats to the Patriots getting a huge win.

And that's life as a commentator right there.

Yeah.

You know, especially if you've been around a long time.

I don't know.

I don't know because even for Herbie, like, fan bases will go after Herbie, but for the most part, people like how he calls a game.

Like, if you actually go through those replies in my tweet, I didn't see one person.

Actually, that's not true.

One person did say, like, dude, come on, man, he's awesome.

And then I responded to him, and I was like, wait, are you serious?

And he said, nah, of course not.

So if you look through the reply,

it was like, I've never seen a unanimous, like, yeah, this guy's ruining football ever in my life.

Really?

Jeez, Chris.

Chris been giving a lot to the game.

Well, that's the thing, too.

So when I looked up, like, okay, fine.

Like, I only know him as a a broadcaster.

Let me go look up his highlights as a player.

And then the only thing that came up was this really weird interview.

And I was like, what the fuck?

Yeah, great, great football player.

Great Bengals received.

Great Bengals.

He's been giving a football a long time.

Okay, Texans get a massive 44-10 win in Baltimore.

Baltimore, interesting.

Interesting city.

Now, there's a lot of people calling for horror ball every, and you heard Toten laugh.

Literally, he was celebrating in the sweep as the Texans were thumping and throttling this Baltimore Ravens team.

Athletic.

He started with an athletic.

Well,

he passed the athletic test, I think, whenever he played down in Georgia, whenever we watched him play against Georgia.

He was able to run a lot.

And C.J.

Stroud has obviously had a lot of bad things said about him as a quarterback since his rookie year.

And this Texans team, I think a lot of us are confused on what they are or where they're headed.

There's no confusion about what this Baltimore Ravens' defense, I guess, at this point.

They're not really able to stop anything.

And on offense, they don't really know what's going on.

But to their kind of point,

their top seven paid guys, six, seven,

top seven paid guys were all out.

I mean, this is disgusting, the injury bug that has hit the Baltimore Ravens.

They're nowhere near the team that they thought they were going to have going into the season at this particular point so early in the year.

So it sucks for them.

And Bruce, yesterday, all he kept saying is they're this year's Niners.

They're this year's Niners.

Wow.

Last year, the Niners obviously lose Christian McCaffrey like four days before the games, our season starts.

Then they have injuries riddled throughout, and they just have a year that's just like a terrible year, like four wins, five wins, and we all just kind of say, man, what happened to the Niners?

That kind of sucked.

Is that what we're staring down here for the Ravens?

I think that is what everybody expects.

Now, you heard Schefter give an answer to Whit there.

They got the Rams coming up, and then they got a buy.

If they were to give Lamar two weeks and then try to make a push late, I guess they could maybe make a run at it.

But this is not what we expected from the Ravens at all this year.

And that injury bug's real.

And if it attacks your roster, especially your top seven paid guys,

I mean, you're in a bad spot regardless of who you got doing anything over there.

This is not at all what we expected.

They were, I believe, the favorites to win the Super Bowl at the beginning of the season.

And yeah, the injury bug has hit them hard.

But the last two weeks, Derrick Henry has eight carries for 42.

Sorry, let's just go back the last four weeks, 11 for 23, 12 for 50, 8 for 42, 15 for 33.

Derrick Henry's not hurt.

Like, give him the, like, if you're Lamar's out, you thought he had, like, six carries for seven yards in the first half yesterday.

Yeah, they were down down or whatever.

But like,

we did this last year at the beginning of the year for the Ravens.

Derrick Henry wasn't getting a bunch of carries, and it was a talking point every single week.

And then they just started to feed him, and then they took off.

But like, you expect these type of organizations to be able to overcome these type of things, especially, yes, this is the first game Lamar was hurt.

Like, this one you can put aside, but the other ones, Lamar was healthy.

Like, you kind of expect them to overcome.

Steelers win the playoffs with a duck hunter as their quarterback.

Whack, quack.

He was a great player.

You expect these great organizations to potentially overcome these things and at least put out a better effort than 4110 or whatever.

John Harbaugh last year, remember, we're not giving Derrick Henry the ball a 20-30 times a game.

That's not what that's.

And then they started doing that.

Is it as easy as that for the Spotted Marrieds?

It looks bad all over today.

So bad.

Yeah, they weren't even competitive.

You mentioned once you go down a few scores, you know, you kind of take Derrick Henry out of the game pretty much.

And we know the fumbling issues you had coming into it.

But, you know, the Niners this year, we talked about Niners last year.

Shit, they lost the starting quarterback this year.

Ayuk's still out.

Kittle's been hurt since week one like they did they win but nick bosa he's out for the year so like you can look at at the roster and say yeah we're banged up but mac jones you go out there and you put um a good effort for like for cooper rush to come out there and throw throw three picks and that is a very very tough defense and we also thought texans coming into the season would be competitive they can turn the corner actually protect cj stroud so they're they're kind of hitting their stride a little bit but i didn't expect i know top seven guys i don't know if we've ever seen that but i didn't expect them to be that non-competitive no No, and we can talk about the Derrick Henry thing because that is a big deal.

I mean, it's, you know, we saw what happened last year when they basically stopped doing that and just gave him the ball, but like their offense hasn't been the problem so far this year.

Yesterday it wasn't great, but Harbaugh said yesterday after the game, hey, I'm sticking with Zach Orr, you know, and everyone, every Baltimore fan just killed him for it.

But it's one of those things where typically good teams, like injuries are going to happen.

It sucks, obviously.

but good teams just find a way.

Like you just, you can't waste a year of Lamar in his prime.

You just can't do that.

Because I get the Purdy thing, but like, with last year and the Niners, Purdy isn't Lamar Jackson.

You cannot waste a year of this guy's prime.

It'd be a shame.

They are still favorites.

When's the last time?

When's the last time they were one and four?

Oh, shoot.

Ever with Harbaugh?

What's with Harbaugh?

What Tona was about to say there is they are still the favorites of the AFC North to win the AFC North.

That's crazy.

Crazy.

I don't know if you can short that.

What was that guy who was a drummer, but he was also...

Michael Burry?

Yeah, what was the big short?

I don't know if we can we do that?

I don't know if you could do that and and try to find a way predictive

you could if you there was a predictive market that you could do that for 2015 they started like this and they finished 5-11.

i just got stat from the back thank you for pulling that five and 11.

so they kind of just kind of punted on the year it's loud about harbaugh though yeah aj isn't it it's louder about john harbaugh than it has been in years past it feels like now it's definitely started last year I mean, and probably a year before that.

Anytime you're anywhere for that long of a time, some people can get sick of the message and the messenger at the same exact time.

And if they don't have success, it's like, like, well, how much more times does this guy need to build a culture that has success?

We saw Bill Belichick go to the Super Bowl every other year for 20 years.

Is that what we're doing here or not doing it?

It's like, top guys, all your top guys hurt.

That sucks.

That is obviously bad news.

But it's been loud about John Harbaugh, AJ.

It's been loud every day.

Yeah, like it is.

It's a weird thing when a guy has been there for as long as he has.

And I don't know.

And I guess they

haven't gotten over the hump.

You have the talent like Lamar.

He doesn't have a ring yet.

It is weird.

Like you lose two games in a row and they think, oh,

we need a fresh voice.

We need to turn the page and, you know, grass is always greener.

And I don't know the answer.

I think Harbaugh has obviously proven to be a great, great football coach.

But when is the time when they do move on and they do need a new voice?

I'm not saying they do, but it is a weird thing.

Like people want to get rid of coaches after a week or two sometimes.

Coach Sabin was talking about it this weekend a little bit at dinner about how everybody just wants to move.

Who are you going to hire?

That's a good question.

When?

And then how about when do people, in the the NFL, you'd hope that there would be another great coach just right around the corner.

Congrats, Callahan.

Yeah.

Thumbs off.

They win.

Golly.

Golly is a good way to describe it.

Up until that, I was happy for it.

I was happy for stress levels, everything about it.

Good win for them.

How about him watching the football gods just kind of turn it?

This is crazy, by the way.

Yes.

Which is, by the way, this is the type of thing that would be happening to

the Titans.

This is something.

All the things that happened yesterday in that game

for the Titans would be something that the Titans would this would be something that if the Titans player did we'd all say of course this is what happens down there in Tennessee instead it goes their way snap off the face it goes their way and then in the end they end up winning Joey Joey Slosh sneaks one in the side door sneaks one in the

very close oh yeah to the side door that this play right here I mean absolute Murphy's Law if you're there is there

for the Tennessee Titans it's like

the Callahan had to be wondering, what the hell?

This is usually my life.

What's going on on the other side?

So good for him getting a big-time win.

And congrats to Cam Ward getting his first.

Dude, that was bad.

I don't even know what AQ Shippey's thoughts are.

I could imagine.

Yes.

He's commenting

for the Arizona Cardinals.

That was almost a miss there.

We sneak it in the side door.

Shout out to Sly doing that.

And

what a moment, legitimately, just in the history of football.

And then Kyler Murray has to own that, that their team lost that game.

And Gannon, I'm sure, has not slept since the moment that game ended.

The internet was asking, and I honestly had the same question because Kyler left the game.

Did he get a concussion from that snap?

There's a chance.

A lot of heat on it.

A lot of heat on it.

They checked him for it, right?

Didn't they check him?

I mean, look, he doesn't even know where he is.

Great snap right to the face.

Yeah.

I mean, just like Danny Dimes, Fitzpatrick.

Everybody pats him on the head multiple times.

Sorry.

Yeah, it gives him a little wakey mask.

They always do.

Give him a little wakey, wakey.

Fitz said the thing he likes about Danny Dimes is all the weapons are tall, and he's hitting everybody right in the face mask.

Good jump on the edge there.

It might have been a sack anyways.

The ball ends up hitting him in the face.

Baker Mayfield and the Bucs head into Seattle and win on the final play.

The last two wins have come on the final play.

There are four uncomeback victories and one this season.

They might be team of destiny.

We started chit-chatting about this earlier with the way they've been winning games, how they've been winning games, and everything that happened with Baker Mayfield and his football life, especially whenever he gets booted out of Cleveland and then he starts on the punt block team.

I mean, balls banking off aheads.

Levante David not even seeing the ball and then just closing his hands, getting an interception, and then them going on to get a huge win in Seattle.

This is just week after week after week for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The football god seemingly blessing this team that we've loved to watch, and their uniforms were definitely filthy yesterday.

AJ, is this a team of destiny down there in Tampa?

And is it because Cleveland?

It might have a little bit to do with Cleveland, but it does feel kind of that way.

But this was an awesome game.

Talk about two high-level quarterbacks.

Like, these guys both played awesome.

Obviously, Sam Darnold, they get that ricochet pick, and obviously, that ricochet was due to pressure that they were bringing against him.

But, man, like, Baker looks so confident.

He looks so good.

Also, Sam Darnold does as well.

Like, look at this time he has, too, to throw.

These are two teams, I think, obviously the Bucs, we know how good they are.

But I think the Seahawks, too, because of the whole West Coast bias, people sleep on them at times, but I think they are a real legit contender in the NFC.

I love that Sam Darnold is doing what he's doing right now, which then leads right back to the Minnesota Vikings getting a huge win over to Cleveland Browns at 9:30 a.m.

over there in London.

Dylan Gabriel's first start in the NFL.

So I'm spinning a little bit.

Steve, what are your thoughts on DG as he does his first start for the Browns in London?

He looked good.

With the young quarterback, you always need a run game.

I thought Jutkins looked very, very good as well.

Fanny Jr., another rookie of there, so they drafted well.

But yeah, the moment didn't look too big for Dylan Gabriel at all.

he he stepped up to the plate he looked good for a first start almost stole a win and then on the flip side old Carl Carl got it done big time win Justin Jefferson is ridiculous regardless of who's throwing the football he's always going to make his plays then Jordan Addison coming into the game with some I guess some disciplinary issues just a loster or something yeah which is that's a big deal that's a huge deal we talk about it all the time about the things he was going to look at Buckingham Palace Cam Bynum was here and that's how that happens too especially with these overseas trips that happened my rookie year when I was playing for the Patriots, a veteran came in late, one of our wide receivers as well.

But yeah, he's still for him to show up and make some big plays, the biggest plays down the stretch after being benched.

So that's a big time for him.

And then Justin Jefferson kind of spoke about it after, too.

Like, hey, I need to do a better job of taking him under my wing and doing these things.

But for a guy like that, you got to be a pro.

It's time to grow up.

You already had some off-the-field issues.

You are very, very talented.

Like, lock in and you know, reach your full potential, but a huge win for the Vikings.

AJ, they're calling him Carson Wentz, bro.

Win, because that's all he does.

Wayne Win, when he said for last week, AJ's, you know, and maybe previous stops and this whole thing.

Kevin O'Connell, Carson Wentz, get a big-time win.

Dylan Gabriel, obviously, has his moment and proves that he's going to be an NFL guy.

Carson Wentz is still doing it.

AJ, what's your takeaway from 9.30 a.m.

kickoff Sunday?

I love watching him.

We talk about it all the time.

Obviously, Justin Jefferson, just out of this world, how good he is, but others love watching Carson.

He plays with a reckless abandon.

He does not care about his health and safety.

He doesn't care about anything.

He's just trying whatever he can to get a win.

And honestly,

huge drive by him, huge touchdown pass to win this game.

Like the Browns could have, the Browns should have won this game, most likely.

But, you know, Cleveland fans say that's the Browns.

It's what they do.

But when you have a guy like Justin Jefferson, this is pretty awesome to see.

But Carson Wentz, I mean, people,

I think people don't really give him the credit that he deserves.

He was slinging it for a little bit in this league early on.

MVP.

MVP.

And then he gets hurt on a quarterback sneak, I believe.

And then obviously Big Richard, Nick Foles, comes in, leads leads them to a Super Bowl.

Then it all collapsed in Philadelphia, either from egos or personalities or who knows what takes place.

I don't know if we're ever going to find out the real story.

Then he bounces around, comes here to Indy, thought we had one.

He walks into our downtown office.

You go, wow, this guy's a giant.

This guy's an absolute giant.

Then I followed him for a season.

I still don't know how his parents survived.

I still don't know how his parents have been able to watch him play sports or this sport for his entire life because I assume he's played this way his entire life.

Every play could be the greatest play in the history of football, every single one of them.

The ball is in play, could be the best play of all time.

And whenever it hits, it's great.

And if he has Justin Jefferson down there somewhere, he's going to continue to let this thing go to Justin Jefferson if there's an opportunity for it.

I enjoy the way he plays.

KOC could be the guy, but this goes back to the Sam Darnold conversation with the way Sam's playing right now.

If Sam was still with the Vikings or Aaron Rodgers with the way he's playing, if he was with the Vikings, would they be they'd be in a much better position than they're currently in, waiting for JJ with Carson Wentz playing football?

And I think Carson almost got hurt.

There was a guy named

Graeber.

What was the guy's name?

There was a guy that was about to go in.

I've never heard him.

We all had probably the same reaction.

He was holding his helmet on his head.

He looked very uncomfortable.

I'm like, who's this guy?

This guy's going in right now.

You did this?

It was on my TV.

Brosmer.

There it is.

Max Brosmer.

Max Brosman.

Yeah, Minnesota.

It was on TV in

my kitchen area, hanging out with McKenzie.

I look up, I see this guy holding it that he's shoot on.

Carson, he's hurt.

I'm like, that guy's not a quarterback because he was like walking behind everybody looking.

He had no idea where he was.

Carson, what's your locker about?

Oh, no, who's this guy?

But I would have assumed he did good because Kevin O'Connell's their coach.

But if you think about all the options they potentially had looking at the year, it's interesting where they are because I think they have a great team.

Will they still be?

We shall see.

We shall see because I love their defense.

I think the interior line definitely needs to figure it out.

But yeah, when you're seeing what Sam Darnold is doing out there in Seattle and you can just imagine him being another year more comfortable in this KLC offense, who knows what that'll be?

Who knows what JJ McCarthy will end up being, too?

I know right now, you know, before he got hurt, he didn't look like the guy.

We'll see how he looks when he comes back.

But with this game, did we get any

fun factoids from McQuaid this week or no?

Yeah, did we get anything from McQuaid about another UK-Ireland game?

No factoids.

At least I wasn't sent any factoids, but I did see a studio show with McQuaid from Sky Sports.

I'll try to find that and send it back in.

It was exceptional.

Exceptional coverage.

Basically, he's just sitting there in the studio and recapping the game.

And yeah, let's just say McQuaid knocked it out of the park for a year.

I did see a post.

There were 32 jerseys at this one.

All 32 teams represented.

We played in London.

It was not just 32 NFL teams.

There's probably every baseball

was also and NBA jersey was represented.

Just American sports was kind of celebrated.

But I think that is the difference between the Ireland game.

What McWaid was trying to say.

A lot of Americans traveling to Ireland for that particular game.

I think London is viewed as like a, I think they say the German

a lot of the Germans come.

A lot of English people and Germans are at those particular games.

So it's a celebration of American sports.

Have another one this weekend.

Yeah.

There we go.

9.30 a.m.

football again.

It's a good time to be alive, AJ.

On that note, speaking of good time to be alive, Mark Sanchez.

Okay, so we all followed this story on the internet as it was unfolding.

Us, I think, a little bit closer because we're from Indianapolis.

We live here in Indianapolis, and I love this.

Like, I'm very thankful to be here.

So, whenever I saw that Mark Sanchez, who was here to call the Colts Raiders game, ended up being stabbed on Friday night or whatever, it was obviously alarming.

Like, I was like, oh no, this is not good.

I do not like that this is happening in our city.

This cannot be what we're known for.

And everybody that was reporting, it was like Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indianapolis.

Then, obviously, it got highly politicized.

Everybody's talking about how bad.

And this comes just a a couple weeks after Warren G was on a podcast and said that Indianapolis,

dangerous city or whatever.

And obviously, there are certain parts of Warren G?

Yeah.

Regulators?

Yes.

Mount up.

Yeah, he said it.

I think it was a couple weeks ago about Indianapolis.

So there's a lot of conversation.

It gets highly political.

And then as the details continue to emerge, it's like, oh, no, this is a.

incredibly disappointing situation that took place in a part of downtown where I think if you were to probably just give a good guess, I think there was a lot of potential boozing going on.

I think there was probably a lack of memory of what happened.

Does not excuse it, but I'm just saying as the details.

Mark was the aggressor, I guess, to this box truck driver who's a 69-year-old man.

They end up getting into a fight, allegedly from reports that we've been told.

And Angela Ganneau, here of Fox 59 News in Indianapolis, I think she was live at the time that it was all taking place and continued to cover it.

I think she has been the authority basically on what the actual reports are in the interviews and actually reports going on.

And she's from Indianapolis, and I think she took a lot of pride in, like, hey, you're burying our city right now.

This might not be the story at all.

Never want anybody to get stabbed.

Don't like any physical altercations.

But allegedly, from what's being actually reported, and there's video on it, and I appreciate the Indianapolis Police Department being so quick on this, being like, yo, yo, yo, this is not the case.

Him and he, I guess, aggressor to this 69-year-old is what's being reported.

And box truck driver in truck, get out.

There's an entire thing.

He said, Hey, you keep, I got a knife.

Ends up stabbing him.

Pepper spray.

Pepper sprays him, tries to stop him, ends up stabbing.

There's like a full altercation, a full fight that's taking place.

And then report photos have come out now of a 69-year-old box truck.

His entire cheek is like sliced up here.

Once again, he's 69 years old.

He's in hospital.

He's in wires too as well.

Like he ends up in bed.

Sanchez, obviously, there, he had him a critical condition at one point.

Anytime he gets stabbed, obviously, it feels like you're always like this far away from something potentially being catastrophic.

So it's like incredibly terrible event took place here in Indy, but it's like what it was initially being reported about the city, I don't think is accurate.

It just seems like it was a terrible, terrible, terrible mistake made while probably

very intoxicated.

They are charging him with Mark Sanchez with a felony, I believe, a fifth degree felony, which carries a one to six year charge and everything like that.

So happy.

It sounds like both guys okay.

Yeah, alive.

Is he out of the hospital yet?

Is Sanchez still in the hospital?

I think he was.

Yeah, then he was bullied.

He's out.

And he already made bail.

I think his bail was like 300 bucks.

And then.

Yeah, because it was like a bunch of misdemeanors.

And then.

But that was before they charged him with the felony, too.

So I don't know.

Yeah, so tomorrow is his hearing, I believe.

I don't think he can leave Indiana now because he's waived the felony.

And he has a court date set for November 4th.

Oh, okay.

Angela Ganneau has, can we put this up, please?

Angela Ganeau, once again, she's literally been on it the whole time.

Judge just granted the motion to waive initial hearing for Mark Sanchez, a pretrial conference.

His next first court date is set for November 4th, 2025 at 8.30 a.m.

So it's like terrible situation.

And our city does a lot of hosting, you know, like a lot of hosting.

A lot of people come from out of town.

So whenever the reports are like Indianapolis got, it's like, that's, whoa, whoa, whoa.

downtown area, hotel, everything's set up.

We are a big, we enjoy people coming to our city.

And this incredibly sad and then another incredibly sad tyran lacey story coming out from down there at lsu i mean this is heartbreaking disgusting you you name all of it lsu wide receiver obviously uh ends up killing himself in a car after he crashes his car into a pole or an off bank and

this is on the same day he's about to get charged with vehicular homicide.

It's, it didn't happen.

Like the reports of what he did were completely wrong.

And his lawyer in postpartum at his funeral told him, Hey, I got your back.

Here he comes in here at the end, Kyron Lacey.

So that's the accident that takes place.

That is obviously the topic of all the charges that take place.

There's Tyron Lacey in the green charger there.

They're saying he was 74 yards behind the actual hit or 100 yards behind the actual hit crash, whenever it happens.

He does drive around it.

He ends up getting charged for this entire thing and ends up killing himself before we even get a chance to see what he could become, what he could do for his family, his community, and everything like that.

So this is another thing that was just like false allegations, falsely reported, changed his entire life.

And then now we're finding out after he's dead that he didn't do it.

It's like sad.

Like all these things were kind of happening at the same time.

And it's like, just not.

It's not, but we got to get that shit right.

That can't be.

That Kyron Lacey story is sad, man.

Did he get to a wreck afterwards or something?

After that, he got an erect and then they accused him of causing the initial wreckage.

So that was in December, that particular crash right there.

He was getting charged for.

He was getting very serious charges for.

And then in April is when he ended up taking his life.

Allegedly, he was at a family gathering beforehand, like a cookout or something like that.

Something took place, and then he leaves, crashes, and then shoots himself.

afterwards.

So couldn't even imagine the pressure.

This is when he was going to get drafted.

The whole world thinks he's the worst person on earth.

That basically plummeted his draft stock, and it was like, okay, he can't draft this guy.

Like, look, what's going on?

And, yeah, look, I mean, none of it fucking happened.

Crap.

Yeah, I don't understand how something like that happens.

How does this not come out until this point?

I've seen some of the, like, the body cam footage and some of the other stuff.

That can't happen.

Somebody's got to pay severely for doing that type of shit to railroad him.

Because you talk about his, you know, obviously it plummeted his draft stock, but literally ended his life.

Ultimately, not only just his life, just think about his family.

Like, you know, the people that care about him, people that love his teammates.

I've saw a lot of his former teammates and coaches and people

that were close to him.

So it's just incredibly sad.

I don't understand how this, something like this, can happen.

Hats off to his lawyer for, you know, sticking to his word and sticking to it and getting to the bottom of these things because it is tough a lot of times when things are getting covered up or pointed in a certain direction to actually get the truth out of it.

So shout out to him.

Obviously, it won't matter to Kyra Lacey at this point, but at least his family.

Clear his his family yeah everybody i mean because what was being reported was just matter of fact yeah like what we were reading and everything was like nope this is this we got witness here now we're learning about why and how the witness came to stay with it and it's like that's that's nasty work dude like why that yeah what

t's and p's we are so sorry about all this obviously we

uh can't do anything other than that at this point but that sucks and then for 69 year old mark sanchez happy you guys are both alive And whatever ends up happening here, it's like well deserved.

And hopefully this changes a life a little bit.

There's some things that need to change, too.

I need to talk about that.

These Sky Camps.

Oh, yeah.

AJ, have you seen this?

Come on.

Oh, yeah.

I thought we were way past this.

This is this camp.

Okay.

Great shot.

So,

listen,

Sky Cam.

In this particular case, maybe doesn't know.

Oh, boom.

Off the head.

We're hitting a Sky Cam or that.

Wait.

What?

Yeah.

Justin Fields throws a rocket.

bang off his forehead.

That thing takes off at about 30 miles an hour, right for it.

Now, let's go back to the side angle.

I'm not 100% sure anybody could have caught up to this ball.

I know D-linemen are incredibly explosive.

That ball's going very quick at that sky cam.

I think that thing's gone.

With someone around him.

Yeah, like he would have had, I mean, I think he would have had to 4-2 that thing.

I think that thing's going really fast that way, but we'll never know.

Guess what was in the way?

The Sky Cam.

Let's go to the thing that the Sky Cam has been attacking forever.

Kickers footballs.

And nobody believes anybody but the kickers.

This one, I'll tell you, I don't know.

It's close.

Hits a pinky.

There's a Skycam wire there.

It does turn to the right.

Is that because of the pinky right there?

Or is it because it hits a Sky Cam wire

right

there where it starts to get a little fatter?

We don't know.

Maybe both.

It shouldn't be that close, though.

We don't know.

It shouldn't be.

But also,

on that note, like, don't know if it hit the Skycam wire here.

No, it definitely hit a pinky there.

Good block by the year of the block continues almost for the Cleveland Browns.

But we shouldn't even be having a discussion on whether or not it hits Skycam.

Get the thing out of the way.

Get the thing.

Now, that's in Europe.

Okay, so maybe it was a soccer sky camera.

Sure.

Maybe it was.

I don't understand you.

Maybe it was a European.

Didn't know where the ball was going.

They had to stay out of the way.

We're not 100% sure.

But we can't have a Skycam in a way.

We appreciate what Skycam has brought.

Love it.

We appreciate what Skycam has brought.

We love the view.

We love the angles.

Can't begin in a game.

Is this a Sky Cam trying to make a name for itself?

Could be.

Maybe.

Talk about how important it is.

Watch this.

That's what just did that play.

Yeah, exactly.

I could do this anytime I want.

I'm just like any other drone out there.

I could take over whenever I want to take over.

Let me go, spit this thing out.

I don't love it.

It's a joke.

That's a lot of ball, too, right?

If we catch that off the Sky Cam?

I think Bank plays, yeah.

Actually, they'll play that dead.

They would definitely run again.

I think they would definitely run to play again, except for in this case, they didn't do that, which everybody got mad about.

No, so if this say Ricochet's right down and I catch it, go pick six.

It's got a replay.

If it caught

goddamn it, I'll be like, Dallas is like when it used to hit Dallas' old big screen, remember when it was low?

Yeah, and that dead ball.

Yeah, they changed it to replay of down, but they didn't do it in this case.

So, everybody was like,

Imagine if this happens in a big game.

Imagine this happens in a playoff game, honestly, like a playoff game at some point in a huge game that means something, and it truly does affect a game.

Like, then what?

Then what would it do?

And on that note,

i don't know if the jets and justin fields are going to make the playoffs this year and go on a run and maybe have a sky cam moment but he should feel really good about his arm strength so i played volleyball uh in high school when you would hit somebody boom with the ball and it would hit off their chest bang and it would go up and out of bounds somewhere felt like a king this dude threw a football so hard off a guy's face yeah this thing

took off out of orbit and hit the sky cam up there justin fields should feel good about what he's doing right now now granted they're not winning any games that's right no but he should feel good about how that ball is coming off and that guy's forehead he should feel good too about being able to just eat 90 mile an hour football right to the forehead now 90 mile an hour football is certainly something baseball happened this weekend as well you have any huge baseball updates ty maybe that we can all learn about and chit-chat about heard Canada's better than America at baseball I didn't know that was the case

did you know that no that's not true don't listen to whoever's saying that Ty can you please give us all an update on what's happening in baseball yeah sure To that point, yeah, unfortunately, pretty gutless performance by the Yankees up in Canada over the weekend.

Oh, no.

Vlad Guerrero, I mean, we could talk through this whole thing, but, you know, if you want me to just be very succinct about it, the Blue Jays hit about 400 fucking home runs against the Yankees.

The Yankees didn't do anything.

So they are going back to New York tomorrow, down 2-0 in an elimination game.

Like I said, just pathetic through and through for everything that you had heard.

So as of right now, yeah, you could argue that Canada is better than at least New York at baseball.

What about the dude?

What do you have?

10 strikeouts?

And

what the hell happened there?

Yeah, Trey Yasavage, who was making, I believe, his fourth start,

struck out 11 Yankees in four innings, which, again, this is kind of the Yankees' MO.

They hit a lot of home runs, but they also swing at a lot of shitty pitches and strike out a lot.

Very heavy, lefty lineup, and he was just eating them up with his split finger all day.

So that's not great.

So they have to win.

You can cut this shit pocket.

Yeah, yeah.

so so is it is it their time for their guy to go again like game one against the red socks their ace is as yet gone that's that's what it was uh in the first game toronto pitched their number one guy against the yankees number four but then max freed who is the yankees ace pitched the other day and just got absolutely shelled so uh it'll be we'll see they got to go their backs are against the wall they were against the red socks uh the other big series uh from the weekend which the n l only played one game but we had dodgers and phillies Shohei on the bump.

And he, you know, he wasn't super sharp, but he did calm down.

You can see strikeout early here.

Schwarbo, boy, I'll tell you what.

Schwarbo missed one just very, very close in the first inning after we talked to him last week.

And then Shohei hit a bit of a rough patch against the Phillies in the second.

inning.

I mean, you know, again, a lot of strikeouts from Shohei.

He did pitch well, but the Phillies got to him.

They took an early lead, and your guy

was absolutely dealing early.

Of course.

Unfortunately, he did fall apart.

You can see here, this is JT Realmuto, who hit a triple into the gap to kind of get things going for the Phillies early.

At this point, it looked like they were going to chase Shohei,

and that was going to be it.

They were going to kind of have a very comfortable and easy win.

This is Harrison Bader just narrowly, narrowly missing a home run and getting a sack fly.

So the Phillies put up three early against Shohei, which is kind of exactly what they want to do, but the Dodgers are so good.

They always respond.

Tay Oscar Hernandez, three-run homer to go ahead and put the Dodgers up 5-3.

And that was kind of all she wrote.

So the Dodgers take a one-run lead and...

kind of save somewhat of a sub-par outing from Shohei.

He did go 0 for 4 at the plate.

That's kind of one of the things I was saying is, hey, you're robbing Peter to pay Paul a little bit there because he's got to focus on both.

And then

the Milwaukee Brewers blew out the Cubs with a lot of singles.

That's just kind of how they play.

A lot of small ball, just bad on ball skills, putting the ball in play non-stop.

They're hard to strike out.

So, I mean,

this highlight is basically the same thing over and over again.

Single to the outfield, single to the outfield, double to the gap, single to the outfield, single to the outfield.

And they just kept putting a quarter in the merry-go-round and scoring runs.

They blew out the Cubs.

And then

probably the game of the weekend, series of the weekend, the Detroit Tigers Tigers traveling to Seattle.

Tarek Skubel, who is probably going to be the AL Cy Young, he gave up his first multi-home run game to a player in a little over four years, I believe.

Jorge Polanco there for the Mariners hit a home run early, and then he touches Skubel again late to give them a 2-0 lead.

And that was pretty much all they would need.

They do get one more from Julio Rodriguez in a little bit here when the game was tied 2-2.

So Detroit did have a little bit of a run in them.

Ultimately, though, the Mariners, even the series last night after this, they pull ahead to it's 1-1 now, and that was the first postseason win in Seattle in 24 years.

So like

the atmosphere was amazing.

So where it stands right now, Yankees are down 2-0 to the Blue Jays.

The Cubs are down 1-0 to the Brewers.

The Mariners Tigers is 1-1, and then the Dodgers have one game up on the Phillies.

So the NL teams are playing tonight, and then tomorrow night we'll have the AL team.

So, you know, again, Monday night football got a great game tonight, but we got a couple really good games tonight and tomorrow postseason baseball.

Baseball's delivering a little bit, AJ.

WNBA, the Aces are currently up 2-zip best of 7 in the finals against the Mercuries.

Okay.

That's the Aces.

Yankees got to win three straight, Todd?

Sorry, Yankees got to win three straight?

Yes, they do.

Yeah, the Yankees.

Wait, so does Asia have to win three straight then, though?

Who?

Or the Aces are up?

They're up.

Okay, okay.

Yeah, they're up.

So the, they, the, okay, okay.

It was a battle.

The first game.

I didn't see the second game.

First game.

Fergus are tough, too.

It was like 86, 84, something like that.

I forget what the exact score was.

It was a battle, though.

Tight in the playoffs.

Hey, baseball's doing it right now.

Sports are doing it right now.

Sports are doing it right now.

I think the stars are stepping.

We saw a big dumper coming around third base, scoring right there in that highlight package.

So, yeah, man, I like when the stars are playing well.

I guess it's good for baseball, maybe.

I guess, is it good for baseball if the Yankees win tie?

I think it is.

I don't know.

Yeah, definitely.

I mean, you know, no, no.

That's a Boston fan right there.

Yeah, everybody, including myself, wants Yankees dodge again.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, no offense to the Blue Jays because they are arguably the best team in the majors.

They just like play the game the right way, but they don't have a couple stars.

But yeah, I mean, if the Yankees lose, you're probably going to see a large chunk of just like the common fans who like don't want to watch Blue Jays Mariners or Blue Jays Tigers.

And if you love baseball,

it's a great series.

Yeah, I mean, the Yankees have star power.

I don't want to hit

a bunch of guys slapping singles, man.

Yeah.

And people like

the Yankees, too.

Ding-dong.

Yeah.

Which Toronto has been doing.

They hit about fucking 40 homers against the game.

Did he hit a Grand Slam in the game?

He did, yeah.

He hit a homer in the first game as well, and then hit a Grand Slam in game two to kind of.

Hold on, can we turn the sound on, please, for this one?

We don't have it.

Oh, is that Dan Schulman and Buck Martinez going crazy?

No, not just them.

The crowd, no.

Yeah.

Rogers Center, that's a true home field advantage.

The Blue Jays, I think, are like 51 and 24 at home this year, which is just absolutely insane.

They are so hard to beat in Toronto.

So we'll see.

At the one with the hotel or the hotel at Centerfield, which

I don't know if you played football there?

I think I played my last college game there for the international ball.

Really?

I believe it was a game.

Great.

You've been there.

We played Buffalo.

So Buffalo,

they travel.

Well, he played the Bills there for preseason.

And you went to a Yankees Blue Jays game there.

And is that where Eliminate?

No.

It might have been.

Nah, probably not.

That was probably where I assume where the Maple Leaves play.

Yeah, maybe.

I don't know.

Got into some shit up there.

A couple world leaders responded after I said some stuff.

Oh, yeah.

That's good.

Yeah, it's always a fun time, AJ.

Insane.

Just open the phone.

What a crazy time.

No.

Oh, no.

Oh, no, man.

I wish I had my plate from 517.

That's pretty short.

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We're still watching, right, Zone?

Yeah.

I'm battling.

Still battling.

I don't like it.

Yep.

It is tough, but I do.

It's going to be impossible not to watch.

Anything we didn't cover, Jaden Daniels, congratulations.

Yeah,

Jayden.

Look good.

Chargers.

And Spencer Rattler, first win.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Killing both.

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That's AJ Hawk.

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AP Tone's here and we can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living.

Who knows how long any of this lasts, AJ?

But it's an honor to be be a part of.

We don't know.

Sports are the greatest.

Congrats to Gabby.

Have an incredible confidence this weekend.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Goodbye.

She was the greatest.

Yeah, I'm glad you snuck that.

I forgot about that.

That was so sick.

I can't believe Herbie could throw it that far.

When he came in here, he could barely hit that net.

Okay.

Still got it.

Thank you for mentioning that.

There's not a doubt, right?

Was anybody

going to throw it?

He couldn't throw it.

Do you think he couldn't get it there?

What do you think?

Accuracy was.

35 yards in a suit.

He's 56 years old, dude.

He's 56.

I think he could have done it left-handed.

That's what Nick Saban said.

Nick Saban, when I got back up there, he goes, I should have had him throw a lefty.

And I'm like, 35 yards is a 56-year-old.

That's no problem.

The ball also has a like a

plastic seal around it.

You know, like there's a chance that thing slips off his hand.

It has a terrible game.

Can you imagine?

So, just so everybody understands this,

Gabby Mathis, this girl, awesome.

I mean, I am a huge fan.

She's the third girl.

I mean, he spun that thing.

He did.

He did.

He really did spin it.

She's the third girl that has won the raffle.

She was there since noon the day before.

Wow.

Okay.

Just trying to do her thing.

She wins the raffle.

Has never kicked anything before.

Okay.

Chemical engineering major, whatever it is.

Has never kicked anything before.

She's a senior and she's like, oh, I want to do it myself.

I'm sure the people around her, whenever she won, were like, hey, just last week, guy picked somebody who's a good kicker.

She said, nope, i want to do it and i'm like i love that i met her in between commercial breaks and uh i said hello your name's gabby she goes yes i go very nice to meet you have you ever kicked before or anything she goes no and i go okay why'd you pick to do it she was like i want i want to do it and i was like That's awesome.

Yeah.

I love that.

I absolutely love that.

I absolutely love that.

And she was like, so joyful the entire time.

So then we go up on stage and Kirk's like, what are we, how are we looking?

You know, because it was like other side where I meet, Kirk was over here, so he didn't see her.

I i was like girls never kicked before he goes never kicked before i'm like never he goes why didn't she did she could she have picked somebody or did she didn't i said she just wants to do it and i was like he was like i like that i'm like

me too yeah like i actually like it mostly because you know good chances ain't going in you know

so then we go out there the scene is electric i mean it is an electric scene getting there we had to go pretty far couldn't hear everything because of how far away we were actually to find it because of how packed in everything kind of was so we get over there.

She, before this kick, she just was about to just

go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

She like was, there was no, I didn't even know she, I didn't even know she was going to go.

She was literally just going to stand there and try to swing us.

So I'm like, yo, you got to do steps.

Whoa, whoa, you're going right.

You're going right now.

You're about to kick it back.

Oh, none of us are ready.

We didn't even know you were going to potentially do that.

You didn't even take any steps backward.

She's like, yeah, I'm going to do that.

I'm like, all right.

So then Herbie goes, you got to go back here, bro.

You got to, come on.

We got to take a couple steps here.

Just try to give a good attempt at it.

And her first attempt, obviously, this one, not good.

Okay, not good.

Topped it.

It was right online, though, right online.

It was straight, not good.

Hopefully starts going one more shot, one more kick or whatever.

And she's like, I asked her, do you want to do it?

She goes, yeah, I want to do it again.

I'm like,

I love this girl.

Just after what just happened, she didn't want to pick anybody.

She could have easily said, like, I'm not.

Not embarrassed that she's never kicked.

Exactly.

She's just like, yeah, I'll do it again.

Yeah, maybe the next time.

It was like her, her blind optimism was so like, for me, it radiated.

Like it was oozing.

I'm like, I like to hear this.

I appreciate that you exist.

So then I was scanning.

I'm like, all right, is there anybody around here that looks like they can kick?

Like that, that's literally what I'm doing.

Scanning in there, scanning in there.

I'm like, can I pull somebody?

And then I'm like, well, we haven't, who knows?

I can pull some.

Who knows?

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What person comes out of there?

So in my head, I'm like, liability.

Can't just fucking pull a random person.

There'll be some shit.

Well, Gabby's got to sign stuff too, right?

Boom, the whole thing.

Yes.

There's a lot of things that go into it all.

So it's like, I just can't pull some random person.

Then Herbie's like, why don't you kick it?

And I'm like,

okay, actually, I'm in pretty good shape right now.

Maybe I do kick it.

So you watch my brain like kind of go through like scanning somebody.

Then like, do I kick it?

I got my cowboy boots on.

There's no grip on the bottom of those.

We're on turf.

Can I?

I was trying to figure out whether or not I could do a no step if I could kick it no step 30 yards.

And I'm like,

so I'm judging it.

And I'm like, ultimately, I'm not fucking making that.

So then I start looking around and I look at Herbie.

He's like spinning the the ball in his hand and I'm like, oh,

boom.

Like in my head, you should have seen the celebration that comes about.

Like, yes, you, Herbie, especially because he's like, I'll throw in 200,000.

He's like doing the whole thing.

I'm like, all right, Herbie, let's go ahead and do it.

So in my head, it was not 100%er for him to make this.

In a suit.

Not a great throwing ball.

He's 56 years old.

35 yards at least this ball has to be hooked.

And he does it, you know, like he could have missed that.

That could have slipped.

So in my head, it wasn't 100%er, but it was certainly at least a way.

Like, hey, we got a viable shot here.

And shout out to Herbie showing up.

Yeah.

That was a great throw by Herbie.

He's genuinely pumped that he helped Gabby.

Oh, yeah.

And I think it was a cool moment.

But I want to let Gabby know, hey, your mindset is fucking awesome.

There needs to be more people like you, Gabby.

And me and Kirk both felt it, experienced it, and we're lucky to be a part of that whole thing.

And her pure joy afterwards is so cool.

Like we need more of those happening.

And now, granted, if I would have just done it for $100,000, probably same effect.

Yeah.

So that would have taken much.

I think you can go down.

That's always my thought.

Yeah.

But this is classic me just being a checkers.

Good thumbs up there by Stanford Steve.

This is just classic me being a checkers player.

Okay.

This is just in the moment,

I just got to get to this spot.

There's no chess being played there.

It's just like, this could be really awkward television right here.

This could be really bad.

Obviously, we never really think about this.

What are we going to do?

And then it's like, as as soon as the idea comes it's like yep king meet what's going on and then do we have to do 300 000 probably not but i don't think there's a better person on earth for that money to go to so we are pumped for gabby good luck in the future and uh it's it's a completely blank slate when we go out there legitimately as it's being proven right now part of what makes it great just live tv bro yeah

i don't know what's coming i guess in in hindsight it is kind of disrespectful aj to herbie i guess he could yeah come on

because when you told him and i saw him kind of you know everybody oh man everybody does a little one stretch or a little growing something.

And when he did that, I was like, oh, this is probably, I was probably 75, 25 that he was going to get it there.

In my head, he was going to make it.

Yeah,

but it wasn't 100% or like in my head, not 100%.

If he missed it, what are you giving him a second throw?

No, no, no, no, no.

That would have got real loud.

Wait, didn't Herbie say that if he didn't make it, that Gabby could just take Peter?

Like, she just gets a dog?

No.

Oh.

Whoa, don't worry.

Peter has never.

No, I thought that was like, hey, instead of $300,000, $500,000, you get Peter.

He's a great dog, and you can put a saddle on him.

He's making money now, too.

Look at Herbie.

Yes, he is.

He got ads.

Look at that throw.

Bang.

I'm still impressed by the throw.

In the suit.

Completed the pass, too.

I don't know if the camera picked it up, but I'm pretty sure the other guy didn't have a sick one.

They did catch it.

Oh, what?

Herbie snapped his toes.

Dude, I need to get the.

Oh, I haven't seen that.

That's a cool thing.

I need to shout out Jeff Brown, does an incredible job with the entire logistics of the raffle and everything like that.

There's a new like production assistant out there, Tatiana.

Got a chance to meet her a couple weeks ago.

She's new out there.

She's helping run the entire, obviously Herb Street with the holds.

Stanford Steve out there going underneath.

He's always, yeah, he'll come up to me afterwards.

He'll be like, that one was the closest.

It's like, hey, Steve, thanks, buddy, down there.

So I appreciate everybody that's part of it.

We have the same cameraman, too.

I need to get his info.

He's running all over the place.

He's sweating his balls off.

Yeah, I bet.

He's a worker.

Yeah, he is.

He's the one.

Was he the one that told you about the high dive?

He's the same one.

No, jib operator for DoorDash.

Been around for like 20 years with the show.

I don't really see him because he's over there.

He's the one night before at Des' house, like,

can go off that high?

Nowhere else are you going to be able to go off a high dive?

Just

think about it.

Just want you to know that.

Just nowhere else.

Cameraman

doesn't have to tell me that.

That was really cool of him to be like,

been around a long time.

I don't know if.

And I'm like, do we have a shot of it he goes oh yeah we got

a lot of shot I mean it's have you seen it I'm like no he's like it's

it's fucking right there like you were gonna be staring at so it's like a good team effort for all these things I'm very appreciative have you uh it's very expensive are they the same field goal post because they got a long travel this week yeah oh yeah yeah they are the same field goal posts and I'll tell you what I'm excited to get out there

okay I am excited to get out there to Oregon because it is beautiful once you get there and the people are very enthusiastic and they love ball out there and they'll be out there in pitch black which we are incredibly grateful for it's far though it's a far trip we're going to europe bro yeah

we're going to europe aj further almost it's out there yeah it's uh

great game i mean at least you're going now i'm not even yet dude think about think about like mid-november going there like at least now it'll still like not be freezing cold yeah oregon is still an unbelievable team like there are worse times to go to oregon

i'd be much more tired you're talking later in the season yeah Yeah, but more exhausted.

Exactly.

The morning would be, you know, 20 degrees out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right.

We're lucky.

I'm lucky to be, I'm lucky to be a part of any of this.

Just want to let everybody know that I feel that way.

But whenever Oregon pops up on our old schedule, there is like a...

Come on.

We got to go out there.

Let's go.

We get to go out there.

This week is

absolutely loaded.

There you go.

Loaded.

Huge.

So pumped.

I was this past slate.

Chaos.

It actually turned out really well.

We talked about how last year there was all those upsets in week six.

It turned out, you know, there was obviously the big one this weekend.

Penn State and UCLA was the ginormous, huge upset.

Obviously, Penn State comes off that loss to Oregon and overtime and has to travel all the way across the country.

And they run into Nico Iamaliava, who just, he looked good.

Their offensive coordinator, New Heisel's son, I can't remember his name.

Jerry New Heisel.

He was a coordinator.

Joey Molinaro.

Yeah.

It does have that high quarter too.

Exactly.

Like Joey Molinaro doing that one might be

might be the bread and butter yeah joey's pulling for him to be very good this guy becomes a head coach somewhere in a big spot joey's rolling out of bed you know this yeah i mean legitimately

four touchdown dogs hasn't called plays ever like starting on wednesday wednesday unbelievable what yeah yes wednesday found out he's calling plays first time ever his dad did you see his dad watching that

was sick so cool football's the greatest

yes he did i saw football is the greatest they were saying too like he's never operated like the headset so like half, like, a bunch of times during the game, he thought he'd be, like, telling Nico a play, and Nico would be like, yeah, I never got a play, so I kind of had to call my own, and that's what he said.

He's like, hopefully, we'll have all that figured out next week.

I'll talk to the right guy.

He's talking to the booth.

Yeah.

He was talking to the booth, thought he was talking to Nico.

All right, Nico, here we go, first down.

Let's make sure we look through this.

And so somebody in the booth's like, yo, Jerry, Jerry, no, no.

We didn't hear shit.

Beat Penn State, which is insanity.

Which is why.

to be multinational championship with a head coach.

Me too.

I hope so too, especially in the moment.

And he talked about his love of UCLA.

I don't know if there's, and I don't want to get into it, but they have an interim head coach who isn't him, so I don't want to start stepping on anybody's shit.

But, like, this dude loves UCLA.

He carried him off the field.

He was passionate about UCLA afterwards, about how great the place is.

I don't know how many of those people you're going to find right now that want to know you're right.

Yeah,

right.

So, on that note, and we're going to get the camera in the spirit guard out of the wall.

Somebody hit a wall.

Yeah, that was Georgia.

Alabama, Georgia, Texas, AM.

One of those, it was a red school.

It was definitely SEC.

That was terrible.

Terrible head for that.

Oklahoma.

Maybe it was Oklahoma, maybe.

Oh, that's scary.

Scary, scary stuff.

Penn State, though, losing that game.

So they were ranked, what, second preseason?

I think.

Who was number one?

Texas.

Oh, they lost this weekend, too, to Florida.

They beat their ass.

Oh, my God.

That was out of control to watch that.

Now,

everybody that I was around

Friday night, full college football conversation.

It felt as almost as if it was a matter of fact.

It did.

It did kind of

like everybody I was talking to was like, tomorrow, Florida.

It's good.

Yeah, everybody, legit.

That's why if you listen to us make the picks, I'm kind of like, Texas need them, need them.

But like everybody we were around was like, Florida is A, not an easy place to play.

B, if they don't put them, like Florida's defense, good.

Like everybody sees DJ Lagway have like five picks.

That's the defense keeps them in every game.

Like Arch is going to have problems.

And if Arch can't get going, is Florida going to be able to sneak through here with a win?

It's like, yep, they certainly did.

And now the conversation about Arch is loud.

And obviously, Napier's got another week to survive.

It's certainly good for him.

It's like chaos, though.

Penn State loses.

Texas loses to Florida.

Absolute pandemonium happening around ball.

Yeah, those Florida boys, they fight for Billy Napier.

But the game you were at, Bama, Vandi, it was close for a while.

And then Bama kind of pulled away late.

I thought Ty Simpson played incredible.

Vandi played incredible, too.

They just had those two red zone turnovers that really cost them.

The score was not indicative, I don't think, of what this game was.

I think what was the final 30 to something.

Bama had a very, very late touchdown to score.

But I think Ty Simpson looks really, really good.

Yeah, score and cover.

They had a late touchdown to score and cover, so everybody's just going to think that Alabama really dominated.

There were a lot of stressful moments in Nick Saban's suite.

We were lucky to be there.

Nick Saban was honored for going into the College Football Hall of Fame.

They gave him a plaque and a whole thing, and the place went crazy.

I mean, the pop was rightfully insane.

And what I've learned is getting a chance chance to do Alabama football stuff with Nick Saban is really cool.

Yeah, I would imagine.

Yeah,

it's really cool just to be able to walk wherever, talk to whoever, and even get whatever pizza we want delivered to the suite whenever we want.

But where he's at, everybody knows where his suite is.

So anytime anything happens, basically the entire stadium is looking up at him.

So Vandi scores first, big touchdown.

Nick Saban stands up.

Okay.

Tucks shirt, still has dress pants on, turns it aside and just stands like, I don't know where he was going.

I honestly still don't think he's gone anywhere.

I think he stayed in that spot.

Wanted to get up and move, though, because he was so uncomfortable, just like so uncomfortable.

Then he sits back down.

He's got Miss Terry to his left.

He's got Rhys to his right.

And then they just kind of settle back in and start watching the game.

Then something bad happens, penalty or something.

Everybody looks back at him for his reaction.

He knows, sells everything.

And then whenever the good stuff start happens, he doesn't celebrate.

So like bad things happen.

We're all like, oh, that's terrible.

Good things start happening.

We're like, let's go.

Nothing.

jason still we got long games here still so he is still i mean in fact

he locked in in those games dude he was uh very very kind of miss terry and nick to take care of us and the hospitality was absurd uh but on that note about vandy bandy's good team they are go bro bandy's a very good team diego's a dog obviously mad respect to him and everything that they've built over there but bama is real it feels like bama is real again they are and then uh the team that is definitely real miami headed to florida state And the defense put the clamps on early.

And then Malachi Toney,

the freshman wide receiver, just put on an absolute show.

That's not him there.

That is C.J.

Daniels.

The celebrations all night were awesome.

Here's an interception by Miami.

And then the next two touchdowns were by Malachi Toney, the freshman wide receiver for Miami.

And Carson's back looked really good.

They look fast.

They look strong.

They look explosive.

They look the part.

Miami looks the part.

And Malachi tony hadn't scored a touchdown since week one who gave me that stat

i think i shot you that way that was derision right there i sent d butt uh i get the miami offense film breakdown that i'm going to do for game day i send it over to d-butt and aq each week i get like what my clip is going to be i send it to d-butt and aq this week felt a little bit more personal for darris there's a little personal stats a little personal ideas in there and uh big play waiting to happen is what you called malachi tony the rookie freshman over there yeah we all saw him week one against not a dame they even called back probably his best touchdown play with the illegal motion or whatever it was.

But yeah, he is a big play waiting to happen.

He reminds me a lot of another Miami legend, our former teammate, T.Y.

Hilton.

And whenever he gets the ball, whether it's just a quick screen or a deep ball down the field, he can make that type of play.

And he does the dirty work, too.

He'll get in there and block.

You saw on C.J.

Daniels' screen that he took to the crib.

Tim made a huge block.

So yeah, they are a team that can win in a variety of ways.

They can run the ball down your throat.

They can air it out.

And then on defense, Ruben Bain and Messador, I mean, they are just monsters.

So, DBs, if the DBs can show up and continue to make those plays on the back end, this team will be very, very tough to beat.

Now, ideally, for Miami Hurricanes fans, we'll have Miami and we'll have Ohio State, and then they'll meet the national championship.

Get back.

And then we'll

sweet revenge.

Sweet, sweet revenge, AJ.

I'm looking forward to it because Ohio State had another, you know, monster blowout as well.

Yeah, so I actually said a couple times on game day because it was my job to talk about that game.

Hey, don't let Minnesota

give Ohio.

You said TJ Flex liked golf.

I appreciate that.

That was good.

Is it that right, though?

One good shot, yeah.

There's like one good thing that happens and it brings you back for the next year.

It's like, this could be the big thing.

Now, was I saying that strictly because I was to talk about that particular game and what should I say about that particular game other than that?

But for Ohio State, you just go out and handle business the way they did.

I mean, that says a lot about your team.

Yep.

Traveled to Washington last year or last week.

That's a long trip.

You just killed a team that had a 22-home game win streak.

You beat their soul out.

And then you got Minnesota just waiting for you, kind of looming, lingering.

Are you going to go ahead and let this one kind of slip past the goalie?

Uh-uh.

They bury him, AJ.

Number one team in the country still for good reason.

Yeah, they're in like a weird spot, though, like where you're almost using.

games as a you know an elevated practice for your team to like work on certain things that's not like a disrespectful thing like minnesota is a good team they really are But you have so much talent.

I guess when your defense is playing so well, you don't have that as much pressure on your offense.

And yeah, I mean, you can't say enough about Matt Patricia and the studs that Ohio State has on defense because they are very fun to watch, fundamentally sound, fast as lightning, and super physical.

They're averaging five and a half points per game going into this game.

It's dropped down to five now, I believe, is where it's at.

They're giving up only five points per game, not even a touchdown, let alone an extra point.

That's what they're having.

And then I rattled off some of the names.

This was Tone Diggs special going into game day.

He's like, hey, this defense might be best of all time.

And then you just think of the names that are still there.

Sonny Styles, obviously, you got Caleb Dons and all the boys there.

It's just like, it's a hook.

Arbo Reese, number eight, Arbel Reese, there's a guy who keeps him on.

Showing his closing speed on Twitter, showing clips of him.

The guy, not only is he, I think he's like 6'4, 235, can run like a madman.

Like, just so, he's such a good player.

Sean Perkins, legend at Ohio State.

Before first game day, I'm walking onto the stage.

I go, hey, what do I, who, just one last thing to like for me to say up there I'm always asking the local people like hey what is something and he said number eight R.

Vel Reese is the one and I go okay and I completely forget about it I completely forget about it I think he had five sacks or something that day or four

he went like absolutely crazy and I'm like oh my god I could have looked like a genius Sean Perkins fucking told me this guy literally going into this guy he said that this was that's literally what he said to me he was like because all the local people know more shit than like you're gonna be able to find like the local Sean works for uh the buckeyes has for like 30 years so he loves the team he's taking care of us a lot we love that particular guy but at all these places you like run into somebody that motherfucker is going to have more info on the that's going on if you catch the right person than any of the things you can find on the internet or any of the highlights it's like well actually this guy

he he's the boy of bubba ba who's with bubba so he's gonna get more opportunities than this guy this guy though has never never quit just She's continued to fight.

Those types of things come from the local fans.

Sean told me about number eight.

He was like, he's the one, and he certainly has.

The big question about the Ohio State defense coming to the year was they lost, you know, they lost the hunt.

They lost all four starting defensive linemen and stuff like that.

And then coordinator too.

Yeah, and the coordinator.

And they're like, oh, they're going to be up.

Yes.

R.

Val Reese, Caden Curry, I think, has five sacks.

They're like, they just, they just got to wait in the wings.

And Ryan Day, the way he's talking, I like the way he's talking.

He talked.

talked about

it and a lot of people are saying it's a new Ryan Day, but he's basically talking about like right now.

Think about how you're on those dudes every single day because they are so good and everyone's pumping them up.

Like, I bet he is coaching those boys tough.

Practice is not easy over there.

I assume he's called a lot of people, Saban dynasty people.

Hey, listen, how do I

what is the goal?

Kirby, Bill,

and New England.

Well, yeah, I was going to say, Bill and UNC is an absolute,

you know.

I already did my calling for a thing.

I don't want to do it to Bill 2.

Man, that was

just sad, though, how after you guys talked to him on game day and you know, it's like okay, here we go.

Here we go and then Clemson first played like a 75-yard touchdown on the first place.

Just like, oh boy, here we go again.

And they really stink they do dude so bad.

I think he already has more 25-point losses than like Mac Brown had in his whole run, which is crazy to think about.

But yeah, I mean, it's everything.

We kind of saw that.

I mean, at least I saw that one coming with Clemson coming in one and three.

Yeah.

Almost.

Dab Oak in his name.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was almost like a get-right game.

I mean, it sucks to see Belichick in that type of.

Is there any hope?

Do they have any hope?

No.

Oh, hold on.

I called

some source.

Says.

And because Bill said at the end of the interview with us on game day, he said, we're just trying to get a recruiting class.

We haven't even had a recruiting class yet.

I think there is a thought that their recruiting class is through the draft is how that's kind of being viewed.

Remember, high school is like draft.

Free agency is the transfer portal.

I think they feel like they got to build culture through draft kind of is how they're thinking.

So I think they are very focused on recruiting.

And there's a chance that the sales pitch is like, hey, you can be the one that helps us turn this.

You can get playing time.

So they think they're going to do, I think, this is not directly from horse's mouth, but this is pretty close there.

It's like they still very much believe that, yes, it's going to take some time.

He even answered to me, like, it's a process.

It's going to take longer than we thought it was.

But I think they're trying to build through recruiting when you're hearing a lot of other people potentially transfer portal stuff.

So is it, will it be a viable option?

We shall see.

That's what Clemson was trying to do, right?

Yeah.

And they get the

cream of the crop.

So

when you're playing, when you're talking, everything you're doing at the college level is recruiting.

So like that game, it maybe had some big-time recruits there.

Oh, yeah, but not anymore.

So like every time you see that, they think they can be the change.

Yeah, but I always get worried about the, hey, it's going to be a process.

We knew it was going to take time.

It's like, well, Bill, you're not 35.

You're damn near 75.

So, like, I don't know, like, that, I don't think that's what anyone was signing up for.

Like, hey, we knew this was going to take five years.

We did, though, didn't we?

Yeah.

Yeah, but

there was maybe.

Remember, we looked at the schedule.

Precisely, you're right.

Hey, they win nine games this year.

Very nice schedule.

Not me.

Yeah, I think we all.

Are people showing up at the home games?

It looked like there was a decent amount of people there.

I mean, not at the end.

Well,

so empty at the end.

They also kept running an interview of a student.

I don't know if you guys kept meeting It was hilarious.

I did not.

What happened?

They were interviewing a student going to break, and the student was like, I was here for the TCU game.

And

it's so bad.

It's the worst moment I've ever had.

On the stadium?

Yeah.

Yeah, they said it was the worst moment I've had on campus.

And I failed my physics class or something like that.

What?

I failed midterms before.

Yikes.

Hold on.

Is this the interview right here that we're showing?

No, this is not it.

It was weird.

It was kind of like.

It was on the stadium.

It was

on the broadcast.

Yeah, it was a cut away from the broadcast, probably like eight seconds, and then she was like muted for maybe like a minute.

Here it is, here it is.

We found it, British.

She was making moves.

TCU was...

I went to that game, and

that was one of the saddest feelings I've had in university so far.

And I've failed midterms before, so that's saying something.

Oh, boy.

Why did it run that?

Why do you run that?

Holy shit.

Who found that?

Hey, go out and get bad quotes about this thing.

Yeah, for real.

If this game, imagine a producer going, this game might be be a blowout.

We're going to need shit late.

Go get content.

Go see how people feel.

You know who it is.

There's a chance.

Because I mean, when Bill was on the top of the mountain, you know, he didn't have the greatest relationship with a lot of media people.

So people behind the scenes now and the guys down, they're going to take that opportunity

for sure.

Yeah, a lot of opportunities, too, especially the more and more we learn about everything.

But hey,

it's a process.

That's right.

But Ron Regan is pitching the same thing.

Okay.

Yeah, but I believe believe that one.

Because he's done it before.

Yeah, but Rich keeps playing good football teams.

BYU is a really good football team.

They're good football teams.

BYU is a really good good football team.

Utah is a good football team.

Ohio University with Navarro playing quarterbacks.

Good football.

They're good football

state this weekend.

Especially Athens, Ohio.

That's fucking

a tough place to go.

Pitt's a great football team.

We beat them.

They won 60-0 this weekend, so yeah, actually.

New quarterback.

You saw that finished.

That's crazy.

For everything that Holstein has done for them, for them to just go to a new quarterback is wild, but I guess that's Marin World.

They've made a lot of problems.

Holstein heard a good bit of change as well.

I heard he

thought he was like number one in the country in turnover worthy plays or something like that.

Well, I'm sure that's a real stat.

Yeah, it's gonna be a fifth.

Which we all know is good.

Did you hear a Connor earlier, Connor?

And I have so much left to say.

No, no, no.

But I'm not gonna, okay?

I'm gonna move forward.

That's right.

And I'm just glad it's out there that

the entire, and again, I'm not saying this sarcastically, the entire 120 replies to my tweet all said yes we need a change

so usually it's like a good you talk about it's like a good sample size and i'm not saying it's a focus group it's a good focus group so right now it's 120 zero x does lean a little negative though sometimes it's sometimes every once in a while yeah there was even a little bit of heat on the um

um

so i let Coach Saban go

last.

I was going to walk out right after him.

I thought that was was a bad play.

I didn't like that he was going to walk out like third or whatever.

Smart.

It's like, hey, you built this entire place, but he also couldn't hear anything.

So I was like yelling for him.

The way they have it set up backstage now, too, is a lot of people with a lot of cameras.

So like as soon as you exit the production, me, you are,

we are in, we are on, which is life and everything like that.

So that type of decision, I should have, I guess, thought ahead and been like, hey, coach, you should go out here last because obviously he doesn't know that.

But boy, at this moment, he's walking up there and all that's going through my head is full panic.

Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, no way am I following.

I'm following Nick Saban.

No fucking way.

That is literally what's going through my head.

It's like, no, no, no, I am not following you, brother.

There is no chance of that happening.

Let me go ahead and get the hell out of the way, basically.

And then when he went up there, it was awesome.

And I saw him smile and take it in, you know, because I think there was a lot of reminiscing, obviously.

And he's like a very much watch next, watch next.

Oh, a hundred million dollar facility we're building for Nick's kids to take care of the next generation and everything like that in the city.

Oh, this also happened.

This also happened.

Yeah, like he is still giving back and always on like the next thing focus.

But like what him and Miss Terry have done to that city and what he has obviously brought to that city was special.

And watching him get that pop at the end was fucking cool, man.

That's like one of those really cool lucky.

I got goosebumps and I almost started crying watching this place like go crazy for him and him like smile and like wave for it.

But it's like, yeah, dude,

you mean a lot to these motherfuckers.

i hope you understand and that video of uh was that you recorded him for dixi land yeah that was awesome you think that's the first time that he's ever sung it out loud and oh maybe in tennessee too no we were there yeah but like that was the first time i've ever seen like because on the sideline he's not singing it you know like that's probably like one of the first times where he's actually saying the words so they say oh he says x words yeah a lot of people yeah love that i love that he's that he's getting his flowers while you know we always say he give people their flowers while they can still smell them yeah and like the fact that he is this legend and he's still completely still with it and there and he's getting all his flowers and all, not only in Bama, obviously in Bama in the house that he built, but just college football in general.

Now being on game day with you guys, like that kicking off the freaking weekend,

it's awesome.

And that fucking hallway y'all were in too.

That road tie.

That was sick.

Just rebuilt that up.

Yeah.

And once again, they're using money that was brought in by, you know, but Kalen's got his own team there.

Yeah.

They have their Ty Simpson.

Dog.

I talked to Josh, me and Chad.

Yep.

Great to see him.

How was that restaurant?

Ramadan?

Yeah.

Oh, Rama Jamao got good groups around here.

Take your little bacon there, get a little bit of this, a couple of eggs.

You know, shit.

Josh Chapman was amazing.

He had a mug.

I didn't see anybody else in there with a mug of coffee.

I got like a plastic cup.

Sure.

Like normal, like a normal cup of coffee.

He had a mug of coffee in there.

I think he, oh, with Friday, I'll come in here, get breakfast in my laser Rama Jamao.

Josh Chapman, four-time national champion, two-time as a player, two-time as as staff/slash coach down there, still with the team, obviously a living legend.

But I was asking him while we were at Rama Jama about the team, and he talked because he's around him every single day, player development.

He was like, Ty Simpson, like he's got a real leader, man.

He thinks very, very highly of who Ty is as not only quarterback, but who he is as a player and person off the field and how he leads.

And he said he's got a lot of nick in him.

This guy's got a lot of savings.

Wow.

And then he also has,

obviously, Kalen and Grubb with their offense.

You know, is very, he's got a good handle on the offense as well.

And he can move better, I think, than a lot of people initially look at him and think it is.

He's a player.

Ty Simpson is a real player.

And I think if they go, it's going to be because of him.

And I think he's the right guy, is what everybody's saying.

And everyone talks about Ryan Williams, but this year you could argue Jeremy Bernard has been their best receiver.

He's scored in damn near every single game.

And Isaiah Horton, also at number one, he looks the part.

He had an early drop, stuck with it.

He's like,

I mean, he is

on freaks.

Yeah, they got, they have it all still down there, you know?

Yeah, they still have it all.

But I did.

I saw Ty Simpson.

Sorry, I saw Ty Simpson early in that game look to the sideline and start yelling and like hitting his chest.

Like, hey, let me throw this thing.

Like, basically, open it up.

Let me take over this game.

It was, that was awesome to see, honestly.

I know I heard you talk about what chap said about him.

That makes me feel much better about him because I would, you know, if you're not around him, you don't know.

You just know what you see on TV.

But when I see how fire he is and how much of a leader he is, like, yeah, these dudes have a chance.

And the way his accuracy is his thing, like, you start thinking about Sunday with him whenever you're watching him, especially with the way he's firing and everything.

You start thinking to yourself, like, this is Sunday-type quarterback right here.

And nobody had him on any preseason rankings.

Nope.

No.

Shit.

It was a question mark.

What?

A quarterback.

Yeah, because we just didn't know.

He's a guy.

Good for Alabama, man.

Hell yeah.

That was fun to be a part of down there.

I don't know if you saw me in Turbo.

Did you see me in Turbo, AJ?

Turbo?

I don't know.

Yeah, Turbo had this sign.

Young boy.

Oh, I saw this.

Yeah.

That was good.

He beat you, huh?

Yeah, he was getting after me, too.

He said he was going to put me down.

And I said, excuse me, I'm going to put you down, actually.

I'm going to put you down, a little turbo.

And, you know, got a chance to run into him afterwards before I headed out of there.

And, you know, Turbo might have got the best of me this time.

Should have chopped him across the chest.

Well,

I almost sent his sternum to his spine.

I thought about it.

But after experiencing the power of Turbo right there in my hand.

Oh.

Yeah, he got me right there.

He got me.

Yeah, it's turbo football right there.

Hurt my elbow still dinged up.

You need Tommy John, maybe.

Well, I think it's tennis, actually.

It could be.

I think it's tennis elbow.

It's not the full UCL.

I got it checked out.

I got it checked out by a doctor.

That's normally what follows an interaction with turbo arm wrestling.

Trip to the doctor.

Yeah.

And I did it.

You arm wrestle turbo.

You might as well book a one-way trip to the doctor to check out what's going on with your elbow.

And I did it.

He said it's tennis elbow.

I just have to work on it.

Okay, good.

But, you know, I thought the move was.

You got to break the wrist.

Yeah, you got to break them down.

It didn't matter what you did there.

I know.

I tried.

He got in there early, too.

He locks me up.

He go over the top on you?

Well,

yeah.

But he went over top early with his grip.

Okay.

You know, the grip is a big part of it.

That is what he's doing.

Yeah.

So turbo is a vet.

Turbo football.

I should have brought out the strap, actually.

Yeah.

And said, hey, I don't like the grip.

I don't like the grip.

We need neutral grip here as opposed to what you're doing with a strong arm there.

But it also could have been because we're doing it on my knee.

It could have been.

But he got the good grip early.

I felt it.

Turbo kind of alpha in me quickly.

And then off the jump, too.

And I was the one doing the countdown.

I don't know how he had the snap count so much better than me.

That thing was early strained.

Man, he took it home.

That's a lot of conditioning.

That's a lot of cardio.

I got it.

Shout out Turbo.

Shout out Turbo.

Shout out Turbo.

Even that shoe untied and he did it too.

Wow.

Go, Moxie.

You saw it.

10 years old.

10 years old.

That's awesome.

How was

How was Theo?

Theo Vaughn.

I thought he was hilarious.

I saw some people obviously utilizing the opportunity to take a shot at Theo.

I don't love.

They do that to me all the time.

We put together a good little clip of all of his things.

Theo Vaughn.

Still bringing it?

Still bringing it.

Knew what he was talking about.

He's a white pick.

And had something for every game.

Then he did get off track one time.

What is the game?

Yeah.

And that's the best part.

Little from Virginia.

Got it.

Got it.

Okay.

Yeah.

How about him one time?

I said something to him.

He said, I'm going to make my pick right now.

Yeah, yeah, hold on.

That's okay.

Yeah, you do what you got to do there.

Then out of nowhere, squirrel, pavia.

Yeah.

I got Javi Pavia down here.

He's going to end up in jail tonight.

Free to pavias.

Yeah, tell us backwards.

They're not even in jail yet, bro.

Yeah, but free him.

He was.

I enjoy Theo.

I enjoy Theo.

Just before he came off.

Will I see you again?

Hopefully not.

Goal.

James.

Hey, good burial by Jeff.

Great.

Just in real time.

In real time, that's a good, that's a great answer.

He had a good response, too.

He tweeted, shooter, shoot.

Yeah.

Yeah, I thought it was great.

I thought it was a good time.

It wasn't as hot as I thought it was going to be.

Huge.

Which is a big deal.

Really big.

The food, unbelievable.

All the food was unbelievable.

Saban hosted something at his house.

How'd it go?

Well, he's got a Ferrari dealership, so he obviously has a Ferrari.

This thing,

four different pouches of America's best.

Okay.

Of course.

The artist formerly known as Red Man.

Red Man.

He had

one up underneath like the radio, but it's a Ferrari, so there's not really a lot of space.

There's a race car.

It's not really like built like an SUV or whatever.

Then he had three different ones in the door.

Were they all the brown flavor?

Or was there any greens in there?

All brown flavored.

Sugar-free.

Three in here.

That's the way.

Okay.

One up here.

Then a double styrofoam cup cup in the middle, right?

Clearly spitter.

Yes.

And it's just like anywhere he reaches in that cart, there is at least a pouch.

And I thought that was hysterical.

And I asked him, I said,

you know, how long have you been?

He said straight face, seventh grade.

So I think there is maybe, there's maybe no other mouth that has had more

America's best in it.

Slash.

Yeah, he ain't calling it America's best.

I know that.

He's also confirmed the only human being on the world who probably has just shreds of red man laying around a Ferrari.

Confirmed.

Yeah.

It's not the low, it's not the low Ferrari either.

This is one of the

open that door, open that door, literally looked in there.

First thing I see is just all the all of them just in the door.

And then I look in there, there's one there, and then I see the styrofoam come.

I'm like, it's a nice car for sure.

This is fucking awesome that you are still just guy from West Virginia here, you know, just getting there.

What?

yeah, what are we talking about?

And then he's got one in there at the time.

He's a legend, most relatable goat that I've ever encountered, if I had to guess.

And he also gave Gumpy a little bit, and Gumpy took up the opportunity at dinner, you know.

Had to boy Gumpy.

How long did you have it in?

Had to do it whole time.

Same as coach.

As soon as he was done with it, I was done with it.

Way to represent a lot of juice in there.

Tall body.

There's a lot of juice.

He offered the bag.

We were sitting, just finished dinner at the dinner table.

I was like, have to do it.

Yeah, he literally pulled it out and he goes, Gump, you want some?

And Gumpy stands up.

Yeah.

Got those feet dangling.

Yeah, can I keep this?

Can I keep this?

He looked like a professional, too.

Looked like a Gumpy really took me back.

On the moment.

He did.

He did great.

I fucking busted my phone out as soon as I could.

Yeah.

It's a moment.

It's a moment.

I got the entire interaction, the handoff, the hand in.

Love it.

The pack in, the pack to the side, the whole thing.

Yeah, it was a good moment.

The Sabins are good people.

They are really good people.

It's amazing that they were able to be so successful and still remain.

You know what I mean?

The people they work with are such good people too.

Like Miss Amy, you talk about all the time.

She's amazing.

They're surrounded by great people too.

Miss Amy's a weapon.

Miss Katie, we hung around this weekend,

assistant, awesome.

Let's see, who else up there?

I don't think you could be a turd and hang around the Sabans.

Look at the coaching tree that this guy has produced.

Like,

he knows how to surround him with good people.

Agreed.

Yeah,

he's first class.

Lucky to be up there with him.

Okay, AJ, tonight is a big one for you and me.

True.

Okay, I had a rough week last weekend.

You won that one.

And then this weekend, you're seeing the board in impeccable fashion.

Wow.

10 and 3 against the spread.

This isn't just straight up.

Now, I'm 9-4.

That's a pretty good fucking week.

What you can see there is a one-pick swing.

That's funny because there's only one pick left.

Wow.

Debutch, we will hopefully have you help us out a little bit here.

Who do you like?

How do you like it with the Kansas City Chiefs going into Duval?

And it's three and a half point favorites.

It was Travis Kelsey's birthday yesterday.

Happy birthday, Travis.

Happy birthday, Trevor.

We learned a lot about Travis, and it is Trevor Lawrence's birthday today.

What?

Happy birthday, Trevor Lawrence.

Happy birthday, Travis.

Trevor.

Travis's birthday yesterday.

Trevor's birthday today.

Life of a Showgirl, we learned a lot about Travis, and a good thing, just a few days ago.

So the off-field vibes, I honestly, I think it swings a little bit in Travis's favor.

But anytime you got a birthday game, obviously you're going to take that into account for Trevor Lawrence.

Happy birthday to him.

Debutch, Florida Boy.

That's huge.

Jacksonville, you've had great games against the Jaguars.

Yeah.

In primetime, in Jacksonville.

Yes.

Now we're back to primetime Jacksonville, hosting who's maybe in the middle of a dynastic run, the Kansas City Chiefs.

How do you see it going?

You know what?

The Jags are kind of outperforming where we thought they would be at this point.

And I would say the opposite for the Chiefs.

We probably expected them to be doing a little bit better.

The Battle of the Birthdays, with Trevor being home, maybe he went out last night, got too boozed up.

Trevor,

he's a father.

Travis is on the road.

Wifey's doing great things.

The girl got a great album out, doing great numbers.

I just think the vibes are too out.

You got the fucking plate here, too.

That was a big point.

That kind of put me over the edge.

So I got the Chiefs on the road covering three and a half against the Jacks.

Okay, I believe Taylor Swift's movie about her album was the number one movie of the weekend.

Of course.

I heard it.

It was amazing.

I didn't beat it.

Yeah, Smashing Machine got more.

I'm not.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, no, no.

Good call, actually.

Yeah, I saw Smashing Machine got like 60 or 70 million.

No, it did not.

But that's a tough weekend to debut a movie.

Taylor Swift decides to come into the movie world the same exact weekend.

Not that it's the same demo, but any movie that's going out that weekend is tough.

That is very tough.

But also, 15 minutes to annotation piece of art.

Let's not worry about what we're opening weekend.

I'm pumped to see

pump to see any of it.

Also, whenever it starts streaming, we will all watch it.

But on that note, Taylor Swift won the music and the movies.

Taylor or Travis going to win the football on Monday night.

AJ, who do you like?

How do you like it?

Man, I know you most likely will be picking opposite of what I pick.

I understand that's how it works.

I have a feeling I know where you are leaning, but I like Jacksonville on this one.

I really do, man.

Give me Jacksonville, what, plus three and a half, Tone?

Is that the best I can get?

Yes, sir.

All right.

You got Jacksonville plus three and a half.

I guess I got the Kansas City Chiefs.

Yeah.

Minus three and a half.

And then, AJ, do you think it's going to go over or under 45 and a half, just in case we're going to break a tie here?

Give me the over.

I like the over, too.

We'll take a tie.

We'll take a tie.

You sure?

Because the Jags defense has kind of been holding the teams pretty fucking nothing.

And Spank all over.

I'll take the under as well.

I'll take the under as well.

So you got the over in the Jags.

I got the under in Kansas City.

All right.

All right.

Both teams are two and two to the over and under.

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That's A.J.

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

One half of the Hammer.

Time.

Cowboys AP Toner is here.

Nine-year NFL vet.

Darius J.

Butler is here.

And ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived at the time that we all enjoy.

It is time to hear how sports fans from around the globe feel, not just in the NFL on this particular week, but also in college football and even a little bit of baseball action.

What I did is put out a tweet saying, hey, listen, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

I'd like to check the temperature of some of these fan bases, AJ.

You know, I want to know what the actual fans feel about their actual programs.

You know what I'm saying, AJ?

I do.

I know exactly what you're saying, yeah.

So I put out a bird call.

I say, excuse me, could you help me out here?

I'd like to learn learn a little bit about how you feel about your team.

It ended up being number one, Trent on X.

So we appreciate everybody for participating.

And the best ones to make the show, all you got to use is the hashtag.

I don't want to overreact.

But

Ty goes through them.

Let's go through them.

Congrats, Ty.

Another great week, I've heard.

Yeah, personally, I think this is the best week to date.

Okay, this is from Boston Connor.

Guy looks like a legend.

Ha!

Sorry, Buffalo.

Just got a call from the window cleaners.

They told me yours is closed.

Hashtag, I don't want to react.

Boom.

You're saying that window's done.

Now, Drake May has showed up, and it's now his time to get a drafty window seal.

I mean, look, I just think there, I won't say it's close, but it feels as though it is starting to shut.

You know, Drake May is approaching one of those, you know, quarterbacks that could be elite.

I don't know if he is yet.

I think Josh Allen has a lot to do with,

you know, that.

Shit, I forgot to pull up the freaking Poison Cuervo before this started.

Sweet spots.

But no, it just seems as though Drake May is on that kind of trajectory.

Like, Josh Allen, as unbelievable as he is, there really isn't a comparison between his second year and Drake May's second year.

Drake May is like very far along, it feels like already, and it's really all about this guy.

I'm going to be honest.

After, I don't know if you saw the after reaction to the 52-yarder, but Drake May like pops up from the bench.

He's like so pumped, going nuts.

He's literally going over to Vrabel to give him a hug.

Yeah, right here.

And you can see Drake basically just stopping his steps because Vrabel tells him like, hey, still 13 seconds left right here.

Yeah.

Just stop, Drake.

Just stop, Drake.

And that's exactly what it's all about.

Like, our culture wasn't that, and now it's coming back.

And the Bills window isn't closed.

But the fact that they didn't go to a Super Bowl

in six years when the division was just a bunch of pieces of shit.

Boy, oh, boy.

That's, that's going to be a tough pill to swallow for Buffalo.

Big win for the New England Patriots.

And Clyde Christensen, a former quarterback coach of mine, was with Drake May in his final year down in North Carolina, which was actually his red shirt sophomore season at North Carolina.

And Clyde Christensen said, this guy's got a lot of Peyton in him, right?

But much more athletic.

I mean, much more athletic.

This is...

He said, this is the guy.

Debut, why is this the one that you need to run on repeat to show people that Drake May's a dude?

I mean, just when you talk about a handful of quarterbacks, we talk about Lamar Jackson, we talk about Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, obviously, there's only a hand, Justin Herbert, a handful of quarterbacks that can make this type of throw on the run, on the sideline, unbelievable.

And you see him do this kind of time and time again.

Yes.

And for him to be where he is in just his second year.

I know Conman didn't give a lot of credit to Josh McDaniels, but I will give a ton of credit to Josh McDaniels because if you watch the tape throughout the year, for him to be leading the league in completion percentage, you didn't expect that for Drake May coming out.

You expect a lot of people compared him to Josh Allen I don't know if you guys remember when this draft and it was one two three at the top I said hey this would be my guy that I would take one Caleb I think he will be great you golfed with him yeah that's it's a D-Bun New

D-Buck New Dan McClyde said I mean

the family you said the family you like the family I like it's not just the quarterback you know this is where everybody AJ everybody knows this it's not just the player it's about the people around him as well.

You can tell he was a humble guy.

He was a guy that was always kept in check.

He was the younger brother who got beat up on and kind of an all shucks young kid.

And you just see him growing up.

And I think that does have a lot to do with obviously Mike Vrable, but the coaches around him, Stephon Diggs, I think he's been a great teammate as well.

So yeah, I think the trajectory is definitely up.

And Caleb and Jaden are obviously very good talents as well.

We'll see with Caleb.

He looked great.

Could continue.

We shall see.

Jaden, obviously a guy.

D-Butt said, hey, did you see that?

throw last night.

It's the one.

And it was like five different throws from Drake May pop up in our mind.

And that's that's like, this dude's making massive plays.

Even last year, whenever they sucked, Connor was like, we got a quarterback.

Our team stinks, but we got a quarterback.

Special time for New England.

Again, it feels like with Vraves at the helm, AJ.

There isn't.

There's another throw.

I believe maybe midway, halfway through the third quarter, they're backed up third and seven.

Drake May gets flushed from the pocket, completes the ball for a first down to Diggs on the sideline.

I'm like, I think they were up by three, maybe up 13, 10 at the time, but just like, as far as flipping field position, keeping the ball, like things like like that drake seems to come up with those big plays like how many times we talk about quarterbacks where you're like there's going to be a couple times two three four times in this game when they need to convert a big third down conversion and drake seems to be on fire with those right now stephon diggs becomes the first wide receiver since julian edelman in 2019 to have back-to-back 100-yard receiving days remember um there was a time where the wide receivers didn't even touch the ball in new england like that six seven eight straight week time where the wide receivers didn't even get the rock and uh now it feels like like they're special on offense.

We assume defense is going to be good.

Yeah, they're actually, I believe statistically now,

one, two, or three as far as total yardage.

James Cook has been over 100.

He had less than 50 yards.

And then Josh Allen, obviously, we forced him to throw an interception, which Drake may not.

And then we forced two fumbles.

I mean, it's one of those things where the team is now all out there.

There's no like lingering training camp stuff.

Gonzalez is out there.

And the biggest thing, I mean, you can talk about the five-play, 74-yard touchdown drive to answer after the Bills come out at halftime and walk down the field and score.

That was huge.

Two minutes left, 20 to 20, game on the line.

What happens?

Like, that's when you find out if you have a quarterback or not.

And we won, bitch.

We got a guy.

We got a guy that makes a huge throw.

Everybody's talking about that whole shot throw being the throw.

I watched Teddy Brewski like freak out this morning.

He said, we got a guy.

We got a guy.

We got a guy.

In the biggest moment, hardest defense, he hits hits the hardest throw in a huge situation on the road.

And then your kicker hits this 52-yard, I think hits the top of the net.

That just hit the net up there.

Yeah, that ball, Borealis, out of Miami, his older brother kicked at Miami before him.

And then now he's up there in New England.

He absolutely destroys that football.

Outside.

Dead center.

Outside, dead.

I mean, you want to talk about having a clear mind.

Rookie.

Yeah, first time in this moment, obviously, with a massive AFC East Division Division rival, Josh Allen, MVP on the other side, Sunday night football.

He's got iBlack on and he is completely clear-minded.

Love everything about it.

Congrats to the Patriots.

Let's go to the next one here.

Let's stand to AFC East.

This one's from Company.

Hashtag, I don't want to overreact.

But that was the worst loss of the Mike McDaniel era, and there's been some bad ones.

Okay.

Nothing will change because Stephen Ross doesn't care enough to get rid of Chris Greer.

This muppet.

These knobs.

Obviously, the defense can't stop the run, but they did force two turnovers.

An offensive-minded coach with a QB on a $212 million contract couldn't move the ball in five straight drives after going up 17-0.

They'll tell you this team is going to figure it out, but they won't.

We're four years into this.

And obviously, incredible Grand Theft Auto.

Now, Gumps,

yesterday you were pretty bummed out.

I did see that.

I did see your little bummed out because you guys were doing it.

You guys were doing it.

early.

He was having a great time in the suite.

God.

17-0.

It was over.

It was 17-0.

We forced him to fourth and five in the fucking second quarter.

The game was over.

Five straight punts.

You know how hard that is when you're up 17-0 on a team and your quarterback's getting $212 million.

I understand the defense stinks.

We all knew the defense was going to stink.

They're not getting paid.

We got an offensive-minded coach.

It just can't happen and it's going to continue to happen.

Mick Daniels is not going anywhere.

Tua's not going anywhere.

Just run it back next year.

Xavier Legette became a guy yesterday for the Carolina Panthers, Debu.

Honestly.

And Bryce Young has a monumental comeback under there.

17 points.

There's nothing to sneeze at.

I couldn't believe it happened.

And it was absolute chaos yesterday across the NFL, but I couldn't believe.

You got Dowdell.

That's got Dowdell.

That shouldn't happen.

200-yard.

And it's happened to me.

We had Jonah Gray, who came out of them.

Dono,

what's his name?

Dowdell?

Rico.

Rico.

That's the cowboy, former cowboy, right?

Okay, I remember Duke.

But yeah,

you can't give up 200 fucking yards on the ground to one guy.

You definitely can't give up a 17-point lead to all the points that Gump made.

They will still be there.

They'll run it back, not only with Mike, not only with Tua.

Chris Greer will be there calling the shots as well.

But yeah, this actually,

it's really, really, really stunk.

A lot of hope, and then absolutely nothing.

It's kind of like what a Miami Dolphins fan's entire season is like just in one game.

Yeah, certainly.

So good for you guys, getting a chance to experience a year's worth of stuff and emotions in one particular ballgame against Carolina Panthers.

But silver lining, we are the only undefeated team in history.

1972 Dolphins.

Thank you, Don Shula.

Take the tractor another run.

Shout out to Mercury Morse.

Shout out to the Eagles and Bills.

He got a grandson in the league?

I'm not sure.

Shula?

Oh, I'm not sure.

Chris Shula.

Oh, you're going to sell some D.C.

of the Rams.

Bring him them home, dude.

That's what has to happen here.

That's what has to happen.

Hell, that's what you want as the next head coach.

Yeah.

He better have his coolest shoes as McDaniel has.

Did you see those little tags, AJ?

Yeah, that would be very annoying, I feel like, wouldn't it?

I would rip that thing off, especially after a loss.

Well, especially if you're not wearing full-size pants either.

Well, they aren't full-size.

They're just fashionable.

Well, just play.

Just coach, man.

Just put a drive together.

We're up 17-0 with fucking Waddle and Waller and Tua and HN HN and Ollie Gordon.

You have all the weapons of the world, man.

17-0 to the Panthers and you lose?

That's fucking atrocious.

But the shoes looked cool.

They did.

And in 1972, I'm defeated champ.

The only ones ever, dude.

It was awesome, too.

It was like a curb your enthusiasm episode.

That video, right before you see Mick Daniels, you hear someone like tip over like a dumpster or something.

Someone's so pissed.

and then him just walking.

You just hear the little flaps of the tags on his shoes.

Oh, man.

What was that thing?

What was that thing when we were growing up?

It was like the skip step.

You remember that?

Oh, yeah.

Hop skip or something.

You would have to walk on

your ankle.

You jump on each other.

It's like he was doing that with his tag.

He was like,

did you not see the way he was walking?

That thing was moving.

No, no, I agree.

I see the visual because I used to try to do that little skip thing, too, when I was young, and how many could count.

But, yeah, for, I think, I guess once you're losing and once you realize you lose this game, that thing in your brain, how would you not pay attention?

I got this stupid bag thing off my shoes now.

Shoot, everything bothers you.

Somebody pull these pants down.

Should have used those.

Hey, good luck, bro.

Pull it for you.

Should have used that screenshot, him walking instead of the GTA one.

That may just replace that whole fucking

here.

We go again.

Let's go to our next overreaction.

This one's from John Minnetakis, also known as John Minnetonkus, which is also known as Jimmy's from Jimmy's famous seafood, also known as the ones who had the parade for those cicadas that came out of the earth.

Yep.

Remember, they had a cicada parade whenever they had COVID too, right?

There's a chance it was fatted at one of their festivals.

They also host the tail goat, where they raised a bunch of money before Baltimore Ravens gave.

They also have golf outings every single year, I think, raising millions of dollars for their community.

They have the greatest crab cakes that I've ever had.

Their food is impeccable.

They're an American dream story.

This guy.

But also,

can't get too close to him.

They'll celebrate cicadas.

That's right.

They'll do the code.

Yeah, they always invite us to tailgate and I say, I spit on your tailgate.

You shouldn't say that.

That's what I do.

They're pretty rooted with the cicada thing.

I didn't like that because those cicadas were keeping us up.

Do you remember that?

Oh, yeah.

I do not.

So loud.

Watch.

These fucking cicadas in our earth in Indianapolis and I think a lot of places for 20-something years.

And then all of a sudden, something happened and they said, yup, now's the time.

And they came out and these fuckers had a lot to say they were saving everything for 25 years and they were just out there it was a buzz it was a constant white noise in indiana ferrano maybe three weeks four weeks yeah middle of the night everything all day all day all night just signed and then they all just died yeah and it was like thank god what did these guys got to do with that they had a cicada parade they had a cicada parade i agree with everything you just said we spit on their tailgo now on that note i don't think they actually had a cicada parade i think we made that up up.

No, they had a graphic for it for sure.

I don't know if they're actually celebrating it, but they definitely made mention of it.

If you're in Baltimore, you need to go to their place.

They got a great bakery too.

Oh, the bakery.

Hashtag I don't want to overreact.

But

I'm wondering which brand of bleach tastes the best thanks to the 2025 Ravens.

Jeez, you got so much good food over there.

Don't be trying to find different flavors of bleach.

Blurocks, John.

That's a Steelers fan.

I didn't know that was coming from you.

I thought maybe Gumpy might toss some things out.

Oh, let me tell you, it's been since 72

but on that note ravens fans that's a tough spot to be in but uh i mean

you're top all of your stars hey who's paid money you're you're good players all of them out see you don't have them good luck out there and you're not playing your best so Good luck.

Go out there.

Do your thing.

And they're not.

And the Houston Texans, I think, are thanking the Ravens for this opportunity to showcase what they are, who they are, not only to the league, but to themselves.

But this Ravens team's got got to get it figured out.

Schefter in the first hour basically said, Look for Lamar, probably two more weeks of rest here because there's a buy coming up.

Now, he didn't say that that was a definite, but he was just kind of forecasting.

And we know a lot of people in that building now.

Good luck.

That hasn't been fun.

Yeah.

Oh, there is a guy in there who used to DC them to top five defense who's just sitting waiting in the wings to take over this defense, isn't he?

Let's get to another overreaction, shall we?

He's pretty Italian there.

This one's from Lewis Roberts at Buddy Loveless.

If you know,

you know.

Hashtag I don't want to overreact.

But

Nick Siriani might be the first Super Bowl winning coach ever.

No one can tell you exactly what he does.

Doesn't run on defense, won two Super Bowls without him calling the offense.

What does he do?

Is a question from that

John

Lewis Roberts.

Listen up, light switch.

I think he's the CEO.

I think he's a businessman.

I think he's maybe trading a little Bitcoin, maybe a little crypto on his side.

Yeah,

always working, definitely mining.

Big Dom for sure, no matter what.

Definitely out there working, doing his thing.

He's a CEO type head coach, AJ.

I don't know if anybody recognizes him as such, though.

Why not, though?

Why not?

There's plenty of coaches like that that don't call the offense or defense.

I think it's because mostly he talks shit pretty loudly.

Sounds like a doofus from time to time.

Sometimes he'll say some things.

Yeah, so I think people are like, so this guy's overseeing Vic Fangio.

Yeah.

Okay.

And especially if it doesn't go well, you lose a game first time, long time.

You lose a game.

Everybody's like, exactly.

Just as we said, this guy.

And I assume it's only going to get louder for Nick Siriani.

He knows that, though.

He's in the kitchen.

But I do appreciate diehard Eagles fans there going, what's this guy doing?

I think some of these Eagles fans, too, thought to themselves, GM doesn't know what he's doing.

He's supposed to be doing accounting.

Yeah, exactly.

Wasn't that said by some people?

Yeah,

and Milata.

This guy's a fucking rugby player.

Was that coming from the same account?

It was, I believe.

I think most governments say that.

Was there a lot of Sirioni or was it for...

No, mostly Kevin Petullo.

People have.

Oh, they've fucking had it with this guy.

Seiko got six carries, that right?

Yep.

Yes, that can't happen.

Buddy Loveless, it was great to see you in there, bud.

All right, let's go to the next one, shall we?

This is from Max at MaxGill3.

Hashtag, I don't want to overreact.

Bud.

The culture of the best football team in the league.

Not even the Jagoffs in the media that daily crank it to the Chiefs, Bigs, Eagles, et cetera, can deny that.

The cults are an unstoppable freight train of a team.

Next stop, Super Bowl, that one.

All aboard.

Amen, Max.

Nothing more needs to be said.

Really, real deal.

It's not a fun story for people to tell because it's Indianapolis, maybe a little smaller market.

Going into the year, the fan poll on the athletic, which is the super active people on the internet, had 96% or something, like 94% negative thoughts on how the season was going to go.

Danny Dimes comes in here and wins the job.

Yeah, right.

They're going to be nothing.

Yeah, right.

We're something.

And it's been since week one here.

Danny Dimes is different.

The vibe of the team is different.

Tyler Warren is different.

That defense, we load it up.

We got real playmakers that are making players for us.

And Lou Annarumo's defense is perfect for us.

It is our time.

It feels like it every time we're in there.

Now, do I have a couple Jack and Diets maybe

kind of boost that morale and that feel?

Certainly.

There's a lot of celebrating happening with the Colts on offense, defense, and special teams.

Gonna have to find a kicker.

Spencer, we hope you're okay.

But I'm a believer after watching them.

Yeah, the expectations are huge.

So coming into the season as a Dolphins fan, expect it to probably suck.

Coming into the season as a Ravens fans, probably expect a Super Bowl run.

Coming into the season as a Colts fans, I just think you want it to look somewhat decent, maybe make the playoffs.

I don't care.

I don't think anybody saw this coming.

It should be 5-0 if we don't beat ourselves against the Los Angeles Rams, who is a very good football team.

So, yeah, every, yeah, and, well, got to play by the rules.

And that's a tough Denver Broncos team.

They just beat the

Eagles team.

So that's a huge win.

So, yeah, I think we look better than expected on all cylinders.

Obviously, got to figure out the kicking situation.

That will come into effect at some point.

But yeah, all arrows are pointing up right now with the Colts.

Well, and you mentioned, too, like, yeah, for, you know, on a national

stage, whatever, the Colts might not be, you know, a great story because of all the other, you know, Mahomes and everything like that.

But think about this.

I mean, there's a chance the clocks get turned back here, and it's Colts Patriots, you know, in the playoffs.

And that's kind of a nostalgic game.

And then you think about on the other side, it's like Lions Packers is a very, very viable option in the divisional or even the NFC championship.

Like there are, like, I still want to see Josh Allen in the playoffs.

I definitely want to see, actually, I need to see Lamar Jackson in the playoffs.

I feel like they're,

I feel like they're more of the Rams last year than the Niners.

But it is one of those things where as the season goes on,

are the Bengals, if they continue to crash, are they going to ship, you know, T.

Higgins or Trey Hendrickson or both out of town because it didn't work.

They need to pay defensive and offensive linemen.

They don't have anybody.

And to go back to circle, back to your first point about the Colts there, I think fans don't give Colts the credit at this point.

You know, the Colts get to win and fans of the other team are like, what?

We're losing to the Colts?

Yeah, fucking right.

I don't think that's how this is going to go this year, which leads to this one.

This is from Charles Nation here at CNation knows.

Hashtag, I don't want to overreact.

But whoever thought Pete Carroll, and Gino were the rejuvenation Vegas needed deserves a roundhouse kick to the fucking head.

Pat's win was a fluke, and his Colts team just dressed us down so bad they should be charged with elder abuse.

Hey, Bart, how many more dumbass losses like this before you wipe off the Klein makeup?

Bring Gruden back and overhaul this dumpster fire.

We're in the first year of this.

They suck.

Tom Brady's making all these decisions.

He was part of the problem.

Allegedly, potentially.

We don't know it now at this point.

But the Raiders lost to a great cults team in a tough environment 10 a.m local time and these people are crushing them aj

they did i mean maybe the raiders aren't uh you know aren't as bad as people may think but maybe they are just as bad or worse than they think i don't know i can't really tell but i think the colts the colts are in a great spot though just keep flying under the radar go dominate like these aren't fluke wins they're having like they are playing great and i believe fits he said what fit in timing when it comes to quarterback play and that's where danny dimes is right now it feels like everything is kind of timed up for for the right reason.

He's around the right players, right coaches, and he is slinging it.

Man, if they stay healthy, the Colts are absolutely a force to be reckoned with.

Yeah, the eye test is real.

It's like you watch them, and even like some of the really good teams, like we just saw it happen with the Bills and the Saints.

Like, the Bills kind of played with their food a little bit.

Early on here, the Colts have raised their play to play with good teams, and they've beat the shit out the bad team, which is like if you're a really good team, that's what you do.

Like, this game should have never been close, and it wasn't.

You know, the Raiders went right down, kick a field goal on the first drive, and then the Colts were like, all right, now we can just, let's go beat the fuck out of them.

And they did.

Big.

Like bad.

Huge.

Bad.

Big team, an athletic team, a fast team.

Physical.

And Danny Dimes is always in control.

of the offense, which I think is all we ever needed, which is crazy to think about.

We needed somebody that just knew what the fuck they were doing in the system, which is why Gardner had success.

And then now with what Gardner was able to do, Danny Dimes can do that.

And he can move.

And

it's like perfect for us.

You mentioned it in the first hour to Fitz, too.

It's like the incompletion where it's like he, you know, he missed him, but he threw it out of bounds.

Like in years past, when he's with the Giants, like he throws that too far inside and it gets picked off.

Like even like when he's not completing passes, he's not putting the ball in harm's way.

Like there's not even, it used to be every time he dropped back with the Giants, it's like he's going to get blindsided and there's going to be a sack fumble.

There hasn't been like one of those this year.

Yeah, and on the flip side to who was the young the person who put the tweet the raiders uh because i

nation okay yeah i i was a part of the problem i thought pete carroll spy tech tom brady geno even moving over fresh start you know

they got some time they got brock bowers they got max crosby went and drafted genti so i'm like okay they might have some here maybe a playoff burp i didn't expect a super bowl run here but i definitely did not expect them to stink this bad turns out o-line d-line matters o-line d-line matters He's so cool.

Yeah, he's so cool.

He's so good.

But, I mean, everything else, straight to the shit.

Gino, Gino looks terrible.

Is he leading the league or top of the league?

Browning, I would assume.

Gino.

Which is unlike Gino to throw interceptions.

What's that?

Well, the thing is, after week one, the Patriots lost to the Raiders, and it was definitely a great game by Geno.

But I remember seeing, you know, Quincy Avery and a bunch of guys saying, real hoopers know Geno Smith's great, but I'd argue real hoopers know Geno Smith will throw for 350 or 400 once in a season and then win seven games.

Wow.

I'm on offense at Seattle a couple years ago.

Now, on that note, he has been turning the ball over.

And Carly Ursay, AJ, did you hear that?

I did.

Yeah, that's pretty interesting.

You could say you told the room before the game?

Carly Urce.

It was awesome.

Carly Ursay, literally have a great chat with her.

It was so cool of her and so nice of her.

And I think...

I don't know, it was nice for me to find out what the hell she was doing, but I think she probably wanted, like, also, hey, I'm just charting plays here, just charting plays here.

And she talked about the difference difference between Lou Andarumo's defense and defense of years past about how many more options there are like hey we got more the players got more options so whenever a play is called in there it's not just over like hey we got

adjustments that can be made like we got a lot and the defense is obviously thriving off that and then she goes we're thinking with the way Gino it comes out we're in a good spot with who we have to get some turner we should get some interceptions she said that we should get we didn't get any last week we need those we should get a couple so I literally as soon as she leaves I go hey she just said that we should get a couple picks.

That's awesome that she's that deep into this entire thing.

And then it happened.

Like deflection.

In the red zone.

Yeah.

Deflection interception.

It's like, oh shit.

Carly RC's got a goddamn dopper radar out there.

She, yeah, but she

like what she's learning, what she's doing down there, I think is very beneficial, you know?

And she said, like,

we're going to be hiring people here for a long time.

Like, I need to know.

who's foolish like I need to you know what I mean I need and I appreciate them going all in yes Like going all in.

And also staying out of the way, too.

But also providing whatever the fuck you need.

We paid a lot of money this offseason.

Oh, yeah.

We brought in a lot of

on the defensive side.

Very well spent.

Well spent.

Did she hit her sprint, spree game?

I can't see him.

I don't know.

I hope.

Somewhere.

We won.

So whatever.

Yeah, she definitely did.

She did.

She had these sweet boots on.

Boot shoes on.

She had like these boot shoes.

It was kicking the stigma day.

So she had these green, blue, and white boots on.

Shoe boot type things, you know, because she's got to be able to be mobile down there.

Yeah.

I can't wait to see her.

Oh, Holly Rowe.

Play off a cut block.

Yeah.

Someone coming on the sideline.

Yeah, it's going to happen.

Very, I mean, very athletic.

These shoes, though, had big pad on the bottom.

Somebody came jamming open a door.

She's standing right there.

Enough room for that thing to gain a little momentum.

Sure.

And like, I see

in my head, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.

Owner's about to get hit with the door.

Shoe stops it.

No problem at all.

She goes, oh, I'm sorry.

She says she's in the way.

It's like, no, no, Carly.

All these fuckers are myself included.

We are all in your way right now.

It's uh, we're in a good spot.

The coach is in a really good spot from top down.

It's very, very lucky to be there.

Let's go to Eric Fletcher at Fletch274.

Hashtag, I don't want to react, but

I swear on everything, fucking holy, if James Franklin is still in that office of his this Friday, I may have to just transfer out of this school.

Yes, I can speak for 99.9% of the student body here.

We're bummed out.

We are bummed out here.

I'm done with it.

i speak for 99.9 there's 0.01 somewhere uh-huh but we're bummed out this is expectations conversations we literally just had it with the colts whenever you're expected to be great especially with what the year you had and then you know your entire university is going in you know they're spending money yet they're important positions you still got people everybody's expecting the year to be different and then they lose to oregon penn state fans knew that was going to happen That's what they'll say.

They were optimistic, hopefully, but they were cautiously optimistic throughout it all.

So whenever they lose to Oregon, Oregon, they go, oh, well, yeah, that's what we do.

Then they go to UCLA, nobody's even thinking about the game.

Standards.

We beat UCLA, obviously.

We still got everything in front of us here.

Still got everything in front of us.

24 and a half.

And that game starts going away.

He's going.

And Penn State people are like, are you fucking kidding me right now?

UCLA, all we've heard is they can't sell any tickets and they're a laughing stock.

Remember, Nico Ia Maliava, worst transfer in the history of transfers since the transfer portal was open.

This guy going to UCLA to play in front of nobody for a terrible football team.

That's what people, that was the narrative about UCLA.

Need to get that jib away from that sideline.

And also security guy, we need you to be able to do what Carly Ursula is about to do in there.

Happy to see you're okay, seemingly.

But that's a huge, huge loss for the fans because what they think of UCLA is ass cheeks.

And they worship her.

Yeah.

So whenever you lose to an ass cheeks team, the natural reaction is.

We're actually the asshole here.

Yeah.

You know?

It's worse.

That is what they think.

And that's where Penn State's at right now.

That's where they're at.

And that's where they're going to be.

And I think that's a tough loss for them at the end of the season to have any convo, AJ.

Legit.

Yeah, you can't let one loss bleed into another game.

Like, I know there was a big, you know, the Oregon game was...

Yeah, like you said,

maybe they wanted to win, but they didn't fully expect to win that one, I guess.

Fans, I don't know.

They were hoping that they would.

But for that, it's a tough deal flying across the country, all that.

But yeah, you can't let that happen.

Penn State's, I mean, they were a couple plays away from the national championship last year.

That's the standard now.

The fact you have two losses already and you have some tough games on the schedule looking forward.

It's not great for them.

They got to go to Iowa, brother, don't they?

Oh, yeah.

And then they got Ohio State.

Yep.

Then they got

some on the schedule as well, I believe.

Two.

They got a lot of games.

They might lose four games now.

Like four shoots.

I don't know how that.

Do you just make Jim Knowles the head coach just because he's the highest paid DC and maybe he would be a good head coach for him?

With how big their operation is.

Okay, okay, they got 70 people working in that building.

I mean, just moving on from a head coach, I think, is a massive, I don't want to say massive undertaking, but it is a,

with their operation that they have up there, that's a huge, that would be a huge move.

Everybody wants to do it, obviously.

And James Franklin's had a lot of success up there, but he's also been there a long time, and they haven't had as much success as, obviously, Ohio State has, Michigan has.

Fuck, Oregon came in.

Yeah.

Yeah, when's their last Big Ten championship?

Has he ever won the Big Ten championship?

No.

Never.

Michigan, brother.

So he, so he, so when we say like he's had a lot of success, that's just a lie.

He hasn't had.

Oh, he has.

They're ranked number two in a country.

That's a year.

Yeah, that's sweet too.

But like the Panthers started 3-0 and Sam Darnold was the quarterback.

Like, I'd want Penn State to be good because that atmosphere is so awesome.

And they're in a semifinals last year of the national championships.

For sure.

They routinely expect fucking success.

They routinely beat the teams they should beat, and they can't beat the teams that and people expect them to beat the team.

And they routinely lose to the teams that they do.

And now UCLA.

Yeah.

2018 was if UCLA wasn't 0-4, like remember when they went to USC last year?

Like they do struggle out there.

And they had to, you know, actually, Tyler Warren made that absurd catch to beat USC.

Like they have problems in California, and that does make sense.

It's just like, dude, you can't lose.

If it went Oregon, Ohio State, and they lost those back to back, fine.

But like you can't lose to Oregon and then come out and lay an egg against a kid who actually just graduated high school.

Like I don't know if this guy even went to college.

I'm dead serious.

He played a UCLA.

Yeah, yeah, but still allegedly.

I'm just saying.

He's 33 years old.

It's a bad look for the highest-paid defensive coordinator, a guy, a head coach that had his quarterback, his two best players, or running backs, rather, five-star wide receiver that they probably played $2 million,

two of their best defensive linemen.

What you just mentioned right there is the biggest conversation.

They are all in.

Yes.

So, like, when you're at a place that's all in, the donors are are not going to be.

Yeah.

Dude, yeah, there's no.

They'll lose to UCLA.

I'm paying how much?

To who?

We're paying how much?

And we're losing to UCLA?

I don't know.

There's still time.

There is a lot of people.

They could beat Ohio State.

We've got to pay Indiana.

They have to.

They have to.

And then go to playoffs if they do that.

If they were able to do that, they would be able to have the conversation at the end of the day.

You can't lose again.

Nope.

Hey, still all there in front of you.

Yeah.

James knows it.

Let's go to Joey Kennedy, the fourth.

There's been three others.

Hashtag, I don't want to overreact, but Michael Bidwell should move the team to Europe.

Give the Arizona market whatever expansion drivel the league comes out with next.

Pretty good.

Cannot be worse than whatever the hell I witnessed in Glendale yesterday.

Embarrassed to be born in this state after that.

Joey Fitz said the same thing.

It's the worst loss he's ever seen.

Now, AJ, we haven't gotten your take on that.

I think that was a touchdown.

I think he still had control of the football while they broke

the goal line, but there was no definitive angle i guess which once again that's conversation to be had why is there no definitive angle we should have one of those and then also everybody around football said yeah we don't care that they didn't roll at a touchdown like you shouldn't have done this so that's kind of how our emotions are about it but once like right there does he not have that in his fingers this is the old this angle is the only one that it makes it look like to me he didn't score Did not score?

No, he didn't at the end.

Because he's losing it before.

Yeah, but what if he's in his fingertips?

Because when you flip that thing, you're doing this.

You're going like this, you're going bang, and then you're going, boom.

Is this still in your

is that possession right there?

That's not possession, probably.

Yeah, I don't think that's considered possession.

If I'm about to throw that thing?

No, that's just like A.D.

What do they say?

Can you get possession by the tip?

Can you just hold the tip and have position?

Possession of the ball.

That's what I'm saying.

Like, if I, if I.

I'm intrigued.

That is interesting.

But then you have to assuming that he's purposely doing that and he's not losing it like A.D.

Mitchell did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it becomes like a judgment card, right?

Yeah, and in that situation.

It's completely avoidable.

I think that's the biggest problem people have.

That's what everybody says.

Who cares?

You shouldn't have done it.

And then the football guy's punished him.

I mean, the kick-de-whoop-de-doo touchdown was just outrageous.

Just absolutely outrageous.

And that only happens if you do something to really upset the gods up there.

Snap the drill and Kyler in the helmet.

Gods, football gods.

Yeah.

Literally everything.

Everything you can think of.

Gannon hat going sideways after chewing a guy out.

I mean, that's a touchdown.

I don't think I've ever seen a play look that ridiculous.

That bad.

On the kids.

No, no, I'm saying on the National Football League field.

But I'm saying, like, youth, you think?

I don't know if that even happens in high school.

I mean, yeah.

That's got Maxion written all over it.

There you go.

There it is.

All right, let's go to the next overreaction, shall we?

It's from Evan Swan at OSwan21.

Hashtag, I don't want to overreact.

You should never, ever poke the bear because that bear always comes back for seconds.

Go Bucks, Baker for MVP, Igbuka for Rookie of the Year.

And then here's the bear being poked by the fans in Seattle.

I love

everything about it.

I love that Baker remembered on the way out.

You're the one.

You're the one.

And Baker's one of those guys.

Like, I think there's a chance that teams should be telling their fans beforehand, hey,

we don't do it to Baker.

Like, that actually helps him.

You are hurting our team whenever you wake this guy up.

There's obviously a few people throughout history that we know if you poke the bear, they are going to kill you.

Baker's one of them.

I think he has proven that time and time again, all the way back to college.

Remember, the guy wouldn't shake his hand.

That was shaking his hand.

Okay.

Kansas, okay, that's what we're going to do right now.

That is literally what he thrives off of.

And he put on a show yesterday.

Not that Seattle didn't, but

if I'm the Seahawks, I'm asking that guy, was it worth it?

Was it worth it to do this?

Because he's literally one of them, AJ.

That is who Baker is and always has been, it seems like.

That's why we love him, I think.

And

that's my favorite part of all of it, obviously, is after the game when he knows.

Like, you know, as he's jogging in, he's like, I cannot wait to look.

Like, I'm going to let this guy know that I still remember him.

But, yeah, like, it's like when I haven't ever heard offensive linemen talk about, like, hey, when there's a big, scary D-lineman, these guys that absolutely can wreck the game, they try to like do their best to not wake the dude up, to try to be nice to him, almost help him up sometimes, whatever it takes to not make him freak out.

And I think Baker is the quarterback version of that.

Do not wake this guy up because he thrives on adversity like this.

And I think, yeah, you're right.

Away stadiums, just keep it like pleasantry is is very nice to bake hey you're playing you're having such a great year bake you're having an mvp year buddy like just say things like that to him you got any space needles you got a space needle it's a beautiful view you should love this go catch some fish go catch some fish buddy you'll be you'd be so good at tossing the fish too you should ask him that type of stuff what are you saying i'm just saying he he's rare in that sense like usually the the good quarterbacks aren't like very chirpy you know you had like phillip rivers but it's not a lot of them like some of them would just kill you and just kind of be like this throw was unbelievable that's when he was that's when you really knew he was in in his flow especially at that point in the game one minute left uh to tie it up but yeah he's a quarterback that we talked about it against the texans once you know he got hurt knee boom popped up cj gj's talking boom you just saw him click and like typically that's not what you see with quarterbacks that's maybe linebackers maybe running backs but he's a guy who can talk you put those chips on his shoulder whether you're a part of the game or not you could be a part of the fucking crowd he's going to take everything and use it as fuel and he is playing his his best football right now what did Drew Brees say?

Yeah, oh, I'll take everything.

Give me everything.

Yes, please, please, please.

I'm looking.

I'm looking.

I'm looking.

And I think Bucks fans are saying we can start earlier.

We don't have to have final.

Are you?

My bad.

Yeah, my freaking phone.

This thing is,

I suck today with this freaking phone.

Yeah, you and the microphone are getting after it.

But also, the brand new hat.

You know, that hat.

Yeah, exactly.

New hat.

I'm just trying to figure out where I can

move my head with it.

You know, I'm not used to wearing hats.

I usually just rock the hair, but fuck, you know.

Hey, good patrons patrons gear today.

Not that it is abnormal.

No, no, no, but it is.

I'm not kidding.

And I was telling, I forget who I was talking to last night because I sent so many texts, like, Pats are back, motherfucker.

Like, so many, to so many non-Pats fans.

But it was one of those times where, like, I mean, I was sitting on the floor for the last two minutes of the game, for that whole final drive, for that kick.

Like, as soon as the kick goes through, like,

get a call from my brother.

That hasn't happened since 2018.

Oh, special feeling.

Like, like, yeah, it like reminds you of,

I'm dead serious too, especially with the Bill Belichick conversation, but it reminds you of how special it is when you have a really good team and like what it does to a city.

And like, we're seeing it here with Indy.

Fuck, like, we saw it with the Pacers in Indy.

Like, it really does.

Like, for me, it takes us back just because

you lived it for so long with New England, but the fact that it's here now, you forget how special it is.

And like, seeing Drake May,

you know, go down the field with two minutes left.

It was just amazing.

Let's go to a city that's never had that.

This is from Michael at Snoop Collects.

Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but this Browns team has a chance to be good, but we're not because we have a fucking clown at head coach who can't manage a fucking game clock to save his life.

Another season, another fucking wasted year of Miles Garrett's prime.

Dog shit.

Organization from Michael.

I don't think I know exactly the situation because because I was driving maybe downtown to the game.

I missed the clock operation stuff.

We'll have to revisit that.

But I do know Stefanski and Andrew Berry are going to be given a lot of opportunity because I don't think it was their decision to give the most amount of money guaranteed in the history to anybody.

But boy, that Cleveland Browns team, Dylan Gabriel looked good.

I thought they'd be a little bit more positive, AJ.

I didn't know it was going to be this negative.

I mean, if you get a win, they'd be a little more positive, but the fact that they lost a game that people thought they should have won and they hadn't won, yeah, then you're going to get the Browns fans that say, of course, this is what happens, this is what we do.

But honestly, though, isn't Deshaun Watson going to be healthy at some point this year and want to come back?

I heard, isn't that a real thing?

That's possible.

Oh, haven't even

broached my mind.

Hasn't even broached my mind.

I'm excited to learn about that day, though, whenever that all takes place.

Yeah, because what are they going to do with the fourth-string quarterback at that point?

You know, and who is the fourth-string quarterback?

Because I seen, I don't know who tweeted it something about the Raiders, uh, oh, yeah, CM Nation, no, no, it was uh, it was um

no Portland Trailblazers.

Dame Time.

Dame Teleton.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Saying we need to just trade for Shador.

This ain't working.

This is what he said about the Raiders.

He said this ain't.

We're done with this one here.

Bub basically said we need to trade for Shador.

When is trade deadline?

November 4th.

They moved it, right?

Week nine or week eight.

There's going to be some shit.

Massive one.

Especially with the what?

Was it active last year?

Trade deadline?

D-hop,

right?

Tuesday, November 4th.

Feels like it's going to be active this year.

There's going to be some big time people moved from some bad teams, I think.

Yeah, and also, we're getting into a more naturally active league, it feels like.

Like, things are just starting to become a little bit more fantasy football-yeah, for sure.

Yeah, teams are starting to do a little bit more selling and buying and stuff like that, which is good for us for sure.

Is it good for the long-term success of the programs?

We shall see.

Let's go to the next overreaction here.

This one's from Nick Frederick, I do believe.

Hashtag: I don't want to overreact.

But the Yankees 2025 playoff.

Oh no.

Nick.

We all know what followed this.

This was September 11th, 2023.

Aaron Rodgers comes running out to start his entire New York Jets era.

They're going to go on to win a Super Bowl.

It was one of the greatest entrances we have seen in sports.

Yes, sweet.

The hype seemingly living up to the expectation of everything that could be here for the Jets for the first time since fucking Joe Namath.

All we saw was four snaps on the offensive side of the ball.

That's what they're saying about the Yankees, huh?

Kind of.

Just, you know, I was like, wow, what about it?

Beat the Red Sox to get it.

Exactly.

That's the carrying of the American flag.

Because you win that series, and then it's like, actually, everything is like, I know the Blue Jays are really good, but this is kind of setting up perfectly for the Yankees to, you know, make it to the LCS.

And potentially, you get to that point, and then you're rolling.

Maybe you win a World Series.

Nope.

They just got fucking embarrassed two games in a row in Toronto, and now you're just thinking, like, boy,

what was I doing what was I doing thinking that they were maybe gonna win this series they go back to New York they've said like hey we're cut our backs we're just against the wall

that is Alejandro Kirk I think it takes him like 30 seconds to run to first base

so if you get him to hit it on the ground like he you could basically throw it uh like the third baseman will be able to throw it out to the left he'll be able to do a banana ball without a doubt and and throw him out by 30 feet problem is uh when you throw him pitches like right down the middle middle,

he's a surly son of a bitch.

He's going to hit him out of the ballpark.

And he did a fair amount of that over the weekend.

It's just, I mean, like I said, you know, I had so much hope and optimism going into this.

And to Toronto's credit, like, it was instantaneous.

In the first inning of the first game, you know, they hit a homer and it's like, okay, we're okay.

And then they come up in the second inning, and they hit another homer, and it's like, okay, we're still, you know, I mean, we've got good lineup as well and then the yankees just keep striking out and the blue jays just keep hitting homers and just keep hitting homers uh they what did they outscore him 22 to 8 in two games

toronto like these yankees are shite i didn't know that was

i think i pulled 12 homers i'm not kidding uh this is the one right here go back can you go back to this and have sound on this one Yeah, this is going to have to find sound on it.

Oh, we don't have sound.

Okay, never mind.

Never mind.

Did he make history?

So what is that?

Vlad.

I don't know.

Maybe the first player to hit a baseball 8,000 feet and 10,000 miles an hour off the bat.

I mean,

that was, and I knew that was going to happen.

They bring in Will Warren, who's a starter, hasn't like pitched out of the bullpen all year.

You bring him in with the bases loaded against their best hitter.

It's like, what do you expect to happen?

He grooves in one right down the middle.

And Vladdy knew, too.

He's like, oh, wow, I might fucking hit that to Buffalo.

So, you know, I'm going to sit here and pimp this a little bit.

And God, the Blue Jays, they got these little fucking suit jackets that they put on the guys after they hit the Homers.

I saw that about 10,000 times over the weekend.

Almost bought one because I was like, wow, that's actually kind of a cool little thing they're doing.

So we'll see.

He almost got influenced by the other teams.

He didn't run celebration.

Yeah, exactly.

So, and you know what, to make things worse, Buck Martinez, who is the play-by-play guy, or no, the color guy for the Blue Jays broadcast, he said.

Back, you know, maybe like a couple months ago, they weren't even playing the Yankees.

The Blue Jays were playing the Astros, and just out of nowhere, he kind of, you know, he's like, you know what?

I'm not worried about the Yankees because they're just not a good team.

And Aaron Boone mentioned that leading into this series.

He was like, I heard what Buck Martinez said, you know, and like,

contrary to popular belief, like, we are a good team.

And then for them to just get embarrassed two games in a row in Toronto.

Well, it was Buck doing keeping it a buck up, Aaron.

Yeah, sure.

Exactly.

Him and Dan Schulman, they were keeping it a buck.

So we'll see.

Backs against the wall going back to New York.

At the very least, boy, you better not get 10 runned.

You cannot get swept.

Do they have a running clock?

No, no, they don't.

They don't.

But you'll see, you know, you go down 6-0.

You basically bring in a fucking fat New Yorker from the crowd to pitch the last three innings because it doesn't matter.

So we'll see.

We'll see what happens.

Maybe Herbshit gets out there and throws one.

He can be Yankees.

That's not a bad idea.

You would have been better out of the bullpen than Luke Weaver over the weekend.

I know that.

Fucking son of a bitch.

All right, last overreaction here from New York, The Jet Chef, at the Jet Chef.

Hashtag, I don't want to overreact, but the 2025 Jets might as well be a make-a-wish team for how they're putting their fans on death row, watching whatever has been on the field the last decade.

Fireman Ed hasn't given up, right?

No.

Oh, I think Fireman Ed's fucking first-class ticket to Bermuda.

I mean, he's he's fucking out of there.

Yeah, no, this is this is uh Fireman Ed's like Forston.

He's given up three times already.

No, no, no, no, no, that, no, that.

I mean, dude, I know a bunch of Jets fans.

He has.

He'd be crazy if he didn't.

Once you do this, yeah, it'd be hard not to.

He might not be a real fan, but there are Jets fans that are riding along the misery, certainly.

It's like a part of the thing.

Greeny, Cole, I mean, you name it.

You start listening on

fans, and it's just like,

are they always going to stink?

And

Aaron Glenn's got to get his culture in here, right?

AJ, that's what we need to say?

Yeah, he does.

I just, yeah.

How long does that take, I guess?

You got to give some hope.

You got to show some kind of hope at some point, which I would assume they will at some point this year.

Did you see how hard Justin Fields threw that ball off that guy's head?

He's got a cannon, man.

He really does.

He should start for the Yankees.

He should start game three for the Yankees.

Try it.

He's right there.

He's right there.

I mean, that thing was going to go 20 yards off of that hell.

If that Sky Cam didn't get in the way, that thing's coming with real speed.

This is in super duper slow mo.

Look how fast it's still coming.

David Jackson dart pitching.

Made a couple innings each.

I don't hate that.

Russell Wilson's everything.

Oh, yeah, Russell.

Nah, he's long in the tooth.

He fucking stinks.

No, he doesn't.

We don't need another guy coming in, throwing 91 miles an hour right down the middle.

We got enough of those fucking guys, okay?

He might have been on a Savannah Bananas.

I watched the Savannah Bananas.

They got a new team.

Jeez, he's beating the hell out of me.

Dude, I don't know what's going on.

He's

a cowboy hat guy.

The Savannah Bananas have a team that has full cowboy hats.

It's a whole team.

Because they got multiple teams now.

I saw the fucking bananas got eliminated from playoff contention.

Shut up.

What the hell is that about?

Yeah, one of their players fucking made it out against the party animals.

He was fucking sitting in the third base bleachers.

So, what the what are we doing?

This banana ball even worked?

They didn't make the fucking playoffs.

I thought they won every game.

They got a lot of good teams, bro.

The party animals are good.

Yeah, here he is.

He'll get the points and the runs.

He's got two different things.

Yep, he's out there.

I'm gonna give it that.

Hold on,

you're telling me the PAs beat the bananas?

Yeah, the PA.

I think the PAs

the bananas.

Is that a banana?

Is that what you're saying?

Yes, this guy is a banana.

I'll say this: I don't think he is a banana.

That was what the Tweet said.

I don't think there is a banana.

I just took it as gossip.

I think that's an actual out over there.

Yeah, it's one of those goofy rules.

No, that's what I'm saying.

He is a banana.

Yeah, the bananas have been eliminated from playoff contention.

This guy went to the game, the party animals, against whoever the fuck they're playing, and he made the out

as a spectator.

He is a banana.

That guy's a banana.

That guy is a banana.

Look at that.

No, no, no, no.

Go do your banana.

Look, he knows all the party animals.

Hey,

say, hey, thank you for the out.

We're going to going to make it to the playoffs.

Darius Slay did that with one of Jalen Hurch's throws yesterday, too.

Caught it in the crowd.

Jesus.

Tony.

Slay was there.

Yeah, he loves football.

He's going to

work with him.

He loves football.

Okay.

Eagles was the closest to Pittsburgh game that he could get to.

I like it.

He used to go to the high school games a lot.

Yes.

In Detroit.

Bingo thing.

That reminds me of someone.

Slay does love ball, bro.

Loves ball.

Yeah.

4-1, by the way.

Very.

3-1, maybe.

Yeah, I don't think you played five weeks.

You had a bye week.

Won the bye week, though.

Yeah.

Yeah, undefeated bye week.

What did the FC North do yesterday?

How did they do?

Ravens?

Nice tools.

L, Bengals, L, Browns, L, Steelers, home.

Long road here.

It's an early bye week.

The longest road you can take is the best one.

We'll see.

I do say that.

All right, we'll see.

I don't know if that's ever been said, but

now people say the shortest usually.

Maybe now it'll be forever etching stone with the Steelers run.

You want handouts, take the shortest one.

You want to win the circle, you gotta take the long road, yeah.

Hey, man, that's a long walk, brother.

All right, uh,

he's on the Jacksonville Jaguars, plus three and a half.

I have the Kansas City Chiefs, minus three and a half.

He's on the over, I'm on the under.

Uh, D.

Butch likes the Kansas City Chiefs as well, so we shall see how tonight goes.

You like the over or under?

Oh, shit, give me the under.

Okay.

Two unders between me and D Bush.

Now, granted, I did have to pick the complete opposite of AJ because AJ is up 10-3 to 9-4 on the weekends picks.

AJ seeing the board well.

That's why he's a Hoffnom.

That's why he's a Hoffnom.

9-4, I'm pretty happy with that, to be clear.

Yes.

I went 2-14 last week, 3-13 last week.

So this is good get back from me.

Can steal this thing tonight.

Absolutely.

Can steal this thing tonight, AJ.

Don't let me do it.

You can.

Don't you?

You won't, but you can.

Don't you air zone the cardinals this?

Don't you pop up

this thing into the end zone?

Uh, we'll be back tomorrow.

We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice about change your life.

We're in this thing together.

AJ, any final thoughts?

Well, better one tomorrow, fellas.

I doubt it.

Team on me, team on three.

One, two, three.

Team.

Goodbye.

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