PMS 2.0 1295 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, Super Bowl LIV Recap, Adam Schefter, Bradley Cooper, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on the Super Bowl Overreaction Monday, February 10th, 2025. This program starts now.
Football! It's amazing, and yesterday we celebrated the hell out of that in a blowout game that saw us crown brand new world champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. The commercials were obviously a part of the discussion.
The blowout was obviously a massive piece of it.

And now people are watching. champions, the Philadelphia Eagles.
The commercials were obviously a part of the discussion.

The blowout was obviously a massive piece of it.

And now people are wondering if there is a goat in sight for the Kansas City Chiefs.

It's gotten loud on the internet with how big of a blowout that particular game was.

A lot of people taking a lot of shots at the Kansas City Chiefs.

A lot of people have been waiting for this moment to bury the Kansas City Chiefs.

What we'd like to say to Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Chris Jones,

and the boys over there, hey, congrats on a hell of a year.

AMC champions still yet again.

I think they've been to six out of the last seven Super Bowls or something like that.

What you're talking about in Kansas City is absolutely iconic.

It is absurd.

And we assume they'll rebuild and be back next year in the same exact conversation.

With that being said, Philadelphia hoisting the Lombardi is an absolutely beautiful thing. Coach Sirianni, who was questioned all year, was able to rally the boys.
Jalen Hurts, who can't throw, threw it all over the yard. Saquon Barkley, who was a New York Giant, learned about his story a little bit during the Fox lead-up coverage.
Hey, Fox did a great job, I thought. Without a doubt.
Fox did a great job with the lead-in coverage. It's like five hours, different pieces, different stories, different superstars, a lot of this, a lot of that.
I mean, Gronk interviewing Travis Kelsey, brilliant. Tom Brady interviewing Patrick Mahomes, brilliant.
Them having all the pieces that they have there, beautiful. I thought Fox did a great job in the coverage leading up, but I also learned a lot about Shaquan in school whenever yeah i think he went to zephyr or something like that i believe was the name z-e-p-h-y-r don't know if that was a school or the name of the team so apologize for that but when he was a sophomore he was too small they said he was uh too small whenever he was a sophomore in high school then he put him on the field first place gone see and all of a sudden the head coach said i should have been playing this guy a little bit earlier and then that's all she wrote right through high school right into penn state where he was jumping all over people all over the place he actually talked about an oklahoma drill james franklin and i think we all saw it go mega viral whereas an offensive lineman a linebacker and then i believe a safety and somehow the defense just demolished everybody that was blocking them and it was saquon barkley verse four defenders with his teams all around him in like a five-yard radius space.
Saquon, boom, shakes the entirety, scores, and while he's scoring, he jumps through the end zone. His entire team goes crazy.
He has always been beloved by his teammates, always been electrifying. Nobody knew, though, if you could ride a running back in a run game in 2025 to a Super Bowl, they did.
They absolutely did. Now, his worst game obviously comes in the Super Bowl because the defense was 100% focused on him.
They weren't going to let him sneeze without being the first ones to say, God bless you, we hate you. He was all over the place all season.
Last night he was contained, but that opened up for everybody else. And what Jalen Hurts was able to do with that offense was beautiful.
To the tune of 40 plus points in the Super Bowl? Are you kidding me? Obviously, Dotson catches the dot here, which leads to the tush-push party. First points, first score.
Jalen Hurts, touchdown. A lot of people thought that.
Gabe Moretz gave it to us, plus 450 on Friday as one of his guarantees to happen. But a lot of people were betting on that.
And what happened after that would be an onslaught of domination from this Philadelphia Eagles offense with A.J. Brown getting in, Devontae Smith getting into the action.
Goddard got into it. And this guy, Jake Elliott, the kicker for the Philadelphia Eagles, had a rough year.
By far his roughest year since he's come into the NFL. But when the playoffs started, he goes back to being playoff Jake Elliott and goes absolutely apeshit.
Pured every single kick. Then the exciting whites showed up in New Orleans in the second quarter where a rookie on his birthday, a Caucasoid named Bradley Cooper Degene, has a pick six against Patrick Mahomes in his first ever year in the NFL and his first ever Super Bowl in the NFL.
I mean, this guy living an absolute dream yesterday. And from one thing to the next, Patrick Mahomes was out of sorts because this Eagles defense want bananas.
They want absolute ape shit. And there's Zach Bond, potential defensive player of the year back in New Orleans when he played for the Saints.
He was just a special teams guy. Now he's an absolute megastar for the Philadelphia Eagles.
What we saw last night was an ass beating, a drumming. It was something that the Chiefs had no answer for and even the biggest Chiefs fans had to give up hope in that third quarter.
You know, Patrick Mahomes could potentially make magic happen out of nowhere. That's part of his greatness.
Travis Kelsey can get open against anybody except for this Kansas City Chiefs team. They had six eyes on Travis Kelsey damn near all the time and somehow they weren't able to get anybody else open.
Somehow they weren't to really go until late in the fourth quarter I think they had a total of 60 yards going into the third quarter after it all was said and done so what the Eagles defense did to a Kansas City Chiefs team that we thought was still gonna be in it they're down 20 plus we still think Patrick Holmes gonna do his thing uh-uh smothered ended Jalen Hurts continued to make massive plays and the Philadelphia Eagles now are world champions once again. It was a hell of a year.
Let's go to the talk table. At Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt.
What kind of stood out to you last night, Conman? I think it was just the presence of Saquon, really. Like that last touchdown we just showed Devontae Smith play action.
You know, we've talked about it. The alumni section, middle of the field, they get a massive fourth down stop.
First thing you do, hey, we're going to hand it hand it to Saquon he's our bell cow you get all those linebackers sucked up and then boom touchdown and that kind of was all she wrote there were multiple times where I thought hey the Chiefs might go the Chiefs might go that was kind of it but Saquon's just presence really you know of course he had what less than 60 rush yards he had 40 receiving yards so still getting involved But just his entire story, you know, kind of almost got disrespected with some of the offers. You can't pay this guy $13 million.
Yeah, you can because he fulfilled it probably better than anyone in the history of running back to the brand new team. Just an incredible story for him from Philly, a PA guy, you know, goes to Penn State, then wins it for the Eagles.
It was just just incredible and the running back position is all the way back yeah i think so especially if you got a super talent like saquon barkley and the thing that adds to that story is he had two other offers that were bigger from somewhere else two other teams had bigger offers to saquon barkley to come be their running back and he picked the philadelphia eagles because of the offensive line because of the setup and because of the proximity to his I mean, I love whenever something works out how it's supposed to, and I think exactly how Saquon Barkley drew it up was exactly how this motherfucker worked out. He ends the season as the all-time leading rusher in a season, has the most amount of yards that any running back has ever had in a season.
Now, that obviously adds in the playoffs, but those are the most important games. So he has the best season a running back has ever had back in his hometown team that is in the division of the team that said, I don't think we can pay you that amount of money.
And he wins the Super Bowl. Congrats to Saquon.
You're right. Three touchdowns in the NFC Championship game.
So, like, people who are, you know, he was the favorite. He was minus 190 to score a touchdown yesterday.
Obviously, he didn't get in, but, like, he got him had some pretty cool highlights. He did have some cool highlights.
Put that in Madden, even though Madden still stinks. Speaking about...
I played it yesterday. I was like, you know what? It's 2 o'clock.
Super Bowl's coming on. I might as well play.
The game. The game.
I might as well see what's going to happen. Yeah, it still stinks.
Okay. Well, hopefully they'll get that fixed out sometime.
That's been a while they've been figuring it out, right? Yeah, they've been on their way. They hear the fans.
They hear them. We hear what you guys are saying.
We're going to get it fixed. And they appreciate the fans.
They do. Yes, they do.
It's you who we work hard every single day for, says Madden. Hopefully they get that worked out.
Hopefully they get that fixed out. But nonetheless, let's go to a quarterback now that will be a world

champion forever, Tosh, man.

It's very tough not to be impressed with Jalen

Hurts leading up into the week, and it wasn't just

AQ who was saying, hey, they

can't beat these guys regardless of

how good their offensive line is. It's because

of Jalen Hurts. Hembo put a stat

out this morning of all quarterbacks who have played

in at least two Super Bowls. He's the

only one whose completion

percentage is over 70%. So I think

he takes a lot of heat just for people

Thank you. this morning of all quarterbacks who have played in at least two Super Bowls.
He's the only one whose completion percentage is over 70%. So I think he takes a lot of heat just for people being like, all he's going to do is try to run.
He can throw. Jalen Hurts actually can throw the football.
And a lot of people don't like him. I don't know if it's his personality.
I don't know if it's the way he carries himself or what. But we talk...
We talk about other people for the Eagles getting kind of shit on all season and just crucified, pretty much. He was right there, and you look at his stats and it's kind of weird.
It almost doesn't add up. But a lot of people said, hey, if they lose this game, it's because Jalen Hurts couldn't get it done.
He does not hold a candle to Patrick Mahomes in terms of the comparison between those two. He did whatever he wanted to, and every single time he had a rush lane, he took it, and they didn't.
They just had no answer for him. And we talked about the stat, too.
Any Super Bowl rematches, the quarterback who won the first matchup had been undefeated. He's the

first guy to actually go in there

and beat the team that beat him the first time.

So, hats off to him. I mean, I think

people forget too. He's only 26 years old.

The Eagles are set up for a really

long time now. And then

outside of him, I'd just be remiss if I didn't say

how proud and just

how much pride I have in the fact

that an Iowa guy, Cooper DeGene, because I

felt it all week. I really did.
I said, this guy's going to score a defensive touchdown. He was a ball hawk, you know, like playmaker at Iowa.
He hadn't had a turnover all year. And for him to get a pick six on his birthday in the Super Bowl as a rookie, like it's an exciting white.
You know, that certainly doesn't that dude's an Iowa legend. The same vein, Kurt Warner, he didn't go to Iowa, but you get it.
People will talk about him forever, and kids are going to grow up wanting to be Cooper DeGene. It's just, as an Iowan, that's really sweet.
Yeah, that is sweet. Shout out to Cooper having a mega football moment that he can cherish literally forever, and signs for forever as a rookie.
So to say it's been a successful run, I'd say yes for Cooper DeGene in that entire Philadelphia Eagles defense. Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J.
Butler. Yes, sir.
What was your big takeaway from last night? I mean, obviously you got to start with the quarterback, so just kind of pick it back in off of what you said. Jalen Hurts is really the reason I became an Eagles fan just because of everything he's done, not only from the college level, but since coming into the NFL.
But even though he said it, defense wins championships, and that's still always the case. Vic Fangio's been in the league a long, long time.
His first year was actually the year I was born, 1986. Wow.
He was coaching the linebackers out in the Saints. The Dome Patrol, Ricky Jackson, a Pahokee legend, Hall of Famer, Sam Mills, those guys.
He was a linebacker coach there and has been a defensive coordinator over 20 years in the National Football League now. Was 0-8 before this game against Patrick Mahomes.
And just coming into this game, you know what Vic Fangio, Brady mentioned a couple times on the broadcast. He's going to play an umbrella defense, a cover for a shell.
He's going to rally. His defense is going to tackle, and he's going to get after you with four pass rushers.
And these pass rushers absolutely dominated the game from the beginning. Milton Williams was a superstar, had two sacks, a strip sack late in the game.
Josh, that was great. He had a couple sacks.
Cooper DeGene, you mentioned the pick six, obviously putting points on the board. Zach Bond had a pick deep into their territory, setting up for points as well.

So coming to this game, you knew the ball was going to be key,

taking care of the ball and taking away the ball.

They obviously won that battle there.

The first nine possessions, the Chiefs didn't pass midfield.

So you're talking about an Andy Reid or Patrick Mahomes-led Chiefs offense

that couldn't get past midfield.

One of the most dominant performances I've ever seen in the Super Bowl. So just hats off to this Philadelphia Eagles team and this defense specifically.
Matt Patricia last week whenever he stopped by the program he said you go out through the history of the Super Bowl or the NFL. Yeah.
Any team that has the number one defense and the number one rushing offense wins the Super Bowl. That is literally a recipe that has been entrenched in football since the beginning.
If you can run the football, guess what you can do? You keep the other team off the field. And if you have good defense, guess what that means? Three and out.
They're off the field even less. So whenever you talk about just strictly this being a possession territory sport, whenever your defense is able to dominate the other team and hold all ground, and whenever your offense is able to just matriculate and methodically take your land, I mean that's a winning recipe since the beginning of time in football and i love the fact and uh you know i tweeted this last night i love the fact that in 2025 a lot of things can be said about everything that has kind of happened over the last 10 years in our existence okay a lot of things in football you're always going to have to be tough.
Yeah. Like that is just how the sport requires it.
Now, there's going to be some positions where less of it is required. For instance, I was a punter.
Don't have to be as tough. Kickers don't have to be as tough.
Long snappers, kind of getting targeted last night. Don't love that.
A little bit. Don't love that that's probably his motion every single snap.
And they called it probably don't have to be as tough. Still have to take hits.
Have to be tougher than a modern human, but don't have to be as tough. But in football, you've got to be tough.
At some point, you're going to take a massive shot, and you're going to be expected to get right back up. And the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles pride themselves on being dogs.
Like, that's what Nick Sirianni says, we're dogs over here. What does dogs mean? Well, dogs probably means they're going to be mentally and physically tough.
Like, that is what a dog mentality is. That is what Coach Sirianni has been just pressing out to the world and also to his players and to Howie, as Howie has pieced this team together in a fantastic way.
Truly an epic performance by Howie Roseman building this team back up. You know, a few years back, they win the Super Bowl.
They get rid of everybody. They everybody they get rid of everybody basically he has to rebuild this thing new quarterback new coach new team new vibes in the city everybody's expecting now championship because we already won it and that's philadelphia in the hole we don't have time for transition era we don't have time for turnover how are you going to do it well he somehow manages to keep an identity we're going to be a tough football team.
Finding dogs in free agency,

in the draft, hitting home runs in the draft

on a very regular basis whenever he's

paying people or bringing people in.

They need to fit our culture. Everybody needs to be

rowing the same direction, which Sirianni will kind of

take care of. But also, we're going to bring in superstars.

By far the best roster

we've seen in the NFL in a long

time. You know, in college, there's no cap.

Well, yet. Allegedly, a cap is coming.
Allegedly. Yeah.
But in college, there's no cap. You can pay whoever, whatever.
So the teams that paid the most, you saw them in the end of the college football playoff. I mean, that is, it's not just them either.
It was other teams. But, like, whoever paid the most because you get the most amount of studs, your team's probably going to be better than the other team.
Now, I'm not saying studs always win, but if you get a bunch of studs and they buy in, that team's probably going to beat a team that doesn't have studs and buys it. But now, granted, I think teams can overperform with how much of a team they are.
You get it. It's certainly a team sport.
But if you have a team filled with dudes that are making a shit ton of money because they're good at sports, you're probably having a better opportunity to win, which is why whenever 31 other fan bases go pay them get them pay them get them pay them get them and your teams always say we can't because it's a salary cap can't do that can't pay this guy and also pay this guy how he's paid everybody everybody on their team three of their offensive linemen are in the top 11 page around the entire NFL. Three of them.

That's just on the offensive line.

Let alone a quarterback, two wide receivers, running back,

and then on the defensive side having to do the same damn thing.

Whenever you talk about putting together a roster, managing egos,

managing expectations, you name it,

what Howie Roseman and Sirianni have done over there

with obviously Jeff Lurie at the top and Big Dom

paisaning through the entirety of it all.

Everywhere.

It's like congratulations to them too.

Congratulations.

I hope they're enjoying the hell.

I don't know. with obviously Jeff Lurie at the top and Big Dom, piezoning through the entirety of it all.
Everywhere. It's like congratulations to them too.
Congratulations. I hope they're enjoying the hell.
I hope they are literally, you know, you reap what you sow and all that type of stuff. I hope they're enjoying what the hell they sow.
That's not easy to do, especially in the world that we're in. So congratulations to how we put a great team together.
And on paper, going into the game, everybody with a brain was like, this Eagles team. They're a lot better.
You know, like whenever they do ranking for college football, they always look at the roster. And it's like, well, this roster has this many five stars.
It has to be better than this roster. And, you know, it's hard not to get caught up in that in college ball because you never know who's going to show up week to week.
But in the NFL, it's like this roster is healthy and this roster is loaded everywhere they're in the super bowl let's assume they like each other okay let's assume they like each other at this point which is what a team has to have to be great have to have chemistry have to amongst the people you play with if you want to make it to the super bowl so it's like on roster on paper it was like this team's gonna win this team right here has to win this team might this team might beat the shit yeah the blowout question you asked on friday yeah so we literally had that conversation we said um do we think the chiefs could blow out the philadelphia eagles no no do we think philadelphia eagles could blow out the chiefs absolutely everybody said yes i think aj actually brought it up he'll be joining us here in a matter of moments. It's like it was certainly possible.
We just thought the Chiefs magic. Literally, if you were betting on the Chiefs, you were only thinking of the Chiefs magic and the Patrick Mahomes magic.
And there was a couple moments where he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then all of a sudden the Eagles D-line just said, nope.
We ain't doing that shit. That ain't how we're playing.
A drop by D-hop here. Obviously, Travis Kelsey not getting targeted as much.
They consider that one a drop. Was that his ankle? I don't know if 22-year-old Travis would have been able to get down to that.
But nonetheless, he never got going. Just didn't look like the Chiefs that we thought could potentially make magic and get a win.
So insane run by them, but what a team by the Eagles. Now, let's go to one half of the hammer.
Cowboys AP tone. How'd the bets fall out from last night? The bets fell out well for the public as far as the game was concerned.
Obviously, everyone's hearts and souls wanted the Eagles to win, and they bet like that. Over 60% of the bets were on the Eagles.
And, boy, it was like the wet band. It was a soak all night long from the first kick to the final whistle.
It was Eagles all night. There was never a worry in the world.
The top five bets that were registered in the U.S. ranging from $400,000 to $1 million were all on the Eagles.
So those all did very well as well. Now, the public got crushed a little bit in the prop market.
Saquon over did not hit. Mahomes over rushing attempts did not hit.
Goddard over did not hit. Kelsey over did not hit.
But as far as the game was concerned, everyone was on the Eagles, and that was a soak, my friend. Okay, so let's talk about your bets that you gave out last week because it felt like I saw a lot of Jalen, a lot of Mahomes running.
Yeah, things went well there. So we had the fourth quarter rushing yards for both quarterbacks.
Those both went over. Mahomes had seven.
Jalen had 17, and then Kenny came in luckily, so we didn't have to worry about the kneel down. Thank you, Kenny.
I appreciate it. Always on your side.
Both quarterbacks to complete their first pass. Kenny Pickett won Super Bowl.
Kenny Pickett's Super Bowl champion. Congratulations.
Thank you, Kenny. Kenny Pickett ended the Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Think about that. Think about that.
Who's doing victory formation? Fucking victory, Kenny Pickett. That's right, Lou.
Super Bowl champion, Kenny Pickett. Congratulations to him, especially with how it all went down in Pittsburgh, the place he went to school.
Literally, he was in the same building at University of Pittsburgh and then with the Steelers, and then it ends with everybody saying, get him out of here. I don't think he deserved that.
Kenny Pickett was always good to us. Congratulations on being a Super Bowl champion, Kenny Pickett.
And also him doing the kneel downs didn't take away any rush yards from Jalen. Yeah, KP, congrats.
He's a guy you could have a beer with and save that bet. Both quarterbacks complete their first pass.
Let's get the drives going. Let's go there.
We're good there. We got that one.
This wasn't on a graphic, but we had it when Gabe was on. Drew Tranquil, plus 750, leading tackler in the game.

That was a nice one there.

We talked on Tuesday.

We had Goddard, Kelsey, first drive.

Those didn't work out.

Goddard had one on the second drive, but we also said Worthy.

Worthy did have one on the first drive.

So it was a nice little week for the gambling on the show.

Hey, great work this year on the gambling.

To the hammer, boys, we appreciate you, Gumpy.

Good work back there, pal, even though you bet the Chiefs. We had to do it.
Had to ride until the end. Gumpy just didn't want Vic Fangio over to win a Super Bowl.
A lot of Dolphins fans, they're supporting Vic Fangio now. Is that what I'm seeing? I think they were.
And also the guy, Javon Holland, kicked rocks when he did the video kicking rocks when Vic left and went to the Eagles. He was saying how great he called a game last night, so that was awesome.
Well, he was kicking rocks because he was upset. Yeah.
He was actually one of the guys that wanted Vic gone. Oh, okay.
Jeez. Allegedly.
Allegedly. I mean, probably.
I don't know. I did not fall in the situation close enough.
All I do know is the Dolphins fans were pumped that Vic Fangio was getting out of there.

We were having conversations about, is Vic Fangio about to retire?

Is this thing done?

This guy's long in the tooth.

Is this thing done?

He can retire now.

Super Bowl champ.

Guy got it done.

You said in 1986 he was doing what?

1986 was his first year, his first NFL gig in New Orleans, actually.

He got a text from the Dome Patrol, too.

He said it was waiting for him in his phone.

That's awesome.

How about Jalen Carter?

Sweat?

Thank you. gig in New Orleans, actually.
He got a text from the Dome Patrol, too. He said it was waiting for him in his phone.
That's awesome. How about Jalen Carter, Sweat? What was his old buddy, Milton? Milton.
Yeah. He ran a what? 4-6-1.
Yeah. Nolan Smith, 300 pounds.
Yeah. Bryce Huff showed up.
He made some plays last night. I mean, just that whole, especially in a world of where we get so caught up in exotics and overload blitzes and all these different things like Vic Fenton, hey, this is the defense I run.
This is how I coach it. This is how it's executed.
For everybody over there to buy in and to completely turn around that defense and what they are and who they are and to put on a performance like this against a quarterback like that, just unbelievable all time. You think about how the Eagles season ended last year, and then you think about how it ended this year.
Vastly different. Instead of falling off, they picked up.
They played their best ball whenever they needed it. Congrats to the Eagles.
Maybe Coach Sirianni isn't a... Big dumb dipshit.
Well, wait a second. Yep.
Coach Sirianni is stepping into a press conference right now, actually.

Good afternoon, everybody.

First and foremost, I'd like to apologize.

I haven't gotten very much sleep last night. I know you may be wondering, Coach, favoring your back big time as you throw it out, celebrating, throwing your hands in the air.
No, believe it or not, it does quite a number on your lower back and your whole back in general when you are carrying around two massive bowling balls in your jockstrap everywhere you go. That's right.
I did it. I believe I came on here not too long ago, told you guys, we are the best team in the NFL.
We are going to win a Super Bowl title. Did you watch the game last night? You know, we might as well have done inter-squad scrimmage.
I mean, anything we wanted to do, offense, defense, special teams, you name it.

We are the best team in the NFL.

And I don't want to kind of take the parade route already,

but I knew it all along.

I knew it all along.

Listen, I could say a lot of stuff up here today,

but I think first and foremost, boom, drink that in. Everybody says, hey, go get you one of these guess what got one of these now granted this is the is the super bowl ring that i had made two years ago when we were in the last super bowl so this is kind of just this is my monday ring i wear this on mondays after a big win i will be getting a new one or a real one, if you will.
This is just a placeholder. As far as what everybody said all year, listen, I understand you're a head coach in the National Football League.
You're going to get scrutiny from the fans. You're going to get criticism from the fans and the media.
if I could respond I would like to you know

stealing the bridge line from one of my favorite poets. Curris Jackson once said, I know I'm here for a real reason because some of these coaches got hit like I got hit, but they ain't fucking breathing.
And guess what? Fly Eagles fly. Not only are we breathing, we are soaring above the rest.
A lot of people talking about my contract going into last year of my contract. Coach, what are you going to do? They wanted to fire you all year.
You know, everybody at ESPN, in the Philly media, all the fans, they wanted you fired. Sorry.
Looks like I'm going to be around for a while. And, listen, I'm not going to get into public contract negotiations.
That's not really my bag. I'll save that for my agent.
But if Liam Cohen is making $14 million down in Jacksonville, I want $40 million a year. And, you know, I think I'm entitled to that.
Once again, not going to hammer this home. Maybe just a modicum of respect, just an ounce of respect.
48 wins in my first two years, okay? That's the second highest all time in NFL history. George Seifert was the first.
He was pretty good, I don't know, with those 49ers teams. So with that being said, listen, there will be plenty of time for me to go around and kind of drop my nuts on tables, take shots at people who have taken shots at me, do a real victory lap.
And I'll be honest, I'm not going to be a gracious winner. I'll probably be a little bit of a dog a little bit of an asshole and let's

just say i got a memory like an elephant i remember everything that anybody has ever said about me going back to you know mount union and iup so if you're an eagles fan you didn't love me you didn't want to see me get used to it because the dog's coming back and the dog's gonna be in philly for for a long, long time.

We got a question, I suppose? Hey, Coach, this is Jack from the Philly, John. What about Cullen Moore potentially leaving your team to go down there in New Orleans and staying? That's a good question.
Listen, I said it last night on the broadcast. A lot of people, you know, hey another thing to shit on coach sirianni about he uses you know colorful language after winning the super bowl i said run that shit back okay i said run that shit back with kellen and i said to brandon graham on the nfl network set run that shit back now he didn't really seem like he wanted to tell him more you do what you gotta do you want to go down to new orleans, you know, three and 14 for the next couple of years and get fired.
That's fine by me. You go get your bag.
We'll welcome you back home in Philly in a couple of years time after you've been shit can in New Orleans. I think I got time for one more.
If anyone's got one. Yeah.
Coach, Dan Orlovsky, ESPN. Of course, I knew you guys were going to do great.
Yeah. I bet you did, Dan.
I'm going to cut you off right there. Now, listen, a lot of people want me to just storm out here, be mad at you.
You say, you know, Dan Orlovsky, this guy, this guy didn't, he didn't believe in me all year long. He's calling for my job, actually.
Obviously, I told you to tongue my beanbag last week. I would never do something like that again.
I kind of looked internally and realized that, you know, that wasn't very gracious. That is not what a man of God would do.
What a man of God would do to someone like you in the media who's been calling for his job and saying he's no good is I'd say, Dan, if you wouldn't mind getting down on your knees, popping that mouth open that you love running so much and smooching the tip of my Lombardi. Okay? Enjoy, Dan.
Fly Eagles, fly, baby. Super Bowl champs.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! All right. That's Coach Tariani, obviously.
One last score to settle with Dan Ilovski there. Let's talk about that trophy, though.
Obviously, he kissed the Lombardi. He's going to be carrying that thing around.
Saw Saquon with it last night. Saw Lane Johnson with it last night.
Love it. Howie.
Jalen. On the floor.
Jalen sitting there with a cigar. That was cool.
That was staged. I don't think it is.
The sit-down one? Well, why would he have those people in the back, then? I don't think he would have those people in the back. He'd be in the bathroom solo.
I thought about that. There's no real private moments, huh? It's not.
Not even, like, locker room. You know, I feel like those used to be, you know, kind of sacred almost.
I almost feel kind of, like, violating watching it. But it's 2025.
It is what it is. But this picture, we do get some all-time moments.
Remember when the Celtics woman, Jason Tatum, tried to create a lot of these. But, you know, just again.
But exactly. Like, that's what happens because what happens because of the not having any privacy.
Even if you want to take a moment, it's like, oh, this is staged. He's just doing this for the photo.
It happened with the Celtics. It's happened with Jalen now.
It's like, no, maybe the guy just wanted to sit. Actually, right after the entire thing, he talked about how I haven't really set It hasn't really set in for me yet.
I'm waiting

for it to set in and maybe

this is the moment and then immediately,

oh, this guy's just setting it up.

Literally, if that was a stage photo, I think he would

ask for those people to get out of the back.

Because that could be a very sick stage

photo. If we were going to make

a stage photo, that would be nasty.

Especially with the cigar. He's even got the goggles

on his neck because of the champagne campaign. The whole entire whatever shower they're giving in there.
Campaign. Did you see the Jordan brand commercial? Oh yeah.
That was sick. So sick.
Love, hurt. That was sick.
Yeah, release the Mahomes one. What? Well, they have one for both.
We all know that. He's with Adidas.
Yeah, so I want to see the Adidas one that they had. All the three.
You know, they ship all the merch out. Exactly.
You should at least see what the advertising potential was. We saw what the Falcons Super Bowl shirt looked like.
Well, I think that was custom made. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's a Super Bowl champion, a college football national champion, a Ryder Cup winner, and the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, ladies and gentlemen, A.J.
Hawk. Yeah, Hawker! Hawker, thank you for joining us early.
Did you see Coach Tyreani? Seems like he's going to take a little victory tour. He said, I will not be a gracious winner.
Did you take anything else away from that? That was my favorite part, the fact that he said he will not be a gracious winner. I think he deserves to have a little bit of a run here in these next couple weeks where he does not need to be a gracious winner, but he will.
We know he's a classy dude. He's not going to take it too far, but he has every right to bask in this celebration.
What an unbelievable win by him. The Eagles won this game.
The Chiefs did not lose. The Eagles just came out there and dominated from start to finish.
Agreed in all three phases, and that's his little boy right there. Little boy Pazan actually wrote a handwritten letter that he has, I think, on his desk.
And they were reading it during the pregame. I think it was Aaron Andrews.
Might have been EA. I forget who did the story.
I apologize to if it wasn't EA. But she was talking to Nick Sirianni.
And it was the backdrop. You know, they're in a hotel room with the suite up in the top.
And it was a pretty nice shot. And she started talking about this letter that's on his desk.
It's his handwritten letter like you do at school and in there he talks about dog mentality his kid writes dog mentality this is what dog mentality means to me or i hope you always remember to have a dog mentality and it's in like little kids handwriting and just seeing dog mentality written by a child i like almost got like emotional i'm like coach sirianni whenever he was he was reading that letter, and his kids writing him a letter, handwritten letter, that's cool to begin with. I assume in the development stage of watching your kid grow, that's probably a cool thing.
Putting together a full message, obviously being able to write it out. Seemed like there was no spelling errors, but then whenever at the bottom, it was like three quarters of the way down because they showed the thing.
It was like dog mentality written down there. He to just start breaking down like i got one i'm reaching him you know i am uh i'm reaching my boy because i think the way they're explaining is like dog mentality about how how many times you get knocked down then you get right back up and how much time how many times you just keep going it's like this dude was mocked and ridiculed by everybody yeah eagles fans we read single week.
Yes. Whenever we do our overreaction tweets, Eagles get a win.
Who's pissed at Nick Sirianni? Eagles fans. It's like, and then the TV shows were like, yeah, us too, actually.
And you got to wonder why. He mentioned to EA about how he's not what you think of when you think of an NFL head coach necessarily.
The way he operates and the way he goes about his messaging or the way he goes about relationship building with the boys or how he goes about celebrating after a win, maybe in a tunnel talking shit to people, maybe him talking to the fans, interacting with fans. Because remember, this guy used to be a wide receiver, play college ball.
so maybe he does have a little pizzazz. So maybe whenever people are talking shit, maybe he does want to interact, which most NFL coaches would never do.
Obviously, NFL coaches say, keep the noise out. It's not about what they do.
And then Sirianni's like, hey, how about a little credit here? We just won this game on his way out of there. But I think he's always like that.
So I think his team loves him. I mean, once again, the wide receivers who have been asked to take a backseat to the running game all year, and they've been paid, both of them.
A.J. Brown, Devontae, they've both been paid.
They're the ones that are doing the Gatorade bath on Nick Sirianni, the head coach who inevitably has to sign off on everything that's happening with the team. I think that says a lot about how this guy goes about doing his thing.

I think that says a lot about how his team feels about him.

And if he's got his kid right in dog mentality when he's five or six years old,

it feels like everybody around him is like, hey, this guy's with us.

This guy's loyal to us.

This guy will take all the heat for us. And this guy will show up the next day and say, hey,

let's go beat the shit out of this team.

And he's young. His contract's up.
And we heard in Coach Tariani's press conference there, Liam Cohen allegedly getting $14 million. Ben Johnson getting $13 million.
Aaron Glenn probably in that same ballpark with his job just getting hired over there. It's like this guy is legend.
This guy is amongst the legends of coaching whenever it comes to winning percentage.

Now he's a world champion and his contract's up.

It's like good time to be Nick Sirianni's agent.

Who's that?

I think a guy.

I think a guy that knows it.

He's Southern, I think.

White guy.

He's a college guy.

He's a refrigerator.

Sure.

I think he's a refrigerator.

We saw him last night.

He was on TV. He was next to Big Dome.
He was. Jimmy Sexton.
Okay. Yeah, he knows the ins and outs of his coaching contracts, I think.
And I assume Sirianni wants to remain with the Eagles, obviously. I assume that is his number one goal.
And I assume the Eagles would like him. But the Eagles in coaches, interesting.
Very. Yeah.
It can happen quick.

Either way.

Stats could be made.

And then,

yeah,

we don't think so.

And then,

by the way,

they win.

He's been a place

and gone.

Howie's probably

just like I fucking

said it would.

I'm pretty good,

aren't I?

Joining us now,

ladies and gentlemen,

senior NFL insider

for ESPN,

a man who crushed

it all season, especially during Super Bowl week, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schefter. Yeah, Schefter.
Gentlemen, what's going on? Schefter, is that the family there? Is that the actual insider behind you? Yeah, she's laughing, yeah. She's fresh off her post-game interviews last night on the field where I was her runner and assisting her and trying to get her whatever interviews I could.
It was great. You know, everyone's doing their post-game things.
Dylan, get your head out of the field. Hey, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, let us tell you this.
Keep your dad as your booker. That job stinks.
Let your dad do it. He knows everybody.
Okay? And congrats on the great work this week, Dylan. Oh, yeah.
Great job. No problem.
Keep crushing it. Okay, Shefty, we were just talking about it.
Sirianni's going into last year of his contract. We assume he won't be a lame duck coach.
We assume there'll be an extension done this offseason. First of all, is that all accurate? And second of all, we just talked about it.
All these guys just signed for $13 million a year, which is obviously a big number. This guy's going to get paid the most of all time, or how do you see this going with the Philadelphia Eagles? No.
Well, I think what'll happen is they'll sit down to do the deal because Nick Sirianni is headed into the last year of his contract. You never want a head coach headed into the last year of his contract.
Ben Johnson got $13 million this year, but not the other rookie coaches. The other rookie coaches this year didn't get that.
I think the pace cycle for those guys was anywhere from $10 to $13 million per coach. Okay, got it.
What about Liam? We heard Liam was like 13 or 14. Is that not accurate? That would be in that same window? That's not accurate.
Okay. That's high.
He did not beat Ben Johnson. Okay.
Liam did fantastic and obviously tremendously elevated his salary, but no, Ben Johnson came in the highest of the rookie head coaches. So if you're Nick Sirianni and you won a Superbowl and you've got a year left and you're sitting down to talk about your deal, I'm sure the Eagles obviously want to keep that number down and Nick Sirianni is going to want to drive that number up.
I think all of us right now could sit down and figure out what we believe to be a fair number. If Ben Johnson got 13, then Nick Sirianni as a Super Bowl winning head coach is worth more than that.
Right? So what is the number? Is that going to be 14? Is it going to be 15? I don't think they're going to pay him like the upper echelon

coaches. I don't think so.

Why not?

By the way, that's

the job of his agent to argue that.

And his agent,

Jimmy Sexton,

we don't know everything about him,

but we know enough.

He's going to get a

good deal.

For everybody.

He does good business. That's why he's able to continue to do business with everybody.
But I think he's going to lay out a very easy case. If he just used the stats that we have from our show for who and where Sirianni ranks in the history.
Now, granted, he understands that Howie's been able to put together a phenomenal roster. Like this

team, the players that he is coaching,

all dogs, but he's the one

that's getting all these dogs to bark

in the same direction. So I think

he has a lot of leverage, he has a lot of power,

and hopefully they get a deal done because

Philadelphia, with this style of guy

being their coach, is awesome.

And it's obviously worked. You know what's funny about that

number one, I don't know,

two, three months ago, people were calling for his job

when he had some

Thank you. guy being their coach is awesome and it's obviously worked you know what's funny about that number one i don't know two three months ago people were calling for his job yeah when he had some emotional outburst number two is players love him his players love him like they believe in the guy and they i don't know ever loved him as much as they do today when he's led them to the super bowl title and the players played great and he was the coach,

but he's going to get a new deal.

They'll redo it and we'll see where that comes in,

but I obviously fully expect it to be north of Ben Johnson.

Okay, hopefully they get that deal done sooner than later.

Let's talk about that coaching staff, though,

because some things were said last night maybe that make us believe, whoa, maybe not so fast, my friend.

Shout out to Lee Corso. Go ahead, AJ.

Yeah, Shepty, what about offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, obviously? Is he just going to stay in New Orleans and take the gig? If he does, how much does he get paid? And is there a possibility that he is back in Philadelphia? Look, there's always that possibility. I expect him to be the next-day coach.
And the Saints are going to make sure they do everything here by the book because the last time the Eagles found evidence of the Cardinals tampering, it cost the Cardinals draft pick compensation in the end. And the New Orleans Saints, who have been in the crosshairs of the NFL before, don't want any part of that.
So they've gone out of their way to make sure that they're doing everything by the book. But if they were hiring the Dolphins' Anthony Weaver, their defense coordinator, they could have done that.
If they were hiring Darren Rizzi as their interim head coach, full-time, they could have done that. If they were hiring Mike Kafka, the Giants' offense, they could have done it.
They didn't do any of this. They just waited, and they waited because they intend to hire Kellen Moore, assuming that they can get a new contract done.
And again, that should not be a hard deal to do as well. Kellen Moore's making, we'll call it $4 million a year as the Eagles offensive coordinator.
I'm not far off. I might be a little high, but I might not be.
$4 million. The New Orleans Saints are going to come in and they're going to offer him.
I don't know. I would say 10 or 11.
Maybe it comes in at 12. I think it finishes up at 11 as the head coach.
Are you going to turn down a raise to go from $4 million a year to $11 million a year? Are you going to let that happen? And by the way, are you going to let that happen a year after Bobby Slovic was one of the hothead coaching candidates for the Houston Texans and a year later he's fired? When you're being offered a job and you're being offered a raise of roughly $7-8 million a year, you're not turning that down. You're getting that deal done.
You're getting that deal done, and I would expect that Kellen Moore is going to get that deal done and become the next head coach of the New Orleans Saints. I don't want to counter here, but I heard Nick Sirianni say this last night.
Yeah, Vic's been a great coordinator in this league for decades, and he was awesome today. Kellen, you know, let's run this shit back, Kellen.
Let's run this back. Congratulations, coach.
Thank you. Okay, so Sirianni is selling, I bet, behind the scenes on how special it is, but you said Bobby Sloick.
Of course. Hold on, hold on, hold Sloick which is certainly fair I would argue Ben Johnson though with the Detroit Lions where they dominated took over changed the offense Jared Goff went crazy that offense was the talk of the time and every time in the NFL he got offered some head coaching jobs he says no I want to go back now he's at the Bears making 13 million a year because he's even more highly coveted.
So with that being said, I understand what you're saying about taking a $7 million to $8 million right now. But I think everybody on earth knows the Saints job is like two years out, right? At least.
They're saying like the way that looks is like a two-year-out thing. So if Nick Sirianni, and I'm not saying Kellen Moore shouldn't take a $7 million to $8 million bump.
You do what you got to do for you and your family and your career and what your thoughts are but in my head sirianni has a pretty good sell hey we still got saquon we still got jaylen we still got this offensive line aj and davante are dumping gatorade on me i think we're good there yes vic fangio is still here that d line is young that d line is young so kellen you could potentially run up the scoreboard here with the team that we have right now. Oh, yeah.
I think that's how Sirianni sells that, right? Oh, yeah, that's definitely how it sells it. Chip just got, you know, six a year.
I think he's the highest-paid coordinator right now. And obviously, it's much easier for us to say it here because we're not getting that seven, eight-green dollar raise and then, you know, however, four or five guaranteed.
And Coach Sirianni, you know, said, you know, flame out there. You could probably get another OC job there.
And I'm sure Shefty has a response for that though yeah I'd assume so there's some other big news that came out this week yeah I know uh Sirianni wants to run it back but it seems as though they are not running it back with Aaron Rodgers up with the Jets uh reports came out about a meeting that happened and basically left that meeting with the understanding they would not be running it back with Aaron Rodgers in the New York Jets. You got any updates in that situation? Well, listen, I think we got a situation here where you got a new general manager, a new head coach.
And when new general managers and new head coaches come in, they typically like to make changes and bring in their own people. There's a reason that a team is in the market for changing its general manager and head coach.
And so when that happens, they like to reset the culture and establish their own culture. So I would think that that's a part of this, that the Jets want to go in their own direction and they want to stir over.
There's no doubt that Aaron Rodgers still can play and still can play at a high level. But the Jets are starting to build this again from the ground up, despite the fact that they've got some good talent on their roster.
And so they're not expected to bring back Aaron Rodgers at this point in time. Aaron Rodgers will go somewhere else.
He may try to take Devontae Adams with him, wherever he's going. I would think with Aaron Rodgers not back, Devontae Adams is not going to be back in New York either.
So, again, you start to see those changes of the most notable changes that they'll make. But whenever there's a situation with new head coaches, new general managers, you're going to see a whole slew of changes.
They usually start with some of the most significant people. In this case, that'll be Aaron Rodgers and Devontae Adams, who I expect not to be back both.
I assumed, okay, that's a nice piece of information, Shefty, we appreciate that. So I assumed early that if Aaron wanted to play again, it was not going to be for the New York Jets because new GM, new coach to everything that you said.
Then it felt like there was a little bit of a groundswell, I think would be a right way to describe it. Like, no, maybe Aaron will actually stick around and then they'll draft somebody and then the jordan love thing where he's mentoring for a year as aaron glenn goes in there and then that the news drops from jay glazer scoopage hey they talked he's not being asked back or whatever so we reached out to our source says what we've been told is that aaron's potentially out of the country and uh when we come back he's probably going to be on okay okay so that's what our source says have told us now i believe that that is uh maybe for some time to figure out what the hell is going on yeah you know i wonder how much has been figured out from this guy's side because i think walking away from the game a lot of people would assume not possible especially with how he played at the end and how everything went down i've come to know that anything is possible yeah with aaron rogers amen anything anything is possible with aaron rogers aj do you agree with that sentiment with what i just said uh yes i would agree yeah i mean we heard he was going in the darkness super bowl radio row we had no idea what was happening didn't even know that was Didn't even know that was a thing.
There's a lot of things that I've just learned that exist through this Aaron Rogers relationship. It's been cool getting done.
They call it his docuseries Enigma. I don't think there's ever been a better word for a human.
It's like he is a special, special football player. Special football player.
I mean, it is. His accolades go crazy.
Everybody that's ever played professional football loves him. Every professional athlete's like Aaron Rodgers is a dog.
Like that is literally how they talk about him. He thinks to his own drum.
He goes along to the beat of his own drum. Oh, yeah.
Very clearly. Always has.
But at the end of the day, he's like a hippie who just happens to be a genius and also a football savant so it's like interesting i've seen this guy in the middle of a living room jamming out with a guitar singing shirtless long hair like just like oh i just walked into a hippie convention then i've been at a dinner where he's explaining something that i could never understand in my life And then he starts talking about football and he's recalling blitzes that were coming from 2006.

It's like, this is a special guy.

But I think he's very comfortable with who he is.

He's very comfortable with where he is.

So I'll be very intrigued to see what he does.

I assume he's playing football.

I assumed at the very beginning he's going to continue to play football, not for the Jets.

That was without talking to him.

That was just like reading the situation. I assume the same thing.
Shefford, you assume the same thing? Yeah, listen. We'll see what he has to say when he's back on your show as a special guest and what your sources say.
That's a tease. That's a good tease.
To me, my guess would be that he winds up playing. He's going to want to continue playing.
I would guess he'll want to do it at a place that wants him.

Here's a guy that I think he's made more money than any NFL player in history right now.

And so that gives him the ability to sit back and be selective about what he does and doesn't want to do.

If there's a situation that he's not particularly enthralled with, he doesn't have to do it.

But on the surface today, my guess would be he does want to play. He can help a team.
How many spots, Shefty? How many spots do you think would want Aaron Rodgers' service? Well, give us a little leverage here. You know, so whenever we talk to Aaron, you know, we can be like, hey, bud, Shefty's telling us there's two, three spots.
Take the one. There's something to think about.
Well, it's a fluid-moving thing, right? You just don't know. There are seven guys.
Is Minnesota going to lose Sam Darnold? They're going to bring him back. Is Sam Darnold going to go somewhere else? Yeah, the Brett Favre prophecy.
Yeah, can't do that. With J.J.
McCarthy? I think there's another new owner who probably is a big fan of Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady in Vegas. Oh, I didn't even think of him.
I think the Raiders are going to make a play for Sam Darnold. I think Sam Darnold's added in to be the Raiders quarterback.
We'll see whether Minnesota lets him go or not, but let's see if that works out with Sam Darnold lining up in Vegas. And so if he goes there, then the Vikings have to bring

in another quarterback. JJ

obviously is going to be there. JJ is coming along.

And I think that was part of the reason they

brought in Daniel Jones because

they were kind of getting him up to speed in their

system, their organization, in the event that

they do lose. And Devontae Adams

going out there. Justin Jefferson.

Devontae Adams.

Addison. T.J.
Hawkinson, Cook, and the... Kevin O'Connell plays.
Aaron Jones still at work? Oh, yeah. There's a one year.
Oh, you sound like what do you do? But Aaron Jones and Aaron Rodgers are the best friends. I guess they can dangle it.
I didn't even think about Minnesota. Holy shit! Okay, so he's coming back and playing football, and then he's going to Minnesota.
That's what I'm going to believe. Far-bend the NFC Championship, right? Yeah, time is a flat circle.
Could you fathom if he was to do that? Anyways, let's go to another team that would probably say, hey, we don't know about how much we're going to pay everybody, but would love to have you a quarterback. Yeah, Shefty, not a new coach, not a new GM, but it looks like there will be a new quarterback in Pittsburgh as far as Russell Wilson.
The reports are that Russell Wilson probably not returning. There hasn't been anything said about Justin Fields yet, but Mr.
Rooney in his end of season conference basically said, we need to fix the quarterback room. Sounds like Russ is not going to be that guy.
What do you have on that situation? I was with Russell on Friday, and I'm just telling you the tone that I got from him was entirely different than sports that are out there. And we'll see what winds up happening, whether or not he's back there.
But I think he feels like there's definitely a chance he's going to be back there. He's having conversations with the organization about the future and where it's going to go.
Now, again, there's still a lot that's going to play out here but i think he definitely definitely thinks that he may be back in pittsburgh okay he said that to us in our conversation too like hey want to be back in pittsburgh they're starting early talks maybe starting to strategize and then now you're saying you're with him on friday at the super bowl who's at super bowl everybody so it's like a little combine conversation happening behind the scenes for Shefty. Fresh out of the big news business, Connor has a question for you.
Yeah, Shefty, more big news out of San Francisco. The 49ers gave Debo Samuel permission to seek a trade.
Are we going to see a lot of this? Because we've already seen Cooper Cup being told by the team, you know, go ahead, we're going to trade you. And now Debo, of course, with the Niners, a little bit of a different situation.
But what teams are going to be in it for Debo, do you think? And we know you're plugged in. Uh-huh.
Yep. Well, I spoke to Debo yesterday morning.
Of course. We didn't go over to the teams just yet.
I would think that there'd be a lot of teams that could use a player like Debo. Obviously, I think the 49ers did a tremendous job at maximizing his talents.
But think of all the teams that need wide receivers. There's so many of them.
And there's still going to be so much wide receiver movement this offseason that I don't know. What happens if T.
Higgins leaves Cincinnati? Would he be an option there what if um tyreek hill gets traded for miami is he an option there what about uh he's back he's all in any i thought tyreek was all in didn't he say he took back his i'm out his mom called him or something like that i saw yeah what he said he says a lot i'm just saying that there are a lot of there are a lot of outstanding wide.

Well said.

I think it's hard to pinpoint right now where Debo would go.

Look, I could see him in Pittsburgh.

I could see him in Baltimore.

I could see him in a lot of places.

Like any of those North teams makes it.

Okay.

We would love to have him here in Indy.

You know, Debo's a dog. There's just always a situation seemingly out there with the Niners.
Always. There's always something brewing with the Niners.
And I'll tell you, whenever I think about that team, I think they're great. But they're always dealing with shit.
You know, I guess that's what great teams have to deal with, except for the Philadelphia Eagles. Anyways, Ty has a question for you, Shefty.
Yeah, Shefty, last time we were on with you, the Miles Garrett news came out, and I think everyone was kind of like, guys, this is kind of just like a ploy maybe for him to get paid and stay there. But then he was down in New Orleans at Radio Row making the rounds, and basically on every show he kind of just said like, hey, we're going in two different directions.
I don't believe we're on the same page of what we want.

So it seems pretty clear that he absolutely wants out of there.

This isn't just a money ploy.

Now, who knows?

That could just be what he was doing on these shows.

But is there any movement there?

Have you changed your way of thought in terms of whether or not he's going to be a Brown next season or whether or not you think he's going to get traded?

Well, I would say this.

I think the Browns general manager, Andrew Berry, is adamant on not moving Miles Garrett. And I think it would be up to some team to offer them enough to even get him to try to change his mind, which right now he doesn't seem to be willing to do.
I think that this one, again, has the potential to go on for a while, to linger. And I think there are a few inflection points where the Browns sort of have to make some decision, even though I think they feel like they've made their decision.
And their decision is not to trade Myles Garrett. The first one would be going into the new league year about a month from now.
That would be the first time. The second time would be before the draft.
And you'd like to think that if they're going to make a move, that they would do it before the draft because of all the draft pick capital that would be involved. Except when you look back at the Cleo Mack trade, that was made on September 1st of that season, right before the start of the season.
So there's no real deadline here. He wants to be traded.
They don't want to trade him. Is there going to be a team that steps up? Like, I think there was a team that called Cleveland last week.
I'm sure there were many teams that called Cleveland last week, and they told him, you know, we're not interested in dealing him right now. Now, is there going to be a team that just stays on the phone and keeps calling the Browns and say, okay, well, I know you're not dealing him, but here's what we'd be willing to offer if you are.

So, or is Miles willing to sit this out beyond? I love that. Again, I want to point out this.
In the last few years, we had Lamar Jackson drop a trade bomb request the morning of the owner's meetings as John Harbaugh was going into breakfast with reporters. A month later, he signed a new contract.
We had Debo Samuel and Brandon Ayuk Both issue trade requests

From the 49ers. Both wound up signing new deals, although Debo obviously has another trade request now that the 49ers have told him that they're going to honor.
So just because a player demands a trade doesn't always mean that he winds up getting traded so this one still is in its embryonic stages and we'll see where it goes and what's up great descriptor holy shit that was a great descriptor that's the schefter difference you know that's michigan that's a michigan man right there i like the teams are calling even though they're saying they're not going to trade him. Okay, we're just letting you know, though.
Here's the offer.

Two ones.

Two ones.

Think about it.

And you can get this guy.

Just sleep.

Hey, I know you're not trading him.

Why would you?

But seems like I hate you guys.

You're going to fuck for the next couple years anyways.

Deshaun Watson, what are you going to do with that?

If you want to get this, it's available for you.

Just something to think about when you lay your head down at night.

And Andrew Barry's like, we're not interested. And then at one point, Andrew Barry's laying his head down.
And that comes floating. Oh my god, look what the Eagles did with those picks.
Look what the Eagles were able to do to turn around their entire franchise with those picks. Look what the Washington Commanders were able to do just with a couple good picks.
Look what the Denver Broncos just did. I mean, there's so many.

Do you see what the Eagles did with Carson Wentz?

Yeah.

Great tweet by you.

I don't love it because I was the Colts on the other side of that.

By the way, that was a Colts.

Thank you.

Thank you, Schefter.

Ladies and gentlemen, senior NFL insider.

Great year.

We'll see you at the combine.

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I respect it because of how great of a year A.J. Hawk is had.
Has he had a great year? Yeah. A.J., what a great year.
Ohio State won national championship. Probably his best.
Holy hell. And you picked Philadelphia Eagles win Super Bowl.
You say you haven't wavered either. He said that early, I think, didn't he? Now, granted, he thought the commanders could beat the Eagles.
True. Remember, that was that.
And then when you watch that game unfold, he said, wait a second. These Eagles teams are a little bit different.

Maybe you were waffling like Chuck Pagano, but in the end,

you said, I want the Philadelphia Eagles.

They did exactly what was possible, AJ.

And we talked about the question that was posed.

Could the Chiefs blow out the Eagles?

Nobody thought that was the case.

Could the Eagles blow out the Chiefs?

Mm-hmm.

I think that is possible.

And that's because they just are a dominating football team, AJ.

Yeah, I mean, this shows you, like, we hear about this stuff all the time.

Can you get four-man pressure?

And that's exactly they just are a dominating football team, AJ. Yeah, I mean, this shows you, like, we hear about this stuff all the time.
Can you get four-man pressure? And that's exactly what this Eagles team did. They're able to get four-man pressure all night.
And, like, just the – I cannot imagine what the mic'd ups might sound like from the Chiefs' sidelines, from all their coaching staff, if we ever get to hear them trying to figure out, hey, how do we block these dudes? Like, hey, they're not bringing six. They're not bringing extra men.
How do we find a way to – not only did they get good pressure and they got sacks and the pressure and also getting in his way and getting in the throwing lanes was great, but they didn't let him run at all. They were so disciplined.
I know you guys talked about it earlier. They play a little cover four umbrella defense, as they call it, going into the game.
All their eyes are on Patrick Mahomes, and they do a good job of setting hard edges on the outside and getting great interior rush. And when you do that, like, what are you supposed to do if you're Patrick Mahomes? I know they forced him into playing a bad game, obviously.
It's not like Patrick just came out there in perfect situations and just played terrible. Like, no, he just, he was under duress all night long, and who knows how his body feels, too.
The dude was getting slammed every game. Yeah, and he.
Even whenever he ran, he took a couple big shots. Early, I think he took a big shot on one of his runs.
He kept bouncing up. It looked like the team just never got going.
We were watching the entire kickoff at the house. A few hours leading up into the Super Bowl.
It was actually kind of fun. I really enjoyed it.
Wife, kid roaming around, watching the pieces that they're creating.

They started showing the guys on the field warming up.

And they showed Patrick Mahomes on the field.

I mean, yeah, that's a big time.

And they were showing Mahomes on the field warming up.

And he yawned.

And my wife was like, I don't like that.

He's yawning on the field right now.

And I was like, I don't think that means anything.

And then Tom Brady got on the screen.

And he said, in my first Super Bowl that I played in, I actually fell asleep during the day. Like, before the Super Bowl, I was able to just fall asleep.
And he said, in my last Super Bowl, I wasn't able to sleep the night before or the day of because there's just so much to kind of figure out in the biggest game of all time. He said, so, you know, maybe the young guys might benefit from the Super Bowl.
They don't know what they don't know. So it was like an interesting tale there of like Tom Brady, whenever he fell asleep, it was because he just was like, yeah, it's just another game.
Patrick Mahomes yawning though. My wife immediately was like, what was that all about? And I'm like, that's a good question.
Then you start watching them play. They never got going.
Like never looked like the Chiefs. Like not one time early did they look like the Chiefs.
Normally he's got Max Bravado, Moxie. Even when they're not doing well, he's still bopping off the field.
There's this number happening here. Travis Kelsey's doing some sort of shit.
There's some shit happening. Even if he's not getting the ball.
There just was never a buzz from the Chiefs team. I do wonder if they weren't, I don't want to say mentally ready, but, like, just where their vibes not at the level that they, you know, always are.
And I wonder why that was the case. They were ready.
You got to, I mean, it's back-to-back Super Bowl champs. Andy Reid, you would expect Andy Reid got him ready.
Spags got him ready. But we all, I mean, we all saw it.
Like, the Eagles were just, you know, they were a better team. Smothered.
Yeah, they were the better team. And A.J.
mentioned it. Like, not only were they getting pressure, but the way they got pressure.
Like, every time you could see it just collapsing the ends and keeping them in the pocket, forcing them to try to escape up in the middle, and it never got done. So, they were super disciplined from that standpoint.
So, like you said, he never got momentum. Outside of, I think, the first pass of the game when he kind of hit Juju in the first pass, you said, okay, a different game and after that nine straight possessions not even being able to get past half field not being able to convert on third down or the best third down team all year long they had one little moment when Cook got that interception on a free blitz where it's like okay this could be the moment that kind of turns the top but then right after that Zach Bond makes a play sets his offense up so it went kind of exactly how we all saw it outside of Saquon we all thought Saquon probably have a big game for him to win but even with him not having a big game kind of hats off to Kellen Moore and that offense still calling 25 runs to kind of keep it balanced and then taking your shots and hitting the shots explosive plays too that was always the big difference coming to this one so they just out executed in and just got dominated from from whistle to whistle yeah kelsey said in his post game they were like what happens basically and he was like we just never had a spark like our offense never got going obviously they had a lot of negative plays some holding illegal man downfield a bunch of those kind of uncharacteristic things but then when you think back to like the brady's last super bowl when it was tampa versus Chiefs it was kind of like this like they never had anything going on offense their O-line was just getting dominated by Todd Bowles and the Tampa Bay D-line like it was a very similar type game just not to the you know 40 point drumming.
Yeah and to your point there immediately following that loss to Tampa Bay they weren't invested in the offensive line like hey this is hey, we understand what the issue was. And with that being said, I wonder if being in so many Super Bowls, going back to the Tampa Super Bowl, as soon as the entire team sees what's happening early, they go, oh, no, this is when we get beat.
This is when we are not the best Chiefs that we've been. This is when the Chiefs is not not the Chiefs, when this type of pressure is happening to them, which leads me to ask, like, A.J.
or D. Butt, either or here, like, how early does that defense know? Like, oh, this is going to, like, we...
Pretty early. You think? You think, like, they...
Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure D.
Butt has an opinion, too, but I think as a defense, this Eagles team, they even talked about how they were pissed off leading up to this game about the talk of the three-peat and people talking about the Chiefs and all that stuff. I think they definitely were highly, highly motivated.
But look at us. Look at the second-level defenders too.
When you get to play a zone or you match zone, all of the linebackers, your eyes are on the QB. So Mahomes knows even if I somehow find a little lane to score it out, it doesn't matter.
We've got Vaughn and Oren Burke sitting there waiting for me. You got three spies.
You got, like, three spies on every play. Yeah, even on that pick six.
That's got to be overwhelming to think about. Yeah, like the pick six, like him trying to throw across his body, which you see Mahomes and Allen and Lamar do that week in and week out.
When you have that type of vision, patience, understanding, and you can kind of bounce back where he never sees you. And then, obviously, you make a play with the ball in your hand.
But, yeah, you know pretty early.

And I think even though there's a lot of new bodies out there,

like CJ GJ kind of mentioned it from the first Super Bowl.

A big thing coming out of that Super Bowl was like, hey,

our D-line never could get their footy because of the field.

Everybody was slipping around, slipping around.

And remember that stat that kind of came out earlier in the week,

like the Eagles' defense when they're on field turf, like how they give up 11 points a game. Oh, yeah.
They're 5-0 with Fangio's defense, and we're kind of like, okay, what does that really mean? So when you got those guys that could just pin their ears back, get after a passer, do their job, and you know you got seven. That's why it's so valuable to be able to get home with four defenders because now you have 14 eyes not only in the quarterback but on all these crossing routes and all these things, they just rallying tackling force and turnovers and while you keep talking about that let's explain that a little bit more as we've just kind of mentioned it a few different times normally teams have to bring an extra guy yeah there's four down linemen normally or there's three with an outside linebacker who's going to rush four people normally rushing quarterback or trying to take care of the d-line most teams would have to bring an extra linebacker or secondary person to get pressure.
That's called a blitz. Whenever you bring more than four, it is a blitz.
So if you're able to do the same pressure without having to add the extra person, that's vital in coverage. Very, very vital because defensively, like you said, if you're only sending four, the offensive line, obviously you have five offensive linemen, and typically you have either a back or a tight end and protection as well.
So now you have six on four. So you can double-team Jalen Carter.
You can double-team whoever it is. But when that other guy can win or both edges create math problems, now you're winning even more because now you may only get four out in the route, and you've got seven guys in coverage.
So like you said, most defenses to apply pressure, you you got to send five or six and kind of catch them off guard but then when you send five or six you're leaving those cornerbacks and those safeties on the island which you saw when they hit Devontae Smith on the big play when they hit AJ Brown on the back shoulder even on the first big play on fourth down that they called back that's what Jalen Hurts took advantage of when Spags on the flip side had to bring pressure because of how good and dominant that Philly offensive line is. And you put those DBs on the island to make big plays.
Such an advantage to have a D-line. O-line, D-line, Howie.
In the trenches. Especially when you're that dominating and explosive.
The footing thing is interesting. I hadn't thought about that until literally just now.
You actually heard my dumbass go, oh yeah. Because you did bring up the turf thing.
And I't think i think i even said what does that mean i don't know what that means what it means is your guys are in a track meet to get to the quarterback that's what that means now granted there's some turf that is slick but it's nowhere near some slick grass because that obviously helps out the slower person whenever you don't have that o-lineman love that o-lineman love a sloppy field because they know that they know that D-Lyman can't get his cleats in the ground, can't turn the corner, can't get a get-off like he normally has because we know like – yeah, the offense knows where they're going. They know where they're going and stuff.
So when it's sloppy like that, it's tough for the defense. It really is.
Didn't even think of that. Yeah, and they're probably thinking that today, or at least Philly fans.
Like, see? Yep. Told you.
Oh, gameplay like the how the game script like played out running the chiefs only ran the seven times yeah and because they were down early like the d-lines ears were pinned back the entire entire game and on a fast track it was just a recipe for disaster so that's uh we talked about it earlier the colts you know when peyton was here and Bill Pullian was running the show and all the boys, great team. Fun team to be a part of during the tail end of a kind of unraveling here in Indianapolis.
They invested a lot of money on the offense, okay? We're going to score points. And then we're going to have two pass rushers, Dwight Freeney, Robert Mathis, and they're going to get home.
And we are going to, we're going to pay somebody in the secondary and then everybody else is kind of, you know, we will replace this entire thing. And that was kind of the entire game plan.
Like we are just going to get a lead and then Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis are going to end the game. And if they score, okay, that's going to, we're going to get got, but inevitably we're going to get home.
We're going to score if we have to. And that's why the conversation's always like, well, if Peyton had a better defense some of these times, I assume that team would go on to win more Super Bowls.
And it was like, well, the team construction was Peyton takes the lead, and then we're going to try to get home to the quarterback. It's like the Philadelphia Eagles, their offense just beats the shit out of your defense, and then their defense comes in and beats the hell out of your offense.
It's like, that's a tough team. I like that a tough team won in 2025, AJ.
Football is always going to require that, I think. Yeah, it is.
And that's the cool thing we have seen, I think, over the last couple years. That's coming back into the NFL.
A little bit more ground and pound. You can do whatever you want.
You can spread guys out all you want. We talk about it a lot.
You say it a lot. There is going to be a moment when you're going to have to physically dominate again.
Whoever is physically dominating the trenches usually wins the game. I'm going back to that pick that Mahomes threw from his own end zone to Zach Bond.
That was huge. They're down 17-0 from your own end zone with under two minutes to go in the first half.
This was a gigantic play. i'm thinking the ball second half yeah didn't you think i as they have the ball here though my car well my homes goes down probably he goes and scores to go to halftime 17-7 then the chiefs they can start run the ball more the game's not out of reach this happened and i'm like oh this is a tough path for victory now for the kansas city chiefs yeah this is when he thought it was over you was over at halftime, 24? I didn't think it was over just because I knew, you know,

what Tom did to the Falcons and how capable Mahomes is.

But I knew pretty quickly.

And then that deep ball, that thing was unbelievable.

I thought Saquon's getting the ball, you know, like we say,

in the alumni zone in the third quarter, boom, Devontae Smith,

what, 46-yard TD over the top.

That right there, you're like, all right, here we go. Game over.
27-0 deep shot. What a play.
Dogs. Sudden change.
We talk about all the time. Sudden change.
Sudden change. You better be ready for that shot, especially in that part of the field.
I thought it was over at halftime. You said no way.
Because, I mean, you thought. The way the Eagles are structured.
I was kind of timeline kind of happy. Okay, maybe not.
Maybe not. You kept saying, all right, I bet my home's right here.
I still think they got a chance. But just because of how they built, how they called their offense, and then Jalen Hurts being able.
You saw early on that, okay, he threw the pick with the pressure. But outside of that, hey, if I get beat with the pressure, I don't know what's going on, I'm going to take off and get 13, 14 yards.
And that's a huge weapon to have that, you or most pocket quarterbacks don't have. So you thought going into half, this game's over.
Okay. Like that.
So that means that the halftime show was like the main event of the evening. You kind of checked out after that just for the commercials.
Everybody's thoughts on a halftime show? My take? I don't think I knew enough songs that were being sung, so I couldn't sing along, which is what I certainly enjoyed doing. Thought it was very well choreographed.
I don't know how many people were all just on the exact same page, but that was pretty wild. Also, with everything being said about the Drake lawsuit, say, Drake, staring at the camera.
That had to feel pretty cool.

He had to feel like the court.

Yeah.

In the middle, like when Brett Favre was suing us.

Like if I could have gone to the halftime

in the middle of the field,

at it like on camera and been like,

say, Brett, I hear you liked it

and just went through his entire case

that's happening.

I mean, I'd probably walk out of that going like, that was a pretty cool night. I thought it pretty cool night.
I thought it was pretty good. I thought it was good.
So with all of that said, I wish I knew more songs. That's on me.
But there's going to be people that hate every halftime show. Without a doubt.
For sure. No matter what.
And there certainly was. And there certainly was.
But I didn't think it was a drawback. I don't think people left.
I mean, maybe we'll see what the numbers are. 24-0 at halftime.
Maybe people checked out anyways through it all. But it's like, all right, I saw a Kendrick Lamar halftime show.
I'm excited to see who's next year. I'm excited to see who's going to continue to take the biggest stage at halftime.
Yeah, I mean, I thought it was good. I'm a Kendrick fan, so I do like it, but I agree.
I think I wonder how much it has to do now with Apple Music running it, where they're just like, hey, perform your new album. Like, we're trying to get people to buy that.
We don't need, like, you know, everyone's already downloaded your previous album. So I've heard Squabble Up from the new album.
Yes. Right.
So I've heard that one. Yeah, that was, like.
TV Off, the Mustard at the end. Yeah, Mustard giving him credit, I think, because of the biggest thing of all time.
Exactly. But you're right, too.
It's funny, You mentioned it this morning and I had said it right before you came back out of the bathroom. You're like, I thought he was going to bring Imagine Dragons out.
I thought there was a chance. There's no real surprises out there.
If they want to just try to appease everybody and have no one really care, just be like, yeah, that was fine. That's what you do.
You get Imagine Dragons do the the halftime show just people aren't going to be up in arms about it people aren't going to remember it like it's crazy but like we're at a stage now where like no matter who they pick people are going to be pissed off it doesn't matter i mean it was good enough i think it didn't it didn't feel like when it was over like jesus christ i just watched that for like an hour and a half like it it felt like it was pretty well p well-paced when they got back to the game. So it's all going to come down.
If you were pissed off when they announced it was going to be Kendrick Lamar, I can't imagine you tuned in and afterwards were like, you know what? I saw the internet was telling me I missed a lot of things, maybe. I think, I mean, I feel like that's always the case when it's something with Kendrick.
People always make it deeper than it is, and sometimes it is. But I dope I felt just like I'm a Kendrick fan too so Dollar Music definitely a fan of his new uh album and obviously everybody wanted him to perform yeah yeah and he knew that he knew he had to do it and he did it and uh hearing the whole crowd kind of being in on it Serena up there crip walking like I thought I thought the whole Samuel being Uncle Sam like I thought the, I thought the whole thing, the choreography, I thought it all was pretty dope.
And I think anybody, I think people that, I feel like going into the Super Bowl, you knew going into it if you were going to like the halftime, sure enough. Well, that's life, I think, at this point.
Yeah, like, all right, Kendrick Lamar has it. I'm going to hate it.
It's going to be dumb. I don't know his songs.
He's not a Super Bowl act. And to me, I think Super Bowl is kind of one of those events where, like, a a pop artist or one of those top 40 artists is going to get kind of the most traction.
Yeah, most topical. You go hip-hop, you go country, you go rock.
You're going to cut out a lot of people. But I thought overall it was a good performance.
I think he won like five Grammys or whatever. Yeah, for just that song.
Yeah, and maybe not as much pizzazz. I saw some people saying, like, he's just walking the pizzazz he's just walking around i thought it was good it's like samuel jackson was in there i thought everything that was happening around i mean there was a lot of pizzazz the bird's eye view it was set up like a playstation controller i don't know if you see oh yeah and i'm pretty sick that is pretty sick uh i was but i heard it was designed that way for a lot of other reasons, too.
I thought it was because it was a game

and then they had the game over thing.

Yeah, I understand.

But have you seen the...

He said everything Kendrick was much deeper.

Yeah, I need to dive in.

I have not.

Yeah, they do.

I mean, I saw his chain.

It was an A minor.

Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not a big musical person.

Love music.

Love it.

Love music.

Love everything about it.

I don't know about the...

You know, Nick Cannon drumline, I can't read music. Sure.
You know, I don't know what these things are doing. You can feel it.
Love music. Love everything about it.
I don't know about the, you know, Nick Cannon drumline, I can't read music. Sure.
You know, I don't know what these things are doing. You can feel it.
But I certainly, A minor, I know a lot about, I know that A minor is a musical note. Yeah.
Yeah. And quite a clever, quite a clever little.
Yeah, everyone's screaming. Yeah, it feels like everybody thinks that's a very singable part.
You know, like, sing us a song, you'll be at all back. Or country road, take me home.
Everybody, right? That's why Rocket Mortgage paid for the sing-along to be one of their commercials, which is a great thing. Sounds like that A minor thing is starting to become one of those.
Yeah, everybody sings along, and that's a pretty pivotal part of a song. I'm excited to see the repercussions of all this.
He didn't say it. He did the certified part, but he didn't do the second part.
I understand A minor is a musical nut. It is.
It certainly is. We've learned that.
You have. Then I was in a commercial immediately after.
Yep. Not a big spot, but a good spot you know right there a couple times earlier though earlier though they showed your other stuff earlier so many 15 second things throughout the day i was watching that fox thing and then all of a sudden my dumb ass is popping up on the screen i was almost uncomfortable you know with the wife watching that uh watching her like be proud of this it was pretty cool and i was like honored obviously that it was happening but watching it as much as it was popping up on the screen yesterday was kind of weird i was like all right we've we've we've done it we've we've done it i appreciate it and it was uh honored to be a part of very cool to be a part of one day shoot out there in san diego shout out to chula vista i believe high school uh i played soccer for odp in chula vista at the olympic training center whenever i was a teenager it was like the biggest moment of my childhood sports life you know going to play chula vista with odp it was a big deal so then going back there for this particular thing i remember i'm like chula vista i love i remember this town and uh to work with peter berg and justin jefferson was there the day that i was there and the whole thing, it was wild to be a part of it.
I had a trailer. I had a makeup department.
Two people doing my makeup. I had Jackie throughout this entire thing.
And then, obviously, the mission to make flag football a varsity girls sport in all 50 states is certainly one that I'm cool with, especially with my daughter, Mackenzie. Seemingly going to be good.
I think she's going to be good. She's not even two years old yet, but she's got good wiggle.
I think that is something that's big in flag football. It's also an Olympic sport, so let's go ahead and be the best at that for sure, by far.
It's also a great way to grow the game. I did see people were mad, you know.
Oh, what? No. They were saying,

we're going to say that girls are better than boys at football.

Maybe at Central High School in 1985.

Certainly a possibility.

And did you see the cleats that she was wearing

versus the gear that they had to have in 1980?

I just think the whole goal here

is for girls to get excited about ball even more

than what they already are

and to feel like they have an opportunity to be great.

And I think flag football at the high school level is awesome and if it's going to provide scholarships maybe even uh later in life i mean there's now i saw everybody go we're not making a women's professional flag football league it's like you're right this is just this is for high school varsity sport just to kind of see what this could be and i'll say say this as somebody that was probably, you know, a little, okay, flag football at a time. Dudes were playing, remember, it was on NFL Network.
Then the flag football quarterback said, I'm better than Patrick Mahomes. And we all said, okay, we're done with the flag football community.
That's enough. You know, you remember that? Oh, yeah.
Very vividly. Remember when we said that? We saw his highlights of him throwing.
Yeah, we want to watch, but we hate you. So we can't.
It's kind of the thought that all football people had. But whenever I watched that high school girls all-star game on the Pro Bowl Sunday, Pro Bowl game Sunday, I was at Cheesecake Factory watching it on TV.
No audio. I have no idea what Orlovsky, Laura Rutledge, and whoever else is calling and saying.

I'm just watching strictly. They're zooming in on a safety.
She's making checks as they're changing formation. The amount of like audibles that are being made, the play that's made, the throws, I'm like, yo, this is, they're playing fucking ball right now.
Like this is, it's like good. I think it's something that they can really get into in a big way.
And it's like, if my daughter has the opportunity to do that,

I'm behind it.

So getting a chance just to be a part of that thing was cool. It was a cool mission, cool message.
And I'll tell you what, being a fatso, probably my future there. Bald, bald fatso, certainly in the future, I think, potentially.
Stache. And I don't know if I can grow a mustache.
Come on. But I'll tell you what, my head.
Now, granted, they did some stuff. Sure.
Maybe not that terrible of a bald guy. Okay.
No. Because I used to think I just got this blockhead because you see it here.
And when it grows out, it's not good. So if I was to go bald, which is possible in my family, it is possible.
Boy, it's going to be a bad look. I'm going to become a hat guy full time.
Probably a cowboy hat in this entire thing. But then I saw me as a bald guy.
He's not in bad shape. Then he put the scarlet mullet on.
And that's when it really started looking terrible. And then the mustache goes and then the other thing goes.
But it was cool to be a part of. It was very cool to be a part of.
And obviously, it's the NFL Super Bowl commercial. So the NFL even asking me to be a part of it is cool.
And maybe they don't hate us over there. Maybe.
Maybe. Maybe we're not some.
Bunch of big dumb dipshits? I don't know. Well, probably still that.
Some of us. Definitely that.
Definitely that. I saw somebody tweet.
Well, how's he going to be a biased journalist if he's working for the NFL in their commercials? What? Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question.
I will say this. Those refs early, they were certainly trying to perpetuate a narrative, weren't they? First call, that was tough.
I mean, was there no self-awareness? Was there no conversation about the reality of the conversation around football? Fourth time calling that? It's like, whoa. I'm getting a call from a hater.
Somebody that thinks definitely rigged. Not happy about it.
FaceTime immediately. Ha! Ha! That's one.
First drive. Couldn't help themselves.
Going crazy. So then, obviously, they call that call against the Chiefs.
And it's like, hey, maybe the refs just stink. And I think it was the same ref.
I thought it was a great job by them. Getting it out of the way.
Makeup call. Back to back terrible call.
Money down. Now we don't talk about it anymore.
I think that's genius. I agree with that entire thing.
Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, he's a Super Bowl champion. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is the man who welcomed the E A G L E S Eagles onto the field in this fashion.
co-founder of daniel coops the greatest cheesesteak in your town brad the cooper this is awesome wait my mom wants to say hello real quick miss gloria hi guys good to see you how are you i love your show you guys are so funny oh my gosh thank you i'm smart okay all right there you go don't be giving it away gloria please don't be doing that we love you too thank you for everything thank you thank you yeah hell yeah bye bye that was awesome see you see you hey we looked her up on the internet uh sounds like an italian last name if i would have said ciao and my mom yeah yeah campano yeah does she know italian no okay smart you know when um when uh when when my grandparents came over here you know the whole thing was to assimilate into american culture so they only spoke italian in the kitchen and they wanted their you know their children to become acclimated to and be an American. So it was only her older brother who spoke Italian.
But she was the middle child. She didn't.
She never learned it. Okay.
So many Italians in Philadelphia. Obviously, you are one of them.
You are one of the faces of this Philadelphia Eagles team. We just showed the introduction.
You killed it. Yeah.
You killed it. Yeah, it was so funny, though.
So I was I was so nervous. was gonna misspell uh eagles number one obviously yes and then i started to think about how you know it does set the tone right it is actually not nothing like if i screw this up that's not a great omen yes agreed and uh so but but i kept thinking i wanted to say nfc champions yes Could you imagine? And I kept running about people, and some people were like, fuck yeah, you got to do it.
And other people were like, no, dude, don't do that. We're happy you did it.
I want to let you know, because we would have taken some heat somehow for ruining a moment. And if they don't win, because you say that, that would be awesome.
I thought been great nfc champion that's good delivery there i mean maybe we go back in time i assume you'll be able to figure it out without young look at this guy aging backwards benjamin button let's talk about how about how about that kid declan man he was awesome oh yeah okay so you give him tickets on the today's show right am i accurate in the story who Yeah, so I didn't give him tickets. The NFL gave him tickets.
But I wasn't aware of his story because I'm not on, I don't know if you had seen the TikTok thing, but I'm not on social media. So there's a whole section of reality that I'm never aware of unless someone tells me.
But I was with my daughter at the Commander's game, and we were just walking in the field, and someone was like, hey, hey, hey. And I turned turned around it was a kid with a poster and I just like blew him a kiss I had no idea but then I learned about his story that he's from Doylestown he's nine years old and two years ago he was sort of he was diagnosed with a pretty uh you know treacherous uh uh ailment of arthritis and he was in the hospital 17 times and then they said they sent me the tiktok video video.
I don't know if you guys have seen it, but there's a guy who does the thing where he offers you something or something else. And he offered him a thousand dollars or another choice.
He gave, he, he chose the other option and it was a tickets to the commander's game. Then the guy also gave him the thousand dollars and then they were in a dollar store.
He was with his family at the dollar store and the kid went around and gave everybody the money oh my god and it was kind of incredible and people were like losing their minds like what's happening and so the today show wanted me to come on and like do an interview with him i was like i don't know who he is and i guarantee you he doesn't know who i am either i just waved to him and he didn't when i met him he was like i don't know they're like rocket raccoons like oh i know rocket right well that's an awesome and uh and then so i was like but i'll give him the tickets i'll go on and just give him the tickets with the with the band and the cheerleaders and then so that was really cool i went just did that and then the nfl asked me if i would uh introduce the team and i thought i'll only do it if he does it with me that would be dope if he did it with me so that's how's how it happened. That is incredibly cool.
I saw this clip of you running a tunnel with the smoke coming around. Yeah, exactly.
I was like, I'll come out and do that. But he was awesome.
He was so calm. And I mean, I don't know.
I was nervous. And he was like calming me yesterday.
It was awesome. Well, I love to hear that.
Thank you for doing that. He's going to remember that for the rest of his life.
And obviously. I will.
You will as well. But also good karma into the football universe that you did that.
It was a good moment, man. It was a good moment.
You could feel it, you know. After I said, like, all right, you could just feel that support.
I mean, the truth is, in the stadium, it felt like a home game. It really did.
I don't know how they did it because optically it looked like it was split red and green but sonically the Eagles fans were just totally amplified. It was nuts, man.
Okay, could you have fathomed the game going that way? I think the reason why the Eagles fans were so crazy is because that place, first of all, known for being very loud. Tough to play down there whenever the Saints are rolling, let alone everything going on.
But it is built to be loud as shit. And then with the way the Eagles started that game, it felt like it gave you guys a lot to yell about.
How, in your wildest dreams, and I know you're sitting up in the box and you just introed the team, so you're like a part of this entire thing. Could you have fathomed the Eagles just beating the hell out of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl? Well, the truth is, I thought that our best shot would be, obviously, like many people, we have to take an early lead.
But I did think it would go either two ways. It's either going to be a blowout by us or it's going to be a close game that we lose.
And I was just praying that it would be a blowout. Yeah, I think that was kind of the read on the rosters throughout.
Watching you go throughout the entire season has been awesome, too, for us behind the scenes. Go ahead, AJ.
Yeah, Coop, did you get to hang out with the team afterwards? What did you do post game? Did you get to see who was performing at the post game party and how excited are you for this Eagles team to hopefully go on a dynastic run as they keep talking about? You know, AJ, first of all, this is so crazy. I'm on the show.
I sit here and write and watch it because you're on my phone right now. So the fact that I'm interacting with you, it's like I'm going to wake up in some fucking fever dream.
I feel the same. We can't believe you watch.
And by the way, thanks for all the shout outs. Every time, I think I told you, I was like, did you hear? He said my name.
We are so lucky you watched the program. You are the coolest dude.
And tell me something cool. Bro, I watched the program.
That's coolest dude and tell me something bro i i watched the program well we appreciate that so so getting back to that was you know i was at the super bowl uh when we lost i was at the super bowl when we won and every time i just was sort of catatonic up in the box and this time um even when we won in 2017 i never left the box and i was just sitting there alone as everybody went down to the field. I don't even think they asked me to go to the field, though.
But today, because we had already been there and we had our wristbands, my daughter and I were like, we're going to go down. And I got to say, man, it was...
And, you know, Lane Johnson, I just think he's maybe the best right tackle to ever play the game. And I love everything about him.
I love his work ethic. I just idolize the guy.
And at the end, we were watching, like, behind the fence, you know, the sort of makeshift fence on the stage. And then I was sort of waiting for Lane to come down on the right side.
But I realized other Eagles were going down the left side. And I was like, Lee, let's just walk.
You know, it's mayhem. There's cameras and fucking people.
But I see this big Goliath walking away. And I was like eight years old, dude.
And I'm like, I'm like, Leah, Leah, I got to see. And I'm like running to him.
And I'm like, Lane, Lane. What a moment.
What a moment. And he turned around.
He turned around. And it was so aboyant and wonderful.
And we hugged. And you're hugging these guys after the game and you just they're fucking drenched in that fucking smell and these fucking gladiators yeah these fucking gladiators and and he and it was like it was weird because i felt like i was eight and my daughter's seven and i'm holding but i felt like i was eight it was it was like and one the most incredible experiences.
It was, and you know, I've had anxiety for two weeks and I thought maybe something's wrong with me. I'm sick.
But I realized it was just the emotional angst of this game. And I've only slept like three hours.
But I feel so relaxed, man. Yeah, well, congrats.
You did it. You did it.
You didop. And football is the greatest.
Bradley Cooper feels like an 8-year-old after a big-time win, which leads to this. Ty has a question for you, Coop.
Yeah, Coop, first and foremost, what a fucking honor. This is so awesome that you're on the show.
So when you take all that into account, where does last night rank compared to your career accolades? Obviously, you've been nominated for 12 Oscars. Bullshit, youars bullshit you haven't Won yet but like You're one of the most beloved and popular Actors of your entire generation But where does last night rank Compared to like all the cool shit you've Done in your career Well I didn't do anything but Observe last night Intro Intro! John Hamm

his voice cracked

in the middle of that. Set the tone.

They never were able to roll.

They were never able to roll. Then you go, alright, let's go

and get right into it. It's like

Lane Johnson's right behind you. You talk about how much you love Lane.

Lane's right behind you. You set the tone.

You won the Super Bowl. You did it.

By the way, I worked at it. I was saying that thing

for like two weeks up and down the street in weird public places. People are like, what's he doing? Yeah.
I watched The Rock do it, you know, in L.A., his like epic thing that he did. But, you know, that experience, Ty, of doing that, which I was nervous about, that felt as big as like singing at the Osccars and uh you know i conducted the london

symphony orchestra live in ely which was fucking terrifying and then played at glassberry music festival for stars born in front of 90 000 people like it felt like those things those moments of like holy shit i'm on the moon right now well we don't want to talk about that buzz had a commercial Yes, I know

filmmakers, so, you know. Hey, you were on the moon.
Yes, you were. You were on the moon.
So were we. So we're USA.
That's right. USA.
Buzz is natural on set. No, no.
He was actually kind of a stiff actor. That's what you were about to say.
He's a real good actor. No, no, no.
I wasn't going to say that. Anyways, we're happy that you felt like that.
You deserve to feel like that, brother. And then you just listening through some of the crazy things you've done.
What a talent. What an absolute talent.
Speaking of talents, coaches, D-Bot has a question for you, Coop. Coop, got to ask you, as an Eagles fan, we know a lot of the Eagles fans and media have been torn on Sirianni, and obviously everybody's over the moon right now as anas fan winning the Super Bowl.
But what's your thoughts on Nick Sirianni? When did you know this game was over and the Super Bowl was in the book? Oh, I didn't know it until way late, way late. I think it was that, that, that penultimate field goal when I was like, that's it.
You know, cause I just put up, but you know, and no one in the box did too. It was tense, man.
Up until like four, like four minutes. Like you remember that last field goal, the second to last field goal that I was like, but up until then, I don't know, man.
Cause you know, two years ago, I went into halftime and I was talking to my buddy about, you know, how am I going to get to the parade? You know? And then I, you know, just got it slammed in my face. So I learned my lesson.
Yeah. All four quarters head down.
Next play matters rip your heart out yep absolutely you hold on one second you're sitting with the owner right yeah and gm up there or just owner oh yeah yeah and only because uh you know i did this movie silver linings playbook back in 2010 and uh and andy reed used to be you know that's when he was the coach. And because we shot, you know, they allowed us access because we shot in the parking lot for the tailgating and all that stuff.
And then because he was obsessed with one of the players, I was able to go and spend some time with all of them. And that's how I got to know everybody.
And that's when I started to be able to go to the games and got to meet Jeff. And that's how that whole thing started.
So at this point, I've been through the ride with those guys, just alongside. But it does feel a part of it.
I mean, they know how emotionally connected I am. And now my daughter is.
I started taking her when she was two, and now she'll be eight. And her evolution and her knowledge of football in these years, it's just incredible.
Yeah, those moments, I assume, are amazing. That has to be such a cool feeling with your daughter.
Yeah. It's nuts, man.
Hey, flag football. Yeah.
Flag football. I love it.
By the way, I love it. Of course it should be a varsity sport in high schools.
And what are people even saying with the commercial? I thought that too. I saw commercial i thought people are going to have issue with this which is ridiculous well it's life coop yeah you know yeah that is the world that we live in nowadays and you know it's you're never going to be able to please everybody but somehow it seems like you have you know and it's not just that's not true not just with your acting i'm sure there's people but a majority of us are like coops the man that's why as soon as we found out that you watched the show remember i faced that you remember how they started facetimed you out of nowhere got a text from a random number hey this is bradley cooper wanted to let you know okay go fuck yourself is my first thought no response no chance of that so then i come in here and i tell the boys i go got a text from a number acting like they're bradley cooper last night and everybody i think connor led the way is like cold face time right now so we face time you know and you answer and the response was holy this is bradley cooper and we we couldn't operate for like two days yeah after hearing that so we appreciate the hell out of you and uh you know when i had to do the acting thing? Obviously, Coop.
The guy. Brad Cooper.
Yep. And you gave me a quote that says, say what you mean and mean what you say.
And I think it's my... Yeah, James Cagney, yeah.
Yeah, James Cagney quote or whatever said, this is the only thing you need to know. Go out to...
And you wish me luck, so we appreciate you, Coop. We appreciate you.
I appreciate you guys, man. Know that.
Not everybody gets that reaction with this particular crew. No.
So that is a... I know.
Yeah, you do know. You do know.
Yeah, I'm waiting to leave and then you just shit all over me. No! No, that ain't the way it works, Coop.
It's normally our first feeling is our forever feeling. That's kind of our problem and our gift.
Anyways, let's talk about a gift that you're giving to society that we weren't able to experience, but we're close. Connor has a question for you.
Yeah, Coop. how did the cheesesteak business come to be? Obviously, Danny and Coop's, you know, you have a place in New York, and then obviously you have the food truck you were handing out.
We tried, Pat just mentioned, to get some. I mean, too many people were there damn near, and there were some people running it too that were real funny, real mouthy as well.
But how did that kind of come to be, and is that something you think you'll do forever it's just it's all Danny Jim Petro man he's I went to Angelo's years ago and I was like this is the best steak sandwich I've ever had and he and Jared and his whole crew Gina and um and then I live in New York but I would always I would then actually we did this thing for one thing and I realized he's such a nice guy and then I said hey can I come and get your ingredients and just cook for my friends out here on weekends and i did that for like two years and then i then i said i was like you know there's no good steak sandwich shop in new york would you ever want to like get a food truck and see if this could ever work like let's just park on the side of a road and then we did that and it was and it did well and then we did it again and then we're like let's look for a place and open up just a cheesesteak place and make know, just do a couple of things to make it a little bit more just for us and what we like. And then that's what we just started doing.
And it's been it's been unbelievable. I take my daughter to school.
I walk over. I go on the grill for four hours.
I pick her up. It's like heaven, man.
Yeah. It was like 591 sandwiches or something you moved in.
I forget how many hours on opening night. There was people reporting the lines out the door for this place in New York whenever you opened it up.
And then obviously people had photos of you cooking in the back. And I think people were like, oh, this is for show.
It's like, no, this guy's actually cooking. And you mentioned it at the beginning there.
Your grandparents were from Italy. They only spoke Italian in the kitchen.
Did you grow up? How did you get into being a cook? Because I know you that chef you got a chef movie right did you not Bert excuse me yeah I mean I worked at my grandmother was an incredible cook and I used to always be with her all the time and I so I always loved it I used to cook for my friends and my and my parents when I was like my daughter's age like and then I used to and I started working in restaurants when I was 15 I was a bus boy and then uh worked as a prep cook at summers point new jersey at a place called marabella's and then i just always kept it up and then i was a horrible waiter in college and yeah back of the house was definitely more my speed and then i did this tv show that i got to play a cook called kitchen confidential and then i got that that movie which was incredible and i got to train with all these unbelievable chefs. And I just, yeah, I love to cook.

I absolutely love to cook.

So we make food.

We make movies.

We're part of the ownership group of the Eagles.

That's good.

That's a pretty good gig.

Not a bad gig.

Good resume.

Pretty good old gig, Coop.

You did okay.

You did okay.

Could be better, though.

Tone has a question for you.

Yeah, Coop, you talked about the last Super Bowl at halftime,

making plans for the parade.

Are you going to be at the parade? Are you going to be a part of the this time? Are you going to get a ring too or what? They just moved it to Friday. There's going to be snow on Thursday.
It's tricky because I'm in prep now in a movie and my daughter is at school. I'd have to juggle a lot of stuff, but I'm going to try to make it work.
I think it starts at 11. So if we can get out early and there's not that much traffic, I mean, we got to go.

Yeah, got to be there.

You got to be there.

You got to miss school for that one.

Yeah, we don't have school.

Pull her out of school.

You be your own dad whenever the case is.

That sounds like we're missing school on Friday.

And also, you won the Super Bowl, Bob.

Yeah.

You and Declan, you guys won. You were part of the entirety of it all.
What movie were we shooting? You said you were in prep for a movie? Is this, you getting in shape right now? What does that mean? What does that mean? Well, this is, yeah, this is, I play a guy who's an understudy actor, and he's understudying a play called The 13 Disciples, and he's understudying all of them. So that's what this is about.
But it's like a little comedy that will arnett is the star of and laura dern and andrew dason and kieran it's a great cast and we started doing two and a half weeks so it's kind of crazy okay so uh are you in oh what so you should i play like i play a small part i just play his best friend but those are the leads but i'm but i'm directing it so what does that mean directing it so because i just did this commercial shoot i don't know who was what i don't know who was what out there what is it means that like you know uh it was a project and then i rewrote it and along with will and mark chaffee and uh and then i'm gonna you know i like conceive of it and then we get a group and and you direct it you know you're like you know you direct you're making the movie and then you're gonna edit the movie and then you put it out and and hopefully the studio likes it. Tell me if I'm wrong, though.
You, camera, shooting. I just joined the union, yeah, so I'll operate B-camera, which I'm very excited about.
Because we did some stuff. We went down to Chinatown, and yeah, it's been amazing.
Yeah, I've heard from text, but I think people people need their this dude's actually holding the fucking camera unreal like i've uh you're you're like maybe the most you would love it though you it's the closest thing in film i mean but you know filmmaking truly honestly is very similar to sports team sports like no question it's all about creating a culture it's all about just the shot you're in and not thinking about just the end of the movie it's very very similar to football in particular you know if one of the 11 messes up the whole thing's screwed up and people don't see that from the outside but if you're in it you know that very well same thing in a movie set you know that's why it's always interesting when you just talk about certain crew members but anybody that's ever made a movie knows that the camera operator and the dolly grip and the sound mixer and the first ad these are key positions that are as important as the actors or anybody else how long you've been making these movies i've been doing this since i uh since wet hot american summer so that was like 2000 and then i i was i was lucky enough to uh be able to work with directors who let me into their process but this will be like technically the third movie I've sort of written and directed so whenever you were a horrible waiter and chef whenever you're coming through Did you sing in in the kitchen how'd you get those chops brad i did it's so funny you said that we used to dance at uh at the street restaurant when i was a busboy uh called uh alexander's i got a question for you maxi real quick because one thing that i love is how fast your brain works and because it's like it's almost like watching a deposition know, cause there's just no cutting and I'm just watching you, you know, you guys cut the, but by the way, guys in the back, you're talking about team. This is real, real.
You guys are just, it's awesome. It's awesome.
I feel like you've created a couple new camera angles in the last month or so. I don't know.
It feels like that. Get a little artsy.
Thank you. That's Jabba.
Thank you. Filmmakers understand.
You know? Filmmakers understand. And at one point, I thought, like, whatever you look at, like, if there's something you read, it felt like it was too high for a couple of shows.
Then you lowered your eyes. And I was going to be like, what's going on? Your eye line's high.
Okay. Well, every once in a while, you know, there's places stacked on top of each other.
You know? We don't have a full Dolly team. We need a full Dolly team team and the grip i'm sorry the dolly grip we need them out here but we appreciate you watching yeah i think it's um oh so what i was gonna say was singing so because i can see how fast your brain works it's it's fat i love watching you because i feel like you're you're waiting you're you're eight steps ahead of whoever you're talking to and you're just like then you, then you're just starting to like almost just pleasure yourself by thinking of other shit or doing something else because you're just waiting for them to catch up.
It's one of the things I love watching the most in this show. Is that accurate? My question is, is that accurate? Okay, I don't know.
I don't know. Shut up with that whole thing.
No, no, no. Ask me.
No, answer me honestly. Is that accurate? I don't know.
I don't know what you're referring to right now. Sounds like a compliment.
AJ.

AJ.

That's wrong.

AJ.

AJ.

Is that accurate?

Yeah, I would say it's pretty accurate.

His brain is very, very quick.

Yeah, there's no one.

No one's brain is like Pat's.

That's for sure.

Thank you.

Anomaly.

I like that.

Just like you.

Now, let's get back to your talent, please.

And thank you for the kind of...

And by the way, I don't at all mean your crew.

Because you guys are all in sync.

I'm saying when somebody else comes on.

No, we agree.

Coop, we all love you, buddy. Love you.
We all love you. With that i love you with that being no but i'm serious okay well we appreciate you now with that being said you were singing in the kitchen how do you just go in to a star is born and lady gaga is like one of the greatest singers oh yeah still bringing it still bringing it i mean that performance on our tour yeah she was great at the grammys she was great at the super bowl and uh actually they came by and said hello to us last night which was awesome because she hadn't seen leah in a long time so that was awesome and uh um oh i just did you know like any and he's like relatively intelligent person i just surrounded myself with people that were incredible at it so that meant like lady gaga lady gaga and lucas nelson all these incredible artists and i just i have a strong work ethic i mean that's that's just that that's my that's like the secret weapon that i've always had it's like two things i absolutely love what i do and i have a pretty incredible work ethic and so i just put the time in man i just put the time in i and i also was smart enough to feel like I put the bandwidth of that character's vocal rames like this.
I thought if I could just nail that, then I could be believable.

And I just worked hard.

This guy, Roger Love in L.A., I would go five days a week and voice lessons.

And, you know, I'd go there.

I remember I used to go there at 9 o'clock.

He's like, no musician comes and works their voice in the morning.

You're like, you're the only person.

And, yeah, I just did the work, man. Okay.
Well, you're like you're the only person and uh and uh yeah i just did the work man okay well you're an italian obviously blue collar work ethic and iris my dad my dad was iris oh yeah oh yeah so you are like the blue collar dream pretty much there the irish italian so your work ethic is obviously something to admire but did you write those songs i think we heard that you wrote some of those songs. I wrote Black Eyes, the song

in the beginning. That's the best one.

It's the best one on the sound check.

Dude, it was so crazy, bro.

Honestly, I'm writing it on a thing

and then I'm singing it at Stagecoach

and it's actually a song that I wrote.

It's the opener, right?

Yeah, it's the opener.

Yeah.

So we make movies. We make cheesesteaks.

We make Super Bowl champions. We.
What? We make songs. What? We sing songs.
What? We nail songs. What? And now I'm doing it and make a movie that's awesome.
I mean, Coop, you got a fucking great brain, pal. You should be incredibly proud of that little Italian-Irish ass being able to take over seemingly everything that you touch.
AJ has the last question for you, Coop. Yeah, Coop, how do you feel your athletic ability stacks up against other actors? I'm just thinking like wedding crashers watching you lay people out all over the place, like on that set.
Did you have an athletic background growing up? Did you play sports? And do you continue to maybe get in some intramural leagues, maybe, you know, try to get some buckets, whatever you may be. I don't know what sports you play.
So when I love sports, I've always been coordinated. My dad played freshman ball at Villanova basketball.
He was a great athlete. My mother actually is very coordinated.
But when I was a kid, I was very nervous and insecure and shy. And I remember my dad used to always say, and I played sports all the time, but I never wanted, it boils down to I didn't want the ball.
And it wasn't until I got into college where I started to feel more comfortable that I started to play intramural sports. And I started to feel like my mental capacity was catching up to my actual physical ability.
And I rode crew in college, and that was great just to be a part of a team sport. But I absolutely love sports.
and i love playing sports and still play basketball and uh i like tennis and but uh but uh you know but i'm a massive sports sports guy sandler pretty good hoop player sandler yeah i remember it too so when i first moved to la i was at the santa monica courts playing basketball in a pickup game and you know i'm just i'm on this tv show and i don't know you know i i didn't grow up seeing famous people and all of a sudden i realized like two games in it's fucking adam sandler how is he dressed like an asshole he's the best guy of all time but but by the way and the reason why i didn't know it because he's so just like you would never even know nicest guy in the world every what you see is what you get it was awesome he was at the super bowl just sitting all by himself before the game taking pictures and stuff. It's like Adam Sandler's the best.
He's the coolest, man. He's the coolest.
Hotel Transylvania, buddy. Love it.
Absolutely love it. Yeah, me too.
Just like you. Amazing.
We love the hell out of you. Congratulations, Super Bowl champ.
You're the man, brother. Thank you for having me, guys.
I'm doing it. Okay, you too.
We appreciate you. we can't wait to try Danny and Coop someday

I gotta get to the

Thunderdome

we'll get a food truck here for you

we'll ship the ingredients whatever you need

we appreciate you ladies and gentlemen Bradley Cooper

that's been a crazy relationship

that's awesome

it's been a wild relationship

actually watches

he talked about it there

about how he writes

Thank you. relationship.
It's been a wild relationship. It's awesome.
Actually watches. He talked about it there, about how he writes and then he watches.
So he doesn't pay attention to everything, but something will pop up and then he what's going on. And then an immediate text.
And it's like, holy shit, Bradley Cooper is watching. Legend.
Unbelievable. And then he gives the open for the Eagles.
It's like what a perfect. Yeah.
It's unbelievable. For him too.
Him following this Eagles season, he was with it, man. Oh yeah.
Everything we read on the internet, he was in there as well. Alright, to the ESPN people that are watching on linear television, we're going to be off for a little bit.
It's been a long season. We appreciate you all for allowing us in your homes or airports or cafeterias or anything or anywhere that you show us.
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Thank you for enjoying the NFL season with us. You're the greatest people on earth.
Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice.
It might change their life. Yeah, I think I got it in there.
Absolutely. Screw it on the money.
I think I got it in there. Now there's a chance it's off

by half a second, so then me congratulating

myself will also be on there.

That's cool, too. We'll see.

Which is not a bad thing. We're watching it

in the back there with 30-second delay, obviously, because

the Fox in the shits with Coop. Coop, certainly.

Yeah, he let them fly. It's awesome.

He watches on YouTube. He gets it.

He watches the whole thing. He sent us a text one day.
I spent four hours and fly. He watches on YouTube.
He gets it. He watches the whole thing.

He sent us a text one day. I spent four hours

and 45 minutes with you boys today.

That's a long time.

What an insane world.

Right? Yeah. What about his insane

life? Well, yeah. But like,

you expect that from him, but like,

that he watches us.

Yeah, I like that.

And he'll probably say, hey, that was good out yeah how about him talking about the different shots you guys add a couple shots in there i think i've seen a little bit yeah well the camera did have he would notice it yeah we switched the cameras so there's two cameras stacked on top of each other but the tv there basically shows stream and then any tech or tweet that goes up or anything on the screen that pops up is right up there so there there's this two top. There's a camera right there, the top one.
And then there's a lower camera there. And everything you just said was accurate.
Yeah, we had to flip those. Coop knows.
It's like Coop's got his eye on it. These motherfuckers switching the camera.
That's crazy. You don't think anybody knows? Coop did.
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What a dog. The Exciting White's doing their thing.
Still can't make a fucking everything. All DB team.
Yeah, it's just been crazy. He'll be a preseason watch list for sure.
Really? He didn't spark until week five. You know? Marlon Humphries are all pro this year.
But look, postseason. You know what you can make? You can make a postseason everything DB team.
Yeah. Still wouldn't put him on.
He's on it. Really? Wow.
He's starting nickel. Congratulations.
Congratulations. I don't believe him.
You know what? Reed's on it, too. Holy shit.
33%. Now it feels like you're making a mockery up.
Happy birthday, Coop. I wouldn't do that.
I wouldn't just hand out. You should put those guys on there.
A lot of serves. A little too many.
Awards to white guys, black history month. They didn't deserve it.
Jeez. Those guys deserve it.
You sound like a Ravens fan. Jeez.
I'll tell you what. Internet's been loud this year.
There's been a lot of magical moments. This has been stupid that we followed along.
And to the people that watch on a regular basis, you know this is our break time. And we try to run as hard as possible during season, like legitimately try our best to, because football season is the greatest season of all time.
We love the sport that we get to talk about. We appreciate what it does, not only for us, obviously, but for the people who are fans of it.
I love what football does for society. I think it brings people together in a way that no other sport can.
I think if you look at any stadium, even last night, you're going to see people from all different backgrounds coming together for one thing. And I talked about this at the ESPYs, but it's real.
Sports are the greatest thing on earth. Football is the biggest sport on earth, but sports are the greatest thing on earth because it's the only time seemingly in our world and i think we're getting to a much different place i think it feels like everybody's kind of a little bit more open to each other a little bit more friendly with each other that's a good thing not a bad thing but sports are the only place where it doesn't matter how you feel about some political topic that would drive friendships away from each other you could sit right next to that person as long as you have the same color on them hell yeah to us it's a beautiful thing we're so incredibly pumped and lucky that the season went the way it did start out a little shite little shout out start out a little shite definitely but college ball made up the difference it did college ball was electrifying the new conferences and the new times and the new everything.
Each week was something special on a Saturday for college ball. So as football in the NFL was kind of shite, college ball was electrifying.
And the environments and the atmospheres and the fans were making up for it. So football was still delivering for society.
We were honored about that. And then all of a sudden the NFL football started picking up.
And the college football continued to go. And it was like, holy shit, is this the greatest football season of all time? I think so.
And we were so dumb and so lucky getting the ride alongside of it. And everybody that did that with us, we can't thank you enough.
And we're going to go breathe for a couple days. Okay? And when we come back, combine, AJ.

Draft season.

Off season's the best.

Draft season.

Yeah, Tone Diggs said in the middle of Schefter saying some line,

Sam Donald's going to the Raiders.

It's like, all right, haven't heard that.

Haven't heard that. And who knows if that's real or not.

Tone holds up a dry erase board and goes, I love that off season.

And he starts pointing at all this shit. It's like, that's real? That's what we're heading into.
Anything can happen. The possibilities are endless.
And, you know, we talk about it as soon as this is the next day of the next season. And hope is back for all these teams, free agency, the draft.
That one guy that can change everything, just like Saquon changed everything for the Eagles. That can happen to our team.
Why not? What are your thoughts on the 2024-2025 season? It was unbelievable. I mean, you talked about the college football season being the 12-team playoff.
I thought that was really cool. Now they're going to make some tweaks that are obviously going to improve it.
I think it can only get better from there. I just love the, you know what, we're back to playing defense and we're back to running the football because, as you know, I've said many times, that's how you and I were born and raised and I love that type of football.
Absolutely. Old school, seemingly all the way back in.
Let's go to the talks at the table. We have Boston Connor ties.
Ty, we'll start with you. Obviously not the Packers year or the Iowa Hawkeyes year.
Sure. But your takeaway on this football season that was? I mean, it's just the best.
And I think once you start, like once we started doing this job, like obviously I love the Packers more than anything. Would like to see them win a Super Bowl every single year.
Same Iowa when it comes to college football but like we get to talk to so many people on different teams and everything where that was never a reality so you maybe just kind of like like a guy or whatever but like now you you genuinely do have like a rooting interest for you know if your team's not there like you can pull out two or three guys that we maybe have a relationship with and can really pull for them. Every year that this goes on, I was genuinely so happy for Sirianni last night, which is weird to say.
The Eagles beat the Packers in the first round of the playoffs. Embarrassed them, got rid of them.
I felt like I was an Eagles fan last night because of the whole Sirianni thing. I was so happy for him.
That's awesome. I can't wait until next year.
Great stories every year. Sirianni changing the trajectory of his life with that Eagles win.
D-Bunch, how about you, brother? Nine-year NFL veteran, host of everything DB, good D, bad D. Another great season.
Great. Another great season.
What's your big takeaway from this football season that was? Tone kind of hit on it. You kind of hit on the resurgence of kind of the running backs.
I love that, what they did as a group. Obviously, headlined by Saquon Barkley in the MVP caliber season he had.
Jameer Gibbs, what he'd done out in Detroit. Derrick Henry going to his new spot, Josh Jacobs, just the resurgence of that whole position because you saw Jonathan Taylor, he had a good year.
Like you saw as a group they tried to devalue them as a position group. So I love what they did as a group.
And then you kind of mentioned too with the Eagles, you know, them being the champions I always talk shit about and make jokes about them being one of my four teams. But I've been rooting for Jalen Hurts since day one, since coming into the league.
You know, the path that he took throughout college, getting benched and still being a good teammate. We always talk about how important it is to be a good teammate.
You saw him do that in the biggest stage. You with your relationship with Nick Saban, if you've heard other stories about him, kind of who he is behind the scenes.
And then for him to just kind of stay true to himself, lead this team along with Sirianni, the type of group that he's led. And just to see this team, I felt like this was, you know, I'm not one of those guys who's like, hey, this guy deserves it more than that guy or this team deserves it more than this guy.
But just all the shit that they were taking on TV, all the shit the head coach was taking, how they built the team, how they did it, how they stick together, how they stuck together throughout it all, and then to come out on top and win it, happy for him and happy for that team. So it's a good way for me to end

it with one of my four squads.

Hell yeah. And the way you made your pick

on Friday from Radio Row

was it's not often

that one of your four teams makes it to the Super Bowl.

Whenever you have four teams, that means

probably... Better chances?

No, but also

if you have four teams, that means

one of your main teams is not good. Correct.
At least one. Or? Dolphins.
Exactly. Or? Chargers were in it.
Yeah, Chargers were in it. But for a while, they weren't.
For years, they weren't in it. So it's like, for your team, one of your four teams, to make it, first of all, that's a new thing, because you don't have four teams if the other three aren't necessarily winning on a regular basis.
And then also for you to be on board with Jalen Hurts from the beginning, even whenever there was an entire tide shifted against him. This guy's too cool.
Fuck this guy. That literally became the thing against Jalen Hurts.
You stuck in the pocket with him. You rode the wave with Jalen Hur Jalen Hurts.
And great for the Philadelphia Eagles. Unreal.
Good for Jalen. There's multiple confetti photos now that he can change his home screen.
Oh, yeah. It looks awesome.
Boston Conner, your takeaway from this season? I would say we're in, like, the golden age of NFL talent. Like, it feels like every year it can't get much better, and then it does.
Like, even if you were to look at Lamar being the MVP last year to how much better he was this year and then for a guy like Josh Allen to be even better than him. And then we look at last year with C.J.
Stroud. This is never going to happen again.
And then boom, Jaden Daniels comes in. It feels like every year there is just an increasingly better game being played.
Lamar was the story in the awards season this year. Jamar Chase won the Triple Crown.
but no one gives a shit because of how much better so many guys have been you know throughout the season last year not better than him but just overall as a league and you know you talk about defense too like Zach Bond two years ago I don't I didn't know who he was I don't think special teamer special teamer I don't think many people outside of New Orleans knew who he was. Now he's a household name making picks in the playoffs.
He's a finalist for defensive player of the year. It just feels like right now we are legitimately in the best era of skill in the history of the NFL, and it's just awesome to be able to do this.
Like Ty said, we get to cover the game really closely, and we get to know the guys. As a Patriots fan, I don't like the Buffalo Bills fans but I love their team like Deion Dawkins was one of my favorite interviews of the entire year and we do get to talk to a lot of people and Josh Allen you know same thing his story is incredible so it's one of those things where we're so lucky to cover the game and then also you know as a Patriots fan selfishly you know I think it's a it's very cool to what Tone said.
We're like, hey, now that we're into next year, it's like I have all this new hope.

Like every year is so different compared to the year before that it does really just give

you like this resurgence of, okay, now we have a chance.

Now, obviously every year there's really only eight teams that can win, and I feel like

two of them played last night going into last season.

It was the Eagles and the Chiefs. Those were two teams that, yeah, you could see them in the Super Bowl.
Packers, Niners, Eagles, Lions. Lions and the Vikings and the Commanders, they kind of came out of nowhere.
Both of them. But, yeah, the Ravens.
Colts. I wouldn't put them in there.
Lurking. But every year there are those teams, and right now, those eight teams, you know, it could be yours.
And it's just awesome every single year, especially just looking back, you know, at how far the entire program, but, you know, the show is coming. It's cool to be here, man.
It's crazy. It's so stupid.
Yeah. Every rate in a row I experience that more.
Yeah. I think like that.
It's kind of like – what's that syndrome called? Imposter. Stockholm? Imposter.
Stockholm. Jesus.
That stockholm stockholm jesus not that i don't feel like i'm i'm not becoming friends with my yeah i'm not i'm not that's stockholm yeah it's the imposter one you know we walk in there and then oh yeah with who we get to talk to and then the amount of people there was a hundred thousand people just streaming streaming on YouTube today or whatever. It's like, that's just YouTube.
A little on TikTok Live and ESPN and ESPN Plus and Disney Plus. And then we go down to Radio Row and we get to see all the people that cover the sport.
And they basically all say. I had somebody from Australia that covers the sport say, your sport, your show basically taught me the sport in the league.
Now I cover it. Now I'm here.
Now we got a game going here. It's like Ireland, the same people.
It's nuts. It's crazy.
Watch our show. It's fucking crazy.
It's crazy because I travel so much in airports and see people in the planes and all the time. It's just crazy, obviously, just the bandwidth that the show has.
I think the best part about it, for me at least, is that we get to be ourselves. You know what I mean? A lot of lot of people as they grow as you do new deals or as your show goes new places you got to change or just put so much bullshit out and then you're kind of reminded when you go to a place like super bowl that's why even the people that play even the people that do tv they just appreciate it so much because of how authentic we can be and then um you know the growth that is showing how huge it is and even something like patrick certain winning the year, watching the video the Broncos put out and hearing my voice on it because I get to do everything between week in and week out.
Like that's super, super dope moment. So yeah, definitely very, very lucky to be in this position.
Very lucky, very thankful. Great observation.
I don't think about much of that. I try to stay in like our bubble.
Yeah, exactly. I try to just stay right in here.
Stay today. Just stay right in here.
I see so right in here i see so many people yeah you travel yeah yeah so you're seeing a lot of people so i respect hey thank you for your traveling too that's good work that's hard work that's good work that's great work i think that's good work great work yeah absolutely but you don't a lot of people would you know a lot of people would have bad attitudes too you don't at all clearly tired some days but don't bring everybody else Just don't do your shit. You know? The amount of travel, always good vibes.
So we appreciate the hell out of you. And also, you get to see the outside world a lot more, I guess.
It is crazy. Radio Rose is the first time really seeing any of these people.
Because we don't go to any Super Bowl parties. We weren't invited.
We weren't invited to any. We weren't, were we? No, we weren't.
It's weird. That's a real deal, brother.
Fucking bullshit. Gotta get it, man.
I don't understand why Fanatics didn't invite us. I don't know if we're ever going to get invited to one of those.
That one I do get. But it's kind of all those companies, you know, that are hosting all these things.
Yeah. So we're going to get invited, and we would definitely not go, especially with how close that casino was.
Yeah, but the way it was fucking kicking our teeth.

A night out for a couple of free booze cocktails, maybe wouldn't have been that idea.

Maybe a performance by some musician.

Yeah, exactly.

That could have been nice.

Yeah.

There's no way we would have went.

No chance.

No.

We would have found something.

They're always Friday and Saturday, too.

Stomach bug.

We're gone.

Like you said, the casino was a fucking stone's throw.

I mean, it's just impossible not to go.

Way too close. New Orleans was awesome.
As soon as we got there new orleans was awesome i think so everything is super i think i saw a bunch on the internet and the main takeaway because everyone was right about it everything is super walkable now we didn't do it much because we went show hotel casino hotel casino show yeah but like even when we walked to, that was a 10-minute walk. Bourbon Street

was right there. Everything's super walkable

in that city. The weather was perfect.

New Orleans is a great Super Bowl. And the people, Drew Brees

talked about it. They are very welcoming.

Welcome. Come have a good time.

Jeff Landry. Governor Jeff Landry.

Now, I heard a lot of people say,

I had no idea people were like that.

But I think he comes in and starts speaking

the way he's speaking.

It's like, holy shit, we're in a movie right now

about Louisiana. And it's like, no, that's

Thank you. You realize that? What's that all about? It's part of.
What's that all about? It's part of. I don't like that one bit.
Jameis. Especially, you know, he goes certain.
Jameis, certainly. You know.
He knows what I'm talking about. You know.
That's my guy. He crushed it this week, too.
Hey, Jameis did crush it. Congrats, Jameis.
And him and Burton had some great clips. Hilarious.
I love people that we talk about all the time. Like, Jameis is always Jameis.
Like, that's not an act. I appreciate him hearing me say, hey, don't be doing stupid shit.
Don't let anybody hear it. Do the Jameis shit.
And then him coming in saying, thank you for saying that. I wonder if he was like, that was my shit.
I didn't know if that was him telling me, like, hey, I heard you, and that was my shit. wonder if he was like that was my shit i didn't know if that was him telling me like hey i heard you and that was my shit or if that was him saying thank you for acknowledging the situation i was probably in there i bet he was saying thank you first time doing that i'm sure there is just a laundry list like we gotta go we got a bunch of great content ideas yes all these people have great ideas i bet someone told him to say something, and he thought about it and then thought of what you said.

I was like, that's not anything I would ever do.

Yeah, but he was awesome.

I would like to say, you're going to continue to be awesome, Jameis,

if you just keep being Jameis.

All these people that go to school for TV have great ideas,

and I think it works for a lot of people if they need it.

But if you got Jameis, you just... Let him run.

You roll Jameis' idea.

Marshawn, you just go ahead and let Marshawn do his thing. And also, you know who you let do his thing? AJ Hawk.
Amen. Hell yeah.
AJ, what is your big takeaway from the year that was in the football world? Obviously, congratulations to the Ohio State University. Hell yeah.
I mean, what a year. What a year.
I mean, I know as I get older, I get obsessed with football more and more, I think, as I get older. Now I find myself looking and watching things that if you would have told me what I was playing, I would have thought, this guy's a loser.
Like, why would you? I think sometimes, like, man, I would like to sit in. I would like to go.
I should call James Lerner-Nice and go ask him, hey, can I come sit in your linebacker meetings a couple days? I think about that now sometimes, and I think back every once once in a while, as a player, there'd be a random dude, an old player that would come and hang out for a day, and I'd be like, why would you want to – these meetings are awful. We're meeting for nine straight hours.
What are you doing? I never understood it, and now I get it completely. I would love to be a part of it.
Now I love trying to figure out why teams are doing what they're doing, scheme-wise, everything everything. It's fun to try to figure out the whole chess match back and forth.
And I never really, when I was younger, I don't think I cared as much about that as I do now. So I love watching DB, you know, D-Butt put his everything DB and obviously AQ in the trenches and seeing from their perspective how they see everything because football is absolutely, it's 11.
Like I know playing the linebacker position, you got to know what everyone in front of you is doing and everyone behind you. And the more you communicate, the better your team is going to be.
So I think just, I don't, football is awesome right now. It really is.
And it comes down to it when we watch, you know, when we sit there at those college football games, we watch from the end zone. I get like weirdly giddy when I see guys use proper leverage.
Like I see, here's the outside piece, here's the inside piece, and I see them attacking and doing it. When I see them do that over and over again, I see it consistently, it blows my mind.
Like it really does because these dudes not only are so big, so fast, so strong, but when they're disciplined on top of that and they can do the right thing and do, like you see that they're well coached, it's like a, it blows my mind. It really does.
So I think football continues to do that for me. Obviously, I'm out and about.
I got my kids play a bunch of different sports. I assist the coach on different things.
I interact, I'm in and out with a lot of different people that are all over the place. And I travel a decent amount too sometimes.
And people, the reaction to the show is, it's awesome. Like I texted Connor.
I was, after a basketball game Saturday, we went to lunch, took my kids, my father, my wife. And as I'm leaving the waiter, he hadn't said anything the whole time.
He said, hey, give Boston Connor my best. And I said, I will do, buddy.
And so like things like that that happen are awesome. Like people are paying attention and they actually enjoy it.
And I think they enjoy the fact that we have fun on here because I, I mean, yeah, things like that that happen are awesome. Like, people are paying attention, and they actually enjoy it.

And I think they enjoy the fact that we have fun on here because, I mean, yeah, this is the best.

This has ruined me for any other kind of media.

I used to do stuff on SiriusXM.

I used to call games, Conference USA football games, which I absolutely loved.

Of course.

But thinking of doing that stuff now after being able to join you guys, it's tough.

Like, I've found my lane. This is awesome.
We love you, is awesome we love you aj i love you hog and you're right good ball is happening i think that good ball conversation is why i am so pro girls flag football because when i watched that high school all-star game they were playing good ball like hey there's good ball like i don't sound like they're well coachedached, though, too. Like, it's not – they're not just out there doing, what do they call them, powderpuff games back in the day when they would have a girls flag game.
Like, no, they're, like, they're scheming them up. They're making reads.
They're doing stuff. Like, they're reading the defense.
It is. It's next level.
It's good ball. I think, like, I think there's some people that will probably try to make that out as, like, we're saying something negative, but it's no.
Like, there's high school boys football you watch. It's bad ball.
Like, that's – there's bad ball that happens. And that's, like,'re saying something negative but it's no like there's high school boys football you watch it's bad ball like that's there's bad ball that happens and that's like something you're saying that's bad ball whether the technique was awful the entire time strategy stupid whatever it was there's bad ball out there oh yeah and it's like so you don't a pro level yeah we say we say it in men's football boys football a lot so whenever i was watching that high school it's was like, hey, they got some good ball going.
And it's like not out of surprise, I guess kind of actually, because I didn't know you had that much shit in flag football. There's a lot of shit in flag football.
That game's pretty deep. That's a deep game, just like football is a deep game.
So much strategy, technique, reading, audibling, shifting, disguising. It was like, I did not know this is where flag football was as a whole.
Let alone like, you know, high school flag football. I didn't know this is where it was.
Because I think a few years ago when we watched on NFL Network, they got the ball to the one guy on a drag. And then he did that dip move, which is a flag football move, not an actual football move, tackle football move.
Sorry, not actual tackle football move in this entire thing. And thing and it was like that was kind of what it was it wasn't like out scheming and out strategizing and out reading it was like the game of flag football has evolved mightily and it's like it's good ball there's good ball in there there's good ball in there yeah and it's like uh especially if it's gonna become an olympic sport let's be the best oh yeah i have to now granted i have to they're seven-on-sevens in high school now anyways, right? Yes.
So I assume our high school kids will be great flag football players as well, even if they're playing tackle football. I would assume boys.
I would assume. That's different.
That's tough to tackle. Yeah.
Brad couldn't do it in 1985 Central High School. No, he couldn't.
Yeah, he got to come to balance. Be a little better.
Yeah, he looked like an asshole. He was clearly not prepared.
Open field was just a mess. He needed to be humbled.
He got to come to balance. He looked like an asshole.

He was clearly not prepared.

Open field was just a mess.

He needed to be humbled.

He needed to be humbled.

Yeah.

Chad, too.

Yeah, Brad, Chad, Tad.

Thad, I think, was in there.

All the boys.

All the boys.

They had terrible form.

Even if it was tackle football,

I don't think they're getting them.

So, once again, that's bad ball.

That's bad ball? That's bad ball by the Central High School boys.

I don't know if they were football. Were they a football team? I don't know.
Had to have been. Yeah, it might have been a road team.
Miles Garrett. He's an alien-tologist.
She threw the ball off that dude's dong, though. That was a tough turn to come back.
He was actually right off his Jimmy Johnson, not his dong. And they said Jimmy Johnson, which I respect.
But, yeah, the one-handed snagged straight into the dong shot. It's a good throw.
That team would win, I think, the Olympics. No doubt.
Central High School's team should think about being our, from 1985. Right.
They should be maybe our team. Vanita in there, she was the coach of the girls' flag football team.
Legend. One of the greatest flag football players of all time.
Oh, yeah. Throw him from here.
Throw him from right here.

Yeah, Rishkan.

Putting that ball wherever the fuck she wants.

Good ball.

All right.

Boys in the back, great work this year.

Great work, boys.

Great work, boys.

Really good work.

Talk.

Graphics.

Great work over there, boys.

Great work, boys.

And on that note, we bid you adieu for a few. So we can snooze and come back better than ever.
Hell yeah. I doubt that, actually.
Normally it takes us a few days to get back into it. Yeah, but we're ready to combine.
That helps. Oh, so we're going to have, yeah, because combine will give us a little juice.
Exactly. New spot.
The juice. Because everybody's going to be there.
Now, with that being said, we have no idea where our set's going to be there. Sure.
On the 50, right? Probably not. The NFL, you know, everybody that we've talked to at the NFL has said, hey, can't wait to have you at the combine.
Can't wait to be there. Because NFL Network normally the only really sets that are in there.
So we put an ask in. Feels like the people with the NFL were like, okay, sounds good.
But there's one particular person that's actually in charge of this entire thing. I haven't heard from him.
So we assume that he's talked to everybody else, though, and just hasn't really got to us. But there is a chance we're going to be at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Also a chance we're here at the center. Okay.
Either way. I've decided I'm going to do some inside this year down there.
What are you going to do? Shake hands? Kiss babies? Shake hands. Kiss babies.
Take people out to dinner. Go take them out to the bar.
Show them a good time. Oh, you're going to host them? Get them boozed up.
Show them outside of Indianapolis. They don't see you very often.
You're going to take them down there to Tin Whistle? Oh, yeah. Take them to the Whistle.
Connor will get you in there real quick. Him and Gumpy.
K.. KOC and McCown had a great year after night at the Tin Whistle.

KOC becoming the coach of the year.

After being at the Tin Roof.

Bang!

Dogs.

I'm going to think about it, Vrabel.

KOC comes up to me at the combine.

I was with one of your guys last night.

They got me a shot or whatever.

Beard.

Kind of a... I was like, really?

Zito? Kind of... He was like, no, no it wasn't zito some guy with a beard and then i get a text from the group yeah i had a couple with ko see you last night from gumpy and i told koz it was gumpy he goes yes canadian guy it was awesome so koz just like normal human feels like a weapon great coach just signed a new deal with minnesota right yep congrats to him who's gonna be their quarterback not sam don't know is it gonna be aaron rogers oh i doubt it we'll have aaron rogers with us whenever we come back written in the stars i believe he's out of the country currently that's what our source says are telling us is that what your source says are telling you as well aj oh yeah i don, honestly, I haven't really checked.
Okay. To be honest with you.
Yeah, if I'm just telling you the truth of it. I would say drop a location pin.
I didn't say that. You should.
I should. Maybe I will.
Check on the guy from Mahon. Yeah, maybe say, hey, how you doing? Heard they said they don't want you.
Yeah. Huh, scoopage.
Major scoopage. Major scoopage.

Aaron flew himself to New Jersey.

The quick meeting.

In and out.

He's not going to be a jet next year.

Scoopage.

Jimmy Johnson thing was sweet.

Yeah.

So is he done?

What happened there?

If he is, thank you for everything.

I met if he asked him, and he was just like, I don't know, one day at a time.

I thought that's what the whole fucking thing was.

60 years in football, maybe?

Yeah.

Is that what it was supposed to be instead?

I guess. I'm not sure.

Congrats, Jimmy, man.

It was fun reliving your life.

I didn't know Oklahoma State through the entire thing.

The power of that, I bet you it was kind of freaky for Jimmy.

I would assume.

Because I assume they had pictures from all those eras, and then they just plop it onto a human. Jimmy Johnson, oh.
Is that me? Is that me? My. I traveled back.
Holy shit. What the hell? That was cool.
But it did feel like it was a retirement thing. That's it.
Yeah, I thought so. Even the Jimmy Johnson.
Mm-hmm. 60.
And then they're like, are you done? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They're still paying me here.
Yeah. There buyout.
There's a buyout. There's a whole...
Whatever the case, Jimmy, thank you for your commitment to football. That was fun to watch.
Shout to AI, too. Shout to AI.
All right, AJ, let's get the hell out of here. It's been a fun season.
Thank you, guys. Thank you.
Thank you. I can't wait to sleep.
I'm going to sleep a little bit. I'm going to sleep a little bit over the next place.
Enjoy it. You should.
Probably going to look at some water. What? Check out some altitudes.
What? Probably turn into a lobster. What? And that's with very limited sun.
I turn into an immediate lobster. What do you have over there? You have something to say? No.
Got to dry a race board up.

I do.

I didn't know if you were going to do that thing or not.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I thought you had to poop right there.

If you got to poop, you can go poop.

I mean, I do, but I'm going to hold it until after the show.

Nice.

That's not good for you, though.

You shouldn't do that.

Yeah, you should let that out.

I normally do.

Let it all out.

You know, because those things will linger in there. They will.
Ty held in a couple of poops, and look what he has to deal with now. Bingo.
Sure, just let it go. That's why you always got to let sneeze go.
Exactly. Einstein.
Never hold sneezing. That'll happen for you.
All right. We appreciate you all so much.
AJ, great work this year. Everybody, great work.
To the people that watch, wherever you watch, thank you so much for allowing us in your life. We'll see you in a little bit.
Now, without further ado, after we break it up one last time, we will have a nice recap of this NFL season that was, and then we're getting the fuck out of here. Monday Night Raw tonight in Nashville, I'm getting the fuck out of here.
Going to be a blast.

8 o'clock on Netflix.

Big shit coming.

Massive announcements

over the weekend.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

I don't know.

What's going on?

We're on a road

to WrestleMania right now.

That's right.

Things are heating up.

Hell yeah.

Got the headset on tonight

down in Nashville.

Can't wait to see what's going on

next to Michael Cole.

But after that,

I'm fucking out of here.

It's been a great year.

A hell of a year,

someone said.

Be a friend.

Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life.
We're in this thing together. Let's never forget it.
Team on me. Team on three.
We'll see you in a little bit. One, two, three.
Team. Goodbye.
Well, that's that. We have a new world champion, but who would we be if we didn't look back on the 2024-2025 NFL season and reminisce about the great things that happened? For instance, there were some new rules.
The kickoffs looked very weird. But they added some electricity.
Line drive to Turpin. It bounces through his legs.
Here he comes. Kevontae Turpin spinning three.
Here he goes. Fastest man in the NFL.
Kevontae Turpin takes it all the way. Touchdown Dallas.
There are some new stars. That team in Washington, D.C.
is all of a sudden back to some real relevance. All of their fans did a Hail Mary to get in new ownership.
Yeah, and they got a new quarterback. Jaden Daniels broke the rookie quarterback rushing record, and he himself threw a Hail Mary to get by.
The player drafted ahead of him. Here comes the Hail Mary with the game on the line.
And the ball is caught! Caught! It's a miracle! There's also a new tight end in time. Don't forget about Brock Bowers out there in Vegas.
That's right. Boring Bowers is about to be big ballin' for a very, very long time, you see the bees.
The NFC North was supposed to go this year, if you do recall. Two-headed monster over there.
These Lions, fun to watch and dominant and they're they're tricky. The Vikings have the best wide receiver in football.
And it seems as if any quarterback can do a great job with the coach of the year. That jawline-having son of a bitch.
koc second down nine darnold getting messy going deep

he's got jefferson he's got jefferson it's a foot race downfield with crown shifting gears

getting a blocked at six and hey let's tell the truth okay tell the truth fair tell the truth

i will tell the truth okay kickers are awesome truth. Fair.
Tell the truth. I will tell the truth.
Okay. Kickers are awesome.
We even had a free kick. Can he bang it through? On its way.
It is. Yep.
Got it to Jim Harbaugh's big brain for that. And welcome back to the NFL.
We're going to have moments like this with Coach Harbaugh. Bill Belichick talks about the middle eight in a football game.

I mean, there's a middle eight in a season, too.

You could break it down that way.

You know, six, seven, eight, nine.

I mean, those are important games.

The only joke I know is why we're six afraid of seven.

You've got seven, eight, nine. Six, seven, eight, nine.
are those are big games how about that guy up in buffalo bills mafia stand up josh allen finally won an mvp people were really really happy for you're welcome yeah it did seem like they were all of us yeah it felt like everybody was happy yeah it was something that really could unite all of america that's what the NFL does. Josh Allen being an MVP.
Well, his team was counted out this year going into the season. Brand new roster.
Get rid of all the players that we know. And he put the team on his back.
He even ipso facto threw a touchdown to himself this year in the snow. Targets to Shakir.
Completed. This is behind.
Cooper brought it in. Pitched it back to Allen, who's going to go to the goal line, and did it! Well, and it's official.
Christmas is now officially an NFL holiday, worldwide on Netflix! Ooh, sorry NBA. Gotta stink.
That does stink, especially if Lamar Jackson's going to break the NFL quarterback rushing record while 31 million folks watched around the globe. This is as good a running back as we've seen.
Jackson will keep this time. And look at the speed.
Lamar Jackson is gone. Touchdown.
Merry Christmas. And that leads us to the world champs.
Saquon Barkley.

Absolute.

DONG!

Mike O'Don is the greatest free agent signing in NFL history,

and one billionaire needs a lot of ambient.

What's the latest?

What's the one on the Saquon thing?

I just got a text that Chicago's driving the price up and Philly's out.

I don't know if that's true or not.

Which I don't know. I'll make a couple calls.
I don't even know if that's true or not which I don't know I'll make a couple calls I don't even know if that's gonna happen but I have a tough time sleeping if Saquon goes to fill him with the outside of that as I've told you just being out I haven't been around enough players so but he's the he's the most popular player we have by far Saquon Barkley not only ran forward and jumped backwards into the history books, but he is now the all-time leader in rushing yards in a season. Shout to him and at offensive line.
Yeah, the boy Hurts has time. Now locates Barkley out of the backfield.
Barkley slips two tackles and picks up the first down. Checking up in the air to the 30.
Makes the first down miss. The spin move at the last second.
It didn't. What, Tiki? You're welcome.
What is that? Turns out Nick Sirianni's not some big dumb dipshit. Wait a minute.
That doesn't make any sense. No, it doesn't.
I remember those lower thirds day after day saying, This guy's a big dumb dipshit. Then the next day it'd say, Still a big dumb dipshit then the next day it's a still a big dumb dipshit and then this third day somehow it's a this big dumb dipshit's gonna cost him a season and then the next week they let off with he's the weakest link in the league and then the next day it was he might be a fat stooge but now the ball dump Paisan is a world champion and it's

not just Sirianni obviously and he won't take any credit neither will Big Dom. How

about the Eagles defense led by Vic Fangio? He wins his first Super Bowl and

he coached an absolute juggernaut. looking, firing, intercepted, picked off by Cooper Dejean, gets a block, Dejean is...
So here's Mahomes, what's he got left? Pressure again, Dex, ball is out, and the Eagles have it! And the quarterback, coolest guy in town, and he kind of goes into it. Jalen Hurts went for 42 touchdowns this year and can finally change his home screen.
Run some clock or maybe throw the dagger. Hurts going deep for it all to Vontae Smith.
He has got it. Touchdown.
The Eagles are our world champions. Congratulations to Philly.
Congratulations to the Johns. Congratulations

to the Chiefs. It wasn't a great ending, but your dynastic run continues next year

as 32 teams will start at the bottom of Lombardi Mountain trying to chase the trophy that the

Eagles will have. We appreciate you, NFL.
What a season it was. It's been a hell of a year.

How did you see who I was and who I was going to be?

I could have been right, was probably wrong.

So many nights wishing I could go home.

It's been a hell of a year It's been a hell of a year Hell yeah! Shout out to Talk for that edit. Shout out to the NFL for a hell of a year.

We're going to take a hell of a break. We'll see you on the other side.
You people are the greatest people on earth.

Who will win the Lombardi next year? What stories will develop?

Whose legacies will either be ruined or created?

We'll cover it all. And also, NBA?

NHL? YeahL lacrosse

F1

great movie

Brad Pitt looks awesome

yes he does

be a friend

tell a friend something nice

it might change your life

we're in this thing together

team on me

great work on that talk

team on three

one two three

team

goodbye