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

Speaker 1 Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunder Gnome. On the Super Bowl Overreaction Monday, February 10th, 2025, this program starts now.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 A lot of people have been waiting for this moment to bury the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 1 What we'd like to say to Andy Reed, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Chris Jones, and the boys over there, hey, congrats on a hell of a year.

Speaker 1 AFC 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Coach Siriani, who was questioned all year, was able to rally the boys. Jalen Hurts, who can't throw, threw it all over the yard.

Speaker 1 Saquon Barkley, who was a New York giant, I learned about his story a little bit during the Fox lead up coverage. Hey, Fox did a great job, I thought.
Without a doubt.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I mean, Gronk interviewing Travis Kelsey, brilliant. Tom Brady interviewing Patrick Mahomes, brilliant.
Them having all the pieces that they have there, beautiful.

Speaker 1 I thought Fox did a great job in the coverage leading up, but I also learned a lot about Saquon in high school.

Speaker 1 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 the school or the name of the team, so I apologize for that.

Speaker 1 But when he was a sophomore, he was too small, they said. He was too small whenever he was a sophomore in high school.
Then he put him on the field, first place, gone.

Speaker 1 And all of a sudden, the head coach said, I should have been playing this guy a little bit earlier.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And it was Saquon Barkley versus four defenders with his teams all around him in like a five-yard radius space.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 Bush party. First points, first score, Jalen Hurts touchdown.

Speaker 1 A lot of people thought that. Gabe Morensi gave it to us plus 450 on Friday as one of his guarantees to happen, but a lot of people were betting on that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But when the playoffs started, he goes back to being playoff Jake Elliott and goes absolutely ape shit, pure at every single kick.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I mean, this guy living an absolute dream yesterday and from one thing to the next, Patrick Mahomes is out of sorts because this Eagles defense want bananas. They want absolute ape shit.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Somehow they weren't able 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.

Speaker 1 So what the Eagles defense did to a Kansas City Chiefs team that we thought was still going to be in it, they're down 20 plus. We still think.
Patrick Mahomes is going to do his thing. Uh-uh.

Speaker 1 Smothered. Ended.
Jalen Hurts continued to make massive plays, and the Philadelphia Eagles now are world champions once again. Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 It was a hell of a year. Let's go to the talking table at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt.
What kind of stood out to you last night, Conman?

Speaker 3 I think it was just the presence of Saquon, really. Like that last touchdown we just showed, Devontae Smith play action.

Speaker 3 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 to Saquon.
He's our bell cow.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Probably better than anyone in the history of running backs with a 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.

Speaker 3 It was just incredible. And the running back position is all the way back.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think so, especially if you've 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.

Speaker 1 Two other teams had bigger offers to Saquon Barkley to come be their running back.

Speaker 1 And he picked the Philadelphia Eagles because of the offensive line, because of the setup, and because of the proximity to his home. I mean, I love whenever something works out how it's supposed to.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Has the most amount of yards that any running back has ever had in a season. Now, that obviously adds into playoffs, but those are the most important games.

Speaker 1 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 could pay you that amount of money.

Speaker 1 And he wins the Super Bowl. Congrats to Saquon.
You're right.

Speaker 3 I mean, 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.

Speaker 3 Obviously didn't get in, but like he got him there.

Speaker 1 And he

Speaker 1 had some pretty cool highlights. He did have some cool highlights.

Speaker 3 Put that in Madden, even though Madden still stinks.

Speaker 1 Speaking about how

Speaker 1 I don't know, I played it yesterday.

Speaker 3 I was like, you know what?

Speaker 1 It's two o'clock.

Speaker 3 Super Bowl is coming on. I might as well play.

Speaker 1 The game.

Speaker 3 The game. You know, I might as well see what's going to happen.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 3 Yeah, they've been on their way.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 1 They do. Yes, they do.
It's you who we work hard every single day for, Shays Madden. Hopefully, they get that worked out.

Speaker 1 Down the road. Hopefully, they get that fixed out.
But nonetheless, let's go to a quarterback now that will be a world champion forever, Tosh Man.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's very tough not to be impressed with Jalen Hurts leading up into the week.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Like, he can throw, you know, like 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.

Speaker 3 I don't know if it's the way he carries himself or what, but like...

Speaker 3 He just, you know, I mean, we talk about other people for the Eagles getting kind of shit on all season and, you know, just

Speaker 3 crucified pretty much. Like, he was right there, and you look at his stats, and it's kind of weird.
It's like, man,

Speaker 3 it almost doesn't add up, you know. I mean, but a lot of people said, hey, if they lose this game, it's because Jalen Hurts couldn't get it done.

Speaker 3 He does not, you know, hold a candle to Patrick Mahomes in terms of the comparison between those two.

Speaker 3 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.
So, and we talked about the stat too. Any Super Bowl rematches,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I mean, I think people forget, too. He's only 26 years old.
Like, the Eagles are set up for a really long time now.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I said, this guy's going to score a defensive touchdown. He was a ballhawk

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 an exciting white, you know, that certainly doesn't hurt. But like, that dude's an Iowa legend, you know, like, I mean, the same vein, like Kurt Warner, he didn't go to Iowa, but you get it.

Speaker 3 You know, it's like people will talk about him forever and kids are going to grow up wanting to be Cooper DeGene. Like, it's just, as an Iowan, that's really sweet.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is sweet. And shout out to Cooper having a mega football moment that he can cherish literally forever and sign autographs for forever as a rookie.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 What was your big takeaway from last night?

Speaker 5 I mean, obviously, you got to start with the quarterbacks and just kind of piggybacking off of what you said.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 but as he even though he said it defense wins championships and that's up to always the case Vic Fanjio'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 down the Saints the Dome Patrol Ricky Jackson a Pahoki 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.

Speaker 5 And just coming into this game, you know what Vic Fanjo, Brady mentioned it a couple times on the broadcast. He's going to play an umbrella defense, a covered four shell.

Speaker 5 He's going to rally his defense, gonna tackle, and he's gonna get after you with four pass rushers. And these pass rushers absolutely

Speaker 5 dominated the game from the beginning. Milton Williams was a superstar, had two sacks, a strip sack late in the game.
Joshua was great. He had a couple sacks.

Speaker 5 Cooper Dejane, you mentioned a pick six, obviously putting points on the board. Zach Bond had a pick deep into their territory, setting up for points as well.

Speaker 5 So coming to this game, you knew the ball was going to be key, taking care of the ball and taking away away the ball. They obviously won that battle there.

Speaker 5 The first nine possessions, the Chiefs didn't pass midfield.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 So just hats off to this Philadelphia Eagles team and this defense specifically.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Any team that has the number one defense and the number one rushing offense wins the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And if you have good defense, guess what that means? Three and out. They're off the field even less.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I love the fact.

Speaker 1 And, And,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Okay, a lot of things. In football, you're always going to have to be tough.
Like, that is just how the sport requires it. Now, there's going to be some positions where less of it is required.

Speaker 1 For instance, I was a punter. Don't have to be as tough.
Kakers 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But in football, you 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.

Speaker 1 And the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles pride themselves on being dogs.

Speaker 1 Like that's what Nick Siriani 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.

Speaker 1 That is what Coach Siriani 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.

Speaker 1 Truly an epic performance by Howie Roseman building this team back up. You know, a few years back, they win the Super Bowl, you get rid of everybody.

Speaker 1 They get rid of everybody, basically. He has to rebuild this thing.
New quarterback, new coach, new team, new vibes in the city.

Speaker 1 Everybody's expecting now championships because we already won it and that's Philadelphia in a whole. We don't have time for transition era.
We don't have time for turnover.

Speaker 1 How are you going to do it? Well, he somehow managed to keep an identity. We're going to be a tough football team.

Speaker 1 Finding dogs in free agency, in the draft, getting 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.

Speaker 1 Everybody needs to be rowing in the same direction when 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.

Speaker 1 You know, in college, there's no cap. Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 Sure. Allegedly, a cap is coming, allegedly.
Yeah. But in college, there's no cap.
You can pay whoever, whatever.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 in.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 teams' fan bases go, pay them, get them, pay them, get them, pay them, get them.

Speaker 1 And your teams always say,

Speaker 1 we can't, because it's salary cap. Can't do that.
Can't pay this guy and also pay this guy. Howie's paid everybody, everybody on their team.

Speaker 1 Three of their offensive linemen are in the top 11 pays around the entire NFL. Three of them.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 Laurie at the top and Big Dom

Speaker 1 Pisoning through the entirety of it all. Everywhere.
It's like congratulations to them too. Congratulations.
I hope they're enjoying the hell.

Speaker 1 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 sowed.
That's not easy to do, especially in the world that we're in.

Speaker 1 So congratulations to Howie putting 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's assume they like each other at this point, which is what a team has to have to be great.

Speaker 1 You have to have chemistry, have to amongst 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 going to win.

Speaker 1 This team right here has to win.

Speaker 1 This team might beat the shit.

Speaker 1 The blowout question you asked on Friday. Yeah, so we literally had that conversation.
We said,

Speaker 1 Do we think the Chiefs could blow out the Philadelphia Eagles? No. No.

Speaker 1 Do we think Philadelphia Eagles could blow out the Chiefs? Absolutely. Yes.
Everybody said yes. I think AJ actually brought it up.
He'll be joining us here in a matter of moments.

Speaker 1 It's like, it was certainly possible. We just thought the Chiefs' magic.

Speaker 1 Like, literally, that's 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's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They considered that one a drop.

Speaker 1 Was that his ankle? Tough. I don't know if 22-year-old Travis would have been able to get down to that, but nonetheless, he never got going.

Speaker 1 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. Dodge.

Speaker 1 Cowboys, AP tone. How'd the bets fall out from last night?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Over 60% of the bets were on the Eagles. And boy, it was like the wet bandits.
It was a soak all night long from the first kick to the final whistle. It was the Eagles all night.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Now, the public got crushed a little bit in the prop market.

Speaker 4 You know, Saquon over did not hit. Mahomes over rushing attempts did not hit.
Goddard over did not hit. Kelsey over did not hit.

Speaker 4 But as far as the game was concerned, everyone was on the Eagles and that was a soak, my friend.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 4 Yeah, things went well there. So we had the fourth quarter rushing yards for both quarterbacks.
Those both went over. Mahomes had seven.

Speaker 4 Jalen had 17, and then Kenny came in luckily, so we didn't have to worry about the kneel down.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Kenny. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 Always on your side.

Speaker 1 Both quarterbacks to complete their first. Kenny Pickett, won Super Bowl.
Yeah, yeah. Kenny Pickett, Super Bowl champion.
Congratulations. Thank you, Kenny.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Super Bowl champion Kenny Pickett. Congratulations to him, especially with how it all went down in Pittsburgh, the place he went to school.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Kenny Pickett was always good to us. Congratulations on being a Super Bowl champion, Kenny Pickett.

Speaker 1 And also him doing a kneel downs didn't take away any rush guards from Jalen, or I'm sorry, from from Jalen.

Speaker 4 Yeah, KP, congrats. He's a guy you could have a beer with and save that bet.
Both quarterbacks complete their first pass. You know, let's get the drives going.
Let's go there. We're good there.

Speaker 4 We got that one.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 We talked on Tuesday. We had Goddard, Kelsey, first drive.
Those didn't work out.

Speaker 4 Goddard had one in the second drive, but we also said Worthy. Worthy did have one in the first drive.
So it was a nice little week for the gambling on the show.

Speaker 1 Hey, great work this year on the gambling to the hammer

Speaker 1 boys we appreciate you gumpy good work back there pal even though you bet that chiefs

Speaker 6 had to do it had to ride till the end gumpy just didn't want vic fangio over to win a super bowl a lot of dolphins fans uh they're supporting vic fangio now is that what i'm seeing i think they were and also the guy uh javon holland kicked rocks when uh we did the video kicking rocks when uh vic left and went to the eagles he was saying how great he called a game last night.

Speaker 1 So that was awesome. Well, he was kicking rocks because he was upset.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 He was actually one of the guys that wanted Vic gone.

Speaker 1 Oh, thank you. Okay, geez.
Allegedly, allegedly, we were, I mean, probably, I don't know. I do not follow the situation close enough.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 This guy's lung in the tooth. Is this thing done?

Speaker 5 He can retire now.

Speaker 1 Super Bowl champ. Guy got it done.
You said 1986 he was doing what?

Speaker 5 1986 was his first year, his first NFL gig in New Orleans, actually.

Speaker 5 He got a text from the Dome Patrol, too. He said it was waiting for him in his phone.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. How about Jalen Carter, Sweat, what was old buddy Milton? Milton Williams.
Yeah, Milton. He ran a what? 461.
Yeah. Nolan Smith, 300 pounds.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Bryce Huff showed up.
He made some plays last night.

Speaker 5 I mean, just that whole year, especially in a world of where we get so caught up in exotics and overload blitzes and all these different things. Like Vic Finn, hey, this is the defense I run.

Speaker 5 This is how I coach it. This is how it's executed.

Speaker 5 For everybody over there to buy in and to completely turn around that defense and what they are, who they are, and to put on a performance like this against a quarterback like that, just unbelievable.

Speaker 1 All time. You think about how the Eagles season ended last year, and then you think about how it ended this year.
Yeah. Vastly different.
Instead of falling off, they picked up.

Speaker 1 They played their best ball whenever they needed it. Congrats to the Eagles.
Maybe Coach Siriani isn't a

Speaker 1 big thumb dip shit. Well,

Speaker 1 wait a second.

Speaker 1 Yep. Coach Tyrioni is stepping into a press conference right now, actually.

Speaker 3 Good afternoon, everybody.

Speaker 3 First and foremost, I'd like to apologize. I haven't gotten very much sleep last night.

Speaker 3 I know you may be wondering, Coach, favoring your back big time as you throw it out, celebrating, throwing your hands in the air.

Speaker 3 No, believe it or not,

Speaker 3 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 jock strap everywhere you go. That's right.
I did it.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Did you watch the game last night?

Speaker 3 You know, we might as well have done an inner 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

Speaker 3 i don't want to you know kind of take the parade route already but i knew it all along i knew it all along

Speaker 3 listen i could say a lot of stuff up here today

Speaker 3 um but i think first and foremost boom drink that and everybody says hey go get you one of these guess what got one of these Now, granted, this is the Super Bowl ring that I have made two years ago when we were in the last Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 As far as what everybody said all year,

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 I would like to, you know, stealing the bridge line from one of my favorite poets.

Speaker 3 Curtis Jackson once said,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Not only are we breathing, we are soaring above the rest.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You know, everybody at ESPN, in the Philly media, all the fans, they wanted you fired.

Speaker 5 Sorry.

Speaker 3 Looks like I'm going to be around for a while. And

Speaker 3 listen, I'm not going to get into public contract negotiations. That's not really my bag.
I'll save that for my agent.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Maybe just a mock mockum of respect, just an ounce of respect. Fourier wins in my first two years.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 That's the

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 get used to it because the dog's coming back, and the dogs are going to be in Philly for a long, long time.

Speaker 3 We got a question, I suppose.

Speaker 2 Hey, coach, this is Jack from the Philly John. What about Cullen Moore potentially leaving your team to go down there in New Orleans stands?

Speaker 3 That's a good question. Listen, I said last night on the broadcast, a lot of people, you know, another thing that, hey, another thing to shit on Coach Siriani about.

Speaker 3 He uses, you know, colorful language after winning the Super Super Bowl. I said, run that shit back.
Okay. I said, run that shit back with Kellen.

Speaker 3 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.
Kellen Moore, you do what you got to do.

Speaker 3 You want to go down to New Orleans and go 3-14 for the next couple of years and get fired? That's fine by me. You go get your bag.

Speaker 3 We'll welcome you back home in Philly in a couple of years' time after you've been shit canned in New Orleans. I think I got time for one more, if anyone's got one.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Coach Dan Orlovsky SPN.

Speaker 2 Of course, I knew you guys were going to do great.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I bet you did. Dan,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 What a man of 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,

Speaker 3 popping that mouth open that you love running so much, and smooching the tip of my Lombardi, okay?

Speaker 3 Enjoy, Dan. Fly Eagles fly, baby.
Super Bowl champs.

Speaker 1 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Speaker 1 All right. That's Coach Tyriani, obviously.
One last score settle with Dan Olovsky there. Wow.
Let's talk about that trophy, though.

Speaker 1 It's all barred bars. He's going to be carrying that thing around.
Saw Saquon with it last night.

Speaker 1 Saw Lane Johnson with it last night. I love it.
Howie? Jalen. Howie? On the floor.
Jalen sitting there with a cigar. That was cool.
People are saying that was staged.

Speaker 4 I don't think it is.

Speaker 1 The sit-down one? Well, why would he have those people in the back then? Baco. I don't think he would have those people in the back.

Speaker 3 He would. Yeah, he'd be in the bathroom solo.

Speaker 1 I thought about that. There's no real private moments, huh?

Speaker 5 It's not, not even like the locker room. You know, those.
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, it's 2025.

Speaker 5 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 uh, I mean,

Speaker 3 like, that's what happens because of like the not having any privacy. So, like, even if you want to take a moment, it's like, oh, this is stage.
He's just doing this for the photo.

Speaker 3 It happened with the Celtics. It's happening with Jalen now.
It's like, no, maybe the guy just wanted to sit.

Speaker 3 Actually, right after the entire thing, he talked about how, like, I haven't really, it hasn't really set in for me yet. Like, I'm waiting for it to like set in.
And maybe this is the moment.

Speaker 5 And then immediately, oh, this guy's just setting it up.

Speaker 1 If that was a literally, if that was a stage photo, I think he would ask for those people to get out of the back. Make me.
You know, because that could be a very sick stage photo. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, if we were going to make a stage photo, that would be nasty. Especially with the cigar.
And he's even got the goggles on his.

Speaker 1 his neck, you know, because the champagne campaign, you know, the whole entire, whatever shower they're giving in there. Oh, I mean, that's a...

Speaker 5 Campaign. Did you see the Jordan brand commercial?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. That was sick.

Speaker 5 So sick. Love Hurt.

Speaker 1 That was sick.

Speaker 3 Yeah, released the Mahomes one.

Speaker 1 What? Whoa. Well, they had one for both.

Speaker 3 We all know.

Speaker 1 These were Adidas.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so I want to see the Adidas one that they had, all the three.

Speaker 1 You know, they ship all the merch out. Exactly.
You should at least see what the advertising business is.

Speaker 5 We saw what the Falcons Super Bowl shirt looked like.

Speaker 1 Well, I think that was custom-made.

Speaker 1 Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's a Super Bowl champion, a college football national champion, a a Ryder Cup winner, and the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 1 Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk.
Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 1 Hawker, thank you for joining us early. Juicy coach Tyrioni seems like he's going to take a little victory, Tor.
He said, I will not be a gracious winner. Did you take anything else away from him?

Speaker 8 That was my favorite part, the fact that he said he will not be a gracious winner.

Speaker 8 And 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.

Speaker 8 He's not going to take it too far.

Speaker 8 But he has every right to bask in this celebration what an unbelievable win by him and they 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 and little boy pazon actually wrote a handwritten letter uh that he has i think on his desk and

Speaker 1 They were reading it during the pre-game. I think it was Aaron Andrews.

Speaker 1 Might have been EA. I forget who did the story.
I apologize if it wasn't EA. But she was talking to Nick Siriani, and it was the backdrop.

Speaker 1 You know, they're in a hotel room with the suite up in the top, and it was pretty nice, John. And she started talking about this letter that's on his desk.

Speaker 1 It's his kid, handwritten letter, like you do at school. And in there, he talks about dog mentality.
Hell yeah. His kid writes dog mentality.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And just seeing dog mentality written by a child, I like almost got like emotional.

Speaker 1 I'm like, Coach Siriani, whenever he was reading that letter, and you know, his kids writing him a letter, handwritten letter, that's cool to begin with.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 out in there.

Speaker 1 He had to just start breaking down. Like, I got one.

Speaker 1 I'm reaching him. You know, I am, uh, I'm reaching my boy.

Speaker 1 Because I think the way they're explaining is like dog mentality about how many times you get knocked down, then you get right back up, and how much time, how many times you just keep going.

Speaker 1 It's like, this dude was mocked and ridiculed by everybody.

Speaker 1 Eagles fans, we read him every single week. Yes.
Whenever we do our overreaction tweets, Eagles get a win. Who's pissed at Nick Siriani? Eagles fans.
It's like, and then the

Speaker 1 TV shows were like, yeah, us too, actually. And you got to wonder why he mentioned to EA

Speaker 1 about how he's not what you think of when you think of an NFL head coach necessarily.

Speaker 1 The way he operates and the way he goes about his messaging or the way he goes about relationship building with the boys or whether he goes, 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.

Speaker 1 Because remember, this guy used to be a wide receiver, play college ball. So maybe he does have a little pizzazz.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And then Siriani's like, hey, I'll balloon 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.

Speaker 1 I mean, once again, the wide receivers who've been asked to take a back seat to the running game all year, and they've been paid, both of them. A.J.
Brown, Devontae, they've both been paid.

Speaker 1 They're the ones that are doing the Gatorade bath on Nick Siriani, the head coach, who inevitably has to sign off on everything that's happening with the team.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And if he's got his kid writing 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And we heard in Coach Tyrioni's press conference there, Liam Cohen allegedly getting $14 million. Ben Johnson getting $13 million.

Speaker 1 Aaron Glenn, probably in that same ballpark with his job just getting hired over there.

Speaker 1 It's It's like this guy is legend. This guy is amongst the legends of coaching whenever it comes to like winning percentage.
Now he's a world champion and his contract's up.

Speaker 1 It's like good time to be Nick Siriani's agent. Who's that?

Speaker 1 Oh, I think a guy. I think a guy that knows it.
He's Southern, I think. White guy here.
He's a... Oh, a college guy?

Speaker 1 He's a refrigerator. Sure.
You know, I think he's a refrigerator. I saw him last night.
He was on TV. He was next to Big Dom.

Speaker 3 He was.

Speaker 1 Jimmy Sexton. Okay.
Yeah, he knows the ins and outs of these coaching contracts, I think. And I assume Sirianni wants to remain with the Eagles, obviously.
I assume that is his number one goal.

Speaker 1 And I assume the Eagles would like him. But the Eagles and coaches,

Speaker 1 interesting. Very.
Joining us. It can happen quick, either way.
A statute could be made.

Speaker 1 And then,

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 we don't think so.

Speaker 1 And then, by the way, they win. He's been a place and gone.
Yeah. Howie's probably just like a fucking set of wins.
We're

Speaker 1 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, Chefty.

Speaker 9 Gentlemen, what's going on?

Speaker 1 Shefty, is that the family there? Is that the actual insider behind you?

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 You know, everyone's doing their post-game things. Dylan, get your head out out of the face.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Great job. No problem.
Keep crushing it. Okay, Chefty, we were just talking about it.
Siriani's going into last year of his contract. We assume he won't be a lame duck coach.

Speaker 1 We assume there'll be an extension done this offseason. First of all, is that all accurate? And second of all, Liam, we just talked about it.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 9 No, well, I think what'll happen is they'll sit down to do the deal because Nick Siriani is headed into the last year of his contract.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 I think the pay cycle for those guys was anywhere from $10 to $13 million per coach.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 9 That's not accurate. Okay.

Speaker 9 That's high. He did not beat Ben Johnson.

Speaker 9 Liam did fantastic and obviously

Speaker 9 tremendously elevated his salary. But no, Ben Johnson came in the highest of the rookie coaches.

Speaker 9 So if you're Nick Siriani, and you won a Super Bowl 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 Siriani is going to want to drive that number up.

Speaker 9 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,

Speaker 9 then Nick Siriani as a Super Bowl winning head coach is worth more than that, right?

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 1 Why not? Why not? Why not?

Speaker 9 Well, but by the way,

Speaker 9 that's the job of his agent to argue that.

Speaker 1 And his agent, Jimmy Sexton,

Speaker 1 we don't know everything about him, but we know enough.

Speaker 1 He's going to get a good deal. Yeah.
And I like for everybody. He does good business.
That's why he's able to continue to do business with everybody.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Now, granted, he understands and how he's been able to put together a phenomenal roster.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And hopefully they get a deal done because Philadelphia, with this style of guy being their coach, is awesome. And it's obviously working.

Speaker 9 You know what's funny about that? Number one, I don't know, two, three months ago, people were calling for his job here when he had some emotional outbursts. Number two, his players love him.

Speaker 9 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

Speaker 9 when he's led them to the Super Bowl title and the players play 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.

Speaker 9 But I obviously fully expect it to be North of Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 Okay. Hopefully they get that deal done sooner than later.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 8 Yeah, Shefty, what about offensive coordinator Kevin Moore, obviously? Is he just going to stay in New Orleans and take the gig? If he does, how much does he get paid?

Speaker 8 And is there a possibility that he is back in Philadelphia?

Speaker 9 Look, there's always that possibility. I expect him to be the next head coach.

Speaker 9 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 draft pick compensation in the end.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 But if they were hiring the Dolphins Anthony Weaver, their defense corner, they could have done that.

Speaker 9 If they were hiring Darren Rizzi as their interim head coach, full-time head, they could have done that. If they were hiring Mike Kafka, the Giants offense, they could have done it.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 And again, that should not be a hard deal to do as well. Kellen Moore is making, we'll call it $4 million a year as the Eagles offensive coordinator.
I'm not far off.

Speaker 9 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 them, I don't know, I would say 10 or 11. Maybe it comes in at 12.

Speaker 9 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?

Speaker 9 And by the way, are you going to let that happen a year after Bobby Slovak was one of the head hothead coaching candidates for the Houston Texans and a year later, he's fired?

Speaker 9 Like when you're being offered a job and you're being offered a raise of roughly seven, eight million dollars a year,

Speaker 9 you're not turning that down. You're getting that deal done.
You're getting that deal done.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 1 I don't want to counter here, but I heard Nick Siriani say this last night.

Speaker 4 Hey, yeah.

Speaker 11 Vic's been a great coordinator in this league for decades, and he was awesome today.

Speaker 1 Kellen, you know, let's run this beat. Let's run this shit back, Kellen.

Speaker 1 Let's run this back.

Speaker 1 Congratulations, coach. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Siriani is selling, I bet, behind the scenes on how special it is. But you said Bobby Sloic, which is the best.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. You said Bobby Sloick, which is certainly fair.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He got offered some hit 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.

Speaker 1 So with that being said, I understand what you're saying about taking a seven to $8 million right now, but I think everybody on earth knows the Saints job is like two years out, right? At least.

Speaker 1 They're saying like the way that looks is like a two-year-out thing.

Speaker 1 So if Nick Siriani, and I'm not saying Kellen Moore shouldn't take a seven to $8 million bump, you do what you got to do for you and your family and your career and what your thoughts are.

Speaker 1 But in my head, Siriani has a pretty good sell. Hey, we still got Saquon.
We still got Jalen. We still got this offensive line.
AJ and Devontae are dumping Gatorade on me. I think we're good there.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I think that's how Siriani sells that, right? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 That's definitely how it sells it.

Speaker 5 Chip just got, you know, six, six a year. I think he's the highest paid coordinator right now.

Speaker 5 And obviously it's much easier for us to say it here because we're not getting that seven, eight million dollar raise and then, you know, however, four or five guaranteed.

Speaker 5 And Coach Tyriani, you know, said, you know, flame out there, you could probably get another OC job there. And I'm sure Sheffield has a response for that, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I assume so. There's some other big news that came out this week.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I know Siriani wants to run it back, but it seems as though they are not running it back with Aaron Rodgers up with the Jets.

Speaker 5 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 and the New York Jets.

Speaker 5 You got any updates on that situation?

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 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 start over.

Speaker 9 There's no doubt that Aaron Rodgers still can play and still can play at a high level.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 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 wherever he's going.

Speaker 9 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

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 And 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.

Speaker 1 I assumed, okay, that's a nice piece of information, Shefty. We appreciate that.

Speaker 1 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've said.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Hey, they talked, he's not being asked back or whatever. So we reached out to our source.

Speaker 1 Says

Speaker 1 what we've been told is that Aaron's potentially out of the country. And when we come back, he's probably going to be on.
Okay, okay. Okay, so that's what our source says have told us.

Speaker 1 I believe that that is 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.

Speaker 1 Because I think walking away from the game, a lot of people would assume not possible, especially with how we played at the end and how everything went down.

Speaker 1 I've come to know that anything is possible with Aaron Rodgers. Amen.
Anything. Anything is possible with Aaron Rodgers.
AJ, do you agree with that sentiment with what I just said?

Speaker 8 Yes, I would agree.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, we heard he was going in darkness, Super Bowl Radio Row. We had no idea what was happening.

Speaker 1 Didn't even know that was possible. Didn't even know that was a thing.
There's a lot of things that I've just learned exist through this Aaron Rodgers

Speaker 1 relationship. It's been cool getting done.
And he is, they call it his Doctor Series Enigma. I don't think there's ever been a better word for a human.

Speaker 1 You know, 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.

Speaker 1 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, your beats, he goes along to the beat of his own drum. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Very clearly. Always has.
But 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Then I've been in 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I assume he's playing football.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Shefford, did you assume the same thing?

Speaker 9 Yeah, listen, we'll see what he has to say when he's back on your show as a special guest and what your source is. Say, that's a tease.

Speaker 1 But that's a good tease.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 At a place that wants him.

Speaker 9 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 chefty how many spots do you think would want aaron rodgers' service

Speaker 1 well

Speaker 1 yeah give us a little leverage here you know so whenever we talk to aaron you know we can be like hey hey, bud, Shafter's telling us there's two, three spots. Take the one.

Speaker 1 There's something to think about.

Speaker 9 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?

Speaker 3 Yeah, the Brett Favre prophecy.

Speaker 1 You can't do that. With J.J.
McCarthy?

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 3 there's another new owner who probably is a big fan of Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady in Vegas.

Speaker 1 Oh, I didn't even think about it.

Speaker 9 I think the Raiders are going to make a play for Sam Darnold. I think Sam Donald's going to be candidate to be the Raiders quarterback.

Speaker 9 Let's see whether Minnesota lets him go or not, but let's see if that works out with Sam Darnold winding up in Vegas. And so if he goes there, then the Vikings have to bring in another quarterback.

Speaker 9 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...

Speaker 9 They were kind of getting him up to speed in their system, their organization, in the event that they do lose.

Speaker 1 And Devontae Adams going out there, Justin Jefferson. He would never Devontae Adams, Addison, Hawkinson, TJ Hawkinson, Cook,

Speaker 1 Kevin O'Connell calling place.

Speaker 5 Aaron Jones still at work.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. There's a one-year.
Oh, he's signed at work, but Aaron Jones and Aaron Rodgers have. Guess what they can dangle?

Speaker 1 I didn't even think about Minnesota. Holy shit.
Okay, so he's coming back and playing football, and he's going to Minnesota. That's what I'm going to believe until we hear Devil.

Speaker 3 Time is a flat circle.

Speaker 1 Could you fathom if he was to do 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.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Shefty,

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Sounds like Russ is not going to be that guy. What do you have on that situation?

Speaker 9 I was with Russell on Friday, and I'm just telling you, the tone that I got from him was entirely different

Speaker 9 than sports that are out there.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 Like 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,

Speaker 9 but I think he

Speaker 9 definitely thinks that he may

Speaker 9 be back in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 Okay. He said that to us in our conversation, too.
Like, hey, want to be back in Pittsburgh? They're starting to early talks, maybe starting to strategize.

Speaker 1 And then now you're saying you're with him on Friday at the Super Bowl. Who's that Super Bowl? Everybody.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 But what teams are going to be in it for Debo, do you think?

Speaker 1 And we know you're plugged in over there. Uh-huh.
Yep.

Speaker 9 Well, I spoke to Debo yesterday morning. So

Speaker 9 we didn't go over the teams just yet. I would think that there'd be a lot of teams that could use a player like Debo.

Speaker 9 Obviously, I think the 49ers did a tremendous job at maximizing his talents, talents, but think of all the teams that need wide receivers. There's so many of them.

Speaker 9 And there's still going to be so much wide receiver movement this offseason that

Speaker 9 I don't know. Like, what happens if T.
Higgins leaves Cincinnati? Would he be an option there? What if

Speaker 9 Tyreek Hill gets traded for Miami? Is he an option there? What about...

Speaker 1 He's back. He's all in, isn't he? I thought Tyreek was all in.
Didn't he say he took back his, I'm out and his mom called him or something like that? I saw it. Yeah, what did he say? He says a lot.

Speaker 9 I'm just saying there's there's there are a lot of outstanding there are a lot of outstanding wide receivers

Speaker 9 i i think it's hard to pinpoint right now where debo would go i look uh 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 any of those

Speaker 1 any of those amc north teams makes sense okay we would love to have him here in indy you know debo's a dog uh

Speaker 1 there's just always a situation seemingly out there with the niners Always. There's always something brewing with the Niners.
And

Speaker 1 I'll tell you, whenever I think about that team, I think they're great, but they're always dealing with shit.

Speaker 1 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, Chef D.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Shefty, last time we were on with you, the Miles Garrett news came out, and I think, you know, everyone was kind of like, is this kind of just like a ploy maybe for him to get paid and stay there?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 That could just be what he was doing on these shows. But is there any movement there?

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 9 Well, I would say this. I think the Browns general manager, Andrew Berry, is adamant on not moving Miles Garrett.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 I think that this one, again, has the potential to go on for a while, to linger.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 And their decision is not to trade Miles 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.

Speaker 9 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 Khalil Mack trade, that was made on September 1st of that season, right before the start of the season.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 I'm sure there are many teams that called Cleveland last week and they told them you know we're not interested in dealing him right now now is there gonna be a team that just stays on the phone and keeps calling the Browns and say okay well we I know you're not dealing them but but here's what we'd be willing to offer if you are

Speaker 9 so or is Miles willing to sit this out beyond I love that

Speaker 9 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 owners meetings as John Harbaugh was going into breakfast with their porters.

Speaker 9 A month later, he signed a new contract. We had Debo Samuel and Brandon Ayuk both issue trade requests from the 49ers.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 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 which side.

Speaker 1 Great descriptor. Holy shit.
That was a great descriptor. That's the chef of difference.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Two ones.

Speaker 1 Two ones. Think about it.
And you can get this guy. Just sleep.
Hey, I know you're not trading him. Ho ho.
Why would you? But

Speaker 1 seems like I hate you guys. You're kind of fucked for the next couple of years anyways.
Deshaun Watson, what are you going to do with that? If you want to get this,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 What? And that comes floating.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, look what the Eagles did with those picks. Look what the Eagles were able to do, turn around their entire franchise

Speaker 1 with those picks.

Speaker 1 Look what the Washington Commanders were able to do just with a couple good picks. If that could just even

Speaker 1 look what Denver Broncos just did with, I mean, there's so many. There's

Speaker 9 do you see what the Eagles did with Carson Runch?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Great tweet by you.
I don't love it, you know, because I was the Colts, you know, on the other side of that.

Speaker 9 By the way,

Speaker 9 that was a Colts single.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

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Speaker 1 Football! He's awesome, and football has a new world champion. It is the Philadelphia Eagles.
Yeah, Philip. He's joining us now.

Speaker 1 You saw him on the back, but he's joining us for every minute of this particular program that we have left. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J.
Hawk.

Speaker 1 Foxy, wanted you to get another introduction. I respect it because of how great of a year AJ Hawk has had.

Speaker 1 Has he had a great year? Yeah, no. AJ, what a great year.
Oh, I stay one master chip. AJ Hawk.

Speaker 1 Holy hell. Andrew picked Philadelphia Eagles away Super Bowl.
Woo!

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And then we watched that game unfold. He said, wait a second.
These Eagles team's a little bit different.

Speaker 1 Maybe you were waffling like Chuck Pagano, but in the end, you said, I want the Philadelphia Eagles. They did exactly what was possible, A.J.
And we talked about the question that was posed.

Speaker 1 Could the Chiefs blow out the Eagles? Nobody thought that was the case. Could the Eagles blow out the Chiefs?

Speaker 1 I think that is possible. And that's because they just are a dominating football team, AJ.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean, this shows you, like, we hear about this stuff all the time. Can you get four-man pressure?

Speaker 8 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 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?

Speaker 8 Like, hey, they're only they're not bringing six. They're not bringing extra men.

Speaker 8 Like, how do we find a way to not only did they get good pressure and they got sacks and they just the pressure and also like getting in his way and getting the throwing lanes was great, but they didn't let him run at all.

Speaker 8 They they were so disciplined. I know you guys talked about it earlier.

Speaker 8 They say 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 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 he kept popping up even whenever he ran he took a couple big shots early i think he took a big shot in one of his runs runs.

Speaker 1 And he kept bouncing up, you know, but it looked like the team just never got going. You know, we were watching the entire kickoff at the house, a few hours leading up into the Super Bowls.

Speaker 1 It was actually kind of fun. I like really enjoyed it.
Wife, kid roaming around, watching the pieces that they're creating. They started showing the guys on the field warming up.

Speaker 1 And they showed Patrick Mahomes on the field. I mean, yeah, that's a big time.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I was 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.

Speaker 1 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. No.

Speaker 1 Like never looked like the Chiefs. Like not one time early did they look like the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Normally he's got max bravado, Moxie, you know, 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.

Speaker 1 You know, there's some shit happening. Even if he's not getting the ball, there's some, like, there just was never a buzz from the Chiefs team.

Speaker 1 And I do wonder, you know, if, like, they weren't, I don't want to say mentally ready, but like, just were they, their vibes not at the level that they, you know,

Speaker 1 always are. And I wonder why that was the case.

Speaker 5 Yeah, everybody. You got it.
I mean, it's back-to-back Super Bowl champs, Andy Reid. You would expect Andy Reid got him ready, Spaggs got him ready.
But we all, I mean, we all saw it.

Speaker 5 Like, the Eagles were just, you know, it was better.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they were the better team.

Speaker 5 And AJ mentioned it, like, not only were they getting pressure, but the way they got pressure, like, every time time you could see it just collapse in the ends and keeping them in the pocket, forcing them to try to escape up the middle, and it never got done.

Speaker 5 So they were super disciplined from that standpoint. So like you said, he never got momentum.

Speaker 5 Outside of, I think, the first pass of the game when he kind of hit Juju in the first pass, you say, okay, it might be a different game.

Speaker 5 And then after that, nine straight possessions, not even being able to get past half field, not been able to convert on third down. They're the best third down team all year long.

Speaker 5 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 the tie 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 them 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 into this one so they just out executed and and just got dominated from from whistle to whistle yeah like kelsey said it in his post game they were like

Speaker 3 what happened 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 a legal 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 old 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 and to your point there immediately following that loss to Tampa Bay, they weren't invested in the offensive line.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, this is, we understand what the issue was.

Speaker 1 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 not, this is when we get beat.

Speaker 1 This is when we are not the best Chiefs that we've been. This is when the Chiefs is still not,

Speaker 1 is not still the Chiefs. When this type of pressure is happening to them, which leads me to ask, like, like, AJ or D-Butt, either or here, like, how early does that defense know?

Speaker 1 Like, oh, this is going to, like, we... Pretty early.

Speaker 10 You think? You think, like, they... Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 I think they definitely were highly, highly motivated. But look at us.
Look at the second-level defenders, too.

Speaker 8 When you get to play or zone or you match zone, like all of the linebackers, your eyes are on the QB. So Mahomes knows, like, even if I somehow find a little lane to score it out, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 8 We got Bond, Nor and Burke sitting there waiting for me.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm not going to get that.

Speaker 1 You got like three spies on every playoff.

Speaker 5 Yeah, even on that.

Speaker 8 That's got to be overwhelming to think about.

Speaker 5 Yeah, like the pick six, like him trying to throw across his body, what you've seen Mahomes and Allen and Lamar do that week in and week out.

Speaker 5 When you have that type of vision, patience, understanding, you can kind of bounce back where he never sees you. And then obviously, you make a play with the ball in your hand.

Speaker 5 But yeah, you know, pretty early. And I think even though there's a lot of new bodies out there, like

Speaker 5 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 footing because of the field.

Speaker 5 Everybody was slipping around, slipping around.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 5-0 with Fans Jill's defense. And we're kind of like, okay, what does that really mean?

Speaker 5 So when you got those guys that could just pin their ears back, get after a pass or do their job, and you know you got seven.

Speaker 1 That's why it's so valuable to be able to get home with four defenders because now you have 14 eyes not only on the quarterback but on all these crossing routes and all these things and they just rally and tackle and force and turnover 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.

Speaker 1 So if you're able to do the same pressure without having to add the extra person, that's vital in coverage.

Speaker 5 Very, very vital because defensively, like you said, if you're only sending four, the offensive line, obviously, you have five offensive linemen.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 But when that other guy can win or both edges create math problems, now you're winning even more because now you may only can get four out in a route and you got seven guys in coverage so like you said most uh defenses to apply pressure you got to send five or six and kind of catch them off guard but then when you've 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.

Speaker 1 Such an advantage to have a D-line. O-line, D-line, Howie.
Oh, line. In the trenches, especially when you're that dominating and explosive.
The footing thing is interesting.

Speaker 1 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 don't think, I think I even said, what does that mean?

Speaker 1 I don't know what that means. What it means is your guys

Speaker 1 are in a track meet to get to the quarterback. That's what that means.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 whenever you don't have

Speaker 1 O-Lyman love that.

Speaker 8 O-Lyman love a sloppy field because 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.

Speaker 9 So, when it's sloppy like that, it's tough for the defense.

Speaker 8 It really is. Didn't even think of that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and they're probably thinking that today, or at least Philly fans, like, see, if that

Speaker 1 fiercely turns off,

Speaker 4 yeah, and also the gameplay, like how the game script like played out, out,

Speaker 4 the Chiefs only ran the ball seven times.

Speaker 4 And because they were down early,

Speaker 4 the D-lines ears were pinned back the entire game. And on a fast track, it was just a recipe for disaster.

Speaker 1 So that's, we talked about it earlier.

Speaker 1 The Colts, you know, when Peyton was here and Bill Pollion was running the show and all the boys, great team, fun team to be a part of during the tail end of it kind of unraveling here in Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 gut.

Speaker 1 But inevitably, we're going to get home. We're going to score if we have to.

Speaker 1 And that's why the conversation is 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's like the Philadelphia Eagles, their offense just beats 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.

Speaker 1 I like that a tough team won in 2025, AJ. Football is always going to require that, I think.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it is. And that's where, that's the cool thing we have seen, I think, over the last couple of years.
That's coming back into the NFL. Like a little bit more ground and pound.

Speaker 8 Like you can do whatever you want. You can spread guys out all you want.
We all, we talk about it a lot. You say a lot.

Speaker 8 Like there is going to be a moment when you're going to have to physically dominate. And whoever is physically dominating the trenches usually wins the game.

Speaker 8 And the fact, like, I'm going back to that pick that Mahomes threw from his own end zone to Zach Ball, and that was huge. They're down 17-0.

Speaker 8 From your own end zone with like under two minutes to go in the first half. Like this was a gigantic play because I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 I'm getting the ball. Second half.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Didn't you think as they have the ball here, though? I'm like, all right, well, Mahomes goes down probably.
He goes and scores. They go to halftime, 17-7.

Speaker 8 Then the Chiefs, they can start running 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is when he thought it was over. You thought it was over at halftime, 24?

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 You're like, all right, here we go.

Speaker 1 Game over. 27-0 deep shot.
What a play.

Speaker 1 Dogs.

Speaker 1 Sudden change.

Speaker 5 We talk about all the

Speaker 1 defense.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 The way the Eagles are structured.

Speaker 5 Connor's timeline kind of had me, okay, maybe, maybe not, maybe not. Because he kept saying, all right,

Speaker 1 a lot of Bet Mahomes right here.

Speaker 5 I still think they got a chance.

Speaker 5 But just because of how they built, how they call 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 know, Matt Ryan or most pocket quarterbacks don't have.

Speaker 1 So you thought going into half, this game's over, okay, like that.

Speaker 1 So that means that the halftime show was like the main event of the evening. You know, you kind of checked out after that just for the commercials.
Everybody's thoughts on a halftime show?

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 very well choreographed. I don't know how many people were all just on the exact same page.
Like that was pretty wild.

Speaker 1 Also, you know, with everything being said about the Drake lawsuit, say Drake, staring at the camera, that had to feel like that had to feel like

Speaker 1 he had to feel like the cool

Speaker 1 in the middle, like if 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, Brad, I hear you liked it, and just went through his entire case that's happening down.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'd probably walk out of that go like, that was pretty cool night. I thought it was good.
That was pretty cool night. I thought it was good.
So with all of that said, I wish I knew more songs.

Speaker 1 That's on me. But there's going to be people that hate every halftime show.
Without a doubt,

Speaker 1 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 that the numbers are 24-0 at halftime.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You know, I'm excited to see who's going to continue to take the biggest stage at halftime.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, I thought it was good. I'm a Kendrick fan, so I do like it, but I agree.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 we're trying to get people to buy that.

Speaker 3 We don't need, like, you know everyone's already downloaded your previous album so i've heard squabble up from the new album yeah right so i'd heard that one but yeah that was that was tv off the muster at the end yeah muster giving him credit i think because the biggest thing of all time exactly but but you're right too it's funny you mentioned it this morning uh and i had said it right before you came back out of the bathroom you're like i thought he was gonna bring imagine dragons out like i thought there was a chance but no real surprise but like if if they if they want to just like kind of try to appease everybody and have no

Speaker 3 no one really care just pick, oh, that was fine. Like, that's what you do.
You can imagine dragons to do the halftime show because people aren't going to be up in arms about it.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I mean, it was good enough. I think

Speaker 3 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 felt like it was pretty well paced, you know, when they got back to the game.

Speaker 3 Like, so it's all going to come down. You know, like, if you were pissed off when they announced it was going to be Kendrick Lamar, I can't imagine you tuned in and afterwards run.

Speaker 1 You know what? I saw the internet was telling me I missed a lot of things, maybe.

Speaker 5 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 thought it was dope. I felt just like you.

Speaker 5 I'm a Kendrick fan, too. So Dollar Music, definitely a fan of his new album.
And obviously, everybody wanted him to perform.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and he knew that.

Speaker 5 He knew he had to do it, and he did it. And hearing the whole crowd kind of being in on it, Serena up there, crip walking.

Speaker 5 Like, I thought the whole thing, Samuel Well being Uncle Sam, like I thought the whole school choreography, I thought it all was pretty dope.

Speaker 5 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 short or not.

Speaker 1 Well, that's life, I think, at this point.

Speaker 5 Yeah, like, all right, Kendrick Lamar has, 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.

Speaker 5 And to be, I think Super Bowl is kind of one of those events where like, a pop artist or like one of those top 40 artists is going to get kind of the most traction.

Speaker 1 The most Most topical performance.

Speaker 5 Yeah, 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.

Speaker 1 I think he won like five Grammys or whatever. Yeah.
Yeah. For just that song.
Yeah. And, you know,

Speaker 1 maybe not as much pizzazz. I saw some people saying like, he's just walking around.

Speaker 3 Where's pizzazz?

Speaker 1 He's just walking around.

Speaker 1 I thought it was good performance. It's like Samuel Jackson was in there.
I thought everything that was happening around, I mean, there was a lot of pizzazz.

Speaker 3 The bird's eye view, it was set up like a PlayStation controller.

Speaker 1 I don't know what he's saying. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 That's pretty sick. That That is pretty sick.

Speaker 1 But I heard it was designed that way for a lot of other reasons, too.

Speaker 3 I thought it was because it was a game, and then they had the game over thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I understand, but have you seen the,

Speaker 1 he said, everything you can do is much deeper.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I need to dive in. I have not.
Yeah, they do. I mean, I saw his chain.
It was an A minor.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not a big musical person. Love music.
Love it, music. Love music.
Love everything about it. I don't know about the, you know, Nick Cannon drumla.
I can't read music. Sure.

Speaker 1 You know, I don't know what these

Speaker 5 things are doing.

Speaker 1 You can feel it. But I certainly A minor I learned I know a lot about I know that A minor is a musical note yeah

Speaker 1 and quite a clever quite a clever little yeah everyone's everyone screamed yeah it feels like everybody thinks that's a very singable part you know like

Speaker 1 sing us a song you beautiful or country road

Speaker 1 take me home everybody right yeah great that's why rock and mortgage paid for 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, everybody sings along, and that's a pretty pivotal part of a song. And, you know, I'm excited to see the repercussions of all this.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 He didn't say it. He did the certified part, but he didn't do the second part.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I understand A minor is a

Speaker 1 musical note. It is.
Certainly is.

Speaker 1 We've learned that. We have.

Speaker 1 Then I was in a commercial immediately after. Yep.
Which is great.

Speaker 1 Not a big spot, but a good spot.

Speaker 8 A couple times earlier, though. Earlier, though, they they showed your other stuff earlier.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I was almost uncomfortable, you know, with the wife watching that.

Speaker 1 Watching her be proud of this 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.

Speaker 1 I was like, all right,

Speaker 1 we've done it.

Speaker 1 We've done it. I appreciate it.
And it was an honor 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.

Speaker 1 I played soccer for ODP in Chula Vista at the Olympic Training Center whenever I was a teenager.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So then going back there for this particular thing, I remember I'm like, Chula Vista, I remember this town.

Speaker 1 And to work with Peter Berg and Justin Jefferson was there the day that I was there and the whole thing. It was, it was wild to be a part of it.

Speaker 1 Had a trailer, had a makeup department, two people doing my makeup, and Jackie throughout this entire thing.

Speaker 1 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, you know, especially with my daughter, Mackenzie, seemingly going to be good.

Speaker 1 I think she's going to be good. She's not even two years old yet, but she's got go wiggle, you know, and I think that is something that's big in flag football.
It's also an Olympic sport.

Speaker 1 So let's go ahead and be the best at that for sure by far. And it's also a great way to grow the game.
I did see people were mad, you know. Oh, what? No.

Speaker 1 They were saying, ah, we're going to say that girls are better than boys at football. Maybe at Central High School in 1985.

Speaker 3 Certainly a possibility.

Speaker 1 And did you see the cleats that she was wearing versus the gear that they had

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I think flag football at the high school level is awesome. Genius.

Speaker 1 And if it's going to provide scholarships, maybe even 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.

Speaker 1 This is just, this is for high school varsity sport, just to kind of see what this could be. And I'll say this as somebody that was probably,

Speaker 1 you know, a little, okay, flag football at a time.

Speaker 1 Dudes were playing, remember, was on NFL Network?

Speaker 1 Then the flag football quarterback said, I'm better than Patrick Bahomes. And we all said, okay, we're done with the flag football community.
That's enough. You know, that's, you remember that?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Remember 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.

Speaker 1 It's kind of the thought that all football people had.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I have no idea what Orlovsky, Laura Rutledge, and whoever else is calling you saying. I'm just watching strictly.
They're zooming in on a safety. She's making checks as they're changing formation.

Speaker 1 The amount of like audibles that are being made, the play that's made, the throws that I'm like, yo, this is, they're playing fucking ball right now. Like, this is, it's like good.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So getting a chance just to be a part of that thing was cool. It was a cool mission, cool message.
And

Speaker 1 I'll tell you what, being a fat so,

Speaker 1 probably my future there. Bald, bald fat, so certainly in the future, I think, potentially.
Mustache. And I don't know if I can grow the mustache.
Come on.

Speaker 1 But I'll tell you what, my head, now granted, they did some stuff. Sure.
Maybe not that terrible of a bald guy. No.

Speaker 1 Because I used to think I just got this block head because you see it here, you know. And when it scrolls out, it's not good.
So if I was to go bald, which is possible in my family, it is possible.

Speaker 1 Boy, it's going to be a bad look. You know, I'm going to become a hat guy full time.
Probably cowboy hat in this entire thing. But then I saw me as a bald guy.
He's like not bad shape.

Speaker 1 Then he put the scarlet mullet on. Sure, sure.
And that's when it really started looking terrible. And, you know, the mustache goes and then the thing goes.
But it was cool to be a part of.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Maybe we're not some

Speaker 3 bunch of big dumb dip shits.

Speaker 1 Well, I don't know. Well,

Speaker 1 probably still that, but some of us. Definitely that.
Definitely that. I saw somebody tweet, well how is he gonna be a biased journalist if he's working for the nfl in their commercials

Speaker 1 what yeah i don't know that's a good question

Speaker 1 i will say this those refs early they were certainly trying to perpetuate a narrative weren't they yeah 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 dan Calling that?

Speaker 1 It's like, whoa, whoa. I'm getting a call from a hater, somebody that thinks definitely rigged.
That was bad. Not happy about it.
FaceTime FaceTime immediately, huh, huh?

Speaker 1 That's one first drive, couldn't help themselves going crazy. Okay, so then obviously, they call that call against the Chiefs and it's like, hey, let's maybe the refs just stink.

Speaker 1 And I think it was same ref. Great.

Speaker 5 I thought it was a great job by them getting it, getting it out of the way. Makeup call, back-to-back terrible call, money down.
They were not letting the ball. Now we don't talk about it anymore.

Speaker 1 I think that's genius.

Speaker 1 I agree with that entire thing.

Speaker 1 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now.

Speaker 1 He's a Super Bowl champion.

Speaker 1 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is the man who welcomed the E

Speaker 1 A G

Speaker 1 L E

Speaker 1 S Eagles

Speaker 1 onto the field in this fashion.

Speaker 1 All right,

Speaker 1 from the city of Brother Love,

Speaker 1 your 2024 NFC champions, the E A, G, L,

Speaker 1 E, F, E, GO!

Speaker 1 Had to feel so cool. Boots on the ground, ladies and gentlemen.
Owner, co-founder of Daniel Coops, the greatest cheese steak in your town, Brad the Cooper.

Speaker 10 What up, dude? This is awesome.

Speaker 1 Wait, my mom wants to say hello real quick. Miss Gloria.
Hi, guys. Good to see you.
How are you?

Speaker 10 I love your show. You guys are so funny.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. Thank you.

Speaker 9 So smart.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 Don't be giving it away, Gloria. Please.
Don't be doing that. We love you, too.
Thank you for everything.

Speaker 9 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, hell yeah. Bye.
Bye.

Speaker 5 That was awesome.

Speaker 1 See ya. See ya.

Speaker 1 Hey, we looked her up on the internet.

Speaker 1 Sounds like an Italian last name. If I would have said Chow and Good.
My mom? Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah. Campano, yeah.

Speaker 1 Does she know Italian?

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 10 when my grandparents came over here, you know, the whole thing was to assimilate into American culture.

Speaker 10 So they only spoke Italian in the kitchen and they wanted their, you know, their children to become acclimated to and being American. So it was only her older brother who spoke Italian.

Speaker 10 But by the time she was the middle child, she didn't, she never learned it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 10 You know, it's so funny, though.

Speaker 7 So I was so nervous I was going to misspell Eagles number one, obviously.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 1 Yes, agreed. And

Speaker 10 so, but, but I kept thinking, I wanted to say NFC champions.

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 1 Could you imagine?

Speaker 10 And I kept like running

Speaker 10 people. And some people are like, fuck yeah, you got to do it.
And other people were like, no, dude, don't do that.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 because you say that, that would be...

Speaker 10 I thought it would have been great. NFC champions.

Speaker 1 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 next. Unbelievable.
Look at this guy. He's great.
Aging backwards.

Speaker 1 Benjamin Button. Let's talk about this.

Speaker 10 How about that kid, Declan, man? He was awesome.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 10 okay so you give him tickets on the today show right am I accurate in the story who was he yeah so I didn't give him tickets the NFL gave him tickets but I had I I didn't I wasn't aware of his story because I'm not on I don't know if you had seen the tick tock thing but I'm not on social media so there's a whole you know section of reality that I'm never aware of unless someone tells me but I was with my daughter at the commanders game and we were just walking in the field and someone was like hey hey hey and I 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.

Speaker 10 He's nine years old. And two years ago, he was sort of, he was diagnosed with a pretty, you know, treacherous

Speaker 10 ailment of arthritis. And he was in the hospital 17 times.
And then they sent me the TikTok video. I don't know if you guys have seen it.
No.

Speaker 10 But there's a guy who does a thing where he offers you something or something else.

Speaker 7 And he offered him $1,000 or another choice.

Speaker 10 He chose the other option, and it was tickets to the Commander's Game. Then the guy also gave gave him the thousand dollars, and then they were in a dollar store.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 He's like, Oh, I know Rocket Raccoon.

Speaker 1 Well, that's an awesome thing. And

Speaker 10 then, so I was like, But I'll give him the tickets. I'll go on and just give him the tickets with the band and the cheerleaders.
And then, so that was really cool. I went and just did that.

Speaker 10 And then the NFL asked me if I would introduce the team. And I thought, oh, 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 it happened.

Speaker 1 That is incredibly cool. I saw this clip of you running out of a tunnel with the smoke coming around you.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 10 I was like, I'll come out and do that.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But also good karma into the football universe that you did that. It was a good moment, man.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 1 Okay, could you have fathomed the game going that way?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 How, in your wildest dreams, and I know you're sitting up in the box and you just introd the team, so you're like a part of this entire thing.

Speaker 1 Could you have fathomed the Eagles just beating the hell out of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 8 Yeah, Coop, did you get to hang out with the team afterwards? Like, what would you do post-game?

Speaker 8 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?

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 So, the fact that I'm interacting with you, it's like I'm going to wake up in some fucking fever dream.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 Feel the same. We can't believe it.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we can't believe you watch.

Speaker 10 And by the way, thanks for all the shout-outs. So, literally, every time, I think I told you, I like telling him, I was like, Did you hear? He said my name.
He said my name.

Speaker 1 We are so lucky you watched the program. You are the coolest dude.
And

Speaker 1 tell me something,

Speaker 1 too.

Speaker 10 Bro, I watched the program.

Speaker 1 Well, we appreciate it.

Speaker 10 So getting back to that was, you know, I was at the Super Bowl when we lost.

Speaker 1 I was at the Super Bowl when we won.

Speaker 10 And every time I just was sort of catatonic up in the box. And this time, 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.

Speaker 10 I don't even think they asked me to go to the field, though.

Speaker 10 But today, because we had already been there and we had our wristbands,

Speaker 10 my daughter and I were like, we're going to go down. And I got to say, man, it was,

Speaker 10 and, you know, Lane Johnson, I just think he's maybe the best right tackle to ever play the game. And I just, I love everything about him.
I love his work ethic.

Speaker 4 I just idolize the guy.

Speaker 10 And at the end, we were watching like behind the fence, you know, the sort of makeshift fence on the stage.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 walk you know it's mayhem there's cameras and people but i see this big goliath walking away and i i was like eight years old dude and i'm like run i'm like leah leah i gotta gotta see and i'm like running to him and i'm like lane lane

Speaker 10 what a moment what a moment and he turned around he turned around and his he it was so bullion and like wonderful and like we hugged and you you're hugging these guys after the game and you just they're fucking drenched in that fucking smell And these fucking gladiators.

Speaker 8 These fucking gladiators.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 It was like one of the most incredible experiences.

Speaker 10 It was.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 I feel so relaxed, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, congrats.
You did it. You did it, Coop.

Speaker 1 Hey, football is the greatest. Bradley Cooper feels like an eight-year-old after a big-time win, which leads to this.
Ty has a question for you, Coop.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Coop, first and foremost, what a fucking honor. This is so awesome that you're on the show.

Speaker 3 But so when you take all that into account, where does last night rank compared to like your career accolades? Obviously, you've been nominated for 12 Oscars. Bullshit, you haven't

Speaker 3 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 you've done in your career

Speaker 10 well i didn't do anything but observe last night no um intro yeah you introduce intro

Speaker 1 john ham

Speaker 1 voice crack

Speaker 1 in the middle of that set the tone they never were able to roll They were never able to roll. Then you go, all right, let's go and get right into it.
It's like, Lane Johnson's right behind you.

Speaker 1 You talk about how much you love Lane. Lane's right behind you.
You set the tone.

Speaker 10 You won the super bowl you did it and by the way i worked at it i was saying that thing for like two weeks up and down the street like in weird public places people like what's he doing yeah i watched the rock i watched the rock do it you know in la his his like epic thing that he did um but um you know that experience ty of doing that which i was nervous about that felt as big as like singing at the oscars And, you know, I conducted the London Symphony Orchestra live in Ely, which was fucking terrifying.

Speaker 10 And then played at Glastonbury Music Festival for Starsborn 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.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 We don't want to talk about that.

Speaker 1 Buzz had a commercial. Yes,

Speaker 1 Buzz had a commercial yesterday. Who cares? He's a filmmaker, so you know.

Speaker 1 Hey, you're on the moon. Yes, you were.
You were on the moon. So were we.
So were you.

Speaker 1 That's right. USA.
Buzz is a natural on the set. He's a good actor.
No, no, he was actually kind of a stiff actor. I was telling you, you were about to say he's a real good actor.
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 What a talent. What an absolute talent.
Speaking of talents, coaches, D-Bun has a question for you, Coop.

Speaker 5 Coop, got to ask you, as an Eagles fan, we know a lot of the Eagles fans and media have been torn on Siriani, and obviously everybody's over the moon right now as an Eagles fan winning the Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 But what's your thoughts on Nick Siriani? When did you know this game was over in the Super Bowl was in the book?

Speaker 10 Oh, I didn't know it until way late, way late. I think it was that penultimate field goal when I was like, that's it.

Speaker 10 You know, because I just, but I, you know, and no one in the box did, too. It was tense, man, up until like four, like four minutes.

Speaker 10 Like, you remember that last field goal, the second last field goal that I was like, but up until then, I don't know, man.

Speaker 10 Because, 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?

Speaker 10 You know, and then I, you know, just got it slammed in my face.

Speaker 7 So I learned my lesson.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All four quarters head down.
Next play. Only thing about it.

Speaker 1 Yep, absolutely. You're hold on one sec.
You're sitting with the owner, right?

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And GM up there or just owner?

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah, yeah. And only because, you know, I did this movie, Silverlining's Playbook, back in 2010.

Speaker 10 And Andy Reed used to be, you know, that's when he was the coach.

Speaker 10 And he was, and, and because we shot, you know, they allowed us access because we shot in the parking lot for the tailgating all that stuff uh and then because he is such a he was obsessed with one of the players i was able to go and spend some time with all 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 and and that's how that that whole thing started so at this point i you know i've been through the ride with those guys you know just alongside but um it feels it does feel a part of it i mean they know how emotionally connected i am and you know and now my daughter is who's just i started taking her when she was two and now she'll she'll be eight and like her evolution and her knowledge of football in these years it's just it's incredible yeah those moments I assume are amazing you know that's that has to be such a cool feeling with your daughter yeah it's it's 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 it online that commercial I thought people are gonna have issue with this which is ridiculous well it's life poop yeah you know yeah and that is the world that we live in nowadays and you know it's you're never gonna be able to please everybody but somehow it seems like you have you know and it's not just

Speaker 1 not just with your acting now I'm sure there's people but a majority of us are like coop's the man that's why as soon as we found out that you watched the show remember I FaceTime you remember how this 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.

Speaker 1 So then I come in here and I tell the boys, I go, I got a text from a number acting like they were Brad the Cooper last night. And everybody, I think Connor led the way.

Speaker 1 He's like, cold FaceTime right now. So we FaceTime, you know, and you answer.
And the response was, holy shit, this is Brad the Cooper. And we couldn't operate for like two days after hearing that.

Speaker 1 So we appreciate the hell out of you. And, you know, when I had to do the acting thing, who do I text? Obviously, Cooper.
The guy. Brad the Cooper.
Yep.

Speaker 1 And you gave me a quote that says, say what you mean and mean what you say. And I think it's my James Cagney, yeah.
Yeah, James Cagney quote or whatever said, this is the only thing you need to know.

Speaker 1 Go out there. And like, you wish me luck.
So we appreciate you, Coop. We appreciate you.

Speaker 8 I appreciate you guys, man.

Speaker 1 Know that. Not everybody gets that reaction with this particular crew.
So that is a

Speaker 1 yeah, yeah, you do know. You do know.

Speaker 10 Yeah, I'm waiting to leave and then you just shit all over me.

Speaker 1 No, no,

Speaker 1 that ain't the way it works, Cooper. It's normally our first feeling is our forever feeling.
That's kind of our problem and our gift.

Speaker 1 Anyways, let's talk about a gift that that you're giving to society that we weren't able to experience, but we were close. Connor has a question for you.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Coop, how did the cheese steak business come to be? Obviously, Danny and Coops, you know, you have a place in New York, and then obviously you have the food truck you were handing it out.

Speaker 3 We tried, Pat just mentioned, to get some. I mean, too many people were there damn near, and there were some people running in two that were real funny, real mouthy as well.

Speaker 1 But how did that kind of come to be?

Speaker 3 And is that something you think you'll do forever?

Speaker 10 Yeah, it just, it's all Danny Giampetro, man.

Speaker 10 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

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 And then I, then I said, I was like, you know, there's no good steak sandwich up in New York. Would you ever want to like get a food truck and see if this could ever work?

Speaker 10 Like, let's just park in the side of a road. And then we did that and it was, and it did well.
And then we did it again.

Speaker 10 And then we're like, let's look for a place and open up just a cheesesteak place and make, you know, just do a couple of things to make it a little bit more just for us and what we like.

Speaker 10 And then that's what we just started doing. And 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was like 591 sandwiches or something you moved in, I forget how many hours on opening night.

Speaker 1 There was people reporting the lines out the door for this place in New York whenever whenever you opened it up. And then obviously people had photos of you cooking in the back.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They only spoke Italian in the kitchen. Did you grow up? How did you get into being a cook? Because I know you had that chef.
You had a chef movie, right, did you not? Bert. Excuse me.

Speaker 10 Yeah, I mean, I worked at my grandmother. I was an incredible cook, and I used to always be with her all the time.
And so I always loved it.

Speaker 10 I used to cook for my friends and my parents when I was my daughter's age.

Speaker 10 And then I used to, and I started working in restaurants when I was 15. I was a bus boy and then worked as a prep cook in Summers Point, New Jersey at a place called Marabella's.

Speaker 10 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 of my speed.

Speaker 10 And then I did this TV show that I got to play and cook called Kitchen Confidential. And then I got that movie, which is incredible.
And I got to train with all these unbelievable chefs.

Speaker 10 And I just, yeah, I love to cook. I absolutely love to cook.

Speaker 1 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 game. Good ready.
That's pretty good a little gig, Coop. We did okay.
He did okay.

Speaker 1 Could be better, though. Tone has a question for you.

Speaker 4 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 parade this time?

Speaker 1 And are you going to get a ring, too, or what?

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 10 They just moved it to Friday, so

Speaker 10 there's going to be snow on Thursday. It's tricky because I'm in prep now in a movie and my daughter is school, so I'd have to juggle a lot of stuff, but I'm going to try to make it work.

Speaker 10 I think it starts at 11. So if I can, if we can get out early and there's not that much traffic, I'm going to, yeah, I mean, we got to go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, got to be there.

Speaker 1 Got to be there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We don't have school.
We're out of school. You be your own dad whenever the case gets closed.
That sounds like we're missing school on Friday. And also, you won the Super Bowl, Bub.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You and Declan. You guys won.

Speaker 1 You're a part of the entirety of it all. What movie are we shooting? You said you were in prep for a movie? Is this

Speaker 1 you getting in shape right now?

Speaker 8 What does that mean? What is that?

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 But it's like a little comedy that Will Arnett is the star of, and Laura Dern and Andrew Dazen, and Kieran. It's a great guest.

Speaker 8 And we started two and a half weeks.

Speaker 10 So it's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 Okay, so are you in?

Speaker 1 So you shoot.

Speaker 10 I play a small part. I just play his best friend, but those are the leads, but I'm directing it.

Speaker 1 So what does that mean, directing it? Because I just did this commercial shoot. I don't know who was what.
I don't know who was what out there.

Speaker 10 It means that like, you know,

Speaker 10 it was a project and then I rewrote it and along with Will and Mark Chappie. And then I'm going to, you know, I like conceive of it.
And then we get a group and you direct it.

Speaker 10 You know, you're like, you know, you direct, you're making the movie. And then you're going to edit the movie and then you put it out.
And hopefully,

Speaker 10 you know,

Speaker 10 the studio likes it. You know, it's, yeah.

Speaker 1 Tell me if I'm wrong, though. U-Camera shooting.

Speaker 10 I just, I just joined the union, yeah. So I'll operate B-camera, yeah, which I'm very excited about.
Because we did some, we did some stuff. We went down to Chinatown, and yeah, it's been amazing.

Speaker 10 It's amazing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've heard, you know, from techs, but I think people need their, this dude's actually holding the fucking camera.

Speaker 1 You're like maybe the most hopeless.

Speaker 10 You would love it, though. 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.

Speaker 10 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 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.

Speaker 1 How long have you been making these movies?

Speaker 10 I've been doing this since I

Speaker 10 since Wet Hot American Summer. So that was like 2000.

Speaker 10 And then

Speaker 10 I was lucky enough to be able to

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 1 Congrats, man.

Speaker 1 Dog mentality.

Speaker 1 Dog mentality.

Speaker 1 Tell me something, something, Kudu. So whenever you were a horrible waiter and grab a chef, whenever you were coming through, did you sing in the kitchen? How'd you get those chops, bro?

Speaker 10 I did. It's so funny you said that.
We used to dance

Speaker 10 at the street restaurant when I was a bus boy called Alexander's. I got a question for you, McAfee, real quick.

Speaker 10 Because one thing that I love is how fast your brain works. And because it's almost like watching a deposition, you know, because there's just no cutting and I'm just watching you.

Speaker 10 You know, you guys cut the butt.

Speaker 8 By the way, guys in the back, I'm doing good.

Speaker 1 You talking about team.

Speaker 1 This is real.

Speaker 10 Real. Dude, 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.

Speaker 1 That's Java. Thank you.
Filmmakers understand.

Speaker 1 You know, filmmakers understand.

Speaker 10 And at one point, I thought, like, whenever 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.

Speaker 10 And I was going to tell you, like, what's going on? Your eye line's high.

Speaker 1 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 we need a full dolly 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 segment so because i can see how fast your brain works

Speaker 10 It's it's fat.

Speaker 10 I love watching you because I feel like you're you're weighted you're you you're eight steps ahead of whoever you're talking to and you're just like then you're 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.

Speaker 10 It's one of the things I love watching the most in the show. Is that accurate? My question is, is that accurate? Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Shut up with that whole thing.
No, no, no.

Speaker 10 Ask me. No, answer me honestly.
Is that accurate? I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't know what you're referring to right now. It sounds like a compliment of the past.
AJ, AJ. That's wrong.

Speaker 10 AJ, AJ, is that accurate?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I would say it's pretty accurate.

Speaker 7 His brain is very, very quick.

Speaker 8 Yeah, there's no one, no one's brain is like Pat's, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Anomaly.
I like that. Just like you.
Now, let's get back to your talent, please, and thank you for the kindness.

Speaker 10 And by the way, I don't at all mean your crew because you guys are you guys are all in sync I'm saying when somebody else comes on no we agree coop we all love you buddy

Speaker 1 no 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 yeah of all

Speaker 1 bringing up

Speaker 1 still bringing it i mean that performance on

Speaker 10 core 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 a long time.

Speaker 1 So that was awesome.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 10 oh, I just did it, you know, like any like relatively intelligent person, I just surrounded myself with people that were incredible at it. So that meant like

Speaker 10 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's my, that's like the secret weapon that I've always had.

Speaker 10 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.

Speaker 10 And I also was smart enough to like, I put the bandwidth of that character's vocal range like this. I thought if I could just nail that, then I could be believable.
And I just worked hard.

Speaker 10 This guy Roger Love in LA. I would go five days a week in voice lessons.
And, you know, I'd go there. I remember I used to go there at nine o'clock.

Speaker 10 He's like, no musician comes and works their voice in the morning. You're like, you're the only person.
And

Speaker 10 yeah, I just did the work, man.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, you're an Italian, obviously, blue-collar work ethic.

Speaker 10 And Iris. My dad was Iris.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Oh, yeah.
So you are like the blue-collar joint, pretty much there, the Irish Italian. So your work ethic is obviously something to admire.
But did you write those songs?

Speaker 1 I think we heard that you wrote some of those songs. Did you were you?

Speaker 10 I wrote Black Eyes, the song in the beginning of the year.

Speaker 1 It's the best hanger. It's the best one on the soundtrack.
Thanks, man.

Speaker 10 Oh, thanks, man. Dude, it was so crazy, bro.
Like, honestly, like, I'm writing it on a thing, and then we made it, and I was like, and then I'm singing it at Stagecoach.

Speaker 10 And it's actually a song that I wrote.

Speaker 10 Yes, the opener, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So we make movies. We make cheesesteaks.
What?

Speaker 1 We make Super Bowl champions. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We make songs. Why? We sing songs.
What?

Speaker 1 We nail songs. What? And then I'm doing it and make a movie that's awesome.
I mean, Coop, you got a fucking great brain, pal.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 Did you have an athletic background growing up? Did you play sports and do you continue to maybe get in some intermural leagues, maybe try to get some buckets, whatever you may be?

Speaker 8 I don't know what sports you play.

Speaker 10 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,

Speaker 10 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 was like, it boils down to like, I didn't want the ball.

Speaker 10 And it wasn't until I got into college where I started to feel more comfortable that I started to play intramural sports.

Speaker 10 And I started to feel like my mental capacity was catching up to my actual physical ability.

Speaker 10 And I rode crew in college, but that was great just to be a part of a team sport.

Speaker 10 But I absolutely love sports. And I love playing sports and still play basketball.
And I like tennis.

Speaker 10 you know but i'm a massive sports sports guy sandler pretty good hoop player sandler right yeah i remember it too so when i first moved to lay 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's he dressed like an asshole he's the best dressed 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.

Speaker 10 What you see is what you get.

Speaker 3 It was awesome.

Speaker 1 He was at the Super Bowl just sitting all by himself before the game, taking pictures of stuff. It's like, Adam Sandler's the best.

Speaker 14 He's the coolest, man.

Speaker 1 He's the coolest. Hotel Transylvania, buddy.
Love it.

Speaker 10 Absolutely love it.

Speaker 1 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. Keep doing it.
Okay, you too.

Speaker 1 We appreciate you. We can't wait to try Danielian Coop someday.
Yeah, wait.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 10 I got to get to the Thunderdome.

Speaker 1 I got to get there. Oh,

Speaker 1 we'll get a food truck here for you. Boom.
We'll ship the ingredients, whatever you need. We appreciate you.
Ladies and gentlemen, Bradley Cooper.

Speaker 1 That's been a crazy relationship. Yeah, awesome.
Nuts.

Speaker 1 That's been a wild relationship. Like,

Speaker 1 actually, he watches. Like, 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's going on.

Speaker 1 And then an immediate text, and it's like, holy shit, Bradley Cooper's watching that show right now. Nuts.
Legend. Legend.
Unbelievable. And then he gives the open for the Eagles.

Speaker 1 It's like, what a perfect

Speaker 1 for him, too. Like, him following this Eagles season was, he was with it, man.
Oh, yeah. Everything we read on the internet,

Speaker 1 he was in there as well. All right.
To the ESPN people

Speaker 1 that are watching on linear television, we're going to be off for a little bit. It's been a long season.

Speaker 1 We appreciate you all for allowing us in your homes or airports or cafeterias or anything or anywhere that you show us. We'll be off and then we'll be back at the Combine.

Speaker 1 And hopefully, the show won't get worse, but there is a chance. Thank you for enjoying the NFL season with us.
You're the greatest people on earth.

Speaker 1 Be a friend, tell a friend something nice that might change their life. Yeah, I think I got it in there.
Yeah, that was absolutely screwed on the money. I think I got it in.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now there's a chance it's off, though, by half a second. So then me congratulating myself will also be on air.
That's cool, too. We'll see.
We'll see. Yeah,

Speaker 1 which is not a bad thing. We're watching it in the back there with a 30-second delay, obviously, because the Fox finished with Coop, certainly.
Yeah, he let him fly. Awesome.
He watches on YouTube.

Speaker 1 Yeah. 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.
I was like, oh, I remember. What an insane world.

Speaker 1 Right? Yeah. Yeah.
What about his insane life? Well, yeah. But like, do you expect that from him, but like that he watches us is just nearly done.
So stupid. I like that.
We hit it. Sweet spot.

Speaker 1 And he'll probably say, hey, I was good at. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Exactly. How about him talking about the different shots? You guys had a couple shots in there, I think I've seen a little bit.
Yeah, well, and the camera did have

Speaker 1 it. Yeah, we switched the cameras.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So 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.

Speaker 3 Coop though?

Speaker 1 He's like, Coop's got his eye on it. These motherfuckers switching the camera.
That's crazy. You don't think anybody noticed?

Speaker 1 Cooper.

Speaker 1 Bradley Cooper DeGene. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 what a dog the exciting white's doing their thing still can't make a fucking everything all db team

Speaker 1 he'll he'll be a preseason watch list for sure really spark till week five you know marlon humphreys is all pro this year but look postseason you know what you can make you can make a postseason

Speaker 1 Everything DB team.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Still wouldn't put him on it. He's on it.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 Wow. Starting nickel.
Congratulations.

Speaker 1 Congratulations. I don't believe him.

Speaker 5 You know what? Reed's on it, too. That's perfect.

Speaker 1 Holy shit.

Speaker 1 Now 33%.

Speaker 1 Now it feels like you're making a box. Happy birthday, Cool.

Speaker 5 I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 1 Aiden Ross and Bob wouldn't do his hand. You should put those guys on that.
I wouldn't have to do that. A lot of serves in that case.

Speaker 5 Awards to white guys Black History Month. They didn't do that.
Jeez. All right.

Speaker 1 Those guys deserve it. You sound like a Ravens fan.
Jeez.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you what. Internet's been loud this year.
There's been a lot of magical moments.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I think it brings people together in a way that no other sport can.

Speaker 1 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 Espes, but it's real.

Speaker 1 Sports are the greatest thing on earth.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You can sit right next to that person as long as you have the same color on.

Speaker 1 Fuck 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.
Started out a little shite. A little shite.
Started out.

Speaker 1 Started out a little shite. Definitely.
But college ball made up the difference. It did.
College ball was electrifying.

Speaker 1 The new conferences and the new times and the new everything, each week was something special on a Saturday for college ball.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We were honored about that. And then all of a sudden, the NFL football started picking up and the college football continued to go.

Speaker 1 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 to ride alongside of it.

Speaker 1 And to everybody that did that with us, we can't thank you enough.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we're going to go breathe for a couple days. Okay.

Speaker 1 And when we come back,

Speaker 1 combine, AJ. Draft season.
Offseason's the best.

Speaker 8 Offseason.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Tone Diggs said in the middle of Schefter saying some line, you know, Sam Donald's going to the Raiders. It's like, all right, haven't heard that.
Haven't heard that.

Speaker 1 And who knows if that's real or not. Tone holds up a dry erase board and goes, I love that offseason.
And he starts pointing at all this shit. It's like, that's real.
That's what we're heading into.

Speaker 4 How many think 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.

Speaker 4 And hope is back for all these teams, free agency that draft. That one guy that can change everything just like Saquon changed everything for the Eagles.
That can happen to our team.

Speaker 1 Why not? What are your thoughts on the 2024-2025 season?

Speaker 4 It was unbelievable. I mean, you talked about the college football season being the 12-team playoff.
I thought that was really cool.

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. Old school seemingly all the way back in.
Let's go to the talks and table at Boss Connor Ties. Ty, we'll start with you.
Obviously not the Packers year or the Iowa Hawkeyes year. Sure.

Speaker 1 But your takeaway on this football season, the Woods?

Speaker 3 I mean, it's just the best. And I think once you start, like once we started doing this job, like obviously, yeah, I love the Packers more than anything.

Speaker 3 Would like to see them win a Super Bowl every single year. Same with Iowa when it comes to college football.

Speaker 3 But like we get to 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.

Speaker 3 But like now 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 like really pull for them.

Speaker 3 So like every year that this goes on, like it's like I was genuinely so happy for Sirianni last night.

Speaker 3 Like, you know, which is weird to say as, I mean, shit, the Eagles beat the Packers in the first round of the playoffs, like, embarrassed them, got rid of them.

Speaker 3 But, like, I felt like I was an Eagles fan last night because of, you know, the whole Sirianni thing. Like, I was just, I was so happy for him.
And I, it's just, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 I can't wait till next year.

Speaker 1 Great stories every year. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, Sirianni changing the trajectory of his life.
Yes.

Speaker 1 With that Eagles win. Deebunch.
How about you, brother? Nine-year NFL veteran. Host of everything DB, Good D, Bad D.
Another great season. Great.

Speaker 1 Debut. Another great season.
What's your big takeaway from this football season that was?

Speaker 5 Tone kind of hit on it. You kind of hit on it.
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.

Speaker 5 Jameer Gibbs, what he 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.

Speaker 5 Like you saw as a group, they tried to devalue them as a position group. So I love what they did as a group.

Speaker 5 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 on the biggest stage you with your relationship with Nick Saban 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 Siriani 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 are like, hey, this guy deserves it more than that guy, or this team deserves it more than this guy.

Speaker 5 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 done it, how they sticked 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.

Speaker 5 So it's a good way for me to end it with one of my four squads. Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. And the way you made your pick on Friday from Radio Row was

Speaker 1 it's not often that one of your four teams makes it to the Super Screw.

Speaker 1 Whenever you have four teams, that means probably. Better chase.
No, but also, if you have four teams, that means one of your main teams is not good. Correct.
Colts.

Speaker 3 At least one. Or.

Speaker 1 Dolphins. Exactly.
Or.

Speaker 1 Chargers were in it. Yeah, Chargers were, but for a while, they weren't.

Speaker 1 For years, they weren't in it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like that literally became the thing against Jalen Hurts. And you stuck in the pocket with him.
You know, you rode the wave with Jalen Hurts. And

Speaker 1 great for the Philadelphia Eagles, man. Good for Jalen.

Speaker 1 There's multiple confetti photos now that he can change his home screen. He looks awesome.
Bustin Conner, your takeaway from this season?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And then we look at last year with CJ Stroud, this is never going to happen again. And then boom, Jaden Daniels comes in.

Speaker 3 It feels like every year there is just an increasingly better game being played. Like Lamar was the story in the award season this year.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Not better than him, but just overall as a league. And, you know, you talk about defense, too.
Like Zach Bond, two years ago,

Speaker 1 I didn't know who he was. Special Teamer.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 we get to cover the game really closely and we get to know the guys. Like as a Patriots fan, I don't like the Buffalo Bills fans, but I love their team.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We're like, hey, now that we're into next year, it's like, I have all this new hope.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Those were two teams that, yeah, you could see them in the season.

Speaker 1 Packers, Niners,

Speaker 1 or Eagles.

Speaker 3 Lions. Lions and the Vikings and, you know, the Commanders.
They kind of came out of nowhere, both of them. But yeah, the Ravens, you know, you can,

Speaker 3 I wouldn't put them in there.

Speaker 3 Lurking, but there are, but every year there are those teams, and right now, those eight teams, you know, it could be yours and it's 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.

Speaker 3 It's it's cool to be here, man. So crazy, so stupid.

Speaker 1 Yeah, every right in a row, I experience that more. Yeah, I think like that.
It's kind of like, what's that syndrome called?

Speaker 1 Imposter. Stockholm.
Imposter. Stockholm.
Jesus. That's definitely not

Speaker 1 I don't feel like I'm not becoming friends with my capital. I'm sure.

Speaker 1 I'm not. I'm not.
That's Stockholm. That is Stockholm.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's the imposter one. You know, we walk in there and then with who we get to talk to, and then the amount of people.
There was 100,000 people just streaming on YouTube today or whatever.

Speaker 1 It's like, that's just YouTube. Load 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.

Speaker 1 And they basically all say, I had somebody from Australia that that covers the sports say, your sport, your show basically taught me the sport in the league. Now I cover it.

Speaker 1 Now I'm here and 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.

Speaker 5 It's crazy. Because I travel, you know, travel so much in airports and see people in the planes and all the time.
And it's just crazy. Obviously,

Speaker 5 just the bandwidth that the show has. And I think the best part about it for me, at least, is that We get to be ourselves.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 A 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.

Speaker 5 And then you're kind of reminded when you go to a place like Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 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, you know, the growth of the show and how huge it is.

Speaker 5 And even something like Patrick Sartain went in defense player of the year, watching a video the Broncos put out and hearing my voice on it because I get to do everything

Speaker 5 week in and week out. Like that's that's super super dope moment.
So you're definitely very, very lucky to be in this.

Speaker 1 Very lucky, very thankful. Great observation.

Speaker 1 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.
Day to day. Just stay right in here.

Speaker 5 I see so many people.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you travel. Yeah, so you're seeing a lot of people.
So I respect, hey, thank you for your traveling, too.

Speaker 1 That's good work. That's hard work.
That's good work. That's great work ethic.
That's just good workout. Great workout.
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 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 down to still do your shit.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 the amount of travel, always good vibe. So we appreciate the hell out of you.
And also, you get to see the outside world a lot more, I guess. Because

Speaker 1 it is crazy. Like Radio Rose the first time really seeing any of these people because we don't go to any Super Bowl parties.
We weren't invited.

Speaker 3 We weren't invited to any.

Speaker 1 We weren't, were we? No, we weren't.

Speaker 1 Hey, that's a real deal, brother. Fucking bullshit.
Got to get it, man. I don't understand.
Got to get it.

Speaker 4 Fanatics didn't invite us.

Speaker 1 I don't know if we're ever going to get invited to one of those.

Speaker 3 That one I do get.

Speaker 1 But it's kind of all those companies, you know, they're hosting all these things yeah so we don't really get invited and we would definitely not go especially with how close that casino was yeah but the way it was kicking our teeth in a night a night out to you know for a couple freez free booze cocktails maybe wouldn't have been that maybe a performance by some musician yeah exactly yeah i 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 bugs we're gone like you said the casino is a fucking stones throw i mean it's just impossible not way too close yeah way new orleans was as soon as we got there new orleans was awesome as a place.

Speaker 1 I think so.

Speaker 1 Everything is super.

Speaker 4 I think I saw a bunch on the internet and the main takeaway because everyone was right about it. Everything is super walkable.

Speaker 4 Now, we didn't do it much because we went show, hotel, casino, hotel, casino, show.

Speaker 4 But like, even when we walked to dinner, that was a 10-minute walk. Bourbon Street was right there.
Like, everything's super walkable in that city. The weather was perfect.

Speaker 1 Like, New Orleans had great Super Bowl. And the people, Drew Brees talked about it, they are very welcoming.

Speaker 1 Welcome. Come have a good time.

Speaker 1 Jeff Landry. Governor Jeff Landry.
Now, I heard a lot of people say, I had no idea people are like that. But I think he comes in and starts speaking the way he's speaking, the way he's speaking.

Speaker 1 It's like, holy shit, we're in a movie right now about Louisiana. And it's like, no,

Speaker 1 that's the most powerful guy in Louisiana.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's Louisiana, baby.

Speaker 6 I can't believe Devote didn't know about Nebraska.

Speaker 5 I mean, you know, I'm a young guy.

Speaker 5 What can you say?

Speaker 1 You're young.

Speaker 5 I guess he gave me a compliment.

Speaker 1 There's been a couple of times where people could have had a lot of finger-pointing places and they've all waved it up back to you. You realize that?

Speaker 1 What's that all all about? Spartan.

Speaker 1 What's that all about? Spartan.

Speaker 1 I don't like that one bit.

Speaker 5 Jameis, especially, you know, he goes certain.

Speaker 1 Jameis, certainly.

Speaker 1 You know, he knows my talk. You know, that's my guy.

Speaker 1 Hey, Jameis did crush it. Congrats, Jameis.
And him and Bert had some great clips. Hilarious.
I love people that we talk about all the time.

Speaker 4 Like, Jameis is always Jameis. Like, that's not an act.

Speaker 1 I appreciate him hearing me say,

Speaker 1 hey, don't be doing stupid shit. Don't listen to anybody here.
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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 3 I bet he was saying thank you. First time doing that.
I'm sure there is just a laundry list. Like, we got a bunch of great content ideas for you.

Speaker 1 All these people have great ideas.

Speaker 3 I bet someone told him to say something and like he thought about it and then thought of what you said. And was like, that's not anything I would ever do.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You know, 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.

Speaker 1 Let him run. Hold on, Jameis is a good idea.
There's going. Marshawn,

Speaker 1 you just go ahead and let Marshawn do his thing. And also, you know who you let do his thing?

Speaker 1 A.J. Hawk.
Amen. Hell yeah.
Hell yeah. AJ, what is your big takeaway from the year that was in the football world? Obviously, congratulations to the Ohio State University World.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 8 I mean, what a year. What a year.
I mean, I know as I get older, like, I like, I get obsessed with football more and more.

Speaker 8 I think as I get older, now I find myself like looking and watching things that if you'd have told me when I was playing, I would have thought this guy's a loser.

Speaker 8 Like, why would you, I think sometimes, like, man, I would like to sit into like, I would like to go, I should call James Laird Nice and go ask him, hey, can I come sit in your linebacker meetings like a couple days?

Speaker 8 I'd like to, like, I think about that now sometimes.

Speaker 8 And I, and I think back, every once in a while as a player, there'd be like a random dude an old player that would come and hang out for a day and I'd be like what would you why would you want to these meetings are awful like we're meeting for nine straight hours what are you doing like 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 like scheme-wise everything I like it's fun to try to figure out like 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 like 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 So I think just, I don't, football is awesome right now. It really is.

Speaker 8 And it comes down to it when we watch, you know, when we sit there at those college football games and we watch from the end zone, I get like weirdly giddy when I see guys use proper leverage.

Speaker 8 Like I see like, oh, here's the outside piece. Here's the inside piece.

Speaker 8 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 it's like a it's like a it blows my mind it really does it's so I think football continues to do that for me and obviously I'm 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 We went to lunch, took my kids, my father-in-law, my wife. And as I'm leaving, the waiter, he hadn't said anything the whole time.
He said, hey,

Speaker 8 give Boston Connor my best. And I said, I will do, buddy.

Speaker 1 And so like things like that that happen are awesome.

Speaker 8 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, I mean, yeah, this is the best.

Speaker 8 This has ruined me for any other kind of media. I used to do stuff on SirixM.
I used to call games, Conference USA football games, which I absolutely loved. Of course.

Speaker 8 But thinking of doing that stuff now after being able to join you guys, it's tough. Like,

Speaker 8 I've found my lane. This is awesome.
We love you, AJ.

Speaker 1 I bet you. I love you, Hogger.
Baby Hogger. And you're right.
Good ball is happening. I think that good ball conversation is why I am so pro girls flag football.

Speaker 1 Because when I watched watched that high school all-star game, they were playing good ball. Like, hey, there's good ball.
Like, I don't want to sound like they're well coached.

Speaker 8 Like, they're well coached, though, too. Like, it's not, they're not just out there doing, what do they call them? Powder puff games back in the day when they would have a girls' flag game.

Speaker 8 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's, it is, it's next level.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 like something you're saying, that's bad ball.

Speaker 1 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... See it on a pro level.
Yeah, we say it. We say it in.

Speaker 1 men's football, boys football a lot. So whenever I was watching that high school, it's like, hey, they got some good ball going.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That's a deep game, just like football is a deep game. So much strategy, technique, reading, audibling, shifting, disguising.
It was like,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 dip move, which is a flag football move, not an actual football move, tackle football move, not sorry, not actual tackle football move in this entire thing.

Speaker 1 And it was like, that was kind of what it was.

Speaker 1 It wasn't 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

Speaker 1 i have to they're all doing 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

Speaker 1 i would assume

Speaker 1 that's different that's tough to tackle Yeah. Brad couldn't do it.
1985, Central High School. Now he's practicing.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he got to come to balance to be a little better.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he looked like an asshole. He was clearly not perfect.
Open field was just a mess.

Speaker 1 He needed to be humbled.

Speaker 8 He needed humbled.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Chad, too.
Yeah, Brad, Chad, Tad, Thad, I think, was in there. All the boys.

Speaker 1 All the boys. They had terrible forearms.
Even if it was tackle football, I don't think they're getting them. All the ass.
So once again, that's bad ball. That's bad ball.

Speaker 1 That's bad ball by the Central High School boys.

Speaker 1 I don't know if they're a football team. Were they a football team? I don't know.
Looks like Padgett. They got Letterman.
James.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it might have been a row team. They pick up Miles Gere.
Wow. Well, he's a paleontologist.
He threw the ball off that dude's dong, though.

Speaker 8 That was a tough turn to come back to.

Speaker 3 The ribs actually shot off his Jimmy Johnson, not his dong.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and they said Jimmy Johnson with that respect, but they uh, yeah, the one-handed snag straight into the dong shot. It's a good throw.

Speaker 1 That team would win, I think, the Olympus. No doubt.
Central High School's team should think about being our, from 1985.

Speaker 1 They should be maybe our team. Vanita in there.
She was the coach of the girls' flag football team. Legend.

Speaker 1 One of the greatest flag football players of all time.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Throwing from here. Throwing from right here.
Yeah, Rich Cannon. Putting that ball wherever the fuck she wants.

Speaker 1 Good ball.

Speaker 1 All right. Boys in the back, great work this year.
Work boys. Work boys.

Speaker 1 Really good work. Talk.

Speaker 1 Graphics.

Speaker 1 Great work over there, boys. Good work.
Great boys.

Speaker 1 And on that note, we bid you adieu for a few.

Speaker 1 So we can snooze and come back better than ever. Hell yeah.
I doubt that, actually. Normally takes us a few days to get back into it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but we're

Speaker 3 right at the Kanban. Yeah, that helps.

Speaker 1 Oh, so we're going to have, yeah, because Kanban will give us a little juice. Exactly.

Speaker 3 Spot the juice.

Speaker 1 Because everybody's going to be there. Now, with that being said,

Speaker 1 we have no idea where our sets are going to be there. Sure.
On a 50, right?

Speaker 1 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 Kanban.
Can't wait to be there.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But there is a chance we're going to be at Lucasola Stadium. Also a chance we're here to dinner.
Okay.

Speaker 4 Either way, I decided I'm going to do some insiding this year down there.

Speaker 1 What are you going to do? Shake hands, kiss babies?

Speaker 4 Shake hands, kiss babies, take people out to dinner, go take them out to the bar. Show a good time.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're going to host them, get them booze.

Speaker 4 The show must not in Indianapolis, they don't see you very often.

Speaker 1 You're going to take them down there to

Speaker 1 Tin Whistle. Oh, yeah,

Speaker 1 Connor will get you in there real quick. Him and Gumpy.

Speaker 6 KOC, KOC, and McCowan had a great year after night of the Tin Whistle.

Speaker 1 KOC becoming the coach of the year. After visiting the Tin Roof.
After being at the Tin Roof.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Kind of a...

Speaker 1 I was like, really?

Speaker 1 Zito? Kind of.

Speaker 1 He was like, no, it wasn't Zito. Some guy with a beard.
And then I get a text from the group.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I had a couple with KOC last night from Gumpy. And I tell KOC, it was Gumpy.
He goes, yes, Canadian guy. It was awesome.
So KOC, just like normal human, feels like weapon. Great coach.

Speaker 1 Just signed a new deal with Minnesota, right? Yep. Congrats to him.
Who's going to be their quarterback? Now, Sam Donovano. Is it going to be Aaron Rodgers? Oh, I doubt it.

Speaker 1 We'll have Aaron Rodgers with us whenever we come back. Written in the stars.
I believe he's out of the country currently. That's what our source

Speaker 1 are telling us. Is that what your source

Speaker 1 are telling you as well, AJ?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I don't. Honestly, I haven't really checked.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm just telling you the truth, hubby.

Speaker 8 So I said, drop a location pin. I didn't say that.

Speaker 1 Should.

Speaker 8 Think about it. I should.
Maybe I will.

Speaker 1 Check on the guy from Maharaj. Yeah, maybe say, hey, how you doing? Heard they said they don't want you.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Huh? Scoopage. Major Scoopage.

Speaker 1 Major Scoopage.

Speaker 1 Aaron Flew himself

Speaker 1 to New Jersey. The quick meeting.
In and out. He's not going to be a jet next year.

Speaker 1 Scoopage.

Speaker 1 Jimmy Johnson thing was sweet. Yeah.
That AI thing. So is he done? What happened there? If he is, thank you for.

Speaker 4 I would have met if he asked him.

Speaker 3 And he was just like, I don't know. One day at a time.
I thought that's that's what the whole fucking thing was.

Speaker 1 60 years in football, maybe? Yeah, is that what it was supposed to be instead? I guess.

Speaker 3 I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 Congrats, Jimmy, man. It was fun reliving your life.
I didn't know, you know, Oklahoma State through the entire thing. And then the power of that, I bet you was kind of freaky for Jimmy.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 a travel packet. Holy shit.
What the hell? That was cool. But it did feel like it was a retirement thing.

Speaker 3 That's good. Yeah, I thought so.

Speaker 1 Even the Jimmy Johnson

Speaker 1 60.

Speaker 1 And then they're like, Are you done? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They're still paying me here.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's a body.

Speaker 1 There's a whole whatever the case, Jimmy. Thank you for your commitment to football.
That was fun to watch.

Speaker 1 Shout out to AI, too.

Speaker 1 Shout out to AI. All right, AJ.
Let's get the hell out of here. It's been a fun season.

Speaker 1 Thank you, guys.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 1 I can't wait to sleep. Oh, yeah.
I'm going to sleep a little bit.

Speaker 1 I'm going to sleep a little bit over the next.

Speaker 1 You should.

Speaker 1 probably look at some water. What?

Speaker 1 Check out some altitudes.

Speaker 1 Probably turn into a lobster. Why? And that's with very limited

Speaker 1 son. I turn into an immediate lobster.
What do you have over there? You have something to say? No. Gotta dry a race board up.
I do.

Speaker 1 I didn't know if you were gonna do that thing or not. Oh, yeah, yeah.
I thought you had to poop right there. If you gotta poop,

Speaker 4 I mean, I do, but I'm gonna hold it till after the show.

Speaker 3 Nice. That's not good for you, though.
You shouldn't do that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you should let that out. I normally do.

Speaker 1 Let it all out. You know, because those things will, those things will linger in there.
They will, huh? Ty held in a couple poops and look what he has to deal with now. Bingo.

Speaker 1 Sure, just let it go. That's why you always got to let Sneeze go.
Exactly. Einstein.
Never hold Sneezing.

Speaker 1 That'll happen for you.

Speaker 1 All right. We appreciate you all so much.
AJ, great work this week, our year.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm getting the fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 Gonna be a blast. Eight o'clock on Netflix.
Big shit coming. Massive announcements every weekend.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 1 What's going on? We're on Red WrestleMania right now. That's right.
Things are heating up. Hell yeah.
Got the headset on tonight down in Nashville.

Speaker 1 Can't wait to see what's going on next to Michael Cole. But after that, I'm fucking out of here.

Speaker 1 It's been a great year.

Speaker 1 A hell of a year, someone says. 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.

Speaker 1 Team on three. We'll see you in a little bit.

Speaker 1 One, two, three. Team, three.
Goodbye.

Speaker 1 Well, that's that. We have a new world champion, but...

Speaker 1 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 are some new rules.

Speaker 1 The kickoffs looked very weird, but they added some electricity. Line drive to Turpin and a boxes through his legs.
Here he comes.

Speaker 1 Cavante Turpin spinning free. Here he goes.
Fastest man in the NFL. Cavante Turpin takes it all the way.
Touchdown does. There are some new stars.
That team in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 here comes the Hail Mary with the game on the line

Speaker 1 and the balls caught

Speaker 1 caught it's a miracle There's also a new tight end in time.

Speaker 5 Don't forget about Brock Bowers out there in Vegas.

Speaker 1 That's right. Boring Brock Bowers is about to be big balling for a very, very long time.
You see the B.

Speaker 1 Stepping up. Going D as a man.
Court. 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 tricky.

Speaker 1 Now Jim stumbled. Have to take the step.

Speaker 1 But it doesn't matter. 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-haven son of a bitch, Mr.

Speaker 1 K-O-C.

Speaker 1 Second down, nine. Darnold getting messy, going deep, and he's got Jefferson.
He's got Jefferson. It's a foot race downfield with Brown shifting gears, getting a block.
That's six.

Speaker 1 And hey, let's tell the truth. Okay? Tell the truth.
Fair. Tell the truth.
I will tell the truth. Okay.
Kickers are awesome. We even had a free kick.
And he bang it through.

Speaker 1 On its way, it is.

Speaker 1 Yep. Shout out 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

Speaker 1 in a football game.

Speaker 8 I mean,

Speaker 10 there's a middle eight in a season, too.

Speaker 8 You could break it down

Speaker 1 that way.

Speaker 1 You know, six, seven, eight, nine, I mean, those are important games.

Speaker 3 The only joke I know is

Speaker 8 why were six afraid of seven?

Speaker 8 Because seven, eight, nine.

Speaker 1 Six, seven, eight, nine.

Speaker 1 Those are big games. How about that guy up in Buffalo? Bill Zamafia, stand up.
Josh Allen finally won in MVP. People were really, really happy for him.
You're welcome.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it did seem like they were. All of us.
Yeah, it felt like everybody was happy. It was something that really could unite all of America.
That's what the NFL does.

Speaker 1 Josh Allen being an MVP, well, 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.

Speaker 1 He even, ipso facto, threw a touchdown to himself this year in the snow. Targets to Shakir completed.

Speaker 1 This is behind Cooper, who brought it in, pitched it back to Allen, who's going to go on throw line. And it's getting.

Speaker 1 Well, and it's official. Christmas is now officially an NFL holiday worldwide on Netflix.
Ooh.

Speaker 3 Sorry, NBA.

Speaker 1 Got a 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.

Speaker 3 It's as good a running back as we've seen.

Speaker 3 Jackson will keep this time.

Speaker 1 And look at the speed. Lamar Jackson is gone.

Speaker 1 Touchdown. Well, a Merry Christmas.
And that leads us to the world champs, Saquon Barkley. Absolute.

Speaker 1 Don't damn Michael Downe is the greatest free agent signing in NFL history and one billionaire needs a lot of ambience what's the latest just on the Saquon thing just got a text that Chicago is driving the price up and Philly's out I don't know if that's true or not

Speaker 6 which I don't know I'll make a couple calls I don't even know if that's gonna

Speaker 4 happen but

Speaker 1 I'm gonna have a tough time sleeping if Saquon goes to Philadelphia. I'll tell you that.
As I've told you, just being up.

Speaker 1 I've been around enough players.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Shout out to him and at offensive line. And the boy hurts.
That's time. Now locates Barkley at the backfield.
Barkley slips two tackles and picks up the first down. Jumping up in the air to the 30.

Speaker 1 Makes the first guy miss. The spin move at the last second.
And then, what tiki? Yo, Rocky. What is that? Turns out Nick Siriani's not some big dumb dipshit.
Wait a minute.

Speaker 1 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 dip shit. Then the next day it'd say, still a big dumb dip shit.

Speaker 1 And then the third day somehow it'd say, this big dumb dip shit'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.

Speaker 1 He might be a fat stooge. But now the big bald dump Paison is a world champion.
And it's not just Sirianni, obviously, and he won't take any credit. Neither will Big Dom.

Speaker 1 How about the Eagles' defense led by Vic Fangio? He wins his first Super Bowl and he coached an absolute juggernaut. Third and 16.
Mahomes roll out. Looking fiery.
Intercepted.

Speaker 1 Picked up by Cooper Dejine. Gets a block.
Dejine

Speaker 1 is.

Speaker 1 So here's Maholmes. What's he got left? Pressure again.
Deck. Ball is out.
And the Eagles have it.

Speaker 1 And the quarterback, the coolest guy in Connie. Donnie goes into it.

Speaker 1 Jalen Hurts went for 42 touchdowns this year and can finally change his home screen.

Speaker 5 Run some block or maybe throw the dagger.

Speaker 1 Hurts going deep. Four off.
Devontae Smith.

Speaker 1 He has got it. Touchdown.
The Eagles are our world champions. Congratulations to Philly.
Congratulations to the Johns. Congratulations to the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We appreciate you, NFL. What a season it was.
It's been a hell of a year.

Speaker 1 How did you see

Speaker 1 who I was and who I was gonna be?

Speaker 1 I could have been right,

Speaker 1 was probably wrong.

Speaker 1 So many nights wishing I could go home. It's been a hell of a year.

Speaker 1 It's been a hell of a year.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Shout out to talk for that edit.
Shout out to the NFL for a

Speaker 1 hell of a year.

Speaker 1 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 Lombardy next year? What stories will develop?

Speaker 1 Whose legacies will either be ruined or created? We'll cover it all. And also, NBA,

Speaker 1 NHL,

Speaker 1 La Crosse,

Speaker 1 F1.

Speaker 1 Great movie. Brad Pitt looks awesome.

Speaker 3 Yes, he does.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 One, two, three. Team.
Goodbye.

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