PMS 2.0 1293 - Live From Super Bowl Radio Row in New Orleans, Puka Nacua, Jayden Daniels, OZ The Mentalist, Dan Orlovsky, Aidan Hutchinson, Mike Greenberg, Drew Brees & More

Hello beautiful people and welcome to the convention center down here in glorious New Orleans.

We are live from Radio Road for Super Bowl 59 and this sports program starts now.

Football!

It is wonderful and we're celebrating the hell out of it down here in beautiful New Orleans.

The entire sports world has embarked on a journey to this lovely city to celebrate an NFL season that was.

Tonight will be the NFL honors where they'll be giving out awards and celebrating everything that happened throughout the year.

And then on Sunday, we'll be crowning a world champion.

Will it be the back-to-back Super Bowl champion, Kansas City Chiefs, representing the AFC?

Or will it be a coach who maybe isn't a big thumb tip shit?

And Nick Siriani and the Philadelphia Eagles representing the NFC.

Obviously, it's a tight spread.

We're expecting a tight game, and we cannot wait to see.

see who climbs Lombardi Mountain and reaches the top.

We'll be celebrating that all today.

We have a massive massive guest list.

Puka Nakua will be joining us in a few minutes.

Jaden Daniels, offensive rookie of the year, will be joining us in about 40 minutes.

Oz,

the mentalist.

Oh, no.

The demon?

I'm scared.

Oh, no.

I told him I ain't doing this shit.

If you're going to bring your little time traveling demon shit in here, it's going to be quick.

Yep.

Yeah.

That'll be in the next hour.

Then we got who?

Daniel Rolofsky.

Then we got who?

Aiden Hutchinson.

Then we got who?

Mike Greenberg.

Hell yeah.

Hey.

Big Thursday here from Radio Row.

And I assume there'll be more random guests that will pop up, and we can't wait for all of it.

The Toxic Tables here at Boston Connor at Ty Schmidt.

Conman, Super Bowl Week.

Big announcements coming out, especially one on the other side of Earth, Conman.

Yeah, pretty incredible.

The NFL, the Rams in particular, are heading over to Melbourne, Australia to play a football game in 2026.

I assume all the players on that team heard that and said, son of a bitch, I don't want to go all the way.

to Australia to play a game, but too bad.

Roger says you're going, you're going.

I also assume, hopefully, either today or tomorrow, we might get a Dublin Ireland game in 2025, perhaps.

I know they're already going to Spain.

That was announced, the first game ever going over there next season.

Hopefully, we add Ireland to the docking.

Yeah, our source

says

say that that announcement should be coming, right?

Oh, yeah.

Look, I talked to some people,

some big wigs, okay?

Now, I'm not saying that.

Are you saying big wigs because of the size of heads of people?

Yeah, of course,

one of them, but I'm not saying big wig like Gary Vee.

I'm saying big wig like McQuaid.

And we can only say his name once or twice because if we say it three times, he might appear.

But they're going Ireland path.

Whoa.

They certainly are.

And before we even get started, I did not know this was going to happen this early.

Congrats to the NFL taking a game, a regular season game to Australia.

Players are going to hate that.

Nuts.

Coaches are going to hate that.

Going to definitely need a vacation.

or bye week after that.

No doubt.

Because that's a long trip.

But I've heard nothing but great things about Australia.

Especially that Melbourne cricket

crouch.

Huge.

And obviously, they play in the AFL.

A man who has

electrified crowds all around the globe.

Ladies and gentlemen, Seth freaking Rollins.

Wow, baby Seth.

What up, guys?

What up?

Seth, I'm so thankful we're able to chit-chat with you.

I saw you burying Hulk Hogan earlier on Google Day.

Oh, no, no.

I just said people get what they deserve.

I didn't bury nobody.

All right.

I gave him an opening.

You gave him some openings the other day.

He didn't want to take them.

I don't know what to tell you.

How are you feeling, brother?

How is the energy of this radio road?

It's picking up.

It's picking up.

I got here early in the morning.

It was a little slow, but now it's picking up.

Feeling good.

Talking football, talking wrestling.

Dave, we got Elimination Chamber coming up in Toronto.

Obviously, all eyes are on that.

What is your mindset on right now as we're in the middle of the road to WrestleMania?

Well, I got to get into the chamber.

That's my mindset.

I got a qualifying match in a couple weeks, raw on Netflix, myself versus Finn Balor.

You know how it goes.

You were there this week.

You saw CM Punk qualify.

I did.

So CM Punk in the chamber.

We don't love that, though.

John's CNN in the chamber.

In the chamber.

We love that.

We love John.

Finally, John.

John didn't even qualify.

He just said he's in it.

I'm John Cena.

I'm doing it.

I'm like, all right, I get it.

Have you thought about doing that, maybe?

You know what?

I've tried that.

They don't let it float with me.

But I'm a guy that likes to earn my way in.

Oh, yeah.

I like a fight.

I like a good fight.

Blue-collar Iowa guy.

Yeah, exactly.

You understand it.

So, yeah, Midwest boy, I like a good fight.

Get me in there.

Let's go.

So I got a fight in a couple weeks.

We'll get in there, and then I'll worry about Punk and Cena worrying about getting to the main event of WrestleMania.

Okay, if you get into the Elimination Chamber and you win the Elimination Chamber, you get the other champion at WrestleMania that the Royal Rumble winner, who obviously Jey Uso, doesn't choose.

So the Elimination Chamber, massive ordeal.

That gets you into the main event of WrestleMania.

And let's pivot to football.

The team that you love, are they ever going to be in the main event of anything?

No.

Come on.

It's a new era.

Colts.

Colts, where are you at?

Yeah, exactly.

We're not talking about the Bears right now.

Get up, all right?

How do you feel about the future in Chicago is bright, a lot brighter than it is in Indianapolis.

Okay,

I understand that, okay?

We got Ben Johnson, we got Dennis Allen, we got Caleb Williams.

Things are looking up.

Let's go.

We got draft capital.

We got actual capital money ready to go for free agency.

It's going to be a good year.

I feel good about it.

Same ownership, though.

Does that worry you?

I mean, what?

They're not coaching the team.

Look, the McCaskies finally wrote the check.

They wrote the check, man.

They got the big fish.

They got Ben Johnson.

So, look, in Chicago, we live on potential.

That's what we've been doing.

Offseason's our favorite time of year.

All right, but this year is going to be different.

He can't even get out of his mouth.

Hey, that's a believer.

This year is going to be different.

I'm looking forward to it, man.

I think it's going to be a good year.

Schedule's tough next year, though.

Schedule is really tough next year.

So we'll see what happens.

But let's go.

Let's ride.

Da Bersh.

We appreciate it, hell out of you.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you guys.

WWE superstar.

That's me.

He's a visionary.

Yeah.

He's a revolutionary.

He is

Seth freaking

rolling.

Thank you, John.

Good to see you, man.

All right, back to the toxic table.

One Iowa man to another.

He's a Chicago Bears fan from Iowa.

You're a Green Bay Packers fan from Iowa.

Boys, I don't know if you've seen it on the internet.

Green Bay Packers splitting at the scenes.

Technosh Jacobs, running back for the Packers, obviously only over there one year, but had a hell of a year for the Packers, became their offense.

In an interview, he said, you know, we stay number one wide receiver.

That's all.

Dantavian Wicks goes, ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I don't think so.

What is that?

That's a wide receiver for the Packers saying, I already am the number one wide receiver?

Are Josh Jacobs and Dontavian Wicks going to get into a fist fight?

Does Matt LaFleur have any control what's going on?

As an owner of the Packers, what the hell's going on, Dyschan?

I certainly don't love it, to say the least.

You know, Josh Jacobs has been at Radio Row.

He's been down in New Orleans, kind of pounding the pavement, saying, hey, there are a couple key positions that we need to improve.

You know, he said, I talked to my guy, Max Crosby.

I'm trying to get him to Green Bay.

I talked to Miles Garrett.

I said, hey, this place is awesome.

You would love playing here.

Now, Dontavian Wicks, listen, he's a good ball player.

He's a good ball player.

Okay.

He dropped about 15 to 20 passes last year, though.

He is not the Packers' number one receiver.

And I'd just like him to maybe understand that if they were to go get a T.

Higgins or something like that, Dontavian, you're going to benefit from that.

That's going to make your job a hell of a lot easier.

They need a number one receiver.

They do.

Jordan Love needs a guy who he can rely on.

Now, listen, they got a lot of young talent there, but this is the first time they've had money in a long time.

We don't need these Fishers showing up, you know, cracking at the seams.

We need to go out and get a couple guys, okay, so that we don't have to worry about the big bad lions anymore.

Maybe Josh Jacobs should stop tearing down his team.

Wrong, what the hell?

Josh Jacobs was the whole offense this year.

As far as I'm concerned, as an owner of the Packers, Josh Jacobs can do whatever the hell he wants.

He can do whatever the hell he's right.

Are you going to go talk to John Davian Wicks, or is anybody going to chat with him, or how's that going to go?

I think we're going to let him kind of just sit with this and then in a couple days, hopefully he realizes like, man, you know, and listen, he's got the sideways emojis with the crying face, so maybe he's just joshing.

Maybe he's just kidding around, but we do need a number one receiver, pal, okay?

So let's turn that thumbs down upside down and give a thumbs up, okay?

That's right.

Thumbs up, Mentality.

Exactly.

Thumbs up, Mentality, and Greenbelt.

We need more thumbs up, not as many thumbs down.

And like I said, he had a great year two years ago,

not so much last year.

If you get a guy like T.

Higgins and he can maybe, you know, move over and be the third option, he's going to have a hell of a year.

But

Dontavian Wicks is not the number one guy.

He's got a.

All right, well, I'm happy to hear that's from Ty.

You're not worried about the Packers, though, with a little bit of discontent here?

No, no, not at all.

Not at all.

I mean, this is, you know, if you're a Bears fan, if you're, you know, whatever, like you make a big deal about what's going on in the offseason, worried about, you know, September, okay, when the real games start.

We're not worried about this bullshit.

All right, well, let's not talk about the bullshit.

Let's talk about the awards, which some people say are bullshit if you don't win them, but if you win them, they're obviously the most most important thing tonight nfl honors let's go to one half of the hammer dot cowboys ap tone offensive rookie of the year has already been named it's jaden daniels he will be joining us here in a few moments uh what else should we be looking for tonight at the nfl honors tone well this is the nfl honors tonight 9 p.m eastern hosted by snoop dog the one and only snoop dw g uh this is the single most important prestigious well-respected honor show in the entire world.

You're saying award show, I think, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you said honor show, but.

Honor, award show.

This one means more than any other award show on the Army.

The Grammys.

Grammys and the Grammys?

Nobel Peace Prize?

They got Benson Boone doing flips off of pianos.

That was sick.

Well, maybe.

That's sick.

Maybe.

We don't know.

And I respect every winner who walks up to that microphone tonight, just like the Grammys do and the Oscars.

They thank the Academy first and foremost.

I hope they thank the AP voters first and foremost, because that's what made it possible for these guys.

Thank you, Tone.

Thank you, Tony.

Thank you, Tone.

Thank you, Tone.

One of Is Josh Allen gonna be left out of all the awards?

Is he not gonna win the MVP?

Is Lamar going to get another one?

Offensive player of the year, who's that gonna be?

Is it gonna be a quarterback or is it gonna be a running back?

Is Saquon gonna be left out?

Defensive player of the year, nobody knows who it's gonna be.

It's an anticipated award show tonight.

I believe they also host or announce the Hall of Fame tonight as well.

Okay, speaking of the Hall of Fame, let's go to a nine-year NFL vet, Big Old Brain, host of everything DB, Good D, Bad D, Darius J.

Butler.

We're looking at the names.

Yes, sir.

First ballot Hall of Fame, obviously not easy, but there's guys on the list.

D.

Buzz.

Yeah, obviously, the first ballot, that's the creme, creme de la creme, you know, the absolute best.

Actually, you saw a few Hall of Famers walk by as we were opening up, but that's the best of the best that the league has to offer.

They go into eternity.

And then we have some guys, a lot of guys who have an opportunity to go in that aren't first ballot Hall of Fame.

We got a list right here.

These are the first ballot Hall of Famers since 2010.

Obviously, those none of those names need any introduction.

And then the guys that are eligible this year, a couple of my former teammates, Luke Keekly, Adam Vinatieri, AQ No About Marshall Yonder, who's an absolute dog, absolute beast on the field, Sizzle Terrell Suggs, and Eli Manning, you know, part of the first family of the NFL, obviously two-time Super Bowl champ.

Sorry, Connor.

So some great names.

Come on.

And, you know, talked about the honor show tonight.

I think this is the best part of it because, like I said, this is the best that our league have to offer.

So I'm excited about these guys finding out if they get in or not.

Yeah, shout out and thank you to all the Hall of Famers for everything they've done for our sport.

obviously.

And there was a log jam there for a while with a lot of different positions.

When if you're a first ballot, there's levels to this shit.

You know, it's a little bit different.

You go through who's made it on the first ballot.

That's the

ready is the team.

So, like, is Adam Vinatari going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer?

Should be.

Better.

If there's any name that would be able to do it as a kicker or as a specialist, Adam Vinatari's name is synonymous.

I think if you were to ask all these dudes that are first ballot Hall of Famers, like, hey, I know kicking is a position that maybe isn't always recognized alongside everybody else because of the lack of physical toughness that takes place, the lack of everything.

But Adam Vinatieri, a little bit different, I think they would all go, yeah, Vinoteri could be our kicker for a first ballot Hall of Fame.

But there's a lot of people, I think, that have votes that don't necessarily feel as if a kicker could ever be a first ballot Hall of Famer.

So does that happen?

And how pissed will we be tomorrow about that?

Probably pretty big if it ends up not happening.

Eli Manning, we assume he's going to go in multiple Super Bowls, obviously from the Manning family, played in New York.

Will he be a first ballot?

You assume.

Luke Keekly.

Now, that's a guy who changed the game.

We went through his first, he played eight years.

Eight years, yeah.

It was like first team all-pro.

He came in one defensive rookie of the year, then first team all-pro, I believe defensive player of the year, his second year, then third and defensive player of the year a couple years later, but all first team or second team all-pros, pretty much every year he played after his rookie year.

Once again, small sample size.

The guy you can compare him to is like Patrick Willis, who had to wait.

But Luke Keekly, he was, you know, one of the best of the best for sure.

Patrick Willis, five nominees before getting in.

First ballot is a little bit different.

I think we need to understand that.

Remember that whenever we're looking at these names.

At the bottom of that first potential first team Hall of Famer or first Ballot Hall of Famer, Marshall Yonda.

Let's go to In the Trenches host AQ Shipley.

AQ, you were teammates with him

and also offensive lineman getting in his first Ballot Hall of Famer.

Massive ordeal.

Marshall Yonda is the guy, right, isn't he?

He's probably the best interior lineman of this era, of this decade.

He was unbelievable.

He was a great help to me.

And one of the favorite things that I loved about him was that was the one year that I played offensive guard.

So when I moved there, it was a transition for me.

And he was the king of telling Geno Gradkowski, just if AQ needs it, go to his side.

I got it.

I got it.

It really helped you.

Really helped you.

I mean, that was the year where they started to bring defensive ends over the D-Tag, or over the offensive guards.

And so I had Julius Peppers.

I had James Harrison, Chandler Jones.

I mean, it was every DN lining up over me.

And I got 29-inch arms.

I'm like, Geno, come to my side.

Come on my side.

Marshall's like, I got it.

I got it.

Hey, but everybody thinks that Marshall is like the greatest offensive line, right?

Isn't that like kind of the conversation about Marshall Yonda?

So I feel like Marshall Yonda is probably a layup from the football people because it's the football people that don't want to kick her in there.

So then you're definitely putting Marshall Yonda in then, right?

Isn't that kind of the conversation you have to have?

It should be an absolute no-brainer.

And if he doesn't, it's a travesty.

Okay.

Well, Vinny, too.

Avinatari is not even a question.

Yeah, that's.

That's Adam Vinitari.

Yeah.

And like, you're talking about like Super Bowls and accolades and things like that.

Like, the guy won Super Bowls.

It's not like he was hitting, you know, close kicks in nothing against Bucker, but the Bucker kick against the Eagles, right?

I mean, that was a 30-yard field goal.

Yeah, like like 47.

47.

And back when 50 was the 60-yard field goal, when 50 was absurd to think about, and he hits a 47-yard field goal as massive underdogs against the Rams.

And when the Patriots were not supposed to even be in the conversation, the snow game in that same playoff run.

Like, he has the moments I feel like we talk about with Hall of Famers, like, what kind of moments do they have?

All-time leading scorer.

Yeah.

In a sport that revolves around points and who wins and losses, he has the most amount.

Every big moment he was given, he showed up for, let alone the game winner in the Super Bowl, the snow kick.

And then as soon as he goes to Indianapolis, somehow Peyton's able to get over to Hump and wins the Super Bowl that year.

So it's like the guy only wins.

He almost had a perfect year, and he played for 24 years.

So it's like, I don't.

Who else is kind of responsible to get, because we know the players, obviously they got to do their job, and then the AP votes, you know, that always matters.

The Pro Bowls, the AP votes.

So like, who else?

plays a big role in

these guys in.

It's like a local reporter that's chosen to represent the teams for the coats it's chappell yep been there forever mike chappell's been around for a very long time took a long time for free to get in long time so i actually started saying like we can't get free and who's the person talking like well chap's the one talking i'm like well is chap in there like selling or because i assume there's people selling in there for their people yeah i assume vinetari's getting in i mean anybody with a brain will assume adam vinoteri's gonna get the first battle of famer but if he doesn't it i mean there's a chance i'm gonna get pretty loud okay

i'm gonna get pretty loud about it but it's not just him reggie's up for it i mean it's multiple times for Reggie.

It's like

there's a lot of teams and a lot of people that have been on the like kind of outside looking in.

I'm not saying Vinny are,

if they are, there's going to be a conversation for Ed, but I don't know the whole process of getting him, but I think that local reporter that represents his age.

Massive ordeal.

Yeah.

So chat, yeah, let's.

Dude, get Vinny in.

You just got to get these guys.

I mean, we just, like a couple of these guys, like Yonda and Vinny, it was just unanimous right here, everyone.

And granted, like you guys played, we didn't.

But, you know, like, watch Vinny for his entire career.

25 years, 24 years, whatever the hell it is.

Exactly.

Like, Yonda, if he's not a first ballot hall famer, I'm going to flip over a craps table at Caesars tonight.

Don't do it.

We might need a little.

Should have flipped it over last night when everybody was getting absolutely stunned.

Seven card.

21 in our face by Kayla last night.

Just acting like it was normal, too.

Just right in our face.

Oh, sorry about it.

Yep, all your money, everybody.

Coming this way.

We donated in New Orleans last night in a big way.

Speaking of donating, Ohio State is given an $87.5 million contract to Ryan Day.

Congratulations.

Ryan Day.

Signed a seven-year extension, averaging $12.5 million per quick math, $87.5 million to he.

They also named offense coordinator Brian Hartline, who we had been chit-chatting about as a wide receiver coach.

Great recruiter.

Now he will officially be the offense coordinator after Chip Kelly.

Lady, he's with us.

He looks like a murder, but he's with us.

Bill almost just got kicked out out of here.

Brian Hartline was up to some other jobs.

Chip Kelly goes to Las Vegas.

Now he is Brian Hartline's offensive coordinator.

A.J.

Hawk, who is a college football national champion with EOHA State, the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers.

How do you feel about Ryan Day running the first base?

How do you feel about him getting the seven-year extension?

And how do you feel about Brian Hartline now being the offensive coordinator?

Well, first off, I'm happy for Ryan Day to sign this giant extension.

It seems like a no-brainer.

The run that they went on in the college football playoffs is something we'll look back on for years and years years in the state of Ohio.

But Brian Hartline, I want to see if he's going to call the plays.

He's been co-offensive coordinator before.

He's never called the plays for Ohio State.

Is he going to be the number one play caller or is Ryan Day going to take some of that?

I don't know if they've worked through that yet, but I'm excited.

Both these guys have a little NFL experiences too.

Obviously, Brian Hartline is a player, Coach Ryan Day as a coach under Chip Kelly.

But yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

So riddle me this.

Couldn't find an extra million for Jim Knowles, but we can find 12 and a half for Ryan Day.

I mean, maybe you don't want to see, I don't know what's Brian Hartline getting.

Like,

what is precedent for paying coordinators?

Maybe they don't want to cross that $3 million threshold for coordinators.

I'm not sure.

But congratulations to Ryan Day.

To say he's earned this would be an understatement.

We say give him a lifetime contract.

No doubt.

I don't know if that has that worked anywhere.

Seven years is a long time.

It might as well be two lifespans.

I mean, look, James, he's under contract through 2031 now.

James Franklin at AQ's Penn State is also under contract through 2031.

Let's see who wins another title first.

Ooh.

Oh,

it's going to be Godwin.

2031, it'll be here before you know, but that's a lot of fun.

I'm not even thinking about Michigan at all.

I know.

Michigan's always there.

TTU.

Where are they at?

They're in the Big Ten.

They're the team up north.

TTUN.

And you guys can't beat them.

I'm a 41.

Yeah.

I know.

I should be 4-0.

You're right.

Oh.

Okay.

We're not talking about you, Easy, David.

Everything's about you.

You said me.

So, yeah.

Joe Burrow just walked by.

He looks so cool.

What up, Joe?

Happy you got your shit back, dog.

Hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

Some sweet chains.

$300,000 worth of stuff found.

That's a good day.

I saw a skybob chain there.

It looked really cool.

I don't care who you are.

You get $300,000 worth of shit back.

That's a good day.

That's a great day.

That's a great day.

That's a good day.

All right, joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who we love.

Absolutely love him.

He became a wide receiver for the Rams with cool hair and a tough running ability.

Then he became an international sensation because his vibes are immaculate and his ability is through the roof.

Runs hard, catches insanity, has become a superstar in Los Angeles.

Ladies and gentlemen, our friend, Oose Puka Nakua.

Yeah,

Puka.

Thank you for coming.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thank you for coming.

He's big.

He's bigger.

He's huge.

Yeah, he's bigger.

He's big.

He's so big.

This guy can dunk a basketball.

Forget about that.

Forget about that.

And I'm like, I can just hear somebody like, Puka, shoot the ball, Puka, shoot the ball.

I'm like, I swear that's gotta be Pat.

Like, I gotta put on for Big Oose.

Like, it was on serious at the celebrity game?

Yeah, yeah, we were pumped.

I mean, that weekend kind of sucked for the NBA, but no, no, watching you do your thing was cool.

No, I appreciate it.

You're a real hooper.

I've tried.

You told me I had to go out there and ball.

I missed all my shots last time I came here, so I was like, I really got to prove myself.

You have another opportunity.

I want to say Trey Hendrickson

made it.

Fred Warner,

fellow Mormon.

Coog.

Okay, that's the easier way to say it.

Fellow Coog.

It was a bad day for Fred.

He missed five straight.

I mean, it was not good.

Oh, bear.

It was not good.

It was like.

Hey, wait, a Mormon's athletic.

That was the question I was being called into play.

He didn't stop shooting, though.

No, he didn't.

True, Federal.

Yeah, but he missed them all.

That's Cougar mentality.

100%.

How are you feeling?

Long season, obviously, didn't go the way you went.

We just heard, and I don't want to bring up drama immediately, but Kelly Stafford said on her show, like, hey, we're one play away from the NFC championship in beating the Eagles.

And if we do that, we think we win.

So the way she was speaking seems like that's probably how Matthew felt.

I assume that's how you guys felt as well.

Nobody expected your team to be as good as they were.

Trade deadline day, we're getting rid of everybody.

Then you guys get hot, make a run all the way to damn near the last weekend you could possibly make it to, and then it ends abruptly.

How do you view the season?

And how's everybody in LA thinking about it?

Yeah, I guess, yeah, it felt like we really were one play away, man.

I think of the opportunities that,

yeah, I didn't come up with the last play being thrown to me and not being able to make it.

Nah, nah, you made that catch.

We got the highlight.

We got the highlight.

It was an exciting season.

We were right there and feeling like, man, we had the opportunity to be playing at the next game and have a home game.

But

it's exciting to kind of know that we're right there and then being able to be like, man, we got a good young core that we're still ready to, everybody's healthy, young, ready to make a push.

We got to keep our guy Matthew there and healthy.

We need him.

We need number nine 100%.

But

yeah,

it leaves kind of a sore taste in your mouth, but it's exciting because then I'm like, we're coming for it all.

Yeah, I think the Rams team being able to build multiple different times, obviously shout out to Lesneed.

Shout out to McVay, shout out to all you guys for doing what you're doing.

That young defense is awesome.

I assume D-Butter AJ is going to ask about that.

Cooper Cup, though, hits the internet and says,

yeah, the Rams just told me they didn't want me out of here.

You and Cooper are very tight.

I think you and Cooper obviously are a great dynamic duo on the field together and McVay and Stafford have taken advantage of it.

What is your first reaction whenever you hear that news?

Have you talked to Cooper and is this like the introduction like this is a business?

Like that is how the NFL is and always will be?

Yeah,

I have talked to Coop and it definitely is

kind of a weird ongoing situation, I guess, that's happening for us right now.

But I feel like Coop has taught me so much.

I've been able to watch him for the last two years and interact with him almost every day of the past two years since I walked into the Rams facility, play basketball against him,

watch him take the notes in the meeting room, how detailed his notes are, what his locker looks like, how he dresses for practice, how he does his pre-practice prep, what he's lifting, doing all the weights.

I feel like it's been an honor to be able to

watch him

be a professional and show me what it's like to do it at a high level.

And I feel like I'm ready to kind of take on that role and be whatever the Rams organization needs me to be.

But I think it's exciting because I know he's gonna go out there and continue to play football I see him every day so it's not like somebody the team that gets Cooper Cup is gonna get the Cooper Cup that you you saw win the triple crown a dog an absolute dog now with that being said you know at the wide receiver position not you and obviously not cooper But he could have handled that like a little bitch whenever you came in, he got hurt, and you just want bananas, and you want absolutely ape shit.

He could have been, but instead he embraced you completely, you're saying, and wanted you to have success.

100%.

That doesn't happen all the time.

That doesn't happen all the time.

Which I think means Cooper's going to be a great locker room guy wherever he goes as well.

100%.

And the leader that he's been, the captain that he's been, the way he interacts with everybody at the facility, it's been super cool to watch.

And

he's modeled the way.

Cooper's coming to Indianapolis.

I don't know about that.

I don't know about that.

I don't know about that.

We're playing that.

Wheelers are the favorite.

You guys bowl out here?

You guys be doing any bowling?

What?

We will.

I love bowling.

What's your average?

I do.

In high school, in college, I was bowling a little bit more consistent.

I was around a 240.

What?

I don't leave.

I don't break.

You got your own ball.

I got my own ball.

My average.

I'd be bowling.

I'd be out there.

No, you don't beat it.

I just bowled like lane 16, lane 16.

I'd be out there.

You don't beat bowling.

I be hooking it, bro.

You're bowling it straight.

I'd be hooking it.

I got the hatless, bro.

I got the hatless.

You got the thing.

No, I don't got it like that.

I don't got it like that.

You got your own shoes.

You got your own ball.

I don't.

I got my own ball.

I got a Los Angeles Rams ball.

I got it shipped here today.

It's fine.

How heavy?

How heavy?

15 pounds.

15 pounds.

Okay, we got thumb thumb in or out.

You got thumb in or out.

Thumb in.

Thumb in.

And then you're checking watch.

I said, I'm hooking it.

You'd be throwing it straight.

I know.

I'd be hooking it.

We're throwing it straight.

It's absurd.

You are throwing it straight.

I know you're.

I don't know what that was, but that wasn't it, right?

I'm two triangles over, brother.

I'm two triangles over, brother.

I hit the pocket.

You don't even know what you're what's the thing called you're supposed to hit?

Pins.

Well, come on.

What are we doing?

What are are we doing here?

This guy doesn't know.

So you suck at bowling, but you're supposed to promote it at Pepsi.

No, I'm

sucking.

Go bowling at Pepsi.

We got an event going on, and they got.

If you go to their website, they get a free game of bowling anywhere, but you can come.

We're doing an event this weekend.

You're going to get paired up.

The moon?

Well, out here.

No, I mean, if you can go to the moon, Elon's probably taking us to the moon sometime soon.

We've been 1969.

We've never been.

You're new.

1969.

We already arrived.

Hold on, put that graphic back up so we can read about this.

Super Bowl bowling classic, benefiting the NFL Foundation.

Look at you.

Helping out the NFL.

We're going to go bowling.

You're going to get a chance to bowl with me.

You're going to see me hook it.

I'm going to pop.

I mean, into the gutter.

If I get a nice shot.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

If I might get a nice.

Are you bowling in front of people with this?

Yes.

If you go over 150, we will donate.

Okay.

Are you being a furlough?

Yes.

150.

That might be too low.

Yeah, 200.

She won't.

No, 150.

No, you said 200.

175.

175.

175.

175.

175.

Higher.

Higher.

170.

200, 200, 200.

He said 240, 200, 240.

Are you going to let them bully you and try to answer?

Are you going to let them bully you?

I'm trying to figure it out.

How full of shit you are.

That's what I'm trying to do.

200.

His average ain't 240.

His average ain't 240.

He said, I'm hooking it.

This guy ain't got to get over 200.

200.

200.

Watch me turkey right out the gate.

It's over.

It's over.

Can I see?

Can I see?

Can I see?

If you don't have a rehearsed routine,

I know you're full of shit.

Where's the center triangle?

Right here.

This one right here.

Okay, all right.

All right.

What kind of bowling shoes, too?

Picking a field bowl?

Yeah.

I don't.

No.

Yeah, let's go stay up here.

Let's go stay up here.

This guy's staying.

He's insupportable.

This guy stays.

He's terrible.

All right.

If you get over 175.

Like work, baby.

Like work, baby.

Hey, somebody bookmark this on my Twitter, please.

Let's go.

Please, we'll do it.

Oh, my goodness.

There's no way that's what you're doing.

Oh, my goodness.

I think Pound Ball is going to break your arm.

I don't know.

Hey, you didn't.

If you see him just, that's

disrespectful.

Has he got a 300?

Do you have any perfect games?

No.

280 is my highest score.

That's a lie.

It's hard.

I just can't get over that.

I can't get over that.

It's a bold face looking.

You got a straight face?

I haven't had a 300.

We know.

We know.

Yeah, we saw.

Hey,

I don't know what's going on with Pepsi and Go Bowling, but I'm live streaming this event so you guys can see it.

These kids are going to have a blast.

It's going to be like Kaiser Dodd out there, all right?

We'll watch for sure.

You're donating.

We're building a school subwear.

That's all we need to think about.

My act of mud.

You need to learn how to bowl before this event.

AJ has a question for me.

Aside from Boeing this offseason, you hear like these basketball players say they go in the offseason.

That wasn't a strike.

I know that.

I think he's missing it.

There's no way that guy's a professional asking.

No way.

People are watching that and say, what does that guy do for a living?

Sales.

Not balls.

Not anything.

Might have been at work.

Yeah, he is.

You're working us.

Yeah.

That was bullshit.

Bro, Pete.

I am unbully.

He's just dicking around.

I was talking about my bully.

Yeah.

Yeah, we're talking about whatever that was.

There's no way that's what you're going to do.

You asked me to make up an imaginary line.

I'm supposed to know where I'm going off.

Footwork was done.

I should hook it, he says.

All right.

We're 75.

Stepback Jumper, you would have

legit.

Pete Weber would be disgusted.

I don't even know who Pete Weber is.

Exactly, boom.

Exactly.

Fool.

That fool.

This is what you look like, please.

Look at everyone's reaction to it.

Look at that.

Oh.

Look at that.

That was crazy.

That was great.

What do you mean?

No chance.

I just don't know if you ever bowled before, actually.

All right, 175, you'll figure it out.

Adrian has a question.

Yeah, I was going to say, like, that was unbelievably terrible.

Yeah, it's bad.

It didn't look great, but I mean, I trust you.

I think the live stream, I'll tune in and see you bowl with 280, hopefully.

When is that?

The bowling thing.

Today?

Yeah, what day?

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Okay.

We'll watch.

Yeah, we'll watch.

We can't wait.

I can't wait to see you guys see Pat McAfee's show tuned into Puka Nakua's live stream.

Now,

what platform?

Probably just go on Instagram Live.

All right, okay.

These new metaglasses, they could record, I could live stream right here.

I saw you when you walked in.

I feel like you should tell people you have those, but hey, your world.

I mean, it's 2025, I thought.

So everything's recorded?

I mean.

Most of it, right?

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, you asked all the time.

What time did you start this morning?

Life?

Yep.

I mean.

Life.

Like, what time did I start life this morning?

No, no, no.

Like, what time did you guys...

What time did you start this morning?

The show?

Yeah.

30 minutes ago.

Yeah, I love it.

We just started.

Oh, okay.

You're first.

Yeah, you're a first guest.

Oh, sweet.

What an honor.

Oh, yeah.

Thank you.

Dude, 10 rising.

God.

Thank you, man.

Yep.

You're recording me right now?

No, it's not recording.

Same thing.

How do we know?

How do we know?

We don't know.

Don't know how to bowl probably.

Don't know how to record.

Huh?

Start recording.

You're talking to your glasses?

Is there any reason?

It is.

Oh, it lights.

So now I've recorded here.

What off?

Yeah.

Are those things prescription?

No, they're not.

No, they're just a creep.

They're just recording.

Just to record on people.

That was unbelievable.

So you just say meta start recording and that thing starts recording?

Yeah.

So you can't wear those to bowl because it might show them where to bowl bowl the ball.

Yeah.

Oh, does it?

Oh, just for the record.

I'm going to show you the line.

Read the oil patterns for you.

I mean, maybe.

With that, I don't think it's going to matter.

Anyways, AJ's got a question for you.

Yeah, as far as your off-season training, is there anything as a receiver?

You know, you're a veteran in the league now, it feels like.

Is there anything as a receiver?

Like, do you have one or two things that you work on that you want to get better?

I was thinking, like, basketball players, like, oh, I want to get better at my mid-range game.

They go off in the summer, they get better.

Is there anything like that that you can specifically nail down on that you work on?

Ooh, one, I just want to say, like, speed.

I think the name of the game is just, yeah, being able to be.

You run full speed routes.

Have you heard Devontae Adams?

He talks about like young kids tell him, hey, run full speed routes in the offseason.

Don't be doing all these little agility ladders and all the things that look cool.

He said, you need to run full-speed routes like you'll run in a game.

Yeah, I agree 100%.

I mean, kind of the off-season that we have with Cooper Cup last year is, man, we do our own, like our conditioning involves lateral, change of direction stuff.

But then when we get out there, like our receiver work is with Matthew.

We're running full speed routes.

We do the check downs.

We do all that stuff.

But it's out there.

We run the route tree and we run things.

He does the play action drops and we're running full speed routes most of the time.

Okay, how do you feel going into another year?

What did you get better at this year, you think?

I for sure think catching the ball more consistently and then my release game,

I felt a lot better just being more explosive off the line of scrimmage.

Were you running it more this year?

I think so.

We definitely had a little bit more design runs.

You're fast.

You're too big to be as fast as you are.

Tough to tackle.

Yeah, and you run like an angry person.

You know, Kyle Brandt has those angry runs.

You run very, very hard.

I try.

People like Fred Warner are trying to tackle me.

I got to run that dude over sometimes.

Go Koogs.

Does he lie about his bowling?

I don't know.

Darius has a question.

Are you going to break it?

I cannot wait to go.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

You got to get two hung, cuz.

That's easy.

That's easy, bro.

Was that your real stroke?

No.

No,

it's not.

I mean, hooking it, dude.

That ain't how bowlers speak.

No.

Is Pat a bowler?

No, but

i've been around the alleys studied rick cadmore yeah one of the goats

we're just throwing random names out and saying that those are not

these are not random names

these are bowling legends rick cadmore is from the bloodline of the cadmores brother yeah i mean is joe montana a random name to you no i know that guy yeah and that's who he is in the bowling world

just we'll see about that we will you don't think i was moving sigs at the bowling alley whenever i was a kid you're out of your mind that's where everybody was smoking i understand i can't bowl well shout out to Holiday Park Lanes.

Shout out to Holiday Park Lanes.

You've never been there.

You would have never made it there, bro.

Pookie, you would have never made it to Holiday Park Lanes.

Anyways, let's talk about your team and your young core.

Good.

Yeah, you're going to be a part of the Breakfast Club crew now.

I feel like, man, you're going to be in the OG and the wide receiver room now.

And just watching you on tape last year, like, I couldn't imagine the type of preparation you have to do now.

You almost have to be a quarterback because you play every position.

You motion a lot.

You do a lot of shit.

You release sometimes through the line of scrimmage.

What's the preparation like going into a week?

And do you see it changing or evolving a little bit more going forward?

Shoot, I definitely think it can evolve.

Coach McVay, he's always finding new ways.

Yeah, like you said, incident through the C gap, finding different ways to be a part of the run game and the pass game and make it look the same.

But I think it'll be exciting because, yeah, like I said, I've been able to follow Matthew and Coop and be in those meetings and kind of just...

just being a fly on the wall,

communicating when I'm being asked to, but just being able to watch those two talk and figure it out and figure out what's our best way to communicate to get these things done, but then also to dial up plays for us to get open.

So

I think it'll be very similar to what it's been like this year.

And then Coach McVay, by the time week one rolls around, we'll find a new gimmick for us to get in there.

But I'll be excited and ready to roll for that.

Does he always have the juice, Sean?

All the time.

Always juice.

Every.

He watches some meetings with his Christian Dior ones on, and then he gets to like, hi, here we got.

Dial up plays, dot, dot.

Hair is always perfect.

Oh, yeah.

Every time.

Hair's always perfect.

And he's kind of jocked.

The upper body's...

Jocked.

He runs routes with you guys, too, right?

He gets in there.

He's still got a little

quick twitch.

He was a dog.

Is he putting cleats on?

He has cleats on when he's doing that?

No.

He should go full pads.

Don't you think he should really full pad it?

Line it up.

I don't doubt he would.

Really?

Yeah.

Have we ever met Sean?

I don't think we ever have.

Holy shit.

Look at that head.

Look at that head.

Yes.

Cam Hayward just walked in.

Oh, God.

Cam, we love you, dude.

Love you too, brother.

Hey, we heard some great stories about you last night.

Jarrett Payton.

Hey, real talk.

Heard you're an incredible human being.

Obviously, you're a great guy.

What's up, Buckeye?

What's up, buddy?

Hey, Cam.

How you doing, bud?

I'm good.

How are you?

Good, great.

How's life?

Great.

How's yours?

Not bad.

Tone is trying to get everybody fired at your building.

That's not true, Cam.

I don't worry about that.

Why are you doing that, Tone?

He's a liar.

Tone fools.

That's not true.

He doesn't like to lie.

Tone likes to lie, too.

I know that as well.

I do.

Yeah, right to your face right now.

That's what he's doing.

I do.

How's Super Bowl Week?

It's all right.

What are you?

You Walter Pig Man of the the Year up for it this year or no?

No, I already won last year, bro.

Congratulations.

What a winner.

Yep.

From back to back.

I wasn't looking for that.

You didn't have to do all that.

Yeah, well, I walked you right into it, actually.

You're a super good human, obviously.

You represent Pittsburgh well.

How do we feel about

this season?

A lot of the interesting decisions had to be made.

Yeah, we'll see what happens.

Mr.

Hayward, can we ask you to give us your bowling?

Do you know how to bowl?

Yeah, do you bowl?

Hell no.

Okay.

Neither does he.

Here is he.

Yeah.

He's lying to us.

No, I just had to ask.

They said my bowling, but I just wanted to give us another example.

Tam, did you see this?

He averages 240.

He says he averages 240.

This is his stroke.

Oh, God.

Look at that shit.

The backswing is a little bit concerning.

Look at this.

That was the follow-through.

Yeah.

240.

He says he averaged through the bottom.

Top to bottom.

That's kind of bad.

Look at that.

Ah!

Yeah, strike.

I can't wait to see the cool animation they have after they see my full form like that,

the cool pin strike animations, and it's going to be on the TV.

Okay.

Turkey on the gate.

Without it.

Without it.

I'll be sipping my root beer, my muck root beer at the same time.

I like that guy.

Ladies and gentlemen, Cam Hayward, thank you.

Thank you too.

Thank you, Cam.

Thank you, Cam.

He won Wallace Pateman a year last year.

He did.

He's an all-pro.

Well deserved.

I can't wait for you to win that award and win everything else

because you are what's great with the NFL.

You need to know that.

You're just a young, you know, whipper snapper, if you will.

But everything you're about is good for the league.

Your energy is immaculate.

The way you play is hard.

Like you're a tough guy on the field, and you show up for your team.

We appreciate the hell out of you.

We're happy Pepsi's paying you to lie about bowling.

Oh my goodness.

Shout out to Pepsi.

I can't wait to have a nice cold Pepsi.

Yes.

While I'm watching you roll at 130.

That is going to be Pepsi.

At best.

I don't know.

By my fourth frame, I'll be at 130.

Fourth.

I don't even know if it's possible.

That math isn't mathless.

Turkey out the gate.

Turkey out the gate.

Turkey out the gate, bro.

I'm telling you.

I'm telling you, Turkey out the gate.

Have you always bowled?

No.

We had a bowling class in high school.

My basketball coach was the coach, and I pretty much skipped most of my days, and I was at the bowling alley.

But you should go to school.

Bowling alley pizza, top tier.

Fire.

The Miracle Bowl in Orum on State Street.

Where's that at?

Oram, Utah, where I went to high school.

Oh, okay.

Utah is known to have good bowlers.

Puka Nakua.

Wow.

All right.

Hey, Puka, before we get out of here.

Thanks for setting me up for that one.

No problem.

When you try to win 50 people, $500.

Yeah.

All you have to do is put this ball.

It's light.

It is slick.

Oh.

Hey, nice nails.

Thank you.

Wow.

Not a bruised nail, but...

We get manicures, we get them taken care of.

Yeah.

These are the money makers.

Moneymakers.

Let's take care of them.

All right, hey.

50 people, $500.

Ty actually has a motivational speech for you here.

I do.

Hey, listen, we know you're a horseship bowler.

We just saw that.

Please do not embarrass yourself like you did with your bowling stroke.

And let's put this into the bucket, okay?

From the fine people at Pepsi who have brought Puka Nakua here to Radio Row to talk about a bowling ability that he does not have, but he's making the world a better place with said bowling.

So we appreciate that.

Can you make 50 people winners of $500?

Puka!

Yes, coach.

Oh!

Oh, geez.

So confident.

Good confidence.

Oh, rebound that.

Swing the rock.

Okay, that's a nice stroke.

Oh, geez.

Slow down, Puka.

Listen, coming right back.

Bonus ball.

Bonus ball.

Bonus ball.

Bonus ball.

Bonus ball.

Bonus ball.

50 people.

$500.

Puka.

Dude.

Hit the rim.

Puka today.

You got to adjust, Puka.

Maybe go underhand.

Oh, that feels like you're bowling.

Sorry, I've been lifting freaking.

Hold on.

Weights.

That's good.

It's good defense.

Great close-up.

She didn't want anybody to win that.

You're right.

Trey Hendrickson won yesterday.

He did.

Trey Hendrickson.

Bank.

Boy, we're living in the past.

Yeah, banks open.

We're living in the past.

You let Luca down right now.

You are with your bowling.

Listen, today redemption is spelled P-U-K-A.

Are you a L-U-K-A fan?

Luca?

Yeah.

Who's your team?

Between, tween.

What?

Step back, Luca, Donchic.

Why don't you do one of those, bro?

Oh, 50 people, 500.

Come on.

Come on.

If Puka can Luca.

Oh!

Thank goodness.

All right, guys.

Good time.

Luca.

All you got to do is repost this video, say something nice to somebody, and you could potentially win if you put the easiest way to pay you in that reply as well.

Shout out to Puka, shout out to Pepsi.

Good luck bowling.

175.

Thank you so much.

I can't wait.

All of you, the down, the haters, counting on you guys.

No, chip.

We're just using our eyes.

The haters, which there are many

who seemingly saw you do whatever that was out there.

Don't think you'll be a good bowler, but you have a chance to change everybody's mind.

Ladies and gentlemen, legend from the Rams.

Puka de Boa.

Yeah, Puka.

You're lying about bowling.

No, I'm

I got faith in you.

No chance.

Yeah, I think he'll do it.

I'm bending over.

No way.

I'm bending over.

Tell Cooper to come to New England.

ESPN bet.

I'm bending over.

Dude,

you should watch that back and never do it again.

Yeah, that was bad.

Look up.

Watch him Rick Ketmore highlights.

I mean,

that was embarrassing.

That was awful.

That can't be happening.

No way.

That can't be happening.

He should have said, hey, look, I don't want my bowling shoes, but he doesn't even have bowling shoes because he's not a good ball.

But he definitely doesn't have his own ball either.

Said he's got a 15-pounder Rams one.

Yeah, but which means it's brand new.

Yeah, a guy that averages 240 is not going to use a ball that just got shipped to him like a novelty

bowling ball.

He's going to have something that's already

ready for the oil patterns.

He probably has four or five bowling balls.

You think Bugo is lying to us?

Yeah.

240 is a crazy number.

Crazy.

175, you got to hit.

That's crazy.

That's a good number.

170, like to to get over 160 you got to strike instead of spare.

Yes.

Like you can't have any open.

You can't leave any open out there.

240 is like professional.

That's like

very good bowling.

I'm out the gate with the turkey.

Also, new ball coming in.

Guys not even using a Brunswick.

You kidding me?

It could be a Brunswick.

I doubt it.

Brunswick can't do a novelty bowling.

That's true.

That's true.

They don't mess around.

They're just not.

Okay, so as we move on, Jaden Danos will be joining us here.

They said he's running behind.

If he runs behind too much,

probably not going to have Jaden Danos on the show.

Yeah.

Which is a bummer.

Yeah.

That would be a bomber.

He's Pepsi Rookie of the Year.

Yeah.

Great player.

Is the Pepsi rookie of the year?

Is that the rookie of the year?

I'm not sure.

I'm not a rookie.

It could be.

I thought it was.

Because he was named.

Bruce is shaking his head.

No.

No.

It's fan-voted.

It's fan-voted.

So, that's not the NFL honors one?

No, it's not.

But I'm going to go out to lib and say, you're probably going to win right there.

Up here.

It says he is the rookie of the year.

Pepsi zero sugar rookie of the year.

That's the biggest one.

AQ, what is something that we've talked a lot about this game, haven't we?

Oh, yeah.

Talked so much about this game.

I mean,

not enough.

Okay, yeah, not enough talks about this game.

And when the game's over, we're going to be mad we don't have something to talk about.

That's going to be something we're going to be upset about.

But when it comes to this particular game, you had been splunking around the internet to find us a conversation piece that maybe hasn't been brought to the forefront.

AQ, what did you find?

I found out that Patrick Mahomes quarterback of the Chiefs

had double-digit deficit in all four Super Bowls.

And with that, he has won three of them.

That's crazy.

He has come back to win three of them.

There has only been seven double-digit comebacks in the history of the NFL.

Patrick Mahomes has three of them.

The problem is with this team, he's playing a Philadelphia Eagles team, that if they get a lead, what are they going to do?

Run.

They're going to run the shit out of the ball, and they're going to control the clock, and they're going to be in four-minute offense, and they are going to keep Patrick Mahomes off the field.

So I get nervous that if if they get down too quick, too early,

it could be over.

The Patrick Mahomes clutch gene is really on display here with him being down 10 and coming back.

He's doing that on purpose for the good of television, too, isn't he?

He has said that multiple times.

You know, he likes to be a good entertainer, likes to keep the fans engaged.

I mean, he's just unbelievable.

Everybody talks about once the game gets into the fourth quarter, if it is a close game, close game, we assume it will be with two great teams, two best teams in the league.

He just finds a way.

Obviously, Andy Reid finds a way.

They just find a way to get it done.

Hey, this guy knows.

Hey, we got a microphone over here.

No, he does know all too well about that.

Lads, how you doing?

Lads, how you doing?

Ladies and gentlemen.

Hey, fellas, how are we doing today?

What are you?

Hey, George.

Oh, hey there.

Pat didn't have me on the show today.

It was on him, not you guys.

Thanks, though.

I want to let you know what you're wearing on your chest goes directly against

pizza pizza.

Today.

No.

Pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza.

No, don't you be doing it.

Pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza.

No, pizza pizza,

no one.

And we mean no one.

Out pizza's little Caesars.

No!

Shut up!

Get this out of here!

And don't come back!

Hi, Cat.

Hi, Kat.

Hi, Mom.

Hi, Mom.

Good to see you.

Hi, family.

Good to see you.

Tell your son he's wrong.

That's why he took off, too.

He couldn't stop laughing because he knows that's horrible.

He's got another Iowa hawk out with him.

Do you see that?

Drake Kulick.

You remember him from Iowa?

This guy with the hair?

Yeah, the guy.

I'm not looking at it.

you.

Adrian is just throwing a basketball.

He was holding it earlier.

Shout out to George Kittle there.

I mean,

he did.

Yeah, what a fool.

First of all, everyone sees

for shoot Little Caesars blows.

If you've ever had it, it sucks.

So I don't know what the hell.

They must have paid him $10 million.

Because anyone who's ever had Little Caesars always says, hey, I just basically poofed a hole through my toilet.

Pizza Hut, as we all know, is Doug Goat.

It always will be Doug Goat.

And if you eat Lil Caesars, I assume you got a low IQ because you're kind of an idiot.

Look, that's just my assumption.

I'll tell you what, there's been times where maybe Pizza Hut was not around.

So I want Lil Caesars, and I appreciate them for their service at that time because pizza is still better than whatever other option is out there.

Only problem with Lil Caesars,

you got to eat that whole pizza in about 45 minutes because that thing will turn to cardboard about two hours later.

Pizza Hut,

you can eat that whenever.

Two days, three days later, you're going to pop that open and say, geez, did I order this 15 minutes ago?

I mean, that's the greatness of the hut.

Well, shout out to George Kittle, though.

Shout out to George Kittle.

I love George Kittle.

Love George.

Hate his shirt.

Hate everything he's about today, but love everything he's about every other day.

Bingo.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who was voted the Pepsi offensive rookie of the year for this NFL season.

Absolute legend from the Commanders, ladies and gentlemen, Jaden Daniels.

Jay Jay.

Oh, hey, Hughes,

That's awesome.

How are you doing?

And a sweet Pepsi jacket.

Yeah.

Jaden, thank you for making time, man.

Yeah.

Hey.

Congrats, man.

Appreciate that.

There's a lot more risk came from.

Hell yeah.

A lot more risk came from.

Okay, so it was an honor to watch you play football this year.

Appreciate that.

Just want to let you know that.

So we saw C.J.

Stroud, his rookie year, do what he did for the Texans, and everybody said, wow, this is never going to happen again.

And then you just get dropped in literally a year later and have a similar like year, similar like run.

You look so comfortable against those defenses.

Why do you think you did make the transition so easily?

Was it the offense you were running?

Do you think it was the amount of football you played in college?

What do you think it was that made it a seamless transition?

I think it's the amount of football played in college.

And I just think like the coaching staff with DQ and all them did, like, I just think they made that transition so easy and comfortable.

Yeah, but it's not like rookie quarterbacks panic.

That is like kind of the thing.

Rookie quarterbacks panic.

That's why defenses are trying to bring it.

There were stats against you that was like, yeah, a guy actually never panics.

Is that just, you think that's who you are as a person?

For sure.

Yeah, that's just who I am.

Like, I'm just cool, calm, like, whatever, like on a daily basis.

Do you know your football IQ?

College?

Do you think the NFL game is better suited for you than the college game?

Or do you think you just naturally were able to see what the fuck a defense is doing?

Like, why do you think that it, like, legitimately, do you think it came to you easy, or what are your thoughts?

I think just how I study, like, my preparation, like, obviously, like, my IQ, like, I pride myself on having a high IQ.

So, just going from there, it's like, all right, how can I take my game to another level?

Because I know the defense is going to, like, coordinator is going to try to mess with my eyes and stuff like that and get me to make mistakes.

Yeah, and they didn't.

So, congratulations.

They're getting paid millions of dollars to feast on you.

AJ has a question for you, Jade.

Yeah, you mentioned Dan Quinn, your head coach.

What about your coordinator, Cliff Kingsbury?

He seems to be a guy that's obviously always super fashionable.

We see him walking into the game.

He's super, you know, three buttons down, four buttons down, nice suit on.

What's he like on the headset?

What was it like working with him every single day?

Man,

if you know Cliff, like Cliff is the coolest guy ever.

Always.

Always.

In-game, too?

Always.

Fashionable.

In-game, he kind of gets like, he might get a little pissed off, might get a little wrapped up and stuff like that.

But other than that, man, Cliff is cool.

Like on a daily basis, you could go to Cliff and talk to him about anything.

So, brand new vibe in the building.

You don't know that because it's your first year over there.

But I'm assuming the fans have told you, like, hey, thank you so much for getting us out of the hellhole that we've been in for what, the last three decades, basically.

I got a couple of those.

A couple of those.

The fans are very appreciative, I assume.

Yeah, we were on the plane.

Me and my mom flying here, and then one of the fans told my mom, like, your son's, like, not knowing I was sitting right next to her because I was all covered up.

And it told my mom, like, your son saved my life.

I've heard your mom talk a few times she's awesome yeah she is she right there

hey my love what up

hey single for the rest of his life I don't know about that

I'm gonna come on your show and tell the real style okay

sounds good to me we watched that video we loved everything about it because she's looking out for you and it feels like your family everything over there is beloved so good for you dude Debun has a question for you uh AJ asked you about um cliff and I just want to ask you how much input did you have going into the game plan?

Because watching you, you talked about what defenses try to do to

rookie quarterbacks.

I felt like you guys are almost on attack mode, played more up temp on anybody, went forward on fourth down more than anybody.

How much input did you have going into the week-to-week game plan?

A lot.

I mean, there was times like me and Cliff, like, we'll practice something, and like, if I didn't like it, I go to Cliff's office.

I'm not going to do it in person, but I would go to his office and be like, hey, Cliff, I don't like that.

That got to go.

Like, cut that.

And we might have a little debate of like, oh, no, I think it'll work through this.

And then I'll be like, all right, I'll give you one more try.

And if I didn't like it or like, he didn't like it, it looked right.

He's like, he's cutting stuff out the playbook.

Love that.

That's a veteran mindset, though.

You know, like, did he tell you early, like, hey, I'm going to need you to act like a 28-year-old, 29-year-old, this is your team?

No, he just said.

It's not always easy for a rookie to come in and be a leader.

He told me, like, because I knew Cliff prior, like, because when I was at ASU, he was at Arizona.

So, like, we had, we crossed paths a couple times, but I just knew we had that relationship.

And as we built it, he was like, hey, like, you can come to me.

Like, if you don't like something, like, just let me know.

And I was like, all right, bet.

And there was some times, boys, like, we'll probably summarize.

I'm like, yeah, Cliff, I don't like it.

Like, this got to go.

Yeah, that's good, though.

You're going to continue to do that.

There's going to be players you don't like that are on offense with you.

You need to let that be known, too.

Brother, they go as you go, Jaden.

That's for real.

Tony has a question for you.

Dad, you played the Eagles three times this year, so you know better than anybody what makes that defense so good, even though I think you put 30 on them a couple times.

So

they got a whole bunch of superstars.

Yeah, a whole bunch of talented players.

I just think like their ski, like those guys are flying around the ball.

You can see they're making plays.

They're playing with confidence and swagger.

So it's going to be fun to see them show up on Sunday.

NFC East.

Yeah.

In the NFC Championship.

Wow.

NFC Beast.

Wow.

Connor has a question for you, Jaden.

Yeah, Jaden, can you talk about the VR that a lot of these young quarterbacks are using and some of the older ones?

He uses it for different reasons.

I use it for something you don't even want to know about.

That's true.

If you're going to be single, maybe we can talk about it.

We can talk about it off the record.

Can you talk about how that helps with preparation?

And did that kind of contribute, do you think, to the just electrifying season that you had?

For sure.

I just think just me being able to get more like reps mentally without having to put any physical stress on my body.

Like, I don't have to go out there, throw on some cleats, warm back up, try to throw some footballs.

It's like, no, I could just sit in the quarterback room, sit in the chair, and just literally just flick my wrist literally like this.

Damn.

Did you ever get who confused you this year?

Anybody?

Who confused me?

Yeah.

You remember any defense and just being like, oh, shit.

Well, the Steelers.

The Steelers tried to play man against us the whole game.

Fools.

I would say

Baltimore did a good job.

Yeah.

Yeah, Baltimore for sure.

Just brought it or what?

They were disguising.

They made you kill.

They'll do it.

Like, Kyle Hamilton, bro, like, it was time he lined up in the line of scrimmage and running 30 yards back at the snap of the bomb.

I was like, bro.

What's wrong with this guy?

It was crazy.

Yeah, there's only been more of that.

But I think the more you see, like, was there later in the season where somebody would show you something that you saw like week three or four and you're like, oh, I remember this season?

Yeah, for sure.

I think that's kind of what Philly, you know, as you play, you play teams more and more.

Like Philly, Tampa Bay, like teams I played a second time, I was kind of like, okay,

this is how they play me the first time.

I'm like, and I'm seeing it way clear.

And I'm just like, hey, I kind of know what y'all are doing.

I know what you guys are doing, but you guys are trying to show me something else.

But it's just low-keys I was picking up on.

You're going to be dangerous.

Last question here from Tash Schmidt.

Yeah, Pat mentioned how, you know, there's going to be guys on offense that, you know, you might not want there.

Well, for the first time in, you know, basically a lot of people's lifetimes, like the commanders are a destination where anytime like a new player, a Pro Bowler, free agent, or whether it's a trade, people are saying like, hey, they want to go play in Washington Washington because of what you guys have done.

Have you had any conversation about that, about guys you maybe want to bring in?

Or like, how does that feel knowing that, like, the Commanders are a destination to go play for a lot of really solid players now?

Yeah.

Nah, I haven't had no conversation about that because I was still trying to get over this loss.

You know, I wish I was playing in the game instead of doing this right now.

That's kind of where I haven't had no conversation yet.

But, I mean, it's just cool to see how people want to come play for us, you know draft they want to get drafted by us come come be a part of the washington commanders um i know the fans are excited about that too you're gonna have new stadium you're gonna have a new feel new team it all started right here with this i obviously you remember this this is when we thought maybe team of destiny you know this isn't supposed to happen here jaden you know and obviously as you huck this thing perfectly we watch you and you you like think i think you thought there was hope the entire time obviously you have to for sure but then when this works out you think to yourself yeah maybe the football gods are about to bless us here is there a a thought of that?

Bro, I didn't know what happened.

My reaction was so delayed.

It was kind of how Noah Brown is.

Noah Brown caught the ball, was looking, and then start getting all hyped up.

And I was just saying, what?

I didn't know what happened.

Everybody else started going crazy.

Everybody's running off the field.

I'm just like, what just happened?

Yeah, you did it.

And it was at that moment you guys would rattle off a bunch in Chicago go the complete opposite direction.

Yeah.

Yeah, you fired five guys with this play.

Way to go, Jaden.

Congratulations on being the Pepsi offensive rookie of the year.

We assume there'll be more hardware coming tonight throughout the rest of your career.

We'll be honored to watch.

You're the man.

Man, I appreciate y'all.

Thank you for your time.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Pepsi offensive rookie of the year.

Jaden Daniels.

We appreciate you, man.

Okay, we're going to go to a hard out to a breaker.

Yeah.

Hey, hell yeah.

Yeah,

boom.

You did it.

You did it, dude.

Hell yeah.

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Football is wonderful and we're celebrating it all week.

Obviously we've been blessed to chit-chat with so many fine folks.

Obviously there's been quite a Mormon run on this particular program.

We saw Kyle Van Noy in the back.

We'll chit-chat with him tomorrow.

In this hour, we have Dan Orlofsky.

We have Aiden Hutchinson.

We'll have Mike Greenberg in the next hour.

I believe Drew Brees will be stopping by

in 2 o'clock Eastern, 1 o'clock hour.

Really?

It was good to see him because the last time we were in the same vicinity, he saw me.

I didn't see him.

And I looked like an asshole.

Hey, Pat, he was saying, hey, Pat, low bass.

I needed the one for you, two for me, three for them, four for the whole bus.

Voice, he wasn't doing that.

Yeah.

And I had a bunch of things going on.

So it appears if I literally just said, hey, and just walked off.

Shut up.

So I had to tell him there immediately while I was going to the bathroom right beforehand, like, hey, Drew, like, I'm about to pee my pants, but I need to let you know,

I didn't see you.

I didn't hear you.

Is there any way you can join us?

He'll be joining us today.

That's huge.

Talks and tables here at Boston Conner and at Tysh Bay.

Conban sweet shirts.

Yeah, thank you very much.

I figured just because Taylor Swift is such a big kind of part of this week that I'd wear one shirt.

You know, I believe I have an Eagles one tomorrow as well, just kind of both sides of the table.

Yeah, very topical there, too, because Dog the Bounty Hunter is certainly a Super Bowl-type person.

Is that Dog?

See, it's supposed to be Taylor Swift, but Fnatic-sented.

I think

they got the phase drop.

I guess.

I mean, that's going to happen.

That's Fnatics Football.

One half of the hammer.

Cowboys AP Town is here.

Good luck on on your NFL honor show.

Thank you, man.

I appreciate it, David.

I hope you do.

I mean, all the Hayes in the bar, and I did my work.

You're damn right.

Nine-year NFL vet, Derek Shade, Bollywood.

Thank you very much.

It's been a fun Super Bowl thus far.

It's been great.

Casino, way too close to the hotel.

Way too close.

Oh, my God.

Way too close to the hotel.

We love it.

And it is way too close.

It is four feet away from our hotel.

Stone's throw.

At any given moment, when you're laying in your bed in a hotel, you can actually just open your window and there is a casino underneath of you.

That's a tough feeling.

Yes.

Yeah, especially whenever they're just beating our ass.

Got to get a get-back back at some point ladies and gentlemen super bowl champion all-time leading tackler for the packers aj hawk is here

aj super cool fit with those green boots on yeah well you know i i uh i find a pair of shoes or boots i like and i buy every color so yeah but this is super like fashionable

dark green olive green olive green that's right with the all black he looks super cool ready for whatever

hey we stomping on some casinos throats tonight or what i can't I feel like we're due.

I feel like this whole room is great.

Yeah, I don't know if they flipped a switch or whatever.

This used to be a winning time down there.

Well, the name of this casino changed, so it could be the case.

Tonight, we're going to win, though.

Speaking of winning, a man who's a Super Bowl champion AQ ship this week.

Spots are in my favor.

Yeah, they certainly are.

They're in all of our favors because we lost.

And he found a table that he loves because he wants MIT.

And

he watched the movie 21, so he can count cards.

Ben Campbell.

Yeah, see, he's great.

This guy's got it all figured out.

We need to get a Q-deck blackjack because then we know 3210s, he's eight aces.

And you just keep keep track of them going out there.

I mean you were unbelievable genius.

You won right?

I won.

No, you didn't.

When I was there, you lost.

No, you saw some wins.

Jamal was killing me.

Jamal was good.

Yeah, he was giving you it all you can handle.

Speaking of that, ladies and gentlemen,

what a pleasant surprise.

Yep.

Is it?

A demon is here.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is the mantelist.

Yeah.

Oh!

I'll see him through the mirror getting his final wiring right now in his ears.

He ambushed me.

He's not wiring.

He already told me.

What do you mean he ambushed?

He already set something up with me.

What do you mean mean set something up with me?

I got it on camera.

Shut up,

pick my favorite card.

He was going to do something.

He was looking at me.

He was kind of going through the entire deck with AJ looking, and AJ picked a card.

Ladies and gentlemen, a man who is potentially a time-traveling demon.

Yes.

Every time he does anything, you think to yourself, that's not a real thing.

That's not a real human.

He might not be.

Ladies and gentlemen, it owes dementia.

Artos.

Ardos.

Adderboy.

Particillos.

Sweet choose.

Sweet promise.

Hey, I don't have this microphones on.

We gotta make sure.

Yeah, I don't have the microphone.

What if they called me out?

Can I squeeze in between you gentlemen?

You can squeeze in between.

Can we discuss real talk for a moment?

Pat called me last night.

Called me last night.

That's right.

And called me out.

Said to me,

I've got you figured out.

I do.

I said to me, you know what?

You had a trick deck of cards on game day.

Bingo.

That's what he said to me.

And I said, Pat, bite your tongue.

Bite your tongue, trick deck of cards.

Here's why.

Because I don't do card tricks you know let's get AJ in the mix okay let's get should we get AJ yeah AJ come on AJ hold it

welcome AJ

loves being in the chat

all right I'm gonna switch

shiply shuffle because Pat

okay you ready I got you figured out you got I don't think you do yeah ready let's go guys maybe take me 37 seconds go with a quick number here's what I want you to do okay

A card trick is boring.

You pick a card, I find it, blah.

You know what's going to happen.

Who cares?

Here's my plan instead.

Here's my plan instead.

I give you a deck cards.

I want you to look through them.

Yeah.

Check, look through them.

Look through.

Look through them.

Make sure they're real.

All of a sudden, you're going to kidnap my family if I pick the wrong deck.

Yeah.

That's actually the ending of the trick.

I already have them.

Talk about it.

Crazy trick.

Here's what happens.

Instead

of me finding the card, we're all going to know a card.

It's not going to be a secret here.

Don't do it yet.

He's going to start dealing the cards face up on the table.

We can see every single one.

No, no, don't put anything away.

Are you trying to do it?

Why is he doing it?

Don't kill his parker.

Why is he still a bad guy?

Check his parking lot.

Don't worry about it, those are all.

Don't worry about it, those.

I don't have any left.

You don't?

You have a full deck right here.

Put enough quicker than that.

Take your super fashionable jacket off.

For real.

Nothing in here.

Mints.

Take the cards.

Take the cards.

It looks full.

They look full to me.

Yeah, it does.

I thought you count that quick.

He knows exactly what he's going to do.

He's going to start dealing one at a time, face up.

No, face up.

Face up.

No, no, this way.

Turn him over.

I want you to see each card as you deal it.

Okay.

And he's going to stop.

He knows as he goes, random of hits.

Six space, ten of them.

And he's going to take, and when you want, you're going to deal that one card you want out front.

Okay.

You'll know when.

Does it matter what we did earlier?

Yeah, that's it.

You decide.

That's the card.

That's it.

Wherever you want.

Where is it?

You let us know.

It's right here.

It's this one or that one.

Could be that one.

It could be that one.

Yeah.

Two of clubs.

This isn't a card trick.

No, it isn't.

Because I know what the card is.

Sure.

So, gentlemen, watch.

I'm pushing this over.

I'm pushing this over for real.

Was that your own choice?

Could you have changed?

Could you have done anything?

When I say go through these, you could have said different one, different one, different one.

Yeah.

Everybody here, watch.

Football.

Past or present, NFL, a great or not great.

When I snap my fingers, look in my eyes.

You ready?

Right there when I snap.

Think of the first player that pops in your head, past or present.

Don't say.

Think of it.

See, when I did that, I bet you, what are the odds that you and Boston Boston pick the same player?

Wow.

Hello.

Doubtful.

There is no chance.

No chance.

Just for the record, just so we can see.

Oh, no.

This is it.

You're Treasury.

There's no way he is.

There's no way they did the same.

What was yours?

Aaron Dobson.

What'd you go with?

Dan Marino.

Okay, so I want you to see that.

There is no way that I could have predicted that, could I?

Everybody's different.

There's no setup.

There's no state.

That's what I was with.

Darius.

I'm not guessing.

I told you, it's not a trick.

When I snapped my finger before, the first person that popped here, there's no way we could know everybody did something different what was the person you went with who was it

Deion Sanders

I couldn't hear you Deion Sanders Deion Sanders

I knew you'd pick that card you know how I could prove it because everybody look at the back of this card is there anything on it no is there anything on this one

is there anything on this one feel them pat you told me they're trick decks look at the cards is there anything

on the back of any one of these cards written down your happier careers ever i hope so too no no single one you got a family.

But here's the thing.

And Adrian.

I knew

you'd stop on the two of clubs because I wrote one thing on the back of it.

Get the fuck out of here.

And I wrote down Dion Sanders.

You're a sick fuck.

Okay.

He lives in D-Bucks' head.

What's your problem?

That one's not as cool.

I'll be honest.

I don't mean anything.

Yeah, that one doesn't sell me.

What do you mean?

That one doesn't sell me.

What are you talking about?

That one doesn't sell me.

Tell you who's going to win the NFL draft next year, too.

I'm going to tell you who's 13th pick.

I'm going to wait on it.

All right, gang.

Oh,

go in.

Good job.

Prime.

37.

Put that in your head.

Put 37 with Prime.

It's a Prime number.

I mean,

I don't think about Prime everybody.

Oh, you son of a bitch.

What am I doing with it?

Oh, I thought they were yours.

No, these are not mine.

All right, sweet.

All right, cool.

I think they're further drafted.

Come on, O's.

What?

How do you get Deion Sanders?

I don't know if if I buy that one.

Wait, was that two of clubs of mine?

Why do you mean you don't know if you buy it?

I don't know.

I was just expecting a little more.

I thought he was going to get a bunch of people.

Why did he guess you two

and take debts?

He wanted to prove that it could be anybody, I think is what he was saying.

I think it's why he proved it.

He's picked the worst receiver the Patriots drafted.

I was like, there's nobody.

I picked Dan Marina strictly because I thought no flubs.

True.

No flubs.

I had Terry Cruz.

You put cards in his pocket.

I had Aaron Brooks in my mind.

New Orleans Gray.

I just try to throw him.

You can't.

Yeah.

I think that's.

Dude, put cards in his pocket.

Yeah.

I just want to see if Owens would recognize it.

He freaked out.

He did.

Wait,

was that Dean written always on the back of that card?

I don't know.

No, not when I flipped it.

Well, maybe that's why I had it face up, but then when did he write it?

That's what I'm saying.

He wrote it before he got here.

He knew what Debbie was going to say.

Well, I thought I saw maybe Jay and Downey.

You couldn't have picked anyone less obvious than Deion.

On here?

Yeah.

I better lie.

It was the first one.

You couldn't have said less.

He said past president Bray and

You talked about the fucking first battle of the famous.

All right, you know the game.

Yep.

Tosh.

That's fine.

I'm going to split the deck.

Oh, shit.

I'm going to split the deck.

Wow.

You're going to guess the card because that was just up here.

Okay.

You weren't impressed with him writing Deion Sanders on the back of it.

I thought I might have seen him scribble

butch.

Sure.

Shit, Deion.

What's the card?

Six of Diamonds.

Boom.

Close.

Ah, shit.

It's a diamond.

That would have been cool.

That would have been cool.

All right.

Anyways,

that guy freaks freaks me out every time he comes around.

No, that was that is wild.

Yeah, that incredibly impressive.

Yeah,

yeah, I don't know.

Was that the one you picked?

That was the first time.

Yeah, two of clubs, too.

I picked.

He had me do it right before.

Yeah, I got that off.

In my brain, though.

In my brain, I just had to look through him.

In my brain, I said two of clubs, and then he stopped me right at it.

I went A Rebel.

That's what's weird because I don't have any

spelled Dion wrong a minute and a half ago.

No, that's right.

That's right.

How do you think he spells it?

You spell Dion wrong.

Should that that guy have an A-E-B-N-W?

I don't know.

I thought it was D-Dou E-O-N.

D-D-E-O-N with D-D-I-O on.

Let's talk about some news out of the NBA.

We're on ESPN 2 currently because on ESPN 1, NBA Live.

Sure.

Because today is trade deadline day.

Speaking of, we've been wondering what's going to happen with the Jimmy Butler.

We have learned...

Just like the Warriors have been doing all trade deadline period, calling every team, asking if they have any all-star that's tradable.

They called down to Pat Riley.

He said, I got the guy for you.

Jimmy Butler, now a member of the Golden State Warriors.

Wow.

Congratulations to Shams,

who got his shins absolutely blasted after he said that Jimmy Butler once traded.

Jimmy Butler once out of Miami.

We thought potentially the Phoenix Suns were being mentioned, some other teams.

The Golden State Warriors are the home now for Jimmy Butler.

Debuts, your thoughts on this?

You know, as a Heat fan, I'm glad the, you know, the whole saga is over.

Hopefully Jimmy goes on.

He got paid, got a new deal, two years, $120 million.

He definitely, I appreciate his service.

He put it all in line, got us to the finals, played his ass off in the playoffs.

But, you know, it got uglier for a minute.

A lot of the OGs kind of got mad at him because, hey, now they may not have guaranteed contracts going forward because how he was acting during the end.

But hopefully we move forward and get better as the heat.

That's it.

Is Golden Saint going to win it all, though?

No, they won't.

They still got Seth Curry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They got Seth and they got Traymon, but Steve Curry is in a bad spot mentally.

He's crying again,

especially after everything that happened at the end of last year, but I just, it probably won't work.

We always see this.

You know, when this happened with the Suns when KD went over, it was awesome.

It's really cool.

These super teams, they never work in the first year.

Golden State did, though.

Golden State did.

With Kevin Durant.

When they went 73-9, the greatest season in the history of basketball didn't win the finals.

Then they had KD.

Absolutely.

That is an outlier.

The Splash Brothers are no longer there, though.

This is now not the four

super team that they had.

It's just a three with Jimmy Butler.

But who knows?

They might be able to compete, and maybe

Steve Curt will stop crying like J.J.

Wah.

Wow.

We don't sell tissue, Steve.

Should be his brother.

It's a basketball team.

Should be his brother, TJ.

He's a good one.

Are we, you obviously, NBA guy?

Yeah, huge.

Phoenix, your town.

We're supposed to get them.

I don't know if we fully understand enough about it to talk about it, but we will.

Because it's sports media.

People have been doing that for a long time about that stuff.

That's right.

That's amazing.

Actually, in award season, you know, people have been voting for things for a long time, not having a clue what they're doing.

I guess whenever you spend all the money and do the luxury tax thing, there's other things like restrictions.

Oh, yeah.

Whenever it comes to like trading for different players and all that stuff, you can't just say, I'm going to pay luxury tax.

I'm going to pay luxury tax and do whatever you want.

I didn't know that because I thought the Phoenix Suns could go back in time and build a super team if Ishbia didn't mind paying an extra billion dollars in luxury.

taxes.

I guess there's a lot of things.

So like for Jimmy Butler to get traded to the Phoenix Suns, I think it would have had to been like a five, like because of their limitations in the trade world, because of how much luxury tax and how much over the cap they are, it would have had to been like a five team, it would have had to been a huge operation to get the job done, which I'm not saying the NBA doesn't always have that.

But I think to the Suns was a pipe dream almost that was never really going to happen.

So then you wonder, where's Jimmy going to go?

Golden State was eager to see

calling everybody.

everybody.

So it feels like this was almost, I don't want to say meant to happen, but going to happen regardless at the end of the the day.

Well, and I wonder if any part of it was obviously, you know, he was going to get traded no matter what because you can't just sit out the rest of the season and be like, I'm not going to play.

But Pat Riley might have been like, oh, you know, Phoenix is your.

preferred destination.

Like, fuck you.

We're not sending you to Phoenix.

There's a chance.

You want to go to Phoenix?

Okay, how about San Francisco is nice too.

See you there.

So I wonder if that had anything to do with it, just the way it all played out towards the end.

Okay, let's talk about some other news that has happened around the NFL.

Trey Hendrickson here yesterday seemingly said like, I would like an extension, or

if there's picks that can come to the Cincinnati Bengals that help them out, I'm cool with that as well.

Long conversation has a lot of love for Cincinnati, understands the Bengals are in a situation, but also said, like, I'm in a situation as well in this whole thing.

Love chatting with him.

Let's stay in Ohio in the NFL.

Miles Garrett joined the Rich Eisen show, and this is what he had to say about why he requested a trade from the dog pond.

I mean, like you said, it's not a decision I take lightly.

You know, it took time

and lots of conversation, but just looking at

kind of the trajectory of the team, talking to some of the higher-ups, and I have a lot of respect for them, but I just don't think we're aligned on

where the team is going in the near future.

And I feel like

the window for us as athletes is only so broad.

And it only continues to close as years go by with anything be able to happen on that field from day to day.

And I want to be able to go out there and compete at the at the highest levels you know day in and day out and and uh no playing for champions like i said very matter of fact very calm just like trey hendrickson a lot of chaos over there in ohio age how do you feel about miles and what he said to rich heisen shout out to rich heisen yeah i mean i i understand i get where he's coming from he's been what eight years he's been a premier pass rusher the you know one of the pretty much the premier spot on a defense that you pay you pay you want to pay corners you want to pay a guy that can get after the quarterback on the edge so i get it what does he mean by the near future just that the quarterback situation is unsettled.

Is that what his biggest deal is?

He said not aligned in the ideas of what we're doing.

Also, the Cleveland-Decanton line was a throwback to him.

So I assume him and Andrew Berry have had some conversations, and Miles Guerrille really doesn't love the way they're going.

Oh, he hates it.

But Andrew Berry's saying, what do you want from me?

The owner just gave this quarterback you can't play quarterback.

The worst decision of all time?

It's not my fault.

Yeah, so Andrew Berry's like, if you just can maybe...

you know, kind of just understand what we're going through here.

Miles is like, I'm getting old, brother.

Yeah.

This season, this career is slowly slipping away.

He said, you know, it's a finite amount of time that you're able to play football.

And here in Cleveland, it's like Joe Thomas.

Here in Cleveland, I haven't really got a chance to really do much, you know, and then we win a playoff game and you get rid of the guy that did it.

Then you bring in a guy that went, it's like, he's done with the entire situation.

And I think Andrew Berry or whatever is like, me too, bro.

I mean, I don't know what to tell you.

It's a tough situation in Cleveland, D.

Yeah, very.

But, I mean, I would be excited to see him land on the contender because he instantly changes the whole dynamic of a defense, of a team.

Like he's a game record, absolute game record, one of the best.

We've talked about it past rushers of his generation.

And with him talking, not only him, but one of the other best defenders, Denzel Ward, he came out and made some comments as well that he might be on his way out too.

So we always talk about act how you can afford to act.

And he's one of those guys that can do it.

Yeah, so the Browns might not even be able to field a team next year.

Yeah, probably not,

which will be better for Cleveland.

But, I mean, if you are Andrew Berry, it's like, all right, fine.

You can trade him for maybe one of the top 10 picks or multiple first-round picks.

And like you saw what Houston did with what, you know, the Deshaun trade.

They traded Deshaun, which obviously

at the moment wasn't a tough decision because everything off the field.

But he was a great player.

So it was kind of like a, hey, we're getting our franchise guy out of here.

And then they flipped it around in two years.

You know, it was a dumpster fire.

But if you're Andrew Berry, like, you kind of do have to be able to get away.

You might be able to take a haul here.

Yeah, exactly.

While you're in the middle of one.

But, you know, what are they going to do?

What do they say?

Is it the same old?

Same old?

Brownies?

Okay.

Pittsburgh people are rejoicing at what's going on in Cleveland, obviously.

Baltimore doesn't really care, but Baltimore obviously came from Cleveland.

Originally, the Browns, then the Baltimore Ravens.

A lot of history in the AFC North amongst each other.

Nobody's worried about the Browns potentially going into a dumpster outside of Cleveland, but their fans need to think about what the hell is going on with our team.

New stadium, right?

That was a conversation.

That was a whole conversation, this entire thing.

You got the same quarterback you're locked into for at least another two, three years.

Your best player now wants the hell out of town.

I mean, it is, I mean, it's all chaos over there, A.Q.

It's absolutely chaos.

And the funny thing is, is

Bruce Aaron used to say this all the time.

I remember him going through, like, situational football.

We'd be going through, like, two-minute drills, and the Browns would show up every week.

Every week, it's like they do something dumb to give up a play in two minutes, and he's like, it's expected.

The Browns are the Browns.

Here we go.

And that's how everybody speaks.

That's how everybody fans.

It's not just Pittsburgh.

It's everybody.

Isn't that a shame, though?

It is.

That's what Browns speak, really.

Browns fans speak like that.

I'm around a bunch of Browns fans.

That's how they speak.

It's nice to have that team, though, down there.

Like, hey,

we could always be the Browns.

You know, it's nice to have those teams

to kind of make yourself feel better about your own team.

Yeah, well, the Jags have beat the Colts a lot over the last couple years, so that's fun.

Well, they've won two division titles since the Colts.

It's a good point.

It's a good point.

The Browns have it.

Spice.

Holy shit.

What up, Spice?

There's Mike Fred right here.

Spice, we get on this mic.

What up, Spice?

Watch out.

Looks good.

It's a robot behind you.

What's up?

Hey, man, I get to ask you a question?

Sure.

Okay.

Now, we ask you questions.

What are you wearing?

What are you doing here?

What's going on?

This right here, this hoodie right here is from Target.

Okay.

I can fit stuff in Target now, dude.

Like, I done lost weight, dude.

I can go to Target and buy up the rack.

You look fit.

You look good.

You look energized.

Is there a robot following you around?

What is that?

Cracker Barrel.

Yeah, man.

Cracker Barrel cheese, man.

Oh, wow.

So good.

What a turn.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

So there's a Cracker Barrel robot following you around here.

Yep, Cracker Barrett.

You need to watch it.

Y'all want some cheese?

There's some cheese in there.

Oh, she's that it?

Did you just clap to the big old cheese?

We love some cheese.

You got any white cheddar?

Oh, there.

White cheddar?

Oh, we got cheese sticks.

Take some cheese.

You got spicy.

Hey, Pet.

Don't ever say I ain't never got you nothing, dog.

Thank you.

White cheddars are so good.

Don't ever say I ain't never got you nothing.

These are great tosses.

Yep.

Yep.

Oh, okay.

Put too much pressure.

What a toss.

Oh, it's on him.

Not on you.

Got off and Jalim.

Great throws.

There it is.

Great throw.

Incredible throws.

Incredible throws.

What a time.

Thank you for that.

Hey, Spice, thanks for the cracker barrel cheese.

Yep.

Thanks for stopping by.

There's more you can do.

Hey, real quick.

Real quick.

Big news coming out of Chicago right now.

Not big.

Not good.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I'm legit.

I'm not from the area.

I don't know her.

Everybody that spoke about her, though, says she's like the epitome of class.

She was always nice to me and my family.

102 years old.

Flights at Gala's, everything, man.

She was A1.

Virginia McCasky has passed away today, we are being told.

102 years old, obviously, up there in Chicago.

Spice, that building is obviously historic.

The name is one that is synonymous with greatness throughout the history.

What are your thoughts on the current state of the Bears?

And are we going to get back?

Are we going to get all the way back to maybe top of topicality in the NFL?

Well, we're looking good on paper right now.

You know, you just got to put everything all together, as you know.

Ben Johnson was like a hot item, and we ended up getting him.

And so we'll see what happens, man.

I'm looking forward to see how him and Caleb, you know, kind of progress.

And they got Eric Bienneme coming in.

Like, this is, we got like an all-star cast coming up, man.

Chicago's a real deal all of a sudden.

Yeah.

You like Caleb?

You like Caleb?

Yeah, Caleb's good, man.

I like him.

You know, we've got to keep him upright.

You know, at the end of the day, I think he only had like, he had single-digit interceptions.

What he had, like, seven or something like that.

Like, to go 17 weeks and have like those many interceptions, that's pretty good.

He sacked, what, like 30?

He got sacked

365 times.

Okay.

Every day.

Every single day, Big Zeus walks by.

I never saw three people have a chance at a sack like so often.

Three whole people?

Like, how do you even like it?

Three people get a sack.

Like, everybody get halves?

Like, how's that work?

Yeah, that's always a battle.

Obviously, that's a battle on the defensive front.

Spice, we love you, man.

Love you, too, man.

Let's get Friday Bangers back, man.

Let's get it back.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Hell yeah.

Not a bad idea.

Spice bangers.

All-time appearance.

Yeah, yeah, Spice.

Just brought cheese from Cracker Barrel.

Yeah, Cracker Barrel's back, Carl.

Well, you saw Cracker Barrel the robot was chasing him down.

But it was to work alongside of him, not take him down, down, actually.

Yeah, which is good.

Yeah.

She just clapped that thing open right up.

Cheese just started spitting out.

She lied to me, but you know.

Said I'd love some white cheddar.

And here comes Kobe Jack.

But

that's okay.

That's okay.

Beggars can't be choosing.

It was delightful.

It is good.

Where it wasn't a white robot.

I'm going to say.

This was a great cheese stick.

Oh, delicious.

I don't know how much.

Delicious.

I don't know if I knew Cracker Barrel did the cheese cheese stick game.

They got good cheese.

They do everything.

I buy it all the time.

They do a lot, don't they?

Yeah, the store in there is great.

Hey, you can buy a little bit of a goal in Cracker Barrel.

Ain't that right, D-Butt?

D-Buck gets Cracker Barrel back breakfast all the time.

Dog, he got a little hookster.

Dog?

Dog's ain't dwarf.

Dog the bounty on it?

I remember he thought he was getting a Taylor swimshirt.

Yeah, it wasn't bad.

I thought it was Taylor.

You were right.

It was.

Yep.

okay.

All right, I think we've talked about everything.

All right.

Now we went.

We haven't talked about the game enough yet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Remember we saw that AQ had that other stat?

I do actually have that.

We did that.

Did we get one?

No, I had one off

Orlovsky's walking around refusing to get Mike done.

Oh, of course.

I had a stat off AQ's stat from earlier.

Okay.

Shocker.

The only Super Bowl Jalen Hurts is played in.

He was up by double-digit points and

he lost.

Yeah, so

he's the only quarterback that's completely undefeated or completely defeated is having a double-digit lead in the hit in the Super Bowl.

They're losing.

Against Mahomes.

Against the Chiefs.

He's pretty crazy.

It is crazy all the stats we can create.

I do got a good stat though.

I do.

Okay.

Spags.

24 playoff games, only allowed one 100-yard rusher.

Whoa.

That is a good stat.

It is a good stat because Saquon Barkley rushes for 100 on everybody.

Well, Steve Spagnolo's veteran experience on the defensive front for the Chiefs helped slow down Saquon Barkley, which nobody's been able to do.

You know what time it is?

It's time for one half of the hammer.

Done.

Cowboys, A.P.

Tones,

the bet of the day.

All right, A.P.

Tone.

We've been giving out winners.

Let's give out another one.

What's the bet of the day?

Yesterday we talked about fourth quarter quarterback rushing yards.

Today we are going to stick with the quarterback.

Yes.

One specifically.

Patrick.

You're doing great.

You're doing great.

Patrick was tough.

Patrick was taking a ton of tough.

Hey, thanks for coming out.

All right, hold on, hold on.

John Strex.

Hey, bud, what's your name?

I'm the Philly Sports Guy.

Oh, the Philly Sports Guy.

Hey, that's good John over here.

How do we feel about the team?

I think they're going to show on Sunday why they're the best team in the NFL.

What's the best cheesesteak in Philly?

Angelos.

Wrong.

Dallas Andros.

Dallas Andros is great as well.

Hey, listen, I'm in the Sticks or Suburbs, Delco.

Oh, Delco, Delta.

Liberty.

I do Liberty steaks.

That's what I eat all the time.

How long have you been the Philly sports guy?

I've been full-time about seven years.

Full-time.

Full-time.

We're making appearances?

I'm doing appearances.

I do public speaking.

What's that Wing Bowl that happens out there in Philly?

Do you have anything?

Well, the Wing Bowl,

that was before my time of being the Philly sports guy, but I used to go to Wing Bowl all the time.

Yeah, what you do over there, Philly Sports guy at the Wing Bowl.

I heard we got pretty rowdy there.

It would get a little crazy.

Well, that's what happens when you have like, you know, 17,000 drunk individuals at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Especially Philly Johns.

Exactly.

How do we feel about that?

They didn't grease up the polls, right?

I heard they didn't grease up the polls

after the NFC championship.

They did not.

Is the city ready for another Super Bowl?

I bet you those polls are going to be greased from here on out.

Hell yeah.

Maybe you'll do the greasing.

Greasing polls?

Can we?

Will you say if they win, will you eat horse shit?

No.

Okay.

No, I am not that guy.

Okay.

Yeah, I respect that attitude.

You're not that guy, pal.

I want to let you know.

He's not that guy, Bub.

I ain't that guy.

Exactly.

I didn't know.

He's a Philly sports guy.

He's not the horse poop eating guy.

Fair.

How about the mayor spelling Eagles E-L-G-S-E-G?

How do you feel about that?

Just two.

You know, everybody gets a little nervous on occasion, and I think that was her first time really doing it like that.

So she got the go birds, right?

How do we spell it if we had to spell it?

E-A-G-L-E-S-Eagles.

Go birds.

Yay!

Philly sports guy.

Thank you, you, Philly Sports Guy.

Thank you, Toots.

Thank you, Philly Sports Guy.

I love those overalls.

I do.

I love the paint.

Yeah.

Does he sleep?

Do you think he sleeps it?

That's full-time.

Yeah.

That's a tattoo.

It's a skit.

He's been doing full-time for seven years now.

Full-time Philly Sports Guy.

Love that.

Love it.

Yeah.

Guys at conventions, shaking hands, appearances at schools.

I heard he does a full Broadway play about motivation.

50 grand appearance fee.

Yeah,

should be more.

Thank you for the free spot.

Okay, now let's get back to AP Towns.

Better the day.

Let's get back to it.

Yeah, we flashed it up there earlier.

It is Patrick Mahomes, 25-plus pass yards in each quarter.

It is minus 125.

The Philly rush defense is really, really good.

KC's rush offense, I think, is 31st in rushing yards per attempt.

They are going to keep the ball in Patrick Mahomes' hand as much as possible, I believe.

25 plus in each quarter feels like nothing.

Now, is there some ways that we get screwed on that one?

Sure.

The Eagles could go on like a 17-play, 11-minute drive, something like that, or a turnover where the chief starting position is in the Eagles' red zone plus territory already.

But no, I like that one.

I like these props you've been throwing out there.

Minus 125 is supposed to hit.

No doubt.

But it's not like grotesque number that you're getting ripped off if you do bet it.

It's not a stupid bet to be giving out.

$12 a win, 10?

Yeah, we wouldn't mind burying you if you're giving out locks.

Like people give out minus 250s.

I go out bet all the day.

No, you can't.

Minus 125 is about the most.

You should probably be giving out public.

Bingo, I agree, 100%.

You agree with that?

Yeah.

Like, because there's some, like, if you're, if you go, like, there's some, the juice on just normal bets could be minus 120, 125 at the max.

So, yeah, I feel like that's a good spot that we can sit in.

If you go over 125, yeah, you're a bump.

Yeah, and there's some absurd bets, too.

Like, these kind of bets can kind of...

ease it out with the plus 20,000 bets that you can make during this.

What do you like on a big long-hauler?

Look, I love the first touchdown, second touchdown type bets.

I remember the last Super Bowl, it was Jalen Hurts to score the first touchdown.

Travis Kelsey to score the second touchdown.

It was like plus 5,000.

Those are always fun.

And then, you know, you might as well throw in four or five different players to score.

Juju always has great odds because obviously, you know, he isn't the premier player on that team, but also D-Hop.

Got to think about D-Hop down here in the red zone, especially

those exciting whites.

You know, they're exciting.

They're fast.

They're not as tall as D-Hop, and their hands aren't as big as D-Hop.

So maybe you sprinkle there, too.

That is very valid, and we should probably profit off it, especially if our big brains think of it.

Let's talk about big brains.

The Fox broadcasting crew went to Chiefs' Practice, but Tom Brady did not, AJ.

I know you were interested in talking about this.

Is this because of the ownership thing?

He's not allowed to go visit these things.

So, AQ, you said because it's another divisional opponent, he's not able to be there.

Is that right?

I think it might be any team now.

Is it any team?

Did that go to any practice?

Any team?

Yeah, practice is no, but according to my source,

says

he was at the production meetings.

So, the practice is no, but he is able to talk.

In the room, yeah, able to talk at the production meetings for both teams.

So he's obviously owner of Las Vegas Raiders.

He's running interviews for the new head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.

A lot of people would say he's probably the one that hired Pete Carroll as the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.

So him getting a chance during his broadcasting meetings and then his visits to buildings, getting an inside scoop on how they're running, or maybe trying to sway potential future free agents into joining his particular team is a fear of a lot of these owners.

But he's Tom Brady.

Is that how we're going to end up viewing this thing two or three years from now?

We're just going to say it's Tom Brady.

I don't understand the big deal.

I don't understand why people are so upset and think that he can get all this insider information if he watches practice or he goes to a production meeting.

Like, if a team doesn't want to give you any information at a production meeting, they just won't tell you anything.

Yeah, but he can walk around that building and then he can drop little spy.

Yeah, bugs.

Yeah, I mean, he probably...

Let's keep a guy with him.

Let's keep a guy with him.

He's probably wearing meta glasses, and he's filming the practice and sending them back to the room.

You could give him AQ.

Let me know what you think.

You could give him our whole playbook, our game plan.

Here you go, guys.

Good luck stopping us.

I remember a high school coach.

I remember someone lost their playbook or whatever, and he said, I don't care.

Here's our first 10 plays.

Good luck stopping us, guys.

Like, they still have to stop you or have to figure out how to win the game.

There's no doubt it still comes down to execution, but I think, you know, just from me remembering, the production team usually comes on Friday.

And so your...

Last period of practice on a Friday usually has the first 15.

Yeah.

So you are getting, like, if he actually watches that, he's like, okay, that's the first play.

That's the second.

I mean, he's got a mind.

But they're not playing his team in this game.

I understand if they're playing his team that week, like if they were playing the Raiders.

No, I agree.

I agree.

You can't show him the first one.

Oh, but why are you guys all upset about Connor Stallions?

Yeah.

You were pouting about Connor Stallions.

You were saying Harbor should be fired forever.

No, that's something I would never say.

I don't really.

No, he said it.

I don't care about that stuff.

I'm not going to lie.

Like, I just don't.

I don't think it has a huge impact on the game.

You started Greasy Pete.

Yeah, you did.

You did.

Where is Pete Thamel?

And where is Pete Thamel?

Well, obviously reporting the news on the big Ryan Day contract.

But if I had to guess Greasy Pete, we'll see him on Bourbon Street later tonight, maybe having a couple hand grenades.

You're shaying?

A hurricane.

Maybe one or two.

Let's just shea that.

Hey, has Pete gone to Bourbon Street yet?

Just walked by and be professional?

Well,

let's call a Schpade a Spade.

Pete likes getting fucked up in certain places, and Bourbon Street is certainly one of them.

Might join, I don't know, Mitt McMahon down there later tonight.

Any ballet?

You think they would recruit him in?

They're out there recruiting people into their establishments.

Some of the places I heard.

Yeah.

Would they get Pete in there?

Don't have to recruit Pete.

I was going to listen.

Everybody, and I mean everybody, wants to share a drink with Pete Thamel.

So I don't know.

Can you have a bougie cocktail at every single establishment on Bourbon Street?

Pete's going to try.

Yes, he is.

He's certainly going to try.

Remember him at the national championship?

The guy had no voice.

Was it national championship or Cotton Bowl?

It was the national championship.

I think he was kind of starting to come down with a little something at the Cotton Bowl.

By the time we get to the National Championship, he's coughing on everyone, coughing on his hands, shaking hands.

Kind of actually got our entire office shick.

Yesi.

But we love Pete Thamble.

So, you know, you kind of just, that's okay.

I was shick for two weeks.

Thanks a lot, Pete.

You know, got my kids shick.

My wife shick.

But, you know, I mean, that's going to happen.

Pete had a phenomenal season.

He did.

He's doing basketball again.

He's back in college moves.

He's still bringing it.

He's all through the wicket.

I guess that's where he started, was college basketball.

College teeth, you could shake.

Yeah, he did.

Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, the man who's always on television but never on time, I guess.

The big timer, Dan Orlovsky.

Hey, baby, Dan Orlovsky.

Hey, thanks for being here, Dan.

Thank you so much for coming.

Oh, yeah, I saw you run it.

Dan, you got

healthy knees out, Dan.

You look good, man.

Dan, man.

I have to.

Oh,

yeah, right.

Get out of here, brother.

Got your ass.

What if he just punched you right in the nose?

I would have.

Oh, man.

Hey, listen, Dan.

You showing up 21 minutes late.

It was not in our bingo course.

Yeah, thanks a lot, Bob.

But we do appreciate you showing up.

Thank you.

A couple of things.

What time did you tell me yesterday?

12.15 local.

You told me in the 12 o'clock hour.

12.15 local.

12 o'clock hour.

Everybody was.

Nope.

Everybody was.

12.15 specific.

12.15.

You're going to have that.

What's up?

I saw AJ on the elliptical this morning.

Can we talk about this?

Sure.

That's.

How are you doing the elliptical?

Because

I got about zero cartilage anywhere.

I watched you bouncing on that treadmill.

I haven't done that since I was in the sixth grade.

I saw you look so healthy.

That feels great.

I got to go.

I also didn't play it.

You got to move around a little bit, and then you're jacking weights up for a while.

Now, his knees are brutal, so that's why I'm not.

I mean, ankles, feet, like to bounce on a treadmill like that.

I mean, I dream of that.

Yeah, he actually came down to the room and said, the content room.

And he said, I saw Dan running on a treadmill.

He must have never had a knee problem.

That's what he said.

Like Ryan.

When they're on the sideline a lot, the knees don't necessarily get a lot of wear and tear.

Yeah, speaking of your knees, where the hell have you been?

What's the deal, man?

Did you put him up to this?

No.

I was doing other stuff.

Oh, were you?

What other stuff?

Yeah, what kind of stuff?

I just did Boston Radio.

What'd you say?

What'd you say?

Drink Mays the Future?

Yeah.

You stood us up last night, too.

Yeah, you did.

Sack of wine.

I set you up last night?

No, you stood us up.

We were all hanging out, and you were like, I'm going to go to a better dinner.

Yeah, you did.

I was that dinner, wasn't it?

Big wigs.

Which was cool.

Dinner was good?

Yeah, it was cool.

How do you feel about this?

We don't have much time because you're going to get kicked off for Aiden Hutchinson.

Hopefully he shows up on the business.

Probably fair.

You didn't show up there.

Definitely fair.

Not probably.

Probably fair.

You spit on our faces, basically.

Boston Radio.

Boston Radio.

Who wins the Super Bowl, dude?

Huh?

Yeah.

It's hard for me to bet against Patrick and Reed and Spaggs and Chris Jones and Kelsey.

I think it's a second down Super Bowl if you're Philadelphia offensively.

Stay on schedule.

If you're in third and six, third and five, I think you're going to have a tough time offensively if you're Philly.

So second down's a huge deal.

I also think it's a three-quarter game.

Like, you've got to go into the fourth quarter with a two-possession lead if you're Philadelphia.

Jalen Hurts throws over 300 yards in his last Super Bowl.

Obviously, in the NFC Championship, plays his best game, I think, all season.

But he said his straitjacket was taken off.

He's just allowed to play his best game.

I would tell you, though,

respectfully,

he's not going to see the coverage, and he could tell you this, that he saw in Washington in that game.

He just won't.

What do you mean?

Washington lined up and was like, hey, we're playing single-high man.

You can throw it on the perimeter all day you want.

Stop the roar.

Spaggs is not going to do that.

He's going to give him a bunch of looks.

Yeah.

He's going to do a little bit of the amoebas.

A little bit.

Exotics.

Star Wars.

Oh, possessed.

Let's talk about the coach for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Coach Tyriani has a question for you.

Yeah, Dan.

you know, this week's finally here.

Okay, you're going to have to answer a lot of questions if the Eagles win the Super Bowl.

Have you had a chance to talk to Coach Siriani?

Has he spit in your face?

Has he said, hey, you're a piece of shit?

What has the discourse between you and Coach Siriani been like?

Can we talk about this whole process of

that day?

I've told you about it, haven't I?

When you did that that first time, I texted you like, what the fudge, man?

You're like, sorry, I had to.

I'm like, I am getting so many tech.

I think I told you guys, so many text messages of why do you hate Siriani?

Why do you hate the Eagles?

He ended up calling me like two or three weeks after that.

I was in the car with my wife, again, diehard Eagles fan.

And

it pops up on my phone, Nick Siriani.

So she looks at me like in total fear and I'm like, what?

She's like, are you going to answer that?

Yes.

So I answer it.

We have a good conversation for like 10 minutes.

We chit-chat about life in general, blah, blah, blah, families.

And then I kind of hit him with the like, listen, coach, I've been really hard on you.

And he's like, Dan, you don't have to apologize to me.

Like,

it comes with it.

Like,

it's not a big deal.

I was like, I don't think I've ever crossed the line of personal, but if I have, I apologize.

He's like, you have.

He's like, you haven't.

He's like, it's all good.

That's him, sir.

So then you did it again like a week or two ago.

So we exchanged texts for about a day.

All good stuff.

You did it about a week or two ago.

And I sent them the clip, the one, the beanbag one.

Yeah.

And he didn't get back to me.

Excuse me.

He didn't get back to me.

And I was like, oh, gosh.

Uh-oh.

So I waited, I waited, waited.

Yesterday, he got back to me and said, like, ha ha ha, just seeing this.

And I was like, it was a good laugh.

So I think we're on good terms.

Yeah, of course.

We're in a good place.

Yeah, and you took credit for how good they are on a tweet to me.

Remember, he said,

pressure makes diamonds.

He's welcome that I put the pressure on him.

But you guys did have a field day at Nick Siriani's expense.

Do you think maybe next year, if they continue to have success and win games, you'll be a little bit, you know, like, maybe this guy is in a big thumb dip shit every single day.

Do you think about that?

Do you think the perception of him?

I might be more conscious of that.

Do you think the perception of him has potentially changed depends on how the season has gone?

Oh, absolutely, because he's definitely got

evolved throughout the season.

He's grown and developed throughout the season.

I think he's managed the games a little bit in a different way throughout the season than he did a little bit in the first five or six weeks.

I think it's a huge storyline in this game.

You know, like fourth and three, Jake Elliott's had some misses this year.

Fourth and three at the

36-yard line.

Is he going to go for it?

Is he going to to kick the field goal?

Like, that'll be a really interesting kind of

seeing how he handles that.

Are you going to NFL honors tonight?

No.

No.

No.

No.

Nope.

Why not?

I thought you were giving out an award for it.

Or hosting it.

Yeah.

You guys are hosting it?

No.

Who's hosting it?

Stu?

Stu.

No, I wasn't invited.

Not going.

I have some meetings that I have to attend to.

Oh, really?

Well, I'm getting business done.

Who'd you vote for?

In

the election.

Trump or Biden.

I can't say it now.

We're talking about the AP vote.

I mean, you can do your presidential

tonight.

I can't say who I voted for yet.

Do I have to wait till tomorrow?

I think so.

Who did you vote for?

He told me I have to wait till tomorrow.

No, no, in November.

I have never voted for president, and nor will I.

You piece of shit.

You shouldn't say that.

It's your civic duty.

You piece of shit.

They fought their asses off for our right to do that.

Spit in their face.

Thanks a lot.

It's just, I'm not educated enough to

appreciate it.

I respect people's duties.

It doesn't grab my interest level enough.

Like, I just like, I like.

Yeah, I think I'm not even going to get into it, but I agree with what you said.

I just, I'm not educated enough to make it.

I don't think you should be deleting tweets, though.

Yeah, I can't do that.

That shouldn't be happening.

Let's, before we let you go, before we let you go, well, a big part of that whole thing just happened, actually.

So, yeah.

I had to revisit it.

But you deleted it, so you're going to be doing it.

Don't worry about it.

Okay, so.

I'm so mad.

Why?

Happy Super Bowl.

Hey, listen, why don't you win 12 people?

Okay.

Okay.

Dan's got a good jumper.

$500.

I have a good jumper.

I said you got a good jumper.

Why?

It's not because you're white, Dan.

I've seen you shoot.

Jesus.

What the hell?

I think it would be the opposite.

I think we know who he voted for now.

Yeah, we certainly do.

Dan.

We used to run hoop together.

Yeah.

Dan.

Here's the deal.

12 people will win 500

Pizza Hut bucks.

Oh,

what?

What?

Pizza Hut Bucks?

$500 Pizza Hut card.

That's basically $5 million.

$500 of Pizza Hut bucks.

How many shots?

Lifetime Splah.

Just one.

Just one.

Somewhere, Dan.

Right there.

That light's a little bit of an issue.

Others have made it.

So you are sitting here making excuses.

Can I get two shots?

You're sounding like a guy that eats Reese's like this.

You're sounding like a guy that eats Reese's like this.

Okay?

Nobody wants to be friends with that guy, but we are.

Okay?

So.

Just diabolical.

Just what you're doing here, baby birding the Reese's Cup thing.

It's just...

I can't.

We can't take you seriously.

thank you Ryan Clark for putting that onto the internet because the world should know that there's people walking around like you hold on so you did not know that was possible you think you could take me less seriously than others uh I don't know if anybody takes you seriously that that that you take me less seriously than that guy I'm I'm well when you do something like this when you do something like this it's like oh okay it's like Jeffrey Dahmer like that's who I think of in my brain

you have like the the hunter on your shirt

supposed to be Taylor Swift no education yeah I got screwed up That's the man version of Taylor Swift.

Again.

What?

No.

You need to.

Watch your mouth.

Uh-oh.

You said it's supposed to be Taylor Swift.

In the bounty hunting world.

Swifties are hot.

I think you can say, yeah.

You could say.

Anyways, Daniel, you eat Reese's like an asshole, but that's not anything.

That's neither here nor there.

What we need you to do is win 12 people

500 pizza up balls.

That's absurd.

This could change some lives.

That's a game changer.

Yeah.

How about all families eating?

500 bucks?

That's multiple weeks.

Two out of the month.

That's a bunch of.

Two years.

Oh, my God.

You're taking care of a family.

You're taking care of a family.

A couple classrooms.

12 of them.

Dan, do it for the people.

Is this a write-off?

No.

People love Tom.

Do your taxes.

People love it.

Got to spend it.

I'm a catch and shoot guy.

Okay.

All right.

I'm going to put it in the middle of the morning.

Put in the paw.

You can set a screen if you need.

If you want like pretty good pop-ups?

No, no, no, yeah.

Give him the laces.

Give him the laces right perfect.

Oh, off.

Reggie Miller.

Carl.

JJ Reddy.

Yeah, this guy sucks.

12 people, 500 Pizza Hut Bucks.

That was cool.

All right, all you gotta do is cool.

That was cool.

All you gotta do is repost this video and

say something nice to somebody, and you could potentially be one of the 12 winners of 500 Pizza Hut Bucks because our friend Dan Urlovsky

has a straight out of athleticism.

How do you, Dan?

That was a great job.

That was over, Dan.

That was good.

That was over the shot.

Hand in the face.

Bonus ball.

Wow.

That was good, Dan.

Okay.

Two shots, one board, one bucket.

That's not a bad stat line.

That's not a bad stat line.

Holy hell.

That was sweet.

There's no way they can shot it.

Cool thing he's ever backed up, too.

He's from the logo.

It was.

Congrats to the 12 people that win the 500 Pizza Hut Bucks.

Jeez, what a game changer.

I actually got to retweet that right now.

Yeah, you need to get in here.

Yeah, retweet it and then say something nice to somebody in the thread below.

Make sure you do it properly.

I will.

I have to go this way.

See, this guy just makes his own rules.

Can I do it?

Can I do it?

Boom!

You know?

Hey, thanks, Dan.

Thanks, Dan.

Yeah, yeah, we know.

We know he didn't have to do that, Foxy.

Yeah, the people in the back who are actually right back there said, yeah, he just made that up.

And we know he did.

That's Danner.

He wanted one last time to shine.

Yeah,

one last shot to shine.

He's like, you guys still celebrating me?

Yeah, I thought that was.

That's okay.

He wouldn't have done that yesterday.

I'll tell you that much.

Come on.

What?

Don't, come on.

What?

He's from Dorchester.

He dropped one of those.

Oh, he did.

Hey, no one?

And we mean no one.

Our pizza's hot.

Well said.

Congrats to the 12 winners.

Yeah.

Look, he's got some bitches.

I might be one of them.

I might be another one.

I hope I am.

Did you reply?

Say something nice to somebody else.

I was going to say something nice about Dan, and then he had to, you know, kind of make it all about himself and walk back out here.

So

yeah, I'm going to have to figure out something else.

Maybe we talk about pizza hut.

Maybe you say something good about pizza.

Maybe I'll just say something nice about Pizza Hut.

Easy to do.

Yeah, it is easy to do.

Oh, they're waiting so good.

Oh, God, their pizza is unbelievable.

Oh, my God.

Everything about them tastes delightful.

Don't even get me started on the little May Sam Buns.

Oh, my God.

How about the little chocolate bites?

Chocolate bites, man.

Breadsticks, everybody.

Oh, my God.

Buzuki.

Age, I can see the zipper burns.

Yeah, thin crust pepperoni pizza from the Pizza Hut lunch buffet growing up.

That's right.

Well, it still happens.

The taste is still delightful.

And you can even get crunchy pepperoni.

Yeah.

Oh, the crispy, crunchy pepperon.

Stuffed crust.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a uh I don't know how many pizza pizzas you eat.

He's got good taste, so we assume many.

Yeah, yeah.

He would have been able to come back and play in this Super Bowl if the Detroit Lions would have made it.

Absolute legend, ladies and gentlemen, Michigan man,

Aiden Hutchinson.

Yeah,

yes, it is.

Yeah,

yes.

Stolman's pants.

Okay, I like that.

I like that.

All right.

I appreciate that, man.

Same bag, Bruce.

Thank you, dude.

That jacket.

Oh, yeah, Hudch.

You look super cool, dude.

You look super cool.

You put that on the, yeah, that's you got a massive head, huh?

Yeah, oh, it's it's big.

Yeah, you got one of those big buckets.

Shout out my dad for that one.

Yeah, neat.

That's good for the.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, so I just mentioned it.

Shout out to Gatorade, by the way.

I don't even know what this is in here, but Gatorade Glacier Freeze Zero is your best work.

Yeah, Gatorade.

You know,

I don't know how you do it.

I look at it and I say, I don't know how this is the nutritional facts of this thing, but I love it.

And it tastes, it's the best one.

Oh, yeah.

Obviously, you're a sports guy, been in sports your whole life, so Gatorade has done a lot for you.

What do you hear today with Gatorade saying or pitching or selling or yard?

Wow.

It's only Thursday, and you're already, you're on it, man.

Well, we don't have a lot of time left on East Bank because Dan Orlovsky cut in your time because he's an asshole.

Yep.

I hate that guy.

No, I'm here with Gatorade.

Oh, yeah, isn't that fire?

Well, corner is fire.

Order aid.

Did we break it up?

Yes.

That's clean.

Just one, it seems like.

Yeah, boy.

Shit.

I got a big bucket as well.

I hope this will fit.

But what are your discussions?

I'm here at Gatorade seeing how their scientists give their athletes a competitive edge.

What did you see?

I saw a lot of cool stuff in the lab.

They do their hydration testing.

They do their VO2 max testing.

And then when you sweat it all out, you got your rape patch and you can uh see what you lost and what you got to replenish did you get strapped up to that thing and run on the thing as you're doing the recovery no i was just i was watching everyone else do it okay let's talk about your recovery let's talk they're saying you would have been able to play in the super bowl that was like the uh goal that was the dream i think lions fans are holding on to that foxy am i lying amen foxy in the back was literally waking up in the morning hotch will be back for the super bowl now i don't know if you slowed down rehab after lions lose right do you think you would have been able to make it for the super Bowl if the Lions would have made the Super Bowl?

I, you know, you never know.

I think so.

Maybe I wouldn't.

Maybe I would.

The world will never know, though.

Okay, so how do you feel?

Are we...

I feel good.

I feel good.

I mean, we'll be wrapping up rehab pretty soon, and then I'm going to move on with my life.

Okay, so how's it been?

Isolate.

People hate rehab is the worst.

It's the worst.

Isolated alone.

You don't get to play.

It's a lot of hard times.

I mean, it's painful throughout it.

Is this the first time you've had to go through something like this?

No, no, I've had a season ending injury before, but this one, that tibia, that tibia break was an absolute monster.

You know, it was

that is what, I mean, I stayed in the hospital in Dallas for like a couple days after I got hurt there, and those were probably the two most miserable days I ever had in my whole life.

Yeah, questioning everything, painful.

Oh, yeah, questioning at the damn beeping, going off in the hospital the whole time.

You can't sleep.

People are coming in there, checking your vitals every two minutes.

So I'm happy I'm done with that.

You know, also on defensive player of the year, like tracking, too.

Oh, yeah.

You were playing the best ball by far that you had played in the NFL.

How much does that, like, kind of make you eager for next season, or how do you kind of deal with that, knowing that you were on a rocket ship and then bang, it just gets all stopped out of nowhere?

Oh, it hurt.

That was, despite the pain, being ripped out of that season and knowing what I could have done and what could have been, it's like,

that's what I have the hardest time with.

But then again,

I'm going into year four next year, so I'm young and I got a lot of good football.

Yeah, and I assume MCDC will use this entire ending of the year as motivation going forward.

AJ has a question for you, huh?

What are the Jets getting with Aaron Glenn moving over?

Your defensive coordinator, he becomes their head coach.

What are they expecting?

When I see him equip something, that dude seems super passionate, loves ball, and seems to be very smart.

But what do the Jets have to look forward to, I think?

He's so great.

I mean, me and AG.

Our relationship has developed so much over the three years that I was with him.

And

he just, I feel like with AG, he knew what to say at the right time, every time you know every message whether it was a win or whether it was a loss He was on point and I feel like there was never anything he said that it was like oh like maybe you shouldn't have said that you know sometimes coaches say things and you're like yeah I don't know if that was the message but I feel like every time he he said something it was right and then so him being a head coach I think he's gonna be a really good head coach how about MCDC

what about him just legend you see a photo of him smoking a cig with his wife way back in the day awesome

oh yeah

these hair.

Really?

Yeah.

She just posted it or you dug in the arcade.

I didn't know last week.

Happy birthday, I didn't know it last week.

I didn't know last week.

No.

Or happy anniversary, maybe?

Yeah,

something like that.

He's a stud.

He's a stud.

I mean, he's,

you know, what you see is what you get with him.

So he's so great.

And

I'm probably going to be there with him now.

He got extended for...

God knows when, so we'll probably be together for a while.

His messaging always the same as we see.

He feels like a very deep-thinking meathead.

Right?

Yes.

I think that's a good way to do that.

So what's so great about Dan is for good or for bad, he'll tell you he'll get something off his chest.

And, you know, whether it's anything, it could be something that I did wrong maybe or he doesn't like.

He'd be like, Hutch, like, that kind of pisses me off, but I got to get this off my chest.

And he'll say it.

Done, and we'll move on.

So he's very unique in that way where I feel like you're always getting the real the real Dan Campbell.

Yeah, instead of letting it linger.

Well, obviously this guy is your leader.

Never forget it.

That's brilliant.

Yeah, never, ever forget it.

It's gonna be Tarzan.

Yes, and he's strength.

Yeah, Tarzan with a sig.

All right, we will continue on YouTube, ESPN Plus, Disney Plus, and TikTok live.

We wrap up here on ESPN with Aiden Hutchinson here with Gatorade.

Wow, so good.

Double the best.

Hutchinson Aiden Hutchinson.

We're talking about Gatorade.

And thank you to the scientists making magic.

We'll be back here tomorrow.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

It might change your life.

All right.

We're off ESPN.

If you want to let any.

Still live, though.

What What is that?

Still live.

Is that you making all that noise?

What is that?

I think it's one of them.

Oh, finger pointer.

I like that.

Wow.

Fishing guy.

I like that.

Tone has a question for you.

Yeah, just talking about MCDC, and then I was watching your highlights earlier today.

What do you think the biggest difference that you got off to the hot start this year?

Because I noticed your hands are just unbelievable.

The tackles could never get their hands on you to begin this season.

Is that something that you think

led to getting off to to such a hot start this year?

I think it was just every year you develop so much and every I mean every game I feel like I'm learning something new and I'm

applying that to my game and I feel like it's just a culmination of doing that year after year and then I come out this year and everything just

felt so right and I feel like this year I embraced the pressure more than I did.

It's more like, you know, you come in as a first rounder, you don't really know what to expect, and then I get to year three and I'm like, look, third and ten, game on the line, like put put me in the position to get the one-on-one.

I'm going to win.

You know, that's kind of the mentality that I did, and

it paid off.

It didn't.

What does Evan M say to you?

Yeah.

He's a beast.

I saw him during the draft when we had draft in Detroit, and he was trying to strap it up for the Lions.

Yeah.

Put the shoulder pads on and go.

How does it feel that you're like a Michigan hero, and obviously what the Lions are going to be during your tenure there, the best that they've ever been?

That feels good for the Michigan kids out there because, you know, he went to Michigan State, but like Foxy views you as like Captain Michigan, basically.

Yeah, that's the beautiful thing about it is Michigan fans, Michigan State fans, they all unite under the Lions, you know.

So

any Michigan State fan that hated me while I was at Michigan, they now.

Wenchner was a lot.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah, he.

Yeah, oh, yeah, he was.

He was one of them.

Yeah, and then as soon as you go to the Lions, it's like, this guy's coming to save the city.

The city, all right.

This guy's coming to save the city.

Let's talk a little college ball here.

Congrats to the Ohio State Buckeys national championship.

Pretty awesome.

That is really good.

Back-to-back, Big Ten champs.

Wow, Ohio State.

Back to back.

Oh, wait, what'd you say?

It's a back-to-back, Michigan, Ohio State.

That's not a bad thing for the Big Ten.

Yeah, I've never been a big Big Ten guy, though.

I don't know.

I have a hard time getting behind that.

Why the fuck not, dude?

I don't know.

I feel like if Michigan's winning, I'm happy, but if Ohio State's winning, it's just.

What about like Iowa?

What if Iowa wins?

I'm proud of Iowa.

I'll be proud of Iowa.

Hell yeah.

I don't think it's about Ohio.

But like Penn State, Michigan State, Ohio State, I'm good.

You know, we can.

Well, Penn State's coming.

I don't know if you know that.

You think?

Hey, kiddo.

I don't know.

How do you feel about Michigan?

Five-star quarterback coming in, huh?

What's that mean?

I don't know.

You tell me.

You tell me.

I don't know.

I've heard a lot of good things.

He's got a good smile, too.

He can charm it up.

That helps.

Are you giving money back?

Have they asked you to come back and talk or speak to the boys?

I think I went back once, not this year, but I went back back last year, I think, before the Ohio State game, before we won.

And gave a speech?

Gave a little speech.

What you say is for your family.

Ah, yeah, just some gritty, gritty shit.

Excuse me.

Your language is offensive.

I'm disgusted.

Do you guys swear on this show?

Yeah, yeah.

A little bit here and there.

Yeah, no, I gave a great speech.

It was.

Football, obviously you're going into year four.

What weight?

Is your body changing?

Are you continuing?

Because what we watch at Day in the life, you're carrying around the big jug.

Oh, yeah.

You're sitting in the

altitude thing.

You were doing a horse.

Tryo.

Yeah, it was like a full commitment.

And rehab, you have to do that.

That is your life.

Which is why people are in the best shape of their life.

Coming out of recovery or rehab of a surgery.

That's how it's supposed to go.

Yeah.

Okay.

Always.

And if it doesn't go that way, you should certainly ask questions because that is a very difficult time.

But your body, who you are, are you growing?

Are you learning?

Are you staying?

Like, what do you think your size will end up being for the long haul here in the NFL?

You know, I feel like it's not so much physical.

I feel like I'm going to stay pretty much, I'm going to get stronger.

What do you weigh?

I don't even know.

I haven't stepped on a scale in months.

I don't even get weight at the Lions because I think they just trust me.

So you don't even know.

Like, are you 60?

I'm probably 260,

low 260s, I would say.

But I don't know.

I feel like more me.

I feel like my mind, I just learned so much new stuff every year that it's the mind that develops, and that's what makes you the better player.

Any knee stuff?

Any ankle stuff?

Have you had any?

I guess maybe the broken legs.

That might count.

That may count.

It was a pretty gruesome video, though.

Dude, yeah.

That's pretty nice.

I still haven't really watched it.

Me either.

Still got the sack.

Hey, if that's a way to go out, I'll take it.

Yeah, you shouldn't watch the video.

I didn't watch it.

I think I did once, and it's just to see your own body contort like that, you're like.

Did you black out?

No, I remember the whole thing.

I was on the ground, and I grabbed my leg, and I felt my fibula, like, sticking, not out of the skin, but it was like sticking out.

And I was like, it's broke.

Yeah.

This is it.

Yeah, this one's going to be a long one.

Them saying you're going to be back for the Super Bowl was insane because of how gruesome it all looked.

The D-Bun has a question for you, huh?

Yeah, you came in, obviously, high draft pick, high expectations out the gate, but was there a welcome to the league moment for you early in your career that you can remember that stands out, or you just kind of felt like, nah, you know what, I can still dominate these guys.

Welcome to the league moment.

With me, a lot of the, I don't have a specific one, but to me, the certain play that will get me every time is when they have a chipper

outside of the whole box, and then I've been on my ass

countless times from that block, and I think

there is no, that's no welcome to the league, but every time it happens to me,

I'm either crashing into everybody else on the D line, so

yeah.

That's it, all right.

We're about doing updowns at camp with Coach Campbell.

Yeah, 30 of them.

You have to do them all pretty sweet.

He's doing 50 straight.

Every year,

it's just like day one,

day one of camp.

When we're on the field first, it sucks.

But that was something AG kind of did, so I'm sure he'll bring that to.

30 of them?

40 of them things, I think we call them?

Because I was watching hard knocks, and I'm like, oh, they must be doing like 10.

And then he just got near 10, and I was like, nowhere near done.

It starts to become like,

it looks a little odd.

I don't know if I can describe it, if you can imagine.

A lot of hips and hips.

A lot of hips.

Sure.

Who did that the other day?

It was like Jameson Williams touchdowns.

J-Mo.

Yeah, J-Mo's celebration that was crazy that was actually an updown there nobody was talking about

burpee yeah it was a burpee up down but instead it was just it was a late in the updown session that's right up down that's right your team's got a lot of young studs man oh yeah you're gonna have to pay everybody at some point this is uh yeah it's gonna get a little weird i think this offseason a little crazy we'll see who's who's who they're gonna keep and who who they won't keep collecting gator aid checks brother yeah and keep representing the league man and foxy you have any questions for hutch back there yeah hutch uh growing up in the state of michigan you know this and I know this.

When we were young, you were considered an absolute loser if you were a Lions fan.

No one wore Lions merch.

No one liked the Lions and it sucked.

And now you guys have completely changed that.

Being a guy from Michigan for you, what's that like?

What's the energy like?

That's got to be so awesome for you.

Let me tell you, there is nothing like a playoff game in Detroit.

And now that we have them every year,

it's absolutely electric.

Why are you looking at them?

We have them every year.

This

I've been here for three years, and for two years now, we've had home playoffs.

Okay, I get it.

I understand.

I've had three home playoff games in two years, so I think that's pretty good.

This is the brand new

Lions.

And it's fun to watch.

You guys are fun to watch.

Look,

it's in my head now, and to me,

that's the expectation every year

with the amount of talent that we have.

So it feels great.

And to have the fans that we have, it's absolutely electric in Four Field.

You're the right guy for the job up there in Detroit.

We're thankful you you stopped by.

Enjoy.

And you're the right guy too, man.

You gas everyone up every day, but you're the right guy for this show.

This whole crew you got, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We appreciate it.

This is that speech you gave to Ohio.

I was pregnant.

You're right.

That was a good speech.

You can do this.

You got it.

You have it in you.

You got to pull it out.

Okay.

Anything else I need to think about?

No, I think that's about it.

Every day.

Every day.

Success is least on earth.

Pull it out, sir.

Rent is due every single day.

That's right.

That's right.

And tomorrow when I wake up, I'm going to think, you know what?

Fucking Hunch was right.

Yeah.

Do this shit all over again.

Yeah, and then

again.

And

again.

And again.

And again.

And

again.

Again.

Again.

We win, we win, we win.

Again, again.

And then again.

And then

again.

And then

we win.

And we win.

Okay.

And we win.

Okay.

Yeah, pretty good.

Yeah.

Good mindset.

Wow.

I'm going to think of that tomorrow.

Yeah, no doubt.

Thank you, Hutch.

Yeah, I think it's definitely your microphone.

Okay, good.

We've been wondering who's been doing it all.

Not your fault, our fault.

But ladies and gentlemen, Aiden Hutchinson.

Yeah, Hutch.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, Big Spanks, buddy.

Bye, Hutch.

All right, we're going to get to a break.

We're all going to run to the bathroom.

And on the other side, Mike Greenberg.

What?

Green.

I do not know if he took edibles.

That was part of the plan.

He better ask.

We're all there.

Yep.

Big Zeus walking by.

Good to see you, Zeus.

Big man.

Huge man.

Huge.

Big fucking man.

Yeah, Yeah.

Big boy.

He's huge.

Giant.

He's really good.

Watching his highlights.

Watching him fly off the ball.

Like, how do you block him?

Madman.

All right, we're going to take a break.

We'll be back on the other side.

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Swoop.

Go and get.

Go on, get it.

Go on, get it.

It's been terrorizing

guessing corner for the last 30 seconds or so.

Hey, you're a great depiction of America.

You're a great.

I almost just took out a camera.

Hey, Swoop, we appreciate you, Swoop.

That baby Swoop.

Good luck, Swoop.

Good luck, Swoop.

Good luck, man.

Have a good Super Bowl, Swoop.

All right, Swoop.

Get, Swoop.

We don't love you anymore.

Welcome back.

Oh, what?

I do love America.

No, no, when you love a dog or an animal, but you know, it's for their better to get, you got to tell them you don't love them anymore.

Set them free.

Yeah, I got it.

It's not you, it's them.

Send them to the farm.

Yeah, I got it.

Well, I just want to let you guys know.

Yeah, you can believe your eyes.

I do look this fucking cool.

Yeah.

Holy shit.

It's a use check design.

Really?

Yeah, just better.

Grua, like a gruel?

Yeah, me, Taylor Swift, me.

Dodge a bounty hunter.

No big deal.

I don't think Dog has ever worn a use check design.

Just want to let you know, it was gifted to me in the back.

I'm very thankful for the use check design.

And I told her, congratulations, she's changed that game.

She's changed sports.

A lot of people try to do that shit, you know.

A lot of people tried.

What she's been able to accomplish and the talent.

Look at this thing, huh?

So what?

Dude.

Warm, tossed.

So what?

Fits like a glove, man.

So what, Edge?

So what?

I love vests.

I just haven't been able to work them in.

So what?

Now what?

You didn't say that about this vest when you first saw it.

No, no, I thought it was one of those puffy ones that blows up and it'll protect you if you fall down.

Joining us now, it might.

It's a use design.

This guy doesn't wear vests.

He won't even wear Seamus'.

Oh, yeah, I forgot.

You spit on Seamus' face whenever you say that.

You know, I love Seamus.

We all know that.

I see McNabb.

Holy shit, Donovan McNabb.

Holy hell.

Okay, yeah.

Okay, Donovan McNabb.

Donovan McNabb.

There he is.

Yeah, yes.

Right here.

Right literally, right?

Yes.

What are you doing?

Yeah, well, nice to meet you.

We just had Swoop on, obviously.

Did he give you much to talk about?

Yeah, actually, he did.

He pecked his head a little bit.

Yeah, he pecked his head.

Swoop can go to hell.

Okay.

Obviously, Andy Reid,

a lot of history.

Yeah.

Obviously, Philadelphia Eagles, a lot of history.

How do you feel at this Super Bowl?

And what are your thoughts?

I feel great.

I'm here just chilling, watching.

I'm a win-win.

Eagles win.

I'm excited.

Hey, Andy Rins, I'm excited for him.

You know, the legacy he's built is something that's special.

He's on the Mount Rushmore Coaches.

Okay, so let's talk about Andy Reid and what he probably does for Patrick Mahomes.

What do you think their day-to-day is like?

I mean, it's business as usual.

And, you know, going over the game plan, making sure they're kind of crossing the T's, dotting the I's.

You know, everything that they've done all year is nothing different in the Super Bowl for them.

They've been here before.

And so I think for them at this particular point, it's just kind of eliminating mistakes and just focusing on what they need to do to be accomplished.

Okay, well, hey, I cannot wait to see who wins.

Where will you be watching it?

On the plane.

Nice, I like that.

Smart.

On the plane.

What are you doing this week down here?

Shaking hands, kissing, babies?

Just shaking hands, kissing, babies.

And I've got a book club I'm going to be meeting with some of my friends

and going over some of the novels.

Okay.

Yes.

Going over the latest novels.

Absolute legend.

We appreciate you.

Ladies, it's going to be a good idea.

Appreciate you guys.

I'm proud of it.

Joining us now, man, who's in multiple Hall of Fames.

Obviously, the host of GetUp every single morning.

With his Mike and Mike run, you're talking about just changing and creating sports talk for decades and decades.

Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only Michael Greenberg.

Yay!

Greenberg!

Yay!

Yay!

Yes!

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Oh, I don't have a fucking thing.

There it is.

Yep, saddle up.

Just like Mike and Mike.

I have a great Donovan McNabb story.

Well, love to hear it.

Boom.

Love to hear it.

So I wanted to come out while he was here.

So a million years ago, and this, I don't even know how many years ago this was, but it's a long time ago.

Donovan McNabb, Mike Golick, Bruce Willis and I,

one of the die, whatever the last Die Hard movie was was coming out, Die Hard 3 or was there a four?

Die Hard with a Vengeance.

With a Vengeance.

Whatever the last Die Hard movie was.

So that's coming out.

And they did, they were doing this promotional thing on ESPN,

and they got Donovan McNabb and Mike and me to do it.

And the bit was Bruce Willis threw me through a brick wall.

Yes.

And that was, so I was going to see if McNabb remembered that.

And Donovan McNabb's job was to pick me up after Bruce Willis threw me through a brick wall.

And you did your own stunt.

I did my own stunt.

I 100% did.

That's greeny football.

Yeah.

Disciples.

That is greeny football.

Yeah, you are Tom Cruise of the sports media world.

I didn't even think of it.

You kind of picked it all together.

That's kind of who you are.

You usually get Catherine Zeta Jones

every now and again.

Not so much Tom Cruise, but sometimes.

CZJ.

I love everything about her.

Where are you?

Where are you?

You're not at Radio Row.

Where are you guys at?

We are doing the show from a set down right near the hotel that we're staying in, like on Fulton Street, on the property of the Caesars, I think, hotel.

How was this morning?

How are we doing?

How was the crowd?

Doing great.

The energy was phenomenal.

It wasn't packed.

You know, we go on the air at 7 o'clock in the morning.

I don't think that in this town, that's a very popular time.

Some people are coming back from wherever they had been.

But we had a great show.

We had the whole squad.

Everybody that you would expect was there, and it was good fun.

I want to tell one other story because I don't want to forget.

Okay.

So, as John,

our friend John, who drives everybody around.

Yeah, yeah, John Danger.

Yeah, John's Danger.

John, he drives me over here, and he used the expression, which is correct.

He said, you know, the McAfee show, they travel deep.

There are quite a lot of you.

And I made the observation last night that you have the second biggest entourage of any person I've ever seen.

Entourage?

The boys are workers.

What are you talking about?

I mean, like, just people that go wherever you go.

Oh, God, I got it.

McAfee is there.

Well, here's 14 other people who are also there.

So the story is, you may not remember this, but on ESPN, a million years ago, there was a game show called Two-Minute Drill.

Does anyone remember that?

Oh, yeah.

It was called Two-Minute Drill.

Was Stump the Schwab there or no?

No, this was before Stump the Schwab.

Kenny Maine.

Kenny Maine was the host.

Oh.

Very good.

And it was produced by the same guy who produced Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

So on the finals, we actually had Regis Philbin as one of the guests.

All right, Pete.

But anyway, so Mike and I, and I forget who the, I think it was Dick Schapp, the late great Dick Schapp

and Lennox Lewis on one episode are the four judges.

So the way they would handle this is we would all go in, the four judges and the producer would go into a room, and that's it.

And we would read through the questions.

So we would all be comfortable with the questions and then we'd go out.

No one else is allowed to be in the room because in theory you could be feeding answers to people like this is the way the rules of the game.

The integrity of the game needs it to be.

Lennox Lewis, who at that time was the heavyweight champion of the world, showed up with 22 people.

More people than you have now.

So when they say it's time for us to go into the little room, he gets up.

22 guys get up.

And the producer says to one of them, no, no, we just need Lennox for this.

And he said, and I'll never forget it, wherever Champ goes, we go.

And that was it.

So it was me, Mike, Dick Schapp, the producer of the show, Lennox Lewis, and 22 other people.

And in a room maybe one-tenth the size of this.

Did you guys get it done then?

Reading through the questions.

We did.

We had a good show, but that was, I will never forget that.

That was the only entourage I've ever seen, only person who traveled deeper than Pat Mackins.

We need to, wherever Champ goes, we go.

We need to figure out our own line of that.

I don't know if we're as,

you know, the heavyweight champion of the world, you can't really say much to that.

You know, like, to us, we can get bullied a little bit.

You know, heavyweight champion of the world, probably not going to happen.

You've been around the sports world for so long.

What's happening with this Chief seem normal?

Everybody starts to hate them because they're so good.

Do you think, as a guy who's literally set the tone in the narrative for sports for how many years now have you been doing this shit?

Well, I've been doing mornings on ESPN for 25 years.

Okay, so for two and a half decades, have been setting the narrative, setting the conversation.

Now, you say you are just kind of mirroring what the sports audience is doing.

That's what we cover, that's what we talk about.

So you've had to chat about it.

This Chiefs team now has become the villain.

Is that very status quo for the sports world?

No, there seems to be something different going on here, and I think it has to do with just the way our society has evolved.

I just think people are angrier than they used to be, and people just want to be outraged and pissed off about things.

And I did my last radio show two weeks ago, and sort of my parting message was, stop to everyone.

Stop being outraged about nothing.

We get so mad about the littlest things in our culture now, and the problem with that is there are things to be genuinely worried and mad about.

But we lose the ability to decipher which one of them really do matter because we get involved in nothing.

So people are down on the Chiefs now because of a bunch of things that are nothing in the big picture.

You're upset because they show Taylor Swift on television for a total of 60 seconds out of a three and a half hour broadcast?

That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Andy Reed is like a big teddy bear.

I don't know that there's anyone more lovable than Jesus.

Patrick Mahomes is on his way to being probably the greatest player in the history of his sport, the greatest quarterback in the history of his sport, and as far as I can tell, a pretty likable fellow.

I'm not sure what it is you would dislike on his face about him.

They are a ridiculously good team, and they are doing things that we have literally never seen before.

I'm not sure why people are telling me I should be getting tired of seeing this greatness.

Now, I started this career of mine before I was at ESPN covering the Michael Jordan Bulls.

Michael became Michael when he three-peated.

So that's what Mahomes is here to do.

Mahomes is here to become the heir to Michael, A-I-R- and H-E-I-R.

To Michael Jordan.

Just go wordplay.

You might earn yourself a use check.

Oh, wow.

Oh, I was wondering what that.

I like that a lot.

Yeah.

His wife does those, right?

Like, really nice.

Yeah, they're beautiful.

Carl doesn't.

She does great work.

But anyway,

I forgot what I was saying.

Oh, George.

Hair.

Air.

H and an A.

And the air.

Channel.

He's got that as well.

He's got the hair.

So if you ask me,

I think that there is a whole lot of nonsense that goes into people being mad.

And let's just address one thing.

For all of the people who are complaining constantly about the Chiefs getting calls, okay?

I would ask you the following question.

Did you start watching sports last week?

Oh,

get on.

The idea that stars get calls is an idea as old as sports itself.

In baseball, in the 20s, umpires would give the star hitters a little bit of the benefit of the doubt on a ball strike calling the same with the pitchers.

I covered Michael Jordan,

my wife Stacey, who is here, will tell you that my dad went to his grave as a New York Knicks season ticket holder, non-stop talking about how Jordan pushed off on every single play and got away with everything and got every single call.

The idea, Tom Brady, they actually changed an NFL rule because he got hit in the knee once and it cost him a season, and now you can't hit quarterbacks low.

That's been going on forever.

So, do they get some calls sometimes?

Yes, there's an old expression, which is, if you're going to beat the champ, you got to knock him out.

And that is the reality of it.

They're going to get the benefit of the 50-50.

And I don't think that, whether you like it or not, I'm not suggesting that you should like it.

It's a reality.

But it has been that way forever.

And I do wonder if there are some people who now, because of gambling, has become so much more commonplace, people have more personally invested in what they're seeing that it bothers them more than it would have in the past if all they had was a rooting interest.

Yeah, because the team getting screwed is one thing.

Them feeling like they got screwed is a whole nother personal tangle to it.

And I don't know, like

there's some of those calls where you go like,

that's going to be tough.

But to your point, these are all humans.

You know, like the humans are not going to be a lot of people.

There are bad calls.

Bad calls.

No one is suggesting that there haven't been.

I'm not sitting here telling you there haven't been questionable.

No, no, we're all agreeing with what you're saying.

Right.

Like, hey, this is just a reality of sports, especially if you have humans involved.

Let's just stop and take a step back for a minute.

What do we think the revenues of the National Football League are this year?

Okay, so...

The projected value of the cap is 275, and what's that, 50-50, right?

And now it's supposed to be.

So you do the math, what is that, 550?

It's, I mean, I don't know.

550 million?

Per team.

So now you're talking about, I think the revenues of the National Football League are probably something in the neighborhood of $20 billion a year.

I'm just throwing a round number out there.

That's just a round number.

How much will they be changed

by whether the Kansas City Chiefs or the Buffalo Bills wind up in the Super Bowl?

The answer is none.

Zero.

Not one iota.

There will be literally no change in how much money the people involved are making.

So the idea.

The only thing that could bring this down, literally the only thing that could bring down this $20 billion a year industry industry is if the world found out that it is actually phony, which it absolutely is not.

So the point is, what you're trying to get me to believe is that they are risking $20 billion a year because they think the Chiefs are going to get them another tenth of a ratings point in the Super Bowl or something like that.

It's so ludicrous, I don't even know how to begin to address it.

Well, especially this early, like let's say they are or would want to cook the books, they would wait until gambling is even more prominent and even more bigger.

It's like they wouldn't wouldn't just waste it in the first day.

But that would be assuming that you would have reasonable thought.

There's not everybody just having that.

And there's a lot of people that make a decision, not just in the sports world, and then they're just trying to find things that make them more legit as opposed to potentially seeing anything that could go counter to their belief.

That's the world we're in right now.

That's the reality of the situation.

And it's a bummer, but everybody's going to watch.

And everybody is going to hope, in their eyes, that Floyd Mayweather gets knocked out, that Patrick Mahomes gets knocked out.

But the Eagles becoming the babyfaces is interesting for me.

Like people being like, be the Eagles.

Let's go Philly.

Let's go Philly.

That has never happened before.

I'm excited to see how Siriani handles it.

Meaning being the underdog and being sort of the lovable favorite.

Yeah, like the crowd favorite.

Yeah.

The people's champ right now is the Philadelphia Eagles.

Look, you played this game.

I didn't.

Does that matter?

Like, I heard Mahomes addressing whether people consider them the villain or not.

What difference does that make?

I can't imagine it makes any difference.

So I think personally, and AJ and D-Butt will have much better better say on this than me.

Travis Kelsey had one question asked to the media, and he said, Why are you guys leaning into this ref thing?

So, what that tells me is that Travis Kelsey has heard all the talking, and then whenever the media start doing it, it's like, so it's just motivation.

All the shit is part of it.

That's part of it, I get.

I can see him feeling, I can see them being upset about the narrative about the officiating, because that would feel like it was delegitimizing who they are and how they've become.

But as far as fans rooting against them, and what is the line, you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Like, that has been the case forever.

Everybody rooted against them.

I remember Tom Brady there on a video chanting, we're still here, we're still here when nobody wanted the Patriots back in the Super Bowl at that time.

So the reality of the situation is.

Yeah, okay, go ahead.

I can see you have someone much more interesting than me to chat with you.

No, no, I like what, Jerry.

We're going to wait for you to answer.

Anything you're saying is gospel, brother, so we're going to take it as if it's our own.

Ladies and gentlemen, out of Texas, Atlanta Falcons running back.

Bijan Robbins and John.

Hey, B.

John, B.

John.

Bijan, how you doing?

What's going on?

I'm doing great.

Okay.

Just happy to be here with y'all.

Hey, we're

thankful that you're here.

Let's talk about last season.

You came into Superstardom.

The Bijan Robinson experiment is good down there.

You guys fall into a little bit of a bang.

We bring Michael Pennix in to end the season.

Inevitably, not enough.

What did you learn from your team this year?

And what did you learn about Mr.

Pennix whenever he got dropped in there late?

Yeah, man.

I mean, obviously, like, you know, we had some like huge goals,

you know, fell short of it a little bit, but, you know, I think for us, it was more so just just us coming together for that first year with Raheem coming in and all the new guys coming in.

And I feel that we're on the right track to doing what we want to do.

But even with Mike, man,

it was good for him to have Kirk

just for that back end of the season and to come in and feel comfortable and do the best that he could.

And I think he did a really good job of doing that.

But man, he has a lot of talent around him.

And I think for next year, like, it's going to show.

And he has a whole offseason to get comfortable with us.

But, man, I'm excited to see what we can do for next season you guys were exciting there for a bit uh mike greenberg has a question for you the talent level is is ridiculous as far as offensive weapons i do the draft so i was there yeah the night that kyle pitts got drafted the night that drake london got drafted the night that you got drafted what would you say specifically is the key to maximizing all of that talent on your offense next year that's a good question

that's a great question um i think i think more so just you know understanding that all of us has to play a part in us to become you know the successful team that we want to become like you know we all got to get involved in the game you know with Kyle with with Drake and then obviously we got Mooney and Ray Red McCloud so we got a lot of a lot of guys that could be a threat on the offense but I think I think Zach Zach Robinson has done a done a really good job of you know creating space for all of us and you know creating key plays for us all and I know it's hard for a coach to do that when you have just a lot of talented guys on on the field but he's just done a really good job of opening up holes and defenses every single game and that's obviously what we'd be trying to do for every game but I got to give him credit for doing that for all of us.

What made you feel more comfortable this year maybe than in your first year?

Did you the game slow down it feels like?

Did you understand more?

What was it about this year you think?

Yeah it completely slowed down.

I think I always say it's more so like college.

So

that freshman year like you're trying to get it.

You're trying to let the game slow down for you.

It's a new speed of the game and then that second year, you know, is when you really turn it on.

And I think like, you know, man, even when I I touched the ball,

everything was moving in slow motion in front of me.

And obviously, I think that's just God's gift.

But

when I see linebackers slowing down and me just manipulating linebackers and D-linemen and free safeties,

and getting them out of their gaps,

that's the part of the game where you finally know it's slowing down for you.

That would have been cool if God gave me that.

With that thought in mind, Bijan, if I may ask one more question.

No!

For running backs' eyes, what do you see when you watch Saquon Barkley in this offense play?

What is it that is working in a way that candidly may be better than any running back has ever had in any season in NFL history?

Yeah, man.

Well, obviously we all know that how explosive he is and just how he creates holes for himself.

And in previous years before, he had to do that because...

He didn't have the best block in front of him.

But, you know, I think with the Eagles O-line and just how effective and how dominant they've been, and now you add a running back that's super dominant in his own way and that can make everything right in the game.

Like, you know, you can go from him going, what, 900 yards last year and then, I mean, now him going for 2,000 yards.

And that's the difference.

And, you know, when you can gel with an O-line and when you got guys that can open up holes for you up front and, you know, that you might not even get touched for like 10, 15 yards.

And you have those kind of runs.

But for him, like, that's what happened.

And now he's playing for a Super Bowl and he's run for

2,000 plus yards, and he's doing just amazing things for his team.

Yeah, and the running back market is coming back quickly.

Good news for you.

That's good news for Bijan.

Absolutely.

D-Bud has a question for you.

Yeah, what do you think about the whole running back position as a whole, kind of the resurgence that it has had?

Obviously, it's always been talks as of late, at least, when guys like you get drafted high in the draft at the running back position, you, Jameer Gibbs, but your success, and then the guys, even the vets, you know, Derek Henry, Saquon, what they're doing in their different ball clubs.

How do you feel about the whole league as a whole when it comes to running back position?

I mean,

it's been pretty cool to watch.

You know, there's guys that, I mean, there was three guys that rushed for 1,400-plus yards.

And like with Jonathan Taylor, I know he's one of the guys that's done it before, like 1,900.

I mean, he's done incredible things.

But when you got guys that can do more than just run the football, but can catch the football, can block, like the all-around thing for the position,

then you become a playmaker, you become become dominant, you become a game changer.

And I mean, obviously, for your offense, that's amazing, but that changes your whole team when you have a guy like that, and that gives the whole team confidence to want to be great.

So, that's why I think the running back position is going to.

And I think there's a lot of guys that are making that position, you know, fun to watch.

And I mean, I just saw a guy, you know, he just played in college, Ashton.

Like,

I got to give respect to him, too, for doing what he did in college.

So, you know, I think there's a lot of great, great athletes, you know, that want to play the running back position now.

And it's all because, you know, we're trying to continue continue to keep it going for years to come.

Cam Scataboo as well.

Cam Scataboo.

Did you see that guy's head?

Yeah, I mean, I talked to him.

So he played at ASU, and I'm from Arizona.

So I always talk to him, and I always make sure that he's doing good.

But man, he killed it this year, man.

He changed the game.

It feels like football is coming back to a running game.

But you do have to have the ability to do everything as opposed to back in the day where it's just like, hey, you got to be able.

I think Sean Payton said on Up and Adams, he's looking for a joker, whether it's a running back or a tight end.

I'm looking for.

Yeah, like that Cordell Patterson type.

Yes, like an X, which I think all of you are kind of at this point.

Tone has a question for you, Bijer.

You talked about three guys having 1,400 yards.

You were one of them.

14 touchdowns.

Can we get another 600 next year, 2,000?

Is that the mark?

I mean, God willing, I can do that, man.

I know that last year I said that same thing, and people are like...

oh, like he's he's not going to get it.

So hopefully, you know, I can, you know, do something special like Saquon did this year or for for this next season um and we'll see we'll see what comes of it hey we appreciate you stopping by what are you doing who are you walking around with uh well c4 so i got c4 right here um obviously this is you know one of my partnerships and you know they've been amazing i i don't know if you guys all drink it or not

got an extra talent

let's go but uh yeah man i mean obviously this is one of the best ones it's nss certified so it's safe for everybody to drink and you don't got to worry about those outside sources but yeah man this is this has been amazing for me and hopefully i can get a whole bunch of more people to drink some more more of it.

Hell yeah, we used to see three, but

now we see four.

Yeah, we do.

It's better days.

Get them all.

Better days.

And we appreciate you.

Big Nirvana fan?

Say it again?

Big Nirvana fan?

I am.

Favorite song?

Oh, wait, no, no.

Okay, I just lied.

Never mind.

Never mind.

I don't know what it's like.

I just want to say that.

We just like the show.

I'll show you a great show.

We appreciate you.

He's on our day.

Big josh.

I was thinking the same thing.

I was thinking, he was not born when Kurt Cobain died, so it's remarkable to me that he's wearing a Nirvana shirt.

I was actually going to ask you, is that some other Nirvana reference that I'm not familiar with?

Is there a tequila or something?

My kids wear shirts of band now, but my daughter's 14, and she has no clue.

That's the entire shirt.

It is like it's a little bit of a fashion.

That's new fashion.

Yeah.

What's that?

Big floy.

You can go buy one of those shirts for like $890.

Is that Prince of Makamura over there?

Yeah.

I think so.

Are you sure?

Prince, what's going on?

Fridays, Salvin.

Fridce, what the hell's going on?

What's going on?

I've seen you the last two days.

I think I saw you walk by.

Holy shit, good to see you.

I think I saw you walk by yesterday.

Corner of my eye, I'm talking to somebody.

What's going on?

What are we doing here?

I have a kid's YouTube show.

We focus on all things, nutrition, education, and performance.

Yeah.

So it's Mr.

A Adventures.

That's awesome.

You're Mr.

A?

Oh, my, yes.

This is awesome.

Okay, how long has this been happening?

How long has Mr.

A existed?

It's been a year.

So just grinding, posting content?

Okay, so Miss Rachel is who our competition is, Bluey.

Who are we going after?

They call me the Black Blippy.

I'm just going with it.

Okay, so

I have a baby girl.

She's almost a two-year-old.

How old is Mr.

A teaching for?

It goes from six to 15.

Okay, so I'm not there yet.

Yeah, yeah.

So I'm going to see you year five, year six.

We got songs, what are we doing?

We work in, what do we do?

We have adventures.

We have, it's more like teaching, just giving fun facts, making broccoli and avocado just sexy just for.

Hey,

I love it.

Yeah, that's awesome.

I might need it.

Granny has a question for you, Mr.

A.

No, I don't.

I was just

looked at you.

When my kids were little, Mike, they used to watch the Wiggles.

Are they still around?

Are they still there?

Because they had a healthy song called Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy.

Yummy Yummy.

You can't still sing that.

Relax.

Mr.

A, you need a fruit salad, yummy, yummy, I think.

I think you need a song.

I'm going to work on it.

Yeah, that was a big hit.

Are you the perfect person for this?

I think so.

I've been told that.

Yeah, I've been told that.

I think so.

What shows did you pull inspiration from?

Because I'm my age group.

I grew up on Barney, Reading Rainbow, you know.

Shout out to my shit.

What are some of the people that you met?

It's a great, great length.

Very, very smart.

I think I love this stream.

So

there's Alvin, obviously.

There's Alvin and Chipmunks.

There's Blippy.

There's some Arthur.

There's some Blues Clues.

Okay.

So we're kind of

Blippi a little bit.

Are you singing?

Are you singing or no?

The new boy right now.

Salutations, Z-squad.

So that's like, yes,

that's like my.

That's good.

My goodness.

I am so pumped for you.

Oh, there it is.

Oh, there it is.

Oh, shoot.

This is Mr.

A.

This is way better.

Salutations, green.

Hey, I love it.

I'm thinking six.

I think you could market to younger.

I think you could market to two for sure.

I like that.

Yeah, for sure.

I like that.

I got four kids.

They'll all watch this.

How often are we filming?

Hold on.

I have so many questions here.

Yeah, when are we writing?

How many episodes do we have?

We're putting out something every week.

One episode a week.

Yeah, yeah.

I have an Eli episode coming.

Hopefully, tonight we get Eli in.

Eli Manning, he's doing an adventure with Mr.

A?

He's already did one, but if he gets in, we're putting it out.

So hopefully, in the Hall of Fame, so hopefully, he gets in.

Nice.

Wow.

I can't wait to see you go into something.

What would I don't even know what this genre would be?

Mr.

Health and Wellness for kids?

Yeah, Tony, maybe?

Okay.

Thank you.

Broccoli and avocado.

Trying to make make those sexy for kids.

Someone needs to do it.

Mr.

A, thank you, Mr.

A.

Yeah, Mr.

A.

Thank you, Mr.

A.

Holy shit, Ron River's over there.

Good to see you.

All right, salutations, Mr.

A.

I got Ron River.

Ron Revere's over there.

What are you?

You GM, you're GM a cow now?

Well, we're working on something.

We haven't quite defined the role yet.

Hold on, yeah, because this just got announced, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, we haven't announced it completely, and we're still working through the process, but we're heading that direction.

Okay, so I got a chance to be out there this year.

Yeah, I know you were.

I was there, watched you, you got into it.

What was it?

You know it?

You tell the story.

You tell the whole damn world.

This is bear territory.

I said, you know it.

You tell the story.

You tell the whole damn world.

This is bear territory.

I'll tell you what, there was a good sense.

Yeah, there was.

Vitamins out there.

Sure.

Vibes through the roof.

And the team, that was in the middle of finals this week.

They showed up.

I don't think any of us expected that out of there.

And it was a magical year for them.

And now bringing you in.

Well, it's an opportunity.

I mean, I'm looking forward to it because

I think it's something that could really help the university.

Okay, so all your years of football experience, you're just going to go in there, oversee maybe the new salary cap world that we're in, recruiting world, contract negotiation world.

I think, you know, again, we're going to define that, but some of that's part of the things that we're hoping to do and get right.

Nice.

You think there will ever be a time where you're not associated with ball?

No.

I love it.

And like you, you've been around your whole life is what you've done.

You've had a great experience.

You want to continue.

Yeah.

Chuck Bogano just went back to coach.

I saw that.

Pete Tarrell just went to back to coach.

Bill Belichick just went back to coach.

Oh, yeah.

You football fucks just can't.

You can't.

That's life, man.

It is.

It is.

But, you know, family first, though.

Absolutely.

I got the wife over here filming me.

She's making a video.

Hey, thank you.

Thank you for allowing him to give you a bunch of people.

You know, I covered Ron Riveri when he was a linebacker on the Chicago Bears.

Greeny, what are you hiding back there for?

He's on Annabelle's.

I couldn't possibly be less hidden than I am right now.

Can I ask him a question?

Absolutely.

Should we have a Super Bowl question?

Yeah.

Greeny.

You were a part of the business.

Greeny, here so.

I got hit on two radio rows.

That's a hard question.

He doesn't do radio row.

He doesn't know.

You guys.

Yeah, this is normal, by the way.

You were part of what was probably the greatest defense of all time.

Absolutely.

No one is saying that about these Eagles, but they're awfully good.

Obviously, they've got particularly up the middle and Jalen Carter and all three levels and everything else else in the secondary.

So how do you see them stopping Patrick Mahomes, doing what no one has been able to do in this spot?

And what is this defense going to do on Sunday that is going to win the Eagles the Super Bowl?

What's going to be real interesting is if he can continue to get pressure on the quarterback with just a four-man rush.

For the most part, when you go through and watch the year, he did blitz, but not as much as people think.

I thought he played a lot of four-man rush so that he allowed seven back there to cover.

To me, the big key to this game, more so anything, is two things.

If all of a sudden Patrick Mahomes has four explosive passes, okay, big-time passes, that could be the difference right there.

But if Saquon breaks off four explosive runs, I think it's the other way.

Saquon and the Eagles are the most explosive team in ball this year.

It happened through the run game.

It is old school feeling.

Yes, yes.

Let's talk about the other defense now.

Let's talk about Spagg's defense.

Yes.

He's bringing it.

We got exotics.

We got Amoebas.

We're doing all of that.

How do you feel about Spagg and his Hall of Fame resume he's been putting?

Without a doubt.

Without a doubt.

You know, we started together on Andy's original staff he was our quality control coach I was the linebackers Leslie Frazier was defensive backs Tommy Brazier D-line pretty good group yeah Jim Jordan Jim Johnson defensive coordinator

Spaggs learned Spaggs is tremendous and I'll tell you what I really expect from Spaggs I think you're gonna see Steve bring

run pressures to try and stop the run gaps what's a run pressure for the most part slanting the line and bringing the safety off an edge taking a linebacker and having him get downhill into one of the run gaps anticipating where he thinks the the ball is going to be run.

I would not be surprised to see Spaggs do that and trying to stop this vaunted running attack of Philadelphia's.

Coach, AJ has a question for you.

Coach, obviously going to Cal, what's it like?

Sorry, I know I'm ears in.

It's hard to hear.

I got to speak up.

But like going to Cal now, I guess when you've been around these college kids, it's very, very early in the process of what you're doing.

But are you excited to be around these young kids?

And is it different maybe than these college kids were 20, 25 years ago?

It is different.

You got that sense when we started bringing guys in what it was really like for them coming out and getting everything now.

I think what's happened is you look at these young guys and want to try and help create the right type of experience for them.

And that's what we're hoping to do, is create an experience that these guys can have, understand, that way when they get to the next level, they're ready for it.

And I think that's what you see

in what Coach Belisiak's doing.

Probably the best example is how Jaden Daniels handled it this year.

Think about this.

Young man stayed

five years, college football, but when he came, it was like, hey, business as usual.

Come in at 5.30, 6 o'clock in the morning, get to work right away, finish with a long day, and then, hey, get about his business.

I mean, that young man really set really what the bar is and what the expectation is going to be the next player coming out.

Great year this year in the NFL.

We're celebrating it.

And hearing that you're getting back into college ball is awesome.

We're happy for you, Coach.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for the time, guys.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Ron Rivera.

Hey, guys.

Hey, Pat, we got to see you next year.

I would love to.

Hey, I'll go out that place.

I had a great time over there.

People were so kind.

Well, I'll tell you, I love when the kick, when the kid made the kick.

Daniel, yeah.

That was a hell of a deal.

Yeah, you're damn right.

Did a lot of good, too.

And I think he got to deal with vans through it.

I mean, it was a magical morning out there.

Thank you, coach.

Good luck.

Good damn Oscar.

That college world is insane.

Cow was wild out there.

I mean, I don't think any of us expected that.

Marshawn Lynch then was the guest picker.

What a perfect.

Yeah.

Right off the top with that song, too, when the show starts.

You know it.

Yeah, everyone doing it.

I forgot about there for a second.

And then when he got halfway through, I was like, Yeah, we're telling the whole damn world, aren't we?

Yeah, we are.

A lot of those chants.

You went to Northwestern?

Herman Edwards went to Cal, and he always talks about it.

I love Herman, and I see him on Sunday mornings now.

You've got full name?

So proper.

Herman.

I mean, as opposed to Herm?

Yeah, yeah.

His name.

Herm.

I mean, his name is Herman.

I don't know.

When he was the coach of the Jets, I always called him Herman.

So that's just what I call it.

What did he call his buddy last night?

Bartholomew?

Yeah, there was a guy in Arthur.

Okay, well, that's a different story.

So

that's Artie, who is one of the producers of GetUp.

Okay, and Bart, we figured out Bart Scott, his full name is Bartholomew, great name, which I don't know why that hadn't occurred to me, but I asked him once, is Bart short for anything?

And he said it was Bartholomew, and Artie was standing there, so I said, Oh, is Artie short for Artholomew?

And that just became a running joke.

Okay, particularly funny.

Okay,

yeah, but you tying that together, that's what you do.

That's a two holiday.

That's a genius.

That's a two offense.

When you're not on all the right edibles, it's not as funny as it is.

When you're on the right edibles, it's much fun.

Now, what's the problem?

Why aren't you on the edibles?

Wasn't that something that I was talking about?

I got all kinds of things to do today.

You know, I'm making things happen.

All day, everything.

I need to be sharp.

I thought you were on edibles when you said that Ron Rivera was on the Steelers.

That was weird.

No, the 85 Bears.

Oh, that's the best defense of all time.

Oh, okay.

Uh-oh, I see.

The 85 Bears, the 2,000 Ravens, which Steelers team are you talking?

Well, there's the 70s, but the 08 won.

So the Steel Curtain Steelers over a prolonged period of time is the greatest defense of all time.

Thank you.

No question.

But

one single season.

In any one individual season,

I was there, my freshman year of college was the year of the 85 Bears.

And I moved to Evanston, Illinois.

You just mentioned Northwestern.

And so I watched, that was at a time before there was direct TV.

Like you watched whatever game was on, CBS or in those days, NBC or whatever it was.

So I watched every Bears game that year, even though I wasn't a fan of the Bears.

And I will tell you,

I will go to my grave believing that if that team had punted on first down, every time they got the ball, they would have gone 8-8.

I think their defense, without an offense,

would have won half their games.

It was without question the best unit I've ever seen.

And I would put the, if the 85 Bears played any team, and I think if there's anyone here from Chicago listening or whatever it is that is old enough to remember it, I would take the 85 Bears in any one individual season as the best team I ever saw against any other NFL team in any one individual season.

We're currently streaming on YouTube, ESPN Plus, Disney Plus, and TikTok Live.

I doubt anybody watching currently would be able to remember the 85 Bears.

What you did there?

No, I'm joking.

It's good to tell their stories, and we all remember the 85 Bears, especially because of the song and dance.

All right, let's get to it.

Have you made a pick already for this game?

So at the beginning of the week, they asked me for a pick, and I said Kansas City, because you just can't pick against them.

And then as the week has gone on, and I've had one after another analyst come on, every conversation leads one to believe the Eagles should win the game.

The Chiefs are only going to win the game because that's just what they do.

They just win even when they shouldn't.

But the Eagles are so ridiculously talented.

You look at the offense, if you're going to sell out, look, I'll talk to a linebacker.

You're going to sell out

Duquesne as well.

You're going to sell out to a Duquesne linebacker, so we've got multiple linebackers.

If you're going to commit everything that it's going to take to commit to keeping Saquon from just ending the game, because if Saquon just obliterates you, then you have no chance no matter what.

Just ask Washington.

So now you've got to contribute, put everything in there.

And now, all of a sudden, you got A.J.

Brown out there all by himself with anybody.

I don't care how good McDuffie is or whatever it is.

Okay, let's even say Trent McDuffie can handle A.J.

Brown about as well as anybody can.

Now you still have Devontae Smith.

Like their line is inon.

And they have, I think, the best defense in the NFL.

I don't, like, they're so ridiculously good at every level that every conversation I've had this week makes me question my pick.

That's what I'm trying to say.

Yeah, I've been flip-flopping too.

The only thing is they haven't turned the ball over.

We know that.

Jalen Hurts has done a great job.

I think the way the Chiefs win is if the Eagles turn the ball over.

If they can find a way to force a couple turnovers, get some extra possessions.

But you're right.

I mean, I...

I haven't made my official pick, but you're making me lean a little bit too long.

So the first four games of this season, Jalen Hurts turned the ball over seven times.

Yeah.

And then they had their bye week.

And from that time forward, he has turned the ball over three times, zero in the playoffs.

They have obviously, well, what they figured out is, we've got Saquon.

We have this ridiculously good defense.

Do not put the ball in harm's way no matter what.

And great offensive line.

The only way that will happen is if they're playing from way behind.

And it's kind of hard to put them way behind because their defense is so good.

They would have to make some pretty significant mistakes.

Now, I don't know where he said it.

I was flying down here yesterday, and I saw a quote from Sean Payton where he said he thinks the Chiefs, I would defer to you guys, have a significant advantage in special teams in this game.

And so maybe that's where a big play comes somewhere on a runback.

I think you have more confidence in Butker than you do in Elliott.

Definitely.

Let's see if there is a, maybe special teams winds up.

I think the Chiefs playing from in front force the Eagles to do stuff they're not comfortable.

If you look at basically every Super Bowl, there's a special teams play that's made.

That's huge.

That's for sure.

You know, and Sean Payton was one of them.

Whenever he won, he kicked the ones out of kick.

Yeah.

That was against us.

So like Sean Payton thoroughly believes it because it's a real stat.

And the Chiefs have a Hall of Fame special teams coordinator and Dave Tob.

Well just field position too like field position that people don't talk about if you you pin him inside the 20s with good defense too we're talking about here if you can keep the field position in your favor that's another way to pass a better punter

I like a rise arise a dog I like a rise yeah especially everything he's been through

for him to go out there and he like half swings and the ball just explodes off his foot and I think he like

I think he has a little bit more athlete in him.

Like, I think he'll make plays.

Like, I think he gets different punts.

I think he's a dog.

I like him a lot.

I like the the Chiefs special teams.

I like Tob a lot, a lot.

I have a stat based off of what Greene said.

I knew I saw it earlier.

First four games, Jalen Hurts had over 30 pass attempts every single game.

Since that, he's only had one game where he's threw for over 30 pass attempts.

That was against the Steelers.

He was 25 of 32.

They just kept throwing it.

They got to get the

defendant lead.

So, yeah,

they figured it out that, hey, let's take care of the ball.

Let's run Saquon.

And they haven't lost a game that he finished since that time.

The only game they've lost in that entire time was the game where he got the concussion in the first half.

Do you guys talk about Big Dom's presence this year versus last year?

He's a factor.

Yeah.

That hasn't come up.

Do you anticipate that being

a main way?

Yeah.

Did you see what happened last year, brother?

When he got suspended?

That was pretty much when it all fell apart.

I do remember that.

Yeah, did you talk about it?

At the time, I think we did talk about it.

Okay, good, good, good.

This season, look, I don't know.

I think Nick Siriani is an interesting person.

I can't make up my mind what Giddup doesn't really like him.

Yeah, you guys hate him.

You guys kill him.

You guys hate him.

You guys have lower thirds that are like, this guy actually is a...

A big dumb dip shit.

That's what you guys are saying.

Well, I mean, but that's strong.

There was a moment in time this season where I genuinely thought he was going to get fired.

It's remarkable when you think about it, but when he was yelling at the fans, or as it turned out now, fan, but the way that whole thing looked in that moment

after, what was it, the Jacksonville game?

It was sort of a lackluster win.

Loved it.

Yeah, it was awesome.

Just run the ball.

He was yelling at him.

They were like three and two.

But I think you have to give him a lot of credit because

he,

look, the buck stops with him.

At the end of the day, we can give all the credit in the world to Vic Fanjo and to Kellen Moore and to all the talent and all that sort of thing.

But if things had gone sideways, we would have blamed him for sure.

So it's not fair to put the coach in a position where if everything goes bad, it's his fault.

If everything goes well, he deserves none of the credit.

That's an unfair position to take.

So I think you have to give him credit for this team having steadied itself after what I think was a fairly uneven beginning and being where they are now, which is, they look like the best team in the league.

And you place both coordinators, and then you talk about changing your play style.

That's one thing to manage a quarterback, but you got to manage those egos or those wide receivers, too.

You're talking about guys who are paid and who are number one and probably 1B type wide receivers that's not getting 30 pass attempts like

most of these big time offenses and quarterbacks wanting to be.

And they were the ones that did the Gatorade.

The top wide receivers were.

So it's it's like uh yeah it was funny to watch the reaction about they were winning and they're in the super bowl serial

what did he do this guy doesn't do anything the guy's the head coach of the team which i think is also why he told you know a couple people to tongue his beanbag i don't know if he said that that was uh fake that was a fake press conference okay nuts i don't think it was actually coach sirion

those were not actual words that was

he did not say that we're going to make sure we clarify that greeny you're the best uh thank you thank you for hanging out i am so happy to be here.

I have not been to Radio Row in a really long time.

I was telling you guys last night,

the first Super Bowl I ever covered, I was working for a radio station.

It was January of 1993.

I think there were six radio stations represented back then.

So to see what this thing has become, to just that my career and my life has sort of spanned seeing what that was then to what this is now and huge names like you being part of this thing here now.

It's thrilling to watch.

So I'm really glad we came down here.

Well, the mad dog just walked in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Chris Russo.

I couldn't read from your face.

Like, are you and he friendly?

We were on Mad Dog Radio.

Mad Dog Radio.

We're on Mad Dog Radio, right?

He wasn't a big fan of the Bakken.

He didn't love the Bakken.

Swear it's fine.

We didn't really talk.

We talked to him a couple times.

Always friendly.

But we did.

We go to the one radio row, we went to him every single time he started his show.

We put a camera on his show because it's the start of his show.

He's getting very entertaining.

He's been electrifying on TV with ESPN.

and steve yeah they're terrific yeah i i don't really know much about him but yeah he uh we're on his channel so we're very lucky for him he's a very he's a very unusual person let's put it this way he would consider the 85 bears too recent a reference yeah i would hear him be like man i don't i don't know anything about the 85 bears but you want to talk about let's talk about star let's talk about part you know you're talking all this about patrick mahomes no one talks about part star yeah i would be historical's jock

and star loves edibles with otto graham and then we go from there.

He does love edibles, which I'm a big fan of, just like Granny.

All right.

We appreciate you, man.

Guys, enjoy.

It's been wonderful to see you.

So you're on the Eagles.

I am.

Wow.

My official pick is Kansas City because it's already been published somewhere, but

I actually think the Eagles are going to be.

The get-up bottom bar this morning was All Chiefs.

You guys are both on it.

My pick wasn't on it.

There were four of them, so my pick was not on it.

So if that's wrong, it wasn't me.

Well, I like you picked both of them.

That's great.

Yeah, yeah, I can't do it.

I sports media.

That's right.

I sports media.

Lazy John.

I might do the same.

Yeah.

Laser Jam and Mike Greenberg.

Greeny, Greeny.

See you, Greeny.

All right, Greeny.

We'll see you at the hotel tonight.

Thank you.

Yep.

Yes, sir.

All right, Greeny.

See you, Greeny.

See you, Mike.

All right, Greeny.

All right.

That was sweet because he got the full experience of Radio Row.

Yeah.

He should be at Radio Row.

They should be at Radio Row.

They should have their set right there.

Yep, Prince of Mukamara needs his own booth.

Mr.

A,

holy fuck.

Speaking of a guy who deserves his own booth, a man who is a king of this town because he brought a title to this town, a man who we've been lucky to chit-chat with a few times, but not nearly enough.

Ladies and gentlemen, whole favor, Drew Brees.

Holy shit.

Here we go.

Yeah, Drew.

Yeah, Drew Brees.

Sorry about that.

No, we are sorry.

I'm great.

It's good to see you.

I got a dap above the fellowship.

Have to.

Long time coming.

Long time coming, baby.

This is a big deal.

I'm excited for the end of this.

Thank you.

All right, Drew.

How are you?

Here we go.

There it is.

Wow.

Doing good.

Wow.

That's seven years.

That's a big deal.

That's incredible.

Seven years in the making.

That's

big for Ty.

Ty needed that for me.

I did.

Is there a backstory?

You guys cut a history.

He did.

Last time we were in the the radio row with you in Miami.

Yeah.

I was on kind of the corner, and our producer was down below, and he was wearing Cuban stuff, you know, and he looked great.

So I get it.

Cuban Z, he looks sweet.

And that mark Cuban or Cuban country.

No,

like a Cubano, man.

Yeah, okay.

Like

white linen suit, little vans.

Yeah, little hats, yes.

Like we're rolling cigars in the corner here.

Yeah, there you go.

And you went down the line of everyone that was up there, shook their hand, and then when you got to me, you basically just put your elbow right into the back of my neck, gave him a handshake, and then got out of there.

So, just to be clear, you are trying to thank Cuban Z, but in the process of doing the right thing and acknowledging Cuban Z,

you happen to be on top of Ty.

Killed him.

So, Ty has remembered that.

I have.

I put him in a jiu-jitsu chokehold and didn't even realize it.

Pretty much.

Exactly.

So, that dap right there was big.

Huge.

So, we made it right.

I'm proud of you guys.

Absolutely.

Speaking of making it right, speaking of making it right, Purdue, boiler up.

And

you win the Super Bowl for the Saints against Colts.

We had the lead at halftime.

You guys kicked it.

I was like, hey, dude, seemingly wouldn't miss a pass.

And

you guys are winning the Super Bowl for New Orleans.

Congratulations.

Congrats.

But we and I have been an admirer of the way you operate for a long time.

Last year, Radio Row.

I think it was last year.

Yep.

On Fridays of the Radio Row, because of all the people that are here that come and ask me to do their media stuff, it's impossible during the days.

Yeah.

Because there's like so many things to do, so it's hard to talk.

So Fridays is whenever I go out and I just hit everybody that I talk to.

So I'm in the middle of doing that.

And boy, I saw the video.

It looked bad.

I want to let you know it looks bad.

You were saying pat, pat, pat in this video.

And I'm like right here about to head somewhere.

And I just exit stage and don't even acknowledge you.

I want to let you know when I saw that, I felt like the biggest dickhead of all time.

I am a fan.

I did not hear you.

I promise you that's the case.

And if there was ever any feelings from that moment where you're like, fuck this guy, I understand.

Because when I saw the video, I was like,

that is going to be tough to say I didn't hear you, but I promise I didn't.

To make you feel better in full disclosure, just to really, really clear it up.

And to just like, you know, I was...

Actually, it was Pat Fryermuth who was behind you.

And so I was like, Pat.

Mooth.

Yep.

I got that.

I was friends.

Because that was off camera.

I didn't see that.

Okay, good.

I was absolutely talking to you.

Okay, okay, good, good, good, good.

All right.

Well, I do apologize.

Boy, another Pat being in the conversation would have been great.

That would have been huge.

That would have been huge for me.

I would have just.

It took me a few days to get over it, but I eventually got over it.

Okay, so we're in your city right now.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thomas Morstead was on yesterday.

Obviously, teammate of yours.

I saw you guys took the picture about zero punts and all the great things.

Do you know that story?

I've seen the pictures.

I don't think I know completely.

Thomas Morstead punted here for.

Shoot, a long time.

10 years?

I mean, my entire career.

Yeah, so whatever that was.

Yeah, and you guys take a photo and post it in about zero punts.

How does that come together?

So

we had this, I mean, obviously you would love to go into a game and just have such offensive output.

to the point where you're scoring every time you touch the ball and you literally punt the ball zero time.

So basically going into every game, it was like, Thomas, I know how hard you've worked this week.

Like, I've seen you in the weight room, like, you know, writing down.

You know, he journals every single exercise of every single workout right

i did not know that but it makes sense so laser focused during practice like pinpoint accuracy was dropping this baby inside the tent or experimenting with these different punts the aussie rules and all this stuff and i'm like thomas i know how hard you've been working this week but my goal is that you do not touch the field yes right this this game and so that happened on a handful of occasions and every time it would in the locker room after the game we would get a picture together throwing up like the doughnut right?

So zero punts, zero times touching the field.

Congratulations, Thomas.

Your average salary per snap just went

way up.

Way up.

Like I'm trying to get you in the top 10 all time.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah, Peyton was trying to do the same thing for me.

And I want to let you know, I don't know if Thomas and I viewed it the same exact way.

If we weren't punting, we were winning.

And if we were winning, we were celebrating.

I like celebrating.

Yeah, no doubt.

So that is all I was trying to get to.

However, we need to win is good.

That is a funny relationship, the quarterback punter thing.

That's a funny thing.

I didn't even really think about it.

Peyton gave me a speech one time.

I was having an ass game.

I was shanking balls all over the place.

Comes over and gives me, are you okay?

He's like, no, man.

It's not going well out there.

You know, I didn't even think about him being like, hey, asshole, I'm coming off the field for you to come on the field.

Maybe we try to do our job.

Let's talk about you being a quarterback of this city, though.

Okay, we've been down here.

Obviously, the humidity is insane.

Yeah.

Absolutely insane.

You're Texas boys, so probably a little bit used to it.

But this city, obviously, whatever you guys were in the middle of your run, came alive.

Felt like you brought a lot of happiness to this place.

And I feel like everybody would talk to Drew Brees is God down here.

You know, like you can do no wrong.

How do you feel about your relationship with this city, and what was it like to win for New Orleans?

This is the way I would define, I think, just like the overall attitude, culture, and vibe of this city is that, man, this region has suffered a lot.

And forget the football side of it, but just like life in general.

You think about the number of hurricanes that have come rolling through here and the devastation.

You got the BP oil spill that we were all a part of 15 years ago.

You got the tragedy on Bourbon Street on New Year's Day.

It just seems like one thing after another, man, this community, this region has just taken hit after hit, right?

And yet...

It's just built this resiliency and this resolve.

And so it just makes them appreciate the good times that much more, right?

And appreciate all the uniqueness and all the character that this region has.

And so like when you you walk around town, like truly, if you're like talking to a New Orleanian, there's just, there's like an energy and there's appreciation and there's a gratitude and there's like a, man, come let me show you what we're all about, you know?

Like they're excited.

Like there's one thing with southern hospitality.

There's another thing with New Orleans hospitality.

Man, they want to show you the best of, right?

Some towns are like, man, tourists, get out of here.

Like, we don't want you.

New Orleans is like, man, welcome.

Welcome.

We're going to show you a good time, man.

We're going to feed you well.

Like, we're going to entertain you well.

And you're going to leave here saying, man, that place is special.

Yeah, and I'll tell you what, we've been eating great down here.

Yeah, absolutely.

We've been eating great down here.

The vibes have been immaculate down here.

Great host city.

Excited for the game on Sunday.

I think we got the right game, don't you think?

I agree.

Yeah.

Look,

I mean, say what you...

Say what you want about the Chiefs.

Okay, so you say what you want to say about the Chiefs because there's a lot of people saying a lot of stuff about the Chiefs right now, and I think that happens when you're great.

I don't know.

I'm going to bring up a different perspective.

Okay, I like that.

Which is, you know, this debate about who we think is going to win and what the game plan is and this and that.

I think we need to look at what happens to these teams if they were to lose.

Okay?

I don't think, has this question been posed?

No.

I think this is the way you have to look at it, is

if the Chiefs lose this game, man, missed opportunity for the three-peat.

Missed opportunity to have done something that has never been done before, unprecedented.

But still, they're a freaking dynasty.

And still, they got Patrick Mahomes for the foreseeable future, and they still have this core that they're probably going to be back next year.

What if the Eagles lose this?

Two out of three years, they've come to the Super Bowl and they've lost this game.

How are we ever going to get past the Chiefs?

If we want to accomplish what we want, how are we.

So, to me, if you said who has the most to lose,

I think it's the Philadelphia Eagles.

Okay.

So, in that conversation of the most desperate team usually wins,

who's the most desperate team?

Like from a game plan perspective, look, I heard what Greene said.

Look, this Saquon Barkley factor, to me, the only weakness the Chiefs defense has is their ability just to stop the run consistently.

And if you can stay ahead of the chains, that takes away the SPAGs, you know, crazy pressure stuff.

If you're in a third long game against these guys, forget about it.

You're done.

But if you can stay ahead of the chains, you can run the ball effectively, you can eat up the clock as you're going down and scoring points, the best thing you can do is keep the best player in the world on the other side off the field.

This is a game of probability.

If Mahomes usually gets 11 possessions per game, let's figure out a way to get him eight possessions a game, right?

And we do that by possessing the clock, by controlling the game, by running the football, and getting points and just freaking pounding away at them.

Not being scared to matriculate it down the field, which they've been able to do, unless the other team can't stop them.

The amount of explosive runs that Saquon Barkley has, his average touchdown length this year, 20-plus touchdowns, 32 yards or something like that.

You know why?

Because the...

You think it's touch-push?

No, no.

You're talking about Saquon Barkley's average rushing touchdown.

31.5 yards or something like that.

32.5 yards.

It's the

Lamar Jackson Derrick Henry factor, right?

I've never seen running backs, and this is not to take any credit away from those two guys, Derrick Henry or Saquon Barkley, I've never seen guys

more times in a year go unabated into the second level of the defense and have a one-on-one opportunity with an open field tackler like a free safety or someone, and then you make that guy miss and you are off to the races.

And it's because the quarterback is a threat.

When the quarterback is a threat, you have to account for him with a body.

You have taken someone out of the box who otherwise would have been a tackler that you would have had to worry about.

So you're getting more and more opportunities to get to the second level, which good luck tackling those guys in space.

Good luck.

Both of them are freight trains when they get momentum going downhill.

So Saquon, the best decision he made was to go to Philly and to have a quarterback who gives him that opportunity.

And the O-line.

Yeah.

Look, O-line's phenomenal.

All these factors, but the QB takes a defender out of the run game.

It changes math.

It completely does.

If you will.

D-bon has a question for you, Drew.

Absolute headache.

Now, speaking of absolute headache, you know, talking about some of the all-time great offenses, I know as a defender, if you talk about guys that play in the league going into that super dome, you guys would create an avalanche.

It'll be those seam routes, dig routes, a screen route anytime here and there.

Sean Payton, and what he was able to do with Bo Knicks early on, and then just all these young quarterbacks.

I feel like offensive coordinators move.

They have a good year here or there.

They go get a head coaching job.

How long does it take, in your opinion, for a quarterback and a play caller to kind of get on that same page where they're simpatico?

Look, it takes time.

I mean just, you know, you look at that QB class last year, obviously six in the top 12, pretty remarkable.

You know, Sean Payton, you knew was going to go with someone.

He kind of kept it close to the vest for a long time, but the minute he drafted Bo Nicks, I remember calling him and saying, hey, did you get your guy?

And like emphatically, it was like, we got

the guy.

You know, he loved him.

And Sean...

Obviously, he's a QB whisper.

Obviously, he's a great evaluator of the position.

But I think what he loved about Bo was, first and foremost, the guy had 60 plus college starts.

So high level starts.

You think about the level of experience that Bo Nicks came into this league with.

High level of maturity.

You watch the offense that he was in.

Man, great processor of the game, understood where his eyes should be, man, balls coming out on time, very accurate.

You know, say what you want about the short passing game in college football, which everything seems like it's these easy completion RPOs, but man, his down-the-field percentages were really good.

So Sean just, man, he had this formula, and he had this, like, you know, this, this, this thing that he was looking for, and he found it in Bo Nicks.

And as you watch their year progress this year, man, early on, it felt limited as far as the offense that I know, like, Sean, man, Sean's...

Offense is complex, man.

There's a litany of things he wants to do.

But, man, you got to make sure the Q can handle it.

You got to make sure the offense, and man, the Q's trying to learn the offense.

He's trying to develop chemistry with his guys.

He's trying to learn the speed of the game, like what wins and loses in the NFL.

But man, you just saw this thing progress.

Game after game is, ah, he's getting more comfortable.

Oh, they're opening up the playbook.

Oh, I didn't see that in the first six weeks, and now I'm seeing it, right?

Better turning his back to the defense and the play action.

College football nowadays, it's all, here we are, shotgun, just staring at the defense, getting the ball out quick.

The minute you got to go under center, it's a different ball game.

But that adds a huge element in the run game, and it certainly complements.

Shark soft action backers, right?

So

to me, that's an element that you have to have in your offense if you really want to open up, you know, kind of the full breadth of what you're capable of.

So you saw that more and more as the season went on.

Obviously, he's very athletic.

He can get outside the ball.

In fact, I think he's at his best on the run outside the pocket.

So for all those reasons, I think Sean is right.

He does have his guy.

And you saw that thing progress as the year went on.

And you complement that with some playmakers, a good run game, a great defense on the other side.

And, man, you got the tools.

What do you mean whenever you said our quarterback still has some Ferris Bueller in him?

Is that something he's...

What did he mean by that?

That's a good question.

Because he and him got into it a little bit on the sideline and said, this guy still has some Ferris Bueller, or quarterback still has some Ferris Bueller in him or something.

Yeah, I think that's probably like a little off script.

What do you think he meant by it, though, though?

That's what I'm saying.

Sean.

Oh, Ferris Bueller.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Just like,

a little unpredictable.

He wasn't supposed to do that.

Guys were supposed to be here, and all of a sudden, like, he's running over here.

He's like, how'd he get over there?

So I think that's what he meant.

But

that's part of that offense is, you know, we always looked at the past game as an extension of the run game, right?

So we're going to take that five-yard completion that seven-yard completion even if we completely miss a block up front it doesn't matter we're gonna get the ball out if our eyes hold on what record did you have you had like uh it's like 7,000 straight completions or something

what is that that's accuracy that's offense why do you think you were able to complete like fucking every pass what that was kind of I think that's a lot of preparation too from him he know you knew like yeah throwing you knew where to go with the ball in on time that was your thing right now it's all coming back to me for 2,000 yards against in their offense

Yeah, you can't get to him.

True, get to brew the ball to him.

Let me start with this.

I wanted to be an offensive lineman's best friend.

Okay.

All right.

Like, I love those guys for the sacrifice they made

and what their job description is.

But at the end of the day, too, I wanted them to know, like, man, like, my QB is going to bail me out sometimes as well.

Like, I whiff on Aaron Donald right here.

And my QB is still going to find a way to get this thing out and take the hit and get a positive play so we can keep this drive alive.

And now all of a sudden all the attention is not going to be on me for missing that block and just putting up a seven-yard sack.

You know what I'm saying?

So no one,

this sounds crazy, but QB, like QB rating, right?

QB rating, you get docked for incompletions.

You get docked for throwaways.

At times, that can be the best decision you make on a play, is throwing the ball away.

Because we have to be masters of probability, right?

We're sitting here at second and nine.

If I take that sack and we're at third and 15, my chance of success the next play is not very good, right?

It's probably like 9%.

But if I can avoid the sack with a throwaway or even find a little two-yard completion on a check down and I'm at third and seven, man, my chances of success just went up like 25%.

And I just, I made everybody else look a little bit better, right?

So, man, I wanted to be an O-lineman's best friend.

And I knew it demoralized the defensive line.

Because eventually they're like, damn it, no matter how hard I rush, no matter how much I beat this dude in front of me, I'm not getting any sacks, right?

So there's something to be be said for that.

Were you looking out the bottom?

Is that what you were doing?

I'm watching these highlights.

Dude, I would get made fun of.

I'd get made fun of so much.

Yeah, I would be on my tippy toes sometimes.

Believe it or not, I've got clips where I'd come off a play action.

Okay.

And we'd have some sort of like, we called it sting spear.

So post and then like deep over, right?

Kind of your classic, we're going to clear the safety and corner out and then we're going to run this thing on the other side.

And I would come off a play action and it would be like a wall in front of me.

Dude,

am I hooked up here?

Yeah, you're good.

I would, okay, I would come off this play action, boom, and I'd get to here and I couldn't see.

And I would literally jump just to see where the free safety in the corner were.

And the minute I would land,

I would know where to fire that ball.

So it's like you're golfing on a hilly golf course.

Like you're aiming at a tree, like the third tree over.

That's some sense.

You know what that is?

That's survival, bro.

That's survival.

It absolutely is.

Because it's my job to see.

And I can't come back to the sideline and coach look at me, hey, Hey, you know, what happened?

Oh, I can't see.

Well, that's not an excuse.

That sounds like a you problem.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

That's unbelievable.

Well, I want to let you know, it was fun to watch you play ball, dude.

You were,

I guess, efficient would be rude.

Calling you a quarterback manager is rude.

Saying you could do everything is rude.

I don't know what the proper way to describe you is, but you were good at everything.

And your leadership was insane.

Yes.

Like, watching the boys rally around you, I think, is probably the biggest compliment that anybody can say because it's

one for you, two for me

three

for us

one

two win for you three four win some more five six win for kicks seven eight win it's great nine ten win again win again win again win again win again

and then your hair is on fire and you go get a dub yeah you do that's right and you would just throw zero incompletions every time.

Beast.

That was unbelievable.

Thank you for what you did for the city, for the game.

Absolutely.

And you're with Crown Royal.

You look incredibly cool.

The watch and jacket combo.

Very cool.

Very, very cool.

And I'm glad you pointed out the jacket because, you know, I got a little goodie bag for you.

No, check out that, man.

No way.

That is a black satin starter jacket.

Shut up.

You got Crown Royal, you got NFL, you got Super Bowl 59, man.

Check that three out, huh?

Hand over the vest.

Stop that.

I mean, that vest is pretty sharp, but I'm just saying.

Look, and that's retro.

You remember starter jackets back in the day?

That was the jacket.

Brooklyn's supposed to be.

Hey, that's going to come in handy.

It's supposed to be winter in Indiana.

Yeah, damn right.

It's been a winter everywhere.

I don't know if you've been experiencing it.

We went to Miami.

It was cold.

Atlanta was cold.

Dallas was cold.

Louisiana's nice.

That is gorgeous.

It gets sweat down here, bro.

Right.

Hey,

can I bring the boys out to the church?

Come visit you?

It's the Thunderdome.

Guys, the Thunderdome?

Thank you.

Jesus used to live there.

Yeah.

Okay.

He's still around.

Yeah, he's still there.

His presence is felt.

We can certainly feel him, and we thank him.

We thank him.

We thank him, obviously.

You can come whenever you want, brother.

All right, man.

Listen, how often are you getting back?

You got business?

I was in Noblesville.

Yeah, we opened up our pickleball facility, the Pickler, in Noblesville two weeks ago.

You own the team?

I forgot about Plickler.

Yeah.

L.A.

Mad Drops Pickleball Club.

What about walk-ons?

That's walk-ons.

Hey, right.

That's right.

Is that your spot now?

Yeah.

Hey, it's very good.

Get the duck in Andoey Gumbo, man.

That's boom.

Done.

Look at what you guys are doing.

Look at that.

You see that?

It's right next to Target.

That's awesome.

That's very good.

I love Target.

Feels good.

We made up.

We did.

We made up.

You're a pickball set.

You play a lot?

I play a little bit.

Play a little bit.

Feel like you're a good player?

You know, actually, recently I've been awful.

But I need to.

Coming to you.

Are you a rating?

There's ratings, right?

Are you ready?

Yeah, there is.

I'm like a 4-5, 2-5.

That's AQ.

That's AQ.

So pros, like, pros would be

pros would be in the mid-high sixes.

You think he can beat AQ Shiplay?

4-5's pretty good, then.

You think he can beat AQ Shiploo?

I haven't seen this game, but I think he's about 4-3.

You can beat AQ Shiplay.

I don't know.

I would hope.

AQ's pretty good.

He hits that hurry-up on that thing.

Is everyone's going to speed up on that?

He doesn't even know the rules.

Yeah, look, it's finesse, it's finesse, and then right when they're least expecting it, you just give them the wrist action.

Right at your body.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, body shots worth two.

Okay.

Bohom.

Good sport.

That's a game.

All right, Drew.

I think you've got to go somewhere.

Yeah.

I've been told that we're 10 minutes over.

So I don't know if you're going to be able to get it.

I just like hanging in the back.

I think they have gumbo.

I actually think they have gumbo for you in the back.

Oh, really?

Oh, really?

Get out of town.

Is it a gumbo?

Is it Gator?

Starving.

There is some gumbo.

Oh, there is some gumbo.

There it is.

We got some gumbo.

Oh, yeah.

Is that Guider?

This is

fried Gator.

This is courtesy of the New Orleans Super Bowl host committee.

Thank you, guys.

And some special ingredients here.

You know what?

Hey, you know what?

I'm going to bring it over here to the fellas.

Definitely.

You're plugged in.

You're good.

We can take it.

Got any Gator in there?

Pass it down, boys.

Thank you, Jerry.

Thank you, you, Drew.

I hope they got Gator.

Grab one of them.

I got any Gator?

I need some Gator.

Any Gator in here?

Oh, that looks good.

That looks good.

Boom.

Got a little Gator.

Man, that watch is pretty sweet.

Awesome.

And Dewey sausage.

Got some gumbo bass here, too.

Little Cajun.

Cheers,

cheers, boys, guys.

Cheers to Drew Bruce.

Cheers, Jill.

Thank you, Drew.

Thank you, Drew.

What's this, hot dog?

Come a sausage, that Dewey sausage.

Excuse me.

That's good gumbo, Drew.

Hot dog and bits here.

Oh, yeah, that's an Oscar Meyer wiener.

Hey, this is good gumbo.

This is great gumbo.

You got a gator?

Thank you, Drew.

I'll have to beat that and do a sausage.

Oh, I'd love me some gumbo.

Thanks, Jack.

Nice to meet you, Drew.

Thank you.

I thought ballpark pranks were in here.

Yeah, I got it.

As if they were Oscar Meyer Wieners in here.

I was just asking.

I look like a little hot dog.

Hey, hey, and Dewey sausage.

Look what?

Yeah.

Looking for a little gaito.

It is.

Tasty.

I don't know if it's gaito.

Is it gaito?

It's not gaito.

It ain't no gaito.

This is a large.

That's going to be tough.

It looks good, man.

Like you got your neck brace on again.

Triple in the Super Bowl.

AQ Shipley back there.

AQ, why don't we wrap up this program, AQ Shipley?

He's arguing with Drew about the rating, probably.

I'd fuck you up in pickleball.

What are you, AQ?

Are you a five-point rating?

What's your rating?

What's your rating?

Like a four or five as well.

Oh, is that what you're saying?

That'd be a good match.

That'd be a good match.

All right, we're wrapping up here.

AQ.

You have anything to say about how cool I look with these things on me or no?

What do you think?

I love all the jackets you got.

Yeah.

Can I try some of this?

Yeah, we gotta take a look at it.

You want a little gumbo?

It's a thousand degrees.

You want a little bit of the gumbo for you?

Some of these gumbo poppets.

Hey, what are these?

I don't know.

Croutons?

It's just white stuff.

Don't worry about it.

Potatoes.

It's real mayonnaise.

Yeah.

I hope you're good.

All right, AQ.

Final thought on this Thursday?

You've had a chance to listen and see a lot of things behind the scenes, I assume, also, as well.

Oh, yeah.

How do you feel about this particular program from Radio Row

on this Thursday?

I mean, the entire year is my favorite time of the year being with you boys, and this week brings it all together.

It's been awesome.

It's been awesome.

Everything.

Maybe we win at the casino today.

We are going to double down.

I doubt it.

As long as that son of a bitch, Stacey, is

feeling again.

Stacy was a dog.

Stacy was a moxie.

He had some moxie about him.

They all do.

That's the problem.

What about Vu?

Vu is real.

Vu is the real deal.

I don't want to see Vu ever.

I don't see Vu is absolutely.

I don't want to see Hung.

I don't want to see Tim.

She got us.

I don't want to see him.

Kayla had six card 21.

Next hand, seven card 21.

Okay.

He needs to be fired.

Seven.

Kayla sucks.

13 cards, two hands, two 21s.

Pretty good gumbo.

Pretty good gumbo.

Today.

Bobby Flay gave us a couple burgers.

Yeah.

Cake Boss had some pizza.

Great pizza.

Kind of a pizza boss.

I needed to get some of that.

Hey, Cake Boss got some good pizza.

Oh, it's peanut butter pie.

The peanut butter pie at Emerald's restaurant.

He recovered.

Yeah.

I ate the whole thing.

I apologize.

Wait, don't get the peanut butter pie.

Bobby Flay.

Oh, is that where you were at last night?

You were too cool to hang out with the rest of us?

Yeah.

I was with Ty?

Yeah, I was there.

We, you know, got our teeth kicked in in the casino too late and then tried to go to Nobu.

It was a three-hour wait.

Luckily, Chef Emeril Lagasse welcomed us right up.

He did.

Was he there?

Did you see that?

No, he wasn't.

No one else was either.

That's why we got in.

But there were peanut butter pie, it sounds like unbelievable.

Peanut peanut butter.

Peanut butter.

Was that Gator?

It was so good.

Seafood Tower.

Was that Gator?

Oh, my.

We did not get Gator.

No.

Is Gator available?

I didn't see any Gator There was

some Gato.

There was Gato on the menu.

We're going to have to eat some Gator.

I need some Gator today.

Let's get out of here, boys.

We'll be back tomorrow.

Big show tomorrow.

It's 1,000 degrees in here all of a sudden.

I wonder why.

I got a use check on you see it.

I see it.

And it's crazy.

Take some layers off.

And a breeze.

That was cool.

Yeah, I got a breeze.

Well, I don't know if breeze is part of the design.

Man, it sounded like he was proud of it.

So, Crown Roy is the official whiskey sponsor of the Super Bowl.

That's right.

Official spirit, Dickhead.

Spirit.

I saw the bag right there.

Why do you always have to be an asshole?

Me.

Like, that was the most offensive thing that has been said.

I'm the dick on that one.

Okay.

Get it right.

All right.

Boys, it's been fun down here in New Orleans.

People that watch our show, both at home and here, we appreciate it.

It's a weird setup.

It isn't.

I feel like I'm working out for the Cowboys.

I never do.

Yeah,

exactly.

Yeah, it does feel like there's,

because I don't know if we're supposed to engage, but then if we engage, then we can't really talk.

And then

there's nothing.

Do not engage.

But we would like to say thank you to you.

Sorry we have not engaged as much because we're trying to talk to people, getting to talk to people.

Drew Brees was awesome.

So the man.

He knows a lot about ball, shockingly.

Yeah, that was crazy here.

Hey, you got to do this, got to do this.

If it's at this, it's that.

Ron Rivera killed it as well.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, he's back.

Remember, it felt like he almost maybe fell out of love of football there.

Yeah.

And then he's back.

He's going to get fired.

excited yeah that's what we were wondering i wonder if he heard that from us you think no he did because he came up to the mic so he definitely did part of the game and maybe he was that is a big part of this week part of the game yeah yeah things get lost you know things get said yeah they do yeah right a long season just tell you we've said a lot of stuff about a lot of people and like a lot of those people have come up and said hi to us so

all right

Inside Super Bowl jokes.

Yeah, I love that guy.

We all do.

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

Let's enjoy this evening.

We can't can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living.

It is so stupid.

We should not be in this nice of a thing at this big of an event doing anything that matters.

But somehow it feels like we are doing stuff that's cool, and we're so grateful for it.

We'll continue to do it until you tell us not to anymore.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Be a friend.

Hey, boys, in the back, great work.

Hello, boys.

In the back, boys.

Great work.

Troop was still back?

I mean, Gumpy Stable, I mean?

You were talking about the

FBI.

Still bringing it.

Still bringing it.

Hey, Gumps, where's your sunglasses, brother?

They were getting a little tighter on the back of my skull.

Yeah.

These things were strapped around all the way around.

They were like snow goggles.

Did you have croakies on them?

Yeah, but like real tight.

Like you're about to get some fresh power.

Yeah, like snow goggles, but they were sunglasses.

Nice.

So that was a look.

Computer wasn't wearing those.

He's not a goofball.

He had them on.

He didn't have them.

I saw him right back on.

Tables rubbing off on him.

I saw him right back.

And the boys juiced up pre-game.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, Chad.

Pre-game.

He did.

He brought the speaker to the post.

They didn't have a speaker.

Sure.

Puts on the sunglasses things.

That reminds me.

Hutch had Mitts pants on.

I like those.

Yeah, super fashionable.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

He's young.

That's what they do.

Jayden Daniels,

he's a professional.

Yes.

He's a 35-year-old.

He's big old Mitts, too.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

He's tall, too.

Yeah, tall.

A lot of football.

A lot of conversation today about guys that play a lot of football.

Jaden played a lot of football.

That was talked about.

Bo Nicks played a lot of football.

That was talked about.

Maybe that's a thing you should think about whenever you're drafting a guy top five.

Something to think about.

Yeah.

Game reps.

Too late for something, people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sometimes you get to get those games in the NFL.

Yeah.

Exactly.

That's all.

Potential.

Potential.

You got to have patience.

Potential.

Yeah, that's what you call guys rookie.

Potential.

It's really good.

It's going to go good.

Are you going to get back into coaching?

No.

Loser.

These coaches seem like they love it, though.

Yeah.

Happy for him.

Could not wait to get back to you.

Couldn't wait.

He's not coaching, though.

His job might be great.

Yeah, he said we're still figuring it out.

Are you the GM?

Maybe.

We'll see.

Oh, they're paying me.

He's just going to be back around.

Oh, I like it.

I like it, too.

Hanging with the boys.

I like that they had a team and they cared over there.

Like, legit.

I think that's a big deal.

Yeah.

The fact that that was finals week and they showed up like that.

Lost their quarterback.

Yeah, they did.

That's going to happen, I think, for a lot of people on IU.

Yeah.

And Signetti hits that portal.

Sig's not done, baby.

He's coming back.

Yeah, he wants to keep it rolling.

But I think that's going to happen to a lot of teams.

The quarterback transfer market's going to be awesome for quarterbacks.

Oh, yeah.

I think it's going to be a big deal.

Carson Beck allegedly getting $3 million or whatever it is.

There was another massive offer.

That's only going to continue to go up.

Because especially if it keeps working.

April 8th, whatever.

Yeah, there's another transfer window.

West Virginia started touring duty backup for the boys.

Their winter workouts?

Yeah.

Yeah.

How many guys have quit?

I don't know.

That's the worry about the transfer portal that's here in April.

You get one off-season experience of Wahora.

I saw a report they took

TikTok out of the locker room as well.

Yeah, well, I

out of the locker room.

Five guys quit because of TikTok.

Yeah,

and then they got sent back to China because they were deemed spies.

Whoa.

That didn't happen in West Virginia.

That's what I heard.

I don't know.

I got to ask Pete about that.

Funny, I saw you playing your gaming device on the way down here.

The Swedish one?

Yes.

A Swedish gaming device.

Oh, I'm sorry.

A Chinese gaming device.

I'm sorry.

Do the Swedes use Mandarin now?

Because that's what your game was talking about.

No, that was actually Swedish, Tony.

This guy's talking out of his ass right now.

Everybody knows.

I think we've all seen what you guys are playing with on all of our algorithms.

Yeah, yep, beautiful Swedish game device

manufactured in Stockholm.

I mean, I don't know what else.

Yeah,

did you look that up?

Yeah, it says it right on the fucking back of the console.

Okay, all right.

Yeah, all right, let's get out of here.

Be a friend, tell a friend something nice about changing their life.

We're gonna sing together: team on me, team on three.

One, two, three, team.

Goodbye.

We're back tomorrow.