PMS 2.0 1291 - Luka Dončić Introductory Lakers Press Conference, Shams Charania, Bill Belichick, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this Super Bowl Tuesday, February 4th, 2025. This program starts now.
Football! It is wonderful, and obviously tomorrow we head down to the Bayou, to New Orleans, to join the festivities down at Radio Row for this particular Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. The guests will be in abundance.

The conversation should be ecstatic.

And the city, from what I'm hearing, is abuzz. We cannot wait to get down there, but obviously that is tomorrow.
Today is today. We will be running the show until Luka Doncic's introductory press conference begins with the Los Angeles Lakers.
We were told it will start at noon. These press conferences normally run late because you've got a lot of people that are going to get aligned.
You've got to have ownership, you've got to have general manager, you've got to have coach, you've got to have star. Now all those people have people.
All those people run into each other before they even get out to where the press conference is. So there's a lot of dap in, a lot of pleasantries, a lot of those things.
Over under 12-11 in my head. Could be before after as soon as that thing begins we will send you right over to it because obviously this is the product of the biggest trade in the history of sports potentially and chompsirania our guy newest member of the espn nba crew broke this news in a record-breaking tweet that says 91.
It's now way over 100 million views as the hours continue to roll on. This man's 25 years old.
And because he likes to eat some food. Sure.
Okay. Even though he balls out, led them to the NBA Finals.
Plays at half speed so he can operate a little bit overweight because that's how he's played his entire life. Just because the GM doesn't like the way he operates.
And I guess they got rid of his training staff, brought in some new crew in there. And they have new ownership in there now, if you do recall.
And somehow they have all gone online that they matter more than this guy. Okay.
Interesting. That is awesome.
I hope the suck forever uh now granted i like anthony davis as well we cannot kind of leave him out of this 32 years old we were told that the los angeles lakers are going to build around anthony davis anthony davis was so comfortable in his locker just a few days ago saying you know we get our point guard in here getting our center here i think we go on good run and there was reason for him to be incredibly comfortable because everybody talking about the Lakers was talking about how he was the future of this entire organization. One of the most storied franchises in the history of sport, the Los Angeles Lakers, are going to be led by Anthony Davis after the LeBron James era.
They need to start building this team around the unibrow. They need to start building this city around this guy.
Well, he's going to Dallas, and he's going going to be a maverick he said he can't wait for the next chapter down there to play for them and i'm letting you know ad i think i hope i hope they suck i hope you suck down there i hope they suck down there i don't like what they did to luca at all not i'm not even that big of a luca fan sure i just went to a pacers mavericks game here in indiana and pacers have a lot of fans. Pacers have a lot of basketball fans.
Their tickets got bought by people wearing 77 jerseys for the Mavericks. He sold out our arena.
I assume he sold out every other arena. He led their team to the freaking finals last year.
He didn't do great in finals. They got swept by Celtics.
Like, Celtics swept everybody. That's what the Celtics did last year.
They were a phenomenal team. Well, he needs to get— Somehow they convinced themselves that they're more important than this guy.
And I'll tell you what, there ain't nothing I hate more than a bunch of suits that think they matter. And that is seemingly what's taking place down there in Dallas.
Once again, Anthony Davis, not your fault. We love Anthony Davis.
But I hope Luka goes to L.A. and just goes bananas.
Yeah. I hope it is the Luka Doncic revenge tour.
I hope he gets an eight- pack sure i actually he might what if he does and he sucks then he's gonna say i told you this is what i well i need a little slob around me i need a little blubber i need to be able to bounce it actually helps me stay in slow motion which is what i dribble in anyway since he's got to the league none of us who i mean i guess basketball people probably understand it more with the way his body positioning is but as a uh kind of a uh spectator from a distance grew up in pittsburgh didn't have a basketball team would watch the lake show late at night uh because it was spectacular during my era of growing up and i'm also kind of an insomniac so i couldn't sleep so if their games are on i'm gonna watch it but it's like that guy's moving at the pace of molasses that's never gonna work and then it just did that he just averages like 30 points a game yeah and somehow he just is continuing to do it and people know that he's gonna move slow people know exactly what he's gonna do and he continues winning he's like a 55 year old man out there as a 25 year old and they're like yeah that's what we're betting on he's not gonna be able to play for long it's like i don't know i still see those 55 year olds at-year-olds at the YMCA doing the same old shit. Now, granted, it's the NBA.
I get it. It's a different animal.
And maybe he will eat himself out of the NBA. But what I think is probably going to happen whenever he gets with LeBron James, I think they're probably going to go.
And this dude has led a team to the NBA Finals to win the Western Conference. And now he's got LeBron on team and a couple other exciting whites.
I mean, and J.J. Redick, we've played with.
I mean, there is. Congrats to the Lakers.
So I'm excited for this press conference. One half of the hammer.
Time. Cowboys AP tone is here.
Are the sportsbooks always correct? No. But we always say they don't pay for those chandeliers on their own.
The sportsbooks made the Mavs go from after this trade. Pre-trade, they were 16-1 to win the championship.
After the trade, the Mavs went 40-1 to win the NBA championship. The Lakers pre-trade were 40-1 to win the NBA championship.
After the trade, they are 16-1 to win the NBA championship. The odds are lit.
What do we know? We're just a bunch of football people. Okay? We're just a bunch

of football people who gamble.

Okay? Sure. But what do we know

in this entire thing? Let's go to

nine... Oh, D-Butch is here.

Talks a table is here. Bill

Belichick will be joining us in the second hour. But

now, ladies and gentlemen, we send you

to Los Angeles

with the introductory

press conference of the new superstar of the Lakers, 25-year-old Slovenian man, formerly of the Dallas Mavericks, Luka Doncic. Max Christie and Anthony Davis for their incredible service here.
There's no player that played as big a role to our 17th championship than Anthony Davis, who's also a person of incredibly high character. So those three guys are Lakers for life and just want to thank him before we start.
Nope. So in thinking about today and what it means, I think Luka Doncic joining forces with the Los Angeles Lakers is a seismic event in NBA history.
And the reason I say that is because we have a 25-year-old global superstar that's going to get on the stage of the most popular and influential basketball brand on the globe, and I think when those two powerful forces come together, it brings basketball joy to the world because that's how Luka plays. He plays with joy.
And if you think about kids in Barcelona or kids in Buenos Aires or children in Shanghai or Sydney, they're going to be wearing a number 77 Luka Doncic Lakers jersey and bringing joy to basketball just like he does. And that's why it's powerful.
I think the leadership of Adam Silver and the way he's bringing the game to the world, you see it in Europe, you see it in Africa, what the NBA is doing. And now we have one of the game's biggest superstars, an international player coming to join the Los Angeles Lakers.
It's a convergence of all those forces. And I think it's going to be something incredibly special that the NBA and basketball has never seen before.
So to get to this place, there's a couple people I want to thank. First and foremost is Jeannie Buss.
She's so supportive. I think her vision, which falls in line with the great and late Dr.
Buss, to always make sure the brightest and best basketball superstars play for the Los Angeles Lakers. She's clearly carried that vision on from her dad.
And I just want to thank her for her tremendous support and vision and helping this day become a reality. The second person I want to thank is anytime there's a trade or a transaction, there has to be a partner.
And I wanna thank the Dallas Mavericks, led by their GM, Nico Harrison, who was also very instrumental in bringing this opportunity to us and then staying true to the negotiations throughout where it could be culminated with the trade being finalized

and Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, and Markeith Morris

becoming members of our team.

So I wanted to thank those two people.

And now we'll start with questions.

Hey, Luka, there's a video the Lakers put out the other day

of you noticed somebody was talking to you in Slovenian during a game in 2019. It's Kobe.
You turn around, you have the moment with him after the game. And how do you go from that to then now joining the Lakers with LeBron James and just thinking of the legacies of those two players and you having the chance to be the next one? Well, first of all, I remember the exact moment that that happened.
It always stayed, you know, in my mind.

It was an amazing moment.

Just for Kobe to know my name was amazing for me.

And, you know, I just wish Kobe and JJ were here to see this moment.

And, you know, I'm excited about this new journey and happy to be here.

Thank you. and happy to be here.
First of all, welcome to Los Angeles.

When you walked out and you saw all of us here

standing here waiting for you to come,

what's your reaction to seeing all of us here

to welcome you to Los Angeles?

First of all, it's very nice.

There's a lot of people here.

I don't think there's ever been so many people

in my press conference, so i really appreciate all the all the support luca welcome to los angeles i'm curious what's your reaction been the last 48 hours to some of the comments coming from dallas on your way out the door to join the Lakers?

I'm just excited, you know, to be here, to start this new journey.

And obviously, at some point I knew this was going to happen,

but I would say I always take the high road.

You know, I had my amazing moments in Dallas with all my teammates,

coaches, and the most importantly, the fans, you know, they always supported me, and it was an amazing journey. Hey, Luca.
Dan Wicke with the LA Times. Welcome to LA.
You, in a podcast with JJ years ago, said that the one NBA player that you watched was LeBron James. What is your kind of reaction to being able to now play with him?

And how do you think that's going to work for the two of you guys on the court?

It's just like a dream come true, you know.

I always look up to him.

There's so many things I can learn from him.

And I'm just excited, you know, just to learn everything.

And now I get to play with him.

So it's an amazing feeling is that I will Luca you'll want to have with the athletic just kind of following up on that how do you see you and LeBron specifically just just the two-man game between you you both can screen for each other hit guys out of the short roll create create playmaking opportunities. Just how you guys both see the game, very few can see it that way.
Like, how do you see that fit from a passing playmaking and just two-man game perspective? Yeah, I think we both make our teammates better. I think our IQ is very high, so I think that's going to help everybody.
But obviously, I really haven't think about basketball much these days. But I'm just excited to work with him.
I work every day here, so every day that goes by is going to be better. Luca, Kobe Price, SoCal News Group.
Welcome to L.A. Got one for both of you guys.
First for you, Luca. I think you even wrote in a social media post that you thought that

Dallas is going to be a place that you're looking forward to win championships, staying for your career.

Emotionally, what have the past 48 to 60 hours

been for you in coming to LA?

Well, it was honestly, it was hard at first.

That first day was really hard.

I felt like this last 48 hours was one month.

Like two days ago was one month ago.

So emotionally it was really hard.

But every day like today was much better.

I'm just very happy to be here for this opportunity.

It's the Lakers.

It's one of the best clubs in history.

So I'm excited to be here.

Thank you. I'm very happy to be here for this opportunity.
It's the Lakers. It's one of the best clubs in history, so I'm excited to be here.
For Rob, Nico was speaking with reporters, I believe, on Sunday after the trade. He praised you specifically for keeping the negotiations between you two up until, I imagine, the final moments.
At what point did you, I guess, introduce this trade idea to Jeannie? And what was her initial reaction when you told her about it? Yeah, so this all started with the coffee in Dallas where Nico approached us with the concept. And because there was a partnership and a history of travel in the world between Nico and myself of working around Kobe Bryant, there was a fabric of trust in the discussions.

And. traveling the world between Nico and myself working around Kobe Bryant, there was a fabric of trust in the discussions.
And these type of deals are incredibly intricate and complicated. And along the way, we knew there would be 248 insurmountable snags to get to the end.
And there were. And so over the course of, you know, three weeks, call it, an issue would come up and we'd think there was no way to climb the mountain and we'd figure out a way.
Then the next issue would come up and you just keep going and you keep, you stay committed to the work. You stay committed to trying to get the deal done in a partnership sense.
I think a lot of people talk about negotiations in terms of who won and who lost. I try to approach a negotiation in the sense of how do we build a partnership where we can get to the end? And I think that was the lens that we worked and the premise we worked under.
And when the concept was initially introduced to us, it was, hey, the only way we can even have these discussions was if it's between owner and GMs. And there was a commitment to that.
And if we broke that commitment by talking to anyone else, this day would never happen. So I think trust was at the center of all those discussions.
And I called Jeannie after the coffee in Dallas and brought her in immediately, as I do with everything. Her and I have a really strong working relationship.
And the fabric of that is that we share things in real time. And she was extraordinarily excited and hopeful that we could get to the end, which we were able to do.
Hey, Luca and Rob, Melissa Rol Fox Sports. Over here.
I have a question for both of you guys. Obviously, from the league's biggest superstars to fans, people were shocked that the Mavericks were willing to deal a 25-year-old superstar in his prime who has another 10 years at least ahead of him.
What was both of your guys's, I guess, Rob, what was your level of shock that this was even on the table?

And Luca, what was your level of shock that the Mavs were willing to deal you?

I try to take everything in stride.

I think, you know, it's interesting if all of us watch Luca play.

He has a combination of basketball joy and killer instinct, which is really rare. That was number eight, number 24.
And I think learning lessons from that mentality are stay in the moment. And so I don't think of it in terms of shock, surprise.
I think of it in, okay, this is coming at me. It's like a game.
You know, maybe a blitz is coming at Luca. He's not going to be shocked.
He's going to stay in the moment, figure out the read, and make the play. And so when the opportunity came to me, that was sort of my mindset is to, okay, this is coming.
This is a concept that came to me.

Now, how do I process this mentally to get the deal completed?

And right away when it was brought up at the coffee,

my mind started churning.

There were so many complicated things.

We have the Mavericks are hard capped at the first apron.

You know, the Lakers are up against the second apron.

There's trade kickers.

There's going to be a third team that's going to have it. So my gears were turning about the deal the same way his basketball mind is processing a play.
And so I just tried to live in the moment. And I tried to carry that with me for three or four weeks as this was unfolding.
And by staying in the moment,

I think it helped us get to the end.

I mean, everybody was surprised.

So you can imagine how surprised I was.

I was almost asleep.

So when I got a call, I had to check it was April 1st.

I didn't really believe it at first.

And it was a big shock.

It was hard moments for me. It was home.
So it was really hard moments for me, especially the first day. But as I said, you know, I get to play in the greatest club in the world.
And I'm excited for this new journey. Luca, over here on your left, Malika Andrews with ESPN.
It's good to see you. Welcome to LA.

You've been a fan of LeBron.

You've talked about it for a long time,

but he's also been a fan of you.

He's tried to work with you at various different times in the past,

whether it be shoe deals or other things.

I'm curious, what message did he reach out to you with?

Was it a text?

Was it a call?

What was that?

And how did that fuel the way that you think

about coming to LA as well? Yeah, he called me right away. He was in New York, so he called me right away.
And we didn't talk much because, you know, he said, I understand what you're feeling. But that was really nice of him just to call me right away and welcome me to L.A.
Hey, Luca. We've heard from so many other players across the league, Anthony Edwards, Steph Curry, Giannis, talking about their shock at this and also what it means for how teams feel about players and how no one's really safe, quote-unquote, to use Steph's words.
What have players said to you and what has it meant to you to have them speak out the way they have?

I saw some comments. I wasn't really trying to be on social media these days, but I saw some comments and it really means a lot.
You know, we are rivals and they speak about me that nicely, so it really means a lot to me. and sure

oh directly they speak about me that nicely. So it really means a lot to me.
I'm sure. Oh, directly? I haven't talked to a lot of people, really.
Hey, Luca. Nikki Kay with Spectrum News right here.
So emotionally, you go from thinking you're going to spend your career with one fan base, and now you arrive in a new city.

First of all, impressions of Los Angeles and its fans from afar.

And what does this opportunity to have another love story with LA goes?

Yeah, I would say, like you said, I thought I was going to spend my whole career there

because I think loyalty is a big word for me, and I was trying to stay by that.

But this, for me, is a fresh start. I get to play in L.A.
The fans are amazing. And I got the ocean here, so it's a really big thing for me.
But really, I'm really excited to be here. I'm getting to play for the Lakers, and everybody can say that.
And many, many legends pass here, many, many championships, so that's my goal. Luca, Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News.
So you wrote a Dear Dallas letter to fans. It was, you know, very heartfelt, and you talked a little bit about, you know, your shock.
How are your feelings toward the upper levels of the organization, you know, Nico in particular, or the decision to trade you? Well, I mean, that's their decision, so I have no comment on that. They made the decision.
I don't know why. So, but that's their decision, so I can't do nothing about it.
And then one of the reasons that was given was that there was concern that, you know, beyond this summer or that you, there's a chance you might not agree to the supermax extension. Did anyone on, did you or anyone on your inner circle indicate that that might be the case? Absolutely not.
Luca over here, Bill Plasky, LA Times. Do you feel you have something to prove? Do you feel you have something to prove? Sorry.
Do you think you have something to prove? Oh, okay. Sorry.
Yeah. Obviously, yeah.
Yeah, that's it. Win the championship.
You don't come here for nothing else than championships. So I have everything left to prove.
So and the goal is to win the championship. Hey Luca, good to see you.
Mark Medina with Athlon Sports and Sportskeeda. How do you address the criticism that's followed you on your way out about concerns about conditioning and durability?

It's a motive.

I know it's not true.

I know, but it's a motive.

Like I said, I came here, one of the biggest clubs in history of sports, so it's a big motive for a long run here.

I'll just add to that one, Mark.

I think greatness is an evolution in a process. And I think if you're striving for perfection as we are as an organization or as a player is, you're gonna have challenges to make yourself better until you don't play anymore.
And so I think that's just something to keep in mind. We're getting, I would assume the question will be forthcoming, when is Luca going to play? I'd rather just take that one head on.
Our sports performance department is led by Dr. Leroy Sims.
Luca's got trusted sports performance folks that are going to become part of

our family and Dr. Sim's circle and they're working together as we speak

about a return to play plan. We have five on five scheduled tomorrow for Luca and

we're going to take it one day at a time just to make sure that the calf injury

is in a good and safe place. So I would truly say at this point he's day-to-day

We're going to take it one step at a time. But if all those days go well and Luca feels good and confident, he'll be in a game soon.
But we're going to partner with him. And I should mention, too, his amazing team who's now part of our family, led by Laura Beth and Bill Duffy and the rest of the folks that are here today.
When we make decisions around superstar players and we partner and collaborate with them, and that'll be our process with Laura Beth and Duff, who are incredible at what they do. Jared Greenberg with TNT.
Rob stole my question there. I was going to ask Luca.
I guess more about that, just hear from you, what this process has been like. You've gone through it now four times with this cap.
So what have you done to get back on the court? How are you feeling, and how confident are you in that this won't be a reoccurring injury? Well, for the first time, I took my time. Get it to heal 100%.
You know, other times I think I just wanted to go back on court playing basketball and not really

be healthy 100%. So this time I just took my time, which was normal amount of time to get back to 100 percent.
Luca, David Pingalur, KTLA. You know, over the last couple days I talked about your conditioning but maybe your lack of defense.
What is your commitment to being a better defender? Yeah, I think this year I really stepped it up, honestly. And it's just being more active, more vocal.
And, you know, I think I did a step ahead this year. But I need to do more steps ahead.
So that's what I'm planning on. Hey, Rob, just obviously make a blockbuster move like this, what is your balance of thinking long-term with 25-year-old and then also just the short-term knowing that the deadline is coming up on Thursday? Just balancing the long-term vision with the short-term.
We know that our roster has continued work to do to become complete. And just to be clear around the vision for our roster, we're going to build a roster that fits JJ Redick's philosophy, his basketball philosophy.
That's something that we believe in, that we support, that we want to lean into. So in terms of roster decisions, JJ and I collaborate extensively around that and fitting how he wants to play.
We know we have a need for a big. The market for bigs right now leading into the last two or three days of the trade deadline is very dry.
There's just not a lot available. So maybe we'll be able to do some stuff around the margins, I would say, in terms of a big move for that position.
It's probably more realistic that that would be something that comes in the offseason. But Luca will be at the center of that as we build for the long term.
We want to format a team that fits JJ's coaching style and his strengths and his needs to help us win a championship with the other people that are also on our team right now who are going to be a big part of that winning as well. But your question was about long term, so I'm speaking more to long term.
Luca, I know you had about 13 games as a teammate with JJ in Dallas, and just wondered what that was like for you, the relationship that you formed, and then your thoughts about playing for him as a coach. Yeah, I mean, first of all, he couldn't move at all.
So it wasn't good. No, but it was a great relationship.
I really respect him. You don't see me go on podcasts.
I went on his podcast twice, so you know how much respect I have for him. So I'm really excited that I can play for him.
Rob. Rob, good to see you.
Along the same lines with the trade deadline and all of that, the window for Luca, 25 years old, coming off of finals appearance last year, LeBron, 22nd season, 40 years old. What's the urgency level to have this team in the immediate future reach championship contender status? And whether that immediate future is between now and Thursday or the offseason going into next year.
Just kind of what is the view in terms of the timeline to get this team to be able to contend? The urgency is ever present. From the first day I started taking this job until I sit in the chair right now, there's always an urgency to win championships.
That's what the Lakers set out to do. That's the expectations of our fans and we're gonna put in the work to constantly try to do it.
At the same time, you have to be realistic and if there's not a championship big on the market right now, I can't wave a wand and create that opportunity. We'll continue to work and look for areas that we can complete and fill out the roster.
But as we saw with this trade, it takes two teams. But we'll continue to build.
Luca and I spent some time yesterday up in my office just talking about the players on our roster he's played with and kind of what he sees as sort of short-term and long-term needs. And I think we'll continue to have those basketball discussions and get this roster to a championship level.
Luca, Mike mentioned JJ Redick, your former teammate. You've got Maxie and Markeith over there.
Doreen Finney-Smith is a player you've spoken very highly about in the past. Greg St.
Jean was a coach you've worked with. How is that going to help as you take on this crazy life change, having all these familiar faces be here for that transition? I think that's a really good thing, to come to a new place but still know some people.
And I think that's mentally, I think that's a really good thing, you know, to come to a new place but still know some people. And I think that mentally, I think that's a really good thing.
And they're going to just help me, you know. The guys that work here, they'll help me, like, learn new stuff about LA, about the team.
And, you know, it's just helpful to see friendly faces. Edwin Garcia, Silver Screen and Roll.
My question is for Palenka. Rob, when you're talking about a championship caliber big and aligning with JJ Redick, what do you think the values in that position are required in the modern NBA? Versatility, mobility, a vertical lob threat, I think that's a key to the spacing that Luca likes to play with.
Competitive, I think those are some of the core things there. Those players are hard to find, but we'll going to accomplish the task that's before us.

We'll find a way.

Rob, over here.

As far as just the future and the moves that you're going to be making,

designing the roster, planning, how beneficial and important is it for you

just to know you have Luka, you have maybe a decade that you can use as a roadmap in terms of just every decision you're looking to make it's a gift we're talking about a 25 year old that is top three player in the universe I can't think of a more amazing starting point to build a roster for the next decade.

And I know he has the drive to win that we have here.

Our fans are going to see that every night on the court.

I know up here he might seem calm and casual and quiet, but we know the alter ego comes out.

And we'll see it at Crypto.comcom soon and i can't wait for it thanks everyone as they get an official photo jj reddick comes in to dap up his newest player for his team. Luka Doncic officially announced as a Los Angeles Laker.
That's 77 jersey. Kyle Hamilton of the Baltimore Ravens put out a great tweet about it.
He said, you're about to see that in every single frat house across the entire country. And that's a statement of fact right there.
Lakers, 77, with Doncic across the back. That's going to move.
And, you know, it's hard as you listen to that to think it all started with a cup of coffee down there in Dallas. And every answer that he gets, first of all, he looks pretty thin.
Looks pretty fit. He does.
He looks pretty fit. You know, every time J.J.
Redick was mentioned, Luka would smile. Really, the only time that he would smile, and I don't do podcasts, I do this twice, so you tell me I like that.
And he'd talk shit to him, too. He'd say, go and move.
So, I mean, this ain't a real thing. It's almost like a perfect situation here for the Los Angeles Lakers.
I appreciate the fact that Polinka had two zippers on his jacket. Yeah, awesome.
One in the attic, one in the basement. Yeah, a little too much.
Yeah, of give a little sauce. It's a big moment.
Biggest trade in the history of the NBA. He should be incredibly proud of himself.
I don't look at it as who won, who lost the trade. I look at it as a partnership to get the deal done.
Okay. I'd be looking at it that way, too, if I was Rob Palenka.
Once again, Anthony Davis is a dog. But, if we start thinking about the situation that got Luka to Los Angeles at the age of 25 25 five out of his first six years in the nba first team all nba okay last year fresh off an nba finals first team all nba last year as well okay so all these things now he's joining lebron and he has 15 more years if he wants to they talked about the sports performance team obviously meeting up with luca coming out of the calf injury uh there's the two other gentlemen that got straight.
Congratulations, all the boys. Morris is a dog.
Yes, he is. I mean, that's a great piece.
I mean, there is a lot. Knock that the Caucasian on the right there, who I do not know enough about.
Max Cleaver. Stroke it.
Okay, so if he can stroke it, you got ball dominant. You got LeBron as well.
So if you got a buddy in the corner, okay, all of a sudden we got Mike Miller. All of a sudden we're doing what we got to do over there in the corner.

And maybe JJ even starts putting up there and just sits on the side and starts draining shots.

Congrats to the Lakers.

And congrats to us having a chance just to air a press conference for 30 minutes.

Yeah.

That was fantastic.

I feel like I learned a lot.

You know, Luca, not a man of many words.

He doesn't do many podcasts.

No.

He doesn't like those podcasts. I don't think I knew he had that strong of an accent.
Don't think I had heard him talk much. But then whenever he talked about this is the most amount of media he's ever been at in front of for a press conference, you immediately said it, D.
But what a market for Luca to go into, especially at the age of 25. Yeah, I think that's the biggest part of this.
And I think his jersey is probably in the top 10 in sales. I would assume it'll be number one for the next probably decade or so because you're going out to that huge market.
I mean, we're in the middle of watching this still. I can't believe this is real.
Like a 25-year-old, we would assume still at the peak of his career, fresh off of finals appearances, first team All-NBA pretty much every year. Like to be paired up LeBron out in L.A.
I mean, we were talking about the NBA not being as popular as, you know, and it's been declining now. Now we've got the biggest trade in probably sports history.
But, man, this is incredible, man. Luka in L.A., wow.
And the trade happening, you know, just a few days before the Super Bowl. Smart.
Just the NBA saying not that they did this this, this wasn't a playing thing, this wasn't a work. No.
Obviously this was not a work for the NBA, for the good of the association as a whole. But it is nice to be like, hey, you guys league in how many days? Just remember, you know, we got Luka and LeBron now.
Yeah, Luka and LeBron. We got dumbasses running teams, you know, down here.
I still cannot believe that – and maybe I have it wrong. Can you FaceTime Shams, please? We need a cold call, Shams.
So it started with a coffee in Dallas, he said. And I don't know if I knew that.
I guess we probably should have. Maybe we did.
Where they approached us with this thing. The people at the Dallas Mavericks, once again, new ownership.
Remember, Mark Cuban sold a majority away, and there was a casino, and there was a bunch of conversation and everything. New ownership, I guess new AD, new performance staff down there, new everything.
Somehow, they convinced themselves that they are more important to the Dallas Mavericks than Luka. Somehow, they convinced themselves that Luka needs to be like them.
They don't need to be around Luka. Now, we are NFL people, so we are a big, hey, player, get in where you fit in.
You're lucky to be here. In the NBA, that's not how it works.
Especially if the guy is the guy, which is what Luka has been literally since he got there. So I do hope that the suits in Dallas suffer terribly from this.
I don't know if that's possible with Kyrie and AD on the same team. I don't know, you know, with all the things that could potentially happen with them.
Like, I don't know their team well enough. I don't, I assume that they're going to do okay in this entire thing.
They had AD and Kyrie on the team. But it's like, think about being in that meeting when they thought they had it all.
They were the smartest people on earth. Whenever they're like, we don't need this guy.
He didn't even listen to us. We tell him one Uncrustable, he eats two.
It's ridiculous. This guy, we tell him he needs a passable more.
He does. And this guy continues to play.
Like who? Like he's Luka Doncic? Okay. Like them thinking and getting to that point where they're like, we got to get him out of here.
Actually, we need to start calling people. Who should we call? How about the Los Angeles Lakers? Oh, yeah, let's go get a coffee with Rob Polinka.
and let's pitch him on getting this problem, this five-time All-NBA player, this leader of our franchise, this top three player on earth, this 25-year-old, this guy that led our team to a NBA finals. Let's get him the hell out of here because we got it right and he's wrong.
I love everything about that. I love that they were able to that point sure you know mentally and uh i think that is and this could be freezing cold take it's cool because we're not really basketball people but if those people are able to do that just think about all the other dumb shit that's possible you know just on a day to day oh yeah down there that entire thing now they might have a vision that's much better than us once again we don't have basketball as well but we do know that when superstars come around every once in a while you gotta hey let's just get him to the game

let's go ahead and try and he talked about having rob blink has said we gotta build a team

in jj reddick's vision you know what do we need we need some uh vertical we need some physicality

we need some mobility we need this bob through it yeah so lob threat down court he's like he

started talking about all these things and it's like i think they understand what they have but

they were they were going to build around anthony davis so now they got to pivot completely to a very different style of ball very different build and i think that's why he said it takes a lot of pieces to get into this and they didn't address danny angie utah saying that what i know what i sent luca to the lakers that's that's what danny angie came out and said who ran the celtics for a long time. Now he's with the Utah Jazz with Ryan Smith.
That was Ryan Smith's first hire. Whenever he got ownership of the team, he was like, bring me Danny Ainge.
This guy knows what he's talking about. And he was on the record as saying, I had no idea that it was even possible.
I didn't know we did that in the NBA. I didn't even know that was a decision.
So it feels like everybody in the NBA is seeing it the same way we are, which makes me feel kind of good about sports people because we're just human people as opposed to sport people. Yeah, and Danny has played for the Celtics during, like, the heat of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, so you'd assume he would never, ever in a million years try and help out the Lakers.
But when you guys mentioned it being kind of a work, like the NBA basically saying, hey, we need to mix this league up, it's almost so stupid that even they couldn't kind of conjure up something this absurd like moving Luka to L.A.

What's an idea?

What's an idea?

What's an idea?

The Mavericks don't want Luka anymore, right?

Yeah.

He's fat.

Yeah.

That's dumb.

No, that won't work.

No, no, no.

No, it's too absurd.

Because he just made it to the finals last year.

Right?

So that would be a tough one.

Let's do his eye on it. One of the greatest starts to the history of a career yeah yeah let's go hold on hold on let's go to orleans but like it is that crazy and i think yannis to what you guys were saying kind of just about the like the expansion and kind of the exposure luke gets now yannis mentioned like this is the greatest thing of all time for kind of like european basketball players for you know the entire global game game.
He actually said, like, I hope Nikola Jokic gets traded to the Knicks because then like another, you know, prime time player in the biggest market in the entire country. And that's what Luke with the Lakers is.
Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, senior NBA insider for ESPN, the man who broke this trade that we are still talking about days later and probably will for decades. Ladies and gentlemen, Shams Rania.
Shams, we just watched the press conference. We just aired the press conference.
Rob Palenka, always wear double zips. Always wear double zips.
Shout out to Rob Palenka with the jackets. He's got some swag with those jackets, I gotta say.
We did a little research on him. Obviously, he's a Rob Lowe-looking son of a bitch.
Very handsome, this guy. And then he played basketball at Michigan.
Was Kobe's business partner? He was Kobe's agent partner. Business partner.
Okay, so as he's talking, we're learning more, and then he's talking about the deal, and it's not about who wins. It's about a partnership to get to the finish line.
It all started with a coffee in Dallas where they presented it to him. Here we are a few days later.
We don't know basketball as well as you, obviously. Nobody does.
Nobody knows the inside of basketball as good as Shams. No way.
But everybody thinks this was dumb. I've heard what you guys have been saying.
I've heard. I have some thoughts.
Yeah, so please explain how I'm wrong. Because I am looking at this as like, these suits think they're more important than Luka Doncic to the Dallas Mavericks success? So when I first got wind, and it was probably three, four, five, I mean, by the end of it, five sources before I put out the trade in about a five to six minute time span.
I was as shocked as anyone. I mean, everyone in the NBA, every, I mean, players, coaches, other professionals, I saw Patrick Mahomes was talking about it.
He was like, everyone was shocked at the magnitude of this trade. But then in the moment after that, you know, you, you peel back the curtains and, and you, you know, you know, when you're, when you've, when I've done some research around dallas over the last few years and some of it has been reported on is just this concern about conditioning this concern about uh you know the buy-in of luka dacic and right or wrong you know over the last five years you know the same gripes or whatever have been there luka dacic has still led you to a finals run he he has been in the top running for mvp he has been one of the best players in the world uh but for whatever reason this season the the mavericks felt that they needed to shift their direction of this organization and in anthony davis like we're not talking about a player that they can't play and when I peel back the curtains, after the trade went and happened, after the sudden shock, you peel back the curtains, Nico Harrison, Jason Kidd, Kyrie Irving, there's a lot of relationships with Anthony Davis.
They view Anthony Davis very highly. They think Anthony Davis can be a difference maker, a championship difference maker.
He did it for the Lakers. His last game for the Lakers, he had 40 and 20.
Like, this guy, this is not some style you're talking about. Of course, Luka Doncic is Luka Doncic, but Anthony Davis is a piece that they feel is better for them to win a championship.
Got it. Okay, so AD's 32, right? AD's 32, Luka's 25.
That was talked about a couple times there by Rob Palenka. We're talking about a 25-year-old here.
31 going on 32 for AD. 25 going on 26 for Luca.
Okay, sweet. I'm 37 going on 38.
What are you? I'm 34 going on 35. What about you? I'm 29 going on 30.
Okay, that's interesting because I was thinking 29 going on 24 because look at you, buddy. You look younger.
Maybe I am. Maybe I am.
You look younger than ever. Anthony Davis-Stud.
We agree completely. The Lakers were going to build around him.
Do you think what the part that Rob Palenka was bringing up about it took a lot of things to get here is because he had to wrap his mind on now having to rebuild a team around Luka as opposed to the original plan, which is what? Anthony Davis, they're going to build around him, right? Both sides, they had to wrap their brains around it because it's it's a trade of such magnitude the Lakers weren't trading Anthony Davis they've never had a conversation to move him to shop him uh and and the fact that they got offered Luka Doncic they had to think about it and when you get offered that you do it they formally got that offer last week you can discuss concepts all you want but the formal offer is a totally different beast and once they got that formal offer i think it was only days it was only days before this deal got complete so yeah i mean they were never thinking about moving anthony davis until you get presented this this decade-long uh franchise player for you and yes it does mean that the lakers are going to move into a younger period of time and this is this Luka Doncic's team. So LeBron is going to be, because we've talked about this for a while, right? Like Anthony Davis, this is supposed to be his team.
Like when he was with Kyrie, Kyrie was going to be the point guard. He's going to be the one in control.
But then inevitably it always ends up with LeBron bringing it down the court and the whole thing happening. Now the goal is for, ooh, change of background there.
You look really cool in this entire thing. Now the goal is just to be Luka's team, and LeBron's on Luka's court, basically, right? Yeah, I mean, LeBron James and Luka Doncic are going to be co-stars, of course.
And I do think the aspect of, think about everything that's coming out of Dallas right now. The work ethic, the conditioning, leadership, body shape, type,

everything like that.

Yeah, what do they want?

They wanted him to have an eight-pack?

That's what they wanted?

They wanted him to have an eight-pack?

They just didn't like the way it looked?

I think I said this yesterday.

There was some friction between Luka Doncic

and that team's medical performance staff over the last year or so.

Can't get a new medical performance staff.

You can get a new Luka. Can't get a new medical performance staff.
Never. Can't do that.
Can't do that. Because they have a vision of what it looks like.
Sports science. Yeah, this is what it's supposed to look like.
I mean, Joker. Joker's absolutely shredded how many MVPs.
He won a championship. Could you imagine what the medical sports science company down there with the Dallas Mavericks, if they saw Joker in there? I need a little more pizzazz out of my guy.
We need a little bit more moxie a little bit there. Okay, sports science.
Sweet. Excited.
Good luck to them. The defense always gets brought up for Luka and I think Wendy, actually, after game three, I believe, of the finals last year, went on Scott Van Pelt and said, this is the Mavericks tunnel here and that's the Celtics tunnel down there.
The winners are walking through that tunnel over there. The losers are walking through this tunnel, and Luka will walk through this one every single time if he doesn't become a better defender.
Basically what he said. Hembo sent these stats over here about his defense.
This is a big knock on him, right? He's out of shape, and he can't play D or doesn't choose to play defense. That's kind of one of the talking points, Choms.
There are many players in the NBA that are very lax when it comes to defense, especially in the regular season. Okay, so here's a Hembo stat, and I don't know how the stats work in the NBA.
In the NFL, there's some stats that get sent over to us and we go, that's not a real stat, you know, because they start putting precursors in it and it's's like, can't, that's not expected blah, blah, blah, above, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, whatever.
Here's this. Here's from Hembo, who we respect.
Luka's opponent shot 39.9% with him as primary defender in the playoffs last year, 118 of 296. The Celtics shot 23 of 66, 34.8% with luca as the primary defender in the nba finals the league shot 46.2 in the playoffs luca allowed the lowest percentage among nine players in the finals to defend 40 plus field goals now i assume there is some context that's added to that if you just get blown by and that's your guy and scores, maybe they're not able to do that.
But it's like, I think Hembo was able to find a stat. I don't know where the hell it was.
That says he's not a terrible defender. So is this all bullshit, Shams? Why do they hate this guy? Why do we hate this guy? Because he has an accent? No, I think a lot of it is whatever they felt from him and from conditioning,

how he was behaving around the team.

All of those things played a factor where they felt like we need someone

who's going to be bought in differently, someone that's going to bring a different tone,

a different culture, bring a different environment here.

And a player that we feel, again, I do think the Mavericks are looking the next three to four years in this window to try to win a championship. The Lakers, with this move, are shifting more to a longer term, younger, bigger picture thinking around Luka Doncic.
It's two different methods. These teams are on different timelines, time trajectories.
Now, we will see in due time who ends up being right and who ends up being wrong. If Nico Harrison and the Dallas Mavericks win a championship or two championships over the next three, four years, did they make the right decision? Yeah.
Time will tell. Understandable.
This is all the Mavericks feel Anthony Davis at the 5 of 4 is a better fit to win a championship than Luka Doncic is. Got it.
And maybe Nico will bring in Seth Curry, right? Yeah. He has a history of calling Seth that, right? Isn't that kind of a history of his gut? Yeah, allegedly.
Allegedly. I wasn't in there.
You know, shout out to Under Armour, too. Those grass cutters ones.
Oh, yeah. And those nurse Curry twos.
That's right. I mean, those things used to be clean.
I will say it takes a lot of balls. It takes a lot of moxie to go make a move like this.
Because I think Nico Harrison even said in his press conference, if this doesn't work out, I'll be judged. If it does work out, we're looking at this in a different lens.
I'm just saying. Agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed.
Agreed, agreed. I understand completely.
The Atlanta Falcons, they paid $150 million to Kirk Cousins, and he drafted Penix at number eight overall. A lot of people said, why'd you do that if you're going to do that? Then Penix ends up playing, and they're still trying to make it to the playoffs, so I assume they sleep soundly at night for the decision they make.
You have to make tough decisions in these roles. I just don't like that it feels like these people think they're more important to the team than Luka don't trick us.
There's one thing to make a tough decision. This is an unprecedented...
This is the craziest decision I think anyone has ever seen. But, you know, crazy can be good sometimes.
Agreed, agreed. Okay, okay, we gotta continue.
We gotta continue. We only have a few minutes.
D-Bunch has a question about another massive piece of this. Yeah, a piece of this.
You talked about it being Luka's team now in L.A. Have we heard from LeBron? Have you heard from LeBron directly? Like, how does LeBron feel about AD being shipped out and then bringing in, you know, superstar, obviously a great player, Luka, don't just end to be the face of the franchise or one of the faces of the franchise? DB, I haven't spoken to LeBron James directly, but my understanding around that situation is that there's been no indication that LeBron James doesn't want to be in Los Angeles.
And, you know, I think he's, he's moving forward here with Luka Doncic on this team. And I do think the Lakers having him around and, and, and having him be the co-star for Luka Doncic right now.
And LeBron James, at the end of the day, Luka Doncic is 25. LeBron James is 40 years old.
This should be Luka Doncic's team. If this was LeBron James' team at the age of 40 years old and LeBron James was the one option, the 1A to Luka Doncic's 1B, there would be a problem.
This is Luka Doncic's team from a franchise perspective over the next 10 years, but LeBron James is still LeBron James. I do think the mentorship component, the aspect of work ethic, how he leads, how you see how he handles his body, I do think that those are all traits people in LA, people around the situation are looking at as something that can be learned, of course.
Rob Blank is at the sports performance team ready to work alongside Luka

and excited to get him to 5-on-5 tomorrow and see how the calf is,

whether he's going to play.

There's that 5-on-5.

I can say this.

There is optimism that Luka Doncic will be making his Lakers debut

as soon as Saturday at home against your Indiana Pacers.

That's a hot team, Luka.

Maybe wait one.

Maybe wait one or two.

Do they play the Pacers again the next game? I don't believe so. I think they play Saturday and then Monday.
What do you think it's the Pacers? Let's see. We'll pull them up the schedule.
I like how Luka goes straight to 5-0-5. He doesn't do 2-0-2.
1-3-0-2. That's Pelican's decision.
That's Pelican's decision. Yeah, it's Island's picks.
It doesn't make sense. Saturday and then Monday is the Utah Jazz.
Yeah, play against Ryan Smith's team, which leads us to this, actually. Connor's got a question for you.
Yeah, Shams, it was reported that Danny Ainge had no idea that this was the trade that he was involved in because obviously they were the third team in the Lakers-Mavs blockbuster. How is that possible? And with 30 minutes to go before the trade was finalized to danny's try and back out of it uh i have no knowledge of danny ains trying to back out of it but i will say if you can end up with jaylen huchafino and two draft assets i i think it you have to make the best decision for your organization the utah jazz being in it or not being it i don't think was going impact this deal.
The Lakers could have found another team if they needed to do this deal.

There would have been many other.

There would have been at least a handful of teams

that would have helped them with this acquisition.

Okay, last question here, Shams,

before we have a hard out on this big time.

NBA press conference Tuesday.

How about us, real journalists?

I know.

Had a press conference out there?

Highest concurrence we've ever had on TikTok. Crazy.
Highest concurrence. We need a press conference every day.
Shams, figure out how to make this type of thing happen. I know the NBA is happy.
Almost feels like it's a work. Thursday, NBA trade deadline.
Pat, up to something season. Okay.
All right. Everybody seemingly.
All right. We have one minute.
Ty has a question for you. Yeah, Shams.
Odds came out this morning and out this morning and said Durant is like a plus 375 favorite to be traded to the Washington Wizards, potentially. Is that just people going crazy right now because no one expected a guy like Luka to get traded? Is there any truth to that, or is that largely bullshit? I have heard multiple random BS rumors in the NBA space over the last couple days, but I think a lot of it does stem from the fact of this matter of Luka Doncic being traded in the middle of the night.
He was considered untouchable, untradeable. He was supposed to have a statue outside of the Mavs arena.
Mark Cuban at one point said he was going to get a divorce before they ever traded Luka Doncic.

All of those factors made this trade so

improbable that

I think everyone in the NBA is like,

shoot, if Luka Doncic, I think Ant Edwards

says if Luka Doncic can get traded,

anyone can get traded.

I do think we'll probably hear a lot

of different rumors and reports, but

we'll deliver PMS the facts when they happen. At Shams, what is your Twitter account? At Shams? I got to go.
I got to go, guys. Oh! Go get it, Shams.
Go get it, Shams. Good luck.
KD today. Good luck.
Okay. That's not happening.
I got to go. I got to go.
I got to tweet faster than everybody else. It's part of the business here, boys.
My words per minute need to be higher than all these olds that are in this business alongside of me. Something big's happening.
That was pretty big. I got to go.
That's probably Jimbo Bump. Yeah, that's Jimmy right there.
Okay. Now, he has been...
This has been a pretty good little run here for Shams. The Jimmy Butler stuff.
he had Pat Riley and Jimmy Butler's agent coming out discrediting. He's at this new place.
Not everybody's happy he's there. Not everybody's happy he's in the position that he's in.
Not everybody's happy just to give up the relationships that they have. Not everybody's just feeding, you know.
He had to, like, earn it. So he comes out with this Jimmy Butler news, and all of a sudden, Jimmy Butler's agent publicly killing him.
Pat Riley comes out, publicly kills him. And Shams just has to sit in the pocket, eat an oatmeal with a fork.
That's right. That's what he had to do.
All day. And then bang.
Big. He kicked out a walkthrough.
Bitch. And then boom.
The biggest trade in the history of the NBA on a Saturday night at midnight. Go on, Shams.
That's a Shams dunk. That was a good reference.
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Tax Act. Let's get them over with football it's wonderful the first time we did basketball don't look now we got some depth don't look now we do the sports don't look now it's super bowl week okay and tomorrow we'll be live from the convention center down there in new orleans at radio row alongside everybody else that's going to be packed in there.
Always a fun time. Cannot wait for the guests that show up.
We have no idea who a lot of them are going to be. Obviously, this is a time for every single partner of the NFL to get all their shit in.
You know, so basically, any commercial you've seen throughout the year, any company that has paid any amount of money to the NFL, they will have a station or a setup at radio rail they will also utilize money to pay people to come represent their brands and walk around station to station it's a big convention and in there you'll see stars superstars yeah you'll see insufferability sure sure you will see a madhouse yeah and we will see a bunch of media people that have certainly talked shit about us publicly and privately that we definitely know about. And it's a good time.
Just kind of look at them and go, I know. Hey, goofball.
I know you. I see you.
I heard you. You do a lot of this.
And you suck at this. And you know it.
And that's all right. Have a good day.
And then we just keep it moving. moving radio rose the greatest time we have all year great time it is i have a camera that i get to control that just kind of go ahead and shoot that thing out to the crowd who is that holy shit that's joe montana what that's just boom eyes on the other side of the room i got joe montin legs.
Nobody understands how he was able to be that great.

How'd he grow up in western Pennsylvania with all those hills with those legs? Didn't matter. Joe Montana didn't need

legs. All Joe Montana needed was

that toughness, that posse on ability,

and he, the competitive

drive to throw the ball and willing to compete for his

contract against Steve Young.

That's right. That's what Radio Row

is. We can't wait to get down there.
Now, talk to the tables

here at Boss Conner, at Ty Schmidt. I know

you guys are handing out dinners to people down

there. Really? In New Orleans.
It's very nice

Thank you. That's what Radio Row is.
We can't wait to get down there. Now, Toxic Table is here at Boss Conner, at Ty Schmidt.
I know you guys are handing out dinners to people down there in New Orleans. It's very nice of the Toxic Table to give back to society, to give back to the world.
What are you looking forward to most down there in New Orleans? And is it just the game kicking off so we can finally find out who's the goddamn world champion this year? Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. You know, the more and more we do this, we were actually talking this morning.
It's crazy to think this is like the fifth radio row that we've done. We've come quite a long way since that first year.
We were basically inside a shoebox in Miami. Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that. Like a tiny, tiny asset.
Drew Brees punched you in the face. Well, he did punch me in the face.
He elbowed me in the back of the head incredibly hard. You know, Sleeping Dogs will lie on that one.
That's buried and done with. We're not worried about that anymore.
I hope to see Drew Brees this year. Me too.
I didn't see him last time. He was out of Perif.
I'm in conversation. Pat.
Can I get you? I exit screen. We were out of there.
It looked like I had big time Drew Brees. I can promise.
I did not hear Drew Brees. I did not know Drew Brees was there.
But I don't think we've talked to Drew Brees since then. It would be nice to see him.
It would be. And let him know, hey, listen, I didn't hear you or see you.
I'm in the middle of a thousand things. I am so sorry.
We love you. Purdue, boy, we're up.
Exactly. The whole thing.
One for me. One, two, three, four, me, five, six, seven.
Again, again, again. Win, again, win, again.
Yeah, we would like to do that. Yeah, the whole deal.
We want to do it with him, obviously. But you mentioned it, I think, I want to say either like last week on Thursday or maybe it was Monday.
Everything's kind of running together. You get to this point, it gets tough just basically repeating the same thing about the game every single day, every single day, finding like one or two new nuggets and then trying to do like a two-and-a-half-hour show on the two new things that you have.
Because it comes back to the same thing every single time. Hey, Chiefs, you know, they're going for immortality.
Can the Eagles do it? Maybe Sirianni's not a big dumb dipshit. Jalen Hurts is starting to come on.
So it's kind of the same thing, but I think the game itself is going to be awesome. And then obviously seeing old friends, you know, like McQuaid down there and different things.
And Gabe Marenzi. Yeah, Marenzi.
Exactly. So there's like the couple stalwarts that you don't really see all year that you'll see at Radio Row.
I'm very excited for that as well. I'm pumped to get down there.
Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler.
Yes, thank you very much. Another Radio Row.
It gets a little panicked, or packed, I'm sorry, and frantic, I shall say. But it is nice to see old teammates come walking through.
A lot of business is done in there. They try to avoid people in there.
It's good. Catch up with a lot of people.
Obviously, you're going to run into your goofball here and there. But it'll be a good time, a good place.
It'll be some great food down there to knowolia, so I'm looking forward to that. Culmination of another great season.
Yeah, it is a celebration. Celebration.
Obviously, we love football, and it's a game we gotta enjoy because we're staring down another offseason. Well, well, well, Lucas.
Yeah, we got Lucas on the Lakers now. We'll be excited for that.
We got the late show. You're right.
You're right. Celtics-Lakers final.
Luke is just here. Uh-huh.
So many times just. And then just like the slowest step back.
I mean, we might get a Mavericks-Lakers matchup in the playoffs. I don't know if the Mavericks are making playoffs.
Joining us now live from an attic. I think they're dumb.
And I'm okay burning bridges over in that world and just saying what I'm saying. What? I don't think you're on an island there.
Bruce was just saying he likes the Mavericks squad now, actually, in the bathroom. I know, that's super Bruce of him.
I mean, that is very Bruce of him. I like Kyle.
Long-term, the Lakers obviously win with Luka. But this year, their roster, especially this made another trade, that's why Sean's hung up, is pretty good.

Yeah, Kyrie and AD, I think, would be a great team.

Philadelphia 76ers.

Caleb Martin.

Dallas Mavericks. Sources tell ESPN.
Alright, so the Mavs

are making moves. They're trying to go all in

this year.

Have we heard from Kyrie?

Are you going to hear

from Kyrie, though?

Never, I don't think.

I believe in Kyrie.

So do I, but he was very good friends with Luka.

Like, I'm pretty sure he's not that happy about this.

And didn't I see him with Ky when he faked the call from the Lakers?

Yeah.

It felt like it was method act in real life.

Yeah, for sure.

What if Kyrie says, get me out of here, send me to the Lakers?

Him and AD are pals, too. Yep.
Yeah. There.
Yeah, but what if Kyrie says, this place is, I mean, what are we doing? I don't care about anybody. They're kind of handing over the keys to Kyrie a little bit, though.
True. Okay, this is you now.
Now it's you and AD. 1,000%.
We'll be fun to watch. I love watching Kyrie ball.
Obviously, what he can do with a basketball is so much fun, even if you don't know basketball. this guy's different right here artist and everything that went happened that happened it's like this guy's a dog too this guy will say so what right in the face of people i love that type of anyway i love that type of but you got to be who you can afford to be yeah and the reason why he was able to do that is because when he has that ball, it is unbelievable.
Okay, join us now as we pivot to some football on this big-time NBA Tuesday is a man in an attic in Ohio. He's a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, erotic up winner, ladies and gentlemen, AJ.
AJ, I know you're not a big basketball guy. Your thoughts on Lucas Presser in his situation? situation? I love Luka's disdain for the media, I would say.
He speaks to him, but he's like, why am I here? I don't want to do this. I want to do something else, play some basketball.
But going back to this whole situation, the presser was fine. Is this the decision of just one dude on Dallas, this Nico guy, the GM, because it sounds like he had to keep everyone else involved, but

obviously this guy, whatever's going on behind

the scenes day to day, he does not love.

We know that. So, Lucas said that

they're firing all the people I like in this

building, basically. He's been on the record

of saying that in the past, but I think

it's this Nico guy and then his sports

performance team down in Dallas

doesn't like the way

this thing, a little bit too milky, right? Don't we? It's like 2%. It looks weird.
We need skim. Yeah.
Don't we? Think about all the greats in the past, what they look like. And somebody was like, well, what about Joker? Kind of similar area.
You know, he's the best in the game. He's from Serbia, not Slovenia.
Yeah, he's seven feet. Similar area.
Kind of the same. Don't we think? He likes horses, though.
But don't they kind of? Aren't they kind of doing the? No, he's seven feet tall. Luke is not.
He's fat. Have you seen? No, but he's 6'7", though.
Like, we keep saying he's 270. What is a 6'7"? Are we sure he's not going to shrink? He's gaining weight like you wouldn't believe.
Yeah, but he looks like he's in the best shape we've seen him in, actually. Both in a hoodie traveling yesterday, which is hard to look like you're in shape with a hoodie on.
That's going to make you look fat no matter what.

And then he's sitting down with a tight gray thing on.

He looked very good.

And he looked like so fit.

And then even his legs look like, it's like, yeah, but he's in good shape now, but he's 25.

He likes to eat. He's going to get fat.

Okay.

Yeah, but Joker looks a little bigger and he's doing okay.

But once again, he's not from Slovenia.

No.

Joker's brothers.

Okay. So, yeah, I think it was a couple people who think they're more important have a bigger brain than anybody which is why i hate it so bad that's why i hate that's why i've gotten mad about something that i would never care less about because this is once again people being put in positions of power and then just thinking that they're smarter than like everybody and maybe they are maybe they are.
Maybe they are. But I know you can replace those sports science people pretty quickly.
Just scroll through Instagram a couple times. You can find somebody.
Yeah, you can find somebody. I don't know if you could just – I mean, maybe you can.
There's one Luka. There's one Luka, no question about it.
That's what is very surprising. Let's see if – I don't know.
Does Luka's game change? Let's say does he he go to the Lakers and all of a sudden the dude is like 15 pounds, he puts on 15 pounds of muscle? Do we see something like that? What's going to happen? I think, yeah. I think there's a chance.
I think he's going to be like. He should just to stick it to Dallas.
He should gain 35 pounds of solid muscle and go out there just completely jack and just 82 games 82 games smack the wood

I mean he said it's motive

it is motive

this is one of the biggest clubs in world sport

so it is motive so he's got a lot

of motives you know and

thank you to Dallas for doing that because now we're

going to get it even better Luca I think

which was Luca good before I don't

remember yeah he was

very good he's like best

best of the league yeah alright let's go to football

shall we big night last night

Thank you. I think, which was Luca good before? I don't remember.
Yeah, he was. Very.
He was like best in the league. Yeah.
All right, let's go to football, shall we? Big night last night, not only with the Super Bowl media in Roger Goodell press conference, but on Cooper Cupp's Twitter account, where he makes an official announcement telling him that the Rams, less need in Sean McVay, just said, we're going to try to trade your ass out of here as quick as possible. Okay? This is just how this business is.
We don't love it. He was one of the first picks that Sean McVay era had in Cooper Cup.
I believe he was the second pick that Sean McVay had whenever he started there. He's a triple crown winner.
I think it's even four if you add yards after catch or something yards after something other. He had like the highest four stats a wide receiver could possibly have.
He won a Super Bowl championship. Him and Matthew Stafford's relationship, very notable and massive.
Puka Nakula came in and had a phenomenal run while Cooper Cup was out. Now they're looking to get younger, I assume, at a wide receiver position.
Maybe looking to get cheaper. And Cooper Cup now is seemingly available for any team that's willing to make the right offer to the Los Angeles Rams.
AJ, your thoughts and also when this goes through do you agree with the sentiment that we had in the office

that there's a chance that cooper cup goes for like a washing machine like ed monix did

in semi-pro and uh i think there's gonna be a lot of teams that are gonna go you could have got

cooper cup for and it's gonna be like fifth rounder like fourth rounder because that's what it sounded

like in the announcement that he made aj yeah it didn't i people are trying to claim that he's

Thank you. have got cooper cup for and it's gonna be like fifth rounder like fourth rounder because that's what it sounded like in the announcement that he made aj yeah it didn't i people are trying to claim that he's cooper is not requesting a trade correct they came to him and said we're shopping you we're gonna work with you right yeah so the first sentence you know if you don't read it a couple times or have a high reading level you're gonna think that he asked to be traded but instead you read that first sentence i was informed that the team them not me will be seeking a trade immediately and be working with me and my family to find the right place to continue to compete for championships i don't agree with the decision and always believed it was going to begin and end in la so he did not say this at all this is them is them saying to Cooper Cup, hey, what's up? What are you doing? Oh, hanging out with family, just having a pretty good little Monday here.
We're training you as soon as possible. Yeah, I know.
Yeah, we're trying, like, today if something came true, we'd move you. Love you, though.
Alright, have a good one. What do you make of that? The last paragraph, 2024 began with one of the best training camps of my career.
What's he trying to say there? Like, hey, I still have plenty left in the tank. Is that what he's doing? Yeah, people are saying he's diminished after the injuries that he's had, and you know, there's even, I saw people call him fragile, and all this type of stuff.
Like, he's not the guy he once was. He's not going to be able to play.
Once again, there's stats from Hembo that are like, when he's targeted, he's targeted he catches the ball his drop rates lower than anybody on third downs he's still doing work and all that stuff d butch your thoughts on a current cooper cup and what type of situation would be best for a cooper cup yeah i heard some of the stats and stats are hard to kind of paint a real picture with a wide receiver that's so so dependent on you know protection targets, all that other thing. And Cooper, not Cooper, Puka became obviously the clear-cut number one guy who that passing game was built off of.
But Cooper, watching the film, Cooper Cup still gets open. He still runs good routes.
Health has been a concern, I guess, throughout the duration of his career. He did have the peak year.
He won a triple crown, had the amazing run during the Super Bowl. I think he's still a really, really good wide receiver.
He's a wide receiver. I think it has to go into the right system.
And he's one of those guys that he's going to be open at the right time. But you got to just hit him.
He's not like a guy that you just put out an X and you say, hey, go win one-on-one all game long, every third down. You got to put him in good situations.
But he understands coverages. He understands spacing.
He'll make tough catches.

He's a good, good player, I think,

especially for if you're trying to bring a quarterback, a talented

young quarterback along, I think he'll be a great

veteran presence in that locker room, in that

meeting room. So like a Shanahan,

Kevin O'Connell, one of those types of offense?

Yeah, any good play caller that can put him in

the right situation, but he still,

I think, has a lot of good football left on him.

Him talking about his health,

that's on the field, how productive and how

Thank you. Any good play caller that can put him in the right situation.
But he still, I think, has a lot of good football left on him. Him talking about his health, you know, that's on the field.
How productive and how healthy can you be down in, down out? And the right team, I think, that thinks they're a couple pieces away, I think, to take a chance on him. Sounds very motivated, old Cooper Cup.
And, you know, that doesn't necessarily save you from getting injured. Wide receiver, obviously, a lot of running, a lot of miles.
That is just what the position is. He blocks his ass off, too.
Yeah, and he buys it in, too. I don't hear a single thing that's ever been negative about a wide receiver one like Cooper Cup.
Never been negative, never been a diva, seemingly. I think there's going to be a lot of suitors for him.
Yeah, absolutely. As a Patriots fan, I mean, that's one of the guys you kind of zero in on immediately.
The Miles Garrett conversation, of course, was just happening, so everyone's kind of looking at him but cooper cup you know when he does end up going for a third round fourth round pick like that is going to be one of those deals where if he gets in the right place and everything you've heard about him too like stafford talks about when they're going to the film room together at five in the morning and they're watching film and the way he sees the game like i go back to that uh bucks rams play playoff game in Tampa where he saw a blitz and he just took off and Stafford hit him downfield and they won on the last second field goal. And that only happens because he knows defenses inside and out.
Like a guy like that is kind of rare. Of course, obviously he's not playing outside like a T Higgins or any of the other guys that are getting that top, top money.
But if you know what the defense is doing, that's so valuable.

Think about this, AJ. He goes to the Chargers.

Him, Ladd McConk. No, unfair.
Unfair.

That's a vetoable offense.

You cannot do that. You can't have

two cool, smart, white guys playing slot

receiver. Why not? It's not allowed.

You can't do that. It's not allowed in the league

anymore. They said after the Patriots

did it with Amendola and Edelman,

they said, no, no, no. Sorry, guys.
This isn't

happening anymore. We're vetoing any type

There's a lot of people who are not going to be able to do that. It's not allowed in the league anymore.
They said after the Patriots did it with Amendola and Edelman, they said, no, no, no, sorry, guys. This isn't happening anymore.
We're vetoing any type of situation where this could possibly happen. Three quarterbacks on the field at the same time? That's what I heard.
Look, that's not – I think Goodell said that at his press conference yesterday. I don't think – that's not like from me.
Goodell did speak at his annual press conference yesterday. We'll have more about that later in the hour.
Travis Kelsey and the Chiefs spoke as well. So did the Philadelphia Eagles.
I'll tell you what, I like the group. Yeah.
I like the group that's representing the Super Bowl. Representing us all year long on Mondays normally.
Has been bouncing around here now in the playoffs because things have gotten a little bit crazy. A man who is the greatest coach in the history of the NFL.
Greatest general manager as well.

He's currently the head coach of the University of North Carolina

Tar Heel football team.

Ladies and gentlemen, on May 6th,

we'll be officially an author.

Boom.

Published.

The Art of Winning by Bill Belichick.

The forward?

Who wrote it?

Oh, the greatest player of all time, Tom Brady.

Okay. Lessons from my life in football.
Remember, he's been in ball forever. There was a photo that popped up whenever he went to North Carolina of him as a kid in the North Carolina stadium, then obviously at the Navy, and then you talk about going through the coaching ranks, starting with the Giants, and then getting an opportunity.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba forever. That's all he did was Ball, ball, ball.
And the other thing he did?

Fucking win.

Ladies and gentlemen,

joining us now,

I assume a guy that's going to win

for the Tar Heels

is their head coach,

Bill Belichick.

Yeah, Bill.

How you doing, coach?

Good, Pat.

Hey, Jay.

How you guys doing?

Crew, how we doing? Hey, Bill. Hey, Bill.
How you Hey, Bill. Super Bowl week.
Super Bowl. It's a great week.
Hell yeah. It's a great week.
Hey, okay. So I know that you wrote this.
Didn't have a ghostwriter. Right? Is that accurate? I assume you're not going to have somebody else, or did somebody else write this for you? Right.
Yeah, no. It's my stuff.
My story, my life in football. Okay, so first of all, respect and appreciate you doing that, okay? 295 pages here at the end for the index.
How long have you been writing this book? And has this been a culmination of thoughts that you've gathered throughout the years? Or did you sit down with a mission to piece this together? And obviously, we love the play on the art of war, the art of winning. Should we call you Shinzu Belichick going forward? No, I don't think that's necessary.
No, it's just my story, Pat. Yeah, I've made notes through the years.
This is something that I thought about doing three or four years ago, but just kind of kept some notes and had the time to do it this year so um i decided to try to put it together and um i'm glad it came together so i've had the opportunity to work with a lot of great players coaches uh and people in and out of football and so just some of the lessons that i've learned yeah well i'm sure this is going to be a new york times bestseller so congratulations on that yep comes out may 6th i assume you can pre-order it now wherever you buy books and uh what tom brady says in the quote here is coach belichick brought out the best in me his book will do the same for you love that oh that's a good message i won't be my best and then at the top here not you your publisher wrote up a little thing it says the art of Lessons from a Life in Football by Bill Belichick. Winning isn't a science.
Neither is whizzing. Winning isn't a science.
It's an art, and it can be learned. I can't wait to learn it.
Hey, we appreciate you putting this out, Bill. Legitimately making the world better.
Okay, so it is currently Super Bowl week. You are currently head coach for a college football team.
Have you thought about how different your life is now versus what it's been whenever you were running and going to all those Superbowls? Have you thought about what your mental state would be on a Tuesday of Superbowl week, as opposed to a head coach who's recruiting the class of 2026 at North Carolina right now do you do any

of that and what would a Tuesday look like for you if your team was in the Super Bowl if my team was in the Super Bowl Tuesday would look like media day it'd be a big game plan day for the coaches to prepare for the practices on Wednesday and Thursday which are the two big practices And then just kind of getting everything organized down there in the new city, you know, in the Super Bowl city. There's always things that come up with travel, families, other requests and so forth that you just have to manage and work through.
But it's a great time. It's a great week.
Only better feeling is after

you win. But to get that far to win the AOC or NFC Championship is a huge accomplishment.
And

it's a great, honestly, it's a great honor to play in the Super Bowl. So you just embrace it.

But yeah, I think back, I think about some of the things that have happened during those weeks and

all. And so it's definitely a lot of fond memories.
Did you get nervous? Did you ever get anxiety? No, more than any other game. I mean, I get anxiety for every game.
I think every game is, you know, is a huge challenge. And you always are a little bit uneasy going into the game of how it's going to go, of course.
But, you know, Super Bowl is similar, but you do what you can do and you make sure that you're ready to go. And as a head coach, you try to help your team perform the best that it can.
And ultimately it's up to the players, but as a coach, we have to put players in a good position so they can perform well in a game. And that's, you know, that's what I try to do.
played in the super bowl so much and coaching the super bowl so much it's just like yeah yeah not different than any other game i mean we're trying to win every game like it's a super bowl so that's nick saban i don't know if i told you this or not nick saban was getting calls from coaches that were going through his college football playoff you know old coaches of his and they were like all right what should we do for this one you know and he was like if there was a better way to prepare for the games, let's start doing that at the beginning of the season, like what do we, let's not wait until the playoffs to start doing anything different, let's make sure we're doing everything for the entirety of the year, and then obviously tighten in on certain things that makes your team great, that you know about your team from the entirety of the season that's, obviously you two greats are in those massive moments more than everybody else I love that you're in that position go ahead AJ coach uh how big of a deal is the extended halftime that you get at the Super Bowl I know I think you guys are one of the first teams that worked on to where you actually like practice that extended halftime because most people don't know I believe regular season is 12 minute halftime very quick in the what I assume you know what the Super Bowl halftime is. How much did that actually help your team? Yeah, the Super Bowl halftime, they give you a time on it.
Call it 33, 34, 36 minutes, whatever they decide to make it. And then you can usually count on a couple minutes longer than that.
Let's call it three times as long as a normal halftime, AJ. And, uh, you know, that's a lot of time for the coaches and it's a lot of time for the, um, you know, the team and, and you want to make sure that, um, you know, that you get used that time as productively as possible for the players.
I think there's definitely a re-warmup period. And so, you know, we allowed about five minutes before we came out to, to stretch, um and make ride the stationary bike, things like that.
And then, you know, try to come out on the field and get a quick, you know, rewarm up. But if you look back through the Super Bowls, you can see many games that had a distinct first half, second half difference.
And I think that's part of the Super Bowl game is it's harder. You can't get any momentum in that game uh if you score or have a turnover uh with the lengthy timeouts and all that after those plays there's so many resets in the game that um you just have to keep resetting and reset and the momentum doesn't really carry over and certainly that's true at halftime so we tried to plan the halftime out into five minute blocks over a 30 minute time frame where we, you know, talked about what our opponents were doing and then talked about what we were going to do and then talked about what our opponents were doing in other situations like third down, a red area and so forth.
And then talked about what we were going to do. And then, you know, by that time we were ready to go back out.
But yeah, we did practice it in Super XLIX in Arizona. I actually took the team out on the field.
We did a move the field period for the offense and the defense, about 15 plays each. And then we went back into the locker room for 35 minutes.
And just so the players could get the feeling of the timing, we had a lot of players that were uh hadn't played in that type of game before and a few that had but a lot that hadn't and i just thought that that was a good way for them to actually feel what that lengthy halftime was and how they could um and how they could prepare and make the best use of the time and there was a few guys after the game that came and said you know that was that was really helpful because we never had a long halftime like use of the time. And it was a few guys after the game that came in and said, you know, that was, that was really helpful.
Cause we never had a, you know,

a long halftime like that in the NFL, but in college,

those halftimes are pretty long, you know, with the marching band.

And we go out there and dot the I and all that. And it just lasts a little bit

longer.

Hey Bill, I mean, as you're laying this out, it's like, yeah,

of course you want to do that. That sounds like so smart,

but you got to be probably the only one that, you know, all these things that I assume you, it's like, yeah, of course you want to do that. That sounds so smart, but you've got to be probably the only one.
All these things that I assume you think are just like, yeah, 35 minutes, we're going to have these guys at least experience it one time before they've got to do it on the biggest stage. It's like, you just – You guys didn't do that? You're so wrong? No, I don't think so.
Pat, we didn't do it every year, so we played in 14. And then in 16, we were two years later, so I didn't feel like we needed to do it.
We played in 17 against the Eagles. Didn't do it every year so we played in 14 and then in 16 we were two years later so i didn't feel like we needed to do it we played in 17 against the eagles didn't do it 18 a year later against the rams so it was that 14 year that i thought was really um kind of the one that uh because i had experienced it i thought there were enough players on our team that uh could could just benefit from that game.
And, you know, Friday's practice isn't, you know, a big, heavy lifting day anyway. It's really more of a mental day, and it's a timing day.
And I just felt like we had the extra time to do that. So we did it in Arizona.
Yeah, well, it's genius. And what is that quote? I don't know.
Lombo pulls quotes from everything. So who knows what generation this quote was.
But taking care of the non-obvious, you know, is like how greatness gets done. It's like the details, a way to describe the details.
It's like that's something you would assume a team that has not been to the Super Bowl would handle that. But that's not normal.
And nothing is that you do, Bill. That is why you're the greatest of all time.
Now, with that being said, there is certainly a dynastic run happening currently. Connor has a question for you.
Yeah, Coach. One of the years when the Patriots played the Giants, of course, it was the undefeated year.
And I believe some players have come out and said that pressure of going undefeated when you were very close, especially in that Super Bowl, it almost got to some guys. Do you think that will happen at all with the Chiefs going for the first ever three-peat? Do you think there is a little added pressure in the back of some of their minds because it is something that has never been done like the Patriots during that David Tyree nightmare catch? Honestly, I don't think that Kansas City will focus too much on it.
Everybody else outside does. I'm sure that they have thought about it.
I'm not saying that. But in the end, they seem to be a very focused team.
Andy, his three experienced coordinators, you know, Nagy Spags and Dave Taub and their team, the leadership on their team with guys like Kelsey and Mahomes and all the players that they have

there that have been through this before. I think they really know that the last two games,

the last two Super Bowl wins don't really mean anything against the Eagles. They're going to

have to go out there and play their very best game of the year to beat Philadelphia. And Philadelphia

will know the same thing about Kansas City. They got to go play their very best game of the year.

I think that's what they're focused on, not the three-peat or whatever. But you brought it up.
I think it's a great opportunity for the Eagles to have one of the greatest upsets like the Giants had against us to stop the three-peat by Kansas City in NFL history. So this is going to be a historical game one way way or another it's a great great opportunity for both teams both teams are really good it's going to be uh it should be a heck of a game yeah absolutely and speaking of the game you know it's like the eagles have been able to pound the rock and bully people that's what they've been and they've been explosive the most explosive team in football and then the chiefs complete opposite they've just been winning and winning and winning that's what the Chiefs do they just win games somehow whenever they need it they're gonna get it Travis probably gonna be a big part of it especially if it's a big moment alongside Patrick but everybody contributes even Samaji Pirine gets the game winner and uh he obviously just joined their team this year backup kickers are hitting game winners when they'd miss five straight kicks for other teams.
It's like the Chiefs just do whatever they need to do to win. On that note, AP Tone is a question for you.
Yeah, Coach, since Patrick Mahomes and this run has started, he is 17-3 in the playoffs. He lost to the Bucs in the Super Bowl, the Bengals in the AFC title game, and then the New England Patriots, I believe, in his first year in the AFC title game, obviously coached by you.
What is it about the Chiefs that they win all these close games? And if you were preparing against them in the Super Bowl, what would be your message to your team on how to finally take them down again? Well, no, I think you said it exactly right. What I would say to anybody who plays the Chiefs in Philadelphia this week is you've got to play your best football in the fourth quarter.
I mean, the Chiefs have been so good in one score games, in close games, they find a way to win, whether it's, you know, blocking a kick against Denver that would have been the game winning field goal, blocking a kick at the end of the Houston game that would have made it a one score gameore game, or whether it's making stop on defense, or making the last drive field goal, or last drive touchdown like they did in the Super Bowl last year. They just make the plays they need to make to win, and you better play your best football in the fourth quarter, because they're a well-balanced team, and they can do it in all three phases.
And, you know, Pat, you mentioned it a little bit earlier, but look at the return game the last couple weeks. Start off the Texans game with a 70-yard kickoff return and hit a 50-yard punt return against Buffalo from a guy that nobody's ever heard of.
I mean, he was on the, you know, he was on injury reserve last year and on the practice squad all year this year. And then, you know, he comes out and, you know, has two huge plays in the playoff games.
And I think that also points to the playoff games in the Super Bowl are won by the team that plays the best. It isn't how many Pro Bowls you've made or what your salary is or where you were drafted or anything else.
It's how you play in that game. And that'll be the big thing in this one is everybody who plays, whether it's the Eagles young secondary or Joe Tooney playing left tackle or rookie returner for the Chiefs.
Anybody can be a hero or a star in this game. Look at Tom Brady, look at Malcolm Butler.
You don't have to be a 10-year-old pro veteran. You can be a player on the team who has a role in the game and make the play that makes a difference for your team and your franchise.
Yeah, well, you go back to Miami when the Colts played the Saints. You remember that? Oh, yeah.
Ambush onside kicks up the second half. Thomas Morstead makes that thing, just completely flips the entire game.
It was a massive moment that comes out of nowhere, and Thomas Morstead's a rookie punter for them doing kickoffs, and all of a sudden he's signing pictures of that forever. That's the Super Bowl.
That's the moment. Who's going to take advantage of it? Well, hopefully not stripes.
Ty, there's a question for you. Yeah, Coach, you dealt with this a lot during your dynastic run where it was fans in the media bitching constantly, hey, every call goes the Patriots' way no matter what.
The officials are on their side. And now we're getting that with the Chiefs.
And I think for the most part, players and coaches have kind of just stayed away from it. But even last night, Travis Kelsey basically said to the media, hey, why are you guys continually running with this referee story as well? Is there any way you dealt with that while you were dealing with it? or is it one of those things where you kind of just have to ignore it? Because at this point, it's kind of got almost bigger than the game.
It's incredibly nauseating, and people just assume that the only reason the Chiefs win all these one-score games is because the refs continually give them call after call well you're right we we dealt

with a similar thing and we were you know we were one of the least penalized teams in the league

especially offensively but as a total team we were one of the least penalized teams uh in the league

for you know a long long time i mean almost two decades and the chiefs are doing the same thing

but really the key to it is playing good football um i mean, let's start with eliminating pre-snap penalties, which there are really no excuse for, and eliminating post-whistle penalties, which occasionally there's a close call there, but, you know, roughing the passer, hitting guys out of bounds, roughing the punter, personal fouls, you know, arguing with the referees, all those things. Those are all preventable.
So good football teams don't commit those penalties. They let their opponents do that.
And then there are the plays that happen in the action of the game and football's football. And some of them get called, some of them don't.
You know, I think the officials have a tough job to do the best they can, but that's overall pretty good group. But if you want to be a low penalized team, then don't commit pre-snap and don't commit post whistle penalties that's a good place to start yeah well i think the reason why you had to deal with it and heard about it is because you're great right and how is this team that has the same set of rules everybody else the nfl is built for parity if you stink you get an early draft pick you can change your thing we got cap, okay? So everybody's allowed to use the same amount of money, okay? Everybody's working with the same rules here.
How is this team so good? Well, they got to be getting – it's got to be a work. It's got to be somebody helping them in the system.
And it strictly comes with the greatness, I do believe, especially whenever every game that you're playing in is in prime time, which is what comes alongside greatness and being in the middle of a dynasty. More people are going to watch every one of your games.
Everything that happens is going to be documented by more people, especially with his Chiefs team, especially with Taylor Swift being a part of it. Here's Travis Kelsey last night, whenever he was asked if he had any questions for the media.
If I could ask the media one question, why are you guys leaning into this whole ref thing? You know what I mean? Like, why are you guys leaning into this whole ref thing you know what i mean like

why are you guys leaning into it travis is like hey listen the internet is a lot to say this okay

the internet and fans are allowed to have their thoughts but you as a media member to think about

how many people would have to be in on the take there to rig a game for us every single week who

would have to be able to keep a secret as i assume a commit is coming to university of north carolina for coach belichick congratulations to you but i like travis just being like you guys gassing this thing up is ridiculous because you're telling me that roger goodell is calling each individual ref we get different crews every single week so every ref in the nfl is in or just one ref in each crew is in on it, and that's never going to be found out in the sports gambling world. So you're telling me, you media members that are gassing this up, that it's not our hard work, it's not how great we are, it's not us being able to win and perform in pressure-packed moments.
It's just refs, that's what you guys would rather talk about. You heard it in Travis's.
Travis always tries to keep it positive. Tries to keep it positive.
But he was just like, hey, media, the fuck? This is allowed to be an internet thing. But to actually start promoting this is absurd.
And I know that refs stink. So there's going to be situations where maybe there's a tie-in.
Like, hey, this ref's daughter, massive, swiftie. And maybe that's going to happen.
And hopefully they get to the bottom of it but i appreciate travis just being like yo come on let's use our brains here the amount of people that have to keep this secret would be impossible now as we pivot away from that uh let's go to what you're currently doing maybe right now with that text message yeah absolutely super bowl week and uh the national championship is the goal now down there at UNC. Looking at your book

kind of reminded me of the building

down in Foxborough where there were some

quotes from The Art of War

or obviously the four things you saw leaving the

building, four things coming out. How

similar will the setup be in the building down

there compared to what it was

in Foxborough?

Pretty similar, D-Bug. Pretty similar.

It's said to be in Carolina blue. Okay.
And it'll have the Jordan logo on it. Okay, there we go.
I love that. So what, you're Art of War? Art of War, big fan? You know, we had a, it's funny, you know, we've had a couple, you know, players come through here that, you know, have been through the Patriots program.
They watch this workout and they're looking to say this, you know, to the players, the Carolina players. Yep, that's the exact same program they watch this workout and they're looking to say this you know to the players

the Carolina players yep that's the exact same program we did same running program same lifting program uh so yeah we're just taking the the Patriot program and and you know what we did New England and bringing it here our strength coach Moses Corbera uh our chef you know Josh Grimes, several coaches, and our whole program, Mike Lombardi, and I are just taking the whole scouting, coaching, and training program and modifying it a little bit, but it's what we did at New England. That's what we're doing here at Carolina.
Oh, it's the Patriot way. Carolina way.
You can say it. You can say it's the Patriot way.
You guys all hate it. Something like that.
Bill, Tom. The winning way.
They all hate it. Everybody outside of New England said it was the Patriot way.
We don't see it that way. We see it as working hard, doing our job.
If that's the Patriot way, so be it. It's like you guys get so mad.
That's right. Is that? Okay.
That's right. Okay.
All right. I appreciate that.
I do appreciate that. We're going to do the same exact thing here now because it is a winning model.
If you want to call it the art of winning, you can certainly call it that. We're excited.
Okay. Big game here.
Super Bowl. You've never in your life had to give a prediction.
This game comes down to fourth quarter and the Eagles have to out execute the Chiefs or what is the big swing of this particular game in your eyes and how do you see it going you don't have to make a prediction well sure Pat I think that's a big part of it is is you know expect this game to come down to the final possession or fourth quarter however you want to to look at it. Whichever team performs better at that point in time is going to be what the outcome of their season is.
The outcome is their season could easily end up being a handful of plays or maybe even one play. But I would say for the Eagles' defense, they're a very good coverage team and a good pass rush team, and they match well.
Looking back at the, you know, previous game, previous Super Bowl with the Eagles and the Chiefs, I think a big key for them will be to match that rushing coverage against Mahomes, because when they match their man-to-man coverage, if Mahomes can escape the pocket, there's a lot of room to scramble because everybody has their back turned so um I think the ball is gonna have to come out on time and I think Andy will have some scheme plays to get open and beat the man coverage matches that the Eagles use you know on the flip side um I think we all know that if the Eagles get into some tight calls on third and fourth down two minute situation it better be ready to block the blitz and if look back at the Eagles' season last year against Tampa, I know it was a different coordinator and all that, but, you know, against Tampa, you know, Coach Bowles blitzed them, you know, that first playoff game and really, you know, wrecked their season down there. So, you know, Spags is going to have a couple of those cooked up, like they did against Buffalo on that fourth and five play, you know, where he brought the safety and brought the corner off and overload looked the other side.
That was the key play in the game. I'm sure that the Eagles are preparing for those kind of critical situations to make sure that they can handle the pressure when they should definitely expect it.
I love hearing that we're going to have a great game. By all accounts, whatever he decides to talk about how a game is probably going to go, normally it goes.
That's why. Yeah, boom.
Available May 6th. We appreciate the hell out of you, Coach.
Good luck down there in North Carolina. Can I plug the tomorrow night in New Orleans? So I'm going down to New Orleans, and, you know, Jordan and Ryan Clark and I have organized a benefit for the,

you know, the people who walked away from that traumatic event in New Orleans.

So, you know, the ones that saw it, kind of the survivors, if you will, we're going to do an

event down there at Vegas Steakhouse from four to seven. So any Super Bowl fans that are down

there in New Orleans, come down and support us and support the victims. Not the victims of the New Year's Day drive by, the massacre where all the people got hurt there, but the people who saw it and actually now have to deal with it from that side of it.
So just want to give back to new orleans ryan of course is from new orleans so he's a big part of this so uh proud to do it tomorrow night at vegas steakhouse in new orleans vegas steakhouse four to seven local tomorrow uh having a front row seat to a terrorist attack is a wild wild thing ptsd i mean i couldn't even fathom the rest of I mean, and that's a very car, people, public. I mean, there's a lot of things that can be triggers there.
We appreciate you looking out. Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest coach of all time.
You can see him at Vegas Steakhouse tomorrow in New Orleans 4 to 7. Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Belichick.
Hey, Bill. All right, Bill.
The Art of Winning. H, you should maybe read this.
Get it in an audio book. I will.
I hope he reads it. I hope he reads the audio version.
It'll be Bill. That's why I was looking for other names on here.
You know, because a lot of these books people write. Sure.
Exactly. And the only reason why I'm saying this is because I've been presented a few times like, hey, you want to write a book? It's like, I will one day.
Yeah. I will.
I'll want to. Someday I'll do that, I think.
And it'll be the first book I read, too. It'll kind of be fun.
I'm writing it and reading it for the first time. And they're like, well, you know, you can just sit down, and then we can write it, and then you just kind of correct it.
It's like that I'm not writing a book, right? And they're like, no, but you are. But we just kind of exped We got like five.
We clarify your thoughts for you.

Yeah.

And also, we got like six people that will just have this book in 10 days.

We'll have this thing ready to go.

And it's like, is that what Jack Carr's doing?

No.

No.

No, he's not.

He's releasing a new one, actually.

Yeah, he is.

Cannot wait.

Looks awesome.

It's like if you're going to write a book, write the fucking book.

Yeah.

Get a typewriter.

You should get a typewriter.

Type your book.

Yeah. Yep.
Get a typewriter. You should get a typewriter.
Type your book. Yeah.
Yep.

The sense of accomplishment

after that. Well, and also

lats. Oh, yeah.
I think you got a pretty good

shirt. I think you got a pretty good little.

Your right lat is going to be serious. You need to find one that goes

you're getting your left lat going, too. Yeah, I wonder

does it go?

I don't know how they work, really. You gotta slide it

back this way. Yeah, you're sliding to the left left.
Penmanship? Feather pen. Oh, quill.
He can quill. Then you've got to type it.
You know what? How about mechanical pencil? Sure. Now that we're talking about it.
Oh, that would be a nightmare. Yeah, it would.
That would be a nightmare. Yeah, especially whenever it gets a little bit too long and it cracks and there's not enough left and it sneaks out and then all of a sudden, damn it!

I stick it back

in and you're back in. Then you do too much

and it sneaks and it breaks and it cracks.

Then all of a sudden we got...

How many of these things are cracked

out here? Terrible. James Louise!

In theory.

Brilliant. Great idea.

Always sharp. Always sharp.
Still good.

Still good though. It's my choice.
It is my weapon of choice oh really definitely wow definitely yeah gotta have a little touch though because i like to i like to have a good good amount of lead out there but you gotta have some touch when you're writing this is the perfect amount can you please zoom in that is the perfect i mean that is like the the perfect sharp pencil right there i mean that good. I'd probably have one more click.

Yeah, it's too long because then you... It's cracking.

Yeah, you're right. You'll break it.

This is a sturdy...

Hey, this is a sturdy...

I almost need to write something right now.

I'm going to write a first sentence in my book.

Here we go.

Why don't you read it, too?

Once upon a time.

In a galaxy far, far away.

Hello, beautiful people. Yeah.
Start. This.
All. This all.
O-L-E. I.
L. This will be the first book I read.

All right.

It's a good first time.

Boom.

There it is.

Hello, beautiful.

Put it in the archive.

It's a good start.

Go ahead and lock it in.

I don't know how many words

it's going to be,

but I know that this...

It's a good start.

Thank you.

Even a little bit of cursive in there.

Yeah.

So it's a first person.

Beautiful.

I'll drop that.

Yeah, definitely.

So then they know,

you know, because those rat bastards typing other people's books, if they're saying I'll drop that. Yeah, definitely.
So then they know, you know,

because those rat bastards typing other people's books,

if they're saying I and me, that's a you and they.

Maybe even a he and she there.

Fraud you.

I know all about these pronouns a little bit more nowadays than ever before.

But don't you be putting I and me whenever it's somebody else's story.

Don't do it.

Now, with that being said, let's talk about we.

Okay. Let's talk about we.
Did you change your thoughts on how the Super Bowl is going to go with what Bill Belichick said? I kind of did. Oh, really? Yeah, I kind of did.
Good game. Okay, well, speaking of the game, let's go to one half of the hammer.
Dad! Cowboys, AP Tone. AP Tone, there's some gombling questions that were kind of posed in the think tank earlier today that I think would be a good group activity out here, and also great information for those, hey, last time we get a chance to bet on football.
Come on. Let's focus in.
Not saying you have to, but if you are in the place where you have a little extra bucks and you want to maybe make something a little bit sweeter, maybe turn 5 into 10. Maybe 10 and twenty maybe 1437 into 8500 not a guarantee but it is certainly possible you need to listen to some of these numbers go ahead ap tone i love group think i love doing this i don't trust my own brain so i started this this morning while i was going through you know some of the super bowl props um and i started with there is a Super Bowl prop player to have a catch on the first drive per team.
Okay. Philadelphia Eagles, who are we thinking? Who are we thinking first drive to have a catch for the Philadelphia Eagles? Dallas Goddard.
Okay, Dallas Goddard's been getting the ball a lot in this Philadelphia Eagles offense. He's been running it.
He's been catching it. And also the tight end is quarterback's best friend, is what they say.
Dallas Goddard's got the ball a lot. What are the odds on Dallas Goddard getting the ball on the first drive? He is plus 120 to get the ball on the first drive.
Yes, as a catch. Now, a little fun fact.
On the first drive, last game, he did not get that chance because Saquon just took it 60 yards on the first carry. But on the next drive, he did have a catch.
And then the first drive on the game before that,

he did have a catch on that drive as well.

So we're kind of riding on a little bit of a hot streak there.

What's that plus what?

Plus 120.

What are some other options there for the Philadelphia Eagles?

A.J. Brown is plus 110.

Devonta Smith, plus 140.

Saquon, plus 333.

To get a catch, not a run.

That's a nice little screen. Take that.

Plus 333, especially if Spaggs. Yeah.
Slow that D-line down. Might be in the script.
Might be in the script. Okay, that's plus 333, plus 110, plus 120 in there for all the receivers.
We like Dallas Goddard in the tight end here. Not saying you have to do it, but seems like a smart decision.
Now let's go to the other side. Yeah, same thing for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Who are we thinking? Travis Go Worthy. You're saying Worthy? I'm going Xavier Worthy.
Okay, what's Xavier

Worthy's odds? Xavier Worthy's odds are

plus 110. Okay,

to catch the ball in the first drive. Yes.

They will certainly want to get him going, which leads me

to Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey

in big games always gets the rock. Yes.

Travis Kelsey in the playoffs always gets the rock.

Throughout the season, he wasn't scoring a touchdown.

As soon as the lights came on, what happened?

Feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them early and often. For me, I'm sticking with both tight ends.
More specifically, Patrick Mahomes, best friend. AJ, you like this or don't like this? I do like this one a lot, actually.
Odds have to be rather low for Travis Kelsey. Minus 110.
He is the favorite. There you go.
Okay. He's the favorite for the Chiefs.
And we looked back and potentially why. Last Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, the first ball went to Travis Kelsey.
Playoffs last week. The Super Bowl before that, the first ball went to Travis Kelsey.
So, you know, they have, obviously, go to what you were saying. They get the ball to Travis early.
Minus 110 there for Travis. How about some other options that the Kansas City Chiefs have? Juju.
Yes. Juju is plus 400.
He did have a catch on the first drive last week. The other one, Marquise Brown, he has had a catch on the first drive the last two weeks.
He is plus 180. He is the third shortest odds behind Travis Kelsey and Xavier Worthy.
Okay, so there's money to be made all over this game, which leads me to that umpire for baseball. What the hell's going on over there? I don't know.
He's an Iowa guy, too. Oh, my God.
Like a like, a legit good umpire. So, Gumpy and I are on a plane to Cleveland yesterday, and we're learning about this.
And all of a sudden, everybody talks about the NBA, how the refs can control that. Boy, an umpire in baseball? Wow.
Especially because you can gamble on every pitch, right? Yeah. Literally every single pitch can be gambled on.
Every single at-bat. Every single everything can be gambled on.
So, it doesn't have to be a whole game even it could just be one strike coming next you know that's great like that that is that is the easiest thing that could in you know i know there's a a box that people don't want because they want the human air they want the game it's like well you add in human air you add any opportunity for this to potentially happen in baseball this is a real power play like the more me and gumpy started talking about it, it was like, now they came out and said he was not linked to any of the bets, but he was sharing an account with somebody that was doing the betting. So what does that mean? Is he linked to know the bets? I don't know any of that.
But boy, baseball umps, they can really cook if they really wanted to in a shady way. Yeah, but that's what's interesting is this guy is kind of considered one of the best umpires in the MLB.
He's still very young, too. I think he's only 38.
He called a World Series game in 2022 and called a perfect game. Every single one, according to the metrics, every strike he called was supposed to be a strike.
Okay, so let's not get crazy here. Exactly, but regardless.
It made me think about baseball umps, though. But he also...
You know, like an investigation started, I think, in February of last year, maybe. He did not umpire this entire past season.
He's going to get suspended. He's not going to umpire the entire 2025 season.
He's going to have to wait to apply for a reinstatement in 2026. So, like...
So many games. Crazy.
You can just sneak those in at noon. These games, you sneak in, nobody has a clue.
Hey, we're going to go. We're going to fucking.
Over strikeouts. First.
Oh, yeah. We're fucking.
Punching them out tonight. What do you mean? I'll fucking.
Whatever you need. Hey.
No. What? What? Get back in there.
All three? No. That's what I thought.
Hey! What? It was clearly outside of the box. Not my eye.
That's where the box is today. That's where the strike's down these days.
Sorry about it. Hey! See ya.
Didn't do that. I'm not saying this guy did it.
I'm not saying this guy did it. But just the thought of this made me think about baseball as a whole and it's like, holy hell.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, on a completely different note, I put a hashtag up to something season up a few weeks ago. Now, there's multiple things that are currently up to.
Sure. There's multiple somethings that are currently up to.
But we have a 15-second sneak peek at something that will be debuting during the Super Bowl. Foxy please run it!

Attention students, this is your principal speaking. Flag football is now a girls varsity sport.
Tryouts after school. Magic happening everywhere because of who? Me.
Okay.

Okay.

All right?

Yes.

It's the NFL's commercial.

Yep.

And I was casted to play the principal at a 1980s high school. And basically, because of me, our high school gets flag football an official varsity sport for the girls.
And after watching that high school all-star game the other day, I am excited to be a part of this initiative with the nfl they're making a big push for it they're trying to open the game up to as many people as possible and the skill levels with it being an olympic sport uh are great and wait until you uh i did a lot i did a lot of shit i did a lot of scenes peter berg directed, which I think is very... Two hours in

makeup there for me to look like

what I'm going to look like in the future. That is a fat

suit, AJ. Okay, please.

Have some respect. Clearly.

It'll run right after halftime. I believe

it's like two minutes or two and a half minutes or something like that.

There's a lot of me in there. There's other

superstars, and

I was so incredibly thankful and honored

that I was even asked, and it's absurd. The rest of it is absolutely absurd we'll see you tomorrow from new orleans goodbye yeah it's fucking absurd looks awesome i mean just that just that quick clip is is pretty absurd i can imagine what happened good news is if you know you know if you get older and you lose all your hair and you grow a stash you're gonna look fucking awesome yeah i can't grow that stash which is certainly problematic as soon as it got on i'm like this would be sweet if i can do this but i can't i can't the hair just they're you know they're the way they envisioned the principal sure which i was classic of that high school okay he showed me a picture of it and i was like well this guy really looks like an asshole peter's like bingo that's what i'm looking for yeah yeah that's who we're for this is my first time ever acting first time ever act and i did some acting gumpy was there uh with me this was filmed the same day as saturday night main event in san antonio okay so friday fly this was filmed in southern california san diego so friday i have i fly the longest flight to California.
It was might might have been longer than the one to ireland i swear it was so long it might have been 4 000 knot headwind that we were flying into and obviously it didn't want to leave and so after put baby girl to bed on friday night right i try to do that with all my trips i would like to be there for whenever she goes to bed so scheduling the flights and everything is normally a little late i like, it shouldn't be that bad with projected time is. You should be able to get over there.
We were sitting on this plane pitch black, obviously just forever. It might sit on the screen an hour left up, maybe four hours, maybe, maybe four hours flying into this thing.
So we get in, miss the production dinner. Okay.
We're supposed to be at that for sure. That was certainly something that was supposed to be.
Completely missed it. Landed too late.
Okay? Then we have a very early call time. Very early call time.
Because the makeup, you know? Oh, yeah. Because the makeup and everything has to happen.
So I already thought I fucking blew it completely. Because missing this whole thing, bang.
I get in there. I'm a little nervous.
Like, never act. It was was a lot of shit and the people were so damn professional the makeup people 30 years each of them Jackie and Ed Dave 60 years combined worth of makeup dogs they were unbelievable absolute dogs these people were so damn cool I started talking to them about their gigs obviously started started talking to them.
Lady Jackie from Chicago, she worked on

Star Trek for a number of years.

On makeup. A lot of makeup.

They were talking about if you're in a makeup world,

Star Trek probably going to be a gig that you have had.

She worked on that for a long time.

Guy, Ed, Dave, damn, I'm

sorry, dude. You're a good dude.
I think it was Ed.

Ed, he worked on

Star Trek as well as many others.

Also worked on White Chicks, which he said was a 3 a.m. call time until 7 p.m.
at night for six weeks straight. And I said it was a great movie, though.
He goes, I didn't watch. I ain't seen enough.
Because that was a lot, I guess. So then, you know, as I'm getting all this done, we're in here a while.
We're very close with each other.

It's like they're adding the bald cap onto my head.

Then they're putting the hair on top of it.

Then the mustache, the amount of glue that's on my face to match with the whole thing.

I mean, it is.

They were awesome.

But we were within very close quarters for two hours straight.

I mean, just like in the trailer.

And they were awesome. Then the entire NFL crew, cool.

All the extras.

There's so many extras in this thing. And Peter Bergg you know was being so cool to me so nice to me i'm so thankful for how he treated me you know because he knew that i was not comfortable with acting you know like this is a weird thing and also this is the nfl's commercial uh for their super bowl yeah it's like massive initiative too that like my daughter hopefully is going to benefit from so like i'm trying not not to look like an asshole.
And a lot of people are going to see this. So like let's not fucking, you know.
A lot of people. Let's not be terrible.
Be good. Yeah, let's be good.
So the way Peter like operated with me, the way every, like the actual actors, the way they were talking to me, it was like so cool, so lucky to be a part of it.

From Glenn and Tim and obviously Peter, and there was Chris.

I think it was Ed.

I think I found Ed.

Ed, white-haired guy.

He's a good dude.

His son is a major in the Army. Is he a skit guy?

He comes from...

That is Ed. Yep, that's Ed.
That's Ed French. Oh, he's a Boston guy? Yeah, I think that is him.
That's him as a young lad. That is him as a young lad.
I mean, 1951 he was born, so yeah. So I'm looking at that photo, and I'm trying to evolve him in my head for the morning that I saw.
Because he did Star Trek and White Chick, so what other Eds are there? Yeah, so that is definitely hip that is definitely hip awesome like so cool so kind the the attention to detail we're talking about taking a little brush with like a little paint on it and splattering it on my head oh yeah during that like for the transition from my skin sure that bald cap blends in yeah and i told him i'm like hey i'm gonna sweat like i am uh i am a sweater and they're like we'll be out there for you and lo and behold ed and jackie every single time like a pit crew on my it was it was so much fun and i it was it was that picture that picture alone is awesome it was it's really it's really cool i think we'll have another 15 second teaser tomorrow and i think there's gonna be another one the next day boom and we did a lot of water shoot i did not expect to be the dude i don't know what the final thing's gonna look like but i will say for a two minute thing i filmed like five six scenes i mean it was a lot of scenes It was awesome to watch there's so many people on set it was it was pretty crazy to watch watching Peter Berg off yeah it's cool awesome he has dog that he rescued from Mexico during a shoot so this dog so cool just kind of rolling around like but like Ben and Peter yeah you know and this dog though just super chill just super chill comes over we doing? So, hey, we're about to shoot. I said, all right, good luck.
It was so cool, man. I know it's a big deal for the NFL to allow me to be a part of that.
And I'm pumped. And, boys, I hope you enjoy the shit out of it.
And I hope girls flag football, especially if they just showcase that all-star game there, if that's what can happen across the country, if we can add another sport here, I mean, this NFC team beat the shit out of the AFC team. They had a couple plays that were unguardable.
And it's like, hey, AFC team, can we just put these in at halftime so we can maybe put up a fight? Direct snap, pitch, throw. Look at it.
Pop pass. Yeah.
They did that every play. It was like that, H.
This NFC team. It was unguardable.
I have no idea how you stop it. Still, Andy Reid should think about running it in the actual game.
Might. He might.
He actually might. Actually.
But I'm pumped to be a part of it. I'm thankful to be a part of it.
Shout out to the NFL for allowing me to be a part of it i'm thankful to be a part of it shout to the nfl for allowing me to be a part of it uh shout to ari gold you know gold in there making some magic peter berg making some magic in there and uh to the makeup crew i apologize for sweating through all of your work like four or five different times that was i was drenched through the suit yeah it looked like a lot through the. Well, there's some scenes where I'm running and sliding down the hallway

and yelling.

Can't wait to see that. And I'm yelling

at kids. I mean, it is.

Full hallway

full of kids, too. They got extras everywhere, right?

And one guy was pissed off.

The letterman.

Well, he's our stand.

He's in my fucking school.

And that is, that's basically what Peter told me, you know? Peter comes into the trailer, him and Esso, while I'm getting the makeups and makeup done. And I'm like, I think this is things that I can do, you know? And he goes, hey, listen, you know what the best do? And I was like, Coop texting me.
Say what you mean, mean what you say. It's a Cagney line or something like that.
He's like, yes, that. But also, as soon as you get out of here, you're like as soon as you get out of here as soon as you walk out of this trailer this is your school so just Daniel Day-Lewis yeah you're in character he was like act according as soon as you get out of here act according so as soon as I get out of the trailer NFL social team was like hey we want to do a walk and talk and I'm like just kind of ruined everything here so I'm like half in character in this social walk and talk in your full mate in full makeup full makeup i'm walking to the first scene walking to the first scene because like peter berg like one of the greatest of all time he's like hey listen as soon as you get out of here this is your school you hate these kids never forget it they're back they think it's summer still you know this entire thing i'm like all right yeah that is how people do it that is how i've learned that's got to be how it is so like method yeah yeah so it's like all right just flip the switch seems like you're dressed like an asshole just you are that is who you are an asshole so i just as soon as i get out of that flip switch i'm like all right i'm gonna fucking principal this place i even like i think i get fist bumped and gumpy i'm like welcome to my school man and i like walk outside and they're like we asked you a few questions i'm like wow i'm trying to follow character right now yeah so are you going you're going in and out of character with that walking talk i can't wait there's principal p in there and then there is a couple like real answers and then as soon as we get to the hallway it's like all these actors are lined up and they're literally like waiting on me for the first time it's like okay now is what he was talking about like hey this is my school you guys i walked i walked through these dudes with like just smack a few of them in the face get the fuck out of my hallway all right it was uh it was all it was an honor i enjoyed the hell out of it and i think it's gonna be good i hope it's gonna be good this episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance.

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Football! AJ, it's already February 4th 4th that's aj hawk there congratulations

february 4th 2025 already jeez yeah goes quick mit doesn't it everything goes quick but yeah

football season absolutely goes fast every year feels like just yesterday

doesn't it oh yeah likely's toe out oh my god just happened feels like it

Thank you. Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop.
It doesn't it? Oh, yeah.

Likely's toe out.

Oh, my God.

Just happened.

Feels like it.

And then just blur.

Radio road tomorrow.

Yeah.

Damn.

One game left.

Four quarters, potentially more, of high-level football.

That is going to carry us through an offseason of sports we love less than football,

but still love.

Yeah, I love sports.

Because they're sports.

The Talks of Tipples here at Boston Corner, at Ty Schmidt.

Have you wrapped your mind around the fact that we've got one game left yet?

I have.

I've also wrapped my mind around the fact that, for me as a Patriots fan, my season kind of starts after the Super Bowl. You know? Free agency.
The draft. The combine.
Oh, we're climbing the Lombardi Mountain next year. Yeah, you think it ends? But really? Are you all right? We're basically combine once we get gold, man.
The end is just the beginning, you know? I can't wait. Well, every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Well said. And what you're talking about is next season.
And some other beginning that is ending is 2024-2025 season. Yeah, it's a bummer.
Yeah, but it's going to go out in the bank. I think so, too.
I think the season had an interesting ride, didn't it? You know, at one point, highest rating since 2016.

At one point, more eyes than anybody.

At one point, though, there was a worry that people forgot how to play offensive football.

Yeah.

Remember everybody was saying,

we need some whole body D.O. on this football.

These guys stink.

It smells.

These guys can't score.

These guys...

What's the B.O.?

Need some D.O.?

Ew.

This football stinks. That's what a lot of people were saying.
They were. And guess what the boys did? They figured it out.
Put on their D.O. Always do.
And they smell great. Dove.
Manky. You really got to get that a ways away from your mouth.
Yeah. You know, my mouth smells pretty good before I got over here.

Sure.

But right now, I don't recommend it.

I don't think you should do it either,

but you get some of this in your mouth,

boy, it is pretty refreshing taste.

Yeah, it is.

Your eyes, though, are a whole different animal.

Tell you what.

If your eyes stink, do not use these.

No.

Do not use Dove Men Care Whole Body Deal.

When it says whole body,

they're obviously not talking about your eyeballs. Yeah.
You should not get this in your eyes. Or your mouth.
You know what else you should get in your eyes? What's that? It's that weak, brother. CBD cream.
CBD. Carson.
Is Carson coming? Oh, man. We're going to keep that menthol CBD cream away from me.
I hope not. And my face.
It is. We only have one tradition.
Yeah, that's the. Yep.
Bring it home. Yeah.
Bring it home home Best guest is always last Gabriel Morenci was doing a A lot of people There's a lot of people that have never experienced Gabe That are going to experience Gabe for the first time On Friday I wish I was one of those people I wish I could experience Gabe Morenci for the first time And just understand the whole new world is about to open for me. There's been a man up in Canada that has been screaming about gambling on sports for 30 years.
That's right. And it's always high heat.
It's always. There's a man that's rattling off five tweets within the last sentence being finished by me.
Up there on the left side of Canada. Yeah.
There's a man that basically started sports gambling talk in Canada. And I assume he was an early adopter here in America as well.
Yeah. Gabe Maranci will bring it home on Friday.
I got no doubt. I got no.
There he is. The goat.
Yes, he does. Now, Canada is an interesting spot.
I think with America, we're better than we've ever been, I heard. Is that what I heard yesterday? Good meeting yesterday.

I didn't know that guy was still...

I mean, either.

Good meeting, I heard. We're better than we've ever

been.

When I read that entire long thing

during one of the breaks of Raw,

I was like, alright, sounds like we're better than

we've ever been. Can't wait

to get to the Elimination Chamber in Toronto.

I mean, it was like, I can't wait for Gabe Mararenzi on Friday. Because people that are like, you know what? Canada's not that bad, I guess.
There's people saying that. They do.
Wait until you see Canadians, one of Canada's best exports. Gabe Marenzi.
On Friday. You're going to be like, damn.
Maybe we don't tariff Gabe Marenzi. Kind of like Canada.
I didn't know Canada could create that. That's what people say.
And there he is. He's got a seven-hour show today, tomorrow, the next day, and then we will see him on Friday.
And every minute of that show is somehow, someway, Paul Skeen's heat. Yeah.
They only created one when they created Game of Thrones. Don't ask why I know this.
That man has over 400,000 tweets. Yeah, that's what.
I don't even think you have half that. Yeah, but he might have had 399,000 whenever this conversation about him started.
It's certainly possible. That's the thing about it.
He's a prolific tweeter. Let alone whenever he gets on a microphone.
430.7 thousand plus. And I'll tell you what.
Every single one has been worth a read. Yeah.
You know, that's Cameroun City football. He's got a lot to say.
I can't wait to see what his bet is that he gives out on Friday. Always takes the time to think about that.
Yeah, he does. His Super Bowl jacket.
What's he sound like if people were to, you know? I don't know. say something along the lines of...
You know what, Pat? It's actually fucking bullshit that the Buffalo Bills should be in this fucking Super Bowl. Yeah, but they're not.
Sorry, Gabe. Well, you know, it's one of those things.
I still like the Chiefs. Okay? Everyone wants to talk about the fucking Chiefs.
And, you know, the only reason the Chiefs are in this game is because they have Xavier Worthy.

And they,

yeah, I think this was

maybe the video

where he said it.

The only reason

the fucking Buffalo Bills

aren't in this game

is because they traded

their draft pick

to the Chiefs

because McDermott

and Andy Reid

are fucking buddies.

It's not bad enough

to be a fucking

Buffalo Bills fan.

Now we gotta,

you know,

the Chiefs,

the team the Bills

can't fucking beat are back in the Super Bowl. Once again that being said I'm like fucking Patrick Mahomes Rushing touchdown First touchdown of the game You can get that A lot of sportsbooks Right now Yeah It's gonna be about Plus 650 Depending on what book You're at Please shop around That's just one of the bets I like I gave you guys Odell Beckham all those years ago.
I'll never let you fucking forget it. You remember? It sounded like you were...
Because he did give us Odell Beckham Jr. First touchdown.
Plus 750. Oh, Odell Beckham Jr.
Yeah, plus 750. No big deal.
A lot of people like shitting on OBJ. Not me.
First touchdown score for this Super Bowl. He's jacked about everything.
Yes, he is. And he has a well-thought-out reason for everything.
I have no idea how he has that much time in a day. Honestly.
430,000 posts. That's happening alongside an eight-hour show every day.
At some point, he's got to sleep and eat. I don't think so.
Can't wait to see the jacket this year. His days are longer.
I think they're 21 hours, and that's about it. 21 hours?

Yeah, I think he sleeps three hours

of that. I think he's awake for 21 hours.

Oh, okay, okay, yeah, because you said his days are longer,

and then you went shorter. I said, wait, I missed something.

I thought I was in a different dimension.

You're saying he's three hours down,

21 hours up. All day

long. And thank God for that.

Thank God.

365.

It's been a bummer. What was it? It started last year.
There's always like a scheduled thing on Friday now at the end of our shows. Yeah.
Gabe Marinci and then we have that. Gotta go.
Because of where we've been. Getting a chance to see all those shows is cool.
The NFL started letting in like local podcasts and local media into radio row and like university stuff. So obviously I assume that's what a lot of people who are in the media hate.
Oh, yeah. That that is happening.
I don't mind it. I don't mind seeing the future, you know, like what's going to happen and how things go.
I enjoy Radio Row. I think it's a cool place.
I think Radio Row is a very cool place. I can't wait to get down there.
Yeah, it's weird too. Yeah, I guess it's year to year.
It's always the same, but same but there's always something different there's always like you guys talked about earlier in the show like seeing people you haven't seen in years you played with seeing coaches seeing just randoms as you said watching you run the the ptz cam throughout the the concourse is always fun a mad dog we get to hear mad dog kick off his show remember like everything about it it's pretty good last year the jabberwockies just popped in yeah i don't know they is pretty good. Last year, the Jabbawockees just popped in.
Yeah. Out of nowhere.
They were pretty good. Burt? Yeah, when Burt popped in, that was so awesome.
Burt and Tom whenever CJ Stroud was on. CJ loved it.
Yeah, loved it. That was one of my favorite zany moments we've ever had.
CJ just immediately talking shit to Burt Kreischer was, this guy's a guy. Not that we didn't know before that, but just immediately, what is what is this? Muscle hamster looking? Isn't that what he called him? Because he was doing push-ups, right? Bert was like, I can do 50 push-ups.
Everybody's like, okay, you can do 50? I can do 50. That's a lot of push-ups.
Alright, one, two, just got right into it. Hammer drunk.
They've been promoting Los Poros. Vodka.
Is that vodka? I should know the name of it. Por Osos.
Por Osos. I just saw a video they had with it.
But, yeah, he was hammer drunk. Oh, yeah.
Vegas. Yeah.
I mean, Burt Crasher promoting a vodka that he owns during Super Bowl week. Burt's blacked out the whole time, I assume.
Very drunk. I mean, that's Burt Chrysler football.
Him and Tom, though, coming in and just doing push out of nowhere. Yeah, that's a moment.
I'll remember that forever. Oh, yeah.
Because CJ had no idea what are these. CJ said, these two guys are white.
That's the only reason why this happened. That was another great line.
That was another. I mean, he was just like, as soon as it happened, CJ Stroud started talking shit.
And I'm like, I love this guy.

Magical moment.

I assume they'll be down there.

I assume there'll be a lot.

Ty wore hockey pads last year.

Remember that one?

Oh, you remember the Las Vegas Golden Knights. I forgot you were on the team.

What a game.

Pretty jacked up that there's no event we're, you know,

hopping right off the plane going to tonight

and then having to do the show tomorrow.

You don't know that?

Was that a safe flight?

There is a big party tonight. Yes, it was.
That was awesome. I forgot about that.
Shout out Captain Bill. Hopefully we see him tonight.
I forgot about that. I don't think he's...
Gumpy and I walked on a plane last night. Door open on tarmac.
Completely turned off. 24 degrees inside.
Okay. Just walked inside.
Nobody lives here anymore. We sat down.
Never seen it before. I have no idea.
idea planes just sit there with the doors open on target do you know that no i mean the only reason i knew that is because we've seen that one video of that guy who runs under the uh under the uh airstrip whatever just takes that plane and leaves okay so last night could have happened somebody and i just roll up what doors open we're like. We're like, all right, here we go.
Walk rated. Nobody.
Just sitting there. And boy, this is pretty chilly.
It got pretty chilly. Just outside.
There was frost on the inside of the windows. Yep.
You know, because door, I didn't know it did make any sense. It didn't make any sense.
Timing was off there. But boy, when the plane got turned back on, had a DIC inside.
Yeah, you bet. You know? Sure.
And that's a 45-minute process.

34, 55, maybe an hour.

Sure, yeah.

Almost made it home before midnight.

Almost.

We're in Cleveland.

Short flight.

You know, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose.

I mean, it was.

Me and Gumpy have been logging a lot of hours in the sky.

Brother, brother.

And we're lucky to do it.

Pass it, Dana.

But boy, when you're just sitting on a tarmac in Cleveland and a freezing cold plane with no power on it, you really start to wonder what the fuck's going on. But then you think to yourself, when I get home, I'm going to be so excited.
I'm not going to sleep tonight anyways. So where are we headed? To a happy place called Super Bowl Week.
Last night, a big part of Super Bowl Week happened. Media Day.
You know, back in the day, was run during the day you know this is actually something that happened during the day on tuesdays select guys would talk everybody else would just kind of sit in the stadium or walk around the convention center uninterrupted just kind of something as it's continued to grow obviously every single country that watches the super bowl which i assume is 90 of the countries in the world have some sort of representative normally there's some zany stuff obviously there was a band down there local band that played in i assume it was a very famous band i apologize for not knowing exactly who it is but nonetheless it's become a thing media day has become absurd if you will and it also provides a lot of access to a lot of guys that don't get to talk about a lot of things. I enjoyed it last night.
I enjoyed the clips. Didn't get to see it live because I was doing Monday Night Raw.
Jameis Winston was active out there. Yeah, he was.
How do you feel about Jameis out there? I like Jameis Winston. It's fun.
Throwing some W cookies up to a couple of the receivers, asking some questions that got some traction. Yeah, he was cool.
I think there was a couple that maybe he was fed by people, and we need to tell those people, don't fucking ruin Jameis Winston. Bingo.
Please. Let him go.
Give him the mic. Please just let...
We don't need you. He'll figure it out.
We know you went to journalism school, and we make TV stuff. Let Jameis just fucking Jameis.
Please, because we can tell when he was. And then you see the like oh that was some super genius that had an idea and told Jameis you should ask this in a public place and then they post it and everything Jameis does is magical and we're getting to a point where he's going to be in media let's not try to kill this guy please let's not try to kill this guy he is is going to be an asset to football media sports media the world just as a whole bingo and he crushed it last night now congrats to jamis we can't wait for you to get full time behind a microphone out there great questions great energy great vibes and also mass amount of respect you know every player basically as soon as they saw jamis what up no kind of having a conversation and that's how it'll be forever with basically, as soon as they saw Jameis, what up, though? Kind of having a conversation.

And that's how it'll be forever with Jameis,

as long as we... It's all ruined it.

It's all ruined it.

Can't happen.

We've seen it happen.

Yeah.

Don't think it can't happen with Jameis.

Yeah, I know.

You know what I mean?

I don't think it can't happen.

You can't take Jameis away from Jameis.

You can't.

Hopefully.

That's who he is.

Yeah, Jameis too good.

Jameis too good, you know. Hopefully.
His dark side response, you know, being on the dark side of the media. Yeah.
Him saying he came out of the womb on the dark side, but, you know, he is excited to get everything. I mean, just so perfectly Jameis.
Just in the middle. Bang.
Boom. Boom.
Moving. Question throwing dubs.
Love it. People's favorite color.
Okay.

All right.

Excuse me.

Okay.

Okay, that doesn't feel like that is.

But nonetheless.

You don't think that's from him?

You don't think he came up with that?

I don't know.

Brain buster?

I don't know, but I do.

I love Jameis.

We all love Jameis.

I'm happy he was there, and I hope they give him a microphone more often.

But let's watch who we're pouring around him.

Let's make sure we are taking care of Jameis. He is going to be a special talent whenever it comes to making content.
Now, Travis Kelsey answers some questions. Here's Travis Kelsey talking about, is he going to retire? You know, his girlfriend.
Maybe more. We don't know.
We don't know. We don't know that.
Nobody knows that, I don't think. He had a T tattooed on his thigh.
Did you see it? His little chain. That was his hat.
With a charm. I don't know if it was charm.
Tattoo? I don't know. I think it was a chain.
Could have been like a henna tattoo. Yeah, could have.
That'd be sweet. A T with a charm, you know, and I believe there's a song that has something about that in the entirety of it.
But this guy, he's on stages around the world. He's smitten with the biggest star on earth.
This guy, he's playing enough football. He wants to retire.
That's what everybody, everybody's trying to put a deadline, an expiration date on Travis Kelsey's career. Here's him addressing that subject last night.
Where will I be in three years? Oh man, I don't know. Hopefully still playing football.
I love doing this. I love coming into work every day and you know, I feel like I still got a lot of good football left in

me, but we'll see what happens. I know I've been setting myself up for other opportunities in my

life, and that's always been the goal, knowing that football only lasts for so long. You got

to find a way to get into another career, into another profession. I've been doing that in my

off seasons, but for the most part, I plan on being a Kansas City Chief and playing football.

Okay, so that's three years he was asked. You would say next year, he's still thinking about

Thank you. I've been doing that in my off seasons, but for the most part, I plan on being a Kansas City Chief and playing football.
Okay, so that's three years he was asked. So you would say next year he's still thinking about ball very clearly.
Ownership of the Kansas City Chiefs? The Hunt family. Hunt, he was asked about Andy Reid coming back next year.
So what we're talking about right now, seemingly with this Chiefs team, is what we're about to see for, what, the next 10 years, D-Butch? Is that what it sounds like from these guys? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure Chiefs fans love to hear that. I'm sure he wants to, you know, break some more records.
And yeah, he has been setting himself up off the field. And then Andy Reid, I mean, you never know when those guys decide to walk away and, you know, decide that, hey, spend some more time with family.
But I mean, they're on the precipice of history. Yeah, absolutely.
And some people get addicted to the confetti, too.

It feels like these guys. Remember, after last year's Super Bowl, immediately

after the Super Bowl win, they were doing an interview.

Maybe with Berman. Berman might have been on the sideline

for his

show, NFL.

NFL. Primetime.

Primetime. Which needs more

air time. Yeah, because it's Chris Berman on there.

But immediately after winning that Super

Bowl, him and Patrick both were like, nobody's ever

won three straight. That was

Thank you. time which needs more air time yes and yeah yeah because it's chris berman on there but immediately after winning that super bowl him and patrick both were like nobody's ever won three straight you know like that was immediately after winning it these guys uh want to be great these guys want to be historic and i think he even answered a question about like holding up his end of the bargain with dating taylor swiff everybody thinks he wants to retire because of taylor swift instead it's complete opposite it's, I kind of got to hold up my end of the shit here.
You're talking about biggest, most famous, wealthiest, most successful, greatest. He wants to show her what he does, right? He wants to show her what he does.
Great. Why would he want to stop? She just stepped into his life whenever this was a year, two years ago.
Yeah, he wants to be like, hey, this is what I do. Why would he want to walk away? Yeah, I don't know why that was the angle people were having.
Like, well, he's dating Taylor now, so he's probably done. It's like, you don't think Taylor, uh, is making him better.
Probably like, you know, you don't think he's probably literally, and I, and I know people hate talking about Taylor Swift, even though the population of the game or how popular the game is bigger than ever, the amount of things that she has done positively for the game of football and the sport as a whole, so huge, let alone little girls, just connectivity between dads. I mean, just all good, I think.
Now granted, there's people that are going to say bad, but it's like, she's a dog, okay? She is a beast. You watch, I watched a documentary about her because my wife is a massive fan.
It's like, those songs ain't writing themselves, okay? And it's her. And the marketing behind it, these marketing schemes and business plan and strategy and everything, it's like those are coming from her.
She's a workhorse, an absolute workhorse who's like a perfectionist. Everything, she's a dog.
She is an absolute dog, which is why I she only motivates travis to continue to go and to continue as he would say to hold up his end of the bargain in the entire thing and they're uh you know two greats two goats dating is a beautiful thing for society people want to hate them though you know people want to hate them bad for it all and i guess that's always going to exist but i think travis is only going to get better because of of his relationship with Taylor and I think he'll probably say it's already happened yeah I mean there's like that you know uh notion that like all these guys want to win a Super Bowl and then just like walk off into the sunset retire but it's like if you look at how the Chiefs are positioned right now he's only what 35 like he's still got it's not like he's been super injured throughout his career like if you could if they do win this Super Bowl and they win three in a row and you know Mahomes is going to be there, you know all these other guys are going to be there, Andy Reid's going to be there, fuck it. Why not try to win five Super Bowls in a row? It's like he still feels like he can play.
It's not like his productivity has dropped off drastically. We're just talking about how maybe he didn't have the greatest regular season of his career this year, but boom, once the playoffs get here, like.
Hey, this matters. Okay, flip the switch.
And you talk about that big moment, and I mean, doing that obviously is hilarious and awesome in a big game, and he's done it numerous times. But in the biggest moments, that energy he feels, he lives off of, I think.
Where's he going to chase that dragon at if he's not playing football? Of course, he'll be able to go on stage with Taylor, and he'll be able to do things like that. But where's he going to be able to get his sense of competition and fulfillment whenever it comes to – just like, I don't know.
I didn't like the notion that everybody just assumed he was going to be done just because he's dating Taylor. He signed a two-year deal last april i guess with the chiefs i assume they'll keep him around for as long as he would want to play but they were calling for his demise this year uh pretty pretty loudly and then the playoffs happening oh who's taking over games travis kelsey is again yeah and then even just think about like earlier in the year when rasheed rice was healthy like he is just now now kind of entering the, like passing on the torch of information that he has.
Like Rasheed Rice came out and talked about how like him and Travis would work together and kind of, he would show him or kind of explain where he's sitting down, why he's sitting down, when to sit down. Then Rasheed Rice was off to a historic start before he, you know, got his season out of the injury.
So it's one of those things, too, where he's just now starting that kind of passing of the torch and giving all that information and knowledge back to the game. Yeah, where he's at in his career, he would want to guide it.
You know, because Rasheed Rice had become kind of the focal point of the passing offense, and Travis would almost be the number two. And then once again, once the games really start to matter, once the rubber meets the road, playoff time, Super Bowl time, he comes and he takes over games.
But yeah, at that point in the career, and then once again once the games really start to matter once the rubber meets the road uh playoff time super bowl time he comes and he takes over games but yeah at that point in the career and you mentioned it patrick mahomes got another 10 years he'll be playing left andy reed he'll be at a coach as long as he wants to chris jones on the other side of the football why not ride this thing to the wolves fall off yeah and greats want to be great you know and if they win another super bowl, I just feel like you need to – Let's go get four. Yeah.
Let's continue to do that. Gives you more motivation, man.
I feel like these guys especially, like the more Super Bowls they win, they win the more they want to win because everything else is just garbage. We don't win at all.
This means nothing. And then if they lose the Super Bowl, it's like, well, we can't go out like that.
And, you know, there's just always something. There's always, for these particular humans, there's always something that is life or death to chase.
Like, there's always, well, obviously I had to. Oh, yeah, of course.
Well, obviously I had to. We didn't make the playoffs, so there's no way I was going to.
We lost in the wildcard round. That's not who we are.
So, like, anything is potential life or death motivation for these types of guys. I think we should talk about Travis

as if he is one of those guys because

he is. That's just a matter of fact.

Look at his brother, too.

He did a bunch to keep him

still football

adjacent and take his mind off the

fact he wasn't playing. He's

mentioned, hey, there's still a big

chunk of me that wishes I wouldn't have stepped away.

You think I don't want to be out there with this Eagles team

playing in the Super Bowl? Like when you know that you're on a team that's going to like the barring an absolute catastrophe, the Chiefs are going to have an opportunity to, you know, win another Super Bowl next year. Like they just are.
They're in that position. So the regret that you would potentially have like his brother probably has, a little bit.
I'm not saying he's not happy or at peace with his choice, but you think next year if the Chiefs are back in the Super Bowl, he's not maybe like if he did retire sitting on his couch, like, fuck. I wish I was still out there.
It could be a very nice couch, though. Without a doubt.
Plush. But he's been rich for a long long time yeah it's gonna be a nice couch no matter when he decides to retire yeah he made over 100 million in career earnings before he started dating everybody's like well you know comfortable it's like this ohio fuck has been comfortable like out not as comfortable but life has been good for travis kelsey uh and comfortable for some time because he's earned it.
But now, obviously,

he's with the biggest star on earth.

And we're incredibly proud of both of them. Hey,

keep killing it, you two. We appreciate it.

It's good.

It's good for everything. Now, let's go over to the Philadelphia

Eagles. You know,

a lot is made about Stotland

University, the offensive line

coach for the Philadelphia Eagles.

And they have the best offensive line in football,

if you ask anybody. And they also won

the Trenchy for the Philadelphia Eagles. And they have the best offensive line in football, if you ask anybody.
And they also won the Trenchy for the best offensive line in all of football. One of the biggest moves they did was put Mekhi Becton, former tackle, in a guard.
It has gone swimmingly. Let's hear from Coach Stotland how that came to be.

Well, I'm not going to lie to you.

I never knew that a 6'7", if you go back and look through the history books of a 6'7 guard production, you're not going to find too many.

And it was during OTAs where Nick said to me, Coach Sirianni said to me, let's just try him out for a couple practices. Let's just see how he does.
And I was like, cool, let's go. Okay, Statlin's all in, rowing in the same direction.
Maybe Coach Sirianni. Maybe he's not a big dumb dipshit.
Maybe he knows ball a little bit. Yeah, well, but I thought he didn't do anything.
I thought he just kind of stood on the sideline and was a cheerleader, jump up and down, yelling at fans. Well, I saw somebody tweet actually after I put this tweet out.
They said he's six foot seven. Anybody would do that.
It was like, well, if you listen to that, actually, nobody would actually do that. Stoutland was like, yeah, let's go ahead and do it because he loves him.
Now let's hear Howie Roseman because, remember, the guy is a – He's a big, dumb dipshit. Right, the head coach of the team that is in the Super Bowl two times in the first four years of him being the head coach.
He's in just – No, he's a big, dumb dipshit. That's all happened.
I don't know. Let's hear what Howie Roseman has to say.
Particularly impressive. I think the first thing is that he's really keys on connection.

He's on connection with his staff, with me, with Jeffrey, and with the player.

And you see that because the best teams are also the most together teams.

So he really feels that strong.

He also trusts.

He trusts me to do my job.

He doesn't second guess. He doesn't second guess his coaches, his coordinator.

He does a great job with the detail of the team, he does a great job with the strategy with the team. He puts the players in a position where he tells them what's going to happen during the week.
They've had it happen, so he has incredible credibility. And I think that what a lot of people see as his firing pass on game day, we see as

positive during the week and how much energy he bring to this game that he loves You know, he's done an unbelievable Huh? Wait, but I thought I thought sir. I knew he was a he's just a big dumb dipshit no well It seems as if he's just a big, dumb dipshit.
No. Well, it seems as if he's maybe...
Maybe not a big, dumb dipshit. Is that what Howie just said? That he wasn't? Kind of just said that he's actually like a, I don't know, a beautiful mind, brilliant football coach.
So not... So not a big, dumb...
Actually, the complete opposite of a big, dumb dipshit. How is it...
You know, we're just learning about Mekhi Becton being a Sirianni idea. Yeah.
Moving him into guard. Just hearing about that now, you know.
That would have been a nice piece of information, you know, to potentially be out there as your offensive line is dominating games and winning games when every lower third that is on TV says the dumbest guy in all of ball is the head coach

of Nick Sirianni? That's lower third.

That is it all.

It is crazy, isn't it?

Is it because of the way he talks?

The way he acts, obviously, is a little bit different.

He does have the moment with the crowds

after games. He is talking shit.

He's a former player. He's a former

wide receiver. Why do

you think he does get judged? How good does this all feel now, I i assume for sirianni for people to give him a little bit of credit especially from with i mean it's got to be a part you know part of it is the market he's in you know it's a huge market it's a huge team it is a job that everybody wants and it's a certain way that people think people should go about doing their job but when we're in the business in a league where you're trying to hire and fire seven or eight coaches every year to find the right guy to cultivate the right guy to build a team if you can just put a bunch of talented guys to get shit the eagles when they put the dream team together quote unquote like you gotta have the right guy in there to steer the ship to send that messaging uh to take care of all the little shit that we don't see we don't see most most of it. All we see is the press conferences, you know, after games,

after practices, talking about injuries and things like that.

And even that move that Beckton going to guard,

the fact that Sirianni didn't care that it wasn't out there,

you know, this whole time.

And you got, you know, the best O-line.

I think that speaks volumes.

What Saquon has said, him even talking about Devontae Smith

and A.J. Brown dumping the Gatorade on him, like how much that meant to him.
And Sirianni has been a wide receivers guy throughout his coaching tenure, but knowing like, hey, this team, let's build this team behind this offensive line and behind our run game. Let's get our explosive plays there.
He just kind of got – everybody's got to sacrifice at some point when it comes to winning a championship. Yeah, but not everybody does in a lot of different places.
No. People aren't willing to do as such.
Yeah, and that's what fucking, that's what tears teams at, you know, apart at the seams a lot of times. So the fact that, you know, you can get these different egos to kind of take a different step back for the greater good.
And once, you know, they're important, if they win on Sunday, you know, it's all not, you know, it's all for the greater cause, obviously. But Sirianni's done a great job.

I think so, too.

I really enjoy him.

He's the man.

I really enjoy him.

I also love that they just took shots at him all year.

Yeah.

Because the way Sirianni is, we know how he is.

If they win that game, the way he'll.

Oh, man.

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

So... And then he'll say something.
He might say that in the press conference. What's that? Oh, I thought I was just a big dumb dick.
He legit might say that, hopefully. O-line, D-line.
Howie. O-line, D-line.
Even Howie. A lot of people took shots at Howie for years.
Oh, the accountant who's running the NFL Yeah, exactly. The way he's put this team together, the chance that he's taking, paying a running back, because now everybody can look at it and say, obviously, Saquon Barkley.
He's the number two draft pick. He was the most talented back in the league.
But for a while, for years in New York when he was banged up, a lot of people didn't look at, hey, $13 million a year when you already paid your quarterback 50-plus a year is the right move. So shout out to Howie, too, and all the other things that he did draft-wise and free agent-wise.
And also selling Saquon because there's a lot of reports coming out there there's probably two other offers that were bigger than the Eagles' offer, but obviously Saquon being from the area and wanting to go play for the Eagles is the reason why he took it. So Howie had to sell him.
Sirianni had to sell him. Kellen had to sell them.
That obviously ends up paying off. And you talk about how together that team is.
Talk about how together that team is. AJ, you know what the secret gravy, I'm sorry, the secret sauce is for that Philadelphia Eagles team, AJ? What would that be? Let me tell you, paisanos all over the place.
Hey, grazie. We got some mozzarella in the locker room.

Obviously, Sirianni is the head coach.

Big Dom does everything.

We don't know what he does. He does everything.

He's got a headset.

He's got the most Italian job of all time.

Big Dom.

What's he do?

It.

He's a capo.

What is it?

He does it.

Don't worry about it.

Dom does it.

He does. Whenever it needs to happen, it happens.
Why? Big Dom. Dom does it.
And you got Vic Fangio running the defense. And you got a bunch of these dogs on the defensive side of the ball doing impressions of Vic Fangio.
And it's like the togetherness of this team. They're saying maybe it's because it is a Paisano-run operation over there.
Anthony DiGiulio, I know whenever you read this, you started sweating a little Linguini out there. Yeah, I mean, see, just like that, you guys, you take your shots at the Italians.
Who's you guys? I'm 0.01% Italian. You just said sweating Linguini.
No, I said you got excited and started sweating because of Linguini. That's what I meant to say.
But there is no one like the Italians as far as family-focused and loyal. Together.
Yeah. Nobody cares about family more than that.
Sunday dinner. That's not true.
That's not true at all. What are you talking about? Respect.
There's something this guy would know nothing about. A little respect to the hierarchy, to your elders, to your family,

stuff like that.

That's not true.

That's how you build a fucking team.

Thank you.

No, we don't know. Exactly.

Well, those exist.

Those exist.

Yeah, and they made up words for him.

That's a good point, comp.

The only thing this is telling me is that.

Who's they?

The way you just.

The way you just.

No, I'm just saying.

I'm sure that locker room smells great after because they got. How to take orders? Ounces and ounces of cologne being spread all over the place.
Which, again, no problem with it. That's a fantastic thing.
I'm sure everyone loves to smell like Versace and all those other things. Maybe that's why it's so fun.
You think Sirianni's in there? Exactly. I think everybody is.
I think Dom walks around to every single player. You got a spritz? Come on, you got to get some of this.
Get some fresh? Get some of this. It's brand new.
Got some J1. Oh.
The Italian. First off, we would never do that because we want our own signature smell.
We keep our cologne to ourselves. You guys wear Dove.
Dove body spray. I'm saying the Eagle.
Big Dom's right. You want some Davini? You want some of this?

You want some of this?

I'll get some of this.

Hey, you.

Some of this, Dave.

You don't know.

You smell like ash.

Get you some old body dee.

Get you some of this.

Okay.

Huh?

You keep walking in here with that ash.

I'm going to keep spraying you with this.

Okay.

Congrats to the Italians.

Winning you again.

Again.

Again. What do you mean again? They took over Pittsburgh They run Pittsburgh The Italians run that down New York Chicago They win I don't know Boston, you guys got the lucky charm up there I get it You got the leprechaun running around A lot of Italians in Kansas City Certainly is Coach Spagnuolo.
Okay. Guy knows ball.
Who comes from Massachusetts. That's why we never mention him.
How come Bill pronounces Tobe's name wrong? Or am I saying his name wrong? We must be, right? Why does he keep saying Dave Taub? Because it is spelled that way, but I've always heard Tobe. He hangs out with Lombo a lot.
Yeah. That's a good point.
Lombo comes from the same class. That's a great point.
Let's ask Lombo his thoughts on it. Can you FaceTime Lombo real quick so we can talk about these Italians and Philadelphia? What a city for it to happen.
Philadelphia too? Over there by jerk? Oh my God. I mean, that is...
Nick sent me the other day the density of the population being Italian. And it was a map across the United States of America.
It was like the deeper the red, the higher the percentage of the citizens are Italian in that particular city. Boy, that's the darkest red I've ever seen over Allegheny County, Pittsburgh.
But I mean, it is. I think it was like 20% or something.
I think 20% of the population. Pretty much the entire Northeast region.
Little bit of the the southeast. A little bit of the Midwest.
A bunch of the west coast. And then you see where all the fazolis are.
Yeah. Just no red at all.
Just no red at all. Gorgeous.
The yellow brick road. Olive Garden just looked around.
Give us that map. Yep.
Oh, Jesus coming in here. Oh, Jesus coming in here.
Wait till you guys try our bottomless soup and salad.

The breadsticks.

You guys are going to love it.

Yeah, you guys are going to love it.

Come on in here, doofuses.

Come on in here, fat whites.

Come on.

Get all you can.

You know, did we tell you about the linguine, the fettuccine?

Huh?

Huh?

Huh?

You're going to love it.

That's bottomless, too.

Give us an extra 20 bucks.

I can eat however much pasta. I fucking love these.
Gratsy. Is that what I do? Sure.
It's pretty true. It is.
That is all. Oh, yeah.
That's our business plan. What was that? Like Burger King's business plan was they would go find where McDonald's were and went across the street.
Because McDonald's did all the work on who is in this area. Would they shop at McDonald's? Sweet.
They did that. We'll just go right across the street.
I bet you Fazolini's and Olive Garden were like, where are there not Italians at? Okay. Let's.
Boom. Boom.
Full business. I will say as somebody that has lived in an Italian town and somebody that has lived in no italian town no italian towns are missing out on a lot a lot and a lot they're missing out on a lot some bad jeez some bad things what are you talking about like what i'm just saying all of those cities you listen they got some high crime.
They do. Every city has high crime.
Not Boston. Yeah.
Safest city in America. Why? You said that three times now.
Because it just came out. I think it just came out yesterday.
Which, by the way, the Irish probably paid, Teamsters probably paid a safest town in America. Because we teamed up finally.
Really? We're all on the same team here. You know what? That's how it should be.
Amen. We are all on the same team.
Just like the Hulkster said. Bingo.
No. What do you mean? That's what he said.
What are you talking about, D-Bot? You don't want to be on the Hulkster's team? I think we should rewind and go back to being back all on the same team.

Loves Bret Hart to death, brother.

Dude, you guys are a big NBA fan.

Yeah.

So, I see you wearing the Kevin Durant shoes and you're an NBA fan?

He was, you know, courtside.

I also didn't know that you don't drink.

No, no, no, no.

Yeah, what happened?

I just gave it up.

You don't want to drink real American.

All right, Hulkster.

There's no way he can read comments on anything.

No.

No.

Well, I guess.

Regrets that leg drop, though.

Number one regret.

Number one regret.

Those 24-inch pythons. Should I putons should put him to sleep love any regrets or anything yeah my number one regret is i took too many bumps brother that's what they say about that's right i didn't think that's where he was going with this where he's gonna go me neither brother anyways hawkster thanks for taking all these bumps for us back in the day thank you you, Hulkster.
I think there was some other stuff that happened, some other things you should talk about. We provided an opportunity.
It was not talked about. I heard he had a heartfelt apology.
That's a good point. Bye, guys.
I roll into Monday Night Raw. Everybody's got opinions.
Hulkster, huh? Fucking right. Did you hear about it? I'm like, no.
Hey, go talk to... Hulkster, huh? Did you hear? No, I did not.
Everybody has a story. All glowing.
I don't know. What? Yeah, I don't know.
All right. Tomorrow we'll be live in New Orleans.
Hell yeah. Yep.
I can't wait for it. I saw I saw the humidity is only 90% You know what, I'll take it I will take it It felt like I was cold for literally 7 weeks straight You know Since Tennessee, Ohio State There was like a 4 week period Where I was just cold I was literally just cold Because the Because the night before, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Freezing. Cold.
It was freezing. Overshadowed by how cold it was.
Tennessee, Ohio State. And then it just, remember we go to Miami, it's fucking cold.
We go to Dallas, there's an ice storm. It's fucking cold.
Everywhere was cold. Atlanta.
Atlanta. Cold.
Everywhere was cold. I was cold just for like five weeks.
And I never get cold. I even started.
Oh, yeah. I started the whole, for like two weeks, I was like this.
And I'm like, what is my problem? I feel like I'm getting old. I feel like I'm getting soft.
And I realize now it's just been fucking cold everywhere. So it's nice to hear that.
It's going to be nice. I'm going to turn right in that brick right back here from the inside and from the outside.
I'm going to get broiled and baked. It'll be nice and cool in the convention center, though.
I'm sure. If I had to guess.
It was last time we were there. Well, as long as we're not in the parking garage, correct? Yeah, I've seen some people parked up in level D of the parking garage.
You see this, H? Yeah, like a workroom? Is that what it is? Yeah, Super Bowl of first. The media workroom is located in road D of the Superdome parking garage I will say there's a pleasant breeze in here so I will say Rich Eisen did a show in a parking garage he did was that in Los Angeles uh Miami Miami okay so I remember seeing that and I remember walking I was told to where I was headed to lucky Lucky to be asked on Rich's show.
Always been cool to me. So I appreciate Rich.
We're walking through this parking garage, though. And I'm like, Mickey Moss.
This seems like Mickey Moss. We're fucking doing a parking garage.
I'd rather just do it. Why'd you come? Should have just done it home.
And I got there. Massive space.
His set was awesome. Massive, huge space.
Now, that doesn't look like it's anywhere near what his set was, but it's like if they shut down in a whole fucking level, I mean, that's huge space. So much room.
They have obviously TVs rolling and internet. So, like, this is not abnormal.
Now, maybe all the journalists being stuck in this thing, but utilizing parking garages for spaces, uh, in during massive events in cities, I don't think it is an abnormal thing, but I will say if I walked in and I didn't know I was going to be in a parking garage all week, you can certainly see a reaction being like, so I'm fucking inside outside all week. And, uh, I'm staring at this, uh, cement this cement pillar.
So, you know,

interesting, but I don't think it's the first. That Rich Eisen

set was sick. Awesome.

It was fucking huge.

Great idea. Great idea.

I don't even know who would have thought of that.

Well, it probably happened before, which leads

to this thing. We shouldn't swing by

Road D, though, just see how everybody's doing.

Yeah, definitely. That's a group of people

that really like us.

They're having a party tonight. It'll be the first thing I thing i go do who there's a media party tonight i believe i haven't even uh we've got a thousand emails really nfl communication emails they're just rolling in right now yeah i've read them all what a perfect perfect part us You nailed that.
That was good. Really good sound.
I appreciate that. We don't go to any of the parties.
We don't interact with anybody there. We just show up, say that person talks shit to us.
All right. Dan Marino.
Can't wait. It be fun.
This year, though, we're going in there with much better attitude. Yeah.
Well, we're not, you know, just kind of in our own little world. You know, usually we're in like an Airbnb just way the fuck away from everybody else.
I mean, we're going to see a lot of people, I would think. Yeah.
Not me, bub. Well, yeah, I mean.
That hotel door is going to be shut. Blinds are going to be closed.
I will see you boys in the morning. Show's going to end.
Maybe stop by that casino. Yeah, need to.
Maybe. A couple skulls.
That's a winning casino. Hey, that's a giving casino down there, AJ.
It is. Hopefully they don't tighten it up for the big Super Bowl.
I am a little bit worried. I actually thought about that.
With how many people coming into town, are they still going to be able to be a good casino? WrestleMania they were. That was a big event.
Every time I've been to this casino, I've won. Yep.
I don't think there's ever been a time I've walked out of there not winning. I don't think I've seen a loser.
You see people walk out of that casino with smiles. Like most casinos you walk in, people walking out dead, lifeless.

Just lost something from their family or no hope.

Just see you later.

Oh, buddy.

We're going to have a good time in here.

All right, let's just go ahead and consider this a fucking donation, I guess.

You walk in at New Orleans.

There's Joe.

Good vibe.

It's alive.

It's alive on the way.

Now, granted, that can all change.

All you need is what? A new sage to be kind of blown over a casino?

Yeah.

Or a guy like Bill will be playing next to you.

Oh, yeah.

I do remember that.

That was in Vegas.

It was.

Different place.

That's going to happen in Vegas.

Yeah.

All right.

Hey, Dee Bunch, great season here at the Thunderdome.

Thank you, Dee Bunch.

Do you want to do a giveaway on the way out or what? Sure. What do you want to do? Throw a football.
Okay, Botch. Hell yeah, you will.
Let's do it. What's the final boss's been? Nah.
It's kind of protected. That'd be tough.
It's all right. You think you putting in the final box? It's going to have to be a layered throw.
That's an impressive throw. Holy shit.
You're going for it here. We were throwing the ball around a little bit here on stage.
We were throwing the ball around a little bit. Just like we did with that field pass.
Do you remember that? Mississippi State, Alabama. Boom! Boom! Full final quarter.
I mean, that might be the most completions in the history of broadcast television. It is, yeah.
We had like, what, 130 straight? Yeah, and then we found out that actually the combined score of the last six Bama-Mississippi State games was about 130-0. Yeah.
So we should have done that research going in, knowing that we were probably in for a Steensfest.

D-Butch loosening up.

Smart idea.

AJ, anything you say to D-Butch who looks very cool today?

Very, very cool. D-Butch does not need anything said to him.

We know he's going to drain this first shot to set the Super Bowl week on fire.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, for 30 people to win $500 on this Super Bowl week Tuesday,

January 4th, January 4th.

February 4th.

Only a few days left of the season.

We're in Don

Noel anymore.

Celebrate the Super Bowl.

It's only right that we

allow 30 people at home to celebrate.

And set them up to win

$500 each.

All you gotta do is put that Baby Duke 2.0 into the final boss's bin. Water fountain.
Oh, that's not working. I'll tell you what.
Water fountain was shooting out a little salty water. It was.
Did you guys know that with our temperature system, K Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32 degrees. Okay.

Salty water freezes at zero.

Yeah.

Do you know that?

How much salt does it depend, though?

Well, you tell me, H.

Jeez.

I would imagine it was depending on the density and how much salt, right?

All right, Bill Nye.

Bingo. Bingo.

The buoyancy also matters of the entirety of it all.

The density never freezes. Yeah.
Bingo. And it's not about the density.
Bingo, the buoyancy also matters of the entirety of it all. The density never freezes.

Yeah, bingo.

And it's not about the density.

It's about the depth. Sure.
And that's what this show has showcased on numerous occasions. Well said.
True. D-Butch, why don't you win 30 people $500 when you put that football into the final, boss says, That's the block.
That's the block.

That's the interception.

That's Quindon Mitchell right there.

That's the block.

That's everything DB.

Good D. Yeah.
By the net. Ladies and gentlemen, all Darius Butler has to do is put that football.
The baby Duke 2.0. Into the final.
Ball says. Bad.
Oh. You broke the final.
Good boss. The final final boss cannot be broken.
Well. Look at me.
Cover me. Darius.
Darius. You're starting to go too quick here.
You're not even thinking about what you're doing here. 30 people, $500.
Just quick 15 grand before we head down to New Orleans. For the beautiful people at home.

Do it for a...

There's one more.

There's one more.

We got one more shot at this thing.

Thing, thing, thing, thing, thing, thing.

Baby, do the 2.0.

Into the final boss's bed.

It was close. It was close.

It was close.

It's a loss.

It's a loss.

And now we know.

Now we know.

It ain't a cost.

It ain't a cost.

That was hard.

That was hard. That was hard.
To throw. That ball.
Now we'll go. Down to Nola.
And we'll do some giveaways down there. Listen, don't think it's over for the season.
Okay? Oh, no. We got basketball hoop down at the set down in New Orleans.
Luka. Oh.
Whoa. Nice.
Wow, that's going to hit so much different now. Yeah.
That Laker across the front. Yeah.
Mitt already bought three jerseys. Yep.
Told me. Did he tell you what he put on the back? He did.
That's why I wasn't hearing it. He said it's getting made custom.
Yeah, because he didn't know how to spell. I think you could just select it as an option.

I would assume so.

He said, I want to make a custom one with his name on it.

That's midfootball.

And then he said, I don't know if the eye has the left or right lean on it.

I know.

It's not like you can look that up anywhere and figure it out either.

So I put Luka across the back.

Let's go Luka.

L-O-O-K.

That's midfootball. I hope that's real.
It is. Let's go Luca.
L-O-O-K. That's mid football.

I hope that's real.

It is.

We don't know.

Find out.

We have no idea.

We'll see.

Yeah.

That's called a tease.

All right.

Speaking of tease, can't believe I'm in that commercial.

It's awesome.

That was cool that that happened.

That was really cool. Let's not make that a habit.
It felt so weird. The amount of people.
I don't want to get into it. So many people, depending upon, like, you know.
Hey, let's make sure we nail the exact spot you're stopping on, okay? I put this light here, okay? This is where you need you need to be like the way they're saying to me hey my job here is to light this spot so why don't you just go to the spot okay thank you make everybody's life easier including mine it's like oh didn't even think about that and then audio same exact thing it's like let's make sure we're hitting our beats this person's walking at this exact time you need to make sure you're this person's right here let's not and i'm running and sliding down the hallway can you stop fucking right here we got this thing in the sky okay oh no pressure fucking everybody's job depending upon you being something that you're not all right let's's do it but it was like it was cool to experience the process like the entire thing the amount of professionalism across the board for every job every single job it's like matter of life and death and it's like listen i i hope they pay you no matter what happens here okay and if i this up i will up, I will tell everybody that I fuck this up. Just want to let you know that.
Okay? I did flub the line. I flubbed the line.
I was so bummed about it because I had to reset everything. And it's like, 100 people got to move.
Part of a job. While I'm just walking down the middle of the hallway, it's all these people are like, reset! Reset! Doing this entire thing.
I'm like, you're the fucking worst human of all time. They're used to it.
I know. Oh, yeah.
Not with me. Unless they're working strictly with Dan Marino, they're used to it.
No flubs. Fucking send it.
When's he on? Friday. And Gabe Marenzi? Yeah.
Fucking send it. That's what we're going to do.

Down in New Orleans.

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