Scott Hanson Is More Excited Than You For the Return of The NFL and RedZone

Matt, Jerry, we have waited more than 200 days since the last full NFL Sunday.

The wait is over.

Go get your snacks, get your beverages, and sit down on your couch and get ready for the Octobox, for the witching hour, when wins become losses and losses become wins, all wrapped up in seven hours of redstone football.

I'll see you then.

I present to you an hour and 10 minutes, roughly, of uninterrupted throwbacks.

Did you like that?

Do you know what I'm saying?

Do you know what I'm doing right now?

Yeah, I know what you're doing.

You're teasing our guests, bro.

Let's

present to you.

No, it is now time for the witching hour.

And this is why I'm not Scott Hansen.

Everyone knows who Scott Hansen is, right?

I couldn't think of a better way to promote the fact that the NFL is back.

I mean, everyone's talking about what quarterbacks are going to stay, all this.

And look, I'm here for all of it.

But today we have Scott Hanson joining us.

If you don't know about the NFL red zone, where the hell have you been?

I'm sure you do.

But we're going to maybe try to go a little behind the curtain of the red zone and then just talk football with the one and only Scott Hanson.

And coming up later toward the end, we have Annie Agar, who was on last week.

We're going to do some twisted tea trivia and kind of preview a little bit of Thursday night stuff.

We got a big one.

Is there, I mean, listen to me.

I got a little pep in my step.

You know, college football's back.

The NFL is back tonight.

I mean, this is this not, it's just, it's just, it's the greatest time of the year, buddy.

This is, it is, this is Christmas for us adults.

This is Christmas for us adults.

For me, because I truly got beat up so bad during the Knicks playoff run, it was just nothing but stress.

Get ready to get beat up again.

Well, I was ready once the Knicks season ended,

I was ready to be done with sports.

I'm like, I'm taking the summer off.

I'm not going to really check in much with baseball.

I'm not going to pay any attention.

Like we had the NFL draft quickly, but I'm just, I'm out.

This has felt like the longest drought of sports in my life.

And it's not any different than any other year.

But this drought has felt bad.

Like I am thirsty for some of it.

You're feeling it.

You're feeling it.

You took some time off.

You had a nice nice offseason.

A lot of things happened in the Ferrara household.

Your Giants made some moves this off season.

My last football season as a father of two.

Yeah.

Fantasy football starts tonight.

We're in it.

You're back in it.

You're back in the grind.

There's just a lot of shit to be thankful for, buddy.

There's a lot of shit to be thankful for.

And I'm thankful for football.

I have a fun take for you on the Thursday night game later,

but let's dive in now.

You finished your week one for you is in the books

for your big noon travel.

I gotta say, buddy,

and I watch every week.

I watch every week.

I've been watching for years.

I appreciate that.

Thanks for the support.

I

love,

I love, love, love the Port Noise edition.

Because here, look, I'm tuning in because I want to hear between all of how many nashes, how many natties do you guys all have?

Between you, Urban, and Mark.

Is that five?

I got two.

Urban's got three.

Mark's got three.

Five.

So six.

I'm tuning in because,

you know, it's not that I know what to expect from you guys.

I don't know.

Like, you guys educate me in an entertaining way, right?

But then you get Fortnoy now, and now we have a layer to the show of, I don't know what the hell to expect.

And I think that's really cool for Saturday at noon.

And he was cutting wrestling promos, essentially.

Yeah, I mean, he's food.

Yeah, he's great.

He was great.

Awesome.

It was great to hang with Dave.

Just meetings, dinner.

You know, I mean, you know about this.

Like our weekends, it is, it's the closest thing to a locker room.

We have our own locker room.

Our producers, we're a tight group.

We, we, you know, bust each other's balls.

We have fun.

We, but, but we love, we want to give a great show, right?

We want to educate, talk football, and have fun because college football is so fun and so great.

And then now we have Barstool and Dave.

And obviously with a lot of the chaos that went down last week and him not being able to go in the stadium and just him being a Michigan guy and all those guys, all those things, like it was a big week.

It was a three-hour show.

There was a lot going on.

I thought Dave crushed it.

And he was awesome, man.

Like he was, he was, he was just fun to hang out with.

It's just, it's just like one of us talking sports, talking shit, having fun,

figuring out what works.

You know, like it's a week-to-week thing, but he was great.

And dude, we're in, we're in, we're in Ames, Iowa this weekend.

Barstool Sports, the show is coming this week.

So we'll see some of those guys.

But he was awesome, man.

And it'll only get better week to week.

So I got two things for you.

One,

what was your thoughts when he first comes out and the whole place is just booing are you like this is what we expected or are you like wow how long is this gonna how long is this gonna go on for

what i'm what i'm noticing is is you know his his demographic right and that his audience is a lot of those people they all love barstool they love and and and he makes a great point and he he digs in on ohio state because he went to michigan he and that rivalry and I've seen this in Urban will say.

It's great for sports.

That rivalry is second to none in sports.

I've been around a lot.

It's a truly a hatred, a truly a hatred.

But like you said, rivalries are great for sports.

So he plays into the rivalry.

He plays into that.

He's like, dude, this is what's great about football.

It's what's great about college football in particular.

And he has the flex of a huge win last year for a not very good Michigan team.

He has a huge flex.

They've won four years in a row, Michigan.

I mean, it's been

last year was really so, but like, but like he, he, he, he, I think he even said on his show this week, like, Ohio State's the number one team in the country.

I'll give them respect.

They're great.

They're really good.

But like, you still got to have, like, he played, he plays into it.

Obviously, he loves it.

He plays into it, but that's, that's part of what like he and Barstool are.

So shout out, Dave.

Dave was great.

Uh, Iowa State this weekend, Iowa, another big-time rivalry.

Um, but yeah, there's my second thing for you because he's already putting out, you know, pizza review.

Should he do it?

I'm going to get in one of those now.

Well, you should get in one of those.

And then also, my pitch to you, because you're on the road so much, why don't you talk to Portnoy El Presidente and find out your own, like, maybe, what would you, like, what would you review?

You know, like, review.

Yeah, find some.

Linard's what?

Like your chicken wings?

Like, what are you going to review?

I would go.

I would go.

Taco.

Cheeseburgers.

Cheeseburgers.

Yeah, bro.

I'm a big, that's my, if I, if I'm die tomorrow, I'm going cheeseburger and fries.

See, and and I think that's valuable to a fan base.

So if I were you, by the way, I'd like to know if I'm going to Des Moines were a good cheeseburger.

I was probably pretty good cheeseburgers in Des Moines.

I'm just saying.

Pitch it to

Fortnite.

You and him going out, and then you start the cheeseburger review.

I would watch the shit out of that.

Bro, I'd gain like six pounds a week, though.

Nah, you land and go right to the gym.

Dude,

you land and go right to the gym.

I mean, all the gentlemen out there listening, I mean,

it's a holiday week, bro.

Let's go.

It's great.

I mean,

what are you, what are you doing this weekend?

I mean, it's NFL Sunday, it's college football.

Here's what the biggest challenge for me this week will be, this weekend is tempering my excitement for the Giants because I know it's smoke and mirrors.

I know it's a good vibes team, but I do not want to.

I'm trying not to get sucked in.

I'm very excited.

I've seen it.

I think you've made up the good vibes team.

All you've talked about is that good vibes.

I think Giants' PR department did a wonderful job this year for the Giant fan base.

I know it's not reaching you in the South Bay, but in New York and the tri-state area, the vibes are high.

Good PR.

Good vibes.

I am beyond excited for Lamar versus Josh Allen.

I can't believe they're giving that to us week one.

But there's some other sneaky, interesting matchups that, I mean, Caleb, I'm very curious about Caleb Williams in that first game.

It's just a great, it's a great slate.

And I'm totally going to take advantage of, you know what?

You wanted the third baby.

I wanted one more season of NFL football.

I'm going to be a degenerate this weekend.

Fantasy football starts tonight.

As you said, we got Scott.

Scott's in the fantasy football league, maybe two.

So that'd be interesting to how the hell he handles that during red zone.

Is he in fantasy?

I can't imagine.

Really?

Yeah, he is.

I'm going to ask him about it because I'm trying to get in that league that he's in.

He's in with a lot of, with like George Kittle, a lot of current players.

I'm going to get in next year.

I've already got the in.

I've already got the ask.

Adsback leagues I'm already in.

But fantasy football starts.

Well, question off that.

I I always get suckered into, you know what?

I don't really want to play George Pickens, but you know what?

I need

a dog in the fight on Thursday.

Do you sometimes play someone in the Thursday night game that maybe you shouldn't, but you're just that excited to get it?

Yeah, Thursday night games are the worst, though, dude.

It's always, it's typically a lower scoring game.

It's always one of those.

Thursday night is the second guessing game for me, always.

And I, and I travel like I travel today.

I travel to Iowa.

So sometimes it's nice not to worry about it on Thursday.

You just don't play it.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Or, or it's, it's fucking really nice if you get off to a great start.

If your running back gets you like 28 points from Philly defense.

By the way, that might be one of the greatest feelings in fantasy football.

Starting a guy on a Thursday night and him going off going into the season already up like 15 to 30 points.

Oh, yeah.

With one player.

There's nothing better than that.

That's a great feeling.

And I think short of that, the, the, one of the best feelings is like you're down 60, but you got two guys left.

And like, you know, you kind of lost.

So maybe you watch the first quarter, nothing happens.

And maybe you go eat some dinner,

and you just go to your phone.

It's like, oh, my God, I'm only down 12.

Your two guys make two huge plays.

And next thing you know, you cut that 60-point lead to 18 at half.

That's a really exciting feeling.

That's a great feeling.

Or the Thursday big performance is amazing.

Or the, or the dud performance of the opponent, right?

If they play three guys on a Thursday night and they score like a total of 18 points, it's already like, like, it's kind of fun.

Dude, I finished last place in a league last year.

Last place.

That's embarrassing.

What an embarrassment.

I didn't have to do anything.

They tried to make me do something this year.

I'm like, guys, that ship has sailed, bro.

You should have done that last year.

I'm not doing shit for you.

Wow.

Maybe we'll talk more fantasy with Annie.

We got Scott coming on right now.

Last thing, Arch Manning, we're all moving on, right?

Meaning, like, it's fine.

Give the kid a break.

Play maybe the best defense in the country.

A couple big takeaways, real quick.

Talent is there.

He's going to be a really good player.

I think it was probably unrealistic for even guys like myself to kind of go in assuming that he would just light up OSU.

Light up.

You know,

I think we all missed the boat there.

A lot of people,

one in particular in the media, who's just a clown.

I don't want to even say his name.

He missed the boat.

But yeah,

I think he needs time like anybody else.

He hasn't played a lot of football.

So,

and again, I hyped him up too.

I think he's going to be really good.

Second, Ohio State defense is legit.

Matt Patricia was in his bag.

Yeah.

I watched the film.

He was in his bag.

So pump the brakes.

Texas is going to be fine.

They're one of the teams that lost this weekend that I'm not worried about.

That'll be there

when it all, when it's all said and done.

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CJ Daniels, maybe early candidate for best one-handed catch of the year.

We see one-handed catches now forever and ever.

Question for you, Matt.

Do you need a bad throw from a QB in order to get that

great one-handed catch?

I mean, of course.

There are some players that

you know I played with that all you have to do we would just say dude just throw the ball in the vicinity of him because he's going to make the catch larry fitzgerald was one of those um mike williams in college was one of those and yeah so typically like like you go back to the oldel beckham catch with eli like that's we're going to talk about that it's a good throw but he doesn't make that catch if he doesn't i mean yeah it's it's it so so so i would say this to a quarterback standard if a receiver has to make a sick one-handed catch it's probably not a great throw but sometimes you got to put it in places where only they have a shot.

I, I just, I, I want to, I want to ask you, like, what are your favorite catches of one-handed catches of all time?

Because I know

I have one.

That's

why

I did a little deep dive too.

First of all, I don't know what you consider the Edelman Super Bowl catch, like one-hand tip ball thing.

That's arguably one of the greatest catches of the greatest, if not most important catches.

There's been so many great one-handed catches.

Here's what I came out of my deep dive because I started watching all-time great NFL catches, and even going back to like Chris Carter days, where they did not really do the one-handed catch.

Every like what Odell did with that catch is what Curry kind of did with the 30-footer.

And then kids start working on that.

And next thing you know, it's like one-handed catches aren't ridiculous.

But what separates the Odell catch from all the amazing one-hand grabs that we've seen, and it's not because he was wearing a Giants jersey, Matt.

I know that's my

thing about it that made it unbelievable was it was an N-1.

He got held so bad.

And the ref threw the flag.

It was the NBA equivalent of an N1.

He gets held.

He breaks off the hold.

Ref throws the flag.

And then he makes the catch.

So that to me is, that's just the best.

We've had great ones since, but no one will ever touch that one.

Yeah.

I think, and it almost, I mean, and Odell was a great receiver.

So he didn't need that catch to be a great receiver, but.

That was just like one that like kind of put him on the map.

I would say Odell Beckham's catch is right up there and Mike Williams' catch.

Mike Williams.

Yeah.

You probably won't know.

You probably hadn't seen this, but we're going to, we're going to post this.

Oregon State, my first year playing 03,

he runs a little stick nod in the red zone, which is like a five-yard out and kind of up through the middle of the thing.

I throw it off my back foot.

I kind of throw it high.

He catches the ball with one hand and never puts and just holds it the whole time.

Never like

to palms it, never brings it back in like to tuck it.

He didn't fall.

He literally, he holds it like a like a loaf of bread and just keeps it high for like five seconds and just gives it to the referee.

And I was like, when I, when I feel good as a QB, like he just deeply spoke.

I was thinking about it.

When I saw it, I think I watched the highlight and I was like, my God.

Like, it is one of the sickest catches of all time.

Like David Tyree catch in the Super Bowl.

But that had a lot of luck.

I love that catch.

But a lot of these catches are luck.

I mean, one-handed.

I mean, Michael Crabtree's catch

in college, Texas Tech, when they beat Texas on the sideline, is arguably.

And again, a lot of these catches, ours didn't.

A lot of these catches had great ramifications, right?

Edelman's catch, Super Bowl, Tyree catch, Super Bowl.

Texas Tech upset Texas, I believe, on the sideline.

You got to watch that one too.

Those are, to me, some of the sickest catches of all time.

Justin Jefferson has a great one versus the Bills.

But yeah, for me, the big bang of it all was Odell with the M1.

Because I think kids started working on it.

And now we see it all the time.

It is now time.

Oh, I'm going to stop doing a Scottie.

We got to, by the way, that, and we got to, you know, we're going to give this man a proper introduction when he comes on, Jim.

You want it?

You're going to take it?

I'll take it.

It is now time.

I got to do the TV voice.

I'm sorry about that, man.

A lot of pressure.

I just want to just say, like, bro, what's up, dude?

What do we got?

Let's go.

I love your intro, bro.

What's up?

What's up?

I'm going going to give him that intro just like that.

All right.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are joined now by the former captain of the Bishop Foley Ventures varsity football team.

Syracuse long snapper, by the way, one of the best positions in all of sports.

Every football bro's favorite face on Sunday morning, entering his 17th season as the host of the NFL Red Zone,

Scott Hanson.

Let's go, baby.

Let's go, guys.

Happy New Year, Matt, Jerry.

Great to be with you.

I'm getting fired up.

In fact, I chose to do this interview from the studio here just to give you guys a quick feel if you wanted.

I kind of got chills.

Do you get as excited as all of us?

You know how the fans feel, specifically for Red Zone.

Do you get the same feeling going into Sunday?

I can only imagine.

So I think they record our studio crew records me

in the last 90 seconds prior to you guys and the fans hearing me at home.

Cause I am literally like, I don't want to blow the microphone here, but like, whoa, let's go.

You only get 18 of these all year.

Let's go.

I'm literally like that.

In fact, I just got goosebumps right now doing it because I'm here in the studio and it kind of echoes just a little bit.

But oh yeah, I'm, I'm a, I'm, I am a nut job before the, before we actually kick it off because I just, I'm so thrilled.

Because when, I mean, I love football.

I love serving our audience.

The audience is so positive about Red Zone and what it means in their football lives.

And I'm like, you only get 18 of these all year, you know, 17 games plus the bye weeks.

And we obviously go all 18 weeks of the regular season.

And I think.

If you get tired at some point, either during a show or maybe, you know, by December, you know, people are starting to get a little tired, a little, a little fatigued.

I'm like, imagine it's mid-May.

Imagine it's early June and you would give a body part to have an NFL Red Zone episode begin right now.

Focus on that and you will be back and enthused to get after it for seven hours.

Jerry, do you see, do you see this man right here?

Do you see how football players are just built different?

We are just like, we are just built different.

By the way, you need to come speak.

You need to come speak to my son's high school football team and motivate their team because they are on the struggle bus right now, buddy.

What happened?

It's early.

It's early in the season.

They're already on the struggle bus.

Ass kicked week one.

We're all right, though.

We're going to bounce back.

Let me, you know, we got the green screen behind you.

Awesome to see.

Yeah.

What's the studio look like?

Can you move?

I don't know what camera we're seeing.

Well, I know we're shattering some people's dreams that the background is fake.

It's not just 800 television going.

Yeah, no.

We're getting a first.

You undoubtedly have had a bunch of green screen experience in

your career.

So, yeah, you know that they digitize the background.

But look at this, boys.

Here we go.

This

is the, I got to get the camera here correct.

So,

oh, oh, oh, here we go.

The stage is no, this is not an ego trip, by the way.

They use

that AI?

Yeah, no, it's a cardboard cutout that they use to match the green screen for what I'm actually.

That's your stand-in, essentially.

That's your stand-in.

It's my stunt double.

The desk is real.

The host's enthusiasm is real.

And most importantly, the touchdowns are real.

So, but it's all fake background, green screen.

Here's what I'm looking at.

Obviously,

camera lights and whatnot.

Oh, yeah.

The camera that I say hi to the country to is right over here.

And then this is the part you'll like.

The donut light is usually not on.

That's for you guys.

But this, this is my wall of monitors.

Six big screens, and then we quadrant each one of them.

So I'll have eight games in the early window kicking off on Sunday and I actually do not stand over there.

I say hi to the football world over there and then I walk back around here about 15 feet and I stand right here and my eyes are glued to these monitors for seven straight hours.

We have every feed from every game brought to me over here on the far side.

This monitor has live scores to every stadium that literally tapped into the scoreboard in the stadiums.

So the game clock is completely synchronized, no delay or anything.

So I can keep an eye on things there.

And then this is what we call the program monitor, meaning this is what this exactly mirrors what's on in your living room at any given moment.

So I know what you're watching and then I can determine and the crew and I can determine what, where we're going to take you next and bounce around.

These two seats over here are my guys, Tim Galanyans and Brian Larravy, my right-hand men.

They sit there with a laptop to help me out with any stats, facts,

player identification.

That's your O-line right there.

That is my O-line, 100%, Jerry.

Yeah.

And they're my guys.

I would be, I know a lot about football, but I'd be lost without these guys.

So that's our little, that's our little studio.

Upstairs, there's a control room with like 15 to 20 people who

who you know help determine where we're going to go to at any given moment.

And

it's like an orchestra playing jazz music.

Everyone needs to be sweet and sharp on their instrument, but then they need to be listening to everyone else in the orchestra to say, because we don't have sheet music, right?

We're, we're responding to wherever the football, we don't care who's in the red zone.

We just care that someone's in the red zone.

We don't care who scores the touchdown.

We just care that there are a bunch of them.

And we try and blend it all together into what hopefully is a good watch on television.

By the way, I goosebumps just watching that.

It's fascinating, man.

The job that you do and everything, I get asked this a lot of

the time on the show that we're on.

And like, you know, you have your ears in, right?

So you, you have your inner, yeah, you have your beating ears.

And there's always people talking in your ear while you're talking.

Well, walk because you just talked about that.

It's an orchestra.

You got a lot of moving parts.

You got your stats dudes.

You guys like, hey, we need to move to this game.

What is it like?

Take us behind the scenes with that on how you kind of balance the ears and where to go to next.

How much, how much, how much do you have to say in doing whatever kind of going off script okay you're going to love this as a quarterback you're going to love this because i equate it to the coach to quarterback communication system yeah okay got it so i'll give you a for instance and this is when it gets real frenetic which is quite often not always sometimes it's pretty obvious we should be on this game it's the only game in the red zone so we're in detroit or whatever but let's say there's a scenario like this with eight games going on in the early window let's say green bay is third and eight from midfield.

And that's what you're watching at home right now.

Okay, third and eight.

Let's see if they can convert this and get the drive into opponent territory.

But my producer will get in my ear and say, All right, we're on the Green Bay game right now.

If Jordan Love completes this pass and they get a first down, we'll stay on the Green Bay drive because they'll be in field goal range.

If it's incomplete or they don't get the, they're going to bring out the punt team.

So we'll go over to New England because they're just outside the red zone.

But keep in mind, Dallas is in the two-minute warning timeout.

When they come out a break, they're first in goal from the five.

So that's our top priority.

So he just gave me all that instruction.

And then that's like the coach, or at least what I imagine, the coach calling multiple plays in my ear.

Then I get up to the line of scrimmage, meaning I watch what happens in the Green Bay game.

All right, Jordan Love drops back the pass, tries to target Matthew Golden.

Oh, incomplete.

Packers are going to bring out the punt team.

Let's go over to New England right now.

They're just outside.

Hold on.

We just got out of the two-minute warning timeout.

Dallas is first in goal from the five.

Let's go to to AT ⁇ T Stadium and see if Dak can score.

And I call the play based on what the actuality is or what the defense

allows me to call.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, I mean, and no one does it better, dude.

You're one of one.

Well, that's...

That's the thing, Scott.

I think as an audience, and maybe I relate with this with acting too, we know you're having fun.

Not saying like it's not stressful, it must be, and

it's not easy, it's very hard, but we feel that you're having fun doing this.

And you're not just like, hey, this is a good job.

I'm going to do it.

Like you, like you said, the way we only have 18 of these, we feel how special you treat it.

And I think that's why you get the reaction that you do from all of us.

And I will say, you're going into year, is this year 17?

Season 17, baby.

Yeah.

It's a huge.

30 years from now, if you decide to hang it up, take that desk with you.

People will,

that desk is awesome.

By the way, take that desk with you.

Put that in your house.

Have that forever.

It's a great desk.

I'm the first one in the studio at like 5 a.m.

on Sunday.

I'm the first one in.

It's usually dark.

That thing still scares the crap out of me.

I forget that it's in here.

And sometimes one of the crew hands will move it on like Wednesday or something.

And it would be right at the entrance to the studio.

And I'll be like, who's in here?

And then I'm like, oh, yeah, that's me.

That's cardboard me.

But good call, Jerry, on that.

I'm going to do that.

I'm going to.

Take that.

Whenever, yeah, 30 years from now, if you decide to hang it up with the red zone on year 47, take that thing.

Put that thing in a nice spot in your house.

Did you take anything from a set that was?

I take everything I could, Scott.

anything anything i could then you take those sneakers behind you these sneakers came from yeah i anything because also it's like look of course the sneakers have that has some value but just looking back you know even with the entourage stuff it's like it just i don't know i want these in my family and i feel like that desk is something that should be with you and i'm forever and when security tries to stop me i'm going to say that you you green lighted it yes um real quick you know i'm a

i've said this I use this too often in my regular life.

My wife wants to kill me sometimes because even when we're doing bedtime for the kids, I'm like, we have entered the witching hour.

No way, really.

I swear to God, I use it in life way too much.

And I was thinking about this the other day, right?

And I fully, I'm saying this is my opinion.

You don't have to get weird about it.

I think witching hour is up there for me with Let's Get Ready to Rumble, with Mike Breen going bang.

It's to me, it's in the zeitgeist.

If you ask someone, give me like three phrases that make you know NFL football's coming.

The witching hour is up there.

Did you have any idea that that was going to stick the way it did?

It's almost impossible to know, right?

No, I wanted to come up with a nickname for that hour.

It's usually more than 60 minutes because when you hit the end of the third quarter in the early window, And I'm looking across my wall of monitors and we've got eight games going on across the National Football League and five of them are one possession games and you got 15 minutes to play, you can guarantee that out of those five, two, three, or all five of them, the trailing team's going to end up winning that game.

And it's going to be something that everyone's going to be like, did you see the blank game or whatever?

And on red zone, your answer is going to be yes.

You will see every jaw-dropping moment, every when a win becomes a loss and a loss becomes a win.

So I had workshopped some different things to say, we got to identify this hour.

And I wanted there to be a catchphrase where the fans would associate it with, but did I know that years later, people would be tucking in their children with the hour?

Did I know that every year,

dozens of people hit me up on social media saying, we're going as the witching hour for Halloween.

Right?

But that's correct.

We're wearing a flavor flave clock and the girl will be dressed up as a witch.

We're the witching hour for our Halloween costume.

My tailors, my tailors, when they make my suit, they'll stitch in the stitching hour.

It has taken away.

That's when you know you've made it, Scott.

That's when you know you've made it.

You got your brain.

And you guys are in show business.

You know that that's good to have an association with fans that's so positive that they think like, oh yeah, that's, you know, say the thing, say the thing.

Yeah.

I mean,

you've talked about this, and maybe we can dive a little deeper.

The absolute worst case scenario, right?

I think that's what everybody, I think it's fascinating.

You are just grinding for hours.

You don't leave.

Paint the picture of just

if I don't even want to jinx you, but if things go wrong with the absolute worst case scenario,

what happens?

What do you do?

And then do you have like an understudy?

Do you have someone that just goes up there and maybe fills time?

Like, how does that work?

Or how would that work?

Yeah.

Thankfully, we've never had to come to that.

We've had more than

250 episodes, I guess.

And I've never

been a machine, dude.

And it's AI.

You You know what?

When you don't have talent, you better have enthusiasm.

And I got that.

So I ain't, I ain't.

By the way, you were a long snapper, dude.

It's for the orange spin.

You got talent, bro.

You can make a lot of money being a long snapper.

The more you can do.

Yeah, but the problem was I would snap.

I could snap.

We used to do 15-yard snaps back in the day.

And I could, on my best days, I could snap in 0.7.

The problem is I'm about 5'10.

Back then, I weighed a little over 200 pounds.

And the nose guard, when the center wasn't protected by the rules back in those days, I used to get jacked up.

And my special teams coach one time said, Hansen, it don't matter if you can snap in 0.6

if your ass is flying back at 0.5.

And I'm like, and I'm like almost blocking the punt with my backside because, so yeah,

you know, but I love playing college ball.

Syracuse was fantastic during my time there.

We played USC, got beat, unfortunately, by USC back in the day.

That was the Todd Marinovich.

Did you have a team?

It's old enough that it was Todd Marinovich.

I was going to say McNabb.

McNab is a little younger than I am.

So I was at Syracuse before he was.

I played with Marvin Harrison.

Marvin Harrison and I would play.

Scott,

you don't look a day over 35, my man.

You know, good, buddy.

Drink a lot of water except on NFL Sundays, you know?

What are we drinking on NFL Sundays?

No, nothing because I I thought you were going to ask me the bathroom question.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, we already know.

Yeah.

No, you know, that's the last thing you do before you go live, though, right?

Like,

you're going to have a countdown clock.

You know, when you're watching, that's your last break.

I'm in the men's room handling business, and then I am locked in on the touchdowns.

I don't, I don't go.

So, yeah.

But to answer your question, yeah,

they do have like backups and whatnot.

But yeah, like you said,

hopefully, hopefully it doesn't.

By the way, they're going to have to carry you off of that, in that, out of that studio for you to not.

And that's that's the dedication that we all need and we love from you, dude.

I appreciate it, Matt.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How do you feel about, you know, let's move off a Sunday.

Now you're on Monday and there's only one game most of the time.

Sometimes there's two.

It must feel nice to sit back and be like, oh, I got one football game and I just get to watch it, right?

Like Monday night's got to be a little bit of a come down, a relief.

And then, because you know, you only got X amount of time before you got to ramp it back up, right?

What's Monday look like for Scott Hansen?

This might freak you out.

On Monday night football or even Sunday night football, Thursday night football, a standalone game,

I had a media wall built into my house in Los Angeles with five big screen TVs.

It looks exactly very similar to what the six monitors are.

So when there's a standalone game, to make me feel like I'm in my comfort zone, I'll put Monday night football on the center screen and then I flank it with a Marvel movie, highlights.

Oh, you are sick.

Are you serious?

I am sick.

I am ill, Matt.

I think that is comfortable to me.

Now, you have a wife and kids, Jerry, and you guys have your.

I'm a bachelor.

I live alone.

So, like, I didn't have to ask permission from Mrs.

Hansen to say, Can I put five TVs on in the living room right now?

It'd be bluey.

Live in the dream.

No, I don't have iron or anything like that.

So, but I literally will watch all of that stimulus coming at me is like I can process it for some strange reason.

And, and I, and I love it.

That's like my comfort zone.

So, I think the, I think the craziest thing, too, is like, I was saying, because you're not, you know, you're not doing a pregame show for a game or you're not like, like, the preparation is different.

Like, you're, you're reacting.

You're reacting to everything.

And I think that's just, that's the hard.

In our world, I think that's the hardest thing to do.

And that's what makes guys like you great, guys that call a game because you're just reacting to what you're seeing and you're doing it in a millisecond.

I think it's, it's, there's not a lot of prep you can do, right?

Oh, no, there's tons of prep.

As a matter of fact, I actually brought some if you want to see it.

Like, yeah, uh, let me see if I've got last year's.

Let me just show you.

I'm already working on week one right now.

Uh, so I'll start off with basically three different packets.

I have an overarching packet, like, this is my schedule for week one.

And I'll usually draw lines between the early window and late window just to have the schedule, right?

Then I go into different individual statistics.

I'll do,

I don't know where I, well, I put it over here.

Anyway, I'll have quarterback stats, spreadsheets that I create myself with just so I know, okay, who are the top performing quarterbacks?

How many touchdowns does this guy have entering the game?

How many interceptions does he have?

Where is he at and how many times he's been sacked?

What's his passer rating?

All these things.

Kicker stats, defensive stats, running back, wide receivers, fantasy stats.

And what I do is I saturate my mind with all of that.

So therefore, if a guy does something in a game that is pertinent to something that I've read during the week, that I can quickly, because they're not waiting for me to go to the next game and whatnot, I can quickly disseminate, well, that 82-yard Derrick Henry run was now the longest run in the NFL this season.

Damian Pierce had an 80-yarder back in week four, but I've got that available to me.

So I'm constantly studying

depth charts as well, because hey, by the time you get to November, injuries are a thing.

And there are guys catching passes in November that weren't even talked about among individual fan bases back in August.

So it's, yeah, I do a lot of prep work, but I think what your point was, there's no teleprompter.

There ain't no way.

You're just flying by the cedar pants and whatever you can retain.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Fantasy football starts.

You do play fantasy football.

And I just, I'm asking now, I'm asking this.

And I think you're the guy to ask, how do I join your league?

Because you're in a league.

You're in a league with what?

You got to give him your Heisman.

You got to give him your league.

Chubby's does the league, right?

Chubby's great.

I wear their shorts all the time.

My son had matching one.

A couple current players are in.

Tell us about this league because I need to get it.

I'm in five leagues, Scott, by the way.

Five already.

Okay, that's four, too, many, Matt.

No, yes.

Yes.

I'd like to see you.

I agree with you.

I'm going to go

one league with your best friends and just say, I'm going to pummel each and every one of you.

Because that way, when I show you Lamar Jackson running for a 50-yard touchdown, are you going yay or boo with your

teams?

Or both.

Exactly, Jerry.

Exactly.

It depends which leagues are making more money.

You lost me, Matt.

How do I get in this league, man?

Can we tell us about that?

So Chubbies, great partnership.

I was thrilled to join with them in preseason.

We just had our draft not too long ago.

Mark Sanchez is in it.

Emmanuel Sanders is in it.

Ian Rappaport, the great information man from NFL Media, is the commissioner of the league.

And then we're playing against just Chubbies customers, you know, just fans of the NFL who got into this league and wanted to, you know, mix it up with some people that they see on TV, celebrities and whatnot.

And it is awesome.

We had a good time and I'm going to take absolutely no mercy on anyone.

My contract with Chubbies does not require me to be a gentleman when it comes to smashing someone.

But you don't even get to look at your team throughout the day.

I try not to, actually.

And here's why, because I don't want to cheat.

You don't want to affect.

I don't want to be like, okay, oh, yeah, I got Christian McCaffrey

or, oh, I'm playing against Christian McCaffrey.

So that 50-yard run that he just had, you know, I'm not going to give it the enthusiasm that I would on red zone.

So I try not to check my scores

during the early window of the show.

But my favorite football team is the Iron Bladders, my fantasy football team.

The Iron Bladders.

Well done.

So get in the Chubbies League is the bottom line, Matt.

Oh, yeah, I'm in.

I'm in the middle of the money.

To the extent that I have power, invitation, verbal invitation extended right here, right now.

Make him give up his Heisman.

The winner of the league gets to hold the Heisman for a year.

You have to be willing to risk that for a year, Matt.

We'll negotiate that.

It occurred to me too, Scott, you probably, if we go 17 years of history, I don't know if you remember like the show Stump the Schwab.

You remember that.

You probably would annihilate everybody in trivia or

the sort of thing.

I know when I do a scene with acting, it's like out of my brain.

Once it's over, it's like out of my brain.

Does it leave you like right away?

Or does some of that stuff stick with you?

Yeah, that's a good question.

A lot of it, I described it as saturating my mind with all these stats and facts.

A lot of it, if I know it's a one-week thing, like.

this guy needs to score a touchdown this week.

Otherwise, his seven-game stretch of scoring at least one scrimmage touchdown is over, then I'll dump that out of my head if he doesn't do it.

But if there's something like Saquon Barkley having a season that he had last year, okay, he's 300 and some yards away with three games to play.

He needs to average 104 yards on the ground to hit 2,000 yards.

And then that, you know, you got to maintain that in your head and be doing the math constantly.

So a little bit, a little bit sticks with me.

Some of it I just let go.

But

again, if I was a doctor or a lawyer or any walk of life, I would have four windows open on my on my screen to NFL websites anyways.

I get paid to do this.

So it's an absolute labor of love.

I love doing it.

And

so yeah,

it's fun.

It's fun.

Oh, but trivia-wise, I do a little fun thing.

We have a production meeting with the whole entire staff.

two hours before showtime on Sunday.

And I will present to them a trivia question.

And it's me versus the entire room of whatever 20 people or so.

If they get it right, I throw a hundred bucks into the into the pot.

And at the end of the year, if we have a couple grand, then we go out and have, you know, whatever, an open bar celebration somewhere, something like that.

And I come up with some stuff that that does, it's firm but fair.

And

they have to use their collective brains with no Googling, obviously, to come up with the $100 question answer.

So, yeah,

I do like trivia.

But

Schwab was the man on stuff.

He was the man.

Scott,

before we let you go,

one last message

to our NFL lovers out there across the globe.

Look into the camera.

Give us one last motivational speech because, guess what, buddy?

It's go time.

Yeah.

It is go time for you and for everybody else.

What do you got?

Yeah.

Matt, Jerry, ladies and gentlemen, we have waited more than 200 days since the last full NFL Sunday.

But on September 7 at 1 o'clock Eastern, the wait is over.

Go get your snacks, get your beverages, set your lineups, all five of them liner,

and sit down on your couch and get ready for the OctoBox.

for the witching hour when wins become losses and losses become wins all wrapped up in seven hours of redstone football.

I'll see you then.

You are a legend, Scott.

I cannot thank Scott.

This has been the best way to start.

Famous actor on the Zoom here with me.

I had to play a little sauce into it.

It was all, you crushed it.

You absolutely crushed it.

I cannot think of a better way to ring in the NFL season and have it.

Yeah, man.

We appreciate you, buddy.

Have a great season.

We love you.

Seriously, you absolutely crush it.

You are a part of our lives.

And my kids' bedtime now, officially, the witching hour uh good luck to you we'll be watching have a great season buddy that got me so fired up i wish it was right now let's go

i got goosebumps let's go let's go hey let's check back in during the season we'll do it we'll do a mid-season update or something like that

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Okay, Annie Agar joins the show right now, courtesy of Twisted Tea.

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I'm actually going to be grabbing quite a few of those later tonight for the game and the weekend.

We're going to do a little Twisted Tea trivia with Annie.

She has some questions for us.

But before that, Annie, you shared something with us off air at your local coffee shop, we'll call it.

Are you still riding high for your Packers and Micah Parsons, even with the back stuff?

Oh, what a great week.

What a great month.

I'm so happy.

There was another time, too.

I didn't mention it.

So yes, that happened this morning at Starbuck or my coffee place.

And then

I was on a walk the day it happened, like that night, I think.

I went for a walk and some guy didn't even acknowledge me, didn't say like, go, Pat, go or anything.

He just said, we got Micah.

Like just pointed at me.

And so it was just the best.

Like they already know.

We know.

We got it.

The past fan that's ever existed in Chicago has come together.

And I just love it.

It's the best.

By the way, you got Micah and a bad back.

Well, okay.

Wow.

You know what?

I did extensive research, Matt, and by

me, I looked at a doctor's tweet on Twitter and he said that they don't get epidurals right before a game.

This would have to be like days in advance.

So everybody, like, there might be false information out there.

So Jerry's not smarter than we think, guys.

We're seeing that.

You know what you get, though?

You get some, you get that, that good old cat.

I mean, you've got, you know, more

former player.

Like,

should I be worried about this back pain?

Honestly, I don't know.

I never had a bad back.

I've had a bad pain.

Usually, usually when there's an issue with the back, it's not a great thing.

I'm sure he's going to be fine.

I mean, yeah, because we had, we talked, we had you on last week, and I feel like you were just so like, I don't know, the Packers and this.

We even did a little dog

side by side of my, yeah, I was just concerned about the depth and injuries in preseason.

And we just needed our pass rush was so bad.

And now we filled that one hole that I think I'll, I was like, I'm not talking Super Bowl, but I'm talking Super Bowls.

Well, you can You check the odds for the Packers going to the Super Bowl.

At least in the division, for sure.

Well, we're going to hit trivia in a second.

Obviously, tonight we start off.

We got Eagles, Cowboys.

I have a little bit of a take.

Any quick thoughts for us on that?

And then maybe what matchup this Sunday and Monday are you most excited for?

Great questions.

First of all, we got to get your betting back up.

You got to get your money back on this game.

So I just bet on Saquon because Dallas still can't stop the run, no matter what Jerry says.

They're not going to stop the run.

And as a Packers fan, I know what Saquon did to us the

opening night last year.

So I'm just not going to talk about that.

Yeah, I just think it's going to be not in Dallas, not in Dallas's favor.

Maybe take like the over on Dak passing because they'll play playing from behind the entire game as per usual.

But I think the storyline I'm most excited about is to see how Matt Eberflues does because I kind of forgot for a hot second that he's DC over there.

I did as well.

Make so much fun of him, obviously.

I was about to say,

where are you going with this?

Because I know you've probably risked it.

Just remember, let's remember how Mad did the last Thursday night game.

They blew was Thanksgiving.

I think Bears fans remember that one.

But no, I'm excited to see how that plays out.

That's going to be interesting.

What do you guys say?

What's your take, Jirian?

Well,

I look at things in terms of the storyline.

That's why I felt so good about OSU minus one and a half.

Like everyone's daring you sort of to take Texas.

And I just looked at the storyline.

Like, what's the most likely headline the next day?

And it was not Arch and Tex and the Longhorns look amazing at the shoe.

I just didn't see it.

So, with this one, and I watched even all the talk about, you know, how the Eagles are, they're not going to come out for the banner raising.

They don't want to celebrate that.

And they're just pretending.

They don't want to fall into this, like, we're the defending champs thing.

They want to go at it like still this underdog, no one believes in us mentality, which whatever, fine.

I just think after this trade, everyone is ready to bury the Cowboys.

And maybe they should.

And I don't think they're winning the game, but if you're giving me eight and a half, I know what's in Philly.

I just think with the amount of

passing the Cowboys are going to have to have to move the ball, because they ain't going to move the ball at the run.

I just think they hang around.

I think the Eagles handle their business and it's like a survive and advance for the Eagles.

I think maybe it's a six, seven-point game.

So I like the Cowboys with the eight and a half.

I like a fight for the fight.

Are you the only one that like weirdly thinks the Cowboys are going to be good this year?

I, I, I'm, I agree.

I don't think like Super Bowl, but I think like, you know, seven, six seed isn't.

You know what?

I feel like I root for Dak.

I just, I don't know.

I root for like good guys and I root for guys that are like, he just, he's been manhandled by media for his whole career.

And I think he's a good player.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It's just weird.

Like, I think maybe that's a former player me, but I root for Dak.

I don't really care who wins this game, to be honest with you guys, but I do think, I do think,

Matt.

Yeah.

I'm just thinking, like,

I actually root for the Cowboys.

I don't really, I mean, again, I I don't have a dog in the fight.

I don't really care that much, but I'm rooting for Dak, man.

I'm on board with that.

Cause he, I've only met, I've met him once and it was.

Yeah.

And he's and everyone, anytime anybody asked me who's the nicest person you met, I said, he was so nice.

Dak was just the nicest guy.

Don't talk me off this ledge, but I'm starting George Pickens tonight.

I don't care.

No, I don't.

I think they're going to throw 48.

I think he'll at least have a deep touchdown pass, but I don't know about.

I got CeeDee Lamb and I got CeeDee Lamb in multiple fantasy leagues.

So I'm rocking with the Cowboys offense.

I can't believe we're having this conversation because like two weeks ago, it felt like it was two years away.

And now here we are.

And a lot's changed for you, Annie Agar.

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Annie, you have some questions for Matt.

So for reference, in other trivia-ish competitions, Matt has absolutely destroyed me.

Okay.

So I need to show up.

It's getting to the point where I don't even want to play anymore.

Can we get hints if we need to be?

It's like I play my buddy and horse all the time in basketball and I've won 99.9%.

It's just like, dude, I don't want to play.

Like, it's not fun for me.

So let's see.

Maybe we can stay in Michigan State.

It's not even a rivalry anymore.

I want to keep it.

I mean, Big Brother, Little Brother.

I mean, are we even talking?

I mean, Jerry, you got to defend yourself here.

All right.

I wish we could get Scott Hanson to go.

We now present to you twisted tea trivia.

Get him to do it.

That'd be hilarious.

That'd be great.

We'll use it every open.

It'll just be Scott.

You'd probably have to give him like $10 million to say that out loud.

It's a commercial-free trivia.

Yeah, we'll probably just pay him.

Pay him a little bit.

Okay.

I have five questions.

Five.

I don't think I'll give out any hints.

Maybe if we get really stumped on something.

But if I knew a couple of these, so I feel like you guys will know them.

If that makes you feel more comfortable.

Are we going one at a time or do we just buzz in?

Just

shout it out.

Shout it out.

Yep.

All right.

Number one, ready?

Who holds the record for most passing touchdowns in week one?

Since we're talking week one here.

Oh, gosh.

True breeze.

that was a good guess that's probably what i would have said but incorrect incorrect matt let me ask it let me ask a question are we going how many years back are we going or is it doesn't matter not very far well okay oh that's a hint that's a that that quote i know but like i mean we can go back to the 80s i mean no no not that far deep i i remember this and he was not around in the 80s

Yeah, it's probably a lot more simple than you're thinking.

Get your guess in, Matt.

Aaron Rodgers?

Nope.

Good guess too, though.

All right.

Same wavelength, though.

Brett Favre.

Nope.

All right, give it to us.

We're 0 for one.

It was in 2013.

How about I give you the year?

Peyton Manning.

Omaha.

It was Omaha.

Yeah.

Even though, I don't think I would have guessed.

I would have said Drew Brees, I think.

2013, Peyton Manning was in Indy.

Yeah.

Have a hard time getting the Broncos.

How many touchdowns did you throw?

Seven touchdowns.

Seven?

Oh, I just saw that the other day on TV.

Damn it.

In week one, geez.

Well,

Dach will not be doing that versus the Eagles.

All right, number two.

Who was the last Super Bowl champion to miss the playoffs the following year?

Not that we're hinting at what the Eagles.

Yes, Jerry.

New York Giants.

No, but that is a great guess.

This is the problem.

The problem with Jerry and Trivia is he gets so excited and blurts it out before he even thinks about the answer.

That's that's so who's the last?

Who's the last Super Bowl?

It's like the family feud ones that people

didn't make

to win the Super Bowl or make the Super Bowl win the Super Bowl.

Oh, Patriots.

Nope.

Matt.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, Tampa Bay.

Nope.

That's great.

We suck.

Come on.

We stink at this.

I know, because of Brady.

No, same thing, though.

They're quarterback, retired.

That may have given it away.

We stink at this.

Is it the Broncos?

It was the Broncos.

Broncos.

Oh,

shoot.

Peppering us with a little Peyton money.

116 Denver Broncos, which I forgot that happened.

I forgot that.

We stink at this so far.

I'm basically over there.

This one goes back a little bit further.

Number three.

Who was the last defensive player to win MVP?

JJ Watt.

This is it.

No.

Oh, you said you were.

I thought that was, I thought that too.

Is it?

Is it

no Lawrence Taylor?

Yes.

Yes.

Wow.

Oh, my my God.

Only the greatest linebacker of all time.

Redemption arc here for Jerry.

Okay.

Linebacker of all time.

Jaden Daniels was the first rookie quarterback to win a playoff game in over a decade last year.

Who was the last rookie quarterback to win a playoff game before him?

I know this answer.

I think I know it.

The last rookie quarterback to win a playoff.

It's one of these two.

I know.

And they went one and two, I think, in a draft, but I don't want to get if I saw RG3.

RG3.

No.

And it's Andrew Luck.

No.

Oh, what the heck?

Those are my two.

Cam Newton.

Nope.

You're on the right track, though.

Think of it.

I can't.

Come on, Ann.

Give us one.

No, give us a hint.

The last rookie quarterback to win a play.

It was 2012.

Stafford?

Nope.

You already said his name once.

I'll tell you that.

Oh,

if you remember.

Ryan.

No.

No.

I just give it to us.

We stink.

No, give us one more.

Russell.

Sorry.

Sorry, Matt.

We should have got.

By the way,

we should have got.

By the way, Jerry's best friend.

Great story there.

If you ever want to tell Annie one day, maybe we do.

Oh, I be dear this story.

Oh, yeah.

This is a story over twisted tease.

This is definitely a twisted tease story.

Okay, one last question.

This is embarrassing.

These are great questions.

Shout out to our producer, by the way.

By the way, there have been 15 99-yard offensive touchdowns in nfl history offensive touchdown in nfl history what was the last one the last 99 yard touchdown

i mean

it was a saquan this is a tough no on the right track

what is a running back it was a running back yeah

you know i know it because i i think it happened like overtime right derrick henry derrick henry yeah yeah

nicely done i'm visualizing the run it was it was out to the left.

I remember that.

Okay.

There was some question about what happened last year.

And it was like,

it was a, I don't remember who it was now.

I thought it was Derrick Henry last year, but it wasn't the longest run.

Well done.

Unfortunately, Jerry comes out on top as our twisty T trivia

champion.

That's hard to say too.

Jeez.

Got to be honest.

That was embarrassing.

The trivia?

We're horrible.

We need to study.

We're not going to.

You were actually pretty good.

I was terrible.

Those are tough questions.

Maybe next year we do it from something from the last three matt and i are old so maybe we just go maybe but not like we should go back in time our memories don't work better at because i'm definitely obviously better at like the current stuff like if it's a couple years back i'm good but before that i think we're old enough now that we just don't remember stuff like that i bet you know what i've been leaning on hints in the in the stuff that we do so maybe i'm not as smart as i think uh Annie,

what does the weekend look like?

I mean, I know we got Packers, obviously.

Yeah, what you're watching.

Yeah, this is, I mean, I said this is, it's Christmas season.

My brother has blocked me on Twitter, so that's, we're off to a great start.

Great start.

Great start.

Great start.

You probably deserved it.

Yeah.

We're going to do, I think we're going to do a joint, like last year for the game, we had, I had a camera on him at home in Michigan and then I

on me and we did reactions of the game that way so that because he won't talk to me during the game.

Like everybody thinks this is like a joke, maybe.

No, we don't.

There's no I love it.

I love it.

He's so mad at me.

So, um, yeah.

So that's what I'll be doing Sunday.

I'll be sitting in my apartment watching by myself.

Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, I love it.

What are you guys doing this weekend other than obviously Saturday or a little busy?

What am I doing this weekend?

I don't know.

I mean, I'll just be, I'll probably be sitting in,

I don't know, somewhere where I'm not supposed to be looking at my phone with the wife and look at it all day.

A lot of sports this weekend.

Kids start.

Yeah, but fired up.

I will be watching while also like.

chopping vegetable.

Like that's our agreement.

I turn into a sous chef.

I prepare the stuff for cooking later while I have a giant screen going.

And just give me, at least give me the one o'clock games.

That's all I want.

Like four o'clock, would I get it?

West Coast.

I don't even need to watch the Chargers anyway.

Yeah.

I feel like the Chargers and the Cardinals, like, I could watch that with one eye.

Give me the one o'clock games.

Those late afternoons late, usually those games are rough.

But I mean, we have Lions Packers, so I can't even relax in the afternoon.

Oh, that's, you got, oh, that's four o'clock.

I hate when

this may be a hot take.

I hate when the Packers play in that slot because that's my relaxing time.

For like half an hour, I can compose myself.

And now I have to be stressed out the entire time.

It sucks.

Yeah, four o'clock.

I'll be thinking of you because you're in the torture chamber for

three and a half hours.

And I've already like locked in for three hours before that.

So it's just going to be ridiculous.

By the way, you're going to need to do some yoga and meditate later.

That's why that's the reason why you guys should move to the west coast.

You start the games a lot earlier.

It is the best times.

It's the best for sports.

It is the best.

Best times.

I know.

Debbie, my agent will call me and be be like, oh, yeah, we're making dinner.

Like, having a, I'm like, oh, great.

It's eight o'clock here.

I'm stressed out.

I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to stay awake for the

night game.

And there's nothing better than West Coast time.

Well, Annie Agar, we are looking forward to your recaps and everything you're going to be throwing our way over the weekend.

Big shout outs to Twisted T.

Matt and I will do better with trivia next week.

And we'll see you next week, Annie.

Awesome.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Bye.

All right, Matt.

I mean, the next time we do this show, we are going to have a full week of nfl and the second week of college football to discuss uh say goodbye to the girlfriends and wives it's over it's fine

enjoy iowa go hit the farmer's market over there yeah i put it out there on x i got a lot of funny responses go check out my uh reply section of that i said ames what's good and everyone's like nothing don't come here

i'll fire it up though Could be fun.

It's going to be good.

Listen, everyone, enjoy.

I know there's going to be a lot of people awake on Saturday nights staring at their fantasy lineups and their betting stubs and all that.

Just enjoy it.

I, similarly with golf, I love the anticipation almost as much as I love watching the actual thing.

So Saturday night for me, knowing I get to wake up and do that will give me just as much joy as actually doing it.

So good luck to everybody in fantasy, to everybody betting, to all your

favorite teams, Super Bowl hopes and dreams.

Good luck, everybody.

Week one is coming at you.

We're back.