Peyton Manning gets CHOKED UP w/ the NFL’s return?! + Arch Manning’s decision | The Pat McAfee Show

hey that's a hey this is a big you know with USC beating LSU in prime time yeah you know USC Big 10 beating LSU SEC like this is another big 10 SEC matchup of Titans here now you know and with the whole conversation about the 12 team playoff like this is a big deal this is a massive representative of an entire conference feel almost you know and I think we're going to get a lot more of that as we go forward with the new uh college football and Conference alignment where teams are who they're playing and everything like that yeah no question Pat we have a we have an absolute Legend waiting on the line we're not going to make make him wait any longer obviously huge friend of the program friend of the show friend of you old teammate of yours please welcome Mr pton [Applause] Manning AJ thank you Pat Pate look at Pat you see Pat over there in Ann Arbor where he's got take the lacrosse team or swim team playing some kind of game some recruits can you you remember your time back in Tennessee Pate I sure do AJ I actually took a visit to an arbor as a a senior in high school thought about going to the University of Michigan they recruited me Ohio State did not recruit me a they didn't throw the ball back then they probably just running power left and right they didn't you know they didn't they had Street they had Bobby hoing I mean they were just uh they were not exactly airing it out back in the uh back but be an arbor Saturday obviously Archie's coming in here with Texas and he saw some game action last week did you get a chance to see it you know hey he's got much a lot more Moxy than you and Eli and Rhythm seemingly now I watched the musical it was phenomenal 10 minutes I hope you win a Tony I hope you win a Tony but Archie throws that touchdown comes to his sideline he has like a dance with his teammates in The Moxy through the roof did you get a chance to see his debut what are your thoughts and the way and I guess your entire Manning operation gets credit for this but it's been like real lowkey he doesn't need to start like he doesn't need to be in the headlines he's just kind of taking it as it come are you guys trying to keep it as normal as possible for him even though it's probably never going to be yeah look it's obviously Arch uh and his dad Cooper this is not some kind of team by any means Eli and I are his uncles uh we talk to him kind of when he reaches out to us and and try to answer questions I think I've told you I think sometimes he regrets it you know he might ask me a question about a two-minute drill and I'll leave him uh three 12 minute voice memos later about the two minute drill so I'm sure he's like I wish I wouldn't have asked my uncle that question but I'm proud of arch I'm proud of him uh like you said most kids probably wouldn't have stayed in that situation he went to Texas because he wanted to play at Texas he wanted to go to college he wanted to play for Sark those are the right reasons you should choose a college and I'm glad he's staying there and he and Quinn have a good relationship I think Quinn's gonna have a great year but yeah it was fun to see him get in there Pat my dad's speed and athletic ability kind of skipped the generation and went to him it did not come to me and Eli so he H run he can move and the celebration on the sideline hey I I have no clue when it comes to that but I'm happy for him and like I said pulling hard this year Cooper's coming to an arbor this weekend and um you know should be a great uh ball game there at Arbor allegedly and uh I know the gra The Graduate the hotel I I don't know if it has Tennessee birth in it or if there's a connect allegedly Cooper paid to fly the Texas flag outside of the Ann Arbor graduate have you heard this I have not heard this but yeah Cooper is in the hotel business The Graduate is kind of one of their top hotels there's one in Knoxville there's one in Columbus yeah I've been there har they have room keys with the famous alums on there so um I have not heard that but uh that ought to get this game rivalry started pretty quick hey I would say Pat Uh Z popped in the back I guess we're getting some feedback we just need to call you back real quick P we got to fix your your connection they're thrott on us Pat you know they always do that for some reason they know archers coming to town so they don't want him doing anything so they're going to throttle him con it could be me too I mean could be my side there's no Breeze blown hey these kids are kicking field goals what so who do you know who that is do you know who they are yeah recruits they're the recruits so they let recruits come in there and kick few that's awesome good for them you listen what do we did we not recruits of what sport what sport sing you guys listen okay yeah we do yeah we do it's a talk show we're talking to each other tell the lacrosse boys they know what school to go to she got that one 29 yard right there I don't know what sport she plays she needs full scholarship wow nice kick that's a big time kick a big time kick you would lost money tomorrow if she was doing it uh four yards further uh I don't know if it's sneak get for 33 but it doesn't matter she it made it from 29 it's all that matters 50,000 bucks last week um yeah yeah 50,000 bucks that's my money I think a lot of people get a little confused oh it's got to be uh it's got to be sponsored or something it's not uh it it is not that is 100% my cash and uh I'm pumped at the kid one that kid was one of the coolest dudes that had existed he um yeah I'm doing a show Bob thank you appreciate the uh the um the kids are awesome though kids are awesome good swim team up here um that kid was awesome he wrote me a an email like a big long email and uh was very grateful and he's I'm happy that kid won a 50,000 now since he didn't hit on the first time we will still Progressive the Jack butut you know cuz last year was 25,000 or last week was 25,000 since he didn't hit on the first try it'll go up to 35,000 now depending upon the vibe of kid you know whether or not that one more kick thing happens whether or not we you know go with it or not this kid was awesome last week he deserved it people like some kids some kids might suck and if I get a this guy suck suck vibe from whoever we're probably probably not doing one more kick even though the entire place might be chanting for it but that's neither here nor there it is a great time thankful that the kid made it last week it was a good moment and college game day is off to a hot start and I assume the same exact thing for tomorrow with the buzz that's in the air in Ann Arbor A2 is what they call it A2 an AR wow I tell you what I think pton is back with this pton you got back uh here we go great message hey tone Diggs actually was asking me earlier you're you're working with Bill belich I I believe two different on Fridays you're doing like a a preview show and then Monday night Manning bill will be joining you what what can we expect and I heard aren't you guys haven't you done some uh like practice runs with Bill and how are those G no it's been great AJ uh yeah we're excited uh first game's Monday night we got Jets uh 49ers Bill's going to be a permanent kind of first half guest this year coming in talking about the defense talking about head coaching decisions look bill bich is a brilliant guy I've heard him talk football I've become a smarter football fan in the rehearsals that we've done with Bill but nobody else has really heard him you guys have gotten to hear him a little bit but he never shared with the public or the media kind of his knowledge and I think fans are going to be the beneficiary of um of hearing his insights and look he doesn't like Eli that much because Eli beat him in two Super Bowls he's gonna fit in great it's nice to have a little reinforcements going back at Eli when he comes for me and yes uh there's a show called Break down that actually drops today on ESPN plus and ESPN 2 at 2 p.m. Eastern where Bill and I kind of broke down the Jets ners game we filmed it the other day look his his knowledge is is off the charts and so I learned things from him I try to kind of make points on the offensive side this is what mcaffry is gonna have to do to go against this Jets defense it's a little bit of back and forth but it's a lot of fun and looking forward to him being you know kind of part of the Manning cast all season you two are both very diligent human beings in everything that you do I'm realizing with Bill bich I've known that about you I I I've said this uh we went to a golf trip down in the South and uh at that particular place not allow to have your phone out and then as soon as we get back to an area where phones are allowed and emails and everything happened I watched you personally respond to like 30 emails I literally looked over at you and I get a lot of emails as well I literally looked over and I saw you respond to 30 of them I'm like that's the difference right there cuz I'm literally scrolling that thing to the side marking it as red and then I'm sorry I didn't get your email you respond to literally every single email your handson in every single business you do which is why you've had so much success bill bich is the same way from my experience of dealing with him thus far since his uh year off that he's doing with the media world how has it been working together obviously and I've seen some of the rehearsal Clips you two together are awesome have you known each other for a while and how has this kind of come together yeah it's funny I mean bill and I go back a long way playing playing against each other I was reminding kind of Eli uh we sort of had kind of had our production meeting today if you will Zoom that I actually played against Bill when he was a defensive coordinator for the Jets Pat that's how old I am I played against Bill four times before he became Bill bellich the head coach and a lot of things in common I still seem to throw a lot of interceptions against Bill bellich TS it wasn't just the Patriots I threw equally as many against the Jets so didn't really didn't get to know him Pat until I want to say 2006 um he coached me in a pro bowl and you know back then it was in Hawaii you were over there and we talked a lot of football uh his recall of plays from the 86 Super Bowl um against the Broncos he can talk about it like it was last night and uh he can talk about you know going against Joe Montana in the 1990 NFC Championship like the game was last week so I love that I'm a football junkie and it's been fun getting to work with him uh this year uh he loves football uh he cares about the game and like I said I think his insights are going to be off the charts and he's witty he's he's sarcastic he's got a dry sense of humor that nobody ever really kind of gets to know uh it was funny in the rehearsal Pat I don't know if you experienced this we weren't live on TV but we were pretending we were live on TV he couldn't tell when we were live and we weren't live and some of the things he says when he thinks we're not live are absolutely classic and so I think Eli and I might trick him a couple times say hey Bill we're on Commercial here tell me what you really think about that play call because it is uh it's pretty solid stuff so look for some of that this year hey off air anything is always fun can't wait to watch you two football each other out football each other it's going to be great for everybody good AJ pton just curious do you have any kind of uh like exist relationships with current quarterbacks in the NFL given what you've did with quarterback and Patrick Mahomes and Kirk Cousins I know with Omaha you have the the Packers documentary and I know you spent some time with Jordan love do you have any guys that you kind of keep tabs on and check in with during the season or are there any current quarterbacks who reach out to you uh for advice or anything like that yeah I feel like I do I try to stay close to those guys I get to know a lot of these guys at our football camp at at the Manning Passing Academy which is a high school quarterback receiver football camp for entering eighth graders through entering 12th graders but we have college quarterbacks come and serve as counselors during the camp and in between practices for the high school kids Eli and I spend time with the college players on their NFL aspirations answer questions work out with them uh do Q&A watch film and so you name a starting quarterback in the NFL they've probably been to our camp momes and Jackson last night Joe burrow Justin Herbert uh Matthew Stafford so we get to know him coming out of college stay in touch with them and that kind of creates a relationship through the NFL so yeah Brock py came to the camp and uh I think because of that relationship I'm able to text Brock and say he Brock can I talk to you for 10 minutes on Sunday about the game it's going to be short and sweet if it goes to 11 minutes hang up on me but I think because I know him maybe he'll give me a little insight that will kind of help Eli and I have a better Broad cast and so yeah look I pull for quarterbacks uh I'm a I'm a defender of quarterbacks I know how hard it is to play quarterback in the NFL I'm a defender of coaches look the 49ers everybody probably wants to pick on them make fun of them Pat you and I have been there I'd rather lose a game in a Super Bowl and have my heart ripped out as opposed to being four and 13 and so far removed from doing it the offseason sucks it's miserable right you know you I mean you win your last two and you finish eight- nine and you're kind of happy in the locker room you're probably smoking cigars hey great finish the truth is we sucked we sucked we sucked that's why we were eight and nine you're the 49ers you get your heart ripped out by the best player in the world and it absolutely it kills you but I'd rather have my heart ripped out and Kyle Shanahan is doing something right and what do you do you just keep f fighting you keep grinding and maybe they win it this year maybe they win it in two years because of what they learned from that loss so look I'm a defender of uh you know of guys like that because I've been there I've had my heart ripped out in the Super Bowl and so I'm curious to see how the Niners bounce back and of course I can't wait to see Aaron Rogers play last year uh you know I know it was miserable for him I expect him to come out uh blazing on Monday night Jets Niners wraps up a jam-packed four out of five nights spectacle for the NFL to kick off this season Aaron Rogers returns after only playing four snaps for the Jets last year after a story book was supposed to be written over there and the ners obviously have everything back all the tools all the assets and they're even tighter because one of the players got shot in the middle of the day and then he is now telling the head coach he wants to play on Monday night feels like this team's tighter than they've ever been and to your point about losing in a Super Bowl verse scheduling your vacation week 12 like there's very there's two different vibes the ners are on a Super Bowl or bus Vibe those teams that are scheduling the offseason things at week 10 they don't understand that unless they get into a culture that has it let's talk about tonight Philadelphia Eagles just a couple years back here we go this is the new one this is the next one Jaylen Herz is the guy gets paid as such they lose Shane styken they have to figure out the defensive coordinator how do you feel like they go tonight with saquon Barkley being added to the Back Field and then on the other side with the Green Bay Packers Jordan love finished the season last year as a guy got paid handsomely because of it they're a young upstart group that has the talent to go win a Super Bowl how do you feel tonight goes and what do you think we should be thinking about as we watch these two games kickoff their season yeah I'm a big Jordan love fan uh I've known him as well he came to the camp they came in practice against the Broncos a few weeks ago I got to see him uh I've had several conversations with him you know doing Monday night games I like the way he goes about his business I like the way he's used the time learning from Aaron uh look I saw him at a training camp practice two years ago he didn't have a great practice Matt laflor is on him he's coaching him hard he struggled early and then he got better and he had a great season I like to see that young quarterbacks I like to see head coaches coaching their quarterback I like to see Andy Reed coaching Patrick Mahomes that's why Mahomes is always gonna be good so excuse me problem up emal game em it's okay it's good it's beautiful time of year you're okay look at us season just it's fun for me to see quarterbacks getting coached especially guys like momes that are the best player that want to get better and so I see that in Jordan love um so I think the Packers are gonna have a good year the Eagles I mean Pat you may know more AJ you may name know more that was kind of hard to explain last year what happened I mean to to be what 10 and one and then to kind of have that you know uh hopefully it was just a oneoff and they can bounce back like I like Jaylen Herz I've gotten to know him serani big Philip Rivers guy uh you know uh was with the Colts like you said stiking at the Colts now I think that was a big loss for him losing Shane Sten and I think Shane's gonna do a great job in Indy so a lot of wh ifs kind of the unknown with the Eagles uh so we'll see tonight but uh I think Green Bay's going to have a good one this year Conor yeah pton not to just skip over it but wait a battle there brother I mean that was incredible football season baby we we're all would be proud yeah very proud I think everyone here is proud as well but um looking at uh Denver in particular just because we know you got ties there how do you feel about you know their team going into it and what are you expecting from B Knicks getting the start straight off the bat as a rookie yeah I don't know if you saw yesterday but you know Bo Knicks was voted a captain which I think a lot of fans don't realize this that captains are that's a player vote that's not like the head coach rigging the voting and and and making somebody a captain the players voted B next a captain which I think this tells you a lot that look he's 24 years old he's married he started over 60 games in college that'll never happen again so it's just a level of maturity there that you don't see in most rookies he'll have rookie struggles because the game is that hard but Shawn pyton is smart enough to know got to help with a good run game uh got to get the ball out of his hands he got to play good defense uh so I'm excited to watch Bo not an easy start going to Seattle one of the louder places to play you know rookie quarterbacks it's always a little struggle with me um I want to get that interception record that I hold broken I don't want Bo Knicks to break it I don't want Bo Knicks to break it but you know if the quarterback at Washington or Chicago wants to break it I'm still pulling for him I'm a quarterback fan but I got to get that one off my resume and you think with 177 games Pat somebody would break it here's here's my you have the 16 game record forever budy that's a new record now gez okay here my message to coaches though look I'm a big Daniels fan I like Williams I like Drake May McCarthy's gonna be a good player so is pennx but these guys that are starting this year right just bo uh uh Daniels and Williams if they struggle early leave him in there don't take him out because that's the only way you're going to get the 28 interceptions take there's no shot plus that's how you learn leave him in there learn how not to throw that fourth interception but you take him out I'm just telling you you don't learn as much soton pton real question hey real question here pton I and we're gonna let you go and if you haven't seen the Manning cast the musical uh the the promo for this particular Manning cast like ghost sord it's 10 minutes long it is awesome everybody is literally in it last question here though Pon for me and this a real one I know you want them to get the interception record I said I've always said this I wish Andrew Luck was able to watch you operate as the starting quarterback for the Indianapolis coach for one year now obviously not possible but I wish he could have seen you behind the scenes in a meeting room preparation how you talk to people what you're allowed to do like how you got dropped in early obviously uh at a historic rate of turning the ball over that we'll talk about for because it is the 16g game record until the NFL is done in 150 years that is your record but what are you what are your thoughts on it obviously you played early struggled but then you became goat one of the goats then there's guys like Aaron Rogers who sat for four years then he gets in he becomes goat what are your thoughts on it how do how do you feel about that I mean there's certainly it's definitely gonna be one always a debated topic Pat um you know momes sits behind Alex Smith and then obviously the rest is history and what he's done uh Aaron behind Brett Jordan love behind Aaron Eli sat for 10 behind Curt Warner and then started the last six and I guess that's where my answer kind of comes from in the fact that Eli just said what he learned in those six that he played compared to what he learned backing up Hall of Fame Kurt Warner uh who was playing he said it was night and day so I'm just about getting them in there let him figure out how fast these guys move Look CJ stad didn't seem to have a problem with it right he hit the ground running so maybe you know maybe I was just that bad as a rookie but I think you get in there and play you figure it out faster you learn not not to repeat those mistakes you learn these defensive guys get paid a lot Pat sometimes they're covered you have to throw it away it took me a whole season to learn that that oh oh I didn't know you allowed to throw it away I thought you had to throw it up in double coverage so uh I like these teams that have those rookies in there uh and to get him in there and I appreciate you mention the man the musical I just got to say to our Omaha team we started filming this in February uh at the Pro Bowl uh this was seven months 24 separate shoots to film this all the celebrities that participated uh Eli and I actually filmed our part at a real stage uh here in Denver did a little tap dancing so uh I love the fact that we can bring different people together that love football to get excited about the season and uh it was a lot of fun to be a part of that's what the Manning cast is all about can't wait for the next season congrats to everybody at Omaha an absolutely fantastic job [Music]