The Pat McAfee Show Live | Tuesday August 27th 2024

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he's the greatest we can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living there's a lot to talk about today about 1,000 people 948 950 930 maybe 980 depending upon the number of you know who does what anyways a lot of cuts have to happen today SPO track reporting 948 other people will say a th000 because some people are going to get cut from two teams some people are actually going to be at four o00 today on a roster they're going to think that they made a team but instead tomorrow guess what they're cut why cuz another team Cuts somebody that they like better and you're gone there's going to be movement around all 32 NFL teams on this glorious day and we'll try to cover it all as it happens some big names are going to be moved for instance Mary K Kett of the Cleveland dealer I believe just tweeted that DTR has been informed that he's making the team so he'll be DeShaun Watson's backup so what does that mean well jamus Winston and Snoop Huntley allegedly on the trade block those are two very very accomplished quarterbacks who are very well known will they get traded by the of today's show we by 4:00 we shall see dvin Cooks going down to Dallas to see if the Dallas Cowboys want to sign he looks absolutely jacked what does that mean for the Dallas Cowboys we shall see there's a lot of things that are about to take place over the next four hours because teams need to get down to the number that they have to have going into the regular season now is that good news or bad news for your team are you going to learn anything today I think so I think there's a lot to chat about we will certainly do that for the next couple hours right here on ESPN 2 oh the dece okay hell yeah kind of becoming our new home it is a little bit little Elite World Series in the US Open love to drop right into the deuce we're lucky to be here tried to watch the US Open uh yesterday I didn't know anybody am I going to know people in this tournament jokovic was actually 9:45 last night he started so 9:45 yeah it was a late one it was a late one in America yes it's called the US Open it is why we put him on at 945 good question he beat the piss out of some guys oh I bet he did I'm that's appointment television I stay up for the joke or like that but I was watching in prime time I had no idea who anybody was and I saw the ball go back and forth I was like wait a second uh M roon then I went over there sure but I do appreciate the fact that the US open's taking place we'll have some sports to chitchat about sorry to Braun strowman for what happened to him he got tsunami through the top of a car last night ABD and then there was some sparks flying in the car I don't know what the hell happened in there but something bad obviously when you got that much meat going through a car there's going to be some inanity but we'll talk about everything today we got Michael Lombardi joining us in about 13 minutes L he's been a part of a lot of cut days from the old days where there was like three Cuts then there was like two cuts now there's just one big one where everybody gets fired at the same damn time it used to be a roll out of cuts because you can make the first cuts that was a little bit of Hope a little bit of dream but then your roster would change whatever their first Cuts would make because all of a sudden they're looking at the waiver wire everybody else so you would lose people there' be a lot of change then the second call I make second cut but I didn't make the final cut now there's just one big ass cut want to get eyes on everybody more joint practices today's a big day today's the day where some people are going to realize that everything they've worked for for their entire life was worth it and it made an NFL team congrats for one week right for one week M maybe even one day oh but then there's going to be some people that are going to realize they're probably going to be selling insurance or coaching football after today and that's not bad either the fact that you even got into an NFL Camp had a cup of coffee with an NFL huming on you should be incredibly proud not everybody's going to make it but who does we'll talk about all day the talk table is here at Boston Conor at Tai Schmidt great shirt let him run pal let him run yeah one of the favor I figure you know since it is such a bad news day I'd wear one of my favorite shirts just to you know feel a little better no it's good news good news good news dreams are coming true today dreams are coming true dreams are getting slaughtered dreams are coming true today dreams are coming true yeah it's just I knew that the day was coming where zip on the ball zappy was no longer going to be a new Patriot I'm bummed out about that I truly am and I know he'll find another home cuz he was beloved in the lock room and like his name says God can spin it zip it almost he can zip it I mean the Vikings are probably calling him right now well the Vikings are certainly going to be in the hunt people think for a good backup quarterback or even a starter especially with some of the names that are going to become available from around the NFL let's go to one half of the hammer down Cowboys tone Diggs with a brand new cowboy hat looking extra thin and crispy on this particular day are we going to learn anything about the Pittsburgh Steelers today or anything that you think we should talk about no I mean their roster is is pretty settled in U maybe who the third quarterback is going to be something like that but uh and who they're they're going to take more O linean dline whatever no they are they're pretty set not a lot of questions there but I am interested to see the quarterback quarterbacks move the needle there's going to be a quarterback Market all of a sudden built today there's going to be a quarterback Market that gets built and uh we're going to chat about it and there's going to become a fan base that has doesn't have a player on their team today that might in the next couple days have an yep we're going to win the Super Bowl we we are going to win the Super that's all we needed was one piece at the right position we got it bang we're going to win the Super Bowl see a lot of these old heads too that maybe weren't around now it's time to see where teams lie what teams need we'll talk to Lombardi about that obviously we got Kirk herb Street in the second hour uh college football season is off and running week zero had uh it was up like 31% from last year or something 5 million view viewers I think on Florida State Georgia Tech it was a phenomenal game great product lucky to be there Ireland once again phenomenal host the best congratulations to Dublin and to Ireland for that entire thing we'll talk to Kirk about that uh in the third hour 25ish we got Tony smokes big announcement coming big announcement coming from smoke and his uh drag racing nhr team I can't wait to talk about that and then George KD will join us at 235 can't wait I think he's making a team I think he's making the team in San Francisco 49ers uh nine-year NFL vet one of the biggest brains in town any town he goes to Darius J Butler is here debu cut day is obviously a massive day dreams are coming true you were second round pick y second round pick so you knew you're making a team you kind of knew you were making the team for me pick 222 I was in a punting competition with Tim maste who was certainly a better punter than me at that time whenever he got released before I think our first uh preseason game or maybe our second preseason game I forget what it was It was kind of handed off for me to be the guy and they wasted a Draft pick on a punter so a lot of people told me I was safe but I was having some days of practice where I was like I don't know if I'm safe and so when that last cut day came a lot of kickers and punters were getting released from teams when I found out I made the team I was ecstatic I was so pumped I was so thankful I thought about my journey I mean it was like a full moment for me to take in like but then really the work just began for time dur cut days perspective was put place because you with a guy and then all of you go to meeting and then he's cut you never see him again that's the first time a lot of these rookies have to deal with any of this type of stuff yeah it's tough cuz you know you come from college where you know you're going to have your class there for four or five years you know you build that Brotherhood and then you get into the league and you realize how much of a business it is um when you get drafted or signed you know somebody else has to come out of that door I think when I got drafted they traded like Ellis Hobbs maybe that first like soon as I got drafted they traded so you know it's always a numbers game and being a second round pick I still didn't know at that point so you know like Bill was talking about yesterday you hearing your family you're calling agents I had a bad day he's like hey you're you're good you can trip over the 5050 yard line every play and you're going to make the team but you'll be good but the second year kind of struggled my second year even as a second round pick and then going into that third year I was released and then the year after that went to Carolina they claimed so I don't know if people no this but based on your draft position they have basically first team draft position so the Panthers the worst team the previous year so a few teams claimed me but the Panthers got my rights played there for a year got cut again so as a second round pick it was back toback years going into my third year where I had been cut and then found a home in Indie where I came here with Chuck and uh what you have two picks first day of practice oh yeah yeah you know it it it lit we were so happy it lit that it lit that fire fire under your ass so it is it is a rough day for a lot of players um but at the same time you know you got to keep working and keep um being prepared for that opportunity when it does present present itself you know I found a home a lot of people get cut Kenny Moore Kenny Moore I think he got cut from the Patriots found his home in Indianapolis just signed another uh big deal this offseason so it's never really the end of that story until it's the end you keep working and you keep find you know keep working keep grinding and my third time uh grixsen at the time I sat down with gricks and he was like hey I remember you when you were coming out how when you coming out I think he was with Philly at the time but he was like Hey this probably is going to be your last opportunity your last real opportunity because when you're a high pick you get more opport just based on your draft position your expectations and talent all that stuff so um I came in I'm like all right if I go out I'm going go out my way so I took more chances I studied more and you kind of become a pro you know you learn things and then it was a lot of things that I didn't like about my first stint in New England that once I got to year three year four I kind of realized okay that's why they do these things that's why the practice this way that's why you prepare um this way so you you get a different perspective as you get older but a lot of times a lot of people don't get type of chance so I was fortunate but to the people out there man it's not end keep working it is a tough day it's a great day for a lot of players who who get that call and say Hey you made the 53 I'm pretty pumped that they both cut you uh as you ended up in any I mean yeah yeah yeah I am very pumped first day you got to I think you had two picks in your first practice and me and Viner were like we [ __ ] got it finally we got it we got it Guy this is it and then obviously you fit into the locker room so well so quickly and you know everybody learns and and adjusts their like for me I I mean I got arrested and then immediately after that is when I started having success because life got put into perspective very quickly which I think cut day does for people you know you kind of start realizing like wait I did not have a backup plan my whole life all I had was football football football but to your point UFL still exists right UFL still giv a lot of job CFL is still given a lot of jobs teams have more practice squad spots than they've had in the past because of Co it's not over for everybody but some of you need to look at Mir and realize it probably is yeah you you you kind of once you get to that to to this level is you real it's a different ball game really quick you got to bring it you know you got to bring it every day you got to bring it every year because even as you get older in the league you start to pay attention to the draft a little more you start to pay attention to who's going where and as you mentioned it's going to be a lot of guys hitting the street today at 4:00 so as you mentioned with these other teams hey I'm thin in your line it becomes a numbers game so it's not that a lot of times it's not that you're not good enough to make a team but hey we got some injuries or wide receiver we got some injuries a corner that team let go of a you know Allan Robinson's available now maybe we bring Noah Brown just got relas from the Texans who had a good year last year he probably get picked up somewhere hodin you saw Malik Willis he's now the backup in Green Bay so it'll be a lot of moving part jamus you know potentially available which is crazy to think about especially with everything that's been coming out positive with him and Cleveland he said we and us to Cleveland in his interview with us like 15 times and now Mary Kay who's been covering the Cleveland Browns forever so more names coming out more things potentially uh more more players available for teams to get better over night I I just think like man if you sign somebody like if the Minnesota Vikings go out and sign somebody and I know Sam darnold's going to be great okay but if they sign like a bigname court let's say jamus or let's say Snoop I mean I was going to say he's a pro bowler Snoop Hunley made a pro bowl a couple years ago like your fan base gets reinvigorated again you know it's like hold on wait a minute we can actually make this but if you're a player that's potentially sitting on the edge of the bubble you want to see as little Talent as possible hit the I want everybody to be cropped that gets that gets waved or gets cut because to your point about the numbers game we'd have a linebacker or something that was like very good at special teams rookie like I would like this guy to be on my teams or whatever they're like well we got good linebackers we don't have a lot somebody just got hurt in a corner room so we're going to have to go sign somebody and this guy who's good linebacker potentially going to make team going to get cut justly because we're only allowed 53 people and he happens to be the last one in that particular room it's like so you can see how so many people who are very good at football their entire life get jaded at the of their football career because there is numbers games that happen and people never really get an opportunity there is an injury that takes place maybe in training camp maybe there's one game where you were told to do the wrong thing and you get exposed so on film you look bad and all you're wondering for the rest of your life is what if what if what if what if what if what if what if and that sucks for people and today some of those what if moments start for some people oh yeah but on the flip side Hall of Famers are making a team for the first time today that is walk not walk ons but you get it un un undrafted drafted guys have made a team made a pro bowl made the Hall of Fame there's a chance one of their stories happens today could be on your team could be on your team will probably be on one of my teams there is what I mean Pro probably not but I mean when you're talking about New England probably bracket one of the greatest of all time straight out of Ruckers a guy out of West Virginia beanie Bishop who's undrafted who's going to be the starting nickel I think who's going to make the 53 I cannot believe he was undrafted by the way made a lot of plays for the West Virginia Mountaineers can't wait to get down there on uh Friday that should be an absolute Victor Cruz undrafted yeah Hard Knocks helped Propel him into the strategy huge huge preseason game super B champ like hey good luck to all the players and congrats and thank you for your uh commitment to football throughout your entire life if you don't make a team you know and uh still great sport taught you a lot of things you have a head start on everybody else because you did play football mentally they got you physically you'll be able to take care of yourself you just need to apply everything from the the World of Sport and football into your regular life regular life if you are done and if you're not done hey good luck and go take advantage of the opportunity you're getting a head start on everybody with the amount of money you're about to make for playing a kids sport kids sport King's Ransom CH used to say it all the time get to don't have to and it's like well a lot of people are getting to make money off of this so we we should be as well in this entire thing uh documentary was released uh via Netflix Untold it was Connor stallion's uh story it was quite a buzz around the internet this morning it's an hour and 27 minutes long so we didn't get a chance to watch the entire thing as we're piecing together this morning shows but Clips were coming out and I think the reaction that I've seen thus far and correct me if I'm wrong is if you were a Harbaugh's a piece of [ __ ] he definitely knew type of person before this documentary it's solidified it seemingly this is the reaction that we're reading on the internet and if you think Harbaugh did not know and Connor stallions was a rogue agent you feel that way even more after watching it for sure I will say as somebody who has listened to Harbaugh speak about this entire process and watch how he reacted to this entire process and how he's continued to maintain his innocence about not knowing what was taking place and how it was taking place I don't think Harbaugh knew I have not watched the hour in 27 I will do that this evening so I might come in tomorrow with a different story but from the clips that I've seen this Conor stallions guy was committed to the Michigan War I mean what are you saying I mean he was committed but he some other psychopath obsessive obsessive yeah yeah I mean but hey that's what the greatest are right that's what it takes Tom MJ tiger we you got to be obsessed with your craft which Connor stallion certainly was there's one particular clip that I think kind of showcases why Conor stalling his name was mentioned brought up and became a massive story and it took place while he was getting interviewed by the NCAA I believe with his uh lawyers sitting right next to him it's a longer scene but here's the part that basically says yes I did what everybody kind of was saying that I did Connor did you ever direct anyone or instruct anyone to attend a college football game in which Michigan was not playing no I I don't ever recall directing someone to go to a game have you ever purchased tickets for someone to attend a college football game in which Michigan was not playing yeah I've I've purchased tickets to many games college football obviously Michigan's playing so I don't have time to go to another game but I either resell them or if a friend asks for a ticket then I transfer it to them or her okay and would any of those tickets that you purchased that you would then transfer to a friend or a family member did any of the individuals who you purchased a ticket for attend a game that Michigan was not competing in checklist and film or record the opponent's signal callers so to my understanding there are some people who attended games using tickets that I purchased and recorded parts of those games my who are the individuals that recorded parts of the games that were sitting in seats that you purchased I I don't recall exactly who I've purchased tickets to a lot of games how do you know they were recording parts of the game then cuz sometimes I would receive film from them I've had a friend send me film and it's it's kind of like when your aunt gets you a Christmas present that you already have sure you're not going to be rude and be like oh I already have this I don't need it you know just oh thanks appreciate it you know it feel like they're helping out or whatever when I already have the signals I already memorized the signals I mean what's so just say thanks whatever you know whatever I mean all of it is very interesting he was very open in it all and obviously that uh recording was done from the research that the NCAA was gathering while they were doing what they were trying to do and figure out what the punishment's going to be and obviously we've heard and been told by The Authority it's probably going to be a massive financial litigation through it all but if you listen to him speak there you could tell he was trying to out lawyer the lawyers to my understanding and then he said yes they have semi film and yada y y and you would think to yourself well somebody was telling him to do this right it's like not necessarily here's another clip from this thing this guy was obsessed with being being the greatest sign decipher of all time and you say why do you know or how do you know he's obsessed with it listen to what this [ __ ] guy would do I mean this guy wanted to be the greatest sign decipher is what he would describe and I believe his obsession with that led him to the like I think he got trapped into the greatest of all time listen to this clip and watch what he would actually do thousands of signs he said he would do this to the first thing that I evolved that made made me good at deciphering signals was my game day sheet I took a couple weekends I found a white wall as the background and I wore dark clothes to contrast I propped my phone up MH and just recorded myself doing every possible signal I could ever imagine I [Music] I've ever seen any signal that we've done any signal any other team's done and any variation of any signal so I recorded myself doing probably 2 to 3,000 signals when I was done I uploaded each photo into my sheet where it belonged I developed my own database which is the next evolution of my game day sheet instead of memor mizing words I was memorizing pictures and I would say that is the number one reason why I became as good as I did at deciphering signals you're talking about thousands of signals he would piece together on his game day board instead of you know play calls or words he would just put obviously the signs so then he's watching across the thing he knows exactly what it is he's quite a weapon all of a sudden for the Michigan Wolverines as somebody who was in military as opposed to Growing Up playing foot or in football and coaching in football and I think what you're hearing in the reaction from everybody is obviously this dude want this is this guy was really obsessed with this I mean he was committed to this more than anybody else on Earth but if let's listen to coach team Mitch here defensive coordinator for the Arkansas Razer backs and if you do recall he's the one the freestyled in front of the team and they all said yeah coach in the middle of it had them all bought in here's what he had to say about s once again remember dog on the football field as a player now defense coord in college oh a lot like it's so funny you'll be shocked during the week I know offense all around the country they gonna look at they gonna get the TV copy they looking at the signals yeah just one person that's your only job look at the signals and then boom Oh we can't get we can't get the defensive signals okay well let's see what the defens of players are signal then they then they'll try to get it that way you know so they got different ways I I remember we played um Louisville and um and he was really good and I saw the TV copy and I could just see the whole time he was just like this just watching watching watching the halftime they got your signal I so we played him next year I was at UCF we played him that next year and I got his contact and I called him like Hey man I need to and he sent me the whole thing he said this what we had it was like 80% correct so we had to change our signals because they just pass it around so they just send it to the to the next so we play SMU and red Lashley them and they had the same signals I wouldn't mad that he sent it around I would have been mad if we didn't change it so it's it's huge like just signal and it's perfectly legal I know teams right now that have two guys on the field because you usually have them in the box so you know at the times you see a lot of these teams behind the actual team they got these they pull out these big curtains behind it if it wasn't important it wouldn't be doing it every a lot of 80% of the teams in America when they sign they pull out the big curtain behind so the guys in the press bot can't get them well they done smart enough they put them on the field so they got two guys and they just sit here and try to get it so you got to have ways of of high of hiding your signals you know so you can always know like when a play happen you go hey man they got our signals cuz it's is like the perfect play you just know um all over college football so that's not me it's nothing new it's not one of those deals where it's like unethical or something like that like they do it you just if you crazy enough to keep the same signals that's on you that's coach T will I call T Mitch that's 100% on me but Coach T will basically breaking down I think what every former player had to say about the sign stealing I think why the Conor stallion thing happened is because the advanced scouting rule that was in place and I think if you were to watch this Untold entirely the he saying that he exploited the rules like I wasn't at the game there was no coaches at the game it was other people were they family friends uh so I didn't know some of the people that were there but sign stealing has been happening since the beginning the conversation now from the coach to the quarterback back and the ability to call into play to the Mike linebacker they're obviously still going to use signs but this entire thing of signal stealing is a weapon if you have a guy that's very good on it uh good at it on your team and Connor stallions might have been the guy who was considered the greatest of all time which leads me to saying that Harbaugh could literally not know that he was paying people or buying tickets and sending people going forward Harbaugh could have definitely thought to himself though I got a good sign stealer on my sideline because every team has been looking for those signs have been given in any sport seemingly yeah like like coach said like Coach T will said um you know you got to change them and at the same time we use I mean this is going to be quads like you know certain these are going to be seams like it's certain thing Brady had a signal he would go like this and that meant the outside receivers going up the slot receivers breaking out and he did it for 20 years so like you can have signals you got to execute like I think somebody else a tip when Trent Williams and it's a Runners when it's you got to execute so like we we would have I've never on a team where we didn't have a guy who gave us signals who gave us offensive signals hey this this is what they get it from the TV copy they'll get it from across the field sometime you'll have three guys doing the signals and one guy is the real guy the other two are just smoke screen so it's always you know it's gamesmanship it's it's going on week in and week out if you're not cheating you're not trying but at the end of the day you got to execute we played pton Manning the first time he came back here obviously Reggie has spent a bunch of time with him and these quarterbacks you know Aaron pton Drew Tom all these guys they they carry a lot of that same [ __ ] over and they're more concerned about their guys been on the same page having the signal so they're not going to out Trick themselves defense you can have all you want Reggie will tell us this that and the third but hey don't get too caught up on this [ __ ] because he'll go and change it and make sure you hear him call it and you like hey this is coming and then they'll have some other option uh perfectly drawn up so it's always been a part of the game it it's literally people's job to do it usually it's a quality control guy or whoever um what are they call gr the grest G on the college level so it's all Somebody But at the end of the day you got to execute you got to get it done between downs and more importantly you got to be on the same page with your guys that we're doing what we need to be doing and quads coverage or cover two or in cover three whatever that is the the the way the story was rolled out was as if it was out of a novel in a movie and then we're listening to it it kind of it kind of is and I think in Conor stallion's head he was beating a rule with the advanced scouting he wasn't I wasn't telling if they sent it to me they sent it to me if I saw it I saw it and then he'd be able to put together a signed board for who they're playing against I mean it's like all those things that it just it feels like they want too you want too far yeah you just went you want you just want too we're all trying to do it but what you you just went you know you took advantage and I think Conor St say is that my fault is that your fault who's saying where the line is is like what Conor stallion's question is because if the rule says that I can't go or that coaches can't go it doesn't say [ __ ] about somebody I made on the internet that I just got tickets for and if they want to happen to record some stuff and send it to me even though I didn't tell them that right ask the lawyer I didn't say to my understanding right yep okay I did that very fascinating this whole situation I'll be intrigued to see what the NCAA does with the punishment because you potentially open a Pandora's Box for people to go back about to sign stuff especially with what Coach T will just said right there we we saw Michigan played football last year like boots on the ground we saw them I think a couple games we see Arkansas Arkansas what was their record you know and every great everybody's doing it but you got to go out there and ex you got to have the players you got to have the scheme everybody's doing it and Conor definitely found some loopholes and he went a little maybe too far but it will be it it was interesting on it on my ex at least it was like people were split right down the oh Harbaugh definitely knew Hardball had no idea so I I'm interested to see once I watched con St got game ball against the Hawks he did and it kind of just you know reinforced uh my beliefs that you know I mean we were cheated obviously I mean he was he was no but it really I mean like we've talked about this it's a perfect example just of you know pigs get fed Hogs get slaughtered because if you would have just continued to kind of do it how everyone else is doing it I'm sure you know then whatever you maybe get a slap on a wrist but like The Smoking Gun really or when it I I feel like when it kind of got to be like a massive deal is when they had that picture of him you know like dressed up on the central Michigan sideline it's like okay well if he's doing stuff like this like maybe that is you know he's not just having one of his buddies record signals at a different game it's like this dude who is a staffer for Michigan is on a different University sideline you know like what the hell is he doing there I feel like that's when it was really like okay something needs to be done about this and also you know and we said about we said this last year during the coverage of it all and our show was used a lot in that documentary I didn't know that was coming uh so that's why we ran their [ __ ] too without asking so you know we can fair play play fair play good good on you and I think we might have Maverick Carter uh who's one of the executive producers on it uh on this week at some point to chitchat a little bit more about the entirety of the story but it became the thing took over College talk and it's like even if Harbaugh didn't know they reaped the benefit of it you know like they re they certainly reaped the benefit of everything that was happening which is why the punishment is going to have to happen at some point and did happen at time but for their team not to Blink after all that imagine if they were able to continue to know everybody's signals like did they have a backup signal guy because every other team they were playing against going forward certainly had people trying to decipher signals did Michigan have no signal people because they weren't allowed as they went on to win it's almost like wait a minute was it more impressive now that they weren't able to do anything we shall see joining us now is a guy who probably knows a little bit about this because in the NFL this is happening as well in the NFL there are certainly guys that make teams and are on Sidelines because they have a very good understanding of what's happening on the other side of the field now coaches obviously are expected to know this type of stuff but if you have a quarterback or a player or a ga that understands what hand signals are for coverage on the back side of the other one and can see it get it in and get it to the quarterback before that 15sec uh time Lim where they can't talk anymore what an advantage joining us ladies and gentlemen paison NFL legend three-time Super Bowl champion host of the Lombardi line the GM Shuffle he's a Ted talker and founder of the daily coach and email newsletter that you need to read when you're taking your morning dumps Michael lardy yeah hey Pat what's up guys how we doing uh welcome back home you guys did an impressive job there very good well done you represented America very good in Ireland I mean I don't think they thought we can't drink over there I think we that thank you thank you I that was that was one goal is like hey let's have a little respect but I would like to let all the people in Ireland know I get another respect for you those Lads go those Lads can really go over there those Lads can really go over there and Sheamus oh my God this might be the one who could go the most out of anybody but we had a blast we thank you uh for paying attention to our program Lombardi We love having you on we're talking about the Conor stat give me choke yeah I know know about the Homeland talk about the Homeland over goodness about the Homeland uh we were talking about the Conor stallion's documentary on Netflix Untold where they get behind the scenes and the investigation and him being question and what he was saying you know and how he wanted about it all and T will who's the Arkansas defensive coordinator basically just said when I was at UCF they had my [ __ ] here they passed it over here I just asked him like hey what was our TA he told us everything and what conversation LED from it is like since the history of signs being given in sports not just football but in sports as a whole there has been a weapon of being able to figure out SS if you can that's an added benefit for sure so it's interesting how this is all going to get viewed by the NCAA whenever they punish Michigan inevitably and announce it what are your thoughts on it all and what do you think about football and signs and sports as a whole well I I think look sign stealing has been going on in the National Football League since they took away the quarterback calling the plays okay and there's guys in the Hall of Fame currently today that have spent a lot of time stealing signs and I'm not you know I am a true I'm not going to tell anybody names or anything I'll plead the fifth and and do that but I think if you're dumb enough to show your signs out there in front of God and everybody you deserve to get them stolen because it's a competitive disadvantage if people know what you're doing I mean you're you're giving away your signs and you have to be very careful one of the reasons why if you're an NFL team you do not want your Sidelines across the field from the Press Box why is that because you don't want people stealing having a clear view of your signals you know one of the things when I went to Cleveland that's one of the things I said we got to move our sideline away now we have radio communication so that's not necessary anymore but I think to me it's really important that you understand that this is a competitive environment and everybody's looking for that little extra Edge and if you're dumb enough to give your signs on national TV then that's what's going to happen to you yeah in the NFL the Conor stallion situ ation is they didn't have communication from coach to quarterback so everybody had to give signs everybody had those big dumb tarps that Coach T will was talking about and it's like we got to H our signs it it makes sense that they're finally initiating the quarterback coach conversation but at one point you know there were some conferences or schools that wouldn't be able to afford it so that'd be a competitive uh Advantage for some people it's like all right we're in 2024 happy we're moving on let's talk about moving on teams have to move on from a lot of players today and I know you're former GM and been a part of obviously personnel and Consulting and we talked to Bill yesterday who looked young didn't he oh yeah younging good get the rest younger Day by sleeping in yeah doing good yeah he looked great he looked he sleeping in yeah absolutely he looked younger he talked about how during cut day he had to fire 37 people every single year at least let alone maybe more people as a former GM as a Personnel person today kind of sucks obviously but you're making dreams come true as well which one do you try to focus on more and how do you think these conversations go with and has everybody tried to fight you before whenever you cut well no I think if you're in Ed like if you're the general manager and you're going to meet with the players you have to treat the young man in front of you as if it's your son and I think that's really important that's what I would tell the kids I mean if I was in there talking to a player I would easily say to the player look I'm G to talk to you as if I were talking to my own son here's where I think you can Excel here's where I think you need to work on here's why you didn't make the team and here's where we think you have a future and why we want you on the practice squad or why we may not call you I think the worst thing you can do to any young man who's been disappointed about not making the team is lie to him I don't think you should lie to him I think they want honesty I know it's going to be hard to handle I know they're devastated but you have to be very polite and sensitive but you also have to be honest because you don't want to sit there and say and this happens in a lot of NFL organizations well we really liked you in The Scouting department but the coaches cut you yeah like this isn't the blame game like that's not fair to the kid the kid deserves to know what he has to work on on what he can improve on and does he actually have a future and I think that's the conversation and you try to make it as honest as you possibly can and when you have to let somebody go coping out by blaming other people is not necessarily the right thing to do horrible because then those makes organization look bad Pat it makes you well wait a minute the they just told me the coach didn't want to why did I get cut like that's that's just horrible but it happens I'm tell you it happens in every city okay so let's talk about some of the big names that are potentially going to be on the Move how closely you think GMS are watching the other waivers more so than their own roster before making their own decisions well I think what we'll see today is we'll see waiver manipulation so we'll see trades like the Bears made with Daryl Taylor and Chris Williams where the Bears wanted to get those two players so they gave up an asset for a flip right they traded this pick for that pick and essentially it was no cost at all that's kind of what's going on I think when now these names get released like for example Bailey zappy got released by the by the Patriots okay we know he's going to be on the waiver wire say you're a team like uh you know a team that needs a backup quarterback or the Giants who maybe think they need somebody as the third teamer and it's not Tommy DeVito or whatever then you make a trade for the guy if you're not high up there on the trade list this today is about improving the bottom half of your roster and having young players on your team that could help you win games in November and December remember this time last year Clowney was just on the Ravens vanoi wasn't on the Ravens those guys combined for 19 and a half sacks because they added them later and I think that's kind of what we're dealing with right now who can help us as we develop them so the Packers wanted Malik Willis you know instead of letting him hit the waiver what let's trade for him and make sure we get exactly right okay cool cool cool yeah that happens yesterday which I think Packers fans are got pretty excited about uh it was a 2025 seventh round pick which I assume the Packers like we're willing to give up seventh round pick to get our backup that we would like to have on our particular team who are the backups Sean Clifford and yeah and Michael Pratt a guy they drafted this year but in the seventh round two lane and lefl said yesterday like we're going to see what else is out there like they they had not impressed in either the games or practices during preseason so in their eyes they just use a seventh round pick next year on Malik Willis yeah like that right but they probably it's probably a conditional seventh too Pat so if he's on the roster for three weeks then it's a seventh or if he's on the roster for eight weeks it's a firm seventh it it's one of those usually those picks when they're just pick swaps like that they have some conditions to him because if he doesn't make the team even you don't want to give up a seventh round pick but that's it's roster manipulation like for example you know the doson trade that the Eagles made I mean that one Marvel me because that trade the Eagles sent a pick that's going to be somewhere between 90 and 96 third round pick for the Eagles they're going to be a playoff team they're going to pick somewhere in there and they still got assets back which makes you wonder why wasn't there more competition for like why weren't other teams trying to offer because Washington surely would have made a deal with Pittsburgh instead of making a deal with Philly well yeah Philly in that MC East getting the Giants running back and then getting a slot within I mean how he's doing it and Bill heard Bill say that yesterday as well he's like what how he's been able to accomplish I I don't know I don't know it's amazing it really is it's like but he's not no competition I mean he's he his picks are not great picks they're 90 to 96 and yet he's beat teams that need players now doson let's put this in perspective dodson's going to be the fifth option for Philadelphia he's never going to see the best corner he's never gonna see double coverage he's he's gonna have a he's gonna have the best time of his life because all that stuff goes to AJ Brown it goes to you know goes to Smith what's his name what's his first name what do you think his first name is uh J oh I I got it I I foret I got it all I have I get Wadd and Smith confused all Devon Smith yeah I mean Devonte I get him confused but watching your bra I was on a roll and you stopped me I was going I was I was in a run no you're right though you're 100% right with the Eagles like uh and him just being able to just kind of leak out you know without explosive he is is bananas especially with how much they're going to have to respect saquan and Jaylen we already know what's been happening when he has a good running back what happens to the outside linebacker safety whatever just Frozen completely let alone sequan potentially going the other way now you got a little Dotson and Batman and little Batman I mean G and and GD able to go middle good so it is uh hey good on you Eagles good on you going to have to figure out who's going to replace Kelsey now what does today do to potentially expedite the processes with teams in their situations I'm sure the boys will ask about what's happening in the ners I want to ask about Hassan reic who has never even been inside of the Jets building since getting traded out of Philadelphia because Philadelphia wouldn't give a long-term deal to him now Robert Sal was asked about him he said there is a path to him to be able to play in week one he assumes he's in phenomenal [ __ ] we got a video of Assan reck working out with a pass rushing specialist that coach uh coach BT Jordan who I looked at his website and his profile after this works with a lot of guys he was down at the pass rush Summit as well so I assume he is uh his individual coach and Hassan reck has had a phenomenal career but we see 6 seconds of him going over some hurdles and then getting around a dummy we assume Assan reic is a pro and is in champ shape but he hasn't even been in the building and he still wants to get traded does today expedite this process for teams like is there a chance that more people come out of the woodwork wanting Hanan reic do you think today will bring a day where the Jets will want to get a deal done with hisan reic how do you feel today and the cuts kind of work in this type of situation well the reic one I don't see the solution I mean he wants new contract nobody's going to take the Jets problems off their hands they traded a 26 third round pick for the guy you know and so there he is I think he's been fine close to $4 million going up the meter running like crazy I I don't know how you know to pay the fine back you you got to have $4 million of cash sitting in the bank you know and now he's going to start losing game checks I don't see how that works I I think the hardest one and I listened to shefy yesterday on your show the hardest one is auk because Brandon auk is really not being reasonable he's not being he does he sees himself in the lamp Chase category it's hard to do a contract when you can't put the player in the right category he should be signed by now they've offered him a deal that's commerate to what his production has been but he's being unreasonable in terms of he wants to get paid at a higher level that's a hard deal to do like the CD lamb deal should not have been this hard it should have been done three weeks ago because it fit perfectly within the structure of the wide receiver contracts it was perfectly fit now maybe he didn't want to go to Thousand Oaks and that's that's all well and good I don't know that but the iuk deal to me the hard part why that's not getting done is the player has a different sense of value and the agent can't convince the player this is the market because if he really was about money he would have taken the New England deal where does he want to be yeah that's the I think I think I think it's the most frustrating thing of all because he wants to he's constantly changing his mind I think at the 49ers now the rubber meets the road this week or next week they're going to have four days off this weekend all teams have to but when it starts next Tuesday a week from today when you start getting ready for the Jet game you're either going to be playing or you're not and if you're not playing you're going to start getting fine game checks well TR williams' deal also you know kind of sitting out there right now and he is obviously goat conversation at a very very very needed position for every single team so San Francisco 49ers certainly have their situation there's a couple other situations of Brewing too at a very important position go ahead debu yeah the most important position quarterback position obviously some big decisions to be made in New England and in Pittsburgh seems like Russell Wilson is probably going to be the guy in Pittsburgh I know Tomlin said he will name a starter at the end of the work week but how do you see these uh quarterback situations play out and how would you uh I guess play them out as a GM well if I were in New England I would play I would play brassette only because I think their offensive line is in such a state of disarray that I don't want to hurt the young rookie progress I think he's looked very good I think he shows he has a future but preseason is way different than the regular season and I think they signed set for a purpose and until they can protect the Young quarterback there's no reason to put him out there and the game speeds up so dramatically on game one of the regular season that all of a sudden that offensive line which wasn't blocking the backups of the Washington football team and will struggle to block Cincinnati I would play brassett knowing that you're going to eventually get to May here's the problem if you start May and he doesn't play well now you have to bench him and now that hurts the kid's confidence and it affects the team let may let people want to see may play eventually while you get your line I think the main decision in Pittsburgh for Mike Tomlin is about who's going to protect the football I mean Mike Tomlin won 10 games without much without very good play from their quarterback last year so he's about protecting the ball Russell Wilson was seventh in the National Football League and not throwing interceptions last year he did protect the ball for the most part I think ultimately that's going to be the deciding factor whereas Mike's going to want to win the game with his defense run the football and not turn this thing over allegedly you know it's coming out this was never a competition between Justin fields and Russell wson this was Russell Wilson's job from the beginning well Mike Tomlin did say he was in Pole Position going into training camp and to the off season Justin Fields whenever he was on the field for the Steelers obviously did what Justin Fields does which is provide a lot of excitement but then there was also some potential turnovers and to go to your point Mike toman's not going to be sitting there watching the quarterback just give the ball to the other team mostly because if you don't we're going to win win a 96 game cuz that's what we've done for the last 10 years like that is that is literally what we have done for the last 10 years that's Pittsburgh football Russell should be able to take care of it Russell should be able to but if he doesn't once again you got Justin field sitting there for maybe a quick little burst and maybe maybe dual quarterback situation have Justin Fields ready utilize what he's fantastic guy at what's that I mean I feel like if I'm a Pittsburgh fan the guy will want to be to win the job and be the quarterback of the future is Justin fields because with Mike Tomlin near you're going to win eight nine 10 games you're never going to be picking in that top three to get a franchise changer at that quarterback position how many times do do these guys hit the market so I mean that's the guy you want obviously you can't just make it happen but that's the guy I would want Justin fields are getting there and show hey he has he's had potential now he protect the ball can he get rid of the ball can he read coverages to do those different things that's what I would want though if I'm a Ste this those are big questions if he could do those things that would be great and that's who we would want but also I I I I think the challenge that Mike has is he's got to stand in front of his team and sell the starting quarterback and we all don't see who's the best leader we don't all don't see who has a command in the Huddle we all don't see about who's working in the team meetings all those factors when Mike stands in front of his team and says Russell's the starter and here's why because there's a lot of doubt in that room there's doubt in the sense that there's probably a group of people that think Russell should start there's probably a group that thinks Fields should start there's probably a group that's wondering why the hell didn't we sign Mason Rudolph back well so you got a lot of groups in that room and so Mike's got to convince the room this guy gives us the best chance see that's what people don't understand you lose your credibility when you try to sell something that's not real yeah and team knows it immediately and then also the games figure themselves out because somebody could look crop in preseason then regular season comes and everything clicks for whatever reason and then the complete opposite can happen they're both there Russell Wilson's only getting paid a million bucks you know so they can make a lot of decisions that quarterback position is a big decision to be made let's go to Connor has a question for you Lomo yeah Lomo a situation similar to New England going into the season was Minnesota they brought in Sam darnold to be their Bridge quarterback you know draft JJ McCarthy in the first round hoping that he'd be the future but now he JJ McCarthy's out for the season with the knee injury do you think they're going to bring in someone like a Mike White you know we talked about how DTR was named kind of the backup to Deshawn so now Jay misser Hunley might be on the Block do you think they're going to bring in one of those guys and make that a competition again or do you think that you know the Vikings might do the uh Jets situation just roll with the guy that they have and don't make any moves and just kind of see what happens I I think if you're Minnesota and you're Kevin okono you're saying who's better than Nick Mullins that's on the waiver wire can we get a better player than Nick Mullins is this guy equal to or similar to Nick Mullin if the answer is yes don't make a change if the answer is this guy is much better than Nick Mullins we've got a to make the move Sam's going to be the starter but if Sam goes down I don't want to lose the season I don't want to have to sign Joshua dobs or make a trade to get a quarterback to come in here Midway through the year so that really the the question you're asking inside the Minnesota building is is mullen's good enough to be the backup right is Mull and Hall as the third they drafted him they have promise for him whether he can be the guy or not but that's the fundamental question they're asking is Mike White better than than Nick Mullen is B zappy better than Nick moan I mean that's what you're trying to constantly do and then as the waiver wire comes in most of these guys are vested veterans that are getting cut the quarterbacks so you can get to them quicker than you could some young guy so if Winston gets released by Cleveland you know they or traded they could easily get him on the team the next day I think that's what's going on in Minnesota well the vested situation is obviously interesting because if you're vested player which is four years or more I do believe four years or more and you're on the opening day Rost your salary for the entire year is guaranteed okay so it's guaranteed salary Bill broke it down yesterday but it's a very real thing that happens during all these cuts which is why vested players you see like their names kind of pop up and then there's a game played then they're signed then you move it jamus Winston not being a brown this year would be a real bummer soed that would be so bummed out about he was saying we you know the other thing people do with vested veterans Pat is they could go to V they could go to and say look we'll sign you back on Monday you know we're and then we can manipulate the roster a little bit to do that that's kind of how this thing goes but I would be surprised if Winston didn't have a job I really would be let's talk about the roster stuff uh Ty has a question for you yeah Lomo before you got on we were kind of talking Pat and debot were saying how most of the time you know if guys are getting cut it's it's just a numbers game it's not necessarily that a guy isn't very good but we're seeing in a lot of different situations teams are cutting guys who they either drafted this year and maybe like the fourth round fifth round Etc or whatever or a guy they just drafted did last year how difficult is that process where you're trying to decide whether or not you want to keep a guy and it's a guy you just sunk some you know uh like a draft pick into whether it was last year or the year before right the hardest thing to do is evaluate your own team and you have to remove bias from it and you have to be honest just because you draft him if he can't play he still can't play you know just because you you drafted him doesn't make him any better than how he plays I think this year is a fascinating case study in this sense because of nil we saw a lot of kids who ially would have come out for the draft stay in school because they're getting money now they're professional athletes in college so the fifth sixth and seventh rounds were really watered down this year they were more like eighth ninth and tenth rounds which is going to make teams decide this guy really good enough we drafted a [ __ ] 10th rounder this year yeah right well I think what happens when 150 guys stay in school Pat that affects the draft agreed and so I'm not saying all those guys would have gotten drafted but I think this draft at the end of the draft was a little water down and so that the quality of play in those later rounds and still be some guys who make it and some guys who do great but I think that's going to make teams think twice about it remember this it's not about where you start on the roster it's about are you on the practice squad can we bring you up a lot of guys have been on practice squad have gone on to have great careers I mean you know Jason Peters the great left tackle he I could have signed in when I was at the Raiders he was on a practice squad for the Buffalo Bills and and couldn't convince Mr Davis to do it and so we couldn't bring him in there but they're players that are out there it doesn't matter how you get in the building just that you're in the building I think that is the big that is the big message you know because yes there are some guys who are getting uh rich off of this particular contract their first contract is a rookie but it's that second and third contract where you get wealthy so if you're in the building and you have a job anything can happen that is legit and if you got to play special teams for a year and a half two years just be the best that you could possibly be at it CU you have no idea what's on the other side of all of that man the NFL makes dreams come true I'm so bummed out that we got to talk about everybody getting cut and becoming insurance salesman it's like there's also millionaires being created yeah like that their families have never experienced in the history of ever on this particular day it's a true beautiful thing it's a true true beautiful thing got to be where your feet are we talking about Jam has possibly been on the move but you know I'm sure he took every opportunity he did in Cleveland and and in Tampa and New Orleans so wherever he goes wherever he signs him you know when you bring him in he's going to be a guy that he's going to bring energy he's going to prepare he's going to bring something to your team so you need that especially for a guy who you know probably won't be playing as a backup and if he is you want to be prepared with we know jamus can still spinning James could definitely can finally see yeah and B zappy you know there's a chance he last question here uh Lambo we know you're got your show coming up here in about N9 minutes we appreciate your time go ahead Tom speaking of nine we are nine days away from the NFL lombo um with college football gambling I love to look at continuity going into week one coaches OC's quarterbacks how many returning starters there are does that matter as much in the NFL and to you what are you looking forward to or looking for in these week one games um is it continuity because Bill talked about yesterday with debuts how if you have a veteran defense coming back you could call so much more defense than you can with you guys and stuff like that what do you look what do you think the biggest thing we should look at gambling for week one is well I think a lot of it is that continuity but I think it's how teams prepare for for example Zack Taylor's 0 and four the first two weeks the last two years but he changed he changed how he practices this summer he changed and so his team looked a lot better I mean his team went out there against against starters and played really well against Chicago his team went out there against starters and played well so he's got better depth I think he took a more serious approach to preseason I think you have to go with teams that have tough camps teams that get their teams ready for the the the rigers of the opening game Detroit had a good preseason they practiced a lot they had their guys Kansas City I mean Mahomes is playing I always tend to gravitate to coaches who have proven over time that they are very good in week one and you can tell the execution what I always typically will do is go through the game books on week one and see how many rushes and completions a team has with the same coach rushes in completions means how many times they run the ball and how many completed passes when that numbers over 52 your execution is really good and so that's an indicator of how hard your Camp was and I think that's kind of how you have to look at week one it's [ __ ] math debut it's math that's all it is that's all it is Baby the game hey thank you for making it so simple for us how about that Georgia Tech Florida State game 5 million viewers most watched week zero game ever uh numbers just came in for college game day biggest week zero show of all time or I could see it I mean we love it it's great I mean and look the ACC at Florida State you know that every year one thing I know Bill would say this to you guys all the time every Year's a new year the one thing we know is unpredictability will be predictable oh boom and football is amazing you're the best can't thank you enough ladies and gentlemen Michael lard thanks guys yeah I guess the game day numbers are big our show on Friday numbers big the game Big it's like football babyb football B Contin to football football thank you football so much what a game too fantastic and that uh that number was so much I think it was 30 the game Georgia Tech Florida state was up like 30% compared to last year 31 I think 31% over uh Notre Dame in Navy Notre Dame's fan base especially Ireland like gigantic gigant that is why Notre Dame has so much Prestige is because Notre Dame is a gigantic it's like Florida State fans obviously everywhere Georgia Tech fans showed up in a big way but football fans I think just appreciated the fact that real football was back and uh we're so lucky to be a football stoes show and uh football matters again yeah it does and this weekend you got Penn State West Virginia I know you got Texas A&M Notre Dame what the Thursday games the Thursday games are awesome too Colorado plays on Thursday Colorado Dakota the um Jacksonville State is playing on Thursday night Co we learned this last year about this Jacksonville State team must watch TV must watch TV every single year yeah but we got massive game I mean there is Georgia SC LSU like how about just SC LSU is happening that Sunday game the last few years has been awesome how about that USC LSU is happening right now in August yeah that feels like a December November cuz most teams you know the way they would schedule you know their football early if you're a bigname school we're not taking any we're not losing any but now with the conference realignment the opportunity in The Prime Time games and Mello Vegas kickoff classic which Herby and Reese I believe we calling that game it's going to be M it's like we're getting Marquee matchups every single week and I am so [ __ ] pumped thank you college football thank you college football and the NFL obviously we're a couple weeks out from that thing starting off Baltimore Kansas City first game then Philadelphia Green Bay the next day then a college football lineup That is absurd and then a full NFL Sunday then a Monday Night Football my my God only one more Monday without football what a time to be alive we can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living we're so incredibly thankful thank you for spending your Saturday morning with us thank you for spending your afternoons with us Monday through Friday and thank you to football for being here for all of us it wasn't for football I would obviously be nowhere near where I am I'd probably be flipping burgers so I'm incredibly grateful we'll see you in the next hour with AJ Hawk and Kirk herb Street hi how's it going my name is Pat mcky used to hold balls for Adam in Terry now I'm in his home state college game day is absolutely electric and Brooking so let's go college game day has made the voyage to Brooking South Dakota to experience a game with the best fans in college [Applause] football I unfortunately cannot attend because I have a game this Sunday so I sent a man and I trust to make my picks a man who was my holder for almost a decade please be nice to him welcome this week's celebrity guest picker Pat [Applause] MCA go big go Blue Go Jack hting Auburn yes everybody saw this the best fake put in the world what do you think Pat I absolutely LED it all the way up until execution time that is not one we like to show in the brand headquarters in in and kicking world oh dance off let's get weird yes duck that huh bang right off the top of the Dome that makes it a lot easier when you got a dummy standing right in front of you like that running running he's oh hi Daniel Russo waxs on whacks off knee to the face serious go go yes these that 15 they celebrate by doing shotguns and I a big fan of that University of Virginia C that was great I will never ever in a history but I'm going with Trey please excuse my dumb friend Kirk you look at this crowd they've been out here since 4:00 a.m. college game day come to town they lose their mind the population of the state is about 800,000 and when the jack rabbits take the field they're alongside all 800,000 South Dakota the Dakota marker was in Fargo for far too long today 5:00 local time the Dakota marker is back and beautiful booking South Dakota ad school they might be the ja rabbits but they're the goats today ladies and gentlemen South Dakota state with the win give me everybody no don't do that no no the following program is a collection of stoes talking about happening in the sports world it is meant to be comedic informative the opinions expressed on this show do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of their peers their 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in New Orleans at the next Super Bowl who will it be everybody has hope and today teams can get better or worse in a public eye but does any of it matter we'll talk about it all the talk to St was here at BOS Conor and atai Schmid sweet shirt one half of the hammer Cowboys turn digs looks incredibly fit over there good to see you pal sweet arm tattoo thank you finally got it done yeah it looks good though especially with the way you had it it was like just comfy it's just comfy no but I'm saying like the way it was though you can see shining is that fire there there there is some fire in there yeah yeah it's fire fire in the eyes I see the power of the fire right there it looks really good thank you shout out to Plum by the way shout out uh me and Diggs are from Plum High School and Nick maralo in the back and myself and Phil after his recent comments yeah B I not know you're necessary but anyways do you know that we got a golfer it's going to be the greatest the world I have heard have you heard about this yeah really we got a guy okay listen we got a guy uh Wes lorish which I hope I am pronouncing the name right Plum kid golfer Plum's golf team has obviously exists for a while uh there is a golf course Country Club in plum called rolling field which is a top five course in America probably maybe maybe in the world I I mean I didn't get to see any golf courses in Ireland definely North America Kennywood situation or yes it is wow no it is not yes it is we know the owner of rolling F USA Today R in the top 10 yeah great yeah we do we do no about Kennywood fantastic boys at the University of Pittsburgh just confirmed that last week so I don't even need to hear Duke Kane's going next week they'll talk about it yeah and then everybody in Town's going down and they're saying it's still great as so it's fastball and Kenny kangaroo he actually looks a little bit more mature this year not his ratty comy that's what everybody's saying Wes uh Loro kid shot of 32 okay this at Willowbrook against Central Catholic first win ever Central Catholic in golf in 36 years okay so I I think you could assume that the high school that I came from probably not just producing golfers as much as maybe like a Central Catholic private Central's the only private school in the city pretty much yeah potentially creating golfers so massive win and it's because this dude is leading a team of Mustangs shot a 33 on Oakmont last week D Oakmont is the US Open course 33 and N holes is uh what these high school matches are I think he shot a 30 a couple weeks ago on same course he shot a 32 the other day to beat Central Catholic so Central Catholic obviously massive rival and like everything like that so in the biggest moments this kid shows up and plays his best golf which means dog from Plum it's going to be in there uh he went to a tournament this past summer I think it was like his first time going to one of these big tournaments did very well in it I think he's a senior I guess there's college golf I'm learning about I've kind of been learning about all this through this kid story because obviously we've been very it's been very cool to be a part of this world all Mustangs here fund alongside Eddie Edwards and Phil Ms and Keith donenberg who is the golf team's coach actually where you know we've invested $2 million back into our High School athletics because we want kids to continue to play sport cuz we think sports are amazing our biggest success story thus far in being able to assist is this West kid and he might be the best [ __ ] golfer in the country west keep going bud hey it's not this it's just the beginning West you got to keep getting better cuz everybody else is but I want to make sure people know that he exists because Plum golf I don't think he's getting highly recruited I I don't think that's how it works and that's a big part of it actually those summer tournaments are so important unfortunately the high school tournaments I knew kids that would shoot really really well when I was in high school no one knew about him so they didn't go anywhere so if he goes to those summer tournaments do as well so it's like a is the summer ones exactly and if you's shooting three four under that's division one numbers from what I remember at least yeah and I think there's a kid that plays at West Virginia now from pen Trafford that he won for the state championship last year won into extra holes and lost to but he's a freshman now at West Virginia uh he West Virginia has a golf team I did not know that I did not know that kid Mountaineer fan uh I don't know if I am potentially a reason why or if is family but nonetheless it's like we got a dog in Plum I'm so pumped about it let's go Wes hey go w keep it rolling got to keep working though brother oh he will anybody can be good when you're seven let's go is he playing rolling Fields all the time yeah yeah of course I hope that makes it like 10 times more impressive what are you talking about respectfully what are you saying respect I've been to Rolling Fields I love rolling Fields what are you saying respectfully respectfully respectfully a tough track that's roll field that's not it that that's not rolling field yes it is that could be that could be they might got some new trees new Fairway new land no crab grass there so yeah he's big Lefty I mean he just in control so smooth in the biggest moments rolls puts in I don't think that's rolling Fields either no unless they got a new hole which maybe think so maybe they did that's a whole one probably SM let's go west go get it pal and that whole team congratulations on big wins ninee NFL vet Darius J Butler is here live in the Thunderdome good good to see you DB you look incredibly you look incredibly cool feels like this year is going to be another year of incredibly cool fits from Darius St Butler season's here so uh this is still offseason fit right now we got we got the Wardrobe for the uh the real thing couple weeks a you feel pretty good you already have it in the closet uh yeah oh yeah D David Allen is uh shipping me like six uh sport coats this week for game uh for game day boom I said hey Bub listen I need to wear him for game day so and he goes what do you think I'm like you're thinking yep surpris you're the one he he was with yesterday yeah he is a dog he basically uh everybody in Pittsburgh he dresses and then in WWE he has connections as well so I just told hey David Allen Yin are [ __ ] just I need to wear them on TV you see what I do I just need for game day to look presentable because do you see the way herb Street dresses oh yeah oh my God Desmond Howard is one of the they are like the cleanest looked unbeli with the green from Reese was Reese with his they are like the maybe the cleanest dress yeah and then I am notoriously not like the worst but I'm on morning television next to them so it's like have to look pres have to look somewhat presentable here and there have certainly been some looks that I've bought from Amazon last minute that maybe people didn't appreciate the way I saw a lot of people say this guy looks like he's a Miami Club cocaine dealer or whatever it's like well I'll have you know I spent $17 on that suit on Amazon the night before because I had nothing else that fit and I couldn't wear it this year preparing this year looking ahead this year David Allen's going to be taking care of me you asked David Allen about uh recreating the boss's alfit for you the boss the final boss oh yeah he dressed Dwayne Johnson through the entirety of it all I think yeah David all the he's a dog and uh I think he's going to have me looking okay I haven't seen any of them I have no idea what's coming T but I got faith in him a man who dresses well every single day always well what I'm a little upset he was gifted something he hasn't wor on the show yet yeah that's disp ladies and gentlemen joining us now uh former president of Ohio AJ Haw it's not on there I'm not GNA wear I'm going to wear know during a live show event that's what I told Sheamus I will wear the authentic Irish vest sometime on a live show how about Sheamus no selling his hangover on Saturday to us how about that do you you saw that he's a Savage he's an absolute Savage he's an absolute monster top to bottom top to bottom Sheamus they need to put a title on Sheamus immediately amen they need to have I getting to hang out with him was like obviously Ireland was incredibly awesome but being around Sheamus for that long learning Sheamus's story seeing the way Sheamus operates and Sheamus just knowing that it was a complete cluster [ __ ] in there and just being like Yep this exactly where we supposed to be taking care of us it's like Sheamus is a legend needs to be a champion everywhere the speed title give him everything yeah and then he got in a cold tub on Saturday morning and said recovery Patty or whatever and he sent me this photo and he also posted it but him showing up just no selling it is classic wrestler this is what the professional wrestlers do they feel you know as if they are good drinkers so whenever they hear about other oh you Sports guys like to have yeah absolutely Undertaker told the story of him putting Cypress Hill to bed one night and carrying P out over his shoulder as if they had to that as a thing so trying to keep up with Sheamus is a wild move and he is a weapon and he'll go to WWE and tell the whole story of the entire weekend to everyone there too which is professional wrestling that is Sheamus is a dog hey Sheamus we love you buddy love you Sheamus thank you for everything Sheamus and Sheamus brought eyeballs uh that game day is was up I guess it's the most watched week zero show ever they need to change that week zero thing because it wasn't a zero at all it was a heroic weekend it was the week hero is what it should be called because football is all the way back but it feels like football is only growing in popularity AJ which is a beautiful thing I'm lucky to be a part of the ride yeah I know I I always wonder like is there ever there's no like ceiling right like we can just continue to gain more and more viewership I would imagine like there's there's so many people out there I guess that we don't watch football that we don't realize so that's that's the goal is that they do there's there's a lot of people that go out on Saturday and Sundays and don't really know that football happens like that's a real thing what do they need to know what do they talk about apple picking yeah soccer soccery well yeah I mean if like no but soccer Watchers at least know American football there's people that like I guess I've been told I've never encountered it I don't think I don't think I've ever encountered it somebody just knows nothing about football I've never go to the pumpkin P every Saturday you're from Pittsburgh so in United States of America those people exist there's lot a lot of people what is there like 350 million Americans and 50 million watch the AFC Champion there's three there's 300 million people need to be watching yeah but total audience delivered if you do the calcul how many people are in each house whenever they're watching along how many babies Bingo how many babies has on football I don't know how people don't watch though and don't get entertained by like that Georgia Tech Florida State no rooting interest you watch that game it's like this is awesome unbelievable and this matters a lot there's National Championship conversations that are going to be taking place from this speaking of the national champions from last year Michigan feels like the last big thing you know that was going to come from the sign stealing situation just arrived on a Netflix earlier today The Untold story of Connor stallion you former president of the Ohio State what are your thoughts on it have you got a chance to watch it we've only seen Clips so we have refrain from judgment but it it it feels like the internet is if you think Jim knew you still think he knew if you didn't think Jim knew you still don't think he knew and that Connor stallions I think everybody agrees was obsessed with figuring out every sign on every single team that was kind of my takea away from the reaction to it have you watched it have you seen it and what does Ohio feel about this entire Michigan situation I I haven't got like a total feel exactly I know online how people from Ohio feel they feel Justified if they felt like hey this was going on all the stuff happening I haven't seen the whole thing top to bottom but I have seen a lot of the clips and I started watching it uh earlier last night I guess but I I don't know like first of off this dude is obsessed I think you said it earlier like he's he's committed he's definitely committed to what he is doing like how he was the filming himself and the clip that you played earlier in the show I don't know man I I still I need to watch the full thing but man this dude was he was obsessed he said a th000 2,000 3,000 all the signals that have ever been given in the history of anything they got along that I to record it was just a one minute clip but of him doing every single signal and then he cropped every single one of them and then he put the play or then he had to find out what play was or formation like there was a trips formation in there that he every week coloring associate he had to do that every single week he had to do that every single week take the picture of himself that he did in the garage dark shirt light background Y for the contrast for you know could make that a PNG but I that con didn't want to get let the garage door open or a green screen or anything you know could have done think he needs he he do need your suggestions I agree what's the central Michigan de what's the central Michigan part of it do we know well that's the whole another added conversation because he's saying that he was giving tickets to other people and I I think Bill mccomus watched it this morning while we were all sitting around we I was like we need somebody to watch this entire thing impossible for us hour 20 it's a long one so we'll watch the whole thing Bill m has basically got the anecdote from it that he feels as if he exploited the rules as opposed to broky rules like coaches aren't allowed to go Scouts aren't allowed to go you're not allowed well what if the film is a gift from like a friend F you know like what if but then the CMU thing feels like then that's the the kind of the the refund so he's saying Connor saying though I didn't do anything wrong I didn't break the rules I just kind of pushed the I just kind of I towed the line of of what the rules may be what you can and can't do I explored the space of what the rules were you know like because they said were they family and friends because I guess in the rule about the advanced scouting that they put in there I assume no family or friends of coaches or staff are allowed to go because this was probably thought of before and then he said no I don't know I was just selling tickets he was like a secondary ticket broker he was acting as if for some I make a hundred bucks off a ticket here and yeah I'll just move to whoever and then sometimes they would send back a a video but I I already had it yeah I already had it I don't even need I don't need it got it you know if he was a big chips fan like was he a big Central Michigan fan just was on the sideline that day yeah maybe he was uh maybe he was planning on uh protesting like oil drilling so he just got a ticket to get down there so that he could Sprint onto the field and do a full yeah spray the P but he didn't he backed out actually because he was watching the game and he was like you know they should stop the drilling but also pretty good game I inter you know so that maybe like I guess you could think of any oh yeah think about rich rich eisen's doing it for sure oh my Rich Eisen said go so you find somebody on Etsy you think they're going to be able to get you a good clean shot of who you need to see that was awesome I didn't know that was going to be the angle great angle yeah great angle but then you listen to Conor stying speak he's like you know SE greatest ticket buying platform on planet Earth and the moon yeah it's not a bad business and they had the list of all the tickets that he transferred too and like who they transferred like in that one video that we showed so it's so easy to track but at the same time like if you made your decision before this this documentary is not not changing your it's kind of everything in this world is yeah it is y I mean that's wild isn't it even reinfor even if you were presented with a bunch of facts that would make you be like hey you you need to change your opinion you were actually wrong you could very ah yeah but where n that wasn't that's [ __ ] yeah I don't believe it and then you start seeing stuff on the internet uh and you're like well that's not real like right now there is 1,000% AI edits of this documentary being put onto the internet and being presented as I found this interesting from The Untold at Netflix thing and just putting it out there it'll be Conor stallion's face that we didn't really know much I didn't really know I knew him as CMU guy yeah I know he I knew his head a lot more from CMU pictures than I did from Michigan stuff but when he does his interview good shaped guy obviously exmilitary he's a coach on high school now obsessed with ball but AI could definitely take him and just have him say anything Jim Harbaugh told me to do all this yeah Jim harbon I actually met once a week and and just oh this is fascinating from it some Ohio State fan not that only Ohio would do that but somebody could take any of these shots and put any words at all did he say this wasn't him I don't yes he said it wasn't him okay oh no you think this guy ye me look at the jawline are you kidding me what I didn't know Conor stallion had that bald head that could be sucked on like BL BL Stewart coach bla Stewart coach he's got some momas in him West Mountaineers but anyways so who knows what you got to watch the actual documentary it's on Netflix and uh I assume the conversation will only continue to go exactly how you were having it before watching it to the point of literally everybody here but I'm happy it's kind of behind us now what isn't behind us is seemingly Petty suspensions DeMarco Murray running back coach for Oklahoma he has been suspended for a game because he talked to 16 recruits or 17 recruits during a period of time in which you can't talk to recruits this goes back to whenever there was quiet time where you weren't allowed to reach out to recruits which was made because coaches were sick of having to text recruits all year round so they made a time period where nobody's allowed to talk so that we all are kind of forced to take a break some people all people I think have broken those rules over the years DeMarco Murray the most recent want to get punished for it the Kirk fence tampering stuff before the he's suspended for a game I think there's a wide receiver coach somewhere that got suspend iow at Iowa gets suspended there's another so it feels like we are currently in the middle of like the last [ __ ] from everything in the past of the NCAA all the pettiness [ __ ] feels like this is the last and then we're moving on to the next it of college football which is going to have a salary cap which is going to have a free agency time which is going to have a transfer portal rule which is going to have contracts that I think are understood by both parties I think there's going to be comps I think it's going to be CBA negotiate like I think that's all going to happen but right now we're still dealing with all the pettiness the petty stuff like you sent a text when you couldn't that that team just delivered a bag of a million dollars to that person's front but yeah but when did they there's weird rules too though like if if a recruit tweets you you're allowed to tweet them back I think in those dead periods like but you can't if they reach out to you you can reach like you just can't be the first there's all these weird things can I send a gift too or Tire joining us now as a man who probably knows a little bit more about it but is excited I assume about the future of college football because we're in a transition era and I think all any of us want is just a little bit of all right let's figure out what it is here because we're living in the past a little bit still with some of the suspensions but we're very much living in the future 12 team playoff money share money being made we got to figure out how it's going to look ladies and gentlemen am man it's going to be a part of that process whenever he retires although he doesn't have a spot in a college football playoff committee selection board people think he does that's cuz he's been a part of the college football world for 30 years ladies and gentlemen the ever handsome former president of Ohio K KB [Music] [Applause] Street when did we move over to former AJ you and I I don't know I don't know who the current is right now actually tell you the truth oh really who would it be it's Kirk has always been I think Kirk is the city president until he decides no no that's you bud I mean that's yous but Kirk you're aiming that question at the wrong person on this screen AJ was the one that told us that you guys are no longer presidents of the state of Ohio I just want to let you know that yeah oh yeah okay Bingo that's okay Bren and take it back who won the award this is Bobby Carpenter taking that taking the ring he's the general he's not president there's president there's a general you got always yeah he did get another star uh we were just talking about Conor stallions documentary that came out on Netflix Untold some behind the scenes stuff I think we got to know a little bit more about Conor stallions he literally was one of the most obsessed humans I've ever seen when it comes to doing what he thought was going to maybe expedite his career going to the top legitimately now did Jim Harbaugh know I don't think anything in there tells anybody that he did if he didn't know I don't think anything in there reaffirms whatever the case where it caught in between a time period now of college football of like yesterday where we're suspending people for tampering but then we're also giving millions of dollars in Anon deals and then we're also trying to get to tomorrow what are your thoughts on where we are right now how quickly does it come together and what do you think about some of these like DeMarco Murray suspended a game Kirk suspended a game this Michigan stuff is going to happen at some point this year what do you think about yesterday and tomorrow kind of meeting in the college football space that we're in right now Herby I I heard you talking about it I think eventually the only answer is to try to have some kind of CBA or some kind of an agement with the players and the future of of the sport which would be you know this this big division of college football that eventually is going to be settled you I don't think we're settled yet I I still think we're a year or two away from finally having okay this is it you know you know what's going to happen with the ACC you know if if they end up these some of these schools get out what's is the ACC going to exist are they going to stay in the ACC so I think we need some answers there but yeah I think you know you and I talked with Charlie Baker we listened to him you know I think he's steering the Titanic I don't think this is something that just because he is a Savvy guy and a guy that would I think is very impressive I don't think he can untangle this web just like that you know not to mention you got to deal with the power Brokers of the sport which are the conference Commissioners and the big conferences and the Big 10 and the SEC and the others so I I don't think it's an easy thing you know that that's why at some point wouldn't it be great to have just one voice you know one commissioner that would be able to run this Sport and his office would be able to care about the entire sport the reason I think we are where we are is you have conflicting interests you know what what they care about you know in the Mountain West or let's say the Big 12 or the SEC or the a everybody's worried about their jurisdiction you know their chancellors presidents head coaches players fans they're constituents that's it that's all they're worried about they're not worried about the totality of the sport so it's very hard to move the sport forward when you have all these different agendas and all these different people looking at it through a different lens so until we get everybody looking through one lens you're going to have this not to mention the nil space the rules in Alabama versus Ohio versus California Texas vers Louisiana versus everything's different so we we need some kind of federal rule that's going to say here's the rule for n or we need a CBA to say because right now it's just do whatever you want in Louisiana oh over there in Michigan you guys got to watch out you get you can only do this and so how do you how do you move forward when there's just so much it's not an easy thing to just come up with an answer so that's why you get some of this stuff but according to what we heard from Charlie some of this small stuff uh Hey like you were referring to You're Gonna I bought him a cheeseburger or you know here here's a hat like I think that stuff's going to go away the petty stuff but um how we get there ultimately I I think we're all kind of scratching our head wondering if Charlie Baker I don't know if he has the authority without Greg sanki and Tony batiti and other conference Commissioners getting on board right now I feel like they're more powerful in college football than the NCAA is hey is Charlie Baker the right guy to maybe do it though like you know yeah because after listening to him speaking like his vision it's like I think maybe he would be one of the humans that I think I would put in there sanki obviously is another name that'll get mentioned petiti is a name that'll get mentioned sabin's name is obviously going to get mentioned because of his connections I think I heard your name get mentioned before not by Florida State people but by a lot of other people in this entire thing and I think it's going to take place it is quite a quagar right now for certain uh but I think it's going to get figured out because the popul or popularity of the sport through the roof do you see the numbers for geordan Tech Florida State 5 million that's the biggest week Zero game ever people yearning for college football loving that real football is happening college game days numbers are huge anything associated with college football big anything associated with football big it's a beautiful time in our sport so that's why I hope these Petty things don't continue to pop up because every time a petty thing pops up we have to bring up all the [ __ ] like we have to bring up this is just a stupid thing because the sport the tradition the fans the players the coaches it is wonderful and more people are watching it now than ever Kirk and this 12 team playoff is a big piece of that entire conversation I think yeah I I think that and I I think the Summers get long you know I think we get excited for the start of football the what you guys represent every day on your show when you football I think that represents what we all feel you know it's it's just exciting to see games back I mean week zero you know there are people watching you know not just Florida State uh play against Georgia Tech but they're they're watching all these games there was like three or four I think Nevada was playing SMU Gumpy of course that guy he follows every game anybody who plays anything my man is dialed in on try you got to take advantage those books L on the plane with the Lobos that was awesome that was a blast by the way but yeah uh in that game SMU was down and they fought back uh we're paying attention over the Atlantic but I I think this week is going to be bananas I mean you got real games you guys keep putting that graphic up of some of the games are going to be here week one starts Thursday night I guess the big one is for Wy North Carolina in Minnesota Friday night you got some great games and then you can just see what's going on over the weekend uh massive games with Georgia and Clemson you know I know Georgia look at that they're favored by almost two touchdowns I you know I I I tell you I I think Clemson's gonna win the ACC I think they're head of the playoff I think they're much better and I think they got a lot of Pride on the roster I think that game's a lot closer Miami and Florida holy Cal Billy Napier you talk about a lot at stake in that one Notre Dame at A&M we're going to be down there for for that one can't wait then we fly over to to Las Vegas to call the the LSU USC game so man it is these are a lot of November games brother in August does it feel like that massive does it feel like that and I think I think this is one of the good things that is taking place with the transition period we're in in college football is the Marquee games with the amount of money that are get that's getting dumped into these contracts are going to be big all year like I think it's October 12th or something like that Saturday October 12th is like from noon till midnight it is just Marquee Marquee Mar Marquee and that's just October that's not even you haven't even got into November so there's a lot of good coming out of this and week one is about to be off for running go ahead AJ Kirk uh with all this nil stuff going on all the movement I guess on College rosters do you think the quality of college football is going to be better here moving forward in the next five to 10 years or you think it might take a step back I I think listen to some of these coaches you know when when you were playing if you got to a point not you but but your ER if if a guy got to be a point of maybe a third rounder you know his coach might say Hey you probably need to come back and a lot of times that that player would listen to to other other folks and many times they would go off to the NFL some guys would go off to the NFL and not even get drafted you know because they were just done with school I think the nil with that guy if you're a first-rounder obviously you're going to go but that guy that that maybe is a is second third fourth or later I think he's thinking now man I I think I'm going to stay another year and I'm going to play some more college football I'm going to take advantage of the nil make some more of that money and then I'm going to go maybe improve my stock and then go to the NFL so I think if anything I I think the portal is different because I think we're getting used to it but it's still a little bit strange like I'm calling you know these games this weekend just doing preparation and it's amazing to see like on A&M's roster with Mike Ela who left Duke to go to Texas A&M to become the head coach you know he looked around roster I'm sure after Jimbo Fischer left he probably lost a lot and he's like man we need some guys in the secondary we need some Del linemen hey we need some receivers and they went out and now you got to try to bring it together in jail and create continuity through winter conditioning Spring ball and then in the camp you really don't know what you have till you go out there and play you know as you guys know and that's that's scattered all over college football so on one hand I think the nil is going to make guys stick around then on the other hand I think with the portal it's about who can come together you know I just brought up uh A&M but Notre Dame has has some guys I six or seven guys that are portal guys then I go to Sunday I mean LSU they've got guys USC has a bunch of guys so that's the norm now but who does the best job at and creating it because as much as it's about the individuality on Twitter and as much as it's about your individual brand the goal is still to win football games as a team so who which coaching staffs do a good job of creating that uh that Bond that's going to allow you to get to like a lot of times people bringing up Ohio State if it's not now then when you know they bought in they get win game day I did that on Game Day actually but I'm saying the end of the day when was the last time Ohio State took the field with a shortage of talent not this much talent I heard it straight from the hor M you don't and jiga I me Ohio state has had a the last 10 years Ohio State's had NFL players all over their roster I don't look at this roster I really don't and go oh my God they have Caleb D20 million holy cow Ohio State serious this year they got they got will Howard who's gonna get beat out he was gonna get beat out at Kansas State holy they got will Howard oh my God they got junkins who was a backup at Old Miss King tackled on video game he's not going to start at Ohio State Trevon hend it's so I I don't St had it's about are they going to come together it's about they going to be a team about who they who they what you what are you guys [ __ ] about he D recru it's good Kirk you're D recruiting him Coach loves you're trying to yeah because I mean as it was coming out of my mouth I certainly was like gosh it's putting a lot of heat on day but it's already been there yeah it doesn't matter ex I mean they spent 20 I think I think I think Jim Trestle and irvan Meer that's what I'm saying and then the amount of money that's been spent $20 million allegedly and then you say oh they got Caleb DS are going to be different I was told that that dude was a Hall of Fame player literally the day he stepped on he's you know before you say that makea Fitzpatrick because I've I've covered all these Bama teams makea Fitzpatrick showed up as a true freshman I watched his first scrimmage I was down at the stadium down in Tuscaloosa Kirby was the defensive coordinator watch they had all these NFL first rounders everywhere and I was like I got done with the scrimmage I go down on the field I go to Kirby I go I go who's that who's that 29 and he goes that's our freshman mck he's out of Jersey I was like I was like that guy looks different like he's when he's not in he's standing next to a senior he looks like he's asking questions and he's like he's got a chance to be pretty special so what you're saying Caleb DS is that kind of guy not to mention M could play the money backer nickel he could play corner he could play safety that dude was doing everything as a freshman yeah you knew what he was going to become and what's that Caleb I think LED Alabama in tackles last year right so you're yeah he did as a true freshman so I agree I I think he's great but they they've had a lot of good ones come through there he's going to help Ohio State immensely just with his energy and just his leadership he's just an old soul you know some of those guys come around you know AJ's played with guys like that but you look back at Ohio State's roster go back to 2015 they won it in 14 they came back with the Bosa Brothers I think in or or the Jo Joey Bosa look at that roster in 2015 that was the year they played Michigan State at home and everybody got mad they didn't give the ball to zek Zeke Elliott they ended up getting upset by a backup quarterback in Michigan state that team was maybe the best roster I've ever seen in 2015 so the point is they've had pretty good rosters it's not like they went from having an average roster to all of a sudden buying a Big Rich roster they they've already had a lot you know been buying teams for a long time say it Herby yeah say yeah we still got a little petty rul yeah we understand we understand we understand that AJ you get paid AJ W Che I was never offered anything KK gave that alligator hey he's an elk that's an elk right there Centerville elk you're right but immediately after soon as he was done playing football obviously hey here's well you sign these 10 things for $150,000 and that's what had like having a fan base as passionate as Ohio State fans become well that was you said that was postc career yeah it was postc career you're done once you're done with your once your senior season's over yeah you can go sign autographs when you're done okay [ __ ] by the way by the way St X plays at Centerville Friday night oh no how do we feel is a little something going back to Dad's town can be a great atmosphere Kirk you know that honorary captain no no you should fly you should helicopter the ball in helicopter the ball in like I used to tell them Kirk they used to Mike hardock used to bring the the the ball into the 5050 yard line land it from the helicopter you should be that guy at you guys had the ball get thrown out of the helicopter exactly no Landing getting out and handing the ball to the official at the 50 yard line that's what Center football is like the weather Chopper no the the weather Chopper John fedco showed up with the football dardo would yeah dardo would have done dardo was on the Doppler fedo was on the ground and in the chopper man the FCO Zone welcome the FCO Zone man you want to get on a FCO Zone I had a tackle against ke sport boy I got showed on uh on the fedco Zone never been more pumped up in my life he was a local sports guy who flew around in the chopper and and showed all of the high school highlights on Friday nights it was elector it was Chopper yeah Chopper frco heed the prank call show all time it's great no way yeah [ __ ] kids in Pittsburgh really were say welcome to that goes on dbo he ain't taking D's done with that [ __ ] D's done with phone calls smart play smart play I like the way that whole thing goes let's talk that show that show still exists oh yeah whoa whoa I didn't know if he I didn't know if he retired he still going oh you tell me show sucks geez is that what you were saying you say that show how's that show is that what you said no I I thought maybe like like uh in Dayton the guys that AJ is referring to they've retired no that guy's still going oh you're talking about fedco yeah fedco yeah oh fedco does not hit the chopper anymore what since what they don't put him up in a Cho Omar Williams is done right AJ say that about fedco he can't be dead no please please don't oh no he will never die in my heart not I know that even it does not matter if his soul is still in a body here it was natural CA what was the budget for that show F million forever what do you thinking did he film from the chopper where were the highlights from the chopper yeah one hand on a highlight one hand on a rope and then his legs were holding the ball and then fedco would drop down and say now you guys can play the football play ball so it would start with the aerial of the stadium and then they would go to the highlights from the field game yeah come on this is standard operating stuff you guys know you had Centerville Ohio you had three Choppers overhead how's s x going to do against Centerville we going to be okay I I bet you if there were a betting line in Vegas I I would say Centerville is the home team probably a two-o favorite I would guess one point one or two point favorite well we know AJ's actually going to the coin toss right AJ you're gonna be at the coin toss for this weekend's uh I'm going to be in West Virginia I'm not sure if I can make it back in time but I'll try oh yeah because I think there's a rock wait for Friday for you guys in Morgantown holy cow yeah yeah that's going to be wild no I don't think so it's going to be a great time it's just gonna be good no no no you thought that the the the pub in nor or we're not doing that again type of wild What Where Are You Gonna Be where's the location this week so it's where the original stadium was in Morgantown West Virginia it is now near the Life Sciences building which is a building that every freshman has to have class in pretty much and there's like a grassy null if you will I hope not that is uhoh yeah don't love it especially with everything that's coming out but there's like a grassy field that is certainly no like uh in between two buildings where our stage will be it they're telling uh students that they can't get there until 9:00 a.m. on Friday no overnight camping and the fact that that was even a thought that they had to put that on there is wild to me I'm excited to see if anybody comes if they do can't wait to have a blast we got some surprise guests you know coming through we got some West Virginia Legends and uh it's the biggest home opener since 1998 in Morgantown and The Whole Town's B give give me your top five WVU football legends your personal Pat McAfee top five we'll do that on Friday I do believe uh so I'm curious yeah I know you are that's great watch on Friday you we will we have we have a I have a we have a piece being made right now for the open like I'm I'm going to really try to uh let the world know that like there's a lot of history in this town there is and this town is uh I I don't want to say the Big 12 isn't home but it is like the big 12 we are so far removed from and that's probably Neil Brown calling you right now saying make sure you mention my goatee which he looks super cool but like WVU ending up in the Big 12 instead of like the big 10 or the ACC I think for some people especially in the area maybe forget about West Virginia a little bit because they're not playing against their team it's like Morgantown is a phenomenal College Town West Virginia has a lot of history and there's been a lot of superstars that have come through there now with that being said I don't like that James Franklin's already saying like yeah don't like uh my guys providing any bullets and board material for anybody else so we will say it's like if I'm helping feed this Penn State team that doesn't need any more assistance after everything has happened to them to get them motivated to go to morgant town that is obviously some because they're a great team coming in ranked number eight and with this 12 team playoff I think they have more hopes and dreams than they have in the past because they knew you lose to Ohio State you lose to Michigan it's over like we got no shot it's going to be them because the way it was East West now 12 team no division it's like Penn State has more hope than ever West Virginia does too it's like this is a celebration of what's kicking off here in West Virginia that's kind of how we're viewing Friday if you will yeah man it's going back as a kid watching uh foot college football West Virginia Penn State was again Jeff hedler I remember watching those games and they played Penn State early in the year and it was always a big rivalry I I so excited that they're going to be playing that game this weekend what a way to start the season for both those fan bases and you're right it's it's it's a different time you're the Big 12 it's just weird you know you think of the future we just talked about where this thing's going to land in a couple years who knows you know I'm not saying that West Virginia is going to you know get out of the conference that they're currently in but how great would it be if we could get back to them playing against teams that their fans get excited to be playing against you know I mean uh Penn State would obviously an out- of conference game but teams like Virginia Tech or who knows where Cincinnati is going to be Louisville teams like that uh I always really loved watching uh WVU and people have not been there it is your typical Wild on Saturday that town Comes Alive they believe in their Mountaineers and uh it's gonna be wild it'll be a great show you guys have on Friday I can't wait to watch it you were calling most of those Thursday night games right when we were playing in all of them man we did it seems like we had a ton of those games on uh on night when they were in the Big East and you were a part of those teams and you know Miami Florida of course was was was competitive back in those days but Louisville and ruter uh all those teams were were really good along with WVU Yukon wow Yukon oh yeah up there PR's done but might be the Big 12 basketball school what happened you guys didn't the Big Town scared of West Virginia is that what happened is that is do I recall I think was anemic academics who cares we're talking about sports we got public iies only all right what's that public iies only what does that mean it means get your coach him up there come coach him up there Ty get your GPA up all right who cares about GPA we're talking about f o o TBA l l well these are student human athletes okay cuz guess what not all of them are going to be going to the NFL but all of them are going to be going pro and something other in sports remember those commercials boom oh yeah all right those my favorite commercials nailed it y over 10,000 student athl listen only you can prevent forest fires okay if we're going to start doing this entire thing you just want to go back and and forth here but it makes sense them Notre Dame whenever we do this again bring West Virginia and Notre Dame in the Big 10 and then we can call quits and if it means anything I do believe they bulldozed a lot of part of town that was potentially Bringing Down the academics okay oh really from what I told I don't love it cuz that's where I lived you know I lived in those areas actually on the dude why I can't imagine you in college oh my God too much did too much too quickly had a blast should have focused more but here we are and I'm very lucky that I was a West Virginia Mountaineer AJ AJ can you imagine him in college that was no I can see how you could bring a good uh good spark to a college football program though I can see it yeah I guess y I'm talking about after the game yeah well what I'm saying too that's what I'm saying the bonding the bonding moments when Pat's trying to run up a wall and flip backwards well excuse me I didn't try I did those yeah and me and Thor yeah me and my guy Thor we're out every night you know and because we so we hung out with basically every Department you know defense department they're out on what nights offense is out on what nights special teams obviously going out on these nights G are out on this particular night so you know we uh I got a chance really now doing that you're not going to be perfect obviously you're going to happen to piss into some alleys get some under ages and stuff like that that's going to end up being on your record for a little bit and that type of stuff's going to happen what were you supposed to do whenever you shut down every bathroom in town at midnight and you're be Penny pitchers what do you what am I supposed to do just piss my pants okay I guess we're in Ireland again all of a sudden I mean what is the it's just uh I had a great time I was lucky to be a mountaineer happy to be going back pumped to be going back did you ever go out with Owen Schmidt did you ever did he tackle I I picture him tackling like dumpsters you know like just so Owen for those that don't recall was a runaway beer truck and uh he was good friend uh of mine in college and we went out on a pretty regular basis he was one year ahead of me he if for those that don't recall uh end up with the Seattle Seahawks as a fullback yes and didn't he take his helmet off or something bang his head his first start offense is getting announced and uh his first ever start uh in the NFL is offense is getting announced and he comes out and Owen is electric always electric he is always great to be around I mean that's his thing he comes out takes his helmet he's like I know what'll get these [ __ ] going starts banging his head off the helmet because he had a rock head like a we got to have video of that sure somewhere and uh he gashes himself so hard so bad so bad everywhere had to get stitches missed the start not could not get on for the first place so he missed his start but I think honestly I would I couldn't what a player so good he was Pat Steve and Owen were the reason because we had to dive to Owen right and Owen could run 455 46 no I'm saying he was I'm guessing he was was he 240 255 two 250 he and running four five and handang cleaning like 600 lb too like you're talking about just like full specimen this guy full there there we go that's ID football right there that isid football also one of the most beloved guys in a locker room by everybody could Hammer beard he he he's like Mike alot Bingo walked on at West Virginia was a bouncer at some bars whenever he was as a freshman so he could pay for his schooling if you learn about his entire family and everything like that earns a scholarship becomes a runaway beer truck becomes one of the most pivotal parts of our entire team which would obviously lead to the growth and expansion of West Virginia's ho but boy pounded beers I mean absolutely you I I don't know if it was you that phrased him as the runaway beer truck but whoever did like as we heard it we're like that seems like the right that is the perfect description of the guy we can't wait to get back there let's get back to some big 10 talk though shall we because the national champions the conversation I'm scared is going to be about this Connor stallions dock as opposed to how they're going to do this what is Pete what is Pete think of uh the new Netflix show yeah what did what does Pete think of Conor stallion is Untold on Netflix well well you know suffice to Shay I'm a little disappointed because um you know I I basically cracked the whole case open and uh they didn't give me any [ __ ] Credit in in the Netflix sh didn't see myself once on there now yeah sure you know in the in the media shy afterwards I'll get the Sneaky Pete the greasy Pete from from all the you know Michigan fans out there but um you know yeah you know I think they could have done it a little bit better I was ahead of this Conor stallion stuff before anyone else and then Netflix you know comes panching in and and now they're the heroes they they Crack the Code um I don't think so so yeah let's just say I've got my big po uh my big boy pans Sean and I'm uh I'm I'm kind of ready to to crack my next big story which I don't know might be coming this this weekend in College Station really wow wow I can't wait to hear that I I don't like that they cut you out of it completely Tai Pete well again it's horseshit but you know I mean what are you going to do you know a lot of times they say there's only room for one super star and they didn't want to take the the spotlight or the Shine off Conor stallions per sh Tai I heard you working crowd a little bit on college game day well yeah you know I mean when people are chanting your name and and foaming at the mouth to kind of you know see you get them going I mean what are you going to do I mean again it's it's it's entertainment after all right all right let's stay with Michigan we love you we love you Pete stay with Michigan tone has a question for you yeah hary I can't remember if you had him in the playoffs or not but I am fascinated by Michigan uh 18 starters lost I think 13 drafted uh we don't know if orgy or tle or whoever's going to be the quarterback and then they have two of the best defenders in the in the country and Mason Graham and will Johnson um week one Fresno's no joke with Tedford and and Mikey Keen at quarterback um what are you what do you think Michigan is going to be this year uh I I think like a lot of these teams we just I think around the quarterback position they're going to be great you know I I know they lost a lot lost a lot of leadership more than anything the reason they got to where they got it was not just JJ McCarthy um and his playmaking ability but it was obviously the leadership up front of that offensive line those guys played so much ball uh Blake corm just look around that team on defense santrell they were fantastic as a as a as a group going back to what we said earlier they came together and then you lose a large percentage of that so who's the new leaders um I don't think from a talent standpoint you're going to watch them and say wow they're they're just not a talented team anymore and I I remember talking earlier this summer with shr Moore and he said you know a lot of people think we don't have people back but these guys have played a ton of football they just were more in a role of kind of that 1B type of guys so they would come off the bench and still get 30 or 40 snaps so I I think they're more experienced and people want to give them credit it's just going to come down to C they find a quarterback to run that system you know they they are not an offense uh that in this era of you know finding a Caleb Williams that's not who they are you know they're more of we got to run the football we need a tight end we need a fullback which by the way they have we got to run we got to hit play action we got to be smart got to be efficient we got to punt the ball they they just they play an old school style of football and I think because of that you don't have to rely on that quarterback to be a savior and so if they can block out all the Netflix and are they going to be suspended are they going to get in trouble or all the stuff around them regarding the NCAA which I think is just going to bring them probably as players closer together I I do have them in the playoff I do think they're going to be better than people think I don't have them winning the Big 10 um I had Ohio State winning the Big 10 I had Oregon in the Big 10 winning the national championship once we get to the playoff but I do I do have Michigan uh making it which would probably get that I don't know n and3 10- two Mark I think would get them in to uh into the playoff what do I Happ is it 11 seed there against Texas this 12 team playoff format whenever we put them up on game day and I got to see everybody man I mean I know it's a long time away and we got to take a lot of different Journeys to get to this point but these first round games with HomeField advantages oh my God I cannot you know I it is I know you've got to experience it for like 20 years or whatever so I I and you still get like I don't want to say Goosebumps but I think you do still get goosebumps whenever you walk how could you not I'm worried about my 10 I'm worried about my 10 seed there um they still can you know obviously they can get back in oh that's Florida I had I have Florida State there at 10 but we're we're off to an 0 andone start so they gota they loost they lose they lost to Georgia Tech no they did everybody and remember they did they did lose this is not indicative of how they're SE have you seen have you seen norvell's record without Jordan Travis wait a minute it's like two and N or N I think do this don't need to do this I'm not doing it I'm not doing it I know you're not I know you hav't gy Gumpy told me they lost that's the only reason okay Herby Herby has him in the playoff he does has him in the playoff picked him the win Sheamus was the only one to pick Georgia Tech and I think after we saw how passionate the Florida State fans were this weekend towards Herby for their team obviously we are still incredibly bummed out for you with the way last year went once again there are other teams that felt incredibly bummed out as well but weren't undefeated like you guys with that four team system inevitably somebody was going to be left out every single year that's why this year even with the loss week one you're still hey still got everything in front of you still got everything in front of you which is exactly what you put out and exactly your immediate reaction was like 12 team playoff they could still make it if they figur it out DJ is going to have to figure it out a little bit they're going to have to play better football but this is why this year is better than any year of the past in my eyes Hur a amen amen you know one hand you like to think every game matters you know and you want to feel like you that urgency to win every game but then on the flip side what you just said is very accurate I mean Florida State you know their fans are upset now with with not me but about the the team losing and being 0 and one but what you just said they got a game Monday night I think somebody said earlier there's no Monday night football Florida State BC is a Monday night game without the NFL this week so a chance to C you know a big audience regroup get this thing turned around get the one in one and away we go so yeah they they have so much in front of them it's just a matter of putting that disappointment behind them and still thinking about trying to to have a big year an you are a massive fan of Norville think we think he can call B culture we hope it happens for him because getting to experience your passion although was pretty negative at times cool to see and that's why college football is as great as it is we can't thank you enough for the time Herby you got it man see you guys have a great time in Morgantown I'll see you Saturday all right I'll see you down College Station ladies and gentlemen K stre 29 years long crazy long time all right we're off tomorrow we'll be back Thursday with a big program and then Friday we're live in Morgantown I cannot wait for football to continue to be awesome which it is be a friend tell a friend something nice it might change her life we'll see you Thursday right on screws right on screw all right AJ we got something big and special happening right now so we have to take like a 5 10 minute break and then we'll be back on the other side with some magic with Tony Smoke Stewart we'll be back with George KD we'll be back with AJ Hawk we got nothing but great [ __ ] in about 5 10 minutes be a friend tell a friend something nice might change your life take five tonight is a night where everything's going to be remembered every play every sweat every fight in the car watch go I told as a child back in the [Music] room hey let's have a national championship Monday huh my name is Pat M I've started this show two different occasions already this will be the third wow it's 2023 we University for lunch there was just so many different forms of gummies coming in my mouth boss man can you do a kickflip oh [Music] for come on bro that was awesome hey it's so TDY bear is cool it's so round sweet all right I feel pretty good for this ESPN party let's go have a blast in there b need you to do a red carpet I've never done a red carpet before I got a poop S I don't know if Now's the Time We invited to the usbn party and now we are all sitting on a red car we had no idea this was coming obviously we thought we were just getting some free drinks a lot of people on the internet said I look T what's that all about I'm a massive fan of Posner he was getting motivational speeches in between songs he was playing other people's songs he was telling people stay down we're going to make a moment only on a count of three we're going to go crazy couple of Bring It uping it Bo's up what do you want what you doing got to make this P game baby got to last until 9:00 happy birthday sack of [ __ ] so fired up to be here I got NE time everything holy [ __ ] Tim T is here oh my God look at that cut the most handsome shot in our show's history Nick Sabin has been spot started it so far great work in the back foxy boys crushed it now we got game day then the mega cast let's go hey what's have night obviously the enemy at Great is good the enemy of a dynasty is winning one championship and letting it go Prime you're obviously going to Colorado a place that's been looking for some sort of championship for 20 years you're also one of the greatest speakers I've ever heard what are you saying to your team you can't get here and all of a sudden change you don't want to see a different mannerism of somebody and especially the coaches see everybody's talking about the players but you got a coach the coaches too did you smile there to you [Music] smiling R poison smile that's Ed fourth quarter Perfection Matthew Stafford fourth quarter Perfection big moments t-bo Perfection we got some real magic here tonight don't we I love that toad that takes those mushrooms and with that being said St B 5 years old he's so damn comfortable Darnell Washington's the backup tight end he's 67270 Brock B's best player on the field the defense full of give me a Georgia Bulldogs go back to back first time since his man in his Alabama Squad I love the Bulldogs tonight parking all over the place coach all right here we go huh bit Rush from game down field he went all the way to the roof to come back we are so sorry all right let's roll I got to get some sleep I'm you are looking at SOI Stadium where we will be crowning a national champion for our college football season tonight and adults are on the board early wide open that's the shot that they wanted baby that's embedded with his second touchdown in the first half oh no oh no George first down one handed touchdown rock bars touchd down it is currently 45-7 it is 527 touchdown Jee this is just a good old back home ass whooping it's a blowout and that's the way the cookie crumbles that son of a [ __ ] uger is having the night of his life wow it's raining indoors in Los Angeles this is God taking a tinkle on something magical isn't it let mustache get him on camera that mustache holy smoke holy smokes are you a firefighter good for you bro thanks for your service first down horn frogs on a second and three why don't we call it Game Holy hello here TBO we're live we're on we're live right now welcome back to Sofi Stadium right before the break an extra point almost killed Tim TBO Natural Instincts had to take in place I could not lose the greatest human on earth and I'm happy they gave you that ball tip T now click your sunny dkes please all right boss first half didn't go our way we're doing this for the great state of Texas you know who else was down 31 points who's that the Italians all right let's take the tractor another round what are you watching out there coach honestly you know they're they're better off grabbing Luca doic out in the crown and maybe lining him up next to quit guys that reer cuz they can't do a damn thing we decided to t-bo here formerly known as praying for this TCU team to do something so you put your hands up song Fly Away thank you for your service sir a badass man those other Americans I wouldn't be here what a run huh the boys crushed it appreciate you sucks be so [Music] mean what that's all she wrote for college football season what a here let's [ __ ] get home [Music] gentlemen congratulations thank you so much for taking the time where you're contractually obligated to so I appreciate you guys being here I want to be here I just want you to know come on I have watched you do your thing man nothing but uh nothing but respect and praise for you will you touch this me too man [Music] over Dude boys you're calling a national championship again kha unbelievable should we be here no probably not no way I kicked the ball to myself on it oh yeah right I K the ball myself that's right should have told CJ that maybe the most athletic thing I've ever done in my entire being W CJ yeah happy to completely ruin rued a lot I CJ congratulations on winning the AFC South as a quarterback a big deal first time ever with Rook you okay that's a big deal CJ dude you're absurd though thank you for how young you are playing in in Indianapolis that was probably the loudest stadium I played yet in NFL wow that was like a college a Pete you got two knees two ankles two knees two ankles and uh some big boy pants that slide up around Move Along Move Along along that guy's pain is G that guy had a lot of C it's ice cold in there it's ice cold it's the first documented button [Laughter] dick that's that's what's being said I I didn't come up with that that's what's being said it was our show 3 hours 15 minutes then it was a 2hour gap then there was game day straight in National Championship B for two schools that are going to be talking about this day for the rest of their lives both of these teams being chasti from all different angles Washington there's no way this team from the Pack 12 in their last year with kayn dor is the head coach can continue to win they're going to stumble somewhere they didn't they didn't think about Michigan two separate suspensions for their head coach and all they've done is stay the course and tonight banners Rings reunion conversations Forever on the line what an honor it is to be here look his belt buckle like your Bel Buckle like was some light ranching to do down he comes out of his Cuts he sees people he shakes them and he doesn't look anywhere near as small as you would think he's powerful I love a lot of NFL GMS are saying wait a second is Michael penx maybe one of the top three guys to go in the NFL because what he does with the football is stupendous [Music] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the national championship game for the 2023 college football season that'll see the Washington Huskies representing the Pack 12 in its final year taking on that team led by that man the Michigan Wolverines in Jim Harbaugh we're bouncing we are house Gan Edwards touchdown in the national championship extra point is up and good debut debut with the one hand grab start the national championship Deb on man what's the decb over there yeah the de are high right now me it's 106.4 this might be the line half good deal meter we have actual gimmicks you know depending upon tonight does JJ go to the NFL which Mel Kyper has him as a fifth rated quarterback in the draft what does that mean Mel well you know means that he's got the physical and tangible Tools in his head to be a first round quarterback I he whether he wins or loses oh Jonathan Edwards running into our left that's two for the Michigan Wolverines and two for Edwards Pete than how long's that sign blocker been doing it and how has he gotten to a level where he's the best in the game he's been a Michigan man for quite some time now obviously he wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for that PES with bastard Conor stallion but uh Coach Harbaugh you know he he found a place for him in Michigan Family a beautiful moment between the harball brothers on the sideline the one on the right there number one SE in the AFC the one on the left up 173 in the national championship third option McMillan touchdown with a flag on Michigan that'll stand 1710 that's the way the cookie crumbles he Michigan has The Rock Tony dropped his bike Tony dropped his bike oh no oh no welcome back to the National Championship where Elite athletes perform and tone digs does something to embarrass his entire F I'm ready if p goes down sling boom snap hand off play core has blockers got it breaks a tackle touchdown Michigan pic is left he hasn't looked there yet and the Michigan Wolverines are going to be national champions for the first time in a long time oh yes we got a Streaker security spearing the GU losing his pants cops on top of a cross body wow cop's got his knee on his sternum say listen m man oh bag him and tag them boys I think pink shirt pulled a quad pink shirt is not ready what a win dude let's go to the F let's go to Dan in Connecticut lovely place here in the 5 phone line what's going on Dan oh what's up Pat McAfee Dan you are too young young to listen to this show I can tell I think how old I'm not Dan I am Owen Owen how old are you so different I am at eight and a half oh eight and a half if you're telling us you're half age or too young to be listen that's a record s what what's up your mom what do you want to talk about Owen um I want to talk about how inspiring this show is and you're inspiring this whole entire world with how you're talking about sports and how you're talking about your life experience thank you Owen Owen thank you love you owow I'm taking also [ __ ] Boston the best I want to let Owen know if you're still listening Owen you're inspiring best kid ever Owen the way you talk about sports is inspired say I didn't know eight and a half could do that is that shout out that Hey ow New Generation in Connecticut I guess he was making me feel good too by the way he was making me feel good making the show feel good he was talking us up he was hyping us up and then boom yeah little this aist Style's brother little misdirection from ay's brother and eight and a half there that was awesome I'd say he put his balls on your forehead but I don't think they dropped yet what an honor what a dream being a part of game day was a joke being on the field for this is a joke we continue to live the dumbest life of all time what time to be we in23 we are live from an empty mercedesbenz Stadium all the offseason workouts all the sickness all the puking all the commitment all the dedication we got four teams left coach what's the vibe of that locker room getting ready for this game we're going to swing as hard as we can in this game and CJ's our leader and he's going to lead the way hell yeah yeah we're going to try to make the most dumb television on Earth this evening live from this field right here in Mercedes-Benz Stadium Darius Butler 9ye NFL vet played at Yukon that team stinks but they're coming back Stanford Steve here and this man right here wearing a wolf t-shirt underneath a sport coach he works for me fulltime but what are you excited about this evening Conor I mean pal like you said I the IQ of a goldfish so I'm not really taking all this in strictly because there's so much the moment is huge you know where you make your money and this in this college level is the red area Georgia number one 120 is where Ohio State is ranked which is nuts Max Dugen is a let dou cook Bo we say dumb stuff on the internet can cover him in the boot here guys you on ESPN how B how didn't say [ __ ] didn't say [ __ ] I was close but I didn't do it that's a win that's a win look at this look at this hey coach I don't know if you headbutted one of your guys or not but cut sh you are awesome I I got a six-year-old son man I mean it's a they're going to have to rely upon those Kate the tight forio he's like fourth generation farmer sponsored by John Deer yeah okay and they don't just put that deer on anybody hey there's going to be billionaires barking okay there's going to be billionaires barking grown folks in khakis barking in [Music] unison that's got to become a thing next year serious yeah that was great you all right all all right you're right y help them up help them up you sp anything no spilled your [Music] phone could have been worse could have been much worse the college football playoffs are about to kick off in Phoenix Arizona my name is uh Pete Manning that's an Ohio [ __ ] wet dream not just a dream did you see AQ Shipley stacked on top of Cu on top of Cole I feel a shot coming sound like Taylor I told you I got to go hey let's go this show stinks and the fact that you listen we are very very thankful for that could be on the line with a gorgeous assist the alltime leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers you up up damn it be a friend tell a friend something nice could change their [Applause] [Music] life hello beautiful people and welcome back to our humble abone the thunderone on this NFL cut day new livery day Tuesday August 27th 2024 Hour 3 the program starts now football it's happening all around us but right now we're getting a chance to experience something incredibly special uh in the racing world the talking table is here at Boston Conor and at Tai Schmidt nine-year NFL vet Darius J Butler is here live from manakan Ohio AJ Hawk is here and joining us live in the Thunderdome ladies and gentlemen racing icon Indiana legend and a man who's racing this weekend in a top fuel car at the NH us Nationals happening right here on the West side of Indianapolis Tony smok ster smoke great to chat with you again obviously you're an Indiana legend and every time us Nationals comes to town we get a chance to catch up with you how's the season been this weekend's the biggest race of the year how are the cars we just saw the new livery new paint scheme on the outside of his look at these bad boys look at these bad boys we just got a chance to debut this let's fast forward if we could it's if we could if we could boom look at these beautiful things Dam hey they look beautiful okay soand new paint job for the US Nationals this weekend at NH that was a debut right there to you to me to the entire crew what is the symbolic uh Sy symbolism behind this and are we just American Muscle about to go 330 mph down the track yeah this is to celebrate uh direct connections 50th Anniversary so uh to do a throwback paint Scheme and you know this the the US Nationals this weekend this is the Super Bowl for drag racing for NH so the biggest event of the year it's it's in our backyard obviously it's a home race for us uh and obviously Dodge is a great partner of ours so having them here and being able to debut the paint schemes and uh we even got a chance to uh drop you down in an 11,000 horsepower funny car for a minute yeah I got the smell of the H you I got to feel that H right in front of me and you just you just mentioned how many how many horsepower over 11,000 okay 11,000 horsepower in the engine uh very nice sports car that you're driving around let's say you see a Mustang soit it's 600 that's like 600 700 horsepower is absurd for a car 700 horsepower is insane for 11,000 horsepower in these cars and they're going how fast in a/4 mile over 330 mph in a th000 ft if we could bring a still shot up from that drone shot uh so we can talk about each car individually because they are two different cars but they both have same engine as if we get a little bit more so we can get the full aspect of that one the one on the uh Boom the one on the left there is the funny car right that's the funny car and then the long skinny one is the top fueld d okay so the funny car is kind of shaped after a car I saw there was some like details like fake lights on the front and everything like that I sat down in that thing 11,000 horsepower right in front of your lap that's what separates that plus the design for the top fer how do we get two different 11,000 horsepower engines in two different cars that just that just feels like we're doing doing a lot I think the biggest thing and the biggest variable is the car I drive with the top fueld draxer the motor is behind me so if something happens it blows up it catches on fire the fire is behind me and I'm going away from it Matt Hagen that drives that funny car that you sat in and warmed up if that blows up you are going into the fire I mean and not a little fire this isn't like a matchbook that catches on fire this is nitromethane burning and you're driving into it so I think the funny car guys I think they're crazy I think they're nuts yeah so I didn't have any of those thoughts whenever I sat down in the car well we didn't tell you that part cuz we we thought might might not want to get in it uh we do have uh footage of that and I believe we're trying to trans transer it right now to the computer cuz it literally just happened but I'll tell you when you started that thing up oh my God you can feel it I feel I could feel you could smell it you could sense it you could I had a gas mask on like it was back in college you know what I mean and we're we were trying to find some some Jesus Christ in there and whenever that thing started up you I could feel it and it was a thousand degrees I mean today's a very hot day in Indianapolis Indiana I had earplugs in I had gas mask on obviously you standing right next to me with neither of those things so I appreciate you doing that but then once those we started rolling it was incredibly how many how long does it take to build one of these engines and how many people are doing that because obviously the engineering of this entire thing is the show ium yeah these guys can service this car so that car can come back from a run they take the body off like we did to put you in the car that's how they service the car they can literally turn that around in 40 minutes and be ready to run again how long does this take to build this particular engine here uh total time from start to finish I don't know the man hours it takes to do that but literally just to service the car so once that car makes a run the Pistons the rods come out of it the blower comes off of it they service everything new Pistons new rods new spark plugs new Heads new headers all of that gets changed down in 40 minutes and is ready to go back on the racetrack I felt alive Tony ready go Tony I felt alive in there I I didn't get a chance to physically look at the bottom of the seat because I think there's a chance he might have weding just saying just saying I uh I I've been out to um the track over there where the US Nationals are I used to live in that area all week ahead of the race you hear them practicing at night you hear the sound because how loud these engines are and I assume there'll be some neighbor that will complain we've seen you race NASCAR Indie Car dirt car uh now you're Racing Top Fuel car have you ever done you just like racing things is that kind of how we we got to this point and how much fun is this particular style of racing versus maybe the long-term track racing and everything like that yeah this is polar opposite of what I did in NASCAR NASCAR I was in the car for three and a half hours now the Run lasts three and a half seconds so and we're talking everything is to the thousandth of a second not tenth of a second 100th of a second to the thousandth of a second is what makes a difference in these cars and the get off is the big deal right the tree happened that that's so let's say we're watching this weekend because I assume uh there's a lot of people that just saw how sweet those cars looked and just heard what you said and see you know I'll check that out I will see what these cars are able to do the reaction time is the most important part of this entire thing for the driver it is as soon as those lights change once the once both driver's pre-stage and stage then the next thing you see is the three Amber lights on both sides at the same time and as soon as the driver sees those lights they hit the gas and off you go shit's on how much driving are you doing during that yeah hopefully not a lot but but they don't as much as the track is straight I mean it is dead straight every time the car never goes dead straight every time Connor has a question for you so how do you get your like reflexes ready like you you're not just obviously walking out of your bus and getting into the car and you know lights come on and you're going like do you have any routines things you do before a race to kind of get your brain ready to get your you know feet pedal to the metal ready because it doesn't really sound like your hands on the wheel too much yeah honestly and and it's something that I've struggled with even even this year uh last year I was running a Top alcohol draxer that ran in the 270 280 mph range and still had to go through the same thing on reaction times but now I I came from Cars where I was going to be in there for 3 and a half hours so I got in there and tried to get calm because I was going to be in there a while yeah now I'm doing the opposite now I'm having to try to get my heart rate up I'm trying to get my energy up I'm trying to get like like I'm getting ready to go into a fight that's what that's what you have to have that energy when you get there because everything is on that reaction time on the light for the driver and it's 130 degrees in there oh over that so hot I mean I was just cooking in there for I didn't have the suit on I didn't have the helmet on didn't have the whole thing firing it was so hot so having to deal and navigate with all those things I guess and you're saying it's milliseconds of reaction time for us Nationals win or loss that's insane to think the amount of pressure on every single second go ahead Todd yeah take all that into consideration obviously it's only you know three and a half seconds or whatever but like how physically demanding is the whole process like do you do you have to you know be in like good physical condition going up in I mean I assume you're sweating like crazy in there and also like you know I mean we're talking 11,000 ponies under the hood like how physically demanding is it trying to actually control that thing you know something I didn't think about and never factored into it when I started driving these cars I didn't think it was that physical and I've always watched as a fan and watched it on TV and I'm like why are these guys out of breath I mean we can hold our breath in a swimming pool for almost a minute and these guys make a sub4 second run and they get out and they're breathing heavy and this and that and it's because your your heart rate and everything's so high but when you hit the gas you get up to six six and a half G's and then when you throw the shoots at the end of slow down and stop it's another 6GS the opposite direction so you have a 12g swing with your body weight your helmet everything everything in that car is going back when you hit the gas and as soon as the shoots come out it tries to throw you through the windshield AJ has a question for you Ohio uh I know in NASCAR a lot of the cars are very similar and they they try to like have parody and I guess like a lot of cars are very similar to each other and it's kind of hard to separate from the pack is it the same in these like the funny car and when you're drag racing or is this more hey like it's on the driver and your reaction time and whoever whoever jumps it usually wins there's a lot less rules as far as compared to NASCAR NASCAR is so micro I mean it they measure everything to the thousandth of an inch and there's still rules in NH that is the same way but you're sitting there taking an 11,000 plus horsepower car and trying to make it go 1,000 ft as fast as you can the body being off a thousandth of an inch here there that's not going to make the difference to those guys to the sanctioning body so the rules are way more relaxed but everybody really is just trying to manage an 11,000 plus horsepower car and trying to get it to get the maximum grip on the racetrack for what the track conditions are how do we feel about our car going in the week our cars going in the weekend we feel good I think so I I know Matt and and Dicky on the funny car side they're excited about it uh they've really started hitting their stride right before the playoffs this is our last race before the playoffs start for us so this is a big weekend it's points and a half uh the Top Fuel side we've struggled all year until the last two events and luckily we're getting hot at the right time uh we we set records multiple times at the last event I I finally went 334.30 mph tunnel vision very much they what does some people say like slows down almost is that it does when you get more comfortable but that's the first time I'd been that fast the the the previous event the fastest we had ran which was the quickest run we' made all year was 331 mph so granted 3 mph doesn't sound like much but you're talking 3 mph and it's accelerating in 1,000 ft so when it when it made that pass and it ran 3.68 seconds that was the quickest lapse time that I had in the run and I knew it was fast I didn't know how fast the numbers were didn't know how fast the mile an hour was but I knew at half track how hard it was accelerating that this was on a run and you're just eyeball on the finish line or what do you yeah that's the whole time yep and do you everything is just 334 mil hour in a qu mile yeah crazy so that is but this weekend weather should be perfect right conditions look like it's going to be great for all cars yeah we would not like to race in the conditions we have today it is hot out there the as well the asphalt gets hot the rubber gets hot and when it does it gets GRE greasy and it gets slippery so instead of running 335 for example you might be running in the 332 331 range on a track like this 334 feels like winning that feels like a winning mile per hour is yeah if you can if you can run in the mid 330s like that you're you're normally laying down a good run hell yeah Tony you feel like you're figuring it out feel like starting to I mean it's only taken 40 plus years in my racing career and now I'm driving a car that I have really struggled to get used to this because like we said everything was always in motion and it was a long race where now it's short races you have a couple hours in between runs and then you got to get yourself up you got to be ready amped up and then the car is going to go from zero to 330 mph in less than a th the force family was the big family of drag racing right still are still are still in the daughters I believe and I don't I don't I don't want to say grandkids but that that family was the big drag racing family right is there any other notable names that we should look out for either this weekend or in the sport is the history well you got Cruz Petron that drives the Dodge you've got uh you got drivers like you got you got some really cool Racers Steve Torrance um you know Austin procs here from from the west side of Indianapolis there are some great drivers in the competition this year of of the four years that I've really been involved with NH H hanging around my wife Leah and everything in both the Top Fuel and funny car classes it's the most competitive I've ever seen it your wife's a racer right I believe that is because last time you were on the show I don't know if you guys were married yet yeah we were you just maybe but it was like you were with a it was like RAC Racers right is that that was the accurate story of the romance the reason that I'm driving the car is because she's 7 months pregnant congratulations oh yeah thank you so that is awesome probably not a good idea for her to be driving a 330 mph race car and sitting in 100 but she did right that was like her gig yeah still and she will get back to that one of her shoes yeah that's the plan is for her to get back in the top fuel car she has this really bad idea that she wants us to build a second Top Fuel team so when she comes back I have another car a drive and we get to race with each other which I think is insane it's a terrible idea on paper it does not make sense because if you beat your wife you get stuck to the couch for eternity never get sleep in the bed again and if you lose you have to look at yourself in the mirror twice a day and go I got my ass kicked by my wife and all your buddies are going to say you got your ass kicked by your wife so that's that's just the reality has a husband wife ever raced against each other I think they have I don't know if it was at the top fuel or funny car level but we I do know there's been multiple husband and wife minations hey she's like a driver too right like yeah and she's every bit as competitive if not more competitive than I am so she we both hate to lose I think she might hate to lose maybe a little worse than me but she uh she would she would get excessive celebration penalties for every time that she beat me because she would rub it in my face yeah well that is something but I would expect that from I want her to be that way that's a good relationship sounds like uh it would be hard to celebrate that because you can't get out of the car I mean it took me like 30 seconds to get out of the car cuz how fat my ass is he go it it's hot as [ __ ] and you don't really know if you won yet right whenever the race ends you don't know if you won you actually do there's there's two little lights on the wall and and when you get to the end of the run you if your lights on you know you won if that light's not on you know your competitor won okay so you start on Friday right you start on Friday we got trials we got one round of qualifying Friday night which night qualifying is awesome to see the Flames off of these thousands of fans will be there thousands and thousands of fair they fill this place up it's like a smaller State Fair almost with the everything in the middle had a few beers at one of these events uh great corn you got state fair food there good crowd the best crowds out here I'm assuming yeah this is this is a big event this is huge so one round of qualifying Friday two rounds of qualifying on Saturday and Sunday and then the races eliminations are on Sunday or on Monday on Monday against each other yes got it so it's just like a a 16 uh field bracket so just like a NCAA bracket go from 16 to 8 to 4 to2 is it time or speed what is it is literally who gets to that finish line first it doesn't matter if you if you if you left a second after I did but your car was a second and half faster you'd beat me by a half second so R34 but if it took you a little bit longer to get up there than somebody else that was able to get there quicker if they win the race they W exactly well good luck out there smoke thank you so much for letting us do that I mean I can't believe I I mean I didn't I did think like wait I've seen they wear fire suits for a reason as that thing was getting started up and uh I think if you watch me back I look around I'm like I think I trust these guys yeah they know these guys build a you were looking for the fire extinguisher orang I was wondering I was like these guys build a good engine yeah these guys buildt a good but then when you stood right next to me I was like all right well at Le if I go down it's not just what we do I mean we talked about that 40-minute turnaround time every one of those guys we we as drivers trust them with our lives because if they make a mistake that thing could be on fire the car could crash I mean we trust our guys and we are a tight family unit and you know everything they do is is precise I mean these guys are great at what they do and and they all have their individual uh Specialties of what what they are responsible for on the car but it is ultimately what keeps us safe in the car and what makes it go fast at the same time real talent yeah the real talent and if you have weapons in that department you win more races I think that's clear across all fronts even F1 have you ever raced F1 I've driven an F1 car I drove Lewis Hamilton's car we did a seat swap so he drove the cup car for four laps I drove the Formula 1 car four laps dope do you think you'd be able to if you want over there I weigh too much to race with those little skinny guys so America and I'm not going on diet yeah uh the US Nationals this weekend for NH all weekend long here in the west side of Indianapolis Indiana we got cars going 330 M an hour in a quarter mile 12g swing on bodies incredible engineering and uh an electric environment I'm people how could you not when is right in front of you you know they talk about the pink slips in the show drag racing and everything like that it has always been fun to see whose engine is better than the other and whenever it's happening at this high of a level it is always a spectacle can't wait to see the Tony Stewart racing team and that beautiful new paint paint Scheme take the track this weekend congrats on everything smoke and thank you for stopping by appreciate it thank you that thing was loud oh yeah yeah had earbuds in could still felt like I didn't it was so hot it was also so bright outside it was very bright outside it was so hot and bright outside I'm happy you guys kind of waited it out for us we are so sorry we did not know you were bring your whole [ __ ] team here we would have been able to create more spots good the boys watch I think some of the boys watch the program so we appreciate the hell out of you guys for letting us be a part of your day today good luck this weekend have fun be safe ladies and gentlemen Tony Smoke Stewart thank you Tony good luck hey thank you all 335 3 35 go get him yeah let's go 70° it's going to be perfect oh man I can still smell can you smell I can too I can still smell I can still smell I think we're going to smell that forever in here you're the man smoke okay all right good good good happen to here that it's in my blood it's in our skin yeah horsepower in my blood horsepower in my blood congratulations thank you no problem good luck you guys are going to make incredible parents all right see you guys holy hell yeah thank you all right that was electric dude it was so powerful yeah I couldn't imagine sitting behind so loud dude was so loud so loud so and they're like I didn't know I was sitting in that thing obviously I had no idea I knew we were debuting a new paint scheme sure that was kind of the conversation us and smoke have a relationship over the year so it was like Hey us Nationals happening smoke wants to stop by or smoke would stop by would you want smoke to stop by it's like absolutely and then Tony offers up like we'll love debut our new paint we should do that with with Pat or whatever it's like thank you for the opportunity to do that and then they're like we're else going to put you in one of these things and I'm like I guess I [ __ ] you have to do that you get the opportunity to sit in one of these things so much power AJ so much as somebody who likes I like cars I enjoy cars I uh it's something that I think like literally since I'm a kid like see a nice car like Oh I like that car I like that car I like that car I'm in the cars not as much as other people that are in the cars like there's people that are like really into the cars getting under the hood yeah and they'll Alpha you in a conversation turning wrench all those types of things and I can keep up a little bit but nowhere near as much as like car people I went to one of those races because I could literally hear the [ __ ] from my house where I was living at the time I'm like what is that sound they're like oh that's the NH us Nationals and I'm like is that like some Bush League they're like no that is the fastest cars most powerful cars are racing like quarter of a mile in your backyard I'm like I hear them all they're like midnight 1:00 a.m. leading up to this us Nationals they're going I'm like I got to go see this I get there party just hell yeah thousands of people at this thing beers are served ass cold I mean you got it is and then you see these things take off down the strip and it's like a blur it's literally like a blur out of nowhere and then you see it go wrong sometimes yeah and it is not a blur there's no easy way there's no easy way to go wrong when you're going that fast not at all how close are the spectators the crowd uh you're behind like a it's like a drag strip which is about as wide as a Runway I'll say like a Airport runway and then there's a little bit of space then there's like bleachers kind of down both sides of it you're you can feel it I mean you can feel and you got little kids too being held up over the edge like come on son one it was uh the people are all incredibly kind the racing Community is always like very jacked up about racing so it's like a fun place to be I think there was lot of families there people were having a blast and then inevitably one person's engine is going to be better than everybody else's and it's like feels like smok's engines heating up at the right time that right there he warmed it up he said he he would do any that little soft F1 stuff yeah those little [ __ ] he drove a car though Italian Grand PRI this weekend by the way nice what that one lane road what B League MLS games on I'd rather watch that well why speaking of B League MLS Gump we got the guy he's a 14-year-old what why is he playing in front of no people what is going I feel like they're just trying to get him some minutes since they haven't been using them all in the first squad for whatever reason that is I don't know why for those that don't know what we're referring to we're referring to a 14-year-old who made his debut in the MLS for the Philadelphia Union he is from Philadelphia his older brother plays for the Philadelphia Union he's 14 years old debuting in the MLS hanging playing well comfortable confident this comes after we see yahe yahe from Spain uh lamal yeah yeah him uh o oh boy I know it's lamal anyways we saw 16year old turn 17-year-old play for Spain who kept up looked great and then we see this American 14-year-old come on and play the MLS like we got the guy then he doesn't play anymore now he's playing for the B team and he's doing this in front of no people we have that in our back man let get let's get him in front of people left Peg to he right footed he's filthy what do we doing there's a left Peg from a right Peg guy I mean let's put him on the field he's 14 years old the guy's getting paid for Man City for five years we can't get him in a game in the MLS what are we doing let's let him play in his in his high school match yeah High School have more people the are we doing was a strike get him on the big Club is he good enough to play on the big club dude he looked good when he was out there I saw him for 10 minutes playing what's the Union's record unless they are not a good squad exactly exactly build around a 14-year-old they're better as of late but their their record is not very good I just don't get it a problem I just don't get we got the guy let's let him be the guy AJ it doesn't make like Ty said if they're not undefeated what are you doing give the kid a chance sucker in the states trying to push him out how about us we talked literally everybody talked about he was on the Today's Show he was like hey looks pretty good took a shot was very comfortable couple couple uh give and goes with his brother couple worked a couple things looked very confident obviously the place went crazy he could be the next one not only in America but in the entire world in the Philadelphia Union are like that's right and you'll see him in three years playing for a different team in another country yeah it's like come on go back down to the B League what are we doing put the guy on the field po if poino gets win to this he's that's not his name it should be if it's Noto needs to back a good ga he's a good gaffer what is his name it is interesting that that still hasn't been uh that deal is not sealed just yet what you're saying Pon isn't the head coach they haven't introduced him yet like I don't know what the I know the what the hold up is Chelsea being [ __ ] again well we don't like that at all I thought he looked at the union and said oh you're not going to play a 14-year-old on the on the main team I'm not [ __ ] coaching for a country that does that so let me get this straight you guys have a guy that everybody wants to watch it could be the next one we're not playing him okay and then methy got here he won a bunch of games those games don't count okay so he doesn't get maybe maybe he's trying to sort some things out too to see if he really wants to do it hopefully he does speaking of things getting sorted out shout out to Direct TV shout out Direct TV figured it out always do don't need a damn satellite anymore to tell us more about that is all proo Legend icon one of the stars of receiver for Netflix friend of the program IA Hawkeye Legend ladies and gentlemen George KD all right George so tell me what's up tell me about what's going on here you know what I mean tell me what's going on with this helmet that it was not to be worn in a conversation with you talking about taking it Taking the top off a little bit if you're Direct TV George tell me about it man what a softball layup pitch you guys are just so talented I really appreciate that thank you bro no I think the Direct TV just they just wanted to show everybody man you don't need a satellite on your on your roof anymore man there's streaming now on the go at home whatever you need to do and so we thought nothing on your roof on your roof you like my hair's long on the on the top short on the side we just reverse that and it turns out I look completely different but at the same time still handsome yeah incredibly handsome you're George KD I mean that's why you do those nude ads with those other companies but let's stay with the Direct TV feels like this is a move that should have was made a while back for college students Direct TV did this I think now they're doing it for everybody it feels like George yeah it's for everybody and the nice thing is it's for all pro football games and all college football games so whatever you want to watch you want to watch Ohio State and Green Bay you can do that AJ it's all whatever you want to watch man anybody can do whatever they want to do if you want to watch Iowa and Green Bay Iowa and the Bears whatever you guys want to do guys it's h you have access to it in this stream uh for more information on Direct TV how to enter for your chance to win the helmet and uh check yourself out with a nothing on your roof hairstyle go directly to directv.com onyou roof that is D cv.com backno onyou roof and you can maybe win one of these helmets damn and maybe you see how you would look if you got the nothing on your roof cut that George KD had for this commercial now I will read the bottom anecdotes that we got sent here uh please George KD foot bald helmets dos and don'ts right here at the bottom D and dos to know do describe the helmet as a fun novelty keep sake item I think that's easy to I think we don't wear the helmet on air it says and also also don't suggest the helmet could be used on the field during a real game well sorry about it I'm sending this to every youth league in the [ __ ] country naturally just in case just in case anybody was confused that this is not a game regulation hel thank you for the dos and don'ts that was very it's not are you sure JT trying to guard put one on you want to find out find put this on you want to find out dude don't put the helmet on it's like what the [ __ ] why'd you send me one H I'm going to put the helmet sorry it's cool this is great for Direct TV though we are incredibly pumped about it and uh I would like to see who ends up winning one of these helmets because you see it it's hard not to just be like what that is awesome so sweet this a good idea George speaking a good idea no problem how are you doing brother the idea is Flowing how's the team feel cuz you know uh we' a lot of drama being chatted about your team outside do you guys hear it inside or no how's that all good uh you know what it's hard to hear a lot of drama when you're in the middle of training camp you're just waking up and you're practicing you're in meetings all day then you go home and you just go to sleep so there's not really a lot of time to hear the drama on the outside noise um but like for us as a 49ers like I know that the guys are going through contract negoti they're doing what they think is best for them and we all support them in that and as players we're just going to show up there we're going to practice every single day and just see what we can get out of the guys that are practicing and so you know I got ask you know like how tough is it that Trent Williams isn't there and well yeah he's a Hall of Fame first bout guy like and he's going to play really good football for a long time but I'm getting incredible reps with our backup left tackle Jaylen Moore that I wouldn't get otherwise and you know sudden if Trent's not playing I have no idea what's GNA happen but I'm getting these valuable reps with Jaylen and when Trent Williams shows up he's a neverly just gonna be amazing again and I'm not going to really need that much practice with him because he's just better than everybody else okay so let's talk about when he shows back up because it feels like the ners have had a little bit of this over the last couple years with contracts and obviously Superstars and they've always been able to work it I don't think people fully understand that when Trent Williams comes back in that locker room when it gets figured out hey let's go now we move forward right isn't that kind of how the entire locker room feels about everybody especially IU or anybody else oh yeah no like as an NFL football player like not everything's guaranteed you know it's the NFL it's not for long so like you want everyone to take advantage of the situation they're in to make as much money as they possibly can and you know do what they've dreamt about since they were kids and make money for their families and so know we all we all have their backs and we understand the position that they're in so it there's no bad but like that so whenever they show up whenever whatever happens happens uh it's pretty seamless you're just right back into the flow of things go ahead AJ George how's uh this training camp been compared to others in the past we've heard multiple players throughout the league kind of say that this was kind of a tougher training camp than they may have had there might be more like a sense of urgency for some teams has that uh been the case for you guys um you know I think coach fanan does a really good job about the way we've uh scheduled our practices and you know the way that like you know we get guys ramped up to go out there and play football how we do reps and stuff like that coach Shanahan does a great great job of putting us in really like you know do or die moments uh situational football and just like having those learning experiences really good I I do feel like our team has a great sense of urgency you know it's a little bit different when you're missing you know a couple pieces out there like you kind of you've kind of noticed that but what's ni you get to see other guys take advantage of those opportunities and you know like a guy like Chris Conley's played really well for us at X this year without auk being there um you know our offive line you know there's a lot of moving pieces for but just kind of fun to see guys out there and at the end of the day you have Brock pie throwing to you know Meo on the defense you said got Fred and Nick Bose is still pretty decent at football I'm pretty sure I think he has like a 100 sacks and that's nothing against our offensive line that's just how good he is and so we have a sense of urgency and we're practicing hard and it was a tough training camp but you know yesterday was a super high day for us and I think our offense came out on top which was kind of fun to see yeah I love to have a little a dub over the other side uh of the roster in training camp cuz if one side's dominating a bit boy it does get loud in meetings and cafeteria and everything like that shout out to the offense shout out to the offense thank you hey no congratulations to you guys without Trent and auk you know that that is you guys should be rubbing that in their face as well potentially you guys see what the [ __ ] going on uh you talked about uh Bosa still being great at football and being incredibly jocked which he is there's another guy too that allegedly go ahead con man yeah George has Brock P been getting drug tested cuz it seems like he on Peds there's some before and after photos in this offseason he looks incredibly jacked now what did he do and did you just kind of give him your playbook like hey you got to do arms for 30 reps every single day you know actually I think the most impressive thing with Brock right now is like he's like turning into a mini mcaffrey Bosa and just has huge quads and it's just like I'm a tall and lint like I'm skinny guy so like I just don't get that like I have nice quads but they're not like Bosa which is I'm a little jealous but it is what it is but py just he fits in that category really well and uh yeah you know he looks a lot better uh like just bigger faster stronger which is nice to see and it just looks more mature and Pat it's hard to give a like a thoughtful answer every time I look at the screen and I face I agree yeah it's really tough right now but you look incredible don't D don't support the business brother right here B maybe that's why you weren't supposed to wear it because I would get distracted okay they said we know George better than you do M okay you put that helmet on you're not going to get [ __ ] out of him but you just gave a great answer about Brock pie there how about mentally you know how about around the building and I know like being a Young quarterback is tough because you're being asked to basically be the CEO of a professional operation now I know Shanahan is obviously the offensive leader and you got Stars everywhere but as a quarterback there's going to be expectations of you chirping and talking and motivating and everything like that how was he done with that have you seen any growth other than just his biceps and his quads have you seen any growth behind the scenes that maybe we don't get to I think one of the biggest things I've noticed um like you can give like the you know the professional answer and say you know he comes in work every single day he's the same guy he's consistent but what I've really liked about Brock ever since he got into the Huddle his rookie season he's a guy that like he speaks with confidence and when you're a quarterback with confidence like the players like everyone looks at you you have everyone's attention 247 and there's no BS behind it like it's just who he he he truly is and one thing I really I think noticed just this offseason because it was his first health offseason he got to do all of OTAs he had to go away take some time off and come back for training camp is I think he just has a a new confidence in the offense and like he's kind of taking the Reigns on it I think him and Kyle have like discussed about what his favorite things are and those are the things we try to get better at so then when he's at his most confident he's getting guys like me Deo mcaffrey juice jwan Jennings the football you know and third downs and third and Longs so I think he's just taking control of the offense it's fun to see that yeah we're big Brock py supporters over here love them we have Brock parties yeah all the time he's so good at the football he is so good at the football he is good at the football hey I have a question for you Pat how was um Ireland buddy it was awesome it looked it looked like a riot it was it was quite a runaway a little bit of a Gong Show I would recommend it 10 out of 10 I would I I don't know if I can survive another trip and uh to to Dublin but we got about a year to prepare I don't think I'm going to drink until then but buddy it was awesome I mean just like wow I don't know what everybody's thoughts are on like should Dublin be a place that I travel to throughout my life you should you absolutely should it is a blast it's like a you know hardworking town they they are made they will love American football that town and that place will continue to grow their love for American football so I think there's going to be more opportunities for it but yeah a little bit of a Gong Show there George you know cuz the people in the pub couldn't hear us the PA wasn't working so i' like so I all those people could not hear us they were there and we were sitting what 10 ft away from them pretty much so I decided early that I'm just you know what I'm going to chug 10 of these things for the the show for the boys here you know the Irish Lads that are in the bar that's not the great decision you know cuz that led to about 15 more and then there was shots of whiskey and you know it was a long night but they took care of me which I'm very grateful for and we got to experience Dublin in a way with Sheamus that I don't think anybody ever it was a dream George it was a [ __ ] dream legit dude Sheamus there too is just so sick that is so fun for you guys I went to Dublin I think like two years ago for a wedding Alex Mack you know the former center for the Falcons and then uh he was with us for a year and I we got in and like at 10: a.m. me and uh Claire went to get breakfast and two guys actually were just drinking Guinness I was like well I guess it's uh I guess I'll have a beer you sounds like a good idea that's there were some people that didn't love the show I'm like what the [ __ ] you want me to do come on I literally these people can't hear us either imagine what that's going to become if we're not engaging with them at all it's like when in Rome is a statement for a long time we literally in the place we were in a pub in Dublin with so many good lads many so many good so many so many good lads speaking of lads younger Lads debuts got a question for you George yeah George you've been around for a while I think going to year eight and obviously one of the best tight ends in the game a lot of great tight ends coming out of hawkey as well then starting tight end you do you find it that uh a lot of young guys reach out to you now um I would say yes or no I've had a lot of college guys uh hit me up and like High School uh guys too just like asking for drills and stuff that I think would help them out and I try to respond to as many as I possibly can but you know I've worked with a couple college guys in the off season and then definitely with the um like the younger NFL guys we had a bunch of first and second year guys there uh this year and whether they were like on active last year or even practice squad trying to earn their spot onto an active roster um they ask a lot of questions I mean like how often do you get a like Greg Olson Travis Kelsey Evan Ingram in a room and be able to ask them questions about what they did when they were and like what they like what what they could learn from them and how could they get a little bit better as a rookie or a second year guy so I think it's just like it's invaluable information at the same time too like after every preseason game I got to go up and I got to see all the tight ends that were at tight endu so that was pretty fun for me as well yeah holy cow what was that everything all right dude you look fantastic oh okay racist [ __ ] assell appreciate that wow is your your your your dome's a little different color though the rest maybe well know hey should hey George takeing easy B we don't see that stuff it's a blurry it's blurry I can't see it's not it's the connection oh you're in Ireland too yeah I should be streaming on Direct TV is what I should be doing he bring it back nothing on the roof way to bring it back okay so uh what's your guys schedule right now uh you got four days off I guess this weekend I guess that's NFL mandated what is your schedule going into next week um let's see Friday night I'm going to hang out uh probably with my wife maybe play a couple video games shout out CLA um shout out Claire and then Saturday night we have a players party at coach Shanahan's house which he throws every single year which is a good time is that the one where he threw the football across the thing I think that was a different one no that that was just him hanging out in San Diego one offseason with John Lynch when he like threw a football into like a pizza oven or something like that yeah on the other side of the street or whatever Joe Staley he just yeah yeah that was with Joe Staley Legend what game what game's you playing I like that good question uh you know what's crazy I just got into Elden ring okay I'm gonna get into that it's gonna there my clire is not gonna be happy about the time I spend on that one um what is this is this like what is Elden ring it's like uh uh what's it like Brandy Orton just said he's he said he's playing hours 600 hours 600 hours this is how long he's played that yeah he talking to Cody rhods with the wheat Le vodka that's a great conversation aw and R Orton obviously living legend so is Cody but what is it is it like a uh dungeons in dragons type game what type of game is it sure kind of like that yeah kind of a Mythic thing you beat a bunch of bosses you can customize your person yeah here you go spells fighting I'm 30 I'm 30 minutes into it so I can't give you a great description of it do you stink these of games you're very good at these types of games um I'm pretty good at these games I haven't played an RPG in a while um but I I'll get back into it that was a big Mass Effect guy uh which is pretty similar to it but uh that and I play a lot of Rocket League oh that's the soccer with the cars mhm much fun always been a gamer yeah no like uh yeah Halo 3 is my entire identity in middle school and high school well let's talk about college a little bit Tai has a question for you yeah George I'm sure you've seen the NCAA is completely [ __ ] blackballing coach fence uh suspending him for the first game we all know he didn't do anything wrong okay but they'll slap on they'll slap him on the wrist give him this recruiting violation um it's [ __ ] you don't need to comment on it I know you agree with me most fans do but I don't know if you've looked at our schedule this year um I'm kind of feeling a home playoff game you know in the first inaugural 12 team playoff what are uh your expectations for Iowa this year you got to get the quarterback figured out obviously but uh beyond that what do you think you guys do you got that transfer from Michigan a couple years ago that uh Kirk cheated to get yeah exactly and we probably won't be going back to the portal anytime soon Tim Lester first first I'll say free Kirk fre KK fre KK yep Kirk's dogs free Kirk um besides that I would say you know what you know the defense is going to play at an incredibly high level you know you have the top two special teams in the in the country not number two with Lavar Woods as the Special Teams coordinator and I just think if the offense is can just score 10 to 14 points a game the defense the defense is going to score seven or the Special Teams is and so like if you that's an average of 21 points per game and you're going to win a lot of football games doing that so let's just win the games that we're supposed to upset one or two guys and then let k get really loud like yep yep I like all those are we at Ohio State at Ohio State that'll be fun against what what's the date on that October 12th which is a stacked college football card that is so sick no it's at okay okay it's at home uh there you got home Northwestern home Wisconsin you're at UCLA uh you're at Maryland you're home against Nebraska on senior day which who knows what rules team's going to look like then legitimately we we we have no idea all I know is that Iowa vers Nebraska it's George kill vers Will Compton and my record's pretty good tell him George Will Compton just interviewed pton I believe they and he so cool he got pton to do though I love will I open my phone and I see Will Compton's face I'm like it's gonna be a good day gonna be a great day for the boys hey same with you man you bring great Vibes all the time that's a massive piece I think of your success did you enjoy the receiver documentary think did you enjoy that last year I really did uh you know it was actually funny I was a really hard no when they first asked me and then it was actually Claire convinced me she was like first like we watched a couple episodes of the quarterbacks and they did a great job like just showing behind the scenes of those guys and then she was like hey this is something that you're going to be able to show your kids in like 10 years and it's like a very unique experience so like thinking like that I was like yeah this will be really fun and the whole process was awesome NFL films at the whole thing we got a girl with the same like video crew every single time so you get like you get to build a relationship with the film crew and he really wasn't that invasive like they only came to your house if you asked them like hey they're like hey can we shoot something this week be like no they're be like okay sounds good we'll ask you again next week like they were very they worked with us in every way possible it was fun to watch you and Claire and your family and everything learn about you and I think that was Payton's big pitch whenever he did quarterback the first time obviously with Omaha and he asked Patrick Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid both said pton you would never do this ever like this why are you asking and then pton gave a story about how you know his kids Ley and Mar like they don't know they don't get to see what it looked like what one day of my life what work looked like how people talked how I talked how we want about our business he was like so I do wish actually I would have been able to do something like this you have it forever and I think you looked incredibly cool and good and it seemed like your teammates love you and that continues every single off season this past off season you did something special down there in Nashville go ahead yeah George before the uh Titans preseason game I saw that you had all the boys over the house to uh work out first off good for you you've done very well uh but was this was this mandatory did everyone have to uh come to the barn and work out in the field or how how cool was this how' this work out oh man another thing that was my wife's idea she goes hey you guys are coming to Nashville um because I they they tell this they tell you if you're not going to play in the preseason game and if we're not playing in a preseason game they always require a workout and like we either go to a local college or a local high school and we're like What well let's just go out to our place so my dad being the lawyer he is he worked up a little deal a little a little thing with the Niners signed a waiver he's good at waivers and had all the boys out for like a two-hour workout and was all the guys who didn't play so it was a really fun experience you know it's a place I take a lot of pride in I spent a lot of time in there you know basically five days a week minimum uh all offseason just working with like all my friends and so the fact I get to bring my teammates out here some guys have been teammates with for a long time and just kind of show them how I do things have them on the property uh Chef made them like we had barbecue pulled pork Barbe chicken sandwiches super tasty so the boys were well fed and uh just an overall great experience I just I like showing guys what you know a little bit of land looks like as opposed to living in a big city yeah and we were supposed to swing by and experienc a cold tub you have a full setup over there you have like a yeah I got Spa I have a I have a sauna a couple ice tubs a hot tub you know every day for the guys you know we we do laundry we do you know we got tub shorts we got towels AJ come on down and get in the sauna with your boy do you do loops you got loot you gotes I'm we got mesh bags okay smart I was like great setup the loops kind of an in a situation at TST at TST the soccer tournament we did this past summer uh they were a loop system for your uniform only in the tournament would clean it so like you put the jersey shorts socks on a loop we will wash it we will get it to you before your next game I was like that was very nice of them to be able to do that we had some boys on our team the arena boys that hadn't done laundry in a while you know so that that Loop became well I need next Tuesday shirt actually and also some underwear and uh maybe a pair of Jorts in this thing so Some Loops were packed you know completed the Brit they to tst's credit they they said [ __ ] enough they took they opened that not doing this we're not doing this it was quite awesome yeah so I've always been a bad guy myself the loops though very very efficient speaking of Nashville Good Times DB but's got a question for you yeah how was it celebrating with uh Bryson D Shambo after he won US Open down there in Nashville dude that was just a wild experience we had uh it was the third day of Titan you and all it is we we were like at the vanderville for like two hours doing like a little pass Pro stuff and then uh then we had this big pool party We R out a cool house and we had a couple like food trucks and stuff like that we're playing drinking games in the pool they had a tripping green so like guys are you know chipping and then all of a sudden they're like hey uh Liv Liv is here and the The Bryson is GNA come over with the trophy and I was like H really that's cool and so he just showed up he was he was such a cool guy um he passed around the trophy to like I don't think he expected 40 people to chug beer out of the trophy but it went around the Bas coffee that was apple juice it wasn't beer remember we had coffee on Friday in Dublin you were drinking apple juice there it's all good yeah it was it was Bud Light and it goes all the way around and my mom even got it she goes I'm doing this too my mom she turned 65 in two weeks and she had she enjoyed herself as well I was like Mom good for you way to be an absolute stallion hey Nashville's awesome huh oh my gosh I love that place man I I can't I'm like I'm looking forward to the point of my career uh where I get a live in Nashville for the entire year but till the wheels fall off baby dude and it feels like it's going to be forever because how you take care of yourself and how good a shape you are and it feels like thank you you're you're in your Prime for what the last six years it feels like and it's no stopping you feel strong body feel good are you same playing weight and everything that you were last year and years in the past yeah you know at the end of the last season because of my injuries I got down to like 214 and I got back up to 24 42 before the season started I was pretty pumped about that oh yeah I saw like a graph like a head a 40 lb swing or something was like the meme that that's real that actually happened yeah that happened um I lit I because I had like surgery had a couple like I couldn't do any workouts and when I don't work out I lose weight very fast and so I was like 214 and my wife looks at me she goes are you okay I'm like no I'm not okay feel Louise woman hold on so protein shakes like d Shambo we're doing protein shakes forced eating oh yeah you are yeah full time oh yeah all the time protein shakes as much food as I possibly can and as much lifting as I possibly can to just get the body back to what it was and feeling great now which is really fun it feels good going into sh we're I'm like 10 days away from playing a football game yeah real one that actually matters 1 yeah Monday night Monday night at Jets oh yeah I forgot Jets coming to town Monday night that's opener for Monday Night Football right yep it's going to be jet it'll be really fun Unbelievable mean Thursday Kansas City Baltimore Friday Green Bay Philly Saturday going to be a stacked college football lineup cuz that's what college football is every week this year every week stacked and then opening Sunday and then Jets Niner mhm let's go George come on now's back baby yes it is and you can get in a cool hat uh helmet uh a footballed helmet how why do you think they said Don't wear they said that so I do wear said Put it on I think they they got you think they played me there yeah they did they obviously people would think you can wear that the game it's like hand is sweet is that new that hand yeah this is um uh blue tune blue eyes white dragon trying to show you that from Yu-Gi-Oh new right that's new yeah I just got this last oh my God I'm not bad I'm B at the camera there we go bro two wedding rings too really cool uh I got married twice to Claire that's nice that was beautiful was it was you had a gold one and a diamond one literally matches with everything and then that hand tat is sweet sweet look awesome you can't not I like good hand TS see this is this is Hobbs from Calvin and Hobbs he cudley yeah he is catches footballs throws I know hey I had one more question for you Pat are you all really in the WWE game yeah yeah that is so sick thank you thank you we were pumped up about it not all wrestling fans are as pumped as you were are you kidding me like what a fun opportunity for you guys cuz you put like hey you're there you put the hours in you're there all the time and for you to get all the Boys in too like have you have you and AJ like fought yet in the ring uh sure yeah certainly yeah I'm a big gamer in the video game in the video game you guys have fought each other yeah I won obviously and AJ tried this flying chin thing on me but I super kicked it out of nowhere yeah it was a good time I'm not a gamer and neither is AJ so it might have been the worst match in the history of WWE 2K but it's an honor to be in there have you done have you made have you made the toxic table Champs yet George maybe take some time and make the toxic table Champs out there I need to I need to make the time you would be and I know you can't cuz you're playing football until the wheels fall off but like you know it you were built to be a WWE Superstar you you you know personality your love of the business your ability to kind of physically keep up you would have you would have been a phenomenal WWE Superstar if you did it full-time and I can't wait to see the time in which you are able to kind of dive into it a little bit legit I'm I'm looking forward to that and I've already discussed building an extra little indoor fac so I can build a wrestling ring with my wife so we'll get there at some point okay don't tell the don't don't tell the Niners that yeah we won't we'll dump that we'll dump that we'll dump that cour yeah cut that that's what I used to say in the receiver when I knew I was miked up and I said something I was like just cut that don't The Cutting Room did you see it before it was released did you know what was going out before everybody else or no uh they sent us like highlights of the things that we like were looking at and stuff like that but no it was it was a lot of it was a live reaction all right well let's get out of here shall we yep be a friend tell a friend something nice it might change their life we're in this thing together team on me come on George team on three George anything to say to the team hey you guys have a wonderful day be your best self and destroy the rest of the week team on three 1 two three [Music] goodbye for