Diego Pavia Goes Undrafted, and More NFL Draft Takeaways, Plus Gambling Addiction in CFB
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The episode of "Bring Your Tailgate" begins with a heartfelt acknowledgment of host Tate Frazier’s migraine, setting a tone of resilience and camaraderie as the team chooses to continue the show with humor and support. A major segment features a lively debate on whether Hakeem Olajuwon or Nikola Jokić is the greater all-time player, with the group ultimately favoring Olajuwon due to his elite defensive presence, rebounding, and ability to lead a championship team with minimal help. The discussion shifts to the 2026 NFL draft, where Joel passionately defends Diego Pavia, a quarterback who went undrafted despite a legendary college career, including 10 win seasons and multiple accolades. Joel argues that Pavia embodies the underdog spirit college fans love and believes he deserves Hall of Fame recognition. He also points out that Pavia’s signing with the Ravens signals a strong future, despite physical and personality challenges. The segment includes jokes about Ty Simpson being dubbed “Big Daddy” by fans, a draft move that draws criticism but also praise for the Rams’ boldness. The hosts also address personal topics, including a humorous exchange about text messaging, and a deep dive into the fallout of Matthew Stafford not communicating with Ty Simpson after the draft, prompting a playful discussion about relationship dynamics and trust. The episode concludes with a lighthearted reflection on Bill Belichick’s continued public presence and a humorous confusion over the term “boutine model,” underscoring the show’s blend of sports analysis, personal stories, and inside jokes.
[MUSIC] >> Welcome to Bring Your Tailgate. I'm your host, Tate Frazier. It's the Wednesday edition of the show. As you know, we got a lot to get to in an FL draft. We're going to break it all down. But first and foremost, let's say it was up to our guys, Van Lathan and Studio. What's up, Van? >> You know how we do it? >> Yeah. >> And we need to raise the roof spiritually and energetically for our brother, Tate today, who actually has a migraine. >> Yes he does. >> He got a migraine. I learned that when I jumped on, he's playing hurt, man. >> He doesn't feel good. >> Yeah, working right now. You mentioned Scotty Pippin, he's done it before. You know, a lot of people have played through migraines before, you know. So this is a show where we're going to fight through it. And we're going to have fun. And I feel like laughing might be good for the migraine. And so that's the joy and the hope. And the reason that this is possible is because we got Joel Anderson, also in the TCU sweatshirt, Joel, you're going to make me laugh off of him better. >> I was up, man, yet man, you said Scotty Pippin. And it's just crazy that that's the guy you went to. Because Van had given you the example of surreal Davis playing through a migraine. Scotty, Game 7, Eastern Conference Finals 1990 versus Detroit Pistons. That was the last playoff series that Michael Jordan in the Bulls law. >> Well, no, because they lost in 1995 to their Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals as well. >> That was when Jordan came back, wearing 45 chains, just went through him. >> Yeah, it counts, it counts, it counts, it counts. >> He could have got his ass down in the finals, about a rocket just like the magic did though. I'll tell you that. >> Actually, I'll be honest with you, I'm not so sure that a healthy Bulls team wouldn't have lost. Like when I say a healthy Bulls team, I mean like they weren't healthy. But like a Bulls team, that Bulls team, with Michael having played a full season. And even in his prime wouldn't have lost on the Rockets. Because when they were playing a Rockets during a regular season in those two years, the Rockets were given the Bulls the motherfucking business. It might have been a bad matchup. >> Yeah, I think it was a bad matchup for him. And I mean, that's what the Rockets believe. And I'm trying to remember, I feel like Robert Orri said that he played with everybody. And he said something about one of the former Bulls players from that time. I said, we had nothing for dream, that was a bad matchup for us. So I really think they would have thumped their ass if they had that shot. >> Okay, a thump in ass, it sounds like two to seven. So we don't do what the whole Bulls say. >> Joel, Joel, it's fine, it's fine, Joel, it's just accepted joke. Okay, hold on for a second. Before we get into the show, cuz I'm a derail to show in several different ways. That team did not have Dennis Robman. We've been interested in to see if a Dennis Robman Bulls team in '96, whatever, how they would have stacked up that team in '95, did not have Dennis Robman. This Robman wasn't there yet. And I think the Horge Grant was already gone, so. But this is a question. Okay, is Hakima Lajuan better all-time, greater all-time than Nikola Yokich? >> Yes. >> No question. >> I say yes, still. >> Yeah, maybe not by the end of Yokich's career, possibly, but for right now, I think the Lajuan's ahead of him. >> What do you think, Farhan? >> I don't think it's that close. Honestly, don't, honestly, don't think it's that close. It's, Yokich is skilled in all the ways, but Yokich is phenomenal. Let me do all this, I work for the ringer. >> I got a lot of them. >> Yes, okay, so I have to give all the superlatives by the Yokich. He sees the court, like Magic, Bird, Fluckin, Nash, Junior. He shoots it like Steph Curry, Slash, Mother Fluckin, Dirt, Clay Thompson, who shoots it, everything, apparently. >> Wow. >> Like Yokich is the greatest that's ever lived. He is a great cook. Yokich is a great statesman. Yokich is able to do math. And he's a scientific mind. All of these things are true of Yokich. However, with the Kimmel-Lijuan, number one, he took a team with no other Hall of Famers on it to a championship, too, out of the 50. So, him and Yokich both did that. But he was a dog also on a defensive side. The one thing that Yokich does better than the Kimmel-Lijuan is pass the ball. If we're talking about, like, and at their peak when we're, they're rebounding, but defense, scoring for sure. I like, to me, I don't know. Yokich is a pretty fucking amazing score as well. I don't think that Yokich has gotten to where he Kimmel-Lijuan is quite yet. I don't think that he has, right? I think that there's a gap there. >> Well, yeah, especially if you consider defense, what dream are you talking about maybe one of the, I mean, some people argue the best defensive big man of all time, right? Like, he leads the career leader in blocks. He, I think he's the only center that's top 10 in steals. Yeah, like it's something crazy like that. I watched him lock up so many big dudes and defend the rim back in his day. I mean, again, a lot of people just think basketball is scoring and shit. And that's great. And Yokich is obviously amazing at that. He's one of the best scores that has ever existed, blah, blah, blah, blah. But if defense matters in basketball, then to Vance Point is not fucking close. So I'll tell you this, we talk defensively. How, do you know how many blocks per game dream average in 1989? >> Yes, yes, yes, three point five. >> Four point six blocks a game. >> Yeah, it's crazy. >> 24, 14 and motherfucking five basically. Four point six blocks a game with two steals a game. Then he gets up to the point to where you never average more than the 27.8 points of game in the season. So, you know, obviously, you've seen Yokich score more than that. But I think the last possession is back then. >> Yeah, the last possession is a whole nine. Like, I personally think that Hakeem, Hakeem, a large one in his combination of skills is the best thing I've ever seen when he was at his peak. >> If he's the best. >> And if Hakeem played in this era, he would be stepping back and taking those threes. Like he took a lot of long twos because that's what you did back then, right? But he would have had the range. He had his shooting stroke was true. I think it was always like 75 anywhere between 75 and 80% from the free throw line. So, he was a good shooter. So, yeah, he would have been able to hit from three to a few played in this era. So, yeah, I don't know. >> Also, some of the best footwork we've ever seen in the post. >> I'm like Kobe had to pay respect. >> Yeah, Kobe had to pay respect, you know, saying all of them. >> So, Yokich score play. >> Gunnison, who was it recently, did Wimby go? Is somebody recently- >> Yeah, Wimby. >> Wimby feels like every single group that has, there's like a certain group of guys that like, you know, or like I got to go work with Elijah Wynne, learn how to play out of the post, learn mid-posts, low-posts, high-posts, all that sort of stuff. >> Yeah, it's the indication that you took off season series. Like I feel like it's like the video with Hakeem. They're like, oh yeah, he worked out hard this summer. >> LeBron worked out with him after 2011. >> Yeah, I see. >> Do I have a worked out with him? Did nothing. Okay. >> I'm not the white man. >> Great, great Hall of Fame player. >> Yeah, incredible player. >> Yeah. >> One more thing we want to shout out before we get into our reactions. We're going to talk NFL drafts, as I said. But we're going to be all out in LA coming up this week. Joel's flying out on Friday, Billy Gil flying out on Friday. >> Yeah, man. >> We've got some fun stuff happening this weekend. Shout out to UCLA. Sounds like we've got some things in the work potentially. Spring game coming up this weekend. So, a lot of happening. >> Crazy, you know, because I know that I'm leaving in a few days. But it just never occurred to me that all that's happening this weekend. You guys kept saying this weekend, this weekend, what the fuck you talking was happening this weekend? I was like, oh shit, I'm actually going to be in LA, man. >> Let's go. >> Oh, on Monday, you guys can come to my stand-up set. >> Really? >> Monday night, I'm doing stand-up at Netflix as a joke on Monday night. You guys got to come to my stand-up set. >> Yeah, you know what, I have this, because I was going to mention that. Because yeah, I was going to see if you were going to invite us tonight. >> Yeah, I was going to say, did you invite Jolda to come on stage with you? I think that's the big thing. >> No, man, I'm not tacit with Jolda, I don't want to do that, though. >> No, we're going to go there, we're going to support. >> Yeah, we should definitely say I was going to say we should just do a telekate family dinner, man. Because I want to be Riley, I want to be Coleca. You know what I'm saying, does everybody come out and confab? You know, I was thinking we might do something like that, you know? >> Yeah, nobody's committed. This is the LA shit that I'm feeling right here. Yeah, I'm not going to, it'll be just like, yeah, man, we hang out all the time. Cam Johnson was there, Tommy, all the y'all going to bring that shit up again. I don't feel like it's going to happen, but that's okay. >> I'm into it, I love it. >> We're going to have a nice dinner, we're going to have a nice time. >> We'll go to Netflix as a joke, and then we'll just play it by your. >> Monday night's happening, Saturday is happening, Friday night you get in. You and Billy are staying at the same hotel. >> Same hotel. >> Speaking of Billy, Van, I don't know if you've noticed this, but in our text, we had the text pros, obviously, where we all text and have a great time. But we also have a few other chains out there. Joel has been sending messages, I think, to the wrong chain. He's been sending it to you and our boss, Bill Simmons, as opposed to Billy Gill. So he's been cutting out Billy Gill, asking questions and not sending it to Billy, but instead sending it to Bill and Billy, you seem a little upset about this. >> I mean, from Joel of all people, who's accusing people of having text chains behind their back, I'm kind of wondering what's up here. >> That wasn't behind your back, but it is funny, cuz I mean, Bill just has no craze, I'm not answering that shit at all. I have no idea.
And he was like, I don't, I don't talk to Joel in my off time, uh, so, but because I asked Bill, uh, on that thread, I was like, yo, man, what's your favorite LSU quarterback all time? Tell you, who's your favorite LSU quarterback all time? And I said, Billy, feel free to chime in with whoever the, the, the great FIU quarterback is. And we didn't get a response. And I was just thinking I was Billy doing this. He, so busy can't respond, but it turned out it was to Bill. It would have been great if Bill answered his favorite FIU quarterback. Yeah, yeah. He could have gone holy cross. I thought about following up and being like, yo, what's up? Bill, Bill doesn't really respond to my text and I, I don't know, here's the thing. He was on the show last week, Joel, he responded, no, I'm not going to, I want to see him. You know what's funny? It's just like, I don't think my funny is his funny. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think I make you laugh. Do you mean by this? He never follows up on my text. That's what I mean. He's like, I'll say something and it'll be kind of just sit there and I'm like, damn, was it? Yeah, I swear to God, I'll be like, that must have not been funny or it didn't, Bill didn't think it was funny. So what you're saying is you say something, Bill doesn't laugh or respond and then you question yourself. Yup. You know, my therapist said something. What did he say? What did she say? It was something about rejection sensitivity. This was my therapist said that something that I need to be aware of in particular. So I'm working on it, you know, rejection sensitivity stuff. It is tough. But yeah, I just wanted to bring that up because I think Billy felt a type of way about that. Yeah. It sounds like it was on accident. So we'll let it slide, you know. Billy, I look, man, I'm excited to see Billy, man, we stand at the same hotel. We both coming from the East Coast to be out there, LA, man, you know, we should, I should, you know, we hop in a cab and just go do something, you know, I'm Hollywood. We're going to be standing in the Hollywood area, man, don't tell me where you're staying. Yeah. Oh, my bad. Hotel is in Hollywood. Let's get him out. Oh, great. Oh, great. Okay. They're not going to guess. So. All right. So did anyone else since I'm not part of this like tax thread? Did anyone else tell you their favorite quarterback or does it? They should have. No one answered you. Even man, even man responded. Yeah. Even. Yeah. Can you tell us your favorite F.I.U quarterback, Billy? I like James Morgan. Yeah. James Morgan guy. West Carol. Who's like the guy is it like one of the big games, a bowl game, stuff like that, you know? Okay. Yeah. James Morgan. I'm looking him up. I don't know, Jack. He played for the Montreal aloe wex, man. He must not beat up. Yeah. Oh, look at his God. This nigga white. Shit. I mean, he looked like a fucking vampire in Simmons, like look at this motherfucker. Yeah. Now you just do a right now, if you at home, shout out to all of the gamers. Look up, do James Morgan and 10 like and look at James Morgan, this motherfucker is white as a motherfucker. Oh, yeah. God. He would have been in YPD Cup in in exactly like James is kind of walk over with his nice stick and tap on your witness. That tap, what you guys, you guys, we guys up to you guys, you guys, you guys supposed to be here. Turn around. Move around, guys. Listen. No loitering. Keep, keep walking. Keep walking. James. What the? James. That's a new nickname James. Keep walking. Morgan. Hey, Pete. The might be here. James man. I can never hate him for that. Oh. Yeah. Okay. I'll still play the CFL. You got drafted by the jets. Oh, okay. Yeah. So it looks like, it looks like he played the USFL James bounced around for a little bit. He's a transfer. He came from Bowling Grand. I think you might have said that. But he has some decent numbers, particularly in 2018, 26 TD seven interceptions through for 2700 yards. So a little bit of a fall off in 19, but but James look like, oh, shit, Joe Morgan also played basketball when a state championship. What? And he also, he also was a part of the four by 400 meter relay. Get the fuck out of here. Ash. What? Ash. Ash. What? Ash. What? Ash. What? Ash. What? Ash. What? Ash. What? What? What? for one day and being admitted to the cheerleading program before being called by the police and charged with identity step. What the fuck is going on? She was 33 and was in 10th grade. She was very amazing for 33. Did they talk to she was that young? You know, say like that. What was she doing? Hey, man. Okay. This is the list of things that they found that she was. She had when she went to court. By polar to disorder post traumatic stress disorder borderline personality disorder and void in personality disorder. Paranoid personality disorder. She had a rough time. They made a lifetime movie about her, man. I'm looking at it right now with constant rejection sense. That's not sensitivity or anything or no. No, she didn't have rejection sense to she should look into it. I think it's more of a new thing. Nobody has thought about this. Nobody thought about it. It's like a new thing. You know what I'm saying? Like it's not a comment. I've been seeing therapists, you know, 15, 20 years, you know what I'm saying? And nobody has ever brought up rejection sensitivity. And when my therapist said it, I was like, God damn, that makes so much sense. That was a breakthrough. It was a breakthrough. I just saw my I saw my life when she said that. So I gotta say, man, we got to investigate what's going on up in Ashwabin on high. The school again, a national, we'll start and then we'll move from there. After a parent who thought the student dressed as a stormtrooper from Star Wars, the middle fourth day was a threat to the school. They evacuated the whole fucking Ashwabin on high school because the student came dressed up as a stormtrooper. And they bought middle school at a community center. We're also places to walk out. Oh, man. Ashwabin on is going nuts. Why? And Stucker played at Ashwabin on high school. You remember Aaron Stucker? Remember him. They're running back. I remember him. Yeah. Shout out to Ashwabin on. He played for the Saints. Play for the Saints, man. He moved around. Yeah, let's raise the roof. Yeah. Ashwabin on. Raise the roof, Ashwabin on high. Wait, what's their mascot? Hold on real quick before I get to. Let me see. The Ashwabin on Jaguar is the Ashwabin on Jaguars. Okay, cool. Their rival is Bayport high school. Oh, here we go. Okay, no, it's fine. Bayport ain't got no lore. So we good. We can move on now. We have zero lore for Bayport. Yeah. That's right, 1900 people though. I'm surprised that many people go to a school in an area like that Bayport was constant. Well, they produced the best quarterback and FIU histories. Yeah, according to me. I mean, shit, man. I can't imagine there's a lot of competition for that. So you know, man, shout out James Morgan. Why? Why is it always shots with you? I know, Joel. That's this. Isn't not really. I mean, dog. Come on. You know, you're you have the it's the worst college football program by winning percentage. And the country. Ever. Yeah, there's not. There's not been a lot of greatness. That's not true. If I. Oh, look. That's what Indiana was now. Gators look it up. Let's see. Losing is. Man, this is going to take too long dog. I don't think we're going to be able to do it. Losing this college. Are you going to let me do it? Yeah, go ahead. We got another time here. Yeah, you're okay. Football won loss records. You got to go by percentage, though, player. Yeah. If you go by percentage. If you have the worst all time winning percentage in college football as of as of what. Charlotte is number two as of what as of what date. There's a hold on. Yeah. You got to be serious because it's changed this year. Oh, I did. Okay. Somebody's worse. Okay. It's well. This following the following data is current through week zero of the 2025 season. Yeah. So this year. So this year, so 2025. Okay, so who who's beating FIU now as a Kent State somebody now? I could be can't stay you're not taking shots at me You're taking shots of Willie Simmons. So if that's something that you want to do You faked What I said last week, I'm it's funny you being up Willie Simmons. Yeah, cuz we were talking about The most attractive coaches and college football, right, right and then I said I don't know how Willie Simmons came up I said at the Billy. I was like man Billy. You didn't recommend Willie Simmons I was like Willie Simmons is attractive enough to be in top five in that list Well, cuz I know you said because I said Sharon Moore. I said I said sure
And you guys scoffed at it and then just need a bunch of white coaches. And I said well, clearly there's a preference here. No, let me stop saying who I find attractive as a coach. That's right. You should have thrown Willie some of them there. Well, first of all, it's not self-hated at all. It just depends on what you like. You like a Willie Simmons. I'm looking at this and I'm bad looking brother at all. I'm like, when I'm saying is, it would be interesting to me that you are choosing to criticize FIU, knowing that he is the head coach and what he's up against historical as a black main. By me talking by me talking about FIU at the time. By the actually me talking about the challenges at that program elevates Willie's only been there one year, bro. He came from F from FIU. I think only the second black coach, the coach at HBCU, to ever move to the FBS. The other one was a white guy and Hopson or whatever. And what do you do? You tear down it up. No, I'm saying so I'm like Willie has a lot to do. If Willie can win six or seven games there, it's a miracle. He needs to get out as soon as he can. He won a seven game. He's going to have to do it again. He's going to have to do it one more time. - What a bet. You want a bet on, like, we really send this next year? If he has a new job or whatever? - I mean, there's rumors after one year that USF wanted him and then they went and they hired Brian Hartland, I'm sure you were in favor of that. - Actually, no, no. - No. - Probably bet you were. Actually, he could be called your parents, 'cause it might be a job opening, they're pretty soon. - So, hey, how do you feel about that now? Because you know, when you took a very strong stance on behalf of Diana, which I appreciate, 'cause that's the empathetic person you are. But now, I feel like everything, 'cause I kind of came out, you know, just kind of lukewarm in my feelings about Diana. And it's not like I just like the woman or anything like that. But everything that has come out since then made me feel like a fool. You know, for being like, damn, all right? Every other piece of information, I'm like, damn, man. You know? - So, there's a couple of things, I think. And we can get into make the salient later if you guys want to talk about it. - Oh, yeah, I would look. - There's a couple of things I think. The first thing, I think, is, I'm trying to think. I don't give a fuck. That's the first thing, you guys are like, like that's the first thing I think. I don't give a fuck. But the only thing that I am consistent about in this situation with Diana's thing is whatever type of scarlet letter she has to wear, then he should have to wear it too, okay? Now, I'll say this. - It happened. - Playlists. - Yeah, this is fun to playlists. - Playlists. - Okay, we get into the Twilight Zone with this whole fucking thing. - Yeah, that's crazy. - And I'm not even gonna lie. It seems like, like, one of my friends in the group chat, it seems like maybe his wife was actually the side chick. I don't know, it seems like the wife was a side. This is all getting pretty wild. But I just think that having one person be the laughing stock of this entire deal and somebody else kind of skate, I think it's an issue with it. But I don't give a fuck, woke me out. I don't give a fuck. Okay, I'm not a good person. I'm not a good person in relationships. I'm not trying to act like I'm like some kind of moral guy. I'm just saying this shit seems a little unfair, but whatever, fuck. - Well, I think Vabel has been, I think he's been embarrassed. I actually think he's been embarrassed to the point that, I'm not gonna say that he's not gonna be coaching the Patriots, but it's on the table in a way that I would have not, that I would have not thought at the beginning of this. I'm like, why would the Patriots find Mike Vabel? He's a very good coach. They seem to be turning around, you know, they just played in the Super Bowl, whatever. But now I'm like, man, does he really want to be in public anytime soon? Like does he just want to have to stand in front of people every day for, you know, nine months or whatever? I don't, I don't, that doesn't seem like, so I'm not gonna do a thousand, a situation, but maybe it's already, you know, we don't know what's going on there. Maybe that decision's already been made. - He skipped day three of the draft. That seems to be his punishment. He went to therapy, so that's it. - He's back already, too. - Yeah, he's gonna be back. They move quickly. I think it would be funny to see like what the treatment would be if he didn't make the Super Bowl last year, but making the Super Bowl makes a lot of things a lot easier. So is it also bad that like, I thought when this came out 'cause everyone's like, wow, he's not the same person like since this came out and it's like, we kind of had this double life going on for at least six years and he held everything together just by himself. Like I feel like he'll be able to kind of power through this situation, you know. - Probably true. I mean, he's seen, he seems certainly to have like double consciousness or whatever, right? But I just, would you, I mean, man, his life just went, I get, I hope it, for his family sake, I hope they already knew. I hope this wasn't all a revelation to them. 'Cause the thought that made it really difficult for me, I was like, what if you, when those pictures first came out and they were like, we have to tell everybody that's bullshit and nothing ever happened, blah, blah, blah. And so then they lied about it and then every other revelation came out and just like trying to explain to your partner, like yeah, I know I said I wasn't gonna lie about this. I'm gonna tell you the truth, but I actually coordinated a lie with her too. They just, it seems really, really, really tough. - As someone who's gonna travel this weekend, Joel, like what's your protocol on like the airport gift shop? 'Cause we saw them in the airport gift shop buying like sweaters and stuff seemingly for his wife. You get some, like if you forgot to get like a souvenir do you get your wife anything at the gift shop? - I always go to the airport gift shop. I get something with caffeine, okay? I get whatever the local newspaper is. All right. - For your wife? - I've been morphed for loved ones. - I've been morphed for like two hours. - Listen, I don't get anything from my wife. I don't get anything from my wife. 'Cause my wife wouldn't like anything like that, but you know what ends up happening? I get something from my kids. 'Cause I'm like damn, I didn't stop by a toy store or whatever the fuck down here. And so I'll pick up something at the gift shop. Like I got them a little hot wheel that had like a surfboard on it the last time I was in LA. - But wouldn't it be better to go to a store like in Los Angeles as opposed to the airport? The airport feels like a last resort? 'Cause that's what it always is. I never make trouble for it when I'm there. But this time maybe I will try. But man, I'm also just trying to get in my key as shit. Like I think they got enough stuff to be honest. - Wow. - We got enough stuff. - What if we get some stuff from UCLA, like a shirt? - Yeah. - Now that I fuck with, that's yeah. I would love it. - 'Cause then you don't spend any money. Just pass it down. - Oh yeah, I want some merch. You just gave it away, Tate. You just gave it away. Did you tell them about UCLA? - Yeah, I miss you at the top. - Yeah. - Yeah, I know. - Okay. - All right, well, I didn't know. I thought we were keeping it a secret. I just thought maybe my grain was hurting you, bro. - What'd you get? - My head is hurting. - What'd you get your wife for not to put your business out that you're anniversary? You got to anniversary. - Oh, I don't know. - anniversary. - That's tomorrow. - Well, I guess technically the day since people are gonna be watching this song Wednesday. - Yeah. - I don't wanna tell y'all. - Why not? - Well, I mean, there's two things. One, no. The second thing is that we have two children we don't have a lot of money. So we're not, you know, the gifts that we get each other. - No, bro. - It's also, Joe. - And listen. - Listen to this. - No, no, no, no. - I got listen. - No, no, no, no. - No, no, no, no. - Joe, I gotta say, bro, every time you get on there, you get the kinsian with your fucking description. But like, your situation is like, please, sir. But I have some homes. - This is all for shit, guys. Like, it is, I don't know why he does this. Like, you get, you, we have two kids. We don't have a lot of money. - Yeah, we don't. - We really don't. - Okay, guys. - This is true. - No, my bad thing was. - I don't get a big fan, man. I'm telling you. - Shut up the fuck up, bro. - I don't make sense. - Just go ahead and give it up. Like, what, did you get your kids like, you're gonna get her like a wooden horse? - No, it's not. - Did you call her? - It's also listening. You didn't give me a chance. - So also we're in the seas of a celebration in this house. Okay? My son's birthday was earlier this month, anniversary's of today, Wednesday. - 19 month celebration, remember that? - 19 month celebration on every 14th. Mother's Day is coming up the week after that. And then my wife's birthday is two weeks after that. And then my birthday is five days after that. - You don't get yourself anything. - Of course not. But we would be just handing out shit here all the time. - Wait, so you don't get gifts. You don't get gifts for these individual things? - Well, sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. Sometimes we say, hey, look, don't get me anything. We're gonna do this or don't do this. We got, we get this on the kid. Do you get your, okay, Billy, let me put you on the fucking table. - Okay. - All of y'all in relationship. You get your girl. That's something every time. That's so far. The birthday anniversary. What else would be a good Christmas? Yeah, you get a gift every single time. - Yeah, it sucks too, 'cause my wife's born in December. So I have December birthday than Christmas. My sister's birthday is the end of November. My mom's birthday is December. Brother-in-law is January 1st. [BLANK_AUDIO]
December's a brutal month for me. Y'all are getting each other gifts. Oh, yeah, brother-in-law. You get a nice look. Yeah, I get them like a dolphin tattoo. Oh, man. Yeah. You can go fuck yourself. That's how you know what I mean. You know, like, no fucking well. Y'all are nuts, man. That's how I know. That's how I know you really in some real tight-- not fuck, no. Get the fuck outta here. Like, no way. Man, like, like, no way. See, this is what you have to do. I'm glad I'm around like regular people, like you and Tate, Joe, I know, is a fellow traveler because-- OK. Don't do that. Don't. I'm a teller, man. I'm a teller. I'm a teller, man. Stop. I'm a teller, stop. Joe, but like, you-- so you get a gift for your brother-in-law on his birthday. Yeah. That's crazy. I mean, like, it's not for me. How is he? Yeah, my wife will get something same way, like, for my birthday, my sister will give, like, my wife or me something. Yeah, I get my sister-in-law on a present on a birthday. Yeah. See, this is what American family is. Sorry. Because this is what it is. This is what it means to be a part of a family and y'all watch Charlie Brown and Christmas together. Great help can patch. Whatever the fuck y'all do, like, the two-- remember, Tate's the two Christmas trees. The two Christmas trees. Yeah. One downstairs, a whole Carolina-themed Christmas. This is what I aspire to be. This is what I want. Wow. He would get-- do you know what my dad would get his brother-in-law for Christmas in 1995? He would get him out of jail. That's what he would get. All right, so like, it's just a completely different situation. But this right here, even the thought of doing that, it almost makes me mad. If the niggle was-- if the niggle was like, if he was like, yo, what am I getting for Christmas, I'd be like, bitch, if you look at the fuck up on my face. What, thanks for having me. That, it's not only is your brother-in-law, Billy. How old is he? He's in his 30s? Yeah, it's like, seeing how he's a grown-ass man. Yeah. Aficion line with the fuck. What do you-- what do you-- a igloo cooler? That would actually be a good gift. If somebody were to give me a igloo cooler, that actually would be-- When's your birthday, Joel? We'll get you an igloo cooler. You were throwing a sign? Yeah. May 28th. May 28th. Wow. Oh, very special. OK. So that's the easy one. I'll get you an igloo cooler. I'll get you-- and you know what? I do think, though. I don't even know what we're talking about right now. It's still always dad barbecue, though. Yeah, that's right. You didn't follow up. Yeah, bro. Oh, OK. I'll do that this week. Oh, you know what? My brother's not here. If you give me your dad's address, I'll send a barbecue this week. And no bullshit. I'm going to send it from destination smokehouse, not the white boy owns it. OK. My dad-- wait, what's that? What's the destination? That's the one with-- The one-- I'm going to send it-- I'm a tendonism. Not a black tendonism guy is gone. I'm a sinned your dad. He's gone. Stuff from destination. Oh, yeah, bro. This is fucking black. No, not gone. He's not passed away. Oh, OK. I was like, oh, man, I thought he passed on, man. I got scared. I guess we got to do some college football. My dad's birthday is May 17th, by the way. He's not getting shit. No. Yeah. Oh, I'm getting some. I get my dad some. Joe, by the way. Your dad's May 17th. Your May 28th. May 28th. There you go. My wife is May 23rd. 9th wedding anniversary, traditionally celebrates with pottery or willow to symbolize molding a life together and flexibility. So if you want to get a retreat or something, you could do that. That's all right. We're renting our house. So this is not going to put any new trees out there, I don't think. Maybe get her flowers. Yeah. Get that-- I get her flowers at times as she doesn't expect it. I don't give them-- I try to give them at times, which not on the holiday. So you try to avoid the holidays. No gifts on the holidays. No, I give gifts on the holiday. No, I give gifts on holidays. But flowers are things I'm like, man, that's just very-- it's good if you do it, that's fine. But I'm always just trying to surprise her with flowers, which she's not expecting it, not on the holidays. Game for you, fellas, man. I know Van just looked at my black family and didn't see anything in it that he admired. But I think I have a cool family too. Just because we don't get-- I don't get my-- well, in my-- you know what? I shouldn't even talk about my brother a lot, but-- OK, let's go to the draft. Let's go to the draft. Perfect. Let's get to it. The 2026 NFL draft did happen. One big reaction from the draft. We've had a lot of commentary. Mick Shea, Minch, they were live for it. The fantasy slash draft guys were locked in on the draft. But Joel, go to you first, because this is someone that you have come and defended pretty much as far as-- as long as I've known you and talked to you, you have been his number one fan. One big reaction. And of course, I'm talking about a man Diego Pavia who went undrafted in this draft. No agent. He did get signed by the Ravens. That was news today. But your thoughts on him going undrafted-- he's not a likable person, you know, for a lot of-- But you love him. You said he's going to be the Hall of Fame. Yeah, yeah, I think he's-- I do think he-- and a-- man, people were really nasty. It was crazy how-- He's making the Hall of Fame guys. The college football Hall of Fame. He's making the college football Hall of Fame, bro. He's going. Yeah, man, I mean, see, I know that he has a face that you might not like. You might not like that he was, you know, ungracious after the Heisman. But the dude is legitimately a legendary college football player. Like, he won. He's the only person who's ever had 10 win seasons if Vanderbilt in New Mexico State. If you can do that in college, bro, that makes you a legend, that makes you a Hall of Fame. Plus, he was a Heisman finalist. Plus, his senior year, it was like-- it was a statistically abundant season. Like, he did a lot. He almost-- the 4,000 yards almost ran for 900 yards. So he did-- He also said that he should have won the Heisman. He said, after Heisman voters, after the loss. I don't-- look, I would have voted for Diego Pavia if I had a Heisman vote, you know? And it's not that I don't think Fernando Mendoza didn't have a great season, and it's in a great quarterback, and not a great representative for the sport. But I like people who do a lot with not a lot, you know what I mean? Like, I want to see you excel in very difficult situations. And again, it's funny to think of Indiana as like, well, you know, Fernando had all the advantages. He had NFL receivers and NFL running backs and, you know, whatever. But Fernando had a much better support in cast in Diego Pavia. So yeah, so again, I'm not surprised that he went undrafted. Like, I understand he measured it five foot 10. That would make him literally one of the shortest quarterbacks in NFL history. So if-- you know, so I get that. He's already 24 years old. He probably doesn't have much of an athletic ceiling. Johnny Manzel is his OG. So you may be-- you might wonder questions. It's been tour. Yeah, that's his mentor. So-- but I just thought that it's college fans. We all love Diego Pavia, man. You know, that he's the kind of character that the game needs. You know, we love underdogs. We love dogs. And Pavia is a dog. I thought we liked that kind of guy. And I just felt like people really took a lot of joy in him going undrafted. I was just kind of surprised. Again, I know that people don't like him. And there's certainly seems to be some legitimate reasons to not be your favorite player. But I just thought, as college football fans, we all agreed that we love characters like that. And that, you know, we don't give a shit with the NFL thinks about our best players. That's why you love her, Tyler, then. That's why you love Darian DeRent. Tate, that's why I love like J.J. Joe and Kevin Murray and-- you know, whatever, Zippy Leatherie. Yeah, college careers are different than NFL careers. Yeah. Yeah, so I just thought-- I think also when you talk about those guys, those are players that played at least for me at my school. So there are a whole bunch of LSU players that I love. There no one else would even care about because they play-- I love fucking Cricks Stelts, right? Like Cricks Stelts. Cricks Stelts, like, there are a whole bunch of LSU guys that I love that a lot of people might not love. Just events is what it is. Justin Vincent is like a lot of players that, whatever-- there was a player I brought them up before from LSU, Demetrius Hookfin, that was looked at as like one of the biggest coverage bus guys ever. But like, towards the end of his career, Hookfin was just like, I can't cover anyone anymore. So if anyone gets close to me, I'm going to fucking detonate them. And I like appreciated that about Demetrius Hookfin towards the end of his career. So that's different than judging the accolades of a player that's outside of the culture that you love. But even having to sit that, dig or pop your-- I mean, just Giannias Golden Arm Award winner, CUSA player of the year, first team all-American in 2025, SEC offensive player of the year, SEC newcomer of the year, first team all SEC, second team all SEC, second team all CUSA. That guy's going to the Hall of Fame. He also was a cultural force in college football. He was a part of, like, not even the Rejuvenation. He was a part of the Golden Age of Vanderbilt football in an offense that was completely based around his skillset. You cannot like Diego Pavia all you want. Diego Pavia was a badass motherfucking college football player at the end. And they were talking about people were saying, oh, they're not going to even remember him. Bro, let me explain to you what college football fans like to do. They love to remember some guys. And you remember, like, people would talk about Steven Garcia at South Carolina. I throw another South Carolina quarterback out there. Steve Taney Hill. You remember him with the ponytail? You know, a homeboy, a big Jared Larinson. It can tuck you. We love talking about those dudes, man. Bill Benz Throwboy. Yeah, Bill's very throwboy, man. We love talking about guys like that.
So Diego's even got that already right like just the character status and he has the resume to back it up I just you can't he beat new mexico's he beat Auburn with new mexico takes out new mexico state talent and he beat He beat Alabama with Vanderbilt talent like that is incredible You would never believe that like just say that to any football fan in any year and all of that sounds absurd But he did it all in the same career that motherfuckers going to the Hall of Fame, and I don't care if he makes the Baltimore Ravens He did sign a cut a three-year free agent contract with them We're going to this on Tuesday. So you signed it today. Thank you for years for putting that in a chat But yeah, so I mean he's I don't care if he makes it in the NFL Right, I just he's he was one of those dudes and when I think back to this era football It's just kind of like when James Franklin made Vanderbilt good I was like man when James Franklin Vanderbilt was good. Like that's that's what you're going to do with Diego Pavia in 20 years You're going to remember him for sure. Do you think he ever starts a game in the NFL man? tough Tough A lot of people start games in NFL. That's the thing. Yeah, that's what I mean I mean is definitely entirely possible Billy Billy says week 17 game. Yeah, let me see if case McCoy ever started the NFL game now I mean because Diego so much better than him. That's not even fair. So I mean, there's a lot of things that can It leads you to start a game in the NFL. You can be in different situations all kinds of stuff But like the quit will he ever be a starting caliber NFL player? That's a big big if for Diego Pavia man come on Yeah, I mean, I don't even think I don't think he's an NFL player based on his physical characteristics and when you add in what seems to be a Personality that grates on people or may come off as obnoxious to people that probably makes it difficult You're not doing a lot to convert to people who are skeptical of you But again, that's what makes Diego to be Diego Pavia. You had to dream the impossible that you were a undersized Moderately athletic kid from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and you would lead a 10 win team in the SEC that is a crazy thing to say out loud And he actually did it though. Yeah, he might go to the CFL when the great cup and become one of the best players in the CFL history That feels like a path for him Van reactions from the draft you have one big reaction anything that stood out to you It does feel like Ty Simpson was one of the big stories. Yeah, yeah, Joe gave a nickname Earlier last season he called it. No called it. He called tie Play right now tied big daddy Simpson. That's what he is. He's a big daddy And it looks like at least to me There's not just Joe and the Alabama faithful that think that tie Simpson is a big dad Well, he's a big daddy the Rams because the Rams drafted tie Simpson. What was it? 12 or 13 something like that? 13 They they drafted them when they have really I mean widened outs towards the end of his career They have a franchise quarterback there the MVP the MVP if oriented their entire offensive round They drafted a quarterback in the first round, which used to be Kind of a no-no unless you were dead sick on fucking pissing your guy off. Yeah, um, but they did it anyway and it seems like They went over McVeigh's head to do this it McVeigh did not seem thrilled in any way shape or form that this was the draft pick It a lot of people are calling it a swing I think it's a swing in light of the culture of the Rams in the fact that they have staffered But somebody believes just like Joe believes the size Simpson is upset in jolson You've noticed I've just stopped trying to be uh, you know like a team a team a good teammate in the threads I just send links now we're good because it's shit like that because I was agreeing with you I was trying to be like man, you know what? I'm trying to build some some some camaraderie and I'm going to support van and calling him big daddy Or do you use it a phrase that van would probably use you know what I'm saying, but that's fine You're lying. No, you used the phrase though I got the I got the screenshots right now and I'm fucking put them up on the tailgate. Please do you lie? I'm not lying. I'm not lying. I was a good So maybe we do a poll for the gators people will be able to look at my text and tell the intent of them They'll be like oh yeah, so I mean no, there it is They're not to score again. They look like a totally different team Ty Simpson is so good man. Would you say that he is a daddy? Oh, he a big daddy and then I was trying again. I was trying to say it in the in the in the language of man, you know what I'm saying but Obviously a backfire And I'll just I'll just abuse anybody at that notion. I'm not I don't know for sure You know I'm saying I was too busy grinding tape to make all my call all my sources in the league But I don't think anybody else would have taken Ty Simpson in the first round and that's what makes it a bad pick Oh, you know, they do have what they didn't have they got that pick because because of a trade. Yeah, I wasn't even their pick You can use it to to help your 38-year-old quarterback You don't you're not you're not going to have Matt Stafford maybe I would assume next year's Matt Stafford's last year But maybe not quarterbacks are playing for longer now and if he looks he's looking good then great But you could get him some help that's a pick that you had that you're you're going to it best Knee when you don't have the MVP, you know, and you can get Ty Simpson in any draft like we're talking about a six foot one 211 pound quarterback with a not necessarily great arm. He's already old He's only made 15 starts and in like the last third of them. He was not good Like that doesn't that's not a smart pick and I you know if I was Matt Stafford, I would be pissed I'm like I'm coming back for this bullshit man. Why didn't you get me a receiver? You know didn't no boss you guys look at Matt Stafford. You guys look at Matt Stafford as a surefire Hall of Famer Yes Super Bowl champion mvp come back player of the year first team all pro three time pro bowler Passing yards leader in 25 touchdowns leader in 25 Detroit all-time team first team all-American second team all SEC the last teams two things don't matter. You're right I This resume Mm-hmm of accolades now. He's got a lot of great numbers This resume of accolades is a little thinner than I thought it was gonna be yeah I mean, I think they're gonna I think they're gonna win another Super Bowl I mean, I think he already will be in the Hall of Fame, but I don't think he's done yet. Yeah, I mean right If he if he didn't have last season He has a much thinner case than you'd expect last season is the year that if he goes into the Hall of Fame That will be the year that did it because he needed that year on that resume. I mean three-time poor bowler. I mean You know being a pro bowler. Yeah, obviously that's a very accomplished football player But Shadoor Sanders was a pro bowler last year like it also think when he was with the Lions everyone kind of knew what was going on He was super talented. He was he was found to Calvin's terrible when he was a Detroit. I mean But that was it. I mean that no defense that no management. I mean that was a It's true dark time the thing at the Rams have shown that he was vastly under utilized Yeah, stuff The other side stories Can I ask you a question? Yeah, are you gonna be able to meaningfully contribute to the show today? I want you guys to go back Like rewind 10 seconds 15 seconds I mean I think he's going through it right now I feel like Scotty you know Struggling I mean we said that we were gonna try to carry you I can tell that you're hurting too man. I really can yeah my grades aren't fun for everybody else They're for all the tailgators if you get migraines shout out to you. You're fighting through it. Go go get IV bro You're good because I know that's what yeah, I gotta know IV. I don't want to ask about the two storylines of Ty Simpson one is less needs friends with his dad So we have a little bit of like a nepotism conspiracy that's going on there And then two he did not hear from Matthew Stafford, but Matthew Stafford's wife DM Tim And if you know Matthew Stafford's wife's history, she used to date his backup quarterback when he was in Georgia So if you're Matthew Stafford, I think this is a fun tailgate topic if you're Matthew Stafford And you haven't talked to the guy that just got drafted in the first round But then he comes out and says that your wife was DMing him. I think I'd feel some type of way about that So we're none of us are allowed to DM the others partner then at this point I mean based on the history. I don't think I'd feel I'd be like what's going on here? Why are you messing me? So if I just don't find if I mess his Riley you would be like what are you doing? I'm about to do I'm about to see let's do this Hey, what's Riley's Instagram I'm gonna go find it. I'm a sin. I'm okay. I'm gonna go to because I can say I can find it on your page So I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go to your page And I'm gonna send a nice Instagram message to Riley wow Why what this is not this is not wrong anyway shape or form. Oh no, this is not Set up the point
if you have the precedent already set, then I just think it's a little strange, you know what I mean? Like, just, it's a little bit off. I don't know. If I'm tired, I'm like, why? - Riley, hold on for a second, Riley follows me. I might even follow in her back. I gotta follow Riley back. - You gotta follow her back. - She's a fan of tailgate. - She supports you. - She's a tailgate fan. Okay, so, take, what am I allowed to say in this DM? - I mean, I, you'd say whatever you want. - He's uncomfortable. - He's respectful. - He's, oh. (laughing) (laughing) - Okay, this one I'm gonna say, he's gonna say. - Hi, Riley. I just want to let you know what to let, you know how happy we are for you and take. - Yeah. - Take has a migraine today. - Yeah. - She knows. - Oh, man. - Try to give a little extra TLC. - See, I'm wondering if this is what Matt's to effort. - This was a lot, that's what I said, you know what I mean? - Giving him stuff is a little on the line, but okay. - If you can, and then I'm gonna put, I'm gonna put, from Joe, (laughing) - Joe replicated. - Van, and. - Billy. - Billy. - See, that's a nice DM. - Yeah, there you go. - It's that old scene automatically, like automatically seen. - She saw it, okay. - Hey, ask her, ask her if we're gonna do a family dinner next week. - See, if they don't want to hang out, obviously if they don't want to commit wants to know. - Yeah, okay. - If we can all go to. - Riley just texted me, the screen just, then she said in all caps, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I am dead." (laughing) - Okay, that's it. - Now let me tell you how Riley fucking passed the mother fucking tag. (laughing) - Oh yeah. - Let me tell you how Riley passed the test in a real way, or she saw the text message before responding to me, sent it to Tate, that's, I mean, no control. There's no control, there's no control, it's just about transparency. The question is, did Matthew, did what's up? - That's a good, oh man. - Yeah, that's like, did Stafford find that out from Ty Simpson, or did he find that out from his wife? - Riley said, there's nothing wrong with it. - It's fine. Like Riley just fucking aced the test. - Man, well, of course, there was no test, by the way. - Do you remember, did you ever do the, like if you closed the door, you opened the door for your date and walked across? Did you ever, like, judge a girl as she didn't lean across and unlock the door for you? Tell 'em out from Bronxdale? Is that in the movie, Bronxdale? - Yeah, it is in the movie, the Bronxdale. That's where you got it from. You got it from the movie, the Bronxdale, that's why you. - Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie, setting mist from Mabelie, New York. Jell to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin. That still feels like your skin. Try new groupie setting mist from Mabelie, New York. - Maybe it's Mabelie. - You saying it. All right, so Ty Simpson, we figured out how to deal with his draft situation. Diego Pavia, the other thing I wanted to point out, Bill Belichick and Coach Prime zero players drafted in the 2026 NFL draft. Poor one out. Two guys who were, we were supposed to talk about all season long, but they had no players in the draft. Hey, that's a, that's a, that's a Mike Lombardi step too. That's your boy Mike Lombardi first time since 2016. No players drafted. - This is a 33rd NFL team. This is supposed to be in the next week. - Keep it all our talent. (laughs) I feel, I feel, this is sad. Like, I mean, I don't care about Bill Belichick person. Also, have you know, like Jordan got, has gotten active on Twitter in the last few days. She's been going to school to me. - Yes, he's been doing everything. - Yeah, Pablo. I was like, man, I'd be like, why don't you just leave Pablo to fuck alone, man? That's how you can tell she's a young person. It was just like, why don't you just leave him to fuck alone? I just, the thing is, again, nobody controls anybody. So on and so forth. But I just can't believe Bill Belichick is like, could you just please stop? Please stop. I don't do this anymore. It's embarrassing to me, you know? - Yeah. - Like he has no shame. He has no shame anymore. - Can I say something? - Yeah. - Please. - This relationship is working out. Oh, man. You guys, you know what, no one's paying attention to? They made it through season. They made this relationship. How are we coming up on the year? Is it more than eight years? - I was kind of in more than eight years. - I think it's like three years. - I think it's more than eight years. - It's like, more than eight years. Okay, this relationship is working out. You guys can see what the fuck you guys want to say. Everyone can talk all the shit that they want to talk. But these two crazy kids are finding a way in this world. - If I told you before the year, I somehow didn't give you any other information, which relationship do you think is going to last longer? Bill Belichick and Jordan are Clay Thompson and Megan DeStyle. - I still think I probably would've said, "Belichick." - I would've said, "Belichick." 'Cause Belichick's not bowin' out. - Yeah. - He's gonna hang out. - I would say, "Belichick," just because both Meg and Clay still at the, at the height. - Yeah, right. - And they could get itchy. - Billichick, Billichick don't know when the next time, wow, I mean, shit, maybe not now. Maybe now that Billichick has made it work with Jordan, there might be like a fucking whole line of boutine models. - Yeah, I know. - L.A. models, that is, y'all know what that is. Y'all know what that is. - Actually, I don't know. - I was just laughing at the model, fuck. - You're lying. - I don't know, what is boutine, how you even spell it? - Like, you're lying, y'all know. - I don't, I really don't know what a boutine, I knew, I do stuff like that. - Oh, I was laughing, okay. - Yeah, nigga, I do stuff like that just to see, if you guys know what it is, 'cause y'all always trying to come at me, you knew what it was. You laughed, Billy, where's Billy? Do you know what a boutine L.A. model, do you know what a boutine model is? I wonder if Billy knows, now he'll lie. Billy, do you know what a boutine model is? - Can I Google this on the work computer or no? - I think that you might be able to. - I wouldn't, I would not have guessed this. - Can I Google this on the work computer? - I think so, it's a modeling agency, right? - Yeah, it's a modeling, they have a, they have a, like a, they have a, they have a, I think it's a bikini line, I think is what I think that's your use. - What's the name of that other, 'cause I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have guessed who to choose. - What's the one that we use like all the models or the whole of your universe? We're going down, I'm talking about that. - Wait, what, I'm not doing anything. - I'm trying to, what's the name of the one? You know, the, it's like that girl is a something model. Well, you know, you guys don't remember? - Oh, Jesus Christ. - What are you talking about? - It was like a clothing line, the girl, like a girl is like, oh, she's a something. - Victoria's secret model? - No, no, it was like, not-- - Fashion Nova? - Fashion Nova, there you go. - Fashion Nova, okay. - She's a fashion Nova girl, it's a shit like that. Like, you know what I mean? It's like, oh, okay. So, I guess that's what Boutine, is that what that's kind of like? - Boutine is a, Boutine is, it's a modeling, but it's like a, there's a bikini line. - Okay, I didn't know. - That the girl's model for a fucking Billy's out. It's a bikini line. - Billy didn't like what he saw. - Yeah. - Yeah, the Billy's out. But I'm saying now, really, that they know, 'cause Bella check got to be up. Bella check got to be up close to 100ms. He got to be, or maybe not, but he got to be close. - He's been in a lot of his money. - Damn. - Shit. That's, I mean, she's cash in check. - That's a, that's official care a lot of this right there. That's how she, that's how she's regarded in the family. - That's a tough statement right there. That's why she's acting out. - That's why she's acting out. - That's what you just made. - I could, that's a, that's a tough statement. - Hmm. - I'm not sure about that. - I think that's why he had to get the job of care a lot. - Oh my God. - I think he needed the money. - Oh my God. - This young barracuda, praying on poor Bill Bella check. - Well, I just, I'll take, that's tough. It's March too. Wait, it's not March. - No, it's just April. - It's almost May. - When is, when is, when is international women's month? - I thought, is it March? - I think it's March. So yeah, so I'll tell you, you could say it. - It's March. (laughing) - Hey, it's empowerment at some level. But yeah, Jordan's doing great. They seem to be happy. I feel bad for Meg the Stalian, you know? Clay letter down. - Wait, oh, here's a, yeah, oh, another one. Who do you think is gonna last longer? Deon and Karoochi, is that how you say it? - Yeah, good job. - Deon and Karoochi or Billah check and Jordan. Who do you think is gonna make it longer? - Bella check and Jordan. - I don't know, but I hope the best for everyone. How's that sound? - Okay, okay, that's good. - I hope the best for everything. I think that Deon and Karoochi seem, and I wouldn't know, I'm not in a mother fucking bedroom in a house, whatever. Deon and Karoochi seem legitimately happy. He's just posted a picture of him and her with his grandson. They look legitimately happy. He looks happy. I'm glad that people are taking care of each other. I'm happy. I hope for the best for everyone. - Yeah, just like we do a Billah check, man. Just like we do. - Yeah, I mean, Bella, it was rumored last year that she wanted to get engaged at half time of the homecoming line. - Oh, okay. - To a Billah check. - Oh my God. - So I mean, there's still a chance that happens. - Yeah, yeah.
"Bella Check and let Bella Check nut." That's the fuck you going on, man. Like, why did, like, let Bella Check? This Bella Check ain't got too many good years left. - I mean, the thing is, I totally understand where we're coming from with this is like, yo, he'd never thought that he would have it like this in his life at this point, but at this point, it's kind of becoming embarrassing though. Like, you're not doing well professionally, and I respect how little he seems to care. - That's the truth. - That's true. I just seemed to, but I think his reputation is taking a hit. He seems unserious right now, right? And I just, I kinda, it's his career, it's his legacy, but it just feels whatever. But hey, at least he's, you know, his van said, bustin' him that, you know, so at least he's got that going for him. - Back to the actual football part of this as we continue to off season it up, 'cause the fact that these two programs had nobody drafted mean anything to you guys. Insofar as Bill Belicek was supposed to be a coach that was going to turn UNC into a football factory because of his develop, or NFL factory because of his ability to evaluate and develop talent. Obviously, it's only been, what, one year, we don't see that right now, right? We haven't seen Bill Belicek work his magic on any of his players and take them, and show them the right way to play the game, and then make them into viable NFL draft prospects. Okay, the same thing with Deon Sanders. He's been there longer. And he's had players go in the draft before, but it seems like these players were more connected to his initial splash at Colorado, which this tremendous amount of excitement was around, right? Now that things have normalized a little bit, is it that Deon is not developing talent at Colorado, or does he have less access to talent at Colorado because people are seeing how things are going? Both of these guys are supposed to be able to sell two recruits, how awesome they were at making you ready for the NFL because of their experience with the NFL, and that does not seem to be the case, at least at this particular point in time. - I mean, I think the thing about Deon is that he's a really unique figure in Jackson State, right? That's how you can get like Travis Hunter and everybody else like to do something different because Jackson State, like that really is a unique and compelling mission that you're selling to recruits. If you're a Colorado, if you just can't maintain your initial success, you're just another coach and FBS. And like Deon is as charismatic as anybody who has ever lived, but even still top recruits and guys that, first of all, guys want money, right? So that's one of the top things, but the second thing is they want the competition and all the other stuff that you're probably not gonna get at Colorado, man. Like they know that Colorado's not up and people are just not as excited about playing a big toe schedule as they're all playing in the big team or the SEC. So he's having to compete with all that and it's just like that doesn't, at Colorado doesn't seem to be the same proposition as it was at Jackson State, which is that hey, come play for your people. For Billet Check, man, it's just an indication of how unserious his staff has been. Like people have been talking about the people, all the people that are great. - Also Mac Brown developed, I mean, I wouldn't say develop, just found great talent. Like you looked at all the guys that have been drafted since Mac Brown came back. I mean, there's a lot of NFL players that came out of Carolina and Belice had zero. - Yeah. Yeah, man. Billet Check came into college football and it changed in a way in which he's particularly ill-equipped to handle it. Like he's recruiting players to you and he doesn't have the event, like he didn't have the advantage in the NFL because of the salary cap, but he found things on the margins or whatever. Still, at North Carolina, Billet Check still has to kind of sell himself to people. And that's just, that always seemed like that was gonna be a difficult fit. And then the compounded, you didn't bring that Patricia. You didn't bring Josh McDaniels down there with you, man. You know, you got your boys you down there at North Carolina. And so it's just, you know, he's, this isn't going to work out. Beyond still has a chance to turn it around, but I mean, Billet Check, I mean, if you had North Carolina, how long do you want this to go on? - I mean, it's a lot of money, 10 million a year. - Well, some results soon. Some bugs. - You doing as long as, you doing as long as they'll have you. - Yeah, as long as they keep paying, I guess he's happy. And I mean, the over-under for UNC this year is four and a half weeks. - Oh my God. - That's so. - That's, I mean, North Carolina is not a bad football program. It is a program you can win at. Like it's not, it did not have to be a tear down, you know? You didn't have to do that at North Carolina. There's a lot to sell there. But, you know, I mean, when you hire, you know, I just, I just, I think went for the name thing, thinking that was going to work. But Billet, Billet Check isn't an interesting enough figure. Like once the games get started. - And the guy who was supposed to be the one who hired is now the head coach at Penn State. So, I mean, that's the other part. Like you hired Billet, check over guys. Now the head coach at Penn State. So, that's the other hard part to swallow. So, tough times, Deon has the, the health stuff. So, I feel like it's a little bit of like last year, it was understandable that he had some issues. Also, Shredor Travis Hunter, they both go to the league. So, you know, tough, makes sense. Tough times. - Tough times. - Yeah, they want to ask this about the, we saw this last year going into the draft. So, these were the quarterbacks that were supposed to be drafted in the 2026 NFL mock draft. This is from last May. Archmaning was projected number one. Lenora Sellers number two, K clubbing number three, Sam Levin number nine, Drew Aller number 11, Garrett Nussmeyer number 16. Wow. Think about how much has changed in a year. - I mean, the, first of all, the archmaning thing was always stupid. Because they knew, they said, they said from the beginning that the boy was not gonna leave college that early. Like that he was gonna play. So, that was always stupid. I never understood why they assumed that archmaning was gonna come out. Now, look, I'm, you know, I've been grinding tape. I'm gonna probably watch a lot of football in my life. If you go back to our old shows, even early in the year, I was telling y'all, K club nick and Drew Aller, aren't it? And I don't know why they keep putting the boys up there, man. - But they were both drafted. - They were both drafted. I mean, that's what's up, but I mean, I, I never saw it. I was like, would it, would it, is it just that they're six foot three and white? I just couldn't understand. - Oh my God. - Why they kept putting them up there at the top of these, these locked drafts. I didn't see it. And they, they both have physical ability. - Yeah, I mean, they said Drew Aller is huge and has a great arm. That's right. - Going to Pittsburgh. - Yeah, like, so they both have physical ability. K club nick is very mobile. And he has had. So, club nick, last year was bad, but the year before, he had a good season. - He was going to the Jets. - He did okay and I was like, he looked all right. But what they were talking about, top of the, top half of the first round. Again, I said the next time I see Drew Aller have a good game against a good defense, it'll be the first time. I never, like, it's hard to think about his physical skills when I've never actually seen him be that good at football. - Now, you're right about Aller, but we should say in 2024, K club nick through for 3600 yards, 36 touchdowns and six interceptions, and they went to the playoffs. - You said six interceptions? - Yeah, and six picks. They went to the playoffs, like, and he ran for 463 yards and seven touchdowns as well. He was legitimately somebody that you could project if he was able to build on that season and improve, like, to be able to be quarterback, and he regressed tremendously. Now, I'll say this, that team had some problems. Also, there's a larger issue. It seems like to me, about quarterback development in college football, you've seen some people talk about that. We've had quarterbacks bust out when they were supposed to, like, take the next step. I don't know that I can remember a season where you had this many guys bust out at the same time. You had this many guys, because you could even throw, obviously, there was injury involved in this, you could throw a little more sellers into that as well, and go, what the fuck is happening on these campuses with these guys' ability to develop this talent? Is it the fact that the influx of players out and in is stopping them from being able to sort of gain some kind of consistency with their receivers? Are they being put in different offices? Is there, is current college football just not conducive for players to develop? Or did we just get a bad batch of guys that we fucking overrated because we're into these guys a little bit too much and love watching them talk to John Groot and all of that shit like that. And they just weren't as good as what we fucking thought they were. Yeah, that's what I thought. I just think that they're just, it was an overvalued class from J. To think about the North sellers, I was just like, with the North. He's coming back. Well, I was just like, I saw the North and I was just like, he's really athletic. He's really athletic. But I didn't see a great number two overall quarterback. I was, I just, I just didn't see that and that's we got evidence of that this year. And I think next year though, I've been, I've been kind of bullish that Archman, I think Archmaning is really good and that next year he's going to really show out. Like I think he'll be, maybe it'll be tough for him to ever live up all to all the expectations. But I think that he's going to be a really good playoff quarterback next year. Let me next year get Dante Moore, who should probably be the number one pick, right? You got Archmaning, you got Sam Levitt, who's the top 10 pick, you know, based on this mock draft for last year. Lenora Sellers will be back. lag way will be a bailer. Maybe he's back in the conversation again. So there's gonna be a lot of
that should be better, Trinidad, Chandless, of course. - Chandless, speaking of Dante Moore. - Mm-hmm. - I remember that there was a time when the entire college football world was making fun of a school from Baton Rouge that couldn't land a quarterback that ended up going to Texas Tech. Well, God damn it, doesn't God work exactly. - Go out, all right? It's like, I'm just being rude. Hey, good luck to that young man and whatever happens with him, I'm not looking down on him or whatever. - That's the story of you right there. - You should, you should never resist me. - I'm not shitting on him at all. I'm saying that we could all agree that it is fortuitous that LSU did not end up having him even though they desperately wanted him. That's a true thing, right? - Yeah. - It is true that for LSU fans that they seemed to have gotten the better deal. Not well, we don't know how healthy Sam Levin is, but what I'm saying is like in that situation, whoever he would have went to is right now in the world of hurt. - Yeah, Pete Thamel reported, Texas Tech quarterback Brandon Soros who was taking a leave of absence from football for a gambling addiction. He would only say that Soros be bet on Indiana football while redshirting for IU as a true freshman in 2022, a season in which he played a single game as a reserve that bets in 2022 per sources. We're on Indiana to win and none came into game in which shorts be appeared. So this feels like they're getting ahead of a larger story because it felt like they got a lot of details on some of the bets he's been making throughout his time in college football. But again, never bet on a game that he played in only bet on Indiana to win, but taking a leave of absence. And he might not play this year, he might be banned. So this was $6 million from Texas Tech that might backfire. - Yeah, I just feel sorry for him. I mean, that's the thing I take from it more than anything. Oh, so I don't give a fuck about Texas Tech football, man. It just seems that this is inevitable and sort of like the Canary and the Colman. We haven't had an arch litter and a not-shlifter in a long time. Do you remember arch slifter? - I do. - Yeah. He was a quarterback at Ohio State in the late '70s, early '80s. The Colts picked the number four overall in 1982. And he only ended up playing 13 games in his career because he had gambling addiction. And it just took over his fucking life. He never became, man, he was getting arrested for cocaine possession in 2024. Like he says, his man, I think he's got to be a septiginary and now somewhere in his late '60s. So he's been struggling. - '66. - Yeah, man. So it makes me just, I hope Brendan Soresby is okay. I know the prolifer. The proliferation of gambling companies reminds me of when like credit card companies used to set up boobs on college campuses. You know, so that you could go signing up and you could get a little t-shirt and then you could get a credit card. And it was just like, oh, you're introducing us to the idea of predatory lending rates, you know what I mean? And so that's just kind of, I just, you know, we're a part of it, like gambling and A.I. seem to be the only things that experienced any growth in America. But we're just going to see a lot more people struggle with gambling. And we know statistically that men, college age men are the ones that tend to be most vulnerable to this. And so I expect, yeah, we're just going to, we're just going to be more Brendan Soresby's to come. But I was just fucking shocked. I was like, damn, I've not seen something like that in a long time. Like I just, again, it was inevitable. But this actually see the headlight and they have it be that guy at that school it was just crazy at this particular time. Yeah, it, you know, we haven't seen anything like this. I guess in college football, you know, there were some things about Keisha on booty and stuff like that. But if you look in other other sports, particularly the NBA, obviously there's ongoing conversation about gambling, how gambling is going to affect the, the, the minds and the, the behaviors of these young athletes. But look, let's just be real. Like we're just in no position to really talk. Like we're, like we're not. And that's, and that's, that's the reality. Like in an economy that is slowing as the American economy is right now, you need sure things. And like Joe, Joe said, because of the data center race with AI, people are putting all of their money into that when that bubble pops, we're fucked. Okay. And also, and also there's been a lot of harvesting of people's money and their interests that are locked into gambling. And like how gambling is influencing is that like that's an easy source of money, right? That's an easy source of, of, of, of revenue. And even like not just revenue, cultural revenue, and everybody, like Kevin Hart's doing a gambling commercial. She kill a news doing a gambling commercial. Yep. Everybody's doing a gambling commercial. Van Lathen is doing a gambling commercial. Joel Anderson is doing a gambling commercial. Tate Frazier is doing a gambling commercial. Tate really, like everyone is, Tate be doing him a lot. Tate, Tate, that's all. Yeah, man, I got to read it yet. Sometimes he does a gambling show. He's on the gambling show. Sometimes you get a call, you get a call from Tate, like 430 in the afternoon, Tate will be like, "Van, I got a T's, I got a T's." (laughing) I got a fate. Like, I, I, I love the terminology. I got a fate. It's just a part of it. The question is not whether or not gambling is going to be as pervasive as it is in sports culture. It is. The question is, are the university's going to do anything to educate and protect their players from getting involved with this and making sure that there is some type of outlet for them in case they develop habits that get difficult for them to control? I doubt it. I mean, I just, well, I didn't think it's no, I'm sure the thing is is that-- To me, they are the thing that they would have to. They would have to like protect their investments, right? To me, it seemed like they should. And every year, and I don't know how it happens at every school, but every year when you come back, the coaches, you know, go through a whole thing. Like, there's, sometimes they bring, they used to bring police officers. I don't know if they do that anymore. And I'm sure it varies from school to school. And you go over like all of the different ills that might affect you, right? When you're on campus, you know, when you're at a college campus about warning about drinking, warning about consent. I'm sure that's a bigger conversation today than it used to be. So, you know, they go through all that. And I'm sure the gambling is a part of that conversation. Like, this is something that could derail you if you really get into it, right? Or, you know, shit, I'm sure they drugs and all that other stuff, too. So, I'm sure they do go through it with them. But, man, it's just a bunch of-- I mean, these are young men. And now they've got money, you know? Now, they got money that we would have never dreamed of having and have houses and shit, man. And I love it for them. But it just also means that they're vulnerable. You know, they can make a lot of things happen. There's not a lot of people that age can make happen. You miss one thing that people do in college with their friends? What's that? Tussle? Some people tussle. Yeah, that's what, man. Hold on. Mike raised your-- Hold on. Some people tussle, hold on. Me and my crew used to be in the U.U. Hold on. We have females trying to talk like we-- We got a female. There was nothing in the whole thing. We had no problem with some people. So, we didn't break up on the wrestling. And we didn't have-- I don't know. Yeah, we didn't have no problem. So, I actually had a homeboy who was a former D1 football player and my homie who served overseas with the military-- shout out to the military-- in Afghanistan or wherever else. I racked. He was over there. And they said, "Tussle and was something they did at the time." But my homeboy said, you know what it is? And this is, I guess, you know what I'm saying? I don't know what it says about y'all. He said, "It's an alpha activity." You know what I'm saying? Tell your homie he's right. Your homie, he's right. I wasn't alpha enough to wrestle naked with my guys. It wasn't naked. We never-- nobody ever wrestled naked. The best part of the last week's shows when you were explaining it to Bill and Bill's face as you were explaining it to him, you know what I'm saying? Because he made it up. He was so confused. He did not know what to do. He was talking, when Bill was talking about what that he used to do in the hallways and the dorms and stuff, did y'all get a vision of that movie, "School Ties"? It was-- yeah. It was some crazy-- yeah, that's a crazy game. It was fun. I was like-- that's crazy. Like, who was outside threatening the whole dorm to fight in the rain? That's-- they embossed in. They-- it's the Holy Cross squad. They played "Highlight" against the thing. I'm like-- Like, was-- was there a Kendrick or a Jamal or a Cedric that got to play "Get 'O Highlight" with Bill and them? Man, you know what that-- If Clans Thomas had been there, you know-- That's Clans Thomas, uh-- He went to Holy Cross. He went to Holy Cross. Yeah, he went to Holy Cross. You know what, I learned that? I learned that slow burn. Slow burn? Oh, yeah. Hey, shut up. Hey, you know what? For real, though, they say Clans Thomas was a great fucking athlete, like for real. Like, there was a dude in the-- in the podcast, Mr. Jenkins, Eddie Jenkins. He played for the undefeated Miami Dolphins in '72. But he played football the Holy Cross. And he said, man, Clans really could-- he was a real good athlete. Like, he could jump. He was very strong. So I, at least, I do have to give that to him. Bitch, you never seen Clans Thomas do shit. You heard what he was saying. Like, you know, like, you heard one nigga say, you don't have to give a fucking-- - That nigga was in the-- - No, you're one nigga. - He was an NFL player. - You're one. - Everybody's-- - I know.
You heard one mother fucker say that Clarence Thomas was pretty good back in it. Give me a, I need some fucking for it. I'll go. I'll go. I'll go. I don't want to give him these props, but he was like dog like he's a, there's a plenty of dudes. If you look up like Clarence Thomas weightlifting, it's a shit like that. Yo bro, like he was really into some shit, man. Okay. Yeah, I bet he was one of the best tap dancers in the history. Yeah. That's what Clarence Thomas did. Well, I'm just saying this one, you know, Foley Cross. That's what's up. But anyway, so yeah, y'all, you know, again, Tustlin is not a, it can be whatever you want to make it, but you all are trying to make it homophobic. And I'm just telling you that we were just trying to understand that sometimes it was just about establishing who was the man, you know, yeah. Exactly. That's all it was. It's a lie, right? His picture is a young Clarence Thomas here and his nigga was kind of a unit. I'll tell you, man. I'll tell you. Don't, Clarence Thomas could allegedly some, a couple of people have said that he could dunk. He's like 5'7". Yeah. He might be. He's 5'7". Yeah, kind of. I'm sure he could dunk, man. Yeah. Alright, fuck. That is interesting with judges. You always see him sitting down so you don't really know how to do it. You don't see the body. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of a flex for judges out there. All right. Let's do a top five headlines of the week quickly before we get out of here. There's a new number one in the two early top 25 after spring practice, rap, Ohio State's number one. Does that check out to everybody? Makes sense? They're going to be number one, two or three every fucking year in perpetuity that are running an NFL factory. They are the new Alabama. They sent a living. They got 11 guys drafted off this team and then that wasn't that didn't even include their best player who's still on the roster, Jeremiah Smith. So yeah, man, they're going to, it makes sense. They got to lose to me, did I believe it? And I say, and I say that they are the new Alabama, because what Alabama was really rolling, we weren't talking about like Alabama having the best players in college football. We were talking about Alabama having once in a generational freak phenoms, like fucking dare canary and shit like that. And that's what they have now. They just put fucking styles and Caleb Downs into more of the fucking draft. And they reased into the draft like absolute fucking dogs. And they got to Joe's point, the biggest fucking dog still on campus right fucking now. Yeah. Got the quarterback coming back. Got Matt Patricia resigned as their defensive coordinator. So all things rolling for Ohio State to the number one right now, SEC, they put this out. I guess this was propaganda piece, but they had this headline, SEC poised to dominate the 2027 NFL draft as a large manning leads wave of stars ready to break the leagues. This round record again, 10 players picked from the big 10 this year in the first round. And the SEC was second best was seven. So they're trying to earn that record back. Van, do you believe they can break the big 10 record next year? Maybe, but this is cope. Okay. This is comfort. It does. It does feel like cope. No, it's the way this draft played out is the same way that the actual seasons are playing out. Yeah, the SEC was able to have a lot of players drafted in the in the middle to late rounds and stuff like that. There's a lot of talent in the SEC. The top of the draft though was big 10 dominant, right? And that is the way you see things shaking out in the actual conference matchups right now, which is the big 10 is absolutely rolling the SEC in head to head stuff in the playoffs, right? And there's one last three national championships. And by the way, it's not just the big 10. It's the SEC is losing to everyone when they get into the playoffs. To me, if people look close enough to it, it is a full on panic, a red alert, which is happening with the SEC going against college football is very best. But when you get below the first team or the second team or the third team and you get all throughout the conference, the depth of the SEC is probably better than any other conference. But honestly, that's never what the fucking conference has hung their hat on. What the conference has hung their hat on is dominance of the sport. And you cannot be dominant in the sport unless you're winning the biggest games with the biggest audiences on the biggest stage with the biggest stakes. And the SEC isn't doing that. And it's the same thing that happened in the draft. That was Cope. Joe. I was like, this is like a point you would make, Joe. I mean, the SEC, they have to be honest with us first. Anyway, we'll hold on. So I would make that point and I'm glad the advantage except in the L. The thing is though, is it like it's going to switch a year to year. Eventually, the big 10 in the SEC are going to be going back and forth for half a long. That iteration of college football lasts. I think they are. They've become sad. Yeah, I mean, you can already see it, like the big 12 and the ACC had much fewer players drafted. Like, I think it was something like they said, Texas Tech played one team with their whole conference schedule. They played against eight NFL players, right? Texas Tech. Whereas like teams played, if you played Clemson, they had Clemson had nine NFL draftees. So it's just like there is a big difference now in a growing distance, but like it's happening all over the place. There were only four FCS players drafted in this past weekend, man. That's crazy. It's because they keep getting pulled up. They caught you. They pulled up. It's just crazy, man. So yeah, it's just going to be the SEC in the big 10 eventually, there's not going to be, there's not going to be a need to have that argument because they're basically going to be the only ones that exist. Yeah. The super conference. That's where we're all headed. Next up. This is just a random story. Tokyo is going to host Oregon in the landmark football event in July. Okay. Or June, I should say. So Tokyo, Oregon trying to, you know, make something happen international college football. It's a big deal. I love when shit like that happens, man, with college teams get the guy, get a chance to go overseas and do something cool because you know, for all the talking that they do and college football about the academic side, you know, we got to work, make sure these kids graduate and go to class and make sure they're real part of the program. But the thing is the players very rarely get to study abroad or do internships that would apply to some sort of profession they might want to do other than football. They almost never get to do that kind of stuff. And so any bit of exposure outside of the football facility that they get to the world, I'm all for it, man. So yes, the great that they get to go to Japan. I'm going to tell you something right now. And I hope that the young brothers notice is Tokyo's not your spot for the young brothers on the football team really Tokyo for the white boys. Okay. They don't get the, I thought I heard something about not Japan, my name is Japan is for the white boys. Okay. Now, if you was, if you was headed to like, you know, maybe the brown reports of Asia, you know, the Philippines, you up what they should do with the young brothers should do is have them play a game either in Brazil, what it really can republic. Wow. Crazy. All right. We're going to put a whole new generation of players down here. Brazil likes football. I mean, it's a ball. I mean, look how you talking, but if you go into Tokyo, that's for the quarterbacks and for the offensive line. All right. Like that's what that's what the kickers, the kickers going to go crazy Tokyo, like that's going to be nuts. You know what else going to go crazy, like the managers of the team, like all in the, like the Tokyo is for them. That's a misconception. It's a misconception and that you're going to go to Tokyo as a brother, as a young brother and turn up. That's not, that don't, that Tokyo not on that. That's not what Tokyo on for all the brothers that went out there and thought, Hey, man, we're going to get us a day, and we're going to go to Tokyo. We're going to go crazy. We're going to spend over the Okinawa, no, Japan is not your spot. Okay. Next year, that it's different spots you could have, but Tokyo not going to be one of them. So, but if you are telling you right now, everybody else, like, you know, the white male cheer leaders up going well, yeah, like they, they're going to go crazy. Well, you know, so next year what they should do is they should schedule a sex tourism trip for the black players. Okay, Joe. I'm going to fuck you up, because you went after me and I told you, Joe, I'm trying to get you back. Next headline. Next headline, Joe. Okay. Next headline, Joe. Former Michigan head coach Jerome Moore's accuser Paige Shiver had her first TV interview since the arrest and firing a Moore. She said, quote, here's a man that had complete control over me. And quote, so this is a big week for that story to continue getting legs. Do we want to talk about this story? No. No. Okay. That's like that. There's a man that had complete control with me. That's how Joe feels about Bill. Joe. Okay. Fuck. No. I was so dumb with this shit. Okay. Yeah. Oh. I'll see you. I got you back. You took my whole lighthearted bit and you threw it and you made it dark. You completely killed my shit. Okay, my man. Alright. I got you back. You did elsewhere. That's fair. So fair, so fair. Well, I got you back.
got me first, but that's fine. That's true. I think it's I think we just handshake deal that we're done with the story overall. I'm over. We miss the mark from the start. You know, I can't do it anymore. Yeah. Right. But would it would it next time I say if I'm ever going to sleep around on Ms. Terry, it's going to be with Hillary fucking Rodham Clinton. You know, just can't just be careful out there, Doc. Don't you got to be with people that got. Is that really is that really what he said? Yeah. Yeah, that's a legendary story that he said his hall pass was Hillary Clinton. Well, he was basically about how important that tells me right now that at some point, he looked at because he is a lot people he could have said, right? At some point Nick Sabin was at some point Nick Sabin was drawing shit up and he saw Hillary Clinton on TV and he did like this with his glasses like, oh, who's that? Who's that? What's all in that? Hey, what's all in that pants? What's in that pants suit? That's all on in that motherfucking pants suit. Didn't even went back. Listen, you guys got a fucking lock-handed intensity. But like he, but no, that every time I hear that, I think Nick Sabin was trying to fuck on Hillary Clinton. That's true. He didn't say Jill Biden, which is what I would I wouldn't say Jill Biden. Didn't say Michelle Obama. I mean, just other people, Michelle Obama, you could say, like didn't say any other people. And I'm telling you right now, shout out to Ms. Terry, Bill Clinton will be down for it. No, clean probably. I know you know football would you be interested in the trade? Like Bill Clinton, you be in for it. Oh, that's good. Last last story. I just thought you guys would find this funny. Former UNC quarterback, Geo Lopez, who is now with Wakefarr said that the Tar Heels played classical music during the lifts and practiced his quote. He said, I'm a fan of Mozart too, but not when I'm on the football field. That's not going to hype me up in quote. So, do you guys believe that that North Carolina Bill Belichex playing classical music while during lifts and practices? I don't I feel like that's a made-up story. Me too. Don't you? As someone who's been to practice, they were not playing Mozart. So I don't know about that. That doesn't sound that doesn't sound like a thing that happened. It's a good story though. It doesn't good story. It's a good sound bite. You know, it sells. I don't think it's true, but it's funny. The thought of it is where what happened to cheat man dog? Where did I you think Texas take a take TJ Friendly right now, man? I think I would take TJ Friendly. North Carolina. You would say you would say TJ Friendly. Yeah, I think I think TJ Friendly would be a good stopgap or a good insurance policy for either school because Texas take got to be fucking scrambling right now. Oh, yeah. Well, they're back on quarterback who was pretty good. Will Hammond and he looked good. Yeah, and he's they think that he might be ready in time for the start of the season, but he gets severely hurt, right? It was like, it was a fuzzy fuck. Yeah, he's a new season in the media injury. So, and if they were that's it, if they were if that's sure that he could go next year, they wouldn't went out and spent six million dollars on the back. Exactly. Exactly. Their plan was to not have to deal with that kind of quarterback and again, you know, that's a good call though. TJ Friendly. He's out there. Give him a shot. He's the quarterback. He's our guy. Maybe we have on the show and have him repit yourself to the people. I love that. Yeah, that's good shit. You were acting like you were acting like he was like fucking Bigfoot. TJ Friendly. He's out there. He's lurking. He's not lurking. Always watching, huh? He's watching too, man. Yeah, he's got the TJ Friendly. Alright, parting shots. Van anything else before we get a big weekend here on my show game. I can't wait. Joel, the Duke, they coming in town. We going. Where are we going? Are we going to UCLA this weekend? UCLA Spring Game on Saturday? Yep. Yeah. I can't wait on Monday. My standup on Monday. Oh, yeah, we're rolling it up. Joel, like Joel and Billy are staying there. So if you guys want to meet the gators, go out there. Raise the roof. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're fine. What are you going to be exactly? At night, if we don't get our shit together, man, I'm probably just going to go out to the man had beach, man, just give me, so I like to do that, man, just get myself something warm to drink, go out on the pier, just kind of walk around and hang out at the beach. So we don't get our shit together. I got plans. I can make some happen. Joel, I'm at the beach. Coming out. Hey, I was just saying, you asked Riley. I'm not bad. Actually, I'll ask Riley. Hold on for a second. You didn't say you really didn't send it when I asked you earlier? No, he did. I got the message. Shout out to Van. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it, man. It'll be good times. Yeah. Yeah, we got a lot of good times ahead. It's going to be a fun weekend. We're excited. Next week we'll be in studio together doing ringer tailgate so everybody can watch us in studio. Thanks to Freess, thanks to Billy, thanks to Donnie, thanks to Alicia, thanks to everybody on the ringer tailgate team and thanks to you, the tailgators for listening to the show and we will see you all next week. Must be 21 or older and president select states for Kansas and affiliation with Kansas, Star Casino are 18 and older and president DC can tuck your Wyoming gambling problem call 1-800 gambler or 1-800-my-reset call 188-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit gamblinghelpline-ma.org or call 800-327-5050 for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8 hope and why or text hope and why in New York. For Louisiana call 1-877-770-7867.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts acknowledge Tate Frazier is dealing with a migraine and emphasize the show will proceed with humor and support to help him through.
A spirited debate arises comparing Hakeem Olajuwon and Nikola Jokić, with the group concluding that while both are elite, Olajuwon’s defensive impact and all-around dominance make him a more historic figure in basketball.
The team discusses the 2026 NFL draft, highlighting Diego Pavia’s undrafted status and strong college career, with Joel defending him as a character-driven underdog worthy of Hall of Fame recognition despite NFL skepticism.
Summary:
The episode of "Bring Your Tailgate" begins with a heartfelt acknowledgment of host Tate Frazier’s migraine, setting a tone of resilience and camaraderie as the team chooses to continue the show with humor and support. A major segment features a lively debate on whether Hakeem Olajuwon or Nikola Jokić is the greater all-time player, with the group ultimately favoring Olajuwon due to his elite defensive presence, rebounding, and ability to lead a championship team with minimal help. The discussion shifts to the 2026 NFL draft, where Joel passionately defends Diego Pavia, a quarterback who went undrafted despite a legendary college career, including 10 win seasons and multiple accolades.
Joel argues that Pavia embodies the underdog spirit college fans love and believes he deserves Hall of Fame recognition. He also points out that Pavia’s signing with the Ravens signals a strong future, despite physical and personality challenges. The segment includes jokes about Ty Simpson being dubbed “Big Daddy” by fans, a draft move that draws criticism but also praise for the Rams’ boldness.
The hosts also address personal topics, including a humorous exchange about text messaging, and a deep dive into the fallout of Matthew Stafford not communicating with Ty Simpson after the draft, prompting a playful discussion about relationship dynamics and trust. The episode concludes with a lighthearted reflection on Bill Belichick’s continued public presence and a humorous confusion over the term “boutine model,” underscoring the show’s blend of sports analysis, personal stories, and inside jokes.
FAQs
Diego Pavia went undrafted despite being a legendary college player with 10 win seasons and a Heisman finalist. His underdog status and strong character resonate with college football fans, who value resilience and unique personalities over traditional metrics.
Yes, Diego Pavia signed with the Ravens as a free agent after the 2026 NFL draft, despite not being drafted, which shows his continued commitment to the NFL and his potential to play professionally.
Ty Simpson was drafted in the first round by the Rams, a move seen as a strategic shift given the team's focus on developing a new franchise quarterback, though it sparked debate about whether it was a wise pick.
The show raises questions about whether Matthew Stafford’s wife DM’d Ty Simpson after his draft, which could indicate a personal or professional tension, though the situation was later dismissed as innocent.
The nickname 'Big Daddy Simpson' reflects both Joe’s admiration for Ty Simpson and the Rams’ strategic move to draft a quarterback, highlighting how fans use affectionate labels to celebrate underdog success.
While Diego Pavia may face challenges due to his size and playing style, the show believes he could have a meaningful career, possibly in the CFL, where his unique playing style could thrive.
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