PMS 2.0 1614 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL 53 Man Rosters Are Set, Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead, Adam Schefter, Daniel Jeremiah, Dan Orlovsky, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the DraftKings Dunderdome. On this Overreaction Monday, August 31st, 2026, this sports program begins now. Football is the absolute greatest, and we have NFL teams and rosters potentially selected. We have week zero of college football that has happened. It sees Bill Belichick, the greatest NFL coach of all time, have his biggest win in Dublin after scoring only 15 points to secure a massive win. It may be a little bit of a forecast of what this year could look like for the Tar Heels down there in North Carolina. Bill Belichick, whenever he took the North Carolina job, said he wanted to develop men. He wanted to, you know, have good recruiting classes. He wanted to turn these boys into basically an NFL academy, and they're going to operate as a 33rd team. Whenever he gets a job down there in North Carolina, alongside Michael Lombardi as the general manager, they missed out on a full recruiting class. Obviously, there wasn't a lot of people that were thrilled that they got hired. It has been a little bit of a chaotic start publicly. Inevitably, in the end, though, they stuck to the entire task of trying to develop a team. They get a false start first down to win this thing. They obviously score on a safety, and Bill Belichick says, this is exactly what I thought would happen. This year's team looks a lot different than last year's team. Obviously, they look bigger, faster, stronger, and Bill Belichick is going to have the boys in every single game if he doesn't get run off the field athletically. So, I think. What happened in Dublin is fascinating because, obviously, Dublin is a special place in our hearts with how much they love ball and how much they love, potentially, the physicality. To see a nice, grinded-out Bill Belichick football game over there in Ireland to start this entire college football season, certainly a beautiful thing. Him holding up the diamond helmet as a trophy, as if it was more important than the Lombardi, in which he has won a bunch of. I mean, he was just super jacked up and super pumped. And I think. Him and the boys both have felt a little bit of a bunker mentality on how the writing and studying and the researching has been on Bill Belichick. And we heard Feinbaum this morning on First Take, and we appreciate him doing what he did. He said, I've been harder on him than anybody, and that's a huge win. You may be looking at a bowl game this year in this entirety. He called him the worst college football coach of all time. Now, do we feel kind of associated to Bill Belichick, even though I played for the Indianapolis Colts? Certainly. Bill Belichick came on our show once a week. We developed a big, big relationship with him. We learned from him. We got smarter for him. Whenever he decided to go back to college, we said, college? There's a lot of. Coach. Coach. We actually told him, hey, I don't know if that's the right thing. They just want to get back into football. I think they do want to do the future of football right. And I think Bill Belichick was thinking four or five-year plan here. Develop, recruit, get our culture in here. Everybody says he's older, he's older. He's like, what else do you think this guy's going to do with his life? Hey, has he not proven that all he's going to be doing until his dying days is coach, ball? I think that's pretty obvious. Just like Tom Moore over at Iowa is still waking up at 4 a.m. or something like that to go watch film with the boys. It's like Bill Belichick will be committing his life to ball. And right now, I think he's committed to proving everybody wrong that has said that he has no chance of being a college football coach and trying to run his ass out of town. Good luck to him. I was happy for him. Oh, yeah. I was very, very happy for him. That was huge. And then on the other side, TCU, what the hell's going on? Uh-oh. What the hell is going on down there? What the hell's going on? They're in the national championship just a few years back. I know. Uh-huh. They got money, from our understanding. Yeah. Anytime you put that middle word in there, normally there's a little bit of money, right? That helps. That C in there normally draws a little bit of cash somewhere. I think it's called tides or some shit. I think people feel obligated to the entirety. So what the hell happened at TCU? Maybe Bill Belichick just made him play left-handed. Yep. Maybe Bill Belichick did everything that he did in the NFL and now is able to do it in college because he has guys that can maybe keep up in a fistfight with the people they're playing against. That roster looked vastly different than last year's roster. Happy for Bill. Also pumped that we got to experience some college football. I mean, everything. I mean, everything. I mean, everything. There was some magical moments. You see Stanford, Hawaii, nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler, Stanford, and Hawaii, our guy, Andrew Luck, general manager slash coach slash potential practice squad player for the Stanford football team. They got into a dogfight with Hawaii. He was literally out there with the boys. They get a huge win to start the season. I felt alive watching these moments, watching these games. There were some comebacks. There was good football. There was some energy. It felt real, D-Bud. Absolutely. College football is all the way back. Football is all the way back. We see high school football where the teams, the rosters are made now. The NFL. But to see Andrew Luck out there after, obviously, we spoke with him in Canton. See him out there literally in the trenches helping his guy off the field. I heard another player refer to him as coach. So we don't know how involved he is on a day-to-day. But he is fully bought into the Stanford program. It was good to see some good football. Back to that Bill Belichick win with UNC. It was just a win, just classic Belichick fashion. You always talk about teams when you're playing against a Bill Belichick coached teams. A lot of times they beat themselves. It was a lot of times where, you know, fourth down, didn't got turnovers. Turnovers went down to TCU early in this game. We're in this analytics kind of go-forward world. It was like a fourth and two maybe where he settled for like a 20-yard field goal. First try. And everybody's like, oh, here it is. But that didn't end up being the difference in the game. That field goal and then the snap that goes over his head. And you get a five-point win against the same team that blew the doors off you last year to kind of start your college football career. We were there on the field. That first drive, we're like, oh, they might have something here. And then TCU did what they did. But, yeah, this is a big-time win for Bill and obviously for Stanford and Andrew Luck as well. Yeah, good for Stanford. Good for Bill. Good for South Dakota State's punter. I don't know if you guys saw this guy. He hit an absolute bomb to start the season. Mr. Pelham, I appreciate the hell out of what you did, Max. He has a lot of field to work with here. They're up 70-7. Stetson could have given up and then potentially did. Does not matter when it comes to this aspect of the game. He ends up with a 70-yard punt here. Perfect ball to the numbers. Gets a great bounce. Returner from Stetson. Down 63 points. Says, I don't want anything to do with this thing. And then he, I believe. I believe that's a baseball swing, I think, as if he hit a home run. And it did feel like football was back, back, back, back, back. A ode to Chris Berman this weekend. Football also got something else back. And that's Aaron Donald was back. Oh, yeah. Come on. The Talks of the Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. Boys, it just doesn't feel real that Aaron Donald and Myles Garrett are going to line up next to each other. Ty, from the beginning of this whole conversation about Myles Garrett going back and being like, could that entice Aaron Donald to potentially want to come out of retirement? Two years removed. He retired. He retired at the peak of football and of his game as a world champion. Said he feels like he accomplished everything at the time. He's like, I had 10-time All-Pro. I don't know what else. You know? Defensive MVP. Super Bowl champion. Changed the trajectory of my life, my family's life. Found my wife. I mean, I don't know why I would want to continue to do this. Two years into retirement, I think he was obviously like most football players, especially at the top of the league, maybe getting a little itch. You know? Yeah. Trying to scratch that itch a little bit. Working out. How you doing? Keep it moving. Seize. Miles Garrett gets sent over to Los Angeles Rams. He goes, wait a minute. Me and Miles Garrett next to each other. Somebody's got to get doubled. Somebody's not going to get doubled. One of us is not. This seems like a dream scenario of the Avengers. And then he finds out he can get paid $20 million, up to $30 million to do as such. And he doesn't come back until the end of training camp. I mean, this feels like a perfect setup for Aaron Donald and the Los Angeles Rams. We'll be talking to Les Snead here in about eight minutes to hear about how this all kind of came together. Congrats to all the parties over there. This feels unfair, though, doesn't it? Yeah. It feels a little bit unfair. Shouldn't he have had to go back into, like, a draft or something? Like, when you get retired, you've got to go back. You won't come back. You're going to get drafted. That's not a bad idea. So, like, the Colts, who I don't know if we have $20 million. Honestly, there's been a report. People are saying you do. There's people saying we've got a lot of money. Who knows? How does this happen? And doesn't this feel a little like cheating? Because what they did in the back end as well this offseason. You're an NFC Green Bay Packers owner. I am new NFC Seattle Seahawks fan. And I love what they're doing. So, I don't necessarily love it. This feels unfair, Ty Schmidt. Yeah, it does feel unfair. And we've known this was going to happen all along. From the first time you kind of called Aaron Donald up there and, you know, had your correspondence with him, we knew. It was just a matter of time. We didn't know exactly when it was going to happen. Hey, maybe he'll wait until after Australia or whatever the case may be. But, yeah, it was kind of just perfect timing. Every time we saw one of these workout videos come out, it's like, oh, wow, this guy looks like he played last season. It doesn't look like he ever left. And I think you've kind of been. You know, trying to just put it out of your mind a little bit. I mean, him coming back, that very reminiscent of Jordan. And I think, like, you know, it's kind of like the same thing. You've got a guy this dominant coming out and coming back to a team who, on paper, was already a very heavy favorite to win the Super Bowl. And, man, I'm just thinking of the other guys on the defensive line for the Rams who are maybe, like, in line to get paid, like, next year or the year after. Who, before Aaron Donald, yeah, you have Myles Garrett. That's great. Like, some of these guys might have 12 sacks this year, you know. Running Scott-ass free. Exactly. Exactly. I watched him. We've all seen him. We've all seen him where a guy will get a sack and he's not even touched. And it just runs into him. Full celebration because those aren't going to come all the time. So, let's definitely act like that was something that was hard to do. But if you've got Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald on the same D-line, it does feel like there's going to be a lot of people kind of forgotten about in the preparation. And then on the back end here, if you're going to get to the quarterback like that, corners, from my understanding, that is incredible news. Oh, yeah. For corners, for safeties. Even for linebackers, when you talk about coverage, because you can only get five eligible receivers out. But with monsters like this up front, you've got to keep a back end to protect. You've got to keep a tight end to protect. And, I mean, I've never seen anything like this. Now, this is if Aaron Donald comes back as the Aaron Donald that he left, which we kind of all assume he will. But, you know, he hasn't played football, missed training camp, I'm sure, intentionally, and I expect him to still be the mutant that he is. But you just look at these numbers, the TFLs, the forced fumbles, obviously the sacks. But, yeah, it's going to be a dream. dream come true. This would be like a defensive secondary or defense having to we're having a conversation about jay rice and randy moss this is both of those guys on the field at the same time like who you cut third down red zone just all these different situations so down after down i don't know how many snaps he will take you know game in game out but just preparing for these guys we always talk about the trenches it starts there how do you prepare for 99 and 95 i have no idea and on the preparation side offensive linemen around the nfl since these two have been in the nfl have had multiple calls but two of them definitely check 99 and check 95 okay that's just those are just natural things that are happening as soon as the team breaks a hot eight break coming in there where's 99 okay you're looking for 99 immediately right here there's a call probably being made ad right even in there so that tells okay center guard this is where you're staying so tackle you're all by yourself out there everybody else kind of floating to the left side okay let's check 95 okay guard you're staying with tackle out there that's what you're going to do everybody else has to make up to it so now you got those two on the same fucking defensive line i don't know i genuinely don't and the other guys are very the other guys the other guy the other guys very talented guys very productive so you know they're obviously going to get all the intentions with attention and they're still going to win those matches they're still going to beat double teams they're still going to now you have these other guys with one-on-ones like as a corner trent mcduffie jaylen watson like i mean that's this is a dream come true let's go to one half come the odds on favorite uh by even more to win the super bowl but i guess if you start touching super duper favorite lines in odds it's not great says the history tone is that accurate yeah so they went from plus 550 to plus 500 over the weekend after the ad officially coming back but per ben fox of yahoo sports he put it out yesterday over the last 30 years there's been 20 teams who have been plus 500 or shorter so that means plus 500 400 250 whatever and they are oh and 20 over the last 30 years on winning the super bowl if you are the favorite of plus 500 or shorter probably one of the great reasons why the nfl is so awesome yes in every sport there's favorites like this and they tend to win the championship but in the nfl parody everything that can happen during a season that's why the nfl is the greatest so doesn't exactly mean the rams are going to win the super bowl this year yeah well it's going to be hard to see anybody gain a yard against them but i guess it's going to have to happen and the seattle seahawks oh by the way watch hard knocks to see how they feel about it all because there's a lot of the reaction from seahawks fans saying all this to stop sam donald all of this just to stop good tweet i believe they were not only nick incredible on the defensive side i saw some people saying all this stuff stop a ginger guy yeah yeah sam donald shout out to him doing it for not only him his hair color people but also just being counted out in his contract right now good for the team yeah remember this was a contract that was offered to geno smith i do believe and geno felt either disrespected by it or thought it was kind of a big deal but i think it was a big deal it was a big deal i don't think it was a big deal but i think it was a big deal it was a big deal it was a big deal it was a big deal it was a big deal sam donald comes in takes similar deal that you know smith was offered allegedly from what our understanding is publicly we don't know if uh internally it was different information of what we were learning on the show but nonetheless they got a good contract up there at the quarterback and they have a team that's uh not scared of a damn thing so that game might be uh 10 10 going into fourth quarter late and then who makes the mistake or creates the opportunity on the defensive side con man uh miles garrett aaron donald yeah mcduffie on the back side we read an article earlier today about less neat okay uh that was comparing him to warren buffett basically and warren buffett i guess has these uh pillars like the main things he stays with in any dances i guess like coca-cola mcdonald's like hey they're always going to be good we gotta make sure this is good need though we can dance around here they are basically saying less need huge warren buffett fan and i think less knows very uh the investment world very well comes from it i think and we'll probably end up at it again if he was to do it but he said on the defensive side uh he likes d tackle we're invested in obviously edge rusher and then number one corner okay this offseason yeah genius mcduffie number one corner miles garrett the pass rusher and then the d tackle aaron donald all joining the team he's got to be floating around over there and they're able to pay him 20 million dollars it's crazy to think what's possible at this stage for the salary cap and this los angeles rams team who are already favored insane and they're probably going to end up paying aaron donald 30 million dollars because they're going to win everything and he's going to hit every single one of them and they're going to win every single one of them and they're going to his incentives but i mean when has there been a move at least in recent history where the conversation on monday is about hey is this team going to win every single game like are they going to go 20 in o and not lose anything and it's hard to think that they won't you know they're going to be favored in every single one of their games i don't know if they already were before there was a few but now they definitely will be favored i assumed that before aaron donald signed the odds were already kind of adjusted to him being there and then once he actually went there sportsbooks had to be like, holy shit, okay, we need to lower this even more because if we don't, everyone's going to hammer them. It is exciting as a fan of the game, but as a fan of a different team wanting my team to win the Super Bowl, it sucks because it's just you look across the board and you said, and we're talking about their defense, but the MVP plays quarterback for them. And they have Kyron Williams and Puka Nakua and Devontae Adams and all these other guys. I don't ever want to hope that somebody gets hurt. What? No way! What are you doing? Don't do that. Don't ever do that. But there has to be some sort of handicap or something where they have to play the first quarter with only 10 guys on defense or something. They don't even need a linebacker at this point. You talk about needing a couple guys to fill the hole. They don't need to do that. So they should play with maybe nine guys for the first half of every single football game because there is a chance we're staring down just one of those, hey, we said it before the season, the Rams are going to win, and they go on and go 20-0. Who were the 2017 Patriots? Which team was that? That was the Randy Moss, Tom Brady. Tom Brady set the record for most passing touchdowns. Randy set the record for the most receiving touchdowns they had. Basically every single position was stacked across the board and then they ended up going 18-0. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You know what happens. The perfect team that ends up not being pro. What are you saying, Bruce? It says 2017. It should say 2007. 2007, okay. You said it right. Yeah, okay, got it. So 2007 was that team. Randy Moss, Wes Walker. This is like what a lot of people right now are saying now. New England's got their best team since, and then 2007 is that team. That's when, you know, the David Tyree catch, all that shit in the Super Bowl against the Giants. But that team was stacked, but they didn't have Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett. Like, you couldn't, you can't really compare those two teams because on defense, and of course they had fantastic players, Hall of Famers on there, but they didn't have the two best guys by a mile at their respective positions. And again, like D-Bunt said, on offense, they had the greatest of all time. You had Tom Brady and Randy Moss, who, of course, I lean over Jerry, even though some of those Jerry stats D-Bunt kind of told us about are insane, a la Wayne Gretzky, but they didn't have these two. Like, when you have those two players, and then again, the MVP of the frickin' league. Like, Stafford shouldn't be able to play. Know what they should do? They need to get rid of that red light therapy thing, and they shouldn't be able to use it anymore. The immortal chamber. Well, you think Stafford's the only one using that? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right. None of them on that team can use it. The rest of the league can use it, but no more Rams in a mortal chamber. I do appreciate the fact that that is a reasonable thought, that this team should have to have some sort of you know, thing working against something. They need ten players, nine players. Yes. Maybe a bigger football. McVay doesn't get a. Ooh, I like that. Maybe they need a bigger, like the football has to be, like, do you see Deion Dawkins throwing the. The watermelon there? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Everybody trying to catch that? That's what they have to play with. Grease it up. Yeah. Yeah. That's what has to happen. Left-handed throws by Stafford on first downs. Joining us now is a man who put that roster together. Has never won an Executive of the Year award. Interesting. Which is a fascinating thing. Maybe this year. Maybe. Maybe. But I think what everybody wanted to say to him is, yeah, but you're sacrificing the future. You're leveraging yourself. This isn't the right way to do it. You just do it right. You just want a Super Bowl in your home stadium, man. That's not. But the future's not. And then he's. Never won it. Never. That's because the people that are voting on that are smarter than him. Remember, he's not going to figure it out. You're leveraging the future. We're smarter. This ain't going to work. This is a stupid decision, actually, what you're doing. It's not a good decision. That's what they're saying to themselves, I think. Because nobody's ever really been able to just pack the box with studs. Nor should they be able to. Yeah. Okay. Maybe rules are changed because of this guy. Ladies and gentlemen, the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams, Les Snead. Yes! Boys are trying to change rules. How's it going, guys? Because the roster you put together, I don't know if you heard that. They were thinking about maybe you have to play with ten guys on a football field. I was kind of brainstorming maybe all up football and make football a little bit bigger because what you guys are doing, seemingly unfair. So, congratulations. Congratulations on that. Can you tell me about the Aaron Donald journey? Because I think we talked to you shortly after there was maybe a little bit of interest or maybe a little bit of intrigue for Aaron. And you told us and everybody that knows Aaron to text him and tell him hey, now's a good time to remind him that he's a great football player. Can you just tell me about this road and when did you think it was going to be a reality? It seemed like it started probably with a text to you. Live on this show, right? That's probably where this whole idea was birthed. No! Okay, so you tell us where it was birthed because we remember Ty Simpson remember saying, I didn't meet with anybody. I had no meetings with anybody for this entire thing. So, we know you're working back there. Can you tell us your side of this and how we got to this point with Aaron? Well, I think I think it did. Once, let's call it once it naturally evolved, I think Aaron explained it well yesterday, in that, okay, based on what we were doing, probably based on where he was at in life, it was like, you know what, maybe I want to do football again. I think the part that, if you know Aaron Donald, from that thought of, I might want to get back on the field, and then it gets probably with Aaron is, okay, if I get back on the field, I want to be Aaron Donald. I don't just want to be another football player. So very impressive in what he did from that moment until yesterday, is he put himself through a grueling summer. There was no, I don't know, there was no cruises, there was no vacations. Aaron's summer was, can I do this or not? And there were times where, it was interesting, there were times when Aaron was trying to figure out, is my body. Is my body going to be sore? Is it going to be able to hold up? And there were times I was thinking, well, if you keep doing, if you keep working the way you're working, there's no way your body's going to hold up. What he did over the summer was impressive, but it was all to come back and try to be as close to Aaron Donald as possible. Okay, so that's what we were kind of talking about. Like, if he comes back to being Aaron Donald, which we all assume he will, but I think he was wondering himself if he was going to be able to do that. Did you, like, put him through a workout? Were you watching the same? Were you watching the same videos we were watching? Like, when does the push come to shove? Or was this all on him deciding whether or not he wanted to come back? And then business-wise, was it kind of an understood situation at this time of the calendar on what was available, what wasn't available? Because I think when we saw 20 million, it was like, good for Aaron. And obviously, he could have, if he wants to come back and hit the market, there would have been 30, 40, 50 for Aaron Donald in there. So can you tell us a little bit about how does the decision process go from Aaron to calling you and saying I'm ready? And then business-wise, was that already kind of figured out? Here's what I'll give business-wise. I'll give Stan Kroenke, our owner, credit. Think about our offseason. Back to the, I mean, it seems like we've all forgotten about the trade for Trent McDuffie, right? And him becoming a well-paid corner, bringing in his partner in Kansas City, Jalen Watson. And then we kind of get a bonus there after the draft with the trade for Miles Garrett. And then, let's call it June. July, August, right? Hey, that's one of the pillars in Rams history. Aaron Donald wants to come back. So without Stan Kroenke being able to go, you know what? This is a unique, rare opportunity. Let's try to make it happen. We couldn't have done this. I mean, you're knocking, you want to talk about budgets? We all have budgets. We blew through the budget a long time ago. So give Stan credit. I also give the players, give his teammates credit, right? He wanted to come back. He wanted to come back and play with this group. He had played with some of them, not all of them. And he was looking forward to coming back and joining them. I mentioned to Sean yesterday, our head coach. Everybody knows who Sean is. For a player of his caliber to want to leave retirement and probably be, what, two, three years away from a first ballot, possibly Hall of Fame moment, to go, you know what? I'll put that on hold to come back and play for you. I think their relationship. It's special. So it took Stan. It took Sean. It took, right, all the players that he's going to come back, his now teammates, for all of this to come together. Yeah, you too, brother. Okay. And we read your little Warren Buffett piece in Wall Street Journal. And obviously we know your incredible brain and assets and investing. I did, Pat, I did go check my bank account. And I was like, wait a minute, that comparison's way off. It just seems like his bank account to mine, it just wasn't jiving. Yeah, but at some point, you know, you'll be able to take, you'll be able to take advantage of all the lessons and things that you do because it does feel like the pillars in which you have on the defensive side are smart. If we have a good D tackle, we're probably going to be good. Good pass rusher, we're good. Number one corner. Those three will spend whatever the hell you need. And on the offensive side, every position but interior offense alignment, right tackle, and tight end, we feel like we can find people for. Where the stars are is where you have to invest. Let's talk about you investing in all those positions and bringing the stars into L.A. Whenever you first did this run, and it was the, you know, F them picks type run, all the people that are super geniuses said, well, let's need sacrifice in his future right now. He's leveraging everything in the future just to try to win this Super Bowl this year. And when you did that, all the super geniuses were like, well, now he's way to go. You ruined everything going forward. Had a down year, but then you were able to reload. And you hit on draft picks. Right now with what you're doing, McDuffie, Miles Garrett, Aaron Donald, let alone the offensive side, Matthew Stafford signs a new deal, Puka's up. Everybody's kind of doing it. What are you leveraging against right now? You said you blew through the budget a long time ago. I assume that was from Kroenke, not Sutherkamp. Where are you leveraged right now, and why? We talk about the executive of the year. What's everybody saying you're doing completely wrong in this particular case in your eyes? Where are you? Is it next year? Do we not have draft picks? Have we ruined money and cap in the future? We're not going to be able to field a team, maybe? You're not even going to be able to have 11 guys on the squad? What is the downside of all these big moves for you? Maybe we'll go back to your partner's rules next year where, hey, we only have 10 on the field, or we're throwing left-handed. We don't have enough money, potentially. Let's put 12 on the field this year. You are! Yeah, maybe 13 with Miles and Aaron Donald and McDuffie out there. Yeah, you are. That's what we're saying. It's a vision. You mentioned, let's go to the word stars. Stars is one thing, and I think a star actually means right. Some player, especially in football, you did something on the field where, wow, you have risen to the cream of the crop, which is hard to rise to. There's a lot of really, really talented, skilled humans doing their thing on the football field. But at the end of the day, you definitely want to bring in players that we do think can impact the game. Maybe change the maps a little bit. You're never going to be able to play with 11. That's going to be a penalty. They're going to throw a flag. But if at times it can feel like 12, that's a good thing. That's what we'll try to do. There's trade-offs in football. We're going to weigh the moment, a little more than the future moments, but we're cognizant of the future moments. But I do think, I'll keep it simple. We've talked about our era with Matthew Stafford, who's the MVP in this. Let's make the most of that time together. We should. We believe that's the right thing to do because we're fortunate to have the MVP on our team playing quarterback at his age. That's a fortunate thing that we're going to try to take advantage of, and we'll get to the future in the future. God, your team has to love that. Yes, I absolutely love that. D-Bot has the last question for you here, Les. We appreciate your time. Yeah, Les, we were actually talking about those 12 and 13 groups, and it makes me think about that tight end room. I believe you kept five on the initial 53-man roster. Is that more so of like, hey, just keeping our best 53? Or do you guys expect to continue to evolve and use more and more tight ends like you did last season going forward? I think it's all those things. We wouldn't have kept five if we weren't going to continue using some of that 13 package. Or there's a possibility you would have kept five, if all of a sudden that fifth tight end was just glaring one of your best players. Because we always look at it this way, is there's 48 they're going to address, and the 49 through 53 are some version of, you know, they're in church, they're there in case you need them, they're not dressing. So we try to make that 48, right? As special teams cover, or all the position groups cover. But we definitely plan on using the multiple tight end formation, at least for the time, being, you never know, Sean may evolve somewhere along the way in the season like he did. Yeah, we may go to 14. Oh, he's frozen. Oh, Sean, so you're talking too much. 14 personnel. Yeah, Sean was shutting down your internet right there saying, hey, we don't need to hear 14 personnel. Okay, we don't need to hear. That was definitely Sean. Yeah, yeah, definitely talking about it, especially now with Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald possibilities, you know, in the backfield. Sure. No. Yeah. Not allowed. Yeah, maybe you do go to 14 personnel. You know, there's a chance that you got Aaron Donald, Myles Garrett, lined up right there, right next to Matthew Stafford. Oh, my. Triple option. Oh, my. And Myles Garrett. I like that. We need to hire some consultants in this group. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thank you. I mean, we will come up with as many ideas as you need. Very expensive. Keep blowing through our budget. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. We hear Stan is willing to pay everything for whatever piece of information. We'll take this off air as we talk about that. Speaking of air, okay, I said last question there completely wrong. We're heading, you're heading down to Australia. Go ahead. Yeah, Les, you got to go halfway around the world for week one opener. And we found out the, you know, Niners are leaving this Wednesday for the game next week. But you guys, I believe, are leaving the day before, maybe two days before. Technically, are you leaving the same day the game is as you fly into the future? What is that play? That's a good question. Yeah, I think when you do the math in Australia, leaving on the same day, you probably get there the same day, get there in time to warm up and play. It is, I can't say this as we get closer to the game, and we're getting close to right 10, nine days out, you start realizing, wow, you lose a day, you gain a day. It is a, I've never been to Australia, but it's a tough plan to plan because Tuesday's now Wednesday and Wednesday's now Thursday, all those days. We'll see what happens. We'll get there, we'll warm up, and you know what? We'll play the game. We're going to try to score more points than the Niners. And you know what they're going to try to do? They're going to try to score more points than us. I know that. That's right. We've had a lot of battles with this group over the years. - And it's a huge game down there in Australia. And we know the people of Australia show up i like the thought of sean mcveigh going only one team in the history of the nfl has gone undefeated okay we lose this game who gives a fuck we're flying 27 hours down to this place okay we will wake up play the game come home what day is it who cares we're going into a movie basically down there and then the niners they're heading out there this wednesday yeah i mean their nfl season starts this wednesday i've never seen two polar opposite views on a trip to somewhere and obviously it's the first time going there but it's like does any of it matter well no well this also sets the stage for every team after like hey if the niners because they're going out a week before what's that no it's obvious they're trying to get away from the substations oh i didn't even think about that trying to get a healthier place could be i didn't even think of that okay well this is a little bit how we travel east we did it when we went to london last year i know i know australia you go a different direction than when you go to london but we've kind of done it this way before so we'll see how it goes we'll see if it works going i guess you'd call it west versus flying east we're i know this we're going to take off from lax and we're going over the pacific i call that west but i think you're also going up over these moments where you know what this is a meme and i have no clue my uh geography and directions but can we get a map up here listen it's really far but i think you're also flying you fly up over too right don't you because the the globe the the circumference of yeah is a little bit of uh don't do that see an australian flight is one of those ones where you can maybe find that out because they have a little screen in front of you telling you exactly where you're flying you're going up over top a lot of blue okay so it's not you're heading down here huh i think you're gonna go this way here if i had to guess i think and i think you're coming out down here yeah right right on that bad boy right there you see that less i like it i think that's what you guys are doing if i had to guess because you know you see in you know you're going that bad boy right there you see that less i think that's what you guys are doing if i had to guess because you know you see you're a bang boom you still go up if you can't by the way because the globe you see smaller you see that's right here d-butt okay you're saying something about it looking like this everywhere oh yeah just now you got this thing look i thought i thought the planet was round i didn't know it had that flat top well kind of bog work cut you get the bog cut up there i guess nobody really says it's potentially built like this you know like your guys is so fine yeah yeah top of the stadium top of the stadium bolly d boards all right well safe travels down there we appreciate everything you're doing for sports man it's fun to watch your roster come together we're all wondering why our teams didn't do it but congrats to you doing it pal appreciate it enjoy always enjoy coming home you're the best yeah safe travels dude man less need yeah less never won the executive of the year that's because everybody was telling me stupid you're yeah you're ruining your team of the future that's what they said when it was the picks like why does it have to be like that's what they said when it was the picks like why does it have to everybody do this well every other team that had never done that before had to tell their people their ownership their fans you can't do that we really want me to you want to put the the organization into the toilet for the next five ten years we're trying to have sustained success here and then all of a sudden he's like well actually we are thinking about right now we'll worry about that interview we're cognitive of the future but we're certainly worried about right now that was a very transparent answer there from les snea what he was like uh matthew stafford how many years he's got left let's go ahead and win with this guy now yeah that is the best mindset like hey we've finally have or not finally because even when golf was there they went to a super bowl but hey we have the guy we have a chance to just go on and do historic things why not just do it it feels like he's one of those guys though where he understands that mcveigh gets a ton of love and stafford like even when they won that first super bowl cooper cup was getting all the love big wit one walter payton man of the year like he almost is like i don't care like everybody else can take all the credit and that's what we talked about with john schneider right before the show out there like john schneider never won anything until this past season probably because of that thought when they won the first one it was like hey pete carroll like pete carroll look at the job he's done with this team and how incredible it is but it feels like after this year this will be the less need like how the hell did this guy do this he's unbelievable other news in the nfc west as uh we kind of travel around uh the pacific area jeez they're so far over there yeah yeah that's where your team lives man yeah well my nfc team excuse me yeah because hey you like that by the way i love that i'm watching hard knocks i'm falling in love with this i'm like man this guy is awesome he's getting after people the boys are kind of giving it back but also it feels like they have a real culture won the super bowl so you can see a lot of egos potentially yeah right they pay people they celebrate people the way they talk i love the way that building operates and it couldn't be set up any better for them because we talk about it with the college coaches with hey number one ranking for you know oregon or ohio state and it's like all right you got that rat poison that nick saban talks about nobody's talking about the seahawks obviously we're talking about because the hard knocks and you know some of their players but every it's all rams rams rams and that's right in their division you know they had battles with them uh last season that we that we all saw so they're still somewhat flying under the radar so i mean that that's got to be great for uh mike mac in that building day in and day out to keep those boys motivated a couple huge trades this weekend cowboys sent a third and a six round pick to the steelers for a fourth rounder and broderick jones broderick jones you'll remember is after aaron threw a touchdown yeah clothesline him from the neck tackles him down to the ground huge prospect absolute stud of a human when you look at him i think pittsburgh steelers fans are okay with the trade happening and uh hopefully he has just like george pickens uh maybe a little bit better career with the cowboys is that how the yinzers are viewing this yeah that'd be great for broderick uh he was not going to start for the steelers this year he was going to be probably a swing tackle piece so getting a uh third and or moving up around from four to three and this was huge in my eyes first rounder um and it just it just never worked out um he got hurt last season but yeah hopefully he does great with the cowboys yeah that was awesome we remember this we all remember this man want to clip one of the best ones from last year right after the little i mean right in the middle of the air and he punched him right in the chest before this too oh man golly who is that it's one of your tackles right now okay all right he's a player of the athlete yeah he's an incredible player joining us now is an absolute stud and congrats to him his podcast has officially been announced alongside omaha and espn ladies and gentlemen mr move the sticks daniel jeremiah how you doing dj i'm doing great boys i appreciate you having me on man we got a podcast uh move we we launched that thing on thursday so i'm pumped about that um and i'm just more uh pumped about the fact that broderick jones never plugged me upside the back of the head so there's also that i'm happy i i know these humans exist like herbie gets a little excited and starts hitting and shoving and stuff i guess there is a breed of human out there who gets really happy and just wants to like fully shove once again i'm not saying herbie's like that but he's close he's right there herbie's like kind of on the line of those types of people i've never really been around one of those guys i do know they exist out there and if they do you gotta keep your head on swivel yeah because they're looking for you and you got to know that i think look at the dude in the background by the way i love there's a guy who's like smiling and then there's a player next to him who who's really seeing what's going on he has a very concerned look on his face uh but i think everybody's trying to process that whole thing in real time yeah i mean i'm hey it was good it was a good moment pre-game head butter i've had a few of those on the team let's go yeah you gotta uh especially if you're not buckled uh-huh which you are yeah and that thing's five down yeah every single time and they are though and i don't know they're ready yeah i don't know how they have that capability we had offense alignment uh came out onto the team i think for like a week which we'll get into here with daniel jeremiah because i think it fits in well special teams people bottom half of the roster we know that there's a 53 person roster right now and there's a lot of people excited and putting on their instagram that they're a part of an nfl team not like deja love but like they are actually on an nfl team at this exact moment they're putting it on there and then somebody else that's at the bottom of a roster somewhere else will get cut and all of a sudden you're no longer on a team i mean i had two breakfasts with guys that thought they made an nfl team for the first time we're so excited telling their family holy shit look at the story and then after the second breakfast before lunch never saw that guy get that guy cut gone never made the team i hope i don't know how that entire thing went but we saw some offensive linemen come in middle of the season and after the extra point or field goal they were head butters with like wherever they came from like a college or something natural instinct was and yeah like just going up the dap guy up and all of a sudden just eating a full helmet it was like hold on brady brady was a big big oh yeah tunnel come get some wake up i guess yeah i guess that was a little wake up for him too yeah willie mcginnis had to calm him down that was a super bowl clip where willie's like dude calm down yeah there's the pukers willie tells you to calm down you you calm down willie's the size of an actual barn oh yeah that man and he is absolutely chiseled i don't i don't think i'd want any piece of willie at all no okay let's talk about these rosters that have happened dan or jeremiah obviously you're you know the draft prospect guy especially because you are the color commentator for the combine every single year or some surprises maybe for you you know we have a couple of different graphics a couple of different things that you wanted to kind of point out uh we won't start with the rookies that we'll get to that let's start with the best additions for teams from dan or jeremiah look at that hey got a graphic dj look at this wow yeah we don't have But we certainly have the opportunity for you to do that right now. Daniel Jaramaz, best additions for teams as we sit right here on overreaction monday post cut day in the nfl let's work five to one pat let's go uh the forgotten man uh less need was just on they made trent mcduffie the highest paid corner in the nfl and it's like nobody even remembers that this whole thing even happened after miles garrett and aaron donald but i mean that is a that was a big need for them think about you know them in seattle jsn and that matchup uh so i'm gonna go trent mcduffie five i'll go kyler murray four i mean the the bar to clear with the quarterback play last year minnesota is so low i think kyler is going to be great there uh i think you get in games where you can run around more you're going to see uh things you're not going to see in a practice setting or you're going to see in preseason games to me i'm really excited to see kyler murray in that offense number three um again a team that needed one very specific thing that's denver they went out and get jalen waddle um i think he's going to have a monster season uh with bo nicks there it's going to be run after the catch stuff underneath they're going to be able to run after the catch stuff underneath they're going to all those design shot plays that sean payton loves to dial up jalen waddle is going to be the recipient of those so i'll put him at number three i'll stay at receiver i'll go aj brown just a a legit legit one um and i to me that's that's going to be fun to watch with drake may drake may taking that team to the super bowl last year and then you throw this guy into the mix uh you know of all those 2024 quarterbacks those big four guys i think new england is a team that of the super bowl and then obviously number one uh i'll go back to miles garrett with the rams i mean they they added the best defensive player in football so and then and then they brought back add another one yeah the best defensive player in football it just miles garrett cannot wait to watch him alongside aaron donald aaron donald can't wait to watch him alongside miles garrett these are high motor guys a lot of snaps too this isn't like we're just seeing this in like little couple bunches here a couple bunches there this is aaron donald and miles garrett standing up acting like they're crossing people up before snap and you've got offensive linemen literally with their knees just kind of shaking on what the hell's about to happen and then oh yeah there's two more people on that d line it's like the the ramp we just talked less need and i appreciate him saying i'm trying to win right now bro we got nancy stafford i ain't trying to do shit i'm trying to win right now i'm cognitive of the future but they didn't think he'd be able to do this he continues to do this aaron donald getting 20 million at this stage of the calendar is just absolutely crazy with incentives up to 30 million it's like how do you get a first down dj i don't know how you get a first down against these guys yeah and and byron young's legit fisk is gonna be awesome you know playing off of of aaron donald inside and kobe turner as well like they it's not just those two guys the crazy thing is i remember being it uh you know in the scouts room and we'd always have these debates and conversations and one of them one year was okay what you know if we're going to value positions like what impacts the defense most is it is it going to impact the defense most is it an interior pass rusher is it an edge rusher or is it a corner and it's like well the rams didn't have to answer the question they just said we'll just go out and get all three yeah and they certainly did and now we all get to watch these two defensive players of the year next to each other mcduffie and watson eaton in the back side and then oh yeah the mvp on the other side alongside an offense that has the offensive guru calling the plays in sean mcveigh certainly a little bit of a wagon in la let's talk about rosters as a whole across the nfl we saw an interesting thing we saw a little bit of a wagon in l.a let's talk about rosters as a whole across the nfl we saw an interesting thing develop here is it too much talent not enough talent d but has a question for you dj you talked about you've been in that scouting room and i know you know grinding down getting down to that 53 is always tough what's your thoughts on more teams i think we have four teams now keeping four quarterbacks on the roster that was almost unheard of a few years ago what's your thoughts on this well i don't think we get to the to the regular season i don't think we get to you know game day and this is going to be the same setup with these four teams d but i think you'll see these teams just trying to buy a little time seeing if there's other teams around the league that feel like they could upgrade and maybe one of these four guys would do it it would be uh it'd be tough to roll with four guys eating up those roster spots through a you know through a good chunk of the season so i i think that'll change um you know i i'm curious because they're different situations the eagles obviously set at quarterback so then you're just trying to figure out between those other three you don't want to lose the rookie and cole payton but you know you might stack him up just where he is right now behind the other two um obviously arizona is going to be a little bit more of a challenge aaron's the guy in pittsburgh i'll be curious to see you know i i would it makes sense to me if you try maybe sneak will howard down uh to the practice squad as we get you know closer to the game day and then the vikings looks like kyler's you know team there but like brosmer i don't i like brosmer but he's i don't think he's getting claimed or picked up so i to me that's a roster spot you could save by sneaking him down to the practice squad and then the falcons they might be the one of all these that would be you know most likely to carry him a little longer just because the health situation with pennix yeah and to a maybe you know it's like uh jack strands they got the guy they just need to do it jack strand baby we watched him we watched him i touched the football my daughter touched football after it left jack strands hands in lucasville stadium after he ran in for like a big old boy 16 yard scamper huge he's six five this guy is an absolute university of minnesota morehead i do believe i mean that's a couple weeks back i was very impressed with him granted preseason football what can you judge where's he putting the ball what decisions is he making how's he going about making his decisions i i was very impressed by him then you see he played a lot of football in college i think he could have moved up but he was like studying to be an engineer or something and that's the guy i want to finish up there yeah an astronaut yeah yeah i mean no big deal matt ryan might really like this jack strand we have no idea what is that what is that major by we didn't have pre-astronauted after what are you uh some sort of engineer yeah because you got to be able to build the rocket ship you said correct because if you're an astronaut you have to be able to bit you have to do the engineering ability and then also you have to understand what all the shit all of it they make broadcast management and marketing boys that's where i that's where that's the train i was riding hey good train you hit it home especially with this new merch you got hey the boys in the back i think somebody's wearing one nope no never mind save it we got tomorrow they have that new t-shirt smell we got it for thursday save it for more yeah that was a decision that was made late by uh one person behind the glass i will say because there was a full loud conversation on whether or not we should wear the merch beautiful new logo awesome move the sticks i appreciate that man new omaha broadcasting brand management bro i mean you were a major in it you certainly hit a home run move the sticks with daniel jeremiah not an ai podcast from omaha and espn which we're pumped up about uh let's talk about some of the teams that could potentially be a part of the conversations on move the sticks especially late go ahead con man yeah dj you just mentioned kyler there with the vikings and uh there's that stat that every single year at least four teams uh who didn't make the playoffs last year will make it this year there's some obvious ones like you know cowboys chiefs people who are like bangles ravens uh who are some of those teams that you're looking at that will probably have a little bit of a comeback resurgence this season that could make some noise well i mean the bangles are an obvious one i mean you mentioned them i'm curious to see what this falcons offense looks like with jeremiah love healthy i mean the division's just brutal if you could take that team and park them in a different division um i might be more optimistic about them being able to make some noise and maybe crack the party but that's just man that's brutal uh the division that they're in so it's hard hard to go there i feel like the the afc if you're going to say which of these teams have like super bowl aspirations there's probably more in the afc um you know with bangles with burrows healthy they got a legit shot obviously you know lamar being out there and i like the new staff that they've put around him i think declan doyle and him are going to be a big part of the division that's a good match there so excited to see what that looks like and then of all the teams i saw a handful of teams in camp um i kind of came away from the cowboys feeling like okay this is this is not like cowboys hype like this is legitimate they got real dudes um you know really at all three levels now with that defense it's going to be much better so um that combined with pickens and cd lambs the best one-two punch in the league so that would be the one on the nfc i think i'd be most bullish on i like the one-two punch with pickens and cd lambs pickens and cd lambs franchise tech yeah playing yeah motivated pickens i'll take that yeah but that's just very rare not causing problems about it at all at all just yep i'll do it you know because most players get very loud especially all the folks around them about you need long-term security here like you could potentially get hurt and this is literally all you'll have when we are so close and should be in the time frame in which you should be rewarded for what you've done that's what he's being told by a lot of people and he's saying it's cool i'm gone let's go let's roll because he loved what he excited to do it again and maybe up his value even more but i think that says a lot about the culture that's going on in dallas because i've always been uh you know pretty obtuse about what they got going on donner sure yeah i don't necessarily love they're giving tours through the building right i don't like that guys are getting washed like they're zoo animals while they're working out in the train in the getting treatment and everything like that the sun coming in on game day you can't see anything i don't like it and they're changing i don't like that they have office buildings around a practice field because if i'm in your division i'm right in office and i'm watching your practice it's like all these things i've always been very uh open about thinking that it's so stupid we're trying to win a game here like what are we doing nobody else has to deal with this then you see like everything that's happening right now down there and it's like they kind of got it under control is everything kind of in a great spot with the cowboys and all those things that used to be called distractions now like look what these geniuses are also doing down here you know i i think you're saying the same thing i'm saying dj yeah there's real dudes there's i mean i look i understand it's different there with all the attention that you get but um at the end of the day you still comes down to do you have the right the right guys in place and last year defensively they just didn't have the horses this year they do uh over shown had put on some weight when i was there he looked great jay sean barham was awesome uh when i was out there watching them he's played great in that last preseason game got a chance to see him as an off the ball linebacker you bring you have downs uh you know malachi lawrence just be a little patient there there's a little more development to take place but they've got i mean pat they are so much better and then christian parker's outstanding you know as as a defensive mind who comes over to call the defense from the eagles so um i feel like a lot of times you know cowboys everybody gets all pissy like oh the cowboys you guys are always talking about the cowboys i'm like dude this is legit i went and saw this with my own eyes we're not trying to pump anything up here like this is legit a good defense to go along with what could be the best offense in football hopefully they'll be able to close it out you know always have a good season and then it uh ends terribly and then they get mocked and ridiculed for even being talked about i like that they're running sprints without anybody talking about it i like that they're running sprints without anybody talking about it i like that they're seemingly a bunch of tough guys dying they got dogs across the board and they got beasts across the board good luck to the dallas cowboys with our eyes we saw pittsburgh steelers as mccarthy was trying to piece his team together there was a guy not participating who's one of the best players on the team he just got activated from pop back onto the active which is a huge deal tone has a question about something brewing yeah thank god uh joey porter jr did get activated uh before he had to go on the pop and miss the first four games obviously you know it's a injury slash contract situation he's from the 2023 class obviously christian gonzalez also from the 2023 class what are your take on these two guys and them getting paid potentially before the season dj yeah i mean i don't know where the numbers are in the discussion with with porter and he's a good player i still think he's an ascending player he's getting better and better um so i'm excited about his future but i didn't think he was sitting you know sitting there holding all the cards in a negotiation that he'd be able to you know you kind of put your wishes out there if you don't get them either you kind of do a deal and then you're like okay i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it we play it out and bet on yourself but i did not anticipate that being a sticking point uh with them gonzalez on the other hand that just feels like that's a matter of time uh when you got the same agent who had witherspoon they got that done he's got gonzalez the market is well defined there at the very top and he's going to be you know clearing it he's going to be at the top of the list so that feels like one that's that's pretty cut and dry i'd be surprised if that doesn't get done okay so if it doesn't though because variable maybe doesn't want to pay a corner allegedly which was the story that was per one guy per one source per one source if it doesn't get done i mean that's a huge story i think coming out of new england in this frable era because he has been perfect for you guys up there and then the joey porter jr stuff it's like the joey porter name in the history of the pittsburgh steelers very important so you we would assume that would have got done both these deals we thought would be way behind us at this point i think we all thought there was like uh domino that was going to fall and once it falls all these deals are going to kind of fall in place afterwards they have not and allegedly they haven't been close right in that kind of both stories here that's definitely been the report out of new england which makes no sense because gonzo has been doing it kind of like we were just talking with pickens like the right way he hasn't held out he's been practicing he's been doing everything and he's one of those guys where it's not like hey is this guy in the top 10 is he in the top you know 15 like he's clearly one of the top three best corners in the nfl yeah yeah so hopefully they get that deal done before you go into the season because you don't have any drama there was there was some drama and controversy around tampa bay they get vita vegas deal done feel like that's all done shout out to the tampa bay buccaneers they're very kind to me i appreciate them doing that i needed that more than they can imagine shots blake shelton as well last question for you yeah there is obviously um some rulings that have to take place but every year there's obviously some questions ty green bay packers owner has one for you yeah dj i know you're not a legal expert so i won't ask you to you know kind of get into the milieu of all that kind of stuff but uh both jonathan uh no i wasn't yeah jonathan cooper and uh josh jacob you put on the commissioner's exempt and we saw the packers already trade for caleb johnson so they obviously have you know a lean on how this is going to go do you think both those teams are operating under the assumption that these guys are going to be you know they're going to be without them for a large chunk of the season because these obviously both teams like those are two massive pieces that they're going to need if they want to go do the kind of things they expect to this year yeah i mean i don't know how long you would anticipate it but i would imagine you're at least you know prepared to be without these guys for the first month or something like that yeah i mean i don't know how long you would so you know that that's where you have to start and i don't know you know how this thing comes down and what the punishment looks like but the the stuff that's out there serious enough that when you're in a front office you have to plan accordingly now the good thing from the broncos is i think that's one of the deeper rosters uh in the league and they're they're stacked pretty much all over the place so uh they can buy a little time for that elite defense with cooper we'll see how long that lasts and then with jacobs you know you already go out there and you make a trade um you know marshawn lloyd health-wise i think he's going to be a little bit more finished up okay health-wise i didn't see that he he did yeah that he was yeah because i was a marshawn lloyd guy coming out of college i was excited about him unfortunately the guys had not been healthy so maybe we get a chance to see him a little bit and see what he's capable of doing all right we're just days away from the niners heading to australia to start their nfl campaign by by the way by the way someone i was talking to some folks uh not on not in the rams group but you know talking about the difference between the rams and the niners on that travel situation and uh the the throwaway line was man the nine niners are going to be speaking with an australian accent by the time we get the game day so they're uh definitely different approaches to how they're handling this yeah sean mcveigh said uh let's not even talk to anybody over there okay let's land get off the plane get on a bus get on the stadium we warm up we play guess what we do on the way out bus plane forever bus home that's what we're gonna do i can't wait to see who wins and who loses because there'll be people that say this is how it should be done done if the rams end up winning somehow well you see what happened with their sleep cycle they actually never left the american time zone which was something that we thought was potentially physically impossible with how far away australia was sean mcveigh found a cheat code in a sleep game if they lose the game everybody's gonna say the complete opposite so good luck to both parties i think mcveigh's want to be home a little bit longer the boys i don't think i don't think anybody's itching to block miles garrett off one hour sleep or one day of sleep uh at the end of the day yeah aaron donald too jeez you're the man ladies and gentlemen move to sticks dana jeremiah does anybody want to be in australia no i'll take care of it same page flying day off same day we're flying in there no delays so what i learned going over there is if you're able to stay up long enough that you can fall asleep for the end of the flight and wake up in the morning it does feel like you just got there but you got to be able to stay up i think like 13 14 hours you know what i mean can they do it i i think so i think they can certainly figure it out too on the other side goodbye this episode is brought to you by the hulu original series chad powers starring glenn powell this season the walls are closing in on chad's biggest secret and with 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upcoming weekend week one of the college football slate kicks off with college game day live from baton rouge as lsu and lane kiffin host clemson as we kick off maybe the best college football season yet shout out to mcquade by the way doing great reporting over there in dublin ireland there is a chance that this is going to be the greatest college football season of all time all indicators have told us that football is better now than it's ever been in the atmospheres we know from college football that pass are going to be better than any sport we have here in the united states of america now i would say the entire globe the soccer hooligans will get pissed off that i say that but just know that you soccer people we understand you get flares in there and you get drums in there and you have a little bit more extreme capabilities from your fandom and we have massive respect for you but your stadium is also like 30 40 000 50 000 60 000 maybe max we got 110 000 people about to lose their mind in certain campuses around the united states of america as dreams of national champions are happening across the country and even hawaii they had a little bit of a run out of there with stanford yeah shout out great game and when a skit gets a team i have faith that they will be fantastic as well but this upcoming weekend starts a journey that we're so incredibly lucky to be a part of and then the nfl san francisco 49ers are leaving on wednesday to go to their game in australia let's go so we're here rosters have been made stories are happening dramas unfolding and teams hunting a national championship in a lombardi have truly begun wow hell yeah we did it we did it yes we did the toxic tables here at boston connor and that ty schmidt one half of the hammer done cowboys ap tone is here nine year nfl vet darius j butler is here debutch obviously the day after training camp and the day after cuts whenever you made the squad is a cool day but then you're reminded quickly about the amount of responsibility accountability and how hard the job is what do you think is going through a lot of the minds of maybe the guys that are making their first nfl rosters right now obviously first things first very very happy uh obviously for yourself all the work you put in but then the people around your support system whether it's family a partner your kids uh teammates former teammates so you're getting all those texts and calls and then it's still that anxiety for i would say part of the guys that are kind of on that bottom maybe eight nine guys because you're looking at all the different rosters okay if this guy's cut this guy's available um so that's the tough part about it but just making it is huge and now you can actually start to put your mind into that hey preparing for week one a lot of starters the guys who know they were going to make it coming into they've been thinking about week one since probably a week or two ago so um it's a it's a huge huge thing a huge accomplishment for the first year guys and for a guy maybe going into his 10th year and he made a team uh so it's a tremendous journey man so congratulations to all the guys out there who made it yeah and to the guys that didn't make it like great football crews you know there's guys being told for the first time in their life and the last time in their life because they're never going to play football again that they're not good enough and there's usually some um you know people get jaded against the sport because the end of it is normally somebody in the sport telling you you're not good enough for it and anybody that makes it to an nfl camp is good at football you just got to make sure they make it to an nfl game though you know because some guys get cut and then like chavarrius ward had my number and i got like a chain and he said next year i can have his number we gotta make sure these people actually make teams around that's true a lot of you gotta be careful out there a lot of people scamming up i watched a lot of people 15 of that guy's videos it was hard at least hard to turn off honestly the and then my algo was like oh you like this shit i'm like i mean i guess that this is another yeah and this one's six minutes long what was your workout video so the the beach ones did you see the alternate angle beach i saw about 10 different angles but the sled pole drag with that that was at the resort yeah yeah with the beautiful backdrop yeah just imagine happen imagine if one of us was at one of these places we would certainly have to go up and be like sir what's going on here this is awesome yeah this one's incredible uh did you see the alternate angle of the beach one no somebody caught him that didn't even know his little scam was happening there was an alternate angle from the street there at the red light and they were like what's buddy with the helmet or something like that running the route and it's like he was sending how do you never think he was gonna he had to know he was gonna get caught right i watched so many and then there was more that i didn't see then i'd see quotes from this it's basically leonardo gabriel you know catch me if you can yeah he was i mean he had you know great stories there it is who is this they're going what is this there's people that are watching this old scam happen he goes oh just you know doing it for the tick tock or whatever the case is god was had an answer i was about sick of staring up his nose though yeah every angle down here i'm about sick and tired of it but uh this is a message to everybody out there you gotta watch everybody out there yeah double check yeah a message to everybody out there watch everybody and i lost a little i lost more trust in ai too those ai google searches like how do you just set that up how easy is that gimmick so uh yes you gotta keep your eyes peeled why do you think google recognizes me but you don't you know he said me and other professional athletes we call you guys you know casuals because you don't really know civilians we call you because you don't really understand the ins and outs you asked me about my number he's doing guilt on this thing unbelievable how did he never think he was gonna get caught though he's just putting his face on oh everything about the contract was great what off season for the niners i mean i still it's saying now they gotta go to australia ladies and gentlemen joining us now jenny and i might bring them i'm not i'm not done with dajon love being a football star i still kind of believe it finish your story i think i'm pretty i think he's gone to jail a long time i think they got a lot of evidence i think they got a lot of evidence for being on the niners no no i mean maybe i you might have seen something i didn't see but he was just straight there into staring at dead done it's like how do we not catch it how do we not as a society how do we not catch this guy earlier we got to be better too us we gotta keep our eyes open out for people uh abusing our sport yep in our league this game hey you want to go do some insurance shit okay get out of our life sure don't be using us how about he even said jake moody the kicker for the niners he's super cool so that's my god moody's like listening to this what that's a good move though because anyone who sees that who doesn't really know that oh this guy's name dropping like kicker like yeah he's definitely that's not the first person you would say yeah but as he was saying he felt good about yeah you know that he thought this is it you know this is the one joining us now ladies and gentlemen this man has never had to do this because he's the realest there's ever been damn right he's a college football national champion super bowl champion rider cup winner ladies and gentlemen the all-time leading i was all-time leading tackler big pop aj hawk i know your algo was feeding you this man all weekend for sure uh what a wild thing i didn't dive deep into it i didn't watch everything because there's so much footage of this guy working out the beach but just watch this training partners watch the guy that's playing quarterback for him and watch the terrible bloop ball he throws him after he sets up like all nobody involved knows how to play football it seems like no of course not but they do have they had a financial advisor they had an agent they had merch they had i mean good for him well he he finessed money out of people what happened it's not good for him okay look at that break what a catch i mean he was pumping those knees too and then right here this is how he gets so explosive you know just kind of dragging it you know doing what he's doing good hold on the ball do you think he played the gimmick live in the resort like when people came up and said what's the deal you think he's like oh i played for the niners or do you think he's saying i'm just making content no immediately well you want an autograph or something you want a picture yeah let's get a picture give me a facetime george kiddo i got you stuff like that for sure has a fake george kiddo that he just goes to all the time i'm sure there's an ai kiddo greg kiddo somebody what was i hearing somebody had a uh like a number they could call and uh it like changed altered somebody's voice so they had like a phone call that they'd be able to do with people have you heard about this no that's kind of genius yeah that's ai's getting really tricky oh um kelsey plum has something like that happened to her no no no i thought no she had like something like you can either call or talk to as like an ai friend it was her voice so real responses it was crazy yeah i look at some months ago hey let's keep our eyes peeled out there's what i'm saying because dajon wasn't even ai no he added that little extra human spots yeah he's all real yeah so we got to keep our eyes peeled out there's what i'm saying you brought up george kiddo maybe a potential fake george kiddo uh we got some news out of the george george kiddo world obviously shanahan said something about uh taking a step back and everybody ran with that uh on the internet we believe from our understanding from source he meant step back to like returning to football and uh from our understanding george kiddo breaking will be a part of team reps i think tomorrow so they head to uh australia on wednesday team reps i believe george kiddo will be back in the game tomorrow so i think that's probably a huge test you know before we hop on this plane to get down to australia but seemingly one of the best players in football is going to be back for the san francisco 49ers and i know it's been an off season riddled with controversy for the niners but if kiddo's on the field they're much better than when kiddo was not on the field and his rehab process had to be crazy but that's good news i think aj yeah it's huge news obviously in the past and the run game he's such a gigantic piece and like also like the the energy he brings to that team and i think that's huge but if he he's practicing with the team wednesday i would imagine he's making that flight and he's most likely playing in the game right yeah we would assume that if he hops on that plane he's playing in the game yeah hey aj how do you feel about the leaving a week ahead of time versus trying to leave maybe actually calendar day of game in australia i love what the rams are doing i love this straight business trip let's just get in and get out of that place are they they're gonna are they gonna stay a night in a hotel at least i think they're there 24 hours and also you'll definitely have a place to stay where they can potentially go snooze and we were talking about this during the break quickly for me when i came back i was there for the trip was a total of 11 days but you lose about three days in travel you know there's like a day and a half travel each way that you kind of drop off so like eight to nine days i was out there coming back was trouble coming back was bad when i came back from japan i was over there for like eight or nine days coming back was trouble i'd be waking up at 3 a.m but i'm up or 2 a.m and i'm up because it is the complete opposite so i wonder if mcveigh has heard that from everybody like you can beat it going over there coming back is always the problem maybe he doesn't want to be there long enough to start a new routine seriously right maybe he doesn't want the boys to even get the long-term play he's doing the long-term play hey we can we can roll out of bed and and win a football game but we don't want those five six days afterwards to drag into the rest of the season well that's how long did it take you to re-acclimate like if they do it that way is there a chance that this is bleeding into week two like where you know it took me longer than a week i think we all remember that because game day was what two days after that or three days after i got back and i was it was like 5 p.m for me for game day it was like maybe the best i felt for him yeah like maybe the best i felt for game but it carried into the next week i think so for me it was like a week afterwards so maybe it's like week two but maybe it carries back longer but i i think going over people have a trick if you can wake up if you're landing in the morning and you can wake up somehow after a full night's rest in the plane you can just you're just having your day so maybe that's what they're going to do How long is the flight? 17. From L.A.? From L.A. Yeah, I don't know. To be honest, it was all just, you're just, you're in a time warp. I mean, you're just, the screen is just blue. You know, you're watching where you're flying. Just blue. There's no lights. It says 16. Yeah, so 16. It's all ball here, you know, as far as the coach and, you know, John Gordon and those boys go. But outside, like, the families, it would suck for, like, I guess, the Rams families if you're going. I know it's school time, so maybe if you have kids, maybe not. But, like, the Niners, their people, they're going to be going over there for how many days. They'll enjoy this, that, and the third. And then for the Rams people, if they're going the same day, too, and then just coming right back, like, that'll suck. Yeah, I don't know how it all works out. Joining us now is a senior NFL insider for ESPN. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schefter. Yeah, Schefter. Schefter, you look unbelievable, pal. The camera is still batting 1,000. We're talking about the Australia trip. We talked to Les Snead a little bit, and obviously Sean McVay has his way. Kyle Shanahan has his. Why do you think Sean McVay inevitably said we're going to go over so close? Is there some sort of science behind all this? I assume they have to be talking to a lot of people. They have spoken to a lot of people. Both of them have. Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay have come away with different conclusions. The 49ers, as you mentioned, leave Wednesday night. They get there Friday morning, I believe it is. The Rams go in right before, hours before the game. So barely time to adjust. All I can tell you is this is what the Rams, have done for international games in Europe, too. I think they played the last time in London. They flew in the day before, played the game, won the game, and flew right back home. So they are of the mind that they don't need to adjust, and maybe you just don't do any adjusting. You just go in, play the game, and come back. And that's the best way to do it. But the 49ers, I know they've spoken to a lot of scientists and nutritionists and all kinds of people like that, and they believe the right form, the right formula is to go in a week in advance. We'll see who's right. Okay. I can't wait. We're so close to football games. We're right there. We are so close to football games, obviously. Bill Belichick, big win this past weekend. I know you were counting him out forever, Shefty. I know you were. Of course. I never count out Bill. Never. No, I heard you say it. You're always saying it. You're saying, "Bill Belichick, this guy's trash. He won't be able to figure it out." We heard it. We heard it all, Shefty, obviously. Shefter never said that. There was a lot of people saying that, "What a win for Bill." He looked happy. He looked happy. He looked happier than whenever you win the Lombardi out there, and I think he's obviously been trying to coach his ass off and develop, and hopefully they continue on a positive trajectory. Let's talk a little bit about NFL teams and things happening around organization. Four quarterbacks in multiple places. This is seemingly an interesting conversation piece because does this mean there's too many good quarterbacks, or there's too many quarterbacks that they think could be good, or is there too many quarterbacks that they think. I think other teams will definitely want, so is it too much talent, not enough talent, a promising amount of talent? Why do you think we're seeing roster spots that are very prominent and very hard to get onto four or three quarterbacks, such a more regular thing now than it was maybe, what, two years ago, three years ago? Let's leave up Ari's list here, because I think every team is a different situation. Obviously Jalen Hurts with Philadelphia is the starter, Tanner McKee has demonstrated potential in the past. They were very high on him at one point, even though he struggled some this summer, and Andy Dalton would be the guy that I think if anything were to happen with Jalen Hurts right now, they would call on Dalton. So you have a little Tanner McKee, the upside, a little veteran experience in Andy Dalton, and you have the rookie in Cole Payton. You don't want to give up on a rookie quarterback that you drafted that you see something in, which they clearly saw something, whatever that is. The Falcons, you've got two in Pennix, two veterans, two is on a cheap contract, so there's no reason not to keep him. Pennix is your former one. You still need a veteran backup, which they do have one in Cooper Rush, and Jack Strand showed out and played well this summer. Not well enough to be a starter, but showed enough up front. The Steelers, I think all along, we know they like Howard and Aller. Aaron's the starter. The question was around Rudolph. They didn't get anything in offer-wise that was worth doing, and they like Mason Ruff as a player. They like Mason Ruff as a player. They like Mason Ruff as a player, so they're not just going to give up on him right now. It just doesn't make sense. You hold on to him. The Vikings, look, Kyler's the starter. J.J.'s the former one. I think Carson Wentz winds up being the two right away. First of all, J.J.'s got the ankle injury right now. He's got a sprained ankle that I think is a multi-week injury, and then Wentz becomes the two there, and Max Brosmer would have been the guy that would have been expendable, except they like him. They've seen enough from him that they believe in him. So, you're holding on to quarterbacks. Quarterbacks are currency, and if you see something out of a guy you like, you hold on to him. By the way, if Dylan Gabriel didn't have the back injury, it would have been another team with four quarterbacks. The Browns were getting ready to carry four until the MRI on his back showed some type of back injury that they had to put him on IR for. Man, that's saying she just had three touchdowns, obviously. Nails. Yeah, it was looking really good. It's like, wait, this guy should have been talked about maybe a little bit more. He was drafted higher than Shador was hired, drafted, so he ends up with a back injury. Okay, that would have been four quarterbacks there. Inevitably, they've got to get rid of these guys, though. They're not going to carry this through an actual season. Like, how do you kind of see it shaping up? It's a fluid thing. Like, again, we don't know. If there's a team that loses a quarterback to injury, maybe they're calling Pittsburgh for Mason Rudolph. I mean, that could happen. Maybe there's a team that loses a quarterback to injury and calls the Vikings about J.J. McCarthy. Yeah, and maybe you need a gunner to cover a punt, you know? So, I mean, Schefter, this is. Maybe J.J. never plays again. This is coming. Whoa. I thought we were just throwing out maybes. That was from Voss and Conner. I don't love that. Throwing out maybes. But it is like you are sacrificing, you know, you're robbing Peter to pay Paul here in this quarterback room, these places. And these are very important pieces, especially, you know, to bottom half of the roster. But I trust everybody that's in charge of these teams, and I assume they'll figure it out by themselves. Pittsburgh Steelers, obviously, a huge part of that particular conversation, because who's the quarterback, but also who's the cornerback? A.J. has a question for you, Schefter. Schefter, Joey Porter Jr., obviously, was activated from the. I guess, what are the chances that he gets a deal done? When does this happen? And I guess, are we going to see him out there week one? Well, great questions, A.J. And the amazing part is, we've got this huge gap now. It feels like today should be Labor Day, but it's not. With the way the NFL calendar is set up, it feels like we should be getting ready for games this week. We're not. And so, there's time here where they activated Joey Porter Jr. Obviously, they must feel like his back is healthy at this point. At this point in time, they'd like to try to get a deal worked out if they can, but they've got to give him time to get ready for the opener in the event that he's going to be out there on opening day, which would be the hope. So, I think it's kind of both sides hoping for what they want here and setting it up so that he can play on opening day if and when they can get a deal done, which there hasn't been a lot of progress there. I think there's still a lot of time and a lot of questions. I don't have a specific answer. I don't have a specific answer for you there yet because it's a little early. We'd like to see him work out a little bit, says Mike McCarthy. I'd like to see him in my camp with my coaches, he says. You know, he'd like to see what that looks like. Obviously, got to get the business settled on the back end. Hopefully, he's able to do that because we're inching weirdly close to regular season starting. You know, and at DB there, you can get exposed. Yeah, you want to, like, there's nothing like football shape. You got to actually play football, especially a position like that. That's the same thing, you know, to be seen where Aaron Donald now we expect him. That's a mutant. That's a first. Ballot Hall of Famer. But in my opinion, you got to play football. Like, I would hate for, as a corner, to be going out there with four days under my belt and I'm lining up against whoever he's playing week one. Drake London. Yeah, Drake London week one. Like, because this guy, he's matching up with number one guys. He plays a lot of man coverage. And the new coach, Patrick Graham, is a new DC. So, it's one thing being in the meetings, being in the walkthrough, but actually being on that field, lining up and playing football. I mean, and that division, he's seen Jamar and T twice a year, too. I mean, you want to start your season. Full tilt. Feeling great. And I'm sure that's what Joey wants. But he wants his money, too, which he's earned. We assume he's in shape and doing everything he possibly can to keep himself in shape. He understands what can happen out there. And he doesn't want to go through mentally the thought of, I'm about to get cooked out here. That is not what anybody wants. Hembo has a stat about Joey Porter Jr. That's certainly one that he has been presenting, I assume, to Omar Khan over there in Pittsburgh. Joey Porter Jr. has conceded a 71.2 passer rating and coverage second lowest by any qualified corner since 2023. Who's the other? Guy's been paid. There. Stanley Jr. And I assume Joey Porter Jr. is hoping for that. Let's move to another place in the NFL. Tone has a question for you. Yes, we just talked about who he is playing in week one, and that's the Atlanta Falcons. That's the only team left in the NFL without an announced starting quarterback. Two, it didn't look terrible in preseason week three. Do we have any indications on when the decision will come or what the decision will be? Yeah, I can tell you exactly what's going on there. They want to take a look this week. At Michael Penix and see how he responds, see how he physically feels when he's out there practicing for a full week, 11 on 11, go through things. And they also would like to see if they decide to go to what it would be like for him to get all the reps, working with the ones which he wasn't getting all summer long. He had some injury issues early on. They shared some of the reps. Cooper Rush got some. Jack Strand got some. Penix in the seven on seven drills got some. And so, I think, look, it's not going to be Jack Strand starting. It's not going to be Cooper Rush starting. It's down to Tua and Penix, and they don't have a decision yet on what they're going to do. And I think Penix's health this week will go away towards determining exactly how they do that. Okay, you just got a text maybe telling you that they have made a decision. Any updates down there in your hand just south of this camera? Look, well, first of all, we are in almost a witching hour here where the NFL's waiver claim, the wire, is about to come out. So I'm going to guess we get about 25 players claimed on waivers here, starting with the Raiders, who have the top spot. They're going to claim Darryl Luter, a cornerback from the 49ers, with the first spot. I think that'll be the only player that the Raiders claim in the top spot. I don't think it's a particularly deep group of players that are going to be claimed in the top spot, but you're going to see a variety of moves that are going to come down here in the next 5-10 minutes. We'll see if Will Levis is claimed on waivers. I just got a text that the. The New York Giants are resigning Braxton Berrios to their practice squad with the expectation of playing the first game. So these are the kinds of moves we're going to get here in the next, I'd say, 10-20 minutes, but that could be coming out any moment now, Pat, or in the waiting. I'm sure you're very pumped to be live with us right now while this is happening. Hey, listen, it's called multitasking, and you know what? Here's the thing. When the wire comes in, I don't know, I think some people are very interested. We'll go through. And we'll tell you if there are any notable names right there on the spot as it's happening in real time. Wow, look at this. Let's live the wire with Adam Schefter. Live from the wire with Adam Schefter. Maybe just call it the wire. The tight wire. Walk in the wire. Yeah. Okay, and we're going to do it right now. I see you put out some tweets about some players I've never heard of before. What is that all about? That's just like you kind of saying, yeah, I'll do you guys a favor. How does that work? What players have you never heard of? I thought you knew everybody. Dejan Love? Yeah, I didn't see any updates, but I'm surprised he hasn't used your name. He claimed, yep. I haven't found a video yet where Dejan Love says, Schefter was just asking me for what my opinion was. He's about to break it. On some stuff. I don't know if you've got a chance to get into the algo on that. It is wild what the Niners name was being used as for a while there. Okay, so we'll wait for the wire to burst all over you. Literally, I expect it within the next five minutes. Okay, so as it builds up for the volcanic eruption, all over you, we'll try to get some updates on some storylines that are lingering. Let's go up to New England. Conman has a question for you. Yeah, Schefter, we talked about JPJ, but what is the status with Gonzo? Is there any update? Is there some good news? Are they getting closer? I know last week it was like, hey, they're not relatively close. What about right now? Were there good conversations? Listen, I have not heard them getting any closer. Now, again, I expect more conversations to occur with the season coming up here, but I have not heard they've gotten closer. In recent days, I got a follow-up in check, but they were not close before. I always think that when the regular season rolls around, there's always a push to get these guys signed, and maybe that'll be the case here with Christian Gonzalez. He's a great player they'd like to keep, but they have not gotten close so far, to my knowledge. Okay, rapid fire before the wire. Fernando Mendoza, how long is that? Is Kirk Cousins a starter? What's going on in Las Vegas? You know, I still think it's going to be Kirk. I'd be surprised if it was anybody else. Other than Kirk at this point in time, I think that's the way it's been trending all along, and Mendoza had moments in the preseason. There's no doubt his time is coming. He's going to be the starter. He's going to be the face of the franchise. The question is, how soon? I was texting with somebody yesterday. They're like, sooner than you think. I'm like, really? Now, we'll see. What is that? I still think. I think. I don't. I'm not telling you. I think Cousins starts the opener against the Miami Dolphins. I think. I think. They want to go with the veteran. I think they want to go with the veteran earlier in the season when there are some tough games on the schedule, at the Raiders' schedule right here. They have Miami at home, at the Chargers. That's going to be a tough one. At the Saints, not a fun place to play. Home for the Chiefs, at New England, home for Buffalo, home for Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett, at the Jets. That's the one. At Jets. Well, maybe, but then it's at San Francisco, Seattle, at Denver. Actually, see. There's a bye. There's a bye in week 13, and then you have three straight home games. Chargers, Broncos, Titans at Arizona. Wait, for week 13? What are we doing? It's the National Football League, man. It's the number one overall pick. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I think that they would love to wait until week 13. I don't think that's going to happen. Throw them in the fire. Yeah. Well, I like that you were getting texts saying, he's going to be much earlier than you think. Who are you texting with? That matters. Is that person in the Raiders organization? Is that not in the Raiders organization? Is that somebody around the Raiders organization? Max Mendoza. Is that little Max Matt Mendoza? You know, is that who that is? We don't know who that is, but. It's just somebody's opinion, and I don't know whether they're right or not. I don't know. Again, I'm going to hold fast. I believe Kirk Cousins will be their opening day starting quarterback. That's what I'm expecting. I think that Cousins will be the starting quarterback. If he plays well, he'll keep starting. As long as he keeps playing well, he'll keep starting. If he struggles, they're not winning. The door's open. It could happen any time. 13 weeks is a long time. By the way, I don't know that they're a good enough team to play well enough for 13 weeks to keep the rookie on the bench. And these teams are always saying, we're going to be patient with our first overall pick. We're not going to rush the quarterback. And lo and behold, the last six quarterbacks picked, number one overall, have all started an opening day. So, Mendoza would be the first one at seven, not to start an opening day. But the point is, if these other six were rushed onto the field or moved along very quickly, I would imagine the same will be true of Mendoza. But how long? Is it two weeks? Is it four weeks? And the one person felt like it would be sooner rather than later. But we'll see. Okay, well, I was texting with Tim McAfee earlier. He said he thinks Fernandez got good up to it. Okay. And Tim hasn't been watching football a long time. I was texting with somebody else. He was cool with Dan Marino. Yes, he did. Exactly. So, he's been seeing balls get out of hands quick, just like Fernandez. Week three at Saints. Is that what you're thinking? Right. Week one, Miami. Yeah, he's saying week one. He went on the board. Has the wire exploded all into your hands and such? No, but I do have a question for you, Pat. Is this the first time that I can remember you wearing a collared shirt on your own show here? No, I've had a couple of collared shirts in the past few months. It's not often. It's not often. I know. They sent me a President's Cup polo, though. So, I feel like I'm part of the team because we need to win that because we've been losing a Ryder Cup. So, I've decided that one doesn't matter. The President's Cup is the one that matters. That's pretty cool. Thank you. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I feel like I'm part of the team, actually. I'm not. People need to know I'm not. I thought it was from jams or something like that. You know, that's what I thought. Great. Actually, good call, Chef. Thank you for doing that. The grape is so good. We don't have a grape in here. We might have ate through them all. Good call, Chef. Chef, you're a huge part of that story. You breaking the news that the NFLPA and Joms have negotiated a deal was the thing that made me go, all right, these jams kids are doing it good. I like what they're doing. And now grapes available? Yeah. Just know that grapes available and it is delightful. And I believe by the end of the week it should be nationwide. Thank you for that, Chef. Chef, you're a good man. Of course. You know, the grape PB&J really does taste like home, doesn't it? It does. It does. Yes, it certainly does. Takes you back. There you go. And you think to yourself, wow, is that mom-approved and dad-approved? It is. And how about your taste buds? They approve them? They certainly do. Are there seed oils in there? No seed oil, actually. The funny thing about it is they said, seed oil, get the hell out of this thing. And then mom said, wow, I approve of that. And dad was like, you know what? If you do, I do, especially more protein. Yeah, boom. Ten? Ten grams of protein. Hey, get that down your gullet. Yeah, and the taste, all phenomenal. Now, on that note, I am an owner of jams, that needs to be said. And I am a huge fan as well. So let's make sure that if you're going to have a PB&J. Jams. Join the jam. Okay. Those are good cues. I do like that shit. I hope you like a jam and do. Yeah, there you go. Grape jam and grape jam and grape jam and grape jam. Yeah, okay. All right, let's move along here. There is more. There's more to talk about in the NFL world as Adam Schefter impatiently awaits the wire bursting into his phone. Not impatiently. No, we're very patient. We're very patient right now. No, I don't think we've heard that that is just not something that you actually have at all. You know, they say patience is a virtue and that one you right out from underneath it as you lick your lips looking for the next piece of information that you can tweet. Ty has a question for you, co-host of the Adam Schefter podcast. Schefter, do you have any idea on the projected suspensions for both Josh Jacobs and Jonathan Cooper? It's like Matt LaFleur basically said before all this stuff came out, hey, we expect Josh Jacobs to be a big part of this team this year, but also his court dates not until November 17th. He's on the commissioner's exemplist, but I think you said like the NFL doesn't have to wait until that, you know, court date in order to actually rule on a suspension. So what, what should we be expecting here for both of these guys? Well, look, when the NFL puts him on the commissioner exemplist, they do so as, you know, they're a placeholder like so nothing can happen they just want to kind of freeze time until they can get more information now if we go back and look at it um there apparently is a video that's involved and the details of the video were explained in the criminal report that was filed last week he was charged with two misdemeanors and so the league is just saying we need to see what's going on here we want as much information the league i think has learned over time that it'd rather be safe than sorry and it needs to be diligent in its approach and the ray rice lesson is something that the league learned the hard way and i think the league is doing everything it can to make sure there's never another example like that again that if they see somebody um that's involved in a situation like that that the player's not playing football as he shouldn't be and so in this particular case they wrote about the video in the criminal report i don't know whether the league sees it whether the video i have no idea how that happens but the league is just saying it's hitting the pause button on everything until the league can ascertain what did and didn't happen what's right what's wrong and whether he should or shouldn't be playing football and into like the league's in no rush to get to the bottom the league's gonna take its time and be as thorough as it can and he's next scheduled to appear in court november 17th so they're not they can rule sooner than the november 17th date if they feel like they have enough evidence but they're not going to rush it and do something haphazardly and they're not going to rush it and do something isn't the commissioner's exemption list just so they don't have to make a decision right now we'll kind of let everything else figure it out yeah and i think it's a good idea to create this list that they have done to kind of put a pause button on and see if we can get more information when the time comes for the punishment it comes there is some sort of thing set for like 10 weeks into the season i believe yeah with josh jacobs i don't know about cooper so i guess we'll just continue to keep our ear to the ground as you keep your hand to that particular phone on this wire day around the nfl chef d anything we missed there that we should have definitely talked about reaction monday obviously aaron donald to the rams has happened we've covered it pretty good we've covered it pretty good i think so unless you got some ground i thought there were i thought there were some big ir additions yesterday or you know players on pop or ir jordan tyson out a minimum of four games zach charbonnet out a minimum of four games in seattle which thrust jadarian price and george holani into a big role on opening night against the new england patriots i thought those were some big additions we knew micah was going to be placed on pop there he's out a minimum of four games and is targeting a week six return against the dallas cowboys by the way like i don't understand how he comes up with a week six like what about week five with chicago bears like are they not worthy of getting back for in time as well that that was interesting to me but he's targeting week six against the dallas cowboys and we'll see if and when he can come back i thought the green bay packers were were busy yesterday uh trading for a running back trading for a tight end knowing that they need depth at both positions josh jacobs the uncertainty surrounding his season his future and the uncertainty surrounding um tucker craft like he's back but they need some depth at tight end luke musgrave is still dealing with an injury right now so they had some questions there they went out and traded for a tight end for the rams trying to think of other players that were placed on ir that are out four games but jordan tyson zach charbonnet that those got my attention huge names can you tell us quickly uh pop physically unable to perform is a four-week thing to start the season uh then there's shortened ir and long-term ir now can you just kind of classify what all the words we might hear coming up over the i'll do the best i can hopefully i don't get something wrong but with ir you could designate players to return i think you're allowed eight players that you can bring back during the course of the season um so you almost have to prepare for that and space out your eight moves that you're going to make because you don't want to bring back seven guys and all of a sudden be the last one to come back so i think that's a good idea i think that's a good idea i think that's a good and be out of roster moves for guys that are coming back for the postseason it's it's like giving an allowance you're given eight r's eight players that can come back off ir you have to figure out what the best thing to do is and who's the best player to be brought back so um that's the deal with that pup you're out a minimum of four games then you can be activated uh they don't count against the roster so that's kind of where we're at with those moves right now all right we appreciate the hell out of you ladies and gentlemen that's senior nfl insider who's about to explode on your timeline with all the wire transactions ladies and gentlemen out next five ten minutes 15 maybe still hasn't happened what the hell's going on here yep yep yep i'm very patient no i got patients all the time what are we talking about i would like a text come through right now telling me that these wires have kind of going everywhere but it's kind of a race to the first ever tweet what is the getting the first tweet out i think everyone's just juiced up you know it's just football news no matter what it is i don't care if it is a day john love or some other guy the fifth i don't think he's making a team i i don't know i don't know if now is this year's the year it's finally going to happen for him but i do know that the designated for return on ir when i come covid it used to be you got ir you're done for the whole season now there's eight guys it's like i don't know why we don't have a lot what's baseball they have a dl yeah i yeah they changed at the aisle but there's like 15 day 30 day 60 day like we always wonder because you put a guy on ir because like a let's say it's a bad hamstring and let's say it's week 12 but you need players because you're not going to be able to because of where you're at for whatever the season is it's like dude ir guys that don't need to be on ir but they had to because it was the only option guys losing entire seasons for injuries that weren't season ending type injuries just because that was what they are i'm happy that they opened that they do that in preseason some players just to hide them like hey this player is good but people don't really look yeah put them all ir boom almost like a red shirt year that's genius you can develop yeah yeah you used to be able to do that now it's like designated return obviously the announcement goes publicly pup to start the season interesting ladies and gentlemen joining us now drinking out of a 200 ounce bottle ladies and gentlemen the very hydrated dan orlovsky show that thing again please can we see that thing again one more time gigantic can we see what you're drinking out of there yeah yeah shout out asshole it's got his name on the bottom never lose it porridge what's in there so what's going on do you attach that to like a belt does it does you attach it to like a belt does it to like a belt does it no so uh this is usually for like if we go to games or the beach this is not like the normal one i use but the normal one i use which is probably half the size is getting washed so i'm just using this one dude yeah it looks like you literally have a uh it looks like i don't that's what our name is on it i don't have my name on mine but this is like when we're going to games or whatnot or yeah tournaments for our kids yeah jamboree you're seizing around the house i get it you want to stay hydrated we're close to the season okay bring that energy bring that juice let's go ahead and come alive that thing's huge does this always happen that's too much why is what i don't think you know it's not i don't see any of those in a while there's not a whole lot of those floating around you don't you don't do it to yourself at all oh yeah because maybe people don't see you because you are tall uh handsome lad walking through they'll definitely see your bank bump yeah i don't use this often like this is this is just when you come on tv i i understand that i literally just said it by the one all right why is this always happened to me and if you need to kill somebody someone attacks all yeah a weapon of master you can definitely bunk with that thing oh yeah maybe you need to get two of those things so you can do the double bonking that's not bad i like that bonk bonk off okay dano let's talk about the quarterbacks around the league um there's a couple positions that are obviously still in question down atlanta they don't know who their starting quarterback is i assume they thought that would get figured out by now kyler obviously starting in minnesota they got four quarterbacks on that particular roster so is kyler going to be the starting quarterback or is he going to be the other starter for long-term steelers they got four quarterbacks there as well what's the future look like we know aaron rogers is a starter now does mccarthy want those guys to potentially get like a year behind aaron one more year in our offense behind aaron in the quarterback room how do you see these four jobs all working out and there's no way they keep four quarterbacks and follow-up state of quarterbacks that each of these teams think that there's four quarterbacks that'll either get plucked by somebody else or good enough to potentially play in the future for their team okay so i think number one for all quarterbacks i do think it's a little bit different nowadays in the nfl than it was i want to call it five or six years ago i think we are very much so back to precision being a mandate of the position uh i think we had a stretch where precision precision wasn't as necessary because i've talked about this with you guys the game was so spread out that the athleticism the creativity was more of the mandate and precision was more of the mandate and precision was more of the mandate wasn't necessarily as needed i think the way that we've watched offensive football evolve over the last four or five years and in many ways go back in time precision is needed i think we went through a stretch in the nfl with quarterback play where the i don't want my guy to get hit kind of took a back seat and it was i'm okay with him getting hit more than they have in the past because it generates more offense for us i think once again we are back at that position to doing everything you can to make sure that we're doing what we can to make sure that we're doing what we can to make sure you're minimizing hits on quarterback so i think that's a blanket statement for all guys it just feels you're gonna hear myself and a lot of us say you know the quarterback's feet timing and rhythm and the timing and the rhythm and in the process of the player the timing of the play so i think that's kind of something that's very much so back at that position in the nfl um the four quarterback thing is interesting to me uh i don't think teams carry should carry four quarterbacks i think three i in atlanta the two starting guys are such question marks because of twofold health and performance how healthy can two a b and then if you've watched to a play in the preseason there's been sloppiness on offense in every game this past weekend another fumbled snap off before the snap of pre-snap penalties you would hope that that wasn't the case for a veteran i don't know how long kevin stefanski thinks they can survive with the ball not going downfield much kyle pitts looks amazing which is great but the ball just does not go downfield much right now maybe that's by design in the preseason but i just don't think you're going to survive like that and i think the same question happens for michael pennix is well what's his availability so you've got two starters that health is a pretty significant question mark i think in pittsburgh you obviously know who the guy is but i think you like both of those two young players you're two will howard you're one drew aller i think both of those guys did things in the preseason that you have to be intrigued by and so that would be a place that i could sit there and say keeping ford does make sense um because i wouldn't want if i was pittsburgh i would not want to move on from will howard or drew aller i could move on from mason but i don't know if i want one of those guys playing for me in a regular season game right now for a team that in their eyes i'm sure is a playoff contender yeah i think mccarthy has a lot of high hopes for the future with those boys but i also know dan orlovsky you've never had to worry about like special teams coverage guy down there roster spot 53 nope you know like that is four quarterbacks is wild but i think the way i agree the way mccarthy will sell it is we need these guys for the future of our organization do we think watching aaron for a year is certainly something he wants in the guys uh especially with as he puts his culture in and aaron already knows what it is and knows what the offense is which is why he maybe wants to keep all the are they going to carry four quarterbacks throughout the entirety of the season there's going to come a time where it's going to get really tough really tough to be able to do that so i think it's going to be a really tough time for them to be able to do that so i wonder if they're just holding on for as long as they possibly can and learning as much as possible about these guys yeah i'm sure that's part of it you know teams are making their waiver wire claims and you're seeing if other teams claim quarterbacks and maybe you can stuff one of them on practice squad and not worry about losing them i've been a part of teams where like you put a guy on practice squad but you pay him active roster money and to make sure that they won't leave because that's what happens a lot as you know guys on practice squad he can't go from one practice squad to another guy he can't go from one practice squad to another guy he can't go from one practice squad to another practice squad he has to go from practice squad to an active roster and so a lot of times they'll work out deals where hey we want to keep you on the practice squad but we will pay you the active roster money to guarantee that you don't leave so i can see that happening for some of these quarterbacks in their situations but you're trying to wait to do it to the last minute so they don't get claimed i would i would assume um the minnesota one's interesting as well i mean i i would imagine you're keeping all three of those guys and maybe trying to hold brasmer on practice squad um but i i think keeping four is silly outside of i i can see reasons for it yes yeah it's just are you delaying the inevitable probably so you can see where other teams stand but if one of these guys are really liked by another team they're gonna wait until you get rid of them anyways and make the play right but good luck to everybody making these very difficult decisions let's go to less need we chit-chatted with him earlier today dan rolovsky and i said what are you are you leveraging what are people going to say that you are being stupid about he says matthew stafford's gone through bull window so we're going to try to win within that window and we are cognitive of the future but we'll figure it out then defense getting a lot of the chatter today but the offense obviously star studded as well go ahead d bud yeah rightfully so best roster we've seen put together uh in a while but i have some just some questions about the offense what are your expectations for this office one of the questions i asked less was it kept five tight ends on an initial 53 man you saw the evolution of more tight end usage last season for them i think after puka and davante adams was another receiver until like eight or nine when it came to their target list so what are what are your expectations uh for this rams offense how would it look going into the season i'm thinking it'd be a top five offense i think it's the easiest offense in the nfl to play quarterback under and that's a connected thing because the defense will be so good obviously sean mcveigh is remarkable and so not minimizing anything that matthew's going to do but this should not be a enormous ask i think it'll be a top five offense on top of that um i think one of the things that probably did not get celebrated or talked about enough last year was and this goes a little bit to your point of the five tight ends on the at least the initial roster for them he was the least touched quarterback in football last year and so there's this overall thought from mcveigh at least from the style of play is we're not we're not going to be able to let this dude get touched that that is if if we make sure that he's healthy we should win the super bowl and one of the best ways to guarantee the health is making sure that that protection is shored up so this tight ends an extra body and protection we can leak them out he was also the quarterback that was moved the most on those bootlegs and rollouts last year and so that's part of their design and when you're putting all those tight ends on the field and those multiple and the different versions of their tight ends i think you're just not only presenting personnel problems to teams d but i think you're presenting schematic problems to teams of okay this tight ends their pass catcher this tight ends their dual threat this tight ends to do it all this tight ends a little bit more of a pass blocker this tight ends a little bit more in their run game and you know i think you're presenting some really unique scheme stuff the defense is that they just aren't seeing on a week-to-week basis certainly not the way that it's going to be deployed so i really believe this is a lot about um making sure that they keep the quarterback as clean as possible i mean we've spent a better part of this particular program already everybody's talked about it aaron donald coming back on that defensive side at this stage for the amount of money they're paying them should be illegal it's it should be it should be elite how they get first done how do you get a first down how do you get them how do you get a first down against miles garrett's been a part of a defense that didn't give up the first down for like eight weeks or something at home including that was cleveland and obviously we got massive respect for that cleveland defense how good they are they didn't give up a first down for some extended part-time i'm starting to wonder the same thing how do you get a first down they have to scheme them up well maybe not i was thinking about it like this i was thinking like this being dead honest sunday night you're the offensive coordinator for i think week two they played the giants so i'm not gonna kyle's had more time but you got to play the the rams week two and you're the giants sunday night okay we like this play versus the structure just x's not not actual players just bodies we like the this play and then the next question or the first question is going to be can we block this play versus aaron donald yep we can yep we feel good coach we can double team aaron donald on this play all right cool can we run it versus 95 as well nope we can't all right throw that play out go to the next play can we run this play versus aaron donald nope all right throw it out uh can we do this protection versus miles garrett and aaron donald uh nope all right so he's like your playbook just has to get unbelievably shrunk from an offensive perspective of these are the things we actually think we can do and i just don't think you're going to walk into every game with your full book because there's just going to be plays that as a coaching staff you're going to sit there and say can't call it this week we can't we we don't have enough people to block it it's going to feel like you're playing with nine guys on offense truly and it's going to feel like they have 13 on off on defense it's how do you double everybody i don't know okay and then on the back end it helps us tremendous me aj like if you got to keep a tight end of chip or you got to keep the back end and now you're only getting three guys out maybe a late fourth like that for our coverage that makes us so much better and you know he was getting head coaching looks last year i'm sure he'll be at the top of that list again but yeah it's a cheat code but you know it's enough but think about it like this think about it like this just imagine uh they take aaron donald's and miles and put them on the same side of the defensive line like say it's to my offense is right i have to commit four bodies that way i have to i only have one other body the opposite side for two so like here comes the tight end or here comes the back again massive advantage and then you guys have seven in coverage i can only get four people out so like you you have such how did it get a first down i'm wondering this because you know how you were talking about offense coordinator because inevitably that's what you're going to be i was just thinking about fan watching game okay i'm just watching game right now and you see the pff rankings across the bottom it's like uh aaron donald on right last year number two oh yeah maybe maybe miles garrett 75th maybe they do say that but maybe there is a sense of feel this year for pff for what somebody actually might be and if they're in the hundreds maybe don't put it up there let's not bury the stars of the night but whenever they just line it up the amount of shit they're gonna have to has the accolades, and then you see him get on the field, they might both be standing. outstanding literally and it's like how do you gain a yard on that because then you know the back end is going to be sitting on everything and if they sit on anything it's a pass breakup ever never scared of the double move so you're and you guys are sitting sticks and then on guy probably and it's like they're just going to be the most smothering potential gotta run it down their throat yep that's all 13 personnel old school ball that's legit it touch push over and over and over and over again i don't know if you're going to be beating them 13 10 a whole lot though because their offense might be correct 35 points yeah but tush push i mean that's one quarter one drive bingo and that's what you're trying to do that's what you need shanahan will have i think you'll have a decent plan because their personnel groupings at least you know what i expect they do a ton of 21 and 12 so they have more bigger bodies and then you got juice and kiddo and guys that can block and they can also so it can you can dump it down a kiddo for three and he can turn it into a two and a half and then you can dump it down a kiddo for three and he can turn it into a 17 yard game so week one and then you got trent who like if it's anybody i can leave on the one on island for at least a few snaps it'll be trent and i can you know put some more assets somewhere else so week one will probably you know be the most human version of this defense we see but as aaron gets more comfortable as shula gets more comfortable uh with the defense it's gonna be scary hours you're seahawks as well i mean who knows how their offense looks because kubiak's gone but you would assume mike mcdonald's gonna say something to the boys to get them fired up enough to go out there and compete i got faith in the seahawks on the lineup and fist fight anybody bingo including this rams team and mcdonald's gonna leave no stone unturned i know that from watching hard knocks yeah okay i watched one hour of this team out of an entire week of what they got going on made me a believer yeah i love what's going on i'm a that's my nfc team dano i don't know if you've heard and it's really hard for me to do that they're the reigning super bowl champs but nobody's talking about whatever nobody's talking not even favorites to win their own division first couple weeks we're gonna assume that maybe aaron gets back into it is that what we're thinking yeah because as miles done a lot of practicing too no he's still out actually yeah he's a ton so but he's been playing they're all they're already falling last year like i think he i think he'll be fine i just saw him float levitate on yeah exactly box is 65 right it could be all right i watched people watching uh box jumps for the first time too on the internet that was fun watching them how are they doing that that's like there's some real talent coming out of those box jumps especially the people that land like really soft you ever see there's guys that are in land like super soft incredible athleticism we see miles garrett dunk i assume aaron yeah like it looks like he's a feather up there as well sitting too from sitting makes it even harder you don't hear any noise when he lands he's just feather there's a couple they zoomed in i saw those toes land and it wasn't miles garrett shoes uh just let that be known but the guys are insane right now the athletes in the nfl are absurd and the season is right around the corner as the niners and rams travel around the globe to kick this entire thing off you're the best we appreciate you dano later boys as we wrap up here on espn 2 or news i think two because u.s open ah which but it might be news i don't know did you see uh fed or was it was it fed roger federer had behind the back did you see that against mackinrow i didn't know yeah they did oh yeah yeah i did yeah they had a little celebrity kind of match they did a little pairing yes and mackinrow won after fed okay they won after fed so it was fed mackinrow and then he hits a little drop top cross court mackinrow comes back fed behind the back burial right next to mackinrow just puts his hands up it was i think it was a celebration of federer yeah from my understanding yeah okay opens bringing it sports are bringing it we'll continue digitally be a friend tell friends i'm nice it might change their life we'll see you tomorrow goodbye okay that's pretty good yeah pretty good little show today let's sneak here it is right here look at this this is coming from the u.s open can you go back to the entire rally or is that just the behind the back yeah here we go yeah mackinrow fed 101 who cares who our partners are let's battle oh good shot mackinrow he might get him oh cross court oh yeah better luck next time still got junker they were literally playing two quarters there they were just playing too good the other two mackinrow had no plans no none i get a chance to really uh federer too this is an opportunity here for us to really do battle and it ends the way it does it's beautiful and yes to what you're about to say joker they're saying this guy can't do it anymore he was sick real sick sick i'm hurt nobody was saying on the internet they were saying this downfall of whatever they were attacking them but puking and and joker i think his name will always be synonymous with greatness so anytime he doesn't win people are going to get loud about it strong communities are built in the places where life happens where families build their lives where students build their futures where businesses create opportunity bloom energy provides reliable power for the places communities depend on every day from hospitals and college 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finality of it all and uh he heads off into the off season putting together potentially one of the greatest seasons in the history of golf tiger woods has come out and said great job this is hold number two on a sunday scotty sheffler didn't know how close he was until watching before turning in his card his scorecard afterwards and you see him actually get visibly visibly frustrated i should have won it i should have won what are we even doing here what are we doing here he started sunday uh three back and the two leaders had to watch him start almost hit a hole in one go absolutely crazy scotty sheffler subbed out his driver put in his backup driver and has gone on an absolute tear during this playoff run best golfer in the world best season ever and potentially ever and now they're talking about him amongst the greats for sure aj uh even the people who are the doubters have to say the respect that he has earned well so he just makes it look so easy and i'm old enough to have kind of lived through some of the tiger era when tiger was dominating in every single tournament he was in you felt like he was going to win and there's very very similar feelings when scotty sheffler is in the field especially if he's within striking distance like oh yeah of course everyone else is going to take him take a step back scotty's going to shoot seven under he's going to get a dominate this thing and win and make it look easy which we all know this is almost this is so difficult to do how he wins so consistently yeah and i like how comfortable he's getting he said he had an ice cold beer after because he was outside they asked him if he'd go inside he said uh he asked if he'd go inside for five ten minutes get some air conditioning goes inside there's a bar in there give me a beer i don't like this i'm talking to my family gonna get this camera out of my face okay scotty sheffler is really evolving and growing into who he thinks he's allowed to be and we'd like to let him know scotty you've earned everything brother it has been so much fun to watch from the very beginning of like oh this is the guy to actually sustaining that because there's been a lot of people we've all crowned and thought we're going to take the next steps okay we all thought jordan was going to make a run we all thought justin thomas was maybe we thought rory was going to make a run he did i'm not saying these guys have we thought ricky was maybe going to be a guy there for a while dustin johnson brooks rombo bombo you name it all these guys had their runs in golf where we were very thankful for but we all were maybe crowning the post tiger king scotty sheffler came in and he's kept his foot on the fucking gas and now he's earned more money from pga tour wins than uh tiger has now if you adjust that for current models of tour championships i believe tiger's up over 200 some million and i think you would have to adjust scotty sheffler's earlier winnings if it was to modern tour winnings because it's obviously different now than it was just a few years ago shout out to live i guess is what d button live with today but there's a lot of money won there's a lot of greatness displayed and there's a consistency and a sustainability to his game that we didn't think was going to be possible ever again in golf and instead scotty's been the guy it's been fun to watch him yeah that's the most impressive part about any sport you know it's one thing when a guy gets to at least what we assume is like the peak but then the longer you can maintain and i feel like with this sport you know we could just be at the beginning he could do this for another 15 20 years if he stays healthy so that consistency that he has and going into sunday i think was he three back yeah so i remember looking at it and i think the odds i forget what the odds were but it was one of those times where it's like going into a game with patrick mahomes and it's like he's a three-point dog and it's like i gotta take this like it's no way he's gonna so that was the same with scotty and week in and week out he just shows up now i remember a few weeks ago maybe a couple months ago at this point a lot of you boys in here were concerned top five finishes top 10 he's not winning enough i know he didn't win any majors this year but he's not winning enough he's not winning enough he's not winning enough but uh i would be interested to see how he feels personally just within his close circle about this very interesting have you heard about the the haters of which there were many come out and say, he didn't win any majors this year, so I don't want to hear it. It's like he won the whole damn thing. Literally won the season and won two out of the three playoff weekends, which they'll have another one of these next year, and then they get to bracket, match play. So that's 2028. We still got to go through this particular. Go through. Sorry. It's been electrifying. Mostly because Scotty Scheffler's been. That is why. Go ahead, AJ. I'm sorry, buddy. No, we're going to thrive. We're going to thrive through the next year until 2028. Exactly. It's not an obstacle. It's an opportunity. It's not another year of what are we doing before it seems like awesome is happening. It's another year to celebrate what it has been. And what it has been is Scotty Scheffler dominating on a golf course. And we love him doing it. Hand, foot, and mouth took out the quadruple crown. So Scotty's going to be trying to get that next year, obviously. That's probably up on top of the motivation wall. Quadruple crown. We know Scotty probably operates like that. But he has a chance to do that. What a fun year it was. Yeah, it was unbelievable. I mean, 58% top fives, I believe, over his last hundred, which is just absurd. And being so good down the stretch to win the PGA regular season and the playoffs and all the events. But I do want to, I would love to ask him, hey, do you think this is a successful season? Because with no majors, I would love to hear what he says. Yeah. You think he'd say that? I don't know. You don't think the playoffs or majors, it's only the top 30 guys in the world. That pales in comparison to the majors. Because he already knows, like, hey, I mean, like, the proof is in the pudding. If I go out here on the tour, like, I win. Or I get a top five. Like, that's what I do. And now, so we're, now it's like, hey, he's got to chase Tiger with majors, you know, and he's got a ways to go for that. So he needs to start racking those puppies up. Because when he plays in these tournaments, newsflash, he fucking wins. New drivers. Yeah. New driver. Yeah. Certainly, he's won two out of the three tournaments with this new driver. This could be a game changer. And that's what everyone said about his irons, too. It's like, he's, you know, I mean, it's relative to everyone else, but like, for him, he's playing like shit with his irons right now. And then we see when he dials in, it's like, it's not fair. Who's the other guy that can make it? We saw Cam play made it. Who's outside of Rory and Scotty? Fleetwood. They don't exist yet. There's a new class of young guns out there that we've seen a little bit this year. Hopefully, one of those guys can be it, but it's not going to be. And I see a big smirk on both of your faces. We know who it is, and he happens to be in the senior tour. The number one showman in golf? We got Shooter McGavin on the PGA Tour Championship. Yeah. Okay. His name's Michael Block, also known as Blocky. This man came into, obviously, fame. Yeah, that's him on a golf course in the lead. Come on. Come on. Get up. Yeah. Everyone up. Did you see what I just did? Make some noise. We saw a throw of a golf club on a par three on the tee box. Okay. This is the best one. Bump, bump. Bump, bump. I'm in the lead on a Sunday PGA Tour Championship. And it's near the flag. 20 feet. Get that thing out of here. I'm a blockhead. Give me that putter. Here we go. Let me dap everybody up. Even a scorecard holder. Yeah, let's go, Blocky. Let's go. I'm doing a score. You're in the lead. Bang. Boom. I like it. I'll tell you what. The PGA Tour Championships never needed Blocky more than this moment right now. Oh, man. Tuned in all weekend for the next clip. He's turning his back. He's walking off putts. Walking off putts. Now, there's obviously a little bit of a other side of the story. What? What? What do you mean? Michael Block was very open about it. He was a little bit nervous on Sunday. He ends up getting third place, actually. Oh, he didn't win? No, he entered Sunday with the lead in a championship PGA Tour Championship round in series. And he ended up in third place. So he had a little bit of a tough Sunday, but made big plays. Brought a lot of attention. And I think Blocky knows he's made for the moment now. Okay, and I can't wait to see what he does next. Is this tour all fall? Because I need Blocky more Blocky. I need more Blocky. I need more Blocky. Who's he waving at all the time? Those are his fans. Millions and millions of fans. His groupies. Yeah. Oh, my God. Come on, lads. You. Hey. Here we go. I want to step in line. Walking through lines. No, he does. He doesn't care. How about PGA Tour Championship? Par three. It's a beautiful draw in there. About 15, 20 feet. Looks good. Obviously can't tell depth all the time. It's a senior tour. I thought I was nice to it. He gets jacked up. People go crazy for him because they like him. Throws his club. Obviously, too cat. Wait, how close? It's like 15, 20. Yeah, 20, 25. But it was directly in eyesight. We've all been there before. You know where it's like tracking, tracking, tracking. What? Yeah. I mean, there's a chance that thing rolled in from where they are. This is the greatest showman in sports right now. It's Miz. And he hits the puck. Yes. He is the Mike. He is the Mike. The Blocky. I love him. Give me that. I'm not a Blocky. He's talking in third person. What? No, I changed my mind. You missed his quote then, because once you read his quote, it's like, wow, how can you not be a fan of Blocky? This guy's talking in third person. This dude is the man. I want to let you know, D-Butt, I think you're missing it here. Yeah. Okay, I think golf potentially needs this. Definitely. This game is missing. Liv would still be alive if it had a man like Blocky. I put his poster on my wall last night after all this. He has a poster. See, that's one of the things I think No, I made it. I created it. A.I. Printed it out. Fucking threw it up. Is it him doing the club throw? Yeah. Yeah. Shirtless and he looks yoked. You're missing it, D-Butt. Come on, D-Butt. I don't think you did it. Get on board. He almost did the Hulk. He did actually earlier and then he told people, please keep it down. Somebody else got a putty or it's not just my tournament. It's others. It's PGA Tour. Stand strong, D-Butt. Stand strong. This guy's a fucking dickhead. No! No, he is not. Blocky is a grade A cocksucker. No, he is not. He sucks. He sucks. This guy sucks. And listen. Fuck you, man. This is bullshit. I wanted to be a blockhead, too. I love showmen. I came back around, you know, several months ago. I said, hey, listen, I don't know if my block party invite got lost in the mail the first time around, but guess what? I showed up to the barbecue this time around. I'm at the block party. I just, I can't pretend. I'm no longer gonna do it, especially when he's doing all this shit and that's the only thing my Twitter was all weekend, like oh, no, you know, like I can't imagine. Need to check in on. And I just had to say listen, if you think I'm losing any sleep over this grade A dickhead, you're nuts. Okay? I saw the clip. Sure. I ain't fucking watching this guy. What are you talking about? I put the noties on for him. Yeah, me, too. I'm tuning in. You know what? I got notios on. Block, Blocky, Michael, The Mike, Golf God, all these things. And I'm happy for you guys. If you're gonna act like a petulant cocksucker on the golf course, you gotta win tournaments. And Blocky fucking choked down the stretch and he didn't win, but no, we don't see any of that. He was nervous. We don't see any of that kind of stuff. What was the setup on Sunday? Tough. It was tough. No, it wasn't tough. No, no, no, it was cheap. Hey, tell him, Blocky. Tell him. I checked. So out of the top 20 guys that finished in this tournament, there were only two that finished over par yesterday. Michael Block, he had the lead after 10 holes. He made it birdie putt to take the lead. He only has eight holes left. He's gonna be a champion on the tour. He finishes two over. Once again, only one of two players that shot over par in the top 20 of this tournament. He did indeed choke. I love Michael Brown. That's your hero. He left out half the story. This is his first time in this moment. What do you want from the guy? He woke up, knees weak, palms sweaty. Then he got the crowd to go a little bit and he was like, wait a minute, maybe this is the time. And then down the stretch, got a little tired out. He got a little tuckered out. The guy's not used to playing 72 hole golf. Did you see what the senior tour did to him too? We all know that Blocky loves to play the power fade. They set up every hole on Sunday for draw players. They were against Blocky on Sunday. They were like, I don't understand why they're against him, but they were. Because he acts like a fucking son of a bitch dickhead on the golf course. Maybe that's why. It's great for ratings. His fucking booze bag is great for ratings. That's the other aspect of this. They're leaving out Blocky was the only one out clapping cheeks, talking to all the fans the night before. Getting boozed up, having fun. We like Blocky. You guys can have Blocky. You guys can fucking have him. I will say there's a lot of people joining your. I'm with Ty. Just give it time. You guys will be here in a couple weeks. No, I did the full run around. I did the full Romo circle on him. And also, good news. Champions Tour goes till mid-November, so we got more. Let's go. Also need him in TGL. If he's not in TGL this year, TGL's making a massive mistake. The newest team, the Motor City Golf Club, as a fan, Blocky, you're invited on our team. Oh, I'm sure him and Kepka would get along swimming. Might throw a club through the screen. Blocky really strikes me as the kind of guy Brooks Kepka would love hanging out with. They do. You never know. They go on family vacations together. I don't know any of that's true, but I do think that Blocky, he made some great shots in a PGA tournament there. We did. And I don't think. Champions tournament. He'd be riding the bull around the TGL arena. Because if you remember, he has played in PGA tournaments, and he typically doesn't make the fucking cut in those. That was a long time ago. Don't get that distinctive goal. Sometimes. So I do think the big issue for Blocky is people are comparing him like Scotty Sheffield. Bingo. You know, because it's both Sunday golf, but when you're burying putts like that, and you're making, you know, tee box golf balls dance. Sure. Can't help but get a little excited. Blocky's doing a bull dance, feeling the flow. He's a player. There's no two ways about it. Okay, thank you. We gotta at least say that. I'm not saying he sucks at golf. I'm in. By no means am I saying that. I'm saying I'd love to see, you know, one of these guys on the Champions Tour. take a 7-iron and hit him in the neck as hard as they could. That's what I'm saying. In the neck? Yeah. You were supporting all this. Are you on that side as well? Neck, knees. I say it with Ty. Thank you. Thank you, D-Butt. This guy grew up in Divenport, Iowa. Blocky? Yeah. I don't give a fuck at all. What? He's an Iowa guy. No, he's not. He reaches Iowa. Guess what? We don't fucking claim him. Block was born in Reno, Nevada. Then he grew up first in Divenport, Iowa. Then he went to the St. Louis area of Missouri. During his adolescence, he played golf in Belle Reve at the Belle Reve Country Club two miles from his home before graduating from Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri. This guy's a Midwest kid. Yeah, he is. This guy's a Midwest kid doing a bull dance. So I got to like him? Guess who else was born in Divenport? Who's that? Me. I don't give a fuck. Fuck Blocky. Oh, my God. Still no business, Ty. Thank you. He's going to be so good on TGO. Oh, yeah. The best. The hands. The hands. Because, you know, the drive, the power is where Blocky lacks. Sure. If he was more powerful, it'd be Roy McIlwain. He'd be the number one player in the world. Yeah. I heard Tiger was considering him to be his personal proxy. Like, if Tiger can't play in a match, he's going to have Blocky go out there. Yeah. Wear power, Red. Keep the ratings up. Blocky's got DUI written all over him in the coming weeks. No way. He's got driver's switch. Speaking of. Is there a tournament? Is there a tournament here? We need everybody to get drivers, please, immediately. And Blocky, keep going, dude. He is certainly a hater, but there's supporters out here. Keep doing your thing. They need a Shooter McGavin out there at the PGA Tour Championship. He is. And I would assume, you know, they will be grateful for the attention. I don't know where the next tournament is. We need a group of people to be following Blocky around. What's that, Ty? Nothing. I love it. I love it. I can't wait to see more Blocky videos next weekend or whenever the fuck the next one of these tournaments is. And we will. We will. Because, you know, the golf that people care about is not on TV anymore. Well, President's Cup here in a few weeks. Yeah, sure. I do believe we'll have that. Maybe Blocky will be on the President's Cup team. Should be. He keeps playing the way he's playing. Ned's right there. Captain Block. He keeps playing. I like Blocky. Blocky, keep doing it. Keenan Allen, a member of the Indianapolis Colts, was charged with DWI this weekend as he was in a car that was parked in a non-parking zone downtown Indianapolis while being inebriated so he gets charged with DWI plus also endangering, I believe, DWI. I think because he was in a no parking spot, obviously humans, I think there's a lot of people that wanted to come out and kick him out of town and then they found out he was like maybe passed out in car inside, which there's a bunch of rules, different states on if you have key in car and you're in car intoxicated, it counts as DWI. Some place if it's within arm reach. Some are if the car's on. Sometimes if keys are in car at all, so people have keys outside, whatever the case, not smart to get behind a wheel whenever you're intoxicated, but it was nice to know that the car was parked. Now, do you have to assume the car was driven by him at that point to that space? Yes, but I think it was a good piece of information here. The car was parked. He definitely needs to be smarter, especially at this stage of his career, but I think the Colts are going to wait for probably more information, but I think, you know. No city needs to figure it out and he needs to not do that ever again. Well said. Bingo. Lesson learned. But we need to stop driving when we're intoxicated. People need, like as a society, it needs to stop happening. There's so many options right now. Like there's so many options right now. Uber is everywhere, obviously. Lyft, I believe, happens. I mean, walking is certainly an option. It's just like we got to be smarter. And I think Keenan Allen learns that very loudly here in his first couple of weeks here in Indiana. And now all eyes are on what the Colts will do, also what the city will do, and if there's any punishment. We have some breaking news from Adam Schefter. He's been waiting for the wire. Former LSU and Buccaneers edge Jack Parburn was claimed on waivers by the Chiefs. Wow. Love it. He has informed LSU that he's withdrawing his claim in the NCAA's 5-for-5 eligibility litigation and will remain in the NFL rather than return to LSU, per his agents Christian Addison and Harold Lewis. So this was something that was being chatted about in our group text a little bit. These NFL teams. Could do something very funny here to these guys that if they were to get cut from a team and clear waivers, would potentially be able to go back and play college football because of an injunction that says the 5-for-5 rule should also have them be eligible for it. Chiefs claim Parburn, who is a great face paint, led the NFL in sacks this preseason and certainly a dog. He's saying, I'm not doing it. I'm going to go chase my professional dreams. Will that continue to happen, A.J.? We shall see. I guess so. But it sounds like even if guys try to go back to school, even Lane. He's saying, no, no, thank you. We're not doing this, right? We're going to follow what the SEC and all the people are saying. Isn't that what is going on right now? I don't I don't think that's exactly what it is. I think working in conjunction with the SEC, there's a court hearing, I believe, on Thursday in Baton Rouge, I think, and then a big decision by Lane and any other coaches that are potentially having this particular class be deemed eligible. Friday, I guess you got to set your 105 roster. So Thursday, there's a hearing. Friday is the roster setting day. So we're going to learn a lot here. On what happens where. But there certainly has been quite an initiative from Sankey to be like, we don't like this in our league. We don't like this at all. And then there's a Texas injunction that says it doesn't matter if you like it. Like court saying you can't. So just like the NCAA don't have power, you don't have power. And then there was a report that Sankey came out and said, all right, well, it's raw. Then there was a report that said, fuck it. We'll fight this. We'll see you in court. And it's been kind of an interesting seesaw of who I think is going to inevitably end up winning this in time. The entire thing. I think Pyburn saying I'm not doing it. I'm going to continue my NFL career is a big deal. And probably part of him hearing all this noise to not want to be a part of it. We haven't even thought about the players perspective about not wanting to be a part of the negativity that has certainly been around this entire story. But injunctions in court cases seemingly going to end on Thursday and then Friday be a big declaration for football. And now just within the last like 20 minutes, it looks like I think it looks like LSU may be getting the Texas Tech treatment where everyone in the conference is just going to say like, all right, that's fine. We're just not going to play you. OK, so good luck with that and see what happens. So then they would say, sweet. That would count as a win for us. And in the court, I mean, yeah, I think the Texas Tech situation with Sorsby provided Big 12 commissioner your mark to do something that I think other commissioners are looking at now. Your mark talks to the NCAA. The NCAA says we have no power over this. We'll get sued by Sorsby, which we just did. We can't rule that this guy, which we all agree, can't do it because we have no power inevitably, which is why they're not going to play you. That's why the Protect College Sports Act needs to happen. So an antitrust thing happens for the NCAA so they can empower and do their own rules. OK, so your mark, Big 12, says, you know what? We can't enforce any of our rules, but we don't like what you did. And actually, everybody's not going to put you're getting suspended. They're going to kind of make you an outcast. You're getting shunned basically by the Big 12. That is the only real regulation we have seen over the last three, four years of any rules. So then I think Big 10 and SEC saw this and were like, OK, this is how it has to be done. Now they're trying to do as such. Then an injunction happens in Texas. Now another court case in Louisiana. Just dog chasing tail right now, seemingly. But if the conference doesn't want something to happen, we're about to find out whether or not it's possible for them to get the job done in this world with no real regulations or rules. So interesting way to start a college football season. Yeah, but we're starting it. We're starting it. Let's go. See you Saturday at LSU. Yeah, see you down there. Going to be in the area in which. It happened Saturday in Baton Rouge. It's going to be wild. It's going to be incredible. That's going to be amazing. Incredible. Yeah. But yes, it is going to be so hot down there. I've been looking at the feels like numbers. Yeah. Don't, don't, don't. My phone actually told me. So I go to the weather app and I go Baton Rouge. Let me see what this looks like. Then I get the Saturday and then it right there. It like lays it out for me, like more information, the better. It's actually 87 or 90 degrees. I feel like 106. It's like, I don't need to know that. Leave me in RV. Leave me in hotel room is probably, it might fry your phone. You might need to bring an extra phone. Oh, you think my phone was telling me. Yeah. Yeah. Feels like you shouldn't bring me outside. Legit. That happens. I feel like that's happened to you before on set. Yeah. Don't burn me out, please. Yeah. It is. It's going to be quite a hot start. Excited for it though. It's going to be so pumped. I think we got ranked games Friday too. Yeah. We got college football. I mean, college football. Colorado, huge questions on, are they a football team or not? Yeah. You know, huge, huge questions. We'll find out what Georgia Tech favored by six and a half. Mendoza's. In Atlanta with Albert. Is that his name? Yes. Alberto. Alberto Mendoza. Shout out to Alberto. Miami taking on a team we were impressed with. Yeah. Tough Stanford. They're playing against Andrew Luck every day in practice. I think he's putting pads on and I think he's running scout team up there in Stanford. He's running around with them. He's on the sideline. He's talking as if he is a coach. He is the general manager. Should I? No, I'm going to score a touchdown here opening night and cover potentially here late as this was an absolute epic battle. But I think Andrew Luck is all in on the Stanford team. And until he's not, I won't believe in him. Now, granted, take it on Miami. Friday night. Crystal ball. 24 and a half point dogs. Straight out of a lost national championship. You know, what's that going to look like? - Excited to watch it. - For our trip. - It's a long trip. - Yeah. upper will the crowd fill a show up there for that particular no no they didn't last week miami county should i don't know stanford didn't really fill it up you know who else didn't it was a big conversation oh yeah yikes hey usc over there lincoln riley oh that's a huge stadium obviously huge stadium yeah but uh we were told will blackman who we're big fans of was there at the game he said it was really hot and there's no shade and it's also early kickoff in los angeles so they're obviously doing comparisons to like back in usc's heyday temperature time of kick what it looked like versus what it looks like now it's just that was a bad look for usc but if they win games who cares who cares they don't inevitably fill up if it fills up but uh what'd you say recruits yeah it looks like nobody gives a damn about i was just about to say they just got the number one recruiting class in the country i don't know how that happened really yes oh wow yeah they have the they had five freshmen start this so maybe it's just because they're playing against uh san jose state yeah but that was uh some company sent into the group chat the they played san jose state in i want to say it was 2010 or whatever same exact weather place was packed out packed out huge i mean it was 80 some thousand or something like that in there so for that to be the display of what your team is i assume lincoln riley didn't want noon san jose state probably not first week can we get a night game maybe so everybody can kind of travel in here and enjoy but that didn't look good especially with what we're going to see in these other places yeah like what louisiana is what lsu is going to look like down there is just going to be they had a full practice this weekend full practice walk through game walk through i guess they didn't they didn't tell crowd though they were just going to do it obviously and kind of walk through it all we got banned we got fly over this what it's going to be boys we're going to go through it lane probably wanting to go through it one time too to kind of see what it all looks like and how it works before it goes allegedly news just kind of trickled out amongst campus like this was happening and they said they got like 10 15 000 that just showed up at the stadium like to kind of be there so to say that especially with the bunker mentality that they could have with everybody attacking LSU as being a bunch of not good men. Yeah. Just not good people down there is what they're saying. These people are ruining college sports. That could create quite a hive mentality, you know, and going right into it as it actually feels like 106 degrees, fired up. Boy, that's going to be a great start to everything. Dabo. Dabo on the other side. A good man. And he used the transfer portal a little bit this year. He definitely did more than in the past. But if you look at how teams are built, if you were to just go strictly off of Dabo, it's like Dabo's old school. We're going to recruit. We're going to develop. Okay, we'll bring a couple transfer portals in. Lane Kiffin is who's available. Who can play football? Build the best roster. How do I go? Right now, how do we do that? So just two different, you know, thoughts as we're in the middle of quite a transition period for college football. Great way to start it all. And then, you know, group of five teams that can sneak their way in there. Did you see the Memphis Tigers? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Even them. You and LV walked out with Elvis Presley. Yeah. Okay, Coach Mullins. They got a guy out there who I think I saw breaking him down and he's played football a long time. You and LV had a lot of hope. Coach Huff there got knocked on his ass right there. In the locker room, he gave a speech that was like, Hey, listen, I know I'm hard as hell on you guys. I know it's a miserable fucking existence here. Okay, I know that. But it's not just you players. I also talked to the staff. Accountability's on. Everybody, shout out. Miss Kathy. Miss Kathy comes. I guess Miss Kathy is seemingly. Because the team and the way the players reacted to Miss Kathy was like, Thank you, Miss Kathy. Yeah. And at Memphis, who knows how many things they have for what? You know, like, who knows what's all possible, what's all available, who has to drum up whatever for whatever all the time down there. So Miss Kathy seems like she is a bit of a beast for the Memphis Tigers. But also, Coach Huff, it feels like they got respect for him. And then you listen to the music and the reaction immediately afterwards. It's like, they got dogs. Yeah. In that locker room. And he's obviously been to multiple different places. Marshall, Southern Miss, and now here at Memphis. And I think he's got a couple players that have maybe been all three places for him. So he's got his culture in there. He's got a lot of transfers in there. And I think he's got dogs across the board. I really liked what I saw in that Memphis Tiger locker room. Yeah, like you said, he rebuilt Marshall. And then last year at Southern Miss, he brought 20 guys with him from Southern Miss. So, yeah, he does have his culture in there. And you want to talk about, like, spending and college football, they actually, as far as, group of five, group of six, whatever it is now, actually have a little bit more money than you would think because of good old FedEx down there. Oh, I didn't know FedEx down there in Memphis. Shout out. Maybe they're able to build a bit of a roster. And then they got a psycho strength coach. Love that. When I say I've been, I almost tweeted out, like, it feels like I've been in a locker room or two like this one. Coach is a hard-nosed guy. Got dogs across the board who have been counted out. And the strength coach is a psycho. Put this on, please. Hey! We start the day! Oh, yeah! Awesome! T-R-I-G-A-J-A-K-T-E-M-A-N-E-S! Yeah, I think they are going to be a problem. I think they're going to be a problem for some teams. And I'm excited to see who does that. I think they got Boise September 12th. Big one. Memphis has Boise at Boise September 12th. So that's good. That group of five convo obviously comes to a point right there. Yeah, in this era, man, like building these cultures, because, Coach, you talked about bringing 20 guys, like all these different guys. Because when we were in school, like you go with your recruiting class and usually you stay those, you know, wherever you're at, three, four, five years together. But now building that culture, when you come out and you see that proof in the pudding, like you see a week one, you go out and get a huge win on prime time for them, like that can just propel them even more forward. And I say it all the time, I'm sure you guys would agree, like a college program, like the strength coach is probably up there with two or three most important person in that building because they really set the tone. You're really turning, you know, boys into grown-ass men. Like when you come in there at 17, 18, and by the time you leave a program at 21, 22 years old, like the bodies, the mentality, like because you can get through that shit in winter workouts or summer or whatever it is, once the game time comes, like that should be a cakewalk, man. So like seeing that type of shit, like the behind the scenes, which we don't get to see with a lot of these scenes, seeing that, seeing how everybody's balled in, like that's priceless. And once again, or not once again, I would like to clarify, we don't know if that's a strength coach, we assume. Assume. Yeah, so save assumptions. Just by looking at that guy, that is the strength coach. Exactly, AJ, it's got to be. Or linebacker coach, potentially. Or maybe it's a student tutor. Good to be. You know, just a good speech giver. But we assume that he's the strength coach. Yeah. But to your point, they're the ones instituting the culture every single morning, every single day. They are very, very important to the process. And also, here's Coach Huff, hey listen, we don't play music, we don't throw ice cream, okay, we don't do fun stuff. At the beginning of his speech afterwards, he was like, life sucks around here for the players, but also, that's how we got to Miss Kathy. And the players were like, yup, yup, it certainly does. But that's a way to win. And it has been for a very long time. Your attention to detail, accountability, high expectation, everything like that normally leads to success. And he's had a lot of success everywhere he's been. So I like what they're cooking down there in Memphis. And inevitably, one of those group of five schools is going to go on a run where we're all going to have to talk about them. And then they're going to get in a college football playoff. Absolutely dog walked by somebody. Maybe. But maybe not. Maybe not. I think Memphis has some sort of record about the amount of wins that they've had over the last few years. Yeah, they've been really good for, yeah. I think they win down there. They do. That's where Norvell started. Yeah. Go to State. Yeah, and then Silverfield just went to Arkansas. That's a factory of, hey, you win at Memphis, and then you go get a bigger job. I got a chance to go to Daytona this past weekend. Oh, really? I saw that. I thought. The CUC 0400. Okay. Some racing. Great race. Some rubbing. I'll tell you what. There was a lot of rubbing because it was the last race before playoffs. It was the end of the season. And they wanted to keep it. Now, I'm in jorts and a tank top out there. I would be told rather quickly by a rules and safety official to get the hell out of here. And that was probably the right decision. And I would like to let that guy know. I appreciate it. I appreciate him looking out for me. He's, who, why are you here? He comes up to me. I go, ah, he's told me to hold a sign, man. Told me to hold a sign. And he goes, get out of here. And I go to shake his hand. Like, hey, he's like, get out of here. It gets wild in there. Yeah, very wild. And also, obviously, with shorts, you know, anything can kind of bounce through. It was before the race started. I appreciate them being super safe and super healthy and everything like that. But it was an incredible, that was my first time down there at Daytona. They have this grandstand that's just one side, basically, of the track. It looks daunting, like, whenever you go down there. A lot of people camping out, obviously. They do three races down at Daytona. They start the season at Daytona 500. They end it there for the playoffs. The France family, which I believe founded NASCAR, I think they're from that area. They have an entire thing up at the top. New CEO, Steve O'Donnell. Okay. First non-France family member to run NASCAR. Wow. Got hired in April of 2026. Him and Tim, I believe, chief brand officer, got a chance to chat with them throughout the entirety of what they're looking to do, how they're looking to do it. They're like, we won. We're trying to make NASCAR people happy. That's what we're trying to do. It's like, we might drift it a little bit away, but it's time to get back. And I like that. I was like a big fan of that. Because you could feel their culture and community down there at that racetrack. And obviously, we're here in Indianapolis, so we know the IndyCar racing community in which it is. It felt like that with the NASCAR. It felt like a real family. And obviously, I got a chance to, you know, chit-chat with Cole Trickle a little bit. No big deal. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. It was insane. Did not know this was going to happen. I think there was a conversation had with Tom Cruise's folks about maybe a time to have a conversation with somebody who's in the media and for some reason tom's people were like uh we should probably try to have mr mcafee do that that'd be cool if he would come down so i got asked to come down very late did not know the days of thunder announcement was coming whenever i was asked to go down there and then i was told it was all happening i'm like holy shit would love to come down there so we'll have a conversation with tom cruise tomorrow uh that i got a chance to have talks about a lot of things yeah it was an incredible setup and then got to walk the pits with old tom watch him operate it wasn't just him brockheimer was there the head of paramount was there yeah i mean the entire crew was there they were trying to gather as much information as possible while doing all this promotion it was like and when tom cruise walks you want to talk about motion so holy shit he's got it i've never yeah it was remarkable so shout out to the nascar folks taking care of me being so kind to me it was fun to get to learn a little bit more about your world shout out to tom cruise and the family for the invitation down there and uh i can't wait to watch days of thunder saw a lot of people uh you know asking me to stay away from them but i know nothing about the movie but i do know is i had a conversation with him about all the movies that he currently has cooking and tom cruise once again just it's tc that's tc did he do the thing that you said you guys said he always does it he he with something in the engine you grab a tool or something no so when i talked to him we were just kind of standing next to the car just kind of standing he had a good cool pose i don't know what's for sure he looks really cool i would say but there was no there was no fidgeting of anything he built that car from the ground up so it's like you know he's not making any mistakes obviously with that under the hood so he doesn't really need to tweak anything i don't want to give too many spoilers to our conversation but he'd been thinking about this for 15 20 years i don't doubt it what's the right way to go about telling the story getting back into it and everything and i said are you gonna be a crew chief or whatever i'm driving yeah no no no no no no if i'm making an airplane movie i'm i'm flying the lion yep if i'm making a nascar movie i'm driving the car i was like okay yeah i don't even can't believe i asked people just trying to figure out how you're gonna do it you know just trying to figure it out but he is you can feel it you know it's like irradiating around but it was an entire team got this hat right here oh sick so sick wheat thank you d but you like the original days of thunder movie uh yeah it's fire uh you know high high bar right now though that f1 movie well there's a lot of people's dreams to see that hope that he somehow gets tied into the days of jerry comes together because he did sonny can't drive anything yes correct that's like very very fan fiction like that'd be all okay well i also think that we all have a little bit more faith that it's going to be good because we saw what he did with the top gun correct yeah sequel you know like i think we all have expectation that because top gun maverick was so good oh yeah okay okay tom's only gonna make it better if he was to do it and i asked him about that you know i'm like hey it feels like if you're picking a movie at this stage we all just have faith it's going to be good and then him talking about the team and the crew and how we're setting it up he's really going for what should we expect from days of thunder here uh i mean the last one came out a long time ago but i think just with i mean that was like the big thing with top gun you know a lot of people the first one love it so much because of the nostalgia but then when you see the second one the the way technology has advanced so much so i think it's going to be good i think it's going to the second top gun is just as a movie and like as like a piece of entertainment and something to watch it is a thousand times better than the original top gun because like the the way they can shoot like they can put the cameras inside the planes now like the stuff they weren't able to do that you know for the first uh the first movie that so same deal like the advancements in technology and the way they've made movies has it's been crazy since you know the last time he did this which was like yeah like you know damn near 35 40 years ago so it's like i mean it's gonna be incredible and that's the thing is if tc is doing a movie and like he's very hands-on and like it's you know the the team that he usually has produce it write it someone he has direct it like those those movies very rarely stink because he stakes like his entire existence and reputation on him and he takes him he takes them very seriously it's gonna be the rowdy rowdy burns in this movie that's a great question i don't know what you think aj i don't know we'll see who who's gonna be d button i assume you already had that question i don't know i don't know i don't know it's gonna be glenn paul oh no oh maybe new new chad powers is out i do believe on hulu yeah but it was uh it was a fun fascinating conversation anytime you talk to one of the most interesting people to ever exist there's obviously going to be nuggets to come up but we appreciate the invite and uh shout to daytona hell yeah 80 some thousand people in there packed up that thing is just huge huge because here at the indianapolis motor speedway obviously there's bleachers on both sides and everything like that that one is just right down one side just packed in it was it was a cool night and those cars lag they got a lot of ponies under protection down there you don't need to wear ear protection i was asked if i wanted ear protection obviously said no you know the entire thing i'm i don't know if i was doing that to act tough but everybody else had ear protection around and uh i said i want here is that him asking you right now um they do ask me i would say within the next three minutes gumpy when do you think like three minutes after this shot right here i was asked if i wanted to go out and hold the sign or was this after i was told to no longer hold the sign i think this was before and then uh also after you used that tool 400 psi fucking just they only got a one shot because it used to be right changing the tire now it's just just one in the middle oh wow oh i don't know but that thing i think was 300 psi maybe 400 psi whatever the case fire hose like this guy maybe potential i don't know if it was kim bro i believe was the name mob and bush here uh they hand me the thing had towel around the head of it obviously they hand it to me and they go hey hit that thing one time i was like all right i'm just fucking with it that thing almost bopped out of my hand yeah damn they had some real powers oh shit so then the second one i was like all right fuck and they were obviously all laughing at me i'm like oh this thing's this thing's got some real juice huh real real juice and i try to lock into it more almost breaks my my wrist or whatever so i just well i can't put it down you know i can't put it down you know because that thing's still spinning right so i like had to like weirdly place it so it wouldn't break and i'm like get me the fuck out of here i should not be touching any of the race is about to start okay they're in this it was they they were very hospitable to us let alone the three hot dogs i had up in the france family suites you run into any former football players on there i heard that's all of a big culture is a bunch of former college or pro all the pit guys former team man of my time all the guys i ran they're all football guys the pit guys were very kind which is why i was asked to hold the sign do the thing and i was like oh my god i'm gonna stand in the thing they're all football guys uh but yeah incredibly athletic squad they were doing practice ones like as their car would be driving around in the the warm-up laps they would like watch it go and then they were bouncing around then getting back and then somebody come out with a sweeper to kind of clean it all up it was like watching them lock in was uh pretty sick once again me and gumpy thought we should not be standing right where we are but we did gumpy didn't we we watched 10 15 laps down there just right where we were not supposed to be at all yeah it was a very cool experience also the flyover before was unbelievable all of it it was it was even up in the suite the view from the suite could not be understood you're just watching the thing right in front of your face the family that created nascar uh invited us up to their suite shout out to them they had a hot dog station which i guess all nascar suites have because bill france jr which i believe is founding father loved hot dogs like making his hot dogs so we had uh some parky butter that we put on the grill to heat up the bun and then you had uh you had everything you had slaw you had relish you had chili you had onions cheat there it is right there yeah that thing yeah oh yeah i almost busted my oh yeah yep let me get out of here and then look put it down well can't it's got to stop obviously don't want to bust this thing yep and almost broke my wrist it was incredible is what i'm saying and that conversation with tom will come out tomorrow and that came together within like 24 hours so i was very lucky and thankful to be there saw a lot of people not happy with what i was wearing i was at nascar's fucking day wear a tux what are you gonna wear i don't know i generally don't know you dress like that to meet tom cruise it's like i think if i wasn't dressed like this would i get invited by tom where daytona it's fucking nascar sponsored by sponsored by grizzly patches you know relax like grizzly patches were all over the place they had uh they had a grizzly uh nicotine patches green lot where people were parked inside i mean we we saw the grizzly wintergreen lot uh yeah maybe but it didn't say wintergreen it just said grizzly grizzly uh patches like would have been better if it did say wintergreen which maybe hey you guys need to think about down there yeah but literally we see this car grow uh we walk by this car and it's like just grizzly huge i'm like hell yeah grizzly's fucking still doing it man i thought they would be done for and then we're driving out grizzly parking lot it's like okay grizzly's still fucking bringing it down here in the nascar world i do believe uh people are really kind to us jeff gordon's got a new car looks beautiful yes rainbow war it's no it's carvana 24 it looks pretty sweet looks super cool still burning the greatest paint screams of all time it is all right let's get the hell out here we'll be back tomorrow speaking of flyovers though what's going on they planned it and taking some shrapnel from underneath did not expect uh the the flares to be going off at the exact time and then there's some reports came out that there were 41 or 46 feet above the stadium there's some mountains in the background as well just i would assume these are ex-military pilots who are in commercial jets or commercial planes for the first time with no passengers sort of like hey let's go ahead and give this thing a little bit of a whirl see if we still got it the front one had the back end down a little bit actually had to flatten it back out and then take it back up just an absolute insane display of confidence that are people saying a little bit reckless a little bit reckless what could have potentially happened here this was scary buzz the tire yeah touching it i mean going down into the bowl is certainly a move but uh everybody in the book there's a mountain right there in the background i mean they were doing the top gun maverick drop into the mountain pull that thing out there and i wonder when they made that decision obviously that couldn't have been pre-planned that had to be made in real time that they were going to do this 41 feet 46 feet allegedly above the stadium is an insane move but the boys got in and out there and gave you something to remember is what they're going to say are we trying to have a memorable moment or not and i think the flight people are probably going to say you're never doing that again actually you're suspended and fine for however long you're going to be i read that this is like a common occurrence at this thing oh really that they do this type of thing i don't know if it's that low but like that they take two big old fucking commercial airplanes every year before whatever event this is and basically play chicken to see how close you can get to crashing that thing into the stadium and to thousands and thousands of people here's arrive alive the two aircraft were flown by highly experienced crew sure with each comprised of three senior captains operating in the roles of commander co-pilot and safety technical officer sure the flight data recorded by both aircraft confirms that the flights were within the s-a-c-a-a's approved and rehearsed safety altitude and speed limits of the fly pass okay so this country's saying take them down in there don't worry about the people and the people inside say wow i could almost touch that thing don't want to obviously but i guess the talent that was on display in the confidence huge should at least be celebrated all right let's get the hell out of here respect general yeah i mean i can go really wrong really bad yeah i thought it was fake in five different angles i had to check before i quote tweeted it and sent it out there because obviously people are waiting for me to potentially fall for something like that and i was mind but when i saw the red stuff go around the plane yeah i was like that had to be really good ai to be able to get that and then we saw a bunch of different levels and then their aviation people are coming out saying yeah i wonder why they didn't buzz that next one too just kind of get a little you know what i mean before that mountain just kind of go ahead and take try to get down in the bowl make sure they can really feel the jet engine please yep maybe take it down to the next one boom they should try to drop it down into that one there and then take it up there insanity happy they got out of there incredibly talented people obviously we'll try to become more of that for tomorrow be a friend tell a friend something nice might change your life we're in this thing together hope you had a great weekend we're back tomorrow with a big show oh we got football real soon yes we had football this past weekend yes everything's great why are they saying that awful nonsense say that i'm gonna force them to kick eleni and hootie everybody off yeah is there gonna be a full 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