PMS 2.0 1615 - Tom Cruise Tuesday with AQ Shipley, Tom Cruise, Greg McElroy, Ryan Garcia & Conor Benn

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the DraftKings Thunderdale. On this Tom Cruise Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, this sports program begins now. Football is phenomenal, and I felt like there was a little delay that might have been on me. I do apologize, super jacked up, because today is a special day. I had an incredible opportunity to go chit-chat with Cole Trickle, Tom Cruise, Don live in Daytona. Before the Coke Zero 400 this past Saturday, on very short notice, got invited down there to catch up with Tom. Not only chit-chat about Digger, which is out one month and a day from right now, but also Days of Thunder coming back. And obviously NASCAR was, at the time, in the middle of an arrow up and to the right, where they captivated the entire globe. Not only with this fantastic old moonshine running cars that were certainly the depiction of American muscle. You know? As they were rolling. But there was this type of community and culture that people looked at from the outside and said, I want a piece of that. Then, obviously, the attitude started building. Then there was a little bit of crash, and there was a little bit of brash, and there was a little bit of crash, and whatever. They were fighting amongst each other. And then, all of a sudden, NASCAR became this global sensation. Tom Cruise, one of the greatest actors of all time, played a character named Cole Trickle, who's this young, wild driver who was willing to do whatever to win. Just like three. Very similar, actually. They had to rein him in a little bit, and then, now, guess what? Boom! He's back. So, Tom Cruise invited us down to chit-chat with him. We have a conversation about life, about movies, about Cole Trickle, about diving into these characters, about being a human. It's about 17 minutes long, so we'll run that here in a few moments. We also have a legendary press conference awaiting us in the second hour. Yeah. Ryan Garcia is fighting Connor Benn. Yeah. Okay? That's happening in Vegas next Saturday. They are going to bat. For the WBC Welterweight World Championship, okay? They're both going to be joining us in the second hour. Okay? We've done this before. Yeah, we have. We have done this one other time in the past, and it is optically hilarious, to be clear. I feel that way. Ryan Garcia will be on your left side of the screen, as you see it. Connor Benn will be on the right side of the screen, as you see it. I will be right there in the middle. Now, do I love that that is happening? Would we rather be live in person with both of them? Yes. But I do think we'll get a chance to chit-chat about a fight that's certainly going to steal some headlines next Saturday. And see where they're both at. As World Championship Boxing potentially makes its way all the way back into the forefront of pop culture with Zufa promotions, which is obviously Dana and Nick Khan and TKO and WWE and UFC and everybody kind of coming together to try to do the boxing world. They've had massive fights in the past. This one's a big one as they continue to build. Can't wait to catch up with them. AQ Shipley will join us in a matter of moments to chit-chat about what the hell you do with the Aaron Donald Miles Garrett situation. Yeah. Check 99. Check 99. Well, who's checking? 75 then. Yeah, there's going to be, they're going to run out of people. Yeah. There's going to run out of people because there's more than two guys on that D-line. There's like four guys. They're also going to be there. You got five guys to block the four guys. Now you can bring in tight end. Obviously, now you got six guys to block the four guys. You can keep running back in. Okay, now you got seven guys to block the four guys. But if two guys are going to eat up two guys, now you start doing math. Guess what? Three people left. Two people left. One person left. Who's blocking nobody? Okay, that's what's happening. Yeah. That's what the Rams potentially are going to do. We'll talk to AQ Shipley about that. Brown champion, Alabama quarterback, who now hosts the Hi, I'm Greg McElroy podcast. That's right. It's fantastic. Always college football with Greg McElroy. There it is. Okay. I knew the Greg McElroy name was in there. We love the name Greg McElroy, and we appreciate that he'll be stopping it by because college football, obviously, huge weekend this weekend. Storylines in abundance. Sports are kicking ass. The Talks at Table is here at Boston Corner. And Tone Diggs looks a little different today, doesn't it, Con? Man, how's it feel over there with Tone next to you as opposed to Ty? Oh, it's fantastic, as always. And, yeah, missing Ty, of course. But Diggs. Diggs, I know. Anytime he sits down here, something gets in his soul. Something gets in his system where he has to say some egregious shit. Yes. So I'm looking forward to whatever that does end up being today for Tone. Yeah. I mean, I don't think Tone needs to be at that table to say some egregious stuff, but I do appreciate the fact that it maybe amplifies it a little bit. Sure. And speaking of amplifying, it sounded like somebody was trying to gas you up there whenever you were trying to gas up Tone into saying something stupid today. That was a man who's sitting at the one half of the hammer. Cowboy seat. Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. D-Box, good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. What are you getting? Gas him up there to say something egregious. I mean, I just love when the toxic table is toxic. That's all. You know what? I found myself being a little toxic last night. Let's do a little self-eval. Okay. I like that. I saw at the Los Angeles Rams thought to themselves, a third of our team are captains. Yeah, that makes sense. My immediate thought was, if you've got 11 captains, do you have any captains? If you have 12 captains, do you have two quarterbacks? Do you have one quarterback? This was something I didn't expect. Their jersey now should be just. The amount of Cs. They're just going to be bopping around everywhere. Los Angeles captains. Exactly. They're everywhere. And you start going through it, it's like, well, I assume that guy, yeah, does deserve. I assume that guy probably does. Joe Cardona's representing special teams, long snapper Navy. Respect. Appreciate him. Yeah, he definitely deserves. Devontae, yeah, he definitely deserves it. Staff, obviously. Yeah, okay. And then Aaron Donald's not a captain? Huh. Okay. We're going to have to edit this thing here in a little bit. We're going to add another one in there. Dee, but what are your thoughts as we get into the captain's time of these teams? I'll share a couple fun stories. You know, they do. Some teams do the team vote. Anonymous voting system. Who knows the vote? Just you, the paper, and whoever's counting all of them at the end. Coach. Well, who's counting them at the end? The person that really wants a certain amount of people to be the captain. So anytime that anonymous vote happened, it did feel as if exactly who you thought a coach would want to be the captains became the captains. So then there was some questions on the. Conspiracy. Then there was coaches that were just like, "Boom, you're the captain. You're the captain. You're the captain. We'll swing a captain each week to be the fourth captain. Now we're out of here." Dee, but 11 captains. Is this Sean McVay making a mockery out of the thing saying, "We got a team filled with leaders"? What do you kind of take from this whole thing? It's interesting. I wouldn't say alarming, necessarily, but when we go throughout this time of year and people start naming their captains, you'll see some teams maybe only have two, or you'll see three, offense, defense, special teams. Four. Five. Maybe even five. But then once you get up to that five, six range, it's like, "Okay, that's a lot of captains." So to see a graphic like this, see a picture like this, is kind of crazy. And I think my response to you was like, "Yeah, just so much leadership." And you start looking at the names and the faces, and yeah, there are people who you would assume will be captains on most teams, and it is a huge honor. Whenever your team does vote you as a captain, and I feel like those are the only kind of captains that matter, the ones that are voted by the team, and then we all have been in situations where, yeah, okay, you may have three, and then the fourth guy's like, "Okay, that's the guy the coach wanted in there." That's probably, you know, the guy he goes and talks to is probably the guy that goes and snitches and say, "What's really going on in the locker room?" Yeah, that's kind of the, that's what happens in those meetings, you know, just sitting in there. And I'm not saying it has affected me, it probably has, but just listening to, doing the vote, then the announcement of the winners, and who the captains are, and then an immediate, "Who?" "Oh." "Was that you?" "Yeah." "Did I?" "Cause I did." "So, Vinny, you voted for that guy?" "No." "All right." "Cole, you voted for that guy?" "No." "All right, we are a small sample size, but we are three right here." And then you lean up. "Hey, you?" "Huh?" "No." "Okay. Neither do you." "All right." "Nobody voted for that fucking guy." "Okay, Chuck." Chuck talks to this guy. "Okay, we need to know that this guy matters a lot." And it's the same thing whenever you have, oh, I'm not even gonna get into the entire game. There were some coaches that were leaking on us too. You know? "Oh, yeah." Yeah, you gotta, you gotta recognize that quickly. And you gotta utilize that to your advantage, not to your detriment. Okay, there has to be a hooty-hoo on who, on him. Okay, we need some stuff, don't we? Yes, we do. Let's go ahead and work that. That's what captains are doing. They got 11 of them, maybe 12 of them once Aaron Donald gets in there. The Aaron Donald conversation piece has been loud. And I think for good reason. I think, obviously, them being the odds-on favorite that they're being to win, and the teams who have been plus 500 or better. Over the last 20 occasions, have gone 0 for 20 in winning the Super Bowl, whenever it starts the season. So, if it's such an obvious favorite to win the NFL season, to become the Super Bowl champion, that they're plus 500 or better, the last 20 times it's happened, it hasn't happened. So. Okay? Now, Ben Fox doesn't fox around. No, he does not. And this is a good stat. And it makes me a little bit worried about, you know, potentially laying a little bit on plus 500. Because that's probably the best odds you're gonna get for the Los Angeles Rams all season. Because I genuinely don't understand. How we're getting a first down. Now, Myles Garrett's knee's been swelling up a lot. Yes. I've seen more Aaron Donald reps as a Los Angeles Ram than I've seen Myles Garrett reps as a Los Angeles Ram. But let's just act like they're both gonna be playing, and that defense is gonna be what that defense is gonna be. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who was a center in the NFL for a hundred years. He's a Super Bowl champion player coach, just like Jackie Moon for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Also had stops with the Arizona Cardinals, the Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers. And where I met him, the Indianapolis Colts. Ladies and gentlemen, center in the NFL, also head of the wedge for kickoff return and sometimes a fullback. Ladies and gentlemen, A.Q. Shipley. A.Q. Shipley. A.Q. Shipley. Look at that head right there. Look at that head. What's up, boys? Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Good to see you, dude. Good to see you. I know you were in the same division as Aaron Donald whenever you were an Arizona Cardinal. And I know because I'm pretty close confidant of yours. that you didn't sleep all week, basically, playing Aaron Donald and I know you weren't the only one that had similar nightmares of number 99 now you go over to the AFC North for the people that have played against Miles Garrett for the last decade or so there's a lot of tackles not sleeping when Miles Garrett's coming to town as well not only because he loves Halloween and he's spooky and everything like that but he is unblockable seemingly whenever he doesn't want to be blocked two guys that when they don't want to be blocked can literally just not be blocked um how are the offensive lines going to handle this because to me it feels like there's not enough numbers to protect people how is anybody getting a first down just how are people getting a first down against this team let alone the back ends restored the rest of the D-line's good the linebackers can move is there how do you get a first down please can you just explain that to me yeah I hope they they go back to what Peyton Manning did in three step drop get rid of the ball quickly I mean there's a million different ways you're gonna have to game plan against these guys the problem is back in the day we used to have a protection when we would play against Aaron Donald number 99 right so 99 was the protection call which means you're just sliding to 99 the whole day well what if they put 99 opposite of Miles Garrett so 99 is over here and 95 is over there now you got to pick your poison somebody's gonna have to win a one-on-one matchup the problem is when you get to third down you can do so many different things if they can get you in third and long this is going to be an absolute nightmare for everyone as everyone obviously knows but you can put them on the same side and then you got the TE stunts right so now Aaron can set it up and then you get Miles around or you get the ET stunt now Miles is down crash and blowing up the guard and then Aaron's around you got a nightmare there here's the other thing now you run the twist game in the middle with the 2d tackles and you get Miles one-on-one you get everyone sliding to Aaron over here and then you get all this space with a tackle on Miles Garrett it's an absolute nightmare the key is if you are playing this team you got to win on first and second down that's the key you got to stay ahead of the change the other thing is how do you win on first and second down there you got to be able to run the ball I guess against them but isn't Aaron Donald the ball aren't he's 280 pounds he's very good there's no question about it but he is 280 so if you can get the double team on him you can get some movement on him that's what we used to try and do whenever we would play against him or other guys who just love the love to rush the passer no don't get me wrong he's good against the run but he likes to use his quickness he likes to swim around blocks and get back in it right like JJ Watt used to do there's only a handful of guys that can do that but if you can somehow scheme the double team up against him now you get two bodies on one that's the that's going to be the key and you got to get three yards you got to get four yards on first down you got to get three yards on first down you got to get three yards on second down now you stay ahead of the chain second down now you get another three and if you can sit in third and three you keep them out of the twist games an obvious pass down situation yeah and then the back end to their lockdown as well so let's say you're I mean they're good everywhere yeah they're good everywhere you heard that's the problem you heard the GM last need yesterday he said uh I'm worried about right now okay we got Matthew Stafford's window who as long as we have Matthew Stafford I'm gonna try to win right now I'm cognitive of the future he said it has to happen and we'll deal with that whenever it takes place but I'm trying to win right now he's assembled the Avengers he really has over there and they got 11 captains you know why they got 11 captains because they got fucking everybody you've ever heard of on the same team so everybody needs to see they at least deserve it who knows how long they're going to be there for you know they got the four stars underneath the sea you know each star lit up for each year you're a captain they have a couple gold stars on there which is the four timers four timers but all these guys who knows if they end up blasting with rams or going on somewhere else if you have a captain somewhere else you still earn your star so I assume it's like hey you you would be a captain anywhere else other than this particular team right now you deserve it let's give 11 guys out there but I think they like their culture I think they like the way they got things rolling the defense seems impossible to get a first down unless you tush push over Aaron Donald for three to four yards on the work first down and second down and get into third and manageable but on the offensive side they're unstoppable too I genuinely started looking at this roster a little different now the guys that aren't captains yeah yeah must be a bad man hey let me let me say let me say this too and I will say this because obviously I remember being on the coaching side and whenever we played against Aaron Donald they're the upstairs coaches they have to be very cognizant they got to be dialed in and keyed in because I remember this very clearly when we played the LA Rams in the playoffs when I was coaching for the Bucks in 21 they end up beating us going on to win the Super Bowl but it was very clear there was somebody upstairs watching 99 and when 99 he loves to take breaks right he they like to keep him fresh so hey let's go four plays you get a first down he's out get a rest come back in that coach upstairs 99 is out 99 is out 99 is out that's when you take your shots that's when you go seven step and get your pass protection the problem is if they somehow platoon it where 99 is out but 95 still in you're still kind of fucked yeah it sounds like it sounds like there was a 95 is out of the game call too potentially on most sidelines so at least they can keep one or the other on there and once again I mean the rest of the defense is unbelievable and they're all going to be able to eat it because of this now on the offensive side tongue digs brought it up this morning are they going to be able to protect Matthew Stafford now Dan Orlovsky yesterday said Los Angeles Rams offense is the is uh is the easiest offense in the NFL to operate which didn't come up during the MVP conversation last year but that is what he said that's what a lot of New England Patriots fans are saying like that's fascinating you're saying that after what Drake May did last year and you said Matthew Stafford was clearly the MVP I think what Orlovsky was probably saying for who Matthew Stafford is Matthew Stafford knows every defense that's out there he knows exactly the right decision to make for the team and he's going to be able to protect Matthew Stafford this particular offense I don't think he's saying like as a rookie getting in here but I think he's saying for Matthew Stafford this offense he knows it like the back of his hand I didn't take it that way well that's probably what Orlovsky was mentioning if I had to guess because it's real but also Orlovsky mentioned they keep him up he gets that ball out very quick he doesn't get hit much they understand they got to keep him safe which is why they might have 14 personnel in the game at certain times are they going to be able to protect Stafford what is the leverage point on this Los Angeles Rams team is it the offensive line and protection like it was a couple years ago they have that kind of figured out no listen I mean their offensive line I don't think when you look across the board any of their five guys are sitting there like oh yeah that's a that's a clear all pro or that's a pro bowler but they play well together I think that's a key and they've had some consistency they've been able to keep a lot of the same guys over the years I think what Dan's trying to say and I kind of agree now being able to call the games of the Cardinals and seeing coach LaFleur operate the same offense this entire preseason which by the way with the entire two threes and four fourth string guys for the Arizona Cardinals they look like a juggernaut because here's the deal the offense is easy to operate and what he means by that is it's it makes it easy on everybody the offensive line jobs easier when you're sitting in a Bruce Arians game for instance right and you're ending up throwing the ball 35 40 times as an offensive lineman it's a nightmare you're running empty protection you got to hold up in protection for five or six seconds on every single play but you understand that's your job well when you're in this offense you're running the football you're running the zone scheme you're running the gap scheme you got play actions every other play you got a naked boot every other play so you're only in drop back protection four times a half true drop back protection so if you can get the lead in this offense which obviously Stafford's incredible they got the weapons on the outside really good running backs right if all they got to do is just kind of get in the way run a clean operation and a clean offense you get the ball out of the hands quickly you get easy completions and you pick and choose your spots based off of the play action you got a low middle and a high operation when you roll the naked boot and somebody's going to get you and you're going to get you and you're going to get you and you're somebody's going to be open with the weapons they have yeah and with the weapons they have and how they're able to operate you think they're going to have leads which Myles Garrett hasn't had a lot of right no and Myles Garrett's obviously never operated next to another defensive MVP so we assume both these guys are going to eat more last question here about the Rams and the Aaron Donald Penn Hills question go ahead yeah AQ with Aaron Donald and even Myles Garrett at this point because he's missed so much time how long is it going to take for him to kind of get back into the entire thing you took a couple years off so would you want to play the Rams early do you want to be in those first six weeks even though they're fresh or do you want to be towards the back end like how long do you expect it for to take for Aaron Donald to get back to full-blown 100 guy who we saw right before he retired yeah first off I do not think you want to play the Rams ever I think that's the first thing I'll say secondly I think it's going to take a little bit of time I think I mean I think the the interesting thing and I think I keep coming back to the word calloused right your and used to playing the game of football it's a physical sport it's a different sport right like you can lift at your home in your home gym and you can run on a treadmill you can do all these different things but running on grass different movements I listen you can run on a treadmill that's straight ahead but now you gotta he is he's known for his wiggle he's known for his athleticism he's known for his ability to do this whole thing and get up the field and work inside and work outside and all these different things and I'm not so sure that was part of his regimen of working out over the last couple years so I think it is going to take a little bit of time I think they're going to be smart with it as well I think they'll probably only give them I don't know 20 20 to 25 plays in the first couple weeks but again a lot of those plays are going to be on what third and long hey go get the quarterback go do what you do right and he's he's the best that's ever done it on the inside there's no question about that and then you pair him up with one of the best that's ever done on the outside and you don't have to rush him back because they got other guys that's the key like it's not like they needed him to go I mean they were one two plays away from going to the Super Bowl without him last year not you add two of the most premier guys plus the guys they added in the back end it's like this team's going to be serious so you can kind of wean him in I think okay and if they wean him in we assume what a month or so probably get back into it and you talked about training the last couple years as he was certainly still lifting and still in great shape I mean we all saw him on the internet it's unbelievable but the athleticism who knows if he's playing pickup hoops or whatever it ain't football it ain't football especially especially in the trenches where he is known for just bodying people like that I don't know if he's doing that that on day-to-day the last two years. He's been training with two tents, I believe, back in Pittsburgh, and the videos have looked outrageous. I mean, haven't seen the knives yet, though. Haven't seen the knives yet, though, so I don't know if it's the same Aaron Donald until I see, you know, multiple knives going at him and him hitting the hands. That's literally what this guy used to do. His preparation, I think, is something he takes, obviously, very seriously. I think he donated a gym in a locker room to Pitt so he could work out there. I think he is one of the biggest fitness freaks that has ever existed. So him getting back into game shape hopefully doesn't take. Yeah, this is it. This is it. Yep. There it is. This is classic. Yeah, I got these knives, okay? You're just going to keep them off you. All right? How about it? I played against him 11 times. I know exactly what he can do. I mean, he is. Seeing it on tape is one thing. Seeing it on TV is one thing, but seeing it live in person when it's coming at you, it's a different story, right? I used to. I just never wanted to get embarrassed against him, so I would take the bull rush. I would just try and get back, let him work his moves, and then I'd get back, and then, like, just eat bull rushes. I'm built to eat bull rushes. That's kind of how I used to approach going against him, right? But he's so good. I mean, I think you guys have the one clip of him going against Zach Martin, who's one of the best. This is what he's so good at. He lines up wide. He goes inside, presses the inside back. Zach Martin's going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer. He gets him to fight back inside, turn his hips, and then he swims you back outside. Watch this. Work the inside, then back outside. I mean, that's. There's nobody that can do that and move as fast as he does. And, oh, by the way, the other guy that can do that is 95 to his outside as well. So, good luck, boys. Good luck out there. Hey, good time to be retired, brother. Certainly a good time to be talking into a microphone. Zach Martin, though, we have to reiterate this number 70 right there. First ballot Hall of Fame guard right there. First ballot Hall of Fame guard is how they refer to him. And I think people would say he's one of the greatest of all time, and the reason why I wanted to show this particular clip is because this is good on. This is great on great right here. And this is what it looks like. Will he be the same we shall see? In Australia, it's a long flight. Maybe Myles Garrett with the swelling of the knee, 17 hours on a plane. He might not be playing week 20. I ain't worried about Myles Garrett. It'll be all right. We won't miss the game in two years. All right. That's okay. All right. 16 a year before that. They should just lose the first game anyways. Get that pressure of, like, undefeated season and all that shit out of the way. Let some other people maybe bet on them that aren't going to take them at plus 500 and then go from there. They should forfeit it. Send a message to Raj. We're not doing this. Okay. You're saying not flying to Australia. In a. Shrink the game, you're saying. Yeah, you've been a big shrink the game. I'm back on it. Okay. You kind of. You said, I like these international games. It's inevitable. Now you're saying, no, we need to fight a little bit here. I like that Sean McVay is basically saying. He's on my side. We're heading. How long is the flight? 20, 22 hours of travel. All right. We need to be there, what, at least, what, 29 hours before the game then? We need to leave probably? Is that the math I'm doing? You've got to be there at least for 24 hours, right? Don't you? All right. Whatever that math is, that's when we're leaving. That is the. Only one. team has ever gone completely undefeated. Just go ahead and do this game. Okay? Let's just do it. We'll do the game, and then we come back. I don't like that for the people of Australia, but if they win this game, I mean, all the sleep experts and body experts that say you've got to go a week ahead of time, it's like, are you going to follow up with saying that maybe not, actually, if you have the Avengers as your roster, you can kind of just go into a time portal and then get farted out onto a football game and then win a game somehow. In the middle of beautiful Australia. Beautiful. The Melbourne Cricket MCG, I believe is what it's called, is the home of the Melbourne Lions. No, the Grand Final. The NFL team. It's going to be. We love them. The Melbourne Meerkats? Yeah, I believe the Melbourne Cricket ground is the home of the Collingwood Magpies. Yes, yes, it is the Collingwood Magpies. They play at MCG. Yes, they do. The Collingwood Magpies. They're playing in Collingwood. Which is obviously Aussie rules football home. The Aussie rules football field is just gigantic. It is huge pitch. There's a lot of teams based in Melbourne. I mean, it's a huge pitch. Big circle area. Obviously, cricket, I think, is also as well. So, I think that place will be a great environment. I think they'll love our sport if they get into it. You know, because Aussie rules football, very similar. A lot more running. They got a lot of, like, soccer to it because it's a lot bigger pitch and a lot of running. A lot of throwing, a lot of kicking, a lot of tackling, a lot of spearing, a lot of spectacular catches. They call them speckies, actually. So, we think Australia will love American football, but to start your season as the odds on Super Bowl favorites against a division rival on a 17 to 20 hour flight away, Australia is a crazy way to start a season. But if they go on to win it, nobody can say anything about anything. I'd assume 99% of the money is on the Rams, minus the three and the hook there. I was also under the impression they were getting off the plane and going straight to the. Me too. They're not doing that, I guess. They got a little bit of time. They're going to go stop by a hotel. I wish they were going straight to the stadium. Me too. I wish they got plane, bus, police escort, straight to the Melbourne cricket grounds, into the locker room, everybody taking showers there, and then we're out there running. Niners leave tonight, right? Don't they leave tonight, get there tomorrow? Yeah, I think it's either tonight or tomorrow night. Is that three and a half? Yeah. I mean, Niners plus three and a half. There is a 75, or 89% on the money line for the Rams. 75% on the Rams, minus three and a half, says DraftKings stats and analytics. Shout to DraftKings, the best sports book on earth. If you are in the continental United States, DraftKings is available for you. If you're of age and agree to be responsible about it, and not an asshole, join us on DraftKings. Now, let's talk about the rest of the NFL, as opposed to just Los Angeles Rams. Odds on favorite. D-Butch has a question about the trenches. Yeah, it's huge. I can't remember. I think it may have been the Bills, who was your top O-line last year, but who are some of your best O-line groups going into this year? And is there an O-line group that you expect maybe to take a step back? Or forward? Yeah, that's a good question. I think the Giants are a team that I think are going to take a step forward. I still love that Bills group. I really do. I'm concerned about the Steelers. I think they're going to take a step back. I apologize over their boys, but I do think, again, we talk scheme and fit is everything. I think they were built to kind of run in Arthur Smith's wide zone scheme, and now Mike McCarthy's a more pro-style, downhill, gap scheme, inside zone kind of world that you saw them run in a lot. I think they struggled handling that. You're saying who cares about the quarterback? Is that what you're saying, AQ? They're going down. Oh, no. Pittsburgh's pretty pumped up. Don't worry. He's going to get to you, okay? We'll get there. We'll get there. We will get there. The Patriots, I think they have a lot of moving pieces there, so we'll be interested to see how Will Campbell handled that, and he comes back out of that. Another group that I think is going to be vastly improved is the Houston Texans. I think they are going to be a lot better. They got big Trent Brown out there. They got Wyatt Teller, who came over from the Browns. I love Ratliff, who they drafted from Georgia Tech. I think they really improved that group. But yeah, I think, listen, it's the Bills. I think it's, you know, the Ravens, I think, will still be in there. They got some really good players. I think the Raiders, vastly improved with their free agent haul. I think these are some of the teams that will be better. Will they be great? I mean, time will tell, but again, I think you're looking at the teams that are always good. I mean, the Bills, the Ravens, right? I think the Niners are going to have a good group up front. The Rams will do their thing. Seahawks will be good. They got a lot of the same guys returning. I think the Chiefs got a little bit better. We'll see what happens. It'll be fun to see. One team you didn't say, there was Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles are awesome. We know they're very good. Like, again, I think that's kind of to be expected. Yeah, but you didn't say it. You didn't say it. Outlet's gone now. No, they're always up there. But again, Lane Johnson's already kind of announced this is his last year, right? So, yeah, I mean, Juergens is really good. I love the fact that my guy Willie Lampkin, all 5'10", made the team this year. He'll be challenging for that backup swing spot. I'm excited. I'm excited that a 5'10 offensive lineman is an active NFL football player, boys. That's right. Coming from a 5'9", you're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Super Bowl champion A.Q. Shipley. If there was a guy named Juergens, he was going to make sure that he got his name in there. Yeah, you know. He loves Juergens. Yeah, we've knocked about A.Q. in his exploit. Yeah, he was a center guard out of North Carolina, undersized guy, but he is just an absolute dog in the trenches. I believe he's listed at 5'11". Not a big boy. Meaner than a wet mule. I like that. 5'11", 290. Is that Willie Lampkin? That's who Yeah, he's listed at 5'11", 290. North Carolina, second season. He plays center for Philadelphia Eagles. You know, to be an undersized center, that's okay. Every other position, you're in trouble. Yeah. And I do appreciate that Willie Lampkin at 5'11", or 5'10", whatever A.Q. says he is. He was also built for the bull rush. A.Q. Shipley. Yes, he was. How about A.Q. saying, when I was playing Aaron, I was just Anker. I'm trying to get my I'm trying to get back, let him get a running start, and then just, I'm just eating this. Sit down. I guess I'm just eating this entire thing. He would just get, I mean, the amount of shake he has in such a quick time. He's a wide receiver. Yeah. Going against offense alignment, and he has the power of a defensive line. So, he shakes and then gets these big guys off balance, because they're not used to seeing that. And as soon as they get off balance, oh yeah, he's got heavy hands, too. Boom! Let me go ahead and get that. Oh, you're a good athlete. You settle yourself in sweet. I'm going the other way on you. He's a boxer as well. And then Myles Garrett. You saw the lean, the rip and lean on one of the, I forget what, boom! I mean, he's up underneath that guy before he, he didn't even have to get down to the ground there, which he can do. Him and Vaughn Miller, for the size they have and for how long they've been in in the league and everything like that, the amount of lean have and the ability to get low is just such a weapon whenever these tackles are what six six six seven or whatever come come on down come come on down it's unbelievable the athleticism that's on display on defensive lines and every team that wins seemingly as of late has to have like four first round caliber d linemen four have to be able to get home if you can't get home with four then obviously you have to pull somebody from coverage and quarterbacks will eat you apart so you have to be able to get home with four and in the modern nfl you certainly have to be able to uh maybe win a super bowl with two guys not letting you get a first down absolutely crazy let's say uh in the sports world but away from the nfl okay you know because we do like to cover uh you know things happening in sports yes we do we've had a great off season of that yeah a bunch of it we've done a lot of sports world cup was in thank you world cup we were in there weren't we we're really thank you golf home run derby we're in there golf did their thing obviously the w uh the nba everybody kind of college world series college world series college world series college world series great let's go mountaineers who went up win that north carolina no i know they lost oklahoma god that was a good baseball team they weren't ranked i think going in oklahoma kind of got hot there in omaha did their thing shot to north carolina took out west virginia need you to win obviously going forward but every once in a while we like to celebrate things happening around the whole entire sports world ladies and gentlemen it's time for things happening around sports let's go to u.s open it's a big one i don't like the timing of the u.s open but i love that it happens on our soil it's the last of the grand slam we got an american who could serve these win the grand slam we got an american who could serve these hell out of the tennis ball late last hell out of the tennis ball late last hell out of the tennis ball late last night ben shelton hey yeah that's coming night ben shelton hey yeah that's coming night ben shelton hey yeah that's coming right down the pike there 145 miles an right down the pike there 145 miles an right down the pike there 145 miles an hour in the final set he had last night hour in the final set he had last night hour in the final set he had last night as he gets a huge dub in four sets uh he as he gets a huge dub in four sets uh he as he gets a huge dub in four sets uh he lost the first one six one lost the first one six one lost the first one six one first set ben trinidad rodman's first set ben trinidad rodman's first set ben trinidad rodman's boyfriend here yeah and for all eyes boyfriend here yeah and for all eyes boyfriend here yeah and for all eyes american u.s open he loses the first set american u.s open he loses the first set american u.s open he loses the first set to this guy backwards at six one to this guy backwards at six one to this guy backwards at six one then he wins the second set six one then he wins the second set six one then he wins the second set six one then he goes over time seven six then then he goes over time seven six then then he goes over time seven six then he wins six two now ben shelton wins in he wins six two now ben shelton wins in he wins six two now ben shelton wins in four i think he got the nerves and the four i think he got the nerves and the four i think he got the nerves and the jitters potentially out and he slices and jitters potentially out and he slices and jitters potentially out and he slices and dices now tennis is something you got dices now tennis is something you got dices now tennis is something you got to be super competitive and super to be super competitive and super to be super competitive and super passionate about yep i don't know if you passionate about yep i don't know if you passionate about yep i don't know if you saw at the end of this particular one saw at the end of this particular one saw at the end of this particular one here here here louis louis louis basson basson basson says good game everybody really good says good game everybody really good says good game everybody really good job obviously good win hey i did it god job obviously good win hey i did it god job obviously good win hey i did it god damn it damn it damn it okay i love that i love everything okay i love that i love everything okay i love that i love everything about that i appreciate that it's just about that i appreciate that it's just about that i appreciate that it's just kind of accepted in tennis too like yeah kind of accepted in tennis too like yeah kind of accepted in tennis too like yeah they're gonna get upset out there they're gonna get upset out there they're gonna get upset out there every once in a while you gotta i love that and there's people sitting i love that and there's people sitting i love that and there's people sitting on top of you oh yeah close like ben on top of you oh yeah close like ben on top of you oh yeah close like ben shelton was uh up six one or something shelton was uh up six one or something shelton was uh up six one or something like that and his backhand just stopped like that and his backhand just stopped like that and his backhand just stopped working okay his backhand just stopped working okay his backhand just stopped working okay his backhand just stopped working at the end he was having a full working at the end he was having a full working at the end he was having a full yell at himself conversation i mean they yell at himself conversation i mean they yell at himself conversation i mean they are very active yelling at themselves are very active yelling at themselves are very active yelling at themselves very close to people and i was hearing very close to people and i was hearing very close to people and i was hearing what he was saying i'm like you guys what he was saying i'm like you guys what he was saying i'm like you guys stop talking to yourself like this hey stop talking to yourself like this hey Enough of talking about it. You're listening. Yeah, exactly. You got to be careful what you're saying because you're listening. They are very active, very open with their emotions. And I assume it's just from the young age. But we all couldn't help but just laugh our asses off here. And I appreciate that that's just a part of the sport, D-Bud. Absolutely. And, you know, we play team sports, and this can be a team sport if you're playing with two. But when you're out there by yourself, just like golf, yeah, there is a lot of self-talk, positive and negative. And, look, I'm not – hey, whatever gets you going, you know, whatever type of athlete you are for some people, it's negative self-talk. For some people, it's positive. Obviously, for Ben, it's negative. Yeah, it seems a little bit negative. And for Louie here, who loses to the USA's Emma Navarro, shout-out USA doing that to her friend. I just got to get that out. Yeah, everyone swung it out. Yeah, leave it on the court. And fuck that racket. I agree. The racket lost – you know, there's a lot of conversations about is it the tool or is it the person operating the tool. In this particular case, I think it's obvious that it was definitely the racket. Yeah. The racket. It might have been the backup. The backup one as well because she actually walks off without a racket. So it might have been the number two. Hey, you know what? I'm not going to use you, you son of a bitch. Get ready. Yeah, subbed in one maybe. Yeah. Yeah, and said you could – shout-out to the U.S. Open antennas kind of doing the thing. Let's go to soccer, by the way. I don't know if you guys saw La Liga, the Spaniards who – reigning World Cup champs. Yeah, they are. They dominated the World Cup final. So much so that people started hating soccer. Yeah. Messi didn't even get to touch the damn ball. La Liga has a lot of talent. Well, there's a young lad, Lamin Yamal, left-footed sensation. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, missile. What? Absolute missile. Still has his hand taped. I don't know if that's just his thing or not. It seems like he's going through it. But Lamin Yamal, obviously future GOAT. He was actually baptized in waters by Leo Messi. He followed that entire thing. That's just filthy. Goalie had zero chance. And I think this has been happening since he's, what, like 15 years old? Gumpch, how long have we known this guy and how long has he been playing pro? And what team is this again? Barcelona. He's been there since he was 15. Two goals here. Him and Rafinha have just been loving it. Lighten up La Liga ever since it started. This is their third match of the season. How many goals did he have here? He had two. Rafinha has five goals in three games, I believe. Those two are unstoppable. Oh, five goals in three games. He had two goals. My GOAT scores four in one game. Who? Yeah, Leo. Oh. Soccer. Four goals in the MLS. The toughest competition in the world. Leo gets a guy to not want to try to stop. Ah, three of them. Four of them. Right boot, side panel. No big deal. Leo Messi. Oop. Stupid. That's what he says. I'm going up over the top of you. And then a free kick that he wraps around the back post. Hey. Nasty. Four goals, one game. Shout out to Montreal getting their ass kicked. Is that what it was or Toronto? Montreal. Okay, Montreal. Oui, oui. That first. Bonjour. Sava. Not good. Leo Messi's coming to town and he's scoring all of the goals. Had no idea you could score four goals in one game, D-Bud. I mean, where is Montreal in the rankings right now, Gump? They're absolute dog shit, but that's just how they are. Kind of every season, yeah. No, they got a team. They'd be great in like the Premier League. They're just having a tough year right now in the MLS. Exactly. That's what we're trying to say. La Liga, La Minimal, two goals. Leo Messi in the MLS. I don't think they should be talked about. I mean, obviously, Leo. He's the GOAT, but. Class. If we go back to La Liga and you look at those guys in that pitch. These guys? Yeah. Montreal and Barcelona scrimmage and they tied. Yeah. Really? Yeah. It happened. It wasn't televised. It was the greatest game never seen. Oh, okay. Yeah. It was something we just heard about. It was crazy. It was only alleged, but from our understanding, Montreal can keep up with the top clubs overseas. That's why Yamal has his hand wrapped, because after they tied, he punched the wall. He was so frustrated. Yeah, he better be happy. Ty's not here. People are going to get so mad that we even said that. Let's stay in soccer. Let's go to college soccer. Indiana, the Bloomington Lads, down 1-0 to Louisville. Louisville, by the way, has got Ole Miss week one. Yeah. I'm excited for that game. And Indiana, high 14, great number. Hesi, Dippy, Bendy, how you doing? Keep it moving. That is Easton Bogard, an absolute banger. It ended up being a 1-1 draw. Since I was coming out of high school in 2005, Indiana was a nationally prominent soccer team. So, I think that's continued throughout its entirety. Even when the basketball team was good, then the basketball team got bad, the soccer team, I believe, has always remained good. Football team's good. Now, soccer team's still good. So, I think they have been kind of a staple down there. So, I assume there's a lot of NIL opportunities with them because of how long and how deep their history is. What is the name of their team at TST? Who's your army? Very good team. One of the best teams there every single year. It's all alumni of the Indiana team. And you got, like, 40-year-olds there, and you got, like, 22-year-olds there. Indiana is a little bit of a wagon in the soccer world, and that is an absolute clapper. I saw on the internet, because you were just talking about their history, clarify if this is true, this is a reverse Ted Lasso, where Sig was the soccer coach for a long, long time, and then he switched over to football and won the national championship. What? I don't know if Sig was ever in the soccer world, but I do think the Indiana coach has been around a long time. I think he's been around a long time. I think he's – First touch was nasty. Has he? Nasty. What we've seen there is two goalies having no clue and having no chance, I guess. Let's go to football FCS, shall we? Here's William and Mary versus Villanova. Look at the time on the clock. 58 seconds left. Game's over. Down 10. William and Mary hits a 40-yarder. How you doing? Down 7. 53 seconds left. Got to hit an onside kick. In the modern world, are onside kicks possible? Oh, hits the double bouncer. Bounces off a chin. There's a scrum. Who gets it? Yes. William and Mary down 7 with the ball. 50 seconds left in the game. First down. What are you going to do with it? Oh, William and Mary, down all game. Decides to make a huge play. Come on. Touchdown. He's running. Got to make the extra point. Now William and Mary. Now you're down 1 with 22 seconds. Remember, this started with down 10. 58 seconds left. Third and 10. Villanova throws a pick. Big return. Five seconds left in Villanova territory. No way. 45-yard kick. Can't see it. Good score, but great kick. Game over. William and Mary, 35. Villanova, 32. Villanova up 10 with 58 seconds left in the game. Trick off that entire thing in a series of events that involves you. It involves an interception, an onside kick return, and two field goals. What a game. What a sport. What a time to be a William and Mary. Tribe. Member. The tribe, yes. William and Mary tribe. Sean McDermott, Mike Tomlin. Yeah, absolutely. They got deep history over there, William and Mary. Yeah. A lot of footballers. Doomsday coaches, huh? Yeah. Not only head coaches, electrifying, thrilling companies. Yeah, that was amazing. That's what the tribe's all about. Let's go to another FCS game, shall we? Idaho up 3. 18 seconds left, ball on the 35, Cal Poly's quarterback, Danny Grigsby, Jr., rolls to his right. Davion's down there somewhere. Yes, he is. Touchdown. Kyle Pauly wins the game with a last-second heave. That wasn't really that good, but it was a great catch and not the best coverage as Idaho has to take the trip back home. Losers. D-Butt, your thought here on the mistake that was made and kind of the execution? I mean, this is an unbelievable play. You roll in to your right and you throw it across against your body and a great adjustment by the wide receiver reaching back, making the play. As a defense, you know, college, pro, should even high school, the day before the game, night before the game, you're walking through these situations, in-the-game situations. This much time left on the clock. What are we going to do? But it's much, much different when the live bullets are firing. Just an unbelievable play, unbelievable finish. That's why you play until there's triple zeros on the clock. Now, there's no captions, but number two down here, I think, immediately realizes what had happened. And I appreciate that. We all do. I appreciate his accountability there. Touchdown, Tavion, number two. Ah! I mean, that's tough. If you look at the play one more time. That's kind of a back shoulder. Yeah, he's running with it. Fourth and eight, too. You've got to cover the sticks because they're in field goal range. There's a little drag route coming across. Could be a first down. He's got great leverage, and then the wide receiver does a great job with the body control. Slight little push off here, and then you get that ball, make the play. I mean, that's a big-time play. It might have been unguardable there, bud. It's a big-time play. Yeah, because you can't picket fence at the goal. There's a goal on there because first down obviously gives field goal opportunity. So, you have to play the sticks still. You have to play for a game-tying field goal. Starts up front. It always does. Start running back again. You can't, especially the right-handed quarterback. You can't just give up the edge. Tone, run it all the way back, please. Oh, my God. No edge. No edge. I mean, before you even snap the ball, you don't have an edge. This guy's lined up inside. So, I'm putting this on coaching. I'm putting this on the D-line coach. Wow. I mean, you know what? DB coach, DBs, you guys are all right. Cuss those assholes. It left you out to dry. Okay, number two. That's probably what he was saying. Yeah. Right there in that moment. Let's go to another incredible high school finale. This is Pahokee. They ran a double pass here where Osiris Boswell airs it out to Corian Davis. Osiris passed the line of scrimmage. Who cares? Final play. Pahokee. Wow. Could go all the touchdown. Helmet off. Pahokee Blue Devils. Walk it off over Royal Palm Beach. Now, Pahokee has a lot of history in the sport of football. Oh, yeah. And I believe they chase rabbits down there. So, if you thought he was going to get caught towards the end, absolutely not. Congrats to Pahokee. And I like a little drop of the play. Some people are saying he's passed the line of scrimmage. Clearly. No. But, no. Is he the marker? We'll talk about it. Look where the marker is. If you look at the marker, he's definitely behind. Big time play. You got to have some big balls to run this one. As well. You break that tackle and you still make the throw. Clearly behind the marker. Way behind. Way behind the marker. I agree. I like what ESPN West Palm's doing with all these advertisements at the bottom of their Hey, listen. Right after he scored this, he stopped right by Duffy's. Okay. He had himself an incredible chicken parm. Sure. A little mozzarella, pizza, wings for the lads. And I know they're just teenagers, but they were offered non-alcoholic. Oh, yeah. Like Long Island Ice Cream. A couple of Shirley Dimples. Everyone's dream. It's a play in the Boca Raton Bowl. Exactly. And that's what they're playing for, really. And then they stopped down at a Land Rover Palm Beach. And they say, you know what? I bought my first car. Really? Yep. Shout out. You weren't there, but these guys said, I want to go get a Ford. That's what they said. Actually, give me a Ford right there next to the Palm Beach Land Rover. And then Colligan. We know what that is. We love Colligan. Kaiser University. What's that? That's the one below there. Seahawks. Seahawks. Seahawks. But Pahokee, this is where Anquan Bowdoin. This goes down there in the muck. So you got Pahokee, you got Belle Glaze, that area. That's Santonio Holmes, Fred Taylor. And Hall of Famer Ricky Jackson also went to this school, man. So they produce a lot of NFL talent out in this area. You said down there where? It's the muck. It's called the muck. Okay. What part is that? And what is the humidity? Is that the Everglades or? Belle Glaze. So it's kind of, yeah, it's kind of Everglades. What is it? Like Palm Beach. It's hard to even explain because it is Palm Beach, but it's different Palm Beach. So like Boca's in Palm Beach County as well, but there's much, much different places. Pahokee and Boca? Yeah. They're different? Much, much different places, but still Palm Beach. All five, six, one. The bottom right. Boca, Temple. That's what you're saying. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of all of us. Southeast, you know, Palm Beach. Yeah, but. Dade County. We would say Pahokee. It's the muck. They have their own, they're their own, their own people. Okay. They're all universal. I love it. I can't wait to get down there, Pahokee. It looks like an electrifying environment. Look at the crowd going crazy as Pahokee gets a huge win. Okay. Let's go to, yeah. Indoor. Uh-huh. So, thought he was about to moss me. Hate to break to you. I think he did. Ah! Give me that. Lose his helmet. Hits cement. Makes catch. Celebrates with fan. That is arena football highlight to a team. Now, I don't know what the rules are, and if 21 posted this, I think he needs to know. He did get mossed here. Pretty good. About as much as you could in arena football. Now, Dilworth might have got a concussion, might have cracked his helmet, but I appreciate his. Commitment to team. Congratulations to the Arkansas Diamondbacks who get a huge as he's flipped over to hockey. What are the cement does not budge. I can tell you that. Well, that goes that a catch in this league. Yeah, it's a catch. Yeah, it's a catch. Yeah, in my league, yes. And also, look, fans right there. So that's a catch. I think they were non-biased. They're now granted. They were celebrating with them. People in there got a couple thousand in there watching Dilworth lay it all on the line for Arkansas. I like getting a cowboy hat going crazy. Yeah, that's a big time catch. You know, but number 21, if he posted this and thought he was about to Moss me, I mean, he kind of did, bro. He kind of did. I don't know how to tell you that. Okay. Let's go to NFL preseason game. Jordan Stott moves into the Giants punter alongside Harbaugh from Baltimore had an 81 yard punt here. What line of scrimmage was 19 longest punt you could possibly have at this moment is 81 yards. Obviously you do some quick math. Could have been an 80 yard net, but instead, preseason football. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Disgusting. Heartbreaker. Come on. 61 yard net still looks good. Okay. I will say 80 yard net much better, obviously. And these are the types of decisions that are being made on cut day. Cover a kick. Who could do good football? 80 yard net ball at the half yard line. The playbook for the offense. Real small 61 yard net ball at the 20 playbook. Real big, just actual game changers there. I know. I know you have PTSD from shit. It's great points and people. vibe too we were at the u.s open it was it was a cool vibe i must say that i could have never expected from a country club sport that is tennis that i never really got into much but whenever the greats are playing obviously i watch like i was watching joker whenever he was playing fed whenever he was playing this mr alcaraz fellow whenever he's playing who's the the dinner yeah but who's the lefty the lefty with the headband rafa rafa when nate all was playing i would watch the headlines in serena like when serena was watching i feel like i watched more tennis than ever i watched the stars it feels like america if if we have a star people will watch is shelton going to be that guy for us is there a chance do we have any of those guys in the pipeline right now um ben shelton's had a tough year he lost in the first round at wimbledon he lost in the second round in straight sets at the uh french open um but he did make a run in the australian open which is also hard court because of his massive serve when you're serving at 141 on a hard court basically nobody can return it but if you're on grass or clay it can be a little bit easier so he has a chance to make a deep run here but at the australian he ran into yannick center lost to him in straight sets so can he make that next step on his best surface we will see but not you know going four sets and losing the first one six one not an ideal start i'd say to his u.s well i heard uh okay thank you thank you not a great start to his u.s open campaign his girlfriend was there obviously the lights were on because he is an american uh commentators who i don't remember who it was did a great job i think fowler was on the call was it mackin row mackin row christmas pendry they were incredible it was really they gave me a lot of information i appreciated that as somebody that was just watching they were talking clearly his nerves and jitters got him in the first like clearly six one that opening set i assume he won over to his thing i don't know what he did to his racket if it was anything like miss low e boss one uh if he did that but he ends up just six one the second set so it felt like what the tennis people were saying like maybe he does have the opportunity now with that out of the way like he got embarrassed by this guy in front of his what his girl his country queen everybody i don't know if the queen was there who's the who is queen latifah oh sorry queen latifah was there roger goodell was there last night uh queen yeah the queen is dead actually who's the super super fashion lady uh yeah she was there one no not hannah montana was not there i don't know if hannah montana was there actually she could have been it felt like that's what last night was for tennis everybody was seemingly there and uh it was good to see shelton get a big time win but i thought to myself after a meeting shown i'm like this guy if this guy was to go i think tennis would do very well for tennis in this entire thing but tennis will hold up obviously because we're in the middle of a grand slam here and obviously the u.s opens a big deal now let's pivot away from sports let's talk about uh movies okay sports tie-in though nascar sure sure i got a chance to catch up with tom cruise uh this past weekend and i saw a lot of people on the internet say this dumbest life of all time yeah yes it is friday morning i get told like hey tom and his team were wondering if you would want to come catch up with him about a big announcement they're making tomorrow so i said i'm gonna need some more information on what that is they said days of thunder he's announcing it from daytona cold trickles coming back i said holy hell let me see if i can make that happen i get down there and uh i get a chance to talk to tom about not only days of thunder but the way he views life and everything it was an honor ladies and gentlemen here's me and tom cruise chit-chatting in daytona and it ends with uh i think a phenomenal finale ladies and gentlemen here it is when i study a system and then i see if i and then i improve it just like you did yeah bingo yeah yeah i understand what you're doing yeah we learn a lot of things you learn it you look at it you go hmm i think i could do better exactly i think i could yeah so we went from speed with digger we went from six hours makeup they're the best people in the world what i did was i got everybody together i was like look all you got to do is the math there's 24 hours in the day if i'm in makeup for six hours and i'm on set for 12 hours okay all of a sudden i got six hours and i have two hours to get out of it okay we got four hours now of life yeah so i was like okay so i don't mind it i don't need to sleep but i was like look we're gonna get this to under an hour and here's the thing like i went they they said that's impossible i said well if you say it's impossible then you can't do it so what i said was is let's just say it might be possible then what i did was i had a guy you know come in and put up a board and then we just put how long does it take to put each piece up timed it started to work on their motions everything they did so that every motion became like a ballet and that ballet turned in and then suddenly before they knew it it was three hours they're like no we never thought and then it was two hours and they're like no i was like hey might be possible maybe they started getting into it they started feeling it better but then they got it into under an hour by the end they were pumped okay so that type of i don't want to say obsession but ability to expect out of not only other people but yourself do you think that's been your whole life yeah it has been my whole life has been i want to be competent things i got fired from a job when i was i must have been eight years old cutting grass oh this is your michael jordan story right here no when i when i got fired michael jordan didn't make his high school varsity team as a freshman i was eight years old yeah they were they started a weapon i was like i got fired i was like i better figure this out studied everybody else and then i how did i cut this grass i went back and i said i'll cut it for free and i did it until i i learned i thought okay i like studying things becoming competent that's what i wanted you know that yeah yeah you know that i love it you know that i like watching you work bro that i like learning from you yeah can you study you no don't study me brother the world needs you to remain you you said you don't need to sleep there whenever we were talking about digger i like sleep yeah we all do we're talking about digger yeah you said you don't need to sleep though how like so when i think of tom cruise i assume you're one of the guys that wakes up at like same time we're eating the same food we're doing the same thing we're learning this is that how you are no here's the thing i mean it depends on what i have to do depends on what i'm doing what i'm training you know because i'll i'm constantly studying something whether it's singing or dancing or studying movies and lenses and it depends on where i am i i definitely you know since i was a kid i'm i'm studying the body to go how do i utilize the body to learn how to fight to learn how to sprint to learn how to do a perfect running form too we've seen that you're you're an athlete in the snow i saw it in tomica i saw the perfect form in there so you're always striving to learn yeah i'm always learning i'm constantly trying to learn i'm a student you know i respect people that you know have these skills and i'll go in and i'll study those skills and then see what they know and that's how i look at movies you know when i started out i started i studied the every department and i studied the studio system and then i studied distribution because you know i'll write a goal up like i want to attain this and then i go how many things do i have to learn to be able to get there yeah so that's kind of how and then execute and then execute and then do it again and again you know what it's like you have game speed you have rehearsal and you have game speed in order to understand your own skills you need to have you need to be in the game you gotta can i get it up to game speed so in making movies as we're going through it it's it's a team it's everyone coming together to be able to have that level of experience and it's a team it's a team it's a level of skill and ability you know and and how do we get everyone's level up to that yeah everybody's following your lead too your coach and quarterback bro which leads to this welcome back bro come on okay so you just told me off earlier a little bit you've been thinking about this a long time i've been thinking about cold trickle for a long time i love this sport you know i grew up like just taking cars in the back streets you know before i had my license and racing and country roads and looking at dirt tracks and i love nascar and i love racing and airplanes and motorcycles we did top gun and i took this story to don simpson and jerry book hammer produced and tony scott came on after the first one also i've just been thinking about what how can i do it how can i seat the audience into another journey with this character yeah most sequels suck so what you did with top gun what you did with top gun i think makes us all so i am a massive fan of yours as you know thank you and i think we all as moviegoers and people that have got to watch you over your entire career from sliding in your underwear to obviously doing everything you're doing i think we know that you only do good like i think that's a real thing so like i think top gun has made a lot of people super excited about this because they're like you saw what he did with top gun and for people that don't know days of thunder it's kind of like a nascar top gun it's like the the whole thing it's how people are describing it right like the how buy-in you are a little bit of a wild child okay able to do it got to get buckled in a little bit okay so it's a similar storyline different sports yep so what you did with the sequel to top gun i think everybody's like yes we're going for it and i i'm going to give it a shot i'm going to give it a shot i'm going to do it i feel like we really got something you know annie enormously talented she's going to be owner you know engineer i found a way in you know there's technically a lot of things that we when you're doing stuff like even with the aviation the stuff how do we tell those stories i spent years training in aerobatics training and from helicopters to jets to airplanes and studying aerial photography and creating aerial photography so we're creating stories like what can i tell with the motion those are things that i'm learning and i'm learning and i'm learning and i'm learning and i'm looking at with with nascar with with these cars i love the culture you know it's going to have it's a real immersive cultural story that's going to have racing and it's going to it's like how do we do it so we're going to be creating knowledge as we go along okay so you have to study the sport obviously and you already know you have a good baseline yeah from way back in the day you said you've been thinking about it for a while yeah is he driving what are we doing oh he's driving okay we didn't know if crew chief obviously we didn't know owner we didn't know here's the thing if i'm making a movie about airplanes i'm flying i'm making a movie like club not you know i don't know i'm driving can i ask you a kind of emotional question sure yeah okay so val can Filmer, obviously, everything. Robert Duvall here, like, two situations. How is that for you as, like, a human? Like, taking a trip back in time from what it was? Because I'm going to be honest. I don't know what the hell you do. I am a breed of white that is not aging the same as you. You obviously look unbelievable still. And I'm sure you watch the old Top Gun and the new one. And you probably see a lot of things. But for us, it's like, damn, Tom looks unbelievable. And what you're still doing. So it's like taking those emotional journeys a little bit right back in time, I assume, is something for you or no? Yeah, look, I admire. You know, I was able to make two films with Bobby and Val. You know, to have Val there in Top Gun, it was beautiful. You just see the power of those artists. And I think you'll see how we treat it in this movie and the journey of this story. I don't want to give too much away because the tone of NASCAR and the tone of these films, it has a joy. It has their interesting, their humorous, their characters in NASCAR. You know what I mean? It's a real community. Anyway, those artists, I feel very grateful. But I had the opportunity to work with them and see how they work and create those scenes together and create the movie. Hey, that hug with Val, man, we're all crying. I couldn't imagine you, too. Yeah, definitely. Most definitely. And it was amazing because you could see him. He was Iceman. Like, that guy was so talented with how he just became that character. He was Iceman instantly. And I just think he's, look, he's a brilliant actor. You look at his movies, I've always admired what Val did. I don't think I would ever be able to work with him, that scene we're acting, just how he regarded Maverick, you know, the sniff, you know, he's, you know, that he just knew, he just became it. And it was, it was effortless to act with him. It is emotional. When I see it, it's emotional. Hell, yeah, it was awesome for us as fans. It's emotional for me as a person and just someone I admire Val. I remember when we did Top Gun that, you know, I really wanted him to play that character when we started. It was like I couldn't ever imagine anyone else but Val. Val playing that role. Well, it worked. Yeah. He did it. He brought it. I'm excited to see, I'm excited to see what you do with the casting for Days of Thunder. Yeah, well, Annie is, like, you could see, like, that, that woman, she has comedy chops and dramatic and just real voltage as, as an artist. Yeah, and like you, an icon, you know. So that's, any time you get two icons together, I think it's pretty good. This is gonna be fun, man. I'm gonna say this, and I don't know if I'm supposed to or not, I got an acting role in a movie. I was a World War II drill instructor. Come on. Yeah, man. I was in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we talked, I talked to you. It's a perfect role for you. Okay, I appreciate that. Good role. And I like you saying that. I can't see that. It's good. I don't think you've seen it yet, so let's wait until you get eyes on it. Yeah. I talked to you, we got a chance to interview you. From the moment I found out about it before taping, and after we got done taping, you were so nice with your time. I asked you, I said, hey, let's just say a friend of mine was playing a World War II drill instructor movie in a Peter Berg movie that's coming out, and the shooting is in, like, four weeks or whatever, and you didn't blink. You looked at the camera, and you gave me, like, Thespian 501. Have you gone and trained with the DIs? Have you met the DIs? Have you studied the DIs? What era is it? What is the temperature of your character? What's the history of your character? Ask Peter Berg what type of attitude this character -- you gave me everything. So I want to let you know, thank you for that. Yeah, it's my pleasure. And then you told me, after you do all the studying, when you show up, you just beat. And I want to let you know that if you wouldn't have told me that, I would have embarrassed myself all over this. I went down to Parris Island the next weekend. I stayed with the DIs. I did all the training, and then I could feel, like -- literally, right before it started, I thought of your ass. And I was like, all right, so Tom said that I should just fucking be right now, and hopefully it shows up. I think it did. I was much more confident and comfortable, and I loved it. When it comes to, like, characters like this or Digger, which is a vastly different -- like, how do you, like, prepare for the Digger character? Because I got people from your team telling me that this might be your best that you've ever done. It's a role that -- It's such a joy. Look, Alejandro Iñárritu, I've known him 26 years. I -- to be able to -- you know what it's like. It's -- it is just being, and it is dreaming, and it is -- it's this kind of character. And you work with Iñárritu when you see what he brings and to be able to have that dialogue back and forth. The skill level that it takes to play a character like this, to understand the lenses, to understand that kind of comedy and find that kind of drama. And I think when you see it, it's -- it's so fun. And the actors that I'm working with. They're so good. What I love is it's -- it is the environment that Iñárritu -- the table that he sets, the design of the film, the tone of the film, the character is -- in every way as an actor, it's just a joy to play. You sit back, I don't want people to see the scenes, you know, with performance. I'm just like, I -- and it is that. I just -- just work, you dream, and then you -- you do that research, and then it is just be. It is -- we're now rehearsing. To understand the framing, to understand the physicality and explore that, that was -- it's a hell of a lot of fun. I can't wait to see what you did, and I'm -- I'm so glad that that worked out for you, and that you did it. Well, we'll see. We'll see if it worked out. But here's the point. No, no, you did it. Let's not see. You did it, and it's a step. And it -- as I say to everybody, when I work with people who are like, ah, you know, sometimes, like, they're worried to try stuff, I'm like, I'm easy. They go, I'm going to do this over here. I said, you don't have to tell me. You just do it. Let's play, you know? I'm -- I'm with you, you know? I don't -- I'm not one of these people that's like, it's this way and that. You're exploring together. And I like people to feel comfortable where they -- they can leap. They don't have to worry, you know? I'm going to embarrass myself. It's like, it's okay. We all have to feel safe to do it. You know what it's like. That's how you get the surprises. That's how -- whatever it is and whatever -- whatever thing, if you're -- if you're worried about failure, you're thinking about failure, you know? If I'm jumping off a cliff and I'm thinking I'm going to not make it, I'm -- all I'm thinking is that. It's like, I know I'm going to make it, you know? Yes, definitely. But you prepare, you prepare, you prepare. You know? Yeah, it feels like you're constantly preparing and constantly wowing folks. And for me, as somebody who's such a fan of your business and somebody that's getting a chance to dabble in it, it's like the future of the industry, a lot of people say, "We're on these little shoulders right here." Now, with "Cold Trickle," "Days of Thunder," obviously "Digger" coming out. This is summer 2028, I heard. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I assume you have other things in the works as well. The future of the movies, you have been very open about. I mean, you'll jump out a plane, I'll see you at the movies. We've seen you eat your popcorn. Your popcorn eating habits are unbelievable. You Randy Moss popcorns, you do that, we've seen it, we love that. But now, it feels like Netflix is putting some things into theaters because they want to save that. Paramount, I believe I just heard, wants to do 30 movies in a year, okay? I think that is obviously -- could be a huge benefit, I think, to the theaters or the industry as a whole. Like, what are your thoughts on where we are right now and, like, where it's headed? From where we were in COVID, when we thought everybody was going to stay home. We didn't want to stay home until you lied to everybody. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I think it's awesome, you know. Here's the thing, they're going to deliver 30 movies. It's a community to me, it's not an industry. The people in these studios, they're not just people in the studios, they're my family. I know we're going to get those 30 movies. I want us all to come together as a community to make help those 30 movies. It's not just going to be, you know, Paramount doing it. Everyone's going to need all the help of every artist to be able to do it. We do well with those, those 30 movies are going to turn into 40 movies. You know, and for every studio, it's like, to have that window and what it means. It's not good enough that I just get to make this movie, for me, that's, I see so many talented people that I want them to have that opportunity to make the films that they want and be able to, what do you call it, game speed, okay? Like, you can have these artists, all these greats, they got to cut their teeth and learn. In the same way that you get to act and you're learning, it's you take it and the next one and the next one. Every single one of them. The Iñárritus, the Spielbergs, the Nolans, me, all the opportunities that I've had. I want that for every writer, every director, every producer, every artist. And the only way you do it is we have to create an abundance. It's production begets production. And we've had one of the great summers from when I was in COVID where people were coming at me because they're like, why are you doing this? I'm like, I want people to have this opportunity, it's a beautiful art form. I want community. I want people to see how these numbers are coming back and look at all these great films that we have. Record-breaking weekends in a movie. I know. And it's like, you look at it from Obsession and Nolan to Spiderman to Prada, you know, one after the other. The way we get that is through also a crew, like the things that I'm doing are cutting edge. These kinds of storytelling, the only way you know, you can study something in a class but you got to be able to test it and you got to be able to see it with an audience. You have to know. You have to have the tools, how to use them and how to communicate and get up to what it's like. I don't know how else to describe it except for like, you can practice, but then there's game speed. It's game day. Yeah. We'll see. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like it's game day. And when you're making a movie, every day is game day and the skill level that it takes. And if we come together as a community to understand what audiences want and tell our stories that you want to tell, but find ways that are entertaining that audience. You see the movies I make, there are a wide range of films. Smaller to bigger. We need the movies and I want the movies for everyone. I want every studio I want. It's like, that's where we are. I want those people to have that opportunity and in those theaters to just keep the ball rolling. That's my, that's how I feel. Well, no, there was, there was a lot of people calling for the death of theaters. There was a lot of people calling for the death of theaters. Let me tell you. Yeah. That's a whole other story. You were the front of the line. You were the front lines though. See at the movies. Go to the movies. Go to the movies. And that's another community thing too. I want to move. You see Spider-Man. That's the first one. Cause she's three. Awesome. Is that unbelievable? to look at these look at when you're looking at these artists man look how talented these people are i've never been competitive making movies isn't competitive it's not i i get inspired by seeing great book and i look at i go wow that's amazing the more films we make the better it's going to be for theaters you know those theaters are going to be happy i remember like in the 80s 90s 2000s you'd have five films opening the weekend people go to the movie theaters and they do it and i know you know you see how audiences are enjoying that experience but we got to make them you got to make it to develop those skills and ability and we have to as a community we got to help each other to do it congrats man thank you i can't wait to see you behind the wheel i can't wait to see you back thanks for being here man no problem i can't wait to see you digger i can't wait to see you back as cole trickle thanks brother i can't wait for it thanks for being here dude i'm excited about it daytona listen you know the first race of the season's here the 500 yeah last race the regular season's here daytona we're here yeah we're here we are at it we're here man hey thank you for that no thanks for being here dude you're the best actually thank you you're so cool thank you man you know who you are so thank you can i take a photo with you let's do it you're the owner let's get the uh yeah what a time thank you tom congratulations got a chance to go down the pit row watch the entire operation and the team his team around him are obviously in an incredible group of people we're very thankful for the opportunity and uh can't wait to see digger one month from today and then days of Thunder summer of 2028 and I assume Tom's cooking up some other stuff as well what a legend what an icon can't believe I get to do that type of stuff we're all very thankful for those opportunities now on the other side it's about to heat up we got a fight press conference whoa AJ Hawk 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pre-season pre-season we don't have enough time to go ahead run it from the top because obviously we have people waiting the toxic tables here at boss Connor and at tone digs Ty we love you buddy absolutely love you sitting at one half of the hammer down Cowboys table is a nine-year NFL vet ladies and gentlemen Darius J-Bone yes sir it's good to see you thank you for representing Jason Kendall in front of you always always even though Charles Johnson and I'm used to go but well he was he was cool in Philly yeah just see what you just did you gave him quite a bop there on his head and guess who's still standing Jason Kendall that guy wore no gloves whenever he was up at that time okay you met him no copy okay he's not like the most giant guy he had no gloves no cup you like that move what's that there's no gloves no cup let me tell you what I did when I was a young little boy cost about two bucks to get in the outfit maybe a buck to get in the outfield used to have a friend Bobby Hoos his stepdad used to take us to games instead of going to school so the only real sporting event I went to a couple Penguins games was the Pirates games and you went there understanding they're gonna lose but if anything good happened you take it out of there having a blast Jason Kendall hit a ding-dong landed right in front of me picked it up I got the baseball Jason Kendall's a okay with me then I hear stories about him beating people up uh-huh doing the entire thing so that's why anytime baseball comes up I go Jason Kendall's the greatest of all time because Jason Kendall made me a non-baseball fan a fan of his because he was an absolute stud then you watch him jog around he's got no gloves on it's like who is this guy this guy who I like the way this guy operates and then lo and behold he turns out he is an absolute legend and that's what everybody says and uh it didn't carry over to me being a full time Pirates fan he's just like if I got a chance to go to the games I had a blast had a fishing net in there one time got a ball got it I'm telling you you didn't get to see any any good team any good World Series runs I think I watched Mark McGuire I think I watched him hit a ding-dong I think I watched him hit one uh made it to the semis yeah remember I'm going an afternoon game very cheap ticket where you at you're in the you're in the way outfield we had Charles Johnson the catcher we had Gary Sheffield Conan if they had if they had that totally on the mind hell yeah I'd be going to every single did you see this from last night I did not oh Boston Red Sox pitcher 6 6 275-ish yeah fan of the program from my understanding has a velo pouch right here okay that's how he describes it doesn't matter this guy will play a little defense picks up the little come here you're out the absolute best come on you're out all right see you later this guy has an electrifying personality yeah obviously the mustache is outrageous but I got a chance to meet him and his wife newlyweds they were coming back from a date night in New York because they were heading into hotel he was awesome huge you forget that these guys are gigantic oh yeah we think about tackles and everything like that offense alignment defense alignment as we should these guys are gigantic and he's one of them and he's got the feet and touch and gives a little hug you're out go ahead and take a walk joining us one more time there's two people waiting ladies and gentlemen a Super Bowl champion a uh Nash college football national champion Ryder Cup winner ladies and gentlemen AJ Hawker how you doing pal I'm doing great AQ and uh TC in the first hour what a show man yeah it was ridiculous AQ Shipley opening up for Tom Cruise is obviously what we expected and AQ certainly expected that as well I read some stuff about Ohio State is everything okay over there in Ohio or what's going on what did you read I think everything's fine I didn't see anything to do I didn't see Ryan Day I didn't see with Peyton Pierce I didn't see anyone their names anywhere in anything that you guys have been talking about okay we haven't talked about it yet but we're just reading we were thinking you maybe former president of Ohio might get a lot of stuff coming out of Ohio about what I haven't seen it no you do your own research China what you do your own research you're joining us now ladies and gentlemen Ohio State yeah I don't know they're linking them together Washington Post just had somebody who's been on a receipt they're they they will yeah they will get good Columbus China well they're actually saying China State somewhere I mean that's what yeah that's what I don't know about that is that what they were saying I don't know who they are but I didn't hear it no okay I was just reading headlines I just want like Ohio needs the Buckeyes back on the field ASAP okay now the Buckeyes obviously the hahaha okay no there's no way that's what they're saying anymore there's no way that's what they're doing that's what that Washington Post was trying to say I think anymore it was never happening don't say any more what are we talking I'm just come on now I'm sorry I was just kind of reading a bit of a scarlet and red scare oh I didn't know that I mean this is what I was Ohio we love them okay we certainly do their football team odds on favorite could go on a damn run here Julian saying I get a chance to listen to him do a couple of little chitter chatters I like his mindset he loves ball this guy loves the ball joining us now former national champion quarterback from Alabama he's been waiting for about 10 minutes as we've been doing this and obviously he has a lot going on you'll see him all over the college football coverage on ESPN he also hosts the incredible always college football with Greg McElroy ladies and gentlemen Greg McElroy yeah Greg how are we doing okay so the shirt is awesome uh who is that what is it you had me panicking for a second there when you started teeing up AJ on something that happened with Ohio State dude I thought I was about to come on and get absolutely train wrecked like I had minor panic attack feel like what did I miss what just happened no don't worry you can do your own research Greg you could do your own research but anything that happens with Ohio and Ohio State my Algo feeds it to me strictly because we're with one of the presidents of Ohio here Monday through Friday and then the other one every single Saturday which obviously leads to an incredible college football season already started obviously congrats to Bill Belichick and all the teams that you've been with teams that have gotten a win in week zero but week one obviously storylines in abundance we'll talk about Alabama here in a little bit Kalen DeBoer has the most amount of wins for any Alabama coach in its history over its first two seasons with 20. okay Nick Saban 19. yeah yeah so just that conversation we'll talk about them but right now let's obviously talk about what's going on at LSU and what's going on the entire SEC story you're in the South one of the faces of the South talking for the South in this exact moment how does the South feel about everything that's kind of happening with these injunctions because it's not just LSU football as LSU and Lane Kiffin will tell you there's some softball players at Ole Miss there's some soccer players at Texas that are also in this injunction that are happening how does the South feel about what's happening right now and how it's all being covered everyone's getting a little bit affected by it for sure but I think we're gonna ask Like in this part of the country, dude, they're all about the SEC, the SEC, the SEC. We've been told for the last hundred plus some odd years at the SEC, it's all for one, one for all, right? Well, since NIL got in the world, it's no longer like, I do, we're all together in this deal. It's like every man for themselves and we got to go take care of our own backyard, right? So that's where things have changed. And I think this has kind of unified everybody behind the sense of like, what are we doing? Like, why are there no rules? And why is it that no one can hold these schools accountable, right? So I look, it's not lame. Everyone's blaming Lane Kiffin here. This is not Lane Kiffin's fault, in my opinion. His job, he gets paid by LSU to have the best roster humanly possible. And if that includes NFL guys, that includes NFL guys. My issue is the fact that we now have guys that have gone to NFL training camp and they can come back, take freshmen's reps that have been working for the last nine months. Like that to me from a locker room culture, like you guys understand this. We've been there, right? Like, what does that do when you bring a guy in last minute, you're 18. You think you're going to play. And now all of a sudden this fifth year guy to some, take some of your reps. Like that's gotta be a weird dynamic in the locker room. Don't you think? Yeah, definitely. And Lane Kiffin came out and said, the NFL does it all the time. There's just a thousand guys cut. Okay. So there's just professional football. Now that was his angle on it all. But I do believe college is different. You're still growing, hopefully some sort of brotherhood, even though people are turning over new rosters every single year. We looked at the tail of the tape between two coaches because Lane Kiffin and Dabo couldn't be more polar opposite, even though they both come through at least Alabama. At some point of their coaching career, you look at the amount of ranked wins. Obviously Dabo has been a head coach for Clemson for a long time. 41 playoff appearance of seven. The asterisk there next to Lane Kiffin is because he wasn't there. Like his team was there, but obviously it got pretty loud. He was not allowed to be there. The top 25 ranking from the Associated Press, LSU 11, Clemson first time, I think forever, maybe since Dabo not ranked. And then obviously the last five seasons, one coach 50 and 14, the other 47 and 20. So I think the tail here is like over its history, Clemson has obviously been very, very good. But the evolution of these new rules in which Lane Kiffin certainly takes advantage of it and is currently trying to take advantage of two of the absolute max. It's just two different polar views of college football. Now, Dabo has dabbled a little bit more in the transfer portal over the last year or so. It has not been fantastic. But is there a way Clemson goes in there and wins this game? If Clemson beats LSU, could you fathom? I mean, because there's a lot of drama and controversy. It's hard to win a football game. And the head coach having to deal with a lot of stuff right now because, you know, in his eyes, it's making his team better for the long haul. He asked his leadership counsel, how do you frame the questioning? I think people's next question was, how do you frame it to the leadership counsel? But leadership counsel said, let's make the team better. It's like all Dabo has been trying to do is win football games. Why and how, you know, can Dabo go in and win this? Or is there literally no chance because of how talented this LSU roster is and how good it is? Yeah. How good Lane Kiffin is as a coach in college football? Well, first of all, Pat, I love you. So on Saturday, just as someone that's been down there on the bayou, I know you've been down there a million times. No, one time. Recommending regardless. Fair enough. Regardless of how you feel about what might happen in this game, don't pick Clemson on Saturday morning. It will it will be chaotic because that place will go bananas, dude. So it might be good cinema. We'll see. But all I'm saying, though, you're a thousand percent right. Like last year. We think about Clemson, how we approached it in the regular season and the preseason leading up to it. Right. Top 14 in college football. Everybody's back. Most returning production. They have a home game against LSU. Like, this is the one. This is the year, boys. We got to go on. It's proof of concept. Dabo's resisted the portal because he wanted to grow within. Well, then they go out, lay an egg, score 10 points, lose the game. But it was all the pressure was on them last year to make a run. This year, it's like, dude, we haven't talked about Clemson at all. National. It's been all about LSU. All about the roster building. All about Lane Kiffin. Meanwhile, Dabo, self-proclaimed bunch of nobodies at Clemson still have dudes. So I would not be that surprised if this is a game in the third quarter. At that point, all the pressure's on LSU, right? Because they're supposed to be the team. Meanwhile, Clemson has zero expectations, no pressure, and is playing with house money. So I think it's a very dangerous game if you're LSU to go in and kind of overlooking a team that still has got guys on the other side that will play on Sundays. Everybody's expecting 50 Berger, 60 Berger. 50 Berger from LSU, and it's like, man, I hope so. And at night, I think over your shoulder there, you have a picture of Death Valley right there over your right shoulder. They talk about that place just being like, yeah, right, which is why it's such a desirable place for coaches to go to. Not only are you going to get the best recruits out of Louisiana every single year because they want to be at LSU and you have the money to be able to pay for your roster, but you talked about me picking Clemson down there. It's like that place was outrageous. And you hear Nick Saban talk about it, and he's obviously been everywhere, and he's taken care of it. He's taken everybody's best shot, as you have as well. He's like, yeah, it's just a different country. I mean, it's just an absolutely different country. And it's like Lane Kiffin has the spectacle on offense, right? They keep D.C. Defense was top, what, one in a lot of things in the SEC. Interceptions, I think they were one. I think third down, they were one. I think there's like multiple things their defense was already number one in, and they keep the D.C. Lane Kiffin can go explosive. You're talking about Baton Rouge potentially becoming top, top environment in all of sport in the entire planet again, like it was a few years back. And I'm excited for that. I am very, very excited for that. But, boy, if Clemson goes in there, game one of the Lane Kiffin era, after everything that has happened and gets a win, Dabo afterwards, can't you see him hands on hips afterwards, standing in the middle of that field, just like, yeah, nobody really thought we were going to – you can almost – and then that place would actually – forget me picking against them. That would actually be – but on the flip side, if they do 70, 80 points, and this defense does what they did last year, and the offense picks right up, it's like, holy hell, what a buzzsaw for the rest of the year. Go ahead, A.J. A.J. has a question for you about college ball. Yeah, Greg, as far as LSU goes, we know the expectations from the outside. I guess what are you expecting from them this season? What's a great season look like for Lane Kiffin and the LSU Tigers? Well, dude, I mean, here's the thing with LSU. It's like they might have the biggest variable in the entire country, but they're at the widest gap. I really could see them winning a national championship with the talent they accumulated, with the quarterback they got coming in from Arizona State and Sam Levitt, some of the dudes they have on defense. Like, they got guys. I mean, there's no denying the ceiling that this roster has. Problem is, they also have never played together. So how do we know? I mean, how often – and we've all played on good teams, great teams in some cases. Like, how often is an all-star team super successful when having to run the gauntlet when they were just recently assembled? So that's my biggest question about them. It's like, if they get off to a hot start, they're 3-0, they got close. Clemson week one, at Ole Miss week three, like, look out. Like, the rest is history. They're going to roll. If they get punched early and they don't respond very well because they don't have that collective buy-in over the course of many years, then they could drop off and have a 7-5 year. I mean, that's the gap. Like, I don't think any of us can envision Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia, any of those teams going 7-5, whereas with LSU, everything's so new. It's not out of the realm of possibility. I don't think it's likely, but it could happen. Meanwhile, if all things align, go and get the whole thing, right? So. So, they're probably one of the widest gaps, probably the toughest to read because there are so many unknowns. And it really starts, I think, in a big way against a quality opponent this weekend where they're going to get punched, they're going to get got a time or two. How do they respond? That's the big ticket item for them, I think. A team's mental toughness is obviously something that gets talked about in this new modern transfer every single offseason. Do you actually care about the team or do you only care about yourself? That's why when Will Harden at Ohio State team, were able to lose to Oregon early, Will Harden transfers in there, gets paid. He paid a bunch of money from Kansas State or whatever. They lose to Oregon early, something he did, you know, they could have turned on him. They lose to Michigan. It obviously goes into what it is at the end. They could have turned on him. Instead, they had an entire meeting. They locked in and played their best football, win a national championship. It's like they defied, I think, the odds on battling through with how many millions of dollars and expectations and outside slander. It's like that's a difficult thing to keep everybody on the same track. So, the fact that LSU has the opportunity to maybe showcase that or avoid that entirely, I'll be eager. Now, week three, everybody's talking about Ole Miss. Obviously, Ole Miss, we like Golden. We like Winadad. We, me, publicly, we as a team, were wondering why Lane would leave. Well, he wants to go win a national championship. It's like you, right? You might win one right now, right? Are we looking for a national? We might have one right here, right now. No, LSU is where it's at. And then everybody tells me he had to go because of everything that takes place and I can't wait to experience that. But Ole Miss back on track to potentially go with the best quarterback maybe in the entire country. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Greg, we love Winadad. We love Golden. We love Lacey. They're going to be unbelievable. But no one is talking about their matchup in week one. Everyone's talking about their matchup in week three. But this weekend is the only ranked matchup. It's Louisville and Ole Miss. And obviously, Braum is an unbelievable college football coach. He brings in Lincoln Kynholtz, the backup from Ohio State last season, who is an athletic quarterback. Braum, great with quarterbacks. What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts on that one? And is everyone just penciling Ole Miss to win this one as seven-point favorites? Dude, I'm telling you, Louisville is so dangerous, guys. I mean, think about – look, I hate to bring up bad memories for our guy A.J. here. Like, I'll remember when Braum, way before he was even at Louisville, dude was at Purdue, right? And he had Rondale Moore. I think it was like 2018. They ended up winning the game like 28 points against top three-ranked Ohio State team. Like, this guy is a giant killer and has been for years. Each of the first three years where he's been at Louisville, he's knocked off an AP title. top 10 teams. including going on the road and beating Miami on a Friday night last year so like this is a guy that can certainly rally his team around the idea of an upset now the problem with Louisville is there have been some moments where they've maybe laid an egg where they shouldn't they lost big to SMU last year by three plus touchdowns and that should never have happened so you can show us hey yeah you can beat Miami but lose to SMU by three touchdowns that doesn't make sense so I think this is a team that's super dangerous I also as far as Pete Golding's concerned like I think collectively look there's big questions at wide receiver they lost all their guys there but collectively you could make a case this might be a better and more well-rounded Ole Miss team last than last year they had star power they had great potential good starting 22 but once you got beyond the starting 22 the depth dropped off so therefore they gave up a lot of points it's a big matchup so I think Pete Golding's addressed that they have better personnel on defense they have deeper personnel on defense and maybe their wide receiver core has has not necessarily been as top shelf as it's been in the past but Trinidad's good enough to take and take over the game regardless of who's at wide out right I mean we saw him destroy Georgia almost single-handedly in that Sugar Bowl game last year so he's the real deal I I just think this Ole Miss team might actually be better than last year which is kind of a crazy thought given how good they were a year ago yeah and Trinidad might be best player in college football I mean obviously got Jeremiah Smith and Malachi Tone you got a lot of great athletes and incredible positional players what I watched Winadad do live from the field pass last year I was like damn I had no idea this guy was like this because they were talking about him wanting to go back to college so I'm like oh he must not be like an NFL quarterback it's like nah I think he's an NFL quarterback as well with the way he can move his teammates love him obviously his school loves him I think him and Lacey are both up on the sphere right now yeah as a potential Heisman campaign begins it's like you got to start off with Braum in lieu of good luck they're tough and then LSU coming to town week three obviously that'll be insane okay last question for you here Greg we appreciate your time from D Bud yeah Greg we've talked about Winadad Darian Mensah Sam Levitt Julian Sands CJ Carr all these quarterbacks and all these teams that we have those expectations for who is that quarterback or that team that we're kind of too low on that you can see making a college playoff push man it's a great call I mean there's pretty clear path for the top seven teams like you kind of know who those top seven teams are so I'd have to go with that I think it's going to be a step further I'll say Oklahoma uh now Oklahoma last year made the playoff had a good year lost in the first round to Alabama but a lot of Oklahoma you can pinpoint exactly to the moment where they started to fall off and that was when John Mateer broke his thumb in the third game of the year and then for really a month the offense didn't play very well he really wasn't that accurate like wasn't really playing the way he needs to play plus that new OC now it's year two like I think Oklahoma really at all three levels defensively is legit I mean like big time big time playmakers at all three levels defensively I think Oklahoma really at all three levels then it's about their quarterback just playing decisive football and he made a my biggest problem with Mateer it's like he wants to be Manziel with the playmaking ability but he doesn't need to be because his team's better than what Johnny had when he was at A&M does that make sense yes absolutely distribute dude like let the ball go and if you punt it by the way best play in football right Pat like punt it it's a good play with how they defend that's it and just play field position from time to time and don't try to force the issue because when he tried last year he made mistakes like the multi-interception game against Texas so okay the guy couldn't hold the football so I mean he broke his thumb the first four weeks I was gonna win the high throw on a football with four fingers exactly a hard thing to do exactly so I would maybe some other decisions were uh made because of that maybe it's like I don't think I could potentially make that and putting ain't the great best playing football it is no it's not down the sideline it's a post no split the cover too boring no boring most important play most important play there you go yeah bingo it's so low on the list no it is so high you heard McElroy he said it's high on the list this guy's national champion he hosts always college football with Greg McElroy I love that right there it's right in the back back wall you should just say hi it's Greg McElroy I want to let you know that congrats to you your name and your voice have become synonymous with uh college football in their club too congratulations what's that congrats on your member there the hoopie match club what is that no oh no not at all I didn't even know what shirt I had on but I uh next time I'm not rocking this one I can promise you I'm going straight black t-shirt like Pat that's what I'm and AJ and Antone and uh we're on TV a lot you know you just kind of get bored Steve Jobs yeah you decided we're just gonna wear that's it turtleneck every day five days a week so we don't have to make a safety of these in there I got a bunch of other black shirts in there so we're going to do that what is a hoopie match club very very exclusive golf club in Georgia whoa I like Augusta yeah really I think Rory might be a member I'm not sure also it might be one of those ones they go to in 2028 one that they don't play a tournament at but yeah I could be one have you played it oh hoopie and how'd you do uh so it's a it's all about match play so like there's no score you just got to see how you're playing against so yeah I did go it was amazing best hang ever dude a lot of beers deleted that weekend you beat save it a lot of years deleted deleting beers uh I don't believe it there was blocky there that's a good question was Michael block there of course record he was not he was not you're lucky for that could you imagine you see block on the other side you just gotta hope to God that it's not Michael it's his boy because this guy is about to run the PGA Tour Championship and I would like to let us uh all know in real time here we have been invited to anyone we want to go to to follow along block well we'll wait for Ty to become all the way healthy obviously and we will take him to the course and we'll certainly enjoy our time we appreciate blocky in the PGA Tour Championship for that invite and I I will be one of the ones he's doing this for you know yeah me on you no and Ty will be telling him you get to shut up you know I'm like no make the noise Greg we'll see you on the road somewhere brother we appreciate you see you fellas thank y'all see you ladies and gentlemen it's Greg a hoopie match club huge huge Greens no big deal okay oh you know this place a little bit have you played I've never been there no looking for an invite nah trying on the Grove though okay what's the Grove that's George down in Florida oh yeah I've heard it's a great time yeah I got my end oh you're in oh no no I got my end to play greeny no oh whoa whoa let's not well we don't need to be real quick oh he's it no he's a Jordan guy so yeah we don't yeah but we don't need he's got friends got a new swing team Jordan is yes oh yeah yeah I didn't know that what it was we played I think he's Lou baton yeah isn't he he's right yeah I believe he is full on red bottom every day look at a McAfee look at a McAfee we got a big time uh boxing presser coming up AJ are you excited and eager for what we learned from these two guys as we sit just over a little bit over a week away from a World welterweight championship battle in T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas AJ yeah I am excited I'm I'm a bit uh confused I want to see how it plays out I know you're going to be in the middle and they're going to be on either side you're just going to be looking back and forth firing firing things back to these guys well I think I'll also I'll also say uh do you have a question in uh in the crowd you know because normal press conference we will be asking for any questions in the crowd as well as I will be standing at podium I might make it look a little bit more podium like I think that's probably what we do for the next one of these okay uh ladies and gentlemen joining me now are two men that are going to captivate the entire globe as they fight for the world welterweight championship of boxing it's a Zufa promotion but these two lads are known by the entire boxing community ladies and gentlemen one of the men we watch grow up on the internet his hands seemingly as fast as a crack of lightning the power the same as thunder we watch this guy on the internet for the better part of the last decade take random influencers put a body pad on him and then he did him a left hook and they'd be pissing blood for the next week or so he's taking on a lad whose father was in the boxing game literally since he was just a little child in England has grown up in the boxing gym has been learning about a since he was just a wee little lad ladies and gentlemen for the world championship next Saturday September 12th at T-Mobile Arena Ryan Garcia and Connor band boys I don't know if you saw that Connor if you want to learn anything Ryan too I've seen you just pound influencers with those hands and I think I've seen you take on the bouncing thing maybe better than anything I've ever seen in my life so boys thank you for joining us thank you for your commitment to sport and thank you for allowing the world to watch you guys's greatness Ryan I'll start with you uh obviously huge fight for you and we've followed you for a very long time we know that your power your speed and your precision or something you take advantage of Connor Ben here I believe sorry on this side I think he could just take abuse this guy I think he just stands in there and goes to war for you what is the mindset going into the fight and how does that change things for you against somebody that fights like Connor well I mean the mindset is just to prepared for anything you know i understand this guy uh you know it's not really at my level and can't keep up with really my my punches or anything so you know his game plan is going to be quite you know simple he's going to try to rough me up try to be a little dirty try to get in there as fast as he can so just be prepared for anything you know so we train very hard and uh we made sure that you know anything he throws at us we'll be prepared and conditioned to go through okay connor obviously you hear what ryan says there we're going to be hugging we're going to be getting this thing we're going to be doing some dirty shots it's his expectation for you as a man who's obviously a physical brawling fighter and have been for your entire career what do you hear whenever he says that and is that what you expect him to say about your fighting style just this close to a fight listen when you've had 26 27 fights you've heard it all you know i've heard i've not been good enough i've not been this i've not been that continue to prove people wrong so um you know if he's overlooking me or or thinks i'm going to be a walker in the park then you know i'd be mistaken you know um the last person who who overlooked me got put in hospital for three days so you know up at middleweight so you know um i feel extremely strong um i feel powerful training's gone well um and i'm excited to claim that world title connor what is uh ryan garcia on tape do you guys do that do you train against a lot of people that are like your fighter is it kind of nameless faceless opponents like uh some football coaches are like you how are you training for ryan garcia oh just doing what i do just doing what i do and what i have done for the past 10 years i've been in this sport for a decade now so um you know he's got fast hands he's a good fighter you don't become world champion by not being a good fighter you know and um i'll prepare prepare diligently hard and um i have no doubt in my mind zero doubt in my mind that i leave with that world title on on saturday i love saturday i love to hear that obviously i think you have to have that mentality ryan we've watched you grow up on the internet i think i think we've all watched you and uh i want to let you know congrats on getting to a point now where it looks like you were very happy content locked in dialed in would you say that how do you feel heading into this fight uh mentally physically all of that uh i would say that you know i'm very sharp right now sharp mind um everything has been going perfect so you know we're just carrying the momentum from last fight to this fight and uh you know we're just carrying the momentum from last fight to this fight and uh you know we're just carrying the momentum from last fight to this fight and uh you know we're just carrying the momentum from last fight to this fight and uh you know we're have a responsibility as a champion to make sure that we come in the best shape and uh you know give the fans the best version of me possible so that's exactly what we did and uh we're already ready to go i wish the fight was literally tomorrow i'm ready to just get this done yeah connor how is that weigh-ins and all that stuff making way doing that how do you feel just this close to fight first this far from fight as well feels like there's a lot that has to happen nah all the hard work's done now all the hard work preparation is done now um as ryan said i wish the fight was this weekend um you know i was ready a few weeks ago you know so for me i'm excited to get in there and just do what i believe is written in the stars um you know he hasn't said i've been in this game for 10 years and and i'm excited for this one more than any other fire i'm more up for this fight than i have been for any other fight we like that i like to hear that a lot especially world championship fight connor has a question for you boys yeah speaking of written in the stars gentlemen for kind of both you you know combined you have 34 knockouts together is that something that you are studying with that tape film session is it something you're visualizing is it something that just comes naturally inside the ring during a certain round when is that kind of uh felt during a fight or is it something that you've already seen in your mind before it happened ryan we'll start with you ryan i think the natural process of the fight has to play out um obviously you could catch somebody with one shot and you know lay him out um there's different ways to knock him out but the natural process of the fight has to play out out um obviously you could catch somebody with one shot and you know lay him out um there's different ways to knock him out but the natural process of the fight has to play out um obviously you could catch somebody with one shot and you know lay him out um there's different ways to knock somebody out you know you can wear him out you could catch him with a clean shot then knock him out or you could just catch him with one shot and he could be out so um you kind of just you know you just go into the fight and ready for anything and then you know you see whatever's playing out but it's not too much thought until i gotta knock him out or this is the punch that's gonna do it it usually comes natural connor you have 14 knockouts so this question obviously goes to you as well are we planning on knockouts or they come natural like ryan garcia is saying they said when i see an opportunity i'm gonna take it that's without a doubt you know if you look at all my fights i can do 12 rounds at pace no problem you know my work ethic and discipline you can't it's unmatched um you know i do 12 rounds i do 10 rounds i've fired a year up at middleweight um drop back down even now to this fight you know doing 12 rounds easy you know i'm a 15 round fighter so you know if it does go points which me and my heart don't believe it does me to my core i don't believe it does that's what i believe i don't believe it does me to my core i don't believe it does that's what i believe and i prepared hard for a hard fight but i'm looking for the stoppage i'm gonna as soon as i see an opportunity in there um i'm gonna shoot my shot and when i shoot i don't miss ryan uh do you ever do virtual reality boxing i'm sorry do you ever do virtual reality boxing uh i did that for a youtube video once okay i do that is am i basically boxing or is it a little different uh no i mean you should be world champion if you're that good okay but i wanted you to know in there that ugly joe fat joe guy i'm looking for a knockout every time i like your guys's uh patience seemingly in the fight game which is why you're up for world championships tone has a question for you yeah i wanted to talk to you too about where the fight is being fought in las vegas nevada obviously ryan you fought there a bunch of times you know are you comfortable being there do you feel more comfortable being there and being from the us and and drawing on that crowd and then for connor i saw the last three i believe have been in tottenham you fought at wembley and at o2 when did you get over here and and how do you feel about the crowd and potentially being you know not the favorite what you have been as far as being in tottenham the last few fights i'll start with you there connor you're yeah if you're asking me first um a ring's a ring it doesn't concern me where it is uh you know a boxing ring's a boxing ring like it's just going to be me and ryan standing in there and i wouldn't say i've been the favorite in in all my fights um i wouldn't say that i've been uh yeah the favorite to win um some people have been cheering for my opponents does it make any difference no there could be mickey mouse or donald ducks in ringside fully locked in you're you're sort of you're dialed in you're you see the man who's trying to win the fight and you're like you see the man who's trying to take food off your table that's all i see you know it doesn't matter who who's cheering who's not cheering um if i'm the favorite if i'm not it's just me and him in there ryan obviously your fights are a spectacle every time i mean every single time you fight it's a spectacle as it should be that is uh good for the show how do you feel about vegas being the home of this fight and what you're expecting from t-mobile arena next weekend i mean fighting uh in vegas is the spot that um that you know i'm so excited to be in vegas i'm so excited to be in vegas i'm used to it it's one of the best places to fight in boxing and it's actually the mecca of boxing all the huge you know fights in the past have happened there or the recent past um and uh yeah i mean it's just gonna be like another day in the office like i'm just gonna beat the out of this dude i know we're talking all light but this dude is about to get his ass whooped like i know he's talking a good game the uk thing but he's just not good enough i mean he's getting black eyes and sparring i mean this is sad i mean this guy is uh he's dying out there he's a dead dead man walking look at him this dude looks like he's about to you know pass out right now in the sun this dude looks like handsome squidward a little bit you know this is going to be bad this ass whooping is going to be bad okay in there connor obviously i think you should have a chance to respond here to ryan garcia calling you squidward out here yeah but it's quick like it's handsome squidward different he's like it's like a it's like a child he's like a kid you know he said the same with rollie he said the same with um the other guy he lost too he's it's like you know what i'm thinking about hiring him as my sparring partner this guy might be my sparring partner after this he talks enough he talks enough as a sparring partner my god you're gonna get talking bro you're not at my level you are borderline above you're you're you're like an athletic amateur that's what you are like a like a fancy trash can this is what you are a fancy trash can you are like a very i'm gonna take out the trash from september 12th i'm gonna send your ass back to uk with a good check and hopefully your brain will still be intact that's all i care about and yeah on you go all right well connor ryan we can't wait to watch you boys in the ring at t-mobile arena next saturday we appreciate the hell out of you good luck boys thank you for the time yeah let's get one of these let's get one of these boys yeah oh yeah there you go right yeah all right ladies and gentlemen ryan garcia connor ahead yeah boys i like that yeah at the end go back and forth i like the ryan decided i'm done with this what are we doing here and then you laugh or the guy say knocked him out and then i asked a stupid virtual reality question but i just want to know for my own sake you know that guy's a world champ i've got to do it i'd like to hear if he likes it or not aj did we miss anything in there you think that you would have maybe hit on if we would have dropped you middle frame right there no it's okay not dropping me in middle frame i think they you guys did a great job asking the right stuff but it was fun to see ryan kind of freelance a little bit at the end and let his true feelings be known a little bit above amateur a fancy trash can yeah this guy i'm gonna take out the trash he was pumped when he thought of that yeah you could tell he was jacked up that he had that one handsome swedward this guy looks old he's falling asleep in the sun okay what else do we got here fancy trash can a little bit above amateur i like that he did that i can't wait to watch the fight yeah you're talking ryan garcia obviously be who you can afford to be we've watched him yeah just kind of everything a long time he's still so young but he has been around forever it's like zion williamson we're watching zion as like a 12 year old dunkin on kids in south carolina on the internet and then obviously we followed him his entire career it's like i was watching ryan garcia hit mitts and hit bags like insane holy hell i didn't know youngs could do that for most of his life now to kind of fulfill everything he had hoped he'd become his family hoped he'd become in the boxing world awesome because there were some times there where it didn't look like it was going to go that way it looked like it was going to go the complete opposite it's like oh no we saw a crash out story here as opposed to a success story for somebody who has an immense amount of talent and then ben his dad being in the fight game it's like he'll sit in there and actually go to like all right ryan you got great hands i'll eat them all and then we are here for 12 rounds let's see if you can do it again garcia talking about hey let's make this thing ugly i'm not like a super boxing expert but when they start just like tennis when stars when big names are doing their thing i want to watch them do their thing i'm excited for this next saturday yeah and the timing of boxing and fighting is always great for like the east coast people because this will be right after you know texas ohio state next saturday this fight will basically be kind of at least near the main event so it is kind of one of those perfect things and like you just mentioned the garcia story start to finish the suite uh connor benton looks so much like aj hawk that it's really really hard for me to not think that he's going to be able to outlast him yeah how's that head just yeah end up getting you don't think so looking at a mirror shovel see you ryan garcia has 20 knockouts yep ben has 14. that's a lot of knockouts between the two it's a lot of power congrats azufa getting another big one it feels like what are the odds only three losses between two of them and then ben's currently sitting at plus 275. ryan garcia minus 370 right there okay but a part of the ryan garcia lore is how young he looks how handsome he looks you know people think oh this kid hey yeah right he's an absolute killer and the the um the time square one shouldn't shouldn't count because that was the worst night of boxing anyone's ever seen in there i was there for that you gotta give it to roly romero great performance i think the firefighter had the best performance out of everybody yeah was that the least amount of punches thrown an entire night of boxing everybody gets guaranteed purses don't worry about it we're just kind of doing a spectacle here to showcase boxing all right you said everybody's getting paid yep all right sweet have some fun all right man what are you up to after this man this is crazy we're kind of in times square not like the dead center of it but yeah all right you're doing color commentary yeah sweet side i was trying to get into it too i was really going to dive into it i'm like all right i'm gonna learn stuff there's a lot of names here i'm gonna do this entire thing it's time square it's a big event i'm excited to do this get in there i was like whoa what's going on plum high school cafeteria we had four or five of these better than this every single day at lunch i mean i don't know what's going on here then they started telling me you can't get guaranteed purses before the fight i mean it's they started talking about the entire fight game and then now it's kind of changed what the fight game is going to become you know kazufa's getting involved and obviously that's causing rippling effects across there but i think they are trying to get boxing to become you know a unified operation hopefully because it's a great sport man yeah it's a lot of fun anytime you have a gladiator like uh competition or sport i think it is a uh beautiful thing i can't wait to watch those two we head to a digital time now uh we will uh turn on uh i don't know the music done i don't hear it here we go bills bills on the ones geez all right we'll try to be better tomorrow i thought it's gonna happen though be a friend tell a friend something nice might change your life goodbye and the thing was off two seconds appreciate it hey baby there you go even though bill snuck back there go go that clock's off to be clear of course of course of course i like that uh there has been some outages so that there is a chance that it is off yeah this generator game is kind of an interesting little game here kind of a funny little thing they've been cutting your power like consistently now well i don't know who who's been doing what cutting it ourselves yeah just did a couple generator conversations you know i feel like i know everything about them i you want natural gas one of you want to do one of those you want a diesel one you got a 60 got an 80 got a hundred sure what's the pool from it how much is the pool supposed because if you're not pulling enough and it's too big and you have uh too much power then sensors will obviously turn the generator off without you even knowing so you need a proper size generator because if you don't have a proper size then generator's kind of working against you you know because it doesn't think anything's happening it actually thinks it's leaking so it shuts itself down a little bit so we need to get the proper size generator okay so we're gonna drop you down the proper size generator should be perfect there should be uh operating at full efficiency you know this should be no problem at all obviously get smaller generator and it's not enough power so we lose power so that okay doesn't have enough power so obviously we need a new generator okay let's bring in another general ghost what we'll go size up generator we'll go size up generator here now this one should be good bang actually not not good at all need to go back to the original one that was potentially not getting enough pool okay because the the three prong insert of the power the middle one is actually getting way too much so this one's setting sensor off saying it's pulling too much and then it's multiplying it by three because there's three prongs but the middle one is just doing too much so we gotta dial that one down a little bit to properly spread it out through the three we need 33 33 33 as opposed to 82 okay yeah and then nine and nine okay that's not what we need around here three pulling is one bingo but one going too much jack's off the generator do your job be jacking off do your job don't worry about everyone else's job if you need to know about vessels i got some vessel conversation we can have too about transatlantic and trans-pacific vessels trying to make their way over here to the united states of america with the straight of her moves going on open or what well you're talking about straight up yeah i'll tell you what i've had to get a vessel that has to go around there you know so instead of a row row vessel which is roll on roll off vessel i've just gotten a cargo uh vessel that that's able to go around there but from my understanding with what we've been trying to do with a couple things we need to get shipped over here from other side of the globe that shredder moves has a lot of juice i saw we i don't know if it was true or not but i saw on the internet i saw satellite imagery that we may have trenched our own canal so we don't have to is that real i saw that well i'll tell you what if you can get through there i think that's a big deal just from my understanding but row row vessel that thing takes a long time because i got to roll these things off he might i didn't think about that maybe he is to blame that's a pretty big article there age i don't love it bro i don't love for what's going on especially because i know what that football team's all about okay whatever whatever happens is for the good of the the franchise the program and the school okay thank you for that aj state no longer the big game is going to be cold war because i think you guys are kind of making a bigger deal than it is really really pop up the whole lot i believe michigan had some issues with that as well i think your algorithm yes they certainly did we actually heard about who was the people that potentially turned them in there they're always aren't they uh-huh we've got to keep our actors active bunch yeah we've got to keep our eyes peeled warren never sleeps it's going in 24 7. if this goes in okay no more war no more war if it doesn't go in oh you know how states playing china okay that's a lot of pressure no more war yeah wow come on man which anthem you guys playing first at home games when we're raising that flag you know better they do the flag they come away it's a great presentation of the big american flag that they put up there and it's super american i don't know if they know what's going on somebody's gonna have to tell them what's going on down there this goes in the middle of the night no more war all right big here we go big throw here we go oh god just chunk it come on bro both ways there's a lot of people there for our country or any country just just in general yeah okay intergalactic as well no more war yeah intergalactic it's big i don't know if i got that this is just our universe this is a big ball this is a universe this is a big ball i don't know if i've ever had a bigger ball than this one right here you got this all right oh oh my god it's halfway down to every son of a i thought it was in the damage has been done i guess it's going to continue i don't like it trying to just wipe it i don't like it one bit don't i don't need live updates on what just happened it just turned from a football to a nuclear football no oh no country you never heard of doesn't exist anymore i don't like it and i'm done with it and i'm sorry and uh we'll try again after this break okay yeah we'll just probably never try that one again let's just hope we're still here oh you like war no it's just you know i'm trying to it's inevitable oh i hate it i am inevitable i didn't see jordan intercepts and this was up there yeah michael the country of jordan actually just got deleted no don't say that we would like world peace that's why i threw the book okay let's make sure that that when the story's told about that football not going into that hoop right over there and potentially ending all wars we'll get there one day i was hoping it was going in like that's what i was hoping for yeah what do you think there always has been war since the dawn of time humans i think mostly testosterone yeah that as well i think humans just have the capability to create friction you know male female relations also oh yeah the oldest helen of troy wars undefeated undefeated also i believe there's some religious aspects too about yeah absolutely you know what true the other side believes versus what we believe in land yeah improper border drawings i heard that but if kano wants to get something get some let's get to a break they don't i don't i think ontario was an okay name just because holmes that's how i remembered it yeah now that all right i saw another lake through another name possibly coming up i don't know if maybe you have to follow up and see if they don't change what is it now james or james no i won't go into i won't go further i know what ohio would name the lake now or lake beijing or something music's not playing music's for this thing has been running for two years i mean it's obviously bill don't don't listen to whatever they're telling you he's obviously no i'm saying that's not like it's not the normal track oh new track okay that was awesome this thing's been running for two years straight that's not working i don't know hey tim tim cook way to go good run i think he's out yeah he's stepping down right 1432 up or something since when you got it pretty good run how much did he make not like money-wise like products that oh you're saying like this is a saving divorce he gave us that code so you know and there's something that code is getting text to you and it just pops up you don't have to actually go back that was oh that was tim apple that was yeah that's pretty good okay so just just with that i think airpods a lot i think he there's a lot of that uh obviously being able to play apps while still surfing phone yeah i think that's a huge thing you can never figure out apple maps though maybe the next guy could do that apple apple maps is great airplay yeah car play from you guys who don't realize that apple what do you think google maps to be clear apple maps has led me to a point where i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it i don't even know what to say about it Ronald obviously signs back with the Rams. Stars seemingly out, but who in Australia to start the entire season, AJ? Yeah, so as far as George Carroll goes, if he's healthy, why wouldn't he play? Like, I understand there's a long flight, there's all this, but if he feels good enough to go, what's one extra week going to do? So I would hope he's on the field to come, you know, a week from whatever it is. Yeah, we certainly hope the same, and I think it was his goal, and he's a machine, you know, he is an absolute machine. No brace. His facility has no brace. He looks like he's very comfortable. GM John Lynch, this is from Matt Maioco, who doesn't have a blue check mark. I like it, man. GM John Lynch said on KNBR that George Kittle has absolutely crushed all of the objective measures coming off mid-January surgery to repair a torn Achilles. He comes from the Dr. Eletros Achilles factory, if you do recall, and we got good news last week or the week before from Dr. Eletros. So George Kittle seemingly back in a big way. Congrats to him. Recovery's not easy. Rehab's not easy. Going through an injury's not easy. You can feel isolated. You can feel alone. You can kind of get in your own head a little bit. Here's Malik Neighbors talking about the highlights that we've seen of him coming out of practice recently as he's been upgraded to seemingly active for the New York Giants. We're watching these clips, him cutting, jumping, running, catching, looking unbelievable. Maybe Malik Neighbors is 100% back. Here's him talking about it yesterday after Jordan Renan asked him if the Super Bowl was tomorrow, would you play in it? The outside view, you know, I might look like I'm 100%. I make everything look good. I mean, you know, sometimes I run routes and now I go look on the internet and I'm like, dang, I was moving kind of crazy. But, you know, when you're in your body and you're in it, you know, you still have some things that you still got to work on as, you know, a football player that you got to be like, you know, I'm not, I don't feel right doing this because I don't feel right. I haven't been hit. I haven't seen this. So there's certain things that you just got to, as a football player, you got to mentally prepare that before you go into a game. And then, you know, everybody's just seeing you. So if you make a mistake, it's all broadcast. So nobody really knows. So it's like, I want to be able to come out there and make no mistakes and just be able to fly around and do what I do. So I got to still, you know, I'm getting there for sure. I got to be in my body, which is nowhere near as athletic as Malik Daver's body. But I do have a friend who's super duper athletic. Dee, but what the hell was he saying there? Because it looks like he looks really good. What is he saying from his point of view? Yeah, like you said, from the outside looking in, it's going to look great. But it's that mental hurdle, that final mental hurdle, because we always talk about you can do the workouts, you can run the routes, you can do everything to semi. Like football. But until you're actually playing football, that's the difference. So for a wide receiver, that means blocking, obviously catching the football. But even right here, you're going to go to the ground at some point. If he catches 90 balls, you know, 75 of them, he'll be tackled on at the end of the play at least. So that physical part and just, I mean, feeling 100%, you never really can really cross that hurdle until you actually do. Yeah, you know, it was the coast until you actually do it in a real game. In practice, nobody's touching number one. You know, you're not putting them out there in preseason. It's going to be out there when the real bullets are firing. And those people across from you, they don't care about your health. They're trying to get you on the ground by any means necessary. So it's that mental hurdle. And we talk about it all the time. When you're rehabbing, you know, for fans on the outside, it's just, hey, it's four to six weeks, it's six to eight months, it's whatever it is. But for that player, like that's every day, that's every hour. And you're used to being this, you know, somewhat superhuman. And now you sit down, you're on the shelf. So, you know, coaches, people start looking at you different when you're walking through the hallways, you know, that support system. At home, it's very, very important. The things that you're dealing with in your personal life, you don't have that same escape as you used to have when you hit that football field and nothing else matters. So it's a lot of things going on. So I'll be happy to just see Malik Nabors back on that football field. I'm sure anybody associated with Giants Nation feels the same. And remember, he had to get a follow-up procedure to clean off some scar tissue because he had some stiffness and everything like that. Obviously, it's not abnormal for that surgery to happen. But for somebody as athletic as Malik Nabors, people being like, well, he's nowhere near smooth or fluid right now. That's bad news. He heard that as well. He had to sign back up for another recovery and for another rehab after the second procedure, even if it's just scar tissue, which is the most painful part of it all. I appreciate him being as transparent as he is, but he looks like he's all the way back, AJ. That's what I'm seeing from Malik Nabors. I can't wait to watch it. Yeah, watching him run routes, it's fun to watch how quick this guy can get in and out of breaks and how he can move. But I'm sure, yeah, I do appreciate how honest he is. But it's true. You know how many weird positions that your body gets contorted through the course of a game, whether you're blocking somebody. That said, you're going to the ground. There's just so many different angles that you're getting hit from and you're carrying guys' weight. It's a different thing, but I think he's going to be fine. Has he played against anybody other than the Indianapolis Colts? He had 171 out of two touchdowns against Colts. Yeah, I'm seeing a lot. Let's keep to the practice highlights. That's what we're talking about right now. Anyways, we don't need to see him running wild against the Indianapolis Colts. It's the dawning of a new day here in Indianapolis. And hopefully for Malik Nabors, we get a trip back in time to what he was, maybe even better, stronger, with a different perspective. Shout to him working his way seemingly all the way back. Let's talk about the Detroit Lions in the back end. D-butt, two safeties, gone. Already, Kirby Joseph, Brian Branch, four weeks at least out for the Detroit Lions. Last year, the story of the Detroit Lions was how injured they were. They were just super-duper hurt. The year before that feels like super-duper hurt. Feels like the Lions get injured a lot. Now they're starting the season this way with two very key components of their defensive back. Can you tell me about this Lions defense without these guys? And what is Shepard supposed to do if you don't have any? Guys that can play football. I mean, you definitely got to adjust, but you need talent. You know, you can be as great as a coach as you want to be. If you don't have the guys, it doesn't really matter. And those guys up there in that graphic, healthy, probably the best safety duo in the National Football League. Kirby Joseph, one of the best deep ball safeties in the league. And then Brian Branch is one of those safeties that can do anything. He can play against the run. He can play man coverage on running backs, tight ends, wide receivers. And he's a communicator. He can blitz as well. So not having those guys on the field are huge, a detriment to that defense, especially not having top flight corners on the outside either. They do have, I think, a pretty solid pass rush, but you need the guys in the back end. You need all 11. So these are two huge missing pieces. I believe the starters are Maddox, who used to be a corner. And Chuck Clark. And Chuck Clark, who's played a ton of balls. So he's going to have people lined up and be in the right places. And they have somewhat of a favorable schedule. So hopefully these guys can get healthy sooner than later. Because like I said, when they're healthy and they're, they're actually on the field, these are two superstars. Can't wait for the Detroit Lions to make it back to the playoffs. Here we go, Lions. Is that a playoff victory? Is that what we're hoping for again? Or is it Superbowl or bust for the Detroit Lions fans? Yeah. From here on out in my lifetime, it'll be 12 and five and a Superbowl win 10 and six, 10 and seven and a playoff win is dead because they've accomplished that. So here's something weird though. So Kirby Joseph has, has that rogue knee injury. I don't know what's going on with him. I don't expect him to play maybe the whole season, maybe ever again. It's been really weird. Now, let me get to Brian branch though. Brian branch tore his Achilles three days before Daniel Jones, Daniel Jones is obviously playing. And then I just see that George Kittle news. His was mid January when he got surgery. And I'm kind of sitting here wondering like, why isn't Brian branch playing yet? Maybe he's not all the way there yet. Also defensive back different position. But obviously if you look at this schedule, those first four games, we have to go three in one here. If we can go three in one and then get Brian branch back, I'm okay with this. But, but that's a little concerning on that end. Uh, let's, let's pivot away from poo poo lions. That sounds bad. And I said that you didn't deserve it. I like the lines. Yeah, I know. I like the lines. September don't fucking matter. And it's North is tough. And I've seen North's going to be tough, but maybe the lines are all the way back. We believe in MCDC, right? Yes, sir. I believe in Jared golf, right? If you can protect them a thousand percent. Okay. So we still believe in the lines losing or starting safeties to start season. Definitely not fun. I mean, sir, those weapons on office. Oh, yeah. They can protect the wide receiver duo. You got to be Gibbs. Who's number one, overall fantasy pick. Most likely the port of he's healthy. I mean, fantasy season. I got a big draft tomorrow. Huge draft. Is this your first time doing fantasy? This is going to be my first time taking a series. Really? So probably do we have a huge draft tomorrow? Yeah, we have a huge office draft tomorrow. 17 team league. Never been done before by anyone in the history of ball. Yeah. What is the normal amount of team? 10, 12, 14. If you're fucking asshole. So talent's really spreading thin here. Yeah. Yeah. For Thunderdome fantasy. It's going to be tough. Might just text AQ and tell him kick rocks, buddy. Sorry. I don't know. We're going to do 16. How about this? I won't do a team either. You already fucking backed out. What? I already I was never really fucking pissed some people off right now that I was never in because I knew you guys from 18 to 17. No, I knew you guys had too many teams. Not good for the league. It's not good for fantasy football as I can drop out if you need me to. And you drop out. That's a legend. Thank you for doing. These guys see these quarters. Okay, boys. This is what losing fantasy football looks like. Just so everyone can take this back. I think the loser fantasy football looks like the person that has to do the thing after they lose fantasy football. We don't do that around here. Is there any punishment? No, we're not. We need a zany punishment. We're not doing any of that shit. I think you guys need to wear some sort of sign that says something in some public place. Zany punishment is for a year. Everyone tells you how much you suck and don't know ball for an entire year. That's your zany punishment. Because you lost to fantasy football. Bingo. I like that. So what's the sweet spot for teams? I mean, look, in 17, it's kind of who fucking knows. 17 is wow. Yeah, that's why I'm helping. I'm trying to help out. You guys call me losers and stuff. I'm just letting you know that there's no way I was going to pay attention to that. If we did 18, we could do a guillotine league. That's pretty sweet. What's that? That's where every single week, well, you have a team. And every week, the lowest person that scores the least amount of points gets eliminated. I'm in. And then you go, boom, boom. - I mean, now-- - Kosey, that shit fucking sucks. And you're just trying to lose week one, so then you fucking participated, and then you're still in it. We're doing a normal fucking 17-team league. Can we do a survivor fantasy? We can do a survivor pool. That'd be fun. I'd do that around here. No, this sounded really cool. Guillotine. No, that's some dumb, stupid gimmick they do up in Michigan that no one fucking does, and it's stupid. No, because we can make a graphic. Yeah, we can do that with the Guillotine League. That's fun. The survivor pool. That's super fun. Yeah, that's what the Guillotine, that's what it'll be. No, Guillotine League is just stupid fucking things. It's just picking a winner? It's just you pick one team. You can only pick a team once the entire year, so you can't pick the Rams every week, but you can pick them week one, and if they win, then you move on to week two. Gotcha. Right? A fantasy Guillotine League is a football contest where the low-scoring team is eliminated every single week until there's only one surviving team. I think that's awesome. Don't read. It's a blast. This shit sucks. You're just trying to do it so you can pick all the stupid fucking worst players, and then you can say you participated after your team scores 10 points. 10 points in week one. No, I want to win. Survivor pool, we should think about doing. That'd be fun. Doc Amell has also entered two teams in our fantasy league. Oh, so we don't have 17? No. So it's 16 teams. No, it sounds like it's 15, because AJ's out too, right? That'd be great news. Wait, AJ, you're out? Maybe talk's out for doing that, to be honest. Willing to drop out if needed, if there's too much. Hey, Joe, what the hell? I don't want to be a person. Sometimes the adults in the room have to say, listen, it's not good for a league for me to do this, so I'm going to drop out. I think the losers should have to teach Mitt and talk algebra. And they have to get one equation right by the end of the day. Okay, yeah. No, there's no time limit on that. Okay. I think you got to get, you present a question or an equation. Sure. And balance the equation. They got to get this right. Them, only them. No phone, no calculator, no nothing. That's not bad. That might be a 72 hour, that might be a three sleep. Maybe. Mitt said, I'll teach you algebra, fuck you. I'm sure he did. I will say talk. A-C-T guy. Talk's unbelievable at 50. I can see football. It drives me fucking nuts. Really? I can see that. I would think he's unbelievable at algebra. Because he's on nothing. I'm not going to say that. Because he's on the piss again, lad. It could have been any way that could have went. There's like five different answers that we all had in our head as soon as you started that sentence. All right, let's get the hell out of here, shall we? We're back tomorrow. Very lucky and thankful to do this for a living. We're so close to full throttle football. A week from tomorrow. Tomorrow, during the show, we got a week. Pretty fucking cool. It is pretty cool. We're going to have a fucking draft tomorrow. Let alone game day this weekend. Big draft. All right. Big draft. Yeah, we do. I wish I could ask Shefty about his fucking cheat sheet yesterday. Call him. Call him. Call Shefty. Shefty sucks at fantasy football. Does he? He's never won. He's never won. Who's good? He's always in it, though. Yeah, who's good? Vanderfield Yates is a pretty good player. Yeah, the greatest player in the history. Pretty formidable. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry. He's actually okay. What? Well, we actually had him on. He's the one who created fantasy football. And I was. I was thinking about it, much like you're doing right now. I see the hole I'm in on fantasy football. All the. I like what you're doing. I really respect it. I've been there before a couple times. And the first time when I was really trying to do it. Exactly. So you understand what I'm about to say? So we had Matthew Barry on. The guy created fantasy football, basically. From my understanding. Yeah, he did. This guy created fantasy football. Mr. Roto. So he comes on the show. And I go, so who should I draft? Tone cuts him off. You don't draft that. I think you need to draft. And I'm like, Tone, listen. I understand you like fantasy football. We got the guys. We got the guys. We got a fucking creator right now on here. Barry couldn't spit it out. And then Tone said, let's just see how the season goes. And I believe the lads did kind of beat Matthew Barry. So I think we do have some like fantasy football. Like real. Like I think Tone and Connor really love it. And it sounds like talk as well. Love it. He's all in on it. Mitt, I'd assume, will be a dialed in fantasy footballer somehow, some way. So I think what you guys are getting into in the guillotine league. The guys who really like it. They don't want to get it, you know, maybe early exit. Because they're guys. I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about people not fucking trying on purposely losing every single week to get out of the league. We don't like time. I'm worried about you week one. Him week two. Some other fucking dickhead in here who forgets to set their lineup week three. I'm worried about that. I'm going to have the Colts. Okay, so just know that if the Colts have a good first week, we're going to survive. If they have a bad first week, I'm gone. They got the Ravens at home, so. Bingo. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Yeah. You start looking at that Colts schedule. You start looking around like, oh, fuck. What do you mean? You got some great fans. I'm just glad you got the Seahawks out there. Out west. I do like the NFC Seahawks. Wednesday, September 9th, 820 p.m. Patriots Seahawks. Seahawks favored by three and a half. A rematch of the Super Bowl. I like the fireworks because this thing's alive. McDonald, Vrabel, 2.0. Donald, Drake, May. Over under 44. Four and a half. Can't wait. We are so close to the NFL season kicking off, Tone Diggs. Yeah, we are. I mean, this is just absolutely beautiful. You were busting out of your seat to see something. I was trying to look and see who was on the graphic, to be honest. Just unbelievable. Did you see anything that it really – because you almost jumped out of your seat to kind of look at it. And also, remember, there's a TV right above your head right there. Glare at this angle. Can't even see it. Oh, so tie with no real good. Good vision. Can't see anything from that particular seat. No, no. He only survives when it's that situation. Okay, when it goes on the back. Amazing. But, no, I'm excited to see what kind of adjustments are made because, honestly, the Seahawks kind of had their way in this one. Yes, Will Campbell was hurt. The Patriots' O-line was all sorts of banged up, going against one of the best D-lines in the entire NFL. I'm excited to see the new Seahawks looking secondary. They did lose some pieces out of there. That's kind of the one question mark I have for the Seahawks team moving into this future. Patriots had A.J. Brown, obviously. Yeah, Romeo Dunn. Hey, Romeo. It should be a little bit different for Josh McDaniels, who now has a great relationship with Drake May. Not that he didn't at the beginning, but after you go through a season, especially a Super Bowl losing season, which is heartbreak city because you made it all the way to the end. Will we ever get here again? Who knows? Obviously, I've had an incredible opportunity to be in a locker room after a Super Bowl loss, and I call it an incredible opportunity because we played in the Super Bowl. It's hard to get to the Super Bowl, but that locker room was bummed out because everybody in there understood, like, it's hard to get here. You've got to get lucky. You've got to have so many things go your way. You've got to have a schedule. Potentially, that sets up for you to have your best performances against your best teams while being healthy. So, hard to get to the Super Bowl, Super Bowl rematch. Will we ever see another dynasty like we saw at the Patriots? We thought we were going to do it with the Chiefs. Thought we were going to do it with the Chiefs. Are the Seattle Seahawks potentially thinking, excuse me, we are still what everybody thinks we can be? How about the Rams? Would this still count as the Sean McVay era? Yeah. It's the Sean McVay era. What, the dynasty-wise, I don't think. I don't think so. Just because it's, what, five years removed? That's what I'm saying. Would this still count? Like, if they- McVay era, but I don't know if you would do- It would go towards McVay's career, but not- Chiefs, I would say, are still in it because with that whole Pats, they did three years, ten years of nothing, three more years. So, I think the Chiefs are still very much in that, hey, even if they take two or three or four more years off, but then win again, it's just Andy Reid's so old. Like, Andy Reid is as old as Belichick was when he was- When he was down in New England. Yeah, but Andy Reid's doing football. Doesn't look like it. That's true. Doesn't act like it. I think I asked him at a wedding I was at, I said, how come they want you to retire every year? He goes, I don't know. They always say it. I don't. I love football, man. He's like, hey, what am I going to do if I don't coach football? It's like Bill Belichick. How long is he going to be at UNC? It's like, well, if they have success, I mean, until he dies? I don't know. What do you- I don't know how you judge that. Tom Moore, we mention this often. He's still coaching for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He's in there 4 a.m. every single day still. He's, what, 100 years old? Yeah. 200 years, 105 years old. Has spent every single day, basically, in a football locker room since he's 18. Unbelievable. Guys are committed to the ball. 87 years old, coaching legend. Tom Moore played for Iowa and began his coaching career with the Hawkeyes in 1961. Oh, my God. Joe Paul was 84 when he was done at Penn State. Now, he probably should have retired a couple years earlier, but- And then he passed away shortly. And then he passed away shortly after. Yeah. And he's only 68. Yeah. So, ball is happening for these guys for a long time. Somewhere or another. Maybe in that arena league that we watch with the Arkansas Diamondbacks. Yeah. That mall. Where they're mausing. Where they're absolutely mausing people. Hey, tomorrow's a huge day before we get out of here. Have to talk about this because we think it's a very cool idea. It's called DraftKings Game Day. Okay? DK Game Day. Do we think it should have potentially been DK Day? Potentially. Potentially. But the reason why it's game day is because you've got- Tune in throughout the day, and there's different things that are going to be offered up. Now, we don't know the exact specifics of the offers that are going to be up, but they're going to be at different times. So, if you hop on DraftKings at, like, let's say tomorrow morning, 7 a.m., 8 a.m., there's going to be a special happening at that exact time. Then, you know, that thing might drop off at, like, 9 a.m. or 8.30 a.m., and then another one's going to come, and another one's going to come, then another, and then there's going to be multiple going, and then there's another one, there's another one, all the way through the day. Yeah. So, there's chances to get a lot of different boosts and a lot of different favorable odds, tomorrow, all day, throughout a variety of different sports and also styles of bets. So, DraftKings is giving away the house tomorrow. Let's go take advantage of it. It feels like throughout tomorrow, DraftKings is giving away a lot. Now, we haven't been told the exacts, because I guess if we're told the exacts, there's a chance that, you know, disclaimer language has to be blah, blah, blah. We shouldn't say it. But we've just been told very ridiculous odds boosts going across the board, across all, throughout different times throughout the day. So, DK Day tomorrow. D.K., game day happening tomorrow. uh deals all day boosts i believe opt-ins i believe there's different odds and spreads potentially happen i mean tomorrow is going to be huge day on draft case for us to kind of take advantage of the best sports book on earth that is kind of what tomorrow is i mean just look how cool kevin hart and the old joe bro look in this picture kidding me well they're going on a road trip to all 50 states because uh draft king is available in all 50 states as you know i'd like to have a nice little uh gopro in that with that car if they're driving around all 50 states and visiting every one of them funny you say that we actually have the audio of what it sounds like in a car with kevin hart and said nick jonas joe bro now that draft kings is available in all 50 states we can finally go on that road trip we've always talked about yes we can see take rushing yards with my own rush morning but the hot takes fly in philly oh shoot sorry buzzer beater in boston call it from austin even the new yorkers who live in miami can make this they call us snowbirds they do talking game game sport to sport moment the moment from sea to shining sea there's your gopro let's go age they're in there they cover all 50 states in that video yes uh-huh well no no i think only a few they're still on the road i think right now yeah i did see on instagram that kevin hart's back in a comedy cellar working up a new hour so i don't know if he's in car and they're driving it there and he's back in car i had a golf youtube page now too yeah it's good news that kevin hart's in there working another hour there i cannot wait to see him back on the road i've been to a few of his shows i'm a i'm a he's a spectacle everything has he even mocks the spectacle sometimes i think about what i just did like the amount of money he is super talent and then joe bros anytime they get in the studio come on now and tomorrow all day all day all day tomorrow we're taking advantage of dk here to the grind all day take advantage of dk those are the grindstone and if you're of age i hope you'll join us on the best sports book on earth and uh please be responsible can't stress this enough if you're an asshole you ruin it for all of us you're not going to become a bazillionaire gambling on sports now dk is going to give you the best odds yes they are and give you the best opportunity and have the best app for the amount and tomorrow they're giving away a lot of shit throughout the entire day that we should be definitely taking advantage of i might be irresponsible be you're going to be irresponsible about the amount of advantages you're going to take of draftings tomorrow that's actually how irresponsible you are doing that is actually you being responsible yeah that's we would argue that's responsible taking advantage of dk who's trying to give away the house tomorrow there we go i think that's responsible of us irresponsible of us to make a pick on draft kings and think definitely let me go ahead and see what this is so we need people to be responsible all 50 states but we also need to understand that you need to be realistic realistic probably going to lose uh follow up nobody knows the outcomes of games that's why games happen uh we have no idea how anybody's going to play there's certainly some misfortune but it is nice to have a little bit of sauce on the game it is nice to feel a little some idea it's nice to get that green crown kind of pop up there into my activity so we're asking you to be responsible and we're asking you to join us if you are a part of there was a glitch i guess right there kind of caught me off guard all of a sudden staring down the camera but be responsible if you're going to join us on dk but come join us on dk draft kings game day i mean week one tar heels one was 10 point dogs so that was sitting right there anything can happen we'll be back tomorrow that's definitely gonna happen on dk game day yeah yeah oh yeah big day it's been fun this week getting back into the studying of everything that needs to be studied yeah it's gonna be a big football season huge huge football season a lot happening and i think uh i think grape jams are about to be available tomorrow everywhere let's go friends have nice might change your life we're in this thing together uh tomorrow should be a fun day we can't thank all of you enough for allowing us to do this for a living ty we love you nick we love you we'll see you boys soon uh team on me team on three for the good of sport baby one two three team goodbye this episode is brought to you by chat gpt hey it's bill simmons from the bill simmons podcast have you guys heard about chat gpt work it's the new way to use chat gpt for bigger multi-step projects and when you need more than just answers give chat gpt work access to your apps and files and it can create real work documents like spreadsheets slides and structured reports get started at chat gpt.com by selecting work 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