PMS 2.0 1617 College Football Thursday - Lainey Wilson, Nick Saban, Shams Charania, Chase Daniel, Kayvon Thibodeaux

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the DraftKings Thunderdome. On this College Football Thursday, September 3rd, 2026, this sports program begins now. Football! You know, it's a little bit of a thin Thunderdome today as we celebrate College Football Week 1 kicking off in a massive way tonight on ESPN, as Colorado and Coach Prime travel down to Atlanta to take on Coach Key in Georgia Tech in Week 1 action that could potentially tell a story for the rest of the season, especially down there in the ACC. Georgia Tech, they lose Haynes King. Obviously, he's a superstar. We appreciated what he did for our boost and our pick in that Hall of Fame game in the fourth quarter where he was running wild, just like he did for Georgia Tech. So it's kind of a new era at Georgia Tech, and this is the Alberto Mendoza era. Yes, Fernando's little brother got some time in the Big Ten Championship whenever Fernando, in his words, got cracked. No pause from Caden Curry. Alberto Mendoza got some reps in there. Now, Alberto Mendoza transfers from Indiana down to Georgia Tech. He'll be the quarterback this evening, and I'll tell you, I think he's a player. I think if he's anything like Fernando, he's obviously a little bit shorter, but I think he's very athletic. I think he's going to be good for this Georgia Tech team. And I also know the running back, Justice Haynes, 10 touchdowns, 7 games for Michigan last year. Damn. Okay, got hurt. He's gone. He transfers from Michigan to Georgia Tech. His dad, Veron Haynes. Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl champ. Five-star recruit out of Alpharetta, Georgia. Okay, goes to Alabama first, then he goes to Michigan. Now he's back in Georgia at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. It's like, I don't know. I've been seeing – I love Coach Prime. Maybe more than anybody else has a microphone in front of him because of how much he inspired me to be who I am as athlete and person. You know, there's a couple people in there that I grew up watching that I'm a huge fan of. I mean, Deion made everything awesome on the microphone, on the field, on the football field, on the baseball field. Then whenever he got into social media, like his words, his – everything. I am a huge Coach Prime fan. I haven't seen a lot of videos coming out of camp this year that are telling me that they're going to be able to tackle any of these guys. No. And it's a six-and-a-half point game is what DraftKings is saying down there in Atlanta. I believe last year they would not have covered if this was the spread, and they obviously had a Haynes King as their quarterback, so maybe that's what the sportsbooks are thinking. For me, though, I'm pretty up on this Georgia Tech team. Not that I'm down on Colorado. But I am up on Georgia Tech, so we'll see how that goes this evening. They're not the only game. Missouri's playing tonight. Can't wait to dive into it. We'll have Chase Daniel joining us in here in a matter of a few, I believe. He's on the call tonight for the Georgia Tech-Colorado game. Then we got Idaho and Utah. Utah always in the conversation late for the Big 12. Idaho, though, hey, don't be sleeping on the potatoes. Good program. Okay, they go wild potentially. So we got some, you know, potential implications. It's long-term starting this evening, and obviously we kick off college football week one. That is going to be so outrageous. I cannot wait to get down to Baton Rouge. We'll be down there tomorrow getting ready for college game day's 500th road show. And right now there is a court case happening in Baton Rouge. From our source, Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, Greg Sankey, is at this court appearance. Alongside the SEC lawyers in there, obviously, to fight for the football. The fact that anybody that signed up for a professional team and tried out and played for a professional team is not allowed to come back to college because of the 5-for-5 injunction. This particular class across the board of football, and then I believe there's some soccer and softball players that potentially missed the 5-for-5 injunction. They said they wanted to go pro. Then they found out that they could potentially redraw or withdraw that to go back to college because of a couple injunctions in courts around the country. So Baton Rouge, Louisiana is in the middle of the story. Because the injunction basically got a few football players back on the LSU Tigers there with Lane Kiffin. Very late, obviously very loud. Pete Dammel has been sending us photos. No cameras or recording devices allowed in the courtroom. Good. But he did send a photo of the sign to outside of the courtroom. So, like, we're not able to get into the courtroom. But we can see that, boom. It's that way. Courtroom is this, right here. It's going right down here. No, sorry. Right down here. Courtroom is that way. So right down that hallway there, Sankey's there. Stone cold Greg Sankey walks in there. Push. Bam, bam, bam. In there, in Baton Rouge, fighting against an LSU injunction, basically, in LSU's town, standing up for potentially the future of all college sports. Now, state judge and everything like that holds a lot of power and has held a lot of power for a long time in college sports as a whole. The NCAA was very scared to kind of regulate anything because they would get sued. It would end up one of these courts they would lose. So they decided that they don't have enough time to get sued on things. So they decided the only thing they could really regulate is, like, text messages in times where you're not allowed to text, the old school rules. Cheeseburgers are not allowed to be had at this particular time. But all of the money stuff, the employee stuff, the labor stuff, they weren't able to touch because inevitably they'd get sued and they wouldn't be able to win. So that's why you saw eight, nine years, potentially, of people playing college football. Throughout the COVID stuff, you've seen, obviously, a potential gambling on your own sport case get passed through. So there's really been no regulation by anybody because everybody's been scared to get sued and lose, NCAA in particular. Then the Big 12 situation happens with Sorsby at Texas Tech. Yourmark, commissioner of the Big 12, kind of comes out and says, we ain't doing it. Not in our conference. Not in any of our towns is that allowed. Like a publicly bullying situation happens where all the teams, all signed a vote, said, hey, we all agree that this is not allowed. They're going to potentially pull games, maybe suspend if that happens. Then inevitably Sorsby and Texas Tech go their separate ways. Texas Tech now moving on with a different quarterback. Sorsby has to wait until next draft to get into the NFL. So there's been some regulation by a commissioner before, but it's never been somebody going into the courthouse and saying this is what it is. And if they win, that potentially sets precedent for every other commissioner to maybe regulate their own conferences. So there's a lot on the line, and obviously it's all happening in Baton Rouge. Cannot wait to get down there. The Talks of the Table is here at Boston Connor and at Tone Diggs. AP Tone, good to see you. Great to be here. Fantastic cowboy hat. Thank you. Hot hat. Tonight, six and a half point spread for the Colorado-Georgia Tech game. What are the spreads looking like for the first week of college ball? A lot of huge ones. A lot of very large spreads. A lot of blowouts potentially. But somebody's going to get got, right? Don't we think there's a chance somebody gets got out here? Yeah, I think someone will get got. It happens every single year. But when you look at a ton, a ton, a ton of huge spreads, the games that aren't big spreads, you know, are your FBS on FBS situations. Baylor-Auburn, we're looking at up there. UCLA and Cal, Ole Miss and Louisville, like SMU and Florida State. Those are some of the shorter ones. And obviously tonight, Colorado and Georgia Tech. But there's a lot of big spreads out there. There's a lot of turnover in college football. Obviously, season to season. So when you're looking at these, you know, be careful. Because the team that you bet on last year, is not the same team as this year. So maybe, you know, I don't want to say treat it as like a preseason. But maybe don't put your max units on these week one games unless you have a really good feel. Maybe let's see these teams for a couple of weeks before we really, really get deep into weeks. Yeah, because I think there's a chance that some coaches don't even know who their teams are. Exactly. Joining us now live from an attic in Ohio is a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk! Hawk! Yeah, college football week one. A.J., let's go! Yeah! Yeah, I mean, do you think there's any other sport or level to where coaches really aren't sure what they're going to get week one more than NCAA college football right now? I think at some place, Oklahoma State has 91 new players. Damn. 91. That's the record. That's like you're starting over from scratch, basically. That's like, hey, we just started a football team. A lot of people reference Prime whenever he went to Colorado. Remember the luggage line he's bringing his own? I think it was like 80-some transfers, like 83 or something like that. They're up over 90. So from North Texas, coach transfers in. I think he brings a lot of his guys. Obviously, a lot of Oklahoma State people leave, but 91 new players in the locker room. I mean, if you want to rebuild a culture, change a culture immediately, you can do that just by bringing a bunch of people who have no idea what the place is, have no idea how to get to a restaurant, have no idea to get gas, have no idea where to eat, have no idea where the weight room is. But hell yeah, we're here to win some football games. It's really hitting a restart button. That you could have never done in the past. Because it used to be, if you take a guy's scholarship, like you're never going to get a recruit from that entire city ever again because it was such a bad thing. Now it's like, hey, you know, there's a portal waiting on you. I think, you know. And then it's 91 new guys are coming in. We would like to replace this whole place. Think about the 14 guys, right? Because 105 on the roster. 14 guys are like, we are kind of the, we're the whole crowd out here. We understand what it used to be like. There's not a lot of us left anymore. Obviously we're running us out of town, but we are still here. College football is the most chaotic, awesome thing that's absolutely going. And AJ, this weekend, the first college game day of the season, the 500th road show for the institution that is the phenomenal college game day show, live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the epicenter of all the buzz of college sports as a whole right now. And at the end of every single college game day is the picks. and there's good picks and there's bad picks but there's always a celebrity guest picker it is our honor to say that the celebrity guest picker for the 500th road show in baton rouge louisiana to kick off the biggest and best season yet ladies and gentlemen none other than pat a grammy award winning what grand old opera remember having what football wife why ladies and gentlemen laney wilson i like that intro appreciate that pat hey not bad you know i'm just trying to keep up with you out here you know you and uh duck have been inspiring me because i'm thinking uh always every time i leave my house i go you know what this is for it's for you know you and uh duck have been inspiring me because i'm thinking uh always every time i leave jesus is for jones it's for mom okay and then i got my phone keys my wallet and then duck right that's where we're pointing guys is that what it is hey you know what i think you might know the dance better than he does i've been watching him fail for a couple months at this entire thing but we do love the way he played football and we love the way you two operate and i love the fact that you're our first celebrity guest picker of the year i love that you know ball and i love that you love louisiana can you tell me a little bit about this and what your kind of thoughts heading into saturday morning are well i'm fired up first of all i'm just fired up to go back home that i cannot tell you the amount of fun that i have had at lsu football games so we are planning on just letting it all hang out because that's what louisiana folks like to do so i'm just i'm fired up i mean it's just it's it's a good time of the year you know i mean it's just speaking of good times dude that song laney hey don't be saying that they're gonna kill you for saying that it might be okay well i just want to say i've been jamming out this morning and that is one of my favorite ones on the record i'm not gonna lie to you okay okay okay all right let's keep it hold up there's another one i gotta say i know we're getting off topic but i love oops too okay all right hold on okay thank you miss laney grammy award winner grand old opera man okay let's move along okay let's not talk about that okay this is about you and game day having an incredible start to the season because let's talk about the the musical i think we're going to get some performances by laney wilson i think we're going on saturday as well is that accurate you are but i can't tell you what they are because that's going to be a little surprise hey listen just know that i'll have the uh jesus uh jones mom phone keys wanting you if you need it uh aj has a question for you about saturday yeah laney are you anxious at all about making all the picks obviously you got to pick more than just the the big game that you will be uh on premises for but like yeah what's your process like i would assume duck is helping you out a little bit duck is helping me out i've been doing my studying i've i have been um honestly i've been like pulling up some stats i was with duck and hardy last night and they were giving me some of their opinions so i'm doing my research i'm gonna have my own my own thoughts and my own picks but i am doing my research okay miss laney you need to know you can write notes definitely write notes we all have them okay we all have i can bring my journal yes obviously not too much because you're just going to want to look down and like little reminders but don't think that you shouldn't have a journal because you're just going to want to have some sort of notes up there we all will have them so like i think that's money yeah okay good good good because there's some of those games where there's actually 91 new players on the team so like trying to remember everything that you would want like we're not even able to do that at this point of the season so okay don't be scared to take your notes up there you will not look like you don't know what you're talking about and i think you need to know whatever pick you make the right one it's the right one my god that's how that's how i do most things in life whether it comes to writing me down i'm not going to do that i'm not going to do that i'm not going tell me about music right now where are we are we writing right now we're recording we're touring what do you got going on we're doing it all we just got finished with a chris stapleton tour which was so much fun um i mean there's just nobody like chris stapleton and uh we've been doing lots of fairs and festivals this year and we are just getting fired up for the next chapter i'm ready to turn the page and we're about to be turning the page i like that it's turning the page let's go to the next page of the book which has obviously been incredible alongside duck we appreciate how much you love duck we want to let you know that like because we we are very appreciative we think duck's one of the most hilarious professional athletes in the history he's a hoot yeah not only his his career with the steelers was like very success very good times great time like baby and you know what pat i was not around for that time so this is all this is his youtube page we'll get i'm like okay i just i need proof yes i love to hear that oh that is incredible that that's the way you talk to duck you just grammy award winner right there the gram he just sits up on the dinner table hey yeah you had a good monday night didn't you duck yeah i remember that good completions good throws his nine right hey he was awesome and obviously you still hear him on that quacker right he's he is the greatest duck caller ever exists and i assume you hear that i say i'm the best duck caller ever because i get to say hey duck that was clever uh tone has a question for you laney yeah laney you talked about having fun uh at lsu games and everyone talks about lsu death valley at night what can we expect the blood alcohol content of the majority of lsu fans to be on saturday night oh my gosh i'm just saying we need to be lifting them up right now we need to be lifting them up i know myself i'm gonna be having a good time i told y'all earlier i was gonna be letting my hair down and i have a feeling everybody in the stadium is gonna be doing the same so i look forward to of course watching the game but also doing a little bit of people watching yeah i'm excited to get down there and everything you're saying right there i'm excited to do that the only time i'd ever been down there i just heard about this song and i don't it may be i don't know if you're singing it or not i i think i'll be aj do you know what the song is i'm talking about uh can you start it out for me a little bit well it Oh, I'm worried that. What's the, what's it, what do they say after that? Are you supposed to be doing that? That is the song. From my understanding, it's just that part of it. Oh, I thought they say something after that. Oh, I thought there was a little bit more. That's it. That's it. That is it. Okay. I thought so. I thought that was it. All right. So we're all on the same page. I'm excited to get down there. Lainey, thank you so much for letting us be a part of the announcement of you being the celebrity guest picker. And also, I can't wait to watch you perform. I've never been to a Lainey concert. I saw you at the ACM Awards. It was outrageous how talented you are. I saw you at the Grand Ole Opry. You're so talented. I can't wait to watch you do your thing and get the perfect picks at the end. Thank you, Fran. I'm ready. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a Grammy Award winner, Lainey Wilson. Yay, Lainey! You see, duck caller. She just calls them. That was good. I like that a lot. Yeah, that was great. I thought that was pretty clever. You know, because a duck call, I guess you do have to judge by the sound on whether or not it's a good duck call. Now, if the duck call works, does it care if it doesn't sound as perfect as a potential? This is a whole competition. People need to notice. I don't think everybody knows this. Duck Hodges. Devlin Duck Hodges. That's the guy. Who let everybody know that they need to register to vote. That's right. He is a famous moment. He did more for politics than for anybody, maybe, in history. In history. Former starter for Pittsburgh Steelers. Almost led him to a playoff. He is a world-renowned duck caller at these duck contests. Not just state fairs. I think they're doing this in a bigger way. If you need a duck pulled from the sky, if you need a duck to think that another duck is down there on the ground, you give this guy one of them, and he will get any duck. He's got different languages of ducks. Is he better than. Riley Duckman? Duckman. So, I brought this up to Devlin Duck Hodges. Yeah. And I said, Riley has Duckman right there on his shit, you know? And his bar is called Duck Blind. Uh-huh. Feels like he might be. He said, his name is what? I said, Duckman right there. He goes, I'm just Duck. And that was a great answer. Yeah. That is a phenomenal answer right there. Elanian Duck, seemingly in. Just a hilarious, just a little bit of a story. Duck Hodges? Yes. Yes, as a whole. Duck is a legend. Club country. He's also got a golf thing going right now, I think. Good for him. A little real estate, I think. I think he's doing. Oh, nice. Yeah, he's in there, bro. He's awesome. I love that. That is great vibes. I can't wait to get down there to Baton Rouge. A man who's won a national championship down there will also be a huge talking point, I think, to everything happening around the LSU Tigers right now. Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest of all time, former head coach at Alabama, LSU, Michigan State, Miami Dolphins. Cleveland Browns. Wasn't a head coach. Ladies and gentlemen, Nick Saban. Nick Saban. Nick Saban. Hey, guys. How you doing, Pat? Did I miss any there? Toledo, I think, but that's okay. When you move as much as I did, you can't expect everybody to remember every stop. No, I think with people like you, we're supposed to. So let's just. I think for everybody else, maybe not, but for people like you, I think people like me are supposed to know. That's why I apologize for missing the Rockets. And, you know, Kent State could have had them, too. He was an alumni graduate. They just didn't want it. Don't screw. Maybe some other time. Maybe later in life. Coach, let's talk about this documentary coming out this year. Obviously, we'll talk about it. talk about what's happening in LSU here in a couple of days. Now we're kicking off the season tonight in Atlanta, and this is going to be spectacular. It's going to be an honor to be alongside of you. But this documentary, I remember they teased it last year. It's dropping here very soon. How do you feel about the entire process and what do you think people are going to take away from it or hope they take away from it? Well, a lot of people wanted me to write a book and I wrote a book, I don't know, in 2003 after we won the national championship at LSU. And, you know, the guy that was supposed to write the book, I spent three months giving him information and then, you know, I said, this is not about me. So I had to go back and rewrite the whole thing. So instead of writing a book, I thought maybe letting people do a documentary would be something that would actually be more telling for people to understand sort of the process of what's going on in LSU. And so I wrote a book, I don't know, in 2003 after we won the national championship at LSU. So I had to process of things that we went through that helped us be successful, as well as, you know, all the people who contributed to that, because there was a ton of people, good people, that really made it happen for us. So, you know, I haven't seen this yet, so I'm kind of anxious to see how it comes out. But I hope it's a tribute to all the players and coaches and people in organizations and administrators who created an atmosphere and environment where we could have success. And I think they deserve a lot of credit. Yeah. And I assume there'll be a lot of light shined on a lot of people who've done a lot of great work, including the lovely Miss Terry, who we all are a huge fan of. I assume it will spotlight her roles and all of these types of things in the building and the recruiting and stuff like that. But I want you to know it's going to be cool to learn even more about you. And I think you listening to the people that you affected talk about you. I hope you take those flowers in, you know, because I know you're a big next thing, next thing, next thing. I hope whenever you hear all these people from so many different backgrounds, okay, and they had their lives changed by you. I hope you take that in. And I hope you really settle in the fact that the good old West Virginia boy did very well with this life. And we are lucky and thankful that we get a chance to bullshit with you every single week. October 8th, that comes out. We'll certainly be watching. Let's talk a little bit about this weekend. LSU. Hey, you've been in the middle of all this, okay, with the Protect College Sports Act. I think they did right in trying to recruit you to be a part of that. We just saw the last day of this and saving college sports.com. I believe people can go and hopefully help us get some guardrails and regulations in this. But Sankey showed up at the courtroom today. We just found out Sankey is down there with the SEC battling against the Louisiana folks about the injunction about pro players. Then there was a Soaresby case. It feels like it is pretty chaotic. Are we anywhere near having an answer, you think, coach? And how do you kind of view what's happening in Louisiana right now and how it affects potentially going forward? Yeah, well, I think, you know, we obviously need some guardrails in college athletics, especially in football and basketball, where, you know, you have so much revenue and now people are making, you know, money and it's become pretty much of a business. But we really don't have any guardrails. And just like this whole situation with, I mean, just think, Pat, five or 10 years ago, or even when you played in the league, I mean, it was not even anything that could ever be a thought in your mind that pro player would come back and play college football. I mean, it was like unfathomable. And, you know, now, oh, this should be OK. We have some rule or some law somewhere in some state that I should be able to get cut, even though I decided to become a pro. I got paid some money for it. Now I can go back to college and play. Crazy. I mean, it's absolutely crazy. But we have this happening in multiple transfers. We have it happening in guys that are 20 years old. We have 26 and 27 years old competing against 18 year olds. I mean, we have all kind of issues that need to be addressed. And I think antitrust legislation and making it law from a federal standpoint is the only way that you can do that. Now, if I was LSU, I'd be very careful about how I proceed here because they may win this case in Louisiana. But if people keep appealing it, it may get changed down the road. And they may have consequences relative to that. So sometimes you can win, but also lose in the end. So and I don't want to see that happen to LSU. And I don't want to see it happen to Lane. So I hope this all gets resolved in a way that we can move forward without creating issues. Many folks have won battles while losing the entire war in the past and haven't been able to see the whole force through the trees. There's a bunch of those types of quotes that are cliche, but it's real about what the long term effects are. What the long term effects could be of this all. Now, I guess because it's only this class, there is some stuff and it's not just football, even though football is getting a big spotlight. There's some soccer, there's some softball, there's basketball problems they're having. And I appreciate the fact that you've been willing to say like, all right, I'll dabble in a world that I don't want to really be in the politics world to try to get something done to save all of college sports, women's sports, Olympic sports, football sports. But what we do know is whenever that gets passed, you should get celebrated. But once we get past this and the games start, let's go. And I think that's how we're all kind of feeling about Saturday getting started. Tonight is certainly a great kickoff to it all as we have Colorado and Georgia Tech leading the way here and it's going to be a great game on ESPN. But Saturday, game day Saturday morning down there in Baton Rouge, I was down there once. It was absolutely absurd. Obviously, it was a insane morning and then obviously it led into an insane series of events down there in Baton Rouge. What are you expecting from Saturday morning for the first college game day of the year? And then what do you expect in the next couple of days? What do you expect in the next couple of days? I've seen both sides of this passion, winning a national championship there, getting patted on the back, seeing New Orleans and the Sugar Bowl go completely crazy when we won in 2003. And then when I came back there in 2008, I think, or seven or whenever it was, having every bottle, every can that you could ever think of, getting burned in effigy. So I've seen both sides of the passion. But what I would say about this game in particular is the people will be very passionate about it. I've seen both sides of the passion. in the middle of the field, man to man. And I think it's a little safer. I still think you can get good run support out of split safeties, and that's a thing that Kane has not done a lot of, but I think he wants to add to things that he wants to do in the future, which I think could be beneficial, and take a little bit of pressure off the secondary because you put a lot of pressure on the corners when you play middle-of-the-field coverage, and those guys are out there on an island playing man-to-man, and they have good corners, so the corners put the sort of limitations on your defense, and I don't think they're going to have any limitations on theirs, and I hope they do play more man-to-man. So Keaton Russell, on the other hand, I think this guy's very talented. How ready he is to play, I can't really speak to that, but I think the guy's very talented. I do think that the big question for Alabama is going to be, again, how have they fixed the offensive line? How is that going to impact the quarterback position? But I do know that Keaton Russell is probably the best guy they have to be able to be a playmaker and make plays when things break down and aren't perfect, which may be really important for Alabama's offense this year. We saw Ty Simpson get ragdolled around. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was running for his life a good bit. There's a lot of sprinting running. You know, Pat, I wanted to comment on something you said before about Tiger Stadium, and one of the issues that, when I first became the coach at LSU, there was so much pressure and so much passion and so much energy and enthusiasm for games. I sometimes thought that the players just took it for granted that when they played at home, things would go the way they wanted them to go. And a couple times early on, when I was there, they didn't go very well. I mean, we lost a UAB or something, and I think the players just took it for granted that we're playing at home, it's a great atmosphere, it'll affect the other team, and we'll win. And I actually put aside, I had a line-up in the locker room that said, it's not Tiger Stadium, it's not the atmosphere in Tiger Stadium, it's the Tigers in the stadium that make a difference. So I wanted the players to know that they still had to impact the game and play, you know, high-quality football if they were going to have a chance to be successful, and that the crowd was not going to make any plays in the game, and that we needed to be responsible for making those plays. And I know when there's this kind of hype for a game, like there is for this Clemson game, Lane's first game, new era, all that kind of stuff, I hope that does not impact LSU's team. You're the best, Coach. We appreciate the hell out of you. See you this weekend down there in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. National champion seven times. I do appreciate somebody coming in and saying, we don't agree on some things. It's like, well, maybe you should. Uh-oh. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, that's Coach Nick Saban. Hey, Coach. I get it. You got an ego, too. Guy won seven national champions. Low on Bama's defense this year now. He's regarding. No, no. He's trying to learn. He's trying to add it. Sure. We disagree. As soon as I read that, I was like, what's going on? Why are we doing this? Why do we? He's the greatest of all time. The field that you walk on is literally this guy's field. And, oh, yeah, he works with the secondary. That's like his. It's like his entire thing. We disagree on some stuff. It's like, all right. Good luck, dude. Okay. Why? This feels like it's a right answer, you know? But that is, just like we said about Kalen DeBoer, I mean, you're in Coach Saban's building. You know, it's literally named after him. You got to create your own path. They have a great opportunity this year. First time not ranked in the top ten in a long time. If they have success and get going, that fan base and crowd are going to obviously fall in love with him. And I think Saban's done a really good job of saying, like, hey, this is their thing, not my thing. I'm here just to assist. You got that little goat shadow just on the field and from the top, where the office is. So, to be able to operate in there is obviously not easy. So, I'm not going to act like that's an easy thing. But I'm not saying publicly many times that I disagree with the greatest of all time. I think that is, you should probably try to get in his pocket, see what he's doing, and maybe figure out that out. But on that note, not easy to be there, I assume, AJ. No. No, I would just put it myself, like, in Kalen DeBoer's shoes, thinking if I was at Alabama on the sidelines, you're in the fourth quarter, it's winding down, you know you're going to lose a game. And Saban's, like, up in the box. Like, that would be a horrendously, terrible feeling. I was there. Just knowing. Oh, yeah, you've been there for, I don't know if they've lost, but you've been there for some of it. Who was it? Texas they lost to. Was it Texas down there? Right? When did his day? We were on the sidelines for that. Yeah, his field. Was it Texas? I thought it was Vandy, maybe. Maybe Vandy. I don't know. Whatever it was. Got a chance to go sit in his box, stand in his box while watching the game. He got the field named after him, I believe. And it was like, in any one of the college football hall of fame, it was like a big, hey, Coach Saban's here. The place went crazy. Got to go sit in his suite, watch him kind of do it. The other team scored, and him standing up and literally just like kind of, all right, okay, stretches back, then just kind of walks over, goes, grabs something, comes back, sits back down. Miss Terry's just right next to him. Then something bad happens that he hates, like somebody was left wide-ass open, and he just like stands up. And it's like you could see he is still literally coaching the team. I think he's trying to respect everything, obviously, especially whenever he's on game day, because that's, that's a huge platform for college football. Anything he says that could be perceived as a slight towards a decision that Kalen DeBoer or anybody at Alabama has made, they're going to blow that up, say that there's a problem. You know what I mean? And Alabama fans will literally walk behind Coach Saban right into a fire. If that is what Coach Saban said we should be doing, that's what they will do for him because of what he did for the city. And obviously he feels the same way about them. Still has house, still lives, you know, that entire thing. So he has to be. Obviously, Kalen DeBoer has to be very mentally tough, but he has to be so cognizant every single time, understanding what his words could potentially do to the entire culture of the team that they're trying to build there. I think he would like Kalen DeBoer to be very successful. Oh, yeah. I think he would like that to not be a conversation piece every single week because I think he really cares about the Alabama football program as a whole. Yeah, and for like DeBoer, I get the whole, like, you don't want to do the exact same things, but the D.C. thing makes no sense. Like if you were to go back, like Nick Saban's thing, sure, is being Nick Saban, but it's winning. So if you were to go back and say, go back and look at Nick Saban's defense, like his defense was always good. He learned, you know, secondary with Bill and Cleveland and going from there. And also, like, that's part of being in a tree. We talk about now in the NFL, like, oh, all these offenses are built from McVay or from Shanahan or wherever the hell it's from. Defense, the same thing. Like, you think Kirby Smart went to Georgia and he was like, hey, we got to completely change our defense because this is what Nick Saban ran. I can't just run the same thing. Like, that's the one thing about the D.C. that just doesn't make much sense. That's who you should be asking and getting the most information from and running the stuff that they were running, even though maybe you don't see it the same way. But as far as, like, DeBoer, it does feel like they're on their way. I think so, too. The fact that they got the highest recruit in the history of Bama at quarterback, nonetheless, not like wide receiver Julio Jones, all those guys, or an O-lineman, D-lineman guy in the secondary, anything like that. But they got the quarterback now, and they have three years of that. Like, that's massive. Yeah, the one thing they need to figure out, which Coach Saban talked about, is the offensive line. They have four new starters, I believe. And they were, like, 120th in yard per rush last year. They could not run the ball to save their lives. So, that'll be interesting to see how they attack that. Second year, Ryan Grubb is back with DeBoer in this situation. But also, as far as, like, number one recruiting or whatever, the last three classes for DeBoer have been, like, number two, number three, and number three. So, they're still getting guys. He's getting his guys in. So, that could make a big difference this year, too. What if Kellen DeBoer in Alabama does it for the SEC? You know, three. At times, the Big Ten has started the season and ended the season as national champions in a row. Three different schools. They don't talk about the depth of the Big Ten enough. The SEC has the depth. Well, I don't know. The Big Ten's three deep on national championships in the last three years. Can the SEC do it? Or will the Big 12 potentially produce an absolute monster this meeting? How about the ACC? I don't think we've got to worry about them. But the ACC. Tech's got a chance. Texas Tech is the team. Yes, they certainly have a chance. Well, the Big 12's got a lot of teams. BYU, Utah. You've got a lot of teams that potentially have a chance. Utah also defensive-minded coach now. Yep. D.C. stays up there. They're going to lock that thing down. Big Bear up there in BYU. He's only getting bigger and stronger. Bear, bop, bop, bop. Absolutely. Wearing 4'7 out there, hopefully still. Their coach, awesome. Yeah, exactly. And I trust Cody Campbell and Joey McGuire to put together a roster, no matter what happens otherwise. So, Texas Tech's going to be – you start talking about the depth of Big 12, you start talking about the depth of Big 12. And then you add in, oh, yeah, West Virginia is about to go absolutely crazy. Quick question, A.J., as you make that face. I don't like the smirk on your face. Yeah. What's up? Must be nice at the top. Dickhead. Yeah. Okay, people, not in the top 10 for the first time. It's like, oh, yeah. Yeah, let's see if we can reach the top 35 here. And I think we certainly can. Tony, what was Arizona State's odds at the beginning of the season whenever they won the Big 12? It was two years ago. I believe they were. Plus 10,000 to win the Big 12 before they went on their run with Sam Leavitt and the boys. Okay, so follow-up now. What is West Virginia's odds right now to win the Big 12? Plus 5,300, I believe. Oh, is that right? Half of that. Book it. What is that, A.J.? We know you're about to – you probably already made this bet, didn't you? Yeah, found out about this thing yesterday by Tone. Tone said, hey, I just want to – because, you know, this weekend on game day, obviously running through subjects that are going to be brought up, you know, conversation pieces, hey, what's happening, have your stuff, Freddie, got it, got it, got it. Me and Tone hitting the – I'll tell you what, hitting the internet, hitting the – had books out yesterday. yesterday. Flipping through pages of books. You know, I had this entire thing. At the library? Yeah, magazine. I guess big thick magazines more so than anything else. You know, we're trying to get in there. It's been a lot of that this week as we get back into college game day. And then all of a sudden, Tone goes, hey, to your West Virginia winning the Big 12 thing? Arizona State plus 10,000 two years ago. They won it. West Virginia? Plus 5,200 or something. That tells me. Very doable. We're doing it. Take a flyer. What was Duke's chances to win the ACC last year? Does anybody care that Duke won the ACC last year? Everybody knows they won it, too. Exactly. Hey, there's a bunch of fun facts about who won what. All we know is Miami almost didn't even get into the college football playoff, and then they ended up in the national championship. They feel like they're even better. And they get the ACC champion quarterback to come down there, and they have another year of experience with that guy, Malachi Toney, who might be up for the Heisman this year if they continue to utilize him the way he was utilized last year. We know their defense is going to be spot and physical. We know Chris Ball is going to go absolutely crazy. The ACC, I mean, if Clemson, you know, if Clemson, no way, right? No way. What, they win? How big of dogs are they? Ten. I'm not a. Man, it's going to. Imagine going in there and getting a win to start the season with everything surrounding it. It's going to be a wild atmosphere. Yeah, it is going to be absurd down there. Can't wait to get there. Thank you, college football, for doing its thing. The field goal kicking is easy contest. It is up. Okay. Let's go. We are doing that. Potentially. Uprights are there. Potentially the biggest season yet. Okay. Yeah, like, for the field goal kicking contest. Excited for some news for that one on Saturday morning as we roll that out. Very pumped and excited about that. And I assume that Louisiana is going to produce some incredible kickers for said contest. It's going to be a big number to start the season. Remember, season goes up. Mm. So I. Make it a 55-yarder. So I don't know if we're going to have the ability to change that completely because just, you know, room in places. But I do think we should back it up maybe to 40 yards. But 33 is where it will remain at the time being. And I'm already getting videos from people that are saying they're preparing for future stops. You know, hey, this is in my part of the country. So people are preparing to try to get there because obviously it's first 300 people get a ticket. Then that ticket is randomly pulled. And whenever it's pulled, that is the winner. And then you have there's new rules that you have like a one-minute or two-minute, three-minute period to figure out who, if you're having somebody, you got to do that now. If you're doing it, you got to do it now. Everything has to be happening now. But we're back up and running. I'm very excited for that. And also, pumped up for Pat White. The number five is officially being retired in Morgantown this weekend before kickoff. Congratulations to Pat White. Let's go, Pat. This is a jersey they're selling. I believe it's an NIL store throwback Pat White jersey. That's filthy. Yeah, it is. That is sick. Yeah, it's awesome. That's going to crush it frat houses, Donner. Yeah, it should, honestly. Actually, anywhere. We tell the frat boys, Donner, frat row, buy a couple, lads. Because I think this is NIL towards Pat. I think Pat is also doing that as he's coaching the West Virginia Mountaineers as well. If NIL would have been around, this guy potentially owns the state of West Virginia or at least part of it for what he did for the state. I was very lucky to be teammates with him. I got a chance to watch his entire career from behind the scenes and obviously on the sidelines. He and I obviously I would either punt or kick a field goal. So we are crossing paths every single series basically. Great times, great relationships, great leadership. I mean, absolute great football player and I think it's a great decision by West Virginia to retire the five. We've been pounding that drum for a little bit now, you know. Hey, four bowl games, they were the two, him and Steve Slayton on the NCAA game. Yep. Primetime football Thursday nights. We had the highest ratings before NFL one. It was all because this guy was driving the ship. He was the most electrifying player I had ever seen and he would take over game any moment and he would also lay the wood. I mean a lot of people remember him getting hit, which certainly happened because he was a running quarterback and everything like that. But he's de-cleated a couple people too for Steve Slayton or Noel Devine whenever they were running. He's just classic football player. Also got drafted like five times, played professional baseball, stayed committed to football and then he tried baseball a little bit, got into the minors and then decided it wasn't for him. Then he started coaching. It's like, I'm happy for him. I'm proud of him, man. Legit. Okay, let's pivot away from college football with chaos happening this weekend and in courtrooms in Baton Rouge and let's go to the NBA. It has some chaos. Uh-oh. Now, since we have learned of this character, Steve Ballmer, we've known that this guy's a little bit of a wild card. Mm-hmm. This guy might have a little dip in his chip. This guy has got some real pizzazz. Here's him whenever he was with Microsoft. $1,000 question for the field. What is the most asked question that I've received this week? Sideburns. What the hell are we supposed to do about.NET, Steve? It's a very good question and it's got a very, very clear answer. Developers. The key to.NET, the key to industry transformation, the key to success is developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm just an absolute madman. You know, that is a nerd event there where, you know, a leader of said super geniuses is up there sweating his ass off, doing the things he's doing, presenting to developers. He's juicing up developers. So this guy, seemingly super competitive, obviously has the pizzazz and a moxie. Then he gets into ownership in sports. He's at the NBA. He becomes the owner of the Clippers. And all of a sudden, he wants to build some super arena. And one thing that he was most jacked up about whenever we heard him speak about it from the construction site with a hard hat was. Toilets! 1160 toilets and urinals. Three times the NBA average number of toilets and urinals. We do not want people waiting in line. We want them to get back to their damn seats at the end of the half before the game clocks. Of course, we know what you meant. Yes, getting back to. So, this man was a unicorn immediately. From jump. Just an absolute alien, seemingly, in all facets of his. He has the thigh slap grab moment that he. That he's already had. It's like everything this guy does is out of a movie. And now he's potentially super villain who's utilizing different methods to potentially rig a system or cheat a system that has been put in place. His people vehemently deny the allegations. The NBA came out and said, harshest penalty in the history of professional sports, basically. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now to dive in a little bit deeper to what just took place with the Clippers, the Kawhi Leonard, the circumventing the salary cap allegations, and the penalty that seemingly is harsher than anything we've ever seen. A year ban, five first-round picks, six-month ban here, fine here, year ban here. Those are big numbers. Obviously, something very, very serious took place. Adam Silver said this is what it's going to be. What was it, and why was it? To tell us, senior NBA insider for ESPN, Shams Sharani. Yeah, Shams. Shams. Okay, so we know Steve. Thank you for joining us. You look fantastic. We know Steve Ballmer is a character, a character, if you will, but it feels like in this particular case, something happened that Adam Silver was not happy about at all, and there was a report at one point that there was nothing found, and we're going to move on, actually, with this entire thing. Then the NBA was like, nope, that's not true at all. There was a trade of Kawhi Leonard to Toronto that was supposed to happen, and the NBA said, nope, you should probably wait until we're done with our investigation. Did we know that the investigation was coming to a point at this time, and what really does this all say about the situation? Kind of open floor for you, Shams. Yeah, what this says is this is the most severe punishment given out in American pro sports. That's for sure, and what this does say at the end of it is, above all, Adam Silver is the judge, he's the jury, he's got the final word, and the NBA had Wachtell Lipton, a third-party law firm, basically commissioned as the investigator, the lead investigator for this last September, and then they published that 36-page report, yesterday, on Wednesday, but my understanding is, back in late July, the Clippers already received all of the findings that the NBA had from Wachtell Lipton on all the charges, all the emails, all the text messages, everything that they've got here in this 36-page report, and things always come up at the last second, there's always more information, this is always fluid, that's what goes into these types of investigations, there's all these different sides, right? It's the Clippers, it's Steve Ballmer, it's Steve Ballmer's lawyers, it's the Clippers' lawyers, it's the NBA, it's Adam Silver, it's the lawyers at the league, it's the Wachtell Lipton lawyers as well, and then there's the whole Kawhi Leonard, then his agent, then his former business rep, then it's the union representatives, and so there's all these people, there's all these sides, so these are complex stories, no question, but when the league went to the Clippers in July, my understanding is they were looking for the Clippers to basically fall on the sword here, to admit the, of wrongdoing to cooperate But there was none of that. The Clippers, even to this day, this morning, Thursday, right now, 1249 p.m. Eastern Time, they are vehemently standing by their statements that they did not do anything wrong. And at the crux of this is the introductions that the NBA found that rose to the level of not just normal introductions that teams make. Teams in the NBA are allowed, Pat, to make introductions to their players and sponsors, right? And so any individual player, likely 60 to 70 percent of their sponsors are coming directly with the team sponsors just because it's in-house. Well, you can introduce a player like the Clippers could have introduced Kawhi Leonard to Daktronics or any of these other four companies that they've been found to basically brokering these deals. The issue here is that there is. At least on one occasion, Jillian Zucker, the president of business who got suspended for a full year. Well, she basically, according to the NBA's findings, negotiated a deal in the millions with a company and a middleman, a middle agent for Kawhi Leonard on behalf of Kawhi Leonard before it even reached the point of an introduction. And so cases like that are why when I talked to team executives last night, one mentioned to me the Clippers basically acted as some form of a power agent. Kawhi Leonard in some instances, and that's where it rises from just introductions or just an innocent situation to, OK, there is some intent here on circumventing the salary cap. OK, because thank you for all that information. Obviously, it's a lot. I think there's, you know, in the NFL, players make appearances at like team sponsored events and then there is like a per diem or a payment that's made. But the teams have always said we can't give you any more than that or you can't earn any more of that because obviously we have. We have to report every single dollar and there's a salary cap and yada, yada, yada. So I assume that there has been team deals. You said 60 percent with players that have happened in the past. The problem here is that they were telling these people, hey, this is what you're going to have to give to Kawhi Leonard. Is that why they're upset about it? In follow up, there was no finding of Steve Ballmer putting money into a company and then that company sending money to Kawhi Leonard. Right. Is that because I think a lot of people think that was potentially happening. Like, I think that there's. Yeah, there's like you can look at everything circumstantially, you know, like the Clippers are, you know, paying seven million and then Kawhi is getting seven million. Like, why? Like, but there's no like that. There's no like definitive like the money went from Steve Ballmer's bank account to this company and then it went right like that. But again, you can read through the circumstances, you can read through all of it. And that's where the lines, you know. And I think that's where the lines are. You can earn points while door dashing on college. And then that is get you into running for a potential Dodge Charger, Hellcat, money towards a house, free groceries for a year, all these types of things. So if you were to use door dash and you are to door dash through your life on Saturdays, you will earn points that get you into potential running for a house. Now, you don't know that. I got to explain all that because on the graphic, it says don't fan for free and a pizza and a burger. And I appreciate DoorDash's partnership. I love DoorDash. It's the best. We think DoorDash is one of the greatest adventures of all time. Everything's got shorts, underwear, food, pizza, drinks, all drinks, every drink. We, sorry, Delta 9 drinks. Sure. Other, you know, there's all that. We love DoorDash. We just think what they're doing is awesome. And we. We. We'd like this to showcase what's good. They're giving away enough money for a house. Yeah. Yeah. So you'll have to use the money for a house or can I use it for anything I want? I think it has to go probably towards a house. I think it says house money. Yeah, it's the house money. I just want to make sure. What would you use the money for? 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Every college student as well. You have to prove that you're a college student. You get free Dash Pass. That's incredible. So they're giving back in a big way. They're an incredible company. We're very, very grateful for them. Huge conversation last hour. Not only Laney Wilson is a celebrity guest picker for their 500th road show. Shout out to her and Duck making their way down to Baton Rouge. Then obviously catch up with Nick Saban. Nick Saban talks about how the environment and the hype could potentially make your players believe that they don't have to play good football like Death Valley and all this juice is going to win you the game regardless because they talk about away games. At night, especially in the SEC, what the record is. It's like you got to play as well. We haven't talked anything about Lane Kiffin and his football team. We've only talked about Lane Kiffin and who he's been trying to get on his football team, which are guys that were in some of these training camps around the NFL. They got a tight end. Trey Des Green. He's going to be wearing number seven. He's unbelievable. We're talking about this Daquan Wright guy who's coming back from the Cleveland Browns. It's like obviously he was second team all SEC last year. I think he's very talented. He's with the Browns. Yeah. And now with the Chiefs. I believe that we're talking about him as a tight end. It's like they actually got the tight end. They have the number one guy, the preseason number one guy, 6'7", 243. Sam Leavitt, quarterback, unbelievable. Led that Arizona State team that was plus 10,000 odds to the Big 12 to get into the college football playoffs. It's like they got a very talented roster down there. And then Clemson, everybody's overlooking them. It's like we could potentially have the greatest start to a season yet. Like actually could have the greatest start to a season yet. Excited about it. It all kicks off tonight. Great tone. What should we be looking at for these numbers this evening as we try to take advantage of the best sports book on earth, DraftKings? Yeah, tonight obviously the main game, the one where it's not a 40-point spread, is Colorado and Georgia Tech. These two teams did play last year. We talked about that earlier. 27-20 Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech ran for 320 yards in that game. Haynes King, I think, had 150 on the ground himself. So this is kind of a measuring stick game for these two programs who have a ton of turnovers. We talked about it. Alberto Mendoza is the quarterback for Georgia Tech. So it's his new era. It's not Haynes King anymore. Georgia Tech has turned into a very, very solid program down there that loves to run the football. So watch out for that. And then Prime needs to get it done this year. You know, the first year with Shadur and Travis Hunter was awesome. They were really, really good. The last two years have not been great. Juju Lewis is a very, very talented quarterback. So we'll see what Prime and Colorado has in store for this year for us tonight as well. Juju Lewis back in Georgia. Yeah. He threw for 14 touchdowns in the state championship one game. I forget what the numbers are. It's not 14 touchdowns, but it's something. The record. It's something like that with how talented he was down in Georgia, which is why he got handed the keys literally in a promo shoot for social media from Shadur to be the next one for the Buffs. Not a lot of chatter about them on the field this year. Excited to see what they have. Justice Haynes running back for Georgia Tech. Somebody keep an eye on tonight. He was at Michigan last year, was Alabama before that. He's from Alpharetta, Georgia. He's a five-star guy. He's going to get the ball. He's going to get the ball a lot tonight. They're going to run the shit out of the ball. Yeah. Can Colorado tackle him? I mean, that is going to be the huge question. Joining us now is a man that's going to be on the call. Former NFL quarterback, Missouri superstar. Ladies and gentlemen, congrats to him getting a call tonight's game and also all the other amplified stuff that he has going on this football season. Love seeing former players crush it. This guy definitely doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, Chase Daniels. Yeah, Chase. What's up, boys? Hey, good to see you, brother. How is life down there? Atlanta? It's good, man. It's busy. Like, we're doing this game, obviously, tonight. Honored and blessed. I can't even imagine what your schedule is like because you do, like, 55 more things than I do. And I'm doing, like, SEC Nation on Saturday. I'm prepping for this game here. We're doing the 5 p.m. Sports Center tonight with Matt Berry. Like, just a little taste of, like, everything you do in the Monday Night Count. And you're, dude, you guys, the whole crew is on another level. So, props to you guys. Well, thank you, Chase. That's very kind of you. We've been doing this for a while. You know, the Daily Show grind thing is a good way to cut your teeth, I think. Yeah. I think it's a good way to cut your teeth. We used to do radio. We were doing radio for, like, three, four hours. So, I mean, you're going to crush it. We can't wait to watch you. And we think your brain is going to be good over top of games. Not that this is the first time you're calling games, but certainly a more amplified calling of games. Especially tonight. Let's hear your thoughts on tonight. Because Justice Haynes, Georgia Tech, we've been just super excited about because, obviously, we saw him go crazy last year. He's a home run hitter. Bruce, literally earlier in the week. He said to the entire group, is anybody going to be able to tackle this guy? Is that not what your thoughts were, Bruce? Yeah, he's an explosive play machine on a Michigan team last year that didn't have a ton of explosive plays that weren't including Justice Haynes. He is super-duper fast, and he's also very physical. He's a beast. And his dad, a Super Bowl champ, he's from Georgia. It feels like tonight is an opportunity for him to go crazy. What are your thoughts on tonight's game? How you kind of see it, Chase? Yeah, starting with Georgia Tech, for me, they're going to run the piss out of the ball. I mean, Malachi Hosley coming back as well. And then Justice Haynes. I mean, look, Georgia Tech in general, they have not done well in the portal. And that's by design. Meaning, like, Brent Key, only 20 transfer portals brought in compared to Colorado's 43, prime as the most in the Power 4. But when you watch this Georgia Tech team, to me, they are all about identity. And their identity right now is running the football. They have one receiver coming back, Jordan Allen. So I don't know how that's going to happen. They will run the football. And this is what we were talking about. We're their game group. They need to run the football 50 times between Hosley, Justice Haynes, and then Alberto Mendoza. Like, I was talking to Fernando Mendoza about Alberto Mendoza, his brother, making his first career start. Like, think about it from that perspective. When you're making your first career start, a sold-out stadium at home, you haven't done a whole bunch. Lean on the run game. Lean on those big hogs up front. So I really like that for Georgia Tech. And then when you go over to the Colorado side of things, to me, it starts with that go-go offense. I know. That's right when I got on. You guys were talking about Juju Lewis. Big spot for him nationally. Really big, high-profile recruit. Only his third career start. And it's going to be interesting to see how new offensive coordinator Brennan Marion is going to unleash him. Because it is his third career start. A lot of growth still to go. And then when you look at that receiver room, though, Pat, and guys like Danny Scudero coming over from San Jose State, he led the country in receiving yards last year. DeAndre Moore. Was the University of Texas second-leading receiver last year. And then you got Cam Perry, who led the nation in yards per catch at 23 yards. If they can unleash the pass game against the secondary from Georgia Tech, that's just all right. It should be a good game going into the fourth quarter. Okay. So maybe Juju is the difference there back in his home state of Georgia. I just don't know who can tackle. I don't know much about the defense other than Coach Sapp's not there anymore. No. So I don't know anything about that. And it hasn't been great. So hopefully they're able to figure that out. But especially with the – I mean, that's just going to be a how you doing, keep it moving, Brent Keyes here type of night. I'll be excited to see if Colorado can stop. All right. Let's pivot away from tonight and let's talk more ball. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Chase. I wanted to pivot to the NFL quickly. The Rams, with what they're doing right now. We've got Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett out there. If you are an opposing offensive coordinator, I guess, what's the plan? What are you going to do? How would you try to attack them? And also, like, are they going to run the table and win the whole thing? Yeah. I mean, to answer your point. Run the table, win the whole thing. I mean, on paper, AJ, they look like they can. And they look like they should. But, like, when was the last time we saw a favorite from the very beginning run the entire table? Right? You've got to stay healthy. You've got to make plays. You've got to be opportunistic. You've got to get lucky sometimes. You guys know. Have you seen it, Chase? Have you seen somebody go wire to wire like DeFave and actually go on and do it? I mean, who would it be? Chiefs in 2023 or 2024, we looked it up. It was there plus 600. They weren't as short. Yeah. Yeah, and so to me- two dolphins they were saying going into the season they were saying they're minus 110 these guys could do it you know that's really the only time you have to be so opportunistic and then as far as like offensive coordinator like if i'm an offensive coordinator um planning against that d-line i mean ada you would know like it's all one-on-one blocks you're going to get into a bear front a jam front you're going to play five across and you're going to say we're going to get one-on-one matchups every single time we're going to drop eight we're going to rush five we can get pressure with four i think i'm going to be really interested to see how the rams use aaron donald yes i know he's a freak yes i know he's one of the greatest defensive tackles of all time and yes i know he's in great shape worked out with the rams obviously a few times how often do they use him at the beginning of the season because i want to see them you know sprinkle him in on the third down obviously run cyber but save him for that long season i mean you're going to be playing 20 games 21 games if you have it all you i want him out there i think he wants to be out there too that's why he was doing i know i think that's why he was doing all the training that he was doing i think he was not training for a package you know and schefter mentioned that whenever we first talked about this with aaron donald schefter was like what a perfect situation to go back to obviously the rams very good he could get 15 20 plays a game or whatever if you want to it's like i don't think that's what aaron donald's preparing for i i i think he wants to come back and wreck games i think he wants to yeah be full-time participant here alongside miles garrett who might not be is he okay he's hurt too his miles got some swelling we're talking about the avengers but we got knee swelling and we haven't seen a guy on a field for two years hopefully they're able to piece it together because this could be a spectacle literally everywhere that they go excited for that okay let's pivot oh from the defensive side to the offensive side go ahead con man yeah chase a lot of different uh matchups this year as far as qb and ocs go a lot of new guys and new places the eagles and jalen hurts new oc jayden daniels a bunch of them really around the league who are you most excited to watch this year as far as quarterback oc combos go and who do you expect to have a big year that maybe people aren't looking at yeah that's a great question um it's without a doubt jayden daniels uh new offensive coordinator david blau okay i played with him he was the third string quarterback in 2020 for the detroit lions think ben johnson meets old school daryl bevel where they're taking shots down the football field a lot of motions a lot of shifts jayden daniels had the greatest rookie season of all time not even close two years ago people seem to have forgotten what he is about and how he was he got hurt last year obviously didn't play a lot it's going to be a new look offense right like step on digs and step it in uh among others but you're going to see and i talked to david blau you're going to see a different offense for jayden they're going to put him under center still have that shotgun rpo run game but they are going to stretch defenses vertically there's going to be some trick plays you're going to see a lot more at the line it's going to take check check alert alert letting jayden daniels use his mind and when he was coming out and i studied him in 2024 out of lsu i thought he was one of the best pure pocket passers i had seen in college it's not like you're locking onto one and then you're running everyone knows about his running ability you're locking onto one and you see it two three four just the way he gets through progressions to me is excellent i do think that you know they got to figure out that offensive line and really just shore up how they're going to go about it find their identity but i think jayden daniels is going to show everyone that that rookie season was who he was and not that second year sophomore slump even though he was hurt every coach but dan quinn fired after last season whole new staff on the offense and on the defense and the number five i think is still being worn down lsu not a lot of positive things coming out of this offseason i like to hear that jayden daniel is potentially going to get back on top he was a phenomenal football player let's pivot back to college shall we there's some storylines developing that we think chase daniels will obviously have the right answer for it go ahead tome yeah chase obviously you have a great game tonight and a lot of people have made a lot about how there's only one ranked matchup this weekend but what is something else that you're looking forward to this weekend i mean iam aliava and saga pull a teleplay on saturday night and kind of like an old pack 12 after dark match up there cj car goes against wisconsin you've got byron brown and dj lagway in that game old miss in louisville obviously what is uh something else that you're maybe looking forward to this weekend uh as you go through the games well i think we'll see how this court ruling plays out for from me it's clemson lsu clemson has lost a lot of guys i think they had nine guys drafted new quarterback starting on the road death valley at night lane kiffin portal kings how does sam levitt handle everything that's going to be a huge storyline and then look i also think um dabble is going to have some things for lane that maybe lane doesn't understand i just think it's a very difficult place to play at night uh and it's going to be a huge litmus test for where clemson and lsu are at and the other game uh is the old miss louisville matchup to me one of the more underrated games not a lot of people talking about it this louisville team will be better than you think how does old miss with a new play caller handle with kiwan lacy and trinidad chambers who i think you guys know i'm really high on uh but this louisville team i think they're going to play a little bit tighter than a lot of people think but a good first week matchup for me how about chase daniel giving us all the breakdowns on college football love it have we ever thought about chase daniel maybe diving into a court case hey chase you're a former sec quarterback what are your thoughts on this breaking news the sec greg sankey suing okay if i had a lawsuit against lsu and head coach uh lane kiffin defendants waged a deliberate and coordinated campaign to recruit professional athletes to play football for lsu during the 2026 2027 season now remember this is all happening in a baton rouge courthouse right now wow so yeah greg sankey who we did not know if he was going to be showing up at this particular uh court hearing but no idea we knew what lawyers were going to be there i think he stone-cold steve austin's through the courthouse right holy hell the commission's here i hope we got footage of this from behind the scenes of him deciding to come do this walk into the beehive into the buzzsaw that is baton rouge for this injunction and not only are they saying not only do we defend to what we're saying we'd like to file suit actually against what's happening on your side you that we counter you sue us no we sue you how about that this is a huge deal because i think this is a commissioner in a conference trying to regulate their shit this would be big for the next couple years until this protect college sports act goes through for some sort of regulation i think but if you're lsu you're saying hey there's people that are going to be able to lose employment opportunities because of what you're doing they can definitely go with that particular angle this is just getting started i think jason this is in your conference jay oh this is your conference where it's happening at brother we're such a litigious country like you sue i sue we counter sue we all sue him like i just don't understand that and look it's more like fluffing your chest up like the commissioner's walking through like hey you're gonna do this i'm gonna do that and so forth and so on i just think it's it's lsu trying to have and play within the rules but then here's here's where i land on all this guys like at the end of the day regardless of the court ruling that comes down today is lane kiffin gonna have the cojones to actually do something about this and i think that's going to actually follow through with playing those guys like that that's my thing with daquan wright and some other guys that's what i'm gonna wonder and see and it's just like hey you know lane lane's a villain i know lane's a friend of the show but he's a villain i love lane i think he's great he's trying to do what he can to win but it's gonna be an interesting match that we're gonna be talking about all week and sec nation is gonna cover it in depth when we're here right outside the mercedes-benz stadium that i'm looking at right now it's going to be fascinating to see if he can do it and i think it's going to be exciting to see if he can do it and i think it's going to be exciting to see if he can do it and i think it's going to be exciting to see if he can do it and like are they going to play him i don't know yeah are they going to list him on the roster i think that would be the first step to potentially telling sankey and them i don't think so we'll have to listen to the ruling trey wallace is reporting that louisiana attorney general liz merle starts off her remarks outside of baton rouge courthouse with go tigers okay she has a purple shirt on in that photo as well can we scroll down here let's listen to what she has to say actually let's uh let's go back to the beginning let's turn some audio up here 50 seconds shout to trey wallace for this video outside the courthouse this before or after this before the entire thing okay this is go tigers you issued an amicus brief last night um why is it so important for your office to get involved look i think this is about this is about fundamental fairness and and giving these players a fair forum and an opportunity to be heard i mean my my brief is very simple it says this was a bait and switch and it was unfair to them and they deserve a forum where they can have a fair hearing about how they are being treated and by this by the ncaa and by the sec this is obviously not the only hearing that's happening around the country so you know i always find it kind of peculiar when i'm reading about this issue nationally that there's so much of a focus on louisiana and on on lsu in particular when in fact these hearings are taking place all over the country so you know i think it's obvious that these players are seeking a fair forum to have their grievances heard and i think they deserve that go tigers i i appreciate that uh obviously college football is as pete tam would say if you're looking for stability i don't think college football is where you want it at we got an attorney general saying go tigers walking into a courthouse we got the sec suing lsu and lane kiffin in an alabama what are we doing court oh is that where they're suing them in an alabama court because i believe what the sec is homed in is that not the uh you think atlanta yeah but i don't i think it's an alabama I think maybe, I don't know how you tie it up. Not the SEC, not that SEC. No, no, not the tax commission. Not the security exchange. Not Washington, D.C. Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, Alabama is where the SEC is headed. So they're suing him because this is our rules. This is where we are headquartered at. So we're suing you in an Alabama court. We're currently sitting in a Louisiana court. And we got a huge game coming up in just two days, kicking off tonight's college football week one. What an insane time to be alive. We're lucky for it. We can't wait to watch you this season. Good luck out there, Chase. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Chase Daniel. Yeah, Chase. Pete Tham was reporting that the SEC has filed a federal lawsuit in Alabama suing LSU and Lane Kiffin. Per Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrow, she mentioned in a break in a state court hearing in Louisiana. Wow. So we thought maybe today we'd find an answer. We could. If LSU just says, what are we doing? There's more mud. What are we doing? Let's just be done with this shit. Who cares? I don't know if that's happening. We got the best damn tight end. We already talked about it. Why do we, we don't need this guy. So Xavier Harris, D lineman, that's potentially going to join the LSU team. Yeah. Six foot eight. D tackle. Okay. Nobody's mentioned his name. They don't have any. He is. He might be probably more important. Yeah, because they got two freshmen D tackled. Now granted, there's a number one and number two. In the world. In the entire class. They're two freshmen D tackle. But Xavier Harris, six foot eight coming in there, I think would be a little bit of an assist. You know, because it's not just one player. There's multiple. Jack Pyburn might be joining them fresh out of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I think, camp as he led the entire NFL preseason. Xavier Harris, go ahead, pal. Pyburn, oh, he accepted an offer from one of the NFL teams. Oh, he was the one in Chiefs. Chiefs. Okay, so Daquan Wright potentially going there. So, hey. Just be done with it, damn it. There is seemingly a way to be done with this. Yeah. Now, I don't know, though, after the lawsuit, because Sankey's doing what damage has already been done. You already did this, right? You already broke our rules. This has already happened. So, let's say Lane Kiffin and LSU walk into that courthouse today. Governor Jeff Landry's there. Hey, everybody. Greeting everybody. Hey, welcome to Louisiana. I mean, obviously not on best terms, but hey, welcome to our state here. $100 billion SpaceX invest in Louisiana. We got the biggest rocket place in known demand. Okay. Welcome to Louisiana. We know it's not great, but we'll get to the bottom of it. What did they walk in and say? All right. We just wanted to see. We just wanted to see what was happening. Because that's kind of what happened with the Soaresby Texas tech case with Big 12, where the Big 12 was like kind of pressuring in, pressuring in, pressuring in. Is this what you really want? We're not going to. And then all of a sudden, okay. Okay. That's what we thought. This one, Sankey showing up at the courthouse. Unannounced, right? Yeah, did not know that. Definitely not known. Coming in. It's funny what you guys are saying. Actually, we're suing your fucking ass in a different state. Is this really what you want to do right now? This really friendly court down here in Baton Rouge. But I think up there in Birmingham, we got a little bit of say. I think we got a little. Okay. And they're hoping that that happens. So I think that could all unfold in the next 24 hours. And we will look at it as a wild offseason story, pointing out what college football chaos truly looks like in the state that we're in with no guardrails, no regulation, no rules. But we got a lot of money and employment and labor on the line. That's kind of what is happening. And hopefully by the time Saturday comes, this will all be in the past. We don't have to talk about anybody. Let's talk about how incredible these football teams are, which LSU could potentially be this year if we were to talk about just them as a football team. A little on Dabo Swinney coming in. They're doing his thing. And a lot of teams getting off to the races of a college football season that's very long. Going to have to take on a lot of adversity. And phenomenal football is going to be played. Speaking of phenomenal football, congratulations to Michael Wilson. Wow. Out there in Arizona. New coach, LeFleur, offensive-minded coach. Quarterback, obviously, Jacoby Brown. Jacoby Brissett. Carson Beck had an incredible preseason run. We do believe the offense is going to run well. The wide receiver position is a huge deal in this particular offense. 75 mil. Is that what I read there? Yeah, up to 78 or something. Like 25, 26 a year. I'm saying this. Now, they have to spend money. Okay? The salary cap floor. You have to spend money. The Arizona Cardinals are building a brand-new practice facility out there. Brought in a new head coach. Investing in, hopefully, the future. It's like, is it really a new era? Because they have a couple years here where they're not expected to win many games. At all. It's kind of like how the New Orleans Saints were a few years back. Whenever they're in salary cap hell and they're in a tough division, people are like, the Saints are probably not going to be good. They bring in Kelly Moe. They start playing a little bit better than everybody expected. Consider it a successful season. Even though they were nowhere near making it to the Super Bowl. It feels like the Arizona Cardinals have that for a couple years as they try to build what they are for the future. And maybe they're able to get back into conversation and relevance. Michael Wilson, hell. A football player. Congrats to him. Getting $78 million with $47 of that guaranteed upon signing. I love what's kind of going on over there in Arizona. No real expectations. But if we're good in the next couple years, that's a good thing, AJ. Yeah, I guess. Do they have the lowest over-under of all the teams when you come to odds as far as overall wins this season? I think they're – aren't they tied? I think three-and-a-half is the bottom, and they're tied. Three-and-a-half. Okay, three-and-a-half. I mean, yeah, terrible. You don't want to be in that position. But for a newly head coach on the floor and everything, hey, no one's expecting anything from us. It's like an old-school major league. Let's go out there and shock the world. You go get six wins, imagine. That's like a moral victory, even though we don't have any of those. But, like, no one's expecting anything from these guys. Oh, and I think that's why a lot of people were asking Jacoby Brissett why he was sitting out because how many games they won last year. And it's like, well, without me, you guys literally had nothing. They were terrible. And we like Jacoby Brissett. We love Jacoby Brissett. But there wasn't a lot of success over there. So if they did hit the reset button at the quarterback position, after trading Kyler Murray away, I think we would all completely understand. Instead, they bring him in there for $17 million a year, I do believe, or something along those lines. He's going to be able to hopefully transition them into whatever era they're going to get to. But their defense played hard as hell last year. Obviously, with LaFleur, we think their offense is going to have success. If they become a problem for teams down the stretch, I think their fans will be like, yes, okay. As long as we have some players that we know on the field. We have some hope. You just got to give them some hope heading into next year. Three and a half over under. What a nightmare staring down the season. If you're a fan going, here we go again. Even though your city's awesome, stadium's awesome, brand is awesome, logo's awesome, this year doesn't feel like the potential outcome might be. But hopefully in the next couple years. Yeah, and I mean, they're set kind of at the skill positions now. Because Michael Wilson will be there until 2029, I think I saw. If Marv gets it together, which it looks like he is, that's a great wide receiver. Trey McBride, Love, obviously, who we talked about it. Now, if they get a quarterback in that situation, they're going to be fun to watch. Like when Jacoby took over last year, they were scoring in upper 20s, low 30s every single game. They couldn't get any stops, but they were trying really hard. But they're at least a fun, at least they're a bad team that's fun to watch. They're not scoring like 16. They were trying really hard, Tony. Yes, they were. They were. They were. Sometimes. They got the Rams, the Seahawks, reigning Super Bowl champs, and the Niners in their division. Okay, and how do we talk about all of them right now? High. Very high. I think they play the AFC West, if I'm not mistaken. The West play each other, so yeah. Yeah, so you also got the Chiefs. And you got the Chargers. And the Broncos are in the AFC Championship. So, tough year, but hey, Mike's going to be there for the build. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike's going to be there for the build. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's coming off a season in which there was no flubs. There was no flaws. Perfect season. Now, he would say that not everything was perfect on every single rep, but whenever you're 16-0, I mean, that's just kind of how it goes. That's in the rear view, though. We got a whole new season with a whole new group of guys. What happened last year does not matter. The only thing that happens is against North Texas. Now, each play is six, seven seconds long, and each play has its own identity. Each play lives on of itself. It does not affect the next play or the previous play. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, national champion, Yinzer Paisan legend, West Virginia Mountaineer, head coach of the IU Hoosier football team. Ladies and gentlemen, Kurt Cignetti. Yeah, Cig! Coach, how you doing? What's up? Hey, thank you for joining us. How many of the last year doesn't matter? Messages have you been sending to your team, and do you think they have got that message pretty clear at this stage, just a few days removed from the start of the 2026 season? You know, I really haven't had to send that message very often because it's more about the process and how we do things and the standards, which, you know, we want them to meet the bar consistently, and it's been more about that, and they understand that. There's a subtle reminder now and then, but they're smart enough. Now, you know, you hope, as the head coach, that, you know, that hungry, humble level's where it needs to be. I think it is, but we'll learn about our team Saturday. We had Charlie on and Charlie Becker on, and you would have loved it. I mean, we asked him about it. He said, I don't know anything about that. I just know that we got North Texas coming up. And then we said, have you guys been, you know, kind of reaping the benefits of what you did last year down there on campus? He goes, we have not won a single game. We got North Texas coming up. So know that Charlie. Has gotten the messaging loud and clear. Can you tell me a little bit about this offense? Obviously, Josh Hoover, new quarterback, coming in for the number one overall pick and Heisman winner, Fernando. I think we heard some reports that maybe offense looks better at this time of year than it did a year ago. Where do you kind of stand right now with how the offense looks? Yeah, I don't know where those reports come from, but. Okay, so that's not real. Great. I'm happy to hear that, actually. That's a clarification that I think a lot of us were kind of running with there for a bit. I will say this. I mean, last year in the opener against Old Dominion, they ripped off a 75. five yard touchdown run the first play of the game. We were down seven, nothing. him before you can blink an eye and then we had a 90-yard punt return for itself we didn't score our first offensive touchdown until three minutes ago in the second quarter but we were inside the 10-6 times and scored 17 points so we weren't really an offensive juggernaut last year coming out of the open okay so can you this year are you going to be a juggernaut or at least more of a juggernaut how do you feel about the new offensive quarter uh quarterback i guess we'll find out saturday uh i think josh is in a really good place uh he's settled in uh he's not thinking he's playing with confidence i think the guys have a lot of confidence in him uh he's been stringing good practices together i think he's come a long way and uh like everybody else on team i'm sure he's excited to play uh offensively in general you know it always starts up front with the line uh we've got four veteran guys starting up front i like our running back group uh a lot i think we've got three guys we can rotate in and out you and uh you know we've got a couple top-notch receivers that have proven production at this level and uh you know tyler morris is back from an injury didn't get to play last year made some big plays at michigan has one more year and then we've got some young guys with talent so uh tight ends are a little young but uh you know we got chance on offense first thing we got to do is you know is protect the ball no pre-snap penalties all that stuff i always talk about where you win it you can't beat yourself so you know um you know defense been coming along fine special teams you know like our specialists a lot it's time to play a game okay time play a game we'll find out won't we against north texas and it's crazy still to think that the indiana hosiers are national champions in football and i know you can't think about that but it wasn't that long ago you were walking in that basketball court after experiencing an entire day in bloomington and realizing what the football team was is and the expectations are when you call your shot inevitably and obviously you had to do some disruption not only uh in bloomington across the national board and it ends up working out now everybody else is saying we need to we just need to do what sig did in indiana i don't think obviously it's as easy as that but there's a lot of people thinking like that go ahead con man yeah coach obviously not everyone can evaluate talent the way you can and take advantage of everybody's you know skill set but have you had other coaches reach out this offseason just like hey what the hell do you do how do you do this what can we do to take for the from you has there been any conversations like that and have you kind of given out any knowledge are you keeping it all to yourself so the Hoosiers go back to back I think there's a lot of people probably interested some have reached out to me and others on our staff for sure I mean you can't change who you are you know we have a certain way of doing things and certain things we've been preaching for a long time because we've been together a long time so you know it's worked in the past and but it is in the past like you said and you got to do it again it's a whole new group of guys and but I like the pieces we have the blueprint the process has been successful consistently and I'm looking forward to learning about this team on Saturday and developing them AJ has a follow-up about learning about the team on Saturday go ahead brother yeah coach we always wonder like going into week one what was there so much unknown as a head coach what is it like especially now in this era when you have so much turnover on your roster do you know like how much do you know about your team and how much are you going to learn from that first game I think I'm going to learn a lot uh how much do I know I know what I've seen at practice now we have to respond and put it between the white lines um you know can we play play in play out consistently uh from play one to 150 with great effort uh you know and compartmentalize and play that one play at a time and on to the next play like it's nothing nothing game on the line can we play discipline poised penalty free you know are we affected by success or failure uh do we get satisfied if if you know we jump up to a lead uh all those things that uh we preach um I'm interested to see how close they can come to the bar and you know all the openers to be quite honest with you uh you walk away uh probably with more critiques uh in the opening game than maybe any other you'll play uh but there's always a lot of improvement to be made they're never perfect or quite where you want them to be uh so I think the biggest thing you're trying to get done is not do the things that can cost you a football game pre-snap penalties turnovers egregious miss assignments special teams gaffes uh and play as a team that's what we're going to be doing for the rest of the game as consistently as possible and physical fly around start to finish uh play in play out so you got to have respect for your opponent look he's in a mall he's always froze right there they got 50 transfers 70 new players uh there's you know there's a lot of unknowns uh there uh so but we can only control we can control we can control us and that's why we got to have a great practice today I'll tell you you just hit them all I think yeah I've never seen somebody string all of the football mindset mantras together like that and I think that is why they're looking at you the world is as maybe one of the greatest leaders we have brother I don't know if you know that that is being talked about you from the outside world I think obviously you win the national championship a lot of people know who you are they're looking back at your old speeches whenever you're saying you know everything you were just saying to a group of people and then just flowing right through and go that's an easy any business and you just kind of keep it rolling a lot of people learn about you a lot of people love it a lot about you I think the thing I love most is your people very loyal to you and you take care of your people tone has a question about that yeah coach I do obviously uh special teams coordinator Grant Kane he's back Mad Scientist Brian Haynes defense corner he's back oh the two Pittsburgh guys the offensive geniuses since Syrian Shanahan they're back how awesome is it that all of your coordinators are back and how nice is it for you that when you do have like your JMU guys have now moved on to the NFL there's might be a couple left over but having the coaches still on everyone else to kind of integrate into that system for the new players coming in yeah and really all the other coaches too quite a few of them been with me a long time are great coaches John Miller Pat Koontz and all Adams Rado Jong Buddha Williams uh who am I forgetting Bob Bostad line coach um you know um it it helps a lot because we're on the same page uh and it filters us down to the players it's easier to get them on the same page and get buy-in uh when the message is very clear and concise uh now you still you get what you demand and you got to keep the standards high uh which is important and uh but I think we're in a pretty good place right now and uh we'll see you get what you demand you either coach it or allow it you know just all the right baby either coach it or you're allowing it to happen yeah exactly I mean coach you were born to do this uh we're so lucky that we're getting to watch it in this particular era especially with where we are here in Indianapolis and our ties to Hoosier all around us literally all day every day congrats on all the success I did not know though I talked to a brother I think used to spend summers in plum is that right oh yeah every summer uh you know middle school and even the high school you know at the Holiday Park right yeah yeah the Kunkels they had a they had a swimming pool you know that was a big deal back then yeah you know I know yeah yeah you and Frank yeah I was told by his brother hey we spent the summers in plum like every single summer I'm like so plum created maybe the greatest leader of all time I did not know we need to start claiming that easy now yeah okay all right well I'm gonna start taking credit for it uh we love that you were drinking some plum water though that got you to where you are congrats on all the success thank you so much on all the success you're doing really good for all of us pal all right guys I appreciate you ladies and gentlemen that's Kurt Cignetti yeah see the Kunkels yeah of course had a pool off ground pool we love jumping in it there was a there was a Jason around it I believe I assume this would be their dad Kurt Kunkel oh you actually know the Kunkels like you really do yeah oh yeah yeah wow a lot of plum families are just there you know like we got generations leave to leave the city yeah you are here okay this is where home is got it you know and they a lot of pride in plum man a lot of pride in pub especially now we got hey our sports we're winning we are winning we got a quarterback a little John nonenberg I think he threw for three touchdowns ran for one in the opening yeah I think that place yeah we got a real team I think a bunch of dogs everywhere obviously if you're in plum you're a dog we understand that so our sports are rolling we created Kurt Cignetti that's pretty cool I didn't know that you know nil4plum is open coach if you would like to uh help out any of the lads back there that would be a beautiful thing I can't wait to get started I mean just talking to coach right there it takes me immediately back to the college football playoffs last year whenever we're doing field pass and just watching him like literally just break down a moment in a situation and then go talk to his coaches and then just all of the anxiety the pressure the tension the energy the electricity it's like all of that's coming back so we're so close to that right now AJ we're literally so close to that what's that oh sorry I don't want to I would say the warm-ups to me are special these college warm-ups when we see them all come out you know you never know some teams are talking trash back and forth to each other but watching them like you we all know anyone that played sports at any level especially football the like the the anxious nerves slash energy in warm-ups you can feel especially when you get to be down the field like we have been sometimes you can feel it you know as the brahma bull has said oh yeah but just all of the things con man i don't want to cut you off but i think you're about to talk about the greatness that's about to take place yeah no not at all it's just the week one excitement is so awesome when you bring up college football playoff right there it just takes you back even to the big ten championship like watching indiana and ohio state and how big the conference title games are because that is kind of the next one it's like hey week one has got great slate but some of these big matchups that are coming like texas ohio state week two is going to be huge both those teams are in the top four for odds to win the national championship and you get that week two and you would think that's just one of those one-offs that you don't get that often there's a game like that every single week it feels like so it really is just one of those things that you're just so lucky and blessed to be able to watch football going forward we've made it let's enjoy it joining us now ladies and gentlemen is a man who is uh trying to take care of fellow athletes i do believe nice alongside jp morgan chase and the athlete council which has stars like tom brady jalen brunson asia wilson why alex morgan megan rapinoe dwayne wade why and this man ladies and gentlemen former number five overall pick for the new york giants out of oregon man is going to be breaking down what he's doing with jp morgan chase and what he's going to be doing for john harbaugh this season ladies and gentlemen stud cave on sir how's everybody doing hey great how are you thank you for doing this with jp morgan chase uh from my understanding of reading about it you're going to be checking in with them letting them know what your life is like so they can be better equipped to handle athletes uh finances and take care of next generation is that accurate with what this council is meant to be uh yeah i think it's really meant to you know get an insight from the player perspective on what we need i think you know there's a big challenge when finding the parallels between kind of finance in the day-to-day life of an athlete but uh it's kind of on us to help the younger generation with nil being you know attainable to really understand you know how to build their legacy and other finance yeah and help themselves in the future you know future you'll be thankful if you take care of it right now all of us have been through a little bit of a run maybe where they thought you thought to yourself man they shouldn't have given me money this is a bad idea maybe i'm just speaking for myself there uh obviously show up year two with about 25 left in my bank account after a great off season after year one so maybe cave on you could go back in time and talk to a young me and say hey that's not smartest decision let's talk about though the the money story because kawhi leonard it's happening right now you know there's a massive massive things happening where kawhi did not know somebody else had complete control of his money i think educating people about finances and what is possible in the future especially in the athlete world is brilliant i love what you're doing here cave on so good luck with that let's talk a little bit about football now this giants team obviously brand new culture brand new environment you guys go down to west virginia we're doing all ball come back we're doing all ball how do you feel about coach hardball and what do you expect from the team this year versus maybe years past i love hardball i'm super excited about you know what the team has in store um i don't want to give away too much but it's going to be nasty man the defense is going to be nasty the offense is looking good um i'm excited we got some weapons we got a good system in pro in place so uh the sky's the limit i think this guy what has hardball been like you enjoy him day to day have you gotten to know him better like what is your relationship with him and your team's relationship with him i would say he's definitely different than you see on tv you know and then i guess what i thought of him kind of coming in and now playing for him but i think he's a great coach i think he's a he's a player's guy you know he does it a certain way and i think it's easy to buy in when you see somebody who lays it all on the line like that and i just mean from from the idea of like you stand for something or fall for anything and he's a guy who's he's real old school but you you grow to love it yeah he's in there what squatting still right oh yeah everybody talks about his brother he's like 63 64 still squatting hitting 400 pounds yeah he's doing it yeah he's football guy i think his entire family you know football people through and through aj has a question for you cave on yeah just about training camp obviously you guys went down to west virginia pat mentioned we know hardball's camps have kind of people talked about it for years like it's a no non-stop sense like all business camps usually pretty physical i guess how did you guys come through that it sounds like everything went great down there and you guys worked hard and loved it but like what was it like being part of it i think it was pretty great man i think you know for me you know i like to kind of look at things from a i guess a world view and after seeing how hard we practice and seeing people able to stay healthy you know we had a few guys get hurt in the beginning you know before in um otas but coming to the training camp i think we we really went really solid you know and um how much work we were able to get done and how much work we were able to get done and how much better we got as a team without you know people getting hurt as you can you know see across the league giants defensive coordinator denard wilson said this about cave on thibodeau he's probably one of the hardest working individuals that i've ever met he's a glue guy from a team standpoint from a unit standpoint he's well respected he'll speak his mind he's a guy that his teammates love being around him and he wants somebody that's always around that's just true and honest with him because he's going to have some crazy questions okay i think he's come i think he's comfortable being around this coaching staff we accept him for who he is and what he represents obviously that's high praise from your defense coordinator what do you think that means tell me some of these questions we're asking i i would like to hear this because i just heard you say i have a world view on some stuff obviously it got mentioned about the crypto conversations whenever you came out of college you it does seem like you are a deep thinker and uh i think if you're around the right people they will only amplify that and spotlight that it sounds like defense coordinator is that can you tell me about your relationship with him and what that means with some of the questions you're asking maybe i could start asking them as well i think you know i think you ask questions i understand and i think when you are able to be around people who you know want the best for you and i think i've heard a phrase that say like you know the greatest teachers can teach anybody so being able to for me be a sponge um with denard i think it's been great even with hardball like the those guys are very detailed they want to be involved as much as they can and they want to see you succeed so for them you know they're finding different ways to to just break down the defense for not just me but for everybody for all the young guys coming in and i think you know i've always been a guy who i don't necessarily ask the question for me but i asked a question for the room you know because some guys are you know can be afraid or they might be too nervous to to act like they or feel like they don't know so for me i've never been afraid to uh kind of get those answers yeah and your teammates appreciating and respecting you is a big part of that obviously because if you speak up for your teammates in your role you're not going to be able to get those answers wrong obviously they're going to run your ass out of town you know if you're if you're speaking up for the right reasons they'll go we love this guy this is we need this you know but there's there's some battles that get into speaking the mind of people so when you get to a place where you're celebrated as opposed to just tolerated i think magic can happen do you feel that with this new giant staff and how you feel about the you know it's a meritocracy in football you got to do something first and i think now it's crazy even looking at me being in my fifth year but every year is a new year to prove and reprove yourself in this league so for me i think you know i had a ota um i had a great uh camp and just you know through how i play and how everybody plays you know you're just constantly building respect from your teammates and from the coaches are we wearing the big elbow sleeve again that just my first time getting a look really not a bad maybe both of them i'm actually i might let go of the elbow braces this year i don't think i'll be wearing them this year okay that feels like breaking news that is a massive that might be breaking news yeah it feels like it is breaking news obviously you're breaking quarterbacks in half when you get the opportunity but we need our quarterback to not get broken in half connor has a question for you cave on yeah cave on there's a report during your training camp that basically when jackson dart slid one time the whole defense erupted start you know clapping for him pat him on the head is that something you guys are reminding him of every single day and what have you seen from him year one to year two and how comfortable he is just being the franchise quarterback of the giants yes i would say that's one of those like don't touch the hot stove type situations you know he's a guy who loves to run that's the way he plays he's he loves the game but you know for us we're like those big brothers that are like bro like we love you got on the red jersey in practice but please slide we we need you no blue tents this year man yeah but um geez he's he's developed i think he's primed to go um uh the coaching staff has really you know took took heed to to him and the team has took heed to him and i think even with going against the defense and dinard's is really giving them the best opportunity to uh challenge himself you know in training camp yeah a blue tent and preseason game yeah we can't have that okay now he wasn't thrilled about it either i i do think i do think some of those things are a little jump to gunnish you know we play a violent sport and sometimes you know you got a guy just wants to get up and shake it off after talking to him about that he said he was fine you know sometimes they call it from new york and make you go into the blue tent but hopefully you know this season he'll be able to take some hits and keep keep it rolling you need to tell him not take a cat nap on the ground after you take that because we're all kind of worried about it we're all kind of worried he got jacked up but i think he just got comfortable too you never you know like uh alarm goes off uh-huh and you're like snooze and then you roll over and somehow it's the most comfortable you've ever been in your life i wonder if that's what he felt on the ground plus feeling it might have missed it you know like oh wow it's so nice to be back on a football field i really yeah i love the turf here maybe just laid down because of that we don't know okay von you would know better than us sometimes sometimes you just catch your breath man sometimes you just gotta get up there yeah you gotta just take a beat take a beat and get back into it preseason football we're back in this thing get up you out you spent way too long i was breathing i love it at least let me wiggle back to me huddle you know we appreciate you man thank you for joining us good luck this season and thank you for doing what you're doing for other athletes that's really cool yes sir thank you ladies and gentlemen that's new york giant cave on tibidoo yay bought other athletes jalen brunson on that list that you read i didn't even put that together yeah jalen brunson's on there representing basketball dwayne also representing basketball cave on tibido tom brady representing football sue bird asia wilson and uh yep representing basketball alex morgan and megan rapinoe representing uh soccer yeah you know it's across all board different levels of payments as well here you know different levels of money here yeah for sure dwayne wade owns the utah jazz that's right yep and the man tom brady owns two professional sport three professional sports and mfc asia wilson um and sue bird sue bird didn't even get to reap the benefit here of the million dollar no max that just happened so i think it's supposed to be i assume all levels of payment how we can take care of you and help i think that's a big deal because money management and uh swindling has been happening for a long time especially to athletes and others that maybe don't know a lot or have a lot of information going into it it's like learn about all that i i got drafted 2009 2008 every rich person i would go on to meet they lost all their money in 2008. yep and it's like okay so i don't trust a single person to do anything it just vanishes yeah it's just some everybody's money just gone it's kind of a fun role game it's like i would like to at least enjoy my money no this is smart if i'm gonna lose it no no you invest in this you definitely get bang bang bang think about the future you won't have to work it's like yeah but what if 2008 happens everybody i heard everybody lost all their money no it's like no we got it thanks a lot mortgage companies yeah that guy's playing the air drums fucking big banks triple a bonds he knew it was triple b bonds when they were great great movie strong communities are built in the places where life happens where families build their lives where students build their futures where businesses create opportunity bloom energy provides reliable power for the places communities depend on every day from hospitals and college campuses to stores and factories clean quiet power that uses little water 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to ever exist does with a golf club but also how tight the dallas cowboys are let's listen in who's that guy okay who's the guy standing front left right in front of the t-box there we need to get him out of there my goodness okay you need to get him what do we do i don't like how reckless they are potentially with t-box etiquette and where to stand potentially with a not good golfer but i do like that all the boys are out there laughing having a good time and they're comfortable enough with each other they'll stand right in front of a guy that can't drive a golf ball i like where the cowboys are off the cliff too you get hit by a ball and fall off the cliff yeah i mean just worst case scenario for guy front left there gp would hop back on the saddle and blast one one yeah because he's obviously an incredible athlete but certainly an oh no as we look around and then uh there's a couple highlights that need to be nine home runs were hitting the game this year what this week nine oh the cubs hit nine home runs nine nine of them you want big bombs well the chicago cubs got nine of them for it bang bang bang bang it ended on a 40 mile an hour floater the ninth one as we wrap up here and head into the greatest weekend we've had in a long time because college football is about to kick off in a huge way be live on college game day 9 00 a.m eastern saturday morning that feels good to say we'll see him baton rouge be a friend tell friends i'm nice it might change their life have the greatest weekend of all time goodbye okay pretty good little send off yeah man baton rouge operator that is sick just to think about what's the forecast like 72 the high no yeah there's some tropical storms down here i guess it's going to be pretty thick you know i think not that louisiana isn't normally pretty thick but i guess it's going to be pretty thick down there and hopefully there isn't any storms that come through obviously we've got a celebration to have but if it's raining down there i think that adds to the entire football scene i think that's a good thing not a bad thing 93 here we shouldn't act like going outside up here right now hawk i'm assuming it's the same in ohio it's hot as everywhere and i honestly think it's awesome okay it's september we are two months away from being like this sucks all right i like that you like the heat right now i truly do like even just sitting outside it's like you know what it could be worse it could be 30 degrees you got called in yesterday from sitting outside to do the fantasy football draft that took about an hour and a half two hours i didn't know you guys were making so many picks so what so who ended up with the best team is there a power ranking there actually are there are and uh to mike hawk which is aj's team his team uh is very high in the power rankings i do believe um ty who was actually incapacitated for the entire draft so the computer he he was auto drafted oh look at the computer itself is the highest he ended up with the number one team in the power rankings and uh yeah there's mike hawk right there and then also zito uh indiana bears auto draft ended up ended up with the number two oh the computer likes its own picks yes it does it does feel like the auto drafters here had a little bit of a success story but that's the thing about uh fantasy football it's anybody's game bingo and that and that never works out how it uh ends up being especially with the espn okay so let's go through some of the names here because i can only see a portion of mike hawk right there is obviously one evans excel excellent team excellent yeah i haven't named my team yeah it's still workshop he loves microsoft excel okay yeah that's what i thought maybe if we could go through the team names uh shogun down bears i like that shocking like a play on tyler shuck's name yeah tyler got it uh bruce's baloney boppers yep uh-huh that's pretty pretty game meal the maduke men yep men obviously who's that that's nick nicki skates okay i like maduke men uh gigsy baby that is tone gigs don't eat gigs baby okay i like that gigsy baby don't talk to me about heritage that's a kind of ode to mcgee from ty schmidt that's ty schmidt okay gordo gang that's uh gertie oh okay house of butler oh he's really into the house of uh the yeah yeah thing dragon yeah yeah he's really into it yeah his team sucks unfortunately um i saw him take a couple laps trying to figure out who he was gonna pick yeah you guys were really heckling him this is his first time he's taking it serious i think we should maybe understand that because you guys are trying to bully him out of last night he took um two running backs um which you know you only have to start two but if one of them get hurt or if one of them are in a bi-week he doesn't have a full lineup to start so it's tough so he's gonna have to make some trades but he heard running back's most important position maybe one of them will get hurt heading into the season uh so we not only have the house of butler team we also have uh as he headed to the roster uh bubba gompino like that yeah just classic solid squad yeah this is what the bone zone yeah who's the bone zone that would be the bone d bone himself i thought it was potentially bailey mccomis because bailey mccomis is the bone zone like yeah when you think uh you think uh the bone yeah yeah that's where he lived mike hawk self-explanatory tick-tock on the clock shout out talk yeah that's good name on there he also allegedly very good fantasy footballer very good fantasy football player it's one of those things where it doesn't make any sense but somehow he always pulls it out well he he edited a six-minute video down to a three-minute video uh in two and a half minutes today exactly i know how he he did that and certainly he's impressive the indiana bears okay that's zed yep okay i like that he's pushing maybe for a new name he's good with it i like that because he lives here so maybe we get the shaboobies team shaboobies uh yeah that is the word smith mcmahon i believe mitt yeah i believe that is mitt shaboobies so it's like one i couldn't think to get into his brain at what what it means is that supposed to be shabu or shabu it could be boozy so no it's just because he thinks boobs are great probably so instead of like shebang it's like shaboobies yeah i think so i do think that aj aj it is funny that you think i think that boobies are great and i do but it's actually a play on something yeah i assume we don't know boobies where is it mitt are you uh near a microphone pal what is uh shaboobies a play on shaboobie or is it just uh play on shebang or is it a play on i just like boobs man i was listening to a shaboobie song and uh this just came in my head while we i was making my name he's an artist it's funny who's he boobies he actually probably heard shibuzi's name said and he was like did they say boobies no that's a clever name though actually i'm gonna do that shibubis uh obviously right above seal team nicks at that now you know who that is since bone zone's taken from d bone okay bill would definitely get the seals in there i appreciate that shout out to nicks being uh utilizing a seal thing and then evan's excellent team i just haven't had any time keep it i mean that is pretty pretty clever i think he called myself aj's astounding team before that's real i like that so you're the eet yeah let's go with it sweet and then in the trenches that's aq shipling that is aq shipling he has a very formidable team actually he uh was very nervous after the draft she was like oh really that was my first one i don't know what the fuck i'm doing is my team okay and he actually does have a great team you guys uh there's already been a trade request yeah yeah and that's up to you commission you're the commissioner of the league so you can kind of you gotta prove it or not you know let people know what's going on and i like action i like trades absolutely sounds like a couple of the team's owners don't like it i i believe there's already been a couple people have voted to veto this particular uh trade that bone initiated alongside seal team nicks bill this morning so i would like to let everybody know in my if i am to be running league yes which you are more trades better i want kale okay okay if you're able to get somebody to agree to a deal yeah that's on you and this trade is fine it's push the trade through i just got to put can i go on there and ask to trade somebody you're just gonna accept yeah yeah no i we would have to we're approving every single trade of course yeah and the other team has to accept it it's not like you can ask for my best players and pack and say yes like i would have to accept it then pat can approve it and we can push it if you two lads figure out your own business and agree on a deal who would i be to say no exactly not gonna ever do that i gotta look out for collusion though mr commissioner there are a lot of teams in this league a lot of horses might be out of the race pretty early we gotta make sure oh there isn't some scumbags going we will certainly keep our eyes on any potential tanking and supporting of other teams that might take place in the thunder draft kings thunderdome thunder league yes and that that's also on us too as owners this is our league we can't just let collusion come into it you have final say but we have to pull it out ourselves in some way this is your league these are our rules okay yeah we love them that's back soon how many players did you draft hoggo because we were kind of confused some of your sometimes you did pick a guy and then other times it felt like you let the computer take the wheel oh really my first i picked my first two and then i trusted sweet blake in the computer sweet blake trusted the computer a little bit too much he loved that computer we've been on top of that guy's story since the very beginning you're right sweet blake yeah ai experts right now don't even know what we're talking about that man was in love is that man alive definitely yeah yeah he's half he hasn't left his yeah he hasn't left his computer he has three three kids with that computer yeah he's just a part of it now they're one 3d printing them things yeah like this right yeah we've had a dick in the server for two years we don't think physically he's actually doing that mentally he probably built a fleshlight thing into a maybe that's what people are saying about him and i didn't like that because he was so invested in the future of society that he really wanted everybody to know like hey these things are getting feelings and i'm getting feelings too yeah i gotta step away shout out sweet blake doing that maybe more people should potentially think about doing that in the ai world made a movie about it they're pushing it a little bit too uh what movie her oh is that joaquin phoenix i didn't see it was it good no i've never seen it i haven't seen it joaquin hates milk hates milk oh goodness that guy hates killing cows well separating cows from their milk yes he's a vegan i don't know i think he's like I don't know he actually don't milk a dairy cow what happened there they're they pop like balloons explode everywhere he gave an answer he gave an answer about that uh about that interview there it had something to do with like his brother or something I don't know but it had a very sentimental meaning not to do with the cast well I Joaquin Phoenix the artist bro yeah yeah he's a beast in the middle of your artistry you gotta do it that's Napoleon all right let's get the hell out of here let's head down to Baton Rouge hey good luck man let's go oh man hey have fun yeah I think it's gonna be a good time I think it's gonna be a blast awesome time Laney Wilson performing too that's a big deal that's gonna be sweet most if you see Lane tell him to get his together man yeah and tell him I ain't his friend I heard someone's say that we're friends of the program he ain't a friend of mine tell him I said that tell him I was a huge fan he broke my heart you know what I got your back me too really yeah ain't no friend of mine I'm a Kirby Smart no friend of his is no friend of mine what I got his back if you're not a friend of his yeah you're not a friend of mine bingo you said no friend of his is a friend of mine I'm team that's kind of the opposite you're talking about yeah Kirby Ryan Day day Dan Laney oh those are our guys Marcus Freeman Marcus Freeman Mario crystal ball that guy that's how a lot of people feel man I was I'm not kidding a year ago right now I was pulling for Ole Miss to win the national championship he sucked in and now it sucked you down too you're in there too I mean if I face to face I love him but I want it this is one of those things right back here yeah you really yes absolutely I feel like you feel personally hurt by like Kiffin it's not even personally hurt it's more like I'm bummed out okay so it's disappointment it's disappointment completely it's complete disappointment it was like man I can see this guy having a statue outside Ole Miss like Saban does outside of Alabama and instead they want to piss on him if he was on fire all right let's get out of here uh we appreciate you all so much for allowing us to do the uh this for a living if it wasn't for all of you wouldn't be able to do this I'll tell you what the new traffic flow outside of Thunderdome is something it's actually kind of nice yeah it's it's quiet but then so quiet then there's like a uh you know a string of like 14 cars coming right down the middle of this neighborhood over here yeah and I wonder how they feel just oh great just plowing through our neighborhood now as the roundabout gets built into place allegedly yesterday we had police stopped by around five o'clockish or so 5 15 and said hey do you have a camera shooting out to the roundabout I'm like I don't think so man we have it at to the gate or whatever you know so we can see if somebody's here or whatever but why he goes I guess some drunk driver yesterday came through this like 90 miles an hour or whatever rolling on just hubcaps or whatever just just the rims no wheels in the afternoon rolling through here it's like damn pretty dangerous operation we got around can you wreck yeah Rex got arrested big time uh I guess there's a pretty big little situation out here I didn't hear any of it and that's what I knew that that's not good guys getting 90 miles an hour into the construction site literally 200 yards outside I didn't hear any of that I was on a call fortress is halted soundproof I guess but I'll tell you what they can certainly affect what's going on out here shout to the construction workers out there doing it we appreciate you guys crushing it absolutely crushing it uh we appreciate them doing this work in this heat but also it seems like they're operating very efficiently we respect and appreciate that as uh they get after it out here are you okay tone it seemed like you were getting real excited to say something but then he backed off the microphone yep I'm gonna keep it that way you got it thank you we will see you what it had to do with tone what was the top AJ we're on the exit ramp here I'll text you after my bad I do like journalism follow-up though what's Bobby carpenter up to what do you mean he got done run 20 uh half casters a couple weeks ago he's bad he's pissed that people were talking on that linebacker room really oh yeah he is very he I wouldn't say people Bob will respond to one randomly yeah yeah yeah and act like the world's attacking the whole room I like that you need that honey you know I agree somebody finding chips to put on the shoulder I certainly like people that do that uh especially for a football season as it goes forward how old is he now he's 40. 43. and he ran how many gassers 20 half gassers that was our our college test he runs in the same time same rest rest time as we do back then every birthday year this year it felt like he was the most unprepared yeah like it it was the best yeah and he did it felt like he was like oh I see it now and what he quoted schlegel he said something he said banking buying Anthony schlegel something uh it was a good quote legs has like 50 of them so I don't know which one Bobby Carpenter's name popped up in the text yesterday as I was on like two different calls and I just got like so excited I don't know I don't know how many people's names pop up in text messages where I just get like immediately yes can't wait to see what this is there's a handful that was first time long time I saw Robert Carpenter pop up on the phone and I was like yes what the is this guy up to right now I am this is him uh this is previous yes a couple years ago that's his 40 year old right now yeah this is 41 maybe 2023 now maybe 40. this was his 40th he looked good he was preparing for his 40th I think 43 he did not prepare for as much remember this guy's a morning talk show in Columbus yep Okay, 6 a.m., probably 5 a.m. wake-up call. He's 43 years old, running a test at 18, 19-year-olds who are in the prime of their life getting pushed harder than they've ever been pushed before, and he's still doing it. We're proud of Bobby. We're proud of old Robert. And thank you for being a hilarious human. And, A.J., what were you dressed up as? There was some Patriot game thing that you were at? We had our charity event. We had our charity event, yeah. I was like an American, back-in-the-day American. Just refuses to invite us. Again. Refuses. I've invited you guys many times. No, you haven't! This is a quick turnaround. Thanks, Hoggle. I didn't even get invited to this thing. I saw it pop on the screen. I love America! And I see A.J. dressed up the way he is. If we can find that photo, if we can find A.J. dressed up the way he was dressed, I'm Bobby's IG. Bobby Carpenter's IG. Yeah, and is this the, is this, when was this, was Miami? A couple weeks ago. This was a couple weeks ago. Thanks, Captain Crunch. I'll tell you what. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, you didn't. Come on, man. That's a bold-faced lie. And listen, we've been reading it all over the internet. There's a lot of people that don't want to invite us to their stuff. Yeah, I get it. Sure. There's people we're friends with, we thought, that were just like, to hell with this, these people. So we understand it. Believe me, we understand more than anybody. Just know that we're all bummed out. We missed out on seeing you in real life dressed like this. This is what we need to start seeing more of. You see that? Yeah. I understand it because a lot of times I want to invite, like, you guys over. But then, like, I've done it before. I don't want to invite some of the people in here over. So then nobody gets an invite. So it's like. That's not, you know, I think we're in the process where if I, an invite is more of like a why, why would you invite me to this? That's what it's like. No. What? Don't ever get to that point in life, especially with friends, man. We'd be honored. Okay, good. I honestly, I feel like a, you know, like a ball and chain. If I send something to you or a burden, if you try to ask you to come up, oh, man, this person's going to have to feel bad saying no now. I don't like, I don't like doing that. No, I don't think you should think that we feel bad saying no. I think everybody kind of understands that we're pretty busy and we got a lot of shit going on. But man, seeing the invite feels good. Seeing the invite. We make the, I took it the other way. No, seeing the invite feels good. It's like we're invited. Like people want it. Yeah. Because think about all the things that have been said about me and about us over the last, it would have been really nice to get invited to AJ's event after everything. Especially when you get to dress up like Mel Gibson in the Patriot. The fun we had at his birthday party that time. I'll never forget it. Yeah. That was, thank you. Bruce robbed the hotel. I mean, how could I ever forget a good time? All right. Maybe. There's something going on. Allegedly. There's something going on outside. We got to go check it out. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice that might change their life when we're in this thing together. We appreciate all of you so much. Team on me. Team on three. Have the greatest weekend of all time, baby. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye. This episode is brought to you by the Hulu original series, Chad Powers, starring Glenn Powell. This season, the walls are closing in on Chad's biggest secret. And with his future on the field hanging in the balance, he'll have to win back the one coach who wants nothing to do with him. Watch the new season of Chad Powers, streaming now on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers. Terms apply. Tammy regularly hauls stuff to her kids at college. 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