PMS 2.0 1619 - NFL Kickoff Eve, Ian Rapoport, Miami Head Coach Mario Cristobal, Taylor McGregor, SMU Head Coach Rhett Lashlee, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the DraftKings Thunderdome. On this NFL Eve, September 8th, 2026, this sports program begins now. Football! It's fantastic. Week one of the college football season wrapped up last night in a hilarious fashion. They kind of had to play Amish-style football of 2026 last night after a power outage delayed SMU Florida State for about an hour and a half, two hours, whatever the case was. It was a late night start. They got the lights back on somehow after a short circuit happened with a power surge going through the transformer, which blows up the lights. There was a story on the internet about a potential driver hitting a transformer. I guess that did occur the night before, not actually the night of the game. What they were saying is a short circuit went through and kind of shut that whole place down. Now, you have to ask yourself, if you've ever been through a power outage, why would you not have UPSs on the very important parts of an NFL stadium, which would be like the lights and maybe the scoreboard and the clock and things like that? What's a UPS? Well, that's an uninterrupted power supply. How do I know about those? Well, we used to be in a building downtown Indianapolis that actually had just a big cartoon lever for the power of the entire building. And every once in a while, a homeless person or just a kid that was fascinated by it would just turn our power off in the middle of our show. So then we had to find things that if the power went off, is there anything that can keep the power? Because we're going to get UPSs. This is very normal. They obviously didn't have any of those for the lights. I believe there are a couple out there that they could have had. So you ask yourself, is the preparation bad down there? Or is this just something they could have never expected? Well, I think it was just something they could have never expected. So we all had to delay the start of watching this particular game that was going to wrap up week one. And think about unexpected. SMU wins this game somehow. They got slaughtered. Yeah. Now, quarterback won for over 400 yards. So we can certainly talk about that. But there's a stat. Everything they did last night, was ass. Okay. Muffle punt. Great punt. Mr. Daniels. Ozzie hits his tornado kick is what he calls it. Just a little chopper right down the middle of the field. As soon as it hits ground, it becomes a worm burner. Is that thing going to hop up or is it going to stay down? It's going to stay there. Boom. Bang. Now we got a muffle punt. Now we got a ball in scoring range. It's like, that's a weapon. We certainly love everything about the Ozzie that was able to do that. And then you go to the SMU team here. Turnover in the red zone. Okay. This is the second half. 17-10 game. Just an easy pick. Throw that thing over. He had two on the night. They lose the time of possession. They obviously just, they miss a field goal. They have more penalties than the other team. And somehow they still win. So Florida State, in theory, okay, I'm not saying it's just kind of the reality. And I love Florida State. Believe me, there was a little bit of a war there with the whole Kirk Herbstreit thing. You know, we got thrown in there and the Florida State fans are certainly passionate. And it has been fun to learn about them throughout the entirety of the process of them basically burying me, calling me the worst guy in the entire process. But I understand how passionate they are. I understand the history. I love the history. Grew up watching it, obviously, whenever Miami would play Florida State. I mean, it was must-watch television. It was like, this is where it's going to be. But if you look at it, they couldn't even do a primetime game last night. And they couldn't win a game in which they probably, if you were to line up all those stats, three turnovers, minus three turnover. I think that stats like.000 something already, let alone more missed kicks, more penalties, less time of possession, more, you name it. All these stats, it's like.000. One percent chance of winning that game. And SMU did it. Yeah. Yeah. Is SMU a team of destiny? Maybe. Is SMU a team that can go Amish on you in the first half with no controls, no electronics, no technology, and then the second half, turn it back on and still be able to win? Are they able to do all the things you're not supposed to do in a game and still win a game? They've proven yes. Got to watch out for this SMU team. I think they could be a problem. And for Florida State, tough night. Yeah. Yeah. Just a tough night. The worst. But if they win that game, we start saying, hold on now. Yeah. They weren't even able to get power into their stadium somehow, and they're able to win a game. They get a muffed punt. They make a missed kicks. The other team had more penalties than they had. There's like so many. But instead, guys, it's a 20 yard field goal in less than 30 seconds, you lose the game. Now everybody's talking about how terrible you are. Yeah. That is what sports are. And that's seemingly what Florida State has been while Norvell's been there post the undefeated year where they could have potentially went to the national championship, but two quarterbacks get hurt. And then on the other side, you got SMU celebrating in their locker room. What is Florida State? Florida State is a team that's going forward. I don't know. I don't think a lot of us are going to be watching. No. But I hope to at some point very soon. And shout out to Rhett Lashley going back with a dub. Now the talks tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Con man, it is NFL Eve. Here we go. Wednesday night, NFL football. Patriots, Seahawks, banner night, obviously in Seattle. The Patriots are no stranger to that. But this team, this new era Patriots team, makes it to the Super Bowl in Drake May's second year. Another year with Josh McDaniels. Some question marks with Seattle defense. Sure. How do you feel going into tomorrow night? Because I want to let you know, I woke up this morning excited that NFL football is tomorrow and college football week one has just finished. Feels like we actually are in it, even though we've been saying that for like the last three weeks now. Yeah, exactly. And it does kind of once college football has been done. Now we are on to the NFL and it feels amazing to be here. You know, the Patriots are three point dogs. Now that changed they were three and a half. Now Seattle's favored by three. Personally, as a Patriots fan, I feel good. You know, you bring back most of the team. You add on pieces. You get better than the year before. Seattle lost a couple key pieces. They got a new OC first-time play caller. So this game specifically feel very good about it. But in general, Patriots and Seahawks both lost last year, week one. And they both ended up going to the Super Bowl. So September, not worried about it too much. This game, though, I do feel very confident. Added to the old line, Drake May, another year in Josh McDaniels' system. You add Kevin Byard in the secondary. That was already very, very good. You add all these pieces. Offensive line, everything. That makes you think, okay, the Patriots should go on and be even better than they were. I don't know if they're going to have a better record because of the schedule being tougher, but feel very confident. I'll tell you what, the NFL kicking off is obviously massive because then we head off to Australia. Thursday night from Melbourne Cricket Grounds, we have the team that's going to be in prime time more than anybody else this year traveling to take on an NFC West rival, the San Francisco 49ers, on the opposite side of the globe. Now, Bosa traveled over there? Yep. They said, we're not high. He's playing. Yep. George Kittle flies all the way to Australia. People don't know if he's going to play. He just did an interview, I believe, sit-down interview, where he said he can't wait to hit somebody week one. That is what he's looking to do. He's working out. He's practicing. He's doing 11-on-11s. He flew to Australia. I don't want to do the insider game. You could do it, I think. I would like to formally announce that with no conversations with anybody that would know the actual answer to this, George Kittle will be playing football on Thursday. In the opener against the San Francisco 49ers. I know they traveled down there a week ahead of time, and I assume a lot of people traveled down there. I just don't know why in the middle of rehab or recovery that would potentially keep you out of a game, you would fly in a plane for 17 hours. That just doesn't seem like what people who are going through stuff would do. Feels like the altitude, the pressure, I think the dehydration, everything that could potentially happen up there, not great for recovery for things. I think a lot of experts would tell you this would be a waste of time to travel all the way down there. Maybe just wanting to be with the lads. Maybe that is the case. But it feels like George Kittle is going to be playing football all the way down there. So Thursday night we have a pretty healthy lineup. As the Niners who have obviously had a lot of banged up pieces throughout training camp. There's been a lot of people on injury reports. There's been a lot of people missing practices. Christian McCaffrey is going to go crazy. We haven't even really talked about Mike Evans being part of the San Francisco 49ers. That's going to show up in a huge way on Thursday. There's going to be something down the sideline. Mike Evans is going to do what Mike Evans has done ever since we've known him. Mike Evans playing football all the way back to school. I mean every time we've seen him on a football field, he just has a deep ball that he goes crazy and he's faster than everybody somehow still. That's going to happen for the San Francisco 49ers in Australia. And then on the other side, Puka Nakua cleared to play. Been going through some stuff. Matthew Stafford is going to go crazy. And then this weekend, Ohio State, Texas. What? Yes. Oklahoma, Michigan. What? Let's go to one half of the hammer. Don. Cowboys, AP tone. Feels like football is really throwing its fastball here early, Tom. Yeah, it is. It was awesome. Obviously this first week one of college football, there was games all day long. That were exciting. Even with the big spreads, there was a lot of great moments. And then when you kick off this week on a Wednesday, but it was probably the first time ever that the NFL has started on a Wednesday. So we really didn't even have to have a gap between the week one of college football or the week one of NFL and so many great games. I, boy, I am fired up. Oh, are you? You're fired up. Yeah. So for tomorrow, obviously, as we get started in this entire thing, especially with our partner, the best sports book on draft Kings, I think we're going to have, you know, we're back in the game. Okay. We're going to be having our, our promoted boosted picks with draft Kings. And if you're of age and agreed to gamble or trade responsibly, of course, draft Kings available nationwide at this point. Uh, but you got to agree to gamble responsibly. We'd love for you to come join us in tomorrow. We're eyeing some things already. We're eyeing a lot of things early. It's like, Hey, you know, the Patriots got a new piece out there, wide receiver, big part of the conversation on why he is with the Patriots. Cause he wasn't getting a ball the last place. So let's assume Frabel McDaniels have a brain. Drake may also probably has a good leadership. How do we win? They're going to be force feeding the ball. Now force feeding is obviously taken different ways. If it works, good idea. Sure. If it doesn't work, they're force feeding. We think AJ Brown's probably going to get the ball tomorrow night. That is probably a pretty solid prediction. Is there anything else we need to think about or talk a little bit more about this nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler? I mean, you talk about, you know, about AJ Brown. Obviously I think he's going to get the ball as well, especially to start the game, get him started, get him acclimated within that offense, you know? So we always Talk about that first 15, the scripted plays. I expect him to at least get a couple targets. And then, obviously, a lot of the attention, a lot of talk is going to be about A.J. Brown. But Romeo Dobbs, that's a huge, huge addition as well. So you talk about a number two who can kind of be a 1B on most teams. So I'm looking at Romeo. I'm looking at A.J. And then you just forget about a guy like Hunter Henry or Pop Douglas who can sneak up on you. It seems like Pop Douglas specifically has had a great camp. So I'm excited about those pieces. And then Seattle, we talked about it. Brand-new play caller. You let the Super Bowl MVP walk out of the building. You have the reigning offensive player of the year there. I still think the general public still is kind of undecided on Super Bowl champion Sam Darnall. So we'll see how he responds as well with a new play caller in his ear. So it's a lot to keep an eye on. I expect both defenses to sure be great. Both of the top flight corners have gotten their money, including Gonzo. What was that, this morning that got announced? Early. I can't wait to see this, man. Late night, early morning. I believe it was like 1251, 1252-ish. The Gonzo deal gets announced. So they were working into the wee hours. Gonzo, top corner, no debate, no questions, right? Ooh, I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that. You got Patrick Sertan who. No, a top corner. Oh, a top corner for sure. Yeah, yeah. Top two, three for sure. Okay, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, okay, okay. Sorry, I should have. Not top one. I don't like us doing that. A lot of people say it, though. A lot of people have just been saying, hey, best cornerback in the league. But some people can say that about Witherspoons. People can say that about Sertans. People can say that about Stingley. So I think all those guys at least have an argument or a debate. And Sauce, obviously. It's Sauce. Sauce right there. Got a year younger. Thank you. Yes, he did, actually. Yes, he did. Everybody had been. It's funny how that probably worked for a little bit as a good thing. And then now, actually, good thing as well. We're taking it back. Gonzo gets a massive deal. Now the highest average per year at the corner position. Congrats to him and his representation getting a deal done. And to the Patriots getting a deal done before the season starts. There's no drama. Joining us now is a man who. Cut his teeth in Foxborough. Oh, yeah. Former New England Patriots reporter. Now you know him as Junior NFL Insider for ESPN and Senior NFL Insider for NFL Network. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapoport. Ian Rapoport! Junior! Junior! Junior! Junior! Junior! All right, JR. A couple quick questions for you. Sure. We were told yesterday by Senior, Mr. Schefter, that it appeared, and he felt from. from the conversations he was having, that maybe Gonzo and the Patriots were far apart. Now, that changes, obviously, and a deal gets announced in the early wee hours of this morning. And he gets the highest average per year, four-year deal. Everybody's excited and happy. Can you tell me how we got here? I think you said that there was a chance they were going to get a deal done last week, and then there was some conversation about maybe not. And then yesterday, maybe they're far apart. And then now they have a deal done. Was this inevitably going to happen from your sources at the Patriots that you're definitely talking to? No. I would. You know, these things are so interesting to track. And it's always. You know, you can sort of hear why a lot of us who do this would be like, well, you know, it's not. It's unclear they're far apart now. Like, there's a lot of different ways to say it because negotiations change on a dime. And so for this one. I did not feel that this was getting done at all until maybe yesterday afternoon, honestly. Like, I just. Everyone involved was like, I don't think so. I don't think so. We're still talking. Conversations are good. They're productive. But I don't think so. And really, like, you know, the Patriots were already making them the highest paid. It was already the biggest signing bonus ever, which turned out to be $33 million. You know, the guarantees were good. But really what happened at the last minute were the Patriots moved a little bit on the average per year. So it went from, you know, 33 and change to almost 34. And that got the deal done. Like, it was. Yeah. 33.75. And until the Patriots moved, I don't think it was getting done. And then the Patriots moved, and it was done. And I think that's kind of. You know, if you keep talking and you have a really good player and the team wants to keep them, as long as those conversations are ongoing, you got a chance. And so, you know, on the eve of the season, the Patriots lock up, you know, one of their best players, certainly their best player on defense. Okay, so let's say they offer them 33-1 to make them the highest average per year over 33. They add another 650 million per year. Quick math, that's 1.3 for two years. Double that for four years, 2.6 million extra bucks. But also, it's not just like a dollar more. Hey, it's not just a little, you know, like. Right. It is funny how these deals are like 33 million and 33 million and $1. And that's why it's like, is it just for ego? So I do wonder, was this just for ego? Or was it like, actually, this is our number. This is what we wanted. We don't care about what everybody else said. And it's also an extra $2.6 million over four years here that we think is proper. Now, the next corner deal to be done is potentially in Pittsburgh. Joey Porter Jr., is that accurate? Or how do we kind of, how does the domino of Gonzo getting done affect anything else? Or are we kind of done for the season now? Because the Pittsburgh Steelers have come out and said, we don't negotiate during a season. That has not been what we have done. Or with Terrence. Well, I think. We don't negotiate with them either. We do not negotiate with Terrence. Yeah, I don't think the Steelers have. But I don't know if they're the ones that said that he might ever have to. Well, Mr. Rooney was the ambassador to Ireland, so he may have had a situation. He may have. They don't negotiate during a season, though. Definitely. You know, that has been the Pittsburgh Steelers kind of thing. Go ahead and wrap sheets. Sorry, buddy, as we dive into political talk a little bit. No, you're sure. I would agree with, well, some of that. But no, as far as whether or not Joey Porter will get done, I would say the season has not started yet. We've seen a couple of deals. There was a corner deal they did. That must have been like 10 years ago, eight years ago, something like that. On the eve of the season, until the season starts, I will not give up hope that this can be done. Now, there's been a lot of trade rumors with Joey Porter Jr. I'm not sure at this point whether or not those are going to come to fruition. There's been some conversations, but it doesn't seem like they're far along contract-wise. But, you know, you get Christian Gonzalez done. That's come in as the highest paid. You know, the more information there is, the more the market is kind of built, the easier it is to get deals done. But, really, it's a matter of the Steelers and Joey Porter Jr.'s agents saying, all right, like, what's the right number for him? Now, there's five days to go before the season starts. If they want to dig in and do a deal in a pretty well-defined landscape, they can. If not, then, you know, Porter has been practicing. Sounds like he is ready to go. I believe he'll be ready, but we'll see. He hasn't definitively said that he's going to be playing week one. But, yeah, I would say this one is at least, worth keeping our eye on as the season closes in. Okay, Mark Caboli gave us a quote on that, our Steelers reporter. And I believe it was. I asked him if JPJ was playing. And he said, sure seems like it. Okay, so that's Mark Caboli in there. Now, Mark Caboli. Did he tell you about us hanging out at the bar at Sharky's in La Trobe? We had a nice time. Really? We've been to Sharky's, too. We had a good little time at Sharky's, as well. What time were you in Caboli in there? Because we got there, there was nobody there. The place was closed. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, we were in probably. It was, I would say, 7 to, like, 9.30 primetime. There were some wings going on. Korean wings, really good. They do a nice job there. Had some weird pizza. It was great. The pizza was fantastic. Weird pizza? What do you mean weird pizza? What the hell does that mean? Well, it was, like, pierogi pizza, which is, like, a thing in Pittsburgh, but that was, like, strange to me. But it was good. Caboli style. The calzone? What are you talking about? Was there pierogis on top of it? Pierogis on top of the pizza. Like, as a topping. Oh, that's got to be delicious. Was it red sauce? I don't think I've ever had that, but I. I wish I did. Not really red. I would say more white sauce. You talk about weird pizza. I've never even got to experience this, and I'm actually bummed out. Yeah, I'll boo-hoo. I assume there was a time where maybe we were a little faded and late at the same time, and we maybe took a pierogi, tossed it on top of a piece of pizza, maybe a chicken nugget in there as well. I assume that's how this happened. Get some nacho. And what are you laughing about? That's a good idea. That sounds disgusting. Disgusting? Yeah, that sounds gross. Like that stupid sandwich you guys had stacked behind us in the draft. Stupid! I'm talking about some of that. Pregnantes? Okay. Yeah, okay. You're talking about having a little coleslaw and fries on top. Show people what a pierogi is and just give people a visual. A pierogi is an incredible treat. It's a little bit of a wrapping with an incredible filling inside, and then you can go ahead and you can crisp the outside. Oh, my God. It's the whole Polish version of a wonton. Yeah. This is right here. This is a pierogi. The potato and cheese is on the inside. You know, so you got to really trust the person that makes the pierogi that they're telling you the truth on what's on the inside. What's the background? Is it Italian? Polish. Polish. Polish dumpling. You need to go down to Rosie's Pierogi because it's easy to make. Yeah, I like these on a different plate. Just like that. And then you have your pizza on another plate. Yeah, but if you just were to happen, because it's going to come together at some point anyways inside of you. So if you kind of put them together, you know, you can really get a good. You know, so. Anyways. Yeah. Western Pennsylvania has an incredible delicacy of food. Just a wide array of things that taste delicious. And yeah, maybe when you're boozed up, they taste a little bit better. Okay? And maybe you're on a rush because you got to get back to work. You do put everything on this sandwich. Okay. Okay? Now, speaking of work, there's a man doing work in Denver for a long time who has found his name at the bottom of the list for how much corners are getting paid. And he is at the top of the list whenever people talk about who's the best in the game. D-Bud has a follow-up on the ripple effects here. Absolutely, Rapshaw. I love talking about it. I love talking about cornerbacks getting paid. Stingley, J.C. Horn, Denzel Ward, all these guys have gotten there. money now and like pat just said pat certain out in denver now he's the ninth highest paid corner uh any you think you think get a new deal done or a little pay bump here before the season starts so what do you think no it's a lot of money over there in that ownership group so he did get a little he did get a pay bump uh this year another one this came in the spring i believe i'd have to i forget what it actually was i think i was the one who tweeted actually but did get a little bit pay bump but you know it's it's crazy because two years ago whenever his deal got done he was the highest paid by a bunch and then the corner market and i believe it was stingley that kind of first it was horn and then it was stingley kind of sent it into the stratosphere and now the corner market which like was stagnant forever has like taken off and so yeah i mean you know is certain like is the number one is it gonzalez like that's a tough art that's sort of a different argument i don't know but all of the these guys deserve all the money and like if it's not next year first or ten it'll probably be the year after like these guys have just started earning and earning and earning for each other and it's like you know what do they say like uh rising tides lifts all rising tides there you go same page right there yeah same page yeah it's a good cliche because uh it ends up being true what were you gonna say you guys just finishing each other since yeah it's nice hey were you born naked uh yeah me too man it's crazy we're learning about each other here we're kind of on the same page all right rap let's get to the bottom of some really really serious questions as we head into week one of the nfl season go ahead yeah rap sheet so we've heard that you know bosa's gonna play and then some other guys are puka's gonna play but we have a graphic of a bunch of other you know kind of stars in the nfl who it's still up in the air on whether they're gonna play this weekend could you just kind of go down the list here uh when this gets popped up and just kind of let us know what you know about whether these guys are good to go for sunday uh okay uh pierce i would say playing jeremiah love it says playing there i would say yeah that's probably right hittle seems to have done really well in practice you know that's one you want to be absolutely sure just because it's such a long season the rehab is so quick but a lot of optimism there um we'll see where that ends up going genti i would say that's probably right cautious optimism sounds good if it's not week one it'll probably be week two um adunze i believe is okay but i'd like more information there neighbors is tracking to play that's a good one um and like you know that's been he's been practicing for a month no pup like has done really really really well um you want to see him out there but i think that's heading the right direction bose is playing porter jr sure seems like it you know let's see on that one because he hasn't practiced a lot whoa so you're saying cabal's might be a little bit off you guys are having pierogi pizzas together one week and then the next week you're saying not so fast cabal you want you just want to make sure when a guy hasn't practiced it's a great way to get injured early like you want to make sure that everything is right so i don't know 100 sure that he's playing uh trevion i think that's probably right uh even worry has had a good week of practice this week seems early to play but um we'll see on that i think that's probably right but we'll see on that one as well okay so these are all projected in a moment we should add that to the graphic that this is what we know of this is this is not the actual can change yes uh statuses are subject to change yeah bingo we should add that to this particular graphic because we had it on the full screen there people walking through airport just looking up oh he's out oh okay well we gotta we gotta really clarify yeah we gotta clarify some things on these particular gravity this is where we stand right now if we're reading the tea leaves is what we're trying to say about everything george kittle i just don't see how he would fly to australia to not play that that is just something that i i feel like is go ahead you you maybe you got a little bit of a face there rat oh no uh i mean first of all i would say you're right he's definitely got a chance it is just it's crazy because when he gets injured i'm immediately thinking like october like that's how long these things heal and then i'm there at at training camp at santa clara and i'm watching him go through his workout not in a weird way i'm just going to go through his workout and i'm kind of watching and he looked so it wasn't weird until you said that so hold on hold on no i mean it wasn't i was just like you know watching a guy like run around is kind of strange but that's your job that's football we watch football all the time bro this is just like i saw somebody on the internet uh call somebody a terrible name for leading their team out on the field and they're the head coach of the team excuse me you know you you don't you don't need to say like something's you do it's your job like you're supposedly you're supposed to be watching you're supposed to be watching people run around made it weird just really quick why'd you do that to all of us now you know because now we all have to kind of think like that listen you're projecting your own feelings upon me no that's what you did whenever you said on a weird way yeah we're battling them back yeah so hold on one second though you guys are really battling over there so speak not nobody's battling more than tone right now tone just had a code red tone just got up and left we're gonna be out yeah he's maybe we might need to add him to that update the board yeah something's up there yeah certainly with some question marks but who did you say that to one time that wasn't in football and said that sounds weird and now you have to feel like you clarify that it's welcome back tone good work tony tone in his brand new unreal uh eggnog hoodie we appreciate the ones that they have sent over here for all of us it is very kind of them happy you survived we don't know what happened but we're happy you are back uh he was in the middle of saying something and he said uh i went and watched george kiddo work out in a weird way it's like why do you have to clarify why would it be weird is there sometimes he watches workouts where it is weird like that's what that's what you missed that's literally what we've been talking about right now this entire time like if he was staying like behind a pole oh like head around a corner yeah that would be weird is that what you were doing yeah where were you ever done that before doing it in a non-weird way yeah where were your hands where were your hands yeah yeah play pocket pool while you're watching or that would be weird that is weird now we have to wonder so you watch george kiddo workout yeah in a i'm a football insider way just like two speaking on a show as a football insider about somebody's injury are you a sicko yeah what's going on i'm not so at one point did somebody say you're looking in a weird way and then you're like wow i gotta make sure i don't look in weird ways it's like what coach was that a coach or was that a player peyton would have definitely said i don't like the way you're looking yeah yeah kind of weird that's probably right what was your wearing when i when i was watching him i was i was literally blown away by how good he looked how fast he looked all of that and i was like explosive like this guy actually has a chance so practice has gone really good even if he's on like a little bit of a pitch count just having him out there is like that's a huge win um so we'll see on the official status but very very optimistic there and he's super jacked and super yeah he's all sweaty cool hair yeah really good i'm sure you didn't wrap thinking about him in the cold tub afterwards well i heard it i wanted to go see if he was actually telling the truth he told me he was going to be in a hot tub and cold tub i didn't see with my own eyes disappointingly tried to uh but i definitely was asking for the creds to be able to get in there rap just just do your job all right if you ever want to get that sr title yeah you're gonna just have to do your job stop being a pervert all right we don't need all this other all the shenanigans long way to go long way to go yeah yeah i'm happy okay here we go we've added the question mark star status okay oh great okay now we'll clarify that and at the bottom status is subject to change boom boom okay perfect that we nailed it there we absolutely nailed it there all right we'll continue to do that as we go forward as a uh you know as a a tribute to sports as a whole you know because stories do change and things do you get more information as the days roll on joey porter's gotta get out there that says statuses doesn't it star status no but at the bottom statuses you had es on that you think oh yeah yeah i think so too yeah yeah bruce back there with his oh of course where'd you go to school bruce yes where'd you go to school bruce i went to fordham university oh yeah yeah go rams there we go got a fordham brain back there though and i think he thought it was status this is his he thought it was m-i-s-s-i-s-s actually both are correct now so fordham brain and uh pit brain back he said backroom was actually right too let's not get it wrong and i respect and appreciate that we know both languages okay let's continue to talk your statuses are subject to change as our opinions about things you're allowed to evolve your opinions on stuff always as more information comes out which is obviously life as a whole question for you about some injuries go ahead con man yeah right guy that's definitely out uh tyler smith all pro guard for the dallas cowboys what happened he broke his thumb now it's four to six weeks he has to get surgery was this a practice injury was this last preseason game how did this come to be and should we think that he's going to be back earlier than later because he's a mean tough cuss yeah i mean i would say as far as the the timeline i mean four to six is probably right but he's got to grab and like this is a big tough dude in the trenches like four would be amazing i mean that seems awfully quick um it's also like cowboys are tracking to be i think really good maybe and this is a guy they're going to want around the whole season as long as possible so you know Six is around, my guess. If he beats that, I think that would be awesome. It was bothering him for a while. a little bit, and I think tried to play through it, tried to practice through it. Just because you have to grab so much, couldn't do it. So have surgery now. Fix it. Sounds like T.J. Bass is going to fill in, has done fine, more than fine. And like, Cowboys get to build a little depth, and Tyler Smith will probably be back, let's say, around midseason. Alright, Rap, we appreciate you. Did we miss anything? Didn't talk about Aaron Donald. I saw a press conference. Everything we've said, everything we've said, I think he's going to dominate. I think he's very confident with where he's at. He said he thought 11-on-11 was going to be a little bit harder, I think, is what he thought. He said a couple plays, got a little bit, and then it was like right back into it. And it's like, yeah, he just basically took a two-year break, bro. He just, he did some, what do they call it in basketball? When you rest. Load management. He did a two-year load management after a 10-year career. Did a 10-year career, let's do some load management, and let's reboot for the second chapter. I think he's going to be Aaron Donald immediately. Do you think pitch count? I don't know. I guess that'd be good for Rap there to find out. I mean, I would like to know for sure, for sure, that he's going to be out there first. It's just like. We don't know if he's playing yet? Is that real? No one has said it. We'll see. No one has said it. We'll see. Did you see his press conference yesterday? I did. I mean, he is amazing. It's like the problem. It's like, these guys are so unbelievable that if he took two years off, practiced for one week, and then played, you'd be like, oh, that's Aaron Donald. Yeah, but he hasn't practiced for one week. He's been practicing for like three months right now. It's the first ever game over there in Australia, and you're telling me arguably the greatest defensive player ever is going to be like, nah, I don't want to do that. I do appreciate the fact, though, that none of these teams have to say anything about anybody until they have to put the report out. Nobody has to say anything. It's like the first time they can actually do this. So, is Kittle playing? Nobody. Like, you and. You and Shafter are both like, nobody has said that. Nobody has said that Kittle is playing. And it's like, but we can assume. It's like, no, we can't assume, actually, because we're robots. So, the only way we can do that is if somebody tells us that that is happening, and it's like, Aaron Donald, he's playing? No. Nobody has said that. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's like, isn't it pretty obvious? It's like, it would be obvious if somebody told me they were playing. It would be more obvious, obviously. It's like. Shanahan's saying they're future in time, so he doesn't have to say it until a day after the Rams. I love that. Because we're playing on a Wednesday, but it's actually a Thursday. Or, we're playing on a Thursday, but it's actually a Friday. So, for us, Wednesday is actually a Monday. So, yeah, we're kind of all in there, and I'll get you guys a report. I mean, I was trying to think about when the injury report was going to come out, and I was like, yeah, I'm just going to. I gave up. I have no idea. Well, you better be up late, because sometimes those deals get done, like the one last night with Gonzo. We appreciate the hell out of your rap, ladies and gentlemen. It's Ian Rapoport. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is the head coach of an undefeated football team. And boy, did they put it on. Yeah, they did. Oh, man. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Oh, man. Last year, they went to the national championship. Okay? Everybody wondered, are they going to be able to continue to build on that? They bring in a quarterback? I think they can continue to build on that. They got a wide receiver, might be the best player in all of ball. They got a defense that obviously is punishing, and they got a coach that will actually kick your ass. Yep. Ladies and gentlemen, head coach for the University of Miami football team, Mario Cristobal. Hey, coach! What's up, guys? How we doing? Coach, how are you doing? Thank you so much for joining us. Obviously, incredible start for the boys up there in Stanford. How do you kind of handle beating ass week one while understanding that the biggest jump maybe that your team's going to make is between week one and week two? What is your messaging to the lads after a successful opening? The flat-out truth, brother. Go right at the film. Find all the things that we could do a hell of a lot better, which we can, even though it was a solid start, you know, after two and a half quarters, we pulled most of the guys that started the game, and a bunch of guys went in there that we are expecting to play and help us win football games, and just all in all, there is a lot of progress, but brother, we got a ways to go, man, and we're looking forward to attacking that. We did all week in practice, and we got to suit up in about 48 hours here. Yeah, we cannot wait for week two of college football season to kick off, and obviously your team's going to be a must-watch all season, and maybe forever that you're down there. You know, Coach Cignetti and many others have come out, before week one, and said, I don't really know what my guys are going to be like. Like, I think I have a good expectation of what they're going to be, but until we actually play with this particular group, I'm not 100% sure. For you, what did you learn about this group? More specifically, quarterback first time operating a Miami Hurricane offense. What were your thoughts on how you maybe thought he was going to play versus how he actually did play out there? Yeah, I learned that we're still learning, right? That game one is chapter one of a season. I don't think you ever judge it right until you get to the very end, but as it relates to the quarterback, it's what we saw in practice every single day. Elite talent, elite human being, awesome leadership skills, precision, pocket presence, accurate balls, right? Can extend plays and just improvise, and his juice is awesome. He loved being around this guy, man. He brings so much energy to the table and impacts those guys around him. So, all in all, just a very positive step, and the best part, the guy came in here hungry, is how to go get better. So, we love that. Yeah, I certainly love that. It feels like you have an evaluator's eye that is at the top of the game. You know, everybody talks about Cignetti. Cignetti, if you waste the money that the boosters are giving you, and you spend the money on the wrong people, as Coach Saban would say, you're shit out of luck. That's kind of what it is. You have now had to replace the most important position on your team multiple years in a row, and you've somehow only seemingly got better. Cam Ward, number one overall pick, we thought, wow, how is he going to be able to do that again? You bring in Carson Beck, he explodes in your system, goes to the national championship. Now we're watching Mensah, and it's like, wow, how do you hit on these guys at the most important position? Is there something you're looking for that maybe others aren't? And I would like to let you know, I don't think your evaluation talents kind of get enough respect and credit as I think they deserve. I mean, I think, you know, everything here is, we collaborate, man. We get together, we put our eyes on things, we get our ears out there to the ground, see what people are all, what they're all about, what they're made of, and then, probably the most important part, we provide them with the right supporting cast. Not only football players and teammates, but also schematically and from a coordinator and coaching standpoint, mentorship standpoint, that it all fits together because you look at our team, like every team you're made up of, high school players, veterans, rookies, portal guys, guys that come in from the JUCOs, guys that come in from Canada, so you gotta have, again, the right common mindset DNA to make it all work, and we've been very fortunate to have the right people here. Yeah, I think definitely, and we appreciate you doing it because you've brought Miami all the way, I know you're not saying we're back, you know, that was Don't do it. I hate to break it to you, brother. Hey. I hate to break it to you. Damn it. The U is back. Hell yeah. No, no, it does feel like that, though. Every game is must watch. You play a certain way. Single leg coming your way. Hey, I've been working on a sprawl. I just want to let you know that just in case your big ass gets down there, and I know you've got another You better keep working. You better keep working, brother. I don't, I tell you, I got good, I got good hands. You ain't about that life. Excuse me, I've been rolling 4:30 a.m. before. Okay, now, once or twice. You've been rolling other things at 4:30 a.m., I know that. Certainly, I actually used to be pretty damn good, but now they've got these pre-rolls. It's kind of taking the game out of it, but nonetheless, the U does feel back. Defense flies around, star-studded, and on offense, you've got must-see TV. Go ahead, D-Bud. Yeah, talking about it, you've been back, and I agree with Pat. The U is definitely back. A lot of that is about the culture that's built, not only with the guys there, the guys on the sideline, Michael Irvin, Bane in the league, he's on the sideline supporting, but the recruiting and putting that fence around South Florida. Guy like Malachi Toney, obviously, he was tremendous on the actual field with the stat line. Things we don't see on the stat line, the blocking, just him behind the scenes, the leadership. What has he done this off-season, going into his second season, that you've seen him that, I mean, it looks like he's made a huge jump going into the sophomore season. Well, 12 to 14 pounds of muscle, man. He can accelerate and decel. At higher rates, his stop-and-go is taking another step, his flat-out top-end speed. His durability, his entire body just looks different. He is stronger, he is faster, and then the time he puts in, it's never changed. He always tries to push down below, put that. So he's just bringing in more teammates with him now. So when the coin toss is going on out there, he's at the forefront out there with the rest of the team captains. Yeah, I love watching him play, and the videos of him working in the off-season, and then him blocking, it's like, this guy is from 1995, but then he has this speed and the explosion of 2026. It's like a perfect hybrid of old school and modern football at the same time, and it feels like Mensah's pretty pumped that he's out there, too. It feels like that is certainly a weapon that you'd like to keep on your side. He's must-watch, and I like him and Jeremiah, too. All season long, hopefully that'll happen for all of us. Now on the offensive side, to get the ball to a wide receiver, a lot of things have to happen. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Coach, we know you cut your teeth in the trenches, and three or four of your guys got drafted last year off of the offensive line. How did you feel about the big uglies up front in their first time together playing a real game? Offensively, I thought pass pro was really good, and then in the run game, we were hit and miss a few times, but overall, considering that they were in a loaded box playing man coverage, handled some things pretty well and have to work a lot on some other things. and on the defensive side the same way. way you know we held the six points but there's a lot of things that we got to work on to get better you know just the basic principles of getting our feet in the ground coming off of the flat back getting our hands inside going low to high and lifting people right knocking the line of scrimmage back so those are things that we pride ourselves on and we have to get better at okay you know what i think you need to do there's this little really stock rugby guy with a sweet accent that's been in town i don't know if you heard he's training miles garrett on how to get low to boom how to get low to high he's the little one that just went through the air right there and by little i mean you know rolling ball butcher knives here this guy's an actual muscle man from out of time he's coming and teaching that same leg same shoulder low man leverage weight miles garrett's killing people so this has been happening i don't know if you want to bring him down maybe do the big bulk uh bulk jacked foreign uh caucasian guy low leverage man wins thing but it seems like he can maybe i'm actually going to start training with this guy for you i just want to let you you need to watch the film here this is what's coming oh oh oh let me know what i'm supposed to worry about and be afraid right now bro right now is the time that's what i'm saying they're going to be calling you mario no crystal ball you know when i'm coming in there uh okay i appreciate the fact that you're like fundamentals we got to work on everything i saw four different plays where one guy didn't take the right step we got to work on that that type of accountability is what creates obviously greatness and then hopefully a strive for perfection that can guide you through an entire season now on that note it's going to be a long one these seasons are long you got to experience it last year did you learn anything from the long road last year all the way the national championship that changes the way you're going to coach this year like you said a lot of backups got in the third quarter obviously had the opportunity to do that have you always been that way or is it this year like hey we got a long road we need more guys to have experience like how are you kind of viewing this season from what you learned last season yeah i mean you're 100 right you have to develop your football team so when and mind you you get guys in the game that have earned the right to play i really don't believe that we just throw guys in there because maybe you build a comfortable lead or whatnot it still has to be guys that you're developing because they are going to have to play they're going to have to help your team win football games so that's what we did um again we don't that has to happen you have to work that into existence on a play-by-play basis and now look beyond that so but that's our philosophy develop your roster we had practice today and at the end we you know sent everybody the sidelines that brought out all the guys that need developmental work and ran another extra 20 plays of live ball to see who else we can get on the field for uh this coming thursday i love it this thursday under the lights oh yeah oh yeah hard rock lights on big powerful lights on shining big bright lights with ipads and helmet communications and all the technology in the world video board video boards clocks not super secret clocks just regular clocks thursday night fam you good luck coach the rest of the way and we appreciate you so so much for joining us and uh it seems like you got another team that is absolutely stacked with electricity we can't wait to watch well i appreciate you guys having me again we're working at it we're getting uh we're getting better have a lot of progress but we have miles to go brother and again thank you for having me and god bless hey muchos gracias mi amigo you know getting better your spanish is a hell of a lot better oh they're not thank you so much ladies and gentlemen hey coach they're not that means thank you no problem no you're welcome that means you're welcome and that's what it is yeah thank you it's nothing huh is that what the nada means i thought no i thought yeah i thought welcome yeah i think that you okay because nada are you separate day i thought it was the casual you're welcome and like you're welcome is more i always just say thank you and they're returning it but i i didn't know if it was actually not as you're welcome from nothing yeah it literally means of nothing from nothing they use it as you're welcome yeah of course but it actually means like it well how does that make any sense well i mean it's no no it's nothing what's the source there that's not with but that's not what you're welcome you're welcome is oh it's nothing yeah but that's their version of it yeah yeah but they're they don't worry about it don't worry about it don't worry about it yeah jesus christ no big deal yeah thank you forget it it's nothing don't worry about it don't worry about it forget about it you're welcome the connotation is very different yeah i i think in english it means you're welcome you utilize spanish it means you're welcome okay i agree okay i took five years of it show me the google translate then david it i live in south florida google what is your welcome yeah yeah i think you utilize that don't worry about it exactly yeah it doesn't mean you're welcome but yes not it does mean nothing yes yeah so i think it's not like so then how does it mean you're welcome if not it means nothing i think the phrase is let me guess utilized as you're welcome like i think you know does that make sense what are they teaching in the schools anymore man oh yeah you're welcome and now granted that's not the right yours yeah what are we doing man all right let's move away what's the point of why we lost yeah okay what we lose yeah i don't think anything day nada nothing uh nfl live uh oh you're talking about the emmy yeah we're never going to win that well we had the right answers i wasn't talking he wasn't talking about jeopardy talking about family she did lose my jack all right let's stop let's reset let's just keep going you need to call time out bring yourself to the sideline get us together all right hey listen real quick hey bang boom players only meeting huddle up in the middle get you some drink here let's go ahead and cut it thank you give me a can of corn toss all right now we're back in it yeah bottles back to the sideline thank you balls up all right i scored it in my own mouth it was it thank you for doing that i saw it on the screen thank you for doing that i saw a lot of that by the way marcus freeman doing it the other day and i thought to myself thank god marcus freeman's doing that right there perfect transition for tony as well still thinking player yeah he still thinks he's a player because he's jogging out in front of his team as a head coach i don't like what's going on on the internet with marcus freeman sure his hair is certainly something we all see okay we all see it let's let's make sure we know that it's awesome he looks perfect yeah that guy looks unbelievable normal he's incredible shape okay what would people be saying if he looked like a schlub out there well we have seen a lot of schlubs out there we have seen a lot of schlubs and we know what they said and i don't think marcus freeman's ever going to look like a schlub i don't think that's going to be the case but they're saying that this guy i know he's a leader of men he's he's the head coach of the football team yeah yeah he's going to jog out with or in front of his team he's leading his team onto the field you got some of these people on the internet that are like you know what this guy's hair is weird and also is this the corniest guy of all time it's like no he's the head coach he's he's their head coach he's leading them onto the field that's just a football tradition i think it's been happening for a long long time but it does feel like the new age kids you better win you don't win you're gonna get murdered absolutely crucified shrink the game first hat exactly that's the bad part about the sport being so big and popular you know there's too many people getting in covering everybody got something to say we nerds yeah but we like that we appreciate that our sport has been able to yeah we love that open up to a massive amount of people but i do think there's a lot of people that are very new to ball as fans of ball and uh don't truly understand the nuances potentially of ball but are trying to project as if they are ball experts so i think there is just some you know some things that can potentially happen but there's a following for everybody whatever gets you into football is cool but we can't just be like i was watching his workout not in a weird way it's like yeah what are you doing what are you saying yeah why are you doing that hey the head coach is leading his team out what a weirdo it's like yeah no this is football like these are things that happen out here so i just i like the fact we're starting off the season and we're kind of realizing what it's probably going to be in some places but all we do know marcus freeman's notre dame team they're very good strong a lot of people probably only saw the first half maybe fell asleep didn't see the second half it's like they are they're going to be a-okay who do we think though is the number one team in the country coming out of week one of college football season and by we i mean one and that man is a college football author has sold thousands and thousands of college football books via the internet i do not think he's a new york times bestseller but he's certainly bestseller in our ticket yes and you know some polls are average just kind of look at the 30,000 foot view yeah some polls are below average where they don't even know what they're talking about remember we had people voting on awards and they didn't even know what sport was true that's very that would be a very below average poll if they were to pull one out there's the average poll and then there's the above average pulse and the above average polls have a little bit of information and the ability to get in deep but not deep enough that you don't understand what's going on ladies and gentlemen it is time for our author our college football guru tone digs is above average poll yeah who sits at top tones above average poll tone you have the miami hurricanes is that strictly because coach crystal ball came on the show and then it appears as if lsu is the number two team in the country and then ohio state is number three team in the country your above average poll has miami sitting atop of it and why is that and how did we get here yeah thank you for letting me do this slightly above average poll especially if you bring in the eastern hemisphere we don't know if it's slightly or grossly above average it's one or the other you're certainly in the mid-afternoon somewhere around there i've been um told by myself um yeah we wanted to do this and you know a lot of like when you do like the ap top 25 or whatever it's like you start with the week zero before any games are played and then it's like should you recreate that poll completely like should you just every week start with a clean slate which i do believe is that how you should do it and i started with this clean slate today yeah i mean you guys missed it there's some some madness going on behind the elephant over here but sorry keep going to it that elephant's pull is slightly above average as well um but no i thought whose body whose body is this that's me that's me i mean the watch is on the wrong wrist so maybe it isn't me it looks like jack carr's body honestly okay and those am i wearing platform i just don't know gotta wear boots on the beach especially if you're ap tone you got above average poll here now average polls are everywhere this is an above average i like that to be honest yeah i know you do yeah that's what we're saying we're like wow okay tone i like what you're doing here um good forms huge hands yeah huge myths on tone tell you what i think that's somebody else's body and i bet you their pull big maybe maybe maybe good pull seems like they are a little bit more uh disciplined okay let's we're not talking about big polls here we're talking about how good a poll is we're not talking about if it's big or not oh yeah you're right right this is about if it's a good poll or not miami's on top of your poll okay we like that lsu two ohio state three can you tell us why it's not just an average poll can you take us a little bit deeper but not as deep as others maybe i also like that i kind of feel like i'm king triton down on the beach with you at the top there yeah um listen ohio state and lsu they absolutely take care of business uh ohio state versus ball state uh they were at home in the shoe i think they went for 700 yards uh they were awesome let's not you know hosting clemson in lane's first game there the environment was unbelievable um but just just eye test wise going all the way up to palo alto uh for miami they were unbelievable like i didn't see anything wrong with this team um it could have been a sleepy sleepy environment up there not a lot of people in the crowd and they answered all the boxes checked all the boxes answered all the questions um i just thought eye test wise they were very very very impressive uh not taking anything away from lsu ohio state as well because obviously there you go sitting there in the top three thank you for making that above average not just average who went down on your poll because of their performances week one and who sucked on the pool i mean nobody sucked on the pool um that i saw uh michigan michigan did suck on the pool but they weren't even on my pool to begin with okay that's tough okay so i had a day who did slide i had to dig obviously oregon was my number one week uh whatever so i had to ding oregon a bit even though they out gained boise by 200 yards um just you know turnovers a little bit sloppy stuff like that oregon dropped a bit there wasn't a lot of dropping to be honest uh okay not a lot of dropping there was a lot of dropping but these guys climb in the pool yeah climb the pool and they they raised the pool to you know new heights six to midnight if you will okay well thank you for the above average poll thank you i'm gonna do one next week hbcu paul yeah big hbcu poll yeah i might have to change the name of it though who's sick new graphic new graphic i think we gotta check you know what you got you're done bone on that uh thank you for your poll thank you for my poll thank you for sharing your poll i always love sharing my i can't wait for week two for that every set every week we're really on to something here yeah i'd say some things are for us we do apologize and if you're new to the program which we are learning there are new people somehow with everything that's being said there's new people too sure which we appreciate that some things are just for us and uh you're going to realize that that one boy really lit a fire in the thunderdome this morning when it started cooking around and to be honest i thought we executed it perfectly yeah yeah i don't think anybody's going to know what it was about no no talking about rock and new bod thank you in shape fit guy in america okay we had cultural before yeah yeah that was a decision that was a decision coach is definitely pumped he's sitting was that prime chuck norris's body yeah i think so buddy i think you're doing it man that should be gold maybe maybe it is towards the guy that's holding that big old pole you had down there dude well it's slightly above average pole if you include the eastern hemisphere great stance i gotta include all parties all right all right um as we wrap you up here hour one of the sports program good pretty good i'd say i feel like we really covered everything we needed to cover above average first hour a couple quick things we do have to say uh it feels like the irish coaches are saying you're gonna have to earn leadership yep okay each week mccarthy and mcdonald have both come out and said week-to-week captains we're not doing full season long captains i believe mccarthy has done this before i think he did it with the packers because remember the photos used to come out of the weekly captains it was always a big deal i don't know if he did it in dallas i assume he remained in dallas it's kind of his idea will the quarterback be every single week we're not 100 sure i think there was teams that i was on that was week to week and then there was teams i was on that was season long yeah i don't really know the difference but i i like the thought of maybe you could earn a c one week but you never get it on your jersey i don't think yeah which i mean i like the old school you know four maybe five captains with the c on the chest and then we know we have coaches here who if you spent some time with that team previously sort of sailor printed falcons maybe it's a former child can you send them out for the coin toss and they're like the captain oh jair you're saying exactly that type of situation but um i i was not awesome it was awesome well johnny alexander just named himself a captain for the coin toss because coach lafleur for the packers forgot that he was from here so yeah well then yeah he played like the first series and they benched him like the entire game the best player on the defense well i should have been named captain maybe i agree that's what mccarthy and mcdonough are 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we get a chance to chat about it we are officially all the way in on football season as we sit here on the eve of the 2026 2027 nfl season kicking off in beautiful seattle washington as the super bowl champs are host to the new england patriots the reigning afc champion mike vrabel and drake may will head over to the pacific northwest to kick off a season that's about to be the biggest and best season yet toxic tables here at bossy connor and that ty schmidt ty we're really potentially staring down the best season yet last night came down to a game-winning field goal there was a block kick to win a game there was a half-inch tackle baylor versus auburn there's been electrifying finishes in electricity oh hail mary obviously yeah but horse shit i don't know they said that they got one they got their own super duper clock they said that supersedes every other clock and nobody else gets to see now on that note nobody in the history of ball knew that that existed or was even possible but somebody did and they said that's why they put it on now if western michigan had that happen to them as reese davis asked yesterday on our show and i'm assuming others did would they get that tenth of a second second back no we'd like to hope yes we'd like to hope in the big house we'd like to hope yes 100 000 people don't believe it though can't help it well you can help in one hand in the other and see which one gets you further is what some people who are pessimists or realists they would say uh thing nonetheless we've had electrifying finishes i think this is all a great indicator into what the nfl season is going to be because even the preseason games had some electricity it feels like football is at a better state now than it's ever been and i think that bodes well for all of us ty yeah i'm i would agree and it's crazy because it doesn't really need to be because you know in years i i shouldn't say in years past but like the last several years like now you actually you know for Like, this Sunday, I think the Browns and the Jaguars play. Like, 10 years ago, that'd probably be like, oh, okay. But, like, now, it's like there's a good chance that at some point that's going to be in your four box on Sunday. And that's, like, one of the games that kind of stinks. But the amount of marquee matchups we have, and this is – you really have to tip your hat to the NFL because I don't know if it's just recency bias or, like, not really remembering, but the amount of stacked games that – like, it used to be, like, that we would have the showcase game, the opening night of the season. There'd be a good Sunday night game and probably a good Monday night game. And then several games that I don't think you were getting super excited about. But now, with all the divisional games kind of moving up to earlier in the season, too, and even, you know, like Colts-Ravens. That's a great game. You have – Bills-Texans. Yeah, Bills-Texans. Bucks-Bangles. Exactly. You can go through pretty much, I'd say, outside of maybe Jets-Titans and Dolphins-Raiders, you know, especially with Mendoza not starting. Like, those are the ones that maybe you kind of just – Mm-hmm. Cast aside and it's like, all right, whatever. But for most of these games, like, you can find a handful of things to be excited about and probably see yourself having that at least in one of your four boxes on Sunday. NFL underdogs are 178, 132, and 5 against the number in weeks 1 through 2 across the last 10 seasons. Over 50% cover in weeks 3 through 18. Interesting number here from Mendoza. The way he lined it up as if it was a baseball number there. I do respect the hitting because that's what we are. Stepping into the batter's box when we're trying to do the – these things. Dad! Cowboys AP tone. Your take on how we should view week 1 here in the NFL whenever we're gambling or trading in all 50 states with the best sportsbook on earth, DraftKings. 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So maybe we should sprinkle a little bit. But that's not how sports work. No. Sports are always unpredictable. The team that's in Australia for a week, they should be better suited to play a game in Australia, right, than the team that's flying in 36 hours before the game. We have no idea. We have no clue. Heard a sleep expert start talking. Fell asleep while she was talking. Yeah, that's a good expert. So I just couldn't hear it. You know what I mean? I tried to listen. I tried to understand what she was saying. And I assume that there's so many different ways to look at the circadian system and what's right and what's not right. But honestly, until the game is played, that is the only way that it's going to be judged. And if it comes down to, like, a field goal, make, win, miss, lose, even if it's just a field goal that's missed, the team that wins will be like, that was the right way to go about doing it, which is a crazy, absurd thing to think. But we have no clue what's going to happen in any of these games. But, Ton, what is the way you're going to be viewing this first week of action for the NFL? Week one is a big, like, public perception, bet high, sell low situation on all of these. Like, when you look at it, like, the commanders, commanders and Eagles, Eagles Super Bowl champions in the last few years, commanders, everyone down on the commanders. So everyone's going to be on the Eagles. Dolphins. Dolphins and Raiders. Everyone's high on the Raiders because they made all the off-season moves and very, very down on the Finns. Titans and Jets, similar situation where Titans make the off-season moves. Everyone is down on the Jets. People are down on the Falcons because of Tua. There's, like, it's sprinkled across the board here. The Browns and Jaguars in that situation that Ty talked about. Like, everyone's going to be down on the Browns because of Deshaun Watson. One of those, or two of those teams are going to beat the teams that everyone is high on in the public perception. It happens every single year on week one. You can add Cardinals and Chargers in there. Everyone's going to be on the Chargers. Every single year in week one, one of these teams that everyone has been down on all summer long ends up beating one of these teams that everyone has talked about. Oh, this team is going to make a jump this year. This team is going to be good this year. It happens every single year. That's why in week one and week two, you're sitting at 58% for dogs versus 50% for dogs the rest of the season because in week one, you really just don't know, even though a lot of people think they know a ton about this team just because it's based off of last year. You think you know, but you have no idea. This is the real story of, what was that? Show real was real. True life. True life. No, it's a good show. Oh, a show was it's an MTV show. You think, you know, but you have no idea. This is the real life. Diary. It was just called diary. This is the diary. Like, didn't know what they said. This is the diary of how to catch him. The name of the show was just diary. Okay. What was the rest of that statement there that I was saying? What was the rest? This is the story of. Okay. Or this is the diary of, sorry. Oh, okay. And that new character each week. Each week, yeah. I would have never. Season eight, episode 10 was Tony Hawk. That was probably the one that, if I had to guess. Probably so good. Who else was on there? Yeah, he don't. Season eight had Ja Rule, Kate Hudson, Jason Kidd, Ashton Kutcher. That's quite a pretty good lineup. Ashanti, American Idol, Christina Aguilera. That was the original, hey, do you like documentaries, Pat? Yeah, I think you do here. And then, what was the other one? Cribs. Obviously, love Cribs. Made. I found out this year. Something made also good. I found out some of those houses were rented. Most of them, it seems. Why, yeah. We got work. Yeah, sweet. That's nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. I had inspiration pumping into my life every Cribs episode. I'm like, oh, need a stacked fridge when I cannot wait to stack the fridge like this. Oh, TV pops up out of the thing. Is this like exhibit and pimp my ride? No, this is what your bedroom could be like. Yes. Give me that thing. This guy's got what in the basement? A restaurant? I like that. Turns out, they weren't living there. A lot of them weren't living there. No. It was all fake. Foo gays. An HGTV show. Basically, yeah. Showing off houses. Yeah, so I want to let you know. We should still be inspired that those exist, though. Yeah, I guess so. Some of them are real. Yeah, like I know Master P had gold on the ceiling. Ludacris had KFC and Corona in his fridge and had his own damn football field in his backyard. And Tommy Lee had the caught barista. Exactly. And the Zen thing and the booze thing. Yep. Yeah, he did have an above average pole as well where he was. He ranked the things that he wanted in his life and he put them all in his house. Went and got them. Redman's episode. Oh, the best. It's all time. Who had a fake? Hey, welcome. He's putting the wires together. Yeah, he's the man. He's still bringing it, I do believe. Oh, yeah. I've seen him pop up on the internet. Shout out to him. Microphone checked. Swing and swallow, let you. Closing down a septa. Supreme neck protector. Better one on camp, Mr. Method. Lollipop. They were unbelievable. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They need to come back out. Still bringing it. Now that I got a Wu-Tang sweat on my back, maybe that's why it's going through my soul a little bit. Joining us now is a rapper, a philanthropist, a speaker, a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, ladies and gentlemen, mental health advocate, ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. Yeah. Thank you, A.J. Hey, somebody had to own those places. Even if these people on the show were renting them, somebody owned those sweet houses. Yeah, but it's probably some finance person that has an amount of money that was going to be tough for you to get if you were to pay for it. If you were to pick up a guitar someday, you know, like, I think there was a little bit of maybe some misrepresentation of some funds of some people in some professions, but nonetheless still got inspired by him, A.J. And A.J. got inspired, too. This guy was number five overall pick in the NFL draft two CBAs ago. Yeah, this guy bought the entire state of Ohio with his signing bonus before he even stepped foot into an NFL facility. A.J., we're sitting here on NFL Eve. Your big storyline heading in there? What is it for? Is it Patriots-Seahawks? Is it Patriots-Seahawks that's happening tomorrow? Because I think people have forgot that this game's kicking off the entire, us included. I mean, we've been talking about Aaron Donald, the Rams, MVP, primetime, holy hell, they got the Avengers on the defensive side. They're in Australia. Then you talk about the Niners and the substation. That's what we talked about all offseason. Patriots-Seahawks kicks this thing off tomorrow night. This game is going to be awesome, I believe. And I think they're both going to be playing very, very good football to start this entire season, A.J. Yeah, they are. And the atmosphere is going to be unbelievable out there in Seattle. I think. It'll be fun because it's very easy to overreact one way or the other, I think, when you see the week one games, especially. We don't really know what these teams have. The coaches don't even really know exactly what their team is. So let's see who comes out there first and kind of sets their identity. Obviously, getting Gonzo paid is a huge deal for the Patriots. But yeah, I think this is an awesome matchup. I think it's like there's a lot of good personalities on both sides as far as coaching staffs and players. To your point, I do like that our best environment that the NFL has is going to be on display, opening night. Yeah. Not that any Super Bowl champion buildings have not been awesome. I mean, you go back a couple of years ago when the Eagles were getting booed off at halftime during banner night. And obviously, the Patriots have hosted a lot of banner nights and they've gotten slaughtered in some of those banner nights. So the crowd is what it is. It's like, and I'm not saying these are bad. These are great fan bases. Obviously, if you have a Super Bowl winning team, your fan base has to be good as well. They're part of the entire process and probably going to join you through the entire ride. But like Seattle is known to be our best environment. So it being on display for opening night. Opening night, I think, is a big deal for the NFL. And I'm excited to see them show up in it on Thursday, 820 on Netflix, Rams, Niners. Here's what the stadium looks like. Melbourne Cricket Grounds with a football stadium inside of it. As Mike Holder, who will not get the checkmark. I'm not giving him three bucks. I don't like him. He gets a nice video here of what it won't look that bad. I was a little bit worried about too much space on the side. Looks very normal. Very close in the corners. The corners, yeah. The corners look close, but everywhere else. Obviously, there's plenty of space, but that's what you expect from these international games, I feel like. And especially with the cricket field, you know, because, like, Aussie rules football, I think, is a big round one. I think it's big round. And then cricket's big and round as well. So this is just like whenever a football field has to go into a baseball stadium, like obviously different designs of what the field space looks like. But I think it fits pretty nice. I'll tell you what, if our field was 55 yards wide instead of 53 and a third yards wide, I don't know if we'd be able to get it in the stadium there. I think I maybe miscalculated the size of one of these Aussie rules football fields. But I think that's going to create a great environment. And I'm excited for the Aussie that's in the corner right there. He's about to have a great day. Yeah, and I think, you know, no one's really talked about it, but I assume there's going to be no issues with the playing surface at all because that's every single time they go to, you know, Tottenham Stadium or, like, Wembley or something like that, first play of the game, we see the massive, like, seam in the turf. And it's like, oh, okay, like, this is terrible. So hopefully no one goes down today. I assume that they aren't going to have to deal with that at all. I think their turf is a push, a strong turf, right? Because they're doing it a lot of that kind of stuff. Yeah, so I think it is a type of grass that should be good for the big boys. Yeah, for sure. They're malleable. Yeah, because the soccer stuff, you get a 300-pounder out there doing this. Yep. That grass ain't used to it. No. Got soft grass. Never. You need some tough-ass grass. That's right. For the big boys, what a matchup. What a matchup. I mean, just all week long. It's opening week. You know, even if you pop up that full slate, you got, obviously, Wednesday, Thursday, but then the Sunday night, Monday night games, too. Like, obviously, you know, all eyes on the Giants, what do they look like with Harbaugh at the wheel next year for Dart, Malik Nabors hopefully back out there fully healthy. Everybody's high on the Dallas Cowboys like we usually are, but this year it kind of seems like they are, you know, with the quietness that has been around there. And then you look at Monday night with Denver, Kansas City. So those are two divisional matchups, Thursday's divisional matchup, I don't know how you guys felt, but as a player you always felt like that week one coming out of the gate, playing a divisional game like that, that was like a little extra boost to start the season off. Yeah, and obviously divisional games matter most. You win a division, you get into the dance, that's all anybody's trying to do. The divisional games being this early, I think it has had a mixed response from, like, coaches and GMs and things like that. But the NFL has tried to put their biggest games earlier to try to get a little bit more attention because sometimes you save the divisional games for late, and obviously you do that, so the build at the end is, like, very real, every game matters almost double here. Can you catch up? Can you not catch up? Well, we got three straight divisional games. And then there was a little bit of a lackluster start a few years back. I forget what year it was, but there was, like, three to four start of the weeks where primetime games weren't good and the matchups weren't really desirable. There wasn't a lot of marketing, but towards the end of the season, it was packed and stacked. So now I think they have tried to bring some into the beginning so we can start the season in a big way. We'll probably have a couple weeks of shite. -Definitely. -Sure. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul here at the beginning of the season, and it has been announced that Patrick Mahomes will be starting on Monday night, so he's back early off of injury. So Monday night football will be a packed cast of characters of high. We are the NFL to the entire globe. Cannot wait to be on site. Lucky to be a part of Monday night countdown for that. And, yeah, NFL is off in a big way tomorrow night. Now, college football week one ended last night in a little bit of chaos. Don't you think, A.J., a little bit of chaos? Yeah, I'd say it started out, and there's a little bit of chaos throughout the whole night. Yeah, I mean, let's not even talk about the falling, okay? I mean, like, football gods just seemingly not blessing Florida State at all. And then this is tough. If this was to happen and they were to keep the power, okay, let's say the power stays on, I would still think to myself, "No way Florida State wins." Yeah, it looks bad. That's what I would say. Almost caught the whole place on fire. Luckily, it's moist down there. Ah, they start cheering. Ah, yeah, they say we're alive, college football. Done. They say we're alive, college football. We're alive, college football. early. There were a lot of communication issues and I noticed it on the sidelines. Everybody was kind of rushing trying to figure out what the heck was going on but it was sort of all right we can we can play this game and they figured the lights were all they really needed at the end of the day. Yeah and I like that they did that. That's an old school decision saying yeah we'll do it and then going back to the locker room going all right we got to figure out how the hell yeah we're going to be doing this you know because there's a lot of communication obviously how it works out. Obviously an interesting start to a season for both of them. SMU gets a big-time win. Florida State loses and has a lot of football god stuff go against them last night. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Taylor, a lot of the reporting is that, you know, it's the vibes around the FSU program are about as low as they've ever been in the history of Florida State football. Could you feel that in the stadium last night? I saw a report maybe that Norvell came on the big jumbo screen in a prerecorded video to tell the band that they were going to be performing in the Macy's Day Parade and the entire place booed him. What is the vibes around that program now? What did you pick up on that last night? Yeah, the vibes around Coach Norvell are certainly low. I did hear those boos as well, so can confirm that. But I will say this. I have to give a lot of credit to their fan base last night for sticking out the hour and 45-minute delay. And when that game eventually did kick off, that place was rocking. So I do have to give them that. But as far as the belief in Coach Norvell, we had said it at the top of the broadcast before everything happened that I'm not sure there's a team in college football that needed to win Week 1 more than Florida State. And unfortunately, that did not happen. And it is very clear the people around Tallahassee are not happy with Mike Norvell. And to answer your question, I absolutely felt those vibes that the patience is not only thin, I think it's completely worn off at this point. I think it might be tough to find somebody to come coach down there. You can't even get power to the stadium. Now, unlucky. Mm-hmm. I will say, incredibly unlucky. But it's like, who will be the person that saves Florida State, I guess, if it's, you know? I guess you could hope. There's one guy. I got a guy in my eye. Did he play there? He sure did. Is he currently at altitude right now? He sure is. He's got cool sunglasses. How would that all go? You know, are we getting UPS systems, at least, operating in the stadium going forward? He lighted himself. Last question about last night from AJ for you, Taylor. Yeah, Taylor, Pat mentioned the UPS system. They popped up some contraptions. That can keep the lights alive for a while. Like some kind of generator, I guess. Some kind of fancy generator, as you showed me. Is Florida State going to invest in these things? Are they going to have a mandated place that you have to have contingency plans if something like this does happen? You know, that's a good question. And I've asked the ACC what they learned from that. And I think people are still trying to figure it out. I mean, it's just happened. So, I think moving forward, of course, when something like this happens, that's usually what transpires, right? Disaster causes everybody to then, develop their contingency plan. So, I would assume that not only Florida State, but probably the ACC demands something that is available at every stadium across the league to make sure that these situations moving forward are covered. I'll tell you what, Taylor. As somebody that has gotten to the bottom of the generator operation multiple times, I don't know if they're ever going to find the right answer. No. Because the only time you find out if it is the right answer is when you need it. And if it doesn't work, then there's, oh, well, we should have done this. And it's like, okay, well, I thought that's what you were doing. Power is an interesting thing, especially whenever it's just like a little bit of a surge that just goes through and knocks out everything. It's like, well, we got to figure out where the hell that came from and how many different wires. I saw the report on ESPN where it said we found it in a bus something station. They found a short circuit in a thing. It's like, okay, all right. Well, I appreciate we got football, Taylor. That was good news. That was good news. And I've never had to Google so much in my life. What is it? What's a transformer? What's a generator? Just making sure my lingo and verbiage was up. And I'm not saying the wrong things because a power line and everything that they were communicating to me, I'm like, okay, how can we make this as clear to the audience as possible? So I did a lot more research on power in Tallahassee than I probably did on football last night. And I never would have predicted that. Hey, but you got that forever now. You got that forever. There we go. Last question isn't about power or about college. Actually, it is kind of about power. Go ahead, Ty. Taylor, just how enjoyable has this year been with the Cubs? Like, I always think doing your job, like, let's say if you were working for the Colorado Rockies, would be very difficult because you're there a lot. The team stinks. They're eliminated midway through the season. But the Cubs are legitimate, you know, World Series threats this year. PCA is having an MVP season. Just how special has it been doing that all year? It really is. It's such a fun gig. You know, September is the best month of the year for a Major League Baseball sideline reporter because you're really hanging on to every single pitch. And especially with the MVP in the National League, the favorite in Pete Crowe Armstrong. Every time he steps up to the plate, you just have this belief that he's going to do something incredible. So that's what's really, really fun about it. In a sport where you play 162 games, there can be a little redundancy. But this time of year, it certainly does not feel like that. And, um, it already feels like playoff baseball has kind of begun. And, in fact, the minute I get back to my house, I'm driving up to Milwaukee to do the Cubs game tonight in Milwaukee. And that's going to be awesome. Um, should be a fun one. And looking forward to what PCA could potentially have against Jacob Mizorowski, who is also just an incredible talent in Major League Baseball right now. Miz is starting tonight against PCA? Oh, yeah. Okay. Baseball bringing it here on this NFL Eve. Yes, it certainly is. Well, safe travels up there. Thank you for being a beast. Great work last night. And, thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me, guys. I hope to see you soon. You got it, ladies and gentlemen. It's Taylor McGregor. Yeah, Taylor. Just driving up to Milwaukee to watch Miz vs. PCA tonight. Big series. Sick. That's huge. Is this the first game of the series? Uh, second. Who won the first one? They played last night. It was late. I fell asleep. I don't know. I know the Cubs took a lead at some point, but I do not know if they won that game. Tony, do you know who won that game? I'm looking it up right now. How about tonight? We got Miz vs. PCA. I like that. We also have four to three. We also have Ben Shelton-Alcaraz tonight. Huge one. Quarterfinals for the U.S. Open. And I think Foe is going right now. Yeah. I think Foe is going right now. This U.S. Open's forever. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Take about a month every tennis tournament. How many matches do you have to win to win it all? It seems like 40. I want to say like 15. Right? It can't be that many, can it? I mean, I seriously thought there was like 160 people in a tennis tournament. I have no idea. Is this like winning and getting to quarterfinals? Right now? They're in the quarters right now. They're in the quarters. Elimination starts now. Men and women? No, I think it's elimination from one. The whole time. From the first match on. You got to win seven total games. Seven. Matches, sets. Matches. Games. Yeah. Tennis, matches. All right. Match. All right. We tried. Set match. Game is part of a set. Malika told me she was in a hotel for 22 days. So that's how long I guess the U.S. Open is. A long time. Got to really be dialed in. Dialed. Is Wimbledon this long? Yeah. I mean, it must be. They all are. I mean, in England. Are they real? All the majors? All the majors are, yeah. I mean, super long. We got a lot of Americans that have gone as far, I guess, as far as, I don't know, this amount of Americans making it this far. I saw some tweet saying like it hasn't been this many since whatever year. For men's and women's? Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Let's go, America. Let's go back to last night. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now. Nope. Hold. Okay. All right. Is this still tennis? Nope. Well, to add, Coco Gauff became like the first woman to make the quarters in every single major or whatever it's called since like Serena Williams, by the way. I think she did that last night. Did Serena and Venus, they played in this, right? Yeah, they're playing doubles. How'd they do? I bet on them. I don't think I got to crown them. I don't think they won. I saw one of them had like a bad unforced error and they were both laughing, kind of just jacking around. So I think they're just. What do you mean laughing, jacking around? I think like 10 years ago, they would have been at each other's throats. Like, hey, let's go. Let's win. And Serena was like, God, that was so bad. Like, I think they were just having fun out there. I like that they're doing that. Yeah. Because Roger Federer did a behind the back thing. Yeah. So he's kind of having a good time. Yeah. I don't know. I should bet on him, though. I think I should find out. Yeah, maybe don't. Yeah, because if I see the Williams sisters. Are you jacking around or not? Maybe I need to pay closer attention to what's going on. That seems like a smart decision. Manu was paying very close attention to everything going on last night, ending up starting with a dub. Ladies and gentlemen, the head coach of the SMU Mustangs, Mr. Rhett Lashley. How you doing, man? We just talked to Taylor McGregor, and she was talking about finding out about Transformers and Power. You guys having to go Amish and the meetings you guys were having. Can you just talk about, first of all, congratulations, man. Congrats on the big time win. I appreciate it. What a cardiac type win, late night down there in Tallahassee. Can you just tell me about last night and what you're telling your team through it all? Yeah, thanks. We're definitely glad to be 1-0. We made it harder than it had to be. We like doing hard things, apparently. Yeah, it was weird, right? We're actually about to run out of the tunnel, and you know how it works, Pat. You're on the road. Their team's going to run out, and they got some guys saying, hey, you're running out at 3.30 and all this stuff. And then there's 4.40 on the clock. We're at the tunnel waiting for Florida State to run out, then so we can run out. And the clock just stops at 4.40. And so we're all just standing there. And finally, he's like, look, just run out 30 seconds after they come out. We're like, OK. So we run out on the field. The captains go out. They flip the coin. We win the toss. We take the ball. And the next thing you do is you kind of look up. And it was kind of like right as the sun was setting. And you realize the lights aren't even on. and so then we're all kind of standing there like what's going on there's a little bit of a delay and officials come over like hey we have an issue we're like yeah no kidding uh the lights aren't on that the clocks aren't working but but it was weird because half the half the stadiums the scoreboard was still on and some other things were still on and so we ended up waiting for five or ten minutes they kept coming back and forth about 15 minutes into it mike and i just walk out to midfield and we're just talking like hey what do you want to do you know how much longer do we wait till we need to go back in and sit and how long till we need to restretch and all that and so uh eventually we just went in a little before eight we went back in the locker room game was supposed to kick at 7 35 and uh they kept hoping they could get it done but uh they couldn't so about eight about 8 30 they call i walk across the field go into the florida state tunnel never done that before on the road smart and and then they took us to the midfield and we're just talking like hey what do you want to do you know how much longer like their old weight room and we had the commissioner of our league both our school presidents both our ads and me and mike in there we were trying to figure out what we're going to do and uh fortunately they were able to get enough of the lights on for us to play you know make it playable and um we just weren't going to have any coach to player any ipads we did have headsets that worked so we could talk to our coaches in the booth and that was really it other than that it was just old school no game clock no play clock and mike and i just agreed hey it's the time to go play so so that's what we did well i like that you two made that decision and obviously we're very thankful we got a football game out there in the ridiculous abnormal conditions in which you lose power because of a power surge in a short circuit somewhere else i mean that can all possibly happen i guess anytime and it's almost like we should maybe start paying attention to power grid a little bit too yeah you know like let's make sure we got the power grid all kind of tightened up you talk about agreeing like we'll have headsets to the booth but we got no other conversation play clock game clock i think taylor mcgregor just told us that she asked you when's the time you had to like coach like this you said a couple years haven't even done it because this is something that doesn't even kind of cross your mind what do you tell them we're going to go to number system we're going to put on like how did you kind of adjust with the offense because obviously it worked you outgained florida state by 260 yards or something like that so the offense obviously still worked you were running hurry up there early what did you change and how long did you have to make that change with the lads yeah good question i mean for us we we like to play with tempo anyway so we we already signal everything um but we're going to have to two years ago they gave us coach to player and so when we aren't going fast we do huddle up uh i'm able to talk to kevin you know until 15 seconds on the clock just like they do in the nfl and look now in this day of college sports we're espionage legal legally espionage stealing signals and all that's a thing when you're not going fast it's important to be able to huddle so people can't pick your signals and and kind of lost that so we were actually going old school when i say old school when we weren't going fast i was telling the huddle and kevin was running out to the number and i was coming out to the numbers and telling him the play and then he was running in to the huddle um because we didn't want to risk signaling and them them being able to pick what we had going on and um so that's what we did and uh we didn't have to change anything else now to my point to taylor yeah two years until two years ago we couldn't talk in the headset so we just kind of went back to doing what we used to always do um but that's all we've worked for two years so fortunately kevin's been with us long enough his first year as a starter or playing a lot we didn't have coach to play with so we didn't have coach to play with so we didn't have coach to play with so he and i had some experience doing it and then i think it was about five minutes left in the second quarter when all of a sudden the game clock play clock came on the stadium and we got coach to play her back big announcements made we have power and all of a sudden you can go green dot again i like that you talk about kevin in the way that you do 400 some yards obviously three tuds has a couple turnovers one of them look really bad down in the red zone obviously gonna have to get that fixed but let's talk a little bit more about him go ahead con man yeah coach there's so many great quarterbacks in college football right now and i think it's going to right now it feels like kevin jennings is the guy that's kind of sliding under the radar across the board you know and you just mentioned that he's been starting there for a little bit now but what have you seen from him you know growth wise as a leader wise and how big was it to have him last night with all these weird circumstances just to have a ton of confidence in him to go out and execute the game plan man it was huge um and you know he's healthy this year so he can do some things with his feet you know he had 30 40 yards rushing last night but he extended some plays looked more like the kevin from two years ago you know to pat's point um i hate the stat line looks like it did the first turnover in the red zone was the receiver ran the wrong route and uh that's unfortunate we're about to throw a touchdown and probably go up 24 to 10 and hopefully try to pull away because to your point we we won everything except the dadgum scoreboard you know i wish kevin when he saw he ran the wrong route was getting a little pressure wouldn't have thrown it up but man if he goes in like he was supposed we had a shot but we didn't now the second pick wasn't good and so um but man when you talk about a game like this you know you're not going to be able to win the game you're not going to be able to like that we ran almost 70 plays i think he had one bad play had almost 500 yards of offense like he's special um you know and to your point that's kind of why we did the whole heisman campaign that's why we've been talking about him because we have to tell his story if we don't no one else will and look darren mince is great he goes out and throws for 400 that's all anybody talks about kevin goes out against a much better opponent and throws for 430 so um he's special he gives us a moment last night when it was weird and we have an hour and 45 minute delay and he was playing with one skill player he had played with last year everyone else was different running backs tight ends receivers he missed two weeks of fall camp and still you know he looked like he was in midseason form andrew luck's gonna be pissed about what you just said i love you andrew hey we gotta play him they're not gonna be happy not at all but you're you're just complimenting your guy that's all you're trying to do right now and i love andrew that's the problem yeah i think he's gonna hear what you say i don't like what you're saying i don't like what you're saying i don't like what you just said and i'm sure the stanford crowd is gonna make you hear that yeah they're certainly gonna show up and make you here for that uh you talked about him playing with only one skill player there's also a lot of new people in the building go ahead tone yeah coach obviously you're calling plays on the offensive side of the ball but you also have two new coordinators uh this year how did that go into last night and and how did uh how did you what did you come away with from your new coordinators uh after last night's game yeah i was really pleased with how we communicated how everything worked here on offense uh yeah i call the plays but we do have a lot of consistency derek king and garen justice you know garen those are our co-coordinators on offense and they've been with us the last three years um so they've kind of taken over on the offensive side and then on defense maurice crumb and ricky hunley uh have been on scott simon's staff the last three years um you know their co-coordinators most call on the defense and i thought for the first night they did a really nice job you know we put them in some tough spots we muff a punt um you know we we what'd you think of that ball over what you think of that punt by the way i i it yeah it was a heck of a kick you know our punter can do that too we kick those sidewinders on purpose right when you have a good returner because our guy's a really good returner you kick those one to keep it away from them and you hope they try to field it and ms is our punt returner there he's usually excellent and you he tried to field it and got a really bad second hop his toe and sometimes you got to know when you're really it's kind of like you said with kevin when you're a really good punt returner every now and then you got to let it go um you can't feel them all even though we'd love to say field position and uh but we got the most faith in him he'll be fine but it was a heck of a punt i mean those are really hard as you know to field yeah like i can never do it it's always the aussies they've been doing that since they're a kid because if you miss that just by this much you're hitting that thing i think you're hitting that thing straight sideways it's like i didn't have enough gut sack to do that on the field in a real game well their guy's aussie our guy's aussie our guy can kick with his left and his right well americans can do that too let's make sure we fucking remember okay let's make sure we remember that but i do appreciate and respect the aussies and i'm going to let's go back to last night last question about it go ahead aj yeah coach i guess they mentioned that possibly the possibility of suspending the game and coming back the next day i guess how close were you guys to that was that something you guys talked about back in that room i think we got pretty close like when when um when i walked across the field about 8 30 we've been delayed about an hour and walked all the way into their tunnel um that's the first time they got the home side of the lights on they had gotten the visitor's side up but the home side came on blocks but it was enough to kind of light the field but they weren't sure that was going to hold and we were talking about if that held we could play but if that didn't you know um they were talking about like you said i don't know all the fancy words transponders and all this other stuff transformers right have a brain yeah whatever transformers whatever um good god where's optimus prime when you need it but i think he was there last night actually as part of the problems robots in disguise and so it had gotten brought up like so florida state has an off we have to play saturday we play uc davis this saturday and it's pretty quick turnaround and we were discussing like there was a chance the game would have been played today at two o'clock and if the game didn't get played last night our you know our commissioner was great he came up to me and mike he goes hey whatever you guys feel is best i want to support because he knows we got the teams we got a lead but we needed to obviously get a conference game played but had that happened i don't know i mean florida state has some runway with an off week would would we have played today and then not played uc davis like i'm not sure what would have happened there we didn't have to get to that but there was some real conversation we were up against it we probably felt like we had 30 minutes to an hour and if some things didn't hold and didn't work we were going to probably be looking at playing today uh speaking of next week uc davis coming up here quickly obviously anytime you play on a monday and then a game on saturday that only leaves you a few days to get the boys ready but we know this is a huge week go ahead d bud yeah short turnaround coach with no preseason in college football i feel like we see a lot of you know sloppy players or unforced errors and i know coaches hate that what are kind of the details because we always hear the cliche of teams improving, making their biggest improvement from week one to week two. What are some of those details actually in practice or in meeting rooms that you're really focusing on? Great question. And, yeah, week ones are tough. And for us, that was a week one game. You know, you saw if you watched the Louisville Ole Miss game two nights ago, it was 10 to 6 at half until the offenses kind of woke up. Like, it just takes a little bit of time sometimes. And, you know, I was really happy that we came away with a win when there was a lot of really good, like, offensively, we did a lot of good. Defensively, we did a lot of good. But there was enough sloppy with, you know, three turnovers on offense, the muff punt. We only had six penalties, but there was two or three that were really critical. And it's always a lot more fun to correct things and get their attention with a win. And we can come in and say, man, we won on the road against a talented opponent in conference week one with a lot of new faces. But, guys, we're not going to beat many people, you know, with a 4 to 1 turnover margin, really 4 to nothing. Did you ever win a game minus three turnover? I mean, I think. Actually, yeah, we're actually, actually, yeah, Pat, we beat Duke two years ago with a 6 to nothing turnover margin. Damn! I do. We like doing hard things. How is that? Because I think there's, like, every stat in the history that's, like, if you're minus two, you're going to win, like, 12% or something like that. Minus three drops you down, I think, like a 4, like a 5%, let alone losing time of possession, which I think you do a lot because you move so quick. So that potentially happens for you. But muff punt, missed kicks, like everything says that you guys should not have won last night, let alone there being no par to the stadium in its entirety. I like that you say we like doing hard things. I assume that's what you say to the team. We just have to do this every time? Is that your messaging or no? No. My message is we can't do this very often. I think in the last decade there's been six times a team has won with a minus four turnover margin or whatever we were last night and all these other things, and we've done two of them. So we've probably ran out of our options there. We probably don't have any more in the bag. So. No, but I just think what last night was, you know, sometimes winning some tight games with some adversity, maybe not, you know, I don't want to say ugly. There's no ugly wins, but, you know, a little bit not as clean as you'd like. We could have made it easier on ourself in the second half. It's important in the season because what I do think we saw last night is we could be really good. I think we saw a lot of ability because there's a lot of talented athletes on that Florida State team, and they're still really well coached. I know they've been struggling. But, like, it's not nothing to go into Doak Campbell and to find a way to win, but have all those miscues. Like, if we can tighten that up and clean that up, then we have a chance, I think, to be a really good football team. Man, if not, it sounds like you guys win those games anyways. Yeah. Sounds like that's a lot of fun for you to watch on the sideline, a little cardiac game after game after game as you're allowing the football gods to potentially take the win away and you steal it from the jaws of defeat. Now, the ACC, though, feels like we got some real teams. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Coach, it seems like when we talk about college football, it's the Big Ten and the SEC, and then, you know, the ACC and the Big 12 are kind of people put them in a different stratosphere. But, I mean, you mentioned it. You know, Miami went to the national championship last year. Everyone's talking about them. You guys have been to the college football playoff within the last couple years. And even Virginia Tech with James Franklin, they look resurgent. You know, Louisville took Ole Miss to the brink the other night. Virginia looks good. Like, do you feel like the overall strength of the ACC is, maybe the best it's been since you've been there? And how big do you think that divide actually is between you guys and, you know, maybe the Big Ten and the SEC? Yeah, I think so. I think the thing about our league is there's a lot of parity top to bottom. You just mentioned it. Look what Virginia did week one against a really talented NC State bunch. Look what Virginia Tech did. Look what Pitt did. Look, Pitt's not getting talked about, but, like, they've got a returning quarterback scoring a bunch of points. Pat's always good on defense there. But Louisville, I agree. I mean, every year Louisville, to me, is one of the top three or four teams in our league. They can beat anybody and almost got it done against Ole Miss with a first-time starting QB. Miami's obviously back. I mean, I think there's – I mean, look, look at Florida State and Clemson that are, you know, their standards struggling but still have really talented players. I think there's six to eight teams that can win our league. And if last year doesn't tell you anything, I mean, a team that tied for second in our league in a five-way tie played for the national title. So, I do think so. I think, you know, to your point, we've got to win some of those big out-of-conference games. Last year we went eight and six against the SEC. Nobody talks about that, but we did. So, you know, we've got to come through when it matters there. But I do think we have, you know, at least four or five teams that could compete to not only win the league but get into the playoffs. North Carolina, look out, Bill Belichick seemingly has, you know, a roster that maybe looks like a college football team this year. Yeah, yeah. Right? Doesn't it kind of? Definitely. And I want to let you know, I'll say it right to your face. I was asked on college game day who's going to win the ACC. I should have thought maybe the team at Destiny, SMU lads. You know, Louisville, they're going to be a problem. Yeah. Miami, obviously. Miami again. I didn't even think SMU must. And that, I won't let you know, that is rude of me. I said North Carolina, but I think that goes to what was kind of talked about with the ACC. Feels like more teams now than ever. How has the NIL affected your team, you think? Because I know North Dallas, right, I think is where you guys are. From my understanding. I've never been there, but from my understanding. Not a bad place to be. Oh, yeah. I heard this. We got big fucking houses. Big, big houses. Yeah. Great cars. We're talking great cars. We're talking real. You know, valet and everywhere. Show parking. A lot of honey holes. Oh, so many honey holes down there in North. They were ahead of the game at NIL, too. Yeah, kind of way back. Yeah, I think they were. They were ahead of schedule. Yeah, unfortunately, a little too ahead, yeah. No, but they just, they kind of knew what were coming way back. Yeah, yeah. I mean, people weren't happy back then, though. No. Death. That's what they said. Death to this team. But it does feel like you're potentially in a very good spot with the modern rules and where everything's headed. Down in SMU, and that never really gets talked about with you guys. Is that an accurate assessment? Yeah, well, first off, we got to get you to come hang out with us. You'd really like it. Like, come down here, spend some time, you know? It sounds like your kind of place, the way you're talking. No, no. I think we would. That's what I'm saying. I think we would. I'm saying, I don't know if I'd ever been in one of these types of places, but I do think I'd like to come look around, from my understanding. Yeah. Probably really nice restaurants. Great restaurants. Oh, my God. How about, I bet you there's sidewalks. Oh, yeah. Oh, so clean. Maybe marble sidewalks. Yeah, the bulls tip to tip down there. Oh, we got big old longhorns in between there, though. I assume the steak's probably so good. Oh, holy shit. The steaks are pretty good. Yeah, we are. We're well-positioned. Well-positioned. Sorry, we are well-positioned. Yeah, we've got great alignment for probably the first time in about 40 years, to your point. And because of what happened in the 80s. And look, I've always said that the excuse that everyone else is doing it doesn't justify doing it. But it wasn't like SMU was the only people doing that back then. They're just the people that they decided to punish. But that did set our school back and our football program and our athletics program back 30, 40 years. And so, as we've come out of this, though, we have great alignment from our president to our boosters and our donors and everyone that is extremely successful, like you're alluding to, and our administration on the athletic side. We want to be great at football. We want to be great at athletics. Because that enhances the entire university. So, we're in a great situation because we have commitment and alignment, and we have the resources. And that's why I feel like we can continue to build on what we've done over the last few years. And, you know, it's hard to win, but I think we've only scratched the surface of what we can build long-term here. Yeah, I think so, too, from my understanding. Because they've got bumper stickers on Ferraris down there that say, my other car is a Hawker. And that's a private plane. You know? So, that is, I think that's what they're doing down there. Yeah, from my understanding. Good for you. You're the right coach for the job. You're the right coach for the job, too. Obviously, offensively, it's incredible. Modern day and age, relating, reaching, all of it. We're huge fans of yours. Please tell Big Oak we said what's up, and good luck the rest of the way. Thanks, Pat. Appreciate you guys. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's head coach SMU, Rhett Lashley. Yeah, coach! 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 right where it's needed, so communities can keep moving forward. Bloom Energy, power America relies on. As you know, managing maintenance, repair, and operations is never easy. But for the ones who always rise to the challenge, Granger has your back. 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We like adversity, don't we, AJ? We like doing hard things, as Coach said. We like making horror of ourselves. That's right. Rhett Lashley was awesome. He was at SMU whenever I was doing Thursday nights. He was the offensive coordinator. Then he goes down to South Florida somewhere. Miami, yeah. Okay, he goes down to Miami. Then he gets a job back at SMU, and it was like, I think he was very happy to be there when he was the offensive coordinator. I think he liked the area. I think he liked the school. I think he loved being at SMU, actually, genuinely, when I was talking to him down there the night I first got to meet him. And Garen Justice, former offensive lineman for West Virginia, is their co-offensive coordinator. He's been with Rhett since that time, went to Miami and came back with him. So just getting to learn a little bit about their entire operation, I love it. I like the way he operates. And they got money. They're good. Yeah, they're good. His offense is one that good players want to play into because there's a lot of yardage, so you can pick up a lot of your type of players in the transfer portal if you have the funds to be able to do as such. They do, from my understanding. So look out, especially in an ACC that's packed. What if the ACC gets three spots in the CFP? Why not? That would be shocking. Okay, you know what that would do? That would certainly take a little bit away from the Big Ten. A little bit away from the SEC. That's not good. You're going to get crazy. If Louisville would have won, maybe. Maybe it would have been in the cards, but obviously not this weekend because he talked about UC Davis, but Louisville and SMU play the weekend after, so that would be an interesting one to watch. Yeah, I think the ACC obviously has Miami. Yeah. And Miami's never won the ACC. Ever. Makes no sense. Since 2004, I think, they joined. I was getting attacked by Miami people. I feel like I'm a pretty big Miami supporter. Yeah. As somebody that didn't, you know, go to Miami. I had a couple people. I had a couple people from Miami with a little bit of following. They were attacking me for picking UNC to win the ACC. It's like the ACC tournament is, you might as well just, from my understanding, unless Miami goes undefeated, which they might. They might just handle business outright. But if you ask Coach Griswold, he said, our last two losses are against ACC teams. So the ACC league in and of itself is very confusing. I mean, they didn't even have power last night in the game. They were playing without a green light. It's like the ACC is pretty chaotic, but they got a lot of teams that can steal wins. They got a lot of teams that can maybe become great. Miami sits. Miami sits at the top in our eyes, in all fronts. Okay. But to win the ACC, which Miami has never done, you're going to have to get through a lot of shit, I think, throughout this season. Well, and if I remember correctly, when SMU went to the playoff, they got beat in the ACC title game by Clemson anyway. They did. So it's like, yeah, in the college football era, the team that has went to the college football playoff from the ACC has not been the champion. Yeah, it's been fascinating. And I think Clemson guy hit a 50 or maybe. Yeah, it was. There was a deep field goal. 56 yarder or something like that as time expired. I think we were on a plane watching that as we were traveling back from somewhere else. Clemson played Texas in the playoff save. Yeah, Clemson-LSU game is tough for the ACC. This is it right here. Is this the kick? Yeah, 56 yarder. Oh, what year was this? Two years ago. 2024? We watched it in the suite when Oregon beat Penn State in the Big Ten Championship. Yeah, that's what it was. We were all together. Yeah. What a kick. That was a freshman, I think. I think he was a freshman at that point. And he talked about maybe his family played soccer and there's room. Brett taking it off going, you got to be kidding me. Son of a bitch. Dabo Sweeney, that was the time. It's the last time he smiled, yeah. That being said, UNC is a wild pick. I agree. I agree. Why not? They know ball. So I legitimately was just thinking. Bill? Bill's going to make every one of these games just disgusting. Yep. It's going to be disgusting. We'll see. Well, and then you have Petrino on the offensive ball wanting to open it up. And they got guys that look like college football. They look like college football players this year. They do? Last year, I mean, they didn't really look like a college football team. No, they're maybe one of the worst offenses in college football this year. They've got a lot happening outside the building and maybe inside the building from my understanding. That's what it sounds like. What's the odds of the DraftKings? On what? On them to win the ACC. That's some good odds on that one. Even money? Yes, good value there. And we've got a bunch of people mad at me about picking West Virginia to win the Big 12. It's like, okay, we'll see. Those people get it. Texas Tech, I get it. I like Texas Tech. I like Texas Tech. I like Texas Tech. Plus $17,000. Woo! That's not bad, Chris. Come on. Good battle. Get on now. Only in front of Stanford and BC. All right. Okay. Just so I know, what is Stanford? Plus $40,000. And what is BC? Plus $50,000. Okay, plus $70,000. That's a pretty big gap. Okay, so they know what I'm saying. You never know. All I know is we'll be back tomorrow as the NFL kicks off. Holy hell, one more sleep. Nailed it. Fucking right on the screen. If that was timed up with that. Right. Nailed it right there. Because there's only one more. One more sleep. One more sleep. And you know who's doing this again? AJ, have you heard? Who? Shohei? I don't know. Aaron Judge is, though, from my understanding. Oh, yeah. Judgey's back. It was announced with one video on social saying, hey, captain's back. Let's all rise. Is that what's happening here? And how are the Yankees as we sit right now? They are still the number one wildcard team in the AL. They are about four games behind the Rays, right? Now, they have a four-game set with the Rays coming up. So, yeah, I mean, perfect timing. Could not happen sooner. They have been one of the worst offenses in baseball since Judgey got hurt. He's missed 84 games. He is the straw that serves the drink. He is fucking unbelievable. His stats before, I mean, he broke his rib when he was diving for a ball in the outfield. He tried to play through it for, like, another month and just wasn't the same. They thought he had thoracic outlet syndrome. Which, apparently, is, like, kind of a death knell for, like, your career. Yeah, it would have been like, hey, he's never going to be the same guy again. It wasn't that. It was just a really bad break to one of his ribs. So, he's going to be back tonight. And, boy, boy, boy, boy, do the Yankees need him. They have the Rockies for a three-game set. So, hopefully, I anticipate that he'll probably maybe start tonight, maybe get, like, two at-bats and then probably come out of the game. Like, they're going to work him back in as we get closer to the playoff. Where's the game at? It's at Yankee Stadium. Okay, so we can assume bombs. Common from Aaron Judge? I would – the odds for him to hit a home run are probably better tonight than they will, like – than they have been all year and ever will be again. But the big thing is I have no idea how many at-bats he's going to get. And, like, he just started seeing live pitching again, like, a couple days ago. So, this is more so like, hey, we want to get him back out there. We need to get him ready for the playoffs. He's not doing a rehab assignment. He's doing it against major league pitching. So, yeah, I think he was, like, plus 285 maybe to hit a homer tonight, 246 now. 246 now. I just have no idea how many at-bats he's going to get. Okay, so they sent Roman Anthony to Portland when he was coming back. We don't do that to Judgey because he's Aaron Judge? He basically said, like, I know exactly what I need to do to get back. I've had to do this before. Like, so, no, I'm not going to be doing a rehab assignment, especially with – we're at the point of the season where they're four games back. They have the Rays coming up. Like, they need to win all these games. They can't really afford to have him down in AAA taking at-bats. You know, like, that's a waste of time. If he can get right, he can do that by playing in – he's good enough to get right while playing in the majors. I can't wait to see Judgey back, especially with what's potentially coming down the pipe for next baseball season with him with the Savannah Bananas. Yeah, need him in shape. Yeah, we do need him hitting bombs into October, and then we can see him in April on the wall. Dang. Him and Jazz Chisholm. Yeah, him and Jazz Chisholm for sure. They'd be perfect for the Bananas. Brand new team. There's a team that's never played Savannah ball. You could say they're kind of virgins to Savannah baseball. Yeah. And that could potentially be Jazz Chisholm and Aaron Judgey. Maybe. Everything like that. Jazz is a wacky guy. Who is? Jazz. Yeah. Yeah. He's a virgin. I'm guessing he's not a virgin. That would just be my initial guess. Maybe he is. I don't know. A tennis virgin. A U.S. Open tennis virgin. There you go. Yeah, and Savannah Banana baseball virgin. He's not worried about that. That is a contract year. He's looking at, you know, signing up. He's looking at a big money deal somewhere. He better have a. So his contract's up after this season? Yeah. Curious George might bring him in full time. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So he has no allegiances after this particular season? I mean, technically, yeah. Unless they're going to give him like $30 million a year, which I don't think, you know, Bananas are making. Maybe they are. I'm not sure. I don't know. What are they making over there? A lot. They're selling out college football stadiums. Yeah. They're making a lot of money, buddy. Yeah. And this is what. Judge, you might bat one-handed for the Savannah Bananas. Oh, that would be so sweet. One arm behind his back. Maybe a gavel. Maybe he'll use his dick. Whoa. Oh, even better. You know, I mean, if we're just fucking making all these jokes. That's not Savannah Bananas. Maybe he'll use the bat in between his legs. That's not. If anyone can do it, it can be fucking joking. That is kind of. That's what Savannah Bananas do. They go shirtless and pull their penises out. No, they do not. They don't do that. I feel like that's all I see. That is not what happens. Allegedly. You know, playing wins the Banana Ball Championship. You never get to it. No, they have, like, playoffs and, like, a championship. I know, but then it's right back at the start of the climb. That's a problem, then. No, it's not. It's a never-ending chase for greatness with the Savannah Bananas. And I want to let you know, next offseason is about to be the greatest Savannah Bananas we've ever seen. I don't even know if the Bananas are the best team in the league. They can't beat the fucking Loco Beach Coconuts, so you tell me what's going on. Wow. It sounds like you know a little bit about Banana Ball. I know the names of the teams. Well, the tailgaters are pretty strong. tough too what about the clock what about the clock can we talk about the indian apple's clock jbj baby yeah i know you better i know wake up oh really sounds like you're maybe coming just from one moment to a next there because you're kind of killing them and then all of a sudden it's like wait maybe deep down you are one of their biggest fans and a banana yeah no i'm not but no maybe though but sure hey do the trick plays give them points i know that they keep how does it give you points well you win enough points you get certain things you know it's uh yeah if you get like what is it 10 points you get to whip your dick out the next inning i think that never happened i think it's a running total just to tell you to take your shirt off whip your penis out of your trousers no no the point is if you win the inning you get a point so no game is really out of reach okay rule two to our timeline we ain't got time no stepping out okay once you're in there you're in there we're looking for no bunting we hate bunting obviously batters can steal first base no walks a lot no mind visits if a fan catches can we scroll thank you a fan catches a foul ball it's an outgrow work bruce show showdown is tiebreaker they show down i've actually that is the one thing i saw that the other night the showdown thing is pretty sweet they have one guy on the field he's usually playing shortstop and this motherfucker like a guy hit a ball to the wall the guy at shortstop had to run all the way to the fucking wall and try to throw him out at home it was pretty funny it was mickey mouse obviously i mean it's fucking oh now you don't want to be too big of a fan guy no i mean rule number 10 it's mickey mouse it's mickey mouse it's mickey mouse it's mickey mouse let's not get crazy but it's a good gimmick yeah and then after the guy cut him down at home plate and whipped his dick out sorry no he did not that did not happen that's what they're playing for that does not happen who whipped it out rule number 10 the banana ball challenge rule rule number 11 the golden batter rule okay okay these are all the rules of banana baseball as they sell out football stadiums there is no appendages sure yeah i looked at the playoffs they play uh cirque du soleil and then uh disney on ice right after that wait that's would be sick the circus lay would be crazy yeah i don't know if they can catch or throw you gotta remember all these banana ball players good ball players real players they play base for real now i saw a white right after you forgot to do that what was that let's move along here um star status we have for week one nfl season we had the graphic earlier we corrected the graphic so it wasn't just telling people to do it again it was just telling people to do it again this is exactly right this is where we sit on this september 8th 2026 from reading the tea leaves alec pierce seemingly playing jeremiah love seemingly playing george kittle probable to be playing seemingly playing ashton genti cautiously optimistic yep seems like he might be playing more likely than not roma dunzey i don't love it yeah they originally said uh on the day of the injury but he's still out of practice so we'll see okay malik remember first week here they don't have to say shit true they don't have to tell anybody anything which is kind of a little bit of a fun game to watch these insiders try to figure out who's active who's not active who's where who's playing how much are they playing because these teams are trying to give away zero advantage to anybody else in their preparation uh for instance the rams even though it all appears as if aaron donald's playing aaron donald on his press conference said it felt good took me a couple plays at 11 on 11 and then all of a sudden it really cleared up i'm not where i need to be yet like but i think i'm i think it's pretty good said virtually no drop off yeah and he thinks he can only get better he's coming off a two-year rest where maybe his body is feeling better than it felt towards the end of his career with hopefully all the knowledge that he had whenever he was playing while also accruing some i assume from being an outside looking into the fans and uh seeing some other stuff i think aaron donald's gonna play but why would the rams come out and say that you know we'll just make him think you don't have to or wonder same thing with niners with kittle we'll just make him wonder yeah uh yeah we'll just make him wonder waste some time thinking or wondering whether or not kittle's coming when they both probably understand what's happening in the reality that's why nothing's been formally announced trevion harrison doubtful emin warry that's big names start a season bosa we assume joey porter jr now this is the interesting one tongue digs what have you heard what do you know joey porter jr is the last corner standing without a deal basically from this offseason of corners wanting to get paid it's been all across the league boom bang boom big numbers corner back in the market is a needed player especially with uh the run game if you can have a corner that can take away a player uh obviously that person is going to be rewarded mightily if you can get a player or a corner that can tackle and be in on the entire uh defense so you don't have to add more bodies that player is going to get rewarded mightily joey porter jr considered a guy that should get rewarded mightily by a lot of people especially outside of pittsburgh steelers organization if he was hit the market we assume he would get a lot of money to go play somewhere else well he's a guy that's done in a big way joey porter jr is he upset about this now that gonzo got a deal is he going to choose to play is he playing and mark poboli our pittsburgh steelers correspondent said sure seems like he's playing tone where do you sit and what is everybody saying about joey porter jr playing against uh falcons tua yep that could be a potential good lead-in to the rest of the nfl season yeah i um listen he's been ramping up at practice every single day over the last week doing more and more each day um the uh depth chart came out today and he was listed as an or with asante samuel jr on the starting depth chart so we'll see there i would be shocked uh if he does not sign a contract uh in the before sunday do you have any inside information on that or not yet oh you're trying though not yet i got some lines got some lines in the water got some feelers out there hey i'm sick of talking about this every day can you guys give me a little bit of a heads up or guidance on what i need to be saying here so we we will see but i mean as we see uh deadline spur action we saw it with golf last night and now that all the corners uh have been paid we we know what all the numbers are for everybody there's no questions left out there uh they paid four other guys from that draft class already this year in this off season so that's already been taken care of i would be shocked if he doesn't sign before sunday new contract okay joey porter jr maybe signs um age how do you feel about mike mccarthy doing week-to-week captains mcdonald doing the same thing might be an irish thing you got to earn it every single week c's on the jersey obviously have become synonymous with a league especially older players that are deemed leaders how do you feel about this uh kind of strategy or mindset towards the captains and how will this work out you think for mccarthy as somebody that's been in the building i i like it i mean this is kind of all i knew as an nfl guy i came in with with big mike and we had every week they're just new captains named and you know the picture thing if anyone remembers back in the day of seeing barb started getting peeking his head in the back of the captain's photo and then aaron carried that on for years and years but what he did do was they would vote for playoff captains that's the only time the team would vote for captains they do it just for the playoffs and so i'm a fan of this doing a week-to-week especially when you can get a guy like we mentioned earlier like jair like a hometown kid to go out there when he gets to play in a visiting uh stadium that he grew up in the area whether the coach names you captain or not you know what just get on out there buddy it's yours yeah i love that jair did that and i've been on teams that did the week-to-week sweat there's like one one spot there's like three captains and then there was one spot that was kind of a week-to-week type thing oh and then obviously uh been on teams where there's named captains throughout the entire year and then i think i was on a team where they did what you were inferring to right there where week-to-week week-to-week and then it got to a certain point it was like hey these are the captains then the c's got put on their chest it was towards the end of the season so i guess it's all just where you are with your team you're building a team you know mike mccarthy's first year there he certainly doesn't want to just deem something without putting over the younger guys who might not be around i like the move i like him showing respect and appreciation for people working their ass off each week but the rams got what 12 guys with c's on their chest yeah run around have they announced air yet yeah would he be the 12th because or did they do the 11 on purpose so like hey each of you have a week here you got you guys got the first 11 weeks that's why we named 11 and then they're also adding two more per week so then they end up with like 33 to 45 captains on the season and then if you don't end up with one they really they're kind of telling you how they feel about they're leaving that guy in australia uh mcdonald's still doing it as well after winning a super bowl sam darnold obviously there's still question marks i i read a headline earlier like do we still do we believe in sam darnold i saw that i love that sam darnold's gonna get that i guess for the rest of his career yeah unless he wins mvp this 14 and 2 and then a super bowl about last two seasons pretty good pretty good through for 300 i think in a game that mattered pretty good uh down the stretch at the end now granted he was not the super bowl mvp a running back was he's got a brand new offense coordinator the offense coordinator that was great for him is now the head coach somewhere else and was the highly uh most sought after coach in the coaching cycle this year because how talented he was so sam donald gonna always have to prove that he isn't yeah shite i think so and his contract right now very team friendly the contract that he currently holds for the seattle seahawks but it does feel like sam donald has become a guy that's just gonna have to prove himself over and over and that's good for him that's you know all added motivation we always talk about chips on the shoulder and this was a guy so it's kind of weird that he has to continue to prove himself because he was a guy that was looked at potentially be the number one pick in his draft he went number three overall obviously it didn't work out early for him but he kind of figured it out but you know looking at him even last year that team was near the bottom of the league when it came to passing and passing attempts uh you know per game i think he was near the top of the league when it came to interceptions so people who have that thought of sam donald they're still holding on to that i think if he puts together another maybe two or three seasons then he'll really get to the point and then once you make that money too once let's say he has a $65, $60 million a year. then I think that'll kind of be behind the, but for quarterbacks, once you, once the general consensus has an opinion about a guy, even Brock Purdy, we saw with him, he had to, I think we're just getting to the point where people can look at that team and still nobody really talks about him. We talk about quarterbacks, but if you look at that 49ers team, you say, Hey, that's a really good quarterback, but it took a while to get there. So I think Sam from the seeing ghost, he's still kind of climbing that respect ladder for, you know, the general public, at least, which is crazy, you know, because the wide receiver is the offensive player of the year, you know, and he was throwing him the ball. So you would think that would help. But then everybody just says, actually, this guy's open. Yeah. Anybody can throw this guy the ball. You know, it's just a fascinating narrative. It's just like Matthew Stafford when he was in Detroit, he was breaking every record. They were calling him what stat. Stat Pat. Yeah. Whatever the case is. He's doing good. Yeah. But he's not really a guy, you know, he's got Calvin Johnson. That'd be really nice. It's like, he's in Detroit though. Isn't that kind of counter Calvin Johnson? Nope. Nope. Nope. Then he gets LA, wins the Superbowl. Now wins an MVP. Everybody's like certified hall of famer, even though many of us were like Matthew Stafford's a guy, many people that know ball were saying that for a long time, but the general consensus to your point, D, but did not have that there for a bit until he gets out to LA. Maybe Sam Darnold over the next few years, we'll be able to prove everybody prove to everybody that he's a guy for real. I like Sam Darnold's story a lot and I like that McDonald's his coach feels like they might be like perfect for each other. And the guys in that building absolutely love them. I don't know if you remember, but I think it was Ernest Jones. That came a linebacker on the defense and came out because you know, if they hear it, they hear this stuff and the shit that's talked about their quarterback, but they, regardless of he was throwing an interception or doing whatever, like the guys in that building, we've seen it more with hard knocks. Now they absolutely love 14. And as a teammate, as a quarterback, that's really all you need. Who gives a fuck what people with microphones are saying about you. If the guys that are actually going, you know, the battle with you have your back and believe in you, whether you are struggling or not. So I love that about them. And you know, I'm rooting for Sam, man. Anytime a guy is doubted, especially coming in with those types of expectations, not living up to him. Everybody basically saying you're sucked and then getting all the way to that mountaintop. And he's, this is the same class. Was he Lamar? Yeah. Lamar. So yeah, you look at the rest of that class, Lamar, Josh, like those guys, you know, haven't been to a Superbowl, let alone one one yet. He's already got to them and Baker's, but yeah. So yeah, I love everything that Sam's doing with his career. And I think when this story is done, it'll be a great, a great story to tell. Was Ernie the one that said, if you don't like my quarterback, fuck you. At the, uh, Did they make some shirts too? What's that? I think they had some shirts that said something like that as well. At some point they wore. If anyone is saying, say Sam Donald bought the QBs for receptions, the Seahawks lost the Rams. Fuck you. That's great. I love it. What do you have to say to the people that say Sam Donald, potentially the reason why you guys lost this game? What do I have to say? Yeah. Fuck you. Okay. Thank you so much. And we'll get out of here. You cleared it up. You cleared it up. Yep. Okay. Is that from everybody? Yeah. And to you too. Yeah. You're probably the one that's saying that actually. I'm going to get out of here. That team, the speeches they gave after winning the Superbowl, the whole vibe, the hard knocks. Yep. It's like that team is a bunch of dogs. And a hard edge. They do have a hard edge. Yes. I like the way they're running their shop up there. That's your team. That's your team, dude. That's my NFC team. Yeah. That's my favorite team. I am a season ticket holder to the Indianapolis Colts. The city in which I call home. The team plays at the Loud House. I am a Colts fan. It's your home team. Your favorite team is in Seattle. I like that we all have a couple. We could all have more teams now. No. Who's your NFC team? Packers? Yeah. Brethren? Yeah. We're brethren. And then are you the Steelers? That's right. Oh, you guys just made a deal. I mean, we're the two most glorious franchises in the history of the NFL. You're all fucking losers. That's all I hear. Yeah. Well, that's why you pick another team. Yeah. Fuck that. Well, congratulations, Carl. You've lived a great fucking life. I went through six years of shit, man. No, you didn't. Boom, boom. We're not that far away from watching Bill Zappi chuck the ball to Juju Smith-Schuster and Nikhil Harry. Boom. It was terrible. Talk to Foxy. Carson Wentz is a Colts quarterback. Shut up. And that was fucking sick. Matt Ryan. I saw Carson Wentz on the sideline this weekend. Carl Wentz. I would have killed for him during the Zappi years, brother. No, you wouldn't have made the playoffs then. I mean, it was the same outcome. Maybe. We'll never know. And now we have Greg Mann. It's just, that's how it works sometimes. No, because Vrabel was just sitting in Cleveland. Like, anybody could have hired this guy. Well, there is a guy sitting around that I think would be perfect for here. John Gruden? No. Couldn't have. Well, John would be perfect anywhere. I was trying to get John a job in college last year. Yeah. Absolutely. I believe in John Gruden. Needs not email. GM, right? Whatever, everything. Everything. Football. He needs to coach ball. Maybe both. Head coach and GM. Who do you? Well, you got Shane Steichen. Who's your guy, Colin? I would hope Shane Steichen continues to be the head coach because he's, one, the man, and two, a genius. Yeah. But Sean McDermott would turn this fucking place around in a heartbeat. I like the way Sean McDermott's talking, by the way. Love the way. He's doing a lot of soul searching, a lot of reflection on his time. People forget how fucking bad the Bills were for so long. They were? They were garbage. They were Cleveland. They picked Josh Allen. Yeah. That's it. Well, not only picked Josh Allen, also moved on from Tyrod Taylor. Remember, Tyrod Taylor got him to the playoffs there. For the first time in forever. And then they'd say, no, no, we didn't want to make the playoffs this year, bud. Come on. You kind of pushed us back here a little bit. Then they build that thing up. And obviously, Josh Allen, first year, second year, third year, as they continue to go, just not able to beat Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. So they'll be judged completely. I do appreciate what Sean McDermott's doing, but this is why, you know, the greats, I guess, not everybody, but. Second opportunities at something usually go much better than the first, because you have so much experience in what's right and what's wrong. And it does feel as if Sean McDermott is doing a lot of, this is what I did wrong. Yeah. So maybe next time he doesn't do that. I like the way he's talking right now, H. I think that is very good for himself, but also whoever he ends up coaching for. Here's a man that admits that he wasn't perfect at the first stop. It's not like he got screwed, is how he's talking about it, which he could have had that angle. He's not a victim, I feel like. We don't want to coach. I feel like they don't act like they are a victim when they get fired for whatever reason they get fired. But, yeah, I mean, think about it. If you, when you're a head coach, I cannot imagine the pressure NFL head coaches are under every single day of their life. But once they get a half a second to step back and they're out of that world, I'm sure they view a lot of things differently. Like, man, I wish I would have done this. I wish I would have done that. And then, hey, if I'm able to get another chance, I'm going to make sure I am supremely ready for that. And I have every single box checked, and, you know, I give a team a good chance to win. Yeah, I. I'm pulling for him. Yeah. Pulling for Steichen, too. Like, actually, I'm being serious. When the Colts are good, we've talked about it before, the city is just so much better and more fun and more enjoyable. And, like, I want them to do really well. But in the reality of the situation, sometimes teams that don't do as much in the offseason don't do as well. Did you hear that, dude? Yeah. When he was talking about the reality of the situation. We like our fucking guys. You did not watch last season. Hello. Four guys got hurt. They were awesome. Alex. They were huge. Awesome. Fantastic. No more Michael Pittman. Okay. Tyler Warren, big step up this year. Hey, AJ, I want to let you know, Connor said earlier today, before we went live, I was like, I'm excited to think the Colts are going to the Super Bowl again. Like, that's how I feel. And Connor goes, we don't even have to act like that this year. Nope. Okay, we don't even have to act like that this year. And I thought to myself, actually, why? Why don't we have to act like that? But there's people that have no faith in the Indianapolis Colts. I think it's strictly because no primetime games. Nobody knows anything about them. You look at the social media, you think to yourself, okay, so we're doing some fun gimmicks and games. Super Bowl odds are plus 6,000 down there near the bottom. Same as Seattle last year. Jeez, I can't even find them. Yeah, they're way down there next to the Washington Commanders and New York Giants. Which, by the way, Giants have a lot of high hopes this year, and they're way down in the odds as well. Do they know something that maybe everybody that's talking about them doesn't? But it's like the Indianapolis Colts, those first 10 games. So good. They weren't acting. Only lost to the Rams and Steelers, I think. I agree. And they would be one of those teams week one where everyone's really high on the other team, Baltimore. Bingo, thank you. And then they have to go on the road in Minter's first game with Declan calling his first game on offense. Everyone's like, Ravens, Ravens, Ravens. And then, boom, Steichen and Dan Dimes and Alec Pierce and the guys who have actually already done it in one game go out and win the football game. And remind everybody. And remind everybody, yeah. And then the conversation. I like that we're doing here. Because then the conversation that's happening on Overreaction Monday is like, remember, the Colts for the first 10 weeks were the number one offense in the NFL, potentially the number one team in the NFL, and the defense was getting stops whenever they needed it all the time. It's like, that could be a convo. Now, on the flip side, we kept everybody except for Pittman. We kept the GM. We kept the coach. We haven't won the AFC South in 12 years. If Lamar and the lads, who look to be very tight very quickly, remember? Yeah. Everybody in the 3-1-3, put your hands in the air and fucking follow me, Jesse Minter. If they come into the Loud House in his first game, and they dismantle the Indianapolis Colts, it's going to be tough on the microphone next day. It's going to be tough. No chance. I don't think that's happening. I think the Indianapolis Colts. No chance, D-Butt? No chance. I think we've got a good team, bro. I think the Colts have a good team. I don't think we have a deep team. I think they could sneak a win here. Like, not sneak a win, but I think this is one of those ones, oh, okay, the Colts won week one, and you should not be shocked if that does happen. I would definitely, you could say it's a sneak a win. No, granted. Because you're on this show, and I talk about the Colts. Colts so much, he probably sounds stupid in this exact moment, but whenever it comes to overall NFL chatter, this would definitely be stealing a win by the Indianapolis Colts against the Baltimore Ravens. Obviously, they're favored by three and a hook or whatever the case is, but I don't think many people have faith in the Colts, but if you watched their games last year, they were playing good football, smart football, sound football, good fundamentals, good techniques. They were everywhere they needed to be. The mistakes were making sense on why they made the mistakes. It was the first time the Colts looked fun. It was the first time it was fun being like a Colts fan, like, hey, I can't wait to go to this game, as opposed to what the hell's about to happen here in this game. I think people do forget that, but they're going to have to prove it. Defense should be better. You stay healthy. Sauce, Mooney on the outside, Wally on the inside now replacing Kenny Moore. That'll be a big role because Kenny's been fantastic in that role for years. Buck and Grover are healthy in the middle of that defense and then Cam Bynum. I think he's one of the best free safety ball hawks in the NFL. Now, how do the young guys fit in? Was it CJ and AJ? How do they fit in in this second year now in this defense? I have high, high hopes. I didn't expect it to be that low with the odds. I know we've seen that graphic before. That's just the middle tier. You said the Seahawks. And Patriots. I'd love to hear that. Both in the 6,000s. And the other thing, Grove, Buck, you just mentioned. The Ravens have an incredibly young, inexperienced line. That would completely play in their favor. That other game, too, just looking at it, would be the Bears-Panthers. Where everyone's like Panthers suck. Panthers suck. Who cares? They just won in the division. I think 97% is on the Bears. Yeah. And everyone, of course, Bears, Caleb, Ben Johnson. And you just assume that game is going to be easy. It's like, that game's in Carolina and that team has just slowly gotten better and better and better. The good football team, we say, of course, but they might be a great football team now. They almost beat the Rams in the first round. I'm two minutes away from beating the Rams in the first round of the playoffs. And I think we all just believe Morgan's going to go right, right? Big year for Bryce Young. Guy hasn't slept or shut his eyes since last season, so I assume he's got it all figured out. Bryce Young, if he can continue to go, maybe they got something down there in Charlotte. If this goes in, Colts win a Super Bowl. Boom. Oh, jeez. Big ball. Fuck. Hold on. This one, too. This one, too. Is this Seahawks again? Be a friend. This or world peace? You want to do a world peace, Paul? We should before the season starts. It's when the Super Bowl or we get world peace. It's more than plus 6,000 for the fucking world peace. I didn't know. It's been happening forever, dude. Peace or war? This goes in. We know it. It does feel, I get like a little bit of a buzz whenever world peace is on the line. How could you not? It's the earth channeling you. How about just the straight of her moose? Just opening that up? Is that opening it? We dug our own straight. No, we just blew a hole in one of the land properties around there. Oh, we got our own straight. Yeah, we built our own straight. It was pretty awesome, actually. Straight of America. I don't know. I think there's still some vessels that are hung up out there, from my understanding. This is for world peace. Okay. Come on now. I can't wait. I love these ones. I love these. Oh, man. It was the whole way there. I was like dreaming of world peace. Just doesn't want it. Be a friend. Tell a friend something. Nice. It might change your life. Tomorrow, the NFL kicks off. Yeah. Tonight, PCA and the Miz battle. Woo! Judgy's back today? Yes. Okay. Is Peyton Toll pitching? Because I like him. He is not pitching today, but Shelton Alcaraz tonight as well. Okay. Peyton Toll is the guy who hugged the guy out on first baseline and then more recently struck a guy out, slipped and fell, did a push-up, pushed himself back up. Might be one of our favorite athletes of all time. Yes. Remember, he's 6'6", 275 with a Velo pouch. Here is him from the other day. And slip and strike out, push up. Let me go and get out of here. Did it on purpose, he says. Like that. Incredibly smooth fella. Great pitcher. He throws like Chris Sale, like we're meeting, I think. Mm-hmm. He's lucky that other ump wasn't out there. He wouldn't have went for that bullshit. No way. Karate up. Hey, what's that guy's name? Doug Eddings. Yeah, Doug Eddings. He got chastised pretty good by the league, I believe. I guess this isn't his first time. Paul Skeens, something happened with Paul Skeens and him last year whenever a strikeout took place. He's a bit of a Barney Fife, power-hungry dickhead. Some of these guys, that's the way they are. Chipper Jones had a few things to say about him as well. Yeah. Yeah, I guess this guy's been acting like he is baseball since the beginning. I appreciate that he's a showman. I like that everybody says they hate him, too. You know? Yeah. Now that this thing happens, this guy's really lost a lot of his power. So, when he gets a chance to wield it like a hat sideways, I don't like your little skipping and dancing after the pitching thing. Is there any rules against it? Well, in my rule, I don't want my eyes to see it. So, you need to stop it. This guy's straight out of the past and still hanging on. I like whenever you just publicly mock him like they certainly did at the next game. And allegedly, he came out and said, hey, sorry for handling that the way I handled it. I was told to do this by my bosses and the entire world told me I look like an asshole. Yes. I respect that, too. Yeah, I do. Come up there. Maybe he's a changed man. If not, they're going to continue to troll him forever because the player's now got a little bit of power, especially with this bad boy. And with everybody saying this guy looks like an asshole. Baseball's kind of bringing it. But tomorrow, the NFL season begins. And that's how it's going to be. We can't thank all of you enough for riding with the offseason, you know, through everything that we got a chance to cover this offseason. So much great soccer. Never said that before. A beautiful game. We've never said that before on this particular program. Thank you to soccer. You carried us through a lot of the offseason. Basketball, obviously, doing its thing. We thank you. Baseball was fantastic for us. Very, very grateful for that. All the other sports that popped up and gave us life and energy and things to talk about, we certainly thank you. But tomorrow, the NFL kicks off. College football week two, Thursday night. I mean, we're in the middle of the greatest season of all time, football season. Yes. So we thank all of you for allowing us to do this for a living. We have the greatest jobs on earth. We'll be back tomorrow as the NFL kicks off. One sleep from now. Let's enjoy it all. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. It's football season, baby. One, two, three. Goodbye. This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast. Have you guys heard about ChatGPT work? It's the new way to use ChatGPT for bigger multi-step projects. 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