PMS 2.0 1620 - THE NFL IS BACK, Patriots vs. Seahawks Preview & Picks, JJ Watt, Drew Rosenhaus, Richard Sherman, Mike Tirico, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

>> Hello, beautiful people. It's a beautiful day here at the Draft King's Thunderdom on this NFL Wednesday, September 9, 2026. This sports program begins now football. >> It's officially here, tonight. Just 213 days removed from the last time these two teams played each other for the World Championship. The New England Patriots will travel to the Pacific Northwest to kick off the NFL season and take on the Super Bowl champion, Seattle Seahawks, Sam Donald is going to be spinning it. Drake May is going to be doing this thing. What are these defenses going to look like? What's Vraib's going to look like in his second year as the head coach? What does McDonald's going to look like in his third year already winning a Super Bowl? What are these two teams so we assume we're going to be at the top of the class all season long? Look like in week one. Now let's remember, if you start out the season 0 and 1, that has done a death sentence. >> No. >> If you start out the season like 0 and 3 are 0 and 4, damn near a death sentence. Yeah. Remember the teams that end up going on to win normally start the season very hot as well. So there are certainly stories of teams being kind of ass and then whenever football really matters getting their best shot and becoming the best team that they could possibly be. But a lot of history tells us that the team that's going to end up standing at the top of the Lombardi Mountain normally starts the season very well as well. If you remember last year Seahawks I think went into Pittsburgh very early, get a huge win. They're on the road dominating people. Then at home they start getting hot. Then Jackson Smith and Jigba becomes unguardable. Damn, Donald goes crazy. The defense is everywhere inevitably they win the Super Bowl. So if your team starts out as a shite operation, history tells us you could potentially say they're not going to win a Super Bowl. But there has been a couple of teams over the last 50 years who have rolled the ball out on the field the first couple of weeks and look like absolute garbage and have turned it on late and won a Super Bowl. Everybody has a chance. Everybody has hope. And tonight these two teams, the reigning, defending undisputed champions of their conferences kick off the biggest and potentially best season yet. We are so incredibly happy and lucky that we get to do this for a living in all off season. We've been looking forward to this day. It's our own Wednesday. Usually it's a Thursday start, but since we're traveling down under for the Rams and Niners tomorrow, this thing started on Wednesday. So thank you to the football gods for making this happen. Thank you to all of you for allowing us to do this for a living. And thank you to the NFL players and coaches and GMs and everybody in the buildings that have committed fully for us to have this season that we're about to have. College football already off to a hot start. Now there's some updates to the college football world. Lane Kiffin will not be putting any of the NFL guys on his roster. Okay, Lane. There we go. Okay, Lane. Okay, Lane. I like how we're doing that. Actually, I didn't expect you to do that. I like that Lane kind of created a situation and then at the end says, I did the right thing, didn't I? Could have done this. Didn't do this. But allegedly, Lane Kiffin decided, you know, I'm going to stay away from this. We'll talk to Drew Rosenhaus, who represented Dayquan, right? Here in about 40 minutes or so to chitchat about his side of it, how Dayquan feels. What's next for the guys that were potentially going back to college, but now not going to be able to do it because of the pressure that the SEC has placed on LSU, including the clause to say, we can, we can kick out of the league, Doug. We can kick off the tore pal if that's what we want to do. Allegedly, presidents and chancellors around the SEC were not thrilled about what was happening with LSU as we led into the biggest and best season yet last week. With everybody in all eyes on the SEC conference and what they were hearing, what they were seeing, the SEC didn't necessarily love. Thank you. Took a stand. These stand for three hours. Got cross-examined. I think you got a torn apart, basically, in the cross-examination, but he stood on business saying, hey, I am going to be allowed or we are going to be allowed to regulate our rules and our conference. Seemingly has worked thus far. We'll see what the answer is from the other side. We'll see what Drew Rosenhaus has to say. We're very thankful for that. The talks of tables here at Boston Conor, at Tyshmit, Conman, it starts the night for you and your Patriots. How do you feel? I can't believe it feels amazing, especially after the last season, last year, you're kind of a bad tasting mouth, hopefully the boys feel that same thing, but just seeing the new team. There's so many different moving pieces. One of the guys on that graphic AJ Brown, seeing him play with Drake May, should be amazing Romeo, Dobs, some of the other additions that they made are huge, but really, to your point, earlier, both these teams started on one last year. I think it was one of the only times ever in NFL history where both Super Bowl finalists were teams that started on one to start the season. So not everything on the line, but at the same time, everything is on the line. Because if we come out and look like shit, I'm going to be miserable for at least a week, but very, very excited. It's so glad we made it here. Yeah, 213 days of waiting for tonight, and obviously we have it. And also what's back for us is we have a boosted pick for the first time in multiple years. We haven't done this in a few years. We are very lucky and thankful that we're riding alongside the best sports book on Earth, Draft Kings. And if you are of age and agreed to gamble or trade responsibly, because remember Draft Kings is available in all 50 states right now, you can either trade on their futures market or you can sports gamble with us. If you agree to gamble responsibly or trade responsibly and not like an asshole, we'd love for you to join us. At two o'clock today, we kick off a tailgate for Draft Kings. Hell yeah. Come on. Tailgate. Okay, you guys can certainly do whatever you need to do to get ready for the game tonight, but the tailgate is going to be a litany, a slew of boost and a slew of things to take advantage of, maybe odds or profits or boost or whatever the case is, including our super boosts first time, long time, one half of the hammer down Cowboy's AP tone. Now we got a gamble responsibly, of course, but the NFL is back and we're definitely going to be making some moves or Draft Kings tonight. What should we be looking for as the Patriots and Seahawks kickoff? So since 2001, Super Bowl champs are 14, eight and three against the spread in the week one defending that Super Bowl championship. But as Hembo says there, oh, in two, ATS when the opener is a rematch of that previous Super Bowl, which is what you have tonight. Obviously, one of those being from 2016, the other one being pre-merger, I believe. So take that as you will, however you want that tonight, everyone, not everyone. But the public, 60% of the public is on the Patriots' money line and spread of the plus three tonight. So they like the paths in the rematch there tonight. Total 44 and a half is pretty standard for a total there. It's going to be interesting to see what they do tonight, obviously Seattle, some changes in the secondary, New England, some changes in the wide receiver room. So that match up is key to watch tonight. But I'm very, very excited to see what goes that. I don't want to get too excited about what we're boosting at two o'clock whenever it goes live on a site. I like what we're starting with. Yeah, too late, already too excited for it. And to be honest, I can't believe Draft Kings is letting us do this. So what we wanted to boost was AJ Brown and Jackson Smith and Jigba, both scoring a touchdown. Yeah. Okay, that all by itself plus 500 right now in Draft Kings. We want to get that boost at plus 700 maybe, you know, plus 750, let's see how much we can dance. Obviously odds are long. A lot of things have to happen for a wide receiver score touchdown. That includes protection and includes quarterback deciding. It's the right option to getting the ball there, completing it. There's just so many things to get a wide receiver in the end zone. But tonight, AJ Brown or Jackson Smith and Jigba score touchdown, we're sitting at plus 100. Wow. That's a minus 150 minus 170 ish kind of currently as it sits at two o'clock. This thing will be launched into the moon on Draft Kings at plus 100 for either of wide receiver ones to score. Let's go to nine year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. Yes, sir. I'm brand new to the team, are they going to not force, but is he going to be a massive piece of the strategy? Will you assume getting a bow into his hand? So he's happy and welcome. And then Jackson Smith and Jigba, I watch hard knocks. He's unguardable. So one of these guys going to get into the paint. We feel and how do you feel about this evening's match? I feel great about this bed. I feel great about both of them getting into paint. Honestly, you know, yeah, bringing in a weapon like AJ Brown, you don't bring this guy over. You don't trade what you trade it to get him in the building and not have big, big plans for him. You watch the Josh McDaniels offense. He's going to set up his guys to get open, especially, you know, guys that changed the math like AJ Brown. So you've told my third down. You talk my red area. You're going to be looking for number one. Now, and that same token, the Seattle defense, they're going to be keyed in on him as well, but they have pride. So he'll still get some one on one match up. So I'm looking forward to Drake May, you know, making some good throws. And then Sam Darnan, we talked about the questions about Sam Darnan coming in and having a guy like JSN on the outside who Seattle fans can make the argument is the best wide receiver in the national football league right now. So I'm looking forward to him getting his targets as well weekend and week out. He's going to get 12, 13, 14, 15 targets. So I don't see that changing with the new play call. So I'm excited about tonight. Excited about those wide outs and also excited about some dynamic corners that'll be matched up and covering those guys. Now, are there some injuries that we're worried about though, Debut? Some names that we've heard. And obviously, you know, everything. First week. Absolutely. There's a lot of poker being played. Who's up? Who's not up? And obviously we'll roll into that for tonight. Aaron Donald does not make the trip to Australia. That seems like huge news for the Rams Niners game. We heard Aaron Donald speaking at a press conference just two days, maybe yesterday or two days ago. He was talking about how good he felt. Yada, yada, yada, yada. A lot of people talking about game shape first, you know, training, shape and everything like that. Also 17 hour flight, which I believe the Los Angeles Rams are currently in route right now. They got three hours left on their flight. They'll be landing at 506 AM. I believe Australia time 306 PM here. That's how big of a difference the time zone is. Obviously, it's ridiculous and absurd. They're flying on like the nicest plane I've ever seen. A bunch of laybacks. They got some sweets up in this quantis plane and the Rams doing it right. Landing at 506 AM, I believe every flight potentially lands in the morning in Australia from the United States of America. If they were able to stay up for the first half of the flight and sleep for the second half of the flight, they should be able to catch the morning wake up with Australia, which has kind of been the conversation from my perspective. as somebody who did fly to Australia just last year and kind of how we won the first Sergeant Garland, Pat Garland who was in the Marines like 20 years did a bunch of traveling and obviously tours and everything like that, I have an idea. If we could stay up, this will work. You gotta stay up for like 28 hours, okay? But if you could stay up for 28 hours and then pass out for the back half of the flight and then you wake up whenever the flight lands, it's 5 a.m., you just gotta early rise right there and 5 a.m., your body should easily kind of work like that. Coming back has been the issue 'cause you land like in the late afternoon or in the evening and then your body wants to stay up and then all of a sudden you're offset, you're completely nocturnal. So how do these guys come back? I guess we'll be the big question, but I like what the Rams are doing. I hope it works out for them. Would suck for the Niners if they invested in an entire week going over to Australia and I think they have kind of representing America over there at any NFL. So we appreciate them going over there, shaking hands, going to games, kind of going to different events, showcasing football and our athletes and everything, thank you to the Niners for doing that. But that'll be the conversation piece afterwards on who did it right, who did it wrong and assume these games will happen going forward. But Aaron Donald not getting on that plane, surprising. Miles Garrett also with a knee injury having some swelling, he hasn't practiced really much. Deba, what should we expect from those two? And I am surprised that Aaron Donald is not playing tomorrow because he looked great, he sounded great. Maybe this was the plan all along. Yeah, maybe. And I've been saying, you know, it was different being in that, you know, work out peak physical shape and then playing and actually being in football shape. And it's tough to listening to players because most of the time players, if they can walk, if they can run, if they can move bodies around, they're going to say, oh yeah, I feel good about playing. So we believe that we heard them. And then the team, I would assume, or the medical staff training staff, maybe head coach Tommy Vase, say, you know what? Let's just wait, get this extra kind of 10 days or whatever it will be until their next game. And let's get them fully into game shape. And maybe that would be the same with George Kidd on the other side with Sam Fragg. I don't know if it's been an official announcement yet with him. But I know we, and here I think he's going to play, but we thought, now he's going to play as well. I was good at that, that's been kind of the thing. Once again, you don't know, you know, these teams are kind of playing the core. You don't know exactly what's going on. We know he hasn't been practicing and him not been on the field yet is concerning. He hasn't missed a ton of time in his career. So I expect him to be out there. Once game time comes, but that would be a huge, huge concern for the Rams obviously on defense if he's not out there. But has the line moved with these? OK, so I guess the books still think the Rams still got the edge against a nighter game. Aaron Donald not making the trip surprising. Obviously, making the trip, we assume you'll play. But Miles Garrett, didn't all participate in Prax student and has not really been picked. Oh, he's missed a lot. He has not really been picked. We haven't seen many things. I've seen him hit a rugby guy, pretty good a couple of times, kind of flew him around. But the Aaron Donald kind of conversation has been-- Did that guy make the trip? Maybe that's how we got back home. Yeah, maybe that's how we got back on the birds. Have you guys taken me back? And since we're landing at 506 AM, just a little over 24 hours before the game, I think 30 hours in total time, maybe we could do some of this on a plane with how big it is, because I think we have some suites on a plane as well, which has a little living room, bedrooms, little shower. Yeah, Russ allegedly doing some calisthenics, while they're flying over to Europe, that's a six hour flight. This one's 17 hour flight. Maybe get this guy on their knock some heads that could potentially be something they're doing. Joining us now is a man who's no stranger to knock in heads. Somehow this guy's brain is still so good after we've seen him bleed all over football field. That's right. We've seen him use that thing as a weapon. And we know that people say he had rocks for brains, because he comes from a meat head family. But instead, this guy, the way he talks about football, so damn great, that he's now number one commentator for CBS. Yeah, a booth. A booth. A block ladies and gentlemen, front of the program, future first-bound Hall of Famers. Is that this year? Next, yeah, next year. And we don't know true. True, very true. Ladies and gentlemen, CBS is J.J. Waw. J.J. What's up, it's here. We did it. We made it. It's here. We did it, guys. We can eat eyes. I put out a tweet the other day. He said, like, fall, football's on TV and people are like, it's not fall, so you really know what it's for in my head. It's fall. Yeah, don't listen to those people. They don't get it. They'll never get it, by the way. It is football season. I guess we could say autumn, fall, end of summer, whatever the case. It's football season. It's the best time of year. Tonight, Patriots, Seahawks. Two hour and 13 days ago, they played. Obviously, a lot has changed. If every NFL team, you're never going to have the same team from one year to the next. Maybe not even have the same culture from one year to the next. It's always a constant of build. What do you expect from these two teams from the last time they played in first game of the year? How did you always kind of treat it? It's just the first thing you have to do is call yourself down because you're so excited. You're so jacked up. Everything is leading up to this. You've been hitting your own teammates for so long. You get out there and warm up, and you do automatically warm up a little too hard. So you get that good sweat, that good laugh they're going. But then you got to go in the locker room and just call them yourself. Just tell yourself to take some deep breaths. This thing is going to be fine. I mean, I'm sure there's extra festivities with this. They experience that in the Super Bowl. So there are no stranger to dealing with all the external environment that comes along with the opening kickoff game. But there is nothing better. And then you get out there in that very first play of the game, everything automatically just settles in, locks in, and you just back on autopilot, doing your body taking over those reps. There's nothing better. I can't wait to watch it. Yeah, unless you're a rookie and then you're finding out, man, I'm not meant for this league. You know, you can get those first couple reps. Oh, I don't know if I'm going to make it here. I think General Manjaro thought this was a right decision. It was a bad decision. I don't know why my coach put me out there. And then obviously you have to find your way. But there is a lot of veteran presence on these two teams that are playing. Even though they're young, they've been through a lot. What should you expect tonight, like McDonald? I love this guy. I love McDonald. I assume, even if he has some injuries, M&Wari, I believe, is probably not playing. M&Wari is probably not playing from the way it sounds like it. I don't know if that's officially been announced or not. They have some new pieces, obviously. They lose the Super Bowl MVP. But I've gotten to the point where I just trust McDonald. And I think I'm the same with Brable as well. Even though Brable, I believe in his openers. Two and five straight up, I believe, is what Brable is on his opening day. Think that's what the style is. Two and five out, right? Two and five against the spread. So I just naturally trust Brable. But I think I've gotten to the point where I naturally trust McDonald as well. How should we view those two? And what should the expectation of tonight's game be? Is this going to be a KG affair? JJ, or do you think it's going to be wide open? I would say, I think it's going to be KG to start. I mean, I think Clint Kubiac's loss is a big loss. I think that's a huge aspect of it. They'll be fine, obviously. And they're going to be who they are. But between these two head coaches, they do things differently. They've had different backgrounds in the way that they came up. But they are both very good at getting their team locked in. I mean, we've all seen the hard knocks from this year. And Mike McDonald's stuff is fantastic. And just the way that he talks to his guys, the way that he approaches it, he'll have them ready. And then Mike, obviously in New England, dealing with the distractions, dealing with guys coming in out this offseason and everything, just making guys lock in on football, focused. I mean, you have a guy who basically send away to Houston and Kishan Booty because you brought in these other receivers. So the additional weapons and the belief that they have in them to give Drake May in that offense, very excited to see what Josh McDaniel dials up this season as Drake May continues to be more comfortable and grow as an up-and-comer in this league. Drake May true hooper. I think we got to remember that whenever he's running and also his deep shots are as if he's shooting three. He is-- that's why the AJ Brown expectation for me is he's going to get to ball a lot. Last question from me before the boys have some AJ about tonight and other NFL topics. They're going to be four-speed in AJ. This reminds me of, like, OBJ go into the ramps, where Sean McVeigh was like, we are happy to have you here. You need to know that. And with everything that happened in Philly, and I'm not saying it's the same situation in New England because him and Mike Vrable obviously are tight and pals and everything like that, I think we're going to see AJ Brown being a focal point, though, right? For this New England Patriot offense, especially with how talented Drake May is at completing passes. I would have to imagine. And you've been in one game the ball early. You want to keep your receivers happy. You're big name guys, you're big money guys. Get them the ball, get them in the offense. But obviously, defenses know that as well. And Mike McDonald and the Seattle Seahawks defense is an extremely difficult defense to play against. So not only do you have to get open against them, but you also have to be able to protect up front to get the ball off, but to scheme with all the different ways that he dials things up to come at you. So that defensive front, or Seattle, is phenomenal. And the way that they can stop the run with only four, they can play to two shell behind if they want to. They can stay in that nickel and still do everything they want to do. It's a whole lot of fun. And I'm just, I'm like, I'm like a little kid on the first day. So I can't wait to watch football again. >> Yeah, we're all zicked up, bro, don't you worry about that. Tail of the tape. This is literally every stat you could possibly need or want. This is the Chuck Pogano series of stat. He will be back. Cannot wait to see him tomorrow. But obviously the Patriots and the Seahawks last season were very elite. That is why they ended up in the Super Bowl. And down the stretch, they were playing their best ball. Now New England didn't play anybody last year, fascinating. Even though NFL teams are all professional athletes and professional football players. Now their schedule is going to be a little bit different this year after winning the AFC. Obviously starting with the Super Bowl champs. Debut has a question about something you brought up there at the end. >> Yeah, we mentioned it early in the intro. Our future hall of fame or in the trenches got to ask you. You just mentioned Seattle's trenches with Leonard Williams, Murphy. On the other side, the Patriots, they pay a ton of nickel to at least. and they got some dogs, expression, and interior bar more. And Williams, who do you think has the age of guys who are healthy when it comes to the trenches on that defensive line when it comes to Seattle and New England? I mean, if I'm looking at the totality of the defensive line in the front, so I'm giving the edge to Seattle. I mean, I think that what they're able to do with that group and the way that they're able to, especially the big guys inside, taking some of those double teams on and just being stout and allowing everybody around them to fly around and make plays. I mean, two very good fronts here, but if I had to give an edge, I would give it to Seattle. Ooh. Vrable though, maybe their defense under appreciated last year. Hopefully. Gonzo just got a fresh check. You know, is he going to be able to eat a little bit? The offensive line for New England, though, is certainly going to be a question mark for me. No doubt. Will Campbell back for another year? He was hurt towards the end. Do you guys know that you would know this, I guess, pasher usher? You know that a tackle can anchor. When do you find that out? Like, first play, you give him a little shot and you're like, oh, wait a minute, this is fun. You're just kind of like a little sled right now. Because that's seemingly what was Will Campbell's problem towards the end of the season is he couldn't anchor. And everybody's like, this guy's going to get exposed. This guy's going to get exposed. Well, if you can't anchor, you're in, I mean, the most amount of shit I think you could possibly be in as a left tackle is, do we think because he's healthy again with the experience? Will Campbell takes the next big leap? Because if he's able to protect for Drake, I think we all assume Drake's going to go crazy. Yeah. I think that's kind of how we all expect him to go, JJ. As a defensive lineman, obviously you're watching the film first. What did they struggle with in the past couple of games? What, they have an injury? What has that affected them? But for me, in that first or second drive of the game, those first couple of pasher ushering situations are also throwing a few different things at them to test them out. So first is always a bull rush. I want to see, can you anchor? I also want you to know what I'm bringing today. I want you to have to be prepared for this coming down the barrel the entire game. So I see, okay, did he handle the bull rush well? Did he not? Because if not, I'm just going to keep going with that until it fails. Then I'm going to throw a speed rush on the next one because I want to see, all right, can you handle the speed also? If I give you a fake and then go around the outside, how's the ankle, how's the knee, how are you moving today? And then you try and get some sort of lateral movement and inside out, an underneath move. And then from there, you basically have. It's like kind of like an offensive plate call as first 15. You now have your information for the rest of the day. Like, all right, how am I going to attack this guy for the rest of the game? So we can assume that they're going to be doing the same thing. The Seattle defense will be doing the same. We'll know early with Will, if we really want to watch it, how he's feeling this year versus maybe the end of last year, beginning of last year. Yeah, I mean, obviously he's going to be significantly healthier. He's also going to have studied his own tape and his own weaknesses and strengths and tried to improve on the weaknesses and continue growing on the strength. So yes, I would expect him to be improved. I think so too. I think he's a dog. I think when everybody was watching him last year, the most amount of people were watching him, they were seeing him at like 70%. And I think that is a bit unfair, especially as a rookie in this entire thing. And that's what Vrable was basically saying. Like, hey, we're like 320 days into this. Okay, we got nothing but time as we go forward. I figured out. Last week. Hey, make excuses. Hey, they will put that red dot right on it. I mean, that'll become something real quick. Hey, this guy, first rounder, really good. Remember they said short arms? That's actually not the problem. Problem is this guy can't handle anything here. That'll happen for the rest of his career if he doesn't put that fire out, especially without last season. Yeah, and to your point, with the most eyes on him, it was Daniel Hunter, Will Anderson, who was at Nick Benito, Jonathan Cooper, and then Seattle's defense. And there's probably a little bit of like, hey, the worst possible thing that could happen to you, your entire career happened. In the Super Bowl, you got cooked, and everybody was watching, and you got killed for, I don't know how many months after that game. So like, what can go wrong? At this point, what can go wrong? What's the worst thing that could happen after that? Nothing, really. And well, nobody wants here that you were hurt. They don't care. Yeah, Bingo. You're on the field. Yeah, but it's pretty important part of my-- Yeah. The thing that stinks about being a D-line, or an O-Lime, versus a D-Lime, is I get one sack of game on my hero. You give up one sack of game. You're the goat. You're the guy that screwed everything up. So you have to do it consistently for 60 straight plays. You can't have one single mental lapse, or else that's all people are going to jump on. But he seems to have a good head on his shoulders. I guarantee that he's learned a lot this off season, worked on a lot. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does-- Me, too. That's a great thing to have going into your off season. I mean, every rep, all you're thinking about is all anybody said about you, whenever you couldn't even really stand on two legs. I mean, that's an interesting start to a career, but obviously a successful one. Last question about the night's game comes from Conman. Yeah, Jade, you mentioned it up with Seattle with their new OC, and their completely different scheme. How simple is that for Seattle? Is it, hey, this is what we ran last year. We don't really care what you like. It works. Run exactly what Kubiak is. And then on the same side as that, or same kind of concept for New England. How much better is it for all these guys on offense and defense going into the second year? A little continuity. They're not learning new schemes. Kind of coming back to what they already did and knowing what to expect really from the offense and defense. Yeah, continuity is always best assuming things have been going well, because you all understand each other better. You're not installing a brand new offense or any terminology. You're not hearing a new voice and a new motivational style and everything. You are just continuing what you've already done and being much more comfortable having better conversations about it and kind of going from 101 to 201 to 301 and just continuing to work your way up. Never made it to 301 myself, so I don't even know what those classes are like. But I think, Per Seattle, obviously, you're going to run a lot of very, very similar stuff to what you did because it's what successful. It's what these guys have proven to be great at. But you're also going to have some new little wrinkles and how different eyeballs look at it, call it, see it, and a huge piece of it is the medium in the discussions in who's leading the meeting and who's now speaking and talking to these guys on a day to day. So there are definitely advantages to it that can be, but I think if the preference is there, it's always continuity. - Yeah, just another opportunity. Sam Donnell was incredible at KOC. He was incredible at Kubiac. Two guys that are considered offense and gurus will flurry be the third guy that has success with Sam Donnell. Obviously, he was able to get the job done. Nobody really gives him credit for it still. But shout out Sam Donnell. - Yeah. - On a very team friendly quarterback, our team friendly contract as a quarterback and a starting quarterback and a suitable winning veteran quarterback. What he's able to do is, is great for Seattle and John Schneider, who said-- - Did he get married? - Did he really? - Yeah, he got married this summer. - Hell yeah. - Wow. - I like you, Samo. Happy for him, fun and a fun and a lumbarity. - Yep. - Fun and a lumbarity. - Two rings in one year. - Wow. - How about that? - How about that? How about that? - You think he got the Super Ring as a pinky ring? I'll be dope. - He shouldn't, that'd be cool. - Not that thing kind of as pinky ring. I think he's so big ring. I just have everything hanging off his side. - Don't they have the ring that's an actual ring and then like a show ring as well? - Yes, cool. - Bad move. - And he put on a chain too. I believe they do that a lot now too. - Put on a-- - Don't want to chain you. - I think we should melt them. - Hmm, grill. - Ooh. - Not about that. - Be sweet. - Says champs. - Yeah, straight across. - That'd be cool. - That'd be really cool. - Why don't you get a grill this year and now that you're number one booth for CBS? - 'Cause I don't think I would look good with one. - Oh, it does. - Your grill right now looks good anyways. - Yeah, let's not touch those, those bad boys. - Bob is expensive as one. - All right, let's pivot away from tonight. Ty has a question for you. - Yeah, Jay, I don't know if you'll be able to watch this one live with the game you're calling on Sunday, but arguably the marquee matchup of the weekend, the bills against your Houston Texans. The Texans have kind of been Josh Allen's bogeyman so far during his career. I believe he's owned four against them on the flip side. CJ Strauss, a massive year for him. A lot of people think in that the Texans maybe win a Super Bowl last year if he just plays average during the playoffs. What's your take on this game on Sunday? And obviously it's the first game of the season so it's not the end of the world, but how important is this one for both teams? - Yeah, I mean, I'll definitely be watching as much of this as I can before we get to our kickoff. I'm really looking forward to it. This game has been an awesome one. Obviously as a guy who loves to watch defenses play and see Houston's defense, it's been enjoyable to watch those guys and it's also Joe Brady's chance here, obviously as the head coach. But the interesting thing about this is everybody knows that the bills in Josh Allen have struggled against Houston, specifically in Houston. And so as an offensive coordinator for the bills, and as a defensive coordinator for the Texans in Matt Burke, you're watching that film from the past and you're like, "Okay, obviously they cannot keep trying what they have been trying against us." So what is the newest wrinkle that they're going to try? What are they going to do differently? Not only are you preparing for the first game of the season, but you're also preparing for an opponent you've played before and didn't have success, so you know they're going to try something different and you have to prepare for that. The thing with Houston's defense is, they run the simplest defense in the NFL. They just have a bunch of crazy maniacal bad ass dudes out there who do it extremely well. And then every now and then they throw in these blitzes to keep you off balance. But they know that they can keep it simple and play good football because they have such great technique and such great players out there. So that's, it's not even that crazy of a schematic battle as it is just, we're just here to beat you up. I hope it happens. I hope that this season is the greatest that we've ever seen. It's going to be. And I hope that the Houston Texans take a massive step backwards. There we go. I don't know if they're going. I'm a little bit worried about the Houston fans showing up those Texans games because remember we saw this thing. Oh yeah, it's empty. Everyone, it's all coming back to me. I don't really get much support. - I don't know if you know about this. We just signed Daniel Jones to fucking 500 million. Okay, I don't know if you know that, Judge. Do you guys have your quarterback long term? I guess you'll find that out. We got our guy up here in Indianapolis. And since the Miko has gotten down the Houston, it's been a real problem. This team has been a real problem. You talk about CJ, multiple playoff appearances already in his short career and his rookie contract right now. Playoff wins, you name it. And everybody's still wondering if he's a guy. It's like, yeah, keep wondering, especially down at Houston, get him out of there. Since CJ Stryer built it, he's not a guy. And while you're at it, the Miko, get him the hell out of Houston too. Let's go ahead and do all of that. The AMC South looks a bit different this year. How do you feel about the Houston Texans as they sit at the AMC South Champs? And are you worried a little bit about Jacksonville or maybe Salah down there in Tennessee? How do you feel about the AMC South? Which might just be the best division yet. Yeah, that's a stretch, I would say that's a stretch. But I do significantly think that the Jacksonville Jaguars are continually underrated and under discussed. It is pretty wild. I mean, we even saw Liam Cohen say at this offseason, kind of shine the light on it. And still, they don't get some of the recognition in shine that they deserve for what they did last year. But obviously, I think the Texans are a phenomenal team. I think they are super bowl contender. I think CJ Stroud, a little bit similar to the Will Campbell conversation we were having just a little bit earlier. CJ Stroud, in the playoffs last year, had everybody see one of his least impressive performances of his career. And so all offseason, he's now had the opportunity to kind of go into his little bunker and work on the things that he wants to work on and just specifically focus solely on not letting that be the image that the world remembers and sees. Going out there and playing better this year, knowing that this team is built for a super bowl run. And he is the key that unlocks the whole thing. And so I'm really, really looking forward to see how he and this offense works this year because as we all know, the defense is prepared for it. - Jacksonville, 13 and 4 last year won the AFC South and lost it to bills at home and to playoffs. So obviously, you take a step. Do you take the next step? We think Liam will be able to do that. Houston is won the AFC South, what seemingly every other year is for the last like 10 years, it seems like Tennessee Titans do a full clean sweep of everything, still have their quarterback and cam ward. And then Indianapolis Colts and like their guys. - Yeah, DPT thinks they're going to win the Super Bowl. - Is Alec Pierce playing? I haven't been able to look closely. I know he had the issue. - We haven't been great at predicting whether or not people are going to play. We said Aaron Donald's playing for sure and then turns out he didn't get on the plane. So we don't, we're not a hundred. And then Miles Garrett, he's all we can't wait to see. - Guy hasn't even prepped. So I mean, we don't know. But from what we saw from Alec Pierce, in a way everybody's talking about it, we will assume, which this is not a guarantee, Alec Pierce is playing. - Yeah, he'd also said that, yes, he's. - Okay, so we all kind of assume that Alec Pierce is playing. He's a horrendously looking walker. Like his gate whenever he's walking. - That was why I asked because I saw that. I saw the walk video. - Yeah, we got source says from the Colts that told us like, hey, don't judge his walk. He's like a very tightly wound. It's not a good walk. - It's weird. - It's a weird walk. Yeah, because we were judging it. I saw him walking. I'm like, this guy's never going to play. I don't know if this guy's going to make it in the second half of the season. They're like, we still hope and think that week one is in play. I'm like, yeah, right. I'm watching him walk. I'm not an idiot. They're like, he's a terrible walker. The guy is a horrendous walker. Don't love him. - I mean, this is still a much better walker. CJ Stras. - Well, CJ's was so lacking. - That's just how he was wearing too. - Alec Pierce just walks like he's thinking about how am I supposed to walk. - Yes. - Alec Pierce also walks as if he has to take a thumb. - I go more of a two different length legs. I think that's what the, that's kind of what the walk looked like. - Oh, 'cause you kind of got like the De Niro. Is he the one that had that? - Yeah, it's still at us. - Yeah, that type of situation happening. But yeah, we were judging his walking for like what, two, three weeks on the show. Man, thank God football's happening tonight. Kind of football's happening. - No more of that. - Yeah, I was just going back in time to when I was watching Alec Pierce walk up a hill in New England during the joint practice and going, we're done. We just paid that guy so much money. And then just a couple weeks later, he's cooking on the practice field. So he's a terrible walker. Maybe the worst walker in the entire NFL. So we got to make sure that we understand that. Tone has a question for you, JJ. - Yeah, JJ, you talked about watching Texans and Bills before your game. Your game is Green Bay and Minnesota. Obviously we know the main story lines with Kyler and K.O.C. and their first start and the Packers without Josh Jacobs and Micah. But I assume you've just looked over this game a billion times at this point now. What are you most excited to see in this game? Maybe the difference makers in this one. - Yeah, you are absolutely right. I have watched the pre-season snaps of both teams. I have watched last season's matchups. I have gone through every statistic that there is. I am ready to go. And I'm so excited about it. I mean, we have our NFL today pre-game show. It was going to be on site in Minnesota. We get to go there in a phenomenal stadium. I think US Bank Stadium's very underrated in this league. I think the Vikings are wearing their block number jerseys, which are my favorite version of their jerseys, which would be great. Got the Green Bay Packers. I mean, come on. What more could you want? Now, what I'm looking at, outside of some of the obvious things, like you said, I mean, obviously Kyler and K.O.C., how do they marry up versus Jonathan Ganon. I love that matchup on what does Ganon use against Kyler? Having known him up close and personal recently. Flores and his blitz ability. The number one blitzing team by far. The number one pressure team by far last year. Can he get to Jordan Love, who is good against the blitz, but not good when the blitz actually lands against pressure. So he is good at diagnosing it, dissecting it. But if the blitz gets there too quickly, that's when there's issues. And then I'm really looking forward to seeing what this Packer's receiving court can do. Obviously, Dobbs has gone, Wix has gone. What are these new, not new. But what is this receiving, Gore, as these core three, with Golden, Watson, and Reed, how do they perform? I mean, there's a billion things that I can go into here. The running back room, the guy who's going to be the bell cow in Lloyd has six carries in his entire career. And now he's going to be starting and expected to carry the load. And they're also going to be expected to blitz pick up against this Flores defense. So does Dallas Turner take the edge? Because they used to have Neil Hunter. They used to have John Crenard. Now they've got Dallas Turner. Can he step up in this year and become everything that they want to be? Here he the hitman is back. Harrison Smith, very excited to see how he does. There's no question the mentals were there. Is he physically ready? I would imagine he does all those crazy stretches and everything. He does 40 dunks a day, it sounds like. So there's all sorts of, I could literally go for days, new offensive blind coach for the Vikings. He's instilled this mentality, this identity. Packer's offensive line. A lot of questions, a couple of guys, are they going to play? Are they not? Even in their press conferences, they're talking about, we don't know who the five are going to be for sure. So I don't know if you can tell them. Pretty exciting. Yeah, sounds like you're pretty jacked up, pretty well-read, too. Thankful that you're taking the job, obviously, very seriously. Nobody wants to get the starting job in the manner in which you got it. But we know that you're going to seize the opportunity and do an incredible job for all of sports. So we appreciate that. You talk about carrying a load. A lot of people we're going to find out who's carrying what loads. Oh, yeah. All season. He's getting carried and dropped all across the board here this first week. That's right. I think we kind of learned a whole new load kind of management across the NFL this year. Don't you think? Like, who? I'm trying to figure it out. Where's this going? This guy, this is going somewhere. Where is this headed? We're talking about loads. The loads of the season. It's just scary. Yeah. No, where? Yeah. Loads just getting a shot out all over the place. Loads everywhere. This guy's got a big load. This guy. Not that big of a load. What's his problem? He actually didn't have enough to him. That's what we find out here in week one about the amount of loads. And he talked about the guy carrying the load and running back room for Green Bay. There was six carries total. Yeah. And his entire existence. Yeah, he's just, I mean, the Packers drafted him very highly out of USC. I think he was a second round pick. So like they invested a lot in him and the same deal. He's super explosive, but he's been hurt nonstop the last three years. And you guys don't know who your offense align is yet? I didn't know that. No, they do, but there's a couple guys that are a little bit banged up that they don't know if they're going to start on Sunday, but they have the best file. So we'll just, we'll see. But no, I mean, JJ hit the Josh Jacobs thing kind of started everything. But like a lot of questions need to be answered for the Packers on Sunday. For sure. There are a lot of question marks with that team. Yeah. And they don't have Micah. I mean, there's, you look at Micah and what they did when he's on the field versus when he's off the field, like it's astounding. And so now you have to go out there and find a way to produce a pass rush. And yes, you can use the guys you have or you can use stunts and games and all sorts of different ways to draw it up, which if you historically look, some of the things that Kyler has had struggles with is stunts and games on the interior of the line kind of creating a mess in there. So you would imagine Jonathan Ganon also knowing that is probably going to implement some of that. But that's exactly what chaos he's job is and what he's great at is you get Kyler under center, you roll him out, you get him into play action game, get him on the move. So a whole lot of different chess matches going on here. And it's also a good kicker game. And we've got an all pro kicker on one side in the Vikings and Ryker and we've got a rookie on the other side who dominated in the preseason games, but struggled in preseason practices. So what happens when the real lights come on? Well, I assume I'm just going to act like he's going to do well because in practice he couldn't turn it up. Now, I will say I learned quickly when I became an adult like a practice matters, you know, like I think Lane Kiffin gave an entire speech about how from his experience like you don't just turn it on whenever the game is. Yeah, I'd be good in practice. And I think Adam Archalena quotes William and said, well, actually, I was kind of asked in practice 'cause I was trying to figure it out. And then when the games came on, I turned it on or whatever. And I was like, okay, I think what he was trying to say is normally those who do practice good in practice hard are the ones who play good. It's not just like the old school day. Everybody heard Alan Iverson say, we're talking about practice. Alan Iverson is an alien. Okay, that is a one-of-one type person. There is a few other people that are like that. So whenever you talk about a kicker, we're gonna be in knocking practice good in games. I mean, it's mentally he's there. We just need to work it all out. We need to lock it every single day. As we don't need that trickling in, whenever it's fourth quarter, and we got a must to make kick. And then all of a sudden, it's like, well, let's be good all the time. - I think part of the-- - How you do anything? How you do everything? - Part of the concern is that the Packers had a different long snapper all camp with him because the incumbent who has been there for a really long time was injured. They cut the guy who was there and are going back to the other guy. And like things have been a little rocky. So I don't know, like, he, Trace Mac was clearly very comfortable that that operation was pretty good, at least during the preseason game. So it's interesting that they cut that guy and went back to the guy that's been there for a long time. - Practice matters, I think. - Yeah, Jake, how were you? I guess coming off of injury, or did you ever go into a season kind of where you didn't practice much or a game where you didn't practice much, you just hitting the ground running because we got, obviously, Aaron Donald, you know, he'll probably get in there a week too, we assume Miles Garrett hasn't practiced much. How were you with that? What did you need to fill before you got into that game? - Yeah, I personally was a need to practice because that's just what I was the mentality that I was built on. And it probably hindered me at times because I told myself that I needed it. And there's times where, yes, you can obviously perform without needing it. So you kind of get in your own head about it. But I think Aaron and Miles are in two very different situations because Aaron's coming off of just being retired for two years and building himself back up to full-blown football shape. And I do think in his situation, if you look at the totality of the season and what you want him for over the course from now until January, February, being not taking a 20-hour flight, playing a game and taking a 20-hour flight back and also being able to give him this, whatever it is, 11-day rest before the next game, is definitely the right decision in my mind if you're looking at the long game here. Now, Miles is a different story where he obviously has the knee and hasn't been able to practice a ton. And now he's growing down there to play in this. But at the end of the day, he's Miles Garrett. He's a phenomenal football player. He knows his body better than anybody. If he feels he can go out there and play and perform, he is one of the best players in the league. So I would imagine he's going to be great. But there's no doubt that a 20-hour flight each way is not the most ideal situation when you're dealing with slowing. - Yeah, not the most desirable, you know, sitch, whenever you, what is it? It's the altitude, it's the pressure, it's the dehydration of the travel. Not being able to move much, obviously he's a big deal, especially when it's 17, 18 hours. Why are-- - For Katie and rhythm, all of that, yeah. - So how would you have handled it? You're JJ Watt, you're a superhuman. So can I tell you what I did? And I've said this multiple times, hoping that people will hear it. So first Sergeant Garntland, this guy, right here, campaign cover. He, military, 20-some years, a lot of different tours. He went to Australia with me. He's also in the mosquito bowl movie as a drill instructor, which he was for eight years, okay, five years in Paris Island, I believe, three years over in San Diego and everything like that. He said, hey, the game is, especially 'cause we're landing in the morning, we just got to wake up whenever we get there. So we got to stay up until a time, whenever we got to wake up. And then once we wake up, it's morning, who cares where we're at? We just woke up after a long sleep, we're having a day. So the Rams land at 506 AM or whatever, it's in two hours or so, they land 506 there. If they wake up as the plane lands, they just have a morning, they're off, right? I don't, it worked for me. Coming back, I was completely fucked. I don't think we like focused on much, which could be the issue for the Niners and the Rams going forward for week two, maybe even lingering into the beginning of week three there because they've been over there for an entire week. What is your thoughts on the travel and how they kind of handled it? And we're ultimately going to judge off of whoever wins, even if it comes down to the last second field goal. >> Yeah, which is, that's the funny part to me, is that this is going to turn into whoever wins the game. It's about who traveled and how they traveled. If the Rams win, everybody has to travel late. If the Niners win, you have to get there ahead of time. Nobody cares that the left guard missed the cutoff block in the big gap and there was a blown up play in the forest fumble in the back field, we're all just going to blame it on the flights. I personally would like the latest leaving possible. I think that unless you're going like two full weeks in advance and you're truly fully acclimating to it, I would rather just go late, bite the bullet, let's go play some ball, line it up, and then get me back home as quickly as possible. I agree, coming back is going to be the hardest thing, but luckily they have this extra full weekend to get back on track. I would assume that the coaches are probably going to give them a decent chunk of it off just to try and get their circadian rhythm back on track. But for me personally, I'll just bite the bullet, like let's get there as late as possible, let's get as much good practice in as we can here, get on the plane, go play, and then let's get on. - Yeah, you talk about that guard missing the pull. It's like, last time he didn't get enough sleep. - That's right. - You know what I'm saying? - That's a big, big circadian rhythm guy. - Yeah, he loves that. - Well, remember, he was in, we remember what-- - I'm on the red light glasses lately. I don't like 'em because I'm watching TV that night and everything's red, I'm trying to keep watching the gentleman on TV, or not red light, blue light blockers. The blue light blockers on later night if you're not supposed to have the screens, but then everything's red. I want everything to be red, I'm enjoyable. - These blue light glasses had a run there. - I thought those things were for gaze and they don't count. - If you get clear, they are. If you get clear ones, they don't do anything. But apparently the amber colored red ones are actually blocking you. - Oh, yeah. - Do we have these? - I don't know, I try everything. I do it for a little bit, and if I feel better, I keep doing it. If it bucks, I drop it. That's how it goes. - I wore copper gloves 'cause Brett Farve told me that I was gonna get arthritis anymore when I was-- - Doesn't matter. - You know what I do? You don't tell me I come from a family. There's my mom found out about that thing that does the shocks in the ass, back when I was a kid. I had a Christmas present on her tree, who's it from? Oh, that's for mom. What is it? Oh, I heard I don't have to move and I get abs. Pop those things on. So believe me, I'm a believer in whatever makes us better. Let's go ahead and do that. The blue light one, I thought was a few years back. I'm happy it's still in there. I'm happy that's still working. - New lenses, pretty much. - Sam love it and Wembee, they're all doing it. - Yeah, and they're pretty good. And you gotta remember, Sam love it's doing a lot. What do you mean? I think he is disrespecting how strong a body is. - Exactly. - Just the way he's treating it. Like, I think we need to understand that the body naturally has a little bit of grit. Okay, you don't have to put this thing in a bubble. You know, be able to handle it. But I'll tell you what, he ran his ass off. - Yes, he did. - So if this works for him, he should certainly do that. - Man, organic food only in college that couldn't be further from where I was at. - Yeah, no doubt. - There's this place we had called FATSAN, which company where they just put literally anything humanly possible on a sandwich. I was pounded one of those a week. - I believe that started in West Virginia. Morgantown West Virginia, actually, if it made its way over to. - Just one. - Wisconsin, I'm happy to hear that. Yeah, we're having one of those. - Terry Barr, yeah, we were throwing food down. - 3 a.m. pizzas. No questions asked. You should've seen me with the odors and the odors. - Sure. - I put American cheese in that day. American cheese in there. I saw a whipping that together. Call me Guy Fietti, you know what I mean? The way I was whipping. Yeah, it's a little different life now. - 7,000 grams of sodium going down the gullet right there, no doubt. - It's a little different life now, Jage. But Jage used to be, whenever he was in his 20% of lock 27%, he was bad, I think, 838 p.m. - Had to be. - He had to be in the bed in the facility where he'd go. - Oh, I'm freezing out then. - Yeah, big on bed. No, I'm a bed guy. I like to go to sleep at a good hour, and I like to wake up, and I do like a nice morning walk in the daylight, like to get the light in the eyeballs. - Yeah, let's get these up. I got the blue lights at night, and I got the sunlight in the morning. And then on Sundays, calling the morning game in the booth. - Yeah. - You guys gotta have some tricks with your travels. I mean, you guys are traveling everywhere doing everything. You guys gotta have some tricks on the plane. - Right now, it's just house in Musonex, and everything else that's happening as the office has been struck. - I forgot, you're taking what's it called for your equilibrium. You're popping a-- - Dramamine, yeah, I got Dramamine on. I was on trampoline last night. I'll have you know, without Dramamine, that was certainly a role of the dice, especially with how I feel. Woke up okay, so maybe everything's coming back. Jade, good luck this season. We'll see you next week. - See you next week, guys. Great start, love it. Good luck, Connor. - Thanks man, let's go Pat. - Hey, good luck to Burnley too, by the way, we've been following, and we know that's not good right now. Yep, all right, it's a good place to end it there. - Dramamine, JJ, what up the game? - JJ! - What do you mean? - Well, the Premier League over there in England is up here at the top. - Sure, yeah. - How long? - If you're at the top four or five, you make it into the Champions League to compete against the other top four or five from around the rest of Europe. If you're in the bottom three of the Premier League, you can move down to like the second league, okay? - Championship. - Championship, which is, that's called relegation, you get down there. But if you're in the bottom three of that league, what? - I think you go down to the-- - Sent you to the MLS, there's another one. - Don't. - They go down to league two. - What? - MLS. - I'll stick his-- - It's competing with Premier League up here. Okay, we got the balloon door, where? Okay, that's what we got in the MLS. Leo Messy, you remember? - Yeah. - He's out here doing the league. - Remember we did this a couple of weeks ago in football seasons here, so we don't have to do it. - All right. stop. Anyway, it's currently down to bottom of that second one. I guess you can end up also knocked out of the cup as well. The camera. No, no, and the F.A. Serb is kind of, you know, expecting a big season out of Jage and the booth. I think he needs it. Yeah, what about the entity? What's that? Espanyl. They can compete with the MLS right now. Espanyl could, well, apparently, no way. They come over here. Just did absolutely slaughter. Let's pivot away from the NFL and from the soccer. It was a great offseason. Thank you. Let's go to professional football and college football coming to a head around a couple different players names. The person that represents the biggest name that was going to be signed potentially to a college roster after playing in the NFL training camp. Ladies and gentlemen, icon of an agent. Super suit. Drew Rosenhausen. Thank you. How are you doing, Drew? Great, Pat. It's really just been dealing with this saga for Daequan right. We thought he was going to go to LSU. He want a court case that said he could go play at LSU. Then the SEC gets involved. They threaten LSU. LSU says, Daequan, you can't play. So then we think he can go play in the NFL. Now the NFL is not sure that he can play after his dalliances with LSU. So I feel for Daequan because he left the Cleveland Browns to go to LSU. And now we may not be able to play anywhere this year. Okay. So let's talk about that a little bit because I think a part of the injunction of going back to college after leaving a pro team for the five for five as judges ruled that this particular class that was just drafted and decided to go pro as opposed to staying in college kind of got screwed by the five for five ruling and they should get that. So then there's a state judge down there in Louisiana that says, yes, these guys are good. Daequan writes name was obviously a big one because he was undrafted trying out for the Cleveland Browns. He's potentially going to leave the Browns after he gets cut, gets cut from the Browns, goes back to LSU. Then there was something added that was like they will then be eligible to go into the draft next year once again. So they'd be able to enter the draft twice, which we thought was abnormal, but it seemed like that was kind of the situation now that LSU or maybe some of these other colleges, even though it's all kind of revolved around LSU are choosing not to sign these guys that were in training camps. These guys are stuck in a purgatory now for another year. How do you see it kind of shaping up and thank you for telling their story as we kind of watch this story kind of blow by us as LSU chooses not to roster these guys because they felt the pressure from the commissioner. Where does Daequan sit and how do you see this working out over the next couple weeks, especially with you probably having to work the phones pretty hard right now? Well, Daequan's in limbo. I don't listen objectively. I can't blame LSU. Lane Kiffin to his credit. He fought hard to add Daequan right, but the pressure from the SEC was unrelenting. I mean, they were threatening and still are expulsion. They filed a lawsuit against Lane Kiffin and LSU. I believe he was served with a lawsuit. There's just too much at stake for LSU. They really wanted this to happen and Lane, I don't want to speak for him, but you know, what he's shared with me, he feels terrible for Daequan because he's the guy that, in my opinion, has done nothing wrong. He was told by the courts he could go leave and play at LSU for a lot more money and then go back to the NFL after that. It seemed like a no-brainer. I was supportive and then the SEC steps in and they pull the rug from underneath them. So what's my job right now? I've reached out to the NFL and I've asked them if they could take a look at this. My dealings with the NFL, they've always been incredibly fair and just. Let's keep in mind that Daequan never played in a game for LSU. He was never on the roster, nor did he ever sign a contract. So I'm hoping that they will, the NFL will let him at least join a practice squad. Otherwise, he's stuck. No college will sign him. The NFL right now is not made a decision. So what does he do? He left the Browns. I mean, at a minimum, he would have been, I think, on their practice squad and I can't fault the young man because he was just following advice from the courts and his rights. I do think that his lawyers are looking at legal action potentially against the SEC. We're keeping him out of LSU. So we got injunctions. We got state lawsuits. We got federal lawsuits being filed. We got pressure. We got expulsion. We got now potentially. Yeah. You know, financial grievances by Daequan right to potentially look into whoever he should be going against. It sounds like you think the SEC or saying the SEC. So this is nowhere near over, hopefully. And we expect the NFL because he wasn't on a college roster. He was just cut from the Cleveland Browns. We'd assume they let him back in to at least work out for the NFL. But didn't he kind of know that this was potentially possible whenever he decided to leave the Browns or no? I would say this when he left the Browns Pat, there was no doubt he'd be able to play at LSU. And we were very careful during the interim period where LSU was getting heat from the SEC not to sign with LSU at that point because we did not want to lose his eligibility to go back to the NFL. So he did not sign with LSU. While all this stuff was up in the air, but the league is still trying to decide whether or not they're going to let him try out for a team or or join a team. So I'm currently waiting for that right now. We thought as of yesterday he would be able to, but it is up in the air. Okay. I'm just rooting. I'm just rooting for the young men. He just wants to play football. Yeah. Understand. Very interesting situation, especially with the cash. He was probably going to be able to make if he was to go back to college, which he thought was going to be possible. It does feel like the right thing in the end for ball happened as a whole here. It does feel like the SEC has set a precedent now that the big 12 also did a couple of months back with Soresby where maybe they'll be able to regulate their own conferences since the NCAA feels as if they can't regulate anything. So maybe we have some guardrails here a little bit in place, but it certainly sucks for Dayquan who's kind of been put into purgatory. Let's pivot away from that situation. Obviously you have relationships around the NFL, but around the NFL a long time. South Florida has a lot of questions. Go ahead, Debuff. Yeah. I got to actually about the one and most dynamic football players. NFLs ever seen Tyrick Hill. Obviously suffered a gruesome injury last when he was playing with the Dolphin. Saw him post a video recently. What's the latest with Tyrick Hill and his health? Look at that. I mean, I'm his agent, but objectively, it's pretty good. I said that. I sent that to a couple of NFL teams and the reaction was let us know when we can sign them. Yeah, Tyrick is doing amazing. You see him returning mock puns there running routes. He is doing well. His doctors have recommended, though, that he he postponed his comeback until a perhaps some time in October. So we're playing on the safe side, Pat, and Darius, when I came on last time, I had mentioned you guys. We're not in a rush. We really just want him to be completely healthy. There's a ton of interest as you can imagine in Tyrick. But we just want to make sure that he's 100% good to go. That may be a month from now, a couple weeks from now. We're not in a hurry. I'm surprised you're not hopping on a plane to go to Australia. Just let him know that the Rosenhaus against the NFL football. What is this weekend look like for you? I'm sure you're traveling to a lot of different games, shaking a lot of hands, showcasing the client, saying you're all in to start the season, of course. You're going to like this schedule because it has a lot to do with you. I'm starting out tomorrow night with the UM University Miami, FAMU football game, do a little recruiting at the U. Then I'm going to Indiana for the Hoosiers. Tell you who Hoosiers. Now you're now at your close. There's three of them at the beginning and then you get the Hoosiers. So once you get up here, make sure you have that right. Okay, got it. Look, I'm a blue devil in a hurricane, as you can tell, but in Honorary Hoosiers, we're recruiting some really talented guys there. One of our NIL guys is Charlie Becker, who I think is a future NFL star. I can tell you we had the number one wide receiver in the draft last year in Carnell Tate and I think Becker is going to be a top 10 tit. And then I'm going to figure out what NFL game to go to. No doubt I'll be at a game Sunday, Monday and next Thursday as well. So this is my time of the year, Pat. I love all the games. I probably go to an average of three to four games a week right now between college and the NFL. Shake those hands. Continue to work your ass off for your clients and for the game as a whole. I know that you knew that the situation was not desirable. I think you actually said that with day one, right? And pro guys going back to college, you're like, this is my client though. I got to make sure we put him in the best situation that he could possibly be in. Right now, I'm eager to see how it all works out with you. Because remember, not very different situations, obviously, very different situations, but same bucket. Sores, they did not open up the draft for him. They did not open up the compensatory. Is that what it's called? Supplemental. Supplemental. They did not open the supplemental draft for him, which everybody just assumed they were going to do. The NFL is like, nah, we're actually not doing that. You're not coming to our league to kind of harbor yourself. We'll see you next year potentially. And then now with decision that's potentially looming. The NFL has kind of stood on football business a couple different times and it feels like Sanky's doing that with the SEC right now. Drew, we know you always stand on business and which is why we appreciate the hell out of you. Good luck this season brother. Thank you. - Peace to you Pat. - How many billions is this guy in the grocery store? - Over 10. - Jesus Christ. He's a gentleman Drew Rosennows. (clapping) - 10 billion? - Yeah. - Here's the weak one slate of the NFL. Obviously that feels like a big deal there. - Well, yeah. - You don't really think about the Dayquan situation. You know, we kind of move along, we say, for the good of ball happened. - Yeah. - And it's like, well, now what does Dayquan do? Well, if she's never signed, never did a contract. Was he just kind of cut from the browns then shouldn't he still be a free agent? - I think he's to be able to get back in a prep. - Yeah, no doubt, no question. - I think so too, but the NFL could be like, hey, we don't like what you do for the ball there. - Well, like you said, you kind of knew that this was a possibility when you left. - Which is, I mean, felt obligated to say that to Drew because Drew, whenever he came on to talk about Dayquan, right, potentially going to college, was like, this is going to be the first time ever. You know, we assume he's going to get cut and then we heard, well, he's maybe going to make the practice squad. It was like, well, was he being told he could be on the practice squad and he said, no to the practice squad to go play the LSU and as the NFL, now I'm going to say, you, we gave you an opportunity to be here. They could do that. - Yeah. - I hope they don't. - I hope they don't. - Right, tough, tough spot to be in. - Especially with how much money he was probably going to make. - Yeah, 'cause you could see his side. 'Cause like he said, it was like at the time it was, hey, there are no issues. You are going to be able to play at LSU this year for way more money than you would have been able to play for in the NFL. - And you get to go in the draft and end when you're on draft and it could go up, especially with another year of Lane's offense with Sam Levitt. You get everything good, good, good. And then everything kind of happens and Dayquan's like, so. - Sorry, Ballard. - You should not have luck. - You probably didn't know what he was going to bend the knee to the SEC. - Savannah, bananas. - What's that, buddy? - He probably didn't know Lane was going to bend the knee to the SEC. So I would like to say, I don't know if it's Lane or the entirety of the LSU, whatever the case, we're happy that it happened. I think we are happy that it happened, but it does suck for Dayquan, certainly. And Xavier and Harris, who's going to get healthy, we assume, he will be in a similar situation. But it's like, I think big precedent being set right now in front of our eyes. That Protect College Sports Act, I've learned that there's a lot of things wrong with that after I said, hey, Nick Sabons behind it, every single commissioner that's in a power conference and group of five conference, and also Pete Povacua and the head of the Yankee. Everybody that I've seen that's a part of this bill, I seemingly trust with the future of sport. But I guess there's a lot of things that people don't necessarily love about that. I know that because it's been flooding my mentions since Saturday, when I was like, hey, let's get this thing passed. So we can have some guardrails. Feels like we might have some guardrails, which is the commissioners of the conference is just bullying people saying, nah, you ain't doing that. We can't do that. That can't be how it is. And if that's going to be for the next couple of years, at least we have something. And I'm pumped about that. What did Senky lose? Three hours of his life getting absolutely grilled in Baton Rouge. Now we move forward. Let's be a friend to our friends. I'm nice to my change of life. We're back on the other side. Goodbye. Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie setting mist from Maybelline, New York. 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A Super Bowl rematch, just 213 days ago, these two teams took the field and found out that the Seattle Seahawks were world champions. Since then, a lot has happened. Boy, a lot has happened. On the New England side, on field, off field. Yeah. Everywhere. A lot has happened. Okay. Everywhere. A lot has happened. And then whenever you go to Seattle Seahawks, they had hard knocks. They had cameras inside their building. We all got a chance to learn about them, but a lot of people left that team that were obviously pivotal points, including the Super Bowl MVP. How are these two squads look tonight? Is they kicked off a season that we're obviously hoping is going to be the best season. Yes, college football has been living up to the hype, which we're very grateful for. The pro college saga seemingly coming to an end. We just wrapped that up with Drew Rosenhaus as we ended the last hour. Take one right now, the player who left the Cleveland Browns, got cut from the Cleveland Browns. We learned could have potentially wanted to practice quarter the Cleveland Browns. What Drew Rosenhaus just said, we did not know that was the case, but he was the one who was obviously going to go back to LSU alongside Zavian Harris, undrafted guys who weren't going to make it to the NFL. LSU has said that they are not going to roster these two players. They picked up two other guys instead that they maybe dropped off their roster for these two pro guys. And then now we move forward knowing that the commissioner of the SEC could potentially regulate his own rules. The big 12 commissioner did the same. Is this going to be what college sports is for the next foreseeable future until we get some sort of bill passed in DC, which is very rare to ever happen. Yes, football is in a beautiful state. Baseball actually also delivering in a huge way, sports delivering in a huge way. Team USA women's basketball team about to win the Feeball World Cup. Shout out to them. And Ben Shelton. Hell yeah. Wow. Ben Shelton. Yeah. At 3.33 this morning, served a 146 mile an hour serve to beat the Carlos Alcaraz. Just a couple of stats here on what Shelton did last night as an absolute beast, an absolute stallion, a superstar who I actually bet on yesterday, because Bruce came up to me and kind of challenged me a little bit. You like Ben Shelton, huh? He's taking on Alcaraz. You like Ben Shel? Launch better on them. I said, I will. And I did. And I was going to go big, big on him because how much faith I had in them. But if you look at the stats and the way tennis people are talking, he was not supposed to win this at all. That's his first career win over a top three ranked player. He entered 0 and 17. Wow. That's the first American to defeat Alcaraz at a major. Previously, he was 13 and 0. First lefty to defeat Alcaraz. You know, because obviously severed on this side. It's a little bit better on this side. It's a little bit further or whatever. Alcaraz was 14 and 0 against lefties at majors. First American to defeat defending US Open Champion in five sets, since 18 year old Samperous. Matt's Wildlander in 1989. You're talking about a lot of history, a lot of stats saying that Ben Shelton, especially at 3.33 in the morning after Tioffo's match with Schneidman. Big Ben. As you imagine, there it is. Big Fog. It's huge when that goes long. Then obviously there's only one court over there that has suites, I guess. So they can't play concurrently next to each other. They're all playing on center court main court. So they're big matches. This thing didn't start to 11 o'clock last night. Ended at 3.33. Congratulations, Ben Shelton, who we are massive fans of. Representing the United States of America. And defying all stats that said he should not beat Alcaraz at the US Open. Is Shelton about to win the US Open? It was like it. Is Ben Shelton about to become a big time name and men's tennis? We hope so. We got a chance to meet him. I got a chance to meet him. I'm a big fan. Obviously he's dating Trinity Rodman. She's a beast for Team USA and obviously her professional women's soccer league team out in LA where she or Seattle. What Washington? I don't know if it's Washington DC or Washington state state. I believe DC wrong. Okay, that's on me. 100%. Anyway, she got the biggest deal in the history of. Oh, yeah. And I watched the PWSL Sundays on ESPN. That's the NWSL. All right, let's go back to the beginning. Let's go back to the beginning. I watched the NWSL. Yeah, we know on Sundays. Yes, Trinity Rodman unstoppable. I have a daughter Mackenzie. she's going to be playing in the World Cup and in the Olympics in 2039. So obviously a mayor, a watch the spirit, yep. And it's the NWSL, you're 100% right. Yeah, we out on the show, why does she start to do it? Yes, biggest deal in the history of sports, women's sports. So I'm a huge fan, got to meet Trinity, immediately started shit talking me. Okay, so I respect that, Ben Shelton's same thing. So his young sports icon couple doing great is good for society as a whole. Shout to Ben, hopefully we'll get you to chat with him. Nine year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler is here. The toxic table is here at Boston Conor and at Tysh Mitt. One half of the hammer, done. Cowboys, AP town is your tone. We're just 48 minutes away from our first boost really going live in multiple years. How do we feel about it as we sit right now? And is it only looking tastier and tastier like it is to me? Yeah, as we get closer to the game and we boost, you know, one touchdown from either JSN or AJ Brown. I believe the tailgate starts at 2 p.m. Well, then when this will go live on draft Kings and everyone sports book in America and the world. No, as these things are closer and closer, you're always like, it kind of feels like you're playing in the game because you've got something vested in it. And in this situation, it feels real good to me, it feels real. - Okay, all right, I don't know how you're talking about it. Maybe you should stop doing that, okay? Kind of in a weird way, like we were talking on a rap yesterday where you were talking about that thing. - That's what bets do to me. - Yeah, well this bet also feels good until you just started talking the way you were talking. But nonetheless, we'll talk to Mike Turekio in this hour. He'll be on the call for the game. We're also joined by a man who's a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hall. (audience cheering) - Taco, happy NFL day. How do you feel about either AJ or JSN? Touching paint tonight at plus 100? Very grateful that we got this thing boosted to even odds. I feel good about it, AJ. But now the tone's talking the way he's talking. Maybe I don't. - I'm kind of with you on that one, 'cause this does feel like it is highly likely to happen, it would be great if it did. We know you got a bet responsibly, but hearing tone kind of get all worked up about it did make me a passionate about stuff we're doing. - I mean, but weirdy. - It wasn't passionate at all. It's actually great. - It's actually great. - You don't want to be on your work out of that. - Those are all wrapped into one. - It sounded like, 'cause we're all going to be on top of this bet. It sounded like you wanted to be inside of this bet a little bit. - Yeah, I want to be inside every bet I make. - Well, let's be inside of it. - If I don't love my bet, if I don't want to be passionate with my bet, what am I doing making that bet? - Well, we do need to tell people that. As we kind of set sail onto a new NFL season, and obviously there's going to be a lot of sprinkling of things across the board or with our friends at DraftKings, let's remember to be responsible. And if we don't love something, we don't have to do it. - Exactly. - You don't have to do it if you don't love it. Now, we are doing a big team ride on this. If you'd like to join us, let's do it. Be responsible, please. Don't be an asshole. Don't ruin it for the rest of us. And DraftKings is available nationwide. Joining us now, legend from Amazon's coverage. Now, from the beginning of Amazon streaming on Thursday nights, there's been a conversation of, is this the new world for the NFL? Amazon has held up their end of the bargain. Very rarely has it dropped. Very rarely has it been hard to acquire. Very rarely has there ever been bad content. From the beginning, it's been phenomenal. And that's because they've signed people that obviously resumes just as good as their personality. Joining us now is one of the men who's kicked off Thursday nights on Amazon, and a whole new era for the NFL as a whole. He's a three time first team all pro, five time pro-buller Super Bowl champion, the host. I think we're going to see here very soon of the Richard Sherman podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, Richard Sherman. [APPLAUSE] Hey, what up, fellas? What up, fellas? Good to see you. Hey, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. I love you got Lambo sitting over your shoulders. Is that a Walter Payton man of the year? Or is that an SB on the other side there? Let's check out the backdrop and look spectacular. You got it. You got it. Yeah, you got a short throw award. You win them all. No reason to hide them. Hey, man. Hey, man. End of-- I've got a PFF on too. Oh. Rankin. Yeah, I like that. Whenever they would have Richard Sherman on the starters at the bottom, it wouldn't say, fucking ass. Like, it does. To some of the guys. Some of the guys that does say that. And we think to ourselves, I don't know how this guy made to the NFL. Sherman, we understand you're a Stanford guy. We understand you're a legend. But obviously, your ties to the Seattle Seahawks are going to be forever. We saw some clips of you talking to McDonald about life, pre-Super Bowl, post-Super Bowl. What do you expect from the Seahawks team after being around him this evening? And obviously, they got some new people in some very key positions. I picked up the Seahawks as my NFC team after watching Hard Knocks. What do you expect from them tonight as we kick off a new season? I expect them to be even better than they were last year, Pat. It's crazy what they were able to do while losing Kenneth Walker, while losing Kobe Bryant, while losing Boya and Mafia. I mean, they were so deep in the line room that you almost had to lose, guys. You had to give them away. But you still got guys like Leonard Williams, Derek Hall, Byron Murphy, who could have been an all-pro, who wasn't even a full-time starter. Jaren Reed, I mean, the list goes on and on. Then you got Ernest Jones in the middle. You gave Witherspoon all that cash, but they are a great and sound group. And they depend on Mike McDonald's scheme and his mindset and his brain to be at the elite level. They already have the talent. They have the personnel. But his brain is what takes them over the top, his understanding of what the offense is going to do, how they're going to try to block it, and how he attacks it, each and every game, every play, is what takes them over the top. But I think Sam Donnell is going to be the difference this year. Sam Donnell, he led the league and turnovers last year. And then he got to the playoffs and played freaking almost perfect football. So if he plays that way throughout the season, there's going to be a tough team beat. >> Sharn, a lot of people saying they still don't believe in Sam Donnell. Obviously, brand new OC, he's had a couple of those over the past few years and had success. They were KOC and Kubiak both had coaches now. Pick up Flurry as the OC. You said you liked Sam Donnell to be the reason why they're even better this year. What did you see from practice or camp that makes us excited about Flurry being the offense coordinator? >> I mean, Flurry is just a little bit more creative in the run game packages. I think the running back by committee may be a better way than what they were doing last year. If you remember K9, got a little banged up. Sharbanay had his run for a couple games. So it was kind of mixed back and forth. I think Jadarian Price is going to be outstanding in the backfield and they're going to use him in the past game. But I think Sam Donnell's just rapport with Rashid Shaheed is going to be big. Cooper Cup obviously is going to factor in A.J. Barner, O'Royal, O'Royal had an outstanding camp. I mean, was looking really dominant out there. I think he's going to surprise a lot of people when he gets out there. So there are just so many different dynamics that you'll see tonight that you'll be like, wow. I mean, Sam, it's sometimes confidence is the thing in his league. As you guys all know, once you get confidence, they can't take it from you in his league. If you never get it, you never make it. But once you get it, they can't take it. I think Sam, starting to believe in himself and the staff believing him in a mic and the team, and you start to play up to your potential, you become the guy that they always thought you could be. I don't know if, for some reason, my brains tell me it was you. Were you the one who said I was telling people I was the best in the world long before I was? OK, Muhammad Ali said it. I just repeated it. OK, OK, perfect. So it was Muhammad Ali, and then you said it. Because in my head, I saw you saying it. And I remember thinking to myself, yes, that is exactly how you need to think to be great. But confidence is a powerful, powerful thing. And if you see a broken quarterback, we can assume that team's going to suck. And if you see one that's kind of floating around, like Sam Donald certainly was, towards the end, that team's going to be great. Now, speaking of being great, how do you handle it all? Go ahead, D-Bud. Yeah, we always talk about handling adversity, but it's a whole different challenge when it comes to handling success. You know, as a player, as a team. So what are some of those challenges? I saw you talking with Jules on your podcast about, you know, you're not really seeing a lot of the Seattle players in the GQ magazines or a national commercial. They just kind of been quiet right back to work. What are the challenges that kind of goes into that team following the Super Bowl run like Seahawks? Well, I think that would be the challenge is the distractions. You know, guys kind of start to get just human nature. You get a little selfish. You start to worry about you. And people start telling you, you're the guy. And you're the reason for the success. And it should be this guy. I mean, you know, Demarcus Lawrence went out there and got a Super Bowl for the first time. You know, he could have easily walked away and said, hey, that's a career. But he said, hey, this is a team. I've been waiting for this moment my whole life. I'm going to come back. And I think that's what they have. They have a team full of high character, selfless guys. And you saw that this offseason. I didn't see-- you didn't see them on really a magazine cover. You didn't see commercials. And those are the things you almost expect to see from Super Bowl champions. You expect to see Sam Donald up there. You know, posing. You expect to see the offensive player the year Jackson Smith and Jigba up there filling himself. But that's not the kind of guys these are. I mean, I don't know how I was to say it. They're just quiet. Go about their business guys. And I think that's why they have a great chance to repeat. Yeah, they look like serial killers up there. McDonald kind of has that similar thought. Because we've been watching it on hard knocks. You talk about distractions. This is the first team that's won a Super Bowl. It has hard knocks falling around in training camp. And obviously, trying to rebuild the culture, the showcase, the culture, could be very distracting. You got PTZs in every single room. And they've seemingly not bothered, continued to operate. And they've won me over for sure. There was a couple of different clips that showcase the greatness outside of the offensive player of the year. AJ has a question for you, Sherm. Yeah, you mentioned JSN, Sherm. I guess how do you expect Seattle to use him tonight? How do you expect this Patriots defense to try to contain him a bit? I expect him to use it the same way they did last year. They're going to feature him. But the difference is, I think Rashid Shaheed is going to factor in as well. And if you don't pay attention, if you just ignore Rashid Shaheed, you're in for a long day. Because it takes a second, as anybody knows, to gain a rapport, especially with a speedcer, a guy who can just run, where do you put the ball? When do you release it? And all those things. And I think they figured that out. So if you go on to double and put all your attention on the running offensive player of the year, Rashid Shaheed could be in for a huge day and jadarian price in a royal and all those other guys. So I think they're wary of that. I think they're going to continue to try to find one-on-ones, where he can win. They're going to move him around. Everywhere on a field and find his openings. Obviously, New England is going to follow him with Christian Gonzalez, as they should. But I think Seattle's going to make it difficult for them to do that. And if they do, look out for Rashid Shaheed to have a big game. You just mentioned there a matchup that we can obviously all look forward to. New money, new money, big titles, big titles, go ahead, con, man. Yeah, Sharma, feels like we've got two premier matchups between Jay Asan and Gonzo, and also AJ Brown and Witherspoon. What's kind of the different ways to guard those guys? What do you think about the way to guard AJ Brown, being a bigger receiver, more physical versus Jay Asan, who seemingly can get open no matter where he is on the football field? How would you go about defending those guys? Because there's been debate, especially with New England. They usually are at least bell-check would. you know double the number the number one receiver puts your best corner on the number two receiver like what is your kind of style if you were trying to well sure only plays on one side of the field remember that's the I remember that's the entire conversation now right yeah that's the debate for a long time but we do have two premiere wide receivers and two premiere corners what should we watch from that I mean you know like you said I mean we've we've done the whole follow thing and done that but my philosophy in general if I'm a coach a dictate the pace as a defense like we don't move our players for you you move our we you move your players for us we need to dictate where you put in guys if you if we're following you and chasing your guys that means you're dictating how we set our defense and that's never how we were in Seattle and that's never how I would be as a defense coordinator but you know there are there are times it makes sense if you've got an obvious guy who's killing you and you've got a guy who can who can turn his water off and go ahead but I think I would go about it doubling the guy or zoning over him you know clouding and making sure he has attention but leaving you're leaving your number one corner where he's comfortable I think if you put a guy where he's comfortable AJ Brown is he's going to be where he's going to be I mean he's usually at X and he's not going to be in a slot as much JSN could be in a backfield and a slide on the outside on the inside maybe New England uses AJ differently but he's a true number one just hey go out there and and win your matchup stand on the line and win Mono Imano JSN is an incredible player and often subplier the year but he's going to get moved right he's going to be in slot he's going to be here he's going to be there so you have to defend him differently there are going to be different guys guarding JSN and you have to dictate your you have to allow your defense to adjust to where he is on the field if you're going to cover him the Seattle Seahawks team Super Bowl champions right now okay you would think celebration would be huge for them instead the entire conversation has been in the division tie as a question for you yeah sure and you mentioned you know how a lot of the guys personalities and they're not really seeking like the fame or you know being in commercials and all that kind of stuff and it's kind of changed maybe a little bit these last few days as the seasons almost started but for the last four months it was just a foregone conclusion hey the Rams are going to win the Super Bowl they're the best team on paper they might even go undefeated do you think that the the team and like Mcdonald are they hearing that kind of stuff and maybe stacking those chips on their shoulder are they just completely unbothered by that because they beat him three or four games last year and they are the defending Super Bowl champions no they hear they heard loud and clear and they recognize it you know the teams like this when you're coming off a Super Bowl win and you're just a blue collar team you still look for the extras you look for the chirping you look for the motivation you look for the gas in the ammunition and it's been given to him on a silver platter with all this Rams talk Rams are winning it the Rams are unbeatable and the Rams should have won it last year like Seattle wanted on some kind of fluke and I think they've heard that loud and clear and they've used it to motivate them throughout training camp and throughout the season they're going to continue to do that I think this team is still going to be a tough out obviously the Rams are really talented an incredible defensive line incredible defense but as you guys know the the game has played on grass not paper and we've seen incredible paper teams not go out there and win the Lombardi so you still got to play the games and I think Seattle the way they're built the scheme they play the way McDonald prepares they're just going to be a tough out I love it Seattle C-Ox from my NFC team you know just picked them up a couple weeks ago it's been fun it's been really fun to be a part of the team we're Super Bowl champs yeah yeah we're Super Bowl champs now we're really far away it is so far up which I think is a piece of the lack of coverage of the Seattle C-Ox out of sight out of mind kind of can certainly be something fan bases want to talk about their fan especially if you have a microphone in front of you whatever the case is but yeah McDonald's psycho serial killers use it all that against I assume now big moves were made in the secondary with the Los Angeles Rams though might warrant the hype go ahead tone yeah sure but a lot of talk about the D line obviously with Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald coming back and everything that they already had on that defensive line but then they traded for Trent McDuffee they also bring in Jalen Watson both from the chiefs how much does that help the Rams this offseason because you know that that was kind of their weakness is what their perceived weakness was last year in the secondary but how much do those moves that aren't getting talked about as much help the Rams this year oh well they're going to help tremendously they're two really talented players who can play man-to-man coverage they can play a number of things but my question is going to be how do they adjust you know they've played in spag system their entire careers how do they ingest to this this Rams system where it's going to be a lot more quarters and six and things like that and and how does that affect them again they're not high turnover players and that's something that I think you look for in corners these days you you got to look for hey who's getting the ball and I don't think offenses are as terrified of corners that aren't high turnover guys you know guys who who picked the ball off when you put it up there guys like Derek Stingley JC Horn you put it up there there's a chance they take the football from you and return to their team so I think they're fantastic additions they can play man-to-man they can play sticky coverage if they're going to make the windows really tight for these quarterbacks and if that pass rush gets hot it's going to be a deadly combination throughout the season but it's it's to be seen the FC West is stupid bro yeah it is a stupid setup right now with everything going over there in the Arizona Cardinals I think they have a couple of years because of how packed the NFC West currently is but it's interesting you got offensive guru obviously in LA offensive guru and San Francisco offensive guru in Arizona we shall see we assume that'll be the case and then you got defensive guru mastermind up in Seattle it feels like that's going to be good forever over there in the NFC West it's going to be tough to win it are they going to cannibalize each other is that what's going to happen last year yes it did not yeah it might become a time if the Arizona Cardinals can get their shit together has there ever been a 14 in the playoffs never situation and is that even possible it is possible now it's seven okay yeah the FC South probably going to get it this year if that is the but the FC South probably sure if I had to guess is going to do it this year probably the best division in all of sports right now the AFC South got two last year yeah well Danny Danny dime signs back with the coach so everybody's in deep deep the NFC North didn't no they didn't they did three mm-hmm yeah I think three is the most I've seen the man the West had three or the West had three last year because the 900 from the 70 yeah and then the AFC South is your four so we'll kind of we'll kind of blaze that down that would be all we've got to blaze that trail for you guys jacksville jaguars out sneaky in there mm-hmm Tennessee Titans about to kind of dose you though sure Houston Texans are what they are and then the cost probably going to be number one seed last thing I just said I actually mean yeah everything else not that but we have a huge conversation about to take place about you probably all next offseason and it's something that is earned and warranted go ahead do you bud oh yeah sure as a as a former DB who played the same errors you got to give you your flowers dummy Pat was talking about hey play one side but you guys everybody tried to copy that defense you talked about been a high turnover guy you were that year in a year out just want to congratulate you on being a hall of fame now I'm in need what was your thoughts we first got this information and tell the people why you think you should be a first valid hall of fame are talking yeah let's hear it well I appreciate that brother um a lot of respect for your game all low um you know I I I let the the decade and interceptions um so you know I think that story when you when you plan I gave up the least amount of touchdowns I think that's a factor when you plan I think I gave up 17 in a career um I gave up I think it was me and Revis were tried for the least amount of completion percentage to think we gave right around 49 percent um you know I mean it's during the football time when you played were you were you the best in the game and I was and so it's it's you know you hope that they they feel that same way and you hope that you know the guys you played you know Julio Jones and played against Larry a couple times a year um Megatron all these great players Antonio Brown O'Dell AJ Green just you know really fantastic players um and you win more matchups than you lose so you you you hope that um you know that factors in and then the the quality of your team I you know was able to go to two Super Bowls in Seattle and I was a first team all pro on both Super Bowl teams and then left and went to San Francisco and you know was an all pro on that Super Bowl team so and it was the number one pass defense in the league after not being the number one pass defense over the last couple of years so uh sometimes you just hope the number speak hell yeah yeah sure sounds like now remember Bella check was not a first-bound whole family so yeah so it's not you know if it doesn't happen let's not be completely uh you know broken because of it but everything you just rattled off I did not know that I knew you were term I knew Richard Sherman change also change kind of what the corner position was right we got guys now down to LSU 6 5 6 4 back in the day that was not kind of the case I I feel like you did kind of break the mode a little bit about being big tall let's go ahead and rangey corner and not just you I assume there was others at the time but it did feel like you changed the position a bit and you're a former wide receiver right weren't you at Stanford I believe when you want to Stanford you're a wide receiver yes sir yes sir I did I did I I played it for a couple years and then me and a jimble saw different things saw different visions for I think it worked out you know I think it worked out absolutely good coach and everything D-butt said about you obviously that's another corner playing at the same time as you obviously mean something all the wide receivers you just rattled off right there I assume they have some Sherman story oh yeah you know and that's you certainly made your mark on the game and we're very grateful for the fact you're still covering it. Congratulations on everything. Good luck with all. I've been nominated all of them three times. So, you know, no big deal. No big deal. Yeah, yeah. Now they left me off after the third and fourth year. I didn't get on there. You know, I appreciate the hat tip. I definitely do not deserve it. But for you, I think the game will not be the same without you in it. So we appreciate you brother. Thank you for joining us. Good luck this season with Amazon. Thank you so much. I appreciate you guys having me. It's an honor to be on the show. You guys are doing a fantastic job. Big fan of the show. All love. Debuts. Appreciate you brother. Yes, sir. Oh, yeah. Yes, sir. Now, I said that and I started talking and I realized I shouldn't have been talking about it at the time. Was he first, Lanky, long kind of became like a thing. Yeah, I would say first, but he and no other together, though, do you about him? He and Brown are together. That fighting, I saw those guys. They were like the Legion of Boom was like just being born and seeing those two guys together in the court. It was a wild thing. Oh, yeah. You got you got like commodity Antonio. I'm sure it was guys before that time. But yeah, for him, what they did for that whole unit, like that L.O.B., that Legion of Boom, with him, Earl Thomas, Cam, Browner, and then the Maxwell that came and after Browner left, they were just how they played with the front and that type of style of deep. It was kind of like a three deep, but they were kind of uncertain, drop people differently. You know, once something is successful, everybody tries to copy and mimic it. But nobody could really do it. And then what sure, what that whole defense was, but sure, I'm being a part of it too. A big part of it, the communication. And that's what there, this, this iteration of defenses as well, because one thing to be good and talented, but having everybody on the same page and, you know, you hear them talking and you almost know that they know what's coming. That's very, very intimidating. And then the ball skills, you mentioned him being a former wild receiver and him talking about the high turnover plays, even the cornerbacks that we have now, some of the highest paycores, Gonzo, Witherspoon, Jory Porter, Pike and Paiso. Those guys don't have a bunch of turnovers, but they're, they're creating a good man guy's attacker. They do a ton of things, but when you have that extra edge, we're like a certain or stingly or a JC home, we can turn that ball over weekend and week out. That does put a different type of fear into office as weekend and week out. Be ashamed, but definitely set the table for a lot of these guys that are playing the position now. Yeah. And we see a lot of these picks happening in his own end zone. And then he's running out like the six and going down. Let's just stay in the end zone. Okay. We don't need to be punted with our heels on the back of the end zone because we thought we're going to go a hundred yards, 110 yards or whatever the case is, but you have a list, remember? Oh, yeah, one or less. Take your take a knee. Hey, listen, you touch back is good for these guys. Okay. We've looked at your speed. We've looked at your awareness. You ain't making past the 20. Okay. So get your ass down in the pain, but nonetheless, Sherman, I mean, he was a factor in every single game. He didn't mention crap tree. I was proud of that. I was almost like Michael Crappery, but I guess, you know, something's die hard. Yeah. Which I respect. Believe me more so than maybe I certainly respect that. Okay. Let's pivot away from Richard Sherman, probably being a first-bound Hall of Famer. What does that mean anymore? We're not a hundred percent sure. We just know a man who impacted the game. To a man who's impacted all of sport. This guy, whenever his voice is on it, it means it's a huge deal. Everything from you name it. If it's competition, he's called it. He knows it. In tonight, he kicks off this 2026 NFL season on NBC at 820 is the Patriots take on the Super Bowl champion Seahawks on the call. Ladies and gentlemen, Mike Tariq. Yeah, Mike. Mike Syracuse, we get it. Okay, understandable, big orange min. I don't know how the season's going to go. Now's a good time to get a big time dub. Yes, a Syracuse person is kicking off the NFL season. That is a win in the football column. Correct. Obviously a hectic day, busy day. How you doing? It is. Is Sherman done yet? Given all of his accolades? That was an interesting question, D, but I like you saying that. Hey, Sherman, I don't know if you have this information on you or not, but if you want to say why? Sometimes you got to set the table if you were talking issues. And he did. I love Sherman. Sherman was a great production meeting. He was a great player. And I love watching him with the Amazon crew on Thursday nights. That was a blast. Sherman brought you like Super Bowl trophy and all pro and SPs and all that. I got a curtain in a hotel for you, man. Sorry. Well, thanks for closing the curtain. You know, if you were to kept that open, obviously, you know, TV. Yeah, yeah, what a pretty out there. The water's beautiful. Have you been to Seattle much? I went up there for the University of Washington. I do believe. And I flew up there. Amazon Game Herb Street was calling one and then we're on the West Coast. So I traveled and watched one game in their stadium. Incredibly loud. Awesome. So good. And beautiful scenery up there. What do you expect tonight? Mike, I like that we're showcasing our best environment to kick off the NFL season. I assume you feel the same way. I love it. The 12s are awesome. I mean, we've had so many good experiences here over the years. The first thing, as soon as I walk into the stadium, I'll walk into the booth in a few hours here. I look to the left and look down at the end zone that the fail marry happened when we had the officials controversy and golden tape the bottom of the pile. And what official going like this? It's an interception. The other ones doing touchdown. That was the most unbelievable finish that have been a part of. So I always remember that. As soon as I walk in this stadium and the 12s are allowed, they have been for generations and I can't wait to see how loud they are when the banners went for all tonight. Is anybody on this call on this play on this field? Nope. That was like a double dime package. I'm actually on the sidelines watching this whole debacle come down. Okay. You know what I remember? So I'm doing the game with Groot and it's a Monday night game. We're on ESPN and we're like sorting things out. We're talking to Jerry Austin with the time it's our replay our official expert football rules analysts and all that stuff. And Groot is just like he's he's pissed. He's just like in the corner. He's like contributing but he's like body language wise and he's like I don't know how Mike McCarthy gets you guys back on the plane and talks to you because he's felt like you guys got robbed of the game and he was just thinking from a coach's perspective like how hard that is for that flight back in the middle of the night back to Green Bay short week coming up. I just remember John being so upset and like thinking, man, if I was Mike McCarthy, this would be really hard right now. Thank God they got the officiating deal done this offseason, right? That kind of came in like pretty quickly. Very, very pumped that they got that done. Also the evolution of what they're able to do, how they're able to do it. I think it's going to make the game better. Let's talk about the game being better. 213 days ago Patriots played this in Hawks. You've obviously got a chance to chat with the coaches, got a chance to chat with some of the players. What are the vibes heading in here versus 213 days ago? The Seattle Seahawks feel like a team that understand they have to rebuild from the bottom to get back to the mountaintop and for the Patriots, is there anything they can draw from last year? What is kind of what you've picked up after conversations with both sides? Well, they both know each other really well and although you don't want to re-litigate the Super Bowl, if you will, one, how can they not be on your mind? And two, for the guys who are playing, this is the last team they played in a game that meant something. And neither quarterback played in the preseason. So it's the first time that they're out there and they're playing against the same team that they know so well because of the Super Bowl prep, which is always as deep a prep as you're going to get, right? You know, it's interesting, Pat. The Patriots had this massive turnaround from four wins to 14 when the three playoff games go up against some really good defenses in the playoffs. Their offense wasn't as good. But the Patriots roster is very different. You guys had the list up there before the addition subtractions. There it is. I mean, number wise all the way through their roster, they've got almost two dozen different guys on their rosters. They really churned the roster. And when you talk to the Patriots about it, they didn't have a great foundation of guys when Vrable and this administration came in. So they need to really kind of keep the roster going to build around the players they've established. And the headline jumps out of the wide receivers, right? I mean, you you had AJ Brown and Romeo Dobbs, two guys who led their team in receptions last year. They become a little more dynamic at the wide receiver spot. Now flip it over to Seattle. Very few changes. 22 starters in the Super Bowl, 20 of them are back. They've got some banged up guys in the secondary. That's the place to think we'll we'll be watching tonight because in that Super Bowl Patriots got no offense going for three quarters. It was a terrible three quarters of offense for New England. Will they be able to protect May and throw the ball a little bit to get the game started tonight? First 10 drives in the Super Bowl is a HEMBO stat. Seattle had 19 New England zero yards 297 to 78 first down 17 to five. And obviously the New England Patriot, yeah, you were there for it. The New England Patriots had take on like the number three defense and number two defense and then number one defense throughout consecutively a Houston Denver and then obviously Seattle. And then Seattle had a similar situation because the Patriots defense ended up being a top five defense, top four defense throughout the end of the year. So it was very defensive heavy. For me, you know, this sport and this league better than anybody for how long you've been covering it. We got a super cagey affair to start this thing early. I mean, 20 out of 22 starters back for Seattle. They could be in, you know, midseason form carry over from the Super Bowl. We know that's a very difficult thing to do. Only the Patriots have really been able to accomplish the feat and I guess the chiefs were able to do it one time. But what do you think early in this game? Is it going to be jitters? Let's kind of just let's not make any huge mistakes here early. Let's let the game kind of figure itself out or how do you expect this thing to start? Usually that's the way you think the games are going to start, especially because guys have played very little in the preseason. But I think back to last year, we jumped in the deep end quick in the first kickoff game. I think these teams are both ready to go. I think it will get off to a fast start in this one. And you pointed out Pat, I think something really interesting with the Patriots and the defenses they played in that playoff stretch. It would be real fascinating to watch the protection for Drake May because he took so many sacks. That's one thing he is focused on. They played the Chargers defense, which is pretty good up in Foxboro in the wild card game that we had. And then you talked about Houston, the weather was terrible, Denver, the weather was terrible, and they just could not protect it. There was one specific pressure that the Seahawks brought over and over and over and they just couldn't block them and eventually led to a defensive score. But remember this when we flip it around. The Patriots defense gave up one touchdown in that Super Bowl. There were five field goals by Myers. There was the defensive score. They got to 29 with one offensive score. So the Patriots defense, which has some changes, including adding Kevin Byard at Safety who led the league in picks last year. This is a pretty good defense that has a terrific back end, Gonzalez got paid. That's maybe the more fascinating thing to me as we watch this game play out is how good is that New England defense gets started against the Seattle offense. Over under 44 and a half, but both quarterbacks very talented and both quarterbacks on very good contracts with their respective teams. Debut has a question for you, Mike. Yeah, Mike, you came on talking about sure kind of behind the scenes in those production meetings. You have anything for these two quarterbacks, Sam Donnell and Drake May. I guess kind of behind the scenes in the good stories. I know Drake May coming off an MVP caliber season, Sam Donnell coming off a Super Bowl championship. He's a great playoff run, anything behind the scenes that we don't know about these guys. I'll go right to Sam and he just, he just feels different, right? The confidence of having won a Super Bowl, you know, all Sam heard from the early days with the Jets were doubts and doubts and doubts. And then Sam kind of bounced around and it's Carolina. It's around San Francisco. It's Minnesota 14 win season. Then Seattle 14 win season. Then he wins the three in the playoffs. That was a Super Bowl champ married this year. Sam Donnell's got a confidence like, you know, you can be good, but you don't feel like you can raise your voice to a certain volume because you haven't done anything in that room. Now he's won the Super Bowl. Like that banner up there, Sam Donnell is the quarterback. He's won a 38 people in the history of the world who's been a starting quarterback to win the Super Bowl. But he's in that velvet rope group, you know, the VIPs where you guys hang around inside the velvet ropes. Sam's there now. He's there forever. So I just feel a little more confidence from him that I belong and this is the first time in four years. He went to work to start training camp in the same place where he left at the end of the last season. Then he was bouncing around, bouncing around, bouncing around. Now he's back in Seattle. So I think if one thing, Deepak came out of like our conversations, like you feel good for San Francisco. Great guy. But you also felt like, okay, this guy is now QB1 and as you guys know, because so many of you lived in buildings, QB1s set a lot of the tone in the building. And Sam's doing that this year. Yeah, he's home, right? And I feel like he's found a home. And Schneider obviously loves him because he's able to win. He's talented. He obviously has a lot of toughness and grit. But the contract is a very good contract, especially with the new Baker contract coming out and everything there. But he's making it's like, what he's signed for with Gino Smith would not sign for with Seattle from our understanding what the deal is. It's like you can build around that. But he'd be like that forever. I think so. I think there's a chance they are very good at getting this year, no, no, no, give me $60 million a year. $70 million. Yeah, I've earned that. I mean, how many hours do we have to kick off? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess Schneider said he was watching our show whenever LesNeed was like now is a good time to kind of talk to Aaron Donnell to get him back here. He's not just watching now saying shut up about Sam Donnell's deal. We don't need to be talking about what his deal is, but that's a huge piece of this. They were able to pay a lot of their pillars because of what Sam Donnell is making. And obviously he's making great money. Let's not get it twisted. He's great money. But in comparison to what other quarterbacks are making who have done far less than he was able to accomplish, it is a very team friendly deal that they got to quarterback. Go ahead, Mike. Well, Pat, it allows you to do what's right on the screen there. A S N top paid receiver spoon was the top paid corner until 36 hours ago when Gonzales got his deal done. So he slides down to number two, but it allows you to do that. And what have we seen with Kansas City, because you mentioned it before this century, now we're now quarter through this century here. Two teams have repeated his champs, the Patriots and the Chiefs. The Chiefs continue and they have to pay my homes at that high number. The bills have to pay Josh at a high number. And those guys burn it because without them and they're great quarters without a great quarterback, it's really hard to win, right? So they've got the guy, but it becomes harder to put great pieces around them. And it really takes hitting that right sweet spot. So you nailed it. Both teams are in a quarterback salary sweet spot at the moment that allows them to do those other things. They give them a chance to run it back and win 11 or 12 games. Drake May has his offense coordinator back. The other side's new go ahead, Con man. Yeah, Mike past talking about Brian Flurry, new OC from the San Francisco 49ers going up to Seattle. I'm not sure if you're able to talk to him, and if you did, what were kind of the vibes? How did you feel about them? Do you think it's going to be as simple as, hey, here's Kubiak's playbook, just run it. Or do you think he's going to bring in his own little player? And just so you know, we have a super moves going tonight, AJ Brown or JS and score a touchdown at plus 100. So if you want to just let people know when it happens that we're wanting on the season, that'd be fantastic. There's some very happy men in the Thunderdom and the whole team here is on this. One or the other. They need one. Just one touchdown. Either or just need one. We need one. You see it right there at the top. We just need one. And this is huge for us. We haven't been in this game in a while. Start the season. I don't know if our shins are ready. But just know there will be a full volcanic eruption from us if this hits. Nonetheless, let's get back to the offense of Sam Darnell. Thank you, Mike. That's good. Thank you. Thank you. Do I need to shower now? Am I okay? I will. I'll get a cigarette. I'll need a whole thing if this hits. This is a big deal. And if it doesn't, just know that we are getting absolutely murdered by Pete Kilt. Just know that. You know what our football coach, Fran Brown, we're wanting to beat New Hampshire by the way. Big game against Cal. He says winters get washed. They get showers. I remember his deal. We didn't win a bunch of games. So he wouldn't take a shower. Finally wanted. He said, I love it. I don't deserve. Don't remember that. They run. It's running. It's after you. I've heard Fran Brown says stupid shit. All right. Hey, you butt. Post games. Post games. Prince after barely beating. Yep. Exactly. I like for Fran Brown, but football coach. I don't feel like it. We play next year. We play. Good man. October, November, Debut. We go. Q's in UConn. You know, I don't know. I'm a week by week guy. I might. We got married. Locks. You don't even know. He's playing. He played UConn. Call us Toledo. Remember your question. Yes. Remember your question, Debut. Let me answer it. I didn't speak to Flurry. Collins were a spoke to him. But we talked to the players about it. And the system and the style. And he'll put his. His wrinkle on it. Obviously comes from San Francisco, which. The offense is so similar San Francisco. The Rams. The whole division looks the same, right? They're all good. Their defense. Their offense is look the same. You know, with Flurry coming from San Francisco. Maybe there's an influence there. With what they've done in the run game a little bit more. As time goes on. Jardarian price will be interesting to watch. Running back at an order day. You know, love got all the attention. Here's price taken at the end of the first round. Because of Kenneth Walker going to Kansas City and free agency. This will be one of the guys. Along with George Hollani who played a bunch of the Super Bowl. While they wait for Zach Sharbinate to come back from his injury that he suffered in the playoffs. It'll be really interesting to watch a back who didn't take a snap in the preseason. But everybody says looks really good. How does he fit in right away against a good defense? That's one of the things we'll be watching when the game kicks tonight. I trust Seattle's running back coach. What's his name? Oh, man. That's where I know him from. Yeah, yeah. I love him. What is it? I love him. I want to say coach Hampton, but I'm not. I'm not 100 percent. Everything he said in that speech, a lot alone with this thing that he ended it with. He was like. How's it going? Yeah. Thomas Hammock. Thomas Hammock. Hammock. At a hammock in my first house. So obviously, I mean, we've been doing this entire thing. Put screws right in the living room. How to hang a hammock in between. It's a ridiculous thing. But everything he said in that one little part that we saw was perfection. He said he adds tag, right? They're tagging us off. Let's make sure they continue to just tag us off. We lower our shoulder right through their chest. Just kind of set the tone because you've always seen that type of jousting kind of take place back and forth between a defense and an offense, especially a defense that is very good like this one. Him just wanting his guys to set the tone. We're not dancing. Okay. We're hitting this thing and then actually giving a juke to everybody. This was spectacular television. I couldn't imagine what it would be like in his room every single day. Sure. But I got faith that this guy is going to get the boys ready to roll personally. Mike. And shout out to hard knocks too. That show is so great. It always gets us hyped for the season, especially when we've got the team that is the subject of hard knocks in one of our week one games. But they did such a good job. And the experience was great. I thought the best part of it was Mike McDonald. People got to know who the Super Bowl when he coach was and why he's so good. And if you remember, there was a moment there where he got in front of the team and talked about the passing of O.J. Burgan, so he got to know when he was in Baltimore. And one of the veterans goes over to him afterwards and says coach that was good this morning. And it just showed you that his vulnerability shared in front of the team was appreciated by Leonard Williams and some of the vets on the team. And that tells me. that the guy in front of the room has all the guys in the auditorium seats leading in the right direction and Following him and there's a real human connection, which is you guys know because you lived it I didn't but I hear you all talk about it. Sometimes that connection is real Sometimes that connection depends on what your record is. Yeah, my connection seems real And I think we saw that in hard knocks and good for Mike. Yeah, great for Mike I became a Seahawks fan. They're actually my NFC team from watching hard knocks because of how he leads and how his team likes him Because you talk about obviously getting emotional in there and them saying hey, we appreciate you doing that with us This is kind of more like a family. We treat it this way the practice rep with hall Yeah, yeah hall got too close where he goes oh turns out I'm running the practice and he responds back It's like that type of you have to have a great relationship with each other for that to be able to happen obviously publicly with hard-knock shooting there It's like I really appreciate how he has come together with his team feels like he's a real leader of men And then they had that leading counselors what like 15 guys in there everybody's kind of on the same page hard knocks Is has taught me that I think the Seahawks are a problem for the next 15 20 years. That's probably what a name permanent kept this Cuz they got all this. Yeah, they would have had newsroom council. They don't have 12 like like the Rams got that's actually They're Jersey now is just a sea on if you make the team you actually just get a sea on it But they got a lot of legends over there. Okay last question here before we have a hard out. Obviously you don't just have one game Go ahead Tom. Yeah Mike you got a second game this week Sunday night football cowboys and giants two teams that didn't make the Super Bowl last year, but there's optimism for both teams this off season it feels like the cowboys for the first time in a Long time there's there's no drama around this team. It's it's all positive optimism Especially around the defense what are your thoughts on this game and specifically the cowboys and the kind of their Optimism going into the season Look I deserve some grief for this I got asked by a writer who is a team under the radar that you've got your eye on this year And I said the cowboys and like yeah right the cowboys are under the radar team. They never are right But if you heard peep one out of Dallas. No anybody's contract any contract that's getting settled 30 minutes before kickoff a week one Anybody complaining about stuff the pickings thing could have been an issue. It's not he's bought into this The whole thing and here it's simple if their defense is good. Doesn't be great. If their defense is good This team can be very good because the offense was operating at a terrific level last year with DAC the receivers the Run game Javonte back there all of that they they had a really good chance The Giants I'm excited about you just feel like John Harbott's team is never gonna roll out there and not be fully prepared It's a professional operation. It's gonna be what the Giants fans have been looking for for several years And they're gonna go out there and represent that franchise the team in just a different way I can't wait to get there on Friday to be in their building and watching it I just I just been around harbors forever in the NFL and I know like John Harbott teams They don't suck. They come out and play hard and they got the right guys all the time doing the right thing If not they're out so I can't wait to see that vibe New York post 9/11 two days after the 25th Commemorations to that be very emotional day Giants and Cowboys OBJ back on the field for the Giants on a Sunday night in a Giants Cowboys game 11 years after the catch all that stuff It's gonna be a great way to end that first Sunday, but that you said it before This is the best day because everybody's team has a chance Somebody's gonna go from four wins to the playoffs every fan in the NFL like can believe right now And that's why like this day that like 30 seconds before kickoff tonight You got it you got a chance to get all the way to Super Bowl 61 Yeah, buy in and we have no idea where the road's gonna go No, you just buckle in because this road takes us everywhere a bunch of places we don't expect and just so damn cool You're the best he'll be on the call tonight on NBC 820 starting the NFL season We will continue digitally on YouTube tick-tock also ESPN plus Disney plus and also. 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So obviously Western Michigan's got to play better defense on our last play. We don't want that to get lost But a super secret clock having tenths of seconds being the one that is actually the one not the clock that we all see on TV Or in the stadium which are synced up numerous times whenever we hear refs say can you please do this to this Becoming a clock and becoming the judge jury and execution or the entire situation the Mac originally said okay We got it Then he looked into it. They're like feels like actually the process here was kind of Not done properly feels like this is all bullshit and when you look at Western Michigan There's a chance that this team is D team of the group six or group or five or whatever the case is to represent and college football playoff Having a win over Michigan in their resume and on their schedule would certainly help them whenever the Negotiations start to take place on who has that spot of the college football playoff There's only 12 teams in there one group of 16 gets the opportunity will it be Western Michigan while they had a win over Michigan That probably helped them in their conversation and that's what the Mac has come out and said We'd like this shit to be looked at yeah, we want people to know that We probably won that game and everybody with eyes thinks we won that game. I don't know if this is over feels like it's far from over But the Mac coming out and saying actually when we said it was cool it wasn't Cuz now we We've learned more and we all feel the same way that this is bullshit. How do you think this goes AJ? And what do you think the conversation timeline looks like for this entire thing? I mean, I understand them coming out and being upset and saying everything But there's no you're not changing the game right you have this has ever happened Have you ever seen him give a win to a team that did not win the game technically on the field? No, the committee should now it is over The committee can look at it again if it was close at the end Well, I think they're they they say in there that they would like the committee to View this as a win. We would like this to be a conversation peace going forward But I like that they've come out and said we don't like what happened to one of our teams Because everybody was saying that the Mac called Western Michigan and said hey, we get a lot of money for these games So you just say everything's a hunky-dory because Western Michigan came out and said we saw the review We understand we move on and that kind of put a lot to bed for a lot of people it's like well, that's the Michigan's okay with it So I guess I don't need to waste any energy Then the entire football world came out and was like yeah, right This is no way how we're gonna do football especially in 2026 And then the Mac started hearing the rumblings of oh Western Michigan just took the money. They're happy the Mac school told him do it and Mac actually says No, no, we weren't even consulted during this entire thing And now that we've looked into it a little bit more and talked to everybody in the Mac who loves football if you're in the Mac By the way, you love. Yeah, you love football. Hi, and we all think it's just stupid. So it is I like them coming out and saying they don't like it I like them saying like, hey, this needs to be considered whatever it happens. But if Western Michigan goes on to lose three more games, okay, it doesn't matter. If they go on to go on a run whenever it gets the end of the year, we'll talk about this again. But probably never again. Yeah, it won't be. It won't be considered. Unfortunately, it is, though. And look, I love the Mac. I got two younger brothers that played the Mac one of the actors, one actually at Western Michigan. And I think it was a decade ago when they went undefeated, they went to the Cottonball or something. It would have been the biggest, this would have been the biggest win in school history to open up the season. So it does suck that they got holes, but we've kind of all been a part of it, either as players or as fans. We know we got fucked either by a play or something that wasn't called by a ref or some clock situation or some shady business and we've been on the wrong side of that. But the sooner you move on, you know, the better it is. So hopefully they go on and maybe they run the table. But yeah, this is, I mean, this is over. It's done. It's one of week two. Yeah. Absolutely done. Sorry. It sucks. It happened. They should have done this on Sunday though. They should have done this the day after the game and I get it, like, you know, hey, we'll wait and see. It's almost like they waited till Monday when everyone on TV was like, this is bullshit. This cannot happen. They're like, this is bullshit. This can't happen. Which is how they felt after the game. They should have done this on Sunday. It's Wednesday. We're talking about the NFL tonight. We're already moving on to week two of college football like better light than never. No, it sucks that it happened, but no one gives a fuck about this anymore. They don't. But then Western Michigan, no one gives a fuck about this. What? We'll see what happens with Michigan Oklahoma this weekend. Exactly. Obviously, I felt Oklahoma just, just bolt racism completely smacks Michigan around, which is possible. Yes. Okay, Venables and his defense with what Bryce Underwood showed and he did, he did go wild, I would say. Sure. And not necessarily. Jumping out, coming down tunnel, but there's a lot depending upon what happens over the next few weeks for both of these teams that tell us whether or not this will be talked about again. But we just would like to say for the sake of journalism, we're not going to talk about we got. We got tech. We got some good ball games this week. Patriots. In week two. Let's talk about when when they're when when Western, when Western, they are a problem. They are. Yeah. We're going to talk about it. Yeah. When this gets to December in Western Michigan, it's been one next to Memphis or boys. Absolutely. And they play boys. And when they boat race them, it's going to get talked to. Yeah. And remember, this team won actually in a lot of our eyes, not in a big 10, 10th of a second rule, super clock thing. But it will get broke. Okay. I could be wrong. Let's put a pin. Yeah. Yeah. We'll circle back. Potentially. Potentially. We'll put a pin in it. Yeah. Circle back. Potentially. Potentially. And we will let people know that they get robbed of a dub and they deserve it. They did. Now, Memphis plays boys. I think this weekend, which is a huge one for the group of six, obviously, whoever wins this will have the ice and Navy also in the conversation, obviously. But Memphis, boys are huge. I saw a tape of Memphis, Coach Huff brought in Money Bag Yo, who is Memphis legend, and Charlie Huff asked Money Bag Yo to talk to the team about what they mean to the city of Memphis and everything like that. And I believe Money Bag said, yeah, definitely, definitely, where's my church? Which I loved. I liked that that's how it all went down. And at the end, the big takeaway for me after they brought him in, he got his jersey look clean. Obviously, hopefully he suits up. We don't know what the new injunctions, if he's allowed to or not. But they broke it down, team broke it down, and it was CFP on three, one, two, three, CFP. So that is literally the only mindset. And they know this weekend, potential superbowl for them as they take on Boise, a team that has the same exact mindset. But yeah, this is speech right here, plurin' up. I mean to this city when they play with, I would need you to sign up with me, sign up with me. I got it, is it? I'm not serious. So it's sweet, I like you. Hey, you got to turn up with me, where's my jersey at? I was told I was going to Jersey, I love that, Memphis coming around, Charlie Huff. And then obviously, the way he talks about Money Bag Yo, what he's done for Memphis, what the team does for Memphis, and then CFP on three, one, two, three, CFP. I learned a lot from that entire interaction about Money Bag Yo, about Coach Huff, about the city of Memphis, and also that, yeah, CFP is on the minds of the Memphis squad, which has a lot of new characters in there, a lot of new team, and yeah, why not them? But if Western Michigan is the team that's potentially getting in there, and it's kinda as a loss against Michigan, and you're okay with that. Wow. I'm not, I'm not. They run the table. They run the table, they'll take it in too. We're on the week, too. You got win this week. Why are we fucking bitchin' about what happened in week one? You guys got screwed. You got hosed. It sucks. But remember it, go fucking beat the shit out of whoever you're playing this week. AJ was part of the fail-married. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Well, yeah. If he was on the field, he'd think maybe he actually. He's fuckin' high-pointin' that, and the Packers would. And that's not even a problem. No, it just shifts in blood sugar. That's true. No, it shifts in blood sugar. That's true. And that's true. And that's true. And that's true. And we'd all be. Don't mention that. What do you mean? Just that you're going, I don't know how that doesn't come up. I'm heading to Wisconsin or a day in the Green Bay. That should be a conversation piece. And then after it happens when you're on a sports talk show, as we're talking about college football in this game, I don't know how it doesn't just fall out of your mouth. No one really asked me. If they asked me, I wasn't trying to have anything. It came about late. It was a late situation when we took the whole family and what to do. It was awesome to be in Green Bay. Got to see a great football game. Yeah, but I don't know how. So we got to interview you every day. Okay, so I'll interview you every day. I'll interview you every single day. How do you not mention that you were there for the fucking game? I think there was a lot happening on the show. We didn't touch on this game a whole lot. There was a lot going on. I don't want to interject my personal bias into anything. We needed it. We boots on the ground. We had a fucking somebody at the goddamn game. That makes us look much better. So now that you're at the game, can you please tell us about what you saw? Did you feel as if Luke Fickle's boy in the first half were certainly bringing it? And then the second half, did Notre Dame look like a clear cut contender for the CFP agent since you were fucking there watching the goddamn game? Yeah, they did. First off, both these teams look like giants. I was lucky enough to take one of my sons down field pregame and watch these dudes. And I could not believe how big everybody is. How fast everybody is. We say that every time. On the field. He was in the game pregame. Yeah, just pregame for a quick minute. It was awesome. But yeah, I would say the pick six really open things up for Notre Dame. That changed the game right there. But these dudes can run and tackle in space. And they are physical. Both teams too. Like Wisconsin. They're second. I was set up high. It kind of like in a corner of the end zone. You could see the whole field beautifully. It was. It was a thing of beauty sometimes watching these guys. They're angles on defense and just watching them execute. It was. It was really fun to see for real. Fickle coach Freeman, right? A position room at Ohio State. Yep. Okay. I like that Freeman takes on his actual coach, not head coach, position coach. A lot closer relationship with your position coach. On air. Did you get a chance to catch up with both of them? Now that we're learning that you were there. How are the conversations going? And how does this not come up that you were there ever with any of us? I got to text them before the game in Luke. If anyone knows Luke, he is a very intense guy. I saw him. I can kind of see him out in the middle of the field when I was on the sideline pregame. I'm like, I'm not even trying to get this dudes attention because I know how intense he is on game day. I played for that guy. So I respected his wishes. But I got to talk to Marcus quick before the game. He came over and got to tap up my son. My son felt pretty good about a nice clean tap with Marcus. And he seemed very. Marcus seemed very confident and seemed very excited about the whole game. I know you guys mentioned him running, leading the team out. People making a whole thing about it. I feel like every coach in college football kind of does the same thing. It's a head football coach team on the field. Yeah. That happens. Head coaches also fly back to places with their teams. I don't know. Sometimes you do that. Sometimes you got to go dance. AJ. AJ, honestly though, honestly, how do we not, you know, classic AJ? I don't know if I'm going to be able to get to any other games this year. But if I do, I promise I will try to interject and let you know. Thank you. Yes. Hey, I was there. CJ Carr. He's been candy. Wow. It did look good coming out of his hand. It did. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It looked great, man. I think, like I said, I don't know what everyone else in the country looks like. But I feel like Notre Dame has top tiered. There's a lot of people picking them to win it all. I can understand that. People picking them. They look great. But I think Wisconsin is going to surprise some people as well. OK. Wisconsin, a good first half. The uniforms were awesome. It sounds like they have some good size out there. Fickle. From my understanding, you guys might know it better than me. I think you like deferred some of his payment for his contract back to the school to use as NIL. I think he said it was up for a contract extension of some sort, something like that out. I believe the school made a big commitment. They doubled their NIL budget year over year. So like last year, they had like next to nothing, one of the lowest in the big 10 and they said like this year, you will have a $25 million roster. So I think they did get much better overnight. And I think I might have read something about him to either deferring payment or contract because I remember seeing that and I tried to find it, I couldn't find like an article or anything. Legit or not. Yeah, right. What they were trying to say though is they don't have, they haven't had it. Correct. Yeah. And it was basically because like, hey, you guys have stunk. Like, we're not just going to, we're not just going to sink a bunch of money into this until you can kind of prove. And then I think he kind of said like, well, like, guess what? You can't prove that we're going to be good if you don't give us any fucking money. So he leaves Cincinnati, right? He sees the writing on the wall. That's what they say. And he goes to Wisconsin. He's got no assistance. It's like why do you because he could have won anywhere right there was there was a time Or Luke fickle could have won anywhere after what they did it since in any for a long time Finds himself a Wisconsin. Maybe this the first year where he has his team, you know, and then I guess maybe we judge him In a healthy quarterback. Yeah, and he looked compared to what they've had the last couple years like that their quarterback looked He's had terrible injury head and shoulders better than you know, and her punter Sean West. Yeah, I'm O.D. U Yeah, how their facilities are doing Wisconsin solid. Yeah, they got to be pretty solid right they've had I don't know I honestly don't know because It's an awesome place to go to school. Yeah, anyone knows like Madison is a very fun college town for sure I mean they're a powerhouse for forever. That's a great pun by Sean West Maybe their uniforms look sweet. Yeah, they're sick uniforms are awesome green bay look sweet would have been cool to be there definitely Prime time football who soon to grow How's the turf by the way? I know the floor so the floor is so pissed that the game was played on the turf two weeks before he's playing on it Was he really pissed? Yeah, I got it said at tongue in cheek, but oh It'll play home with one so you know, I think it's being a good job. I'm taking care of that Yeah, I mean boo who they got the grow lights. They got everything involved trying to make that thing. I mean that place is pristine you know that Well, you were just there the other day. We didn't know that you get your eyes a little more Oh, they're gonna have far top 10 pick unbelievable cooler for the other day. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he looks awesome I got to see a lot of the packers new facilities as well. They got new training room. Oh, I get they are they are they're doing all these Nothing my buddies are still the trainers there. Yes everything you continue to say Does make it worse that you didn't say anything last cup. I want to miss you barbecue as well You want to hear about that Bill Kraus? I want to miss you. I was there. I love Bill Kraus shot Shout out to Bill Kraus and mission barbecue by the way and his boys. I believe head over I believe head over Yeah, so thank you to them shot to Bill Kraus. So you stopped by mission barbecue had some some incredible barbecue want by the Packers new facilities. They're beautiful. Okay, nice to hear stop by the museum. Page your donation watch Wisconsin in Notre Dame live in person Saw the size of these guys saw the speed of these guys saw a great view of everything and I'm happy we're learning this whenever it doesn't matter anymore Just like good just like the Mac in Western Michigan. Just a little too late. No one cares anymore. I do you know what? We thought was maybe a little bit too late. What's that? Tampa Bay getting a deal done with Baker. They get a deal Wow Since the beginning, I don't remember if it was shifter or junior But one of them was saying if they were to offer him a deal that he really liked Would he say yes, even though he put this timeline in and or this deadline in and we also probably probably well Would it have to be I guess allegedly they offered him a two-year deal He wanted a four or five-year deal. He won a long term. They meet at three years 165 110 million in new guarantees already had 40 million in guarantees So it's 150 million dollars in guarantees. That's pretty good three years 165 new money two-time pro-bular Obviously the accolades has led Tampa Bay to back-to-back playoff appearances in the past not last year But the two before that so Baker gets a deal done Vita Vega gets a deal done all the drama down there in Tampa Bay that we were worried about is way behind us and Baker who publicly came out and said he was disappointed and then Tampa Bay Buccaneers came out through sources that they were disappointed Now find common ground and happiness in a massive massive new deal For Baker may feel to be their pillar guy for at least the next three years I'm happy for all parties AJ But when Baker put that deadline in I thought that was a line of sand I thought we came too far Instead 110 million dollars in new guarantees can certainly make you sign a little different tune Yeah, I can't I just wonder like would this have happened three weeks from now if they would have waited to present this offer to Baker No, you don't think Baker shot it off So both chef he was pretty hot to trot on this on Tuesday morning He said, you know, he because he has been the one who keeps bringing up like if they were to present something And he said there were there was some sort of like gala that Baker and his wife were at maybe the night before and he was sitting at a table with the owners So, you know, I didn't think that something was gonna get done That day, but it certainly seemed like all that, you know Ising this between them had kind of dissipated and then they were going to talk about the glazers in the Baker sitting down Have a nice little meal breaking bread saying 110 million would do it All right, see you tomorrow and they make it happen. So they head into the season now clear mindful hearts can't lose I mean, I love that for Baker for sure and look the Baker I don't know about the can't lose and all that but uh We look the books play hardball they play hardball with Vita van you've seen them play hardball with Mike Evans Uh in the past and he's finally moved on and going to San Francisco, but I'm glad they got this figured out I think Baker has earned this, you know, you you kind of earn that right to be a franchise quarterback I think he has and like you can say all you want about, you know, respect or how much you love a guy's an organization But you know, it's not shown until it's put pin the paper and you're actually making, you know Good money at that quarterback position. So I'm back glad he got his money. He earned it now. Who's next? We talked about Sam Darner I think he'll get his new deal. I saw some rumblings about Lamar Jackson possibly being the first 70 million dollar year quarterback So now what domino is this push forward looking at this Baker deal? Yeah, Drake may also he's gonna need some money coming up Yeah, he's gonna need some money. It's gonna change the way rosters are constructed There is a way to dance around it though And if you have a quarterback, you need to keep him because if you don't have a quarterback He got no chance now let's go back to college here real quick as we talked about Memphis boys. You state we have an update from Charles Pagano Chuck Pagano who lives I believe on the Boise campus, okay Memphis is fixing to get whooped Yeah, you can see that as well And I believe now he did see the video and he says that podium has nothing but rat poison coming out of it That's what he said well coach of this say they don't do fun shit or they don't listen to me. Yeah, I like that then You know, so you know, we'll see I like that locker room. I still have that locker room I still have that strength coach, which I don't know if we confirm that strength coach or not Okay, we're gonna call him that so I'm still riding those vibes, but we did see Boise State take Oregon to the wire Well, there's the next sentence. They should have beaten Oregon. You think Boise State is buying one out to any of this bullshit Hell no And that's Chuck Pagano with the Boise State hoodie on okay, so let's remember that that's coming from a biased opinion But yeah, Chuck Pagano didn't like how much we like Charlie off in Memphis because he's going to bat for the blue turf boys I think there's something new coming out this weekend college game day about what they have going on up there in Boise He can't wait for that conversation, but I that locker room. Yeah CFP on three Money bag go say Boise on the speech I was told I'm gonna fucking journey I think Boise State might be in for one here But what they just did the Oregon is Oregon asked them yeah, if there's a chance They're not like if Oregon goes on and wins every single game going forward all of a sudden you look back at this and you're like Holy shit Boise State is the real deal and Boise State might end up beating Memphis and Western Michigan by 30 points a piece and then you look back here and it's like wow if Boise State did win this game Are they getting a buy in the college football playoff not just sneaking in you know like they really are the real deal He felt like that at least watching Oregon outgain Boise State by more than 200 yards Fort down Oregon was out for three Boise State two for three Oregon Ad Turner over Boise State didn't who's the bigger school who's smaller school penalties 10 for 90 Oregon Jay's Louise first down to tied final score Oregon 34 Boise State 27 came down to the final Literally final couple of seconds of that particular game Congrats to Oregon getting a huge win could be something you look down the road where it was like We got a wake-up call there from Boise State or Boise State's much better than anybody could have ever imagined two years ago These two teams played it was 37 34 and I believe it was week two But Oregon then went on to go 13 to know and win the big 10 championship and Boise played Penn State in the playoffs So you know, maybe it's a History repeats itself situation ashen genty. That's how we kind of learned. Yeah, I'll just run it all on their side too What's that Boise State is the Lord on their side their coach is one of the biggest godfaring men I've ever seen they put the fear of God into their opponents probably through him I would guess so you know when you're playing with 12 guys and one of them's the Lord That's what do you mean by that with the lost? Yeah, what do you mean? Well, sometimes God gives his you know Toughest challenges to his you know strongest soldiers. Oh, okay. Say that a lot. So I'm saying if you hear Boise State's head coach give Any interview you don't talk to anyone. He will say first and foremost like thank you Lord Jesus Christ I love you for the other my savior. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. So they have They have Jesus on their side. What about half-time speeches? Any fiery half-time speeches? We heard a couple We heard lane kiffens. Yeah, I believe that got out. How did that get out? Oh, no. I don't like you though Who is recording that guy shooting his feet? We're gonna be able to tell by the size of your shoe who you are Like gone. It's probably he's probably pissed. That's out. I think you probably yeah. Yeah, definitely This seems like it is a staffer because he was wearing the pants and staffers wear and shoes or where might have been knocks It could it might have been knocks look like I don't know. I'm just looking at the feet It's hard to judge who they are. She's kind of wavable body I don't know trying to figure out what's on the other side of this camera, you know, because that's the person the person at least It does look like the feet the way they're standing. I don't know that person will be identified. You think so? Oh, yeah Yeah, I'm probably gonna raise no not a raise probably fired for leaking this type of stuff But nonetheless, I think if lane kiffens coaching like this behind closed doors that ease boys with the amount of talent they have Seems like they got a little bit of a hard hit What's he gonna say next week? They're trying to kick you guys out of the fucking SEC home. Yeah, and he uses all of it. Stanford Steve told me, yes, I'm happy this got brought up in my brain. Thank you. Should have remembered this a long time ago. Stanford Steve said, first time he'd ever seen this. When the LSU boys come out to practice, there's like 10 interns holding signs. They're all quotes about how bad LSU is, like your ass. That's sweet. So they have to walk through these signs as they get to practice. It's just like the interns are just holding them up on like game day type. Was that poster board? Yeah, yeah. Holding big posters with quotes about them as they're coming out to practice that are obviously your ass, you suck, you steal, you cheat, you blah, blah, blah, blah, then when you get there. So when you talk about drawing upon something, I think Lane is definitely doing that. Yeah, fool, fool, and then you hear the halftime speech, so everybody hates you. This is your chance to tell them to go fuck yourself. He got up there, bro. He did. He got up there. Yeah, got pice and that speech, yeah. I didn't expect that from Lane. I don't think anybody, I think that's why it went so big. It's like, did we know Lane Kiffin, the 6am yoga, I'm going to fuck with everybody guy. Was talking to his team like this, up 31 to 3, I don't think many people were expected. Once I saw it, I didn't expect it. I didn't know you had that in him. Yeah, I think he's super fun. Yeah, yeah. That's shooting hoops. Yep. Heads will roll for that shit getting up. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. They're going to be able to tell who it was, you know, because, all right, everybody, take front out, shoot down, take a picture. Yep. See where we stand into. Are we sure it wasn't Lane? I don't think that felt like it was far away. Holding the phone? Yeah. Or was it his phone or say, okay, hey, talking about it, hey, make this seem like you're recording it. No one there, Lane had that one speech against Colorado. Yeah, it was late. Yeah, like that. Remember, he was not happy. The Kirby speeches get leaked. There's not even video, because people are so fucking scared they keep putting in their fucking pocket. Hey, I'll tell you what, Kirby said. So what all these guys say to their teams seem to be pretty awesome, pretty heavy hands. Yeah, they know how to fire them up. Yeah. You remember that old moustache? Yes. Oh, that was the whiteboard. Yeah. Yeah, he's back. That was awesome. And you got from that all the way to like Eastern Michigan, Hammer and Bricks. Exactly. That was sweet. That was awesome too. They've done that before. I didn't hear some rules. Yeah, he said on business. He said, he basically, it was in door half time. He said, like, take him to the deep end and drown him and if they don't drown, then choke him out. I like it. Yeah, it was sweet. Yeah, I like that a lot. See, these are types of things I like to be heard. This is football. Yeah. This is, this is football. Now, this is in the moment. This is not for real life out there. This is in the moment about to go play a very physical sport against somebody else. There are certainly people that say, we respect our pose, nameless, faceless opponents. Okay. I don't very rarely see them with trophies. Everybody else you see is like, fuck these guys. Okay. That is normally the kind of attitude that I'm used to and I think a lot of people that win probably have that way. But they don't mean it in like a super, you know, personal way. Nine between the lines. Just, hey, fuck these guys. The violent game. I was rich right a half time. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say. I'd say we're ready for war. Yeah. Mike Barrow escaped the speech beforehand. Very reminiscent. When I saw that Memphis locker room, I saw the West Virginia locker room. And I saw a coach that I assume a lot of the players say, fuck this guy, right? Because you're going to say, I'm really hard on you guys. That's him immediately saying, I'm fucking asshole to you guys, okay, but you know why it's because we win. Okay. The accountability, the attention to detail, the stripper perfection, the blah, blah, everything. Like, that's how rich Ron coach. I don't know how he is now. I assume same. But that person has to be like, can be, I guess, doesn't have to be, but every version of it I've seen. Kind of have to be like an asshole on everything because you're asking for like, very unusual outcomes. So Mike Barrowist would normally do the, here he is right here, yeah, turn this up. Wait, who's this? Mike Barrowist. Mike Barrowist. Right. We're working here. We're making you in a fucking way. Yeah. Paws Casca. Yeah. That's basically unintelligible. That's basically what it was. Yeah. So when we're playing UConn, Barrowist is giving one of those red-footed one out there. And obviously your strength coaches, you spend a lot of time with. But they're the ones that are actually setting the culture. I mean, that is, that is what the strength coaches job is, which is why we assume that Memphis guy was the strength coach. But when I saw that Memphis locker room, everything in there from the coach even saying, you guys, you know, you know what I'm like, yeah, and everybody, yeah, we certainly do. And then a strength coach getting in there and everybody ready to go to war. It's like, I think I see, I think I see some dogs in that locker room right there that are, because if you're rallying against your head coach or for your head coach, it doesn't matter. However you go out there and win, however you get your team motivated to go play the best is literally all that matters at the end, you know? And like a lot of these things that happen where coaches are, they said this and it wasn't real. It's like, what if that coach was literally just trying to motivate their team, didn't give a fuck about how anybody else responded? Like, I don't care about how you think. I don't care how media thinks. I don't care how the fans think. All I'm doing right now is trying to get that locker room to play the best possible football that they could play. Because all I'm trying to do, it's an interesting way to how you go about doing that. But it does feel like the accountability people are a lot more successful than the people that don't really hold on. Especially fun. I mean, it's in the same NFL, too, you're dealing with full grown adults and men, families and shit like that being a pro. But like in the college, you know, you're dealing with 17 to 21, 22 year olds. So it's even more important. Age, well, you played for Tressel, right? Yep. He seemed kind of reserved. I guess with the outside, how was he behind closed doors with those locker rooms? I've never seen anybody like him in my life that's like legit, did not really ever have to raise his voice. But everybody from top to bottom respected, never wanted to disappoint him. He was actually very funny. Like Coach Tressel was very funny in team meetings, things like that, but pre-game, not like crazy raros speeches, but like very passionate. You could tell how much the guy cared. Like so, yeah, I've never seen anybody able to be able to command a room like Coach Tressel without, with just very confident in who he is, and he was the same dude every single day. Accountability coach though, right? I mean, obviously. Huge, huge accountability guy. Like he's not letting you slide with anything. Like and he'll go about it in his way, embarrassing you in front of the team if somebody does something wrong. Yeah. And he went into the buck guy, super duper Ohio. Yeah. Yes, name in the stadium. Wow. That's awesome. Yeah. Right next to Woody Hayes. Sweater. Sweater was covered. Yeah. Sick. Congratulations to Coach Tressel who obviously we all have respect for an appreciation for. Is there ever any heat between him, Ohio State, with the way everything kind of ended? Not on, at least not his side, I mean, he's the classiest guy alive. So he never showed it and even privately, he's never said anything like about it. But I'm sure he has to still be pissed off at how it all went down. Well, Ohio State's back on top potentially, they have won a national championship. He's in the stadium. Welcome back. I like whenever that type of stuff happens. Yeah. You know, it's good to hear, but just like the Pat White thing this past weekend, I'm happy he got to experience that. Yeah. He didn't have a lot of those moments. He was like, yeah, I don't. He's coaching. Him and his brother started a blueprint academy down in Daphne, Alabama, where he was coaching like quarterbacks, high school quarterbacks and stuff like that. He was kind of getting back into it, trying to do sports. Then he goes, coaches at Alcorn State, I believe, with Ryan Stancheck. He did a couple years. So I think he enjoys coaching. And I think he enjoys being around it. Who knows what he does for the rest of his life? Maybe it is coaching is the right avenue, right angle, whatever the case is. I'm just happy he got a chance to experience like a, thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. And Sammy was able to see it too. That's cool. I assume his kids and his family were there and got to see him like, wow, you are a big deal. You did unbelievable thing. Yeah. The highlights rolling, you know, maybe his kids saw a different play than they had seen before because somebody else is making the highlight. But you got to remember as soon as we were done, it was a big 12 era, okay. Let's not remember this at all. Geno and Tevon and them go crazy, obviously, they win the orange bowl. That's a huge thing to celebrate upon. So Pat White's era at West Virginia kind of gets kind of got buried. I mean, not kind of definitely got there. Move to the back of the building. We're talking about right now. We're in the big 12. This is a big deal. This is who we are. It's not about the past. So this guy put everybody on the map, rebuilt this entire university and this stadium and what this school is and what this university is and all these guys are probably committing to West Virginia because of this guy. But we're trying to build a brand new brand because we're a big 12 now, blah, blah, blah. So it was nice, I think personally for Pat White to be able to hear from West Virginia like, hey, thanks man, because it really wasn't, it really, since we left, it was not like that. So I saw him get a little emotional. I never seen that before. I'm like, hell yeah, bro, I'm happy you got a chance to feel that because it was real because we all, we all were thanking him every fucking day. Me personally. Hey, bro, there's no way I'm supposed to be in these situations. So thank you, dude. I really appreciate you. I left out Noah divine who came in for Pat's last year after Steve Slayton left earlier, whenever I was talking about our team and then a couple of people brought up some other West Virginia legends. That was before, we were before a lot of the guys are a part of the big 12 brand, which is what everybody was trying to push there at West Virginia for a while. A lot of pride in what they did to Bruce, Bruce Irving absolute, obviously, Tavon Austin, crazy. Gino Smith put up cartoon numbers, video game numbers, Steadman Bayley, absolutely outrageous. What's that Dan Moses was our era? I'm talking about the big 12 era right now, but Dan Moses back in the pre pat, he was only there for our freshman year, I do believe, and then he left. So Steve Slayton was there for three years. Renard was there for all four years. He was outrageous. Yeah, yeah. - Unbelievable. - Unbelievable. - We see every turn in there. - Yeah, wide receiver running back in returner. He would go play running back in the NFL for the Tennessee Titans and returner. He was handling like 500 or something too. Squat. When he would squat, that thing would-- - Bendin. - Yeah, I would go like around his back. And he was so, he could do a backflip standing there, jump up, and then just turn in the air, and then he would just land back down, like, in dancing. Maybe the best dancer of all time. I mean, he was, Darius Renaud was a special athlete. We were very lucky to have him more. The whole team, we were lucky to be there. And I'm happy Pac got a chance to celebrate that. Now there's a kid wearing five this year. - Last one, right? - Yeah, he's the last one. - Okay. - So literally during the announcement of Pat White having five retired, his first thing was like, can James still wear it? Yeah, okay. 'Cause we got a guy here. - My name is James? - I think so. I think so. I might be wrong. - That's crazy. - I know, I know. Can we look that up? Who's number five for West Virginia right now? We should look that up. I think he's a good player. - I hope it's James. - Is there a lawsuit happening in there? The LSU situation? - I think that was all a big. - Okay, good. - It's just like kind of what the SEC conference is doing, LSU, just a public shaming. - Yeah. - Into, are you sure? - Into B Quiet. - Are you sure? Are you sure? What's his name? Jaden Bray, his name is Jaden. Yeah, number five. Last number five for West Virginia here. - Makes sense. - Jaden Bray. I think he had a tug. I think he had a tug this week. I think he's a good player for minor standing. - Take no LSU. - What? - Show some respect. High as a winner. - I want the high's been. - Bro, they-- - Is that stat light put up against Florida? - Yeah, he's unbelievable. - He was a guy, Kirk Irving said, "Jaden, this is the guy that is going to love." I don't like the way that I'll unfold. There's no way Jaden Daniels knew that that was all going to be happening. There's no way that he knew. - Didn't camp. - I assume that was supposed to stay private. I assume that was supposed to be something like, hey, we could do this if you guys don't blah, blah, blah. And then we're going to do this. We're going to sue you then, stop using us for marketing if you're not going to show us any respect or whatever, and they go, is that right? - Okay. Look, here this guy, I think he is. And then they turn it entire fan base against him. Pretty quick. I mean, LSU turned on him pretty quick. We were at the game when they rolled through all the teams that have LSU players. That'd be cool to experience. Every fucking team basically is up there with an LSU guy. When they put the Washington Manor's up there and Jane's name up there, I know the internet said it was a boo. There was certainly an absence of sound where we were at, where there was sound for everybody else. - It's serious for everybody to be there. - Yeah, there was an absence of sound. I think everybody's kind of caught in an interesting spot where, you know, I don't feel like that. - It's tough spot. - Time heals all. - Time heals all. But the first guy I think back in the '50s, I got retired, burrow, it will be retired. And then, so now you're going to be compared to especially burrow and what he did with that season, which is arguably the greatest college season of all time. And then, being at the university that has the special number seven jersey. You have all these guys, Patrick Peterson, Matthew, Leonard Fournett, who's wearing number seven. And, you know, that's kind of passed down and then you're like, "Hey, I don't want anybody wearing "my sauce." It's tough spot. - Have you heard? - Have you heard about Wich? - I saw the game there. - Yeah. - He's Cooper Dejean for the, all everything DB team of the number seven, I believe. - Is that real? - First ever, yeah. - Oh shit. - Yeah, I tried to say it in like six different ways on the air 'cause I did get that piece of intel, but I didn't want to just openly say, "First white dude ever wears seven." At LSU, Whitwick, but-- - Trailblazer. - Yeah, 'cause I said against all odds for my understanding that Whitwick's got that number seven. - Got to see a picture with all of them. - Yeah, that'd be cool. - Yeah, I do believe that is a part of the story. Jess Sims told me before a show starter. She said, "Pat, this might be something you might like. I believe, I believe Whitwick's the only white guy that I ever wear number seven at LSU." I was like, "Really?" She was like, "Yes." I was like, "That is something." That is something that I could not get it confirmed. And that's something to confirm with people. - Proctural. - Maybe. And he's fucking everywhere. - I mean, he is literally everywhere that guy. He's a hell of a football player. So Sam Levin, go ahead Bruce. - Bruce has a number seven. - Will Campbell got a seven patch and was considered the number seven, but he did not actually wear number seven. - And that's what they're doing with 18 this year, where the center right is where it has an 18 patch on LSU, but he obviously can't wear the number 18. - Let's say 18, is that another specialty? - Yeah, it's another one. - Where would he want that? - At Old Line, I guess they're saying you can't wear 18. So he has like a patch probably similar to the seven. - Oh, I thought there was no rules on any of the numbers anywhere. - The offensive lineman are the only ones that aren't allowed to have fun, like that. Just add it on 50 to 70s. - Offensive lineman, you guys are fucking boring. Don't want to hear from you. Where you're fucking shitty ass number, okay? The deal I'm gonna cross from you, he can wear one, he can wear four. He can wear whatever he wants. You fatso's though, you wear the numbers, you've always worn, okay? That's how it has to be. Oh, Will Campbell. - Shout out. - A pivot scene. - And that would also mean what weeks he's the only one that's still wear it though. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, great. - So good stat there, even though there is a little asterisk for a left tackle for the New England Patriots. - Oh, yeah. - Let's lead us to tonight. Let's make our picks, ladies and gentlemen. My pick for tonight is an AJ Brown or Jackson Smith and Dragon Ball, will score a touchdown. That is my pick for this evening, as boosted to plus 100 on Draft Kings, the best sports book on Earth right now. If you're of age, we would obviously love you to come join us and gamble or trade responsibly, okay? Don't be an asshole, don't ruin it for all of us. Draft Kings available in all 50 states. Shout out to them, shout out to sports. And do it with sports people. Draft Kings has been sports since the beginning, okay? So if you're gonna be doing sports stuff, do it with sports people. We're only gonna be doing it with Wall Street folks, do we? - Yeah, right. - Well, we certainly, everybody's trying to get out of it. - Here we go. - Everybody's trying to dance their way out of happening. - I'm not, I got my pick. They too. - Turn, we'll start with you. One half of the hammer, down. Cowboys, AP tone. Not saying you have to bet on it, but if you were to pick this game, we know the first couple of weeks very difficult to pick, 'cause we don't know who's gonna show up where, okay? We honestly genuinely don't know who's hot right now, who might start cold or both teams hot, what does that tell? Over under are gonna be interesting, 'cause usually KG affairs early, tough to bet early on which team's gonna win or which team's gonna cover in the season. Who would you take if you had to take one tone? - I'm a trenches guy and the defense for the Patriots is very, very good in the trenches. And then for Seahawks, they return 91% of the snaps from their front seven and 100% of their snaps from their offensive line. So I lean towards the Seattle Seahawks tonight, minus the three. - Okay. Seahawks minus three for 10 days. We got a toxic table at Ty Schmitt. Seahawks minus three or Patriots, getting a fuel goal in the Pacific Northwest. - Yeah, I was kinda hung up on this one, didn't really know, and then Mike Terrico told us that 20 of the 22 starters for the Seahawks return. I feel like the Kenneth Walker being gone, kind of took a lot and then listen, I know new offensive coordinator, all that kind of stuff. But boy, I'm kinda in the same boat as you in terms of drinking the Kool-Aid of the Seahawks after hard knocks and everything. Big night for them, fans are gonna be crazy. So I'm gonna lean towards the Seahawks as well. - Okay, so two for the Seahawks minus three, we will go to the other half of the toxic table. Boston Conner and your Patriots Jersey Hat in Underwear, who will you be taking this evening? - Yeah, that's one was tough for me too. I mean, it's one of the things you're looking at the game, you're not really sure, but I love Patriots plus three. It feels like, yeah, we didn't return all those stars 'cause our team got much better, and the two guys that didn't come back of those 22 are two of the, what, top five, six, seven players. Seattle Hat and Terrico in Kenneth Walker. Little banged up with no Trevon Henderson, Seahawks seven injuries too though. So I kinda washes itself out. It feels like a big redemption for the Patriots, hey, yeah, you got killed in the Super Bowl. It was ugly. Let's go out there and kinda show 'em what we're made of. Expect pop Douglas to have a nice little night's night too. No way, talking about him in the slot for New England. - Okay, so there's a stat here for you. Certainly ace that. And if you like it or not, highest outright win percentage as an underdog during the Super Bowl era. Tomlin, a little bit above 500. Mike Verabel, alongside George Allen, are sitting in 500 Don Shula. Slightly under 29 and 29 win loss. Obviously if you're an underdog, you're being projected to have a worse team than the other team. Winning half of those, whenever you're out coaching the other side, seemingly a good thing, Con Mann. - Yeah, absolutely good thing. And if we remember that stat from before, the one 1971, I'll leave out, but the only other kind of Super Bowl rematch we've had in recent memory, it was the team that lost the Super Bowl, that one right there, Bronco Seahawks. So feel good about that as well. - Okay, D-Butt, you've heard a lot from Conner. Obviously we've even seen some stats here. Ty and Tone like the Seahawks, potentially because of hard knocks, but who can blame them? They're my NFC team. Who do you like tonight? - Man, this is tough. I've honestly been going back and forth. Head coach, Lane, gotta give the Lane to Mike McDonald, on that one. Offense, quarterback, gotta go Patriots, defense. Slightly in the Seattle. So that's the difference making for me. I'm gonna go Seattle minus three at home on Banner Night. - Okay, Banner Night has three people saying they're gonna have that. - I don't love that. Don't love it. - Yeah, you're certainly kind of see what's happening here. - 61% I believe is on the Patriots though. So maybe that's okay. - Okay, so maybe we see a little different. We've been watching hard knocks. It's even. - Yeah, certainly. - Conner, if they weren't playing the Patriots, I think because of hard knocks, would potentially be right in Seattle as well. Not saying that we could be brainwashed into thinking things, but boy, hard knocks has certainly done a number on this particular stuff. our respect for the Seattle Seahawks. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it tonight to start the season? - Yeah, this one from the jump. I have not really been waltzing like I have at times, and I'm taking the Seahawks minus three at home. Maybe I am a vice because of the hard knocks and everything I have seen, but not. I love what the Seahawks are all about. Give me them tonight. - I'll ride with my NFC team tonight. - The team? - I get it. - I don't love what we just did here. - Me neither. I was not expecting that to happen. - Me neither. I thought I was ripping a Patreon at the Patreon. I literally thought I was tearing down Patreon's over there. I was so happy that I was going to be able to say for the first time this year, just like you coastal leaders, you know, fucking by East Coast, by Zalala. Give me the Seahawks. - The last game we watched, it was just. - That's 213 days ago. That's a long time ago. - For sure, but this is the last memory we have of football. Seattle just dominated New England. - It's a 57% on Seattle now, actually. - Son of a bitch. - Son of a bitch. - Oh yeah. - A lot of people felt like they were going to the Super Bowl, too. - A lot of people would say that I was going to the Super Bowl. - Everyone was on set. - Do we want this to be world peace again? Or do we want this to be about tonight's game? - World peace. - World peace always. - World peace, yeah. - Oh. - I don't think it went in. - Both received the score. I would say I need to put that ticket in. - Okay, here we go. - There we go. - There it is. - There you go. - You did it, man. - And both score. - I was able to do that. - Okay, well, that wasn't for world peace. - Somebody jumped in right before, man. - I don't know where she bought it. - God, look, I thought I was going to solve the world's problems. - The bed is more important. - Yeah, a football cone. - Listen, today he is right. - Yeah, war's good for some things. - No, it is not. - Yeah. - Okay, we would like-- - Sorry, world. - No, it sounds like AI is going to kill us within the next 10 years anyway, so let's lock the bed in tonight. - It's definitely not 10 years. - I watched this social dilemma. And then just somebody who happened to be associated with Googles, back end algorithm thing. And was like, hey, we're watching you, whenever you pause on something. We don't know why, but it's been wired to basically say a success would be for you to stop and look at something. So even if you don't click on something, if you just slow down on a new ad, okay? You just accidentally, they get a sense that you looked at a new ad. - Gotcha. - Or a new tweet or a new post. - Got me this board. - Algo is going to bang, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and call me with that because they are being-- the Algo's being taught, just keep 'em here, however you can keep 'em here, let's keep 'em here, win, win, win, win, win. - Well, now we're hearing from the people that are like wiring or coding these things saying, yeah, we all kind of know we're fucked, but maybe 10 years from now, they take over all society. That's what I read this morning. - Yes, but you can't trust those other bastards who are doing the same thing, which is why we need to push it forward and kind of just keep the course. - Evan Huberger at Evan Hub, Jacob is correct here. We really do earnestly believe. AI could kill all humans. I personally think it's barring 10% within the next decade. - Oh. - I believe inthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are clearly not on track too. Let's take that down. - Now one's different than artificial intelligence. Superintelligence is the next one. - Sign a word about that. - That's shady, yeah. - But how would they do it? - No, don't want to hear it. - I want to know. - Hey Jason. - Maybe they shut the grid down. They're not going to physically be able to manufacture robots that come kill us. They're going to probably just start us and bleed us out. - What I'm saying is, okay, and there's a guy fighting a chimp. Have you heard about this? We had a guy fighting a chimp, AJ. Your thoughts quickly? - I would never do that, but no, where's that happening? - I think it's happening on the internet. - Yeah, thanks for the weekend. I don't know if it's a poll production. I don't think it's an MVP fight, but I do believe there are many different promotions that would certainly say, yeah, if you want to fight a chimp, you can do that. - I'd watch that one. - Strong R. - Don't you think? - The thing is probably a baby. They probably got like a seven month old chimp. It's fighting. It's not fighting a four year old. - I thought I saw a full grown chimp. - And you have to feed the drugs. - How do you get it to want to kill you? You need to feed it drugs? - No, I think-- - What do you mean it's a chimp? Are you going to kill yourself? - Kill all chimp's want to kill humans at all times. - No, I think you walk up and punch it in the face. It's going to go, oh, okay. - Yeah, fuck the guy. - It's a soft chimp. - Survival is a thing. - I don't think we should go. - I don't think there are soft chimp's. Happy Punch is the one who reported one no amateur fighter. Cole Johnson announced he's fighting a full grown chimpanzee live on the chimpanzee. - It's fucking guy's going to die. - No, that's not. - No, that's not the one he's fighting, but it'll look like that. - Actually, I do believe the chimpanzee community is keeping which chimp kind of private away from fighter Cole Johnson. - Right. - So we can't study the tendencies of said chimpanzee. You immediately set a cup. What is that all about? - You know that, because they're going to rip your meat off. We know eventually, but I don't know. This isn't happening in America, is it? - That's got to be against rules. Hey, there's no way they're going to let them just rip a meat off. - Is he going to wear a muzzle? Is he going to let him bite him? That's the thing. - There's no holes barred. There's a fight to the death. - Yeah. Please tell me where to sign up. I want to go first. - Very similar to a city street fight. Yes. - In his business. - Is there a chance that Cole is able to MMA Prospect reveals. Can you go back to the headline, please, right there? MMA Prospect reveals playing to fight another animal with a sword after he takes on chimpanzee. - Nice. - That's crazy. - He's got plans for after fight. Okay. - Good luck. - He needs to focus on right now. - I went and checked out his Instagram. He's a pretty good athlete. He could do some flippies and stuff. I'm not saying he's going to win, but it's going to be interesting. - He's got some flippies doing along. - Okay. - We'll see if the flippies are the thing that will help him against a chimpanzee and fuck a Z. If he gets the back of the chimp, you know, I guess he's going to. - That won't matter. - Are they prepared for the outcome? What if 10 seconds in this chimp comes in like rips his win pipe? - I do. - Like fucking rambo. Like what are they going to do? - I've seen him doing flippies right now on this small screen. He can do flippies. Look at him. He's chimpanzee himself. - Jeez. - You know what? Try that against the chimp. See what it does. Might help. - Holy shit. - That move right there. - Dude, that's like a shooting star running. I mean, this guy's got real jumping. - You think the chimp's going to drop down and tap out if he sees that? - That chimp does get mind blown. - Oh. - And then he's going to fuck. Grab his throat. Do it until his head pops off. - Well, the interesting thing is he can grab throat with one hand. And then foot can also grab legs. - Exactly. - So he can actually like stretch him while he's doing it. And then maybe back in the back. - Yeah, got him in hand. - Mortal combat fatality. Just rips his head off and his whole fucking spine comes out with it. - But AJ say he's not going for the win pipe. - I mean, he's going right for goal. - Yeah, you think about that move. He's fully exposed. - Yeah, you're right. He's got one here. He's got this here. And then AJ saying he's going. - That's what McGregor's trying to start his last fight. - What's that? - That little flippy thing. Is that what McGregor tried to start his last fight? - No, he was going for a run in super duper. - For his ACL. - He's recovering. I'll have you know. He's got one more fight on his belt. - April. - That was a fascinating thing. Wasn't that just kind of came and what? - Part of the offseason. - So many things. - Man. - Oh, no, we got Ben and Garcia, right? - Yeah. - Saturday night. - Saturday night. - That's happening. - What? - Right in the middle of closure. - Yeah, that's a tough Saturday night to be. - It's going to be tough to turn off Ohio State Texas. - Yeah. - Got the sidewalk. - You'll be tied. - My hands will be tied. I'll check in on Sunday morning. - Did you got sidewalk ball this week? - Yes, I do. - Pretty early. Washington, Washington state normally happens November, I believe, and it happened last week. - Yeah. - I liked it. - Iowa State is always right around this time. - Okay. - Yep. - And what do we know about Iowa State right now? - They lost basically everyone on the roster. Their new coach came onto the basketball court during the Iowa, Iowa State game basically said, like, fuck Iowa. So I don't know if they will. Kirk's not really that kind of guy. But I think if given the opportunity, they may run it up and try to beat the shit out of them a little bit. Still going to split reps with the quarterbacks. I don't love that it's a night game. I don't. But it's, Kenik is very tough to play at night. So that is certainly in the favor of the Hawks. - Iowa State did not cover against Southeast Missouri State last week, which we certainly like. - You're a super dog pick. - 30 and a half was the spread. 28 was inevitable. - I would cover. - I would cover. - I would did cover. They were 31 and a half point favorites. And they won by 40. - What was the score of that game? - 40 nothing. - Nobody scored on the Hawks. - No. - But the Hawks potentially pitched a shut out for the entirety of the college football season. - Good. - That's just one of many storylines we will follow. - That's right. - Tonight Patriot Seahawks kick off an NFL season and we'll be back tomorrow. We are starting our team ride. - Yes. - Come on. - Tonight. It's tailgate happening on draft games. - Tailgate. - Tailgate. - We'll see. - Well, obviously we're one to show up one time in the Enzo for one of these teams. - That's it. - If you're of age and a great gamble responsibly, please come join us on the Best Sports Book On Earth. - Draft Kings. - Also, tailgate happening in draft games right now. I believe obviously this is a super boost. There's multiple other mystery boosts that are happening on draft Kings. I appreciate whenever they just pop these things up for you to enjoy. I took advantage of a tennis one last night and bet on Benjamin Shelton to go ahead and have a win over Carlos Alcaraz. He did. I boosted the odds. I think by 30 or 25%. I think before doing it. Nice. Pay out there. - Yeah. - I appreciate that they have these things available. The tailgate, which is the hours leading up to a game, obviously. Draft Kings will have a bunch of these. A bunch of these. Both tonight and Saturday morning, I believe, before college football kicks off. Shout to Draft Kings. Once again, if you're of age in a great gamble responsibly, come join us. Team Ride Tonight is a JSN or AJ Brown touch paint. Tomorrow, we'll be back reacting. to an NFL game. - Yeah. - Hell yeah. - And then we got another one. Woo! - Goat. - And? - Another. - And? - Another. - And? - Another. - And? - Another. - And? - Another. - And that can go. - Or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an until February 14th. - That's right. - And Los Angeles is we crown a new Super Bowl champ or a back-to-back Super Bowl champ. - And the CLC Hawks. - We can't thank all of. - Eeeeee! - And not for allowing us to do this for a living. We made it through the off season. - We did it. - We did it. - And passed the us. - Hell yeah. - And congrats to you. - Eeeeee! - Now let's have the biggest and best season yet. Great work this week, deep love. - You too, buddy. - Thank you. - Change my pink. Change my pink Patriots plus three. Oh, holy fuck. That's just I just saw I just saw I just saw I just saw me. That's a huge move. AJ you want to change? Two minute drive. Nope. What anyone else does has no effect on my bet. Love that. Well, when somebody else does something that's really cool and should be a big part of a conversation, let's go ahead and say it. Like if you go to fucking Wisconsin Notre Dame at Green Bay and we talk about it and you're a part of the conversation, let's get that in there somehow. Okay. Okay. Noted. I'm very coachable. Thank you. Be your friend, girlfriend. Some nice, nice, nice. AJ, thank you for being coachable. Thank you. AJ, anything say these beautiful people? I mean, we are here. I mean, like this is it. This is what we've been waiting all this time. So I've been lifting all those weights. So yeah, let's enjoy this. Let's enjoy the season. Enjoy it actually. That's why you run all them spirits. Yeah. These are the good old days. We're in them right now. This one. Great old day. Let's hope so. Be your friend, telephone, something nice. Might change your life. We're in this together. Team on me. Team on three. Football's back, baby. One, two, three. Bye. Imagine setting your makeup. Then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new groupie setting mist from Mavily New York. Jelly mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new groupie setting mist from Mavily New York. Maybe it's Mabling.