PMS 2.0 1625 - Watt Wednesday with JJ Watt, Jason McCourty, Adam Schefter, In the Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our humble abode, the DraftKings Thunderdome. On this Watt Wednesday, September 16, 2026, this sports program begins now. Football is the absolute greatest, and we can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. I believe I just got texted some breaking news, so I don't know if I'm supposed to do this or not, but they sent me it, so I'm just going to do it. From the NFL, we, ladies and gentlemen, can announce the Offense, Defense, and Special Teams Players of the Week for the AFC and the NFC. Congratulations to these six men for winning the prestigious award of Players of the Week. I had a chance to win a couple of these. Obviously, it's a huge ordeal. Your team will celebrate you, and anytime you get represented or anytime you get celebrated by the league, I think it's a beautiful thing. Kenneth Walker introduces himself to the Kansas City Chiefs fan base as an absolute stud. Gets the rock on. The lot becomes their bell cow. They get a huge win over the Denver Broncos. T.J. Watt, his brother, J.J. Watt, will be joining us here in about 10 minutes or so. Congrats to him winning probably like his 50th one of these, an absolute stud. And then Evan McPherson won 4-4-4 with a long of 58 in Cincinnati. So their defense got a lot of turnovers on Tampa Bay. Joey Burrow can only play better, we would assume. And their special teams guys winning the AFC Special Teams of the Week. Maybe the Cincinnati Bengals are about to go on a run. And then the NFC side. Congratulations to Andre Swift. Yeah! That Bears team could have had about 10 different guys potentially. And then Zach Bond, linebacker for the Eagles all over the field. Then Simi Fajoko, which I don't think I know enough about and how he did, joining us. Ladies and gentlemen, he's a 13-year NFL vet, 12-year NFL vet, Super Bowl champion. Back to tell us about the trenches. Back to chit-chat about the big guys in ball. He was voted alongside David Pasch, the number two. A local color commentary team around the NFL last year, ladies and gentlemen. Penn State guy, A.Q. Schiller. A.Q., can you tell me about Simi Fajoko real quick here? Yeah, so he was battling for fifth or sixth spot as a wide receiver all training camp. He's been with the team for a couple years now. Practice squad guy. This year makes the team and gets a huge blocked punt in the game against the Chargers. Hey, I like everything that the Cardinals are doing. Got a new practice facility. The coach yesterday seems like a psycho in a good way, which I think we like. And obviously, you're on the call. They get a huge win over the Chargers. Everybody high on the Cardinals, very down on the Chargers. Did the Cardinals have their best game? Chargers had their worst game? Or the Cardinals for real, actually? The Cardinals are for real. I love their offense. The defense stepped up in a big way. They bring over Dewey Wingard from the Jaguars. Mack Wilson played out of his mind. They're better up front. Buda Baker's an absolute missile. So I think as long as the defense holds their own offensively, they have so much talent. And I think they're only up and to the right. Jacoby Brissett, $17 million a year. You can obviously work with that at the quarterback position, especially if you're trying to build a brand new era over there. Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Baller. Yes, sir. Everybody. Congrats to these guys. Anytime good player of the week, obviously. The boys are happy for you. The lads are happy for you. But for Kenneth Walker, great way to start his era with the Kansas City Chiefs. Absolutely. Just like you, he was lucky enough to win a couple of these. And it is a big deal because you look around the entire league or your entire conference, and for you to get that honor is huge. And yeah, that's a great welcome to the city for him to get a career high coming off being the Super Bowl MVP. A great, great investment by the Kansas City Chiefs, especially when Mahomes is trying to get up to speed to start his season. I love everything from K-9 and the rest of these guys. Zach Bond, building on the career that he's put together, which has been magical. Could have won defensive player of the year a couple years ago. Just all these guys across the board, man. Shout out. Way to start the season. Yeah, great start to the season in mid-season form. T.J. Watt gets a pick six. Unbelievable. Looks like a raptor. He looks like an actual, he looked like an alien of some sort. But he's done it before. I mean, he's starting to climb up the record books, not only for stats and pressures, but picks and everything like that. He's a ball hawk. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not just D-Butt, who's in the NFL for nine years. It's not just A.Q. Shipley, who's obviously been in the NFL 12 years, and now he's calling games. I was very lucky to have a cup of coffee in the NFL for about eight years or so. Today, the Talks Table looks different. We got a lot of history here today. What's happening at the Talks Table? We got App Austin Conner and Chris Maddog Russo. Maddog, we saw you all morning, obviously, on TV. See, you got the sling there. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time to travel out to Thunder. I don't think we've ever really had you on our show, even though we've been on your airwaves before. What happened to you? Are you okay? Yeah, you know, a lot of people saw me on Stevie's program this morning. You know, first take, great show. Last night, everyone knows I have a proclivity for gummies. Took a gummy or two, maybe three, four, slipped and banged my elbow on my very beautiful big granite countertop. Went into the ER last night. They said, listen, Maddog. We might have to take this thing off. We might have to remove the elbow. You might need an elbow replacement. You almost lost your arm. Very close. I cannot overstate how hard I hit this thing on that granite countertop, but I am the hardest working man in the business. I said, nope. Stevie needs me tomorrow. McAfee's going to need me tomorrow. I will be there. So I said, give me this cheap fucking sling and I'll be there and I'll be ready to go. Okay, so you're powering through a lot. You almost had to have your arm amputated because of the amount of pain. But the gummies are for a pat. I think you know a thing or two about that. Yeah, I do. And it's McAfee, not McAfee. Obviously, you know that, Maddog. We're big fans of yours. Had you ever missed work before? No, no, never. Back in, you know, I was down in Florida before I obviously moved back to New York. I've been doing this for about 35 years. Never missed a show, which is obviously why I've been number one in the ratings book for 30 plus years. You can look that up. Mike will tell you that, too. Obviously, Mr. Francesa, my partner for a long time. But, no, you know, there's a lot of talk about ratings with your show and with Game Day. And, you know, I don't know. Sometimes the cream wants to be around the other cream. So, that's. Sorry, you're a cream? Yeah. I'm a needle. Do you remember High Heat on Sirius XM? Uh-huh. Probably don't. I do. I did. I watched that. Let's not forget, buddy, you were on my network on Sirius. Yeah, I was. Okay, I'm happy you're on here, actually, because D-Butt just reminded me, we had been told. Even though we. I think you were kind of forced to have us on your. Little bit. Little bit. It feels like that happens a lot in our career, but it wasn't, you know, necessarily the perfect fit over there. We're honored to be a part of your station, but we did hear rumblings that maybe you didn't like the fact that we would always say, we'll be back on the other side on Mad Dog Radio. Because we were all mad dogs, you know, so we started barking. We heard maybe you didn't love it. Yeah, listen, I get it. I understand what you're doing. My big thing was. I particularly like the cursing, okay? I think it's, you know, lowbrow. You don't think any Joe Schmoe, who's kind of a bit of a moron, get cursed to kind of fill the spaces. Hold on, though. I thought they said the most intelligent folks actually swear, and the people are telling the most truth because they're not filtering themselves. For instance, Dan Orlovsky, every time he says fudge, we know what he wants to. Do not get me started on Dan Orlovsky, okay? I've been on First Take with that cheapskate quite a bit as of late, and, you know, it's the fudging stuff. People have said it. He's a weirdo, okay? Dan Orlovsky's a weirdo. He's a great player. Well, I shouldn't say great player, but he played in the NFL. You know, he's a good guy, but, you know, I got over the swearing thing, okay? I got over it because, you know, you're very successful. You're good at what you do. But when I got guys like Derrick Butler and other guys coming in here barking at me. Darius. Darius. Darius, you know, yeah, Darius Butler, you know, you bark it. That's where I draw the line, okay? What, Darius? You have a problem with Darius, but not with me? I don't got a problem with Darius. Hold on, hold on. I don't got a problem. No, I know what you're doing here. I know what you're doing here. Did you know that? No, no, baby. That's not what I. You know, you got Boston Conner, I think his name is. I think I just saw, you know, my. He had maybe a little bit of a glitch with my head there. But, no, it's not that. Listen, you know what? I know what you're doing. Is that really embarrassing you right now? Well, a little bit. Hey, welcome to the Thunderdome, Mad Dog. I know you've been doing a lot now. Hey, listen, you know what, pal? What? I forgot. I've forgotten more about sports than you know, okay? You know what? When you're number one in the ratings book for 35 plus years, then you come talk to me, okay? You guys don't know shit about Sid Luckman. You don't know anything about Y.A. Tittle, any of the great. You're going to come out here. You're going to talk about Travis Kelsey. You're going to talk about Taylor Swift. You're going to do all that mumbo jumbo. Fuck you guys. What? What happened? I don't know. That really escalated quickly. Connor, what the hell happened over there, dude? I have no idea. I didn't even realize Ty wasn't here today. Really? Yeah. I, for some reason, just figured he was going to come in before the show. So when I sat down, and lo and behold, Mad Dog walks through that door to sit down next to me, I did not expect that. Ty's not going to be happy about it. Ty's not going to be happy about any of this. Dale Earnhardt, Don. What? Three? Yeah, Dale Earnhardt, Don. Get him. Get him. Get him. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of things that just got said. He got sent there by Mad Dog, and that's what he's mad about. Wow. What was it? Was it because we talked Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift? He doesn't like talking about those new guys. He's kind of stuck. If he talks about 35 years, he's kind of stuck in the past, probably 55 years ago. So, yeah, bring it up, Travis, and then Taylor, obviously. I don't think that. Yeah, but he kind of brought it up, didn't he? That is kind of what these people do. You know, these types of people who are like, I don't like that, and then they're the ones that are bringing it up. All the time. Sounds like it's more on you than it is on us. I didn't expect that type of heat. Hopefully, Ty Schmidt will be able to find his way. into the Thunderdome. Does he know where that goes? No idea. I don't know if Madden I don't know where he is right now. He's so pissed off. Well, he's got that elbow that they almost amputated. Yeah, that he banged on his granite countertop, yeah. The gummies usually mellow you out a little bit. Yeah, normally. And also, when you're in a legal state, obviously, you're not in a non-legal state, but usually your walking's a little bit better. You got a little bit better feel. You know, you're kind of in there almost. You're feeling yourself. But I guess maybe Mad Dog just got a little bit too excited. Whoop! You know, on granite, on granite, on marble. It has that whole thing happen. It's older. Number one in the ratings books for 30 years. We know what that means. Sid Lachman. All right, so maybe Ty will make his way back here. Maybe Coach, not Coach, maybe Mad Dog Russo will also kind of settle down a little bit and find his way back in there. Ty's not going to be happy about what happened there to that desk. No, he is not going to be happy at all. I do wonder the immediate reaction from Ty Schmidt after a couple of Iowa pennants go down, Iowa Hawkeye band members knocked off there, obviously. Yeah, Stoner. Stoner's off? Yeah, Stoner's gone. I mean, there's a lot happening. Wow, holy shit. Ladies and gentlemen, Ty Schmidt is here. Ty, what happened? I don't know. I heard a big ruckus. I was taking an extra long pice in the bathroom before I didn't time it up great with the show getting started. I come out here, and my desk is absolutely destroyed. Yeah, it's really interesting how the Ty Schmidt one didn't get knocked down, but everybody else kind of did get knocked down. Yeah, that was a gift. Yeah, I'm sure. Make sure that didn't get broken. But, you know, no, I just see, you know, popcorn buckets gone. A lot of the other stuff is misplaced. I mean, I. Yeah, Connor. No, Dale Jr. is still good. Yeah, we're good. Dale Sr., excuse me. No, I mean, I just heard a big ruckus, and I don't know what the hell. I'm sorry I missed the, you know, top of the show. Yeah, it's the first time you've missed just from an absolute pice. I know. It's the other side. All right, well, it's great to have you back. Let's talk about football, shall we? Let's talk about the storylines. Something we've been noticing is there might be a little bit of a hesitancy to give Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears offense as much credit as they potentially deserve for the 59 points that they put on. And it's not just outside. Party's talking about it. It's also Caleb. So we put our nose to the grindstone. We opened up a different vein of journalism that we're not used to doing. And, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to dive on in. Go clean up. We got to go be truthers. Obviously, this is going to be our kind of worst game. I know points don't necessarily show that, but execution and, you know, the blocking and the penalties, all these different things. And so just being able to be a truther about who we are and go watch the film. And that Carolina Panthers defensive tape is putrid. Whoa, whoa, whoa. He's got his notes over here. Blown coverage because of motion. You let him, you lost contain. You lost contain. You lost contain. So what is that? Seven or eight clips that are just, that's bad defensive football more than jaw-dropping offensive performance. Whoa, let's see. Let's see the sit. Rep, let's see the situational report, D-Butt. Is this, is this ass offense scoring 59 points or is this potentially a not-so-terrible start for the Chicago Bears? You know, when you put up 59 points, yeah, there is going to be a hand. Pretty, pretty, a lot of pizzazz in that photo. No, we can throw the photo back over. Let me link that up. I'm very, very professional. I appreciate you doing that. Very clean, very clean. Sit rep, situational report. For those that don't know, I'm watching Linus. Make sure you catch up on that. When you talk about special ops, Caleb is one of those guys. You're getting out there, he's an unbelievable quarterback, but when you put up 59 points for the defense, obviously there are going to be some shitty, very, very shitty plays, but there were a lot of very good reps from the defense from the Carolina Panthers that Caleb Williams just made unbelievable plays. This is one of them right here. We just call this a Houdini. What do you guys call this, AQ, on the offensive side of the ball with Cole Komet coming across that? Yeah, some type of escort motion, jet motion. Okay, boom. So right here, the Panthers do a great job matching this up, right? Play action. Throws out to the right. Houdini, you want to kind of pop out that backside. Usually that quarterback, I mean, tight end is wide open. He's not. He's covered, but Caleb does an unbelievable drop, throws an absolute dot right here on the run. So this is a play that Dan, this wasn't in his notes because this was a good defensive rep and just unbelievable play here at the top of the second quarter. Now getting to the situation report, we always talk about situational football, and a lot of times we see plays, we see highlights, but we don't see it within the context of the game or the flow of the game. So right here at the bottom of the screen, second quarter, 117 left, third and 11. So right here, you need a chunk play to have a realistic shot to get points on the board. And that's exactly what Caleb wins. 24-24. 24-24 ball game. Obviously a high scoring game. Neither defense is getting any stops here. And you're trying to get even more points going into the half because we know Ben Johnson's mindset. So third and 11, third and long, you let it run here. Boom. Caleb wins once again. Decent matches. Once you're at the top of the route, everybody's pretty much covered up. Now he extends the play, gets out to his left, makes an unbelievable throw down the field, across his body is not, it's not five quarterbacks in the league that can make this throw. And he does it a handful of times. You talk about TJ Watt on defense, him making those ridiculous plays. Same thing with Caleb Williams. Now this next play here, empty. So right here, you kind of have two kind of zone type players. And on the outside, they're doing man matches. So right now you got three by two. So you got three receivers down to the right. And that's kind of where Caleb's going to look early. And he's going to get back to Luther Burden on an in-breaking route. And a lot of times we talk about timing. We talk about anticipation. We talk about anticipation with quarterbacks. And he makes his throw. And you'll see it from the back copy. He makes his throw fully trusting his receiver is going to be exactly where he's supposed to be. And watch his throw. After he throws it, pause it, Foxy. Right now, when he's throwing his ball, he can't see the receiver. 62 is right in his face. Tooney's right in his face. So you'll see him peek around Tooney to make sure it's completed, to see it. So he's trusting his offense. He's trusting his guys. This is kind of, you always talk about the Jared Goff of the offense. This, that. Get to the top, make a throw. Once again, not a terrible defensive rep by the Carolina, the Carolina Panthers. And then once again, this is the very next play. Let it run. Get to the top of the drop. Guys are covered up. Okay. This is what I'm, now I'm going to be special. I'm going to use my legs. This is what you don't get with a Jared Goff type quarterback. Good pass rush, but he breaks it, ducks up out of there, becomes Houdini. So this is kind of looking into it. And now you get another touchdown on the board right before the half. But when you started this as a defense, 117 on the clock, we got them in third and 11. I feel really, really good about them on that side of the field. And then you fast forward 30 seconds left on the clock and he's running into the end zone, the touchdown. So Caleb Williams obviously had a phenomenal week and we've seen a ton of the plays, but it's just more in the context of like a two minute drive, a two minute drill, the situational football and him, you know, elevating his game and elevating that team to who knows what they'll be through the rest of the season. I mean, 24-24 already. If Carolina gets the ball back, who says they don't go down and take the lead right before half? That's obviously the middle eight is a huge part of the entire game. This touchdown could have been the thing that kind of sprung open the entirety of what the Chicago Bears did entire drive. A lot of great decisions, a lot of great plays. AQ, where do you sit at on the Caleb Williams-Chicago Bears discussion? They hung 59. I think that's a pretty good start to the season. Yeah, this is one guy I was completely wrong about. I mean, I thought to start the year last year, I was like, okay, I don't think this is going to go anywhere. And then you see him start to get better and better and better. And by the time he gets to the playoffs, he becomes magical, right? And so how is he going to take the next leap? He comes out this past weekend and looks phenomenal. So, I mean, again, being better, the run game being better, more skilled players being better, right? I think all of that plays into this because running the football only makes quarterbacks better. They run for 290 yards. It just allows him to have the play-action game and have the drop-back game. Swift, one of the running backs goes for the NFC Player of the Week, turns out. Obviously, Caleb thinks he can only get better. Joining us now is a man who we were so excited to watch and listen to. He's the number one color commentator for CBS, friend of the program. The reason why this is Watt Wednesday, ladies and gentlemen, future first ballot Hall of Famer, maybe. We think. Ladies and gentlemen, J.J. Watt. Yay! How you doing, J.J.? I'm great. I thought I was on the wrong show for a minute when I saw Mad Dog earlier, so glad to see Ty's back. I don't know if he's going to be excited or not to talk about the game that we had, but I'm happy to be here. Well, I think he might sound a little bit like Mad Dog if we talk about that fourth quarter, but it is nice to see you back. I don't know if you got a chance to see what happened. I haven't. Like I said, I just heard a big ruckus, and no, I'll ask him. At the break, I'll pop on on Twitter and see kind of what the hubbub was about. Because J.J. was saying that Mad Dog's face was kind of glitchy a little bit, and he looked a little bit like you in part of that. I don't know if you saw that. No, no. I told you I was taking a pice over there. Must have been quite the deuce you were taking that. No, it was a pice. Yeah, it was like a 12-minute piss I was taking. It was not a shite. It was a pice. I think that's a medical issue. No, I was too hydrated. No, I was well hydrated. Very clear. Yeah, you're super hydrated. Especially post-everything that happened. Yeah, exactly. I'm trying. Good for you, man. Thank you. I'm going to have a seizure with these cutbacks here. That's a lot of cuts back and forth. I'm going to have a stroke on the show. That would be good television, though. Oh, now he's judging Foxy. That sounds like a medical issue, J.J. You should get that checked out. Yeah, he's got a long piss. You've got a medical issue as well. I like that. I like that. Okay, let's talk about the game that you think Ty would potentially not be necessarily thrilled about, which, by the way, he's not. Doesn't want to give up hope. Obviously, a long season, but the Carson Wentz experience takes over CBS' number one booth against the Green Bay Packers. Fourth quarter just becomes the most electrifying game that we've seen in some time. Can you tell me, as you were riding alongside the Carson Wentz experience, what was happening? And how'd week one go with Jim Nance, brother, from your own perspective? It was great. It was great. Had a great time. Minnesota, phenomenal atmosphere. Divisional game. I mean, I would say, obviously, Carson Wentz steps in. Kyler Murray hit was brutal. Happy to see that he's okay and doing. But I would call it the Brian Flores experience. I mean, Carson Wentz stepped in. and did a great job managing the game, managing the situation, putting the ball where it needed to be. But Brian Flores and what this defense did was truly incredible to watch. I have so rarely seen a defensive performance where it looked like there were 15 defenders on the field at any given time. They were sending blitzers left and right and center, and there was just no answer whatsoever by that Green Bay offensive line, whether it's scheme, sometimes it was by just pure pass rush moves, Cashman right up the middle at all times. Jordan Love was back there just trying to find.1 seconds to get the ball off, and he had nothing to do and nowhere to go with it. It was a thoroughly dominant fourth quarter performance by Brian Flores and the Vikings defense. They talked about his pressure like 78% or something like that, 73%. It was obviously the highest in the league. And I've got a chance, obviously, every day to chat with two guys. You guys that play NFL defense, you as well. I'm excited to hear your thoughts on this. When a defensive coordinator puts this much trust and power into his defensive players, what's the reaction normally, and what's the downfall? Potential explosives over top with Christian Watson, but can you not also wear a team out maybe from bringing it like this all game? Well, here's the interesting thing that Flores does with his defense is he also plays the most shell coverage behind it. Cover two, cover four, he plays these shell coverages. So he is basically saying, I know. There's a lot of holes in this defense behind this pressure. I know that if you find those holes, I'm in trouble. But what I'm trusting on is my pressure in that front to get there before you have the opportunity to find those holes. And that is exactly what we saw happen. Jordan Love did find those holes a few times, and he delivered the ball to those places. But more times than not, all day long, the pressure got there before he was able to exploit it. And the point that you made about the ownership of the defense is a very good one. He puts a ton of ownership on this defense. All week long, he was talking to us about how they put all those guys in the line of scrimmage, and they let them decide. If Green Bay looks like they're bringing in the right people to block it up, then they drop out into zone, and they get to pick the coverage a lot of times. So that's Blake Cashman, that's Harrison Smith, deciding what coverages they want to run. And when you have that type of ownership, then it truly is your defense, and you love it. Yeah, if you have the players taking that type of ownership, obviously everybody's looking for a player. Here's Led Logrim. Harrison obviously disappointed himself. He just alley-ooped a lad. How about him coming in, what, two days before the game? And all of a sudden, he's calling coverages week one against the Packers, and obviously they get a huge win. They also bring in Kyle Vandoy, right? So it felt like, you know, let's get some vets in here that understand the system, understand the way we operate. And is this sustainable, I guess, would be the next question. And like J.J. said, when you have that ownership as a player, that's big. Because the biggest disadvantage for a defense a lot of times is the quarterback gets to the line of scrimmage, they can see, look, they can see coverages, they can see the shell, and they can make all the adjustments. And then if you have a defense who's just stagnant, just stays in their call, you're asked out most of the time. So a defense like Seattle, they do a lot of communicating where, hey, we can just switch responsibilities, or you can get here, you got different bodies. And Harrison Smith, that interception, like just getting that quick reroute, because that's Jordan Love's quick answer right there from that look. Getting that reroute, him being behind, Harrison obviously not picking up and tapping up tips and overthrows. He just creating more and more havoc plays. Like I love it. I love watching his defense. Now, obviously, if you give one up and you get Christian Watson, he can hit you for 80. That's the downside of it. But you want to create those havoc plays in the fourth quarter. You want that quarterback almost seeing ghosts, even when you're not getting real pressure. Hey, Jage, I talked about it. Having Carson Wentz on one side of the field and B-Flow's defense on the other side of the field. This might be the most must-watch team in the NFL right now, depending upon how long this goes. But what a day for the Vikings. What a good three quarters for the Packers. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, it was. It was a great three quarters until that fourth one. But, Jage, I think the biggest talking point from that game, at least, and I don't know how – I'm curious to know how it felt in the booth. When the Packers take the points off the board, go for it on fourth down, go with the sneak, get stuffed. Like, as a Packers fan, I said to myself, like, oh, boy, they're going to lose this game. And then, obviously, is the next drive where you have multiple penalties where they looked like they were going to get off the field on third down. What did you think of that whole sequence of events? And did it feel like in the stadium, like, oh, boy, the momentum's turned? And there's no way that the Packers are going to be able to kind of reel this back in. Yeah. No, this was obviously the biggest moment of the game and then the subsequent sequence following it. But Jim and I disagreed on what we thought of this play, and I think that was a lot of fun in the booth being able to have – he doesn't like taking points off the board at all, and I completely understand that side of it. I said with Green Bay's struggles last year of closing out games, I liked that they were going for the jugular here, that they were saying, let's go ahead. Let's go up by a couple scores here, and let's put this one away now. So I liked that LeFleur did that. And I said this at the time. The thing that I didn't like is trusting this standard, regular quarterback sneak with no pushers and just thinking that you're going to be able to fall forward for a first down. In today's NFL, the quarterback sneak is something that you must practice and perfect. And we have seen a lot of teams do it successfully. They did not do it successfully here. You need a pusher behind. These guys are too big. Big Citrus himself. They wanted to test the rookie Big Citrus. They found out what Big Citrus was about. Now, to your point of the next drive, there were some certainly questionable calls that kept the drive alive. The biggest one, in my personal opinion, being the roughing the passer. This is not roughing the passer. This is not roughing the passer in any capacity. He doesn't hit him up high. He doesn't hit him down low. He goes to land on him, and he braces himself with both hands, which is literally exactly what the officials tell you to do. They should have been off the field. Okay. There's a lot of Packers fans, you know, saying the ref screwed him completely. Now, we have heard from a Packers fan who's given up on the NFL as a whole because of the refs. Yeah, that's right. Which is a shame. It is a shame. Just done with the entire NFL. Yeah, not done with the Packers, but done with the league as a whole. And still going to watch ball. That's tough. We got to get Wheezy back. We can't be losing Wheezy out here. Agreed. He's in too many headphones in the game. He's in too many headphones in the game, in the locker room before the game, to not be a fan. Wheezy, I'm back, man. Yeah, Wheezy, for sure. Like, we need you to back in the NFL, but not just game day. Like, their entire lives leading up to this moment. Wayne, you've been a part of these guys' NFL journeys. Can't just have you give up on the NFL now because a couple of refs make some terrible calls, which we agree with. Fireman's coming. Come on. I didn't see you rapping any Wayne in hard knocks. Go, DJ. That would have been incredible if he could you imagine drop some Wheezy in there. A million, a million. Oh, yeah. I mean, Wheezy was heavy on the play. Imagine JJ going six foot, seven foot, eight foot marks. That would be so incredible to watch JJ do it. Because, you know, when you flip into that mode, you know, we've all seen you mic'd up. We love it. They picked the wrong guy today. You know, like all that shit that you get into. You Caucasian-ing a couple little Wayne verses is probably out there somewhere. And we would like NFL films. You would have to approve this, I think. We'd like NFL films to please pull some Mike JJ water. Rapping Lil Wayne during a game somewhere. Is that right? A lot of Carter III. A lot of Carter III on the soundtrack back in the day. Yes. NFL films, you have been given permission here. We need it. It's in a vault somewhere. JJ with Lil Wayne. We would certainly appreciate that. Okay. Your time in Houston, I watched you down there, was legendary. You're one of only three people I believe in the Bullring of Honor. What's going on down there? Let's head over to Hammer. Todd. Todd. Todd has a question for you. Yeah, Jage. One of the more surprising things from this weekend was, well, I mean, they're going up against one of the best offenses in the entire NFL in the Buffalo Bills, but they've had Josh Allen's numbers. What did you think about the Houston Texans defense and what they did not do against the Buffalo Bills in week one? Are you worried about that at all? First of all, I don't know what it is. Your picture is very clear. Your hair looks great. Thank you. Maybe it's just because I don't see the hat on. Thank you, Jage. But, I mean, you've got a nice look going on back there right now. I just want to give you credit for that. This is something that I was curious to see myself because we were getting ready for our game. I'm catching some of that. I'm catching some of the Steelers game early on, and it's going back and forth. It's a high-scoring affair, which surprised me, obviously, with the Texans defense and what they've been able to do. So, I'm very curious to see exactly what happened there, and I did see the end of the game with the fumble at the end and the Bills defense being able to get off the field to win the game for them. Ed Oliver, such a massive piece of that. Whenever he's not out there, you can tell such a big difference, but I'm not sure. It seems as though the Texans offense was able to do some of those things that people were questioning and wanting to know, but Josh Allen and the Bills offense must have had some good answers, eh? Yeah, eh? I'd say Joe Brady, also shirtless in the postgame there. A lot of the lads from the Buffalo Bills said that was the first time they've ever seen him shirtless, I guess, with some of the rookies, maybe, if they end up. How'd it look? Not bad. Completely shaved. You know how in Wolf of Wall Street? How Leo does the speech where he says, from here, done. No hair. That's what Joe Brady has going on. He is a Florida boy. I don't know if he was using the lotion that you rub on your body. Nair. Nair. I didn't know if he was nairing. I mean, that's a fresh. There's no way. Nah, Joe Brady ain't nairing. You don't know? Not a single hair on him. I mean, maybe he might have jumped into a bath of nair and got that thing off. I don't know how he did. He is a Florida boy, though. Got to understand that. Had a nice chain. Was not scared of the moment. And on the sideline, I liked his demeanor. Because we're used to McDermott. McDermott's super serious. Joe Brady. and the lads are absolutely losing it in a huge comeback win. 3-13 left on their own four, down one. What does Josh Allen do with it week one? Todd. So it could be a Buffalo Bills year, and obviously they're debuting a brand-new stadium tomorrow night. Cannot wait to be talking to somebody who's live from there tomorrow during our show. That's right. It's going to be a part of the big day. Excited about that, JJ. We have a big surprise. Somebody's going to be live from the stadium for us for the first hour of the program. JJ? I'm excited to see that. Well, we were invited to do the whole show there, okay? And then we kind of made an announcement that we were doing that. And then, you know, I think we all quickly realized, like, this is an Amazon thing. I don't know if we're going to be able to – this might be a tough thing. You kind of do whatever you want anyway. I mean, just – Yeah. So who's there? You're not going to share it with us? Kirk Herbstreit's going to be live from there. What? He's calling the game. Kirk Herbstreit's going to be live from the new stadium. Yeah. Batman. As a representative of the Pat McAfee Show tomorrow from noon until 1 Eastern time, Kirk Herbstreit will be there live from the brand-new stadium. Wow. As we showcase this incredible investment into Western New York, which we are certainly pumped on. You guys got a clear view? Do you guys have a clear view? So that's kind of the thing. We don't really know. Kind of figured it out. Yeah, surprise. Yeah, it's all a mystery. It's going to be a mystery thing tomorrow, James. But we are going to showcase a new stadium because we like whatever those happen. Obviously, a city ownership. Investing in the future of their NFL team, we like. We think what NFL teams do for cities and for towns and communities is an overall positive. But getting that money to be able to do that is a huge investment. So we would like to celebrate that. Got to get the Buffaloes on the show, right? Bison, Buffaloes, we've had this talk, whatever. But they look cool. Yeah, they do look cool. And I think we do have a plan to figure out just how tall they are. You know, we got some stuff maybe in the works there. Let's not, you know. Okay, tape measures? That would be one idea. Well, any more ideas you have, we certainly are listening at the moment as this has certainly already been planned and put together before tomorrow. So let's just make sure that's all understood. How many folding tables tall are they? There you go. There's another one. That's pretty good, James. Herbie, you listening? Herbie, we need you to get four to five folding tables and measure this shit out before you go live tomorrow. What do you think? Do you think it's four to five? Do you think it's four to five folding tables tall? In my head, I saw four of those together. Are you measuring standard five-foot folding table? Yeah, standard four. I think that's an accurate guess. Yeah, I think that's an accurate guess. I think four to five of them. Maybe four and a half of them. I mean, we're going to find out. I assume we're going to find out. I just automatically think back to ECW whenever they were just stacking those tables on top of each other. Just try to eyeball. Maybe it's only three, though. The baby one. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Are you going like table on top of table? Or are you going long way tall? I was going long way tall. No, I'm going table on top of table because somebody's. Okay, I think it's more than that. I think it's more than that. Because Herbie's doing an elbow drop. All of them. You think the big one is more than mom and dad, more than that? Yeah, I think if you're going just stacking tables on top of tables, I'm going to go with six to seven. Okay, for the big one. Six foot, seven foot, eight foot. There we go. Bring it all back. Is that the chest or the top? The top. You got to go to the top of the horn. Okay, so for me, I was going to the bottom of the chest just so. Okay, sure. Why would you do that? Because that's where it is. That's where it technically starts, personally, in my head. You know what I mean? But you want to go to how tall this is. Yeah, you got to go to the top. Peak. Yeah, the top. You got to go to the top. So I'd say six, I think. Okay. So therefore, I think two of those things are going to be the bison. So you start doing some deductive reasoning from my numbers. I got two tables on top of each other for how big the big one is. Okay. I think that'd be a good size. Yeah, no, I agree. They better not let us down. A lot of thinking here. We'll see. I know that's not your thing, but you did a great job not thinking and calling a game with Nancy this weekend. Excited to see you guys go throughout. The rest of. The rest of the season, for however long that is, I don't think anybody has an answer on that, unless you do. I don't. I know that I have the next two, for sure. I've got Patriots-Seals this weekend, and then I'm off to Brazil. What? Portuguese. You should go learn some Portuguese down there. Okay? I do. I do. Copacabana. Okay. A little Christ the Redeemer. All right. See what's going on. A little Pele. A little Vinny Jr. Everybody down there. Wow. Ronaldo. Neymar. Yeah. Mourinho. Bruno Fernandes. Oh, Bruno Fernandes. She's some recruiting. Yeah. Yeah. Some good food. Looking forward to that. Wanderlei Silva. Hey, don't go to the gas stations, right? You know what, Ryan? Yeah, Lochte. Well, that was horse shit. Don't be like Lochte at the gas station whenever he was over there, because I do think that was kind of on us. It was. Even though the original reports was, Brazil, terrible place. Yeah. This and that, and then the story comes out. It's like, boom. Ryan was like, yeah, yeah, don't do it. Yeah, right. Yeah, he was like, please don't talk about this. It's kind of on me. So, I think you should have a blast down there. Would you like to go live from down there? We'd like to have a person. Get some folding tables with me? Yes, please. We'd love for you to do that. Okay, let's get to the game you're calling this weekend. Go ahead, Con Man. Yeah, J.H., how do you feel about Steelers, Pat? Steelers win. Huge win against the Falcons at home. Covered the spread. Patriots kind of, you know, got off to a good start against the Seattle Seahawks and got suffocated by Mike McDonald. What are you thinking for that game? How do you see it going, and what is kind of your expectation going into Gillette on Sunday? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously. Currently, the big story is A.J. Brown being out. That's going to change what the Patriots' offense looks like and how they operate. Maybe they get Travion Henderson back, which can help open up the run game, open up that play-action game, and get the ball down the field more. But we all saw what happened at the end of that game with the three interceptions, and that's certainly not how they wanted to start the season. Now, as a player, I sit there and I think, okay, they had a long time off since that, about 11 days. That can be a good thing in one way, where you get to look at the tape, you get to, you know, what went wrong, how can we fix it? But I'm a personal guy where I want to get back out there as quickly as humanly possible to try and get that bad taste out of my mouth. So that's a long time to sit with that game. Steelers on the other side, offense, you know, they didn't run the ball that great. They did try to move the ball down the field much more than they did in the past. Weren't very successful down the field, but at least it looked like a little bit of a concerted effort. I believe Aaron Rodgers had the most air yards. Of his time as a Steeler. So they are trying to do that. And then their defense, they kept it extremely simple. I don't think they ran a single snap of man coverage. They only ran two blitzes the entire day. But you had TJ with two sacks and a pick six. You have Alex Highsmith with two sacks. Cam Hayward had three batted balls. When you're able to rush four and just play coverage behind it and still get to the quarterback, that's dangerous. I didn't watch every rep. Was TJ on this side every time? Because I know they were trying to think about moving him and dropping him back. What was he doing? No, I believe. I saw the numbers this morning. I think he played six times on the right side, and he did get one sack off of the right side. So they are making concerted effort, and he did move over there and find success. He was kind of hesitant, right? Because he felt like he was maybe wasting reps. Like, hey, I'm over here. Why are we wasting any snaps over there? I've already proven I can do good. That was a real hesitancy, right, out of him? Yeah. And then another thing that they did was they limited the number of snaps. So he played the least amount of snaps by far in his career. I think it was only 38 snaps. Rotated all those guys. Herbig, Highsmith, Jack Sawyer, TJ. And they rotated all of them, kept them all fresh. And the production was there on only 38 snaps. You got two sacks, three TFLs, a pick six. I would say that that's a good thing for the coaching staff going forward so that he doesn't continue asking for more snaps. Because when you can point them to the tape and say, look what you did with these minimal ones, that'll make him buy in even more. Listen, it turns out that whenever we just beat him down with other. And then you pop in there, it's a little bit of a shock to the system of these offensive linemen to see TJ Watt pop in there. Hell of a start to his season. New campaign under new DC and obviously a whole new era in Pittsburgh. Now, talk about a new era. Well, they kind of went backwards. Kansas City Chiefs looked vastly different than they looked in the last couple years. And a lot of people are saying maybe it's because EB got back there. Travis Kelsey said on the New Heights podcast that since day one of them working together with EB coming back, that all they kept saying is, run through a mother. Can't say it. Yep. Sucka. Motherfucker. He said mother suckas, but with an F. Oh, okay, gotcha. And if you look at the. We put stars on it across the bottom. When it runs across the bottom of the scroll, we put mother, M-O-T-H-E-R, and then we put star, F, star, U, star, C, star, K, star, A. Ah. Apostrophe S, because I do believe that is how Travis said it. Okay. I don't know if that's all. Good job, because when we first started, when I first started coming on this show with you guys, there was the counter, and the counter was the goal was to be at zero. And I do not think that counter has been close to zero in a long time. So impressive by you. Thank you. Getting back. We raised a lot of money for that swear jar. You remember that? We were raising like a good $50,000, $100,000 for people there. You know, we were trying to do our best. We still let it fly. You know? Matt D'Agruso dropped one earlier, and then he talks he didn't like swearing. That was certainly something. Connor had a heavy dose of it early this week. I'm trying to remember if it was Monday or Tuesday, but there was a heavy, heavy run of them. You got a case of the fucks? I don't recall. It might have been when Dan Orlowski was on, but I don't recall. I think it might have been. Or when AJ was trying to shit on the overreaction Monday. That's what it was. That's what it was. The overreaction Monday. Hey, very warranted, by the way. Yeah, it doesn't count. I mean, what he was doing was disrespectful to sports, I think. Bushley. And he knew that in real time. And then he tried to change his tune, and then he caught himself in a lie or two, you know. Yeah, classic. AJ wants to be reasonable, you know, because he's such tight friends with Aaron. And Aaron always comes on and goes, I know you guys have your overreaction Monday. You know, he kind of puts it down. AJ forgets he's been an active participant in that. Oh, yeah. Five, six, seven years. And he's like, I don't like us doing this. Okay. Okay, Edge. And then he said, I canceled the Titans. Yep. It's like, that's, didn't you just do, remember that? Oh, yeah. And then he said, crowned a team. I'll tell you what, I might have crowned a team after hearing what Travis had to say with an A or an ER at the end of that thing. Go ahead, D-Butt. Yeah, I don't know if it's an overreaction coming out of week one, that Monday night matchup. You know, we expect the two contenders out of AFC West, Broncos, Chiefs. We look, new look Chiefs for sure. But Broncos side, are you more concerned about them, more excited about the Chiefs? Because offense looked terrible. Defense couldn't tackle. So what's, I guess, your reaction from that game from both sides? You hit the nail on the head. My two biggest questions are the tackling of their defense, which I think that is something that you get significantly better at over the course of the season. And especially when you have a display like that on week one, the point of emphasis this week for that defense is going to be so heavy on that. They will be better. The other question is the offense and Sean Payton and the play calling and Davis Webb and how long that goes. I mean, you saw the question asked at halftime. You saw Sean's answers. We'll see how the second half goes. And, you know, when you've got one. One of the best play callers in the game who is not actually calling the plays. It's a question of how long does that go and how many opportunities do you get? And I'm not a fan of making rash decisions or overreactions after week one. But that question is going to come up, certainly if the offense looks that way again. So we'll see the Chiefs side. I mean, the way that they ran the ball and literally almost had the point of saying we are only going to run the ball on this first drive was a very clear, concerted effort to set a tone. And Kenneth Walker is going to tote the rock quite a few times this year, it appears. Yeah, I think Kenneth Walker, obviously, AFC Offensive Player of the Week. Congrats to him. T.J. Watt, AFC Defensive Player of the Week. Congrats to him. Evan McPherson, Special Teams AFC Player of the Week. Quite a trio there as they celebrate week one success. They just gave him the ball, what, first six snaps? And then you go back to what Travis said on that New Lights podcast. Every single day, we've been talking about running through people's faces. It's like that is certainly. A nice culture shift. AQ, you said you love to hear that. And that was kind of the Kansas City Chiefs problem. It felt like since BNME had left. I think the biggest knock on them over the last couple of years is the fact that they haven't had much of a running game. They've tried. They've tried to stay, you know, within 10 to 15 runs just to kind of keep the defense honest. But they haven't had a power run game. They haven't been big in the 100-yard-plus running games. And now, all of a sudden, you come out and you have 170 yards rushing with Kenneth Walker. You bring him over from Seattle. He was fantastic. And it wasn't all. It wasn't all just the offensive line. A lot of that was him. There was, I mean, think about the fourth down play where he bounced. He was supposed to hit that thing downhill. They got stuffed, kind of. He bounces it and turns it into a huge game. I forget. I think it was 62 of his 89 first-half rush yards came after contact. It's like, yeah, that'll do. Of course, 14 missed tackles. 28 missed tackles is a total for the Broncos' defense. And then you go to the offensive side there. You talk about Davis Webb calling plays. Rappaport came on yesterday and was like, Sean Payton understands that this could be a little bit, and it might take a while for Davis Webb to do his thing. It was like, well, he did an interview with Miss Laura at halftime, so you can ask me at the end of this half, you know, because the plan could be, let's have patience, let's have patience, let's have patience, but that's the second worst offensive performance for a Sean Payton team since like 2000, whatever, I forget the year, forever. It's like, how long does that, how long is that leash for Sean Payton in real time? Because in theory, it's fun. It's going to take him a little bit to get used to it. But when you're standing on a sideline just watching shit happen, it's like, I. And this isn't, and this isn't a team that's. This isn't a team that's trying to, you know, coming off of a rebuild or anything like that. This is a team that possibly is in the Super Bowl if their quarterback doesn't get hurt last year. So this is a team that has to take advantage of a window that they are in right now. And if it looks the same way in week two as it did in week one, you know there's going to be some conversations to be had there. Yeah, you'd think there'd be a little bit of heat. You'd think there'd be a little bit of heat. Let's go over to Seattle. How did you like, first, sorry, guys, how did you like Monday Night Football? How was it? I enjoyed it, man. It was cool to be a part of, you know? It was cool to be a part of just, like, Monday Night Football is so ridiculous. I mean, much like you and everybody else that are sports fans, I grew up in an NFL town in Pittsburgh. Like, my house, the tone of the house for a week was normally set by the Pittsburgh Steelers. So, like, Wardell Stewart has a bad game. Thanks, Slash. We don't eat good for the next five days because Tim McAfee's pissed off and the entire town is pissed. But then if we win, you know, life is good. So being a part of Monday Night Football is just absurd. Like, it is just, it's a crazy thing. And I felt that while I was there. Now, as soon as Monday Night Countdown's over, get off the field, get up to a bus, you know, so we miss a couple things there early. Then we're allowed to come back down for the final 1.30, do the halftime show, get the hell out. So I might buy a ticket to these next places so I can maybe, like, watch the game. I think that'll be something. But it was an honor to be a part of, if that makes sense. And I feel you probably feel the exact same way with what you're doing with CBS. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's the greatest job you could ever have. I always say, like, I'm sitting on the 50-yard line in the best seats in the entire house, and they're the best games every single week. Like, what more could you possibly want? I get to talk to the best players on the team, and I get to talk to the head coaches, the coordinators every single week. I am living, and I get paid to do it. Like, it is the coolest, best thing of all time, and I'm very fortunate and thankful to be in it. I know you feel the same way. It's such a cool honor. Yeah. It's a celebration of ball. Like, and then the fact that I get to be a part of the biggest college games on Saturday, just, you know, it's a celebration of the college games. And the atmosphere there is so cool, just to experience all these different places. Can't wait to be at Ole Miss this weekend. Woo. That's going to be a lot. You lose a lot of money this weekend. I think I saw, yeah. Lost a little cash. Yeah. Good from, like, 70 yards. Yeah. He was unbelievable. Kid from Indianapolis, so I like him. Connor! Bang! Yeah. $1.2 million there. $600,000 to building tomorrow. $600,000 to his pocket. And then at halftime, or I'm sorry, third time out of the first quarter, live during the game. Tito, of Tito's Vodka, wanted to offer up a million-dollar donation if he was able to do it again. Kid does it again. So he raised, like, $1.1 million for building tomorrow, $500,000 for the Central Texas Food Banks, and then he earned himself $600,000 on the day. Over $2 million coming off this kid's left foot on one Saturday. But you're a bad guy. Yeah, I'm the worst, J.H. I've actually heard that. There was a headline this morning. How much was it? One week, that was what? That was, like, $1.2 million to charity? Something like that? No, more than that. No, one-one. Right? $600,000 and five. No, one-six. Yeah, one-six to charity, I think, if you were to put it together. Yeah, shout-out Tito, by the way. Shout-out. And Home Depot coming involved and playing the game. It's a casual Saturday. No big deal. Well, then, Dan Lanning, too. Oh, they had $500,000 for Dan Lanning to the Sam May Foundation for Cancer Research. He added in another $50,000. Now, that's never going to get talked about again because they lost to Oklahoma State. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so Dan Lanning. He doesn't even want to play. Game, like, seven tries, too. Yeah, a lot of tries. Well, he had no connection, so we couldn't really talk to him. So, that was kind of a bummer, especially because how much AT&T has invested in, you know, game day and everything like that. That's AT&T connection to Dan Lanning. Right. And then you see when the connection drops a couple times, you can see how that'd be AT&T thing. That was an ESPN game, though. So, that was. True, true. So, I think it was, you know. You got Ole Miss-LSU this week? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, baby. Yeah, this one's been brewing. It's my first time down to Ole Miss, and we're announcing the guest picker tomorrow, I do believe, on the show. It's a good one. The guest picker. This is a. Any hints? No hints. No hints at all because I don't want to give. I would like it to be a pretty massive surprise whenever it happens, but this will be very well-received. Well. I was going to say, it'll be. People will be very surprised. I think so. I think it'll be. I like to say very well-received, but. You never know. There's always. There's always going to be a group that's just. It's going to be sweet. It's going to be a live tiger, guys. It's going to be a live tiger. Well, I don't know if Ole Miss will let a live tiger in there, but maybe there is a tiger tie. That'll be a clue that could be real, it could not be real. Yeah. Okay. Let's go to the Super Bowl champions, though, shall we, as we continue to chit-chat about NFL with the number one color commentator for CBS for the foreseeable future, J.J. Watt. Super Bowl champions had a huge storyline take place, but it's so long ago, everybody's kind of forgot about it. Go ahead, A.Q., with the last one. Last question. Yeah, J.J., the Seahawks lose Sam Darnold early, Drew Locke comes in. Now that he has a week to prepare, as a defense, do you prepare differently when you have a guy like Drew Locke, who may not be a Carson Wentz as a full-time former starter, a guy that's going to be a fill-in backup, but do you prepare any differently when you have a guy like that? A little bit, but you really can't because you'd be doing yourself a disservice. I mean, the natural, immediate feeling is to be like, okay, lean a little. Heavy on the run game, to play action. Try and make it as quarterback-friendly as possible, especially when you have a defense like Seattle has, and they know that they can control the game that way, so that you may not have to do as much and take as much on. But, I mean, you watch that game, and he's making deep throws. He's putting some in tight situations. It's not like he's a guy who can't go back there and do it. So, if you're not preparing like he can do every single thing that Sam Darnold does, then you're doing yourself a disservice. But, do I think they're going to just. completely unleash everything? No, but you better be ready in case they do. I like how Drew Locke stepped in there, Jage. I don't know how many people have the mindset to be able to do that. Now, granted, there's a lot of great backup quarterbacks throughout the history of this league who I think get mocked and ridiculed because they're backup quarterbacks, but backup quarterbacks mentally and physically have to be able to do so many things. That's why there's normally a backup quarterback that'll travel or be around for a long time. Have to give a great look, have to be able to make every single throw, have to learn so many different offenses each week to make it look natural, have to be a good communicator, have to be liked in the building, have to be liked by the quarterback, have to do homework assignments for the starting quarterback, and oh yeah, you've been standing on the sideline for an hour and a half, two hours, you've had no reps with the first team, you have no idea what's supposed to happen, now you're in there, figure it out. And it's like the mentality that that takes is a special one, and Drew Locke, I think we've seen it since the beginning, maybe perfect timing for him to be their backup quarterback up there in Seattle, Jage. Yeah, and let me tell you what makes that guy's job a whole lot easier when he steps in off the bench cold. Jackson Smith and Jigba, Cooper Cup, like this offense, like yeah, he's pretty, you go out there and you've been throwing the second team or the scout team all week, and then all of a sudden you step out of the game field and you pass the JSN for five yards, and boom, to the end, it's like, oh, that's pretty nice, I like that, so I should just give the ball to that guy and we're going to be just fine, so it certainly helps to be able to step into a beautiful situation like that. John Schneider has built a good one up there, hasn't he? Oh yeah. Yeah, he's built a good one, and now we do know he likes to have a good time. Oh yeah. So he likes to have good things happen so he can have a good time, but this McDonald guy, he might go down later in life as one of the ones. Wins the Super Bowl so early so he's already legit, right? I mean, resume's already legitimized. Super Bowl winning head coach, and it feels like he's only getting started out there. They go for sale. I think new owner, having Schneider and McDonald in there is a huge piece of the value. Do you agree with that or no? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you're coming off of a Super Bowl, just won one. You've got a young coach who's a brilliant mind in the game. You've got a GM who's built two Super Bowl winning rosters, who's proven to be able to do it time and time again. Yeah, I would say being able to secure those two guys in a league where a head coach is almost as valuable as the starting quarterback, if you got the right one, like, very, very worth it. Good for the Seattle Seahawks. You know, other teams have to be wondering how much they're worth. You know, they start looking at these sales. How much did they go for? Wait a minute. What is the time? Is the time now? We shall see. New ownership. You start, that's actually, I saw this the other day with Sean McVay where somebody was asking, I think it was Les Snead, how many first round picks would it take to give Sean McVay? At what point are we talking about some of these head coaches in like the, hey, starting quarterback money is 70 million and the top head coach is making 20. Like at some point, is there a like, that number is going to double quickly or, and because they're also, not within, you know, the same constraints. So we thought that Denver would do it, right? Cause they basically are, they're the wealthiest family. The Walmart family is obviously the most amount of money in the NFL ownership group. And Sean Payton, whenever he was up looking at places, he's looking at Arizona Cardinals. We assumed no way Cardinals ownership is able to do the same as Denver. From the beginning, what we thought was going to happen ended up happening with him going to Denver. And they did talk about what they were able to offer to all the coaches. Vance is still there. I mean, people have been wanting Vance for a long time. He's defensive coordinator. I think he's making a ridiculous amount of money. I think that is a weapon that ownership groups who have deep pockets certainly have over the others because there is no cap. But to your point, do we know exactly what these guys are making and what their incentives are? I don't know. No, I mean, we don't know exactly. No. I mean, I know that the rumor top coaches are somewhere in the 20 to maybe 25 range. That's just rumors and what the numbers on the internet say, but come on, like, if you, if they hit a real free agency, like, what do you, what are you offering up for a Sean McVay or Mike McDonald or Kyle Shanahan or Shane Steichen, you know? Well, you don't have to do that. Well, I just don't know. I just don't know. We like Shane. We would like Shane to be here forever. But Shane Steichen and Mike McDonald are not going for the same asking price. Well, Sean McVay was also added in. Bingo. You add him to the Mike McDonald area. Okay. Not Shane Steichen. He's not going for the same asking price. He's not going for four first-round picks. Highest paid NFL coaches, says Sportico, Andy Reid, 20, Harbaugh, 20, Sean Payton, 20, McVay, 19. And a lot of these guys could potentially have in their contracts when a new deal is done, I am definitely within the top five. So you see the 4-4 there, McVay and Shanahan, that's probably a top five money no matter what happens to the new deals for anybody else. Those types of things do happen. Top money, no matter what happens with anybody else. Coaches are able to work like that. Once again, coaches have no salary. They have no salary cap either. So to JJ's point, if you want to pluck somebody and give more money than anybody else, you can certainly do that if you have a deep-pocketed owner. Now, you know who should be making more money? Somebody do it for Tomlin next year? Somebody do that for Mike Tomlin? Maybe. He's great on TV thus far. I hope he doesn't leave, but maybe. Yeah. McDermott. Mike Tomlin has a lot of wins. McDermott. McDermott's done a great job here, basically explaining who he is, what he wants to become, what he was with Buffalo. Didn't woe is me. No. No, not at all. Which we appreciate. We appreciate him not woeing is me at all, because obviously he had a lot of success up there. Firing him did seem like, wow, who are you going to get on the other side? Then they got to shave Joe Brady out there. He's kind of living his best life. You know who deserves more money, though, JJ? Ty Schmidt. Certainly. I mean, I like a little negotiation here. Ty, you're a good lad. You're a very good lad. How about Tyler Owens, JJ? This man. Let's give him all of the money. We saw your tweet obviously $5.7 million. I would cut off an appendage for this guy to be one of my gunners. What did you see, JJ? So when I first saw this, I was on the plane on the way home from Minnesota, and somebody sent me this clip, and they were like, just watch this clip. And so I'm watching the clip at the beginning wondering, is this guy going to get pancaked on a double team? Is he going to get driven into the water coolers? So I watch the clip, and he beats it off the line a little bit first. I'm like, oh, wow, he splits the double team. That's nice. Then he stiff arms one straight down to the ground with the opposite hand. Holy cow. Incredible. Stiff arms the other with the other hand. I'm like, dude, two stiff arms in one play? No way. And I look back and I'm like, there's no way he's going to actually make this tackle, right? Not only does he make the tackle, it is a pile like picture perfect. I was not kidding. I was not using hyperbole. I was not exaggerating. That is truthfully one of the greatest start to finish NFL plays that I have personally ever seen. That is as teach tape as it gets. One down, two tackles, effort, intensity. If you're a coach and you did not show your team that clip this week, you're insane. That's right. That's J.J. 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Well, it wasn't just us saying it. Chris Maddog Russo was also here. Dan Orlovsky responded to the tweet from Chris Maddog Russo. He said, feels like there are some compliments in there. From Maddog. Did you hear any of that from Maddog? Because you got a chance to listen back because you obviously weren't in here at the time. No, he basically said that Dan Orlovsky existed. You know, I don't know. What did that sound like? Do you remember what it sounded like coming out of Maddog's voice? Yeah, I think he initially said, you know, Dan Orlovsky was a good quarterback. I shouldn't say he was a good quarterback. He was a quarterback. He did backpedal a little bit. He looked like a DB almost. Almost. So, you know, just saying that he was a quarterback, I don't know if that's a compliment. And he also called him a cheapskate too, which I know Dan Orlovsky doesn't necessarily love. Yeah, here's Dan Orlovsky's response to it all. I actually think there's a compliment or two in here. It's like, nope, you're wrong. I don't think there was. But we do love Dan Orlovsky. Yeah, absolutely. And Dan Orlovsky is Dan Orlovsky. Always will be Dan Orlovsky. And we got to understand that. And that's why we love Dan Orlovsky. Yeah. How about him with his notebook? It said week one at the front of that. Yep. So he's going to toss that out and he's going to week two. That notebook would be full by week three, maybe. No, I think. Five subject? I think he's get rid of it. I think it's one per. One per week? It said week one. across the front of it, as if he was quarterback for an actual game coming up, just taking all his notes. He was flipping through. He flipped, what, eight, ten pages that one time? Every one of them had something on them. Brines and Tate? Yeah, he certainly does. Not all of them, obviously. Let's skip a couple games. Yeah, I wasn't able to watch. Sorry, I didn't see the Titans. Sorry, I'm not looking at that one. I don't know what to tell you guys. I saw some lowlights, I guess. They're not good. I'll get to that by the end of the week. He's never watched. No. No way. He is never watching. And why would you? He might not see the Tennessee Titans one time this year. Let's go to nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. You know, we did the shite division yesterday. That got actually a pretty good response, pretty glowing reviews. Might have to continue that thing. Any of these teams in here you see prone to make a run out of it? For instance, maybe the Indianapolis Colts this weekend against Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday Night Football, week two in Arrowhead. There's a chance, you know, that the Chiefs maybe fall back after what they just did. Kenneth Walker runs wild. Obviously, Derrick Henry did that this past weekend. Actually kind of impressed. And pumped that no Baltimore Raven won the AFC Offensive Player of the Week because three of them could have. Lamar could have. Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers could have. Are we able to make a big jump week one to week two? Not just the Colts. Let's talk about the entire shite division or all these teams. Are these teams going to make a big jump between week one and week two? That's always like the cliche thing that is set up. Yeah, looking at this shite division, for me, you look at teams that you expect to make a run. I would start from the bottom going up. You obviously expect the Los Angeles Rams to get their shite. Maybe they were just the sleepy Rams. Maybe it was a terrible plan to call for 24 hours before the game down in Australia. What do Rammies dream of when they take a little Rammie snooze? Oh, wait. Are those the uniforms they're wearing on Monday? Oh, no chance. Yeah, they're done. I don't know. Weren't those uniforms they were wearing when you were at that Chiefs-Rams blowout or shootout? Yeah, Monday Night Football way back. Did they look exactly like this? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But they didn't have staff for that QB. That is a dirty graphic, so we would assume that Dirty would have it accurate. And I don't think we need to be saying Savannah Bananas with the Los Angeles Rams. I don't know. Because, yes, they are a spectacle, and they are a show. But the Savannah Bananas wouldn't have gone down to Australia and laid an egg. They would not have done that. Jesse Cole is not going to have the Savannah Bananas down under not having their best game. But there is a chance that they grossly miscalculated the travel, and they just did not show up. Miles Garrett potentially on a bum knee, wasn't able to be an impact. He goes on IR with the surgery. But the Los Angeles Rams, we assume. Now, granted, the Giants are a ground-and-pound football team. Dallas Cowboys had two drives in the second half, scored on both of them. It didn't matter because the Giants just kept the ball away from them. I guess there's a chance the Rams could come back to life, but there also is a chance the Giants are for real, D-Boy. Yeah, they look like a very good football team, a physical football team. Mike Tomlin spoke after the game, and he said, I've been watching that team or that game plan, that game script for 20 years with John Harbaugh, and that's what everybody, I expected him to build. Jackson Dart, I thought, looked great. Now, kind of like same thing Dan was saying, a lot of his great was the Cowboys' defense also looking absolute shite. But I thought he looked very good. I thought he looked very comfortable. I thought Nagy did a great job with him. Week one, Greg Roman designing the run game. Obviously, they're going to be a physical bunch of Patrick Ricard and Big Scat back there. So if Jackson Dart can stay upright and continue going through his reads and being comfortable making those throws, I think they can be great, especially with the defense on the flip side, the pressure that they put on on their front, they're going to help those. Those guys on the back end continue to get better. So that should be a good game. But I do expect the Rams to bounce back. Obviously, you have a great coach, Sean McVay. You got a reigning MVP with Matt Stafford. And we may see 99 back on the field for the first time in a long time for that defense, which will give them a jolt of energy. So I expect the Rams to bounce back. The Colts as well. Now, the Titans and the Browns, you know. A lot of people are putting the Colts just right in there with the Titans. No, I won't do that. I won't do that. No, but I'm saying people are saying that. Like, not us. Because we're going to win. Because we're here in Indianapolis, and I'm a season ticket holder. But being that, we did get to watch them. There's a lot of people saying they're a little bit worried about the entire culture of maybe the Indianapolis Colts and not being able to get back on the horse. What's concerning? You do get embarrassed. Yeah. That was kind of an embarrassing loss. A lot of veteran guys on that team. Yep. A lot of very good football players on that team. Yes. I assume they will bounce back. Having to go to Arrowhead with this brand-new mentality that they had a few years back is a tough task. We have played the Chiefs well, though. Every time we match, regardless of what their record is, even when they were on that dynastic run, we've kind of always played this team well. And I think, you know, Patrick Mahomes, he's coming to this season with a huge chip on his shoulder, too. I believe in Danny Dimes. Me, too. Absolutely. He got unlucky early with that turnover. Boom. Kind of deflects, and then a pick happens. And then defense can't get a stop for the life of him, you know. And he's got to sit there and just watch Lamar Jackson saunter around. Maestro. He's sauntering around. He's got his towel in the back. Okay. I do like the towel in the back because it looks cool. But him, like, using his towel in the back while he's walking around, just is, like, just so awesome. That's how we do it. Right into the thing. Boom. Okay. Here we go. Right up to the – this is week one. Okay. We're supposed to be learning some stuff. Right up to the thing. We got a motion with this guy. Then I'm throwing the tight end out there. Then the running back's going out the other side. Hi, heep. Hi. And then, whew, Zay Flowers touchdown. It's like, wow. You're not supposed to be this smooth, this on time, this comfortable week one with a brand-new offense like Declan Doyle has for him. But I think Lamar's investment all offseason, I think Lamar knew what was possible with Declan Doyle. Yeah. And I think Lamar was excited for it. And I'd assume Declan Doyle, hey, first-time play caller, guess what you got? Oh, you got a Madden video game player as your quarterback. This guy can throw the ball better. 99 throwing and then running, best ever do it. So. Good luck out there. And, oh, yeah, he is a football IQ genius. Savant, he's going to be able to figure it out for you. It's like, what a dream for Declan Doyle to come in and they executed as if the Colts weren't even on the field. Yeah, flawlessly. And that's what, you know, that never gets, he never gets the right amount of credit for that, for what he does between the ears and his passing. I think after this game, he became the all-time NFL leader with passer rating at like 102.4, some shit like that. But he's dealt with, he's learned under a bunch of different coordinators, and he's won, he's won MVP on the Greg Roman system, he's won MVP in Todd Monken system, and now he's with Declan Doyle. And it started great. That was your biggest takeaway, Pat, was all the pre-snap, the motions, the shifts, and all the things that you're doing, moving a defense, especially a Lou and a Romo defense who has a bunch of adjustments and they want to see things and have different things. So once you move a guy or shift a guy, you got to change, you got to communicate. And he was just in total control. This is my first time really watching him. You know, he's been in the league forever, but boots on the ground. And we talked about it in the suite. It's like, oh, should we get to watch Lamar? We get this experience, and it was an experience. Like, okay, this guy's just better at football than everybody else. Yeah, and it was obvious. Yeah. I mean, it was like very evident that that guy was the best football player that maybe has ever played on that. No, Peyton. Okay, let's not get crazy. No, I don't know. Peyton, obviously, GOAT, Rushmore. Shout out to Eli and Peyton last night, by the way, had some magical moments. But just Lamar Jackson, just doing Lamar shit. And then Zay doing Zay stuff. And him on the sideline, no helmet, no gloves. And you look up at stats, he's already had 150 yards. It's like, we got two quarters left. This guy's not playing the whole half. If he could have 300 yards, and then you look at Derrick Henry, Hall of Famer. Oh, yeah, he had a career day as well. Ran himself in a record book. It's like, wow, I guess we were lucky to be here. But it didn't feel like that in real time. Felt like we were on the complete opposite end of that. We still don't know what this Ravens team is going to be. We don't know what any of these teams are going to be. Hopefully, the Colts are able to bounce back. Well, yeah, and who knows? It's just week one. But I think if you are a Colts fan, I think there is a chance that the Ravens are going to do this to a lot of people. We're probably not too far away. Declan Doyle was the OC in Chicago next year. That's the next thing is the cup of coffee with Sean McVay. Anyone who's taken a piss next to Ben Johnson or been involved with his offense at all is going to get opportunities to be an offensive coordinator and then head coach, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, pretty good performance for him to start. And obviously, when you have Lamar and Derrick Henry and Zay Flowers doing what they're doing, that certainly helps. But I think there is a chance they do that to a lot of teams. Yeah, I hope. That's what Colts fans are certainly hoping. And I would like to see this Colts team get back to what they were. Sunday night football in Kansas City, that is an incredible environment. Felt like a college environment. So I enjoy the hell out of that. Can't wait to watch. Joining us also every single week like he has for the past few years, ladies and gentlemen, let's go in the trenches with a 12-year NFL Super Bowl champion center. Ladies and gentlemen, A.Q. Shipley. Howdy, baby. A.Q. A.Q. A.Q. This week, you know, we ask you, what's your big takeaway from the weekend that maybe hasn't been chatted about? Obviously, you normally stay with the Fatsos, the big guys in the trenches. For you, though, what was the takeaway week one with this offensive explosion and potential full buy-in to the run game by a league wide? Obviously, a lot of points. The run games were fantastic. But the biggest takeaway that I took away is the big narrative over the years, and I've been very heavy on this, is that rookie offensive linemen can't come in and play right away. We had six rookie offensive linemen make impact. Let's start with the Ravens and Venga Ioanni, the Penn State product. Look who he's going against, Pat. It's the Indianapolis Colts and DeForest Buckner, the $100 million man. Let's watch him move DeForest out of the way. Twerk him outside. Derek Henry hits it. I didn't see any twerking out of the Ravens. A little twerk. A little twerk. Oh, twerk. Yeah, Pittsburgh accent. You said twerk. I thought you were saying twerk like booty on him, because I didn't see him put any booty on him, but I did see him putting. Two hands and twerk his ass out. Twerk. So he torqued his ass. Torqued his ass. Oh, 54 gave him a little love, too. Yeah. And, by the way, the 54, that's his first start. So good things are coming for the Colts defense. That's his first start ever in his NFL career. We had a linebacker that had 42 snaps that didn't record a single stat. So I was just trying to figure out which one he was on, that particular one. We need him to dive on a pile next week. He was all over the field, though. Yeah, but nowhere near the ball. We need you near the ball. He's out there doing cardio. Okay, who else, AQ, should we spotlight some of these young guys? This guy, he is track practice out there. How do you do that in linebacker? Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a linebacker that could be able to give us an answer live from Nantucket, Ohio, as we continue these rookies playing like vets from the offense line. Take away with AQ Shipley. Ladies and gentlemen, college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, A.J. Hawk. Welcome, A.J. Great to see you. You look fantastic. Is this dude doing cardio? Is he trying to run away? You've got to get a J.O.P. at some point. You've got to get some kind of assist or anything. Who knows how they even give you pressures for all kinds of situations now, too. So you would think at some point you'd get there. Okay. Hold on. Hold on now. According to who? PFF. We get it. We understand. PFF is for sale. We don't know the current PFF and what they're going off of. Just so you know, this was actually released. The T.J. Watt pick six was a negative play for T.J. Watt, according to PFF. That's no way. No way. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Okay, so we won't talk about this. Even though I think it is easier to tell if somebody did anything in a game in 42 snaps as opposed to what their actual job was versus getting a pick six on a play and being an asshole and saying we're smarter than you. Okay. Okay. We've heard about football. That whole thing is a little bit different, but you have to try not to be in the middle of something in line. Like, I was a punter, kicker. If there was a pile near me, I'm falling into it. First of all, I don't want to get my knees hurt, but also maybe a half tackle. Yeah, sure. Maybe I pick up a little half tackle. Aren't you guys taught that as, like, kids at the linebacker position? And you guys normally have. 11 men to the ball. 11 guys to the ball every single play. That's the goal. Well, it didn't happen. So we need to change that. Okay? We need to change that. But it could have also been because Lamar was actually just moving him with every single motion. They did six motions, it felt like, before every single snap. Our guys, we didn't know. You should be able to run around 42 plays with a blindfold on and run into a guy. Okay, so this is like hitting water out of a boat. Yes. Okay, at linebacker. If he was safety, corner, you know, just kind of dropping out of things, linebacker's job is to be in the stuff. Yeah. I don't want to put your face in there. They run. They ran the ball a lot, too. Yeah, they did. For a lot of yards, too. You know, it's not like they threw it 70 times. Like, they ran the ball a lot. So we got a big jump from week one to week two. But also, they had some great blocking. We just saw. AJ, welcome to the program. We're in the middle of some rookies that are playing like vets. This is a big AQ takeaway from the Fat Boys. Remember, there was a lot being said about the offensive linemen being like an epidemic. These young guys can't block anymore. AQ said vastly different things about this week one. Absolutely. Let's head up to New York. The New York Giants. And one of their first-round picks in Sissy, Maui Noah. My favorite offensive lineman for the draft. It's Sissy Marinara. Well, I call him. Yeah, exactly. You heard Baldinger yesterday. I call him Marinara. That's right. But look at the hand placement. Look at him run his feet and putting dudes on the ground, finishing on top. That's a rookie offensive lineman getting his first start in primetime football. Gets underneath the shade. Gets his hand placement. Runs his feet. Buries him on top. Okay, so we like the rookies getting a little dirty. Why do you think they're having success as we move to the next rook that was playing like a vet? I think as I go down this list, 44 college starts, 42 college starts. The next guy we're going to talk about, 54 college starts, team captain, Blake Miller. Again, one of my favorite linemen in the draft. Gets his first start at right tackle. Watch him pull around. Look at that big moose. Haul around the corner. Kick him out and get a big run from Gibbs. Okay, so you're saying a lot of football being played. Also, maybe a little bit more maturity because they're sticking around longer. But NIL has obviously done some things to the college game, the college experience. We've seen a lot of quarterbacks with a lot of reps do well whenever they get in. Sounds like what you're saying, even though there has been a lack of development at the offensive line position over the last 10 years, maybe that's changing slowly as opportunity is being seen? Well, I think as the run game started to increase in the NFL a couple years ago, we saw the yards per carry start to go up, all that stuff. It started to creep back into the college game. You started to see a lot more running game-centric offenses. And I think when you look at that, five years ago, let's say, these guys were never in a three-point stance. All they were asking for was a three-point stance. I think we've gotten a little bit away from that. We've gotten more into the run game and more of a traditional offense that you see in the NFL. There is still that RPO element, but they are having to put their hand in the dirt and run. So it's almost like the best version. We've got an RPO. Jason Kelsey was so good, right, because he could pull and move as a center. That's who he was. He could also get physical. It's almost like the RPO with the evolution of the run game. Good plan. We're potentially creating hybrids right now at the offensive line position. Is that what you're potentially seeing here early? 100%. And it matches. It matches up with the quarterbacks we're starting to see. You're starting to see Jackson Dart being able to move and run and get outside the pocket more like Lamar Jackson. Obviously, it comes from the Baltimore world, but that's the new quarterback, Caleb Williams. You can't just have these statues anymore. Everybody has to be able to move. Even if it's just a little bit, you've got to be able to escape and get out. You know, a lot of people call this younger generation soft, you know, from our generation. I think that maybe there was a generation that was softer. Then I think there's that next group. Sure. They might be. We might have some real. A couple of junkyard dogs. This generation that is kind of coming through right now feels like there's even a group of them that, like, hate phones. Like, they're like an actual throwback group, I think, because they saw what happened to the older group of them. And I think the offensive line position is a good indicator on where we are as a society. I think there's a chance that we could talk about that, especially if it's taking place. How many rookies did you say were playing like vets? Six offensive linemen. We had the Texans. We got the Jaguars. We got the Chiefs moving forward. Keelan Rutledge, one of my favorite linemen in this draft. Reminds me of Ryan Jensen. Ed Oliver buries him. Then you get the Jaguars. Emmanuel Pregnon, right? He's a big monster. Third-round pick. Fell to the third. Not sure why. Look at him moving people. Just moving people off the ball. And then we all heard about Khalil Benson from the Chiefs, right? This is a tryout player going out against Benito, locking him up, giving Patrick Mahomes a great pocket to throw from. Khalil Benson thing. Last question from me. And Baldy gave us an answer yesterday about how, you know, there's a lot of headlines with that Indiana team. People can't actually slip through the cracks. I think he had an injured foot, too. I saw some people online saying he had an injured foot. So he went. He wasn't putting maybe the best film out there. Nonetheless, he's 6'6", 330, can play right tackle, right guard, and now he's starting a left tackle. How does he fall through the tracks and become a tryout player? Well, you don't want to get me going on the people upstairs and what metrics they look at, obviously. But this guy at 49 college starts on a national championship team. You think he can play football? Watch the tape. Why does that happen, though, actually? What do you think it is? I know you had short arms. So that's one metric. Another one is, oh, well, he's a little stiff, so we don't know if he can do it. Or, oh, he can't pull. He can't pull and get out in space, so he doesn't fit this system. There's always one little thing. But at the end of the day, what I always say, turn on the tape. Can you play football? You can't sit there and just pick apart guys. At the end of the day, if you look at the film and their football's pretty good, they're probably going to be pretty good no matter what level you put them at. 8, 9 o'clock, right? 10 p.m. at night? Mm-hmm. That's the end of the day? Yep. You sit down. You watch the film. And you know what I do? What's that? I stew over all of those people. Oh, yeah, me too. That said, oh, his arms are a little short. Oh, he can't run. He's a little faster. Or he's an inch too short. Willie Lampkin, we've all talked about him. My 5'10", 5'11", offensive line. He might get a start this week. Wow. He might get a start. Probably will. That's what he does. He stews over it, goes and grabs the Jurgens. Yep, that's right. Just absolutely pummels. Yep. You know, and then moves on to the next day. You were talking about Joe Brady and lotion. I was thinking of, yeah, yeah, you can get it. Yeah, you're thinking, yeah, a little. Yeah, he needs a little slickness down there. Yep, yeah. Rubbing that thing raw. Stunts. That's the next generation, boys. Congrats, boys. Congrats, boys. We appreciate what you're doing for ball. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who we also appreciate for what he's doing for ball. Teammate of mine on Monday Night Countdown, Super Bowl champion, ladies and gentlemen. His brother's on Football Night in America. He's on Monday Night Countdown. I'd say job well done. Long NFL careers for both of them. Ladies and gentlemen, Jason McCoy. Yay! What's up, fellas? What's happening? Hey, I'm still trying to figure out what you meant by I, just by looking at me, would be a sweater and you said I not. Can you just clarify a little bit more? Because I don't think I got a full answer there on Monday Night Countdown. All I was saying is some of us are a little bit more cooler than others. Like, there's just a naturalness for me that we're out there and the sun is blazing. There's nothing you can do about it. You guys all had a towel and I'm just chilling. Like, there's just something about that. I don't know how you phrase it. I don't know which, what is the word for it exactly, but I phrase it as I'm just always cooler than the other side of the pillow. Okay, respect. Well said. Yeah, I appreciate it. What do you mean? I was just, well said. You're always like, hey, why you got a hoodie on? When you're out here, it's hot, it's wet. You know, it's different. Talk to him, D-Butt. It's different. What are you guys talking about? Who's talking to who and who's them? What do you mean by that? Because you guys are very athletic. You said talk to, yeah, what are we talking about? Athletic build, AJ. Athletic build. Oh. Oh, man. Thin skin. I still don't know if I got an answer. Must be nice. I still don't, but I think I know what you guys are saying. I think I understand what you guys are saying. I sweat a lot. I'm a sweater. Oh, me too. AQ sweats a lot too, right? Yeah, oh yeah, big time. How about you guys? You guys sweat a lot? Oh, yeah. Wow, that's crazy. Let's go to the back. Foxy, Bruce, Gunny. My armpits are sweating right now. Dirty. Dirty. Dirty. All right, let's move along. I thought that's what you meant. I'm happy we got there. Okay, good. That would have been an interesting start to our Monday Night Countdown year. Sorry. Sorry. Hey, you're awesome on there, dude. I think you need to know that. Obviously, you've been on our show a couple times before. We're all big fans. Listening to you break down tape and do your thing and also interact with everybody. was cool. I can't wait to do the season with you. Now, on that note, let's go back to Monday Night Football. Chiefs-Broncos, what the Chiefs did, and I don't know if you heard, but Trav told Jason Kelsey, also awesome to be a part of in the Monday Night Countdown and the New Heights podcast. Since Eric Biennium has been back, they've been talking about running through people's faces every single day, every single day, every single day. They set that tone early, and obviously Kenneth Walker feels like the perfect pickup. Are you all the way in on the Chiefs, or do you think maybe had their best night first night, and we shall see how it goes? There's just no way you can watch that game Monday night and not be all in on the Chiefs, and the reason I'm saying that is Patrick Mahomes wasn't even close to what he's going to be like midway through the season and even at the very end of the season. I was saying to somebody, we're sitting in that trailer throughout the course of the first half, and we're watching the game. Mahomes only threw four passes that went beyond 10 yards in the entire game. Only four attempts. None of them were completions, and they dominated the Broncos, so they were doing this, running the football down their throats without an explosive pass game. Nothing to back the defense up, and they still were doing this. It was disappointing just to watch how bad the Broncos tackled, but in order to do that, it was how well Kenneth Walker was running. The amount of guys that he made miss in a phone booth and kept his feet going was very impressive, man. Just where they're at, Mahomes coming back. We were there when he ran out of the tunnel. It was unbelievable the way the crowd erupted and to see him running for a touchdown and just having 15 back on the field, there's no way you can bet against the Chiefs right now. Yeah, and Kenneth Walker, whenever he came out of the tunnel, that was a cool little welcome to Kansas City moment for him, I would assume, and he certainly paid them back as their bell cow. Now, it wasn't just the Chiefs that were running the rock all over the place. Felt like there was a lot of 13 personnel, a lot of run, and J-Mac, as we all know in the football world, when he can run the ball well, what does that do to those linebackers? What does that do? That sucks them up, Jay. Yeah, it gets them sucked up, you know, because they just can't wait to get down in there. You know, they're getting sucked up. Now, on that note, Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Jason, it feels like across the board, like Pat just mentioned, offenses were just ahead of defenses, and it feels like we're not accustomed to that early on in the season. Do you see defenses catching up? Do you think it's one of those things where over the next few weeks, maybe by like week six, week seven, there's a chance that defenses kind of lock it down, figure out some of these teams, or do you think running the football in with how good quarterbacks are now, this might just be an offensive year, and there's a chance that defenses are going to be in for a long day with some of these teams? We damn sure better catch up from a defensive standpoint. I mean, the greatest Super Bowl of all time was a 13-3 game that happened a few years ago. Like, that's exciting football when you can see the chess match going on between the offensive coordinator and the defensive coordinator. It was an embarrassment the way defenses played in week one, and it wasn't just bad defenses. Houston played bad. Denver played bad. The Rams struggled in Australia, so they have to bounce back. The only excuse I'm going to give is maybe there was so many new, I think it was 21 new offensive play callers in the NFL this year, so I'll give an excuse for week one. For us guys on defense, like, we need to prepare. We need all the information we possibly can gather. For these now new offensive coordinator, a lot of first-time play callers, you don't really know. You're chasing ghosts all offseason. So week one, that was the reason they had the upper hand. And then on top of that, like, we don't play in the preseason on defense, so we're not really tackling as well as we're going to get as the weeks go on. So, man, defenses have to catch up. I can't keep watching football where there's 60 points in the game, and guys are just doing dances in the end zone. Yeah, not only just dances in the end zone, 28 missed tackles for the Broncos, missed tackles across the board, and HemboStats says 166 plays were ran with three tight ends on the field in week one. That's the most in any week in recorded history. So, when you talk about big athletic bodies trying to move maybe a little bit smaller bodies on the defensive side, is the offense once again regaining an advantage over the size of human beings on either side of the ball? We shall see. If the defense does catch up, though, that 13-3 game, I think, is going to be much more common than what we saw this past weekend. I ain't trying to see that shit. That's what's about to happen. I ain't points. Yeah, me either. To hell with that, J-Mac. Points. 13 personnel? I mean, that's going to be a lot of. I mean, explosive runs could happen, but we're expecting the defense to start tackling better, right? I wonder if that doesn't even count all the 6-0 linemen stuff. Right? I don't know if that's even included in that 13 personnel. Jets had five tight ends on the field for one of their plays. Hey, Frank Reich kind of in his bag, actually. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Jason, I think it was maybe on Get Up this morning where you said like, hey, this isn't a fluke. Like, the Jets might be for real this year. You think that they've improved quite a bit. What is it about that game? Because obviously a lot of people are saying that the Titans might be hammered dog shit, and that could be a big reason, but what did you notice from the Jets tape and also the changes that maybe Aaron Glenn has had since being a first-year head coach last year? Well, first of all, leave my Titans alone. That's a bad outing, but don't refer to us like that. We're going to get better. It's a work in progress. What I like from the Jets was when you start to build in the offseason and you're starting to form an identity, what does it look like week one? And to me, they ran the football to Brees Hall, to Braylon Allen. They continue to do that. Geno Smith made a few big plays down the field. The rest of it was checkdowns, and they played good defense. They went out and they brought over veterans. The first play of the game, the Titans run the ball, and DeMario Davis is flying downhill, smacks somebody, and gets up screaming. To me, that's who the Jets want to be this year. And albeit the Titans struggle, the Titans, the first kickoff of the game, the Titans kicked a damn ball out of bounds. That's how it started. I didn't know that. Hold on, Jay. I didn't know that. It's worse than we thought. That's worse than we could have imagined. Specialists. What are we doing? Holy shit. No, let's not blame the Titans. Let's not blame the kickers. You think Bones told him to kick the ball out of bounds? I think Sala maybe didn't do enough motivating to that guy. I'll tell you that. 53 and a third yard wide. That's hard to miss. Granted, I have kicked one out of bounds before. We all have, obviously, hit a fat. Can't be hitting the opening kickoff of the season out of bounds. Out of bounds. Staying all by yourself. That's how you start it. That might be crazy. 15 guys on the field during a touchdown. Two guys running off the field as the Jets are running in the end zone. Good start. I like the idea, though. Yeah, he's trying to do the. Yeah, he is. Put him down. He's trying to do the tornado, hurricane ball that lands in the landing zone. Instead, 15. There's still. They haven't started the season yet. There's still 15 minutes on that clock right there. They've already attempted. They already had a penalty. That's not good. Jesus Christ. Yeah, we are going to talk about your Titans. Colts aren't any better, I will say. We paid a lot more money, and we have a lot more continuity, and we look just as-as. But the Titans looked a lot worse than I think any of us thought it was going to look like. Now, a team that looked a lot better than I think a lot of us thought, but their fan base thought was certainly going to take place. Go ahead, D-Buck. Absolutely, J-Buck. We're not talking about the 0-2 Rutgers football team. Good luck this weekend. Oh, geez! Definitely not talking about those guys. But the New York football Giants, you're just talking about the Jets. Obviously, a brand new operation with the Giants. Offensively, Jackson Dart looked great. Dallas looked terrible. Even defensively, the Giants looked good as well. What's your thoughts on Jackson Dart and his New York Giants? Man, you get excited about them. Me and my guy, Peter Schrager, we were at training camp this summer, and we sat down with Pat Ricard after practice, and Pat Ricard said, we said, why did you come be a New York Giant? What was it about John Harbaugh? He said, Harbaugh called him and said, I'm trying to build a bully in the NFC East. That was bully ball on Sunday night. They punked the Cowboys, and this was the Cowboys team that all we talked about was new coordinator Christian Parker, all the new guys that they added. Caleb Downs is going to be rookie of the year, and all of these other things, and they just ran the ball right at them. To me, watching that game, what was fascinating offensively for them, they started the season and I was like, what is this offense going to look like? They have Matt Nagy, who was the offensive coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs, Greg Roman, who was the offensive coordinator a year ago with the Chargers, Brian Callahan, who was the head coach with the Titans and called the plays. You have all three of these guys on one staff. How the hell is this offense going to come together? Sunday night, it looked awesome. Jackson Dart throwing the ball from the pocket, over the middle, making those throws, but also getting in the gun, running the football, getting out of bounds, not taking a big hit. It was creative, but it also was just directly at you. Isaiah likely looked like he could be the best tight end in the NFL, just if he plays the Cowboys every week. Likely, John Harbaugh, allegedly, one of his first calls was to Isaiah likely whenever he went up to the New York Giants, said we need this guy, we're going to operate and use him in the same way that any other weapon at the tight end position is utilized. You are by far our number one, as opposed to Mark Andrews, Zay Flowers, Derek Henry, Lamar Jackson. You have an opportunity here to be our guy, and he showed up in a huge way in prime time. And remember, it was always like likely 80. The tweets were like, how many touchdowns is this guy going to score tonight? Likely 80. He always had those moments. Now it feels like it's about to be sustained focal point of the offense. And you mentioned the offensive coordinators. Who do they have over there? What do they have going on? They've got Callahan, they've got Roman, and they've got Nagy. Those are three former head coaches, all good offensive minds, except for Roman. Tell me how, he's a good offensive mind, not a head coach. Could you tell me how you think those three kind of fit together and why they help each other? The reason it works so well is because Greg Roman is a run game guru, and he's worked with Patrick Ricard. He understands that that's That's who he is. He likes fullbacks. He likes tight ends. So, cool, now you marry that up. Now you get the other one. two, and you can marry that up with the pass game. I think what has always made Greg Roman great is his run game, but what has been his biggest struggle is it never married up with the pass game. Think to whenever he was with Lamar Jackson. They didn't have a pass game that married up with the run game. Now you get these other two guys that say, okay, what do you want to do formations? What do you want to do with all your formations in the run game? Okay, cool. Now we can make those marry up and attach them to the pass game, just like you watch Shanahan and McVay do, because everything marries up. Everything looks the same. What is going to be an outside zone also is the play action, also is a screen, also is a deep shot. Now they do have photos of those couple of those guys up in the booth, and they're calling them the goof troop. That's what they're calling them. Disgusting brothers. Yeah, that's what they said. The disgusting brothers, which I'll tell you, I don't know if anybody's going to look good in the middle of the game whenever they're completely locked in up there, but will they all get along? Yeah, absolutely. And Callahan's dad is arguably the greatest offensive line coach that's ever been in this game, so he has an offensive line background from that world growing up in that world. You add him in the mix, he's an offensive mind, obviously. You mix him with the other two. As long as those three can coexist, I mean, this could be special. Okay, John Harbaugh making great decisions as soon as you get there. Cam Scadaboo being healthy and doing a backflip on a pile on. No, he knew exactly where he was at. He's got a big brain. People know that about Cam Scadaboo. Big head, for sure. Huge head, huge dome, huge opportunity, especially with Ricard running in front of him and Jackson Dart being smart. The thing I mentioned to J-Mac on Monday Night Cowboy, he's got a big brain. He's got a big face. He's got a big face. He's got a big face. He's got a big face. He's got a big face. With the way they played, it did feel like Jackson might be able to survive until his era of not having paint on his face, because that's going to disappear at some point. We don't know. Kids probably, we assume, whenever he gets rid of the paint on his face, but with this style of play, he's going to be able to make it to there, we think. We didn't know if he was going to. Yeah, I mean, you can't take away his legs. That's a part of it. You've got to have some design, run game, and obviously when things do break down in the pass game, you want to use those legs, but just take care of yourself. Take those shots. Your best ability is availability, especially as a quarterback, so I think he'll continue to learn that. You talked about all those coaches and all that knowledge, and he'll be hearing. And then those weapons on the outside, neighbors, he's not even back to fully himself once he gets to continue to come along. Then Isaiah Likely, I think we're just scratching the surface with him. It was some two-minute clips. They were in 12 personnel and just had him split out like a wideout, and that's a matchup mirror with him. So as long as they continue to get on the same page, I was shocked at how well he operated from the pocket, though, and just field throws. That likely throw across the middle of the field, the safety's coming down. He kind of put it on that back shoulder. That's like 10-year vet type stuff. So it was obviously some blown coverages, but blown coverages don't matter if the quarterback doesn't see him and take advantage of him. People always say a blown coverage, blown coverage. That happens a lot, and the quarterback just doesn't see it. So for him hitting those throws, being comfortable, and having a run game to lean on, and defensively being better than week one, I mean, I'm all in on the Giants right now. Yeah, they're fun to watch, and obviously three offense coordinators, I guess, better than one. Now, speaking of one offense coordinator, one's a super genius, and he was a head coach, and then he heads out to Los Angeles, and they look like ass. AQ has a question for you, J-Mac. Yeah, Jason, I was calling the game, and I got to watch the Chargers versus the Cardinals, and I'll tell you one thing that didn't look good was the Chargers offense. Can McDaniel and Herbert, can it work? That's a good question. I think so. You think about it, for McDaniel, he was there with Tua in Miami, and he found a way to make that work. We all know how talented Justin Herbert is. I also think the offense that McDaniel brings over is very different than what Justin Herbert is accustomed to running. The timing of it, the rhythm of it, getting the ball out of your hands extremely quick. There's a lot of trust that has to take place when you're trying to get a guy in the NFL that's had a ton of individual success, albeit it hasn't been from a team standpoint and playoff wins. But for Justin Herbert, he's a guy that we know has the talent to get it done. So I would say week one can lie to you. I don't want to assume that it's going to be all bad from an offensive standpoint. I was surprised that they weren't able to get the run game going as much. That was something that I thought McDaniel did an excellent job in Miami, that regardless how Tua was playing, whether he was blowing it up where he led the league in passing yards, I think that was in 2023 or a year ago, where he absolutely struggled. Devon Achan still had a fantastic season and got paid a lot of that because of the scheme in which McDaniel runs with Alec Ingold over there as a fullback. They brought in a tight end in Kohler. So I expected that at least to get going and be something that they could lean on, regardless of what went down on the outside. But they just struggled. And a ton of credit to the Arizona Cardinals, a team that we're like, they're going to be 32nd. They're going to be picking first overall. Why the hell would you draft a running back this high in the draft? They went out there one week. And don't look up, but Jacoby Brissett is leading the NFL in passing yards. Jacoby, my guy. Yeah, Jacoby's a beast. We saw him here in Indy only getting paid like $17 million as well. So that's very. Had to fight for it. Yeah, it's great for the roster. Mike LaFleur, we had him on the show yesterday. He's a psychopath, very evident, very clear psycho, which is what you're looking for at the head coaching position. And his offense looked damn good. We have some breaking news here, J-Mac, around the NFL. Joey Porter Jr. is slated to be a full participant today, which is obviously a positive sign to start this particular week, too. He had missed a lot of time because he was holding out, trying to get a new deal. Season starts. Pittsburgh Steelers say we are not negotiating during the season. Joey Porter Jr. was asked before week one if he thought he was going to play. He said, that's a question for the people upstairs and for my agents. We thought potentially never going to be seen as a Steeler again. Now he's full participant. What do you think this means, J-Mac? And how do you feel about how this situation has kind of all unfolded? Rather quietly, I must say, from a national attention standpoint. It has been quiet. This one is tough for me. I think Joey Porter is an excellent cornerback in our league. The challenge is, where does he slot in when you start to look at the top guys? Is he a $30 million guy when you look at Gonzalez and Witherspoon and McDuffie and those type of guys? Because the fact that Sertan's not in that group yet because he just hasn't got paid again, how do the Steelers figure out where he goes? It drops from like $30 straight to like $25. There isn't really anybody in that $27, $28 million range. So when you talk about trying to get a deal done with him, when you're looking at the annual per year, where does he feel comfortable? Does it have to be in that $30 million range? Because as I look at this from the outside in, I feel like there might be a hard number that they're just not able to settle on. And now the question comes in, is he willing to go out there and play without that deal? Because they're a different team with him on the field. They brought in. They brought in Jamel Dean, who's another tall, long, athletic cornerback to go on the outside with him. You have those two guys out there, like you're going to feel really good about playing man-to-man and playing press up in guys' faces. Every single one of these clips, he is mugged up on a guy and harassing him. That's the type of play that they'll get from both of those guys when they're on the field. We don't need that clip there at the end against Colts. Obviously, we should be picking and choosing different ones, if that is certainly a possibility. But Joey Porter Jr. and the Pittsburgh Steelers, may be closer to rekindling and having him on the field. Or maybe this is a show to everybody else. Hey, he is healthy. You know, if they're going to try to trade, if that is still the conversation. Kind of pumped to see what the Pittsburgh Steelers and Joey Porter Jr. land on because they do a lot of stuff that they haven't done for a long time over recent years. They paid DK Metcalf $30 million a year. He never played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's a wide receiver. That's very rare for the Pittsburgh Steelers to do that. Obviously, bringing in Aaron Rodgers, very rare move. Negotiating during the season, though, they've come out and said, we haven't done it. We're never doing it. Don't even think about it. Joey Porter Jr. is like, well, I'm thinking about it. So, we need to figure that one out. We need to figure that one out. And obviously, the Porter family in Pittsburgh is held in high regards. He's a great player. They're undefeated. They're going for it. And if your front four can get there, TJ Watt just won AFC Defensive Player of the Week. He obviously has a pick six and everything else that he's got going on. Cam Hayward's been playing out of his mind. Somehow, he's gotten younger over the last couple years. Herbig, I believe, and Highsmith, they're on the field for like 20-some plays. It's the most they've ever been on the field. been on the field together because they're rotating, it's like Steelers got something special potentially brewing. Now, offensively, they're going to have to be a little bit better, but Joey Porter Jr. back there certainly helps with it all. AJ has a question about an AFC North team that found its way onto our shite division, J-Mac. Yeah, unfortunately, he's talking about the Cleveland Browns. From you, I know you spent some time there. Do Cleveland Browns fans have any hope for this team? I guess, let's say six, eight weeks from now, what does that team look like? What does that offense look like? This is the shite division as we stand right now. You can get promoted out of here and relegated into here all season long, J-Mac. Hey, Pat, it's tough seeing that Super Bowl winning Colts team there where they got to get to, so they got to find a way out of the shite division. AJ, the Browns were rough. Watching them, you were waiting just to make it. It was 31-0. Somehow, you figure they're going to make a play at some point. I think Todd Munkin said it after the game, though. It wasn't just Deshaun Watson. That gets all the headlines. They were bad on both sides of the ball, equally. Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence, they went up and down the field as they wanted to. I don't know where the hope comes for Cleveland Browns fans. You think about the last few years when Miles Garrett was there and Jim Schwartz was calling the defense. They were always good on that side of the ball. They just weren't good enough on offense. That was just abysmal. Watching it, it never got better. It wasn't until the absolute end when the game was over, when I'm coaching my son's team, and when you just start subbing everybody in because it's a blowout, then they made a few plays and actually got on the board. It was rough. It was certainly ugly. Nobody would have expected that from the Cleveland Browns you know and uh Monkens boys yeah Deshaun Watson came out and said media expects me to throw 500 yards five touchdowns every week so they got their own expectations you know so everybody gotta eat shit he said yeah yeah he said today he said I think the media has this expectation I'm supposed to throw for like 400 yards and five touchdowns every week maybe just a hundred and maybe one you know maybe maybe that's one of those things that'll kind of get going but granted that's his first start in over 600 uh days you know and that's why like when it was all happening everything was happening he was away for the game when he traded all that stuff it's like can you be away at the quarterback position with the way he played which was very uh intuitive and also incredibly athletic and all that can you just miss years and years of football and then just get dropped back in there I don't know I think it would take a very very special especially with the amount of money we know he's getting paid so you can certainly get comfortable on satin sheets and shit like that it's like I don't know I don't know if that's ever going to be found again you know I don't know if we're ever going to dig deep into into that soul and find what he was whatever he was a potential MVP candidate with the Houston Texans but I'll tell you what has him said we're going to find out though yeah yeah we are we are certainly going to find out last question uh from a team that I think you know absolutely decimated a small cheese town let's go to hammer Don time tone has the last question for you J-Mac as you get ready for big day with big shrinks yeah Jason I think you were uh in New England with for a year I believe with B-Flow is now just calling unbelievable defenses from Minnesota Vikings what are your thoughts on that matchup this weekend against Ben Johnson and one of the best offensive minds against one of the best defensive coordinators uh in the NFL that's the that's the matchup I'm looking forward to most you have a defensive coordinator that blitz 80 percent of the time in week one against Jordan Love 80 percent is insane and I think what I love most about it and D-Bud you can appreciate this they're not even playing man-to-man behind it's not like he's just leaving guys on an island they're still playing Zone with eyes on the quarterback and you have that going against Ben Johnson who just put up 59 points and wants to lead the NFL and scoring a season ago they opened up and these two teams played against each other Flores but barely bliss in that game and I think it was fear of the unknown not knowing what Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams offense was going to look like that second matchup he sent the house and it was a normal Flores blitzing style of game back or run around they're gonna want pressure in his face and force him to make quick decisions don't give them all that time try to fool them with disguise and all of the different things but his defense has been unbelievable it's unorthodox like you watch and you try to figure out the rules of what they're doing you're like this doesn't make any sense and having Harrison Smith back there is huge because you need somebody on the field that can communicate the same way flow is communicating to those guys in the meeting room JJ Watts said they are in real time deciding the charges they want to use with how the offense looks the players are on the field so whenever you say they're doing things that don't make any sense it's like I think that because the front and the back do not match and I think that is what they're expecting and hoping for if they're already doing that week one that's only going to get better right you would assume oh yeah and that was kind of one of the things playing for like Belichick like you always had to be able to adjust and plan for B flow obviously the same thing you got to be able to adjust not only as you know a week to week but between drives you know and we get that iPad or whatever the surface on the sideline like hey let's do it this way or this is the flavor of the week on third down so when you're playing against this defense you got to stay ahead of the sticks and Ben Johnson obviously he wants to run the football you got to stay in third and threes third and fours once you start getting those third and 11s and third and 12s like now you really in trouble because he can do absolutely anything you talk about having these smart veteran players on the field who can also adjust to certain looks hey this is a near okay they switch to far okay these are the numbers so I mean it's going to be the season with these two guys it literally looks like backyard football whenever uh we're just like what are we doing blitzing okay what do you mean all of us we're just going that's what their defense looks like every single play and Jordan lovers just got sick of it it seemed like it just seems like he got absolutely sick big difference too as a DB like J Max said we're not just zero just asked that like all right we're pressuring if you don't get home we're one-on-one if I don't get you know burden on the ground it's out the gate like when we have a little shell on it so we know pressure is coming but I can still play with some eyes I can still jump some I can still anticipate you can still be there for that like that corner Harrison tips it up boom he's there if he's a man to man coverage that's just an incomplete pass you go to the next place so that's a huge advantage as well as a defender all right J Mac I know you got a big day with big trades breaking down all the big plays yeah yeah it felt pretty good uh good luck out there I'll see you in Los Angeles brother yes sir see you guys hey that's far at what is this show called what does Shrink's show officially called big Shrek oh big play with big Shrey's day with Peter Shrey's Traeger break it down all of the big plays yeah it's big day that's what it's called with big Shrey's breaking down all of the big plays that's what it is yeah it's coming up two o'clock ESPN Monday through Thursday on Friday it is not big day with big traits breaking down all of the big plays that's big paint with the bus boys that's on Friday so you know two o'clock hour obviously cooking cannot wait to see what big day with big Shregs and what big plays they break down with big J Mac who's obviously an absolute stud we got about nine minutes before we get off of ESPN and head to our a digital platforms which we are very uh pumped that we get to do you know yeah that's a pretty big deal being able to just kind of carry over because first hour didn't hit the hard out JJ just kept going mm-hmm this one we got overtime that's right but I don't want to put the offensive line rankings in overtime sure I think ESPN all the airports cafes and everything that are kind of cooking oh yeah deserve to know that this might be the season of the big boys this season more so than any other year might be highlighted by the offensive lines and who can move bodies and what running backs can go crazy so this year it might be the most impactful version of this particular thing that we've been doing for years preparing for this moment maybe you know because last couple years who cares everybody said yeah kind of this year it feels like it's going to matter more than ever ladies and gentlemen it's time to get back in the game it's time to go in the trenches with AQ Shipley with our top five offensive lines of week one let's start with 5AQ the Detroit Lions welcome back to the top five offensive lines Detroit Lions why then why now heck yeah 165 yards rushing new offensive line they move Sewell over to the left they got a rookie at right tackle and Blake Miller let's take a look at this they're going against the New Orleans Saints if we can pause this right before the snap so here Let the linebackers move over. There it is. You see that right there? And then you see the end man on the line of scrimmage there, D-Butt? Yep. What's that telling you? Blitz is coming, right? So if you watch Pene Sewell. So there, once that guy moves inside on the left guard, now Pene Sewell knows, hey, two's coming outside. Watch him take two for one. This is incredible. Boom, boom. Opens up the huge hole. Ben Bartsch and the rest of the boys just push everything front side. And you just hit that thing a million miles an hour. So you're telling me that Pene Sewell was able to shed, basically, and then get to his next block while blocking both guys? He was also bouncing around. Was Pene Sewell bouncing around, Foxy? Yeah, if you remember last year, Pene Sewell was right tackle. He moves to left tackle. But in this game, he went left tackle. He went right side. He went left side. He went right side. Kewsh, what the hell's going on? And how did he do on the left side? Because I know that's very hard for a tackle to do. Well, did you see what he just did? It looks like he did good, Foxy. Welcome to In the Trenches, top five. Yeah, I mean, he was basically Tristan Wirfs. I mean, he made that transition smooth as can be. Two of the top five in the league. Being able to go from right to left is not as easy as most people think, and he did it seamlessly. But here's the deal. Every time it was a short yardage or goal line situation, whether it was third and one, fourth and one, or goal to go, they put him at the right side at the point of attack and hit downhill plays. It was incredible to watch. Basically, you knew where the ball was going once he moved from left to right, and it didn't matter. He still moves them off, and they're able to get touchdowns. Okay, so is it tackle over? Tackle over is what they're doing, or did they just bring in another tackle, move him to wherever we're trying to run it? So they flipped sometimes, and then other times, they leave Blake Miller at right tackle, put him at tight end. So he's basically the extra O-lineman then goes in at left tackle. Here's the interesting thing. If they don't get it in that goal-to-go situation, he has to come out of the game because technically he's the tight end. Or they have to run the same exact formation. Okay, well, Penny Sewell, first draft pick of this particular regime. Love that he's still a massive piece of it. Good to see the Detroit Lions. Back on the top 5-0 Lions, which is where they're supposed to be. Let's go to the number 4 offensive line. Congratulations, Monday Night Football Zone. Can't say cheese. Can't say cheese. Go ahead, AQ. Yeah, listen, I could have showed a million plays, but I love what Andy Reid does. He leans on Chris Berman. Pulling a play. Boom. 1930 or something like that. They got Patrick Mahomes in a three-point stance. You got an offset back in a three-point stance. You got Travis Kelsey coming back. Let's watch this defense. Let's pause. You're right there. Look at the DB. Go back, go back, go back. Go back just half a thing. Yeah, watch the DB. The DB has no idea where this ball is going. They're running counter back to the right with all the misdirection to the left. Play, play. And right there, 22 has no idea where the ball is. The ball is going to run right beside him, and he's looking to the other side. Is that legal? Yeah, I mean, that thing opens up very nicely. Andy Reid back in his bag. I like that Patrick Mahomes in a three-point stance and gets a touchdown pass from this to Kenneth Walker, who is obviously the new centerpiece of their offense. Kenneth Walker was incredible. I've talked about him for years. I know Foxy, being a Michigan State guy, I loved him forever when he was in Seattle. They did not utilize him nearly as much as they should have. He gets his first chance to be the bell cow, and he does a great job. I love that they went unbalanced line right there, too. So they moved the line over, and they get the tight end over there on the right. It was awesome. They were planning on punching people in the mouth from the offseason. They certainly did that to the Broncos. Let's go to number three offensive line. Congratulations, Don Under, San Francisco 49ers. They punished the Rams. AQ says maybe it's because of the offensive line. Well, Kyle Shanahan's maybe the most prepared coach in the NFL. He had these boys prepared, but let's take a look at this. If I can set this up real quick. Obviously, Trent Williams is circled. That's who it starts with. But look to the right, right? You've got Luke Farrell, and you've got Kyle Juszczyk in a Y and F, right? So we're going to send Juszczyk in motion. As we send him in motion, it brings the DB back into the box, and then we get everything pushed frontside. Design cutback with Y and F going backside, and look at Trent Williams just handle the second level. It's incredible. Okay, so they're forcing the defense to fall right into what they want to do. Absolutely, and with that little motion with Juszczyk, it brings them back in. Well, guess what that does? Nobody really talks about this as much. Everybody just talks, okay, we've got two double teams. But guess what else we're doing? We're able to hang on those double teams longer because it's bringing people back to you. Okay, so Juszczyk does a banana boat run. Everybody's saying the banana hammock is a little bit of cheating. Do we think we're going to see a lot of this or no? We are going to see a lot of this. I mean, they started to do it a lot last year, and they can do so many different things. It's not just sending them back that time. Then they got the play action. Then they start them one way, and they run the toss back to the right. It's a million things. Let's go to the number two offensive line coming out of week one of the NFL season. Congratulations, Baltimore Ravens. We saw it. We saw it. Yeah, we saw it. No offensive player of the week for the Baltimore Ravens. Could have had three of them, including the running back. What did you see, AQ? Wow, this is a great play, and I love this. This is escort motion. So we're going to send 80 across the line, snap the ball while he's on the fly. But check out, John Simpson, the left guard, just leaves the guy for him. 80 de-cleats him. Watch this. This is the hardest thing when you get line movement when you're running this. Boom, gets him. Now watch John Simpson, number 74, left guard. Get back out. Boom. That's called being on the same page in week one. And then Derek. That's Derek Henry all the way to the end zone. Okay, so maybe that was good design, not necessarily terrible ass from the Indianapolis Colts. Oh, my God. Really good design. I mean, this offensive coordinator is incredible. And look at 17. Chris Moore comes up off the practice squad this week, elevated for the game, and he's the one with the home run hitting block at the end of the play. Okay, congrats to them. Let's go to a team that had the NFC offensive player of the week. They're running back Swift. Congrats to him and the Chicago Bears, number one offensive line. How come? What do we see? Well, they picked up right where they left off last year, 291 yards rushing, two 100-yard rushers. Let's take a look. We're going to get Colston Loveland over there. We're going to move Cole Komet over there. Watch this trade block between Cole Komet and Darnell Wright. Watch this. Boom. Put him back out. Make the block easier for Cole Komet. Now get up on the second level. Boom. Get the out block. Look at Luther Burden. That's the home run block. Wow. Everybody's all in on the Ben Johnson system. This is what the Detroit Lions were doing when Ben Johnson was the most sought-after head coaching candidate maybe in the history of the NFL. The Chicago Bears hang 59 in their offensive lines, the number one offensive line in the league after week one. Congrats to these five offensive lines getting the top five after week one. We're certainly proud of you. AQ, thank you for going in the trenches with us. And thank you for watching our program. We're so incredibly lucky that we get to do this every single day. It's football season. Life is great. Another week kicks off tomorrow for college and the NFL. One more sleep and more ball. It's on our TVs. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. Goodbye. Man, I should have done one more big day with big shrinks. You got it. You got it. Show the logo. I feel like I did it on Friday, too, but it wasn't their show. Oh, yeah. Remember? Yeah. Well, hey, it's going to happen. New shows everywhere. Popping up everywhere. How are you supposed to fucking keep your head on? Which we like more opportunities for people. You know, there's some people that say like, hey, I got a job here. I get it for the next 60 years, you know, and then when that when that ends, I got friends are going to be pissed about that. You know, I should be able to be here forever. I got this job. So I get it forever. Is that how it works? I don't think so. Big shrinks knows that. Big shrinks knows. And that's why it's about to be a big day. So does big pay. Big bait in the big bus. Yeah. Yeah. We like what's going on there on Friday. Mm hmm. Yeah. Need to not show crowd, though. OK. Right. They need to get that shot on them. I believe they're in an auditorium this week. With a crowd packed. I would assume so. OK. I think we should. If not, we should be pushing for crowd or we should not show, you know, because I believe Peyton, Peyton and the bus and boys have real motion. It's hard whenever you see nothing in the back. You know, immediately people start attacking. I don't think it's the best setup for them, but I do respect and appreciate how much they are committed to ball. And I think they are going to be a great show. I do believe it's going to be a great show. Excited for that. And big shrinks. I mean, we haven't seen any of his episodes because they're on the same time as us, our digital show. But from my understanding, Schrag's loving it, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Is he singing the open? Is he doing big? Not yet. But I think after the show today, maybe say, hey, got something for you here. I think you maybe need to implement this in the rest of the week and then in perpetuity until, you know. So every time I say Schrager's name, if I say Pete, well, because Thamel, I got to say Peter Schrager. Sure. I got to do like full name. Right. It should be. It should be big day with big shrinks. And he's big. He's a big son of a bitch. And he's breaking down a big place. Yeah. Isn't he, AJ? They can still change it. They can still still make it. You know, there's adjustments every day. I don't think we should be, you know, making. You don't think he wants to be known as big Schrag's? Why not? Why not? It's a big day, dude. It's a big day. Right. With big shrinks. Breaking down all of the big place. Big thing. With big shrinks. He's got to do that. Yeah. Yeah. He's got to dance like that coming out. You know, he comes out from like around the screen. He dances out like, like Ellen used to do. Yes. I like the dance break and rest in peace to Twitch. We appreciate everything you did to bring the juice to that particular program that had a hell of a run for a long time. A lot of stuff coming out of it, but nonetheless, they had great success. Great pacing and dancing was a part of it. That's where you guys want big shrinks to pop out in big day. For me. I want him out of this, out of the desk. Like Gangnam style. Yeah. Gangnam style. Yeah. Small. Yeah. That's what I would like. I agree. I mean, how is that, you know, like Ray Mysterio coming up from the fucking, like Psy. Yeah. You know, Gangnam style when he comes out. I think it's just, it's a cold open on the desk and it's playing a song. It's big day. With big shrinks. It's a big day. And he goes, poof, with big shrinks. You know, for the second one, he's got to have a little bit of a build up. That's awesome. That's just the open. Oh, yeah. Now we got 50 fucking nine more minutes. Yeah. I'm sure they built it into those new studios. Don't you think? They had to build that little trap door in. I saw Dan Orlovsky walking on a highlight reel. I didn't know how that was possible. I had a sky cam on him. I'm like, geez, Louise, damn. That was sick. Yeah. Unbelievable. Unbelievable studio over there. It's huge. From my understanding. And I like that they invested in that. Because I think they might be experiencing the same thing we're experiencing where the cameras might be a little bit too good for their actual system. So if we keep updating things. We like that, obviously. But I like it for all parties that they're investing in these things. You know, because there's a chance that some people in some positions, they feel like they're an asset to the company through the P&L sheet where they can just cut things. And they don't have to do anything. They're just sitting in an office. But they look like heroes because they save $7,500 over an entire thing. It's like, why don't we invest in things and see what that can become? Especially with incredibly talented people. I'm happy they did that with NFL Live. Back-to-back Emmy Award winners. But also NFL and everything like that. I like that. I like that they did that. I like that they get to experience that. They've obviously earned that with NFL Live. But also the NFL should be treated that way. Now, there is a couple times where Dano's looking up like this. I'm like, is it too big? I mean, from right there, that is massive. Miss Laura over here, obviously. Siciliano. Yeah, I mean, it looks like they're in a warehouse. But it is huge. And I think they're experiencing and experiencing. They're experimenting right now with everything that's possible. But this is the future of studios, I think, is what they tried to build. And they certainly nailed it. Congrats to them. You're well-earned over there. That's right. Very well-earned over there. All right, let's get to a break. On the other side, we've got to wrap up everything. We've also got everything DB. Good D. Hell yeah. No more bad D. We're only slinging good D around here this year. I like that. I like that. Positive. Yeah. Really? No bad D at all? Well, you kind of saw it in Caleb. The situation report. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sit right. I did like the sit right. What a great picture, too, by you, D-Bud. Thank you. Yeah, what did you think of that photo? What did you think? Very professional. Like, it's really, you know, what do girls call it? They call it a thirst trap. D-Bud's putting out there. No, D-Bud's put out thirst traps before. He's gone shirtless. This is corporate. This is corporate thirst traps. Yeah, that is. Yeah. Boom. Yeah, you're right. This is how you do it. Should we use the 80s picture? That was a good little run that Instagram had with everybody doing the 80s pictures. You look super cool in the 80s. - This one is very, how you doing? - Button up. big how you're doing right here yeah we asked him if you want to put sunglasses on you know because we could do that he said absolutely not i want them to see these eyes no gimmicks listen i got to the bottom of this sit right let me talk about this good pizzazz on that photo i don't know about that but uh what do you mean i don't see pizzazz there's great pizzazz it's pretty straightforward yeah gas up the jet i'm ready yeah damn right all right let's get to a break yeah he does well yeah i guess he is telling others to do it to his jet there you look cool here dude but appreciate it attorney this doesn't look like have you been hit by a truck yeah exactly he's coming in there right now you know what i mean attorney edgar snyder has been doing it for so long he he will get you if you've been injured no doubt and you don't pay unless we get money for you it's a big deal you look like a lawyer there which is good because you're special forces because we're doing right exactly the law of defense i'm talking some real right there yes we are maybe you should call it situation you know so we can say nah i probably chuck chuck oh yeah we'll ask him yeah spin on it hey hey chuck what did d-butt do yesterday you saw him in a situational report is that what i saw i did she that d-butch i thought he did a great job great rap dump dump let's get to a break he's in here tomorrow i can't wait uh also we've got a lot of fun we're gonna have a lot of fun we're gonna have a lot of fun i can't wait uh also we will have a presence and be live yes from the new highmark stadium tomorrow which is kicking off a brand new era buffalo bills football we are honored and thankful to have presence there did you hear aj i did hear some we got somebody like uh you sending a proxy i guess no it's a friend of the program our show is there okay oh i know he i mean he's an integral part of this program he's an integral part of this program okay oh i know he i mean he's an integral part of this program okay oh i know he i mean he's an integral part of the show and of you know college football nfl football all of the above have you heard they got a little bit of a crate or a cage outside of the bison they do i saw that are they bringing in something that's dangerous what are we doing well they're kind of teasing maybe a real bison's out there with the fan let me see can we get close up of that is that sturdy is that a sturdy enclosure yeah because this would be like a ralphie showing up right and from the right with the what makes you think that it could be a real live animals because they have that that tarp that they're saying that they're going to be a real live animal saying oh we got to protect the animal so here we go he's the sun won't beat him down all day oh so you're sure they have to fight people for that you think peter said listen if you're gonna have a bite out in the middle of all these people you gotta at least have a tarp ever so obviously they'll get too hot when they're yeah who's gonna come sorry who's gonna come scoop up all the big dumps in there because that's gonna get real smelly especially if it's humid you know i think they're just gonna pick it up and i don't know if random bean will be doing that maybe boyko will be scooping up the humid poops from the bison i'm not hurt and sure but i think this entire thing is probably just getting put in a bag afterwards and never to be seen again just over the shoulder knowing these buffalo fans they might throw it at each other at the tailgaters anyways i thought they were putting morenci in there to wrestle other fans oh that's not a bad idea huge bills fan i didn't he went on a pretty good little tweet run uh saying how pumped he was about super bowl yeah he's already got his outfit set out on his bed stay there until the season well his wife said he needs to look good it's l.a yeah how many days was it i forget i did the research you did it was what 200 some 205 or something he's ready he's ready i'm thankful for that hell yeah hey we'll see you february 12th dave morenci yep 2027. love my wife she said what you're going to wear this year on pat mcfee's show i think we need to go big i told her you read my mind super bowls in l.a again my 25th year of rage congratulations i lived and died in l.a as a kid i'm going big with wardrobe this year hashtag super bowl special year this year to me hashtag rage for life yeah scroll down on the date that that was sent please uh just so we can get it completely september 13th yeah february 12 2027 is when this happens i appreciate him preparing like this legend and that's why he makes it 25 years exactly that's the difference can't wait to see when he pulls out oh yeah 200 days in advance he's laying out his clothes yeah don't overthink it he would never ever he needs to trust his instincts he always buys great jackets from the local store next door it costs like four thousand dollars for some sweet soup pulled jacket i'll be part of it he wins it back he may or may not try to take it back into a couple times him coming out yeah he's a showman he has the best stage presence i mean that's literally our last moment of the season yeah is gabe morenci coming out from sports rage telling us all his favorite bets and at that point what i'm like uh i'm a dead man walking at that point right after the season most of us are definitely i'll be 30 to 40 and actually not this year i'm not going to be 30 to 40 pounds heavier i've decided that that's not going to happen but nonetheless we are very lucky thankful but that's a long football season and then he pops out and it's like we made it that's what i mean that's what we're all just trying to get to morenci coming out on stage this is what we're trying to get to right here this was the same set that yeah yeah go yeah this is the same set that aj refused to put his hands up with wiz khalifa uh i do believe false uh no this was the louisiana look at this juice so much love oh that was san francisco okay so san fran was obviously great this was last year i assume he gave us a winner kenyon barnard touchdown aj yeah whoever it was aj barter yeah kenyon barnard too he's a great player right yeah yeah let's get to a break on the other hey we'll see you there gabe what will happen from now until then a lot anything anything could happen that shite division group out of change maybe thank you aj didn't want to be too negative but as somebody who's got uh season tickets to one of the teams on there we would like that to change but there's a chance it doesn't what if the kansas chase just run wild on just like the baltimore ravens just did and indianapolis colts got to live in the shite division for two weeks at least and then that potentially steamrolls into week three and all of a sudden last year we're the best team in football this year shite division yeah citizens 70. arizona cardinals are supposed to be in the shite division nope they're unbelievable not this year boys oh we'll see yeah remember that is a relegation promotion we're gonna find out real quick now with mike you know they play this week right oh yeah my team seahawks my nfc team yeah at home though at home homeowner sam donald red sea is gonna be freaking nuts no sam donald right drew lock he said at least one more week and that was a glute not the maximus do you know the ass muscles better than me in rap because we couldn't figure out what the other i think it's the gluteus odysseus maybe or glute mead how many how many glute muscles do we have you would know aq well the gluteus maximus i mean we don't have to dive into why aq definitely knows what the answer is but the gluteus maximus is the big the big one yeah and there's a glute medius which is what's that do the math and the medius in the middle where my tailbone is your butt crack right next year in the middle yeah so he got a he got a butt crack all right pour his butt crack open okay so we're kind of right oh that's a nice butt the gluteus minimus um gluteus medius easy d but gluteus maximus it could have been any of those three it's not the maximus that is what he said so it's got to be the minimus or the medius and i do think it's got to be the minimus i bet the minimus yeah because that feels like hip that's where he is and it was his right leg yeah and you said and you said what meneus medius i said medius so you said left side yeah strong side yeah got his butt banked it's gonna happen so he's got a he's got a bruise gluteus minimus yeah thank god that's all it was i know and i think for this graph they needed a a big butt to showcase where everything was so i appreciate the graph makers uh or the what is this called not a graph chart diagram yeah diagram you name it i appreciate the diagrams attention to detail here because we could see every single centimeter of all those muscles and congrats to them by the way whoever that was yeah nice ace looks like miss is incredible it's a display yes yeah it is that's not real by the way that was ai which is gonna kill us all oh yeah okay some quarterbacks for sure yeah it's kind of they would just shouldn't have said it i mean just shouldn't have said just shouldn't have said it as it was coming out i assume oh no way too transparent right now should not have said that because there's going to be huge ramifications from this and there was and obviously we had apology moving forward but let's remember that everybody is working with each other to try to make the absolute greatest thing we possibly can this football season right sarkisian with two interview situations in one game potentially because the amount of time he was being asked to not coach his team or not celebrate with his team which i think was potentially a little bit abnormal than what it normally would have been so i think there was there might be some other sides to it all sure but i think all parties are like hey we would just like to let's move on let's move forward with football and uh i'm happy that happened but there's a lot of situations that we should have been avoiding certainly and have to going forward but nobody's perfect and i appreciate that we all put our swords aside where'd deba go piping hot place i assume oh no - What happened? - Well, he was looking at that diagram of that person. - And AQ mentioned lotion. - Jesus. - You think that's going on right now? 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Incredible timing by you, especially as an Attica, Ohio man that just, are you always- - Felt early, felt early for me. - It was, but I appreciated that you went for it. You know, I think, so I motivated you to do that because I liked that you took a shot going early, you know? So I, motivating you, tell you to do it again. Then you self-scouted and said, felt like that is the accurate read on that. - Okay. - But I liked the- - I'm trying to get, I'm trying to be right on with the boys, but it's got a, it's very, you know, it's tough. - Yeah, but I feel like you, you know- - Yeah, we're working at it, still practicing. - I like that you did that. The mindset is really 80% of the battle, I think. 'Cause you do get in your big ass head a little bit every once in a while and you're like, you know, and you kind of, you kind of pull back and then you're late and then it's very obvious. That time you just started the slow clap. And I think that's a good thing, not a bad thing. We need to keep that attitude and mindset as we go through college football and NFL season. The toxic table is here looking normal again. At Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt. There's a nine year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler down there. - Yes, sir. - Marlins hat, are they good at baseball? - You know what, I think we're about eight back from the last wild card. - Yeah, they're done. They're done. - It's tough, it's been tough for us. We had a good stretch for the all-star game. Then it kind of, it kind of stunk at the end. But you know, it's football season, so. - Yeah, it certainly is football season, especially if you live in a city where your baseball team sucks. That'd be a majority of us out here. Talk about worst team of all time. And The Athletic had a article that projected what potential rosters could be for college football, okay? So there was all these college football brands and they're like, hey, here's how your team stacks up and scale for everybody else. I don't think any of these deals are public. So I think this is a prognostication, if you will. But from our sources, this should be about right. But do those people know what it is? You know, because who's paying what? And you look at the top there, it's like Oregon, at the top of the food chain, money-wise, which we all expect and understand. Not a great start. - No. - Not a great start, obviously. So I think that's something you're gonna be judged upon. Ohio State Buckeyes, obviously full investment out of the state of Ohio, we know that. They lose in Austin. So you got two of the teams at the very top who obviously have L's already on the board two weeks into this, and you start to wonder, what does the future roster look like? What does the future cap look like? And what does the future of these coaches look like? Not saying Lanning or anybody's in trouble, but this is what you're gonna be judged off of, especially when it's the boosters who are making a lot of the decisions, and it's the boosters who are giving a lot of the money that they're seeing, once again, I keep saying Oregon, lose to Oklahoma State. And it's like that, this brings a whole new element to pressure and how hot seats can get and everything like that. And if your team's down there at the bottom, I think you're thinking to yourself, okay, I'm looking for another sport to follow. Okay, I think that's potentially how you, what do you mean? - Not everybody. - What do you mean? Who's down there at the bottom? I didn't even see. - Hawks, Hawks rosters, you know, right around 18 to $21 million a year. So they're kind of wading in those very, very shallow waters, but they make it work. I mean, West Virginia's down there, same deal, 18 to 22, I believe, but you know, BC right now, I mean, they said anywhere from eight to $13 million a year and Bill O'Brien's making it work, but how do you make that work? - Well, and then also there is a team in there that's kind of near the top that hasn't had a lot of success yet that you seemingly pointed out immediately upon looking at this graph. - I can't remember who I, who I said. - Okay, well then good, you didn't really mean it. We don't have to bring it up. Friend of the program. - No, who was it? - Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, I definitely meant that. Yeah, Nebraska, it's criminal that they're spending that much money and, you know, Matt Ruhle still has a job. I love the guy, he's great on the show, but. - Whoa. - We don't call for jobs around here, but these are the types of things. - But that's what's gonna happen. - Taking into consideration for the jobs. And that takes me to baseball. Okay. The Mets last year, second highest payroll, I believe behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodgers obviously win the world series. Mets don't even make the playoffs. This year they're even worse. I thought in baseball, if you spent the most amount of money, you win. That's kind of what the entire thing is about. - No, not typically. If you're a loser franchise, like the Mets are, for whatever reason, it just, it just doesn't, it doesn't work. And they play in a very tough division. That's part of it. But the idea, yes. The idea is that if you spend more money than everybody else and get kind of the best players that you will win. But that's also a big part is you need to spend the most money while getting the right players, not just spending a bunch of money on players who aren't really gonna help you. - AJ, you and I come from cities in which in baseball franchises, not that I was a fan, but you were, they're down there near BC and Duke. You know, whenever you talk about the athletic scale of what these rosters are, this is seemingly pointing out like, hey, who's probably gonna be, and who's probably not, which I think is the whole conversation about like, hey, we got to put some sort of something on what the future is because the top end here, they're going to be able to go whatever this, the top end is going to be able to be bottomless pit, bottomless bowl of soup and breadsticks. Okay. This is all of garden. They're able to go whatever it is, whatever the playing field is, they'll be able to get to everybody down here. Are they going to move or are they going to stay here? And then do we fall into the MLB situation, which is why trying to get floor cap on this entire conference. - Look how much it's jumped when Ohio state won the national championship, people were going crazy because they had what, like a $30 million roster that year. That was what, two years ago, three years ago. And it's almost doubled already. So like, yeah, it's it, the, the line between the have and the have nots has been emboldened like crazy. And until we get some sort, like who's to say that, you know, let's say Oregon doesn't win or whatever this year. And they, they don't have the best year. Like who's to say they're not going to have an $80 million roster next year to make sure like, hey, we can't have what happened last year happen this year. - Which any team could have if they have a booster who has billions of dollars and would like your team to have success, which is what a lot of people are saying, like, hey, don't we need some sort of something here? Because some of these schools, you know, they don't have a billionaire or maybe a trillionaire looking to have their team win. So shouldn't we put some sort of protection on it? Then you hear the agents come out in the NAACP and they're like, it seems like everything's hunky dory right now, what do we, it's just like the MLBPA, just like what the baseball players are saying. Ratings are bigger than they've ever been. We're saying this is a problem. This is how this is. Why would we change it? It's like, well, I think everybody that's actually around the sport and college sports as a whole is like, is this sustainable? A professional operation certainly is, but this is money coming from people that are getting no money in return. This is just like, hey, a good, I don't want to say goodwill. - Pretty much. - But kind of like a goodwill and some schools at the top are going to be able to be there forever and some aren't. Is that what we want? That's for other people. - That's for other people to figure out. That is for other people to figure out, but it does seem like a lot of people say, hey, this divide is going to get pretty big. it whenever if it continues to grow the way it is and that's just college football a lot of teams from the South spending some money up there see yeah I like that they're getting into the game you know Ole Miss obviously from watching blindside we know they have a lot of money yeah right we know that that is certainly a team that it's able to get up in there Texas A&M we know that they got a lot of cash out there but if you have success that money continues that's just like University of Houston I think they got a lot of money down there if they were to hit on a couple things not saying they didn't hit what the swang is coming out you know I'm saying with the fucking thing he's on the wheels which is sweet yeah allegedly that was a last-minute audible because something else was supposed to happen and then they'd get fell through and like fucking call trill whatever the swing is our swing is out here roll that thing out there allegedly from one particular source after we talked about it before but if you're one of these schools down the bottom and you get a booster or a couple boosters that give you some money and you hit on it then there's a chance to go but if you get money and you waste it it's probably going the other way and there's going to be a lot more of those stories than there are the Indiana stories you know because Indiana what they were talking about well they got all this money from Mark Cuban it's like no Mark Cuban is not the main driver in that but Mark Cuban we've all seen smart investor do you think he's still going to fork over whatever dollar it is if the team's losing and he's getting nothing in return other than his school uh potentially having a chance at football it's like yeah right you give that money you have success all of a sudden the boosters are like yes we would like to continue to do this and you can kind of go from the bottom ladder to the bottom tier up to the top but once again there's going to be a lot more people that miss with money than hit with money so how long does this last I that is the question I guess that is being discussed everywhere these days I mean look at Penn State Penn State was at the top of the ladder last year now they're just middle of the table they're right next to Wisconsin you wonder that's probably one of those schools where if Matt Campbell proves it you're going to see them in in the upper echelon at the upper tier but right now because of the Franklin debacle because all the money they spent that panned out for nothing you know they kind of have to drop down a little bit and figure it out before going all the way back in on football and this isn't even talking about the other sports that are happening you're talking about Penn State they invest in their hockey team obviously the pagula family invest big time in the hockey team basketball there are some rosters that are gigantic baseball softball and I think uh you know the future of college sports could be better than ever yeah especially if they're able to figure this all out but it also could get pretty crazy in the the difference between who's where this is a good article from the athletic hey that's good for ball thank you we don't know if it's real though obviously none of these contracts are public so something that is real in public up there on that list top of that list University of Miami oh yeah going back to Nike thank God I think that's the last thing right you're gonna get them give them back over the hump that's next year so you're saying this year no good even though uh you know maybe that's how you bring it in just like blue and he came maybe you win a national championship and then you boom back to Nike Barry Jackson at Florida sports buzz on top of it scoop per sources University of Miami's going back to Nike and the most one of the most lucrative deals in college sports history so it can't be more than Oregon's deal because that's where Nike like started so I assume they will always have the biggest Nike deal out of every team in the country I think there's some other tiered Nike deals I think if I know the business and what it was for a while they're saying they're getting one of the top ones that's great Kirk Herbst Street so yeah I mean this guy obviously all Adidas National Championship last year Indiana Miami Adidas investing massively in American football first time long time right they've been super international we will dabble with American football but not really their thing and all all Kirk could say the entire time is I hate it I'm like well don't we like that they're bringing their money into you know like football this is a good this is a good thing not a bad thing well they need to figure out how to do it then because his pants are ass I don't like seeing his pants they're baggy that's what he said thank goodness my employer is too good to be wearing his baggy ass pants great he was so mad he saw him jog on the field what is this this is peewee football what do we got going on why don't the pants fit that was the first thing he said and there's a lot of old school Miami people that are like the you and the swoosh just seem like they are synonymous with each other Adidas though is taking them to a national championship first time long time them going back to Nike obviously a big deal Nike was kind of relinquishing a lot of college ball Adidas was coming in a big way Under Armour was coming in a big way I do believe Nike potential they lost a lot of money over the last year yeah I think Nike well yes so they had to probably do a realignment readjustment on who we need to focus on what we need to get back into it did feel like they were losing college football a little bit now obviously clearly jumping right back in yeah that is sweet because we're growing up Nike dominated college ball remember the all gray gloves that everybody wore in Miami back in the days the black socks and that was a big thing at least uh down in South Florida so yeah it is good to see them coming back especially when you see what kind of what's happening to them on on the business side there's a lot of reports from like 52-week lows or you know the stock price being it just got taken out of the S&P 500 I think last month so yeah it's it's getting stinky over there business-wise so I'd like to see them getting back into college ball you know whenever um for me kicker punter there's a lot of uh thought as a soccer player free kick taker it's like I'll be able to do this I'll be able to do this I don't have to worry about the fundamentals that much it's like hey put the ball down I'll put it through the thing then you realize in this massive moments like you need some fundamentals you know can't just be freestyling it in a lot of big type of moments it's like I guess we should have some sort of system or technique here that we can fall back upon so then obviously the practice reps pick up for me and I feel like what happens to all that's a high pressure situation you fall back on your fundamentals especially if you're gonna be a let's say a pitcher or a hitter or a golfer or a kicker or a punter or any of these positions that are pretty isolated but you need to do a craft at a very high level I think it comes to a point sometime in your career where you're gonna have to rely on your fundamentals you're gonna have to fall back on them that's what Nike's doing right now falling back on the fundamentals people love football right let's bring back our TD speeds too okay the speeds the from like 2004. we need the speed from like 2004 we need the two thousand and four we need the two thousand and four we need the two thousand and four we need the two thousand and four 2005 speeds back if you want to do that the loop of paint around the front do you remember with the white oh yeah yeah the Vapors I wore Vapors in college they're the lowest low tops and they were super flimsy they're awesome they were like soccer cleats weren't they yeah pretty much yeah they would never like let you wear them now they claim you'll you know you'll break your foot Liz Frank all that situation yeah I bought like four pairs of those speeds whenever uh they're about the end was grabbing pairs out of there to hold on to them I wore those as kicker punter at West Virginia and then they just stopped creating them I was I was trying to get them into the NFL and they fell apart because I uh I only had like three pairs to use for the last year JJ watt told a story about trying to dumpster dive into something to find some cleats yes I believe it was the Vapors the one with Luke Keekly is that one you're talking about yeah that was the Vapors AJ was talking about and then the bottoms of the shoes I guess like or the cleats rather just basically melted off at a certain point yeah they did fall the old school technology on shoes were not the best yeah you know they did kind of fall apart I would like them to do some throwback Styles they need to they need to make the lineman cleats wider because their lineman cleats have gone to like they are super narrow the linemen absolutely hate wearing them they need to fix them okay the old I'm telling you like do you remember when we played yeah you guys had those big boots big boots but that's what we want like that's what the boots man I thought we're supposed to pull RPO we're just talking about the hybrid offensive lineman no they hate them man they're all cutting like the toes out so that their feet have like room to breathe oh yeah my pinky toe would hated those I think that's why I like the speeds because they had a little fat front end you know what I mean had a big cockpit up there that's right the wide toe box yeah I like the wide toe box yeah they need to get back to that right now all these things are narrow and linemen hate them I'm there you go they're saying too much pizzazz on these cleats yeah they're trying to make them look too cool trying to make them look like linebacker cleats and they're not athletes I like that disgusting just saying there's my piece let's talk about athletes let's let's not talk about offensive lines toes been there even though I feel the same exact way you're built like a lineman thank you kind of and I got great we know I mean Jason Kelsey didn't get a chance to see it on Monday but we know that my he ain't that yeah game day oh yeah this week no uh first week did I give one yeah you did oh yeah see I black out in there I don't even remember doing it oh yeah see I black out in there I don't even remember doing it as soon as it's time to go I'm just listening for the cadence you know I mean I don't even I don't need to be thinking I don't need to be thinking out there at all AJ you got it one time I think haven't you just out there oh yeah yeah he kicked flat on me I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't want to take a pass rush against you only two people would beat me Cam Hayward Aiden Hutchison well Hutch was a screen it was a screen you're right I kind of let him by yeah Jay Glazer kind of got you that one time Jay yeah that that was I can't I can't co-sign on that I don't think Jay got you thank you because we all know how that could have ended and it didn't uh so I think I was being very hospitable that would have been awesome you would have done so I know he knows rolling very well yeah and we did start doing the shoulder this guy right this guy yeah but he started like really moving and I'm in cowboy boots and I didn't know we were doing this so I'm sliding backwards but just natural and Jay Glazer probably felt this because he is Jay Glazer but there was like uh let me see can I if I was to get here could how does it feel you know and if he keeps going we're gonna see so then we go to this side he keeps pushing I'm like all right we're going for a hip toss right as soon as we get to this other side and we hugged each other so judo throw and we hugged each other but we were about a half a second away from me trying to full-on you know trying to get him I love if I didn't like him I wouldn't be trying to do that but he was fucking moving me pretty good not as much as Cam Hayward Cam Hayward put his left hand into my chest pushed me into a brick wall you remember that yep old office he was like this is really fun I was like hey man what would you fucking do right here and he like actually got down into the stance oh my god this is sweet dude I don't think anybody's ever really gone into a stance against me this is gonna be fun and then uh obviously who's it on he said doesn't matter I said all right it'll be on me I'll do it I fucking one step he fucking gets up for real oh my god so then I go another one I go to put my hands on him his fucking mitt right to my chest okay we're not playing any long arm yeah long arm me right to my chest and pushed me into a brick wall as if I was a fucking eighth grader do you remember when he did that yeah that was that was a shame vividly I almost retired he's pretty yeah he's pretty strong guy's a first bout hall of famer yeah oh pro he lifted me up off the ground I think if I do recall like it was a movie like hey you love fucking fun is this one is this one what you wanted to do is this what we were looking to accomplish then he put me back down pat me on the head and kind of walked out see you guys later I'm gonna stop doing this shit but then I went right back to it in public you don't look like cam hayward fucking give me that that's what I thought I like it it's a good thing not a bad thing offensive lines can be a big part of the story this year aq we're thankful that you're here also we're thankful that we get a chance to dive into something that maybe doesn't get talked about enough we need some good d yeah to be discussed by d but everything db good d coming right down the pipe happy wednesday to you d but who needs to be chatted about or celebrate a little bit obviously it starts with the niners down under they had a great outing on offense and on defense uh big time pick right here from the reigning mvp we always talk about from zone coverages we saw it in um always throughout the week especially in that dallas uh giants game on sunday night football playing high to low being a flat defender playing a high to low you take away the high right high route you react to the low route we have no cover zone if you guys just call it the same thing aj and zone coverage so right here great job knowing also green the corner knowing puka nukua is probably going to get targeted on this third and ten so many times throughout the league down the distance guys aren't aware of him so they stay kind of around the sticks he'll maybe be hugged up on 18 you know five yards away from the line of scrimmage and give up that corner route so great job by him i wouldn't even say baiting matt stafford into this because he got depth he got with he kept leverage on it and then great job going up and finishing this play for a this is just standard bait no it wasn't a bake it's just him doing his job he gets to reroute if you run it back to the beginning if you're a deep half safety this is kind of like a quarter quarter half if you go back to the very beginning foxy it starts off showing like a single high so you're thinking cover three or man if you're the quarterback and then as the routes progress down the field they go to more of a split safety look and anytime that corner is rolled up like that you're going to have a safety over the top so you see 36 just being in that deep half and as that underneath defender you just want to keep getting depth and you're going to have a safety right because puka if he stays shallow he hits puka right around the 20 yard line a little bit in front of that 20 yard line and he probably goes in and at least threatens to score right here so one-on-one tackle with that safety but instead he continues getting depth continues sinking and then climbing up and making the interception well good for him we didn't have any of that this weekend no we didn't have any of that no that was unbelievable they're doing this down under how do you think the australians felt about with the game that they watched i think i mean it's pretty it's pretty good game it's pretty dominant you know you got their asses beat like i said the rams i think they took the travel wrong or maybe just the niners were that damn good and kyle shanahan he he's going to be prepared you know week in and week out he's going to have the protection set he's going to have movement he's going to have a good run game he's going to have a good plan and they went out and executed and then raheem morris had his defense ready to roll as well niners also won over australia because they were there for a week ahead of time pro niners crowd yes exactly about that so i think australia seeing like the team that chose to go down there for a week actually kick ass to the super bowl favorites was good for sport in australia now niners use check was on big day with big streaks breaking down all of the big plays and he was saying that he actually feels much better than he thought he was coming back so maybe they were able to fix their sleep as well as they got acclimated to the australia lifestyle for a week yeah i assume the aussies weren't too too happy about matt stafford the mvp of the entire league going down there and just throwing meatball subs like debutt just showed around the yard especially when miles garrett being another one of the biggest storylines just basically out there running around uh but i do think that overall the aussies were definitely jacked up because it feels like they are now completely a part of the 49ers nation a niners are a good team for the aussies to like very physical fly around gonna be good i think that's a shoeies yeah a lot of shoeies don't do it over there kiddo was perfect for the aussies to fall in love with not only him but everybody else christian mccaffrey had a hilarious line about what they said to him over there it feels like maybe the niners are australia's team yeah so maybe long term sean mcveigh knew that sean mcveigh said we'll be the bad guys we'll come in there we'll stink to join up we'll put you over okay we'll yeah you got we're la's right in the shite division yeah then we'll end up in a shite division as super bowl odds on favorites we would like to say that we anybody could get it yeah rams odds on favorite in the shite division that should be talked about aj nobody ever really chats about us being stern but fair always we've always been stern but fair but could this be like the long game sean mcveigh is playing saying hey if we go out there and we get rocked they won't put us up for international games anymore hopefully we don't play many of these in the future oh this is like d-butt doing special teams reps yeah he's sabotaging oh yeah i've heard of people say like oh yeah i i would i uh you know when i was changing my kid's diaper at a young age my kid rolled and fell off the the table i was changing the diaper my wife doesn't let me change diapers anymore and i'm like all right buddy i you probably shouldn't be the father of that child but yeah i've heard people say that yeah it sounds like you were trying to not do it anymore but let's not put the kid at risk herb street move what's it what's it dad doing the first six seven months anyways what are we doing that was one of the one of the most hilarious things i've ever heard him say and then he just really yeah yeah i'm multiple kids i'm still wondering upside down i still don't know what's going on uh okay so the rams maybe not dead niners certainly ball out that's some good d with d butch is there any other good d that we need to talk about before we move on before you're not it's always about health if they can stay healthy you keep bosa fred warner and those guys on the field kiddo obviously purdy and those like mccaffrey they have the roster top to bottom to go out and compete and obviously the coaching staff as well with that addition raheem morris on the defensive side let's stay in the nfc west though big time win uh what was the stat yesterday biggest underdog upset since 92 or something which is absolutely crazy defense much improved offense much improved it's a big time pick what's his nickname what do they call him out there dewey okay this is dewey winger he's uh last i remember now coming over here making a big time play so you'll see it once again a split safety coverage buda baker at the baker at the bottom of the screen he's a safety down here and as herbert kind of rolls out i don't know if this was the pressure or if this was the design but he rolls out and run it back real quick just watch buda baker first so watch this safety that's circled at the bottom near the hash he's going to take away this seven route this outbreaking route and once justin herbert sees that that lets him know okay i'm going to take i'm going to go deep to my outside receiver he has to go out there and he's going to go out there and he's going to go out there has leverage on the corner he doesn't account for that overlapping safety finding work as we called it as the other deep safety on the opposite side of the field rarely does that quarterback account for him he puts too much air on the ball and oh dewey goes up and gets it big time play high pointing into making the play so he was not supposed to be there he's supposed to be taken up by q uh quentin johnson on the left side runs like a deep in it seems like he's not supposed to be over there in justin herbert's mind he is completely free one-on-one out there if i can you know you've got to have a feel for the routes and i don't know what adjustments were made maybe pre-snap he just told that backside corner hey lock it that's yours that cut split but having that vision as a deep safety your your indicator comes from the quarterback like that's what you're reading you're not looking at a man per se you it's a it's a big protection so it's not that many routes down the field you only have one deep threat to your side to that front side so you're reading the quarterback so once you see herbert set up you know exactly where he's going with this ball he's called it breaking the egg pulling the arm putting that hand that front hand off the field and he's going to go out there and he's going to go out there and he's going to go the ball and you just react these are drills you'll see at the combine for deep safeties hey open your hips this way open your hips that way get to the ball and make a play so this is like a practice individual rep almost but he stayed never broke stride and went up there and made a big time play so the cardinals aren't ass playing good football playing good football obviously it's only week one but uh aq one of his big takeaways was defensively he felt like they played much better than most people expected you like this team you didn't really love them last round and i'd say it was hard for you to have to go i'd say maybe but it was off air you were very much like this team this team not good this is a tough team to be a fan of because you are fan of team i believe you live there you obviously call their games you think from my understanding you're a huge fan of the way this team is operating right now offensively the way they're built on paper roster wise very very good they're gonna put up points the question comes down to the defense can josh sweat have another double digit year and say you're gonna put up points you're gonna put up can mac wilson continue to play like he didn't week one and buda baker obviously with him and dewey winger can will johnson can denzel burke and these guys at the cornerback position live up if the defense does their job the arizona cardinals will be in it so we had michael floor on the other day we're very thankful for that thank you i believe you helped us out in that entirety as well it was pretty apparent like he didn't love that he was doing an interview and they're trying to build something new but he does watch program from my understanding so we're very grateful he Oh, no. Is this the only time this year we're going to be able to talk to this guy? Is this going to, you know what I mean? Is our week one overreaction to how much we've loved the Arizona Cardinals? Or are they this year going to actually continue to be a good football team? Sounds like from what AQ's saying and what D-Butt's saying here, sound football, not just like kind of a lucky win, AJ. Yeah, I think so. It could be. I mean, we will see a lot this week, I think, from them to see if they can rebound or continue their success. But I thought you meant it's the last time we're going to talk to LaFleur because he's such a football guy. He's grinding all the time. There's no way he's going to agree to another interview. Yeah, definitely never going to talk to him again. But I just thought to myself while we were talking to him, like, man, undefeated coach right now. They're still in the NFC West. Their schedule is brutal. Their next, like, eight weeks are brutal. Which their beat reporters say if they can steal two in the first 11 weeks, maybe he's still like, yeah, all right, they still won. Let's see. Maybe that's how he feels. Probably. But from my perspective, from what you guys are saying, that have watched every single rep, sound football happening. I think you win games whenever you play sound football as opposed to just. Gimmick football. Happy for the Cardinals. Also, happy for that team over there in the shadows of New York City. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, talking about sound football. They play sound football on both sides of the ball as well. New defensive coordinator, Denard Wilson, coming over here. So, this kind of starts with pressure up front. We always talk about marrying the pressure up front with the coverage on the back end. Abdul Carter lined up as a tackle, pass rusher. Look at the situation down here. We were talking about it earlier with the sit rep from the Bears. This is 58 seconds left in the first half. So, he took it. Two-minute situation. Offense is on their side of the field. Third and five. Money down. So, this is a critical down. Now, you got your pass. You call this NASCAR. So, you got your pass rushers on the field. Watch the immediate pressure that Carter puts on the field. And then the job that Kayvon Thibodeau does on the outside to keep the edge on Dak Prescott and not let him break the pocket. And then on the back end, it kind of becomes a scramble plaster drill with Javon Holland. The safety that he signed over from Miami a couple years ago. Didn't have a great year last year, but started off his season with a big-time pick. I think he's a tough guy. $20 million a year safety. So, high draft pick. Highly paid players showing up early and making a big-time play. Now, like I said, 7-7 ball game right now. You go up. You pressure him out of the pocket. He's trying to throw this ball away. He just makes it up. Like, you see this from the TV copy. Yeah, this catch to get his knee down to focus. Get this catch. Now, you give the ball to your quarterback and your offense right there. And they go down to score. This is right before that Isaiah Likely touchdown where he was wide open in the back of the end zone. So, this is how quickly the game. We always talk about the middle eight when you're talking college ball. This is how quickly and critical the game can change. So, this is complimentary football. Defense making a big-time stop with the money down. And then the offense taking advantage and driving down and taking the seven-point lead going into the half. Shoddy sitting right next to this guy as we get the shot down the line or the sideline is hilarious. Him not believing it's a catch. Nah. No way. He goes, nah. Nope. No. No way. No way is that a catch. And I think we all thought that because we assumed Dak Prescott going to throw that away. Yep. Okay, we assume he's not going to let it be intercepted. And then whenever we see it, there's no way the guy got inbounds and had control of the ball. There's so many things that have to go into that great ball. Maybe it's the DB in me. Great ball skills. Yeah, I thought it was a catch immediately. Just maybe it's the DB in me. Very similar to what we saw with Drake May at the end of the game when he rolled out. And you assumed he was just throwing the ball away because everybody knows if you watch football, hey, the one thing you can't do here is throw an interception, trying to throw it away. And then Job, I believe, goes up and makes an unbelievable catch and getting his toes in. On the sideline. So same thing here from Javon Holland. Then once again, as an offense, getting this ball less than a minute left around midfield, just driving it down, making throw after throw, and getting it to the end zone. I'll tell you what, Bruce, you guys might not be as sheeshier. And you might be good for the foreseeable future, especially if Harbaugh's mental toughness and smart football and who we're paying and drafting are paying off. You guys seem like a legit program over there once again, Bruce. Yeah, it really is crazy. And I'd say that the questions were more about how Jackson Dart would evolve into the Matt Nagy, Greg Roman offense going into week one and coming out. It's how great can this defense be? Abdul was unbelievable. The fact he didn't get a sack is crazy. He was basically unblockable. Looks a lot like Michael, if you ask me. He looks a lot like Michael Parsons. What? Oh. Getting after it. He's spinning, he's speed rushing, he's flying around. Oh, straight, Michael, straight. I thought he was saying straight. No, he meant Michael. Michael Parsons. Michael. Oh, you meant Michael. Yes, I meant Michael. Nittany line. You trade one Michael, you can get five different players. You tell me, five guys, one guy, name Michael, what's better? They could have used Michael on Sunday night. Yeah, they could have. I know that. They couldn't get a stop, could they? No, they couldn't. Hey, when's Michael playing? He's going to be back for the Bears game, week five. Everyone's saying week six, Cowboys. He'll be back for the Bears game. What's your guys' record by then? Oh, three and two. Oh, really? I think so. Got to win the Jets game on Sunday. And then they play the Falcons after that. Jets, Jets, much improved. I agree. They're much improved. Slow down. But I don't give a shit. You got to beat the Jets. I get it. What about the Falcons? Oh, my God. Yeah, you can't lose that fucking game. That's for sure. Definitely not at home. Falcons weren't in the shite division. They could have been. Well, it was a tight one. If Cooper rushes the starting quarterback, they're the worst team in the league, potentially. Okay, put Jack Strand in there, then. Yeah. I mean, why not? It can't get worse. Dijon's really, really good, though. Yeah, well, there was a time where he wasn't getting on the field for that team. I believe he, what was the stat I gave you? He had 29 touches out of his 44 snaps or something like that. I like that. Get him on the field, get him the ball. That's what you do with your good players. Oh, yeah. And Jack Strand knows that. Michael Penix and Tua, I think they did a lot of favors just sitting on the sideline the way they looked. I saw a lot of Atlanta Falcons. They were having a good time together. That's what they were saying. Not one word of fucking motivation from either of these guys. They were just jacking around together the entire game. Yeah, but they weren't live streaming them. I assume there was moments where, that weren't caught on camera, where they were saying, Hey, Dijon, we're any more out of you? Or, Cooper, of course, you're doing great. I assume there was a little bit of that happening. We just didn't see it. What we saw them doing was very casual, comfortable, taking the cooling bench away from whoever wasn't on the field hanging out. And I think after you lose that game and look the way you look, I think people are going to kill Tua and Penix for a while. I think they're going to have to win some games. And Cooper Cush. What, Tone? I mean, that might be the worst quarterback game I've ever seen. Ever? Neil O'Donnell, Super Bowl. Well, he was paid to do that. Allegedly. That's what Pittsburgh say. That's what people, that's not true. That is a Pittsburgh Steelers fan thinking that Neil O'Donnell couldn't have played that fucking bad in the Super Bowl. He was on the take. That's what everybody in Pittsburgh says. That's not real. We're not saying that about. Neil, once again, Neil O'Donnell took the Steelers to the Super Bowl. That does not get remembered at all in the conversation, which we saw. AQ, probably on your side of town, same thing. Oh, yeah. Everybody. Everybody in Pittsburgh. I mean, he got the guy paid. He gave him a Super Bowl MVP. He gave him everything. Two pick sixes and they lost by 13 points. So, you told me. Yeah, it's a tough outing for Neil O'Donnell, who had a great run to get the Steelers to the Super Bowl. You're saying Cooper Cush played worse than that? Yeah, it was really bad, man. He couldn't throw. He couldn't throw anything other than, you know, a couple of swings and screens to B. John. And then, you know, you see what happens when he tried to do that too much. He threw another horrendous interception in the game, too. It was so bad. Was Jack Strand suited and booted? He was suited and booted. He was number two. Did the Pittsburgh Steelers make their way on good D? Because it sounds like they could potentially have their way with that. No, they didn't. I thought about putting this one on, but, you know, it's not a DB. So, I'm showing DB's love early. Okay. No Zach Vaughn for the Eagles? Nope. No T.J. Watt? Why? Both defensive players of the week. Congrats to them. I think we broke this news. Oh, hell yeah. I think we did earlier today. Congrats, boys. Did you see that, Age? We came off hot with that. Didn't expect that to be the open until I read a text from a number I didn't know. Shout out to that person from the NFL saying, hey, this just won out. You know, just thought you'd have eyes on it. Or this is about to go out, thought you'd have eyes on it. Looked down. You wouldn't have sent that to me unless. So, we really took some time. We took some liberties there and just fucking ran that thing. You know, they sent over exactly what they did. But if we could do that every week, we'd love to do this. Absolutely. These are huge deals, Age. Legitimately. In the locker room, in team, everywhere, this is going to be celebrated mightily for these guys. And also, week one means these are pros here. Right? Showing up, playing their absolute best football to start this entirety. Good for all of them and good for their teams that obviously have success, Age. Yeah, Zach Vaughn, he's a guy that, I mean, he continues to play well. He's fun to watch. He really is. He seems to have settled in. Like, he's the guy there in the middle for the Eagles. And I just, I don't know why he's, it's fun to watch him. It's how his career has progressed and how great of a player he is now, man. He's going to be good for a long time. Evan McPherson for the Cincinnati Bengals. We talked about it. A lot of turnovers for that defense. They look different. Bring Sexy Dexy over there. Congrats to them getting a big win on the offensive side of the ball. We just assume it's only going to get better and better as the season goes on. Then we get some news out of Cincinnati Bengals practice today that Joe Burrow may be a little banged up. Why? Might be a little bit banged up. Yeah, the tweet basically says, hey, he didn't do this. And then he wasn't throwing any purposeful balls. And then he goes over and talks to Zach Taylor. And it looked like he was moseying a little bit. Obviously, this is only Wednesday, which is normally the first day of practice, first day of real work for a team. So maybe he is just taking it back or scheduled to take it down a notch or two. But reports coming out of Cincinnati are saying Joe Burrow does not look 100% healthy here week two of the NFL season, which is obviously not great news. I texted Chef D to ask him if he's Got anything on this or if he's heard anything? We're going to cold call him right now because the tweet got sent into the group within the last hour. But there might be a little something brewing with old Joey Burrow right now, A.J. Hawk. Yeah, I hope not. I know in the clip that they put out was just a little – I know the media is available at the first like 10, 15 minutes of practice. When they say no purpose for balls, that's what kind of confuses me. I guess he kind of just threw like a couple little balls like he – a guy that was coming off of some kind of arm injury, I feel like. Yeah, let me – let's find the tweet here so we can read this accurately. Mike Petralia at Trag says, Joe Burrow didn't take part in stretch and isn't throwing with purpose and spoke with Zach Taylor. Now, does he always participate in stretch? I'm not 100% sure. I try to miss that as often as possible. You know, I didn't really – that wasn't my favorite part. Still don't know how to stretch. Probably going to affect me later in life. But does Joey B have his own warm-up without stretch? I guess Trag's – wouldn't point that out if that wasn't a storyline. And then saying he didn't have any – throw with any purpose and spoke with staff. What does that mean, D-Bunch, to you? You think it's just maybe a G-Day here? Nah, way too early, in my opinion, for a G-Day. You're talking Wednesdays. You're talking about these starting quarterbacks. They want to take every rep. Most starting quarterbacks in AQ would be more familiar than this one. I would. They get out there early taking snaps and shit like that. I don't know if they're necessarily always in like the stretch lines with everyone else. But, yeah, the not throwing purposeful balls would be the most concerning thing. Wednesday going into week two. Yeah, so we're watching the backup quarterbacks here. Is that Joey Flack? Joe Flacco taking some steps and then throwing a deep ball. Maybe this is just what Joe Flack wants to do as opposed to what Joey Burr wants to do. Could be. I think we really need to get to the bottom of this, though, and we need to get Ben Baby on the horn at some point. Boom. Okay, we'll definitely reach out to Ben Baby. I believe we're reaching out to Adam Schefter right now, who we FaceTimed. It sounded like shite, so we sent him a Zoom link. Let's see if he's able to get on that. We never know what Schefter's in the middle of. Legitimately. Yeah. Schefter could be in the middle of anything right now like you. He's always in the car. Every time I see him, he's always in the car. Too much. Exactly. He's in the car. He's in the middle of maybe working out. When we see him, he'll go to his office. Is he writing a journal diary entry there at the same time? Without a doubt. Because we know he does that every single night. You know, it's a lot. Hey, Bruce, is he going to join us, or are we going to – what is happening here? Just so I can kind of know as I'm sitting up here just talking nothing as we try to fill time here. Yeah. So our Safari version no longer supports Gmail, so that threw a bit of a wrench towards me. But, yes, he is going to join us. Our Safari doesn't support Gmail? Yeah, we haven't updated our Safari on this computer in a while, and I guess it no longer supports Gmail. So I opened Gmail, and it popped up, and I just couldn't click on any of the buttons. So the compose button to send an email, it wasn't working. Okay, so you couldn't get the Zoom link too, Schefter. Okay, I appreciate you. Moment. Now, you know, the new iPhone's coming out because all of our iPhones aren't working anymore. Bingo. That's right. I'm getting it. Exactly. They've come out and said, that's not true. It is. Yeah, without a doubt. We fucking all live it every single time. We're super pumped for you, okay? We're super pumped that you got a new one coming out. Heard it's awesome. Sucks that my phone has to suck until that happens. Did you see they're doing Apple Watch iPods? I did see that, yes. Apple Watch. What? Instead of the watch, you know how it's a little square? Mm-hmm. They're building a thing that is an iPod, basically. You put it on top of it, and then it can operate with a dial and a turn. Yeah, you can take it off. You can take it off of the watch, and then you put it into this contraption that just makes it into an iPod. Oh. That's stupid. You don't know. It looks cool. It's just like a folding phone. I don't need a fucking folding phone. You wear it on your wrist, too? So, I think it's fun to take a trip back in time. Remember, we all had those. I remember Steve Jobs, like it was yesterday, with his super fucking turtleneck on saying, you know what we're going to call it? The iPod. At the time, it was sweet. Yeah, we're taking a trip back in time right now. Nike's going back to Miami. Don't need to. Nike's not fucking technology. That's clothing. That's fine. We can take a trip back in time. What the hell are we doing? And how should we view this? Is this Tim's final, or is this the new person's first? That's a great question. It's got to be Tim's final. I'm assuming all this stuff's the final. Yeah, like even the foldable phone. Shouldn't he have stuck around, at least, until those things go? No, it's John's time. It's just like Tim. Like, remember, for the first how many years was the stuff? Tim was releasing with Still Steve. Yeah. How long was Tim Donner? I know he plus 1,431% or something. Value, I forget what it was. He did pretty well. I'll tell you what. I could not have never expected what we're doing right now, trying to get a guy onto a Zoom call. I mean, it's fucking crazy. I'm not seeing video now. That's my update. I haven't asked Bruce what's going on yet. Bangle's got the Texans coming up, I believe, by the way. No problem there. No problem there, Texans. A 36-point performance, too. Yeah, that's certainly who. You'd like to see, you know. I'm going to bash Joey B's brains in. Yeah. Come on, come on. Tim Cook's been at Apple for 28 years. So a lot has happened. Yeah. How long is he CEO? He's been the, he transitioned to executive chairman of the board in 2026. He was the CEO from 2011 to 2026. 15, 15, that's a good run. John's been there since 2001. And now he just got his opportunity, what, two months ago? Yep. What's his name? John Ternes. So 25 years until he got his opportunity. John Ternes? In the U.S. Yeah, I mean, he was a senior vice president of hardware engineering. So he was, you know. He was around for the first iPod. Yeah. Now, ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, the man, Adam Schefter. Hey, baby, Schefty. Dude. Schefty, sorry about the chaos and the confusion in the middle of your day. Thank you for joining us and looking so spectacular. I guess the new Safari doesn't, or the old Safari doesn't handle the new Gmail. We need to update our Safari so we can get you a Zoom link. And then the video, you need to turn on a camera. Okay. Okay. I think that's what you need to do. Let's get back to work. I've been doing that. No, it's not what I meant. No, I watched it right here. You did have a camera on. So that's just what I saw. I'm just letting you know that's what I saw. Bruce, certainly not one that doesn't take any blame in this situation. But I watched you. I watched it all just happen right here. It's a tricky new camera. We're getting it. Yeah, you look unbelievable. You are glowing. And we need some information out of you. What the hell is going on with Joey Burrow? Is Joey Burrow okay? And should we be worried about what we are hearing from at Trags? Where he's saying no warm-up, no purposeful throws. And he's talking to staff. What do we make from this? And what are you hearing? Well, obviously it's an issue if Joey Burrow is not practicing at the start of the work week on a Wednesday. He is in uniform. He is on the practice field. So that's a good sign. Now, there was a play early in the game where he went down on his elbow and there was some blood. And it looked like he jammed his elbow, which could be shoulder. You don't know whether it's the elbow or the shoulder. Here's the deal. When it's the quarterback, all eyes are going to be on him. And they're going to have to issue the injury report here post-progress. And say whether it's an elbow or a shoulder injury. But I anticipate that it's going to be one of those two because he's not throwing the football at practice today. You got Joe Flacco out there taking the reps with the Bengals. So, my guess is that it is connected to what happened to Burrow earlier in the game when he banged that elbow. Whether it's the elbow or the shoulder. And he had blood coming out. That's my guess. And the fact that he's out there in uniform, despite the fact that he's not taking throws, that's an encouraging sign. Doesn't mean he's playing Sunday. But the fact that he's out there tells me it's not a significant injury. Okay, so this is all happening in real time. And obviously, we appreciate Trax's video. We appreciate you trying to track it down. We appreciate you figuring out your camera coming on here and telling us the latest and greatest. They have to give a report after practice. When will you learn? When will you actually get, like, more information? Should we expect this to be kind of aloof all week on what's going on? Is this going to happen? Or should we know pretty soon? In a moment. Oh. Uh-huh. Well, I think there'll be information that filters in this afternoon what the Bengals are designating the injury. And now that people know that Joe Burrow obviously has something wrong, that there'll be constant updates about his status for the remainder of the week. And that will become one of the central storylines leading into Sunday's game now. I mean, that's – it's just – it was – nobody realized that he was hurt there on the elbow. You see him come down on it. Um, but now people know there's an issue because he's not practicing on Wednesday. So it's going to be something that everybody is going to be tracking from this point on. You're the best. We can't wait to see what the hell comes of it. This is not good. No. No. This is not good for the Cincinnati Bengals who obviously start this season differently than they have in the past. They normally start slow. Joey Burrow healthy through all of camp. This is a different day, different day. For him to get banged up, don't love that, especially if it's throwing arm. Go ahead, Shafty. No, I was going to say, like, that was such – a key thing for them all year, for him to be healthy because that's been an issue every year. And he has got to be healthy for this team to have the kind of year that everybody wants them to have. And if he's not healthy, then that's going to be a problem for this team. You're the best. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Adam Shafter. Hey, Shafty. Took longer to set up than him. Come on, Shaft. I know he's going to hate that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's not going to be happy about that. No. I'm trying to get the fucking information right now. You have me come on here and do this whole song and dance. Got to turn on my camera. I can't even hear me. You're good. And I could be finding out this information right now. I do think this is quite a developing story here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's no question about it. Whenever you look at all the quarterbacks I played with, 80% of them took Wednesdays off, whether it was week one or whether it was week 10. And then – Oh, really? Yeah. And then what we would do, like, so Carson Palmer, Tom Brady, right? They were all older guys, played a long time. Then what we would do was we would make Wednesday our spider non-padded day. They wanted to get the reps in with pads, put shoulder pads on them on Thursday so they get the reps with shoulder pads and then go back to spiders or no pads on Friday. Okay, so this might not be anything. Might not be anything. Okay, maybe it's just – It looked really awkward, though. I haven't said that. Even when he came down, it looked weird and also like, what the fuck are you doing? I don't know if it was third down, so maybe he was going for a first down, but what the fuck are we doing? How long did we spend talking about Jackson Dart needing to get down? Like, he's kind of in the same category at this point. The football player. Anzalone's a bat out of hell coming for his head. It was third and six, so he got the first down for his team. Okay, fair enough. He's in front of the jungle, too, so he's definitely going to go for it. Yeah, for sure. But, yes, we all think the same thing about Joe. It's a lot better when you're on the field. I can't wait to hear what the reports are after practice. I can't wait to hear what the injuries are. But if that was it, where he jams himself in there on his throwing arm, that's going to be certainly something. In an AFC North that has a lot of question marks. AFC North has a lot of question marks. The only truth might be that team in Baltimore. Yeah. That is now. The Pittsburgh Steelers obviously get a huge win. Massive. Huge win. And, Tone, why don't you come join us out here as an undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers fan. And, also, your hair looked great today. Unbelievable. Well done, Tony. Good job. Well done, Tone. Yeah. Yeah. Unbelievable. Tony, duh, baby. Good to see you. Get out. I like shine. Schefter's still here. By the way, he's still sitting. If we want to go back to Schefter, Schefter, Schefter, everything good? You find out anything? More news. More news? More news. Okay. Yeah, Sam Darnold ruled out for Sunday's game against the Cardinals. He's out. What's going on with that shot here? It should be clear. What's the deal? Yeah, it's not. Okay, thank you. Your message was clear that we heard that Sam Darnold ruled out this weekend against the Cardinals. It will be bodyguard Drew Locke back in there. That's official. That's official news. Schefter, he's going to be so big. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Yeah, he's going nuts right now. He's the best. Thank you for staying on top of that, Schefter. Thank you to all the insiders that don't sleep. Wow. Just have multiple phones. Yep. Always in it for us so they can put their shit up first. Excited to hear if it's anything with Joe Burrow. We just took a day off. Tone, before we wrap up, don't you think we should see if AQ can win some people some money? What do you think? You think it should be shit? Flap it up. You think it should be shit in basketball or football? What do you think it should be doing here? Fuck basketball. Okay, football season. Okay. I don't know if you guys saw Tyrese Halliburton all the way back. Did see that. Yeah, he's got highlights looking exactly like how Tyrese Halliburton is. I saw him wearing the Reggie Miller jersey backwards. It was sick. Yeah, I mean, that's what Tyrese Halliburton does. He's super high fashion. He's obviously a super high quality basketball player. It's going to be great to have him back. He returns from a torn Achilles that happened in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Which he was potentially going to go on and have 50 points. Indiana Pacers being mocked and ridiculed in the Eastern Conference. And his return is on DAZN, right? Yeah, that's right. Against the Pelicans or something. In the middle of the day or something. Yep. Which Tyrese came out and said, okay, all right, thanks. Noon tip. Yeah, noon tip on DAZN. Noon tip? Yeah, on a Wednesday. I mean, it could be actually a 10 a.m. tip on DAZN there. Or midnight. So, I mean, just the disrespect. The disrespect is just continuing towards Tyrese Halliburton. Who, if we can all recall and take a trip back in time, he was the NBA playoff. I mean, every moment, he was the one creating it. Most buzzer beaters ever in one playoff run. Yeah, and they were all, fuck it. I mean, obviously, buzzer beaters in the playoffs are awesome. But his were just like somehow even more dramatic than they're supposed to be. Which is his style of play. He is a showman. He's an entertainer. He's very good for our city and our team. There's going to be a lot to pull from for Carlisle. Not a lot of respect for the Pacers. Yeah. I understand you're saying, fuck basketball. But I like to say, fuck the way people are talking about the Pacers this year in basketball. I don't like that one bit. Okay, AQ. With the four of the brain ball, which hoop are you throwing towards? This one over here. Did you practice beforehand? I saw that. Zero preparation. You do look good, though. AJ, have you seen him stand up here? It's the first time in a long time we've seen him up on this stage. He looks good, doesn't he, AJ? Yeah, he looks great. I know we've gone through a bunch of different, like, transformations over the last few years. I think you look great. New tattoos. Fluctuating. Fluctuating, yeah. Got a new one. Did you get your forearm done? Yeah. New shoes. That looks really cool. Yeah. That looks sweet. Did you get knocked out for that? No. 17 hours. Damn. Nine the first day, eight the second. For that? And you didn't IV? You didn't? Charged about an hour? Sat there and looked. No. Okay. About a day. Just watching. I want to let everybody know, if I show up at, potentially, a lot of, four Juergens bottles, this guy went through during his tattoo, 17-hour period. So you got to do what you got to do. Great. Great thrust. That one. That one was on camera. Thank you for showcasing to everybody what's possible. I'm going to come back, and I'm going to have a full sleeve one day. Just know that I stayed up through that entire thing. Okay. Just know that I didn't take the easy way out. Hey, I could, though, because I already got one right here. That's right. I already got one right here. Okay. Super painful area. So I've earned my stripes. That's right. But I will continue to earn my stripes if I get a full sleeve onto here over the weekend. Yep. You know? This is going to be a sleeve when it's all done. So it's going to be. Are you going to get an IV and go under? No. No, you're going to stay up like me. Just like you. Thank you for doing that. Juergen's on the bicep. There's going to be a lot of people. Well, every once in a while, you know, he gets really aggressive. Yeah. So I think start splashing around. Mm-hmm. You know. Just a permanent one that he can. Yeah. Actually, you know how people like. I got to do this. A guy had be a friend, tell a friend something nice. Tattooed right here at the Texas game. Mm-hmm. Very cool of him to do that. He asked if I would sign it, you know. And then he was going to get my signature tattooed. He does that with remnants of lotion around. Oh, sure. Yeah. Like teardrops. Little dots of lotion. Just kind of circle right here. Just so he can remember the good old days. He actually attacked me and said he uses his milking table. So he lays flat there while he's getting the tattoo done. Oh, okay. I like that. That's a good idea. Okay. Maybe I'll do that for my sleeve that I get done. One of those up. Instead of getting the IV done. All right, AQ. Why don't you try to win some people some money right now? All you got to do is throw it over the elephant. Okay. The elephant in the room is that you can remember everything. Okay. I tell my daughter that every single morning whenever we drop her off. When I drop her off at, what is that? Is that preschool? Yeah. Is that kindergarten? No, preschool. When she's at preschool, okay, right over here, I drop her off. I say, you're allowed to remember everything. Okay. Let's go ahead and try to do that. That's what the elephant does. And what this elephant wants to remember on this day, this what Wednesday? Is that AQ Shipley put that football into that hoop right over there and won 20 people $500. All right. All you got to do, AQ, is put that football into that hoop right over there. Let's do it. If you're able to do that for the people, man, there's going to be 20 people a little bit happier. Oh, yeah. If you miss it, though, those 20 people. I hate my guts. Mm-hmm. I'd maybe kill you. No. Yeah. We don't want that. Yeah, there's a chance. I mean, that's something to think about as you throw this. We don't know. People are a little bit on tilt a little bit. You know, some people. So there's a chance that they thought they were going to guarantee to win this randomly selected $500, which 20 people will win. All you have to do is repost this video, say something nice to somebody, and put the easiest way to pay you digitally, and you could potentially be one of those 20 winners. But if he doesn't make this, he's spitting in everybody's face. That's what they're saying. Isn't that what they're saying? Tone doesn't want to do a giveaway. No. I don't know if the Talks Table wants to do a giveaway either, especially after the weekend. Definitely not. I don't really care. Okay, I like that. Indifferent. D-Bud, how do you feel about the giveaway? Yeah. Indifferent? I want some people to win. You want some people to win? Yep. AJ, how do you feel? Would you like AQ to put this in or smack in the mouth a little bit? I'm pretty indifferent as well, actually. I do want to see AQ let it fly, though. Okay. So I would like to see you win. Let's go. I'd like 20 people to win $500. Only one ball, though. Okay. Okay. He's going to make it. Penn State, Nittany Lion, AQ Shipley. Wearing sun, day, red, blue shoes. Unreal t-shirt. For the brand football. Baby Duke could potentially become 20 people's hero. Good luck, AQ. Here we go. Ooh. That was a good ball. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice might change their life. AQ, great work today, buddy. Good to see you. Great work to you guys. D-Bot, great work this week. You too, brother. Safe travels, brother. We'll be back tomorrow. Town, good to see you. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. 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