PMS 2.0 1645 - Watt Wednesday with JJ Watt, Pete Thamel, 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, October 14, 2026, this sports program begins now. Football! It's spectacular, and we are on NFL Week 6 Eve Wednesday here, October 14, 2026. The days are flying by, the football is spectacular, and a whole new round of storylines starts tomorrow night. Saturday morning, we cannot wait to get out to Provo for College Game Day. It's the first time in 17 years that Game Day has gone to BYU. I'm pumped for BYU to showcase how awesome their student section is. I'm pumped to experience that campus. Now, I've been reading some rules of the campus. I believe I will be staying off campus for a lot of different reasons. And there was a time at BYU where you couldn't have caffeine on campus. They have stopped that since 2017. And we can't. We have a Celsius energy stage. I'm actually pretty excited to see the dynamic of the students and our show and the interactions. And I think the amount of pride that that place has for that place. I think everybody that is associated with them has offered up to come back for however we need. Very excited for who the guest picker is. We will be announcing that tomorrow. I think the entire BYU world is going to show up. And then the Catholics are just coming in undefeated as ten and a half point favorites. They haven't played anybody. Well, I think they're going into a tough atmosphere with a lot of eyes on them playing a very difficult Kalani Sataki squad who's going to start with the Hawkeye and end with CJ Carr cementing himself as one of the guys or with Bear Bachmeier and BYU having an upset that maybe changes the course of this entire 2026 college football season. Now, changing the course of things might happen over the next few days. We'll have Pete Famo on in about an hour from now. Feels like the 2014 playoff is cooking. Feels like the 2014 playoff is cooking for college football for a lot of different reasons. Pat Forty is reporting out of the SEC basketball media days that Greg Sankey signaled what is widely expected the league to open a 2014 playoff if the SEC scheduling expectations are met nationally and that a decision should come sooner rather than later. Sankey in the SEC and Petiti in the Big Ten have a lot of power in what happens going forward for the football aspect. Now, the Protect College sports, both Petiti and Sankey. were the last ones to come on board and say we're good with the Protect College Sports Act. Without them, it would have never happened. Now, the Protect College Sports Act has all the commissioners of every conference, every AD, every president, everybody's there. There's detractors to that. I'm sure they'll battle it out to see what happens. But for the football side of things, college football playoff, there's people in charge of that that can make actual changes. If Sankey and Petiti aren't on board, they have no chance of getting it passed. Petiti had been very open about wanting a 2014 playoff. Now, a lot of people have talked about why. Why would you want that? Especially when Ohio-Michigan is one of the biggest games of the year. Why would you want to maybe get rid of the importance of one of your regular season games for a 2014 playoff whenever you can have one, two, three losses, you know, and it just becomes a much diluted product is how some people think. Well, I think what a lot of people are realizing is the amount of money that is being invested into these teams by schools and by NIL. There's a lot more parity in the college football. We've been talking about that for a while. But there also has to be some hope. If you lose a game early or you lose two games early, in the first two months of the season, you have a $30 million roster. And then you have no hope to make the playoffs at the end of that. That could really collapse a lot of things that are happening and obviously ruin what is seemingly a very good thing happening in a lot of different places as they're building with the boosters. So hope needs to be a thing. Return on investment needs to be a thing is what they're thinking. But also, we think that this is the people that won the 2014 playoff. We think if you give people a little bit more reprieve in each week, they'll schedule harder games. They'll have bigger matchups. They won't be playing against a D2 school for three weeks and then playing their conference games and then playing absolutely nobody because everybody's scared to get a loss. So they go ahead and pack that with terrible games at the beginning because why would you want a hard game? If you have a loss, you have another loss in your conference play. All of a sudden, you're out of this thing, and now you've got to kick for the next season. So there's a lot of reasons why people have wanted it. There's been a lot of reasons, traditionalists and college football people that say 12 is too much. We have blowouts in the first round of 12. What is 24 going to prove? It's just going to make everything worse, and the regular season games aren't going to matter. So Sankey, I think, was pretty open about not wanting to go to 24. Believe it or not, I think the ESPN executives are pretty open about not wanting it to go to 24, even though everybody thinks that ESPN is the one driving this. There's a college football playoff committee that's doing that. ESPN does not sit on that committee, although they do invest a lot of money into college football. They don't have the say in it. So Sankey coming out and saying there's an openness to going to 24 is a huge deal. This is a very big deal for the process. I don't think there's a big deal of the 24-team playoff happening. He has been somebody, I think, that is very much about the SEC, but also very much about the sport. Not just football. He's the commissioner of all the sports, and he'll tell you all the national championships and all the different sports that the SEC has every single year. You see gymnastics. How about baseball? Do you see softball? Did you see this? I'm like, well, you don't have hockey. He was going to go get DU. He was going to go get Denver University, potentially represent the SEC, see if they could win a national championship in hockey. He said that in jest, but that is how he actually believes. He has been hesitant on this while the others have kind of pushed. His members, according to source, close to the situation, have been a little bit more open to the concept here recently. They would just like to have a conversation about what's happening with the SEC championship. What's happening with the championship games? The SEC championship has become a massive deal. I mean, that has become a rating machine. Obviously, down in the South, a big deal to have the SEC championship. So what's going to happen with that? What's going to happen? What's going to happen with the scheduling? And also, are other conferences going to have as many conference games as we have? Because the SEC has nine conference games plus one. Other conferences have eight conference games. So you can obviously schedule the different side. So if there is an agreement, I think, for everybody to have hard games, the same amount of big games, same amount of hard games, and if we can figure out what's going on with the championship game weekend, which I think is figureoutable, it feels like the 24-game team playoff is coming. It feels like that is going to take place. There's going to be people pissed off. There's going to be people incredibly pumped. There's going to be coaches excited because they're going to get people off their ass because their team is going to make the playoff whenever they probably shouldn't have made the playoffs. But I think inevitably we're going to see some blowouts in that first round. But nonetheless, college football is going to get bigger games, more meaningful games. Who will have the rights to those games? That's the next conversation that's going to take place as well. Business always follows up with decisions that are made for the field. We assume all will go well because college football is up and to the right in a huge way. Hopefully this will only continue that. Pete Thamel will join us in about an hour for that. JJ Watt joining us here in a few minutes. And joining us live in the Thunderdome is a 12-year NFL veteran, Super Bowl champion player and coach. A man that goes in the trenches and has a daughter right now. Has multiple kids. But has a daughter right now who might be on her way to lead in the United States of America women's national team. Come on. A.Q. Shipley is here. A.Q. Penn State would not be making a 2048 team playoff. No, not this year. We've already punted to next year. But I do think Penn State's a big part of this story. Because now it's coming out like is Pat Craft, athletic director, going to be able to continue to get the money if they continue to not have the success? Because that's a big part of this. Everybody's talking about, you know, coaches want to have hope. It's also the boosters and the alumni that are giving the money for these things that want to continue to have hope. Because if they cut that off, you're in trouble. Oh, big trouble. And like Cignetti comes to Indiana. The first year he was here, I don't think he got anywhere near the amount of money that a lot of other schools at the top are getting. Nowhere near. But he had success. So the alumni and the boosters are like, hey, here's something that we are okay with getting zero return on our interest. Because this isn't like an investment where you get money back. We are getting zero return on our investment other than watching our alumni, our school that we love, have success. So keeping that happening, I think there does have to be a little bit of hope and expectation. Penn State might be the focal point of that conversation, actually, with how it's going right now. Well, we saw with Texas Tech, right? I mean, they were a team that was not very good. All of a sudden, they dump a bunch of money in. And you can go from kind of last to first overnight, right? I think that's where we're at right now with college football. So I think they have to show that they're going to continue to fight. You can't just roll over and lose the next day of games. You've got to fight. You've got to win some games. You've got to steal some games. And this is a perfect weekend, right? Go into Michigan and beat a Michigan team that I know isn't very good, but great tradition. And if you can go in and at least steal a win there, maybe it tells the fan base, hey, let's go. Let's dump some more money in. But I think firings of coaches have happened because they're the people. They're the people that are giving a lot of money to build the roster and the team who don't have actual say, but certainly have power to remove something very important or say, hey, we're not supporting this anymore, if this is going to be what this is. And that sucks that that's the world that we're in, that people might not know a lot about. I'm not saying every booster or alumni doesn't know about ball because Cody Campbell down there in Texas Tech, he's an NFL offensive lineman. They build in the trenches, too, by the way. That's right. So it feels like they're probably going to do well. And you love them. That's probably why you pointed them out as opposed to everybody else. But a lot of these money people can pick and choose if they want to give you millions of dollars or not. Absolutely. That is a real conundrum happening in right now. Everybody's talking about there's the haves and the have-nots. The haves can become the have-nots just if they decide not to. Quickly. If the boosters and alums decide not to do that. So crazy time. 2014 playoff, I think, puts a lot more people at ease. But there's going to be a lot of people pissed about the dilution of the regular season games and then the championship weekend. Talks to you here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. Big Ten championship game here in Indianapolis. We obviously go to it. We love it. We have a good time. made it there a couple of times. The future of that might be in question. but let's leave that out how do you feel about a 2014 playoff for college football and what do you think most big 10 people think because patiti was a big driver for this allegedly patiti wouldn't sign on for the protect college sports thing unless there was an automatic that it was going to 24 allegedly uh so he's been a big driver behind it it seems like it's inevitable now yeah i don't mind it because like you said i mean i think you're kind of naive if you were holding out hope like hey this is never going to happen we kind of have the perfect system like right way i mean it's like with the nfl and adding another game like right when we kind of bucked from the previous trend and they went to the 12 team playoff like it was pretty evident with how much money this whole thing makes like they're going to kind of keep going and add to this i don't think people in the big 10 mind too much because i think the biggest gripe with what it is right now is we have these power five teams that get in and realistically like they have they don't really have a shot of winning i think if you get a couple teams in the big 10 who maybe had like a 9 and 3 season like that could be in any given saturday type thing where it's like you could see a power conference big 10 team who maybe had a couple slip-ups against good competition they could go beat anybody and as like an iowa fan a team that's kind of habitually on the outside like just on the precipice of making the 12 team uh playoff like i kind of love it um and i think also like you're talking about it i think it maybe does add a little bit of stability because you kind of have to reframe what you view as successful now you know if teams are if they're going to be able to if you know yeah you want to win a national championship every year but if you have a coach who goes nine and three and back-to-back years at like a blue blood and you make the playoffs both years like are you still gonna fire that guy and pay out 70 million dollars and have a massive roster overhaul like you would think maybe we will have a little bit more stability around college football because you know institutions won't be as quick to fire coaches so i don't mind it we're gonna have blowouts regardless so you know what's the difference between 12 and 24 we're gonna get the same four best teams at the end you would think let's add the hammer tone what is the other thought about these regular season games not meaning as much uh if you have 24 teams because you can have a loss you have three losses maybe and still sneak into the top 24 in the cfp's eyes so what's the regular season if we if the game so nothing matters anymore tone is that what's being said basically listen yeah is it diluted for sure like because you know when the beast is out there it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like you know in the bcs era it's two teams in the national championship you lose one game you're potentially out of that then if you go from there to the you know the 12 the 14 playoff the 12 team playoff yes the regular season gets diluted every single year but it's not to a point where the regular season doesn't matter at all i mean all these games are still going to matter yes you kind of you talked about the ohio state michigan like the last game of the year that rivalry weekend maybe something needs to be changed with rivalry weekend because yeah you could have an all-star team but when i talked to aj and he said he still says like i said like what matters now for ohio state fans at this point he said one beating michigan and two winning a national championship like yes you're still going to be in the playoffs if you lose that game to michigan but it still means a ton to the fan base and a lot of these teams that you know play rivalry games later in the year it's still going to mean a ton of that fan fan base just for bragging rights and stuff like that will it affect the playoffs as much maybe you know there's going to be maybe more rounds on on campus and stuff like that which is a huge deal for these teams i think it's going to be a huge deal for these schools so yeah it'll dilute the regular season some but i not to a point where people are going to stop watching college football i can tell you that yeah the nfl has losses every weekend of teams and people are still watching you know and i know college football fans aren't necessarily all nfl fans and they say college football is different i agree it certainly is with everything on the line every single weekend the pageantry the anxiety i still think the quality of play and the quality of uh entertainment will still draw even if there is a difference in the way that we get to play to get into the playoffs i mean then there's going to be games at the end of the season where it's to get into the playoffs as well uh there's it's going to happen we're just going to have to enjoy but the old the old college football heads are not going to like it and i hear from them a lot you know because i get a chance to uh be the youngest guy on college game day so there is certainly a little bit of a give and take with that entire generation i would say uh but college football is excellent it's going to continue to be great and we're pumped about that 2014 playoff i don't know if i love it or hate it i guess we'll have to experience it first we'll talk to pete in the next hour away from college football let's pivot to the nfl nine year nfl vet yes darius j butler is here shout out yukon on the hat and the helmet not duquesne although you would pull for them if they were yeah playing against my boy lee bot it's my old i came to league okay i like lee bot not duquesne he made the nfl yep i like that just like john simmons john simmons made to the nfl as well shout out yep rest in peace john simmons yeah he was all he kick you kick off you need him too christian coots is in the league from shout out christian coots he's alive yeah john is past christian coots still alive shout out to duquesne nfl though this weekend massive matchups across the board what are you looking for d i mean big games obviously starting with tomorrow seattle and denver uh number one looking at those jerseys sick jersey combos but then the big question marks around the denver broncos they were almost the afc representatives in the super bowl got it to afc championship and it's just been struggled so far with that offense the defense is going to be fine but sean payton taking over play calling i'm sure aq could talk to him more but it did not look great bo nicks doesn't look like himself and then the seattle uh seahawks your new squad i mean are they some people are saying maybe one hit wonders maybe sam donald maybe looking for answers there so uh looking for a great start to the nfl week and then we got other matchups then we got bills raiders we got cowboys packers great matchups this week yeah huge ball across the board every game matters except for a couple teams that are 0-5 uh you talk about this past weekend being fantastic and kicking off in a great way we actually have the incredible honor to be announcing the players of the week oh wow ladies and gentlemen coming out of week five the nfl season here are your afc and nfc players of the week corliss whiteman punter what a stud congratulations down there for the bucks byron murphy oh yeah way to go byron getting that jameer gibbs stallion i'm assuming he has a lot of these greg russo there's some stats coming out about him not only is he blocking kicks i guess his pressures his sacks he is crushing very dominant he gets player of the week david bailey texas uh tech we were just talking about rookie uh gets a dominating performance as the jets have the same amount of wins as los angeles rams right now wow something to think about and then jaylen warren of the pittsburgh steelers a couple chains on great tattoo and incredibly explosive whenever he gets the rock congratulations to these lads players of the week in the locker room that'll be celebrated joining us now is a man who's on the call for jalen warren in his performance to win the afc offensive player of the week his brother was also experiencing a birthday on that particular game day and he's playing against his daunted rival the indianapolis colts he somehow remained averagely biased until the steelers continue to kick the colts ass joining us now a man who's in the bull ring of honor for the houston texans and now he's also in the houston sports hall of fame wow ladies and gentlemen jay jay wall how you doing guys great how are you guys doing good man we just broke down the entire 2014 playoff then we bounced into the nfl about what's about to come then we did the players of the week feels like we've accomplished a lot in 17 minutes but you joining us really puts a pep in her step isn't that right aq absolutely couldn't wait to get him on the show let's go jj come on how's the juice now that jj's face has kind of popped up on the screen i mean it's a game changer and you mentioned his face but he also has a sweet pat tillman shirt on right now i mean it is kind of the uh oh jay jay's face is kind of popped up on the screen i mean it's a game changer and you wow yeah yeah jay i'm doing great how are you doing houston sports hall of famer congratulations that was last night i believe well earned well deserved i i don't know where this burst of energy excitement and love and passion is coming from but i'm loving it you i i wasn't necessarily there when i popped on now i'm there and i hope everybody watching this at home or on the elliptical or on a treadmill is now there with us because we're about to take you on a magical little ride and i'm going to take you on a magical little ride and i'm going to take you on a magical little ride get it going america yeah yeah not just american international and uh i think how could you not be juiced up whenever you're talking didn't know that love that let's go world hop on board yeah whole world if you can do a couple different languages that you speak so they can understand in their native uh no astronauts let's go oh yeah especially down there in houston i mean beam that shit up right to nasa yeah let's do that man we're having a good wednesday hell yeah yes last night you went into the houston sports hall of fame did you give a full speech you guys looked amazing you and uh the bride and the entire family celebrating down there how long did you know this was going to be happening for and what was it like to get honored by a city that you have called home and have done a lot for brother thank you i appreciate my wife looked incredible i'm very grateful to have her on my arm to make us look good as a family so that was a very big plus um but it's a big honor i mean i was with billy wagner obviously phenomenal pitcher for those hall of famer himself and brian ching uh who is a dynamo legend he scored four goals in the first ever game for the dynamo which is incredible i also had a phenomenal lay he's hawaiian and his mother was there and made him a custom lay so that was great but a good event so many great people in the city of houston so many memories here and there's a whole lot of love for this incredible city and everything they've done for me and my family and the bond that we've formed they surprised me uh with a bunch of the kids that i've been able to have a lot of fun with to meet over the years from peter berry and aaron berry um the who lost their parents my very first year in houston and i got to meet with them and they came out on stage and justin a little boy who had an art issue and will they had all these kids it was it was pretty special man it was a pretty special night you're crying yeah yeah i when they brought the kids out because like i've known these kids since they were little little kids and so i've seen them literally grow up throughout the course of my career and so when they all came out on stage and i just kind of they put up the videos of when i first met them and then i see them on stage as grown-ups today and and who they are it yeah yeah it got me you're a good guy jake oh yeah thanks for representing ball well thanks for representing the league well and last night i'm happy you got to experience all of those emotions as you walk down a path with the houston texans when they were good at football you know but are they easy now find out hey hey we got a chance now jaguars are a very good football team head over to london we'll see what this game looks like but you get on a little bit of a roll here you never know got marvin harrison in the mix now you don't know you don't know how do you feel about the trade for marvin harrison jr he and cj stroud did a lot of magic together in college hoping to replicate that with the texans it feels like there's always injuries to the offensive weapons for the houston texans so adding another one probably good news at the the record you guys had to make this trade i i think was interesting i don't think anybody really saw it happening your thoughts actually on the trade happening especially with where the houston texans are right now yeah i mean they've had injuries at the receiver position they've been banged up there and they've tried to find it now obviously marvin hasn't started his career the way that he wanted to in arizona and the hope and the goal would be that you find that magic once again and it's just a change of scenery back with cj whatever it may be that gets him to the level uh if you get him to you know 60 70 percent of what you expect from the number four overall pick you're sitting in a really good spot so i agree with you on the record and where you sit right now but i think there's an opportunity there to really do something special it's they just have to go on a run very very very quickly and i hope that he turns into the player that we all saw from ohio state and can expect him to be yeah it didn't get going in arizona at all i mean there wasn't really any it didn't a lot of the tape we've seen coming out of training camp was him not doing good yet again with the floor and then he started getting hot got a couple touchdowns started moving a little bit then he moved on from him i don't think the floor was ever attached to marvin harrison jr he made that pretty evident hopefully he finds a home in houston now houston is in a tough division jacksville jaguars to your point might be the best team in all ball and then the indianapolis colts we're looking to find it we've got two wins in the last 12 uh one of those 12 was against the pittsburgh steelers on sunday can you tell me about being on the call for that game and then watching the pittsburgh steelers play what their best ball that they've played in decades maybe in pittsburgh against the colts yeah no it was you know i was on the call for that game and then i was on the call for this exact game last year and you go into this game and you try and look at it ahead of time and think to yourself okay how does each team go about finding a way to win and there's no question with the indianapolis colts it all starts with jonathan taylor last year he was limited to 45 yards in this game this year he was limited to exactly 45 yards again so the pittsburgh steelers very clearly understood that we need to bottle up jonathan taylor now how did they do it a lot of the outside zone plays it's all about setting an edge and building a wall and they set a great edge so that he couldn't get out side and they built a wall inside to really bottle him up and he wasn't able to get going and if jonathan taylor's not able to get going then you can't really open up that play action game too much and they don't have the downfield threat without alec pierce right now to take the top off of a defense and to give daniel jones some of those deep end cutters or those goal balls so that is a tough combination without that and without jonathan taylor having the type of day that he's used to having it's always going to be difficult especially when the pittsburgh steelers offense is finally starting to find a bit of its rhythm and jalen warren is the bell cow that needs to lead that offense i said it all game long pre-game during the game post game jalen warren needs 20 plus touches every single game minimum make him your bell cow use him in a similar way that the colts use jonathan taylor hand him the rock he gets better over the course of a game with more touches that is the man that needs to carry that offense where they want to go according to source cities inside the building uh uh in training camp during running back linebacker one-on-ones i guess is when a certain new coach to the pittsburgh steelers fell in love with jalen warren they said he will put his face directly into a fan does not care absolute dog then he heard aaron rogers talk about him in the post game he's like best teammate this guy is the best teammate and it makes me wonder how come he hasn't been utilized like this in years past because it did feel like for even since nausea harris was on the pittsburgh steelers which is what four years ago hammer died how long ago was that whenever we started falling in love with jalen warren tone that was so i looked at tweets it was like 2023 2020 yeah about 2023 was when we started being like hey jalen warren he's got a lot more touches every time he touched the ball it was like fire and and we know the steelers offense for a long time was just punt he was just it was shite for a long time but their defense will keep in it then to make a play late and they still had winning seasons but every time he touched the ball it looked like he was on a different level than everybody else happy they're weaponizing him and happy that aaron rogers looks very young when you talk to him pre-game uh for the uh you know lead up to the game what did it feel like because after the game the interview he gave feels like he is the happiest most free and very pumped about what the steelers team can be i i got like aaron's moving pretty well you watch him out there and like he is he is moving around pretty well he's getting out of the pocket he's actually scrambling for some yards it's against cleveland he had the five sacks which obviously wasn't a good night but if you look at the totality of his film and some of the movements that he's been able to make this year you can tell that he is feeling pretty good we talked to him before the patriots game earlier this year and he told us how week one prior to week one last year he tweaked his back squatting uh which is there's that's funny in its own right why is a 42 year old you know quarterback squatting but i respect the fact that aaron is doing a lot of it we got that um but that's why he didn't feel that good moving around last year and he said he feels a whole lot better this year and i think you can tell also they got the ball out of his hands incredibly quickly this game i'm talking unbelievably quickly a lot of short quick efficient passes screens and things uh he loves jeremy bernard jeremy bernard's doing a great job for them would imagine that's only going to continue because aaron has a lot of trust and faith in him yeah the steelers look great they look vastly different than just a few weeks back aq has the last question on this game for you as we move on quickly as the colts lost to the pittsburgh steelers this weekend yeah jj as you were preparing for this game right was it as simple as just switching out two offensive linemen on the right side and all of a sudden this offense found what they were looking for to move forward i mean it certainly looks looks good now there's been their bumps there's no question ihan ashore on the right side it has had a couple bumps in the road here but overall he's continued to fight and get better throughout it hoffman's doing a good job at the right guard spot but yeah i mean it does look better there's no if you look at the totality since they made that switch it absolutely does look better so far and you would imagine the young bucket right tackle is only going to get better the more reps he gets mike mccarthy talks about five old linemen need time to build that chemistry you know better than anybody aq the more chemistry and glue that they build together the matt the better it'll be offensive coach too mike mccarthy's making different decisions than they would have made in the past there was a field goal or go for something that was made by mike mccarthy that completely changes that game as opposed to what it could have been in the past not that mike tomlin wasn't a great coach winning all he did was win as a head coach is a super bowl champion i do not want to discount but two very different styles being implemented to the pittsburgh steelers uh at this on the colts i i love watching deforest buckner play man i absolutely love deforest buckner he's the man he was great in our meetings this week he told us how he was literally talking to his wife about retirement and he said to her one day i think i'm gonna hang it up and then she talked to him about it and he came out of it and uh just decided to just attack rehab one day at a time and see how it goes and the guy is playing fantastic football knock a few buck dude yeah we are such a better football team when he's playing get him out of there when he's not playing like last year he didn't play he was hurt we're 2 and 10 in our last 12 yeah okay so you can know that is the fact i'm worried that buckner's just gonna be on a team that's never gonna win the ac south here in indianapolis no we're second place right now you're right a lot of season left a lot of ball left a lot of you guys up next we have the titans bro adam venetieri's going into the ring of honor let's let's have a celebration this weekend now can't yeah cannot under any circumstance under no circumstances can you lose that game kicker great great kicker had a big day unbelievable spencer schrader is so good i've talked about him a couple different times now this week because it's a great story little bright uh blake groupie came in for spencer schrader last year when spencer schrader just broke his entire during the game spencer schrader was perfect we we found our guy we found our kicker he's from indiana he grew up a colts fan he's got a big leg he's a great kicker and then he just breaks his and i i actually see him in the locker room afterwards and it's like he's got that full thing and it's like man this guy's never going to be able to make it back i'm worried that we're going to get into a kicking carousel we bring in a little blake groupie out of notre dame this guy been around a little bit got injured he was flawless for us yeah this guy was perfect for us spencer schrader back in training camp a little blake groupie back they're battling in training camp blake groupie making everything Spencer Schrader still trying to find his way missing a couple gets in the games makes his kicks and then I think the decision was made like he got injured can't lose your spot because of injury we have to give him a go he's continued to be perfect and now little Blake with the Rams they got a great kicker over there so Schrader's been through some shit here early too JJ is what I'm saying it's not just really good yeah he's at the battle very it's very impressive very impressive now there was some game management decisions uh around kicking that happened this weekend uh and it wasn't just kicking decisions also what the hell's going on decisions D-Bud has a question for you JJ now been in the booth you are you got to add obviously some contact for listeners in these situations you got two rookie head coaches so you might have some in this upcoming week but what's been your thoughts overall with the league and these late game game management situations we saw the Eagles which is more of a coverage thing in my opinion but that commander's like what's your thoughts overall right now with the NFL in these late game game management situations I think that we're in like a bit of this new world with analytics and everybody being able to dissect everything on such a deep level now there's some game management decisions that are obvious no brainers we got one on the screen right now that that's that just cannot happen in any circumstance whatsoever but there are some other ones where people are loving to go on to the internet the next morning or even the night of and just pick apart things that yes you can pick apart and you can say that that might be the best decision but if it they did that and went the other way now all of a sudden we're having a completely different conversation the one I'll use as an example is Monday night you have Joe Brady who decides to kick the field goal there with two minutes left or whatever it is and people on the internet are saying well he should have ran the clock down why wouldn't you run the clock down in that situation well okay so let's say he goes to run the clock down James Cook's already fumbled twice you're not going to put it in his hands you're going to go with most likely a quarterback sneak with Josh Allen let's just say that somehow some way a ball gets kicked or something happens and it fumbles and now the Rams have the ball all of a sudden you're the biggest idiot on the planet but everyone the next day if you don't do that is going to say why wouldn't you run off the extra clock like at some point here it's damned if you do damned if you don't and yes there are certain situations where there's no question the numbers and everything else lines up but there are just so many Monday morning quarterbacks now that can literally make an argument or find a decision for everything as to why it was the wrong one and it's just a weird place to be in especially for somebody who's up in the booth now trying to explain why it was the wrong one and it's just a explain everything every week to people and I'm sitting like I put myself in my shoe in those shoes for that game if I'm in the booth do you want me to say he should probably run some extra clock down here or do you want me to be excited this guy just won the game with a field goal like it's a really weird spot to be in as an announcer trying to talk people through all the possibilities without also bogging them down with the minutiae of it yeah in the minutiae we have more people that know it or think they know it because there's more stats and analytics available to everybody and you know there's obvious situations where you're not going to situations that point out people that understand the reality of football versus, in theory, football on the internet. I think we all can see that, especially ball knowers can see that. Now, they do have a large community, especially whenever they come together and make themselves feel as if they're right. So I don't think you should ever try to, you know, fight against that stuff. But we appreciate you explaining the reality of ball, James. Now, the reality, though. Like, this one was interesting. Like, this one, to me, was a more clear-cut one because I had just had that real game, the Ravens, seven seconds left, but they had a timeout left. So when you kick it into the end zone and they have a timeout left, then it's completely different. Here, you kick it into the end zone, eight seconds is not enough time to do anything with zero timeouts. So that's a more clear-cut one. It's just these ones where you're like, do you waste clock? Do you not waste clock? I'm like, all right, some of these, like, let's just calm down. Also, you don't realize, like, I don't think anybody realizes what it's like to be on a sideline, like, for the coaches, making those decisions in that real time with the amount of people. relaying information. It's chaos down there, as you can see. Got to get it right. Got to get it right. And if it works out for you, you're a genius. And if it doesn't, you got a lot of people in theory on the internet saying, well, theory is reality, brother. And what you just did is absolute bullshit. That's why the game's the best. And we got bigger audience than ever. And we got more different styles of people coming in. And those people being combative about them knowing more than people that played, sick. I do appreciate that. I like the energy. But if all these things work, it's a non conversation. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, if it works, you're a genius, which is, which is sports as a whole. Yeah, it's fun. Did you see the frozen Gen Z frenzy last night? Did you see that with hockey? Oh, but you're a hockey guy. I was at the Hall of Fame thing. I thought at least you'd have it out on your phone while they were celebrating you for the Hall of Fame down there in Houston. It was just a frozen frenzy turned into the frozen Gen Z frenzy. Yep. Goals by Gen Z, which is 14 to 29 year olds. I don't think there's any 14, 15, 16 or 17 year olds in the NHL. But hey, maybe they did sneak one by the goalie if you will. 71 of the 112 goals yesterday. All 32 teams played. 16 winners, 16 losers in storylines in abundance, including, it does feel like it might be a little bit of a young man's game. Don't get it twisted though. Sidney Crosby scores two goals. Brady Kachuk has three goals. Yeah. And an apple. Matthew Kachuk has five assists, three of them to his brother. I mean, there was storylines and stars out. Young league though, it feels like. So good time to become massive fan of hockey. Who's your team, Jage, in the NHL? If they ever bring a team to Houston, that'll be it. I've said this many times before. I grew up in Wisconsin. I didn't know what a fair weather fan was. I started with the Chicago Blackhawks. I went to the Red Wings. I was a Chris Chelios guy. So big, big fan of the Red Wings. But I don't have a team that I follow. Love the NHL. Love hockey. Played it all growing up. One of the best sports of all time. Do think that we can help ourselves a little bit marketing wise, that the guys would give a little personality. But that also makes them who they are. And that's the beauty of it. So I think that there's some real absolute stars. Obviously, Crosby is one of the greatest in the history of the game. Bingo. Love hockey. Okay, there is talks of Houston expansion, I believe. Because, what are you, fourth largest city? Fifth largest city in America? Fourth. Fourth largest city in America. A lot of sports fans. I mean, you just talked about Houston Dynamo. I forgot they were a team. One of the oldest MLS teams in the entire league. Comets are coming back in the WNBA. We got the Comets coming back. Okay. So, Houston, big city. I would like an NHL team in Indianapolis, personally. But I think Indianapolis would be able to. What? What? I didn't say anything. I'm going to start here. This is where Wayne Gretzky first played professional hockey. And Moose. Yeah. And Marc Messier. You ever heard of him? I mean, we had Gordie Howe down here at the Arrows. That was a hundred years ago. What, he just did like the Harlem Globetrotters tour down there? Wayne started here. Yeah, you ever heard of Wayne? He did not start there. Yes, he did. He started professionally there. He started on a pond. He started in the backyard. Okay. Yeah. Obviously, at the Gretzky household is where. You don't want to go back to the beginning? Thank you, Mrs. Gretzky. That's where it started. Okay. That's where. And you want to go way back to the beginning? Thank you to Mr. Gretzky. Yeah. I guess for sending him in there. Now, on that note, he got his professional start right here in Indianapolis. The NHL is looking to start the expansion process in Texas with Austin and Houston as potential targets, Emily Kaplan told us on Tuesday, on a Tuesday. Let's get back to the NFL chatter. Big one on Monday night. I was lucky to be there. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Jage, incredible game. Arguably, maybe the game of the season so far, especially with some of the duds we've had on Mondays. Looking at that and a big talking point post-game and kind of early in this week, do you think the Bills can sustain what Josh Allen is doing? Can they win a Super Bowl kind of just putting everything on his shoulders and saying, hey, listen, we need you to kind of go out there and be Superman week in and week out. Can't really make mistakes. Defense isn't the best, although they weren't terrible. But like, is this. Is this a sustainable way for a team to win a Super Bowl? I mean, when he plays at that level, absolutely. It's able to play at that level for a very long time and take the beating, which obviously he's done for the majority of his career. So there's no reason not to. I do think the defense needs to play better. They know that. Jim Leonard himself said it. He had one of my favorite quotes this week, where I believe he said, it's always great to have Superman as your quarterback, but we don't want to wait until it's our turn to save the day on defense. They do need to play a little bit better on defense. Obviously, but there was some crazy stat where like, when the Bills give up over 35 points, they're like 8-0 and everybody else in history is like 18 and 132 or something. And that's just what Josh Allen does. We have all the superlatives and everything and people are like, oh, but he's unbelievable. And when he puts it on his back and has 121 rushing yards, like he only threw the ball 19 times. It was, he literally was just running over people. He doesn't slide. He just directly threw defenders downfield. It's, it's impressive to watch. And I'm looking forward to seeing this weekend against the Raiders to see what they can do. How many times you get to play against Josh Allen? I don't know the number. I know we, uh, we had, we had a few good battles in the playoff one in Houston where we were able to come back. Uh, got a nice sack to spark that one. That was fun. He's a hell of a player, man. He's a hell of a player. Sorry. All I really remember was when I changed the entire game and we went into playoffs against him. Yeah. Great guy. Great guy. Maybe he'll be, maybe he'll be in the Houston ring of honor someday. Maybe, maybe that'll work out for him. But we did think we, we talked mightily about, having to face him yeah like he can shake your ass he got lamb man not that lamb man didn't get a couple on his side he's a phenomenal football player it's fun to watch lamb man and he's hitting his head off of helmets before the game he is everything you want him to be as a linebacker but like josh allen can shake the shit out of you he's faster than he can jump over you and then he will choose to bull rush you as well on the defensive side in a matter of seconds you have to make all those decisions and then he's back up we're running hurry up he's coming right back at you again joe brady will run the same shit 50 times straight if he thinks that it's working feels like a natural uh relationship between joe and josh but the system quarterback convo we were having before we got on air uh can it win the super bowl can backyard football players win the super bowl at the quarterback position yesterday we got into it a little bit before the show we got into it it's not that much backyard football i mean they have james cook like yes he's got fumbling issues right now but james cook is a dominant running back like this this offense is not 100 squarely on josh the fumbles are a problem but james cook is phenomenal agreed completely but he is a backyard freestyle football player so we wondered can you win a super bowl like that can you win a super bowl so we started thinking about it well i guess mahomes would be considered at times backyard football player he won a few but whenever you think about system quarterback you think tom brady he's running a system peyton he's running a system eli he's running a system it's drew breeze drew breeze he's in the system you think about like when people talk about caleb williams they're like the chicago bears would be good if caleb plays within ben johnson's system jalen hurts in the system was playing although he could extend plays he wasn't like a freestyler like josh allen is a i think there is a system there is obviously a play call but he's a freestyle type quarterback it's very apparent and he could take over at any given moment patrick mahomes i think is maybe the the most successful consider that style yeah of quarterback but when you look at it i mean he is playing for andy reed who's gonna go down probably one of the best play callers ever so he does play within the system but it's just it's certain times where he does improv he'll extend the play he'll get out um so yeah he would but obviously he will be the guy he's the greatest of his generation but i wouldn't necessarily i don't think people will call him a system quarterback but he's played within that system and that's what you want ideally you want a quarterback that plays within a system whatever system that is and he's going to play within that system and he's going to and then it'll be a handful of plays where they have to be special they have to do something outside of the box but what people say like you don't want to you know he only threw the ball 19 times but he dropped back to throw it maybe around 30 and he just tucked it and ran it and that's that's a nightmare for a defense to start with jj watts up front they got to have you know discipline rush lane so they can't really pin their ears back and then for us we could be perfect coverage perfect drop and then he just takes off and gets 25 so it's tough you definitely want a quarterback that can do both but i think ideally systems with great players win championships it blew my mind that entire night as we watched that game that they never put a spy on them like that that blew my mind and i know it puts the dbs right at a at a disadvantage i get that but like and again like landman was kind of in position a couple times so i'm not even sure that would have worked but at least put somebody in there to kind of spy they just rushed four and the problem is and jj you know this right with with aaron donald the way he rushes he just kind of can do his own thing he can take the inside rush and you kind of have to read off of him and there was numerous times where he takes the inside rush and he doesn't rush the nose loops around josh goes left right between them and then out the gate yeah and he can do and i think you have to have a lot of trust sorry last thing on this entire combo before i let you jage um uh give your explanation which i think is going to probably rewrite how this conversation has gone into thunderdome so i appreciate that but i think everybody uh that has success in this style has an incredibly high football iq like patrick mahomes his extension of plays when he does he knows when and where and how to do it russell wilson when he was with the seahawks i think you would consider him and as a potential freestyle because what he was able to do with his legs whenever plays break down was outrageous they still had that system though where he was dropping dots josh allen he has to be making full game decisions every single play on what he's doing and then he's taking like 30 hits every single time as well which i think everybody's scared of go ahead jade sorry about that cutting you off yeah no no you're good so i i think this is all brilliant conversation and i think that part of the thing that you have to do as a defensive guy we'll get into this obviously in depth on sunday during the game when we have them against the raiders but is how do you try and stop this most efficiently and obviously not many people have had success and i think one of the most obvious things for a fan to say is the spy thing and i think you're you're absolutely right in that aq and that why wouldn't you just put somebody over the ball spying josh allen and say hey you're responsible for him well the problem with that is is when you're going to spy somebody you have to stand a couple yards behind the defensive line obviously so that you can see him but then also if he goes left or right you have to be able to go either way well the problem with that is is once josh allen decides he's going to scramble and get going he's got ahead of steam he's coming directly at you and you're basically flat foot at that moment trying to make a decision on which way he's going to go and he has the whole field to use once he breaks through that line so it's extremely difficult to make an open field tackle on josh allen while he knows where he's going and you don't and he has all that space so you're in my opinion almost wasting a defender by putting a spy on him because it's so hard to tackle him so what i think is the best way to do it which is extremely difficult and you have to have a very good defensive line is a four-man rush kind of like we talked about with the rams but that four-man rush has to fully and completely understand that they are responsible for josh and you do have to rush completely differently when that is the case because you need the guys in coverage because he's too good of a quarterback and he will pick you apart on the back end if you don't so you drop your seven you have your four guys rush and you communicate you four are responsible for that one man you can't let him around you just you can't let him up the b gaps you either have to do bull rushes you are what we are disciplined we are rushing to the level of the quarterback and we are coming back down much much easier said than done but that's what you have to do and how disciplined you have to be to be a guy like that it's fun to watch yeah it is so much fun and we've said this about lamar with how electrifying he is if this was to be able to get to the super bowl like if lamar was able to get to the super bowl or josh allen was able to get to the super bowl there's somebody in some country watching football for the first time that's just like what is this thing here he could play the game at any time and nobody knows it it's almost like the way they're talking about b flow's defense where b flow doesn't even know what coverage the secondary is good because the secondary is deciding that in real time it's like josh allen's deciding in real time what every single play is and now he can spin it just as good as anybody else fun that's also that's also kind of different too once you get into the playoff parts because right now we're in this you know it's week to week you get in there wednesday you got a whole new game plan for it once you get in the league and they have an actual like a plan okay this is a josh allen or lamar jackson plan and going into buffalo with their lineup who's healthy to wide receivers that's probably the weakness of that offense so look keon coleman dj like these guys got to beat me we got to figure out how to stop how we're going to have eyes and it may be just situation may just be third down third and medium maybe red area but these are the particular plays we're going to take 17 away and we got to make and that's why i think over time you always see like systems win and players within it's just a matter of time i think we're going to have to see if we're going to have a lot of things that we can do and we're going to have to see if we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to have a lot of things that we're going to have a lot of things that we're him I think you take all your wounds and your lumps because on film it can look one way and then in real life yeah right so I think division game is always going to be tough for backyard style football players because they're used to it but once you get into the playoffs and you got a lot of teams that haven't played you before there's a chance you can go but there's also a chance that a D coordinator says what JJ said listen yeah you four you're four number ones okay you guys need to make sure this guy this freak doesn't beat us and in in the big games in the playoffs much more difficult competition which is why the conversation is can you win with this style you know who thinks they can AQ Shipley AQ's big takeaway is he's all in on Allen James that's AQ's takeaway is that because he makes the offensive lines job a lot easier or why do you why are you all in on Allen well I think part of it was what JJ just talked about whenever you rush four you have to have rush lane integrity but the problem is and like JJ said okay cool we got a bull rush but there's a couple clips like even this one right here where Josiah Stewart right he's coming off the edge bull rushing Dion Duck doesn't matter he still is able to escape and run for 10 there's numerous plays where Aaron Donald swims inside you get the nose looping around oh we think the nose is going to come free he shifts left shifts right land man's going to make a play nope can't happen right so I think there's so many things and then also at the end of the game when he decides to take a peek out to the left they call a run play that's going to get handed off to the right he sees a peek out to the left that oh they're in man coverage nope I'm just going to pull this and boot around he can take over the game at any moment and then oh by the way you don't need to tush push if you get in third and short or if you get in goal line he's always going to get you the first down whether it's over the top or whether it's falling forward but that play right there was unbelievable he takes a peek pre-snap sees it Aaron Donald comes scot-free up the b-gap and he's just too fast to outrun him to the corner yeah Josh Allen AQ Shaw in on Allen can he stay healthy he's always going to be banged up bold take there bold take wow I think uh I think far too well there was somebody this week that said well Josh Allen's got to do something different Swagdo thinks they're not going to survive Marty that was like Swagdo's opening line I did not expect it to be the opening line but as he was talking I'm like man we don't really talk about that with Josh Allen ever he's never been hurt has he uh yeah yeah it was a couple seasons ago where he kind of broke a finger but did he he didn't miss games I mean he always has like a couple of those little things throughout the year but never actually misses anything he's banged up always yeah like what's he got uh he's got like five broken fingers yeah he's all right his ankle hurts and it's just kind of like expected so it's like whenever the games matter the most and he's super banged up i think swag this question was a good one like can he win a soup can he's can josh allen win a super bowl that's the only conversation for the rest of his career him lamar joe burrow like you know we expect him to be mvp candidate daniel jones sure sure i mean he's on the mvp uh watch list right now but those guys once the conversation comes up about him that's all that matters can they win the super because josh allen has all the playoff wins records and all the quarterback stats without a super bowl and you never want to be on that list so that will be the question and yeah what i feel like for me once i saw kind of cam newton's body breakdown it's like okay no no quarterback is that list just quarterbacks i'm sorry yeah jameer gibb is on there you know it's a quarterback where jj you know and walker yeah not on there my home where is ken walker so my home's plus 650 i think what they're saying is if the chiefs remain good patch mom's gonna get that running back's not gonna get that and i i would like to say i'm a home supporter i would assume patrick mahomes will come out very loudly for kenneth walker down the stretch on how much he has done for their team this year but you're right he's changed them completely jage yeah i mean i get it like odds and and how it's going to shake out by the end of the season everything but you want to talk about like this is this is gets into the whole debate of most valuable player versus best player yeah your entire that's your gimmick but but i mean but what ken walker has done this year and the way that he's helped transform that offense is spectacular for him to not even be on that list if that's if that list truly goes up to plus five thousand and then yeah you added your guy at the end there no so kenneth walker's plus 5500 i don't know how he didn't make this list there's also numerous other people seemingly between plus five thousand and daniel jones there really what i don't know how they got left off dan jones still at plus 15 000 uh it might be worse let's check it let's go down here 500 yeah plus 20 000 plus 20 000 on that but yeah he's in there he there are odds for kenneth walker to win the mvp i mean we just want to let you know what daniel jones is in case you want to go ahead and sprinkle down oh jordan love plus 500 jordan love has his best football game brock purdy was odds on favorite 20 going into monday night uh we wake up on tuesday josh allen now the odds on fair to be the mvp these are very fluid odds as the season continues a lot of football left we talked about josh allen lamar jackson joe burrow all anybody wants daniel jones all anybody wants to know is can he win a super bowl or not can he win a super bowl or not there's a quarterback that none of us expect to win a super bowl who is a super bowl champion who had a phenomenal battle with the nfc west this weekend go ahead connor yeah j 49er seahawks they kind of had the late game steal the show type of situation with the 32 29 victory the 49ers got in seattle were you able to see any of that game did you see the ending a lot of us kind of confused we thought the ball could go out of bounds to where it lands instead cooper cup ball goes out right before the first down line and then it ends up being out of bounds kind of a weird situation what did you think about this game this division seemingly being the best in all the nfl the reason the rams are just two and three with the super team what are kind of your thoughts with this yes i i thankfully was able to watch this on the flight home from pittsburgh uh shout out starlink that was fantastic um shout out the ending was insane i mean all of it just everything that went on with this game especially the fourth quarter this fantasy west is such a blast to watch because of the minds that they have in that because of the players that they have in the battles they go through but the this specific play so this is interesting because obviously before the season we have all these conversations about what the refs can have what they don't have what angles we have what we don't during the season i watch the officiating videos every week so i know exactly what's going on at all times before the season they told us this thing which was interesting to me that on punts when the punt crosses out of bounds the officials actually have a thing on their watch where they can tell exactly where it went out of bounds based off of i don't know the chip in the ball crossing the line i think it has to be completely clear no obstructions with the players or etc so that's why it works on a punt and i'm assuming not on this situation but i do feel just like i'm sure everybody else does that at some point even if we can't get in the middle of the field with quarterback sneaks the sidelines there has to be some way shape or form that we can use the hawkeye technology from tennis and baseball's telling me exactly the spin rate and what pitch a guy's throwing the second it happens there's got to be some way that we can get where this ball went crossed out of bounds when he was diving because jade you knew that jade you knew that i felt so stupid i thought the line extended forever like a ton of times i thought it was going to be like a touchdown i i did not know and i i am very open about me not knowing stuff and when i learn stuff i adjust accordingly i think you have to do that in daily sports talk i think that is uh just a lifestyle you should do that once you learn things you should change i did not know that it was where the ball goes out of bounds over the line because when you make a catch and your feet are in bounds yeah and the ball's out of bounds it's i don't i didn't know that this has been a big discussion all week because they're like well what if you're running a touchdown and you're not going to be down the sideline and the ball crosses over but your feet are in bounds that's fine i i'm not going to sit here and pretend like i know the reasoning behind it all but i do know that when you're diving out of bounds you do have to try and get it across before that i don't i don't fully understand the differences between each of them but yeah it's it's pretty crazy i didn't know that like as it was happening i was watching it and i'm like he clearly got his feet are in let's what are we even moving along they're like because there's other things where the the first down line extends all the way to the end so like a uh intentional grounding if a quarterback gets outside the pocket and he throws it away the my understanding is that the line does extend all the way so as long as he gets it past that first down marker even if it's behind the bench he's fine there are clearly times where the line extends and the line doesn't that's a gene steritor that's why i got a little button all i gotta do is hey gene what's the rule here and then it's out of my hand i wish i could do that with gene steritor with my life just everything you know what i mean hey gene i got a question about this uh landscaping i got going gene will have an answer you know hey i do it with i do it with football games all the time and any game on a like what a thursday night or a monday night i'll just text gene just like i'm in the booth and be like gene what was that and he'll he's awesome text me right back i haven't tried other points of life i should gene are we allowed should i go with the cannoli or should i go with a chocolate chip cookie which one cannoli you know the answer yeah you know the answer i'm not i'm not a big guy i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry you're asking gene steritor for his response oh he's gonna say cannoli definitely yeah hey should i do gabagool or should i do bologna you know he's gonna say gabagool every time even if he would like bologna because he feels obligated to do it he's a pittsburgh guy he said he wished he was in town because he's gonna make me some family recipes he wasn't there this past weekend i would i would love to see what the steritor family's tossing on the table gene steritor is a western pennsylvania pison legend icon i'm a huge fan of gene steritor we like that he loves reffing too i believe his brother reffed his dad comes from a family of refs coach basketball coach football ref basketball ref football whatever you need him to do and i like how calm and confident he always was when he had that one shot he uh sounded like he knew what the hell he was talking about as opposed to some of those rest it uh we think it's uh what number is it take the one shot off me please please please please please leave the microphone on who is it on the who's it on can't have it just can't have you bumbling fumbling around like that do we notice any difference between the way the coaches and players are talking to the refs this weekend no no not really we shouldn't didn't see any situations at least no flags because i was worried about we were all very worried about very we're all very worried about that with the whole rabel thing then the whole to train me the aaron glenn thing was phenomenal with the dude that was the best hey you know you were wrong hey i got something for you same amount of wins as the los angeles rams new york jets jets fans aren't going to see like that they still see themselves as under 500 and you know we need to rebuild but what aaron glenn is sticking to it over there and he's still himself it feels like remember we've seen some coaches who had great mocks and go in the new york jets facility and lose their souls yeah completely just this is not who this person was whenever he got here aaron glenn still you know he's still everything that aaron glenn was when he was at detroit will the team continue to win we shall see good for them hey jage who wins the super bowl here it is what wednesday october 14 2026 jj watt thinks that the what are you what are you doing to me here pat what do you want me to do here i'm a i'm a commentator now now you're gonna set me up for the rest of the season everybody's gonna say i just said wednesday wednesday october 14th 2026. this will change wednesday you gotta you gotta you gotta beat you gotta beat the champs to be the champs go with the seahawks all right i like that hey i appreciate the value right now yeah get in on that it's not bad value plus 11 follow my advice on anything besides food okay what should we have for dinner tonight you should have uh good quality homemade cheeseburgers really homemade cheese that just sounds like a really nice knife for a cheeseburger it needs to be a soft bun um but you need to get it on a little butter toss it on the grill get a tiny bit of char on there so it softens up a tiny crunch with the cheeseburger with it have your own toppings whatever you like on top but i need a nice 80 20 lean ground meat get that sucker nice and tight get the grill hot toppings my dad's a smash burger guy i'm more of like a traditional burger my dad makes the best smash burgers ever i love a good smash burger but they do leave you feeling a little fatty a little oily um i like a traditional you putting a little more of like a kind of a five guys type i would say okay we got cheese on both sides of the burger one burger how many burgers no just i do one thicker burger piece of cheese on top and then you got your toppings in your bun and i'll do at least two of those well i did two all beef patty special sauce laced cheese sure okay but something like a heinz 57 french fried potatoes big kosher picker and a cold damn beer now good god almighty what do we have here what do you put on top of your burger i put on top of my burger uh ketchup mustard onion tomato and then no i leave lettuce off i don't mess with lettuce i don't like shredded lettuce i don't want shredded lettuce i don't like shredded lettuce and i also don't want the one piece of lettuce that when i bite it and then it flops out i'm like i don't need that you're dragging away don't need that yeah yeah see the lettuce is gone i take the tomato off because of what you just said i don't like the thing coming all over me yeah i don't think it tastes good enough i got the ketchup here heinz heinz ketchup on it here to get rid of that tomato chilled shredded lettuce though you're saying no to wow holy i don't like to shred it i don't like to shred it oh dude you go ahead you got the ketchup on there okay then you are you a mayonnaise guy are you a fancy sauce guy that's what was right here yeah that's mayonnaise on top there then guess what you do we got a little cube onion diced onions on there just like the quarter pounder with cheese mcdonald's then as you have a little bit of mayo and ketchup peeking up through those little diced onions or chopped onions then you go ahead and put that shredded lettuce because now it's sticking to this stuff okay now you got it then you go ahead and put jalapeno chips right on top of that thing then you put your your bun on there and then you and then hi we're having a good time we got a good texture in there with the chip we got a nice chill shredded lettuce obviously the ketchup and mayonnaise are defined and then the onion adds a little flavor and then that meat's gonna hit your mouth like a freight train you went with a grown-up fifth grader you went with a grown-up fifth grader you went with a grown-up fifth grader you went with a grown-up fifth grader you went with a grown-up fifth grader you went with a grown-up fifth grader meal there the chips the jalapeno chips is an elevated version of a middle school meal with like the ham and cheese where you toss the ruffles right on top i asked you listen i will take a bag of fritos and i will put salsa and cheese in there if we don't do middle school meals especially on the taco yeah if we need to do that i will do middle school meals and i had cinnamon toast crunch last night can we say this maybe this is a drink maybe this is a hot take uh don't like fritos i stink the chili twist fritos oh yeah the chili twist the hot chili twist phenomenal don't like a regular frito are you a chip guy or not chip guy because i really only like chips on sandwiches and on burgers not really reaching for chips in the day-to-day um no i mean i don't reach for them in the day-to-day but i am specific about them i'm a big shout out to canada all dressed have you ever had an all dressed chip where's it from canada no um they also have ketchup chips up there which i actually shockingly am a fan of they're not bad it's weird but i do love a traditional standard ruffle dipped into a french onion dip dean's that's a traditional staple with hot ham and rolls up in wisconsin um and then obviously kettle cooked is when you get that crunch you get one of those that's doubled you get two two in one and it's like like this and you yeah yeah i like that keep coming up all right well i can't wait to have like a sea salt and vinegar like a salt and vinegar that's a new anger yep i'll have i will have a sea salt and vinegar if i see it don't see it often you know what i'm into what's your flavor what's your top flavor uh jalapeno i like jalapeno jalapeno is great that's a tough find are you like a miss vicky's i like a miss vicky's that is the i think that's the winner and let's go over to like candy as we have 40 seconds left here before a hard out i am on a snickers run right now like you've never seen oh yeah still bring it on if i see it it's gone i mean some of these planes would get on they got six of them that's the task that's the task we got an hour long flight i don't know how i'm gonna make them all disappear i do yep i used to be with reese's now it's snickers this is my first time ever experiencing the snickers run i'm hungry i'm grabbing one why wait i'm not snickers is a a downhill duo run play that is a call it and haul it standard right up the alley well said that's right so are you brother every time you show up it's magic we appreciate you xj jay watt we're back on the other side be a friend tell a friend something nice on october 16th the king returns sylvester stallone is back as mob boss to white man freddy in the paramount plus hit series tulsa king with new enemies closing in and his empire on the line dwight and his crew prepare for the biggest fight of their lives tulsa 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question is can his body and his style uh survive in play in a super bowl to win it that's what all anybody's going to ask for the rest of time until josh does it just like they do with lamar just like they're going to do with joey burrow and the cincinnati bangles with how they've operated and just like how they're going to do it daniel jones and annapolis colts now cj stroud also going to get questioned like that until he does it if he does it it's tough to win a super bowl and if you're a quarterback that doesn't you're forever judged by you'd still make the hall of fame shout out to josh allen who's going to be playing hard to get to the god damn arena yeah yinzer legend but it's held over his head just like philip rivers held over his head philip rivers is a starting quarterback in the nfl for a hundred years has so many records has so many good times can't tell the story of football without phil rivers and then you get somebody who just says yeah cool all right dude how many super bowls he went it's all anybody cares about josh and lamar it's going to be the uh topic of conversation for them until they retire or until they win multiple josh allen might go and win six super bowls lamar jackson might win 10 super bowls we have no idea what's going to happen especially this nfl season although it does feel like there has been some great that have separated themselves anything can happen i hope it doesn't but all you are is one injury away from your team collapsing in one new strategy or scheme away from winning it all that's why football is the greatest 12-year nfl veteran super bowl champion aq shipley is this the best season of football that you've ever seen before it's the best season yet michael mcquaden ireland said that was going to be the case thank you to him for doing that he was just a year ahead of time he said that about last season turns out it's about this season nine-year nfl vet yukon husky legend darius j butler you think mcquade was right about this best season yet that we're having when is mcquade not right of course he was right well he made up some lies i think about some stuff yeah we checked them all out they were all fact checked and oh yeah they were mcquade isms yeah right yeah where he was just kind of you know cartooning things a little bit to make sure he could tell an accurate depiction of the game and he was right about what's happening in ireland uh pro football ireland and we appreciate mcquade but it did feel like from across the pond in that beautiful aisle he said that this was going to be the best season yet and i don't know what he was saying if he was going to be able to tell that the parody was going to be outrageous it was going to be unexpected every single weekend did he know college football was going to be as chaotic as it was i don't know maybe mcquade knows it all the toxic table certainly loves mcquade at boss of connor at ty schmidt con man it feels like this football season spectacular but also sports as a whole wmba moves into state farmer and arena down there for uh their finals that's great news mlb has teams that i think before the season had no chance because they don't spend enough money they might win it all and then hockey had their frozen frenzy last night and there were storylines galore goals galore and propelled their season and kicked it off in a massive way sports are on fire con man yeah and truly the stars like to your point wmba angel reese is balling out she gets defensive player of the year she goes to atlanta by the way they make the finals should be talked about oh yeah should be talked about with angel reese getting traded to a team and then immediately making the finals brand new expansion team they drop into the league they make the finals wmba cooking nba also off to a hot start halliburton won for like 75 points last night i mean he pulled up from the logo multiple times he's getting back into the groove of things he said that first game in iowa state he didn't play that much but he was winning he said he was a bit gas coming off a big layoff yeah playing shapes different than training shape and tyrese halliburton and the pacers are hot but back to the hockey con man I mean the frozen frenzy yesterday was spectacular. I love this concept, seeing a lot of people say They had no idea what was happening. I think we could have potentially learned about it a little bit earlier and talked about it. But I think as people were watching NHL unfold last night, maybe some people found some new teams. And there's young guys dominating combat. Yeah, the young guys thing, the Gen Z, I didn't really understand that. Like you mentioned Brady Kachuk. I found out Brady Kachuk is 27 years old. So he's in it. So he's in that. Yeah, Jack Hughes, like a lot of the superstars, which is awesome because of how young they are. But, yeah, Connor McDavid, I mean, he had a goal and three assists. The Oilers scored four goals. So, yeah, Connor McDavid basically made all of those happen. Brady Kachuk, like you mentioned before, it was just stars. You know, that's the biggest thing. Crosby has two. Connor Bedard, the young star for the Chicago Blackhawks, he comes out. He scores the, you know, not game winner, but kind of game sealer almost for the Chicago Blackhawks. Boston Bruins, Macklin Celebrini, the young star for San Jose, who they played late, he scored a goal. Charlie McAvoy in his first game back from suspension, he scores a goal. Any time the league as a whole, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, has their guys going, that's when it is the best. That's why the only real thing in the MLB right now is the conversation with the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani not really showing up. Yeah, tell me about Shohei Ohtani a little bit because I heard maybe Skipper Dave came out and said, we're just going to support Shohei, that's what we're going to do. You said yesterday he has to be injured. I guess he's not hitting nearly as well as everybody had expected he would, especially with how his season went. And then if the Dodgers aren't out, it's all small mid-market teams that are going to make it. Tell me about the state of baseball in the playoffs right now. I mean, it's good baseball. Whether or not a bunch of people are watching it, that's a completely different conversation. But yeah, I mean, Shohei, that's the big kind of talking point right now. I personally think that he is hurt. He's healthy enough to play, to DH, but he's dealing with a shoulder, he's dealing with a knee, and it's just taken him a while to kind of get back into the swing of things. The Dodgers had talked about benching him, but at the end of the day, you're not benching this guy. He's one of the best baseball players of all time. He's won three out of the last four MVPs. He's going to get it right eventually, so he is going to be in the lineup tonight. And I wouldn't be surprised, because he told Dave Roberts, like, hey, mechanically I'm on to something. I've been tweaking things a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if Shohei has a massive night tonight. Okay, so they're on the brink? I think so. So they're down 2-0. So it's like they need to go now. I mean, you go, because it ends in Milwaukee. The Brewers have home field advantage. They have three games in a row at Dodger Stadium now. So, yeah, I mean, they lose tonight. It's scary hours, big time. Shout out to baseball. Good luck out there, all the teams, small market teams representing. What's that going to do for the lockout? Because it kind of goes against a lot of conversations that were taking place. That was the only conversation, kind of, is, hey, we want everyone to be competitive and be able to win. And I kind of said the same thing, like, well, that's bullshit. That's terrible. If that's your only argument, like, the Rays have been really good the last five to ten years. So, if the Brewers are going to win, they're going to win. They're going to win. So, it's like, and they don't spend any money. Yeah, I think they want a salary floor, though, is right. It would make more teams competitive. Owners have to pay money. Same thing. So, if there's a salary floor, then there would have to be a salary cap. But if there's no salary floor, then the teams like Pittsburgh are never going to exist in actual football. So, I still think they're actual baseball. So, I still think there is a counterargument, but it's nowhere near what it was a month or two ago when the Dodgers, because they paid everybody fraudulently. Yeah. The actual money was potentially a part of a big shell game. Mm-hmm. Ah, look at me now. Hey, it's going here. It's going here. I'm buying this team. I'm buying that team. I'm doing this. Who's got the money? My insurance company. Well, can you do that? Yeah. Yeah, don't worry about it. It's coming. It's all in there. Is it? No. How are you going to figure it out? I don't know. Sell everything. I'm going to jail. So, the Dodgers, the way it was built, I think, was fraudulent federally as opposed to just fraudulent MLB-wise. But that was the big argument. Them and the Mets spending, Pittsburgh Pirates not spending anything, never having a chance. Fans want a chance. Players would like a salary floor then. If you want to have every team have to participate, have a salary floor, the MLB says, well, if there's a floor, then there has to be a cap. Maybe there's just nothing. We just continue to move on how we are, and maybe baseball's back next spring. I mean, yeah. Again, you know, we're going to put the last four teams, three of the bottom five teams in spending are still alive. So, it's like, can you draft? Can you develop? Like, that's a big part of sports as well. It's not just spending money. Like, young players. Young guys get drafted. You need to be able to know which one of these guys are good, which one isn't worth a shit. Do we have coaches who can develop these guys? Do these guys perform when they get in? So, yeah, obviously the Dodgers and the Mets and, you know, the Yankees and teams of that ilk, like, that's a big part of it. But it's like, you know, you still got to go out there and perform. So, I don't know what they're going to do. You know, if the Guardians or the Rays or the Brewers were to win the World Series, like, you know, it'll be very interesting. Yeah, this is a hilarious tweet. There's a lot of this that is out there right now as we head into, uh, a potential work stoppage for MLB. Let's not worry about that now. Mm-hmm. Let's enjoy baseball. That's right. Let's enjoy hockey. Yeah. Let's enjoy football. Mm-hmm. Let's enjoy basketball. Let's enjoy the fact that we have a former president of Ohio. Ladies and gentlemen, he's a college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner. Ladies and gentlemen, an addict in Ohio, A.J. Hawk. Yeah. As we wrap up baseball, the Reds and the Pirates are never going to be in this conversation if everything stays status quo, but maybe that's how it's supposed to be because the ownership is ass. I don't know. I think there's a possibility the Reds could find a way to put this thing together in the next two to three years and get a World Series. Okay. I hope your Reds can do that. Bucca's never going to do that. It's never going to happen. Let's head over to Hammer. Dad! Dad! Tone, if everything was to remain the same with this negotiations, do the Pittsburgh Pirates ever win anything, and is that something that could deter you from being a baseball fan? You would think so, but the way the playoffs are playing out this year and you look at, you know, the teams that are in the playoffs still, the Pirates spend more than two of those teams in there, so why not? Yeah. I mean, I like that. 96 million there. Is that what they said for the race? That's, what, half a player for some of these teams? Yeah. I thought we said earlier, though, if the Dodgers don't win, it's good for us. It's good for not – there's not going to be a lockout. Yeah, but I think they're still going to have their argument in negotiation because there's a salary cap expectation because some of these teams have to pay, but maybe there's just no change, and maybe it's just like, you know what? Baseball's good. Let's keep it rolling. Let's move the World Baseball Classic to the All-Star break. Yeah, get rid of it. It was fun. It was fun while it lasted. It was the All-Star break. Yeah, it's not the All-Star game. Do like four nations. Let's just send college guys. Send high school and college guys like they used to do the Olympics back in the day. Boom. Love it. Let's do it. Just get embarrassed. Oh, let's just have them play banana ball. Yes. Actually, that's perfect. We would win. Yeah. America would win banana ball. You know why? Because, like, Dominican Republic, other countries, they don't do that Mickey Mouse bullshit. They got these guys starting at 12 years old, and the goal is, hey, we're going to get you out of here or you're going to go play in the majors. You're not going to be whipping your penis out while you're playing baseball. Like, we don't do that kind of stuff. Every time you say that, they don't. I swear I've seen it somewhere. I don't. You got to check your cookies, brother. That ain't Savannah Banana Baseball. It sounds like you maybe dabbled into a part of, you know, the All-Star. I don't think so. I see these guys taking clothes off all the time, dancing. No, no. We're not talking about. Family friendly, I thought. It is. You got some people's elbow banana coming up. Yeah, the guy who's not dancing with the stars. I think he's one of the main culprits. No. Your algo is showing you. The wrong stuff. AI is crazy right now. It is. That ain't what Jesse Cole's doing. Jesse Cole's got the Joe Bros. He's got OAR. He's a genius. Yes. There's no two ways about that. He also has an incredible hat flip. He does. Who's on Dancing with the Stars? The guy, the stilt pitcher? Joe Buck. Joe Buck's on Dancing with the Stars. Joe Buck was outstanding on Dancing with the Stars last night. He was one of the judges. He did so good. Fit right in. Is it live? It is live. Yes, it is. Oh, so he has to actually know his shit in real time? And he did? And I questioned it the whole time. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But from beginning to end, Joe fit in so good. He was so good at it. It was unbelievable. And then I'll note this. The banana ball guy, he has not whipped his penis out on Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, he never did that. Thank you, bro. It's just guys. I'll go. It's not ABC, of course. You know what kind of fines you're getting slapped with? You do that banana ball. It's not on TV. What are you going to do? It is on TV. And there's kids there. They ain't doing that. It's a great show. And it might be your only baseball next year. So let's not talk too negatively about it. Shout out to Joe Buck performing well for all of football. And sports out there with Dancing with the Stars. He's not supposed to be good on there. The fact that he was, we appreciate that, Joe. He also owes. How many touchdowns does Charlie Becker have on the season thus far? Don. Don. Don, how many touchdowns does Charlie Becker have? Eight. He's eight touchdowns. So Joe Buck, with his new deal, he agreed $10,000 per touchdown. Nice. So that's $80,000 donation thus far. Charlie Becker on pace for 19 touchdowns. Shout out to Joe Buck. Doing that. And Michelle Beisner, Buck, his wife, she obviously had to sign off on that as well. I don't think either of them have. But if we say it publicly enough, they will definitely have to buy in. Let's go from Dancing with the Stars and the NFL representatives and the Savannah Ball representatives to college football. A lot of chatter today because what Greg Sankey said at SEC Basketball Media Days about an openness to a 2014 playoff. There is currently a college football playoff simulation happening with select media members going down. And learning how the process goes for how they select who's who whenever the CFP rankings are to come out starting week 10, maybe week 8. I forget what it is. So this is the CFP kind of cooking. And then the 2014 playoff potentially happening around the corner. To tell us everything about what's happening right now is the authority on college football. One of the faces of College Game Day and Voices. Ladies and gentlemen, Pete Damol. Yay, Peter! What up, Pete? - Gentlemen, how are we doing today? - Okay, so- - Covered a lot of ground there. - Thank you. yeah impressive range well they're selling our college football stadium so we thought people would kind of piece that together for the college football conversation with the savannah bananas they don't do what ty said they do that that is ai what ty's watching and we we don't know why that's what ty zalgo is showing them so yeah it's crazy that's a whole nother conversation in of itself that maybe pete can break down someday maybe pablo gets into that someday uh pete let's talk about the 2014 playoff according to source says uh from the sec the members are open or more open than they've ever been for a 2014 playoff i think they are looking for a nine plus one which means nine conference game plus another big game on schedules for other conferences and championship weekend is quite a concern potentially as well what do we know about what's happening and when can we all expect it pete pete if espn is going to secure the rights for the additional playoff inventory for a 2014 playoff the expectation is we'll know relatively soon likely this week whether or not that happens uh i guess we'll step back and you have to remember the college football playoff is actually just really a television contract that's what it is right now and right now it's a television contract for uh a 12 uh team playoff which is which is 11 games uh espn and the cfp now for 34-ish days have been in a in a negotiation back and forth on potentially procuring the expanded college football playoff uh why greg sankey's comments to me are so significant today is this is by far the most open he's indicated being to to expand the playoff now greg's like he's a very calculating guy and he's always very careful with his words and he was never against it like overtly pat but he was always he was always sort of guarded and he was always very careful with his words and he was neutral and he he's a big let's explore the data let's run down what it would look like for the non-conference let's run down what it would look like for the selection committee let's let's run out all the traps before we declare anything so this wasn't a stand on the table open-throated we're all in but this was simply greg sankey indicating an openness from the sec which uh i interpreted as being as being fairly significant and likely a signal flare that uh we were going to be able to get a deal with the cfp going to 24 teams the expectation pat remains the cfp will go to 24 teams the vehicle that carries it there is still going to be the question uh espn has a built-in advantage in these negotiations pat because we're going to be eliminating conference championship games espn owns three of those four major conference championship games so it's almost like they they get to enter the negotiation with a rebate or a coupon right like we had you know x hundred million 150 million whatever it is garrett you know already a lot of people are going to be going to the cfp and they're going to be going to the cfp and they're allotted to put up for college football inventory so that money essentially gets reallocated towards bidding for the cfp so clarity uh clarity will come soon on uh on on espn and the cfp's talks i assume because espn uh has a hundred percent exclusivity on the college football playoff and are the landlords if they would like to send out to cw or tnt they probably get a first negotiation if the cfp was to expand as well so not only is there already money in uh championship weekends that is already potentially presented for that case i think they also are i would assume the first ones that cfp has to negotiate with that because if espn doesn't want it somebody definitely will and it sounds like that is the case espn though i think we should say has not been the driver for a 2014 playoff i i don't i don't think they have been the main drivers behind this i think the people at the top of espn have come out and said like we are not the one this has been cfp saying we should open this up to 24 and the cfp committee makes up commissioners and ads and there's a lot of people that want the 2014 can you re uh kind of explain why people do want the 2014 playoffs and positions of power in college football so last august pat um we broke the story that the big 10 it actually started to socialize as a big word with these things right they started to socialize a 24 and 28 team cfp and that's what 14 months ago and that's what 14 months ago and the idea was fairly roundly mocked in the media and it was it was it was greeted fairly chilly around the industry but in that time in just 14 months that notion went from being you know kind of there was an outcry against it and and that notion has has been generally embraced and i think a lot of this starts with pat and and you can obviously identify this with all your ties to west virginia is is what teams are having to spend now um so this will not be a windfall of money for the conferences that this this version of the expanded playoff um what it what it is is it's an access play and and it's not surprising the big 10 started they have 18 teams right so it behooves them that they want more access just like the big 10 was a big proponent of the expanded ncaa tournament they have 18 teams they want the middle of their pack to get in in ncaa basketball tournament in football going to 24 gives their middle class more games with juice this time of year right late in the season november and january and so on and so forth and November, December, Iowa, you know, is having a great season. UCLA is having a great season. Wisconsin is having a great season. Like those teams would have really meaningful games. That had always been Tony Petitti of the Big Tens rationale behind this. Slowly the idea codified. Look, the ACC and the Big 12 are lagging behind financially. So they want all the access points they can get for their top teams. And really it's been the rare thing in college sports that's been a groundswell. All the coaches want it, right? Pat, what coach doesn't want to make the playoffs or more access to the playoffs? The ADs feel the financial pressure. They're saying, hey, if we're spending in the Big Ten probably a median of $30 million a year on our roster, we want hope, right? Hope's a powerful drug. We want hope to say, hey, this is going to justify our expense. We could play a home playoff game. We could host a playoff game. We could be in the playoffs. So over these 14 months since it's been introduced, the idea has really caught on. The Big 12 came out in favor. The ACC came out in favor of it. And within the SEC, the coaches all obviously wanted it. The athletic directors and the presidents, Pat, really felt like this was a financial justification for them. And especially going to nine games, right? We've heard Lane Kiven's comments this year about nine games in the SEC and the injuries and just how much more difficult it becomes. And I think one last thing, and I know I've been rambling pretty good here. No. We'll come with this, Pat, is the Big Ten will add a guaranteed non-conference power game. So it's a huge scheduling play. I mean, look, the Big Ten's opening few weeks were pretty pedestrian, right? Like the big noon kickoff games on Fox were North Texas and Indiana, no offense to Indiana, and obviously Kent State and Ohio State. If you have mandatory power games, you get a lot more games that look like their week two game. I think the Big Ten is going to get a lot more games than Oklahoma, Michigan, right? Like those are the games that get fans excited, that get, quite frankly, us excited, right, as people who cover the sport. We want more of those games. Tony Petitti has been very clear publicly that they would be committed. All the major commissioners in the room would be committed to playing nine conference games plus a power conference game, which would really juice up the schedule. And it would be good for, I think, for everybody, right? Everybody, fans certainly all want those games. Yeah, good for the sport, good for fans. Certainly good. Good for college football's growth, which there is still a lot of room to go, even though it's clearly the second biggest sport in the United States of America. Nine plus one is what the SEC currently is. Nine conference games plus one big game. Okay, need that on your schedule. I think the SEC, from our understanding, is looking for, okay, you guys only need eight conference games and then what? So we got ten tough games. If we're going to do this, we would like everybody to be on the same playing field for the good of ball. And then championship weekend, what happens there? That's just going to get eliminated, Pete, you think? Yeah, bye. It's gone. Now, championship weekend had gone stale with this 12-team iteration, Pat. It just had. Now, look, you've been to the SEC title game. We've been there for game day. It's awesome. It's awesome, right? We were at the Big 12 one year. It was great. Like, those conference championship games, you know, the juice with the 12-team playoff, the juice left them a little bit. And if we go back to, was it Georgia three years ago now or two years ago, Carson Beckett's hurt. In the conference championship game. And, you know, they have to roll out Gunnar Stockton, who never started a game before, in the playoff against Notre Dame. So the fear obviously became like, okay, is somebody going to arrest their starters in the conference championship game? Now, I don't think that would have ever happened. But the games just didn't have the resonance if everybody had already kind of secured a playoff spot that they had had in the past. You talked about rambling. It behooves all of us for you to tell us about the signal flash. For every decision that happens going forward for college football. We've been to every Big Ten championship here in Indianapolis that there has been since we've been here. We have a great time. I love it. We have a great time at those games. And it's a big celebration whenever you win your conference championship. I guess the season champion will now just be what the champion is of each conference. I think that's going to be tough for the SEC to give up because of what they built the SEC championship into. If they can get to the bottom of that, plus the nine plus one. From our understanding. Deal should be good. Now, people are going to be pissed AJ, like Ohio State people, old school college football fans are going to hate that this happens. accurate aj i don't that's what i wanted to ask pete like who is against it and what is their argument against expanding this like is there anybody outside like we always know coaches want to expand at 24 but are we just worried about the fans and all the backlash from the old school like football people so aj i really feel like the the biggest counter to 24 comes from the regular season argument uh college football and again i'm biased but has the best regular season in all of sports right the you know you think about the juice of these early season matchups because the stakes are so high and look aj like when you played for example um and when pat played you you had to be perfect right or you had one game you're screwed yeah season over yes one one loss was punitive and you might like you you need 19 other things to happen but you you woke up every saturday in the old era of college football scared to death could not yeah yes you could not you could not slip up and that helped make college football that you know like pat just mentioned the second one it's you know i think it's it's it's it's one of the most popular sports in america every weekend on every campus the games mattered a whole lot um so the thought is does the regular season get devalued some because you know alabama georgia for example was an unbelievable game last week do we shrug our shoulder and say ah they're both going to be in maybe somebody hosts like now you're playing for different things you're playing for seating and home field advantage in in things that really are not intuitive to the college football fan um and does you know some of the the juice of the game matter and i think that's a great question and i think it's a great drama that has really defined the sport in september october uh november get you know lessened because there is there is a safety net now you you know losing three games and making the playoff would become commonplace right like that would be that would be normal i believe alabama made it last year with three with three losses um if if memory serves off the top of my head so it's still not an anomaly now but it would become just kind of par for the course and that's just different that's like winning the afc east right and you know the patriots are going to lose to the dolphins on the road whatever like it's just no part of it and so it's a it's a yeah i hope not either but it's a uh it's a fun it's a fundamental shift in sea change and and you know the mentality of the sport and how it's been operated we the nfl is still doing very well even though every game isn't an elimination game i do understand that was a differentiator for college football i think with where we're at with college football now i think the quality of the game the environments the buy-in from everybody the parody of the league i think it can stand on its own with a loss or without a loss and that game this past weekend is because the nine plus one okay the georgia bama game is because of nine plus one happening down there in the sec if we get that everywhere we got massive games i think the fans are still going to flock and even more are going to come especially with more at the end but there's going to be people pissed now final question here for you pete from ty yeah pete obviously a lot to still get figured out here but is there any uh like when do they expect this all to take effect so it would be for 27 times that's uh that that's my that's awesome next year yeah i mean there's there's some scheduling things that need to be figured out army navy because remember we're moving to week zero is week one next year already um everything's getting shifted everything's getting shifted up a week does that make sense pat like you know there's usually eight games in week zero and it's always like hawaii and you know there's ireland game etc well all that's getting is going to get shifted earlier to to accommodate uh to accommodate all this so um yeah the the expectation is this is gonna this is gonna roll and roll quick all right we appreciate you for joining us and breaking it all down we know you'll stay on top of it why aren't you down at the cfp simulation thing that feels like something you should be snooping around it should be on the committee the what feels like uh feels like they're gonna have to change that for next year i'm passing because the selection is for 24 is going to be very different than 12. you're the best pete thank you so much for all the signal flares that's beat them we'll send them up for you thank you peter age people in ohio state are gonna be the most pissed you know like uh old school college football fans gonna be the most man i think that was the worry about expanding the playoffs and then when the conference championship game became a big part of the entire story and then it's a week after ohio state michigan these two just gonna play each other again next week like that was a conversation i think the game's so good i think it'll be able to survive by itself without just every week being an elimination game i personally think i agree the one thing that i hope they try to do and i feel like they've kind of tried to avoid it in 12 is i don't hopefully it's not just a bunch of like conference rematches in these early rounds like we want to see i want to see the other teams play the other teams and not just oh we're getting another big 10 matchup in the first round and another whoa whoa whoa you want them to cook the rankings absolutely yeah you think eventually that big 10 and sec completely goes away like like i'm saying like as they are right now do you think they just make it like the nfl where there's 32 teams and like have like four team divisions it's been talked about and fantasized in theory about but i think each of these conferences get so much money for different things and those deals aren't up until 2032 or 2034 so the planning for that would have to start now but it would also have to be a lot of hold from people who are not going to be able to do that people that are getting deals in 2030 i think so i yes would be amazing if it if it came to that but i don't think you'll ever see the big 10 and sec disappear now pack 12 we thought was dead it's alive well so everybody's in everybody in here is in on a 24 game i'm not i i 2014 i have not i'm not exactly but i know it's going to happen and i'm whatever so but yeah i understand why they're doing it but no i don't i don't like i think some what are those first rounds what are the first round games going to look like what's the score here i don't know i don't know i don't know well that's what the first round is now so i think that's kind of what the club the more home college football games though another round of home college football playoff games on campuses i think we all like that yeah i think we all like that but we think you could also do that still if you were to take it if you're moving it up so you're not in the middle of whatever the weather is some of these places i i don't know i i think this is quite an out for a lot of coaches definitely i think i think this is quite an out which is why they're supporting it i think we are going to playoffs 10 years in a row exactly like that's like that's it's like making the playoffs in the nba like who cares it becomes a part like it was tough like that drama between notre dame and miami last year getting in both very good teams but you know that that made it like okay you got in now what and then you're going to run like that's special but just i feel like it's 24 then it'll be however many and however it just keeps going up and i don't know maybe it's just fresh off watching that saving doc where you're looking at you're remembering like playing and then something crazy had to happen late i think oklahoma state had to lose so they got the rematch in the national championship i don't i don't know i i and i'm you know i probably sound like an old man yelling in the cloud because it is that's just what college football now is at this point but even the conference champ like i like conference champs me too yeah we like going to the big 10 i like going down the sec one every time we get a chance to do it we went out to the big 12 one it was it felt like their fans really wanted oh yeah it felt like their fans really wanted to be the first round of the playoffs and we'll be okay though you know that what's that that we can get rid of that and that be the first round of the playoffs and everything will be fine agreed i i think that's where we're all at in the song what's that so oh yeah counting down to one that's how we crown a cfp national champion they can't they can't remake that magic agent i mean 12 and 24 i mean if they said it quickly enough starting with 24 counting down to one they can they'll do that they can do it they'll do that rotating bases yeah more more teams get a shot to shine definitely definitely more teams got a shot to shine no ad lib that in there rotating let's not go from you being negative all right let's go to you in a suit okay and ty schmidt saw something he was dreaming of seeing this past weekend it's time for d butts situational report hey tell us about this week's sit rep as you look incredibly cool on that graphic and uh i think we're diving into green bay packers success a little bit we are we are another sit rep in i was this close it was this close to being a vikings the first defensive sit rep we'll probably get down uh down and dirty with those boys at some point but i mean matt lafleur we talked about giving him his flowers a couple years ago he came out big rivalry game he was very very aggressive jordan love had a big day 25 for 31 367 yard yards and what i like was the aggressiveness on first down specifically around midfield aj knows this is the shot territory first and 10 big bodies on the field jordan love under center now the bears did a lot i think they helped him out and this is part of being on first down both of these corners right here your cover guys right these guys you're paying money to cover fast wide receivers both these guys are gonna blitz so you're gonna have devin bush out here in the flat and cover too and you got a safety down here believe xavier woods in the deep half he doesn't get enough depth you got christian watson coming over in motion which gives him free access he gets outside a flat defender and just runs up the rail and jordan love does a great job putting it out there for an easy what i would call a good defense and he's got a good defense he's got an easy touchdown nfl this is wide open and number one wide receiver on this team wide open in the end zone i think it started with the play design but also with the bears helping him out probably calling the run blitz first down sending both your corners off the edge and now you asked out on coverage so is this jordan love taking advantage of the situations or is this them being actually more aggressive i think the play call is definitely aggressive first and 10 you're taking a shot this is once it wants to see alumni territory once anytime you're watching filming you see that logo first and 10 you better believe be ready for a shot you're deep so once again this looks good on paper you got a linebacker out in the flat not too much stress you got a safety who should be fine you got two receivers you got all the speed over here you'll even see if you run it back one more time fox or just rewind it about five seconds you'll see the backside safety rookie once he doesn't have any deep threat he's basically telling the other side hey push push i kind of i kind of got your help over here but all the speed all the talents over here he just doesn't get enough depth and uh jordan love takes advantage of it but it starts with the plate the aggressive play call on both sides defensively it's aggressive sending both of your corners but offensively taking advantage of that that's crazy going eight man protection max protection only a two-man route with five people in coverage five people in coverage two two-man route and they're both wide eyes open wide tie this is something that jordan love never he's a dinkin dunker right and the shots are normally hail marys into double coverage well when they're playing well like they are aggressive and they throw it downfield but whether it's been the protection and then they just he doesn't have time to do it or i think what a lot of people have been complaining about this year is we know the line's an issue a lot of early down runs and then they're putting themselves in third and eight third and nine third and eleven and forcing them to do that but when they're really rolling he's aggressive and throwing it downfield they said that was the best jordan love do we have a couple more yeah he averaged about 12 yards per attempt in this game this is right here again now you have christian watson up there as like a tight receiver he's going to end up becoming a slot once again first and ten once again the bears are going to blitz their corners you're going to have split safeties but instead of running up the rail this right down the middle middle has clear right down the middle another shot on first and ten being aggressive with the play call jordan love making an accurate throw and i mean once you're you're i i mean you can switch it up you know blitz the boundary corner here and there maybe catch an offense off guard but with these weapons that the green bay packers have down the field i wouldn't do a ton of blitz in my corners but this is once again first down probably a run blitz you got christian watson ends up in a slot free access down the middle of the defense another big play for number nine did we expect this out of jordan love and the packers this week against the bears tie coming in uh no not really i mean i think this is what everyone's kind of been waiting for and they want to see that because christian watson has been unbelievable and matthew golden has really started to get going but they they've always been kind of run or pass off the run like they've really wanted to establish the run game and then a lot of play action off that but they just haven't been able to run the football so it's kind of been like hey this is what you have to do you have to go out there and be aggressive with jordan love and he kind of has to be superman we're up 20 to seven now green bay packers can take the foot off the gas nope nope not this game you know there's a lot of heat between the coaches some heat between the players another big time play now i only got one wide receiver on the field bow melton 13 personnel defense probably thinking run right nope corner he bumps in now you got a tight end hard play action another max protection rolling to his left jordan love and now you're thinking the route concepts everything's going that way tucker craft's probably going to run a corner route nope he runs a post jordan love flips his hips throws it down the field so everybody got in on the action there's great play on the field and i think it's going to be a good play design great aggressiveness once again and then getting other players involved as well tucker craft obviously expect to have a big time year jordan love to his left flip hits he was feeling himself i mean that is a absolute bomb aj hawk look how look how smooth and under control he is but all this stuff to you about that you're showing it's coming from like tight condensed splits everything like you said this is 13 personnel that obviously the floor had something on on film going into this game like planned up and they it seemed to uh they called it at the right time and they executed it maybe just looking to protect jordan love if the conversation has been he hasn't been able to make any plays they have it against the chicago bears we have more oh yeah we got more shots we got more guys too this one is golden and now once again play design you're going to motion town 31 7 aj mentioned tight condensed splits jordan love under center and now obviously especially at this point in the game number nine you got a rookie free safety he's in the middle of the field you see this route concept week in and week out deep over with the deep post on the back side but now you can see the speed guys watching the golden the safety he's going to sit on one jordan loves just reading one guy here middle of field safety i'm reading the rook if he comes down on watson i'm throwing it deep to golden and now that backside corner who's freed up he has to beat golden to the ball which he doesn't great throw to your big time speedy wide receiver referee does a great job rolling being an athlete getting the hell out the way the great throw being aggressive like you said 31 7 you're still up in the fourth quarter you still got your foot on the gas it feels like a little zipper burn happening while we're watching the game so i'm going to watch the game and i'm going to watch these highlights well i think this is why i get so frustrated and irritated at times because i know this is in there you know and sometimes like sometimes it just they come out and they do not look prepared to play at all and again the old line has been a big part of that earlier this year but like we've seen this from jordan love time and time again like matt lafleur being in his bag him throwing it downfield accurate balls and the the not taking the foot off the gas that's the big thing like i think that's what everyone wanted to see is hey it doesn't matter that they're up 31 7 like go out there and beat the shit out of these guys not just because of all the the shit that ben johnson's talked but like that's how they lost two of the bears games last year was not taking their foot off the gas and letting them back into the game couple fun facts and stats here jordan love had the most pass yards 367 in an interception free game in the history wow of the bears packers rivalry and christian watson there's stats coming out about him as well he leads the nfl in 30 yard catches six of them in 30 yard touchdowns three of them big half of his explosives are going for tons good this is the last one the four the first four we showed was all the way to the end of the game and i think that's what we're going to see in the game and i think that's what we're going to see in the game and i think that's what we're going to first down so probably not expected like aj said probably had a tail in the defense now ty can you give us a little context on what happened kind of before this third and 22 yeah so on uh on second down they throw a a deep ball to to watson should have been pi was not called okay so they come back next play uh love throws a deep ball to stir devont down the right sideline he catches it called for offensive pi so it gets pushed back to third and 22 and it's like okay you know should have been a touchdown or we should have been in the red zone you know on the goal line and now we're probably just going to run a draw and punt and who knows yep alternate ball don't lie situation but now third and 22 like you said screen draw i'm thinking as a defense rally and tackle nope they're going to take another shot with christian watson in the slot now and now you have three deep defenders you see five standing back there those other two guys are going to come become like double buzz defenders so it's going to become three double buzz what we would call it and they were kind of hanging there looking for dig routes you're going to get a dig right here at the bottom but christian watson is going to get the ball and jalen johnson once again free access within the defense so they're just sitting to buzz so it's that corner jalen johnson you got to get depth be deep as the defense free safety as well jason watson throws his hand up makes it great now this is a throw you're throwing into traffic you're just trusting your six four six five wide receiver to just go up there and catch it and on the tv copy it looks even better with the catch and like you said this was a ball don't lie situation and if you have time the packers social media i think they put out like a five minute clip of christian watson being wired this game being miked up this game and it's a it's a good watch good listen for sure that's a 64 yard ball right there just throwing from jordan love with ease christian watson does it what was the jordan love quote about this particular play didn't he say something about i was mad about the first two so he threw another deep ball or something along those lines jordan love as he continued to ball i i don't remember seeing that but he pretty yes probably because he was really pissed after the opi uh i appreciate that jordan love and lafleur are finding it i like that they get a big time win over the uh ben johnson led chicago bears because we started talking about ben johnson and the bears as if you know oh they're they're on here what do you mean they're on here it's some ben johnson bears they don't do it if i do my dinner last you know oh they're on good you're saying against that particular offense but we were talking about this bears team being unstoppable they don't have caleb they have case they have dyson bagman bajan in there ben johnson's gonna do what he's gonna do he's the big bad wolf going into lambo and the floor said not so fast my friend shout out to lee corso shout out to report baby and uh ladies and gentlemen it is time to do something we get a chance to do every single week where we celebrate the big guys it's time to go in the trenches with the top five top five top five performing offensive lines from week five of the nfl season with aq shipley at number five monday night football zone buffalo bill what did they do aq well they came back and had a really good performance this week they ran it pretty well and josh allen and james cook were obviously two-headed monster and then the other boys got involved but look you see a little carrot over aaron donald they scheme this up this way right they put the back to aaron donald so you get the double team on the back side right there you get spencer brown osiris torrence climbing up on one side you get the double team between the center and the guard on the front side alec anderson connor mcgovern right there hip to hip beautiful technique you keep aaron donald away from the play hip to hip now the center connor mcgovern he's going to climb on the linebacker yep what is that that's a butt in a butt we find a big gaping hole beautiful run by cook this is one of the ones that he did not fumble and lowers his shoulder and runs through at the end well he actually lowered the crown of his helmet could have potentially been targeted player safety but hey offensive players doing it him getting off of the duo there uh getting up to the second level was what the most impressive part of this is by mcgovern absolutely he does a great job a lot of guys continue at the angle but listen every time you have an offset back to the back side they're never going to cross the midline so he does a good job pressing here and then getting vertical coming back and sealing there congrats to the buffalo bill yeah you already should know that's right you already he played well dion dawkins had a great game he did i got a chance to talk to him from across the field and warm-ups and i told him i said hey we doing this tonight and he goes he started talking about the refs wanting to call a hold on him he's so athletic for how big he is you forget how monstrous of a man he is we saw him at the espys he was walking behind us giant so big and then you see him on a football field just warming up it's like this guy is monstrous so athletic a lot of athletic uh big men let's talk about the number Performing offensive line coming out of week five of the NFL season. The Pittsburgh Steelers. Wow. AQ, you're from, I mean, you can't see a single offensive lineman in the back of that, but there is a slew of them across the top right there. I mean, they're certainly lurking. They're in there lurking. They're lurking in the shadows, and the shadows of being great is where they lived at the beginning of the season. A lot of people were worried about them. They make a switch, and now they're dominant, and the Pittsburgh Steelers offense looked great because of it. That's exactly right. Jalen Warren had over 100 yards rushing again, and when you talk about this group, they make a switch on the right side. But let me tell you, Mason McCormick, who I've been kind of lukewarm on over the last couple years, he comes in this year. He's at left guard. This is a duo play, right? This is all the meat, all the meat's to the left side. Everybody knows on the Colts defense, they know where it's going. But Mason McCormick does an incredible job. Him and Zach Frazier have been fantastic this year. There's the duo block right there. You get the ace block, right? Look at him hit the hip. Watch the nose guard go across to help Zach Frazier. As he does that, boom, he's going to go across. And then you get Troy Faton, who climbing on the second level, does a nice job. Look, Jalen Warren goes left, sets up his block for Darnell Washington. Make it look like he's going to go right. Watch him bounce again. But then we're going to go back to Mason McCormick. We've seen this clip where he takes a linebacker, and he just throws a guy. Has a grand old time out there. Yeah, he certainly was. He was laughing. It's certainly fun if you're not a fan of the Colts. I think the Steelers have found something. Let's go to the number three performing offensive line coming out of week five of the NFL season. Mason, fight game. They were a mainstay on here in years past. Yeah, and they played fantastic this week. They had some backups in the game at left guard and left tackle, whole left side of the line. But let's look at these two guards, right? This is the key to this play. They've got to get up and get front side leverage on the linebackers. Also, let's watch the center. He's going to set on the nose guard, show pass protection, then go behind the line, show a little deception. Look at the fullback, Bredesen, right? Bredesen goes in short motion. He's going to go and replace the tight end. Now the tight end is going to go back and wham the nose guard. Oh, wham. Boom. There it is. Had his eyes going back with the center. You wham him, and then you get two for one right here with Bredesen and Brian O'Neal on the front side. Beautiful block at the second level by the guards. And then you get Aaron Jones, who goes over 100 yards again. He was fantastic. Congrats, Aaron Jones. I saw him celebrating life as he should. Minnesota Vikings are 5-0. The number two performing offensive line out of week five, the Detroit Football Lions. So maybe it is the brand new Lions. Goff having an MVP season. Nobody talking about it. Because their defense hasn't been able to stop anybody. Offensive line, good AQ. Yeah, and the only reason they weren't number one is because of the slow start, as Foxy knows, all year long. But look, you see that defensive end right there? Amon Ross, St. Brown's going to come in. He's going to get the crack block. And then you send Laporta through on Buda Baker. Watch this double team between the guard and the tackle in Ratledge and Blake Miller right there. Can't open her. Get front side. And then you get big Brock Wright, the second tight end. He makes this whole thing go as he gets out as the fullback. Yep, there it is. Get him on the DB. What's that, boys? A big. A big. Gaping. Hole. And then you see the front side leverage, and you do not want to give Jameer Gibbs that much time. Jameer Gibbs goes on to be the NFC Offensive Player of the Week in Grassy Offensive Line. And the number one performing offensive line out of Week 5, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What? Quickly, one and four at number one. Yeah, the Buccaneers over 200 yards rush on the right side of this line and get a key and mowk, right? Look at them. They're going to go inside. We get down block, down block. And then we get the counter coming back. Bredesen, I just mentioned his brother, fullback for the Vikings. He's starting at left guard for the Buccaneers. Get the kick out. You get Payne Durham coming around as the second puller. He goes one. He climbs to two. Right there. There it is. This is winner, winner, chicken dinner. And they end the game right there. And downfield blocking, too, by the wide receivers. Congratulations to the East 5 performing offensive lines out of Week 5. Thank you, AQ, as we went in the trenches. Big day with big shrags. Breaking down all the big plays is next. We continue digitally. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice that might change their life. We'll see you tomorrow for football. Week 6. Boom. Nailed it. Might have been late. Way to get it in. My heart rate's at like 170 right now. Good shit. Nailed it. That was a shot clock, play clock type thing. Oh, yeah. Right there. That was, uh, this number's at 11. This one's at 22. We have 11 seconds to play with here. How's AQ going to do it? You did great. Thank you. You did really well breaking it down. Tampa Bay Buccaneers are number one, one and four. That means you've been waiting to put them up there. Well, listen, I trained their center, so that's one of my shipyards. I've been waiting for him to come. No. He can't be biased. All right, let's get to a break. Tristan Wirth's best in the league. Just saying. Left tackle. He's unbelievable. Where'd he go? Iowa. Highlighted a couple tight ends who also went to Iowa. Yeah. Maybe Kirk Ferentz got it figured out. Yeah, he might know what he's doing, you know. I'll tell you what, 2014 playoff, Hawkeye's going to be in there every single year. I know. It's awesome. I mean, they're going to be in there every, every year. That's right. That's another Kirk. That's Kirk's dog we saw, too. He was in the trenches. Peter. Post game. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're talking about. Lark Jackson. You need a couple guys like that. What was that? That was very late. Yeah. He's an Iowa guy? Mm-hmm. Did not know that. That was very late. He's been suspended two games, I think, because they looked at it and said, bro, the game's been over, dude. It's a real punch. Playing at a high level, too. Bradley Chubb did something to get him going. Bang. Punch in the mouth. Chubb goes, what was that? This game's over. We're already done with the prayer. You got your fucking clothes off already. Dude, you've already given away your jersey to somebody? What are we doing here? That's some deep-seated. Oh, yeah. It's real heat. Hey, you're not getting out of this fucking stadium without me letting you know I don't like it one bit. Lark Jackson suspended two games for that conduct. That was so late. I think Josh Allen was in his third interview. Yep. He was in his third interview. Already did one. So happy for the guys. Already did another one. Then he was doing Spanish. Yeah. He's already. Oh, yeah. It was his third interview, and then all of a sudden it started happening. What? Did something happen here after a postgame? Maybe it was a bad prayer. Could have been. Well, we had one of those before pregame. That was halftime, I think. No, it was pregame. Remember, we ran and missed pregame intros. I think it was halftime. Are you sure? Yeah, sure. Yeah, because me and Vinny were out there. It was halftime. No, no, no. It was pregame. I think it was pregame. Yeah, it was pregame. Me and Vinny were out there. We missed the team prayer, and I found out that I miss a lot of these prayers, I guess. And the reason why I found that out is because me and Vinny and Overturn were the only ones out there. The whole team was still in there. Ref's going, hey, we got a coin toss, bro. It's like, yeah. Talk to fucking Vinny. He's been here longer than me. I don't know what he's talking about. Vinny's like, oh, we don't know where they are. Then you guys came sprinting out. Blessed, though. They came out running blessed. Did you guys win? I don't know. We played Texans, I think. Yeah, it was in Houston. It was a Thursday night game. Maybe we win. I don't know. I think we won. But the prayer was for me. Sam was not in there. Was it a coach or a player? Did a player go along? It was a player. It was a player. It was one of those where, you know. Giving his testimony before the game. You have respect for the Lord, of course. You look. Arrive at the point, please. And land the prayer plane here, please. There's no place we'd rather be. We pray not to win. God willing, we shall. Stay healthy. Them healthy. Go Colts. Amen. Jesus' name. We're out there. We're doing it. I wasn't in there for it, but I did hear a couple different recaps. He had a couple different stanzas. I think he wanted to dabble into a couple different words of God from different people. I don't know if that's the time, but. Did he get demoted next game? From prayer guy? Yeah, usually coaches will yank that guy out of the locker room before he starts to get back up there. He was never speaking in front of the crowd again. He probably didn't. I didn't know it took event last shot at this thing. I'm gonna at least let Jesus know. Interesting story with that guy for the rest of his life. Yeah, I'm fortunate. Period. He's a fucking great special teamer, though. Great special teamer. He liked praying more than everybody else. Almost missed the whole fucking game. If there was a bad prayer that led to a fight after the bills Rams game on Monday night, we need to hear that. Could you imagine somebody sneaks in? And they're like a Satanist. I got the prayer. I know I'm not saying that. No, I'm not putting that on anybody, but I'm saying what would the situation be during a prayer that could lead to a fist fight? I think that would be it. Dear Heavenly Father, that doesn't fucking exist. Holy shit. Then all of a sudden you got a full that I guess that would be the only way that that would happen. Or you overtake him or someone's like, already give, they start the prayer and someone on the other team's like, nah, he's. He just starts talking louder and louder and getting going over top of it. What's going on here? Oh, like you're playing seven up your reading in class. All right. I got it from here, pal. Jesus ain't listening to you. Maybe it could be it. I don't know. And maybe that's why the two game suspension was such a big deal. And I wonder who started to start the prayer. And then Alaric took over. And then Chubb said, Hey, this is my that's my prayer. And I said, Jesus didn't like your prayer. We don't know. We generally don't know. We have no information. We don't have any information on what happened. That was really late for a fight to be happening, though. People already got their shoulder pads in the locker room off. Oh, yeah. Can't believe I see this guy still out here on the good and give him one. Saw a couple of guys getting water sprayed in their mouth. Saw a lot of guys grabbing a bottle themselves. Yeah, you are seeing a lot of guys grab the bottle. We got to keep pounding that home. Nobody needs to be squat. You don't need to be. doing that. You're a fucking professional athlete, okay? These are adult humans. You don't need to be telling, huh? Squatting, please, like my daughter, okay? You don't need any juice boxes out there. Grab the fucking bottle, squirt it in your mouth. And I am, and people don't like this. These fucking camera people don't like it. Get the fuck out of the tunnel. Get out of there. I'm done with it. I am done with it. Cool shot. It's super lit on social. I agree. You know what else is super cool? Matthew Stafford working his whole fucking life to run out on a Monday night football out of the goddamn tunnel to his teammates. I got to do that twice. Do you know how big of an honor that is? You got some guy running next to him in the thing. Get the fuck out of there. I was so mad. Just because I feel like that is a sacred thing. Like running out of the tunnel is a sacred thing. And now they just got any person just doing it with them. Like, it's a lit shot. You know what else is a lit fucking shot? Them running out of the fucking tunnel in the middle of their stadiums. All by themselves, which is what people are. Not a guy. That's what it is, though, for real. It's more of a. I lost it. I fucking lost it. Not the sacred anymore. Oh, yeah. You guys, I get worried. I get worried their legs are going to get tripped up. Like, for real. They're not that far away. I get so mad about it. You guys are athletes, man. Okay. I'm old man yelling at Cloud, and I got a bunch of fucking these camera people saying, Liz, you will never have this shot. It's like, yeah, we don't deserve to have it. You don't deserve to shoot it. If Matthew Stafford wants to run with a fucking GoPro like those guys that. Squirrel dive off of cliffs, have them do that. I'm sick and tired. We're sitting there, literally watching the intros for Monday night. Lucky to be out there. Thankful to be out there. I'm watching this intro. Matthew Stafford's last. Emotional. Who knows how many more he's got. Just got done kissing his kids. Monday night football against Josh Allen. MVP versus MVP. He comes running out. Places 60% to 70% fill. They still go crazy. He's running. Can't even see him from where I'm at because there's a guy running right next to him. Those are the entire. I'm like, get the fuck out. Who says you're allowed to do. You deserve to run out of that fucking thing. Well, we did. It's a lit shot, though. It is a lit shot. It's pretty disrespectful to the entire thing that is happening there, which is pretty ceremonial for all of ball. But hey, lit shot. Have you seen the shots? So I saw the one with the one I was pissed off about. Chris Sale coming out. Was that the one I was mad about? Yeah. Guy's two feet behind him. It is him walking out to the fucking mound. It's like, dude, this guy's worked his entire fucking life for this moment. Yeah, I guess you just get to experience it, though, because you work for a company that paid billions of dollars to do it, I guess. Yeah. But the shot was sick, I will say. It was a sick shot. It was a nasty shot for afterwards. But in the moment, I'm thinking to myself, and everybody in the stands is thinking, Chris Sale's coming. And guy that we've never fucking seen before who has weird shorts. I don't know. He's holding this fucking thing. It ruins all the other shots, though, too. Like, we don't just get Matt Stafford running out. Like, we get all of the above. Yeah, how about the live shot? Oh, well, the social shot afterwards is going to be sick. It's like, well, what about the fucking real, the actual shot? It's never the live shot. That's the problem. Also, get the Skycam footage. Can't we get a Skycam following him out of the tunnel? I'm not backing off this. No matter how many people call me an asshole, everybody's calling me an asshole right now, especially in that world. But no matter how many people show me incredible lit content, I still don't think it's going to work. I don't think you deserve to be out there. I don't fucking deserve to be out there. I mean, definitely don't deserve to be out there. The Monday Night Football. Gumpy, do you have the clip? Yeah, I sent it in. Right now? Yep. You should see me. I mean, it's in real. Just know that it's real. Just know that this isn't a gimmick that I'm putting up. This is not a, this is a real thing. I got introduced out of a tunnel two times, and I considered it, like, the biggest, the biggest honor that it was happening. So just to see random fucks just get a chance to do it because they have a camera and an armband, I just, I'm never going to be, oh, it's sideways. God damn it. I don't know. Can we turn that thing? We have you running out of time. I want to see if there's a dude just sprinting behind you. There isn't. I didn't fuck with any of those people. They didn't like me anyways. You know, I didn't do it. Can we turn that? How does that thing? Yeah, it's on base alley. All right. Bruce just said there's no way. Can you put this up at least so we can see what it is that you're trying to fix? Yeah, well, I'll just look right here. Yeah, so this is the Cardona. Come and say what's up. Me and J-Mac hanging out. We get kicked off. Look at me pointing at the guy running right next to him. Get the fuck off the tunnel. Literally, you see him up there? Go back. Can you go back a little bit? I love it. Can you go back a little bit there? Get the fuck out of that thing. Look at this guy running right next to him. Can we zoom in on that? Can you? Yeah, he's right on the side of him. He's so mad about it. Now, granted, this shot is not a good shot to say we don't like the other shots that are happening because we are looking at it sideways. But in real time, in real moment, I say this guy's ruining Matthew Stafford running out of Monday Night Football in front of his home crowd. For how many times did he get to do that? For the rest of it? Who knows? Not many more. It could be the last one. Here he goes. Here it is. Here it is. We got to figure it out. Look at him. The guy was actually in the camera. Go back to the beginning. Go back to the very beginning here of the run out. Can you zoom in up there or no? Look at that guy. He is the, boom. He's, the camera shot is the camera man. That shot for the live audience as he's running out. Can you see it up there on the top? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're looking up at the top up here. Red shorts or shirt? Shirt, yeah. That fucking guy is the shot as if he's the starting fucking quarterback for the Rams. It's a good run. Look at that arm swing. Yeah. I mean, he's about to run out. He's a very good camera man. I appreciate what he does for sport. There's no way he deserves to be introduced to the Los Angeles Rams as if he's the fucking starting quarterback and an MVP of an NFL team. I mean, it's just in real time. Who's getting injured? Oh, the camera man is. Okay. I thought it was a quarterback of the NFL. He's literally broken every bone in his body to get to that point. Just a little respect, please. Immediately in real time, I was so mad. I'm looking at that thing. And now I'm going to get every camera man telling me, you don't get it. It's like, I do. I do fucking get it, actually. I understand that it's an honor to run out there in front of a packed stadium. I can't hear it. That Chris said. He's got to mix up his pace, his tempo. He's got to sprint, slow down, sprint, slow down, and really mess it up. Boom, guy. Oh, my. Guy falls. Yeah, rolled ankle, broken ankle. Never. He's the fucking best in the business, all right? No. He's trying to replace him with the fucking wire. No, Spanx, you guys are assholes. Spanx. Spanx is the best in the business. Yeah. We know Spanx is the best in the business. No, that guy stinks. He shows up in every place that he's earned his right to definitely be in or whatever. And he might have been the one that has kind of started this entire thing with me. And I will say that Chris Sale shot, super lit. It was a super lit shot in social, but in real life, get the guy the fuck off the field. That was smart of the kid starting it with you, too. What's that with me talking about? With your rent and then cutting to the shot. Yeah, I mean, these are clever little content stealers. You know, they're doing stuff that they're not supposed to do, arriving in places they're not supposed to be. But, hey, they kind of get the game, you know, and I like that they're doing that. I certainly do. Super talented people. Just get the fuck. You have not earned that. You have not earned the right to be running out of the fucking tunnel with the MVP of the NFL right now. What makes you think that you have earned? I don't. I'm the asshole. These people are fucking running out like they're a goddamn MVP of the NFL. I don't know how I'm the bad guy. Chris Sale, legendary, coming out to close a fucking playoff game, this guy. First time. Yeah, I fucking should be right here. What? I'm the asshole? I don't think so. I don't think. Once again, though, super lit. Lit shot. It was a lit shot. Super lit shot. In real time, we're like, wow, is Chris Sale coming to pitch or that fucking guy? Like, who, you know, are they going to tag off, maybe? Is Matthew Stafford the starting quarterback or is it that fucker in red? They might sign that guy for special teams. Yeah. How quick he was moving. True. And he wasn't even looking where he was. Yeah, exactly. This guy. Thanks. Who's coming in to pitch? Oh. This guy and this guy right behind. I mean, he was a foot and a half behind him. It's like super lit shot. Get the fuck off the field. Okay? This is a historic moment in baseball. But, hey, that's me, old man Yonah Klotz. And I appreciate the content. All the good content. Thank you for covering sports. Thank you for caring about sports. Have a little respect for the situations in sports, though, I think. But that's just me. I'm a nothing. But I get pissed. I get pissed. You could find a much less intrusive way to do this. I think so, yeah. Because there's zoom-ins on cameras, too. Well, they should definitely never, ever be on the TV shot. Exactly. I'm with you. Because they used to do that for Monday Night Football all the time. And I guess I haven't paid close enough attention to Sunday Night Football where the quarterback runs out of the tunnel and there's the guy in front of him, usually on some apparatus. And, you know, he's filming him the whole way. But you never see that guy, ever. You know, at least not on the TV. This was a lit shot, though, from the guy that's running like he's Chris Sale into a game, you know. I'll take the ball. This ball's good, Chris. All right. Hey, we want better coverage of everything, though. No stone unturned. Do you have to prove that you can run, like, sideways and hold a camera? Like, do you think they have training for that? Combine. Yeah. Camera combine. Every year. I mean, it's only a matter of time. for one of these. For sure. Oh, yeah. Starting quarterback out. Oh, guy breaks his wrist or something. For sure. Imagine that guy running. He was pretty fast. That was pretty impressive. He trips, falls. Camera goes in front of Stafford. Stafford trips, falls. He eats face. Right there. Stafford out. Stetson Bennett in for Monday Night Football against Josh Allen. How come that's ever talked about? They'd execute the cameraman if that happened. He was pretty close to the side tunnel, too. That's like the starting defense. And one of the cheerleaders that could have. Yeah. He almost. Bang, bang, bang. Everybody would have thought it was choreography that all their faces went. Whenever, you know, as they're running by. But really, it was just bang, guy, bang, guy, bang. Like, wow, look at the L.A. Rams cheerleader. They got pretty good sync. Oh, they're all unconscious. That's why it was such a good run. I guess we should talk about how good of a run that was. And super lit. I haven't seen that shot, but. We'll probably never see it. Because. Because they lost the game. Oh, yeah. So, did they lose because of that? Nobody's asking these questions. Let's get to a break. We'll ask the hard questions. Hashtag journalism. People are pumped up about that. Hell yeah. We'll have to look into what it is. Is it a piece of paper on the wall? I think so. Yeah. I think that's what it is. Hmm. I think. What if you just do the work? No, but. Everybody is supposed to be. Like an investigative journalist, I think, right? Isn't there other forms of journalism? I don't know. We didn't go to school. We don't have the paper on the wall. There certainly is. Really? Yeah. Do you have to pick a category? Or is it just an overarching. We do the journalism. That's a good question. I do some journaling, too. I don't know if that adds in to help the case or not. Count. Foss didn't say that. Foss didn't say, "Well, he journals." No, he didn't. Which he could have added in there. He just said, "I think he has the heart of a journalist." Because when he talks about something. Why are you talking like that? Why are you using that tone? That was good. Because that's kind of how he was talking. He was pretty monotone the entire time. You're kind of right. I think he was trying to be matter-of-fact. I watched one of the clips, and I can't do this because he's speaking very kindly about me. And I appreciate that because that does not happen. That's a very abnormal thing that happens in those spaces. There wasn't a lot of follow-up questions, either, from the. interviewer. And it was impossible to find a stream with these people that are super smart with sports media business. So, there's a lot of things that kind of work against it. But I do appreciate Foss complimenting our operation and complimenting what I got going on and saying what he's saying. And him saying that he thinks that I have the heart of a journalist has really, really got these journalists up in arms. Well, in the U.S., there is no license or degree requirement. There is no single. According to Claude, there's no single definition. Most people point out to what someone does rather than a credential. 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It's the absolute greatest, and what you heard me there doing, that's AJ Hawk, College Football National Champion, Super Bowl Champion, Riding Cup winner, Ohio State Hall of Famer. He has a tree on campus. It's right next to somebody else's tree. Chris Gamble? Dahmer? No, I don't think it's Chris Gamble. Dahmer didn't get one, no. He was not an All-American. That's the Talks at the Table at Boston-Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Nine-year NFL vet at Darius J. Butler is here. Twelve-year NFL veteran A.Q. Shipley. He's Penn Stater, AJ Hawk, Ohio Stater. Right before we went live, A.Q. looked at me and he said, "What's the best environment in the South that you've seen for college football?" And it was hard. It was really hard. LSU, whenever we were down there for Lane Kiffin with Clemson coming to town, that was like an hour-and-a-half, two-hour delay, but during the day, it was like four-hour torrential downpour in Baton Rouge, and that place filled up at 9:00 at night or whatever it was, 10:00 Eastern, and it was spectacular. I mean, it was everything that they made it up to be. The light controls. I think any place that has the ability to turn the lights off completely and then turn them back on and then do shit, I think they have a good environment. Ole Miss was able to do the exact same. It was smaller, though. You could tell it wasn't over 100,000 people. It looked smaller then. Tennessee was in the afternoon, so I think it was good for as good as it could possibly be. Alabama, though, there for that Georgia game that we were just at, I mean, their fans were cheering for, like, everything. Like, ball gets caught. Cheer. Like, gain of two. Let's do a little screen. Let's do a screen. Huh? Ball snaps successfully. They're cheering. Ball gets dropped off to somebody for two yards. They're cheering. He gets tackled for, like, a one-yard gain, kind of just kind of quiet. Then next time that happens, guy catches the ball three yards, they cheer. He picks up another two yards, cheer. Like, they're cheering for, like, everything, and they have 102,000, and it's not a bowl. It's -- that shit sits up a little bit. So, I know because we were there. I know because we were there with Coach Saban and were tight with the Sabans, people would naturally think I'm biased, but this one felt the biggest. Gumpy, do you agree with that, with how it was set up? It's on top of you. I don't think I've ever seen 100-some thousand that are, like, straight up. It's usually more of a bowl-type atmosphere. Right, Gumpsh? Yeah, it was so loud. And even for the kickoff, you could tell. Like, it was bananas right off the hop, and it continued the whole time. When they scored before halftime on the last play of the half, that place went mental. It's -- I would say right now that that was the best environment. But that was for the number one overall ranking. That was Georgia coming to town. It was the biggest game. But I just think the sustained, "Ah!" was different than what I've seen, and it's built for noise. A.J., you guys only play at noon, it feels like. Oh, you're big game, so we don't even get a chance to really see Ohio State at night. That place loud, consistently loud. Little different build, though, right? Little different build as it goes out and up? Yeah, it's not really out. I mean, it was built, like, early 1900s, I believe. But, like, it goes up pretty far, but it's a horseshoe. So the one end was open for years, and it's still not completely closed in. They still keep it, like, you know, it's permanent stands now. But, you know, it gets very loud. The old concrete, you know, stadium goes straight up. Penn State is like an erector set, straight up. There's a billion people right on top of you. Yeah, Ohio State, loud, even for the day games that we go to over there. Michigan, not as loud as you think. No. But -- The sound goes out. It's dug down into the earth, and it goes out much more. And I don't think that's the Michigan fans' fault. Like, I think they are loud. I think if they were built more in a stadium that, like, kept the noise in, it would be louder. But that thing's almost built to let noise out, and it's still huge. Penn State, we were there for that whiteout against Oregon last year. And I think if Penn State would have given them more to cheer for, that place was loud, too. Super loud, yeah. Northern stadiums seem to be built a little bit, you know, a little louder. That's what makes Seattle so loud in the NFL, right, because it's straight up and down. There's two walls that just kind of enclose it so everything comes down, right? But, like, Iowa's got a sneaky, loud stadium. I don't know if you've done it. And how many is it, like 60,000 or something? No, it's like 75, 80 probably now at this point. But the fans -- It's big. It looks small. The fans are right on top of the sidelines, like right on top. Got it. Yeah, the 100,000-plus thing -- A&M. A&M was pretty sick. Super windy that day. Super windy. They're all on the same page, too. Yeah. That thing is all locked in. It's hard to just say what is best. Yeah, no doubt. Because what are you looking for? Like, LSU had it, if you're looking for it, and they dominated, so the place was pretty celebratory. But third, fourth quarter, because it was already midnight, didn't seem to have as much juice because it was delayed, so I didn't get to experience that. Sure. Ole Miss was crazy. Tennessee looked wild. Tennessee, they got in there at 9:00 a.m. They were moving in there early. It's over 105,000, I think, is the number. That used to be the -- I mean, I think A.J. Wright, like, whenever we played, I think Tennessee was -- Considered? The largest stadium. Yeah, I think so. Neyland Stadium, I think it's called? Yeah. Eighth largest in the world is the size. is the actual stat, I think, now for Neyland down there. A lot of great environments. That's what college football is. I mean, Northwestern now, their new stadium. How many do they have? I think it's only like 45,000, but the way it's built, it makes it look massive. So it's like an MLS stadium. They compared it to like Mercedes-Benz, where there's no bad seats in the entire stadium. Like every single seat looks great, but it's not like built for capacity. I wonder how many people are in there. Because if you're building a stadium for what your fans will actually fill up, I like that. I think that's a common sense decision, which I appreciate. Mercedes-Benz is big. I think it's, what, 60, 70? Yeah, Mercedes-Benz. I think 60. That was loud. We called that Peach Bowl. 71 in Mercedes. That was loud. That was loud. That was probably the loudest we had been. Yeah, that was. And for that to be like a neutral environment, like not a home, not a Bama, or like a home, that was very, very loud. First place, first play, pick six. For the fans that had 98% attendance in that building, that was loud. All these places get it. Did you ever play in the old Minnesota Dome back in the day? Oh, yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah. That place, you've got to walk up 50 flights of stairs to get to the field, and it was super loud in there. Yeah, and they were pretty good. I mean, like, I remember when we were in school, they had that really good center, Greg Eslinger. I don't know if you remember that name at all. But, you know, they were a good football team. So it's not like you walked in there and it was dead. Like when you were playing Northwestern, it was, I mean, there was nobody there. They weren't very good. Now, Northwestern's pretty loud. Brand new Northwestern. Who's the head coach of that team? Chip. David Braun. Chip's grinding the show. No, he's not. That is, every time we talk about it on game day, it gets brought up. What Chip and Northwestern are doing is awesome. I'm like, he's not the head coach, right? And then I immediately go, who is the head coach? And it's like, nobody knows, actually. I'm not the only one asking that question. Wait, it's not Chip Kelly? No, he's not. Exactly. I would have bet a million dollars it was Chip Kelly. No. For sure. No, he's just the OC, man. That's why he gets a chance to go back to the Model T offenses that he's been diving in. Brand new stadium, $850 million into that stadium. Electrifying atmosphere. I think they have money going into the team. And they got Chip Kelly as the offensive coordinator. That is the reimagining of Northwestern football, I do believe. But they had him with his hard hat on, with his little vest. That's what I remember. The head coach of the Northwestern football team is? Is it David Braun? Is David his first name? David Braun. Okay, see. Spot on. The position. The position is the Dan and Susan Jones family head football coach. I knew that. Chris Pickle. And all of Northwestern is thanking Dan and Susan Jones and their family for that brand new stadium and a football team that is kind of bad. Northwestern making the college football playoff would be hysterical. With 24 teams, it's certainly possible. It's possible this year. If they run the table, like, they could be one of those other teams in the Big Ten that gets in. And I would assume that, I mean, I'd never been to the, you know, the old Northwestern stadium. But like you said, no one shows up. It's just like, you know, they might play you a little closer, but you're always winning by probably 21. Like, I think teams going into there this year, like, are kind of a little bit gobsmacked at how different it is. Northwestern has Michigan State, Rutgers, Oregon, Iowa, Ohio State, Minnesota, and Illinois left. That's a tough stretch. But, you know, I mean, if they lose to Ohio State and beat everybody else, they're good. They can beat Ohio State. They can beat Oregon. For sure. That's all another conversation. The hell is going on up there? You know, what is going on with Oregon? Is it just two coordinators trying to find their way? Is the players getting comfortable? Because they had a lot of guys coming back. It's like, is that a good thing now or a bad thing now? Are you too content? Are you not great? Are you hard to focus on the big games because you've had so many in the past? It's like, Oregon is a story that's going to be talked about in this modern NIO world for the amount of money invested, for how good we think the coach is at recruiting, for how good we think the coach is at coaching, for how good we thought the quarterback was going to be coming into the year, for how bad they have played to the start of this season, is going to be a convo that lingers into the offseason for sure. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I mean, you think about the quarterback. He'd have been starting for the New York Jets right now. He came back for this. I mean, you've got to figure it out. But on that highlight, UCLA, like what they're doing, too. We're talking about Northwest and these other teams in the Big Ten, like what they're doing. And I saw a little clip of their coach. I guess pregame in the tunnel, a little pregame speech, like basically burn the boats type of speech. You know, we're not big pregame speech guys, but it was a good one. Kirby got me pretty good there. I was watching the hand that was holding Kirby after you get through the prayer, obviously. Kirby will get me going. Oh, yeah. If I hear one every couple years, I think it could get me riled up. Yeah, his was pretty good. Burn the boats? Yeah. I don't want to give too much away about speeches. Peter Burke gives one in Mosquito Bowl. As his part of it was in the part of it in the newest trailer. Yeah. I don't know what his title will be. I don't know if he's a first sergeant or a sergeant or whatever he will be in the Marines. But he gives a speech in a movie that I was not there whenever it was filmed. I watched it later and I'm like, it's fucking Winston Churchill. I mean, it was I think that movie is going to be very good. Very, very lucky and thankful to be a part of that. Going to see it for the first time next week. Oh, nice. Yeah. When's it drop? When something late October. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. October 30th. It's in theaters. October 30th. Phenomenal story about college football, America, our history, what it was really like. And then Peter Berg kind of putting his brain on to all of it as auteur wrote the movie off of the book of the Mosquito Bowl. Buzz Bissinger, who also wrote Friday Night Lights, who Peter Berg worked with. But Peter Berg writes, you know, script. He directs it. He's in it. And the lads that he had in this movie from Nicholson to Scarguard to Gautzine to Tom Francis. I mean, these dudes, top of the line, all in, too. All in. Before I was heading over there to film it, I was following, I think it was Tom Francis. Phenomenal talent. Wildly handsome. I think he posted on his Instagram story. I like found him. I had not met him yet. And it was like first day filming a Peter Berg movie. And it's just, yeah, bruises. All over his entire body. I mean, he had cuts on the other side. It's like Peter tries to show as much respect to what it was actually like in every one of his movies. From Lone Survivor to all the other things that he has done. And I think from my understanding from what I'm hearing, they really, this movie is a great one. Honored to be a part of it. Should not have been my first big time acting. Trying to depict a drill instructor of the Marine Corps, which is obviously the baddest human of all time. From the greatest generation of all time here with World War II. That's a tall task. I tried. My absolute best went down to Parris Island. Tried to learn. Tried to buy in. Tried to represent. And, yeah, it was an honor to be a part of. I can't wait for people to see it. Feels like so long ago. That's the difference between this world and then our world. It's like trying to recall and remember the things that are happening while also still being excited about it for the last year and a half. It's all come to a head, what, next week? Two weeks? Yeah, two weeks. I can't wait to see it. Yeah, I'm very excited to see this. Yeah, they're showing. They're showing it, I believe, to 300 Marines today, I think. And then there's a bunch of showings happening all the way up until next Thursday is the premiere in L.A. And then I think there's more from there. So they really like it. And Netflix wanted this to go to theaters because they thought it would be a great experience. And Ted Sarandos, who was attacked at the Oscars last year, I think, for ruining the movie theater. He's like, whoa, whoa, we're just trying to. So he's going to the theater. I don't know if you're going to see more of that. But they love the movie. So that should be fun. Tulsa King. Yeah, it starts very soon here, too. Coming out in a few. Hexed coming out in a few. Mm-hmm. You know, a lot of people getting really. Voiceover stuff. How's voiceover stuff? That's got to be sweet. The Hexed Rat came together very quickly. I mean, that was within the last few weeks. Yeah. Like, hey, we need somebody for this character. Anybody got anybody? Maybe McAfee would do it. I think the rat had a different name. And they're like, Matt McAfee, that'd be great. And then they asked me to do it. I did it right here. Literally did it right here. They were on a Zoom call on the wall. Paul, director, Disney head. There was a bunch of people on this Zoom call. And it's funny, because I don't know anything about the movie. I didn't know the movie was coming out. I didn't know it at the time. I didn't know anything about the movie. There's Rat McAfee. Hey, and I'll tell you, I don't want to give too much away. I think he does jump off of a building. Okay. Okay, now, how high was the building? Well, they said, that's on you. You know, they're like, however long you decide or whatever. So the first one, I go. As long as I can. And then I hit the ground. And then I walk ahead, and they're like, all right, shorter building. Sorry. Sorry, you know, I didn't know what we wanted or whatever. But all these things are just little quick bits, getting a chance to learn about their business. I'm honored to do it all. But the voiceover for Hex was cool. Very blind, though. I didn't know anything. And listening to them describe the scene. So I don't know if this is how it normally is for voiceover acting or whatever. Listening to them describe, like, okay, you got time. Ten other animals around you. You're popping out of a tube or out of a pipe or whatever. And you got ten other animals. And you're basically telling them everybody needs the coast is clear and everything's okay. And then somebody's coming in. It's like listening to them try to talk to me and describe to me what's happening. And then me, non-thespian, try to be like, all right, well, how would I if I was a fucking rat act right here? So I have some follow-up questions because I think that is important. I go, what type of animals are these? Because I'm a rat. What type of animals are these? How are they? Are they in a good mood or in a bad mood? Are they pretty defiant? Like, am I a leader? Like, what is? THE SITUATION, AND THEY They literally have answers for all of it because I think that is a pretty important part of the entire voiceover thing. So it was an honor to be a part of that. My daughter watches a lot of animated movies at this stage. She's three and like five months or whatever, three years old. So she's in it. She loves Disney. So this opportunity was more than anybody could imagine. Whenever she watches, she's kind of found out, you know, because it's been talked about. So she kind of knows what to expect, but she doesn't. But I think as she's watching Hex, which is about witches and wizards, I do believe, and some magic. And it's a Disney animation movie, so it's going to be great. It's going to be absolutely great. The moment where she hears my voice is going to be a cool, that's going to be a pretty cool moment. Oh, yeah. I love that girl so much. And then Tulsa King, not a lot, I'm not in there a lot. A lot of people, I got some messages from people that hate me. They say, thanks for ruining the fucking Tulsa case, my favorite. And I'm like, I'm not in there a lot. I am not in there a lot. I think that was another one where they needed somebody. Hey, yeah, sure, we'll give it a go. Let's see. Let's see what it is like. And I think they would have kicked me out if it was not great. That is a proper set down there. Sly Stallone, proper star. That is a highly, finely tuned machine, that Tulsa King. They are a family. They've been together for a long time. The sets are immaculate. Everything from it was so professional. It was like I've had a chance to experience the acting world, which I never had plans to do as such. I think I did say at one point I wanted to be an actor when I was in college. But now with this world that we're in. It's like, I don't know if I'm the right person to be doing that. Ari Emanuel, head of TKO, also head of WWE when I was in WWE. I think he was the one who had an idea, hey, I think, you know, we got an avenue for you. He's the one who presented the idea to me. Peter Berg movie being the first thing is just an absurd thing. I tried to kill it all. I don't think you're going to get used to seeing me in acting stuff, though, out of respect for the acting, because it's a lot of time. It's a lot of time on set. It's a lot of time remembering. It's a lot of time analyzing what you should be like. And for somebody that has a daily show and then also has a chance to be a part of college game day and Monday Night Countdown, which is an honor of a lifetime. And it is a lot of football a lot of the time. But it also calls for like me to know what the fuck's going on. So for that, I got to really dive in. So for all the other stuff, I did feel like I was kind of disrespectful to what was happening while having a full time job and the other actors, which I never wanted to be. But everybody was so welcoming. Everybody was so kind. And no flubs, Cindy. Okay. No flubs. Oh, yeah. That mosquito bowl was fucking crazy. Go down to Parris Island, try to learn as much as possible. Tom Cruise breaks down what acting is. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. Yep. That was like a month before filming. Tom Cruise comes on the show to promote Mission Impossible, I think. And after we go off air, I go, hey, let's say a friend of mine is going to be in a fucking Peter Berg, Netflix World War Two movie. It's going to be pretty big. What would you tell that person if it was their first time acting? And he goes, is this friend you? And I go, yes. And he goes, doesn't blink. What was it? Like seven minutes at least. You need to go train with the guys. You need to go down to Parris Island. You need to learn what it is. And whenever you get in there, pick up the mannerisms, pick up the thing. And then when you get on set, you'll just be OK. So all the all the work is in the preparation. Then whenever you're on set, you just be like, thank you so much, Tom. And he said, good luck. And then gets up and leaves. It was like. Out of a movie or whatever. So I go down to Parris Island literally the next weekend. I try to learn as much as possible. First Sergeant Gartland, who I went to high school, was a D.I. for eight years. Call him immediately. Hey, I need everything you got. He's actually in the movie. His voice was in the newest trailer. He's in the movie, which is awesome. I'm so happy for him, especially because how big of a badass he is, how kind he was to me. But also he was the plug to a lot of things for me to learn what the hell a D.I. is supposed to be, because he was eight year D.I. at Parris Island, which is. I don't know how you do it. He's a mad. Man, but that is who you're trying to be as a D.I. is like this person. So first scene in Australia, this is what, two weeks before football season starts. Yeah. OK, need you to go to Australia for 11 days. It's like, yeah, right. I can't fucking do that. This is football season. We'll get you back before football season. The travel takes a certain amount of days and then we're going to have to you're in multiple things. Now we're going to have to do this. And I go, it's an honor. Thank you. I'll do it. I go down there. I was not thrilled that I was doing it. I thought I was not going to do good. I thought I was going to disrespect the Marine Corps. And also, I'm fucking up my day job, not knowing football for ten days going into football season in Australia, the other side of the world. First scene I'm in is I mean, it's fucking me. It is how you got like a seven minute monologue here where you got to go and talk to six different there's 90 guys that are recruits that are showing up in Parris Island. And I'm the head D.I. in front of them. So these fuckers are pulling in on trucks that that truck that you saw in the trailer. There's three of them. They come on, they got an entire train station in Australia that they've shut down and turned into Parris Island. They got I don't know how many millions of dollars worth of cameras on either side. Peter Berg's over here, an entire set, an entire crew. And I'm just standing at the end of this tunnel, basically, this massive thing with all these different cameras. Three trucks are rolling in, filled with actors, people that have been working their ass off in Australia for three months to make this movie. All the camera people, bad asses, moving everywhere. So much money invested into the scene. And I'm standing at the end of it, just fucking waiting for these three trucks of people come around. Cameras start sliding and moving. Lights start going in. And I'm standing there like, man, Tom Cruise said, just be, you know? And I'm like, what I think I'm about to be is a man with a little bit of shit in my pants. These guys, from my understanding, were making a great movie. Like when I got there, the vibes were very high about the movie they're piecing together. And this entire fucking thing is I mean, this is literally on me. But this time, I got a chance to really feel like right before going out to punt, or right before like, hey, have to perform here. Like this is what it is. So it felt really good to get to do that. And I don't think I wasted any time or money or anybody's energy through that thing. But that was a big deal for me, is I can't fuck up. I can't be the reason why they're sending three trucks back, resetting 10 cameras. Especially we got Shakespearean trained thespians. I think all these actors were like-- Scarsguard, Nicholson's kid, Tom Francis, Gautzy. These guys are all like super duper actors. Not just like, hey, I act for a living. They're like the superest of actors. From my understanding, there was a little bit of a disagreement on me being casted as the guy who's never acted before by some of their agents, potentially. Some of their agents were like, so let me get this straight. Sports guy from America is the DI who's yelling at our guys for-- I don't know if he's a sports guy, but he's a sports guy. He's a sports guy. I don't know if he's a sports guy, but he's a sports guy. I don't know if he's a sports guy, but I don't know if he's a sports guy. But I see the trailer and I see my fucking big dumb head and I go, "I know it's me, bro. I know it's me." And the acting world is crazy. It's been cool to do. Whole different part of your brain, AJ. Like, you guys had to memorize plays and shit. So I guess that is a part of your guys' life? No. People think it's easy. I think people think acting is easy. I think it seems daunting to try that. It was daunting. That is a good way for how I felt, probably, standing at the end of that thing as they're setting up all of this shit just for me, basically. And it's like, it's my first time fucking doing this. Here we go. And I think it was seven and a half minutes as I just walked through. And then we did that 30 times. And they were from the top. And then as I'm doing it, Peter Berg has a little microphone. And he goes, "Try fee-fi-fo-fum" on the next guy. So as I'm doing it on this one, Skarsgård was tall. So what I was going to go over to him is talk about how big he was because he's a football guy. As I'm doing it to one guy, Peter Berg's talking about me for the next line to do this one. So I go over, and as I get to him, "Fee-fi!" And it's like, OK, I think I'm proving my chops here a little bit. But I was scrambled the whole fucking time. And Peter, fun fact, I'm supposed to go talk to these guys. And the way I memorized it was like, this one, this line will lead me to this line. This line will lead me to this line. And I studied my ass off four weeks, probably, three, four weeks, which is the amount of time I had to not fuck it up. When it gets there-- let's start with the third guy, let's go to the second guy, wrap it up with the first guy, then we'll go to the seventh guy. And I go, oh, no, oh, no. But you have to act as if, literally, you're acting in there. It was like, Peter, that's a lot of-- the brain found it, thank god. And he walked me through it, as did all the actors. I think that movie is going to be a good depiction of America and Americans at their absolute best. And signing up for something much bigger than them whenever they didn't have to in our history of what we've done to help this world, I think "Mosquito Bowl" is going to remind a lot of people that America may be not the worst place on Earth. A lot of things have had to happen for us to get here, and there's a lot of incredible humans who have sacrificed a lot for our country, and I think the "Mosquito Bowl" will showcase that. And I'm honored to be a part of it. And if I suck, just don't tell me. I don't think so. They'd probably cut you out. Yeah, I was going to say, your role would have been cut down big time if you would have sucked. Wouldn't be in the trailer. So the "Tulsa King" people, when I was down there, they're so cool. That is a cool group of people. Sly, obviously, leads that entire thing. Watching him work is crazy. But I thanked them a couple of times for allowing me the opportunity to do this. And every one of them are great people. They're like, hey, bud, don't worry. You fucked this up. This is not like a Make-A-Wish show. Yeah, right. I'm like, all right, all right, all right, all right. You got it, you got it, you got it. So me getting dropped in a deep end with the incredibly talented people that I did and how kind they were, I'm very grateful for it. But I don't think this is going to become a new norm. I don't think it's going to become a new norm. They were talking about me potentially trying to get a new role because Ari talked about it whenever I rolled the calls promotion and everything like that. It's like, that movie, decision was made, yeah, right. I should not be having four full-time jobs and then getting into something that incredible. But at one point, that was talked about. So I think it is real. But like, yeah, right, I should not be doing that. Until I have time. Until I have time to focus on it. I loved the process. I love doing it. But it all takes a lot of time and a lot of mental energy and capacity. And I can't wait to see how it all comes out. I can't wait. Hex was crazy, though. That was a wild thing. Hey, you got 20 minutes tomorrow? Yeah. All right. You want to be a rat in a Disney animation movie? Sure. I guess. Where am I going? Do I have to fly anywhere? Nah, let's just do a Thunderdome. Do it via Zoom call. Sick. Perfect. All right. Do I get the lines? Ah, they're working on those right now. So I got lines like 20 minutes before I went live on that thing. Wasn't a lot of lines. So it's not that big of a deal. But it is. I'm happy the old brain still works with the memory thing because it felt like I was back in school. And every game day, it feels like that too, where I need to get sacrament. Tone. Let's go to Hamlet. Time. Time. Tone. As we go through what I need for reviews for college game day each week, need a Sacramento State update. Okay, I can't have these group of six people coming after me. To be clear, I was the last one in on the Super Dogs picks. A lot of picks were already taken. Figured. So, like, the only one I really saw was fucking Sacramento State would do it for me. I needed it. And I shouldn't have said what I said about not knowing anything about them. I should have said, these guys are probably going to get smacked. Seems like they get smacked. They get smacked every fucking week, but hopefully they don't do it this week. But instead, I said, I don't know anything about these guys. And that was me telling gamblers who potentially follow me, hey, this is not like a calculated pick here. But I need to start learning more. As somebody who is a massive, lucky enough to be a massive piece of college football, I do need to learn more about them. So, let's maybe start adding that into the conversation throughout the week and such. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Sac State, first year in the FBS. They are part of Maction up in Sacramento. And to be a part of Maction, they actually have to pay for all the away teams to come play at their stadium this year. So, there's a fun fact. Okay. That's a good piece of information. Now we know more. Let's continue to do that throughout the year. Let's do a group of six fun facts. Okay. Let's do that. Okay? Yeah, I can do that. What about Bowling Green? Can you tell me about Bowling Green? Because they smacked Sacramento State. Eddie George. Head coach Eddie George. Yeah. There was a cool picture of them floating around the internet. I believe with Eddie George. Bowling Green, you know, a traditional Mac powerhouse in Ohio. So, that's all I got for you on Bowling Green, really. Sounds like you don't know anything about it either. Urban Meyer coached there. Yeah, he did. Oh, yeah, he did. Long time ago. Who was the quarterback that drew it? Yep, and ran. Was not a quarterback in the NFL. Was a returner in the NFL. I remember Maction on Wednesday nights. So, I think. We'll get there. You got to wait for the weather. Right now, we have a fun belt. We have a fun belt. In part, he's in the QSA right now. And then, once the weather turns, we'll get Maction. I was committed to Kent State. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay? So, I was going to be a golden flash. You were? Yeah. You and Edelman? Would have been the same recruiting class. Yeah. And I went and made a 65-yarder down in Florida. Missed a 70-yarder wide right. Flew back. Got offered a scholarship to West Virginia State. And then, I had talked to the coaches at Kent State. They were the only ones that made an offer for me. And tell them, I'm sorry about it. I just. That's a much better opportunity. I can't do this. Stop your video business. They were not happy, man. You get it. They were not happy. They were very nice to me. Very cool to me. Kent State people were great. I went and had a good time on their campus. We had a great time. A couple visits. Yeah. Got introduced to some stuff. Official visits are great. Jungle juice. I didn't know we had jungle juice going on in this thing. Where am I headed? Up to the bathtub up there. Ah, that doesn't sound weird at all, boys. Let's go up there. What is this? This is what you need. Not that Kent State football players are doing that. These are people I just knew at Kent State. Sure. Not the football team. They're offering that up there. Of course. But I had a blast on my official visits to Kent State. And then I went to West Virginia on an official visit. I had a pretty good time there, too. I'm sure you did. I went on a couple unofficial visits to West Virginia before that official visit because a lot of kids from Plum were going down there. I think I knew the school pretty good when I was signing up for it. I think I was made for it. It's a quick little drive. People don't realize how close it is to Pittsburgh. Especially to Moon. Oh, yeah. Right there. Why didn't you go? I don't know. They had a pretty good recruiting class. I loved the coaches there. Trickett was tough. Trickett was tough. I mean, he just yelled at everybody for an hour and a half straight during the spring practice I went to. Tony Gibson, all the boys, they were all down there. Love Tony Gibson. Head coach of Marshall now. Rich Rodriguez back at West Virginia. I picked him to win the Big 12. Tone, is that going to happen? Do we have a path? Their defense sucks, dude. Sorry, that came off very middish, which I do not like to do. But it's real. Whitey, Big Whitey, Justin, he put a tweet out in the middle of the game this past weekend and said, what's the opposite of complimenting? Elementary football. And I think the right answer would be rude. Like, I think West Virginia plays, like, rude football. The offense, good. We can move all of a sudden. Zach Alley, former defense coordinator for Oklahoma, just hasn't been able to piece together on the defensive side at all. I mean, we're not getting stops. It's games. Not getting a single stop. Well, you got to – I mean, the Big 12 has some really good offenses. I mean, it started with Mestimaker. You got Mestimaker, which, you know, everyone's getting Mestimaker. He's awesome. Arizona. Arizona's with Noah Fafita. That's a really good quarterback. Iowa State. Iowa State. That's a tough one. Yeah. That's a tough one. That's a lot of fucking losses. I didn't know we had this many losses as you guys are rattling these things off. I'm happy you guys all know what's going on there so well. Okay. Is there still an avenue for us to win the Big 12? No. Damn. It's a good run. No chance at all. If you win out, maybe. But, you know, you got Utah and Houston and Texas Tech sitting there. Well, and Cincinnati and T.C. and Kansas are going to be tough for you guys, too. It was all good just three weeks ago. You know? So, I could say the same thing. Yeah, but on that note, you guys can't be as shitty as you guys are with what you got going on. Three and nine is going to be tough. Who? Four. You think Penn State? No. No way. He means these guys. They'll beat Cincinnati on Sunday. Gotta get Cincinnati. They'll win this weekend. You guys will always have Virginia. Cincinnati is who we're hoping we beat. Yeah. And everything goes right. West Virginia-Cincinnati is a long. That's on TNT there? Yep. All right. TCU at TCU. We should get that one right, Tone? We should get TCU? Yeah. Maybe not. On a good day. On a good day. Texas Tech, we already know what Cody Campbell's been saying. Okay, so West Virginia boys are going to be all pissed off at Oil Man down there for everything he's done. Kansas at home, you should. You'll be favored, I think. Nah, they got a good offensive coordinator down there. Andy Kotelnicki? Kotelnicki. He was terrible at Penn State, but I guess he's good again. Sig is stealing plays from him. Sig said that he stole a fourth down play. Yeah, from Kotelnicki. Wow. Guy just couldn't do it for Penn State there, but he certainly got it. That's why he got the job over at Penn State. Houston's got them swangers on it. I don't like that we got to play them. And then Utah to wrap it up. That's where we shock the world. We still got a road, and I believe a rich rod in the lads. Got to get a stop at some point on the defensive side, though. Just one time, get off the field. Actually, not necessary, really, because you can just take the over, and it's awesome, because every week you know, okay, WVU's going to score 30 points at least because Rich Rod's got it going. And their defense is me, so the over is the best part of my Saturday, actually. AJ, this is Rich Rod's second year now. We've just lost three straight. It's getting real loud over there. You got a top 25 win. Yeah. What's that mean? We're not you. No one expected it this quick, right? No one expected the turnaround. Three and three right now, all right? UConn couldn't beat a top 25. Kevin Brown. Is full eligibility still a thing? So the issue is what AQ just brought up about Trickett. And about Rich Rod. It's like, if he's got the right people in there, they'll want to build that and stay in the fire. But I think we're going to find out if he has that or not. It's not just the West Virginia. It's a lot of teams. Like, as your team starts to not go playoff bond, and you got NIL deals, and you got guys making decisions on what next year looks like right now, and you got agents saying, hey, don't get hurt right now on this team. They're going nowhere. We can potentially go to somewhere else and do that. But now, granted, are they lying to those players? Are those players definitely not getting the look that they think they are? Probably. But there's a lot more business decisions happening now because it is a big-time business. You guys got to worry about that at Penn State, too. Oregon, too. Big time. I'm very worried for Oregon. That could be like a mass exodus. A lot of money up there. And all those guys, you know, you have your pick of the litter. You leave there, you can go any SEC school you want, any Big Ten school you want. A lot of those guys from the Southeast, too. Yes. So. By the way, I'm sure. In fact, though. Mountaineers are 6-0 to the over. So, to Connor's point, yeah, you can just do that. So fun. 63-and-a-half right now. I mean, if you're a freshman on any bad team, including the MAAC, every coach is going to take that person in a transfer portal over any high school recruit because they got experience at this point. So that's what you're battling against at this point. Yeah, you guys need to watch your ass up there at Penn State. Yeah, we're right in that mix. How many wins you guys got this year? Three. How many losses? Three. Three? Two? You guys can still save it. Three lost teams have made the playoffs every year. Huge game this week at Michigan. Oh. At Michigan. Oh. Don't do it. We aren't. I knew you were going to do it. Don't do it. What? The we aren't or we are Iowa State? No, the we aren't. That's what you've been saying. That's not what I've been saying. You said this is not what Penn State's supposed to be. Well, that's fair. But you don't change the song. We aren't Penn State. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. How was the Whitehawk game? They got beat. Great atmosphere. They just lost USC. Five straight, right? 114,000, most ever, at Beaver Stadium. Still showing up. Came to watch that. I think I read a stat. The top five highest attended Penn State games, you guys have lost all of them? No. Yes, that is the stat that's going around. Is that a fair statement? Yeah. Really? Yeah. It's on Twitter. It's going around right now. I think I saw it. So, every big game. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. If it makes you feel better, James Franklin just lost to Cal with a backup quarterback. Yeah, I saw that. And he got beat by Pitt the week before, right? Yeah. With another backup. What, do you want, do you want, so you, I thought we were appreciative of what James Franklin did. Very much. But I just saw that that happened. I saw it. So, it was very controversial, the kick. What did you think? You think it was in? Oh. There's only one person that can really tell that, and that's that ref. If he happened to blink or have a cockeyed, which we don't know, I hope they don't have lazy-eyed guys underneath the uprights, but maybe they do cross-eyed, lazy-eyed guys. I mean, I saw angles from, that showed both, right? Yeah. If you're over to the right of that field goal post, that view shows, oh, yeah, he missed it. The other 58 showed he made it. Here is the. Can we use technology here? Can we put lasers on the top of the things or something? I mean, yes. I mean, I think, I don't want to call for everything. I don't want to call for everything. I don't want to call for everything being reviewable, but Pat Narduzzi got interviewed six seconds after this, so there wasn't even a thought. It was no good, came over, see you later, Narduzzi saying, hey, Rhys Davis, why don't you fucking put us in a top 25? That was literally what happened. So I think everybody was just kind of gobsmacked by how quickly they just moved on without even getting a second look at it, but I don't think you're even allowed a second look at it. That's crazy. That ref. Yes, the ref. That one ref right there. It's his decision or her decision. And the one ref. The one under the other field goal post is just looking at that guy. Yeah. What'd he say, dude? I look like I could have been over here, and he's like, no good. He's like, yeah, you all right? And then there's probably some refs on that crew that were like, eh, eh, are you sure? No, let's get the fuck out of here. These guys are going to kill me. He had no idea what he'd done, and then he saw the clock go down to zero. He goes, oh, fuck me. Let's get the fuck out of here. Narduzzi, big high five. Yeah. Good call. I love Narduzzi. He was fantastic. He was fantastic on game day. I would have him buckling over whenever he finds out that Reese Davis didn't rank him. Holding the ball. Hey, you win this game, or you hit this crossbar, Reese Davis will put you at number one in his poll next week. What do you have us in last week's poll? Unranked. Reese, wake up, Reese. Wake the hell up. And then he loses to North Carolina. Yeah. Bill Belichick was going to have something for him. I picked North Carolina, not just because. West Virginia Pitt stuff, but because. Backup quarterback. Bill. And Bill. I think Bill is not a stupid football person. I think he's going to make life miserable for some people. They're going to get blown out, I assume. They're going to get outclassed by people. But I think if you're a middle-of-the-road team, Bill Belichick has certainly ample opportunity to beat you. And that's just us maybe being a little biased towards that because he's the greatest NFL coach of all time. So we assume he's going to be a good college football coach. It didn't look like it. I think that last year, they didn't even have a recruiting class last year. I think if you listen to them talk about it all, while under fire a lot, they were under siege a lot with a lot of distractions. And then, did you see after the game? Players said, hey, you take a lot of shit for us. We appreciate you. First ranked win, they gave him a ball. And then they celebrated with him, and Bill was smiling. It felt like he actually has a little bit of a culture set in there somehow. I don't know how he's been able to do it. But I think North Carolina would be a problem for teams. They can get smacked, I think. Could get smacked by teams that have five stars across the board. But I think if you don't have that. I think. Well, he's in the perfect conference. Because that conference doesn't have a whole ton of teams with five stars across the board. Yeah, Miami's really the only one, right? Miami, I would say, down in the ACC, the only team that is packed to the gills with five stars out. Not that that's what you need to win it all. But it seems like when the big games come, they do end up winning. Florida State seems to pay a lot of players. But they don't seem to do the winning part of it. But they are paying a lot of people. Congrats to Bill, though. He had to be so happy in there. Yeah, it's cool. I mean, he's not a first ballot Hall of Famer for the program. He's a pro football Hall of Fame now. But he's been to the mountaintop a few times. And we talked to Mac Brown about this at the end of his run at Texas. Where he said, if you win, it's a relief. And if you lose, it's devastating. I think Bill got like that in the NFL. I think there wasn't a. For sure. That's why we're on to Cincinnati. We don't give a fuck. We're not celebrating any of this. In college, maybe he has a little bit more of, hey, this is hard. Let's enjoy this. And maybe he enjoys the young bucks that he's trying to mold into adults more than he did necessarily the NFL style, AJ. I think it's definitely possible where that young energy can keep you young. And he was in the NFL for so long. You get back there and you feel those many different aspects of life, obviously. But as far as coaching these youngsters, I think it can. He thought about jumping around and dancing a little bit when they were celebrating and gave him that ball. You could tell it crossed his mind. Maybe I will break out one of my own moves. Yeah, I think some of his former players probably looking at him in there smiling and giddy after beating Pitt on a Saturday in the early season. And go, who the fuck is this guy? And it's like, well, it's North Carolina Bill. And it feels like North Carolina Bill has a team and has an appreciation for what they're able to accomplish, especially with how it's gone thus far. All right, let's chit-chat about something we all need to learn more about. You definitely. Let's go. Connor, you definitely need to learn a little bit more about it. Yeah, I know. And Ty, the lack of respect you have for this entire genre of stuff that we're about to do, I don't like it. Not true. I think I'm going to be pretty invested in today's version, actually. Oh, you are? I think so. Oh, interesting. AJ, I know you know a lot about defenses, but I don't think there's enough conversation about that good D. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for everything DB. Good D with D-Ball. D-Ball. Let's sling some good D for these people. Yeah, it's been a lot of Packers tape today. We got some more. Xavier McKinney, one of the players that are tied for the lead in interceptions. The Packers are actually leading the NFL interceptions with seven. He got three of them and two from this week. Let's see from this rep. Kind of showing maybe quarters, maybe single high. They're going to rotate and be covered, too. I want you to watch. You saw the shell. You saw the corners. You saw the safeties. Watch this hook, curl defender, Javon Bullard. I always talk about playing high to low when you're that underneath defender, getting your depth, getting to your spot, reading the quarterback. He does a great job here, feeling that route, not even having to look back and see it, just feeling that route kind of bend in. And then getting that tip. We always talk about tips and overthrows. He got a tip. Xavier McKinney, one of the best in the business, even from his career. His days as a New York Giant, getting that ball, man, great job by 2-9. But it started with seven, getting his underneath drop, doing his 1-11th. John Gannon had the boys with a fire in their gut, it felt like, Todd? Yeah, he's been very good, especially with all the injuries that they've had. But I think all Packers, I mean, I'm ecstatic. He's done an unbelievable job through five weeks. This athlete finally gets you guys a good defense. Yes. And he's gone. Yeah, gutted to see him go. Javon Bullard, we were talking about that Peach Bowl game. He was the player that knocked Marvin Harrison out of that game. Marvin Harrison was doing damage, was killing it. And he smacked him in the back of the end zone. Another one here? Another one. Wow. I know. Hey, Packers, this is the one that got the bag man benched out there. I guess Ben Johnson has saw enough. You saw it there with the pre-snap disguise going to a single high. And now he just kind of becomes that backside hook curl defender. I don't think the bag man ever sees him. Sneaking back, peeking back, and boop. Talked about tip. That was an overthrow. And this is the one where Ben Johnson said, I got enough. Case Keenum came in. He didn't do much better. Zaire Franklin here showing mugged up. He's going to drop back. And you see, he's trying to beat 44. Get it over. We talk about layered throws. Never sees 29 coming from the backside. Zaire said he heard about them talking about him. Is that what he said? He came out? Yeah. He's seemingly a vocal leader for you guys immediately. We miss his tackles here in Indianapolis. Yeah. He's a very vocal leader. And from what I can tell, very well respected and liked by his teammates. And he's played good football. Yeah, a lot. And they need him now more than ever. Because, you know, Adrian Cooper was kind of the guy there. And then he tears his Achilles. So, it's like, all right, Zaire, we really need you to step up here. Yeah. If this secondary can keep playing at a level. And once Micah gets back out there and he's anything close to what we know Micah to be, which we expect, that could be an ugly, ugly defense down the stretch. And here we are, our 49ers. Renardo Green. I believe he was on the first week when they played the Rams. He was the first interception of everything to be. It's a five-man pressure. Not their typical, you know, zone, high school zone defense. It's more of a three-under, three-deep. But for corners, that's pretty much man-to-man. And right now he's on the island with the best wide receiver in the league, Jackson Smith and Jigba. He's all over this route, third and ten, sits at the sticks, very patient, and then finishes the play. We talk about catch the ones they throw to you. Did the hard job. Eyes back, break, made the catch, got his elbow down. It's a catch. It's an interception. He had two, right? He had two. And then there was also two fumble recoveries for the San Francisco defense. Four turnovers by the San Fran defense. I think there was seven. Seven in total. There was one on a kickoff, though, I believe. And then I forget what. Nonetheless. They scored 21 points, I think, off of these four turnovers. San Francisco 49ers, complimentary football times. Yeah, the other one was from a D-tackle, penetrated, and it was damn near, I think, a fumble in the end zone. Then Fred Warner had one that was near the 49ers end zone as well, but a punch out. And then Renato Green had another one on the crossing route where he undercut the Sam Donner throw and made an interception. Who's their D.C. over there? Raheem Morris. Raheem Morris. Golly. These go through head coaches at D.C.s. Yeah, smart. Yeah, it's a smart decision. Salah, is he supposed to be a D.C. or a head coach? Probably D.C. Unbelievable defense coordinator. Anytime you're a defense coordinator and you get a head coaching job, you have to be unbelievable. You have to be game-changing. He's gotten two head coaching jobs. Yep. Now, would anybody be able to win in Tennessee? Boy. Bad quarterback. Sounds like no. They got the Colts this weekend. Jesus. They better. They're gonna. We pray to the football gods that during Adam Vinatieri's Ring of Honor ceremony, it is a joyful occasion against a team that has been in the shite division for a long time. We love Nashville. Love the city. Some say we try to cut our teeth down there. We love the uniforms. Love the history. I won a punt, pass, and kick there as a 15-year-old. National championship. Love Nashville. Their team has not been a good football team for a long time. And should we put more on Salah and D.B. on their first year? Should we let them kind of maybe recreate their own culture? I mean, that's kind of the entire question of it all, Ty. Well, Bob Salah's career win percentage is 32.8%. It was the Jets, and it's the Titans. He's 20 and 41. I think at a certain point, 61 games, that's a pretty decent sample size. Bob Salah's an unbelievable defensive coordinator. I don't know if he's a great head coach. I think he picks places based on defenses and defensive players and never worries about the quarterback. And you can also argue like. No. Cam Ward. No. Number one pick. Brian Daybuff. Have you watched? Yes, I have. But I'm saying when he takes the job, he thinks. Yeah, but you have to watch the tape. There was no. Like, you can't just be. Number one. Number one pick. Yeah, he's going to be great. It's a 50% bust rate in the first round over time. Let's be very clear about that. Number one pick. He's generational. Paisano. Borganzi. Borganzi. Borganzi's the man. And that's also another thing. The Titans have restructured, like, their, like, leadership, like, executive roles. They do that, like, every six months. Like, these guys fucking suck. Get them out. We're going to get three new people. They've done that so many times over the last, like, year and a half. Can't beat the Colts this weekend. Can't. They won't. If you get that job, you got to have. These coaches got egos, just like players got egos. I can fix it. I can fix it. I can make some hires. You hire Brian Daybuff. I'm sure he has some type of relationship with Brian Daybuff. He's had success in college and the pros. Hire him. He'll fix it. We can fix the offense. I'll handle the defense. We fix the offense. Sometimes it doesn't work. This is just like guys, whenever they're 60, 70 percent, they can play, but they choose not to put bad film out there. Daybuff goes to the Jets and the Titans, and he's getting his stats thrown at him about win-loss record. You know, he should just stay out of the conversation, maybe, wait until a good one goes. But will there ever be a good one? And will he ever turn around the Titans, maybe? I don't think so, but also not a bad idea, because he knows he can just go be a DC. Hey, I'll get a nice little bump. I'll go over there. We'll fucking suck for two years. I'll get shit canned, and then I'll go do the, you know, hang out with my buddies. Buddy Matt LaFleur in Green Bay for a little bit. Take a year off. Boom. Go be a DC somewhere. Be great again. Niners. Go back to the Niners, and we'll reach. That is his cycle, and that's okay. And he gets to live in Nashville, which is awesome. Exactly. I think he built, like, a sweet compound down there, because he's got a massive family, a bunch of kids. Yeah, he's got, like, eight kids. Yeah. He always gives credit to his wife. My wife is the best. But he feels like he does have six equipment managers that come alongside at training camp. You think that may help everything, but they haven't been able to win. They can't win this weekend against the Colts. They better not. They won't. I guarantee a Colts win. Okay. Right now. I like that. Guarantee. I like that. That's how confident I am. That's my best bet of the week. Colts minus 50 on the board. AJ, you haven't talked in 20 minutes. I'm making a early pick with the Colts, though. I'm feeling it. I got to trust my instincts here. I don't like any of that. Colts minus 50. Team JT2 Tuds under Team Total Tennessee. They fucking suck, man. With no hope. It's a week-to-week lead. Some teams suck with hope. Let's talk about another defensive coordinator with a good D that could be a head coach. There's a lot coming out about that entire process as we speak. But there's a lot of compliments being showered this way as well. Could be a head coach. Won't be a head coach until the lawsuit with the NFL is settled. But if he had eight kids, he'll probably blitz all the motherfuckers or at least line them up like he will. Right? Right here, we got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight guys in the line of impression. The thing about watching this Vikings tape, regardless of who they're playing, they're going to keep seven in to protect. So knowing that as a defensive guy, that is great. You're keeping a running back in. You're keeping a tight end in for protection. And the quarterbacks, these pressures start to be like ghost pressures because you line up eight, you only send six. The O-line, the offense in general is the max protection. They did a great job picking it up. But if you watch Shuck, he throws this like he's under pressure off his back foot. He doesn't. He actually damn near sprints out to the right side into pressure and throws up to Byron Murphy for his second interception. So Murphy had Byron Murphy Jr. has three interceptions tied with the lead as well. So watch his AQ. Watch how they pick this up. But watch Shuck. Like he's going to you would think he was under pressure based off this throw. Tyler, like that. The pocket doesn't get much better than that in any level of football. And he throws it into a bailing corner. Double move. Chris Olave maybe just trusting his guy to go up and make a play. But I mean, this is this is a lollipop. AQ, can you tell me a little bit about B-Flow bringing it 90% of the time? Kevin O'Connell said it's just mental warfare because he's got to go against him in training camp. But he's got to go against him in practice for the offensive line. You're trying to figure that out. Quarterbacks trying to figure that out. And how do you figure that out? Yeah, I mean, most of the time it's the offensive line, the center's job to figure this whole thing out. And then the quarterback can change some things right there. He just signaled something. Who knows what that is? Probably told the tight end to stay in, make this max protect. And then you get the back coast and across. The problem is what makes them so good on this? One third down is winning first and second down because they can't do this if you're sitting in third and three. Yeah, they cannot do this. Like there's too many possibilities. So if the only time what's what's the down and distance on this third and 12? There you go. So that like third and six plus third and seven plus, that's what allows them to win and get to this. And if Fox, if you go back to the why the original copy, like you'll see at the bottom of the screen, these two guys are wide ass open. Like he runs a deep hook route down and one wide receiver 14. He's kind of running the seam. So the coverage part of it. It isn't really on point. The only guy that's in great positions is guy he's throws it to. But like at the top of the drop, you'll see this guy at the bottom. He's going to come wide ass open. But the droppers here, they're getting out there expecting crosses and looking up. Nothing comes inside. This guy down here. Why that's open. You have the time to go through the read, but he was just stuck on a lava for some reason. Didn't throw. But if you look at just watch this guy to buy the screen, like that's a pitch and catch in the NFL. Fourth quarter, less than three minutes left. He's been through it for 57. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Defense. It's going to be out there. Here's a stat from him about this Vikings defense as we sling some good D around. The Vikings defense is 14 to 63 on third down the season. Their opponents are over 23 on 39 or more. The best third down defense ever is the 2019 Patriots at 24%. So they're obviously outpacing them. AJ Brian Flores is dictating the game, right? And that kind of how we can describe this. Yeah, that's why I love because a lot of defenses do not dictate the game. They let the offense dictate them with their personnel groupings and their motions and ships. Everything. I think people just say we can adjust to anything. He gives his players a lot of freedom, I think, to adjust on the fly, and they all seem to always be on the same page. That's the biggest thing I see. Another hembo stat. The Vikings have allowed just 12.8 points per game this season, which is first in the NFL and the fewest by a 5-0 team since 2019. Now, they wouldn't be 5-0 if they weren't doing this. Obviously, the offense has tried to figure it out. The Vikings have pressured opposing quarterbacks on 50% of their dropbacks this season. The highest pressure rate in the last 20 seasons is 40% by the 2024 Browns. Where Myles Garrett had 10,000 sacks and everybody else went crazy. And even when you're not getting pressure, they're pressuring themselves almost. Like, you got a clean pocket, go through your progression. Nope. I can't even throw it up. I know somebody's coming. Yeah. That's good D, baby. Good D. Hell yeah. AJ, anything we didn't cover that you think we should have talked about? I want to ask AQ how difficult it really is for those when they're showing double A gap pressure. Like, is that truly as hard as people make it out to be? Because I know talking to O-linemen, they. Always despised it. And they did not like when we did it. Yeah. So this one's just a single mug, right? But what you're talking about with the double A's, you got two linebackers in there, right? Here's why it's so hard. The center has to set back square to start because you don't know who's going to pick. You got a punt block, right? You got a punt block. You got to set straight back and kind of put your arms out. And so then what happens is, is now you can get a pick from both linebackers or now you're setting back so you can't help your guard if that linebacker now goes to pick him and they're running a linebacker with that tackle around and they can do that on either side. So there's multiple situations there. And then, oh, by the way, if they do run the pick stunt, now you're passing the stunt off with a running back. And they're not the best at coming up and handling that situation. So, yeah. And then they can bail out of it and still bring four weak or four strong. So you have no idea where it's coming from. AJ, you did a lot of badass double mugs, didn't you? Not a whole lot, but it is fun. You can, when you, especially when you and another guy played a lot together, when you're reading the center, like, hey, if he turns to me, the other guy's going to ear hole him. I'm going to wrap it around like you do a lot of reading the center. When you do that, that's why when he does, when the center does go straight back and he punt blocks, it's the tough. thing for you because one of you has to fire and go try to year hole you can dummy point to aj that's what the centers do a lot like especially veteran centers they'll dummy point so if pat if you're up in this left a gap and i'm going to you i'm going to point to connor hey i'm going connor connor connor connor and then i'm setting to you because they're reading which way i turn based on the pick you're saying clown clown clown the next thing i say doesn't matter anything it's a fake hell i'm going this way i'm going this way and dumb aj's like oh free shots and then they just freeze because they think oh we're picking here but i'm setting right to the pick so it's like oh what do we do how many times you get a year hold by aj you ever get your hold by aj no no we didn't do a whole lot of he did almost break i think i almost broke my forearm against him in the in one of one of the games i was playing fullback i came and fullback i need to cut you if you're playing fullback yeah i think that's what you did and i went down i think your helmet got my forearm all right a lot of people there's a lot of people cutting aq and he's back yes there's a lot of cutting of aq he was the king of the game of the wedge he was the front of the wedge for kickoff return and he was also fullback they're putting him in motion they were having him i mean he was yep there it is three-point stance let's utilize the athleticism of our swing interior lineman that we have here on roster he's athletic enough to figure it out what happened was just massive collision after massive collision after massive collision for a season that's why my neck doesn't work anymore that's what ended my career but uh yeah it's that's uh it worked out well there for a little bit i got a nice little paycheck the worst is when the big fullback cuts you like you never yeah i'm a buck 90s blitzing through and if yeah come on bitch i'll tell you what that was the first time i ever realized and saw daniel hunter though i remember we were playing the vikings on thursday night and i was playing fullback but i was lined up as the right wing and we ran a counter to the left and so they sent me in motion as the first puller so they snapped it right when i was like behind the backside guard and now i'm going down the hill and i gotta cut the i gotta uh kick out daniel hunter and he flew up the field i ended up getting just enough a piece it ended up being like an eight yard run or something but i remember being like who the hell is this guy who the fuck and what the fuck is that so fast and so big like he was six eight his his biceps were i mean he built like a greek god i'm like what is that aq comes running yeah oh yeah yeah the best aq before you get out of here we need you to do something athletic come on i also think this football is seen in the trailer i think oh yeah feels like some of you come here thinking this is a fucking game it was hard not to sound like the saw character or whatever i was saying that yeah i think this is a fucking game you would like to play a game i would like you to become killers um that's a thin one yeah i like it i think i got a better here we go i got a better chance i think if it banks because oh god i thought we talked about this last week just throw it bacon just throw it oh see man no no if that would have counted if that wouldn't have counted for anything so a good warm-up we were we were trying to do that throw for herbie at coleman coliseum for that video before we go live herby's throwing 50 of them i'm like yo stop fucking throwing because he made like two of them i'm like you what are you doing like at least let us have a camera on this thing if you're going to shoot it he goes i just want to feel it that's why he was dripping sweat by the time we got there because he had thrown 50 balls i'm like can we fucking film it at least if you make it who knows if you're going to make it he goes well that's what i do i want to make it then before we start filming after i'm yelling at him fucking banks one and i'm like hey wow dick can we can we please stop for a second wait who he says you got it yeah he he did it was he made more than just this one but this was the first two that were on camera he made probably six of them off camera and through probably 40 30 of them we weren't filming nobody was ready he's just fucking hocking him up there oh yeah hey herbie's like i'm having fun i don't know it's herbie football he really was and he made it whenever we needed it which i appreciate but boy there was a couple moments just like right there like hey we're just going to waste one there let's not waste one nobody thinks you're making it on your first try anyway so let's make sure at least if you do make it we have a little odds on this thing ty how many winners should there be uh let's do i mean let's do 25 no one actually no one has made one yet no yeah so 25 winners yeah 500 connor has something to say to you before you throw this just like you just did i mean you hit the back room and it barely was a little too far don't think about it just step into it and throw now we're trying to make you think about it though because this is twelve and a half thousand dollars that's going out of out of the door to a bunch of people that certainly deserve it because they support the program and they're very kind and i i appreciate them for doing that aj actually has something to say to you before you attempt the impossible which is put that football into that hoop right over there do it do it for your old guy joe paul thank you let's do this there you go all right well that's it 25 people 500 put the statue up they had it up is it down yeah they knocked that thing down okay hey listen well there's a lot to that there is yeah very complicated situation all right we're ready i don't know let's go to hammer don todd don't anything say to aq here as he attempts the impossible putting that football into that basketball hoop for 25 people to win 500 yeah aq it's a it's a great day to live free or die hard okay think about it new hampshire all right live free or die bingo 25 people 500 aq shipley the way people will potentially be selected for this random winning that's about to happen is you have to repost this post you have to say something nice to somebody which i think people should do more often and they have to put the easiest way to digitally pay you in response all aq has to do now you know baseball hitters say whenever it's a high pitch all you gotta do is just get the wood on it now that we have all the rules and how you can potentially win all aq has to do is just put that ball into that hoop right over there 25 people 500 heading into week six of the nfl season wow you can even maybe take that 500 this is what i would do i go right over the best sports book on earth yep and i'm potentially because i'm listening to you guys i'm responsibly turning that maybe into a lot more yeah taking the colts that's just and what uh western football over bingo that's gonna happen all you gotta do aq to make this dream come true for all these people 25 of them is put that ball in that hoop you miss it though we're booning out of the building okay okay don't think about it seems like you've been thinking about it here i'm not so let it fly yep a little bit longer and i think that may have been good maybe not though more like a shipley almost halloween time speaking of boo oh yeah let's keep an eye on our skeletons out front yeah that's right last year we had skeleton theft of the year yep we had cameras on these guys we had a return of the skeletons we had push-ups in the streets that's right as punishment let's take a sniper position issue yeah heads will roll this year or explode yeah we need to put someone on the roof you for sure stay up there get those little crocs or canes up there just gave you a spot away there i got a kind of bush yeah booby trap that's right get a ghillie suit and lay right next to it yeah dig a hole air tag's already on them just in case you guys are smart yeah so i'm saying maybe you are a skeleton and you just don't move for the entirety of the evening and then somebody weeks comes and tries to steal you and you say gotcha and then that's when you pull out that would be so scary you gotta lock in though you gotta really lock in because if you move at all they're gonna know like those vegas guys that are like statues you know they're painted metallic yeah i got a i got a uh a knife as a gift yesterday oh nice that was very sweet i was very kind of the person that sent that very very cool surprising that that's what was sent i did not expect it i don't think any of us did it's a good one you want it sure it's a very sharp knife way too sharp of a knife for me just to be receiving it you can't give that knife you slit throat i'm not going to give it away but you could use it you actually said it should be used for situations in which you had happened to you last year so it actually built for the moment let's go let's not kill anybody that's going to steal skeletons we'll certainly scare out them yeah yeah great work today you didn't want anybody anything but okay good day boys way to go today work how's xo's going match up great going great that's in philadelphia at nfl uh well i fly into philadelphia but he shot out of mount laurel which is about 30 miles away nfl films they got a cordell stewart documentary coming out okay nfl films does slash obviously big for the city of pittsburgh cannot wait to learn more about him uh nfl film is always in the middle of about a thousand different things literally a thousand things we are very lucky that we have a chance to do what we've been doing for college we are very lucky that we have a chance to do what we've been doing for college we are very lucky that we have a chance to do what we've been doing for college now on monday field pass with pat mcfee show on espn 2 monday night live from san francisco there we go washington commanders and jayden daniels try to get over the flub of the century last week and that's coming from somebody that was part of the worst fake punt in the history of the nfl nobody had a clue what was going on the offensive side will they be able to rally around that will they be able to come together will jayden daniels be able to be true to form like we've seen them in the past they could have won that game or the giants they have a tie but that could have that could have easily been a dub he had over 100 russian should have been a dub take it on san francisco 49ers we'll be live on espn 2. cannot wait to see how that goes and then obviously all roads lead to us getting a chance to call the super bowl and then whenever college football playoffs happen, we're somehow going to be able to do that as well. We're very grateful and thankful. We hope you'll hang out with us on ESPN 2, and we are pumped to get out there. All right. Safe travels, D-Butt. Thank you, brother. Safe travels, A.Q. Shipley. Thank you, sir. To the boys in the back, great work. Good show, boys. Good job, boys. What's going on in soccer? PSG's up 2-0 on Man City right now. Remember if Man City was the team? Will this count as a win for their PSG if they beat Man City? Champions League, so they're still involved. This all counts for this season because those are Premier League charges they cheated in. But if you cheat in Premier League, that's how you have to get to the Champions League, right? If I know it. So will that inevitably all come crashing down? The plot thickens there, yes. Is Lou Messi playing tonight? He does play tonight. Messi will get a snipe tonight for sure. Legend. Oh, fuck yeah. Against? I mean, it's probably minus 750. No, he's minus 165. Who scored for PSG? Dembele? Yeah, Dembele got one. Bobby Barkle scored a hat-trick for Liverpool as well. Bobby Barkle? I like how much you're into soccer because of how great your daughter is and her team is. I can't wait to continue to follow along with her team, which is the SC Del Sol. SC Del Sol out there in Arizona. They got a squad. Rufus' squad. Barthelona. Rufus Del Sol. Barthelona has an academy out there. They have an academy out there. Barthelona does. In Arizona. Like 40 miles south of me. Don't love that. Casa Grande, Arizona. Stealing all our players. Stealing all our players, but also, I think, showing how it works. Hey, come to Barthelona school here. Academy. These kids are not going to have any social life. Alright? If we want to be good, this is what it is. You wake up, you run. Then you kick the ball. Then you eat breakfast. Then you do 20 minutes of school. You need to know how to read. Then you run again. Then you take a little nap ski. Then guess what we're doing in the afternoon? More soccer. We're running again, and then we're going to do some soccer. And then, congratulations, we've got study hall. 20 minutes. And then we're having night conditioning. And then you go to bed. Do that again tomorrow. And that's how you can potentially become the next Did you see what this guy did yesterday? Hey, fake Rod Day. Oh. Yeah. Who's the behind-the-leg kick? Who's credited with that? Rabonia. Rabonia. So he does a fake Rabonia, which is a behind-the-leg kick. Lets it roll through as if he's dancing. I'm going to cross this. The guy thinks, oh, he's going to cross it. Nope. I'm going to cut it back. And then I'm going to dice you up. And then I'm going to pass it. And then this guy's going to score because that's what I do. World Cup champion there. We're never fucking with it. Never. Never come close. Are you kidding me? Kevin Sullivan can do that. No, he can't. He could. I don't know if he can do it in that game where he gets those people. He can definitely accomplish that. And I have faith in him. He can do it in the MLS. You know he's from Pennsylvania, too? Yeah. The mean? No, the Kevin Sullivan. Yeah, Philadelphia guy. Exactly. Yeah, I know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Pennsylvania. We got you. Christian Polithin. Bingo. Now we got Kevin Sullivan. Yeah. Is Polithin going to be on the roster going forward? No. Not yet. They say he's done. Kind of the young guns right now. Letting the young lads play. A lot of time here. You said he's coming out? No, him and Moe Paunch got in a fist fight and Moe Paunch said that's it. Didn't actually get into a fist fight, but Moe Paunch is a big like, hey, you're lucky to be here. Yeah. Captain America, my fucking ass. Actually, new captains, Tyler. Tyler Adams. Yeah. Friend of the program. He's got it back because he had it for the last one. And he found out, I think, at a press conference when Paunch was, him and Paunch are just doing a press conference, and then Paunch goes, this guy, the captain of our team, and I think Tyler at the real time is like, oh, fuck, I'm captain of America all of a sudden? Yep. This guy exemplifies everything. Dog. I think what Paunch wants, we have. I don't know if we're ever going to have Luminium all doing that. Yeah. No. In La Liga. Who are they playing there? Is Paunch fucking sixth? Eight? Yeah, dude. 400 pounds? Yeah. He's the size of David Baker. Or is Tyler Adams fucking four and seven? Tyler Adams casual. The guy's been running for his whole fucking life. Paunch is huge, dude. Tyler Adams is 6'2". Think about that. Tyler Adams is sitting down relaxing because all he's been doing is cardio his whole fucking life. The guy just wants to get a breather. He has no ideas about being announced as captain. He sits straight up. That's fine. He's still sitting directly next to Paunch, and Paunch looks like he's the left tackle for the fucking Los Angeles Rams. Could have been. Paunch's going with the young guns right now trying to find our team and our culture. Team USA is winning the next World Cup. No, we're not. Yep. Oh, yeah. Thank you for letting us do all this. It's the dumbest life of all time. We're very grateful for it. If it wasn't for all the of you, we wouldn't get a chance to enjoy ball. Man, I love it. Yeah, I'm actually happy we're not going to win the World Cup, because that means our best athletes keep going to football and basketball and baseball. And those matter a lot more. Yeah. Exactly. Soccer sucks. We'll let the world have soccer. Imagine if AQ went to soccer instead of football. We'd be fucked. Exactly. Or rugby. How'd Kelsey do? I saw him tackle a guy. I didn't see many highlights other than a couple. Yeah, there's just him jogging around in that one video. There was no real highlight. He saw a tackle. It was a good form tackle. He stood a guy up. And buried him? Yeah. He said he was in terrible pain. He said, my body hurts really bad. Big catch. That's good. Right after this. He fucking, he dropped a guy. NFL Network has the, are they filming all this? It's him and Ball. Is he in the back there? Yep. Let me get to Ball. And eat shit, buddy. Yeah, I'm Jason Kelsey. Yeah. Nice. Alright. That's number eight right there. That's a true number eight right there. Yeah. Putting his shoulder into the sternum and burying him through the ground. I appreciate him doing that. AJ, we need to see you out there on a rugby pitch. I don't know. Rugby's gaining popularity, though. I know kids that play around here. I don't know any rules about it. I don't know how it works, but I know there's kids that are playing. I know it's a tough-ass sport, but I do know that if you meet a rugby person, they can drink very well, and they will fight you. Like, they're okay with the fighting. I just learned about lacrosse. I didn't know you guys just put your helmets on and box each other whenever you guys are doing that. Oh, yeah. Did you know that, D-Bud? I did not know that. Please put their little helmets on, because I got these gimmick gloves. Point Park. School Arts in Pittsburgh. Sick mitts. They got lacrosse mitts. Silky. They sent me these mitts here, and my fingers are a bit fat for them. I don't know if this is the right size for me, so I can't get all the way in there. But you put these bad boys on, and I guess you put a lacrosse helmet on, and then the kids are just boxing each other. I guess it's like an everyday thing. We're just fucking fighting in here. Before and after practice. Did you know that, AQ? I did not know that. I did not know lacrosse was go ahead and bapping each other. No body shots, though, right? We're only head shots. I mean, if you do a body shot, then it's like, okay, we're actually fighting. When you're just doing head shots, it's just fun, like banter. Let's fuck around. What was I doing yesterday? I was doing, you know, it's like catapult here when you're throwing, and then when you catch, your hand's up here. Your hand's up here. There you go. Working on the game. Cradle. Got it. And then there was a little, uh, what's that person called? I think it's called drill in a band where they throw the little baton. Um, the major, uh, fuck. You throw the baton. Drum major. Drum major, yep. That's our thing. Bruce did one of those with his stick. He'll say, we're playing catch yesterday. Throwing it around. Had a nice little rhythm going. You want to put it right here, AJ. This is the bucket. It's where you want to put it at. I was, I was humming him at Connor right in his face. I guess that's the worst place you could put it, but it was hard not to just throw it right at him. And then I'd miss, and I'd scream goal, but it was embarrassing. I missed by ten yards or whatever it was. It's not easy to control, but you put it right in the bucket. It feels good. We had a couple really rolling, and then Bruce got one. Now he did a little fucking twisty woohoo with the thing. It did a little twisty, and then he caught it, and then fucking threw it to me. I'm like, I did not know we had that. And then I asked Connor if he's ever done it. He goes, I don't fucking do that. It's Howell Brothers. They came to like our local high school when I was in middle school and just did a bunch of stick tricks, did backflips, and then shot behind their back. So I picked it up there, and I do have a couple stick tricks in the arsenal, as well as a long and proud lockerboxing resume. Okay, so thank you for being that guy, Bruce, for your teams, knowing that you were preparing for what was going to happen on the field in that locker room against your teammates' faces. This stick trick response from you, I didn't necessarily love. It felt like you, uh, he thought that was a little Savannah Banana-y. Oh, no. I played defense. I didn't do the cool, fancy stuff. I didn't care about scoring goals. I just wanted to fucking chop wood and hit some people. So then I also learned, if you run into a fucker at a game, and he's running forward, and he's twirling it forward, that's a power thing. That fucker's really good. That's something that, if he's skipping, too, I'm going to hit you guys. You better fucking just get ready to get in the blender, from my understanding. It's like growing up when you would go to the basketball course, right? Like, you're in, like, fifth, sixth grade, and you see one guy dribbling up the court, like, through his legs. The whole time? People aren't, yeah, the whole time, like, all the way up. You're like, okay, this guy, this guy has some fucking handles. That's kind of like what the power cradle was. So in soccer, and I'm not saying this just because of who I was, but it did kind of ring true, if you saw long blonde hair on a kid, bowl cut, white shoes, normally going to be problematic in the soccer thing. Sure. This is the tell in the lacrosse thing. If they're running forward and they're fucking sawing you with this thing, I guess you're in deep shit. Because there's no way that's as fast as they can run because they're working completely against their running stride, and they're also kind of showing you what's coming, and then they're going to kill you. Learned a lot about lax yesterday. A lot about lax. Not a bad little sport. The stick tricks seem cute. I don't know how it works in there, but then as you're running, you're just spinning this stuff. It's really sweet. I know. You look cool with the gloves and the stick on right now. - Do I? I'm losing finger, feelings in my finger. - They look tiny, for sure. yeah a little tight in here a little small thank god for football thank god imagine jamar chase was running around across it if we win olympic gold we're still gonna win olympic gold right yes i hope so blacks team canada is gonna be pretty good what about the native team and if they let that happen yeah the reservation team will be very very good all right we will definitely win women's lacrosse like without a shadow of a doubt and then maybe like canada is kind of good but we're gonna win both we'll definitely win women's you don't know oh we we know you know how many countries play women's lacrosse yeah probably like three how many fingers you got yeah if they go you got three fingers no no i would say there's probably like three countries that play women's lacrosse which kind of not that i don't think it should be but why the are we playing in the olympics only like three countries can participate who is in the men's i know japan canada uh the states uruguay mexico i assume australia england australia uruguay has a yeah pretty good i think cavanaugh might play for uluwai uh saudi arabia i don't know chile puerto rico is ranked sixth in the world puerto rico puerto rico is a u.s. yeah i don't know why aren't they playing for us australia is not a lacrosse team you don't know google it all it takes is sticking a chance pal aj batters that thing right now i know every time i come back here there's a all my he says cleaner or whatever it's like yeah i know where everything is though so you know whenever you move i appreciate what you do in this place i do appreciate it i put it back i try to i try to leave it put it back you take a picture beforehand yeah mentally nice thank you be a friend tell friends something nice might change your life we understand together thank god for sports hell yeah yes week six nfl eve today week six in the nfl season kicks off tomorrow let's celebrate that college football is about to be gigantic again yep nba is back wmba is in its finals mlb's and it's super duper time hockey alive and thriving yeah so are we hell yeah safe travels boys team on me team on three one two three two bye-bye