Joe Buck In Studio, Bears Lose MNF, CFB Talk + Guys On Chicks

24:13PFT Commenter:They do this every single year. We're right before the season starts. Like, hey, let's just fuck. It was like seven concerts in like two weeks. I'll say one nice thing, one very nice thing. They had the best national anthem maybe I've ever seen last night. Jim Cornelison is a legend. It was absolutely incredible. From the second he opened his mouth, the very first O, I was sucked in. And then the F-35 flyover was very nice. You know what I said on Sunday? You know if you're a Dolphins fan, it's never bad that the number to his cap is being floated around week one. The sign for the Bears is I turned to Eddie in the fourth quarter.

24:50PFT Commenter:I was like, how many standalone games do we have still? And I was like, can we flex? and we cannot flex. I think any of them. How many do you have? Three more. Non-flexible. That's not as bad as last year. Actually, four. Four more. Every week, it was like more Bears. Get ready, America. There's four more. One of them is flexible. So, Commanders, Monday Night Football, which that actually okay because it's a doubleheader. So people can watch something else. And then Eagles Black Friday, Packers on a Saturday, and then the 49ers Sunday Night Football, which will undoubtedly be flexed. I think you're being very, very down about the Bears because you just saw them.

25:32It was on national TV. If this happened in the middle of a Sunday, if this happened 1 p.m. Sunday, you'd be down. But I don't think you'd be like, Caleb sucks. Ben Johnson sucks. I don't think I'm being down. I think I'm being realistic.

25:46PFT Commenter:Caleb does not look better. He looked bad. That's just a fact. You have to say it. Otherwise, I'm just fooling myself. He looked bad. I hope he gets good, but he looked bad. And that's a game that – don't you agree that that's a game with an adequate quarterback play? Yeah. You win that game. Yes, I agree. I think he was a big part of the reason why I lost. But I also think that knowing you, it was like you had Monday Night Football. It was week one. Yeah. So it's like all the pressure in the world. You're like – you spend the entire week thinking – It's late all week. What if we suck ass in primetime again, and then people just keep talking to me about how Caleb Williams sucks, and that's what you're going through right now.

26:24And that's okay. Feelings are never wrong, Big Cat. No, but I'm not. But I also think that if you look at it from a bigger perspective, it's not as bad as you say it is.

26:34PFT Commenter:But it's not. When people say now that Caleb is bad, it doesn't hurt me anymore. It hurt me last year because I was hoping that there was going to be, I was like, oh, the coaching staff, oh, this, that. You can't argue against that right now. From what we've seen in the NFL from him, he doesn't see it. It's not there. You can get treatment for dyslexia if that's what it is. That's HIPAA. That's why JJ's... I did say it was HIPAA, but that's why JJ's parents were so brilliant. It doesn't matter if he's got dyslexia. He can still spell his name. That's HIPAA and you should be arrested. That's HIPAA.

27:07That's HIPAA.

27:08PFT Commenter:Any other cleanup from the NFL? It was a fun Sunday. It was a fun Sunday. Anything else? You could win next week. Oh, Howie's back. I think that's just such a Detroit Lions get right spot. But, like, what does that even mean? You can't have a get-right spot to start the season. It's a whole new team. Well, no, it's not a whole new team. But it is. Every year is a new team. Every year is a new team with new coaches. You don't know what the Lions are this year. It's week one. Like, you guys played a very good Vikings team to the end. They got the shit kicked out of them by a very good Packers team.

27:46You have no idea. If this happened at 1 p.m., I think Big Cat would be down, but I don't think he'd be like, oh, we fucking suck again. But hold on. I don't know about that.

27:57PFT Commenter:Thank you, Hank. It's not that the Bears lost. Caleb does not look any better. That's the problem. A lot of coachable moments in this game. It's almost better to lose week one. Tell me about that. But do you guys see what I'm saying? Tell me about the coachable moments, Mims. It has nothing to do with the actual outcome of the game. It's like if they had lost and Caleb looked awesome, I would not be sitting here being like, damn, the Bears suck. They're going to lose every game. They stink. They can't win a game. It's the fact that he did not look any better than last year. There were like three or four throws that he had that if you watch the Manning cast, Peyton Manning's face afterwards tells you everything you need to know.

28:34That's my point.

28:35PFT Commenter:Where he was just like, uh-oh. And that's kind of what we had going into this season. It's like everything is there for him. If he gets better, the Bears could be a decent team. If he doesn't get better, they will not be good. I did not see him get any better. Hopefully he gets maybe next week. It's totally different. I'll obviously rally the troops and be like, yeah, let's go. But as of right now, you can't make a statement otherwise. You can't be like, he's going to get better. Is that fair? I think that Dan Campbell is maybe the most dangerous guy when it comes to a revenge game. It feels like this might be a revenge game.

29:06PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah, Howie is up to it again. He did it again, Max. Fucking Howie. Wait, is this a good fucking Howie or a bad fucking Howie? This is an I guess fucking Howie. Oh, like Howie was bored. So he made a trade. I feel like that was going to be your take. It's a fucking Howie question mark. It's like fucking Howie. Somebody distract Howie because he's going to keep trading. He just needs another running back. Yeah, he was just like, I got to do something with my hands. Yeah, that's what it feels like. Is he addicted to trades? I don't know. There was a lot of things that you could have seen that you need improvement from in week one.

29:45I didn't see running back on that list. Yeah. What was the logic behind it? I don't know. But I mean, he's a good player. I think what happens is... The player is Tank Bigsby, by the way. Yeah, Tank Bigsby is a good player. I think what happens is there are teams out there that are like, okay, I want to move on from this player. And Howie doesn't give a fuck about what he needs. He looks at that and is like, is this a good player? Yes or no. If it's a good player, I will go try and make that trade, whether I need that position or not. Which I guess is what you want from your GM. He thinks that Tank Bigsby is more valuable than what the Jags were asking for, so he went and got him whether the Eagles need him or not.

30:26It was like a buy-low opportunity for him where it's like Tank Bigsby might have lost the running back competition, so his stock is pretty low right now, but that doesn't mean that he's a bad player.

30:35PFT Commenter:Right. Also, great name. Awesome name. First-team-all name. That name bumps him up big time in terms of excitement for the trade. Yeah. Tank Bigsby. You can win with that. But how many more wins is Tank Bigsby going to give the Eagles? Probably like one and a half. I guess it depends if Saquon gets hurt. Maybe he's the new – who was the guy? Boston Scott? Was that the guy that just killed the Giants? Yep, that was the best. Maybe Tank Bigsby is just going to have awesome games against the Giants this year. I wanted to say that we could beat the Giants regardless. Yeah, I'd say so. Although Jackson Dart might be the starter.

31:12No, I think – didn't Dayball come out yesterday? Jay said we're sticking with Russ. Oh, he did? Yeah, I think he said Russ is going to be the starter this week.

31:19PFT Commenter:Okay, so he's going to – Jackson Dart will be the starter soon. Yeah. I still think – Because it's week two and you already are proclaiming a starter. I feel like it's going to be right after that Chiefs game. Was that Chargers at home? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I've got circled. But, yeah, if you're taking two days to announce your starter in week two, that means that that guy's not going to be your starter much longer. Yeah. Okay. What else we got? Anything? Hank, how are you feeling? Good? You love football? Last night was fun, yeah. These are the hardest days to get through, the Tuesdays and the Wednesdays.

31:52PFT Commenter:Yeah, without my action? Yeah. It's very difficult. It just feels like there's a – I'm going to go home tonight and just be like, wait, where's the football? Yeah. Where's the football? I might rewatch. I might grind small 22. Are you feeling nervous, excited for Thursday night? I just – again, since it's a short week, I think that the Packers need to do the right thing by their players and rest Micah Parsons. Like, if he's searching at football, it's dangerous. Is Jaden Daniels on an injury report? He was. He's got an injured right wrist, which is coincidentally what I get after I watch Jaden Daniels' film.

32:22PFT Commenter:Also, his mom doesn't let him date girls. Well, no, that's not true. That's not true, big cat. That's not true. That's fake news. That was a quote that was taken from when he was in college still. Got it. He's cleared for girls. Oh, he is? Yeah. Yeah. System's hot. Is his right wrist okay? His right wrist is fine. My understanding is it's fine. It's just a boo-boo. It's just a boo-boo. He's got a boo-boo. He's got a little boo-boo. And he'll be okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous about the Packers. It's a good game. I'll be honest. Packers are a great team. They looked awesome in week one.

32:56We didn't look good. We didn't look awesome. Just a little boo-boo.

33:01PFT Commenter:All right, let's talk some college football. Before we do that, let's talk about game time. Can you look up that game? See what the prices are for the Commanders and Packers? Also, speaking of injuries, this would be a good time to break out. So there's been an uptick in dogs breaking news on Twitter recently. Shout out Ricky Scoops. He nailed the Micah Parsons news. This was kind of Leroy's thing. He retired from the game when he died. But I think I'm training Blake to become an injury expert because he's had three surgeries so far. So he's pretty much an expert on anything related to joint problems.

33:34So pro football dog is something I'm considering deploying with Blake. He wants to start breaking news. So he might have to dive into Jaden Daniels' wrist, and he'll let you know what he thinks.

33:44PFT Commenter:Okay. Yeah, that was good. He could maybe get on the McCaffrey beat. Yeah. The Niners are just injured again. They are. It was out for a while. The Niners have, like, surprise injuries that you don't hear about during the game, and then afterwards it's like, oh, yeah, this guy's hurt too. Yeah, McCaffrey's hurt. Trent Williams got bumped out of the game. And then Kittle with the hamstring. I feel like that's one where it's really, really annoying if you're George Kittle. Purdy also hurt. Purdy also hurt. Purdy's hurt? Yeah, he's on the list. That's right. So Mac Jones might have to start, right?

34:15Oh, boy. Oh, God. Oh, boy. Dear God.

34:17PFT Commenter:Oh, boy. The NFL sucks. Yeah. That's early for the Niners to have this. Yeah, it's like having a beer before noon. It's a little early in the season to have Mac Jones. Yeah, it's week two to have these guys. Okay. We had help. On August 21st. We have a story. Utony arrives on the big screen. Who are you? It is. Trust me. Jason Statham stars in the action movie to end your summer. What do you want? Engines. Mutiny. Rated R. Okay, college football. By the way, speaking of college football, quickly, our good friend Todd McShay is doing a live show tonight, Wednesday, tonight, 7 o 'clock at the Lincoln Hall on Lincoln in Lincoln Park.

35:00PFT Commenter:I am going to be his guest. So you can still buy a few tickets. There's a few tickets still left there. If you want to come out, see us talk some ball, go buy those tickets at Lincoln Hall tonight 7 o 'clock Eastern me and Todd McShay Todd college football USF is the best team in the country resume hmm debate me US USF USF I thought you said USD I thought I said USF I think USF, because I actually thought of the same thing. They do have - USF. Are they the only team that's beaten two ranked opponents? I believe so. So they beat Boise State, and then they beat Florida. I think you can make the case.

35:51They should be ranked higher. Top 10.

35:53PFT Commenter:Yeah. The Florida win was Billy Napier. I mean, he's just dead. He's just gone. Does America have a spitting problem? It does. I think we need to learn how to keep our spit to ourselves. It is crazy for it to be Thursday night football, Jalen Carter spits on Dak Prescott. You don't think that every single coach in America on that Friday morning was like, hey guys, you see that? Don't fucking do that. Yeah. And then they did that. What? You didn't tell the whole story right there. Well, Dak Prescott really is the first one who started the spitting. Okay, so we had two spits. Yeah. Well, you're allowed to spit on the ground.

36:30You are allowed to spit on the ground. Not in someone else's direction. Well, according to Dak Prescott, he spat on the ground because he spits a lot. Yeah, and then he just immediately— Jalen Carter happened to be standing right in front of him at a scheduled spit time for Dak Prescott. So what do you want him to do? Followed by a maniacal laugh right into Jalen Carter's face. That just happened to be— Oh, is there a penalty for laughing? For having a good time? Oh, that's a flag on Max. Jaden Daniels would lead the league. Yeah, that's true. Did you see after the game— So my take on Jaden for the last year has been that he jokes and he talks to the other players so much so that they don't hit him extra hard if they've got him in the grasp and throw him on the ground.

37:10And it worked twice on Sunday against Brian Burns. And then after the game, Brian Burns is like, he's too friendly during games. I don't like that. Talk to me after the game. I think he's trying to become friends with me. And I think it does work. But, yes, Dak Prescott, Max, he happened to spit when Jalen Carter was standing right in front of him. That's true. Either way. Now we've got three spits.

37:31PFT Commenter:Yeah. If you're a coach, you've got to tell everyone, hey, don't spit. Florida, then spit. Billy Napier is all but out. And USF and Alice Golish, who's an awesome coach. He was at Tennessee before this. He was kind of the – not the guy, but everyone was like, he's one of the important pieces of Tennessee and Hypel. And Byron Brown, they're awesome. And they have another game against Miami this weekend. I mean, if they win this one, I don't even know. But they can lose this one, and they're still the frontrunner to get into the college football playoff with those two wins. If they beat Miami, they should be ranked number one.

38:11PFT Commenter:Yeah. They're 16.5-point dogs again. Yeah. And they got a Gratica. Speaking of G5 PFT, we're rooting for you hard on Friday night. I thought we were going to talk about the Bills and the Ravens again. We can't talk about the Bills and the Ravens. That was a crazy fourth quarter. Incredible. In the first half, the Ravens just dominant with their run game. Didn't look like they could be stopped. Second half, I don't know what happens. I'd say fire Harbaugh. 251 yards for Josh Allen in the fourth quarter. Unstoppable. Unstoppable. But, yeah, we were rooting hard for you on Friday night, JMU, against Louisville because it was a gateway game.

38:44PFT Commenter:If you win that game. Yeah, there was a path. There was a big path. There still is. There is a small path. There's a little stream that you can swim in and hope it gets to a big river. But, yeah, it was a good first half for the Dukes. second half everything went to complete shit uh louisville had some big plays and they were just a better team how do you feel about the two quarterback system uh i don't love it i think if you've got two quarterbacks you've got two okay because they both ironically sluka is the better runner yeah and then when barnett's in you're like oh it's gonna be a pass wait why is that ironic uh because sluka's younger yeah okay yeah yeah no but that that might fuck with the defense coordinator a little bit they're like oh the white guy's in oh shit he's running what's going on yeah uh i don't mind it because like listen you're a you're like a in the second tier of college football if you're in the group of five so yeah good teams have two quarterbacks a lot and also it probably makes it less likely that one of those guys is going to transfer after the season's over because they won't be seen as being the guy unlike what we see like at was it cal cal's quarterback yeah um that's probably gonna be leaving but yeah uh it was it was a good first half yeah it got my hopes up i blame myself a little bit uh number one i i scheduled a dinner on a friday night like three months ago and i did not realize because it's friday night i'm like oh i'm avoiding college football i'm avoiding nfl at the time i scheduled it i forgot that it was both college football and nfl so i was at dinner for the first half checking in on the highlights inexcusable inexcusable but we got a lead yeah and so then i was like do i just stay at this dinner We were texting on the group text.

40:21PFT Commenter:I was like, you have to eat another dinner. I tried to order extra dessert, and nobody at the table wanted dessert. I was like, should we just not go anywhere? And then, you know what? Does anybody else here want to take any sort of blame for JMU's loss? Anyone else? Anyone else? Anyone? Zach? I'm in for 1%. No, Zach. No, it's a bad Zach. I can do it. Not you, Zach. You had nothing to do with it. I'll double. I like Zach just taking 1 % of blame for everything. Zach, apologize for taking the blame. I can give it back. Okay. Anyone else? Me? Yeah, Max. What did I do? I watched the second half with you.

40:59You chose to come to the bar. Yeah, but you were there. I don't understand how this has anything to do. I said 1%. I'm not allowed to root on. I was betting on JMU with you. I know, but. I bet on JMU like five times Friday night with you. So it sounds like you had a lot to do with this. This is crazy. You bet on them more than I did. Would you prefer to me to bet against them? Sometimes. Can't exist. Yeah, this is a can't exist. This is a big time can't exist. This is very clearly me just looking for somebody else to get. All right, true. I'll take 2%. There it is. 2%. I'll take 1%. You've got to be a fall guy.

41:34I need a fall guy. No, it was a bad second half. And, I mean, there is still a path there. We're going to need some help. But, I mean, we haven't even started a conference play yet. Yeah.

41:45PFT Commenter:Mississippi State, awesome win against Arizona State. That was a crazy, crazy ending. That guy is so fast for Mississippi State. Yeah, he is. Is Cover Zero one of those things that it works a lot, but we never hear about it when it does? Yeah, it feels like it gets a lot of blame. Cover Zero's got a bad PR system. It does. It just doesn't. Yeah, that was awesome, though, for Mississippi State. They haven't had a lot to celebrate, and they've already matched their two wins from last year. So good for Mississippi State. Happy for our guy, Brandon Walker. felt like a big, big moment. I was in Ames, Iowa on Saturday.

42:20PFT Commenter:Awesome crowd. Those two teams don't like each other. Those two teams also play the exact same football game every single year. Yep. It's Groundhog's Day. I want to – so we like Grinowski because he came in here and we met him and he's a very nice kid. Is it something about the Iowa uniform that just makes it like if you're a passer? It's a combo, I think, of the Iowa uniform. And the last name just seems like an Iowa quarterback too, doesn't it? It just doesn't work. It doesn't work. The Iowa was supposed to be a passing team this year. They are not. It's bad. I thought that with the Steelers scoring a shitload of points, that maybe Iowa football would catch that through the uniforms.

43:04Yeah. They'd be lighted up again this year. But no, the Seahawks game, every year it's the same thing. I bet the over just thinking it was going to be different. That was dumb. Yeah. I'm an idiot for doing that. I'll never do that again until next year. But, yeah, it was not a great football game. But you're right. They do. I don't think that there's two fan bases that actually hate each other, like literally hate, more than Iowa and Iowa State. I think, like, Ohio State, Michigan is close. But when I'm talking about, like, just mean, like very dirty shit, they do hate each other. They hate each other.

43:33Especially for that one week.

43:34PFT Commenter:They hate each other a lot. It's just the classic, like, the state school that everyone knows and recognizes with the state and then the other one. And Iowa State being the other one, which was an awesome campus. And I don't mean the other one, but that's the national perception where it's like a Michigan-Michigan State situation. We also had, yeah, do you want to play this woman? Kalen DeVore's got to be worried. I know Alabama got right. They're going to probably smush the Badgers on Saturday. I'm fully prepared for that. but this lady is the most SEC lady ever in uh coming out of a convenience store being asked what she would do if she won the Powerball I tell you exactly what I'd do with the first 70 million I'd pay off Kalen DeBoer and get him the heck out of the University of Alabama and then I'd take whatever else it took to get rid of the AD I'd give my church money Caleb DeBoer's got to be worried that like any Caleb DeBoer He's got to look at the paper and be like Were there any Powerball tickets winners sold in the state of Alabama?

44:41Yeah, it's weird because It's Texas and Missouri Yeah It's usually California I think California gets like an outsized number of lottery tickets But they don't care enough about football in California But yeah, if it's sold in Alabama Yeah, he's gone Yeah He's gone

44:56PFT Commenter:I also saw on our friend message board, Genius he posted that their Florida fans are down so bad they're like one guy was like I'll take Caleb DeBoer that's when that's when you get to the bad part where like the SEC schools are trying to trade each other's bad coaches just take Urban Meyer back yeah you guys need to start cheating again they want Saban Saban is gonna Saban could coach for name is price how much do you think Alabama would pay Saban a lot it okay let's say this lady wins the Powerball first thing she does before she pays her church. She fires the AD and the head coach, Kalen DeBoer, buys him out.

45:35What's Saban's number?

45:37PFT Commenter:I don't know if he has a number. He's got more money than he ever needs. Would you do it for$100 million a year? I think he hates the NIL and transfer portal, which is also a little bullshit. I saw that statement by him being like, the Big Ten now has all this money. It's like, you were paying. The SEC was paying for years. That would be the funniest. is if he, like, let's say Penn State doesn't live up to expectations this year, fires Franklin. Yeah. And then Saban's like, I'll coach at Penn State because the Big Ten's got all the money. The Big Ten's got all the money. Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah, we had Fran Brown for Syracuse with the try-hard move of the week, making his players run sprints after an overtime win over UConn.

46:16PFT Commenter:Yeah. That was so lame. It was funny. That was so lame. Such a try-hard move. If you're going to do sprints, you've got to do, they've got to be longer than, what were they, 20-yard sprints? sprints yeah and the guys here's my problem the guys weren't even sprinting no so this is how i know it's a fake try hard move correct is because the players knew oh we don't actually have to sprint he's this is what he's doing instead of a post-game press conference right now yeah and also to give reporters something to ask him about so he doesn't have to answer any of his stupid coaching decisions so uh if he was real about it these guys would be running their asses off because a coach that would do that and mean it they wouldn't let you leave the field until you actually sprinted yeah yeah you got to be puking yeah you got to have a couple guys puking uh also john mature is awesome that oklahoma game i'm happy for oklahoma fans the way he stops and starts on a dime is so fun to watch he has the he has that ability where he'll at least once or twice a game stop and have a guy like go right by him and he made some sick passes bryce underwood this is where it's weird in college football today because everyone knows how much he's getting paid.

47:23PFT Commenter:He did not have a great game and Michigan feels like they're in a spot where there's people calling for Sharon Moore. Biff Pogey, by the way, all-time football guy, is back. Did I just take another hot seat, Cool Terrell, from you? Yeah. Okay. Sorry. It's fine. He's the all-time intern vibes. Do you know what the greatest part about Biff Pogey is? He's such a football guy. His name. I don't know his name. He wears the cutoff shirt. He was Charlotte's head coach. Do you know that he's a millionaire? Yeah. Independently wealthy. Like high millionaire. High millionaire from he had a hedge fund. He traded stocks.

48:03PFT Commenter:He doesn't need to coach football. He loves football. And his name's Biff. And his last name's Pogey. Yeah. Pretty good. Washington State might just be, that might be the number one farm system for quarterbacks in the world. What's that? I mean, Ben Arbuckle, their OC, who is there, now is Oklahoma's OC. He's kind of the next up QB guy. Yeah. I also saw a couple Michigan boosters were whispering about making calls to Sharon Moore being like, you got to let this kid off the leash. You got to let Bryce Underwood throw the ball more. Yeah. So now we've got millionaires telling 18-year-olds how to play the game.

48:39Tricky. What do you think about that, Big Cat? That's a tough spot we're in. It's a tough spot. They're just kids. As a nation, that's a tough spot.

48:46PFT Commenter:They're just kids. Do you guys think Arch Manning is hurt? Yes. No. Okay. This is one of my hot seat cool throws, but we can get into it. Okay. I think he was just taking a shit. Okay. So that was what Sark said. Yeah. After. I choose to believe Sark. What about the wincing on the throws? Yeah. He's taking a shit. My understanding, if you didn't watch the clip, Arch Manning on a couple throws winced and made, I don't think this would qualify as a Manning face. this is like a pain face it looked like he was in pain he was in pain and then sark was asked about it he says do people take pictures of you and show your face to everybody when you're using the bathroom going number two because you probably make some weird faces then too so i think what sark was telling us was that he shit himself when he was making these passes he had to shit i also think there's a maybe a chance sark was saying that's a horrible comparison yeah the writers only the writer's only skill is taking poops yeah like arch can throw was born to throw a football all you guys could do yeah you're you're a writer using that number two pencil yeah it's like the old like i don't come to your office and kick the dick out of your mouth yeah uh did you so so now this is uh on the message boards the the sark the texas fans are trying to find out if he's hurt or not so i'm gonna do a little reading a wednesday reading for you this is from uh texas fan odd goo up uh how's your deuce face bro sark's comment about not filming reporters when they were taking a dump was really intriguing to me i had some pluckers yesterday including a sixer of fire in the hole so i recorded myself dropping a deuce after the press conference i have no shoulder issues at all and lift heavy weights five to six times per week was very surprised to see that my face during push phase was almost identical to the face arch makes when throwing bad passes yeah he's taking a shit like it was identical bro made me feel like a douche for saying arch had a shoulder issue three of my bros did the same and also had deuce faces just like arch anywho do you guys know if your deuce face is similar or identical to the arch bad pass face if you're not sure then do the same test that i did yeah empirical evidence we got to do it why do you think that's a bad comparison hank because one thing is done privately he's he's basically getting mad at people for watching footage.

51:06Like, he's like, you shouldn't be judging someone based off their reaction in a game. You sound like a guy that's never taken a video of your own face while you shit. We're going to need that video. Yeah, no, I haven't. Yeah, we're going to have to do that video. Please produce that video. But it would be like saying, it would be like saying if people reacted to a face I made on this podcast and then me being like, why don't you, like, why don't people take videos of you at your cubicle? Well, you get mad. It's a different, this is a podcast that's filmed and put out. Because you get mad. And you know that.

51:36Because you get resting bitch face sometimes. I think Arch Manning might have resting shit face. Yeah, EOD.

51:41PFT Commenter:I'm going to need it by EOD. Okay. All right? Full video. You shitting. Push face. I want to see that. Okay. We'll make a judgment off that. We're just following the press conference orders. Yeah, I mean, you shouldn't be making the shit face against San Jose State, though. Yeah, they came out looking bad. They obviously put it on him. Also immediately after throwing the ball. That's a fair point by Hank. What does that have to do with anything? I don't understand where your head's at, Hank. I mean, you know what? I'm going to take a video of Blake shitting, and you'll see his face. Same thing.

52:19PFT Commenter:Yeah. Clemson might be bad. I had that written down as well. They struggled with Troy. They were down 16-0, I believe, at one point. had to have a weather delay then came back we might have bought into dabbo uh for no reason there's a lot of weather this year there's a lot of something's going on with the weather we need to figure this out that navy game was delayed like 17 times yeah something something's wrong with the weather right now darpa cloud seating i don't know what it is they're trying to take football away from you something's happened something's up uh any other college football thoughts.

52:53Illinois is good. This weekend is going to be awesome.

52:57PFT Commenter:This weekend, I cannot wait. I'll be in Evanston for a big noon kickoff, Northwestern Oregon. That's what I was going to say. Oregon looks like the best team ever. They do. Dan Lanning, we need to just remember this. Dan Lanning might be an all-time grudge coach because he and Mike Gundy went back and forth during the week about paying players and all this stuff. And I like Dan Lanning's take because he was just like, Mike Gundy essentially was saying, well, they pay all their players. They have all this money. Dan Lanning was like, why should I apologize because we pay to win? Yeah. But this is now two times that we've had direct Dan Lanning kind of being questioned and then running up the score.

53:42PFT Commenter:Remember the Colorado game? Yeah. Where they just absolutely destroyed him. They were going for two, I think, right at the beginning of the game. They were going for fourth downs. We got to put a reminder out there that Dan Lanning, if anyone steps to Dan Lanning, take the other side. I agree with that. Or take Dan Lanning. Also, weird comments by Lane Kiffin. Weird comments by Lane after the game. How so? Apologizing to the gamblers. I appreciated that. So he called a timeout before Kentucky kicked a field goal at the end of the game to cover the spread, right? Well, Mark Stoops was like, oh, shit, we should probably kick after the timeout.

54:16Yeah, we should probably cover the spread. but as SVP pointed out last night they weren't it wasn't like Ole Miss was covering the spread for the entire game no it's not like he blew the spread

54:30PFT Commenter:no he's apologizing for the time out because I think Mark Stoops didn't realize I think Lane's being too open with it right now I appreciate what Lane did and said if it doesn't if the actual game outcome is not up for grabs because that was like, Kentucky was never going to win that game. They were down 10 with 15 seconds left. I'm okay with the coach being like, hey, my bad guys. I wish we had covered for you. I don't want to hear it if it's actually like a one score game. I wouldn't mind it though. I don't want to hear it if you lose either. No. I just think that Lane's being, he's being very, he's getting close to that line.

55:10I wouldn't. I'm personally fine with it, but I know that there's going to be people that won't be fine with it.

55:14PFT Commenter:Do you know what made me feel better last week? when Penn State let Nevada score at the end, if James Franklin had gotten up and been like, hey, you know what? Guys, I should have put my ones back in for that last play. Because the boosters of this program and the alumni all bet Penn State every Saturday. That's my bad. We won by 40. We should have won by 47. The game was never in doubt. We got to start covering spreads. I think I just missed the days when a coach would say it without saying it, and then I felt smart because I understood what the coach was saying. Yeah. It was like, if you know, you know.

55:48PFT Commenter:Lane Kiffin's always been a spread guy. Always. He's always been. Spread him. He's always been someone who's aware of it. Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm excited. Yeah, college football's going. It feels very wide open. Yeah. It feels very wide open. Like, I don't know. Ohio State obviously is up there. LSU, like LSU should. That's the thing. It's LSU. That was a huge win for LSU against Clemson. Week one is Clemson bad. Mm-hmm. So is LSU bad? I mean, Clemson looked like they were good, good-ish in week one. But that was such a bad – you expect teams that lose week one, big-time programs, to just hammer the cupcakes they play the next week.

56:29PFT Commenter:Mm-hmm. You know? Like Alabama won by – I think they won by 70. Texas. Texas. Like, you expect that. And then, I don't know. So this week we got South Florida-Miami. Mm-hmm. Arkansas-Ole Miss. Yep. A &M, Notre Dame. That's a must win for Notre Dame. Florida, LSU. Yep. And then sneaky good one, Vandy, South Carolina. Yeah. And Wisconsin, Alabama. We don't have to watch that. I mean, you could get Kalen DeBoer fired this week.

57:06PFT Commenter:Alabama was bad last year, and they 50-pieced us. Oh, and then Georgia, Tennessee. Yeah. Forget about Georgia, Tennessee. Georgia, Tennessee. Are you feeling good about that game, Memes? I don't know. The defense is as elite as possible. Mike Bobo just loves a wide receiver screen. He's like addicted to it. I'm so sick of wide receiver screens. Get it out of the playbook. Seriously. It works like one out of every ten times. And it always seems like an accident. Like, holy shit, I can't believe that first guy didn't tackle him. Yeah. Like something bad happened. A good wide receiver screen is like minus two yards.

57:39PFT Commenter:Yeah. That's where it starts. If they do a wide receiver screen and you lose two yards, You're like, that wasn't that bad. Gave him a different look. Nothing good happens from wide receiver screens. We've also been hanging out with Gruden a lot, who hates wide receiver screens. Hates. Hates it as well. More than anything, yeah. I mean, that's two big-time football guys that I trust their opinion. Yep. Okay, let's do hot seat, cool throw, and then we get to our awesome interview with Joe Buck. Now, at McDonald's, get a$5 McChicken meal deal or a$6 McDouble meal deal. They come with small fries, a soft drink, and four-piece McNuggets.

58:11We're going to need a bigger tray. Get more value with your meal deal.

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59:07You would think being an agent, you'd never be dropping guys. But I guess, according to Mark Stein, a source said that the decision occurred after the point guard sent signals that he wasn't interested in whatever came from his agent's conversations with the Knicks. So Ben Simmons just literally doesn't care even enough to take a contract. Bad sign. So he's just not... He's not represented currently. You've got to be pretty bad for your agent to fire you. Especially in the NBA. That's my point is like an agent's commission, and you can get a bench player and get them$30 million, and that's probably a nice payday for you.

59:48Yeah. So if you're getting dropped, you must be bad, bad. Or just not care at all.

59:54PFT Commenter:It's in conjunction probably, yeah, with the Knicks. Turn it down to the Knicks, you're saying. Yeah, it was like, hey, the Knicks are interested in Ben Simmons. Like, I don't care. Yeah, be like, nah. I mean, why not just retirees? Oh, man. I'm going to look it up. It's going to make us so mad. Ben Simmons has made$240. Ooh. All right, wait. Hold on. I'm looking it up, Max. Max, give us a guess. Might be my four. No. I'll say$265. Ben Simmons has made$203 million. Still crazy. Good for him. $203 million. As much as Kirk Cousins. what is Kirk Cousins made? I think he's up to like 260. We should just start doing this all the time.

1:00:42PFT Commenter:Just, all right, hold on. I'm looking up Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins has made.

1:00:50PFT Commenter:$411 million. Wait, no. I don't think he's made that. No, that's what he can make. $321 million. I guess he'll get cut. $321 million. He has on contract another$90 million. So that will be... They can get out of that? Yeah. All right. Good for him. Still$321 million. I guess the one way that he could earn all that money if he did get traded to a team became their starting quarterback and then played again next season. Yeah. That's what I'm hoping for. Just keep paying, Kirk. All right, good hot seat. My cool throne is the mountain. Yeah. Mountain from Game of Thrones set the world record for deadlifting.

1:01:30Deadlifted. What do you think it was? 1 ,000 pounds.

1:01:34PFT Commenter:275 million. Oh. What does 1 ,000 pounds translate to in dollars? Your guess is what?

1:01:46$1 ,800, a.k.a. 1 ,000 pounds. I'm going to say 1 ,300 pounds. 1 ,124 pounds.

1:01:58PFT Commenter:Oh, so that's not even that impressive. I would have been impressed at 1 ,300 pounds. Steroids or not? You got to assume. You got to go steroids. You got to go steroids. You got to assume. Dude, this is such an insane Imagine lifting that That's a car, right? Yeah By the way, Vanny Woodhead He did it so easy too Vanny Woodhead number two looks awesome We're going to drive to Indy And that's about it But it's going to be sick when we do It's going to be so sick when we do, boys I think if the mountain was born Like 1500 years ago In Iceland they would think that he was a god that just ruled their island he would have just been like their number one like they would have gone to wars and just be like well we got this guy one v one we're good we got this guy what a beast also the rider cup is out this week yeah oh writer cup writer cup yes our golf tournament barcel sports writer cup excited to watch that yes the draft Match one, match two, match three and four out this week.

1:03:07Okay, nice. Love that. There should be some real rivalry matches in that somewhere. Yeah. PFT. My hot seat is U.S. men's national team soccer. Actually, no. I'm going to switch it. It's us. We are the problem. I got a question with this. We are the problem because Coach Pocatino talked to the media and to the critics. We're playing against Japan tonight. he said we're the problem with u.s soccer not him not the players he said you are damaging your country and damaging your players we need to be positive we need to be all together because the country deserves that we are all on one side trying to help arrive at the world cup in the best condition and be competitive to do something that makes our fans proud so it's on us in this quote didn't he say something about like we already we qualified for the world cup already we did by just hosting it by existing this national team in this country has qualified already for the World Cup but no we didn't so the important we didn't qualify for it the important thing is to apply common sense we just hosted it if people want to talk about bullshit they can talk about bullshit but we feel the responsibility to provide the whole group of players we need to give the priority for how he feels that's like a kid having a party and then inviting all the cool kids and being like I'm a cool kid so here's where we're at everyone's at my party here's where we're at in terms of U.S.

1:04:27Men's National Team Cope because I've been a part of many cycles of this.

1:04:30PFT Commenter:Yeah, Hank nailed that. It is like I'm one of the popular kids. Oh, it's actually just that my parents let me party in the basement and everyone uses my house. Yes. They did not qualify. Yes, they did not qualify. Here's where we're at. We're at the stage where now we're saying maybe the coach is just like messing with the lineups and he knows that they're going to suck, but he's trying to put players in different positions to see how they handle stress. It's not good. No. It's not good. Who did we lose to? Things are not good. We lost to a lot of countries. But who did we just lose to? We didn't lose into every country.

1:05:03Who did we just lose to? We don't win again. It's football season, so I didn't watch. But we're playing Japan tonight. Must win. Jaden Daniels, Japan? Must win. Jaden Daniels on? Yeah.

1:05:14PFT Commenter:We lost to South Korea 2-0. Dude, we just... Do you think that Jaden Daniels is going to play for Japan and flag football in the Olympics? He should. that'd be fun you'd have to you'd have to get a jersey the rising sun of washington yeah yeah you have to do it i would uh are you cool throwing uh i haven't done oh yeah that was my hot seat uh my other i had two hot seats okay jerry o 'connell on the hot seat yep he made the news yesterday because he got his phone stolen yeah which i say to the thief good job the guy used an android uh bet you didn't expect that when you tried to rob jerry o 'connell you're like he's rich he's married to Rebecca Romaine.

1:05:54What is this piece of shit that I had? Where was it stolen from? I didn't see this. Yoga. His yoga class. Hand card. So he went to yoga and he left his bag out front and then he came out, realized that his phone was gone. Don't they have lockers at those things? Apparently not. I think he just left it in the front. It's not like it's a briefcase with fantasy football information. He didn't have anything important in there. Yeah, an apple. Yeah. I'd love to see what type of bag it was. Oh, what do you think it was? Like a Lululemon.

1:06:19PFT Commenter:Or it was like an NPR tote bag. Might have just been a Whole Foods shopping bag, like a reusable one. He's like, I'll just reuse this all the time. So, yeah, he left his bag out front. Somebody lifted his phone. So we've been getting texts from Jerry. We have no idea if it's actually Jerry or if it's the thief. Did this actually make news? I think he sent us a hot Instagram video. So I think it's Jerry. Probably, or a horny thief, yeah. He sent me a chick that was like, it was like just a chick talking in German who just had huge tits on a tractor. I was like, and then he followed up. He's like, did you check it?

1:06:53PFT Commenter:Did you see that German check? I was like, yeah, I did. Yeah. He said, the only real bummer is that I had a photo of Rebecca from high school in my wallet. So a four-leaf clover Jack McBrayer gave me and a$2 bill I got while shooting Stand By Me. All right. The Stand By Me thing, that sucks. The Rebecca thing, that's under 18. He's got a picture of a high schooler. Yeah. High school girl in his wallet. Yeah. Did we win week one? We did win week one. All right, let's go, Jerry. So it sounds like, because I think it was on Friday that his wallet got stolen. This might have been the thief that managed our fantasy team this weekend to a win.

1:07:35We can't even declare this to be a win by Jerry. So how did he get his stuff back? I don't think he's got his phone back. Oh, so how is he texting us? I don't know. That's what I'm asking. He went to the cops. By the way, man card again, street justice, Jerry.

1:07:49PFT Commenter:Let's just call it real quick because that would be very funny if just a random dude picked up.

1:07:58PFT Commenter:He, yeah, I mean, there's a chance the person just saw the Android. Yeah, I'm just like, I don't want to. Threw it in a trash can. Whoops. Didn't mean to steal this.

1:08:13PFT Commenter:Hey, Big Cat. Oh, you got your phone back. Yeah, I got it back. I got it back. All right. Okay, cool. Hey, did you see... I got a new... I did get a new Android, though. I mean, like, I didn't like... But I did... I moved up two generations. Oh, nice. Hey, did you see... I had the six, but now I have the eight. Did you see that German chick with the big tits on the tractor?

1:08:39Is that something you sent me?

1:08:41PFT Commenter:No, you sent it to me. She's Italian. Oh, shit. You're right. She's Italian. All right. We're not on air, are we? Yeah, we're on air right now. Hey, come on, man. Come on. I didn't send any video. I don't do that at all. Hey, Jerry. And by the way, I think legally in the state of Illinois, you have to say, hey, you're on the air. Like, that's something you have to say. So, I mean, like, I don't want this on, we're going to rock down to. Hey, Jerry. I'm going to go up. I want to look at this copyrighted.

1:09:18PFT Commenter:Oh. All right. Good. Now you need to do your cool throw. I'll just go double hot seat on that. Double hot seat. I like that. Cool throw is going to be a plug. Punk is playing in Bloomington next Friday at Kilroy's. Nice. Love Bloomington, and we're doing a bunch of other shows. I think we're playing in Iowa City at El Rey's on – that's October 24th, Baton Rouge, October 10th at Fred's again, and then we're playing in Chicago at Reggie's on November 11th and New York, December 18th at the Racket. It's going to be a good time. I want to sing a song on the 11th. Yeah, so on the 21st at Reggie's? Yeah, yeah.

1:09:56What song? I don't know. Free Bird? No. I was thinking maybe Third Eye Blind. Okay.

1:10:02PFT Commenter:Don't look back in anger. Oh, you know what we could do? This would actually be an appropriate song for today, Jumper. Mm-hmm. I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend. You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in. And if you do not want to see Caleb again, I would understand. I would understand. All right. My hot seat is Mike McDaniel because now it's open season. Rex Ryan called him McGenius. Oh no Yep Called him Said McGenius guy Or whatever the hell he is Nerd boy Their team has no respect For their coach They play like that They're soft Every part of their football team It's over McBrainals Yeah Nerd boy Or whatever the hell he is I think Rex probably thinks Anybody that wears glasses Is a nerd 100 % Classic yeah Anyone who knows How to turn on a computer Yeah Oh Little fucking dork over here You press the power button See that over there That's the man genius Yeah, but that's a very bad sign for him.

1:11:11PFT Commenter:Not good. When it's open season like that, people feel comfortable calling him Nerd Boy and McGenius. I know Rex has been waiting for years to rip into McDaniels. Oh, yeah. Also, hot seat Bryce Young, because that video of him watching the Jumbotron, like the little commercial break races that they do on the Jumbotron during the game, was not a good look. No. Bryce Young might be in trouble. He was watching the helmet race, or the hide the ball in the helmet during a timeout instead of huddling up with his team. Did he get it right? You'd hope. If you got it right, I'm okay with it. If you got it wrong, that'd be bad.

1:11:52PFT Commenter:That's very embarrassing. And then my cool drone is also a plug. Stell Blue Coffee, we are doing Golden Mug today and tomorrow. Winners are getting$500 gift card to game time. So that's a pretty big gift. go to a game, go to a concert, and we also are bringing back Butter Cookie. So get excited. So we got Butter Cookie. We got Golden Mug for two days. Buy everything at StellaBlueCoffee.com. Save some dogs and get some Butter Cookie. And we'll maybe think of some type of punishment I have to do during the Packers Commander stream. I don't know what I can do, but maybe like a cold tub or something or a shock collar.

1:12:32PFT Commenter:Maybe you can shock me. All right, Zach, finish us off. I've got tasers. Oh, Jesus Christ. No tasers. Y 'all have personalized Axon tasers. But maybe tasers. There's always a possibility of... Today's hot seat for me is... I know we're doing a lot of spit talk recently. Luis Suarez, previous spitter on the head of security. Three game suspension. So, out three games, inter-Miami Luis Suarez. So much spitting going on. First guy to see some real punishment. He's also just not good anymore He's old He's just friends with Messi Messi's doing a lot of that Just bringing the boys over I love that Let's keep playing Not against crazy competition anymore Let's just have some fun Get paid They basically are getting paid To play intramural soccer in Miami Which is why it's so weird That Suarez is still spitting Yeah He's like why do you care man Imagine all the times that he spits When it's not on camera A lot A lot And your cool throne?

1:13:33My cool throne, I may regret saying this. We did take a reserve take, or I took a reserve take on week one after the Buccaneers-Falcons game. My cool throne for today is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because after watching Baker go over the top to Ibuka, and, you know, Bucky Irvin didn't get a ton of yards, but he was fighting for every yard that he got. I keep watching clips, and I keep having this thought in the back of my head, like, we could just make a run.

1:13:56PFT Commenter:You're going to win the Super Bowl? I don't know about Super Bowl, but we could make a run, though. Okay, where does the run go to? It could go to the Super Bowl. It could not, but it could also go there. Yeah. So you might be going there. So, yeah, we might be going there. I am going to regret saying this, but I got to live my truth here, and I think we could do it. That story that came out of the huddle, Mike Evans said that Buka basically was like, hey, Baker, I'm going to run this route. I'm going to call a game. Hit me. And that happened. Pretty cool. Also, credit to Chris Berman for coining a Mecca Pika Buka.

1:14:31Ooh, Pika Buka. It's pretty good. That is good.

1:14:35PFT Commenter:I like that confidence, Zach. Get a little swagger going. I know it's week one, but let's just do it. What if we just do the thing? Yeah, we got a little haves and have-nots in this podcast. Split right here, right down the middle. It's the haves and the have-nots. basically will

1:14:58PFT Commenter:that's probably will the Patriots Jets Bears combined wins be less than the best record of the halves of one team yes are you sure yeah yeah okay Patriots have a very easy schedule Jets have an easier back end schedule okay it's week one yeah All right, it's week one. It's week one. Listen, memes, if we had scored 32 points, I'd be feeling a lot better. All right, let's get to our interview. We've got Joe Buck in studio. Before we do that, Piazza, you've got a couple ads. Now, at McDonald's, wake up to a$4 breakfast meal deal. Wake up to a sausage McMuffin or a sausage biscuit. To hash browns and wake up to a hot coffee.

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1:16:24PFT Commenter:Think pina colada, cherry limeade, and more. Find your new favorite refreshing snack, outshine at retailers nationwide. And now here's our dear, dear friend, Joe Buck. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. Great friend of the show, recurring guest. it is joe buck in person uh joe great to see you we love having you here uh first question easy question want to go easy first yeah okay yeah let's ease into this do you still hate svp yeah i mean detest him with every everything i have it's so funny how and you're referencing something that was maybe two years or three years yeah it was a big moment yeah yeah i think about dumb because people are like oh they just got into it on tv i'm like okay let's say i did not like scott van pelt do you think i would do that on national tv that i mean well that's that was a dumb question yeah i think okay i would not too much i would not okay uh no he was like the one guy i knew at espn before i came there and felt like i could joke around with but i don't know if you know this but certain portions of the internet and social media don't really get jokes that's irony yeah they don't get irony they don't get subtlety they don't get nuance they don't get sarcasm no i mean i know he's he's my guy yeah when that that that spat happened when the dispute happened on live air uh i actually took your side joe because as we discussed on yesterday's part of my take there's a lot of discourse around like oh you didn't play the game out there well yeah i read about that we think it's the other way around you've watched so much more sports than any athlete you've watched it and then you've had the takes about it so it's like they're on your turf now yeah i agree and i think we should switch it with aikman and he should welcome us into the booth and i should be the one led to with my opinions yeah then he should take us to break that would actually be a funny freaky friday thing for you guys to do one it would be i would be who would be jamie lee curtis and who would be lindsey lowen wait what oh freaky friday um i think you're probably jamie lee yeah i think so yeah cannons yeah she does i don't know if you know that yeah yeah she does oh i'm i'm way older than you guys well aware did you uh did you watch the cowboy documentary i did did you learn anything new about your broadcast partner um it was a great documentary i i thought it was great yeah um The one thing I learned that was different than I was expecting to see was that by the end of, what was it, 95, a lot of the players were banging the drum for Barry Switzer.

1:19:18That took me by surprise. But, you know, I think it is exactly what was portrayed in that documentary. It's like a running drama soap opera that just has gone on since the beginning of time. And we just get onto the train and get off at different stops and get back on. I loved it. I was proud of him. I mean, I'm always proud of Troy, oddly. But watching him and the way he led and the way he played and his toughness, and that's all stuff that I've seen, you know, personally in our work relationship. and to see it during his playing days because I obviously didn't know him then. I don't know. I get some weird pride out of that.

1:20:02PFT Commenter:Yeah. It was a great, really well done documentary. I don't know if you came away with this take, but I was watching it and the whole time I was like, man, Pat Summerall, that's when announcers were men. Yeah. That's what I thought. Yeah. That's kind of my big thing. I was like, boy, has this shit dropped off since then? We don't get that anymore. Yeah. Yeah. You don't. We really miss that. No. Yeah. I think I've said on this show, I took the bait to turn this into semi-serious. I think that was a joke. To turn this into semi-serious was when Troy and Chris Collinsworth and I took over for Pat and John.

1:20:39Yeah. Even though I'm Jack Buck's son and I started with the Cardinals when I was 21, I never really intentionally tried to sound like my dad. Right. But when that happened in 2002, I think, and we were doing the main football game, it was intimidating to step onto that stage with those two guys having left and having been there and together for that long. And then the other piece of it was I took the bait and tried to sound like Pat. Yeah. And sometimes it was okay. And sometimes it came off to me flat and boring. And I listened back to it and there are highlights that I'm like, man, that's really good.

1:21:20And then there are highlights that I listened back and I'm like, God, I just sound like I'm not excited. And it's, I'm pissed at myself that I tried to sound like Pat, who for people who don't or aren't old enough was a player, had this really big presence, grovelly, deep voice who would just go, Montana, Rice, touchdown. And then Madden would go off and do his stuff. He was the perfect guy and partner for John Madden because he was so over the top and bombastic. And that worked for Pat Summerall. That did not work for me. And I feel like I'm a completely different announcer now than I was back then.

1:22:04Okay, so to keep it semi-serious,

1:22:06PFT Commenter:do you think you're still getting better? Because, you know, I think you're in my Hall of Fame of announcers. I think, you know, when I think big game, your name comes up. And I mean that genuinely. Like, you have the big game voice. But do you think, like, even three years ago you're better than that? Are you still kind of presenting? I do, but I'm the worst person to ask. But I feel like I'm more comfortable kind of doing my thing. Yeah. And maybe some of that is still remnants prior to that shift. I don't know when that shift happened. Maybe after I had my vocal cord thing and I came back and I was like, oh, I can make a loud sound again.

1:22:45So I'm going to make a loud sound. And I'm going to do it differently in baseball and football. I tried to do it in golf. That was bad, which you told me, both of you, multiple times. But yeah, I do. It wasn't the voice that was the problem. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck off. uh so yeah i i think i do think i'm getting better yeah i do and maybe i'm wrong but at least i feel that way i i agree with you i i enjoy listening to your calls do you go back you said that you listen to some of your old calls like when you made the decision okay i'm not sounding like me i need to start sounding like go back to who you are do you listen after every week to your calls you know it's it's a really good question because it is a good mark Work that one down.

1:23:28Thank you. Got it. Yeah, good job. I know you've prepped a lot for this interview. No, it's like we don't even need to have you answer the question. Yeah. We just want to ask you questions and then you compliment us. We can move on. Okay. Yeah. Okay. No, no, no. I do want to know, how often do you listen? You know what's bad is if, and I tell young broadcasters this all the time, it's not fair to do a game and then turn right around and listen to it all. I do sometimes if it's on NFL Network and I'm like, oh, I wonder how I sounded last night or how this call went. But it's not a realistic way to watch because I can still remember what I was thinking about in the moment.

1:24:09And I was frustrated that I didn't get to whatever story or I didn't, you know, you're making choices all the time. So if you give it a little bit of time and you kind of forget about the game or the actual moments and the words, you can listen to it on a more realistic basis like you would at home making fun of my gigantic forehead uh and and it's a better representation of how you would sound to a person sitting on a couch then you're just too hard on yourself i'm too hard on myself to go back five minutes after and just dissect it it's that's just stupid yeah did you grade yourself like on on last season how did that rank amongst all the all you know the joe time or the joe buck all-time seasons Yeah, I think last year was good.

1:24:51I think our three years, hard to believe we're in our fourth year now at ESPN, I think they've progressively gotten better. I think, you know, there's a lot of factors involved, but I think it took a minute for us to be like, okay, we're not at Fox anymore. We're at ESPN. And I think that was really good for us. And I'm speaking for Troy here, but he and I have talked about it. I think change is good. I think it made – like I probably told you guys this before, but David Hill, who basically started Fox Sports, when I talked to him and that was all going on, and I said to him, what do you think about me potentially going to ESPN?

1:25:27I thought he would go, are you crazy? You've been at Fox for 28 years. You're doing the World Series. You're doing that. You're doing the NFL games. You're doing whatever they want you to do. You've got a history there. He said, go. it's going to be the best thing for you because it's going to give you you know new jitters it's going to make you work with new people that might open your eyes up to something that you haven't done before that and and it it was great advice and i'm glad i did it because i i think like what you said i i do think it's tweaked me a little bit to make me better than i was let's say six

1:26:06PFT Commenter:years ago yeah random number to pick yeah uh just because we are the biggest joe buck fans you know we defend you everywhere no i know you in private you probably defend me around this this compound oh yeah oh yeah started so i just so we have the company line set yeah when you said the vocal cord thing so we're going with that not the hair plug addiction well i mean one led to the other right but so we've got to say when people and what happened he had a vocal cord thing not he had an addiction to hair plugs he was addicted to hair plugs yeah and that was kind of the takeaway when i wrote my book like this addiction like i'm like oh my god yeah i need hair plugs you went to rehab you gotta get i went to rehab like i need i need that pain i need i need to know i'm alive i need hair plugs hit me i need a hit i need a hit rip some hair out of the back of my head and put it in the front i need it it was it's that i had it a lot because i have a gigantic head and i have baby fine thin hair beautiful hair beautiful hair like like like it's beautiful like that you'd find on a baby's bottom it's beautiful uh that said it took me a lot to cover what i could cover with my head and i didn't know that at the time when i when i wrote my book and that's really how it starts and ends that i also color my hair which i i was like though that's the last line of my book i know you guys both read it yep multiple times uh and it's not available anywhere so i'm not plugging it yeah so uh huh it's sold out everywhere i bought every copy yeah it's gone it's just evaporated yeah i don't know it's one of the other it's either sold out or nobody bothers to print it any longer um but when that was all going on i didn't realize that my name was like mud in the hair plug industry because they're like you're giving a terrible name to people to get hair transplants because you're saying you lost your voice it could have been any procedure yeah it was that i was intubated if i got a new knee or somebody took my spleen out i would have been facing potentially the same danger of the cuff in my throat hurting my nerve that's what happened but i i was just over honest if that's a phrase and it isn't by saying that's that's what i was doing when when this all they knocked you out you were you were out cold well the first i i think i got eight the first inst louis oh that's an addiction yeah yeah you had eight different procedures eight different ones yeah yeah but but you gotta realize you had a problem i know which one did you know you had a problem was it four or five yeah i was like four and i was like no i was at the door the next day i'm like i know my hair my head is chewed up and it's all blood but i want more i need more was a doctor like i think you've had enough yeah yeah so then i had to find new doctors yeah i had to find other people yeah i doctor shopped i there there should be a website for that yeah um but yeah so i don't even know what the hell we're talking about but i i whatever i that's what i was doing when yeah my voice went i love that you lost like the hair plug community there's like a guy sitting watching monday night football he's like fuck this joe buck guy he made it he made it bad well now we're good but now we're good okay we're good i've had a different style procedure ah out in la where they like they do this machine and they take it out of the sides of your head there's barely any pain i did like basically an infomercial with my head all chewed up i put it online i i wait so are you done can you say right now you're never going to get another i can say with 100 certainty that I might do it again.

1:29:44I'm done. Joe, I had him done last year, and I can quit anytime I want. No, he did. The back of the head. Yeah, he got the strip in the back. Oh, well, then why are you giving me shit? I'm just saying, because as a member of the hair plug community, you gave us a disservice. Now you're taking up the banner. You're taking up the banner. I can recreationally go out and have a good time and get a hair plug transplant and then come back the next day, feel fine, and not have an urge to go back to the clinic like you. Yeah, no, I couldn't get enough. that they look at me like i'm a crackhead right no i'm sorry and i from the bottom of my heart i apologize to you and all of the hair transplant uh surgery getters that are in your audience i do want to know about the one in la though if i need sprucing yeah i got a guy okay i got a guy because uh you know he does in the back of a van while you're moving i'm never gonna say i'm never gonna count myself out of having a second one but i i can stop whenever i want but did you get the kind where they this is really not fascinating conversation but you get the kind where they did the strip out of the back or did they like do the the non-strip procedure it was the fue whatever that one yeah that's what i'm that's the new stuff that's like gold yeah it's gold yeah the old time was shoot up the back of your head take like a strip of scalp yeah and then pull them out and replace them that that sucked yeah so oh that was the question so the first six times i did it where i was under local anesthetic the last two times i did it the doctor's like you know you can get knocked out for this it seems like you really don't like the pain i'm like you think i don't like who does like the pain it sucks and he goes well yeah for an extra three thousand dollars we can knock you out i'm like how about ten thousand dollars knock me out i'm out so that's when it happened so it was the intubation that was probably the intubation and nothing to do with hair okay uh monday glad we cleared that yeah i'd say i'd say this for monday night football yeah we're never going to bring this up ever again yeah never ever yeah uh it's

1:31:37PFT Commenter:fine all right so you're starting you're here in chicago obviously monday football we're going to run this on wednesday we don't know what's going to happen the schedule uh for monday football it's gotten better you must be excited because there's just some really good games you have i have a question though uh on week three or no week two there's two monday night football games why don't you call both yeah i've we thought about that uh it's just hard to call two games at the same time. I've done two games and a young, hungry Joe Buck would do it. That's right. I'd take a trolley car to go do it.

1:32:09Cable car in San Francisco, which I did. I went from a football game to a baseball game. But, yeah, at the same time, it's a little too much.

1:32:18PFT Commenter:Okay. All right. That's fine. That's fine. What is your favorite stadium setup to go to that maybe people don't think? You know, because obviously Monday Football has some big-time teams, stadiums, but is there one stadium you're like, I actually really like this place. People don't realize it's a great setup. The stadiums are all so good now. The one in my hometown, St. Louis, when the Rams were there, it's like, oh, we forgot a broadcast booth. So we were down in the seats. They took the four sections or two sections and turned it into a makeshift broadcast booth where you were running up the steps into the concourse to go to the bathroom during commercials.

1:33:01That stuff doesn't fly anymore in the NFL. So they're all good. If you give me a stadium and the bathroom is in the booth, I'm good. I'm at the 50. What about sight lines? Is there one that's like you're too high up? This one is really weird. Yeah. Chicago. It's really low. Yeah. For some things, it's really good because you can actually see – I can see numbers kind of coming at me, but it's so low. and therefore it's flat, like the far sideline and the front corners of the end zone and stuff, I have no idea. I don't know if the guy's in. I don't know if he's not. My eyes have to go from watching it live on the field to the monitor or I have no chance.

1:33:45It's not high enough. How hard is week one as an announcer when you've got guys that are new on the team that you haven't seen that jersey before? Is that like the danger zone? A little bit. I mean, yeah. I think you get into – we all watch so much football that by the time I do Jacksonville against the Chiefs later in the year, not that deep into the year, I will have watched enough Jacksonville to know the skill guys and who's catching passes. But, yeah, I mean, it's a little bit different for this game, although this story tonight is about the two quarterbacks, and it doesn't really expand much.

1:34:25You want to talk about the interior of the offensive line? I mean, it's not that exciting. It's about J.J. McCarthy, and it's about Caleb, and how much has Caleb progressed with Ben Johnson, and who is and how good is J.J. McCarthy. The only time I saw him in college, I'm not a huge college football guy, was in the national championship game, and I was blown away. And then Harbaugh came out and basically said, I'd love to coach this guy in the NFL. And we met him, I don't know, three days ago, four days ago. could not be a more impressive 22-year-old. And I say that having 29 - and 26-year-olds myself, that you like him and you want to see him do well, but that team is loaded.

1:35:11Yeah. And it comes down to one guy. Yep. They got the coach. They got the line. They got Justin Jefferson and Addison and a good defense that it comes down to one guy. And that, to me, is fascinating. Yeah. I have a favor to ask you, Joe, on behalf of my good friend Big Cat here, Bears fan. If the Vikings kicker – who's the Vikings kicker, by the way? Will Reichard. Will Reichard. If he's perfect through three quarters, in the fourth quarter, if he goes out there and let's say it's like a one-score game, can you say – and he has not missed tonight right before he kicks. You want an announcer's jinx.

1:35:46Yes. Calling for an announcer's jinx. That is brilliant because it's one-up the whole say Yabo. Say, you know, whatever. Playoff Lenny. Ryan. Playoff Lenny. Playoff Lenny. Yeah. Fuck you for that, too. No, Playoff Lenny was great.

1:36:00PFT Commenter:Yeah, Playoff Lenny was our favorite. Yeah. You took offense, but we loved it. Playoff Lenny. That's his name. Yeah. Guy shows up in the playoffs. He was great in the playoffs, but I'm not asking you to, like, fix the outcome. Who was that? Fournette? Yeah, Lenny Fournette, because I think it was like this. He hadn't, maybe he'd been to one playoff game with the Jags. Yeah, but he hadn't had that great of a regular season, I think, but it was time for Playoff Lenny to show up. Then Playoff Lenny showed up. Yeah. There he was. And it's great. There he was. Yeah, just say, like, I'm not asking you to lie.

1:36:30Well, that's the thing. I mean, can we all just grow up on that whole thing? No, absolutely not. You guys are. Do you know who watches these games? It is part. You control the game. I control it. Yes. So I'm doing a baseball game. The adults are watching this, and they're like, oh, well, that had nothing to do with him missing. So I'm doing a baseball game. Not anymore. God doesn't like you doing baseball games. They rain that game out. That's true. and somebody tunes in the game and I'm not allowed to say hey whoever, Clayton Kershaw is pitching a no hitter that is the dumbest thing of all time but you have to talk around it like Al Michaels talking around a bet you have to go and so far Clayton Kershaw well there have been no hits

1:37:17PFT Commenter:shut up no we're right on this you jinx it stupid do you uh do you guys who change numbers because i feel like numbers oh my god it's so bad it's so bad so like luther burden tonight do you know that he's changed his number 10 three times before he played it snap it's if there's one my i am not smart but the one thing i can do is i can go back for the teams that i really followed and i can oddly come up with numbers with kind of random people. Yeah. PK, do you want to hit the lotto machine? Yeah. And whatever number comes up, tell us a guy that has this number. Okay. We're going to test you. Also.

1:37:54Numbers one through a hundred. All right, yeah, let's do this. Also, if you want to pick a number, just if you want to randomly guess what number it's going to be, that's fine. But here's my point. Well, that's subtle. Yeah.

1:38:05PFT Commenter:35. 35. Yeah. Well, for me, that would be Matt Morris of your St. Louis Cardinals. Okay. So, question about numbers. But it messes me up because I get used to seeing a number. I equate a lot of things with a player. Yeah. The way they run, the way a uniform fits, the number, and that gives me a clue as to who the hell that is running down the sideline with the ball. And when they change numbers, it's like a short circuit in my mind. Is it screwed up now because we hate that they have let everyone wear every number, like wide receivers wearing numbers in the 20s and all that stuff. Does that actually make your job harder?

1:38:52I thought it would, but some of these numbers are so unique now that, you know, like Micah Parsons being number one for Green Bay, I'll be able to see him easier now because it's so weird to me that defensive end, outside linebackers wearing number one, that I'll see it a lot better than I otherwise would. If he's – Is it 52? Is it 53? Yeah. Or then you go to like the Tampa Bay Bucs who had jerseys that the numbers were like slanted and thin. And it's like you're not giving me a chance. Or Detroit was – you know, is that an eight? Is that a six? Is that it's – And you almost – I have to wait because you don't want to go crazy and just start saying, touchdown, you know, whoever it is.

1:39:45Jamison Williams. Oh, no, that's, you know, Josh Reynolds. People would go after you for that. Yeah, they would. They go after you for everything. Yeah, they do. What jerseys are the easiest to see? Steelers? Steelers are pretty good. They're pretty defined. And it's really just the – it's Tampa Bay that I come up with. It's hard to just differentiate eights and sixes. They had the alarm clock ones for a little bit that were like almost – Yeah. They broke up the numbers. They were obviously a little digital. Yeah. Yeah. That's really strange. Yeah, I don't – and Brady was there then. I don't know what they are.

1:40:19We've got them next week. They've gone from – they used to be the easiest when they were more red, when they were orange, and it was kind of blended in a little bit. That was harder for me to see too. In that stadium, the old that Berman used to call the sombrero, you were hanging off the clouds calling games there, and you're looking at tops of helmets running around, and it's scary when you end up doing the game off TV. Yeah. So when it comes time to leave the stadium, I know tonight at Soldier Field, not a very easy place to get out of. No. After the game. Do you have a secret tunnel? I do, yes.

1:40:55You do? Yes. That you're allowed to get through? I've spent the better part of the last two weeks digging it. What's the longest you've ever had to wait after a game to get out? Probably an hour. Yeah. Not great. It's not great. They're usually pretty good with helping get people out from the bowels of the stadium. Get police escort? Sometimes. Nice. Sometimes. Not all the time. I would abuse that so hard. Do you go right home? That's it. They dump us at the highway. Yeah. Do you go right home? Do you fly right home? I'm not flying right home tonight. Okay. No.

1:41:27PFT Commenter:I just realized there's a lot of double headers in the Monday Night Football schedule this year. Yeah, Derek's here. What is it? Five? What's going on with that? Four. There's four. Who's doing the other games? Chris Fowler. Okay. Herbstreet? No. Orlovsky? Orlovsky. Louis Riddick. Okay. Are the guys calling the game? When there's a double header, do you get upset if the other game is really awesome? No. I would. No. Why? Because I'd be like, what the fuck? I should be my game. I am ESPN. Okay, yeah. You go ESPN. Joe's winking at us right now. No, I really do believe that that whole rising tide lifts all ships.

1:42:09I hope that all of our games are great, and I root for those guys. I don't feel any competition with that.

1:42:17PFT Commenter:What do you guys, before a game, have a plan if the game is a blowout? Like, do you like, hey, this is what we're going to hit? Now, I mean, Troy, if you saw his spotting boards, you'd be blown away by the amount of writing that's on it. Same with me. His is just neater. Mine is just messy. You write it yourself? Oh, yeah. I have to do all that stuff myself. I have to plug all the names, numbers, height, weight, colleges, years in the NFL, how they were drafted, how they were acquired. I have to do all that myself. Some people farm it out, but the only way I'm going to learn it is if I actually do it.

1:42:55I agree with that. If I mess it up, like get the U.S. Open champion's girlfriend's name wrong, I want it to be my mistake. I don't want it to be, hey, I just gave some kid$300 to do all my homework for me. No. So that's kind of where you go, oh, okay, I can get into this. I can get into that. I can get into this. My hope is that I've done all of that crap for nothing. it's it's all old it's all history there's nothing new that's on my board the only new thing that i'm going to see is when they kick off at 7 15 tonight here in chicago and if you can keep your eyes on the game and not in your notes because the game is so bad we did that super bowl that was denver seattle oh man that and you're like oh my god there's a hundred million people on the other end of this thing that i'm talking into right now and this game is awful yeah and then you know we're talking to you know first snap went over the head of peyton manning troy and i are talking in halftime i don't even know who was doing the halftime show we're like oh my god and then troy goes okay but it's peyton manning if there's anybody that's gonna bring him back it's peyton manning and then they kick off to start the second half and percy harvin runs it back for a touchdown It's like we're like throwing our pens.

1:44:13And that's one. If I go back and I listen to the game, the broadcast, I must have said how much time was left in the third quarter 15 times. And with that, there's 7-12 left in quarter number three. It's just – it cannot end fast enough. Yeah. I both had the Broncos in that game. Yeah. Yeah. So my wife – my wife, my wife was – That was good. I liked that. Yeah, that was good. I was a Broncos cheerleader. as sporad yeah second down

1:44:47handoff uh so my wife you know is bleeds bronco whatever they are orange and blue orange yeah and we did our production meetings with denver first and then seattle so on let's say wednesday we met with denver and it was great we're on their team bus doing our in the back of the bus talking to Peyton Manning and then somebody else would come back there and it was great then the next day we go I think the Giants facility is where Seattle was and we met with the Legion of Boom all as one group and I mean Earl Thomas and Cam Chancellor and that and I tried I walked out of that production meeting and it was like Denver's got no chance they looked like they were ready to run through a wall on Thursday yeah and I went back to the hotel and michelle's like well how was it i said i don't think you're gonna like this game and her brother flew in and she had family and that was the game in new york and it was just that was one that i i could see coming yeah uh do you ever have any intrusive thoughts when you're in the booth oh good question like what if i just said fuck yeah hmm no but i will now all right good nice if there was a uh like you know they do the the nickelodeon kids broadcast if there was like an adults if they didn't have any rules on what you can say oh i would i would have the greatest night of my life they should do that i would like i would like yeah but then it's then it's it doesn't happen i'm done if i if i say what really goes through my mind it'd be a great last night on tv when i'm done i will announce it here oh i will then go into the booth lock it and I will have the greatest night of my life.

1:46:36PFT Commenter:How many years you got left? Have you thought about it? I hope you never retire. Oh. No, I mean that. It would be – there would be a huge hole in, like, the football. Announcing is hard and at your level is very hard, and we'd lose a big game voice, and that would suck. Well, thank you if you mean it. I do. But thank you. No. Oh, I'm just kidding. I mean it. No, you're not. not that was that was a big thing when i was young yeah uh yeah i don't know uh 10 years 12 years 15 years i don't know but but so we're not close i'm not gonna do the you know dan patrick man makes plans and god laughs or i'm not i have no idea i could get hit by a bus getting out of here even though a driver yeah your driver you're like you're basically the president united states because your driver - They did a dry run.

1:47:28PFT Commenter:They did a dry run at 8.30 in the morning, came to the office, and made sure that everything was - I think they swept it from bombs. There must be a good breakfast place near here. There actually is. Yes, right on the corner. Oh, well, there you go. That's exactly what it is. Just watch that. I got the parking lot. Right. Although it is a dangerous parking lot for drivers. Some people have hit the pole there. It's a little tight. Yeah, it is. You got a lot of room here. You got - I counted at least 4 ,000 employees here. Yeah, there's a lot. Every one of them looks the same. And they're not doing anything.

1:47:55They're not doing anything. Anything.

1:47:56PFT Commenter:They're just walking around like, huh? You would think that Joe Buck walks in and maybe try to look a little busy, but we got guys who probably - It should be like the Von Trapp family at the end. They're like, hello. Hello, sir. They're like - It's the opposite. Hey, what's up? They're like, oh. Hey, you want some ice cream? You want some ice cream? We got the scream. Go ahead. You want some ice cream? We bet on this baseball game. You want to sit down? Yeah. I actually prefer that. Yeah. Yeah. I see why you guys like this so much. I'm glad that your ego has dragged everybody to Chicago. Listen, you get a full basketball court, golf simulator, ice cream machine.

1:48:29PFT Commenter:That's what you're still selling them on that? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, hey. Hey, you get ice cream. Yeah, but I'm uprooting my family. No. But you get ice cream. The big sell is the not working part. We got a bunch of Kawhi Leonard's around here. No show job. I've got seven-year-old twins. I'm aiming them right for your front door. Oh, I can't wait till you're – oh, man. I can't – if we're still doing this in like 12, 13 years, and I get that text from Joe Buck being like, Like, hey, my son really wants to intern over the summer. Oh, man, would that be great. That would be great. Any of your kids have good voices?

1:49:01Well, my oldest daughter sings. She's got a really nice voice. Okay. The two young ones, that's odd. Too high-pitched? Yeah. I mean, give them until they're 13. Maybe when things happen, they'll – I started when I was 19 with a – I'm filling in with the Cardinals. I was 19, which back then somehow oddly felt normal. And now that I've had kids, I'm like, what was going on? Why was I doing games then? Or 21? And I sound like this. Here's a ground ball to short. Ozzie picks it up. Two is right. Throws to first. Two out. And I was doing a game. My dad let me sit down. Daddy let me sit down for an extra inning game.

1:49:45and Ray Lankford bowled over Darren Dalton for a win at home over the Phillies. And my voice, I sounded like Peter Brady. It was the most embarrassing. It was like the curtain came down. The whole time I was trying to sound like I was 30 and I was 21, and my voice just broke, and I sounded like I was two. It was awful. Did you have a different voice for baseball as opposed to one for football?

1:50:17no i i think the main thing is it's it's a different like rhythm so maybe by the end of the game you kind of like tonight we did a pre-season game the commander's pre-season game and both troy and i were walking up to the booth like i don't know that i remember how to do this like it's been so long since i've done anything like when they kick it off is it still gonna work Like, what do I say? And I, it takes a little bit of time to get into that rhythm of calling football. It's like, and that's why it's good. And people are like, well, you know, you moved on from Fox, but I know when he's going to jump in.

1:50:58He knows when I'm done. I know when he's going to go and getting into that rhythm is, is just that that's kind of what makes it good. Yeah. Have you thought about going back to DC? Cause I know that it's going to be the, the commanders and the bears, the uh the part of my take bowl and i told joe before we sat down that we we're going to get a tattoo based on the outcome of this game whoever wins uh or whoever loses has to get that tattoo have you thought about running it back with josh harris and doing the handshake oh he's come into the booth the last that happened i think three seasons ago uh he's come in the last two pre seasons and we make like a stupid elongated handshake as a joke oh i like that good yeah he's great and and i last year his social media team or somebody was following him around and so i did it like we reenacted it it was so weird and i felt so bad because when i look at the replay of it nobody has any idea by the way what we're talking about but we're doing a preseason no no we know and i'm talking with my hands yeah and he's nervous as the new owner of the commanders and I have my hand like over in front of him and he just like automatically shook it.

1:52:08You baited him. I baited him. Yeah. So I'm saying it was my fault. It was not his fault. I was stupidly talking like, I don't know.

1:52:17PFT Commenter:Yeah. When you're watching a game, can you turn off your like announcer's brain or are you thinking like, oh, I would have said this differently? Not that anyone's doing their job poorly, but are you thinking that while you're watching? Like when I'm watching porn, I'm like, oh, I would have already come. What a comparison. Well, you know, like, you know, you're just watching something. You're just kind of like in your head or inner dialogue. Yeah. I'm going to think about that next time I'm watching Mike Tirico on a Sunday night. Yeah, I have a tough time turning that off. Yeah. You know, and then I am listening to the worst thing is when you find a verbal crutch that I don't know if you guys go by.

1:53:01I'm guessing you guys do so much content here. You don't go back and listen to anything. No, but I have verbal crushes that I try to. But I go back and when I do watch stuff, that's what I'm watching for. Like if I go, the pass is caught at the 15. That makes my, I am so mad at myself because I listen and I'll go through different seasons and I'm like, my God, the whole year. I'm like, the pass is caught at the, and I'm trying like hell to break that habit. And when I hear other announcers with verbal crutches that they can't stop using, it drives me up a wall. So in this case, it's you holding out the word until you find out what happened.

1:53:43It's me stalling. Yeah. Or coming up with the guy's name. Yeah. Or in the case of Tampa Bay or Detroit, figuring out who that is. it's easier when you've got mike evans who's nine feet tall and he wears number 13 in the front corner of the end zone and a jump ball i can say evans in the end zone i i don't have to wait because i know that's mike evans so that's yeah that's kind of exactly what we were talking about before yeah for what it's worth i thought that when you narrated our dingers only baseball challenge you did a great job you did a great job do you remember that i remember doing it i i do Do you have any idea what it was?

1:54:22Or did you just read the words? I read the words. No, I think you provided me with video. Yeah, you're going to have to do it again. Oh, am I? We also need you to write a chapter in our book. Oh, yeah, we should talk about that. The last forward I wrote was for Artie Lang. No, no, no. I think you got confused. That should scare you.

1:54:41PFT Commenter:I think you got confused there. We didn't ask for a forward. We need a full chapter. Oh, a full chapter. Yes, yes. No, no, we're not asking for like, you know. Is this like the pardon my take? yeah we're doing we're about three of yeah we're about to do the 10-year anniversary so um and you are a very big part of this show i find that that is funny and i get comments i know i say this every time i'm on but somebody said it to me the other day i said i'm gonna be on well i said wednesday because i'll play the game we're doing it on a monday we're airing it on a wednesday but somebody said that to me on friday i don't know where the hell i was and it just i random people will come up and i love you on love you on part of my take i love and so yeah i little did i know i thought i was fired yeah the first time i came on here yeah because you were giving me shit and i was saying stuff back and i hung up the phone or got off the zoom call or whatever it was before zoom and i i said to uh jonathan butnick i'm like i think i just lost my job like you when we actually look at it you coming on our show and then coming back on our show which i think that's the other part of it where it's like they kind of he didn't go home and yeah they're crying yeah they busted balls and then they became friends they didn't it wasn't like a one time because you were promoting your book and uh that was like a big moment for us i think it was a big breakthrough uh i mean so we owe you a lot and how we're going to repay you is have you write a chapter in our book what it would that's what a what a gift thank you so homework yeah good if you have so much free time we could collab on a chapter about hair plugs let's do it i did the front i did the front you did the back i like one regular hair it's perfect but yeah no i we do appreciate you we say it every time but it is it's crazy to look at it and do this because you know we've been working working working and you get to 10 years and then we look back like damn we've done some pretty cool stuff and we're you have and now you're are you in bed with fox too or yes very much yes me and cletus we share a twin size you've been out to those studios they still have cletus in the front lobby there so i so i i do uh thursday mornings big cat does tuesday mornings on fest one wake up parcel and uh i asked if cletus could come to the studio they sent me a collectible figurine i think it's back there somewhere oh yeah there's cletus and then they said that they're gonna work on getting cletus out for an episode i never got one of those we gotta have cletus do the car wash here where he goes on like every show.

1:57:04That thing is scary. Yeah? He used to come to the seminars we had and would walk around and I didn't know if there was somebody in there or if it was remote controlled, but it looked like it could rip your throat out. How big is it? Gigant. It's like nine feet tall. You were scared of the robot? I was scared of the robot, yes. Yes, I was. Let's see. Oh, there's Cletus. Look at, yeah, Cletus is awesome. That's our coworker right there. Yeah, it's disconcerting to be next to something that mechanical. Yeah. But no, we've loved it so far. You're a colleague now. How does that make you feel? Probably pretty bad.

1:57:41I'm not there anymore. What about if you're a teammate? Oh, if it was baseball. If it was baseball. Wait, you're not at Fox anymore? No. Did you guys get that? No, we didn't know that. Yeah. So you're not even allowed to do baseball on Fox. No, I'm not allowed to do anything on Fox. I had Fox taken off my television in St. Louis. Well, you're doing this show, and we're going to re-air it on Fox. Oh, no. Dude, you better not. You better not. Derek Volner will come after you.

1:58:04PFT Commenter:We're going to use all the words you've said in this. That will be actually the game of the week next Sunday. Oh. It's you calling that game. Just piecing, pasting words together. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. When we do the dingers only, we'll put the little Fox Sports logo. You better. If you do it, we're done. That's the only thing. That's the only thing that can get me to not ever come back to this little frat house in Chicago. What's the one? We'll wrap up in a second because you've got to go call the game. Big, fancy job. what's the one game that you wish you could have called? Buffalo Baltimore last night.

1:58:38That was pretty sick. God, I don't know. Maybe the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Yeah. That's out there. Al did pretty well with that. He did do pretty well. The Hail Mary last year. Yeah, that was pretty good. That was just crazy. I think it's any one of those that's just – my favorite is the Minneapolis miracle in the end of my time. This is my 32nd year doing NFL. And if there's one that stands above the others, it's the Diggs touchdown along the sideline because it was – that was one where I've got my mind made up that he's going to catch it if he catches it and hop out of bounds to try a game-winning field goal.

1:59:24He turns around. it was brilliant awareness because i think every receiver is taught to catch it and get out of bounds to give your kicker a chance and he turned around nobody's there and he took it in for the touchdown and that place was gonna come down yeah it was amazing yeah um when when you don't have the super bowl do you miss having the super bowl no are you like this is awesome i get to watch well when we were doing it on a regular basis we're doing it every three years and it felt like every three years was about the right pace to that because it is big i can't wait to do it next year we're doing it next year at abc espn and where is that super bowl la okay which it's just it's it's going to be the biggest day in espn history i think you know with with what's on the line and and to get back into that rotation for troy and me it just there's no day like it and And in broadcasting, to talk into a microphone and know that there's that many people on the other end, 94 % of which are not listening to one word you're saying.

2:00:27They want to watch the commercials and see if their bet worked. But it's really cool. Does time crawl for you on Super Bowl Sunday when you're calling it? Yeah, I think that's kind of the small thing about being out in L.A. and being on Pacific time because it comes up a little quicker. You're kicking off at what would it be, 325? instead of 525 or 625. So, yeah, it's a little easier to get to game time, which is awesome. So who's your prediction for Super Bowl 2027 in L.A.? You have the script, right? Yeah, I have the script. It'll be Detroit against Buffalo. Okay.

2:01:06PFT Commenter:Detroit against Buffalo. Oh, that would be a great Super Bowl. Rematch? From this year? Yeah. No. Okay. Damn. Who's in it this year? I can't say. Come on. It's not our Super Bowl. That's true. You don't want anyone to do promo for the Super Bowl. Right. Yeah. People might accidentally end up watching. Right. Yeah. Then they would know about it. Right. You can spoil it. Then fewer people will watch. Yeah, that's true. But I think I'm going to err on the side of not telling people that there's going to be a Super Bowl this year. All right. Just so they don't happen to just flip the channel and, oh my God, the Super Bowl's on.

2:01:43You know what? We might team up with you in solidarity with Joe Buck. we're not going to announce the Super Bowl. Are your commanders good enough to go? I'll tell you after Thursday night. We had a debate about this. Because I don't think that they are. I don't think they're a good enough team. But if they beat the Packers, that will be enough to convince me that they are good. Yeah, I agree with that. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. These guys tried to gaslight me. No, I was just thinking that was insane. No, I could argue that.

2:02:08PFT Commenter:I said that they went to the NFC Championship game last year. Going into the season, they got better. You should be thinking Super Bowl if you're a commanders fan. Like, that's not an unrealistic thought to have. Yeah. If there's one thing that you think would hold them back. Defense.

2:02:27Like, I thought they should have been in on the Parsons thing. That would have been great, but I don't think Jerry was going to trade him in the division. Or Hendrickson. Yeah, Hendrickson would have been nice. The Eagles tried to get Parsons, too. Yeah, they gave him the biggest offer. And then Jerry kind of stiff-armed him and said, no, we don't want to trade him to the NFC East. So I don't think it was ever realistic. And then with the cap stuff, I don't know how any of the cap stuff works, but I think that was too rich for us. I don't think we could afford it. Hendrickson would have been a nice ad.

2:02:52Hendrickson would have been a great ad if we could have gotten him. But the defense is a little bit old, and I'm not sold that they're going to be like a top 10 defense. If they're like top 15, top 10, then yes, I could see us getting to the Super Bowl this year. Next year's it. You're wrong about the Lions.

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2:03:51PFT Commenter:Terms apply. That's PMT20 at checkout for$20 off your first order. I don't think I told this story on PMT, but I want to hear your side of it. We were in Tahoe for the golf tournament. You played well. Proud of you. Dead middle. Proud of you. I was out to dinner with my wife on that Friday night, and you were sitting a couple tables away. You hadn't noticed that I was sitting behind you. until the waitress brought like server server. Sorry. No, I think I think it was a chick.

2:04:33PFT Commenter:The server brought brought like six enormous cookies and chocolate dipping sauce and brought it to you and your wife. And you're like, we didn't order that. And then you turned around and I was just sitting there sheepishly like, yeah, that was my order. what did you because you didn't notice me until that moment you're like he's the cookie guy yeah that sucked for me oh i'm sorry i i that was just pure happenstance it was crazy i it was i i'm really figuring out that there's like this crazy sweet tooth you have i love i love cookies i mean the coffee's great thank you appreciate this is gonna get me through at least the first half there we go tonight uh yeah and you and i said at least twice hey let's get a drink yeah guess what two people didn't get a drink together as you and me well we got cookies we got cookies we shared a cookie and i ate all of them yes that was impressive those were uh but you turn around you're just like this fucking guy can't stop eating oh that's not true at all it's good seeing it was great seeing you yeah it's always fun running into you yeah maybe throw in a little stella blue coffee plug i don't know yeah sell it on during the game yeah also you're that's called payola i don't think i can do that well okay you know what i you don't have to do that but you do have to do the audio book for our book i like that good trade yeah okay all right it's great trade that's a great trade we didn't win we don't even need you to do the whole lot just like my chapter do the first page and then we'll use ai joe buck yeah and then fill in the rest with that yeah okay we got it yeah i did the audio version of my book and they're like um okay we have secured the studio four days three hours a day i said oh no i am going to start reading it and when i'm done i'm done and i read it straight through that's awesome and by the end i'm just mailing it in like that i my voice was done i it was at the end of it's got to be so bad and that's got to be tortured to have it's it's like doing the video games yeah i've done those before or it's like round ball to short bouncer to short bouncer to short round ball to short it's like can we fucking move on please uh can we get that one more time bouncer to short i'm like i've got to do every team every player every you got to do it at the end of a sentence you got to do it at the beginning you got to be excited you got to be it's there is no work worse than that the video in this business yeah i never even thought of that how much it must suck to do oh And then they're like, hey, we got new names because I did Xbox, the first version of baseball.

2:07:07Like, we got new names. They send you a thing of, I don't know, 250 names. You got to do up, down, up. I'm so glad other people do that. Yeah. It was just a cash grab for you, Joe. Totally. Oh, my God.

2:07:21PFT Commenter:Yes. Good. Thank you, Joe. Yes. You're the best, Joe. We love you. All right. We love you guys back. Do you have to monitor how much you talk before a game? No, this is actually good for me. We're warming you up. We're fluffing you up. you're fluffing me yeah getting you like semi yeah in the voice game why does it always have to go there you brought it up you did I did not bring it up I said this is good and you guys went off we know what you meant you guys continue you winked at us again is it real good you keep winking at us it's real good I'm picking up what you're giving us yeah alright Joe thanks thanks man whether you're debating watching that award winning TV drama or re-watching your comfort comedy movie for the 10th time Choices are important.

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2:08:09PFT Commenter:All right, let's wrap up. We got guys on chicks. Henry. Yeah, yeah. Hit it. Hit it, Henry. Hey, guys. Hit us. Love the show. There's a bit of a problem in my friend group where none of us like one of the guys that's dating one of the original girls in our group. Original girl. OG. Ooh. As if that makes a difference. It does. She brought him around and he started hanging out with us about one year ago and he's about three years older than us. Whoa. He's honestly an asshole and he talks shit about us or our other friends when they aren't around. Like I said, none of us really like him, but we all feel like we can't really do much about it besides he's dating our friend.

2:08:45Not really sure what to do, if anything. Sounds like something that's never happened before. One of you guys has to sleep with him. Suck his dick. That would break it off. You got to suck his dick. Yeah. Break it up real quick. Just start sucking it. Take one for the team. No. I mean, you can't. Someone has to step up. You have one friend in the group that is like, she's the girl that's always like, my problem is I have no filter. You need the no filter girl to prove it right now. And you just get really drunk. Yeah. The no filter girl in that group, you are to blame for this and you can no longer claim to be the one that's no filter unless you take the step up and tell this girl.

2:09:23PFT Commenter:I disagree. I think you just got to do nothing because there's nothing you can't do. That's just life. you gotta realize if someone's got a partner you don't like it's guess what they like to partner more than they like you you could be friends forever BFFs it don't matter at all or suck his dick yeah if you just do that I actually do think that that would probably cause a riff you'll have to do a little damage control but the guy will probably be gone right although it would be awkward if they like they stuck it out and you sucked his dick, that'd be a problem. Okay. Hey, PMT crew, how do I explain to my partner that even though my team is not playing, I want to watch the Sunday and Monday night games?

2:10:10What does that mean? I want to watch football. Yeah, football's on. You just say football? Question mark? Football.

2:10:18PFT Commenter:That's a crazy question. What do you... He's only... Is this Jerry O 'Connell? You're not allowed to watch? It might be Max. Max, did you watch Monday Night Football? Full thing. Why? Why? Well, me and James almost had the biggest banger parlay of all time. We had Caleb Williams, two-plus rushing touchdowns. Are you a Monday Night Football guy now? I might be. That last play, he got it to the half-yard line. I don't understand this question. Yeah, I don't get it. Football. Like, let's say their partner doesn't really follow football and you're a big fan of a team that played Sunday, and they're like, all right, understandable, that's your team.

2:10:55PFT Commenter:but we're all fans of football more than anything else all of us are yep yep oh we all watch football he's got to be like football i don't know just say that you say it's you're scouting for your team like you have to watch the other teams to make sure you know what's coming for when your team plays you also want to know if your team is good because you can draw some conclusions like oh this team won on monday night football but that team looked bad and by the transitive property that means my team might be better you have to do all these i don't again what what's the issue here yeah i don't i don't understand the issue either it's football the partner doesn't get it yeah how do you make them get it tell them football football's on Football is on TV.

2:11:44PFT Commenter:I want to watch. I watch football. Just write that out like a caveman on a rock. Me watch football. Okay. I'm a big Giants fan and my wife is an Eagles fan. We have a two-month-old son. We moved to South Jersey two years ago and I told my wife that I've always wanted a son to watch the Giants with. I also told her it would literally ruin my life if he becomes an Eagles fan. my friends from down in philly territory jokingly bought him an eagles onesie jersey she put it on him during the family vacation before the eagles cowboys game on thursday and i freaked out in front of her family kind of made an ass myself but she 100 knew that i would now she's saying that i cannot dress him in any of the giants that i bought him if she can't dress him in the eagle shit how do i make sure he grows up a giants fan i love the He freaked out on a two-month-old.

2:12:36PFT Commenter:This has got to be, what is it? Not King Midas. Is it King Midas? Solomon. Solomon. You got to tell your wife, let's agree, we'll make him a Cowboys fan. And then if she's like, no problem, then she deserves it. Yeah. You got to do that. But then you both just hate your kid. Cut the baby in half. But that's also kind of funny. That's what King Solomon did? He was told, cut your kid in half, and then he was about to, and they were like, just kidding. Yeah. Yeah, I've tested you, and you passed the test. Yeah, like if the other person, the test is like, hey, you got to cut the baby in half, and then one of them says, you know what?

2:13:15PFT Commenter:I care about the baby so much, you can have the baby. I will not see it get cut in half. So you got to see who has that in them, where they're like, you know what? I want the baby. I don't want the baby to grow up a Cowboys fan. I would never wish that on anyone. That person is the rightful heir of the baby. It's like when we put tennis on TV on Sunday just to see if Hank's going to watch it. Correct. And when he does watch it, we make fun of him. But if he didn't watch it, we'd be like, okay, Hank, you can truly watch tennis because I know you're a football fan. Also, just have more kids. Split it up.

2:13:50Get the rivalries going. That's like what Jerry's doing. He's raising one son. I think his son is a Republican and his daughter as a Democrat. Yes. Just get some debates going on that. This is a weird one. Last one. Uh-oh. Hi, Daddy's X5! Ten exclamation points. I didn't realize football season started and then ran into an issue I had forgotten about since last season. Where am I supposed to sit on a football Sunday? My boyfriend sits on the... Chasse? Chase? Chase? Chasse?

2:14:24PFT Commenter:The chase? The chase, a part of our three-person... Is this why it was a wild one? Because it had that word in it? No. That's a tough word. That's a tough word. Shays lounge. Okay. It just looks like a word that's supposed to be said weirdly. Okay. Right. Part of our three-person... On the chase, part of our three-person couch, and no matter where I sit, it's uncomfortable. He sets up a full camp set up over there with three venti coffees and snacks, so I've tried to sit next to him to also enjoy the snacks, to which he says, there's a whole couch. Yep. When I sit on the other side, I might as well not be there, so I end up leaving the room to do anything else.

2:15:01But then a whole day happens and I don't see my guy. Help.

2:15:06PFT Commenter:Sounds like you actually answered your question. It sounds like, where should I sit? The coffee shop. The bed. It sounds like there's a whole couch. Yeah. There's a whole couch. Yeah, again. Anywhere outside. I'm confused. There's a whole couch. The chassis is connected to the rest of the couch, right? Yeah. What is a chassis? It's like the part of the couch that sticks out. Yeah, the big. So you can put your feet up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What do you call it? Just a couch. Sectional. It's a sectional part. It's a whole couch. The L. Yeah. That is the primo spot. Let's just all agree. Yeah. That is the number one spot by far.

2:15:45PFT Commenter:Yeah, listen. Listen, unless you're taller than your boyfriend, I don't think you get that spot. Comfortability. It's a leg issue? Yeah. I think it's like, hey, look, you should be comfortable on the couch. I think she just is a little needy and wants to touch him, which is too much. Yeah. He's got his whole setup over there. Get a dog. There's a whole couch. Yeah. No, seriously. Get a dog. And just be like, go take the dog out. You're good. You want a companion? Get a dog. Boyfriend doesn't exist on football weekends Or just sit on the couch There's an entire couch An entire couch you could be sitting on right now Yeah But just get it Suck a dick, get a dog Those are the answers I'm taking the guy's side on this one Yeah, big time Did anyone steal my jerky?

2:16:33PFT Commenter:It's in this back fridge Okay, were you going to tell me? Yeah, I should have told you I was looking for it I was like, where the fuck's my jerky? I started getting angry How's the weight loss going, guys? Down 11.5 as a team Holy shit Max did you try the jerky? I did It tastes like It's incredible It tastes like steak It's the best jerky ever Like it tastes like medium rare jerky Which is Yeah You know Shout out my guys at Palina Meat Market Numbers three Three During the Joe Buck interview You guys say numbers maybe Yeah A thousand times Meme said three every single time back here Hank you can have three You sure?

2:17:12PFT Commenter:Yeah You want 22? Sure. I'll take 22. I like that. I'll take 33. I'll take six. You said 99? I was about to give it to you, and then you started name calling. What do you have, memes? What name did you call you? He called me a piece of shit. No, you are a piece of shit. Well, now I'm keeping it. I'll be a piece of shit. You're keeping 99? I was going to give it to him. We don't do name calling. Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do. We don't do name calling. 91 pug 26 19 76

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