PMS 2.0 1398 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, College Football Recap Week 1, Adam Schefter, Josh Pate, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

21:13Pat McAfee:Boom. I think FUBA. Yeah. Very good. It's live. I mean, not to mention the other things. Yeah, we got a couple other little things we'd like to do every single Monday. How about you probably slept on? Now, there's a couple players that play on the West Coast. Yeah. And these games started very late. Very late. I was up very late on Saturday. Unexpectedly, 3 a.m. night on Saturday. Football still on. Okay. Football still on. These games on the West Coast were happening. Two guys that you probably were sleeping while we're playing might be the two best guys in the country. That is just no bullshit.

21:47Pat McAfee:Now, granted, we haven't seen teams play against great opponents. Some teams play against great opponents. We have no idea what they're going to look like. This dude, Devin Dampier, he's a problem. Filthy. He's an absolute problem. This guy had 19 rushing touchdowns last year. Yeah, 1 ,200 rushing yards last season. 19. And now he threw 12 touchdowns and also 12 picks last year as well at New Mexico. But he ran for 19 touchdowns. And I'll tell you what, obviously the passes are nice there. They just give him the – this, he's unstoppable. It seems like you can't tackle him. Now, does UCLA suck?

22:18Pat McAfee:Maybe. They might. We have no idea. They might absolutely suck. But I know this guy was electrifying. They went on a 21-play drive that was nine minutes and 44 seconds long. Jeez. 21 plays. Demoralizing. Yeah. Just an absolute 21 drive. I didn't even know that was possible, to have 21-play drive. and I think they had another one that was like 19 plays or something like that. You're talking about an insanely powerful team, and you team that up with their defense that they're always going to have in Utah. It's like, is this the year for the Utes maybe? Yeah, Kyle Whittingham has only had three losing seasons in his 21 seasons of coaching.

22:55So last year they went 5-7 or whatever they did, but they didn't have a quarterback. They had a quarterback, Cam Rising, who was supposed to play. I don't even know where he's at. He just never showed up last year. So now they have a quarterback. They brought him in from New Mexico. They brought the OC in from New Mexico. I love when teams do that, and they have one of the best offensive lines in the country. So if they can run the ball and play defense like Utah does, could be the favorite in the Big 12.

23:16Pat McAfee:Okay, could be the favorite in the Big 12. West Virginia still exists, but watching him late night was certainly a little bit of a scary sight. You know, this guy's really good. He seems to have it. And also, Cal's quarterback, as we know, Fernando Mendoza came to Indiana out of Cal. Freshman from Hawaii here. Was committed and enrolled at Oregon. before even joining the Oregon football team, goes into the transfer portal. First time ever. Senior, signs letter of intent, goes to Oregon before football starts, transfers to Cal. Okay, so I guess letter of intent doesn't mean anything. Especially if you can transfer before your freshman season.

23:57Pat McAfee:Yeah, not anymore. Okay, that happened. And I'll tell you what, who's happy about that? Cal. They got a guy. Sagapolo Tele. Sagapolo Tele. Yes. Nail it. Jaron Chiave. Jaron Chiave, Sagapolo Tele. Boom. This dude might be the one. He's very tall, very athletic, and look at these balls. I mean, yeah. All of them. All of them. He started 6-6, first game ever. Yeah, and I don't know how far we are into this highlight. Maybe 50 seconds. We're 50 seconds in. All of these balls are just perfect balls. Like, that's a runner's ball. Obviously, that's a touchdown, but that ball is right here. If that was at the 50 or at the 40, that ball is gone.

24:32Pat McAfee:All of the passes are right where they're supposed to be. He's tall. He's a lefty, so it's a little bit awkward sometimes. for defense. I mean, and he's off balance. On the run. He's got Vic in him. He's got Tua in him. He's got some Pat White in him because he's able to move. I mean, he is the real. This guy's the guy. Look at that. Yeah, very, very calm, very composed. He could have bought wings and dropped that thing over the guy's wrong shoulder. I mean, that guy had no idea that was that guy thought it was a back shoulder. Nope, sorry, it's front shoulder, actually. You're going to drop it right.

25:04Pat McAfee:It is. He was outrageous. and people will probably fell asleep and had no, and nobody's going to talk about a Cal Oregon State. Oregon State now, we don't know what they are either. Sure. Okay, their coach was not happy. Obviously, there was a lot of bickering. Malik Murphy, who's their quarterback now, formerly at Duke, he and the coach were getting into a little bit on the sideline late. Feels like Oregon State might be in some trouble football-wise, but can always bounce back. But these two dudes were playing very, very late night, and you probably didn't see them. They were his show, and it was a cool way to not fall asleep, I guess.

25:34Pat McAfee:Sunday morning, kind of hated these guys. Sure. Sunday morning, kind of hated these guys. McKenzie's up early. How you doing? We need breakfast. We're up here doing it. I'm like, you don't know. Last night, Sagapolitelli. Okay, Devin Dampier, we're going crazy. I'm so sorry until the early morning. I know you're up there snoozing. We're very thankful for that. We'd like you to continue to do that. But, boy, it was a late night on Saturday, and I think that's going to continue with these two. Yeah, it will. And it's crazy how week one works because everyone was super down on Cal coming in this year.

26:02They had a ton of transfers out. It just didn't feel like good vibes around the program. And then this kid comes in week one and now everyone's super high on him. They're like, oh, anything can happen this season. And then on the other side, there's teams that just laid an absolute egg this weekend and their season's done.

26:16Pat McAfee:Yeah, Oregon State fans are probably feeling that way. Alabama fans are feeling that way. Exactly. Well, that was my first thought. Florida State might be real, though. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, they might be real real. Bama will be real once Sago, how do you say his name? Sago Politele. Yeah, once he's the quarterback for Alabama next year, they'll be real good. Yeah, well, so that's what happened with Fernando. He comes over to Indiana. He was quarterback last year to let Cal into the spotlight, into everything that they were in. And he goes to Indiana. Kurt Signetti was like, okay, we need to reload.

26:46Pat McAfee:Let's get a quarterback that has experience, some wins, and some big-time games and everything like that, which is becoming a blueprint for a lot of these teams. And then now Cal didn't even have a quarterback post-signing day, really. And then who knows what happens with Sacapolitele. I assume maybe he thought it was going to be a comp, like with Dante Moore, who very good with Oregon, very, very good with Oregon. Maybe he thought, I need to play right now. I need to go find another thing. And then Cal's just sitting there originally, his team. He was right. He was like, hey, you need to come.

27:15Pat McAfee:Yeah, Dante Moore's a guy. But Sacapoletelli, he needs to be on a field because of what you just said there. I'm not saying Cal's going to lose him. Ron Rivera's their general manager, right? Yeah. Okay, so he's going to do everything he can to keep him for sure. and I assume they got a lot of money out of Cal if you can drum up the alums. Sure. A lot of finance people out there, I think. Highest-paid player ever in the history of the NFL. Exactly. Aaron Rodgers, you want him to give money maybe to keep this kid around? Maybe. But if they can keep him, he's going to have – he's a game changer for them.

27:41Pat McAfee:People want to come play with him. Yeah. And Hawaii. A lot of Ooses travel to a couple different schools. You know, BYU, obviously. Utah. Why not Cal? Oregon gets a lot. Why not Cal? Boise State gets a lot too. Yeah, so I love what Cal is going on. Assuming was he like a top quarterback in his class? Yes, he was. Four or five-star, depending on what site you looked at. And he actually beat out Ohio State's backup last year, went to count. He beat him out pretty early in camp. Okay. Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, you're looking at the future of the NFL. Let's not get it twisted here. Sagaparlita is the future.

28:14Yeah, I love this guy. I mean, it looks like he's a 7-on-7 against scout team. That's legit how it looks. That's exactly right, though. I wanted to go to bed so bad in the two games that we're on where both these guys just going bananas out of nowhere.

28:31Pat McAfee:It's 1 a.m. And these two dudes are just all over. That 21-play drive you would think would put you to sleep. But he was on the other. There was two of them playing. He was on the other one just crushing. You look back, Utah still has the ball. Somebody must be hurt over here. You're watching this game. Utah still has the ball. Something must be going on in this game. No, we're watching Sagapolito. And then you look over here, and they still have the ball. 21 play drive. 9.44. You can do that when the quarterback can run hard and also run outside. It is – you need a quarterback that can move. They run hard, too.

29:04When they're getting the ball to some of their tight ends, some of their other receivers, those guys are not going down.

29:10Pat McAfee:All right, let's change speed a little bit here. Let's go to the NFL. Joining us now, senior NFL insider for ESPN, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schefter. Hey, Schefter. Schefter, sorry we were delayed. Gentlemen, what's going on? What are you doing? Where are you at? You're at the Open? I'm at the U.S. Open. It's become something of a little bit of a trip. Like, end of summer, take my wife and daughter. So this is the day we're doing it. And, yeah, nice little day. Well, I appreciate you calling us in the middle of it. Hey, hey, sorry. Go out work a little bit here. You know, you see where we're at here?

29:41Pat McAfee:U.S. Open, it's a ESPN event? Yeah, it's good. I got to go work. You know, those situations. Please tell the family we said thank you for allowing you to have a little bit of time here. How is the U.S. Open? I've heard the Wimbledon's a great vibe. I heard people, a lot of beers. U.S. Open, good time. What is it like? You know what? Last year we came and it was awesome. Literally, I got here five minutes ago. So they're now wandering and doing whatever they're doing. I'll join them in progress. But by the way, I heard you say, we'll see if Florida State is for real. I watched them on Saturday.

30:10They're going to be for real. They're going to be for real, Florida State. I'm just telling you right now. They're good.

30:14Pat McAfee:Yeah, they're big. They look big. I think that was my biggest takeaway is if you see a team that's big and very athletic, and they're winning. Like Miami, big, very athletic, and winning. It's like, whoa, that team can go. Florida State, big, athletic, and winning. Whoa, that team can maybe go. Ohio State, big, athletic. That team can maybe go. West Virginia, big, athletic. That team can go. Bryce Underwood for Michigan, buddy. Big, athletic. That guy can go. It looks like you guys paid the right guy. Looks like you guys are in a good spot. He was very comfortable. That guy, he's 18 years old.

30:51I met him last summer, last month. He was 17 years old. I'd like to come into all this pressure and money and status. At that age, I think that that is incredible. It's a lot to ask of a young man. He looked apart on Saturday night. And you'll see, what time is that game against Oklahoma on Saturday? Do we have any idea?

31:13Pat McAfee:We do have an idea. It's either at noon, 3.30, or 7. 1 to 3. I assume 3.30 or 7 just because it's – Yeah, it's not going to be big noon. Yeah. It is – Or maybe it's 8. At 7.30 on ABC. 7.30 on ABC. Let's go! That's a big game. Hey, Venables and the boys over there are very pumped about where they're at. Underwood gets his first real test. I like that he's blocking people, too. Yeah. He just blindsided, blocked a guy back. So big. The college – so big. So big. So – Two freshmen. Did you see how comfortable he was? Oh, yeah. Like, I know it's New Mexico State. No offense, New Mexico. I don't want to – No offense to anybody, okay?

31:49Pat McAfee:Because some of these smaller teams can give people hell, you know? And I don't think we give them enough credit either when that happens. But he was just sitting back there and just reading and going through his progressions. It was like – That play when he was backed up and is close to his own end zone and kind of threw it over the top, tight end 17, over a couple – like that was like some next level stuff. Yeah, he's really – you guys got a guy. You guys haven't had a guy in a little bit. You know, J.J. leaves, you ain't got a guy. Now – Got a guy. Hopefully they play. We pay a lot of money from a guy that owns one of the islands in Hawaii, and all of a sudden we got the best guy to ever play football.

32:23Pat McAfee:That must be fun up there in Michigan, Shefty. Well, we'll see. Again, it's early, and the guy I think will have a great career, and I don't want to expect too much of him early on, but it was an encouraging start. He looked strong. He looked apart, and we'll see how that plays out. Okay, let's talk about some deals that got done here. Cowboys and Deron Bland, were they waiting on the micah stuff to pay other people or was this always in the works well i think when you have all the money that you save on micah parsons you can go allocate that elsewhere like deron bland gets done i would think at some point they'll wind up signing tyler smith to a contract and it's a lot easier when you have all this money that you're planning on spending on micah parsons to spread it around so deron bland is the first benefactor the fact that Micah didn't get a deal done.

33:13He will not be the last one in Dallas. I'm sure there'll be others that also benefit. Thomas Smith will be my guest for the next one, and we'll see how that plays out. But the round blanket's a big deal over the weekend, four years,$92 million.

33:25Pat McAfee:All right, let's go to the kingdom. D-Bud has a question for you. Yes, Dan, with cornerbacks, one of the best cornerbacks in the league, Trent McDuffie, saw a report saying a deal may not get done out there in Kansas City. What's the update there? Well, again, I think eventually some deal will get done. They're going to want to keep Trent McDuffie. He's a front-line elite quarterback. But they're not going to get a deal done before the start of the season. Nate Taylor reported that for ESPN.com. And the two sides have not had significant discussions recently. Not a big surprise that it won't get done.

33:57But, again, I would think the Chiefs will revisit it at some point. They're going to want to keep him. It's not like they're moving on from the guy. It just means that they're not going to get the deal done by the time they open the season Friday night in Brazil. Amazing, right? It's Monday, and the Chiefs and Chargers play Friday night in Brazil. We got the Cowboys-Eagles Thursday. We got the Chargers-Chiefs Friday in Brazil. Football week is here. Here we go. Kind of a neat little thing.

34:22Pat McAfee:Yeah, we got UNC-TCU tonight. We're back in ball, brother, and it is great. Speaking of Cowboys-Eagles, there's a player that will not be playing in that particular game. He is now playing in Land of Cheese. Go ahead, Todd. Yeah, Chefsy, kind of like everyone assumed, you know, after Micah Parsons gets traded to the Packers and gets paid, His back is fine. We got our first glimpse of him at practice. Don and number one for the Packers. How do we feel? About the one? It should have been zero. Hold on. I'm just watching these videos today. I'm watching him running around. I'm watching him hit a tackle dummy, and I said, man, it's amazing how much better your back feels when you get$188 billion.

34:59It's amazing.

35:01Pat McAfee:I think it's a proven method to fix somebody. You got it, John. It's got a little hammy tightness. We know the remedy. Yep. You got a little back tightness or a little soreness that might need a second or third opinion. We know the answer. This is kind of a sports doctor thing. This is kind of a sports medicine. I don't know why everybody else isn't adapting. No, you're right. Give him$100 million. Yeah, exactly. To your point, though, I would have appreciated if he was zero and Matthew Golden was one and not the other way around. But I get it. First player since Curly Lambeau to wear number one.

35:31It's a big deal. They want to show him, like, hey, we wanted you really bad. So they do that. But Shefty, any word on what the Packers' plans are for his usage going into Sunday against the Lions? They have not committed to using him yet on Sunday. Again, I'll say this. As a general rule, if you're getting$188 million, I would be surprised if he's not out there on Sunday. Now, they want to make sure that that pack feels okay this week. Let's remember he hasn't gone through camp at all, hasn't participated in any of the drills. He's been working up to the side. So obviously there's going to be a conditioning level.

36:08We'll see whether he can play the whole game. But I'm going to guess he is out there. I'm going to guess he is a factor. And you bring up the numbers, right? He's wearing number one. The last time Curly Lambeau wore that number was 100 years ago. We haven't seen a Packer in that number in 100 years. That's pretty incredible. 1926 was the last time a Packer wore number one.

36:32Pat McAfee:Curly Lambeau's a G, though. He is. Yeah, Curly Lambeau got into some shit. I mean, Curly Lambeau, I did a little research on him as I was going to call, I think, the Lions-Packers game about where it was, why it was. He's founder of the Packers, basically, and this dude is a dog. Curly? Yeah, Curly Lambeau is a dog. Everybody knows Lambeau Field, Lambeau Field. Curly Lambeau started the Packers, I do believe, and there's some things that happened where he had to be really, you know. He had to stand on business. What position? All of them. Yeah, he wore number one. I think he was star position.

37:04Pat McAfee:All of them. Yeah, ball handler. Zero would have been sick, though. I think so, too. And I don't love Matthew Golden wearing zero. I think you got a speedster receiver. Golden won, too. That's pretty sweet. And then Micah becomes the first player ever to wear zero for the Packers. He's a Packer forever problem. Carly Lambeau, fullback, quarterback, and kicker. Yeah, bang. Whatever you need. Of course. Hey, coach. That's Carly Lambeau football. That's right. We're expecting the same out of Micah. It is amazing his back is healed. I'm excited to see. They haven't said if he's going to go or not.

37:38Pat McAfee:I saw him bouncing around his house. I think he's a pretty good shake. Yeah, I think he's ready. He didn't get blown up there. He looked fast. Back, pool, drain. Mulaghetta, let him know. We're not going back now. He's going to be pretty confident about that entirety. We have tried to get David Mulaghetta on the program. We think tomorrow we'll get a chance to chat with him. We'll be excited to go behind the scenes on how it all came together. Let's go to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Shepty, I know there hasn't been any contract adjustments, or at least it hasn't been reported.

38:05Is Cam Hayward playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday? We're going to see that. He's got a decision to make there. It was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw that Jalen Warren has a new deal for the next two years, tying him to Pittsburgh through 2027. They have not resolved that. They have not been able to figure it out. And so I would think it's going to be really interesting to see if Cam Hayward is on the practice field on Wednesday as the Steelers get ready to open their season on Sunday against the Jets. I'll have a decision to make Wednesday. I would imagine I'll have a decision to make Sunday.

38:35Probably we'll get an idea where he's at on Wednesday. If he's not practicing, it's not going to be a great sign. But I don't know what's going to happen there. It's kind of lingered out there all summer long. It has not generated the amount of attention that some of these other issues have. But it's about to get interesting there. Again, maybe Cameron Hayward says, I'm going to play on this deal. It didn't sound that way earlier in the summer, but we'll find out.

39:01Pat McAfee:Cam Hayward not playing for the Steelers this year, holding out because of money with the whole year one B-Steeler you don't think. Yeah. It's just like, oh, so much. That's why whenever you do a podcast and all those things, people are going to hold everything you say against you. Even if it's out of context or not the same situation at all, they're going to do it. Cam Hayward knows that. He puts his big boy pants on. He'll be in the Pittsburgh Steelers Ring of Honor Hall of Fame, whatever the hell it is at some point in his life it seems to be a little bit of a disconnect right now he's been in practice though talking to coach tomlin he's had pads on this year but he hasn't he's been open about it but he hasn't really been a distraction interesting it's kind of a trey hendrickson situation happening right in front of our eyes i don't think cam wants to do this feels obligated to do it because you guys can't just disrespect me because i've been here for so long probably has people behind him and around him being like they're taking advantage of you because you're a Pittsburgh Steeler.

39:54Pat McAfee:They have your brother on the team. Your dad was on the team. You've been here second-longest tenured guy alongside Mike Webster right behind Ben Roethlisberger. They're going to try to take your face. They just paid DK Metcalf$33 million. That's a lot of money. Pittsburgh Steelers just paid DK Metcalf$33 million a year. He's never done anything for Pittsburgh. You have 45 different foundation events you do every single year. You go to everything. You're like a mascot of Steely McBeam or whatever the hell his name is. He's not even a mascot. You are our mascot around town. Somebody needs a steal representative?

40:24Pat McAfee:You go. And his people around him are like, they're taking advantage of all this. They're just giving him money. Jalen. You bring up DK Metcalf. They paid DK Metcalf. They paid Jalen Ramsey. They paid Jonu Smith. Today they paid Jalen Warren, who's been there. So they've paid a lot. Darius Slade, they've paid. They've paid a lot of different players, not to mention TJ Watt. Right. And so everybody seems to have gotten paid except Cam Hayward right now. Now, by the way, I know it's a different deal, but Chris Boswell's in the same boat too. We haven't talked about that either. I don't know that a kicker's going to walk away and retire before the season begins, but Cam Hayward wants a new deal.

41:01Can I say something? He wants it to be addressed. Chris Boswell wants his deal addressed. So it's not just Cam Hayward right now.

41:08Pat McAfee:Shafty, Pittsburgh Steelers fan, and Yinzer Tone has requested the floor. Pay Chris Boswell$60 million a year. Okay. Okay. Pay him that man whatever he wants because he's been the best player besides Ben Roethlisberger and TJ Watt for the last, I don't know, however long he's been there. Yeah, whatever you need to pay him. What is the kicker number right now? What is the kicker number right now? I don't know what he's making, but the top kickers are making$5 million,$6 million a year probably. I think he's like a million below whatever the top is. I mean, think about that. That's one vet min contract.

41:41Pat McAfee:You can up that thing a million bucks and make them happy. You know, the Steelers are disrespecting all their vet players. They're trying to win for their better players. They don't normally pay people unless it's going in their last year or whatever. I believe he has two years left on his contract. So, you know, they did it with TJ. They did it with Ben. But, you know, they're special people. They don't usually trade in pay wide receivers either. Well, they also don't normally fire offense coordinators in the middle of the season. They've been doing a lot over there. That's a good point. But will it work out?

42:05Pat McAfee:Will it win a Super Bowl? Or will this be the first time in Tomlin's tenure where he's under 500? Oh, no. Got the Jets week one. Justin Fields could have been your quarterback. Better win that one if the season's over. Yeah. I love it. Do or die right out of the gate. If they don't win week one, season's over. All right, on that note, Shefty, last question here. Shout out to Sunday Ticket, by the way. We love you. That was really nice whenever they were having their dispute with, you know, Fox and everything. Yep. They came out quickly and were like, Sunday Ticket won't be affected by this really.

42:35Pat McAfee:Needed to hear that. Goated. Thank you for doing that. Cannot wait for Scott Hanson to be one of the four. And then if the Colts came somewhere, disappoint me if I'm not there. And any other two. No, Colts are going to win this year. That was rude of me to say. But two of them are always going to be the Colts and then Hanson Red Zone Channel, and then the other two top games. I can't wait for that. Oh, my God, I cannot wait to get there. Shout out to YouTube TV Sunday ticket. Go ahead, pal. Yeah, I mean, Colts play in Indianapolis this week. Pretty absurd to think about. Against the Miami Dolphins.

43:04Pat McAfee:Need to win that one. Need to win. Don't die. That's another team probably you could throw in there. Into this. Yeah, into this, Shefty. I'm assuming Indy might be involved in this, But these last two years, you've basically hit the nail on the head when it comes to the projection of how many head coaching openings there will be during the offseason. Looking at it right now, obviously there's some situations that might happen that could change things. What's your projection as of now as far as head coach openings go when you look at it as a whole? Who right now do you know has to win going into the season?

43:40Kyle, what I would say is it doesn't really matter now. We haven't seen a team lose a game yet. And so I've seen over and over where a coach looks like he's on the hot seat and that team all of a sudden plays better. And people are like, oh, look, I think everybody feels like Brian Dable's on the hot seat. But I think the Giants are going to have a better season than people expect. So all of a sudden, if they're ripping off wins and playing better, he's off the hot seat and somebody else who we weren't expecting is going to be on the hot seat. I think you have to let the season play out. But we've seen, on average, about 6.8 head coaching changes per year.

44:13I believe a couple of years ago there were 10. I believe last year it came in lower. That tells me this year it will probably be around at the average. But a little early to ask the question, I understand why you would. I'm not prepared to give you an authoritative answer right now. I would say, just going in, my guess is 6 to 7 is usually the number. And I would imagine we'll be around that number. but let's see how the season's shaking out before we're putting people on the hot seat and running them off.

44:40Pat McAfee:All right. Well, you certainly will do that as soon as the time calls for it, which we appreciate. Yeah, we do appreciate that. Have a great time at the U.S. Open. Tell your family who said hello and sorry for keeping you so long. All good. Happy Labor Day to you guys. We'll be in touch next Monday, if not sooner. Happy Labor Day. Is there a game happening or a match happening anywhere near you right now? Right behind me. We're about to go into the Coco Gauff Naomi Osteen. We're supposed to begin here about 45 minutes or so. All right. 45 minutes. We appreciate you. Enjoy yourself, man. Thank you, guys.

45:15Pat McAfee:Have a great one. Ladies and gentlemen, Michigan man, Adam Sheffield. Yay! All right, let's talk a little bit more about those stories that we ran through at the beginning. Arch Manning, that was a tough go. Tough. That was a tough go. Matt Patricia's, Dan Orlovsky did it. Now, Dan Orlovsky was pro-Arch Manning. So, Dan Orlovsky is going to get on the side of Arch being screwed here. Arch being held back. Sarkeesian is giving him a limited offense, which might be true. Sarkeesian might have done that. And then he also pointed out a lot of things that Matt Patricia was doing to Arch Manning. We've seen numerous film breakdowns now from Dan Orlovsky where Patricia would show one thing, almost like the Amoeba defense that the Ravens do, and then have somebody hand in dirt and they're dropping back.

45:58Pat McAfee:It was kind of like a high-level NFL-type defense was taking place for that Ohio State Buckeye defense. Now, they're obviously studs, won the national championship, best defense in the country, I think, last year. They lose their defensive coordinator. Ryan Day has to rehire at that position. Still have studs all over the place. Lost some guys to the NFL, JTT, Jack Sawyer, amongst those two guys that are gone. But they were able to reload, and then they bring in Matt Patricia. And Matt Patricia kind of gets laughed at because at the Detroit Lions, he was horrendous. Yes. He was horrendous. He was out of shape most of it.

46:28Pat McAfee:He was on a quad because he had a broken ankle. There was really nothing good that came out of his time with the Detroit Lions. So bad. Like, everything was bad at the Detroit Lions. We actually got along with him, like friends with him, because Ben and Terry and him have known each other since he was a ball boy with the New England Patriots. So I've known him a long time. I think he's a good dude. I think he's a funny dude. I think he's an upbeat dude. But I think whenever he became a head coach, he might have thought he had to be a hard ass, might have thought he had to be a different person because of how much he saw Bill Belichick and how much he learned from Bill Belichick.

46:57Pat McAfee:For whatever reason, it didn't work. And nobody worked in Detroit before MCDC got there. So, you know, just jot that down as a wash. Bingo. Everybody forgets this guy used to draw plays on every desk that he's ever been at. Loves ball. Addicted to ball. Whenever he was at the Patriots and Bill Belichick, now everybody talks about Tom Brady getting to learn defenses from Bill Belichick. Matt Patricia was defense coordinator with Bill Belichick. You're talking massive brains. Everybody remembers they should have handed it off to Marshawn Lynch situation where the boys actually practiced this exact situation leading up to the thing because Matt Patricia saw something early, yada, yada, yada.

47:30Pat McAfee:He's a super genius, and it was on display on Saturday. Is that what you're thinking? And is this a problem for everybody in college football? Is this the blueprint for Arch? Other teams just need to do what Matt Patricia did, or is this Ohio State defense going to be different than everybody else that Arch is going to see? Coaching is a huge part of it, obviously having your guys prepared, but having very, very talented guys is another part of it, and they have very talented defense. That secondary is probably the best, if not one of the top three best in the country with the guys that are still there and the guys that they brought in.

48:00But, yeah, they show some things pre-snap. They show some things post-snap. And that third Buckeye is the biggest one to me. Pressuring them 14 times, 12 of which only came with a four-man rush. If you can get home with just sending four and having those other seven guys have eyes on the quarterback, break on the ball, anticipate routes, communicate them, pass them off, that is a huge, huge weapon when you don't have to sacrifice guys from the coverage to get after the quarterback. So that was a big deal for Matty P and the players, you know, taking on us on that. He did a great job. But in my opinion, I'm still going to put some more than Dan O did on Arch.

48:32You know, you got to come out there and you got to make throws.

48:34Pat McAfee:He's a starting quarterback in Texas. He's a starting quarterback in Texas. And, you know, this is his first time being the starter. But, you know, he's been there for a couple years. And I was surprised that how his mechanics look, like his throwing mechanics. You know, he has some off. I don't mind his sidearm, but just the total body, not stepping into it, doing things off the back foot. Not something you expect, especially from a manning. I'm sure Sark will clean some of that stuff up. I don't think, you know, Sark, yeah, you're going to be somewhat conservative when you're facing a coordinator and defensive talent like you're facing, but you still have opportunities all the way up to the end of this game where if he puts that ball, you talked about a runner's ball earlier, you put that on that receiver across the field.

49:15Who knows what the rest of that drive looks like. He did make some big-time throws late in the game. We know how athletic he is. So, long, long season. I think Arch would be just fine. But this is a hell of a test to come out of the gates with against Matty P and that Ohio State defense.

49:28Pat McAfee:Fourth quarter was definitely his best quarter. No question. And is that because he finally figured out what the hell Matt Patricia was trying to do to him? Is he like a Manning where he's trying to dissect and learn and go forward? Or was he just kind of caught in a blender and, holy shit, we just need to bury the ball and move along? The Texas defense, too. Great. Very, very, very, very, very good. I mean, you're talking about these are the two best defenses in the country last year, right? Texas and Ohio State. So, literally, a lot of carryover in that particular realm. But what a tough start for both.

49:58Pat McAfee:Sane having to take on that Texas defense. He gets a win. Congrats, Ohio State. Congrats to Ryan Day. Huge. Tight shirts. Very tight. Yeah, he's wearing tight shirts. We're seeing a lot, Coach. We're seeing a lot. Every part of your skin. He's in better shape than he's been in a long time. He looks very good. Looks very fit. Huge win, and I'm excited for him. Cardinal Tate, damn, Tate. What a catch. Bounce off his chest, off his shin, double grab, catches for a touchdown. Sane can spin it. He can certainly do that. Arch can as well as what everybody was saying. And that fourth quarter being his best quarter, I think we're kind of looking for like, okay, maybe that'll carry in.

50:32Pat McAfee:Maybe he just kind of settled in too little too late. But also it's like you're starting quarterback in Texas. Everybody's expecting you to be great from the jump in this thing. Yeah, no one cares if your right tackle is a turnstile and he turns around to block the pass rusher with his back basically. but it is going to be all on Arch. But the other thing with Patricia is that's not getting talked about is people are thinking like, hey, Belichick's probably going to do this, you know, tonight with UNC. With Caleb Downs, it's probably the only reason they can do what they're doing. Like you talk about amoeba defenses and moving guys all over the place.

51:03Like Caleb Downs is probably the only reason he's allowed or able to do those things because he probably makes up for half of the shit that they're doing. He's the chess piece that's confusing Arch, and Patricia's just the one letting him know.

51:15Pat McAfee:Yeah, he had him down on the line multiple times, and he would drop back into coverage. They only brought pressure. They got pressure with four men or whatever 12 times out of 14. They're showing six, though, every time. Like, did not blitz him. It looks like a blitz every single time. And then who's backing out? Well, you have to try to decipher who's going where. And whenever they're showing zero or cover one, and then they're dropping somebody from cover two back there, are you and the wide receivers on the same page? Probably not. Are you able to have an out of this? Probably not. are you making the right read?

51:46Pat McAfee:Maybe. It's like, I think Sark, Arch, and that Texas offense got a big wake-up call with a very, very talented defense. A lot was made off of, you know, they lost their entire D-line. You talked about Jack Sawyer and JTT and the two boys in the middle. They lost off, but Downs is back. Igbenosin was back. Matthews, who had the interception. Those three all started on the back end last year. So, like, while they were not as experienced up front in the back and then Sonny Styles at linebacker, like, they were very experienced there off of a championship defense. Caleb Dons, I met his dad Friday night.

52:16Pat McAfee:It was cool to meet him. Has a good presence about him, his dad. And obviously Caleb and Josh Downs, brother Josh Downs now with the Indianapolis Colts. I think there's a three-year age difference, I think. And one of the stories that I was being told is that whenever he was very young, he was taking a picture with his family and Josh is like out running away and Caleb is like directing him to come back and stand in line. Mr. Downs is basically like, Caleb's been like this since he's three years old. just has always been very mature he's been great at ball i guess there was a return or a punt return or a kick return or something whenever he was like a very very little kid where he was like seeing the field and cutting back and i was like because i asked him when did you know he's like very young he did something they were like oh we might have a guy here and it's like almost been written since he was a kid like this guy is a guy he goes to alabama as soon as he steps foot on the campus they're like that's the one yeah that is there's a gold jacket on that guy as a true freshman at Alabama.

53:12Pat McAfee:That was Saban's Alabama too. It ain't Saban's Alabama anymore. No, it is not. This ain't your daddy's Alabama. This is not or your daddy's Alabama. I mean, it is a wild time down there, but Caleb was a guy as soon as he gets there. So when that Ohio State gets him plucked up there, it's like they immediately, we got the best player in all college football on the defense side, wins a national championship, couldn't try to do it again. It's like, he's the guy and Matt Patricia knows he has that and now it's like, if you can keep that culture on that defensive side, especially Big Ten football, you can really confuse and beat people up, especially if you're going to continue to get Ohio State type athletes.

53:54Pat McAfee:Good for them. Let's talk about that Alabama team. Boy. Do we have to? Dan Orlovsky said he counted 21 loafs. Yeah. What? It means you'd have to watch every single game, every single player. Every single play. And he did. every single player. 21? And that's why he's the GOAT. Counted 21 loves on Alabama State. Traitors! You got to watch. 21 traitors is how Rich Rodriguez would describe that. But I think that was the biggest takeaway. He's like, not only are they losing to Florida State, who's completely reloaded. Yes. Completely. And teams have been able to be very good whenever they use the transfer portal hard and get the right guys in there.

54:27Pat McAfee:Thomas Castellanos, right guy. Yeah. Right guy. Everybody else, insanely athletic. They brought in five new offensive linemen, felt like Thomas had some time. They brought in D linemen, Felt like they were getting to the quarterback. Felt like who they brought in. Big, fast, very athletic. And Thomas Castellanos has to give the entire team a lot of confidence. Especially whenever he comes out and says, they ain't got Saban anymore. I don't know who the fuck's going to stop me. Basically. He said that? Oh, yeah. Then he comes in. Now he's got shirts that say, like, Nick can't save him. It was a wild thing to say.

55:00Pat McAfee:Especially because Alabama, still most five stars committed to the 2026. Still got, like, one of the best offensive lines in all of college ball. Still got five stars and blue chips all across the board. Kalen DeBoer, also another year in his culture. He gets his offensive coordinator back that he had at Washington, and he had at Indiana whenever they had a bunch of success. It's like, this is going to be the Alabama team. And then you're watching, and it's like, that's Alabama? They got bullied. Beat up. Yeah. Lazy. Yeah. Lazy. Wearing the Alabama stuff. It's like, is there not four or five stars behind every one of those guys waiting to take their spot?

55:37Pat McAfee:Like, you want to loaf and be lazy? You better be a fucking Heisman winner. If you're just another guy on the team, there's four guys behind you that are willing to sprint full speed, even if they're not going to make the play. It's like all those things kind of made, I think, not only Alabama fans, who are obviously disgusted. Now they're making up stories. I hear guys are getting DoorDash fast food 1 a.m. day of game. The hotel at the hotel. Not the hotel. They're walking around flip-flops after curfew. Nobody's saying it. Our friends are there. See, TikTok. Yeah, it's like all these things.

56:07Pat McAfee:It's like now, if this continues, those are only going to get more and more. Because Saban created a standard there. Yes. And that is one standard. You're going to go. And if we're going to play like ass, there's only going to be one reaction when you show me on camera. Says blue polo guy. I don't want to hear it. That was awesome. Legend. Legend. I waited for his moment. He moves along. I like Kalen DeBoer a lot, and we don't know how he is in practice and behind closed doors, but it seems like he's just emotionless on the sidelines. You guys always talk about looking behind you. Vinny always thinking, hey, I got to do everything.

56:39Saban, those guys were scared to death at all times, so they always performed with that hard edge or whatever. It seems like they just don't give a shit.

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58:02Pat McAfee:This is the greatest. We're so lucky that we get a chance to chat about tonight. UNC will take on TCU. It'll be the debut of Bill Belichick as the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heel football team. I, alongside the college game day folks, will be doing the kickoff show and the halftime show. So we will be boots on the ground in Chapel Bill. We cannot wait to see what this new era of Tar Heel football will look like. And they'll take it on a tough horn frog. squad. This team moves. This team's quick. What will Bill Belichick try to do alongside his boy and an entire team with 70 new transfers?

58:37Pat McAfee:Stars are going to be out. Michael Jordan is going to be on the side. Julius Pepper is going to be on the side. Mia Hamm is going to be on the side. No more? Hopefully. I hope so. How about Eric Church? Heard of him? Talladega. Talladega.

59:06Pat McAfee:I don't know that one. What's that? I don't know that one. Nine-year NFL event. I don't think we do either. That's Gary Shade Butler. It's all right. You won't hear that one. Lambo's just going to follow him around. Yeah, hey, Springsteen. Come on. Hit me again. Doc Stab was here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer. Die. Cowboys AP Tone is here. And joining us live from an attic in Ohio. fresh out of a dinner that, I'll tell you what, I don't think I've ever seen a group of people like that together before. AJ was certainly there. Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawk. AJ, that was awesome.

59:35Pat McAfee:Were you holding court at that dinner? What was going on on Friday night? We just so happened to be getting dinner, two separate groups, our backs two feet away from each other. That's incredible. He was looking one way, I'm looking the other way. He seemingly spotlight of that conversation. Not even close. That's a bold-faced lie. I barely even spoke at that situation, but yeah. You were there. You were at the point of the circle. That situation, he said, not dinner. It was awesome. You look like a very powerful group. Shout out to Giuseppe's over there in Columbus. Great. Giuseppe, founder, unbelievable on his road to recovery right now.

1:00:14Pat McAfee:Okay. I don't know how long ago. Do you know how long ago it was? I do not, no. Do you know what happened to Giuseppe? Not really. Where'd he live? That's like 40 minutes from where I live. It's one of your special occasions to go there. You need to know what happened. His son was there. His son was doing great. Giovanni? Giovanni Giuseppe? Giuseppe Paisan that created Giuseppe's. He and his family. Wow. Wonderful Italian. He was driving home. You guys are going to feel like assholes right now. Just want to let you know. This is going to be a very, very serious story. He's on his road to recovery.

1:00:47Pat McAfee:Not a lot of Giovanni talk over there. And a lot of, you know, I don't know the situation. I can't guess the guy. The Irish asshole sitting over there. Giuseppe got T-boned. Uh-oh. Oh, thanks, Connor. Paralyzed. Oh, no. He's 65 years old. Now he's back walking. Okay. 65. He's like, he's going to get his ass back into that restaurant. I do believe. Talk to the family. Obviously, the family's like, as the story was being told, we're like, holy shit, we're so sorry. He's like, no, he's going to get back. That's how it is. 65 years old. Guy's a grinder. His food immaculate. His restaurant packed to the gills on Friday night.

1:01:20Pat McAfee:And me and AJ are just like two feet away from each other. He was talking. I just met Caleb's dad about a minute and a half before that. So I was the only person I knew at that table. He's talking to the table of what seemed to be bigwigs. I mean, we're talking. This is a big deal over here. I think I saw some people potentially watching, securing. Wow. What was happening here. And we're just having a light little dinner over here. You know, a light little dinner on this side. Light little dinner. Yeah, a light little dinner on this side. You look like you were having a good one, though. I want to let you know.

1:01:48Pat McAfee:I looked over every once in a while. I'm like, AJ's really chopping it up in there. A lot of laughs, a lot of big-time laughs. I'm a great listener. I'm a very good listener. People say that. Yeah, but you're dissecting as you're listening. I'll jump in if I'm asked to or it's needed, but I'm not going to shoehorn myself into conversations that I don't know anything about. Well, I do. That's made a living out of that. You know what they say, the quiet lips, loud brain. That's right. That's what they say. You never know what's going on in there. There's words somewhere. If they're not coming out of here, where are they?

1:02:19Pat McAfee:Let's talk about the words coming out of there for you and all of Ohio State alumni and fans. How do we feel after week one? Obviously, huge test against Texas. Your defense looked phenomenal. Obviously, Arch did not look good at all. A lot of people blaming Sark. A lot of people giving Matt Patricia a lot of credit. Obviously, the players are insanely good over there at Ohio State. Julian Sane gets his first start, his first action as an Ohio State Buckeye quarterback other than just the spring game. What do Ohio State fans say? You guys got to feel great about this national championship repeat, huh, after week one?

1:02:49Pat McAfee:Ooh. I think people feel pretty good, yeah. I mean, you talked to Ryan Day going in. They said, like, oh, what's your expectation for Julian Sane? He said, just a win. Let's go out there and let's get a win. Let's get a victory. And they did. I mean, 14-7. You would like to have a little bit more of a cushion, but I think they, like, they did everything they needed to. Texas is an awesome team. They're the number one ranked team in the preseason. So, of course, anytime you get a victory over a team like that, especially to start the season with all these new guys, some inexperienced guys, I should say, coming in.

1:03:15It's a good win for the Bucs. They're going to keep it moving, but yeah, I think it was a positive situation.

1:03:20Pat McAfee:I think so, too. Great setup. The tribute and how you guys paid your respects to Coach Corso was cool. That was really cool. I think, obviously, the game day people are probably going to send their thanks to the Ohio State folks as they should, but everybody we've met over at Ohio State has been very gracious to us, which is why we didn't want to hate them. Yeah, exactly. We were ready to, though. If we had to, we had to. It would have been easy. But we didn't want to. I don't think it would have been easy. It would have been hard. That's what I'm saying is it would have been hard to do that. It would have been oh so easy.

1:03:50But again, I did not want to do it. Like genuinely enjoy the Ohio State team and also like the players, the alumni that, you know, Will Howard, you just talked to him. He was very nice to us, the other guys, when we were at the ESPYs, which is a point.

1:04:06Pat McAfee:You're talking about another guy. I mean, Bobby Carpenter's in Ohio State. They opened up the facility for us. Yeah, everybody there very kind to us and has been very kind to us. So we're happy that we don't have to act like we don't like them, even though Connor's like, really? Can we still act a little bit like that? I could go blue all day. It was very cool how the Ohio State people treated Coach Corso. That was awesome. With the band lineup behind him and the whole place, I mean, that was just an epic moment and proper send-off. And him being absolutely perfect on all of his picks and every team that he ever coached or played for winning throughout it, I think it was a great send-off for a sports icon.

1:04:40Pat McAfee:How did you feel about it as an Ohio State fan? And did you guys chat about it at all? about, you know, I'm happy our band did. I'm assuming your band has never done that for anybody or anything ever before, let alone the horseshoe doing that. Yeah, I don't think so. And when you were telling me like the schedule and how they were doing it, you know, okay, course was going to come out after the end, all this stuff. I was thinking, man, that's a lot of moving parts. How in the world do you like put that together logistically? And they nailed it, man. It was great. Like I thought it was a beautiful situation for coach.

1:05:05And I love that he wore the tux and then he gets all the picks, right? All of this stuff. Like it worked out exactly how it should work out for a legend like Lee.

1:05:12Pat McAfee:Yeah, and it very rarely does, right? Doesn't it feel like that never happens? You never get the right send-off? Feels like he got his flowers and then all his picture right. And he's right. Pretty good. That's unbelievable. Love that. The tuxedo was awesome. Nobody knew that was coming. Get up there, see him in a tuxedo store. Yes. So, of course, the guy said, too. Yes. Immediately what I said. You know, he was getting a little emotional, I think, multiple different times. Like, kind of taking it all in. As was everybody, you know, because it was like, we're not going to see him around as much anymore.

1:05:39Pat McAfee:uh the southwest flight thing uh that came out on thursday or friday whenever they paid tribute to him yeah i started getting a bunch of messages asking me why coach corso's flying southwest and i'm not it's like i don't know but i also do know that i think i have offered up for coach corso and he said oh way too much money don't you do that like coach corso is literally like old school the oldest of schools and like traveling through that airport that he did for the last 30 years through orlando is like his thing like i think he loves it i think he loves seeing the people i think he likes the energy and everything and now granted if i was coach corso or his agent okay he was same one i met him same one for 38 years it's like i think we would try to talk him out of that uh whenever he gets 80 years old you know he's like 90 now 80 years old or whatever but i think coach corso is very much like uh nope this is kind of how i operate this is the way it goes and that's like another reason why it's like this dude is such a legend.

1:06:39Pat McAfee:There will never be another one. There will never be another Coach Corso. And there's little storylines like that through everything. The flight thing made me think of the Peter King story about Lamar Hunt when Lamar Hunt was flying from Kansas City to New York or Dallas, whatever, and he was sitting in like 38B in the middle reading a book and this guy essentially invented the NFL. Like, some people are just in their routine and like to travel that way, too. Yeah, he's a football coach at heart. So, he's like a creature of habit and everything. He's probably been doing that for decades now. And like you said, you know, I'm sure he enjoys, like, people see him in the airport.

1:07:13It's like, holy shit, that's Lee Corso. You know, like, he helps you feel young. And it's just, it's what's easy to do. So, you know, yeah. I mean, if he wanted to fly private, I'm sure he'd be flying private.

1:07:23Pat McAfee:Well, that's what I think, too. Now, granted, should somebody have pushed a little bit here for the last time? Maybe. Yeah, maybe. I think there was a ball drop, but I don't know if Corso would necessarily say, you got it. Genuinely, I do not know. That's the type of guy he is. But I saw the video, and I just was like, sick. I'm happy they're celebrating him because we know the backstory. I didn't even think about everybody being like, because this is how we acted as well. When we learned of this, I did the same thing. I went right to the top of the, Coach Corso can't be doing this. What have we done?

1:07:54Pat McAfee:He likes it. It's his social media. It's like his thing. and it's like really i didn't know that was the case now is he just saying that so he doesn't step on any toes and he said because he's always just trying to you know dance who knows but other than the south other than the southwest thing yeah it was like what a perfect all of it the luncheon that we stopped by was magnificent the production meeting on friday they captured it it was great like everything about it was very very good so we'll miss him but what a perfect way to kind of go out. And if you're ever doing anything for a profession for that long, and at the end of it, every person, including the other network, wants to say, thanks.

1:08:32Pat McAfee:You've done good. You know, AJ? You've done good there. He is. I mean, yeah. Lee Corso was college football. The juice, the energy, the pageantry that college football is, Lee has embodied that for 30, 40 years now, at least. More than that, most likely. Good luck to whoever has to follow. That would suck That would suck The whole fucking sport Both networks Documentaries, more stories coming out about how legendary he is Good luck Have fun You're gonna do great I was thinking that as he was doing it I was like brothers no How the fuck What are you supposed to do there Yeah legend dude You just got 127 ,000 people To go absolutely crazy Even the Texas fans are doing it.

1:09:22Pat McAfee:Even the Texas fans are clapping. Well, you had to do it. You had to do it. It's just like, wow. What a legend, dude. He's always been very kind to me, which is what I appreciate. Because I've told this story before, but it's the truth. When I get dropped into college game day full time, it's like week three or whatever, week two, week three, whatever it was. I get dropped in there. A lot of people in the SEC hated me because they thought I was taking time from David Pollock. the people behind the scenes though hated me because they knew that i was probably brought in there to potentially one day add the entertainment the energy the spice if or when coach corso was to step away so the sec fans hated me because one of the greatest players in the history of the southeastern conference david pollock was potentially going to lose some time because i was going on there which once again david pollock incredibly kind of me i get along with david pollock i respect david pollock david pollock was great for college football and he was a great football player.

1:10:21Pat McAfee:Got hurt when he was with Cincinnati Bengals. So he was all, he's been great. He was great to me. Very nice to me. But the SEC and Georgia fans more specifically, boy, they hated me. You know, big, loud, dumbass from Pittsburgh's coming in here. And this guy's taking time away from one of the greatest dogs in the history. Why is this guy here? They were loud. Boom, boom, boom. But what people didn't know is behind the scenes people hated me. Not for that. For the guy who created this entire sport and the guy who created this show and the guy that created this entire being is basically you're potentially you're never going to basically you know so it was an interesting little thing there for a couple years up until now and still kind of happening you know yeah sure that is certainly uh it's been an interesting environment for me it's been a very but like the thought of being on that show is just such an honor it's like i love the fact that i get to represent football like that is a cool thing getting to do and i tried to tell coach corso that whenever we did the roundtable shout-out session to him, and I got a chance to say it on TV, and I've said this to him off-air too.

1:11:23Pat McAfee:It's like, he loves ball. That guy loves ball. Everything about it, he loves ball. I think that is why I'm initially drawn to him. Then the way he goes about it, it's like that guy's speaking how I would speak as a kid growing up watching him. So I have nothing but respect for these, but there's a lot of people who don't have a lot of respect for me being the guy that's coming in there, and I've certainly felt it, and I will try my best to represent for football, is what I'm saying, and for college football, especially in this magical time that we're in right now where you have no clue what team's going to become the greatest.

1:11:56Pat McAfee:You can be ass, absolute shit a year beforehand and then become a perennial power yet again. Looking at you, Florida State, you can be great and then become, oh no, what was that? Looking at you, Alabama. Will they be able to find their way back with Crimson Tide? We shall see. Top 10 teams competed this weekend. Six of them against each other. So obviously there was going to be at least three top 10 teams with an L. There were four. Penn State, though, haven't talked about them. They beat the hell out of Nevada. Drew Aller looked good. Drew Aller looks like what we wanted him to look like after the terrible ending to his season last year.

1:12:36Pat McAfee:He could have either crumbled or used that as motivation to get even better and maybe become top pick in the NFL draft this year. This Penn State team is for real. Ohio State, obviously, they get the massive win over Texas. Texas' defense is not getting talked about because Ohio State's defense is getting talked about. Julian Sane and the boys, a couple drops. Claire, Jeremiah Smith, early. We don't know what that's all about. We assume that will get cleaned up. Heartline now, the OC. It's like tough sledding against that Texas defense, but I think that's going to be for everybody this year. Obviously, Clemson loses to LSU in the Death Valley Bowl.

1:13:09Pat McAfee:And LSU is a real deal. They are. Georgia defeats Marshall. That's Tony Gibson's first game as Marshall's head coach. Sorry about that. Up and up. Sorry about that. Notre Dame, close one to Miami. CJ Carr, you know, he seemingly had some moments where it's like he's a guy. The run-in touchdown obviously is crazy. The scramble all the way back to his own 30 or 40. Then the no-look throw for his first touchdown. I mean, this is filthy. Watch number eight. Just go ahead and jump. Yeah, I got you. And number two. No, yeah, we're going back that way. I mean, he just made the guy even more wide open.

1:13:43Pat McAfee:And those are throws that a lot of guys can miss, especially in their first start. Get a little nervous, the guy's wide open. And then he does the billionaire strut with the big ball dance. So I like what CJ Carr showed. Miami, obviously, all the way back in my eyes. I can't wait to watch them all season. I put out a tweet, D, but I don't know if it's all. I said, we're about 45 minutes away from the month of September starting. I've only seen four quarters of this Miami team. I believe in them. I do. I believe in them this year. Not that I didn't last year. So many miracles last year. So many miracles last year.

1:14:13Pat McAfee:And, you know, they were back for the first time, long time. But whenever their fans traveled out to Cal and I got a chance to see them before game day, the Mime fans were like, this is different. This is different. Chris the Ball's got his culture in. So now you get a new quarterback, get a new everything. Is Carson Beck going to be able to continue to lead them? Yeah, he is. And they're big, strong, and fast. And if Carson Beck can get them in and out of the huddle, Carson Beck can get everybody lined up on the offensive side, the defensive side is going to have dudes that can hunt, which they did.

1:14:37Pat McAfee:They decided to just end the game. You got guys making catches like that. Michael Irvin's losing his shit on the sideline. I think there was like 60-some thousand people at this game, 66 ,000 people at this game. It's like, is Miami back? Is the U back? And then Florida State's back? Florida's back? Florida State of Florida back? And college ball as a whole? Hey, we need it, especially our age group for me, being a South Florida kid, like that was the glory days for college football. U.N. being good, Florida State being good, and then the University of Florida being good. U.N. and Florida State beating two top ten teams opening week.

1:15:10That's huge. And then Florida doing their thing against Long Island University, I believe. You know, good start to their season. So, you know, they'll have a tough schedule. So, we'll see what they're about. But Lagwey still looks like the real deal. But, yeah, if these three teams can be good, which they look like they will be, that'll be huge for college football as a whole. And for these two new quarterbacks, you know, coming in new places, Carson Beck and Castellanos, like getting wins over top ten programs. That's huge. And everything that I heard that has been going on behind the scenes with Carson Beck, I grew up a Hurricanes fan, still a Canes fan.

1:15:41So everything I heard that he's done with his teammates and then how he clicked instantly with this OC where he has much more control at the line of scrimmage to get in and out of plays. Like as a player, I know even as a defender, we can kind of change and have adjustments to coverages, to bunches, to do. That just gives you so much more ownership over the defense or the offense as a player. So I love what I saw. Malachi Tony was unbelievable. He was electric from the jump, true freshman. T.Y. Hilton, S for sure. great, great players. So yeah, everything's looking good for UM right now and the state of Florida as a whole, which is big for college football as a whole, in my opinion.

1:16:16Pat McAfee:What are you saying, Gumpy? You're saying, yeah, let's keep watching the Hurricanes, not the Dolphins. It's a hurricane, hurricane, hurricane. Is that what's going on down there in South Florida, Gump? Yeah, it was nice to see the defense. That new DC we got from Minnesota was electric on the sidelines compared to what we had last year. Just that one bust at the end of the game. I would have liked they threw it a little bit more. They got way too conservative in the second half. I know the defense was playing well, but would have liked to see him kind of end it a little earlier. I don't like three straight runs there in the fourth quarter when you put the game away, especially when it's only a 47-yard field goal.

1:16:46Pat McAfee:If that's a 27-yard field goal, we got it. We understand. That kid makes the kick, obviously. Kind of puts them in a better spot than they could have been. But they did rest on their yawneys there. They rested on their yawneys a little bit, AJ. This is a huge ball here, though, opening night with a minute left in the fourth. 47-yarder for a guy that was 4 of 11 in the past at FAU. I think they were all very long kicks. I think he was sent out there for the long balls, so not high percentage kicks. But that graphic didn't say that. He said, this guy's come out here 11 times. He only made it four times.

1:17:16He had the pot snap earlier, too, so I know that has to be somewhere.

1:17:19Pat McAfee:And then the first extra point almost hits off the upright and goes in. I'm going to tell you what, Mario's a great recruiter. He's a great coach. But sometimes in that fourth quarter, he gets a little tight. He does need to get somebody in his ear that lets him know. That was the thing for Miami, too, that really pushed it over the edge for me was Mario Cristobal kind of talking about all the guys being back, like about how much more it means the Notre Dame rivalry for him. And then Andre Johnson was there. I think Clinton Portis was there. Ray Lewis. Yeah, Ray Lewis. Obviously, Michael Irvin, everyone saw.

1:17:48The amount of players that came back. If all that is happening, I mean, it reminds me of tonight with UNC. All these dudes are going to come back for all their home games and they're going to continue to go. Miami's a scene, dude.

1:17:59Pat McAfee:Yeah. There's a lot to do afterwards, too. And I think Carson Beck's doing all that. For sure. From the reactions I'm seeing with his teeth. Yeah, I hope so, too. That's quarterback shit. That literally is. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a college football analyst for ESPN now. Oh, wow. Really? Founder of Page State. Ladies and gentlemen, the host of Josh Page's college football show. From On3 Sports and Yahoo Sports, still a thing. Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Page. Hey, what up, dude? I watched what you watched last night. You just hit on, I think, the underrated storyline of college football the past decade.

1:18:31So you're talking about all these state of Florida teams. You sit next to Saban every Saturday. Last title he won was the 2020 year. You know he won that with a defensive backfield made up entirely of starters that they got from South Florida because none of the South Florida kids were staying home. Ohio State's roster has been littered with South Florida kids. Clemson, Georgia, they all go into Florida. Not because those kids are dying to get out of the state per se, but because for the past decade, Florida, FSU, Miami, combinations thereof have not been able to present a viable path to play for a title to those in-state kids.

1:19:07So you're right. If the wheel on that ship has started to turn a little bit, it's the biggest story in college football, not just because you may have two or three premier programs back. Think about what it does to pluck two or three premier players per recruiting cycle off the rosters of the other contenders because that's been the dynamic shift the last decade in the sport.

1:19:26Pat McAfee:Who was the name of the guy that had the aughts and thoughts and ended up on a cot, eating two hots in a cot? Nevin. Shapiro? Yeah, Nevin Shapiro. Is he back? Does Miami have money? Does Miami have the money to be able to keep up with everybody? Seemingly. I mean, they've paid a quarterback now back-to-back years, but do they have enough money to be able to keep up with the likes of the Big Ten? Dana White was on the sideline, too. Yeah, his daughter goes there. He just checked her in. He's become a Miami guy. Do we know that information about every team before we go into the year? Because it feels like that is the piece of information that we need as we project what the future looks like for all these parties?

1:19:59Yeah, so I'd say yes tentatively already to your question. Then I would say you've got just an utter assassin as your head coach who also happens to recruit 25 hours a day. But I've always thought of Miami kind of like I think of USC. Like if you ever were to get the forward momentum, you saw who was in the stands last night at that game. You know how deep their pockets are. You just got to convince these people that, hey, ball's moving. It's starting to roll downhill because then everyone wants to put their sticker on it. They won't all have the rub with it. It's just they happen to have deeper pockets there.

1:20:30So if you initiate Miami, which they've already got a lot of money, but if you really initiate South Florida behind the cause of Miami football, yeah, it's a runaway freight train. I'll tell you what, Florida boys are good at football.

1:20:42Pat McAfee:Yeah, they are. They certainly are. And everybody was really feasting on South Florida. I still think the big money schools will be able to, but if Cristobal can keep the boys home, I mean, why not? Norvell is able to just turn over a team and make them big, fast, and strong. And then Napier's got his culture set in Florida. Is Florida a good state of football game? Congratulations. It was must-change television whenever Florida was on. There for a while. Must become must-watch. Let's go to another top-ten school. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Peyton, another top-ten matchup we watched on Saturday night was LSU heading to Clemson.

1:21:15Did we get bamboozled by Clemson again? You know, all the returning production. did that make us forget that they haven't beat an actual good team in probably the last three or four years or is Ellis do you think LSU is a really really good football team both are probably true uh Tone let's let's be careful when we say we because I backed off a little bit the closer we got to the season you made a point though that it kind of extended itself into this LSU game so Clemson last year great year everyone thought they build on that this year and you returning starters, sometimes an overrated stat, by the way, if you return guys who have reached their ceiling, you're just banging your head against your ceiling again.

1:21:55So they faced three SEC teams last year. They go 0-3. They go 14-40 offensively on third down against them. They then go 3-12 on third down against LSU. So they're like 17-52 on third down against highest levels of competition they face. They can't scale up. They can't scale their competition level. So what we're probably looking at, just until I see otherwise, we're probably looking at a team that is absolutely capable of doing what they did last year, banging on the door of a playoff spot. Who knows? Maybe they win the ACC again. I'd be very careful of that trip down to Georgia Tech in two weeks, but I think they're capable of what they did last year.

1:22:31I just don't know that they're capable of anything more than that. Your eyes play tricks on you every summer. You open that preview magazine and you see X number of returning starters, and then you watch a quarterback coming back. Oh, he's got his same offensive coordinator, same system, same head coach, best receiver room they've had there in quite a while. All of those things are true. You convince yourself that means things just scale up another 20%. Sometimes you just are who you are. Ironically, he may have himself, Kate Klobnik, in the same mess that Nussmeier was in last year. Nussmeier was a good quarterback for LSU last year.

1:23:03He had no run game. And the other night, Clemson had no run game. And if that's the case, it's unfair to put those guys in a position to just expect them to mount up and shoulder the entire load. Nussmeyer threw 12 picks last year because they couldn't run the ball. Cade had a really good touchdown-to-INT ratio last year. This year, my instinct is if they can't run the ball any better than they did the other night, you're going to see him more turnover-prone, which will lead to is he a bust conversations. No, they're just putting him in an unwinnable position if that's the case.

1:23:32Pat McAfee:Yeah, desperation will lead you to throw the ball into double teams and shit like that is what I believe Josh Pate is talking about at this exact moment. They need to run the ball with Dabo. Did you see him? Yeah. Hey, he came out. Hey, that was one of the better hill runs. It was. I've seen. I mean, that thing was tucked in. The pants were up to the belly button. But he was, I mean, he was really strident. How old is Dabo? Can we look up how old this man is? 35. How old are those hip flexors? Chip, the hip flexor, his stride length is not shrunk. His stride length is still every bit the same as it was 10 years ago.

1:24:03And you know good and well he works on that.

1:24:05Pat McAfee:55 years old with those hamstrings? Those are 55-year-old hamstrings. He played. Yeah. 55 years old. You're not supposed to be full. I mean, you're talking yeet. He was striding out. Tom Cruise. Yeah, but even more forward lean. Whoa. Yeah, Tom Cruise has got to work on his base because he doesn't know where a bomb is. That's a good point. Dabo just knows that he's got to get to that 50 faster than anybody else. He's trying to catch up to the man in front of him or whatever the case is. So he's got a little bit more forward lean, especially because he's coming down that goddamn hill. That thing hits a little whoop-de-woo there, too.

1:24:33Pat McAfee:Oh, yeah. You know, that thing's like what's the place, Cedar Point in Ohio? That thing is like Cedar Point's best roller coaster. Now, it's not Kennywood. Really? I saw someone from Kennywood this weekend. Do they have some sort of event or something? Yeah, there's a ride outside, too. It's called Keep Your Head on a Swim. Oh, yeah. We like the booze and fight. Yeah, sorry. Welcome to Kennywood. They will if you booze and fight. They shut it down, actually. They shut down Kennywood 21-plus nights because there was six straight nights of fights. That lady's voice. Hurry up. Let's go. We get on a ride.

1:25:09So good. Inside jokes. I'm from rural Georgia. I know nothing about what you're talking about. It sounds great. It's just really poopy roller coaster. And there's a fight.

1:25:19Pat McAfee:It's an amusement park called Kennywood. Actually, here's the hat. Thank you. It's in Pittsburgh. It is the greatest amusement park in the country outside of Disney something. You know, so if it has Disney before, it ain't keeping up with it. But if you want to have a good time with the family, go to one of the day. You keep that family out of there at night. You keep that family out of there at night. I'm going to tell you that. Go ahead, AJ. Back to the paint. Sorry about it, Bo. Yeah, Josh. Obviously, everyone's talking about Arch Manning and how he performed against that Ohio State defense.

1:25:49What do you think of Arch's performance? How is he going to do the rest of the year? But also, the Ohio State defense and Matty Patricia, what he was able to do with some of these guys that have not played a ton of football so far at the college level. What do you make of Arch and what do you make of this defense Ohio State has? Yeah, I almost wish you asked the question in reverse, AJ, because a lot of people are leading with Arch. Arch is not the story here. Ohio State's defense is the story. I've got to be real with you. There were two instances this Saturday where I looked and I said, if you didn't know any better but you just knew the storylines, you wouldn't know which team is which.

1:26:19Bama FSU is one of those, which we can talk about whenever. But this one right here, like if I tell you one of these teams just won a title, then they're replacing both coordinators. huge chunk of their roster. That's an operation that is ripe to have a reality check, especially against a hungry team, equally as talented, still on a mission, got Arch Manning as your quarterback, and they stoned him. It made him so indecisive. I'm standing there on the field. It was one of those games where if you just watch the quarterback, don't even follow the ball. Don't even look at the secondary. Don't look at the line of scrimmage.

1:26:48You can tell he's got time to throw. Either he's missing wide open guys or there's a blanket over that Texas wide receiver core, mostly the latter instead of the former. I don't think they have the kind of speed at receiver they did last year. They can play that in the building all they want to and let it echo through the halls. They don't have the kind of speed they had in their wide receiver room last year. So they're going to have scheme guys open a little bit more. But there should have been something. Imagine this time last week, if we had Sark just like quad box him here and we said, hey, you're going to hold Ohio State to 14 in the shoe.

1:27:19Will you take that? He would have signed his name on whatever dotted line he could. And it wasn't enough. That was pretty surprising to me, dude. Ryan Day has gone from people questioning whether he's the guy for his own job like seven months ago to he's a genius. He was always the same guy. Nothing's changed about Ryan Day. He was always the same guy. It's just his Wikipedia page is different.

1:27:40Pat McAfee:He's thinner. He's in much better shape now. He's in much better shape now. Tighter clothes. We all saw it. We all know what we're talking about. But he is in such great shape right now. Pat, can we please, can we please, someone needs to air this out nationally. There is a big difference in hard nipple versus nipple ring. There's a big difference. That's not us. That's not us. We don't need to be doing that. Take it to the next one. You can go to somebody else and do that whole thing. We just know that he was jacked up. And how could you not be? He had chills. Yeah, big time. Yeah, like Dewey.

1:28:13Pat McAfee:Who also has slimmed down. Yeah, Dwayne Johnson looking very thin. He looks like he's becoming like an Iron Man type thing. He might be. Hey, Rock, whatever you're doing, you look great, Paul. Might be doing – might be working out together. You look good, maybe. You talked about the Alabama FSU game. You don't know who's who. That's a good time to talk about this. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Pate, how much do you think Kalen DeBoer needs to be worried about keeping his job this year? Right after the game, we saw that, you know, hey, his buyout's$70 million. Are we looking at, you know, hey, Alabama needs to go to the playoff this year or he's likely out?

1:28:45or how do you see this whole situation panning out? I don't know if it's that. I just don't know where we are with them. I mean, that's my national championship pick. You think Saturday was bad for Bama. Imagine picking them to win the title, and then that gets thrown in your face. I think the new reality of college football, okay, is for big-time programs, Bama, Ohio State, Georgia, et cetera, you're used to there being a really high floor. So, like, the worst case under Nick Saban ever was going to be nine wins. Kirby at Georgia, worst it could ever get. is like eight or nine wins. That's what you think.

1:29:17That's not the reality anymore. So you're driving down the interstate still, same interstate, but there's no guardrails. There's no median. It's just edge of a cliff both ways. Florida State found this out last year, by the way, where if a tire falls off, there's no limit to how bad it can get. Like you think Bama can't miss a bowl game. They absolutely could miss a bowl game or he could get the ship righted. But your question is, does he need to be worried about his job? Dude, he needs to be worried about the competitive character of his team. There's a big difference in, I mean, Arch Manning, a little inaccurate.

1:29:47Or your guys miss assignments. They drop balls. Like the fundamental competitive character being called into question, running backs, stoning your linebackers in basic run fits, can't shed that stuff, turning down blocks in some cases, dropping balls left and right, not because you just misjudged it, but because you maybe turned it down over the middle of the field. That's like non-negotiable stuff. That's stuff you took for granted under Nick Saban. It's stuff I take for granted, frankly, as a viewer from every major program. So that stuff, if it doesn't get corrected, I don't even know what the answer is.

1:30:21Like$70 million is not even a real number to me. That's monopoly money. I don't know what the answer there is. I just know that high floor is not in existence anymore. So there's no limit to how bad it can get if that stuff doesn't get corrected. You don't look down the road to Georgia. You don't look past this Saturday. I don't care if you're favored by five touchdowns. You don't look past the next opponent, and we've just been so accustomed to being able to do that with these big-time programs. I don't know that you can do that right now.

1:30:48Pat McAfee:Josh, I don't know if you saw, obviously, the pictures of Coach Saban's office and then Kalen's office, obviously drastically different. And then Kalen, the way he goes about doing stuff versus how Saban goes about doing stuff, multiple different ways of doing things. You know, like, there's a lot of that that had to happen. and following Coach Saban in Alabama would be like trying to follow Coach Corso on college game. That would be a very, very difficult task, I think, with all parties, let alone the fact Saban still lives there, still has an office in the building, and obviously is still very prevalent in college football world because he is great on television on college game day.

1:31:28Pat McAfee:So everything he's saying on college game day, Alabama fans are like, yep, that's what's being said hopefully to the boys. That's what's being said right now because that's what it has been. But what Kalen DeBoer is doing is trying to build his own legacy at Alabama. And he's going to be compared to this guy who is not a – this guy is out of some never-ever land. Yeah, 101. This guy, unbelievable competitive stamina and an incredible ability to lead, adapt, evolve, listen, let alone gut decisions just in the moment, being able to make a decision that nobody else – I'm going to, yeah, I'm changing quarterbacks, halftime national championship, actually.

1:32:06Pat McAfee:Bang. Putting another guy in here. Multiple times, I'm going to do that, actually. And then let alone who goes where, how he recruited. It's like Kalen had a very tall task of becoming an SEC coach to begin with. Okay? That's a tough, tough conference. From Washington coming in there. But then to follow the guy, actually. And then now he is the guy on TV for college football. Seemingly an impossible job. Is he going to be able to? He's had success. When he was a D3 coach, had success. Indiana had success. Washington has success. We assume he's going to win. But is that just, is that the right assumption, I guess, would be the question for you, who's kind of down in the middle of it all, down there in the South?

1:32:46I had the same assumption. I still think the dude's a stunt. Like, I think he's a winner. I mean, I've sat in that renovated office, and point blank asked him, taking over for a legend. Not the stuff you say on TV. Like, we're off the record, just shoot with me. That guy's got a lot of intensity. He's got the right mentality. The right mentality is this. In college football and sports for a long time, that thing you just said has existed. 99 percenters out there say, boy, you don't want to take over for a legend. Well, 99 percenters aren't qualified for the Alabama job anyway. So by default, you have to be a one percenter.

1:33:18You have to be different. You have to mentally be wired a little different. He is. The big secret in college football has always been, yeah, you don't want to take over for a legend because of the situation the legend left. Paterno at Penn State. Forget about the off-the-field stuff. Just him on the field. Yeah, he was a legendary coach, but the program had waned by the time he stepped away. So if you took the Penn State job, if you took FSU post-Bowden, you were taking sky-high expectations with a rebuild on your hands. Saban's last game at Alabama was a playoff game, so he left a pretty full cupboard.

1:33:50He left a really good situation. So guys like DeBoer look at it and say, well, I mean, forget about the expectations. Forget about people saying take over for a legend, this and that. I think I'm really good, too. And so I look in the mirror. I think if I'm given the right resources, I can build my own legacy. And I think, yeah, he may have taken a dive into the SEC waters and realized, boy, there's something beneath those shark fins. Like, yeah, there's a little something more to this conference than I thought there was. But more so than that, dude, Pat, if you're just getting out executed, if you're getting beat by three at the gun, that happened to Saban occasionally.

1:34:21It's not that. It's the non-negotiable stuff. He didn't have to question this at Washington. He didn't have to question toughness about his Washington teams. So that's what I wonder about. That's why it's such a mystery to me. I went and watched him scrimmage twice. I went and watched him in spring. I watched him a couple of weeks ago. I had no inclination that that FSU result was even possible. It was a baseball bat to my face. Maybe just a bad day.

1:34:44Pat McAfee:Rain was hard. Tom Segura, Burt Kreischer were out there shirtless. Maybe it was just a bad night. Maybe they just laid an egg on opening night. Maybe they just didn't have energy on opening night. Maybe they just didn't have maximum focus on opening night. Maybe that's just what it is. Maybe this is the one game. Breakfast ball. Yeah, breakfast ball. Maybe they need a breakfast ball. Should we give up on Alabama or no? No, I'm not going to give up on them. But look, hey, God gives us 11 more games. So if you're right, you'll see it. They got Wisconsin coming in. They go to Georgia in less than a month.

1:35:16So if that's just a one-off, which I have suspicions about, but let's just grant the floor to you. It is your show. If it's a one-off, we're going to find out really, really quickly.

1:35:26Pat McAfee:I don't think it's a one-off. I am just living in hypotheticals. I did not like what I saw either. And I don't think that's just something you can fix, which is why I say some things about some players in the NFL and people get mad at me for pointing out the obvious and then they say he still can change. It's like, I don't know. That feels like something that you either got or you don't. But if the team can flip the script after getting embarrassed by Florida State who might be all the way back, maybe Kalen DeBoer makes his own legacy, Donner. Maybe he's got a DeBoer Street, Donner. Maybe he's the goat, Donner.

1:35:57Pat McAfee:Da Boulevard? Yeah, maybe it is Da Boulevard. Right down, Kalen Da Boulevard right here. Yeah, that would be great. Kalen Da Boulevard. Boom. Yeah, that is a great street name. I mean, that would be fantastic. Let's go back to the Big Ten. You talk about the SEC, how there might be some things underneath the shark hills. You know, obviously in the South, very competitive for every recruit. A lot of recruits from the South. We understand that. The North has the national championships, and the North has a lot of money. Let's go to a school that seemingly has more than anybody could imagine or anybody actually gives them credit for.

1:36:26Pat McAfee:Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Josh, Penn State obviously feels like they're all in. Everyone's talking about them, everything they're doing, the resources, whatever, everything about it. Is James Franklin, is this the year he finds a way to go and win those big primetime matchups, I guess, that we've seen him kind of fall short in the past? It's the year he better do it. That's a weird kind of pressure, by the way. They're not going to fire him, though, Josh, right? No, that's what I'm saying. It's a totally different kind of pressure. There's the job security pressure, which is when you're fired. Then there's just flat-out competitive pressure of, I could be the Penn State coach for the next 30 years.

1:37:03I won't be able to win championships all those 30 years. This is a year I could win a championship, and I don't know when it's going to come around again. Maybe I'm wrong, man. Maybe they could do it every year, but I do view this as sort of a window year. Look, they're embracing it. They're all in on it. We went up there a couple of weeks ago. They are not shying away from that at all. They went and hit the portal for receivers, which, and I agree with them on this, they thought was the one missing link between them and being dynamic enough to make plays like Miami did last night. Just a few plays, 50-50 balls, turn into 70-30 balls.

1:37:33You win 23-17 on the road in Columbus one of these times. I think they have the pieces. They're smart, by the way. While all the rest of these folks had bullets flying left and right, they're up there playing Nevada, favored by five touchdowns. They got a couple of tune-ups. Then they got a bye week. Then they got Oregon coming in there. Got a preseason, boys. That's smart. That almost makes that. You got to win that game. It's the Ohio State game down the road, and you're going to go to the playoff no matter what. I have no idea how Penn State misses the playoff. But there's like two hurdles he's got to clear.

1:38:03One of them is winning those big games. The other one is at least getting to the national title game. And at that point, you got to win it. I don't know. But, yeah, I do think they got the mixture of talent to do it.

1:38:14Pat McAfee:I like Drew Allard bouncing back and playing well instead of crumbling. You know? Like, that sucks that that's how his season ended last year. In the biggest moment. A lot of eyes. I forget what the ratings were, but it was at least 13, 14 million people. Huge. Watching him throw a terrible ball pick. Yeah. This thing's over. That game, probably. Yeah. I mean, that is – they should have won that. I mean – and then he's got to sit all offseason up there in Penn State. Walking around, going to class. Oh, there's a big, tall dipshit at Lacoste. You blew it. Thanks, buddy. You working on your slant?

1:38:42Pat McAfee:He's trying to go out and have a drink in one of these restaurants. All these restaurants are right on top of each other, obviously. happy valley very you know kind of a smaller area he gets out just gets done having a little bit maybe a saiba or something like that hey why don't you stop eating and go practice throwing football that's happening every day of his life afterwards as somebody can speak kind of from experience and it's like which way do you go it's like if he steps up that's huge there's a quarterback though for south carolina that every football team in america is looking to get to him i saw a lot of nfl teams pulling for him i also saw some xfl teams pulling for him i think even some G1 teams we're trying to get here to potentially lead the way.

1:39:17Pat McAfee:Go ahead, Conrad. Yeah, Josh, and I can't believe you just did the whole F1 thing. That is not a real sport. We're never talking about it again. Don't be disrespectful. Josh. Who won? Who won? Oscar Pia. No one cares! Josh, let's talk about football! Josh, hey, Josh, Josh, Josh, just me and you here, brother. Lenore Sellers, okay, on Sunday, kind of let off the entire game against Virginia Tech. They walk right down. He looks massive. He looks fast, and he threw the ball about 100 yards to Nick Harbour in the air. Why shouldn't I believe that Lenora Sellers is going to win the Heisman, and why isn't South Carolina being talked about as one of these teams that is going to compete for a national championship?

1:39:57I know they're definitely being talked about as a playoff team, but when we're talking those top four teams, do you see South Carolina making that run this year? Yeah, they can. I mean, that's just foreign language. People have this preconceived notion in their mind. And frankly, about a lot of programs that they need to reprogram because the sport has changed. And so when you get an alien as your quarterback, you got another one out wide, by the way. When your fastest player on the field is 6 '5", 235, and spells his name Nick with a Y, you just need to pay attention to him. So that guy has learned to catch the football now, which is so funny.

1:40:30You asked the key about Nick Harvard, wide receiver. What does he need to learn to do, dude? If he can learn to catch, man, he's going to be nasty. Well, he can learn to catch. All-American track. Yeah, you got Lenore Sellers, who I know a lot of people are doing the NFL draft talk. Like, I stick to college football. I think he could be the best player in college football. They may have the best offensive and defensive players, respectively, in the SEC. This is not Alabama or Georgia. This is the University of South Carolina that we're talking about. And they knew they had him. My only question throughout spring is, why didn't they go attack the portal at wide receiver more?

1:41:02Like, who do they have behind Harvard? So to answer your question, the thing that would keep him from winning the Heisman is supporting Cass. But the deeper we got into fall camp, all these people from South Carolina, they kept telling me, watch out now, our wide receiver room is underrated. Week one, I don't necessarily know that I saw that, but that's okay. It's week one. If even a fraction of what they said is true and that dude just is who he is, you're looking at probably the Heisman Trophy winner this year. And if that's the case, you've got a ceiling on South Carolina that's way up here off the screen somewhere.

1:41:32where someone's going to have to deal with them. If they don't win it, someone has to have beaten them. And it's just crazy we're talking about South Carolina like this. They haven't hit their ceiling, by the way. That was a week one version of them. So there's probably still some upward mobility with them as well, and that's a place that's gotten told forever. Those are players that got told, we don't quite have room for you here, so go to option B. Like South Carolina was an option B for some of these guys. Those defensive guys that went in the draft last year, those weren't all former five-star top ten guys.

1:42:02Those were other teams' backup options that Shane Beamer and his staff took, developed them, pumped them to the NFL, and now, lo and behold, they've backfilled, which you're not supposed to be able to do at South Carolina, and they shut a fairly good, desperate ACC team down week one. So now they dive into conference play. And now that's just another of those teams, stack of pancakes, of these teams in the SEC. They may not be elite, but they're really good and they're tough outs.

1:42:26Pat McAfee:Yeah, and all we're going to hear is you SEC people talk about, Oh, you're telling me, South Carolina, our sixth-best team couldn't beat the sixth-best team in the Big Ten? Is that what you're saying? Why don't you come on down here and play Stoops at Kentucky at night? We'll go to Northwestern, one of these games, and then you guys come down here to Kentucky one night. That's what we'll do. We'll play a fun little game, and that'll happen all year. But the South Carolina team, remember, end of the year, they had a little bit of a gripe to get into the playoffs. And instead of making big noise, Shane Beaver said we're just focused on our bowl game.

1:42:56Pat McAfee:They had everybody play in the bowl game. It wasn't like they weren't going to play. Shane Beamer, we showed that the punt return there. It's like they're always going to play Beamer ball in all three phases, which you can steal a win in college ball, or you can lose a game in college ball through special teams. And it's like they're going to be locked in there because they have so many great athletes. And the state of South Carolina creates some freaks whenever you talk about athletic ability. So if Shane Beamer can become the school of the Carolinas, especially down there in front of a great fan base.

1:43:27Pat McAfee:When we were down there, I mean, it's hot as shit. It is thick down there. It is very thick down there. Football town, though. But it is a football. Cocton is a football town down there. I hope they're able to pull it off. That moment between Shane and Frank afterwards was beautiful. All right, let's talk about tonight's game. Obviously, week one wraps up in Chapel. Bill, go ahead, D-Budge. Yeah, go up to North Carolina. I expect, you know, Bill Belichick's team to be prepared. What I don't know is who these players are. I know 70 new players, but what are the expectations for this roster? And can you tell me something about some of these players on this Chapel Bill roster?

1:44:03And we'll see, Don, that baby blue tonight. All right, everyone check in here. This is your North Carolina breakdown. Okay. I got no clue. I have no clue who any of them are.

1:44:15Pat McAfee:I'm not sure. This guy's new to ESPN. This is not what he's normally like. He normally has all the answers. I know. It's pretty safe. I want people to know that that are watching for the first time maybe. Not a lot of people may be seeing Josh Pate for the first time. As you've seen thus far, has all the answers. Very well versed in all things college ball. Now, when this pops up here, one of the biggest conversations of the week one season. Only game tonight. Only one on Monday Night Football here. That's it. Okay? He says, let me tell you, I got nothing. I don't think anybody does, though, Josh.

1:44:43Pat McAfee:Isn't that kind of a thing? Look, if I flash-carded that roster in front of that coaching staff, do you think even they're just passing off all those names? Absolutely not. TCU is one of however many teams are in the Big 12. Every one of them thinks they can win that league. TCU is one of them. They're one of these teams that, you know, like the sneaky better types out there that are getting down legit money in May on team totals. They were big on TCU. And most people don't know anything about them either. I happen to know a little more about TCU. It's a perfect stage for them. It's going to be all about Bill Belichick, all about North Carolina.

1:45:16This is the one shot that a Big 12 team gets on a real, real premier eyes of the world stage on it. And North Carolina is such an enigma. But yet, I watched Matt Patricia do what he did the other night. So it's not like I'm sitting here dumb enough to say, oh, I don't know Belichick. I don't know if he can coach these college kids. I just don't know the caliber kid he has. Patricia's got freaks everywhere. I don't know that Bill Belichick necessarily is dealing with that in year one at North Carolina.

1:45:40Pat McAfee:All right. Well, we'll watch tonight. Part of the kickoff show. Can't wait to get down there. We'll all find out. We will all find out. And we will judge accordingly. Is Ernie down there? What? I don't know. I hope so. Night one, Ernie will be downer. He'll be downer. He'll be downer. I think Lombardi and Ernie both on headset. Yeah, for sure. Up in a booth. It'll be good to see that. In a blimp, maybe. Hey, did you see that cow kid? He's the one. Sagapolitele? It's tough to pronounce. Sagapolitele? Yeah, it's tough for me. He's good, though. What do you mean it's tough for you? Good? They all keep saying the cow kid.

1:46:16And I kept saying, no, if you're so high on him, say his name. No, no, no, no, no, no. Just the cow kid. That's all you need to know. This cow kid's dominating. Yeah, he was the talk of the late night. He was the talk of the late night for sure.

1:46:27Pat McAfee:Very late night. He wasn't the only one. Did you see Dampier for Utah too? He won for 19 rushing touchdowns last year in New Mexico. Y 'all are doing – are y 'all going to Oklahoma Saturday, right? Yes, sir. Okay, so that was the talk. Like you get Mateer and you get his offensive coordinator and you package them up. Utah did the same thing. It was just they went to New Mexico and got the coordinator and the quarterback combo, and no one really paid attention to it. Utah looks like the best team in the Big 12. Like, they went out there and just balled out. Everyone saw Whittingham lose one year, and they said, oh, he's done.

1:46:58Ride his Harley off into the sunset. Maybe he'll retire. And he's like, no, I think I'm going to stick with it a few more years. I don't really feel like retiring yet. I'm going to go get a coordinator and a quarterback from New Mexico, and I'm going to be right back in the picture. And they are.

1:47:10Pat McAfee:Yeah, I mean, they're in West Virginia's conference, you know, And Arizona State, obviously, has got to do what they've got to do. And let's not even talk about the Cougs, which are right down the road. That's going to be quite a battle. But he was awesome to watch. Where to start the incarnate word, right? Didn't their OC and quarterback get hired first? Yeah, and then I believe where did they go? Was that Washington State with Cam? Went to Washington State, and then, yeah, they went down there. And then last year with Diego Pavia, that worked out really well for Vandy. It's happened – did UTSA bring someone up to Oregon, too?

1:47:40It's NIL, but for the OC as well.

1:47:42Pat McAfee:It's genius. Yes. Yeah, it looks like you've done a pretty good job, Donner. Congratulations. Welcome to the big leagues. Come on up here. It's like what the Knicks were doing to everybody else in the NBA, but happening in big-time college ball versus small-time college teams. You've got to watch yourself. You can't even develop your coordinators too good. I know. They'll be gone. I love it. You can't let them talk. It's the best move in college football right now. Yeah, these things like to gossip. Yeah, these things like to gossip. These things like to hang out. You can't let them hang out. You've got to keep them isolated in their caves.

1:48:09Yeah, yeah, keep them away from each other. Keep them in their caves.

1:48:11Pat McAfee:They'll start talking and they'll leave you together. All right, Josh, we appreciate you, man. Congrats on the ESPN shit. More of the world needs to see you. You're good at what you do and you obviously love balls, so we appreciate that. You know I appreciate you, man. Anytime, I appreciate you having me. Ladies and gentlemen, Josh Payne. Hey, Chicago.

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1:49:32Pat McAfee:If I was a flashcard, that rostered to those coaches. You think I'd get it right? That's a great call. That's a great call. Bill Belichick just calling numbers. He's number... They didn't even have numbers. Yeah, right. I don't know. Shit, he was wearing a different... That had to be something. Was that in that article, that eight-scroller? I don't know. There wasn't much about that, no. Connor, what do you have to say here about Jose Cuervo? To be completely honest with you, I drank Jose Cuervo all weekend. It was the greatest thing ever, and I didn't even get hungover. Well, Devil's Reserve is the perfect drink for when mischief is on me.

1:50:04Pat McAfee:Amen. man. It's time to listen to a little devil on your shoulder. Pour around shots. Get ready to raise a little hell. Stats and Ben. Let's go. This is my first time. This is my first time. I feel like Ron Burgundy right now. He'll read anything on the top. Remember, you must be 21 years and over. Please drink responsibly. So I say Cuervo Cuervo Devil's Reserve. A sweet tropical spicy infused tequila that is smooth and devilishly good. Devil's Reserve. Go to your local liquor store. Go to Cuervo.com to purchase your own bottle of Mischief. Okay. I'll tell you what, they're sweet. Bottle of Mischief.

1:50:49They're tropical. Raising hell. I was going to say, that's an interesting way to go about that, but I like it. Serving in Kennywood. What's that? It's probably what they're serving in Kennywood. Sweet, tropical, and that last one's spicy.

1:51:02Pat McAfee:Kennywood was a little spicy late night. I don't know if you saw that. It's all over X. You just go ahead and type Kennywood and then it'll pop up. A lot of Yenzers letting each other know that they weren't happy about the disrespect that you certainly showed while we're on a ride for the fucking race. I hope this doesn't ruin Fright Nights because I'll be so mad. Yeah. You went last year, right? I go every year. Really? What's your favorite part? I go for my daughter's birthday every year. Cool. You guys drive over there for it? Mm-hmm. On like Friday or Saturday? It's in two weeks. Well, it's actually about to be potentially a direct flight.

1:51:33Pat McAfee:Is that right? Yeah. If we do recall. Yeah, I'm more worried about the one in Nashville. Huh? Says who? Just know we know people. I've been praying for that for so long. We know people. Ladies and gentlemen, we didn't get to it earlier, but we got to get to it. We watched all the games. You watched all the games this weekend, H? We tried to. Yep. Oh, yeah. Watch all the world. Everything's going on in the world. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, we tried to. We tried to watch it all. And we gathered up what we thought would be the greatest. geez louise moment of the weekend because we don't want to you know just kind of handcuff ourselves to just one moment correct so if there's more than one moment we'll do the moment but if not we'll just do the geez louise moment of the weekend ladies and gentlemen stop right in you might have seen it new mexico guard richard pierce they call him dick pierce running away after starting a little bit of a brawl with Michigan.

1:52:31Pat McAfee:You see him in the middle of a ball. They're 78. A little late push after they push him back. He goes, whoa, whoa, whoa. I ain't doing that. I ain't doing that. I ain't doing that. Stumbles, falls all over his face. Gets the hell out of there. I appreciate it. He said, I'm going to fight. I'm fighting. I did one cheap shot after the play. I'm not doing all the other stuff. AJ, how do you feel about Richard Pearson? Do you think the next play, or maybe the next play after that, or another time down the road today, earhole this guy? How would you have reacted here? Yeah, I'm sure they tried. I mean, this is nice.

1:52:57you always get the flag when you retaliate. So if you're the first person and then you let them retaliate, hopefully they get the flag. And then when he turns and runs, that's the best. I've never seen one turn their back on a ground. Hey, not a bad hip flip. No, not at all. Not a bad hip flip. Dee Bunch, your thoughts here? I mean, he got to pick him up and put him down a little bit. He almost stumbled. But, I mean, if you're going to do it, stand in there and take the push. You know, get the penalty. You know, if you're going to be on the – He spun his wheels a bit too when he turned around to go.

1:53:23Pat McAfee:Did you hear what he said as he turned around? and he said, geez. Let's go to the next one here. Brian Kelly did a back bump and a full roll getting trucked by a ref. Smacks his head off the ground, loses his headset. Wants to chew out the ref, then he quickly realizes he's in the wrong. I'm not supposed to be standing in white. Ref not throwing a flag on him. Very cool of the ref. I think the ref saw Brian Kelly's face tumbling around and said, he's suffered enough. We don't need to give another 15. Our source says that Brian Kelly went in for an MRI this morning. Real talk. Real source. T's and P's to Brian Kelly.

1:54:01Pat McAfee:Congrats on the win. We hope you're okay. In our last J's Louise of the weekend comes from a duck. A mascot. Montana State taking on Oregon before he even gets on the air. Oregon duck face plants. Loses his head. And everybody loses their shit. Now, there was an alternate angle from the backside here. What do you think? Work? It's closed. I don't think it's a work. He cares too much. Full panic afterwards. We hope he's okay. Some would say it's a bad omen. The Oregon Ducks football team didn't even know what happened. Nope. Steamrolled. Why did they not have a clip to that thing? And that's all you would think they would.

1:54:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, seems like maybe it was. Nope. Jeez, Louise. Moment of the weekend. We continue on digital, but not for long, because we've got to hit the road to get down to North Carolina. Have a great, happy, and happy Labor Day. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice might change your life. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Yeah, we've got to get down to Chapel Hill pretty soon. Chapel Bill, if you will. You have Michael Jordan on the show? He's going to be on ESPN tonight, I guess. That's a really good idea, AJ. We get to watch In the Box with Lombo, right? Yeah. Do we get a headset? I don't know.

1:55:14Pat McAfee:That's what I'm thinking, right? I'm wondering. I'm assuming you guys might get a couple. Hey, let's try the 70 power here. We're calling plays. I'm thinking you're going to. Remember, this is a Belichick coach team. He's tattooed on your arm still. I know. Remember? When I got this tattoo, there's a lot of different things about Bill that are true today. But again, I do think to your point. That's pretty sweet, tropical, and spicy of you to say. Amen. And the times with Bill were sweet, tropical, and spicy, baby. But, no, I do think there is a massive chance that, you know, this running mobile quarterback Bill's got.

1:55:50Lopez? They're going to be doing some crazy shit with this fucking guy because Bill's always wanted a mobile quarterback.

1:55:55Pat McAfee:Yeah, I mean, they had Cam Newton. A lot of people were saying we're watching back what he did with Cam. Cam, I think, would even admit that wasn't the fullest super Cam. Cam was a Superman on the field, dude. I watched some of these guys, and obviously everybody wants to compare everybody to Josh Allen, as you should. Josh Allen, unbelievable football player as well. Cam Newton was just, he was a defensive end. Not Josh Allen, he isn't very tall and very athletic and very strong and everything like that. Cam Newton was a D end, clearly. His body was made to be a defensive end. And he just so happened to also be the fastest defensive end that was ever.

1:56:27Pat McAfee:And it's just, oh yeah, he can dissect the defense. And he has a work ethic. And he's a phenomenal leader. And it's like, me and Vinatieri, he walked by preseason, I think it was preseason or early in season. He walked by his rookie year, and we both just said, if that fucking guy could figure it out football. We are done. He's one of those guys. We are absolutely done. And he did. He did figure it out. He's one of those guys that's a big guy that, when he stands next to other big guys, looks bigger than those big guys. Yep. Yeah, people are talking about him like he's not who he is right now, though, too.

1:56:56Pat McAfee:There's a lot of things being said about Cam, and it's like. He's kind of won an MVP. You ever seen him in real life, too? I don't think he'd be saying as much as you're saying right now. Everybody's doing this to Cam Newton. He gets you, too. We've seen it at the camps. Yeah, it's not scary to throw down a little bit. He's about it. Sellers, that was your big thing with Sellers. Sellers looks huge. Huge. If you're huge, I think that's why I like Drew Aller so much. Drew Aller, Will Howard. That's why I like Will Howard so much, especially whenever you're talking about going from college to the NFL.

1:57:22Pat McAfee:Like, I think you have to be big. Drew Brees, I understand. Hey, Kyler Murray, these are anomalies. We're part two. Yeah, these are incredible, incredible athletes and players and everything like that. but if you're big you can see first of all which is a fucking pretty big massive thing but you can also absorb more and you're gonna get hit like in the nfl unless you're peyton eli tom who had an incredible ability to hey you know literally just going out nope which not a lot of guys these days are ever going to do because the mobile quarterback is such a thing it's like yeah what cam was was special, man.

1:58:00Pat McAfee:He was special. That's a great point about the NFL now, though. We don't get any more of the cool, like, ball snapped, D-end wins, quarterback instead of throwing it away or trying to run away, just goes down into a ball like that. It literally looked like they were screaming. Yeah. That error's done. Johnny Hecker had one of those. The punter. I forget who. He pushed somebody. He was punting. He was jogging back the field. Then he pushed somebody that person came running back and he yeah the full you can hear through oh yeah i was like man i would have done the same thing i wouldn't i mean you chose to push yeah you set that up there i don't know if that would have been the play and as soon as you push that guy eyes are not leaving him no yeah no like that is that is not it was my favorite favor yeah okay pretty good pretty strong yeah and uh all right let's go wrap up college football tonight aj congrats to your buckeyes dude that was cool scene over there it was a i it was great atmosphere i don't know how you felt but yeah like it was it was awesome the lee corso thing like i'm glad it worked out how it did i really yeah i didn't know how well it would shout to the production crew that built a second desk and then also on wheels moved it and had the tech work think of the pressure there on them like if you think about the pressure to move the whole set and then to get it all to work too like there is no time to wait well then your band as soon as that corso um tribute is over they're doing the script ohio and it's like they literally have no idea what's happening on earth other than what's two inches in front of their face they are just watching each other and the only reason why i know that is because they were like kind of kind of if you had to go up a hill on a bicycle which you do like kind of back and back and forth i guess to kind of do this and they're making their way to us and coach corso was getting off the stage at the time and i'm like holy shit like this is a because they said immediately afterwards the band's coming and they need the whole field you guys got a little bit of time but you need to get out of the way that was like a big message uh as we're leaving a production meeting and then as we're getting off everybody's because it was so cool what a moment oh taking pictures that the lady getting off the stage at the lady getting off the stage so now we had a short amount of time it got shortened even more by the fuckery of everybody being so happy that it worked and then I get off and I see that band coming and I see Coach Corso literally just like kind of starting to get off the stage.

2:00:24Pat McAfee:I'm like, holy fuck, how's this going to work? Is the Tobito going to stop? No. What we learned about band members this weekend, they get out of their way. They got somewhere to get out of their way. Coach, you too. Get out of your way. Get out of your way. The band's a real deal. West Virginia has a good band. I'll never forget I was flying back from the Fiesta Bowl. Because you get a... I forget the amount of money you get per mile if you drove. We played in Arizona, so I drove back home, of course. It's a good gimmick. It's a great gimmick. Holy fuck. Yeah. That sucks. No. You take the money and you buy a plane ticket.

2:01:06Pat McAfee:The cheapest plane ticket. Wake up. And you fly back. Yeah. So you get like$1 ,800. You pay a$300 ticket,$250 ticket. Now all of a sudden, we got$1 ,500 extra. I get the game now. Yeah, we're going downtown. Yeah, that was the game. Okay. Yeah, we're driving back. They're going to pay us for every single mile. I have fewer planes, whatever the fuck it is. Who knows? And I get on the plane, and I'm in the back, and I look like a standard white, you know, just pretty casual standard. I think at that time, a lot of people knew they wanted to kill me, but not everybody kind of knew me at that time.

2:01:32Pat McAfee:And I'm sitting next to a West Virginia fan, and there's a couple of football players scattered. I mean, we all kind of did the game, you know. And I asked the lady, I said, were you out here for the Fiesta Bowl? And she goes, yeah. I go, well, how'd it go? You know? and she was like the band did amazing uh the band crushed it and then she said and the team won so that was good and i was like that's awesome okay like i obviously uh family member of band player and it was like literally go to the game how'd the band do it fucking murdered it halftime no flubs kept it moving crushed it and i was like that was really cool to hear because i think you do and you should uh think of that of like every performance should be our greatest and we should steal the show and i think there's some bands you watch it's like these motherfuckers are it's like the tomato is definitely everybody's locked in it's no doubt about it big production them spelling out corso straight in this i mean it's like the amount of the amount of this shit that they're doing they used to practice um i think it was plum high school they did on a soccer field they practiced on a soccer field yeah and it just became trenches because they're like i think our entire practice field just got ruined ruined just completely ruined and it was like we didn't think this through i guess because they were practicing on a parking lot it was too hot so they gave him a practice field to march on and by like a weekend it was just fucking literally just paths we don't even have we have a cornfield here basically we should put some seat because of how like militant they eventually were able to practice in the football field oh you guys were kicking them off huh that's why i came we had practice i don't know what to tell you we did too we were running over you know i mean the ball's rolling on the The ball's rolling on the ground.

2:03:11Pat McAfee:Speed bumps. It's like, oh, shit. Are they fucking drawing a goddamn horse here? You know, it was a whole... It was pretty impressive. That was his high school. So I got respect for the band. Also, if they're going to throw some rights. Mm-hmm. I like that. Need more of that. I like if we're fighting out there. All right, let's get down to UNC. Let's wrap up week one. I think Reese Davis and Herb Schroeder are on the call? Yep. Nice. That would be a good call.

2:03:38Pat McAfee:me i think saving gonna be down there dad's gonna be down there got all those race i wonder who's hosting yeah i don't know is the other guy gonna be there i assume he better be i'll be on the other channel hey we facetime him real quick will you facetime steve the other guy here i'll face down just see what i'm walking into down here at least hey who's all down here steve outer guy hosting he better have a unc polo on if he don't. We're live. We're live. We're live. You're live? I was just watching you. Yeah, we're live. We're still live. People are watching, not on ESPN2 anymore. Are you down in North Carolina or no?

2:04:18Yeah, I'm down here. I'll see you tonight, buddy.

2:04:20Pat McAfee:Who's hosting? Is Reese hosting? How's that doing? Are you hosting? I was going to host, but I think Matt Berry's here. Okay, okay. Sick, sick, sick. All right, I'll see you down there in a little bit. I'm about to hop on a plane. All six teams that play in those top ten matchups are still going to make the playoff. Love it. Hey, the winners and the other guys. Boom. All right, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. All right, sick. Okay, cool. Matt Berry. There you go. Oh, I cannot wait. Other guy would have been great, though. Yeah. I mean, Matt Berry, this is my first time working live with Matt Berry, right?

2:04:51Yes.

2:04:51Pat McAfee:I think so. I know a lot about Matt Berry. I watch him in the TGL. Yeah, TGL. Oh, have you seen the European team? The Ryder Cup? Their ass. Thanks. They are, but I just want to know if you've seen them. Are they good? They got a pretty good squad. They got a pretty good squad, yeah. Yeah, but they left off the guy that cares the most. You see the guy on the DP World Tour giving an interview? I think his name is, I want to say Matt Wallace. And he gave an interview, and I don't think I've ever seen someone that emotional about not making an interview. William Wallace's boy is going to have energy.

2:05:22Pat McAfee:Exactly. Yeah, I mean, that is certainly going to be a thing. After watching the interview, I thought, oh, okay, so USA's going to win because they left this fucking guy off the team. Boom. And this fucking guy wants to win more than anybody. You saw the European team and got a little nervous? No, I didn't get nervous. It was just, you know, just saw the names of the players. The Zoom calls, that was funny to see. They're a deep team, yeah. Their team on the Zoom call and our team. Which team did you like more? Our team had their game faces on, so I'll go. The Europeans are much more entertaining.

2:05:50Pat McAfee:Which is why they called us up for World War I and II. Yeah, and also, I assume their continent togetherness isn't as good as the countries. No doubt. You know, they just feel like they're taking on us. we feel like we're fighting the world. No one says for God and continent. Boom! God and country, brother. Be a friend, tell a friend, something nice might change your life. We're in this thing together. We're heading down to North Carolina. Should be a blast. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Team! Goodbye! Close your eyes. Exhale. Feel your body relax. And let go of whatever you're carrying today.

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