PMS 2.0 1403 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL Week 1 Recap, MNF Preview, Adam Schefter, Colts QB Daniel Jones, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

20:06Pat McAfee:And you saw Pittman Jr. do his thing, Downs do his thing, Tyler Warren do his thing, big Mo Alley-Cock. Pierce. I mean, Pierce is doing his thing. I mean, there is – we got a team. Got a squad. We got a team. Like our guys. And shout-out to Bossman, you know. Certainly pushing the Pacers on a little bit of a run. Yep. And I'll tell you what, if Jim Irsay is going to be doing a little bit of run for his Indianapolis Colts, we'll certainly enjoy the ride, brother, one last time. It was a fun day celebrating the boss. A lot of alum came back into town. Saturday night there was a gathering as well.

20:37Pat McAfee:It was a perfect weekend here in Indianapolis for the Colts, and the team looks damn good for real, Connell. Well, that's the thing is that it was just justifying watching the entire thing because it was domination. You know, we talked about some of the games earlier, like the Packers, they dominated the Lions start to finish. The Colts are one of those teams who dominated week one, the Dolphins, from start to finish. And when you just look at all of those weapons that you just mentioned, this is why living in Indianapolis and watching this team has been such a nightmare for the past five years because this wasn't the first time they've been out on the field with all these great players, all these great receivers, all these great players on defense, and performed well.

21:15That's why it has stunk because we've seen the potential. You see A.D. Mitchell, Pierce Downs, Tyler Warren now, Pittman. All those dudes have been there, minus Warren, and they haven't had a quarterback like Dan Jones. They haven't had an O-line play that well like they did yesterday. It was just a big time like, okay. So we haven't been watching or talking about the Colts like absolute idiots. They have been this good. They just needed a quarterback to come in, and Danny Downs is the guy.

21:41Adam Schefter:A lot of pressure on them too. Yeah, a lot on the Colts as a whole. On Dan Jones specifically because you come in and you have a very publicized quarterback battle. We know what he did in New York and what that was. So it's a lot of pressure for him to come in and, okay, now it's obvious that he won this job. When I reached out to people in the building once he was named the starter, nobody was surprised, and now you see why. And then the game plan. You'll see it more in the conversation with them, but it was pass, pass, pass, pass, pass out of the gate, and I definitely didn't expect that. But, yeah, he showed up, and then his defense, Luana Romo, been in a new spot with a bunch of new pieces.

22:16Adam Schefter:They were seven minutes away from a shutout. So, yeah, all things are clicking right now for the Colts.

22:21Pat McAfee:Indiana Jones and the Dimes dive, brother. We're about to have a run over here. And Tyler Warren ain't from here. No. He is gigantic. Add him to the list. And I think he might have the head, the skull. Like, AJ has one of these ones. Just a super thick, massive, massive head. Like a cannonball. It is like a cannonball. Yeah. It would have to be to survive that hit we saw at Penn State. Correct, yes. The way his head snapped off that. It's the most violent thing I've ever seen in person. Just complete firing. And they just, oh, shit. He's got a handoff on the next play. Yeah, this hater. I mean, he is awesome.

22:59Pat McAfee:And we got OGs that are good. But you're right. It was kind of like justifying. Just like, thank goodness what we've been seeing and talking about isn't just us. Well, and Chris Ballard's probably thinking the same thing. Yeah, oh, my God. Thank Jesus Christ. I thought we've had a good team for a while. Okay, quickly, D, but you heard the top five there. Anything we missed that people definitely need to know about?

23:17Adam Schefter:Oh, speaking of violence, I saw some violent yesterday. Out there with the Rams, Puka Nakul, an absolute dog, friend of the program, took a nasty, nasty hit from that nasty Houston-Texas defense. But guess what? He didn't cry. He didn't pop. He went back to the locker room, showed his quarterback, all right, go patch that shit up and get back out here. He needs your 12. And he came back out, and he showed up, and they got a big-time win, a tough opponent. Look, week one, it's all about getting a win, regardless of how ugly, how pretty it is. You want to get that win. But it's not just about offense.

23:47Adam Schefter:That defense. Shula got the boys still hunting. Landman had a huge, huge punch out. But this is the cover. What's his name? Durant right here with this nasty interception on the sideline. Just nasty. Had to replay it to make sure it was an interception like they do all turnovers. That guy's name is Landman? No, no. This is Durant. This is Landman right here. Yes. And this punch out is phenomenal. The peanut punch. Marlon Humphrey. All these guys have made it famous. not even going in thinking about a tackle, just going in with an actual laser missile on that punch out. Unbelievable turnover. Rams found a gritty, gritty win.

24:20Adam Schefter:And the recovery. I mean, the recovery is just as nasty and as athletic as the punch out. This was one great, great game. Another great game down there in the NFC South. We didn't talk about the Tampa Bay Bucs in the Atlanta Falcons. Who is Landman? Hold on. Landman. That is a sick name. Is his first name like Rock Landman? I will never say his first name. Punching, land to bond. Slam man. Boom. Land man, land man. Land man, land man. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, sorry.

24:48Pat McAfee:That's a great name.

24:49Adam Schefter:Something else you definitely got to talk about. It was a great game down there, NFC South. They always have bangers week in and week out. But Michael Penix Jr., first of all, the Falcons made the right decision. They made the right draft choice. And the Falcons are going to be all right. It's a big-time throw in the fourth quarter to get his team in a position to come down and possibly win this game. The rear of McLeod had two phenomenal diving plays. This one was a fourth down scramble to the left where he dove and got the first down and made it a go-to-go situation. Unbelievable athleticism here.

25:18Adam Schefter:We know what he can do throwing the ball, but this is just showing off his athleticism. And it didn't stop there. He had another one here, another one fourth and goal where he had to stretch out, keep all his lower extremities off the ground, and get the ball to break that plane to get this game closed. But, Bate, it started off a little shaky. Atlanta looked better on defense as well, but they got a superstar, a budding superstar over there, wide receiver Ibuka. And we saw him during the whole Ohio State run. He's always kind of the guy not talked about, but he always shows up in the biggest moments.

25:48Adam Schefter:This was an absolutely nasty throw, a seed, and a great throw. And then a great throw and catch here to basically go up and win the game, just big-time, big-time play. I think he will become that wide receiver one. We know Mike Evans, he'll be a first ballot Hall of Famer, or should be. Chris Gottwin will get back in the fold at some point. We got Irvin, we got all these other pieces. But Ibuka, you will not be able to deny him. He'll get open. He'll make big-time plays week in and week out.

26:12Pat McAfee:And he's going to be nothing but a perfect teammate down there. Yep. For sure. You know, Marvin Harrison Jr. was the big conversation at Ohio State whenever he was there. Then Jeremiah Smith was the big conversation whenever he was there. And what did he do? Oh, just be the second leading receiver every single year. Yep. He's not as the one. So he won't get into shit. Seems like he'll be a great teammate. Oh, yeah. Block his ass off. Smart. Everything about him. Yeah, knows where to play everywhere. He's durable, reliable. He's like Terry McLaurin. Yeah. I'm excited to watch him. And shout out to the Buccaneers getting a big-time win.

26:42Pat McAfee:Falcons' defense is playing pretty good there. Oh, yeah. Well, they get it figured out. And Penix being a guy is certainly sweet. All right, last, before we get to Adam Schefter, the G's. Louise, play the moment of the weekend. Mm-hmm. It was last night. It was. Baltimore Ravens scored a touchdown. Terry Henry's back in there. Guy in the crowd. Swipes. I'm sorry, D-Hop catches the one-handed. Swipes D-Hop's head. And then pushes Lamar Jackson. in a little dry shit. Get the fuck out. What are you? What world? Get your hands off of me. Joining us now to hopefully explain this jeez Louise moment from last night.

27:19Pat McAfee:Senior NFL insider from ESPN, Adam Schefter. Yeah, Schefter. Schefter, you look amazing. Thank you for waiting alongside of us. We have no idea how long this segment's going to be every single week, especially because we just started it. But that type of interaction, how do we think the league plays this out? Do we think they shake hands, move on, that kid's banned, you think Lamar high-fives, what do you think happens there? I think it provides a good time for the league to remind players not to touch the fans, but clearly the Bills should be taking action against that particular fan because no fan should ever be allowed to touch a player, they shouldn't be close enough to do that, and I don't think Lamar was right for doing it, I understand why he did it, but to me there shouldn't be any discipline involved here, everybody's got to keep their hands to themselves, and to me this would be a time for the league to send that a warning reminding players not to get involved with fans if they can.

28:10Pat McAfee:See, on a complete flip side, I wasn't saying there was anything wrong with Lamar there. So this is the non— Yeah, Shefty's never played again.

28:16Adam Schefter:Yeah, this is the—

28:20Pat McAfee:We're going that route again. We're joking, we're joking, we're joking. But I immediately, as soon as I watch it, I'm like, yeah, don't hit my team in the head. Don't hit me in the head. Like, that is literally my first thought. I happen to hear it out of the Bills and the Ravens. Let's move along. Hey, what are the big storylines coming out of yesterday that we should maybe pay attention to, pal? All right, pal, let's rip them off for you. I think we start with the New York Giants and the fact that Brian Dable, the head coach, declined to commit to Russell Wilson as a starting quarterback after the game, despite repeated chances to do so.

28:52The time to go to Jackson Dart, the Giants' rookie first-round draft pick, is coming. We don't know whether it's going to be this week, next week, next month, but make no mistake about it, Jackson Dart's time as the starting quarterback of the Giants is coming. We had a number of notable tight end injuries. Brock Bowers left the game with a knee injury that he said after the game he didn't think was serious. George Kittle, the great 49ers tight end, left the game with a hamstring injury early on. Did not return. You would have to figure that would sideline him for a little bit here. And the Broncos tight end Evan Ingram left the game with a calf injury.

29:25We'll see if he misses any time. and to talk about the entire week as well. We'll probably hear something from the NFL today regarding Jalen Carter and his spitting incident with Dak Prescott. We'll see whether the league decides to take additional action. Usually in the past, they have not. They've let the one-game suspension stand. In this particular case, I think back to what Troy Vincent, the NFL executive vice president, told NFL executives and GMs and coaches at the owners' meetings in the spring. He said, we are not going to tolerate anything that demeans the game. We want only good sportsmanship, and there will be zero tolerance involved.

30:05We'll see how the league decides to handle that. And in regards to tonight's game, the Vikings and Bears. Harrison Smith did not make the trip for the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings have, but the Chicago Bears have no sympathy for the Vikings because they have a number of question marks around a number of their defensive backs. Jalen Johnson listed as questionable. Uh-oh. I don't know that he's going to go tonight. I have my doubts about whether he's going to play tonight. Tyler Gordon put on the injury report with a hamstring injury. I don't know that he's going to play tonight. So the Bears could be down.

30:40Jalen Johnson, they could be down. Kyler Gordon, they could be down. Any number of defensive backs. As J.J. McCarthy makes his first NFL start, people forget that. He didn't play at all last year. He was the only quarterback from the great class of 2024 that didn't take a snap in a regular season game. He gets to start tonight. And, Pat, he grew up in Chicago as a Bears fan. The first ever NFL game he attended. The very first NFL game that he ever attended was at Soldier Field. Bears-Vikings. Remember the game where Adrian Peterson ripped off those runs as a rookie running back? That was J.J. McCarthy's first game as an NFL fan tonight.

31:18He'll have the opportunity to go and be the starting quarterback for the Vikings. You have to figure some young Chicago Bears fan is going to be going to his first game tonight, and he'll get to see J.J. McCarthy in uniform against a depleted Bears secondary.

31:32Pat McAfee:Well, shout out to that future J.J. McCarthy that's attending his first ever game tonight, Monday Night Football. Let's have a good one. Congrats to J.J. McCarthy having this be his debut. What a magical moment, honestly. So cool. Last season had to suck for him. Obviously, everybody talks about his uber competitive spirit and his leadership abilities. So having your entire career basically stop before it can even get started had to suck. I'm excited to see what he's able to do with Kevin O 'Connell. I'm excited to see what he's able to do with this offense. Obviously, Justin Jefferson is absolutely insane on a football field he's always open.

32:06Pat McAfee:And for Caleb Williams, we've seen some great out of him, right, in the preseason? There were some great moments. And then obviously there is always going to be negative chatter until they have some sort of success. Tonight could be a brand new era for both of these teams. The J.J. McCarthy era potentially begins in a huge way. And Ben Johnson, the super genius, first-time head coach, could kick off in a beautiful fashion as well. Schefter, hey, I feel like we just did the first 15. I feel like we just did the first 15. 32 minutes. Yo, it's first 15 plays. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's a 15-minute clock just on there.

32:40Sometimes a 15-play drive might only say eight minutes, but in real time, that's 35 minutes of real time. Bingo.

32:47Pat McAfee:Yes. Well said. That is a good call. Some things have commercials. Yeah, it's a good call. We know that. We're all watching the game, and I sit on my wife, there's only two minutes there. She goes, oh, yeah, so it'll be over in 46 minutes, right? Yeah, exactly. Especially if it's a good game like last night was insane. I mean, they're going to certainly drain some of those commercial opportunities out, which, by the way, we all watch Red Zone. No, it sucked. Oh, did it. Wow. Did everybody watch? They're going to show a big decline ice in Reds. Huge. Because the things that I was being told, just me personally, for saying that we do not care, meaning we will watch.

33:24Pat McAfee:Didn't even notice it. Really? Who's not watching it in the quad box? You just look at something else. I did notice. Speaking of. Hey, good play by that, by the way. Hey, maybe somebody did look into how much are those, you know, just as a nice little fool coming. I'd rather not commercials. But if the NFL is going to utilize an opportunity to make money, we know they're going to do that. And we are going to watch Red Zone Channel because it's like the greatest invention in sports television, I think, because how great it is. And to everybody's point here, we still watch, right? Now, granted, people watching might not have.

34:02Pat McAfee:And I want to let you know, I appreciate you taking that stand. Hell yeah. I do. I do. We need more people like you. That being said, you missed a great day on there. Fantastic. Did you see the behind the scenes of Scott? Oh, yeah. Cooking. Oh, yeah. Green screen. Yep, going nuts. Yeah. It's great invention. Football's bad. Yeah. Great invention. Speaking of YouTube TV, every game, every Sunday, all in one place with NFL Sunday ticket. Don't like this. Don't like what's going on here. No, not at all. Not one bit. New users now pay only$34.50 per month for your first eight months. That's pretty good.

34:35Pat McAfee:That's pretty good. $34. Pretty good. For YouTube TV. Every game, every Sunday, all in one place, first eight months for new users. Catch your favorite live NFL moments with the most live NFL action in one place. Scan the QR code right now. And choose a plan that's right for you. Okay. Shout out to YouTube TV. Shout out to you, Chef. Let's talk about some other stories that you did not bring up there. Although, a lot of insane – Russell Wilson, maybe not stars. This is Jackson Dart time. Is that what we're seeing? That's what kind of – He was ready. Should be. He was iced out. He was ready. He had it all.

35:05Pat McAfee:I mean, I want to see him do good. Yes. In New York. It'll be good. New Jersey, actually. Jackson Dart time. You get it. J.J. Watt did a great job, feathery hair. Fantastic choice, J.J. Let's talk about some other storylines. Go ahead, calm man. Yeah, Shefty, a few more injuries happening yesterday. Christian McCaffrey, not one of those, however, which is great news. He looked unbelievable. Are we okay now on the McCaffrey calf? Was that more of like a throwback joke by chance? But then also Kittle goes down with a hamstring after scoring a touchdown. What's going on with him? And should we look for the Niners to be one of those teams to sign somebody now that Kittle's hurt?

35:40uh well first of all that tight end that replaced him jake tongs made an unbelievable catch to help him that game so i think that they feel pretty good about their tight ends right now they signed another tight end from jacksville during the all-season luke farrell or farrell however you pronounce the last name forgive me for not getting it maybe right so they have tight ends they'll make do without kittle and i would imagine with the hamstring injury he'll miss sometime. Now, Christian McCaffrey, what happened there was on Thursday, he felt something in his calf. It didn't feel right, whether it was a cramp, whatever it was.

36:14They sent him for an MRI. The MRI came back completely clean. And obviously, it just acted up that moment. He took off on Friday. He himself said it was overblown. Now, again, when you're talking about one of the elite offensive players in the game who missed as much time as he did last year and has what the team is calling a calf injury there's nothing that could be overblown about that nothing but the fact of the matter is it was not any type of serious injury at all he was ready to go and they had no questions going into the game talking to the 49ers over the weekend they're like nope he's good to go not an issue he'll be already you don't touch the football as often as he did yesterday if it was a major concern.

36:59Pat McAfee:Seattle's got a stingy D. They do. Yeah, they do. Seattle, Seattle's got a... Nobody talks about them because it's so far away. We apologize. And they're still, in everybody else's eyes, nationally, turnover phase with McDonald out of Baltimore going over there and then Peyton over the walls and Sam Darnold and everything happening. But watch them against the Niners. And I got high faith for the 49ers. Obviously, Purdy throws a couple bad picks early, but that's because Seattle's doing their thing. So I think we should pay a little bit more respect to the Seahawks. Salah, too. Salah being back, I don't know if it was just overall sideline vibes, but him and Shanahan celebrating together after Bosa's game-sealing sack right here was unbelievable when you just look at the Niners coming out and dominating the Seahawks.

37:43Pat McAfee:I mean, that's potentially a touchdown that Sam Darnold's around right there. The Seahawks beat the 49ers week one, and we're having a very, very different conversation. Instead, the jungle cat, Bosa, closes the game. Congrats to the Niners on a huge win. Also, the Seahawks, I think, are going to be a team. I'm very, very pumped for them. Now let's go to a team that a lot of people are out on, but I don't think they should be. They ran into a juggernaut yesterday in Lucas Oil Stadium. Miami Dolphins situations are going to be all brought back to the surface. Everything we alluded to in the offseason, as you may be getting breaking news at the time, and I'm just filling until you're good.

38:16Pat McAfee:Yep. All right. Sweet. Kendrick Boren to the Niners in a one-year deal. Okay. That's big news. Directly after the question. Yes, I got the. Yeah, so they are adding a pass catcher, okay? Which is where he started. Started in San Fran, went to New England, back to San Fran. It looked like they could use it yesterday. Thank you for that breaking news there, Shefty. Yeah, Shefty. And we don't know what other breaking news is going to come through on this particular overreaction Monday, but there is one reaction coming from all of South Florida, and it's, oh, no, we're dead. Now, on that note, Ty has a question for you, Shefty.

38:48Yeah, Shefty, after yesterday, we basically had the definition of what belt to ask looks like after the Colts beat the hell out of the Dolphins. And then a lot of people were talking about Mike McDaniel and Tyreek Hill and the body language and him being upset because they were getting killed, he wasn't getting the ball, etc., etc. Are we going to get a State of the Union on the Dolphins here? We're talking about teams in need of pass catchers. Is Tyreek Hill going to be traded within the next few? We were talking about it before the show. It just almost makes sense with Xavier Worthy getting hurt for the Chiefs too.

39:20Like, we're going to see Tyreek Hill in a Chiefs uniform within a few weeks here.

39:25Pat McAfee:Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's a big move. I don't know about him going to the Chiefs, and I don't think the Dolphins are thinking of trading Tyreek Hill now. But if the season continues to go this way, obviously you'd have to think that all options will be on the table at that point in time. They're trying to turn things around. It's one game on the road in Indianapolis against a Colts team that hadn't won an opener in almost 4 ,400 days that came in inspired with Jim Irsay being inducted into the Ring of Honor. Yeah, I'm just not 4 ,400 days, Pat. But the Colts came out with the fury of 4 ,400 days of non-opening day wins behind them, and they laid out the Dolphins.

40:04But the Dolphins still think they have a good team. Now, again, it's up to them to go out and prove it. So they're not going to trade away Tyree Kill now. If they have more games like that and the losses start piling up, I think all of us logically would have to think at that point in time, you start looking to the future. But they're not there right now after week one. But Tyree Kill, he has been missing that big play explosion. It's been exactly a year since he had his last play of over 30 yards. They need to get him going. What? Major weapons. Yeah, there it is. What? Happy anniversary. Or unhappy anniversary.

40:41Pat McAfee:It was a leap year, though, so maybe we wait until tomorrow. That's a good point. Jeez. That's unbelievable. He's a deep ball guy. Cheetah? He was. I think in cardio. He's still fast. I saw him this summer. I saw him on the field. He was still fast. I mean, he was still able to move. We caught him, though, I think a couple times. There was a couple situations where I didn't think human was going to get to him and got to him. And him on the sideline, Shefty, he's the number one largest here. They're paying him a lot of money, and they're getting killed. I'm happy he's upset. That could be much worse.

41:10Pat McAfee:Yeah. You know, so, like, people are trying to obviously call this a massive crash out and stuff on the internet, classic internet. Classic. I think this is much better than what it could have been. And also, I like that he's mad. Like, should have been. Yeah, it's been three or six or five years since I've got anything. I appreciate it. It did not look good, though. Gumpy, do you like what Shefty's saying there as a Dolphins fan? You had a long day in the Loud House yesterday, Gumpy. Long day out there. Yeah, it was by far the worst performance they've ever had with McDaniel and Tua healthy by far start to finish.

41:39Tua wasn't even accurate. I've never seen him look that bad when he hasn't been hurt. And he was decently protected. He was top five protected in the league yesterday.

41:48Pat McAfee:I appreciate that you stuck in there, though. He did. Yeah, kept sitting in the front row. Front row. Had his Dolphins gear on. Isolated, sitting all by himself. Front row. Everybody saw him, and everybody had something to say. Yeah. It was a nice walk home yesterday. Yeah, I bet it was. Blue was real pumped to see. Very positive. Speaking of a walk home, let's talk about a walk off. Chris Boswell is an absolute monster. The Wizard of Boz has been on a heater for like 10 years. AP Tone, you said just a couple weeks ago, Cam Hayward, okay. Chris Boswell, give him whatever the hell he wants. If he wants an extra million dollars, let's do it.

42:24Pat McAfee:Because the Pittsburgh Steelers, from Jeff Reed until Boz, were looking for a kicker. He has been the guy in a very tough division with tough stadiums, and he very rarely ever misses. Yesterday, 60-yarder to win it. Yeah, I looked it up yesterday. I believe he's the third most accurate kicker of all time. and it's not short kicks, it's long ones. Yesterday he had a 56 and a 60, and I believe Shefty was on the call when I said pay him$50 million. We looking at a Chris Boswell pay bump anytime soon, Shefty? He hadn't gotten one going into the opener. I know he wanted one, and I don't think he was particularly pleased about it, but the fact of the matter is, that guy is an incredible kicker.

42:57That 60-yarder would have been good from, it feels like 70 yards, and he's been so accurate, and you see that guy's disposition. He's unbelievable the way he carries himself. Great kicker. I like that. Tried to get a raise. Tried to get a raise. Hasn't gotten a raise. We'll see if the Steelers budget all there.

43:15Pat McAfee:It's a 60-yard game winner week one with a whole new team. Probably gets a raise. If I had to guess, there was going to be some incentive-based raises probably coming out of the balls a little bit. Like if he allegedly had a tree company or something like that? Oh, you're talking about like a allegedly, allegedly, allegedly like a front. Like if he started working for Frank Morales his concrete company. Which, by the way, I do think they need some good workers because Frank needs to not be out there pouring concrete every god damn day for the rest of his life. His knees. His guy's knees. It's a good idea.

43:49Boswell's boots. Time to think about.

43:51Pat McAfee:Perhaps maybe he's selling fake shoes, allegedly. They can find him some money, I assume. I hope they're able to do that. Big win for them. How do you think the Steelers feel about everything they had going on yesterday? Cam Hayward, Mike Tomlin, obviously waiting for Aaron Rodgers. Huge part of the storyline of the offseason. D.K. Metcalf has a big game. Jalen Ramsey wins the game for him. I mean, everything that is... Johnny Smith touchdown. Huge plays out of Johnny Smith. Everything, Artie Smith's offense looking good. I mean, everything that was talked about kind of came to fruition yesterday, and they get a huge win.

44:21Pat McAfee:What are your thoughts on the Steelers' world? You know, the Steelers won as many games this season after one game in which they allowed 30 plus points as they did in the previous six years. So they had gone six years without giving up that many points and scoring that many points to win. They won in an unconventional way. We talked during the offseason about how these were not your father's Steelers. They were going out making trades, doing deals, making big time acquisitions. Like we never see the Steelers act like that. Well, guess what? We never see the Steelers win games in shootouts like this.

44:58The way that Aaron Rodgers did yesterday in New York against the Jets. Obviously, he took it personally, but they win 34-32. Chris Boswell, in the past, when some team has scored over 30 against Pittsburgh, which doesn't happen very much, they don't score over 30 to win that game. Yesterday was the first time they did that in seven seasons, so clearly this team can do it a lot of different ways, and Rogers is inspired, and Jalen Ramsey comes up there and lays the wood on Garrett Wilson to close out the game at the end of the game. Another one of those acquisitions. That's a strong start for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

45:33Aaron Rodgers showed everybody he could still play. Yeah, great big win for Pittsburgh.

45:39Pat McAfee:Huge win for Pittsburgh. Huge win for their fans. Also, respect and love the fact that Jalen Ramsey didn't want to disrespect Tom Lundner, the Steelers, by taking his helmet off and getting a 15-yarder there. But also, game's over. I just, I mean, you saw him for like 10 yards. Like, ah, am I taking this off? Tell you what, he flirts with it all game long. It was discipline. It was like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Keep it on. All right, I'm not happy about it. Got to get, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Yeah, I love that. And then cut back and it's gone. Yeah, and then it gets off. I think I'm a lot off the field.

46:09Pat McAfee:Yeah, it was a cool moment for them. Speaking of cool moment, had a guy play on both sides of the ball. How long will it last? What did it look like? We shall see. Go ahead, Con, man. Yeah, Shefty, Travis Hunter was listed as wide receiver two, I believe, starting. And then he played like 10 % of the defensive snaps for the Jags. Weird game with it being a 1 o 'clock start, then it's delayed. It doesn't really finish until 5. It was just odd all day. But what did you think about Travis Hunter? Do you see him kind of going with this route, all offense and then just a little defense? And also just a PSA to people.

46:42Stop saying bad things about him because of the way he looks on the Internet. His new haircut looks great, and Travis Hunter's a great player. We agree.

46:51Adam Schefter:I saw nice things. I saw only – For the other team, I saw some mean things. I've seen only mean things about Travis Hunter on the internet lately.

46:59Pat McAfee:Well, your algorithm maybe needs to be a little bit kinder to a guy playing on both sides of the ball for the first time in that history of the fucking NFL. To be fair, the algorithm is still throwing 100 on the black. They were hilarious memes, but I'm just saying they are very uncalled for. You should not be doing that. The internet's a creative place. Well, here's what I'd say. The plan going in was to have him yesterday. Yesterday as a full-time receiver, a situational defensive back, and that's exactly what they did. He played regularly at wide receiver, situationally at cornerback, and there are going to be games this year where they're going to start him at receiver and cornerback.

47:36Now, there have been only three players that have done that in NFL history. Deion Sanders, Champ Bailey, and Antonio Cromartie starting games on both sides of the football. Two of those three are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Travis Hunter is going to become the fourth one to do it at some point this season, But they wanted to obviously have him involved more so as a wide receiver to open the season. And they're going to evaluate that on a week-to-week basis. We might this week, for instance, get Travis Hunter Moore as a defensive back and situationally as a receiver. It certainly sounds like they are determined to use him as a receiver.

48:10They'll build up his work as a defensive back. But it's something that they're going to be deciding on a week-to-week basis, deciding how to use him. And again, the guy's a great player. They're going to want him on the football field, and he'll be out there playing.

48:23Pat McAfee:Shotcon owner's excited for it. Yeah, hello. Here's him after the big-time win for Liam Cohn, Stone, or Travis Hunter, and the boys to start the season. This is what we envisioned in January, okay? Yes, sir. It's happening here in September. Going to go on forever. Yes. That's right. That's right. There's a man that's invested a lot of money in that team. Yeah. A lot of money in that team hoping that they would become good. And it's like you bring Liam Cohen in there. You got Stoner in there. You draft Travis Hunter. It's like are the Jacksonville Jaguars on the right path? It looks like it at this point.

48:59Pat McAfee:And if it wasn't an offensive head coach, okay, if it was a defensive head coach, I wonder if Travis Hunter DB full time with a wide receiver on the other side. Because Liam Cohen calling plays, head coach. Good play calling. We got a guy who is dynamic as a wide receiver. I'll take him over here. Yeah, we certainly would like to have our side be successful. Now, I'm not saying that he doesn't want the entire team to win. He definitely does. But it's natural. Like Bruce Arians told us last week, he said to Tom, whenever Tom joined with the Buccaneers, his first-time offensive coach as the head coach.

49:31Pat McAfee:So whenever we're thinking about going for it or we're thinking about doing this, he's like, yeah, baby, we're fucking going here. Absolutely. Up by 10 in the third quarter expecting to run it out. Yeah, we're taking shots. What are we talking about? We're scoring points. Yeah, we're scoring points. It's like just naturally. It's just a natural different viewpoint in it. So I think they're going to definitely play him on defense, especially after Stoner's promo the day after the draft. But it's like Liam Cohen also, like, this guy's a dynamic number one wide receiver too. Let's not lose our minds.

49:58Adam Schefter:And you got Trevor Lawrence there, who you already paid. You drafted number one. This is a big year for him. But you're Liam Cohen. You chose that job. Like, this is a quarterback that you want to give all the resources and everything, you know, to put him in a position to succeed. But talking about Travis Hunter, another wide receiver. I know Todd mentioned Tyreek possibly going back to Kansas City. Big injury there with Xavier Worthy week one, getting knocked out of the game pretty early on with his shoulder. Any update there? What's going on with Xavier Worthy and his shoulder? I think he's probably going to miss a little bit of time here.

50:29He'll probably be week to week with that dislocated shoulder. Obviously went down there, went out of the game, did not come back. They sent him for tests, and they don't think it's too bad, too serious, but it does look like he could miss a little bit of time here. So you have no Xavier Worthy right now. Rasheed Rice misses the first six games. So they're a little shorthanded there right now with some of their playmakers at the wide receiver position in Kansas City. And by the way, they have the Eagles coming in on Sunday. And that'll be an interesting little matchup there.

51:00Pat McAfee:Last question here. Definitely an interesting little matchup there. Hey, Chiefs, I still believe. Me too. Justin Herbert looked unbelievable. Yeah, he rolled through that schedule too. Unbelievable. If the Philadelphia Eagles coming up next, okay. They're a little good, too. Yeah, they got some questions at corner. Okay. So, let's hope to patch my homes and the boys. Go ahead. But I am a believer in the Chiefs. If Travis is playing, and the reason why that happened to Xavier Worthy is because Travis is a moving freight train. And he got blindsided there out of nowhere. I mean, that is no fun.

51:31Adam Schefter:Derwin James, great re-rep.

51:33Pat McAfee:Well, it felt like it was a little made-passer. Yeah, first five yards, it seemed like they were getting a little hate. Changed the whole game. And also, Travis Kelsey gets punched in the mouth.

51:42Adam Schefter:Now, that was...

51:44Pat McAfee:First of all, an incredible open-hand punch. Yeah, tart. I will say, that's a talented palm to the face.

51:50Adam Schefter:Did you know that open-hand slaps are okay, apparently? I heard that from the rules guy. I don't know who it was.

51:57Pat McAfee:That was a terrible thing to say publicly. It was not Mr. Beast. Is he still on the league? I think it was just for that first night on YouTube. Which, by the way, congrats to YouTube getting an NFL game. We are very pumped. YouTube has never viewed us as YouTubers. We built our entire business on YouTube. Which I appreciate now. Yeah, we are very thankful that they have it. But we are very pumped that YouTube's getting into the NFL. Like, very, very pumped about that. YouTube's platform is awesome. I mean, literally, it's for creators. It's for entrepreneurs. It's a great platform. And it's obviously worldwide.

52:29Pat McAfee:Why? Google pretty big. Yeah. You know? So I'm happy that they're dabbling into the NFL and the live games. Yeah, they got it off the ground. I didn't see any he, none of that, right? No. That's what I'm talking about, dude. That's what I'm talking about. Tonight, you rattled off a bunch of things we need to think about. A bunch of people not playing. Darsaw, Jalen Johnson, Gordon. Anybody else, Shefty, or what? Well, I mean, the Vikings are missing Harrison Smith. They're missing some guys. Obviously, Jordan Addison is suspended for three games. This will be the first of three games that he misses.

53:04They're getting back Jalen Naylor, who had a hand-injuring camp. He'll be out there tonight. Adam Thielen returns to the lineup tonight for the Vikings. Nice. Again, a lot of positions in flux. There's the injury report that they put out this past week. So, both teams have some obstacles to overcome tonight in the opening Monday night game of the year.

53:24Pat McAfee:Yeah, but you'll get through all those obstacles and let us know what the hell they're battling. And we appreciate that, Shefty. You're the man. Did that work out for you in the 90 seconds, Pat? We good there? I think it was good, yeah. We're trying to put this first 15 together because I think it's a good idea because all of our podcasts are only two and a half to three hours. Okay, so that's a really long time for people to commit to. So I've tried to, like, let's just hit a first, like, little quick, little weekly wrap-up. And that kind of sets the tone for everything else. And then we can kind of sprinkle in whatever we missed.

53:50Pat McAfee:Yeah, you play a vital part of that. So I appreciate you doing that. It's an honor. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me today. And enjoy the game tonight. Yeah, but what you did today means nothing for next Monday. Yeah, forget it. That's for all of us. Hey. exactly that's that's the way that's the way the league operates that's the way it works right 100 yeah gotta prove gotta prove yourself again next week not just next week today today week after next post week after next week next day next minute next work yeah yeah and that's what you've done for so long we appreciate you ladies and gentlemen i got a question for you why was the Verse 15, 32 minutes?

54:31No, no. We already went over that. I think most of us, yeah, understand that. Are you surprised that Sean Codd did a kind of like a wrestling promo to celebrate the win just because it kind of takes away from, you know, Liam Cohen's first victory? All right, okay, okay. That was my favorite video of all time. I'm not kidding. Yeah.

54:51Adam Schefter:That was my first time. Forever! Forever!

54:55Pat McAfee:Think about he built two pools. Oh, yeah. in the stadium just to get people like okay you don't want to watch our team play shit come have a pool day okay on a sunday we'll have the best pool in the city 20 bucks are you kidding please come just what he has done everything he possibly could pay whoever new coach you want to build a new city i'll build a new city yeah everything he he is commit shot con since when we were playing against them yep and he took over it's like he is clearly just like i would like this team to be good and for whatever reason it just has not one reason after another whatever it is a lot of them and their fans it's hot as shit down there for a large portion of the day then it gets a little chilly towards the end but towards the end of the seasons a lot of them they have like really not much to book show up and they are menaces yeah their fan bases are menaces their fan base is menaces so it's like i got a lot of respect for what's going on down there but i don't think anybody ever really takes the jackson jaguars seriously and shod con has been fighting that for a long time.

55:55Pat McAfee:If the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Colts in a season, people celebrate it. Like, that is what they're aiming for. If they were to win-win down there, like they were so close to with Blake Bortles, and then it all kind of fell apart. If they were to win-win down there, I think Sean Conn would be deserving of quite a, hey, way to go, buddy. You've really gone all in in this entire thing. But also, we need those videos every single week now. Because now all I'm thinking about, and I hope this isn't the case, but now I kind of want to see the Jags get beat by five touchdowns. No! Just to see him come in and see what's your problem.

56:23And see what he says. That's must-see TV. Come on, Sean brought back wrestling promos to sports. I'm glad for it, too. It was good. Jacket was sweet, too. Jacket was sweet. Yeah, but to Ty's point, him boozed up after a loss. Holy hell. Yeah. Wrestling promos are good.

56:40Pat McAfee:That's normally what... Yeah, we know forever! Yeah. Let's get to a break. Come on, dude! Freaking set you up there. Yeah, but Coach Corso got some of the best promos in the history of sports. Those are headgear picks, I thought. No. That's the difference.

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58:01Pat McAfee:Football! He's magical. The toxic table's here at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt. Patriots done? Probably. May's really good. I do think the Raiders are worth talking about. Gino looked fantastic. Pete Carroll in his debut. The defense, G &T looked apart. Bowers, their offense. I mean, the whole nine. Yeah, but the thing you said was, hey, if we talk about the Patriots Raiders, there's one thing that really needs to be talked about. And you said exact words. Max Crosby just wrecks the entire thing. Yeah, he's a huge asshole. I mean, just not having him on your team is one of those things. And I'm sure it's like how Ty felt with Micah.

58:41Like, if you have one of those guys, it must feel great watching him because he's always there. I mean, the interception Drake May threw, who's there? Max Crosby in his face. the reason May can't step up is because Max Crosby's a freak of nature. I mean, Will Campbell saw, but if you're going to have a rookie tackle out there, you're probably going to have a little bit of a problem when Max Crosby's there. And then it's more so the extracurriculars, too. Like, hey, man, you don't got to be a prick. You don't have to talk. No, he does. I know, but when you're playing him, it's like, hey, dude, relax.

59:16Does he know Bubby Spillane's on the Patriots now? You know, he likes Bob Spillane. I know he does, but then here we go. He's basically, you know, getting in May's head. I wouldn't be surprised. Was that on Netflix's quarterback? Yeah, him and Mahomes. Mahomes was actually talking about it like,

59:33Pat McAfee:this guy, every time we play him, it's just got to be something. Every time. And they have respect for each other. And it's almost as if Mahomes just knows this is how he is, and Max goes, ah, sorry. It's just the kind of way it is. That's his style of football. Perfect Raider. It's amazing, yeah. Geno Smith, perfect Raider at this stage of his career. Pete Carroll, perfect Raider at this stage of his career, which is crazy to think about because he was the, hey, Will Ferrell's coming by practice, USC guy. Then he gets kicked out of Seattle, and it's like, is Pete Carroll the perfect guy for this Las Vegas Raiders atmosphere and culture right now?

1:00:03Pat McAfee:Tom Brady, new ownership. He wanted to be a Raider. John Gruden said, nah, we're going to stick with Derek Carr. Sorry about it. So he's got a little chip on his shoulder as well. It seems like a really – and then Chip Kelly sitting there, that offensive coordinator, has been a head coach before the NFL, obviously with the Philadelphia Eagles. Didn't go anywhere near how everybody planned, but he's still a damn good football coach. Goes back into college with the Ohio State Buckeyes just as a coordinator, as opposed to being a head coach like he was at UCLA. Wins a national championship immediately.

1:00:30Pat McAfee:It's like they got a lot of big brains over there and a lot of experienced dudes with chips on our shoulder. And Brock Bowers exists. He's unbelievable. That's how he's in the league. And he's a dog. He is. Brock Bowers is a very good tight end. We got one here, bud. Tyler. Tyler Ward. He's on his heels. He's this year's Brock Bowers, without a doubt. Wait, wait, we haven't seen Loveland play yet. True, true. Michigan obviously created an incredible one in Loveland. Yeah, we've seen Caleb Butt. No, we haven't. Now, Ben Johnson. No, we haven't. My bad, my bad. That's nine-year NFL vet, Darius J.

1:01:06Pat McAfee:Butler. D-Butch, big story coming out of the weekend is not the Raiders being potentially back and Pete Carroll being the oldest winning head coach in NFL history. and if he was to lose the game, he'd be the oldest losing head coach in NFL history. He's oldest coach in NFL history. Pete, you're a dog, dude. Still bringing it. Looks great. Looks great. Still spending it, too. Still spending it at training camp. Him having to find this whole new motivation, I assume, wasn't that difficult, but then whenever he gets kicked out, whenever he says, I fought for the job, he went in there for like an hour with his resume, all of his championships at every different level, Everything he's accomplished, especially whenever he's been in Seattle and helped build that entire Seahawks place, him going in there for an hour and pitching for his job and then getting kicked out, is that the first time Pete Carroll in a long time has been told, no, you're not good enough?

1:01:53Pat McAfee:So then he's away and then he comes back. It's like, what a perfect storm brewing for that Raiders team. And let's not even talk about Geno Smith. Same exact situation in multiple different stops. He chooses to go to the Raiders over the Seattle Seahawks, but allegedly the contract offer that Seattle Seahawks gave It was like not something that Geno Smith would ever take at this stage. So it's like maybe that type of motivation and drive is something that could bring them all together, D-Butch. Is that a storyline that's not being talked about, or what is something else you think that we should definitely chat about?

1:02:21Adam Schefter:I mean, I think that's definitely a good storyline, definitely potential there. Raiders, they kind of always take on that mindset or that personality. It's them against everyone else. So you got guys, you know, from the head coach position on down who feel that way. But let's see, biggest story for me, I mean, I got to start right here. with the Colts. Like, that was a big storyline in the offseason, talking about the quarterback competition, Daniel Jones. Could he be the next Sam Darnold? Could he be the next Baker Mayfield? Could he be the next Geno Smith? Where you're finding your footing in a new spot and you couldn't have asked for a better start for the team as a whole, offensively, of course, but defensively even.

1:02:56Adam Schefter:Almost pitching a shutout with that explosive Miami Dolphins offense. It was very, very impressive all the way around. You guys were actually in the building, so you felt the vibes. You felt the atmosphere. We know it was for Jim, for Bossman as well. But it was just an amazing start for a fan base who has been yearning for this for a long, long time.

1:03:14Pat McAfee:Energy through the roof. Yeah. Energy through the roof in there. And also, new playlist. Soundtrack, yeah. Yeah, we got new playlist in there. New music. New DJs. Yeah, and we're swagging surfing in there, too, a couple different times. Okay. I like that. What's that Auburn video? A great video. Yeah. The boys, the lads. That song will hit forever. A lot of great videos this weekend from the college. Mo Bamba. Mo Bamba will hit forever. Awesome. Swag Surf will hit forever. Levels of VG. Will hit. White Stripe Seven Nation Army. Will hit. Will hit. These are just things. Sandstorm. Da Root. Yeah, yeah.

1:03:49Pat McAfee:I think that is certainly in there. Do Haast. Do Haast Smith. I don't know if Do Haast is carried over to the next generation, but if they were reintroduced to it, I think they would certainly enjoy that. Yeah, there's a couple songs that hit all the time. That is one of them. I appreciate the fact, though, that Tom Brady's ownership is going to lead to him winning. Yeah. Like, of course. You know, and that's just kind of how it all goes. And they're talking about how hands-on he is. And he's talking about everything with everybody. He's hands-on in there. Mark Davis has got to think to himself, I'm a genius.

1:04:20Pat McAfee:Yeah. Yes. He's got his little backpack on. Yep. Got his house built. Got his house built. He's maybe got the IRS off his ass because he had them on them for a while. And then all of a sudden, he brings Tom Brady. and Tom's like, how about for a very small percentage of this entire thing, I just kind of do everything I think you're supposed to do. Mark Davis goes. Sounds good. I can play Pokemon with that? Yeah. He's not playing Pokemon. If that's the case, sure, Tom, I got to beat this new Pokemon. Think about him being like some sounding board for Tom, though. Now, Tom, remember, whenever my dad was blah, blah, blah, or whenever I was a young owner, this whole thing happened.

1:04:53Pat McAfee:What a great spot. Is he down here as long as it? I mean, because we know offseason,

1:04:59Adam Schefter:We know Monday through Saturday, but we know his day job now where he's in the booth and he's on site with these other teams, you know, calling big time games. So he's not, you know, he's not boots on the ground like Carly would have hit. Don't you worry. He's not on the booth on game day. Not game day, no. You know, he's not up in the Jerry Jones type suite. So I do wonder how long can he, you know, stay in this role? And if things, let's say, aren't going great. I want to know right now, but let's say things start going not so good. But does he ever think – I know he's getting paid a shit ton of money too to do his job, but does he ever say, you know what, I am going to focus and keep the main thing the main thing and become more of a boots on the ground game day owner?

1:05:38Pat McAfee:What is it, 37 million a year or something like that? 37 and a half. Don't forget that. He's getting better. He was really good. Like I listened to a good bit of his yesterday. It was really good. Yeah, we assume Tom Brady's going to be good at everything. Yep. Being an owner in the NFL as well. And thank you for bringing up, he's not boots on the ground with a headset on. He's not. There's also a new tradition. I don't know if you knew what your owners do. I don't know what everybody else's owners do. Carly Ursa, she's running the length of the field one time before the game starts. Love it. She wants to feel it.

1:06:06Pat McAfee:Wow. That's what it's all about. I love it. That's awesome. Sorry, what? That's it. I mean, that's good. She gave a speech at halftime. Awesome. She gave a speech at halftime. The microphone was high because Peyton was talking. And she walks up. She goes, oops. Like, he even acknowledges it, drops it down. Just, like, so comfortable. Nice. I'm telling you, I appreciate, like, they're very much accountability driven here like they are there's attention to detail it's a new vibe it is it very much is and i think everybody appreciates it actually i think like uh the colts the building the equipment managers the trainers the staff the marketing everybody like that like i think there's a a little bit more of like they're doing their way obviously but they've grown up in it yep so they literally know all these people that have worked in the colts since their little kids so it's like hey how do i make your life easier also how do we do this it's like I think they're doing a great job legitimately and obviously I know them but it's like you can feel it like you can really feel like it feels like it airs a little bit more of a I don't want to say a tightness but a sense of urgency yeah it does feel like there's a sense of urgency like change could be around the corner if we don't do our shit like it does feel like that from a crowd standpoint from a team standpoint the way they played certainly looked vastly different like a stern but fair almost like they don't want to go on to the next era.

1:07:22It's not like they want Steichen out or Ballard out. It didn't feel like that was the vibe. It's more so like hey, you either win or you lose and then we have to do our job because your job's to win and you guys have been losing and our job is to basically make changes if you continue to lose. And it didn't feel like there was a third and five, maybe Steichen's a little too nervous to call a certain play. It feels like they've empowered all the right people and that you know goes to the Raiders too like sure Brady isn't boots on the ground but that's why he hired Pete Carroll because he knows Pete Carroll has been through you know NFL seasons has been through NFL seasons where you go all the way to the Super Bowl and knows how to manage that and that's probably why Tom doesn't you know feel the need and then to your point about Pete Carroll uh kind of he's never really been kicked out of the building I believe probably the last time he got kicked out of the building was New England when he was the head coach in New England, which adds a whole other thing to the weekend.

1:08:19I didn't think about that. I think most people were thinking, hey, McDaniels, he got kicked out of the Raiders building. This is great. He gets to come back in the NFL, and this is his first game, whereas Pete Carroll is the real one that got kicked out. I think it was 96 before he went to USC. Yeah, before he went to USC. Vinatieri was on that team, I think. Bingo, yes.

1:08:37Pat McAfee:And then there were Parcells for a second, and then Belichick, I think. Yeah, all right. He worked out at USC. They tried to bring a lot of penalties He's like, it worked out. That's right. And he goes to Seattle, worked out. And then he gets to the Raiders after getting kicked out of Seattle and goes, just you can kind of check. I don't want to be the one that says this, but I win. That's what I do. I win. I've done it for like 20 years. That's what I do. I win. And it's like, I believe them. And good on them having a great weekend. Nobody has as good a weekend as the Bills. What a win for the Buffalo Bills in the fourth quarter.

1:09:09Pat McAfee:Josh Allen puts on a Superman cape and does his thing in front of a home crowd that wasn't completely filled in the stadium. No, not at all. Because they fell asleep about the same time that I did and said, we got to get out of here. We got work in the morning. You know, Buffalo Bills, that's a working world. That's right. It's late at night, and you're going to play like this? Okay. I got to go to bed. I got to work in the morning. Wow. These tickets don't pay for themselves. They had to go do that. Wow. Great fan base. It was late. It was late. That's fan base in football. It was late. It's week one.

1:09:39I don't want to hear that it's late. If it's week 12 and they're down and they already have 10 wins, fine. It's week one. Shut up and sit the fuck down and watch the game.

1:09:49Pat McAfee:That's a Patriots fan, okay? He's going to be jaded towards Bill Johnson. Throwing bottles at people, too. That's a Dolphins fan. Derek Henry in the paint. He's going to be jaded towards Bill Johnson. I want to get out of there so quickly. No way! I like it. You'd much rather go home and hear, holy shit, we won 41-40 than to sit there and watch you beat 41-25. Yes. You have Josh Allen! You have Josh Allen! Week one? We got Danny Dimes. I'm going to let you know I got out of here before that game ended. Yeah, it's been about 25. There's 12 minutes left. You've seen your team lose with 13 seconds.

1:10:20You don't think that you can just sit around for a little?

1:10:22Pat McAfee:Now, on that, Bill's Mafia is going to show up and show up everywhere they go. Not true anymore? Yeah, it is true. You're a Patriots fan, you're a Dolphins fan. But what Josh Allen did at the end of the night, obviously spectacular and a great way to kick off this NFL season as a whole as a primetime game. Hopefully Vikings Bears delivers tonight as well. But, Tone, nobody had as good of a weekend as sportsbooks. Sportsbooks started out swinging. They came out swinging. I mean, there were some heavy, heavy bets. And seemingly all of them had red X's next to them, Tone. How did the sportsbooks do?

1:10:52Pat McAfee:And what does this mean for the rest of the season? Yeah, let's just start just for the year as a whole in general. NFL Week 1, the top five most bet on teams went 1-4 against the spread. College football week two, the top five bet on teams went one and four against the spread. And then last week, college football week one, the top five bet on teams went oh and five against the spread week one. So what is that? Two and 13 to start the year for most five bet on teams per week. So not a good start. And then what do people bet on? Overs or unders normally? Overs. We like football. Yeah, points. Unders went 12 and three this weekend.

1:11:28So I would say a lot of people are getting kicked on the shins to start the year. But I did see a lot of tickets on the internet last night. The Ravens-Bills game saved a lot of people because a lot of people were butting touchdowns, and they were like, oh, who's going to score? Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, all those people scored.

1:11:42Pat McAfee:Let's go to the other half of the hammer. Cowboys, Bubba Gumpino, obviously the Finns had you in misery in the Loud House, Lucas Oil Stadium. But you hit a massive one last night, right? Yeah, me and Connor had a little face time, put together a couple touchdown parlays. We had Derrick Henry for two, Josh Allen for two parlay. And then I had a Kincaid, D-Hop, Lamar, and Josh Allen for three grand. Okay, gosh. See you in the field. It was a nice evening. Nice evening. Also, with these public, keep it private. Don't tell anybody. Good job, Greg. You know, we throw those out there a lot. But, again, when you're throwing out plus 100 ,000 bets, typically on a rare occasion you're coming in pumped on Sunday.

1:12:24But at some point, we have to remember, There will come a week where the public goes 5-5. Yep.

1:12:31Pat McAfee:And there'll be a 90 % public bet that hits. Exactly. And we don't know when it's going to be. It's not often, but it will at some point. So if it looks too obvious, it might be. Now, granted, on the other side of that, sports folks are throwing some real heat right now. People are very, very confident earlier in the year on what they think, even though they haven't seen anything yet, and they go hard on it. And it turns out that a lot of these bad teams aren't as bad as people think, and a lot of good ones aren't as good as people. That's what Coach Saban said after his first game at Michigan State.

1:12:59Pat McAfee:The other coach's team came over to him after they lost 55-9 and said, you're not as bad as you think. He said, I remember that forever. And they weren't. No. They certainly looked terrible, though. And I'll tell you what, speaking of looking not good, or as Reese Davis said, un-good the other day. Yes, he did. Got a pretty good pop out of me there. That Ohio University Bobcat team with Navarro quarterback. Good team. That's good football. Yeah, our kid's got a Sunday in them. They might make the college football playoff. Yeah, they should. They're a good team. The Barrow's a dog. They had us completely in shambles out there.

1:13:30Pat McAfee:Electricity there, too. Electrifying. A lot of West Virginia fans there.

1:13:33Adam Schefter:Yeah, but also a lot of Bobcats. They made it really hard on our team. That's a Mac, right? Mac's? Yes. Ohio Bobcats? Mm-hmm. Yeah. But they won. They're Mac champions. Have a little respect. They're Mac champions. No, I just want to know what. These guys have won the title. The Ohio Bobcats are the Bama, okay, of the Mac. It's not like they're the Banger. Right now, definitely.

1:13:51Pat McAfee:And there's a chance they make the college football playoff. Yeah. At least they're in a conference, D-Bot. It's true. To be fair, West Virginia losing to Ohio, not fun. That was not cool. Next weekend was about to be electrifying. That being said, still part of the process of building a hard edge. A lot of turnover. And also, Ohio University, really good team. If Syracuse would have beat Ohio University by seven, I don't think Fran Brown has the boys running sprints. They only beat UConn by seven. Fran Brown says, while these fans are in here, they need to know that we're not happy about this.

1:14:27Pat McAfee:On the line. That's what happens against UConn. That's bullshit. Oh, look at me. I'm a tough coach. I'm going to run my team after the game

1:14:36Adam Schefter:in their pants. We should have won that game. We had it all game long. Tricked it off. But yeah, this is cute. I'm glad you lost some practice time. What are you talking about? Did you guys ever have to do this? No. Not in the NFL. No, I mean, like at West Virginia. No, no, no. It's not really. Not even high school.

1:14:55Pat McAfee:I would have figured yes for a Rittron at some point. I like that Fran Brown said. You were either coaching or a lot.

1:15:02Adam Schefter:I like Fran Brown, too, but it's bullshit.

1:15:04Pat McAfee:He said it's my job to make these guys the best men they could possibly be. His promo was actually like, these dudes are going to be fathers. They're going to be husbands, and I can't let them slide on yada yada. It was like a really good speech afterwards, and I was like, all right, I respect that. And then I watched the video again. And I'm like, those guys. I don't know if that point's going to get across in that moment. I don't know if that's going to be the case. Join us now. Ladies and gentlemen, it's college football national champion, the Super Bowl champion, and a Ryder Cup winner, A.J.

1:15:30Pat McAfee:Hawk. A.J., you ever run sprints after a game while the folks are still in the stadium? No, I cannot say I have. Maybe in, like, fifth grade, I think we did a couple times when the coach was really pissed. But it's usually after a loss. You usually don't win in grandstand on them in the sprint. Well, if you only beat UConn by seven.

1:15:46Adam Schefter:Grandstand, yep.

1:15:47Pat McAfee:That's exactly right. I'm running some hard 20s here, right? Yeah, but it looks like some of them are only running 15, so we didn't get a point across. We finished it through the line anyways. Is anybody starting offsides? I assume somebody there rolling start left center there, about L5, L4. You appeared to have a lot of snaps. Who scored the game winner? Because whoever scored the game wouldn't touch it. I assume the offensive line is going to be somewhere in the back. I think it was Peanut Butter and Jelly, Steve Angelli, who scored the game winner potentially. He's a dog. Syracuse. OC, right?

1:16:15Pat McAfee:Orange, obviously. OT? Yeah, yeah. Syracuse Orange and the Fran Brown era have been good. Have been good. Will they continue to get better after this? And, A.J., maybe more teams need to start doing this. We'll see. We'll see. Dan Campbell. Didn't Dan Campbell, when he became the interim head coach of Miami, didn't something happen? He, like, had them doing one-on-one. He did, like, Oklahoma drill for a long time, I think, day one. Pre-game, right? And sprints, I think. I think he had them doing sprints in practice, and I think there was, like, Oklahoma's in a pre-game. It was, like, week 13. Their season was already over, and all this stuff was happening.

1:16:46That was the online coach's suggestion, I think.

1:16:49Pat McAfee:Yeah, there was something. He was juiced up. Let's get fired up today, boys. All right, let's talk about the Detroit Lions since we are kind of just slowly, easily transitioning into that situation. Obviously, the Packers are a team, okay? Michael Parsons comes in there, 40-some percent of the snaps, gets a sack at the end, obviously has a new celebration, opens up for everybody. Jordan Love looked good. Defense looked good. Lambeau was electrifying. And the Detroit Lions, somebody that you thought you'd be competing with the NFC North with, obviously, seemingly going to have a little bit of a tough start to this new coordinator era that they have over there.

1:17:29Pat McAfee:What is your big takeaway as the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, A.J. Hawk? I mean, my takeaway is this Packers defense. Obviously, the offense did everything they needed to win, but this defense was awesome. I mean, we know the impact Micah had, but I think everybody else stepped up. And it's easy to say, oh, Micah opens it up for all these other guys. And, yeah, he definitely does. But I think it brought everyone on the defense. It brought them up to another level, and Micah barely even played. So imagine when Micah is actually a huge part of the game plan. But, man, Edger and Cooper, Quay Walker, these guys can fly all over the place on the Packers' defense.

1:18:00I love watching them play.

1:18:01Pat McAfee:What do you think about Jordan Love? What do you think about the team as a whole? Do you think there was good situational management out of the floor? Do you think the dominating win? That was a strike right there. He threw a couple of those over the middle that were obviously thrown to a spot. not to a person thrown to a spot his receivers went and got it showed incredible arm talent what do you think about everything else about managing and handling the game oh i thought it was great i mean especially week one that's all you can ask for sometimes it can get clunky and can not not look uh as crisp as you wanted to but i think especially how young they are that we hear them talk all the time how young the roster is but the fact that they look good and i mean just i'm a bit biased i was in green bay for nine years but green bay like when the sun is setting when it looks like this the setting everything about it it's a magical experience i think that came through the tv like it would have been an awesome day to be at lambo i think so too and it sucks for lions fans who've had such a high for the past couple years that they're maybe going to go through another little transition phase here as you're trying to recycle everything go ahead

1:18:58Adam Schefter:to aj's point man that packers defense that was the thing i was most impressed about because when you think about lions football you think about them start i know flashy gadgets golf makes great throws, but you think about the line of scrimmage and being there to run the ball. They could not run the ball at all from the beginning. I think Gibbs ended up like 20 yards rushing. And then Gibbs had, I think, 10 catches for like 31 yards. That lets you know how these guys are flying around, attacking, tackling, getting guys to the ground, not allowing a bunch of yaks. So Jeff Halfley, the job that he's done on that defense side of the ball.

1:19:31Adam Schefter:Jordan Love has been a very good quarterback for a couple years now. Matt LaFleur, we know who he is offensively as far as play calling goes. But this defense, man, they showed up and showed out for sure week one. Yeah, worrying about the run defense. There was a stat from NFL Pro after the game. It said of the Lions' 22 carries, 16 of them, the Packers hit them in the backfield. That's crazy. Like, so, which is like in year – I mean, the last game last year, late in the season, you know, it was in Detroit, close game. But that, like, the Lions kept going for it on fourth down, kept getting it.

1:20:03They rushed for 250. I think Gibbs and Montgomery both had over 100. So, yeah, hearing all this stuff about Micah can't play the run and just the Packers in general, and then for them to come out and have that type of performance, it was incredible.

1:20:16Pat McAfee:Let's say in the NFC, Jaden Daniels is the real deal. Holy hell. This guy, sophomore slump, I don't think so. I don't think there's going to be one of those for Jaden. On the run, on a dime, in rhythm, on time. I mean, everything yesterday looked like they just picked up right where they left off for the commanders. Cliff Kingsbury, obviously another year there, could have maybe interviewed for some head coaching jobs, decides to stay. Debo Samuel gets a tud in his debut with the Washington Commanders. AJ, it looks like they're not just a flash in the pan. Looks like this is for real over in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland area.

1:20:52Yeah, I feel like especially that Ertz touchdown early, you know, like, all right, these guys, they must be feeling pretty good about themselves. How about Bobby Wagner leading the team in tackles still? Like, this dude's been playing forever at the highest level. Like, I love watching these guys. Devin White with the Raiders, all these. I know I'm not talking about the Raiders right now, but I'm thinking of these older veteran linebackers that are playing very well. Debo, you know they wanted to get Debo going early because if not, they have to answer questions. Hey, how are you going to work Debo into this offense?

1:21:15What do you do with all the talent you have around him? They had a nice little balanced mixture. So Cliff is feeling himself a little bit, I think, as a play caller right now. And, Mike, the question for me is, like, we knew the offense was going to be pretty good. The defense only gave up six points. Like, the defense was always going to be the question. Yes, they have Bobby Wagner, who is one of the greatest linebackers of all time, but they're older. Six points to a Giants team who, yes, has offensive question marks, but six points to any NFL team is a great defensive performance. And I thought that was questions answered on the defensive side.

1:21:47Adam Schefter:Russ was 17 for 37. Whatever you think about Russ, he's a good quarterback. He's been around for a long time. They named him a starter for a reason. We'll see how long he actually starts. But, yeah, to hold a quarterback 17 to 37 is tough. Getting Samuel Debo involved early on was a big deal. Was a little off with Terry McLaurin, which we kind of expected. It was a deep shot that he kind of overthrew him on, but you could tell it was still good vibes there. And Jaden is just – he's a great player. Lasers, dude. Lasers from the pocket, outside of the pocket. And when he takes off the run, he is so fast.

1:22:19Adam Schefter:He was like jogging past some of these linebackers and DBs. They're cooking up something special up there at D.C. for sure. And having that rookie running back wild Bill Krosky-Marick, number 22. We saw him go in there in one of the early highlights and go nuts after his first career touchdown. But it feels like they didn't have a consistent run game. We've talked a lot about Brian Robinson Jr., and he was great. But he was averaging eight yards a pop, and he's extremely fast and can catch the ball out of the backfield. Before it was Brian Robinson Jr., par, and then maybe Eckler, kind of that more out-of-the-backfield guy.

1:22:52This Bill Krosky-Meritt dude seems to have both of them, and he is unbelievable and has a great name.

1:22:57Pat McAfee:Wild Bill is certainly a good nickname. Bengals do something that's never been done before. Yeah. Really? Complete an episode. Gotta win. Yep. Gotta win. Amen. Yep, and I guess the Browns did what I guess the Browns have done. Browns have done. Cincinnati Bengals should have lost to the Cleveland Browns, but instead they squeak out of there somehow with a win. Cincinnati Bengals get their first win to open the season in a long time. Boom. But none of them are saying it was a good game. AJ, how's Ohio feeling about this battle of Ohio and Cleveland seemingly browning all over themselves? Yes, you are correct.

1:23:31So I am surrounded by Bengals and Browns fans both. Everyone's diehard family fans. The Bengals are Browns where I'm at. And the Browns fans are all saying, yeah, here we go. It's just the same old Browns. It's kind of what we do. This is what happens to us. And the Bengals fans are saying, that's a great, great, gritty week one. We found a way to win.

1:23:52Pat McAfee:I would certainly spin it that way as well. And if I'm Zach over there, I'm trying to spin that to the Caysons. Tough game. Tough game. Got out of week one with a win. It's going to be tough. Always going to get an AFC North win. This is Ohio. It's always going to be tough. And also, we've got a lot to go through. I mean, seven yards of offense in the second half and still win somehow. That's crazy. And the Cleveland Browns fans are just incredibly athletic. Two of them. To that point, new D.C. over there. So, congrats to them having a great game. And congrats to us having Lou Anarumo. I am so thankful that he is with the Indianapolis Colts, which leads to the next conversation, AJ.

1:24:30Yeah, say it. It's real. I followed along your excitement on Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the Colts are early leaders in the clubhouse to win the Super Bowl, I would say.

1:24:43Pat McAfee:It's not every act. Okay. It's only the second quarter of the first game. Pretty level-headed. Thank you. You're not the only ones. Austin Cawley, okay, he's now a money manager. Level-headed individual. Has to be. He quotes me and says to say, nope, it's not an overreaction. We are winning the Super Bowl. It looked different. It really did. And I know everybody else's angle is, wow, these Dolphins are the worst team ever. And that might be true. I hope not. I don't think it is. I hope it's not for the sake of the Indianapolis Colts. That is literally why I hope that. But if the Miami Dolphins are a professional football team, which we assume they will be, at some point we assume they will be, the Colts look so good in all facets.

1:25:27Pat McAfee:I mean, just no punts, obviously. Great coverage. Hey, Schrader hit some monster field goals. Spencer Schrader, our kicker this year, is going to be very, very good for us, I think. He needs to work on his kickoffs. Hey, Bob, let's go. We need to work on his kickoffs. A lot of people. Hey, the kickoff is a new weapon. That 35-yard line start is tough. but also you can't just chip it to the 10 or the 11 and have them start at the 11 either full speed. That's not a – like getting good at those kicks is a big deal. Schrader has such a strong leg. I think he's going to be good at that. I think if you're good at that, I think it's going to win a game.

1:25:58Pat McAfee:I think it's going to win a playoff game personally. I think it's going to win a big game, this whole landing zone situation, drive-start average conversation. But the Colts looked very good, A.J. Bynum, he's the guy. This guy is the guy, A.J. The defense looked unbelievable. I have a hard time not talking about Tyler Warren There's a baldy breakdown already on Tyler Warren We know that, this guy is killing it But if the Colts can put this together Didn't they already say, hey, there's new sheriffs in town Here we go, we are back This is a different world now We're going to lock it down the back end Any great defense when the DBs Like the safeties and corners When they are playing at a super high level And I like when they're outspoken too You've got to have a little bit of ego about you You've got to be very, very confident as a DB and I feel like the Colts are doing that right now through week one.

1:26:44Pat McAfee:Now, AJ, the reason why I wanted you to highlight the defense is because of how damn great you were at defense in the NFL. You know, a player, professional. Yeah, that's right. A national champion player. A national champion and a Super Bowl champion player. Want to do that. But also because we had a chance to catch up with Danny Dimes earlier today and we talked a lot about the offense. I think he's going to come across as a guy that's charming, funny, likable. I know he had an NFL record. You know, he was historic there for a bit until Josh Allen had the fourth quarter that he had. But Danny Dimes, Indianapolis, we got a chance to catch up with him this morning, fresh out of a massive win.

1:27:20Pat McAfee:Mr. Dimes, what up, dude? Yo, what up? How we doing? Hey, we're great. Hey, we are fucking great. Don't you ever, don't you worry about that. We are in a great spot. First of all, congratulations. Hell yeah.

1:27:34Adam Schefter:Thank you.

1:27:35Pat McAfee:We're going to get right into it here. Whenever you came to Indianapolis, I had the incredible opportunity to have a little dinner with you. And one of the greatest auteurs of all time, Mr. Berg. And it was very evident when I was speaking to you that you liked this Indianapolis Colts team. I think like you had heard about maybe me having some beef with the locker room or whatever. And I said, yeah, I just don't know if we got dogs. You started rattling off names immediately on the offensive side that you liked and on the defensive side that you liked. And obviously there was a competition with you and Anthony Richardson was very public, but it felt like you all handled it perfectly.

1:28:12Pat McAfee:At what moment did you feel like, hey, this could be a really good home for me in my style of play with Shane Steichen? Was that immediately? Is that why you signed here? Or was there like a time throughout this entire process where you really felt that? I think I had a, you know, good idea, you know, making the decision to come here. There's a lot here, like you said, a lot of good pieces, a strong team, strong up front, strong in the skill positions. And then, yeah, Shane's system, what he does, moving the quarterback, the RPO game, the drop back game, all that stuff, I think, was something I was excited to be a part of.

1:28:48And probably sometime during camp, you kind of felt it coming together and getting more and more comfortable with all this stuff. But, yeah, I've enjoyed working with him.

1:28:57Pat McAfee:We didn't see a lot of positive whenever you were named the starter. And for Colts fans, it's because since Luck retired, we've been searching for a quarterback. So whenever you spend the number four overall pick on a guy who has immense upside, everybody was hoping that that was going to be our guy. Then in comes Danny Dimes, okay, from the New York Giants, and then a stop with the Minnesota Vikings. And it's like Colts fans, I think, naturally were hoping that the number four overall pick would win the job. But instead, everybody that was watching said you clearly were the leader of that team.

1:29:29Pat McAfee:Did you hear all the outside noise, the reaction? I mean, the Athletic put out a poll that was like, what, 93 % negative or something? Internet pollers were 93%. Now, I didn't vote on that. I would have been optimistic. Appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, I'm on your side. I would be on your side. But that was like a real thing. Did you hear that? Did you feel that? And how do you kind of distract or keep away from all that? I did not know about the poll, but I mean, I definitely realized the public, the media, the press has, you know, is not in my favor, has not been in my favor. And, you know, that's that's part of it.

1:30:02We didn't win enough games in New York and I didn't play well enough. So that that comes with it. But, you know, I think you're aware of it. You know, at this day and age, you can't you can't completely block it out. But you try to as best you can and stay focused on on what you're doing. So that's what I try to do. And I think, you know, I think the team does a good job of that here. You know, just kind of focusing on football and what's most important.

1:30:28Pat McAfee:I love what you guys did yesterday. I was talking to some people in the building that I know. And I'm like, how do we feel? Nobody really knows anything about your team. The only thing is the negative drama. There's a bunch of bullshit going on. So I asked some guys in the building, you know, over the past couple of days, because there was a lot of events happening for Mr. Ursa going into the Ring of Honor. Shout out to you getting a big time dub for him. And that day would be absolutely perfect. But everybody in the building is like, hey, we got a team, man. We got a really good team. We should kill the Miami Dolphins.

1:30:54Pat McAfee:That is what was being said by the people that aren't football players or coaches, but people in the building is like, hey, we have a good team. Yesterday was awesome. It's the first time that the first three drives have been scoring drives since 2006 to start a season for the Indianapolis Colts. Obviously, we lost 11 straight season openers. And then just the vibe in that building was just positive, literally from the jump. at what point did you think hey our offense can kind of do whatever we want to do right now and at what point during camp did you know that the defense was going to be legit cam bynum obviously has a massive day deforest buckner does his thing zayers getting tackles all over the place and penalties but whenever we talk about the colts it's very rare that we talk about a dominant defense and it felt like they were that yesterday in camp you knew that was going to be the case?

1:31:47Pat McAfee:When did you really see this defense being real? I would say pretty early on. The first three or four days of camp, to be honest, I'd say they got after us pretty good on defense. You realize they were, and that's kind of sometimes the way it is with offense and defense clicking and sometimes how that works during camp. But they were, from the jump, they were making plays. You could see the guys all over the field. And what Lou does on defense, I think, is tough for a lot of offenses. He's got pressures. He's got different coverages. He kind of makes it up on guys and keep them guessing. But they've got a lot of playmakers over there.

1:32:26I think we realized that pretty quick early on in camp.

1:32:30Pat McAfee:That was Leatu Latu, number one, first-round pick, who's a pass rusher, dropping into coverage out of nowhere. There's no way. Chris Ballard laughing while I'm saying that because of how offensive heavy that particular draft was. But him dropping into coverage like Tua, never. I don't think that guy was ever in coverage last year. I don't think there was one time where he was 10 to 15 yards off the ball and then snags that thing out of the sky. It's like, that was awesome. They were hunting. You guys were methodically moving that ball down the field. And that is something that we have not had a lot of opportunity to celebrate.

1:33:03Pat McAfee:There's always been flashes, but there's never been sustained success on the offensive side of the ball. It feels like the run game's great. It feels like you've got weapons outside. You spinning it better than you've ever spun it in your life? Or do you think you just don't get enough credit for how you throw? I feel like I'm throwing it well. I don't know. I mean, I think, you know, it's about where you throw it. And, you know, I feel like I'm throwing it well. And how much credit I'm getting for it, I don't know. I don't really think too much of that. We got a lot of open guys. We had time to throw.

1:33:40It was fun yesterday. But good start for us. We got to keep it rolling, though.

1:33:45Pat McAfee:Let's talk about that guy, Tyler Warren. He is a hoss. They were showing him during the National Anthem. He's a dog, yes. It appears we saw him get definitely concussed. Without a doubt. Penn State against Notre Dame. So cold. His head through the turf, like a full whip through the turf. And he just got his ass right up and just jogged right back on the field and continued to make plays. And when he showed his face in the National Anthem, he's a Sasquatch. He's hairy, and he is a Sasquatch. And then he gets on the field. He's a playmaker. He might be the best player in all of football. Go ahead, Tone.

1:34:19Pat McAfee:Yeah, Mr. Dimes, I saw he was your leading target getter yesterday. I think with nine, he had seven catches. Is it just, like, impossible not to look down the field and be like, oh, that 6 '8 guy has a mismatch against everyone on the field? Pretty much, yeah. He's a heck of a player. Tough as crap and always makes the play. I think just feel for space. I mean, you see on some of these highlights, he's feeling where the defense is, the overlap. He's feeling the space underneath and settling down the right spot. This play right here, he catches it immediately, gets upfield, he gets 12 yards on a play that should be a minus two play.

1:34:56I think stuff like that, it's just interesting. It's just football player stuff. He's just a good football player.

1:35:05Pat McAfee:Yes, he is. Yeah, they even go out and do a little bit of a draw, a little bit of a dive at fullback there. Go ahead, pal.

1:35:12Adam Schefter:I do remember. Hey, Dan, great, great game yesterday. I just want to ask about the game plan specifically. I know every week to week the matchup is going to be different. What type of input do you have with Shane when it comes to game plan-wise? Because to me from the start, it was very evident that you guys wanted to use your arm and open up, be a pass heavy at least early on in the offense. So what's that input like throughout the week with Shane while you're putting it together? Yeah, we communicate a lot, try to watch a lot of tape. and, you know, it's him, it's Jim Bob, it's Tanny, all those guys are putting together the plan in the pass game.

1:35:47The guys up front do a great job with the run games. So, you know, I'm, you know, when I have an idea, you know, talking through it and seeing what they think. But, you know, it's been a collaborative process. I think we saw some things we thought we could do in the pass game, you know, and a lot of those things converted. But I thought we had a really good plan going in. And the guys up front, I think when you look at that defense, it's a strong front. They've got good edge rushers, good guys inside, and we knew that would be a big part of the game. The guys up front, our guys handled them really well.

1:36:20Pat McAfee:Great run game yesterday. The Dimes Dive era is in full effect. It is a 100 %er. Okay. No questions asked. Let's go. We get down into the red zone again for his second Dimes Dive touchdown right here. And the first time we get stuffed. and I'm literally screaming to Shane who is 30 yards away from me on the sideline. Just call it. Just give it to him. Just do the dimes dive. It is, you're bigger, stronger, and faster than anybody thinks. Legit. And also, it feels like you tell Shane Steichen, hey, I want to get a helmet-to-helmet hit. Okay, at some point. I need a helmet-to-helmet hit a little bit earlier.

1:36:59Pat McAfee:This is bullshit. I got hit pretty good there. Yes, you did. you did it kind of came out of nowhere yeah i thought i had a little more space than i did but uh that was a good like uh welcome to the season hit right there yeah it was five it was like 10 yards in front of us uh foxy actually got like a great shot of it on his camera 4k of you just getting absolutely obliterated that's from the dimes dive so there was a time you just getting absolutely obliterated in that call no call no nothing it's like any other quarterback in the league other than rookies probably getting that call popped up yeah instead all we get is dimes just going oh shit like tighten that thing up and just jogging away that thing up that's right yeah it was it was awesome man it was a lot of fun to watch a lot of people saying that your journey is potentially why you are the quarterback that you are right now and we've seen this with other guys in the past where they have to go somewhere and then they end up finding a home i want to let you know this feels like a great place for you brother and uh it was fun to watch a lot of shit to do left okay hey you haven't won shit okay but with that yeah with that being said there is that was yesterday's buzz was awesome in that building go ahead con man yeah danny we talked to kevin o 'connell a lot and when we have him on he was raving about you last year and just about when you joined the team how big of a pro you were and things of that nature what did you take away from Minnesota that you've kind of carried into the offseason and now week one because, I mean, shit, you said it.

1:38:31That was the best you've thrown the ball is the best you feel like you've thrown the ball. You were unbelievable yesterday. Watching that Colts game was – that was the best game that that stadium has seen out of the Colts in a long, long time.

1:38:43Pat McAfee:Brother, listen, I don't want to stress this too much with Connor. We're standing in that stadium. It was a great time. It was crazy, yeah. The whole time. Usually it's like, boom. You got to drum up a little bit of energy. That place was like, in Bynum, we're talking every play. Oh, yeah. Bynum is every single play like this.

1:39:03Adam Schefter:Love that. It was. How about that dance, huh? Can you do that dance?

1:39:06Pat McAfee:No, I can't. You know what I'm saying? I can't. I'm not explosive enough. I'm not explosive enough. I think you can do it. The ending of that dance is actually pretty crazy after the kip up. Yeah. And then into the pop rock. Can you do it, Dives? Yeah. Do you try that? Absolutely not. No, no, no. No, I don't think so. I didn't see any cool dances out of you yesterday. Not yet. I have no dances, but I'm not much of a dancer. Really? You're going to score 32 touchdowns this year, so Bynum should probably give you a couple celebration ideas. I'm sure you guys could collab a little bit. You should do the whitest, most Caucasian thing of all time after.

1:39:41Pat McAfee:Maybe you just shake the hand of the ref and just hand the ball and then just walk it away. But let's talk about KOC a little bit. How much was the Vikings, like, a confidence booster for you maybe or a reset for you? How do you kind of view that and how do you view KOC? Yeah, I think just being around Kevin, being around Josh McCown, Grant Udinski, those guys there, I learned a lot from them. I think the biggest thing I took away from there was just the preparation, how detailed they were in the game plan, you know how much they you know prepared for certain looks checks they had motions to undress the defense you know every little thing they were going over they were talking through they were walking through they were you know discussions about it was you know very very detailed high level here's what we're expecting here's what we're going to do to it you know and the preparation day-to-day throughout the week was was really you know impressive to me just just the level of detail that they had so yeah i think being around those guys and seeing that being able to watch um watch sam prepare and how they prepared him to me was was really impressive i love that you brought it here it's everything we need that is everything that is literally everything we absolutely need the building loves you too man which is a cool thing i i think you're just like you're look especially when we had peyton andrew you know and obviously you with peyton the Manning's coaches, Coach Cutcliffe there, yeah.

1:41:08Pat McAfee:And all the ties on draft night and everything like that. It's like you just felt like very much in command, felt like nothing was too big. Everybody obviously respected you, and you got dropped in here in obviously an interesting situation personally for you. I couldn't even imagine what it would be like with everything going from New York City all the way to Minnesota. Then you come to Indy, win the starting job after multiple teams wanted you. Obviously, you didn't hear this, so I'm breaking the bad news to you now. Everybody was like, that's a bad decision. That is not how it goes. It's like having to do all that, man, and then for you still to just be like, I don't want to say bulletproof, but unfazed by it, that's a special trait that only NFL starting quarterbacks have.

1:41:47Pat McAfee:So we're very lucky that you're here. I appreciate it. On that note, this place is going to love you for a long time. I also have like four houses floating around if you need anything. Go ahead, Ty. There you go. Yeah, Daniel, you've been in Indianapolis for a couple months now. Now, are you starting to kind of realize like, wow, this really isn't that much different than New York City in terms of stuff to do, restaurants, you know, nightlife, all that kind of stuff. But honestly, and not saying you were doing all that shit when you were in New York, but when you get to a place like Indianapolis, does it kind of make it easier to realize like, oh, okay, like I can just focus on football because even if I'm not doing all that other stuff, like those distractions just aren't here.

1:42:25Unless you want to go to like a movie and, you know, go to McDonald's, it's a little bit different than a Saturday night in New York. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think, yeah, it is in a lot of ways. It's about it's about football here. But the people have been great. I've really enjoyed being here and, you know, getting to know a lot of these fans and the people in the area. But very different feel from from being in New York and right across from the city for sure. But I've enjoyed it. It's about it's about ball here. And we got a team that kind of all thinks the same way. Yeah. Hell yeah.

1:42:59Pat McAfee:Got a fan base. He's going to do the same damn thing. Yeah, we'll let you know that. We appreciate the hell out of you. Good luck the rest of the way. And remember, week one doesn't mean a damn thing, does it? That's right. We got a lot to do. We know that. Unless you're that good, yeah. Morning out, baby. Unless you're. Yeah. I mean, week one means a lot for the Dolphins fans. And I think that's not being talked about enough is how good you guys are. I think that is kind of missing in conversation. We can't wait to watch it. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, Danny Dine. Thank you. Appreciate it.

1:43:31Pat McAfee:Hi, baby. Danny. Danny. Danny. Danny. I'm serious about selling him a house. He's in his seventh year. Is that what it is? Yes. Yeah, I think he's in his seventh year. Quarterbacks definitely have 17-year careers. Talk about a decade here, man. You're talking about maybe just owning this role and this job for these Indianapolis Colts. And it was awesome, dude. I'm telling you. I don't want to say overreact. Okay? I don't want to do that. Might have been underreacting, to be honest. We'll see how the story kind of plays out in its entirety. Everything looked good. His throws were like, he was throwing the spots.

1:44:10Pat McAfee:You know, he was very much having great chemistry with his wide receivers, which make you wonder, like, if he would have got all the reps in training camp, how much further would we? Are we only at the beginning of this entire relationship? Because he was in a competition, so he was only getting half the amount of reps, half the amount of everything. It feels like as you're watching it and it's all going well, it's like we're at the very beginning of this. There's still so much room to grow, and I think that's possible for us. That's how a lot of fans feel. Obviously, after week one, 16, fan groups feel that way.

1:44:41Pat McAfee:Other than maybe, nah. Cincy, for sure. Cincy, yeah, but he just said, Gritty win.

1:44:48Adam Schefter:Plus, you know they're going to be all right. You got Joe Burrow. You got Jamar Chase. You got T. They're going to score a point.

1:44:54Pat McAfee:But for the Colts, I think we didn't know. At all. I think Colts fans had no idea what it was going to look like. And then we see it, and they're like, wait, this is much better than what we've been seeing over the last five years. This might be the best. Gardner Minshew, love. Love Gardner Minshew. Sure. Gardner Minshew almost took the Indianapolis Colts to an AFC South championship and to the playoffs. One play away. He should have. Gardner Minshew was in the Pro Bowl with the Shane Steichen offense. And it was like, we've seen that. And I think what yesterday was was way better than that team.

1:45:22Pat McAfee:Way better than it all. Shane Steichen got the head coaching job because he's this offensive guru. He's this wizard. He's able to do things. And it's like Daniel Jones, I think, understands the offense. And he's making the checks and putting them in the right play, making the right decisions. It's like this offense has been unlocked. And let's not even talk about Lou Anarumo coming over here with weapons. Lou Anarumo, when he was at the Bengals, they didn't really invest in any defensive players. Invest in many of anything. But Lou Anarumo, Paisan greatness. They've invested in players for him on the defensive side.

1:45:51Pat McAfee:Top picks on that defensive side of the ball. A lot of money on that defensive side of the ball. So although the national narrative might have been negative, and I guess there were some online fans that were voting negative, if you watch this team over the last couple of years, you think there's good players. Jim Irsay spent a lot of money on this team. There's a lot of good players on this team. Just for one of them, it looked like they unlocked that.

1:46:10Adam Schefter:It did, and it didn't look gimmicky. Sometimes you can look at the score. Okay, you got a tip ball here or a strip set. Somebody picked a block punt. You score. It was just full operation. And we knew the weakness coming in for this Dolphins defense was definitely in the secondary. So when you have a team and you have an offense, they can say, OK, they got a weak secondary. We got good weapons. Let's see if we have a good quarterback. And you go out there and actually execute. And the quarterback has a complete understanding of the offense. He was comfortable from the beginning. Coming into the season, it was like, OK, Dan Jones, take care of the ball.

1:46:42Adam Schefter:Run the football defense. You guys play great. But when you have when you come out here, you have a start like this. Now, who knows what the Dolphins go on to be? Maybe they are just a shitty, shitty, shitty team. Maybe worse all time. Maybe 1972, only undefeated team.

1:46:56Pat McAfee:And maybe 2025, only 17-game completely defeated team. Possible. 16 teams, it's possible. They're still at this point.

1:47:04Adam Schefter:But you can respond to it. To what we said, hey, how do we respond? And we all remember that blowout when the Broncos got 70 put on them by the Dolphins, and then they responded. So we'll see how they respond. It's a long season, but love what we saw from the Colts. And then you mentioned Chris Ballard finally opening that checkbook and going and getting some big-time players, going to get one of the top safeties on the market, Cam Bonham, going to get Ward, big-time cornerback in the league for a long, long time. And you see a guy like Kenny Moore, when you have players like that around you, now you can play better.

1:47:32Adam Schefter:Nick Cross got involved. He got a nice sack of them. So, yeah, Big Lou bringing his defense here with these new weapons. He's having a fresh start because they ran him out of sentencing as well. loved everything I saw from this Colts team in all phases. Well, and that's the thing, too. You can say the Dolphins' defense isn't good for sure. The Dolphins' offense is good. They have Tyree Kill, who was voted the number one player two years ago. They have Waddle, who they paid. They have A-Chan, who's good. Tua, he's been paid. Now, did people figure out the Mike McDaniel gimmick bullshit? There's a chance.

1:48:03Maybe. There's a chance. There's a chance. Everyone's running the stuff to the left and to the right, but more so with the Colts. They never melted, which was nice. Like, we've seen the Colts play well in spurts, like a quarter or a half. But then they shit down their leg. Then they call some gimmick bullshit that doesn't work. And it's like, okay, well, what the hell are you doing, Steichen? There's no point to do shit like this. Like, that didn't exist, which was nice. It just feels like the gimmick maybe screw up, shit down their leg. And maybe that is a Dan Jones thing where Dan Jones isn't going to, you know, try and break both of the fan goals.

1:48:39He looked like he didn't have a pulse yesterday.

1:48:41Pat McAfee:You know what Tomlin said about Boz being a serial killer? That's how Danny Dimes scored that touchdown like super fought through it then just like got up, alright and then just like headbutted all his teammates the workboys and just jogged off the field. It was like getting a play call late or whatever, just no worries. Introduced. They were introduced as a team. It wasn't offense or defense introductions. It was team introductions. I said, hold the phone. Yeah, that's what I said. That was my exact thoughts. And I don't think I realized it was happening. No. So the team normally runs out first to create the tunnel for everybody else.

1:49:15Pat McAfee:You know, the other half, whoever's not starting. And then they do the intros. First game day ops, new video, sick, sick video. New game ops, everything's very good. And then the team comes running out. I remember, you know, the Lucas Oil motorcycle comes flying out there with a sidecar. I didn't know that it's like a prize. It's a new person in a sidecar. It makes sense. Oh, nice. You got Blue doing the entire thing. Then a big portion of the Colts come out. Okay. and it's like, all right, now what are they doing for the starters? And I saw – I think I saw Zaire sprint out. I was like, okay, so the offense must be getting introduced or whatever.

1:49:48Pat McAfee:And I even look at Boston Conner. I go, is Danny Dimes getting intro'd last or is Jonathan Taylor? It's got to be Jonathan Taylor. We all agreed, got to be Jonathan Taylor. Then we look out and we start seeing like offensive linemen that we know running and it's like they just introduced the whole, yup, love everything about this. It's all New England. It's – go ahead. We got a flyover? Two of them. Yeah. Roof was open? Roof open. That looks sick. Same scoreboard or not? Fun stat. Same scoreboard. Fun stat. Flyover's insane. Always awesome. Always going to hit. Love everything about it. Two of them F-18s, I do believe, coming over here.

1:50:22Pat McAfee:Thought they were going to come length upfield. Same. We all thought they were going to come. I thought Connor missed it, actually, because they came across. He was under a little bit of a hangover. But whatever the case was. I got lucky. I actually was looking for the vertical, but it only lasted a second because it was just the horizontal. The side. Yeah. By the way, they sliced that thing. You could hear them humming. In the Eastern Church Choir, from the... They did the National Anthem. On the screen, I go, oh shit, this is from the funeral. They are very good. They made a great Jim Irsay tribute video that Tony Dungy and I.

1:50:57Pat McAfee:It was very good. But the team getting introduced was awesome. Yes, and the roof and the window were open. I learned that the night before from Pete Ward, who's been the president of the Colts for a long time. came over i believe him and jim actually their first year working for the baltimore ravens they shared an office at training camp you know and he was like scared to death that he was with the owner's son and what happened is they end up becoming like brothers and pete ward has been with jim through absolutely everything and pete ward has had to handle everything you know like this is this is real deal here how long pete's been around and he told me uh saturday night uh there was a little gathering downtown a couple cocktails it's good to see everybody uh pete comes up to me he goes you know the window and roof are gonna be open tomorrow i go you love that shit pete that's what i said to him he goes did you know your average was longer whenever the roof and the window were open than whenever it was closed and i said no way he goes i looked it up because of everything you would say to me whenever i would tell you that we were either opening it or closing that and i said who helped you and he goes yeah i looked up every single game i said well how is Vinny's field goal stats?

1:52:02Pat McAfee:Because I'm fighting for the team, not just myself. You know, I'm mad for Vinny as well. And he goes, well, I didn't look that up. I looked you up. But next time I see him, I bet he's going to go, Adam Vinatieri, 94 % with the window. It was amazing. Yeah, it's like celebrating the Irsay family in the Colts this weekend was cool because it's such a small group of people that are really doing it. And they've all been around for so long. And listening to them talk about this particular team, it's cool. It is like a very, very cool thing to hear how not only how Carly, Kaelin, and Casey, who they've all known since they were very young, how they've just like taken over and have kind of had to be put in a position that they knew was coming for a long time.

1:52:43Pat McAfee:Yeah. But like actually having to do it the way they're operating. It's like vibes are immaculate right now around the Colts. Like Peyton Manning gave a little halftime speech and then he introduced Carly for her to give, you know, the Jim Ursa induction into the Ring of Honor. That was incredible too. Dallas Clark, he wears pants that don't fit him, which was one of my favorite parts. No pants will fit him. This dude's squatting three times a week. His quads are gigantic. Sue him. He wears tight pants. To be honest, I thought someone painted them on. That might have been skin paint. Yeah, I thought he wasn't actually wearing pants donging out because they were that tight.

1:53:18It was disgusting. No, it wasn't. What are you talking about? I thought it was impressive. I mean, it was cool. Like, oh, wow, this guy's got kegs for legs. But then you look up a little. It's like, geez, Louise.

1:53:28Pat McAfee:This guy's dogs in my face. No, that's not true. That's not true. Dallas looked like a gentleman, and his quads are gigantic. He is incredibly ripped. And it was great to see him and everybody else. The Colts are the real deal, AJ. That's what everybody needs to understand. But are the Packers as well. We'll continue to debate that on the other side. Plus, overreactions. I don't know if the actions. No, perfect. Especially after watching the one second thing they did with Dalton Kincaid after the end of the first half, where it's clearly like 15 seconds to get him to the ground. That definitely got snuck.

1:53:59Pat McAfee:Yeah, we'll see. I mean, there could be, who knows what the delays were. You know what I mean? Who knows? Because there's always some sort of sync issue going on. Those on-the-road shows on Friday have become pretty good. Like pretty technically sound. Certainly much better than last year. Yeah, it looks far. Those are always fun to deal with, those ones on the road. Now, granted, everybody's working their ass off. It's a lot of tech, a lot of this, a lot of that, a lot of, you know, internet connections also sending to here to there. There's a lot of shit involved. I forget who did the stand-up joke.

1:54:30Pat McAfee:Somebody was mad about the wait time. Might have been Bill Burr. And their phone's going to a fucking satellite in the sky. It's coming back down. You're upset about having to wait for fucking four minutes. Technology is absolutely insane. It is great for our lives. Crazy. But it also can be the worst thing of all time. Because it seems like it's the only thing that understands itself. and when it comes to like video, audio, all these types of things, boy, tech just holds us all by the – You can say it. Oh, yeah, you can say it. They got you by the short hairs. They do. They do. I know you have to deal with it here, but it normally goes off without a hitch, like hearing you and everything like that and like seeing – Let's knock on wood, please.

1:55:15Pat McAfee:Please knock on wood. The only thing is just that little delay that you have to deal with. Shout out Barcode and the team, though. Yeah, they're doing a great job. Yeah, they've really worked their asses off. Chad's over there too, I believe. When we do have a problem, it's crazy because every time with tech, the solution is the dumbest thing in the world. We had a problem with the talkback stuff. It was because our computer was just on volume zero. So it had nothing to do with the program. Oh, my God. Nope, just had to go volume up. That can't happen. It's crazy. That can't happen.

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1:56:27Adam Schefter:Good energy in, good energy out. Energy for life.

1:56:34Pat McAfee:Football! He is the greatest. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to talk about it for a living. That is A.J. Hawk. Wow, A.J., you look good, Bob. You look good over there. You look great. You guys all look great. Well, we appreciate that. But he popped up on the screen. We said, holy hell, this guy's in the middle of a new haircut. Take it for me. Yeah, it is. People talk about J.J. Watts here. I don't know if you saw the tweets talking about feathery and layered. I think he did it right. And obviously him and Cousin, he's calling with quite a height disparaged. Eye and eagle. Eye and eagle there.

1:57:03I mean, one's uniquely tall.

1:57:05Pat McAfee:J.J.'s absolute monster. Get him a box. J.J.'s a monster. Him in some of those old stadiums would have been great because I think he's actually calling game like this in some of those stadiums with the way some of those booths are for everything. His hair looks great. I think he called the game very well. I think it was a great game for him to call. A lot of action, too. So I'm pumped for JJ's start. We'll talk to him on Wednesday. The Talks at Tables here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer. Cowboys AP Tone is here. And a nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler, is here. Everything DB, good D, bad D, back for another season.

1:57:37Pat McAfee:Can't wait to dive into all of that. We had some good defensive performances around the league, I think, We did.

1:57:42Adam Schefter:We had some great defensive plays, great performances overall. Can't wait to dive into it. Were the Broncos great defense? They were pretty good. They were pretty solid. Rookie quarterback, you know, you expect a defense like that to show up and show out.

1:57:55Pat McAfee:That game kind of stunk. We didn't really talk about that. Also, Card Saints game kind of stunk. We didn't really talk about that. Those Saints jerseys? Those were shite. The game stunk for us, but it didn't stink as much as Cam Ward's dad thought it stunk. Yeah, if that was his dad, we all saw the video on the internet of his dad getting up from the seat, going over the handle rail and just putting his head down and then turning back around. We all saw the video. We don't know if that was necessarily him, but he was certainly at a point of, come on, boys. What are we doing here? And then, you know, Coach saying, potentially not the rules.

1:58:32Pat McAfee:I don't know if any of us know the rules, I guess. A lot of rules. So many rules. There's a lot of rules. What's in? What's out? What's out? Is an elbow count as good? if one foot, you know, what all do you need? There was that whole situation. But Saints cards, Broncos, Titans, kind of two games we didn't really dive into. And I think for all four fan bases, for the betterment of everybody. And they understand. Yeah, I think so. Was there any? Maybe next week. Yeah, maybe next week. A lot of games left. A lot of games left. Congrats to Broncos getting a big time win. Congrats to the Cards getting a big time win.

1:59:05Pat McAfee:That's right. Congrats to those two getting out of there 1-0. Yeah, that's all you need. As opposed to being completely defeated. Now, the other teams are wondering themselves. All right, what's your shirt going on? You know, there's a little bit of that going on for some people. But, no, it's a long season, and even the shite teams are going to steal a win. Maybe. Maybe. Now, let's go to some overreactions. What do you think, AJ? I can't wait. I bet there are some good ones today. Yeah, I think so, too. I felt like there was a lot of pent-up energy through the offseason, a lot of thoughts coming into the season.

1:59:33Pat McAfee:And then whenever that particular game plays out the way that you thought it was going to in a mostly negative fashion. Like I heard Gumpy yesterday say like 10 different times, oh, it turns out all of our actual feelings about the team were right. Yeah, all of our actual thoughts and concerns were good concerns because they are concerning watching them play football. Ain't that right, Gumpy? That was kind of your realization. Yeah, it looked as bad as it possibly could have. And that was in the moment. That was at halftime. I couldn't even imagine what some of these fans could think of overnight.

2:00:05Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, I put a tweet out saying, Hey, I want to hear your thoughts on your team. All you have to do is put the hashtag. I don't want to overreact. But. What's the number one trend? Ty scanned through them all. Ty, you said there were some good ones in there. Yeah, there's definitely, I mean, as to be expected. You know, people have been waiting to do this to just unleash on their team or say we're going to win the Super Bowl for quite some time. So there were some really good ones. Great morning on the internet. Let's go to the first one from our Boston Corner. Hashtag I don't want to overreact.

2:00:33Pat McAfee:But. What? There's a chance we are entering into the NFL's golden era of primetime football. Last night was week one. It was a 15-point fourth quarter, under four-minute comeback. It's going to be the best season yet. Hell yeah, Connor. I don't think that's overreaction. I think that's reading what's happening and understanding the future, brother. Yeah, very excited. Thursday night was fantastic up until that weather delay. That's going to throw a wrench in it. You can't really qualify everything after that. Just think about the football you saw before it. Top tier. Then you go to Friday. Justin Herbert, Patrick Mahomes.

2:01:01Mahomes is running wild. Herbert played unbelievable. Last night was last night. Tonight, maybe you're not as excited as all the other primetime games, and that's okay just because it's a lot of question marks. Enjoy that. Enjoy the, hey, I don't know what I'm going to get with J.J. McCarthy tonight. This is his first NFL game. Hey, guess what? You're going to know what you're going to get with Justin Jefferson. He's going to do something unbelievable. Caleb Williams, I don't know what I'm going to get. Hey, guess what? He might suck. It's going to be freaking hilarious if he does. Enjoy that.

2:01:27If he's good, that's going to be just as cool. And if the game sucks, shit, we've got to wait a couple days. Guess what we're waiting for? Guys, you know what's on Thursday? I don't know. Commanders, Packers. What? You've got to be kidding me. The primetime, this might be the year where every single game in primetime delivers. I'm juiced.

2:01:45Pat McAfee:Yeah, because every once in a while, we'll run into a little bit of a lull in the season. And we start to wonder, has the NFL lost its fastball? Are they not able to project ahead of time what teams are going to be good so that we have good games? But now at the start of the season, A.J., both college and NFL, feels like we've got some good ball in this season. Maybe the best year of all time, A.J. Oh, it's setting up to be the best season of all time, no question. I mean, Packers, Commanders, are you serious on Thursday? Micah gets a little bit more into the game plan, and we get to see both teams, like who is truly legit, who backs up what they did week one, I guess.

2:02:18Pat McAfee:We'll do our selections, you know, on Thursday for Thursday night and then on Friday. We both, you know, not bad for first week, A.J. You need to know that. I don't know if I did great. What did I do? Not bad, dude. 500. Look at you. You're seeing it. You're seeing the field. I'll tell you what. I might be. I might be. Now, with that being said, I waffled on four or five of these picks. And I think they all went the right way. There's certainly a time where you're going to waffle and they're going to go the wrong way. Yeah. And shout out to us getting the best line, too, AJ. We'll continue to do that all season.

2:02:48Pat McAfee:But you at 500 week one, we should be happy about. Me above 500 week one, I'm happy about. Let's keep – maybe our overreaction is, holy shit. might be the greatest NFL season of all time. Might be out here, AJ. This is good news. Because there's been some times where both of us have started, you know, threefer in that thing. I think I've won one or two games before early in the season, no question. Yeah, because who knows what we're looking at? Nobody knows. It's hard. And early on the game. Like the Giants. Like the Giants, too. And they've been great. Go ahead, AJ. Sorry. I took a shot in the Giants at plus six, and we had a lot of hope coming out of camp with them, didn't we?

2:03:20We felt like everything was good, and, yeah, unfortunately it didn't happen.

2:03:23Pat McAfee:Well, that sounds like an overreaction there from him. Everyone came saying the Giants might be dead. Do you know Russell Wilson doesn't even have a start? Let's go to the next overreaction from Ty. Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but it's destiny. Written in the stars. Jordan Love looked exceptional. And yes, Micah Parsons with a limited snap count had a massive impact on the game. See you in Santa Clara. Hashtag Go Pack Go. Hashtag Kings of the North. Good hashtag. Is everybody singing? Great hashtag usage. Thank you. Anytime there's a little emblem after the hashtag. Anytime you can get the emblem in there.

2:03:53Pat McAfee:Yeah, because that's just a little pizzazz. Yeah, it is very neat. Yeah, it is very neat. Is this how every Packers fan feels? Yes. Michael Parsons gets traded to you guys. You all think you're going to win the Super Bowl, and then first game goes the way it goes against a Detroit Lions team that is normally good against you guys, and you have your way with them. You guys feel great. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, I think everyone was still kind of – and no one knew how much Michael was actually going to play. So, you know, you were hopeful the whole time. But, yeah, had they done this against, like, the Bears or, you know, like another team that was kind of on the fringe, hey, maybe you make the playoffs, it probably would have been a different reaction but doing it against a team that won 15 games last year and the team that is the king of the division right now and it wasn't particularly close.

2:04:38They thoroughly dominated that game. So yeah, everyone is taking that, hey, we're going to win the Super Bowl and now I think it's just amplified by like 100.

2:04:45Pat McAfee:Well, congratulations. Pretty good. Hey, that's Carmen Policy's board. Policy making that big time trade with Jerry bringing in the juice.

2:04:55Adam Schefter:That's what you do. You give out some assets, you bring in a difference maker. We all want guys that can change the math on defense, and that's the guy that changes the math not only for the guys he's lining up with on the same level, but those secondary guys. You bring in a Micah Parsons, that's going to upgrade everyone on the back end. You got a defense still wins championships. You obviously have an offense that can score. I don't think that's an overreaction, Ty. There are moments where, and we talked about this a little bit before, there are moments where you forgot like Penny Sewell was on the field because of how good Micah Parsons was playing.

2:05:25Why don't they give him the damn ball?

2:05:27Pat McAfee:They should. Good point. Ben Johnson would have been giving him the ball third quarter if things weren't going well. Yeah. Timmy Horton called. It feels like the OC doesn't know football. What? Jeez, that's an overreaction. Come on. Did Hunch play? You wouldn't be able to tell. Hunch did play, okay? Did he? He didn't look great. Thanks for doing that. He's back from an injury. The whole pass rush didn't look great. I'm starting to think that. It is fucking lunch. That non-player Peter Schrager did know what he was talking about about the Lions. I'm starting to think, hold on. Hold the phone, Peter.

2:06:01There might be, for the next 20 years, the number one seed in the NFC might go through the NFC North. But, shit, he might not be MCDC's quarterback. Oh, yeah? It might be Green Bay or Minnesota we might see tonight. J.J. McCarthy looks good. Shit, we're talking about the Lions being the third best team in their division. Holy shit. What if Caleb's ruined? Oh, man. Don't go. We can't go there. We can't. Or we can. They're all the Lions.

2:06:34Pat McAfee:I mean, they got Jared. First in the entire NFC. They got Jared Gouflovsky. No. I'm seeing a lot of Jared. Gouflovsky on the interstate. Without Ben Johnson, we're looking at Jared Gouflovsky running out of the back of the end zone as Micah Parsons. I saw a lot of people saying that that's what it looked like. That was unfair, I think, to Jared Goff. Yeah, just a bad thing. And the guy and Gowlofsky. Yes, thank you. Pretty messed up. That is, that is. The internet's good, though. Yeah, where was JMO, too? We're just talking about Gowlofsky. He just got paid. Where was JMO? Where was Al Monroe?

2:07:10Yeah, just getting paid counting their bills because they weren't catching their passes.

2:07:13Pat McAfee:I will say, a lot of people are saying, I know you guys call Monty and Gibbs Sonic and Knuckles. Some people are calling them ass in cheeks now. I don't like that. I do not like that. Who was that? That was a tweet. Yes, that was a tweet on the internet. Shonic and moose knuckles. The internet is the greatest. The internet is the greatest. Who's the Lions' next opponent? The Bears. They better show up. We're in a must-win situation right now. The Bears haven't even played yet. They might be the best. Might be. I'm a believer. Number one in the NFC. What Connor was alluding to is number four in the NFC North.

2:07:57Pat McAfee:Jeez Louise. That might be the Jeez Louise moment of the weekend. I'm sorry Lions fans feel that way. I mean, but that's the thing. You know, everybody wants to be the Patriots. It's hard to be good for that long, man. You know, the Lions just, they're just going to be one of those flashing the pans. Oh, no. That's an overreaction.

2:08:20Adam Schefter:I never saw Bill in a fucking Chili's commercial. It's Applebee's. Triple Denver. Actually, that is weird because the moment it all started going downhill, you could argue, is when Bill Belichick appeared in that subway commercial. Boom.

2:08:37Pat McAfee:Sat down on that bench. Is it true MCDC isn't letting Texas A &M scout? That's fake. Is it true MCDC made the boys run sprints on Lambo? No. That was Fran Brown in Syracuse. All right, let's go to the next overreaction, or maybe not. This is from Frankie Moraldo. Hashtag I don't overreact, but Ben Stoneham, incredible graphic designer, video editor, you name it, out of Pittsburgh. And he created a Netflix docuseries about Chris Boswell being a serial killer. And that is because Mike Tomlin had this to say about the Wizard of Bos, who's been on a heater for the Pittsburgh Steelers for about a decade or so.

2:09:18Adam Schefter:I mean, I can't say enough about Boz. Man, our kicker is a serial killer. Man, he's got a low pulse rate. He can't wait to deliver.

2:09:28Pat McAfee:That last line, I think, is the most important one. He can't wait to deliver. Whenever you talk about kickers, you know, you talk about the mental capacity of it all. The fact that Tomlin can feel the fact that this dude wants to come out here and hit that. That's what separates, you know, like Adam Vinatieri from like me or guys that weren't like great kickers but good kickers. Boz has been so good for so long. Danny Smith is chewing on his gum with delight knowing that Boz is there. And there was a little bit of a contract thing going on before the season with him, AJ. So the fact that he was able to block all that out and knock one of those home and Tomlin describes him as a serial killer, which is a great compliment for a kicker.

2:10:06Pat McAfee:What if it's a Steelers year, AJ? What if it is the Steelers here? I mean, they sure look good to me, but going back to Boswell, it's true. Tomlin knows we've all seen people, like say, I don't know, say you run the drill in practice and there's a guy who's a monster who's killing everybody, and they're real slow to get an opponent versus that kid. A lot of times no one wants to jump up and challenge that big kid. Bos seems like the kid that's going to be jumping to the front of the line going 10 times in a row trying to challenge himself against that biggest kid. So I'm sure Bos has said, yeah, I'll make it from 70.

2:10:36I don't care. You guys don't need to get any farther. Here we go. Let's go. wherever I'm at, I'm going to make that thing. What an absolute weapon to have as your kicker to be that guy.

2:10:44Pat McAfee:I agree. There has to be some sort of incentive-based something coming, I would assume. Just pay him now. Kind of how they deal with Cam. Yeah, kind of the$3 million incentive base for Cam. I assume there'll be some. Con artists at work. He ain't making him happy. He was walking off the field afterwards with Tom. All is good. Yeah, they're happy. It's all the man's pumped. Would be a hilarious headline. Chris Boswell signs new four-year, blah, blah, blah, million-dollar deal the day after hitting a 60-yard game winner. That's out of a movie. Could do it. Should do it. Would they? Or hold out. One of the two.

2:11:19Pat McAfee:Oh, you think he says I'm not doing it anymore? No. Find somebody else to make a 60-yard game winner, coach. See ya. That'd be so sweet. That'd be the coolest thing ever. He has the leverage. If for one week Boswell was like, all right, Mike, I'm going to sit this one out. Let's see if you want to pay me now after you need another guy to kick a 60-yarder to win. Now, that happened up in Buffalo with Prater getting the job. Yeah. Prater 41 years. Did he get there? Thursday. Thursday, they said. Thursday, yeah. Gets you dropped in there. And then hits a game winner. It's like, yeah, it's classic Prater, you know.

2:11:48Pat McAfee:And maybe if he was available, maybe that's who the Steelers would be able to call. But I don't know if Prater's just stepping in, hitting a 60. Maybe, actually. He would be the guy. Prater might be the only guy. For the old K-balls. Yeah, the original K-balls back in the game was a big deal. Like, these dudes are going to murder these footballs. Chris Boswell hit that 60-yarder. That thing hit the net. That net at that stadium is far back, too. Like, it's hard to, you know, because some stadiums, the nets are very close to the uprights. So they're going to be a little bit higher on the thing, obviously, as you go through.

2:12:16Pat McAfee:Some of them are a little bit further back. There's a little bit more space in between the upright and the stands. So it's like he murdered that ball, crushed it. And I think if they would have lined him up for any distance, he's the type of guy that's going to make it. Like, it's going to be good enough. It's going to be far enough. I love Boswell. I like that he's getting love. Hopefully he gets a little bit of cash out of this, too. Yeah, let's not forget the 41-year-old quarterback who started that drive on the 19-yard line and just had another notch on his belt for game-winning drives. Hello, Aaron Rodgers, Pittsburgh Steelers.

2:12:41I was told that I was a fucking idiot for wanting him on my football team.

2:12:45Pat McAfee:What did Bruce Arians say? Bruce Arians said there are going to be a lot of close games. I don't think there's anybody I want with the two-minute other than Aaron Rodgers. Isn't that what he said? That is exactly what he said. I thought about it yesterday. Or Mike McCarthy. It was McCarthy. Yeah. I thought about it as that was happening yesterday. I was like, you know what? Things happen on the show all the time where people say stuff and then it happens. and I was thinking of that during the game yesterday because I needed a lot of hope. Yeah, there's a lot of points being scored against Pittsburgh Steelers.

2:13:09Pat McAfee:Defense was very abnormal. Didn't love it. But Mike McCarthy saying a lot of those games are going to be very close and it's going to come down to Aaron in a two-minute drill and he gets it down. Obviously, 60-yard field goal is a long way. They lose two yards in the down right before that game. Yeah. But nonetheless, Pittsburgh Steelers win. Yenzers are jacked up. Now, they watched the Colts do what the Colts did too, saying, no, there's levels to this right now after week one. Let's go to the next overreaction. Speaking of that, from Jonathan May at JonathanMay2434. Hashtag I don't want to overreact.

2:13:37Pat McAfee:But the Colts aren't just winning games. They're rewriting destiny. This squad looks ready to run the table, go undefeated, and bring the Lombardi back home for Jim Irsay. Forget movie magic. This isn't Indiana Jones on a big screen. This is real life. Hell yeah, Jonathan May. This is real life. I don't think that's an overreaction at all. but what he's saying about not being Indiana Jones, I'm okay with it being Indiana Jones. If he needs to turn over every stone to figure whatever out needs to be done to win a damn Super Bowl, I hope Indiana Jones gets to the bottom of it. I appreciate what Jonathan May is saying here, Ty.

2:14:15Yeah, and there were a lot of people alluding to the Indiana Jones thing. So that's great, but maybe let's not do that every single week. Are you talking about us? No, no. Are you talking about Debo? I'm saying literally every single overreaction had some sort of Indiana Jones play on words to it. It's his nickname now. I'm already sick of it. I'm already sick of it. But I was thinking about it. And when you put everything together from what the Colts had going on this week, I don't think it is an overreaction as a Colts fan to feel this way. Going in, all that stuff comes out like, okay, we're just going to suck again.

2:14:47People are pissed about Daniel Jones. And then that's on top of the added pressure to go out there, not just win, but look good when they're honoring Ursa. and you have all these Colts legends back there, can you imagine your mood or how you would have been feeling if the Colts either lose that game? But even if they win 21-20, you're not coming in today the way you are when they just beat the shit out of them, leave no doubt, look like one of the best teams in the league. If I'm a Colts fan, I really don't think this is an overreaction. You should feel this way until they give you a reason not to feel this way.

2:15:21Pat McAfee:We've had homecoming-type games before where a lot of legends are in the building. Freeney went in. I think it was big. Dallas went in. I think it was big. Tarek. Yeah, Tarek. Tarek was big. Like, they have those. This one, like, everybody, like, came to it, you know, because it was Jim. And having Reg, Marv, even the older OGs, Bill Brooks was there, and, you know, Peyton, obviously speaking. new ownership as well. Everything about it was a big deal for the celebration of life for Jim Irsay in there. And you could feel it. You're right. In years past, they would have lost those games when everybody's in the building.

2:16:04Pat McAfee:It's like, all right, let's get us out of here. Or they would have done something stupid or something like that. And instead, it's like they just play sound football and just beat them. I think there was a 14-play drive. I think there was a 15-play drive. I think there was a 17-play drive. Anthony Calhoun tweeted about it. I forget the exact ones. But it was like, they were just drumming. Yeah, efficient. The Miami Dolphins. Dialed. And everybody's like, I think there were some guys that potentially had their flights scheduled for after the first quarter. Sure. To potentially get out of town. And instead, like, wait a minute.

2:16:36Pat McAfee:This is, wait a minute. This feels a little bit different. Yeah, here it is. 14, 17, and 15 play drives during the game. Scored on every possession. First team to do that in forever. Whatever the stat was. I forget what it was. It's like, yeah, it was awesome in there, man. It really was. I hope we got it bottled, and I hope we're drinking it all season. Yeah. Week one. Was it a packed house? Yes. Well, that's good because, you know, sometimes that just shows that everything that's being said on the internet is exactly true because if that was true, no one would have showed up for the game. Oh, yeah, you're right.

2:17:04Pat McAfee:93 % negativity. Yeah. Worse than a league. Was Mellon Camp there? He was sitting around somewhere the whole time. The American kid going up in the hot lane. Banger. I didn't see him. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if he's not doing like a halftime or something at some point. New playlist in there. With the victory. Yeah, it's changed. I wouldn't be surprised if we might see someone else in there instead of that avenue. Who's that? Maybe like, you know, Rose. Although I don't know. Ricky Ross was playing yesterday against the Miami Dolphins. Lot of Ricky Ross. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, because I was.

2:17:40Pat McAfee:I do like that. It was cool. I was in the suite looking out, and I see Gumpy's Dolphins tarp and his hat. And then on the field, all I see is Colts players dancing to Rick Ross. And I'm like, oh, so you knew right away. We just stole Rick Ross. It feels like we are enjoying this a lot more than you guys. Yeah, it was a lot of Jeezy in there. A lot of Ricky. That's all new, though? That's different compared to what it was before? Yeah. There was also Jim Irsay's playlist. I think there was one of the bosses' playlists that had, like, heat. His band? Yeah, his, I don't think any from his band were there.

2:18:14Adam Schefter:Oh, okay.

2:18:14Pat McAfee:It was all like just basically like sing-along songs. Old school banger. Yeah, old school banger. It was really good. It was really well done, I will say. They're not done with it yet, but there will actually be a building in the skyline, which will be cool through the windows. Two cranes. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's what Danny Dimes era has brought, cranes to the city. They are building a new mega hotel. It's like time in Tampa. Holy shit. Four Seasons or? What's that? Four Seasons Indy? I don't know. Maybe. That's a good question. I forget it. J.W. Fountain Blue. Yeah.

2:18:43Adam Schefter:What's that? Fountain Blue. Fountain Blue, like Miami or something? W.

2:18:47Pat McAfee:Maybe, because it is a massive space. Yeah, that's the thing about here. If we are to city develop, there's a lot of space, and it's all flat. You know, so it's very easy to build as opposed to having to, you know. Could be the biggest red roof in the country. I was going to say, it should make it the biggest red roof for Best Western. Just to really, that'd be cool. Wasn't Holiday Inn kind of the standard whenever it comes to all those? Yeah, but they don't leave the light on for you. Yeah. Who does that? Motel 6. Yeah, but Holiday Inn, don't they have the breakfast? What was theirs? Yeah, I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.

2:19:19Pat McAfee:Well, that was Holiday Inn Express. Yeah, okay. Spring Hill Sweets. They got good continental breakfast. Turns out they do. They do. They have the eggs. Tons of eggs. All the eggs. 38-story Signia Hotel. Oh, Signias are nice. Signia coming to town. It looks wonderful. It's not Holiday Inn. Or Best Western. Still be cool. How do you feel about Indiana Jones instead of Indiana Jones? Because his name is Danny? Or Indiana Dimes. Or Indy Jones. Yeah, Indy Jones. Yeah, instead of Indiana Jones, Indy Jones. Because it plays on Danny. It doesn't play as well. Young people know what Indiana Jones is. A new one just came out a year ago, so I think.

2:20:03With Harrison Ford?

2:20:04Pat McAfee:I've seen them all. and what I like most about him is when they do the... When he cracks his whip. Yeah, that's really cool. I also appreciate the fact that he's always... Carrying that gad on him. He's always on an adventure, always looking for treasure. He's always snooping around. That hat, man? Which one was your favorite? Well, the most recent one, I think, was good for the generation that it was trying to play to, but I remember when Old Buddy was doing it back in the day. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Yeah, you just told me Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of your favorite movies. Yeah, it was actual film.

2:20:34Pat McAfee:It wasn't digital. So it's just a little different quality I was surprised you weren't a Temple of Doom guy Well the thing about the Temple of Doom is I liked it but I thought I was just kind of ripping it off that other one Raiders of the Lost Ark And you were pissed when Sheila Buff got cast in it And they tried to pass the hat off And you were like, that's fucking not my indie team Yeah, just like when I was watching that Queen show Queen's Gambit The Crown When they changed the Queen's That's my Queen right there That's going to be tough for me to pay attention to well she's older now it's like no that ain't that ain't how she's gonna age kind of like fresh prince which one and viv she changed as well she did change i don't think i remember being as upset as i was well i don't think culture at that time was getting as upset at things yeah and you know i thought about this the other day um you know because for instance with red zone whenever i was getting attacked pretty heavily which for saying we don't care which wasn't the proper wording what What I should have said is obviously it's better without commercials.

2:21:35Pat McAfee:We hope everything had no advertising. With that being said, con man, con man. I mean, you can just grab yourself a little Jose Cuervo, make it all much better. And on that note, as we were getting just absolutely murdered and killed for everything like that with the Red Zone channel, I should have said we would rather no ads, but the fact that it exists, like we will still watch, which I hope and assume everybody did and you couldn't really matter. and ESPN, I started getting called a Disney show. They don't, they're not going to have two years. They don't even, you know, this is a YouTube TV.

2:22:08Pat McAfee:This is Google, which is awesome, by the way. I love YouTube TV. They're very kind to us and they've been very good. But they're like, Disney, ESPN ruins everything. I saw a lot of that. And I'm going to let you know. Yeah, there's a lot of things over the past that we have certainly all shared the opinion that you all have in that particular department. I think we all have eyes and a sense of everything like that. But whenever people say like, I used to just watch SportsCenter. it was like the greatest it was like sports center was also showing you for the first time a lot of shit like hey here is a highlight play here's a story here's this nowadays we see everything fucking immediate right away like everything is happening so quickly so like having to adjust in how you deliver things i think is a is a tough tough comparison you know like uh trying to compare what life was because we all grew up with sports center but also it was like the first time i'm seeing a lot of things with the sidebar yeah with everything you were yeah yeah and your team and you're seeing it let alone if you lived out of the market yeah from wherever you played it's like some of the only shit you're gonna see is that so we're in a vastly different time and uh i think this red zone changing thing to four 15 second commercials for a total of one minute which i don't know if i i was down at the colts game so i had we had red zone on tv love it keeps you updated with everything but we didn't i didn't really feel the commercial break as much as everybody else start pat it's just the tip of the spear i know i know i know it is and here's what i'm gonna say and i don't speak for everybody clearly no matter what they do i'm gonna fucking watch it yep yep and i don't like that i'm telling you i don't like it but i'm gonna watch it that's reality it's a great idea it's the best product there is split screen to keep it split screen and we're fine.

2:23:50Pat McAfee:Gotta do the playthrough. Yeah, that's it. Gotta do the playthrough. All right, let's go to the next overreaction, shall we? This is from Gamblin' Gary, the 96 draft. Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but keep that seat warm because old Chuck Pagano might be back in it by Thanksgiving if Jair Alexander kids can beat like a drum. The Ravens' secondary look like a JV team out there, and that's supposed to be their strong suit. Tighten up, Chuck. I don't like that. I don't like that. I didn't like it either. I didn't like it either. These are my first time seeing these, AJ. They were obviously picked by Ty.

2:24:25Pat McAfee:It's a full surprise. I did not know Chuck Pagano is going to catch it in his Italian shins, but I guess that would make sense if Josh Allen is able to come back from being 15-9 with less than four minutes against a defense that is highly, highly regarded as being one of the best in the league. Chuck Pagano knows that, though. He knows that getting back into the NFL fire is going to be these types of days. And Josh Allen is an alien in that whole thing. And Jair Alexander, I think, did talk a little bit about it, playing a really good quarterback here. We've got to continue to mold and grow forward.

2:24:53Pat McAfee:What should we think about this Baltimore Ravens defense after what they gave up to Josh Allen?

2:24:56Adam Schefter:I mean, that's tough. Whenever you are a defense and you are on the other side of a quarterback doing something historic, I have personal experience with that. I played against Big Ben in Heinz Field at the time, and I think he threw for like 500, like six touchdowns. That is correct. It was on the field. So that's never a good feeling. But long season ahead, you got a bunch of talent, a bunch of first-rounders in that secondary. So, yeah, as a fan, and gambling, Gary probably has some money on it, too. But as a fan, you do lean on that to be one of your strengths in your team. But they will figure it out.

2:25:27Adam Schefter:They got the talent. They got the coaches. We're not keeping his seat warm for Chuck. When he's ready to come back, he'll come back after he hoists the Lombardi. But, you know, you got to get it done. And Josh Allen is a generational talent at the position. So shit like this will happen. But, yeah, it was ugly. and I can understand where Gambler Gary's coming from, but he's an asshole. And Ty, you're an asshole, too, for picking that one.

2:25:48Pat McAfee:Yeah, there's a lot of different options out there that could have got the point across. But I guess keeping the seat warm for Chuck is certainly something that would brighten our day because it would be great to have Chuck Pagano around here. Love you, Coach. I don't know how today is for Coach John Harbaugh and the entire Baltimore Ravens staff. There's some stats coming out about that whole situation. That's certainly disappointing. Yikes. I would assume that's not a fun existence over there. I appreciate, though, that Budda said it was my fault. He did. Budda, it's not me. It's on me, buddy.

2:26:15Pat McAfee:He said, Mr. McAfee jinxed us. He said, I thought I'd... He made it, buddy. Then you were at Latrobe. He's with the Steelers. No, Mr. McAfee wouldn't do that. But I would never. I was on your side, buddy. I was excited to see your reaction as the Baltimore Ravens continue to do things that nobody else could do. Derrick Henry, he's 31. Faster, stronger than he's ever looked. Lamar Jackson, doing Lamar Jackson shit on a very regular basis. I was excited for Budda. I was pumped for Budda. I was pumped for Budda. And then Budda started thinking after the game, this guy fucking jinxed us. And I want to let him know it was not on purpose if that was the case.

2:26:55Pat McAfee:AJ, I am a Baltimore Ravens fan. I hope the Baltimore Ravens play well. And I think last night was a great AFC playoff game that we're going to see in a few months from now, brother. Don't you think? Yeah, the Ravens fans should not be freaking out. They know that they're going to be fine. Lamar Jackson, that offense, and their defense is going to be just fine. They ran into a juggernaut, the Bills, and Josh Allen. We know that dude is pretty damn special. So it was a great game. Here we go. We've got plenty more to figure things out. Kyle Hamilton almost blocks that field goal. Oh, he couldn't.

2:27:23You see him jumping like, oh, my goodness, I had that.

2:27:25Pat McAfee:He was way too clean there. If I'm Buffalo, we need to figure that out very quick. Look at him. And he's the guy to do that, too. I mean, he probably has the perfect timing, perfect sense. Oh, and he blocked out. Why'd you block out? I can't believe you faded. Who? I did not fade, bud. Oh, God, his ass. No, I did not. If Kyle Hamilton blocks that. That's why he didn't. No. Don't you. Turn the audio on.

2:27:57Pat McAfee:You have to zoom out a little bit, I think. We'll be back. Here.

2:28:09Oh

2:28:37What?

2:28:39Adam Schefter:This might be Pat McAfee fought, bro. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What, it might be Pat McAfee fought, bro. Whoa, whoa. He done jinxed us. No.

2:28:59He done said it. Oh, he done beat it butter. Oh, he done beat it butter. No, I didn't.

2:29:05Pat McAfee:Oh, he done got me. Oh, Pat got me. No. I didn't pay you, Budda. I'm on your side, Budda. Bro, it was like after this play, right before the halftime, Pat was like, this y 'all year? No, I was asking a question. Got his ass.

2:29:24Adam Schefter:And Budda done fell for the bait. Bro, what? I done said, hell yeah, this is all year and shit. Bro, he done got us.

2:29:36Adam Schefter:And his team is still us

2:29:42Adam Schefter:Pat wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that.

2:29:46Pat McAfee:You're right. I don't do that. You're right. You're right He wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that right. He wouldn't do that. I didn't that you're right. You're right That's a man with integrity right there. Exactly. He wouldn't do that. Mm-hmm. Exactly. I'm gonna get him a benefit of doubt. Thank you Thank you, buddy. Okay, that's good. I'm happy. It took him a long time to get there. Oh, yeah. And that was quite a quick amount of time. I don't know if he was really there yet. But I want to let Budden know, I didn't bait you. I was on your side. I love Jimmy's famous seafood. Yeah, you do. I love the Coach Pagano's there.

2:30:17Pat McAfee:Yeah. I would like to see the Baltimore Ravens going on. Now, the Colts all of a sudden are a monster or a problem. And we did go to the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. It doesn't necessarily mean I'm a Steelers fan. Ravens didn't invite us. We'd like to see them do well, though. I got a lot of friends over there, but I love the Baltimore Ravens. Where did Colts come from? Yeah, they were in Baltimore. They were in Baltimore. Yeah, then they left. Then they came here to Indianapolis. We celebrated that this weekend, actually. But I did not have that on my mind. No, of course not. I love Butter.

2:30:44Pat McAfee:Man of integrity. I was excited to see Stavi and Butter all year. All year I was pumped for that. Need them together. Need them together. Ravens might need them together, too. Something to think about. That's a lot of power. Might be the most entertaining fan in the entire league. Yeah. I guess there isn't a might be to that. I think they are. Yeah, I think. Well, we got the flow. Yeah, we got the flow. Let's not get out of here. That's true. He's got a lot of moxie. He's a different category. He had a great performance. He nailed the halftime, I'll tell you. Yes. Whenever I heard he was going to do a live show in front of 60 ,000 people, I was a little bit eager to see how it went.

2:31:22Pat McAfee:Nailed it. Yeah, he did. Absolutely nailed it. Moxie shined through. Of course. That's the flow. But he's more singer. You can't compare Dave Chappelle and Kanye when it comes to art, because his is comedy, his is music. Did you see Shane opened up for Zach Bryan at Notre Dame Stadium? Did not see the full thing. You saw like five seconds of it. Saw a couple of the clips where Shane was wearing a helmet and dancing. You saw that? No, I didn't see it. Yeah, he has a full Notre Dame football helmet on. He's dancing on stage, obviously. Is that the first time it's happened? Absolutely not. Dancing with a helmet on?

2:31:50Pat McAfee:I assume it's... No, a comedian opening up for a musician. So that's what he said, actually. Zach asked him if he wanted to go first or second. He was like, what the fuck? That's what I saw, yeah. So you're going to play just until when, 10 o 'clock, and then I'll just go hit him with some comedy afterwards. So you said, what do I go out there and say, so you guys jerk off lately? Yeah, exactly. I assume, there he is. There he is, having a good time. Yep, yep. On stage in front of everybody the whole time. Having a great time. Yep, good to see you guys. Thank you. We're going to go win a national championship now.

2:32:21Pat McAfee:They've got a big game this weekend. Huge. Texas A &M. Got to win. Can't go 0-2. Hey, college is doing it, man. Yes, it was a great weekend. There was a couple blowouts, obviously. We'll talk to Coach Rule here in a couple days. He won like 69-0 or something. Yeah. But like Mississippi State? Great win. It was unbelievable. They had two wins last year, okay? And then I got Pete Famel telling me they got this freshman quarterback who's the best quarterback they've had since Dak Prescott, and they're going to play him a couple plays. And I'm like, fucking put the guy in. What do we – he won two games.

2:32:47Pat McAfee:So my entire thought about Mississippi State was like a negative one going into game day because I'm like, why don't they play the guy that they got that's supposed to be the guy? I don't get that. It seems like they're trying to lose. Yeah, right. That place was awesome. They got a whole new game set up, I guess, game ops. You're crazy down there. They got new intro, new everything. The live show was crazy. Everything was sick. And then, obviously, they get a huge win. And their fans immediately, I think it's like an engineering school, immediately get the field goal down and take that thing through town.

2:33:13Pat McAfee:It's like, shout out to the Bulldogs, man. I did not expect that. Arizona State, obviously, did not expect that. And a team that made the college football playoff last year and won the Big 12, loses to Mississippi State. And this drums up now when conversations start at the end of the year for college football playoff. We'll just throw out a team name that is in our conference that is not in the playoff or winning their conference. Mississippi State, for instance. How many Big 12 teams are supposed to be in there? Because if they had to play in Starkville just one time, are they going to win? That is literally what that feeds.

2:33:46Pat McAfee:Oklahoma getting a huge win over Michigan, huge deal. like uh for the sec obviously and i mentioned that in my pick but it was real it was like hey the sec conversation gets real loud around college football playoff for good reason the cultures down there the environments the players the everything the team's awesome incredible great for college ball but they're all it's always talked about as if it's better than big 10 better than the big 10 way better than the big 10 whenever it comes to football on the field so in a playoff whenever ohio state does what it does to tennessee then ohio state opens up with Texas, the number one team in the country, does that.

2:34:19Pat McAfee:It's like people are like, wait a minute. Is that a thing of the past? The whole SEC is better than the Big Ten. And this Oklahoma team with Mateer and Arbuckle as the offense coordinator and the Venables defense, they're for real. So, like, I had a lot of Michigan people that are full panic, you know, and I saw Portnoy's reaction talking about how he felt like he was lied to or whatever by Bryce Underwood and everything, how good he was going to be. Like, that was his reaction. He was like very – he's not the only one. There's a lot of Michigan people that are, like, very bummed out that I was talking to.

2:34:42Pat McAfee:Good defense. And it's like, hey, I think Oklahoma is for real. Yeah. I think Oklahoma is the real deal this year. Offensively, whenever you bring in a quarterback and the offensive coordinator, it's like it has worked a lot in the past because the quarterback knows exactly what to do on every single play. So you can make everybody else catch up. But if everybody else knows what to do and the quarterback doesn't, like you're going to be slow. You're going to be behind because he's the one making the decisions. When the quarterback knows every aspect of the offense, it's like and then you plug in better athletes and better players at all the spots and then Venables has that defense.

2:35:12Pat McAfee:It's like I think Oklahoma is a real deal. I think they are very good, A.J. I think they're great. I mean, talk about the confidence they have in Matera as well. You showed it earlier. They run a double move backed up in your own end zone. Okay, you must feel pretty good about what your offensive line can do and what your quarterback is able to do. What a beautiful ball right here too. But Matera is a player, bro. I really enjoy watching him. Good for Venables. I think Venables is a great personality for all of college football. Very Jack too. We saw him on the set there for college game day. He's pretty built, good intensity.

2:35:40Pat McAfee:Always very cool to me and to the show. says he watches show, knows the shows exist, which is pretty cool. But he's always going to have a good defense.

2:35:48Adam Schefter:They were flying around and hitting so hard. Michigan, those boys were flying around and hitting too. But that was a very, very violent, violent football game. Big time win. I love him a tier two. Just his awareness as a great quarterback, great thrower, but his awareness as a ball carrier. Him just knowing the spatial awareness he has in traffic is very, very special. Big time win for the SEC. It's a big time loss from the SEC too. Who? Boys down in Gainesville.

2:36:14Pat McAfee:Yeah, we got a little USF on a little bit of a heater here. Byron is a dog, the quarterback. And USF coaches were seen celebrating afterwards. I think they know they got a team. And the Florida Gators needed this one. I think we all thought that Billy Napier and DJ Lagway and the Florida Gators were for real this year. We all thought maybe Billy Napier's culture has settled in and they're going to do their thing. USF gets a massive win. A Gramatica hits a walk-off game winner down there. and I picked against USF. I think we all need to just start having a little bit more respect. And I think I was talking to Edron James, and he said USF's got a lot of Florida boys.

2:36:51Pat McAfee:Yep. Anytime Florida boys take on Florida boys, there's a lot. It's a little bit different. He said it's hard to judge those particular games as if it's any other game. Is that an accurate depiction?

2:37:00Adam Schefter:Oh, yeah, very, very much. And I feel like he's liked that a lot of places, even the receiver from Oklahoma. He was a Michigan kid that wasn't offered by Michigan. So that's everybody in South Florida. You want to go to UM. You want to go to Miami. You want to go to Florida State, Florida, all these big schools. And you kind of probably get overlooked and go to USF. And you remember when we were in the Big East. Like, I think you might have talked about a little bit on game day, like recruiting those South Florida boys with Grothy and everybody else. Like, they built the powerhouse. I think they got ranked like number two or three in the nation at one point just by recruiting their kids.

2:37:31Adam Schefter:And you have that chip on your shoulder. The coaches know that. You saw the coaches' reaction up in the press box. Like, that's something you rarely see. I don't know how much it actually happens, but that's something you rarely see as a fan outside of the building. But, yeah, you can build up a program quick, and it's hard to judge those type of, I guess it would be considered a rivalry game. But if I grew up and we played each other in high school, but you were the five-star and I was the two-star, but I felt like I was better than you, when I'm lined up on you on Saturday with this jersey on, it's going to mean a little more for sure.

2:37:56Yep, and do you know who USF has this Saturday?

2:37:59Adam Schefter:Oh, yeah. Definitely know. The Hurricanes. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, they're all playing each other. They get another chance.

2:38:04Pat McAfee:I like that they're all playing each other Because Florida's still got Florida State and Miami, I think, on the horizon and everything like that. Miami also doing the same thing. And that's, you know, you talk to Florida football people. It's like, hey, these games right here are going to be showtime. They are going to be real showtime. I guess SMU's got a bunch of Florida boys, too, from what I've been told. So, like, how SMU does, obviously, they lose to Baylor in a thriller, which I think everybody was kind of calling for whenever you're thinking about that game. 48-45? Yeah. I think is what that game ended up being.

2:38:35Pat McAfee:But SMU, I guess they're playing Miami. And Edge was like a lot of Florida boys on SMU. So, like, rule out everything whenever they play. It's like, is this a new stat that I need to start looking for? Where are the Florida boys at? And when do they play against the Florida schools? Edger was talking like. Yeah, that's true. I think because Rhett Lashley came from Miami, if I'm not wrong, and he brought a bunch of Miami dudes with him. Yeah. And he knows. And, like, recruiting people talk all the time about, like, recruiting your own state, in your own area, and how important that is. You're the team.

2:39:07If USF goes on and sweeps all the Florida teams, all of a sudden you're that school in Florida. And I'm not saying they're going to flip recruits or anything like that, but you get one or two more guys from South Florida that a different school doesn't get just because you do end up being the best team in South Florida probably changes a lot of stuff for your program.

2:39:26Pat McAfee:They were problematic for us when we went down there. I mean, they, the Shop Boys, maybe? Party like a rock. Party like a rock star. Is that the Shop Boys? I think so. They had a concert outside the stadium whenever we went down and played there one night. It was a big deal. They had a concert outside, full free festival. At a book stadium, right? Same. Raymond James? Yeah, the whole thing. It was the first time playing there, I think.

2:39:50Adam Schefter:Okay.

2:39:52Pat McAfee:And are the Yankees down in that area, too? Yes. Yeah. that was Rich Rod's only time I've ever seen him use a prop. We went down there. They're having a festival. They're having a concert. It's a Thursday night game, I think. They're selling out. They think it's going to be the biggest home attendance or whatever. And he said, we just drove by their facility. He said, we have become the fucking Yankees. Okay? And he pulls out the Yankees hat and has NY on it or whatever. And he goes, and this USF team thinks they've arrived. Not fucking yet is what he was. So we all wore Yankees hats. We lost.

2:40:25Pat McAfee:And I'll tell you what, I don't think Rich Rod probably to this day will ever do any of that shit ever again. Ever again. Do you leave him in the locker room? Oh, I have no idea where those things were. They did not make their way back. I know that. Figure not. That USF team was problematic for us because they were fast. They were very fast and very tough. And with our offense, if you get penetration, you can kind of stop us. By stopping slow us down at least. Nobody's going to be able to really stop us. And they had a team back.

2:40:51Adam Schefter:Oh, yeah.

2:40:52Pat McAfee:Feels like they got one now. Yeah. Feels like they got a real team. They're still very fast. You know who else has a team? Who's that? You see that Cy Hawk Bowl. Wow. Wow. Rocco Beck is a first-round draft. He's a guy. Yeah. Rocco Beck is an adult. He is playing college football. Iowa State gets a massive win over Iowa in the Cy Hawk Bowl. Comes down to a 54-yarder for Conrardi. I said that Drew Stevens, the kicker for Iowa, is going to hit a game winner. Instead, it was Conrardi. This was a very kicker-dominant game. The first nine points, I think, scored were all from kickers. Obviously, a game-winner kick.

2:41:27Pat McAfee:Both kickers very talented. What did you learn from the game, Ty Schmidt, as Iowa State and Tyrese Halliburton are dancing in the faces of Iowa Hawkeyes fans? Yeah, I mean, that's probably the biggest thing. Listen, Iowa State's better this year, but I haven't thought about this game since it ended. Iowa State folks will celebrate this, bring it up every time they can over the next year, and that's fine. You know, you can do that. They have that right because they won. I may have put too many chips into the Mark Granowski's going to save us, you know, basket. He's not, unfortunately. What? He's just fucking not.

2:41:58And I'm not going to rip on the guy because their skill, you FaceTimed me on Saturday night, and you were with Dallas Clark, and me and him kind of just had a nice little two-minute, like, hey, what the fuck's going on with the Hawks, you know, real quick. And he was very complimentary still, obviously. Yeah, he believes still. He believes. Lock season. And I believe, too, for an extent, or to an extent, their skill position players just aren't good. Receivers don't get open. They don't have the batch of tight ends that they usually do. So you're kind of asking Gronowski to beat Josh Allen. Well, there's only one Josh Allen.

2:42:33Maybe two, Justin Herbert. Maybe three. But his name is Justin. Yeah, maybe four. Yeah, but those guys are NFL quarterbacks. Those are their names, I'm saying. This guy, he was good playing against the lower competition. Iowa State's good. But I'll be honest with you. Really, ever since the Iowa's offense started looking like this, so what, 10 years ago maybe, like close to right after I graduated from college, I said, if Iowa loses a game, for the most part, you know, it's fun coming on here and going apeshit because I do care, but I'll tell you what, when the Packers look like they did on Sunday.

2:43:09Oh, my gosh. It's very easy to say, okay. I'm not going to spend another fucking second thinking about the 13 points that Iowa scored on Saturday in Ames. Wow. Because they should have won that game. They should have. They played like hammered dog shit like they kind of do every week. Rocco Beck is good. He threw for like 122 yards. So first round draft pick maybe. But, you know, Iowa's defense is still pretty fucking good. If they could just get a guy who's halfway fucking decent playing quarterback,

2:43:42Pat McAfee:just halfway. Well, you're not going to get any wide receivers. You think you're going to get wide receivers? That's the problem. You guys are running the team. The wishbone. Yeah, the wishbone. Is that stat rude?

2:43:52Adam Schefter:I saw the quarterback. Yeah, he's had like the worst start in the history of college football. He's completed like 48 passes for like 127 yards or something. It's bad. It's not good. But you're right. You know, we get a couple transfers in there. Like, hey, this guy was number three at Northwestern. He wants to come play at Iowa. It's like, well, Jesus fucking Christ. If this guy couldn't see the field at Northwestern, we're expecting him to catch 100 balls and have 1 ,200 yards this year? Give me a fucking break. No way. Iowa needs to rush for 450 yards every single week. That's fun to watch too, right?

2:44:26I don't mind it because, listen, I got the flash of the Packers now. So, you know, I can kind of bounce. I can have the best of both worlds. You just watch a fucking hard-nosed, gritty, shitty, boring football game on Saturday for three hours. And I actually tweeted. I was like, you know what? Is this Iowa offense maybe giving me a stroke because I was smelling something burning? Luckily, that wasn't the case. I had a problem with my furnace. So that's what I was smelling. It wasn't the Iowa offense.

2:44:53Pat McAfee:Turn them on for the first time. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. You didn't tell me to light some fire or anything that's left over. Yeah, well, it turns out I got a blower out. So I'm going to have to get my furnace fixed. So that was kind of just another one-two punch on top of it. But, you know, hey, the Hawks are going to do what the Hawks do. Probably not going to go to the playoff this year, unfortunately. But they could still make some noise. and now it's just, hey, let's try to ruin Oregon's season or let's try to ruin Penn State's season. That's really where I'm at. It's unfortunate. You could think about having a little bit of the Cuervo's Devil's Reserve maybe and help you out on those Saturdays, a little tequila.

2:45:24There's nothing I love more than green booze. It's a green bottle. It's a green bottle. Crack this thing open and have a green bottle. Green bottle. It's not green. Guess what? It's clear booze. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You're right, because I am. I see this in the stores. I'm fucking grabbing. I'm just a tractor being. Explain to them what it is. Connor and I had a whole mess of it this week. It was delicious. What you don't understand is that the Cuervo's Devil Reserve is a sweet, tropical, spicy-infused tequila that is smoothly and devilishly good. And for the record, it is delicious. I'm not a tequila guy, but when I do drink it, it is Devil's Reserve, and it is fantastic.

2:46:04It's time to listen to the little devil on your shoulder, pour a round of shots, and get ready to raise a little bit of hell. Go to your local liquor store or go to Cuervo.com to purchase your own bottle of mischief. That's what Thai means by the green bottle, the green coloring. It's not green liquid. It's just a green bottle. And you can see the bottle does kind of wreak of mischief. When you look at it, you can see, hmm, maybe that is. This guy has a lot of mischief. What's this guy up to? What is the devil up to? There's that devil on my shoulder. Oh, is that? No, that's not the devil. That's just a little bit of Cuervo's Devil's Reserve.

2:46:42But remember, you must be 21 years of age to consume alcohol. Yeah. And please drink responsibly or you'll end up like Mitt. That's right. And many others.

2:46:53Pat McAfee:Sweet, tropical, spicy. Boom. Cuervo. Cuervo's Devil's Reserve, baby. Praise the hell. Devilishly good. Hell yeah. That was a good read by you guys. Wow. I might help you, man. I do like that the Iowa Hawkeye football team immediately leads to a booze advertisement. Yeah. Okay. I didn't even drink. Hey, that's Big Ten football. It is. That's Big Ten football. It is. Amen. How long are you guys going to do that over there in Iowa? Who knows? Let's move along. Did you see the University of Louisiana Monroe punter? Yes. The name is Mackenzie Ryan. Okay. And although their team got their asses beat, and this wasn't his best punt, what he did at the end of it was certainly desirable.

2:47:30Pat McAfee:Out of Australia, Lad hits a little worm banner down the right hash. Oh, no, he's breaking free. Who's going to stop him? I got him. Lariat, clothesline from hell from Mackenzie Ryan as he roughs it up with the boys a little bit afterwards. Alabama would go on to score just a few plays later, but nonetheless, a punter with a massive hit should be showcased. Not his best pun, I think he would even say, but obviously a lot of people fall on each other. That's not good. Never want to see anybody stack behind each other in punt returns. McKenzie said, let me go ahead and get underneath the block and lay his ass out.

2:48:05Pat McAfee:I assume he played some sort of rugby or Aussie rules football over in Australia. And that move right there, a little cheeky. Yeah. That is an Aussie rules football. Certainly maybe a play. And then flexing on him too, letting him know that, hey, listen, you guys might win by 40, but you'll never forget the time. McKenzie Ryan, pow, right across your kisser. I love that. I love everything about it, AJ. That's the only thing that can save an explosive return, right? Like, coach is going to be pissed. Everyone's going to be pissed. But, hey, at least our punter got to have a little highlight shot.

2:48:38I'm sure that was run all over SportsCenter.

2:48:39Pat McAfee:If it was a – If that was a home game, place would have went crazy. Whenever I tackled Trenton Holiday, every time I made a tackle, place made noise. But when I tackled Trenton Holiday, place went pretty apeshit. And they were getting the ball at the 50. Peyton Manning was getting the ball at the 50. Yeah.

2:48:56Adam Schefter:Great return.

2:48:57Pat McAfee:I completely failed. I completely failed my job. Everything that we did was wrong. Supposed to be a touchback. Wasn't a touchback. Trinidad Holiday gets a massive return. Nobody's covering shit. They're supposed to be trapped back there because Peyton Manning's very good. So we're trying to give him a long field. Now, I think I did have six inside of 20 when I came to punting. I think it was a very long field. Maybe the best game I've ever had. Nonetheless, the kickoff, though, getting all the way out there, sucks. This is not good. This is terrible for all parties. Huge hit. Place goes crazy.

2:49:24Pat McAfee:Get to the sideline. Everybody's like, yeah. Yeah! That was ass. That was the worst start that we could possibly have.

2:49:30Adam Schefter:You kept him out of the end zone.

2:49:31Pat McAfee:Yes, you did.

2:49:33Adam Schefter:That's the first play of defense. Kickoff. Punt. First play of defense. You set the tone.

2:49:37Pat McAfee:I wore a defense jersey. Yeah, hell yeah. In practice. You know, Vinny was on the offense. So that was always very real. But any time anybody cheered for a tackle, I was always like, if I'm tackling, we fucked up pretty good. And that was normally my thought. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Panicking, running through. And also, let's make sure they think they can get the edge. Yeah. We're bait and tackle We are a fishing shop We're going to bait them to think that they can get by And then we're going to tackle them I saw somebody for the Buffalo Bills If they're going to do the bait and tackle On Henry Yeah, you've got to make sure Any of their safeties, it happened all night long to their safety Yeah, you've got to be able to close that distance That is the whole entire Derek turns it on pretty quick

2:50:22Adam Schefter:That's a fucking nightmare As a deep defender, a safety like that's the one Saturday night that's when you think especially playing against Derrick Henry and that fucking hole opens up 53 and a third because you're one of the safeties on kickoff like you know two safeties you're the middle safety pretty much when you are that post safety and you got 22 or anybody that looks like this guy coming down and hatching at you that is a fucking

2:50:44Pat McAfee:nightmare see for you guys I think the the runners with the ball have respect for you guys okay so for most kickers and punters not a lot of respect So in warm-ups, I'm trying to give little pieces of intel into their brain. Like, hey, run right by me. You know, like run right by me. I'm slow. I'm on athletic. So then hopefully in the game they actually do that. This one's tough, though. That one's tough. Come to Phil, and then he just runs right by you. That's bad. You got to close that sideline. But nonetheless, Derrick Henry's done that to a lot of people. Oh, yeah. He's done it. And thank God I never had to do that.

2:51:20Adam Schefter:Can you imagine playing this guy in high school? Like, the craziest fucking stat I heard this weekend. This guy's in his ninth year in the NFL, has had all these records, and still hasn't reached, what is he, like 600 yards away? Yeah, something like that. I think now he's like 500. From his high school total. We play like 10, 11 games in high school maybe. Like, that is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

2:51:43Pat McAfee:He had to be the absolute king in his high school. Yeah, he had like 13 ,000. Yeah, he rushed. He was like 13 ,000. Eight touchdowns a game. Yeah, 11. It's crazy. It's insane. That was midway through the game, so he ended up, right, he finished with what? 12 ,124 yards in high school? High school. How many touchdowns? I assume he had like eight touchdowns. 180 probably. Oh, my gosh. Think about how much fun high school had to be for him. That's why he's so mature. He had everything offered to him whenever he was like 14. He scored, hey, all right, let me get past this. And then he's like in the gym.

2:52:16Pat McAfee:He does all the insane workouts and shit. I mean, he's been great since the day we saw him. That record's been broken. 153 rushing touchdowns. That high school record? Yeah, that high school record got broken. I'm pretty sure by – I thought Naj. Wasn't there an absurd – Naj was like the highest. This says 153 rushing touchdowns over four seasons. In a senior year, rushed for an astounding 4 ,261 yards and 55 touchdowns. That's a pretty good year. Breaking multiple Florida single-season records and setting a national single-game rushing 510 yards in one game. Jesus. Yeah, I think Najee Harris broke some of his high school records.

2:52:51Pat McAfee:not all that's crazy all right let's make some picks for tonight's game let's get the hell out of here today is a good day great day i'm thankful we're here it's a great game tonight too i agree nfc north is going to have a lot of implications down the road so tonight is very important the jj mccarthy era starts the ben johnson caleb williams era starts will kevin o 'connell maintain his offensive greatness with a brand new quarterback that had to sit out his entire rookie year with an injury everybody said that jj mccarthy is a guy will he be tonight we shall see as he takes on his hometown, Chicago Bears.

2:53:23Pat McAfee:Ben Johnson, there's a new sheriff in town, actually. More accountability, a little bit more of a hard ass. Will that pay off or will that hurt them? Will he lose the locker room early, like other hard asses have, if their team doesn't win? Or will this Chicago Bears team be everything that we hope Caleb Williams could be in his NFL career? The current spread, still one and a half? Yes, it is. Minnesota favored on the road. Tone, what are you liking this? I like the over, first and foremost. Okay, I think both offenses are going to do well, even though both defenses seemingly will be better from the jump.

2:53:54Yes, but just the injury news and the secondaries that Schefter talked about. So I kind of like the over in that situation. And I'm going to go with the Bears.

2:54:05Pat McAfee:Okay, you like the Bears. D. Butch, I heard you made the picks in the comments section. Somebody made a very nice graphic. That was a beautiful graphic.

2:54:11Adam Schefter:I wish they didn't because I didn't do too good.

2:54:14Pat McAfee:Whoa, whoa, I didn't even bring it up. You noticed I didn't even bring it up earlier. Knew it existed, didn't want to talk about it. We're all going to hit the ball and then miss the ball every once in a while. Tonight, though, we can make it up. What have you done for me lately? Who do you like? How do you like it?

2:54:26Adam Schefter:Remaining, returning D coordinator Flores. They did really good against the Bears last year on third down especially. But you mentioned new sheriff of town. I am on the Caleb Williams is going to be good with Ben Johnson train. Okay. But I'm not going against my former teammate, KOC. I think J.J. McCarthy shows up, and Justin Jefferson definitely shows up big time tonight. So I'm going with the Vikings on the road in a big-time game on Monday Night Football.

2:54:50Pat McAfee:8-15 on ESPN and ABC. ESPN 2 will have the Manning brothers in a simulcast. It should be a magical evening of Tennessee North football. AJ, are you going with the Minnesota Vikings minus one and a half with D. Butch? Yes, I am going to take the Minnesota Vikings. I mean, being favored on the road, that's got to be a little bit – I'm sure the Bears are pissed off and Ben Johnson are pissed off about that. I think the Bears will be there. I think Caleb will be good. but I just think it might take a little bit of time with Ben Johnson to figure it out. Just like Jared Goff with his new OC and everything.

2:55:21Pat McAfee:Jared Goff? Yes. Jared Goff. Oh. Gooflovsky is what everyone's called. No! A lot of people are. It's the year of Gooflovsky. I think it might take a little bit for Caleb and Ben, just from what we've heard. I think there is greatness in there, but just like everybody else is saying, and if you want to use us as motivation, you certainly can. I'll take the Vikings as well. All right. We'll be back tomorrow. We can't wait. We're so thankful for all of you. Be your friend. Tell your friend something nice. It might change your life. Football season's back. Let's enjoy it all. Team on me. Team on three.

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