PMS 2.0 1413 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL Week 3 Recap, MNF Preview, Adam Schefter, Peter Schrager, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

17:58Pat McAfee:What they didn't realize is you gave this man way too much time. Baker Mayfield, give me that. Big-time throws and big-time moments. Feels like the guy's cut of his jib is perfect for this situation. And I'll tell you, football gods bless some teams with some teams of destiny-type feel. Three fourth-quarter comebacks this early with the mentality that they have. D, but I like what the Bucs are cooking this year.

18:19Adam Schefter:Yeah, you always hear it in the locker room. Hey, 60 minutes, whatever it takes to get it done. And now three games in a row where Baker has played his best ball down the stretch to get his team over that finish line. And look, three weeks in a row, this is the first time they've been 3-0 since 2005, I believe, as a franchise, which is crazy. And big day for Tampa Bay. I believe they were celebrating 50 years. So Coach B.A. will be here. We saw Coach Gruen, Derek Brooks, a bunch of legends out there. Steve Spurrier, who was the first quarterback in franchise. I had no clue about that. Ibuka was the superstar again yesterday, so a big, big day for the Tampa Bay Bucs.

18:54Adam Schefter:And once again, they are believing.

18:56Pat McAfee:The Bucs game-winning drives thus far. Against the Falcons, it was five plays, 63 yards in a minute, 18. Against the Texans, it was 11 plays, 80 yards in two minutes and four seconds. And against the Jets, it was seven plays, 48 yards in a minute, 49. They go ahead and just drain that thing and just take it over.

19:11Adam Schefter:Is Baker in that conversation now where it's, hey, too much time? Yes. Too much time for Baker, though.

19:17Pat McAfee:And by the way, backwards hat one time, next time looking cool. Baker said, I don't care what I look like. I'm letting you know. We ball, and we don't take no shit. Respect to Baker. Number two story of the weekend. Back up, quarterbacks. Back that thing up all over, folks. Okay, Mac Jones, we talked about him. How about Marcus Mariota? He scores a touchdown. We assumed that was going to happen. Marcus Mariota football. Congrats to them getting a big win. And then Carson Wentz. Oh, yeah. In the Minnesota Vikings, we didn't see much of the Carson Wentz experience. What we saw was the best of Carson Wentz.

19:48Pat McAfee:And they demolished the Bengals. I mean, the Bengals, I'm not saying it. No, you might have to say it. We spent all our season talking about it. Say it. They paid wide receivers. They paid a quarterback. They spent 50 % of their money on six positions. I don't know if that's winning football. Then you get Joe Burton. I'm not saying it. It's over. Do you want us to say it? No, no. Keep going. It's bullshit. They can't block. They can't tackle. They can't punt. They can't kick. They can't cover. The only thing they can do is hope Joe Burrow can bail them out. And guess what? Joe Burrow's big toe is around the neck of Eric Armstead because he ripped it off.

20:26We do. All right? So I'm done with the whole Bengals thing. Cincinnati, eat poop. All right? That's it. That's Austin Conner saying that. Your team sucks. And guess what? We're going to have to see Jake Browning in prop time. And that's shite. Okay? There's a lot of stuff going on with the Bengals that's going to piss everybody off, and I think that we can foresee it happening.

20:47Pat McAfee:Okay, well, there was a lot of conversation about that in the offseason. We said, can they win that way? They were able to. Now they don't. Carson Wentz might have been a problem for anybody with Kevin O 'Connell on the call, though. Yeah, and he really only got to get through the first couple pages of the playbook because they were beating the hell out of him. Kevin O 'Connell didn't even get to unleash Carson Wentz, so I think it makes sense. Hey, let's unleash this guy in Ireland. Let's introduce them to a brand of football, and we'll get the entire country to maybe even flip. I know they're a Steelers country.

21:15Maybe they're going to be fans of the Vikings and Carson Wentz after next Sunday.

21:17Pat McAfee:I assume McQuaid is getting a one-on-one with Carson Wentz. Without a doubt. And what Carson Wentz is going to tell McQuaid, don't put this out until at least kickoff or so. We don't want the Steelers to hear about this, but they're going to unleash me. They're going to unleash me next week for the Irish people to understand what a shamrock could potentially look like out there as it's running on the field. Yeah, exactly. The Irish people are going to see pale skin and red hair and be like, okay, this is our football player. And then they're going to see this guy potentially tough and reckless.

21:43Pat McAfee:Yeah, exactly. They're going to say, this is our guy. We're talking about Ireland being a Steelers country. It's going to stay that way, but I think there's a chance that Carson Wentz becomes like the LeBron of Ireland. Dude, think about the Irish people, too. They would love. Yeah. Oh, what are we doing? Hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup. They're going to love that. Uh-huh. Carson Dewis. Now, I know the Steelers have had representation over there. Rooney has served as a diplomat, I believe, to Ireland. And there's so many Irish people in Pittsburgh. And I couldn't even fathom the amount of Irish Steelers fans.

22:15Pat McAfee:So that's going to make for a great game. But if they see Carson Wentz too much, Steelers fans are going to hope that he keeps that helmet on. Because if he takes that thing off... Time for a crack. Who is that? His shame is playing quarterback for the Vikings. Is he from County Cork? Where is he? They're not going to turn on their greatest ambassador of all time, but I'll tell you this. There it is. Ambassador. I like diplomat. Carson ain't giving that job back. That's certainly a conversation to be had. Another day, we hope JJ gets healthy. Congrats to the Vikings. And the number one story of the weekend.

22:47Pat McAfee:You guessed it. Best team in ball is right here in Indianapolis, Indiana. Danny Dimes, only guy to do everything that he's done and not have a turnover. The Colts, the only team to ever do what they've done and not have a turnover. The percentage of scoring drives higher than anybody that's ever played ball. Only having one punt through three full games of NFL action is better than everybody that's ever done it before. The defense is all over the place. Brought in the right guys. Lou Ann Arumbo, D coordinator, being one of the right guys being brought in, let alone Cam Bynum and Moni. The energy on the defensive side, different than it's ever felt.

23:24Pat McAfee:And on offense, Tyler Warren is the one. And Danny Dimes is so fucking good. I don't know if he was always this good. I don't know if the Giants ruined it because you see Saquon. He leaves. He wins the Super Bowl. Danny Dimes right now on pace to win an MVP after getting an opportunity that isn't in the New York Giants uniform or organization. What he's doing is awesome. Pittman's awesome. The offense is awesome. The offensive line is awesome. Jonathan Taylor scored three touchdowns. We like that. We like that a lot. Okay, let's get some tackles. 244. We like that a lot. Let's go an up value of entire team here.

23:58Pat McAfee:Tune up the band as the boys. were rolling down. Broadway, you see that? That's Broadway down there in Nashville. I've been down there. Yeah, great play. I would say Nashville, the city itself, maybe favorite in the country. Really? It's top five without a doubt. That's a hell of a state. You just came from Miami. Without a body of water. Without body of water. Miami doesn't have body of water either, really. Coral Gables, I didn't see that. I flew over it. Yeah, I could feel it. Miami, Coral Gables, beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I wasn't in Miami. I was in Coral Gables the entire time. Absolutely glorious.

24:33Pat McAfee:I actually thought about buying a house dinner. Was Zillowee. Okay. All weekend. Good enough. While I was down there. Property's cheap down there. Nashville. Great time. Yes. Yeah. When it comes to strictly inside city limits, it is top three. Yeah. I don't even know how to do the numbering system because I haven't been to every city and every city I've had a good time. You've been to the major ones. You're not putting one of those shitty ones. Nashville is awesome. So we hope that their team becomes good. We hope they become great. I don't know about Coach Donner. Yeah. I don't know. Coach is going to get fired in the next few weeks here, I think.

25:05Pat McAfee:It looks like it might be good for him. He is. Yeah. He's an angry man. He's wild tight. Real sawed-off prick. Yeah. What's that? What? You said he sawed off a little bit. It does sound like he is that way. Yeah, yeah. Just a little bit. And it's not his fault that the Colts are putting him in a living hell. I think Pittman said, He's the smartest team I've ever been around. But, I mean, has there ever been a greater start for new ownership? I guess we can say commanders, but they didn't even start 3-0 last year. Like when it comes to the big three, this is unbelievable. I don't know if there's ever been when it comes to just same players for the most part, same coaching staff.

25:42Well, there's one pretty big difference. They're huge.

25:45Pat McAfee:Probably the biggest. And I got a lot of heat from a lot of people that don't know ball on the Internet last season. There is one pretty big difference. And I'll tell you what, might be the greatest quarterback that's ever played in the NFL. Yeah. Might be the best player of all time. So smart. So I was talking to Name Drop. Boom, coming. Peter Berg. Okay, he makes movies. Peter Berg, Giants fan, I think, in that area. Knew Danny Dimes the entire time. And whenever Danny Dimes got drafted, obviously all Giants people were like, who's it? Remember the reaction? Oh, yeah, they went crazy. So Peter Berg started doing research on this guy.

26:21Pat McAfee:He's like, oh, my happiness is going to depend upon this guy. Like, bye-bye-bye's dad. i think giants fan the whole thing like he gets in there and then i guess people ought to do like this guy can throw the ball like 80 yards if he has like he can run faster than literally everybody he's got a duke brain so like from day one peter burgh's like run throw far super genius this should be a guy and then in the giants it doesn't work out then he goes to minnesota and they're like minnesota's thinking about offering they they really like what they're seeing but nobody really knows what it's going to look like and then with shane steikens offense feels like he is just fully in control, understands it entirely.

26:58Pat McAfee:Shane has empowered him, and we got weapons. We got guys for him. It's like he's getting a chance, I think, to finally be the quarterback that he is, but did he need to go through all the shit to get here is the question I guess.

27:08Adam Schefter:Yeah, probably, and look, it takes time. We talk about it all the time. It's hard to play in the National Football League and you need the people around you, not only people on the field, but the coaches. From the top down, the ownership level, you mentioned the big three, but that tweet from Conte is the biggest thing because the biggest issue with Daniel Jones throughout his career was turning the ball over, not only interceptions but fumbling the ball. So to go through three complete games without turning the ball over, only punting one time is crazy. So him playing well on offense is huge.

27:37Adam Schefter:Starting it off, Kenny Moore with a pick six, going on the road, division rival. They talked about kind of even with the intros. They were like, ah, these guys don't have the energy. They're not ready to play today. So when you kind of put that fork in early and kind of suck the energy out of that building on the road, One of those games, I would assume the coach said, hey, we're going to have to bring our own juice, boys, down here in the Music City. And they did. Kenny Moe did. He left for the injury. We signed Mike Hilton this week. But a big start on both sides of the ball. But Daniel Jones, he has been playing phenomenal.

28:06Adam Schefter:Jonathan Taylor, you mentioned him earlier. Like, that long touchdown run, that's the type of shit that would get the whole team on the sideline juicing going, man. So, like, when you see your guy doing shit like this, you're like, okay, yeah, we're going. So, I mean, it's all on the table right now. A 3-0, played the combined record of the three opponents he played. A little ugly, but I like where we're at.

28:25Pat McAfee:I like his celebration, too. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is great. Don't love what he did, but he's certainly a good football player and seemingly got a lot of years left, too. A lot of years left. Very fresh, very fast. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who knows all the things that maybe we weren't able to cover there, senior NFL insider for ESPN, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schaefter. Schaefter, let's wrap it up here on the Colts. Danny Dimes, is this what he was supposed to be? Is this what he always was? It was just a Giants uniform and organization? Or what is kind of what you're hearing about Danny Dimes on a renaissance type year?

28:59Look, I remember I said this past offseason, when there were some teams that were going to be in the market for a quarterback, I was surprised at the level of people that had the level of interest that they did in Daniel Jones. Now, not all the situations materialized, and the Colts were the team that made the most sense and pursued him the most aggressively. But there were some very smart football people that really liked Daniel Jones, that had an interest in making a move on him that didn't need to. And so he winds up at Indianapolis. And again, let's remember this, Pat. I would have to look, but was it two years ago?

29:38Two years ago, roughly, that the Giants signed into a contract for about$40 million a year? Three, three, three, three. They made the playoffs. remember Minnesota, the whole thing? Yeah, yeah, no, no. Okay, so it was three years ago. So three years ago, they gave him a contract befitting of a franchise quarterback. And that was a year in which what he did was magic. And in fact, it was so impressive that they opted to re-sign him over Saquon Barkley because they couldn't do both. So they chose him for Saquon Barkley.

30:08Pat McAfee:We don't need to do that. Right? Hey, we don't need you to be doing that right there, okay? We don't need you to be doing that. We're having a good time with Danny Dimes right now. Could have paid both, okay? could have paid both. There are places that have certainly made it possible in that type of situation but we love him here in Indy. Feels like he fits the town perfectly. Not scared to go have a couple beers with the boys though, which we love and we respect. Okay, let's move some other news out of the weekend that maybe people need to be caught up with. Shefty, what did we miss maybe in there that's in your department?

30:34Pat McAfee:I saw some Achilles, I think, some other injuries. Obviously, that's going to happen with football. What should we be paying attention to? Well, we've got a bunch of injuries going on right now. Mike Evans looks like he has got a low-grade hamstring strain. We'll see how long he's sidelined. He's missed a few weeks last year with a hamstring injury, so I'm going to guess he misses a little bit of time here. C.B. Lamb, the thought is a high ankle, but he believes that he could try to play next week. We'll see whether he could do that. Colston Loveland had a hip injury. Doesn't appear to be serious at all.

31:04And obviously, the two big injuries of the day yesterday were at the running back position. Najee Harris, you saw his Achilles on the replay pop. Awful injury. The Chargers confirmed after the game it's an Achilles injury. They were waiting to get the MRI for the official word, but I think everybody knows what's coming there with Najee Harris. And of course, we have the situation with James Conner, the Cardinals running back, who now suffered an awful ankle injury that's going to end the season and require surgery. I don't even know exactly what it was like, whether it was an ankle dislocation, whether there was also ligament damage.

31:41I just know I was told it was severe, And it's going to end the season. And that's an enormous blow for a guy who not only is a great running back, but also a leader on that team and incredibly popular in the locker room. So it's a bad scene. And the crowd, when they replayed the play on the scoreboard yesterday, gasped when they saw his ankle bend. They didn't even play the replay on TV. And it was just one of those injuries you knew right away. And of course, Nick Bosa is about to get his MRI right now as we're talking for his knee injury. We don't know the full extent of it. He obviously was spotted walking off the field, gave a thumbs down sign to some fans in the stands.

32:25Exactly. Kyle Shanahan said he didn't think it was an ACL. That was the initial test. What that showed, it was intact initially, but they have to go send him out for further testing. and sometimes things show up on a second test that didn't on a first, or sometimes it's not as bad or worse. We'll see, but I know he's about to go into the MRI as I was coming on the air here.

32:47Pat McAfee:Okay, so hopefully he's good. Obviously, walking off means something, but does it? He might just be a completely different species of human, especially if you look at him, you think maybe life is a little different for his body than for ours. You mentioned James Conner. He had beaten cancer in the past. I think he's an incredibly tough guy. Obviously, we have nothing but love to send his way. AQ Shipley, who's the color commentator for the Arizona Cardinals for their team broadcast, he sent me a text. He's like, that's one of the nastiest things I've ever seen. Because remember, they didn't show the replay on TV.

33:17Pat McAfee:So as soon as that happens, and then we heard the audible gasp from the crowd, and then AQ sends, it's like, ugh, that's nasty. Hopefully, obviously, we're at the point of science being able to take care of that. You talked about Mike Evans with his injury. Let's stay in Tampa. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Shefty, similar to Jayden Daniels last week where he got hurt early and then no one really knew about it until it popped up midweek. Is that a situation that's going to happen with Baker here? We saw his right hand bother him during the game. I forget if it got hit or stepped on or what, but that seemed to kind of affect him a little bit even though he closed strong.

33:52Is that something that could linger later on the week? You know what's interesting about that is on Monday night when they were playing the Texans one week ago, there were a couple of plays that Baker had where I watched his leg bend at a certain angle. Me? Oh, my God. Like, there was one play. I'm like, this guy got up from that. He's Gumby. Like, that's incredible. And I was talking to the Buccaneers the next day, and they went over to Baker after the game. They're like, you okay? And he's like, and his choice of language to them was to basically say with some profanity, get out of my face, basically.

34:30Pat McAfee:Whoa, whoa, I don't know what he said, though. You're a journalist. You need to tell me what he said. If we're going to do journalism here, let's make sure. Two words. Two words. The first starts with an F. The second one starts with a Y. So that's what he said. Get out of my face. Fuck you. French you. Okay, all right. I like that. Is that what he said, though? Because until we know, what did it sound like, though? What was the context of the delivery? Because you're the journalist, obviously. We just wanted to make sure. The way I wasn't there, but the way I understood it to be, It was like, don't bother.

35:01I'm fine. Don't bother. That's what Baker Mayfield said.

35:04Pat McAfee:Don't bother me. I'm fine. If it's an F and a Y, he could have been saying, hey, Froyo, postgame. Oh, yeah, because maybe he wanted a little frozen yogurt to maybe make him feel better. And he's trying to diet, obviously, because he wants to look good. He's getting a little older. So he's not going for a full blizzard. But he'll do the Froyo. But he will take the Oreo and put it on the Froyo for sure. Is that what he said? That's a good call. Yeah, because FY, the first thing I thought was, oh, Froyo, Baker's so focused on his physique. How's your knee? Froyo? We don't know. Oh, now I know. Okay, now I know how he got to frozen yogurt.

35:39Yeah, it was a frozen yogurt conversation.

35:42Pat McAfee:Oh, that's misinformation. Hey, people are getting some really harsh penalties for that shit. You need to watch, especially, hey, right below you there, right below you on your left side. You need to watch. It was frozen yogurt, just to clarify here. He said, are you okay? He said, give me some frozen yogurt. Exactly. Wow, that's crazy. That's Baker Mayfield football. That's why we love him. D-Bud has a question for you about that position. Oh, by the way, hold on. It was not F-U, so it's not frozen yogurt. It was F-Off with a smile. Makes more sense. So what would that be? I don't think I've ever heard that really said.

36:25Pat McAfee:It means like I'm fine. You don't have to ask me that question. F-5 off with a smile. Is that a competition? I don't have to ask you that question. That's a lot of different words there. The way you're kind of reciting it versus what it actually was doesn't sound the same. Wrecked it on air like in real time. That's my – I will say this. There are many things that I love about doing this program. Many things. Pat's brilliant. He's never done the show in a Speedo, which I think he should start doing that. There's many things I love, but I love when I'm asked a question, And sometimes either there's a detail that's off or a question.

36:58And the person is watching the show and they can text me the information. Actually, in real time, as it happens, like it was F off with a smile. That's how it came down.

37:11Pat McAfee:Well, we're happy that people are watching. And you can watch every game, every Sunday. Wow. And they haven't met today. They haven't had the meetings yet, but they think Baker's good. Great news. If he says effing good, we'll never hear about it from Schefter because he picks and chooses what words to journalize, which I don't love. I do love frozen yogurt. I do love frozen yogurt. Oh, we know. We know. I'm not going to get patient to go to the FY as opposed to the FO. Okay, yeah. FO. Much different. Yeah, you don't want to go to the FO. So every game, every Sunday, all in one place, YouTube TV.

37:52Pat McAfee:Boom. Shout out to them. Quad box. Awesome. Bang. Are we still watching the Red Zone channel? Nope. Really? Yeah. Couldn't do it. Those 15 seconds. I was like. I actually did hear it yesterday. It was late. It was very late. And there was something going on on the screen. They put a wing stop one on. And I heard about some delicious wings. And I. Damn it. And then it stopped. And then it got back to it. And I was like. Okay. Okay. Pull. Pull. Pull. Pull. Pull. Pull. Pull. Pull. Still doing it. Still doing Red Zone. And once again, we're telling the NFL, we don't like that there's ads. We knew they were coming.

38:24Pat McAfee:I'm sick of it. And don't destroy Red Zone with your greedy corporate bullshit. Fat cat. I would like to take a stand. Okay, so Baker sounds like he's going to be effing good. Thank you for that report. D-Bott has a question for you on that position.

38:37Adam Schefter:Yeah, Chef, they're hoping to text you and give you an update on these guys. The other quarterbacks that have been out, the starting quarterbacks, Brock Purdy and then all the J's, J.J. McCarthy, Jaden Daniels, Justin Fields. What's the update on those guys? That was cool. Boom. Aaron Glenn was a little bit vague on Justin Fields today, so we'll see whether he's able to make it back. He's got an extra day next week because the Jets play on Monday night against the Dolphins. Hey, wait. J.J. McCarthy not expected to play this week. They play in Dublin against the Steelers. And, again, it's an international trip where they play the Steelers in Dublin and then they go play the Browns in London.

39:13They are the first team to go to two different countries. The Jaguars have done this back-to-back weeks to play in two separate countries. And I don't think J.J. plays in either game because they then have a bye week the next week. And then he can be rested and healthy and rejoin the lineup after that. He is traveling with the team. Obviously, he became a father last week for the first time. But he's going to travel with the team overseas. He'll be with them the entire time. I just don't expect him to play in those two particular games.

39:48Pat McAfee:Marcus Mariota? Justin Fields. You know, Marcus, I would say this. Marcus Mariota played well yesterday. And I think the way he played gives the commanders time to not have to rush back Jaden Daniels. Now, we'll see how Jaden Daniels is doing this week. But when a quarterback plays like that, I think it really allows that team to take its time and know that it's got a capable backup and a capable replacement. And they haven't declared anything about what their quarterback plans are. I don't think Dan Quinn will come out and say today, maybe he will. Jaden's back this week and we're all ready. I think this will be something that kind of goes on all week again.

40:35and I think that they have the comfort knowing that Marcus played the way he did yesterday throwing dimes downfield like that one.

40:42Pat McAfee:Okay, Andy can run. Scoring touchdown for Marcus Mariota when he's playing. Let's just go ahead and lock that one in. Feels like that is a guarantee. Let's also lock in Mac Jones. Mac who? Mac Jones? Who? Mac Jones? Who? Back then they didn't want him. Now he's hot. We all want him. Mac Jones is the guy out there in San Fran. How long and what does this mean going forward? Well, he played very well yesterday and led that team to that victory. That's what he did. But he is getting closer. And it wouldn't surprise me if Purdy's back this week, finally. Initially, that injury wasn't as bad as they thought.

41:25He recovered a little quicker. Still painful. But the fact that he was back limited last week, they ruled him out yesterday morning. But I think Purdy's going to have a chance. It's a real chance to go this week.

41:36Pat McAfee:Okay, and then Justin Fields, what's going on with him? When's he going to be back? Concussion protocol obviously is what it is. Yeah, again, he's got the extra day built in, so that's encouraging. And again, I think Tyron Taylor played pretty well yesterday, and he's somebody that the team likes, trusts, respects. If Fields clears, then he'll be the guy. He's got an extra day to do it. I don't think that they have the answer to that. Aaron Glenn was pretty vague when he spoke about it earlier today. Okay, pretty vague is not what a lot of NFL fans are on the internet when it comes to this guy.

42:09Pat McAfee:Ty, here's a question for you. Yeah, Shefty, it was last night the kind of straw that broke the Campbells back in terms of Russ starting for the Giants. We saw a couple times him basically just throwing it into the tunnel, throwing it off the uprights, throwing lobs up there, throwing picks, just looking like shit pretty much. And then after the game, Dable even said, when asked about the fans booing the quarterback situation, he basically said, like, yeah, I mean, I would have booed too. Why wouldn't you? So are they done with Russ, or are we going to do this whole same song and dance next week?

42:40You know, Brian Dable didn't want to answer the question after the press conference yesterday, and I think once you answer it once, you kind of get into a habit of opening yourself up to this. So I guess he didn't want to open up the speculation. I think after that series, there were some people that were disappointed. The schedule is so brutal. that there's not a great time to go to the young quarterback. They play the Chargers at home this week. I think that they play after that. Here we go. Chargers at home at New Orleans. Boom. I mean, that might be good, but I don't know if you want to start the guy on the road and then home for Philly.

43:24Yes, you do. They said, Steve, you definitely want to. That is. Hold on. And then you've got home for Philly. And then at Denver, at Philly, home for San Francisco. It's a goalie. He's got to play sometimes.

43:38Pat McAfee:I mean, that's better to be after that run. I mean, that is a terrible run for sure. That is a horrendous run. That is not an easy decision. Also, Dayball, Shane, they got to be thinking about their jobs or are they tied with Jackson Dart's future success? How does that kind of work? Because, you know, there is a conversation like, these people are going crazy when Jackson Jogs on the field. And obviously we've seen this before and it not work out, but we've seen it before and it does work out. He looks like he's built for the moment and we're seeing what we're seeing. Is there a chance that Dayball and Shane are thinking about their job or they think about the future?

44:08Pat McAfee:What is the mindset over there in the decision-making process? The process has been that they've wanted to stay as patient as they can with Russell. Wilson is their starting quarterback with Jackson Dart on the bench. That's been where they've been at. Their own three, though, right now. the fans are going. At some point, at some point, they're going to make the change. It's coming. We just don't know when they're going to break down and go to the quarterback. The boys wanted today, Shafty. The boys are calling for Jackson Dart today. Granted, one of the boys dealt with Russell last year where Russell had like a four or five games where he was on fire and then it went the other way.

44:50Pat McAfee:I would like to thank Russell Wilson for everything he's done for ball, but if I'm 0-3 and I think this conversation might come up later about a couple other teams as well, If I'm 0-3 with what the stats say and what the future looks like for our team, why would you not want to kind of see what you have? I understand that is a tough schedule. That certainly is not a good schedule for the Giants. And if I'm Dayball, who's potentially on my last leg, I'm not happy that this is what the schedule looks like. Going forward as we are 0-3. But, boy, at some point we've got to let the Ole Miss boy, the Ole Miss dog try to run out there.

45:21Didn't they get last place last year? How did they have the hard schedule in the NFL the following year?

45:26Pat McAfee:The NFL schedule makers say, hey, Giants, that's cute. I didn't like the way Daybo talked about us. Let's go ahead and get him the hell out of here. I mean, it is – anything else to wrap this entire story up here? Daybo and Shane, are we good? Jordan Renan just reported that Tyrone Tracy dislocated his shoulder last night. Scataboo now starter. Yep. I would think we're going to see a little bit more of Cam Scataboo right now moving forward because Tracy will miss multiple weeks. Look at Xavier Worthy. He dislocated his shoulder the first week in the friendly fire incident with Travis Kelsey. He's missed the next two games, and my understanding was that the injury was more severe than people realized.

46:08And so now Tyron Tracy's got a dislocated shoulder. He's running back. He's using that shoulder quite a bit. So, yeah, I think Cam Scadaboo now will step into a larger role with Tracy out.

46:20Pat McAfee:The world's going to enjoy Cam Scadaboo. Yeah, the only reason why I know that is because, boy, it was great to learn about him at Arizona State last year. And he should have been known a long time ago. We have this high school clip of him. I posted this last night. I don't know if you saw it. Cam Scadaboo in high school, untackleable, actually. Look at this dude. He sproles and all stuff mixed together. Oh, yeah, he's breaking a couple tackles. This is good for high school. Yeah, we've seen this before. Okay, he's still going, still going. It's got to be over there, right? Got to be over there.

46:47Pat McAfee:Nope. He's on the other side of it. Cameraman. Cameraman. he's the one scoring the touchdown yeah that's him scottaboo has like four plays from there he has a kickoff return i think where he has something like that from high school i have no idea how he ended up at arizona state and kind of overlooked but his head is the size of this desk okay and his his grit and determination to win is beyond everybody's and he was overlooked it's like this dude is a weapon and his style of play is very much uh battering yeah he wants to pawn people It's good for football if Scott Abu continues. He levitated for that one.

47:21Pat McAfee:I mean, it was like a four-year, 12-foot levitation Cam Scott Abu had. And then we're going to hit a backflip. Yep, no problem. I mean, this dude's a real deal, dude. And I'm happy he's at the Giants because that's a massive market to kind of get a hold of him. But I wish he was on a team that was potentially going to go on a real run because this dude is legit, Shefty, legit. First of all, that run that he made in high school, I hadn't seen that before. that's one of the greatest runs I've ever seen from any running back ever. That's as good as any run I've ever seen. That's like in the beast quake category.

47:53That's like in Sanders territory. Look at how many tackles he avoids. Just when you think he's down, he's not. He breaks loose again. He absolutely has to be finished here, right? They have him wrapped up, thrown down, right? No, they don't. He breaks free. Again, Chris Berman would have a field day with that highlight. That's all I could think as I'm watching that. He would love that. And Cam Scadaboo, to tie back to your initial question, I don't understand why the Giants didn't run him when they got down to the four-yard line last night on that series with Russell Wilson playing the way he was.

48:27Like, how about giving the ball to Cam Scadaboo?

48:31Pat McAfee:Chris Herman going, woo, woo, Cam Scadaboo would have been every single week. Scadaboo, boop, boop. Yeah, I mean, it would have been a, hey, boom. Come on, boom. Come on, Bo. We need that. We need Scadaboo Watch with Chris Berman going forward. Okay, let's talk about another decision that was made that everybody had questions about. But if it worked out, they would have been looked at as geniuses. Don in Atlanta, kind of a quarterback conversation. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Shefty, we are all big fans of Michael Penix here, but he looked like shite yesterday. The whole team, the Falcons did not look good in general yesterday losing on the road to the Panthers.

49:11And then Kirk Cousins made an appearance in this game. Was it just because the game was away and they wanted to keep Penix healthy? Or can we read into this situation? What are your thoughts on this whole situation between Penix and Kirk Cousins? That's what it is to me. Michael Penix had a bad day, a terrible day. They were giving him relief. The game was over. Take him out. On to a new day. And they were just giving Kirk Cousins some mop-up time right there. It wasn't like they were bringing him to challenge Michael Penix or anything. To me, that was one of the more disappointing results of yesterday.

49:44Green Bay losing to Cleveland. You've got the Panthers beating the Atlanta Falcons. See, the week before, the Falcons on Sunday night were incredibly impressive against the Vikings in Minnesota. It's hard to reconcile how a team could look that good one week and then play like that the next week. That's odd to me. That's football, baby.

50:07Pat McAfee:That's football. That's why the NFL has the parody that it has, because you have no idea who's going to show up. No idea. And getting everybody to kind of row in the same direction whenever there's injuries and there's replacements, that's like super-duper special teams. You've got guys that are signing on to the team on Thursday that are impacting the game on Sunday. It's like, that's why the NFL is the greatest, and we're going to expect it forever. Shout out to the Panthers putting it together. Shout out to the Panthers putting it together. Shout out to the Cleveland Browns being problematic.

50:32Pat McAfee:Now, let's look to tonight's game. High-scoring affair is what the sportsbooks are saying. and over under 53 and a half. Lions and Ravens, anything we need to know for tonight's game that we should be thinking about? Yeah, a couple of things. I think, first of all, it wouldn't surprise me if both teams made some roster moves this afternoon. Marcus Davenport's dealing with a chest injury. We'll see whether the Lions go ahead and put him on IR or whether he can avoid that. We'll see whether the Ravens have to put Justin Matabike, their outstanding defensive tackle, on injured reserve. He's got a neck injury.

51:05It's a little problematic, and it wouldn't surprise me if just before 4 o 'clock we got noticed that Justin Matabique wound up on injured reserve, which would be a loss for that particular defense. Aiden Hutchinson's kind of fighting his way back. You'll notice guys are coming at him. He's facing all kinds of things as he's playing defensive end, which has been interesting to watch some of the ways that teams have gone at him. Interesting. They had noise outright too, right, Shafty? What's that? Can you bet on 500 rushing yards? Because both the lines sound like they're completely ravaged. That's a good question.

51:44Well, I mean, Derrick Henry, last week the Browns had nine men in the box, it seemed like, the entire game, and they were determined not to let Henry run, and the Ravens had the defense making plays of different sorts. But Derrick Henry last week was a non-factor with them playing the lawn like that. I don't think that will happen again tonight.

52:04Pat McAfee:All right, Shefty, we appreciate you're on TV all night, we assume? Yeah, we're going to be doing SportsCenter, NFL Live, Monday Night Countdown, in the middle of having some FY, hopefully. Hell yeah. Yeah. Well, don't F-O, brother. You got a big-time day, ladies and gentlemen. Senior NFL insider for ESPN. Adam Schefter. Hey, Shefty. We appreciate it, Shefty. All the intel, all the inside notes. Feels like there's a lot of injuries tonight. It's week three. Yeah. This is football. It's tough. We got starting quarterbacks, backup quarterbacks. We got D-lines missing. We got a lot of stuff going on.

52:35Pat McAfee:Special teams going crazy. I mean, this is a wild start to an NFL season. Now, D-Bot, what are the couple things maybe we didn't hit as much as we should there in the first 15?

52:42Adam Schefter:Oh, we covered a lot. But you know what? I would say with the champs. We start with the defended champs. Champs still the champs. I know a lot of people started to write them off early on in offensive struggles. And then the Rams came out of the gate 26-7, I believe, they were leading. Can we throw up that passing chart from Jalen Hurst? I just haven't seen it much on the Internet after week three. But Scott most likely, you know, when he needs to, he can. He threw the ball down the field when he needed to second half. They came back 21-32, 226, three touchdowns, no interception. This is 17 games in a row now, including the playoffs, where he started and finished the games, and they have won.

53:19Adam Schefter:And it was a conversation between him and his offensive coordinator, a little spirited on the sideline. He spoke a little candidly about that after the game. We can get to that later. But a great job by the Eagles. Actually, you know what? Let's get to it now. Jalen, what a comeback. a lot of memorable moments in this ball game. What are you going to take away from a victory like today?

53:44Man, regardless, it's always good to get a win.

53:48Adam Schefter:It's always good to get a win. Okay. And if that doesn't show you what type of team we are, I don't know what does. Now, we completely did that to ourselves in the first half. Completely. We absolutely completely did that to ourselves. And that's something we got to fix. It's as simple as that. It's unacceptable. It's like you guys said later for this, whatever happened in that first half, forget about it. Let's go and show who we are. We play so many styles of football. We're in that first half. We got to get out of this plan not to lose. We got to come out aggressive and play our game. You saw our game in the second half.

54:25Adam Schefter:What about Big Boy with the block and chugging down the field? I knew he was going to block it. I knew he was going to block it. I just knew he was going to block it. Yeah, we can cut it right there. That's just a great effort. So, yeah, him and the Petulo guy, the new OC.

54:39Pat McAfee:Okay, so everybody's calling for his job last week during our reaction. Monday is the new offense coordinator. Yeah. Second half, that offense looked vastly different than the first half. There was one throw to A.J. Brown that kind of sprung everything down the right side as I was watching that. It felt as if – you remember A.Q. Shipley last year? He was like, I like the Eagles' offensive line. They got the best offensive line in football. Saquon Barkley's the best running back maybe in the history of football. I don't know if Jalen Hurts is the guy. And we attacked AQ immediately for that. It's like, what are you talking about?

55:05Pat McAfee:Like, this guy is the guy. But I think there was a lot of people that had that narrative. Felt like the offense coordinator for the Eagles maybe had that narrative for the first couple weeks. And then once he opened it up and allowed him to start throwing in the second half, guess who else that helped? Saquon Barker. That helped the run and everything. Saquon wasn't really working. It's like, now hopefully Petulo and Jalen are kind of on the same page. I don't know if they were trying to roll it out. But it felt like he wasn't as confident in like, hey, we got a lot of money out there. We got a lot of money out there.

55:31Pat McAfee:We got a lot of money right here. We got a tight end with a lot of money. Lane Johnson getting hurt, not great. No. They're going to have to figure that out.

55:38Adam Schefter:Big piece, man.

55:38Pat McAfee:But it was nice to see him open it up again.

55:40Adam Schefter:Yeah, it was nice to see him doing it, turning it on when he needed to, just like he did in the Super Bowl. And then a former Eagle, now a Viking, Isaiah Rogers had an unbelievable game against the Bengals. Started off with a pick six right here. We always talk about tips and overthrows. Made him pay for the overthrow. Took it back to the crib. Unbelievable with the ball in his hands. does some special, special things. And now unbelievable, punching the ball out of other guys. He had two forced fumbles. This was his first one that he also picked up and took to the crib. I saw on the internet, I don't know how true it is, but a 99.9 rating or score with PFF, which everybody and anybody who watched this game can see he pretty much pitched the perfect game for a defensive player.

56:18Adam Schefter:First Viking ever to score two touchdowns in the game.

56:22Pat McAfee:Hey, Isaiah Rogers' story is a good one, too. Absolutely. Happy for him, man. Way to bounce back. Way to be a baller. Congrats on having a phenomenal game against the Bengals as they beat the hell out of the team from Cincinnati. It's glorious overreaction Monday. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. I was in a Speedo on Saturday. We'll talk about that the next hour, I assume, at some point. Speedo wasn't – the banana hammock wasn't holding anything. Sure. What? Yeah, I had just put that thing on about 40 minutes before that during a commercial break in a Port-A-John, which was actually a poop crock pot because of how hot it was.

56:56Pat McAfee:I get up to the top I put I notice that thing's completely Uh oh Fun time See you next hour

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58:09Pat McAfee:Football! It's great. We can't wait to continue to chit-chat about it. The college football weekend was spectacular. One half of the hammer. Down! Cowboys' AP tone will give us a breakdown of that here in a matter of moments. The Toxic Table's here. At Boston Conner, loser! At Ty Schmidt, loser! Yeah. Tough day! Toxic Table. Now, let's go to nine-year NFL vet. Host of Everything DB. Good D and a bad D. Winner, ladies and gentlemen, Dave J. Butler. All your teams.

58:41Adam Schefter:Well, all but one.

58:42Pat McAfee:Oh, they're never going to win again, though. Yeah, all but one.

58:45Adam Schefter:Chargers, Eagles, my Colts, all undefeated.

58:47Pat McAfee:And the Panthers even win for you? Yeah, Dolphins. Chucky.

58:50Adam Schefter:Chucky was up picking games. Magic Chuck looked awesome.

58:53Pat McAfee:Saw his pace of research. I was talking about the Carolina Panthers, but I understand that you were saying also the Florida Panthers. The Panthers, that's not my team. Okay, to hell with that. I like that. You got the Ravens tonight, though.

59:04Adam Schefter:No, not my squad. Tough look for your Hopkins. We do have a – no, never mind. I can't – I'm a Dolph fan forever. I'm locked in. Oh, you're about to ship them out. Blood here, blood out. I thought relegation, but I can't do it. Oh, relegating one of your teams, Don. That's interesting. You know, you got different benefits when you live this life.

59:20Pat McAfee:Well, I appreciate the way you have tried to promote others to live your life, too. Darius J. Butler has five teams he's pulling for. on any given Sunday. Then let's add college. We got you. We got UConn. UConn. Only two. Okay, so six teams. He's got six teams any given weekend to be pulling for. And the stupid, you know, Mercedes or whatever bullshit. Yeah, Rude Van, Oscar. Nistaroy, Oscar, yeah. Disastery. Yeah, we remember his. Michael Petrie. So disrespectful. It's not about G1, dude. You got ten different – are those guys all on different teams or the same team? Yeah, Landon Norris.

59:57Adam Schefter:Yeah, they're different. These guys are making like$50,$60 million. These are icons. Absolute dogs. And we don't care.

1:00:03Pat McAfee:No, we do. And we never will. Back to the point. Back to the point. Darius has 10 to 11 different things that can win on any given weekend that will bring him joy. Yeah. So what he has been trying to do is to tell others, hey, you need to pick up some more teams. You need to pick up some more things so you're not just boom, boom, boom. Because a team that you've never met, a group of men, that you have no idea who they are behind closed doors, is controlling your happiness. Now, a lot of people say, D-Buck, that's disgusting. You're a part of the problem. I get it. D-Buck comes back and says, well, I want to enjoy sports.

1:00:35Pat McAfee:So there's a valid argument on both sides. Let's go to one half of the hammer. Dad! Cowboys at Bubba Gumpino. He is a Miami Dolphins fan. Yep. He shares that with you. You two very diehard Dolphins fans. But if you see the jersey he's wearing now, he thought he was going to get that last week. It came four days late, which we all appreciate and respect in the jersey ordering game nowadays. uh he has just picked up the dolphins and just kind of huh okay see ya shout out to the you being back miami hurricanes feel all the way back that university was electric down there yeah i was supposed to have this jersey for that trip shout out fanatics appreciate it um what happened yeah the you the you is all the way back they're electric to watch this bane guy up front on defense every play is an absolute menace and then gators came back a little bit carson beck didn't have his best game but then they just got back to pounding the rock and just shoved it down the gators throat to win that game amazing amazing university i'll say and that president joey from the bronx this guy's got access to a lot of money knows how to operate a lot of money and also is a very good leader uh that entire place brand new seemingly and only getting newer you know now the stadium is an interesting conversation because how far away it is and i assume in miami it's not going to be easy to find real estate where you can potentially put that big of a thing but everything that miami has going on feels very aligned with their sports being good like very very much so so if you're a miami hurricanes fan who happens to be a miami dolphins fan and you're not like darius butler and pick up five other teams because you are a dolphins fan over the last 30 years just know that the hurricanes feel like something that's sustainable for like the next foreseeable future that's how you feel after leaving there right gumpy yeah especially after talking to Cristobal.

1:02:16I mean, he is the man. Saban said it. He's the perfect guy for that team. He is unbelievable. Great guy.

1:02:22Pat McAfee:Cristobal, Cam, this guy Cam, he's a, I don't know what his job is. I have no idea what he's right here. Psychopath. Absolute legend. He's a weapon. President, this Cam guy, he was the, I don't know if he's the SID media guy, PR guy. He's one fine speedo. Wears many hats. What do you need? You need a suit? You need to look like you're from Miami? I got you, dude. No problem. Bang, bang, bang. How about that? Fucking unreal. Like his energy, this guy Cam, immaculate. But I don't think he's the only one there. I think everybody there, the president loves Miami. Cristobal, he's a boy, loved the Hurricanes.

1:02:56Pat McAfee:Loves Miami. This Cam guy, I assume echoes the sentiment a lot. Love Miami. Like they're all very proud. That's why when I was standing up there, 32.9 feet up in the sky, or as the Europeans and I guess Olympics say 10-meter board, I say it's very evident that these students love this university. They do. They love being there. And now with the alumni being able to give money and support the school, if you love the school, let alone Dana White getting there, down there now with more money being attracted. Tax-free. I mean, even that when it comes to NIL. State income tax, obviously a huge deal, especially for these players that are getting paid a lot of money, which Carson Beck allegedly is.

1:03:34Pat McAfee:And everything about the president, his whole entire life, business is money. That's what he was in. What they are doing, everybody else should be doing.

1:03:43Adam Schefter:That's the big thing right there, Joey from the Bronx. Like, as long as he's running the show and he can get them – because, look, college football, it always has been big business, but it's big business now more than ever. So, if Joey's moving shit around, you talked about alumni base and them showing up and giving money, all that shit is dope. But if Joey can move around and make sure we continue getting these players, boy.

1:04:04Pat McAfee:I'm telling you, I think it only just begun. Like, I think this has only just begun the last couple years. it felt like it lost its luster and its connection. And now they're very much focused on the you being the you again. And pulling on that from all this. Dwayne Johnson gave them what? I don't know if it was this president or the previous one, but Dwayne Johnson donated whatever,$100 million for a new – everybody that is down there. I think Miami's in a good – especially the ACC right now. But is Clemson, you know, Florida State's real year to year.

1:04:33Adam Schefter:Can't wait for that game. Two weeks. Miami, Florida State. Two weeks. about a week then just got announced it's 7.30 Saturday night

1:04:42Pat McAfee:and Georgia Tech right now with Hank's King will they be able to supplement that going forward we don't know but we know this year they're going to be good it's like Miami feels like it's a sustained operation right now I should feel very good about them Miami and Penn State if you just look at those two schools they're going to be the blueprint Oregon you can throw in there too I mean I wonder USC is probably throwing a bunch of money around it feels like that is now the blueprint anyone who's not operating as if, hey, this is now a money business. It is basically just a business. We don't have to treat this as if we did before where it's the education and, you know, football.

1:05:16It is now football. By the way, Miami education. Top tier.

1:05:19Pat McAfee:Private institute. Penn State. Very good. Top tier, and that's only going to help those schools. You wonder if the better education is going to lead to those schools being better because they do have more money from alumni. But if every school isn't doing that, if you're in the SEC or Big Ten or anything and you don't have some sort of money guy in your building, whether it's an AD. With say, with real sway. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Whether an AD president, a vice president, something like that, you will be left behind. And if you're one of those boosters, you better make sure your school knows that too.

1:05:49Go ahead, Ty. Well, I was just going to say, for them not being relevant, at least to the point when we were growing up that they were, where you could basically set your watch, like, hey, this team might win a national championship. That's the game aside. Like watching game day on Saturday, I was like, this campus is unbelievable. It is so nice. The weather is perfect. Like, so if you can get the football kind of starting to go in the right direction, it's like, why wouldn't you want to come here?

1:06:13Pat McAfee:Yeah, legit. And you think that as you're walking around that campus a lot, it's like, I don't know what I would have became with all this and how nice this is. Like, I don't know if I would have been able to maintain focus. But if I was just choosing a school to go to, it's like, why would you not come to a resort down here? Not that Penn State isn't awesome, but if you went on a visit to Penn State in October and then went to Miami the following weekend, which way do you think you're going to lean? Well, then people would say, well, the college atmosphere at Penn State is better than it is in Miami.

1:06:43Pat McAfee:It's like, I think they have house parties and shit down there. They have an entire off-campus, and let me tell you, beautiful. It's a nice house. You've got scooters and skateboards everywhere. It felt like they're really living down there. You see people blading? I didn't see any blades. I didn't leave campus really, though, so I didn't see any blades. A lot of these scooters. A lot of the scooters. A lot of scooters because traffic's so bad in Miami, I guess. So there's a lot of scooters. Like limes and stuff? No, people like own them. Like personal scooters. Yeah. Those are big now. Des showed up on his own scooter.

1:07:15Pat McAfee:KJ Hamlin. He was in the area. Nice scooter. I bet. 15, 20, I think. Especially if you put that thing in Rabbit. Yeah. Yeah. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a – well, I guess down in Miami, you would put it in cheetah mode, but for how long? Yeah. What's that? And are you getting pulled over? yeah joining us now ladies and gentlemen is a college football national champion a super bowl champion a rider cup winner ladies and gentlemen aj hawk yeah great to see you hawker hey we just talked about a lot about down there in miami and uh i i know uh that you saw me adjust myself uh with a camera very close on me and i will say if i didn't do that aj whole show literally whole thing that thing was riding that thing was right right real right do we have any idea did you give a heads up to all the great people behind the scenes that are filming this possibly blur it out maybe but if you do the blur you have to do a fake blur all the way down your ankle bigger blur you need to blur the whole thing this all came together relatively quickly everybody should kind of understand that Friday night Des hosted an incredible gathering for everybody got a chance to see his house so sick he has a hat right in the middle of his living room his house is like a museum paintings everywhere like very beautiful it is Des's house one of the nicest houses I've ever seen like it is incredible right in the middle has a hat with a box around it and it says the greatest catch I've ever made and it's Desmond Howard and obviously question what is this oh it's Michael Jackson's hat he threw it my sophomore year of college i went to a concert wow threw it out in the crowd des i guess of course that's pretty sweet and then he held on to it it is that's pretty sick yeah it was it was very sick but as we're doing it uh chefs obviously they made some jamaican food it was i'm telling you it was great it was it was i would say the perfect event for whatever it was supposed to be you know like everybody gave crew coming audio coming makeup cut like every and it was called like a flow through so nobody felt obligate like it was just very well done i would say one of the camera people that have been there for a long time blanking on his name 100 on me he's on a jib away from us he's not on the set he is somewhere else he's been there a long time though he he basically brings up to me like you going off that high dive or whatever and i'm like uh i don't know is it like how close is it to the set they're like right it's literally right next to the set and i was like could you get on camera he goes oh yeah we got a lot of cameras that can get over there and then he even says like we'll never get an opportunity to do that again so like this thing is right next to that just want to let you know camera just want to let you know we'll never have this opportunity again we can certainly get it on camera it was like okay we should think about doing that so then i talked to red uh matt's his name at game day that night i'm like hey is anybody going off what's going on here what's the situation then he said jess was going off there and i was like sick okay i won't do it then i don't want to do it if jess is doing it and then i think jess came up with the idea was like well last week he kind of challenged me i'll challenge him to do it if he'll do it i'm like perfect let's do that so then whenever i see jess up there i'm thinking to myself would be kind of cool if jess just doesn't do this right now okay then if i was to do it later jess didn't do the field goal thing just into the top thing but instead jess just like a g cuts a promo up there puts that thing down walks right off wasn't even crazy wasn't even a second thought walks right off of that thing nails it yeah send it picture perfect in that entire thing i'm like damn like just really i don't what do i do that is even close to winning there so then there was a speedo conversation that sort of happened sure the speedo conversation that was brewing you know a little bit before the show i asked this cam gentleman i said hey uh what are the divers where when they go off there they wear speedo right yeah i was like can i get a speedo from the diving team because then when i drop that shit it'll say Miami you know so then it's like easy this who I'm picking Miami so cam tells me immediately I'm looking at you okay I don't know if we got any divers I don't know if we got any divers I'm like no they're like big we'll get the swim team because we only have a women's swim team and I don't know why I don't know if we they're very good I guess but I don't know if we have if the divers are gonna have that he makes a couple calls obviously two phones this guy cam always on I think always loves the hurricanes he goes the biggest we got a size 30 waist i'm like that's eighth grade for me actually eighth grade for me he goes i told you you're gonna be small i don't know so then matt garrett read during the show goes hey we can certainly find a speedo somewhere if that is still an option and i just yeah sure talk back yeah let's go ahead and check that so then all of a sudden about 45 minutes later i get a we have three different options of speedos they're all black though so it won't really help with the debut but if you want to wear it cool brings it up i think it was 34 maybe 30 34 30 like somewhere in that range closer i'm a 37 i'm stuck in between 36 and 38 that's kind of where i dance 38 you've seen me on tv with them it looks a little bit ridiculous there's a little bit of thing 36 a little tight in the area look a little bit ridiculous so with my fat ass that's kind of how it is so 34 we get that thing i look at it i'm like i don't know but i don't know what it's to be they're supposed to be i don't know i don't know what they're supposed to be so i gotta go on a port-a-john okay right behind the like during a commercial break yeah right before the last hour i go into a port-a-john it is 190 degrees okay i am in a poop crock pot okay and i got my pants are all drenched because i'm sweating the entire day so i had to peel these things off of me during a commercial break peel these things off me put them on top of the the toilet paper little fucking sure because there isn't like uh there's not a shelf in these border johns so then i put this thing on boy real tight hold on did you leave underwear in there uh what's that did you leave your underwear that you were wearing in the porter john no i'll put them back on oh you did i put them because they were stuck in my pants yeah they were stuck in my pants who had the speedos

1:13:23Adam Schefter:packed already was it was it the other guy what do you mean no they went it was the biggest one guy probably didn't have some yeah but then i put that thing on

1:13:34Pat McAfee:It was really uncomfortable. Last hour, you probably see me fidgety a little bit. I was so tired because I'd sweat so much at that point. Those fans that stood out there with us the entire time, absolute legends and icons. But then, yeah, as I'm running up there, I'm feeling that thing, you know, kind of not feel comfortable. But it's a speedo. I don't know what it's supposed to feel like. This isn't my normal thing. And then when I unbutton my jeans at the top of that thing, I look down. And because it's white pants, I could see it. Oh, there's my dick right there. Oh, shit. That is exactly what I did.

1:14:04Pat McAfee:So now I'm like, oh, no, what do I do here? Because this thing is literally just shoved right over here. So I try to adjust myself. And you guys saw it. I found a brick center. I think ball sack. Everybody was having a good time with that. I'm like, that was almost all of me. All of me. Almost saw all of you. That Sebastian, great mascot. Was he talking or no? No, no talking at all. Exactly. A lot of moxie. Came in afterwards. I'm shirtless in the production room because I wasn't – missed me ripping my shirt. David Allen, shout out to you, bro. You did make that a little bit more difficult than I thought it was going to be with those buttons and kind of ripped that thing.

1:14:44Pat McAfee:Shout out to Cam getting me the sport coat and the pants the night before, obviously, so I could go real Miami Vicey. Yeah, it was a good time, man. It was fun. But, yeah, my balls were almost completely out there. I mean, and obviously – All kit and caboodle. Yeah, the whole thing. Did they hate it poor? It was a lot further of a fall than I thought it was going to be. Yeah, how was it right there? Was it when you got up there, was it, okay, this is a little taller than I thought this would feel? Didn't look down, really. Looked at students a lot. Looked out. When I was doing the whole, then they spell out C-A-N-E-S, Canes.

1:15:17Pat McAfee:But the Sebastian move is a lot of that. Didn't look down. Kind of had a little bit of a worrisome when I put the microphone down. Sure. And I, like, almost looked down. You look down, your eyes are connected to your brain. there's almost a natural reaction of like, oh, what are we even thinking about doing? So for me, I got to just go. So I didn't even look down. But midway through, I certainly thought to myself, wow, this is further than I thought it was going to be. I'm still falling right now. I'm happy to talk to you. No bruises. They told me if I cannonballed, there was a chance I would have blew my butthole.

1:15:50Pat McAfee:Oh, is that right? That's what they told you. Yeah, because that thing would be, That would suck. Especially if I'm sitting that thing down. Was thinking about doing the backflip, I guess, because Mark Richt, head coach formerly, did backflips off that thing to wow up there, rowdy up the student section or whatever. Thought about doing that because I have done that off top turnbuckle and things like that. But then if you over-rotate there, that's catastrophe. Break every bone in your face. That's certainly catastrophe. And right there, I didn't have a mic on. I said, Coach Corso, this pencil is for you.

1:16:20Pat McAfee:And the reason why I did a pencil is because, first of all, I thought it was sweet to honor Coach Corso like that. But also, the thought of just dying up there was much less with the pencil. So that's how it all came together, AJ. And what a day. Then I get to my phone like 20 minutes later, you know, because I'm drenched in my phone and my shit's everywhere. And I'm like, man, I wonder how many people think I'm the worst human on earth for doing that. You know, like I was like, look at this. I thought there was going to be a lot. Pretty positive reaction. I'm very, very thankful for that. And then as the bus is heading to the FBO, the airport, to get back to Indy for Wrestlepalooza, I got a call from Coach Corso.

1:17:00Pat McAfee:And it's like, Coach Corso, he and I certainly got along friendly, very much so. Would ask him questions, would help. I think good relationship is how it would be described. But I've only known him here the last couple years. I haven't known him for 30 years like everybody else, 20 years for everybody else. So him calling me unprompted out of nowhere was awesome. And right behind me there is our last show rundown of picks that we had at Ohio State. And I asked him to sign it with his Ty Conderoga pencil whenever he was done. And he says, now your turn, Pat. Like, literally to me. It's like a pretty cool moment.

1:17:36Pat McAfee:And that call from him, I got emotional. It was a crazy day. And then Russell Palooza was happening in Indianapolis with WWE and ESPN coming together. And it's like, man, there's a lot of insane shit happening. I'm incredibly grateful and thankful. and also pumped. My balls didn't show. And I think that's a big deal. You know what I mean, AJ? Yeah, they were very worried that you would spread your legs and that's when water would go up through your butt, through your mouth, and you would just explode or what? Yeah. I mean, maybe. I didn't think so. No, no. That's how it works. I don't know. Because the one thing is connected to the other thing.

1:18:09Pat McAfee:And then the other thing is connected to the other thing. Isn't there like a thing in there that's like 10 miles? Yeah, intestine. Your stomach would explode if it went through your butthole. Probably more so than just come out your mouth. No, it'd be like what they did on Jackass, where they would just get all the stuff out of you. They're talking bruised feet. Oh, yeah. If I was to do that. I mean, all these things were being talked about. Like, hey, this is this. I watched a military. I think it was the Marines. I think it was them jumping out of coppers, like what you do with your shit. So I just tried to mimic that.

1:18:41Pat McAfee:And yeah, body feels good.

1:18:42Adam Schefter:So that was your first time jumping off something that high?

1:18:45Pat McAfee:No, so we jumped off Pier in Pittsburgh. It was down on, what was that road? Down on Barking. Yeah, Barking Road. It was into a river, but it was always night. They would say different. That's 20 feet. Oh, it's 40 feet. You had no idea. And then all you would hope is it's a river, so you don't hit anything pretty real. Obviously jumped off the steel cage at NXT. I've jumped off things before, out of a plane. You know, I've done that. But it's always just can't. Just do it. Can't look. Can't look. Just got to go. Like the pier, couldn't see shit, pitch black, into a river. It's like this, hindsight.

1:19:18Pat McAfee:That's wild. Pretty terrible decision. You're also not a huge swimming water guy. So it's like, that's it. I mean, I assume you went right down to the bottom. Touched the bottom. I thought my ears were going to explode. I imagine. As I was going down, I'm like way too low right now. Way too low. Kept going, kept going. Touched bottom. Also, Speedo, right back to where it was. But this time, cheeks, too. Yep. And you were gassed. I mean, you ran so far and climbed up like three flights there. Thank you. I got a text from Whitey, West Virginia legend, host of the Old Grad Podcast. He said, you just literally did a fireman work like a firefighter.

1:19:54Pat McAfee:You just did the firefighter super challenge. You sprinted, then you did the challenge.

1:19:57Adam Schefter:Talking the whole time.

1:19:58Pat McAfee:Yeah. It was it. I'm very thankful I got to do it. Shout out to Miami. That was a lot of fun. I'm happy we made it. Go ahead. Now we just. Yep, exactly. You know? One off high dive. You all saw it. Yeah. Do I have to do it again? Get it. No way. All right. Get it. We're going to do an Olympic thing someday. They'll have that high-dive, and I'll be like, that was so much fun when I got to do it. Don't want to copy it. You've already done it. It's not going to be. Tan lines, everybody needs to relax. I fell asleep in Puerto Rico. What are you going to do? I thought they looked good. I fell asleep in Puerto Rico.

1:20:24Pat McAfee:You know, that's all right. That was day one I got down there. Yeah. You should have seen what that felt like day two down there, up here. It is crazy that I guess my whole body could be that tan if I just fell asleep in Puerto Rico for three to four hours. Yeah, there you go. Because I had those shorts on. I had sunglasses on with a hat up here A towel over my body Just kind of passed out Maybe on some vitamins And I'll tell you, you saw where I didn't cover myself Still there, that's what, a month and a half ago? Yeah I don't want to think about the worries of that Someone plays no games Join us now, ladies and gentlemen We made him wait through that entire thing, we apologize He will be on the Monday Night Football coverage I do believe this evening He's an ESPN pundit, he's an Emmy Award winner Ladies and gentlemen, Pierce Schreiber Oh, where are you at?

1:21:12I'm in Baltimore. I'm in Baltimore, my friend. This is the Baltimore skyline behind me. I found this on Google Images.

1:21:18Pat McAfee:I like that. Good play. Pay homage to the Baltimore folks. Have you been down to Jimmy's Famous Seafood? I don't think it's in this shot, but it should be. It is not. Jimmy has been very good to me and my family in the past. We get some packages, some time to time, whenever you talk positively about the Ravens, but we have not been there yet. I love Jimmy's Seafood, but I also love being in Baltimore. I just took a walk around the Inner Harbor this morning. Fresh air, beautiful. We got a great one tonight, dude. Okay, so you say you talk positive about Baltimore. Jimmy's famous will take care of you.

1:21:48Pat McAfee:Tonight, are you talking positive about the Baltimore Ravens? How do you feel about this evening's game? Yeah, this evening's game is a really good one. It's a great one that we have in week three on Monday night, but really it's between two teams that silenced a lot of people after week one. And I look at this one. To me, if you're Lamar Jackson, one of the best Monday night football quarterbacks of all time, He's never thrown an interception on Monday Night Football. He's 7-2. He's got this great record. He's also 24-2 against the NFC. Nothing is going to be accomplished tonight by beating the Detroit Lions in Week 3.

1:22:19It's not like you're going to look at your resume and say, well, he didn't do this, he didn't do this, he didn't do this, but he beat the Lions in Week 3 of the 2025 season. That said, when you're looking at what the Bills are doing up there in the AFC East, and you're looking to hold serve, and you know how important home field is in these playoffs, I think this game does matter in the big picture. and I also think that they're looking to make a statement on national TV after giving up that loss in the way the defense played against Buffalo in week one. Go ahead AJ. Shregs what about this Detroit Lions team I believe you came on this program and said you think there's a chance that they do not make the playoffs this year if I'm not mistaken what do you think's on the line for them tonight and how do you think they're going to look?

1:22:57Yeah I went from being like Mr. Lions everyone loving me in Detroit because I was on this ride until now being public enemy number one The truth of the matter was I thought the NFC was loaded at the top, and I wasn't sure how this team would respond to the loss of Ben Johnson and, obviously, Aaron Glenn. Well, week one, I'm not saying I look like a genius, but there were serious questions. Week two, they shut me up, and they shut a lot of pundits up, and that offense looked awesome, and it looked like the Ben Johnson offense. That said, if they go out there tonight and they don't do that, and now we're one and two, you're in a bit of a hole.

1:23:29What they got in their favor, though, was that the Browns silenced the Packers last night. And of course, we know that the Vikings have a tough trip to Dublin and they're going to have to go up against the Steelers. This might be one of those years where it's an 18-week season and it's going to come down to the final week. I didn't have the Lions in the playoffs at the start of the season. If they play like they did last week against Chicago, I'll look like an idiot come January.

1:23:49Pat McAfee:Absolutely. A lot of us will for a lot of the things we say throughout the entirety of an NFL season. And last year it came down to the last week, obviously, between the Vikings and the Lions to decide who was number one in the NFC or who was going to get fifth place in the NFC, which almost changed the rule because of how great that NFC North is. Excited to see what Lions team we have tonight. You talked about the Packers losing to the Browns. This Browns defense may be generational in this entire thing whenever it's said and done. What they're able to do at home, plus what they're able to do to everybody.

1:24:17Pat McAfee:This Packers team was hottest team in the NFL. We thought maybe Packers might go on and win it all because of who they were at the beginning of the season. Micah was the perfect little kickstart to an entire operation of greatness. And then they go and have to deal with this. How do you feel about the Browns? And what do you think the Browns look like for the rest of the year? Well, here's the other part of it. Packers didn't play since Thursday. So the Packers had like 10 days to prepare. They're riding high. There's talk of undefeated season. And then they commit 14 penalties. 14 penalties looked absolutely out of sorts.

1:24:51And that's a credit to this Cleveland defense. I mean, if you watch the Browns, it's basically if the offense doesn't screw things up, they're going to be in every game. Last week, the offense screwed things up. There were turnovers galore, and then the Ravens were able to capitalize late, and that score got out of control. But if you look at weeks one and three, like this Browns defense, what they did to Joe Burrow in week one, I mean, Joe Burrow, they had seven yards in the second half of week one. And then to see this offense that was lighting it up the first two weeks just go completely silent.

1:25:19And Mason Graham, like rookie all over the place. And then on offense, Judkins gets in the game 94 yards. If the Browns don't screw it up on offense, they're going to be in every single game this season, and they're going to be a pain in the ass to play because that defense is so good.

1:25:34Pat McAfee:Nightmare for the AFC North is Cleveland Browns. Just late in the season. Who do you have to get through? Oh, the Browns. Are they going to make the playoffs? Nah. All right, Steelers should win that one. Steelers fans are like, excuse me, do you know who they paid$40 million a year to on the defense side of that ball? He's a game record. He will take shit over whenever he wants, and let alone them blocking a kick late in special teams and then going on to hit another kick. It's like, is there a couple different phases that are elite for the Cleveland Browns right now? And then are they going to be able to figure out how to make that offense?

1:26:07Pat McAfee:Is it the future of time? Or is Joey Flacco just going to be the guy that rides the Browns to the playoffs for another year? Now, let's talk about a team that maybe had a little bit of success, a little bit of an upside, also a big-time contract to a head coach. Go ahead, D. Butch.

1:26:21Adam Schefter:Yeah, talk about the future of Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams. They look good against the Dallas Cowboys. Now, what's your thoughts on that? Is it more of the Cowboys just absolutely stinking on defense? Or maybe it's Caleb Williams possibly turning a corner here with Ben Johnson. I think it's a combination of both. I think the Cowboys are horrendous on defense right now, and they have to figure their stuff out. But let's not take anything away from Caleb and from Ben Johnson. Look, that team bought in on Ben Johnson's entire summer of dewiring them and then rewiring them into what he wanted them to be.

1:26:51In the first two weeks, it didn't look like that was going to be anything. And yet they stayed committed to it, and it all came to fruition yesterday. I love the fact that you saw DJ Moore in the backfield three or four times. I love the fact that they ran that weird-looking flea flicker. I love the fact that they gave up zero sacks. That means that this team stuck with themselves, and they didn't come unraveled after that week two loss to Detroit. It was so personal with Ben Johnson going back to Detroit. I think we underestimated how much the Lions wanted to beat him and how much that Lions team was hearing the noise after that week one loss to the Packers.

1:27:24To come out week three with Brady and Burkhardt on the call, national audience, and to be the ones to actually light it up and do it with the way that the Lions played last year. I mean, Caleb looked great yesterday. Great. And there was some signs of greatness in those first two weeks. You have to feel energized as a Bears fan. At least this thing is not hopeless and they're going to be on the right track. they committed to Ben Johnson's offense and it proved to be working just fine once they got things going.

1:27:50Pat McAfee:Yeah, the Dallas Cowboys, obviously there's a different conversation happening for them and that's rude because maybe the Chicago Bears team did find it and they're actually a good team. Caleb Williams had his best day on the field in the locker room. He always messed up the first ever win for the head coach thing. Almost missed him with the throw and called it the wrong title. First home win. Yeah, I mean, it was just, it was a whole thing, but hey, didn't know he was focused on the game. That's right. Wasn't focused on the celebrations with Ben Johnson. also like the fact that ben johnson's thing is good better best never let it rest till you're good is better and you're better is best because i've been actually saying that my entire life uh really yes is that like a high school i never heard that and he he rattled that thing off and i was like oh i like that i'm gonna write that down but you knew that one yeah i guess i would assume somebody said that one time around me and i was like yup bars who said that yeah i don't know who said it and i think i've always just said it because it's just you know it's a lot but then if you listen to it it's like oh that's pretty good little saying and i love the ben Johnson's just taking that to the entire team.

1:28:45Pat McAfee:I like that any coach is kind of using that as their rally cry. And if they nail it in there, let's go.

1:28:51Adam Schefter:Hell yeah. He's an absolute maniac. You know what? I may be in a minority. I like Caleb's postgame. He was hype. He was excited. First home win. He almost missed him. Don't give him an easy pass. Oh, you're right. So that's up there. Maybe he was impersonating the flea flicker, the toss back to him. Yeah, and we remember from last year. He's a big hip hip hooray guy. So, you know, you got to let him kind of grow with the celebration.

1:29:12Pat McAfee:First victory at all. And, you know, good little touch there. I appreciate it. It looked like they got along, too, which I think is a big conversation. You know, Caleb and Ben getting along, showing respect, I think is good. Maybe the Bears are on the up and up. Congrats, Ben. Congrats, Ben. Let's talk about maybe on Don. Don. Go ahead, Tone. Yep, the Bears looked really, really good against Cowboys. You know who else looked really, really good against Cowboys? Russell Wilson. And then he looked like shit in weeks one and three. So when are we going – when are we and your New York Giants going to Jackson Dark Strikes?

1:29:42because this was not it last night. I mean, there was many interceptions. There was balls into the 18th row. There was balls into the locker room. How do you feel about your Giants in the quarterback position? You know, the interesting thing is the offensive line actually played pretty well yesterday. So this was the big excuse was, well, the offensive line sucks. Anybody behind that offensive line is going to struggle. Offensive line, they did their job. I know Andrew Thomas only played about 25 snaps, but he and Marcus Meebo kept that defensive line from Russ. it was unfortunate that they couldn't score there in the red zone at the end.

1:30:13And those four passes were what they were. There's never going to be a good time to put Jackson Dart in. You and Adam Schefter, you guys went over the schedule in the first hour of this show. There's not going to be an opportune time where, hey, this makes sense. This is the moment. This is the window. What I took away from last night's broadcast, and we talked so much last week about the value of a production meeting. Well, Chris Collinsworth was absolutely glowing about how the Giants are talking about Jackson Dart behind the scenes. That they go into the facility and he's like, oh, the way they're talking about this Dart.

1:30:49So they obviously know internally that Dart is trending upward. The question is, when do you want to throw him into the mix? I look at that schedule. There's not going to be a great time. So this is going to be Brian Dable. And it's going to be his decision. I think Russ has played fine. I think, obviously, if you look at what happened last night, they didn't get the plays they needed in the red zone, but they were moving the ball up and down the field, and Scadaboo looked like he can play. The truth of the matter is they're going to have to put Dart in at some point if they continue to lose just to salvage this fan base, and that's not a knock on Russ.

1:31:20The fan base wants to see him, and if you listen to Collinsworth last night, they're absolutely giddy in that building over what they're seeing from Jackson Dart in practice. So at this point, you're 0-3. I know it's not ideal to play the Chargers next week in that defense, which is unbelievable, but it might never be ideal. And in the NFL, there's a lot of good defenses. So let's roll the dice.

1:31:37Pat McAfee:Well, you go down to New Orleans too, maybe with a game of experience, and maybe be able to pick up one that you might be able to win. Dinosaur too, like that heat hits you a little bit like your Jackson Dart. Crowd, you talk about salvaging the fan base. Booze for us, cheers for Jackson. I mean, that is just like the fans are almost like, well, what do we even draft the guy for? And this isn't the first time this has happened. This has certainly been on multiple occasions where the fans go, hey, we're done with this guy. We would like to see this guy. This is what we did. Will Dayball and Shane say, all right, let's go with it.

1:32:11Pat McAfee:I'm excited. The guy's iced out every week. They put him in a few times, Pat, and it's basically like Jackson darts in and then he lowers his shoulder and gets absolutely crushed by a defensive lineman. You're like, no, no, no, that's not what we – let's let him throw the ball. You're happy he's on, yes, but not like that. We like that, but I don't need him as a battering ram with his head down, like running into a 350-pound guy. I would also add the Giants are the only team in football that has a kicker be hurt in pregame two years in a row. And this thing was crazy, crazy. And this happened last year against Washington.

1:32:42So you get Art Stapleton tweeting that, hey, wait, in pregame warm-ups, Graham Gano's hurt. They're going to have to go to Jamie Gillen again, and the Scottish hammer is going to have to kick, and then it's blocked right away. And that kick would have been blocked. It wasn't even close. Yeah, it was awesome. This is like Bad News Bears stuff when it happens year after year after year. And that's what the Giants fans are booing about. Like when we've got a league where there's guys kicking 64-yard field goals in their sleep, the Giants can't even have a kicker dressed. It's understandable to be frustrated on national TV when that's the case.

1:33:13Pat McAfee:I think that's what Dayball said. And if you watched Bruce Brown's Twitter account last night, I was riding alongside the Giants. Remember, I picked Bruce Brown and the points with the Giants. You know, why not here? I just watched what they did with the Cowboys. They're 0-2, but, you know. Yeah, exactly. You know, they kind of go another way, which everybody spins it in their fan base. Bruce tweeted immediately, not going to be able to win this game without a kicker. No chance. No chance. Over before it starts. Over during the defensive introductions. Unbelievable. I don't know what happened to Graham, but he was able to kick in the second half.

1:33:44Pat McAfee:He was up and hit the 25-yarder, and he's wailing in pain, and it's like, what is going on right now? We hope he's okay, though. Yeah, we do. Yeah, you do, Shregs. You hope he's okay. He's a great kicker. You hope he's okay. Yeah, you hope he gets healthy. And Shregs, obviously, his first feeling was, man, I hope he gets healthy for everything he's done for the Giants. When we stunk, Graham Gonneau was really the only good player we had for a while. But it'd be nice if this fucking guy could make it to a game. I didn't say that. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. All right, on the other side, go ahead, Con.

1:34:20Yeah, Shrags, the Chiefs, not really a great show for them either. Obviously, they won the game, get their first one of the year. But we were talking earlier about that schedule you mentioned. I'm now blanking on it. That has the murderer's row of the Giants. Duh. And the Chiefs also do not have an easy schedule coming up. They go Ravens, Jags, Lions, Raiders, Commanders. Bunch of tough games. That's about three and five, maybe four and four. And in there, Rasheed Rice gets back. Are we relying on Rasheed Rice as people who have to watch the Chiefs to make them look good because it's looked awful?

1:34:58And what's going on with Kelsey? Why is this connection that him and Mahomes have not going well? And then, of course, him and Andy Reid just kind of getting into it, not as big of a deal because they've done this before. But why doesn't it look good for Kansas City whatsoever? Yeah, they don't have the weapons right now. I think that's fair to say. I mean, Spags' defense showed up last night, and they did their job. But gosh, you're watching these long 15-play, 16-play drives, settling for field goals. That's not the Chiefs we grew to know and really to appreciate as a team that's in prime time every single night.

1:35:33Now, this is a squad that gets back two very important people in Rasheed Rice and Xavier Worthy. And you'd like to think, you know, Taequann Thornton making those two catches and having the third that was ruled an incomplete, but it was an absolutely incredible attempt. They now have three options and Hollywood Brown, and you don't have to rely on Kelsey and Noah Gray so much underneath. But the offense isn't what it was, and I think the Chiefs would tell you that. It's not ideal. I think what's interesting is they let DeAndre Hopkins walk. It's interesting because I think we knew they were going to have issues.

1:36:04They got Hopkins last year. He loved being a Chief. They go the distance, and they didn't sign him back. He's now in Baltimore making incredible plays, looking like the Hall of Famer that he might be. So I would say just hang tight, hold serve. And when you get Worthy and Rice back, let's judge the offense there. I mean, this is their best wide receiver. They lost to suspension a week before the season. And then their 1A, he goes down three plays into the NFL season. So hang tight there. I don't think a lot of teams would be able to look as good as they usually would without their top two receiving options on the field.

1:36:35Pat McAfee:What an incredible play here by Patrick Mahomes after a horrendous play. That was the second time he'd thrown it backwards. But go ahead and making a tackle and stripping a ball at the same time on O 'Kerry Kay. is a hell of a play there by Patrick Mahomes. But I think the reason why we all wonder if they're going to be okay is because it doesn't look good. Last year it didn't look good for a long time they were winning. Now it's like, are they still winning? Are they still going to be able to win like that? And then bringing back their two weapons, I hope that's the case because I think the Chiefs is still the Chiefs until I see that the Chiefs isn't the Chiefs.

1:37:04Pat McAfee:Watch them last night, though. I thought to myself a lot of different times, it doesn't feel like the Chiefs are still the Chiefs. But I believe. Do you? I believe. You picked the stinky Giants. Gov, we're doing spreads. Don't be an amateur. Yeah. What is this, Bush League? Yeah, what is this? They would have covered with a kicker, Dee Bunch. Don't you forget about that. Yeah, because Graham Gonneau hurts his groin, quad, hip.

1:37:23Adam Schefter:Yeah, good point. Russ straight off 450, I guess.

1:37:28Pat McAfee:Russ threw the ball off the uprights. Fourth down. Fourth quarter. Wow. Last hope. That's the guy that's going down swinging. First down throw? Yes.

1:37:39Adam Schefter:Part of the first 14. The first day I'll throw into the tunnel was...

1:37:44Pat McAfee:That's 20 probably from everybody that's playing on Friday right there. That's 20 from everybody that's playing. Normally you're throwing from the 20, you did it from the 15 just as good. I think that's a no doubter that that hit the crossbar. Because every once in a while there is a little bit of a decision. Because did it hit the back part? That's kind of going up. Did it hit the upright or did it hit the crossbar? Feels like that one did hit the underside and kind of skip under there. Remember, you're throwing that to the crossbar. Remember, there's nobody going there. but that is where you're throwing it to.

1:38:12Pat McAfee:I'm sick of this Giants gimmick. What? I'm done with it. It sucks. We've been watching poopy Giants primetime football for what it feels like 10 years. It stinks. It should be the team and the Jets, I guess. They should play at 1 o 'clock only. I get it. They have these massive markets. On Saturdays. Yeah, on Saturdays. Boom. There's money involved and all that stuff. The Jets and Giants should not be allowed to play primetime football for the rest of time until something good happens for them. CW. Oh, yeah. Throw them on the C-Dub. I love that idea. The teams of the CW. The Big Apple. Oh, my God.

1:38:51Pat McAfee:And then we get big numbers because everybody in New York would watch. Big numbers. And then the rest of us have no idea where that is. Yeah. And then those teams can just slowly drift away. And you know what we do? We put them both on boats. And then they go to London. They become the London teams. On CW. Yeah. And then the NFL can tell CW, congrats. You're the international team's home base here in the United States of America. CW's pulling New Jersey, New York, tri-state area in there. They're doing big numbers. And us, we don't have to watch. And guess what becomes the team of New York, baby?

1:39:22The real team of New York.

1:39:24Pat McAfee:Gadel. The Buffalo B. Gadel, get on it. Okay, last question. We know you have to go to work. We apologize, Shrake. I like this. early on the Colts have kind of been the talk of the NFL hey this might be the best team in the league they're going to win the Super Bowl after yesterday I think it's maybe safe to say the Texans may stink it just is what it is they may stink the Jags on the other hand I think we're still kind of curious about what they can do Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence are these guys right for each other do they like each other do they get along can he get Trevor to the next step But early on here with them at 2-1, do you think that the Jags could potentially go on a little run at the end of the year?

1:40:06And then on the flip side, do the Texans stink? Well, I would say neither C.J. Stroud nor Trevor Lawrence would have signed up for their first three weeks the way they have gone. Neither one has played well. The Brian Thomas-Trevor Lawrence connection doesn't look to be like it was last year. and Travis Hunter is barely making an impact on either side of the ball because some weeks he's playing corner and a little bit of a receiver, some weeks he's playing receiver and a little bit of a corner. Hasn't really looked like the value of a number two overall pick yet. And that said, they've got two wins.

1:40:38The locker room scenes have been electric afterwards. Shad Khan has basically proclaimed love to Liam Cohen after two different wins. Forever! And they're going for it like we're doing it. So you look at the standings, that's it. But Houston made a very interesting change over the offseason. Now, we know that trading Laramie Tunzel was a head scratcher for those who are like, well, this team is a squad that went to the divisional round two years in a row. Why would you trade your best lineman? But to get rid of Bobby Sloick, who in hindsight now was with C.J. Stroud as a rookie, as his offensive coordinator, was with Stroud as a second-year player, got him to the divisional round.

1:41:15That is a team that's like, we're one step away. hey, we need to pull the ripcord out and we're going to go and we're going to hire someone else. Now, Nick Caley is really respected around the league and is a very, very high, I guess you'd say, highly valued resource to a lot of people who have worked with him. I'm not knocking him yet. I'm just saying this connection hasn't looked good. Nick Chubb is suddenly the number one back and obviously you're wondering, well, Nick Chubb hasn't been that guy in two years coming off major injuries. Can he do it? And Nico Collins played great, But where else are we getting offense from on this team?

1:41:49So I would have serious concerns if I am the Houston Texans that the offense has just looked so inept through three weeks when last year they were knocking on the doorstep a couple times the last two seasons being in the final four of the AFC.

1:42:03Pat McAfee:Yeah, they're saying he's C.J. Strouch. What? No. Yeah, C.H. at the end instead of D. Geez, like Grouch. Yeah, they're saying C.J. Stroh. No. That's what they're saying. They're saying CJ Strover. It's only his third year. I think it's bullshit. Well, I think that's why I saw Michael Kidd Gilchrist. I saw a lot of NBA memes with one year good play. Hey, CJ. That's not fair. Come on, CJ.

1:42:29Adam Schefter:Still in there. Jamal Murray. I believe in him. Jamal Murray. Good player. Oh, no. You know the lookalikes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The guy with the braids and CJ jersey that needs to stop right now. Right now. That's not him. People are saying he's basically turned into a 45-year-old sack of shite.

1:42:48Pat McAfee:Imposter. Did you see the Bieber imposter over there in Vegas? Yes. That was all. People should have figured that one out. I don't know. I don't know. I think that was pretty good. I do. I think we do know. Okay, so let's say you're with us. Okay, let's say we're doing a boys trip to Vegas. Schrags is there. Wheel and Dylan. We're having a good time. This thing pops up on the stage 2 a.m. You don't think we're thinking. It's him Yeah Immediately I don't think anybody was questioning I like my peaches out of Georgia Yeah Yes you do Yes you do That is exactly what we're doing Nobody said anything from the new album That's crazy Yeah exactly I like that Daisies Okay yeah me too That song's really good What's it sound like?

1:43:30Pat McAfee:What's it sound like? You sing it? I'm not gonna go there Come on dude No you're kinda feeling it I don't know the words Yeah oh you don't know the words Okay see that's the problem We all need to start learning new stuff Yep support Beams through all of his different stages. Ain't that right, Foxy? TikTok likes the new album. I know that for sure, but I don't know the album. The only thing that matters. Hey, Beams, keep doing it, dude. Baby Beams. All right, we appreciate the hell out of you, Shrags. Have fun tonight, buddy. Hey, I just want to say you were talking about the dive, dude. Thank you for making sports fun.

1:43:59Thank you for being electric. Thank you for remembering this is supposed to be fun and happy. You bring joy, dude. We so appreciate it.

1:44:05Pat McAfee:You're the man. That is very kind of you to say. You do the same, ladies and gentlemen. Emmy Award winner, Biers Schrager. Yeah.

1:44:13I mean, that was... Sports are fun. Sports should be fun.

1:44:18Pat McAfee:Yeah. What do we do this for? Yeah. Good times. Competition. Hell yeah. You're kicking somebody's ass. That's right. You know? Yeah, that's what we like doing. I also like everybody coming together. One cause. Felt like that down in Miami. Everybody was in the same direction. Everybody. President all the way down to a student just got on campus. To friend of student from Maine who's on campus. who misses kick twice for 500 grand for the boys. Good kick. First one had a little thump. Second one, good thump, never had the trajectory, but I like the change that he made. He could tell he was an athlete, could tell he was athletic because he changed the trajectory a little bit for the second one.

1:44:55Pat McAfee:That's the first one. I thought he was going to bank that in. As that thing was flying off the wall, I'm like, oh, fuck, I got to kick this one. That's literally all I'm thinking about the entire time. And then for him to hit the second one after the chant, the way he did, obviously gave a little bit of a thrill, but 500 ,000 for the boys. As soon as I heard this is for the hole, I'm like, That was cool. Got to do this. I like what we're doing here for the boys. And you let them down. So now he's going to get shit-talked by the boys forever. So that is good, too, for the boys. So everything was a win-win there.

1:45:19Pat McAfee:Happy it happened. Very thankful for Miami. Miami gets huge win. That caps off big storyline from the weekend, Tone? Yeah, let's start down there where the game day was in Miami. Miami wins 26-7, and the defense and the run game was the story of the night. Hembo sent in the stats, and you're seeing them right there. Florida was 0-13 on third down. for 14 total yards. Lagway had 12 completions, which totaled minus 7 air yards. It was just the score was not as bad as it should have been. 26-7 is when it ended, but it was closer than that on the scoreboard for a lot of it. Miami just dominated in the trenches all night long.

1:45:55It was a huge win for them, 26-7 there.

1:45:57Pat McAfee:Feels like the U's back. Yes, it does. Feels like the U's back. Athletes everywhere, the vibes, everything about it. The trenches are just – they just dominate. Michael Irving on the siren. He didn't lie. Almost cranked that. He said he was going to try to break that thing. He certainly did. And I think he did the exact movement in his video when he didn't have it. That's being able to – something just happened. That's being able to put yourself in a situation. That's right. The reason why the playmaker was so good is because he was able to visualize the games before they even happened. So the big-time catches, the big-time plays we've seen, that's not the first time those have happened.

1:46:30Pat McAfee:They've happened in his brain because we saw him do this exact thing in his office, it looks like, where he does all this shit. Yep. And he was able to get that in there. And it's alive down there in Coral Gables. I love that Miami team. And Florida now has a lot of questions about what they're going to do going forward. Go ahead. Another team we love. Let's go from Florida up to Oklahoma where they hosted Auburn. The final score here was 24-17. The story of this one, kind of similar to the Oklahoma-Michigan game, is where it's John Mateer and Mateer does enough and the offense does enough. And then that Oklahoma defense.

1:47:02They had nine sacks on Jackson Arnold. The Oklahoma D-line just feasted all day long, and the Mateer makes enough plays with his arms and legs to get the 24-17 win and cover on the second.

1:47:13Pat McAfee:Was that a hideout, that first touchdown? Is that what we just saw? Yes, that was the one that the SEC came out. Sneaky. Yeah, they put out the statement it should have been a 15-yard penalty, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Hey, it was a touchdown on Saturday.

1:47:26Adam Schefter:They have the same rule inside the numbers. You got to check in and go out? Yeah, you got to check in. That was the hideout, yeah. Tried to call a timeout, too, and they didn't give Auburn's coach a timeout. It was Hugh Freeze.

1:47:35Pat McAfee:He's not happy. God bless you, but I'm not happy. He was pissed. I think Auburn should come away. I think Auburn's a good football team. Oklahoma just made more plays than that one. I said this on game day. I think Oklahoma, best team in the country. Now, Oregon, we're going to find out. Penn State, we're about to find out. There's a lot of big-time games that are coming around. Indiana might be the goddamn team this year. There's a team in Texas, and it's not in Austin. Texas Tech, holy shit. They spent a lot of money. They're very good. I assume that's one of the storylines of the week. Yeah, some of those are on there, but first we've got to go to the Boston Bowl.

1:48:05Michigan came down to Nebraska. The final was 30-27. And we talked to Coach Rule this week, and the one thing that he was worried about was the rushing defense, and he should have been worried about that. Nebraska gave up 290 yards on the ground. Raiola had pressure on his face all day long, but Michigan wins 30-27 on the ground.

1:48:26Pat McAfee:I could have – I mean, a couple of these are some big gaping holes. AJ, Michigan running like that. Got a lot of games until the big one at the end. Are you worried about Michigan maybe finding its stride here? No, they definitely will find their stride. I think their offense is awesome. How do you ever play any kind of match or man-to-man coverage when you have a quarterback like Underwood that's going to just tuck it and run any time you turn your back on him? Yeah, I would be worried about stopping this offense. That's three touchdowns untucked. Oh, yes. That is – what the hell do we think?

1:48:53Pat McAfee:I can't wait to talk to Coach Rule. What was the – The Justice Haynes' first touchdown, the 75-yard one, was ridiculous. Okay, so Michigan might be for real. Will Compton's bald, owes 50 grand to Michigan's NIL. And then also, I guess he has seceded the 1997 co-title to Michigan. He has. I don't think the rest of Nebraska. No, probably not. But he said he will not consider himself a 1997 national champion anymore, which I knew that was tough for him to give up. I knew that was tough for him to give up. He actually looks good bald. Yeah, he does. He'll look bad, brother, especially with the new rig, you know, You look good, Will.

1:49:31Pat McAfee:Good battle out of the boys, the busting with the ball. I also appreciate the Michigan team with the trophy, actually. Yeah, so pretty. I like that. That's good, AJ. That's good. That just came out of their brains and all of a sudden it's a part of the both teams. It's a legit, real thing. Ain't good for college ball. The more trophies, the better. Like the platypus trophy out there. Oregon, Oregon State. It's half duck, half beaver. It's a platypus trophy. It's a big deal. We did seven minutes on that. Rightly so. On game day. I was mad it wasn't eight. Me too. It shocked me. First four minutes, I'm like, what's going on here?

1:50:09Pat McAfee:What is the deal? There's 190 degrees out here. What's going on? These people are going to die during this. Platypus. And then I started paying attention. I'm like, yep, story does need to be told. Platypus. And then Dan Lanning makes an appearance. And I'm like, Lanning's part of it. Obviously, there's going to be an attention. If there's a trophy, I want to win. I'm like, all right. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. And then they put a picture of that thing up there, and it's like platypus does deserve its own segment like this. And then the troll trophy, did you see that one? Oh, yeah. Troll trophy, this thing is god-awful looking, but I understand it's worth a lot.

1:50:36Pat McAfee:And the Boston Bowl trophy becoming a thing is good, obviously. Yeah, and you know what else is good? You know what people love? When they spend money and it works out. Texas Tech went into Utah, was a 10 a.m. local kick, which I'm sure everyone loved down there. And Texas Tech had two quarterbacks play. Barron Morton is the starter. and then Will Hammond came in when Barron Morton got hurt. They both looked awesome. The Texas Tech offense looked awesome. The defense looked awesome. Money well spent in Texas Tech for a 34-10 win in Utah, which is not an easy place to play. So to be clear, a lot of Texas Tech people are telling me, all you say is that we spent money.

1:51:09Pat McAfee:It's like, well, I'm just saying that you're a part of 2025 college football. That's what I'm saying. We say everybody that is spending money spends money because it means that their institution, their boosters, their people all in. They are spending money, which we need to know. Now, if you spend money on the wrong guys, it doesn't matter. So we apologize to Texas Tech. I apologize for not immediately being like, yup, Texas Tech is for real. What they did to Utah in Utah, Texas Tech is for real. They're able to go in there, the mighty Utah student section, 10 a.m. local, and do that to them. I'm impressed with them.

1:51:39Pat McAfee:And it does feel like they spent the money on the right pieces. And a backup quarterback is a guy, is what everybody's saying. Dude, when Will Hammond came in, as soon as he gets into the huddle, there was juice. It wasn't like an oh, shit moment. The O-line was pat him on the back. It was good vibes. And he just started throwing seeds. I didn't know he could run. And maybe that's because he's white and has red hair and he's from Texas. But he was moving on a couple of those. In those highlight films, there was one. He threw a dagger touchdown that was a back shoulder dart. I don't know how Texas Tech feels inside the locker room.

1:52:11But as an outsider, just kind of, hey, Texas Tech's fun to watch. They better start Will Hammond because he is so good.

1:52:18Pat McAfee:Yeah, he looked unbelievable. It was fun to watch their team. and congrats to them being real. Okay, last storyline of the weekend we should have been talking about, Tone. Yes, and a lot of people were asking this question on the internet after the game. Who is this year's Indiana? Oh, maybe it's just Indiana again because they hosted Illinois this week. Illinois was a top 10 team, and they won 63-10. That block punt was by Diego Pons, who was all Big Ten cornerback. He's going to be drafted very high, very good. And then Mendoza was 21-23 for five touchdowns. Sig had the boys rolling early and often.

1:52:51It was a classic ass beating. Watch out. Indiana's back again because Sig's there still, and they are rolling.

1:52:57Pat McAfee:Tone, I think we talked about this beforehand. This is another one of those where I was surprised everybody picked Illinois during game day. I got a lot of picks wrong, but there's a couple that are made where I'm like, I didn't expect this to be this one way. Strictly because I know everybody respects Bielma and what they're building in Illinois, but like Signetti, you can Google that shit. Like he does win. Mendoza, good quarterback. Veteran quarterback. Been there, done that. And Indiana has become a little bit of an atmosphere. It's become a sold that fucking place out. I thought that was going to be a tough game for Illinois.

1:53:28Pat McAfee:Didn't expect that. A lot of people thought Indiana was going to have a bunch of turnover just because of all the transfers they brought in last year. No, those transfers were like two years players. They have a lot of guys coming back. So besides quarterback, basically the same team. And that's the Signetti blueprint. Yeah. Hey, the Big Ten's got squads all of a sudden. We'll continue digitally. This is wrapping up. Read the onion. Rest in peace to AJ. See you tomorrow overreacting to Monday Night Football Great article That is a great article Is there an article? I just saw the screenshot There's an article Oh no AJ, maybe a Halloween costume Yeah, hey, maybe they set me up for a good Halloween costume Maybe they're thinking for you, just know that we would know Yeah I had a good buddy, Brad Jones who I play with in Green Bay, very awesome teammate and I used to ask him a lot, me and Clay would say Brad, in the offseason, if you die, how many weeks until somebody noticed?

1:54:21And sometimes he'd say, it might be two or three months until camp starts and they realize I'm not here.

1:54:25Pat McAfee:So he just kind of lives out in the woods, this guy? Well, he's just a very unique character. He's super-duper smart, lives in Manhattan now, but no one can ever get a hold of him. He just does his own thing. Beats to his own drummer, as they say, but he is the man. Yeah, I love that. I love him. Love that you're not actually dead. and love that the onion is actually hey, that's a huge honor for us. That's a huge honor for us. Alright, let's take a break. We'll make our picks on the other side. You feel like you got a good read on it? Yes. Really? AJ, you feel like you got a good read on it? It was a bad weekend for both of us.

1:55:00Oh yeah, I don't know how many I got, but man, it felt like I didn't

1:55:03Pat McAfee:have anything. You were close to that. Oh man, every game I'm like, oh, that had to be a loss for me. Yeah, me too though. I didn't do great either, brother. It was a tough weekend. Seven games, brother, came down to it. So, I mean, that's the amount of swings for money that that could have went. I mean, Rams-Eagles. Exactly. Very end. Then you think about, yeah, Jordan Davis. You think about the blowouts, though, too. Like, the weekend was wild. Packers getting beat, too. The Packers getting beat straight up, too, at seven-and-a-half point favorites. Insane. But there was blowouts out here. Look at this.

1:55:36Pat McAfee:Like, ass beating. That doesn't happen.

1:55:38Adam Schefter:No. Shutout. Blowout, shutout division. It's crazy. That doesn't happen.

1:55:42Pat McAfee:Six of them. If the NFL was told, hey, you're going to have six blowouts in one weekend, the NFL and everybody would be like, no way. That's not the fucking NFL. The afternoon slate, because that Saints-Seahawks game was like 40-0 with like 11 minutes left in the second quarter. And it was just like, oh, shit, here we go. Like, there's nothing for that afternoon slate. And what the NFL is saying is, yeah, yeah, yeah, six blowouts, but also, boom, bang. How about the thrillers, huh? We got seven of those. More on this one than the first one. I'll never forget it. NFL still King. God bless you. That is literally what the NFL is saying.

1:56:13Pat McAfee:But it was a wild fucking weekend. You could have given up on games. Could have given up on a couple games because it was over. But you would have never known because how many of these became fucking games. Like, let's say the Patriots, 14-0 Steelers early. It looked like Patriots were fucking no chance. They come back, make a massive play. Green Bay Packers, 10-zip. Long time. Like two minutes left in the game. They had that entire thing. The LA Rams are up 26-7. Yep.

1:56:40Adam Schefter:26 on there.

1:56:41Pat McAfee:Could have gave up on that game. The Bucs were up by a bunch, too. So much of a – there's a lot of fucking – I mean, last week, and it happens everywhere, but last week the Falcons had the best defense, and they were going to be unbelievable. And then they just got 30 on them. We don't know shit about fucks out here. Not yet. But tonight, we're going to get it right. Hell yeah. Good for us. Come on, boys. All right, we'll make our picks on the other side. Four and a half point favorites are the Baltimore Ravens at home. Over under 53 and a half. That's a lot of points, man. A lot of points. They think electric.

1:57:13Pat McAfee:Fireworks. This might be like the goof Rams versus Mahomes. I hope so. Need that after last night. Yeah, because we were kind of punished last night. Last night fucking sucked, man. The New York teams, man. We watched a fourth down in the fourth quarter go off the fucking crossbar. Can't fucking have it, man. Not prime time, man. What about the fucking first down? The first down. Yeah, fourth down, okay, but fucking first down. What happened on first down? He threw fucking Russell, threw the ball into the god darn fucking tunnel, hit a guy in a fucking scatter, boom, jersey. I did see that the boys were back.

1:57:55Pat McAfee:They did. The Costco boys were back. Yep. They might just need to roll them out onto the actual football field. Actually, funny enough, Costco boys don't help that big justice. Excuse me, AJ went back to his old high school, led the boys out on the field, and they lost by 40. No. Yeah. He said, tonight we give them five big boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Let's go.

1:58:24He ran them out and they lost by 40.

1:58:26Pat McAfee:No, that's not real. That feels like misinformation. 49-14. Sorry. 42. There's no way they get five big booms and then lose. Okay, from what I've seen, that ain't how that thing works. All right, fine. I don't know what the score was. There's incoming. Tone just spoke to all of us, I believe, and said there's something coming into the group text. I assume this is potentially the five big booms. No, it was the first down play. Okay, first down for Russell Wilson. Okay, this is throwing it into the tunnel. Just drilling the kids. Fourth quarter. Yeah. Need it. Like, need to go quick here, guys. Need two scores.

1:58:57Let's score some points. Do we have it? I believe this was grounding. It was. Fuck it.

1:59:08Into the tunnel. Smart play. You can't take a sack there. Second and ten. Grounding.

1:59:12Pat McAfee:On first and fourth down, he wasn't going to get picked. How about Flacco throwing that pick? Well, they could have kicked like a 62-yarder. Yeah. And instead, Flacco rolled to his left and then just throw the pick, basically, and make sure they get the ball down there. Pretty heady play by Joe Flacco. Flacco football. McKinney was getting shit for not batting. You guys knocked that down. No, I know real time. That's like, why the fuck did he? But he hasn't got one yet this year, so I get it. Hey, if they're going to give incentives on picks, you got to do what you got to do, I guess. Because they're looking out for it.

1:59:41And then how about, yeah, Golden? What, what, what, what? I still don't know what happened here. I've been trying to not think about it. Just run down the field. That's a fucking 95-yard touchdown. D-Buch, what's from?

1:59:53Adam Schefter:I mean, you think momentum or just not, but I think it's more just not really being aware. I think he thought he was like two yards closer to the sideline than he actually was. He even could have stopped and just like got on a straight path again and then ran. Right here. When he slows, like those two little short steps, that makes me think he was trying to make sure he got his feet, you know, in balance. Oh, yeah, yeah. So he didn't know he was one, two, three, four, five. He thought he was out there. Three, four, five. He thought he was already out. And you asked like, are guys killing him for this?

2:00:23At that time in the game, third and seven, he picks that up. They're up 10-0. The team was pumped. It's like, oh, here we fucking go. They're going to march down and score 17-0. They've played like shite, but they're going to put this one away. And, of course, that didn't happen.

2:00:37Pat McAfee:So I see that on quad box, don't have sound. So I'm watching that, and I see them run out of balance, and I immediately text, hey, what the fuck was this? Because I only saw it in quad box. So also small, don't have sound. Like, are they just trying to pick up 50 yards real quick and then, like, four-minute offense this thing? Like, what's going on? and then in the moment, no, everybody's just kind of like, no, we're just playing football here. But I guess, hey, it's a learning moment. Rookie mistake. Rookie mistake, actually.

2:01:04Adam Schefter:Look, it is a difference. It is an adjustment. And it might be funny to some people, but, like, the hashes and the numbers, like, those are very different. So, you line it, you run that slot fade. Being aware, you know, sometimes you'll see guys get a pick and just get up and celebrate instead of getting up and running. Like, those are things you got to learn. Rookie mistake. Huge play still. Huge play. Huge play. Let's not get crazy. Need more of that from him. But it could have been a game break.

2:01:26Pat McAfee:Yeah, but rookie mistakes are not that. And that's not on him. You are shitting your pants at the draft whenever they drafted this guy. No, I think he's great. The big reason they lost yesterday is because they played not to lose and LeFleur got so fucking conservative. They couldn't run the ball at all. I don't think anyone can. I mean, we just saw Derrick Henry got, you know, he had 22 yards last week, kind of the same with Jacobs. And when they got the ball back when they were up 10-0, they marched down the field in maybe four plays and were in field goal range. Three consecutive runs. Lose two yards and then have to settle for the field goal.

2:01:59It gets blocked. 16 seconds, no timeouts. They give up two plays. Joe Flacco still got it. Gets the boys to the line scrimmage. Kills the ball with the second leg. Yeah, it was unbelievable that they had this much time. Look at Flacco saying, come on, boys. We've got to fucking spike this thing. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. Hold your water. Let's go, let's go. Hold your water is right. Boom, we got it. All right, and then this kid, Nails. He kind of got cheated, actually. 55?

2:02:23Pat McAfee:Yeah. What a kick in Cleveland. Yeah, like it's nothing, AJ. He hit a, I think there was a 51-yarder earlier maybe. It hit the net like really high. I'm like, these guys are fucking murdering footballs right now. I mean, absolutely murdering balls. That was a funny take that Traeger had. We got guys hitting 64-yarders like they're chip shots. Our guy can't even, we can't even kick it. It's like it's. I like 2-5 on a kicker too.

2:02:49Adam Schefter:Are we at the point where we need emergency kickers? And I feel like we don't even have 32 good ones now, but like how we have the emergency quarterback situation. Like, because you should never – NFL game, you shouldn't – you shouldn't be in a situation where you don't have a kicker.

2:03:02Pat McAfee:That looked like shit. That's on Gano.

2:03:03Adam Schefter:That's bad for the product. What's that? That's on Gano? Yeah. What did he hurt? Did anyone see it? There's no film of him. Was he in warm-up? It was the same injury as last year. He went down in warm-ups with a groin. What's he doing in warm-ups? The real mistake is Joe Shane. He's making – Max Crosby. Ganeau is making$5.6 million this year, and the best ability is availability, and he doesn't have it.

2:03:23Pat McAfee:Okay, all right. So whenever you think about being 38 years old, Graham Ganeau, he got drafted the same class as me. He was a really good punter coming out of college. They thought he was going to be a punter probably, a lot of people, and he became a kicker. A lot of people thought I was going to be a kicker, became a punter. So I've always been a massive fan of Graham Ganeau. Known him a long time. Very full of faith. Very faith-driven man. Good moxie, though. And talk shit. And has always had a huge fucking leg. Like a huge leg. The guy who's just murdered balls. Obviously comes from a soccer background and everything like that.

2:03:58Pat McAfee:I don't know how he's still doing it with how hard he kicks the ball. I don't know how his muscle. I mean, what I do, I hit a free kick and I fucking. Yeah. That was two years ago. I was 36 years old. I just blew my entire hip flexor out whenever I kicked a free kick. Like, I don't know how many times he's kicking a week or a day. I don't know if he's on a kick count. I don't know all that shit. But it's like watching Vinny maintain his leg.

2:04:20Adam Schefter:Crazy.

2:04:20Pat McAfee:Crazy. It was like a five-hour thing every day. Five hours of, like, working it just for practice. Just for 12 kicks in practice. We're starting that thing at fucking, like, 6 a.m. all the way through just for practice. And if Vinny missed one kick, it was like, fucking, we lost the Super Bowl. So it was watching him maintain his shit. Because kicking, you have to be, like, very explosive because it has to get up. You know, like punting, you've got to be very strong because everything is go. But kicking, like the difference between the, like for instance, somebody looks like there may be a ringer when it comes to kicking, you know.

2:04:52Pat McAfee:We might. Sure. There might be a little bit of, oh, let's see what a kick is really like. And that's a fucking Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter. Got to get up right now. Right now. So to do that, you have to be very explosive. Like that takes a lot of explosion to get the ball up very quick. You have to have a very strong leg. It has to be very explosive. That's why some of the little guys, you wonder if they're going to be able to do it or maintain it because the amount of torque that they have to put on to be able to do that kind of hurts their entire body. So the fact that Graham Guineau can still do what he does, I'm very impressed by.

2:05:24Pat McAfee:But like Thomas Morstead too, who's probably the same age as me, I'm like, I know how I feel, bro. I don't know how the fuck you mother... Prater. Exactly. 41? I don't know how the fuck they're doing. Shane did it until he was 40 or whatever. because you're using – I mean, it is a very violent motion to do all these things. But good on you. Good luck, Graham. Get healthy. But, boy, Giants fans and those who picked you, we're not excited to hear that we were not able to kick a ball. First drive. First drive. That was hilarious. Right after, like, yeah, he's not going to be able to kick the – and then, boom, extra point gets blocked instantly after that first touchdown.

2:06:02It's just like, oh, man, I know what Bruce is going through. Good luck against the Chiefs. Yeah, good luck.

2:06:07Pat McAfee:Good luck, guys. You won't need a kicker. No big deal. Speaking of kicking, there's been some good kickoff guys that have started to weaponize the landing zone. Here's old buddy from L.A., I do believe, hitting this knuckleball, Cardi, who, great kicker. That's his squib right there. A little bit of a knuckle, a little bit of a twist, and then that thing hits the ground and is hell. If you're able to hit that ball, like if your leg strength is at a place where you can just hit your knuckle and it'll land in the landing zone, boy you're in a good spot right now but i think there's some kickers that are scared to hit because you're hitting really fat on that ball which is the exact what are you doing what are you doing to kick a knuckleball you go right through the middle of that fucking thing i ain't going right through it so the entire thing just kind of implodes and then you want it to come off your like a knuckleball once come out of a hand like you want that thing to come out just uncomfortable and then whatever it does with the wind is good yeah his had a little bit of twist mine used to fucking i used to have a pretty good little squib because i hit it as hard as i fucking could but you're hitting the ball bad like it's a bad place to hit the ball it's not the sweet spot it's a bit fat it doesn't look good so like a lot of these kickers that are hitting kickoffs now are taking their field goal steps so that they can just hit it to like the one or the five i'm thinking there's some guys that don't want to take their field goal steps and fucking hit a shitty ball but i think that is the right kick for this current kickoff so i think punters should be working on hitting squibs because you don't have to have like perfect technique.

2:07:33Pat McAfee:You're just trying to go through the middle of that fucking ball, AJ. You're just trying to go right through the middle. The risk is what? You yank it out of bounds if you hit it bad, or what happens if you hit it bad? Then it goes to the 40, but if you hit a touchback, it's going to the 35 anyway. But I'm saying with a squib though, what's a bad miss with a squib? What do you do when you miss it? So a miss, I don't know. I think everybody has... My miss normally would hit the ground early, so that would be considered out of bounds, which would go to the 40, which would be a nightmare. Some guys, though, fucking he, you know, or even he.

2:08:05Well, that's kind of the thing with that, like, knuckleball, right, is you can't really control it. You don't really know where it's going. I mean, it's the same thing with a pitcher throwing a knuckleball. You're letting the air kind of just do whatever it does with it.

2:08:14Pat McAfee:Yeah, let the atmosphere decide. I'm just going to go ahead and give this thing to the lords here, and you guys figure out what it's going to be. That's basically my squib. That's a weapon, though. What a weapon, though. Think of returners, like, the week leading up to it, how much you're working on those knuckleballs, and then in the game, like, oh, man, if he hits the first one good, you're sitting there and thinking like, yeah, you don't have a whole lot of time to figure that out. You're playing like a goalie back there almost. Like just hoping that you got to... That's what they were doing.

2:08:38I watched every kickoff because I was mesmerized by it. And he had four field goals and obviously touchdowns and kickoffs. So I think there was like six or seven kickoffs. Eagles returners were in hell. They didn't pick one up clean. Like their average start was like the 15-yard line because they had no idea what to do with it. It was awesome.

2:08:55Pat McAfee:Yeah, I think you're going to see more and more of that shit. I think punters should get good at that so the kickers don't have to hit fat balls but some of the kickers are like the greatest ball strikers on earth so it's like i can hit a little fat yeah i can what do you make want me to make this dance i can make a dance for you let me hit this thing short and get it at 40 and then we're fucked because that's a weapon weapon big time but there's going to come a time where somebody tries to do it and they're going to get the ball to 40 and it's going to be two plays right down and score yeah they're going to be like yeah kick the ball yeah exactly that's kicker's life basically Lee Bacardi, keep going, brother.

2:09:28Pat McAfee:Hell yeah, let's go.

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2:10:01Adam Schefter:D.

2:10:02Pat McAfee:Butch, you know this Monday is glorious because it's a Monday in football season, which means we get a chance to kind of test the waters of how every fan base feels. People are feeling really good or people are feeling really terrible at this point.

2:10:14Adam Schefter:Oh, yeah.

2:10:14Pat McAfee:Three games in, you think any of these people know what their teams actually are?

2:10:17Adam Schefter:Yes.

2:10:18Pat McAfee:So you think some of these aren't going to actually be overreactions? Maybe they're just proper reactions to the situation? I'd say 80-20. All right, well, let's judge it. Overreactions. You think 80-20 overreactions?

2:10:29Adam Schefter:80 % overreactions, but 20 % would be spot on.

2:10:32Pat McAfee:All right, let's judge them for ourselves. Ty went through all of the tweets that had. Hashtag, I don't want to overreact. But. Picked out his favorites. Let's go ahead and see and gauge how these NFL fans feel after their week three performance. Oh, from the Miz. Good, just to lead this one off. Didn't use the hashtag. Actually sent this yesterday, immediately after the 55-yard field goal went through the uprights. I don't want to overreact. But. Packers didn't just lose. They got adopted. Welcome to the family because the Browns are your daddy now. Someone send Ty Schmidt a therapy dog from the dog pound.

2:11:08Pat McAfee:Hashtag here we go, Brownies. Here we go. Hashtag overreaction Monday at Pat McAfee Show. He was close. He was in the ballpark. But he's certainly excited about that Brownies win over the Packers. How do you feel about the Miz being able to kind of do this to you for the next year or so, whenever the next time you guys play, anytime you see him? I'm okay with it because if I'm not mistaken, hasn't the Miz lost like 500 matches in a row for WWE? So he's kind of just losing and losing and losing and losing and losing and losing. And I love the Miz. So I'm okay with him maybe grabbing one of these W's here in September.

2:11:43In a few weeks, I'm going to get over this one. Actually, you know what? I'll be over this one 25 minutes from now. The Miz is going to cherish this the rest of the year, and I'm okay with that.

2:11:51Pat McAfee:We have some breaking news from Adam Schefter's Twitter account. 49ers Pro Bowl defensive end Nick Bosa has suffered a season-ending torn ACL during a win over Arizona. It's a clean tear, but Bosa now will need season-ending surgery. Damn. Jeez. We saw him put his thumbs down whenever he was walking off the field. Feels like he knew what was going on. Felt like there was some optimism that he didn't tear his ACL. Shefty said that this morning. Felt like there was some, and now obviously terrible news. That sucks, dude. I don't like that at all. Godspeed, obviously, on the surgery and recovery, AJ.

2:12:28Pat McAfee:But we miss out on Nick Bosa playing football this year, and obviously the Niners miss out on Bosa being on the field. What are your thoughts here as we learn that it's season over for Nick Bosa? Yeah, a huge blow to Bosa, obviously, into the team. We know how great the guy is. When he did the thumbs down, you see him, he looks up in the crowd, and he kind of like with the sun, he sees, I'm assuming, family or somebody he knows and gives him the thumbs down. I'm like, you know, we know the Bosa's like, they've looked like what they look like. They know exactly. They're not a body better than anybody.

2:12:57I'm sure he knew this is not right. I've never had this feeling before. I don't, I don't, I assume he has not torn ACL before, but man, what a what a brutal situation.

2:13:06Pat McAfee:D-Bot, what does this mean for the Niners? Obviously, this sucks for all parties, but I don't like that we're not going to get to see Bosa all year. Just talking about this morning, how awesome it is. The Niners defense is like, he won them week one. And obviously we feel terrible for him, and we hope Godspeed. But for us, as football fans, sucks he's not there. For Niners, what are your thoughts?

2:13:24Adam Schefter:Yeah, I think Trent Williams after the game talked about how during that stretch he couldn't help but not think about him. And we say it, next man up, and that's just what it has to be in the NFL season because injuries are guaranteed, but it just sucks for this team in particular. It's like they just can never get all their guys on the field at the same time for a long stretch of time, and this is an absolute game record. This is a guy where you talk about fourth quarter pass rush. You can only send four when you've got a guy like 97 off the edge, which absolutely sucks for him. And we get that test, you know, that test that the trainers do where they can kind of check the stability of the ACL.

2:14:00Adam Schefter:You kind of know a lot of times you hope for the best, but you know him. I'm sure he knew walking off the field that, you know, this was the end of his season, unfortunately. Yeah, now you could have never predicted it, but a massive draft in a guy, you know, in the top 15 to be a pass rusher just because, I mean, aside from Bosa, they might be in complete hell if it wasn't for Mike L. Williams. And I think he got his first or second sack of his career against the Cardinals, too. He's playing well.

2:14:24Pat McAfee:Godspeed over there, Bosa. We will miss you. All right, let's go to our next overreaction, shall we? This is from Boston Conner. Now, looking at the picture, you think to yourself, this is a distinguished gentleman. Yeah. Is that a tuxedo that guy's wearing? Looks like it. Yeah, you would think that. You think there's cheeks on those tuxedo pants if he's wearing the pants with that? Connor, you think maybe he's wearing shorts with a tuxedo top. You don't really know. Kind of an ominous feature here. And then you look at the face and it's like, wow, this guy's got a lot of moxie. Yeah. Then you think to yourself, what the fuck does he have to say?

2:14:54Pat McAfee:Well, hashtag I don't want to overreact. But the Patriots are going to be very good at football. But it's going to take some time. Let the young pups play some football. And let's have a real shot at this thing next year. Connor, what do you mean by that, pal? I mean, it's just asinine. We're looking around the league. and there are certain situations where rookies are making massive contributions. Golden, we saw for the Packers, he was huge. On the other side of the ball, the Browns, they're using Harold Fannin Jr. and Quinshaw Junkins, and they're basically their team. And the Browns are one of those teams that's not playing for a Super Bowl this year.

2:15:27The Patriots, you know, we drafted a running back in the top of the second round, Trevion Henderson, and he's unbelievable by all accounts. They actually, the guy who scored last night for the Chiefs, Tyquan Thornton, you want to know why he's not on the Patriots anymore? He's not on the Patriots anymore because we cut him because he had to make room for Efton Chisholm, another rookie. Doesn't play. Trevion Henderson. Doesn't play. Kyle Williams drafted in the third round. He got one snap yesterday. Had a catch for a first down. Doesn't play. Personally, it's very frustrating. You wanted to buy in before the weekend.

2:16:00You know, Patriots beat the Steelers. Then they got Panthers. Saints were staring down 5-1. Start here. There's a chance we kind of go. 4-1, whatever the hell it is. and then the game was just a big reminder. Oh, okay, no. We're just very young. We're the Lions before they became the brand new Lions at 9 and 8. Have to get good this year and then hopefully build on it. The only way to do that is to play the young guys. I'm fucking sick and tired of these old fuckers doing this shit. I'm done with it. I don't care. Ramondre Stevenson was awesome. Basically won the game last week. You fumbled the ball twice this week.

2:16:32No one gives a fuck about what you did last week. And just across the board, that doesn't count because Drake May got his head spiked off the ground right before it. Agreed. And he didn't know where he was.

2:16:42Pat McAfee:And that was about to be a fumble probably on the goal line right there as well. I mean, they gave up 14 points, like two turnovers in end zone. That's tough. Right there. That's brutal. Opening drive from Andre Stevenson fumbles on first down. No, but I'm saying the ones in the end zone. Yeah, the worst. The amount of work it takes to get all the way down, the amount of first downs, the amount of shit that goes into you getting there to even be in position to score. and then to just fucking give it away is like worst demoralizing situation for whole team. Whole team is like, oh, no, that's potentially 14-point swing every single time.

2:17:18Pat McAfee:You guys leave 14 points on the board, basically, against the Pittsburgh Steelers who are going all in this year. So if I'm a Patriots fan, it's like we fucked this one up. Yes. We certainly did. And there was also, what, five turnovers in total. Five total. It's crazy. That's a lot of turnovers. Only moved by seven?

2:17:35Adam Schefter:Yes. Crazy. I think four of them were on the Steelers' side of the field. After the first quarter, the Patriots outgained the Steelers 396-101, still lost. That drive where Ramondre fumbled on the goal line, that's what changed the game. That was a 96-yard drive. I believe it was nine minutes long. Zero points. Excuse me. The interception at the end of the first half. It was a 96-yard drive. It kept the Steelers' offense off the field for like an hour of real time, not just football time. and then the Steelers couldn't do anything on offense. It just sucks. But luckily for me, I actually had Jose Cuervo's Devil Reserve with me yesterday.

2:18:13Wow. It's a sweet, tropical, spicy-infused tequila that's smooth and devilishly good, especially after your team gets blown out or completely shits the game away. When mischief is on the menu, Devil Reserve is the perfect choice. Listen to that little devil on your shoulder. Pour a round of shots, and get ready to raise a little hail. even though it says get ready to raise a little hill, Bruce. Find Devil's Reserve at your local liquor store or go to Cuervo.com to purchase your own bottle of mischief. But remember, you must be 21 years old or over. Again, Bruce, that's okay. Please. Please. Oh, no.

2:18:53This reminds me of the old office. You remember this? It feels like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was doing a little nostalgia.

2:18:59Pat McAfee:Yeah, me too, halfway through. I think D-Bot's actually trying to run that QR code right now to see if he can maybe raise a little hill. He should. You might be able to lift an entire hill if you do a little sweet chop. Oh, it works. What does it take you to? What's that? That's square. That would be so good. Oh, yeah. Boom. That little morgue. Yeah. Scan and grab your bottle of Devil's Reserve right over here with the Devil's thing. We didn't even try it. What's that? We didn't even freaking plan that, man. All that? Yeah. We did raise a little hill. I play in my flubs, but aside from that. You're so good.

2:19:38I was just playing in my flubs. You know how it goes.

2:19:41Pat McAfee:Well, that's a Devil's Reserve football. Let's go to the next overreaction. This one's from Bruce Brown, noted Devil's Reserve ad writer. Hashtag, I don't want to overreact, but if Russell Wilson attempts one more pass for this incompetent, pathetic, hapless, embarrassing disgrace of a broken football organization, everybody has to be held accountable. Okay, feels like you really summed it up there about everything happening in New York. Anything further you have to say, Bruce, about the situation? I mean, it's fucking contagious. I can't even write an ad read anymore. I've written probably 2 ,000 of them, and now I'm fucking those up.

2:20:12It's just an absolute joke. It's September 22nd. You know, we're probably cleaning house and just looking at the Mara nepotism ladder where Tim McConnell gets promoted from director of player personnel up to GM. Completely pathetic. it's just an absolute embarrassment to the tri-state area that this is the product that we've been putting out for the last fucking 13 years um i mean we could probably stop choosing these and just stop talking about them completely after this uh so that's on on the bright side i guess need dart maybe jamis would be fun you know some pick sixes to lighten the mood a bit um but it's embarrassing we got abdul carter playing middle linebacker because we don't have enough depth there.

2:20:54It's just a joke, man.

2:20:55Pat McAfee:Abdul Carter's playing off the ball. I like that. Yeah, he's playing Mike. That makes sense. That's what the Cowboys did with Michael when he came in. Two weeks, right? Was that two weeks? When we put him on the line, did I? There was a stat on the broadcast last night. I think it was like 10 of the last 12 seasons they've started 0-2. 10 of 13, yeah. That's correct. That's what he said the last 13 fucking years. 10 of 13 they've started 0-2. I know, but that's probably what reminded him of this being 13 years of this. the 0-2, 0-3 starts. I mean, it sounds like Daybo and Shane, they're pretty comfortable, right?

2:21:29Pat McAfee:I asked Schefter three times. Yeah. I was like, hey, these guys, aren't they kind of thinking about right now, though, because they're not worried about the future? Because the New York Giants are certainly not in a desirable, and it's like, what is the deal with them right now? I do wonder what the future looks like, because if you're going to get fired, are you going to put the rookie in there? I don't know. And if they go... You've got to show hope. Hey, you've got to put the rookie in and show that, hey, we have hope for next year. Scadaboo is a cult hero already. We know that. Jackson Dart is becoming that.

2:21:58Let's see if he can continue that if he gets thrust into the lineup and he's the actual starter. I like that. Yeah, because you don't want to change offenses if your rookie quarterback looks really good this year. You want to keep the same offense. If they go 1-6 and then end up going 4-13, but Jackson Dart wins three games and then they close 3-7 or 3-8, Is that good enough if Jackson Dart looks good for the New York fans to bring back a coach who goes 4-13? I mean, if we keep up the general level of ineptitude, it's, hey, thanks for the cute quarterback. Fuck off. Goodbye. F-O. Amen. Okay. But, you know, if we start playing, you know, all three phases putting it together, you know, we're right there.

2:22:39It's really close. It's just not good enough. Fucking table every week. Maybe they'll stay. Who fucking knows? It doesn't matter because John Marr will be there. So whatever.

2:22:48Pat McAfee:Oh! He's the only one that didn't want to get rid of Saquon. Don't put that on him. I know. Champion. I think what Bruce would say is, yeah, but the way he hires within his family and within his family, he doesn't want the best for the team going forward. He lost some sleep on Saquon, but he slept just fine knowing that his fucking family is going to run this team into the ground. This is what Bruce is about to say. Yeah, it is kind of weird because, like, obviously we saw hard knocks where we go behind the scenes, but you don't really know how much John Mara actually meddling in. I've been to two parades.

2:23:20I shouldn't be in a position where I'm like, hey, sell the team. But here we are.

2:23:24Pat McAfee:Eli, though, last night. He was slinging. Filthy. Let me hit mine. It's kind of fun. A little side shot. A little tighter hole over there. Let me go ahead and spin that. This guy stinks over here. I'll make one for you. How about you over here? Let me go back here. I'm not going to miss that. Then the fan tries to do it. Bud, what are you doing? Just trying to make it in your own there. I like what you're doing. Eli's spinning it like that. And then Giants fans see that. And then Russell Wilson goes out there and puts one in a tunnel. That's what it used to be. Why they have an Eli out here. He also hosts a show, right, for Giants.com?

2:23:57Pat McAfee:Yes. That's correct. The Eli Manning Show. With Sean O 'Hare. You guys are forced to watch the good times. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Every day. Eli, competent quarterback. Sean O 'Hare, got a good leadership out there. Tom Coughlin. We're doing Coughlin time. We're winning this entire thing. and then you guys roll out there and you get the chance to watch this New York Giants team. And that would be tough. Did you hear them? And they're a pretty dramatic group over there too, I think. Yeah, yeah. It gets worse than that too because if you really think about it, they had six years to pay guys to block for Daniel Jones and he'd be a Hall of Famer.

2:24:31And they decided not to do that.

2:24:33Pat McAfee:They're never in the trenches with A.Q. Shipley in a good way. Let's go to the next overreaction, AJ. This is from Danny Dimes equals franchise Viagra. Amen.

2:24:46Pat McAfee:Let them. Okay. Hashtag, I don't want to overreact. But. Thank you, Brian Dable. Since that big dump dipshit couldn't figure out how to unlock the most talented person to ever play the quarterback position, Colts get a Super Bowl. First sake one, now dime. Somebody put Mara on suicide watch. I'm worried for the guy. I do wonder what it's like for Mara to watch Danny just do what he's doing right now. Only team in history to have no turnovers and win this amount. Only team in history to only have one punt. through the first three weeks. So not only is it like we're not punting, it's like we're not turning it over.

2:25:17Pat McAfee:We just score all the time. Danny Dimes just scores all the time. I think it's like 70 % of the scoring drives or 80 % of scoring drives or something like that. I forget what it is. It's absolutely insanity. And Danny Dimes is the maestro of it all. And Danny Dimes is the new piece that's just been dropped in there. Alongside Tyler Warren, who is filthy as a football player. The Colts are in a great spot, and I do assume that Mara is having a couple of Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Did we know he was able to? Was he also? What could he do to? Why weren't we? And now we're thinking over here in Indy, thank you for burying this guy under hell.

2:25:55Pat McAfee:This is basically where he was for a long time. Media, everything, just getting attacked. This dude's gotten so callous that he's just so locked in. Nothing can really bother him. And he's seen every defense. He's just very comfortable in front of everything. And Shane Steichen offense, very complicated. I think there's a lot of shit going on in there. You're seeing him get to his third read a couple of different times. You're seeing them shift and pick up blitzes and do that shit. It's like they weren't able to do that, obviously. Shane Steichen wasn't able to do that for a while because we had new quarterback, new quarterback, new quarterback, quarterback that's never played football and has never seen any of it.

2:26:26Pat McAfee:And then, boom, now we got Danny Dimes. Shane Steichen's sleeping a lot better, too. Shane Steichen's thinking Dayball greatly for everything that's going on right now. Well, for Mara, it's not – I mean, the winning and everything and the Saquon stuff, sure. but all these stats that we're seeing come out, it's like, hey, guess what? Peyton Manning never did this with the Colts. Peyton Manning isn't even as good with the Colts as Danny Dimes is right now. So it's that extra little knife in his back. Like, hey, not only did you get rid of Daniel Jones, who was very good, you may have gotten rid of the next coming of Peyton Manning as well.

2:26:55So here's a nice little reminder for that every time you open up your phone.

2:26:59Pat McAfee:All the ownership is looking, I wish I could get Peyton Manning. Yeah. They're like, Mara, actually. We need a day of Jones. He had it. AJ, your thoughts on if a player can have this? I mean, we saw it with Baker, I guess is what people would say. We see it with Sam Darnold. Seattle might be. You never know. Could be seen it with Mac right now. Could be seen it with Mac Jones with San Francisco. What's next for him? We shall see. It's like Carson Wentz right now with KOC. Geno, of course. Geno Smith, now full-time guy, face of the franchise. It's like, is this another one of those situations? It sure looks like it.

2:27:32I mean, he's definitely proven you right, I think, Daniel Jones and the team. But it just shows you the quarterback position, especially in the NFL. You rely so much on, A, whoever that offensive play caller is, your offensive line, and then your weapons around you, and you have a run game. You're just relying on so many things around you. Daniel Jones definitely has all those pieces in place around him, and the dude's absolutely taking advantage of his opportunity. The fact that if he was just a game manager and hadn't turned the ball over, they may still be 3-0 and still be playing well, but he's not turning the ball over and pushing the ball downfield, making big plays, putting the balls in windows that he normally hasn't done in the past.

2:28:08So he and Steichen, they got something figured out, man, and credit to this O-line because they look good too. Well, and what sucks even more just on the opposite end of that spectrum, maybe there's an overreaction in here, is how far off some people can seemingly fall. C.J. Stroud, after his first year, was going to be the one, and he set all those records. Now the Texans, I saw people, and I don't agree with this whatsoever, But I saw Texas fans on the internet with real names and check marks calling for D 'Amico Ryan's head.

2:28:38Pat McAfee:No! I saw. What? Week three of the NFL season, though. Yeah. The stats say if you stink early, you're going to stink late. People are saying numbers and everything that has happened in the history of the NFL are telling us this team sucks. You need an offensive line. Need a good offensive line. Need a good play caller. Let's go to the next overreaction here. Hashtag I don't want to overreact. But, says Lotto, I'm sick and tired of Paisan. Cristiano Patullo's conservative play calling. You can tell Sirianni tied him up at halftime in a cuck chair and said, let the big dogs eat. Jalen is keeping the main thing the main thing.

2:29:10Pat McAfee:Giants and Cowboys still suck ass. Go Birds. Now, is there anything else you think that he wanted to say that maybe didn't make the tweet? Or why did you pick this one in particular? For me, at the start, it was the Alex Jones avatar with the Philly ball cap on top of his head. I laughed pretty good when I saw that, so I said, why not? but most of them still like no it's the same deal with the sirianni like there are a couple different versions of this but everyone still thinks this offensive coordinator sucks i mean after a day like yesterday when they're getting beat as bad as they are and you just you chalk that up to a loss like hey there's no way we're gonna win this game and kind of everything we've talked about then finally he opens up the playbook and jalen hurts looks amazing he starts throwing the ball downfield they're scoring touchdowns they win that game and still afterwards all people care about is this offensive coordinator fucking sucks.

2:29:59Pat McAfee:First half, he was calling plays. Second half, that was clearly somebody else. That's what they just said in this tweet, basically. Yeah, exactly. And to be clear, I don't like that it did appear as if he didn't trust Jalen, really. Yeah. This guy's won a Super Bowl, bro. This guy's done more than you have done with football. So, like, other people, you know, thinking that Jalen maybe isn't able to do all the things with their arm, with his arm, that maybe the greatest throwers of all time can do is a thought that a lot of analysts had and pundits had and i assume even some philadelphia eagles fans had last year it's like the offensive coordinator can't be a guy that thinks that like the offensive coordinator has to be a guy believe my guy can make every fucking throw you know so it's like if the play calling was because it's like we got good offensive line we got saquon we don't know if we got this it's like you fucking do know dude dagger in the super bowl biggest moment he calls it he drops it in a bucket other quarterbacks that can't do it miss that throw So I like that they let Jalen eat a little.

2:30:56Adam Schefter:Yeah, we saw it in the Super Bowl. We saw it in the first Super Bowl when he was matched up against Mahomes where he outplayed him and had pretty much an MVP that year. And even his last year in college when he was in Oklahoma, he threw the ball around the yard a ton. So you know he can throw the ball. Some of it's on Jalen as well because he doesn't take those type of risks just knowing his team, knowing his defense, knowing the run game. Saquon, you know, absolutely killed the Rams last year in their matchups, went for big, big gains on the ground. So I understand it. Sometimes you just have to do it.

2:31:26Adam Schefter:Once you get behind 26-7 and you kind of let that thing fly, because you have big-time playmakers, one of the best wide receiver duos on the outside, and let them actually throw the ball down the field. I just love that he actually did it. And now we'll see if they continue to do it. But it's kind of been a cycle with Eagles coordinators. You have Shane Steichen. He goes off to be a head coach. Brian Johnson came in, I believe. He got fired pretty quickly. Kellen Moore, he came in. He was good. Went on to become a head coach. So now we may be on that cycle with, what is it, Petulo? We'll see if he continues to stink or if he gets better.

2:31:59Pat McAfee:I love Kelly Moore.

2:32:01Adam Schefter:Kelly Moore?

2:32:02Pat McAfee:Love Kelly Moore. Boise State love Kelly Moore. I seen Kelly Moore when he was with the Lions. I don't know if he was coaching or playing. It was somewhere pretty deep in his career. 15-yard line, crossbar.

2:32:17Adam Schefter:Nail it.

2:32:18Pat McAfee:20-yard line, crossbar. 25-yard line, crossbar. I was so fucking impressed. This is pre-pre-warmup. I'm out there punting some balls. They're out there just kind of dicking around, throwing a ball. And my God, and every ball was just so pretty. You know, it was just like. That's Kelly Moe. So I want to say I have respect for Kelly Moe. He needs to not dress the way he's dressing as a head coach. He needs to start looking like an adult. Okay? Why does he look? He looks like a 12-year-old. He naturally looks like. With a suit or what? Just something. Maybe. Suit would be shit.

2:32:49Adam Schefter:Who do you like head coach of Swag? I like Liam Sleeveless with the long. I like that. You talked about Raheem Morris. I think the hats suck this year. They do. Those small ones. The tiny logo and everything. There should be an option. Yeah.

2:33:05Pat McAfee:I don't think it should be every – you know, like Shanahan always dresses cool. Kyle Shanahan always dresses cool. McDaniel. McDaniel looks cool. McVay looks cool. Shane Steichen looks sweet. You know, all the boys look sweet actually on the courts. We see it every day. You don't get to see all the other coaches. But Kellen Moore, I know he signed up for a tough situation down there. He signed up for – McDaniel's always cool looking.

2:33:26Adam Schefter:Very tough situation.

2:33:27Pat McAfee:Raheem Morris has those cool pants. Yeah, kind of pulled up a little bit. Then they lost by 30 when we brought it up. Yeah, that's not cool. Coach T, but no hat yesterday. It was weird. That's weird for him. Who? Tomlin. That was, yeah. Yeah, that's the first time I've ever seen him. Yeah. Andy Reid looks cool. Always. Getting in Travis's face. Hey, how about him throwing that thing? Yeah, big time. He bumped Trav. Trav didn't bump him. I'm like, that was an awesome good friend. Had to knock him down a peg. Shut up, you little fucker. That's what he said to him. Is that what Andy said to Travis?

2:33:52That's what Andy said to Travis. Yeah, right here.

2:33:54Pat McAfee:Shut up, you fucker. Just catch the ball and fuck off. He does throw that thing at him a little bit. And Travis looked like he was a little Don in the dumps, you know? I like it. That looked weird, man. Wake up, motherfucker. Wake up. I think that's Andy saying, I don't have time for you to be moping around. Yeah, I like it.

2:34:08Adam Schefter:He said after the game, he liked it. He needed some juice on the sideline. So you're in your folklore era. You need to get in your red era now, Travis.

2:34:17Pat McAfee:Well, I agree. I do want to know what they said. That's what it was. I think Andy potentially told him, enough with your bullshit. Quit fucking potting. Yeah, exactly. You're Travis Kelce. I think it was a reminder of who he is, too. I think it was a positive interaction, not a negative one. For them to turn it on would be really cool this early in the season. Yeah. It's very against what they have done. They better, because they're going to be on prime time, too, And we need good games. Yeah, but you got to think. They're used to. They just got to get healthy. They just got to get healthy. Two wide receivers coming back would be a big deal.

2:34:51Pat McAfee:They got to block people, too. That, too. Yep. Patrick needs to stop. Yeah, he had another one last night. I know. Two of them. I think one got called back. It did. They didn't run the ball last night, either.

2:34:59Adam Schefter:The backwards passes, too. That was insane. I know he recovered it, and Collinsworth, you know, damn near lost his shit. Calling one of the greatest plays he ever seen. But, like, that, that's. That was the second one. That was the second one. Why's Pacheco turn around? Yeah, run the back room. Why's Pacheco backwards? What are you doing, Pacheco? Like, what route is that? He thought he was on the other side of him. He's swinging right. Because there's so many D-linemen there. Yeah, exactly. You didn't know which way was the pocket.

2:35:26Pat McAfee:Because, look, if you go back, there's a pocket that way and a pocket behind. He's like, oh, fuck, I'm going to score. Throw me the ball. There's two pockets. Yeah, you can see how he gets confused out there because he's just in the moment. Probably shouldn't throw the ball, though, too. That's two backwards. Two of them. Within five plays, right? Weren't they on damn near? What a play by Patrick. It was unbelievable. Legit. I legitimately, how do I tweet this while acknowledging what the fuck, but then also, yo, what a save there. That's a great play. Defensive players, I think, are dreaming to do that.

2:36:03Pat McAfee:Oh, yeah. Eyes are lit up. Let me go ahead and get into body and strip and then end up on it. And then the guy doesn't even land up on top of him. So he doesn't even take, like, a big shot afterwards. There's really no. About as clean as it could be. Guys off him, no hits. It's over. Play's over. It's like a trade. It's perfect. Yeah. You announced his draft pick? That's Bobby, right? Bobby O? You did. Bobby O 'Karake is his name. Always has been. But at one point, he did pronounce it Okereke. And I don't know if he actually pronounced it that way. Others did.

2:36:34Adam Schefter:I feel like we're getting more of that. More guys just either pronounced their name a certain way or just changed it, you know. five years in their career like actually call me this you're talking about rob mack

2:36:43Pat McAfee:writer of it's always sunny in philadelphia yeah they just changed his name yep it was somebody on the broncos bijon a-chan yeah a-chan even fucking denzel washington came up what's

2:36:54Adam Schefter:his name now he said his name is supposed to be denzel fucking denzel washington yeah

2:37:01Pat McAfee:denzel i apologize for being a part of any misconstrued information about how you're Your name is pronounced. I want to let you know. I was saying I love Denzel Washington a lot. Feels like that's disrespectful now. I will go back and correct that with everybody I said it to. And I wish I had more time to be able to do that. But Denzel Washington from here on out, if that's what he wants to be called. That name sucks. Whoa. Do we have to call this kid David Washington now too? We haven't heard from him. Okay. Jeez Louise, dude. Denzel Washington is the coolest name. Denzel Washington sounds like a princess.

2:37:39I'm not calling you Darius. I'm not doing it. Well, actually, Darius.

2:37:46Pat McAfee:Darius is good with me. Darius is sick. That's an astrology-like feeling. Tooney would be cool, too. That's exactly actually how you pronounce it. What's that? That would be a soft O on that thing? Actually, that's more of a short, and you'd have to call me Antooney. Antony is not a bad man let's go to another overreaction this one's from Rube at H-Town Clears hashtag I don't want to overreact but like that the Texans are cooked and the S2 test was right about Stroud the whole time we need to fix the O-line fast otherwise we're going to see Davis Mills taking snaps by the end of the season we all know Dougie Mills is a good player We know Dougie Mills is a great ball player, loves the game, loves the sport, loves his teammates.

2:38:38I don't like that this golden, what was the thing called?

2:38:43Pat McAfee:Gold standard? S2 test? I think it was the S2. S2 cognitive test. Yeah, there it is. But remember, there's so many different parts. To take one part of the test out of context with everything else is rude to CJ. Well, what's everybody else's score? Well, we're not going to say that. It's like, well, can you tell us the rest of his scores? We're not going to say that either. What about on a graph? Can you just tell us what is the median? Can you say a lot of these have been coming out. A lot of those, yeah. Huge in football stats. Dan Jones isn't even on it. The data, folks. I feel like I'm going back to stats class.

2:39:21Pat McAfee:Literally, they're just popping up and I'm like, what the fuck is the XXXX? And then they use some shit and I'm like, I don't know what that means. And then I go with the Y and I'm like, what the fuck is that? and then I see the Colts top right and I'm like, boom, fuck it. That's where we want to be. That's where we want to be. Quadrant, yeah. Upper right quadrant. 1, 2, 3, 4 goes top right. They go clockwise. Count. I thought. I thought it was 1, 2, 3, 4. But the way I'm doing it is backwards to you. Is that clockwise? Counterclockwise? Yeah, I thought it was. Is one top left? I thought one was top right and four was bottom right.

2:40:02Pat McAfee:Interesting. So you want to be up and to the right to Q2? No, Q1. Top right is one. But in what you're saying, Q2. What you're saying is Q2. So top right is Q1. Top left is Q2, I thought. Top right? Q1. Q1. Yep. Top left, two. Oh, so it is counter. Yeah, counterclockwise. I want clockwise down here. Yeah. But no, you don't want to do that. Why would I ever do that? That's four. Four touches. Why would you ever do that? You wouldn't want to do that. That's the worst one. Bottom left's the worst. Three's the worst one. Stats class was certainly something. I felt like I was outmatched in there for real.

2:40:36Pat McAfee:I didn't really know. Mumbo Jumbo. Stats kind of suck. A lot of words, dude. Bell curve. Algebra. Day one with the bell curve. You need algebra. Algebra's the best. What about the linear curves? The outliers, all that shit. I get it. It was a good class for me to take, but fuck, every day was word. Mumbo Jumbo. The sine, cosine on the calculator where you had to do the cos. Then let's just go to chemistry. the significant figures or the siggy figures. Yeah, those things are a whole other animal. What do I need to learn these for? Fuck. So I can say it one day. Physics. Physics sucked ass. I think I got out of that one every time.

2:41:12Pat McAfee:I like physics. It's similar to algebra, if I remember correctly. My teacher was easy. We didn't do any work. I just hated the book. You're looking at it? It was boring. It was boring. It was stupid. I carried around. Nothing in it that helped me. What was Ohio high school curriculum. You doing... Pretty good, yeah. Not me. D-D-D-O-D! Alright, son. You graduate. Here's your diploma. Maybe some places. I don't like that, AJ. What was your favorite? Mathematics. I told you my brain does not compute numbers. I am definitely disabled when it comes to numbers. Okay, so you're not an arithmetic guy.

2:41:53Pat McAfee:The most basic form. If someone's saying numbers or puts numbers on a sheet, I just shut down. That's probably called something, I assume. Yeah, it's called learning disabled when it comes to numbers. Phobia numbers. I've been tested. Yeah. Hey, well, congratulations. Thank you for showing that you can still make it all the way to the top. No, it's good because other things are very high because it's so terrible in math. I like other things. You lose one sense, you gain another, folks. Oh, yeah. That's true. The pest. Don Leguizamo. Bingo. Never forget it. One of the goats. He was a blind man working the street, obviously, but he could hear somebody swinging at him.

2:42:28Pat McAfee:That's how he was able to miss. Yeah, you lose one sense, you gain another. That's what AJ's like with his brains and his intelligence. It's a daredevil. That's amazing. Football, way high. I mean, I wonder what he lost when he got rid of his shrimp allergy because he definitely lost something for that. Oh, we've never talked about that. Because he gained the allergy. I'll tell you what he's gaining. I do, too. Great hair. What's that? Shrimp allergy. You had it? You beat it, E-Bot?

2:42:49Adam Schefter:I haven't tried it. I turned 25 and just got sick. I got a plan for you. everything. All shelf fish or shrimp? Just shrimp.

2:42:56Pat McAfee:AJ Fogg. Yeah, he'll get it. Oh, so you can have crab still?

2:42:59Adam Schefter:Crab, lobster, fucking all this. It's not shrimp? It's not shrimp. Are you sure he didn't have some weird bad shrimp? Nope. Three different states. Boston, Charlotte, then Florida. Wow. Three times. Yeah, that's a good test. Yeah, three great shrimp towns.

2:43:14Pat McAfee:I've got any here in Indianapolis, though. Or shrimp, I think. Very good. The most fresh.

2:43:18Adam Schefter:Nope.

2:43:20Pat McAfee:Okay. Indianapolis seafood. So shrimp.

2:43:22Adam Schefter:Pretty fresh. Fresh cash. Here. Oh, at Geist? Yeah, fresh cash on Geist every morning.

2:43:26Pat McAfee:Yeah, shrimps and Geist. Monroe Lake. The thing about it being a Geist Lake thing is it tastes sweet, tropical, and spicy. Yeah. Okay. Coming out of there. Yeah. You know what we're talking about? Oh, yeah. Raise a little hill. Mm-hmm. Raise a little water. Mm-hmm. Get the scrimp down there. Yep. I think I've been to a scrimp farming place. Oh, really? They're in Louisiana down there to buy you now. I think so. I think I've been there. Maybe. I think it was shrimp. That'd be fun. A scrimp bog? Is that like a field with a bunch of water? Yeah. Scrimps wouldn't be in there, but I was just thinking in a swamp in Louisiana where a bunch of scrimps are just kind of in a little bog.

2:44:08Pat McAfee:I always thought Forrest and Bubba always had that one. They were out in the ocean. Alabama. Yeah, that's far away now. I mean, I assume it was Louisiana. I bet they take you on a good shrimp hunt. I don't know. Could have been caught at that, though. Yeah. Could have been. Crawdad, you get those in Pittsburgh. You know that. Crawdad. To the creek. Yeah, in the creek. All right. We don't eat them anywhere near as much as the South does. Those motherfuckers order them in 10-pound bags. Oh, yeah. What is it? Crawfish. Oh, crawfish. Yeah, you lift up a rock. They're right underneath there. Crawdad.

2:44:37Pat McAfee:Suck the life out of it. But in the South, they boil the shit out of them. Crawfish boil. And you buy them in like a garbage bag. Can I take five pounds of crawfish? And you just put it in a fucking bag. And then I think they even dig a hole and they'll fucking. With a nice seafood boil. Yeah, do the whole, yeah, yeah, the corn. Dump it out on the table. Dump them on the table. Yeah. All the lemons and all that. It looks good. I don't know if it tastes good. I was there one time. It was electrifying. It was quite a vibe. I mean, music's playing. Obviously, we're drinking. This shit's out here.

2:45:05Pat McAfee:Then they talk about sucking the head. That's all they talk about. I'm telling you, that's what they said. I had the same reaction you did, but I guess it's a culture thing. They're twisting, pulling, and sucking the fucking head. This guy down here has to suck the head, somebody said. See? I was like, I don't know what to eat. Sock the head. Sock the head. It's a good time, though. I will say crawfish bowl is a good time down there. They have a great time down there.

2:45:30Adam Schefter:How was that gator?

2:45:32Pat McAfee:I don't know if I ate the gator or not. I had the burger that was in the gator's mouth. But it never got clarified to me if that was a gator burger or not. I will say the burger is probably not the best thing on the item. especially with, it appears as if they made that burger maybe the night before. Okay. The one that they put in the gator. Yeah, sure. Reheat it and put it in the gator's mouth. I assume that gator was not supposed, that was for sure. I immediately grabbed gator head. You know, we talked about Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin. I couldn't wait to get my hands on that gator that lived a long life, died in its sleep.

2:46:09Yeah.

2:46:09Pat McAfee:Yep, for sure. But I don't know, I think that might have been like show burger. You think they were standing off stage and like, Oh, shit, he's grabbing the show burger. The wings were very good. There was like a little string cheese. Mozzarella steak? Pork. String cheese is good. Oh, pulled pork? Pulled pork, yeah. Pulled pork out there. There was a lot of this. I don't know what the gaita was is what I'm saying. It was mixed in there. Yeah, it was somewhere in there. Gaita bites in there somewhere. I definitely had everything was good, except for the burger felt like you weren't supposed to eat it.

2:46:38Yeah, well, no matter what, it wasn't going to be as good as Governor Jeff Landry's gaita. So at the end of the day, probably a smart move not having any gator.

2:46:46Pat McAfee:Is there a lot of gator being ate down there? Like in Florida, you guys eat a lot of gator?

2:46:50Adam Schefter:No, we see them a lot, but I don't know anyone that just eats gator on the regular. First time I ate gator was at like Papadou's in Houston. What about like central Florida? But in the big central Florida, do you go and hunt them and eat them? Eating anacondas, perhaps? In the Everglades. Yeah, you see, like if you grew up in South Florida, you're going to see gators. but I don't see people eating too much.

2:47:13Pat McAfee:Okay, yeah, because it felt like that place was really good, by the way. The place I brought us to. Everywhere that brings us the food is like Top Dogs. They're very, very good. We are very thankful and also we need it. I know it's a segment and everything like that. We are eating the shit out of that food as much as we can because it's an early start so you don't really get to eat beforehand. So we're going through the show, especially with sweating. It's like food gets brought up there. It's a very good time to be like, yeah, thank you so much. But boy, there is a real desire. There's a desire to get some food in there.

2:47:41Pat McAfee:So it's a necessity, I would say. So we're very appreciative of everybody that brings their food out, and it is always very good. The gator, I don't know which one was the gator, which I think is kind of a good thing. Yeah. Right? It should probably stand out a little bit now. I don't know if it was a good thing. There's different sauces on a lot of things. Yeah, I'm just saying, the gator should be the gator. You should know. I'll tell you what, holding that head was an interesting scene. And then Saban eating that thing. It was a big bite, too. Oh, yeah. Big old burger. Got a gator mouth. Let's get to the next overreaction, shall we?

2:48:18Adam Schefter:This is me. This is not it. No, Bill just said, we got crabs in the parking lot. What's that? Excuse me? Bill just said in the group, we got... What do you mean we got crabs? There's a freaking crab out there. Like a pet crab? Like an actual crab. That's what happens when you bury dead bodies around somewhere, right? Crabs start showing up. What is that?

2:48:39Pat McAfee:Wait, what the hell? They're coming for Bill's bodies? Maybe. Where would that come from? That had to be somebody's pet, right? Dead bodies. That's a crawfish. Okay. What? Is there water around? A big old crawfish. That's weird that it's in the parking lot. That's not a crawfish. Yes, it is. Really? Look at the claws on that. Yeah, that is. Big old claws. What is that? That's a fully mature crawfish. Yeah. Is that what that is? Those are in Geist for sure, I'm guessing. But I can't believe one's in our parking lot. What? They're in most freshwater lakes. I found them here twice. I think the fish drop them here Try to crack them and eat them Or sorry, the birds drop them here Crack and try to eat them So I live on a lake about an hour north of here Birds, big fish They'll drop these fucking fish They'll go in and grab them And then they'll be flying away and drop them I've had them hit the side of my house Like window And then the window obviously just has a fish imprint on it And it's like, what the hell is that?

2:49:37Pat McAfee:It's like, oh, the fucking bird couldn't handle it And then there was this weekend we were walking around the house on, I don't know if it was Saturday afternoon or Sunday or whatever. And there's just the fish's head about this big fucking just sitting just right in the middle of our walkway. You know, Mackenzie's like, what is that? I'm like, I don't know how to. That had to be the biggest fish of all. That's nature. That's nature. It's nature versus nurture here. So you know those birds that live in that tree up there that are like the same size as you that we were kind of scared of? Yeah, it turns out they're eating very big fish.

2:50:06Pat McAfee:and every once in a while they'll just fucking throw them off the house I guess I don't know try to get Chuck

2:50:10Adam Schefter:you ever seen like an eagle pick up like a goat yes then it just drop it off the side of the mountains like a deer or whatever yeah deer, goat, whatever just drop them off

2:50:20Pat McAfee:we have two eagles that live on property crazy and they are fucking gigantic

2:50:25Adam Schefter:yeah huge

2:50:26Pat McAfee:and whenever they open that thing up and you see their actual body it's like full America yeah I got these Canadian geese right here I don't know if you heard about what they were doing to our national anthem. Eagles. I don't know if you heard I had a little, instead you just get a green dot. For anybody that's battling against Canadian geese. Green laser pointer. And you don't like Don't hit their eye. On top of a rifle, right? On top of your rifle. Why not? What's that? The green dot for on the top for your scope. And then you're going to say you're actually going to use rifle? Is that what you're saying?

2:50:57Pat McAfee:I just assume that's what people do to mitigate the Canadian geese. No, but so some people, like Tim McAfee, for instance, I told him, I'm like, hey, you need a green laser pointer that's what we need ended up doing at my house uh because i had a canadian geese issue and my dad's like i had this thing on the fucker's eye for 30 minutes tim was like taking it as a challenge if he could do it i'm like no you gotta you're putting it on like the you're putting it so they can see the green thing and then they get scared and then they run like you just putting it on the eye certainly a great display of skill but like i don't think any of the other geese saw it he goes no they had to have seen it was right in the eye i'm like you're trying to fucking scatter them, basically.

2:51:36Pat McAfee:That's what you're trying to do. Trying to make them think that. And they'll leave forever is what I learned. Now, there is a chance that Tim McAfee came and killed all those geese. With a sword. Yeah, maybe. I got a green light. It's a laser thing that shoots really far, and it actually lights things on fire. Just give them a little... It wouldn't light them on fire, but it would be real hot on them, and if they stood still, it would catch flames eventually. So they would not come back. I was just thinking about it i've never used it on an animal or anything but i've been burning leaves from 100 feet away like you got a laser you got a laser laser is what it sounds like you bought yeah you know like instagram knows what they're doing when they market directly towards people and they've done it to me and i bought two or three of them yeah over the last couple years you've been influenced into buying an actual laser that lights on fire from how amazing i'll get i'll send a link i mean it'll shoot really really far but i don't know how i don't I mean, it'll catch a leaf on fire from at least 50 yards.

2:52:34Pat McAfee:That's impressive. Have humans accidentally got in line with your fiery laser? No, I'm very careful. Okay, of course you are. He's geese, I guess. Did you hear what he said at the very beginning of this thing? Are you talking about green laser on top of your right? He was thinking about lighting them on fire. What's wrong with you? No, it wouldn't light them on fire. It would create a little hot spot. It would create a hot spot if they stayed there. Is this even legal? Are you talking about fucking cinching people's earlobes from 50 yards away? I didn't use on a human. No humans have ever been.

2:53:09Pat McAfee:No, you did not, but I'm sure somebody could. This is what we're talking about. We can't have these things in the hands of this person. Personal protection. Lighting a motherfucker on fire in 20 minutes? What type of person? If this laser, if someone stands still long enough to catch on fire, a human, it would probably take four to five minutes. They're the toughest human alive. They don't burn a hole right through them. You better move. If there's lasers on you and it's hot, you got to go. Somebody comes into the house. Somebody comes into the house. Everybody into the bedroom. You go, not fucking today.

2:53:43Pat McAfee:You grab this little laser and you just get that thing right on his chest. Don't move. If you put it in his eyeball, he's blind. He's blind if it goes in his eyeball, probably. What a nice thing. He's silent too, right? Yeah, burn the retinas. Non-lethal, yep. I had no idea we were at this stage of weaponry. Sounds like we need to burn the fuck out of some people if they break into our house. Might just have those things go off. What was that movie? The guy who has the Scottish accent, older gentleman, and the younger lady. The Rock. Entrapment, maybe? Oh, yeah, Sean Connery and Jennifer Lopez.

2:54:16Pat McAfee:No. Catherine Zeta-Jones. Where she's dancing through the lasers. Oh, yeah. Maybe we just have our full house full of fucking fire lasers. That'd be cool. about. Yeah, got animals in there. Would it burn down the house? No, because you're... Possibly. Oh, yeah, it might. No, they would have to shoot into each other, so it's just... Yeah. Would that not create some sort of chemical reaction of pure flames? Yeah, but we'd have to obviously figure that out. We're just talking about maybe the front doors. Yeah, theoretical. Maybe that's the front door. Oh, yeah. Walk through, get your leg sliced off.

2:54:49Heat right off, yeah. Like hot butter.

2:54:52Pat McAfee:I don't like that AJ has... How many of these do you have? Three or five. You know, I bought my first one and said, this is sweet. It actually works like they said it would. So I got one or two more. Then I give them, you know, if I buy it and I like it myself, then guess what? My brother or my dad's getting for their birthday. Spoiler alert. They know. I'll send them stuff sometime. I'll drop ship them something every once in a while. Like my brother, I just did his birthday, August 31st. I sent it to him and said, hey, let me know how it is. because if it's sweet, I'm getting one. It was a cool fly gun shooter with CO2.

2:55:27Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course.

2:55:28Pat McAfee:Happy birthday, Ryan. Happy birthday, Ryan. Hope you enjoyed that fly gun CO2 shooter. All right, let's go to the next overreaction here from Icopini. Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but Michael Parsons is better off in Green Bay. The Cowboys' defense is hammered dog shit. Jerry said the run defense was a problem. The problem was hiring a piece of shit like Iberflues. Our defenses made Russ and Caleb look like Tom and Peyton. hashtag fire GM Jerry and I don't think that's an actual photo I don't think so either I don't think it is AJ do you think this is valid the defense Eberflues good defensive coach remember the good old days when he was doing good stuff yeah it I don't know it's not looking great right now it's not looking a great hire Eberflues yesterday had a chance for a great revenge game it went probably I mean probably as bad as it could what'd you say going against your former team I guess as the D coordinator but he got some injuries got some guys beat up Yes, but it's not looking great.

2:56:24The defense better turn around quick because I'm sure Jerry's not scared to make moves.

2:56:28Pat McAfee:Yeah, Jerry said, who says we don't make a move right now? And Ibraflus might get his ass fired if this happens again. With that being said, forgot about a revenge game for Caleb. Yeah. Didn't talk about that at all. No. And if that's what sparks it all, good for Caleb. Congrats to Ben Johnson. That was so bad.

2:56:44Adam Schefter:What's that, all of it? All of the Cowboys, like the DJ Moore touchdown, if you just take a screenshot of right as Caleb is throwing the ball he's just wide open. Nobody within 10 yards up on either side. That's the number one receiver in the red area. The Cole Komet touchdown, same thing. Wide-ass open. I understand a quarterback making plays, but in the red area, no one should be this open especially if you're dropping eight defenders like they were on the DJ Moore touchdown. It was all time bad. Look at this shit. Back in the end zone. Middle of the end zone. It's National Football League. What are we doing?

2:57:21Pat McAfee:Maybe it's a good overreaction. Let's go to another one here from Cody Perkins. Hashtag, I don't want to overreact. But the Tennessee Titans might be the first team going 17 with this guy's head coach. Hashtag, fire Callahan. Hashtag, bring me John Gruden. John Gruden in Nashville. That's perfect. Somebody's going to hire John Gruden. Okay? That's how I feel. John Gruden has publicly said multiple times, I want to get back into coaching, man. I want to get back into coaching. Then there's going to be people that just look at his record and look what happens in kind of the state of the world that we're in right now.

2:57:52Pat McAfee:And they're going to be like, you know what? Why not John Gruden here? If he wins games, he'll be beloved. And it feels like he's been more dialed into football right now than ever or the same amount as he always has. Do you think he's the answer with Cam Ward down there in Tennessee? And what are your thoughts on Callahan, AJ? It feels like I don't love the way he operates, but like in the press conferences and stuff, but I'd be pissed too if my team was losing, I guess. And if that's how he operates, that's how he operates. Yeah, it would be really hard to be a head coach and have to deal with the press.

2:58:20You know it's part of the gig, but I can understand being a little frustrated speaking to them. But he does seem to be on edge a bit, Kyle Handel, I guess. It doesn't seem to be a whole lot of fun, but we all know it is not fun to lose, especially in the NFL on a big stage. But going to John Gruden, if you have any idea, like, if this guy is all in or he loves ball, like, just watch a couple clips of him from what he's doing on the Internet. The guy is obsessed with football and could probably – he could rattle off five trillion plays that have happened that he's been a part of as a coach. I don't want to say it, but it just came to my mind.

2:58:52Pat McAfee:He gave a speech that made me want to fucking go run through a wall. That team was Wisconsin that he spoke to. Ooh, boy. Just stay there. They did. They ran into a wall. With their heads down. Off a cliff. Yeah, they didn't know how to play football. What's going on over there? Nothing good. They need Gruden at the helm. I don't know if that's where John is. I don't know. I don't know if he really cares where it is. I think he just wants to be back at ball. It is crazy where Wisconsin is at right now. Like where they have been the last like 25 years. And now it's just like they're in that tier with when we used to talk about like Illinois and Northwestern.

2:59:32Like maybe it's not quite that bad. But like. Like Purdue though. Yeah. They stink.

2:59:38Pat McAfee:And Luke's a good coach. Yeah. Yeah. Do they have money? I assume they don't have much money. I assume that is a part of every conversation for John Gruden, too, if he's going to get into college football coaching. Can we win? Can we keep up? That's obviously question number one. We don't know about Wisconsin. But there's something with the roster, I guess. There's something with the roster that was done. So when he first took over, they hired the OC from North Carolina. His name, Chip Lindsey maybe or something. I can't remember his name. Phil Longo? Phil Longo, yeah, yes, please. Thank you. And that was a spread.

3:00:09That was like a spread offense, so they did that. And before that, they had been recruiting for the Wisconsin offense. Like big, huge dudes were going to play in a box or whatever. So then they recruited for that, and that didn't work. And now they're going back to the old Wisconsin ways after they had recruited for the spread for so long. It's just like I feel like they don't have an identity. Their starting quarterback has also gotten hurt the last three seasons, which also doesn't help.

3:00:32Pat McAfee:Luke Fickle coming to a team near you that's going to have national championship hopes. That's what's happening. It feels like. I don't know how many years he has left on a contract or guaranteed money, but Luke Fickle's name is going to be one that we'd like him to become senior consultant here. Ohio State probably. You know where it's perfect for Gruden? Fucking UCLA. Yeah, right. Out in Cali. UCLA spends no money on football. Oh, they don't? I don't think so. How'd they get Nico? Well, no one goes to the game. That's a good question. If they spend a year, they're not a football. That's actually a good question.

3:01:06Pat McAfee:because the MO is, like, not all in on football. I don't know if his price was that high. Yeah, wasn't that the big thing? It's like the way he kind of did everything going in. It was like it spooked a bunch of teams, and he kind of just got left over with what UCLA was willing to offer. That's the whole conversation is do you have money? Are we supportive? What's the percentage of the rev share whenever that inevitably happens going towards football? And then, you know, there's going to be a lot of people that don't care about any of that, just want to be a head coach somewhere. So those teams are going to have to hit with that.

3:01:34Well, and that's why with the Gruden stuff, for a guy who's all about football, he doesn't want to go fucking coach in college. Just looking at all that is required of you. He might be great at it, though. He might be. But if the Tennessee Titans job, if he hears that, he wants to coach in the NFL. If all he is available to him is college, maybe, but he wants to coach in the NFL.

3:01:55Adam Schefter:He screams SEC ball coach. I think that's where he's going to end up. He's publicly said it, right? He would love to coach in the SEC. What's going on with him in the NFL?

3:02:05Pat McAfee:Are they still good friends? Well, no, but I mean, like you said, different climate now than when it was, and we're not just going to kind of wipe away that from history and be okay with it. I think it's still happening, though. Yeah, it is. I think it's still very much in his favor. Which doesn't help for potentially getting back. I'm just saying if everything is, I mean, and obviously you can't do that because that's a very big part of it. Huge part of it. But if he had the choice, He's obviously going to go back and coach in the NFL. To D-Bud's point, though, yeah. I mean, we're a couple weeks away from Billy Napier football having its run over in Florida.

3:02:42I can't tell you that much.

3:02:43Pat McAfee:How far is Gainesville from Tampa?

3:02:45Adam Schefter:Oh, I would assume probably two and a half, maybe three hours.

3:02:48Pat McAfee:Doesn't he live in Tampa, right? Yeah. That's where his fired football coaches of America office is, where he used to go in there, 5 a.m., watch film every single day, and then he had a vault there in the office, obviously dry erase board, ran his entire shit. It's like this guy. Him with Lackway? Maybe. Could be. I don't know. Unless Lugway. Might be playing at Iowa next year. Tight end. How's Gronoski doing? I don't know. You tell me. Iowa scored 38 points on Friday night against a vaunted Rutgers defense. And they're right back. I mean, their only loss is against a team that's right on the outside of the top 10.

3:03:21So, I don't know. Are the playoffs still on? I think. So, Mark Gronoski had three rushing touchdowns through for another one. Not too bad. He threw for one? No, actually, he didn't. But he threw like 189 yards, which is still another. First play on Friday. Yeah. And he also unleashed a couple deep balls, which, you know, and Iowa actually caught those deep balls. He wasn't just throwing them.

3:03:44Pat McAfee:Oh, so it was like a punt play for you guys, but actually it was an offense. Typically, yeah. On offense. Yeah, 38 points is no joke. Rutgers was undefeated. Big one this weekend. Big one this weekend. For me, this is the – because you cannot let Indiana come into Kinnick and fucking put up 70. Oh, gee. Indiana. Indiana can. No, I know they can't. Say that is Indiana. That's what I meant to say. Indiana plays differently than every other team in the Big Ten. They do. This is not like your traditional, you know, like, hey, we're going to play Wisconsin. They stink. We're going to run it 65 times, and we're going to end up beating them by 10 to 14 points.

3:04:23You can put – guess what? You got to be scoring touchdowns against it. Yeah. Because they're going to keep throwing and throwing.

3:04:29Pat McAfee:Fernando Mendoza has played a lot of ball. He has. But they also, you know, would that game have been a little bit different had it been in Champaign as opposed to maybe not because they beat the fuck out of them. Kinnick's a tough place to play, though. It is, you know. And Signetti can't wait to go in there. We're going to put on a show for them kids. We're going to wave at them. We're going to let them know. The whole thing. This is New Indiana. You need to make Mendoza uncomfortable. First possession. I want helmet to helmet when he's clearly out of bounds on the sidelines. Fucking hit him hard.

3:04:59Pat McAfee:That cannot be happening. Set the tone. Set the tone early. AJ, that is not allowed to be said. Legally, between the whistles. Between the whistles. No, he said when he's out of bounds. Clearly out of bounds. Maybe one step out. You're saying we need to hamper this offense. Yeah, set the tone early. Hey, okay, you know what? You're maybe going to be seeing 22 guys on defense instead of 11. How are the Iowa graduates doing in the NFL? you know solid i mean caleb johnson you know he had a bit of a blunder first but that ain't got the start that ain't on him okay this guy would fucking you know he didn't return kicks until his freshman year was the last time he'd return kicks there's a couple times and he gets the nfl i say guess what kid you're the fucking guy now i know you're 6 '2 250 you got no business fucking back their returning kicks, but that's what we need from you.

3:05:53Outside of that, a lot of guys from Iowa are hurt right now. Laporta's doing great.

3:05:57Pat McAfee:Jack Campbell's doing great. Yep, obviously you can fucking set your watch to those guys being great every year. Wirfs, back next week. That's what I mean. Wirfs, you know, Hawkinson is good. I mean, there are so many goddamn Hawks in the NFL. I can't even, you know, Van Nessie. Coop. Coop. Obviously, D. Butts has just been gushing about him the weekend week out. You haven't put a white person on any of your Everything DB. It's early. Riley Moss. Last year. Remember that one time last year you did that? I saw a lot of paintings at Des's house too. Good painting? Beautiful paintings. What do you mean?

3:06:36I was just looking around.

3:06:38Pat McAfee:Why are you laughing? I was just looking around. This is the nicest decoration I've ever seen for a house. You've got a Heisman Trophy. is just a fucking decorative piece. Wow. This guy is Super Bowl MVP and a Heisman and has an eye for actual art and the way it's like his house is so nice. I was really impressed by the whole thing. Backyard's so sick. I was going to say, is it like the indoor-outdoor living kind of thing? Yeah, he can. Got a basketball court in the back, big pool, and he's got a gym off the end of the pool. Gym was shut down. Everything was closed. I kind of just made myself home, started walking around, and then got autographs from everybody.

3:07:14Pat McAfee:That's everybody. in the history of football. Just Hall of Fame row, basically, across the top. And I shut the door. His gym turned around and started walking. I almost fell into his pool. Almost walked right into his pool. Almost ever. Part of his just about over. Part of his just about over. Almost fell right into the pool. Not because I was intoxicated or anything like that. I was looking around. Holy shit, this place is nice. And then I stopped. I was literally right on the edge. Right on the edge. I might have cracked my head, actually. Jesus. Yeah, so thank God that didn't happen. It was beautiful, though.

3:07:41Pat McAfee:The house was so nice. It was distracting. That was kind of the issue. That's how it's nice. All right, last overreaction. This one's from Top Gun Hatch here. Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but... I seem to be stuck in fucking Groundhog Day, except it's not funny anymore. It's the same Steelers offense and same Steelers defense. Highest pay in the league, by the way. Every week for six years. Different coordinators, different players, same results. Save me. Groundhog Day is a great movie. Okay, I love that. I heard that maybe somebody was trying to change that. Gumps, what did Bullrush tell us?

3:08:16Pat McAfee:They were trying to do something with the groundhog down there. You remember that? There was a conversation about maybe PETA didn't want it to happen anymore or something like that. They're trying to get rid of groundhog there? Yeah, I think that was something I heard. Maybe there was a little bit of an uproar about the treatment of said groundhog. This fucker's living real nice. Oh, yeah, exactly. Living real nice. And I'm about sick of it, seeing a shadow and calling for winter for another six weeks, but that's what it does. It's like Donardo. It's more accurate than that. How do you feel? Whoa, whoa.

3:08:43Pat McAfee:Fucking Groundhog's been throwing a pretty good game. Remember, we want it better than DiNardo.

3:08:47Adam Schefter:He ain't fucking Joe.

3:08:49Pat McAfee:I agree. Joe said it wouldn't. It did. But this fucking Groundhog, the last, what, six years, we want it to lose its head and its life every single Groundhog Day. And then we're waiting, what, five, six weeks later, and guess what? Fuck, it's still winter. He's right. What's this Groundhog's name? Punks Tawny Phil. Staten Island Chuck. Staten Island Chuck is the imposter. and then they brought a lady in too I think Phyllis right? Pucks is totally Phyllis because Phyllis is getting a little low yeah Phil wants to fuck so we that's kind of what they said and so Phil did yeah and then Lil Phil came out yep and I think there was something about the treatment but these guys are living like kings and queens obviously Phyllis but Groundhog Day good movie until it's not a good movie especially if you're living in it Tone is this guy accurate do you think this is an overreaction or not?

3:09:33let me start with saying this it's tough to win football games in the NFL that's right well said especially on the road Steelers went and did that but no they looked the exact same couldn't really block anybody statistically they have the worst third and fourth down defense in the entire NFL but they forced a lot of turnovers so if you could force four to five turnovers per game I think they're going to be fine Aaron Rodgers is awesome he's been great there's pressure in his face every single play He made two of the greatest throws. That one to obviously DK. DK's been awesome too. And then the one to Calvin Austin, the winner later in the game, the back shoulder throw was just so pretty.

3:10:18Aaron's been great. He just has no time. And the defense can't get off the field nor stop the run. So, yeah, I think the guy's pretty accurate.

3:10:26Pat McAfee:Five turnovers. Yep. It's not bad. That's great. Yeah. Especially down in the end zone, Ben. But don't break. Actually get the ball back. No points. These Steelers fans. I saw Caboli say, these guys are never happy. Talking about you guys. That's what Caboli's entire team is. Because we're a smart fan base. We have eyes. And we can tell if a team is a contender or not. And you don't think they're a contender? No, unfortunately not. Oh, no. Damn. Not as of week three. All right. They made the Super Bowl ball. They can get better.

3:10:57Adam Schefter:And the stop and run ball. How did they do stop and run? Agreed. They can get better. They won. Reminds you, they only had four for 18. It was nice to hear Vrabel say this weekend they have a lot of great players over there. We just know exactly where they're going to be and what they're going to do on every play.

3:11:12Pat McAfee:Vrabel said that about the Pittsburgh Steelers? Yeah. And then they literally just leave 14 points on the board because of a fumble. Vrabel probably said, we fucking beat that team. But he has to go tell the boys they gave that one away. Five turnovers, tough stuff. Yeah, hold on to the fucking ball, Mike. How about that? People in Boston are not happy this morning because there has been a side-by-side graphic of Gerard Mayo and Mike Vrabel that has hit the internet. I saw that. And they have the same record, one and two, to start, except Vrabel's team has about 20 more penalties and about six more turnovers.

3:11:48Oh, there it is. Boy.

3:11:49Adam Schefter:Oh, no. People are not happy.

3:11:51Pat McAfee:14 more penalties. Five more turnovers. Five of them. One game. 14 more penalties. Yeah. The biggest difference here, though, is one of them isn't just a complete doofus, and the other one's Mike Vrabel.

3:12:06Adam Schefter:What? Don't talk about my former teammate like that. I don't know. Okay. My bad. The other one went 4-13. Numbers don't lie, okay? I don't want to hear fucking feelings. What do the numbers say? Okay, numbers don't lie. So at the end of the season, if Vrabel is, I don't know, 5-12, then we can say he was right.

3:12:26Pat McAfee:I do wonder about some of this turnovers, penalties, you name it. Like, that seems abnormal for a variable operation. Absolutely. The fumbles for Ramondre Stevenson, no. He has more fumbles than touchdowns in the last two years. So that's expected. That's kind of why a lot of people thought he would be a cap casualty because he's been doing this for fucking ever. But the other parts of it. We had him on our fancy team last year. The other parts of it. You draft him. And we don't this year. like Drake May and we're good this year very good 2-1 Drake May's fumble that's just a rookie mistake that's the stuff you expect to see but that's also the stuff you would rather see this year and have all the rookies in doing their fucking rookie shit than having vets in who are getting paid doing rookie things but no aside from that me Tony and Nick talked a little after the game it's very easy to feel better about the Patriots today than it is the Steelers how many years is Drake a rookie?

3:13:25What do you mean? Oh, the rookie mistake thing? I mean, he only made it through five games last year. So if Anthony Richardson was a rookie for the first three years of his career, I think we can give Drake 16, 17 games.

3:13:38Pat McAfee:I'm with it. I'm on your side, by the way. Oh, I know. I'm on your side. I picked the Patriots. And he looks unbelievable. It was just like, hey, Drake, little Carl Wentz here, right? Three guys on top of you. You're trying to shovel pass it three yards forward. Let's just take a sack on first down and live to fight another step. It's too good of an athlete.

3:13:56Adam Schefter:What quarter was that? That was the fourth quarter. Oh, so this is post-concussion. Post-concussion. Great hustle play by Herbig. Great hustle play by Herbig, though. It was. In his defense, he slammed his head off the turf harder than maybe any human beings ever does. Yeah. Yeah, it was always gone as a badger sandwich. Yeah, and then did you see him crying after the play, too? That's what JJ said. That was the hardest part is that he stayed on the ground and kind of complained about it. The unk didn't even think about taking him out of the game. No, no, they did. The unk picked up the unk grabbed the phone.

3:14:26But Drake May's daddy was sitting right next to him. He said, you better put that fucking phone down, son. My boy ain't coming out of this game. And his uncle said, blah, blah, blah, blah.

3:14:36Pat McAfee:All right, let's get to our picks. We have faith in Drake. I have faith. I appreciate his toughness as well. And the fact that he's the best athlete on the field, so he wants to make every play happen. These are young player mistakes. It feels like Patriots fans are expecting that. Steelers get a win. Still not happy. Love that. Let's go to tonight. AJ, you and I both not seeing the board exactly well. D. Butch said he isn't either. Four and a half point favorites are the Baltimore Ravens at home. Peter Schrager's there. Looked like the backdrop was wonderful. Yeah. Looked like there was a little bit of a lighter filter on him, too.

3:15:08Pat McAfee:I wonder if the sun was just hitting at a certain light. That was kind of brightening up our Peter Schrager, our Emmy Award winner, to let us know that tonight is going to be all about the big lights. Tonight, it's going to be all about the Stars. Over under 53 and a half. Tonight, it's going to be electrifying. D-Butch, you can go first here, pal. Do you like Detroit or Baltimore with Baltimore favored by four and a half? Wait, I guess, is there any other lines? It's four and a half across the board. There is 64 % of the money is on Baltimore and 78 % is on the over.

3:15:35Adam Schefter:D-Butch, what say you? Yeah, I love that over. I'm sure there'll be some great touchdown parlays put together tonight. Also love Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. I think they win this, and I think they win it handily. I know the Detroit Lions put up a bunch of points last week against the Bears, but I think Baltimore shows up. What was his record against NFC? 24-2, and I think 10-2 on Monday Night Football or something crazy. Something like that. That's correct, 24-2 against the NFC. Yeah, I'm going with Lamar and the Ravens.

3:16:06Pat McAfee:How do you feel, Foxy, about Darius Butler saying, yeah, one of these teams really good. The other team was good last week. No, I don't blame D-Butt at all because my brain has been saying all week that this one could be bad. And I don't love that, but the last time they played, we lost 38-6, and it was one of the worst games I've seen under the MCDC era. But with that being said, my heart is saying maybe we ground and palm this thing. Maybe we stretch the game out, make it short, run the ball, nine-minute possessions, score touchdowns. The Ravens don't even get the ball. And then I'll tell you guys this one.

3:16:41Pat McAfee:This is what the stars are saying tonight. We have a waxing crescent moon. The Detroit Lions are 9-1 with a waxing crescent moon. I'll just leave that out there for you. What are the Ravens? I don't have that information. Oh, interesting. 60, you know, they never lost. Interesting. My brain has been telling me this could be bad. Yeah. I don't know why my brain's saying that. I don't like that my brain's saying that. That's basically what Foxy just said. 100%. I think we should witness. My heart's like, yeah. And then all of a sudden my brain's like, shut up, dude. This is going to be a blow up.

3:17:14Pat McAfee:The matchup's just so bad, and the Ravens are so good. We have a very tough schedule this year. I would say this is the toughest game all year long in Baltimore Monday night. It's just very, very difficult.

3:17:25Adam Schefter:And according to AI, 7-2 on Monday Night Football, 22 touchdowns, zero interceptions.

3:17:31Pat McAfee:Who's that?

3:17:32Adam Schefter:Lamar Jackson.

3:17:33Pat McAfee:Okay, pretty good. Pretty good. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? I was waffling a bit, honestly, until I heard D-Butt. And Deba just confirmed what I was leaning towards all along. Give me Baltimore minus four and a half at home. Yep. And we're both ass-picking the spread this weekend, so it doesn't matter what happens in this game. I'll do a team ride before all rolling. I'll do a team ride with the AFC North, even though I like the AFC North. And I like the Lions. I like the Ravens a lot. I like Lamar Jackson a lot, a lot. And I hope Chuck Pagano has a great Monday night football experience.

3:18:07Pat McAfee:Man, MCDC, though. Chuck was watching the show. Yeah, I was going to say, four and a half is a pretty large number. Jeez. At home. Team that just put up 50. Home record this week. 12 and three, home teams. I want to all spread the Ravens to nine and a half. Tom really likes the Ravens. All right, so who's this for?

3:18:29Adam Schefter:I got to be for the Lions. For the Lions, yeah.

3:18:32Pat McAfee:Lions, yeah.

3:18:32Adam Schefter:I need your logo to break it up. Uh-oh, that might go ahead. Oh.

3:18:37Pat McAfee:All right, sweet. I'm taking the Ravens. Boom. All right, be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Never forget it. We've got a big one tomorrow. Overreacting to everything that happens tonight with BA in studio.

3:18:47Adam Schefter:Yeah. Hell yeah.

3:18:49Pat McAfee:Anybody got anything? What a weekend. Hell of a week. Fantastic. Hell of a week. Enjoy this primetime game. It's a good one. You never know when they're going to be good, and even the ones that are on the schedule, quarterbacks might get hurt. So we've got two healthy teams, two healthy offenses. Enjoy some points. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye!