PMS 2.0 1528 - Feel Good Friday with Coach K, Koa Peat, 4 Star QB Israel Abrams, Miami Head Coach Mario Cristobal, 4 Star Edge Rashad Streets, & Oregon Head Coach Dan Lanning

21:42You look how genuinely thrilled. Jeez, it doesn't look like it's going to crack at all either. Coaches are the stars? It looks like I'm waiting in line in an amusement park or something. They should turn the lights off. Spotlight. Solo, yeah. Yeah, just on the coach. During timeouts. You can see how elevated you are. So if you're below, your line of sight isn't good. you know and so a lot of times watch how much the assistants are standing up instead of sitting down especially who's who's got the scout who's in charge of offense defense whatever their responsibilities are uh that's not good for the assistants either because a lot of times an assistant is the one who uh is most animated on a sideline uh you know and in you know i i again And it's good that it's in a dome because you get so many people.

22:39But that's one negative about it.

22:42Pat McAfee:Yeah, let alone you fall out of that thing like boxing. You know what I mean? Get your ass dropped out. I'm not saying you would ever do that because you've got a great balance. You look very firm there, 90-degree angle on your knees there. That was certainly phenomenal. Hair, very dark in there. Oh, yeah. Kidding me? Yeah, the stadium. It's a little darker today. It's a little darker. Why would you put it in? Yeah, what happened? What'd you do? I don't know. It just kind of happened. I don't know. I don't know what the hell happened. So you paint it every morning? Are you painting that thing every morning, your hair?

23:07Pat McAfee:You're painting it every single morning of your life and your eyebrows? Every third day. Okay. Okay, so now we get the gimmick. Knew it. Yeah, now we get the gimmick. Knew it. I'm happy to hear that. You talk about the people in the stadium and how there can be more of them. A little bit closer to some places than others. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Coach. I was actually at the 2015 Final Four, and it felt like a home game for Wisconsin and Kentucky because it was so close. Obviously, it didn't matter. You guys won. But it's happening this year again with Michigan. And then there's video coming out of Illinois' practice going on right now, and they have almost one side of the lower bowl full for practice today in this situation.

23:43How much do you think it is an advantage for Illinois being so close? I think it's only 120 miles away, and they already have, it looks like, 30 ,000 fans here. Yeah, not only that, but it's Brad's first Final Four. I love the way he's handled this week where he said it took me 39 years to get to the Final Four. It's a moment in time for them. I think the fact that they can have so many people there. When we won in 2010 in Lucas Oil, we played Butler, and it was like a home crowd for them. There were so many Butler. actually their colors and ours are similar and there's like blue everywhere there's going to be a lot of orange a lot of orange in there I think it is an advantage for Illinois and God bless them their fans show up, they should have an advantage but the fact that they're there for this practice and that's a cool thing I don't know if you football guys know it but all the practices on Friday are open to the public.

24:57Yeah, we do. Okay, I didn't know what the hell you're talking about. I would like to let you know they also get a watch when they make it to the Final Four, just to let you know that. I don't know if you know that. Yeah, but the thing about that, it's so fan-friendly, and I think it's great for the teams because they get a feel for the Dome with a really good crowd and noise and everything. Instead, if you're playing an away game, you go for a shoot-around, there's nobody in the place. Here, it's a celebration of basketball because the coaches are having their convention at the same time. It's just a celebration of college basketball.

25:40Friday's a cool day for all the guys and the coaches the field, the ambiance of Lucas Oil and the tournament. And I'm glad you mentioned that. They have so many people there. I didn't know that.

25:57Pat McAfee:Yeah, a lot of people packing in. Obviously, Illinois people are excited for it. Did Duke, did they travel a lot? Did you guys have a good traveling crowd? Yeah, yeah. Not only that, we got fans everywhere, man. And, you know, we're not a state. You know, we have fans throughout the country. We also have people that don't like us throughout the country. That's what I was going to say. We have a lot of fans, so a lot of people show up. When we play away games, like when we have big games, neutral site in Chicago, D.C., wherever it is, we usually have a huge contingent of Duke fans there. We're very, very fortunate.

26:37Pat McAfee:The Chicago one, D-Bone was there. And then if you did anything in Ohio, A.J. Hawk was there. and I enjoyed watching your teams as well because you guys won all the time. So it was fun. It was fun being a fan. We didn't win all the time. Yeah. We got our butt beat. But it made the times we won feel better. Yeah, more likely than not, you were going to piss people off and you were going to win. Yeah. Yeah, that is kind of – so I was kind of naturally drawn to that. I'm like, okay, I'm going to be a fan of this team. We're going to win, and it seems like people are going to be pissed off. I like that team.

27:08Now, you guys had some players on your team that were a little hateable, like very hateable.

27:11Pat McAfee:Sure. You like those guys, I assume. I love them. How come? Who was the guy that was tripping everybody all the time? Grayson Allen. Grayson Allen. This guy was tripping everybody all the time. I didn't know you at the time. You guys, what does all the time mean? I don't know. Every time I saw him, every time I saw this guy, he was kick-saved with a goalie. Bang! He played the same play. Oh, yeah. Come on. Yeah, but still. But J.J. Redick, people did not like J.J. Who is the quarterback at Syracuse? Greg Paulus. Kyle Stingler. Ryan Kelly. Wojo. All the Plumers. So you get what I'm saying. Thank you.

27:54Pat McAfee:So every generation, you did have somebody that was seemingly very good. You're not going to be hated if you're not good, obviously, in sports. Yeah, but it took the pressure off the other guys. Those guys handled it well. Yeah, J.J. really handled it well. You know, if it was an away game and you started doing that, he'd want to put 35 or 40 on you. And I did not need any motivation for him. Yeah, he loved that. Okay, so let's talk about J.J. a little bit. Can we pivot to the NBA? Are you okay with that? Yeah, yeah. I'm wearing my NBA thing. You said, yeah, Duke's out, actually, if you see. Yeah, let's talk pros.

28:37Pat McAfee:Let's talk pros. Those are my guys. Remember, I've been working with the association. Guys, four years, that's awesome. I appreciate where your head's at. And the pros will bop wood whenever it comes to the playoffs. But JJ, you know, obviously Luka gets a hammy last night. I think he's now certified as an NBA coach. Like, he was podcast co-host with LeBron. It's the only reason why he got the job. Media pundit is the only reason why he got the job. Whatever. It's Los Angeles makes another stupid decision. It's kind of how it all went. He was mocking really cool because at the beginning, obviously, they weren't that great.

29:06Pat McAfee:Then they make the trade for Luka. They end up being a he wins 50 plus games in two seasons back to back. Only him and Phil Jackson have done that for the Lakers. How much have you been a part of JJ's kind of evolution as a basketball coach? And what are your thoughts on him as a coach of the Lakers? Yeah, not in the evolution. We talked some, but when he was considering doing it, we talked a lot. And this is what he wanted to do. I mean, he's so damn competitive, and he's really smart and unbelievably prepared. And so when he went into broadcasting, he knocked it out of the park right away, and that wasn't competitive for him.

29:49And he loves the game. And so when we talked about, you know, he says, Coach, you think I'm nuts for doing that? I said, no, if that's what you want to do, do it. And if someone will give you that opportunity. And obviously during that time, they offered the job to Danny Hurley, and then he turned it down. And I thought J.J. did a great job with Rob Palenka in saying, look, that doesn't bug me at all. You know, I've been an NBA player for 15 years. I know what it is to be traded. I know what it is to be sub for. I know the NBA. And so I think it was a great, great move by the Lakers and Rob Palenka to hire him.

30:40And obviously it's paid off. Yeah, I enjoy watching him. I like how fiery he is. It's like that little psycho is supposed to be a coach. There's a level. He's got coach psycho stuff. Bingo.

30:54Pat McAfee:That's the difference. I played, obviously, a very important position in football. Hey, listen, the pop out of you right there was too genuine. You know what I mean? That was from the bottom of your soul, almost, it felt like. But on that note... Don't tell me that you were responsible for field position. Which we won, if you were to look that up. Kickoff and punting and shot to our returners. And quarterbacks didn't turn the ball over much. Yeah, you can go look at the percentages of dubs there. You know, that certainly was a good thing for me. In your career, did you ever tackle anybody? Oh, Coach.

31:34Run the clip. Find the clip now. Find the clip. Yeah, run the clip. Find the clip. Show them. Show them.

31:40Pat McAfee:We got 20 some of those things. We got 20 of them. 20? Yeah, 20 of them. No way. No way. Coach, get the drifted holiday. Pull up the drifted holiday now. Coach, bopping wood. Laying wood. Piping. Laying pipe. You know, that is what we got going on out here. Now, on that note, I, as punter, got to meet a lot of people, okay? A lot of socializing. You know, got a lot of people working. I'm doing a lot of handshaking. How are we doing? Everybody feels good. Let's have a good time. Hope we win this weekend. Can you guys do that for me? Life is better whenever we're all winning, okay? We all enjoy that.

32:12Pat McAfee:But you can tell immediately who's supposed to be a coach, who's not supposed to be a coach. And it's like in our sport, the time and then the effort and then the fake time and then the fake effort that you have to give seemingly. I'm not judging coaches. I'm just saying that seemingly is the role. It's like you can tell the difference between who's supposed to be a coach and who's not supposed to be a coach. I don't think every player is a good coach, but I think there are some players that's like evidently a coach. You thought that about J.J., I assume, since the beginning? And how many other guys?

32:39Well, I didn't think about J.J. being a coach, right? Because I knew he's going to be a pro. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's one of the great shooters of all time. And so it surprised me that after his playing career that he wanted and he was so successful in broadcasting. But in thinking when he talked to me about it, I said, of course, you know, because, you know, the game and you'll prepare you. You're a competitor. I mean, he's really as competitive as anyone.

33:14Pat McAfee:Yeah, we heard that story about he was dating a girl in Wisconsin or something. And in the summer, he would go back and he'd be working out at the local gym. And because of who he was, there'd be somebody that would chirp him and he would murder the entire gym in the offseason, I guess. I think he told us that story. And it was like, of course, some nobody in Wisconsin just said, you stink. Get out here. Game to 100. Let's go ahead and do that. It's like he clearly had that level. And it's just different. It's just different. You're either born with it or you're not. and I'm happy to see JJ working out.

33:45Pat McAfee:Now, working out, the NBA has a lot of issues. I think we all understand that everybody, everything has a lot of issues. But I think they've tried to kind of corral the issues that they have with star players playing. As somebody here in Indiana, with the Pacers in Indianapolis, whenever there was a lot of load management happening, the Pacers games seemingly were a lot of potential sit-outs. So a lot of people here in Indiana would pay for a ticket to go watch a team. They'd get there, wouldn't be announced until 30 minutes before the game. hey, you spent money on this. That guy's actually not playing.

34:14Pat McAfee:And he's not even sitting on the bench. You're not even going to see this guy tonight or whatever. So then he did the 65 games thing. They're trying to get back to it. But now it seems like we're back to where we kind of were. Go ahead, Con, man. Yeah, Coach, yesterday I think, it might have been the day before, Richard Jefferson gave an entire thing kind of about this, just about how like back in the day when there were two training staff members, no massage therapist, they were doing the entire thing basically old school, you know, flying, not private, the entire thing. and how much that has changed today.

34:43He basically said the players were kind of pampered when it comes to the whole load management type thing. Now they're talking about minimizing or kind of getting less games in a season because 82 is too much on the body. Pat mentioned the 65 game roll because it was getting out of control. How do you feel about the state of the NBA? Do you feel as though the whole load management thing is kind of creeping into college all of a sudden and that is becoming a bigger thing? or do you think the NBA where it is is great? It's just sometimes unfortunate injuries like Luka happen. Sometimes rest is necessary for the teams.

35:18Yeah, well, the NBA is great. We're having the best year ever in the NBA. It's a new media contract money-wise. It's incredible exposure-wise. It's amazing. But it keeps evolving. And so, you know, what Richard Jefferson was talking about, like he's a former player. He's not a current player. If he was in this, he would love the way things are going right now. Just like things keep changing. You don't go back. You go forward. You're always becoming as a player, as an organization, and as a pro organization. And I'm at all the NBA meetings and the scrutiny, like how they keep looking at how to improve the game is amazing.

36:18And so the thing we're talking about right now is the thing called tanking. Half the league, coach. Yeah, no. No, it's, yeah, no. But we should also be talking about rebuilding. Like, who is rebuilding and who is tanking? Because there are organizations that have a lot of young players and whatever, and they're in the process of rebuilding. Look where the Pistons are right now, okay? You know, these teams that have rebuilt now, were they tanking or were they rebuilding? So by next year, for next draft, not this draft, there will be new policies in place to have an effect on the draft. The way you build a team is through trades, free agency, and draft.

37:18and the CBA, the collective bargain agreement, has really done marvelous things for the NBA. But we have not been able to figure out completely how to do that draft and to assure that when an NBA team comes out on the court for the fans, that they want to win, not that they want to lose. and Adam Silver has addressed it and I think it's really up to the owners to decide exactly what they want to do.

37:56Pat McAfee:Yeah, I know, but it succeeded before. I think Oklahoma City people say they were tanking and then obviously they end up winning it all. They're potentially in the middle of a dynasty right now. And then you talk to some owners and it's like, well, how am I supposed to get a star? How can I get a program builder unless it's in the draft because it's hard to get free agents. Guys don't really become free agents. They get traded to places they want to go. Then they sign new deals at those places. So there's really no free agency either. So draft is really the only way I can get a program changing player.

38:23Pat McAfee:And it's like, well. In different markets, like for free agency, there's probably only a third of the teams that are destinations for the star players, you know, as far as where they would want to go. Maybe a dozen or so. So the smaller market teams have a disadvantage in that. So the free agency thing doesn't enter into their equation on how to get better. So trades and drafts become the main. There's a heavier load for those two things. And boy, you might get a 2 % chance better lottery thing if you lose four straight games here. You know, 2%, you're not even guaranteed to get that. Nope. Because when was Dallas, they were 11th or 12th?

39:14Pat McAfee:They're like 0.1%. It worked out that way the last couple years, where the two or three teams with the worst records. So then you're tanking for nothing. So that's a problem. That is a problem, especially, and here's a stat, crazy stat. Somebody tweeted out, and we certainly appreciate them for doing that, Mr. Purdom here. Friday night's NBA slate is historic because of its perceived lopsidedness. Five games have point spreads of 15 or higher tonight. Something that's never happened in the last 35 seasons. It's like the good teams and the bad teams are very apparent. And sportsbooks are like, hey, we have a read that this team is not even.

39:50Pat McAfee:And this team's going good. That's not good whenever there's not competitive matchups. And then also there was another tweet yesterday that listed all the stars that weren't going to be playing. And then Luka gets an injury. Once again, Luka's not just resting load manager. But the amount of people that aren't playing, it's crazy. It is. I love the NBA during the playoffs. and it's like last couple years we've been following during the season, it's the same conversations. Next one we need to ask you about, just to kind of check all the boxes, All-Star game. What are they going to do? What are they going to do with the All-Star game?

40:17Pat McAfee:Like that is literally all the conversations every single year about the NBA and then the playoffs happen and everybody kind of forgets about it because the playoffs are so good and then we move into the offseason. The All-Star game was really a lot better this year. International. There's a lot of thought that went into it. I applaud the Players Association. Andre Iguodala heads it in making sure that all these guys, it was competitive, the three teams that they had. And it was good basketball. And hopefully we can keep that going. And hopefully we can solve this, have a better solution to the tanking next season.

41:00and it's number one on the list of things that Adam Silver is addressing right now.

41:07Pat McAfee:We believe in Adam Silver. We appreciate Adam Silver. Hey, Coach, before we let you go, the other day you sent a message to Mullins. He couldn't hear it. We're about to have Coa Pete on. Do you have any thoughts on his play and how he's done this freshman year for Arizona? No, he's been spectacular. And, you know, he's from Arizona. and he's been as really, I think, as good as you could be. And he's strong. He could play football and be a great football player. I love watching him because with that big body, strong body, how well he moves, his finesse. is, you know, like Arizona, Arizona is really deep.

41:57And so they play eight players. And that means that he can be fresh. He can play. He's not going to play 38, 40 minutes. And so the 28 to 32 minutes that he plays and how they, that's a big thing when you have an eight man type of rotation, the quality minutes of your star players. And as a result of those minutes, you're probably less chance of injury long term in a season. So like in Arizona's case, they were healthy. Actually, all four teams are pretty healthy right now. But I love that kid. I would want him on any team that I coach.

42:44Pat McAfee:We love to hear that. He made his commitment on our show, which we were pumped about. Because you know we're a big college basketball show. So that was a big deal for us. But I think the reason why it happened is because he is football family. Family big football. You talk about him being a football guy. His feet are phenomenal. And then the handle is outrageous. Yeah. You know, and he's got great balance and footwork. And with that big body, to be able to do that, he's graceful. You know? Who was the guy from Pitt that had no ACLs? DeJuan Blair. DeJuan Blair. It feels like he's a bigger DeJuan Blair.

43:24He's different. Blair was great, but this kid can play on the perimeter. He can play anywhere on the court. You see, when he goes up, usually bodies go away from him. And so he finishes. He's a really good finisher. They get fouled a lot. They shoot the – they only – about 25 % of their shots are threes. They are old school. They go into the paint. They bop the wood in the paint. Yes, they do. We like that. We like any team that does that. You're getting me to say that now. Yeah. You might have a new career. Yeah.

44:12Pat McAfee:New mindset, new mantras, new mottos. Our motto is you said whenever he goes, bodies fly. and then you asked earlier you know uh if i had any tackles boys did some research run the clips please run the clips sunday night football peyton manning 18 12 bang that's me number one coach that's me yep thank you thank you i closed my eyes ran into him okay that's truth he's a olympic track star so i obviously got very lucky there here's antonio brown you ever heard of him maybe best water receiver of all time no big deal okay a little late hit probably but just wanted him know that I did it. You know how to do that?

44:47Oh, yes. Boom! Bang! Pal Cromartie, by the way, I believe that's who that was. And here's Joshua Cribs. Ever heard of him? Yep. Bang! Boom! Coach K. Alright, enough. We're bopping wood. I got respect for all those guys. I appreciate all those guys. You know what?

45:07That makes me feel even better about you. I thought you were just this... Yeah. You know what I'm saying, Coach. Yeah, we get it. Just what, Coach? Yeah, we get it. Yeah, I'm a little bit shocked. I'm lost for words.

45:25Pat McAfee:Okay, yeah, unbelievable, Coach. Well, I'll have some words for you next time. You're the best. Have an incredible Final Four weekend. We appreciate you, Coach. Okay, all right. Good luck and have fun in the next segment, you football guys, all right? Actually. Actually, we're pretty big college basketball. Funny enough for talking coach ball. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, Coach K, we appreciate you. Yeah, Coach. I forgot about the Cromartie one there. Dude. He need me in jaw. That was the cleanest one, to be honest. Yeah, well, that's straight up in there. Yeah. Yeah, I had to hit him. He need me in jaw.

45:55Pat McAfee:That's why he did. That was probably earlier than most of the other ones. I'm not doing that again. Learn. Yeah, never, ever. Antonio Brown ran so mad. Like, he was just such an angry runner. So good. Dez, I think I had a Dez. I think I got one with Dez on the sideline, too. You got Jules. He was very scared. Yeah, but Jules got me too. Yeah, yeah. Jules got me too. Yeah, Antonio Brown got me as well. Yeah. A couple of these guys. Yeah, yeah. It's been a dance. A couple of these guys. It's been a one-two. I would talk to all of them before the game. Yeah. You know, I try to buddy-buddy. Yeah, lull them into it a bit.

46:25Pat McAfee:Mostly because returners, I have learned, are my type of guys. Okay? Returners are an incredibly athletic, massive amount of moxie crew. I mean, I just gave up a touchdown there. Just sacrificed. I thought I was going to hit the guy into the guy. That was a good hit, though. Think about me thinking that, like that who's in my head on an NFL field. All right, I'll just hit this guy into this guy. Julian Edelman took one to the house on me about a quarter before this particular one. Jumps up in the arms. Obviously, I have to do a little sidewalk slam. How you doing? Keep moving. Fumble recovery here.

46:54Pat McAfee:How you doing? On top of it. What a moment. Walk off the field with the ball. Ref says needs ball back. No problem. All right, I'm done with watching this. Can't do it. He's getting uncomfortable. That one was sick, though. Yeah, that one was sick. No, also sick is that piece of Cameron Indoor that is coming here, by the way. Dude, I got wood. Yeah, that is so cool having that over there. I'm going to put it right here. As you should. I don't even know how we're – Yeah, you could. I guess I'll glue it to this thing. Tim will figure it out. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, maybe put the – No, because the mic has to be able to move.

47:21But, yeah, I'm putting the – You've got to put it right here. Honestly, he might be on the side. Bob Wood over here.

47:26Pat McAfee:Bang, the boom, and the pow. Might have to do that. What a time. We're waiting currently for a man who's going to be competing in the Final Four as a freshman. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, fresh off the court it looks like, I'm not 100 % sure, hair looks phenomenal. Ladies and gentlemen, freshman sensation for Arizona, Koa P. Yeah, Koa! How you doing? Hey, sorry, thank you for making time. I know you're probably incredibly busy. Tomorrow's a huge day for you and the boys. Thank you and congratulations, brother. Yeah. I appreciate you guys having me on the show. No, thank you. And we talk very highly of your commitment on our show.

48:03Pat McAfee:You've made us look much better than we actually are in this entire thing, so we appreciate that. Since that moment until now, I mean, has everything just gone perfect? How do we feel about all the decisions that have been made, and how do you feel about you and the boys' chances here as we go into the biggest weekend of college hoops? No, I feel great. I feel great about the decision, you know, coming to Arizona. You know, everything's been working out, and just super excited for the challenge on Saturday, and hopefully we advance to a national championship. Okay, we just had Coach K on. he was talking about how big you are, but how good your feet are.

48:34Pat McAfee:I'm going to be honest. When we had you on, we watched some highlights of you. I don't think we fully understood what you are. There's some shit that you're doing that's outrageous, brother. I mean, we're talking about step back three, turn around, fade away, taking it to the rack. We're outside. We're putting it up. Obviously, I guess this is how you've been your entire life. Do you feel like this year you've gotten better at any specific part of basketball or just kind of all of it in a total? I'd say all of it in total. You know, just being coached by a great coach in Tommy Lloyd and having great teammates around me.

49:02I mean, they've been helping me get better and develop my game, and I'm just super thankful for them. Silky touch, though. I mean, just an absolutely silky touch for a massive man. How tall are you? 6 '8". How much do you weigh? 240. Jeez. Big boy. You're not supposed to be able to do some of this shit. Okay, you're not supposed to be able to do some of this shit. Now, the team, though, awesome to watch. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Cole, first off, I'm a Steelers fan. Your brother played for them this year. Thank him for her service. We all appreciate that. But talking about unselfishness, five guys average double-digit points on your team.

49:35Another two average eight or more. So there's basically seven guys who can score for you. How do you, like, as a team, are you going to who's hot? Is it just unselfish open man? How do you guys, with all this talent, how are you all so unselfish with all these scores? I would just say, you know, our togetherness, you know, we're a really connected team. And we just want to see each other be successful. So, I mean, we're just trying to find the open man. Whatever is helping us win that night, if it's Yvonne's night, it's Yvonne's night. If it's Brandon's night, it's Brandon's night. But, I mean, we just try to share the ball, share the wealth, and, you know, just try to get wins.

50:07Pat McAfee:I feel like that culture is something that people would not expect in 2026. Sure. You know, especially because brands and everything, everybody wants it. I love that you guys having a team that is completely bought into team instead of me. On that note, must be great leadership. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Cole, what has the message been from Coach Lloyd leading up to this game? There's been a lot of chatter, you know, not just with him. Everyone's saying like, hey, North Carolina's coming. You know, they want him. But also saying that you guys in Michigan might be two of the best college basketball teams of all time.

50:37What has his message been kind of leading up to this week as you guys get prepared for the game tomorrow? Just a full focus, you know, full focus on what's a task at hand, you know, being Michigan. And hopefully getting to the national championship game. So, you know, just staying connected, being together, you know, just giving our full focus to each other, you know, not really worrying about the outside noise or anything like that, you know, just really locking in and doing what we've been doing all year. You guys watch film much in college basketball? And what have you seen from this Michigan team?

51:04Pat McAfee:They've been beaten. You guys have too. They've been beating everybody's ass. I mean, they have. What has the film sessions been like? I assume there's a massive amount of respect for the blue team up there. Yeah. I mean, no, we do film sessions all the time. We've been doing it all year. You know, just a lot of film sessions. I get tired of them, honestly. But, no, Michigan's a really good team. You know, really well coached. They got a lot of talented players. You know, a lot of those guys are going to play in the league someday. But just super excited, man. They're a really good team. Super excited for the challenge.

51:32Pat McAfee:Hell of a run. Obviously, we see the togetherness. Go ahead, Con Man. Yeah, Cole, when it comes to that with the team, what do you guys do? You know, are you guys playing video games during the week when you're not, you know, practicing ball? Are there team dinners you guys go to and everyone drinks Shirley Temples? I know that worked for the New England Patriots. What is kind of the go-to when it comes to hanging out with the boys? Yeah, I mean, we're always together. on and off the court. I'm definitely the best video game player on the team. Looking at one of the guys right here, I'll be in the FIFA every day.

52:03It's definitely a really together and connected team. We love each other. We all want each other to succeed. So, I mean, it's just great to be a part of.

52:09Pat McAfee:Who's here? Are they the second best FIFA player? Yeah, I'll say that for sure. Let him slide on number two. Yeah, actually, it doesn't matter who's down there, but yeah, we'll say he is number two. You guys play cards or anything? Does your generation know cards? Uh, we play like a little Uno game, like on a game pigeon, like messages, but that's really it. All right. We don't really play cards that much. What's that? What's that? Go ahead. No, no, say, you were going to say something. It's cool. You know, we're practicing in your alma mater. You're down there in Lucas Oil right now? How is it?

52:41It's cool. It's really cool.

52:42Pat McAfee:Are you in the locker room? Which locker room are you in? I don't know which locker room this is, but it's super big in here. It's cool, for sure. You've earned it, Ko. This is your life now. Everything's going to be super big. You know, everything's going to be super big forever. Have you guys gone in there and shot yet? And Coach K told us that the sight lines in Lucas Oil are better than any of the other stadiums that he's been in. Have you guys gotten a chance to get in there, and how was the feeling? Oh, yeah, we got in there yesterday. We're about to practice soon. But, no, it was super cool, you know.

53:11In those big stadiums, you know, my coach back in high school told me, you know, you got to really look at the back of the rim. Can't really look at the surrounding stuff. So that's what I've been focusing on, and I felt good in there, honestly, yesterday. I felt good shooting the ball in there, getting in touch on those rims. It was good.

53:24Pat McAfee:We got a Hembo stat on the amount of points for freshmen from Arizona. You are currently sitting at 70. Mike Bibby had 108. Barry's had 71. Aaron Gordon, 57. Now, two games potentially left. Everything in front of you, Koa. Since the moment you joined our program, I'll say blessed our program, with your commitment until now, it has been an honor to watch you work, dude. seriously you're an awesome i don't want to call you a kid because like uh you're you've made more money than i probably have already uh you're obviously taller bigger and stronger and more successful as an athlete than i ever been so i don't want to say this but hey kid it's been awesome to watch you grow and we can't wait to continue to watch everything you do we appreciate you man i appreciate you guys having me on the show again man it's not gonna be it's not gonna be the last time for sure love that my man ladies and gentlemen koa p thank you Yeah, Koa!

54:19I love that. That's a good young man. Let's go Arizona. Hey, let's go Wildcats. Hey, you know what? Let's go Wildcats. Yeah. Let's go Wildcats. Actually, UConn, Mullins. It's okay. They can meet in the final. Yep, yep, yeah. We can go Huskies versus Wildcats.

54:32Pat McAfee:How about that 18-year-old from UConn going, yeah, what? What? Yeah. What are we even talking about? Yeah, had quite a different attitude than Koa, who has obviously been a professional athlete since he's 12 years old. That is what we've kind of experienced. in the next hour we're going to get a chance to do a couple different commitments and uh just like with koa i'm telling like we genuinely feel this way it is so cool to be when i was growing up signing day was a huge deal my signing day was a huge i mean that was a that was a big deal if you get a scholarship like back in the day and obviously it's different now with nil but like i wasn't going to school unless i got a scholar like i wasn't going to college unless i got a scholarship to go to school so when i was playing soccer the goal was scholarship get into football goal is scholarship so signing day getting scholarship I think for me and for us as a little bit older generation of athletes it means a little something different because this is a gigantic day I still remember mine where I was I still remember the thought and even though we are in an era where a lot of guys transfer a bunch of different times what we think is the guys that come on this show and make the commitment are normally gonna be the guys that are probably taking care of pretty good by the places so I don't think they're gonna be looking for more money elsewhere because I think the places they're at are going to continue to give them money we think because we're hearing from the coaches that are saying hey would you be would you mind doing this kid wants to ask you to do this is this something you'd be offended by and it's like no we'd be very thankful for it now is this guy yeah you can help go up and leave you know are we uh and then it's always like no no no no hey like we this is it's like okay cool we'd be honored to be a part of it then and we're thankful to do it we got a couple of those here starting the next hour should be a big time celebration yeah that's what's so sweet about the college basketball commitments it's like okay this guy's committing in in five years he'll be in the pros it's like no co-peat was on two years ago and now he's in the final four and he's going to be in the nba next year like the college basketball commitments you forget they go so quickly to the league because they're only in college for that one year co-peat he's so good at hoops unbelievable and that whole team is it's like he could have chose to go to a smaller place where he's the only guy and he would get sure he would just get fed ball and with the way we've seen he probably carries his team into the tournament and everything like that, he's got a loaded team with him.

56:40Pat McAfee:Only getting better at hoops. It's like he has no self-consciousness about what the future is. We all know what the future is. That guy's going to be playing in the NBA. Yeah, his brother's an NFL player with all that stuff. I thank you for thanking him for his service. That was very kind of you. Say we have a connection to the family. They did us justice. One of the AFC North. That's right. Be a friend, tell a friend. Something nice might change your life. We're back on the other side. Goodbye.

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58:06Sports are special. Yes. Magical. Yes. Majestic. What? Powerful. What? Impactful. What? Influential. What? Sports. What? See? Or everything. Simon says.

58:21Pat McAfee:That's part of what the sports thing is. It can make you feel so many different ways. You can feel jubilation when something magical happens. Yes. Found a crown. Yeah. Bingo. hits crown on some fat darter over in the premier league they're not all fat man i know the only one in shape won yesterday who would have thought boom boom jubilation is there when you find the crown shout out girl and price yeah that's the only one we should ever be betting on over there he's the only one that understands that maybe he has a an obligation to the sport in which he is a professional to take care of himself one time outside of darting that's the ice man baby some Conjure.

59:01He's my favorite. He's my favorite. You saw it. Frustration. Yeah, exactly. Confusion. You can feel sad.

59:13Pat McAfee:You can feel pumped. You can feel empowered. And you can feel enlightened. Sports provide everything, including emotion. We saw that yesterday, obviously, when Dan Orlovsky brings his boy Madden on and his drawings of not only sports figures, but world's figures brings us all to our tears uh and thinking to ourselves hell yeah dano good for you dano and demadden your dog dude keep it going sports provides so much for so many people and uh we're lucky as hell that we get a chance to chat about it every single day today we're going to change a couple lives be a part of some life-changing moments which i'm excited about it's not just me talks tables here at boss connor and at ty schmidt one half of the hammer dad cowboys ap tone is here i don't want to hear about any controversy happening in premier darts.

59:59Pat McAfee:Yes, you do. Amy Wah Wah Luke Littler. Well, you're calling him Wah Wah Luke Littler? A lot of people are calling him Wah Wah. Boo-hoo Luke. I saw him throw the other big guy out of the way, and then he missed three straight darts. Yeah. Joke, big time. Yeah, and Guillaume Van Vee. So you're saying that this guy maybe isn't like somebody you can count on? Yeah, you can count on Littler delivering. What did he do yesterday? Whether that's losing or causing controversy. Okay. All right, we're moving on from darts. Why? What's up with the Iceman, baby? Gerwin Price. He's the man, okay? Gerwin Ice Price.

1:00:31Pat McAfee:The Iceman thing, there's a lot of talk around that. I think he's going to have to probably get some new nicknames, but it's not about darts right now. Sure. This is about massive moments happening in the history of one person's sports existence. Ladies and gentlemen, we have been very lucky to be a part of a few of these in the past. Foxy, it is time.

1:01:18We'll be right back. on the show oh where you gonna go oh everybody waiting they all wanna know ladies and gentlemen who's going where next is what it said at the end well that who happens to be stud quarterback out of Illinois, ladies and gentlemen, class of 2027, Israel Abram. How you doing, team? How we doing, squad? Good to see everybody. Israel, thank you so much for joining us. It looks like a very lit living room right now. Yeah, it most definitely is lit. It's a lot of emotion, and it's a lot of love in the room right Hell yeah. I think I'm in a group text with all of them. Okay, so it's good to see everybody from the group text.

1:02:21Damian, obviously, I believe right next to you.

1:02:24Pat McAfee:Lisa, mom, to the far right of the screen. And then that's your sister, Soraya, right? Sanaya. Sanaya. Sanaya. Sanaya. Okay, I'm happy you had to check as well. I certainly got that wrong over here. 100 % on me, Sanaya. Great to see you. Nice to meet you. Israel, how has this recruiting process been? and obviously a gigantic day. We're lucky to be a part of it. How has it all been leading up to this moment for you? Yeah, great question. It's been a blessing. It started all off in eighth grade, getting my first offer from Iowa State. Going to my first camp at Iowa State in eighth grade and not getting my first offer until the summer of my freshman year.

1:03:09And then ever since then, it's just kind of taken off. You know, Minnesota and Purdue came my sophomore spring. So going into my junior season. So after my sophomore football season, I picked up on Purdue and Minnesota. And then just they started a role. And then here we are right now, you know, blessed. Yeah, hell yeah. And I like that it took you, you know, until your freshman season to get an offer. Yeah. Long time, Israel. Long time. They were trying to offer me that shit seventh grade. Seventh grade, you know, so we're a little bit behind Israel. No, obviously you have earned it.

1:03:46Pat McAfee:We've gotten to meet some of the people around you here over the past few days. Sounds like you've got a great group, and we're incredibly proud that we're a part of this moment for you. You've earned it all. You've worked your ass off. You've handled your business. Now, would you like to tell the world where you're headed to next, Israel? Yes, sir. So first, I just want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without him, none of this would be possible. So you've got to give him thanks. I've got to give thanks to my family, my mom, my dad, my sister, my brother, my granny, all my immediate family, all my cousins, my aunts, my grannies, my uncles, my friends, my teammates, my teachers, anybody that has touched my life in any type of way, I appreciate them.

1:04:32and I just want to let them know that I'm going to keep doing everything on my end to hold it down and just keep doing everything I need to do to work hard. And like I say, you see a coach going around, kill everything in front of me. So for the next and really like the greatest one, like the most important guy I think that has got me through this all is my quarterback coach, Coach Ho. You know what I mean? Right next to my dad, which has been amazing. You know, Coach Ho was there from the jump, you know, one of the first people to believe in me. You know, when I thought nobody else did, Coach Ho was there to show me like, nah, man, like this is the way you have to do it.

1:05:12You know, like showing me like, nah, we're not going to do it this way. We're going to do it this way, you know. And he was the one that just that just showed me the ropes for the quarterback position and made me into the quarterback that I am today. So for the next three to four years of my college career, I'll be going to the University of Miami. Yeah! What up, Mark? Home squad, home squad. Miami, we got the U all over the place.

1:05:41Pat McAfee:Congratulations, man. And I want to let you know. Yeah, all right, throw it up, Mom. Yep, throw it up, Mom. Throw it up, Mom. Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. Obviously, Miami just went on an incredible run this past season. Coach Cristobal is going crazy. I think they got commitments from everybody. And now they have a quarterback who everybody in America wanted to join their program. Can you tell me why Miami inevitably for you, Israel, and your family? And congrats to everybody over there. Wait till you get to Coral Gables whenever he's playing. It's beautiful. High dive. Jump your ass off there.

1:06:13Put the speedo on. Go off the high dive, Israel. Do it all. But how come you ended up with Miami? And congrats to you. No, but I think that what really did it for us was being down there. You know, we got there Monday and we were there until Thursday morning, and the coaches were nothing but helpful and full of information. And they did enough to make us believe in them, you know what I mean? And that's what we very much did. I think that that's a place that I can pursue my dreams and do something I want to do, which is just win, you know what I mean, and win games for my teammates, you know, because that's all I'm about is just getting my guys better and my guys get me better.

1:06:57So when I get to Miami, my only thing will be is to try to win us a national championship every year, and I want to be in high and talk from the jump. Some people might take it in the naiveness, and I don't see it that way because I just have never seen it that way. And I think that there's not nobody that's ever going to stop us or Miami in the way getting anything. So go Miami. Hell yeah. Yeah, I'd say. Yeah, it sounds like you have the right mindset to be a Hurricane.

1:07:21Pat McAfee:And as you know, and if you watch the playoffs, which I'm sure you did, sidelines littered with all Miami alum. And, you know, for the rest of your life, you're going to have a brotherhood of some of the greatest football players of all time looking out for you and also pulling your ass aside in the middle of the game. Ray Lewis went up to Carson Beck and said, hey, why don't you go win us this game?

1:07:43Pat McAfee:Yes, exactly. So I think you – I'm excited to watch your career. Dad, Damian, can I ask you a quick question? How pumped are you about Miami? How pumped are you about Miami being the final place? And mom, how much are you excited about Coral Gables becoming a destination in your life now, guys? I think this is a good news. Well, we're from Illinois, so it'll be great in the winter. I'm kind of looking forward to it. I'm super pumped about Miami, man. And, you know, the coaching staff, the offensive coordinator, you know, we believe that this is the best spot for Israel, for him to maximize his ability and to prepare him for the next level.

1:08:27So we're excited. We're really excited. We're proud of Israel. Let's work hard. Hell yeah, Israel. Keep going, man.

1:08:34Pat McAfee:Not only make your family proud, we are going to feel incredibly proud with everything that you do because you've blessed us with this opportunity. Thanks for letting us be a part of your day, and good luck to everybody in that living room having the time of their lives down in Miami for the next three to four years. Congrats, Israel. You're a man. Hey, that's cool. I think he handled that pretty well. Very well. A lot of moxie, a lot of confidence. Let's go back to Bubba Gumpino back there in the back, a Miami fan. No, he's from North Left, Canada, but he became a Dolphins fan through his father and picked up the Miami Hurricanes because they were electrifying as he was living his life.

1:09:07Pat McAfee:Obviously got to see the Miami Hurricanes go on a college football playoff run up close and personal this past season was living the high life uh you guys get a dog out of illinois and it feels like christobal is turning everything around down there for you guys gump yeah christobal is at the wheel everything goes with him he's on fire right now he's recruiting his ass off he's getting everybody miami is all the way back and here to stay well ladies and gentlemen joining us now not to talk directly about what just happened but just to talk about his program as a whole ladies and gentlemen the head coach of the miami hurricane Canes, Coach Cristobal.

1:09:41Yeah, Coach! How you doing, Coach? I'm doing well, brother. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, it seems like everything's going pretty good today. Now, can you tell me about the type of guys, maybe quarterbacks, that you're looking to bring into your program?

1:09:53Pat McAfee:Or if we learn of somebody heading to play for Miami, we should know what type of things about them if we had to just kind of assume with your leadership down there for the Canes. We're looking for real deal dudes right like tough ass hardcore competitors winners guys that are relentless about how they approach their craft guys that people are gonna gravitate to and that are gonna at all costs whatever it takes never let anything get in the way of 1-0 and aside from that obviously you got to be a great person out the field but looking for the real ones man and I think um you know we're continuing to bring in more and more people of that sort in the program so spring ball is rolling you should be down here checking it out I know what you're doing but anyways that's what we're doing okay okay we would certainly take you up on an invite to Coral Gables I was just talking about that with a family from Illinois actually that has to be quite a selling point let alone the success that you had uh last year what is the messaging now that you're out there on the recruiting trail because obviously proof's in the pudding you got a team but I quarterbacks even going to your school seem to be absolute dogs it seems like you have a culture now that is already established and expected for everybody that you have coming in I mean it's it's never ending you know that i mean you've you've done it for a long long time but i mean it's a it's proof of concept everything that we preached about on the way in knowing that we were going to have a miserable couple of years at the beginning it's all uh it's all being validated by the progress and when i say progress we're not where we want to be yet but we're gaining steam and you know this place runs on uh i don't know like positive anger man that that energy that fuel burns clean and it's never ending it's a strong source of fuel and we want to get better and it's just a It's a hungry-driven organization, and it attracts like-minded individuals, and I think we're getting the right ones.

1:11:34Positive anger. Love that. That's great. I mean, that is a great way to describe something that we potentially feel

1:11:41Pat McAfee:in certain situations as well. Might be simpatico. Hola, amigo. ¿Qué te pasa, man? Si. Hey, congratulations. We appreciate the hell out of you. And what's going on right now? You guys are in the middle of spring ball. What's happening for... We are. we are in the middle of spring ball practice number seven eight tomorrow i believe also with a huge recruiting event spring splash where there's 140 150 plus prospects on campus but here spring ball is real like we it's full it's full gear it's uh 24 25 periods two hours two and a half hours of rock 'em sock 'em robots and making sure that our guys understand that our dna our identity is established throughout the course of the offseason so there's no uh this is not like patty cake spring ball this we go at it and we take pride in it and we have a lot of work to do to develop still as players and as a staff so it's work man it's all it is you like a physical violent football team we watch it through the playoffs and it feels like you get those types of guys let's talk about that with the next level go ahead con man yeah coach we uh saw some of the clips coming out of the pro day and we actually had a question did your coaches rig the sled when bane and mesdor and the other guy were going up because they basically moved it as if nothing was there was that kind of part of the trick like hey we're going to make this slide much much easier so it looks even more ridiculous and also just in general how were the pro day conversations with some of those teams well i would say first in reference to the sled i mean didn't you see them do that to opponents throughout the course of the year right they were doing that to human bodies too so these sleds are actually they're pretty rigid they're pretty hard to move so but they are those guys are complete creatures man you know jurassic park city so um looking looking forward to seeing you guys up there at the NFL draft, right?

1:13:26Oh, yeah. In a couple of weeks. And it's just that, again, I don't know if you've seen. They've all stayed in town. They're coaching up our guys. So you thought we were tough on our guys. You should see our players the way they get after it with the young guys. It's been awesome. And that stuff is contagious, man. Again, that energy is burning clean and the momentum is strong. And reset buttons start all over. And let's go, man. Let's go get better.

1:13:50Pat McAfee:Okay. So I don't want to keep going backwards to last year's team. I appreciate that they're there, though, and hard on the players. You know, that's how you pass the culture down. That's how you pass the baton. I think Coach Saban told his story about Julio. Yeah. Julio was the first player that did it to a wide receiver room, and then that kind of just kind of went. That's how you, man, you did it down there. And people are staying down there to train. You know why? Because everybody else to train is headed to Miami. Yeah. You know, so, I mean, what a weapon, what a treat. You know, my type of skin, though, Coach, down there, can only do 24, 48 hours.

1:14:21You know that. You know that. This breed of Hwats right here, yeah, right. Can't do the Tropicana too much. You know what I mean? There's a, you know, we have this pavilion in the, you know, we're expanding the facilities, and the big centerpiece is a giant shot of you and your Speedo going off the 10-meter board. I don't know if it's going to scare families or attract families. No, I was going to welcome them in. I was going to welcome them in. I was going to see the milk toast falling right there. That's what we like about there. Okay, let's go back to last year. Last question here as we look forward to the draft that you mentioned.

1:14:51Go ahead, Tone. Coach, obviously, you know during this draft process, people start nitpicking your players. You know, obviously, Bain's arms are too short, and Mesidor and Scott, they're too old. But what are teams getting in those guys? Because we watch them during the playoffs. We know exactly what they're getting. But I assume you think all three of those should be first-round guys? Without question. I mean, those guys are ass-whooping machines. All right? They are game changers. And they set edges in the run game. They annihilate people in the pass game. They're ridiculously smart. You should watch these guys in their film study the way they pick people apart just by analyzing stances, backfield sets, quarterback demeanor.

1:15:27I mean, they're telling you to play before the ball is snapped. And if you watch them snap after snap after snap, they're relentless. I mean, their motors are off the charts. And you probably see them on, you know, Jason Taylor's trying to wade those guys off to come out for a breather. They're like, get the hell out of here, man. I ain't coming off the field. And in college, right, you're getting sometimes 75, 80, 85 plays a game. the NFL game's down to 60. I can't imagine these guys with a full tank of gas going 55, 60 plays a game. They're going to be absolutely insanely hard to block.

1:15:57Pat McAfee:Yeah, especially as they continue to evolve. You know, you're talking about their football IQ now. Couldn't even imagine what it's going to be 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 years from now. Feels like that's what all the Miami guys of the past have been able to do. Not only are they obviously tougher than you, not only are they got more swag and moxie than you, but also football IQ through the roof. Why do you think that is? Do you think that's just a part of the hard ass? like honestly i genuinely mean i do believe this i'd be down here football is life man we live it you know and not just the community the guys that end up coming here because contrary to popular opinion like our team is very national also now we've got like 25 26 different states represented on our team but like here we live it like the guys that come here man they're all about i mean of course getting a great education as well don't get me wrong but they live they live to be just elite football players.

1:16:47So that stuff's contagious, man, and it's spreading hard and fast.

1:16:50Pat McAfee:Okay, when's the next time you're going to be in public maybe not paying attention? In public? Oh, you're going to try to sneak me? Is that what it is? Yeah, no, not sneak. I'll let you know that. I won't be a coward. You'd see me very last minute, though. I would say it would be very, very last minute, I would tell you. You better be working on your game, man. We got some good trainers down here, and we'll have to take you over American top team. Let's see what you got. Are you still rolling down there? We still got it? or am I going to be able to catch in an off-season slump? No comment. I'll be waiting for you.

1:17:22I've been doing the knee drag thing that they do in the wrestling. You look thin, man. You look like you dropped the weight class. I don't know.

1:17:28Pat McAfee:Well, they've got science now, Coach, as you know. As you know, Coach, I'm going to think about it. I think down there in Miami, they probably got around every single bend if you were looking for it. But you don't need it, obviously. You're a beast. I appreciate you. Congrats to your program. Feels like today's a big day. I appreciate you. Thanks for having me on, guys. Go Canes. Go Canes. That's Coach Chris Ball. Here, Coach. Isn't that crazy? Not allowed to. Doesn't make any sense. Pretty stupid, to be honest. Didn't even acknowledge it. You said it was a big day. Can't he? Not allowed. Like, we can dance a little bit here, but let's make sure we're just.

1:17:59So we're talking about program. Yeah, that's right. We're not talking about future. What we're building. Now, what type of guys, if you had to think about the guys, what would they be like? Tough, relentless fighters, you know, positive anger. i like that that's nice i like the way he described that now in between commitments here i think it's only right if we do something that we started last week yep sure now it's friday isn't it yeah it is we looked at that camera right there earlier and we say this is feel good friday commitment friday right yes if it's friday that means we don't love this because we like talk about the positive yeah

1:18:37Pat McAfee:we like to spin everything into a good time even when something is completely ass we as group will try to find a positive in there. It's called a silver lining. We are looking for that in everything in sports and in life. It's actually not that bad of a thing. Ignorance is bliss. Maybe stay out of some stuff, but we're always trying to find a positive. If something looks so stupid, maybe it'll win 10 games, though. Who knows? Always ended on that note. But on Friday, we have followed the lead of some other programs. It's time to do some whoopty-woos. It's time to do some bloopity-boos. It's time to hop on the...

1:19:11Oh, no! Train. Let's head over to baseball. Baseball provides us with some fantastic Oh... What the hell was that? Somebody just yelling here? Yeah. Yeah, sorry. I didn't know you guys ever have heard that. Volume up for this video. I thought it was. All aboard the Oh No Train! That's basically what I did say. I like that because, oh yeah, with the Oh No, Oh, baseball has provided us some gems on the oh-no train. Let's head right to, ladies and gentlemen, Jake Bars, who singles to second base here. Unbelievable pitch. Let's go ahead and hit that. Oh, what a diving play. Is he going to be able to make it?

1:19:53No. A little bit of an overthrow. Jake hits a single. Congrats to him.

1:19:58Pat McAfee:Now, obviously, two outs. Let's keep it moving. Who's on base? The runner did not touch first base and then was put out. Oh. What is this, Bushley? He didn't touch first. He's got to do that. Missed the bag. And I think that is a horrendous call. Where is C.B. Buckner looking? He's not even looking at it. Why would he even say that? C.B. Buckner. This guy is ass. I'll tell you what. He's been in the MLB MLB for 30 years. I have no idea what his life was like before ABS in replay. I assume it was much, much better. Because I only know that this guy exists because he gets his ass kicked by ABS and also baseballs.

1:20:39CB Buckner as the umpire. Oh! This guy's having the worst start in the history to a season. Run that back again with some sand. Oh! That's the Miz. That's our guy. He's throwing 104 miles an hour sometimes. That ball did not slow down. That thing might have sped up coming off of that bat right to CB Buckner's face. CB Buckner was asked where he was. he said a place where i do everything wrong they said no yeah you're umpiring he goes yeah people are wondering why i haven't got anything right i'm taking 100 miles of a baseball to the grill cb buckner this man has to retire that stings i don't like to force people out of their

1:21:22Pat McAfee:jobs no but professional sports are meritocracy supposed to be okay some people say it's the final meritocracy i don't think that's the case i think there are some good hiring places but I think meritocracy is real. ABS has exposed one man more than others. For sure. CB, it's been a tough go. But hey, maybe he turns it around. Yeah. Maybe he doesn't eat balls off the face. He didn't take one to the nuts, which happened to some other umpires. So maybe things are looking up. And I think he should. I don't know umping that well. He should be looking at what he's calling, right? Probably. When he goes, I don't even know what he's looking at there.

1:21:59Pat McAfee:Why would he even say that for that? That's very rare, right? Somebody's going to miss first base. Aren't those like perfectly timed out kind of the steps and everything like that? Yeah, I mean, it can happen. But, yeah, I mean, like the balls and strikes are one thing. Like that's the kind of thing. That kind of just seems like he was just like, ah, fuck it, I wasn't paying attention. I'm just going to kind of ruffle some feathers and say he's out. All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's go to another oh no here in baseball, even though it's not CB Buckner. Let's go to the Cubs first baseman, Michael Bush.

1:22:26Hits a pop-up short left.

1:22:29Pat McAfee:one guy's got it two guys got it nobody's got it one guy's got a concussion i think he hit his head off the ground no no didn't hit his head off the ground good shoulder base there does have the on that's crazy with everything that's happening yeah but on that note two guys can't go for one ball no because then nobody gets the ball and they both end up embarrassing they look like they're bush league isn't that kind of what people start saying yeah absolutely i mean that's a that's a routine can of corn you got to help your pitcher out you know you just got to communicate out there. Quiet defense.

1:22:57Yeah, quiet defense is a dead defense. Exactly. That's the outfielder's ball. You got to respect it. You want to talk about Bush League, okay?

1:23:03Pat McAfee:Now, we know these guys will bounce back in a big way. Congrats on Bush getting on base. Speaking of Bush League, how about the Royals 22-year-old backup catcher? Here's him from spring training on Royals social media. It's embarrassing. I need at least like six to eight alarms. It's not good. Guy sleeps silently. Heavy. Okay, that's a fun social media clip. 22-year-old I need six-day alarms. It's tough. Shouldn't affect baseball, right? Wrong. Guy oversleeps yesterday. Misses his start for the Royals. 15-year vet Salvi, who wins the World Baseball Classic for Venezuela, thought he was down for a day.

1:23:40Had sunflower seeds ready to go. These pizza ones. He's going to live his best life instead. Hey, Bob, you got to play. Why is that? 22-year-old couldn't wake up in time to get to a baseball game in the afternoon. Yeah. Why, they got to figure this out. Oh, no. Oh, no. Now they're playing the Twins, and the Twins go, don't forget to set your alarms for tomorrow, so you're bright and early. Oh, no.

1:24:05Pat McAfee:Unbelievable burial there by the Twins. Hey, pal, wake up, okay? Maybe get the Flintstones one where the bag drops on the forehead. There you go. Yeah, I mean, where it does the entire thing. Set up an entire rig to get your ass up, buddy. And also, that's not healthy, okay? You need to go talk to somebody. If a tornado siren goes off, you should wake up. Have to. You have to wake up. You can't just power through that entire thing. But I do respect the ability to be able to sleep that soundly. Yeah. Because I'll tell you what, I got a dog sleeping on my bed now. It's big. Really big dog. Yeah, large dog.

1:24:35They love doing that, don't they? Really big dog.

1:24:37Pat McAfee:2.55 a.m., this thing wanted to go take a drink. But was it going to piss all over the house? You never know. And also, this horse gets up off the bed, comes back to bed, nudges me. I'm like, thank God, I love this dog. Doesn't want to piss all over the house. Thank God. I get up, walk to the outside. Dog walks next to me. Very kind. Goes right to the water. Drinks a bunch of water. Turns around. Walks back to the bed. I look at this thing. You son of a bitch. You can. Literally. You cannot be doing what you're doing. Oh, no for you. Yeah, it was. Oh, no. But this guy ain't waking up. No. No way.

1:25:11Dog's bopping. No. Not waking up at all. Get up. You're in a game, kid. Welcome to the show. Yeah, it's amazing. Wake your ass up, buddy. Yeah, and his teammates kind of rinsed him. You know, Pasquatch basically said, like, you know, it was great because after calling his parents about 100 times and finding out he wasn't dead, we realized he just overslept and kind of put everyone in a position. And he obviously knows, hey, you can't be doing this. You do this a couple more times, guess what? They're going to ship your ass out of town.

1:25:36Pat McAfee:We had to send a wellness check to one guy's room a couple times at different hotel stops because they weren't able to wake up. That's at like 5.30, 6 a.m., normal time. It's an afternoon game. What the hell's going on out there? Hope he's okay. Let's move along. We'll stay in baseball with the 0-0 train. This one might be the biggest of all time. Yeah, it might be a Hall of Famer. Highland versus Butler in McDonald's Stadium. Guy hits a blooper out into the outfield. Centerfield is going to get it. Boom. Off his head. Home run. Home run. Good round of bases, Butler. He just took one out right off a guy's head.

1:26:11Pat McAfee:Now, he might be concussed, at least have a headache. But he also alley-ooped old buddy right into a home run. Off his head, over the fence. That is some bad luck. And the baseball god's telling you to quit. I think if that's happening, they're telling your team to quit. What happened in this game here, Todd? Yeah, so this game was actually somewhat of a tight affair. They lost 8-4, obviously giving up a two-run jack when you think you're just giving up a lazy pop fly to center is not great. But it was a day-night doubleheader. They came back in the next game, got beat 16-2. This guy's team lost 16-2?

1:26:42They did, and I don't know if you saw, they are 5-27 on the year. So that's the kind of stuff that happens to a 5-27 baseball team. 1-15 in the conference.

1:26:53Pat McAfee:They need to get some sage out. They need to get rid of some bad spirits. Because I'll tell you what, if a ball was flying that far, what is that, 250 feet probably? Yeah, yeah. 250 feet in the sky, and then this person's running. For it to hit an exact spot on a round ball, round head, boom, to go perfectly over, the odds of that, one in a trillion, have to be, the baseball gods are saying you guys got no chance this year. Exactly. I think you put the mitts down. I think you just walk it off right there. I don't think it's that guy's fault. I think it's the baseball gods kind of telling him what to do.

1:27:27Pat McAfee:Let's continue on the Oh No train. We'll head right over to the league meetings. We're there out there in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona at the Biltmore. Let's go to the coach's photo. Now, remember, this is a roundup of the entire week that was of Oh No's. Coach's photo looks good. Mike McCarthy's missing a button. Sirianni, they called him a chud. You know, people were going after him. But there's only one thing that really deserves an oh. No.

1:27:58Welcome to the league, kid. Jeff Halfley getting absolutely bodied as a first-year head coach for the Miami Dolphins to inner division Mike Vrabel,

1:28:06Pat McAfee:New England Patriot head coach. Certainly a moment that made us all go, oh, no. Bad start for half, but we think he'll get them back. Yeah, oh, yeah, for Vrabel. Oh, no for Halfley. If you're Halfley, stand up. I don't care if you're told to sit there. Say, no, no, no. I'm not going to be this guy. Stand up. Go to the back. Because if you don't, this is what happens. I mean, if Minter is sitting next to him, it's even worse. But Minter made out like a bandit because Halfley stayed seated. Minter's very thankful that he didn't end up in that seat right next to him. We would like to say, remember, Vrabel was the first coach to sit down.

1:28:38Pat McAfee:This was a planned attack by Mike Vrabel. And whoever ended up next to him was certainly going to have a problem. I think there was probably some decisions made by other people not to sit next to them. Halfley first year, happy to be there. Oh, Fraves, I'll sit next to them. Is my seat? Oh, no. Oh, no. And the last one, didn't want to do it, but we got to go to softball. Oh, yep. I love women's softball. I love college women's softball. I think it's an incredible sport. My daughter might actually be for real in that thing. So I'm excited for that sport to continue to go. This one's tough, Ty. I'll tell you, whenever you score three runs on a run-through, I don't know what that's called.

1:29:15Yeah, pass ball. Pass ball. Three women on base. One pass ball, two pass ball, three pass ball, four, five pass ball, six pass ball, another run scored. I mean, it's unbelievable that that happened.

1:29:28Pat McAfee:We thought whenever we first saw this because we didn't have sound on it, we thought it was an in-the-park grand salami. Right. That's what we thought it was. We're like, wow, how'd that happen? Turns out it was much worse than all that. That ball gets passed, and it gets passed, and it gets passed. We found out the batter here actually got walked the next time because the pitcher couldn't find the strike zone after this whole thing happened. And then they would go on to lose this game 5-4. Oh, heartbreaker. Big win for Wayne State. Congrats, Wayne State. That's heavy softball. Exactly. Exactly.

1:29:57Pat McAfee:And on the other side, just a string of bad luck there that you can't really predict. Just got to clean it up a bit. But it certainly makes everybody that's watching go, Oh, no! Ladies and gentlemen, Foxy? Yes, sir. It is time to be a part of a life-changing moment yet again. We will not run the video because the video is a little bit longer than it should be. I think the video should be about 15 to 20 seconds shorter. We will certainly change that. We put that together overnight. But on that note, we are incredibly lucky that we once again get to be a part of a day that will be remembered in somebody's sports life forever, especially in the football world we feel incredibly honored and thankful to be a part of it ladies and gentlemen joining us now is an absolute stallion out of south carolina a stud who is massive six foot four 230 pounds ladies and gentlemen class of 2027 rashad streets how we doing team how we to be out here.

1:31:02Pat McAfee:We are very thankful and lucky that you are joining us. We see the family there. Sam, obviously, we've chitchatted with. Hey, twists look good. Hey, braids look good, dude. How'd you get them fresh? Just got them this morning. I think I was potentially either right after that happened. They look fantastic. Anaya, sister, is that... Hi, Anaya. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good. Good to see you. Sharonda, great to see you. Hi. How are you? Hey, what's up, Ms. Sharonda? And And I don't know, Grandma, I don't know, Miss Grandma, how you doing? You look amazing. Miss Grandma, you look fantastic.

1:31:39Pat McAfee:Okay, Rashad, thank you so much for allowing us to be a part of this day with you and your family. Obviously, you get to the quarterback. We watched some highlights of you earlier. You run angry. Quarterbacks can knock it away. You have a lot of schools that are excited about your possibilities. What has the recruiting trail been like for you here, and when did it really start? We talked to Israel in the first hour. He's like freshman year, got his first kind of scholarship look. For you, what was your recruiting life like, and how excited are you for today? I'm blessed. I'm extremely excited for today.

1:32:12But, you know, my recruitment journey started being in, coming out of Milburn, freshman. I was a sophomore. That's where I got my first offer towards end of season. Coastal Carolina had came up, come to see one of my teammates during our practice. saw how I played off of me. I think I jumped with my brother. He started crying after I got my first off first off. That's what I need. It's definitely been a blessing. Great to be in this position. I got to thank my family just for this position I am. Couldn't do any of this without them. Hell yeah. We've had a chance to meet Sam a little bit in the entire crew around you.

1:32:54Obviously, scholarship is great news. But now with NIL, congrats to you and your whole family, dude. Honestly, congrats to you and your whole family. Hell yeah.

1:33:02Pat McAfee:Earned it. Worked your ass off for all of this. And we would love to hear where you're headed next, Rashad, if you want to let the world know. Yeah, absolutely. I definitely want to take this time. Thank Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, my family, me and my support system. My mom having to sacrifice everything she did. My teammates, my coaches really just – this took a lot. This was a team effort. I couldn't do this by myself. But that being said, it's been a tough decision. I'm blessed to be in this position, have all these great schools recruiting me. I can only go one place. For the next three to four years, I'll be taking my talents to the University of Oregon.

1:33:45Oh, the TV in the back. I like the tech. That was awesome. I like the tech on the TV in the back. I like the hoodie. I like the flag. Family's got the big duck energy. I love it. Congratulations, Rashad.

1:33:56Pat McAfee:Congratulations, family. Okay, let's talk about it. Obviously, you're from South Carolina, Eugene, Oregon, West Coast, but Big Ten football team. What inevitably led you to want to take your talent to Eugene, beautiful place, and the Oregon Ducks, Rashad? I would definitely say the consistency of the program. They did a great job of proving me. They were one of my first big offers, and they've stuck with me ever since. Never stared me wrong. They always told me the truth. I never felt like they were trying to sell me something. Coach Camp did a great job of curing me. People like him don't give me enough credit, Liz, Lizard, Josh.

1:34:33I just really am grateful for all that. So I'll definitely say the consistency, and I'm really excited to get on campus.

1:34:39Pat McAfee:Hey, was it the redhead with the glasses that did the TV change of Oregon whenever you announced that? That was incredible tech. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We knew, we knew, we knew, we knew. Sam, tell me about Oregon a little bit. Obviously, when he was a sophomore, you cried when he got offered his first scholarship. I couldn't even imagine what this whole entire recruiting trip has been like. But tell me about Oregon and Dan Lanning. And Lizard, I think, is the name I need to know a little bit out there. Yeah, it's been a great process with Oregon. You know, they've shown a lot of love to him, to the family.

1:35:16We've been out there like five times now, so we have a good idea. just the community, what they're about. We love the coaches and the staff. We trust that he can go out there and they can help develop him, get him prepared for the next level. Coach Lannan, we've had multiple conversations with him. Such a real guy. That whole staff, it just trickles down. The energy they have out there, the community. The grass is green in Eugene, so we're rocking with it.

1:35:45Pat McAfee:Yes, it's damn green out there in Eugene, and it's beautiful. Obviously, you've been there five times. When you get there, it is absolutely beautiful. And you can tell they're committed to ball, which is beautiful. Ms. Sharonda, he just thanked you for everything that you did for his entire run to get to this point. How do you feel about your boy heading up to be an Oregon Duck? I'm just excited to be a part of his path and support him in what he wants to do. And I think that's a good decision that he's made. Hell, yeah. Let's make sure we're getting, you know, free plane trips over there. Hey, listen, that's you guys, not me.

1:36:18Pat McAfee:Hey, Rashad and family, congratulations, and we appreciate you for allowing us to be a part of this. I do. I really appreciate it. All right, good luck out there, man. We can't wait to watch you get to the league. Yeah, okay. Skate, Docs, Skate! Docs! That's Rashad Street. Yeah, Rashad! I'll tell you what, Miami, fantastic game day location. Uh-huh. Oregon, fantastic game day location. They love ball out there. Oh, yeah. Beautiful out there. They love ball. It is beautiful. trees. Like a postcard. Exactly. You land in a postcard. I didn't say when he was on because I don't want him to hear that.

1:36:55He knows they've been five times. South Carolina? That's true. That's a little bit of a... That's a haul. But... I'm watching the case. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen. It's worth it. Ladies and gentlemen, it is worth it. How long does it take? Whatever it takes to get there because of how beautiful the place is. The head coach of the Oregon Ducks football team. Ladies and gentlemen, just to talk about his program. Nothing in specific. Dan Lanning. Yeah! How you doing, man? What's up, man? You guys doing good? Yeah, how are you doing? You doing okay? I'm doing great. I'm doing great. It's a great day to be a Duck.

1:37:31Yeah, it is certainly a great day to be a Duck.

1:37:32Pat McAfee:It feels like, obviously, we've got a chance to learn what type of team you like, what type of guys you like, and what type of guys sign up to play for Oregon. Whenever you learn of somebody that's interested in playing for you, what do you know about them? What should we expect about anybody that says they want to be an Oregon Duck. Yeah, we dig. I mean, we dig. Because you obviously have traits that you're looking for, and we want elite football players. But you want to know the family. You want to know what makes a person tick. You want to make sure that they're obsessed with football. And we've been really fortunate to bring a lot of guys here that are obsessed with football.

1:38:03Pat McAfee:Yeah, and I think we've watched film on some of the guys that you're bringing up there. Run mad. Yeah. You know, run very mad. I mean, it is an angry run. And it feels like everybody that ends up going to Oregon loves that place. I don't want to pivot away from this particular recruiting conversation that I know you're always on the recruiting trail. But can you tell me how you feel about where the boys are right now? We're in spring ball, I do feel like. Obviously, last year didn't end exactly how anybody wanted it. How do you feel right now? How does the locker room feel about what we got going on up there?

1:38:35Hungry. Yeah, we got a hungry group. You know, I'm excited. We're about to hit practice five here in spring. And we love being on the field, right? We love getting in the work. So these guys have really pushed. We have a lot of guys that made a commitment to come back, right? They know they've got something in the tank. They want something a little bit more. And then we've got some dynamic game changers that have joined our program as well. So I'm excited to see what these guys do. But they've been working extremely hard. And there's a lot of work to be done before we get to that season. You can talk about guys coming back.

1:39:00Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Coach. I assume around this point of the year you're always excited about, you know, the prospects of the next season with your recruiting class and how many great players you have. But when Dante Moore said he was coming back for this year, How did that kind of change the outlook on not only the expectations, but just how you see this season going as a whole? Well, every year is a new year. And, you know, we talk about standards in this program, and Dante's been a part of this team, and he's helped create some of those standards. When you have a guy like that that's coming back, that's obviously a dynamic player that has a really high ceiling, has gotten better and better in his time with us, you get really excited because, you know, not just the player is coming back, but you're getting the leadership qualities, the experience, and it certainly gives us a chance to have great success.

1:39:45Pat McAfee:Yeah, and that felt like a huge day. I remember when that was announced that he was going back. Everybody was anticipating a big announcement from him, and him going back to Oregon changes the NFL draft. It also obviously changes the Big Ten. Let's talk about some other changes that were made. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Coach, with Dante coming back, I feel like this day and age in NIL, it's very, very rare that you would have someone like Dylan Raiola then choose to go to Oregon. I mean, Dante did that as a five-star coming out, was with UCLA, and then sat for a year at Oregon. Was that part of the process in talking to Dylan Raiola?

1:40:18What went into his decision to now be an Oregon Duck? Yeah, I think when you first get to a program, you talk about a vision and the things you hope to accomplish. Once you're in a program now, it's like, okay, proof's in the pudding. And, you know, Dante went through a very similar experience here with the opportunity to learn from Dylan Gabriel, watch him and learn. And I think, obviously, Dylan, you know, recognized that. He saw a system that he liked. He was a guy that we recruited out of high school, has extreme talent and great ability, and somebody we're really excited to have as part of our team.

1:40:46But he's probably seen the success that we've been able to have here and says, that's the place that I want to be at.

1:40:50Pat McAfee:Yeah, I think development, too, getting a chance to watch somebody that's very good is good, especially if you're dropped into the spotlight very, very early. I think we've seen that in the NFL. Haven't even really considered it in college. He would be a great case study, depending upon how it comes out of this, because obviously the talent is ridiculous. Get the team around him, obviously, it's special. But, Oregon, you've been able to do that plenty of times. Now we've got a lot of NFL conversation. Go ahead, Conban. Yeah, Coach, your team kind of dominated the NFL combine. Can you tell us more about Sadiq the Freak and White Lightning?

1:41:19It feels like wherever they go, those teams are going to get guys that just completely change the fabric of their offense and defense. Yeah, they're game changers for sure. And both those guys, you know, we knew he had a special talent early on when Sadiq got here, and he just grew and improved every single year. but there's some things that he does that only God can contribute to. And they both have unbelievable competitive toughness. We talk about Dylan and how he's able to impact our program, and they both tested extremely well, and that test is because of hard work. Yes, it's because of talent, but nobody works harder than those guys to put themselves in position to make plays and have success.

1:41:55Pat McAfee:Tell me a little bit about White Lightning. He kind of came out of nowhere here when he ran a four – what was it? 4-3-5. Yeah, I mean, that's not supposed to happen. We all understand that. Nobody really expected that. The etiquette. Eyes were popping out of nowhere. He's going to transition, obviously, great to the NFL. Do you just have – I mean, obviously, Oregon has an incredible recruiting history. You have an incredible recruiting history up there with athletes and everything that you get. But, like, that's not – 4-3-5 is not supposed to happen. Sadiq the freak, we've seen him. Who is the tight end?

1:42:23Pat McAfee:There was another one. Oh, last year went to the Rams. Yeah. Ferguson. Ferguson. It's like you guys do – it seems like you have a good ability of finding freak athletes up there in Oregon. How much are you looking for that as high schoolers? Because obviously we know of a couple guys that have committed to you that are certainly that. But is that something that is a part of just the DNA of your teams, you think? Or is it more the mentality of the guy ends up with this type of athleticism? Yeah, I mean, really for us, you go to our locker room, it's a melting pot of people from all over the country.

1:42:54And that's part of what makes it work. It's not about picking most convenient. It's about picking best. And when you're able to get the best players and then they develop like they have for us over our four years here, I think you end up getting a real special recipe to have success.

1:43:07Pat McAfee:All right. Well, good luck up there. Continue to dominate on the recruiting trail and in spring practice. We heard you're doing threes now. Yeah. That's what I heard. What the hell happened? I heard you dropped down to threes. That's what I heard. You got soft, coach. Come on, man. Yeah, see, he's offended. No, I'm not going to fall for that trick. I'm not falling for that trick. Come on, man. Threes. You thought I was baiting you a little bit. In middle school. I felt like it, and I reached in my pocket, and I'm like, look. If you're happy, you're not talking. I don't need to. If you have it, you don't have to talk about it.

1:43:35Pat McAfee:Yeah, you're saying, hey, I'm not a puppet here, okay? I'm not a puppet, Pat. As you were turning, though, to grab that thing, you were thinking to yourself, ah, he just got me right here. He literally just got me. He did. Yeah, yeah. I bet. I bet. I appreciate you. You too, dude. Good luck for the rest of the day. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, head coach of the Oregon Ducks football team, Dan Lanney. Yeah, coach. Some people. Yeah, I mean, it's just easy. If you just find what you think. You know, normally you can guess pretty good, book by the cover type thing. Yeah. Yeah. Inside. Yeah.

1:44:05Smiling. Good day for Oregon. He didn't get it at first either. I'm doing threes now. What's he talking about? He's talking about Zins. Wait a minute. I can't have anybody thinking that's true. Oh, fuck. This is exactly what he wanted me to do. I'm not sure. I'm not your puppy. I'm not doing this. He had, remember? Oh, yeah. I mean, in the tunnel, it would happen before half the games at Oregon when they cut. He has, yes. That's what I'm saying. He has tailor-made pins for Zin, you know, so that he can come into perfect moisture and temperature whenever he needs it. It's metal. Survive a nuclear blast And then he's got like the For yourself, for the team Share one, share all Okay, congrats to Miami and Oregon Those two coaches are awesome

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1:45:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, and I do wonder how they, you know, how they all feel. What do you mean? Just about each other. I will say, we didn't tell either team who was committing to each team. Okay? Did tell them it was happening, though. You know, they need to know that both are happening at the same time and just kind of want to give everybody. Also had to tell, I mean, this has been a whole thing over the last 24 hours, I would say, 48 hours. And I would like to say to both of those dudes, thank you for allowing us to be a part of your process. And to the dudes that committed today, Israel and Rashad, like we're excited to follow along, man.

1:46:19Pat McAfee:And we talked to COA today. Hopefully we'll continue to be able to do that. Yeah, that's going to be sweet this week. I'm excited to see Tyler Atkinson kind of. Yeah. I was very impressed. Kevin? Yeah, have you seen... Kevin Brunt. Have you seen who's obviously dominating at Ohio State? Who? Mr. Henry. Chris Henry Jr. Oh, yes. Chris, obviously. Yes, Chris Henry Jr. coming on the show. It was an incredible moment. Herbie was with us, too. That was during SEC or playoffs or something like that? I forget who it was. Yeah, it was when... How did we mess up Soraya and Sanaya? You know, that's kind of the...

1:46:51Because I think I saw Soraya, too.

1:46:54Pat McAfee:You saw Soraya as well? Sanaya? I don't know. Israel wasn't sure either. Yeah, that one was. Well, how about him saying. He didn't get it texted. Yeah, how about him saying, hey, just real quick. I've been getting this right your whole life, right? Wait, hold on. I will say the family is obviously very involved now in like everything. Everybody we've talked to has been very humble about like just trying to get it right for the good of kid, if that makes sense. because I think there's probably a lot of movies or narratives that could be built about families around superstar athletes or child stars or things like that that kind of take place, especially when there's millions of dollars happening.

1:47:29Pat McAfee:And I'm sure there's bad characters and bad agents in a lot of places. Everybody that we've got to encounter seems to be, like, very understanding of, like, the situation and how wild it is and, like, trying to get it right while also knowing that, hey, the next country, we're trying to get to the NFL. We're certainly going to be making a lot of money right now, but this is all to get to the NFL. Let's figure that out. So the families that we've dealt with, I'm not saying all of them, we've dealt with have been good. Great. Now there's been some agents that have dropped into some conversations that we did not expect.

1:47:59Pat McAfee:They also good. Now we have not run into any, you know, complete shysters. I do think we'd be able to spot that in our quick interactions, but we appreciate everybody that's been a part of this. Bruce Brown also thrown into all these group texts. Yeah. I was in a group text with one person. Two people, I guess would be a group. I was in a group text with two people. And then it became a group text with eight people very quickly. And I was like, who is this? And then I'm this, I'm this, I'm agent, I'm agent's manager, I'm assistant. I'm like, yeah, right. Me, exit. Bruce, get in there. I am not doing that.

1:48:36Pat McAfee:No, we do FaceTime with these guys. I try to meet them beforehand because, you know, I would like our first interaction to not be on camera, kind of give them a heads up. We thank them and all that. Everybody we've encountered, though, has been very cool. And all these kids are getting millions and millions of dollars. That's crazy to think about just how their life has changed, especially whenever they commit like that. Today, whatever the negotiation was, Rashad and Israel agreed to terms for millions of dollars. I saw Adidas, I think, on Israel. Yeah, he was. I think so, yeah. Going to Miami.

1:49:03Pat McAfee:So he might already have an Adidas deal, so maybe this has already happened. But these deals happening, we literally just watched two family trees change completely forever. And that's a very cool thing. Yeah, especially just with where they're going. A lot of the times you're not sure about the transfer portal and everything, but it feels like when these guys are picking Oregon and picking Miami, it's like the reasoning they're going there is because of how those schools made them feel. And it also gives you kind of a different perspective on the transfer portal. These guys want to be at the school that they're going to originally, and they don't want to transfer.

1:49:35That's very important. Hey, it's a big day for some big names. Locking in to play in some big games. It's a big day for some big name Locking in the play and some big game Run it Let me

1:50:01It's a big day for some big name Locking in the play and some big game It's a big day for some big name Locking in the play Some big games Where you going next Recruiting is like chess Got a 4D If you want to be the best Announce it on the show Where you gonna go Everybody waiting They all want to know Cause It's a big day For some big names Locking in the play Some big games It's a big day For some big names Locking in the play Some big games

1:50:37Pat McAfee:Yeah, that's alright I'm happy Hopefully we'll be able to do that again sometime. If not, that song will probably never be heard. Free Agency Frenzy song came up the other day. It's a heater. Tough to listen to just on a regular Thursday or Friday, but it's a banger. We'll have that up on Program Music on Spotify. Shout out to AI. I know people get mad about it. There's no way we could create a commitment song overnight with a highlight video without it. So I know the super musicians are going to be mad at me. I apologize. But I tell you, being able to make a banger in about 30, 45 minutes to accentuate a moment for somebody whenever we couldn't do that in the past?

1:51:12I'll do that all day. Not bad. And if you're going to hate me for it, see me in about five years. Yeah.

1:51:17Pat McAfee:I think everybody, I think everybody is going to be doing it. Give me six months. See if you hate me still. Okay? If you still hate me, I respect it. And I'm not trying to act like I'm some super musician either. I'm just trying to put together a highlight video of all the people that have committed on this show and have gone on to dominate while also putting a little bit of a heater in there. Now, lyrics and melody need to be done by a human. But I'll tell you what, putting a little music behind that thing and some voice on that thing is certainly a weapon that these AI folks have. That's not the only AI in our world today.

1:51:48Pat McAfee:ABS is coming in right now into baseball. Guess what? Don't need it if you hit a home run. Aaron Judge just hit a dong shot. Congrats to the Yankees. Who told you that? Yeah. Well, it's in the middle of a big day for some big names. Aaron Judge is here. All right. That's what just happened in the back. I just thought it was weird that he didn't mention that there was another one before that. Who else hit the home run? Shohei hit a three-run shot. What? Are you serious? Shohei Otani hit a three-run shot. Yeah, baby. Shohei home run pays out. Come on, Roman. We got the crown. Need Anthony Roman to hit for a parlay down here for Boston Conner.

1:52:21Pat McAfee:We have some news in college basketball before the Final Four. Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd has agreed to a new deal to stay at Arizona. There you go. Five-year deal that will make him one of the five highest-paid coaches in college basketball. via Pete Thamel and Jeff Borzello. Hello, Jeff Borzello. Now, on that note, congratulations to Arizona locking down Tommy Lloyd. Obviously a great coach. Koa Pete just came on saying his praises, saying his praises whenever he committed on the show as well. They're in the Final Four. They seemingly have a brand of basketball that people are going to buy into.

1:52:53Pat McAfee:Seems to be a great leader. And everybody thought he was going to UNC. You even asked Koa Pete about that. Hey, the rumors are that he's going to be going to UNC. Arizona heard that as well. is this UNC job going to become the Penn State job? Remember when Penn State opened up, James Franklin got fired week five. Everybody that was even alluded to going to Penn State signed brand new massive deals at their place. Is UNC going to become that for these schools that have good NIL? Like Arizona has good NIL. UNC is UNC. We get it. In basketball, blue blood, whatever, all that shit that everybody says about schools that are held in high regard.

1:53:26Pat McAfee:Arizona has a lot of history, and they have a lot of NIL, which I think is what people are looking for nowadays. That's huge for Arizona, but it might be an indication of what's about to happen around college hoops and the UNC job. Yeah, for sure. Every guy whose name has been associated with the UNC job has kind of either said, hey, I'm not going anywhere, and has signed a new extension with his current school. And I think it's just a lot of these schools that have made deep runs, like the commitment you can make to NIL and basketball is much different than football. If you have an unbelievable coach and you can commit$10 million, that can change everything.

1:53:58Pat McAfee:UNC offered Tommy Lloyd more money via Matt Norlander, who works for CBS, but I'm not paying three bucks for a blue checkmark. Okay? We get it, dude. Okay? We appreciate that you did that. But he's reporting. We appreciate his reporting. UNC paid more money. It's taking less to stay, but takes a bump to stay. He's staying in Arizona. Good for them. Who will UNC hire? Maybe you. That'd be cool. I'd be down. I'd at least listen. for what they had to offer. Well, what you need to do is not lead like the Red Sox, worst in the league. That changes today. Have an incredible weekend. The Final Four is tomorrow.

1:54:38Pat McAfee:There'll be some golf. There'll be some basketball. The West Virginia is going to win the crown. I mean, we got some magical stuff. Have the greatest weekend of all time. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. Goodbye. I think I got it in. Yeah, nailed that one. Word's spinning towards the end. We're very close there. Genuinely have a great weekend, though, here. Yeah. It's going to be sweet. East of the weekend. Oh, my God. He is really good. Somebody should have brought that up. I guess Jesus Christ, we thanked them twice. Israel and Rashad. Good Friday. It is a good Friday.

1:55:04Pat McAfee:How come nobody feel good Friday? We said it in there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I said no because I always say commitment in between the good. Because we like to – No, no. We always separate church and state here. You actually did do feel good Friday – feel good. No, I said commitment in there. I never got a good and a Friday together, I don't think. You just did. Happy Good Friday. Mm-hmm. Hope everybody's enjoying it. Mm-hmm. Good Friday. This is when it all went down. right? Yeah, this is the day Jesus was crucified, yes. Boom, this is it. Coming on a couple hours here, actually. What time? I think it's around like 3.20, depending on where you kind of like get your information from this stuff, but it's usually around that time of the day that if you're like a staunch Catholic, you would go do Stations of the Cross.

1:55:46Pat McAfee:Okay, a solemn day of fasting and abstinence focused on passion and crucifixion of Jesus with Stations of the Cross. Shout out. Are you... Going to do Stations of the Cross? and abstinence and fasting? I haven't done any of those yet, so I'm kind of out for today, unfortunately. But next year. I did Stations of the Cross and fasting and abstinence. I did all that stuff for, you know, like the first, I don't know, 18 years of my life going to Catholic school. You kind of have to. You stored them up. Yeah, I'm kind of straight ahead of everybody. Yeah, I understand. You got them in the bank. Exactly.

1:56:22You can go to the ATM. You can withdraw. And now that I'm saying that, I'm actually remembering that we didn't have school on Good Friday. we did that on thursday and then you know had the next day so you were actually doing on good friday

1:56:31Pat McAfee:eve yeah exactly which is very kind of you doing ahead of time i tried you know you're getting ahead of the pocket to go and pack into the bank holy saturday a day of quiet anticipation before the evening celebration of the easter vigil which begins with blessing of the fire and the rule of the word uh marking the resurrection so we had an fca guy i had so many questions all the time he was great shout out to E love you Eric and Josh I think at West Virginia got a lot of questions Easter bigger than Christmas right and the one tomorrow night is the big one this is like Super Bowl Easter vigil is probably like the most revered day of the Catholic calendar it's the Super Bowl so this is the sermon that they've been it's the longest mass of the year if you go to the Easter vigil Some places will go three plus hours It's a long Long ordeal Have the Catholics lightened up on the really tough benches Yes You know what I'm not proud to say it But it's one of those things we've talked about this before I'll go back to mass sometimes I don't know what the fuck's going on They've changed so much stuff I'm saying wrong phrases When I was in grade school And also with you And with your spirit Sorry, I'm not fucking saying that.

1:57:50Okay? I'm going to say it also with you. You're an Old Testament guy. No, sorry. This is completely different. Let's not go that far. This is completely different than that. This is very New Testament weekend. Yeah, this is a New Testament deal. This is the biggest New Testament weekend of all. You're old school New Testament. There you go. That's a better way of saying it. Good catch. Couldn't be more wrong. Good catch. Couldn't be more wrong there on this particular weekend. And then Sunday, obviously, the Easter Bunny's coming. Yeah. Yes. So we understand that. But if you look at some old office championship wrestling, we don't know who the Easter Bunny's working for.

1:58:22No, you don't. You gotta be careful. Yeah.

1:58:27Somebody set us up for failure in this Thunderdome. What do you mean? I believe it was Shaq. I've been told it was Shaq. The big cactus? The big angel? Yeah. The big Aristotle? Yes. Yeah. Okay.

1:58:41Pat McAfee:Big snack. You're right. So he's got those Shaqalicious gummies that are... Delightful. They're so good. They're huge. They're very good. Everybody thinks celebrity product is going to be shit. Those are very good. Just like everything else. Shaq's a billion or whatever the case is. The Shaqalicious gummies are just his hood, and they taste so good. They do. They taste way. I'm not even like a sugar candy guy. They taste unbelievable. Those are a once you pop, you can't stop type operation as well. So you got one head, two heads, 10 heads, 15 heads. So those being sent in abundance to the Thunderdome, a problem.

1:59:16Okay? Did you see what he packed alongside of them? I did. Yeah, it's just a little cherry on top. I noticed they were all gone this morning. Close. He sent 150 Reese's. At least. With different varieties of Reese's.

1:59:30Pat McAfee:Old school Reese's. There's the Reese's eggs, which are my favorite, obviously. I think it's the proper proportion of peanut butter and chocolate. I don't need the mini ones. I just need the standard size ones. And then there was an Oreo Reese's concoction out here. That's my. Yeah, it's kind of your. Wheelhouse. They're four packs too. We're talking about big boys, family size. And there's 60 of them sitting over there three feet away from me. Three feet away from me. Had to have 12 of those yesterday. So good. Dumped for 25 minutes last night after that thing got inside of me. But I want to let them know.

2:00:05I would like to let Shaq know. Thank you for the gifts, but you're certainly testing temptation at all times. Yeah. I believe Shaq will be in studio on Monday. Get out of town. The Big Shaq. Okay. I believe he will be in here. And I cannot wait to see him in here. Yeah. Just in general. I just kind of want to see him. Yeah, just walk through here. Yeah, LeBron, when LeBron got here, you just, as he gets out of this,

2:00:30Pat McAfee:LeBron's sitting in the back of an SUV, you know, like this, in the back seat, which it's all the way stretched back. And then he gets his big-ass leg up, boom, the bang of the pow. And then he stands up, and it's, holy fuck, man. Thanks for coming, dude. And then he has to duck his head to walk into our building, and then he walks in here, hits his head off the exit sign while he's coming in. It's like, I forgot. These guys are different. Oh, yeah. Shaq. Taller. Yeah. By a lot. Yeah. And he's super ripped up right now, right? Uh-huh. He's the jacked us? I'm a little bit worried about some destruction in here.

2:01:08Maybe we should just have him pick up that golf cart. I could see him just for fun going old school and ripping one of these hoops off the wall. So the issue is I don't know if it would get off the wall or if the wall is coming. The whole building might fall down. Yeah. Maybe we have bone protected. Oh, foul Shaq really hard. No, Shaq's coming in to talk hoops. He's not coming in to wreck the rim. No. It'd be cool if he did, though. If he took down that whole wall. Or just the rim. The wall, I don't think.

2:01:35Pat McAfee:I mean, we're going to be really testing these contractors that put this thing together. Yeah, we shouldn't. You shouldn't even put the idea in it. Well, I see that support beam going up there, so I'm wondering if that's a load-bearing wall. I don't know if we want that thing coming down. No, that support beam was to hold up the wall. That's what that is. That is not the wall holding up the building. That is holding up that wall right there. We put that wall in. Remember? Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Our Lord and Savior did not have that wall. No, it didn't. Yeah, that thing's coming down. We need to keep him away from that.

2:02:06We need to keep barriers. Maybe we just lift it up to 12 feet. That's not bad.

2:02:11Pat McAfee:Actually, maybe 13 feet. Highest you can go. Oh, maybe that's a Thunderdome. New game. Worlds. Oh, there you go. Highest dunk. Yeah. Maybe we get Shaq a trampoline in here. I think Dwight might have the record. What did he do, 13? Yeah, at one of the dunk contests, he put it way up there. It was up there. How old is Shaquille O 'Neal? I mean. 30. I think he's a little. I think he's 50. 52. He's still Shaq, though. Yeah, of course. 54 years old. Okay, he can get 14, 15 feet. We'll move that thing up. We'll move that thing up. No problem. All right, have a great weekend. This should be a fun one, genuinely.

2:02:48A lot of things are going to happen. Yeah, a lot of good baseball. Yeah. What do you know about baseball? Your team's the worst in the league. I know that the season starts today and everything that has happened up to today doesn't matter. Where are the Red? Oh, yeah. American League East. Worse than the Orioles. Jeez. Perennial slow starters. Yeah, we're 1-5. Is this a 17-game season? No, that doesn't mean fucking shit.

2:03:15Pat McAfee:I mean, you're batting 16%, pal. Yeah, well, that's okay because when those numbers get flipped and it's 761, we're going to be pissing on all your guys' faces because we're so pumped. Keep the golden shower for yourself, please. I'm bopping wood over here. That's fine. Hammering wood. Let's go around the room. Everybody's favorite thing that happened this week. Go ahead, Tone. Connor Griffith getting called up to the Pirates. 19-year-old starting at shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Just signed a nine-year,$100-some million deal to be with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's the one, they're saying.

2:03:45They are saying he's the one. There's a lot of talk around it, so I hope it's not too much for a 19-year-old. But the last three 19-year-olds to be caught up were Juan Soto, Bryce Harper, and Mike Trout. And that worked out pretty well for them. So hopefully the situation is similar here in Pittsburgh. 4-12 first pitch today. All eyes on the Buccos. You know why it's 412-412? Oh! What it do. Yeah. Put it down. Tip of the cap. I absolutely love that. Okay, you do like that. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.

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2:05:27Pat McAfee:You'll figure that out. Ty, a favorite thing that happened this week. I would say breaking in the new glove, skipping the stone with the boys, because we've been skipping a fair amount of stone around here. A few fair amounts. I would say, actually, it's probably got to be Greeny giving Brett Michaels a pump-up speech. I watched that clip about a thousand times, and then Brett Michaels just eating everything and then doing a little three-piece combo at the end to let everyone know how ready he was. That was just perfect, and it kind of just reiterates, hey, draft's right around the corner. Yes, it certainly is right there in Pittsburgh.

2:05:59Brett Michaels and Wiz Khalifa. How about you, Cone Man? I mean, speaking of the draft, I loved Schraggs' appearance on Tuesday. Him talking about all the stuff that went on, the flag football stuff, the Jay Glazer party. It just feels like Schraggs delivered on all fronts when it came to Arizona and the owners' meetings. Foxy! Yeah. Jeez, come on. Look alive, buddy. It's a ball. Oh, God. Jeez. Foxy, look alive. Your favorite. We're tossing the ball around. Yeah, I don't have a glove. I don't throw stone with you guys very much. But my favorite part of the week is definitely how we started the week.

2:06:38Me, you, AQ, Brandon Bean played awesome 18 holes of golf, led into the league meetings. It was a great week in Arizona.

2:06:44Pat McAfee:Yeah, we loved Arizona. Shout out to the NFL putting that on in for the hospitality everybody showed us. Bruce Braun, your favorite thing of the week, pal. Without a doubt, it had to be UConn and Braylon Mullins taking down Duke and seeing D-Bone at the hotel bar. Just a sad sack of shit. And then Braylon Mullins came on the next day, you know, was the man. So, yeah, that was easily my best sports moment, not just this week, but probably the last few months. Of course, Bruce takes it too far yet again. Calls me a sack of shit on the show, obviously. We live in the same building. We walk the same trail.

2:07:24He always has to take it. He actually doesn't walk the trails. That's a point of contention. I would like to see him out there walking the trails, enjoying the great outdoors.

2:07:33Pat McAfee:We would like to see that as well. The only trail he's walking is directly to the front desk because they have airstriket a McDonald's for him at 2 a.m. That might be my favorite thing that happened this week. So unexpected. Because I was actually kind of hungry as we were rolling back in there because I didn't make it to the food part of the party. So we're walking back into the hotel. It's very late. And I see him kind of turn left. I'm like, oh, good idea, Bone. There is food for sale over there. And then the person lifts up the McDonald's bag, he just snags it, and then just keeps walking.

2:07:59Pat McAfee:I'm like, I can't believe I followed him over here. But also, this is unbelievable. I was actually kind of proud of him for thinking ahead. The prep. And I say, what? And he goes, airstriket you when we were walking out. I'm like, Jesus. You're 24 right now. You're something else. We need to start thinking about it. Mr. Murphy, your food again? I think he's getting married this year. Let's look decent. Well, he was wearing what he's going to be married in.

2:08:29He was selling insurance like a motherfucker.

2:08:34Pat McAfee:He had a tucked in polo, the whole thing. It was phenomenal. He looked good. D-Bone, you're 24. You're getting away with all this? What we're saying is we need to start maybe looking into the future a little bit and starting to dial back McDonald's. $50 worth of McDonald's. It was a big bag. It was a big bag. And that bag was like, you know, the handles were working. Yeah, sure. The handles were working. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. As he's walking through there, I didn't get to eat most of it. Well, what does that mean? $30 is most? That's a lot still. Bruce is trying to say sorry to Bone back here.

2:09:09I'm sorry. No, you can't. No, no, no. This is a Rivalry. We got a rivalry in the office here, boys.

2:09:18Pat McAfee:Hey, Bone was on the Cowboys. for about three and a half, four minutes. And then all this came to light in front of the person that offered him the job and it changed. So maybe, maybe this is the eye-opening experience that he needs. But as a 24-year-old, he can get away with all this bone. You look good, just like I thought you looked good at the party. But one, two, three years from now, you keep doing what you're doing. It's going to be a different story. Let's go to Gumpy. He looks incredible today. Gumpy, what's your favorite thing that happened this week? I always enjoy just being on the road, you know?

2:09:44Those flights, we kind of just chop it up like the lads. And those are the moments you really, you know, when you lay down at night, you really think about how fun it is hanging out with the lads all the time on the road. Were you sleeping on the plane? I don't sleep on the plane. On the way back? Are you sure you didn't maybe get a little shut-eye on the plane? No chance. A little afternoon siesta? How about in the Thunderdome? Did you get a little shut-eye in the Thunderdome the other day? No. There were rumblings.

2:10:10Pat McAfee:There were rumblings. There was even maybe close to a photo being taken with me. Shit painter. Oh, no. Lotto. No, no. Maybe. I've fallen asleep on a plane the last couple times, so I cannot judge. It used to be a thing of mine. I couldn't fall asleep on planes. And I guess when you're waking up at 4 a.m. to golf with Bino on a golf course, it's going to catch up with you a little bit, especially whenever you're hooting with the owls out there at the NFL League meeting until what, 5 a.m. Eastern time? Yeah, right. How the hell did I survive that? I'm too old. I look over and I see Gumby fighting it as well.

2:10:43I'm like, yeah. That's what I thought. Yeah. Yeah, I'm thinking to myself, I'm not some soft-ass fucking coward. He is, too. And then I see him doing this a little bit, and then I get the phone out. I get the phone out. I'm like, yeah, I got to get him here. And then he has, like, this sense. He sees the phone, he goes, whoa, Paul. And then he gets up and acts like he's got to go to the bathroom. Walked it off. Yeah, right back to the bathroom.

2:11:07Pat McAfee:It's the thing, though. The road is a good time, though, when we're all out there. It's so ridiculous. It's the best. All of it's so ridiculous. We don't plan enough. feels like everybody always plans whenever they go do stuff we don't plan enough at all at all yeah we don't plan at all everything kind of flies by hey fun that way hey we got a reservation at this place tonight oh sick we'll come only got a spot for like two or three people i don't know if we can go we'll get back to you well if you don't tell me now we're gonna lose the reservation yikes what's everybody else gonna do oh we'll just get hammered here all right sick so now we're figuring it then an event happens boom let's go ahead and do that then everybody is not packed for proper things because we have no idea what we're doing we find out about stuff whenever we're there that's kind of part of the charm of traveling i do believe the flip side though is you make a bunch of commitments and say yeah we'll be there we'll be there we'll be there we'll be there and then you don't go to any or you miss a few of them and then you look like an asshole so it's like you know would you rather do that or would it really would you rather just be like hey you know if we show up we show up that's kind of the way it's gonna be yeah but then sometimes we're just not able to do stuff next year we know now we know it was our first time Yeah.

2:12:10Hopefully they don't have all their meetings while we're live. That would be Eastern, so they won't. Nine to noon. We assume that it's nine to noon. We know. Okay, we'll see. I talked to BMAC. Ball's down. A lot of balls go down. Still down. A lot of balls go down over there with that catcher's mitt. Yeah, right. I've been playing with that thing all day. You look like the Colgate softball team. Oh, no. The Colgate. Wayne State. Oh, that softball team. You look like the Wayne State. Hey, you look like the Roosevelt softball team right there with the balls rolling on the ground. Sorry, I'm so fucking juiced up to watch Roman Anthony play baseball today.

2:12:44Okay, so yeah, I dropped the ball because I was just thinking, oh, fuck. Worst team in league. That's fine. That's fine. Because I got two different playoff runs. I got to go on before the Red Sox figure it out. It is nice up there for you, you New England folks. And you can even claim UConn, both of them. I wouldn't do that because I don't claim Connecticut as part of New England. You know how I feel about Connecticut. It's the tri-state area. He's more of a B, U, B, C guy. See what I'm saying? They claim tri-state, so why would we claim them in New England? Fuck that. So you're out on them. No.

2:13:19It's live for your die. It's fucking Cooper flag main event. It's smoking dope in Vermont. And it's Massachusetts and Rhode Island fucking dominating. That's New England.

2:13:29Pat McAfee:Yep. Final answer. Finally. If I was to look up, would they say Connecticut's part of New England or no? I think some dialects consider it. Dialects. But I do know that the people who truly love New England do not consider Connecticut. You think there's some accents that would say that Connecticut is? Yes, Connecticut is one of the six states that make up the New England region. I told you. Some dialects. Right there off the top. Google is one of those dialects. And that's AI. And AI, especially that one, has been very inconsistent. So I'm not worried about that. All of them have given wrong answers, but I will say one of the AIs, okay, I put together a presentation in about 45, 50 minutes just with some information from the lads and a conversation with the AI, and all of a sudden everything's looking pretty good.

2:14:17My face is a little distorted on some of the graphics, but fuck it. Whatever. It's going to happen. Those graphics were unbelievable. I'm not believable. I could not believe that. Hey, that might go down as one of the best graphics we've ever had. I need to learn how to do that now. I want to let you know, me and Mr. GPT have a pretty good little relationship. You can figure it out in 10 minutes, Foxy. Legit, Foxy, I think you'll probably figure it out in about 10 minutes. I'm on it. Maybe make a banger, too, as well. Let's go to Frank Moraldo back there in the back. Hey, big weekend for you, brother.

2:14:49What is your favorite thing that happened this week? Favorite thing, ball. Ball, please. Yep, you got it. Coming at you. That sounded like it almost broke. Favorite thing that happened this week was easily the Pittsburgh Penguins beating the ass of the Detroit Red Wings, sending them into another tailspin so they will miss the playoffs once again in March and in April, and the Penns going on to win the Stanley Cup.

2:15:10Pat McAfee:I like that. We got an easy road to another Lordo. I don't know if you saw it. We got the Islanders. Yeah, right. Carson Daly's boy. Jackson. That'd be a pretty good pool by me. I would like to say that if that is, I think that is, I think that is. He's Big Islanders fan. Jackson Daly. Okay. Shout out to you, Jackson. Cool name. If I was to see Jackson in public, I would go up to Jackson and say, what up, homie? Did forget if it was Jack or Jackson. Jackson is the name, Carson's kid. Shout out to TRL. We all got through there. Ball with the ball, the bang, the dang, diggy, diggy, diggy, sit the boogie, sit up, jump the boogie.

2:15:45Pat McAfee:On that note, they're Islanders fan. Ass is about to get beat. Okay, if this was what it was. If the Islanders had to see Sidney Crosby. And now I got Islanders fans telling me, hey, what happened the last time we played you? And the last time we played you, it's not a playoffs. Easy road. We get through there. The Caniacs probably make a play. Obviously, we knock them out. Bill Cowher won't be on the horn down there, so we'll win. And then Tampa Bay Lightning probably make it. Yeah, right. Then we beat the fuck out of you, okay? Who? You don't want to see the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference Finals.

2:16:14You just don't, okay? Tampa Bay, sure, we play them Saturday. Let's see what happens. Buffalo, right below them. Hey, what just happened when we went to Buffalo? In Buffalo? Oh, yeah. We beat the fucking shit out of him. And that's because Jeremy Swayman is the hottest goalie in the league. So this is cute. You know, Islanders, Hurricanes, maybe, you know, Brady Kachuk and the Senators make something happen. You make it to the Eastern Conference Finals, you're going to get face-fucked by Jeremy Swayman. I don't think so. Charlie McAvoy and David Poschner. We're going to serve you a goal. You think Sidney Crosby's worried about Swayman in there?

2:16:46You're like, hey, hey, hey. I hope Sid makes it. Because I'm pretty sure the Islanders are full of dirtbags who go after likes. And I'm pretty sure that the Senators and the Hurricanes do the same thing. But guess what? We live there.

2:17:01Pat McAfee:What was the country that did the thing to Sid? What country was that? Czech, I think. Yeah, Czechia. We ain't worried about nothing. You should be. Sid handled Czech Republic. His knee's A-OK. Czechia sucks. Okay, we're talking about American goalie. Let's go to the West, shall we? I don't know about the Golden Knights this year, Todd. I don't know. They've been pretty hot ever since Tortorella came in. So Mitch Marner just had a hat trick last night. You know, I don't love them getting absolutely fucking hosed, getting the oils in round one if this is to stand. But, you know, everybody knows, everybody that's been hurt, you know, for the Golden Knights, they're going to pop up and be 100 % come playoffs.

2:17:42So Stoner, you know, Aces, Marner, all the boys, they're going to be ready. Is that the Mammoth in the second round? Yeah, you're talking about these lads right here. Two. Ah, ah, ah. Toss up. Oh, Penny? Yeah. Year one of the Mammoth? Toss up. They're in a JCPenney right now in a mall in Utah. They are in a massive facility. Congrats, Mammoth. Yeah, absolutely. Congrats to Ryan Smith and the Utah Mammoth out there. Toss up. Toss up. Toss up. This might be it for the oils, by the way. Yeah, if they lose this one. No Leon, McDavid. Word on the street is he's not happy. Well, of course. especially if they don't win a lordo especially what happened in canada with the olympics yeah women and men mcjesus is wearing that right on his mick shoulder oh yeah i mean you know what i mean on the other side the dallas stars i mean the brooks just beat the piss out of them but the dallas stars are flying well texas hockey has a chance this year yeah it's a tough road though i mean we got to beat the wild and if you win that you get the avalanche as the second best team of the conference batman's got to go back we got to go back to the one to eight fucking thing for the playoffs like every other sport instead of this goofball yeah goofball has the pens winning the stanley club so i'm okay with that let's uh

2:18:57Pat McAfee:let's go and enjoy the hell out of this run for hockey let's enjoy this next four years of baseball i guess yeah yeah it's gonna be a long long road but when you're skipping stone popping bits popping mix yeah i'll tell you that's a good time i'm a little bit more comfortable now doing that exactly see see i'm starting a little bit then i got two in the pinky okay there we go let's go two in the pinky skipping stone line one i think you you know and then we keep the hand out of there you need to keep the hand out of there yeah you slip that palm down a little lower yeah we don't want yeah yeah oh you're a palm down guy i don't know you tell me no i bet like out of the glove a little bit yeah i'm out that's the two in the pinky maneuver yeah i thought i broke every bone in my hand when I snagged one.

2:19:42I thought it was a great catch. I barehanded it.

2:19:45Pat McAfee:That thing hurt so bad. Never again. So now we're just trying to go a little bit under the ball. A little bit behind the ball. Let's go ahead and let the mitt... Good scoop. Thank you. Let's let the mitt pop. Let's have the greatest weekend of all time. Thank you all. Graphic design boys, way to go. Good work. Mitt, good work, Mitt. Work, baby. Talk, atta, baby. Talk. Attababy, talk. Talk at it. It's a big day for some big names. Locking in the blade in the big game. He picked the original song. He was there as the song creation process was kind of taking place. He picked another version of the song, slept on it then this morning, was not taking any accountability for the song being not the best one.

2:20:30Pat McAfee:Sure. But he made an adjustment. He made change and made a great video. We appreciate the talk. Zito and Tim, great work this week. Great work, boys. The Zito Tim McAfee productions, there will certainly be a movie or a book reading about it. Yeah. I will assume that will be the case. And then, Bailey, thanks for coding YouTube all week and taking pictures. That'll be, Bill. You're the man, Bill. A couple of your photos were used in those graphics that we made. They didn't end up looking like your photos at all because, you know, there is kind of a little bit of creative liberties that these AIs do take with faces and such.

2:21:00Pat McAfee:But thank you to all the guests that joined us this week. Shout out to Troy. Shout out. Shout out to Troy. Shout out to Augusta, still having really high standards. Shout out. I feel like I was quoted out of context quite a bit there. Seems to be a trend. But we're the bad ones for journalism. Sleep on that. Let's have the greatest weekend of all time. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye.

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