PMS 2.0 1539 - LIVE from the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Dylan Pratt, Daniel Jeremiah, Roger Goodell, Wiz Khalifa

19:17I thought Cleveland was really masterful of understanding that they could move back and still get their tackle. They did a nice job of kind of playing the board the right way. I mean, look, the headline's going to be 13.

19:26Pat McAfee:Tell me about it a little bit. Sean McVay. Oh, boy. I saw a still shot. Yeah. He's pot. Yeah. A still shot. A still shot. Still shot. Coward did not love that we were judging off of a still for a call. It's video, too. I want context is what Bill Coward said in this entire thing. But then we heard Sean McVay say he'll be battling against Stetson Bennett for sure because obviously we know this is Matthew Stafford's team. Here's Coach.

19:57Pat McAfee:I'll keep that between us. We'll see. He's going to compete with Stetson. Okay. Then he had the fron face. Then it was said that Stafford was told about this happening. The Green Bay-Jordan love thing started getting comparisons because how close the team is to maybe a Super Bowl. So if you're drafting certainly for the future as opposed to right now, ruffle some feathers. Dan Orlovsky was sitting over here saying, fudge, yeah. How do you kind of unravel the entire story of Ty Simpson to the Rams? Because Ty even said, Simpson, that he had never talked to Coach McVay before. So this is a really fascinating dynamic, especially its quarterback position.

20:33Pat McAfee:For a franchise, we all have a lot of respect for. Yeah, there's a lot of angles to it. I mean, first of all, for Ty, like if you could script where you could go, this would be the first choice. Obviously, you go to an organization that knows what they're doing. They know how to develop and coach quarterbacks, scheme up quarterbacks, put them in favorable positions. He doesn't have to get on the field right away. That's from his perspective. From the Rams' perspective, though, you're a play away from a Super Bowl. This year's Super Bowl is in your building, and you've got the reigning MVP, and your first pick is someone who's not going to see the grass for two years.

21:03There's that side of it, and this is the one. I haven't heard anybody talk about this. So we're all going to assume that Stafford's two more years, right, at least. so a mortal yeah 10 more years so so you've got ty did not start till his fourth year at alabama he's going to wait two years now in the nfl so over a six-year period of time he'll have played one year of football like that is a grand experiment to me i've never seen anything like it i don't have anything to compare it to so i'm fascinated to see how the whole thing works out

21:31Pat McAfee:yeah me too coach car whenever we're watching the mcveigh stuff what do you think that angle I mean, I think that's Sean right now just like tempering the expectation for Ty Simpson. I mean, you're going to come in here. I understand you're a 13th pick, but you still have a lot to prove. And I'm going to let this thing unfold in front of my eyes. You know, it's interesting that he has not talked to him. You know, when we picked Ben Roethlisberger at 12 in 2004, I didn't think he's going to be there. We had Tommy Maddox. I didn't tell Tommy Maddox. I mean, they talked to Stafford about this. The next morning, I had Tommy Maddox in my office, and he was not a happy camper.

22:05Has any quarterback ever been happy when this happens? Ever. He sat there and said, you never told me. You said you believed in me. You said I was the guy for the future. This is BS. And he started getting louder and louder. At the very end, I said, are you done? Okay. I said, at the same time, I said, I did not know he was going to be there. You sound like a very insecure quarterback. Right now, you are the starting quarterback. And I think if you just approach it that way, it's your job to lose. And right now, I don't think you're in the right frame of mind to accept it. He's going to be on this team.

22:34I mean, number one, I don't owe an explanation to you and owe an explanation to Mr. Rooney about getting the best player that was available for this team for the future.

22:40Pat McAfee:Okay, do we think McVay said, because McVay didn't talk to him. Tommy Maddox and Matthew Stafford are not. No, no, no. Let's get that. Tommy God, you're talking. I was just talking about scenarios. I'm just talking about scenarios. Good story. Coach, I want to ask you this because, sorry, pal. When you look at it, when you look at it over the years, whenever there was a dispute, right, if there was an upset player, I always thought it was an upstairs-downstairs thing. Coaches are always going to saddle up to the player and say, hey, that's not me. That's upstairs. We're all together downstairs.

23:10You can make good cop, bad cop. Good cop's always going to be downstairs. You make bad cop upstairs. The conversations you have in that room, there's got to be a consensus. And that means there's not going to be someone conceding the fact that, okay, this is maybe not how I want this to unfold, but there's a bigger plan than this. And that's what I sense right now is we don't want to get stuck with Matthew Stafford and have no succession plan. because that's not a good place to be. And I think you find that Ben Roethlisberger has not really been a succession plan because you see where they are right now.

23:37So there's examples of why you would do something like that. But I go back to the same thing with, like, right now, you talk about where you were with Aaron Rodgers. You're one play away from the Green Bay Packers to be in the Super Bowl, and you get Jordan Love. And so, you know, I do think that you have to capture the moment because these windows come and they do go. And to me, again, I think it's a high price to pay for a guy with a small body of work.

24:00Pat McAfee:Okay, on that note, 15 games played. He talks about over a six-year period. He won't even have a full NFL season worth of games played. But a lot of practice, and we like where he was practicing. Alabama, we liked where he was, and we'll obviously love it with the Rams if they welcome him in there. Sean McVay also has to believe in Stetson Bennett too, right? Sure. Which he kind of has to. There's a lot of managing of how everybody feels in this entire thing. Managing egos. Yeah. We're keeping everything. I know you're a 13. You talk about being a franchise quarterback. In fact, Ty, I love you, but you're going to have to be that number two first.

24:33Yeah. AJ, your question for DJ. Yeah, what about Delane going to the Chiefs? Was that a surprise for you to go six? We knew he was probably going to be the first corner taken, but going to six to Kansas City. Yeah, I had them taking them just where they were, but I think because of the Jermon McCoy injury with the knee and the uncertainty there, to me, I thought those were the top two corners and then there was a gap. And I thought Kansas City, we got to come away with one of these guys. And when you looked at the teams picking in front of them, there was an opportunity for them to take a corner.

24:57So, I mean, I think they wanted to eliminate it. Let's just eliminate the risk. Let's just go get him.

25:01Pat McAfee:Okay, Caden Proctor. Yeah. That was fascinating. That was a very fascinating decision, especially with Bain was available. This is for the Dolphins. Bain, obviously Miami legend. Caleb Bounds, I believe, was still available. Caden Proctor, we had heard a lot of things about, like, being a pro. Be a pro, be a pro, be a pro. It wasn't that. But, obviously, the upside is crazy. Is that what we're thinking for the Miami Dolphins? When his weight's under control, he played really well. You saw that later in the season. But, I mean, the facts are the facts. He showed up at 390 pounds. He did not play well early in the season.

25:30So that concerned teams. But then you go through the process. He got himself in better shape. He had a good spring. You know, he'd go into the workout portion of the spring. And I think teams just saw the best of him. And that's why he ended up going where he ended up going.

25:44Pat McAfee:Congrats to him. I'm excited for him. He can change the entire narrative. He can take all of this as the driver to make him the best pro he could possibly be. Tone has a question for you. Yeah, DJ, last night kind of went how we thought it was with all the nine offensive linemen, which was tied for second most of all time. But the strength of the draft that everyone was talking about is maybe tonight, second and third round. A lot of those corners didn't go last night. Denzel Boston didn't go last night. D-tackles still out there. What do you think the story of tonight is? Yeah, I think you hit them.

26:13I mean, I think those are the big positions. Like you see a big corner run early. There always is a lot of emphasis on that position at this point in the draft. Defensive tackles have been kind of dominated the second round. We saw two go in the first. So that was a little bit of a surprise. I thought there was a chance we wouldn't see any of them come off the board in the first round. So there's a couple of those guys. And there's so many wideouts. I'm curious to see, even though you might have and I might have some of these guys rated here, if some of them have to wait a little bit just because they feel like if we miss on A, we've got B, C, D, and E we can get.

26:41Pat McAfee:Ty Schmidt has a question. He was not here last night for you. There's water getting spilled off of the top of this tent onto a very important group of people right over there. Go ahead, Ty. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, DJ, you just mentioned the D tackles. The Minnesota Vikings, new GM. Yeah. They take Caleb Banks, and I think a lot of people were kind of like, whoa, what's going on here? Was that the biggest, outside of Ty Simpson, was that the biggest surprise of the first round, and why do you think they ultimately went with him? Yeah, I mean, for me, I'd heard the whispers about it a couple days previous talking to some of the information guys, so it wasn't a total shock.

27:14But he's the only player outside my top 50 that went in the first round. He was my 51st overall player. He didn't play, you know, just a couple games. He's had the same foot injury twice now. And when you see him, I mean, he's a massive human being. He's got a lot in his body, a lot of talent there. But it's been a little bit up and down, and you factor in the injuries. That profile, you know, we talk about profiles. That's a second-round profile. So, from that standpoint, yeah, it was a surprise they rip it there at 18.

27:39Pat McAfee:Remember, though, if any of these guys play for 5, 10 years, it's a success. There's going to be a lot of busts on that board from last night. That is what stats have shown us. Tonight, there's going to be two rounds of dreams coming true. You'll be on the call on NFL Network. Ready to go, man. You guys have fun last night? Yeah, it was quick. Oh, yeah. It was quick, wasn't it? Did Orlovsky have a draft party or no? Yeah, right here. This was his draft party right here. He came up here, drank a couple beers, got all pissed off, was walking around, was banging the microphone off the table. Just going, yeah, man.

28:12Pat McAfee:Yeah. Cross the tape, man. He was so proud of himself. There he is. Look at him. Yeah, what's up? As he thrust it on my table, I didn't see that. What is going on there? Well, we didn't really have a setup for him. We just asked him to come over because we had a hunch that it was going to happen during the day. It felt like everybody kind of heard about it. Yeah. And then Dan Orlovsky comes over. Half chugs an icy light mango, which obviously we appreciate. It was more than half. You called him out. I did because it wasn't the whole thing. It was more than half. You don't come to Pittsburgh and not drink the whole beer.

28:40That is amazing. Thank you for pointing. Thank you. That was very good. Thank you, Pat.

28:44Pat McAfee:No problem. I had to find out, too. I mean, I've been a part of a beer. He was poured on the carpet. That's wasting beer. That's wasting beer. We don't do that in Pittsburgh. Whatever the case, we did celebrate the hell out of last night. I hope you did, too. We can't wait to watch it. I'm going to be making a couple picks tonight, maybe. Oh, nice. For the Colts, so that should be a fun time. I'm looking forward to it. You set the bar high, so we'll see. I'll give you a shout-out up there. Oh, you do? I will, yeah. I don't know what I'm saying yet. Who are they taking? The Colts? Shoot, I don't know.

29:08Someone who's going to stink, probably. They could go for a wide out there. Jeremy Bernard, let's go.

29:14Pat McAfee:There you go. Appreciate the hell out of you. Thanks, buddy. Enjoy Pittsburgh for the rest. Oh, it's been awesome. You're the best, buddy. You're the best. See you guys. See you. Hello, baby, DJ. Good work, DJ. Hey, DJ, thank you. Thank you, buddy. Thanks, man. See you, buddy. How come you didn't draft him? He was quarterback out of App State, though. How come you didn't draft Andy Jeremiah? From where? App State? Yeah. App State plays good football. They do. They do. I know. North Carolina. How come you didn't? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you love North Carolina. I do. I forgot about how much you love North Carolina.

29:49NC State especially.

29:50Pat McAfee:Yeah, and their hockey teams down there. I like Carolina. Yeah, you do. They're up 3-0. Hey, hey, where? Okay, we don't want to get down there. You're going to back yourself up. No, no, no. You're the city's coach. You just got reminded. Yeah, you did the science. Yeah, you did the science for the Hurricanes. That's good. Move on. Who's our next guest? Ladies and gentlemen, our next guest is a man who is obviously at the forefront of trailblazing for sports leagues across the globe, I would say. His model and blueprint is what every other league is going to try to follow. He's taken a sport that is obviously the best in the world and turned it into a worldwide business sensation.

30:31Pat McAfee:Up and to the right is everything. Eyeballs, dollars, games, legends. Ladies and gentlemen, alongside his beautiful bride, who's standing right over there, the commissioner of the NFL, Roger good day They do a commish to see you see you sir always an honor

30:57Weird Al

31:16Got it. Yeah, DJ's really picky about where he sits.

31:23He's got to be on the throne, huh?

31:26Pat McAfee:You get it. You ran the NFL Network for a while. You had to get calls for him. Congratulations on that deal. Also, congratulations on 300 and what? 20 ,000. Congratulations. Isn't that unbelievable? That's for them. Yeah. Absolutely. Pittsburgh, 320 ,000. Okay, so Radio City Music Hall, Books or Rockettes event, they kick you out. They say you have to do the draft somewhere else. You've been there forever. Obviously, we all remember the theater. We remember the Jets and Giants fans. Now getting to do this, we ask you this every year because it seems to get bigger and bigger, and it definitely did here yesterday.

32:00Pat McAfee:Is it all surreal that this is what your draft is? You're walking on there with a cart, and there's 300 ,000 people. We're here. I mean, the amount of everything. You mean, why do I wonder what they're doing out there? No. Are you excited about where it's at? And it's only going to grow and get bigger. And it is a great time. Pittsburgh, okay, two hours, 53 minutes. Great choice, right? Yes, definitely, football town. Two hours, 53 minutes, a lot of boozing. There was no fights. That is the most abnormal Pittsburgh thing of all time. It was like a celebration of ball. And I think you deserve a lot of credit for making this into what it is.

32:36Pat McAfee:Whenever you see last night, like what are your thoughts immediately and how pumped are you for the league? You know, I really think that what the for any credit, it's the fans. It was just bringing it to the fans. And once you brought it to the communities, they just wrapped their arms around it and they made it theirs ultimately. And this is this is the ultimate fan event. It's free. Everyone can come down. There's a sense of pride here in Pittsburgh, as you know, that we can do this and we can show off our community. So to me, it's just, it is, when you look out there and you say, I can't believe it's gotten this big.

33:15And then every year it gets bigger. It's, yeah, it's fun. It puts a smile on your face. I don't know if you've seen DMX.

33:24Pat McAfee:What concert was that where he looks like? Glacenberry? Yeah, and then obviously Queen at that. Wembley. Wembley back there. The Queen at Wembley. Hey, there's not a lot of people that with a microphone are commanding a 300 ,000 person audience. Yeah, but they can sing. I'm just talking. That's bad. Yeah, but you did well. I think there was no flubs last night. You also dropped the yins early, which I thought was a good play. But I think what we have learned through this entire process is you have a lot of history in this area. Obviously, Washington and Jefferson, about 20 minutes southwest of here is where you went to school.

33:54Pat McAfee:But you also spent some time here in Pittsburgh. I didn't know your ties to the area. Has it been special to get back here, and have you reminisced at all? It has, yeah. Actually, I came in Tuesday night and had dinner with some buddies and actually the guy who owned the bar that I used to work at. So I got a chance to, you know, celebrate with them a little bit on Tuesday, which was fun because I don't think any of us would imagine, one, we'd be here for a draft in Pittsburgh, and I'd be working for the NFL. I mean, that's like – it's surreal, right? Working for the NFL. Oh, you mean the NFL is working for me?

34:29No. Not that. I mean, it's working for all of us, I would like to say.

34:33Pat McAfee:Yeah, we are very grateful for what the game has provided, sir. It's certainly your league. So you worked at a bar here. In Washington, at school. What were you, a bar back? You were a bouncer? I was a bartender. Well, you have to do everything. You have to stock. You have to bartend. You have to bounce. You have to do everything. Okay, then how do you just pipeline from that bar to the NFL? Is that kind of how this works? You know, I often say, honestly, a bartender was one of the best experiences I had. working because you have to learn how to deal with people in unusual circumstances um and uncontrollable experiences sometimes right but it was it it taught me a lot um so i i actually really treasure that experience i'm happy you got to meet up with the boys from college go back to the bar where you pour drinks and have a good time and obviously this takes place let's talk about some of the stories around the league, shall we?

35:25Yep.

35:25Pat McAfee:Tyson. Ty, sorry, not Tyson. Tyson getting hurt, getting drafted at five or whatever, good for him, or six, whatever it is. Ty Simpson get drafted, obviously a big storyline. The bigger storyline for your league, what are we doing with these refs? This is a big deal, Commissioner. This is not a big deal. It's the biggest. This is the biggest deal. We, hey, Coach, definitely he has his highlights with refs. You've seen them. You guys run them in NFL films. I've seen that. We've had a few conversations over the years. We've talked about this many times. But players and coaches, I think players and coaches and obviously league people, but people associated with the league, I think, understand the importance of refs more than anybody else.

36:03Pat McAfee:Careers are changed. Families have to move because of missed calls and everything like that. Reffing is a terribly difficult job. We all agree with that. But I think the reason why our show focuses on it so much is because they're so important. And what happened with those replacement refs I think was not good. I like that you're preparing ahead of time for this, getting them trained. where do we sit with that and what are like i mean we got some real fears that some guy who's reffing maybe in the science center over there who's doing a football thing is going to be reffing in the nfl again like when replacement refs happen how what is kind of the state of all listen the number one thing is we definitely want an agreement with the officials i mean we're not we're not itching for a lockout what we are trying to do though is make our officials more accountable get the best performers on the field and make officiating better ultimately that's what you want because when the real officials show up and they make a mistake you're going to say the same thing and so we've got to get we got to get the best officials out there train them if they can't officiate at this level we want to be able to make changes and we don't want to put people out there that aren't ready to be able to officiate at this level so those are the real key issues for us performance and I'm hopeful that we're going to get there without going to a lockout, but that's something we've got to be prepared for because we're not going to stop the season.

37:21Pat McAfee:How abnormal is it that the players and coaches are on your side in a CBA negotiation? And they can't publicly come out and say that. Obviously, the Players Association has come out and be like, we hope their union gets them everything they need. But the players and coaches are also like, yeah, accountability would be pretty good in this entire process. It's an interesting negotiation for you, I assume. Yeah, but I think even the fans are in favor of having better officiating right i know now but we've got to have technology with this this game is so fast we coach and i talk about all the time you know you're gonna have mistakes on the field so how do we use technology to be able to correct that uh so that we do get the right outcome and we don't have people losing jobs because of the wrong crop can i just i mean definitely i said you know we have the challenge system yeah and i know we've talked about the fact that we can't throw a flag down with the challenge system.

38:17But if you give one review, one review per game, and a review means we can review the whole play, which then we can obviously then throw a flag. Has that been talked about as possibly an option to correct that one mistake that's there? Keep the challenge, two challenges and one review. ABS. And you're right, Coach, but here I'm going to go back to the same thing, which you would ask as a coach. Are you just challenging one aspect of the play or anything that happens in that play? Anything that happens in that play. And I think because I think, again, that's the one review that you would have. And so you can't sit there and talk about a play being missed.

38:58So I'm talking about a review where you can throw a flag because we're going to review it. For any call. Any call. What about holding on the offensive line? Yeah, on the backside. Some minor call, you want to be able to reverse it? No, you're reviewing the call for what the obvious error was. Okay, but then what's the obvious error is the question, right? I know. And, again, I'm sure you have to work out what those stipulations, what those guidelines are. Welcome to Coach Goodell's conversation. Love it. But I do think that in terms of what you're saying, we don't want the face mask in the end zone.

39:35Absolutely. We don't want the big hit on the sideline. These are the obvious errors. And so I'm just saying from a review standpoint, you have one. We're not slowed down the game. And you're going to have to pick and choose. and I think you can talk about, well, when you're going to use it. You're going to save that review for a big play in the fourth quarter of a game. Figure it out, Rog. That's the way it usually ends up, Pat. Figure it out. Put him in charge. Okay. You know what? I think if you could isolate the things that you would reverse or you could throw a flag down for, that's the possibility.

40:06And then maybe you expand it at some point in time. But you've got to get it in.

40:09Pat McAfee:And this year you guys are allowing New York, I believe, if there is replacement refs to be able to assist. I think that's a good trial run to see what happens in the future. You guys are very much like a let's see, and then we'll maybe expand or get rid of. I think you've always been ahead of that. I'm excited to see if it works. Get a deal done, Rog. We need them. Gotcha. But we need them to be better, too. Get that deal done. Thanks. All those things. Another deal. Just do that. And we've got to be able to throw a flag with the fish. Well, listen, you need to definitely handle what Coach Gower's saying.

40:36Pat McAfee:Last thing for me, and then the boys obviously have all their questions, assortment of 18 games seems inevitable. Okay? Nine games are just announced. I believe international congratulations Australia all the way over there the game is growing at this massive rate Obviously streamers and platforms want games congrats I think on the YouTube deal with the five extra Monday night football games that you were able to get on You can create any game that you want and be able to sell it 18 games Are you gonna add a bye week in there? Do you think the 18 games gonna get passed and? How do you resist the urge of just creating new primetime games that you can get billions of dollars for?

41:12Pat McAfee:all the time like how do you manage what's the right black friday game wednesday afternoon game thursday night game australia game like how do you balance what's the right play knowing that everybody wants your shit right now and also the players aren't going to want too much yeah i i the one safety has to be the primary concern right if you can't do it safely for our players we're not going to do it and that's why i would say it's not inevitable two is i i think this is the same issue when we went from 16 and 4 to 17 and 3. We did it successfully because we did it with the players. We had taken on a lot of initiatives to make our game safer, and I think we did.

41:53And I don't hear from our players. They're not talking about 16 and 4 or 17 and 3. So I think when you get to that point, double buys will be a question. Roster sizes will be a question. All of those things are going to be really important to consider, to balance, both with the players association and with the competition committee so that we can do it really successfully. But listen, you know, I've been critical of our preseason. I don't think it's the kind of standard that we should be putting out there. I think season structure, that includes the offseason, that includes everything up to training camp and the season and the postseason.

42:32We should be looking at that all the time, evaluating what's good, what's bad, what can we make better? and I think there's still improvements in doing that. Obviously, reducing preseason would be the top of my list.

42:43Pat McAfee:Every team have an international game. I think Kraft came out and said that at the league meetings, that that is potentially an initiative. Nine across the world right now, including, I don't know if you can get further and play a football game, maybe Fiji. I don't know if you're able to put a game there, but obviously in Australia. Every team is going to have an international game. And how many more markets? If we went to the 18, you could do that. easily enough where everybody plays an international game every year. How do you pick the markets? Because, like, for our YouTube show, obviously, we get exact how old, who, where, what country.

43:18Yeah, the data you get on the fans and where they're watching and how much they're watching and how they're engaging, playing the game over there. When we were over in Australia two weeks ago, we put 42 ,000 tickets on sale. They were gone in less than an hour. We couldn't process them that fast. And it's a 100 ,000-seat stadium. We pre-sold 35, so we've got another 20 ,000 that we're – it'll go in a flash. So they want to see the game. We're big on flag football, as you know. It's a global sport. It's a great way to get people involved with the game and understand the game, understand the strategy, particularly young women, but also international fans who really don't understand the game yet.

43:57Pat McAfee:Easier to play flag. Definitely. Just put a couple flags down, put a football down, draw a line, figure it out, kids. It's a lot cheaper, and it's more accessible. But it's a pretty – those are athletes out there. Oh, we saw that. Yeah. I don't like that. I don't like what he did. I don't like what he did to your league. I don't like that at all. I don't think it was a reflection on our league. I think it's a different game. I think what it demonstrated is a different game. Were the boys told that? The other boys, the USA football team? No. Forget the USA football. Good luck out there. We need you to win a gold.

44:29Yeah.

44:30Pat McAfee:Okay, and you're going to, I think. Our boys. Our guys. The league boys. We may not have had the right rosters out there, right? We didn't understand the game. But were they told, like, hey, you're about to get your asses beat by this team? I don't know if they believed that, and I'm not sure I could have told you that. We wouldn't have believed it either. I think we got the world's greatest athletes, but I got to tell you, I was impressed with those kids. And you see the way they dip and they move and their hips, man. I'll tell you what. The run, the run, the run. Now let's see you dip. Well, the penthouse to the outhouse move, that's the one.

45:06That's the one.

45:07Pat McAfee:They'll be able to ping-pong-pong. At full speed. Yeah, because then Luke Keekly's like, ah. Yeah. Yeah. And then Jalen Ramsey at one point was like, enough of this. We are good at that game. Oh, yeah. We are very good. And we need to win that gold. But I like the development. I like the growth. It's all going to be considered under your leadership, though. So I'm happy that it is all working. But also, you should look in the mirror sometime and be like, man, you took the best sport on earth from being a bartender at one point. Jack and Die, it's pretty good. Do you have a heavy hand? How was your – I was real good at that.

45:36Pat McAfee:Yeah. For the lads. Bigger tips. It was one of those bars that during the day it was a beer and a shot. Got it. And at night it got to be, you know. Boilermaker. Yeah. Yes. A lot of smoking in there, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Been there, yeah. All right. But anyways, what you've been able to do to the game, we all appreciate. You talked about 18 games roster sizes. Coach has a question for you. Yeah, I was just talking about the, you know, and I think the roster size, We have 53 Ragers on the roster and 17 practice squad. And I know it's 48 with eight offensive linemen. I mean, what is the number in your mind that would be something that we would expand the roster to if we could make that next step?

46:17You know, Coach, I don't think we've gotten to that point yet, honestly. I think that's going to balance a lot of issues. I think part of it's going to be how many activations are there? What happens on injury reserve? of how fast can we move players from practice squad to the rosters and how many times we can do that. There's a lot of things I think that have to be considered in that, but I think it's going to be very conservative. 50? Well, you've got 53 now, so would you go to 55? Or are you talking about active? Active, active. Yeah, I don't see it more than two or three.

46:52Pat McAfee:It sounds like you're doing a little public posturing right now. What are you thinking? Well, I'm just saying with more games, I think a player's body only has so many reps in it. And I would like those reps, if you have a chance through the course of a game, not to have someone maybe sit for an extra week. So we have their best sense of a football team in January and December. Because we only have 48, these guys are having to play with minimal injuries, but these injuries get more and more without rest. Having more players takes away the reps on the field. And I've always said this before. That's why I used to shut down games and run the ball with the lead.

47:26A player only has so many reps in his body through the course of a season. And I would rather that body be healthy and ready to go in January than in the month of November. Yeah, Rog. Yeah, no, I don't disagree with that. But I think players are really great at watching their bodies, getting ready for the season, understanding the rhythm, the pace of it. I think coaches are getting better at managing that. But the competitive guys, to me, feel like they're letting down their teammates. So they will not come off the field.

47:56Pat McAfee:Did you feel like you were letting down the fans when you went to prevent defense and we all had to snooze and have heart attacks for two quarters? Yeah, Coach. So, yeah, did I tell you what my record was when I had a lead of 11 points or more through the course of any point in the game? What was it? 11 points or more at any point in the game. Because, yes, I would shut it down and run the ball. It happened to be 106-1-1. Okay? So he tells me that I am playing prevent defense. I am preventing us from fucking losing. You're right. That's your job. 106. One and one. What happened on the one and one?

48:34Well, I can tell you about the one and one because Dick LeBeau was coaching the Cincinnati Bengals after I would not sign him back. He went there. And we had a snap that came from the snapper. It went through the holder's hands. Not me. It was a special teams player. Stop looking at me. I'm just saying. See? He's getting it. And the one was Michael Vick and Dan Reeves, and we caught a pass at the one-yard line with Plexiglas. Burrows caught the pass, and we didn't outscore, so it was a tie in overtime.

49:01Pat McAfee:Now, on that note, Michael Vick, you were playing prevent defense again? What a stupid decision that was. That was so dumb. What are you going to do, run everybody to your end zone? Michael Vick's going to run. Just go deep and let them run, Coach. I like that. How am I getting criticized for the one tie I had? Yeah, I was there for it. My dad, you should see my day. Drew is a remote. Drew is a remote. All right, let's get back to the league, please. Okay, let's go. It's more fun picking on coach. You have no idea. Hey, can I just tell you one story? So we're playing Tokyo, okay? And Mr. Rooney goes, Mr.

49:42Rooney, we're sitting at the league meeting meetings, and Mr. Rooney goes, hey, I think they want to play in Tokyo. I go, Mr. Rooney, we don't need an extra game. We need to Tokyo so far. I sit next to Roger at the dinner. He goes, I go, I go, Tagwai system playing Tokyo. No, he goes, I go, it's a long flight. He goes, no, if you go over the top, it's really short. I go, really? He goes, yeah, it's not that bad of a flight. I'm going, okay. So I go, Mr. Rooney, we'll play. Because Roger told me it's not that bad of a flight. He goes, okay. He goes, we're about to have to stop in Ireland. I go, no, no, Mr.

50:10Rooney, just go over the top. He goes, you can't go over the top. I go, fucking Roger. did you already say yes he goes yeah we already said yes i go already negotiating one he was

50:19Pat McAfee:planting seeds he was planting seeds uh let's get the crafting dumbass here earth's round don't be one of those flat earther guys it's so quick go by santa claus hey just next question okay aj has a question yeah this is one i believe coach cowher is pretty passionate about as well the tush push is that something that you continue to look at it can coaches continue to talk to like how much feedback are you getting with that and i'd I'd like to get Coach Cowher's opinion as well on what he feels about this play. He knows. We've had this conversation too. You know what? It got very little conversation this year.

50:52The competition committee, I don't remember them even bringing it up, honestly. It may have got a short conversation. It did not come up at the league meeting. So I think people are looking at it. We're going to see it as part of the game. You almost need to have an injury, right? I mean, I hate to say it that way, but there's been no injuries reported. No, that's what was presented earlier, yeah. I mean, really. No, listen, we're concerned about the injury rate with that massive humanity going in there. But at the end of the day, we haven't seen the numbers. Let's hope we don't see them.

51:25Pat McAfee:I didn't like that that was the discussion around our league either. I didn't like that the tush push is what had everybody jacked up. Now the success rate's going down, maybe because Jason Kelsey's literally everywhere else but on a football field. But the Eagles not winning the Super Bowl this year, I think is also a reason you put it to bed. But Tone has a question for you, Commish. Yeah, Commish, I always tend to ask you where the next draft is going to be. Obviously, D.C. next year, but the one after that, I know you're not going to answer that. But how long is the list of cities now trying to line up to get the draft?

51:52And what does it compare to the list of cities trying to get to the Super Bowl? Good question, Tone. So there were 10 cities here scouting Pittsburgh doing this draft. So that tells you what the answer is. It's a long list. And I think it's because more cities can actually host the draft than they can the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl has gotten to the point where it's not the stadium size. Weather. Weather's an issue. But also it's just hotel rooms. All the other facilities are necessary. This is slightly easier, but it's getting more difficult. And so the draft, you know, the bar's being raised.

52:33And we're going to probably have to start allocating the drafts a little further in advance because you need to hold the hotel rooms. You need to hold the facilities. I mean, look at this is a great location, but it's also got great facilities here. You don't have this in every city.

52:49Pat McAfee:Yeah, I think Pittsburgh's excited for it. I'll tell you what, the locals, us included, were a little bit worried about how anybody was going to get here. And then last night, you know, the population of Pittsburgh is like 303 ,000 or something. So they're being 320-some thousand. Who are those, 17 ,000? I don't know how everybody got here, but we are certainly pumped for the weather. Yeah, but don't forget, there's one other great factor for this community. It is accessible to so many NFL markets. So we saw a lot of fans out there from other cities, which is also great for this community. Yeah, absolutely.

53:22Pat McAfee:That's why Indianapolis would be a phenomenal host for that. Ty has a question for you, Commish. Yeah, Commish, a couple years removed from the dynamic kickoff now. Wow. And, you know, Coach Kauer was telling us last night how much he loves the new kickoff, loves everything about it, loves the way it looks. For anyone who still doesn't really like it, I assume all the data that's there, everything's good. And is that kind of like, hey, if you don't like it, this is kind of what we're sticking with for the time being? Or is that still being tweaked a little bit? So we did tweak it this year. It was really just more on the formation side of it.

53:52But we think it's going to help because we're always looking to see, can we make it safer? that the only two players that we didn't get the kind of safety we wanted were the returner and the tackler. And a lot of that was technique. We had some bad technique on some of those concussions on the kickoff. But also we think the formation might help where we can get a blocker over there and it might help shield that a little bit. But listen, we brought 1 ,100 returns back into the game, an exciting play. I think it's hard for people to adjust visually. You look at it and you go, what's going on here?

54:29And the president always says, the ball's in the air and nobody's moving. And I get it. But I think you visually get used to that after. I mean, it's a year and I think people got used to it at the end of the season.

54:43Pat McAfee:33-yard extra point was also weird. Now it's just natural. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. And listen, I know you'll agree with me. I hope you will. Despite Coach ripping it. Special teams belong as part of the game. He's a special teams guy. He used to be a special teams guy. I agree. Yeah. It's part of the game. It is important. You were wrapping them because that was one of your games. The special teams lost your one game. It did cost you one game. I'll tell you, hitting Yari Jeanette in the return game is a part of it right now. And so, hey, listen, I'm all for the return. Again, I go back to this.

55:17No, I know you are. I know you are. But I think it brought all the special teams back in. It did. I think so.

55:21Pat McAfee:So if you wouldn't want it the other way, I mean, all the special teams would have immediately started getting cut. You put a spotlight back on it. It does look weird, for sure. I think we all agree with that. But that's been a kickoff drill in practice for NFL teams for 100 years. Let's save the legs. Let's not run as far. So it's only going to get better and better, I think, as you guys continue to evolve. Thank you for that. We got to get out of here at a hard out in like a minute and a half. I know you have a busy day. I'd like to commend you for 10 minutes to 8 minutes, 2 hours and 53 minutes last night.

55:50Pat McAfee:It feels like you found your stride. I think all the networks, ourselves included, are going to have to figure out the new, right? Because when a draft pick happens, okay, we got a video feature. We got a conversation. We got an analyst. We got a story. Yeah, you got a lot to get in. So now, I think with how it's going to be, which I think we all like, by the way, 253, just have to adjust it a little bit. I think what you did was special. I think last night was sweet. The show was incredible. I think you felt the same, yeah? Yes, the pace was much better. And listen, it didn't seem to hurt trading.

56:18No. We had a lot of trades, and that was, I think, a worry of some of the clubs. But at the end of the day, you know, I think Coach McCarthy said it really well. He said, I've got to make a decision on my play in 40 seconds. 100%. Yes, he did. I could not agree, Roger. I think it was the best thing you could have done. I think all those places right now makes you have to make a decision, you know, sit there and wait whether or not you want to wait to see a phone comes. It's going to come. A lot of the conversations are taking place, of course, in the day and the day before. because they know right now on that day you've got to make a decision.

56:51Pat McAfee:I thought it was fun, man. I thought you guys did a great job. It was great. Did I say your first draft was six hours? The first round was six hours. Is that what McCarthy put out, I think, in the tweet? In 2007 it was six hours. It used to be. BMAC, was it six hours? Yeah. Six hours? The first round, his first draft, was right there in the tweet. Holy shit. Jeez. That's what? Those are Mike and Mike? No. Yeah, but I think that. That might have been 15 minutes. Mike and the Mad Dog, yeah. Was that 15 minutes? It was probably 15. I think it was 15 minutes. That's crazy. Six hours for one round?

57:20Pat McAfee:Yes. I'll tell you what. The first one we did seven years ago, it felt like it was like a 10-hour show. Yeah. Last night flew by. It was a blur. Like, we were at, and it felt like 23 to 32 was just very quick. That's where it really sped up, by the way. And on that note, your suit looked, hey. Immaculate. You looked like a president last night. Perfect. Yeah. I think you did it. I think you did it. Hey, I think you really did it. Hey, how's your back anyway? Did nobody give you a big hug or anything? There were a couple that got to me, but it was all right. You look like you kind of trained for yourself.

57:49There were less big boys last night, I think.

57:52Pat McAfee:How many? There was three? Nine. Nine, yeah. How did you feel about Fernando not coming to 1B with his family? Felt like it was the right decision. I understood what he was doing. I respect that. Listen. But it is kind of the, hey, you're getting welcomed into the league. You know, it's an interesting dynamic for you probably as well. It is. But, you know, you have to respect the considerations that he had with his family. And I totally get that. Totally get that. I think the Vegas Raiders got a good one. I did appreciate seeing this whole family celebrate. There was a couple clips that people put out.

58:22Pat McAfee:It was like, well, he got a call, and then it was announced on TV. So it's two different moments. I think people are attacking him. But what the draft has become is special. I think people are honored to be here. There was a guy that didn't get drafted last night. He was staying for tonight, right? He's coming back. I talked to him last night. Great kid. Great kid. He's excited to come back. The Make-A-Wish stuff, I think, was really good. I mean, it was a great show last night. You made Dylan a star. He couldn't be happy. Yeah. The Taps family? The Giants? When you were telling his story, Dylan, and you said he's a two-time, I've never seen somebody flex that.

58:55Pat McAfee:Two-time, two-time. That was good. He's from Ohio, as you could have guessed. He's a great kid. Yeah, he's awesome. He's a great kid. I thought he was going to eat that microphone. Wiz Khalifa, Brett Michaels tonight. I assume there's more surprises. I'll be making the Colts pick. A bunch of people are going to be making picks for their teams. I'm going to give you a good name tonight. We're going to test you tonight. You know what happened last time? Uh-uh. What did you have? The guy changed his name entirely like three years into his career, and they run my clip. I look like the biggest asshole of all time.

59:27Pat McAfee:Bobby Okereke out of Stanford is how it was. Three years into his career, I think, he changed it to Bobby Okereke, which is proper pronunciation, I do believe. So everybody, as soon as he announces that, he said, I just would like people to call me the right name. Immediately, I get sent out there. Including McAfee. Yeah, exactly. This is how people have been disrespecting him, his entire culture. I'm like, wow, I read a card. I read a card. You do a great job. By the way, that's out there still. When Brett Favre was announced, it was Brett Favre, as I recall, right? And I always remember that.

1:00:02You never want that to happen. Oh, it's the biggest day in people's lives.

1:00:06Pat McAfee:And I appreciate the fact that you seemingly still understand that for everybody. We work at it. I got a lot of help back there. Let's just put it that way. It's awesome. Incredible team. BMAC looks fit, too. I mean, look at him. Let's not go too far. He's a power player. He says, hey, man, you want to go donate$100 ,000 to some local charity with a field goal kick in the inside? Sure, dude. Screw it. Probably do it. Honored to be here. Thankful to be here. You guys have taken over the city. You've made an incredible festival. Everything you do is big, and it's an honor to watch you work. How much longer are you doing this for?

1:00:36Pat McAfee:How much longer have you signed a new deal? You talked to that young lady over there. How long? How long? My wife Jane is in charge of that one. She's the best, by the way. Absolute beast. But how long? Is it four more? I forget. I don't even pay attention to that. I'm just focusing on the job, Pat. I'm just doing my thing. As long as I can get to the line of scrimmage, I'm going. You're good. Love that. You keep dodging everything else. You're still playing. When we have our dinner, we won't be dodging. Except when the check comes. That's when he dodges. We saw that. I know. Ladies and gentlemen, the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell.

1:01:18Thank you, guys.

1:01:20Pat McAfee:Thanks, bud.

1:01:26Pat McAfee:Thank you. You're the best. As we head to a hard out here on ESPN on this Feel Good Friday, round two, round three of the NFL draft happening this evening here in beautiful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The next hour, Curtis Martin, what a legend. Sir. Scott, it's an honor to see you, dude. Appreciate you, man. Yeah, great to see you. The stars are out. The legends are out. The next generation of NFL draft picks continues to be announced here tonight. We're back on the other side. Wiz Khalifa will join us, as with many others. Goodbye! Bye.

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1:03:14Pat McAfee:Tonight will be the home of the round two and round three of the 2026 NFL Draft. So many surprises in store. So many new dreams coming true. as the Ingers, who made a historic record last night, continue to file into this hot-ass gold lot outside of Accrashire Stadium as we continue to celebrate the next generation of the NFL. See some familiar faces down here. And I would like to say for some of them, you're starting too early, bud. You are starting way too early, coach. You're starting way too early down there. Talks at the tables here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. Boys, good to see you.

1:03:53Pat McAfee:The con man I see with the Kennywoods quarters. It feels like we've been here for a year. Yeah. It has been fantastic. Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, Pittsburgh is just one of those cities. It's very easy to fall in love with. Kennywood from the start was incredible. And then just experiencing all the people. I feel like there's been multiple times where we've just run into, whether it be someone at the hotel, someone at the restaurant, at the tap room, down there at the Omni. Like, the accent needs to be known more. I didn't know the Pittsburgh accent until I actually started working with you guys and knowing what Pittsburgh is all about.

1:04:26It is comedy. I mean, I will think about going to Crafton and going to Serafino's for so long. Just the interactions. I mean, at one point, a guy came in, shook Bill Cowher's hand. Words were said that I didn't even understand. And then it just ended with a ha, ha, ha, ha. Like, those interactions, you don't get it. Like, everywhere. And Boston is a very similar place. So naturally, I'm drawn to Pittsburgh. But even just going around and just salt of the earth people, man, it really has been an incredible start to finish. That's Joe Cogwar.

1:04:58Pat McAfee:He's the owner of Serafino's. He's from Crafton. Obviously, Bill Cower from Crafton, a part of Pittsburgh. It's about four miles up over that hill over there. He has a lane that was behind his house where he grew up called Cower Way now. They wanted to give him a bridge. They wanted to give him another street. He said, I ain't do nothing on that bridge. I get stuff in the back of my house here. So we got a chance to really experience a Bill Cowher reunion with Pittsburgh. He's certainly been welcomed back here, as have we, Ty. It has been a fascinating thing. It really does feel like this city knows us, I think.

1:05:32Pat McAfee:It is a very fascinating thing. Being from here, okay, I used to roam this parking lot. Yeah. Having a great time. Having a great time. I mean, that Science Center that we did the event at, every kid in Pittsburgh took a field trip to as a child. We rented the whole place out and had it. It was like, this has been a fever dream. Kennywood. We had our own Kennywood picnic day. That's the wildest. Yeah, exactly. That's the wildest. All of it's been the wildest. Coach Coward just hanging out with us. I mean, it has been a fever dream. And I think we all have felt it, right? It's not just me and Tone that have kind of experienced this alongside Nick.

1:06:04No, absolutely. And I think, you know, watching the football town, not being from here, like it gives you kind of an idea how much pride. I mean, everyone has pride in where they're from. But like that kind of just took it to another level. And that was a nice little precursor for the week. And it's crazy to say, but it seems like, you know, God is smiling down upon Pittsburgh this week with how nice the weather has been. Like you said that before we came out here, you know, it's like, hey, I know you guys are looking at the weather. It says 72 to 80 and sunny, like it's going to rain. Okay. It's going to rain a bunch.

1:06:35So just kind of jot that down. That's going to happen. And it hasn't. This has been of all the drafts we've done, you know, and it was very special for me last year being in Green Bay and everything. But the way Pittsburgh showed out, the weather, how much fun last night was, they've hit it out of the park. This has been an incredible week.

1:06:52Pat McAfee:I got emotional last night, Ten. There was a couple different times where I looked that way, and there was just a sea of yinzers. Just a sea of yinzers having a good time together. Literally, I think that is something that we try to promote. We would like everybody to just have a good time. That's why we like sports. Sports are a place where people come together, all different backgrounds, and have a good time. Now, that good time can become terrible. Especially if you're like a Dolphins fan or something.

1:07:21Pat McAfee:Guys addicted to Coca-Cola. That's what they're saying. But watching Yinzers come together the way, watch our city get kind of showcased the way it has been, and then finding out, you know, that Raj has actual Yinzer ties. Spent five years here before he went to the NFL. I think he worked for one of the steel mills. He wasn't in the steel mill, but he did that part. I mean, it's just like this has been a special couple of days. I got emotional last night a little bit, Tom. Yeah, I did, too. When we first walked up here, when we first got here, and you just kind of look out. I got chills. I got goosebumps.

1:07:52Because before we did this, I would have been one of these Ian's just standing out here just hammer drunk yelling things at you guys. That literally would have been what I was doing. So, I was like, it was odd. It was cool. Super cool to see. The city looks beautiful. Everyone's been awesome. Normally, like, when we're in cities like this and we have any downtime, taking some time to myself in the room. yesterday actually got out by myself and walked around like it just felt really cool to be home and like just to feel it again it was awesome wrestlemania was like five days ago or something

1:08:19Pat McAfee:like that so it's obviously been quite a blur but aj pittsburgh has uh kind of won you over it feels like huh you feel like you're a yinzer now as opposed to an uh hiya bum i wouldn't want to disrespect the yinzers by claiming to be a yinzer but i feel like i understand them a little bit more being here spending spending some time i've been uh you know i've played in pittsburgh i've got plenty of friends from Pittsburgh. I have a lot of friends from the Youngstown area who they definitely identify a lot with. A lot of the Pittsburgh things are Penns fans, Pirates fans. But no, it's like a, it feels like one big family here.

1:08:51That's what I think Pittsburgh is. A big family that is, communicates. Yeah, you may fight a little bit, may argue a little bit back and forth, but they fight hard, they love hard. I love everything about it.

1:09:00Pat McAfee:We've had a good time, and to be honest, haven't been able to really go out, which was a little bit of a worry, because restaurants were like, we're not actually packed to the gills. Then there were some places Some hotels were like, we're only at 70 % occupancy or 80 % occupancy or something. Then you listen to Frank, he goes,$800? Yeah, right. For what? I'm not going downtown for$800. I was worried. I was very worried. Penn thought, and I said this in the first hour, we learned this, putting signs up on the highways instead of Parkway, okay, kind of just goes through time. Okay, it's the one that is the tunnel.

1:09:37Pat McAfee:The tunnels are connected by the Parkway. That is the two lanes in, two lanes out on either side. To the South Hills through Fort Pitt, to the East Hills through Squirrel Hill. The parkway is the... Signs on the parkway facing both ways saying, Don't think about it. Stay out. Just don't. You know what's about to happen. Signs are saying that on the road. Pull over, get out of your car, walk home. That was kind of... Code red was basically the statement. 320-some thousand. There was a lot of yinzers because you saw them after the pick was made last night. How many? Gone. So many. So tonight should be special.

1:10:15Pat McAfee:I love that the NFL draft has become such a big deal. I like that we are a part of it. How long will we be a part of it? We'll see. Get signed up for some stuff that I just found out about this morning. I don't necessarily always love that type of shit. Trying to balance right now. Sure. They've been good to me. It is Pittsburgh. They've been good to me. that would be a terrible three hours of my life. At least. But sounds like you've already said it's going to happen. Don't love that type of stuff. But it's a part of the festival. So, like, I am lucky and thankful that we're here and appreciative of the city kicking ass.

1:10:53Pat McAfee:You mentioned something there, which we certainly have to talk. The NFL draft, the rating is going to be higher than anything else that's happening right now. There's going to be more interest, more discussion, because that's what the NFL is right now. We're in playoff season right now. And tonight is actually a massive evening for all of it. Con man, I didn't get a chance to see it. None of us got a chance to really watch playoff anything last night as we were plugged in. Schrager was actually raw dog in this entire thing without his entire phone. Playoffs, though, very active right now, Con man.

1:11:19Yeah, and you just mentioned the ratings. I believe the first games for the Penguins series against the Fires, the Bruins series against the Sabres, and I want to say the Wild series against the Stars, all those games were up over 100 % from the year before. I think the Pens got over 2 million people. But, yeah, to your point, that series isn't going great. There really isn't too many great NHL series right now. I think there's three of them that are 3-0. Pens, Flyers. Flyers are up 3-0, unfortunately. We just have to talk about it. The Carolina Hurricanes are up 3-0. Yeah, we have the graphic here.

1:11:53And then also, I think it's the Avalanche. Yep, up 3-0 on the Kings. Bruins lost last night. That's just going to happen. Got a couple game threes coming. and the spacing of the games has been weird. Utah tonight, this will be the debut of the Utah Mammoth, you know, in the playoffs, home opener. Salt Lake City kind of gets to show out a little bit. Lightning Canadians, both of those games have gone to OT. That should be a great one. Oilers-Ducks, also surprising. McDavid, not just kind of running rough shop against everybody. That'll be a good series. And then basketball, kind of the same thing, except the other way.

1:12:30We thought it was going to be, hey, a bunch of blowouts. 3-0, something like that for a bunch of teams. No, no. The Raptors got a victory last night against the Cavs. That one was huge. The New York Knicks are down 2-1 against the Atlanta Hawks. Soldier Boy came out just in the middle of some random timeout in the second quarter last night. What did he say? Soldier Boy or Big Miss? Oh, yeah. You know what he said? Yeah, everybody was. Watch me crank it. Watch me roll. Yeah, they were cranking it like Shrakes was rod-dogging it. Super.

1:13:06Pat McAfee:What year was that? 2005. College. Yeah, it was college for sure. That just took me back. Yes. Say this. On a table. But yeah, Knicks down 2-1 is crazy. Kind of the story. The Nuggets are down 2-1 to the Wolves. Ant-Man showing up. Like, the NBA first round, as much as we kind of dogged it, has been much better thus far. The spacing of the games, again, is weird. Lakers, Rockets, game three. Celtics, Sixers, game three. Spurs, Blazers, game three. Even though it started, you know, over the weekend, you would think that'd be a little further along. Wemby traveled. Is he playing? Do we know? Wemby, the spread would say Wemby probably isn't playing because it's only two and a half.

1:13:48And he bopped his head off the ground harder than anybody in the history of basketball. But we'll see on Amazon tonight. Tonight is the playoffs, I think, first time since the play-in debacle.

1:13:59Pat McAfee:All right, I don't know if we'll see it, but others should. We will certainly keep up with it through the highlights and the scores. Second and third round of the NFL draft is going to outrate everything. Yeah, no doubt. This weekend, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh rounds. Those are going to do massive numbers because it could be anybody, AJ. When you think back to last night, Caleb Downs, obviously the Cowboys, we think is huge. Arvel Rees going at some point, obviously a big deal. The Buckeyes kind of getting pushed. Sonny Stiles to the Commanders. I think that is a gigantic play. When you think about all the decisions that were made, which franchise do you think actually changed last night?

1:14:32Pat McAfee:Vegas Raiders? Hey, obviously that's an easy answer because they draft what we all think is the quarterback of the future. How many games does he wait behind Kirk Cousins before he gets to play? I guess that's kind of what we're all waiting on. Kirk Cousins knows this offense, didn't really know the Atlanta offense, so I think there is a little bit of a resurgence potential for Kirk Cousins out there. David Bailey, the Jets not having any leaks. Yeah. Sportsbooks were wrong. That's crazy. Sportsbooks have all the leaks, you would think, because they're obviously the most at risk, I guess, for having information.

1:15:02Pat McAfee:So they are aggregating every piece of information from every insider. They had no idea. That's very abnormal, I think, for the Jets organization as a whole. I think that's a good sign for them as a whole. Go ahead, Adrian. I like the Jets with Kenyon Sadiq and Omar Cooper Jr. You talk about adding some offensive firepower. That's what they need. And is everyone already saying, hey, they're going to be terrible this year, but we're working for 2027? Yes, pretty much. That's legit. I mean, obviously in the building, the head coach, the other, the assistants, the GM, they're not saying that the players still feel like they have a chance, but I feel, I feel like they absolutely got better last night.

1:15:34Now, once again, you can't really judge a draft until two, three, four years down the road, I guess.

1:15:39Pat McAfee:Yeah. I, uh, no, we judge. You know, like, uh, you know, guys had tattoos when I was, when I was coming up, guys had tattoos. Only God can judge me. And I'd say that's true, but I can too. I'm, we're all judging you as well. Like, a couple of my buddies had them misspelled as well, so that was another judgment. Okay, so let's go to a clip here from last night. Tone, I can't wait to get your take on it. I would also, I don't know, you guys can't see anything, right? Can you see? Can they hear? Can you hear? You can hear? All right, I'm excited to get your guys' opinions on this situation from last night, which has the Inzers in a stir.

1:16:21Pat McAfee:Omar Khan. Let's go. Let's go. Come on, man. Let's go. Let's go. Hey, why? Philly color. I want to get you. Oh, Philly just traded for you. I love it. This is Philly. He just traded for you. Philly's picking you right now. Okay, so. I don't like that guy. What? The agent? That agent? He looks like a scumbag. Yeah, so I think a lot of Yenzers think that Omar gets played here. And the Eagles beat them again. I've gotten text message during this show saying, are you going to talk about Omar getting beat by the Philadelphia Eagles? Who said that? I don't want to give exact names right now. They were at the event the other night, though.

1:17:03Pat McAfee:And I will say that this is a pretty negative reaction from the Ingers fans. And would you rather? I think Kyle Evans is going to be a good football player. Okay, I'm excited for him and Sirianni in that locker room and Jalen Hurts. Sure. Yep. To all figure it out. Sure. Okay, I'm certainly figured out for that. But offensive line, though, in Pittsburgh, they end up with, it feels like an interesting reaction here by the Yenzers that I didn't fully expect, but Omar's got heat right now. So you know, we've talked about it all today, you know Yenzers. So Mekhi Lemon is the bigger name. He's the Blitnikoff Award winner.

1:17:33For years, Seals were known at being great at drafting wide receivers. And then over the last couple years is what we've struggled. We don't have any wide receivers, blah, blah, blah. So for years, the Seals fans have been in the craze about getting wide receivers. So, yes, Mekhi Lemon falling. Obviously, Steelers fans, they know him. They see him. He's a wide receiver. They want him. And then the Steelers take Max Iannachor. After that, the video comes out, so they think that he's the second pick or the second choice for the Steelers, so they don't love that. Then also him not playing football until he was 21 years old – or sorry, 2021, and being maybe labeled as a project.

1:18:07And then they think the Steelers are a win-now team, but you draft a project. They're just – all of that combined makes them really mad. But as you know, and I know, we know that the Steelers love Big Macs. And I think they are very, very happy with that pick. I'm very, very happy with that pick. I watched his tape last night against David Bailey. I watched his tape last night against Malachi Lawrence. It's incredible. I am very, very excited for this pick. It also feels like there's been a little bit of a turn, like, because of the last couple Super Bowls with how much you need O-line and D-line, that when these O-linemen get drafted, it's not anymore like, oh, great.

1:18:40Unless, granted, unless your old lineman is named after a donut brand and is addicted to pop, like, for the most part, people when they get offensive linemen now, allegedly, people when they get offensive linemen now are juiced because it does immediately kind of result in those victories.

1:18:57Pat McAfee:Most offensive linemen picked in first round. Common draft era. 1968, boy, the big boys were good. Man of them. We're running the ball 80 times a game. the offensive lineman nine last i thought it was ten i guess that guard didn't end up getting picked towards the end that was potentially going to get taken seven uh offensive tackles two guards so nine in total for the big guys aj i think that's indicative of where we are in football right i think it's a good thing too we always talk about football being cyclical and all this stuff and it's going back to the old school days now it's never going to be three yards in a cloud of dust that's an old old school woody hayes ohio state thing but yeah i think con man's right when you think about oh I'm getting drafted in the past what do you hear like a groan from the back in the day they cut at Radio City Music Hall to the section of that team's fans and they're all like okay and they don't really they don't really know now I feel like fans are they're informed and they understand okay this is an absolute must if we want to win.

1:19:55Pat McAfee:Stephen Jones of the Dallas Cowboys made some plays last night congrats to Cowboys Caleb Downs we're obviously a massive fan trade up and make that particular play they also came up and said hey we're not trading George Pickens. He's going to be playing on a franchise tag. Do you believe him? Malachi Lawrence ends up as a Dallas Cowboy. Caleb Dons ends up as a Dallas Cowboy. A lot of moves made by them. George Pickens signed his franchise tag yesterday. That came after the Dallas Cowboys came out and said, he's playing on a franchise tag whether he likes it or not. That is kind of the messaging that came out there.

1:20:26Pat McAfee:We know that George Pickens, former Pittsburgh Steeler, is represented by David Molageta. David Molageta is the man who has the most amount of guaranteed money in contract negotiations with the NFL at every single position. Would he want his client or advise his client to be playing on a franchise tag, which is something that nobody really wants to do? We would assume business-wise, Mulageta would say no to that. But does George Pickens want another year of guaranteed money for a chance to run up the bank account yet again after having his best season that he's had as a pro? I'm excited to see how it all plays out, but it feels like George Pickens is going to be getting traded from the Dallas Cowboys.

1:21:07Pat McAfee:But the Cowboys publicly this early coming out and saying, no, we're not trade is a crazy situation in Dallas. I really don't know what to do because I love the draft. Yeah, I love what they're doing. This George Pickens situation screams Dallas Cowboys drama coming right around the corner. Yeah, it definitely does. And it'll be interesting. Again, we don't know what their relationship is like behind closed doors, but it'll be interesting if Jerry's tenor changes towards David Mooligetza because with the whole, you know, Micah Parsons thing, he was kind of dismissive and just like, I don't talk to the agent.

1:21:38I don't really communicate with them. I had a deal in place with Michael. So, you know, and obviously as an agent, you can't, I'm guessing, you know, David Mooligetza is probably not holding a whole bunch of deep-seated grudges because you know you have to work with these guys. But yeah, I think that was kind of everyone's initial thought when we saw that George Pickens got franchise tagged was, okay, this guy's going to get traded, whether it's tonight or the next couple days.

1:22:02Pat McAfee:We potentially saw Mugeta just hours after the George Pickens news was announced. And it took him a little bit longer to get into the event than some others, which I don't think he was necessarily thrilled about. Neither was I, strictly because I don't think people knew exactly who. Casual hoodie jeans walking in. You got some security people that are certainly working the weekend that aren't supposed to have some power. You know, Mool Guts is just standing there. That guy is worth billions of dollars. Yeah. Okay, just kind of hanging out. He walks into the event on Tuesday night. We all immediately go, Jerry's trying you a little bit.

1:22:36Pat McAfee:He goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I've done business with the Cowboys before. This will go, hey, I'm just working for my clients. Whatever George wants to do, we will do whatever. There's obviously a conversation. And he, this is him, nine in the first round last night. Yeah. A1. Now, it's not just Mullah Gets. Obviously, Athletes First has a massive company. Gumpy. They got a lot of people at Athletes First, don't they? A lot of them. We were invited, potentially, to one of their gatherings, their parties. And I thought it was going to be like a dinner of some sort. Sure. So, I don't think I knew what we were signing up for.

1:23:13Pat McAfee:We'll stop there before having to go somewhere else. We walk in there. A million people. Okay. In an area packed. Everybody having a good time. But I said, there's no way I'm going. It did. It looked like what the draft looked like last night. That's what it looked like last night because of how many people they have, agents, players, you get it. But he had a massive night last night, as did Excel. Good for them. Used to be big in sports media. Now moving into the player reps. CAA down there at three. Uh-oh. Okay. Uh-oh. Ty Simpson obviously gets a third in there. Wynn Sports Group with three.

1:23:47Pat McAfee:Clutch. Rich Paul getting into the game with two. Rosenau still throwing it. Vayner Sports has two. Is that all elite? Athlete. Oh. AEW Sports. AEA won GSE worldwide. Wide. Wide. Prestige. Wide. Investors? Potentially you. Good for GSE worldwide. Yeah. Priority Sports, The Famille. I like that. Sean Stolato. I like that. Young Money, APAA Sports, still doing it. Nicole, right? Nicole, who reps Jalen. Yeah. I believe is big Young Money. Okay. I do believe. She's done so much damage, obviously. Younger and Associates, just a lawyer. Yeah. Just a couple lawyers. Yeah, you get drafted in there. And then On Time Agency.

1:24:45Pat McAfee:Not bad. Because it's about their time on time. Congrats to all the agencies, obviously, getting guys in there. And then the Big Ten wins. Yeah, they did. Again. January 19th, Indiana wins the National Football Championship. UCLA wins the Women's Basketball Championship. Michigan wins the Men's Basketball Championship. Five players picked in the first round of the WNBA draft. Okay, thank you. No big deal. And then 10 players selected in the first round of the NFL draft, most of any conference. Big Ten, the North is coming. And I don't think it's slow and done. No. And the fact that UCLA is part of the Big Ten, A lot of people are going to say, okay, it is just the way it is, Ty.

1:25:22Pat McAfee:That's exactly right. Big Ten has the most talent, most championship, most money. Most money. Yeah, it feels like that's what the case is. Most grit. Yeah, most grit. You can throw that in there. And listen, hey, you know, it's not my fault that UCLA and USC are in the Big Ten. You know, that was an option. Other conferences could have went out and got them. I believe UCLA and USC, who are, you know, kind of scions of the college football, college athletic industry, they said, you know what? We want to go where we're going to be tested. We want to go to what is the best conference. And it really wasn't even a conversation.

1:25:52I don't think Greg Sankey ever even got the chance to kind of get on the line. They went right to the Big Ten. And, you know, that's kind of the way it should be, unfortunately.

1:26:00Pat McAfee:I do wonder how Sankey feels about it all. Because he's not just going to sit back and just let this happen. No, he's not. But can he do anything? Doesn't seem like it. I don't know if he can do anything. Sankey? Can't do anything about it? What can he do? They're saying SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey can't do anything. What's he going to fund these schools himself? Might have to. He's got a big college baseball playoff coming up. Big softball World Series. Like, they need to win those. Because not included on there also is Wisconsin won the women's national championship in hockey. And they went to the finals.

1:26:34Unfortunately, Denver won it for the men. So, I'm just saying, if Sankey doesn't make a couple moves, we're talking about him basically being the commissioner of what? The Mountain West Conference? Oh, my God.

1:26:44Pat McAfee:What are you guys saying? No, I'm not saying that. But I'm also saying, you know, Conman mentioned baseball. I hope he's not putting all his eggs in that basket because UCLA is the number one baseball team in the country. They're from the Big Ten. And West Virginia, I believe, is climbing the board every single day. Our bats got to get hot. Our bats got to get hot. They will. It's a tough score the other night. Yeah, it was 19-1 in the fourth. Baseball? That was a baseball score? Yeah. That was against Pitt. I don't know Pitt had a baseball team. A big rivalry. They are, yeah. No, baseball team.

1:27:17A lot of each hit Pitt last night. Yeah, a lot of Mountaineers out here.

1:27:20Pat McAfee:Check those bats. It was great to see. Yeah, maybe they could have been. Let's talk about rounds two and three that are happening this evening for the draft. Who's the best available in Adam Schefter's tweet? Well, he says Denzel Boston, who some people thought maybe going to be a first-rounder. Zion Young's name was mentioned a certain amount of time. Jermon McCoy, the man that's shown right there. Injuries potentially holding him back. Everybody thought he was a massive talent. Definitely first-round talent. Has a recovery rehab situation where he ran well in his workouts, but he didn't do drills well, so people are a little bit gun-shy on ways to maybe a first-rounder.

1:27:54Pat McAfee:But if he gets picked up and he gets healthy, he's definitely a first-round talent that slips to a team. Tonight, there's some stars available. Yeah, so his 2024 tape was the best of any corner. If he was healthy, he would have gone as the number one corner last night, but he's not healthy. He ran a 4-3-8 at his pro day, but they said that the position drills didn't look great. 11 of those 13 guys up there were somewhere in people's first round and box. So whether they go tonight or last night, whatever, they're still really good players. I have there's a there's going to be a run on corners that that DJ talked about last night, like McCoy, Terrell, Hood, Stukes, Keontae Scott, D 'Angelo Pons.

1:28:30Those are all really good corners. Denzel Boston, the wide receiver that we talked about. Caden McDonald, the tackle out of Ohio State was potentially a first round pick. Yeah, the linebacker, Jake Rodriguez, the linebacker. And then C.J. Allen and Anthony Hill are also linebackers from Texas and Georgia who are really good. Those are the guys that, like, are kind of marquee for the second round of the nation.

1:28:47Pat McAfee:Jake Hall, but Rodriguez cannot wait to watch what he becomes. Maybe he's a Colt. He might be. Could be. That's a position of need for them for sure. Who's picked number 57? Heinz? What team is picked number 57? Do we know? The Colts? Is it? I don't know. I thought you might be announcing it. The Bears. It's the Bears. Okay? It's the Bears. which is the perfect pick for this because the way that time speaks about hot dogs and what's a lot on it and what's not a lot on it. Say hello to Mr. 57 Heinz ketchup is going to be supplying whoever is pick number 57 in honor of Heinz 57, right here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the greatest ketchup on earth.

1:29:28Pat McAfee:It is good on everything, including hot dogs. Yeah. Don't be stupid. Okay. especially with the Bears hosting Mr. 57 here tonight. Go ahead and celebrate that. Going to get a lifetime partnership with Heinz. That's huge. And a custom Heinz jacket. Seriously? AJ, you can re-enlist for the draft, pal, if this is getting the zipper burn going for you. I think we have Mr. Irrelevant, who's the last pick, who gets a parade, I do believe. Mr. 57 sounds like, going forward, maybe has the best prize of them all, including the number one overall pick. I'm with you. I am a Heinz ketchup person. That is absolutely the ketchup I choose.

1:30:11But I do wonder how much a lifetime supply is. Like when they say, hey, you have a lifetime supply of beer, that's much different for me to you.

1:30:18Pat McAfee:And also, nobody actually is able to finish a full Heinz bottle because there's always stuff around the bottle. Yeah, that's right. You know, you could do the squirtsy ones. Heinz better than all the other shit ketchups, by the way. You know, with the squirt one, that came in. That came into the game. Somehow Heinz not only created the bottle and said hey, we got the best ketchup. They also eliminated the the goop Yeah, yeah Yeah, whenever you're doing the shitty red gold or the other catch up I wouldn't have to shake it but with Heinz they say let us take care of that for you. You don't have to shake Perfect ketchup in there.

1:30:51Pat McAfee:Okay, so obviously that's good. I'm rolling through two to three bottles a month a month Am I wait what size bottle the classic just no human side? Damn. We're talking on everything, bud. Everything. You put on eggs? Definitely. That's a lot of ketchup. Two, three bottles. Two, three bottles. Mackenzie likes it as well. I was going to say that. Mackenzie likes it as well. I would love to be drafted Mr. 57. I do like the jacket. Yeah, it's unbelievable. I wore a jacket like that to the Rose Bowl a few times. What are you talking about? It's a lot of ketchup. What do you put ketchup on? Nothing.

1:31:24Pat McAfee:White rice and chicken. I don't need ketchup for like French fries. But, like, if hot dog, boom, ketchup all day. French fries, you don't do ketchup. I can, but I don't need it. We know you can. Chicken Nuggies, Nuggies, I want to dip in ketchup. Okay. You ever had a cheeseburger? Yes, cheeseburger, ketchup all day long. Cheeseburger in paradise. Jimmy Buffett, legend, yes. Hans 57 and Frank. I hope he got paid for that. Who? Jimmy Buffett. He did. He got ketchup. Lifetime supply. Per sailboat. So let's make sure we're celebrating Mr. 57 tonight. That'll be a huge one. properly. Chicago having that is just...

1:32:03It is a bit of a chef's kick. Except they're going to be the Indiana Bears probably.

1:32:07Pat McAfee:Pro Football Talk and many others are reporting that Illinois is considered giving the Bears a property tax break to keep them from leaving for Indiana. Then there's also some other news breaking that, yeah, they're giving them a tax break conversation. Now, this has been in the work for years. I would assume they were thinking about moving, then they weren't moving. then obviously Soldier Field is where it is. What's that going to become? Indiana got into the game. They're like, hey, you want to build a stadium just for 25 minutes away from where you are? We will certainly be able to provide everything.

1:32:36Pat McAfee:You don't have to pay anything. We'll just tax you later whenever it comes in there. So Indiana was able to drive Illinois to potentially making a deal as we have a donut. Yeah, I didn't know if it was a dance circle or what's going on. Kids making wacky faces at the camera. Might be a promo for tonight. That's good. Good energy here on the left side of the circle. Someone's got to do the worm through the circle. 17 in that old Washington jersey. He brought it. He's been doing, like, Irish jigs for a while now. I mean, that's going to be a good clip later. You know, they're going to showcase it.

1:33:06Pat McAfee:Yeah. My favorite is when they do that. Okay? This happens in television production on a regular basis. They get a good one, and their natural TV instincts are, you got to get another one. Don't ever do that. Those people just gave their all right there. Yeah, they're not. They do not ask them to do that again. Sometimes it'll happen in game day. They'll be trying to get like big massive yell and they'll be like all right and Rulman is forced to do this guy who does not speak on a microphone They put him up there and it's his job somehow to drum up the crowd

1:33:46Pat McAfee:And then all of a sudden they'll stop and then somebody be there we weren't recording that one And it's like, can't, can't do that. Because then this guy, who we love, he's going to walk in front of this crowd and go, all right, do it again. It's hard to get humans to do that. So I think they got good juice out of that one. Oh, yeah. I think that's going to be a good piece. Are these people down here for the next 12 hours? Yeah, what are you guys doing? Hey, how you doing? How are you going to see you guys? I'm going to be carrying Coach out of here later. Yeah, Coach Diggs started early. He's much thinner.

1:34:17Pat McAfee:I don't know if he's able to handle as much as he used to. He's been working out two days. He told me two a days. Wow I know you did that I told coach Kyle looked at me last night as I get pads, you know, Pat got you know I started this situation. We could have got Kyle one of them. They should have probably got that those are starting naturally Hopefully got some suntan lotion down there that guy's got his fly down Which one? Oh, you mean Kenny Woods open? They're going to be staying there all day. You guys, I think, should slide down to start the process. We have a Pittsburgh royalty about to join us this evening.

1:34:56Pat McAfee:We cannot wait for this show to continue. Strictly because tonight, not only is it nothing but a good time, but it's also nothing but a good draft. All killer, no filler. Black and yellow. Super Bowl draft. Hello. So ladies and gentlemen joining us now icon legend man is going to be performing tonight and shutting the entire draft down worldwide superstar ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Wiz Khalifa Yeah, Wiz

1:35:43Pat McAfee:Legend, legend, legend

1:35:48Pat McAfee:Welcome home, dude Thank you, man Appreciate you, dude, so much

1:35:59Hey Hey, what's up? Great to see you, man.

1:36:01Pat McAfee:These people love you, obviously. Ladies and gentlemen, Wiz Khalifa. What's up, Pittsburgh? Yeah. Bunch of tailors out there, Wiz. Obviously been there from the beginning. And coming back for draft night, they said 320 ,000 people were here last night. First of all, didn't know Yinzers could do that. They did. How do you feel about tonight? And how do you feel about being asked at the biggest event? I feel crazy about it, man. It feels really good. We were flying in, and I looked down, and I was like, man, it looks like Coachella down there. Yeah. Yeah, Yenzarella happening out here. Yenzchella.

1:36:36Pat McAfee:You're performing with Brent Michaels, right? Yeah, yeah. We saw you and him at, I believe, Jay Glazer's house, amongst many other legendary superstars. Have you and Brent worked together? How do you think this is going to go, and how long are you guys playing for, do you know? It's going to work really well together. He's a professional, and his band is great. Their timing is amazing. and it's just an honor to be able to share the stage with such a legend. He's going to do a set. We'll have a shared set, so it will be him, the me, and then he's going to come back out and close it. He said it was the black and yellow, nothing but a good time, nothing but a good draft, all killer, no filler show.

1:37:13Yeah, that sounds about right. That's what I heard.

1:37:19AJ has a question for you. Yeah, I guess when you are performing with someone like that, different era, different generations. Do you guys have to work together? Do you have to practice before? Do you do soundcheck together? Like, how is, I don't know. Yeah, soundcheck. How do you make it seamless? Our dressing rooms are real close together. So he gets to smell what I'm smoking. There we go. You know what I mean? It's like we're on the same vibration.

1:37:41Pat McAfee:Okay, so how many songs will you be playing tonight? I got four songs. Okay, can't wait to hear them. You're the best. All of them are bangers. You're making new songs right now live on stream. I love where you're at in this chapter of your career. Thank you. Have you been enjoying this? I have been. Very transparent. I have been. It's really, really fun. I've always been a community person, so to be able to be in touch with my community and the people who support me the most is super fun. Yeah, and you're just going to be leaking bangers on there. We're a big fan. You and MGK got saw. Oh, yeah.

1:38:10Yep. We got a whole album, actually, that we're dropping in May. I leaked a couple of the songs on my Twitch, but we're going on tour. The tickets are available. Hopefully you guys pull up and come see us.

1:38:23Pat McAfee:Definitely. Yeah, so we're going to be on tour, and then we're dropping an album as well. Cannot wait to hear it all. Massive fans of both of you. And also, MGK getting back into rapping. Yep. We're happy for him. He came on the show at the Hall of Fame, and I'm like, hey, MGK, I watch you world star hip-hop in a car freestyle, okay? I've been a fan of you as a rapper since then. You're a beast. You're a monster. Eminem killed you. Eminem's going to do that. We don't need you just quitting a genre, though. You were an incredible rapper. It feels like he's getting all the way back. The song you leaked guaranteed won.

1:38:51Pat McAfee:Guaranteed banger. Can't wait to watch you both. Tone has a question for you, Wizz. Yeah, Wizz, Pat and I, obviously both from here. So we talked about earlier how cool it is to come back and, like, see the city on a shine. Is it cool? Is it different when you get to come back here and perform versus performing at other places? Yeah, it's really different, man. When I'm gone, it's – you can get it confused whether people are into it or not or whether they still love it or the support is there or not. But when you come home, the support is so crazy and it's so refreshing and it's so much fun to just see people who know all the different eras of my music and really have been there literally since day one.

1:39:30Yes, I mean, Star Power is still my favorite. See, that's what I'm saying. Star of the year. Star of the year. You should say yeah up there. You should. Yeah, I'm with it, bro. I heard Say Yeah in Cheerleaders last night.

1:39:42Pat McAfee:Cheerleaders still doing it.

1:39:46Controversy.

1:39:47Pat McAfee:Controversy right across the bridge. I didn't know that place existed. We drove by at 3 o 'clock, cheeks out. I think Sayyam was out there, a lot of star power. Ty, has a question for you, Wiz. Yeah, Wiz, last time I guess we saw you, we were here for Big Night Out at PPG, you and Snoop and Pat, and it was incredible. A situation like that compared to being up here, just kind of just like this, I mean, obviously you've played festivals before, but like this wide open park where who knows, there could be 400 ,000, 500 ,000 people here today. How much does that change the way you're going to perform, or does it change it at all?

1:40:21I really just think about everybody. I think about the people who would be at home enjoying this, who are able to just come out and walk out and hear it, you know, just playing if they want to. So this is for the whole city of Pittsburgh. Thank you.

1:40:35Pat McAfee:You're an incredible performer. Yep, thank you. You sound exactly like Spotify. Thank you. I try to. Watched you in rehearsal at Big Night Out. It was fucking outrageous. I mean, there was, what, 35 people in the arena or whatever? You did your full set with Snoop. It sounded exactly like Spotify. You guys go backstage? Yep. I'm getting words from what's happening backstage. You're like, hey, you're missing quite a party backstage right now. I'm like, I assume, yeah, Ernest is back there, Jelly Will is back there, Snoop's back there, Wiz is back there. I assume I'm missing some shit. So I was excited to see where we were.

1:41:10Pat McAfee:You came out there, sounded better than you sounded. You are a phenomenal performer. Thank you. How much work goes into that? Actually. A lot. I tour a lot. I'm always, you know, just trying to step my show up for my fans and just make sure that I'm in tip-top shape. I work out all the time. And just being able to travel and just go different places, it gives me a different perspective of all the different types of people who enjoy my music. So along with, you know, the music being embedded in me, I have a really great time up there on stage. I really enjoy myself. Yeah, and you don't do a lot of sing it.

1:41:45Pat McAfee:Yeah. Now you hit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All the words. You're going to hear everything. You're going to hear everything. Yeah, you don't mail it in at all. I think we were all so impressed because I was just assuming, because especially in Pittsburgh, you could just say, and everything would get hit, and that would be a sick moment. That would be a great time for everybody. You hitting every single word, every single rehearsal, and then through the show, after what I heard that happened in between there. So much respect. Because there's somebody that has to speak into a microphone. I fucking was mind-blowing watching it all happen.

1:42:18Connor has a question for you, Lee. So to that point, how long does it take you to kind of come down after a tour? Like, I think you finished in Australia last week, and then you got North America starting next month. That in-between time, do you need a couple weeks just to kind of get back to, like, baseline? Yeah. What is it kind of like? I'm usually just chilling with my kids. I have a 2-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son. So my son is into sports, making sure that he's, you know, staying committed and in school. And my daughter, you know, just playing with her, making sure we have a good time.

1:42:50I'm into plants. So I'm, you know, messing with watering, replanting, and pieing. Your botanist? Yeah, exactly. Outdoors or indoors? Indoor. Indoor, yeah. I got a green thumb now. Now? Well, it's been green for years, but I'm putting it to use. and just working out, doing yoga and stuff like that. I have like a pretty normal, regular schedule when I'm at the house. I just keep it super chill, super light, because when I'm on the road, it is very demanding. And I don't have all of my stuff in my space that makes me comfortable. So when I'm at home, I really enjoy that stuff and pour all the way into my family, my hobbies, and myself.

1:43:33Pat McAfee:I appreciate you always telling me you believe in me, too, in your captions. Yeah, you know I got you, bro, and I love you. Yeah, well, thank you. Every time I read the caption, I think about it, and then I see you just shredded. Yeah, yep. You look good, too, bro. Thank you. I'm on a lot of science. So I see what you're doing. I'm not doing nearly. I'm not doing nearly enough. But you used to be just a little skinny guy. Uh-huh. Became an absolute dog. Yeah, yep. And I think you actually do do it so you can only get better at your profession. The amount of commitment you've had to who you are, what you are, let alone before you made it, here in Pittsburgh doing shows around the fucking city and hustling everywhere.

1:44:05Pat McAfee:And who, what's his name? Dan. Dan Folger. Yeah, from the beginning. Yep. Same studio, right? You and Mac in there. Yeah, E-Dan. That's what you're talking about. Yeah, E-Dan. Yep, me and Mac. We started out at ID Labs. And now it's crazy because E-Dan's son is producing for us. The kid who ID Labs was named after, Isaac Dan, is making beats and producing for us now. So it's all coming full circle. And we're still keeping it in the family. Yeah, but think about how long that is in a profession that's trying to kick you out of it all the time. Yeah. Bang power, brother, from a guy from Pittsburgh.

1:44:36Pat McAfee:We're grateful to watch you do that. Thank you. I'm grateful to do it. Going to continue to go until the wheels fall off? What's happening? Absolutely, man. When the wheels fall off, we're just going to fly it or sail it or do whatever. Love music. Love music. Yeah, I do, yo. Love writing? Love the process? What is it? I love how music makes you feel. There's only a couple chords and a couple notes, but the language is endless. And the more that we explore it and create, the better it becomes for the people after us. When you started streaming your process, were there people telling you you shouldn't do that?

1:45:10No, there wasn't anybody who told me that. I started out sharing a whole lot just with me behind the scenes. And my personality to my fans is what really brings them on board as well as my talent and my hustle. So you get to see all three of those things through my stream. Yeah, your vlogs are outrageous.

1:45:26Pat McAfee:What is that? Something today. What's the name of your shit? Day to Day. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. See, we have followed along watching you crush everything. Yep. So proud of you, man. You're going to feel the love tonight, I think, in a big way. I can't wait. You and Brett fucking Michaels. Come on. It's just going to be legendary. It is. Thank you for stopping by. We can't wait to watch you tonight. Good luck with everything. Are tickets on sale for the tour already? Yep. Tickets on sale for the tour. New album every month. Follow me on Twitch, Twitter, and Instagram, and TikTok, all that shit.

1:45:57New album every month? Yep. Every month.

1:46:01Pat McAfee:Every month. Okay. All right. So at the end of the month, first of the month, When should we be expecting you? Usually in the middle or the end of each month, because I drop at the end of the month, then you wait until the end of the next month, and then I drop at the end of the next month. Okay, so we have like a spring vibe album coming out? Then like a summer vibe? Like what is the - Every vibe for every month. If you miss one, it's cool, because you can get the next one, and you can always go back and get the last one. You've got to be the first person doing this. Maybe. If not, then call me the first.

1:46:32Hi, in the air. The first ever every month album dropper.

1:46:38Pat McAfee:Follow him on Twitch. Obviously, follow him on tour with MGK this summer. You're the man. Congrats on everything we can't wait to watch tonight. Can't wait to see you guys, too. Yinch Chella. Yes. Yinch Chella. Thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, Wiz Khalifa. Appreciate it, man. Thank you, Wiz. I'm excited for you. Yeah, Will, what up, dude? My dude, my dude, my dude, my dude, my dude. Thank you bro, thank you bro. My dude, my dude. Yeah gifts from the crew. Gifts from the crew, gifts from the crew. Full squad, see you boys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you bro, yeah, see ya, see ya. Wilbro, just some local herbs.

1:47:28Pat McAfee:That was very nice of him, very kind of him. They are a crew that I've realized, which I appreciate. So there was a couple punters and kickers that if you played against them, away game, they would put together, like, beers for you for your trip back. Oh. Yeah, I think you might be muted or AJ's mic is off right now. But they would put together, like, a package for you. Like, hey, here's a couple beers. Maybe they find out that you like. Sure. Something else. We just need to put something in there. Yeah, they'll do that for you. Shane Leckler, Sebastian Janikowski were the first group that I experienced that did that.

1:48:02Pat McAfee:And I thought it was so cool. I'm like, oh, my God. Genius. This is so cool that you did this. Thank you guys so much. And then I learned that, you know, Peyton, I think, was doing that for other teams, quarterbacks, whenever they would come to our stadium without me even knowing, you know, like that's kind of happening behind the scenes. It's a cool thing. Wiz's group, anytime we are around them, they bring a full care package. Bearing gifts. And they are a great bunch. And Will, who has been with Wiz since, say yeah, I believe, he was at Penn State. He's from Plum. So, like, he literally grew up the hill from me.

1:48:35Pat McAfee:And one hill over from Tone is where Will, who's been with Wiz. So, we've been able to literally watch and experience and learn from his entire grind and rise. And he's always remained true to himself. He's never sold out. Yeah. Sick. Wiz has always done his own shit. He's a legend. And that tour with MGK this summer is going to be outrageous. Did you see what he just released? What's that? The song with Fred Durst? Mr. Durst. Really? It's sick. Yeah, it's sick. MGK is a dog, dude. Eminem killed him. He did. That happened. That's going to happen. That happened. They literally made a movie about him killing people.

1:49:09Pat McAfee:Yeah. That is why he is what he is. Big movie. But MGK is so smart, so talented. He's like, fuck it. I'm not dealing with this anymore. And he does. Right. I'm going to go do punk rock and becomes the guy. And then he says, I'm going to go do this. And he's going to do this. Like, I am a huge fan of Mr. Gun Kelly. And literally just, hey, need you back in the rap, okay? I got to work out still, bro. I need some white trash kid, okay, who made, I need you. I need you to get in there and say something. That's just like Jeezy. I need Jeezy to be dropping shit every month. Wiz dropping something every month.

1:49:42Pat McAfee:That's crazy. I am very grateful for that. We're going to be in the middle of the summer. Wiz is going to be experiencing the same thing. He's going to hop into the booth, make the beat, and all of a sudden we're going to hear how we're supposed to feel right. Yeah, you're right, Wiz. This is how I feel. And if he was in Cheerleaders last night, he's also made songs to let you know how you're supposed to feel. And there. I appreciate that. If you're looking for a place, that is the best one to go to. There were some people giving some bad suggestions to out-of-towners. Don't go to the other ones.

1:50:08Pat McAfee:What? I saw some internet, where they were telling people, like, hey, if you're in town, go across this bridge, take a left. You'll find yourself in the perfect part of town. Get out of your cars there. You know, all that stuff. The Ingers were trying to do that. But it has been nice to see the whole city come together. Really cool. Don't get a lot of moments like that, AJ. When would you ever get a moment where you got 320 ,000 people in one spot? All celebrating, too, together. What's that? Maybe a Penguins parade, a Pirates parade. Maybe. We are years removed from that. Why did you not say Steelers?

1:50:44Pat McAfee:Why did you not say Steelers? Steelers were involved in that, too. I mean, you know. But you said the Pirates before you said the Steelers. Well, I mean, I didn't say either of those just because right now they're not playing. You know, they're focused on who they're going to draft. They're going to try and win the Super Bowl today with their second and third round picks. But right now, the Penguins are still in it. They might win four straight. I'm going to be honest. I don't like how nice everybody is to us. Who? Like? The Steelers. They just let us walk around their building. That was cool.

1:51:12Yeah, it was like a middle school.

1:51:14Pat McAfee:AJ got to go see old Green Bay Packers friends because obviously Mike McCarthy brought in. and then listening to Cowher describe the new coaching staff and how he feels about him, that was a cool moment. Yesterday was a historic moment, I think. It was amazing. Everything with Bill Cowher is one of those things where you're going to look back in a couple years and be like, did that really happen? Was Bill Cowher that awesome? Just giving him a hug down here at the bottom of the stairs before he left to go home. I'm like, man, I'm sad you're leaving, bud. Honestly, we had such a great time with you, Andy, the ultimate storyteller.

1:51:44Just held court right here.

1:51:46Pat McAfee:He designed the building that they're currently in. Now, it hasn't changed much since then. He said, this is a partition right here because I wanted the partition because defense will be on one side, offense on the other side, teams in the entire thing. But if the defense is playing good, offense isn't playing good, they need to be able to hear me saying to the offense, hey, you're letting the defense down over there. You need to pick it up because these guys – he said he even hit it a couple times. He's on the wall. These guys are busting their ass. You guys are letting the entire city down. You're letting me down.

1:52:15Pat McAfee:You're letting those guys over there. And then he would walk off. And then a couple weeks later, he'd go over to the defense side and say, Hey, defense, your ass, the offense over there, they're doing everything great right now. He said, because whenever you tell a team what you said to the other side, they always have to kind of have truth. For them to actually hear him dress down the other side of the ball while complimenting them, he said he thought it was an easy way to kind of build a relationship with people. And him talking about that, and then the window that he put into the office and why he put it in there, it's like, it was unbelievable.

1:52:46Pat McAfee:getting to hang out with Bill Cowher. It was unbelievable to be back here in Pittsburgh and celebrate this city in which we are from. It's been fantastic watching the Yinzer shine, watch the city shine, and tonight it will only continue to do so and this weekend. The fact that it hasn't rained and the weather's been perfect is the football gods telling all of us that this is what we need to be doing with our lives. Have the greatest weekend of all time. We're back for an overreaction Monday with a lot of things happening. NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, Pens in seven. Pens in seven. And the entire NFL draft.

1:53:16Pat McAfee:boys in the truck great work ESPN folks thank you for setting this up boys on the stage you're great and to the enders goodbye see you Monday I think we got it all in he crushed it nailed it they made him do it again yeah we just saw him down there guy with a terrible towel you can't do it that should be can't manufacture that juice again hey Syracuse hey Northwestern whoever does all the fucking TV I think that's it the schools that produce the people that yeah everybody in television yeah these people that have basically said this is what it is okay can we get a little feel in there somewhere can we get a can we get a feel chapter maybe just one test on it just say hey we're dealing with humans maybe we should think about the humans that we are potentially help you do that first semester of freshman year feel 101 should feel self-awareness there you go they should just call it awareness 101 yeah whenever has that worked it hasn't the second time yeah it hasn't ever in the history i've been in one i've been asked i think the reason why we think like this is because we've actually been like the fans done had to do this we've actually been in the in the entire thing and all of us at the time are thinking oh we nailed that and then go hey you need it one more time it's like i'm not an actor so yeah you want me to do and now i need to act like what i It's gonna look good.

1:54:39Pat McAfee:They better use the first one. Yes. Yeah, yeah. They will. Did you see the second one? Yeah. It was a Colts fan actually in the middle. It is the second one. 40 % juice in the second one. That's what you got. Let's make some noise. The guy's walking around selling booze. Let's make some noise. All right, now look. Yeah, oh yeah. Let him die down completely, yeah. Okay, and now let's do it again. Let's make some noise. Let's make some noise. That was actually better. That might have been better. That's different. That's different. Maybe we're wrong. It's a little different. I felt so uncomfortable there.

1:55:11Pat McAfee:Yeah. I could go and do a third one. Yeah, try the third time. All right, let's make some noise, Jack. Kind of keeps... They know I hate it. Yeah, yeah. That's why they're... The fourth one's gonna be even louder. These people... You know, that's the thing. You kind of get them comfortable. They think they're done. And then all of a sudden you say, listen up, boozebags. The one that got here at noon on a Friday at 100 degrees just so you can get some cocktails in early, find your spot for the draft. There's no way he's going to ask us to yell again. That's what they're thinking right now. Oh, yeah.

1:55:41Pat McAfee:They're thinking team on me, team on three coming soon. Yeah. But instead, I'm going to do it. Hey, how are we? Next, it's always out of here. How pretty. They're bringing it. Thank you. I debunked everything I thought right there. Maybe they should fucking circle them up. Give them a little bit more practice. Hey, we got to get out of here. I don't know how this has sounded with the way we've been going through the, uh, him attesting the obvious. Sure. Playing the music. Yeah. The whoever's on the ox. Yeah. Great vibe. Kind of fantastic. Absolutely. All last night, the whole second half of the draft was great music the whole time.

1:56:17Yeah.

1:56:17Pat McAfee:just the song selection. You have to multi-generational. Yes. They have to pick one. That's like a feel. That's like an awareness thing too. You got to have a feel for the crowd. Yeah. And you got to experience what the crowd's going to be experienced before you put the next song. Playing dud, you gotta know, okay, I gotta shift gears here. Three Caroline went a little long. Audible, well, that's because Pitt, that's their entire thing. So it was nice little audible to that. But I think it was a very solid show. I thought it was DJ Grif. I assumed it was Grif. DJ Grif crushed it at the science center.

1:56:46Pat McAfee:He really did actually. I was walking the thing going up to the planetarium a couple times, and I could hear he was killing it. I did appreciate there was a few in there that were invited that had the eyeglass, sunglass camera things sure oh there was a meta yeah last night or at the event yeah they got good they captured good footage i was actually kind of appreciative of the videos that were put out there but we all see it now right yeah yeah it's kind of it's become uh in your face augusta needs to ban them they said yeah i don't think you're getting in there with augusta with it they did this year somebody got in there with them oh yeah they said there were people were showing footage from it so they're that was like the next step where young people said hey augusta the old stooges working the door taking phones are gonna have to look at their eyewear now i'm gonna be honest when i say this like uh we all see it's it's almost like they're gonna have to make a new one yes it's very evident yeah they're gonna have to make a new one yeah it's small quick and left yeah good idea though great idea great idea make it how easy it is how high quality it is yeah a little pov sitch yeah i think it's pretty good pretty good and they got they got me the one guy I got a side shot of me in the video, David Allen, and I looked like I was in great shape.

1:57:57Pat McAfee:So there you go. That's a victory. Hey, send that video to me. Please don't walk into Coach Saban's face with those things blinking. He's here to have a good time. It's also past his bedtime. Yes, it is. He was up late. Did you see him yesterday? Unbelievable. He gave Caleb Downs a story about Caleb Downs' mom's white chili that he had when he was in recruiting. and the best white chili I've ever had. He said I wanted to go back for recruiting. I think you went through the entire thing. I bet you he is phenomenal during the draft coverage. Oh, my God. Yes. We need to figure out how to. Especially if it's all going to be quick.

1:58:35Yeah. I mean, that certainly, that does. That changes how. Everything. We kind of rolled with the punches pretty good last night, but you could see how.

1:58:43Pat McAfee:We didn't get to the bunker as much. No, right. It was different. We didn't get to the bunker as much. Wasn't able to get as much of it. Like, there was not as much as projection. You know, the trades weren't being announced. They were just internet breaks, and then the thing was happening. It was like, it was very expedited. It felt like everything was kind of expedited last night. We are going to have to adjust. Yeah, definitely. We personally are going to have to adjust. Because at lunch, we were talking to Coach Cowher, and you were saying, like, hey, back half of the draft, it's going to get super slow.

1:59:08Like, that's when we're going to be coming to you, and we need stories, you know, just kind of like that is when we need you to kind of unload the clip. And we never really got to that point because, like you said, with, you know, Kamish, like, 23 to 32 flew.

1:59:21Pat McAfee:We're supposed to FaceTime numerous people. Yeah. But then we did the Dan Morgan FaceTime, and it was like, it feels like this isn't the right time to FaceTime and Dan Morgan because how many things are happening. Exactly. It really, for us, I couldn't even imagine what the TV people were doing. We didn't miss any. We talked about every pick, which people enjoy, like actually enjoy. Like the people watch these draft things because they want to hear you talk about their pick. So if you don't, like if you miss their pick, they get very, very upset. Yeah, and we try to show as much respect to everybody in there because obviously it's the biggest day of their lives.

1:59:51Pat McAfee:We're happy for them. The NFL needs these guys to be successful. A lot of them are going to be asked. Okay, that needs to be remembered. Yep. A lot of these guys are going to be asked. A lot of these, there's a chance. You know what? Actually, every one of them drafted last night going to be Hall of Famers. They're going to be Hall of Famers. I need to be a little bit more optimistic. There's 320 ,000 people in Pittsburgh to watch these guys go into the NFL. They're all going to be Hall of Famers in there. But we do have to kind of remember, because of how big it's getting and because of how excited everybody gets, I think the expectations do get higher on all the draft picks.

2:00:25Pat McAfee:And it's like, come on. we got to remember that the guys are on some of these teams are like 10 years ago these guys but 10 times better like this is every age group's all-star team still doing it and it feels tough to crack it is a tough roster tough league to crack but maybe last night 32 hall of famers were drafted well and that's why some guys get drafted in the fourth round and turn out to be the best player at their position in the entire draft class like for the new england patriots at At least last year we drafted Will Campbell fourth overall in the entire draft. And then our best O-lineman was drafted in the fourth round from Georgia.

2:00:59Like that's kind of what makes the draft so much fun. Like you have no idea which pick it's going to be. The first round gets all of the, hey, this guy better be a stud immediately. But realistically, like the rounds two to five, there's going to be a guy in there that is going to take over the NFL. They're like, well, I'm talking about the Iowa tight ends. Like none of the, or I won't say none because some of them, but most of the Iowa tight ends you're thinking of right now, when you think Iowa tight ends, weren't picked in the first round. They were third, fourth round picks, you know. Like that's kind of where your money's made, and that's why the first round, if you get drafted there, aside from that great contract, the expectations that come do kind of set you up for failure.

2:01:41Ty Simpson. There you go. And with him, we're not even going to know. We're not going to know for, you know, unless Matt Stafford breaks his back.

2:01:51Pat McAfee:If we don't know for four years, then we know it was a bad pick. Yeah, true. Exactly. Right. That's kind of the. But then you think Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold had six years. And now all of a sudden you're thinking, well, Sam Darnold was a great pick. The Jets just screwed it up. Well, then you think Jordan Love. It's like, how long did he sit for? Three years? Three years. It's worked. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Had a good transition process into the next quarterback. Got paid. Had a little drama there. I'd say a little bit of drama there. Didn't get back to the MC Championship, right, did you? No. Kind of just went down in success for team-wise.

2:02:27Yeah, but if you look at – I agree. And that is, again, like that will be something Packers fans, regardless of what happens with Jordan Love over the next 10 years, like that will always be one that kind of is a crawl on your side. It's like, man, they were so close, and they really could have. Stop the run.

2:02:43Pat McAfee:If they would have got anybody that could have stopped the run, they might win the Super Bowl. exactly they gave up 180 yards before contact and then they trade into the first round to get a quarterback and it's just like your quarterback just that you had won the mvp that year yeah and then won it again the next i mean that's why it's crazy and it's like matthew staffer just won the mvp yes same thing it's like it's the same thing but but 13 13 and but green bay traded in traded But think about the players that, like, Kenyon Sadiq was the number one tight end. He was there. Like, even some of the – like, Makai Lemon, if he goes out – He was mocked in every single one to them.

2:03:20In all of them. So, like, now there are specific players. Like, the Packers were at 26. So, it was like, okay, yes, they traded into it. But even the players in the back half of the first round, those are almost second-round picks. Like, the conversation this year was, hey, there's 15, 16 first-rounders. And 13, like, is right there. Like, can you imagine if Kenyon Sadiq goes out and has, I don't know, 10 touchdowns for the jets and then all these rams fans are going to be thinking like well at least we got a back you know backup quarterback possibly third string quarterback instead of the number one

2:03:50Pat McAfee:tight end in the entire draft you know sean mcveigh had his reaction that he had sean mcveigh is a great coach so obviously especially to the quarterback position we assume him and ty will get along well he immediately puts the fire out quickly and says he'll be competing with stetson you know because sean mcveigh has to back stetson as well who he's a coach for and then it comes out Well, you know, Ty never spoke to Sean McVay as your head coach and offense coordinator's quarterback position. Weird. Weird. And then, you know, Albert Breer's like, ah, fun fact. Rams general manager Les Snead and UT Martin coach Jason Simpson have a very strong relationship to the point where Snead helped advise the family when Jason's son, Ty, was making a decision on whether or not to declare for the draft.

2:04:33Pat McAfee:Now, Ty Simpson, number 13 overall pick to the Rams. best needs is. You put him in a drive. I'm fine. I'm going to take care of him. He knew he could come in the first round. He could show up in Pittsburgh. He knew he was going. My dad's best friend is going to fucking pick me. Who cares? Who's the coach of that team? I don't know. I never met him. Never talked to him. Does that matter? Wait. What did he say on the phone? He said on the phone call with Sean McVay. Sean was very nice on the phone call. Yeah, he was. By the way, once again, because he's a player. Ty was great on the call, too. He's a coach.

2:05:06Pat McAfee:Ty said something about, like, can't wait to make some magic or do something. Is that history? Yeah, whatever. Yeah, something like that. And, Sean, I know Sean immediately. What Sean wanted to say was, okay. Yeah. But instead, Sean said, all right, I can't wait. Can we play this? Here, do we have audio on this? Hey, how's it going? Hey, it's Les Speed, Los Angeles Rams. How you doing? I'm good, man. We're sitting here at the 13th pick, so we're going to draft you with that pick. so I'm gonna pass you to your new head coach Sean McVay yes sir hi what's up coach how you doing buddy I'm great how are you good man well congratulations man excited to get to work with you it's gonna be a lot of fun buddy let's go make history coach yeah no and hey enjoy this night man have fun tell your family we're excited to meet him and can't wait to get going with you buddy.

2:06:03Yes, sir. Coach, appreciate you. Okay. All right.

2:06:09Pat McAfee:So, everybody has the still shot of the way he looked and the way he said Stetson Bennett and everything. I heard that phone call and as soon as I heard that, yeah. That was awesome because I know Sean McVay is going to want to coach the shit out of this guy. Like, Sean McVay is going to want him to be great. Sean McVay, coach, who's also going to be judged on the amount of Super Bowls that he wins, thinks to himself, man, It would be great right now to go win a Super Bowl, but I guess we wait until Matthew's done, even though he just won an MVP and he's in the Immortal Chamber and he's feeling better than he's ever felt.

2:06:39Pat McAfee:Coach is in an interesting spot there, AJ. Very interesting spot. What's the best-case scenario? Matthew Stafford plays two more years, they get one more ring, and then Ty Simpson comes in and takes the helmet. That would be best game. That's like ideal. I mean, two would be, yeah, in a perfect world. But, yeah, I don't know. As a head coach, it is a tough spot because Stafford's his guy. I mean, they're doing this combo trip with Stafford and all of them. And Jake Lazor's doing cannonballs into the hot tub. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think Drew Brees did the cannonball. He did. Oh, you're right. He did do that.

2:07:10Andrew Whitworth was in a hot tub. He made him a gainer. I'll enter the pool, I guess. Brees is not a gainer guy.

2:07:16Pat McAfee:No, Whitworth did a shooting star because he's a professional wrestler. Not a gainer. He's not a diver. Gainer's not a dive. Gainer, you jump forward, flip backwards. That's a shooting star press. Andrew Whitworth is the WIT show. Into a pool, not into a squared circle. That's right. Diving would go into water. Andrew Whitworth could do it, though. He's what we're both saying. He squats 9 ,000 pounds. Yeah, we know. Maybe WIT. What is WIT? Let's call WIT. We should. See what he thinks. I would like to know what WIT thinks. We could get a feel. He's kind of a bangle now, though. isn't he yeah yeah kind of replaced since he he has a lot of ties to him he loves mcbay he could tell us if mcbay is being real or not hey cincinnati hates andrew whitworth because he wouldn't won a super bowl somewhere else after you guys kicked him out of town i never kicked him out of town um i got to play with wit one year in cincinnati and it is a shame how it ended there it really is but i think yeah you know that's why they're so mad though because whit goes cincy to rams and then Rams beat Cincy.

2:08:24It's kind of like a movie script. Yeah, if Cincy wasn't in the Super Bowl versus him, I don't know if there's as much animosity. You can't be mad at Witt, though.

2:08:32Pat McAfee:So then I think Witt won the Walter Payton Man of the Year as well. Oh, yeah. I believe so. Oh, so Cincinnati said, yeah, we don't want to pay the best guy in the entire NFL, and then all of a sudden we're going to get mad at him whenever he goes to a team that does, and then he wins? That's Ohio. We hate good guys who serve our community? Wake up. Cincinnati. That legal? You can't be doing that over there. Centerville people saying bad things about Whitwood? I don't think fans are mad at him. I think it was Whit in the front office had a situation going on. I think fans were all right. So what do you think he put that entire tweet out?

2:09:03Pat McAfee:Because the Brown family tweeted him and said he wasn't a bangle? You know what? We should call Whit. I don't really know how he feels about any of this. Now that we're really diving into it. He didn't answer the first question. But Whit was like, I forget what he called Whit the governor. Whatever it was, Whit ran the show there. Like, he was, like, the assistant head coach pretty much. I think he was like that in L.A., too, which I think is why he is. That's just kind of how he is. He's the man. Holden Court in the restaurant there in Cincinnati. Great new restaurant. Jeff Rubin. Thousand times better.

2:09:31Team restaurant. Oh, yeah, yeah. And with Neil Armstrong. What year did Neil Armstrong die? That had been early in Witt's career. He's still alive. He's from Wapakoneta, Ohio.

2:09:41Pat McAfee:He didn't answer. The show stinks. Get out of here. It's unbelievable. He's the only guy that should be giving us an opinion. That's right. I mean, we thought of it, I guess, two hours, 15 minutes. So it's when you stand up. Fitzy wouldn't get that goey. Yeah, because it's going up. So it's got to go down this way, probably. Figured it out. Figured it out, Rog. I said that to him a few times. They've been cowed in a relationship, huh? Hilarious. Just now that we know Bill Coward pretty good. We know where he lives, and they both probably. Oh, yeah, because he's in the area. Yeah. They got dinner very regularly.

2:10:17That was hilarious. The only thing you're ducking is the check. And Cowher was like, I pointed at him, like, you got me.

2:10:25Pat McAfee:Feels like you and your league have done pretty good. Cowher's got ideas. Yeah, he does. And he lets them know. And he's passionate about them. And I don't think he's ever not been passionate about something that he said. I agreed. No. Every single conversation leads to some motivational speech at the tail end of it. And that's why I Inserted something Oh yeah I knew that was Interesting dynamic I have the ability to talk to the boys in their ears So the boys all have There's a channel right here That says boys Where I hit it to the boys So they hear me This is happening At the beginning of the show The person sitting here could hear that Yeah DJ heard whatever you said Yes, exactly.

2:11:13Don't do that. Stop.

2:11:15Pat McAfee:Yeah, so then I was told, yes, he did. He said, stop. And I was talking about something completely different. I'm like, damn, I don't need Daniel Jeremiah hearing what I'm saying right now because I would like to be able to do what we're doing there. Then I was told that they didn't hear it. I never trusted. That's 100 % on me. Too risky. Yeah, it is very, very risky. But Coach Cowher, another one, he could hear that. And we told him going in, it's like, hey, Coach, there's going to be a chance I'm going to drop into your ear, okay? That's me just talking about where we need to get to. Somebody needs to fucking do this.

2:11:46Pat McAfee:This is what we need to do. Don't answer me. Your microphone is still on. Do not answer me. This is a one-way street. At our studio in Thunderdome, can come back. Here, one-way road here, pal. You just don't say anything. I get it. I get it. He's like a Pittsburgh dad when it comes to everything. And then there was other comments. 20 years in the biz, he understands this time. He goes, thank you. First time last night. First time. I go, ba-da-ba-ba-ba. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Right into the mic. It's like, hey, Bill. He goes, oh, is this the – yes. This is what we talked about. Right now it is happening.

2:12:23Pat McAfee:He was outstanding. So good. Just hanging out with him, too. He loves it. He's great up here, but just even shooting the shit. How about him walking up here that first time? So cool. There's a video somebody has. It might be the end of my video. The sun is shining the way it's shining. He has both of his arms up like this, and there's just a bunch of Yinzers clapped for him. I'm like, that felt like it was out of a movie. Yeah, that was out of a Yinzer movie. It was. This place was incredible. Jalapeno Hannah was getting hammered down here. I didn't know you could just buy that at a pawn shop, by the way.

2:12:55What?

2:12:55Pat McAfee:The Jalapeno Hannah costume. That wasn't her? What is that? That looked like an old Kenny the Kangaroo mascot. Yeah, throwback. That was bought online. She was having a tough time out there. Yeah, it was a little sloppy. I don't think that's how Jalapeno Hannah is. I thought they might. What the hell is Hal Pina Hanna? Oliver Onions competition. The pierogi race. I thought the pierogies were just out here enjoying the draft. There she is. I played in the Big 33 game. I learned about pierogies.

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2:14:37Pat McAfee:That was not who was here last night. I saw her. I did see her. She was here. No. She was right there. Yeah, she was right there. A bust-down version of jalapeno hammy. Maybe Hannah was having a tough day. I told you, she might have just been hammered. Long night. All right, Tone, what's the big story of tonight? That's a good question. I think it's going to be the run on corners for sure. Maybe Carson Beck. Carson Beck, a lot of people were talking about him potentially going early in round two. Cardinals, a team to watch there. So where the quarterback goes, always a conversation. So Carson Beck starting quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals.

2:15:16There's a chance. You can see that.

2:15:18Pat McAfee:Pick 34. That's that's there's it's out there. Carson Beck football life is going to be a great movie. Oh, it is. Great movie. Hopefully. I mean, three years ago, he's the number one pick. Not actually, but Jacoby coming in. Is Jacoby going to come in the offseason program? Man, Minshew are both there. He's old nine. Oh, they are? Yeah, Minshew, I guess. What'd you say? Jacoby. Jacoby didn't go OTAs. Yeah, he's not going OTAs. Hey, I ain't going to play and be the starting quarterback all year for your shitty team, and you guys are going to pay me dirt, okay? That ain't happening. Give me a fucking starting quarterback salary.

2:15:49Want 40 mil? And they were like, all right, we went 2-14 with you, so see you later.

2:15:54Pat McAfee:I like Jacoby Brissett staying on, baby. Yeah, exactly. Sounds like Jacoby potentially wants to be in another building, too. Maybe. Like, hey, I don't know how many more years we got here. He's been at, what, 12, 13? How long is Jacoby's percent? I think the Patriots drafted him in 2014 or 2015. So, yeah. That's a hell of a career. A long time. And he was going to win MVP with the Colts. Yeah. Bam Hayward in this city. When he walked back. Oh, Quentin Nelson right in his lap. Actually into his knee. Yeah, exactly. Oh, until he got hurt. That happens a lot with the Colts. Jacoby is legit. I would take Jacoby as my starter.

2:16:28Absolutely. Yeah, if you want the number four pick. Oh, geez, Luis. I got some help around. I love Jacoby. He helped raise Drake May. It was the third. Oh, sorry. Excuse me.

2:16:40Pat McAfee:Great work, Connor. How do you experience in Pittsburgh? Good to be here. That roller coaster video is one of the greatest things I've personally ever seen. We got a lot of time. I respect it now. I do. I learned my lesson. That thing fought back. I had no idea Kennywood still had it. Turns out Kennywood might be better than ever. Yes, truly. Fresh coat of paint. Gino ain't just putting paint out there. No, no, no. It's a fresh coat of wool. The old patterns of Kennywood, pristine. Candy kaleidoscope. Connor got knocked out, woke back up, finished the ride. Pittsburgh football. What ride is this again?

2:17:16Pat McAfee:It's still curtain. Nine whoop-de-woos. Most in North America. Highest whoop-de-woo in North America. Still curtain. The fact that you don't have the shoulder straps for all the whoopty woos is crazy. That's got to feel a bit vulnerable. D-butt almost won out there, too, I think. There was a moment where D-butt almost won out. There was a bit of a wobble there. Yeah, there was. Hey, calm down. Calm down. Your elbow knocked D-butt out. I actually was worried. How about you counting to one, two. Oh, shit, I'm back. Have you gone through the video to see what number of whoopty woos that was? I haven't seen the full start to finish one, honestly.

2:17:56But I do think it was probably around like three. Because really.

2:18:01Pat McAfee:So three to seven, you're gone. Yeah, three to seven, three to eight. But really that's not, you know, just three. It's actually 11 because we did it back to back times. Okay. So does that act like it was just one run? Yeah, I think the first one kind of messed with my equilibrium. The record is 40 straight. That is fucking absurd. They stayed in the seat? Yeah. That guy said that. I don't know if I believe that. I was thinking about it. About going 41 times? Oh, Jesus Christ. I didn't want you guys to have to fucking sit there and wait. No, we would have to all do it. Yeah, I mean, just drop like flies.

2:18:32Pat McAfee:I'm telling you, I never felt more free. Meeting the maintenance dudes behind the roller coaster just put me at complete ease. I looked at these fuckers, and I was like, they won't let me die. They will not let me die. And once you get past the I'm not going to die, it's much better. The I'm going to die thought that can be real, especially when you're oh my and there's no there is nothing the track just goes and there is nothing 228 feet up into the air what is that that's 22 stories you're just going up steel mill off to the distance you're just getting higher your fat ass is covering up the whole seat you literally can't see anything underneath you feel like Alex Honnold You feel like you're actually out of time.

2:19:25Pat McAfee:Basically the same thing. But if you don't think you're going to die, what I've learned, just from my experience ever doing, I'm not hopping on scary roller coasters at this stage of life often. No. Yeah, sure. Just being able to flip the switcher, you're not going to die, strictly because Gino and the boys have certainly taken care of this. Tony Napolitano leads a great group, Donner. Ricky Spacuzzi, he's not going to let anything happen to us. It was a lot better. Spacuzzi. Now, two, three Dramamines. Yeah, had to, had to. You need to have two, three Dramamines at this stage of life before you go to Kennywood.

2:19:56Pat McAfee:That is no questions asked. You get on trampoline at this stage of life, get a fucking Dramamine. Okay, you got to do that. I also potentially had vitamins. Was that good altitude? Sure. I was having a time of my life out there. It was comfortable on my thighs. It was fun. It was more comfortable than the kangaroo. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so I was having a blast. The guy said Tony Napolitano said her record's 40. And I was two in there. And I was like, I feel really fucking good right now. I started doing the math. I'm like, how long is this? So when will we be able to get out of here if I was able to do that?

2:20:27Pat McAfee:Look for that at one of these Kennywood picnics for me to lock in and see how many times we can kind of get going. But you just got to believe that Gino and the boys aren't going to have you dead. And then for Connor, I don't know how you stay awake out there. I genuinely don't know how you do. Maybe another dromamine. Maybe smelling salts. Who knows? Maybe you tape a smelling salt. Oh, there you go. Yeah, to the stash. Maybe put some BioFreeze on my chin or something like that. That might help. Maybe in your eyes. Yeah, maybe right below the eyes. Yeah. Pack some coffee beans, perhaps, like a can of tobacco.

2:21:00Pat McAfee:Put that Carson Palmer shit on top of your stuff. Oh, yeah. Some new stuff, yeah. Yeah. That's what you did, right? I did not do that. You got some in your eyeballs at the Super Bowl a couple years back. All-time moment. That was tough. That was an all-time moment. All right, let's get the hell out of here. That's what I have a jar. I think about it. I see it in my house sometimes. How? I used all mine. Yeah, well, you really lathered yourself up. I kept a little bit. I support Carson Palmer's business. I use mine. I still use mine. No, you said you still have it. That's five years ago. That was five years ago.

2:21:30Pat McAfee:You still have it. I go on the website and I order it. I'm talking about it. I support the business. What's the name of it? You got it. I know I don't because I've been through mine. I thought we were breaking it down. Oh, yeah. I know what it is. What is it? I don't want to give it out. Carson's, he's doing a rebrand. Why would you not want to give it out? Caden Wood CBD. Some fan you are. You really love the product, don't you? I do. Carson Palmer's going through a rebrand. Ah, you're an athlete. Hey, thank you all. Have fun. Let's make some noise. Let's make some noise. Enjoy yourselves. You guys have done a great job.

2:22:07Pat McAfee:Hi, Ray Lenny. Ray Lenny's over there. Did you see? See Frat Center? No, where? Right next to my dad. Right behind Coach. Where's Coach? Where's Coach? Oh, my tardios out here. Yeah. Brat, tardio, Benny. Where's Coach? You're pointing to me where Coach is. Straight behind you. With the white hat on. Oh, yes. I see you, Coach. All right. Yeah. There was no fights last night. There will be today if that guy's here. There will be no. Celebration of football here. All goodbye.

2:22:39Pat McAfee:I'm a little bit worried, but just with this small group that I just saw. But it looks like everybody's here to have a good time. Yinzer cello, baby. Happening tonight as more dreams come true. Rounds two and three tonight should fly by. It's a great showcase of what the NFL is, which is a celebration of football. The NHL and NBA playoffs are happening. Baseball is still taking place. Yeah, big time. How are the Pirates? Still good. Pirates? Doing good. Boston Red Sox just got swept by the Yankees last night. So that's great. Tough times up there. Oh, tough times, really. I got two teams are respected championships, please.

2:23:14Just got off a Super Bowl. Got my fucking back. I'm not worried about the MLB right now, okay? Trying to win a fucking Stanley Cup.

2:23:22Pat McAfee:Head coach, supreme commander, not available, but in reach. Day three of draft feels like a pretty big deal. Feels like a pretty big distraction. One, two, three. Is that the new go? Great work, boys. Good work, boys. You guys got some really good lighting. Looks like you guys are maybe over there in controversy. Yeah. Nothing. All good back here. Yep.

2:23:52Pat McAfee:I didn't understand what you meant by that at all. They weren't in controversy. They were in the van with us. Oh. Looks like you guys are kind of in there right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you now. Quality establishment. Did you go, Gums? No, I did not. Would love to, though. No, you want to go where Wiz was going? I'll tell you what. The way they're having people drive through there, controversy is right there. It's right there. Might be the best spot. I mean, it doesn't matter what time of day you're going by. You're seeing people out there with butt cheeks hanging out, smoking cigarettes in the parking lot.

2:24:24So if either one of those things is something you're interested in, you're going to find it.

2:24:30Pat McAfee:Then the casino says hello. Yeah, exactly. Win some money. I mean, the casino right now is the only time the casino hasn't been staring at me for five days. Oh, God. Everywhere we go, the casino is just poking through some trees. Stop. Come give me all your money. Yeah. We went over there a couple times. It wasn't as packed as I thought it was going to be. Earlier in the week. We all lost. Shocker. Great work, Barcode. That baby called. That baby called. Audio Caleb stole a football from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wow, really? Got an autograph yesterday. That's cool. I'm going to take that one home.

2:25:12Pat McAfee:That was a good play by him. Yeah, it was smart. Quite a good hustle. Also, audio pretty good, right? Yeah, it hasn't been bad. Not bad. Yeah, the audio hasn't been too shabby, has it? I don't. It hasn't been bad. What's this guy all about? This guy thinks it now. What's this guy all about? All right, let's get the hell out of here. We'll see you on Monday. Enjoy the hell out of your weekend. I'm going to do something that I got signed up for. It's going to be very expensive, but it should be fun. There you go. Oh, man. I think it should be a lot of fun. Yeah. You want to pitch in? I don't think I can, no.

2:25:43Come on, cheapskate. I think you still got time. I think you still got time to rethink it. Don't be a dick, dude. Why don't you pitch in? These people are chanting your name. They said they're running the 40-yard dash. Just 50 grand, Hawk. Just do it. Yeah, jeeps on. Don't be an asshole. 50 Gs for the people. See, they love it. They want it. Come on. Yeah. Coach started that. No, he didn't. Yeah, he did.

2:26:06Pat McAfee:So you're in for 50. That's nice of you to do that. For the city. for the city. Pittsburgh's beautiful. Tell him great work this week, man. Thank you, too, brother. Congrats to you. Congrats to you. Congrats to us. Congrats to us. Ty, you missed it again. Yeah. Fosso, great work, buddy. You're Fosso. Big fist, some people call him. That's me, Fosso. We know him by his birthday, Mike Fosso. Guy's an absolute weapon. He's had to deal with so many different things this week. All the time. All the time. Throughout the entire day. He likes to wake up and be an asshole at like 4 a.m. too. So anytime you see him when the sun's down, just know that we're really cutting into a scheduled sleep session.

2:26:49Pat McAfee:You did great. Did great with the draft. I think game day and ESPN, the coverage has been magnifying the event, which I think is good news. And let's get the hell out of here. Thank you, Pittsburgh, man. Thank you, Pittsburgh. Thank you, Pittsburgh. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Let's have the greatest weekend of all time. Why not? AJ, your final message here to the people is you're going to be such a good upstanding human going forward when you speak about the great city of Pittsburgh. I am. You know what? Honestly, I feel like I do understand Pittsburgh a little bit more.

2:27:21After spending some time here with Coach Coward, I love it and I respect it. I always have. Some of the toughest people on the planet are from this very place.

2:27:28Pat McAfee:That's right. The toughest, yeah. Well said. Is that what you said? Some of the toughest people on the planet. there's a handful of handful spots we'll see you guys on Monday team on me thank you all I wish you get this actually huh I'll do this one all right

2:27:59Pat McAfee:team on me have the greatest weekend of all time thank you for showing up for this city. Enjoy the hell out of all of it. You deserve it. Team on three. Have the greatest weekend of all time. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye.

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