PMS 2.0 1554 - Feel Good Friday with Paul Skenes, Steve Levy, Brock Williams, Quentin Richardson

21:16Look, if there's a video of Scheno changing his hair to something poopy like they did the Jacksonville Jaguars did, I get worked up about that. Look at his hair. It looks like. Paul's hair is flowing out of his head. It's flowing out. He's got good hair.

21:28Pat McAfee:Anyway, and he wears that thick band. So it sits over top like old school when we used to wear the visors. I'm a hair aficionado. I don't want people to ruin their good hair. Sue me. He didn't ruin it. Maybe he thinks that looks good. There's no way. There's no way. All right, let's move on. I'm going to stay out of this one. Yeah, smart, Paul. Smart. That's a good idea. You just worry about pitching because that's what you do. Let's talk about you pitching. Brother, we appreciate you joining us. You're in the middle of absolutely dialing it up. You're obviously raising money this year as well, and we're riding alongside.

21:59Pat McAfee:I don't know if you've been keeping track of your strikeouts, but we looked into it. You're currently at, I think, 56. Is that accurate? Yeah, that sounds about right. Okay, so with my$500 donation, your$500 donation, that's$56 ,000 already. Great way to go. And we're very early in the season. I think we got 150-some games left. You guys play that long-ass season. Can you tell me about this successful start, though, with the strikeouts, with the pitching? Was it fresh out of the World Baseball Classic? You just felt like midseason form. Why do you think you've started so well, and how do you feel whenever you're up there every night?

22:37Yeah, I mean, it feels good. Got, you know, everybody bought in on the same thing right now, So it's been a fun ride so far. And, you know, we're only in May. So really, really excited to see where we're going to go this year.

22:50Pat McAfee:Okay. Do you get better as a pitcher as the year goes on? Is that one of those things where you get like midseason form? Have you got to midseason form already? Or do you just have to play at the same level all season, including into the postseason? Yeah, I think we're getting to midseason form. I think May is kind of when it, you know, all starts to click for me a little bit in the past couple years. So I think everybody's a little bit different. I mean, you get feel of pitches, you lose feel of pitches as the season goes on. So, you know, stuff that's working right now probably in all likelihood isn't going to be working in a month or two.

23:26But, you know, we'll figure it out and go from there. So, we'll see.

23:30Pat McAfee:What is it? Your body just decides that a new pitch is going to be your favorite pitch at the time? And I will only say this as a person that was a punter, so I had to have a drop and then a kick every time I was out there. I'd be like changing my shit day of game because it just felt better. And then I would have success. And it's like, all right, fuck, I'm just going to do that. You know, it's just like, that's what I'm going to go with. Is it day to day with what feels good coming out? And what is it? Grip? How do you kind of know which one is the, when's the right time for which pitch? How do you know?

23:59Yeah, I think it's all that. There are times where I'll be, you know, throwing a pitch and it feels terrible. in bullpen and catch play for the whole week leading into my start and then the day of my start. It's just coming out of my hand nice and feels good. So I think everybody's like that a little bit. Stuff changes day to day, week to week, month to month. So who knows? Who knows where it's going to be in a month?

24:23Pat McAfee:How good does that feel after you do that backpack thing and you do all the other things? Yeah, and then you get up on that mound for Skeen's bump day and all of a sudden the pitch that just has not been acting properly the last couple days comes out, and it's like, oh, nice to see you here tonight. Okay, so does that mean that your ponche pitch, you know what that means, obviously. You know what ponche pitch means? Yep, ponche pitch, yeah. You understand what that is? I know baseball. He was there. Bad memes. Yeah, you know ball. You know ball. We know that. Thank you. Ponche, obviously, one of the greatest things I've ever experienced in a baseball game other than catching a foul ball with a fishing net at PNC Park back in the day.

25:02Well done. Boom.

25:02Pat McAfee:But your ponche pitch, do the batters know what it's going to be? Or how much research do they have on you? And do you know what your ponche pitch is going to be each game you're going into? Yeah, to be honest, a lot of the time I don't know what it's going to be, which, you know, that's what makes it fun. You know, if you're – a lot of guys go out there and they have the same, you know, two ponche pitches. It's nice. We're starting it. We're starting it. Yes. We're starting it. We're keeping it going. Okay, thank you. Cone. Yeah. All right, go ahead. Yeah, I think with me a lot of the time, I don't know what it's going to be.

25:35So I just start throwing pitches until it feels good and then go from there.

25:40Pat McAfee:Who's calling the pitches? Catcher? Yeah, catcher. I don't shake a ton. I'm too stupid to call my own pitches. So I just let him do it. He's got my career in his hands every fifth day. Good luck out there, big dice. Don't screw it up. So he's the one calling it or are they calling into him? Like, who is the one deciding what pitch is coming when? Yeah, it's all him. Some teams are doing the, you know, from the dugout stuff. But we do it where Henry calls the game and Joey and Andy and our other catchers, they all call the game for themselves. Do they all have different strategies? Like, do you appreciate the way he approaches the game with how he calls it?

26:20Pat McAfee:Does he ask for your influence day to day? Like, when you're pitching, like, hey, what do you like today? What do you not like? Like, how is that conversation going? Yeah, I think a lot of the time it's, you know, not even a conversation just because we see how it's going in the bullpen. We see how it is between innings during the game. You know, sometimes a pitch just sucks, so we just stop calling it. Nothing really needs to be said then. So there's a lot of communication that goes into it. We like the changeup this year, huh? Yeah, I think it's pretty good. It's devastating. Did you work on it this – what was – I think you said you were working on a pitch.

26:53Pat McAfee:I don't remember if it was the changeup or not. Is this what you were working on this offseason? yeah i've pretty much gone uh with the same repertoire as last year so the change up i mean we're you know constantly working on all the pitches um i might have made some some changes to the change up or my sinker or something else i think a lot of the time it's like kind of subconscious for me uh where i make changes to the pitch and another gets better or worse and then you know we either have to fix it or keep riding with it but uh i think the changeup I've been riding with for probably five or six years now.

27:29Pat McAfee:I should have known that, obviously. And that's what? That is... I should have known that, obviously. That is a... It looks like fastball coming right down, and then it just hits the brakes basically on me, or what happens? Yeah, ideally it looks like... Ideally everything looks like the fastball, and then it moves different or hits the brakes or something like that. The changeup's just slower, and it moves a little bit more down an arm side. So, yeah, sometimes it gets swing and miss. Sometimes it doesn't. Are we nibbling at edges all the time? That's the changeup right there? That's the changeup, yeah.

28:05Jesus.

28:06Pat McAfee:I would fucking take that yard. I mean, no doubt about it. I've been playing Thunderball in here, Paul. Okay, I've been looking at wiffle balls coming at me. Hey, wiffle balls are tough. Wiffle balls move more than baseballs. Yeah, right. I've seen you this year. I've seen some Shohei shit. Have you been seeing him pitch this year? Do you watch other pitchers? How do you kind of feel about the state of pitching in baseball right now? I would say, I mean, pitching is probably as good as it's ever been, and it'll probably only continue to get better. I think pitching evolves very quickly. Yeah, Shohei's – he makes me really glad I'm not a hitter anymore.

28:41I don't want to face guys like him.

28:44Pat McAfee:He's kind of struggling with it, I guess. They're saying – I'm not saying this. They are saying that now that he is a full-time pitcher, the hitting is not as what he was like mvp hitter or whatever prolific hitter as it was last year they're saying it was a balance you former catcher obviously hit and also pitcher the the thought of him being able to accomplish like travis hunter when travis hunter came into the nfl we were all pulling for him like we were all like hoping that he would be able to accomplish something that nobody's ever been able to do but whenever you would ask guys that were potentially in those positions they'd be like it's going to be really hard that that is going to be a very very hard thing at the professional level on his body, on his mind, on everything.

29:22Pat McAfee:For you, with pitching, the breaks in between, it's an all-encompassing. We're working on becoming a better pitcher at all times. And at one point in your life, did you want to hit and pitch? I wanted to hit and pitch for most of my life. And then when I was at LSU, I was hitting and pitching and had a pretty good fall. And then they just stopped putting me in BP groups. I found out after the fact that our pitching coach told all our pitchers that they couldn't throw inside on me. So I guess that's why. That's probably one of the reasons I had a good fall. But, yeah, they just stopped putting me in BP groups.

29:56And there was no conversation. They just said it was just, you know, hey, you're not pitching anymore. But no words were said. I think it was just an understanding that we came to. So my body feels a lot better when I'm just pitching.

30:08Pat McAfee:And during your day's break, your five-day break, I think I saw you do an interview with Scooble. where it's like day one recovery with Jet Pass. I think it's Sources. Yeah. Super Sources or something like that. Super Sources with Jet Pass. Sources tell Jet Pass. Sources tell Jet Pass. Yes. I think that is the actual name. I think that is actually Jet Pass. We found it out. Okay. But you were on there talking about the recovery days, like first day recovery, second day we start doing this, third day we start doing that. That feels like a very regimented thing. Have you always been like this? Are you developing this?

30:41Pat McAfee:Is this now that you're an old man, you have one of these? Like how do you think that kind of has evolved or where it's going to now? Yeah, it's evolved. I think every – I've always been very, you know, routine-oriented. So right or wrong, I was doing the same thing going into every start, every game. And so I think just as I've gone on in baseball, I've learned more about my body so I know what works, what doesn't work. But it's the same thing every five days, every six days. It's incredibly boring, but you got to do what you got to do to show up and be ready to pitch. Yeah, be the face of a franchise.

31:21Pat McAfee:Yeah, I appreciate the fact that you're very boring. We asked you one time, what do you do for a hobby? You say, I nap. Yeah. And then I wake up. Maybe fish a little bit. Okay. Yeah, I do baseball. With Jared, who we back to. Eat food? We just nap and just do baseball. You're the man for that, and we are lucky you are in Pittsburgh. On that note, Pirates seemingly a little bit different this year than, I don't know, the last 30 years. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Paul, you just got your sixth win of the season on May 12th. Last season, it didn't come until July 27th. And that was not your fault. You've had a 1-9-6 basically for your entire career.

31:56Thank you. That's because it's awesome. You're getting run support. So how fun is it now to get that run support? It feels like everyone's hitting. Everyone they brought in is hitting. Lau O 'Hearn. O 'Neal Cruz is having an unbelievable season. season connor griffin since he's turned 20 has been insane uh how cool is it now to to have the run support also with your starts yeah it's been great um it's a it's a really fun group to be around um you know the last couple starts uh i got a lot of run support my first few starts and we've won a couple of them and the last couple starts we scored i think the first inning and And two starts ago, we won 1-0, and the last start was 3-0.

32:37So we're scoring early, which makes it easy to pitch, which is nice. And then, you know, all you've got to do is win by one. So we're doing a good job, you know, scoring more runs than the other team. That's, you know, kind of what the whole game's about.

32:54Pat McAfee:Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, it's been fun. I appreciate that you say in your mindset is we only need one more run. That's all we need, just one run. and expect yourself to be perfect, which I appreciate. You got some young studs on that team. Tell me about the 19-year-old Connor Griffin. I know you guys had a birthday party. He's actually 20 now. He's 20. Yeah, he's a changed man. He's all grown up now. They got him a bounce house. Yeah, I remember that. I thought he turned 19. No, he turned 20, actually, which sounds a little bit more, like, understandable. Yeah. 19 in the bigs felt outrageous. It did feel a little bit outrageous to me as a non-super baseball person, just like, wow, I didn't know you could do that.

33:33Pat McAfee:at such a young age. He seems like a 90-year-old man, though, the way he talks and everything. Can you describe him and why he's seemingly the right one to be a 19-year-old Major League baseball player? Well, I mean, you said it. He sounds like a 90-year-old man. I wouldn't go that far, but he's definitely mature. He's been mature ever since he was 19, too. So, yeah, I think, you know, like everybody, you go through some growing pains when you get into the big leagues whatever that looks like and um so i think he's learned a lot he you know it's it feels like he's i mean he's but he was up for uh he came up after our sixth game i think so he's been up pretty much all year but um feels like he's been around the league for you know much longer than that and uh obviously he's doing well playing well um great guy to have behind you defensively a great guy to have in the lineup, in the clubhouse.

34:33He's one of the guys.

34:34Pat McAfee:Can't wait to see what you guys do for his 21st birthday. This is for his 20th birthday. Yeah, it should be a good time, middle of the season, obviously, get a chance to celebrate. Is that still in the clubhouse? Yeah, where do we keep that at with all the cones that we steal? No. Yeah, I think we blew it up. It was our groundskeeper who did it, so I think they blew it up in his office. So he might still have a bounce house just in his office somewhere. Good for the lads. Is that a hoop right above it too? Oh, yeah. We got a little mini hoop in there. That thing gets used pretty frequently in rain delays, which we have a lot of.

35:09Who's the best shot? Pittsburgh. Man, Carmen Machinsky's pretty good. Mitch Keller. It's mostly, as far as I know, it's mostly the pitchers that are taking shots. I think the hitters, because when we're in rain delays, the pitchers don't have anything else to do. The hitters will go into the cage. Carmen's good at everything, and Mitch is good at everything. I can make a three-foot bank shot with the best of them, but other than that, it's pretty tough.

35:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, small hoop, though. Bank shot's difficult. That is a tough shot. Thank you for saying that. Thank you for saying that. I can hit. I've been a part of some mini hoops as well in my day in equipment rooms and in locker rooms. I can hit from further. It's tough for me from close. with a little ball for some reason I can't, but you get me back a little bit, I can get you. You know, I'm never going to bank. That fucker's coming way out if I can. Flatter ball, maybe I'm in a better spot. So I think the touch you're showcasing is good, but it sounds like these other guys certainly embarrass you on a regular basis.

36:12Yeah, I mean, I'm the type of guy in the clubhouse, it's like if I, you know, I'm the guy that's like, you know, at recess and, you know, you're whooping my butt in basketball, I'm taking my ball and going home or something like that. That's kind of how I do it. So usually when they're going, I'll let the big boys play. But when it's me and whoever else, I'll give them the business a little bit. But usually I don't. I stay out of it.

36:37Pat McAfee:That's smart. You're on a B-court. Yeah. There's no reason to walk over to the A-court. That's why I don't play video games. My brother was so good. He beat my ass. I said, I'm not doing this. Yeah, same? Same exact thing? Yeah. Yeah, I suck. It's not enjoyable for me. It's not enjoyable for anybody else. I'll watch you guys. I'll watch you guys do it. When the Twitch thing started and everybody was watching video game players, it made sense because I used to have to watch my brother. I kind of have to because the weather was terrible, but I would watch. And it was enjoyable. But when I was playing, I was ass.

37:04Pat McAfee:I was just the worst video game player of all time. And they killed me. Why do I want to feel like that every day? I don't want to feel like that. I'm not doing this. Yeah. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, you're supposed to be having fun. Why do something you hate when you're supposed to be having fun? Yeah. It's the same way with golf for me. You stink at golf? Yeah, golf sucks. I'm terrible. I bet if they figured that out. You need to watch Kyle was shallow. You need to watch Kyle was shallow. Get your hips tight. It feels like you should be good at that. Most baseball players can figure it out, can't they?

37:29Pat McAfee:I think you'll be able to figure that out. Most can, yeah. I haven't done it yet. That's because you're locked in. We're throwing that change up six years. You know what I mean? We got to throw that every single day so it continues to get hotter and hotter. Let's talk about some more hijinks that baseball has. Last question for you. Go ahead, Conman. Yes, you know, did Bubba Chandler possibly beat your ass in that basketball game? because I saw there was some sort of pranks going on. There was some bubble gum on top of his head. I believe this was yesterday in one of your victories. Are you guys a big prank clubhouse?

38:00Is this something that is basically going on every single day? And this just feels like immaculate vibes. It's incredible that he didn't even realize it. Yeah, I had nothing to do with that. Sure. Other than not spoiling it, but everybody did a great job. Nobody said anything to him. He was dancing there. The camera was right on him. He just thought it was on him just because he's a good dancer, which obviously he's not. So, yeah, I think that thing was on there for like an hour.

38:29Pat McAfee:That's unbelievable. And I appreciate the fact that you all are watching him look at cameras thinking it's for him. I like that you guys – afterwards, you asshole, what did you think? You were just the star? You're not in the game? Are we still doing this? It feels like you guys got a really tight team. If you do an hour-long bubblegum on hat talking shit to the guy, you guys are stealing – is Pittsburgh still all out of cones? Oh, yeah, we're still coning it. Are you guys still coning it? Are we still welding masking? Are we doing it all? We're doing it all, yeah. We are not the ones actually stealing the cones.

39:00I think the fans are the culprits there, which, you know, love it. That's super funny. So, you know, obviously not condoning that. No, of course not.

39:11Pat McAfee:But we appreciate buying in on the thing as a city coming together They're keeping everybody safe, too. They would only take the cones that they're allowed to take. As you know, users wouldn't do that. You know, that's the type of thing. They would not do. They would certainly get the right cone. Yeah. But we got any more, or are we sticking with the welder's mask and the cone? No, that's it. We're riding with it for the whole season. Maybe I'm sure there will be more hijinks. I think Bubba will be, you know, head on a swivel, checking his hat off and checking it, you know, probably every inning now.

39:43Pat McAfee:now so we'll get him again at some point was that fire that was happening oh yeah uh the the hot hot feet hot oh yeah yeah we haven't done that yet i don't know i don't know if we will that's that's a that's a little old school that was before my time and probably everybody else in here but hey who knows who knows it's a long season bring it back i love it these are just known things hey when you're on the road a lot yeah we got a lot we got a lot we gotta feel time here okay so we're putting shit on people's cleats lighting it on fire i do believe and then it just burns up and he smells fire and he's on fire in the clubhouse yeah you baseball people are awesome paul good luck the rest of the way we appreciate the hell out of you let's keep ponche and people huh i like that idea let's do it tell told harry davis we need a good ponche pitch and good ponche celebration as we're going out there brother you got it yes sir hey i didn't get any help out of you.

40:39Pat McAfee:I found my slot right here. Do I need to be with a ball? This is with a wiffle ball. I don't think I'm supposed to throw here. I think I'm supposed to go right here. When am I letting go of that ball, Paul? When am I letting go of that ball? When what? Maybe like even with your head. I mean, just keep throwing it. You'll figure it out. That's it. You just got to practice. You're the man. Okay. I don't have the time, so maybe one day we'll be able to figure it out. I need an instant fix. I need a silver bullet. I need a magic bullet and a silver bullet. I'll take whatever afterwards. I appreciate you.

41:15Pat McAfee:You're the man. Good luck the rest of the way. Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Skeens. Listen, Skeeno's the man. He's having a good time out there. He's smiling a lot. He's having a great time with the boys. It feels like, and I don't want to say it's an exact comparison, but kind of. I mean, I guess we can. When Wemby gets to the San Antonio Spurs, he's young, phenom, first overall pick guy. Team already established basketball players. This is still Rook coming into league. He's rookie on team, kind of adjusting to them as opposed to team adjusting to him. Feels like Skeeno, the way he was talking this past offseason and the way he was being treated at World Baseball Classic by everybody saying, hey, that's our ace, that's our ace.

42:03Pat McAfee:It feels like the Pittsburgh Pirates organization is Paul Skeen's organization, if that makes sense. It feels like they are, hey, they know, everybody kind of knows. We bring in the young buck, welcome to Skeen's team. Like, hey, there's probably other guys that are a little bit more vocal than Skeen's because you're not talking. But it feels like that team is maybe being crafted for Skeen's. And, boy, they love each other. It looks like they have a great time on the road. Like when Paul came in and started his rookie year, He was obviously the youngest, but because it was an older room for the pitchers.

42:35And now Paul's obviously still very, very young. But as far as pitching goes, Mitch Keller is the only one who's old. Everyone else kind of came up together with Paul. So they've been together for like three years now. So that's kind of why that pitching room, that pitching staff is so tight now and probably why he's so happy.

42:52Pat McAfee:Yeah, so happy. I'm so happy that the young arms of baseball, him, Miz, I guess we can count Shohei in this thing because he's probably just getting started. Tom Schindler of the Yankees, he's killing it. Yeah, and we got big bats, too, still happening. Sounds like an old guard of bats taking on, like, a young batch of pitchers. It's a fun time for baseball, and we appreciate Paul's time. Let's pivot away from baseball. Let's go to the NHL. Hell yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, a man who's been promoting hockey on ESPN for as long as I can remember. I believe he's been at ESPN since 1993. Woo! damn.

43:30Pat McAfee:I was six years old. Oh, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Levy. Yay, Steve! The last time I was on with you guys, we were still trying to find Winnipeg on the map, okay? No geography today. I think it's over here. I think it's over here. I thought it was up above Manitoba. In my head, in my head, I think it's over here. The map is here. Atlantic Ocean here. Pacific Ocean here. Maine's here. Yeah. I think Winnipeg's over here. I thought that was Edmonton. I thought Winnipeg was more like North Michigan. Edmonton, Winterpeg. Son of a bitch! This is unbelievable. This is hysterical. It is above North Dakota.

44:14Pat McAfee:Seriously? Yeah, it's right in the middle. Can we get a... Yeah, but North Dakota's west. Can we get it on here? Edmonton's way up there. It's right here, dude. Fuck. That's west. But you see, you had it. But I had it over here. You were thinking Kyle Gary. Sorry. You know where Denver is, right? We're good on Denver. Lower than you think, though. It's lower. The latitudes are lower than you think. Whenever you talk about Denver, though, that is something that kind of comes in. It's the square. Yeah, whenever you do the open. Sorry, Canada. I know where Manitoba is. That's where old buddies boys are from.

44:47Pat McAfee:Yeah, Saskatoon. Yeah, Saskatoon, obviously. Victoria, beautiful. Come on. Nova Scotia. Toronto. And also, we know where Montreal is. Yeah, we do. Hey, that barn, obviously spectacular. That team getting incredibly hot. How should we view kind of what's going on over there in the East? Huge one in Buffalo for Montreal last night. With the Canes waiting, how do you kind of view the Eastern Conference right now, Steve? So this is the best series, boys. I think of the playoffs so far, Montreal-Tampa went seven in the first round. But this Montreal-Buffalo series has been on fire. For me, it's the two best atmospheres in the league going right now.

45:27I think just because of the success they've had, the runs they've been on, and the lack of recent success really both franchises have had. So Montreal looks good. They've bought themselves some time here by getting their first line, their top guys going, even scoring at even strength. And Dobish last night, who gives up three goals on the first four shots, is seconds from being pulled, doesn't give up another goal the rest of the way, and now they get to go home. So, you know, Buffalo's been really good on the road. They've been awful at home in the playoffs for some reason. They haven't figured that piece out.

46:04But Montreal looks dangerous right now, guys.

46:06Pat McAfee:Tell me about the Canes over there in the East. What have you seen from them? Obviously still undefeated. Sweep, sweep, rest or rust. The Caniacs ready to go. How do you feel about their chances, not only for the East, but obviously for the Cup as a whole with what's lurking in the West? Juggernaut. And listen, it speaks to the value of the regular season, right? Like Colorado and Carolina were the two best teams in their respective conferences. And so that's holding true here in the playoffs as well. And we've never seen a team sweep two seven games, best of seven series in the first two rounds.

46:39That's never happened. And look, they're going to have 10 days off, guys. So everybody's going to be healthy. And coming out of the first sweep, we had the same conversation. Too much rest. Well, they went out and they shut out Philadelphia in game one of the second series. So Rod Brindamore is an unbelievable head coach. He'll have them ready to go. But the biggest thing for me in Carolina is where all these other teams are flip-flopping goalies, Freddie Anderson is the man. And when he's healthy, he's been on, and he looks razor sharp right now. Carolina looks like a beast in the East.

47:14Pat McAfee:If you have a goalie that will stand on its head, you can win a cup anytime. Yep. But then if your goalie forgets how to see a puck, you can lose any time. I mean, that is really how easy it is in the playoffs. As a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, I've gotten a chance to ride the back of a hot goalie, and then I've watched a goalie forget how to play goalie in the playoffs, and we're out quickly when we weren't supposed to be. Most important position, I think, by far. Carolina has been obviously seeing everything. What, two goals or something like that? I forget what the run was. It was something absurd.

47:43Pat McAfee:They didn't give up more than two goals, maybe, in like the first seven or eight games out of the playoffs. It's like, yeah, right, because that's even empty nets at the end, like kind of sneaking. I mean, it is a – it's been a wild run for them. But – Wait, wait, Pat, I want you to finish that sentence. You said goalie's the most important position in hockey or all of sports because you could make the argument that a hot goalie could be the difference. Like the starting pitcher in baseball, but he only goes once every five days. You could make in the playoffs the argument that the most important player in all of sports is the hot goalie in the Stanley Cup.

48:17Pat McAfee:I'll tell you what, Steve, believe me, I don't mind the take coming in. Except for one position. Quarterback in the NFL. Quarterback comes off the field, though. I mean, I do kind of like what Steve's saying. Like, you got a guy that is on the ice for 60 minutes. You can literally not affect the game more than any other position. And on that note, and I hate to say this because he's incredibly handsome and I love Italian people. We saw Jimmy Garoppolo. What did he do, six pass attempts in a championship game? Bingo. So I guess if quarterback did forget how to take center quarterback, it changed, but didn't win the Super Bowl.

48:53I mean, we just saw it in the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl MVP was running back. Their quarterback, they didn't actually throw for any touchdowns. Is the goalie the most? Yeah, but Montreal just won a game seven with six shots. Actually, maybe that makes Steve's point. Yeah, exactly. Dobesh kind of won him the game. Yep. You can make up for a lot of problems. Halibut won us the gold medal for sure. I mean, you can go back to the old Avalanche, Patrick Roa. I mean, he damn near won him the cup.

49:21Pat McAfee:That's definitely not his name. That's what you just said. It's Patrick Roa. Some people, some dialects say it. Roa. Yeah, Roa. You could be outshot by 30 and still win the game. You could be totally dominated, and if your goalie's hot that night, you can win. and so that speaks to the position and to your point about jimmy g you can have a quarterback who throws for 55 yards but you can still win let's let the let's let the internet figure that one out steve i like where you're at i don't know how long you've thought about that if that just came to your mind now but i appreciate yeah it's going to change it's going to change the way i view everything okay so let's go to the west talking about hot goalies let's talk about teams this avalanche team they're going to seemingly be a team that swept through the west as carolina of swept through the east and we got a kind of a collision course of these two goliaths in the stanley cup this avalanche team there's a stat that we got from hembo yesterday score differential per period first period minus two second period plus two third period plus 12.

50:22Pat McAfee:obviously that's insanely clutch there's some empty netters in there obviously because other teams are desperate against them so you can obviously count that but it feels like they're in better shape than you they have more talent than you i understand the minnesota wild got a win over them and quinn hughes is certainly something special, but this Colorado team feels like a juggernaut. How should I be talking about them in a historical sense, and what does it look like with the Canes if they end up getting there? All right, so let's stay with the hot goalie. Colorado doesn't have that. They go back and forth seemingly every other game, Wedgwood and Blackwood.

50:51And, you know, the 10-year-old in me loves when the ball arena crowd starts chanting Wedgie, Wedgie. I feel like an infant and everything, but they might have to go back to him. So they're waffling back and forth. One guy gets hot, then he gets pulled, then the next guy comes in. So they've got some decisions to make there. That shot right there, bud, that McKinnon, that Nate Dogg shot, that's one of the sickest shots in hockey all time. And if the Avs go on to win the Cup, I think we remember that. Colorado, you want a stat? I'll give you the stat on Colorado. They had 16 different goal scorers in this series, guys, in a series that went five games.

51:30That's never happened. That is your depth scoring, okay?

51:34Pat McAfee:And that might be why the third period. 16 guys. And that might be why the third period is what it is. If you've got more dudes, obviously you can maybe last longer, and they've certainly showcased that. Need a hot goalie, though, which goes back to your point. This might be the best team. 16 guys are able to score. But if their goalie can't get it done, they will lose. Let's go to the other team that punched their ticket to take on the Avs. Go ahead, Con, man. Yeah, Steve, I don't know if they have 16 guys scoring, but, I mean, what Mitch Marner's doing in Vegas has been unbelievable. But I wanted to ask you, I mean, first of all, yeah, we're talking about goals of the playoffs.

52:05This is right up there. This is it. You guys are so good. That's the one I was going to talk about. That's the sickest goal of the postseason. And let's keep in mind, let's not forget what Kirby Dock did. But yeah, this was a ridiculous goal. And I think there's been a couple others. I think Dorfell is leading the way, actually, in the playoffs now with nine goals. But I wanted to ask you about after the game, Torch, there was a report. Torch didn't go talk to the media. I think they sent one guy out there, everybody else. They kept the doors closed, kind of kept the change room to themselves.

52:36Is that something that kind of just shows you, hey, this team is extremely tight? They are bunker mentality. Screw what everybody's talking about. I know with Marner, his big thing when he was in Toronto is that he didn't show up in the playoffs. And now he's showing up damn near more than anybody. What does that tell you when the head coach, after a victory, after going to the Western Conference Finals, doesn't want to talk to the media. And are you thinking the Golden Knights are kind of a sleeper team here? Granted, they're one of the last four teams, but do you see them giving Colorado a run for their money?

53:09I do. They've got experience. And listen, Torch is going to do what he wants to do. Now, he was very media-friendly and media-savvy when he was sitting next to me back in December, by the way. It wasn't that long ago he was on ESPN. And so he shuts the room. It was actually pretty funny. Mitch Marner comes in the postgame presser. He's one of the two players they made available. And he said, look, guys, we got 10 minutes because Torch is going to leave without us on the bus. One of the excuses out there, and I'm not going to say this is true, there is a noise ordinance flying out of John Wayne in Anaheim.

53:43You guys know that airport out there. That they got to get out of there in a hurry or else they shut down that airport to get back home to Vegas. If you're buying that, probably not. Torch is not going to care. I'll tell you what, the organization, if they get fined by the league and all that stuff for not meeting media responsibilities, they'll deal with the fine. They'll take that and go home and get ready for the next round. But they have the hot goalie. They've got Carter Hart. It's an amazing story. Pat, this team wins the division, and they were very close to missing out on the playoffs the last week.

54:18Torch comes in with eight games left. Who changes a head coach with eight games left in the regular season? Carter Hart comes in, saves the day as well in goal for them. Marner's doing what he's doing. I got caught up in the crosshairs in the Toronto media last week, and Toronto's very sensitive about how Marner played up there in big games and what he's doing now for Vegas. Jack Eichel is a classy, elegant scorer, and I can't stop watching this goal, man. He's doing that in the crease with his back to the net, that Marner goal.

54:51Pat McAfee:Yeah, and it's not just this filthy goal, which is absolutely disgusting. Look, the goalie thinks it's going the other way. Dives his ass that way. He's still looking that way. He has no idea where that thing goes, and he's within a foot of it, and he's an NHL goalie that's deep in the playoffs or whatever the case is. His assist is nasty, too. Sets it up for a shot. Goalie thinks it's a shot. Ices him. Goalie's dead. See you. Wide open net. I mean, that was just what a night for Mitch Martin. No Mark Stone. They're without their captain. No Mark Stone the last couple games. We don't know about him.

55:19Braden McNabb, one of their top two defensemen, suspended for last night's game. They still win. Like, there's some magic going on with this Vegas squad. And if Colorado doesn't take them seriously based on their president's trophy and great regular season, look out. So this Scream seven-game series, I'm really glad we got the Western Conference final this year.

55:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, amen. Can't wait to see how it all wraps up. We appreciate your commitment to sport as a whole, but definitely hockey. It's been fun riding alongside you, Moose, and PK, and all the boys out there. Appreciate you. Thanks for being great for the sport too, Pat. Hey, we're trying, man. We love it. You obviously been pushing it for a long, long time over there, and I'm happy to see numbers up and to the right, Steve. Yep. Rating's good. And the goalie, most important position in all of sports, Pat. You're the man. Take that with you. What's that? I believe he was just inducted into one of the Hall of Fames as well.

56:12Steve was. What? I wasn't sure if it was the New York State. Which Hall of Fame? Which one? It's New York State Hockey Hall of Fame. It's a small group, but small but important. Yeah, small but important. Yeah, of course. Congratulations, Hall of Fame. Let's go, Steve.

56:25Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, Hall of Famer, Steve Levy. Yeah, Steve. Congratulations. That's awesome. Yeah. Good for him. Steve's always been just like such a cool, funny guy. Oh, yeah. Forever. We ran into him one night, and I think he was just trying to get to bed. Do you remember that? I was like, Steve, what's up, man? Just head down. What's up? Just head down. Straight into the thing. I'm like, Steve, good to see you, dude. You look awesome. Thank you. you too like maybe air pods and sunglasses I'll just walk down I'm like damn we just missed out on a Steve Levy combo he's the man we appreciate the hell out of him hockey's great sports are incredible we'll continue on the other side

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58:14Pat McAfee:Sports! Are fantastic. We're so incredibly lucky that we're wrapping up another work week, work week, of talking about sports and enjoying the sports world. We're so incredibly lucky that we get to do it. This weekend's about to be the best weekend of all time because it's the next weekend that we all have, and we'll be back on Monday. We're ready to overreact to it all. The Talks and Tables here at Boston Conner. In one half of the hammer, Cowboys AP Tone. Boys, good to see you. Con man, how's it been with Tone next to you here as Ty celebrates new life? It's been very, very nice. I'll be honest.

58:46Tony has done incredibly well to bring toxicity. You know, it's funny. He just shook my hand because I still remember last Monday him going to shake my hand. And my first thought was Tony would sit down and to add to toxicity, pull punches and immediately kind of get you up. Exactly. I actually wouldn't shake. I stopped to not shake his hand. And then he actually said, like, shake my hand. I've always been under the assumption that this table was a partnership and you had to be toxic together.

59:18Pat McAfee:Yeah, you guys have done a great job. That's part of it. It feels good. It feels too much sometimes. It feels good. Like, you sit down and it's like you're wearing the Green Goblin mask and you just have to start saying shit. Yeah, but you're not, though, because we can see you. Because you did an entire take on these international games that I think obviously Ty would have been proud of. But I don't think you're giving if you're up on your high horse over here. At the toxic table right here, you really felt the urge to kind of say, what are we doing shrink the game i'm done with this the steelers in paris really kind of broke you i think you sent you full into character mode over there yeah you're a thousand percent right and i was actually pissed me off earlier today when uh the prime time game uh schedule graphic was up there because there was gimmick games at the bottom and the international games went on there and those are the most gimmick games you could possibly have geez there's seemingly a lot louder crowd of people against the international games than i could have fathomed i like that we're taking the game worldwide.

1:00:08Pat McAfee:I appreciate that our sport's about to take over for the sport of the world, but here in this process of introducing it to other countries, a lot of these fans, not just Steelers fans, we've been learning on the internet, maybe they're bots. Maybe they're anti-international game bots. Tony bots. Certainly Tony bots. I would love to buy some Tony bots. I think they're getting rid of bots all over the place currently, but as one bot dies, more are spawned. at all times on the internet. But there's a lot of anti-international games happening right now, and you really felt the urge to seemingly become the voice of that.

1:00:43Pat McAfee:Let's obviously now introduce a man who's an international superstar. Yeah, he is. The college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, the pride of Germany, ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. Yeah, Hawk. What's going on, brother? A.J. Hawk. I'm from the U.S. of A. No question, Pat. No, I know. I was just saying, you know, international talking. Yeah, you're way back. They were picturing. Yeah, A.J., The Hawk family is of German descent. Obviously, Ohio through and through, which is the horror of America. Right, AJ? Let's not get it twisted. The international game response, obviously something that I don't think I expected because I thought we were trying to grow the game.

1:01:19Pat McAfee:I thought this was good for the sport. I thought we were trying to introduce a new sport to people that like soccer and tell them, like, hey, things are allowed to happen in a physical way. Soccer's good. This is great. Remember what you did with basketball, how much you love basketball. Let's do this again with football. And then some fans just aren't happy about it. Okay? I think that's going to continue to be a thing. And the NFL is going to continue to push these things and go to more countries. And it's only a matter of time before there is one every single weekend and every single team has to do it.

1:01:45Pat McAfee:Now, other than that, what did you learn from the schedule release last night, AJ, that maybe caught your eye? Packers in some primetime moments for us throughout this next NFL season. Yeah, Packers in some primetime moments. I think that is a win. The one thing that jumped out at me was the Raiders having zero primetime games with number one overall pick, Fernando going there, Tom Brady on the ownership part of the team. I was surprised they didn't get at least one primetime game. I'm sure they're pretty pissed. Yeah, projecting what team's going to be good, what team's going to be ass is what the schedule makers are trying to do.

1:02:14Pat McAfee:So you can almost kind of get a sense of how the NFL thinks you're going to do whenever you see these schedules get released. As an Indianapolis Colts fan who has been on the zero list a couple times and our season has not ended up with success or playoff runs, it is almost like an indicator, but there's been a lot of teams that they've had to flex into primetime as the season goes on because they get hot. Hopefully the Raiders are that team so we can see Fernando do his thing late or Kirk Cousins, whatever the deal, the stepbrothers, maybe the Dolphins. How about the Titans? We think Salah and Dayball are just ass down there.

1:02:44Pat McAfee:Is that what we're thinking down there? We don't think they could potentially get hot. Cardinals lost the schedule at least completely. Everybody said they lost it completely, but they could have a lot to build on. And then the New York Jets having no primetime game, being in the New York area with how many people are just naturally going to watch that game because they're from there, that's a crazy decision. That's a big statement, I think, from the NFL. Now, from the current NFL to future NFL players, to dreams coming true, to lives being changed, every once in a while we're asked to be a part of a monumental day for a young freak football stud.

1:03:21Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to be a part of another commitment. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

1:03:35Pat McAfee:Say it, AJ. It's a big day for some big names. Locking in the play in some big games. It's a big day for some big names. Locking in the play in some big games. Where you going next? Recruiting is like chess. Got a 4D if you want to be the best. Announce it on the show. Where you gonna go? Everybody waiting, they all want to know. It's a big day for some big names.

1:04:11Pat McAfee:We are honored that we get to be a part of this. And as the highlights continue to grow on that particular video, we welcome, ladies and gentlemen, the next superstar at potentially your university. Ladies and gentlemen, 6 '5", 230-pound tight end. Jeez. Out of Libertyville, Illinois. 2027 tight end Brock Williams. Yay, Brock. What's up, dude? Oh, no, you're muted. Might be on our side, might be on your side. Let's go ahead and figure that out because you look great. Family looks wonderful. We have no audio coming from you to us. Wow, you look unbelievable though. James, you look unbelievable right now.

1:04:55Pat McAfee:Great setup. Brother, can you hear us? Frozen. There we go. There we go. We got sound. Can you hear us? Yeah, yeah. I can hear you. I can hear you. Okay, good. I don't know if you heard everything I said during the intro, but the fact that you're 6 '5", 230, and I've heard you've got multiple brothers, too. I assume they're all gigantic human beings. I cannot wait. Yeah, they're huge. Mom, shout out mom. Hey, great job, mom. Woo! Dad, great job over there. Okay, legends, I appreciate it all. Okay, so tell me a little bit about the recruiting process for you. Obviously, the tight end position for what it has become.

1:05:31Pat McAfee:If you're big and athletic in this style of football, you're going to be great. At what age did you start getting college looks, and how have you kind of developed over the years, Brock? Yeah, so the recruiting process for me has been crazy. It really picked up my sophomore year, and I was playing receiver my freshman year, and then sophomore year is really when I started to play tight end, like being physical. So, yeah, but the recruiting process over the past few months has been insane. Yeah, we have some clips. Not only have you catching the rock, and they got you split out as a tight end, and obviously, look at your breaking tackle, 6 '5", 230, in this particular one, but also road grading folks.

1:06:08Pat McAfee:I mean, just absolutely demolishing people at the line of scrimmage. And is this a punt return? No, kick off, sir. Is this a kick return? Yes, sir. Kick return, yes, sir. Brock, you have been terrorizing Illinois. Holy hell. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay, all right, all right, let's get to it. Brock, I apologize that we did not watch your entire highlight film. We only saw the first five plays. I thought we understood who it was. Clearly, we have to watch more. Brock, if you would like to let the world know where you will be playing football next and where you'll continue your football career, we'd be honored for you to do that.

1:06:42Pat McAfee:And to the entire family, thank you for letting us be a part of this. The floor is yours, Brock. Yes, sir. I want to thank everyone for being here. Thank all the coaches for putting me in this position. I want to thank my family. I want to thank all the coaches that believed me and gave me the opportunity, especially Coach Keith.

1:07:03Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah, with that being said, really, too.

1:07:11Hook him! Hook him, bro!

1:07:15Pat McAfee:Hell, yeah! Congratulations! Brock Williams commits to Texas. Sarkisian gets an absolute stallion of a man out of Libertyville, Illinois. Enjoyment has to be taking place over there. Hey, congratulations, Brock! Congratulations Brock. Let's go. Hell yeah, let's go. Hook him, brother. What was it about Sarkeesian and Austin that made you want to go down there and play with the Texas Longhorns next? Oh no. We got cut off. Yeah, sorry, we got cut off. But yeah, Coach Sarke's been showing me a crazy amount of love. Almost every week.

1:08:05Pat McAfee:All right, that's awesome. You're the best. Ladies and gentlemen, Brock Williams, have a good one. Yeah, Brock. We don't need tech problems ruining today. That was incredible. He's at Texas. I believe the whole gym was packed. I wish we would have been able to get to that. I'm so happy for him. How about Texas? I know. Yeah. I mean, they're – I mean, you better be ready to go to class. No basket weaving out there. Yeah, absolutely. You have to go to school. You lose 50 % of your credits if you're going to transfer in there. Good thing he's Stark. Yeah. Okay, and Stark will be able to take care of him.

1:08:31Pat McAfee:We apologize, Brock, for that type of connection. Hopefully we'll be able to get you back on maybe at a different time on a FaceTime or whatever. Look at this. He's a monster. I mean, he just drove that guy 10 yards directly down the line of scrimmage, just caving in an entire end for the run game. Then you have him flanked out wide. He breaks tackles. This guy seems like an absolute superstar heading down to Austin. And everybody kind of forgets about Texas, you know? Everybody kind of forgets about Texas because of how last year went. Everybody kind of forgets about what Arch Manning is kind of being projected to be.

1:09:02Pat McAfee:I think they're saying he cleared up a little bit. Brock, you there, pal? Yes, sir. Yes, sir, I'm here. Dude, I'm so happy that that place went crazy and we lost a little connection. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Yes, sir. Okay, I love that the electricity was crazy. Can you tell me a little bit about Texas and how long have you been thinking about going to Texas? Because we were just chatting about it. Whenever the recruiting gets talked about, it's always like who has the most, who has the most. Texas, obviously, with Arch going into next year, a lot of high expectations. Locking you down is a crazy signing by Sark.

1:09:33Pat McAfee:We're incredibly pumped for him. What do you see in the future? What's Sark telling you about the future down there? And when do you kind of get this whole thing started, you think? Yeah, so I've kind of had in my mind where I wanted to go for the past few weeks, I'd say. But, yeah, you can't go wrong with Coach Sark, especially his offense that he's putting you in. And then you're going to have top-of-the-line quarterbacks, the best quarterbacks in the country. So that's huge for me as well. Let's go to Dad. Tyler. Okay, I should have went with it. I thought it was Tyler. That's 100 % on me, Dad.

1:10:06Pat McAfee:I am so sorry. I was a little gun shy there. I knew it started with a T. Didn't know if it was Tyler. I was trying to guess with Illinois. Tyler, can you tell me a little bit about watching the boy go through the recruiting process and now inevitably traveling down to be a Texas Longhorn? How has that kind of been, I don't want to say emotionally for you, but what has this voyage been like for you as a dad? Yeah, no, I appreciate it. First and foremost, thank you for having us on this stage. Truly appreciate this. It's been a wild journey. I've focused on the football side. My wife, Kelly, here, she's focused on education, so divide and conquer.

1:10:39but we've been on 27 trips and so we just wanted to make sure we made the right decision at the right place for the right reasons and there's full transparency at Texas they have an incredible staff we have a clear vision of their offense and how he would be utilized with his skill set they have a great player coming their way athletically but a great person on top of that he's a great teammate and we're excited for the next chapter

1:11:00Pat McAfee:hell yeah Brock I like to hear that maybe a couple beers with the boys or water depending upon what life you want to go with I'm not telling him to do anything miss kelly uh don't listen to any of that obviously don't listen okay okay yeah yeah i mean that's team that's football that's team and it's texas i think it's gonna have to happen miss kelly uh about the education sark just came out literally i think yesterday or two days ago and said like at texas you can't be doing basket weaving uh dad tyler just said you're a big part of the education process how has that kind of what have you learned about maybe what's possible of Texas and maybe what have you learned about college education as a whole as you've kind of gone through 27 visits on this?

1:11:40Well I'm a teacher to begin with so I have been paying really close attention to all the schools that we've gone to and this was my job kind of by default because Tweedy didn't want to deal with the education. I think he's a hard worker he'll be fine wherever he goes educationally.

1:11:58Pat McAfee:Okay well congrats to the whole family Brock thank you for joining us back on. And to the lads there, how old are the brothers? This is his twin brother. Oh, good. It's nice to meet you, brother. Yeah, twin brother. Okay. Oh, geez. I couldn't imagine that. Yeah, okay. Awesome. I can't wait to see what your whole family turns into. As you guys grow older, you got a teacher and a super football. Can't wait to follow along. Thanks for letting us be a part of your journey. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Brock. Yes, sir. Yeah, Brock.

1:12:31Pat McAfee:So, I'm the teacher. I'll deal with the education stuff. Dad, sweet. Divide and conquer. Let's see what type of field turf we got out here. Let's go ahead and get after it. What's your first point? We don't talk about it a lot. We talk about it a lot in the NFL, but not a lot in college. Like, for these recruits, like, if you're an offensive guy, you don't have to worry about the OC being plucked because Sark is the OC. Like, that's huge for them probably recruiting offensively. You do it in the NFL, right? We talk about that in the NFL a lot, never really in college. And Sark's offense has always been efficient.

1:12:58Pat McAfee:Is Arch Manning this year going to be – nobody talks about Texas. He's projected number one pick. He is the projected – he's either one or two for the Heisman favorite. Texas is supposed to be one or two. So it's very similar to going into last year as far as the projections are concerned. But it does feel like it's quieter around Arch in Texas this year, even though the projections at this time of the year are the exact same. Yeah, I – towards the end, Arch started figuring it out, right? Yes, he did. Started kind of – early, it didn't look great. No. Like, I think we all – I feel like Ohio State really, really got in his head.

1:13:30Like you think he was seeing ghosts for the rest of the year. Because, you know, Ohio State would go on to be historically –

1:13:35Pat McAfee:how many in the draft? Six in the first two rounds? Less than 10 points. If you include Caden McDonald, you can even say six in, what, the top 35 picks. And that's Arch's first start. Yeah. With Matt Patricia running that thing. Three in the top 10. And just go, oh, is this what this is going to be like all year? And then outside doubt, you know, where the people are like, who did he play against? This is the favorite? it yeah you start really feeling it and then what florida game right was that when they were in florida when uh that was not a good game oh they lose there never mind if i remember it was close there was a mississippi state game where he i believe went off and then yeah later in the season everybody was like hey arch has found it he's figured it out now he's a full off season figuring it out should the hype be as big as it was last year should it be bigger i don't think anybody really knows no you don't because i mean there are lines here's a arch faced a lot of Cresher last year.

1:14:27So in their O-line, it's supposed to be incredible. They have a top 10 tackle coming back. Kind of love Texas.

1:14:35Pat McAfee:Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They got great odds. The books think they're going to be good. But it isn't really much conversation, much national chatter. And then Brock Williams, 6 '5", 230. And they beat A &M? It'll be 250 in a year and a half. He also got the number one transfer wide receiver in the portal, Cam Coleman, out of Auburn, who's not Jeremiah Smith, but body-wise, very close. He's huge. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go to some NBA playoff conversation. Two huge games tonight. The Stones try to extend the series in Cleveland against the Cavaliers. Cavaliers favored by 4.5 on DraftKings.

1:15:12Pat McAfee:Spurs at Timberwolves. Spurs favored by 5.5 at 9.30 p.m. on Prime. Pistons, Cavaliers, 7 p.m. on Prime. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is ESPN NBA pundit, co-host of the Knuckleheads podcast, 13-year NBA vet, ladies and gentlemen, Q Red. Yeah, Q Red. Whoa. Whoa. That's good, fellas. That's good. That's good. That's good. Well, it's good. We got palm trees living. Nice man. Might be calling you the next ice man. You look like you're living a pretty good little life. You've earned it. Congratulations. The backdrop is spectacular. We are looking for that type of weather soon. Had rain this morning.

1:15:52Pat McAfee:And tomorrow. And the next day. This is why I reside in City Beautiful, a.k.a. Orlando. I came down here when I got traded here. When I signed here and I checked it out, I was like, I kind of like it around here. I don't want to be in the Midwest cold anymore. Easy. It's good to see. I would say there's a lot of days where I wake up and I look outside and I think to myself, that's a good decision by you. But, hey, when that sun comes out for the first time in five months, think about that feeling you'll never be able to feel again because you're down there where all the sun is. Think about that one time where we get to be like, we can come out of hibernation now.

1:16:29Pat McAfee:We can go do life. Orlando is beautiful. I'll be excited for you all. I'll be very excited for you all when that day comes. It's already happened a couple times. Yeah, it has been sunny before here. All right, let's get to the NBA playoffs a little bit. Tonight, obviously, Cade Cunningham is trying to extend a series in Cleveland. He's played great. Everybody around him has seemingly not played great. It'll be the first time Detroit would advance since 2008, I do believe, if they were able to pull this off. And then Spite obviously has never done it in his nine-year career, gone on to win it all.

1:16:56Pat McAfee:So he's getting judged upon everything. James Harden hasn't been for a while. James Harden has not been this far for a while. I think eight years or nine years or something since he's made it this far in the playoffs. Can you just tell me about that first game, Stons, Cavs, and kind of what your expectation is on who shows up for who? Me selfishly, man, as a fan, I would love to see this series go seven games. But I feel like this is Cleveland series now. You know, they were the first team to get a road victory. And I feel like, obviously, they've been dominant at home and playing really well at home.

1:17:30So they should be looking to close this thing out. I feel like, obviously, you come out with Donovan Mitchell who's going to lead the way and throw the first punch. But like you said, you need James Harden. You need those big guys and Mobley and Allen to come play big to close it out. Because everybody knows the hardest game to win is the closeout game. So I know, and we saw what Detroit has done with their backs against the wall this playoff. So, I mean, this is not going to be an easy game by any means. But I think Cleveland can get it tonight.

1:17:57Pat McAfee:They came back down 3-1 against Orlando, obviously, in the first round. We all thought the Stones were just a bunch of fugues, number one seed in the East. Can't even get past Orlando. And then all of a sudden, a magical comeback. And they make that two times this particular playoff run. That would be crazy, almost a gift from the football or basketball gods. AJ has a question for you, Q Rich. Yeah, Q Rich, I guess who do you think matches up best against the Knicks in the next round, whoever would win the Stones-Cabs matchup here? Stones. I mean, when you look at the regular season, I would say Detroit.

1:18:28I mean, Detroit kind of owned them in the regular season, beat them by 31, 38, and 15. So it was like regular season. I mean, I will say New York is playing a lot different now. They're playing cat at that top, at that high post, and he's being kind of a facilitator, taking the ball out of Brunson's hand a little bit and showing his versatility off the ball. So I do feel like they're playing different and they're playing a lot better than they were in those times in the season. But in the season, Detroit beat them handily all three times. So, I mean, I would say that based on that, I would say Detroit.

1:18:59But by the way they're playing now, I would probably say Cleveland because Cleveland is showing, you know, more versatility in their roster outside of Donovan. You're getting good games from James Harden, Jared Allen, Evan Mobley, Max Struess is balling out. So I think they got more players playing well right now. I think that's why they're up in this series against Detroit.

1:19:17Pat McAfee:The Knicks are making back-to-back conference finals for the first time since? 1979. 2000. Ooh. 26 years. Not as long as I potentially thought there. Yeah, I was thinking much further. Yeah, me too. I got some fun stats here about some of these teams. The Knicks became the first team in NBA history to win three straight playoff games by 25-plus points. Obviously, they've been dominant. They lead the NBA playoffs in field goal percentage and three-point percentage. That feels like a pretty big deal, Q Rich. No, that is. I mean, those things are huge. I mean, all things line up. Like I say, I'm a former Nick.

1:19:51I would love to see them get to the finals and have a chance to the championship. I know the city would be on fire, but even more for me, the fans and then those guys in the organization has been there forever. Man, they got guys that's been there a long time since before I got there, while I was there. So they've enjoyed all those different ups and downs. And it'd be great to see them get a chance to be on the high side of it.

1:20:13Pat McAfee:Man, New York would be scenes, I believe, is how that would be described. It's already packed out, and it feels like there is a majority of the humans are Knicks fans in the biggest city in America, Bruce. Yeah, they're going to have to call in the National Guard if we got a finals game seven on Seventh Avenue. It's going to be absolutely ridiculous. It's crazy with the layoff. Like, it's just so different compared to last year where, you know, we're in a dogfight with the Pacers, the Pistons, to now just be kind of watching the Cavaliers and Pistons go at it. So, yeah, hopefully, you know, everybody stays healthy and this thing keeps rolling and the city's on fire.

1:20:50Pat McAfee:Bruce is saying it's a wide-open road scene, at least for us over there. Let's go to the west, shall we? There's some things over there that we haven't seen before. Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, Q Rich, we're talking about Wemby, okay? This guy is a freak of nature. We have game six tonight. They're up 3-2. I wanted to ask you specifically about that old school eat my elbow from game four. It felt as though Wemby was just kind of sick of the BS. You know, he feeds Nas Reed the back of his arm. Boom! And we were talking, too, like with the size in the amount of force from his 7 '4", 7 '5 frame wingspan, that is basically like taking a rubber bullet to the throat.

1:21:32He wasn't suspended. He wasn't fined. Did you like this? You know, Pat asked a couple other people kind of about like the old school group text. Like, well, it was your group text kind of going off. Like, wow, here we go. Nineties, basketball, basketball, we kind of grew up with might be back. They don't find them. They don't suspend them. He basically just gets reamed out by Greg Popovich getting off the plane when they arrived from Minnesota. And that was the extent of it. But then he goes bananas in game five. And now it feels like they're kind of primed to win this thing in six. What did you think about this?

1:22:03And how do you feel about tonight with the Spurs going back to Minnesota, trying to close it out? Well, first, you know, obviously I don't want to see anybody get hurt or anything. And, like, obviously that could have been an injury right there, but I'm glad it wasn't. But with that being said, I loved every second of it. I loved everything about it. I loved that he took the initiative. And I did think that it was intentional. I didn't think he, you know, meant to hit him in the head or, like, really injure him. But I think when you're a guy with a body like Wimby, And I think every big man that's coming to the league that's supposed to be a quote-unquote star, and when they are young, they're going to get tested.

1:22:39I watched Dwight go through it. I'm sure Shaq and Pat and some of those guys go through it. And until you do this a couple times, you lay a couple people out, you gain that respect. Like, I guarantee you, the guys are going to think twice before they go buzzing around him like a natt at a barbecue when he gets those rebounds. after they look at him lay Nas Reed down like that, and he may need to do it another time or two before people really just leave him alone and stop swinging at the ball and swiping at the ball. But, like, a lot of bigs historically coming into the league, they had to take these hits and take these fines and suspensions and different things to get that point across to where you leave them alone when they get those rebounds and you stay away from them and you know that those elbows need to be registered weapons.

1:23:23Pat McAfee:Definitely registered weapons, especially on his. They're swinging at a different altitude than everybody else, assumingly, in the history of the game, other than what, Yao Ming maybe? Yeah, probably. Is Yao Ming? Both of those, yeah, Bo Bo, the highest elbows that have been swung around. And I think Iman said, like, the big guys always used to bully people. And then it was kind of like, then you just kind of stopped messing with them. I appreciate that he knew that he had to do something to stop. Like, I have to prove that I'm not just going to get bullied down here. Like, I have to do that. During that play, if you look at that play, he was being held the whole – like I'm not saying that the elbow was right and he did.

1:24:00But look at this. He's being held by the jersey around the corner. Then they caught a foul. And watch this. McDaniels go to put him in the chokehold after that. Like the play over, bro. What are we doing? So it's like, yeah, you got to do something to stop people. And if I'm McDaniels, I'm not – you know, he doing whatever he got to do to frustrate this dude. Like you don't know how to figure him out. So you do anything. But like from Wimby's standpoint, enough is enough. I'm tired of it.

1:24:22Pat McAfee:People know he'll do it now. Oh, yeah. That is one of the things that people know he'll do it now. And hopefully there will be a respect level. We cannot wait to watch him the rest of the way. If you were to pick this particular game, who do you like? How do you like it? Man, like I said, as a fan, I want to see seven. So I think Ant-Man has a huge response. I think he comes out. I love everything about his mentality and everything I've seen from him unless we know he's going to come out here and he's going to go all out. But, I mean, at the same time, if Wimby decides to come out the way he did last game and he gets any support from those guards and wings, it's over to me.

1:25:03I say San Antonio win if Wimby does that type of game again.

1:25:07Pat McAfee:Five and a half points in Minnesota. Remember Minnesota's record before the last time San Antonio came out there in Minnesota. Very good. That is a buzzsaw of a place. If they were able to steal or win the series up there, that would obviously be notable as the Oklahoma City Thunder await them in the Western Conference. All right, Q Rich, we appreciate the hell out of you. Have an incredible week. I don't know how you couldn't, but have a good weekend down there, man. All right, fellas. Y 'all be cool. Okay, so can you – is there a pool back there? Do we got the fence around because the gators or the crocodile – how many – No, no, no gators here.

1:25:41No gators here, brother. I'm good. The pool right there. And, you know, I got the screen in here on the patio. yo, that's what you're seeing right here, the screen. So, you know, the mosquitoes and everything, I can just chill out. You ever jump off that balcony into the pool? Yeah. Jump off that balcony, I see.

1:25:56Pat McAfee:How far of a gap is it from up there to the pool? Or the roof, maybe? A younger me might have tried that, not the grown-up me. I'm cool. I'm chilling. Okay, I thought that was certainly just a Caucasian idea, because as soon as me and AJ saw that, that was both of our first thoughts, I think, AJ, right? Was that not to see if we could have made that? Yeah, especially the roof, too. The overhang up there gets you a little bit closer, and it's a little higher. I think that's probably where I'm headed. How deep is that pool there, Q Rich? It's like eight feet on the deep end. We can definitely do that.

1:26:25Pat McAfee:Do it. Go up there right now. Can you show us what that roof looks like up there a little bit just to see how far of a – Oh, yeah. Can you show us how big the gap is there between the window wall? Basically a diving platform. Oh, wait. No, no. We can do that. Deep end is down on that side or is that shallow end? Yeah, it don't matter. No, that's the deep end down there. Yeah. straight off of that thing. Do not. Cannot hit that. Cannot hit that. Okay. We'll watch you guys. We appreciate you, man. You're the best. Have a great weekend. Yes, sir. Fellas, y 'all too. All right. See you, ladies and gentlemen.

1:26:58Q Rich.

1:26:59Pat McAfee:Yeah, Q Rich. I hope he doesn't jump off that without us. Yeah, or maybe send someone else off. At least film it, maybe, if he's going to do it. Yeah, have somebody with a GoPro up your cell. Hey, boys, check it out, guys. I'm off the roof, and he does like a gainer, and bam, lands it perfectly. We should have someone we don't care about go off the roof. like just in case. We care about our belief. Who would that be? That's not true. There's plenty of bad people. I don't want Q Rich to get hurt. Yeah, of course you don't want to think about that. I don't know. I don't live in my feelings. One of those streamers that Bill or Gump watches.

1:27:29Pat McAfee:Oh, you're right. That's like a thing for them. Yeah. The one, the builder one? I don't know, man. I don't think I like that. No, no, not Bob. Bob helps people. That seems pretty. I think gimmicks are starting to fly a little bit too close. Icarus? Icarus? Is that what it was? Yeah, that's the one. Ladies and gentlemen, there's big news in the zoo world. Oh. The trade of the century potentially just took place between the Pittsburgh Zoo and the Boston Zoo. Ladies and gentlemen, Frankie has been sent out of the Pittsburgh. What are you upset about? I mean, that's not even the full details of the trade.

1:28:04Can we get Chef D or Rap Sheet on to include the full details, please? It wasn't just a swap, okay?

1:28:11Pat McAfee:All right, there's an unnamed ape as well in the entire thing. Okay, there it is. Boom. Okay, Frankie, an unnamed ape from the Pittsburgh Zoo, have been traded to the Boston Zoo in return for silverback, 33-year-old stud, Lil' Joe, who once escaped the zoo. Yes, he did. Okay, now, there's a lot of people saying the zoo that got Lil' Joe, the silverback gorilla, probably the one that won the trade. Yes, agreed. And then there's other people from Boston saying, yeah, right. We got seven-year-old Frankie coming to town. This guy's a part of a little bachelor group that's going to be roaming around in Boston.

1:28:54Pat McAfee:And the only reason why Lil Joe was sent down to the Pittsburgh Zoo, they need his sperm bad. Bingo. And his sperm's been all around the Boston Zoo. So it seems like a good trade for both parties. But Conman, you've been saying that the Boston Zoo, clear winner of this particular ape trade that took place. Yeah, it's not even close. It's all about scheme and fit. You know, we're talking about how little Joe, who, again, by the way, let me just say, thank you for your service, little Joe. We will never forget you. Thank you for doing that. In the Boston Zoo. It's not just one of those things like, hey, get out of town.

1:29:27We don't want you anymore. Little Joe, we love you. And you're 33 years in Boston. We're great. Now he escaped and mauled a two-year-old. But let's not get into what little Joe is about. What are you trying to slander, little Joe, right now? I'm trying to slander him. This is just history, and this is what happened. Now let's get into scheme and fit. Okay. Frankie. Yeah. You mentioned it. There's two apes up there that have been waiting for an alpha for a third to make themselves a throuple. Kind of the cock of the walk. Walk around the zoo a little bit. Do some of this, you know? Oh, yeah. Do some of that.

1:29:59Yeah. And they might be partying. They might have a little spillage. But that's what's going to happen when you're a seven-year-old ape. You know, 33 years old, little Joe again. Not that he's not past his prime. He's not. But he had his time. Okay. Frankie's coming up seven years old, ready to run. Would you like to talk about how little Joe is going to run? We haven't even gotten into the unnamed age. You're filibustering right now. You're filibustering. This is what he does. He just yells loud. Oh, I won because I yelled loud. How was Tom? Let's talk about the facts. Little Joe, six-time Super Bowl champ, one of the goats to ever do it.

1:30:31Oh, what does Boston do? Someone who's given them so many years of greatness and gratitude, they ship them down to another place. One time it was to Tampa Bay. This time it's to Pittsburgh. And what happened when little Tom went down to Tampa Bay? Oh, all of his friends came and they joined and they won a Super Bowl. And that's what little Joe's going to do in Pittsburgh. Because little Joe, he's got two females waiting for him. Waiting to just accept little Joe. Little Joe's little Joe. Accept little Joe's little Joe. It ain't little. Because the two females in Pittsburgh are both approaching 30 years old.

1:31:07They need the alpha. Okay? Frankie's not an alpha. We've seen that. He's been here for seven years and hasn't got one of them pregnant. Okay? Not one time. He's seven years old, Tony. That is disgusting. They don't start until they start keeping. You're looking through a keyhole, Tony. Little Joe is coming down, and he's going to impregnate all the gorillas in Pittsburgh, and we're going to have so many more Little Joes and the Pittsburgh Zoo, which I Googled is a much far superior zoo than the Franklin Zoo in Boston. Okay? So they realize, hey, Little Joe needs to spread his wings and fly to a better zoo.

1:31:38Pat McAfee:Oh, so he kind of went from minor league to major league. Bingo. Not at all. Now, hold on, though. I will say, Connor, with what your objection was coming. Yeah, big one. Darius J. Butler, former New England Patriot, Pittsburgh got host. Little Joe's way past his front. I'm sure Darius researched the subject. Or did he just fire up a tweet he didn't even think about? I will say, I Googled, okay? I Googled amongst other folks who maybe have a little possible interest in this particular trade, what the life expectancy is of a silverback. Immediately upon hearing that we're giving away a seven-year-old, this is the future of the franchise.

1:32:15Pat McAfee:Oh, yeah. And Frankie, obviously, he's liked his trade. Other teams want him. So, obviously, he's got some great moxie, I assume. Frankie was fine. He's 33. The first Google search told me these things, 35 to 40, dead. That's in the wild. That's in the wild. That's in the wild. In captivity, it's 45 to 50. I'm looking at the answer right now. Okay, so we got at least 10 years. We'll take 10 good years out, Little Joe, in Pittsburgh up there. What, Frankie's just going to mix in with the crowd? Little Joe's about to come peacocking. Look at Little Joe. Little Joe. Look at him. Look, his peacocking years are over.

1:32:47Clearly, you guys haven't looked into the peacocking years of Silverback Gorillas. And I appreciate what you said about him being a six-time Super Bowl champion. But, again, this is just the Pittsburgh in you. You're looking through a keyhole, Tony. You see, he also has two NBA championships. He also has. He also has. Keep building up Little Joe's resume. Okay. So, yeah, no. And he was. It was a real long time ago. Frankie's coming over. He's seven years old. Shit, let me think about this. I don't know. Looks as though he's probably going to be the one to bring the right. Oh, this sounds a lot like when he was talking about Mac Jones.

1:33:18This is Tom Brady and Mac Jones right now is what's happening right now. Funny enough. Oh, that's funny because I believe Little Joe made the Mac Jones pick. So, it looks like you're getting the guy who liked Mac Jones.

1:33:29Pat McAfee:At least Frankie has won like a playoff game or a playoff series, right? Has he? Well, no, that's why Frankie was stirring up so much shit. Frankie, I guess what we're not talking about is the back story here. He wanted to leave Pittsburgh back because all the alpha gorillas that you guys have were kind of used to standing up. Yeah, bullying them. I expect both of you to go check in on both of these. I will. I ain't checking on Little Joe. He ain't part of my family no more. I will check on Little Joe. All right, okay. You'll check on Little Joe. This summer I'll go back to the Pittsburgh Zoo, a far superior zoo, and check on Little Joe.

1:33:57Not true. Will you go talk to Frankie? We'll see how he shows up. If he shows up ready. He has 4 ,000 species. He ain't just, yeah. Boston, little Franklin Park Zoo? Half of them. What did you just say? Say the thing again. Somebody Google it. Half of those species are fruit flies, so I don't even want to get into the quality. They deserve.

1:34:15Pat McAfee:So now Noah's Ark doesn't matter. Oh, it does matter. Big time. Let's not get into the dinosaurs on there, too. But if Frankie shows up ready to work, then, yeah, I'll go check in on him. But if it's Pittsburgh Habits, he shows up with. You don't think he's going to work? I just said in the facts. I don't know. I'm done. I'm done with it. Congratulations to both zoos seemingly getting what they needed at this particular time. Agreed. I rule it a win-win. Sure. But we know. One-one more. Especially if you get two. Well, it's weird because if it was a straight-up good trade, you wouldn't have to throw in an unnamed ape at a later time.

1:34:47Unless that unnamed ape is kind of the quiet one that everybody kind of wants peace of, but nobody knows about yet. And that's kind of the word that I'm getting. Well, Little Joe is worth that one and another one.

1:34:57Pat McAfee:So I think there's quite a conversation to be had about the main attraction coming down to the Pittsburgh Zoo. That's the resume. That's the resume sale, baby. All right. I appreciate both of the zoos getting active. Yeah. Giving us something to chat about. Yeah. It's fake news last night. Two different positions, obviously, those two. They're playing two different positions. They're at different parts of their careers. Yeah. But if you can get 10 good years out of Little Joe stomping a yard. Agreed. And a couple Little Joes, Little Joes running around, I think that's a success. Frankie, if he's able to meet up with his bachelor crew and kind of run roughshod for a while, so Boston zoo goers can say, that's fun over there.

1:35:33Pat McAfee:That'd be good, I think. Ten years is a long time, though, to be a successful zoo animal. I guess Frankie, from my sources, is actually really melting well with the boys so far. I'm dead serious. She's got a photo. It looks as though Frankie and the Bachelor are alive and well. Can you send it? It's locked now, yeah. Yeah, I'll try and send it. I mean, you're right. There's a lot of other stuff to get to. Oh, okay. Didn't happen. Thought so. The boys are feeling good. That is not ass at all. No. And on this particular Friday, we've decided we would like to recap all the things that are great and all the things that are bad.

1:36:11Pat McAfee:First, let's go with the things that we thought were great that needed a little bit more of a spotlight. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for five things that aren't ass. We had them on in the first hour. Paul Skeens right now, MLB, not ass at all. He's pitching everything nice. under 2.0 ERA for potentially the third straight season to start his MLB career. Historic. Love what he's doing, Tone. Love the vibes in Pittsburgh around the Pirates. Yeah, he's gotten 16 straight innings without allowing a run. He's taken back-to-back games into the seventh without allowing a hit. Skeens is absolutely on fire.

1:36:43He's what we like to call a stopper. When it gets to him, any losing stops. He's going to get you a win.

1:36:48Pat McAfee:That's right, and that's why we're not running into 7-8-9 game lose streaks like the Cincinnati Reds are. because we got Paul every five days. The aces certainly aren't ass. It's not just skeins, though. No, it's also, how about Shohei, the world's biggest star from baseball, throwing a baseball better than maybe anybody ever, AJ. They're putting him up against the best of all time with what he's doing, how he's doing, the lack of hits, the lack of runs, and also the composure, the moxie, and the movement on these pitches is a must-watch. He's not ass at all, AJ. No, he's not. Watching in this slow-mo cam and 4K or whatever, it's awesome to see from behind how much these pitches can move.

1:37:26And obviously we know he has the heater to drive it by anybody when he needs it. But that one right there is just wild to think of.

1:37:33Pat McAfee:Okay, so we've got America's ace and Japan's ace both dealing. That's great for the sport, especially fresh out of the World Baseball Classic with all the other stars that are absolutely balling. Shout out to baseball. Let's stay in baseball. You know what else he's an ass and didn't get enough love? Riley Green sang his ass all the way up to the batter's box and then got a hit. You don't believe me? Let's go to some banana ball, shall we, with the big, handsome former college quarterback. There was this girl drinking in hand Shoot me a last get into trouble, friend I ain't never seen something so fine I was doing anything to make her mind I was out of my mind She was out of this world.

1:38:18Pat McAfee:Hey, they're good choreographers. Yeah, there was this girl. There was this girl, wasn't there? Hell yeah, Riley. Yeah, there was. Bananas, come on up. Yeah, there was this girl. Come on, Bananas. Come on, now. Come on. For my nannas. Okay, so he does that. Obviously, he rocks the house. Place goes crazy. He's Riley Green. Holy hell. How's this guy? So, him puts the hat on, cap on. Gets the bat, puts the gloves on, steps into the batter's box. Okay, coolest entrance maybe of all time. Clean. We've seen a lot of people step up to bat in these banana games and embarrass themselves. Riley, absolutely not.

1:38:56Pat McAfee:What? Shot up the middle. Strides it out, legs it out. Single. Riley Green, batting 1 ,000 in banana ball while singing himself up to bat. What a beautiful moment. That's not ass at all, A.J. Hawk. No, it's not. And we have seen it is not as easy as it looks to get a hit in these banana games. No question. He's going right back at the pitcher like they teach him. Yeah, and he's got – look at the camouflage bat there. He just got that from duck blind. He actually – that wood there, that wood that made that bat that was camouflaged, an otter actually sawed that thing down to make a dam out there where he was duck hunting.

1:39:30Pat McAfee:Wow. He grabbed that because he had such a good duck hunting day. Maybe 30, 30 different ducks came through with his – with the way he's been calling them. He said, I want to remember today forever. Made a camouflage bat out of the otter dam's wood, and he hits a single with it in banana ball. oh, now he's batting 1 ,000, this guy can do fucking anything. Yeah, and he might be the only one. They talked about him being the only one ever to kind of sing himself up. He might be the only guy, at least I've seen, to go up there and perform well. That's certainly not ass. Russ, not ass at all. And we saw the Yankee legend.

1:39:59Yeah, Tino Martinez. Yeah. We saw Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson, Drew Brees. He didn't do anything. It's hard. It's very hard. It's hard to hit a ball.

1:40:07Pat McAfee:And they're dunking on you, too. I mean, they're doing the trick shit in your face. Hey, welcome to Banana Ball. Poop, poop. Show your kids this. Out. See ya. Pull a hamstring, too. Riley's striding. Oh, yeah. Running. Legging it out. And we've seen him. He's got those big skinny legs. Oh, it's quarterback. Good for him. He doesn't have that tall of legs. That was an ass. How about an ass that sits about 13 feet high? Stilts gets a hitting banana ball as well. What? Did you see this? Stilts is on the move. I mean, how does he get in and out of the stilts? Do we know? What do you mean? You got a 30-foot ladder?

1:40:44He lives in a ladder. He climbs up? No, he lives. They're attached to his hips. What do you mean, in and out? It kind of looks like it might be attached to his feet. No. No, this is a surgery. He had a surgery to attach him to his feet. How do you know? He's wearing pants.

1:40:55Pat McAfee:Good for him. You can't see anything. That's amazing. Boom. Safe. I don't like that they always try to throw him out at first from the outfield. I see him all the time. If he gets it to the ball or the outfield, you shouldn't be allowed to throw stilts out at first. No, yeah, right. These guys might be in the MLB next week. Stilts? Yeah, you think they want any of them. The outfielder doesn't gun Don Stilts. You think they're ever going to get to play for the Padres? Yeah, right, dude. These dudes are trying to hit that pipeline up to the big show. That's what they're trying to do because they're good.

1:41:22Pat McAfee:I think that's why Banana Ball has done well. A lot of good baseball players, even if you can get up on Stilts. Now, the person that does the Stilts eat, I heard a fun fact. Stilts, man? You mean that person? What's the fun fact? You mean Albert? What did you hear? I heard a fun fact. Hair is awesome. Yeah. I've heard the hairs off. That's true. Jawline phenomenal. Yeah. Also, Bruce, would you like to share? He's quite short. A lot shorter than you might expect as a stilts man. Okay. What do you mean? He's eight feet. Like short for a guy with stilts or just short? Looks pretty tall to me. Yeah, it looks like about 15 feet if I had to guess.

1:41:58Pat McAfee:If that was like 15 feet, four inches, how tall would the stilts be? They would probably be 10 feet tall. Okay. That's what I learned. That's crazy. Oh. Yeah, so Stilts is up there just doing it crazy. I don't like what Bruce is doing. I don't believe he is. Bruce is trying to spread that. Very nice guy, though. Holy shit, it's Stilts. Okay. Hey, we did get to see the Savannah Banana Boys. Shut up. How would he know how tall he always has the Stilts on? Yeah, does he travel with these Stilts on? Like, how does he get on the airplane? I don't think there's enough room around the couches for the Stilts.

1:42:26I thought it was like a – I think they were just kind of carrying around. I thought it was like a –

1:42:30Pat McAfee:I saw Ziggy, the back guy. He's from Pittsburgh. Sure. I met him. I met one of the other – I love what they're doing. They're here in Indianapolis this weekend without the bananas, and they're probably going to sell it if the weather comes well. Clowns in a party. All right, let's go to the next things that aren't asked. How about the future of American soccer? Remember, Kevin Sullivan out of Philadelphia. We met him when he was 14 years old, signed a professional deal to go overseas, a part of the Philadelphia Union. He now is still playing for Philly. He has a 16-year-old. Beautiful lefty cross.

1:42:57Pat McAfee:How about taking it back? Hey! First MLS goal for Kevin Sullivan, the young phenom out of Philly who could potentially be the future of United States soccer. How come I haven't seen this guy on the field, Gump? He scores goals. That was a nasty pass across. And then you get it back to go to the right spot to bury it whenever they're losing, obviously. A great play by him. Don't we need to – is this guy on Team USA? This is the future? What are we doing here, Gumpy? When do I – how do I – where do I watch it? He has started to play a little bit more. But, yeah, it would have been nice, you know, last year.

1:43:27He needs some more minutes, you know. If he's going to be around, he's going to be with this team, 16 years old. He's got to play. Yamal is 18 years old. He was playing for Barcelona at 17, one of the best players in the world. Like, let's get this guy on the pitch.

1:43:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, let's get him on the pitch. Let's get him playing a little bit. That's the only way he's going to get better. And it seems like he's pretty comfortable, has been comfortable since he's 14. Crazy story. That's not ass at all. How about Messi? Messi thought he had a hat trick. Turns out just two goals. Just two goals. Thought it was a hat trick. Just two goals. Messi becomes the first person to do something every game he does something. Yeah. That is kind of how it goes. Every stadium he goes into, it's sold out. The Messi experience in the MLS has certainly been a fantastic one. The MLS's league is obviously growing, but the tickets are moving, and everybody watches every clip of everything Messi does.

1:44:14Pat McAfee:Is he on a little bit of a heater right now scoring, Gumpy? It feels like that. And where are we in the MLS season right now? We're about a quarter of the way through. He's picked it up the last few games. Inter-Miami struggles defensively, though. So, like you see here, they were down 3-2 with about 15 minutes left. So they scored five goals to win. And then this night of MLS actually set the record. 58 goals scored was the most ever scored on an MLS match day on Wednesday night. Unbelievable. The MLS is kind of bringing it. A little bit. Kind of bringing it. Always. We would like them to put their pink slips up over there at Champions League.

1:44:47Pat McAfee:You guys get your best team over there. Sure. We'll put up our best team from the MLS. We'll put up the cups, the pink slips for it all. And if we win, you got to take us into the Premier League as well. Yes. Okay, that's where we're into the Champions League. Why not? Grow up. We are like our top three teams in the Champions League. Now. Well, Miami hasn't even made the playoffs in the MLS. That's not true. They won it last year. Oh, dude. MLS top champions. I thought it was last year. Didn't Messi not even make the postseason? Two years ago. They beat the Whitecaps in the final last year, man.

1:45:17Pat McAfee:How old are you? Follow along. It's Messi's soccer. God damn it, man. Oh, look at me. I don't like soccer. I like soccer a lot, actually. I played in first grade. We don't know it. Okay. Green Hornets. Okay. I still remember the whole season. The Big Green? Yeah. Green Hornets. I'm pretty sure we were undefeated. That's a movie. Did you guys eat oranges at halftime? Yeah. It was first grade because they wouldn't let me play football until second. So yeah, we had a great year. You're the best. How come? I'll tell you what. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, they got them in first grade playing football.

1:45:50Pat McAfee:That's a little bit of a difference. That's a little bit of a difference. You can kind of sense it. Okay, let's move along. The last thing that we would like to showcase that we think is not ass at all. Comes from the lacrosse world. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, look at the clock. 12-12, under 20 seconds. Stony Brook pressing. Turnover. Johns Hopkins has it with 13 seconds left in their own end. Number zero. MK, let's go. Dime down the field. Quick passing. Give me that. Three, two, one. Goal!

1:46:24Pat McAfee:Goal! Johns Hopkins wins in literally the final second after a full field press. Conman, can you tell me a little bit more about how likely this is? They're going somewhere. Oh, yeah. Can we get the sound on this from the beginning? We don't have a sound. Call is fantastic. Unbelievable. It really builds up the entire time. 13 seconds from their own end all the way down to the other end. goal scored and moving on to the finals weekend or something like that? Yeah, this is to go to the final four. Taylor Haas, I believe, was the one that scored. Actually, what it doesn't show, too, 12-12. They were down 12-10.

1:47:00They kind of made a massive comeback. Now, a fast break like that, if you will, was basically to a tee. That is how you draw it up, and they executed it perfectly. This is to go to the final four, which is next week. On Friday, they will take on Northwestern, who's the number one team in the country, and then Maryland and UNC are the other game. But this is wonderful. When you are basically breaking this down, I'm sure with five minutes left, the Johns Hopkins coach probably said like, hey, we are going to get a chance to win and whether it's with 15, 20 seconds, a minute left, we're going to have to get it done.

1:47:35And the fact that they kind of tic-tac-toe, you can kind of see it right there, basically drawn up. It looked like a three-man weave damn near. It was perfection. And that is kind of the magical lacrosse. You can win and score basically on any possession, and sometimes it's that fast. That's why it's so much fun to watch.

1:47:52Pat McAfee:Unbelievable ending, incredible execution, and Taylor Haas, hot hands, a little potato in there. Let me go ahead and make sure we put this in there. How long was that pass from Lisko there? It's like a 35, 40-yard dime right there. Oh, yeah, probably end-to-end is, I don't know, typically like 110, 112 yards is basically the back of the end zone. This ball right here, this one right here. They're looking for an outlet, right? Yeah, that's probably a 50, 60-yard path. Then even this right here. Oh, that's Lesko. I'm sorry, right there. I missed the name. I apologize for that 100%. Whoever did the long pass from the beginning, I should get that name.

1:48:23Pat McAfee:We should get that name at some point. We apologize for not having that. Unbelievable. Dart. That's a long – that's a huck. That's like the big – What are the glasses? So the women wear glasses. They don't let them wear pads. My daughter plays lacrosse. They need to let them wear pads like the boys and kill each other. They don't let them hit because they're wearing eye protection and no glasses, no gloves, no helmets, no gloves. They should play like the boys. Okay, so that's Ohio getting into lacrosse, what you just heard right there. That's lacrosse in general. The girls all want to hit. They watch the boys' games like, man, this would be awesome, and then they don't let them do it.

1:48:53Pat McAfee:Okay, so you have a daughter in lacrosse, and I think you are one that would like to grow the game. I think we've all kind of fallen in love with the game a little bit more here as we've gotten into this world because we get a chance to meet people. The Cavanaugh family is obviously taking care of us. The Pals, obviously, we know from the history. The indoor lacrosse, awesome. Obviously, PLL is awesome. The Olympics is coming. And also, it's a sport where, you know, my particular build, which my kids will have, could potentially play pretty well. So I would like to see lacrosse continue to go.

1:49:23Pat McAfee:And I love that this is happening. Exhilarating at the end of any game is awesome. And that is certainly not ass at all. Okay, let's run through some of the bad now, shall we, ladies and gentlemen? and...

1:49:38Pat McAfee:Sorry to all the people that are watching with dogs at home, probably going crazy. We'll just pile on. We'll continue to pile on. We apologize. It's time to hop on the... Oh, no! Let's go to the PGA Championship, the major that is happening currently over there in Euronimic. Bryson DeChambeau, day one, YouTube golfer, rolls it about 50 feet maybe 60 yards past the hole the greens in the course have been kicking the golfer's ass thus far a lot of people thought they were going to score well a lot of people thought the golfers were going to beat this place the greens said i don't think so and they turned him into bryson de chambeau oh no let's go to baseball always doing something sweet for us This is twin shortstop Brooks Lee.

1:50:27Pat McAfee:Okay, he hits a pop-up here. Now, this is something that, you know, is straight out of the movie. To the sky, he hits this thing. All right, I got it. I got it. You got it. We got it. Nobody got it. Oh, no. They're adults, AJ. How's that happen, pal? Yeah, communication, we know, and everything always helps. Obviously, these guys did not communicate very well. Yeah, you want to talk about communication, I'll tell you what. but fan and team is certainly a part of the problem here. How about let's go to the Washington Nationals. Is that a home run? Nice. Is that a home run? Down to man on base, bottom of the 10th.

1:51:07Pat McAfee:Hit the lights. Somebody hit the lights. We just tied it up in the 10th with a home run. Place is going to go crazy. Actually, the rules say you're not allowed to do that, pal. You're not allowed to reach over and snag a ball. Oh, that was going out anyway. Oh, was it? Was it? Hard to know. We'll never know. And if it hits the yellow, it's not a home run. But if it hits the yellow and bounces over, it is a home run. But if a fan is trying to help his team and wants to maybe take a ball home in the bottom of the tent. Oh, no. That is tough. That is tough stuff. Okay, let's go to a soccer game over in Prague, I do believe.

1:51:51Pat McAfee:What country is this here? Czech Republic. Okay, 3-2, 96-27, 10 minutes of stoppage time. Crowd so excited. This number one team in the league, we just won another game over a rival. They go sprinting onto the pitch, going crazy. We got flares. We got drums. We got madness. We still got game to play, is what the ref said. We got a lot of game. Nobody blew this game over. The match would go on to become suspended. They would not get a win. They would lose the points. And now their lead for the league has dwindled, and it's going to be a tight race strictly because the fans said, you know what, we'll lose this one for you, and we'll have the whole world saying, oh, no.

1:52:35Pat McAfee:All right, let's go to MLS soccer. Let's go to Team USA and the World Cup. Ladies and gentlemen, one of our goalies who has done great things for Team USA, Matt Turner, he plays for the New England Revolution. Oh, geez. He got a ball pass back to him, and he loses to the ground, and the Nashville. Well, that's unlikely. Did he mean to do that? You see the ball just embarrassingly hop off. We know this guy. We've seen this guy. He's Team USA. You're going to make mistakes, obviously. Sometimes you've got to pass it off. But get rid of it. Oh, no. And then let's stay in soccer. This is in Syria.

1:53:15Pat McAfee:We don't know this guy's name, but we do know the pain. Hey. Hey. That hurts. Boom! We are so sorry that happened to you, pal. And I appreciate you putting your life on the line for your team. But as soon as we see that ball bust your nose and potentially concuss you, you can't help but say, Oh, no! All right, we're out of here. Hope you all have an incredible weekend. We can't thank you all enough for allowing us to do this for a living. We've enjoyed the hell out of this week. We hope you'll allow us to do it again next week. Have the best weekend of all time. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice.

1:53:55Pat McAfee:It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Team. See, nobody on TV ever gets to do that. Yeah, true. SportsCenter's next. Goodbye. You think anybody TV-wise did that? Definitely. Oh, yeah. You think so? A thousand percent. I wonder where they were, like in an airport. Could have been. Yeah. A bar. It's Friday. Probably a lot of boozing going on. Beer up watching the PGA. PGA Champions. Oh, yes. I forgot about that. Let's do one more Oh No. Okay. Let's do one more Oh No. It's outside the sports world, so we didn't want to keep it in the Oh No of sports.

1:54:30Pat McAfee:But it certainly needs to be in the way more Oh No category. What's the name of the President Obama family produced movie? Leave the World Behind. Okay. If you remember in Leave the World Behind, the thing that really got him at the end was these Teslas got out of control and they were basically high-speed missiles and they were kind of just taking over everything shutting down roads nobody could get anywhere they kind of just blew it all up there controlled by computer it was a bad deal it's a bad deal you see what's going on down there in Georgia run the clip Foxy video here captured several of the self-driving cars just clogging up a neighborhood cul-de-sac the people living in the northwest Atlanta neighborhood say dozens end up circling their community channel two Steve Gelbach is on one street where they They want the Waymo's to stop.

1:55:19It's almost every little cul-de-sac around our area, so I think it's a real problem. Waymo after Waymo after Waymo enter this dead-end street, usually early in the morning. I think yesterday morning we had 50 cars that came through between 6 and 7. Neighbors on Battleview Drive started seeing the autonomous, driverless cars two months ago, but the groupings and large number of Waymo's just started circling in and out in the last couple weeks. They even shared video with us when neighbors used this little guy to put him right out here in the street to block the Waymos from getting into the cul-de-sac.

1:55:50And you can imagine what happened next. And we had at one point eight Waymos that were stuck trying to figure out how to turn around. The Waymos are empty and not picking anyone up. Parents are worried, not only calling it excessive, but dangerous. We're families, we have small kids, we have animals and pets. We've got kids getting on the bus in the morning and it just doesn't feel safe to have that traffic. Neighbors reached out to Waymo and have not got a response. They've also contacted their council member. Representatives and GDOT don't know what to do. We would just like to see them stay on main traffic roads.

1:56:22I don't think there's any reason to be on small residential cul-de-sacs if they're not picking up.

1:56:26Pat McAfee:Oh, these things are losing their mind. Make you say Waymo. No. Especially to you, AJ. You've been a big-time supporter of these Waymos. And we've seen, obviously, the benefits of it. the ability to get home without having to necessarily have a driver. If you're drunk, obviously getting in these is good. If you're a sloppy drunk, you can puke all over it, and there's no driver there to be mad at you. But this seems like quite a flaw, maybe a glitch of some sort. They should be able to change the map. This is at 2x speed, by the way. This is not how fast they're actually driving, just so everybody has that understood.

1:56:58Pat McAfee:But the amount of cars that they had stuck there whenever they put the blocking in, they had to turn around, that's insanity. This is what you think of when you think of worst-case scenario. and I don't know how they stop. Hopefully they stop it, AJ. Hopefully this word gets out. Yeah, do we know? Is this like a glitch, or is somebody like hacking into the system and messing with them? I don't know. No one knows, huh? Is there humans at Waymo, or is Waymo just one big AI thing? Yeah, big server. Is there a CEO, or is it just a motherboard that sends all these cars out? Yeah, do we have to send different prompts to it to talk to it?

1:57:30Pat McAfee:Do we have to learn its language? AJ, are you going to rethink using them in the future? Yeah, AJ, you'd love them. Nope, I would use it. If they had them in Ohio, I would use them. Trust me, these guys are way safer than humans, behind the wheel. We all know that. These guys. What's going on, H? These things. Google owns Waymos. That means it's attached to Google Maps, obviously, and Google Sense. I assume they would just have to redraw where they're supposed to be going. But on that note, we'll never know because these things operate by themselves. Get these clankers off the road. If that was my neighborhood, I'd be laying spike strips and IEDs to blow these things down.

1:58:05Do they have a home where they go at night to recharge? large like do they have one parking lot or do they just find a bunch of cul-de-sacs to keep going in circles until they get their next call now these things like to talk to each other yeah mingle at the end of days they have a home i'm sure there's some sort of loading station where

1:58:19Pat McAfee:they all go and suck each other you see an irobot i have not seen irobot but we'll leave the world behind saying feels and they do probably suck each other up but what if they're playing pokemon go what if it's a game to get to all the ends maybe check boxes i'm wondering what the hell is in that neighborhood now. I want someone to go through and clear some basements. They said it's a lot of different cul-de-sacs in there. What if a couple guys got together and they just keep summiting them around? Like, hey, we've got 20 of them today and you've got a group of 10 dudes that think it's funny to do this.

1:58:48Those guys are fucking hilarious. That's the funniest shit I've ever seen. No, no, no.

1:58:54Pat McAfee:If this is a human thing happening, we will certainly have to take that into account. But if this is just these robotic things kind of deciding that they want to kind of do whatever they want in our world, maybe it's time we start taking a little bit more control. Maybe we unplug these things and let them know. Google's not answering it. We've been saying it since the beginning. Slash a tire, maybe. Let them know. Then what? What if it just, boom, boom, fix it? Oh, yeah. And then just beeps at you. Beep, beep. What if it just talks to you? Nice try, buddy. You need to watch iRobot this weekend.

1:59:24It'll put this in perspective. I don't think I'm going to do that. It's Will Smith. You love Will Smith. I do love Will Smith.

1:59:29Pat McAfee:I did not kill him. That's Will Smith. No, Sonny says that. From the movie The Robot. I did not kill him. He sounded a lot like the concussion doctor with that, if that was a little spell. Oh, okay, sure. No, the guy who says that actually refused to be listed as an actor because they wanted to be like, no, he's a real freaking robot. Oh, I like that. Yeah. Man, he's got so many. Wow, wow, Wes. Wicked wow. We know that's your favorite. Planet Earth, also known as just Earth, I think. What's the movie called again? You mean like with this kid and they land on Earth? Yeah, with this kid and they land on Earth.

2:00:05Pat McAfee:He's a karate kid? No, no, that's his kid. But no, there's a... Oh, Independence Day, yeah, we referenced that the other day. There's a movie where they go to Earth. Will Smith only has bangers. They're making a two of the one in New York when all the zombies are there. Yeah, I Am Legend 2. He's not in it. Hancock. I mean, there's so many. Hitch. Oh, Hitch is one of the best of all time. Hancock was my favorite. He had me there for a bit. The Legend of Bagger Vance. That was great. So good. The Con Man one's really good. I'm happy we're doing this right now. Focus. We all know what was potentially going on behind the scenes there.

2:00:36Pat McAfee:Right now, we all know a lot more. Yeah, now he was dealing with a lot. He was dealing with a lot. Come on, Will. Unless Will did something terrible we don't know about. We would like it to be on the record. Come on, Will. Thank you. Fresh Prince, let alone. Yeah. Come on now. So that was real when he slapped Chris Rock, though. That was not a bit. That was real. That was real. Chris Rock has now talked about it enough where I think we know it was real. Yeah. I agree. Just so weird. What a weird situation. Yeah, I don't know how you get to that, but maybe he was just fed up. And Kristen deserved that.

2:01:08Aren't those two fighting at the Apex soon?

2:01:10Pat McAfee:No, that's Manziel and Mentory. Oh, is that at the Apex? Yeah. It's not tomorrow, is it? I assume they're going to sell tickets and have a lot of people in the Apex packing out to how they could. But if that was COVID Apex and we got to just hear the little slaps off of each other. Ah! Fuck, dude. That'd be sick. They should do it. Ah, yeah. What's the testing policy on these guys? Time out! It can't be, right? It can't be. Probably in the contract details. So one of them is an elite athlete. Yes. Okay? No matter what you think of them. And the other was a Heisman Trophy winner. Yeah. Exactly.

2:01:48And the other won the Heisman. Think about that. All right.

2:01:51Pat McAfee:I think that one's pretty obvious what's going to happen there. We've all seen how that works. I'll watch it, though. When is it happening? I believe it's next Saturday, and I think they're doing fan-controlled fighting. So they both stand there, and then people vote on, like, hey, throw a jab. Push low-low. It's like rock-em-sock-em robots with all the humans. Exactly. And they actually do attach him to something, and he'll just feel like a button. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Boom. And then it's like duck. So sometimes they duck into a button. Oh, yes. Oh, watch it. And then he feels another one, and it's like sensor, sensor.

2:02:25Pat McAfee:And he's like. Yeah. And that's how we think this is. Yeah, one, two. Yeah. You got to stand like this attached to something. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. Yeah. And the other person has to pull, drop, move. Unless they say, hey, lean forward. And then all of a sudden, they're feeding you a cut. Yeah. Boom. I don't know if that's going to be the case. I think, are they boxing or fighting? What is it? Boxing, I think. Boxing, okay. If it was fighting, that's an immediate Johnny Manziel tackle. Just. Sure. Ragdoll. somebody that has never had to really utilize leverage before in real life. So that's how that would change.

2:03:00I don't know. Johnny's been opening for Drake for a long time now. Is he going to be prepared?

2:03:04Pat McAfee:Iceman coming out the same week, near the same time he's fighting, I think is good for Johnny Manziel. I think this bodes well for Johnny Manziel. A lot of people will be watching. Where is it broadcast? ABC. ABC, yeah. 9 o 'clock. Okay. Is it Tirico? I don't think it's on ABC. I don't know where it is. I felt bad that I didn't know. It's Buck and Aikman. But I will be watching Johnny Manziel. And it could be Buck and Aikman. We don't know. Johnny, you represent football, baby. Hell yeah. Come on, Johnny. Go get it done. Come on, Johnny. Need you out there.

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2:04:52Pat McAfee:AJ, you know what's fun about football as a whole? All of it? Yeah, well, people are just so obsessed with it that things can happen months and months and months ahead of time. For instance, every Friday of the football season, we normally pick the entire slate against the spread. Do you recall this, AJ? I do, yes. Now the schedule is officially out. Let's go ahead and pick the entire week one slate. The Patriots will kick off the season in Seattle. Seattle, three-and-a-half point favorites. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? Oh, Seattle's going to be riding off that Super Bowl, and the coach is going to have them dialed in, head down.

2:05:28They're going to be working. Give me Seattle. I'll take Seattle as well.

2:05:31Pat McAfee:San Francisco, L.A. in Australia. Thursday, 835. L.A. favored by two-and-a-half. Now, Shanahan's bitching, right, about traveling there, so is that an advantage for the Rams? They're like, this is just a business trip? No, and McVay last night on the schedule primetime thing said they haven't figured out what they're doing yet, but they do know that coming back is what everybody says is the problem, and they have an extra day on the back end because they're playing on Monday, I guess, afterwards. That Shanahan requested. So they are very thankful for that, I think is how Sean McVay is saying it, but they haven't figured out exactly what they're doing yet.

2:06:01Pat McAfee:And I will say, as somebody that's been down under, it is the way back that really gets you. I mean, going over there, you can time it up. Coming back, you're just fucked. It's just so fucked for at least four days. What if they retrofitted their plane with Stafford's red bed? They all laid in the red bed on the way to and fro. Good idea. Good idea. Getting the immortal out there. There it is, immortal. Okay, so the Rams, two-and-a-half-point favorites in Australia. AJ, who wins the Down Under Bowl? Yeah, with all that being said, give me the LA Rams here. I'll take the Rams as well. Saints-Lions.

2:06:33Pat McAfee:Lions favored by seven. Shuck coming into his second year. Kelly Moe in his second year. A lot of people like what the Saints have been doing. Kamara is seemingly very pumped and excited to be there. ETN also in that backfield now. Jordan Tyson. Jordan Tyson with Olave, Jawan John. Don't sleep on the Saints now. I'm not saying they're going to win, but seven points is a lot early on. Saints were kind of our darlings towards the end of last year because they were trying very hard. Lions favored by seven. Wow, Foxy, how do you feel? Yeah, I don't know if you guys saw the Lions schedule release last night, but they didn't do any goofball shit.

2:07:06Pat McAfee:It was a 30-second video. MCDC printed out the schedule, put it on the wall. Straight business. Lions win 49-14. Can't wait. Okay, I'll take the Saints plus seven. AJ, who do you like? The Saints plus seven all day. Okay, me and AJ seem to say this is all subject to change for how we feel closer to the game. What? No, no, no. We need to lock these in right now. We are not picking them twice. Okay, they're locked in for now as well. We've never picked them twice. This is it. You guys better act like it's September 9th. I want it to be twice. I do want it to be twice, and I don't want you guys to be told this one.

2:07:41I want it to see how much it changes.

2:07:43Pat McAfee:Okay, you got it. for the vibe strictly. Ravens coming to Indianapolis. How you doing? One o 'clock to kick this thing off. Dan Jones is questionable. Wow. But potentially likely to. Yeah. We don't really know. I know we do have a national game early in the season. I guess we're all banking on Danny Dimes being back because if he's not, it's obviously a different Colts team. Ravens favored by three and a half. Disgusting. Coming into the Loud House. Nobody even knows what these teams will look like. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? I got to go with my instincts here. I like the Colts at home plus three and a half.

2:08:17Me too.

2:08:18Pat McAfee:You knew that. But Lamar Jackson with me. Who's the primetime game against? Chiefs. So maybe it's more so like, hey, let's remind everybody who's watching worldwide. Like the Chiefs still got it. They beat the fuck out of the Colts because they don't know Danny Dimes is there. And maybe it's more so like a get back primetime game. We're not. We're not. We're not jobbers for the fucking Chiefs. Just something to think about. There's a huge chance. You are. No. We're not fucking doing the job for the Chiefs. Huge chance. You're getting mushed? The Indianapolis jobbers? Squashed? You're getting squashed?

2:08:49It's got a squash match happening. It's a squash match. I'm sick of that. There's a chance. That just hit me.

2:08:56Pat McAfee:Oh, I'm so proud of you. I'm happy it did. That better not be the case. There's a huge chance that is. And maybe that's why whenever I was in the NFL offices and I was like, can I get a game? And they were like, let's give them the money. Yeah, you can get one, sure. That's not the case, though. They need to have us to be A, okay? Bears, favored by two and a half going into Carolina. That's a good football team. That's a good football team. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? I'm going to take that good football team plus two and a half at home. I'll take the Panthers as well. Give me the – That's cool noise.

2:09:25I'm banking on the fact that the Bears are going to – we know Coach likes to work them in training camp. I think it might take them a few weeks to get those camp legs out, to get some fresh legs coming from camp. And the Panthers sent us some really cool shirts. Bears lost a lot of people too, So it might take a second to mesh.

2:09:40Pat McAfee:But we all know Ben Johnson's an incredible coach. But his season's long. Rome did really good at the little happy drawing thing. He did do a good job. Rome and Doonze for their schedule reveal. Okay. DJ Moore, though, out. Their center, Drew Dahlman, out. I'll take the Panthers plus two and a half as well, strictly because they sent us a T-shirt, and it's May 15th. Bills favored by a point and a half against Houston. Houston sent you some bloody shoulder pads, and guess what? That was Cushing's blood that was on those pads. Absolutely nothing to do with me. but I still loved it. This is kind of one of those weird lines as well, just because Houston's returned.

2:10:15Basically, everybody. They beat the shit out of the Bills in Houston last year. Josh's, like, record in Houston is one of those things everyone points at. That's a very odd one.

2:10:24Pat McAfee:It's a friend of the program game here. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? I'm taking the Buffalo Bills strictly off of how Tone reacted when Connor was talking about this. Can we do anything with Cushing's blood? Yeah. Can we clone, like, a team? Wipe it off and drink it. That's what I mean. But if we drink it, then we waste it. Can we multiply it? What's wrong with him? That's what I mean. Was that his blood? I think his blood would be... I saw the video. It's his blood. It smells like his blood. Why did I send it to Connor? Because shit.

2:11:03Pat McAfee:Because shit.

2:11:07Pat McAfee:Because shit.

2:11:11I heard they tried to get JJ for this, but he wouldn't do it. Too much money. Yeah, he's bleeding from Burnley already. Oh!

2:11:18Pat McAfee:That was pretty good. Yeah, it was. That was pretty solid. I will say I appreciate the fact that Cushing did this. I appreciate that they committed to the bit. I appreciate that it continued to go on and on and on. He got more bruised and more banged up and more bloody. This is Cushing football through and through. And I assume he did this method acting. Yeah. I believe that was the problem. And at the very end, he's obviously all over his shoulder pads. And then he, I don't know if it was AI or not, but people are not happy about the usage of AI. I hate to break it to him about what's coming over the next couple of years.

2:11:51Pat McAfee:Sure, sure, sure, sure. I think it's, those are the shoulder pads. Where are, did you have them? Yeah, they're somewhere. I see them. No, we'll get them next week. Okay. I mean, why the fuck did they send that to me? you know why because what it's doing your head right now we're not playing i realized that during the video i was like we don't even fucking play this team why the fuck are these shoulder pads maybe they thought you would like it because you like old school football but they didn't know that you wanted one be suspended for fucking two weeks or something don't you dare put that on me you kind of were with don't you fucking just a fun don't you fucking that was that was oh you're Right, you're right.

2:12:34Pat McAfee:You were completely against it. Okay, okay. I thought you were taking my chain. Yeah, I was going to say. This guy and the Canadian guy. I didn't say suspension. I just said a fine. You know I said a fine. That was it. And Gumpy as well. And the Canadians. Yeah, I wanted a fine. Fine was fair. Everybody gets fine. Unbelievable. No suspension. No, no, no. Okay, so you like the Bills, AJ? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay, I'll take the Bills as well. Tampa Bay Bengals. Bengals favored by three and a half at home. But Kreischer was in Baywatch with Baker Mayfield down there for Tampa Bay. I respect and appreciate it.

2:13:09Pat McAfee:Jason Light came on the program. They're obviously giddy about Tampa Bane starting up there. Three and a half points, too many for Tampa Bay and Bengals. What do you think, AJ? I tell you what, you guys remember, we have Sexy Dexy in Cincinnati. This will be his first home game. He has a bangle. It's going to be awesome. Give me the bangle. Okay, I'll take Tampa Bay, and I love it. I just think close game. I think three and a half is too many points there. Browns, Jags. Jags with Trevor Lawrence with a new dude? No, don't do that. Don't do that. I feel like that haircut would look good on H. H, is that the haircut you would choose?

2:13:42Pat McAfee:I guess you didn't now, but is that one that if it was available? Because they had similar hair and facial features. I don't think this is the one. No, Trevor has amazing hair, and this is not what they did to him. Looks like your son. So their entire thing is a troll for people to think that they did this to him? Is that the thing, right? That's the thing? I think it worked, right? It's got to be. Oh, it definitely worked. I guarantee you, he's got family members texting him like, hey, love the new do. Right there, scared to touch the hair. Yeah, of course. I mean, come on now. That's not his real hair.

2:14:14That's a wig they chopped up.

2:14:15Pat McAfee:I like that they worked us, though. They worked Connor for real. Come on. Connor, you got real emotional early about it. I got worked in the sense that I was pissed that people would get worked by this work. Jags favored by seven at home against the Cleveland Brownies. Ten quarterbacks in. Who's going to be the one? I'm going to go out on a limb here and take the Cleveland Browns, plus seven. Okay, I'll take the Jacksonville Jaguars favored by six. Deshaun Watson has the starting quarterback, right? Yeah, I don't know. You tell me. If I had to guess, I'm taking Deshaun this game. Okay. It sounds like you've been on the Deshaun Watson starting quarterback for the Cleveland.

2:14:51I'm just saying the guy's been on the squad. He's been saying he wants to play. He's been saying he's rehabbing. He's still getting paid. They're going to give him an opportunity to be the starter.

2:14:59Pat McAfee:Okay, so maybe he comes out balling. Maybe the Jags will continue to evolve. I'll take the Jags' favorite down there in Duval. Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Atlanta Falcons. Good schedule releases for both of these teams. We are lucky and honored to be a part of the Pittsburgh Steelers' one. Doc Gardell absolutely crushed it. And who was he with there? It was Bill Crawford. Used to be on WDVE, which is a local rock and comedy station. He did great. And then Christian Kuntz was the long snapper who was teaching everybody Pittsburghese, which he did as well. Yeah, I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was really well done.

2:15:33Pat McAfee:Trying to get every Pittsburghese word into a bit has obviously been tried a lot of different times. I think they did it in a good way. I think I appreciated them buying into all of it and everything about Pittsburgh. And if you can get Billy Gardell talking about Pittsburgh with his Yinzer accent, speaking Pittsburghese, with Mike McCarthy doing the same thing, I think they did a great job. I appreciate how much effort they put in. Now, some people from Pittsburgh say, hey, over this, why would you do this? It's like, come on. People are just learning about fucking Yenzers literally within the last, like, 10.

2:16:04Pat McAfee:I'm not saying that Pittsburgh hasn't been respected, but the culture and the community of Pittsburgh, I think, has been on display a lot more over the last 10 years. People are still falling in love with everything about it. Yenzers, I know Yenzers are probably tired of it or whatever, but, like, the world's still falling in love with everything about it. I like what they did. I appreciate us being involved, so we're a little bit biased. But I also like that they at least try to create something. No, it was great. I mean, Big Mike coming back, and AJ knows how much he talks and breeds Pittsburgh.

2:16:31and then to do all the inserts, that was perfect. And the fries on everything. I mean, it was great.

2:16:36Pat McAfee:We recorded two and a half minutes for that TV show. And then right at the end, you guys said, there's no way they use any of that. They're going to chop that whole entire thing. And they certainly did. And they chopped the entire thing. And then as I was watching it, I was like, man, I wish we would have got more information on what they needed us to do. I wish they would have, because it would have been a little bit different. But it was an honor to be a part of it. We appreciate it. Just like the Titans, we appreciate you with that guy, handsome guy. You said look like me. That guy had a lot of pizzazz.

2:17:06Pat McAfee:I appreciate how much no comment that guy said on whether or not. No comment, but Jesus. It's a shot of you. Okay, I appreciate it. The Will content guy was funny, too. Yeah, fantastic. Just the Jerry Jones UK guy. Yeah. Way to end it. Fantastic. I'm from the UK. I'm fucking. All right, so there's me. No comment. Chase. Miles Garrett. Oh, yeah. That looks more like Miles Garrett than the guy who looks like Pat McAfee. Whoa, I think that guy looks like me a little bit. Joe Bo! Love it. I like the pizzazz. It's a good gimmick. I like the pizzazz. And then putting, yeah. Yeah, me too. Yeah, I think it was great.

2:17:46Pat McAfee:They're great. And it was quick. Yeah. As opposed to everybody else's, that was like a move. I like that they use Broadway. They've used it almost every year. Yeah, as they should. Steelers favored by three. Who's going to be a quarterback? Great question. Who knows? Who's going to be the quarterback for a Falcons? Is it going to be Tua? or Mike Panix. Might be Matt Ryan. You saw him give a cadence last night? Yeah, that was good. Yeah, that was awesome. That was a good bit. That was a good bit for them. I'll take the Steelers' favorite by three at home. I think they are going to cover in Accra sure to start off the season.

2:18:12Pat McAfee:Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, give me the Steelers at home for sure. Jets at Titans, two teams that we think are much less asked than everybody else seems to think. I think they're both going to do well. Give me the Jets plus three down in Tennessee. I think it's going to be a one-score. Yeah, I'll take the Titans. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? I told you, I think you should have rode with it. I'm taking the Jets. I think they figure something out this year, maybe. Revenge game for big Bob Sala. Yeah, true. Cam Ward, too. Yeah. Dayball, we think he's good, right? Definitely, especially with young quarterbacks.

2:18:48Cardinal Tate, Wondell Robinson.

2:18:50Pat McAfee:We love the city of Nashville a lot. We mentioned you can't win games. Sorry, give me the Titans. That's on me. Yes, okay, thank you. But the reason why we're both thinking Jets there is because they've been doing such non-Jets stuff. You know, like they've been doing such non-Jets stuff. Should be better. That it kind of has shocked our systems in here. We're going to have to see it. This is what every person on TV always ends up saying about somebody that we think is good that maybe hasn't won a championship yet. The classic thing to be on TV to get you out of an argument is I ain't see you with my eyes.

2:19:17Pat McAfee:I ain't see you with my eyes. I've gotten to the point as an old man on television now, I guess, and on the Internet, where I'm going to have to see it with the Jets before I can believe it. I used to naively buy in to hype videos and signings. Aaron, certainly, when I was part of it. And Jets fans told me I need to shut the fuck up and just know it ain't going to happen. I would like to see it first. Titans, same thing. Jets have been like this much longer. Titans and Raiders are both teams that have no prime time games but have spent the most in free agency. And there has been an actual correlation that the teams who spend the most in free agency have increased their win total by like four.

2:19:52So it is hard to envision them not getting better.

2:19:55Pat McAfee:Titans minus three for both of us. Okay, let's go. Commanders at Philadelphia Eagles, 425 on Fox, NFC East. Big Dom and Sirianni hosting Dan Quinn and Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels is a part of the new season of quarterback. Yeah. Would you be a good time? Can't wait to catch up on that on Netflix. Eagles favored by five and a half, hosting the PGA Championship right now. Big Dom did a fantastic job. Big Dom actually sent a text saying grazie, boys. Okay. Oh, Big Dom. Sent a text saying grazie. We appreciate him doing that. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? As Washington travels to Philly.

2:20:30I think Philly, you know, home opener. Here we go. The place is going to be going crazy. Give me Philly minus five and a half.

2:20:35Pat McAfee:I will take that as well, especially with how much drama there's been. No A.J. Brown there, allegedly. What's everybody saying? Post-June 1 trade to the New England Patriots. Potentially Packers. Vikings there, 425 on CBS. Shout out to two massive NFC North rivals battling on opening weekend. Jordan Love favored by a point and a half over Kyler, JJ's Minnesota Vikings. AJ, you're on the Packers? Oh, yeah. Give me the Packers here. Okay, sick. I'll take the Vikings. No way. Who's quarterback? I don't know. I'll take the Packers. Kyler. Micah's back, right? Yeah. Or he should be. Yeah. Questionable.

2:21:09Pat McAfee:I'll take the Green Bay Packers. Arizona Cardinals, I'll take the Chargers. That's wild. 11 and a half. Points. I'll take the Chargers. All right. Dolphins, Raiders. Raiders favored by three at home. Raiders. Me too. Cowboys, Giants, Sunday night football. Cowboys favored by two and a half in New York. The Giants will start a multiple-week primetime kickoff to John Harbaugh's career as the New York Giants head coach. Bruce Brown, how do you feel as we sit here on May 15th? Jackson Dart and Cam Scatterboo light up that Swiss cheese Cowboys defense, but eventually we lose a heartbreaker. Some good news on the week two end of the primetime back-to-back.

2:21:50The Rams got to go from Australia to then take us on on Monday Night Football. We have three instances in our schedule of playing a team after they play internationally. That is a nice reprieve from last year's toughest schedule based on previous season wins. Yeah, I got it.

2:22:07Pat McAfee:You listen to that Giants guy. Okay, I like to spin. Last year, impossible schedule. Think about that. Impossible schedule. Nobody has won a playoff game with a tough schedule since 2016. Well said. Well said. That's facts. What is the toughest schedule to the year after? Success rate. Do you have that number? I do not have it, but the Bears have this year's toughest schedule. Oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Ben Johnson. Caleb Williams. Is it right? Are they going to work out actually? That's what's possible on May 15, 2026 when you start looking at trends that don't actually have the games being played.

2:22:41Pat McAfee:Ice man. And in Monday Night Football, we're awaiting it. Broncos, Chiefs. In the room of the Chiefs. Favored by two and a half over Bo Nix and Sean Payton. Patrick Mahomes return, we think, we hope. Obviously, Monday Night Football is hoping for it. He is currently questionable, but we're hoping. So is Bo. And hopeful is what we're hoping for. AJ, who do you like on Monday night? Patty Mahomes will be back. He will play great. Give me the Chiefs. All right. And I will take Travis Kelsey and the Chiefs as well. What a week one we just had. What a great. Good luck to all the teams. We'll remember these picks for sure.

2:23:25Pat McAfee:Write them all down. I will. All right. Let's get the hell out of here. Boys in the back, great work. Great work, boys. Good work, boys. Good work, boys. Behind the Glass really did it this week. Good work, boys. Oh, yeah. A little bit of chaos early in the week. Yeah. Sure. We dodged, ducked, dipped, dived, and dodged our way through that. Shout out to the NFL allowing us to do a show there this week. Shout out to the NFL. Shout out to New York City. Shout out to New York City. Big Apple. What a time. Shout out to Mario and Emilio's. Yep. Appreciate him doing that. Good outs. Traigs. Traigs, King of New York.

2:23:59Pat McAfee:New York. Burke, great job. Jimmy, Josh, fantastic stuff. Miss Rita, up front show. Really good. To the Dancing with the Stars crew. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Just all glowing. Just having the time of their lives. Just young people seemingly having the time of their lives. Good for them. Robert Irwin, actual magnet. The man. Actual magnet when he shows up. It's incredible. American Horror Story, great job. John Leguizamo, fuck yeah. The man. Fuck yeah. And how about Fosso getting a big time? Fosso. Fosso. That's what they say, right? Fosso. boss he was honestly fos did a good job in that commercial he did he's a good actor yeah yeah and also housing oh i mean we know go to he is elite foster boss that's what they say and a promotion gets announced it's like almost like housing new it's like he uncursed him certainly did congrats foss graphic design boys good work this week a couple decisions that were made by both of you that we would deem aggressive and not dated.

2:25:10Pat McAfee:But other than that, phenomenal stuff this week. Can't wait to have Ty back. One of those guys is talking way too much. He got new hair, though. He brushed it. Yeah, Ty will put him back in his place. He should have started brushing a long time ago. Well, yeah, that's what kind of the whole thing was. But I'm happy he's learning how to do life in front of our eyes. Is he? I've been there. He takes his shots, too. He will. He'll hear something and then be like, oh cool yeah that wasn't to me even though the person was saying hey debone this thing and it just goes right out his other ear he's like that didn't even happen he's never heard anything that's any good advice he's never heard anything really yeah it's just oh that was a fun little wave of information that could certainly make my life better and me better and then it just kind of goes and he just stands on the other side of it and then that wave comes back then he finds himself in the same position and guess what's coming i want chicken nuggets that's what's coming that's what's going on in his brain but he is a talent so you gotta deal with the artistry I guess Dirty phenomenal week Mitt phenomenal week Bailey phenomenal week TikTok great work on a taco ZD baby dealing with a lot right now we got internet issues that's life it is life isn't it that's the thing about life you never know what's coming.

2:26:33Pat McAfee:No, you don't. That's why in this moment, right here, we have to try to enjoy it. We have to try to find the things that make us feel good and get rid of the things that make us feel like ass. Let's do that this weekend. Let's cut off the anchors. Let's celebrate life. Let's enjoy sport. Oh, yeah. We'll see you on Monday. And I assume on Overreaction Monday. We'll be reacting to all the greatness that happens in the sports world this weekend. But we'll also be sure to tell you that we couldn't do this without you! We appreciate you! And we think that you are the best. Can't believe this is a job.

2:27:19Pat McAfee:Be your friend, tell your friend something nice. It might change your life. Great work sitting in there, Tony. Thank you. AJ, great work. Thank you. Cotton man, phenomenal job. You too, man. D-Buck, good work this week. Okay, Bachi. To everybody that stopped by to chit-chat with us, we can't thank you enough. You're the best. Let's do this life. Let's live this life. Team on me. Team on three. We'll see you Monday. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye. The NFL schedule dropped, and it is time to settle up, people. There's road trips to plan, hotels to book, tickets to split, tailgates to cover, scores to settle.

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