PMS 2.0 1566 - NBA Finals Game 1 Recap, Stanley Cup Finals Game 2 Preview, Kendrick Perkins, Erik Johnson, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

21:22Pat McAfee:Six years. And I hope he got a chance to kind of take that in. Genuinely. I hope he did get a chance to take that in because very rarely do people say, first of all, that's a sweet way to announce your retirement. That video was awesome. And also, it was fun to relive all the glory days with Russell Wilson, which there was a many. Now, he's in Seattle, which is way left. Okay? Way left over there. They, Legion of Boom, defense aside, were the conversation. But it's still way over in Seattle. So, I think the re-airing of the highlight reel of what it was was a nice reminder to all of us about the special time Seattle had.

21:57Pat McAfee:And now they've been able to rebuild it again, which obviously give a lot of credit to Schneider and that entire team over there. But it was cool to do that. I hope the Seattle Seahawks fans felt like they were appreciated enough. The kids that he obviously gave a lot of time. Everything about this was perfect, I think. Congrats to Russell Wilson. Yeah, you kind of just go back through the role of excellent players that he played with. Remembering Doug Baldwin and Russell Wilson, that connection was unbelievable. I remember that kind of growing up in high school, thinking about Doug Baldwin and Russell Wilson being that tandem of those couple years when they did go on to play in a couple Super Bowls.

22:32They lost one to New England, but they won one as well. But Russell Wilson also kind of one of the first, not the first, but one of the guys that kind of transitioned into the running quarterback style. He was the leader in rush yards, I'm pretty sure, for a quarterback for a little bit before Cam Newton, Lamar, all those guys come in. You forget how good Russell Wilson was over that five, six-year period. Did we know he was on CBS? Yes.

22:57Pat McAfee:no i did not know that and once again this is i live in a bubble a thunder i actually do but i'm happy to see he's immediately getting in tv he'll be good for ball great for ball and obviously he has the resume uh to warrant whatever congrats russ that's a tough decision that's a tough decision joining us now ladies and gentlemen is a man who uh obviously friend of the program but also has been preaching the gospel about the on his big list the most important person is a big cat. And I'll tell you, it felt like he was pretty spot on with how the game's going to go. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, NBA champion, 15-year vet, Big Perk, Kendrick Perk.

23:34Pat McAfee:Big Perk! What up, y 'all? How you doing, man? My bad. Hey, listen, I'm over here at the Alamo. You know, I took plenty of field trips at the Alamo. Damn it, in Texas history, when I was in eighth grade, we learned about the Alamo. Now, you can ask me about the Alamo right now, I couldn't tell you a damn thing about it. Yeah, but you learned it at some point. had to pass the test. You know, Davy Crockett, I think, held it down down there. I think there was a Bowie. Yep, there was. General Sam Houston. Sam Houston went crazy. And obviously, we'll always remember. Well, we'll always remember the Alamo.

24:08Pat McAfee:We will have to, obviously. But you being down there, what are we going to remember? Are we going to remember Jalen Brunson being inevitable? Or are we going to remember Wemby potentially losing his first NBA finals? Where do you sit after one game of this NBA final down there in San Antonio? Well, I mean, the Knicks put the world on notice. That's what they did because the whole narrative and all of the entire conversation coming into this series was that, hey, the Knicks hadn't played anyone. And for them to go into game one on San Antonio home floor and give their ass a smack in the way that they did, especially Towns.

24:49Towns, you know what? Watching Towns play, I felt like a proud uncle or something. And I don't even have a relationship with Carl Anthony Towns like that. But the way that he dominated, in my opinion, that matchup between him and Wimby. Don't look at the 26 points and say, oh, well, Wimby done his job. No, he was 6 for 21 from the field. Carl Anthony Towns played some outstanding defense. I believe when Wimby was guarded by Towns, he was 2 for 11. That Towns right there is on a mission. That Towns right there is standing on business. That Towns right there is not playing any games. That's all we was asking from Chad Hungry.

25:27That's all we was asking from Chad is to show some level of aggressiveness. Carl Anthony Towns is not going to stop. He made Wimby, him and Big Mitchell Robinson, and that outstanding defense of the New York Knicks made Wimby. Forget that he was a big man last night.

25:44Pat McAfee:Yeah, he was three for 18 outside of three feet was Wimby. Okay, so that's obviously a stat that is not great, but it's also an indicator of what the Knicks were able to do to Wembe. I mean, they were obviously, this is what the Knicks are. And Iman Shumpert told us yesterday, he said he likes the Knicks matchup against the San Antonio Spurs. He said, he compared it to, I don't know how much you know about, he's like, it's like Big Ten football. You know, like Big Ten football is a little bit different. The East, he said, everybody's mocking the East right now. Everybody's talking real loud about the East.

26:12Pat McAfee:He said, we just play, there's different basketball in the East than there is in the West. He talked about some skip passes that the West tried to do and stuff like that. And last night we see the Knicks kind of eat on defense. We see Josh Hart with four steals. Iman's like it's a little different in the East. The style of play is different in the West. And it feels like the Knicks are just like a – they feel like a dominating bunch. Like that is literally what they feel. They got a broken pinky. Who cares? He comes out there, didn't miss a single beat. At one moment he did hit – it felt like he did feel it.

26:39Pat McAfee:Yeah. There was like a high, you know, in that entire thing. And his free throws, I mean, are pretty horrendous. just naturally, but boy, what a dog on the court. Absolutely love everything about it. Tell me about the entirety of the Knicks and your thoughts about the depth of this team as opposed to maybe in years past where they weren't able to go to the bench. Matt, Pat, they got what you call togetherness. For Towns to start the game on Wimby, that's what you call trust. For Mike Brown to continue to lean on Landry Shammett, he played 32 minutes, that's what you call trust. Jose came into the game last night and had some huge moments and knocked down some big-time shots.

27:21It's called trust. When you're trying to win a championship, you've got to have a certain level of trust in your coach, and your coaching staff got to have a certain level of trust in your players. You can see and feel the energy through the television screen. It's led by Big Body Bronson, but every guy is being a star in their role. every guy's being unlocked in a different fashion that they've never been unlocked in in their career. Look how great OG Ananobi looked last night, right? He had a quiet but a powerful 17 points because Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns stole the show. And I'm here to tell you, Big Buddy Brunson, when he left out of that arena, after he did that interview, he wasn't smiling.

28:09He was pissed off. He is not satisfied, Pat. This is real. I'm just – let me say this. Mitch Johnson, I voted him coach of the year. And y 'all know how I feel about Mitch Johnson. He completely dropped the ball last night. There's no way in hell you have Dylan Harper on that bench after the way he was performing offensively, and you keep De 'Aaron Fox in that damn game. If Dylan Harper is in that game, we might see a different outcome. And see, it's going to come down to the battle of the coaching staff as well. Like, Mitch is going to have to dig into his bag even more. You're going against a two-time NBA champion in Mike Brown as an assistant coach.

28:55You ain't got time to be trippy. You got to make in-game adjustments. You got to make adjustments on the fly. You got to make adjustments after games. It's going to be interesting to see what kind of adjustments the Spurs are going to make going into game two.

29:10Pat McAfee:Coach Mitch Johnson of San Antonio obviously just got done jousting with Dags of Oklahoma City. We watched that for that entire Western Conference finals. Excited to see how he adjusts for night two. Wemby on Cat as well. As Cat's kind of doing his thing, I certainly call it into question. But you mentioned a name right there that I think the world got introduced to quickly last night. Go ahead, Connor. Yeah, Perk, you mentioned it there. Dylan Harper Jr. Or Dylan Harper, excuse me, was unbelievable last night right from the beginning. I think he had 10 points in the first quarter. But to the De 'Aaron Fox point, do you see them changing the starting lineup and just having Harper be kind of the point guard instead of having Fox in there?

29:47Because Fox played, you know, I think 30-plus minutes. I think Harper was right around there. What are your thoughts about their starting lineup, and do you see any changes coming for game two? Well, I think it's going to stay the same for game two, and rightfully so. You're talking about De 'Aaron Fox, who, you know, We're talking about a guy that's an all-MBA caliber player, a guy that they paid$200-plus million to. You can't just snatch him after game one. But his lease shouldn't be that long. Like, you know, at the end of the day, if he comes out and he's struggling in those first three to four minutes, then, hell, you've got to roll with Dylan Harper.

30:29You've got to make those tough business decisions and do what's best for the team. We all can see that Dylan Harper is one of the faces of this franchise to go alongside Wimby and Stephon Castle. Dylan Harper, in the next year or two, is going to be probably the second leading scorer on this team behind Victor Wimby. Dylan Harper is ready for this moment. Dylan Harper is from New York. Dylan Harper went to Harper U. He went to the Rockers. Dylan Harper is ready for this moment. You don't think this kid is excited to be playing against a team that he grew up idolizing and want this matchup? He's a Knicks fan by heart.

31:11He was born into the Knicks fan base. And all of a sudden on the big stage he has this opportunity, you could tell he was ready for it. You could tell he's embracing it. Listen, his skill set and his scoring ability is going to be needed. because as much as we put praise on a New York Knicks offense, their defense has been spectacular as well.

31:35Pat McAfee:Yeah, dominating. They haven't lost since April 23rd, Perk. That is just so, so long ago. And obviously what's happening with Dylan Harper and San Antonio, you think the future will be bright, but the stats also tell us and history tells us that the last three teams that have won game one on the road, okay, in the NBA Finals, have gone on to lose the series. Whoa. Uh-oh. Whoa. You go into somebody else's house and get a win. The basketball gods say, I don't think so. The basketball gods say, I don't think so. So, you know, we could certainly, and that's the best of seven series kind of life that we have to live.

32:15Pat McAfee:It's a roller coaster. I mean, there was numerous times throughout these playoffs, especially on the Western side, not really on the New York side, but on the Western side, where a team would win huge, and it's like, yup, they're going to take it. And then literally the next game, two days later, complete opposite of what happened. We're like, ooh, baby, this team is about to win it all. We were all in on Oklahoma City. Obviously, there was people that started jumping in on San Antonio. In the East, it's always been the Knicks, the Knicks, the Knicks. So it's a little bit different situation. But, yeah, this does not bode well for the Knicks, what they've just done, recent history tells us, Perk.

32:47Well, but let me say this, though. Now, recent history also tell us that we're not going to take anything away from Oklahoma City last year. But, you know, we don't know what that outcome would look like if Tyrese Halliburton don't tear us Achilles. Because that's the start of that game seven. We know, Perk. We know. That's the start of that game seven. No, I'm just saying. Well, I know you know. We know. I know you know. I'm just saying. No, but we know. We know.

33:15Pat McAfee:We know. As somebody that got a standing ovation, you, in Oklahoma City last year, Okay, that was sick to watch, by the way. You know what was – I was scared, Pat. You know – I was scared, Pat. Yeah. I was scared. I ain't going to lie. The way he came out, I was nervous for Oklahoma City. Yeah. Now, let me say this, though. Let me take a moment. Can I take a moment? Because, you know, I've been known to be a racist, right? Yeah, that is right. Hey, Joker. That is right. Well, can I take a moment to show some love and appreciation to one of my white friends who's on the staff of the New York Knicks.

33:52He's the defensive specialist, assistant coach, Darren Ehrman. You know Darren Ehrman, who I won a championship with in 2008. And let me take you behind the scenes with Darren Ehrman. Darren Ehrman was a lawyer. He quit his job. They was paying them$250 ,000 a year to take on a role with the Boston Celtics, working under Tom Thibodeau, not even hired as a coach, to pursue his basketball dream of being an assistant coach. He quit, moved to Boston, rented out somebody's basement, wasn't getting paid, was the first person at the gym every day. his closet, his office space was in the closet where we used to go, where you used to go and have to turn the lights on in the gym.

34:47Like, as soon as you walk in the door, his office was a closet space. There go my God, Derek Erman. Hey, listen, people don't think that that Tom Thibodeau blood is not walking up and down that sideline for New York, but he is a mastermind defensively. I am so proud of him. I saw him last night when I watched from the TV, and when he got up, it hit me. Now, we always text back and forth, but when it got up, it hit me. I said, well, damn, the Knicks game plan defensively is on point. And then I had to look. I'm like, oh, yeah, my brother, Darren Ehrman. The ex-suit.

35:23Pat McAfee:Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Hey, thank you for shouting out the white there. Hey, that's a good white tail there. Right. We have a wide screen on you there. Whenever you say, can I have a moment, it goes, I've been known to be a racist. It's on the full screen. It's on the full screen. There's going to be captions. There's going to be captions to every airport, every diner, every cafeteria. Some guy's going to be walking by who definitely thinks Perk is a racist. Going to see it. Has his back. It's about fucking time, this guy. Everybody's saying there's a lot of way. Shout out Darren Ehrman, man.

36:03Pat McAfee:Shout out Darren Ehrman. Shout out Darren Ehrman. happy for him get another title maybe this guy two rings fresh out of his suit days huh 250 thousand dollars they're paying him to be a lawyer this ain't fulfilling i'll fucking go live in a closet and he did and now he's at the top of it that's what chasing fulfillment is all about by the way i do not recommend that to everybody okay a lot of people uh talk about us choosing to do this and me retiring and all that type of stuff it's like you you better know you you have something though let's always know that there's something let's not just jump off with nothing okay it's Sounds like Darren Ehrman did do that, but at least he had some landing spot.

36:38Pat McAfee:Let's make sure we know that. Congrats, Sam. That's a good American dream story. Sometimes you just got to jump off the porch. You know what I mean? Sometimes you just got to jump off the porch. Yeah, but we're saying. Take that leap. Yeah, but let's at least know what's off the porch, though. You know, let's at least know that there's a ground there. Not lava. Yeah, we don't want to just. Yeah, let's make sure there's a floor somewhere, you know. and Darren Ehrman had it. Congratulations to Darren Ehrman. He's got those boys. D-ing up. Working. Darren's D. That is double D. That's from Tibbity.

37:18Pat McAfee:They say in there, the fact that you said, let me shout out my white friend, he's coaching the defense down there. Makes sense. Would have thought shooting. It's unbelievable. He probably gets in on the three-point shooting conversation, if I had to guess. I mean I think that might be Rick Bronson I just think that might be you know personnel you know what I'm saying but I know one thing about it if they are getting up shots Darren is in that gym he lives in that gym 24 hours okay let's go to the other side of the court go ahead Tone I was looking at so the Spurs have now lost their first home game in three out of the four series they obviously lost last night They lost game three against OKC, which was their first home game.

38:03They lost game one against Minnesota, which was their first home game. And then against Portland, they actually lost game two, which was their second home game. So they've lost a home game in each series early. And then they are 20-6 after a loss. So do you think in that locker room they're just business as usual? Or do you think maybe there's some worry in the locker room? Well, I mean, when he spoke after the game and he said he's not worried at all, and he said exactly what he was supposed to say as a leader of this team. Now I will say this. You know, I got an old soul raised by my grandparents, and they always used to tell me, hey, man, you keep playing with that stove.

38:39Sooner or later, you're going to get burned. You keep playing with fire. Sooner or later, you're going to get burned. I get it. History tells us that, hey, they lost game one of every single series and every single series, and they didn't win this series. Well, I'll tell you what, this ain't one of them. This ain't one of them when you're playing against the New York Knicks. Because guess what? The Knicks feel like they could have played better. I guarantee you, Big Buddy Brunson feel like he could have played better. The Spurs and Mitch Johnson are going to have to dig deep. They're going to have to dig deep in their film room.

39:15Wimby is going to have to dig deep for his balance and being able to play extended minutes because Luke Cornett came into that game last night and Jalen Brunson's face lit up in that pick and roll. So, look, Wimpy's going to have to prepare to just go ahead and thug it out. He's going to have to be prepared to play 40-plus if the Spurs are going to have a shot. He's going to have to be prepared of the physicality that's coming from Mitch Johnson and Carl Anthony Towns. The Spurs are going to have to dig deep. If winning the championship was easy, everybody would have done it. At this point, it's going to be a mixture of the sideline with Mitch Johnson and his coaching staff and how much these guys want it.

40:01When I say want it, are you going to the facilities late at night to get treatment? Damn it, because your body going to need it. Are you getting treatment while you're at dinner? I know I used to watch LeBron James do it. I used to watch Kevin Garnett do it. I used to watch a lot of all-time greats do it. You know what I mean? Around-the-clock treatment. it. Massages every day, sometimes twice a day on off days. Like, what are you going to do to prepare yourself for this moment? Because they better not lose game two. They better not. We want IVs at the dinner

40:34Pat McAfee:table. Yep. Okay. We want bathing in wine. Yep. We want urine on hands. Bingo. To rub up the calluses. Soften them up. Right, Perk? I never heard of that one, I thought that was a basketball thing. I thought that was a basketball. It is crazy. Okay. I like that one. But I do appreciate the fact that it's like, hey, this is a long season. 82 games. And now we're at the end of the second season that has happened. Now, the New York Knicks, 12 games since April 23rd, basically. They haven't really played. They've had a lot of rest. Spurs have had to battle here. Really battle, really battle, really battle.

41:19Pat McAfee:Young team, too, so they've obviously had long off seasons that have happened leading into this. So can they battle? We hope so. It was nice to see you reference Jalen Brunson, basically a little lemon pepper on Lou Cornett, which we know he hates. Oh, yeah. Not a fan. Not a fan of lemon pepper. Jalen got his ass. Who hates lemon pepper? Cornett. Lou Cornett. He do? Oh, yeah, you're right. He do hate lemon pepper. I just thought about it. I just thought about it. I feel sorry for his loss. I feel sorry for his loss. Because guess what? I love lemon pepper. Me too, man. I love it. I love it. I love it.

42:02Pat McAfee:I'm telling you. How could you not? Yeah, it caused quite a conversation, that entire lemon pepper, because it is an incredible thing. As somebody who has tried to myself, phenomenal work in the grill, in the fryer, I will say. Let's move forward, shall we, Perk? Conman has the last question for you. Yeah, Perk, have to know. It's 2008. Nate, let's say you're on the court and a fan runs onto it like it happened last night. Have you ever seen that before? Can't believe that happened. What would you do if you saw some guy running up to, you know, either you or the guy you're defending? Here it is.

42:31He comes from the left side of the screen right up to Wemby while he's filming it. What was your thoughts about this? I mean, one, you know, what an asshole. Some people just do anything for attention. It pissed me off, man, because, you know, somebody probably put a key in his back to do something dumb like this. And on top of that, it wasn't. First of all, him doing that in itself was already an idiotic move. But to do it, doing live ball, like this wasn't doing a dead ball. This was live action. We don't know what could have happened. We don't know if he could have ran into somebody. Would have Dylan Harper decided to change directions?

43:16Things could have got ugly with this. You know what I mean? Hey, listen. I never preached for somebody to, you know what I'm saying, to go to jail. As a person that didn't been to jail before, you know what I'm saying, and don't have plans on ever, ever going back. It was the worst 48 hours of my damn life, me being in jail. When I went for a traffic ticket, I had a warrant. I didn't know it, right? Like, hey, listen, a person like that need to go serve a little bit of time down there in the penitentiary for about a month. A month? You got to set an example.

43:50Pat McAfee:Scared straight. We need to go back to old school. Scared straight. That's what you're saying. We need to let people know. You got to set an example for somebody like that, man, that you cannot do that. You can't make it about you when we're talking about the biggest stage of the NBA. We're talking about, they probably had 10 to 15 million people watching it from home. Like, that was a great-ass game. Game one, intensity. It was there a lot of runs in between, a lot of moments. Don't have a selfish moment and run your dumb ass out there on the floor and try to get some light, get some shine. I agree with that.

44:27Pat McAfee:I thought he was going to get body slammed for sure. In the NFL, whenever that happens, guy gets upended, dumped onto head. He actually had attention written across his chest. He had a white T-shirt that said attention. That's crazy. And then he was screaming, attention, attention, attention, while he was doing the video. So what I'm saying is I agree with you that we can't be having this all the time. Wemby's reaction was phenomenal. Because what if Wemby actually lifts up his leg? He took a picture. Yeah, what if Wemby actually lifts up his leg and kicks the kid in the head? Kills him. We don't know if he was with the same ninjas over there with the monks.

45:02Pat McAfee:Potentially he had to figure it out, kill the kid. But instead he takes a picture with him. That kid goes to jail. We can't have it happening, but also yellow shirts, jackets around the arena. What are we doing? Where you at? How the hell? The guy got all the way to Wemby? We need not be near Wemby. This is like messy type conversation. If LeBron's out, we don't need anybody. Come on now. Let's protect the franchise here. Let's protect the franchise, and hopefully everybody will tighten up, but also let's not be assholes at these games. We appreciate you, Park. Appreciate y 'all, man. See y 'all Monday.

45:35Pat McAfee:Hey, that's a pretty big deal. I've been learning that's a pretty big deal. It's a huge deal. It's a huge deal. It's bigger than big. It's bigger than big. Yeah, that's what I'm kind of realizing. It's going to be incredible. I'm like super locked in. I got to tell you, I got to understand. This is probably going to set records for the audience that's about to watch these NBA finals. You know what I'm saying? We got the stage set, fellas. Monday, Madison Square Garden, we got to be ready to dance. We got to be ready to dance. We got to be ready to dance, baby. We're ready to dance. Hey, we're ready to step.

46:17We're ready to step.

46:18Pat McAfee:We're at Waltz. We're going to do it in time. We're going to do it in time. We'll wobble if we got to. Okay? We're going to do the goddamn whole thing. NBA Finals All Access with us on ESPN2 during Game 3 of the NBA Finals live from Madison Square Garden. It'll be myself, Darius J. Butler, Big Perk, Q Rich, Toxic Table. We'll be up in the sky as we call an NBA Finals game on ESPN2 as an all-cast. It's outrageous. I cannot wait. And I can't thank everybody enough for the opportunity. We're going to have a good time. And we also will have a direct feed to Breen and the boys, too. So whenever there's a potential bang, I could potentially go, sign it to Breen.

46:55Pat McAfee:Yep. Bang! There's a chance we have a good time out there. So thankful to everybody for the opportunity. And Perk, you're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, that's NBA champ. Big perk. Thank you, buddy. Yeah, perk. I love off-camera. Lemon Pepper, he's talking about the Magic City thing down in Atlanta. Whoever that was off-camera knew it. Yep, he knew. Everything that we're saying, that person. Yeah. That's a jersey of something. We're not getting a lot of information on what the fuck they're talking about there. Everything could potentially be something. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who hopefully has a little better attitude.

47:27Yeah. I hope so. No kidding. This fucking guy.

47:29Pat McAfee:Styling Cup champion, ladies and gentlemen, friend of the program, big Horn-O, Eric Johnson. Hey, Horn-O. Oh, look who it is. Horn-O-No. What's going on, Paul? I'm just pumped to get that DraftKings boost. All right. He says Horn-O. We're going to hit big. Responsibly. Yeah, responsibly. Definitely responsibly. And if you're 21 plus, obviously we'd like you to join us In any gambling state that is obviously legalized, DraftKings has the United Skates of America boost happening to plus 250 right now. Jack Eichel, Jackie Aces, good American lad. Yeah. One point. Yeah, yes. Any apple, secondary apple is good.

48:15Pat McAfee:A goal, obviously great as well. And then Gostespierre. Hey, Ghosty, we need you to get a point as well. Boosted to plus 250. These are two American lads. The first time we put a bet on DraftKings for the NHL Stanley Cup final, it was on two Canadians. And guess what? It didn't hit. Now, we got two Americans tonight, and we got great faith that plus 250 is going to hit. Shout out to DraftKings. Let's go ahead and do this responsibly, but let's enjoy the hell out of the night. Now, Horno, we know you kind of jinxed the last one with your reaction. How do you feel about these two guys registering a point tonight, and what type of game should we look for this evening?

48:51All right. Last time, I will take full responsibility. I let you down. The attitude is back. The positive vibes through the frickin' roof. Eichel will get the point. Goss Despair will get the point. We're going to lay the hammer.

49:05Pat McAfee:I don't think you're allowed to make guarantees like that. We're going to lay the hammer. Dot! Okay. Let's see, EJ. Okay, we're trying. Not gambling advice. Not gambling advice. Obviously, we were just offering this as an opportunity. it is a boosted odds on two of the lads coming off of a night that we just had last night let's go ahead and continue to ride the lightning hopefully but we certainly could lose speaking of could lose what do you see from tonight's game what should we expect will there be a bounce back from this hurricanes team who is now a bigger favorite than they were the other night are we assuming this gets the 1-1 or do the vegas golden knights steal two in the toughest barn in the nhl in the finals okay one thing i can guarantee tonight is i think we're gonna see a little bit tighter defense from Carolina.

49:47Just remember, guys, in the playoffs, they have given up the least goals against per game amongst all the teams. So they know how to keep the puck out of their net. Vegas put five on them in game one. So a really uncharacteristic game from the Carolina Hurricanes. But remember, Vegas can put the puck in the net too. They have a really good power play, 22%. Carolina's power play is at 12%. So just so you guys know, anything above 20 is considered really, really good so if Carolina is going to get back in this series and even end at one they have to get going on the power play their power play has been horrendous they have to keep the puck out of their net but Vegas at the same at the same token both these teams think that they can play a better game both teams are better defensively both teams can put the puck in the net but I think you're going to see just a tighter game between both of these teams because they're known for their defense and they know how to keep the puck out of their net so look for a tighter game I know I thought it was going to be a tighter game in game one i was wrong i think it's going to be tighter in game

50:49Pat McAfee:two yeah but i think saying game one's going to be tight is just kind of a normal thing to say especially as you know the big stage the jitters new team we'd rather not give something up instead it was wide open wide ass open which is out of the norm for both of them you know rod down there in carolina had the boys buzzing they have allowed two or fewer goals in 11 of their first 12 games this postseason okay and then obviously first game nine goals in total five four it goes absolutely the opposite direction. And maybe that's because Horno said, I expect this one to go under, but I think water will normally find its level.

51:21Pat McAfee:Go ahead, Conman. Yeah, same thing happened in the game one of the Canadian series too. The Canadians kind of poured it on. But Horno, Coach Rod, to Pat's point, also said like, hey, look, how the hell are we supposed to win a game when our top line is playing like shite and they got cement in their boots? What do you expect from Jarvo and Ajo? And I believe it's Sveshnikov as the other one in game two? Do you think they're going to kind of bounce back, answer this challenge? What do you see from them to start the game as the game goes on? And I think, remember too, guys, this Carolina team, they don't have a ton of Stanley Cup final experience.

51:57I think the only guy in their roster that's won a cup is Jordan Stahl. I could be wrong. There could be one other. But Eichel and all these guys, Stone, they've won a Stanley Cup. They've been there. The moment isn't too big for them. So I think you saw right out of the gates, Carolina popped too quick on Vegas. And then Vegas kind of took a deep breath. They're not overwhelmed by the moment. And they kind of got back to their game. But just remember, Ajo, these guys, they haven't played in the finals. So there is some jitters there. I remember playing in 2022 in my first Stanley Cup final. And you definitely feel how big the moment is.

52:32And it does take a little while for you to get your legs underneath you. I mean, when you are this close to the Stanley Cup and you see it on the ice like they did in game one, it's right there for you, right? So these guys maybe just had a little bit of hesitation in their game. But if they're going anywhere, they need Ajo to step up in these playoffs. Hasn't had a great playoffs thus far for the Caniacs. So let's see if they can get going here in game two. Because remember, when a team goes down 2-0 in the Stanley Cup final, only five times have a team come back and won the Stanley Cup. So the Canes cannot go down.

53:08Pat McAfee:That's over 100 years, by the way. That's a long time in which that has happened. And as soon as I lifted this up onto the screen, everybody watching at home, yourself included while you're speaking, everybody here, you couldn't help but just cast your eyes upon this. And this is just baby lord. It's so beautiful still. I couldn't even imagine what the Carolina Hurricanes team that just seen it for the first time with literally – That's what they – Looking at that cup makes my nipples hard. Like I get – Classic horn. Yeah. That's what your coach has been saying about you. I feel different when I see it.

53:39Pat McAfee:Even baby Lordo here? Baby Lordo. Baby Lordo. Baby Lordo? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. Ty, Golden Knights fan, has a question for you, pal. Yeah, Horno, you just mentioned how the Knights kind of got popped early last game. And they've just kind of dealt with that all playoffs. It's kind of been their MO that they just don't give up. They come back. A big part of, you know, towards being the coach. But do you anticipate that they will start faster tonight? And how do you start faster? I mean, obviously, they're not trying to give up a goal 25 seconds into the game. But how do you see this one starting tonight?

54:14Well, I don't think you're going to see a goal 25 seconds in like we saw last game. And, you know, I think it was really uncharacteristic of how Vegas played last game. I mean, give Carolina credit. They shot themselves out of a cannon in game one, and they looked like they were going to run away with the game. But what impresses me most about Vegas is when you watch these guys, whether they're up, down, tied, they play the exact same way. Their game does not change no matter the score. They just keep putting good shifts on top of good shifts. They stack them together back to back to back, whether they're up, whether they're down.

54:48And that's just the sign of a veteran savvy team that knows how to win. And I don't know if you heard John Tortorella mic'd up on the bench last game. but sometimes your team can feel the emotion of your coach good or bad and torts was just saying to these guys stick to our game plan if we play how we can play we're going to get back into this game and if you watched vegas last game they did a lot of east west bullshit and what east west is is they try to spread the rink side to side as opposed to going north south up and down so carolina is going to pick you apart if you try and make those cross ice passes which vegas did and They got burned on it a few times, but they corrected themselves.

55:27They steadied the ship. They found their game, and they took a huge game one in Carolina. I mean, if they get up 2-0, it's going to be a really steep climb for the Hurricanes to get back in this thing. But just watch for more direct north-south play from the Vegas Knights tonight.

55:42Pat McAfee:All right, EJ, Big Horn-O, we appreciate you. As you freeze up at the very last second, which is good news, you're kind of mid. You can see. What the? It's not the worst. Am I gone? No. We still hear you. Orno. Is this a radio show now? What's going on? If you're on it. Eric Johnson. Hey, Orno! Unbelievable, this guy. What is he doing, man? He's the best. He likes this one because maybe this is the one that he potentially sent in. But did you see how positive he was? I definitely support, super support. He's a quick learner. He does not want to be the lad that lets anybody down. That was a very quick thing.

56:22Pat McAfee:He sent a follow-up text as soon as we... I think we got to put the... Sorry, we're working on that one back here. The disclaimer? Hey, listen, don't be assholes. No joke. 1-800-GABBLER. No joke. Please do not. This is just for fun. Just for fun. On that note, we do want to win. But we might not. But we do want to win. Join us if you'd like. If you're 21 plus, let's be responsible about this thing. This is going to be a Part of our lives as we go forward. Let's never forget it. On the other side, we got massive conversations and some, oh, no. Oh, no. As you know, managing maintenance, repair, and operations is never easy.

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58:27Pat McAfee:than they were in game one will they be able to bounce back will jarvie and the lads install an american legend a man who scored a goal in the 2009 stanley cup final and then also scored in 2026 as his brother cranked the siren what will tonight hold we shall see but the vegas golden knights have seemed to be on an absolute mission since hiring torts as their head coach with eight games left in a regular season all roads lead to lordo stanley cup will the golden Knights touch it again? Or will the Carolina Hurricanes touch it again? They haven't done it since the 90s. Obviously, they've been around.

59:00Pat McAfee:Or 2006 maybe. They were founded in 1997. 20 years. Yeah, it's been 20 years. They were founded in 97. 2006, they win the cup. It's been forever. The Vegas Golden Knights only been around for like 10 years. Already have won one. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Who's taking Lordo home? Who gets one win closer? We shall see tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC as Disney and ABC and ESPN own the finals of both the nhl and the nba i think loving of sport is very apparent and i think home of sport also very apparent cannot wait to watch the atmosphere tonight the toxic table is here at boston connor at ty schmidt ty huge news for your vegas golden knights they go up 1-0 huge news for your packers christian watson goes crazy and huge news for your wmba team the indiana fever One half of the hammer.

59:48Pat McAfee:Done. Cowboys. Bubba Gumpino. He loves the Indiana fever tonight. He loves the Minnesota Lynx tonight. And then I saw that there was potentially a Caitlin Clark to go for 30-plus tonight. Gumpy, what is the big hubbub about the fever in Minnesota tonight in your mind? This is a big one tonight. Atlanta in Indiana. Angel Reese's first time in Indiana against Caitlin Clark since she joined the Atlanta Dream. So this is a massive matchup. As far as Minnesota goes, they're the best bet in the WNBA right now. They were a dog the other night by four points, beat the team by like 20. This Minnesota team is unreal.

1:00:24Pat McAfee:Okay, we like the fever all good. Is there still a fever in the locker room or have we kind of cooled down a little bit? They're going to figure they'll come together tonight. We'll see you against Angel Reese. I mean, we'll have to certainly do that. One half of the hammer. Don Cowboys AP Tone is here. And joining us now live from Manatic in Ohio is a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner, COVID survivor, father of 10, and now a College Football Hall of Fame nominee. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. A.J. Hawk.

1:00:56Shout out to Perk and his white friend Darren Ehrman, the defensive specialist. I like that.

1:01:03Pat McAfee:How about the full screen? I've been known to be a racist. That was a great start. Beautiful start to it. Can I say something real quick? That was it. Can I have a moment? Can I have a moment? Yes, you certainly can. I want to shout out a white. I love it. Anytime. Darren Ehrman is a guy. Let's obviously celebrate Darren Ehrman. Let's celebrate Perk. You know, celebrating a white person. I think that is certainly something that should be noted, at least in the annals of Perk's takes. But let's also celebrate you, AJ. Where do we sit for you becoming a college football Hall of Famer today as opposed to yesterday?

1:01:40Pat McAfee:What have we done overnight to maybe make our case better? Have you done anything? Yes, so much has happened. I'm sure there's been so many developments from yesterday when you talked about this until right now. So I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but sure. Maybe in like four or five, six months, we'll figure something out. Are we going to have to have somebody else cover this because AJ won't tell us the truth? There's nothing to cover. What do you mean there's nothing to cover? Oh, you're telling me they just announce it and then do nothing with it? Yeah, right. During the college football playoff, I think they announce who gets in.

1:02:11Bobby Carpenter is checking the polls every single day. We should at least have him telling us the reality of what's going on.

1:02:16Pat McAfee:Don't you think maybe you should be putting your Ohio State Buckeye helmet on and your pads on and doing some workouts to let them know and remind them what it could look like and what it did look like? Maybe get Bob to dress up in Michigan gear. Yeah, there you go. He's not doing that. He's not doing that even for the bit. so yeah no we'll put a mask on him so nobody knows it's him but i think being a bigger guy with his build would be perfect for the video that are you seeing what i'm seeing though you remind like oklahoma drill me and bob i i tell you what though bob doesn't know how to not go 100 so that's going to be a big collision i don't want any part of that no but he puts the michigan stuff on to do i'm so soft you know and he will that's how he will react i'm not saying that's how he should act but i'm just saying that is potentially how he would act and then you tell the College Football Hall of Fame voters, which we know who they are?

1:03:03Yeah. Of course. Yeah. That won't go.

1:03:05Pat McAfee:We hand-deliver them DVDs of you back in the pads, live in the glory days, just a nice reminder. And we make sure that you're getting celebrated this college football playoff. Speaking of college football playoff, there's been a lot of chatter about everything going on in college sports right now. And I'll tell you, Coach Saban, he dropped himself into politics, I guess, because he wasn't spoke at D.C. Yeah. A lot of people aren't happy with him. Why? He's wearing it a bit. Well, he's saying, all right. Yeah. Wait, what's the biggest issue with him doing? Well, he profited, certainly. You like your three houses, coach?

1:03:40Pat McAfee:Yeah, I mean, they're coming after him because he profited off of college football. Obviously, he's the greatest of all time at his profession. So you're certainly going to have success. But the immediate counter to him trying to put any type of messaging together about maybe there should be some guardrails on this entire thing, I guess the angle in which you can flip that is, he's trying to put a cap on this guy's trying to put a salary cap on something that doesn't have a cap before there's even a conversation about this and this guy didn't have a cap on what his deal could be and i was like well there is a market and there is that entire thing that isn't kind of known right now but very fair argument against coach saban has been made but i think coach saban's saying he's saying about me all right this is about like doing something sustainable i don't know if anything's gonna happen big 10 sec coming out saying they don't like it Coach Saban gave a speech where I thought he laid out every, if you took the entirety of what he spoke as opposed to just like the individual things, I think he laid out a pretty compelling case about like caring about athletics as a whole.

1:04:36Pat McAfee:But the other side of it, the people, like Mola Guetta's come out. And we know Mola Guetta, we have massive respect for Mola Guetta. And he's come out and been like, interesting, this guy's the one that's kind of talking about this. And I'm like, ooh, I didn't know this was going to be such a big sticking point on the other side there. Because what they're saying is you're trying to put a cap now on something. where there is no cap. So who are you trying to, and I'm like, what an angle. What an angle. Yeah, what an angle. But when you hear Coach Saban talk about it, going for what, 2.7, his first year in NIL, and some teams are upward of$40 million right now.

1:05:07It's true. Like, where does it stop?

1:05:08Pat McAfee:Yeah, and that's what Saban's point is. But then I guess I didn't even think about the agents being like, especially Mooligeta. Yeah. Like, maybe the agents that we all don't want to be agents, like people that don't actually understand business, people that have watched movies on what it's like potentially, and then they're agreeing to terms and deals on behalf of people that don't know much about the business as well that are terrible deals for both the person they are representing and also never going to be fulfilled from the other side. So there's a big conversation. The NFLPA had to go through, like, legitimizing agents, what agents aren't legitimate, what you have to go through.

1:05:40Pat McAfee:So, like, there's obviously a lot of that happening. And I thought you would see a lot of bad agents, people that aren't actual agents, bad business people, coming out mad about Coach Saban. When it was Mullah Geta that came in, I was like, well, they've got problems now. If Mullah Geta's not happy with it, the Big Ten's not happy with it, SEC's not happy with it. It's like, I don't know, man. It's not happening. I believe Cruz is meeting with Sankey and Petiti today or sometimes soon to go over what would make them accept that deal. And then Mulligeta, it sounds like his angle is we're putting a cap on something that doesn't have a salary cap, so earning and everything like that.

1:06:16Pat McAfee:I wonder if they're ever going to get off of that. And it's like, I don't think so because we're seeing what's happening with MLB and MLBPA right now where that's a big cap, but it's like, is Moola Guetta also? Agents are never going to be happy about making less money. I thought based on Ted Cruz meeting with Petiti and Sankey separate from everybody else, and then Peep of Aqua, Notre Dame's AD, was talking, and he was talking about, like, a Super League and saying, like, yeah, sure, would people want to see Notre Dame, you know, playing, you know, Alabama and Georgia and Michigan and Ohio State every – like, I think that's what we're trending for.

1:06:51We're trending towards that. I think it's going to be a Super League. A bunch of teams are kind of going to get left in the dust, and that's just going to be the new reality. And then who knows how all of this conversation works into that, but it seems, I mean, if Ted, like the ACC commissioner, the Big 12 commissioner, like how would you feel if it's like you are arguing all day with this and then the next day it's like, well, Petiti and Sankey, they're going to go meet with Ted Cruz privately. They're going to talk with him. You know what I mean?

1:07:20Pat McAfee:They did kind of have a little brother the hell out of them. Big 12 already unanimously said we're for it last week, I believe, at their meetings. But Petiti came out after Pete Bavacqua. He said that, and then Pete kind of said, like, you know, I don't really want that, though. And then Petiti also said there's been no talk of the Super League yet. So there's a lot that needs to be figured out, but it will be. I'm sure it will. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be figured out. DeMula get the pieces, but he's very influential. He is very influential for the players' side of this thing. So when I saw him put up the tweet, I was like, ooh, there might be a lot more trouble there.

1:07:52Pat McAfee:So you got your two biggest conferences, and you got most powerful agent in football. Not like it. All right. I believe in Coach Saban, though. No doubt. Oh, yeah. And they said this isn't a final version. We still need to make work, but we need to go in a direction somewhere. Hey, let's go. Let's go get it done. Good luck, guys. But on that note, I think if you get a couple people, you can sway a couple people. More confident today than yesterday. Yeah, like Petita and Sankey, very influential people. Molageta, very influential. So I don't know if they're going to try to get Molageta as well as they are with Petiti and Sankey.

1:08:25Pat McAfee:I don't know if Molageta will even listen or anything like that. But if you do win over a couple influential players, all of a sudden we got a lot of movement. And boom, if we're able to get some movement, we're able to get some guardrails, we're able to celebrate college sports for what they are while the players are getting paid the value in which they have earned, that's euphoria. Good luck, boys. Good luck. And ladies, get it done. I don't know if you saw, speaking of college sports, there was a big E. Lawson commitment to the West Virginia Mountaineers. And this is from my understanding, a hill in Virginia.

1:08:59Pat McAfee:This guy lives deep in the hills of Virginia. And this is certainly on his property. You can't get a car or a minivan or any other vehicle that is loaded to his house. Got to go four-wheeling. Got to have a Jeep. Got to have a jacked-up truck to get to where this guy lives, I guess. Perfect for the West Virginia Mountaineer offensive line. Love that he did this. He's a monster. I guess he's 6 '6", 6 '7", obviously huge. In the winter, they can't even get snowmobile to home. Okay, where he's at. I think West Virginia's back. Yeah, 6 '6", 300 pounds. They say he's a three-star, but they couldn't find the other two stars because they were lost on the voyage to his house up in the fucking mountains.

1:09:42Pat McAfee:So this guy's going to West Virginia. We got couches being lit all over the place. We got the West Virginia baseball team in the Super Regional tomorrow that's about to showcase Morgantown even more. So the college people, I know Rich Rod is like, hey, I'm just trying to get a fucking first down. You guys can figure out how to do everything else. Where West Virginia sports is headed right now and where a lot of places sports are headed right now, we obviously hope that we can maintain this type of up and to the rightness. And we think college sports are very, very important to society. Obviously, a lot of us have kids now.

1:10:13Pat McAfee:I have a daughter, Mackenzie. She's three years old. She's very active. She's in my family. So she's going to be doing a lot of sports. Would obviously love the ability to continue to further education, to have a goal to get a scholarship, to go represent. And if NCAA, I mean, that's kind of a professional league. I mean, Kennedy's making$1.5 million as a pitcher in softball. It's like, how much is that happening? So let's keep it going, okay? Let's get the deal done. because we don't need the fast cash now and no cash later yes right yeah we'd like to have cash all time well this way i guess either way as long as it's up let's protect the guys protect the players from the the terrible agents you know taking 40 you know in perpetuity you can't be doing that yeah and the bad deals and the non-fulfilled deals which mole ghetto would agree with.

1:11:06Pat McAfee:You would think, yeah. He would have to because that protects the players. And it protects the good agents too. Yeah, it makes them look. Exactly, yeah. So it has to be common ground. Mulgad is a deal maker. I don't want a Super League either. I like having an allegiance. No, definitely not. I like having an allegiance. Kind of 50-50 on that one. He's from Boston, not from a college town. You are Iowa Hawkeye fan since birth. So right there at that table sitting a mere two feet away from each other, you have the two football fan who loves college football and college football fan who's been with college for a long time right there happening right in front of our eyes and that's kind of what they got to deal with as they're trying to make all these deals the diehards who certainly feel a certain way about the purism of college sports which we understand money is happening now okay money's cool money's cool but we can't just be throwing everything out the window here we still got at least we're still SEC, something matters still.

1:12:01Pat McAfee:It's like, well, Super League would mean, yeah, everything matters. And it's like, well, if everything matters. Nothing matters. Does anything matter? Well, that's like the NFL, though. It's like every single week we have these massive, massive games. Again, I don't really have a dog in the fight, but when it comes to the idea of a Super League, I'm not like, oh, that would suck, screw that. Just because of the fact that if we were talking about Notre Dame playing Ohio State and Georgia and all the teams. And next week, bam. Tile listed in Bama. Like, that isn't like a, oh, no, screw that. I don't even want to hear that.

1:12:32It's like, well, hold on. Let's see what that actually has to do. But I do think, like, you can't get rid of, like, the rivalries. You can't get rid of stuff like that. And the beauty of college football is all those things. It's just typically those bottom 50 teams. As just a college football fan, like you just mentioned, it's not as if I'm, you know, writing home about Mac. And I do know. Oh, I don't give a shit about Mac. No, this is a Super League. I don't give a shit about Mac. 50 % of Power 4 conferences. Yeah, and I don't give a shit about like Rutgers and teams. But like Iowa's been in the Big Ten for like over 100 years.

1:13:04That's just great, Dylan Harper. But like three years ago, would you have been invited to the Super League? You see how good their basketball team did when he was there? They had two guys get picked in the top five. They didn't even make the fucking tournament. That's Seattle, man. Well, he's not on the basketball team. Yeah, he's not on the basketball team.

1:13:15Pat McAfee:Let's pivot away from college football, which we assume will get figured out. Good luck to all parties. Good luck. Good luck. And we will watch because we love ball. And I love college football. It is spectacular. Different than NFL football on the field, but it's all this shit that makes college football spectacular. We can never lose that, especially in college sports as a whole. I assume everybody will get that figured out and everybody has the same mindset. Joining us now is Scott's going to tell us everything happening around the NFL. Ladies and gentlemen, he is a senior insider for NFL Network.

1:13:47Pat McAfee:Oh. Junior NFL insider at the Worldwide Leader ESPN. And ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rapoport. Junior! Junior! What's up, Deuce? Deuce? Deuce? He loves that. That not as good. Junior is fine. Oh, come on, Deuce. What? Come on, Deuce is like... I think of Deuce Gruden. I can't be Deuce Gruden. Don't be a Deuce bag. Oh, don't think of... Don't think of Deuce Gruden. He was awesome. And don't think of Deuce bag. Or piece of Deuce. Yeah, none of that. Or Bigelow. This is Deuce, like, the second. You know, like, Junior. Deuce McAllister. Yeah. Staley? Sure. Dog? Exactly. Think of the good ones, not the bad ones.

1:14:25Pat McAfee:All right, Junior, let's dive in. Russell Wilson retires, obviously, the last couple years. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm sorry, not to correct you. I did not hear the R word in his announcement, as far as I could tell. Hmm. Wait for someone to call him? Here's my sense. I mean, look, that was a nice video. I thought it was really cool. and, you know, a really nice tribute and shout out and kind of remembrance and all that. The one thing I didn't quite hear was I'm done with football forever. And, like, we've seen, now he's going to CBS. I think he's going to do a really nice job. It is a perfect place for him.

1:15:05And, like, you know, if you've heard Russell talk, he's probably been planning to be on TV or in politics maybe for quite a while. But, you know, there is always a chance that you get to, like, October, November, a good team, loses a quarterback, has a backup they don't love, and someone says, you know what? Might we want to give this guy a call? And so, like, you know, people have called it a retirement. I kind of didn't see it like that. I felt more it's like a, I'm going to do this unless some team comes calling for a starting time. Oh, my gosh.

1:15:39Pat McAfee:That would be dramatic. First of all, what you just said is hilarious, and then immediately upon you starting to speak, I'm like, team three, obviously. This would be a way to announce that he's going to CBS without ever really working the angles. And he said, you know, football, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Like four thank yous at one point. Oh, yeah. There was not one I'm done with playing football in there. I mean, I guess that is kind of the nitpickiness of having to kind of decipher what the words mean in there. Wow. I mean, it's not impossible. Classic three. That is so Russell.

1:16:18Just one last time.

1:16:20Pat McAfee:One last time. Incredible work here. Let's ride. Honestly, yeah, let's ride. Let's do all those things. Go Hawks. I appreciate him doing that, and I think he's going to be good on CBS. Okay, well, good luck with – we love football too, Russ. Yeah, I think he's going to be great. We do think you're going to be absolutely great. Let's talk about Christian Watson. He just signed for$110 million with the Green Bay Packers. They lose Dobbs. Obviously, he exits, but now they got Reed and Watson and obviously Jordan Love, another year under his belt, right? More established franchise quarterback. What is his messaging and how do you feel about the Green Bay Packers going forward?

1:16:57First of all, so they had three, I would say, good playmaking receivers. One in Dobbs, they let walk. And the two sort of more explosive guys they paid. And I think that was interesting to me is that like, look, Watson has not been perfect. He has been injured. He has had significant injury and missed, you know, a bunch of games over four years. When he has played, he is excellent. And this is a really strong deal. It's about$23 million per year at its base, about 27 or so at its max, and gives him the kind of security that he really has wanted. There is a possibility, if he goes out and plays 17 games, that he is going to make this deal look like a bargain for the Packers.

1:17:40But like, that's the goal, right? I mean, that's the goal. That's what you want. And, you know, what he gets is security right now rather than kind of play it out. But if he is healthy for every game, I mean, this is a absolutely electric receiver. Dobbs has been, I would say, more maybe reliable, but they allowed him to walk. And it's going to be interesting to see, you know, how that plays out and kind of what the end result is. The other thing is Tucker Craft is still out there. and you know i would consider him to be a big time priority for green bay and that i mean it looks great as he's coming back looks excellent um i wouldn't be surprised if contract talks waited until he's like fully fully cleared but you know if you're talking about a guy who will probably reset the tight end market that badly needs to be reset that would probably be one of them

1:18:33Pat McAfee:laporta would probably be another okay now let's go to the defense congrats to tucker craft by the if he gets paid fresh off of all this. And he looks awesome. Nice shirtless video. Yeah, he looks awesome here. I mean, this is like a movie character type shit here. And maybe he'll become that once again for... He actually said, take notes, Ivan Drago. Yeah, so he is straight out of a movie character. Let's go to the defensive side. Michael Parsons, PUP to start four weeks at least. What are our thoughts on his recovery? And is this what we expected at the end of last year? You know, it's what I thought just based on the timeline.

1:19:04but like Patrick Mahomes has a similar timeline. And I think there's a pretty good chance we see Mahomes on the field for week one. So like you never really know either one, how hard a player is going to push it and risk it. And two, if a team is willing to allow them to do it, the Packers traditionally have been, I would say conservative medically. Like they make sure that their guys are fully healthy and ready to go. No matter what, I would put that in this category. And I mean, I really, if I was a Packers fan or really just a fan of great players in general, I would have really liked what I heard from Micah Parsons.

1:19:40It was mature. It was reasoned. It was very intelligent. And it was the smartest thing for his career because look, could he play in September? Probably could. Would he put himself at risk? Yeah, I think he would. He'll be back in, you know, they play the Cowboys, I think early October, whenever that is, I would probably keep an eye on that one. But he needs to be on the field in December and January, and he knows that. And this was a really good thing to hear for someone who cares about football players because he wasn't like, me, me, me, I want to be out there, I want to play. It's like, this is what's best for everyone involved, for him to be out there in October fully healthy.

1:20:22Pat McAfee:Vikings, Jets, Falcons to start the season for the Green Bay Pack. When's the Cowboys? October, maybe. on it. It's tracking, tracking. It'll be prime time. It is week six. Yeah, so on NBA. Interesting. So five, six weeks is an interesting time to recover and come back. Yeah, so this is probably it, huh? Okay, so let's assume, Micah. Yeah, let's assume this is when he's going to be coming back. Defense running out first. Do you think Roger Goodell's giving a call? Yeah. Hey. Hey, Michael. You're available week six. The Bears are a 425 game the week before that. Oh, that's going to be a one-two punch there.

1:21:09Pat McAfee:Micah's warm-up game is one of the greatest rivalries in the history of sport. Between the Packers and the Bears, Small Town, Big Town, Caleb, Jordan Love, Ben Johnson, LaFleur. Now we got Micah getting ready to dominate the NFC North as the Cowboys await on Sunday night football. a trip into now Micah's homeland of Lambeau. Yeah, you can already see the story being told. Oh, yeah. Okay, so that's week five. Yeah, I'm good with that. Welcome back, Micah. Yo, Micah. Hey, Micah. How many games are in the seasons now? Exactly. I mean, we're going to get to 22 games in a season, so guys are going to be missing four or five.

1:21:46Pat McAfee:God help us. Down. Rap, you came on our show. We were just on the internet, which obviously we're grateful that you used to do that for us. As soon as the 17-game thing happened, and we're like, Rapport, tell us about the 17-game thing. And then you got done talking all your bullshit, whatever talking points you got. And then as soon as you were done, we're like, 18 games come and win. Yeah, oh, I remember. Yeah, and you're like, I don't think so. This feels like they're pretty content. Remember how long it took to go from 14 games to 16 games, and then to get from 16 to 17, obviously very long time.

1:22:16Pat McAfee:The NFL is like the Titanic. They're a slow-moving ship. And then what, it was two months into that deal where they're like, 18's inevitable just because having an even number, obviously matchups with two conferences and also with what we're doing. It does feel like it's inevitable. Once we get to 18, do we think we're immediately going to say, once this gets to 20 years? Can't, can't, can't. Gotta go through a season of 18, but if it goes well, I'm down for March 1st Super Bowl. Hey, why not move it to April? Let's go ahead and do it. Oh my God. What is golf season? Come on. Oh, you lazy draft.

1:22:49Pat McAfee:Okay. Now, Rapp, let's talk about that, though. Les Needs said, and this is obviously a topic of conversation in their building because they're playing in Australia. He goes, we play on every day but Tuesday. He said, we have a game on Wednesday. We have a game on Thursday. We have a game, I think, on Friday. If they flex us into a Saturday game later, which could be possible, we'll be on Saturday, we'll be on Sunday, and obviously we play Monday. He was like, Tuesday is really the only day we're probably not going to play on this upcoming season. It is crazy, Rapp, and you've obviously been around the NFL and working for the NFL for a long time in the media arm.

1:23:19Pat McAfee:With NFL Network, obviously now there has been an acquisition by Disney and ESPN with NFL still there. And NFL Network still doing its programming. It sounds like there was a lot of fears and worries, but it's continuing to do the same exact shit, right? Aren't we all kind of doing the same thing covering this sport? Sounds right, yeah. It's actually opened more doors, I think, for NFL Network and ESPN Collab, which is obviously what we're experiencing right now. But what do you think the end game is for the NFL? Obviously, we know they want one international game seemingly for every team, whether people like it or not.

1:23:47Pat McAfee:They want 18 games. They want less preseason. Like, what do you think endgame is actually for NFL? And will they always just keep pushing, pushing, pushing, you think? Yeah, that's kind of what I was going to say is I don't know that there's like an endgame, right? Because when they get to 18, and I do believe it's inevitable, though, I don't know. Like, I don't think it's going to be next year. I think some of it will depend on how willing the NFLPA is to really engage and talk. And I haven't quite gotten that sense from them yet. So it might still be a little ways off. The next CBA deal is however many, six however many years away.

1:24:20So maybe it's then or maybe a little bit sooner. But I do think it eventually gets there. I think that will come with two preseason games, probably an international game every week. And then it's like, what else? Because if there's anything I've learned over the last several years, it's that. And this kind of really started with COVID, which is a time I really blacked out mostly, except for this part of it. You could put a game on any day of the week and I'm watching. and I am for sure not alone. And so, like, I know Les Snead was kind of joking about the Tuesday game, but he wasn't joking at all.

1:24:52Because, like, the NFL blankets the fall and into the winter, and when they put a game on, we all watch it, and then we all talk about it the next day. And, like, I don't know that we've reached a point where people are like, whew, another football game. I really don't want to watch that. Like, I'll watch it all times.

1:25:10Pat McAfee:Yeah. You know? Yeah, they kind of got us. They know they got us. That's kind of a part of the problem. We are a part of the problem. It's okay. We're part of the problem. I mean, we certainly benefit both in our lives, our feelings, our emotions, and also everything else from the game. Every holiday, it's great. Yeah, we absolutely love it. And, you know, this was kind of like what the Red Zone Channel conversation happened last year that I found myself in the middle of it because there was an announcement that there was going to be two 45-second or 30-second commercials or something that is no longer commercial-free football.

1:25:43Pat McAfee:and we broke the news and then I say immediately, we do not care. We are going to continue to watch it. And then I had a bunch of people say, isn't that nice? You don't care. I do care. Is anything sacred? How come they try to make everything into something? Can I not just watch the Red Zone channel that I'm already paying a bunch of money for without having to be force-fed some fucking ad in this entire thing? Is nothing sacred? I got 1 ,000, maybe 10 ,000 of those messages. I became like the face of not understanding that the NFL is trying to make money off of everything and we're sick of it crowd, basically, which made its way almost to government, I think, here just a couple weeks ago.

1:26:20Pat McAfee:But it's real, though. I'm part of the problem. I'm going to watch it. And if they run those two ads, I'm probably going to look at my phone and I'm going to be right back into it. Or you might just watch it and then keep watching football. That also happens. Hell, I might watch it and buy the car that they're trying to sell me. Which is a Mercedes. And they are charging them a lot of money to get on that, obviously, because how many people are there. But what you just said is exactly our part of the problem. We will watch it. You put that Wednesday afternoon football during COVID, Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Commanders.

1:26:49Pat McAfee:I mean, I watched that. Are Baltimore Ravens? I watched that thing immediately. You put that thing on at 8 a.m. in Australia. I'm probably going to wake up and watch it. I woke up 6 a.m. on vacation to watch American hockey. So, like, I am a part of the problem. But we got to make sure that the NFL understands they need to treat their fans right, though. I agree. Let's not abuse these fans because obviously we're up into the right, and it's because of the fans, so let's never forget it. But it's also because it's the greatest sport. Otherwise, you're right. On our screen. Is this right or left?

1:27:22Pat McAfee:That would be right. For us, yeah. That's where we're trying to go, though. For the viewer. We're trying to go up that way, up to the right, which every rating is going that way. Yeah. Except for some people, though. What happened to those people? They just didn't. What is going on? They just can't get it figured out. There's some of them that it just doesn't seemingly happen. But it does seemingly – sports going this way, NFL going this way. Let's not abuse all these people that are this right here. You know, this thing. Yeah, let's make sure we go ahead and acknowledge the greatness. Now, speaking of acknowledging greatness, Pittsburgh Steelers have been spending a lot of money.

1:27:54Pat McAfee:Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, so far this offseason wrap, they have paid Chris Boswell. They paid Herbig. Yesterday they played – paid Darnell Washington. When is Joey Porter Jr. going to get paid? because he's one of those other guys who is coming up here. He's probably going to get top five, top ten corner money. So what do you think about all these contracts, Joey getting paid, and then with Herbie getting paid, is there any talk? Pittsburgh wants to know if there's any talk of the other two edges getting traded. Just ask. It's okay. TJ or Hightower or Hightower. Sorry, getting traded. All right. Right.

1:28:30So let's get to the part that you really wanted to ask first. I do. I mean, really. Because as soon as it became clear that Herbic was going to get a deal, it was like, hold on, they have so much money on the edge. What are they going to do with TJ? What are they going to do with Highsmith? My sense this year is nothing. I don't get the sense Highsmith is going anywhere. I don't get the sense TJ Watt is not going anywhere this year. He is not. He is going to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, after this year, I would imagine they have a decision to make one way or the other. TJ Watts contract is enormous.

1:29:08He has been a one helmet player. I would say every one helmet player, you'd sort of like them to stay in the uniform. But we have learned as we did this past week, that there is a price for everyone. So we'll see where that goes. I just know at the second most important position, the Pittsburgh Steelers have a lot invested and are very well situated. I just don't think anything will happen this year. As far as Joey Porter Jr., I know he said all the right things to the media. He's here. He's ready to work and all that. Sometimes what teams do is they get the deals done that they can get done now.

1:29:49And the ones that might be a little tougher, like for instance, Joey Porter Jr., maybe you say, we'll take that up to the deadline. Their deadline is right before the season. We have seen deals happen on Saturday night before the season. I'm not sure we're ready to say, you know, Joey Porter Jr. is not getting it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What was that? What about Joey Porter Jr.? What were you saying? Before AJ interrupted you?

1:30:17Pat McAfee:AJ just started talking directly into the microphone, just saying, trying to communicate back to the Thunderdome. We kind of cut you off there a little bit. That's okay. No, I want to hear more from AJ. You're over the air, dickhead. Click the right button. Sorry, boys. That's on us. I thought my button worked. I thought I said something. I was like, what could I possibly have said? Joey Porter Sr.? So the magic of everything that's taking place, AJ's in an attic in Ohio. So it is not always the easiest to understand what he is looking to talk about as we're all sitting here. So we've plugged in some wires that are supposed to have AJ press button to my ear and I'm able to talk to AJ.

1:31:02Pat McAfee:Today we have learned that it is not working. So AJ was going to send message to back wall or back room there. Then back room was going to relay it to me so I could send this thing to an attic in Ohio. Turns out, though, he was not talking on any back channels. He was just talking wide open. And, you know, every once in a while, AJ does get kind of funny in there. So we wanted him to know immediately that we could all hear what he was saying. just in case, you know, because he could have said there, Hey, hot mic, man. That is a scary thing. Well, for you mostly, because that would normally be something about whoever's on show, and then there would be a thing that is happening.

1:31:43Pat McAfee:But I think what he was going to say there is, rap looks fantastic on this Tuesday, I think is what we heard him say. You think? Is that what he was saying? Mm-hmm. That's what we heard. I was saying that. They cut me off right before the end of that, yeah. Wow. AJ, thank you, man. I appreciate that. You're welcome. AJ's called Football Hall of Fame nominee. he's not in that is a good question go ahead AJ Rap Sheet hey we were talking about the Steelers but what about around the league before the season do you see any other big time guys getting traded I know there's talk Kamara, Ayuk, different guys like that are they trade possibilities yeah I would say we'll start with the Ayuk thing first I would like to know more about his kind of like off the field situation.

1:32:30I mean, got a speeding citation yesterday and posted a video of him going around a track. Like, it's not, I don't know. I would like to know more. And he's sort of in a weird place with the 49ers. I know we've talked about this before. We're like, you know, I believe the commanders are interested. I believe the 49ers would like to trade him and I don't see the commanders trading for him. So we're just like in a weird limbo. But, you know, just like with the AJ Brown situation where when the deadline comes, the two teams come together and make a deal. Maybe there's something that I don't see right now that they could come together on a deal.

1:33:05But I do believe he's going to be on the move. Kamara is really interesting to me because so yesterday he just showed up, which normally you'd say like, okay, what's the big deal? It was kind of a surprise appearance. He's on the hook for$11 million. My thought is that the team would like to pay less, but they haven't asked him to take a pay cut to my knowledge. It's just sort of been out there in the ether. So he did, he kind of just showed up. And I don't know if it's to force their hand or to be like, let's deal with this now. But if he is free, like I think he'll, you know, get a job and be a, you know, big time back for somebody.

1:33:45Pat McAfee:They bring in Travis A. Chan. Yep. Right? They bring in. Pay a lot for him. They pay a lot for him. Alvin Kamara immediately comes out and says like, people think I have beef about this. It's like, no, you need a good backfield. Like he said the things about like being a part of a great backfield down there. We would obviously love to see Kamara on a contender. Okay. That would be cool to see because how much fun he is as a football player. But I don't think he has indicated anything that he wants to leave New Orleans, right? No. Opposite. I mean, I, so he came out, I forget what the quote, it was kind of funny.

1:34:14It was like, when I'm not playing for the Saints, I'll be like sipping daiquiris or something, which people think about daiquiris as like the frozen daiquiris, but there's actually another drink that's just like a daiquiri that's actually really delicious. Most people don't know that. But I think that's what he was really thinking about. But anyway, he said he wants... What are you talking about? If you just drink a daiquiri, not like a frozen daiquiri, you know when you go to a resort and you get like a daiquiri and they give you like the big ice drink? Do you want it frozen or do you want it on the rocks?

1:34:43Is that what you're saying? I want it on the rocks. I don't want it frozen. A regular daiquiri is like a really good drink. Just like a margarita. Oh, so you just want like the booze cocktail on the rocks. Yeah, you don't want the full...

1:34:52Pat McAfee:I don't want the like Yeah. I'm with you. Live a little. Why not? You don't want to, when you're looking at the water and it's 100 degrees and you're kind of scorching hot, you don't like pick that up, see a little bit of a chill on the hand and then you kind of do the entire thing. You'd rather they melt it and ice in it. I'm out on that. That's a shitty looking daiquiri. Dude, try Miami Vice. That was awful. Get a Miami Vice. Miami Vice was great with frozen. And then you can even get a spoon. I like that. Oh. Yeah. No, no, no. A spoon. What? Is this dessert? Yeah. Yeah. You're on vacation. It's not like a snow cone.

1:35:22Mudslide? So you guys like frozen margaritas more than margaritas? Yeah.

1:35:28Pat McAfee:Actually, strawberry marg. You give me frozen, and I want sugar around the top if we're doing this entire thing. How hot out is it? I don't know that my wife was watching this, but I'm just going to read you the text that she sent me. Okay. Lime, rum, and simple syrup. Take out the trash. Yeah. That is exactly it. What? How many times do I have to tell you? Take out the trash. That is my job, but I'm on it. I doubt it. We know the way your house works. You're not picking up a trash bag. Yeah, right. You have no idea how to even pull the strings on that thing. Yeah, exactly. How did he get this thing out of here?

1:36:01He picked it up one time with Uwe.

1:36:02Pat McAfee:Yeah, you know the one that has like the, obviously got a step on it so it was, and the garbage bag is like wrapped around the inside of the thing. Those ones are difficult. Difficult, because your little fingy, you're going to get your fingies. There's no way he's ever. No, not a chance. Leo, how do you? Max, come on. Dude, what'd you do? So offensive. I see the bag. I don't know how to remove the bag. That actually can be tricky. I mean, that can be tricky because you got the thing and you got a lift and it's a whole thing. Oh, so you're saying you're trying to prove that you have done this before.

1:36:34Pat McAfee:We know you've never taken out the trash in your life. I'm just saying like not everybody could do it, but I can do it. Picked up the can and threw the whole thing out. We put a lawnmower in front of you? Any way you could get that fucker on? Like will you switch it on or you got to do the like? Oh, yeah. He's not cracking on. I've tried. No, I've tried. It's a disaster. Yeah, I can imagine. I can't even joke. I've tried. It's not happening. That grass is going to be long, long, long. Yeah, okay. So you can't turn on a lawnmower, let alone even the choke. If we were to mention a choke right there.

1:37:08Pat McAfee:You've got to prime it. Yeah, I did choke, actually. You know, just like the classic stories. Like, there'll be a tire thing. Okay, pumping gas. You pump gas? Electric car. So. Plug it in. Drive? I put the thing in myself. That's easy. Put it right in the garage. Okay, so we know you don't lift that garbage bag up. No. His wife grills. And she also shovels. And we told her all this at the owners' meetings. We said, you are an absolute saint to be dealing with this guy. Yeah. And she interestingly did not dispute that. No, she didn't. I thought it was kind of rude. Well, she kind of knows that you're kind of just like a pampered little thing.

1:37:44Well, at that point, she had him slung over her shoulder, too, because she had to go take him to bed.

1:37:48Pat McAfee:Yeah. It was like Ace Ventura. Yeah.

1:37:56Pat McAfee:Leo, you're the best. Okay, let's do it back to football. Should I go ahead and conquer? Yeah, rap sheet. Right now, Christian Gonzalez is not at camp. I believe he is planning on showing up. It isn't anything mandatory. Are we kind of a few days, maybe weeks away from him being the highest paid cornerback in the NFL? I think they still have 30-plus in cap space after the A.J. Brown trade. Should we anticipate that happening before the season? Before the season, I think there's a good chance. The next couple of days, I have not heard that. And, you know, this is sort of a weird time of year where we take attendance on players showing up to things that are voluntary.

1:38:34And what teams do, which I think is great, is they take pictures of their players when they show up. And then if they haven't over the next week or so, they just don't take any pictures. So we think that everyone shows up, but it's voluntary. That said, Gonzalez has not been there. Like I imagine he is going to get a huge deal. I imagine the Patriots will make it work. I just don't know that it's going to be imminent. Now he is a, I mean, he is a great player and he deserves all of the dollars. It's just a matter of kind of when that thing can get done and I guess how high.

1:39:08Pat McAfee:All right. last question from me to you rap sheet is uh next thursday june 11th we'll be hosting our first event that'll be able to be exclusively traded on the draft kings predictive markets or draft kings super apps free to play ladies and gentlemen rap i can't wait to get your early thought on who you think will win or who you think will lose in honor of family feud and steve harvey being an Absolute legend. We will be playing program feud. Now, in family feud, obviously, 100 people are surveyed. Survey says you get the entire thing. Top six answers on the board. Do that. We had Qualtrics survey over 1 ,300 sports fans.

1:39:55Pat McAfee:The answers to the questions in the polls are only known by Qualtrics and myself and Evan Fox, who I will be hosting. Foxy will be cutting the cameras behind the scenes. representing our program will be Tung Diggs, A.J. Hawk, the Toxic Table at Boston Corner and Ty Schmidt, and Darius J. Butler will be the captain of the Pat McAfee Show team and program feud, and then NFL Live, fresh off a back-to-back Emmy Award-winning years. Laura Rutledge will be the captain of Dan Orlovsky, mina kimes shefty and shrags as they travel out to the thunderdome for program feud which is available to be traded or free to play right now on draftings now here is the country's map okay if we're to get to it available for trading if you're lit up in green and then in black you'll be doing a free to play but everybody in the united states of america is able to predict or trade on if they think we and by we i mean the boys because i'll be hosting i will not be a part or NFL Live will win program feud.

1:41:07Pat McAfee:These are sports questions, not just NFL questions. Fans obviously give the answers. This is all real? Yes, 100 % real. Has to be. Literally the amount of lock and key for all these things because I am host and I am not a part of it. Because if people are trading on it, which they actually are, Qualtrics had to lock this down. We got an entire system in place that we had to showcase that we were going to be able to do that the boys don't know what questions are coming. but they're questions that sports fans give answers to and then the teams will be trying to match them just like in Family Feud.

1:41:40Pat McAfee:There'll be a$50 ,000 donation, which is$10 ,000 for each player to the winning team and then the winning team will get a chance to double that with fast money at the end, obviously. We got a big time and you can trade on that right now, Rap, or free to play on the DraftKings Super Rap. Who do you early lean towards, Rap, if you had to guess? Are you kidding me? You want me to pick NFL Iver, you guys? For a program feud. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Team Pat McAfee show, let's go. That a boy, Junior. You're going to kind of piss off Senior. You kind of picked against Senior there. I kind of love that.

1:42:16You're my Senior rep. It is what it is.

1:42:18Pat McAfee:It is what it is. You've got to take a stance in life. I'm rolling with you guys. Let's go. Okay. We'll see if it's the right decision. If the boys are able to get the job done, I hope so. But I also know the other side over there, big brains. Big, big brains. Too big. Big talent. Orlovsky's an idiot. Well, that might be good for the 1 ,300-plus sports fans that were polled. Remember, this isn't about getting the right answer. It's about getting the answer that most of the fans got. Yeah, but he's an out-of-touch idiot. Yeah, we know his food takes. We know he takes. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Ian Rappaport.

1:42:46Pat McAfee:Yeah, Rappaport. That's not a good combo. You guys might walk in here and get your asses beat. The rest of them are too smart. And then, yeah, Dano's an out-of-touch idiot. Okay, you're saying a lot of things right here. You know, wrestling, whenever you talk about your opponent, you're supposed to put them up so that whenever you beat them, it looks good. You guys lose to these out-of-touch idiots, guess what? You embarrass the whole fucking thunder. No, you did a plural thing there. There was only one of those. The rest of them are too smart. Yeah, Arlowski's a bitch, dog. We're taking his ass out first.

1:43:20I know one thing. Jeez. If they go on to double money, which they won't, but if they do, Dano ain't doing it.

1:43:27Pat McAfee:Can you put the graphic back up? Because that will be the matchups. it will be Darius taking on Miss Laura obviously you know up in the front there where I'll be doing my best Steve Harvey impression asking a question a board will be behind us we got a full set that has been built massive sets have been built for this we're gonna hey second hour of the entire program is gonna be this battle I think it'll be a fun obviously time for the people that are watching as well just like whenever you watch Family Feud you find yourself trying to get what the answer is these are all sports related questions and topics and polls that took place Darius will take on Miss Laura.

1:44:01Pat McAfee:Connor and Dan Orlovsky. Win. Ty takes on Mina. Okay, here we go. A.J. Hawk, Ohio State, taking on Shifty of Michigan. And then Tone Diggs and Shrags will do battle at the end. The Bunker brothers? I mean, yes, exactly. I don't love that. You're hitting us against each other. The Bunker boys are going to have to do some battle over there. So that will be next Thursday, June 11th. We hope that you'll, you know, kind of get in on the action responsibly. Responsibly. But it's available nationwide to say who you think is going to win program feud. We are excited about that. Am I allowed to Pete Rose's thing?

1:44:35What? Can I trade on our team because I think we're going to win?

1:44:38Pat McAfee:So I think like boxing, you know, those guys always bet on themselves. That's kind of been the history. Oh, yeah. I think you're probably not allowed to bet. Okay, good to know. If I had to guess. That is good to know. It's been a lot of, I'm going to be honest, have had to do a lot of answering of questions on who has the answers. Who knows? And I have to let everybody know. And the truth, actual. Me, Foxy, Qualtrics. Yep. This has to be on the up and up. This isn't a, I mean, this is a real deal thing here. And we would like this to succeed. Yes. So we are trying our absolute best and we are very pumped that people are able to kind of get in on the action.

1:45:10Pat McAfee:I would like to see the early numbers, you know, because trading here, two options. This is the predictive market world. And, you know, you kind of invest and then you can sell at a different time. I do fear that there's a chance that you guys are going to get a little bit more of the action than the NFL Live folks. which then kind of, you know, automatically makes them the underdogs. And then when they're the underdogs, people might cash in on beating you, boy, that's pretty good. And I don't like that. They won't. As long as AJ is a team player, we'll be fine. What's that supposed to mean? I'm the ultimate team.

1:45:40Because we're all going to be like, hey, do we want to steal? Yeah, we want to steal. And, like, we have this really good answer. And then you'll walk up and say, like, bazoongas. Poop. You got to remember, AJ actually has been on Family Feud. That's true. That's true. We got skunked. We got zero points. Is that well? Shit. Hey, listen, we'll see if that's the case next Thursday. 380 to 0, I believe. Jeez Louise. Christ. Well, hopefully the NFL. We did not perform the way we thought we would. Are you playing with Favre? Well, hopefully.

1:46:06Pat McAfee:Wow. All right. Hopefully that was a compliment because Favre would be representing the NFL and be a part of that team is what we meant there, obviously. Yes, of course. That's what we meant by that entire thing. Holy hell. But good luck to you, lads. Thank you. Obviously, you're representing the program. And thank you and good luck to the NFL Live folks that are traveling out here 1 o 'clock Eastern, June 11th. Program feud. I can't wait to see what the numbers say. Yeah, I'm excited. On who's doing what. On DraftKings, available now. Hashtag DKPartner.

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1:47:25Pat McAfee:Now, ladies and gentlemen, it's the end of our week. We'll be off tomorrow as the baseball has a lot happening. We'll run a song at the very end, obviously, as we found out earlier that we made one of these weeks ago, which is obviously classic. But it's the end of our week, and obviously we want to celebrate sport in a beautiful fashion. Some people have highlights. We have things that aren't ass. Hell yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, let's dive into some sports stuff that has happened in the past week that we don't believe our ass at all. Let's start at Morgantown, West of Virginia. Armani Guzman.

1:48:00Pat McAfee:Hey! Hits one in and a half hit. Bottom of the 10. Runner comes home. West Virginia Mountaineer baseball team. After getting pegged with the ball there at second. West Virginia Mountaineer baseball team and all of Morgantown, West Virginia go crazy as the baseball team advances into the Super Regional against Cal Poly tomorrow in Morgantown, West Virginia. The tarps are off. The state showed up. And the singing was loud. Life is lower than the trees. Younger than the mountains. Glowing like a breeze. Country roads. Taking home. To the place. I belong. West Virginia! Oh, hey, that's loud. That is loud.

1:48:57Pat McAfee:That is packed. I guess there's a hill out here that's just like open seating, whatever, and the entire city has basically come down to the stadium. So we're pumped that that's taking place. Steve Sabins, the coach of West Virginia, after Mazie retires and flips that entire organization, has them buzzing. They take on Cal Poly tomorrow at noon, AJ. Noon o 'clock. Obviously a lot of baseball this weekend. Nice to see you. John Denver, does his estate get residuals for every time this is sung after games? There's no reason to even ask that question. Because I thought, we don't want to kind of sound any alarms.

1:49:35Come on now, this is a beautiful thing that happens a lot at a lot of sporting events. I'm just hoping the estate, his family is being taken care of.

1:49:43Pat McAfee:I hope so, too. I certainly do. And I hope their state understands that John Denver is bringing happiness to an already happy event. And that's what John Denver is all about. This is the Monongalia County Baseball Complex right there, brought to you by the Kendrick family, which obviously we're very appreciative of. Also not asked, how about Dayton Talkie? Okay, this guy had quite a little bit of a run here. Dayton Talkie, and boom! Yep, he hits himself right in the balls. He goes bat, ball, two balls. He obviously is in some pain. We all look at him and we go, oh, no. This guy laughing a little bit.

1:50:21Pat McAfee:Been there, bud? That's what he's saying. He certainly got it. Let's fast forward a little bit, shall we? Walk off, home run, bottom of the 10th. Taki, after getting his balls smocky. It's an absolute dong to win it. Congrats to Taki, honestly. From the lowest of lows to the longest of balls. This guy's doing it. Shout out to him. That's not us at all in baseball time. No, it's not. And you know what? That's karma. You can't get caught on camera laughing at a guy when he thinks he's going to lose maybe his twig or a couple of his giggle berries. It was kind of just destiny. It was written in the stars that later on he was going to get an opportunity and he was going to do something with it.

1:51:03Oklahoma with a massive upset of Georgia Tech.

1:51:05Pat McAfee:You want to talk about massive upsets? Let's talk about McCoy's sniffing. Okay, at St. Mary's. Bottom of the 10th. Look at that. Gets number one UCLA. UCLA hits it out to the left field. Who's he driving? Oh, Cody Kashimoto as St. Mary's knocks off number one UCLA. There was a lot of that, which I think is potentially why West Virginia is hosting the Super Regional because a lot of the higher-ranked teams have gotten lost. But that's baseball, baby, and that's not us at all, Todd. No, not us at all. This is one of the biggest upsets in the history of college baseball. UCLA hadn't lost a series all year, and I believe they either tied or broke the single-season win streak record.

1:51:40So, yeah, no one anticipated this happening. and good on St. Mary's.

1:51:43Pat McAfee:That's certainly not ass. Let's go to Japan, shall we, AJ? I saw Sibu Lions infielder Natsuo Takazawa this weekend, and I'll tell you what, that's not ass at all. Look at this guy flying around the infield. He would be the equivalent of Bobby Witt Jr.? Is that what we've got going on here in Japan? Yeah, certainly you could say that. I mean, just everywhere on the diamond, second base, shortstop, making throws deep in the hole. You could say Bobby Witt Jr., maybe mixed with Derek Jeter. I don't know how this guy's not playing in the bigs. We would love to have Natsuo Takazawa on the Pittsburgh Pirates, even though we already got Conor.

1:52:16Pat McAfee:Pair him up with Conor Griffin. We obviously have a World Series pennant coming home. But maybe Natsuo just likes kind of doing it back at home. Yeah, probably. And Natsuo, we love what you're doing. We also love whenever Jose Siri here, Grand Slam Siri says, I don't think so. Saves the buffet. Beautiful buffet. It was a Grand Salami robbed while the buffet was saved. And then Jose Siri said, the world wanted to see a Grand Slam, huh? And I said, I don't think so. Well, why don't we go to the next day where Siri, bases Juice, bottom of the third, Grand Slam Siri robs a Grand Salami, saves a buffet.

1:52:59Pat McAfee:Next night, hits a Grand Slam, has a buffet of joy. Love everything that he's doing. in baseball providing some magical moments, Ty. Yeah, without a doubt. You don't see that happen very often. And boy, I'll tell you what, the amount of people who would have been pissed if that bolognese would have went flying in the air if you wanted to rob that Grand Slam. You need a good bolognese. You need a good bolognese. You need a good red sauce. And Jose Sirius said, yeah, nuh-uh. I'm not going to let these people who paid a bunch of money get their day ruined. Let's talk about not being ass. Let's talk about somebody that carries around a big one.

1:53:29Pat McAfee:Huge. Ladies and gentlemen, a man with a wagon, both on his shoulders and his caboose. Scadaboo, all the way back, boom, is he going to be healthy? I think so. That's not ass at all. A lot of people are saying, hey, Scadaboo, what the fuck? 61 offensive lineman even goes, hey, Scadaboo, what are you doing? But after what we saw Malik Neighbors do at this particular Brian Burns celebrity softball game, and what we saw Scadaboo do, we'd say what we saw Neighbors do, not great. Hopefully he gets healthy. Scadaboo, that's not ass at all. No. And he's going ass over a teat killer. That's right. Yeah.

1:53:58Pat McAfee:Congratulations, Scadaboo. And those are five things that weren't ass. Run it. And that was five things that aren't asked. Served up pretty fast. Do something sweet. We'll raise our glass.

1:54:18That's good. Good jingle.

1:54:19Pat McAfee:All right. That's a show. We're going to hit tonight, hopefully. Let's enjoy the hell out of these finals. Let's enjoy the hell out of sports. Obviously, the Super Regionals are all over the TV for tomorrow. We'll be enjoying that as well. Have an incredible weekend. We'll be back on Monday live from Bristol. Before we have NBA Finals all access on ESPN2 for the NBA Finals. That's AJ. He's going into the Hall of Fame. I'm Pat. I'm not. We'll see you then. Bye. Nailed it. I think we got it. Got it. Maybe not the bye. See you then, though. We hit that. Yeah. Five things that aren't ass song. Good to hear that.

1:54:51Can you run that again, Fox, just in case? Tucker Mitt singing.

1:54:54Pat McAfee:And that was five things that aren't ass. Boom. Served up pretty fast Do something sweet We'll raise our glass

1:55:09Pat McAfee:Like there was more was there? Five things that are dance Served up pretty fast Chorus comes in. Yeah Do something sweet We'll raise our glass

1:55:27AJ?

1:55:28Pat McAfee:Good. AJ, when, if we would have been doing it. I don't know the rest of it. We just fucking said it. It's kind of. We said the whole thing. I thought there was more. I thought there was more lyrics. No, you know how this goes. You know how these things go. Repetition. On Spotify right now, Program Music. Go check it out. You can find that we have a bit of a trend.

1:55:48Pat McAfee:And that was Five Things That Aren't Eyes served up pretty fast do something sweet we'll raise our glass

1:56:06Pat McAfee:now from the non-ass department to the full-ass department ladies and gentlemen it's time to hop on the train and go choo-choo to the oh no let's go to the UFL we say that a lot a man who has contributed a lot to sports which we certainly appreciate. Dave Hoffman out there. This man was, yep, there he is. This man on the sideline, look below, Louisville King player, Columbus Aviator player maybe, comes flying into cameraman on shoulder. Obviously had a ground behind him where he could potentially hit his head. Instead he's blowing kisses to another camera as he's getting taped up with blood all over him.

1:56:44Pat McAfee:Dave, we appreciate your contribution to the sport. Hell yeah, Dave. But as you're getting trucked, we can't help but go, Oh, no! Let's stay in the Los Angeles Angels outfield. Angels in the outfield. Shall we? We had the series story. We do that. Let's go for an oh no with Joe. No Adele. Office dome, home run. Now, this is starting to happen a little bit more regularly than I could have ever expected. But anytime you see something like this happen, you can't help but say, is that Joe? No Adele. Yeah, you can go from the penthouse to the shithouse. Pretty sweet. You can remember earlier in the season, this guy robbed three home runs in one game.

1:57:24And this is about as routine of a fly ball as you can get, but it turns into a dinger.

1:57:28Pat McAfee:Hey, that's baseball. Every once in a while, they're going to make you say, oh, no. It's going to carry North Carolina, shall we? TST, executive vice president, editor, chair, studio show, Mike Foss. Some call him Fist. Bang! Bang! Bang! That was his first two seconds on the field for the entirety of the TST. That was obviously an elimination round. And in that exact moment, Foss also ripped his adductor completely off the bone. So not only did he hip check a guy and receive a yellow card, okay, he also ripped something off of his bone, of his leg, where he will be rehabbing that probably for the next six to seven months.

1:58:06Pat McAfee:And when he sees something like this, you go, that's pretty cool. And then whenever he drops down into full pain and understands that the next six months of his life is going to be spent, he can't help but say, oh, no, Foss. Best part about this is... Far so no! Best part about this is that thing was barely hanging on by a thread before he even went to play in that game. Yeah, that's why he didn't play any other minute other than the one you just saw right there. And in that exact moment, he ripped it off the bone, caught a yellow card, and a body. Now, we do think that is cool. But for him, with all the amount of effort and time he put into this fucking thing...

1:58:46Yeah.

1:58:47Pat McAfee:We're sorry, bro. We just want to say it was a hell of a run, a hell of a check. Went out on the shield. Team needs a gaffer. Word on the street. He'll be healthy for next year's time. No, no, no. I don't know. That's a lot of time down there. That's a lot of effort just to get your heart broken and then something ripped off your body. I experienced it. Yeah, you did. Faso loves Baldo. And that Gene Fit team, it was an honor to watch them play. They'll be back. Then we followed along all the way to the final. There's been a team at TST for a while called Pumas. We've obviously seen them. We've watched them.

1:59:24Pat McAfee:We've become fans. They've never been able to win it. They make it back to the finals. And what happens? Oh, empty net. All you got to do is pass it in.

1:59:36Pat McAfee:Oh, no.

1:59:40Pat McAfee:The other team would obviously go on to score on the immediate possession following there. because not only did they miss, which they would have missed by more, but it was hit by the defender. It was a slide tackle, not allowed. It was also hit by the defender, okay? So it should have been a corner. They should have kept possession. Instead, the other team is given the ball, and they go down and score immediately afterwards. Puma's heartbroken, and you're out of a million, once again, making everybody say, Oh, no! The TST tournament's awesome, though, AJ. It is spectacular. I enjoyed watching it from home this year, more than even being down there, I think, H.

2:00:14Well, they figured it out. They figured soccer out. Like the quick play, the whole, what do you call it? What do you call it? Seven on seven target goal time. Target time. Target goal is amazing.

2:00:23Pat McAfee:A walk-off goal every single time. Yep. Whenever you get to the end of the game, seven on seven game, you get to target goal time, and it's basically just one goal more than the team that's in the lead is the target goal. So every team is in it. There's been three, four goal comebacks in target time, and every three minutes they're taking a player off the field. So that was down to 2-on-2 right there. That target goal time was down to 2-on-2. And obviously, when you're in that exact moment, there's a chance for a goal. Oh, no! It's a million bucks for the team out the window. They're going to have to come back next year.

2:00:57Pat McAfee:Okay, let's move on to celebrity softball games up there in New England. Mayday, classic. The whole city was out, including Matt Reif, obviously an incredible comedian. Overthrow, Matt Reif heady enough to say, I might be able to steal a base here. Wait, I'm going a little bit too slow. Let me turn around. Gets caught in a rundown. Oh, no, no, it's a rundown. Ramon J. Steele. Oh, geez. Gets taken out. Matt Reif want to get on base. I'm surprised they didn't start beating his ass. Reif wasn't close to the – he wasn't even close to the base. Not even close. I think how are you supposed to know where it was whenever there's three different guys in the middle of a rundown or professional athletes?

2:01:30Pat McAfee:Matt Reif was trying to dig it out down there, second base. I don't like that any of this happened. But if I'm a Patriots fan, I'm scared to death. And as I'm watching him kind of get his knee blown, and I'm going, oh, no. Is everything going to be okay? Because there's a chance if he had cleats on and that thing sticks and he gets rolled up, you actually look at yourself and you go, oh, no. And then if Rife gets on base, you think to yourself, wow, the guy's safe and he's blown out. Oh, no. But instead, it was a great fall. It was a great effort. And we walk away unscathed. And the May Day Classic was good with no, oh, no's, right?

2:02:06Yeah, it was fantastic. $94 ,000 raised for Boston Children's Hospital. This is disgusting. Matt Reif, I am so sorry, but you need to now match that$94 ,000 to the Boston Children's Hospital if you want to get back in good graces with most of New England. I know a lot of people weren't happy with this, but thank God Ramondre Stevenson's okay.

2:02:23Pat McAfee:Matt Reif is just locked in on trying to get an extra base. Sure. Now, I don't like this at all. I don't like that this is possible, but I do appreciate the amount of people and teammates that showed up for that. That's a huge deal. I like that these are seemingly coming back. They used to be a thing in the past. It felt like it happened on a more regular basis. Now with individual brands and individual position groups kind of doing their own things, it has kind of seemingly let down on the team having big public stuff. JJ used to host one here in India. They used to host one. There used to be big ones.

2:02:49Pat McAfee:I like that that's coming back, AJ. I do like that. That's good team camaraderie shit. It's awesome. Donald Driver used to have one. They played in the AAA Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin every single year. Then Jordy Nelson took it over. I'd assume it's still going on. But honestly, with videos like this coming out, I could see some of these getting shut down real quick. Thanks a lot, Rife. Oh, no. All right, let's go to Ecuador, shall we? Okay, this is Liga Porto Vallejo player. Please don't fall off. Edison Caicedo. And boom, gets run over by the medical court. Okay, he was walking in there pretty free.

2:03:24Pat McAfee:His head crashed. He's pretty good off the top. Bang. But also his legs, obviously, is a situation where everybody's hands go up.

2:03:35Pat McAfee:that's what they're saying there and obviously you got guys still laid out on the stretcher who's certainly going through it he has no idea that we just put another guy in the hospital you're gonna have to move over but like rose on the wood at the titanic we need to get this guy up and on here and out of here so obviously a spectacular event down in ecuador let's hope that doesn't happen in any sports that we watch certainly

2:03:59come on Is this guy fucking drunk? Jesus!

2:04:07I thought the guy was going to roll off the cart. Look at the ref. What the fuck? Yeah, they don't know what to do. That knee buckle. The guy on the cart did look up for one second and then went back to faking his injury.

2:04:19Pat McAfee:I'll tell you what, there's a lot more that you can say, but you certainly start and end with, oh, no! All right, let's go to International Arena League. This is not the one with the Fisher Freight. This is five teams in America, five teams in Europe. This is the Las Vegas Rockers PAT. It's going to get blocked by the Arizona Juggernauts. Jugger face. Helmet off, bang, right off the face. And we're down. And that's what you get for rushing a kick in an arena league game. But there is a terrible timing, and the football gods did not bless this man at all. The back view will give you a better depiction of it.

2:04:53Pat McAfee:He's rushing an arena kick, never happens. Hands to the face, helmets off, boom, boom. Boom! Blocks a kick with his jaw. Hope he's okay. He was obviously hitting the ground. Shut up, bitch! Because so many things could have happened. Instead, he gets blasted in the face. We like the effort. We appreciate the fact if you would give less of it. But as soon as you get blasted in the face, total facial of floor can't help but go, Oh, no! Now, we've been seeing a lot of these home runs that aren't actual home runs. They're kind of outfielders, kind of giving them up. Let's go off a UCF center fielder, Diamas Ross.

2:05:33Pat McAfee:Okay, this is Milwaukee. Hits a big one. Home run. That went over? That went over. Are they losing these in the lights or what? I have no idea. And I think off the glove, off the head, home run, walk it off. He's captain. He's captain. He's captain. That's a tough thing to kind of happen out there. But is this happening more now? Why is this happening more now? I've seen more of these in the last three weeks than I probably have in the last 20 years. I don't know why it's happening more now. I think maybe guys are trying to make a few more web jams. Just make the fucking routine play. If it's a can of corn, just see it in.

2:06:12We don't need to be getting a SportsCenter top 10 because otherwise you're hunting for that and you're finding your ass on Oh No.

2:06:18Pat McAfee:Oh No! That's a one-way trip, brother. Yeah, it is. That's a one-way trip to Oh No. No stop. If you're trying to get onto the highlights, if you're trying to get on gnawed ass, If you're trying to get on SportsCenter with Randy and Gary in the morning, if you're looking to do that, it feels like you probably know this already. You're on a one-way trip down to Oh No! Town. Let's continue with our last one. Baseball has provided us a lot, especially with balls to the head. Florida State's Cal Fisher hits a big ball. Boom! Yeah, I like it. Not only is he going to hit a home run and go ahead and put another ball on board, He's going to hit a guy right in the fucking head.

2:06:58Pat McAfee:Boom! It's a guy watching. Chanticleer relief pitcher, I think that's where the bullpen is back there, gets one right in the face, or the head. Now, how do you not know? Is this not kind of the only thing happening at that exact moment? Chanticleer's guy out to lunch, gets a baseball to the dome, and Florida State's Cal Fisher is officially a menace, Ty Schmidt. Yeah, I mean, none of those guys were really paying attention, other than the guy who was sitting directly to his left. You think he could have been like, hey, heads up, maybe open your eyes. But this is crazy. I mean, you're at a baseball game.

2:07:30They heard it off the bat. It was probably very loud. Sunglasses shattered, it looks like. Yeah, I mean, wake up.

2:07:36Pat McAfee:Break the brim. Can't help but go. Hey, bud. Oh, no. Kyle Fisher, great bat flip. Oh, yeah. That was nasty. Doesn't even know that he's about to blast a dude in the face and break his sunglasses. There's no idea on the bat flip. I mean, just get out of my face. From the barrel. Throws it from the barrel. Yeah, I like that. Also, I like the two. Oh, man. Yeah, that's a tough spot. That guy has a baseball on top of his head now. It's going to be huge. And probably a scratch here because of sunglasses. Yep. He needs to buy new sunglasses as well. Because he's standing on the outfield fence and doesn't know a home run's happening.

2:08:14Pat McAfee:Jeez. Guy next to him almost caught a little ricochet shot, too. He's the only one paying attention. Huge arms. That guy's jacked, yeah. Huge arms. Must be security. He's supposed to be securing people from people, not balls, obviously. Give a heads up or something to your buddy. Well, none of them are paying any attention. I don't know if they're buddies, though. Far right guy might just be security for the area. The Chanticleers are seemingly the other four that are there. That might be their bullpen. Guy with the sleeve looks like he's super cool. Yeah, he's jock. Far right guy's a bench press master.

2:08:44Look at him.

2:08:45Pat McAfee:Yeah, I think he's security. I don't know if he's with the Chanticleers. I think he is potentially just kind of running ops there. He's protecting the entire field so that attention guy doesn't get on the field. I think the other four Chanticleers kind of checked out. Guy far left looks like he's got a mouthful of something. Yep. He's a straw. Maybe gum. Seeds. Sure. Taking one peek at that guy, his age, his beard, the way he's wearing his hat. That fucking guy's got a baseball in his mouth, and it ain't gum. It's jaw. Yeah. Looks like they're having a good old day out there. A little, they know, Cal Fisher said, let me fuck a road up for you guys real quick.

2:09:24Pat McAfee:And that was, oh, no! All right, so program feud next Thursday, June 11th. Can't wait for that. Hour two of this program on ESPN will be us taking on, not us, sorry, the boys I will be hosting. The boys taking on NFL Live. Cannot wait for this. Excited. Hope this does good. Yes, yes. Very pumped for this. Shout out to Family Feud. Obviously, Steve Harvey has made that thing into the global sensation that it is. We will have sports fans who are polled giving us the points and the answers. And it was over 1 ,300 sports fans. We're going to go through Qualtrics, which is obviously a polling and survey company owned by Ryan Smith based out of Utah.

2:10:05Pat McAfee:So we got this thing really tight. The boys, I think, are confident because obviously that is kind of how they operate. I assume the NFL live crew is just used to winning stuff. No doubt. They're coming in here with a lot of confidence, a lot of marks. You can't lose a game. Is there any way to prepare for this? No. I don't know. You do what you need. I can't be helping. Tap in, AJ. Tap in. Yeah. You can't get much worse than the last time you did it, so you're good. You're right. Show up. I know. That's what I'm saying. Tonight, we're betting on American skaters. Damn right. Yeah, we are. Because we're on American ice, aren't we?

2:10:41Yes, we are. We are.

2:10:43Pat McAfee:United Skates of America. Jackie Aces to record a point. What's up, AJ? I love the picture.

2:10:52Pat McAfee:What? Just go on. Tell us more about what you like so much. I just love it. I love it. Ty's taking a face-off, right? Yes. Trying to win it. Thank you. We're showcasing it's hockey. I'm receiving a pass. He's doing a face-off. Nick's hitting a clapper. This is, hey, it's hockey. We're doing hockey. I love it. I don't like what you're doing right now. Are you a lefty hockey player? I actually got a flat stick like Sidney Crosby, flat blade, so I'm lefty and righty. I'm like whenever I play tennis, got two forehands. That's basically what I am in hockey. But I have found myself as an adult going to the left a lot more.

2:11:30Pat McAfee:Clap bombs too? I think I hit a better clap bomb righty. It's kind of like baseball. I got a better baseball swing lefty, but I don't have anywhere near the power. Hockey's the same thing. I think I got better dangles lefty. Sure. But I think if I got to put it on the net, I'm flipping it over to the right. Something I haven't seen before, really. Use a flat stick. That's the reason. Yeah. Now, these sticks are autographed by people, and we had to get rid of those so they don't think they were disrespecting. Okay, good. Never. Because I noticed that as I put it down and take the face off. Yeah, but we covered the autograph.

2:12:01Okay, perfect.

2:12:02Pat McAfee:But that's not your autograph if you're thinking that's your autograph. Different stick. Yeah, we got different sticks from your autograph. Yeah, we got a bunch of them over there. So many autographs. Yeah. thankful no of course of course let's go here we go boys Jackie here we fucking go boys let's go go Steve come on boys let's go boys here we go boys here we go boys fucking go boys never forget this is also online yeah it is fucking a couple ice cubes and a Yeti there Jesus it is yeah it is That's the cap port. Get some super glue or something up there. So easy, isn't it? Sitting in your fucking high horse in that attic in Ohio.

2:12:49Balls are meant to bounce, bro. So easy. So easy. I mean, it's a nice trophy, but it doesn't hold a candle to the floor.

2:12:59Pat McAfee:This is what it's all about right now. Bingo. Yeah. Okay. Lock in. What about the World Cup? Where's the World Cup trophy? It hasn't started yet. Seven days away. It's very soon. everybody needs to know this fucking World Cup is going to sneak up and bite us before we even know it. One week. The World Cup one looks very similar to the Larry O.

2:13:20So we can count. It's about all

2:13:22Pat McAfee:the fucking trophies. Yep. Okay, these two though they're going for right now. These are the baby versions. The juniors, if you will. Exactly. The seniors are what we're hunting. The crown is what we're chasing. And this weekend Let's have the greatest weekend of all time before doing something rather historic on Monday. Okay, let's do this thing good on Monday. Let's do the NBA Finals All Access good on Monday. Let's represent for sport. Yeah. Let's enjoy this life. Hell yeah. We can't thank all of you. Good job, AJ. Enough. Because of you. We're allowed to piece together these ridiculous things that we're hoping to hit on DraftKings.

2:14:07Pat McAfee:So much fun actually having these horses in the race every single night. Big time. Now, granted, it's not a guarantee. We can certainly lose. But we appreciate the fact that us and you can experience all this shit together. We are very grateful for you. We appreciate the hell out of you. And we will see you on Monday as we're live from Bristol. And then we're heading down to New York. Let's enjoy this life. Be kind to each other, you know? Got a lot of shit going on in this world. Sports are the greatest. They bring everybody together and also provide an opportunity for celebration and heartbreak.

2:14:47Pat McAfee:You really get a chance to fully live around sports. And the fact that we're a tiny little piece of it is only because you all let us. Great week back there behind the glass, boys. Way to go. Good job, boys. Good job up there, boys. Graphic design, boys. Good job. Good job, boys. Good work, boys.

2:15:09Pat McAfee:way to go

2:15:13Pat McAfee:way to go way to go way to go way to go college football fame nom anything to say no not even to all of you I jumped it I gotcha and we got you yep be your friend tell your friends have a nice and much change your life we're interesting together to all the guests that stopped by this week thank you so much for your time for all the conversations they were incredible hopefully we'll do better next week probably not though have the greatest weekend of all time we can't thank you all enough we love

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2:16:30The Stanley Cup Final on ABC is more than a quest for the cup. It's 134 years of putting it all on the line and the heaviest 35 pounds ever lifted. It's broken curses and broken hearts. But for those chasing it, it's everything. The only question is, who will take it? You just have to watch the Stanley Cup Final presented by GEICO on ABC and the ESPN app.