PMS 2.0 1589 - LIVE From the NFL Flag Championships, LeBron Signs With the 76ers, Colts Owner/CBO Kalen Jackson, Bills GM Brandon Beane, Tedy Bruschi, & AJ Hawk

20:08You know, combine for 40 years and hopefully longer than that. And the Super Bowl, I mean, you name it. And hopefully the draft at some point will be on our list of trying to get that here. And I'm not surprised that it's going as well as it is. And the weather's been incredible. It's just been really cool to see. I mean, at all ages, like there's 8U. We have an 8U team playing actually from Indy with Colts jerseys on at 310. If anyone wants to check it out. Okay, yeah, the 8-year-old's going to be studs. But I was so sad because our two high school representatives, um indiana elite um and lawrence north they lost today so but i know sean was on that team

20:47Pat McAfee:what lawrence north that's when sean yeah well they were the runner-up no it was girls okay but they're the runner-ups no way we lost if we had out here the girls team they were the runner-ups of the state champs here in indiana last year and so um i was bummed but you know they played their hearts out and i'm glad they got to compete so this is acting national championship right That's what we do. But it's also international. Like, we talked to some kids from Spain. Yes. And we have two Germany teams, which for us, you know, we're very excited about with our international marketing over there.

21:15And so it's fun to be able to have two of them here, too.

21:17Pat McAfee:Yeah. And you mentioned all the great events that we host here. And we've been to other cities that host events. Sure. Right? We've been to a lot of them. It's like the humans here just kind of get it. Like, I think people in Indianapolis just kind of get it. You got to remember the Indy 500. And this is Westfield. It's 45 minutes north. It is a different city up here than Indianapolis, I will say. northern part central northern indiana or whatever the case is any 500 is like 350 000 people coming into our state in our city every single year and i feel like the humans that work restaurants the human that works these events like we're used to people coming into the state and i think that's why it all kind of flowing so effortlessly if you will you said it's on the move we're not going to host this next year and every single year or is this because i know they're trying to make it the little or you guys are trying to make it the little league world series basically yeah i mean I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they took it on the road to spread the love like they do with a lot of their tentpole events.

22:08Got it. But, I mean, we hope to. I mean, we hope they have the best experience here and want to come back every year. But, I mean, you know how that goes. But I think that they there's a lot of like cleaning up to do, too, because, I mean, this has been growing so quickly, you know, in the last three years for girls flag in particular in the country. It's gone up like 85 percent. So it's constantly growing and the interest is there. And so I think it'll be interesting to see, you know, how big this becomes. I hope everybody who's here is telling everybody because I think seeing a flag game in person, you don't realize the speed and athleticism that it takes.

22:42And I think it's always super impressive to me. So I think that it kind of speaks for itself if you get to see a game.

22:48Pat McAfee:It's only going to make tackle football better, you know, especially if we're able to reach more people to play. the international growth of it and it being in the olympics i just think is uh such a cool thing for our sport to experience at this stage of our sport at peak right now everybody thinks peak sport biggest league on earth most ratings biggest ratings you name it football is the sport clearly yeah and then all of a sudden it's like actually we got like another football as well that we can just kind of put on top of it it's a perfect like accelerator whenever we could have plateaued i I think, is a sport.

23:20Pat McAfee:I love what I'm seeing here. I really do. And what a sweet event. I do wish the Indiana teams would have been winning. It would have been nice. The eight-year-old Indiana 310 team. They need the win. So, Blue Thunder 317. Let's go. Let's go. No pressure. Blue Thunder. No pressure, eight-year-olds. I thought the elite was going to get it done. I know. It was so close, too. It was so close. It was 16 to 13. I couldn't even guess what the point system is. I should learn more. I'm learning in real life. Okay? Right behind us right here, Cincinnati team. just absolutely cooked somebody for a tud. Congrats to you, AJ.

23:52Pat McAfee:Thank you. The Ohio squad's killing it. Speaking of football, we are just days away from training camp. We're pumped. Last year, man, what a ride. Yeah. What a ride. For you, obviously, personally, family-wise, for all of us like that, but football-wise, what a ride. Number one team in the NFL. Number one team in the NFL. Best offense in the NFL. Defense crushing everything. Then we get an injury to a leg. then we get an Achilles, then we trade, he gets hurt. It's like the injury bug really did just smack the Colts in the mouth. Everybody forgot about those first 10 weeks, I think, by the end of the season that the Colts were a very, very, very, very good football team.

24:31Pat McAfee:You guys seemingly decide, let's run it back. We got the team. And how do we feel? I'm excited the more I think about it. Signing Daniel Jones, great. Alec Pierce, great. Hate that we lost Pittman. I know you do as well. Kenny Moe, I know that's a big loss. But how do you feel going into the season? and what's your guys' perspective year two as owners as opposed to year one as owners. Yeah. Which, by the way, congrats on getting through your first year. Let's go. You and Carly. Yeah, and Casey. Thank you. Well, and like you said, it is our second year. I mean, I think people have known us because they've seen us around.

25:02We've been involved for years. But we also know that people don't know us like they knew our dad, and we've got to earn that trust, you know, and we completely understand that. But we feel really good about it. I mean, I think we know that any decision that you're going to make that's on this level, not everyone's going to agree. And that we understand. But we do want people to know that, you know, that decision was not an easy one. And it wasn't one that was made flippantly. You know, we talked about it for weeks on end. And we would not have run it back if we didn't think that we were confident in our decision.

25:37So we're really excited. I think that, like you said, you look at the start of the season, and, you know, shit happens. Yes. Like, shit happens. A lot of shit, actually. It was horribly unlucky. You know, growing up, we've always talked about the football gods, and they were not on our side last year. But we feel really good about where we're going. I mean, I think with the draft, you know, everyone really feels good about their draft usually after it's done. But we really feel like we created some depth and positions that we needed and players who can play right now. but as we all know too you got to get into camp you know you got to get into camp you got to see

26:10Pat McAfee:what you have and but we're we're pumped listen to you season vet is an owner go ahead aj aj has a question for you yeah i believe you guys opened camp tuesday here i guess heading into camp what are you most looking forward to to watching early on we know there's still yeah football is starting technically but we got a long time until the first regular season game i guess what are you what are you looking forward to the most yeah i mean i think what builds great teams a lot of the times is having competition at every position, and we feel we have that. And so that's always good going into camp.

26:38And it's always really exciting, too, for the fans to kind of watch that competition in real time. As, you know, you've kind of – I know you've talked to Daniel a few times, but he's on pace and, you know, he's on track, and that's obviously something that we're extremely happy about. But as we also know, when you're coming back from a big injury, you've got to get into camp and see how those reps feel and all that. And so we'll leave that up to him and the doctors and see how that progresses. But we're feeling really good about that. But I think it's really the competition piece and seeing how the team comes together.

27:06There's a lot of veteran players that we have that are good leaders, but we have a lot of young players, too, that we feel really good about developing.

27:13Pat McAfee:I just heard a big dong. Did you hear that? Yes. Did you hear it? Yes. Dong. I just heard it. My eyes just rolled in the back of my head. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Of course, I think we're all kind of feeling it. The stars are out here. Yeah. And maybe the greatest. Kaitlin, I am so sorry. right over your shoulder there is an icon. Like, literally, right over your shoulder there's an icon, and he is going to hate that we're doing this, so we're just going to go ahead and just keep the conversation moving. Jeez, I just got clips of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Holy hell! Yeah. It's good to see you, sir.

27:51Pat McAfee:And Mama, great to see you as well. Hall of Famers, both of them. Okay. WWE, it's... Kayla, we don't want to tell everybody that's around us right now, but the fucking Undertaker is... No big deal. Okay. No one flock over here. Oh, yeah. I forgot people are listening. Hey, you're going to have to leave soon, bro. Okay, because the people are going to be coming. Yeah, I just announced it. That's on me. Tone has a question for you. Yeah, I do. I don't know if you have seen recently after the World Cup, but the pesky players, they want their grass again. Have you heard from the league that you're going to have to redo Lucas Oil so that you can roll out the field, have the grass grow, and then roll it back in?

28:27Or what's the situation like with that? Yeah, so, I mean, I know it's been a huge topic of conversation. I actually think the last time I was on the show years ago, we talked about that at the meeting. So it's always been a topic. And player health and safety is always number one. And that's why we redid. That was what was behind redoing our current turf. Oh, the coconut husk. Yes, the coconut husk. But there was tons of research behind what we did. The logistics make it near impossible to do that in Lucas Oil. so we have not heard anything that we'll be having to dig up the actual foundation and build a whole new stadium to do that but you know we'll see what we have to do when it comes to that I mean we always want to make that a priority you know that's always the top priority for us.

29:11The coconut husk is fast

29:12Pat McAfee:Hey it seems like it's going to continue to get louder and louder It does feel like it. Now granted Dr. Stills he's Dr. Stills right? He came on our show and boy you guys got answers for everything. Yeah. They really do. Like, the players, the more. Data. That, hey, we have actual robots, okay, scanning fields throughout the entirety of the season. And you know, some fields in November are a little bit different than they are in September. It's extremely complex. And we watch the videos. I mean, we watch them at owner's meetings. We get reports on that stuff. And we ask questions because we want to make sure we're doing the right thing.

29:45Pat McAfee:Fascinating. Okay, so I know there's a one per club meeting, which is actually like one and a half per club, right? I think it's kind of like the rule. Getting a chance to hear now. Everything? what is, and obviously I miss his ass too, he's awesome, but do you have a different respect for your dad now that you, or does that make sense? Like a different view of what your dad had to do for so long now that you're kind of in the meetings and hearing the things that they're kind of hearing. And also the stewardship for being able to guide a team for as long during the reign in which the NFL had. Like what is kind of your view on your family's history now after being in the rooms where these things are happening and your dad was in for so long?

30:21Yeah, I mean, always have complete respect for him. You know, I think people ask a lot about him, which is lovely. And we're so lucky. You know, I think one of the hardest things about losing somebody is not wanting people to forget him. And, you know, for us, I wake up every day, think about him every morning and all day long. So it's not like the grief goes away. You're just learning how to deal with it and go on. And that's what he would have wanted. And I think that's what's so great about being able to do what we're doing is this was his dream. So I think, yeah, there's a little bit of pressure in the back of our mind.

30:57You know, we want to make him proud in everything that we do. And he taught us very well. And we got to see a lot. And he never hid anything from us. He gave us accessibility as young as high school on what he was doing and why. Things that were very, very, very confidential. And including league meetings, too. You know, I started going right when I got out of college. I was in those rooms. So, like, yes, I'm in those rooms now and he's not there, but he let me be in there with him before that. So, I mean, it's incredible to see, too, the room has changed quite a bit. You know, there's still a good balance of, you know, long-time standing owners who have a lot of historical knowledge, which is really important in keeping our league the way it's always been, but also being innovative and new and bringing in new people I think helps with that, too.

31:43And so the success is looking bright for the league. And I think it's obvious with the most recent reported potential sale that it is a healthy league. And we are honestly very, very, very honored. And every day we do not take this opportunity for granted. I know we say that all the time, but it's not bullshit. It's true. And I feel lucky to be able to do what we do.

32:06Pat McAfee:We're thankful for how you're doing it. You are, you, all three of you, obviously, are handling it very, very well. A lot of pressure, obviously a lot of shit, too. And you just talked about grief. It's like that's literally every moment having to battle through real life stuff while also getting a chance to do a job that like only 32 people on earth have or 31 other groups have. Phenomenal work by you, honestly. Oh, that's very nice. We still have, you know, it's our second year. We have a lot to still prove and show. And we're excited to do that. Are you thinking about, because your dad told us that there's been people in the past in those meetings who hop up on the table and actually get in people's faces and say, what are you going to do, shoot me in the face?

32:45Pat McAfee:Have you thought about maybe that being your thing? Like, hey, how does Kaylin operate in the owner's meeting? Power move. She is. She gets on table. Fiery. Yeah, Carly, you should see what Carly does. Carly actually throws pens at me. Just something to think about to kind of call your own in there. Yeah, I don't know. I'll just think about what my move will be. Flip the table maybe. Yeah. Flip the table. WWE move maybe I should ask him on my way out no but I mean it is funny because you know he was one of those people I think he was talking about himself in some of those instances but at the same time he only got up when he really felt he really had something to say and I think that would be the same for us we have always you know watched and when we have something to say that really we think we can't go without then it will be said but I think this This past year was the first year I presented on flag, actually, at the league meetings for the first time.

33:39And that was great because they wanted us to talk about our Road to 100 campaign because we committed a million dollars to trying to get flag sanctioned here in the state of Indiana. And so to be able to do that was great. It was a moment where I thought he – I wish he could have seen it.

33:53Pat McAfee:He did. He did. Don't worry about that. Connor, I got a question for you. Yeah, another thing you'll see is going to be your sister Carly indicting Adam Vinatieri into the Hall of Fame. Yes. That was really cool. Inducting. Inducting, indicting. I didn't want to correct you, but I knew what you meant. He's Italian. He might be catching an indictment. He probably is. He might shoot a line or something with an arrow somewhere around Cain. I know they have those, probably. But speaking of that, have you talked to your sister just about that process? Yeah, I was. What the speech will be and how pumped are you for her to do that for her?

34:25Yeah, I was there the day he came and told her and talked to us. And if people haven't seen the video, you can tell he's emotional in it. And for us, it was emotional. You know, he said, if, you know, I always planned whenever this happened, I wasn't ask your dad and he's not here. And it just feels wrong to not have your guys' family be the ones who are doing it. And, you know, he was so nice because he was like, Kalen, I would ask all three of you, but they told me I'm only had to have one. And I was like, it's OK. I was like, it's exciting no matter what. And we're just so proud of him. And we can't wait to have a party for him, which I know I'm hoping you'll be at.

35:02Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll be at a free party. It's a – Yeah, yeah. I don't know. There might be a charge this year.

35:08Pat McAfee:Yeah, don't you. Hey, listen. Good idea. No, but it's fun. I mean, you've been to our other ones. It's really fun. It's like a reunion of seeing all our old players. And it's just – it's what it's all about. You know, my dad, his – one of his, like, his meaningful moments where obviously his girls can make him cry on the drop of a hat, his grandkids make him cry on the drop of a hat, and being asked – I'm not kidding. to be the person who inducts you into the Hall of Fame. It's just not a thing that owners are typically asked to do. And it meant a lot to him. It's what he hoped to portray to his players, that he will give them everything he has and anything they need.

35:47And I think the honor of asking somebody to do that, and I think in the video too you saw Carly, she did not know that he was telling her. She didn't know. And you can tell she was kind of shocked and very, very touched. so it'll be a really meaningful moment for sure.

36:02Pat McAfee:We can't wait to celebrate it. Just like we're celebrating flag football right now. This is cool. This is awesome. I don't know how it grows. There's 370 teams here or something like that. In Indiana, we're just getting started, let me tell you. We went from eight teams in 2023, 78 high school teams last year, and it's only going to keep skyrocketing, so we can't wait. Olympics. Manhattan University right here. they got scholarships for women's flag football and he said there's 30 D1 programs out there that they're playing against and then there will be a professional we assume and hope at some point it's like good on you guys creating a whole other avenue for athletes but also spreading the game of ball to more people I'm telling you, talking to those Spain kids I was just like holy hell, that's a long way from Spain coming to Westfield, Indiana No, I didn't say that because I don't know if that works in Spain To be honest, I didn't know what was, like, dialect that I've learned from Rey Mysterio.

37:00Yep.

37:01Pat McAfee:And what I could say to people from Spain. Did you congratulate them on the World Cup victory? No, I didn't. Never. I should have, though. I should have. I should have said Lamin, Yamal won me over. But I just said, muchos gracias at the end. Yeah, that's good. That's safe. I did the conversation with the kid that was speaking all the English, most of it. And then everybody else, oh, bueno, bueno, bueno. And then I went back to the other one. Yeah, yeah. Germany, Spain. Is there Ireland kids here? Yeah, Ireland. There's 12 countries, I think. Do they compete with us? I would imagine we've got to have a head start.

37:29The international competes with each other. Nobody's competing with them. Oh, they don't play Americans? They're playing with each other, I believe. Smart. I think that's right.

37:37Pat McAfee:Smart idea. And then there's an international champ takes on our champ? I don't think so. We don't want to discourage them. So there's 13 champs by the end of this weekend. So the one that will be on ESPN tomorrow, or I'm sorry, on Sunday evening, will be the girls' high school level. We watched their all-star game before the Pro Bowl, and I saw a girl, I was at Cheesecake Factory. It was up on the TV, had no sound, and I was just wondering what it was. They had a caption, and it said, Dan Orlovsky. I was like, all right, let's go. If we take the captions off here, please. We can mute this thing.

38:08Pat McAfee:But I was watching it, and there was a girl making checks, like, in the back end. She was, like, moving. I'm like, whoa. Had that play. Yeah, and then they had the boom-and-a-bang-and-a-pow play, and it was like the sophistication of football that's happening right now is outrageous. And I think for girls, too, I mean, we haven't had an opportunity for them to play our games. So this opens up so many doors and then obviously creates pathways all the way to maybe even working in athletics and all of that. So it's creating so much more than just the game. What was this stat? What was this stat? Athletes.

38:39Pat McAfee:Something. Which one? Women athletes and... Oh, like the percentage of who play. Sea position. Yeah, who go to leadership roles. Yeah. It's real. Well, Rappaport, Sam Rappaport from the NFL. Yeah. I love Sam. We're big fans of her as well. She's a huge part of all of this. She's a Canadian football legend, I think, back in the day. Now she's running a lot of stuff for the NFL. She said something about women that play sports. It's like 85 % or 90 % of the women that end up in C positions at businesses or something like that. So it's an incredible opportunity to continue to build that. And I don't know if that's the right percentage.

39:18Pat McAfee:somebody's gonna check me on that. It sounds... It was absurd. I was sitting there. You didn't say it like you were absolutely certain. Yeah, just context needs to be added whenever that is. Big time play. Big time play. I mean, what a play. We didn't see. Almost a pick six. Oh, it was a drop pick. Foxy said it was on the screen. That's gonna happen. Get back up. Next play. Hey, that's the toughness, by the way. Mental toughness, dealing with failure, moving on. These are all things that sports can teach you that really life doesn't. So I'm happy that sports are growing, happy football is growing, and thank you for being a massive piece of it.

39:54Pat McAfee:And thank you for wearing that hat that I definitely knew existed for jams. Yep. You sent it to me, right? Yeah. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, Kalen Jackson. Thank you, guys. Kalen, thank you. That is so cool. That is so cool. Thank you. So, so, so cool. Thank you. Appreciate it. There you go, Tone. Big time hugs for the team. Big time hugs. We go from the owner of Indiana. Team, thank you, team. Thank you over there, team. Mr. Jackson, you look incredible. Hey, we need that one fit. You know what I'm talking about. Need that. Home opener. Need you. What is it? One of his friends is of Indian descent, so he went to an Indian wedding.

40:44Pat McAfee:and we saw him immediately after some Hall of Fame thing and he came directly from that wedding. So Kalen has this beautiful Indian dress. That is correct. I believe, yeah. I didn't want to. What's that? I think it's called a sari, but I. Whatever. It was what she was wearing. The office taught me about it. Obviously, that dress is phenomenal. And then he was right next to her in full Indian garment. The way it looked was just. That would be awesome. Because her dress was just so nice that it's him He's not supposed to be in that, obviously. But he looks so cool. So I told him we need that on the sideline.

41:17Pat McAfee:We need that on the sideline right now, every game. And if we win the first one, I need it on the next game. And I need it the next game. He told me he didn't think it would be right because obviously he had the wedding, it makes sense, but everywhere it necessarily wouldn't. They're on the team. He can do whatever he wants. Yeah, you got a tough start to this. I will say Boyd. Boyd Jackson is his name. He's incredible for what he has to do. Terrible at Euchre. Terrible Euchre player. Oh, really? Massive cheater, this guy, Ed Euchre. He's a phenomenal cheater, Ed Euchre, but he is perfect, I think, because that's not an easy role he's in either.

41:50Pat McAfee:No, it's not. Right? That's fascinating because they're young. They're in their early 30s, mid-30s, growing family, and then all of a sudden, he's a cool guy. Terrible Euchre player. Like doesn't know how to play? No, he does not know how to play. That's why it's so bad because he's so disgusting at the game. It's one of those things. He's a good dude. He's a good dude. He's a very good dude. But he also is like, well, I can't believe this is what's happening right now. You know, like he is, he's fantastic. Joining us now is another fantastic lad. He's the general manager for the Buffalo Bills.

42:20Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, Brandon Bean. Yeah, Bean. Bean, how you doing, pal? I'm good. How you fellas doing today? Dude, life is good. We're celebrating the hell out of this sport here. And I'm going to be honest, Bean. You should be here scouting, I think. If you don't have a scout at this, I think you're behind. The Colts have, hell, yep. But the Colts have people out here scouting these high school teams just to see, you know, for future development and growth. I think you need to be out here being slacking. But on that note, this is gigantic. Did you know how gigantic flag football is? I don't think I knew until like right now.

42:55Pat McAfee:It is huge. We got universities giving scholarships. We got 30 team leagues. We got high school getting sanctioned everywhere. Do you know about any of that? And how about this? I'll bring it to you. Do you think seven-on-seven, one-on-one culture has affected the skill players in recent memory in the NFL for you? And what do you think it does for the future being for the sport? Yeah, I mean, I think it's definitely, listen, it's growing rapidly. It's going on in high schools here in the Buffalo area for women, which I think is good. You're obviously going to get, there's some great women. Somebody called me, sorry.

43:31Yeah, it's unbelievable. Hey, Josh Allen. Shut up. There's some great, you know, some talented ladies that are showcasing, and we've had some of them out to practice. But I do think it's changed the game as far as more skill. You know, obviously, you know, everybody doesn't wake up to be a lineman, but linemen get paid a lot of money too. So it works out well. I think you're seeing more athletic linemen, though, because of this too. Guys are playing seven on seven. and at some point their athleticism, they grow out of being able to play receiver or tight end, but their athleticism from playing that is helping them be a better, you know, offensive tackle center or something like that.

44:11Pat McAfee:Also, a lot of single-digit defensive ends. You know, they were terrorizing people. You know, anytime you see a D end with a number like two or like four, it's like, oh, he had that number when he was playing another position, and now he is a monster, and you're about to get shook. Let's talk about your team. Congrats on the new Bison being unveiled. I think you did a good job there. I think you guys did a good job. I'm glad we – I was nervous about that. We were talking about that for two years. I was nervous. But the guys did a great job. It looks awesome. I rode by a couple days ago, and it's just – it's going to be unbelievable.

44:50Fans have already kind of walked up and been able to see it, and it's a cool piece to what's going to be an awesome stadium.

44:56Pat McAfee:I think it's a great, like, hey, let's gather, take a picture, probably a meeting point. I think everything you guys have done is good. You kept the roof open because the Buffalonians wanted a little bit of snow still. You covered people, though, so we're still able to do some stuff. It won't be a nightmare like the fans will have to bring in their own shovels, hopefully. But do you have grass on that field? We just asked Kalen about this. Did you put grass up there? And what all goes into that decision? You're nodding yes. I love that because I think the players will obviously appreciate that.

45:23Pat McAfee:In Buffalo, you would think, hey, that's a terrible place to put natural grass, especially with an open top. What went into that decision, and what's it going to look like? Are you walking that thing outside and coming back? Is it taking a bath? What do you got the grass doing? No, I mean, it's actually, you know, technology's changed. Just like these golf courses, they have these sub-air systems, so they can control the flow and the moisture and all that other stuff. And then we've got some grow lamps that these guys will be using as the weather changes here. And listen, if you have a couple of terrible weather games and you have to sod certain areas, you do that.

45:59But we're excited about the grass. We just think, you know, you see it in Green Bay, you see it in Pittsburgh, you see it in these other colder weather cities. And I appreciate the bagulas. It was something we talked about for years, even before we knew exactly what this stadium was going to look like. Terry and Kim were both like, no, we want to do grass. We know the players really like that. And I know I appreciate it. And our guys in the locker room are definitely excited about moving over there. and finally getting grass here in Buffalo.

46:29Pat McAfee:I think that's a big decision for the players. Would the poll come out? Like 96%, 2 % weren't interested. The other two just didn't vote or something like that. It's like every player is saying they want grass. And if it can make somebody feel better going into a game, that's good. All we're trying to do is give them a Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Wednesday, Tuesday, I think it's happening down there in Australia. So any day of the week, whatever the case, I'm happy you did that. Last question for me. when do we report to camp and what's going through your mind right now like what is life for general manager of the buffalo bills right now we got josh allen so we gotta win super bowl yeah yes we do yeah it's about time i'm happy to hear you say that because the buffalo onions have been telling us when are we going to win and they say they say listen you put the bison out front we like that you put the broken table inside the stadium i like that move as well you're thinking about us you're paying tribute to us i respect and appreciate you doing that this is fantastic little nod to the bills mafia which is i think you could argue the one of the toughest and best fan bases in all of sports what they have to go through and what they put themselves through to be fans of your team i think they'd be proud of but you know the pressure's on from everywhere got a new head coach gotta win a super bowl that is literally the only thing that is expected from your team what is that type of mindset going into a training camp first maybe early years where it like let's see if we can find a team if that makes sense or not yeah i mean we've listen you're always every all 32 are trying to you know set out and do this one thing you're right um you'll you know you embrace the expectations you you want to put a good you know a good team together and it's a competitive league uh as a whole and obviously the afc is is has been a tough gauntlet uh you know with the premier quarterback play that's that's come out of this conference so it's no easy task, but we're excited about the challenge ahead.

48:19You mentioned we've got a new head coach. We're excited about Joe Brady. And the offseason, you know, we thought went really well. Obviously, this will be his first training camp, coaching these guys through pads and knowing when to, you know, kick them in the butt and also knowing when to, you know, pull back on the reins a little bit. So we're excited. You know, like anything, you want everybody – the guy's got to show up Tuesday. You want everybody to show up healthy once in a while or somebody shows up with a tweak or something. So that's probably the biggest thing right now is, you know, met with the scouts this morning, just kind of going through our ready list and positions of concern if we do have a depth issue.

48:54AJ has a question for you, Bean. Oh, Bean, yeah. I'm just wondering how you watch training camp. The late, great Ted Thompson was the GM of the Green Bay Packers when I was there. And whenever I would see him during camp, he would be sitting on the sidelines and he'd be super nervous and he'd say, oh, easy, easy. Like every time we started to really hit each other or get pretty feisty, he would sometimes he would freak out a bit. I don't know how much interaction you have with the coaches to let him know. But I guess what are you watching when you're as a GM? Like, you know you've got a hit. You know we have to, like, build these calluses, but also you want to stay healthy.

49:23So, like, where have you come from when you started as a GM until now? Yeah, I mean, listen, even from, you know, this is my 10th season, even from my first year in 17, just the ramp-ups even changed. So that's the first thing is, you know, when you start out in the first few practices, it's almost like June. It's almost like mandatory minicamp. And so I kind of stay still watching the skills at that point. But once we get the pads on, I go to the O-line, D-line, and nine-on-seven, you know, because that's where the game's played. It's played in the trenches, and you've got to be good there or you're going to probably struggle.

49:58And so I try to get to really evaluating those guys. And you're exactly right. Every day there, you know, the contact's going to happen. It's a car crash sport. And so when guys are on the ground or getting rolled up on, you're anxious until everybody's up. And, you know, when you've got to put one on a cart, you're obviously walking over there and praying and hoping that it's nothing major.

50:23Pat McAfee:I remember showing up at training camp, seeing Peyton Manning with a bunch of wires out of his neck. Yikes. We were going to be punting a lot. Oh, shit. Hasn't been the same since. Well, he went on to break every record and win another Super Bowl after that. No big deal. We'd go on to transitioning into the Andrew Luck era. And I'll tell you, I saw somebody talking, if you got one of these guys in their prime healthy for 10 years, who would it be? And Andrew Luck was on there. And it's like that guy right there. For sure. Josh Allen, what a special run he's had with you guys. You know, now he's cracked into the pop culture world with his personal life.

51:00Golf drills, some really interesting golf drills.

51:02Pat McAfee:He's got guys touching his hips. Is that your move, B? Did you tell him to do that? Is he trying to beat you? What are your thoughts on Josh Allen, not only the football player at this stage versus when you met him, but the human as well? His life is outrageous. He can't get a golf lesson without everybody saying. I don't think I've ever seen one. It's a lot. The guy in the back there. They're pals. I understand they're pals, and that guy knows golf. He's dedicated. But I just saw Ryan Fox win a major. He could be standing up and put his hips up. He don't have to be kneeling down right behind you.

51:34He can't stand up.

51:35Pat McAfee:You know how that looks, too. So I think what we're talking about here. Eyes to ass is where you need to be. This is a committed team. This is a committed team around them. They like Josh Allen. That's how he fixes arm. We're censored. Tell them, Connor. They like him. They do like him. But they need to start talking about winning the division before winning the Super Bowl. Come on, Connor. It's just something to think about. Let's walk before we run. Before Connor asks his question for you. Can we talk about. Okay, you can take this off, Foxy. Thank you. Yes. He's a really good golfer, too, before he's on his knees.

52:09Pat McAfee:I mean, that guy's face, right at cheek. Right there. Bean's the one that told him to do that drill. I understand that. A.B. had a chiropractor I saw on a video. There's a lot of people in Buffalo that would sign up to be that guy. Sure. I completely understand that. But let's move forward, though. Anything he does is going to get talked about. That is who Josh Allen is now. Cowboy out there from Wyoming. California farmer boy. but now he's world renowned uh he's mvp he's guy that people are looking for what have you seen from him human and football player verse now and uh verse then uh whenever he was a young lad trying to jump over everybody just trying to see if he was going to be the biggest bust in the history of the nfl yeah i mean listen he's still as competitive as ever that's not going to change but you've seen him mature and and grow into the comfort of of not just leading the offense or just leading the skill, but leading our whole team and the guys on defense.

53:04You know, he's, you know, early on when we had Poirier and Micah and some of the older vets, he didn't want to step on their toes. And he knew they had it, and his job was to worry about the offense. But I think at this point he's turned 30. You know, he knows the defensive guys love him and will listen to him. So I think that was the next step in his maturity and to help us get this thing. You mentioned it. We're here to win a Super Bowl, and he's going to do whatever it takes, all the way back to his first win, leaping Anthony Barr or whatever that was in Minnesota. He's still going to throw his body on the line when he needs to, yet hopefully he's continued each year to try and be smarter with the hits.

53:44He's going to take them, but try and take the unnecessary ones out of his game.

53:48Pat McAfee:Yeah, I enjoy watching him. And it was like Andrew. Andrew just felt like he was disrespecting football if he didn't go hit people. and I think Josh has been asked about it a few times and I think he said like, well, if we need a yard, what am I supposed to do? And he is an unstoppable force, especially whenever you guys got two lead powers going out in front of him, 11 on 11 with a guy who's 6 '6", 240 pounds of muscle running the ball at the end. Last question for you here coming from New England Patriots. Yeah, B. He already asked this question. I didn't ask any question. I was just talking shit to you, B.

54:23That was your question, Connor. That wasn't my question, Bean. Don't get me started. Don't get me fired up with you right now, okay? We're trying to enjoy some flag football. But let's go to the West, all right? This is great. I don't want to talk any more shit. We had our fun. When you see the L.A. Rams with all this Aaron Donald stuff and all that fodder, one, as a fan of football, I would like to see it, but call Lesney and tell him it's not allowed. And then the other thing would be when you see, like, McDuffie and them getting, you know, Myles Garrett and all those things. Is that something that you are kind of aware of?

54:56Like you also are reaching out to the Browns and trying to make a move? Or were you kind of sitting back watching that happen, realizing like, okay, the Rams are going to do exactly what they're trying to do in 2021? No, I mean, I think, listen, anytime you're aware a player as great as Myles or any other big-name player, you're calling, you're checking on it. It's got to match up what they're looking for, what your needs are. And, you know, a lot of times you get into a situation AFC didn't want to trade with AFC. They want to go to NFC. So every situation is its own. It takes two to tango when you make a trade.

55:32And there's way more conversations with other GMs about trades than the ones that actually, you know, ever transpire. And and obviously the Rams, you know, made them an offer with, you know, send them a great player, you know, back. And so I think that was important for Cleveland, you know, in my understanding from Andrew as well. And so, no, you hope it's a win-win. That's what you're looking for in deals like that. And, you know, if Aaron Donald's coming back, we play the Rams early in the year. I hope he comes back after we play him.

56:05Pat McAfee:Yeah, he's an animal. And if he comes back alongside Miles, good luck to the rest of you. Especially in the Colts AFC. AFC. You're the man. I appreciate the hell out of you, Bino. Good luck the rest of the way. When are you playing golf next? We got to do the golf thing. And what are you going to shoot? I don't know. I'm going to try to play Sunday or Monday before we start up Tuesday. What would you shoot? Where are we playing? Playing no kill. So probably try to – you're going to kill me if I say break 80. So I'll say 78. Sweet. 77 and a half. Over under right there. $30 ,000 donation to a charity of your or my choosing.

56:45Pat McAfee:Sound good? You're the man. You're the man. That's Brandon B, ladies and gentlemen. Hey, how you doing? We won? You won? Yay! Congratulations. Hour one wrapping up. We'll see you on the other side from NFL Flag.

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57:54Pat McAfee:Sports! Are the greatest, and I'll tell you, this is a massive celebration of just that. flag football is gigantic i think we're all learning it in real time getting a chance to meet a lot of different teams the ohio girls just won back here on the showcase field two teams are warm let's oh this quarterback is really spinning okay all right we're gonna have a showcase here behind us for this entire hour we can't wait to watch we're very lucky and thankful to be here lebron james is a philadelphia 76er the nfl flag national championships are happening and we also have a weekend that is going to celebrate the hell out of one of our boys that's right oh yeah Go to the Talks table at Boston Conner and Ty Schmidt.

58:29Pat McAfee:Con man, we love you, buddy. I love you guys, too. Hey, man, walk in. Exactly. Marriage. Marriage. Should be good. Yeah, getting married tomorrow, obviously a gigantic deal. We'll all be having a great time at your expense. We're pumped for that as well. Without a doubt. Congrats to you and Miss Natalie. We love her. Yeah, she's the best. Yeah, we are big fans of her. We appreciate what she's brought to your life, and we're very excited for you to get to enjoy all of this weekend celebrating you and your love. Yeah, it should be good. It should be good. A little rehearsal dinner after this. I'm thinking about the show, you know, of course.

59:01But a lot of stuff going on this week and a lot of people flying in.

59:04Pat McAfee:I want to let you know, he's been kind of scatterbrained. I wouldn't argue with you. I mean, I got shingles this week. He does have shingles. There's been shit happening, but that is exactly how it goes. Let's get blacked out. Let's get to tomorrow. I won't get there. It sounds like we're going to do that for him. Yeah. It's like rain. Yeah, exactly. It's like shingles. on your wedding week. Yep. Pain's getting there, but boy, this ain't no joke, boy. In the middle of your back, you said it showed up? Middle of my back, now it's on my side. I don't know. It moves. Are we in danger? Is it contagious still?

59:43I already gave it to you. Just get in contact.

59:45Pat McAfee:What she tried to do with owner of the Colts, Kalen, which we appreciate him doing. One half of the hammer died. Cowboys AP Tony's here. LeBron James going to the 76ers. The longest odds at one point were what? 50-1 at one point were for LeBron to go to the Sixers. And now he is officially a member of the 76ers as he chases another title. He's getting paid$4 million a year, which is vet men for how long he's been in the NFL. He's not about to cash. He wants another ring. Let's go to Super Bowl champion. College football national champion. Ryder Cup winner. Also Ohio guy. Just a kid from Centerville.

1:00:22Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Ha-ha. Hey, I'm a dog. Hawko, Cleveland thought they had him coming back home. Miami thought this would be cool, have him down here with Yonish and Bam and the boys will kind of run wild. We fantasize about the Golden State Warriors just because of how cool that would be as a retirement tour. He ends up with the Philadelphia 76ers. Are you heartbroken? How do you feel as an Ohioan that he's not coming back home to provide another parade for the state? I mean, I think Ohio people, they didn't expect him to come. I think they were very hopeful that he would come back to Cleveland, but they didn't expect it.

1:00:53But then when you pop up, that starting lineup looks like in Philly, I start to understand why LeBron is going to Philly. That seems like that's going to be tough to handle for 82 regular season games plus the playoffs. So, yeah, I think the Sixers are looking pretty good.

1:01:05Pat McAfee:He looks sweet in the uniform, I will say. Let's go back to the truck. Obviously, Foxy and the boys are back. Foxy, how do you feel about your hero heading to Philadelphia? Yeah, I'm absolutely shocked. I didn't expect him to go to Philly. I actually didn't even expect him to leave L.A. I just thought he'd finish his career there. Cleveland made the most sense to me. Warriors would have been the most fun. I cannot believe he went to Philadelphia. But as AJ just said, that roster is stacked. And I wouldn't mind seeing LeBron James win another title. But my Detroit Pistons are finally good. So this kind of stinks that he's in the East.

1:01:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, I was never thinking about going to Detroit, which is crazy to me. No one is. We didn't acquire anyone. You know what I heard it was, boys? What's that? Big Dom's chicken cutlets. Anything you need, I got you. Yep. That makes sense. Could you imagine LeBron and Big Dom's first conversation? Oh, my God. Think about what Big Dom could potentially get for LeBron. Yeah. LeBron, most guys, I can get anything. For you, actually, anything. Cheese steaks, chicken colas, what do you need? Fuck, you want the stadium next week? We got you. Sounds like golf wasn't that big of a – Philly's got a lot of nice courses.

1:02:10It does, but we're not talking year-round here. And they made it seem like, listen, he's not going anywhere where he can't play golf all year long.

1:02:18Pat McAfee:Anybody that thought, though, that his hobby he just picked up two months ago was going to be a career definer. That's what Shom said. I know, but I think any time he said it, we all went, he just started like four months ago. This is going to be changing his entire mind. Also, they're on the road all the time. On where he's headed to, so he'll be able to play everywhere. And I don't know how Jalen Brown is on a golf course. I don't know how Joel Embiid is. Him passing up the opportunity to learn golf from Steph Curry is the most surprising thing for me. I thought that was going to be the hook, line, and sinker.

1:02:47Pat McAfee:Joining us now is not an NBA player, but he is a three-time Super Bowl champion. A pundit on ESPN who we all love and respect. He looks younger now than he did just yesterday somehow. Ladies and gentlemen, the man who was called the perfect player by Bill Belichick, Teddy Bruschi. Hey, Teddy! Hey, Teddy! Thanks, Teddy. Teddy! You can give me a gift. I'll take you one of your Super Bowl rings. Boston Conner over there. Boston Conner, massive Patriots fan. He's getting married tomorrow. I didn't know you were getting married, but I know you're a massive Patriots fan. I've seen you. He said I'll take one of your rings.

1:03:24Where? I mean, we're getting married here? Yeah, here like 15 minutes south of here.

1:03:29Pat McAfee:Okay. Congratulations. Thank you, man. Very excited. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you're muted. Married for 29 years, Holen. You are muted. You just got muted. You're sitting on the muted button, maybe. Oh, no, Ted. Teddy. He still got over the PA, though. Are you muted? You're good. Hit the talk button. Can you hear me now? There it is. There we go. Yeah, been married for 30 years, so good luck. Thank you. No, yeah. What would my main marriage advice be? It would be, I would say, loving your wife over the changes that will happen in every few years. You're marrying her now like how she is now, but she will change in three years.

1:04:09She will change in five years. You will change in multiple years. And so can you still learn to love each other that way? Seriously, that's sincere advice for you in terms of how it's going to go because it's not all going to be roses. Yeah. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, Teddy. All right. Congratulations. Thank you, Teddy. I appreciate it.

1:04:28Pat McAfee:He looked up to you his whole life watching your thing up there for the New England Patriots. You doing that the day before his wedding? That's a big deal. How about that? Appreciate it, man. Well, yeah, I mean, I feel like we have a little connection here. Yeah, it's cool. You want to give him an invite? You can. I do have an extra spot open. At least come to the reception. I can't make it. My heart will be with you, man. I watch the show. I see you always with the Patriot paraphernalia in front. Snow up in the playoffs on my wall. Let's talk. What are you doing here? Are you calling the game?

1:04:58What do you think? I am calling the game. 18 and under girls, flag football, national champions is here. We just saw two games, and I couldn't have been more amazed in terms of what I'm seeing from these athletes. A couple names, Azul Trujillo, 16 years old, quarterback for Calexico 49ers through five touchdowns. Through five touchdowns. The motion is just a quick release. The girls are about to grab her flag and boom, the release is so quick. It's so natural. You're watching quality football, Pat, really. You're watching quality football with these girls and also seeing the Bengals team with Tessa Wheelock and the quarterback Quinn was her last name.

1:05:36I mean, how creative the coach was in terms of... I mean, there are some rules in flag football.

1:05:42Pat McAfee:There's one play, though, that's unstoppable. Yeah, when our – It's like this double hoopty inside. It's like a drag. It's crazy. We watch it in the – So what you're saying right now, the way you're describing it, it's like you had like an enlightening experience watching them. We, same way, and I think some people are scared to say that because they don't want to – like whenever I opened up and was like, this is my first time seeing this, holy – we watched the Pro Bowl had a high school All-Star game right before. The girls' high school All-Star game. Checks, move. We got safeties, breaking things.

1:06:12Pat McAfee:I was like, we're doing like real, this is high football IQ stuff taking place. And then on the offensive side, there's this one play that's like a pitch throwback inside scoop thing that was just like so sophisticated. And they're all executing it perfectly. It can't help but help, I think, football long term with all the technicality of shit that's taking place. I agree. It's unbelievable. The football skills are similar, fellas, but the football rules are very different in terms of the ability to have two quarterbacks and snapping it directly to the quarterback, I cannot run. But if I snap it to someone else, then pass it back to the quarterback, now she can run.

1:06:49So those type of rules, of course, the Fanatics game, when our U.S. national team was playing against our professionals, I knew that they would just blow them out. Yes. Because, first of all, they didn't know the rules. And secondly, I really think they're like 60 % of NFL players, maybe 70, cannot play on our national team. I mean, they're just too good. And being big and being strong doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Because really the quickness, Hoosh, our quarterback, you see how good he was. And these girls are just so special athletically. It's a different game with football skills.

1:07:25Pat McAfee:Yeah, you need to be able to do the penthouse to outhouse move. I don't know if that's what they call it. That's where you're headed, though. They're running it, and then they drop. Oh, the hip drop. Yes, the hip drop. Okay, so we don't tackle like that. That's a penthouse out. But we certainly run in flag football like that. That seems untackleable. Like, that is the move. They did a flag – NFL did a flag football thing at Butler University, like, maybe three, four years ago, and it was on NFL Network, and we had nothing to talk about, so we watched it. All the dudes, every time they got the ball, were just trying to – Yeah.

1:07:57It's like their knees are, like, blowing out. I mean, AJ, we close the distance, and we want to shoot. We want to explode. Accelerate through contact. Exactly. None of that happens here. I mean, you have to close the distance, and then you have to reach. So Luke Kuechly had to deal with that. He wanted to run right through their face, and obviously they're dropping down. Those guys are like wizards. Grabbing jerseys. I mean, just the rules. You can't impede the rusher. There are complex rules, but once you figure them out, it's a beautiful thing to watch. I'm so happy to be here covering the 18-and-under girls because they are giving out college scholarships now.

1:08:31Manhattan University was just here, Coach Frank and Coach Nicole. I think Nebraska is the biggest name that has a couple of these girls. I saw the quarterback they signed the other day. She was slinging it all. Yeah. Yeah. And then I think the national championships are here. The world championships in Dusseldorf, who Phoebe Schechter, who I'm working with. That's awesome. Great Britain team. That's coming up. And then, of course, all the NFL players want the gold medal for the Olympics, which is coming. Yeah.

1:08:53Pat McAfee:I just watched number 10. I believe he's the quarterback here. Throw a touchdown. He went to two different cameras to celebrate before getting back on in his field. I like that. I like that, having a good sense of my camera, their camera, friend's camera. Let's go ahead and do that. Celebrate. Good ball. That's a good ball. He's good ball. Touch. Yep. Fun to watch. Yeah, make sure we get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one's good on Sundays. Yeah. How old are these kids? This is 14 and under. They're not 14. I'll tell you what, my baby boy Midas needs to get him on and playing. He needs to get bigger.

1:09:28Pat McAfee:He needs to get bigger quicker. I think if you're 14 in January and then say you turn 15 January 15th, you're still eligible. So some of them could be 15, but technically it's 14. This Jets team's up 7-0. That's more than the professional team scored all season. We'll see if they have an interception. Yep, don't throw it to us. Oh. Wow. My colleague, Grady Moss, would love that one right there. Yeah. Wow. You got Moss. That's a 14-year-old. We can't be too rude. There's a quarterback, too, of the other team. Yeah, that was the guy going to the cameras. He's not going to like that that just happened.

1:10:07Pat McAfee:No, he's not. Let's assume number 10 for the Jets team is about to have some. There's going to be a little get back on the way back after that. So, I mean, just for you guys, I mean, an NFL flag football team. I know, like I say, it's going to be hard for them to break through into the national team. But I would say like a Jaden Daniels could be a quarterback. Yeah, Lamar. Like a Lamar Jackson. Kyler could play wide receiver. I mean, I would say, I mean, I would like my past roster to be somebody like Jameer Gibbs. I mean, because you've got to cover seven yards, seven to 10 yards so quickly and break down.

1:10:39You need someone that's fast like that. Defensive backs like Cooper DeGene or Cunion Mitchell. I know there's two Eagles there, but like the younger guys in two years that are going to be so much better that could represent it. Derwin James, I think Puka Nakua could be a great receiver. But they're only, I think it's only five on five is what it's going to be. And I think the rosters for the national team can only have 10 players.

1:11:03Pat McAfee:I believe the Jets just got an interception. That is more interceptions than the Jets actually got last year. Let's move on to the NFL, shall we, as we talk about the Jets, the AFC East. Patriots are just back up. A.J. Brown is now a member of the New England Patriots. That's absurd. Drake May, obviously, finalist for the MVP. He's only in his second year, first year with Josh McDaniels. A lot happened off the field, a lot of drama, a lot of controversy, same old, same old seemingly for the New England Patriots, but it feels like they are all the way back. Vrabel has the same mentality for the team, and they're only getting better.

1:11:33Pat McAfee:It has to be great to be a Patriot alumni at this moment because you're allowed to be a loud, obnoxious, ridiculous. It's the best. It's so fun. It's so fun even being with Rex Ryan on Sunday NFL Countdown and just glowingly loving on the New England Patriots that he has to do because we're playing so well. It's really cool. I know, I mean, fellas, to win a championship, good players, good coaching, good fortune. Did they have a little good fortune last year? Absolutely. I mean, you're playing a team in the AFC championship that doesn't have their starting quarterback. But that happens. That happens.

1:12:07And that's just the way it goes. They couldn't take that break and finish it for a championship. But I really think A.J. Brown bringing him in. Elijah Vera Tucker at line. I think they're the high draft pick at tackle. I mean, you're building the strength of your team. A.J. will help Drake still just focus on quarterback. And I know Vrabes will tell A.J., let's take this locker room over and be a leader in there. They have a great relationship from Tennessee. Vrabes loved him when he was also in Tennessee. So bringing A.J. in, you know what you're going to get in terms of setting the mood of the locker room.

1:12:41Of course, he is a world champion, and that sort of being the example, I think, is going to be big for them.

1:12:47Pat McAfee:What do you think Bob Spillane's neck is going to do this year? I love Spillane. What do you think about that? I love watching him play. Dump truck, yeah. Yeah, I always liked him. I saw him once in a practice. I mean, even when he was with, I mean, the Steelers. I was like, man, I just loved watching him play. So when they hired, I was like, when they signed him, he was like my type of guy. So I love Spillane. Yeah, I like the team you guys have. Your defense doesn't get talked about. It was always everybody else's defense. Oh, they're playing the number one defense. Oh, they're playing the number two defense.

1:13:17It was like, well, how about the Patriots? They are phenomenal. They held on as long as they could, like in the Super Bowl. You try to hold on as long as you can to get a break. I mean, Darnold didn't throw us the football, so it was like they were waiting for him to make a mistake. But the Seattle defense just ended overcoming and scoring, of course. That's a great defense in Seattle. But, I mean, to get that far still was a productive year for Vrabes in his time there. But I don't know if they'll do that again. I think they'll be in the games, I mean, late in the season. But, I mean, we all know that once you get there, I mean, it's about how the games go in every play and every injury and everything, Pat.

1:13:59Pat McAfee:I love the amount of people that are here representing it, the NFL flag championships. We talked to some people from Germany, some people from Spain, some Plumboro Mustangs in the building. Wow. Plumb's where the ball is ball when the players play. Teddy, you understand that. We're all Mustangs here. Got a Philadelphia Eagles fan, obviously. We got the Pence family here, I believe. And the Jets have scored again. Where's number 10? Find a camera. Oh, there we go. Yeah, let them know. Do that dance. Yeah, yeah. They celebrate a lot more than the girls. Yeah. Oh, they're playing. Oh, you got to throw an arrow.

1:14:30Playing Cleveland. That makes sense. That's fun. Yeah. Oh, it does.

1:14:33Pat McAfee:Teddy, you have a pretty good-sized dome, I'd say. Have to for linebacker. Right next to you here is AJ. Is that the biggest crafted head you've seen? And AJ has a question for you. I do, Teddy. You have a giant head. Giant head. That's how you're laying the wood, obviously, for as long as you did. I know it happens. It's great. It's a great thing. I tell my kid, I tell anybody, good, you should want people to tell you you have a big head. I think it's a great compliment. But going back to you. It is, by the way. What was it like for you? What was your first couple training camps like? What year was that, and how is it different than what camp is like now?

1:15:01Yeah, the first couple training camps, my first coach in the league was Bill Parcells. Yes. Right in the fire, huh? I ended up losing like 15 to 20 pounds in the first couple weeks. And I remember a story. Parcells saw me. He's like, Brewski, Brewski, how much do you weigh? I said, 240. He said, bullshit. And then he yelled at the strength coach to get on me about it. And it was just so hard because I was not used to it. The two-a-days, the intensity. I mean, how hard it was, full pads every single day. So the weight dropped off. And I remember me having mandatory weigh-ins to see if I would put the weight back on.

1:15:38And I wasn't. So, I mean, here I am. I'm in the tights. Okay, I got nothing else on. I'm weighing our strength coach is Johnny Parker. I pick up a 10-pound plate. I pick up a 10-pound plate and hide it right to my left and Johnny's to my right and I just step up and weigh and it was like 235. And I said, and Parcells never bothered me. Sometimes you need some help. But, yeah, in terms of now, I think the change is warranted. I mean, it gets pretty rough, you know, to guys to survive now 17, 16, 17 games, eventually 18. I mean, probably, I mean, who knows how many they want to go. you got to take care of your guys and i'm not one of those guys that say oh back when i played it was like this and it was so hard i just think the adjustment and being able to adjust to what it is now for the athletes i think it's good that we take care of them i think so too barcells and belichick similar exact same people very very similar but in in between i had pete carroll which is complete opposite right yeah yeah you were there a long time i was there 13 years so i All three of those coaches won Super Bowls.

1:16:47I think Pete really had to figure himself out when he was there, and he figured himself out back when he went to USC and then ended up going to Seattle and having the renaissance there and winning the championship. But it is night and day going from Bill Parcells to Pete Carroll, then Bill Belichick coming back, and then I just knew what to expect.

1:17:05Pat McAfee:Adam Vinatieri is going into the hole. Man. Good for him, man. Kicker going in, dude. I came in with Adam. He was a free agent. I was the third-round draft pick. I remember sitting at a table in training camp just eating, and Matt Barr was the kicker. Matt Barr was the kicker. And Matt Barr is telling me this story, telling us this story. I think he's open fan mail or something like that, and he wouldn't lick any envelope to send it back. And me like, why don't you lick any envelope? He's like, man, you never know what they can put on those envelopes. True. So that's the one story I remember. But we were there, and I was talking to Adam.

1:17:42It's like thinking, how are you going to make this team? You know, with Matt Barr as the kicker, Parcells, how hard he is, loves his veteran kickers. But, you know, V won the job. I spent so many years with him there in New England. Of course, he even had an extended career with the Colts. So proud of him. I love the guy. I mean, over at my house a lot. I mean, just so proud of him that he's going into the hall.

1:18:07Pat McAfee:Me too. And he didn't think he was going to do that job over Matt Barr either. He was like, I'm coming here to be a camp player, whatever. Vinny, obviously one of the most competitive humans of all time, but he understood that it wasn't a desirable position, but he wasn't in the picking and choosing business. Obviously playing for Amsterdam in the World League and then coming over and doing his entire thing. Vinny's story is a beautiful one, and I think we're all pumped for him, man. Yeah, we always embraced him because, I mean, his mentality was that of more like just the general football player, not the average kid, because he's a little bit of a prick, too.

1:18:35QB, yes, definitely. He was. He chased down Hershel. Hershel Walker. I was on that. I mean, I think that was our rookie year. Oh, that's your fault. Yeah, I missed him. I was at L3. I'm running like this, and I'm chasing, and there goes me. And I'm looking, I'm just like, oh, my goodness. He is about to run down Herschel Walker, and he got him in Dallas. It was amazing.

1:18:54Pat McAfee:He was quarterback, wrestler, kicker, like in high school. South Dakota, obviously. Tough guy. Yeah, I mean, that is super tight. I think he was going to be a brain surgeon if he wasn't a kicker. Was he jacked when he was playing like that? Yeah. He's super jacked now. There are some photos of him when he was young, super jacked. Okay. He always liked to do those curls. He was a kicker doing curls in the weight room. Wrestler, Italian. Yeah. I like to look good in the jersey. Connor has a question for you, Teddy. Yeah, Teddy, staying with the Patriots, since you were there in the 90s, those years with Bob Kraft felt like he kind of built the foundation of what he wanted the New England Patriots to be.

1:19:30And now here we are 30-plus years later, and the Patriots are what they are. What was it like playing for an owner like Bob Kraft? I know Vinny asked Carly Ursae to be the kind of person that inducts, not indicts him into the Hall of Fame. But what was Bob Kraft like, and how do you think that transition will go down the road from Bob to Jonathan? Jonathan, yeah. I was there, so my rookie year is 96, and Parcells is the coach, and there was some tension between Parcells and RKK, how he likes to be referred to. um but um and you can almost feel that as a player like because i don't know what's going on upstairs fellas i mean they got management things they got personnel things and all that stuff but i just know our head coach has a little bit of problem as you know with the owner and it's like and vice versa so is that the way it's supposed to go because i remember i mean even before this before the super bowl the story came out that parcells by will mcdonough the little mcdonough that he was going to leave and for me as a rookie i'm like shocked i'm like wow i mean so and then having him go through that, come out the other side, hire Pete Carroll, realize that's not working, then hire Bill.

1:20:42And I thought Bill Belichick was going to be the head coach after the 96 loss. I mean, so we're on the plane going back in 96 and Belichick is going around to certain individual players and talking like just whispering to them. And he comes up to me and he goes, I said, hey, man, you had a great year. Just keep doing what you're doing. We're going to get it right around here. And I said, okay, that must be our next head coach. That's who I thought it was going to be. I think something happened with Parcells that I think he gave him the assist. He's like, you're going to, he gave him the sort of structure about, I'm only here for you a few years.

1:21:19You're going to be a head coach of the New York Jets. That's how it's going to be. That's how we lose him. And so Pete Carroll came in. So, of course, Mr. Kraft is going through all of that, that drama and having to hire coaches. So he really learned in probably my first five years. And then to watch it through winning championships, that, man, that's probably the best owner in professional sports.

1:21:41Pat McAfee:He's had a hell of a run. Yeah. Unbelievable. Yeah. I think they've had a casino and a Patriots place and everything out there. Hotels. In Foxborough. This is closer to Indianapolis than Foxborough is to Boston. And when you drive through Foxborough, you're going through. It's just like Lambeau. Nobody really talks about it. It's a New England town as opposed to what a Green Bay town looks like. It's a special, special place up there that you guys were cheating in all the time. Yeah. Controlling the weather, you know, controlling the weather up there. All you guys that we beat, you know, that's all you go to.

1:22:13It's okay. Listen, I know you weren't there for it.

1:22:15Pat McAfee:Well, maybe you weren't there for when you guys were flattening the balls to beat us. I don't know what you're talking about. When nobody does. That was disproven. No, I wasn't there. It was disproven. It was disproven. Hey, the science guy came out early and kind of got a good pop. He did. What's his name? TV science guy. I've seen a lot of those in the past. Neil Guy. Does he go here all the time? Sometimes. No, no, just if we're talking about just being impossible to win in Foxborough for some reason, you know, just felt like that was the case. And I was young whenever you guys were still in the middle of the Tom Payton kind of battle that was taking place in the Colts-Patriots.

1:22:51Pat McAfee:And you guys obviously end up winning. But the Colts, like, nemesis, here we go, running into it. But the way things were talked about heading up there that week, I was just like so in awe of. It's like, oh, this is the big bad wolf. What year was that? 09. 09, okay. 09, I get drafted. We were up there every year. It felt like we had to go up there the first three years of my career, I think. We're going up there, night game in Foxborough. Yeah, that was always a complaint. I remember Polian, he worked with ESPN, and he was still complaining. He shut down. On the line of scrimmage and this and all, jack and white receivers, what's going on?

1:23:24and they changed some rules and all that stuff.

1:23:26Pat McAfee:Yeah, we're about sick of people reporting every play. I don't know if you're supposed to report every play. It kind of blends all in, doesn't it? But Bill Pullian shut down a training camp practice because he thought a plane was flying too low. He thought it was you guys, and it probably was. That's when you know you're in somebody's head. Yeah, I'd say. One hour before it started. I'd say. I love Pullian. We worked together a bunch on ESPN, and he was good, except for when he was complaining, of course. No, that should be when it was best for you, actually. Literally looking at crowd like this, you know, because this.

1:23:58Pat McAfee:Oh, we got youth football dads, too. I forgot about the parents. Oh, yeah. That was my first thought, actually. Oh, my God. This guy. I like this. I like the intensity here from the crowd. Did we? Hey, everybody. How you guys doing? These guys are on camera, I think. Are you guys on camera? Hey, good to see you guys. Yeah, there's probably some real special. People are living and dying. Anybody ever told you you look like Marcus Mariota? You do look like Marcus Mariota. Yeah. You look like Mariota. Yeah, man. Yeah. You look like Mariota. He doesn't know He's like Marcus Mariota He's like Mariota Who's that?

1:24:29He doesn't know who that is Possible Tadius Are you Hawaiian? No, I'm Italian-Filipino

1:24:36Pat McAfee:Oh Yes Paisan, I didn't know you were Paisan I've gotten a lot Like even when I was playing this Like after the game Like, hey man, are you Mexican? He's like, oh, are you Samoan? Are you Native American? No The Italian-Filipino genes contribute to the hair Yeah, you look unbelievable I mean, the Italian-Filipine genes also contribute to you You're looking like you're 35 still. Here's a young Mariota, just to get a reminder on eyes on what a young Mariota would look like. That is. Wow. Yeah. That's you, bro. Yeah, right there. Former television personality Nicole Pence of WTHR here, and there's young Marcus Mariota, Teddy Bruschi, had eyes on.

1:25:12Pat McAfee:Last question for you, Teddy, as we know you have a busy day here at NFL Flag Championship from Ty Schmidt. Yeah, Teddy, Pat mentioned how Bill Belichick has said that you were basically, you know, you're the perfect Patriot, the embodiment of what it is to be a Patriot. Do you want me to read the quote? Yeah, please do. Okay, because Hembo sent us the actual quote this morning. Tell Hembo I say hi. Hembo, what up? He's probably listening right now. Here we go. Ready? It is all the LeBron stuff. I guess if you ask me to sum up how I feel about Teddy Bruschi in five seconds, he's the perfect player.

1:25:44Pat McAfee:Perfect player. Probably mumbled through this entire thing. He's helped create a tradition here that we're all proud of. The torch has been passed, and we'll try to carry it on. It's a high standard. It's a high standard. You see him like perfect player. Perfect. Look at this guy. He couldn't really figure it out. Sorry about that. No, yeah. Thank you for clearing that up. Almost at a loss of words, and we obviously don't hear Belichick say that about damn near anybody. You know, I mean, it's been very highly publicized, his relationship with Brady. But were you surprised when he went to North Carolina, and I guess that he didn't get an NFL job?

1:26:16and also just the way kind of things went. I mean, obviously coaching in college now compared to the NFL is probably damn near two different sports. Do you think that because he is the greatest of all time that this year we will see a much different North Carolina team? Do you think eventually he is going to get things right and we'll be talking about Belichick the way we were when he was in the NFL? Because I think a lot of people like to throw stones at what he's done, But part of it is kind of you see what's happening. It's like, man, you just hope it doesn't tarnish what he did in the NFL.

1:26:50If he goes to Carolina and things kind of just crash and burn and he doesn't get it figured out. Yeah, I don't think whatever success he has, I don't think it can tarnish what he's done. I mean, I agree with you. I mean, greatest coach of all time. I mean, I was so fortunate to play for him. I was surprised. He went to North Carolina. Isn't that the same year when Saban said no thanks? Yeah. And so, like, didn't you get the memo from Saban that, like, there were guys out of his meeting room asking for$100 ,000 or something like that? I mean, because I think the money aspect of it at that level takes away the kids from realizing who that man is.

1:27:29You know what I mean? It's like this is someone that can turn you into something where you will become something special as a football player if you let it. But the motivation of, I mean, I can't blame him. I mean, paying my mother's mortgage in a lot of times over supersedes that of playing for a great coach. So if there's someone that's going to give me$25 ,000 more, I've really got to go. I've really got to go. I mean, the situation that I was in at 18 and where we were as a family, it's like, all right, mom, I'm going to get as much as I can. Okay. And then so we can pay off this home. So that's going through the process of a lot of kids.

1:28:09I know you're the greatest of all time but there's another school that gives me a little bit more I'm sorry coach but I have to go and that takes away from who he is and I hate it because I would love for all those best college football players to have the experience that I had with Bill Belichick

1:28:23Pat McAfee:yeah and I think he's still building they were trying to run his ass out multiple times last year emails getting leaked, full investigative journalism which by the way I guess that's going to continue to happen forever but Pablo if Pablo gets in there, he's going to find out. He's going to dig. There was some running. I mean, they were – and I start to wonder if it was other people trying to recruit against him too, planning stories, saying things and everything, because that's what the college football world is that I don't think maybe Bill expected or knew was going to come. Him's still there.

1:28:55Pat McAfee:We got training camp coming up. Lombo's still down there watching film on high schoolers. Loving it. Still loving every second of it. It's like they are still – They got a late start that year one too. Didn't have a recruiting class. They had zero recruits. So I believe in what they're going to be able to do. But if you don't have the money, it's going to be tough, to your point, of literally everything. But UNC, you would think they've got a really nice campus. Maybe they'll be able to figure it out. Speaking of figuring it out, it feels like you've done that, sir, with this particular life. You've done a great job.

1:29:19It's been fun. Yeah, this is life. Yeah, you've done a great job. It's my 18th year here. At ESPN? Yeah, I was going. Oh, so it's your fault. No. Oh, I get you. I get you. No, come on. Congratulations on your deal. To all of us. I'm happy for all of you. I'm happy for all of you. You guys have grinded, really. And I respect that. And so to see the success that you guys have here, I got nothing but respect for you. We appreciate you, man. Legit.

1:29:43Pat McAfee:And we obviously were all ESPN fans before we joined there. So any of this stuff happening, we don't love. But, hey, it does feel like it's part of the biz. $170 billion is what Disney's worth right now. All right. So we appreciate the hell out of you. You're the man. Thank you for joining us. So are you guys. We appreciate you watching us. We'll see you in saying you watch us. We'll see you on the road. Can't wait for a great football season. Thank you for everything. Yeah, and for these girls here and these boys playing flag football, everybody watch this because these are special athletes. Absolutely.

1:30:12Pat McAfee:This is the future, too. It does feel like we're kind of in the middle of it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it feels like this is the tip of the spear of what flag football is about to become. I agree. And it's cool to be here. We're thankful it's in Indiana, and I've been told. Yep. Next year's NFL Flag Championship also here. Nice. Just like how the Combine started here, like, one year. Yeah, be here. And I was like, wow, it seems to make sense. I think the people here in Westfield will try their best to make sure this wants to stay here. Got the hotels, got the fields, got the booze, it looks like, from some of these dads.

1:30:40Pat McAfee:And it should be a good time. Yeah, you're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, Teddy Bruschi. Yeah, Teddy. Appreciate it. Thank you. Absolute best. Italian and Filipino. He's going to look like he's 40 to his 90. Forever. Yeah. Good for you, dude. Might live till he's 200. Thank you, Teddy. Hey, I'm sorry. Did you say your mom's Italian or Filipino? Which side is which? That's Italian. Good call. Actually, Bruschi, I would have said like Polish or something, I think. If it was spelled S-K-I, yeah. C-H is also an interesting. Yeah, I got you. Yeah, I got you. Filipino food. I was thinking if you had an Italian mom, but Filipino food.

1:31:22Pat McAfee:Also. Yeah, absolutely. Also plays. Yeah, I didn't even think about it. See you, Teddy. See you, Teddy. Love you, Teddy. Yeah, I mean, Filipino mom fed a three-time Super Bowl champion. A man called a perfect football player by a coach that is not a first ballot Hall of Famer. Somehow. That takes away from the comments a bit. Yeah, it does. It really does. It really does take away just a bit. First ballot Hall of Famer says it. Maybe we believe it a little bit more. But Teddy, he's done great things post-football career, too. And the end of his career, you know, I think kind of came out of nowhere for all of us.

1:31:56Pat McAfee:and then he pivoted in the television has done phenomenal work. AJ, his style of play, you talked a lot about his head. He was a thumper, but he had to be in those days, right? Wasn't that kind of a part of the entire game? He kind of came up in the thumper era, but he also, like you said, 13, 14 years there. He still had to move in space. He never came off the field. The guy could still cover and do everything. I mean, he had a crazy, what, he had an aneurysm? What was it? I think he had a stroke. A stroke, and then he came back after that. Like a hole in his heart or something. Super serious.

1:32:23He had some super scary stuff that he came, like what an inspiration. Comeback player of the year.

1:32:25Pat McAfee:Yeah, he's really good. He's always been nice to us, too. And that was cool what he said to you the day before your wedding. That was cool. Good advice as well. He didn't give me one of his Super Bowl rings, but, yeah, well, it's okay. I think if you would have got the game right that your poster was. Oh, yeah. He said it was a playoff game. That definitely did not help my case. I don't know why he wouldn't just kind of ride that wave with me, but that's okay. That's okay. Hey, we don't necessarily. The details, pal. The montage photo, Vinatieri's kick was on it, him throwing the snow up was on it, but that's okay.

1:32:57That's okay. I guess I'll know now forever. Hey, how's Dolphins' end of the regular season?

1:33:01Pat McAfee:And also, Heath, that thing was just coming right to me, buddy. Should have shown your tattoo. Glows were dry. He was over on in Cincinnati? Yeah, you didn't even show him. I mean, it doesn't say Teddy Bruschi anywhere, right? He was not the team when he said this. Alright, it's 1.37 Eastern, which means we have about 20 minutes left to do whatever we're doing right now. Okay. Whatever this is, but it is Friday, so that means we have to celebrate things. Yeah, we do. That have happened around the sports world. Boom. It's become a weekly tradition for us to do this, and we're not obviously the creators of this, but we're certainly people that poached it and said, that's a good idea.

1:33:36Pat McAfee:We should do some good and some bad from around the sports world every single Friday to kind of remind people of what took place over the last few days. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for five things that aren't ass. There we go. These are things that are not considered ass from around the sports world that we think should get a little bit more pub. Now, saying it in the middle of a youth flag football tournament. They know it. It is interesting because they know it's not ass too. It's connected to your back. They understand it's not ass. Yeah, absolutely. Let's go to the man from Gremlin University aka Gremlin Gang.

1:34:10Pat McAfee:Oh, shit. Good. I'm happy we're not doing it. Clipped it? Yeah. I thought this was things that aren't ass. Yeah, we're not doing it. Yeah, we cut that one. Put some pads on. We've got the Group A dunk man qualifier here. Let's go to Cam Hazard, a.k.a. Hazardous Dunk. Professional dunker. Jeez. Double-handed. Super-duper 180. Yeah. Absolute yeah. Pump handle with the back touch. Boom. Brings it down. Obviously, it's Cam Hazard, but Cooper DeGene could do this. A lot of people say in 360, which I do appreciate because his head was looking forward and he's moving forward. The planting of the feet, already 190 degrees.

1:34:53Pat McAfee:Great move. This guy's way ahead of the game. He's a professional. 360 dunk from Cam Hazard. I'll tell you what, boys, that's not ass. No, it's not. Not at all. Let's go to baseball, shall we? Let's go to Angels third baseman, Vaughn Grissom. Now, the sun has gotten in everybody's eyes. Can you compete against it? Yes, you can. How about a bounce pass for a double play? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Ty, I love everything about this. This is the Angels Park, so it feels like they might know the dirt and the sun a little bit at this particular time. How often are you practicing that, and how often is this executed in baseball?

1:35:25Pat McAfee:Because we saw the kick at a doo-haw thing from the pitcher last week, so that never happens. How about this? This feels abnormal as well. Same deal, next to never. I mean, when you're practicing, you know, turning double plays, you want those to be clean, and you're definitely not bouncing one, spiking one like that. We talked about this a little bit. It's just great communication between teammates. Second baseman probably came to him in the dugout in between innings and said, hey, I can't see anything out there. So if you – you know, we got to turn two. You're going to hit me in between the eyes and maybe knock me out, give me a concussion, give me a nice soft bounce, you know, Sunday hop.

1:35:55I mean, and what a perfect throw for never practicing that. He couldn't have thrown it any better. I mean, it was just beautiful. Beautiful display of baseball. Would you say not asked?

1:36:04Pat McAfee:No, not asked at all. Good for Grissom doing that and pulling that off. Let's go stay in baseball. We have the longest home run of the season has officially been hit from Slam Diego. Oh, my goodness. Fernando Tatis hits one 474 feet in an actual game. They're up 6-3 at the time. It would go to 8-3. The Padres win. Atlanta Braves fan has to eat a baseball from the concession stand, 474 feet away from home plate. What an absolute bomb from the Slam Diego Padres. Yeah, this is awesome because the story of the beginning of his season, that he didn't hit a home run for like the first two months. So now that he has won 474, the longest home run of the season, San Diego is starting to hit a lot.

1:36:49So watch for them the second half of the season. But good for him because the story to begin the season was that he can't hit home runs anymore.

1:36:54Pat McAfee:And as we remember, the beginning of baseball season does not matter. Correct. You can be terrible, worst team in baseball, and then rattle off 15 straight and go into first place. Boom. That is what baseball is. It's a game of runs. There's still enough time. You will run out of time, though. Yes, without a doubt. But there is still time for teams to turn it around. Maybe 474-foot bombs, dongs. We'll go ahead and do that for the San Diego Padres. Let's stay in baseball. How about a triple play? Yeah. Wow. How about a triple play? Alteve hits it to the third baseman. Bing, bang, boom. Easiest triple play I've ever seen.

1:37:27Pat McAfee:Let's get the alternate replay. Did that guy run that out the first? Did Alteve run it out the first? I got to get eyes on him. Was he hustling early? We'll say Leo Jimenez is third baseman, steps on third, fires it to Xavier Edwards, and then he fires it first, and Altuve takes six jogging. He's jogging. Then he turns it up. He doesn't think they're going to turn three. No. Instead, they do. I love a good triple play. So abnormal. Got to celebrate it. Why don't they do this all the time, Connor? Probably because usually guys don't just jog to first base. I think because Altuve doesn't have the exoskeleton on him.

1:38:01That was not real. They said that was not real. They said that wasn't real. Allegedly.

1:38:06Pat McAfee:They were pounding garbage cans, but they weren't doing any of the other stuff. Allegedly, there was a camera, too, to help pound the garbage cans. Allegedly, there was no censors on anybody, even though he wanted to keep his shirt on because he's too sexy and he doesn't want everybody to see him. Let's go to darts. You want to talk about abnormal? Oh, goodness. Now, this ain't ass. Now, this is ass pin all, okay? He's taking on the legend, Luke Littler. And here, you're trying to race to 501. Triple 20 is obviously 60. Three darts per round. If you get three triple 20s, it's 180.

1:38:41Pat McAfee:Luke Litla, who's the reigning champ over there of darts, Premier League darts, is taking on Aspinall here. And the first leg, he just woke up. He just got the entire play singing to him. And he goes, am I going to go back to back? 180.

1:38:58Pat McAfee:All of a sudden, 501 isn't as hard to hit whenever you got 360 off the first two rounds. What's left? We need 141. Is Luke Littler going to be able to do that or is Aspinall sitting like an absolute duck? Luke Littler says, how about triple 20? How about triple something? And then double 15. Let me hear it. What's that? That's a nine dart domination of Aspinall. Who wins the leg. Come on, boys. I'll tell you what. Luke Littler's throwing absolute heat over there in England. And even Aspinall's got to say, come here, you lug. Come here. Kiss on the cheek. Is that nine-dotted? That's how you start the entire thing.

1:39:34Pat McAfee:Connor, you're obsessed with this. We wouldn't have known this happened if it wasn't for you putting it into our algo. Luke Littler's the one, and we just all need to realize. Yeah, he's the one also on leg four. He missed a nine-daughter on the ninth dart. Ended up winning that leg as well. And I do believe, this is not breaking this, it's been announced. I'm pretty sure ESPN has the professional dart league for next season. So let's just say night one to 17 is going to be fantastic. And you're saying one. 180! They're coming right around the corner at ESPN. Right around the corner at ESPN. And the guy who does the 180s now is his first season last season.

1:40:11He's fantastic.

1:40:12Pat McAfee:Okay, let's go to the Netherlands. Flying Dutchman. Oh. This is at the Zwarte Cross Music Festival. Oh, sure. Yep, 75 meters. Jesus. Through the sky. How's the landing? Doesn't seem like that's exactly how they planned for it. Either a broken ankle or a concussion. We don't know who got what there. Multiple flying Dutchmen did get injured throughout the week. But here we have Kuzzy completing a 75-foot huck from a giant catapult. I'll tell you what, H, might be worth the price of traveling to the Netherlands to see these flying Dutchmen get launched and sent through the sky without any real control, it seems like.

1:40:50Pat McAfee:That was the most chaotic flight I've seen from a flying human. Yeah, I had to over-rotate a little bit, I guess, at the end. You don't think you want to get your feet first. So this was, what did you say? This was not shot out of a cannon like the old circus. No, it's a catapult. It's a catapult. That's a little different. Can you imagine? I always wondered, those people coming out of the cannons, like what's it like slithering down in there? Do you push off? This is a little bit different. But, I mean, I guess if you miss, you're dead anyway. So who cares? Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is all scientific.

1:41:19I'm saying if someone, you know, they don't calibrate this thing, right, and they throw you 80 ,000 feet over that path. Well, how fat can you be is what you're really asking. Yeah, there's probably a weight. I would assume they have that weight dial. Did I hear earlier, I thought Bruce was saying there were supposed to be seven guys that went in the first two, broken ankle and got a concussion.

1:41:33Pat McAfee:No, one of these guys got a broken ankle or a concussion. It was the second guy. And the rest of the five were like, you're not coming. These just randoms are pulling out of the crowd? Yeah. I think that's super duper flying Dutchman right there. These are stuntmen that sign up for it. And I'd like to say before I'm dead, I won't want this. Okay. We got room out back. We should do it. Yeah, I think we should. That would be sweet. I want a squirrel suit off a cliff. I won't want it. That's a bad idea. The squirrel suit? There's a great documentary on the show. You should do it. I watched that talk.

1:41:59Pat McAfee:Everybody ended up dying. You got like a 90 % chance of dying. Well, just don't try to – the proximity flying, that's what you can't do. Don't try to go eight feet off the mountain. Yeah, but that's how you get max speed. Yeah, that's the point. No, but also that's how I get my dope GoPro footage. Exactly. And it's 90 % mortality rate, but pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered. I only want to do one. Yeah, there you go. That's fine. I only want to do one. And one catapult thing here. No one's ever died on the first one. You're right. That's what I heard. Yeah. No drug smuggler from another country back in the day before 2001 ever got caught on the first drug smuggler.

1:42:34Pat McAfee:Exactly. It was always the 40th or 50th. That's right. And telling their story. You can do anything once. Anything. I don't know. I don't know about that. No, anything. I don't know if we should really check that. It's in the Bible. Those are things that weren't asked. Yeah. Hell yeah.

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1:43:53Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for our version of not good. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to hop on a train. That train's titled... Oh, no! Soccer captivates the world. Let's go to Bubba Gumpino's favorite team. Inter Miami. David Beckham owns them. MLS is back. Big bump. Oh, boy. You gotta be shitting me. Oh, no! Rios Novo, the goalie there, started 17 games last year. only won this year. I got a funny feeling he's not going to be on the same field Messi's on whenever he gets back from his break after the World Cup. Gumpy, how's this happen to Inter-Miami? Were you guys a little bit too nervous for the big soccer bump that came off the World Cup, pal?

1:44:36Yeah, Levandowski's first game for the Chicago Fire. He's kind of running in on the goal. He hasn't played in a long time. Inter-Miami bounced back, though, won this thing 3-2.

1:44:45Pat McAfee:Oh, did they? In spite of that, I don't know how you do that. I heard tens of TVs were turned off after this. Yeah, so there was millions still left on then? No, no, no. Messi wasn't playing. Nobody watched that fucking game. We did. The stadium was not good. That's my problem, though. We get all excited about World Cup. We were talking about it. I said, hey, I'm a Man City fan now. I'm going to watch Erling Haaland this year. I will. I'll do it. What's the first clip I see post-World Cup? I can go watch that at the church near me. Yeah, here on a Saturday with eight-year-old girls, and I don't even think they're going to do it.

1:45:18So, how often does this happen? His team won the league last year. They won the title. They won their title.

1:45:26Pat McAfee:Are you kidding me? I don't care. Our guy did this in the Belgium game. Yeah, I mean, I'm about sick of our goalies. I don't think this guy is necessarily. I heard he got booed. Yeah, he did get booed. People are saying America does love the game of football because their goalie got booed after what he did in the World Cup. Okay, Gumpy's trying to spin it as if it matters. I'm very worried about the Belgium game. I'm very worried about the final being the way it goes. I'm very worried about everything that's being said about Methi and that potential Argentinian team, and then that being the first showcase game back for the MLS.

1:45:5670 million, though, for the, what was that, the final? The final. ADUS is pretty good. Telemundo. Pretty good.

1:46:02Pat McAfee:Lads who were posted up on the bleachers behind us are now getting ready to go do their game. Game time. Good luck, boys. Good luck, boys. Good luck, boys. Who's at Puerto Rico? Hey! What's my bunny song? I tell my aunt I got a new girlfriend. I got a new girlfriend. Why I got so many girlfriends? Hey, good luck out there. Muchas gracias, amigos. I was the bunny at the World Cup halftime show. Because he got the Super Bowl. Yeah, because he got the Muppets there, right? Huh? Miss Piggy, what was that tie-in? Where? At the World Cup halftime show. Miss Piggy was there? Yeah, I don't know. There was like Muppets that would pop up.

1:46:43No, it's Ted Lasso. No, other than that, there was animals there. Everybody loves the Muppets. Hey, what's the crack, boys?

1:46:49Pat McAfee:What's the crack? Got some Irish lads back here. Yeah, good work, lads. Good work, lads. There's James McCulloughan. Yeah, Solange. There he is. Favorite player. And he got Padrego. You guys know McQuaid? Padrego McQuaid. Yeah, good luck, boys. Where do you go, Padrego? Do you guys know McQuaid? Michael McQuaid. Yeah, they do. NFL McQuaid. NFL McQuaid. Yeah, of course they do. They're all shaking their head. I'm a quid. He actually. PFI. All right. Let's. Brad Pitt of Ireland. Pro football. Hey, good luck, lads. Good luck, lads. Bob Mahan. Oh, there it is. That's the Brad Pitt of Ireland. He's the big daddy of Ireland.

1:47:28I'll tell you what. You're right.

1:47:29Pat McAfee:Big daddy. I saw him wearing a Batman mask. I'll tell you, if he starts walking around like that, we will certainly appreciate it. He does a show with Patrick McEnroe. That's right. Okay. Of the McEnroe tennis family. Yes. So big daddy's obviously coming to our life. Congrats to the Irish lads. Welcome to Indiana. Enjoy yourselves, boys. How old are you guys? 15. They're at home. They're already. Slugging pints again. There's a pump down the street, boys. Boys, no beers here, boys. No beers here, boys. Jeez Louise. These guys are going to have a crack. No, do not have a crack, lads. You end up in jail here.

1:47:59They were splitting the G as their celebration. All right, let's move along.

1:48:02Pat McAfee:Good crack, boys. Good crack. Seamus coming to actually play with these guys. Oh, that'd be fantastic. I get it. Thank you for Seamus doing that. Let's go to bike races. It's a triathlon world tour. Coolin is the guy's name. And I'll tell you what, he's trying to cool off. And the guy just couldn't get a water. How about this one? What's this guy got? Butter on his fingers? Got a bottle on his bike. Unbelievable. They've been doing this in biking since the beginning of time. Literally grabbing things. Whether it be like a salt pack so they can get some whatchamacallits. Electrolytes. They got the water.

1:48:39Pat McAfee:There's little packs you can suck. Tim McAfee used to do these types. there's so many things the handoff normally not a problem because it's like desperate not even think ah this guy dropping five straight bottles is sweet i i'll tell you that is certainly a big time oh no but every bottle giver who's there just to serve these bikers and loves them thinks that they're going to be the one that's going to be able to complete the handoff here and just one after another he bats that shit out of their hands it's almost like he's uh trolling them it's funny bang boom bang no comment from coolant about all the fooling out there while he was trying to cool down yeah i need a little bit of help from the people giving the water bottles you know i see a lot of stagnant people yeah you gotta go with it's like catching an egg you can't just catch an egg you gotta kind of move a little bit the one guy that tries to do it he skips actually uh right here this guy's moving with him instead he says oh okay never mind that was the last one he didn't get a chance to do it but earlier on on three here this guy tried to but yeah i mean tough scene Got to do that, unless it was strategy, and he was just trying to eliminate as many bottles as possible.

1:49:39Pat McAfee:Yeah, and potentially, you know, it is like a green turtle shell. Yeah. You know, like dropping down or maybe a banana. He might have been doing a little Mario Kart. We're not 100 % sure. We believe that race was in Singapore. We hope Koolan went on to finish, just kind of finish that race. I don't think he's winning. We watch him go. We go, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, oh. It sounded like a little bit of a 50-cal. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah. Lane's gun. That guy who fell off the gun. Let's go to the... Kicked off the building. Unbelievable. Let's go to the AFL, not Australia.

1:50:18Pat McAfee:This is the Arena Football League. Ref wants to get on the action, huh? You like it? Want to get eyes on it? How about getting a... Boom! Nowhere to go with those walls. Nowhere to go. That's got to be the number one cause of injury to refs, not being able to get out of the way because there's nowhere to go. So, AJ, how many times have you thought about doing this to a ref? That's the real thing. You will try to run through them on your way to the ball carrier at times. But this guy looked like his head banked right off this wall. I would imagine they're going to make these refs start wearing helmets like they do first and third base coaches now where they wear the little helmet.

1:50:49Pat McAfee:Yeah, and I hope it has a camera on it so we can at least get a POV of this guy getting demolished. Buddy, we're happy you're up and smiling. Thank you for being a good representative of football. Let's go to the 3M Open golf, shall we? You know, golf's game of inches, centimeters, if you will. Here is lovely Jake Knapp. We all know him. 171 par 3. Beautiful. Got it. What? Does that go in? Is that? Oh, no. Oh, no. Didn't go in. Oh, no. Let's stay in golf. Charlie Woods, this guy's just trying to do his own golf path. Turn it up.

1:51:26Pat McAfee:Where's the tournament? Jesus. Come on. A comic book photo sound. How do you even get that sound? It is backswing. Come on. As soon as we see it, we go, Charlie, it's going to be your life, but there's going to be a lot of cameras flashing. I don't know how the golf etiquette is going to be at some of these tournaments as you're trying to grind your way through it. And as soon as we heard the replay, because there was another angle that didn't have any sound, and we thought, wow, Charlie, oh, no, Charlie, can't be like that. Then we hear this angle, and we go, photo sound. Oh, no. How am I supposed to make a putt with this going on?

1:52:00Speaking of making a putt, let's go to the LPGA.

1:52:03Pat McAfee:They're over in Scotland. Oh, boy. Charlie Hall, we obviously are a big fan of her. She will smoke on the course, and she will certainly beat the hell out of a golf course. This time, course got her. This is a putt for Birdie. Okay. Hold on. Rolling. Gone. That's a tough pin place. Yeah, it is. That's the Scottish Open, though. They want to find the greatest LPGA golfer out there in the world. She's got a chip now. How's that go? Right back to her. Okay. This is a hunk situation taking place. She does it again. What happens? Back to her. She would go on to get a nine. Oh, with a birdie putt? Yeah, and he can't help but just go, oh, no.

1:52:44Pat McAfee:Hopefully have a couple. I know what they call it over there. I'm not going to call it. No. Right. Can't call it that. What do they call it, H? I was going to ask you, Tone, honestly. I'm not sure what he's even talking about. I think they say it a lot in Ohio. They picked up some English vernacular. Yeah, I don't know if they're talking about SIGs all the time, but I hope she had a couple SIGs. I hope she went on to do good. We love you, Charlie. That's a big, oh, no. SEO No Train, and that's our show on this Feel Good Friday. Thank you to the NFL for inviting us to this. Thank you to the ESPN production crew that pieced this together.

1:53:18Pat McAfee:Thank you to Mike Foss. Thank you, Mike Foss. Mike Foss is happy. Mike Fossett. And thank you to all of you for allowing us to do this for a living. If it wasn't for all of you, we wouldn't have the greatest jobs on earth. Have the greatest weekend of all time. It's going to be the best weekend because it's the next weekend. And we'll be back for every action Monday. Enjoy your life. Enjoy sports. Boys, great work this week. You too, brother. Team, thank you for hanging out with us. You guys have the greatest weekend of all time. Goodbye. That was a good send-off. We got the Irish lads. The Jets team is trying to get on the camera again.

1:54:00Pat McAfee:Are you 10? Come on, man. I saw you guys win. Congrats to your Jets. Congrats to your Jets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We did it. They know where their hard cam is at all times. You guys won? Yeah, yeah, we won. Okay. Hey. Okay. A lot of good highlights, boys. I enjoyed the hell out of it. What up, man? How you doing, dude? Congrats to you guys. Good luck the rest of the way. Thank you for coming to Indiana. We hope you enjoy it all. Cheers, boys. Nice. Living their best life. How old are you guys? How old are you guys? Hey, how old are you guys? 14 U. He's back on that camera. Back on that camera.

1:54:38Pat McAfee:I don't know. How come when we were growing up it was U14, but now it's 14 U? I had the same question. I think football does different than soccer. So it's 14 under or is it under 14? I don't know, but I think soccer still does U14. I think it's 14 and under. I don't get all worked up about it, but I think soccer still does the U14. And I don't think they put the and sign in there. I think they dropped the and. They need the ampersand. Drop the the. Great work out of you. Thank you. You too. Way to pull that out. I'm a big ampersand guy. You know what? Good work out of you this week, Tony. You too.

1:55:05Baby Boney. Good work, Tony. Shut up, Foxy. Good work, Tony. Giggs, baby.

1:55:11Pat McAfee:Diggs is his name, yes. Hey, Toxic Table, good work out of you guys this week. Hey, good work out of you. Good work, guys. Great work, Pat. Thanks. Yeah. It was hot in the streets this week. Yeah? You want to patronize them too, Foxy, or what? Just another week, you know. What? What's going on here? Album coming soon. Sweet day you got to announce that. August 14th, good week. Hope everybody enjoy. I see a lot of early reviews on people that have never heard it. That's going to happen. I'm excited for everybody. Yeah, it's pretty good. Never heard it. There's only been a few people that have heard that thing.

1:55:43Pat McAfee:I'm excited to hear how it goes. I'm very proud of them. I think they're a good song. They are. The people that are doing the music for Ryan are really talented. One of them is Russian. From the space station? But he's not a commie. Got a mustache Russian man really on top of it a lot. And I'll tell you, he's working some wizardry on this thing. Did he have to build your trust because he's Russian? No, the things that were said about him before I met him kind of built the trust. People vouched. Yeah, a lot of people vouched. Like, yeah, he was here for this. He did this. he was part of this he did this he did this and then you just start hearing the names it's like wow i can't believe this guy wants to work on my and then all of a sudden he's a fan of our show have you asked him about the moon yet like did we land there or we beat him there yeah sorry second place second place that's the second ref that's coming in our uh yeah the refs are just pooping there i get it is that real yeah yeah i believe so like during the break you guys are all waiting out because you couldn't get there was a bingo there's a ref in there you're welcome Hey, anything for the good of the tournament?

1:56:47Exactly.

1:56:47Pat McAfee:We are just thankful to be here. We hope we are a part of maybe spotlighting how special flag football has become and also how awesome Indiana is at hosting stuff. A.J. Hawk, great work this week out of you, buddy. Good to be here. Remember, was it last week we saw the guy who crawled into that toilet and would not come out? I'm Italian. I can't touch that flag. Give that back to Patrick. I'll take it. Yeah. Hell yeah. If there was red instead of orange. I'm an American lad for sure, but certainly what's a crack, you know, if you're over there. To the Irish lads who come over here, appreciate you boys, man.

1:57:23Pat McAfee:How's the team? How's the game? You guys play good? You guys are in the internationals. How'd you do? Who'd we beat? Who'd we lose to? Beat China. Beat China? Love it! Love it! Good job. They love it. That's what's up! China's here? China's set a team, really? Woo! That's my suit, bro. Actually, that's my suit, bro. That's my suit, bro. That's my suit, bro. Congrats, boys. Congrats, boys. Hell yeah. Here, you want your flag back, yes? Lad, lad, you want your flag? Oh. You can keep it. We got 1 ,000 of these. Oh, fuck that. You keep it. Appreciate you, lads. You can't drink here. That's true, the flag?

1:58:03You can't drink here, boys.

1:58:05Pat McAfee:Yeah. Waters. Drink water, you. I can tell the little red-headed light. Yeah, you can tell. He's pining for an ice-cold Guinness right now. That backpack's full of... Yeah. 15. I went over and played soccer in Europe at 14, 15 years old. Yeah. Just such an interesting little... It's basically 20. Nice little caveat. It's basically 21. Yeah. I'm putting Tullamore Dew in their Cheerios. Yeah, that was a good time. Hey, in the truck, great work this week, pal. Good work, boys.

1:58:36Pat McAfee:Foxy, you really crushed it this week, didn't you? Yeah, Foxy. Good work, lads. Good work, Foxy. This was a good week. Monday through Friday. Bruce, incredible stuff. I know you got married in Croatia, so we can't ask your thoughts on how Conor's wedding is going to go because you were in a movie, actually. We would like to ask Gumpy his thoughts, though. Gumpy, your thoughts on Conor's big wedding this weekend and his celebration of love, Gumpsh? Yeah, pretty fired up to see one of the lads get married here. Super happy for him. Super happy for us to have some booze cocktails as well. If we could turn up Gumpy's mic, we might be able to hear him.

1:59:10Pat McAfee:I wish we could do that I think he said something really good there Love you Gump I'm excited too man Can you hear Gump? I can't hear him Actually if you take him out a little It helps Is Gumpy really loud? Really loud I'd say 10x everybody else I don't know what's going out Clear Didn't sound like he was in a walkie talkie Nope Thank you all for hanging out with us We can get the hell out of here. Thank you, guys. Go enjoy your lives, please. I can't believe you guys stood here. Very grateful you did. This ball is awesome. It's a great ball. It's baby Duke. Yeah. I need to take this. Wonderful.

1:59:52Pat McAfee:It's nice and grippy. I already got tips on that one. And you can spin it, and you can catch it easy. I mean, this is a... Oklahoma's. Yep.

2:00:01Pat McAfee:Coach got in the Super Bowl. Oh, shit. You are right. Keep dreaming, son. Okay, lad. You're in for a life of disappointment, my friend. How old are you, buddy? How old are you? Ten. Hope you guys feel good. Yeah, ten. I feel bad. I'm going to sugarcoat it. I talk shit to my daughter every night. She's got to learn how to deal with it. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, that's certainly in the Giglio household. Probably in the McAfee household as well. We hope they are able to handle it because the Colts are going to the Super Bowl. And that kind of leads me to this. Football is the greatest. I mean, I didn't even know you could do something like this in the middle of summer to celebrate ball as much as we're certainly doing.

2:00:36Pat McAfee:We just found out somebody's here from China. Yeah. China, Spain, Germany, Ireland. A whole bunch of them. Got the whole world here celebrating our sport, and we're so incredibly proud of it all. We're very lucky and thankful to be here. We cannot wait to be back on Monday. We hope you have the greatest weekend of all time. There's huge things happening this weekend in the world of sports. Foxy, tell them about what's happening this weekend in the world of sports. Oh. Cut to you, please. Golf. We have golf. 3M open. Scotty. Minnesota. Scotty Scheffler's there. If you saw, he played his pro-am with Kevin O 'Connell.

2:01:07Pat McAfee:He did not ask him who the quarterback was going to be, but he did ask him some football questions. I like that. You guys can watch that. Okay, thank you guys. Brickyard's here. Brickyard 400's happening in Indianapolis. Obviously NASCAR. Blaney and Hamlin, Mr. McMasters from Canada, told me, it's probably a two-horse race between those two. But he said, don't sleep on Keselowski. And then he said. He doesn't think Keselowski's going to win, but, oh, man, he'd love him. What about MJ's guy? Didn't he win like six races? That's Hamlin, damn it. No, that's the other guy. No. That's the other guy.

2:01:36Then he is Jordan-sponsored. Was that guy's name? Haney? No, we had him on the show. Yeah, we did. Jordan's behind him. What's that guy's damn name? I got another one to watch this week. Tyler. Tyler Reddick. Tyler Hubbard. Tyler Hubbard. Tyler Reddick. Tyler Hubbard's Florida Georgia line legend.

2:01:52Pat McAfee:Do not do what you just did. Tyler Reddick. Tyler Reddick. We got it. Somebody told him in his ear, it sounds like you were really confident. No, I am very confident because I remember. It was JJ's brother. That's how we knew. No relation. Is that his name? Tyler Reddick. Yeah, sure. Shout out to Rich Paul answering his phone today whenever big news happened and getting LeBron on the show today. Let's try and do that. Yeah. Let's try and get LeBron on today. We'll try for next week just to see how that all goes. Congrats to him. Congrats to the Sixers. Congrats to us. Congrats to sports. Congrats to everybody.

2:02:21Pat McAfee:Congrats. And obviously, before we go, we have to spotlight the WNBA All-Star weekend. Fuck yeah, let's go. Team Coop. Pardon my French. Another team. Spoon. Yeah, Coop and Spoon. Coop and Spoon battle. Three-point shooting contest got a lot of hype and a lot of noise around it. Sabrina said she wasn't invited. Yeah, pretty much. And then one of the other girls who got invited basically said, like, yeah, it was like the most half-assed thing ever, how they invited me. And now rumors are coming out that they kind of want Angle Stone out. Her name's Engelbert. She's the commissioner of the WNBA.

2:02:56I saw on the bottom line this morning, I was shocked for one. But that's pretty much the hot soap update for the WNBA.

2:03:04Pat McAfee:Kathy Engelbert was very good to us, has been on our show. Kind of think Dan Patrick was talking shit about us whenever he was doing his entire thing about how hard his questions are and everything like that. So we appreciate it for that. On that note, it does feel like there is building momentum for maybe a nice refresh. and if her legacy as the WNBA commissioner is negotiating that incredible meteorite steel that she was able to get done, I think that would be a successful run as a WNBA commissioner, but they are certainly riding that bucking bull of being brand new into everybody's conversation with superstars and how you can do it.

2:03:38Pat McAfee:And Caitlin Clark's the epicenter of it, obviously. And the way that's all gone, people are wondering, how is this what's going on? I believe in Kathy. I like Kathy. I appreciate Kathy for what she's done for us, but it does feel like that decision gets made by people that aren't you. And that's kind of the life as a commissioner. But once again, the media deal. Good deal. Nobody's talking about that. No, no, no, no. Not anymore. Yeah, not anymore. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. Kathy, you did great on the media deal, if that's all it is. And if you get back in the saddle, continue to be in the saddle, and you figure it all out, how to make this league as big as possible, they're still going to find reasons not like it, but we do think you should do that.

2:04:15Pat McAfee:Right? Yeah, of course. For sure. Hang your hat on that. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. We're in this thing together. Shout out to the crew here. Shout out to everybody. Team on me. Team on three. For the good of sport, baby. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited premium wireless for$15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made$15 bills. But it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch.

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