The Pat McAfee Show Live | Friday November 14th 2025

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start damn it. >> Be a friend. Tell a friend something. nice could change their life. [Music]. >> Welcome. Feel good Friday, November. 14th. This is the Pat McAfee Show. I'm. AJ Hawk sitting in for Pat here at his. desk in Indie. He's in Pittsburgh. Huge. matchup, boys. >> FOOTBALL. >> IT'S WHAT WE'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT. Last. night, obviously, the New Engan Patriots. take on the New York Jets. The Patriots. get a nice decisive victory. What? 13.

points, I believe. Is that right, boys? And the line was what, 12 and a half? Funny how that funny how that seems to. uh to play a factor. Those guys seem to. always know what's going on when it. comes to the sports world. Drake May, another solid solid performance. Trayvon. Henderson, three touchdowns. Unbelievable as a rookie stepping in, playing well. Boston, Boston Connor. especially. You guys feeling pretty uh. pretty damn good about yourselves, aren't you? >> Yeah, no doubt about it. I have a. [ __ ] grin on my face for a long long. time. It was a hell of a night. Could. have been a little more dominant, but. hey, it's a win. You go from 8 and two.

to 92. That's the only thing that. matters. >> It is a win. Pat, what's going on, man? I know you got a nice beautiful setup. over there at Aquaure Stadium, buddy. >> AJ, I appreciate that. Every time I. bring you on to the show, you know, I. let the world know you're a college. football national champion or a Super. Bowl champion or a Rder Cup winner. You. know, I appreciate you just saying you. hell with it, Pat. You're standing. somewhere. That is incredible. I. appreciate you, AJ. You're the greatest. Thank you for traveling to Indiana. You. look good, brother. You look very, Jack. You're the best. Now, let's talk tables. Boston Connor is obviously very excited.

That New England Patriots team was able. to say hello to the world last night. And I don't think it was just the boys. on the field. Now, obviously, that's a. talented young bunch. I mean, Trace Vion. Henderson going for three touchdowns and. them being behind the left side of that. offensive line, which is a rookie left. tackle and a rookie left guard and a. rookie running back running it in from. the handoff of a secondyear quarterback. It's like all the pillar positions are. seemingly up and to the right for a. long, long time. And then you think.

about Mike Vrabel being the perfect. supreme commander of this team. It felt. like we've watched it all season through. Connor's eyes. You know, when we're. watching the Colts games and Connor's. down there wearing his Patriots gear in. the Indianapolis Colts stadium and he's. watching the game behind us, we hear him. losing his mind to the team. Not just. this year, but in years past as well. This year felt different from the. beginning. It felt like Mike Frabel had. the boys ready to roll. And they talked. all night about how, hey, there's a lot. of first times happening for a lot of.

guys on the Patriots. And Mike Frabel. might be the perfect guy to lead them. He's one of the coaches who feels like. he's still in the locker room. He's the. alpha of the locker room after the game. as the tunnel is kind of there. All. Frabel's doing is dapping up literally. every single human as they come back. into the locker room. He clearly has a. personal connection with everybody. And. I think Drake May is special. I I think. uh I'm not the only one saying that. Obviously, he's the odds on favorite for. an MVP. And not only does he I think in. the first half he was like 14 of 16. I I.

think he damn near had a perfect first. half. And it's like he's in his second. year, first year with Josh McDaniels. He's only going to get better. But every. decision he makes is seemingly right. Everybody was worried about his. fundamentals and his technique, that new. ball whenever he was coming out of UNCC. because he's a freak athlete. Well, turns out if you work on it and you're. really, really athletic. You can figure. it out while also having the ability to. extend plays. That play obviously. spectacular. There was one to the right. where he's almost out of bounds and he. shot puts it to Stfan Diggs for a first. down and it's like the shot put even had.

a perfect spiral on it somehow. So, this. dude is only going to get better somehow. and uh this Patriots team is special. And Connor, I appreciated the fact that. the New Englanders were able to. celebrate that thing. That was late in. the game. We all kind of knew it was. over and that place was filled to the. gills. I love the Patriots fans are able. to remind everybody, uh, yeah, we still. got it and yeah, we're back. Is that how. you felt watching the game, Connor? And. obviously now looking back on it, we.

should have sent your ass to this game. I apologize for not thinking about that. earlier. >> I do not apologize. The Jets are not. worth my time, but yes, that is exactly. uh how I think everybody feels in New. England. The the team being all the way. back is one thing, but the fans being. all the way back is a whole another. thing. I mean, look at these throws. If. you look up in the stands, everyone's. standing as well. They're not just. sitting there to, you know, watch the. game. They're there to be a part of the. game. And I think that is a big thing in. New England sports. It's they want the.

home field advantage across all four of. the major sports, but especially. football cuz football, it just means. more. Um, you mentioned all the young. guys and how awesome it is. I think the. left guard Jared Wilson, rookie from. Georgia, shout out Kirby, smart bloody. Tuesdays. He had like a perfect, you. know, all the stats people perfect, whatever the hell you want to call it. Pass protection, run blocking, the whole. nine yards. Will Campbell, I mean, they. they did a spotlight on Will Campbell. verse Will McDonald. And Will McDonald's. a great player. I believe he ended up.

getting a sack actually, but Will. Campbell held his own and and that was a. huge thing. Not not just against the. Jets, just all season long. And then he. buries uh Michael Clemens. It's after. this on a on a little swim move from. Michael Clemens, who I believe is a vet. We saw him walking in with a bat and. spikes around it when Aaron Rogers was. playing with the Jets. So, it's not as. if he's just some guy. He He's a bit of. a dog, but Will Campbell is a bigger. dog. And the postgame, first of all, Amazon has the best pregame halftime and.

postgame show in the business by far. But. >> I agree, by the way. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. They're they're very they're worth. watching, I think. >> Yes. They're worth staying up for like. both with the players, but they also. just do stuff that you don't think. about. Now, bringing a Ryan Fitzpatrick. in from New York when there's probably. 2,000 different Ryan Fitz Magics. littered throughout Massachusetts. What. are you going to do? But still hilarious. that they did that in that post game. though. You know, they asked May about. Mike Vrabel and everything he means to.

him. And you know, May talks about how. he helps me. He's coached me on the. sideline, not just with throwing the. ball, but with everything it takes to be. a quarterback. And May says in it too, like, "Yeah, I'm taking the next three. days off. I'm not going to be there till. Monday." And Vable actually talked about. too, you know, hey, look, I'm 50. The. these guys I'm coaching, you mentioned. it Pat, they're rookies. They're 21, 22, 23. My youngest son is 23. So, it does. feel almost like a fatherly supreme. leader to to what you said. And to what. Drake May mentioned about not being.

there, you know, for three straight. days, I was kind of like, "All right, well, don't love that, Drake. It's cool. we're 9 and2, but you can you can easily. still finish 9 and 8. It is the NFL. But. then Mike Frael had this to say in the. locker room after the victory. >> Listen to me. I want to recognize a. couple of things. Okay, so we're giving. one clap. Pile push touchdown. >> And then the last one is fourth down and. three. Del Pedestabell. [Applause]. >> And I would say you could file Dell.

under the guys that just take advantage. of their opportunities. >> Okay. I would file Dell on a guy that. takes advantage of his opportunities. So, we know what that leads to, okay? More opportunities. Fellas, let me just. tell you real quick one thing. After 11. games, we got three days off, okay? When. we got here, okay, we wanted to put a. program together for you, okay? And that. not just me and the coaching staff or. the players, okay? That's everybody in. this building, okay? So before you leave. here, okay, with the treatment and the.

equipment and the video and everybody. around us, okay, I'm thanking you for. where we're at right now, okay? We all. got a long way to go, okay? And you guys. are going to help us get there, okay? Together. But that was the plan. Not. just the players, not just the coaches, the entire program, okay? Everything we. do, okay, we're doing to help you to go. out there and make plays, to perform, and to ultimately win. Okay? Man, I'm. proud to be your coach and I appreciate. how hard you play, okay? But I'm also. going to enjoy a couple days away from. you.

Enjoy this now, man. Be safe. See y'all, boys on Monday. Love you guys, man. Hey, Pat me. PAT ON THREE. 1 2 3. >> I LOVE THAT. Pats on me. Hey, I love. that. Pats on me. Pats on three. And I. appreciate the fact that they've had a. long road here to start this season, you. know? So, these three days, I think. Vreyel also AJ is maybe showing these. guys how to be pros. Like, hey, we have. a Thursday night game. If you want to. take the next couple days off, it's the. middle of the season. We've had a long. run thus far. You could certainly do. that. I'm gonna get the hell away from. you. Now, there's going to be work put.

in though because I think that's a team. that they're building. I just appreciate. his leadership and I appreciate the. buyin that we see seemingly from. everywhere Vrabel is AJ. >> Yeah. I mean, for young people that. might not know of Vrabel as a player in. New England, like he was an unbelievable. player. We know that. Could there be a. better fit for a head coach of a. franchise when you think of the NFL and. you think of Mike Vrey? Like the fact. that he's there and that they were able, you know, they had Mayo for a year. obviously didn't really work how they. planned and to bring him in it's like. such a seamless transition. Are are. things going too well for the Patriots? Guys like Boston Connor getting nervous,

you think? >> No, I don't know if things are going too. well. I think they're only going to get. better and I think that's the fear of. every other team that the evil empire is. back up. >> Are these Patriots Pat? Sorry to cut you. off. Are these Patriots easier to root. for maybe than the old Patriots, though? Or is this a team where the I guess. nationwide, not just in Boston? >> Well, so I think Tom Brady did a little. bit of a babyface play, right? Tom Brady. whenever he uh kind of retired did a. little bit of a babyface play cuz he was. out of the Evil Empire. I think we saw. them fail uh a little bit. We saw Boston.

people, Massachusetts people, Revolution. Region people kind of have to go through. it a little bit in football, turn their. attention to basketball again. Yeah, we. got Celtics. So, >> yep. you know, whatever the case is. So, I I think we all got to experience that. and then we watched with Gerrod Mayo and. I think, you know, not a lot of people. thought Drake May was going to be good. So, it feels like Drake May is maybe an. underdog story. We saw Vrabel get fired. from the Titans. I think we all think. the Titans are stupid for that. Everybody kind of agreed with that. So, it's almost a couple redemption stories. for some people that I think we're.

naturally going to get behind. But, if. the Patriots win a couple times here. now, they start making some real runs in. which looks like they're going to, everybody will hate them again. I I I I. think that is very clear and I I think. that's what you heard from one half of. the hammer. >> Cowboys AP tone. Is that what your. takeaway is that you like the Patriots. right now and you're planning on hating. them or that they're all the way back. and they're going to be a part of the. picture and people are going to. inevitably hate them again? >> Correct. The the latter of those. situations and it's strictly because. it's not the people because Braves is.

awesome. Absolutely love Mike Rabel. Drake May's awesome. Trayvon Henderson's. awesome. Will Campbell's awesome. Everyone on the team is awesome. But the. colors and the team and you can't you. can't like or root for a team that's. already won six Super Bowls in the last. 25 years. Like that's just not something. you can do if you are a football fan of. another team. Like we can't like them, okay? Please let the people on there. awesome. You can root for them. individually, but as a team you cannot. root for them. >> The Patriots though seemingly likable to.

me. >> Yeah, very much so. No, I don't I don't. I don't want to I don't want to burst. the old let's hate him uh bubble cuz I. would certainly see how that would make. sense. But even Trayvon Henderson, I. heard him talk after the game. First. time I've ever heard him speak. Have you. ever did you know that? Did have you? He's maybe the most humble person I've. heard talk. Oh yeah. Drake May speaks. Most humble person that you hear speak. from a quarterback, especially one who's. the odds on favorite to win the MVP at. this point of the season in his second. year. Even coming out of college, it's. like youngest of three brothers. Younger. younger younger brother kind of beat.

down. And I don't think he's ever going. to become some arrogant prick, you know, like I don't think that's ever going to. take place. And then Vrabel is a guy. that I think we all believe we'd like to. have a beer or whiskey or maybe smoke. sig. an entire tin of cope with, you know, like that. >> I do think it is a very like like crew. And then Stfan Diggs even. >> I think Stefan Diggs because of. everything that has kind of happened in. the past, there's maybe one belief about. him and he's in a very very very. loud relationship. Congrats to them. I.

think I found. >> congrats to them having a baby and uh. both of them obviously publicly. relationships and personal lives have. been documented. They seemingly are. having a good time together and uh. anytime two people find love and. happiness together, we are happy for. them. So, congrats to them on doing. that. But Stefan Diggs buying into this. team completely like there's never any. [ __ ] And last night he goes for 10 and. some yards on nine catches. It's like. Drake May understands who Stfan Diggs. is. People are saying that Stfan Diggs. is back to being the Stfan Diggs that. you thought he was going to be on the.

field. And it's like with Vrabel, it. feels like you have a guy that Stfan. Diggs, you know, probably respects, I. think. So, like I I I think there's a. chance that it all just kind of goes. very swimmingly for them. They even have. their own handshake. We even do our own. handshake. They went backhand there. I. don't know if you saw that. He did slap. hug with everybody else. Literally. everybody else, including equipment. staff with Stefon Diggs, they go back. Yeah. A little soft on that thing. Backhand on that. So it's like when you. talk about like chemistry superstars to. brand new guys everybody's bought in. it's like.

here's Stefan Force's like stats by the. way I mean Hembo sent him for some stats. I just saw these down on the on the. thing Stfan Diggs force multiplier 2019. 2020 Bill scoring offense went from 23rd. to second whenever he arrived Allen's. QBR rank went from 24th to third okay. with his arrival now granted Josh Allen. got a lot better in the offseason he. didn't have a lot of accuracy deep balls. Stefon Dig certainly helped that and now. 2024 to 2025 Patriots The scoring. offense goes from 30th to eighth and May. QBR goes from 17th to fourth. Once. again, Drake May put in a lot of work. Josh McDaniels, we assume, is a much.

better offensive coordinator, but Stefon. Diggs comes in and helps a lot and I. think they respect and appreciate him. So hopefully, you know, there's not the. other side of the entire thing, right. Con man? That's kind of the openness. >> Yeah, exactly. And I think that just. goes back to Vable. You know, Stefon. Diggs isn't on a, you know, the signing. was three years, $60 million, but that's. not how the contract was laid out. It. was a prove it deal. It was more so like. a one-year $14 million deal. Hey, let's. see if you can earn all that money. And.

he did. He earned everything that, you. know, he is going to get because of, you. know, what Mike Vrabel was able to get. him to buy into. I believe there was a. report that uh Diggs actually chose the. Patriots over the Broncos in this off. seasonason, which to me is a massive. deal because going into the season, everyone was kind of aware the Broncos. with Shawn Payeyton that offense was. going to get it done. And it's nice that. Vrabel was able to kind of open Stefon. Diggs's eyes to how much better Drake. May is than Bo Knicks. But that that's. the biggest deal for me is that just.

Diggs is one of those players that had. this reputation of being a diva, of. being a wide receiver of and you're. still getting it for me. I'm still. getting it on the internet. Well, just. wait, you know, when it's week 15 or. it's the playoffs and he only has two. catches. No, that is not how Mike Vrabel. operates. And I think Stefon Diggs. understands that. And he also knows at. this point in his career, he's being. called the diva, the receiver, the. primadonna, all those things. So the. biggest thing for him is winning, is. kind of proving to basically everybody.

else that he's not just a, hey, if I. don't get my catches, if I don't get my. touches, I'm going to be pissed off. It. is about winning for Stefon Diggs. And. that's showing up right now. It's. incredible. >> Yeah. And then on the flip side, AJ, you. know, there's a tough offense on the other. side. Now, hey, they walk right down the. field. Yeah. >> Hey, they walk right down the field. whenever they get the ball. Seven. nothing New York Jets. Hold the phone. I. heard Con man say earlier today, is. there a prop bet for them to have. negative offensive rushing or negative.

offensive yards as a whole? They start. the game, walk right down the field, score a touchdown, hold the phone. Maybe. the Jets are going to be dynamic. Maybe. the Jets are going to spoil this New. England Patriots prime time. Hello to. the world that we are once again the. team in the NFL. That's why I thought. there early and I'm like I should have. known there was too. We were way too. loud. We were way too loud. Way too loud. about the Patriots just beating hell. And then the game ends. Uh Patriots. cover the under hits and the other team. is now uh on a rate that would be.

historically terrible. So when when when. you think about what's going on with the. New York Football Jets, okay, they're. averaging a league low 139.9 passing. yards per game. That'd be the lowest in. the NFL since the 2022 Bears. 130 and a. half. Who's worse? Uh Justin Fields. quarterback. I like Justin Fields. I don't want to. bury Justin Fields. >> Okay, I'm not going to bury Justin. Fields. I like Justin Fields. >> Great athlete, good dude, works hard. They told Aaron Rogers, "Get the [ __ ]. out of here." Okay, that's what they.

told Aaron Rogers to do. Now, I'm not. saying Aaron Rodgers is going to win the. MVP this year, but they in their mind. were moving on to a new quarterback. Quarterback's most important position. They seemingly without even having a. conversation with Aaron Rogers, they had. made up their mind, we're getting him. the hell out of here. Yep. What are you. gonna do at quarterback? Well, we'll get. somebody better for sure. We'll. definitely do that. Then there was. multiple quarterbacks that were. available this offseason. Obviously, we. saw some moves happen and some OGs go. take places. Joe Flacco is just kind of. hanging out to potentially available. wherever you're talking at. So, whenever.

you think about what they did, they made. a decision on a quarterback. They paid. Justin Fields $30 million. They outbid. the Pittsburgh Steelers on Justin Fields. and they've already this is going to be. their quarterback. So, the conversation. now is like, well, the Jets have all. these picks and uh they're going to be. able to rebuild this and they get rid. of, you know, the the old money and now. they'll have new money. It's like, who. says that these people are making the. right decisions in the most important. part, Ty? Who who what how am I judging.

that way too harshly? Because I think we. were just so close to the story with. Aaron coming on saying I fly four and a. half hours to this meeting. Like the way. Aaron talked about this, Aaron was cool. with whatever would have stayed there. I'm not saying they should have kept. him. We were very okay with them moving. on. But just like they seemingly made a. decision, we're getting a new. quarterback and they chose Justin Fields. to be the quarterback and now it's going. how it's going. So who says that they're. going to be able to just choose the. right one? I I think that's a much. harder decision than many people are. talking about, Tai Schmid. >> Yeah, without a doubt. And I think they.

actually like we we talked about this at. the start of the season. It kind of came. from the Jets building and then from a. lot of people who were talking about the. Jets as a whole. Like the primer was. basically, hey, we're going to have to. play really good defense. We're going to. have to run the ball and we can't turn. the ball over. Like they knew Justin. Fields wasn't going to be a guy who was. going to throw for a bunch of yards and. throw a lot of touchdowns. And I just in. the NFL now like that is not a formula. you can you can't throw for 138 yards a. game and win. You just can't. And he's. obviously dynamic. what he can do with. his legs. And I don't know if you need.

to go to, hey, can you imagine maybe. this guy takes an off seasonason and. tries to be like a receiver or something. because when he does have the ball in. his hands, he's electric. But to your. point, like does it matter how many I. mean we were talking about this a little. bit out there and it's just like do you. think any of these guys that we see in. this upcoming draft class or you can. even do the next one. Are you confident. in if the Jets were to take one of those. guys that who they have in place is. going to be able to get that guy to a. point where they can restore the. franchise to where it was what 25 30.

years ago? Like I don't think you can. make that case right now. It seems like. no matter who they get in there, they. are doomed to fail. Yeah, an evaluation I think is a big. piece of building your team, especially. if you're planning on rebuilding your. entire team. And I'm just saying there's. been a couple decisions we've already. seen him make that seemingly not going. the best. You know, there there is I. don't want to be the bearer of bad news. for the Jets for the future because I. believe in Aaron Glenn. Mr. Muji, you. know, okay, I assume he's going to a.

great name. I mean, Muji is a great. name. You can certainly get bougie with. Muji, but it's like we're going to find. out. And this is the same way I was. talking about goodun when I'm like we're. gonna find out when he hadn't made a lot. of decisions. He decided to move on from. Baron. So this is not me just talking uh. in a new fashion. It's just like what do. we know about this team? What do we know. about this franchise? What do we know. about this organization? Well, we know. before these guys not good. And with. these guys we're assuming going to be. good just strictly because we believe in. Aaron Glenn. Is that kind of why? Because I believe in Aaron Glenn. Is. that why we're kind of believing in the.

right decisions being made? We see bad. decisions made all the time AJ. Like. there in the NFL, there's bad decisions. made all the time. >> Every single day. >> And what if it happens again for the. Jets? >> Exactly. That's if you don't evaluate, if you don't, you can build up all these. picks you want. If you don't bring in. the right people, like you you continue. to set your whole franchise back another. year. Like it's just uh. >> Yeah, they have they got to figure. something out pretty quick. I feel like. >> they're paying them $20 million this. year, $10 million guaranteed next year, $30 million in total to be the. quarterback for the Jets. and maybe.

they're just kind of looking to next. year and they have good eyes, we've been. told and they'll be able to find a. talent that maybe we can't. Speaking of. the talent, we are standing in a state I. am standing in a stadium here that is. obviously held. >> a lot of talent on this. >> ass grass field down. I will I will say the grass field down. here looks spectacular. I think the. spray painters were probably out all. night last night. But on that note, this. place is going to be electrifying. tomorrow. And you Connor, don't you have. some stats on pit football's history.

here as we get set up with the man. that's been leading it for now 11. seasons at this point? Conor, man, this. this University of Pittsburgh, although, you know, hasn't hosted College Game Day. on a Saturday for 20 years. And although. they haven't, you know, maybe been in. the national championship game in the. last long time, they create legends. around here. And they have won national. championships here. And it feels like. there's a little special thing brewing. with this new QB. Con man, tell the. people a little bit about the University.

of Pittsburgh football program, can you? >> Oh, absolutely. Yeah, Pit. Uh, we were. kind of looking into it. First of all, I. had no idea they had this many Hall of. Famers. Uh, Tony Dorset, Larry. Fitzgerald, Aaron Donald, Dan Marino, Mike Dicka, Bill Freighic, Mark May, Lean McCoy. Not sure if LS McCoyy's in. the Hall of Fame just yet, but still. notable alumni. Curtis M. Martin, Tony. Sarah Gusa. No, I'm not just reading. that for the first time. Holy [ __ ] Tony. Sarrausa went there. Let's go. Derell. Rivas. Uh James Connor, of course, still.

bringing it. Notable pit coaches. Pop. Warner. Come on now. Everybody play Pop. Warner. You guys know where it started. Started in pit, baby. Uh nine national. titles for the Pit Panthers, top 20 in. alltime FBS wins, 12th most college. football hall of fame inductees. I mean, the the list kind of goes on and on. And. not to mention, you know, it's in the. beautiful city of Pittsburgh, baby. I. mean, they're they share they share a. facility with the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's kind of the coolest thing of all. time when you're talking about college.

football teams and what you're trying to. grow into a professional football. player. So, I mean, Pep Panthers, don't. look now, but they uh they're kind of. rolling, Hawker. >> Yeah, don't look now. Pat, what's uh I. know you guys got set up there with. another legend there at Aquaure Stadium. What's going on, >> ladies and gentlemen? Uh the man who has. led this 7-2 number 23 ranked Pit. Panther football team this year and for. the last 11 seasons I believe as a whole. head coach Pat Orzi.

>> It was a little delay on the clap. I. didn't like that either. Coach, how are. you feeling bub? >> I feel great. >> Huge weekend it feels like for your. football program, but obviously just. next weekend for you. Is that the. mindset? >> That is the mindset. You know, it's just. another game for us. Um you know, we're. we're excited. You know, we got a great. team coming in here. We got a great. football team. Should be a great show. tomorrow. >> Okay. So, let's talk about what you said. earlier in the week. You stepped in it a. little bit. Yeah. >> It's Hey, I'm Italian. Yeah. Italian. You're going to step in it a little bit. I'm going to step in a little bit. We. step in it. You know what I'm saying? >> I step in it all the time. But also you.

I think what your intent was, what you. would later say is like I wanted my team. and everybody to know like, hey, for us, our season is not derailed by whatever. happens on Saturday. But obviously. national audience immediately hears that. and goes, "What is this guy even saying? How how do you kind of get to the point. of what your messaging is, what your. mindset is, and how you're trying to. kind of build a narrative each week? >> Hey, the the most important thing is our. football team. We got a great football. team. Um most important thing is our. guys in that room in our team room and. and their belief. And I think our guys. got a ton of belief in what we have.

abilitywise, you know, for tomorrow at. noon. And uh that's the only thing. matters is what our kids think. >> Yeah, I think so too. I we we started. chat about it yesterday and some of the. boys at the talk table actually said uh. Nardoo said that. So Nard said that so that Yeah. Yeah. Nard said that because then Freeman's. got to answer questions about winning. 103 to 10. Was this a little Was this. closed Sicilian? Were you potentially. doing a little chess play here to put. all the pressure on Notre Dame?

>> You know what? I don't know. I have no. idea. >> You know, I I don't know what you're. talking about. I'm just worried about. what we do out on the field tomorrow. It's about executing one play at a time. and uh we'll get it done. >> Hey, listen. You tell me. I maybe I did. do that a little AJ Hawk has a question. for you, coach. Back at the Thunderdome. >> Yeah. Coach. >> AJ Hawk. >> Yes. >> Hey, let me first AJ. AJ, >> what's up, coach? >> Coach Dantonio talked about you all the. time. >> Oh, he's the man. >> Coach D. >> Coach, when he talked about you, he. loves you. He loved you. You were his. man. >> Oh, man. I love Coach Danton. He scared. me to death. Every single day of my. life, I played for him, but I respected.

him. I would I would die for that guy. So, I I appreciate that and appreciate. what he is doing. But speaking of of. great defenses, coach, your defense, especially stopping the run. You have. some stud linebackers obviously and you. guys do a great job of stopping the run. Jeremiah Love comes into comes into. town, I guess. What is it when you to. playing great run defense? What do you. have to do? I always say there's no. secret thing you can do. It's just gap. sound. It's all the boring cliche stuff, but what do you guys do so well and how. do you continue to do that? >> You know, AJ, we do what we do. Um, I.

think that's the main thing. We're not. going to change our defenses. I've seen. some people change what they do. structurally, you know, playing Notre. Dame or some other, you know, great. teams around the country. And the great. thing is our guys get to go out and. execute our defense. Um, and uh, and see. how we match up against a great football. team. Um, you know, we're going to play. with three linebackers as you talk. Kyle. Lewis, Brilen, Love Lace, uh, Rashene. Biles, uh, will be ready to roll. So, we're excited to have him back and, uh, you know, we're going to go out and play. defense. You know, it starts with that. front four U, but we're 4-3. We're not. at 425. Um, and we we think, you know,

Kyle Lewis, you know, could play safety. as you saw that one interception against. Stanford. That was as good an. interception as any DB could have. Um, you we're just going to go out and play. our game. >> Okay, let's talk about your game. It. certainly looked a little bit different. on the offensive side. AP Tone Plum. native who he's Dukane guy, so you know. how well you've probably heard a couple. things he said, but he loves what you're. doing on the offense the last few weeks. Go ahead, Tone. >> Yeah, coach, I do. Obviously, you start. the season with Eli Holstein and now you. have Mason Heinshaw come in who is a. true freshman. How like how early did.

you know in his career since cuz I know. I believe he enrolled early. Was there. ever like before coming into the season? Did you know there was a chance he was. going to play or like cuz cuz Eli. obviously had a great season last. season. When did you know it was going. to be Mason and just talk about him a. little bit how incredible he's been as a. true freshman? >> Yeah, he's done an incredible job. He's. he's a heck of a competitor. Uh he's a. preparer. Um, no, but we didn't think we. were going to play Mason this year. We. had, you know, total trust in Eli. Still. do. Um, but we had a couple bad games. and we had to try something to to shake. it up a little bit and, um, you know, I.

could have looked like, uh, one of those. paans making a bad decision. We don't. like that, you know, and and, uh, you. know, it worked out for us. We knew he. was a when he came in, we're like, "This. guy's special." You know, the first time. I saw him, he was our scout team. quarterback in bowl practice, you know, before we even enrolled and took a class. and we were like, "Woo, you see him. throw that ball." I mean, he can throw. it, you know, uh he he made our defense. better in bowl practice and um you know, so we knew there was, you know, the the. ability to get it done, but you know, did we know it was going to be this. early? Absolutely not.

>> Coach, we rattled off all the Hall of. Famers out of the University of. Pittsburgh. Obviously, all the deep. history and tradition feels like a lot. of them coming back for this particular. game. It's going to be a huge. environment, not only because Aaron. Donald's numbers getting retired at. halftime, Tony Dorsett's getting. acknowledged, there's going to be. everybody seemingly in the history of. pit football here tomorrow and special. Tai has a question for you about all of. that. >> Yeah, coach, with all that in mind, is. there any plan to have any of those guys. maybe address the team or talk to them.

and kind of remind them about the. history and like the excellence and. tradition that Pit has had? We saw the. Steelers uh this happened a couple weeks. ago where coach Cow came back and the. '05 team was being recognized and we. basically saw a new Steelers team on. that Sunday. They looked unbelievable. and you could tell, you know, kind of. being reminded of the history and the. tradition from people who had done it at. the highest level. It added a little. extra juice for the game. Like are there. any plans for that going into obviously. this massive tilt this weekend?

>> Yeah, we've always got a plan. Um, the. first plan is, you know, Derell Rivas is. starting at the beginning of the game, so we're starting him at bound corner. Okay, >> that's the first thing. Tonyy's going to. come in and give me the old Heisman pose. as well. Um, we may get him a couple. snaps as well. Um, you know, Jimbo. Covert, um, you know, all those guys. But, uh, you know, to answer your. question, you know, we always have. someone come in, uh, on on game day, uh, speak to our football team. We've done. it for a long time. I got that AJ, you. guys probably did at Ohio State. Antonio.

got it from probably Jim Trestle, but we. always have an honorary captain come. speak to our team. So, we've got uh you. know, an honorary captain coming in. I. won't mention his name here because it's. a special guest, but uh we're excited. about uh the new guy coming in. You want. me to break it to you today? Yeah. >> Tyler Palco's coming IN. >> USUALLY. SO, Tyler for you break it on. >> I I appreciate you doing it. And also, I. love Tyler Palco. The Palco family, legendary football family in Pittsburgh. Obviously, he used to have the sick.

flow. His left hand spin was outrageous. And he's a great talker. He'll go he'll. keep that thing colorful tomorrow from. my understanding of this thing. >> He's kept it colorful after a game. I. think we might even have to play that. You know, his postgame. Do you remember. his post game? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we. need tomorrow out of him for for a big. one there. There was a stat that was. sent over to me. I think it was 2017. Miami came in here number two ranked. team. They were like 12 point favorites. or something like that. Obviously, Pit. ends up beating him. It was a massive. upset. Whenever you think about what's.

on the line tomorrow for the other team, you've already acknowledged it, you. know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit too. much maybe. But whenever whenever you. think about what's on the line for the. other team, do you tell the boys about. that about a spoiler uh possibility? Do. you use it as motivation or is that. something for you? >> Hey, one game. We'll talk about it. afterwards. We've had some major upsets. throughout. I mean, we went down in 2016. and beat Clemson at Clemson, but you. know, what happened in the past doesn't. really matter. This is 2025. you know. what happened in 23 when you know we. went to you know South Ben what happened. in 20 none of that's going to matter I.

mean you know Tony Dorset being here. that's not going to matter it's going to. be about what we do tomorrow. >> Aaron Donald being here might. >> Aaron Donald I forgot to tell you he's. starting too those. >> no you guys can't do this. >> yeah yeah he's starting too I forgot to. mention him. >> I forgot there was they got. >> but he's he's actually starting the. second half after he gets his jersey. retired then he comes out. >> oh new number. >> yeah. we'll try to retire that after this game. we'll retire both both his numbers. >> I love they got G-League players signing. for college basketball now. So, you. might be able to sign Aaron Donald, especially because he's going to be able. to play forever. Now, speaking of Aaron.

Donald, I think he's given back. massively to the program if I'm not. mistaken. Connor has a question for you. about all of that. >> Yeah, coach, first of all, I had no idea. Bill Goldberg was an alumni of the Pit. Panthers. I didn't realize his jersey. was hanging in those rafters. Pretty. cool. But, u one thing that's kind of. different, you know, we we mentioned. before is that how you guys share a. facility with the Steelers. Is there. any, you know, advantages that you see. on a day-to-day basis, uh, with that. kind of process be I mean, playing in, you know, Acer Stadium, formerly known.

as, uh, Hines Field that, uh, also just. being around their facility, kind of. seeing how they operate. What are the. advantages? And do you have any. aspirations for wanting Pit to have. their own stadium, their own facilities, or do you enjoy kind of the camaraderie. and togetherness of sharing it with the. Steelers? Yeah, Connor, you know, the the ability. to practice next to Mike Tomlin and the. Pittsburgh Steelers is absolutely. probably one of the biggest advantages. we have at Pittsburgh. Um, you know, in. the summer, our guys will be out there.

watching their team practice. We get to. watch the tempo. Recruits come in, watch. what we do there with with the Steelers. You know, we're out there on the field. at the same exact time practicing at. the, you know, they're on one end. You. know, Mike Tomlin's walking down seeing. what we're doing. Um, you know, we're, you know, walking off the field watching. what they're doing. And I think that. it's a major advantage if all of our. guys want to play in the National. Football League, but for our guys to go. watch how it's done at the next level at. the same facility. And you know, as a. coach, I mean, it's special for us. I. mean, you know, whether it's OTAAS, we're out on that, you've got a patio.

overlooking the practice. We can walk. out there, see what they're doing, whether it's special teams, offense, defense, um, and just pick up, uh, you. know, different things. My first year. here, I remember sitting at my desk. looking out the window. All a sudden I. saw him doing, you know, down and punts. inside or Yeah. punts inside the, you. know, the 10 yard line and watching them. out there with a volleyball. I was like, what a heck of an idea. I mean, you talk. about just those little things that you. can pick up as a football coach. Comes. down to the details and the little. things. Certainly. >> Um, but you know, they were using a. volleyball, you know, which is going to. bounce better for you so at least you. can practice and have, you know, success. down in that ball. I thought what a.

great idea. So, I mean, there's all. kinds of things. That was one of the. first things I picked by just looking. out my window and I'm like, you know, getting off the phone, running out on. the patio to watch more. >> Hey, maybe I should be watching these. guys practice a little bit. Maybe. Tomman's got to figure it out. Maybe the. NFL does. Let's talk about your team and. figuring it out. Obviously, when Kenny. Picket was quarterback, I think he's the. last time you guys won the ACC. You're. still in it right now. The ACC is wide. ass open. Obviously, >> Notre Dame, we play Notre Dame tomorrow, Pat. Get Will you get locked in? >> Like you're worried about the next step? We're worried about just one football.

team. >> Come on, man. >> No. No, but it didn't sound like that. from earlier. >> Were in the past. Were you thinking. about the next game? >> No. No. Are. >> you sure? I just want to make sure. When. you played. >> Well, I just want to for Okay. So, um, winning the ACC for the PIT program. would obviously be gigantic right now in. the world that we're in. I think, uh, you tell me more actually cuz we're in. this modern NIL recruiting world that. we're in. I think having success is a. great thing in the market, especially. trying to get this younger generation. that understands brands and business and.

everything more than ever. Feels like. NIL Pit's going to be in a good spot. I. mean, we just mentioned Aaron Donald. He's given back immensely. He's getting. his number retired and he's a college. game day guest picker and I think he has. like a a part of the locker room that he. has given back. NIL good transfer portal. stuff easy because you're in Pittsburgh. Uh you talk about tradition if you win a. championship that's even like what is. the modern world for pit whenever it. comes to recruiting and finding players. and how much do ACC championships and. [ __ ] like that matter over all maybe all.

the others? >> Yeah, winning every weekend certainly. matters. I mean it's your brand. We. still have our pit brand. I think you. know what we do as coaches. We develop. players. I don't know if anybody's. developed a football team like we have. I think we've done it with less in. Pittsburgh and all that NIL stuff is is. great. I want guys that love football. you know, we're going to take that. lesser guy, maybe the guy that's not. making as much or, you know, got two. stars or three stars and develop them. I. mean, look at Kalija Cany and Sebastier. Dennis, some of the guys that have gone. Kenny Picket. I mean, I think Kenny, you. know, Kenny made peanuts when he was. here. It was the first year of NIL. But. guys that love football is the key. And.

winning a championship, you know, we've. won one. I think there's only been three. teams win an ACC championship in the. last 15 years. Clemson, obviously, Florida State, and Pitt. So, we've done. it. We've been there. And u but we're. going to take it one time, you know, one. play at a time and one game at a time. You guys have been paying players for a. long time up here, haven't you? >> Um, back in the day. >> Yeah, >> back in the day they did. Did they not. give you enough or what? >> Well, well, they didn't offer me. anything. But, but now I'm starting to. think maybe that one game I think you. remember 139. Maybe they should throw. that out. Maybe we should get a win for. that. >> Maybe. >> cuz you guys are paying players around.

here. I'm going to investigate that. I'm. going to get to the bottom of it. I want. to let you know that. But I love the way. your team plays. You always have a. hard-nosed team. I I think that is. something you would like your team to. have. Obviously, you said you're looking. for guys that love ball. Being tough too. feels obligate an obligation from. Pittsburgh. Is that an accurate. depiction? >> Yeah, we talk about attitude, effort, and toughness. And you know, that effort. and toughness is critical. I mean, we. want to be a tough team. Whatever. happens on that field tomorrow, um, you. know, when people walk off the field, they're going to get hit by pit. >> That's kind of a bar. >> Yeah. >> Hit by pit. That That's kind of I don't. know if I can really say it that often.

in my life, but. >> look at that. That hit right there. >> Hit by. >> Miles. He's back. Look at that. Look at. that catch. >> Oh, is this a Biles highlight tape here? >> It certainly is. It's a It's a defensive. highlight I think for you guys. Absolutely. >> We are We are tough football team. We. know what to do. We play fast. Try to. keep it simple and let our guys go. >> Go ahead and hunt a little bit. AJ has. the last question for you here, coach. >> Yeah, AJ, you mentioned recruiting these. tough guys that love football. How do. you know? Is it tougher now to figure. out if somebody truly does love ball. with all the NIL situation and the money. floating around?

>> You're you're exactly right. I mean, I. think that's part of the evaluation. That's part of those phone calls that. you constantly have, what's important to. a kid, just digging into who they are. You know, I I'll say this. You know, when we get in conversations, our. coaches are in schools talking to guys. When the first thing comes up is is. money and what are you going to pay me? Probably not a pick guy, okay? I want. someone to tell me who's going to coach. me, who's going to develop me. To me, those are important things. There's time. to make money in the National Football. League. And obviously, you know, I love. that we can give our kids money now in. NIL and Revshare. Um, but you know, you.

know, that's all great, but we want guys. that want to go out and play football, win championships. >> I'll say this, coach. I didn't expect. you'd have Air Force Ones on when you. walked in. Hey, looks pretty clean. >> My equipment guy's good now. >> Yeah. Yeah, you look pretty I mean, you. look good. Hey, you look good. Not. enough sauce, I think, for the pies on. that you have. Maybe a pinky ring for. tomorrow if you want to take down the. Irish. You know, tomorrow's big attack. Will you have an extra one for me? Maybe. in the I'll get you one. Yeah, I'll get. you a lucky one. I used to wear one. I. had a 01% Italian in me. 23 and me told. me that. So, I felt like I could really. do all this [ __ ] I had a pinky ring. I. put on two chains. I did it all. You.

know, you get it. You understand? >> I get it. I know. >> Well, I want to let you guys know. >> Let me see. Wait. Uh oh. >> Right there. No. No horn. I used to have. a horn. I think I lost that in the ocean. one summer. You know, >> it's the oceans now. Yeah. >> Harding off evil spirit. >> Basketball team might need one. >> Look at Nard. >> Let's not go there. >> Did you hear by last night? >> No, I did not. I've been locked in. I. got I'm focused. >> Oh, let me update you. >> Yeah. >> West Virginia. Guess what we're doing? We're We're smack. We're bopping wood. We're We're tough. Hey, we're tough out. West Virginia,

we're tough out there. Bob, did Bob Huggin come back last. night? >> My dad, you know, my dad tried to hire. Bob Huggin at Youngsttown State. Hey, let me Hey, let me just tell you this. It's about finishing. You know, it's not. a one game season. >> It's about finishing. You can you can. win a big game, but can you compete and. do it week in and week out? Pit does. that. >> All right. We appreciate you, coach. >> I don't I don't want to hurt your. feelings. >> You did. >> We beat you. >> You didn't beat us. We beat ourselves.

But it's okay. Go put the video tape on. Go put the video on. >> We won. Uh, you know, on that note, game. day. >> They don't call legal procedures. anymore. Go ahead. Next. >> We won. Having game day come here. Feels. like the city is alive and excited for. tomorrow morning. We can't wait to. experience it. Thank you for the. hospitality, brother. We very much. appreciate it. >> You got it. Where you going to dinner. tonight? Where's your special spot in. Pittsburgh? >> So, I eat Rudy Subs every time I come. back. Also down the. >> That's for lunch. What are you having. for dinner? >> So, Saraphinos, maybe. I might stop by. there. Is that your spot? That's my.

spot. Now, I can get you reservations. because they probably won't let you in, but I'll get you reservations from me. Just let me know. >> I've been in there under somebody else's. reservation. I have been in there. The. guy that owns it, >> Joey. >> Yes. He's making it and then he's. delivering it and then he's telling me. where Bill Car is from right down the. street. I love that place. >> Yeah, that's a great place. That's your. spot. That's one of my spots. I got. plenty of spot. There's so many great. places out here. >> Yeah. So many. >> There's everywhere. >> We You know, this is the best spot to. eat food. I can guarantee you that. That's why I love Pittsburgh. >> There's Italians everywhere. So, so I go.

out to Indiana. Okay. >> Nothing. >> No Italian. >> East Lancing. Nothing. >> It's a culture shock. It was culture. shock. I'm sure it was. >> I go from Pittsburgh. Exactly. Fullies. He just said like Olive Garden is the. closest we got. >> Bravo in East Lancing. That was it. >> Pepo started showing up a little bit. >> But I'm telling you, in Pittsburgh and. then West Virginia as well, Morgantown, Italians everywhere. So, you just assume. that you can get a good something. >> I've never eaten a meal down there. I. don't think I ever will.

>> Smart idea. >> I get poison try to kill me. >> No, I think Yeah, I think it's a good. idea back. You know, we got that hard. edge. I know you're trying to nard edge. All right. We appreciate the hell out of. you. >> All right. Appreciate. [Applause]. >> I tell you what, I I appreciate coach's. passion, his energy. He's he's pretty. pumped up for this uh this game against. Notre Dame. And I know there's a bunch. of other good games. Tone, we see as we. pop up the slate of college football. games popping up this weekend. Tone, what's the most intriguing game here for. you? >> Yeah, and Nardis is a great fit. Uh, but.

like all of these like starting Notre. Dame at Pit, if Notre Dame loses, they. are out of the College Football Playoff. most likely. USF and Navy. The winner of. that one is first place in the American, which is most likely going to be the. conference that gets the 12 seed for the. College Football Playoff as not outside. of the group of five or whatever. Uh, Virginia at Duke, the winner of that. most likely going to make the ACC. championship game. Iowa and USC. That's. USC has got to win to keep the chances. most likely for the Big 10 to get a. fourth Big 10 team in there. And then. those other two, those two SEC games,

the Oklahoma and Texas, I believe. they're ranked 11 and 12 right now or 10. and 11 right now if I'm not mistaken in. the college football playoff. So if they. win, they jump up. If not, they could. potentially come out and other teams. could get in and then Alabama and. Georgia would just solidify their spot. in the playoff. All those games have. huge playoff implications this weekend. >> Yeah, a lot of teams that they have to. win or they uh Yeah. or their playoff. hopes are dashed, I guess. I think uh I. don't know if Pat is still talking to to. coach Nardoo. I like the the nard edge. trying.

Yeah, he does have some Nard dog in him. But it's crazy seeing that college. football slate pop up and it's week 12. Like the season really is flying by. It's It's awesome that we're here. because it's the most important, >> but I mean [ __ ] football is flying. right now. >> It goes way too fast. Pat, I believe. Coach Nardoo's got back with the squad. He Hey, he was bringing it today. Pat, were you were you surprised at how. juiced he was for this game? >> Every time he's been on the show, he's. been great on the show, you know, and I. forget how Italian he is. I mean, that is the uh perfect coach for.

this city, I would say. And I. appreciated how he kind of laid it out. Hey, we're looking to develop guys, you. know, two, three star guys. Let's go. ahead and build them. Let's go ahead and. get after it. I I appreciate where he's. at. Him saying the 100 to 10 thing, I. think, was potentially a little. >> Yeah. >> Go ask Freeman if they win by 100 to 10. Go ahead and ask him. Yeah, put that on. his tape. Yeah, go. They should win 110. They're a very good team. Yeah. All. right. Go ask him about it and then have. their players hear that as well. And. then have Notre Dame think to. themselves. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That. whenever he said to me, I don't know,

maybe you tell me. I'm like, wait, N. >> I'd be giving Nard a lot of credit doing. that. >> Italians are good at that gamesmanship. >> Uhhuh. >> Maybe they are. And him saying, "Oh, I. got so many spots around town.". He loves it. >> He's been to every Italian place in town. every single day. I love it. And this. game is going to be gigant. Literally. every I think every person that is alive. that has their name in this building is. going to be here. Like not just. University of Pittsburgh guys. I think.

there's a bunch of Steelers coming too. because obviously uh Bus Jerome Bettis. Notre Dame guy. >> and I think Jerome Bettis has a couple. events happening like fundraisers. So I. think all his teammates are potentially. coming as well. So, like I think it's. going to be a. >> I I don't know. From my understanding, this is going to be a Pittsburgh. football. just everything basically in here. And. that's incredible. Yeah, I can't wait to. kind of wake up tomorrow and see what. it's like. >> If I'm if I'm not mistaken either, I. believe his son is a wide receiver on. Notre Dame. I think he got his first.

catch last weekend, I saw. And then I. believe Ike's kid, Ike Taylor, uh kid is. still on Notre Dame as well. So, the. ties are there's a lot of ties tomorrow. between uh the Steelers and those two. schools. Yeah, it's uh it should be pretty. electrifying here in the city of. Pittsburgh. I cannot wait to try to eat. all the food that is going to be sent my. way. I mean, there's a lot of Italians. reaching out saying, "Hey, we got a. little uh. >> Yeah, I assume you're they're going to. get a bunch of meat delivered to a game. day set tomorrow, right?". >> Yeah. I Tomorrow's food deliveries will.

be pretty epic. >> Second feed and saving, you know, tomahawk steaks again. You know, all of. it. >> Uh Pittsburgh, brother. Hey, >> can't do tomahawks there. >> Tommahawk steaks, you just said. I mean, we certainly can do steaks. If you would. like us to do meat, we can do meat. I. don't know if that's what you like, but. you you got to remember who what is this. entire. >> put some pasta on the side or something. You could spoon it. You could do that. You could twirl it in the spoon for him. and put your hand under it and feed. coach. You know how people do that? >> I will do this the big spoon with the. twisty.

>> soup. Please don't put your finger the. hand underneath the fork thing. That. just makes me crazy for some reason. Like they don't want they don't want to. drop. You know, if someone's like you. see people on movies trying to feed. somebody and they put their little hand. under the dumb spoon. >> Yeah. They don't want anything to drop. >> or the fork, you know, they don't want. to they don't want to spill anything on. the table. Whatever it is, you see. people feeding each other. >> That's like Yeah. In movies and shows I. do. Yeah. Of course. Like get your. stupid hand out from underneath the. fork. If it falls on the table, I'll wipe it. up. >> You seeing somebody You seeing somebody.

put their fingers over their nose when. they jump into a pool. >> Don't do that. You accident you. accidentally see somebody doing this in. a movie. >> I don't like seeing the visual right now. of you doing it. Honestly, it's like. that's one of those that's like it's. like nails on a chalkboard to me. >> Yeah. But you know, like the the person. that's doing that is trying to portray. like I care. Like I care a lot, you. know? Like that is what that is for. And. you get disgusted. >> I think it's somebody saying, "Hey, I'm. going to big dog you here. Here we go. I'm the king here. I'm the I'm your. master." And they feed him. >> I can't wait.

>> Oh, you're talking like with that taco. was I was just going to say I cannot. wait until we are at the next thing. where we all have a meal together and. everyone does that to you all night. long. >> I'm just going to be smacking forks all. over smacking forks of spaghetti out of. your. >> Hey, who's the big boy? >> Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what it. is. >> You're right. >> Uh All right. I'm going to do that. tomorrow. All right. >> At least do it to Sabin. I want to see. what Saven does. >> All right. >> Yeah. I can't wait. Okay. Let's talk. about uh some news happening around the.

NFL here before hour one wraps up. I'm. live from Acer Field, right? Is it Acer. Stadium or Asher Field? Field. >> Stadium. >> Oh yeah, there it says on the thing. >> So what's the field? Poop Field. >> Hines. >> Hinesfield. Field. But. >> and just like I said, I don't think. there's any Hines bottles in here. Remember that was a big thing. Are they. going to keep Is still a sponsor or not? They still got 84 lumber. So that's. huge. Okay, that's fair. UPMC obviously still doing it. Still.

bringing it. UPMC huge for um Oh, I. guess I could do this number here, I. think. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. PTZ. >> Oh, no. That's that's on that. Yeah, I'm. not on the wide. Let me go ahead and uh. figure this one out. >> Boom. >> Yeah, brother. Yeah, brother. Yeah, brother. >> Oh, yeah. So yeah, you see the Ford fan. zone there and then obviously you see. the uh. >> So right in that area back there used to. be a Hind bottle that people really.

celebrated with. >> Yeah. Right on top of this. Right on. top. >> Damn. >> Poor D. >> Now it's Acer, which we all know what. that is. The the glass building that's. standing tall above that is in every. single photo of the city of Pittsburgh. is PPG. Uh obviously that is uh an. incredible building. Glass they said uh. people marveled at the architecture when. that thing was pieced together they. said. And then bridges you know that's. on that uh jumbotron right there. We. have the most bridges of any city in the.

world I believe. I even Venice counting. Is that accurate? >> I believe I believe so. >> We have the most bridges in the world. here in Pittsburgh obviously because our. city is surrounded by rivers. Uh two of. them lead into one. the Alagany and the. Manonga Hala lead into Ohio. So we. basically birthed that state. You're. welcome AJ Hall and uh that is and let. alone the steel we built every city as. well here. So we have a lot of pride the. people from Pittsburgh in the city of. Pittsburgh but not everybody in.

Pittsburgh are pit fans. There's. actually some people there's actually. some people within the city of. Pittsburgh who don't like Pit like. actually hate Pitt and uh. >> Tone Digs is one of them. tone. Uh would. you like to speak on that a little bit. more potentially? How the city and the. university within the city have an. interesting relationship? And when you. say Pit, you're talking about the. university. When you say Pittsburgh, you're talking about the city. So people. say, "Let's go to Pitt this weekend and. watch the Steelers." No, that would be. the university you would be heading to.

The city is Pittsburgh. The school is. Pit. So there is quite a dilemma in the. city about all of that. And there's a. lot of pit people right to my left who I. don't think have ears in. So that is why. I'm talking like this. I don't think. they can hear me. But that is a very. real thing in the city of Pittsburgh. down there. Do can you back me up on. that a little bit? >> Yes, I can back you up. Pittsburgers, it. drives them crazy when people call the. city pit because that's the university. The city is Pittsburgh. Uh but no, there's a lot of college football fans.

in the city and they are divided between. Pit, Penn State, West Virginia, Ohio. State mostly because Dukane obviously. there's a huge fan base for Dukes as. well, Bobby Mo, all of those Carnegi. Melon. Uh but like Penn State, West. Virginia, Pit, Ohio State, all within. three hours. So like there is huge fan. bases of all all of those schools. So, it's not like, hey, just because the. college is in the city means that. everyone in the city is huge fans of the. University of Pit. No, there's a lot of.

there's a lot of different other college. football, you know, fan bases in the. city. And, you know, >> now on that note, on that note, Tone, every one of us know a lot of PIT. people. Oh, yeah. So, we all know PIT. people, but not everybody is PIT people, if that makes sense. I I I don't know. And I think tomorrow, from what my. understanding is, game day potentially. going to be a football celebration. I. know Pit's going to show up. I know the. Pit fans are going to show up. I can't. wait to see the Pit fans. I'm excited. for that kind of banter. Actually, I'm. pretty pumped up to see them on a.

spotlight. But I think a lot of. Pittsburgh people are just coming for. football. Like I I I think you're going. to see a lot of Yanzers just for. football celebration tomorrow. And I I. think that's that's kind of what should. be talked about because the University. of Pittsburgh represents a city that is. football. Like this is football town. Like that that is 100% what it is. through and through. So tomorrow should. be epic, AJ, is what I'm thinking. And. it's a it's a professional sports town. And I just got word from a source. One. of the Hines bottles is down in the. great hall which is underneath the. stands in the stadium. Uh where all the. all like the.

>> underneath so we can't see it. >> No, you the great hall. You walk through. it when you walk through. I believe it's. gate That's not gate A, gate B or C on. the side. >> They buried it. They buried it. That's. what I heard. >> No, no. And then they put the other one. at the in the Hines Museum. So sorry. >> I mean that didn't help the Steelers. >> I don't see it. I heard they remember getting a red gold. bottle in there. >> Shut up. How dare I'll mute you right. now. >> Shut your shut your mouth. And that is. one thing that we all agree on. Okay, we. all agree on that in the the entire city. whether you're a pit person or not. The.

fact that there is even other ketchups. available in places. >> are is scary. That's a scary thing for. society. So, you get your red gold. [ __ ] guy. >> Hey, I say it. I don't like red gold. I. hate when we go around here somewhere. You go to a nice restaurant. You sit. down. You want some ketchup with your. French fries. Oh, let me get some hints. Oh, nope. That's uh red gold. I'd rather. piss on the side of my plate and dunk it. in this stuff. So, I don't love it. either. I'm just saying what I. >> brand. >> Oh, you love it. See, there you go.

>> Here's your guy. >> Yeah. I'd much rather dip it in red gold. or hunts than urine. I mean, that's just. common sense, >> right? I figured you'd be with the one guy who. soak him up. >> Yeah, I think so. But I I think it's. just a part of it, you know. I think. it's a part of being from here. Very. proud of the Hines catchup and. everything that Hines has done. So, yeah, I move out to Indiana. I think Red. Gold's actually from Indiana. And back. >> back before anybody I mean, I had a.

little bit of a a following on Twitter. around Indianapolis. Pretty good. It was. pretty strong following around. Indianapolis on Twitter. And I walked to. some place and they had Red Gold in. front of me and I put a tweet out. I was. like, "This is disgusting. What are we. even doing here?" And I get called into. the Colts office. You know, Red Gold's. big sponsor, big sponsor of the Colts. And they were wondering if I would. change it. And I nope, not they don't. they're not a sponsor of mine. If your. guys' Twitter account wants to say. they're good, sweet, you go ahead and do. that. They haven't given me anything.

except for nausea when I see them on a. on a table or whatever. and uh got all. the way up to Jim. You know, Jim was. asked to talk to me about it and Jim. goes, "Brother, can you just not kill. him? Like I you can just just don't. kill.". >> Imagine the owner being brought that. like that comes to the owner's desk. That's the best. Hey, we got you know. Pat's just Pat's killing one of our. ketchup sponsors. You got to talk to. them. >> Our only Dude, they're from Indiana. They got Coats logos all over the. ketchup bottles. They're they're in the. entire facility. I think I actually took. a picture in the facility. That was.

before I really knew business, you know, like, oh, they're probably paying to be. in here if I had to guess. So, I took a. picture of that thing like, yuck, I. can't believe this feeds professional. And, uh, turns out they're from India. We like to thank them for their ketchup. uh, fanhood of Hines. We appreciate. that. >> Thank you. >> Being a fan of Hines and trying to honor. them by creating their ketchup. But on. that note, I ain't doing it ever. Not if. I if I'm paying for it. Uh, Ty, huge. things happened in baseball last night. Congratulations. First time back-to-back.

MVPs in both leagues. Is that accurate? And uh Aaron Judge and and Showi having. the seasons that they had going into the. year. These are the two biggest stars. Then boom, they back it up for baseball. Everything up and to the right MLB wise, especially with these two winning the. MVP or what are your thoughts, Ty? >> Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, this is. kind of the perfect scenario if you are. Major League Baseball. You hope that the. two biggest stars in the league could be. the MVPs. Uh, show was kind of a a.

runaway in the NL. I very hardressed to. find another guy who would even, you. know, maybe be mentioned in the same. sentence with him. It's kind of what. he's doing year after year now. That's. his fourth MVP award already, which is. crazy. I don't think it's nuts to say. that like, you know, Barry Bonds had. seven MVPs in his his career. Show could. you I mean, this guy could win 10 MVPs. it seems like he's got a pretty solid uh. path to potentially winning one every. year. And then in the AL, that was where. there was a lot of kind of uh discussion.

and it ended up being one of the closest. votes ever. Judgy Aaron Judge ultimately. did win the MVP. This is his third MVP. award and like you mentioned back to. back and he got 17 first place votes and. 13 of the second place votes and Cal. Rally uh flipped that around. But if one. voter would have flipped these guys. around, it would have been a tie. And a. lot of people were saying, "Hey, Cal. Raleigh should win this award." You. know, historic season. Unbelievable. And.

while that is true, I was a little. surprised he didn't win it. I just asked. Gertie, I just said, "Hey, could you. just, you know, just maybe put their. stats side by side so we could kind of. put this thing to rest?" So, you'll see. Cal Rowley. Yes, he did hit more homers. He did have. >> THAT'S HIS GAME. THAT'S THE GAME. >> That is the game. Home runs bring the. tickets that home runs bring the views. Who who who had more? >> Yep. Exactly. Uh now granted, he didn't. hit 20 more than Judge. He hit seven. more. And uh you know, so it's not that.

big. And you see down there, if you go. down a little bit more, Judge's batting. average was about 100 points higher. He. did win the batting title. is the first. person to post a batting average and on. base percentage and a slugging. percentage of that magnitude since Barry. Bonds, who a lot of people think is the. best player of all time. And listen, right, wrong, or indifferent, whether. you like it, the MVP is kind of like the. MVP in the NFL. It always it, you know, it's going to go to a quarterback. In. this case, it pretty much goes to the.

best hitter. That's just how it goes. So, a lot of people were saying, "Well, why don't you account for Cal Rowley. catching and all?" He didn't win a gold. glove. He obviously adds a lot of value. for his team, but when you look at. Judge's numbers, like if you don't give. it to him, it is just because it's. fatigue. Like he is the best hitter in. baseball. Now, show is the best player. IN BASEBALL. >> ON WHICH SIDE OF THE PLATE? ON WHICH? On. one side. That seems like pretty easy. Imagine if Cal Rollley just won on one. side of the plate. That'd be pretty. cool.

>> Yeah, it would be. And you know, he'd. probably do decent. Now granted, you. know, I don't know if he just hit on one. side of the plate, if he's going to. raise that batting average 100 points, that's a pretty [ __ ] big margin uh. when it comes to that, but no, Cal. Raleigh had an unbelievable season. Judge is just one of the best five. hitters of all time. >> And on that note, both Cal Raleigh Show. and Aaron Judge came on our show. So, we're very thankful to all of them. And. Aaron Judge, congrats, brother. I am. just clearly talking [ __ ] to Tai Schmid. in this particular case. Aaron's a dog.

and I'm very thankful for the season he. had for the good of sport. Same with. show and Cal Raleigh. NFL kicked off in. a big way last night, week 11. We'll. talk about more on the other side. >> We have a great Texas boy named. >> John. >> John. Okay. What's your last name? John. >> Uh John Mto. >> Have you ever kicked a ball before? >> I have. When? >> Uh growing up I played soccer in high. school. I kicked kickoffs and onsides. >> Okay.

>> Oh my god. >> All right. So, I've never met anybody. that just kicked kickoffs and onsides. Does that mean cuz you couldn't hit the. broad side of the barn with the. football? >> So, my junior year I missed an extra. point. We lost to the state champs by. one and I was removed. >> Redemption comes today for you, John. Here's the deal. Redemption is obviously. sweet. >> Hey, look at here. He's getting he's. taking his he's taking his uh his shoes. off. >> Okay, WE'RE GOING BAREFOOT. OKAY, WE got. the Texas Tech Red Raiders cheerleader. squad, which I believe is the best in. the country as well. We got WE GOT.

FINGER GUNS ALL OVER THE PLACE. WE GOT. PHONES EVERYWHERE TRYING TO WITNESS THIS. MOMENT THAT YOU WILL REMEMBER FOREVER. YOUR kicking story doesn't have to end. with a missed extra point, brother. It. can end with one kick. for $500,000. I mean, just just just. >> half a million DOLLARS HERE IN LEACH, TEXAS. $500,000, JOHN. ONE SHOT.

REDEMPTION IS SWEET. [Music]. >> All right. That's That That's not fun. That is not how I thought this was going. to go. >> Oh my gosh. [Applause]. Oh, >> Johnny deserves one more shot at a. witch. >> John, >> new ball. We got a new ball. >> Yeah, but if you don't stand for. anything, you fall for everything.

>> Okay, how about this? >> 250,000 to you, 250,000 to a charity. here in Levik. This is your last kick. And this is your last opportunity maybe. in your whole life to make a kick. YOU. PLAYED SOCCER YOUR WHOLE LIFE. YOU'VE. KICKED BALLS FOREVER. Swing through the. damn thing AND PUT IT THROUGH THE. UPRIGHTS AND DON'T LET STANFORD STEVE. WAVE THIS OFF. >> HE LIKES TO DO THAT. >> YEAH. Make this thing pure, John. [Applause].

That was awesome. Good job. >> I knew it. I was. >> Hey, you did it, buddy. >> John, congratulations, John. >> Yeah, brother. Good job. >> All right, John. Good job, bro. Hell. yeah. [Applause].

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[Music]. >> Welcome back hour two of the Pat McAfee. Show. I'm AJ Hawk sitting in for Pat. here in Indianapolis, Indiana. Pat's in. Pittsburgh, Notre Dame Pit. Big matchup, boys. Football. >> Pat, you mentioned something. I'm sorry. You mentioned something as we were. coming back. cuz you got a situation. going on over there. What's happening? It sounds like some something's on the. loose. >> There's nothing happening over here, AJ.

There's nothing happening over here. It's more so where you guys are. I don't. know if you know this, but Fox 59 News. in Indianapolis is reporting that there. is a chimpanzee. on the loose at the zoo currently. Okay, now listen. These chimps are certainly a. a fantastic creature. When you look at. them, you think to yourself, "Wow, that. might be a damn human, just a little. miniature version of it." But god damn, it's going to be stronger than any human. could ever be. So if you're around the. Indianapolis Zoo area, don't only look.

on the ground, look in the sky. These. things are great climbers. That chimp. could be already in Ohio. We have no. idea. Now Fox 59 is obviously breaking. the news down. We appreciate them doing. that. But you guys need to be on a. lookout for the Thunderdome. We need no. wires to be chewed on. We need nothing. to be pulled out. We have no idea where. this chimpanzee is going to head to. Let's make sure we uh have that place on. lockdown. Maybe have Bill on night watch. tonight outside sitting on the roof. Any.

things like that. Let's not take this. for granted that there is a chimpanzee. on the loose. Now, Zitto just sent a. text into the group asking if we should. send Mitt. I think that's a good idea. and I think we should send. dude. Great movie. >> They they said they need you back in. there. Dr. Jackson was a great movie. >> Your dad and uh Bill are going hunting. tomorrow, so I think they have the. rifles on them. So if they want to get. started early,

>> don't don't shoot the chimpanzeee. Run, chimpanzeee. We've seen those. conditions. YOU NEED TO RUN. GET OUT OF. HERE, CHIMPANZEEE. GO ON. Now. >> you're talking about the orangutans. >> Yeah. Free them, too. >> And now to be clear, the Indianapolis. Zoo is a very good zoo. They spend a lot. of money on. >> on preservation of animals and yada y. all that stuff. They take care of a lot. of stuff. Visitors say chimp on the. loose at Indiana zoo. Fire crews called. for animal bite. Okay.

>> Well, we don't know. We don't know. what's being real. This Fox 59 News. reporting. I will say I have a uh a lot. of respect for the people that run that. zoo. Private zoo, no state money. It's a. they run it themselves. It's a uh a. wonderful zoo and obviously great for. our community. But chimpanzeee on the. loose needs be. >> I I've seen. >> dealt with. >> whenever it. >> The Indianapolis Zoo says the loose. chimp has been sedated and safely. recaptured. Okay. >> No staff guess where the chimp were.

injured in the zoo has since been reh. [Laughter]. >> So he was loose. He was loose for 12. minutes or what happened? >> I don't know. That's a long in. chimpanzeee minutes. That's 2 years. >> Yeah. >> Long enough to go get from the basement. of the zoo and safely get him back to. where he needs to go. >> I I'm happy though that they got Caesar, you know. And uh when you get when when. you get Caesar back, it feels like you. get the entire flock. What are the. monkeys? Group of monkeys called.

>> cackle. >> A flock. >> Group. >> A murder pride. Crow. >> A collective. >> That's a lion. >> A collective. >> A collective because they're humans. Obviously, they're like the committee in. the committee of the committees. I. appreciate that they're back. It's a. beautiful Friday here from Pittsburgh as. tomorrow Notre Dame and Pit will play. Notre Dame needs a win to continue their. national championship hopes and tomorrow. for Pit will be an absolutely insane. scene. Jerome Bettis obviously living. legend in Pittsburgh for what the bus.

was able to do winning Super Bowl in his. own hometown, his retirement game up. there in Detroit. He's coming back. obviously because he's Notre Dame. legend, has a lot of events around. So. we assume that entire team is going to. be back representing as well. And then. for the University of Pittsburgh, Aaron. Donald will have his number retired at. halftime. So all the pit great are going. to be here as well. Should be a. fantastic weekend of ball and college. football is going to do great. I think. Sunday is going to be spectacular. And. last night we had a great game to kick. it all off for week 11 up there in New.

England. Drake May and this New England. Patriots team. Trace Vion Henderson, running back out of Ohio State goes for. three touchdowns. Drake May almost has a. perfect night. Stefon Diggs has over a. hundred yards. Will Campbell and the. other rookie playing left guard named. >> Jared Wilson. >> is an absolute beast. Frabel obviously. supreme commander on the defensive side. after giving up a touchdown on the first. drive. Basically shut it down for the. rest of the way. Huge night for Patriots. fans to celebrate. Anything we're. missing there, Con man, that hasn't been.

talked about enough about last night's. AFC East battle where the New England. Patriots say we're the best team once. again in this division. >> I think just to hammer home the uh buyin. from the entire team, Fox, if you. actually go to the start of the video of. Rael dapping everybody up and just pause. it, uh Milton Williams, who is the. highest paid player in the history of. the New England Patriots, which is crazy. to say, dackle. Um he's actually. standing behind here on the right side. waiting right there on the right side. also waiting to dap everybody up. He.

didn't uh finish the game. He left with. the ankle, left with the ankle, went to. the locker room, came back out, tried to. get back in the game and Vel basically. said like, "Hey, let's get ahead of this. and let's re relax a little bit." He's. on the right side there and he waited um. with Vable to dap up everybody uh. basically for New England. The other. thing too that was really cool is just. he was tweeting from from uh the locker. room was during the game. >> during the game. Uh I don't know if you.

want to pull it up Bruce, but if you go. to his account, uh Christian Bar hasn't. had a sack in a while. Um but he. actually said in his tweet, I think it. was, you know, two years or a year for. Christian Barmore because he had the uh. last year he had the really tough. situation with um the blood clots. So he. missed most of the year, so he hadn't. had a sack. And when Christian Barmore. did get a sack last night, Mil Milton. Williams just tweeted it was at like 11. PM. The game was damn near over, but he. tweeted just like, "Hell yeah, Beim Mo.". And I think that's the biggest thing. Um.

because we talked about the Diggs buy. in, but even just the Milton Williams, the highest paid player, he really. doesn't have to, you know, one battle to. be out there, but two do stuff like. this, which is really cool. And then the. other little thing I think just to. highlight was um the M. Hollands. entrance. He wore the uh 988 suicide. prevention line while he's walking into. the game. And like I just think that's. really cool. Not to mention Chris. Gonzalez. He does a lot of uh help with. one of the mental health places, the.

charity. And I I'm I'm forgetting the. name now, but that's kind of his, you. know, specialty foundation if you will. And then M Holland's doing that, you. know, with everything going on like the. Marshon Nean situation, one thing, but. just everybody on a dayto-day. Matt. Collins doing that in prime time. You. know, we know he does wear the funny. stuff and he does all that. >> He has sweet Instagram videos where he's. like fixing a washing machine or he's. changing the oil in a car or doing all. kind of like great stuff. Like I I enjoy. his content. >> Yeah, exactly. Like it's it's typically. funny and like the the videos he makes.

are hilarious. He's wearing like a like. a three-piece suit as he's breaking down. like the Bermuda Triangle sometimes. But. him doing something like that in prime. time I just thought was really cool. And. it's just the team as a whole. It's. crazy that, you know, as we talk about. the rookies and everything, you know, Pat mentioned the left tackle, left. guard being rookies, but it's just the. premier positions in general. Like, yes, Drake May's 23, Will Campbell, you know, he's 21 and he was locked down once. again and he's gone up against, you. know, TJ Watt, Max Crosby, Miles.

Garrett, who had five sacks, but still. has been battle tested throughout the. season. Uh it it's incredible when you. think about those positions being as. young as they are. You know, Christian. Gonzalez kind of being lost in the fold. because you never hear Christian. Gonzalez's name. You just don't. He. flies up and makes tackles. He actually. had five tackles last night, so it was a. little bit more. But he's 23 and this. thing that he does for the last two. weeks. Last week he wore Bobby or this. week he wore uh Larry Legend. Stuff like.

that is so cool just because you're kind. of seeing the players on the team, the. young guys specifically on the team like. embrace not just the Patriots in the. city of Boston, but embracing the. history of sports within the city of. Boston. Like that in itself I think. reflects a lot about kind of the. knowledge Mike Vrabel brings. Christian Gonzalez was never doing this. before this season as far as those type. of shirts. But now, you know, seeing. that, that kind of makes me think like, oh, okay, so Vable is also educating.

them on like the sports fandoms, >> how special it is. I'm sure he tries to. tell, hey guys, it's not like this. everywhere else for you players that. this is the only NFL experience, you. know, like it's not like this. That's I. was in Green Bay for nine years and guys. would leave and come back or they'd come. from other places and they'd be like, man, this is this place is special. Like. it doesn't they don't do it like this. everywhere. As we're talking about. legends, Grank, what do you call what. did he do? >> The keeper of the light. >> He's the keeper of the light here. I. don't know. >> Damn near yanked that kid off to the top. of the lighthouse. >> Look how high up they are, too. Gron is.

just everything he's doing is full go. Like I I love this whole situation with. what Gr was. He was Yeah, here we go. Smashing guitars. Who's he singing with. here? >> Uh. >> yeah, I don't think it was uh JBJ John. Uh and I think Kenny is back on tour. I'm assuming it's. >> almost killed that camera. >> One of the one of the locals, maybe. Dalton and the sheriff. But yeah, Gronk. being back as well is just so cool uh to. see for me as someone who grew up with. him and you know him going to Tampa, everything that's all forgotten. He He's.

a Patriot for life, baby. >> Were you surpris Yeah, we're glad he he. retired as a Patriot, but like you. weren't surprised by that. Like there's. no He was in what was he there two. years? >> Yeah. Yeah, he he was there for two. years, but yeah, it's not something. you're like surprised by. It's just more. so the gesture. Like we know Grank is. retired. He obviously isn't coming back. to play football, but the just the. gesture of, hey, I'm going to make it a. point that I love this place way more. than anywhere else. And even though I. played for Tampa and won a Super Bowl. here, that doesn't discredit all the.

time I spent in New England. This is. where he grew up. This is where he met. his girlfriend, longtime girlfriend, like so many things had happened in New. England. So, >> this before the game, sorry to cut you. off before the whole crowd. >> I think this is halftime, actually. I. think he's trying to get the people. going at halftime cuz his whole before. the game was the keeper of the light. thing. So, it's it's just it's awesome. to see stuff like this and it just goes. back to how much football means to the. people in New England. >> Yeah, football means a lot to to most. people that watch as fans all over the. country. And Pat, I believe, is sitting.

down with our our Friday legend with. you, Pat. Here we go. Here we go. Coach. Nick S. >> Yeah, I think that's a great descriptor. there. The Friday legend, ladies and. gentlemen, Mr. Friday afternoon, Nick S. and go. >> Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. >> Coach, we appreciate the hell out of. you, man. Uh, how's it feel to be here. in Pittsburgh? Your thoughts on the city. of Pittsburgh as a whole? You coached. for the Cleveland Browns. Obviously, the. Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns. have and have had for a long time that. rivalry. I don't know how many how much. University of Pittsburgh history do you.

have and what are your thoughts on us. being here? >> Well, I love being here because a about. 125 miles down the road down I79 is. where I grew up. So to come to. Pittsburgh when I was a kid, whether it. was to go to Kenny Kennywood Park, see. the Steelers once a year, see the. Pirates once a year, >> that was like it, man. That was it. >> Kennywood. >> And then of Tell me more about. Kennywood, please. Go ahead. >> I love it. The what was it? The Pip or. something. >> Yeah, certainly. Yeah. I still remember. >> the rabbit. Yeah. Yeah. All the Jack.

Rabbit. Yeah. From when I was a kid. >> But what year was if you had to guess. what year that was? um you know 60s. >> Yep. Hasn't changed a bit since. >> that. Okay. Don't don't listen to him. But go ahead. I'm sorry. So then, ironically, everyone where I grew up is. a Pittsburgh Steeler fan. >> I've been a Pittsburgh Steeler fan all. my life and then I go to the Cleveland. Browns. >> So when we play Pittsburgh in. Pittsburgh, I got to get a hundred. tickets for Steelers fans. And then when.

I get in the bus to leave the game, they're all out there fighting Nick the. Browns fans. >> Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. >> None of them rooted for me. >> Yeah. I mean, that's a Pittsburgh uh. story in a staple there with the. fighting of football, but it is a. football town. Like very much a football. town. You can feel it. And I think. tomorrow morning is going to be special. Tell me about this pit team. What you've. learned from watching. We just talked to. Nard Dooi and uh he said everybody. that's on his team, he wants to love. ball. He wants to be tough. Obviously. going to have a lot of greats back. What. do you think about this current pit team. and can they knock off Notre Dame from.

the college football playoff? That's. what's on the line tomorrow basically. >> Well, I think part Pat Narduzi's done a. outstanding job here. No question. I. think this is a tough job and I think. the job he's done this year with this. team, this freshman quarterback, I mean, this guy is the real deal now. He's. athletic. He can run. Uh really good. passer and they're throwing it 63% of. the time. So to me, this is the type of. team when you have a passing team that. can make explosive plays and they're. going to air it out all the time.

They're the type of team that can upset. a team that's better because as long as. they can protect well enough and the. guys can make plays, they got a chance. to score points. So that can always, you. know, when when you're a I call it. wadball team, like you're running the. ball, running the ball, running the. ball, and you play somebody better, that's hard. this not so hard because. you can take advantage of making big. plays. Now, the question to me is going. to be how does Pitts receivers match up. against Notre Dame secondary because.

Notre Dame plays a lot of man-to-man. So, if they can't be man-to-man, they'll. have a tough time even though they're. going to throw the ball effectively. >> So, yeah, Notre Dame has quite the. advantage, I assume, in recruiting for. DBs. They got NFL DBs all over the. place. Not that Pit doesn't have NFL. guys, but I'm just saying Notre Dame has. been built basically with five stars. So. on the outside whenever you talk about. wide receiver DBs that's great athlete. out there normally and you're talking. about wad ball whenever you play a. better team that's normally because the. Dline better athletes than what the. offensive line is used to right. Is that.

what you're saying? >> Yeah. Now you're creating a matchup with. you know is our O line good enough to. block their D line. >> where it's a lot easier to get receivers. and a quarterback that can make throws. and just get in their way long enough. until we can throw it. And you think. that's not our dooy's plan tomorrow? And. what do you think Notre Dame's plan is. just a standard let's play how we play. We run the ball all over this team and. kind of dominate from beginning to end. You think that's what Freeman's saying? >> Well, I I think you know they're scoring. 39 points a game. So Notre Dame's got a. pretty powerful offense and it's.

balanced. You know, they can run it, they can throw it. So I'm sure they're. they're going to think that we can. continue to do these kinds of things. But Pit's defense has been really good. against the run. They're one of the top. teams in the country in stopping the. run. So, if you can make them. onedimensional, I think you got a. chance. But, um, I think what Nardusi's. thinking is, I'm gonna try to affect the. quarterback. They pressure like 40% of. the time, try to upset, you know, Carr. as a quarterback, and then can we make. enough plays on offense, throwing the. football to score enough points to have.

a chance to win this game? >> A lot of Italians where you grew up. >> Yeah, a lot lot of lot of Eastern. European people and Italians. Yes, sir. >> Okay. Eastern European. I like that. Uh, >> I'm Croatian. That's why I have to say. Eastern European. >> cuz you're you're describing to us on a. map where the hell Croatia is. That's. what you just did to me. >> Most people don't know. But. >> it's Eastern European. I knew that. >> Yeah. Right by Turkey with me for the. rest of my life. Yeah, we love Croatia. Don't we have Croatian coach, right? >> Oh, yeah. Come on. >> Yeah. DC Brati.

>> Yeah. Do you know Bruss is actually. married into a uh or getting married. into a or Yeah. No. getting married into. a Croatian family. He speaks a little. bit. Do you speak Croatian? >> Oh, yeah. I know Dra good. Yeah. You. know, I mean, my grandparents spoke. Croatian in, you know, when I was a kid. But. >> how's Croatian food? Croatian food good. >> I went there once and visited and was. not that impressed. >> You got to try the chavapi. The chvapeis.

are phenomenal. >> I never heard of it. I like Italian food, man. Terry's. Italian and he can cook. >> That's what I was about to say. Here in. Pittsburgh, there's like a thousand. Italian spots. I'm excited to see what. you end up doing, what you end up. getting into. This place has great food. all over the place. I'm. >> Yeah. Well, you know, SA was on our. staff, South Sinceri. Yes. >> And I guess his family has a little deli. or something here and we used to bring. the, you know, sausage and all that. stuff in. It was good.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Sincer have one. There'll be. a a Baini. right down the road and then there'll be. a Supera Dupa Dabini around the corner. and then get a Pepe there and then. you'll get a Dalisello, then you'll get. a Deolio, then you'll get a Moraldo, then you'll get a Master Giao, then. you'll get a Pronio, then you'll get an. impavido. These are just people I grew. up with. >> Deeppo, sounds to me like you're pretty expert. >> I know a lot. Yeah. and I took a 23 of. me and uh found out I was 0.01% Italian. and uh that really changed a lot of.

things that I had said. Nick, I'd like. to let you know that was a big moment in. my life. Don't you think, Nick? I think. that was a big moment for the way I'd. been operating. Don't you agree, Franklin Moraldo up there? >> Absolutely. Yeah, that changed a lot of. things. You know, you had uh viewed a. certain group of people a certain way. and then when you realized you were a. part of that group, uh I I think you. became more enlightened. >> No, no, that is that is I don't think. that is exactly right. I was like the. only Irish guy. Okay, it was all. Italians. I was the only Irish guy. So. obviously football town, shit-talking.

town, only Irish guy, all Italians. You. could probably assume how that probably. went, especially with me being involved. Then I found out I'm actually part. Italian. It's like, wait a minute. So we. got to go back and uh kind of change. some things, but great we make great. food. I I mean, we we make great food. And you talk about Kennywood. >> You need to go back there. You they're. opening up for you tonight if you want. to go stop. >> I hadn't been there for probably 50. years. Glad tonight. >> Everybody's looked still going. >> Yeah, shut up AJ. I heard a little. negative stuff out there. We don't need.

to talk about that. AJ actually has a. last question for you on this particular. game before we move on to the rest of. the college football slate. >> So, coach, that field behind you gets a. lot of play. It gets it gets talked. about a lot. We've seen some uh. situations the turf there some is not uh. always stable. I don't Were you a coach. that made your players like did you ever. talk about the field conditions going. in? I know in the NFL coaches do this. where sometimes they'll make their. players wear screw-ins in certain. situations. Was that something that you. actually talked about or you cared to. talk about with your team? >> Yeah. What I talked about with my team. was it's a bad field. Get some shoes.

that work. It was really simple. I. wasn't going to try to pick the shoes. for them and then they come to me saying. he's hurt my feet. Get some shoes that. work, but don't look at me when you slip. and fall and you could run for a. touchdown. Uh because I'm gonna just. look at you and say get some shoes that. work. It's a simple. >> coach Haven said this in the in the. meeting. He said I told the boys as long. as it's 53 yards wide, 100 yards long, we're going to play football. It doesn't. matter what it is. I followed up. immediately. Uh Coach Shaven said that. as a man that doesn't have to run a.

single yard on that particular, but it is real. If both teams have to. play on it, let's not talk about it. What are we even talking about. basically? >> Yeah, that's right. But you know, but. every stadium that I played in, I as. soon as I walked in this room and looked. at this field, I remember playing the. Steelers here when I was a coach of the. Dolphins. And you know, we worked so. hard. They would corner cat. Dick Leau. was the defensive coordinator. But most. of the time when they corner cat, they. play three deep zone. And we worked hard.

when they went to two trap because it. was always hot to the X. Dante Co Pepper. cat hot to the X. Two trap pick six. >> It's the first thing I remember. I mean, why can't I remember good things when I. go? >> Yeah. Is this what you remember? You. remember them dancing into that end? >> I dancing in the street. >> Absolutely. The grass does look good. Now, granted, with where we're sitting, we're not able to get as good of a shot, but the grass does look good. Now, granted, they do spray paint it, too. I. mean, that is just as a matter of fact.

that they do. And uh I I I don't want to. >> I don't want to get on that. >> It looks much better than I thought, honestly. Yeah, it looks good. >> But you know the problem with the field. is, you know, people like to use Zoya. grass on a field because it makes a. really nice field, but then it doesn't. grow when it's not warm enough. >> So you have to put ry grass to. complement it to make it green. Now this. is a problem and I never wanted to do. this. So I I said we got to get some.

grass that grows until football season. is over because when you put ry grass on. a field, the blades are really thick in. the ry grass and it makes it very slick, especially if it's damp at all and. people are slipping and sliding cuz the. cleats don't go in the ground because. the grass is so thick. >> Yeah. Cuz so it's kind of like your. cleat sticks on top of it as So it's. almost like you're on actually skids. once the grass is thick. I know exactly. what you're talking about as you were. explaining it. I had no idea you had a. green thumb. I'm a Kentucky Bluegrass. fan myself. That is my favorite style of.

grass. >> Yeah. Well, I just wanted something. that, you know, the players wouldn't. because, you know, you get this. happening in practice and you lose. players and get hurt with twisted ankles. and all this kind of stuff because you. got bad footing. So, I was a stickler on. that big time. >> What about Bermuda grass? That's pretty. good grass as well. >> Oh, yeah. But it doesn't grow when it. gets cold either. So, you got a problem. Bermuda grass. Soft ass grass. >> See teams not being able to play in the. cold. >> That might be true, but they sure as. hell can play in the southeast.

>> Yes, they did. Speaking of the. Southeast, Diggs has a question for you, coach. >> Yeah, coach. Let's go down to Saving. Field at Bryant Denny Stadium. Alabama. has a big one this weekend. Um, but. overall, I I want to talk not only about. this game, but over their overall. picture. They are 120th, I believe, in. running the football. Can you win a. national championship or get to a. national championship being a. one-dimensional offense in your opinion? >> Well, I think it's hard. I I really do.

And um but if you got a good enough. quarterback and you've got a good enough. receivers, which that's the strength of. their team to me, you know, Tai Simpson. and the receiver core and they make a. lot of explosive plays. Now, they have. struggled to run the ball. the offensive. line is going to have to continue to. improve because they have pretty decent. backs. Uh but they just have not been. able to sustain and finish in the run. game at all, which puts them behind the. sticks a lot. But they make more. explosive plays on rundowns. This that.

play right there that you're watching. right now was a first and 10 play. So. I'm like, throw the ball when they think. you're going to run it and just keep. making explosive plays that way. And if. you want to run it better, run it when. they think you're going to throw it. And. maybe you'll do better job and and. develop some confidence in your ability. to run the ball. >> Okay. So, on that note, the SEC has a. lot of games, okay? There's a lot of. games left with a lot on the line. Tai. wants to ask you about a big one down in. Athens. And it's crazy to think all the. teams at top the SEC are going to have. to play each other. You know, that's.

right. >> And you're going to hear a lot of the. SEC people say, "Isn't that convenient?". Okay. All the best teams have to play. against the best teams. So now the. number in that second column, the loss. number is going to have to go up for. some of these good teams. Are they going. to beat the hell out of each other? Ty. has a question about Athens, Georgia, coach. >> Yeah, coach, that Texas Georgia game, you know, Texas over the last four. weeks, obviously they're 4-0, but they a. couple, you know, tight overtime games. and then, you know, the Vandy game last. week being tighter than, you know, maybe. some people thought it would be, but.

Arch has looked unbelievable. And then. on the flip side, you know, Georgia kind. of just, you know, workmanlike. they. just continue to win and win. Do you how. do you see that game going? And do you. think that most of the questions that. people had about Texas, you know, a. couple weeks ago have maybe been. answered because they're kind of, you. know, coming back pretty strong here and. I think a lot of people see them as, okay, you know, this is maybe a little. partially the team we expected to see. coming into the season. >> Well, I think Texas has improved for two.

reasons. I think in the last two games, Arch has played better. he's playing. with a little more rhythm and not. hurrying everything up and he's been. more effective and efficient and his, you know, completion percentage is way. up and all that. And the offensive line. has played better. So those two things I. think have made them show improvement as. a team, but they still haven't been a. dominant team. I mean, even the games. that they've won, they either had to. come back and win in overtime or, you. know, just barely beat Vanderbilt. And.

then they had terrible issues last week. in the secondary where they gave up over. 300 yards passing. So, uh, they still. have issues on their team that I think. they need to resolve. Now, they're going. to play a really good team and this week. would be a great week to do it. But I'm. telling you what, this Georgia team now, their offense, I mean, they can run it. Gunner makes plays. Uh, they got some. decent receivers who can make plays. I. mean, they're a good team. The only. thing that is Georgia's issue is they. don't have a significant pass rusher and.

they don't create a lot of negative. plays on defense and they haven't been. able to get off the field on third down. like they historically have been able. So that allows the other team to keep. the ball. So those are things that they. can improve on. So both teams have some. flaws that they need to improve upon and. whoever can do it in this game best will. have the best chance to win. >> Now on that note, Georgia very much in. the running for a national championship. right now. They pick up a loss to Texas. It'll be a huge conversation about them. losing to Texas. Texas at some point, I. think they got to play Texas A&M as.

well. They're going to pick it, but if. they pick up two wins here with how the. entire season has gone, all of a sudden. Texas right back into conversation. What's conversation about Georgia? What's conversation about Alabama as. they've gotten through the hardest. schedule that maybe the entire college. football season has had. It's like you. guys down the South are certainly going. to have a lot of reasons to be pissed. about whatever happens at the end. And. it is because of the scheduling, but we. want these big games to happen. So, it's. kind of like a uh an interesting dilemma. right now in ball. >> Yeah. I would like to have the good. games. I think that's good for fans. I.

think it's good for football. I think. players love playing in games, you know, like this game here or like, you know, the Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas later on. But when it. comes to getting in the playoffs, because of the way it's set up, it's not. necessarily in your best interest to. play a tough schedule right now. But. when you got seven teams in the top 15, which you don't want to admit, the SEC. is worth a damn. >> They got to play each other. They got to. play each other. Mr. Big 10 over here.

All right. So, >> and the 12 and the 12 and the Big 12. >> So, they're going to play each other. So, somebody's got to lose. So, somebody's going to end up with three. losses and they're not going to be able. to get in the playoffs. But yet, they. may be a better team than some of the. teams who get in the playoffs. >> It happened already last year. You know, the first last year was the first year. of the 12 team playoff and you know, the. BCS model where there was a bunch of. different then we pick which one's the. national championship and then the four. teams was obviously a big expansion. Everybody was pissed about who's the. fifth team? Now with the 12 team one,

now everybody's pissed about who the. 13th team is because you know the five. highest ranked champions. Is Notre Dame. going to get a spot? Well, everybody in. football in the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, definitely everybody's pulling for. Notre Dame to lose at some point. But. Notre Dame still has a track to the. college football playoffs for sure if. they win these games. And that takes. away a spot now from one of these teams. you're talking about that has to play. one of these schedules. And that kind of. goes to Ohio State's conversation. Now, uh Desmond Howard's been bringing it up. for a few weeks because he's obviously. Michigan guy, but also I think he's been.

tasked with doing some Ohio State, you. know, research basically for College. Game Day and he's like, listen, Ohio. State hasn't really played anybody. Now. granted, every game you could lose in. college football. You're talking about. 18 year olds to 22 year olds. I guess. there's some 45 year olds playing in. certain situations, but you know, it's a. younger group and having everybody show. up every single week is part of you. being great and why you're the GOAT. So, winning every game is certainly. impressive. Dominating every game. definitely impressive, but when you look. at who they've played, you don't really. see anybody on the schedule. So, I think. we don't know. Dan Olowski yesterday.

comes out and goes, "We don't know if. they're a good team. We've never seen. them losing in the fourth quarter." Kind. of contradicts himself there. We don't. know if they're a good team. They've. never been down in the fourth quarter. It's like, >> wow. Well, you know, if they were not a. good team, I guess they would have some. times where they're down at some point. in the game, but I think what a lot of. people are saying, they haven't been. tested. So, like, how do you look at an. Ohio State team because they have been. so damn dominant, but it feels like they. haven't had like a staple win other than. Texas at the beginning of the year and.

everybody thought Texas at that point. was nowhere near what everybody thinks. they were going to be now, you know? Like, how do you judge the Ohio State. kind of run that they've been on? >> Right. Well, they've been dominant. I. mean, they're only giving up like seven. points a game defensively and they score. a whole bunch of points. They've got. good receivers. The quarterbacks played. well. They don't run the ball great if. they have a flaw. But at the same time, I always wanted our teams to be tested. I always wanted to play against good. teams because I wanted to see how what. the competitive spirit of our team.

really was, what the mental toughness. was, how we could overcome adversity. Because when you dominate everybody, then you get in a tight game. people. start getting frustrated because they're. not dominating. That's not you just got to win, you. know? I mean, you can't get frustrated. just because you're not dominating the. game. So, um, but I do think Ohio State. has a good team. I think there's three. teams that's kind of proven they're a. cut above&m, Ohio State, and Indiana. Those three. teams have kind of shown that they're a.

cut above the other teams. The other. teams are good enough to beat them, but. they all have a little flaw or something. that they need to overcome. So it'll be. interesting to see how that works out. down the stretch here. >> Okay. So in the NFL they say like the. people in the know after the season. starts everybody kind of understands. that there's probably like seven to. eight teams that could actually go win. the Super Bowl. In college it feels like. there is tears each year on who can. actually win and then everybody else. that is in the good level. That's why. people saying if we go to 16 team. playoff or if we go to whatever like.

does it matter because a lot of these. teams are just going to get the doors. blown off them whenever they play. against the good team. How many teams. are those normally? Three, four teams. that are like built for it and did you. know your teams were national. championship teams during a season? Or. did you think with some of your squads. like maybe we're not at the level that. we need to be to be actual national. championship? I don't know if that makes. sense in the question. >> Yeah, it it it it does. And most of the. time I didn't know uh because I think. when you're coaching a team, you're. always looking at what do we need to. improve on. So you're not actually.

trying to compare that team to all the. other teams. But I do remember one. thought I had. You know, we won the. national championship in 20. Waddle. broke his leg at Tennessee on a kickoff. return. Shouldn't even rot it out, but. he did. And he got hurt. So, and I'm. saying we had Smitty, we had Wadd, and. we had a really good quarterback, you. know, Mack. And I said, you know, this. team's got a chance, but we got to do it. because we have the good skill guys. And. when Wadd got hurt, I said in my mind,

it went through my mind as soon as they. told me he was hurt and he was out. We. won't have a chance to win now. But we. did. >> Yeah. And Wadd played right if I recall. in the national championship. Was that. >> played a few plays. He could run in a. straight line, but he had a hard time. changing direction and he wanted to. play. Oh yeah. >> And he caught a pass or two, but you. know, Smitty had a phenomenal year and. won the Heisman Trophy. and um you know. we had balance on the team but that's. the only team that I remember ever. thinking that something happened that.

>> it's going to be tough. >> it's going to be tough when Tua got hurt. had the same feeling cuz that was one of. the best teams we ever had is the year. Tua broke his hip uh that was one of the. best teams we ever had cuz we had four. first round draft pick receivers and I. like them receivers man they scored fast. and they they get on me about you know. me thinking being a defensive guy we're. scoring too fast and protect the. defense. I loved it. I loved it when we. spoke. >> Yeah. But the reason why they think that. is cuz watching old school Alabama, you. were winning, but it was just like so.

boring. You know, you're just handing. the ball off. You guys just running all. over people and then all right, your. defense is going to dominate the other. side. And it was like it was 1970, 1980. We're just going to beat the hell. out. And you guys did. And that was like. the we're a tough football team. We're. going to pound the [ __ ] out of you. Quarterback never really got a lot of. credit. It was always everybody else. So. then when you make that change to become. like an explosive offense and keep up. basically with what football a became, everybody did assume that you hated it. They're like, "Oh, Sabin's yearning for.

the days where we're all falling asleep. in the third quarter as they're just. pounding another team into oblivion." Do. people thought that about you, coach? >> No, I they probably did. But um I. actually figured out when people were. throwing RPOS's and going no huddle fast. and starting scoring 40 points a game. that we will not be able to win playing. this style of football. We we have to be. able to utilize you know make people. defend the whole field vertically and. horizontally. Have great skill guys get.

a great quarterback and score more. points. And you know we won some. championships by outscoring people. rather than playing defense. Yeah, I'd. say he won some championships. The. trophies are all over the house. There. you go. They're literally falling out of. the out of the shelves. Seven time. national champion. The national. championship odds right now are sitting. with Ohio State at plus 185 at the very. top of this thing. Indiana plus 450. Texas A&M plus 750. To your point about. the three teams above, they also have. Alabama in that if you were to look at. the odds, not that much different from.

Texas A&M. Notre Dame at plus a,000. Big. one here at Pit. There's going to be a. lot of energy here in this building. I. think it's going to be a tough one for. them. Georgia plus 1300, Texas plus 3500. down there at the bottom. Obviously. meeting Oregon in the mix, Texas Tech, Old Miss, and that rounds out the odds. >> But you know, one thing about this whole. thing, and you know, you say Ohio State. hadn't played a tough schedule, but just. taking Alabama, which I'm closest to. because I live there. This has been a. tremendous grind for this team. I mean,

they've played like four or five games. in a row against really top opponents. You know, now they're going to go play. Oklahoma, who's a top opponent. You. know, LSU is no slouch regardless of. what you think from a player standpoint. So, they've been through this gauntlet. So, can they actually build on the. momentum that they have or are they. going to get the poor me? I call it. because sometimes your team gets the. poor me at this time of the season. You. know, poor me, I'm tired. Poor me, I'm.

hurt. Poor me, this and that, all that. And if you get that, then you don't. practice as well, you don't prepare as. well, you don't play as well, and those. things start showing up in your. performance. And I'm just hoping this. team can sustain their way through it. and prove that they are where they. should be. >> I love you just looking at a guy say, "Oh, poor me." Oh, I I love that. That's. where it all came. I call it the poor. me. The amount of time you've seen. somebody pattern or thinking certain. way. Oh, poor. it just in your brain.

coming up with the poor me's I wish I. was there for that moment sounds amazing. but the fact that you have motivation. for every single situation is why you're. the goat of college football and we're. lucky that you chat with us every week. let's talk about sports as a whole and. let's talk about the game that happened. last night the guy who's the odds on. favorite to win the Heisman is in his. second year Drake May Boston Connor has. a question for you about him. >> yeah coach Greg Olsen put out a tweet um. kind of about basically the importance. of recruits playing other sports he does. a foundation youth inc and it's just all. about getting kids into all types of.

sports. And he kind of tagged it with a. photo of you and Sarkc at Drake Mays. High School. I believe it's the Mustangs. he uh represented in high school and. it's you watching him play basketball. But I just wanted to ask you about the. importance and what you would do when. recruiting players. You know, was there. ever a time where you went to watch a. Julio Jones or a Derek Henry and they. were maybe hitting a baseball 600 ft or. dunking a basketball from the free throw. line and you honestly had more respect. for what they were as an athlete and a.

football player? Was there ever a time. too where you damn near wanted to. recruit a kid and get get him to commit. early so he didn't, you know, go to the. NBA or go to the MLB within a year? And. what do you think about that when it. comes to, you know, recruits now who. typically focus in one sport and then, you know, in their off season are. playing that same sport or preparing for. that sports next season? Do you think. that recruits all over should be playing. at least two sports? And how much does. it show you when you get to see a guy.

outside of football compete uh in a. different field? >> Yeah. Well, first of all, Drake May was. one of those guys that you're talking. about in the first part of your question. that really impressed me by the way he. played basketball. He probably could. have played basketball at North. Carolina, too, and was going to out of. high school. And one of the reasons. that, you know, he was committed to us. for a long time. His family was all. Carolina, which I knew would, you know, eventually be an obstacle, but he wanted. to play basketball as well. And um so.

and he probably could have cuz he I was. very impressed watching him play. basketball. I mean, this guy was a good. player and he obviously is everything. that we thought he was going to be. coming out of high school uh as an NFL. player now and also had a great college. career. So, he was one of those guys. that impressed. I was never a guy I. liked it when players played multiple. sports because to me that that says. something about them as a competitor, you know, that they love to play. They.

love to compete. They wanted to play. whatever uh was in season because that's. how I grew up. That's how we all did it, you know, back in the day. And I love to. see guys do that. And I think other. sports tells you a lot about a guy. Like. baseball's basically boring. All right. But to me, >> Amen, brother. No, no, no, no. Baseball's good. Baseball's good. Sorry. >> But but I love guys that play baseball. because to me, even though it's a slow. game, you have to have more athletic. intuition to play the game than other. games. I mean, you can run track and win.

track meet and have no athletic. intuition. You're just fast. But in. baseball, you got to make lots of. choices and decisions about is it a ball. or a strike? Should I hit it? Should I. not hit it? What pitch is he throwing. from the time it leaves the pitcher's. hand and gets to home plate? Nobody can. teach you that ball judgment, you know? I mean, how many DBs do you see that. have terrible ball judgment? I used to. like to tr recruit track guys to play. corner and after they'd give up big. plays because they couldn't judge the. ball, I started recruiting baseball. players. I knew they could judge the. ball. So, you know, these are all things.

that I think you can learn about players. when you watch them play other sports. And uh I loved it when guys played other. sports. And I was never opposed to guys. playing other sports because I didn't. think it ever affected their development. in terms of what they would do in the. future. >> Okay. So, let's talk about that because. I think there's a lot of gurus and. specialists and experts that are telling. a lot of these young guys and young. athletes. I have a daughter. She's two. and a half. She hasn't been in it yet. I. think AJ would be able to maybe speak to. this better than all of us. And in Ohio,

I don't know how it goes and how AJ, he's a professional athlete and played. every single sport. So, I'd assume AJ. agrees with us. But what is the cell, AJ? They're saying that you got to spend. every single minute that you have. working on your craft if you want to be. able to become a professional. Is that. basically the cell for these people to. only do one sport year round that you've. experienced with your kids or that they. pitch to other kids? >> Yeah, I mean, I've kind of experienced. it all and talked to all different kinds. of coaches. From what I have found that. bad coaches want their want kids to. specialize in one sport. Like coaches. that aren't great, they want to. specialize it and it they just make it.

really tough. You have to be an absolute. stud to play like three sports in high. school now because basketball is going. all year round. Lacrosse is all year. round. Football is the one that's like, hey, football is football season. Yeah, you have offseason stuff, but I just. think they make it tough because there's. so many things you have to miss if you. do want to play other sports. and B. But. if you you just got to be good enough, you got to be too good to where, hey, guess what? I'll be there once this. basketball season's over. I'll I'll show. up at lacrosse, but I'm that good. You're going to have to play me. That's. kind of how it is right now, I feel. like.

>> And on that note, AJ, I I think the all. these experts and gurus that probably. never made it and uh you know, they. probably blame the fact that they didn't. make it because they didn't solely focus. maybe on one sport. So, they're. projecting themselves onto younger. athletes. It's like I think you develop. in your main sport by playing other. sports. Even though you're missing out. on some reps, it's like what you're. gaining your point about ball judgement, everything like that. These other sports. make you better at your sports. So, it's. like I I I don't get it. Now, granted, I.

had schools looking at me in three. different sports coming out of high. school. I don't know how many people. have that. Uh but on that note, it's. like I grew up playing every sport. I. didn't play video games as much cuz I. had ADD. So, I was playing sports, sports, sports, sports. And everyone fed. into the other seemingly. And I don't. know how that kind of gets missed. >> Yeah. But to AJ's point, it it's more. difficult for guys to play all sports. When I was in school, I played whatever. was in season I played. But football ran. into basketball, especially if you got. in the playoffs. But we might miss a few. games, but then we'd come and play.

Well, it's it's harder to do. But my. point is the best player is the best. player. I don't care how much you try to. develop him and how much he specializes. growing up and all that. Like Michael. Dean Perry, he didn't like to practice. All right. But when I was at the. Cleveland Browns and we'd put him on the. sled and it was how fast can you hit the. sled? His hands would be on the sled and. all them other defensive linemen would. their hands still be in the ground. So. he was just that much quicker than. everybody else. So did he have to.

specialize in his sport from the time he. was 8 years old to do that? I don't. think so. >> You said they it feels like people are. trying to make decisions that have. already been made for uh most people in. how they were created. That's awesome. AJ. >> Well, and kids get burned out. >> Yes, absolutely. >> I mean, how how many tennis players and. people like that did you hear about that. they start specializing when they're 8. years old and by the time they're 16, they want to quit? >> So, we have um uh CFO Phil is a PIT. grad. He's all excited about this. obviously. Oh, yeah.

>> He is super pumped about Pit getting a. little bit of love, little celebration. for the University of Pittsburgh. He's. got a boy, Lil Phil. Okay. Lil Phil, really good hockey player. hockey, you. know, is one of those sports where it's. a lot of commitment. They move out of. their hometowns, you know, and he's very. good, but they have made a conscious. decision, I think, at this stage of his. life where, yeah, you're still playing. baseball. We're still doing other sports. because it's going to help hockey. But. at some point, he's going to have to. fully commit to hockey because of the. amount of time that it kind of takes. It's interesting what sports have. become. I I think to you and AJ's point,

like some of these sports I got to. commit full. How about those Olympic. sports? Like, let's just say figure. skating, swimming. Like, those things. are like. >> the amount of It's like 4:00 a.m. you're. in the pool and you need to be in the. pool for 3 hours and then you're going. to do school and then afterwards you're. in the pool. It's like how do you do. anything? I I don't know. I guess that's. tough to balance. AJ, I guess. >> So, I have a question for you. So, from. a hockey standpoint, you know, these. guys get drafted when they're 17, 18. years old. They can still go to college.

and play. Mhm. >> They can go to some, you know, league. somewhere in Canada or wherever they're. from and play. Uh, and then they turn. pro when they're 21. You think that's. ever happening in football? >> It's already happened. They're pro. whenever they get recruited and then. they transfer and then they transfer and. they're already pro. So, yeah, I think. it's already happening. Yeah. IMG. >> 19 draft them out of high school. That's. the difference. >> Oh, you're saying the having the rights. out of high school. >> Yes. >> Develop somewhere. So, like teams draft. high schoolers and then send them to.

Ohio State to develop or something like. that. Is that what you're saying? >> Yeah. >> Oh, >> wow. >> And then the other question I have is. now that they let guys come from the. GLeague back to. >> college hoops. >> College hoops, is the New York Giants. going to be able to send their third. team quarterback to Penn State to. develop at some point? These are my. questions. >> Definitely not Penn State. >> These these are my questions, he says. Hey, you guys ask me questions. I'm.

asking questions. Never thought about. that. >> I mean, it's happening with hockey right. now. To your point, Ga Gavin McKenna, uh, he I don't think he's been drafted. yet, but he's been the number one. recruit prospect for the NHL for. multiple years now. And kind of out of. nowhere, he decided to go to Penn State. this year instead. >> because they have money because the. amount of money that they're paying. there instead of going to the. >> Sorry, go ahead. >> Go ahead, Tom. Go ahead, Tom. I was. going to say the Penguins first round. draft pick is at Michigan right now and. he's leading the uh college hockey in. scoring right now. So they have his. rights and he's playing at Michigan.

leading the NCAA. >> My brother-in-law did. My brother-in-law. got drafted number three overall in NHL. and he went and played at Michigan two. years and then went to the NHL. >> Okay. Is that just because the team he. got drafted to? I guess we should ask. Nicki Skates in the back there. Frank. Pisano, what is it with hockey? They. still keep your rights. They can send. you to any school or how's that kind of. work? >> No. And I mean it's different. It's case. by case circumstances. So, like in uh. AJ's case there, I believe Jack was Jack. Johnson was drafted to the Columbus Blue. Jackets or I'm sorry, Carolina. Hurricanes. He may not have been ready.

to make the pro team. >> He said that. Yeah, he said he wasn't. ready. He admitted to me I was not. ready. I needed to go play in college. actually. >> So, they give him a couple years to. develop and he gets to, you know, he has. free reign of where he goes to school or. if he goes to play junior or anything. like that. Uh but then he goes, >> do they do this in baseball, Ty? Is this. baseball too or No. Are they designated. for the minor? Sorry, go ahead. Is that. a hockey? You still have hockey? >> Yeah. No, I was going to ask. They still. keep the rights for two or three years. though, right? >> Oh, yeah. >> When they draft a guy out of high. school. Yeah. >> So, on that note, baseball Pat White. whenever he was with us, he got drafted.

like four times cuz they wanted his. rights, I think, just in case uh. football didn't work. Ty, is baseball. doing this with college too? Cuz I know. like don't guys get drafted and then. choose to go to college. Do their rights. remain with the guys that they got. drafted to or how's that. >> So, it changes. So, like we talked about. this with Kyler Murray, like in that. instance, like if he were to go back and. play, like the A's still have his. rights, but if you get drafted first. round out of high school or first. overall pick, a lot of times what will. happen is they can't agree on a signing.

bonus or something, you know, or the. team sucks and they don't want to go. there and just kind of wither away in. the minors. Those guys will go to. college and then when they become draft. eligible, their their rights are open. again. So, they can be drafted by any. >> three years. >> Yep. Three years. >> Yeah. >> Got it. >> So, you mentioned a guy there, Pat. White. >> Yeah. >> Guess who he was committed to. >> Yeah. I heard you didn't want to play. quarterback. >> Yeah. And again, what a dumbass. >> I'll tell you what, I watched his ass. take the snap and run all over every.

field. And I rode his coattails through. some big moments. I mean, it was. awesome, right? >> He was fantastic. >> He was cool, man. He was a great leader, too. Like, incredible leader. Like, that. that's the thing about him. His dad fire. chief, I think. >> So, like his dad, obviously Mobile Yeah. Mobile, Alabama, the home of Marty Gro. That's where Marty GR was actually. created. Then it went down to New. Orleans. I learned all this at Senior. Bowl whenever I was very intoxicated. Missed my flight today to the ESPN. skills kicking contest. Missed it. >> Why does none of that surprise me? >> I don't know, man. I should have been a.

little bit more locked in, especially. with how I understand how it all works. now at this point. Could you imagine? I. go down to that ESPN kicking contest. I. show I missed the first meeting because. I missed the flight out of Mobile, Alabama. There's only like two flights a. day out of that place. So obviously I'm. stuck there. I missed the meeting, missed the rehearsal, missed the rules, missed the engagement, missed all the. gifts, the swag. Everybody knows that I. I missed the flight and I assume they. know why I missed the flight. I show. down there, win a contest or two, and. then I kind of get out of there wearing. pink cleats and I think everybody goes, "You either like this guy or you hate. this guy." Thank god Bill Polian said,

"We like this guy." And he got a little. boozed up. Bill Polian said, "Who cares? They won a Senior Bowl. Let's do that.". But boy, I could have certainly been. making sandwiches here in Pittsburgh for. the rest of my life. And it would have. been at Rudy's subs. And uh you might. learn a little bit about Rudy's. tomorrow. Tone digs. Watch your mouth. and your tone whenever it comes up. tomorrow on the internet. Okay. Tone. >> I always Rudy's is my favorite best. cheeseburger celery in the country. >> Is that basically like a meatball sub? >> Nope. >> Coach. Coach, I'm sorry you got to deal. with this. Okay. I love these guys.

though. They're really good. They bring. out the best in you, too. >> Thanks, coach. Coach, you like meatball. subs, coach? Coach, you like meatball. subs? You like meatballs? >> Oh, yeah. Absolutely. >> Yes. >> Meatball subs or just meatballs? >> How about pepperoni rolls? You guys know. what pepperoni rolls? Most of. >> these guys don't even know what. pepperoni rolls are called. This can. make the best. She's made them before. >> Yeah, she brought them to Alabama. I. think we had them in Alabama. Listen, a. lot of Italians around. We know what. pepperoni rolls. >> Oh, yeah. I understand that. Uh, meatball subs though. Can't have it. How. How about mashed potatoes? You like.

mashed potatoes? >> Uh, not meatballs. 50/50. 50/50. >> We like that. How about pizza? Will you. eat pizza? You look very. >> Oh, yeah. I like pizza. >> You're in very good shape. What is your. diet? Do you eat Do you eat a lot? >> No, I I try to work out. >> I always save up for a good dinner, spaghetti, whatever. >> Oh, so you're we're fasting almost. during the day and then housing dinner. >> Yeah, >> cuz you look good, I think. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> I'm going to try to force. >> You know, when you're my age, you got to.

get ready for 90 now. So, that's my. theory. smart. >> Got to work out a little bit. Stay in. shape. >> And that's why you're Nick S. And you. know what I'm thinking about? >> I ain't going to make the 40. >> Ladies and gentlemen, Nick S. [Applause]. >> Coach does look good, though. >> Yeah, he looks really good. Skin's. glowing. >> He is glowing. Everything about it, he's. every single week it feels like the guy. gets better better looking, gets better. in shape, and he he's better more and. more comfortable on TV. >> He's having fun up there. you can tell. he like legitimately enjoys doing it.

where whereas early on, you know, I. think it might have been like, >> man, what am I doing up here? I'm sure. that's so jarring when you've coached. your entire life to all of a sudden. like, you know, you're talking about. some the the eighth best Big 10 game or. something like that and it's like what. what the hell am I doing? But you can. tell he like he genuinely enjoys it and. has a lot of fun up there. >> And like changing his viewpoint to your. point like him having that idea about. the media as a coach for your whole life. being like don't listen to them. They're.

stupid. They don't know what they're. talking about. >> Avoid them at all costs. I don't I don't. I don't want to talk. Oh, hey coach. You. want to do No. My first answer is no. every single time. >> [ __ ] And keep them in the dark. >> Yeah. And now you're you're part of it. So it's a it's a whole situation, I. guess. I think Pat might have some I. don't know if he has Rudy subs. I don't. know what he has going on over there. >> You know what I have? You know what I. have? >> Oh, you got meatball sub. What do you. got? >> No. No way. This is my sack of subs, baby. >> Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. What kind you. like again?

>> Whole Italian hot lettuce, onion, mayo. Thank you so much. Uh, yes, definitely. grilled uh cooked. And I would like some. fries on the side with a little bit of. cheese. The issue is I think this has. been here for a while, so it's a little. bit chilly. It'll still be there. Let's. not get it twisted. It's really See, I. need Maraboli's uh cargo pocket to maybe. do nature's microwave in this entire. thing. But yeah, I mean Yep. And that. that's cool. We don't want to eat that. one. >> We got Dump. You got a microwave over. there. >> There's got to be in the suite, right? >> Yeah.

>> So, I think the only thing I'm worried. this one feels We'll figure it out. There's sack of six subs here. Me and. Gumpy will be damn fine. Uh but I have. not eat I've not ate eaten. >> eaten. >> eaten. Yeah. I've not eaten. uh strictly. because the amount of food that I'm. about to have to go eat, you know, because there's a lot of this about to. go happen and I owe a lot of people that. have a lot of food places around town. and I'm trying to show love and. obviously say hello and also the food. here is so good. So it's like I. literally have not eaten. Is that what. you. >> Sure. I've not eaten in like uh since.

yesterday before show. >> Last night I had like couple peanut. butter balls before bed, you know, a. little keep me over. And then this. morning I had three cups of coffee I. think this morning. A little bit too. much. I as I was drinking the third one, I'm like, what am I doing? I need to get. a water. I love this for you. >> Yeah, I ch another one. So I am very. hungry coming out of this show here and. I'm about to go eat like 15 different. restaurants, I think. So, I cannot wait. for that. I'm excited for that. And and.

you know, it's nice to be just Look at. this place, dude. >> What do they say in Pittsburgh? Could. you ask for a better Pittsburgh day than. that? Is it gray out? Yeah. >> Is it awesome? Of course. Are we. preparing for a massive football. weekend? Uh-huh. Let's have one here in. Pittsburgh. Lucky to be here. And I'm. going to eat the hell out of all their. food. So, that's the thing. We I talked. to Nardooi about it when he was talking. about going up to Lancing. There's just. no Italians up there. It is. It's a. culture shock. AJ, there's Italians over. there in Ohio, right?

>> Uh yeah, there's definitely different. pockets where there's there's more than. others, but yeah, there's Italians. >> Youngsttown, >> Youngstown, especially Northeast. Yeah, you get it. >> The Irish and the Italian create this. city, you know, like that is kind of. what plum super Italian place. Obviously, there's a lot of Italians. everywhere, but I am excited to see how. many fighting Irish fans there are. tomorrow. What is your. >> I think a lot. >> Yeah, I think so, too. I I think it's. going to be I think it's going to be. pretty I because the Irish are heavy. here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania tone. >> Yeah, I made a mistake when I was I was. talking about Ohio State, Penn State,

West Virginia, and Pit. I should have. also included Notre Dame because just. growing up like there's just there's so. many Notre Dame fans all over the all. over the country, but also when you grow. up Italian Catholic town, there's also a. lot of Notre Dame fans there. I also. made a mistake earlier in the show. Uh I. misread something on the internet. A. group of monkeys is actually called a. troop, not a collective. So, I just. wanted to get that off my chest as well. cuz it's been burning a hole inside me. for the last hour. >> Yeah. Wow. Troop of. >> chimpanzees. Got that off your chest. >> Also sounds incredible.

>> Yeah. Collective sounded right though. cuz these things like the gossip. >> So, so I when I looked it up a group of. like when you look up, hey, what's this. group of animal, you know, a murder for ravens or a troop. for monkeys? I believe that is a. collective noun. So, I read collective. there and just spit it out of my STUPID. [ __ ] MOUTH. NO, TONE. >> SONE, it's okay. It's okay, dude. Journalism, you corrected yourself. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> That's important. >> A group of chimpanzees is called.

>> a troop or tribe. Tribe would have been. better. Tribe would have been cool, too. >> I think I'm going to I think I'm going. to use the word. >> I think I'm going to use the word tribe. uh tomorrow when describing Yinsor. So, just a little inside. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We go. >> So, that's your That's your ideal right. there? Your go-to? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look at that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That looks good. Yummy. >> Look at the bread. The maninis bread. >> Yeah, the bread looks fantastic. >> They make their own bread in house, >> man. Well, they get it from maninis.

>> Down a strip. >> Jesus. >> Okay. I thought I assume they shipped it. in from somewhere somehow. Out of state. >> Sicily. >> You're kidding me. >> Out of state? >> You think we're getting [ __ ] from out of. state for this stuff? What do we Right. here is just fine, buddy. Okay. Now, I. will say this thing's been sitting at. the bottom of this bag. >> Yeah, that came through a little bit. Yeah. >> In the bite or the look. >> In the look. The look. >> It certainly looked a little. commercial. Sir, >> it's not about how it looks. You need to.

show some respect, please. >> That's part of it. The meal is that. flatbread or. >> that you put that under a brick. You. drove over in THE BUS. >> AT THE BOTTOM OF A BAG. IT WAS AT THE. BOTTOM OF A BAG of big. >> Could probably sit on that for two days. >> He's got a lottery. >> Maybe. Honestly, maybe. >> All right. Oh my god. So good. >> Still good. Still good. >> All right. Have an incredible weekend. Football is going to be amazing. We're.

very appreciative of it. We'll be back. for overreaction Monday. Game day. tomorrow morning. We'll be live on X and. on ESPN. It should be a electrifying. morning in Pittsburgh. We'll see you. then. Goodbye. >> Felt like I really nailed it and almost. choked on it. So, uh show will be live. on X though. >> Nice. >> Third straight week. >> Last week had a little uh. >> I don't I guess we call it internet. outage in Indiana right before it went. live. So, we had to uh battle through. that quickly as it got started. And the.

boys did a great job back at the. Thunderdome. Tomorrow, we'll be once. again live on X from the city of. Pittsburgh. We're going to have a great. backdrop. I mean, we're right alongside. the river. The stadium's going to be. right around the corner. The city of. Pittsburgh is going to show up in a big. way to celebrate football and uh there's. a massive Notre Dame pit game that's. going to be kicking off immediately. afterwards. The stars are going to be in. abundance. Pittsburgh royalty is going. to be everywhere. And uh we can't wait. for the morning. And you know, there is. a dispute going on between, you know, two parties and there's a lot of people.

missing ball and missing the things that. they love. Just know that on X tomorrow, game day, we'll be live and for free. Shout out to ESPN, Jimmy Petaro, Burke, Magnus, Old Fosso, and everybody that. says, "Yeah, let's continue to do that.". That's good for our fans, that's good. for football, and that's good for. unifying ball fans, which is certainly. something that we need at this point. So, we'll be live on X tomorrow, and it. should be a scene tomorrow, I believe, is how they describe these types of. things. AJ, >> yeah, I think it's going to be an. interesting like collection like what I. know we talked about. What do you 50/50.

you think fans pit to Notre Dame? I'm. like what's it in I want to know in the. stadium when's it going to be loudest. when who's on you know who say Notre. Dame's on offense are the pits fan pit. fans going to be louder than when pits. offense. >> constant noise. >> the whole time. >> incredible atmosphere. >> like the world cup. >> I think it will be incredible atmosphere. for real. >> I do wonder what the percentage would be. who would know that seatgeeek would know. that and right now. >> you can get $30 off tickets if you use. the code Pat McAfee P A T MC A E that.

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>> Are we going back? There was an event. that was going to be had. Well, I've. heard we've been there six times. Somebody said that Kim Kardashian. >> I heard we are going back. >> We are going back. >> Who Who's doing it? Do we know the guy. >> states of [ __ ] America? USA. >> A chimpanzeee that escaped the. Indianapolis Zoo. Yeah, >> they used to take chimps into uh space. right before they took humans. >> Yeah. >> Just to test to see if it worked. >> Just make sure. >> They were they good with the joystick. Are they good pilots? >> Great pilots. >> That's what I heard. >> Yeah. >> Brilliant. >> Well, they don't get they don't get. distracted. I guess no chimpanzees have. ADD. So that's a big part of getting.

>> locking. >> for whatever for whatever reason too. They were just excellent at being able. to land the lunar module, you know, and. and actually lock it into the dock. >> Uh it took a while for our our, you. know, actual, you know, male and female. pilots. >> They trained our astronauts. Correct. >> Exactly. >> Yeah, dude. Cool. >> Yep. >> They did this. >> Exactly. Sign language. Everyone was. like, "Holy shit.". >> Yep. >> Yeah. Whoa. Well, we need to do that. when we're going to space. >> But why is he still Why do we put a. diaper on fall over still?

>> Well, the pooping thing's quite an issue. for a lot of animals like fat corgis and. also chimpanzees, I think. But, um, didn't we just caught We just caught. something. I just saw something. >> Bezos. >> Yeah. Bezos Bezos Blue Origin became the. second uh company to be able to. successfully land the rocket after it. took off. >> Yes. But didn't that catch something. from the moon or Mars or something that. I think there was something alongside of. that with another place that whether it. could catch something that comes back or.

it did catch something that's coming. back. I'm not sure. >> Yeah, the thing I read was that it's. like testing to see I guess like the. something about the sun basically. changing like the atmosphere around Mars. and like why that is like I think that's. what the ultimate goal is. I don't know. if that's actually happened yet, but. apparently scientists have noticed like, hey, something's going on with the suns. and it's it's changing what's going on. with Mars right now. >> That was an interesting theory that I um. I didn't really think of is like the sun.

basically took Mars atmosphere. Yeah, I. think is basically what this talked. about. Correct. So, we see it as the red. we see it as a red planet. What this. particular tweet that I read and who. knows if it's real, basically said it's. red because it was fried to a crisp. basically by the sun. The sun basically. just took its entire atmosphere which. makes you wonder did they, you know, did. they potentially go in, you know, because the sun not in there and did. they do their entire thing? Hopefully we. learn that. You think it's in our. lifetime we learn about any of the other. [ __ ]. >> Yeah. >> I mean, they'll be going to Mars in our.

life. They'll be going to Mars within. the next 5 10 years, right? Sending. humans. >> How long does it take to get there? >> 9 months. >> No, it's like a nine month ride one way. or a year. One way. >> That's the Avatar you're talking about. a girl who's training to do it, she's. she knows she's not coming back. >> No, they don't. We don't have one-way. missions. We know that. They say that. >> I think in the next gen, like in your. guys' kids generation is when it'll. happen. Lifetime. I don't know if like. we might be on the like the very end of. when it's happening. >> When we go there or when we habitate and.

we we build things and we live there. You're saying just go. >> to AJ Hawks to AJ Hawk's point, uh, internet tells us it takes seven to 10. months to get to Mars. AJ, I like that. That's not bad because I started I got. overwhelmed when I heard like people. were going to be in a spaceship for nine. months traveling one way and then you. get there knowing you have nine or 10 11. months back. Like that's that's a mental. test. That's more like that right there. freaks me out. >> Well, maybe they put him like Jacob. Sully in one of those tubes and it's. kind of put you to sleep for six, seven. months. >> That' be nice. >> Yeah. And you don't even know. It's just.

like kind of a sleepy six months. Take a. nap, wake up, we're two months out from. Mars. Okay. Well, I need to learn a lot. What are we doing up there? And then on. the way back, yep, you know the deal. We're putting your ass to sleep until we. get to around the moon. Then we'll wake. you up, send you back into America. Now, the thought on that just becoming. reality is kind of what Elon has talked. about, right? >> He talked about just being able to pick. up and just. >> he said we're going to have to, right? He's saying like there's going to be a. time where we have to go live on another. planet. >> So, he's an alien, right? We. >> I mean, sure.

>> Precisely. >> Hybrid. >> All right, let's take a break and then. on the other side, let's make our picks. and then let's have a hell of a Friday, shall we, AJ? By the way, by the way. Yeah. Rest in peace. >> Oh, you already housed. already. >> Yeah. It doesn't matter if it's sitting. at the bottom of a bag and it's crushed. and it's a little bit chilly and it's. supposed to be hot. Let's go. >> Still delightful around here. Still. number one out here. >> All right, let's get to a break on the. other side. We'll make our picks and. then we'll get the hell out of here for.

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watch it burn. If you seen all the hell. I seen it make your stomach turn, I. think you know why I do what I do when I. do. [Music]. Started with 133 teams vying for one of. these coveted 12 spots for this 12 team. playoff and it came down to two teams in. the great state of Indiana kicking this. entire THING OFF.

I MIGHT drink a little. I might smoke a. lot. Count down a good time. >> The best year of college football that. it's ever had. It's about to have the. greatest playoffs it's ever had. And it. all starts right here in front of. Touchdown Jesus and his beautiful. people. And I need to say. Irishers.

>> They'll do that all night. If you make. this kick, I will double his kick to. $500,000. I will also donate $250,000 to. a charity of Chris Bailey's choosing. >> Yeah. Let it go. >> Oh god. Not terrible. Yep. One kick. $750,000. The Lord is watching you.

>> 1 million. [Applause]. >> And there's a bunch of. us. >> WE DON'T JUST BEAT TOP 25 TEAMS. WE BEAT. THE [ __ ] OUT OF YOU. OKAY, GOOGLE. >> The one thing you didn't learn from me. is talking all the [ __ ] you talk. >> Welcome to the most electrifying.

atmosphere in all of sport. I know. European soccer fans are wild. That's. like 30 to 60,000. You're about to see. all weekend 100,000 plus bananas. atmosphere. And that is one part of the. reason why college ball is so damn. great. >> Just had a fun show. No serious serious football. Alabama. Jones is very serious. >> You know, he was trying to be funny, which I get it. And you know, my. daughter Kristen loves him, so that's.

kind of soothed the soul a little bit. that somebody in our family likes the. guy. >> I choose to believe. And for a touchdown, Jesus, and. everybody looking down, IU GETS A MASSIVE WIN OVER NOTRE DAME. SHANE, I'm sorry. >> You're a real scumbag. >> I thought Coach Signetti coming out here. was a real disgrace to the game. He left. his players in the locker room to go get. some camera time for himself. I know a.

legend like yourself would never do. something like that. Would you? >> No. No. It's disgusting. I saw it. I. thought, "Wow, what a sad, disgusting. program." Marinate by a million. Go. Irish. >> Riley Leonard and the Irish from their. own two. JEREMIAH LOVE BREAKS FREE. JEREM TRYING to go 98. Touchdown. [Music].

>> might be fiction for a blowout here, fellas. >> Couldn't wait to get to the wonderful. state of O. [Applause]. But in the SEC coming up to the Big 10. when it's cold as hell, we shall settle. the conversation here in beautiful. Columbus. Coach, that hairline. Do you. get a haircut every day? >> Not every day. Not every day. >> Big beard, big boot, and toes. 500. Oh, this guy. Holy. Holy cow. This guy's the worst.

we've EVER SEEN. JUST TOOK OUT THE OHIO. STATE CHEERLEADERS. $1 MILLION HERE. JD. level. Oh, >> this guy sucks at kicking, but we. appreciate the hell out of you, JJ. There he is. >> He was once wiped a 100 times. >> Yeah. 100 times. There are actually. people out there, psychos, obviously. that like the nonfrosted poparts. Gary, one of the best football players I've. ever been around. Nonfrosted strawberry.

pop. I like nonfrosted poparts. I like non frosted pops. >> Now, I at one point this year was the. mayor of Cocktown. You were the mayor. Mayor of Cocktown. Yeah. They voted me. in there and this is my How do you. become the mayor of Cocktown? He's got. to go around and say, "Listen, I hard. cock." I hard [ __ ] I'm sorry. Numerous. Whenever we found out that. there was going to be a college football. playoff game in Columbus, Ohio, we were. all jacked up to see this Ohio State.

faithful be showcased to the entire. world about how much they love football. Then we walked out here to this game day. set this morning and it was Rocky. Well, in that song they say it's home. Home for me is the North and the cold is. going to be hard. GIVE ME THE OHIO STATE. [ __ ].

representing. >> for the Big 10. [Applause]. >> How cool was Shawn Perkins, the Ohio. State football team for allowing us to. hang out in their facility pretty much. all day Saturday. They had five TV. setups, a bunch of recliners, Roosters. supplied some phenomenal food. DJ.

Henderson in the open field. Cherry. Henderson is scoring. Another T for the. Ohio State. [ __ ] Story of the game thus. far is Chad Kelly is going mad, dummy, bro. All of Ohio is excited. They were. singing last. night.

from my heart. First, second, third, scramble on the ground. Check out. [Applause]. would hate to be a Tennessee fan for a. chair near Morgan Wall cuz they have no. hope right now. Will check. >> by and large he's getting absolutely. stunk. raising absolute hell. >> A couple people up here with that smoky. orange face paint on that are feeling.

like real [ __ ] right now as we look. to the exits and the volunteers fans are. saying get my ass back to the south. This one's over. Bounces it. Top down Ohio State. Boys, that was wide. ass open. He's got left. >> 500 drones, ones that we know about. This game's over, but uh we're still.

bringing. >> Okay. Hell yeah. [Applause]. That's hilarious. HELL YEAH. AJ, >> you earned that, buddy. >> Is close to a million in prizes. Maybe. we'll break that today. Over a million. to charity for a total of over $2. million given away. I got a feeling you.

might have somebody with a leg pat. trying to take some more of your money. >> Yeah, Ree, I appreciate you saying that. it's my money. My wife, my daughter, and. my mom are happy to hear that. reiterated. Uh, I think it's very clear. that no business would actually sign up. to give away $250,000. Jack, uh, what. year are you here at Oklahoma? >> Freshman. >> They're freshman. Okay. Okay. >> You're from Houston. What's your major. here? >> Accounting. >> Okay. So, it's going to be tough to. count all the dollars if you make this. kick. Have you ever kicked before? >> I did one time. It was kickoff in a JV.

game. >> How was it? Was it terrible? Did you. kick it out of bounds? Sucked. It. sucked. I like that. >> he came prepared. >> Look at this guy brought cleats. >> Cleat. What is your mindset as you go? >> Honestly, I'm clear-minded. I've been. listening to a lot of music, so I'm. locked in right now. >> Who you listening to? >> Uh Frank Ocean. >> All right. Why don't we up this to uh. $200,000 to you. >> and we'll keep the $100,000 donation for. the light beneath the well uh that.

obviously the Michigan player is doing. to make the world better. Michigan, Oklahoma potentially coming together. You're a lefty here. Okay. IF ERNEST. HOUSEMAN CAN DIG SOME WELLS, YOU CAN. SOMEHOW pull a rabbit out of the hat and. hit a 30-yard field goal. Not only for. your bank account, you accountant, but. also for the world. >> Come on, JACK. [Applause].

So much fun. >> All right, let's go. [Applause]. >> Jack, come here. Jack. Jack. Jack. Jack. Oh, okay.

Look at that swing. >> Unbelievable, >> Jack. UH, >> SET OF THE WEEK. >> JACK, COME HERE, BUDDY. >> The scouting report did not have that. going through. >> Okay, so it was a $100,000 kick. >> Son of a [ __ ]. >> IT ENDS UP BEING 200,000 TO YOU, a. hundred to Ernest Houseman's THE LIGHT. BENEATH THE WELL, $550,000 in total over. the first two weeks. Jack, >> congrats, dude. That was unbelievable.

>> I can't believe you hit that. >> It was all worth it. Bringing the. cleats, doing the whole thing. >> How close did that come? >> Two yards. >> Two yards. You cleared it by. Congrats, Jack. Let me SIGN THIS CHECK. WHAT A. magical morning here in. >> Thank you, Ruby. It's impossible to be at the top at both. of those essentially like it's. [Music]. >> ANOTHER FARTING DAN ORLOKI SITUATION.

JUST TOOK PLACE. >> WHAT do you mean? It's unbelievable. >> Your butt is talking. >> I did not fart. >> It's two times out there. >> Hey, what? >> Let's go. >> This show stinks. And the fact that you. listen, we are very, very thankful for. you. >> McAfee on the line with a gorgeous. assist. >> The alltime leading tackler for the. Green Bay Packers. You. >> start damn it.

>> Be a friend. Tell a friend something. nice could change their life. [Music]. >> Feel good. Friday, November 14th. This. is the Pat McAfee Show. I'm AJ Hawk. sending in for Pat here in Indie. There's a big one this weekend, boys. >> football. >> OH, WE got Goop. What's up, Goopy? I see. you. Uh, your Dolphins actually looking. pretty good. We'll see what happens in. the pick uh the picks these days. I. might uh might actually jump over and.

pick the Dolphins here, I think. >> Okay, great work, AJ. Yeah, this is. Gumpy. Okay, Gumpy is uh the greatest. internet splunker on earth from Canada. He is a Miami Dolphin fan. My name is. Pat McAfee. Thank you so much. I am from. this city in which I am currently live. from for game day here for pit Notre. Dame tomorrow. We love the way AJ kind. of handles his business, doesn't he? >> Baby Hoger, >> it's hard. Gump is such a presence, you. know. Sorry about that. He's such a. present, but I lift my head up and I see. Gump right here.

>> Yeah, I understand. And we get excited. when we see Gump, but maybe not. everybody knows who the hell Gump is. Well, Gump is here to help us navigate. this NFL Sunday slate and make sure. we're getting all the right picks. It's. not just us here you see on the screen. There's a toxic table as well at Boston. Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Boys, we need. all the info we can get whenever we're. making these picks because we're trying. to have a perfect slate today. Con man. >> Oh, hell yeah. We we we got it all. locked in. A lot of tra moving actually. Not trades at all. It's way past the. deadline, but injuries, things of that. nature. We we got it.

>> Yes. >> Uh Ty Schmidt, uh I hope you and the. Packers faithful didn't hear what a. radio guy down in Atlanta said. >> I don't know if you uh heard what he. said. He basically said uh source. >> says uh that he trusts and he respects. are saying maybe maybe the floor not. that sweet up there in Green Bay. Listen. to this Ty. >> I got an interesting phone call earlier. in the week. >> Oh yeah. >> From somebody I trust.

>> Okay. >> In the media. >> Okay. >> Who told me to put something on my. radar. >> I said okay. >> All right. >> Who? >> Put it in the back of my mind. Now the. problem is I'll forget. So, I had to. bring it up here or else it would just. it would escape. I was told by somebody to keep an eye on. Matt Laflur and I said, "Tell me more.". Because we're here in the midst of the. Raheem Morris discussion about. short-term, long-term. We know the. Raheem Morris era will end at some point. with him being fired. Whether it's at. the end of this year, I don't know, Monday, next year, five games in 2026, I. don't know.

>> Holy [ __ ] But I was told that the. Packers, who are one of the most stable. franchises in all of the NFL, >> might make a switch at quarterback or at. head coach, excuse me, if they don't. make the playoffs, which I was shocked. to hear. Matt Laflur's record with the. Green Bay Packers is 72 36-1 in seven. seasons. That's one of the great starts. to a career anybody's ever had. >> And he's handled the whole transition to. Jordan Love thing beautifully. >> He's there's never drama. >> Uh they don't attract free agents. That's why the Micah thing was so big.

for them cuz they just don't do stuff. like that. >> But I was told that he still has a. connection with the Falcons, a good. relationship, and would be interested in. coming back here. And I will tell you. 100%. That is the perfect choice for. this franchise that could save them. Like I'm talking about if Green Bay was. ever, and this to me would be. short-sighted. If they're ever in the. position where like we just can't move. forward with Matt Laflur, if Raheem's. employed and Matt Laflur is not, Raheem's unemployed the next day. You go. get Matt Laflur as your head coach. Play.

sheet in his hand. Bring stability in a. way. You ready for this? That Dan Reeves. brought it in the 90s when the when the. Falcons were following Jerry Glenn and. June Jones and they needed stability. >> Dan was further along in his career. But. remember what Dan brought? >> Experience winning. >> He could work with young quarterbacks. Matt Lafleur can bring all that stuff. because you and I both know this. Charles. >> After you go backtoback first-time head. coaches, what do you have to do? >> Oh yeah, you got to go with Tari's guy. You got I think Arthur's gonna say we. need a commodity. Now my fear is that.

would be Mike McCarthy and that would. scare the hell out of me because Mike. McCarthy doesn't do much for me. But if. Matt Lafleur if what I was told is true. that the Packers would even consider. moving on from the floor if they miss. the playoffs if I'm the Falcons. Snap. him up. No brainer. >> Hey Cherniff knows too. Turnoff knows. down there at 680 the fan in Atlanta. And Ty, do you hear the way other teams. are speaking about your coaching? Does. that make you change your tune a little. bit? I heard a good record there Gump. Did did our years were we the only ones. that heard that record? >> That is a good record. >> 7020 and one or something like that I.

believe is what he said. And then I. heard somebody fart into a microphone. I. don't know if that was in Atlanta or. back there at the Thunderdome. But Ty, that's who your head coach is. Let's. remember that. You know, one team's. potential perspective trashes, another's. what what do they say? Uh, one trash, one treasure is the other way. Does that. change the way you think about this. season, Ty? Knowing now how Atlanta's. turnoff potentially feels about the. floor. I mean, it certainly is a bit. startling, and that makes sense. You. know, I I could see Matt Lafleur, while. his team is 53 and one and in the middle.

of a division race and trying to get. into the playoffs, I could see him being. like, you know what, I wouldn't mind. going back and coaching in Atlanta. I. could see that happening. So, uh, that. certainly makes sense. No, this, you. know, hey, listen, this would be a home. run for Atlanta if if this were to. happen and Matt Laflur were to be let go. and Atlanta hires him. I mean, you want. to talk about winning the off. seasonason, winning the coaching cycle, certainly, but what I'm more concerned. with is every opportunity Peter Shreger. gets, he's opening up his goddamn mouth.

and saying, "Hey, Jeff Hafley to the. Giants." You know, just last year, the. uh Ben Johnson had the opportunity to to. go into Chicago with the Lions and. remember they beat them like a drum. He. he did everything in his playbook and. that really wowed Bears ownership and. and you know, everyone in that. organization. and that's why they went. to hire him and Jeff Hafley has that. opportunity to do that this Sunday. So, the the floor thing's one thing. Listen, if they don't get the def uh the offense. fixed, his ass probably is going to get. fired. Um and if they don't make the.

playoffs, I think it's very fair to say. that Carmen Policy is going to say, "All. right, pal. There's a reason I didn't. give you an extension before the season. Hit the [ __ ] bricks." But I I need. Shrager to stop trying to get Jeff. Hafley out of town as the defensive. coordinator on every single one of these. [ __ ] shows. He's been doing it for. several days now and I'm sick and tired. of it. >> Yeah, I think the the conversation. around policy making moves is certainly. a policy that we like. Him not giving. the extension to Guten Co and Laflur was.

almost a message. Don't you think AJ? >> Yeah, of course. I mean, when you go in. there, it's like a prove it year I feel. like, isn't it? Hey, you you go out. there and you I don't know exactly how. far he has to go to make Guten Coots and. the rest of the the organization happy. I mean, how what does that what does. that look like? How many you got to get. to the Super Bowl? You got to find out. >> I mean, I don't know about Super Bowl, but like there has to be some sort of. growth. Like they've done the whole, hey, we're going to make the playoffs, win a game, and then that's it. >> You definitely need to start scoring. more points obviously. >> Yeah, that that of course, but also like.

policy is a dog from day one. Didn't he. come in and say like, "Yeah, we're not. just going to extend these guys for no. reason." Like they got to prove it. >> They they already had that. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Pat. >> No, I was going to say and then he makes. that huge Micah play. It's like, hey, we. are different than what we used to be. Is what he's saying, Ty, to kind of echo. what Connor just said there. >> Yeah, without a doubt. And this has not. been the way the Packers have operated. obviously for quite some time. But when. they made the playoffs a couple years. ago, you know, in Love's first year, like that was like the big surprise. Like, wow, this team, this super young.

team, they won a playoff game. But, you. know, it it's the same deal with the. Steelers like and the Packers like you. after a while getting to the playoffs. and then getting beat like a drum in the. first round like that doesn't mean [ __ ]. This team has is you know one of the. most storied franchises in the NFL like. you need to at least make a deep run. into the playoffs because again Jordan. Love isn't on a rookie contract. He's. making $55 million a year. You traded. for Micah Parson like you have two of. the highest paid guys in the NFL on both.

sides. So, like you got to go do. something with that. And I don't think. getting into the first round of the. playoffs and getting beat is like people. want to see a Super Bowl. >> Yeah. >> Let's talk about Super Bowl teams. Let's. talk about the Sunday slate. Last night, we both picked the New England Patriots. to cover by 12 and a half. They did. The. Hammer D boys told us the under was the. right bet. That hit as well. Are we. seeing the board better than ever? We. shall see. Look at Door Dash delivering. for everybody on their game days. We.

appreciate that. We're 1 and0 heading. into the weekend. Washington Commanders. taking on the Dolphins. Dolphins favored. by two and a half in Madrid, Spain. 9:30. a.m. kickoff, which is obviously. spectacular for ball fans. Dumpy, let's. hear. What are your thoughts? Your. favorite in a game. Way to go, dude. Way. to go. >> I don't know if everybody knows this, but Miami actually been adopted as. Spain's team. They're going to continue to go. >> Why would you do that to a new country?

>> Well, they're just let you hear that. That's how it is. >> We're going to be go we're going to be. going there every year. We gave up a. home game to go there this year. This is. what's going to happen. >> No, but Spain is like a great place. Remember, we've been seeing out the. espanol following with JJ Watt. In the. morning, we drink coffee. In the. afternoon, they drum and then we play. soccer and we win. Everyone needs.

>> lucky lookie lookie. It's another. [ __ ] go. Yeah. Like we like these. people, don't we? We like Spain. Why. would we. >> place the Dolphins upon them? That's. like the kids that are born Jets fans. We watched them last week with Sauce. Gardner when he got traded and they're. running around crying and everybody's. like, "Yo, that's first of many, kid. Just get used to it." That's kind of. what it is. Why are we doing that to. Spain? You wouldn't wish this life upon. an entire country, would you? Why? Why. would you? Why would you say that? >> I mean, if I was a fan in Spain and I.

just saw what the Dolphins did to the. Bills and they're marching into Spain, I'd be happy to them be my squad. You. know, >> two and a half point favorites. Do you. like that or not? >> Yeah. I mean, they love us there. Malik. Washington, he's going to score a. touchdown. He got a jersey from Fernando. Torres, Liverpool Atletico Madrid. legend. >> Okay. Uh AJ, who do you like? How do you. like it? >> Uh I'm not going to lie, I've been. leaning Dolphins for a while, but you. know what? But I could trust my. instincts. I'm taking the commanders on. this one. >> Wow. >> Okay. You can get three if you want. commanders. >> I'll take commanders at plus three then. Yeah. >> All right. I'll take Commanders plus.

three as well. Okay. Let's go to the. next game as we. >> Chargers versus the Jaguars. Uh Chargers. favored by two and a half going in to. Duval. Obviously heartbreak last week. for Jacksonville. Uh in the end, Chargers starting to find themselves. Anything we need to know about this. line, Tone Dig? 69% on the Chargers. We. see there. >> 69% on the Chargers. Uh it is 2 1/2 uh. or three. So you get Chargers minus 2. and 1/2 or the Jaguars uh plus the.

three. Obviously we know with the. Chargers they had their offensive line. issues as far as injuries are concerned. and how PFF feels about them. But other. than that, everything is pretty uh up. and up as far as the starters and things. like that as you know. >> Travis Hunter obviously out. Uh Trevor. Lawrence, what's the question for him? Uh is he a guy? Is he not a guy? Well, the Chargers defense is certainly. problematic. AJ, who do you like? How do. you like it? >> I have a hard time picking against I. really like this Chargers team, but for. whatever reason, I like the Jags here at.

plus three at home. >> Okay, you got the Jags plus three. I'll. take the Chargers minus two and a half. Carolina Panthers taking on the Atlanta. Falcons. Both these teams, I guess, who. knows? More so Carolina Panthers feel. like they could be good. Atlanta. Falcons, dine up. Dine up. They're like. a a Catholic church session with the way. they kind of go about playing this. season. Uh uh Ty Schmidt, Carolina. Panthers, Atlanta Falcons. Your. immediate lean is what? >> Uh I'm going to say Panthers. You know, I know Rico Daell is once again a bit.

banged up, but I think uh last week was. a little bit of an aberition. You know, like the Panthers have been kind of up. and down, but the Falcons are just like. one week and it really hasn't been like. this for a while. early on in the. season. One week they looked like world. beaters and then they looked like [ __ ]. and then I feel like they've kind of. bottomed out in the last few weeks. So, I like the Panthers. >> Something we need to think about too as. the Falcons continue to play against the. Panthers is the Rams have the Falcons. first round pick. So, right now the Rams.

have a top 10 pick in the NFL draft and. they're also a Super Bowl favorite. So, uh, the Falcons are either going to. really screw the entire NFC by sucking. and then giving the the Rams a top 10. pick, getting letting them get a great. player and or their future at. quarterback. Uh, so, you know, Atlanta. might need to pick it up a little bit. here. We're going to we're going to need. you here. Yeah, they're 10th right now. A loss to the Panthers would not be good. because I don't think their schedule is. too favorable.

>> Certainly in play to potentially get a. top five pick. I mean, depending upon. what the rest of the year looks like, I. think there's going to be some draft. conversation on the show tomorrow. I'm. happy that we got that list in there. Who do you like? How do you like it? Gum. >> I like the Falcons just cuz they're at. home. They seem to show up at home and. they lost 30 to nothing away to the. Panthers. Maybe a little revenge here. >> AJ, who do you like? >> Uh, I like the Falcons here as well. I. mean, three and a half feels like a lot, but I will take the Falcons at home. I. think Rahee Morris, he sees those. comments being made about his job and. his job security. He wants to make sure. he gets a win and shuts that up.

>> Okay. Can I get four or four and a half. on this or is it just three and a half? >> Three and a half across the board. >> Is Dao not playing? Is that what you. said? >> Uh, he's banged up, but I think all. indications are that he he should be. able to go, but it it hasn't been. confirmed yet. >> I'll take the Carolina Panthers plus. plus three and a half. >> Yeah, post Germany 1:00 game. >> True. >> Yeah, I Hey, >> that's tough for. >> game. Yeah, good point. >> Overtime Germany game. Second flight. out. We've learned. Yep.

>> Yeah. >> I just saw them play good against the. Colts. >> How much do they have left in that tank? >> Colts kind of bottled up Bejan though. >> Raheem Morris knows too now. Like dude, if I don't win freaking M. What floor is. your coach? >> Turnoff says it got to happen. >> Done deal. >> All right, give me the uh I'll take the. Panthers. I'll take the Panthers plus. three and a half. And on this field. right behind us, the Cincinnati Bengals. will be traveling to take on the. Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, it'll come one.

day after Notre Dame pit on this exact. same field. That has certainly been. questioned before. So, look for it to be. a little bit of a mutter on Sunday. Who. does that help? Who does that hurt? Four. and a half is the current spread with. the Steelers being the favorite. Tone. Diggs, what should we be thinking in. this as 66% of the bets are on the. Cincinnati Bengals plus 4 and a half. >> Yes, everybody loves the Bengals. I saw. for the Bengals. Uh Shamar Stewart is. out as well as Trey Hendrickson. So th. neither of those guys will be back for. the defense that has not been great so.

far. Steelers in the 1:00 window right. where we want them. And we already blew. a prime time game against the Bengals. this year. So we already got that out of. the way. So I'm actually feeling pretty. good about this one. >> Okay. >> Uh Connor man, I'm sorry. Connor, what. is the story? Joe Burrow has been. practicing the last few days. Doesn't. mean he's playing, but just means he's. back to potentially playing. Is that the. story we're getting? >> Yeah, bingo. Three straight days of. practice for Joe Burrow. He's already. been designated to return off the IR, so. his windows open. It's looking like it's. not going to be this week, but it seems. as though next week uh that he might.

practice. I mean, I mean, play rather. If if you do three straight, if he's. doing stuff like this on a turf toe, he. must be pretty healthy. Everything we. heard from Jason Glazer kind of. indicates that he is feeling good and he. attacked his rehab. Um, kind of. butchered that, but whatever. Uh but so. I would assume that the vibes at least. in the Bengals are pretty good and they. know, hey, if we win one of these next. three at least and Emo comes back, uh. then they got a shot. >> Why is he wearing green sweats? Why is.

he wearing green sweats? What What's. going on out there? >> What? Yeah. What kind of sweats are the. other guys wearing? >> Black team issued. >> Black. Look at Joey Flack moving. >> Yeah. Why is he wearing green? >> I don't know. I don't like that at all. >> He's a fashion guy. Yeah, exactly. He's. He's got that pizzazz. >> At least they're not super baggy, though. >> Yeah, I don't care. This is What do we. It. >> is kind of weird. >> Give me the Pittsburgh Steelers. Whatever. I don't I don't like that.

that's happening. I I don't like I don't. know. That's not how I Man, I just feel. >> a lot of coaches would send you back in. A lot of coaches send you back in. Get. your team issue on Cincy. >> It seems like such a small detail, but I. feel like I just learned a lot about. Joey Burrow and the Bengals right there, AJ. Like legitimately, I feel like I. just learned a lot about it over there. Yeah, >> just by the color of the sweatpants. And. people are going to say that's. ridiculous and absurd for me to say. I. get it. You've never been a part of an. NFL team either. But like that's a. decision and a choice. And then. everybody else sees it as well. I don't. know if I like that at all. And I love.

Joey Burrow. I feel like I'm one of his. biggest fans actually. >> Mhm. >> Give me the Steelers. If that's allowed. to be happening over there, they. obviously got everything out of control. >> I'm sure Zack Tal Zack Taylor put the. hammer down though after he saw that. Yeah, he might have actually put the. pants in his locker for him to wear. He. be dressing he be dressing different to. everybody else because he is, by the. way, Joey Burrow is different to. everybody else. Flaco certainly been. great. The Pittsburgh Steelers defense, you know, throughout the entirety of the. season hasn't been fantastic, but as of. the last couple weeks, they've been much. better. Will Joey Flack get the. Pittsburgh Steelers back to back as a.

pit Cincinnati Bengals quarterback? I. don't think so. I like the Pittsburgh. Steelers - 4 and a half here at Acers. Stadium. What are your thoughts, AJ? Yeah, I'm going to go Steelers uh minus. four and a half at home. I feel like the. Steelers have to find a way to double. Jamar this game or whatever. We saw. Remember last time they played like it. was it was a Jamar show for no doubt. he's going to get his but maybe they. won't give him 12 or 14 catches. >> Why is he wearing. >> They might Someone might have poured hot. coffee or something on his original. pants. His black one right as they were. going out to practice.

>> Yeah, but it's they're black sweats so. you could have coffee. >> But it's probably hot. He's hot all over. my dong area. Like I got to change. >> Oh, okay. Too hot. >> Bengals logo. >> Then it'll be too cold. Maybe it'll be. too cold. Cuz once you get hot coffee on. your dome, it's hot. You go outside. >> Sick all of a sudden cold. >> Yeah. >> Right. Maybe. >> But maybe it was mayonnaise, too. Dropping out of one of these Rudy Sub. sandwiches he was eating. And anytime. you get mayonnaise on the the groin. area, especially with black sweats, everybody automatically assumes this.

guy's got [ __ ] on his face. >> So maybe maybe that's what happened. Maybe. true. Imagine this conversation if he. was running with white mayonnaise all. over his dong area. Pat, you would be. there. >> So, I was excited to be back playing. ball. >> Yeah. >> And the Bengals don't want that to be. the narrative about the entire thing. And neither does Joe. Okay. So, I get it. now. All right. I didn't even think. about that being an outcome. I'm happy. we kind of worked it through. He dropped. mayonnaise on his pants. We've all been. there. People judge you. He said, "Give. me the green sweats." Even though. everybody else is wearing black sweats.

That's Joey B football. Okay. We. appreciate him doing that. And Justin. seems like we all like the Steelers. Let's go. Houston Texans favored by five. and a half headed into the team that has. the projected number one overall pick. again, the Tennessee Titans. Anything we. need to know about this one, Tone? >> Uh, Titans coming off of a buy. Uh, we. all know how good Coach McCoy is off of. the buy. >> Uh, and then CJ Shout is still out with. a concussion. So, we will have Davis. Douggee Mills starting again on the.

road. Uh, for the Texans, >> 26 zip in the fourth, right, for the. Texans. That's what they're coming off. So, what that sounds like to me is. Douggee Mills figured it out. And. Douggee Mills going to Music City. I. think he's about to sing quite a tune. >> I like the Houston Texans minus five. If. I can get it. >> Yes. Yes, you can. >> Okay. >> A minus five. Houston Texans in. Nashville. Even though I love that city. Go ahead, AJ. >> I'm going to take the Houston Texans is. minus five. I think I think old uh Davis. Douggee Mills showed us some stuff last. week. I think he's uh he's going to.

continue to ride that heater. >> Yeah, I was about to say not just last. week. Doug has been putting tape up. >> We like him. >> I love Douggee Mills. He should be. starting for an NFL team. >> Well, he is. He's got. >> full time. Maybe not my team, but you. know, somebody's. >> How many How many teams you got? >> You You guys would [ __ ] love that. >> Oh my god. >> Two is spinning it right now. >> I understand he's spinning it, but for. the good of Spain and their football. fanhoods, >> Spain would love Douggee Mills if. >> Yeah. Douggee Mills's neck in Spain.

They might try and keep him there. All right, let's go to the next game. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Buffalo Bills JJ. Watt is on the call. Both these teams. coming off a loss. 63% of the bets are. in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers getting six. and a half or can they get even more? >> Uh, no. It's actually I'm seeing five. and a halfs across the board and there's. one six out there now. >> Okay. So, now it's down to six, I guess, is what you get if you like the Buffalo. Bills. AJ, your thoughts on how the. game's going to go? Man, the Buffalo. Bills are they're I mean, I was picking.

them to win a Super Bowl before the. season. I still don't count that out, but I like the uh the Tampa Bay Bucks. here coming off a loss getting what? Six. six and a half. >> You get six. >> Yeah. Uh Bucky Irving is out. Chris. Godwin is out. I believe Hassan Reic is. also out. I'm not sure about Anthony. Nelson, uh the player who got one of. BA's balls a few weeks back for his. performance against the Saints. Uh and. then Dalton Concincaid also did not. practice yesterday. Yeah, there it is. Um, that he is out another Dlineman for.

them. Fedarian Matthysse. Unbelievable. spelling. Uh, he not playing is actually. huge cuz they are so banged up on the. Dline for Buffalo. >> Okay, so I like the Buffalo Beatles. minus five is what I heard I can get. AJ, who are you on? >> I'm on the Tampa Bay Bucks here at what? >> Plus six. >> Plus six. Okay. >> Okay. Uh, Green Bay Packers fresh off a. great performance taking on the New York. Giants favored by 7 and a half at.

Metife. 63% of the bets are on the Green. Bay Packers. Ty Schmidt, doesn't sound. like you've been as optimistic about the. Green Bay Packers long term, but 7 and a. half point favorites on the road with. 63% of the people betting on him. Feels. like the rest of the world likes Green. Bay this weekend. How do you feel about. it? Yeah, I mean I guess there is a part. of me that thinks this could be like the. Jamus coming out party where he throws. for a bunch of touchdowns and a bunch of. yards, but uh we were talking before the. show and and Connor mentioned, you know, in the wake of Trayvon Henderson having.

that three touchdown game last night, BA. saying how rookies basically just need. to be ready to go like right now. The. Packers, I think, expected a lot of. Matthew Golden. He didn't play last. week, but he's a guy they need to get. going this week big time. Ever since. Tucker Craft got hurt, they haven't. really been able to run the ball. Like, they need Matthew Golden. I kind of. expect him to have a big game and yeah, I I think this is a good bounceback spot. for the Packers because everyone is kind. of, you know, potentially exaggerating. their demise pretty early here.

>> AJ, who do you like? >> I like the Packers here. I think uh, you. know, Jamus might he might have a little. bit of magic in him, but I like what. this Packers defense is able to do, and. hopefully the offense finds a way to get. going. >> Six and a half. >> Okay, six and a half. Packers at minus 6. and a half alongside AJ Hawk. Chicago. Bears Minnesota Vikings NFC North. battle. 61% of the money is on the. Chicago Bears heading into JJ McCarthy's. world. I'm sorry, Nine's world there. Nine is favored by two and a half. What. am I not seeing here? Ty Schmidt.

>> Uh Bears defense is very very very. banged up. >> Yeah, they just announced uh TJ Edwards. in the middle. Uh he he's their leader. on defense. He's their middle. linebacker. He is out on Sunday. JJ's going to get a win and he just. feels like that's who JJ McCarthy is. >> Already beat the Bears once in Chicago. >> That was his coming out party. >> Yeah, that's what that's why. >> that's when Nine was born, if you will. >> Yeah. >> No, Nine's been there, brother. Nine's. won a national championship. Nine was on. the on the bench last last year getting. rehabilitation, but it was always down.

in there. It's all about controlling. nine so we can keep the competitive. stamina and the spirit throughout all. four quarters. How do you keep nine on. track? Well, if nine wins more games, people are going to have to respect nine. and JJ for the time that he does on a. football field. I guess I'll take the. Minnesota Vikings minus two and a half, even though I don't love it at all. I I. love Ben Johnson. I'd love to hear go. better best, never rest until good is. better, better is best because I love. that quote personally. I've certainly. known it for a long long time. No, [ __ ].

that. Give me the Bears. Also, uh, for. for the Vikings, uh, TJ Edwards being. out for the Bears, big deal. Uh, Jonathan Grard hasn't practiced this. week for the Vikings, so not sure if. he's going to be good to go. >> I just thought of like, no, the Chicago. Bears stole that one last week. Give me. the Vikings. I'm going to take the. Vikings minus two and a half. I I'm. going to take the Vikings minus two and. a half. Still believe in the Bears long. term, but I like the Vikings this. weekend to win that game. What do you. think, AJ? >> I'm kind of with I mean, your your.

waffling back and forth got me. I got me. thinking for sure, but I was leaning. Vikings early. I'm going to stick with. it. Vikings minus two and a half at. home. >> This is a good football game. This is a. good football game. We We like that this. football game is happening. A lot of. them across the slate, including a San. Francisco 49ers of Brock Party, I do. believe, favored by two and a half, flying into beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. to be taking on the Arizona Cardinals. 72% of the money is on the San Francisco. 49ers. Brock Pury will return as the San. Francisco 49ers starting quarterback.

verse Cardinals. Kyle Shanahan told the. 49ers game plan, which is a great show. We love 49ers game plan. >> Oh yeah, >> we turn that show on every week. >> And we because of the YouTube ESPN. dispute, we've actually had to find. different ways to watch 49ers game plan. And uh we've certainly been able to. dodge duck dip dive and dodge our way to. being able to hear the 49ers game plan. show because that one's the [ __ ]. show. Is it not? Especially with. Shanahan, he always gets. >> Oh, when he stops by, he always says. something. >> It's good ball talk. >> He's got such a good flat bill on, he. always looks cool. And he says Brock.

Party is our quarterback. I think Brock. Party crushes this weekend. Give me the. San Francisco 49ers minus 2 and a half. AJ. >> Yep. Give me the San Francisco 49ers as. well. Brock Party, I think he's been Can. you imagine how like the pent up energy. this dude has to get back on the field? He's heard con man say that that Mac's. taken his gig. He's not going to have a. job anymore. So, he's ready to get out. there and show us that he's still the. man. >> Somebody's playing drums on a. microphone. If you could stop doing. that, that'd be great. You're blowing. out my eardrums. The Seattle Seahawks. are taking on the LA Rams. 75%. of the bets are on the Seattle Seahawks.

That's wild to think about as the Rams. are favored by three and a half and. they're going to be in their midnight. mode jerseys. Matthew Stafford is going. to look so damn cool. I cannot wait to. see how that turns out in SoFi. 4:00. slate absolutely loaded this week. We. feel Seattle Seahawks, one of the best. teams in ball. 75% of the money is on. the Seattle Seahawks. Is it plus three. and 1/2, plus four? What is the most we. can get, Tone? >> Yeah, you can get uh the most you can. get if you want the Seahawks is plus. three and a half or minus three for the. Rams.

>> Okay, so give me plus three and a half. Seattle Seahawks. LA Rams might win the. game, but this is a two for I don't want. to put it on the official record. >> Love that. Okay, >> no, never mind. Completely forget what I. just said. Seattle Seahawks plus three. and a half. I like where they're at. I I. like where they're at a lot. I I don't. know who wins, but I like the Seattle. Seahawks plus three and a half. I think. this is an road game. McDonald on the. road has been damn near unstoppable. And. uh yeah, I think this is a big one for. Sam Darnold to continue to be Sam. Darnold of now as opposed to Sam Darnold.

of yesterday year. AJ, who do you like? How do you like it? >> Man, this is a tough one, too, when you. think about me. The Seattle defense. scored twice last week. I like the Rams. here. I can get the Rams at minus three, Tone, is that right? Okay, I'll take the. Rams at home and what do they call it. again? What's their their dark uniforms? >> Midnight mode. >> Midnight mode. I like midnight mode. Midnight mode. Matthew Stafford, he. stays on track to win the MVP possibly. Give me the Rams. >> Okay, there's a chance. Both con man, you were going to say something, I. think, before I cut you off. >> No, no, all good. Not at all. Uh, but.

Sam Darnold, I I think they were talking. about it earlier uh on on the broadcast, TV, whatever the [ __ ] Um, it's kind of. a redemption day uh game for Darnold. Last time uh the Vikings when he was. with the Vikings, they went and played. the Rams, he got absolutely [ __ ] kicked. So they were talking about that angle. also for the Seattle Seahawks now the. second week with Rasheed Shahed in the. lineup. So their uh offense probably. going to be firing on a much higher. cylinder. And of course the Cooper Cup. return. We talked about it yesterday.

That's. >> seemingly a big deal. Puku is already. like I can't wait to see N I can't wait. to see Cooper Cup. I can't wait. It's. going to BE AWESOME. SO HE MIGHT NOT BE. THINKING ABOUT BALL MAN. >> Nine and dime podcast. Hopefully he has. another episode maybe before the game. with Stafford and Cup. 75% of the money. on Seattle is crazy. Congrats to the. Seahawks getting some respect. That's. what that says to me. >> Kansas City Chiefs at the Denver. Broncos. Chiefs favored by three and a. half with 58% of the money. Dumpy, your. first thoughts on this line.

>> This feels like the Chiefs, you know, AFC West Broncos at the top right now. This still the Chiefs division and I. think they show it in a big way. Broncos. kind of been skating by lately. They've. been winning games, but they've been. tight. Uh, I don't think they can do. that this week. >> AJ, your thoughts on what Gumpy just. said and how you see this game going. >> I mean, as much as I I hate to say it, I. I completely agree with Gump. I kind of. have a same thought when I think about. Can I get him at minus three? And I. don't mean I hate to say, you know, as. you were saying though, Gump, I was just. cosigning every single statement you. had. I'm Give me the Chiefs on this one.

>> Is there any Is it minus three or is it. minus three and a half across the board? >> Uh, it's three and a half or four. So, if you wanted the Broncos, you get in. four. >> Okay, I'll I'll take the Chiefs minus. three and a half. You know what? minus. four. Actually, give me the Chiefs minus. four. >> Okay, I'll take that. >> No, no, I don't want that. I told I told. I would take that half point, please. G. I just got over 500 for the first time. last week. Ravens Browns Ravens favored. by 7 and a half with 78% of the vote. Yep, I'll run it as well. Give me the. Baltimore Ravens minus 7 1/2 in.

Cleveland. I like Dylan Gabriel though. I don't think he's bad. And that's kind. of quietly not been a story anymore cuz. until Dylan Gabriel plays full ash. cheeks, which is definitely going to. come. Maybe this game, maybe the. Baltimore Ravens defense can fully click. and confuse the young quarterback, but I. see him spinning it, making good. decisions, and it's not really a. conversation. Uh, so good for Dylan. Gabriel, good for them in all of it. But. Ravens are on a comeback revenge tour. after starting the season like absolute.

bums. Sports Books had them as the. favorites in the AFC North, even. whenever they only won one game in the. first six or whatever the case was. That's because they know what they have. 78% of the money doesn't scare me. because it's already hit this season at. 80% rate. Give me the Ravens minus 7 and. a half. I love what they're about to do. in Cleveland, >> man. See, yeah, Lamar had he missed what. one practice with there's a sore knee, but they said he's fine. He's full go. He will be okay on Sunday. You know. what? For whatever re I like the Browns. here. I think the Browns find a way. their defense finds a way to keep this. game close. So, give me the Browns plus.

7 and a half. >> What do you guys think about the. situation with the quarterback, Pat? Cuz. like I agree with what you said, especially after the Patriots played the. Browns. Like Dylan Gabriel is solid. He. is a good quarterback. He'll be in the. NFL for a while. But at what point do. you think that they say, "Okay, we've. seen Dylan. He's great. We can, you. know, have him be our guy." Do you think. there's a time where this season where. it's like let's just put Shador out. there just to at least see cuz say he. goes and plays really well then he could.

be a trade piece or Dylan Gabriel could. be a trade piece. Do you think that's a. possibility at some point? >> Well, I'm not 100% sure. You know, maybe. Shadora could play for the Plum. Mustangs. We'd certainly love it. But. fifth round fifth round draft pick. rookie, third round draft pick rookie. If they think Dylan Gabriel is their guy. for the future, they should give him. more reps, >> right? Like, >> yeah, >> that's kind of the balance. Like, if you. think he's the guy, you should give them. more reps. Like, backup quarterbacks. aren't getting a lot of reps in practice. because the starting quarterback is who. they want to go with. So, if we do want.

to get a look at Shadore, I love it. I. certainly would wouldn't mind watching. Shador Sanders play football in the NFL. again. Certainly would enjoy that. Uh, watch him play football just in general. But if Dylan Gabriel is your guy, more. reps the better. Like that. That is what. we're trying to get in this entire. thing. Now, I I think do they think. long-term Dylan's the guy? Do they think. he's not? I think they're probably. trying to figure that out. But that's. why the conversation is what it is. Whenever they draft him in the third. round, then they draft Shadore in the. fifth round, then they bring in Kenny. Picket, they bring in Joe Flacco. It's. like, how are you going to be able to. manage it all? And what if you do find a.

guy is everybody else going to be able. to find? Well, we're going to trade Joe. We're going to get Kenny out of here. And then uh we're going to play Dylan. Gabriel and then Shador, is he the. backup? Well, we'll see. It's like, all. right, well, you're gonna piss off. everybody. That is uh it's an. interesting dynamic, but if Dylan's your. guy, I think you got to give him reps. I'm not saying he is. I'm just saying if. he is, the more the better. AJ, that. that is kind of how I would view it if I. was on the team. >> Yeah, if he if Yeah, the fact they draft. him in the third round, they they want. him to be the guy. So, yeah, he needs to. get every single possible look he can in.

practice and the game. So, yeah, I agree. with that. >> Yeah, I think so. Now, granted, to your. point though, Connor, like can we just. get a look at this guy? Like you guys. >> I would like a look at You're right. It. would be good to see him in in real game. action. Even if you like like even if. they say to Dylan, hey, you are our guy, but we're just going to give, you know, Shadore a game. Like, and I'm throw more. touchdowns and he's not. >> Yeah. Not mid-season, like the year, but. but. >> still got Deshawn Watson, too. >> Oh, yeah. He might come back. He could. at some point he's. >> come back trail.

>> At some point this year, he will be. healthy enough to play, won't he? >> I don't know. We'll see. >> But but Connor, I just think if they. think Dylan's their guy, reps. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> We need as many as possible. Like every. situation is good situation because it's. a situation and he needs more. situations, you know, like. >> that is how if they think he's the guy. If they don't think he's the guy, why. not try to see what Shador's got? Like. that is certainly something a lot of us. would like to see, but that all comes. down to what they think is actually. going to be the future there. Yeah, that's just what I thought about.

watching the Jets because you, you know, as you're watching them, it's like, okay, this team's nowhere close, but you. know, what happens if they get a. quarterback and then you just start. going through, you know, the draft and. what what draft pick they'll have and. stuff and then you start thinking like, [ __ ] there are guys out there who have. like Shadore who haven't had an. opportunity like do you do you take a. flyer on one of those guys and try and. pull him out? Do the Browns even trade a. Shadore? But yeah, it's just a crazy. situation. >> Very crazy situation. And obviously all. those teams could have drafted Shador.

Yeah. >> Baltimore wanted to draft Shadore and. then they were told no because they. didn't want, you know, the potential sit. behind Lamar even though Lamar may be. incredible guy to sit behind and learn. from. But now there's Cleveland. We'll. see how it all works out. We would like. to see Shador play football, but also. we'd like the Cleveland Browns to make. good football decisions for their team, which. >> I think Cleveland Browns fans say, "Ha, yeah, right. That's not how it goes. around here." Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday Night. Football. Thank God we got a banger. >> Yep. >> Cuz we're actually going to be waiting.

all day for Sunday night. >> Jared Golf and Gibbs going to Philly. fights. Jaylen Herz in Siri. with AJ Brown saying where's the ball. for me? So they they got a lot they got. a lot going on in Philadelphia. Always. They were able to win a Super Bowl with. always having drama somehow. Like, hey,

don't have distractions. Don't have. drama. Don't have negative vibes. Philadelphia is like, yeah, right, brother. We're going to have it every. day, all the time. We're going to win. games and people are going to be pissed. off, including our own fans. They're. going to call for our head coach's job. after we're [ __ ] six and one. They're. going to say, "We need this guy out of. here." Then we're going to go on to win. a Super Bowl somehow. And then on the. flip side, the Detroit Lions, they've. completely saved an entire city of. football fandom by having some greatness. with MCDC who's not scared to be a tough. guy. And Jared Goff, who's resurrected.

his career from being a guy who was. kicked out of the city of stars to a guy. whose name is chanted all around Detroit. Rock City. Who wins? How do they win? Is. there any different lines, Tone Digs? And 82% Wow. of the public bets riding. with the Lions plus two and a half. >> There are no other lines. It is two and. a half across the board. And then when. you look at injuries, uh Lions, Terry. Arnold, Kirby Joseph, and Sam Leaporta. did not practice. Lane Johnson did. practice uh for the Eagles. So, uh.

that's your injury report for the game. >> Foxy, 82% of the people are betting on. your team. Congratulations being at this. point of life. How do you feel getting. two and a half points in Philadelphia on. Sunday night? >> I love it. Got a quick stat for you. Jared Goff 22-10 against the spread as. an underdog with the Detroit Lions. I. assume that's why 82% of the people are. riding with the Detroit Lions. Like you. mentioned, the Eagles are kind of a mess. right now. The media at least is making. it that way, which as a fan of the.

Lions, I actually don't like because. that means I think they could come in, you know, rally and make this a really. good game. But I like where the Lions. sit. I like where MCDC sits calm plays. So, we'll see how this goes. This is a. big big test for our Lions. Oh, I forgot. about four eyes MCDC back behind the. wheel. Oh, yeah. Gumpy, your thoughts, your thoughts on this uh game here. >> I love the Lions, but it reeks. Uh it. smells like a squared dog a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if the Eagles. win, but I would as a betting man, I. would like the Lions and the points.

>> 82% of the bets plus two and a half for. the Detroit Lions is what he is. referring to as stinky. AJ, who do you. like? How do you like it? I mean, Dan. Campbell calling plays. Jir Gibbs, Jared. Goff. I have to go with them. Give me. the Lions plus two and a half. >> Hook, line, and sinker. I'm going with. the Lions as well. Hey, you got us, sports books. Exactly what you wanted us. to do. We did it. Okay, congratulations. They might be running close Sicilian. against us. You know, it's great to have. this Plum Football hoodie on. It's great.

to be back in the city of Pittsburgh. Tomorrow will be a hell of a celebration. of the greatest sport on earth, football, here in the city of. Pittsburgh. We hope you will join us. College Game Day will be live on ESPN. It will also be live on our X account if. you cannot get to ESPN due to any. disputes that are taking place. AJ, I. know you're going to Door Dash and you. can win every week with Door Dash. Streak. Save up to $250 this season when. you were on game days. AJ, I know you. like that pizza. >> I like the white the white like linen.

glove holding it like that all awkwardly. with your thumb over top more. Actually, >> AJ, I I don'tice pizza. >> There you go. >> That baby. Wow. >> Right through the paper. >> The paper is part of the problem there. >> Where's the There it is. >> There it is. You got short arms, dude. >> Yeah. >> AJ, tell us tell us about that pizza. that you're holding right there. >> This beautiful looking. Not that pizza. actually doesn't look that good. So, I. don't know why this muppet or whatever. this thing is doing is holding it like. he is. But maybe that's why cuz he's. he's so disgusted by this piece of pizza.

that he's going to hold it with his. thumb all weird with gloves. Oh, you. think he's about to throw that piece of. pizza? >> He's trying to throw it. >> I haven't even thought about that. So, what the muppet or the duck that is. holding that piece of pizza? He's. saying, "Get this [ __ ] out of here. Let. me Door Dash good pie." And I'm going to. do a lot of that here in Pittsburgh. I. couldn't even fathom all the great. pizzas in local spots that are on Door. Dash here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Holy [ __ ] Have you thought about that, Tone? >> Yeah, I just did. There's one in mind. >> I literally just thought I I literally. just thought of it, Tone. I'm sorry. Go.

ahead. I but unfortunately I know a lot. of those mom and pop shop owners and. they're saying we ain't letting Door. Dash take any of our money. >> Oh. >> yeah, you're right. You're right. I. actually just opened it as you were. saying and I just thought of that too. Like. >> you think Dallas Salads is letting Door. Dash [ __ ] do anything? >> Not a chance. >> But it's just cuz the quality the. quality is so high and Door Dash does a. great job of actually transporting your. food in the uh concealed bags to keep. them warm. But with those mom and pop. shops, they just have so much strength, honor, and respect for their product.

that they know it just means more when. you come into the shop. >> Yeah, strength and honor obviously is. what we're looking for whenever you're. having a slice of pie around here. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hey, great. work back there in Indianapolis, boys. Trusted this week, too, brother. >> You too, dude. You too. >> Big week. >> behind the glass. Oh, it was a big week. I completely forgot about it. Huge week. Great work behind the glass, boys. >> Work, boys, boys. Graphic design boys. Way to go out. there. GDP. >> There you go. GDP. GDP.

>> GDP. >> Mitt. Really good work. Mitt. Almost. saved the chimpanzee today. Mitt. >> Tough week for the McMahon family. Mitt. showed up every single day. We. appreciate him for doing that. AJ, thank. you for traveling to Indianapolis, Indiana here at the Thunderdome. You're. the greatest, man. You You are truly one. of a kind and uh nobody will ever. dispute that. >> Appreciate that. Good job. Do you guys. you and Gump gonna have a nice dinner. tonight? Where are you going? >> I'm about to eat like seven. I'm. >> about to eat a lot. >> You got a lot of people asking to come. eat, don't you?

>> Yeah, there's a lot of food that's about. to be enjoyed. Great food. So, I'm I'm. here for it. But it's going to be one of. those ones I I've talked about this. whenever um. >> when I got arrested for public. intoxication. Uh I was put in the NFL. substance of abuse program. Okay. Three. months in the first phase. I aced it and. then they moved me into the second. phase. I wasn't happy about that. Second. phase was just like the first phase but. it was 24 months long. So in total 27. months of substance abu ab ab ab ab ab. ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab. ab abuse program. I was tested over 200. times, eight times a month I was tested.

and uh you know couldn't do anything. Couldn't be seen with a beer. Couldn't. do I used to uh vacation back in the. city of Pittsburgh. I'd come spend uh. Thursday night, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. back in Pittsburgh and we would just do. one thing and one thing alone and that. would be uh hammer booth. I mean, we. would just absolutely. hammer booze and I had to stop, you. know, for for 27 months. I I I had to. completely cut it out. And uh I was. getting tested a lot. I learned a lot. about myself. Cold turkey on everything.

And then the lockout happened. And the. lockout was uh no no testing, okay? Because the lockout was there was no. testing. So I said, I'mma booze every. day of this lockout so that when it's. over, I don't want to booze anymore. you. know, like that is I'm I'm gonna I'm. gonna really do that lock out ended up. being 100 and some days and uh I'll tell. you I did not expect that. But lo and. behold, by the end of that thing, I did. not want anything to do with booze. And. I would like to thank the city of. Pittsburgh because they were a big part.

of that time during the lockout. I'd. like to thank Nick. Nick's uh liver and. kidney and insides also took a big hit. uh through that time. Thank you, Nick. Thank you for everything during those. hard time. But. >> yeah, appreciate that. I know we won. hard. We didn't expect that lock out to. be that long. I don't think any of us. did. But boy, we certainly went and by. the time it was over, it was like, "All. right, I'm not drinking anymore." What. today's going to be is I'm going to eat. so much food today from here where it's. like, "All right, I'm good until the. next time I come back to Pittsburgh. because there's so much good food." So, I'm about tomorrow, tomorrow you're. going to see me probably 260 26 270 270.

I'm about to be stuffed like a pig, but. on the way out I'm not going to want to. have it and I'll be good without it for. at least the foreseeable future. So, AJ, this should be a great time here in. Pittsburgh. Lucky to be here. Can't wait. for tomorrow morning. Thank you for. traveling. Safe travels back to Ohio. And uh yeah, let's enjoy the hell out of. the greatest weekend of all time. Be. your friend. Tell a friend something. nice. It might change our life. We're in. this thing together. Team on me. >> Team on three. Have a good one, boys. >> You too. >> You too, man. Feel the love of the city, dude.

>> Well, Rivers Casino could show a little. bit more. >> Oh, still number one. >> Good luck. Yeah, a lot of love still. >> Six card 21s. the [ __ ] out of my face. That changes. I'm not going to that. casino. >> Nope. >> Nope. >> Team on me. Team on three. Have a great. weekend. We love you. Thank you for. allowing us to do this for a living. 1 2. 3. >> Goodbye.